You can bring guns into the new Tennessee legislative building, but you have to leave “hand-carried signs and signs on hand sticks” because they “represent a serious safety hazard.” https://t.co/4nMvckuRDW
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 26, 2017
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True Heartland(tm) values!
Guns YES, thoughts NO!
Which means you can walk in with your gun but if a little flag pops out of it that says 'BANG!' they'll throw ur ass out. https://t.co/ZxlvsHrPcU
— Cousin Zeddy (@ZeddRebel) December 27, 2017
Also, for Leftovers Day:
Ok this is funny pic.twitter.com/GyS64OGgbI
— Ruth H. Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) December 25, 2017
hellslittlestangel
Yeah, but is it intentional? I really can’t tell.
Another Scott
@hellslittlestangel: Photoshopped, according to Snopes. And, as is too often the case, the important real-life message is masked by the Photoshop…
Cheers,
Scott.
Duane the dairy farmer
Handmade signs on sticks don’t kill people….people kill people
Patricia Kayden
Is the guy on the left for real? I get that the guy on the right is being sarcastic.
IvankaThrowUp (AKA RedDirtGirl)
What the actual phuck, to that first tweet?!
Roger Moore
@Another Scott:
What I find interesting is how they’ve twisted the relationship between the two sign carriers. In reality they were carrying signs that referred to each other, but that worked because they were cooperating to make the same point. The photoshop makes them look like they’re arguing instead of agreeing.
Lahke
Just finished reading”The Hired Man”, by Aminatta Forna, which really packs a wallop. The emotional aftermath of the Croatian war of Independence; the south must have been a little like that after the civil war. How do you live on in a community that’s torn itself apart? The difference being the huge power imbalance in the south, of course. Anyway, highly recommended. What are folks reading that’s worth the time investment?
gene108
My brother gave me an Amazon Echo Dot. I am not exactly sure what I should do with it or how it would benefit.
Other than it will give me someone to talk to at home.
Raoul
Does the right to bear arms mean that one could bring a pike, battle axe or other instrument of war to the Tenn capitol? I mean, why stop at just guns?
ArchTeryx
@gene108: It really doesn’t do all that much unless you have “smart home” appliances, i.e. things connected to your wireless internet router. It can do some things as well with a smart phone with the right stuff on it, like Spotify. I’ve held off getting one myself because very little in the house is “smart”.
Mark Hodgson
I can bring my firearm per the 2nd amendment. I can have a hand carried sign but not a sign on a stick, due to the dangers of the stick.
How about I tape my hand carried sign to an 1812 smooth bore musket (very 2nd amendmentish) and hold that up for all to see?
gene108
On the All Holidays Matter sign, I don’t get the bottom three symbols. The one on the left is a star burst of some kind. Or the symbol the “Pow” graphic would be on in the Adam West Batman TV show, during a fight sequence. The middle symbol looks like the Wheel of Pain from the Schwarzenegger era Conan film, and the swastika is used by multiple religions as an auspicious symbol, and therefore does not denote any particular religion.
DanR2
Same stupid crap in Kansas. No sticks, you hippie liberal protestors.
Guns? C’mon in. Smooch.
Omnes Omnibus
Given the open thread thing: One present I received yesterday was a black t-shirt that said:
“Thunderbolt & lightning,
very, very frightening me.”
– Galileo
Tenar Arha
What if someone taped a sign to a gun? Would that be okay?
Ruckus
Somehow the republican party around these parts has decided that sending me emails would get me to vote republican. My first response was rejected as spam. I think I may have used the word fuck one too many times in it. So I sent them another one with word press modifications to get through their spam filter. That appeared to work. I don’t understand how the word republican was OK and the word fuck wasn’t. But then while I’m an old white male, I don’t speak or understand republican. To my great and everlasting pleasure.
gene108
@ArchTeryx:
I don’t want smart appliances. Last thing I need is for a Russian hacker to hijack my fridge and hold my left overs hostage, in exchange for bitcoins.
Either that or have them gain sentience and go all SkyNet on us.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Is there any point to Tennessee any longer? I mean, yeah, Tennessee gave us Al Gore, but, shit, they’ve just flat lost their shit the last 20 years. I always kind of thought of them as the part of the more reasonable, sane south, but, damn, they’ve just given up on that. What the hell happened down there, anyway?
p.a.
What’s the Tennessee budget for stick safety courses?
lollipopguild
@gene108: Imagine if all those robots that make sushi decided to turn on us and make us into sushi.
Omnes Omnibus
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): I like Memphis.
lollipopguild
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Having a black president for 8 years destroyed their pea-picking minds.
Mark Hodgson
Can I bring in a US Flag on a stick?
Ruckus
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Other than the George Dickel distillery (and I no longer drink so that’s a moot point) I can’t think of really any rational reason for it. I’d bet there are a few people living there who are sane and all but really how many can that be? Of course there have to be a few BJ readers that live there and they are of course the exception.
jl
@Mark Hodgson:
” Can I bring in a US Flag on a stick? ”
As long as it’s not slathered in elitist un-American fancy mustard.
jl
A well trained terrorist can probably slice your head off at the next with a properly flung 8 by 11 card stock.
raven
@jl: Oddjob!
B.B.A.
@p.a.: Those were all cut due to a more pressing threat: fresh fruit.
lamh36
Ha…see the Kennedy Center audience singing along to the Gloria Estefan segment…Lord…I am waiting with baited breath to see the audience trying to “sing” along to LL Cool J’s segment as Hip Hop taking over the KC stage…
https://media.giphy.com/media/l0HlvtIPzPdt2usKs/200.gif
David ??MerryChristmas?? Koch
What if the sign said “Merry Christmas”?
ArchTeryx
@gene108: Heh. The only “smart” item in the house is the Nest thermostat, and it’s there because there are four people living in this shack and it basically puts the thermostat under control of the house owner. (He’s a close friend, so I get thermostat privileges. I’m a bastard son of a dinosaur, yes).
(“Life not fair, is it? Well, I shall never be king, and you shall never see the light of another day! Hm…adieu!”)
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
Doesn’t allowing anybody to bring in a gun inviting a mass shooting that would take out several legislators?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mark Hodgson: Nope, be a real American and put it on a gun.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Well, jl is a bit odd.
ETA: He’s an economist, so I’m not sure about the job part.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@ArchTeryx: Everything is smart here, except me.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
Also, in those Trump voter pieces, are the journos using real names?
rikyrah
@gene108:
You sound as skeptical of it as I do.
Tell us how it works out.
Pluky
@gene108: The Wheel (of Dharma) is Buddhist. Each spoke represents an aspect of the Eight-fold Way to enlightenment.
The nine-pointed star is Ba’hai. Don’t know the significance.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Of course, it ain’t Balloon Juice.
NotMax
@gene108
Sit on it until it hatches?
:)
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
I want one.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
” He’s an economist, so I’m not sure about the job part. ”
Merry Christmas, fellow economist. I will email you a nice lump of coal, the energy of the future.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I meant for the Trump supporters they’re interviewing?
Mnemosyne
@Tenar Arha:
@Mark Hodgson:
I would love to see someone do that. Sadly, they would probably be in grave danger of getting shot by police.
lamh36
@lamh36:
Annnnd…it was bout what I expected…LOL
All the Black folks and young folks in the audience for this LL Cool J segment on #KCHonors #KennedyCenterHonors
And…
Older bougie white folk in the audience for that LL Cool J segment on the Kennedy Center Honors
Now for the Lionel Ritchie segment, I expect the entire place to be rockin’…
jl
@Mnemosyne: A pop gun that shoots out a sign would be a very bad idea, as well.
Temporarily Max McGee (may or may not be a myth)
Where does the Second Amendment differentiate between types of arms that are protected? I’d use the ability to cut with paper and to use a stick as a spear or a club to challenge the ban. I’m sort of…Serious here.
NotMax
@lamh36
Minnows and worms aren’t all that tasty and can get stuck between the teeth.
bated breath
Mnemosyne
If we’re discussing what people got for Christmas, my spouse the future librarian (he graduates next December) received a librarian action pack from my brother and sister in law: a sweater vest, two pairs of reading glasses, and a chain to hang the glasses on.
I’m still laughing. ?
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Depends on how much “older” we’re talking about. I’m 48, palest white, and not a fan of most hip-hop, but I love LL, so I’d be with the younger crowd. ??
oatler.
Ow! I’ve stung myself with my own tali!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: That’s what I meant; of course the names are real.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: You know I gave up that gig years ago to pursue taking IR pics to frighten you.
lamh36
@NotMax: bahumbug…I knew it soon as I saw it..LOL…but darn edit function so quck on here…lol
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: This may or may not interest you.
lamh36
I will NEVER not love seeing Alvin Ailey’s “Wade in the Water” choreo!!!
#KCHonors #KennedyCenterHonors
scott alloway
@NotMax: I am a grammar nazi. Well done.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: I dare you to watch the broadcast of the show and tell me how I described it was wrong…
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: Better link.
NotMax
Open thread?
May the portmanteau be with you; whatever floats yer boat, I guess.
Mike J
@gene108:
Alexa, the Dude abides
Alexa, sing a song
Alexa, can you rap?
Alexa, tell me a joke
Alexa, tell me a dirty joke
Alexa, tell me a shark joke
Alexa, my name is Inigo Montoya.
Alexa, surely you can’t be serious.
Alexa, Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus: OK, that made me laugh. But are you going to wear it? ; )
I, on the other hand, received a pair of socks from a friend that simply proclaimed: “Fuck This Shit.” Not as clever, but definitely apropos. I plan to wear them to work tomorrow.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I wasn’t saying you were wrong. But the people I know who argue about Stax minutia are all white. Anyway, I was just using your post to try to make a joke.
lamh36
Alright now…I love me some Lionel Ritchie…from Commodores to solo…I love it ALL.
One of these days I WILL see him in concert, hopefully at his next Vegas residency!
His segment is up next on Kennedy Center Honors, and I am ready for it…
https://media.giphy.com/media/WA5RTDtzSv8NW/giphy.gif
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: It isn’t really my style, but, if I go to another pro-science march, I may wear it along with my brain hat.
danielx
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Same thing as North Carolina.
lamh36
My actual fav song written by Lionel Ritchie Commodores song may be “Jesus Is Love” … followed closely “Easy”
https://youtu.be/9KU8tnvk81s
#KennedyCenterHonors #KCHonors
divF
@lamh36:
One of my favorite vocal pieces is Linda Tillery’s version of “Wade in the Water”, sung as a round with “Way Over in Beulahland” and “Run Mary Run”.
debbie
@Another Scott:
I definitely like the original better.
lamh36
“ability to write simple melodies & lyrics for songs that nobody could forget”
If that DON’T descrbie Lionel Ritchie’s songwriting and hits PERFECTLY!!!
#LionelRitchie #KCHonors #KennedyCenterHonors
lamh36
I can’t even tell you my FAVORITE Lionel Ritchie solo song…but the ENTIRE list of songs on the albums “Lionel Ritchie” and “Can’t Slow Song” ARE ALL FAVORITES
#LionelRitchie #KCHonors #KennedyCenterHonors
Alex
The Michigan Capitol has the same rule. Signs might bump the historic faux finishes. But no one would ever bump the gallery walls or columns with a rifle.
Mike J
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
Memphis got rid of the Civil War statues, and bent over backwards to find a way to get around the state lege to do it. So it’s not the entire state.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: I SAID I like Memphis. Stax, Chilton, Hi, Ike (asshole, but still), Isaac, West Memphis 3… Ribs and catfish? Couldn’t live there, but could visit often.
lamh36
Don’t even get me started on Say You Say Me!!!
THAT.IS.MY.JAM!!
#KCHonors #KennedyCenterHonors
#Lionel Richie – Say You, Say Me https://youtu.be/nQTfu7uY1VM via @YouTube
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: We will have to agree to disagree. The only Ritchie era Commodore’s song that I like is “Brickhouse.”
scav
Hand sticks, hand-stick are forbidden, right? Didn’t they just effectively ban all crucifixes from being carried into the TN legislature? Ok, of a certain size, but still, sticks carried by hand. Those things could definitely take an eye — or THREE — out.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Is he still speaking to them?
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: I live in Memphis, my rep introduced articles of impeachment. Like most cities in the south, Memphis is not Tennessee, and vice versa. And the Democrats are running a real possibility for Corker’s seat.
Honus
@Raoul: or say a seven-inch switchblade knife? Or am I restricted to my 9mm Browning Airweight Hi-Power? Could I carry a compound bow and some broad heads?
NotMax
@scav
“We’re going to have to confiscate that Panda Express take out. Chopsticks.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Honus: Spada da lato?
ETA: Consider a Six Blade Knife.
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
For now. ? It’s not like he’s going to have a lot of opportunities to wear a sweater vest in Pasadena anyway.
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare: Hey, I was more or less on your side.
Ruckus
@eclare:
I knew there had to be good folks in TN. Hope you kick Corker’s ass to the curb.
scav
@NotMax: OH My GAWD the pencils — the place is a N° 2 Armory!!!
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Next Halloween, he can show up at a costume party as Rick Santorum.
Oooh, scary!
;)
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
He’s in the library, isn’t it mandatory to wear one to get paid?
Did at least one of pairs of reading glasses make his eyes look like they were in a fish bowl?
Alain the site fixer
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Hey – yes the form is f’ed and your emails were fine but FYWP didn’t like your panorama. So I held off. I’ll fix but I plan to run a few other panoramas first – I owe it to the photographer, and we’ll all benefit, you’ll see.
Like always, I’m in awe of your work. That’s a beaut. And yes I know I can run the other pictures without it, but I’d like to run the whole set as intended. So that will be next year then, be seeing you!
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: Sorry, didn’t mean to imply you were not, I got your meaning. Should have just posted without a specific response.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Oh what a feelin’
Dancin’ on the ceiling!
eclare
@Ruckus: Corker is retiring. Democrats are running a popular former governor, Phil Bredesen. The two leading Republicans are people who have attached themselves to Trump at the hip, say the problem is that Republicans don’t support Trump enough.
Omnes Omnibus
@eclare: I had two great great grandfathers who started their Civil War careers in your city. One got invalided out; the other was with Sherman from beginning to end.
ArchTeryx
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You ain’t the only one! I am much more of a techie and even I have trouble keeping up with the (many unnecessary, IMHO) gadgets. Certain things are nice (having a thermostat that knows when to lower/raise the temperature and can give you the day’s weather out the door is actually pretty nice, as is having a clock radio that can wake me up with a Spotify playlist) but who the hell thought it a good idea to make a net-connected refrigerator? Washer and dryer? Yeah, I’ll stick with a modest amount of tech, thank you very much.
Omnes Omnibus
@ArchTeryx: I am sorry, Dave, I cannot do that.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Random but music-related: Preet Bharara outed himself as a Costello fan on Twitter the other day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Were you surprised? All decent people under 65…
eclare
@ArchTeryx: Smart beds exist now…that is creepy AF.
Ruckus
@eclare:
Sounds good.
Hope you know I was kidding about TN, I thought the George Dickel comment would show that.
And even if he’s retiring, his ass should be kicked to the curb. Boing Boing had a nice article on him.
ETA Conservatism can never fail you just have to be more stupid and believe. I thought magic slippers were from Kansas.
MomSense
@lamh36:
I learned tonight that my mom has a crush on LL Cool J.
Honus
@Omnes Omnibus: Spada da lato?
Probably banned. Jesus told Peter to put his away in the garden of Gethsemane. Now if he’d just had a Glock instead…
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not surprised, just interesting to see.
My 74-year-old mom still listens to Pink Floyd and AC/DC because she raised 4 teenage boys in the 1980s.
eclare
@Ruckus: I knew…and I totally agree.
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
Your mom has good taste. ? I still remember him performing “Mama Said Knock You Out” shirtless on the Grammys 20+ years ago. He won many fans that night. Mostly female, but about 10 percent of the guys, too. ?
Tehanu
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Feature not bug?
@Omnes Omnibus:
One of my great-greats may have been with Sherman, as he was from Missouri. Apparently it was the deep dark family secret (on my Texas-born mother’s side) that he was a Union soldier. My brother & sister and I may well be the only descendants of my whole generation who are grateful for that; the rest of them are still unreconstructed. Anyway, I’m envious of you!
eclare
@Ruckus: That is the position that the most likely Republican candidate has, the vile Marsha Blackburn.
Omnes Omnibus
@Honus: M110A2? I recognize the hallway issues.
chopper
man, if only there was an amendment in the bill of rights that allowed us to carry sticks. fuck, the framers must be real embarrassed right about now.
eclare
@Tehanu: Yeah, I have some relatives in prior generations that were Union. Afraid to ask what some of my current relatives really think about that.
Doug R
@gene108:
Silicon Valley’s got you covered.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tehanu:
Dear god, don’t be. I still have my hairline but the gray is gaining fast, and I can be less than nice on occasion. :P
SWMBO
@Omnes Omnibus: B.B. King? Did you forget the King?
Omnes Omnibus
@SWMBO: Random examples of various value. Never intended to be an exhaustive list.
ETA: And, at least, I am making some late-ish night musical discussion happen.
Ruckus
@eclare:
I lived in OH for a decade. Ken Blackwell worked magic on the precincts in the liberal parts of OH. In 2004 we had 2 machines and 6 or 8 precincts voting in one church. It took me 4 hrs and I had to stand in the rain for most of that.
I hate republicans. Any one that can support the shitgibbon and this tax bill……… let alone the rest of the shit they are doing and want to do. Thankfully they are the most unprepared and ill equipped otherwise the damage would be catastrophic, as opposed to just horrible.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
The hell you say!
eclare
@Ruckus: Agreed, I’ll do what I can for next November. If it can happen in AL….
ETA> Turnout in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga will be key. Like elsewhere, in every election or ballot initiative, the cities vote Democratically.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: To be fair, I couldn’t grow a decent beard if you paid me. My clean cut, preppy look thing isn’t a political or social statement. It is just want works for me stylistically.
Ruckus
@Ruckus:
Message sent.
Message received.
Message acknowledged.
Message properly acted upon.
Swearing does work!
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: I like “Brickhouse” but it’s not even close to being my fav song from Lionel Ritchie & Commodores…
Sweet Love, Zoom, Still, Just To Be Close To You, Easy…I put ALL those before Brickhouse, and also of course the above mentioned Jesus Is Love over Brickhouse…
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Style? I gots no stinking style. I gave up on that at about age 16. I grow a beard because I hate to shave. I trim what little that’s left on the top of the noggin because I’m lazy and don’t care that I’m bald. (Took me about 4 yrs to get that point through the ole noggin!) That the beard pisses off a lot of stuffy assholes is just a bonus.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Like I said, agree to disagree. The type of song you are mentioning just make me want to bash my head against at wall.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
Ladies love Cool J! ?
Do you remember that SNL skit with the junior high/UU church music teachers singing pop and hip hop songs? That was the scene in my living room tonight. One of the funniest and sweetest things I’ve ever seen. My mom is an 80 year old retired classical violinist and she was dancing and singing with her hand making the L sign. I should have filmed it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: They don’t bother me and I have a giant head that looks better with hair on top.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Mine looks better with hair on top as well. But the damn stuff just jumped ship one day. Either that or hair on top of a man’s head is highly susceptible to gravity. I can go with either theory.
And all the men a generation ahead of me on both sides had hair till they passed. At least mine hung around till I’d passed half a century. My cousin lost his in his twenties.
SWMBO
@Ruckus: Many years ago my husband’s boss’ wife made him shave. She HATED his beard. When she asked me why I didn’t make D shave his beard off, I told her it tickled. She said M’s beard scratched her face. I said I didn’t say it tickled my face. ;-)
lamh36
@lamh36: How can I forget Three Times A Lady!
SWMBO
@Ruckus: They say to look at the mother’s brother. That will tell you if you’re going to keep your hair.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: For me, it is now something to use to “tease” my brother. I have great hair, he has crap looking gray hair and two fantastic kids.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@gene108:
The bottom left to right; Zoroastrianism aka the original monotheists, paganism and Tibetan Budism.
eclare
@SWMBO: Oh my/Takei
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
I love when our moms surprise us with their pop culture knowledge. ? Shows that you don’t have to become un-hip with age.
And since this thread is doubling as a hair discussion, I seem to be on track to be 99 percent gray before I’m 50 like everyone in my mom’s family. Fortunately, i found a great colorist 15 years ago and I’m sticking with her for as long as humanly possible. She gets my base color exactly right so the roots are less noticable.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: Ok..but I have one question for you…and your answer may just decide how I really feel about you…
Do you like Maze feat. Frankie Beverly…choose your answer wisely…
Ruckus
@SWMBO:
ROTFL. Thank you! I’ve been told that. And it was appreciated by the person that told me as well.
I needed a laugh, the last 4 days has been a bit much, the angiogram was not all that much fun but the worst part was that 2 of the 3 IV sticks went wonky and my back went out laying stone still for nearly 6 hrs. I’m not used to that. And my bosses mom fell down when her dog tried to run off with her holding the leash and her walker couldn’t hold her up. Broke her hip, not all that bad, if they ever operate and fix it. She’s been waiting for 4 days, but the hospital has just been slammed with emergencies and haven’t had an operating room available. She’s a 90 yr old tough bird, we chatted Thursday at the shop xmas lunch. She gave each of us a large jar of M&Ms peanuts. Of course I can’t eat them, but it’s the thought that counts.
frosty
@Ruckus: It gets passed thru the maternal side. My dad and his 4. brothers were fine. My mom had a sister but no brothers. Go back another generation and my grandma’s two brothers? Cue balls. Damn!
eclare
@Mnemosyne: I was going to say to guys going gray, there are options if you don’t want to. Been coloring mine since I was in my late 20’s, twenty years ago.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Hang on. Let me shut other things down first.
eclare
@Ruckus: Hope your back feels better and your boss’ mom gets the surgery she needs.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Clicking on it gave me a gif. Obviously, you have decided already. Thanks for making me your fun.
ETA: I try to take music things seriously, because it is something that matters a lot to me. My bad.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Some people are just lucky. Of course I don’t have to waste a lot of shampoo so I guess it evens out.
@SWMBO:
As I said every male on both sides in the previous generation had decent hair till they passed. I seem to not follow the general rules no matter what they are. Or maybe the mailman……….
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: nah…I messin’ with ya..no need to be so touchy…I just happen to be listening to a playlist right now…
As a native New Orleanian…there are a few things we are BORN to know and love at ANY age…I won’t list them all, but Maze featuring Frankie Beverly is one of those things!!!
MAZE ft Frankie Beverly – Joy and Pain StudioVersion 1980 Lyrics Incl https://youtu.be/lQhZSyXUUX8 via @YouTube
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: My dad had a thick head until it became thin. I shan’t lord it.
Ruckus
@eclare:
I have a nice 3 tone effect. Light brown, to gray, to white. I look distinguished or some crap like that. It turns out that in the end I can take care of my hair on my own, don’t need a barber or stylist or any of that. Every 6 yrs or so I have to buy a new trimmer when the old one wears out/battery won’t hold a charge. Being an old has some advantages. Mostly that you just don’t give a fuck any more.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hey go with it. Ya got it flaunt it. Just remember that you may wake up one day with a pillow covered in hair and that vision in the mirror may look like a cue ball. Hope not, no one deserves that. OK that’s not true, I know a current resident of a large house in DC that does.
eclare
@Ruckus: One of my aunts finally decided at 80 that she was ready to not give a fuck about being gray anymore. Don’t know what age it will be for me, but I’m not there yet. But your way would be easier on the wallet….
ETA>One of the great joys if Ivanka goes to prison will be that she will be forced to show her natural hair color.
SWMBO
@Ruckus: Glad I made it better for you.
SWMBO
@Ruckus: Being a mean child, I have a fantasy that someone sneaks into 1600 Penn Ave or Mar A Loco and puts Nair in his shampoo bottle.
lamh36
Good night BJ.
I’m gonna finall get off the interwebs (well blogs for the night)
Peace out and hope everyone have a good night’s sleep
Ruckus
@SWMBO:
Good for another laugh!
I wonder if the person that does his hair, surly he doesn’t have the skill to do it, even if it does look like it was done by a two yr old, could be persuaded to, given that she/he probably has been stiffed at least once, you know left his wallet in his other pants…….
Ruckus
@eclare:
I think, given our culture, that it’s easier for men than women. That said, I’ve seen some absolutely ridiculous comb overs and bad dye jobs in my time. There certainly are men who peg the vain meter, no question about it.
Mnemosyne
@eclare:
The one consolation I have is that it seems to be coming in a really nice silver-gray, not a muddy gray like I’ve seen some people get stuck with. Since I was never a fan of my natural hair color, I find it comforting that I’ll have a nicer color for my next phase.
Dolly Llama
@danielx: I was thinking the exact same thing. I was born in Georgia, and worked for a longish while in South Carolina before moving to the Triangle six years ago. Thought I was finally escaping the redneckitude, but it followed me here.
Miss Bianca
@MomSense: i would love to have seen that. Your mom sounds cool! : )
Uncle Cosmo
@Ruckus:
(Dum dum da dum, da dum…)
/clapton
Uncle Cosmo
@Ruckus: My Sicilian barber told me last time he’d left the top a little longer ‘cuz it’s getting thin up there. Crowding 70, no surprise. I’d shave the pate, but I’ve whanged it so many times (once memorably attacked by a rabid metal paper towel dispenser at college) that without the hair I’d look like an extra on Alien Nation.