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[RE]

I did all my traveling around in my youth, there's nowhere I wish to go I haven't already been.  My love of sailing yachts comes from their portability, the fact you can take your home with you wherever you go.  That's what I liked about trucking also.  It's a degree of freedom you can have otherwise unattainable in our society.  You just need a way to earn a living wherever you go, which I have always been able to do.

I find plenty to do exploring the world of ideas, I'm not constricted by physical limitations.  I can be in a prison cell and just debate myself if need be to stay entertained.  This also gives me a degree of freedom otherwise unattainable.  The fact I have physical limitations just gives me more time and more freedom to think.  In that respect, it's a bonus.

Would I rather have both legs and be living on a sailboat instead of buzzing around the gulag on my EV wheelchair?  Of course, but  that's not how things worked out.  I also could have been dead already, many times over.  As things worked out, overall I had a very interesting life without having to compromise my principles too often.  Now I have plenty of time to kick back and contemplate the human condition.  I don't go hungry and I have a roof over my head.  I have no debts and no current crisis hitting me or my neighborhood.  I'm in a lot better shape than a lot of USAID workers right now, that's for sure.  You can save your pity for them, I don't need it.  Life is quite OK here overall.

RE

[comrade simba]

I'm entertaining myself watching the growth of Russia, China,and ROW as murica disintegrates. "Doomering" is sooo last decade. Focus on the positive, nyuk nyuk nyuk!

[RE]

nyuk nyuk nyuk!

Is this supposed to be 3 Stooges humor?

RE

[TDoS]

I did all my traveling around in my youth, there's nowhere I wish to go I haven't already been.  My love of sailing yachts comes from their portability, the fact you can take your home with you wherever you go.  That's what I liked about trucking also.  It's a degree of freedom you can have otherwise unattainable in our society.  You just need a way to earn a living wherever you go, which I have always been able to do.

RE

Yeah, and you sure made a well documented and quite fair response to this disappear without the normal gloating. It was a good one wasn't it?

Sorry if it hit that close to home, the proof being in the radio silence response and speed at which it was disappeared. When you opened the door with your honest answer, I couldn't avoid responding in the same way. But with nice historical and personal photography to make my point. You could have left all the cool photos.

Sorry if it hurt your feelings. I'll try and be more discreet about your sensitivities on this matter in the future.

[K-Dog]

I did all my traveling around in my youth, there's nowhere I wish to go I haven't already been.  My love of sailing yachts comes from their portability, the fact you can take your home with you wherever you go.  That's what I liked about trucking also.  It's a degree of freedom you can have otherwise unattainable in our society.  You just need a way to earn a living wherever you go, which I have always been able to do.

RE

Yeah, and you sure made a well documented and quite fair response to this disappear without the normal gloating. It was a good one wasn't it?

Sorry if it hit that close to home, the proof being in the radio silence response and speed at which it was disappeared. When you opened the door with your honest answer, I couldn't avoid responding in the same way. But with nice historical and personal photography to make my point. You could have left all the cool photos.

Sorry if it hurt your feelings. I'll try and be more discreet about your sensitivities on this matter in the future.

I'll let RE put you in the cooler.  I'll just say fuck you.  RE lived in Brazil and traveled in Europe.  If he figures he has seen enough he has poetic licence for :

I did all my traveling around in my youth, there's nowhere I wish to go I haven't already been.

Where do you get the idea that either of us has anything to prove to you.  You need not answer.  I'm being rhetorical.

Is there anything to you besides being a total asshole?  That question is not rhetorical.  If you can't answer because RE has you in the cooler, that is fine.

[RE]

Let's not forget Australia, Hawaii, Tahiti, and Moorea. Also Peru and Argentina.

1 post and back in the cooler. 

RE

[TDoS]

I'll let RE put you in the cooler.  I'll just say fuck you.  RE lived in Brazil and traveled in Europe.  If he figures he has seen enough he has poetic licence for :

I am aware of his early years as a young Prince of the Illuminati. And you must not have read what I wrote, because the point wasn't about traveling....it was all about the experience gained in life as opposed to sticking with the theory,and confusing the value of the latter with the former.

Come on K-Dog. I didn't write it to be subtle. Just well documented, the difference between the two.

Where do you get the idea that either of us has anything to prove to you.  You need not answer.  I'm being rhetorical.

Of course I can answer. You missed the entire point apparently. This isn't about PROVING anything, it is about the difference between people talking about a thing, and how that is different from the people who actually DO the thing.

Like you, you are highly capable of getting software reconfigured and running and doing things, some of which it was probably never designed for. You have experience in the doing of a thing. And undoubtedly other things. So does RE. He knows how to drive a big truck. I can theorize about that all I'd like, but I don't make the mistake of thinking off of his stories of the road I can jump into the cab and start truckin! RE does not appear to share this idea. He talked to some biker dudes he met in the Big City, and he believes it imbued him with not only the knowledge they had, but knowledge equivalent with the experience.

I just happen to disagree, and happen to have some nice Laguna Seca pictures to demonstrate that wearing leather and talking about riding a motorcycle just might not be the same thing as going hammer down on a international caliber road course.

Is there anything to you besides being a total asshole?

Of course. But I can't talk about professional qualifications and accolades because it makes people feel bad, or the kids, or apparently demonstrate I know how to ride a motorcycle let alone provide the pictures...so what is left? You interpret it as asshole, but that just means you disagree with me mostly. I'm not like you and RE in the least, and we sure haven't ended up at the same place, this late in our lives.

That question is not rhetorical.  If you can't answer because RE has you in the cooler, that is fine.

But of course. Just as RE enunciated, he can happily exist in an echo chamber of his own making. Having been around his forums and web adventures for coming up on 2 decades now, it isn't a surprise that his internet journey is the story of even decreasing audiences and user counts until we arrive...here. Just a couple geriatrics banning other geriatrics who don't tend to fit their model.

Oh yeah, and Cool Hand Luke and Paul Newman is certainly an accolade for someone like me...as my own philosophy is completely opposite of REs, and Paul Newman is just COOL.

[RE]

...so what is left?

Energy,Economics, the Economy, Politics, Trump. collapse related newz stories, aka the topics this forum is dedicated to.  There's a whole list of categories on the homepage Kdog recently reorganized to pick from.

The above post violated at least 2 of the numerous rules I have dropped down on posting etiquette to try and keep the board on topic, but I'm going to give you a little rope here.  See if you can keep from hanging yourself for a change.

RE

[K-Dog]

...so what is left?

Energy,Economics, the Economy, Politics, Trump. collapse related newz stories, aka the topics this forum is dedicated to.  There's a whole list of categories on the homepage Kdog recently reorganized to pick from.

The above post violated at least 2 of the numerous rules I have dropped down on posting etiquette to try and keep the board on topic, but I'm going to give you a little rope here.  See if you can keep from hanging yourself for a change.

RE

Sure, let TDos warm his ass by the fire for a while.  He spends so much time in the cooler he must be freezing.  I agree, at least 2 basic rules of etiquette and basic humanity are violated.  But let's see what he does next.

* I have now recovered all the messages in the database.  There are a number of topics which were recovered but which can't be seen yet.  They are in a staging area waiting to be filed into appropriate boards.  They are visible to me and other admins and moderators.  It is an interesting situation, while some damage has yet to be repaired things are actually better off here now than they were before I crashed our database.
  And, after two days of filing I need a break.

[monsta666]

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Famous rats disposed off
David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak



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