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Posted on 11/29/24 at 7:13 am to Armymann50
Posted on 11/29/24 at 7:13 am to Armymann50
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Britain and Spain sign the Brussels Agreement to enter discussions over the status of Gibraltar.
For a time, during the 70s and 80s, the UK was practically having a fire sale on its over seas possessions. What stopped them was that the folks actually living in places like Gibraltar and the Falkland Isles wanted nothing to do with leaving the UK and no amount of bribery attempted by the British could sway them.
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Posted on 11/29/24 at 7:17 am to Arksulli
it's hard to ween a vunable once they are getting bennies
Posted on 11/29/24 at 8:27 am to Armymann50
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it's hard to ween a vunable once they are getting bennies
Well, that and those folks would have been forced to become citizens of Argentina and Spain. A few Brits choose to retire to Spain but not like a horde and nobody wants to be Argentinian... especially Argentinians.
Posted on 11/29/24 at 11:27 am to Arksulli
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Declare that from henceforth all your grand children will be called boy or girl for the rest of their lives. It'll save you a lot of time on pesky things like names. Also pick a random day out of the year and proclaim that birthday day.
Jokes aside, congratulations to you and your family.
Thanks. The big thing is all the b'days and holidays. Everytime I turn around it's a b'day. Another Grandson has a B'day coming up next week, so they are now about 10 days apart.
Christmas is crazy.
I now understand why my great grandma always got me a pack of wrigley gum for Christmas every year. She probably had 100 kids, grandkids and great grandkids to buy for.
Posted on 11/29/24 at 12:46 pm to 3down10
Afternoon All it was 27 degrees here this morning. No wind so it didn't really feel that bad. 51 will be the high.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 4:33 am to OK Roughneck
Good morning
Posted on 11/30/24 at 5:21 am to Rockbrc
Morning all
Posted on 11/30/24 at 6:07 am to kywildcatfanone
Today in History November 30
1630
16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1782
The British sign a preliminary agreement in Paris, recognizing American independence.
1935
Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany.
1948
The Soviet Union complete the division of Berlin, installing the government in the Soviet sector.
1950
President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea.
1995
Operation Desert Storm officially comes to an end.
1998
Exxon and Mobil oil companies agree to a $73.7 billion merge, creating the world's largest company, Exxon-Mobil.
2004
On the game show Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings loses after 74 consecutive victories. It is the longest winning streak in game-show history, earning him a total of over $3 million.
2017
World's longest recorded rainbow - 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei's Yangmingshan mountain range
2020
Los Angeles County begins three-week stay at home order for 10 million people to combat COVID-19 surge
2021
Barbados becomes a Republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state in a ceremony with Sandra Mason sworn in as the first President, with Rihanna declared a national hero
Born on November 30
1835
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American writer best remembered for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
1930
G. Gordon Liddy, chief operative for the "White House Plumbers" (July-September 1971) during Richard Nixon's administration, he organized and oversaw the Watergate burglaries of the Democratic National Committee headquarters. He served nearly 52 months in federal prison.
1955
Billy Idol (William Broad), punk rock musician; member of Generation X band.
Joke of the day
Little April was not the best student in Sunday school. Usually she slept through the class. One day the teacher called on her while she was napping, "Tell me, April, who created the universe?" When April didn't stir, little Johnny, a boy seated in the chair behind her, took a pin and jabbed her in the rear. "GOD ALMIGHTY!" shouted April and the teacher said, "Very good" and April fell back asleep. A while later the teacher asked April, "Who is our Lord and Saviour," But, April didn't even stir from her slumber. Once again, Johnny came to the rescue and stuck her again. "JESUS CHRIST!" shouted April and the teacher said, "very good," and April fell back to sleep. Then the teacher asked April a third question. "What did Eve say to Adam after she had her twenty-third child?" And again, Johnny jabbed her with the pin. This time April jumped up and shouted, "IF YOU STICK THAT F*****G THING IN ME ONE MORE TIME, I'LL BREAK IT IN HALF AND STICK IT UP YOUR ARSE!" The Teacher fainted.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 8:34 am to Armymann50
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1630
16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
Europe had a curious relationship with plagues, especially the dreaded "Black Death" plague that killed a third of the population (some estimates put that number just north of 50%). Now we know, or should know, just how devastating a pandemic, even a fairly mild one, can be. In addition to the loss of human life COVID absolutely hammered the global economy.
In Europe the Black Death, one of the most terrifying plagues in human history, may have been the event that spurred Europe to become the dominant region in the world for hundreds of years. How?
Back then any son lucky enough to reach adulthood (you could expect to lose half of your children to disease before their 5th birthday) would more or less inherit their father's job. If your dad was a shepherd, your arse was going to be a shepherd too. But what if you were a whiz with numbers? Great. You'll be really good at counting your sheep.
As a result the economy was, as a whole, incredibly stagnant. Then the Black Death puts its thang down. Instead of a stagnant labor pool with low wages you suddenly had a dramatic need for labor. and with that a corresponding increase in wages. This meant the nobility (and the so called merchant princes in the various Republics) had to loosen the purse strings whether they wanted to or not.
So, the middle class, which had been incredibly rare, suddenly boomed in population and it is from the middle class that most innovation and economic drive takes place. One of the worst events in human history actually opened up a bottleneck in European prosperity.
Sounds odd? Consider that Japan had a good chunk of its population die from World War II and all of its major cities essentially razed to the ground. Terrible right? Yes, but it opened up Japanese society, and for a long period of time made the Japanese middle class the most prosperous in the world. History has a funny way of working out some times.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 11:12 am to Arksulli
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In addition to the loss of human life COVID absolutely hammered the global economy.
Centralized planning, fake stats and narratives hammered the global economy. They forced people to not go to work, they forced businesses to go down, meanwhile WalMart and other big businesses made record profits because they were somehow immune to it all.
Built on extreme amounts of censorship and attacking the careers and lives of those who spoke common sense and truth.
It was just 1 giant scam so that Big Pharma could get some return on it's 20+ year investments on MRNA.
All planned, much like those trying to get us into nuclear wars now.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 11:30 am to Armymann50
Morning All !! Sad today it's the last day of the regular football season.
SEC
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Posted on 11/30/24 at 12:02 pm to OK Roughneck
All good things come to an end.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 12:24 pm to OK Roughneck
I'm glad it's over. We are the suckiest of sucky teams.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 1:13 pm to kywildcatfanone
Hope Basketball is better for you this year.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 1:31 pm to OK Roughneck
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Hope Basketball is better for you this year.
So far it is.
Posted on 11/30/24 at 2:48 pm to kywildcatfanone
We beat Louisville yesterday but I dont know yet if that means anything
Posted on 11/30/24 at 9:32 pm to OK Roughneck
Congrats on winning the game tonight to LSU and their fans
Posted on 12/1/24 at 5:00 am to OK Roughneck
Today in History
December 1
1641
Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1959
12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
1974
Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
1974
LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
1990
British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel
1992
Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
2019
Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan, China
Born on December 1
1949
Pablo EscobarColombian drug lord, born in Rionegro, Colombia
1970
Sarah Silverman American actress and comedian (The Sarah Silverman Program, I Smile Back), born in Bedford, New Hampshire
JOTD
Late one night a man is driving down the road, speeding quite a bit. A cop notices how fast he is going and pulls him over. The cop says to the man, "Are you aware of how fast you were going?"
The man replies, "Yes I am. I'm trying to escape a robbery I got involved in."
The cop gives him a skeptical look and says, "Were you the one being robbed?"
The man casually replies, "No, I committed the robbery."
The cop looks shocked that the man admitted this. "So you're telling me you were speeding...AND committed a robbery?"
"Yes," the man calmly says. "I have the loot in the back."
The cop begins to get angry. "Sir, I'm afraid you have to come with me." The cop reaches in the window to subdue the man.
"Don't do that!" the man yells fearfully. "I'm scared you will find the gun in my glove compartment!" The cop pulls his hand out. "Wait here," he says.
The cop calls for backup. Soon cops, cars, and helicopters are flooding the area. The man is cuffed quickly and taken towards a car. However, before he gets in, a cop walks up to him and says, while gesturing to the cop that pulled him over, "Sir, this officer informed us that you had committed a robbery, had stolen loot in the trunk of your car, and had a loaded gun in your glove compartment. However, we found none of these things in your car."
The man replies, "Yeah, and I bet that liar said I was speeding too!"
Posted on 12/1/24 at 5:22 am to Armymann50
Morning all
Posted on 12/1/24 at 6:23 am to kywildcatfanone
Wakey wakey hands off snakey!
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