I used to go visit a friend of mine often because we’ve always been close. This was all before the pandemic.

They kept a really clean immaculate house. Even the bathroom looked like it was cleaned almost on a hourly basis. They kept a little basket next to the toilet with trivia books and comics. I read them for years while sitting on the toilet … until I realized one day that these things get splashed with pee water every day … for years! … I never thought of it until several years had passed.

Never floss … floss for three days leading up to dental visit

Dentist pokes around and makes my gums bleed

But I floss every day!

(this was me about ten years ago … I floss every day now, mostly because I really, really, really hate seeing the dentist)

Why are you reading comics at the urinal while you’re trying to pee?

Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It’s not a quality issue, it’s a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.

Hallmark: get this person a $10 million budget, we’re making a movie … hurry we’ve only got one week to release it in time for the holiday rush!!!

Where in pornhub can I find these

Cancer man! … sing me the cancer song!

Lead Paint Girl and Asbestos Boy were just here!

There’s a bit of an aftertaste of tar from his ship tho

It is a nice line … I didn’t quote anyone but I’m sure someone came up with the same line or a similar one years ago.

Just don’t scrape the pot too hard when stirring it.

Does this mean that they started the first batch thousands of years ago with Theseus in it?

… interrupted by an unskippable ad for the biggest flame lighter the size of a small toaster

Wow … thanks for this

I basically grew up in a world were Kirk and Spock were a normal part of the background of our lives … seeing Shatner and Nimoy was just part of growing up.

This really made me feel sad, nostalgic, happy, bitter and overjoyed … thanks to these people, my life was a bit more fun and happy and it still us through communities like this.

I don’t get it …

… is Kirk pushing something in?

… or is Kirk pulling something out?

either way … I’m disturbed :(

The safe word is … Emissary

I’m no historian … I just remember reading about this history a long time ago. The most famous story is about Cincinnatus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

The most famous story related to Cincinnatus occurs after his retirement from public service to a simple life of farming. As Roman forces struggled to defeat the Aequi, Cincinnatus was summoned from his plough to assume complete control over the state. After achieving a swift victory in sixteen days, Cincinnatus relinquished power and its privileges, returning to labor on his farm.

Whether or not it was true is anyone’s guess as it was written Roman history and it is debated as to whether or not it happened but there are enough examples through Roman history of government being handed over like this to a ‘Dictator’ and then handed back. It was considered just a way of getting things done as quickly as possible during emergencies and then when things normalized again, senates and groups of elected officials could take their time debating stuff again.

Dictatorships were created during the Roman era as a form of emergency government during times of crisis or war. Government basically just decided to hand over everything to one person, a Dictator, who was agreed upon to handle everything unrestrained in order to get things done as quickly as possible. Once the emergency was over, the Dictator agreed to hand back control to government. Power was exchanged like this several times during the Roman era.

Dictators were originally meant as a form of government that was needed and created by the people … it wasn’t until later that the process was hijacked and used as a form of control and totalitarianism.

And ceremonies, long rambling complicated monotonous ceremonies with candies, incense, a bit of blood (or fake blood) and long periods of standing while reciting things in ancient languages that no one understands.

If I can’t suffer through these things I don’t want your religion.

That’s what all those liver spots are for! I thought I was just getting old.