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It's spring again. Everybody knows it's spring again.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, March 28, 2011, 06:08:01 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

March 28, 2011, 06:08:01 PM
It's definitely spring time in Tucson.  Everyone's excited about the annual anvil-biting competition, and people are wrecking their cars with a flair not seen during the dreary winter months.  Everyone is smiling...Except the Mormons, but there's no keeping them happy.

I found myself driving in shirtsleeves last night, after dark, with the windows down and the radio blasting Bizmark-E tunes, watching those people walking1...Young couples holding hands, cheerful drug dealers hawking their wares, beat cops chatting with bangers...It was like being in another city.

So, yeah, we made it through another winter, and life seems to have gotten a bit better than it was last spring.  The economy is still in the shitter, and our state government is, if anything, loopier than it was...But it's nice outside, and I am here to enjoy it.

And this leads me to a point that you won't hear on the news:  Things really aren't that bad.  In fact, compared to 50 years ago, things are pretty damn good.

Of course, there's still going to be people that point out the shitty end of the stick.  If confronted by the fact that there really isn't all that much shit on the stick, they will point out that the shit is increasing (not because it's measurable, but because shit always increases), and that they simply don't make sticks the way they used to.

But they aren't going to be happy, no matter what happens. 

Me, I'm going to enjoy the next month or so as much as I can, before the summer heat gets serious, and I'm not going to worry about shitty sticks or whether or not the glass is half empty (or full of arsenic, yada, yada), or even the fact that - financially - times are tight.

I'm going to cruise around The City in the Jeep, I'm going to walk the districts, and get The City back under my feet, where it belongs.  I am going to find the weird, and I am going to jump in head first.

That's what spring is for...To congratulate you on surviving another winter, and to make you feel good, at least for a time.  So get the hell out of the house, and take advantage of the fact that you're alive, reasonably well, and not (I hope) eating out of dumpsters.

Or Kill Me


1 Which, despite the nice weather, we are still most definitely against.
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#1
March 28, 2011, 06:09:30 PM
I agree with this post 169 times over.

Suu

#2
March 28, 2011, 06:16:36 PM
what's a springtime?
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Luna

#3
March 28, 2011, 06:17:28 PM
Awesome post, Roger, made me smile.
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If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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#4
March 28, 2011, 06:18:45 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 28, 2011, 06:16:36 PM
what's a springtime?

It's that thing that those of us who aren't locked in an ice age get once a year.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#5
March 28, 2011, 06:19:13 PM
Quote from: Luna on March 28, 2011, 06:17:28 PM
Awesome post, Roger, made me smile.

Thanks.  That was the point, and I'm glad it seems to have made a couple of people smile.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Richter

#6
March 28, 2011, 06:20:39 PM
THIS.

This is the stuff that makes it worthwhile, and is usually the first bit to loose sight of when you get down on things.
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Anyone ever think about how Richter inhabits the same reality as you and just scream and scream and scream, but in a good way?   :lulz:

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Suu

#7
March 28, 2011, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 28, 2011, 06:18:45 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 28, 2011, 06:16:36 PM
what's a springtime?

It's that thing that those of us who aren't locked in an ice age get once a year.

Oh THAT. We had that 2 weeks ago. Then Old Man Winter got horny again, raped her, and sent her back in the kitchen.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

The Good Reverend Roger

#8
March 28, 2011, 06:23:29 PM
Quote from: Richter on March 28, 2011, 06:20:39 PM
THIS.

This is the stuff that makes it worthwhile, and is usually the first bit to loose sight of when you get down on things.

Hell, yeah.  Scrape a couple of dollars together, get Luna and maybe Suu out for one of those vile Turkish coffees, and take a walk.  Guaranteed to cheer you up, even if you have to dodge Guidos and aging mafiosa.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Suu

#9
March 28, 2011, 06:25:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 28, 2011, 06:23:29 PM
Quote from: Richter on March 28, 2011, 06:20:39 PM
THIS.

This is the stuff that makes it worthwhile, and is usually the first bit to loose sight of when you get down on things.

Hell, yeah.  Scrape a couple of dollars together, get Luna and maybe Suu out for one of those vile Turkish coffees, and take a walk.  Guaranteed to cheer you up, even if you have to dodge Guidos and aging mafiosa.

Those Turkish coffees are BRILLIANT.


Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

The Good Reverend Roger

#10
March 28, 2011, 06:27:00 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 28, 2011, 06:25:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 28, 2011, 06:23:29 PM
Quote from: Richter on March 28, 2011, 06:20:39 PM
THIS.

This is the stuff that makes it worthwhile, and is usually the first bit to loose sight of when you get down on things.

Hell, yeah.  Scrape a couple of dollars together, get Luna and maybe Suu out for one of those vile Turkish coffees, and take a walk.  Guaranteed to cheer you up, even if you have to dodge Guidos and aging mafiosa.

Those Turkish coffees are BRILLIANT.




Oh, absolutely.  Brilliant and vile and evil and addictive as fuck.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Dysfunctional Cunt

#11
March 28, 2011, 06:28:58 PM
Thanks Roger, I needed this!




I will, of course, be cursing up one side and down the other if it truly snows again this week....  it's obligatory.

Luna

#12
March 28, 2011, 06:31:22 PM
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on March 28, 2011, 06:25:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 28, 2011, 06:23:29 PM
Quote from: Richter on March 28, 2011, 06:20:39 PM
THIS.

This is the stuff that makes it worthwhile, and is usually the first bit to loose sight of when you get down on things.

Hell, yeah.  Scrape a couple of dollars together, get Luna and maybe Suu out for one of those vile Turkish coffees, and take a walk.  Guaranteed to cheer you up, even if you have to dodge Guidos and aging mafiosa.

Those Turkish coffees are BRILLIANT.




I haven't had.    Y'all have been holding out on me.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

The Good Reverend Roger

#13
March 28, 2011, 06:35:56 PM
Quote from: Khara on March 28, 2011, 06:28:58 PM
Thanks Roger, I needed this!




I will, of course, be cursing up one side and down the other if it truly snows again this week....  it's obligatory.

The funniest part of this is the teabaggers howling and hooting about how this must be "global warming", sarcastically.

Humorous part is, it IS.  This is the next stage, as ocean currents change and more and more water evaporates at the equator, causing much of North America and Europe to get nice and chilly.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#14
March 28, 2011, 06:37:34 PM
Ah, Spring! The season marked here by a rain-soaked carnage of worms and slugs on the pavement. The plums are blooming and heartbreak is in the air.
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