Just don’t scrape the pot too hard when stirring it.

Does this mean that they started the first batch thousands of years ago with Theseus in it?

… interrupted by an unskippable ad for the biggest flame lighter the size of a small toaster

Sauron shot his eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle?

I’m no historian … I just remember reading about this history a long time ago. The most famous story is about Cincinnatus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

The most famous story related to Cincinnatus occurs after his retirement from public service to a simple life of farming. As Roman forces struggled to defeat the Aequi, Cincinnatus was summoned from his plough to assume complete control over the state. After achieving a swift victory in sixteen days, Cincinnatus relinquished power and its privileges, returning to labor on his farm.

Whether or not it was true is anyone’s guess as it was written Roman history and it is debated as to whether or not it happened but there are enough examples through Roman history of government being handed over like this to a ‘Dictator’ and then handed back. It was considered just a way of getting things done as quickly as possible during emergencies and then when things normalized again, senates and groups of elected officials could take their time debating stuff again.

He was a great warrior … but Ralphie shot his eye out

Dictatorships were created during the Roman era as a form of emergency government during times of crisis or war. Government basically just decided to hand over everything to one person, a Dictator, who was agreed upon to handle everything unrestrained in order to get things done as quickly as possible. Once the emergency was over, the Dictator agreed to hand back control to government. Power was exchanged like this several times during the Roman era.

Dictators were originally meant as a form of government that was needed and created by the people … it wasn’t until later that the process was hijacked and used as a form of control and totalitarianism.

There will still be someone out there that will try to one up this piercing.

Taking socialist advice from a capitalist invention.

Leonard! … what an honorable name! I feel privileged to be able to send my greetings! … All Hail Leonard!

I’m just about to finish watching season four … and I’ve suddenly realized how terrible it will feel when I get to the end. Man I love this show!

… does flipping the board, then screaming and pounding my chest like a wild ape count?

… and people wonder why ancient Roman and Greek ruins lay abandoned everywhere … ‘I wonder what happened to the old people that lived here so many years ago?’

lasers

I thought it was just: dread, dying, death, decay, die

This is the reason why our current timeline is really messed up … a bunch of idiots went back, killed a bunch of people to stop someone from getting born, restarted another timeline, killed Haegl which gave rise to Hitler, killed another person, restarted again, killed another person, restarted again, kill another person and now we are here.

I’m middle aged now and I never lived in or near a big city … always lived in small towns close to wilderness areas where I am most comfortable. I worked mostly as a labourer all my life … seldom for a company and mostly in all that time for myself mainly. … and I also have to admit during a time period where work and money was more available and within ones reach. Work was more plentiful and housing was more affordable.

It meant I had freedom of movement and freedom of time … but it never meant freedom with money. I live within my means and I live very low key and I also don’t have children so I only support myself and my wife. So we live in a modest house I bought for little and fix myself and own cars and trucks that are all used.

I can’t imagine what it would be like to live in or near a city in this day in age … I would probably not survive and just end up being one of those guys that know how to build a shelter in a dumpster and find food scraps from warehouses and restaurants.

I wouldn’t be such a shitty person if it weren’t for me