Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Speaking of Poe, he is a total one-off, no other poet coming close to being even vaguely like him. For me, much as I love The Raven and Annabel Lee, my favorite poem by Poe is “Alone” (his quotes, and the only time he framed a poem’s title in them). It’s unlike his other poems in terms of being so deeply reflective.

“Alone”

From childhood’s h…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Yes, theists think I am hard-hearted at times.

From the second paper:

Christians’ negative impressions drew primarily from the Authority foundation, and both groups drew heavily from the Care foundation in both their positive and negative depictions.

In human moral psychology, immorality is perceived as physically h…[Read more]

Enco, how did that never occur to me? Go, go, go read Poe.

Loved his short stories as a kid. And a few of his poems like the one with Anabelle Lee if memory serves and it is better than the drive-through.

@Enco

I don’t know what it’s like to be you and vice versa. Sometimes, I don’t even know what it’s like to be me.

At the same time, I do wonder what it feels like to be this or that animal. I know my cat about as well as I know any person and sometimes I think we understand each other, sometimes we obviously don’t.

Just dawned on me, Enco, your comment using poe. You mean to say i assume po, the tagalog word to show respect to an elder or friend? Yea well not too many Filipinos in service work in my area. A few at Costco and that is about all i have observed.

What’s it like being an octopus, having a brain like you and me but also another brain in each of its eight arms?

And what about squirrels, who are incredibly resourceful and capable of acrobatics that make cats and monkeys stare in abject wonder.

And what about prairie dogs, the only animals science…[Read more]

I sometimes say “only this, nothing more” when i go through a drive through for coffee or whatever. I think only once, maybe twice, has the response been drive right up or some affirmation of understanding. It’s “anything else sir?”

Unseen wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So you can’t be a man if you don’t smoke the same incense as them?

Why not join the Marines or Navy Seals? Oh, maybe it has to do with meeting chicks. Shoulda known.

These far-right “manly/religious” types exist in their mommy’s basements and are repulsive to most American gals who want a centered equal par…[Read more]

A tiny illustration of how the far left is complicit in it’s hyperfocus on demonizing Jews/Israel and the resultant pass for anything goes and Islam rules without opposition and a friendly pat in the ass.

Thanks, Reg 🙂

TheEncogitationer wrote:
So you can’t be a man if you don’t smoke the same incense as them?

Why not join the Marines or Navy Seals? Oh, maybe it has to do with meeting chicks. Shoulda known.

Apropos of nothing in particular. Just some Sunday morning fun:

One of the hardest words to rhyme with is “poetry.”
Poets flop when the give it a goetry.
Long have they struggled,
But mostly they’ve bungled.
The wordsmiths mostly give up in woe-etry.

Sunday School is dismal, is it not? Most of the nonsense going on today might be because people do sense the climate is warming fast. A global denialism of reality is setting in. Cupping of hands over eyes while babbling loudly, LOL. Trump has brought manufacturing back to the US. The manufacture of every idiotic distraction possible.

Speaking of therapists, did anyone ever notice that one space turns “therapist” into “the rapist”?

Ha! @Unseen

On QI once, Stephen Fry brought up the subject of ‘tmesis’ – a peculiar word that describes the insertion of a word into an existing word for descriptive emphasis.

Stephen Fry:- like abso-bloody-lutely, or un-fucking-believable.

Jo Brand:- or Scunthorpe

_Robert_ wrote:
If a seagull flies over the sea, what flies over the bay?

If gents are found in the gentry, …country.

GOP bill deletes EV incentives. Trump screwed Musk without the lube. Let’s see that Nazi salute and little air jump again Elonka, LOL.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64864095/republican-tax-bill-removes-ev-sales-incentives/

Meanwhile the beautiful big GOP bill is projected to add roughly $3.3 trillion to the U.S. federal debt. Less benefits,…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Assuming religious people are more moral than atheists without evidence is a conjunction fallacy driven by representativeness, not actual probability. Further reading here.

The “further reading” article is interesting.  Apparently, religious people don’t trust atheists because they think we’re rebellious and…[Read more]

First bagel joke.

That hiking area looks dope. The rime of the ancient bagel bread bakery dope.

Any tea is good by me. I remember being in a tea house and the constant din of chai, chai chai. 50 pages of tea menu. Tea is a whole thing some people devote their lives.

If a seagull flies over the sea, what flies over the bay?