Why I will not be voting this November....

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  1. ChapmanF

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    We had a municipal election here once that snuck up on me ... if I remember right, it was an odd year, and also an unexpected month. It was a piece of luck I got word of it in time.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    We generally have elections twice a year....every year.
    I suppose there could be something like a mayoral or county supervisor race that would be called without having an election - but since I've been a poll worker (going on 5 years now) this has not happened in my county.
     
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    Well at least now I know the tactics that kept the votes, and weakened the votes for the opponent. Basically lying and posturing daily. A fake store front.
    In Russia they just come and take you to Siberia, to hold you, then you somehow die. That’s the next level of total control.
    Then in NK the control has extended to the next level, he is a God. We have already seen hints of the NK thing in the USA about the p-elect. Pretty strong hints. It’s hard to believe.
     
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    i'm not as shocked after what happened the first 4 years
     
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    I get it now, I have half of Prius Chat on ignore list..so it looks like this guy is talking to himself.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    I've always found 'ignore' lists in a forum sort of......interesting.
    It's like being a vegan at a Brazilian churrascaria - or a restaurant where they serve you gossamer-thin slices from big hunks of slow-cooked meat on skewers brought to your table....UNTIL you beg them to stop.

    AND YET - the Ignore list IS useful.
    It's like a squelch knob on a CB radio in the 70's - meaning that it filters out unwanted noise.

    In nearly 15 years here at PC (has it BEEN that long???) I have squelched out exactly two people - down in FHOP_P.
    They are what I call 'seagull posters.'
    They land, squawk a lot, crap a LOT - and then leave.
     
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    "has it BEEN that long???" We really need pins to wear that say 'persistence' on one side and 'has no life' on the other.

    "seagull" I suggest the defining feature is coming en masse to where food appears to be available. They don't crap more than others of similar size, but they seem to do so selectively. OK that's two defining features.
     
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    yeah, one got me in disney world, what a mess
     
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    In Helsinki after being hit, I was informed that it meant good luck. But the non-hittees provided no details.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    i had to clean up in a bathroom, and buy a new t shirt. i think it was an anamitronic gull disney uses to sell t shirts.
     
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    They could have mistaken the seagull for a foo bird.
     
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    To extend this long thread further, please explain why the foo bird flies backwards.

    Or let me try in a different way. Birds as survivors of their ancestral dinos are small. Mostly. As such things go. Earth from 250 ish to 66 ish featured large absurdities, Not least; herbivores with > 10 meter (upgoing) necks, These days, giraffes with 1.5 m necks amaze with their blood-pressure control. Nobody has any idea how mega sauropods did that better by six.

    Earth was then permitting overlarge critters, vegan and predators. I claim this disallowed intellectual development. Our Chicxulub impact made things anew, and not every bioplanet will have had such a bad/good/timely thing.

    But returning to birds, they are now mostly non-threat-small and can do little more than dropping uric acid on us. But for those with eyes to see, they tell interesting stories.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    I think that's a little cruel.
    Fat vegans may not be much fun to be around but they can be smart too.
     
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    I wish elect supporters could say President Biden won. I know elect doesn’t want them to even do that little thing. If on his staff, they would be fired by saying or writing President Biden won. Total control. At least they should join in on the American experiment and go by its Constitution.
     
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    I may not have known the foo bird does that.

    There seem to be more reports of the Goofus bird exhibiting that behavior. However, at least one mention by Jay Bryan Nash suggests the Foo-Foo bird may fly that way, and for the same reason, apparently, as the Goofus.

    I don't know how closely related, if at all, the Foo-Foo bird is to the foo.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Foo birds have a....um.....'natural enemy.'
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    Maybe because the "fixtures" are kind of asking to be dumped on.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Blame the victim..... :ROFLMAO: