An ideal police force is full of Andy’s. They seem to be full of Barney’s.

A backpacker is traveling through Ireland when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby pub. The only other person at the bar is an older man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Irish accent:

“You see this bar? I built this bar with my own bare hands. I cut down every tree and made the lumber myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me McGreggor the bar builder? No.”

He continued “Do you see that stone wall out there? I built that wall with my own bare hands. I found every stone and placed them just right through the rain and the mud, but do they call me McGreggor the wall builder? No.”

“Do ya see that pier out there on the lake? I built that pier with my own bare hands, driving each piling deep into ground so that it would last a lifetime. Do they call me McGreggor the pier builder? No.”

“But ya fuck one goat…”

He quoted “Jesus wept.” Hardly inappropriate.

This is one of the funniest things I have read all day.

That would be unequivocally bad.

They did target Zelensky, right at the start. The special forces were surrounding the compound he was in.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/russian-forces-reportedly-came-close-to-capturing-zelenskiy-during-first-hours-of-invasion

Travel other places. The world is big.

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I had to stop when I started flying a lot. Had so many knives confiscated…

It was about violation of guest right. Lot invited the angels in and gave them bread. When the crowd demanded to violate them, it was better to offer his daughters, because they were his (property), and not his guests. They refused even that, which is when the angels declared that the city was doomed.

Exactly! Oil isn’t dinosaur juice. They lube up with dead plants. Don’t make it seem glamorous.

It is so much worse than that.

I spend my time researching the literature on a topic so that I can spend my time and energy writing a grant. It probably won’t get funded.

If it does, I get to do a bunch of work. It might involve travel, where I will do everything at minimum expense to save enough money for the coming lab work.

I will spend significant time getting the samples analyzed, spending most of the grant money. Then I will come up with a logical way to interpret the data.

I will spend more time sending a document around to coauthors. This may take months, or even years if the coauthors fight.

We eventually submit to a journal. It gets rejected.

We rewrite and submit again. A few months later, congratulations, you get to publish. Money please.

I work for the money to do the work, I work for the writeup, I fight for the acceptance, and I have to pay to publish.

It’s a stupid system.

Not sure, but I think it is a joke about him abandoning his wife, who is a person of color, to have a fling with this woman, who is white. Could be off.

Easy, just have to throw it hard enough.

Baking cookies from scratch is easy and cheap. Here’s NASA’s recipe: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sunspot-cookies/en/

Possibly. He was a weird dude.

Half your age + 7 is a reasonable formula for determining creep factor.

What an interesting sample! I hope the team took a bit of time with it.

The blast blasted blubber beyond believable bounds.

How very Himmler of him.