04-06-2021, 08:57 PM
I admire the man. It takes a certain amount of testicular fortitude to get past the uniform and tell armed interlopers to get the hell off your lawn while you yourself are unarmed. I particularly liked the way he would not allow the lady cop to say her piece, because he did not care to hear it. The man would not be overrun or overtalked, and there is a certain poetic justice to that!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’