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Why wait?

One look at his mom and it suddenly seems very possible.

Bro.... three words for you: Mahogany Smoked Meats. They're based in Bishop, but they ship throughout California. This deserves its own thread. Get to it Doomy.

It looks like he already has an asshole on his plate...

I can't remember the last time I heard Thundarr the Barbarian...

I don't think any electric will do as well as a safety razor with lather soap after a shower. However, this 9000 series Norelco has shaved a lot closer than I expected and well better than the one I had when I was first shaving. The thing is, I can shave dry with the electric while with the safety I couldn't shave even with foam unless I first softened the stubble in the shower. I also needed to a balm afterward to stave off the rash that I don't need now. I'm only two months in, so time will tell what the electric blades are like when they're dull. At least for the time being I don't look like I'm homeless four days out of the week.

That was my last chance to get Liv Tyler to fall in love with me.

Medieval popes were actually pope/princes, something that was stamped out with the unification of Italy. We’re not going back to that thanks to the demise of feudalism and the resulting disenfranchisement of lesser nobility. A bigger danger is the rise of a heretical pope: ironically, there’s a greater chance of a chief cleric who’s ultra orthodoxy is destructive to canon and, consequently church structure, than a cleric who’s radically progressive. Francis isn’t really doing anything special. He was tasked with rebuilding a church devastated by the pedophilia scandal, and that always meant expanding inclusion. Gay people aren’t going to disappear, poverty and migration (the two most central themes in Jesus’ teachings) are at all time highs, and women hold more power and influence than at any other time in history. Through all that and despite two millennia worth of ecumenical precedent, church liturgy has very little to say about against these issues, so Francis only needed to do incremental revisions to the teachings to make a huge difference. I say he’s modestly liberal because two hot button issues in modernizing the Christian faith, namely abortion and women in the clergy, had virtually no headway despite the fact the Gospel doesn’t mention the former and there is copious examples of holy women showing leadership in the same. it speaks how to what would traditionally be heresy has become mainstream in the greater Christian community. In particular, singling out migrants openly flaunts Jesus’ teachings (and to a certain extent Judaic teachings as well), yet there is a strong presence of nationalism within Baptist congregations. Troublingly, there are signs of that nationalism showing up in the more conservative cults within the Roman Catholic congregation, particularly when it comes to abortion and women’s rights. It suggests that any new schism that might appear in the next conclave will be between a moderate faction and an ultra conservative faction that would “heretically” interpret the Gospel in an exclusive way.

As modestly liberal as Francis has been, he’s been getting almost unrelenting blowback for basically not being a sanctimonious twat. I don’t really see how a more liberal pope is possible, which is depressing to say the least.

Last time he said that, it was a surprise for him.

I used to get really lazy about shaving too, but I got an electric shaver for Christmas so now I shave more than once a week.

Are you surprised Trump is taking this new tack on Zelenskyy being a dictator who apparently started the war without attacking Russia?

This unnecessary sentence at the end of your drivel is a sure sign that you're not self aware enough to know what you're talking about. The things is, Hamas and the Mujihadeen Brigades are butchers and monsters who deserve to be called out for what they are. Israel chose to respond to savagery with its own savagery and that is also unacceptable. The fact you can't see what fascism in your own country looks like easily explains why, instead of making the important distinction between what Palestininan terrorists do and what the IDF is doing, you chose to ignore the latter's deeds. Just because an atrocities by one side can trigger atrocities on the other, doesn't mean either side has any vindication for acting barbarous an inhumane. I would suspect that this delusion you live in has far deeper tendrils than just your trash takes on Trumpism and the Israeli Conflict.

I'll bet your hair looks better too.

It's not just you.

So, 1975 was an ok year?

I pissed him off that way, once.

You could just sous vide your balls. Might involve waterproof tape and some severe rashes around crotch, but that’s a small price for exquisite flavor.

You would think someone would have come up with a vessel specifically designed to allow men to dip their ball sacs into an icy cool bath comfortably and with dignity….

It literally is a dumpster fire.

@wacky1980 - this right here is why having a bunch of Musk kids looking at your bank info is a recipe for disaster.

I don’t know what drama you got working @Insipid, so I’ll leave you to it.

If there’s a pardon, you can bet Musk will be asked to pay handsomely for it.

You aren’t a f****** a******. This isn’t really analogous to those two either, but it is analogous to the studio system of the ‘30s through the early ‘60s, the Golden Age of Hollywood. A great deal of the movies that we consider iconic now were the product of a one sided system where studio bosses held absolute power.

Because it’s not always as simple as losing your job. In theory, there’s no difference between resigning, getting laid off, or getting fired for cause - you’re still without a job, and in none of the options does your employer have to explain to the public why you are out. Each option however comes with different rights or lack thereof. In particular people who resign retain rights to things like government pensions or legacy health care benefits, based on what they’ve accrued. They also have the first opportunity to control the message around their leaving a job as opposed to the employer having that opportunity when firing an employee. Its about control over the process beyond the end result.