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  7. Posted

    42 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Is this just another attempt to blame everything on the French? 

    " I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Go away, or I shall taunt you more."

  8. Posted

    4 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Yah, AFAIK one is only supposed to use the left hand when using the right hand is impractical.

    I suppose if the right arm is amputated, it might be considered appropriate. Never came up in anything I ever heard.

    Actually, perhaps weirdly, saluting with the right hand seems universal among militaries. 

  9. Posted

    On 6/17/2025 at 11:27 PM, mlooney said:

    Yeah, the 18th century was a bit weird, where civilian firearms might have been more effective than military.  Of course, the civil “forces” didn't, as a rule, have cannons.

    Muskets were still common military weapons. Rifles used by the colonists for hunting were more accurate. Smaller bore, but deadly in the hands of a marksman. 

    This was also true of the Alamo, the Mexican troops were armed with dated shorter range muskets; the Texan forces had rifles among their weapons; doomed by low numbers and limited supplies.

  11. Posted

    4 hours ago, mlooney said:

    This being EGS, got to wonder if the gender/sex is set.  Could Jerry have been Jeraldine, for example?  I mean either long term or for a party or something.

    Pandora marked Tedd with such a transformation; I'm guessing if they can mark it, they can do it.

     

    3 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    ONLY if the role was played by Flip Wilson. 

    Wow, there's a blast from the past. That was one of his things. 

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, ijuin said:

    I think that the paradigm here is that Immortals are not actually beings of Matter, and are instead “made of” magic. Literally every action that they perform upon the physical world is not a matter-upon-matter interaction, but rather a magic-upon-matter interaction.

    I don't think that's accurate, specifically because of the ability to mate with humans and carry an elf to term, Adrian being a case in point. 

    They seem to manifest physically, but have a lot of control over how they manifest.

  14. Posted

    5 hours ago, mlooney said:

    “I heard an outside cat last night!  Just in case they get in side, I need to mark everything as mine!  Let's start with the sock and shorts box” - Explorer the Cat.

    Be glad you don't have a male dog.

  16. Posted

    1 hour ago, ijuin said:

    Yah, television itself is a relatively recent thing—daily broadcasts weren’t really happening until after WWII. Before that was a few decades of cinema, and before that was novels and the theater.

    Radio entertainment was significant for a couple of decades, occupying the niche taken over by video. Before that, families generally had musical equipment and skills; pianos were popular around the turn of the early 1900s.

  17. Posted

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:
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    “You do this to discuss important issues?”

    “Well, we can, but it's mostly a reacting to big TV shows thing.”

    So, what other human culture things to immortals like?  Does this even slightly help with boredom, so it could allow stronger, yet not quite so chaotic elder immortals?  Are immortals into “sports ball”?  

    I took the TV shows comment to be a metaphor, not saying I'm right, just that was my impression.

    If it is literal, it's value might be mitigating boredom of the aging immortals, perhaps actually extending their useful viability, which amounts to lifetime. 

    Hmm, recall, Zeus was interested in partying with humans. Maybe they crave social contact, and have barriers with each other.

  18. Posted

    48 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

     

    The narrow loss in 60 fed his paranoia that would cloud every political decision Nixon made for the rest of his life

    I believe that's true, but that's not the whole enchilada. Nixon was part of the HUAC nonsense; he had a history of being extreme before his presidency.

  23. Posted

    13 hours ago, mlooney said:

    For all his varied faults, he did end the war.

    Oh, I know. I had a winning draft number, and expected to have to go, then we bailed out. But he was more facing reality than choosing to do the right thing.

     

    11 hours ago, ijuin said:

    Nixon also had the decency to resign when they tried to impeach him.

    You give him too much credit; he had many people telling him he needed to, from his own side. Sure, he was better than Dumpster, but that like a hurdle that is merely tape on the ground. 

    I'd also give him credit for being somewhat more self aware than Bonespurs. And he didn't seek to surround himself with incompetence.

  25. Posted

    1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    Depending on how long “your memory” is, LBJ was worse on vets.  And, for that matter, active duty.

    He came to mind as I posted that as a competing statistic. In what way(s) would you say he was worse on vets than Dumpster?

    Kennedy wasn't around long enough to garner much of a track record, but he laid the groundwork for Johnson.

    I'd say Nixon was at least as bad as Johnson.