Comments on: Open thread 3/31/21 https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 02 Apr 2021 03:26:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Molly+Brown https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548719 Fri, 02 Apr 2021 03:26:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548719 DNW,
Nice try, but Cap’n Rusty wins the thread!

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548634 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:01:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548634 Cap’n Rusty:

So apparently you know why the caged bird doesn’t sing.

That’s quite a cautionary tale.

]]> By: Cap'n Rusty https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548611 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:34:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548611 Years ago, I bought a canary in a cage as a present to my Beloved. (Actually, it was an Anniversary present, and yes, I know the saying about marriage.) Our kids were young, so it was inescapable that he got named “Tweety.” Well, that little guy was just chipper and tweeting and singing his little lungs out all the time. He brightened grey days, dispelled gloom, etc. Then one day, Beloved found a tape of wild canaries singing. We played it for Tweety.

He never sang again after hearing it. I think it was like someone who sings in the shower, and then hears Luciano Pavorati at the Met.

He went downhill after that. His little bird toes got longer and longer. His feathers began to shed. Beloved took him to the vet. The vet recommended a fifty-dollar regime of medications. Beloved said “No way we’re spend fifty bucks on a bird!”

She brought him home, and we gathered the four kids to explain we’d have to put him down. Mercy killing. We had each of us offer a method of execution. It’s rather startling to discover how diabolical one’s offspring can be. One of the girls thought a natural death would be appropriate and suggested putting him a room with the cat. Another was big on efficiency and suggested a framing hammer. We settled on gassing him in a paper bag with the truck exhaust.

I appointed one of those kids on my Medical Power of Attorney. {shudder}

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548601 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:12:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548601 Parrots have beaks and do bite. Read it in Wikedmedia and saw it on RubeTube.

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548599 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:59:00 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548599

“Molly+Brown on March 31, 2021 at 8:09 pm said:
For about a decade I used to bird sit months at a time …. I still have the scars. “

Why, did you fall off the branch?

Hahaha … cough cough sputter … ahem … uh, yeah I know. “Day job. Keep it” Sorry.

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548598 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:50:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548598 Re., Cornhead’s plan.

Thanks.

From your fellow citizens.

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548595 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:42:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548595 As a mention of literacy was made the other day … Has anyone noticed the profoundly awkward and deteriorating grammar of many Wikipedia entries?

It seems especially obvious to me where the authors attempt historical narratives.

An extensive recourse to the passive voice and to awkward verb phrases looks to be particularly pronounced.

This, having been the anniversary of the death of Robert Falcon Scott, I was coincidentally reading some accounts of his fatal return from the pole; including the current Wikipedia article.

It’s astonishing how bad it is. Our crew of non-grammarians do better – or at least write with greater clarity – here in the com boxes, while just trading off-hand observations in near real time.

Check it out for yourself.

]]> By: Fractal Rabbit https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548587 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:12:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548587 I am Spartacus

Nerdrotic too? How did I miss that? Of all the pop-culture guys on YouTube, Gary is my favorite.

]]> By: I am Spartacus https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548533 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 01:29:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548533 Fractal – you need to hear the earlier interview with NERDROTIC. This is an interesting one too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_0vnM5IAWU&ab_channel=VivaFrei

The Gad Saad interview earlier that day was good too but I can’t find it.

]]> By: John Guilfoyle https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/31/open-thread-3-31-21/#comment-2548527 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:58:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105718#comment-2548527 And on a related note…both that bird & that dog need to be set free…outside…a long way from the house. If they find their way home…I wouldn’t be responsible for my actions.

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