Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Feli from Germany"
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I adopted the electric kettle after being abroad for many years. Beats heating a room by using the stove.
Don't like drip coffee as much, but I do use my combination k-cup and loose grounds coffeemaker, when I'm not using my percolator. With a French press as backup. I like my coffee...
Don't have the soda water machine, no use for one myself, but if company came over, I'd have to pick one up.
I'm also a US rarity, in that I drink water straight from the tap. I also avoid sweet drinks.
On my to get list, a shoe horn. Over 60, not as flexible as I once was... Grew up with shoe horns anyway.
Used to have a half dozen measuring sticks, I largely now use a tape rule or the side of my knife, which has a imperial and metric ruler on it. Remember, measure once, cut 279 times, then get the board stretcher.
I can confound you though, I also still remember how to use a slide rule. I grew up using both.
The slide rule keeping me out of trouble, as I'd need to take off my shoes to count to 20 and once I hit 21, I'd get arrested.
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@nomore6167 as a wise SCOTUS judge said, "I cannot properly describe pornography, but I know it when I see it", leaving the window wide open, when previously prurient interest was a key qualifier.
So, some literally consider anatomy books for physician students pornography and should be destroyed, so doctors can treat things that they literally are prohibited from knowing about. Saw that in other countries and suggested here.
And if the body is obscene, then God obviously fucked up, which declaring so by declaring a body obscene is heresy.
I tangle preachers in their socks always. Despite somewhat coarse language, I am an ordained minister.
One preaches to the audience in their language, not some foreign tongue.
And speaking in tongues was plainly, in all biblical versions, described as being understood by the listener as spoken in their language, not interpreted by their ventriloquist.
Yeah, the State Department has repeatedly declined my job applications, which is an utter mystery to me.
For those whose sarcasmometers burned out, I have a pallet of them, let me know and I'll shoot a replacement along.
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@rickdesper don't read the useless news story, the SCOTUS site has the full decision available for reading.
He did indeed punt, for a well reasoned and described reason, as was proven in the case presentation itself. Moral grounds shift both geographically and culturally over time, so what's pornography to some Florida illiterate soccer mom is fine art for the entirety of the world.
Can't turn to history, as fig leaves were added at one point a century after the artwork was accepted by the same church. Can't turn to culture, when we have mothers telling other mothers to feed a baby in the same bathroom they'd refuse to eat or feed their children in.
Still, there is a perfect, 100% effective solution. Eliminate every human life on the planet. Then, everyone will get along.
Yep, even more idiotic.
Hence, the punt, as case law has to stand for a long frigging time, potentially, for centuries. And can you define pornography that would even be accepted by half of the community in which you live?
I sure as hell can't and I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle and had a booster using a dictionary.
Or even try to explain to a computer what pornography is, as opposed to art or medical illustration for educational purposes.
I can use boolean and regular expressions to describe the entire solar system first, not even come close to that task.
But, totally defective, a SCOTUS Justice is an almighty God, with all powers and descriptions readily available, despite time and culture shifts, by pure, distilled whammy.
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@Winona493 yeah, that's well over the distance between Munich and Seville. While a day trip to Paris might not be out of the question, Seville, that's more of a holiday trip, not a day trip.
That said, I lived outside of Philadelphia. Our school did have a trip to Broadway for a theater visit (odd, given we have dramatic arts in Philly), that was an organized day trip and a bit under 100 miles (160 km).
But, the US has a thing with unaccompanied minors traveling, it happens, it's usually a bit exceptional, as we're quite overprotective of our children.
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