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I tend to be more of a listener than a talker. And I have also lurked on most boards for a significant period of time before joining them, including both this one and the one for which I originally used this name. The picture I made, using a couple creative commons images as templates, to go along with the name. And what I've heard about the Florida Man stories is that we hear so much about Florida men because their freedom of information laws make it particularly easy to find the weird crimes if someone's looking for something to write about.

Didn't even make it in my Vegas odds above.

I believe this is a semantic argument. From a layman's perspective, that is essentially all it was. Consider the following. DIFFERENCES From your link: I don't see a whole lot here that says that it was any different from the common flu in any meaningful sense. From a practical perspective, it was a severe flu. You can pick nits all you want. And you'd probably be right. But from a layman's perspective of the effects for over 90% of the population, these items listed above indicate that the effects we see as patients resemble the flu with heightened levels of severity in several ways. And the level of severity is not sufficient to really treat this with much more scrutiny than a common influenza virus. These are good points. But they are outliers. They primarily affect those who already have health issues especially those who are already hospitalized. And some claim that was only for people who got the vaccine. (This is unconfirmed, of course. But we really don't know.) But the flu also causes more dangerous symptoms in the elderly and those who are already weakened or hospitalized. But the "more symptoms" are simply "different". Whether they are "more deadly" is part of my conceding that it was a "stronger than average level." These few differences may or may not be enough to induce the average person to consider additional protocols. But I consider the shutdown of the entire world to be overkill. And the grift that ran rampant throughout the entire era is enough for me to say: That was too much! Wouldn't it be great if it were possible to actually get the real numbers of deaths and hospitalizations so we could compare? That would tell us volumes about how much of it was hype and how much was necessary. But because of the way they funded everything, the level of grift during those years caused it to be greatly exaggerated. So, we may never know.

Wait! I've got it! The title and the image are red herrings! Look at the instructions: We're supposed to be thinking about the third-person singular neuter pronoun! This is all about gender identity or gender politics or some other crazy thing! No wonder the gender of the person on the right is ambiguous. Why it's entirely possible I misgendered the person on the left - maybe they and their lapdog are "it"s! I'll bet they're not even Gaulites. They're probably from Portland or former NSA employees or something... Well, if I didn't have an appointment to get to, I'd spend a lot more time streaming my third-person singular neuter cogitatifying, but there's no more time for that.

My favorite LDS-Catholic joke? “The pope says he’s perfect but no catholic believes it. The LDS prophet says he’s not perfect but no LDS believes it either.” A stake president told me that one.

I heard that after all the fanfare that the new Pope call a special meeting with the cardinals and high-ranking bishops within the Vatican. He announced that he had some good news and some bad news. First the good news he said, “A few moments ago I received a phone call from Jesus Christ.” Everyone was shocked. After that news how could there be any bad news? Now the bad news said the Pope, “He was calling from Salt Lake City, Utah”. The Traveler

Clearly a hemp bag from France. If it ever got lit, you would too. The purse is clearly effeminate in design so it perhaps should be called a French baguette. The character on the right is squeezing some sort of grape, so it we have a depiction of vinegar mixed with Gaul. Where are we being LED with this? (Waitaminute, gallium-based LED!!! Meh, maybe I’m reaching

I never thought we’d see an American-ish pope.