That Bronks clip looks like a surprise assault with a muscular escape followed by a theatrically casual response. Basically, Blackie surprised 'im from behind… It wasn't a clean takedown. I mean, this ain't over.

Sometimes conflicts have to happen, and everybody knows it even if some try to deny it afterwards.

The 90's were really good, y'know? It woulda been great to get through life without a 9/11, but here we are.

Same with … There've been warnings for years, but we can always hope the math is on our side. Until it's not. (The crops thing is horrifying and two million is a big number.)

In late January I had the worst cold of the last fifty years, maybe all the years. There've been perhaps ten or twenty across a lifetime, and they've always faded after three or five days on a steady diet of cheeseburgers and cab. Three weeks into this one I went to the doc and he hammered it with A-B's. Four days later I was back to my full athletic & erotic splendor. It was glorious.

We're going to miss these drugs.

"SCREEEEEEEEEEAM! White people are so racist! They think it's okay to call black and brown people who happen to be criminals 'animals'!"

Race has nothing to do with it. If someone is a member of a violent gang who very recently was responsible for decapitating a man, then literally tearing his heart out, I will call them much worse than "animals."

If someone is approving of a culture that throws gay people off of buildings and publicly flogs women for not wearing the hijab, I will call them things much worse than "animal."

If you're a gay man who invites other gay men back to your apartment to have sex, kill and eat their bodies (not necessarily in that order), I will call you something much worse than "animal."

Wrong thread, Patrick, I'd guess.

Amy suggests she has no instinct for self-preservation. Too bad.

Patrick, I sympathize.

When I heard about the home invasion/slaughter in Cheshire, CT (it was in 2007 and even got mentioned in Sam Harris' book "Free Will," but somehow, I didn't hear about it until at least 2009), I raised the subject in another forum and I referred to the murderers as scumbags, because, I said: "I refuse to call them animals, as some people do - even predatory animals are far more decent than this."

That is, very few animals kill for fun. They just need to survive.

Not to mention (this is from George Carlin):

"Most animals, when fighting one of their own, will show aggressive behavior, but very little hostility or intention to harm. And when the outcome of the struggle is inevitable, the losing animal will signal its defeat by exposing its most vulnerable part to the victor, affording it the opportunity to finish the kill. The victor then walks away without inflicting further harm. These are the creatures we feel superior to."

> instinct for self-
> preservation.

Among the most self-reliant women I've known in Los Angeles.

Lenona, it's a nice sentiment, but there are few intra-species battles with higher mammals where a victor will pass up a shot at some easy protein. And within many species (kangaroo, moose, etc.) the loser is often so wounded that he won't find a comfortable place in even the lesser social structures.

"Red in tooth & claw," they call that...I had little use for Carlin after seeing how much better Pryor was.

Like that.

Mansplain' on aisle 6.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-04-07

Lenona, it's a nice sentiment, but there are few intra-species battles with higher mammals where a victor will pass up a shot at some easy protein.
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Um, explain. I've heard, time and again, that if a predator isn't hungry or feeling threatened, in all likelihood, it won't attack.

Example: Sharks tend to feed between dusk and dawn. Not so much in daylight hours.

And lions certainly don't attack when they've already eaten and don't have cubs to feed. (OK, so they're also known for being lazy - but they do need to conserve energy.)

Time & time again isn't a cite… Name your shark species. Time & again sounds like a fable. The natural world is a competitive, unpleasant place.

A funny one before going to bed:

https://twitter.com/trenchalbum/status/1107362470518292481

Radwaste: Wrong thread, Patrick, I'd guess.

No, I intended this, though I do the relevance to the other thread that Amy posted. It did occur to me that this thread could just as easily go in Amy's topical thread.

What I found especially interesting was the fact that she (supposedly) saw some white people on Facebook justifying referring to black and brown violent criminals as "animals."

I'm guessing (since she didn't make us privy to the actual conversation) that this group was defending Trump's comment referring to MS-13 members as "animals."

Given the gruesome murders they've been known to commit, "animals" is arguably too mild a term to describe MS-13.

Ironically, she says in the very same tweet that "white people are scary." So, because a conversation that a group of (presumably) white people are having on Facebook, this justifies a blanket statement describing all white people as "scary"?

Gee, that sounds rather racist to me.

Crid, would you mind telling me which predators - besides maybe well-fed housecats and weasels - DO kill for fun and don't bother to eat their prey or give it to their families?

I even have my doubt about weasels. They need to eat a lot, given their metabolism.

My point is, I've never heard anyone say what you did.

As bad as that Patrick it is also hilariously ungrammatical. Mind I'm probably the last person that should call anyone out on poor spelling and grammar. As Crid noted my punctuation looks like I was trained by a seizuring moose. But ...

"I spend most of my life being embarrassed about being a white people."

At least I am aware I am a person and not a people. Don't know if she's really fat or has multiple personalities.

"I’m an old white guy who used to be an evangelical. The most dangerous group in America are old white evangelicals."

How is that for a brag. 'Fear me for I am dangerous!' Maybe add a ghost emoji next time.

As you've said Patrick there is no talking with these people. They are immune to logic or facts. The only rational course is to tell them to fuck off.

"The most dangerous group in America are old white evangelicals."

If we're going to quibble grammar, this sentence also sets off alarms.

• "The most dangerous group" -- note, the subject of the sentence is the group and "group" is a singular noun
• "in America" -- a prepositional phrase used to describe that group - to be treated as an adjective
• "are" -- a plural verb being used with a singular noun, "group."
• "old white evangelicals" -- the object of the verb

The sentence should have been written:
"The most dangerous group in America is old white evangelicals."

"The group is" - and not "The group are."

"Are" as the verb would have worked if the author had written, "The most dangerous people in America are old white evangelicals."

OR "Old white evangelicals are the most dangerous group in America."

In truth, going from a singular "group" to a plural "evangelicals" is going to be awkward, no matter what.

That is, if we're going to start quibbling grammar and/or spelling; which most of us generally let slide due to the fact that correcting grammar and spelling on the Internet would leave a person "busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest" and open to the dreaded charge of "grammar nazi."

English is a weird language. It's Norman French, Latin, Old Nordic, ancient Saxon, and more than a few Britannic aboriginal languages, all squeezed into Latin rules.

I don't think I saw any of those racist tweets that were grammatically correct Conan. But they 'know' they are right and you will never convince them otherwise.