Hey you need to keep voting for your favorite ice cream treat. You know that one you like. Or the one you like to see other people enjoying.
Wasn't it great when you were playing with friends and you heard that oh so familiar song?
IT"S THE ICE CREAM MAN!!!
YOU SCREAM, I SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!
I can hear it now and it is going to be in the seventies this weekend. Time for some ice cream.
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I'm really not much of a screamer. Watching all these tea partiers, they all seem so screamy and angry. It's very tiring to be barraged with. Eight years of the left being screaming angry at the right, and now the right is screaming angry at the left, too. A scream for a scream and we shall all soon be deaf.
Can't we all just calm down and have some ice cream?
I'm not saying "why can't we all just get along." I'm just saying that we could disagree at a lower volume and - dare to dream - in complete sentences. Preferably sentences that are on-point and don't evince a depressing level of historical illiteracy.
Dude why did you replace Scalia with a picture of Chad Everett?
Simon, is that a picture of you?
Troop, are you enjoying some valuable time to yourself where you are finding the inner you?
I read in Eat This Not That that you can bake carrots at 400 for 40 minutes and substitute them for potato chips.
I tried this and all the carrots stuck to the pan and I couldn't enjoy them as a snack.
As you all know I can't cook shit but am wonderin what I did wrong?
Wasabi Peas are supposed to be good for you. I have been eating them lately. They are spicey and fresh.
Titus, yes. Contra TY, I'm not nearly as handsome as Chad Everett!
I'm calm, but craving some ice cream right now. Why are all the pictures of vanilla ice cream cones? Chocolate, please.
Simon, the only people that screamed at our tea party here in Nashville were a couple of ACORN folks. Well, the had ACORN written on their sign. They started screaming something about telling the truth, and we surrounded them and chanted USA, USA.
It was a chant, honest.
We also thanked the numerous policemen on the way out. Apparently a lot of us did as they were a happy lot and thanked us right back.
But like you, I am all for civil conversation.
Trey
Troop, you have to try brussel sprouts in browned butter. Killer. Honest.
Trey
You are a nice looking young man Simon.
For some reason I thought you were older.
I attended a Tea Party and there was nary a scream to be heard. There were some hearty amens and hand clapping when speakers pointed out that Barack & Co. are ENSLAVING the children and grandchildren of the assembled -- which is the terrible truth, a truth that the peasantry understands only too well.
Don't underestimate ordinary folk: don't underestimate their intelligence or their willingness to make a stand when it comes to the future of their own.
I hope that gets through to the elites before all hell breaks loose.
Titus-
Spam or wait PAM...
What the hell is that stuff you spray...
I agree with Penny. Once you go chocolate you'll never eat vanilla again.
Next poll- what flavor godzilla blows up your skirt?
Wait I'm not saying grease your pan with Spam I'm saying spray your carrots with Pam.
Or something.
Forget it.
Go Pens!!!!!
Chocolate ice cream always seems disappointing. It's never chocolaty enough, which is why they invented hot fudge.
And much better picture Simon, I thought you were Japanese.
Thanks, Titus & Jason. Titus, re seeming older, I suppose that it's unusual for someone my age to talk (as I often have, in another place) in terms of tradition and skepticism of pure rationalism. Those are views that I think it's fair to say haven't yet developed in people my age -- it's bad enough that I'm not a liberal, as most people my age are, but even self-identified conservatives my age tend to be other kinds of conservatives (religious conservatives, libertarians, and so forth) -- so that may peg me as being somewhat older.
Well Simon, boasting about how developed you are for your age is a sign of immaturity, so at least you have that.
Well, Jason, "developed" sounds like a fairly good thing, so you're assuming that traditionalism is a a positive trait that develops as one ages, whereas some might argue that, to the contrary, it's a decline reflecting calcification of prejudice and aversion to change or risk.
I'll answer you is aphorisms, because it is a lovely traditional form:
Older people brag about being "young for their age," whereas younger people brag about being "old for their age."
Traditionalism is a type of Utopianism based on things that didn't work in the past, whereas the other Utopianisms are based on things that wont work in the future.
Both wine and vinegar develop as they age, which type of development is good and which is bad depends on whether you were planning to take a drink or dress a salad.
"Traditionalism is a type of Utopianism based on things that didn't work in the past"? Not really. Certainly not in my case. It's not so much about venerating the past as it is realism about man's limits. When I look at a centuries-old tradition, I am skeptical that even someone as smart as Richard Posner, for example, can invent a better way of doing things in abstracto and foresee all the consequences. We should be very skeptical of people who claim to be able to make significant changes to tradition based on abstract theories that they (or anyone else) has cooked up. In some cases that counsels slow, incremental, patient change. And in some cases, because the former isn't available, it counsels not changing. Most of all, it counsels caution and an unwillingness to (as Oakeshott put it) drag one's cultural heritage before the tribunal of one's intellect. Whether this attitude constitutes intellectual modesty (good) or intellectual cowardice (bad) is a matter of opinion.
The limits of man are hard to explain, but the surest would be an inability to predict the limits of man.
When deciding whether to trust traditions, it's important to remember that they all started as someone's abstract idea, and the people who thought them had no idea what we would be like, might even kill us on sight.
"Truth" and "justice" are both abstractions; neither are as useful as that other abstraction: "math."
Not doing anything can be a smart decision, but if it's your only decision, it's a stupid decision.
Jason pal, I think you have been bitten by the postmodernist bug and it has given you a bad case of can't agree with anythingism.
Trey
Troop, you've gotta get rid of all the intellekshal yids jamming up your site.
Is Spam ok to eat?
I know Pam is not sure if Spam is ok though.
Simon looks kind of British
My loaf looked low a cowpie today.
How is that for intellectualism Ricpic?
If you had to look high and low for your cowpie it wasn't much of a loaf, Titus.
Troop, you've gotta get rid of all the intellekshal yids jamming up your site.How's about a little flushy poo and a palate cleanser?
TMink,
Some people run from ideas like the plague, others catch them and gain immunity.
If no one disagrees with you, no one is really paying attention.
The main strength of post-modernism is the name, because there's no opening for an opposing school to brand itself; but that trick is wearing out, just ask the modernists.
Ricpic,
Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein, So schlag ich dir den Schädel ein.
Titus next time try the vegetable spray PAM on your carrots-I think its formula of crap and calories is negligible. Carrot chips sound interesting-try it again.
On another note Demi Moore and Ashton Hutcher are doing this "turbo workout" for their abs-one look and I knew they were going to end up with back problems.
Sure enough Demi went in for acupuncture for her back.
...Demi Moore and Ashton Hutcher...How about Ashton Coucher? ;)
How about Ashton Coucher? ;)chickenlittle-
Damn Spam, PAM, Hoocher Koocher...something about this place confuses me....
Not sure if any of you are aware that History and Nonsense were second cousins?
I'm sorry Penny, Did you want to talk about flavor preferences?
Oh heavens NO, chickenlittle!
Now you have me laughing.
I have had unusual tastes for most of my adult life.
Are you suggesting we eat Mexican tonight, chickenlittle?
I can do that for sure.
I am in fact odd enough to suggest that avocados, when smooooshed, are lime green in color BUT for the absence of that little bitty lemon... Brown.
A little lemon goes a long way.
Brown avocados?
No thank you, senor.
Penny: You should have the pleasure of picking an avocado right off the tree sometime. Citrus too. A couple weeks ago, we visited a wife's friend who had blood oranges and other citrus. We stood there, yaking, picking, peeling, and eating, throwing the hulls aside- then we filled a few bags of lemons and limes, enough to share with neighbors.
@Jason:
I suspected you were a revolutionary.
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