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Frozen soap bubbles by ZALUSKArt.
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Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the reheated series in search of entertainment. Or you could rehearse this little party piece for any impending social gathering.
To you and yours, a very good one.
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You posted this just as David was starting to appreciate breast-related things?
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Throw her back!
throw her back
When my daughter was born, I messaged the families that she was 19.5 inches and therefore was a “keeper” (under local salmon sportfishing rules).
Most of the men thought this was amusing. Most everyone else merely said their ideas about my personality had been sadly confirmed.
…if only James Mason were alive today, he could enjoy it here in Ft. Lauderdale…
He is already more alive than most of Ft. Lauderdale, particularly those driving.
The Guardian, slowly morphing from a newspaper into a tumblr account
– http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/white-men-dehumanising-insult-times/
Happy Christmas and Boxing Day and anticipatory New Year’s.
Sorry to bring such a post-Christmas downer, but our dear leaders seem to have learned nothing from 2016.
Apparently EU countries must keep bringing in millions of immigrants from the third world because….well they just should.
The best way to fight terror is with “openness”, European Union (EU) head Jean-Claude Juncker has said, stressing that Europe must continue to receive migrants in the wake of the deadly truck attack in Berlin.
It looked ok in preview.
Fixed.
Thanks David.
Merry Christmas, David!
Enjoyen sie, bitte:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khQN5ylb3H0&feature=youtu.be
Sorry to bring such a post-Christmas downer, but our dear leaders seem to have learned nothing from 2016.
Apparently EU countries must keep bringing in millions of immigrants from the third world because….well they just should.
Oh, do let us know when the millions of bombers also show up with those third world immigrants.
Oh, don’t worry about what the rest of us will do for entertainment while you go scrabbling about, we’ll continue to have real news that shows what has actually been learned.
For someone trying to do any bombing in the EU, the handiest example that comes to mind for me was born in Germany, being a documented German citizen, rather than merely recently arriving.
So that one twelve year old, noted as German, would be, at most, one millionth of the recent immigrants.
At most.
I do grant that fifty thousand something Germans did have to evacuate because of a Christmas Day bomb discovery, but that bomb was put there by someone else.
For someone trying to do any bombing in the EU, the handiest example that comes to mind for me was born in Germany, being a documented German citizen, rather than merely recently arriving.
Yes Hal, that descendant of the Germanii and Teutons who wanted to nailbomb a Christmas market. Or the Nordic Blond Beast who drove a truck into a crowd at another Christmas market in Berlin or the Gaulish warrior who did the same in Nice; the scion of Norman Barons who beheaded a Priest in his own church; the progeny of the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings who’ve raped and sexually assaulted thousands of young girls in Rotherham, Rochdale, Bristol and Oxford; the Celts who carried out the Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Yes, you’ve got me. There’s absolutely nothing to see here, nothing to learn, no pattern to recognise.
Carry on everyone!
Yes, you’ve got me. There’s absolutely nothing to see here, nothing to learn, no pattern to recognise.
Bingo. We’re glad to have you on board.
Immigration does not lead to bombing or other crimes.
The quite separate and occasional crimes committed by scattered individuals are a police enforcement issue.
Tens to hundreds of thousands of benign immigrants remain easily and readily distinct from the actual issue of local administrative incompetence, where the noted incompetence remains that issue.
“Incompetence” is a function of available resources, quality of said resources, practicality and cost of finding, training, and retaining said resources who have other more pleasant job opportunities available to them, the volume of work being pushed through said resources, the effect of stress due to volume on said resources, the feedback loop of such, and a dozen or so other factors that I am either forgetting or unaware of myself.
Of course without the problem or a significant reduction in the size of the problem the amount of incompetence encountered becomes negligible.
Anyone tell Hal that he needs to stop sniffing glue?
Anyone tell Hal that he needs to stop sniffing glue?
I don’t know what he’s on, but I don’t want any. It seems to disable brain function quite severely.
Anyone tell Hal that he needs to stop sniffing glue?
I don’t know what he’s on, but I don’t want any.
Ah yes, synapses. We who have ’em rather recommend ’em. As noted, we do get much done with ’em and quite well too.
—M’self, I couldn’t tell what Darleen was going on about, again. The best deduction available was that she was giving an oblique explanation for any or all of her typographic train wrecks that’ve been turning up . . . .
Of course without the problem or a significant reduction in the size of the problem the amount of incompetence encountered becomes negligible.
Reduce the size of the problem you say? That’s obviously just crazy talk.