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by Phoebe
Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:31 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Sober posting
Replies: 61
Views: 33393

Re: Sober posting

I was scoffing at the notion of Sober January because apparently people want a break for many reasons after the indulgences of December. Yet I had not indulged; I still wanted indulgence! I vowed to have non-sober January! You can guess how it ended: I worked like a mule all January and had no indul...
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:25 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Yesterday was Awesome!
Replies: 46
Views: 19171

Re: Yesterday was Awesome!

Not yesterday but some really good days were had. Was sick so didn't comment about them, but basically people came together to do nice things. Positive experiences were had, things went smoothly, planning paid off.
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:22 pm
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: What Are You Watching?
Replies: 364
Views: 102936

Re: What Are You Watching?

Manifest: it's SO bad. Starts off like a potentially intriguing mystery, a little Lost like without the bs, you're hoping. Turns out it's merely stupid. The people have powers, visions, God is involved yet in heretical ways. Slipshod, tiresome, bad. When others turn it on I go to sleeeeep. "The...
by Phoebe
Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:13 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

Everyone was so thoroughly dressed, too. Yet nowadays a nipple cover is TOO MUCH coverage, so who can predict the outrage? It was a very lazy, fully-clothed, non-sexy devil ritual, as these things go on the T.V. Why isn't anyone offended by the idea of cheating on your spouse or being paid/paying fo...
by Phoebe
Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:13 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

The obsession with this Mongolian horsehead fiddle and throat singing stuff continues unabated. This one has it all including a light show. The people at the Grammys should watch this and imitate. However, I'm finding it hilarious that Sam Smith put on a pretty basic Halloween top hat and crawled in...
by Phoebe
Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:12 pm
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Republicans
Replies: 232
Views: 70857

Re: Republicans

Well, It looks like I have to reverse my assessment: maybe in a shocking and rare moment, Trump is telling the truth that he didn't know about any balloons! But then we also have to take away the credit that was given for listening to his military leadership in an unexpected act of prudence. I feel ...
by Phoebe
Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:57 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: This Happened
Replies: 584
Views: 121612

Re: This Happened

Ugh that's terrible! Unless you're clearly aware of the reason I imagine it's also very stressful. Did they bother to mention it? My kids have had to go through this on various occasions and sometimes they tell them why, so everybody knows it's probably not a big deal, but other times the communicat...
by Phoebe
Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:55 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

I didn't see much of her during the show, which was odd because she so completely dominated radio during the last year. On many occasions you would flip through and find different songs of hers on three different channels at once. It was wild. But last year she beat BTS out of the award they clearly...
by Phoebe
Tue Feb 07, 2023 3:15 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able



Prince. You know, Sinead O'Connor said a bunch of trash about Prince (and changed or embellished the story dramatically over the years). Not pleased with that. But he was a forgiver so we will forgive her.
by Phoebe
Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:10 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Prince!
by Phoebe
Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:35 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

The "academy voters" weren't really worthy of Beyonce - as soon as she showed up late and they started hyping her "records broken", it was pretty clear she wasn't going to win all those major categories. They need to keep listening to Renaissance until the light dawns. Bonnie Rai...
by Phoebe
Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:38 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Republicans
Replies: 232
Views: 70857

Re: Republicans

The balloon criticism remains utterly insane but an unexpected bright spot emerged: turns out Trump did not, in fact, shoot down any of the balloons that appeared during his term. In other words, he's saner than I gave him credit for and probably listened to the military advice. He's still the patho...
by Phoebe
Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:35 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Accidentally figured out where Gerald went in his "private time" away: He's been moonlighting as a crocheted narwhal designed by chat GPT.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-croch ... kryptonite

This also happens to be a good article in general.
by Phoebe
Sat Feb 04, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Image
by Phoebe
Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:42 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: My 3D Printing Journey
Replies: 32
Views: 834

Re: My 3D Printing Journey

I really like the Roman house! Have you ever tried to make a jewelry stand? I've seen some that are like a tree where occasionally you have a branch on which I guess a necklace hangs, and then sometimes the branch has little holes in it and the earrings go there. But I would bet there's a cooler way...
by Phoebe
Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:38 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Mike wrote: Sat Feb 04, 2023 5:29 am Yes. Except in this case, the hammer is my penis.
People get a slight high temperature and this is what happens.
by Phoebe
Fri Feb 03, 2023 5:38 pm
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Republicans
Replies: 232
Views: 70857

Re: Republicans

I ignored it for a long time but it's the news time of day and I can't avoid hearing about it. Help me people, help me try to understand why people have heard the word balloon and think it's like a child's party where you could pop it with a dart. Like if you see a round object that flies that means...
by Phoebe
Fri Feb 03, 2023 2:10 pm
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Republicans
Replies: 232
Views: 70857

Re: Republicans

Okay, I'm going to try to be polite about this and take out the curse words. I find the actions and words of many Republican leaders in response to the "Chinese spy balloon" to be dishonest, un-American, and unbelievably foolish to the point of being disqualifying for leadership decisionma...
by Phoebe
Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:28 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Books we read in 2023
Replies: 204
Views: 68827

Re: Books we read in 2023

I mean, most of us here probably can appreciate a Jones too? For reasons that weren't really clear, because I had other things to read and do that were not this, I read a non-fiction book about Indian boarding schools in Canada (just as applicable to anywhere). If anyone wants to read such a thing l...
by Phoebe
Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:21 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Big ---- energy! I love that song, it's just cute.
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

poorpete wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:06 am E E E EEEEE -- like the rap -- my daughter says the bus sings along to the whole song except no one can do that part 8/10
Lol did not know it had a rap portion as could never tolerate it that far!
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:47 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Re: country dude so forgettable I cannot even remember his name for 5 seconds... this is the whole Trump and DeSantis phenomenon in a nutshell. You're going to tell white people they can't use the n-word? Well screw you, we're going to buy 10 more of it, take a video breaking one of our appliances, ...
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:40 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: The latest form of fat-shaming
Replies: 1
Views: 89

The latest form of fat-shaming

Now that Ozempic and similar drugs are becoming more popularly known and prescribed for weight loss as well as for controlling blood sugar, people are discovering not only that significant weight loss may occur but that celebrities may have been using drugs like these to lose weight before the gener...
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:44 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Republicans
Replies: 232
Views: 70857

Re: Republicans

Follow up on the above: instead of pulling AP courses from the state, they just rewrote the course to please people like DeSantis. He is so much worse than Trump - it's just that Trump and his clown car might inadvertently end life on the planet or do something else profoundly destructive via total ...
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:42 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Pet Peeves
Replies: 61
Views: 3855

Re: Pet Peeves

They also participated in actual shooting in WWII that may have put all that into some perspective we are lacking at the moment?
by Phoebe
Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:40 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Billboard Hot 100 Year End Chart 2022 21. Woman (Doja Cat) My nephew thought she was singing "Ooma. Ooma-Ooma-Ooma." My kid has a whole lyrics worked out around "Roomba"; at one point a cat is riding on the Roomba which apparently amuses him due to Doja Cat emphasis on cat. I to...
by Phoebe
Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:09 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Moon hanging out here now.
by Phoebe
Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Pet Peeves
Replies: 61
Views: 3855

Re: Pet Peeves

Some man apparently tried to shoot up the tarjay store in West Omaha with a AR-15 and the police shot him dead. Is this good news because it was a tragedy averted, even though what the f*** trying to shoot up the target? Why are these men so angry? What the hell has happened to them? Somehow my gran...
by Phoebe
Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:14 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Today is Mardi and we will battle. Screw these insurance companies for canceling on people like this. I'm glad you can get to the doctor.
by Phoebe
Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:05 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

The dog seems morose and probably has a tummy ache, but I don't think the antibiotics will help. I can't figure out what he ate but it doesn't seem like a digestible food item. It could have been the plastic bumper off a cutting board, which he somehow found when no one else could. Or it could be a ...
by Phoebe
Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:38 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Pet Peeves
Replies: 61
Views: 3855

Re: Pet Peeves

Back to human peeves: Everything to do with the high school drop off lanes. The grade school has their s*** together and is the most efficient functioning system ever; the administration of that place should be put in charge of the global supply chain, nuclear disarmament, and protecting the oceans ...
by Phoebe
Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:12 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: RIP
Replies: 235
Views: 82764

Re: RIP

The will of poor Lisa Marie Presley is being contested by her mother and daughter. Yikes.
by Phoebe
Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:12 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Just a typical Tuesday morning, carefully inspecting the dog vomit to figure out what on earth he ate to produce this result.
by Phoebe
Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:40 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

Maybe this is where I first encountered it, lol! And then I heard it on the radio and liked it? I don't know man, I'm losing it.
by Phoebe
Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:38 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Unki11able
Replies: 474
Views: 24003

Re: Unki11able

Billboard Hot 100 Year End Chart 2022 38. Break My Soul (Beyonce) Also I'm back to being unsure if she's shaming those who wear/wore masks outside. I think the hoodie and mask combo is meant to be a good thing - a uniform for dealing with the outside world, where one is not going to expose the whol...
by Phoebe
Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:30 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

I'm going to say that I was hacked and that you should not accept any friend requests. Why does that message always appear on Facebook? Like is that itself the hacked message, or do people just say the exact same thing when they believe themselves to have been hacked? It's not the friend request I'm...
by Phoebe
Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:19 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Democrats
Replies: 66
Views: 30846

Re: Democrats

Read a little news item that finally got some attention: Democrats are destroying one of the most important hands that feeds them! For years they had the advantage in the online fundraising space and had made it extremely easy through act blue to support a variety of local candidates or to reach int...
by Phoebe
Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:36 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

I'm so freaking annoyed because this song finally broke down my subconscious's carefully constructed barriers against it and I let it play repeatedly on the radio and I sing along with the horrible singing - ugh, horrors. https://youtube.com/watch?v=7aekxC_monc&feature=shares But he has all thes...
by Phoebe
Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:03 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Decimal Deathless
Replies: 337
Views: 12170

Re: Decimal Deathless

I didn't know why you were posting a picture of Post Malone and saying that was you. Had to scroll but it was still confusing. Coincidentally I had listened to a few of his songs and realized he really has a great voice, once I get past the yodeling and laughing at the yodeling, so I looked to see w...
by Phoebe
Mon Jan 23, 2023 10:02 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Republicans
Replies: 232
Views: 70857

Re: Republicans

It seems like two things are happening in Florida with this decision not to approve AP African American studies courses in the high schools. First is that whoever runs the education under DeSantis genuinely thinks this subject matter is worthless. Second is that DeSantis and others have made the pol...
by Phoebe
Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:51 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: COVID-19 Issues
Replies: 215
Views: 20843

Re: COVID-19 Issues

This is why we can't have nice things: This morning my phone delivers me the urgent headline that a dangerous new problem may have been found with the COVID booster! A doctor is being interviewed! People might be having strokes of a certain kind after the booster! But wait a minute, we don't actuall...
by Phoebe
Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:41 pm
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Decimal Deathless
Replies: 337
Views: 12170

Re: Decimal Deathless

What do you mean poor Gerald? He needs to get with the program or go home. You don't get to stop speaking to your friends just because you're having a little snit. However, GREAT NEWS as ever that people are alive. We like to see the proof of life.
by Phoebe
Sun Jan 22, 2023 10:23 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations
Replies: 946
Views: 162353

Re: The Silence Between: Music Recommendations

I would have been excited about new Shakira music regardless, but the fact that it's a diss track to her s***** ex-husband makes it even better. Agree that he is totally out of her league and glad to adopt this invitation to blame him for her tax evasion charges, as if I know the slightest thing abo...
by Phoebe
Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:54 am
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Make Time: January Short Story Challenge
Replies: 10
Views: 216

Re: Make Time: January Short Story Challenge

If you make it all the way to March or June I will join you! Dangers. But I do have this book idea that keeps spinning around in my mind, and the problem is it's just certain scenes and concepts and I don't know how to translate it into a full story with plot and resolution. I should mention that ti...
by Phoebe
Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:41 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Dreams
Replies: 49
Views: 23552

Re: Dreams

It could have been for sure, but the daytime hours were not going so well. Hopefully today we have a reversal of that pattern, because I dreamed that we were all on a vacation and the kids were somewhat younger and our youngest was left behind somewhere. This was not my idea! While I was doing somet...
by Phoebe
Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:34 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Decimal Deathless
Replies: 337
Views: 12170

Re: Decimal Deathless

Not my normal genre but It's pretty cute and she can sing? She sings better than a lot of other people touted to us as great pop singers these days!
by Phoebe
Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:07 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Decimal Deathless
Replies: 337
Views: 12170

Re: Decimal Deathless

Is he the proper authority on the subject though? Shouldn't we hear directly from the source? Are they alive? Are they hospitalized? We have a questions.
by Phoebe
Fri Jan 20, 2023 9:31 am
Forum: Nerd Babble
Topic: Jomboy Lipreadings
Replies: 0
Views: 472

Jomboy Lipreadings

I don't know if any of you follow this guy or would find it funny, but when I need to have some humor in my life I watch one of these videos. He has the compilation of his 2022 baseball breakdowns here, and there's also a 2022 lipreadings video and a completely INSANE baseball brawl where someone be...
by Phoebe
Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:04 pm
Forum: Nerd Talk
Topic: Republicans
Replies: 232
Views: 70857

Re: Republicans

I don't have any evidence that Trump has ever dressed up in drag but we're going to substitute Giuliani for that one. Apart from that, I've yet to hear something Santos has done that Trump hasn't done better.