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Is there an elective surgery one could do to lower their IQ? this is becoming truly unbearable...
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Siren.Mosin said: »
Is there an elective surgery one could do to lower their IQ? this is becoming truly unbearable...
Not a surgical procedure, but a backread of P&R offers the same results.
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I'm looking for something more..... permanent.
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Siren.Mosin said: »
I'm looking for something more..... permanent.
Back Alley Eddie failed out of both med and vet school, but I'm sure he could give a frontal lobotomy a shot. Just let Parker know you have an eight ball handy.
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Siren.Mosin said: »
I'm looking for something more..... permanent.
do you wanna run for president?
:V
zing
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Siren.Mosin said: »
I'm looking for something more..... permanent.
Ok going back in time what is the oldest relative whose first name you know without looking it up and how old would they be if they were alive. Example: Grandpa Fred 110
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Siren.Mosin said: »
Is there an elective surgery one could do to lower their IQ? this is becoming truly unbearable...
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It was 110, maybe the booze is working after all. Gonna have to step it up.
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Siren.Mosin said: »
It was 110, maybe the booze is working after all. Gonna have to step it up.
Can you remember anything important that Ray told you?
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Shiva.Nikolce said: »
Siren.Mosin said: »
I'm looking for something more..... permanent.
Ok going back in time what is the oldest relative whose first name you know without looking it up and how old would they be if they were alive. Example: Grandpa Fred 110
Hesitant to answer this one...
...Uncle Adolf. 101.
Technically I could say my great grandfather Julius, but I don't know how old he'd be today.
Edit: Pursuant to Nik's follow-up I see he may have meant oldest you've met.
That would be Grandma Lil. She'd be 91.
Sounds like some real fun at parties.
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Ramyrez said: »
Shiva.Nikolce said: »
Siren.Mosin said: »
I'm looking for something more..... permanent.
Ok going back in time what is the oldest relative whose first name you know without looking it up and how old would they be if they were alive. Example: Grandpa Fred 110
Hesitant to answer this one...
...Uncle Adolf. 101.
Technically I could say my great grandfather Julius, but I don't know how old he'd be today.
Edit: Pursuant to Nik's follow-up I see he may have meant oldest you've met.
That would be Grandma Lil. She'd be 91.
Uncle Adolf aged 101 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Siren.Mosin said: »
quit dodging lawn darts
Ramyrez said: »
Edit: Pursuant to Nik's follow-up I see he may have meant oldest you've met.
anyone you can remember an important life's lesson from.
Mine is Grandpa Bob 120 or so and "Don't take any wooden nickles"
Which he mentioned on one occasion when he got deep in his scotch
The point being that we (the royal we as in all of us gathered here today) are already pretty *** stupid.
In my case, the collected wisdom of 50,000 years of my human ancestors evolving over the centuries, the grand sum of all the wisdom gathered and gleaned from this world.... is some old drunk muttering about a An American adage, ("Don't take any wooden nickels" is considered a lighthearted reminder to be cautious in one's dealings. )
which of course he never explained. Thanks a bundle grandpa... >.>
Our influence in this world will span about a hundred years or so.
If we're lucky... and then nobody will remember us or anything we ever said or did or thought or believed was important....
Everything grandpa bob's dad may have told him about life and the great mysteries therein were lost... in a bottle of scotch on a couch in akron... I have no idea how he got there or why and kinda don't even care....
And so whatever we tell our kids and grandkids will one day also be forgotten and while our decisions SEEM to impact greatly those around us unless you do something truly horrific, nobody will ever remember us.
Tldr: Nothing we say or do really matters which is probably good because we're idiots
I think what grandpa bob was trying to tell me was that, even then nearing the end of his long brutal life... he didn't have a clue wtf the point of any of it was....so why bother trying to pass on any "wisdom" when I was just as dumb as he was I would probably never understand it anyways....
Nobody ever did offer me any wooden nickles...But I did learn to appreciate good scotch... so in the end it's warmth will cradle me in death like a blanket like all my ancestors before me....
presumably.... who knows... maybe they were all abstainers...
I can't remember their names let alone anything else.
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Is that why you chose to go into the user action and make p&r threads visible again for yourself?
Lakshmi.Zerowone said: »
Uncle Adolf aged 101 hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Like I said. Hesitated to answer.
FWIW, he was born in Buffalo fought -- for the United States -- in World War II.
Shiva.Nikolce said: »
Tldr: Nothing we say or do really matters which is probably good because we're idiots
Pretty much.
Shiva.Nikolce said: »
anyone you can remember an important life's lesson from.
Well, Grandma Lil taught me a lot, but one of the biggest things wasn't spoken as much as something learned over time by observing her. She was a genuinely wonderful person with some glaring flaws viewed through the lens of modern times and that's just how some people are.
The kind of person who could admire the hell out of a black person -- she was a huge Colin Powell fan, for instance -- but still drop a casual N-bomb without a thought in the world. She also was absolutely loathe to believe women could be equal to men in a lot of ways. She would not believe my aunt, mother, or cousin ever knew better than her, but if my uncle, my stepfather, or myself told her the same thing, she'd defer and then just assume our female counterparts must have gotten their information from us...
But all at the same time, she didn't have a single malignant
*Crossed-out portion done so because despite being a common idiom, it's literally inaccurate, she had a bone-related cancer at one point in the distant past that she managed to beat. :x
Grandma Buzzy's (turned 88 in May) best advice, inversely, has ever been, "This too shall pass."
Because ***happens. It passes or you expire. One or the other. That's just how it is.
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My grandpa:
"The only time man wins a fight with a woman is in a bed"
"The only time man wins a fight with a woman is in a bed"
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Grandpa Ralph died before I was born, Grandpa Kenny died when I was six and I can't remember a single thing he ever said.
I remember him being really nice to me and doing awesome things with me.
I still have a wooden bomber plane we built together out in the garage out of wood scraps.
But I can't remember any specific words.
I remember him being really nice to me and doing awesome things with me.
I still have a wooden bomber plane we built together out in the garage out of wood scraps.
But I can't remember any specific words.
Well to be accurate grandpas exact words
Men don't win fights with women unless it's wrastlin in the bed.
Another one was but its not t advice:
You been drinking muddy water? You make a better door than a window
Men don't win fights with women unless it's wrastlin in the bed.
Another one was but its not t advice:
You been drinking muddy water? You make a better door than a window
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Lakshmi.Zerowone said: »
You make a better door than a window
another true gem of wisdom from the great beyond.... >.>
50,000 years of blood, sweat, death and tears and all we have to show for it is stupid ***like "don't eat the yellow snow..."
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I'm not sure there has ever been a greater satirist than Frank Zappa, in part because not only did he create scathing satire of society that people didn't quite get, it was doubly poignant because he was at times also a satire of himself. Even better than Andy Kaufman, imo.
Lakshmi.Zerowone said: »
You make a better door than a window
My mom loved using this one.
"Children are to be seen and not heard."
Hereditary wisdom from my stepdad's family.
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I keep seeing all these Ancestry commercials and these dopey people that have no idea who their family is or even what nationality they are or in some cases their race...
one example
we're a nation of foot slapping idiots dancing around in lederhosen because it's octoberfest and there is beer...
then in mid march we all put on green and pretend we're irish..
so...we'll pretty much pretend to be anyone you want... if there's beer
one example
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we're a nation of foot slapping idiots dancing around in lederhosen because it's octoberfest and there is beer...
then in mid march we all put on green and pretend we're irish..
so...we'll pretty much pretend to be anyone you want... if there's beer
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We're not pretending anything.
We're a ridiculously young country in the grand scheme of things that's sole claim to fame is that we have no history. We're a melting pot of everyone else's rejects.
So we appropriate what culture we can if it makes us feel a part of something older or greater than us.
And then we drink beer to emphasize those good feelings before we remember that we're just appropriating our genetic ancestors' histories because we've got nothing of the sort here. It's technically ours, but we know we're forcing it...hence the beer.
We're a ridiculously young country in the grand scheme of things that's sole claim to fame is that we have no history. We're a melting pot of everyone else's rejects.
So we appropriate what culture we can if it makes us feel a part of something older or greater than us.
And then we drink beer to emphasize those good feelings before we remember that we're just appropriating our genetic ancestors' histories because we've got nothing of the sort here. It's technically ours, but we know we're forcing it...hence the beer.
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Shiva.Nikolce said: »
so...we'll pretty much pretend to be anyone you want... if there's beer
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Ramyrez said: »
We're not pretending anything.
we're a bunch of drunken idiots that were kicked out of every decent country on the planet...so much so that we can't even collectively even remember from which one any more.
hence the birth of an entire new industry...
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