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Thread: The election escape discussion. A place to kick back and wait till it's over.

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    Default The election escape discussion. A place to kick back and wait till it's over.

    Setting this up as a reprieve. Don't hyper-focus on the results coming in, just chill and find something more pleasant to discuss. Here are a few topics I have down if you need a good discussion. Anime, Star Wars (minus Disney Wars), Bar drinks and liquor, mineral collecting, cooking, sword collecting, stuff about Northern Michigan, certain mythology.

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    I've gotten big into mineral collecting during COVID. Here's my latest acquisition.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    Setting this up as a reprieve. Don't hyper-focus on the results coming in, just chill and find something more pleasant to discuss. Here are a few topics I have down if you need a good discussion. Anime, Star Wars (minus Disney Wars), Bar drinks and liquor, mineral collecting, cooking, sword collecting, stuff about Northern Michigan, certain mythology.
    Yes. Ignore 'politics' on a Political Forum. These guys will do all the heavy lifting for you:

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    ... to name a few.

    As you lay around gorging yourself with wine and venison, these guys are on the front lines bludgeoning the Trumtopians as they attempt to take over our Republic.
    Praise Jesus and Thank God we have Warriors that will crush the skulls of the Forces of Evil. Pummeling the Fascists back into their rat holes and snake pits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Yes. Ignore 'politics' on a Political Forum. These guys will do all the heavy lifting for you:

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    Micawber.
    reagansghost.
    Trumpet.
    ... to name a few.

    As you lay around gorging yourself with wine and venison, these guys are on the front lines bludgeoning the Trumtopians as they attempt to take over our Republic.
    Praise Jesus and Thank God we have Warriors that will crush the skulls of the Forces of Evil. Pummeling the Fascists back into their rat holes and snake pits.
    Off-topic forum, Jackie. Don't let this turn out like Amazon Tavern. You have hundreds of other discussions to mess around in. I happen to enjoy discussing other things with posters here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    I've gotten big into mineral collecting during COVID. Here's my latest acquisition.

    Is that citrine? It's beautiful.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Is that citrine? It's beautiful.
    Peridot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    Setting this up as a reprieve. Don't hyper-focus on the results coming in, just chill and find something more pleasant to discuss. Here are a few topics I have down if you need a good discussion. Anime, Star Wars (minus Disney Wars), Bar drinks and liquor, mineral collecting, cooking, sword collecting, stuff about Northern Michigan, certain mythology.
    My attention (why I wonder?) moves straight to 'bar drinks and liquor'. What has happened over here is depressing: even when the pubs are open, they are really restaurants, though a few American-style small bars are opening in towns. You used to be able to just wander round to the pub, meet lots of people you knew and talk about rugby, sing, tell jokes, behave like people, but now it's hardly worth going if you don't go in a party - the booze costs much more than it does bottled in super-markets, you can't drive there unless you are into lemonade, and the barman's too busy to give you the time of day - and all this before the bloody VirusLurgy19 struck. What with this, the end of religion and most of all the banning of crowds from rugby matches, you hardly wonder at gruesome phenomena like Johnson, Trumpf and Climate Destruction! Back to home-brew and the Cave, while even they last!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    Peridot.
    Oh duh. How large is the specimen?
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    gosh, looks like the safe place is full already....
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Yes. Ignore 'politics' on a Political Forum. These guys will do all the heavy lifting for you:

    archives.
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    Trumpet.
    ... to name a few.

    As you lay around gorging yourself with wine and venison, these guys are on the front lines bludgeoning the Trumtopians as they attempt to take over our Republic.
    Praise Jesus and Thank God we have Warriors that will crush the skulls of the Forces of Evil. Pummeling the Fascists back into their rat holes and snake pits.


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    Default My COVID downtime included Plato's Republic & Polish vodka

    Plato's philosophical project is offering us the chance to strive toward perfection through a moral and political framework purportedly inspired by Socrates:

    1. We must start by organizing ourselves from within (the soul) -- in the harmonious and virtuous soul, reason rules passion and is assisted by spirit.
    2. Then, we can organize the chaos without (the external world).

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Oh duh. How large is the specimen?
    60 Ct is what it's supposed to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Yes. Ignore 'politics' on a Political Forum. These guys will do all the heavy lifting for you:

    archives.
    Centerleftfl.
    CharacterAssasin.
    Cinnabar.
    domer76.
    floridafan.
    Gonzomin.
    Jarod.
    Katzgar.
    Micawber.
    reagansghost.
    Trumpet.
    ... to name a few.

    As you lay around gorging yourself with wine and venison, these guys are on the front lines bludgeoning the Trumtopians as they attempt to take over our Republic.
    Praise Jesus and Thank God we have Warriors that will crush the skulls of the Forces of Evil. Pummeling the Fascists back into their rat holes and snake pits.
    No reason to groan Grajonca. Jack's obviously being facetious listing those posters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iolo/Penderyn View Post
    My attention (why I wonder?) moves straight to 'bar drinks and liquor'. What has happened over here is depressing: even when the pubs are open, they are really restaurants, though a few American-style small bars are opening in towns. You used to be able to just wander round to the pub, meet lots of people you knew and talk about rugby, sing, tell jokes, behave like people, but now it's hardly worth going if you don't go in a party - the booze costs much more than it does bottled in super-markets, you can't drive there unless you are into lemonade, and the barman's too busy to give you the time of day - and all this before the bloody VirusLurgy19 struck. What with this, the end of religion and most of all the banning of crowds from rugby matches, you hardly wonder at gruesome phenomena like Johnson, Trumpf and Climate Destruction! Back to home-brew and the Cave, while even they last!
    Somewhere I read that over in England they will drink beer warm. Is this an actual trend?

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    Northern Michigan is indeed beautiful and has a rich history.

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