Thread of the Random

[GowerND11]

Well, of the many hypocrisies embodied by the virulent Evangelical strain (and I meant MANY) is the nonchalance about multiple Marriages, divorce, remarriage, interstitial lwhoring, and more remarriage, intentionally looking the other way (John the Baptist, of course, did not) while coming unglued about civil unions.

There are people who READ Christ (I mean you can actually READ what Christ said!) who find this hypocrisy repugnant and blasphemous. And a lot of people who READ Christ have tossed out the OT and the self-absored, dysfunctional Paul. The junk in Christianity's trunk comes from Paul.

And then of course there is this:

THANK YOU FOR
Doing so much to educate people regarding God’s law. I have learned a great deal from you and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can.

When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination—end of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God’s laws and how to follow them.

1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can’t I own Canadians?
2. 2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 22:7. Ind this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev 15:19-24) The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor to the Lord (Lev 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them.?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodusa 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
6. 6. A Friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Lev 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this? Are there degrees of abomination?
7. .. Leviticus 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20 or is there some wiggle room here?
8. 8 Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Leviticus 19:27. How should they die?
9. I know from Leviticus 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Leviticus 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend) He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them (Lev 24:10-16) Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their inlaws (Lev 20:14)?
11. I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, and I am confident that you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God’s word is eternal and unchanging..

Isn't this a quote from Jed Bartlet on West Wing?

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

So I just discovered the "Wendy" Theory as it relates to Kubrick's "The Shining" movie and I have to say it blew my mind.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Do you mind elaborating? I found a Youtube video, but my work has it blocked for Restricted Mode

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

It’s basically that Wendy is really the prime motivator of the story and not Jack. It claims she is hallucinating much of the movie and the video you found is probably the same one I came across. It claims she hurt Danny and she murdered Jack due to her delusions. It claims that you can track her delusions or mixed realities using all of the misplaced furniture or changing sets of the hotel.

 

[BrownerandFry]

Isn't this a quote from Jed Bartlet on West Wing?

I never watched West Wing, but I originally got the text from a transcendent book by Garry Wills

"What Jesus Meant." Don't know if Bartlet picked it up from Wills. I'm pretty much agnostic on TV.

It is a tool I keep handy for fundamentalists and evangelicals.

I prefer to concentrate, as in CONCENTRATE, on the 89 chapters in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

and, FWIW, just for me, I am suspicious of would be "Christians" who never quote christ, but always cite the OT, Apocalypse and that epistle guy that zelezo has, sort of, asked me to leave alone.

 

[Bishop2b5]

Chick-fil-A asking for help finding stolen delivery vehicle - al.com

Someone stole one of the cars from a Chick-fil-A in Huntsville, AL a few days ago. Some of the comments on FB are pretty good. "That's a ticket straight to hell for stealing the Lord's chicken wagon!" "Popeye's took things too far this time." "How you gonna just steal Jesus's chicken and not think you gonna get struck by lightning?"

 

[BobbyMac]

Someone call Sara Connor and tell her they're coming.

 

[Irish#1]

Bet it does lousy in the three cone drill.

 

[Irish#1]

Him: That was great.
Her: Yeah, it was.
Him: Can I take off my condom now?
Her: No



California makes it illegal to remove condom without consent

The law, the first of its kind in the U.S., was inspired by a 2017 Yale study that found acts of stealthing were increasing against both women and gay men.
Oct. 8, 2021, 9:18 AM EDT / Source: Associated Press
By The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California became the first state to prohibit “stealthing,” or removing a condom without permission during intercourse, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Thursday.

The new measure amends the state's civil code, adding the act to the state’s civil definition of sexual battery. That makes it clear that victims can sue perpetrators for damages, including punitive damages. It makes it illegal to remove condoms without obtaining verbal consent.

Democratic Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia originally tried to make it a crime in 2017 after a Yale University study that year said acts of stealthing were increasing against both women and gay men.
Legislative analysts said then that it could already be considered misdemeanor sexual battery, though it is rarely prosecuted given the difficulty in proving that a perpetrator acted intentionally instead of accidentally.

The Erotic Service Providers Legal Educational Research Project supported the bill, saying it could allow sex workers to sue clients who remove condoms.

 

[NorthDakota]

Its the best day of the year! COLUMBUS DAY!

Why is it the best you ask? I can hear Browner and Fry's keyboard warming up to compare Columbus to January 6 and Adolf Hitler.... before posting an ADL article about how the Aztec's practice of large scale human sacrifice is actually good...

The answer as to why it is the best is very simple. Every year it comes, and I kinda forget about it until the day comes. Plus it is fun watching people throw a fit about the guy. The Knights of Columbus headquarters in New Haven should build a new Colossus to him.

 

[Irish#1]

Facebook changing it's name to Meta trying to deflect some of the pressure they've come under. I'm sure this was planned, but you know the bad publicity expedited this announcement. Check out these comments. Pretty funny.


https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/facebooks-rebrand-inspires-meta-jokes-rcna4041

 

[Huntr]

I'm gonna pass out after reading this:

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1458521843711635457[/TWEET]

 

[Irish#1]

Doesn’t everyone check the toilet for snakes before sitting down?

 

[Bishop2b5]

One of my uncles passed away last week and I was reminded of a couple of funny stories about him. He was always the family comedian and lived to find the line and then step a bit over it. Back in the 60's shortly after he and my aunt married, they were having Sunday lunch at my grandparents' house along with several of her siblings (big family - nine kids). One of my other uncles asked him how he liked being married so far and he replied, "Aww, it's GREAT! Every night when we go to bed I pretend she's Raquel Welch. The eye can't see, but the hand can tell the difference!" Wow! I don't think I'd say that in front of my wife's family now, let alone 55 years ago.

His son owns a successful business and my uncle spent the last 20 years of his life just hanging out there and telling stories, entertaining customers, and being half the reason a lot my cousin's customers did business with him. One of my cousin's employees announced that he and his girlfriend had gotten engaged. My uncle (in front of most of the other employees of course) said to him, "Now Johnny, let me help you out a little. You don't want no wife that's gonna spend all your money and put you in the poor house. You want you a wife that knows a bargain and knows how to save money. Now here's what you do. You take her out parking somewhere and when you get her panties off you look at the tag in the back of 'em. If it says Parisians or Victoria's Secret, you take her home and find you another woman, but if it says Walmart or Family Dollar the next thing you wanna hear from her is 'Y'all stop fuckin' me!'"

 

[ND88]

What’s the deal with Driskell? Some like him. Some loathe him. As far as ND coverage is concerned, does that mean he’s doing it wrong? Doing it right?

I honestly don’t know the history here, either positive or negative, but he seems to be gaining momentum with Irish Breakdown.

 

[NorthDakota]

My high school won our first state championship in football since 1933. I thought it would be "neat" if we won but when they actually did it I felt a ton of pride. We've typically been shit on...I think my senior year we played in 5 homecoming games. And now we pretty solid!

Happy for the kids. And the community.

 

[Irish#1]

I get a text from the wife that includes a pic of a newspaper from 1937. Reading the article it talks about how a little boy was killed after being struck by a 17 year old who drove up on the curb to avoid something (paper didn't say what it was). The driver? She thinks it was her dad as it was his name and he would have been 17 at that time. It also happened at an address where his mom ran a little neighborhood grocery store. She never heard her dad or anyone else in the family talk about this (understandably so), so she can't be 100% certain.

 

[ulukinatme]

I get a text from the wife that includes a pic of a newspaper from 1937. Reading the article it talks about how a little boy was killed after being struck by a 17 year old who drove up on the curb to avoid something (paper didn't say what it was). The driver? She thinks it was her dad as it was his name and he would have been 17 at that time. It also happened at an address where his mom ran a little neighborhood grocery store. She never heard her dad or anyone else in the family talk about this (understandably so), so she can't be 100% certain.

Damn, that would blow my mind. How do they know the driver was someone with that name, and if they had the name why weren't they able to apprehend him? Makes me think he was innocent and just shared a name.

 

[Irish#1]

Damn, that would blow my mind. How do they know the driver was someone with that name, and if they had the name why weren't they able to apprehend him? Makes me think he was innocent and just shared a name.

The article had his name in it. It didn't have many details, but I took from the article that he stayed there as it wasn't intentional. Not a real common name, but with it happening in front of his moms grocery and that they lived in that area I suspect it was him.

 

[Irish#1]

From the Winter Olympics.

A real sentence: Finnish cross-country skier Remi Lindholm suffered a frozen penis

during the 50 km mass start race Sunday in Beijing, one of the final events of the Winter Olympics. Lindholm was on the course for over an hour in the frigid conditions. I don’t know if it’s better or worse that he said after the race this was the second time it’s happened to him.

 

[chisea03]

Nebraska Coach Chuck Love Suspended Same Day Starting Guard Ashley Scoggin Kicked Off The Team (PICS)

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[Rasputin]

Quordle > Nerdle > Wordle

 

[Ndaccountant]

So I was going through ND coaching history and came across "Hunk Anderson". He coached ND 1931-1933, the first years after Knute. He played for Knute from 1918 to 1921 on the line, both sides of the ball. Here are some really interesting tidbits about Hunk:

• He is the only lineman in history to score three unassisted TD's in a game. Two blocked punts, scoop and scores, and a INT return against Purdue.
• It's sill murky, but claims have been made that he played professionally during the 1920 professional football season under an assumed name for the Canton Bulldogs. How is that possible? Well, the NFL schedule was about 4 games longer than ND's. In 1921, Anderson was called out on it again, but he was already done with ND so being on the team wasn't a whammy. But he didn't deny 1920, but said they were "exhibitions". BTW, ND went 9-0 in 1920, shutting out 4 of 9 opponents with a base defense of 7-2-2.
• So if true, this gives him the rare honor of being coached by Knute Rockne & Jim Thorpe at the same time!!
• Anderson was a well thought of coach, despite his short stint at ND and NCSU. He is credited for some of the best line play in football history, including both the "seven mules" (along with Tm Lieb) & the lines that produced the slogan "Monsters of the Midway" for the Bears in 1940.
• Hunk had the unfortunate timing of being the replacement for both Knute Rockne and George Halas.

Anyway, something that wasted 15 minutes as last night's sushi made it's exit, but thought someone might like it.

http://archives.nd.edu/Football/Football-1924.pdf

 

[ACamp1900]

7-2-2... I miss those days.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

 

[ab2cmiller]

LMAO. Pat was probably about ready to rip that One Million dollar wedge off the wheel and slit his own throat.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

 

[Bishop2b5]

Holy cow! What the hell happened at the Oscars tonight? Chris Rock was presenting an award and made a joke about Jada Pinkett, who was sitting in the front row with husband Will Smith who was expected to (and did) later win the best actor Oscar. The joke was mild, normal, and exactly what you'd expect from Chris. Will took offense and went up on stage and smacked the crap out of Chris in the face. This was not a staged bit or a publicity stunt. Rock seemed shocked and handled it well, but Smith continued yelling at him after he returned to his seat. Afterwards, while accepting his best actor award, Smith apologized to the Academy for his behavior, but not to Rock. Twitter has pretty much lit Smith up for this unacceptable behavior. You just can't do this. Never seen anything like this before on any awards show. Rock was just doing his job, making a joke - and a rather tame one at that.

MSN

 

[GATTACA!]

Strangest thing I’ve ever seen. I thought it was a bit watching it live.

The academy should rescind his award. He didn’t deserve it to begin with.

Smith is just lucky Rock took the high road and didn’t light him up after he sat back down. You could tell he thought about doing it for one second before he decided to be the bigger man and move on with the show. Between his stupid Scientology bullshit and him being a cuck while his wife fucks their pool boy Rock could have gone nuclear on his ass.

 

[ulukinatme]

I don't know...feels like Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler all over again. Some people think it was staged like that. Rock certainly didn't seem to sell the hit much, so either it was a work...or Will Smith is pathetic. It's really weird how Will was all smiles before the confrontation and even had a smile on the way back to his seat, which kind of lends itself to being a work, but who knows.

I've seen a lot of comments about it on Twitter tonight. Funniest: "If Chris wanted to say something that wouldn't make Will mad, he should have said he was sleeping with his wife." Daaaaaamn. Second place: "Looks like he's movin' back in with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air."