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@MichaelGrahamSC 😂😂 I know! I read so many books, you think I'd have more respect for the pages.

True neutral. I have a decorative box shaped like a book (of course), full of bookmarks.

@profstonge @Ryan_Ravenson I have always subscribed to the Frasier Crane theory of psychiatry. He said psychiatrists are for people with no friends.

@Ryan_Ravenson In theory, but other studies have found untrained sympathetic listeners (bartenders, taxi drivers) have equal benefit to psychologists. And they're a lot cheaper.

Unless you think you're a lamp-post, Psychiatrists are completely useless.

@BuzzPatterson Loaded nachos and a tall one please.

Ein bier, bitte.

@scs_real Saying that something is the gayest thing ever. Calling a coworker a dumb fuck. Telling the boss I'm not just sitting here with my thumb up my ass. All happened. Wasn't fired. My boss, a Veitnam vet, laughed his ass off. I was his executive assistant/gate keeper.

Saying fuck every third word 😂😂😂😂😂

@Naturalphilosy Norm had a way with words. This is maybe the best x post of all time:

@MichaelGrahamSC I'm starting a list of talking heads who have never been right about anything. Al Gore. John Kerry. Paul Krugman.

A new ice age was the mantra of the environmental fear mongers in the 1970s. We're back to that again? I looked up the word cretin in the dictionary and Al Gore's picture was in the definition.

@countyhwy Winslow, Arizona.

This summer, County Highway will put up billboards in six places whose names contributed to great American song titles and lyrics. Care to make a suggestion?

@JamesAllenMaxey Obscure vocabulary can't disguise a lousy story. I think avid readers develop a strong feel for language.

Do you want to cater to readers who don't understand these words? Authors get to choose their pool of readers. I want readers with a fairly rich vocabulary because they are the ones who can grapple with the broader ideas underpinning my stories.

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” according to 20th-century historian Arnold Toynbee. He claimed every great culture collapses internally due to a divergence in values between the ruling class and the common people…🧵

@NewsHour Sea level has risen 400 feet just in the last ~20,000 years, but that next inch is YOUR FAULT

@TheBuddyCSM I read you 5 by.

Hotel Echo Lima Lima Yankee Echo Alpha.

@CyborgPeds I would sleep until 8 or 9. But my bladder wakes up at 5.

I wish I knew

Al Gore has been promising doom and gloom for 40 years. He hasn’t gotten one apocalyptic prediction correct.

@TomcatJunkie Fear the bones.

Did the F-14 get better looking than this? I don’t think so.

A wool jumper, made in 1985, washed in cold water once a month, worn through three decades of British winters, would currently be sitting in someone's wardrobe doing fine. A polyester fleece, made in 2026, machine-washed weekly, will start to lose its structural integrity within three to five years, shed an estimated 700,000 microfibres per wash into the water system, and end its life in landfill where it will persist for approximately 200 years. The wool jumper: - Came from a sheep - Required grass and rain - Will biodegrade entirely within three years of being buried - Will keep you warm when wet - Will not melt if exposed to a flame - Will probably outlive you - Cost £80 in 1985, which is £230 today, and represents the entire jumper budget for the next forty years The polyester fleece: - Came from an oil refinery in Texas - Required hexane extraction, polymerisation and dyeing in three different factories on three different continents - Will not biodegrade in any human timeframe - Will get cold and clammy when wet - Will melt against your skin if exposed to a flame - Will be in landfill within five years - Cost £40 in 2026, which means you'll buy ten of them across the next forty years for a total of £400, and the planet will still be eating the residue in the year 2226 But yes. The sheep is the problem. The sheep, standing in a field in mid-Wales, growing a renewable fibre from grass and rain. The sheep is the problem.

@annbauerwriter Agree. I prefer to check and bag my own stuff. I become irrationally enraged over smashed bread and manhandled produce.

I love self checkout. I don't want my apples hurled bumpily down the ramp. I like my groceries bagged a particular way. I don't want someone I just saw wiping their nose opening the bag and fingering my cilantro to find the code. I know I'm in the minority, but I prefer.

Soldiers should know better. You’re only allowed to do this if you’re a member of congress.

There's something oddly beautiful about how men who have never met will silently unite when a problem appears. No introductions, no small talk-just a shared understanding that something needs fixing. 😃