The Coffee House

[table1349]

Change the letters around and you'd have a Kcup.

Yucky weather today, good bit of rain but still warm and stuffy. Possible severe storms or at least a whole lotta rain coming later. So this should be a good day to get caught up on my online class... but I don't feel very motivated at the moment! lol maybe later...

I saw one of those the other day at the grocery store. Poor woman couldn't tell if her shoes matched even with a full length mirror.

 

[Gary A.]

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Gee we're on a serious conversation today!

Nahhh, Frank is just bored.

 

[vintagesnaps]

What are they feeding you Frank?? that one picture looks like sliced turkey on rice cakes with burnt black something in the middle. Egads! at least the 'improved' meal of rice cakes without the burnt black crap looks a little better. (What put you in the hospital anyway?)

Would watching the Food Network help? right now they're dipping marshmellows in different colors of icing, now there's a healthy snack! especially dipping them in sprinkles etc. That looks nauseating...

Oh, the whole episode is desserts to decorate for kid parties or something, I think it's definitely time to go get something done...

 

[smoke665]

On a less serious note. Don't know if anyone else caught it but on the news yesterday, a man was picked up in Arizona (under the influence of drugs obviously) He had painted his nude body gold, and lips/eyebrows purple. Police were called after he decided to take a stroll through the local Walmart store. There are so many one-liners that come to mind on this!!

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

On a less serious note. Don't know if anyone else caught it but on the news yesterday, a man was picked up in Arizona (under the influence of drugs obviously) He had painted his nude body gold, and lips/eyebrows purple. Police were called after he decided to take a stroll through the local Walmart store. There are so many one-liners that come to mind on this!!

Eyebrows are a very important fashion accessory right now.

 

[jcdeboever]

Attention shoppers, blue light special, isle 4, golden rod, 6 inches for a dollar.

 

[smoke665]

Eyebrows are a very important fashion accessory right now

True but gold is comprised mostly of yellow, and we all know primaries advance and secondaries recede. Given the state of his out of shape condition and all that gold there was lot of advancing going on

 

[limr30 3]

Hey man, live and let live!

 

[Gary A.]

Hey man, live and let live!

Gary doesn't know abut that ... Walmart is more Dog Eat Dog ...

 

[table1349]

On a less serious note. Don't know if anyone else caught it but on the news yesterday, a man was picked up in Arizona (under the influence of drugs obviously) He had painted his nude body gold, and lips/eyebrows purple. Police were called after he decided to take a stroll through the local Walmart store. There are so many one-liners that come to mind on this!!

I'm sorry, we are talking about Walmart. I see no news item it this story. Now if it had been any other store besides Walmart then yes it would be a hilarious news story, but it was Walmart.

If you have never been to a Walmart after midnight, pack up the kids, pop a big bag of popcorn, take some soda's and enjoy a couple of hours of entertainment. They can't make that stuff up on TV.

 

[smoke665]

Actually he had already been to Wal-Mart, and was arrested at 11 pm.
Naked man painted gold, on drugs arrested after strolling through Walmart in Arizona maybe you're not supposed to wear gold "before" midnight.

 

[Frank F.]

Please keep politics and political statements out of the Coffee House thread and the main forums. The Subscriber's Forum provides plenty of opportunity to discuss, debate and opine about national and international politics. I've deleted a few posts here that crossed the line.

Thanks!

Total documentation of Euro-American misunderstanding. I was never talking politics in the post you accidentally deleted following the misconception.

Weapons
Abortion
Creationism
Sex
Violence
Climate change

Why are these innocent words so emotionally entangled?

Why are scientific facts not accepted as non political?

Abortion is to kill a child in the womb.
Weapons are designed to kill people and animals.

Creationism is the idea that a belief equals a scientific theory, although both are true and disjunct.

Sex is what you define it to be a non discussion.

Violence is Violence.

Climate change is a scientific theory that can be right or wrong. Unemotional.

BUT THIS IS JUST THE EUROPEAN VIEW.

Please do not delete this.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Please keep politics and political statements out of the Coffee House thread and the main forums. The Subscriber's Forum provides plenty of opportunity to discuss, debate and opine about national and international politics. I've deleted a few posts here that crossed the line.

Thanks!

Total documentation of Euro-American misunderstanding. I was never talking politics in the post you accidentally deleted following the misconception.

Weapons
Abortion
Creationism
Sex
Violence
Climate change

Why are these innocent words so emotionally entangled????

I didn't accidentally delete your post. I deleted it because guns, abortion, religion (creationism) and climate change are all very political issues here in the US.

 

[limr30 3]

Please keep politics and political statements out of the Coffee House thread and the main forums. The Subscriber's Forum provides plenty of opportunity to discuss, debate and opine about national and international politics. I've deleted a few posts here that crossed the line.

Thanks!

Total documentation of Euro-American misunderstanding. I was never talking politics in the post you accidentally deleted following the misconception.

Weapons
Abortion
Creationism
Sex
Violence
Climate change

Why are these innocent words so emotionally entangled????

Frank, while these words and concepts may seem innocent to you, they are completely politicized in the US, and especially now, the atmosphere is very volatile. I understand that this was a miscommunication, and that you didn't bring these subjects up with the intention of starting a political discussion, but what you need to understand is that regardless of your intention, those subjects will send this thread down a political rabbit hole.

And here's another (generalized) cultural difference between Europeans and Americans: politics and religion are topics we almost never bring up in social settings unless we want to start a fight. (Of course, sometimes we do want to pick a fight We just don't want anyone to do so here in the Coffee House or on other public forums on TPF.)

Now, having said that, there is the Subscriber's forum (which, as a Supporting Member, you have access to) where these topics can be discussed. Out in the public forums, however, these subjects are off-limits.

 

[Frank F.]

I am German, because I was born to German parents. You are Americans because you were born to American soil.

Actually I'm what we call in the south "a fence climber" A mixture of German, Swiss, Scot, and English (that I know of), all immigrants dating back to 116 years prior to the American Revolution. Unlike many Europeans who's lineage is more limited, we do consider ourselves Americans first, that's who we are, but because of the melting pot nature of our country we can share the customs of others without bias.

My ancestors are noble men, military men and scientists. For most of them a border was just a piss mark, so marriage across cultural divides is common. Jews and Christians and non believers from all European Countries intermingled.

Now I am here, with a German passport and Greek Ancestors as well as ancestors from many other places.

I am a "fence climber" or a we say in Europe, a COSMOPOLITAN.