Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:You're not thinking ethically. According to Kant's categorical imperative, it would be immoral to return your cart, because if everyone did that, then untold thousands of cart wrangling teenage workers would be put out of a job.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:No turn signal punishable by death

tragabigzanda wrote:No turn signal punishable by death

Bammer wrote:I generally agree with Burt on things but this shopping cart thing has me extremely concerned.

Bammer wrote:* Metric system
* Fahrenheit scale
* 12-hour clock (AM / PM)
* No more daylight savings time adjustments anywhere ever
* MM/DD/YYYY

bodysnatcher wrote:Yeah I’d be down for Celsius. Boiling and freezing makes sense. I would just have a little adjustment period to not wear a coat when it’s 45°C

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Yeah I’d be down for Celsius. Boiling and freezing makes sense. I would just have a little adjustment period to not wear a coat when it’s 45°C

Have you ever considered becoming a nudist?

bodysnatcher wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Yeah I’d be down for Celsius. Boiling and freezing makes sense. I would just have a little adjustment period to not wear a coat when it’s 45°C

Have you ever considered becoming a nudist?

I shower in a swim suit

Higgs wrote:

Bammer wrote:* Metric system
* Fahrenheit scale
* 12-hour clock (AM / PM)
* No more daylight savings time adjustments anywhere ever
* MM/DD/YYYY

So you want metric but also farenheit? The fuck is wrong with you?

Water boils at 100 and freezes at 0. Kinda makes sense, no?

Fully agree on the no daylight savings though - that shit can fuck right off.

BurtReynolds wrote:Celsius is dumb. How often does boiling water come up?

Fahrenheit is superior. more practical for everyday human experience.
100 degrees = really hot day
0 degrees = really cold day

Jorge wrote:But fine, whatever, people prefer the system they grew up with. What doesn't make any sense to me is the MM/DD/YYYY thing. It should go from smallest unit (day) to largest. Cleaner that way