You answer back and keep referring to them as Kevin (if his name isn't Kevin) and just make up a bunch of stuff telling him that his family want him to come home, his wife and three children haven't seen him in three years since the day they took him to the asylum for accidently killing his brother in that chainsaw accident.
ininewcrow
joined 2 years ago
That was about black flies
Mosquitos have a small sting and half the time their anesthetic works and you don't notice they're there until they're full. And they often only work in the evenings, less at night and a lot less during the day.
Black flies are a flying platform for a jagged needle and jaws to tear open your skin. They don't bite they tear open a hole to insert their needle. They fly during a hot summer afternoon and in the right temperature they'll swarm, drive you insane, make you run like a maniac and eat you as you slowly flail on the ground until you stop moving.
Mosquitos will leave a little pin prick wound, black flies will leave a big welt the size of a loonie and just as hard and if you get caught outside surrounded by these demon insects, the welts will actually merge and harden your skin ..... and they will keep landing to tear open more.
"And the black flies, the little black flies
Always the black fly no matter where you go
I'll die with the black fly a-pickin' my bones
In North Ontar-eye-o-eye-o, In North Ontar-eye-o"
I would rather die from mosquitos than be tortured to death by black flies
EDIT: For anyone interested, here is the National Film Board (NFB) video being talked about
(just the sound of that swarm of buzzing black flies sends shivers down my spine)
Cat: ..... are you giving me food?
Hamster: .... am I being offered as food?
Imagine the endless headlines and stupidity if Biden had accepted this 'gift'
Don't worry about it ..... they'll be manufacturing millions of drones to do all the killing anyway
I've always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.
The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified
The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it
The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can't be caught.
Crossing the realms of Star Trek and Lord of the Rings ..... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!
Fascism marched in with violence and force the first time ..... we're sleep walking into it this time.
Shirt! .... if you happen to stretch your jeans too tightly over your butt, they're biting you through there too.
This historic period is completely embarrassing .... and I'm up in Canada!
When we read about historic politicians and the things they said 100 years ago, the US had Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. There are political debates about the good and bad things they did but all of them had sensible and meaningful quotes about society, philosophy and government .... they were educated in rhetoric and everything they said and wrote came from a base of a lot of education and understanding.
The US in the 2020s has an 80 year old man who could barely manage the country and a clown that never makes any sense.
They will laugh at all of us in a hundred years for the stupidity we all put up with in our world leadership.
Canary in the coalmine got his revenge
#musk #trump
#musk #trump
I just watched DS9 'Far Beyond The Stars' - Season 6 Episode 13
As a person of colour (I'm Indigenous Canadian) this was a very impactful, thoughtful and striking episode that really hit home on a lot of subjects they were still dealing with in 1998 when this first aired. The main story harkens back to the 1950s but much of the same issues from the mid century were still being felt in the 90s. In many ways, the messages from this show still resonate today.
We all like to think that 1950s style overt racism in the streets is a bygone thing and doesn't exist or not as prevalent any more but it is still there. I was totally amazed and blown away to watch this and to listen to the story it told. Racism may not be shouted in my face any more but I still feel it come out of the cracks of society every once in while and more often than not in social media forums and platforms where bad actors can anonymously scream and shout whatever they please.
This DS9 episode was a beautiful reminder of why I always loved Star Trek. It is through episodes like this that show us what we could be in the far distant future if we want it enough. As a kid and teenager, I always saw and understood the ideas and images of thinking that we could achieve a world in the future where colour, race, background or gender no longer mattered. I always noticed that in the Original Series and it was something I was really happy to see when I watched The Next Generation and Voyager as a teenager. I never got the chance to watch DS9 until now and after watching this episode I'm happy I did. That message of wanting a world of inclusion and openness is a really hopeful message I've always loved in Star Trek.
The bonus was in seeing all the actors, the main cast, and some of the supporting characters appear as they are in real life was amazing as well.
That simple message really resonated with me .... 'You are the dreamer ... and the dream'. We can all imagine a future where we can all be at our best and if we work hard enough towards it, we can be part of that dream. It's a small thing but in many ways, I'm happy to have this small community at c/tenforward with you ... I've always dreamt of enjoying Star Trek and now I feel that I am part of this digital dream with you all.
In everything else, I will never stop dreaming of a better future, no matter what may happen in the world ... I will always hope that we can all become part of that dream.
If you haven't seen the series yet, I would highly recommend it just to be able to see everything lead up to this episode. It is a definite highlight that will stick with me for a long time.
Just finished watching DS9 Season 6 Episode 10 'The Magnificent Ferengi' ..... and totally fun watch complete with the worst Ferengi in the series and a great cameo by Iggy.
One of my favourite from the series out of so many favourites so far. What a great and fun watch.
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It's freezing rain, thawing, freezing on the highway in northern Ontario ... stay at home!
(lemmy.ca)
The highways are literal ice, either thawing, freezing or going to become ice later tonight and people all over facebook, messenger, whatsapp, whatever are all messaging each other and me and my family asking what the highways are like today and if they can safely go out. People are dying on the highways this week all over the north. Stay at home.
The safest thing to do is just don't go on the highway when it is raining in December in northern Ontario!!!
ummmm wtf? .... did we just enter the Delta Quadrant?