jmarsh wrote on 2026-08-06, 06:57:

For anyone who doesn't know, if you view a forum member's profile (by clicking on their name) there's a button over on the right that lets you mute them so you don't see their posts.

Best advice in this thread. Only downside is missing on the "cancel culture" whine that will inevitably drop at some point for your bingo card.

Jo22 wrote on 2026-08-05, 10:20:

I thought that the ozone hole was real and that the ozone layer started to slowly recover in the years after when FCKWs had been banned.

It only started truly recovering after FCKGW had been banned.

dr_st wrote on Yesterday, 19:53:

Jo22 wrote on 2026-08-05, 10:20:

I thought that the ozone hole was real and that the ozone layer started to slowly recover in the years after when FCKWs had been banned.

It only started truly recovering after FCKGW had been banned.

This is the best joke ever.

Some of you gays (now this is neutral non-biological sex address, so not to insult anything, which belongs to at least one of those freshly invented 72+ new non-biological sexes) have some good potential, but still not a collective match to my all time favorite @Sabina_16bit. or sabina zelena (what a coincidence "zelena" means green). Oh, how I miss her/him/it/ze!

Jo22 wrote on Yesterday, 08:39:

Well, I guess no one holds you back. You can leave for Russia, China or North Korea, for example. 🙂
They're probably free of EU's "tyranny". Perhaps the experience will enlighten you. Wonders always happen, people say.

You also forgot Cuba and Belarus 😁 For even more impact, next time you can also add some addresses like communists, fascists, putinists, racists, etc. 😉

And how familiar and typical is this. Is it a coincidence that my local beloved neoliberals use exactly the same narrative, when they lose any connection to reality (actually this is their normal state) and any ability to engage in a debate with even childish arguments without resorting to such pointless talk points? I bet this time it is a coincidence, even if in reality there are no coincidences.

I have one little request for you. Please, could you write for us again the fairytale about the prosperity in WG and how expensive it was during the '80s and early '90s to have a personal bed and not sleeping on a bare mattress on the floor? I'm not sure, but now it seems like most of the WGs born in 20th century are resource savers since their birth. Less personal beds - less materials and resources wasted, right? 😉

So, try to sell your standard cheap €u-propaganda to someone else. At least, some of us lived in those times and we still remember what was the "tyranny and misery" then and what is the "€u freedom and prosperity" now. And BTW, I never slept on a bare mattress on the floor, even in the "dark ages". Probably there were too much resources spent fro this, what could mutti ursula say on this?

VileR wrote on Yesterday, 18:50:

aVd wrote on Yesterday, 05:45:

...the "godchoosen" banks...

A bit timid for a supposed fearless non-conformist, aren't we. Don't mince words, tell us who you really mean!

Nice try, but no buy. Be more creative next time 😉

VileR wrote on Yesterday, 18:50:

With all the talk of CFCs and cow farts, is there any other type of gas that you think is a load of bunk, perhaps?

Once I heard, that here's a special term for the non-godchoosen ones - literally translated as "livestock", right? So, it seems like you have no problems with cattle eradication. Not to mention the ones in the trump-kushner's future resort. Probably bibi will join this resort investment too, since he's spending a lots of resources and time in cleaning the terrain. I know this is not like saving the Earth through empty words, but what do you think on those non-existing problems with this still non-existing wonderful resort?

Boohyaka wrote on Yesterday, 19:18:

Best advice in this thread. Only downside is missing on the "cancel culture" whine that will inevitably drop at some point for your bingo card.

Do we have another big mind in wait for the best advice form the third parties here? The button with little flag depiction suits best to your cancel "culture", so keep on pumping it 😉

P.S. Since already there are whole months for celebrations like June, is there at least one day in the calendar left free for something like A Happy Overdosed Leftist Day? AHOLD - sounds pretty progressive to me 😀

a) good point, interesting examples
b) not 80s/90s; by the turn of 21st century (gap between poor/rich had widened, info)
c) EU is fairly new, it succeeded the EC (2009)
d) I'm no fun and lousy at playing games, I'm afraid
e) Dunning-Kruger effect is real
f) the more I say, the more I'd harm myself
g) live long and prosper 🙂🖖

Hey, @Jo22, please stay in the thread! You've started it on purpose and it is not a honest move to leave it just like that 😀 Didn't you ever heard of human's virtues like the common €u-virtues?

The gap between the poor and the rich is now even wider... You mean the so called "Gini index" is now higher? In 21st century of peace, freedom, free markets and so on...? OMG, how this could be, since in our ursulian's paradise there are no poverty, hunger and misery anymore and at least half of Asia's and Africa's population want to live here for free?! We're all in the €u's rich club (with overdebts for generations ahead) and this is not Belarus, not to mention DPRK, where the people are now literally dying on streets of starvation. Did you forget this?

€u is not a new agenda. Besides changing its name through the last seven decades, it also changes its contract and form to more and more centralized dictatorship, and has to be buried ASAP, just because it is more harmful and destructive to native European people, than the projects like already long time shut down (on purpose) USSR for the people in the ex-USSR states. And I have another historical surprise for you, since neoliberal's lack of knowledge for real History is well-known: Those ideas for continental (quasi)federations like €u, USSR and even USA are not invented nor created and realized "yesterday". I already mentioned something about the real Switzerland's ownership, which is also a small federation and never will be forced to become an €u member or €z member in its current form. The ones with "small minds" will understand, what I mean.

As for your Dunning-Kruger problem, did you also "forgot", that the neoliberals with all their lack of common sense and knowledge for the real life constantly proclaims themselves as the essence of the past, the present and the future, also as the last and the most rightful instance, and nothing less (also seen in this thread)? 😉

What a pity is to lose your own virtual game or "battle" against such a narrow-minded non-liberal like me 😢

P.S.

Jo22 wrote on Today, 07:05:

b) not 80s/90s; by the turn of 21st century (gap between poor/rich had widened, info)

Does this mean, that now WGs and also the EGs have to sleep on the bare floor without even having any mattresses? 🤣 I hope, all of you at least have some blankets, even if these could be a second hand or donated blankets 😉 Yeah, this could be one of the many reasons, why the elder ones amongst EGs still doesn't like much their country mates from WG.

Someone once said, that the poverty and misery is the most proper punishment for people's own stupidity. And maybe he's right...

I just can't stop laughing at the immense prosperity and the complete freedom in nowadays €u and some say, that the lough is healthy 😀 @Jo22, thanks for making my days more healthier! Please, make a daily progressive-celebration-thread for even more free health 😁

We're still at the tail end of the late cenozoic ice age, and coming out of it. There's no doubt it will continue to warm, because this cycle has been happening over and over for about 850M years. It is just sad people fall for the tv propaganda and get fleeced of their money to think they can somehow change the climate. But deep down you know they really don't believe in their own propaganda -- they are still on the grid to post topics like these, advocating for strip mining the earth for manufacturing batteries, travel/fly around the world in jets, use plastic products, etc. But who knows, maybe they are just that mentally ill to believe they're making a difference.

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