The Swamp

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2017 4:06 pm**

Believe it or not, I seldom troll or even semi-troll on Facebook any more. I de-friended all of the TrumpBots and aside from a few nonsensical drunken postings from time to time, my Facebook interaction is fairly limited. But I couldn't help myself on this one. I can't stand this chick -- it's the sister of a good friend who has a half-dozen multi-level marketing "businesses" and posts "self-help" nonsense on the regular.

I like it because it works as validation of her post (if you want to see it that way) and as a straight up trolling.

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2017 4:18 pm**

That's fantastic.

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2017 5:02 pm**

That is outstanding. Well played.

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2017 5:34 pm**

Hahaha. That's amazing. What did she say after that?

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2017 5:43 pm**

No response.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2017 2:42 pm**

Johnnie wrote:Hahaha. That's amazing. What did she say after that?

Beautiful. I wonder how many people actually pick up on the joke.

Posted: **Thu Jun 08, 2017 6:20 am**

Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.

Nice guy, but he tends to overshare the events of the day.

He posted this thrilling update earlier in the day with the caption "Homeward Bound" (note, this is the Ottawa airport. He lives in Toronto. It is a 60 minute flight.)

Posted: **Thu Jun 08, 2017 10:23 am**

Respect if he's doing it ironically.

Posted: **Thu Jun 08, 2017 10:37 am**

P.D.X. wrote:Respect if he's doing it ironically.

Nice guy, but no. He's the type who live streams his son's basketball game and will post shots from most of the holes when he plays golf.

Posted: **Sun Jun 25, 2017 10:03 pm**

If atheists dont believe in Jesus why are they so worried that he just sacrificed a weekend for their sins. What is sin to an atheist? in order to sin you have to know right from wrong dont you? So for an atheist there is no sin. You are free to do as you please to anyone or anything, without fear. So you are free to murder, rape, steal, commit adultery, but do the majoity of atheists do that of their own free will, no, so where did their moral compass step in and from whom, perhaps that was in the primordial soup called the Big Bang.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:24 am**

Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.

While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:30 am**

Jerloma wrote:
If atheists dont believe in Jesus why are they so worried that he just sacrificed a weekend for their sins. What is sin to an atheist? in order to sin you have to know right from wrong dont you? So for an atheist there is no sin. You are free to do as you please to anyone or anything, without fear. So you are free to murder, rape, steal, commit adultery, but do the majoity of atheists do that of their own free will, no, so where did their moral compass step in and from whom, perhaps that was in the primordial soup called the Big Bang.

Wow. Just ... wow.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:46 am**

Sabo wrote:
Jerloma wrote:
If atheists dont believe in Jesus why are they so worried that he just sacrificed a weekend for their sins. What is sin to an atheist? in order to sin you have to know right from wrong dont you? So for an atheist there is no sin. You are free to do as you please to anyone or anything, without fear. So you are free to murder, rape, steal, commit adultery, but do the majoity of atheists do that of their own free will, no, so where did their moral compass step in and from whom, perhaps that was in the primordial soup called the Big Bang.
Wow. Just ... wow.

So much stupidity to unpack in one short paragraph.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:58 am**

On the bright side, illustrating the fallacy of the false premise just got a whole lot easier.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:39 am**

Nonlinear FC wrote:
Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.

While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.

Was it Super Diamond?

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:07 am**

P.D.X. wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:
Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.

While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.
Was it Super Diamond?

Real Diamond

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:09 am**

Wife had to drag me away, because I was having way too much fun making fun of everything.

I kind of felt bad for the band, because that venue was incredibly difficult. A bunch of codgers posted up front in beach chairs giving almost nothing back. And if click on that video... There's like 10 of them in that band.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:14 am**

King Diamond?

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:15 am**

Almost too bad because that would be a great name for a cover band that does only Elvis and Neil Diamond covers (which itself would be pretty brilliant).

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:37 am**

brian wrote:Almost too bad because that would be a great name for a cover band that does only Elvis and Neil Diamond covers (which itself would be pretty brilliant).

Already a renown theatrical metal act who may or may not chill with Morgan Freeman.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:43 am**

I knew that, hence the joke.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:51 am**

/billcross'd

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:01 am**

mister d wrote:On the bright side, illustrating the fallacy of the false premise just got a whole lot easier.

Right? I love the way she just subtly slips "and from whom?" in there, which is only like the 8th craziest thing about that paragraph.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:30 am**

Lowkey, a fear I have is having to give an interview in a professional setting (read: in uniform) and some religion question pops up and I have to answer it in front of a crowd of people.

I was actually coached on this prior to going to Iraq because you're working with people who take their religion too seriously and they love talking about it. The response I was told to give was "I'm searching for my faith." It's a half lie, but it works. But that's on a personal level with Muslims you're working with, not in an interview.

So I figure i'd go with a joke that would finish with that in front of Americans. "Well, a while back I gave up being Catholic for lent and I've been searching for my faith ever since." That may or may not work, but the situation is so unlikely that I shouldn't have to worry.

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:50 am**

Johnnie wrote:Lowkey, a fear I have is having to give an interview in a professional setting (read: in uniform) and some religion question pops up and I have to answer it in front of a crowd of people.

I was actually coached on this prior to going to Iraq because you're working with people who take their religion too seriously and they love talking about it. The response I was told to give was "I'm searching for my faith." It's a half lie, but it works. But that's on a personal level with Muslims you're working with, not in an interview.

So I figure i'd go with a joke that would finish with that in front of Americans. "Well, a while back I gave up being Catholic for lent and I've been searching for my faith ever since." That may or may not work, but the situation is so unlikely that I shouldn't have to worry.

"I'm going to invoke my First Amendment right to not answer that question."

Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2017 12:06 pm**

"I believe in Jesus except for the parts where he doesn't live his entire life in pursuit of money" works well for non-military positions.

Posted: **Wed Jun 28, 2017 4:47 pm**

P.D.X. wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:
Pruitt wrote:Old high school friend of mine posted parts of 8 different songs from the Neil Diamond show that he attended with his 80 year old mother last night.

Quite possibly the least cool thing ever.

While at the beach last weekend, my wife and I made our way up the boardwalk to watch a Neil Diamond cover band.

People were taking it pretty seriously.

THAT was the least cool thing I've ever seen.
Was it Super Diamond?

This gave me an idea. I'm going to open a wedding proposal planning company named Kneel...Diamond.

Posted: **Wed Jun 28, 2017 7:02 pm**

Diamond works two different ways there. If you need investors call me.

Posted: **Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:59 pm**

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gpcW-4RbD7Y

Posted: **Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:42 am**

Johnnie wrote:Lowkey, a fear I have is having to give an interview in a professional setting (read: in uniform) and some religion question pops up and I have to answer it in front of a crowd of people.

I was actually coached on this prior to going to Iraq because you're working with people who take their religion too seriously and they love talking about it. The response I was told to give was "I'm searching for my faith." It's a half lie, but it works. But that's on a personal level with Muslims you're working with, not in an interview.

So I figure i'd go with a joke that would finish with that in front of Americans. "Well, a while back I gave up being Catholic for lent and I've been searching for my faith ever since." That may or may not work, but the situation is so unlikely that I shouldn't have to worry.

That's a fantastic answer, and I'm not sure it's a lie in the slightest (at least to me) so long as you can recognize the difference between it and the blind variety.

Life is about reconciling a balance between faith and reason (and also understanding that biblical and blind faith are the exact same thing)...

Posted: **Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:22 pm**

EnochRoot wrote:Life is about reconciling a balance between faith and reason (and also understanding that biblical and blind faith are the exact same thing)...

That's quite good, ER.

Posted: **Mon Jul 03, 2017 11:39 pm**

Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2017 8:44 am**

Mind asking if that includes suicide bombers?

Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2017 9:09 am**

mister d wrote:Mind asking if that includes suicide bombers?

I should hope not.

Posted: **Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:00 pm**

I just found out that I'm officially single as of today via a Facebook status of the significant other's sister asking if anyone knew of a guy to set her up with

(full disclosure: it was in the process of happening and was inevitable. so this is far from a surprise. but it wasn't done either. we were taking a couple days and going from there.)

((but holy shit this is hilarious))

Posted: **Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:02 pm**

Couldn't just take the shittiest room, huh?

Posted: **Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:10 pm**

mister d wrote:Couldn't just take the shittiest room, huh?

wasn't my fight!

Posted: **Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:55 pm**

So was the status something like "can't wait to help my newly single sister land some hot dick"?

Posted: **Mon Jul 10, 2017 6:00 pm**

mister d wrote:So was the status something like "can't wait to help my newly single sister land some hot dick"?

something about "my sister is single again (she was tagged in the post) and does anyone know of a good guy I'm looking to set her up"

Posted: **Mon Jul 10, 2017 6:04 pm**

She gots to lose that Yahoo! blogger and get herself a good snogger.

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