barneypiccolo
@barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
Well, have fun.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
SOMEBODY should tell you not to!
- Comment on UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham Palace 2 weeks ago:
He’ll make sure to schedule a private party with Prince Andrew and a couple of 12 year olds.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
Several years back, I went to the store at the beginning of summer to get some foam pool noodles for the pool. I couldn’t find them anywhere, not even Walmart.
The next spring, they were everywhere, but they all included a tag or sticker that read “Not to be inserted rectally.”
So we had to go a summer without pool noodles so the government regulators could protect us against some butt stuff some weirdo tried.
- Comment on Casual wear 2 weeks ago:
Giggity, I guess?
- Comment on Alley cat lunch 2 weeks ago:
Go back before smoking sections, and it was the Wild West. Smoking was the default environment. Non-smokers were expected to remove themselves if they were bothered by it.
At the grocery store there would be a line of gumball machines for kids, right alongside a cigarette machine.
I remember being in a doctor’s office as a kid, and having the doctor light up during the exam!
In many families, both parents would smoke in the car with the windows rolled up, and kids in the backseat, with no car seats or seat belts.
Nobody asked permission to smoke after a meal, they’d just light up, even if others were still eating. I remember my Dad getting offended when I asked him not to light his pipe at the dinner table while I was still eating.
People smoked at every table in any restaurant.
In offices, people smoked at their desks, until offices started having smoking rooms, and eventually chased them outside. Today I see workplaces where smoking isn’t allowed anywhere on the premises.
I worked in record stores starting in 1977, and there was always a standup ashtray at the intersections of aisles, filled with sand. At the end of the night, while the manager was counting the till, one of the clean up jobs was taking a sieve to each ashtray, and sifting out the cigarette butts. Every store I worked in had ashtrays, until I became a store manager, and banned smoking in my stores.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 weeks ago:
I’m down for that. I could be satisfied with only $50 million.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 weeks ago:
If AI is so productive, we should have Unuversal Basic Income, and free college/vocational education for anyone who wants it.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. It’s not young vs old, black vs white, left vs right, etc. The ONLY enemy are the WEALTHY, and we will never have peace in this nation and this world until we force the Sociopathic Oligarchs and the Transnational Corporations to serve our people, our nation, and the world, and not just themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How you doin’?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Are you seriously asking that about a 20/24 yo couple getting into bed for the entire night? Were you ever that age?
If sex was off the table, I wouldn’t even go through with it. What’s the point? I’d just rather sleep alone, and avoid the entire night of blue balls.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nobody wants to get frisky with the parents in the next room. Grow up.
- Comment on Crikey 2 weeks ago:
Good suggestions. They actually like to get me little guitar stuff, or music books, I just have to steer it to them, so I put it all into an Amazon list. This year, I’m going to direct them to Stillwater, and give Amazon less business.
- Comment on Crikey 3 weeks ago:
That’s a good thing. You don’t remember guys walking down the street, or getting on the subway, carrying a boom box on their shoulder, loudly blasting distorted music you don’t care to hear.
Now they just pump it directly into their ears. Let them destroy their own hearing, not everyone else’s. They make Bluetooth speakers if you need to broadcast your music to a group.
- Comment on Crikey 3 weeks ago:
When I was young, I had a bucket list of all the fun gadgets I wanted - a camera, a video camera, a nice stereo system, a portable stereo system, a car stereo, lots of records, a TV, a VCR, a computer, etc. Making a Christmas list was easy, even if I knew I would never get 99% of it.
Now I get asked what I want for Christmas, and I have no idea what to say. My phone includes nearly everything I’ve ever wanted, including stuff I never thought of. Give me my phone, my guitar, a sandwich, and a bottle of water, and I’m pretty much set for life.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
Name 5
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
The ultimate gateway drug. EVERY addict of any kind started by drinking water. They should ban that shit.
- Comment on New prank! 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s fascinating that the powder knows how to work only on those over 35 years old. That’s some fine engineering work.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
Not the hockey trophy.
It’s one of those big 40 oz insulated cups with a handle, lid, and straw. Put in some ice and cold water, and it will stay cold for 24 hours. They were made famous by the Stanley Tool company. The Stanley ones are about $45, but now there are lots of cheaper knockoffs. I got mine at Aldi for $13.
They’ve become an entire industry in themselves. They even make accessories for them. I saw a short news story on the wildly decorated house of a woman who designed a special purse that had two compartments, one for her stuff, and one for her big tumbler. She made them in all sorts of color combinations, and had them all displayed on shelves in her basement office. They’ve become extremely popular, and have made her rich.
Get one. They work great. I carry mine with me everywhere I go. When I leave a fast food place, I always fill my empty cup with ice, and dump it in my tumbler when I get in the car.
I’ll bet that’s way more about the “Stanley Cup” tumbler than you thought existed.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
My favorite beverage is a glass of ice water. Friends are always offering a beer or a soda, and all I want is a tall glass of ice water.
Now I carry a big Stanley cup of ice water everywhere I go.
I know two people who refuse to drink water, and even say that they HATE water.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t eat cats, that’s gross.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
Giggity!
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 4 weeks ago:
HitlerPig is obsessed by ratings, polls, popularity, etc., so seeing these kinds of crowds demonstrating against him, when his own birthday party, in only one city, had empty seats, has got to be making him crazy.
I’ll give $100 to the first journalist who asks, on camera in a White House press conference “Mr. President, what do you think of all the enormous demonstrations against you, when nobody came to your birthday party?”
I just want to see him cry.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 4 weeks ago:
He wasn’t.
- Comment on Alternatively 4 weeks ago:
How many parents are going to have to get their kids to figure out how to open it?
How many more are just going to toss it aside, and say, “Pitter patter, let’s get at 'er!”
- Comment on Peak male form 4 weeks ago:
Without a snappy stache, he’s got no shot at all.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 4 weeks ago:
They have “kit cars,” which are all the parts you need to build a fancy vehicle on the chassis and drive train of a normal car. When I was young, Ford Pintos were common chassis for kit cars.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 5 weeks ago:
Police forces deliberately filter out intelligent people because A) the job is mostly really boring, and smart people don’t like boring jobs, and 2) Smart people won’t put up with the open racism, corruption, and general bullshit of cops.
Ever notice on the news, that the local police chief always sounds like a swaggering, arrogant dumbass? It’s because he was promoted from a professional gene pool that was compromised from the start. He’s was just the biggest arrogant swaggering dumbass out of big pool of arrogant swaggering dumbasses.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 5 weeks ago:
I’m from a US state where we don’t pump our own gas.
New Jersey or Oregon?
- Comment on That's a good question 5 weeks ago:
I’m a musician, and I can explain music in such fine detail that it would sound like a foreign language to a civilian, the same as your physics analogy. Just because the advanced version of a real world concept is beyond the understanding of most people doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
But religion has to stay simple enough that the average rube can understand it well enough to buy into it, and even then, the leaders demand that at some point, you should stop asking questions and just believe based on FAITH, based on what they TELL you, with no evidence at all.
And the book always becomes the backstop - “Because the Bible tells me so” becomes the fallback defense to everything else, as if that simply closes the discussion. The Bible is nothing but a book of confirmation bias justifications for whatever religious leaders demand from us, usually money. The original accounts were written by barely civilized humans without the same demands for evidence, logic, historical accuracy, etc. that we demand from modern authors, and then compiled, edited, and promoted by people with an agenda to control the population. The Bible is not evidence, and has no place being cited as a source for religious veracity. Making up a religion, and then writing a book to explain it, is not evidence, it’s a con.
If religion can’t be proven based on actual evidence, without bringing the Bible or Faith into the discussion, then it’s nothing more than mythology, and mythology should not be a consideration when managing this country’s, and the world’s, current problems.