The Everyone's Welcome Thread (even Canadians, SEO experts, and oldies..you get the idea).

[DU]

I thought I'd start a new break room thread. The great thing about this thread is you can say whatever the heck you want (except adult) and it's ON TOPIC.

All you have to do is post whatever is in your head when you are here. Simple.

Here are some acronyms we like to use:

YPSBT Your Post Sucks Big Time
YPITDB Your post is the dog's bollox
LPOD - Last Post of Day
FPOD - First....
SPOD - Second.
FPOTWN - Funny Post of the Week Nominee

Featured Friends
Johname - he doesn't have a cool nickname except johname. He is a legend. He is our local animation expect.
DU/Grace Delete aka __ aka Rickey (due to propensity to retire).
Iowa - Your source of gas prices, bacon futures, and stuff.
JBLions - Will teach you about mattress purchasing, beer, and how to remove birds from cages
Briguy Debartolo - More NP$ than everyone
Mis_Chiff - Fellow Canadian of Bri - she's a wild one
Lennco - He is lennco
Enlytend - I still read this enly--tend Adwords guru!
Verbster - The Alaskan Fisherman who hunts Right Wingers and Shoots Sh*t in more than one place
BaseballWorld - Muscle #2 (after JB)
David Walker - Semper Fi
Forge - Don't ask about this avatar
GILSAN - He posts photos. Cool ones. He also worships CR7 (if you don' t know who that is? you are advised to learn before engaging him in conversation)
JDAB - He has hot women on his new bed... but he worked hard for them
Rogue - Called Rouge more often than the movie Moulin Rouge
Cyberian - He goes by Cy. He's older than the forum. Likes the lakers and pops in sometimes to offer support and counselling.
NS - He doesn't look like the cartoons. He's an enigma. His avatar is usually hot.

SPECIAL SPECIAL GUESTS
Blobfish and girlfriend.

Grace Delete / DefaultUser / WorldsWorstDomainer will personally thank EVERY SINGLE post in this thread UNTIL someone says something about post count and gets too obsessed about reputations and starts gaming the system etc.

^ That has happened so no more ...was fun while it lasted.

Johname will personally LIKE every post in this thread until he doesn't

No racist, sexist, homophobic material that woudnt be acceptable in the 70s please.
We are ok with boobs and we are ok with men with abs (or whatever it is that makes them attractive). Ogling is healthy. Violence, not accepting that it is shallow and non-meaninful judge of people etc. is not. The most important virtue of this thread is respect for all.

Here are some topics that this thread has had:

The following subjects are
BANNED

So Kardashian related material is not allowed - even gratuitous boobs or bums because no one wants to see or hear about them.

POLITICS OF ANY KIND IS A NO NO.
Especially if it is demeaning to the liberal elite or the conservative morons.

I suppose Anarchy is ok

I AM PERSONALLY UNDECIDED ON SOME POLITICS so things like the below?
I think the crowd should decide.

We are also lady and animal friendly

 

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For those who remember....

 

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Now-ism
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Ashleigh Brilliant


“NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW”

Sometimes staying alive seems too high a price to pay for the privilege of not being dead. Nevertheless, people find ways to cope, including comforting mantras such as “This too shall pass.” One ubiquitous expression advises us to “Take one day at a time.” I satirized this earnest injunction with an epigram which became the title of one of my books: “I TRY TO TAKE ONE DAY AT A TIME – BUT SOMETIMES SEVERAL DAYS ATTACK ME AT ONCE.”


The trouble is that even one day can contain so many difficulties that the only answer seems to be further subdivision of time. That approach, however, contains its own bag of worms, because, no matter how small the pieces you try to chop time into, you still have a divisible segment. Even as teenager, I wrestled with this problem, and came up with what I thought then was an original concept, which I called a “Time-Atom,” i.e. the smallest possible length of time – within which there could be no movement or change. (Having no Google then to disabuse me, I didn’t know I’d been anticipated in this concept by Friedrich Nietzche in 1873, sixty years before my birth.)


But only recently I’ve conceived a new twist on this idea – which even Google seems unable to pre-empt. Have you ever seen one of those clock-faces on which, instead of each of the standard 12 numerals, there is the little word “NOW”? Of course, we’re all aware of the paradox that, no matter how time seems to pass, it’s really always Now. And unlike a time-atom (since even atoms can be split) NOW has no duration at all. So there’s no time or space whatever between one Now and the next.



It occurs to me that a whole philosophy or religion could have this beautiful truth as its basis. And I have a name for it: NOW-ism. No doubt this will immediately prompt you to ask some very legitimate questions, which I will try to answer.


(1) How would a belief in NOW-ism affect a person’s life, behavior, and outlook?

Answer: A Nowist considers what we call Past and Future equally unreal. He (or, of course, she) accepts such terms as “Today” and “the Present” only as convenient conventions.


(2) If there is only now, how is it possible to make plans for the future?

Answer: Imagining the future, and attempting to shape it, can all be part of the Post-Past and Pre-Future.


(3) What has become of all previous Nows?

Answer: Your question reminds me of the epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren in London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, of which he was the architect. It says in Latin “Si monumentum requiris, circumspice” – which means “If you seek his monument, look about you.” The legacies of all past Nows are embodied in the Now you are currently experiencing. If you want to know what happened to all previous Nows, look about you.


(4) Do Nowists believe in God?

Answer: The Theology of Nowism embraces a wide variety of deities, including Mathematics, Cosmology, and Nuclear Physics.


(5) Are there any particular characteristics associated with Nowists?

Answer: Nowists tend to be more careful, and also more loving, than the average person. They are acutely aware of the dangers and joys of each moment. You may notice them breathing more deeply, and performing little acts of kindness to strangers.


(6) How do Nowists think about Death?

Answer: One of the attractions of Nowism is that you don’t have to think about it all. Aging and dying are usually a lengthy process, containing an infinite number of Nows. In most situations, the Nowist can say to himself, “There is only Now – and this particular Now isn’t so bad, is it?”


(7) What are the disadvantages of Nowism?

Answer: Apart from the slight annoyance of being confused with Taoism -- through similar-sounding names—there’s the danger of being misunderstood by people who’ll dismiss you as a “Fatalist,” who considers everything predetermined, or as a “Hedonist,” looking only for pleasure. Some of these critics may be won over, when they see what a meaningful life you are living, valuing every moment as a precious gift.


Let me conclude with some words of Jesus, who may have been one of the great Nowists of all time. According to the Book of Mathew, he taught his followers:


“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.” ##

 

[Kenny]

Profound Revelation Number 273.
Mr. Watts, is that you?

Peace,
Cy

 

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Now-ism
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“NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW”

I too am familiar with this nowism. She's 11 and he's 6, and they are ticking time-atoms.

 

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My nowism is not shown, it is such a high number.

 

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Look at post above you on this page, for the fat lion,,,that wooden boat....
Damn,,,,,same meme I do believe.....
Hahahhahaa...

 

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If you get the reference, you were listening to good music....

 

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Warning you all.....
The following can be construed as a K post....

 

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put something here....
or not...