Cancellations

[craner]

Someone needs to defend the US intelligence community, a deeply vulnerable community.

They don't recruit from here.

 

[version]

I may be missing something but from what I understand, the FBI had informants in that group in order to monitor what the group was doing. the way you're written it, it implies the FBI wanted to kidnap Whitmer and got this group to plot it.

The implication isn't that the FBI wanted to kidnap Whitmer, it's that they encouraged a bunch of useful idiots to, perhaps out of over zealousness and paranoia, perhaps to maintain a certain level of funding or perhaps as part of some sort of strategy of tension.

 

[Leo]

The implication isn't that the FBI wanted to kidnap Whitmer, it's that they encouraged a bunch of useful idiots to, perhaps out of over zealousness and paranoia, perhaps to maintain a certain level of funding or perhaps as part of some sort of strategy of tension.

or more likely, to have people on the inside to inform them of what the group of useful idiots were up to.

 

[version]

Quite possibly, but there's a long history of law enforcement manufacturing and encouraging threats and it's convenient that a new domestic one's popped up just as the War on Terror's seemingly being wound down abroad.

 

[Clinamenic]

They don't recruit from here.

I'm fond of precedent, but not exclusively so.

 

[sus]

I just didn't turn my computer on and spent lots of time reading, exercising and being outside in the sun. It was good.

Version what's your first name? I'd like to be on a first name basis with a friend

 

[linebaugh]

His father called him ‘boy’ until he was sixteen years old. It wasn’t until applying for his first job, where he signed as ‘Sales Associate,’ that he ever gave it any thought.

 

[craner]

 

[catalog]

Classic version burn there

 

[luka]

Bosnia is implicated and threatened, because this is all about Serbian irredentism. What that Djokovic thing demonstrates is the mainstreaming of extremist Greater Serbian nationalism inside Serbia and in the Serbian communities outside current Serbian territory. From that perspective, it’s a direct threat to Bosnia-Hertzogovina, Montenegro and Kosovo and a potential threat to the other Balkan states too.

 

[poetix]

wrt to the infamous “babes” thread, it is a fact that a google image search for any fair-to-middlingly pulchritudinous celeb, weathergirl etc will reveal a multitude of threads on boards dedicated to motorbikes, football clubs, steam engines, model aeroplanes etc devoted to collective evaluation of female hotness; it seems to be one of the primary bonding rituals. Tell me who really gets your pulse racing and I shall know you a little better. I’m sure uf you want to see people ogling e.g. Tom Hiddleston there are boards dedicated to, I don’t know, quilting or something which have a special thread or two in which lasciviousness reigns. Middle-aged ladies joking nervously about the appropriateness of their lust for Timothee Shalalalamay. Don’t beat yourselves up about it eh.

 

[luka]

theres nothing terribly bad about it but im glad i dont do it in public and arent on those threads. i like pulling up old quotes from them. Mr Tea saying 'if shes got more than 12 pubes shes old enough' that sort of thing makes me laugh

 

[luka]

and they're a good gauge of 'how far we've come'... or how standards change eg zhaos famous slut candy post

 

[poetix]

I wonder how much of that is general social progress, and how much just this board having outgrown the need for cringe binding rituals

 

[poetix]

I’m fascinated by the general prohibition on “horny on main”, this notion that base sexual impulses should be cordoned off into special zones and alt accounts, usually overlapping considerably with the “drumming up business for my onlyfans / escort service /etc” subdomain. Sex-talk is only permitted if someone’s trying to get paid. It’s really hardened (fnar) into a rule of online etiquette…

 

[WashYourHands]

I’ve spoken openly about the inherent rituals of dogging, it’s adaptive use of landscape features where space = place, patterns of the hunt zoning in on forthcoming meets

Retired but can imagine an incentivised £ live-streaming - 5£ to open a door window, 10£ to butter an orifice, 20£ phone top up, 25£ for go’s location and 30£ for a curry after

Not what it used to be etc

 

[luka]

wash your hands and barty two people who definitely havent noticed any general prohibition.

 

[Mr. Tea]

theres nothing terribly bad about it but im glad i dont do it in public and arent on those threads. i like pulling up old quotes from them. Mr Tea saying 'if shes got more than 12 pubes shes old enough' that sort of thing makes me laugh

You know, I'd forgotten how funny I can be sometimes.

 

[Clinamenic]

I'd forgotten how funny I can be sometimes.

Your "living on a prayer!" comment in the new covid thread has been cracking me up since.

 

[craner]

Antiques Road Show...cancelled!