I'm a big fan of receiving packages from Amazon then reporting them stolen a week after the scheduled delivery date.

Fuck's sake, guys. This hurts hearing about all these package theft stories. Here in good ol' Japan, every package must be signed for. If you're not home, they leave a slip of paper telling you when they tried to deliver and their phone number, so you can call a schedule a re-delivery time.

Are you taking the piss?

Not unless he ordered it.

Just live in the country. Everyone's too far away from eachother to care about thieving their neighbor's ****. Too much work.

^ Yes, I think you probably would. It has the virtue of being very straightforward and easy to read - even after a mind-numbing day of tedious work. You'd be able to compare notes, I suppose, with the different jobs that she tries; about six in all, each for a couple of months I think.

Some people reroute packages to a local retail store and they go there to pick it up. It's much safer. But packages get stolen all the time. I get phone calls about it every day.

You guys need a new country.

America ****ing sucks man.

Japan sucks, too, but less than America, at least in this respect. And, of course, health care.

I like America. I wouldn't mind moving away in the future, though. Hopefully I make enough money to make that happen one day.

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Does your dad know you're using his account?

No, he's too busy schtupping your mom.

When I'm your step brother I'm going to stick your head in the toilet and flush and if you say anything about it I'll give you a butt helmet.

Yes, then they send another piss without even investigating.

Someone took my piss and now I can't even feel pissed about it.

It's a compulsion. Sometimes I just really have to take a piss.

I should stop leaving it in the bathroom where it's so easy to find.

I've been known to take them in the woods too though.

Urine my shit list.

Danish woods are so small you'd find it anyway :(

EDIT: If anyone was gonna do an easy tiny-dick joke here, I just wanna say I saw it coming.

*cumming

Apparently there's been no review process and no consultation either with the military, or with senators or with Allied powers in the area: is anyone else as cynical as me in imagining that Trump is announcing the withdrawal from Syria to deflect from recent PR disasters?
- Comey's speech about Republicans remaining silent as Trump lies about an FBI "break in" and calls a witness cooperating with the FBI "a rat"
- the judge forcing Flynn to destroy the whole Fox/Guilliani/Trump narrative that Flynn was somehow tricked by the FBI - and then going on to voice his disgust that Flynn had "sold out his country".
- the Trump foundation turns out to be a charity the same way Trump University was a university.

( oops! Sorry I interrupted this thread with a news item :shycouch:)

If he wanted to deflect he’d amp up US presence in Syria not withdraw

Like me, he doesn’t care about the news cycle because it doesn’t affect him

All this “bad week” **** on TV doesn’t phase him - he’s not going to jail and the same people love him and the same people hate him

He knows Syria’s a loser and doesn’t want to be LBJ.

Not only that, there's really no right answer with Syria PR-wise. The media will call him a puppet of either the Saudis or Putin. They write the headlines beforehand and just fill in the blanks on key nouns when it comes time to publish.

I agree with you on these points:-

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Wouldn't agree on these though:-

^ To judge from tonight's news, withdrawal has done the trick of deflection, and it also ties in with his campaign promises. It even superficially plays into the notion that Trump is solving America's overseas problems: North Korea: sorted, ISIS: finished. Unfortunately, neither is true.

^ It's widely reported that, like me, he is addicted to watching cable news channels, and it's also possible that he is already, or in the future will be under sealed indictment.

^That's a neat remark, Anteater, but it doesn't stand up to any serious scrutiny of course.

You know when someone big dies and NYT has a 10,000 word eulogy out immediately?

They most definitely do have pre-written articles bashing Trump whatever he does. This way he’s sucking Russian cob that way Saudi...

Imagine wanting the jump on the story. It is like that.

I’m willing to say this to express my certainty. I’ll castrate myself if Trump goes to jail.

It’s not going to happen.


Yeah he watches the news but it’s not like he’s worried about his ass. Just his ratings.

Journalism is a race that tends to throw quality to the curb, just like many other competitive fields. The "anything for a story" ideology has existed forever. It's an unfortunate truth.

^ That's true of course, windsock.

^ Perhaps I owe Anteater an apology. His method works better than I first thought:-

The Trump University is a scam to defraud gullible Americans.
The Trump Foundation is a scam to defraud gullible Americans.
The Trump Presidency is a scam to defraud gullible Americans.

Yes, I also have a feeling that Trump will escape prison. Will there be a new Gerald Ford who pardons all his misdeeds I wonder?

Does he care about headlines? Pretty often, I think. He was furious about the bad press when he couldn't be bothered to honour those soldiers in France and Arlington. Also, the meeting with Kim Jung Un was just a photo op, a headline and a news cycle. We're now back to the way things have been for decades, with NKorea advancing their nuclear program. Trump got his headline and has now lost interest.

Trump went out his way to go to honor fallen veterans at Arlington National Cemetery with no announcement beforehand though. Yet you don't see every media outlet fighting it out to report on that.

^ It's a tradition for US presidents to go there on Veterans' Day, but Trump didn't bother. Instead he went days later because the press gave him such a roasting for not going. His visit was plenty reported in the media and I wouldn't describe it as "going out of his way" to comply under pressure to something that is expected from every Commander in Chief. Since when is doing the basics of your job called "going out of your way"?

Especially when you take into consideration the amount of awful things he's done as president. He barely scratches the surface of redeeming himself.

So if he had gone during Veterans Day and not during National Wreaths Across America Day it would have been okay?

A piece of **** is going to get called a piece of ****. He can’t win because he’s a loser. I don’t care if he cures cancer, stops global warming, and negotiates world peace. **** him.

Did we all just agree with each other?

You weren't agreeing before?

What is agreeing?

Tell me when he pees on their graves.