In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by argentine soccer fan, Jul 11, 2024.

  1. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Wealthy white South African who grew up during apartheid. That's all he is.
     
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  2. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's the baseline. Being terminally online is The Rest of the Story.
     
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  3. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
     
  4. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    If only she could do something about that!?!
     
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  5. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Do we have a good thread to discuss housing?


    A success story from Minnesota.

     
  6. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    I wonder when she can put her hands on that Swiss bank account.. Then the next day...
     
  7. Mike03

    Mike03 Member

    Jun 7, 2006
    Seattle
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    @roby avert your eyes!
     
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  8. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
  9. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  10. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
  11. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    1841864564595728694 is not a valid tweet id
     
  12. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    The legendary independent muckraking journalist I.F. Stone was asked why he, with all his sources and contacts in high places, bothered to read the NYT every day. “Because they always have the most important stories. Of course, you’ll usually find those stories on Page A23, continued in a different section, but those stories will be there.”

    Looks like he was right, again.
     
  13. charlie15

    charlie15 Member+

    Mar 9, 2000
    Bethesda, Md
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Some good news.....

    “The International Longshoremen’s Association, the union that has been on strike since early Tuesday at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts, and the management group representing shipping lines, terminal operators and port authorities have reached a tentative deal on wages, ending the work stoppage,“ CNN reports.
     
  14. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Good, because Costco, according to NPR’s Marketplace, was reporting toilet paper hoarding. Quoth Kai Rysdall, “people, we’re not going to do this again, are we?”

    Apparently, not.
     
  15. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
  16. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
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  17. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    It's doubly stupid because consumer toilet paper is a domestic product. All the major brands (I checked Charmin, Cottonelle, and the Koch brands) are made in the US or Canada.
     
  18. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    My great-grandmother was born in 1915. In that time, she lived through the flu pandemic, the creation of the Soviet Union, Prohibition, The Great Depression (Those stories were heartbreaking), WW2, JFK, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11, and passed in 2008.

    Yeah, things are a lot better.
     
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  19. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I suspected that. And I knew that it was imports that were likely to run short. That’s why I bought 300 bananas today.
     
  20. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    In my Latin 4 class in high school, I wrote a paper on Juvenal, who wrote that same nostalgic shit 2 millennia ago. That was an important piece of learning, not about Juvenal specifically, but because doing that research showed me plainly that this kind of nostalgia is bullshit and always has been.

    And that’s even before noting most people aren’t white straight men, so the idea that things were better in the past is dumb just in that level.
     
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  21. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Lots of banana bread for you then, huh?
     
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  22. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Growing up, I disliked hearing the phrase "best years of your life" when I was in high school. I always thought it was naive in a lot of ways.

    I had fun in high school and college. But in a lot of ways, I'm having a lot more fun now (Despite some things that could be better) as an adult. Would it be nice to be able to be a kid again? Only if I got the no responsibilities thing, otherwise, I'll take being an adult right now.
     
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  23. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    Guess who the #1 exporter in the world is? The strike could have been devastating for us.
     
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  24. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    Nerd!



    (I also took Latin in HS)
     
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  25. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Rinse them in water -- get rid of the artificial ripening agent -- and then tape the stems to seal them ( that's how moisture gets into the banana) and they'll last a couple months.
     

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