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"If"?

I always smile when someone starts a question about death with the word "if"

It's never a question of 'if' we die or when someone dies ..... it's a question of 'when'

Death .... it's the great equalizer for all of humanity, no matter how smart, dumb, young, old, rich, poor, intelligent, stupid, educated, illiterate you are, we always end up in the same place where we started .... the deep dark eternal sleep.

If you develop a society and infrastructure to the point where you are asking every pedestrian to wear a hi-vis jacket .... the pedestrians are not the problem ... your infrastructure, vehicles and mentality are the problem.

Yes .... it's called a James Brown concert

I've never been to one but I have several friends who said they did. There are also a bunch of videos that show it and if you watch them long enough (because the real life performances are really long) ... it's not an event, it's a spiritual.

If that's the logic of your movement .... then violence becomes a logical option. If your followers are that unhinged, you have to use violence because they are becoming comfortable with the idea of wanting to kill you for opposing them.

This is a joke meme that doesn't mean anything ..... just like the American public transport system.

We were nutty kids. I'm Indigenous from northern Ontario so I grew up with a lot of rough kids, friends and relatives. We used to literally play dodge ball with one another by throwing rocks at each other .... the fun and games usually ended when a good sized rock hit someone and someone started bawling their eyes out (I was a victim of such fun and games more than once). I also remember one winter sliding down a small hill with jagged metal nearby. We kept pushing each other around to end up in the danger zone ... I pushed one of my cousins at just the right moment and he ended up tearing up his hand, straight through his hide mitten and winter clothing ... there was quite a bit of blood, especially over the white snow.

Sometimes I'm just amazed that we even survived childhood. Our luck would have held in the Roman legions but I don't think we would have lasted more than one campaign.

LATE EDIT: Jesus .... this just triggered a memory as well ... I fell once when I was playing with my friends in our family backyard which was filled with dad's old machinery, vehicles, metal parts and just about any other imaginable thing that could slice you open. I landed face first onto some sort of sheet metal box with a sharp pointed edge. My brow bounced off the metal and nicked my skin. About half an inch lower and I would have lost my eye.

Same here ... but with the friends I grew up with - I would have lost an actual eye if we had tried this.

I always loved this short clip of kids forming a Roman Testudo .... especially in seeing one of the lead warriors who takes one in the eye

Better yet, take down the fake "hornet nest", and take it home to disassemble and recover the hidden recordings inside

Not really, the club got fractured a few times and spawned competitor copy cat book clubs all over the place ... they keep trying to out do one another with different rules, dress codes and funny hats.

Catalonia eh? ... you have to go through that door then ... door shuts ... sounds of whip cracking and screaming

I wonder how they treat that at immigration at an airport for tourists ....

Oh, you're from Spain? ... please go through that door please .... door shuts ... gun shots go off