Random Thoughts

[hotdogPi]

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

35% black, 65% racist.

35 percent Black, 65 percent Racist....are you suggesting  non-Blacks are racist? I strongly disagree.

It depends on where you are. Mississippi and Alabama seem to be the worst.

Also, "first thing you think of". There are always going to be exceptions, as well as a small percentage who are Hispanic, Asian, or something else entirely.

[webny99]

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

the river

Poverty

Depends on the context. Sometimes the river, sometimes poverty - and not just poverty in the financial sense, but also with regards to general health and wellness.

[US71]

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

35% black, 65% racist.

35 percent Black, 65 percent Racist....are you suggesting  non-Blacks are racist? I strongly disagree.

It depends on where you are. Mississippi and Alabama seem to be the worst.

Also, "first thing you think of". There are always going to be exceptions, as well as a small percentage who are Hispanic, Asian, or something else entirely.

It's not the first thing I think of. I have friends in those places. I also do shows in those areas.
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[kurumi]

A random thought of another topic: The Star Wars bad guys calling themselves "the Dark Side" is not believable. In their eyes, they're the good guys.

They'd call themselves the Peace and Freedom Side for Prosperity and Growth.

[Scott5114]

A random thought of another topic: The Star Wars bad guys calling themselves "the Dark Side" is not believable. In their eyes, they're the good guys.

They'd call themselves the Peace and Freedom Side for Prosperity and Growth.

There was a faction at my old job that referred to me and my friends as "the Dark Side" because they had decided we were their enemies or something. We willingly accepted the label because we thought it was hilarious how overdramatic they were being about it. In return, we started calling them "The Alliance" (one of our number was a big Firefly fan).

[GaryV]

Back when soccer referees wore only black, we referred to ourselves as the Dark Side.

[formulanone]

A random thought of another topic: The Star Wars bad guys calling themselves "the Dark Side" is not believable. In their eyes, they're the good guys.

They'd call themselves the Peace and Freedom Side for Prosperity and Growth.

They never called themselves that, only Vader suggested to Luke that he should (making it a personal decision and not a personnel decision).

Also, dualistic symbolism yada yoda yada.

[jmacswimmer]

A random thought of another topic: The Star Wars bad guys calling themselves "the Dark Side" is not believable. In their eyes, they're the good guys.

They'd call themselves the Peace and Freedom Side for Prosperity and Growth.

Well, there was that one time during the Mustafar duel when Anakin pointed out that the Jedi were evil from "[his] point of view" 

[kphoger]

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

All the double letters.

Then I try to remember which one is which on the map:  Alabama and Mississippi.  I have a hard time keeping them straight in my mind.

Then I think of the beautiful license plates they've had over the years.

Then I think of a guy I know from Brandon, MS.

Honestly, race issues and poverty don't even come to mind.

- Walking to the mailbox is intimidating. Like what am I supposed to look at, and what do I do with my arms??

Huh???  What the heck?  You look wherever you want (forward, presumably), and you do with your arms whatever you do when you walk anywhere else (swing them in stride, presumably).  How is this intimidating?

- The goal of every relationship is for your partner to become your ex. Even if y'all get married. Think about it.

I'm thinking about it, and I don't get it.  Unless you think that being a "widow" and being an "ex" are the same thing...  (They're not.)

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

35% black, 65% racist.

35 percent Black, 65 percent Racist....are you suggesting  non-Blacks are racist? I strongly disagree. 

And also that black people can't be racist.  Which I also strongly disagree with.

[Flint1979]

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

All the double letters.

Then I try to remember which one is which on the map:  Alabama and Mississippi.  I have a hard time keeping them straight in my mind.

Then I think of the beautiful license plates they've had over the years.

Then I think of a guy I know from Brandon, MS.

Honestly, race issues and poverty don't even come to mind.

- Walking to the mailbox is intimidating. Like what am I supposed to look at, and what do I do with my arms??

Huh???  What the heck?  You look wherever you want (forward, presumably), and you do with your arms whatever you do when you walk anywhere else (swing them in stride, presumably).  How is this intimidating?

- The goal of every relationship is for your partner to become your ex. Even if y'all get married. Think about it.

I'm thinking about it, and I don't get it.  Unless you think that being a "widow" and being an "ex" are the same thing...  (They're not.)

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

35% black, 65% racist.

35 percent Black, 65 percent Racist....are you suggesting  non-Blacks are racist? I strongly disagree. 

And also that black people can't be racist.  Which I also strongly disagree with.

Same here and not getting into politics but we have a former First Lady that seems to be very racist.

[kevinb1994]

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?
- What would happen to a dead body inside of a hearse if it got towed?
- Can people actually tell the difference between an Australian and British accent?
- Speaking of, I wish it was aeroplane instead of airplane here.
- ALSO, I never really thought about it that people either learn British or American English..
- You don't read out loud 90% of the words you see in a lifetime.
- I made that up, but who knows? ^
- Walking to the mailbox is intimidating. Like what am I supposed to look at, and what do I do with my arms??
- I wish backwards running was a school sport.
- JG Wentworth has been real quiet lately ..
- The goal of every relationship is for your partner to become your ex. Even if y'all get married. Think about it.
- If you don't like Bootylicious, clean your ears out and relisten!

Googlicious, so delicious

[Scott5114]

Googlicious, so delicious

what does this mean and why did you post it

[kevinb1994]

Googlicious, so delicious

what does this mean and why did you post it

It's a tech spoof of the aforementioned song. CNET for ya.

[kenarmy]

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

All the double letters.

Then I try to remember which one is which on the map:  Alabama and Mississippi.  I have a hard time keeping them straight in my mind.

Then I think of the beautiful license plates they've had over the years.

Then I think of a guy I know from Brandon, MS.

Honestly, race issues and poverty don't even come to mind.

- Walking to the mailbox is intimidating. Like what am I supposed to look at, and what do I do with my arms??

Huh???  What the heck?  You look wherever you want (forward, presumably), and you do with your arms whatever you do when you walk anywhere else (swing them in stride, presumably).  How is this intimidating?

- The goal of every relationship is for your partner to become your ex. Even if y'all get married. Think about it.

I'm thinking about it, and I don't get it.  Unless you think that being a "widow" and being an "ex" are the same thing...  (They're not.)

- Somebody PLS tell me what's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "Mississippi"?

35% black, 65% racist.

35 percent Black, 65 percent Racist....are you suggesting  non-Blacks are racist? I strongly disagree. 

And also that black people can't be racist.  Which I also strongly disagree with.

- Ok but still I'm just walking in the open with nobody else around, and everybody could just be watching me from their windows.

- Because, if you marry them, they become your ex- boy/girlfriend. And you can't be a widow without them being your ex, because y'all were married.

- why "strongly"? Even if we couldn't, colorism is something that everyone forgets  . kbyeimnottryingtogetthethreadlocked.

[tolbs17]

And Greenville, North Carolina is pretty much equally white and black.

[kenarmy]

- I hate when p0rn has music.. I'm trying to bust an *oof* not a dance move.
- Forget being held at gunpoint.. Have you ever fell and everyone started laughing, and then you fell again??
- You value a screen more than billions of people.
- The chances of you existing are so slim.
- It's so tacky that you have to do marching band in order to do concert band, unless you have asthma or sum. I signed up to play an instrument, not to move my hips in front of all these people  ..
- Someone is praying to be in your position.
- You rarely hear your username being read out loud. Well, most of you.
- So um is jeffandnicole a couple??
- Your mum telling you to come outside and get the groceries is the definition of bittersweet.
- You're an ancestor to a lot of strangers that will probably never know you existed.
- When you try to remember a past event, you try to remember remembering it, not the actual event.
- Afro Puffs by The Lady of Rage is the greatest rap song of all time. And if you haven't heard it already, curse you.

[Roadgeekteen]

- So um is jeffandnicole a couple??

Yes, I think.

[kphoger]

- Ok but still I'm just walking in the open with nobody else around, and everybody could just be watching me from their windows.

- Because, if you marry them, they become your ex- boy/girlfriend. And you can't be a widow without them being your ex, because y'all were married.

- why "strongly"? Even if we couldn't, colorism is something that everyone forgets  . kbyeimnottryingtogetthethreadlocked.

–  Is going to the mailbox seriously the only time you walk out in the open while people might be able to see you?  What about just walking around the block?  Across a parking lot?  I don't get it.

–  My wife is not my ex-girlfriend.  She is still my girlfriend.  I actually have a funny story about that...  Also, ask a widower about his ex-wife and see the sort of respect you get from him;  they are not the same thing.

–  I strongly disagree because I've witnessed racism in action by black people, and because I've had discussions with black people about that very racism.  Besides which, or rather more importantly:  claiming that a person cannot have a bias merely because of the color of his or her skin is racist.



Funny story time.  I know a guy from Brandon, MS (hey, I just mentioned him, didn't I?), who has a very memorable personality and is known around town as a strong Christian man;  we've worked with him in missions down in Mexico a few times.  He is happily married and has been for many years.  One time, he had to go to the hospital and be put under anesthesia.  As it was wearing off, the nurses were asking him questions to check how well the fog was lifting from his mind.  Well, he was perfectly lucid, but he decided to have some fun with the nurses anyway.  They asked him if anyone would be picking him up from the hospital, and he replied, Yes, my girlfriend is picking me up.  Well, they got all embarrassed, because they thought the medicine was making him let slip a secret affair he'd been having.  They asked him a couple of times more, and he kept replying that his girlfriend would be picking him up from the hospital.  Finally, it was time to be released from the hospital, at which time he met up with his wife and then told all the nurses, I'd like to introduce you to my girlfriend.  She is my girlfriend, my lover, and my wife.

[Roadgeekteen]

- Ok but still I'm just walking in the open with nobody else around, and everybody could just be watching me from their windows.

- Because, if you marry them, they become your ex- boy/girlfriend. And you can't be a widow without them being your ex, because y'all were married.

- why "strongly"? Even if we couldn't, colorism is something that everyone forgets  . kbyeimnottryingtogetthethreadlocked.

–  Is going to the mailbox seriously the only time you walk out in the open while people might be able to see you?  What about just walking around the block?  Across a parking lot?  I don't get it.

–  My wife is not my ex-girlfriend.  She is still my girlfriend.  I actually have a funny story about that...  Also, ask a widower about his ex-wife and see the sort of respect you get from him;  they are not the same thing.

–  I strongly disagree because I've witnessed racism in action by black people, and because I've had discussions with black people about that very racism.  Besides which, or rather more importantly:  claiming that a person cannot have a bias merely because of the color of his or her skin is racist.



Funny story time.  I know a guy from Brandon, MS (hey, I just mentioned him, didn't I?), who has a very memorable personality and is known around town as a strong Christian man;  we've worked with him in missions down in Mexico a few times.  He is happily married and has been for many years.  One time, he had to go to the hospital and be put under anesthesia.  As it was wearing off, the nurses were asking him questions to check how well the fog was lifting from his mind.  Well, he was perfectly lucid, but he decided to have some fun with the nurses anyway.  They asked him if anyone would be picking him up from the hospital, and he replied, Yes, my girlfriend is picking me up.  Well, they got all embarrassed, because they thought the medicine was making him let slip a secret affair he'd been having.  They asked him a couple of times more, and he kept replying that his girlfriend would be picking him up from the hospital.  Finally, it was time to be released from the hospital, at which time he met up with his wife and then told all the nurses, I'd like to introduce you to my girlfriend.  She is my girlfriend, my lover, and my wife.

I find it awkward to call your wife your "girlfriend". Just sounds bizarre.

[kphoger]

- The chances of you existing are so slim.

The chances of me existing are 100%.

- Someone is praying to be in your position.

What, at work?  I highly doubt that.

Walking to the mailbox is intimidating. Like what am I supposed to look at, and what do I do with my arms??

I'm just walking in the open with nobody else around, and everybody could just be watching me from their windows.

I signed up to play an instrument, not to move my hips in front of all these people  ..

Self-conscious much?

I find it awkward to call your wife your "girlfriend". Just sounds bizarre.

Well, you don't have to call my wife my "girlfriend", then.

[webny99]

Walking to the mailbox is intimidating. Like what am I supposed to look at, and what do I do with my arms??

I'm just walking in the open with nobody else around, and everybody could just be watching me from their windows.

...

Self-conscious much?

Sounds like how someone would feel if they were walking around in the nude or something... but there's no reason to feel conspicuous walking to the mailbox in normal everyday attire.

[Angelo71]

How does a 67 year old date a 20 year old? (Old and a young person dating)

[Roadgeekteen]

How does a 67 year old date a 20 year old? (Old and a young person dating)

Ew

[jmacswimmer]

How does a 67 year old date a 20 year old?

(Old and a young person dating)

(But anyways, here's how):
https://youtu.be/3ybxfYnl-gg

[Roadgeekteen]

The oldest person on earth died with a completely different set of humans on earth than the ones s/he was born with