Random Thoughts Thread

[A Horse With No Name]

It has become a super dark world. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM4PML8O3yo

[G. David Felt]

1 hour ago, A Horse With No Name said:

It has become a super dark world. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM4PML8O3yo

People like that have such a narrow ability to understand their own bible let alone understand humanity. What a hate filled man.

[A Horse With No Name]

Just now, G. David Felt said:

People like that have such a narrow ability to understand their own bible let alone understand humanity. What a hate filled man.

Indeed. Economy is going to tank. 

 

[ccap41]

I just love how pessimistic everybody here is now... 

15 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

What a hate filled man.

Speaking of hate-filled men, there are people on this forum wishing death upon people who don't share the same opinions as them. 

[oldshurst442]

1 hour ago, A Horse With No Name said:

It has become a super dark world. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM4PML8O3yo

That is not a pastor.  That is not a real religion.  Or a legit religion as how I put it last time. 

There are some that have told no that the joke is on me and that no religion  is legit...

Well...so be it. 

But...the Greek Orthodox church is almost 2000 years old. Its origins are traced back to Jesus Christ himself and his 12 apostles.  I forget who those guys were as I am not a bible thumper...but...I do know history so...

Jesus was said to be 33 years old and was crucified. Resurrected, and his apostles Paul and Silas went to Greece and preached his word and the word of God.  That would be 33 AD technically. For those that believe in Christ.  Ad means in Latin Anno Domini.  The year of our Lord.    For those that do not believe, it has been changed to CE.  Common Era

So...Greece and its people became Christian, slowly slowly in the decades that followed.

There was the Byzantium Empire but most importantly, when the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans and the Turks practiced genocide on Greeks, it was the Greek Orthodox Priests that were faced with extreme pressures of compliance from the Turks, which many died, but many also were heroes. It was the priests that not only guided the  Greeks with spirituality, but also educated them and preserved the Greek language and Greek culture.  More info than this and it becomes a university class.  

Therefore, when losers tell me that no legit religions exist, I simply ignore and laugh at their ignorance.

What I know of my Greek heritage and culture and about MY religion being the Greek Orthodox religion, that although there have been some Greek Orthodox priests that were pedophiles, (those priests in no way represent the religion and those priests were not priests at all but sexual predators, that through out 2000 years...2000 years...have NEVER preached ANY forms of hatred.  HELPED the poor.  

And in ACTUAL PHOQUING FACT:  Santa PHOQUING Clause is based on 2 Greek Orthodox bishops from  in 2 different areas of the Greek world during the 4rth century AD.

Agios Nikolaos.  Or as the English call him. Saint phoquing Nick

Lived in Myra. Present day Turkey. He secretly gave gifts to the poor. This evolved into the gift giving on Christmas day.  Saint Nick day is celebrated on the 6th of December.

Agios Vasileios. Saint Basil to the English speaking world. 

Lived in  and was known to bring gifts to children in hospitals and orphanages.  Greeks in Greece have their gift giving on New Years Eve and New Years day as opposed to the 24rth and 25th of December  because that was what Saint Basil used to do.   

Greek Priests are educated.  Greek priests HOLD and PRESERVE Greek heritage and culture. 

Compare and contrast to what you got in the US and you will see that the Greek Orthodox religion is a very LEGIT religion directly rooted by Jesus Christ himself.  The Greel Orthodox Church serves only 1 purpose. To UPHOLD the TRUE word of Jesus, Holy Mary and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity.   The Greek Orthodox Church helps the poor, the needy to this day...

Yes...the Greek Orthodox Church collects monies from its practitioners, its VOLUNTARY contributions but those monies DO in fact go to the poor and the needy. 

Lots of migrants in Greece.  Some locals HATE them migrants. No different from Maga south. BUT...MANY locals HELP the migrants. Why? Greek culture to help the poor.  

Who else helps these migrants?

Yup..the Greek Orthodox Church.

If you made it through, thank-you for your time. 

I didnt do this to convert you. Nor to convince you on anything.

Just to defend MY religion because Christianity gets thrown to the mud and I dont feel its fair to group snake oil salesmen con artists of the English and American fake religious types with MY religion.  The Greek Orthodox religion is Christianity and what Christianity is supposed to mean. What Christianity is supposed to represent.   What we have in Maga world is NOT Christianity and I dont like it one iota when that bullshyte is mixed in with MY religion. 
 

23 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I just love how pessimistic everybody here is now... 

Speaking of hate-filled men, there are people on this forum wishing death upon people who don't share the same opinions as them. 

Starting with you. 

Cross into the Canadian border and I will answer you with the mouths of my canons...

 

In English because you probably dont have the intelligence to understand French...

 

[oldshurst442]

28 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I just love how pessimistic everybody here is now... 

 

 

Your country is going down the shytes, dude. 

You cant see it?

Maga has entered your brain?

Talk about hate filled phoques... 

[ccap41]

32 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

Starting with you. 

Wishing me death? 

26 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

 

Your country is going down the shytes, dude. 

You cant see it?

Maga has entered your brain?

Talk about hate filled phoques... 

I don't see shyte everywhere everyday. So, no, I cannot see it. 

What is it I'm hating? 

[oldshurst442]

2 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

Wishing me death? 

What?

Where?

4 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

What is it I'm hating? 

1. Your country

2. yourself

Why and how?

You answered it yourself. 

4 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I don't see shyte everywhere everyday. So, no, I cannot see it. 

 

[ccap41]

[oldshurst442]

Did you buy your gun yet?

[ccap41]

Yes, I’ve had firearms. 

[oldshurst442]

4 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

Yes, I’ve had firearms. 

 

[G. David Felt]

Interesting GM President says a family of low cost EVs is coming.

GM Quietly Plots A Family Of Low-Cost EVs After New Bolt

[ccap41]

5 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

 

That’s the Canadian helpline, chief. That’s not the 51st state, yet. 

[oldshurst442]

Just now, ccap41 said:

That’s the Canadian helpline, chief. That’s not the 51st state, yet. 

Oh. I know.

But seeing that your country you need insurance for health care and in your country your president has cut medicade, you probably need the help. We help people. We dont let people suffer. 

I suggest you take care of your country before you have eyes on mine.  Your country has to survive a civil war...

 

And as luck will have it...

Canada actually DOES have a king. Legit. 

 

[oldshurst442]

@ccap41

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/06/donald-trumps-america-$h!hole-countries-455692

Trump’s America Becomes One of Those ‘$h!hole Countries’

Republicans made their bargain with the president and the cost is coming due.

 

 

https://cepr.net/publications/is-donald-trump-turning-the-united-states-into-a-$h!hole-country/

 

https://medium.com/this-america/its-time-to-admit-it-the-u-s-is-a-failed-state-2cadd508edc5

 

US Politics | Collapse | Trump

It’s Time to Admit It: The U.S. is a Failed State

The vaunted ‘American Experiment’ is now… OVER

 

Richard Lowenthal

 

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The time has come to finally, belatedly admit the US is a failed nation-state. Not only that, its failures are now multiplying at an astonishing rate. The rest of the world is watching in shocked horror as the former ‘shining city on the hill’ spirals down into hate, misogyny, corruption, rampant racism, and murderous rage.

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Protesters hold signs and flags and a large balloon with an image of U.S. President Donald Trump during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against Trump and his adviser, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in downtown Los Angeles on April 5, 2025. 

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Is the US on the Path to Becoming a Failed State?

The deliberate undermining of democratic norms and the conflation of personal power with national interest are consistent with patterns seen in states that have tipped into authoritarian rule.

 

 

Jesse Mackinnon

Jun 09, 2025Common Dreams

 

 

 

The United States has entered a phase that resembles the early stages of state failure. What once seemed impossible in a country with vast resources and robust democratic traditions now appears increasingly plausible.

The signs are evident. A government that has turned inward and become both self-protective and vindictive. An economy that is straining under a combination of political hubris and international estrangement. A population facing widening inequality and the fraying of social bonds. Historical examples of state collapse reveal that such trajectories, once set in motion, become difficult to reverse. For centrist Democrats who have long believed in the resilience of American institutions, it is essential to understand the historical precedents and the structural forces at play.

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State failure is not typically marked by a single event. It is a process that begins with the corrosion of political legitimacy and ends in the disintegration of central authority. In the United States, this erosion of legitimacy can be seen in the deliberate politicization of the civil service and the Justice Department, the relentless attacks on the press and civil society, and the hollowing out of regulatory agencies through mass firings and loyalty tests. Historical parallels can be found in the final years of the Roman Republic, where the Senate’s inability to manage domestic discontent and external pressures created a vacuum for strongmen like Julius Caesar to exploit. In a more modern example, Weimar Germany’s democratic institutions were systematically undermined by the combined effects of economic crisis and political extremism, leading to the Nazi seizure of power.

The United States has survived grave challenges before, but its survival has always depended on a functioning state that could reconcile competing interests and adapt to new circumstances. Today, that state is being systematically dismantled.

Economically, the United States is facing a self-inflicted crisis. The decision to impose sweeping tariffs on allies and adversaries alike has triggered a trade war that has cut the country off from vital imports and provoked retaliatory measures. The stock market crash of 2025 is a direct consequence of these policies. Historically, protectionism in the face of global integration has often led to economic collapse. Argentina in the 1940s under Juan Perón embraced similar trade isolation and industrial autarky, leading to decades of stagnation. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, though a different context, was a catalyst for the downward spiral of the global economy in the Great Depression.

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The military and security apparatus in the United States has also been turned inward. This is a hallmark of states on the brink of collapse. The administration’s decision to conduct loyalty tests for federal employees, to dismiss or sideline those deemed “insufficiently loyal,” and to demand public fealty to the president’s personal narrative mirrors the tactics employed by autocratic regimes throughout history. In the final years of the Soviet Union, a similar pattern emerged: The KGB was weaponized to target internal dissent as the economy faltered and the central government lost its grip on reality.

Domestically, the climate is one of deepening polarization and mounting distrust. The forced departure of civil servants, the targeting of universities and independent journalists, and the use of the Justice Department as an instrument of political retribution have weakened the structures that once mediated conflict and enabled compromise. In 1970s Chile, President Salvador Allende’s government was destabilized by economic sabotage and political violence. While the American situation is not identical, the deliberate undermining of democratic norms and the conflation of personal power with national interest are consistent with patterns seen in states that have tipped into authoritarian rule.

Internationally, the administration’s decision to pursue annexationist policies—expressed in rhetorical claims to Canada and Greenland and actual negotiations over resource extraction in Ukraine—has isolated the United States from its historical allies and weakened its standing in the world. Such expansionist fantasies do not typically succeed in a world defined by interdependence. They more often result in international sanctions, economic isolation, and domestic overreach. This was the fate of Benito Mussolini’s Italy when it attempted to carve out an empire in North Africa, only to find itself diplomatically and economically encircled.

The cumulative effect of these policies is a government that no longer serves as an impartial arbiter of competing interests but as a factional tool of the leader and his inner circle. The normal functions of governance—delivering basic services, maintaining order, managing foreign policy—are subsumed under the political imperative of loyalty and control. This is the point at which states enter the final stage of failure. In 1990s Yugoslavia, the central government’s failure to mediate ethnic and regional disputes led directly to the violent fragmentation of the state. In the American context, this dynamic is playing out along lines of political affiliation, class, and race. The militarization of border policy, the collective punishment of protest movements, and the repeated targeting of minority communities reveal a state that is no longer willing or able to accommodate the diversity of its population.

The question of when collapse occurs is not easily answered. Historical examples show that once a state has entered the spiral of delegitimization, economic contraction, and political repression, collapse can follow within a few years. The Soviet Union’s dissolution took less than three years from the final economic crisis of 1988 to the official end in 1991. Yugoslavia’s collapse began with constitutional disputes in the late 1980s and culminated in violent disintegration by the early 1990s.

The timeline for collapse in the United States is likely to be similarly short if current trends continue. The economy, already battered by tariffs and retaliatory measures, will see further contraction as foreign investment dries up and domestic confidence evaporates. Political violence, already simmering, will become more organized as the state’s capacity to maintain a monopoly on violence wanes.

For those who have long believed that the American system is immune to these forces, it is time to reconsider that assumption. The United States has survived grave challenges before, but its survival has always depended on a functioning state that could reconcile competing interests and adapt to new circumstances. Today, that state is being systematically dismantled. The institutions that once checked presidential power are being turned into instruments of that power. The economy, once buoyed by global integration, is being sacrificed to nationalist fantasies. The courts and the press, once the guardians of democratic accountability, are being brought to heel or driven into irrelevance.

There is still room to change course. Historically, states have a narrow window to reverse the downward spiral once it begins. In some cases, a determined opposition or a political realignment can restore legitimacy and rebuild the social contract. In others, collapse proceeds until the state is no longer recognizable and must be rebuilt from the rubble. The examples of Spain in the 1930s, where collapse was narrowly averted but civil war followed, and of Greece in the 1940s, where foreign intervention postponed state failure, show that external shocks and internal realignments can interrupt the cycle of collapse, though at a high human cost.

What lies ahead for the United States is not yet written in stone. But the pattern is clear and the examples from history are stark. State failure is not a single moment but a cascade of failures that begins with the corruption of political institutions and ends with the disintegration of social order. The evidence is already present in the hollowing out of the federal government, the weaponization of law enforcement, the trade isolation, and the embrace of expansionist policies that have no place in the modern world. If these trends are not reversed, the United States will become another entry in the long history of states that lost their way and collapsed under the weight of their own contradictions.

[oldshurst442]

@ccap41

 

 

Hopefully now, you get to see how shytty your country has become. Turn a blind eye to it. Its your choice. But like I said, you really dont love your country if you dont see how shytty it has become... 

Phoque you.  

Phoque Trump 

Phoque your country. Phoque the USA!!! 

[oldshurst442]

@ccap41

More shyttyness from your phoquing shythole country.  Its a worse warzone and lawlessness than a drug cartel country.

 

You phoquing idiot.  Your country is failing hard.  The US is such a shytehole!

 

[oldshurst442]

@ccap41

One good thing that will inevitable come from your shytehole country is that if history rhymes/repeats itself,  

1. fascism was defeated in 1945 and muscle cars were the eventual outcome

2. the music was great from the 1950s-1980s.  Especially in the 1960s when your shytehole country became shytty

and protest songs came about. 

 

 

 

 Protest songs against the US in any era are some of the greatest music ever produced.  I love it when protest songs against the US highlight in their lyrics the shyttyness of the US for all to hear and see.  

Great stuff!!! 

Edited 7 hours ago by oldshurst442

[oldshurst442]

@ccap41

Your healthcare and insurance?

Does this guy explain it properly?

 

Yeah...your country is shyte, bruv. 

[ccap41]

TLDR

[oldshurst442]

9 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

TLDR

Doesnt surprise me.

Americans are too dumb to read anyway.

You as in you personally, are too dumb to understand anything anyway.  

 

Phoque you

Phoque your country. 

Phoque the US!!!

 

Edited 6 hours ago by oldshurst442

[oldshurst442]

@ccap41

 

Comedian. Comedy gold. But not a joke. Reality.

America is a shytehole country. And this was said BEFORE Trump's era.  

Phoque the US!!!

[ccap41]

I thiiiiiiiink somebody may be obsessed with me...

 

[oldshurst442]

4 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I thiiiiiiiink somebody may be obsessed with me...

 

Yeah. Yourself

Vanity is a sin.
 

 

@ccap

 

I am enjoying showing the world how shytty the USofA is.

How shytty is it?

REALLLY SHYTYY!!!

[Drew Dowdell]

On 10/19/2025 at 11:59 AM, G. David Felt said:

Makes me wonder if their account got hacked due to poor password security. Van is here in Seattle and used to post all the time. Dog never heard of till now

Different account. You're thinking of @VenSeattle.  All of the accounts were new signups that got through 2 layers of spam filters. I pay for an extra layer of spam security for this site, that's why incidents like this are relatively rare compared to other sites. 

The first line spam firewall has blocked over 5,400 attacks over the last 7 days, and it's like that every week.  So 11 getting through once every few months is still fantastic results. There's a second layer of spam filter as well. These spammers were reported to both.

[ccap41]

I'm glad you know how to use the GoogleMachine to find pictures that suit your feelings. 

[oldshurst442]

2 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

I'm glad you know how to use the GoogleMachine to find pictures that suit your feelings. 

Im glad to know that you actually HAVE the time to read my posts about how shytty your country is!!!

And...the shyttyness of your country is real. 

Phoque you

Phooque the usa 

 

[oldshurst442]

Bruce even sang about how shytty your country is

 

Green Day too

 

Americans that are ashamed of being American.

Rightfully so. The usa is a shytehole country. 

[ccap41]

[oldshurst442]

On 9/26/2025 at 8:19 PM, oldshurst442 said:

 

Im working on a Montreal and Canada themed area in my man cave. Im starting it off with the Canadiens.  My post of the Ferrari/Habs comparison in the beautiful cars thread inspired me. NO products from the usa will be bought or used. China however is very acceptable.  The Ferrari is from Bburago scale 1/18. Made in China. Owned by Chinese company May Cheong Group. 

Edited 2 hours ago by oldshurst442

[surreal1272]

I am willing to try a swim in any societal pool, but I will not swim in a cesspool.

[Robert Hall]

43 minutes ago, oldshurst442 said:

 

Im working on a Montreal and Canada themed area in my man cave. Im starting it off with the Canadiens.   

A friend and former coworker has a Regina SK-themed area of his man cave in his house in Huntington Beach, CA...Western Pizza menus on the walls, SK Roughriders merch, regional beer bottles, etc.  

 I have a bunch of NE Ohio/Great Lakes region stuff for my man cave in progress--- miniature lighthouses, light house photos, freighter photos, etc. 

[A Horse With No Name]

21 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

That is not a pastor.  That is not a real religion.  Or a legit religion as how I put it last time. 

There are some that have told no that the joke is on me and that no religion  is legit...

Well...so be it. 

But...the Greek Orthodox church is almost 2000 years old. Its origins are traced back to Jesus Christ himself and his 12 apostles.  I forget who those guys were as I am not a bible thumper...but...I do know history so...

Jesus was said to be 33 years old and was crucified. Resurrected, and his apostles Paul and Silas went to Greece and preached his word and the word of God.  That would be 33 AD technically. For those that believe in Christ.  Ad means in Latin Anno Domini.  The year of our Lord.    For those that do not believe, it has been changed to CE.  Common Era

So...Greece and its people became Christian, slowly slowly in the decades that followed.

There was the Byzantium Empire but most importantly, when the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans and the Turks practiced genocide on Greeks, it was the Greek Orthodox Priests that were faced with extreme pressures of compliance from the Turks, which many died, but many also were heroes. It was the priests that not only guided the  Greeks with spirituality, but also educated them and preserved the Greek language and Greek culture.  More info than this and it becomes a university class.  

Therefore, when losers tell me that no legit religions exist, I simply ignore and laugh at their ignorance.

What I know of my Greek heritage and culture and about MY religion being the Greek Orthodox religion, that although there have been some Greek Orthodox priests that were pedophiles, (those priests in no way represent the religion and those priests were not priests at all but sexual predators, that through out 2000 years...2000 years...have NEVER preached ANY forms of hatred.  HELPED the poor.  

And in ACTUAL PHOQUING FACT:  Santa PHOQUING Clause is based on 2 Greek Orthodox bishops from  in 2 different areas of the Greek world during the 4rth century AD.

Agios Nikolaos.  Or as the English call him. Saint phoquing Nick

Lived in Myra. Present day Turkey. He secretly gave gifts to the poor. This evolved into the gift giving on Christmas day.  Saint Nick day is celebrated on the 6th of December.

Agios Vasileios. Saint Basil to the English speaking world. 

Lived in  and was known to bring gifts to children in hospitals and orphanages.  Greeks in Greece have their gift giving on New Years Eve and New Years day as opposed to the 24rth and 25th of December  because that was what Saint Basil used to do.   

Greek Priests are educated.  Greek priests HOLD and PRESERVE Greek heritage and culture. 

Compare and contrast to what you got in the US and you will see that the Greek Orthodox religion is a very LEGIT religion directly rooted by Jesus Christ himself.  The Greel Orthodox Church serves only 1 purpose. To UPHOLD the TRUE word of Jesus, Holy Mary and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Trinity.   The Greek Orthodox Church helps the poor, the needy to this day...

Yes...the Greek Orthodox Church collects monies from its practitioners, its VOLUNTARY contributions but those monies DO in fact go to the poor and the needy. 

Lots of migrants in Greece.  Some locals HATE them migrants. No different from Maga south. BUT...MANY locals HELP the migrants. Why? Greek culture to help the poor.  

Who else helps these migrants?

Yup..the Greek Orthodox Church.

If you made it through, thank-you for your time. 

I didnt do this to convert you. Nor to convince you on anything.

Just to defend MY religion because Christianity gets thrown to the mud and I dont feel its fair to group snake oil salesmen con artists of the English and American fake religious types with MY religion.  The Greek Orthodox religion is Christianity and what Christianity is supposed to mean. What Christianity is supposed to represent.   What we have in Maga world is NOT Christianity and I dont like it one iota when that bullshyte is mixed in with MY religion. 
 

Starting with you. 

Cross into the Canadian border and I will answer you with the mouths of my canons...

 

In English because you probably dont have the intelligence to understand French...

 

Not religious, but I find the orthodox church about eleven billion times more Christian than American evangelicalism. 

 

2 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

A friend and former coworker has a Regina SK-themed area of his man cave in his house in Huntington Beach, CA...Western Pizza menus on the walls, SK Roughriders merch, regional beer bottles, etc.  

 I have a bunch of NE Ohio/Great Lakes region stuff for my man cave in progress--- miniature lighthouses, light house photos, freighter photos, etc. 

I have several man caves, a spare bedroom in my house for reading, a garage woodworking shop, my living room set up for Stereo equipment. 

16 minutes ago, surreal1272 said:

I am willing to try a swim in any societal pool, but I will not swim in a cesspool.

This is why most of my time is in my wood shop, my living room with my stereo, or out hiking/on my bicycle. 

The more I know about humans, the more I like cats, dogs, and birds. 

[G. David Felt]

1 hour ago, ccap41 said:

[oldshurst442]

18 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

A friend and former coworker has a Regina SK-themed area of his man cave in his house in Huntington Beach, CA...Western Pizza menus on the walls, SK Roughriders merch, regional beer bottles, etc.  

 I have a bunch of NE Ohio/Great Lakes region stuff for my man cave in progress--- miniature lighthouses, light house photos, freighter photos, etc. 

 This area will be smallish.  I already have 76 other scale 1/18 cars on display on one part of the room.   This is the 77th. I thought I was finished collected these mothereffers.  I had even downsized from 100 something not too long ago.  Well, a decade ago plus. 

I have a little corner that begs to be filled with something.  The rest of the room and I has a TV with the various obligated accessories such as a DVD player that is 20 years old. Still works perfectly. A Blue Ray now slightly more than a decade old. A 5.1 surround sound unit.   A couple of big Greek statues on another part of that room.  Hermes and Nike.   Various Ancient Greek vases, fake of course, souvenirs from when my parents visited Greece, my mom when she took me back to see Greece several times. Little statues such as Athena and Poseidon. 

So there is one small part where its not bare. But it is bland. I just got a picture of the Montreal Expos with 4 of their players.  And a wooden Dallas Cowboys plaque. The Dallas Cowboys shyte thing is already out and in the garbage.  Phoque Dallas. Phoque maga. Phoque Trump.  Elbows Up!!!

Anyway, The Montreal Expos picture will gladly welcome a little shrine to the Habs. Ill fill it up with that Ferrari.  Some cool Canada things. Montreal things.  It will be an interesting journey to fill it up with Montreal/Canada pride stuff. 

Edited 1 hour ago by oldshurst442

[A Horse With No Name]

This looks like a good ride for later this year. I plan to ride into December. 

https://www.traillink.com/trail-maps/maple-highlands-trail/

 

1 minute ago, oldshurst442 said:

 This area will be smallish.  I already have 76 other scale 1/18 cars on display on one part of the room.   This is the 77th. I thought I was finished collected these mothereffers.  I had even downsized from 100 something not too long ago.  Well, a decade ago plus. 

I have a little corner that begs to be filled with something.  The rest of the room and I has a TV with the various obligated accessories such as a DVD player that is 20 years old. Still works perfectly. A Blue Ray now slightly more than a decade old. A 5.1 surround sound unit.   A couple of Greek statues on another part of that room.  Hermes and Nike.  

So there is one small part where its not bare. But it is bland. I just got a picture of the Montreal Expos with 4 of their players.  And a wooden Dallas Cowboys plaque. The Dallas Cowboys shyte thing is already out and in the garbage.  Phoque Dallas. Phoque maga. Phoque Trump.  Elbows Up!!!

Anyway, The Montreal Expos picture will gladly welcome a little shrine to the Habs. Ill fill it up with that Ferrari.  Some cool Canada things. Montreal things.  It will be an interesting journey to fill it up with Montreal/Canada pride stuff. 

Absolutely. And I hate, hate, hate the Cowboys and Penn State football.  Very happy that neither of them are having a good year. 

[surreal1272]

23 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

This is why most of my time is in my wood shop, my living room with my stereo, or out hiking/on my bicycle. 

The more I know about humans, the more I like cats, dogs, and birds. 

Same. Either art creating, music listening, E-bike riding (when the hips allow it lol), or project building these days.

[A Horse With No Name]

9 minutes ago, surreal1272 said:

Same. Either art creating, music listening, E-bike riding (when the hips allow it lol), or project building these days.

Music keeps me sane. But I need to stop buying vinyl, or at least slow down. 

Only in America. 

[A Horse With No Name]

I remember these out in traffic when I was a kid...

 

[A Horse With No Name]

Another Boeing 747 Hull Loss, interesting. 

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/552575

[trinacriabob]

It's a bird.

It's a plane.

It's sh!+.

[G. David Felt]

37 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Another Boeing 747 Hull Loss, interesting. 

https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/552575

Sad that the two in the airport auto lost their life.

[A Horse With No Name]

8 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

Sad that the two in the airport auto lost their life.

Odd for me as it first flew on almost the same day as my older son was born, strange seeing something that was the exact same age as your kid die. 

39 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

It's a bird.

It's a plane.

It's sh!+.

Beautiful even in death.

 

[surreal1272]

1 hour ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Music keeps me sane. But I need to stop buying vinyl, or at least slow down. 

Only in America. 

My vinyl count was pretty low over the years until the last six months or so. I have an old school console stereo from my birth year (1972) with a great sounding little turntable on it. Even has a working 8-track with eight tapes! I picked it up about two years ago for $25 at a thrift store and only had to replace a $14 cartridge! Since then, I have slowly (until the last six months lol) built up my old school collection. Hasn't gotten too out of hand but one must always be wary!