So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I favor something poetic in naming these teams, say, alliterative nicknames:
Washington Windbags
For Cleveland, following on to my Juvenal quote (that's Juvenal, not juvenile, but some may disagree) rather than "Guardians", "Custodians". Guardians have custody of their wards.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Is "semolina pudding" common in the US?

We have tapioca pudding, which isn't too different, except for the little beady pellets in it.

 

[Harp]

[QUOTE="LizzieMaine, post: 2832291, member: 1I mean, what's more Washington than "the football?" Have the logo be a man in a black suit and sunglasses carrying a big briefcase.

following on to my Juvenal quote (that's Juvenal, not juvenile, but some may disagree) rather than "Guardians", "Custodians". Guardians have custody of their wards.[/QUOTE]

1. Liars or Thieves or Economic Illiterates or, best yet: Fools
_______________

In cases of minor emancipation custody may be rescinded or relaxed.
"Puero reverentia debetur maximum" Juvenal

 

[HudsonHawk]

I just don’t understand why people get so churned up over the Cleveland club changing their nickname. I wouldn’t have chosen “Guardians”, but literally couldn’t care less that they changed it. Maybe we should ask Rocky Colavito what he thinks.

 

[Zombie_61]

They're really missing the boat by not embracing this name -- I mean, what's more Washington than "the football?" Have the logo be a man in a black suit and sunglasses carrying a big briefcase.

Hmmm, I don't know...

This doesn't really say "football" to me, but then I'm not a fan of organized sports anyway.

 

[Touchofevil]

Mountain Monsters and its squad of hillbilly monster hunters. No monsters just fake-looking stereotypical hillbillies. I yet see anything credible or intelligent in my limited viewing. Maybe I need to give it more of a chance, but I do not believe that I will.

 

[Hercule]

Mountain Monsters and its squad of hillbilly monster hunters. No monsters just fake-looking stereotypical hillbillies. I yet see anything credible or intelligent in my limited viewing. Maybe I need to give it more of a chance, but I do not believe that I will.

The real scary part is that they're usually armed to the teeth!

But I'd be willing to bet you will. It'll be a quiet evening with nothing on and you be flipping channels. In passing you'll linger on the show and the next thing you know you'll have been sucked in for the whole episode. That's how it happens. That's how I got sucked into The Osbornes Want to Believe. It's like seeing an accident. You find you just can't turn away. Television evangelists have that effect too.

 

[Touchofevil]

The real scary part is that they're usually armed to the teeth!

But I'd be willing to bet you will. It'll be a quiet evening with nothing on and you be flipping channels. In passing you'll linger on the show and the next thing you know you'll have been sucked in for the whole episode. That's how it happens. That's how I got sucked into The Osbornes Want to Believe. It's like seeing an accident. You find you just can't turn away. Television evangelists have that effect too.

I hope not. So far, I have watched parts of two episodes for no more than 10 minutes before I become so annoyed that I turn the channel. I am sure that I can find less annoying garbage to watch before sitting through a whole episode. Hopefully.

 

[Hercule]

I hope not. So far, I have watched parts of two episodes for no more than 10 minutes before I become so annoyed that I turn the channel. I am sure that I can find less annoying garbage to watch before sitting through a whole episode. Hopefully.

It is one of the more ridiculous shows of its ilk on TV.

My wife works from home three days a week and sets herself up at the kitchen table which overlooks the family room with the TV on the opposite wall. She has the TV on all day, usually on the travel channel and some ghostie show with dramatizations of ghost stories and reactions and commentary by "paranormal" experts. I can easily ignore them but what I find annoying is the photo-booth type format for the "experts" giving the commentary. They look like they were filmed in a closet, just head/upper torso shots with brightly lit faces and reflection of a bright, circular ring light in their eyes.

Oh the depths we have sunken to in the quality of our entertainment!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'd be more concerned about how many people there are in this country who take that kind of stuff seriously. Because, I can guarantee, there are a great many of them. We're living in the 21st Century, but it's starting to have way more in common with the 17th for my comfort.

 

[Hercule]

I'd be more concerned about how many people there are in this country who take that kind of stuff seriously. Because, I can guarantee, there are a great many of them. We're living in the 21st Century, but it's starting to have way more in common with the 17th for my comfort.

Now, now, the seventeenth century wasn't all that bad. I have long had a certain affinity for it. 17th century music was the area of my research, performing, and academic expertise back when I did that, and my family was deeply rooted in 17th century New England society and culture.

So thou would be well advis-ed to be ye careful of thy comments about that which some hold naer and deare!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yeah, I had a 6x-great grandmother in Massachusetts in the 17th Century -- she was hung from the neck until dead by Calvinists in 1692. I think that's where I get my disposition from.

But nevertheless, the current movement in the direction of superstition in this country, whether it's wide-eyed gawping at the "paranormal," or belief in the flat-earth theory, or unscientific "alternative health" cults make me wonder just where we're headed. I await at any time the resurgence of alchemy, "the King's Touch," and the phlogiston theory.

 

[Hercule]

It's the no good do-gooders that scare me.

 

[Harp]

Yeah, I had a 6x-great grandmother in Massachusetts in the 17th Century -- she was hung from the neck until dead by Calvinists in 1692. I think that's where I get my disposition from.

But nevertheless, the current movement in the direction of superstition in this country, whether it's wide-eyed gawping at the "paranormal," or belief in the flat-earth theory, or unscientific "alternative health" cults make me wonder just where we're headed. I await at any time the resurgence of alchemy, "the King's Touch," and the phlogiston theory.

Charlie Romeo Tango

 

[tonyb]

Prevagen, Focus Factor, copper-“infused” socks, etc.

And then there are “alternative” treatments that perhaps might be of some benefit, but for which wildly extravagant claims are made. Cannabis extracts come to mind.

A New Yorker cartoon from 20 or more years ago, when efforts to legalize “medical” uses of marijuana were gaining traction, showed a doctor (white coat, stethoscope draped over his neck) at a desk in his office (diplomas on the wall) seated across from a forlorn looking patient. The caption reads something like: “Your condition is serious, Mr. Smith. Fortunately, I recently scored some excellent weed which should alleviate your symptoms.”

 

[Hercule]

Charlie Romeo Tango

Sadly, there is that. "I wasn't until I was told I was. Now, guess what, I am"

I fear that might be treading close to the line. Anybody watching the Olympics?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Prevagen, Focus Factor, copper-“infused” socks, etc.

And then there are “alternative” treatments that perhaps might be of some benefit, but for which wildly extravagant claims are made. Cannabis extracts come to mind.

A New Yorker cartoon from 20 or more years ago, when efforts to legalize “medical” uses of marijuana were gaining traction, showed a doctor (white coat, stethoscope draped over his neck) at a desk in his office (diplomas on the wall) seated across from a forlorn looking patient. The caption reads something like: “Your condition is serious, Mr. Smith. Fortunately, I recently scored some excellent weed which should alleviate your symptoms.”

The copper-infused Covid masks are the latest manifestation now fleecing the suckers on late-night basic cable. It's instructive to note where you see these types of commercials, and the age groups obviously being targeted by the channels they appear on.

I think the real problem is hyper-individualism metastasized beyond all reason, the mindset that "I always know what's best for me no matter what," because that leads invariably to the assumption that "nobody knows more than *I* do about anything." Fortunes have been made by the cynical exploitation of that attitude, which has always run deep in the American mindset, but which, over the past few decades, has absolutely exploded. The medicine-show hucksters of the 1890s and the "alternative medicine" hucksters today are identical, except today's infomercials omit the blackface comedians and the fake Indian chiefs. Well, some of them have fake shamans, so I guess maybe not even that.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
It was decades ago when the attitudinal kinship between back-to-the-land hippie types and right-wing survivalist types became apparent.

 

[Hercule]

^^^^^
It was decades ago when the attitudinal kinship between back-to-the-land hippie types and right-wing survivalist types became apparent.

You're mixing your metaphors. Right-wing survivalists would just as soon be left alone to do their thing whereas the "back-to-the-land hippie types" would inflict their self righteousness on everybody. That's hardly an attitudinal kinship. It's quite polarized in fact.

 

[Harp]

I think the real problem is hyper-individualism metastasized beyond all reason, the mindset that "I always know what's best for me no matter what," because that leads invariably to the assumption that "nobody knows more than *I* do about anything." Fortunes have been made by the cynical exploitation of that attitude, which has always run deep in the American mindset, but which, over the past few decades, has absolutely exploded.

Epistemic solipsism whether of the individual free choice type or a more collective ordain submissive
demand version dealer's choice game is debatable philosophy. The former brand allows for freedom of choice,
belief, speech, or silence. The latter does not.