Post your random thoughts.

After watching The People vs OJ Simpson, which was fantastic, I did quick background reading. First off, boy what a shitshow of a case. Second, it's honestly upsetting that noted and proven racist Mark Fuhrman still gets work for anything ever.

There's actually quite a few landlocked countries with navies.

I KNOW RIGHT? That case was a garbage fire, and Mark Fuhrman is terrible.

I remember watching that low-speed chase when I was a kid, on live TV, when my aunt and my brother and I were on vacation. I was annoyed that we couldn't just get on with having fun, and didn't quite understand why there was such a fuss.

Flash forward to middle school, and the trial. We watched the verdict live. The black kids in the class were thrilled, and a little shocked, at the Not Guilty verdict. Most of the white kids were outraged, because "He probably did it!" The teacher could have used the opportunity to introduce the concept of reasonable doubt, but didn't. :/

Thus ends my OJ Simpson "Shaggy Dog" Story.

The world record for "landlocked country with the largest navy" actually goes to Bolivia, with several thousand personnel.

edited 16th Jun '17 3:23:06 PM by Cailleach

It's nice having a relationship. Even if it's just online. And the other person is on the other side of the ocean.

I'm starting to think I have hemophilia.

I'm trying to picture that Navy of seven people being protagonists to a movie.

"MOBILIZE THE NAVY. WE NEED A TEAM OF JADED REALISTS WITH ATTITUDE AND A TUGBOAT."

-cue dramatic music as a single tugboat is sent into the ocean-

Based on what I said earlier, are there any Canadians around here who know who Tyler Perry is?

(I said that Tyler Perry is the most famous person in the US who isn't famous anywhere else.)

It sounds like one of those bad parody comedy movies. It should begin with the protagonist being sent to the navy after one too many fuck-ups, and now he wants to prove he's a capable soldier by saving the president.

YES

featuring reality ensues, black comedy, and a tugboat

In sadder news, gonna have to kennel trooper while we go on boat trip

to be fair it's a puppy resort

but he panics without us and he'll be with small dogs and right now he's running around and barking because he knows we're packing and there's a big dog in the neighborhood barking and-

In a way, when I read an analysis of why something is overrated, it feels like the person writing it is expressing a profound truth.

If all water goes through the cycle of evaporation, raining and such. Does that mean the sky is literally pissing on us, or at least pouring someone elses on us when it rains?

On the same note, you're eating traces of dead people every time you eat something.

Yes. But since the same water has been in existence the whole time, we could also say that the water falling on us used to be the blood of dinosaurs, or a sick whitewater run, or that it may have touched the lips of the one person each of us secretly desires.

You yourself are already made up of traces of dead people (both genetically and atomically), so I wouldn't worry too much about ingesting it.

It's the CIRCLE of LIFFFEEE....

Now I'm remembering reading an old mineralogical survey report about someone finding a mineral that was essentially a fossilized lump of haemoglobin that was brought up out of an oil well drill site. The only piece recovered was shuffled around backroom museum boxes until it was accidentally thrown away when someone was doing some cleaning

Was red colored and has some odd flexible plastic-like qualities about it.

Damned if I can't remember what it was called now. . .

edited 17th Jun '17 8:47:58 AM by carbon-mantis

Sometimes you don't realize certain things about your life until you have to explain them to another person.

For example, I didn't realize what a dump I lived in until my friend was over earlier today and I was explaining to her how we stacked the pans up like so when we stored them to keep the mice from crawling into them...

What if im not waking up each morning but just dreaming that im waking up. O_O

Been there, done that. Got the proverbial T-shirt.

Why was Paul McCartney the only Beatle who didn't get facial hair?

Uh...he had a mustache and a beard at different points.

They all four grew out some kind of facial hair to avoid recognition late in the Beatlemania phase.

My mistake.

Although he did shave it off pretty quickly - while he does have a mustache on the promotional photos for Sgt Pepper, it's gone by the time they started working on Magical Mystery Tour.

I actually misremembered that he had a luxuriant Porn Stache, but only George sported something that would fit the description.

Water, why do you hate our boat, and the passengers on it?

With all the bouncing and banging around, I'm surprised we haven't sprung any huge leaks. On the plus side, pumps should keep it safe.

Relaxing at hotel with new tan, horrid sunburns, etc.

I'll post photos later.