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Yup! That about sums it up! Society is a pecking order with conservatives. Pack animals need an alpha dog. Like the time my conservative sister inlaw came into my work... First thing out of her mouth: "Now who's above who here?" I pointed 👉 to the chain of command photos on the wall in the lunchroom. /smdh...
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Are they harming you any different than others? Don't worry, you're not going to hell. Why not steer the world to accepting everyone, equality. Why not embrace differences with people. Unless, you like division among people. I simply don't understand why differences and accepting those differences bothers people. Is it order? Control? Creating underclasses of undesirables? Or just wanting to view life and society in an orderly manner. It certainly can't be about money and economics, because why would anyone alienate a paying customer? "You get more flies with honey then you do vinegar" if you really simply just oppose the agenda.
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Happy 50th Birthday Mobile Phones!
ExiledInIllinois replied to ExiledInIllinois's topic in Off the Wall
I don't know... It is kinda important. Literally everything I do is on a cellphone. Personal, banking, bills, calendar. Absolutely no paper or mail...Etc... Only time I use a PC is at work and at tax time. I probably could do my taxes on the phone. It really has saved clutter and paper... If I get something in mail, I can take a picture of it and deal with it later. I used to have a shoebox full of bills, stamps, etc... -
Happy 50th Birthday Mobile Phones!
ExiledInIllinois replied to ExiledInIllinois's topic in Off the Wall
"We" (the previous generations) warned us (gonna say us, but I listened). 😉😜 😆... You shut your mouth... While I hack away on that blasted thing! -
4/3/1973: First mobile phone call. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65112048 "On 3 April 1973, Marty Cooper stood on a corner of Sixth Avenue in New York and took a phone book from his pocket. He then punched a number into a large, cream-coloured device and put it to his ear while passers-by stared at him. Mr Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, rang his counterpart at rival firm Bell Laboratories, to triumphantly tell him he was calling from "a personal, handheld, portable cell phone". He recalls there being silence on the end of the line. "I think he was gritting his teeth," says the 94-year-old, laughing. ..."
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They say the Finnish national identity and concept of "SISU" has really no literal English equivalent... But holy crap, this came very close! Balls in this case is SISU! "Sisu is extraordinary determination in the face of extreme adversity, and courage that is presented typically in situations where success is unlikely."
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Name a Right Wing Position
ExiledInIllinois replied to Backintheday544's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
That nasty socialist pig. 😕 -
"America First"... The Firsters is straight out of the 1930s... They are the Charles Lindberghs, Henry Fords, and Joe Kennedy's that wanted to align and appease Hitler and the fascists. The fascists are the Putin's and Xi's today hybridized 30 years strong from old communists... I mean knock Hillary all you want, she was right 10 years ago when she said the GOP all they want to do is roll the clock back to 1929 for a conservative "do-over."
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What do you call a broken escalator? -Stairs
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What do you call an artsy pumpkin? 🎃 ...An avant-gourd!
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The Devon Levi story... Not sure if posted yet: https://www.trainwrecksports.com/from-dollard-to-buffalo-the-devon-levi-story/
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Hope the photographer was in the passenger seat. 😏
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Carjacking attempt failure due to a manual transmission
ExiledInIllinois replied to \GoBillsInDallas/'s topic in Off the Wall
As automatics progressed, they are quicker and more efficient than manuals, especially off-roading. I think the paddle shifters just make it "clutchless"... Well at least with your left foot. So you can take the RPMs up and shift when you want to. Rev matching when you downshift is pretty cool. BUT... Manuals better when fording through water... -
Carjacking attempt failure due to a manual transmission
ExiledInIllinois replied to \GoBillsInDallas/'s topic in Off the Wall
I taught my son... Has the, got him the 2014 Cooper S 9 years ago when the new bigger style Cooper came out... Still going strong. The nice thing is, nobody else could drive it when he went to school. 6 speed with rev-matching. Really cool feature. Has hill assist. On a hill, you got 2 seconds to get from the brake to the clutch before rolling backwards. Ooops! 😆