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

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  1. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    1. That’s awesome.
    2. Why do people type G_D instead of God? I’m sure it means something but I do t know what.
     
  2. rslfanboy

    rslfanboy Member+

    Jul 24, 2007
    Section 26
    It might be a thing to avoid bots?
     
  3. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Jews tend to do that. So as to prevent the blasphemy that could occur should the word be erased by a blasphemer or some such.
     
  4. Val

    Val Moderator
    Staff Member

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Close.

    It has to do with the destruction of God's holy name.

    Jews have seven (?) names for God, and God is the least important. So in casual conversation, especially in America, they write G-d. Also, if said piece of paper has any of God's names written on it, that piece of paper is holy and you cannot toss it in the trash. I have two close Jewish friends who don't trust me to preserve the document, ie a birthday card, so they write G-d.
     
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  5. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    While I like the idea and it is executed well, why did he pick Tom Scott as the white guy?

     
  6. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  7. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  8. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    2021699559626297770 is not a valid tweet id
     
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  9. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I used to work with someone who had a heavy metal DJ gig on the college radio station. She went to Seton Hall, which is a Catholic university, and while there is a band called "Lamb of God," the could only refer to it as "Lamb of G."

    I was also under the impression that using G-D or Y*W*H was more of a Jewish thing, but I remember there was a promo McDonalds did for the World Cup where the burger wrappers had all the flags of the participating countries. The only problem was, the Saudi flag has writing on it, and "Allah" is in there somewhere. And you can't throw a wrapper in the garbage like that. I think they just made it a green flag
     
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  10. superdave

    superdave Member+

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

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  12. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If you don’t get this, a country artist at the Other Halftime Show has a song that’s exactly like this.

     
  13. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  14. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  15. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  16. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States




    But really, outside of a small handful of Rubios, isn’t this true of every part of this administration? What they say and what is true has no correlation.
     
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  17. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, we’re ********ed, as a species

     
  18. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I wouldn't be surprised if he was doing stuff.

    I saw his magic act, I think three times. I won't say how he flew on stage, but it was a very good trick. I think I saw the one that got him in legal trouble when one of the "random volunteers" got hurt.

    From what I understand, the vast majority of "random" volunteers aren't. I once had it explained to me that when they throw the balls in the audience to try to find random people, they actually use
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    some sort of magnetic doohickey in the volunteers hands to draw the balls closer.


    A lot of magic is basic "look here as I do *this* over here* distraction stuff.

    It's still good.

    David Blaine has a series on Hulu and Disney+ FWIW.
     
  19. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Club: San Diego FC
    Jul 2, 2003
    Fornax Cluster
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Nah -- it's just natural selection.
     
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  20. derek750

    derek750 Member+

    Apr 16, 2007
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Seems like this was a marketing stunt by a chatbot platform called EVA AI.
     
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  21. dapip

    dapip Member+

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

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    DC United
    Sep 5, 2000
    USA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    An old college friend teaches at a conservative Jewish school (he's not Jewish--nor religious--himself) and all of his students write G_d in papers, etc. He told me that despite being an atheist himself, he appreciates the reasoning behind the practice.
     
  23. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    You’re no fun! :D

    Your link is behind a paywall, but I do appreciate that you lit a candle in the darkness of These Times.
     
  24. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Marketing stunt or not, I'm going to stand outside such a place and just laugh.
     
  25. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    The Immigration to incarceration pipeline needs ICE to ramp up things!!!



    How long before they send legal residents and citizens?
     
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