The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[PoetPhilosopher]

This was right before the very first XBox was released.

 

[Revoltingest]

I owned one of these back in the dark ages when I hunted mastodons with a spear

That's nuthin.
I had a.....

 

[Revoltingest]

You know..speaking of furs...an Italian Countess in the 70s decided to be the face of a animal welfare campaign. In the ad there was the picture of her completely naked...and with " The only fur I am not ashamed of wearing".

Just copy and paste in google images: " L"unica pelliccia che non mi vergogno di indossare"



Countess....

Ew.

 

[Estro Felino]

Ew.

It was fake....come on...

 

[Revoltingest]

It was fake....come on...

The idea of naked women should be appealing.
But nonetheless came across as "ew".

Something new wrong with me, eh.

 

[Estro Felino]

The idea of naked women should be appealing.
But nonetheless came across as "ew".

Something new wrong with me, eh.

I seriously hope you didn't google it, then

 

[Revoltingest]

I seriously hope you didn't google it, then

I did not.
My mental image was of a naked babushka type gal from Schindler's List.
I fear seeing it again.

 

[Estro Felino]

Btw...She was Marquise...not Countess...lol...
I confuse titles..

 

[Revoltingest]

Btw...She was Marquise...not Countess...lol...
I confuse titles..

I don't even know the difference.

Btw, this is still more interesting than the arguments
about Ayn Rand being or not being a philosopher.

 

[Estro Felino]

I did not.
My mental image was of a naked babushka type gal from Schindler's List.
I fear seeing it again.

Btw she was not that bad in the 80s

 

[Revoltingest]

Btw she was not that bad in the 80s
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I hope that I look that good in me 80s.
Although not so feminine.

 

[Wu Wei]

I once owned a flip phone.
That was about 2 decades ago.

I once owned a flip phone...it was about 10 months ago

 

[Revoltingest]

I once owned a flip phone...it was about 10 months ago

Bears are so behind the times.

 

[savagewind]

I was going to post a thread for a warning about calling oneself Jehovah, but I changed my mind. The reason is that I do not know how to do it right.

 

[Wu Wei]

Bears are so behind the times.

You try using a ding dang iPhone with 6 inch claws

 

[MikeDwight]

flip phones totally made sense, dial pad cell phones. I'd call home all the time. people would know where I was. Now I never call home, its never useful, and it doesn't call people... So, we are supposed to charge these touchscreen things all the time, and navigate calls and all that.

 

[Estro Felino]

Question: in the English language, is there a word that contains all 5 vowels?

In Italian there is: aiuole. Flowerbeds.

Take that, Anglos

 

[Estro Felino]

Ok...it is our fault . We have a too vocalic language....I acknowledge it

 

[Revoltingest]

You try using a ding dang iPhone with 6 inch claws

And it doesn't help matters when you chew on it.

 

[MikeDwight]

Maybe it's because of my own recent issues with a friend, but I'm starting to find it more unsettling here to see people that "making nice" to "those people" is like "making nice to Hitler." And it makes me wonder if I got as crappy with a friend over criticizing my friendship with a redneck family, what would I do to a stranger? I love that I rarely see Confederate flags here, but yet I also ended up saying, basically, "I know people who display them and are awesome people, so what? They're redneck." Even though, in reality, most typical case I tend to not like rednecks and they often don't like me. For one reason or another, it's not unusual my existence and opinions offend them (they often pretty much are the Right's version of "Snowflake Liberal").
But dammit! I glad I already have VIP tickets to Hell if sainthood ends up being a requirement for friendship. The types demanding that will probably be in Hell with me, but helping getting a trend started that lead millenials as a generation away from one of Jehovah's sects should get me some serious weight to pull some strings and get all those buried away in their own private chamber where they can endlessly bicker about stuff no one else cares about or is tired of hearing about on their own. Except when someone tormented in life by them walks by this chamber, they can smack it and the chamber will heat up really hot and roast and bake the snow flakes.
It'll be even worse for those who make sainthood a prerequisite for friendship.

What's their meaning on "the stainless banner" anyway? They had a 60's outburst of these politics most people think of, dukes of hazard, fought the law and the law won sort of stuff. People use that to say, disqualify an explosion of the illegitimate or wrong flag.
I assume General Stonewall Jackson chose the flag himself , if you pattern the bonnie blue flag extrapolated with Scotland. Its his battleflag, he commanded the 1st brigade, until promoted to general. Then, when he died, his funeral was the sort of enthusiasm only seen at the start of the war's recruitment. Anna Jackson and Julia Jackson became Widow of the Confederacy, making the flag official government use at his funeral draped on a coffin.
Confederate Verterans were normal American veterans we hoped. People used US and Dixie flags for veterans. These are all solemn uses obviously. Most Southern States will have adopted their mottos, flags, and constitutions at the full end of Reconstruction in 1900. There's nothing wrong with that or the statues, that's the self-determination of a people, the end of Republican Empire. How is it wrong for people to have access to self-determination?
Last time I think of this sort of usage maybe Gone With The Wind.

"Stainless Banner" is kind of unfortunate. Doesn't it require somebody to directly link it to the later "Birth of a Nation" work? Like, 'The priceless blood of a Southern Woman on this stainless banner', KKK stuff.