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Post by Spike-X on Aug 28, 2016 5:32:16 GMT -5
Didn't get much sleep last night. Aside from the temperature being ludicrously high, there was also crazy lightning and thunder around 1:00 AM. Also, I woke up several times from a loud noise. It couldn't have been that I woke myself up snoring? It sounded like a loud groan. Could be. I've done it myself a time or two. I've been doing a lot of mountain biking lately. My strength and endurance have made great improvements, particularly on long climbs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2016 17:05:22 GMT -5
I changed my Username from MechaGodzilla to Juggernaut today because I just found X-Men 13 about three months ago while I was sorting out my Fantastic Four Comic Books and I felt that the Juggernaut was more appropriate because X-Men 13 is my oldest Comic Book in my collection and by far the most valuable (worth $1,000 plus) and I gotten tired of MechaGodzilla Username and having said that I feel it's time for me to have a Comic Book Username and it's was hondobrode's inspiration to have me change it for good.
I felt it is a right thing to do.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 28, 2016 18:44:41 GMT -5
Today was International GoTopless Day and I hope everyone enjoyed the festivities and attended some of the parades. Here in NYC, the turnout for the main parade was numerous and participants were very impressive. I'd love to share some photos with you if I can. Can I? Or must we abide by the idea that mature people cannot handle the sight of mams without some being offended. And why do we care if some are offended? There is always jerks being offended by something or other. Donald Trump supporters are constantly offended. And yet I know for a fact that Donald Trump is in favor of breasts. I'm not too sure what Hilary's position is. In fact, I might be offended by Hilary's breasts. Hilary should release her breasts like she has done with her e-mails and tax returns and we can make up our minds. Donald need not bother releasing his breasts, his tax returns should come first. But let's get back to the Breast Parade in NYC.It was a beautiful day, perfect temperature, no humidity and therefore no sweat beads to be seen. Can I post my pictures of the parade? Should we vote on this?
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Post by Spike-X on Aug 28, 2016 19:03:17 GMT -5
If we want to see boobs, there are (I have heard) plenty of other places on the Internet for us to do so.
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Post by Gene on Aug 29, 2016 15:43:51 GMT -5
So it turns out I know one of the engineers who designed the rocket used in the Apollo 11 moon landing. Pretty wild.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 29, 2016 16:04:15 GMT -5
So it turns out I know one of the engineers who designed the rocket used in the Apollo 11 moon landing. Pretty wild. My father-in-law worked on the actuators that (I'm simplifying b/c I'm too dumb to explain any other way) that enabled the LEM to lift off the lunar surface. When the Eagle lifted off to link up with the command module, he whispered, with the faint glisten of a tear in his eye, "It worked!" The only other time I knew he had become quite so visibly emotional was when he was a young man and bought a standing room ticket to see Tristan und Isolde at the old Met. Thank your friend for me. He and his colleagues gave us quite a special few days, in a time that was most difficult, to say the least. One of the few respites of hope and pride during those trying years.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 29, 2016 16:12:53 GMT -5
Back when the future was a bright and hopeful place!
Now, Trump.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 29, 2016 18:12:26 GMT -5
Back when the future was a bright and hopeful place! Now, Trump. Back then, LBJ. ...followed by Tricky Dick.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 29, 2016 18:25:00 GMT -5
Back when the future was a bright and hopeful place! Now, Trump. Back then, LBJ. ...followed by Tricky Dick. It was a dismal time in so many ways.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 29, 2016 19:16:22 GMT -5
Back then, LBJ. ...followed by Tricky Dick. It was a dismal time in so many ways. But a fantastic time in others, right? I mean, what a time to be young (aside from the draft, of course). Great music, fashion and the as-yet-unsullied dream that youth was marching towards a better world and that anything was possible.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 29, 2016 19:45:33 GMT -5
It was a dismal time in so many ways. But a fantastic time in others, right? I mean, what a time to be young (aside from the draft, of course). Great music, fashion and the as-yet-unsullied dream that youth was marching towards a better world and that anything was possible. There was that, you're right, Confessor, but I have to be honest, all of that did not outweigh the relentless disillusionment that coursed through those years. It was as if the forces of hope were not just stymied, but crushed.Kennedy and Dr. King shot down, riots tearing open city after city, Vietnam rending the country in two, and the rise of the forces of Nixon and Wallace did a number on idealism. As you can see, we are still paying the price for those years.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 29, 2016 21:09:46 GMT -5
Just met the friend of a friend of mine on a weekend getaway who worked for NASA on the communications team for the satellites they put up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 21:13:56 GMT -5
Just met the friend of a friend of mine on a weekend getaway who worked for NASA on the communications team for the satellites they put up. My uncle (mom's older brother) worked most of his career as an engineer for Hamilton Standard (now part of the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation), much of it on the design team that designed and tested the space suits NASA used for the astronauts on missions. -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2016 22:22:32 GMT -5
We are one member away to 500!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 30, 2016 11:03:03 GMT -5
But a fantastic time in others, right? I mean, what a time to be young (aside from the draft, of course). Great music, fashion and the as-yet-unsullied dream that youth was marching towards a better world and that anything was possible. There was that, you're right, Confessor, but I have to be honest, all of that did not outweigh the relentless disillusionment that coursed through those years. It was as if the forces of hope were not just stymied, but crushed.Kennedy and Dr. King shot down, riots tearing open city after city, Vietnam rending the country in two, and the rise of the forces of Nixon and Wallace did a number on idealism. As you can see, we are still paying the price for those years. I'll take your word for it as I didn't live in the US at the time, but from a foreign perspective I'd say that the price we pay today is due to later leaders... Or rather, to one particular later leader and the interest groups that took over the country. Nixon was... well he was Nixon, but his actions were orders of magnitude less awful than what came later. He started no war and actually opened the door to better US-China relations. After his tenure there was the oil crisis, yes, and everything seemed to be going south until Reagan's charisma and positive jingoism seemingly gave the country its pride and optimism back. Then when Clinton came to power, the US seemed to emerge as a new Athens; the cold war was truly over, the stock market was booming, the US was de facto the leader of the world and everyone seemed to be fine with that, or almost. I would argue that by that point, the dismal post-Kennedy years had been forgotten (or at least thought gone forever). Then came what's-his-name. Worst president ever. Dilapidated the huge capital of sympathy the US got after 9/11. Rode roughshod over his allies's opinions. Lied about matters of national and international security. Turned the image of the country from one of a honest broker to one of irrational warmonger. Destroyed the concept of the US as a defender of law-based international cooperation. Had Bush Jr. been elected once, he would have been seen as a historical glitch, an accident of democracy. But he was re-elected. That told the rest of the world "the most powerful country on Earth can knowingly put an ignorant bumbler in the Oval office and allow him to play with your lives as he pleases". Internationally, I think that's what caused the worst disillusion. (Heck, president Obama, love him as I do, was given the Nobel prize for essentially not being George W. Bush). Looking at Trump today, I wish Nixon were still available.
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