The most “peaceful” war in history in terms of destruction and casualties? The "war" between Denmark and Canada which has been going on since 1984. The two countries, specifically Greenland and Canada (the Danes are deputies), are 'fighting' over a small, uninhabitable island called Hans Island. The war goes like this: In turns, both countries send their military to the small island in order to hoist their own flag, and to remove their counterpart's one. Over and over again. The Danes always leave a bottle of Danish liquor for the Canadians, and the Canadians leave a bottle of whiskey for the Danes. If that's not the right way to resolve a conflict, I don't know what is.
Planning a little road trip. :)
Same tree...throughout all four seasons.
Let me show you....this. :)
Trump claimed 20 professional climbers tested the border wall and could not climb it.
Here is a climber on a replica of the Trump Border Wall, climbing it in 27 seconds.
Sex keeps me sane. Our world is simply nuts, bonkers, wacko, bizarre, it moves so fast. Technology changes by the second. New inventions, discoveries, trends, fashion, music, medicine, scandals, issues, slang, movies, ideologies, religions, and on and on. And even though people keep making new "sex" related items, sex robots, dildos, virtual reality stuff, porn, restraints, chastity cages out of plastic type blended substances...the core aspect remains the same, as it has since the dawn of time. Hence the photos below, statues, carvings, etchings, cave drawings, sculptures, whatever...done by our great/great/X/a billion...ancestors, 1000's of years ago...having sex and enjoying each others bodies, they way God/Goddess/Mother Nature intended. That timeless connection, that continuity, its sort of a grounding emotion as it makes us feel that we belong to our history, our planet, our souls are in sync with our contemporaries, and those that preceded us...if that makes sense. :)
(Some differences between Denmark and the USA. Found Online.)
What is socially acceptable in Denmark that would be horrifying in the U.S.?
Sex. All types. Straight, gay, different, fetish, whatever. Nobody gives a crap who you are having sex with. I have encountered a lot of Danes who are not against talking about it either. People have sex, that’s how we all got here, so it is considered natural.
Young people spending the night together. I was shocked at how my wife told me about her high school boyfriend staying with her regularly when they were in their mid to late teens. This is common throughout the country, from poor to wealthy. It was a surprise, but oddly enough, when you educate kids about sex, unplanned pregnancies happen a lot less often.
Nudity. There are breasts on advertisements on the sides of buses. It’s pretty rad. Nobody is scared of nipples here. I used the word “scared” in the sense that seeing a human body doesn’t make people here uncomfortable.
Swearing. Kids say the “F” word all the time. It doesn’t mean anything to them, so they aren’t expected to be all shocked when they hear it or say it. There isn’t a giant stigma attached to a word that is meaningless. It’s like someone in the States saying “bloody”, it doesn’t mean anything. It carries a different weight in the rest of the English-speaking world.
Kids are hovered over less. We send our 9 year old across the road to a huge apartment complex because it has half a dozen playgrounds and let him make his way home. Nobody is going to call the police because there is an unattended child playing. . on a playground.
Babies go outside to nap. Today it rained two inches. Literally. For three hours, our rain-cover enshrouded carriage held our bundled up baby. . . It was 34 degrees Fahrenheit, +1 C. Our baby sleeps in the yard at his nursery. There is a fence, but no lock between the waiting world and the sleeping infants. *NOTE* The babies are bundled up incredibly well. This concept blew my mind for years, but my son has never been cold or wet when I have gotten him out of his pram. This equipment is designed to do this, so chill out, they’re safe.
More sex. . . Dating is often done after sex. Why bother waiting around, getting to know someone, making friends, then realizing you enjoy their company, and realize you are completely sexually incompatible? Bone first. Waste less time.
*NOTE* I’m old and married. I didn’t get to do this stuff. But I know it is going on because my employees talk about it, my younger friends talk about it, and are a lot are kids from the richest neighborhood in Denmark, so it’s not just “my neighborhood”.
*NOTE 2* Get off your high horses. I don’t know if you know, but Tinder is one of the most used apps in America, and your kids are on it. They’re hiding from you what people here do in plain sight.
*NOTE 3* I recognize that sexual compatibility can be gained over shared experience and time and bla, bla, bla, whatever. I don’t care. I am stating how things are done here by the single folks. Not making a proclamation on its morality. The question is “What is socially acceptable in Denmark that would be horrifying in the U.S.?” So I am answering that question.
More swearing. Radio. TV. Doesn’t matter, people aren’t scared of words. Danes and Europeans believe freedom is a two way street. You can say what you want, and I can turn the station if I want. Weird how that works, huh? Public intoxication is pretty well tolerated. The signs on the train say “no begging, no playing music, no smoking, but drink… responsibly .The caveat: You DO NOT drink and drive in Denmark. You will lose friends for even admitting to having done so. If you get caught, chances are good, you won’t have any friends left. Young drinking age. Beer and wine is available at 16, liquor at 18. There is no home drinking age. If you are ten, or whatever, your parents can serve you in the home.
Naked kids. Nobody puts a bathing suit on kids under 3 or so. There’s no freaking out about naked kids. This is still weird to me, but when in Rome...
Instagram influencers are a joke, pathetic, a fraud, a scam and disgusting. The news is full of articles of people going broke trying to live a “jet set” lifestyle being influencers. Other articles are about people getting depressed comparing themselves to heavily, heavily, heavily, edited and photo-shopped photos, and committing suicide. Zuckerberg (owner of Facebook and Instagram) is a hacker who exploits people, lies to people, violates your privacy rights, and is an all around despicable cretin. This worship of materialism and money, worship of “celebrities” that have no talent and are famous *just* for being famous (Paris Hilton, Kardasians, Instagram influencers, etc) is so shallow, so vapid, so vacuous, and is ruining generations plus contributing to climate change as people desire cheap junk sent to them by Amazon, with free shipping, who want it yesterday. Its just gross…
What are the top five most recession-proof jobs in the United States?
(Found Online.)
Prostitute. They've been there since, well, they've always been there.
Doctor. To cure what the prostitute gives you. And one or two other things.
Nurse. To do the work the Doctor was supposed to know how to do.
Politicians. To tell us who to blame the recession on. And make up terms like “Economic Downturn” because they think we're too stupid to know when we are broke.
Bartenders. How the hell do you think we are gonna survive the recession?
Wow, they're really stretching here....to push their agenda through. Selling fear is nothing new. Selling fear about husbands, boyfriends, sons and fathers "cheating" on loved ones due to traffic jams, brought on unless you and everyone else fully endorses Boris latest bat guano crazy idea...is pretty disgusting. By the way, this is not a pro/con comment on Brexit...just a comment on the stupidity of some of the people pushing it.
I mean...if there is a long line at Costco, or Walmart, a toll bridge, a traffic jam due to a car accident, does everyone jump out and start fucking in the bushes? Do people drop trou, start humping, jacking, slapping, sucking, fucking...whenever there is more than 8 cars at the drive-up window at any given local fast-food restaurant? No, seriously, I'm asking. I haven't left home in a few months...maybe they are doing it....and I'm the only one that doesn't know about it. :)
Why might I piss off everybody....you might find yourself asking? Because somebody is *always* mad at me. Religious people, the Left, the Right, Atheists, Feminists, my Mom, my cat, the religious right, the "irreligious" left, the Democrats, the Republicans, the Independents, the apolitical, the asexual, the dominant women, the submissive men, the perverts, the "vanillas", gay people, homophobic people, you live on this planet, you exist, you have an opinion, you say something, or write something....somebody, somewhere, somehow, will be bent out of shape at you so...fuck em.
Perhaps I'm just getting old and grouchy.
Maybe I should just go hangout with these people. :)
A person who is 80 years old has seen almost one third of US history, which puts into perspective how little 240 years actually is. (The USA has existed as we currently know it for roughly 240 years.) For me it just points out how long the human life is, 240 years is a long time. You think 1 year is a long time? 1,000 of those ago, England was just starting off as a country. 2,000 more before that, Jesus was born. About 50,000 of those before that, humans were just leaving Africa.
Now imagine TWENTY FORTY OF THOSE 50,000-YEAR PERIODS and humans were just starting to evolve. That's 2 million years ago. Now imagine 32 of those 2 million-year periods and that's how many more years you'd have to go back before you saw some dinosaurs. Now imagine 53 of those 65 million-year periods and that's how far back you'd have to go before life started to evolve on earth. We're at 3.5 billion years in the past. Go back 1 billion more revolutions around the sun and the earth is now just being formed. Also just to drive home how just how big a difference 1 billion is from 1 million: 1 million seconds is 11 days. 1 billion seconds is 32 years.
We live in the 21st century. Science can and does explain many wondrous things, we live in an age of information at our fingertips, we’re 7.5 BILLION people from all walks of life with the capacity to love, share and help each-other. And yet…we are not moving forwards very quickly.
One reason why?
Because there’s BILLIONS of people out there who actually believe:
4,000 years ago a man heard voices that told him to kill his own son.
Just as he was about to do it, the voice told him to stop and kill a ram instead.
The voice in his head told him to mutilate his own genitals and that of his sons and his slaves.
After getting his (sex) slave pregnant he eventually kicked her out along with their young son.
Thousands of years later a bush that was on fire spoke to another man.
The bush told him free Israelites from slavery in Egypt and lead them to around in the desert for a long time to eventually reach Canaan (which was actually just another part of Egypt at that time).
The voice in his head told them to invade a land which wasn't even theirs.
The voice in his head told him to command an entire army to kill all the men, women and boys but keep the little girls for themselves.
The voice told him it’s ok to rape women of other lands that pass by on the road.
The voice told him that slavery is ok, and that you should feel free to enslave people from other countries. You could even sell your daughter to pay off a debt.
The voice told this man/warmonger that it’s ok to treat women as property, that a woman should marry her rapist, that people should be stoned to death if they don't obey him, that you shouldn't eat pigs because it makes him sad and that picking up sticks on a Saturday is worthy of the death sentence.
And that’s what blows my mind. People actually believe this stuff. Not only do they believe it, but they’re willing to go out and blow each other up with nuclear weapons, automatic rifles, stone people, chop off hands, subject women to abuse and hold back progress for humankind. Blows my mind. Thank god I’m an atheist.
Lots of guys develop misogynistic attitudes because the women in their lives (when growing up) are genuinely toxic people. I am somewhat self-aware that this is at least true for me. "Most* of the women I grew up around and with fit neatly into these categories:
a) Karens. Mothers of friends etc. who are super nosy, go through their stuff, need to know everything about every friend, give away their stuff without asking, display fairly shit behavior, and so on. I often found them to be very unfair and unreasonable, and they usually got away with their bullshit.
b) Airheads. Girls with unrealistic ideas about how the world is or should be, super self-secure about this nonsense they believed, and generally awful to disagree with. Usually also the goody-two-shoes type who'd rat you out to teachers or other figures of authority as soon as something went wrong. Didn't make the best friends imo.
c) Narcissist. As there is an entire sub dedicated to these, I hope you know what I mean. In general, it seemed to me like women's entire personality was always based on social status and how others perceived them. This self-centered act got old really fast.
It really took me a while to come around interesting, intelligent women. I pretty much consistently had a girlfriend since I was like 14, so this wasn't an issue and I had some examples to the contrary, but looking back now the above is really how it was for me. Only in my later teens and at university I came to see that that's not all there is. (* Most means not all, but most.)
To the guy who came in with his wife Sunday night, 20 minutes before closing: You stuck your head in the front door around 20 minutes to 10, looking expectantly with your blonde wife in tow. I swallowed disappointment, yet again, while wearing a pained smile, and waved you into the bar area. You sat down and ordered straight away: top shelf bourbon on the rocks for you, Prosecco for the wife, and a volcano cake to share. You were both well-dressed and charming and funny. Your wife was hot and smelled good. You both savored every bite, made me laugh, tipped 30%, and breezed out the door with 2 minutes left on the clock. I love you.
If you put these 9 guys in a single 9-seater van, they have more combined wealth than the poorest 4 BILLION (!!) (out of 7.6 billion) people on Earth share altogether. This should be used more to give a better perspective of a billion, and how big one billion really is. There are over 2000 billionaires in the world and collectively they could literally feed everyone on the planet and have plenty left for themselves. If each of those 2000 billionaires put $1 billion in a pot, how much money would be in it? $2 trillion. Or 1/11 of the US national debt
Hypothetically, a millionaire could live on $100k per year for 10 years. A billionaire could live on $1M per year for a thousand years. I saw something awhile back about if you made $2000 an hour, 40 hours a week from the year the Declaration of Independence was born and you saved every single penny of it you still wouldn’t have $1 Billion dollars and it made my brain hurt.
EDIT: 2000 x 2080 = $4,160,000 / year
4,160,000 x 243 = $1,010,880,000
Bush, Trump and the GOP arranged it so they (the Americans) pay almost no taxes.
"Why aren’t lazy millennials buying houses and diamonds?"
The flip side of some of this poverty is this...stop breeding so much. Tell your Pope/Priest/Pastor/Bishop/ Cardinal....to go fuck themselves...and stop bringing mouths into this planet that you can't afford to feed.
A boy with cerebral palsy lifts an Atlas Stone. I get pissed off when people, often government employees, politicians and/or doctors imply that people with so called "disabilities" are lazy, lacking ambition, and just trying to get disability or welfare.
Former President Jimmy Carter, 95, fell and hit his head at home while getting ready for church. 14 stitches and one day later, he’s helping to build homes for Habitat For Humanity.
