Escaping Reality

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for the record

Eating locusts: The crunchy, kosher snack taking Israel by swarm Israel is in the grip of a locust invasion, but some people are taking a novel approach to pest control - eating them.

"They don't eat wild Locusts in Israel unless they want to eat bugs that are seasoned with pesticides.

They eat clean from Locusts farms."

Dennis, you're talking out of your ass.

www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

The practice that you deny exists was widely reported. You may sit down and shut up, now.

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"Venomous Lionfish-Os"

You're triggering a high school cafeteria flashback.

You can buy them in pet stores. Or in restaurants.

No matter how many times I say that, it still sounds wrong.

We should break off diplomatic relations with them, and encourage the culturally superior country to their east to invade.

Türkiye could use another few provinces.

They do this all of the time, and they never do anything else. That "finest university in Greece" whose homepage I linked to, early, in ranked the 667th university on Earth.

In America, we'd call it a "party school." They're a joke, and so is Greece.

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No use I can think. When, in the last 500 years, have they been anything but a net liability to the West? Or even people that the rest of us would have any reason to want to know?

We help them and they spit on us.

Or, at you say, "crawl"?

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Nikki is not the first a--hole from Greece that we've ever met, is he? Not even close, right?

You raise some uncomfortable questions, but some solid ones.

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Should we invite others to run with us, when we've been seeing them fail to walk?

This is somebody who you had initially tried to help

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and went on trying to help, even as he acted like a jerk. Given ample opportunity to clean up his act, he just wouldn't, sorry excuse for a man that he was, and almost certainly will be.

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You then told him off.

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In detail.

Inquiring minds need to know.

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Look, man, I need clarity and I need assurance that what you're getting hammered on isn't Budweiser, because at 2:49 pm, that would be tragic.

Tell me that it's at least a Guinness.

or

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2. It's time to worry, because damn. I mean, seriously, damn.

What I'm seeing is a failure of basic reading comprehension skills. When full grown adults can't seem to read as well as grade school students, the only conclusions that seem available to me are

1. It's Happy Hour, somewhere, the bar has wifi, and this week's "can you top this" contest has begun.

Am I being messed with? You're totally messing with me, aren't you?

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"Note that lobster is often described as succulent."

But nobody thinks that there's such a species as "the succulent lobster or

"Mushrooms as nutty."

the nutty mushroom.

We're in Illinois, posting in English, he's in Greece posting in Greek, half of the time ... he really couldn't figure out that we weren't his neighbors?

OK. Is Greece really the country that Aristotle and Socrates came from? Because right now, they're not looking like the smartest people alive.

"Had claimed," rather. He replied with more empty headed abuse

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to the very suggestion that he could use the Internet to get in touch with somebody from another country, even though that's what he was doing, right then.

You replied, pointing out how little sense he was making.

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Nick, at this point, is exploding in condescending rage because you reminded him that he could use the Internet to get information from people in other countries.

He claimed that idea was "absurd."

You anticipated his abuse of the nuclear block and tried to deal with it in the usual way.

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I'm linking to that and encouraging those reading this to download the receipts, and save the links, themselves, because this was epic LOLcowery on nsp's part.

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That this proved futile.

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That you tried to reason with him.

This is a troll convention, right?

I mean, if I said that my neighbor was driving a blue Camaro, people wouldn't think that Chevrolet had come out with a new car called "the Blue Camaro, would they? They'd understand that he was just driving a Camaro that happened to be blue?

OK, are you guys messing with us?

Sorry to disappoint, but the creature in question is called a "lionfish," not a "venomous lionfish." "Venomous" in this case is an adjective describing the fish, not part of its name.

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Did anybody read the article?