Dagwood222
@Dagwood222@lemm.ee
- Comment on This guy predicted the future!🤯 1 week ago:
imho, it was Nixon who started America on this course. Nixon knew that the Vietnam War was unwinnable; he even ran in 1968 as a ‘peace candidate.’ He also knew that massive bombing would mean that the US steel mills would be working 24/7 and that would be great for the Unions and owners. All he had to do was pay for it with paper money, because he didn’t want to raise taxes.
- Comment on This guy predicted the future!🤯 1 week ago:
When I was a kid, the worst playground insult was calling someone a ‘J@p,’ because only a yellow bastard would pull a sneak attack like Pearl Harbor.
Tojo must be smiling in Hell.
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 1 week ago:
In a neighborhood, everyone knows your name. If Joe the Plumber and Fred the Butcher make a bet, everyone has heard it, and the loser has to pay up, or be scorned.
In a bar, the bartender or server holds the bets and pays off the winner, and expects a cut of the pie as a sevice fee/tip.
- Comment on Would you be dumb enough to wear this shirt in public? 1 week ago:
90 year old woman goes to the local brothel. She tells the madam that she wants to try something new, so she wants to try being a hooker for a night. Madam makes some phone calls, finds some customers who 'd be into it, and tells the woman to come back the next night.
The next day the lady arrives, and soon the first john shows up. They walk upstairs, spend an hour, and come back. The second customer is waiting, and so he and she go upstairs. After she comes back down, the third guy arrives, so it’s back upstairs.
At the end of the night the madam asks if she wants to come back?
“Oh, no dear. the sex was fine but those damn stairs will kill me.”
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t engage with them.
- Comment on Worst spy ever 2 weeks ago:
[off topic]
I can’t remember the author or title of the story.
Napoleon wants to give his enemies false information, so he picks a courier who looks bold and dashing, but has a reputation for being a complete fuck up.
The idiot manages to fumble his way past a dozen patrols and deliver the orders.
Exactly what they didn’t want.
- Comment on NO! That can't be true 2 weeks ago:
Mommy is at the park with her baby and her 5 year old. She’s holding the baby in her arms. She yells at the other kid to put down the stick he’s playing with.
“Put that nasty thing down! You don’t know where it’s been.”
The kid replies, “Put that nasty thing down! I know where it’s been!”
- Comment on If you're being honest about it 2 weeks ago:
I owe,
I owe,
It’s off to work I go!
I gotta get paid,
'Cause I wanna get laid!
I owe,
I owe…
- Comment on Alternatively 2 weeks ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on Alternatively 2 weeks ago:
Smart and decent aren’t synonymous
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 2 weeks ago:
Physical calendars are great. One good trick is to write all the important dates down the day you get it. Mom’s birthday; parent’s anniversary; any event that you want to be sure to remember.
- Comment on Alternatively 2 weeks ago:
Not leaving DNA evidence would be a good idea if you were planning a crime.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 2 weeks ago:
Get these books. “Discover What You Are Best At.” Linda Gail. It’s a series of self tests to determine what skills you already have and then a list of all sorts of jobs that use those skills. If you can wake up on a rainy Monday and not hate yourself, you’ve solved most of your adult problems.
“The Joy Of Cooking.” Will teach you how to boil water, and then go on from there.
- Comment on Peak male form 2 weeks ago:
[off topic?]
I watched a Steve McQueen movie a few weeks ago [The Thomas Crown Affair.] There’s a scene where Steve and Faye Dunaway are lounging in a steamroom. When the movie came out, McQueen was considered one of the most virile men in Hollywood. Compared to today’s standards, he looked kinda scrawny.
- Comment on Behold, my masterpiece of a comment 2 weeks ago:
Zero plans that you know of!
Bwah-ha-ha!
- Comment on Behold, my masterpiece of a comment 2 weeks ago:
My man!!
- Comment on Behold, my masterpiece of a comment 2 weeks ago:
16 of one, a dozen and a third of the other.
- Comment on Behold, my masterpiece of a comment 2 weeks ago:
Amatuer
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 2 weeks ago:
My favorite non-canon Sherlock Holmes story; Holmes goes to Freud to detox from cocaine.
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 2 weeks ago:
So did Freud
- Comment on Behold, my masterpiece of a comment 2 weeks ago:
The difference between being scared and being alert is alert has a plan.
- Comment on The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good story. My family moved into a big apartment complex when I was in 6th Grade. There was a big laundry room in the basement and somehow I became the Laundry Czar of my family. First good paying job I got I started having it done for me.
- Comment on The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose. 2 weeks ago:
True story.
One of George W. Bush’s friends was telling a story about the future President. He was a recent college graduate and came to her house with a load of laundry, because he couldn’t figure out how to clean his own stuff.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
People had encyclopedias and dictionaries in their homes. They read newspapers every day [and since there was a lot of coemption between papers they made sure of their facts.]
imho people today are more likely to fall for nonsense because they look for confirmation instead of accuracy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You’re recognizing the problems of today. Someone in the 1930’s Depression would feel something similar watching a movie set in the Jazz Age.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 3 weeks ago:
[off topic?]
There’s a science fiction series called The Lensmen by ‘Doc’ E.E. Smith. Big influence on Star Wars and other space operas. In one book a human is preparing to visit one of the most dangerous civilizations in the Galaxy. Super-special, quadruple strength armored suit he hopes will be strong enough to protect him.
The planet has a tech level equal to mid-20th Century Earth, but the natives are completely deaf. So none of the cars, trains, planes or other machinery has any noise dampening.
He survives, but it’s close…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Let him keep the stuff. If the other boy’s parents don’t care, why should you?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Don’t get involved in her family drama. Just don’t.
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 3 weeks ago:
Great analogy.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 3 weeks ago:
Tanith Lee created modern weird fantasy and Neil Gaiman stole all his best stuff from her.
In “Red As Blood” she takes all the Disney princesses and makes them evil. Snow White is a vampire and Cinderella is a witch who drives the Prince insane.