Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

Exposure to ‘forever chemicals’ interferes with several critical biological processes — including the metabolism of fats and amino acids — in children and young adults.

LINK: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11372

 

[Mystic]

It is fact:

Last summer a ravenous wildfire burned through the forests of Bordeaux in southwestern France. This winter, as France endured 32 consecutive days without precipitation – the longest stretch since 1950 – that same fire is still burning.

LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/01/france-wildfire-zombie-fire-drought-mine/

 

[Pio1980]

Exposure to ‘forever chemicals’ interferes with several critical biological processes — including the metabolism of fats and amino acids — in children and young adults.

LINK: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP11372

Unintended consequences. How to test for those without wating a generation or two?

 

[Mystic]

A few years ago Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter wrote an Open Letter To Next Generation Artists.

It's worth reading.

LINK: https://www.herbiehancock.com/2016/...H4zu-IBj4y-CnU-FdXt2sLH-YMqPVjNYJy2BDD0OTzAe0

 

[Mystic]

British singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran says his new album Subtract "is informed by fear, depression and anxiety.”

Whatever happened to sex, drugs and rock’n’roll?

 

[Mystic]

 

[Mystic]

Hit it...

 

[Mystic]

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (1990)

 

[parman]

You know how when you post in a thread it puts a copy of your avatar on the original post so that you can see that you posted in it? I think it would be great if you could click on your own avatar and it would take you straight to the post you made in the thread

 

[egellings]

Red Sox outfielder Bernie Carbo on his game prep for the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, in which he hit two pinch-hit home runs, including a grand slam:

“I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some speed, took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, and got up to the plate and hit.”

Reminds me of Andre the Great.

 

[45rpmspinner]

Currently wondering if it's possible to memorialize any of my old friends without using the word "a--hole" at least three times.

 

[init4fun]

Currently wondering if it's possible to memorialize any of my old friends without using the word "a--hole" at least three times.

Old friends, , , no....

But !!!

Ex friends ?

"Asshole" may be far too kind.........

 

[Mystic]

Reminds me of Andre the Great.

Do you mean Andre the Giant?

 

[egellings]

Do you mean Andre the Giant?

Yes.

 

[Mystic]

It was 70 years ago today...

Iosif Dzhugashvili aka Stalin d. 5 March 1953

 

[Pio1980]

It was 70 years ago today...

Iosif Dzhugashvili aka Stalin d. 5 March 1953

Ding dong and all that.
Time to get out The Death of Stalin for another watch.

 

[Mystic]

Ding dong and all that.
Time to get out The Death of Stalin for another watch.

There's always another watch.

 

[Pio1980]

I want two bumper stickers made to mess with people, one with "Diamonds are forever, unless you help", the other "Vote 'Up Yours!' on preposition H".

 

[timofred]

Why is there only one
Monopolies Commission ?

 

[Mr.Jim]

Where can you find Mr.Ed reruns?