Overheard

Not one single person asked me

how fast can I run

in my brand new shoes today.

Being an adult is fuckin' stupid.

Overheard

Spend a lot less timing worrying about what society thinks of you - how you look, what you do, what you have or haven't accomplished, who you do or don't love, your successes and your failures.

Society is not a terribly healthy thing. It's not even particularly sane.

Putting stock in what society thinks is like deferring to the judgment of a lunatic.

Overheard

It's weird

being the same age

as old people

Overheard

hat tip = Nat'l Park Svc

If you hold an ermine

up to your ear,

you can hear

what it sounds like

when an ermine

rips your ear off.

Overheard

If every person of color took out a life insurance policy that paid like a million dollars, Wall Street would make sure there was never another wrongful death at the hands of the police.

Overheard

Pretty funny thinking about "Alpha Males" - a buncha guys invented a top social tier and decided they were all in it.

OK - so if you're an Alpha Male, then I'm a Turbo Dude, which is at least a level or two higher. But we don't expect you to understand cuz you're just an Alpha. Too bad. Work on it, cupcake.

Overheard

The people who insisted on putting

'parental advisory' stickers

and 'explicit content' stickers

on music are now complaining

about trigger warnings.

Stop trying to win something

with these fuckin' clowns.

Overheard

46 men were arrested in Frisco, TX.

They were all part of a sex trafficking ring. 

A volunteer firefighter, a HS teacher, a youth pastor, a semi-pro hockey player, & a hospital director of operations were among those arrested. 

But not one drag queen. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

Overheard

Ronald Reagan Updated:

"I'm with the Private Sector, and I'm on your side."

Overheard

Me:

Speaking of things they tell you are "good for you", here's a common formula:

...so tell me - which of those chemicals would you like to have in your body?

Him:

None of it! That's what I'm saying - big pharma and all these so-called doctors are pumping poison into us!!

Me:

Well, Mr Genius, that's the chemical makeup of an apple (🍎), and you are a living testament to the fact that anti-vaxxers don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

Overheard

Eventually, there will be

fully automated self-driving cars.

And then it's only a matter of time

before we get a country song

where the guy's truck leaves him too.

Overheard

No - we are not living in a simulation, in the same way we were never visited by those flying saucers in the 1950s.

First comes The Exorcist, and then we get 'satanic panic'.

Some people - often women - started to discover that pharmaceuticals could be extracted from certain plants, and then we were burning witches.

Our belief in "things paranormal" tends to move in step with the sci-fi ooky-spooky style of the contemporary culture, and the simulation thing only appeared when The Matrix did.

Overheard

We've spent centuries believing our capacity for compassion is what makes us human.

Turns out it's actually our ability to select each image containing a fire hydrant.

Overheard

Don't mistake

speaking without thought

for speaking the truth.

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  Billionaire philanthropy is just PR. Tax the billionaires.

 LOL - you trust the Government to spend our money?

 Yes, we voted them in and we can vote them out.

 Government is bought and paid for.

 Bought by who?

 By the billionair ... 😳

 ... 😉

Yeah, OK - tax the billionaires.

Overheard

You don't need to convince evil men to do evil things.

You need to convince good men they're doing good things.

Some of the best men I've ever met

have done some of the worst things I've ever seen.

Overheard

Religion:

Why do they love me and hate you?

Atheism:

Because you're a comforting lie,

and I'm the painful truth.

Overheard

 

ConservaSpeak Translated:

I'm worried about offending people by saying

'Merry Christmas',

so I'm telling them all to fuck off instead.

Overheard

Art is not only a mirror

that reflects the world around us.

It's also a hammer

that can be used to shape it.

Overheard

You don't have a community without

a bank

a school

a hospital

a supermarket

Last year, Black Americans spent  $2B on Air Jordans

                                                 $4B on liquor

                                                 $800M at restaurants

Twice as many black folks bought a Merceds-Benz as white folks, even though white folks have 2 or 4 or 6 times the wealth as black folks.

When they can't fully participate in the freedom they see all around them, people will surround themselves with the trappings of that freedom - the status symbols.