Originally Posted by PaulBarnard
Originally Posted by deflave
...group of hobbyist on earth.

I hate when people who ride a bicycle call it a sport. It's an activity or a hobby. Just as dumb as when shooters call shooting a gun a "sport."


My late pheasant hunting buddy from England had a Boeing fellowship and claimed he could spell and define any word I could pronounce in the Oxford English dictionary.
He was adamant that we were not "hunting" but "shooting". He said the word "hunting" was reserved for fox hunting with horses and hounds.
I ignored his exclusive use of the word "hunting".

During covid my grandkids had a nanny with the prefered pronouns of they and them. She had purple hair on top and shaved sides of her head.
I ignored her pronouns. When I referred to her in he 3rd person, I called her "that fat monster bitch".


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps