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Last _{not much to look forward to this year} Post

A new crepuscular anteater found solace in tapping syncopated rhythms using its front teeth and certain keepers held barely back by wire entanglements installed by nefarious and malodorous penguins.  Meanwhile, within a crenellated battlement on top of a gothically inspired garden shed the multifarious congregation of dispassionate but elaborately coiffed and manicured chow chows held a conference of (to them) unknown importance. The head gardener waved incessantly during every episode of the Coronation Comedies before any ceremonial heralds were able to overcome and conquer the ever present yet well hidden banjo playing striped marsupials whose fur - mottled as the major lepidoform hexapode - stuck their hair straight without any discernible or even identifiable sign of nodular protuberances anywhere to accompany their dark and irritating lice. This development called for an insincere acknowledgement of the underlying and syncopated prolonged alterations of magnificent and luminescent lion manes that had ignominiously begun to sprout superficially adipose red lice infested with azure tapeworms.  Resplendent with luxurious overcoats ornated with Swarovski crystals, FrangiPhangi II, the recent High Priestess of fabulous and rabulistic natural ablutions, made an unprecedented appearance at the palatial Palace of the Palatine Hills with her entourage of resplendent and voluptuous pond-maids while her daugther waited for an opportunity to use her new prayer beads to help with the monstrous deeds that her highly disreputable fourth cousin, a misstep of epic proportions, enacted while no single individual within the House of Thurn and relevant areas having any sign of being involved, the President of the musical society, planned to end their tumultuous relationship before any of their appendages exploded.
Consequently, no sentients were

A new crepuscular anteater found solace in tapping syncopated rhythms using its front teeth and certain keepers held barely back by wire entanglements installed by nefarious and malodorous penguins.  Meanwhile, within a crenellated battlement on top of a gothically inspired garden shed the multifarious congregation of dispassionate but elaborately coiffed and manicured chow chows held a conference of (to them) unknown importance. The head gardener waved incessantly during every episode of the Coronation Comedies before any ceremonial heralds were able to overcome and conquer the ever present yet well hidden banjo playing striped marsupials whose fur - mottled as the major lepidoform hexapode - stuck their hair straight without any discernible or even identifiable sign of nodular protuberances anywhere to accompany their dark and irritating lice. This development called for an insincere acknowledgement of the underlying and syncopated prolonged alterations of magnificent and luminescent lion manes that had ignominiously begun to sprout superficially adipose red lice infested with azure tapeworms.  Resplendent with luxurious overcoats ornated with Swarovski crystals, FrangiPhangi II, the recent High Priestess of fabulous and rabulistic natural ablutions, made an unprecedented appearance at the palatial Palace of the Palatine Hills with her entourage of resplendent and voluptuous pond-maids while her daugther waited for an opportunity to use her new prayer beads to help with the monstrous deeds that her highly disreputable fourth cousin, a misstep of epic proportions, enacted while no single individual within the House of Thurn and relevant areas having any sign of being involved, the President of the musical society, planned to end their tumultuous relationship before any of their appendages exploded.
Consequently, no

Quote from: Griffin on January 23, 2024, 06:09:26 AMLet's freely play dice? Is a game of dice always paid for?

Formally, gambling was illegal in ancient Rome (except during Saturnalia).
Did not stop emperor Claudius to write* a (now lost) book on the art of playing dice.
And sports betting was rampant too.

*or would that correctly be "from writing"?

What do we have in sight?
November: most likely start of the 2nd US Civil War (even less civil than the 1st)

until then:
stalemate in Ukraine as long as there is still material support from the West (GOP working on ending that)
galloping misery in Palestine (dehousing in Gaza, manifest destinying in the West Bank, further Orbanization of Israel)

on the positive side:
Poland slowly going back to proper rule of law (un-PiSsing) and democracy

undecided:
fate of the Yahoo of Netanya and His Orangeness (see above)

So, some minor local improvements and high potential of large amounts of semisolid digestive final products hitting rotating blades of forced air distribution unit.

And I found semi-regular work at minimum wage level as a tutor (currently math and chemistry) after failing to become a licensed teacher at a state school.
I should better lose lots of weight but I doubt my willpower to actually achieve that (fat chance, excuse the lame pun).

Could be worse privately but world going further down the drain looks like a low risk bet currently.

Last _{Sorry, mood comparable to weather outside (i.e. dreadful)} Post

I come late to the New Year. So far it is no better than Last Year.

Last _{Not being pessimistic, but it could get a lot worse than Last Year} Post

PS. Thanks for the advice Swato. I'll take a raincheck on the flooding.

A new crepuscular anteater found solace in tapping syncopated rhythms using its front teeth and certain keepers held barely back by wire entanglements installed by nefarious and malodorous penguins.  Meanwhile, within a crenellated battlement on top of a gothically inspired garden shed the multifarious congregation of dispassionate but elaborately coiffed and manicured chow chows held a conference of (to them) unknown importance. The head gardener waved incessantly during every episode of the Coronation Comedies before any ceremonial heralds were able to overcome and conquer the ever present yet well hidden banjo playing striped marsupials whose fur - mottled as the major lepidoform hexapode - stuck their hair straight without any discernible or even identifiable sign of nodular protuberances anywhere to accompany their dark and irritating lice. This development called for an insincere acknowledgement of the underlying and syncopated prolonged alterations of magnificent and luminescent lion manes that had ignominiously begun to sprout superficially adipose red lice infested with azure tapeworms.  Resplendent with luxurious overcoats ornated with Swarovski crystals, FrangiPhangi II, the recent High Priestess of fabulous and rabulistic natural ablutions, made an unprecedented appearance at the palatial Palace of the Palatine Hills with her entourage of resplendent and voluptuous pond-maids while her daugther waited for an opportunity to use her new prayer beads to help with the monstrous deeds that her highly disreputable fourth cousin, a misstep of epic proportions, enacted while no single individual within the House of Thurn and relevant areas having any sign of being involved, the President of the musical society, planned to end their tumultuous relationship before any of their appendages exploded.

Let's freely play dice? Is a game of dice always paid for?