Hrothgir O'Domnaill

Out of Context comment of the day
"If you say so - I confess, who does what to whom and why, unless I want to join in, just washes past me."

You realise you've hit the end of Youtube when you're watching someone play 'The Pirates of the Caribbean Theme' on two calculators.

I don't usually correct the grammar of people I broadly agree with but "hypocrisy" isn't a common synonym for "traitorous noise".

Out of context comment
"Why yes, my existence is a continual horrorshow, wherein I cling to what I hope is reality."

Out of context comment
"My mind just slides off it... as if I know that, should I see what it truly is, madness will follow as surely as night follows day..."

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"It's amazing how one can tire of someone's continued existence in the space of a single paragraph."

In my best Wing Commander voice.
"One got religion, the other got capped in an alley. I always knew Ginger would end that way..."

My meditation on Lauren Boebert
"She always seems the sort that her year book says "Most likely to cook meth""

From 2022 - Sentences you seldom see
"Can Jennifer Lopez save this movie?"
(IME, if you have to ask that question, the answer is probably no)

I'm sort of inured - I've been following doomsday cults as down time since I was 18. I'm 61 now.

Domestic vignette
"There's dramatic stillness, and there's just not moving. He's not moving."
"Hmm-mm"

From Texas to Israel: Red heifers needed for Temple arrive | The Jerusalem Post A Christian farmer in Texas raised the prized heifers which are essential for priests to serve in the Temple.

And The Jerusalem Post's article from the time. The Eschaton seems to be imminent in some people's minds.
www.jpost.com/judaism/arti...

What do Texan red heifers have to do with Al-Aqsa and a Jewish temple? Temple Movement's plan to sacrifice the cattle seen as step towards its goal of building the Third Temple over Al-Aqsa.

Picture it... September 2022. Somehow, a bunch of people who want to see the world end get an export licence.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/...

I'm not certain the grinning idiot could win an arse hunting contest with the use of both hands, a lighted candle, and a copy of Grey's Anatomy open to the relevant page.

Why Google dropped the "Don't be Evil" motto in 2018? Even the best joke gets old. It was hysterical in 1998, but really tired after 20 years of them being evil.

Out of context comment
"Reminds me of the 'beer and a curry silent German expressionist film nights' we had, back in my 20s... I miss those days"

Out of context comment
"It has the same expensive patina you see on solar powered waving cats."

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"I'd call them a Paranoia of Republicans, or perhaps a Santorum."

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"It was some serious 'wet sailcloth ripping under strain' drama
to the point it was hard to fathom how they weren't an evaginated heap, or the wall nearby wasn't like an earth tones Jackson Pollock"

Domestic vignette
"If you defocus on his shirt, does it become dolphins?"
"Frogs"
"It looks flammable"

Domestic vignette
"Well, they're Fosse-Fosse-Fosse-ing aren't they?"
"Oh yes"

Domestic vignette
"Doing that, she'd have brains all over her ear"
"Yup"

Out of context comment
"Not many places can boast a drunken former Ewok dressed as a jockey having a wank near the tuppeny cascade."

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"I always felt it was a delightful bit of IngSoc English."

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"I'd have said 'Don't try and improve on hydrogen peroxide propellant in your garage' was what I took away from the whole experience."

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"As a minor critique of the use of English in your comment - "borrowed" lacks the "lifted wholesale to the point of theft" shade of meaning that was required."

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"The sort of chap who, when he leaves a funeral, the only one he's not hit on is the lady in the casket, and you suspect he'd have slipped her the tongue if her mouth wasn't superglued shut..."

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"I felt the circumstances surrounding his passing could only have been improved on by the addition of rats."

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"It's only calculus until you build the thing. Then it's a matter of actual material tolerances, and occasionally African Queening the plumbing."

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"They were chaos on a stick, with the manners of a child of Louis XIV. We were glad when when they went with another company."