Toadfish Monastery

Not sure what the talk of teeth is about. Americans care more about straight shiny white teeth than us in the UK.

Whatever doom comes domestically, the Orange One will tip Climate Change, World war (possibly Nuclear) and bring about the end of the World. I am therefore not worrying about my own death (always look on the bright side of life).

A little quiz to cheer people up:

It was the insulin that killed him, not the lion. Who?

Asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, he replied "Now is not the time to make new enemies". Who?

An atheist, asked why he was reading a bible on his deathbed replied "I am looking for loopholes". Who?

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I guessed correctly with Voltaire, was in the right ballpark with Fields (I guessed Marx)
and had never heard of Davidson before.

Regarding teeth,many USians cannot afford even basic dental care and the small improvements since Obamacare will likely be history soon.

Last _{and concerning dictators: They get along better than they do with non-dictators due to shared interests} Post

Am in what we people with M.E./CFS call a crash. Mostly asleep.

Last _{MPs vote on Assisted Dying on Friday. Doubt success in my lifetime. Pessimism rules!} Post

With the pessimi soon ruling pessimism comes naturally.

Last _{can't come up with anything mood lifting right now} Post

We have a mood lifting. The Assisted Dying vote got through. Doesn't mean it is a done deal, but it gets through to the third reading in the Commons, where it will be contorted and distorted before going to the Lords. Way to go, but looks like I will be able to top myself (should I so wish) as long as I am dying anyway within 6 months. The religious people and some misguided disabled people tried hard to refuse us this choice in death (prefering to force long painful deaths on dying people) but sense won out.

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* It seems this is why human life is supposedly sacrosanct, I have been listening to the protests

There is always the question, whether the deity is a hermaphrodite or whether the reproductive organs were a new feature distinguishing humans from the divine being.

It has been a long theological dispute about 'in heaven there is no man or woman', whether it means losing those organs or females being turned into males. Hermaphrodite was never seen as a serious option.

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Quote from: Griffin on November 30, 2024, 05:57:03 PMhow do they know we are made in G-d's image when no one has ever seen him, her, it?

-"It's a metaphor"
-"But I thought you were a bible literalist!"

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same as with the invisible pink unicorn

And it says 'created in his image' not 'looking like him'
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If it is invisible, how do you know the unicorn isn't blue?

It is entirely the wrong shade of invisible to be blue.

Last _{free all unicorns} Post

A unicorn is just a rhino after a diet and a queer makeover.

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Quote from: Swatopluk on December 03, 2024, 08:59:48 PMand the horns are near 100% narwhal anyway

Unicorns are what happens when a horny ( ) narwhal 'meets' lady rhino.

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That's why they are so rare.
Rhinos are fond of warm baths (in semi-fresh water), narwhals like it more chilly and salty.

Last _{and woolly rhinos went the way of the woolly mammoth long ago} Post

Imagine for a moment a unicorn with the hide of an alpaca...

Last _{unicorn wool was all the rage in Doggerland during the Younger Dryas} Post

I have actually no idea how soft or coarse that wool was. With mammoth one can check since enough samples are preserved. Don't know about rhinos.

What about Jewish neanderthals? Was it an abomination in the eyes of the LOrd then too to wear fabric made from different fibers?

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It would be like hybridizing a sheep with a vicuña (not normally viable but with enough genetic engineering prowess...)

Last _{technically the same fabric as any mixing would happen at the capillary level} Post