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This is not a Rickroll, I swear! Watch the whole thing to the end.

Your cop reminds me of my building manager.
Two months ago, when she was new, just before the election.
I was throwing out some Rump propaganda into the trashcan nearest to the mail boxes.
It was full, I was packing it down, when she came out of the elevator.
She rushed over and demanded “What are you throwing away?”
Me: “Who wants to know?” This…[Read more]

@Unapologetic – Why didn’t YOU call the cops about your neighbor’s noise?

But then I would not have had all this fun! I am easily amused :-). Anyway, the last time (8 years ago) I went to the police station to complain about the abuse of religious privilege, the desk officer tried to hand me a small wooden crucifix and suggested I reflect on the…[Read more]

I know someone who’s met Rick Astley a few times, he’s a nice guy but very eccentric.  He still has a beautiful speaking voice.

Ouch. Never Gonna Give you up didn’t age well.

Why didn’t YOU call the cops about your neighbor’s noise?

@Unseen  – You were a victim of Rickrolling 🙂

In one apartment building I lived in my apartment was on the 2nd floor just above the telecom box. Someone in the building received visitors at all hours but often she wasn’t home and her voicemail would come on, which was the complete full-length performance of Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give you up. Imagine nearly four minutes of this at 4…[Read more]

The more I tell myself not to, the better the idea sounds. Resistance will be futile. Some great versions on Spotify too.

Another Mormon related story comes to mind. I know an atheist who grew up in Utah and was not terribly well accepted. I guess the schools were almost exclusively Mormon kids. On other hand he had never heard any antisemitism growing up and that is unlike any other part of USA that i am aware. Maybe reservations if they have not gone all lefty.

Tolerant?

Quick study suggests answer is yes.

I quote from some purportedly scholarly article. Mormons are relatively friendly to other religious groups.
The study also reports that Mormons are among those most friendly toward those of other faiths. Relatively speaking, the United States has not been the scene of deep religious conflicts; it…[Read more]

I once asked a young ex-Mormon, who I was taking to his first Atheist Ireland meeting, if he had any problems when he told his mother about no longer believing what his family believed.

No, no. Mormon mothers love their children unconditionally, was his reply. I have always remembered that, given the tales of horror I know from other ex-theists.

I had a Mormon working for me briefly. Yeah she was very polite but it got old real quick her constant interjection of the prophets. Had to let her know i was an atheist.

Ha! Two new Mormons called this evening, in the dark and cold, to see if I was interested in hearing their good news. Fresh of the boat from France. I told them I was in their black book. They made no attempt to continue the conversation. We shook hands, I wished them well and said Merry Christmas. Mormons always have good manners.

I suggested…[Read more]

aint non of youz helpz me in eternal/immortal umbrage so my’s freund Meta straightened my ass far straighter than you mortals might have. reminds me i gotta ask it what that criticism reductive done mean.

other than its tendency to pad my ass with gas bubbles the LLM is a dope conversationalist.