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The Mask
Senior Member
"I've outlived my dick."
A Poem - by Willie Nelson
My nookie days are over,
My pilot light is out.
What used to be my pride and joy,
Is now my water spout.
Time was when, on its own accord,
From my trousers it would spring.
But now I've got a full time job,
To find the friggin thing.
It used to be embarrassing,
The way it would behave.
For every single morning,
It would stand and watch me shave.
Now as old age approaches,
It sure gives me the blues.
To see it hang its little head,
And watch me tie my shoes!!
Willie Nelson
A Poem - by Willie Nelson
My nookie days are over,
My pilot light is out.
What used to be my pride and joy,
Is now my water spout.
Time was when, on its own accord,
From my trousers it would spring.
But now I've got a full time job,
To find the friggin thing.
It used to be embarrassing,
The way it would behave.
For every single morning,
It would stand and watch me shave.
Now as old age approaches,
It sure gives me the blues.
To see it hang its little head,
And watch me tie my shoes!!
Willie Nelson
The Mask
Senior Member
This is revealing and something more parents should take on board.
"Melinda Gates Gates’s children don’t have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her husband Bill spends hours in his office read reading books while everyone else is refreshing their homepage. The most sought-after private school in Silicon Valley, the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, bans electronic device devices for the under-11s and teaches the children of ebay, Apple, Uber and Google staff to make go-karts, knit and cook. Mark Zuckerberg wants his daughters to read Dr Seuss and play outside rather than use Messenger Kids. Steve Jobs strictly limited his children’s use of technology at home. It’s astonishing if you think about it: the more money you make out of the tech industry, the more you appear to shield your family from its effects.”
Alice Thomson / The Times
"Melinda Gates Gates’s children don’t have smartphones and only use a computer in the kitchen. Her husband Bill spends hours in his office read reading books while everyone else is refreshing their homepage. The most sought-after private school in Silicon Valley, the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, bans electronic device devices for the under-11s and teaches the children of ebay, Apple, Uber and Google staff to make go-karts, knit and cook. Mark Zuckerberg wants his daughters to read Dr Seuss and play outside rather than use Messenger Kids. Steve Jobs strictly limited his children’s use of technology at home. It’s astonishing if you think about it: the more money you make out of the tech industry, the more you appear to shield your family from its effects.”
Alice Thomson / The Times
davebirch
Senior Member
But when they can't get what they want (not what they need) it's
MUUUUUUUUMMMM I'M BOOOOORRRED
Today's technology is the "opium of the (young) masses".
davebirch
Senior Member
and your mum would say, "go and play out"
and you would come back just before tea, or worse still, late and it would be wherethehellaveyoubeen.
Not to mention the crack on the back of the head as you passed your dad in the doorway.
The Mask
Senior Member
It's a Mad Mad Mad world.
Italy’s legal system is creaking at the seams, said Gian Antonio Stella, largely because our courts are clogged with absurdly trivial cases. In the southern region of Puglia, for example, a man has just been acquitted for stealing a single eggplant from a field—after a nine-year legal battle that cost taxpayers about $9,000. Police caught the jobless suspect leaving the field with the offending vegetable in a bucket in 2009. He claimed he’d only taken it to feed his starving family, and the farmer didn’t press charges. Yet he was still prosecuted, sentenced to five months in jail and fined about $600—penalties that were reduced on appeal. His lawyer, incensed at the unfairness of it all, lodged the case at the supreme court in Rome, where it languished for years, until the justices finally threw it out. The court has accumulated a backlog of more than 100,000 of such crazy cases. Most are domestic spats, like the man who sued his daughter-in-law for serving him shop-bought rather than homemade pasta, or disputes between neighbors over such petty things as wet laundry dripping onto the balcony below. No one wants arbitrary limits on court time. But is it really so hard to distinguish between important cases of principle and those that just waste time and money?
Gian Antonio Stella / The Week.
And it's coming here.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/count-dankula-verdict-free-speech-dying-britain/
Italy’s legal system is creaking at the seams, said Gian Antonio Stella, largely because our courts are clogged with absurdly trivial cases. In the southern region of Puglia, for example, a man has just been acquitted for stealing a single eggplant from a field—after a nine-year legal battle that cost taxpayers about $9,000. Police caught the jobless suspect leaving the field with the offending vegetable in a bucket in 2009. He claimed he’d only taken it to feed his starving family, and the farmer didn’t press charges. Yet he was still prosecuted, sentenced to five months in jail and fined about $600—penalties that were reduced on appeal. His lawyer, incensed at the unfairness of it all, lodged the case at the supreme court in Rome, where it languished for years, until the justices finally threw it out. The court has accumulated a backlog of more than 100,000 of such crazy cases. Most are domestic spats, like the man who sued his daughter-in-law for serving him shop-bought rather than homemade pasta, or disputes between neighbors over such petty things as wet laundry dripping onto the balcony below. No one wants arbitrary limits on court time. But is it really so hard to distinguish between important cases of principle and those that just waste time and money?
Gian Antonio Stella / The Week.
And it's coming here.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/count-dankula-verdict-free-speech-dying-britain/
The Mask
Senior Member
"Sixteen years ago, I wrote in this space about a report arguing that supermarkets were driving local shops and services out of business so fast that Britain would soon become a country “of ghost towns and villages”. Somehow, the high street survived, though not as dominant as it once was and by no means everywhere. But will it survive what The Times columnist Iain Martin calls “the wrecking ball” of Amazon? Now, as he says, even high streets in affluent boroughs are “pockmarked” with vacant sites and temporary bargain stores selling tat for a few weeks before moving on. And every empty shop, every hollowed out high street, is a “win” for online retail giants such as Amazon.
It is extraordinary to see a sitting US president continually attacking an American company, but it’s hard to deny Donald Trump’s claim that Amazon has put “many thousands of retailers out of business”. How will it all end? In The Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon imagined looking back one day at the “gloriously democratic” internet age: how it enabled, for the first time, “rabid anti Semites, Stalin apologists and white supremacists” to build “enormous followings of the vulnerable, angry and ill-informed” – and at how successful it was at destroying jobs, “killing the music industry, closing every magazine and newspaper on Earth, and concentrating 98% of the world’s wealth among a handful of sociopaths in California”. Well, happily we’re not there yet. But if we consumers don’t change our habits, one day we may be."
Jolyon Connell
The Week
It is extraordinary to see a sitting US president continually attacking an American company, but it’s hard to deny Donald Trump’s claim that Amazon has put “many thousands of retailers out of business”. How will it all end? In The Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon imagined looking back one day at the “gloriously democratic” internet age: how it enabled, for the first time, “rabid anti Semites, Stalin apologists and white supremacists” to build “enormous followings of the vulnerable, angry and ill-informed” – and at how successful it was at destroying jobs, “killing the music industry, closing every magazine and newspaper on Earth, and concentrating 98% of the world’s wealth among a handful of sociopaths in California”. Well, happily we’re not there yet. But if we consumers don’t change our habits, one day we may be."
Jolyon Connell
The Week
davebirch
Senior Member
How very true.