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Ninetales 01-14-2021 09:07 AM

legit looks like a mid-00s mike myers character

OccultHawk 01-14-2021 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Ninetales (Post 2156067)
legit looks like a mid-00s mike myers character

The cure for covid is one MILLION dollars.

Psy-Fi 01-14-2021 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Ninetales (Post 2156067)
legit looks like a mid-00s mike myers character

I thought the exact same thing when I saw that pic. I had to do a reverse image search to satisfy my curiosity and I found this...

Mike Myers Taunts Donald Trump With Spot-On Impression Of Dr. Harold Bornstein

:laughing:

Ninetales 01-14-2021 10:07 AM

Well I guess I was only a decade and a half off

Norg 01-15-2021 07:03 AM

soon in the future ethiopia and sudan are damming the nile and thus pretty much decreasing egypt water supply. This will force there hand and they will declare war and they will prob lose but it will be a war of survival

the question is in the aftermath what supper power will get involved USa or the east ..???

OccultHawk 01-15-2021 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Norg (Post 2156361)
soon in the future ethiopia and sudan are damming the nile and thus pretty much decreasing egypt water supply. This will force there hand and they will declare war and they will prob lose but it will be a war of survival

the question is in the aftermath what supper power will get involved USa or the east ..???

China will side with the Sub-Saharan and America and Europe might send peace keepers who will stand around with their ding dongs in their hands. The river flows north and China is heavily invested in arms sells and oil imports (to China) from the region. China can broker it so the entire region below Egypt benefits from the power source. The dam is getting built and Egypt is losing most of their water supply and China is going to get cheap oil and continue profitable trade relations.

Great question.

If you’re interested in water disasters in Africa the events around Lake Chad are interesting and totally savage.

Psy-Fi 01-15-2021 08:20 AM

Calif. man sues Twitter, AOC over ‘pain and suffering’ caused by Trump ban

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The notoriously litigious, self-described California sex addict best known for suing Twitch over masturbation injuries allegedly caused by the video streaming platform’s “scantily clad gamers” has a new target — this time filing a lawsuit against Twitter, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar over the “overbearing pain and suffering” caused by the social media giant’s ban of President Trump.

OccultHawk 01-15-2021 03:42 PM

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Seeking an end-run around an investigation by the New York attorney general, the National Rifle Association said Friday that it was declaring bankruptcy and would reincorporate in Texas. The gun group was set up in New York after the Civil War.
Wow. Tough week for the far right.

Trollheart 01-16-2021 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2156539)
Wow. Tough week for the far right.

How can the ****ing NRA be bankrupt??? :yikes:

Anteater 01-16-2021 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2156832)
How can the ****ing NRA be bankrupt??? :yikes:

Hookers and blow.

OccultHawk 01-16-2021 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2156851)
Hookers and blow.

Seriously. Imagine how much fun it would be to get blasted out of your mind and go William Burroughs on fifty thousand rounds of free ammunition every day.

Anteater 01-16-2021 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2156864)
Seriously. Imagine how much fun it would be to get blasted out of your mind and go William Burroughs on fifty thousand rounds of free ammunition every day.

Might be almost as awesome as this.

https://static2.srcdn.com/wordpress/...op&w=960&h=500

OccultHawk 01-17-2021 07:14 AM

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From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

The first humanitarian workers to arrive after pleading with the Ethiopian government for access describe weakened children dying from diarrhea after drinking from rivers. Shops were looted or depleted weeks ago. A local official told a Jan. 1 crisis meeting of government and aid workers that hungry people had asked for “a single biscuit.”

More than 4.5 million people, nearly the region’s entire population, need emergency food, participants say. At their next meeting on Jan. 8, a Tigray administrator warned that without aid, “hundreds of thousands might starve to death” and some already had, according to minutes obtained by The Associated Press.
Anyone who doesn’t think this is blood on the hands of the United States congress needs to read up on the history of arms sales in east Africa. But boohoo they had they precious “temple to democracy” raided.

OccultHawk 01-18-2021 06:27 AM

Shocking new video from inside Capitol riot https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...wsroom-vpx.cnn

Totally disturbing that that cop would call the senate chambers “sacred”

WTF?

Lisnaholic 01-18-2021 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2157216)
Totally disturbing that that cop would call the senate chambers “sacred”

WTF?

Yes, I've noticed this for a long time: commentators talking about American democracy, its processes etc. as being "sacred". A common, but complete misuse of the word imo, because "sacred" means connected to gods and religion.
In Britain, to describe our equivalent, the Houses of Parliament, a tv commentator or a tourist guide would probably use the more accurate word, "hallowed". But in fairness to that policeman in the Senate, I suspect that in England a beat cop under pressure probably wouldn't find the word "hallowed" springing immediately to his lips either. :(

#FundingForImprovedPoliceVocabularyTrainingNow!

OccultHawk 01-18-2021 07:13 AM

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Yes, I've noticed this for a long time: commentators talking about American democracy, its processes etc. as being "sacred". A common, but complete misuse of the word imo, because "sacred" means connected to gods and religion.
It’s North Korean style language and I truly believe that most North Koreans understand that it’s a falsehood perpetrated by force. In America, it’s to the core brainwashing. Patriotism and nationalism is our state religion. I’ve traveled a lot and I’ve never seen anything like it or scarier.

Psy-Fi 01-18-2021 08:03 AM


Lisnaholic 01-18-2021 08:04 AM

Yeah, it also makes me very uneasy when politicians like Mike Pence* drag their religion into politics. I remember years back, perhaps at the time of the Invasion of Iraq, George Bush made some comment about talking to God, and hearing His answer. In my book, that meant that the Pres of the US was admitting that he was, technically, insane.
Of course, compared to Trump, GWBush is a saint, sorry, no, I mean hero or model of sanity.

* And to be less partisan for once, Nancy Pelosi does it too.

Lisnaholic 01-18-2021 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 2157229)

Good one, Psy-Fi ! For some not particularly logical reason, "Temples of Democracy" sounds ok to me. How about you, any opinion on the sacredness of the Capitol building?
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In England, in a kind of jocular manner, public toilets are occasionally refered to as "Temples of Convenience". Quite how that fact is relevent to our little debate here, I'm not sure, so I'm going to fall back on Trollheart's classic phrase, "Makes you think!"

Trollheart 01-18-2021 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2157216)
Shocking new video from inside Capitol riot https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...wsroom-vpx.cnn

Totally disturbing that that cop would call the senate chambers “sacred”

WTF?

Dyslexic, man. He meant scared.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
Good one, Psy-Fi ! For some not particularly logical reason, "Temples of Democracy" sounds ok to me. How about you, any opinion on the sacredness of the Capitol building?
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In England, in a kind of jocular manner, public toilets are occasionally refered to as "Temples of Convenience". Quite how that fact is relevent to our little debate here, I'm not sure, so I'm going to fall back on Trollheart's classic phrase, "Makes you think!"

I believe the correct Trollheartism to use in that case is, indeed, "shut up that's why".

Trollheart 01-19-2021 05:02 PM

Racially Harrased by "slanty-eyed" cup at Starbucks

Marie Monday 01-19-2021 05:06 PM

lol
Gwyneth Paltrow's Exploding Vagina Candle

The Batlord 01-19-2021 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2157534)

I don't usually have strong opinions on celebrities but I really do not like that grifter hag.

Marie Monday 01-19-2021 05:11 PM

True
She's very good looking though (when she styles herself somewhat naturally), I have to give her that

Psy-Fi 01-19-2021 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2157532)

I misread that as "slanty-eyed cop."

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2157534)

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A “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle that the actress peddles on Goop exploded into flames in the living room of a UK woman
Hawt! :pimp:

The Batlord 01-19-2021 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2157538)
True
She's very good looking though (when she styles herself somewhat naturally), I have to give her that

She's like a real world 8/Hollywood 6 but with zero sex appeal.

OccultHawk 01-19-2021 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2157542)
She's like a real world 8/Hollywood 6 but with zero sex appeal.

Honest to god I don’t find her in the least desirable. I wouldn’t even think of ****ing her unless she came on to me first.

Marie Monday 01-20-2021 01:49 AM

Sex appeal is a different story but y'all don't know a beautiful woman when you see one
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...TIFF00_adj.jpg

Trollheart 01-20-2021 05:02 AM

So go on: show us one.

The Batlord 01-20-2021 05:03 AM

If there's no sex appeal the best you can do is an 8.

OccultHawk 01-20-2021 05:15 AM

I just googled her nudes. I’d be up on that faster than a chihuahua on a ribeye.

I went through her filmography on wiki and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of her movies. Is that Sylvia Plath one any good? And she’s like the pseudoscience Goop queen? Interesting.

Trollheart 01-20-2021 09:35 AM

That proves nothing. You'd be up on anything with a pulse and a pussy.

Marie Monday 01-20-2021 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2157589)
I just googled her nudes. I’d be up on that faster than a chihuahua on a ribeye.

I went through her filmography on wiki and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of her movies. Is that Sylvia Plath one any good? And she’s like the pseudoscience Goop queen? Interesting.

I don't know, I wiki'd her too and I'm considering watching that one

Frownland 01-20-2021 11:13 AM

She was good in Seven, even though she could have been more outside of the box with her performance.

Marie Monday 01-20-2021 12:03 PM

I remember seeing her in Proof and the Royal Tenenbaums. I recall her performance as competent but not very memorable, but I've seen both a long time ago

The Batlord 01-20-2021 12:12 PM

She needs to find a role she can really make her own. Like a realtor who quits her job to become a yoga instructor.

OccultHawk 01-20-2021 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2157620)
That proves nothing. You'd be up on anything with a pulse and a pussy.

https://i.postimg.cc/k5jNvLdv/07-F6-...57-B58-F40.jpg

Maybe but otr folks need to stop frontin

Marie Monday 01-20-2021 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2157647)
She needs to find a role she can really make her own. Like a realtor who quits her job to become a yoga instructor.

While earning money one the side by doing yoghurt and salad commercials :laughing:

Trollheart 01-20-2021 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2157648)
https://i.postimg.cc/k5jNvLdv/07-F6-...57-B58-F40.jpg

Maybe but otr folks need to stop frontin

Jesus Christ! Can she not afford to eat or something? :eek:

The Batlord 01-20-2021 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2157648)
https://i.postimg.cc/k5jNvLdv/07-F6-...57-B58-F40.jpg

Maybe but otr folks need to stop frontin

Yeah OK. Not having her hair hang limply around her face like discount Rachel from Friends does a lot for her.


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