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Is the nice Canadian boy still being offered for fouth place? 🤩 I am still over the moon at making top 10! There were so many good poems that I wouldn't have been able to pick any favourites. Congratulations to all that entered! 💖
I'm sure something can be worked out. There are lots of nice Canadian boys.
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I really don't like the Top Author and Top Story lists.. it's a popularity list as opposed to an indication of the quality of the writing. That WW is only at 75 speaks volumes.
There are only 3 Competition winners in the Top 20, none in the Top 10 so its a list of who has a big fan base, nothing more.. but yeah, if it really matters, have the Top 30,000.. Lets drown in data
I wouldn't be in favour of extending the Top Author list but perhaps because I'm unlikely to ever be on it. I think susie's post is really interesting. I like to think my stories are well written and I do OK on Comps which does not necessarily mean lots of views. I do agree that the Top Authors list is at least partly a popularity contest but also find that the top authors are often the most prolific and they write what people like to read. For me personally I'd think that EPs and RRs are more indicative of a top quality story and a top author but that doesn't necessarily mean they are popular. I have an RR that has about 600 views.
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Ditto from me. Never let the bastards win.
Speaking of hammers....just wanted to mention I have a number of them including 3 sledgehammers and I'm descended from Vikings. Never seen myself fully oiled so no promises there. I'll have a root beer float with 3 gummies please. I got a grant for research. Plus I'm feeling a bit excitable or something.
Morning all, coffee for me please.
I do have something I'm tinkering with for the Comp, not sure I'll have something I like enough to submit but I do like my scenario. Can a poem have a scenario?
Kat: That's a ridiculous amount of bad luck, you should buy a lottery ticket; surely you are due.
We don't have that much snow so far, one can easily walk through the forest without snowshoes.
Happy Friday!
Update: US just had their 3rd aircraft incident in 2 weeks under Trump, a small passenger plane lost with 10 souls aboard while FAA is gutted
- there's a measles outbreak amongst kids in red states with the lowest vaccination rate (Don't worry anti-vax Kennedy will fix it)
-US will use Panama Canal for free, oh wait that was a lie
-US backs off tariff threats in exchange for absolutely nothing
And Tesla sales are tanking no doubt due to the business brilliance of Trump and Musk
The accomplishments keep piling up...
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Totally disagree. There are about 200 million of us - and many with multiple guns. If we were a problem, it would be a big problem.
The problems come from accidents and stupid people doing stupid things, not from people responsibly using and storing tools.
In 2022 approx 48,000 people died in USA from firearms, of those approx. 20,000 were homicides. Its estimated that injuries are more than double that. 20,000 gun murders seems like a pretty big problem to me, never mind the injuries. If 20,000 deaths are no big deal then 9/11 was a peashooter.
According to the Canadian Press and sourced from the US Travel Association Canadians made 20.4 million visits to the US in 2024 generating $20.5 billion in spending and providing 140,000 American jobs. A 10% reduction by Canadian travel causes a hit of about $2 Billion to the US economy. The best part: Florida and Texas will lose their largest visitor base. Canadians are cancelling US travel plans right and left even at a cost to them citing Trump as the reason.
I don't pay much attention to NFL and don't really care who wins. Ideally Mahomes throws an errant pass that smacks his wife in the face and the kicker Butker falls on his ass every time he lines up a kick. If Cheeto's appearance isn't soundly booed I will lose all faith in America. Guess I have different Super Bowl dreams than most people. 🤣
Six gummies and a coffee. I may require medication.
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Been a horrendous few days, and then I turned on the news… 🙄
Mr Ape, Bear, or LYFBUZ, please leave a small hidden door in the wall so Kimmi, my son, Buttercup, and a few loved ones can squeeze through. ❤️ I won’t bother anyone and will find an igloo up north to inhabit.
No worries Kimmi, we'll just start up the Underground Railroad again, good folks are always welcome here.
Damn, cannoli again! Yes please and a coffee to go. Appreciate the name change but I'm still not drinking whiskey.
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And in a master stroke the Canadian government appoints Trump as Fentanyl Czar explaining "Czar" means Russian king. His ego thus served he calls a press conference, all tariffs are forgotten, he tells everyone he is now king of Canada then goes golfing.
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Just got word that the Canadians are building a wall to keep us out.
That is actually Plan B although some work has started.
Plan A is we're pretty sure most Americans can't find Canada on a map so we're probably pretty safe. Cheeto finally, actually did something positive: he united Canadians from coast to coast to coast and they are fucking pissed!!!!
Coffee please, sorry for ranting, better make it 3 gummies. For science. And the Revolution!
CHEETO: "Canada's been very abusive of the United States for many years. They don't allow our banks. Did you know that? Canada does not allow banks to go in. If you think about it, that's pretty amazing," he said.
FACT: There are 16 U.S.-based bank subsidiaries and branches in Canada holding about $113 billion in assets, according to the Canadian Bankers Association.
$113 billion seems like a fuck of a lot for no market access...
The other thing he failed to mention is Canada has some of the best banking regulations in the world to protect consumers from banks going under. US Banks aren't safe enough to meet Canadian thresholds and that why they choose to not operate here.
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lol Trump already caved. What a joke
A joke indeed. Cheeto keeps yapping about fentanyl and porous borders.
Fentanyl entering USA from Canada: 43 pounds (1%)
Fentanyl Entering Canada FROM USA: 10.8 pounds
Fentanyl entering USA from Mexico: 21,100 pounds
Precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl come from China
Cheeto's solution: 25% tariff on Canada, Pause tariffs on Mexico, 10% tariff on China.
Illegal entries to USA:
From Canada: 23,721 (1.39%) More people entered Canada illegally from USA
From Mexico: 1.5 million
Note: 37,000 Chinese citizens caught entering USA illegally in 2023.
Meanwhile the flow of illegal guns and drugs from USA to Canada is in the billions of dollars.
Good morning from Canada, land of the free. Coffee for me please, I need a lot of energy for my new political career. Canadians starting booing the US national anthem before sports events over the weekend. Rest assured we are not booing nice Americans, we are booing the Cheeto. Sorry.
I haven't used CBD oils or extracts specifically but I do use edibles and weed that contains CBD. In my experience there is some pain relief (joints, back, neck) although I'm not entirely sure its not just placebo effect. I'd agree with Ensorceled, ibuprofen seems more effective although personally I'd rather smoke or have an edible.
The 1930's Third Reich playbook versus 2025 USA:
Get in bed with the biggest companies -Krupp, BMW, etc (USA: Musk, et al)
Control the media/propaganda (USA: Musk, Zuckerberg, threats/lawsuits against mainstream media)
Lie, lie big, lie often and the lie becomes truth -straight out of Mein Kampf (Trump tells thousands of lies, Stop the Steal being foremost)
Eliminate opposition - murders, drive into exile (USA lifts Secret Service protections, fucks with voter suppression, reverses equal rights)
Identify a scapegoat(s) and propagandize accordingly - Jews, gypsies, intellectuals, homosexuals, communists (USA: pretty similar, note comments about 'radical left', colleges and gender)
White caucasians rule, everyone else is inferior (USA: ditto)
Blame state of economy on other countries (USA: apparently Canada, Mexico and China are responsible for US having the world's richest economy) BTW: Inflation was caused by all that free money that Trump sent out during Covid, same as every G7 country.
Threaten nations to get concessions - Czechoslovakia, Poland, Saar Valley, etc the concessions didn't work Hitler kept taking more (USA threatens democratic nations with economic and military force)
And just like in 1930's there were appeasers, folks saying the Nazis weren't really serious, and folks thinking they were safe; until they weren't. Facism is a slippery slope and the velocity increases over time unless its shut down.
That's just scratching the surface, hopefully someone has or will do a book examining the parallels in more detail.
from MSN: Sean Duffy said: "Effective immediately, the Department of Transportation will no longer participate in celebrations based on immutable traits or any other identity-based observances."
Wonder if all the MAGA Christians realize Duffy just cancelled Xmas and Easter?
MMmmmmm chocolate cake for breakfast. Coffee for me please. I have the threads of a poem that I just kinda puked out. I think the idea is OK but i need a major re-write/format. Kinda motivated now, looks like you're one Canadian short of an orgy.
Glad everyone is recovering from all those nasty weather events and health issues.
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Lyfbuz, you might need to offer yourself up as a prize again in this comp. If you’ve recovered from whatever Rowan did to you.
I haven’t seen the video yet.
I didn't offer myself up, I offered a "nice Canadian boy." I'm not nice as evidenced by my profile and numerous forum posts. Also not born in Canada. And no longer a boy. Not sure how that confusion started. I'll consider it though, I do like to support Lush.
