I was going to write a piece about the tedium around the dying narrative of Covid, the death-throes of the
MSM trying to keep the story alive and the effect its having on a bored public that has moved on.
But I realised I couldn't be bothered!


Can't we move on to the alien invasion...? I mean, there are struggling Graphic-Artists waiting in the wings who
need the money and I guess Hollywood would appreciate the cash-boost. The Moronic-flu story was a good try
and selective-wording can maintain its Lazarus-like status, but to be fair, the failing body is starting to smell.


What astounds me is the lack of opinion-pieces about the end-game of all this. Unless the manner that we elect
our representatives has been totally changed without our consent, who's going to vote for a party/person who
condones the current paradigm?

Even accepting a slow-sea-change -that will undoubtedly surface in a politician's narrative, those who took part in
this oppressive act -including the Police and security-forces, will be looked on with greater suspicion than they are
now.

I can appreciate the control-aspect is in the hands of a small number of people who fund those to supposedly protect
us and tell us what to think, but the situation we're currently in is too-close to the edge of reasoning.
You can't sell, advertise and convince in a world of chaos and mistrust, and what the media need to wake up to is that
Journalism won't be required either.


Edit: However, there are those who are paid to regulate these 'rules' who still don't get it! (UK)

(12-06-2021, 10:42 AM)BIAD Wrote: I was going to write a piece about the tedium around the dying narrative of Covid, the death-throes of the
MSM trying to keep the story alive and the effect its having on a bored public that has moved on.
But I realised I couldn't be bothered!


Can't we move on to the alien invasion...? I mean, there are struggling Graphic-Artists waiting in the wings who
need the money and I guess Hollywood would appreciate the cash-boost. The Moronic-flu story was a good try
and selective-wording can maintain its Lazarus-like status, but to be fair, the failing body is starting to smell.


What astounds me is the lack of opinion-pieces about the end-game of all this. Unless the manner that we elect
our representatives has been totally changed without our consent, who's going to vote for a party/person who
condones the current paradigm?

Even accepting a slow-sea-change -that will undoubtedly surface in a politician's narrative, those who took part in
this oppressive act -including the Police and security-forces, will be looked on with greater suspicion than they are
now.

I can appreciate the control-aspect is in the hands of a small number of people who fund those to supposedly protect
us and tell us what to think, but the situation we're currently in is too-close to the edge of reasoning.
You can't sell, advertise and convince in a world of chaos and mistrust, and what the media need to wake up to is that
Journalism won't be required either.


Edit: However, there are those who are paid to regulate these 'rules' who still don't get it! (UK)

Is this like elephant in the room situation now ?

People are dropping dead left and right, people are injured left and right.....but for many people, it`s still too difficult to speak what is the real situation.


More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions

(12-06-2021, 11:50 AM)Kenzo Wrote: Is this like elephant in the room situation now ?

People are dropping dead left and right, people are injured left and right....
but for many people, it`s still too difficult to speak what is the real situation.

The side-effects of the test-drugs is something that's being kept stifled, but what is surprising is
that these not-spoken-about numbers aren't the reason for the public's action of turning away from
the 'Coof-Crisis', it's because the narrative is too abrasive one way and persistently monotonous.

Basically speaking, some want something else with more glitter and filled with less depressing wordage.
Others just never understood the fear-porn in the first place and followed what the rest where doing.
And some -the young mainly, were never listening.

Viable substance to the material -aside, folk like David Icke deliver it in a more entertaining fashion!
And that was what all this really was.


Now... here's Jane with the weather!!

(12-06-2021, 12:08 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(12-06-2021, 11:50 AM)Kenzo Wrote: Is this like elephant in the room situation now ?

People are dropping dead left and right, people are injured left and right....
but for many people, it`s still too difficult to speak what is the real situation.

The side-effects of the test-drugs is something that's being kept stifled, but what is surprising is
that these not-spoken-about numbers aren't the reason for the public's action of turning away from
the 'Coof-Crisis', it's because the narrative is too abrasive one way and persistently monotonous.

Basically speaking, some want something else with more glitter and filled with less depressing wordage.
Others just never understood the fear-porn in the first place and followed what the rest where doing.
And some -the young mainly, were never listening.

Viable substance to the material -aside, folk like David Icke deliver it in a more entertaining fashion!
And that was what all this really was.


Now... here's Jane with the weather!!

That sound good analysis . Maybe there are also some who are in such a strong denial, that they just cant step to the other side, since their World would crash in some way.

The bigger the lie, the harder it is to some people believe in such thing being all lie on purpose.

(12-06-2021, 12:18 PM)Kenzo Wrote: That sound good analysis . Maybe there are also some who are in such a strong denial, that they just cant step to the other
side, since their World would crash in some way.

The bigger the lie, the harder it is to some people believe in such thing being all lie on purpose.

The need for ratings -not unlike the attention required in Tik-Tok videos, needed to be ramped-up due to the
competitive setting in the struggling standard media business. The outlandishness is just too far when it comes
to the Coof situation and since the underlying narrative is to frighten people to yearn for daily updates, the race
for higher ratings pushed the narrative into ridiculous areas.

Think the fear that came immediately after 9-11 and the way the public think about that tragedy now.
It became an old story, but the US Government benefitted from the fallout of the media-provoked reaction of the
public.

Bit by bit.




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It's mongo-time at CNN, a time when reporting is done in the hope of raising in interest in a narrative that not only been assaulted,
degraded and dragged into a position of a down-right fictional gag, the need for ratings has turned this silly storyline into an insult.

These are the same underhanded people who birthed it, rattled it in the faces of their customers and screamed 'Beware' and still hold
out on the notion that the cure for this once-avant-garde flu always had merit.

Three weeks to make it go away. Mask-wearing and social-distancing to make it go away.
One Jab. Two Jab. Three Jab, Pill. Four Jab. Incarceration, slurs for the unvaccinated, financial penalties, job-losses and onwards,.
But never a negative comment about the lineage of failure that they repeat daily via their outlets.
Here's another example of crappy journalism that even a four year-old could see through.

Quote:(CNN)Ten cases of Covid-19 were identified on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship that disembarked in New Orleans
on Sunday, the city said.

'All crew members and passengers are fully vaccinated and all 10 cases are asymptomatic, the cruise line said in a statement.

"Governor John Bel Edwards, the Louisiana Department of Health, the City of New Orleans and the Port of New Orleans are
aware and working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to initiate existing COVID-19 agreements
and protocols with the cruise line," the city said in a news release Saturday.

Wade Berry said he was on the ship with three friends, celebrating his recovery from cancer, but he didn't hear about the positive cases
until he read the statement by the New Orleans mayor's office that his sister sent him.

Everyone on board was tested Saturday, while the ship was still at sea, Berry told CNN as he traveled from New Orleans to his home in
Dallas on Sunday. "We have been on two cruises prior to this one and we didn't have to do one. It was very shocking and completely out
of the blue." Berry said he thought it was due to new government rules requiring testing.

Saturday night, "Everything was business as normal," he said. "The show went on and the bars were open. Everything was normal."
When he asked the ship's medical team about the cases, he was told he would have been notified and isolated if he had tested positive.
"I do think they should have told us something," he said.

Passengers were given a test to take at home in three days, Berry said.
New Covid-19 cases in the United States are now averaging more than 100,000 a day, shortly after millions of Americans traveled for
the Thanksgiving holiday. The seven-day moving average of new cases was 121,437 as of Saturday, according to data from Johns
Hopkins University. Prior to this week, the US last topped the 100,000-cases-a-day mark in early October.

The Norwegian Breakaway departed New Orleans on November 28 carrying 3,200 people and stopped in Belize and Mexico.

The ship was scheduled to return to New Orleans on Sunday, according to the cruise line's official website.
The cruise line is adhering to relevant quarantine and isolation protocols, the release said. Everyone disembarking the vessel
will be tested for Covid-19.
Anyone who tests positive for the virus will be required to either travel home in a personal vehicle or continue self-isolating in
accommodations provided by the cruise line.

"We take this matter extremely seriously and will continue to work closely with the CDC, the office of Governor John Bel Edwards,
the Louisiana Department of Health as well as the city and port of New Orleans," Norwegian Cruise Line said.
There have been no changes to future trips scheduled for the ship, the cruise line said.
"We will provide additional updates to impacted guests as appropriate," Norwegian Cruise Line said...'

CNN:

Wow...'All crew members and passengers are fully vaccinated and all 10 cases are asymptomatic'
Had taken a jab and there's nothing wrong with them. And somehow, this is favourable to their narrative?!!

(12-06-2021, 10:42 AM)BIAD Wrote: I was going to write a piece about the tedium around the dying narrative of Covid, the death-throes of the
MSM trying to keep the story alive and the effect its having on a bored public that has moved on.
But I realised I couldn't be bothered!

Personal story: We've got the coof. Grace tested positive Wednesday, and since I've not been avoiding her like she's got the bubonic plague or something, I must have it, too, although I've not been tested - it will take more than any 3 of them I've seen so far to pin me long enough to poke my brains through my nose with an overgrown Q-tip.

Funny thing is, neither of us is showing any signs of the coof, and neither of us has been vaxxed. We are super-humans, I suppose.

Anyhow, the Health Department sent us a text Saturday telling us we are "in quarantine". I laughed at that - how does that change anything at all? We never go anywhere any way, and if we take a notion to go, there aren't enough deputies in this county to surround the lands sufficiently to prevent it. we go where we want, when we want. It's just that we never want to go, as we've already seen everything out there that we want to.

So today, a nice lady from the Health Department called to inquire as to our well being... and of course to gather data on this dreadful malady.

Grace: We're not sick.

Health Department: Oh, you're sick alright. No one has ever tested positive without being sick. Ever.

Grace: But there is no debility. This sickness just isn't making us sick.

Health Department: But you're still sick. No one has ever tested positive without being sick. Ever. You're just asymptomatic.

Grace: So we are BOTH "asymptomatic"?

Health Department: Obviously. No one has ever tested positive without being sick, ever, and you tested positive. Therefore, you are sick, but asymptomatic.

I wanted her to press, and find out just how one can be sick without being sick, but she wouldn't. There just ain't no arguing with bureaucrats. So, we are "sick", but dancing is not out of the question.

As an aside, the quarantine length has shrunk over time. it used to be 14 days from a positive test, but has been reduced now to 10 days. We are in day 6, and still no sign of the coof other than on that test swab.

Quote:Edit: However, there are those who are paid to regulate these 'rules' who still don't get it! (UK)

I'd bet that there are still folks in the UK, just like here, that those gentlemen will rue the day they ever laid hands upon for something so silly. There are just folk in this world who, when you lay hands upon them once, will ensure that you never lay that hand anywhere again. The UK cannot be all that different from here, human-nature-wise.

Grace has quite a lot less Neanderthal DNA than I do. Still, one does not have to have a LOT of it, apparently, to have the one proper Neanderthal Super Anti-Covid Gene. All it takes it that one, apparently, and the rest is just dross in my genome - just genes to make me hairy and my knuckles drag the ground. I'm kinda glad Grace didn't get THOSE, on the balance of things.. That's the only explanation we can find for both of us being sick without being sick.

But it does seem to verify our natural immunity, eh?

As far as the health Department is concerned, anyhow.

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Health Department: "Yes, you might feel fine, Grace... but you're keeping me in a job".



@"Ninurta" 

Quote:'...I'd bet that there are still folks in the UK, just like here, that those gentlemen will rue the day they ever laid hands
upon for something so silly. There are just folk in this world who, when you lay hands upon them once, will ensure
that you never lay that hand anywhere again. The UK cannot be all that different from here, human-nature-wise...'

I believe it's over 2000 cases like this in the UK that have been thrown out of the courts. The judges won't touch them
because of the human-rights issues such behaviour tramples on.

(12-06-2021, 10:19 PM)BIAD Wrote: Health Department: "Yes, you might feel fine, Grace... but you're keeping me in a job".

Yes, there IS that to consider! An unemployed bureaucrat is a dreadful, pitiful sight!

But those bright white Tyvek moon-suits they wear when they come to gas the place make wonderful aiming points!

AND - I have a particular garage in mind as a target for when I take my next sneezing fit! There is more than one way to skin a cat - according to Mr. Spock, there are 47.3 ways to skin a cat. I never have figured out the ".3" - maybe that is a failed attempt?



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(12-06-2021, 10:24 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(12-06-2021, 10:19 PM)BIAD Wrote: Health Department: "Yes, you might feel fine, Grace... but you're keeping me in a job".

Yes, there IS that to consider! An unemployed bureaucrat is a dreadful, pitiful sight!

I want to say I hope you give the Dept Health lady the Coof, but I won't. That'll be mean.

But you've got to admire the mathematics...!
Double-jabbed against the Coof and you can still get the Coof.
Masked, stay indoors and double-jabbed... and you can still get the Coof.

No mask, no jabs and no self-isolation...? Answer: You're a bad person.
I'd never dare ask these people to count my fingers!

(12-06-2021, 10:30 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(12-06-2021, 10:24 PM)Ninurta Wrote:

(12-06-2021, 10:19 PM)BIAD Wrote: Health Department: "Yes, you might feel fine, Grace... but you're keeping me in a job".

Yes, there IS that to consider! An unemployed bureaucrat is a dreadful, pitiful sight!

I want to say I hope you give the Dept Health lady the Coof, but I won't. That'll be mean.

But you've got to admire the mathematics...!
Double-jabbed against the Coof and you can still get the Coof.
Masked, stay indoors and double-jabbed... and you can still get the Coof.

No mask, no jabs and no self-isolation...? Answer: You're a bad person.
I'd never dare ask these people to count my fingers!

No worries - the stalwart lass was never in any mortal danger. The interview was conducted entirely by phone because, quarantine.

I'm just waiting for them to come and try to drape plastic sheeting over the entire house like they do in the zombie movies. That'll be fun.

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This may give you something to think about.

Quote:Billionaires' share of global wealth soars during pandemic

Yes it did, now the question is why. If no one was working and producing their products.
Was it the Vaccine stock option?

Quote:The share of global wealth of the world's richest people soared at a record pace during the Covid pandemic, a report on inequality showed Tuesday.

Since 1995, the slice held by billionaires has risen from one percent to three percent, according to the World Inequality Report.
"This increase was exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. In fact, 2020 marked the steepest increase in global billionaires' share of wealth on record," the document said.
Source

During the Covid (Fake) Pandemic!

Could it be from,,,,,,,,,,?
Stock in Big Pharma to Reap Massive Revenues at the Expense of People’s Lives as Manufacturers Push for Annual ‘Revaccinations"?

(12-07-2021, 04:54 PM)guohua Wrote: This may give you something to think about.

Quote:Billionaires' share of global wealth soars during pandemic

Yes it did, now the question is why. If no one was working and producing their products.
Was it the Vaccine stock option?

Quote:The share of global wealth of the world's richest people soared at a record pace during the Covid pandemic, a report on inequality showed Tuesday.

Since 1995, the slice held by billionaires has risen from one percent to three percent, according to the World Inequality Report.
"This increase was exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. In fact, 2020 marked the steepest increase in global billionaires' share of wealth on record," the document said.
Source

During the Covid (Fake) Pandemic!

Could it be from,,,,,,,,,,?
Stock in Big Pharma to Reap Massive Revenues at the Expense of People’s Lives as Manufacturers Push for Annual ‘Revaccinations"?

That is VERY interesting. If the left is "all for the working man" and "for the workers", how is it they are pushing an agenda that pushes the workers out of jobs while simultaneously enriching the Bourgeoise?

The whole damned thing is a scam, and the Left is being directed from The Top, because the Left are far more efficient at enslaving the Proletariat.

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(12-06-2021, 09:46 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Personal story: We've got the coof. Grace tested positive Wednesday, and since I've not been avoiding her like she's got the bubonic plague or something, I must have it, too, although I've not been tested - it will take more than any 3 of them I've seen so far to pin me long enough to poke my brains through my nose with an overgrown Q-tip.

Funny thing is, neither of us is showing any signs of the coof, and neither of us has been vaxxed. We are super-humans, I suppose.

Anyhow, the Health Department sent us a text Saturday telling us we are "in quarantine". I laughed at that - how does that change anything at all? We never go anywhere any way, and if we take a notion to go, there aren't enough deputies in this county to surround the lands sufficiently to prevent it. we go where we want, when we want. It's just that we never want to go, as we've already seen everything out there that we want to.

So today, a nice lady from the Health Department called to inquire as to our well being... and of course to gather data on this dreadful malady.

Grace: We're not sick.

Health Department: Oh, you're sick alright. No one has ever tested positive without being sick. Ever.

Grace: But there is no debility. This sickness just isn't making us sick.

Health Department: But you're still sick. No one has ever tested positive without being sick. Ever. You're just asymptomatic.

Grace: So we are BOTH "asymptomatic"?

Health Department: Obviously. No one has ever tested positive without being sick, ever, and you tested positive. Therefore, you are sick, but asymptomatic.

I wanted her to press, and find out just how one can be sick without being sick, but she wouldn't. There just ain't no arguing with bureaucrats. So, we are "sick", but dancing is not out of the question.

As an aside, the quarantine length has shrunk over time. it used to be 14 days from a positive test, but has been reduced now to 10 days. We are in day 6, and still no sign of the coof other than on that test swab.

I got this cute little email today.

Quote:The deadline is approaching for the one-time, $500 incentive for all full-time employees who become fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
 
Current unvaccinated employees are strongly encouraged to become fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus by December 31, 2021 in order to be eligible for the $500 incentive. The $500 incentive will be processed once you are fully vaccinated and submit proof. The incentive is subject to federal tax.
 

When I asked again if it was required. I was told again that it "is not" a requirement for my job. They said that they are providing an incentive, but is is not a demand or requirement.

Waiting for what they come up with next.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid...passengers

Quote:COVID Outbreak On US Cruise Ship Despite Fully Vaxxed Passengers
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Dec 05, 2021 - 03:15 PM
Despite every cruise line requiring passengers and crew to be fully vaccinated before boarding, a cruise ship returning from a sail across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea with thousands of passengers onboard detected an outbreak of COVID-19, according to AP News. 
Norwegian Breakaway, owned by Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd, departed from the Port of New Orleans on Nov. 28 and sailed to Belize, Honduras, and Mexico, with more than 3,000 people on board. 
Ahead of returning to its homeport in New Orleans, the cruise line detected ten COVID infections among its guest and crew. Those who were infected were fully vaccinated and were forced into quarantine. 

Governor John Bel Edwards, the City of New Orleans, and the Port of New Orleans were notified about the incident and contacted the CDC. The infected passengers and crew will either travel directly to their homes or self-isolate at an undisclosed location. 
According to the vessel-tracking website CruiseMapper, Norwegian Breakaway docked in New Orleans early Sunday morning. All passengers and crew will be subjected to a COVID test before exiting the ship. 

Despite a 100% vaccination rate on the vessel, there was still an outbreak of COVID, suggesting that vaccine effectiveness is severely waning. 
A recent study of the three primary COVID vaccines showed a 'dramatic' drop in efficacy over six months. So as cruise ship operators begin hitting the high seas with only fully vaxxed passengers and crews that have waning defenses against the virus, one would suspect additional outbreaks on ships as new infections surge across the US. 
Even in Europe, where vaccine passport schemes and high vaccination rates are highly enforced, countries are experiencing a surge in infections. 
So what are cruise ship operators going to do now? Only allow passengers and crew who are not just fully vaccinated but have their booster shots?

(12-08-2021, 10:48 AM)727Sky Wrote: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid...passengers

Quote:COVID Outbreak On US Cruise Ship Despite Fully Vaxxed Passengers...

Yeah I saw that and thought it's an ideal example of the stupidity we're being asked to accept!
Tests, jabs, tests, jabs... are we now hinting that the ship-rats brought it aboard?!!
You have to watch these articles because sometimes they're partially-invented to evoke emotions through selective wording.

It's like the 'artillery-shell-up-the-ass' story I posted in another thread. It originated from an earlier article about the Bomb-Squad
being called out on the Isle of Wight in the UK, where an unexploded ordnance was found at a construction site.

It's just the tale wasn't juicy enough, so they used the old cliche about 'accidents' and dildo-shaped objects.
(In my day it was usually a ketchup bottle, a locked-out shopper falling onto his groceries after failing to get in a window!)

You'd be surprised how articles are generated. It's like this site (RN), one member may be here and at the time of writing this,
85 outsiders are perusing the threads. Some are Bots, but others are Journalists looking for crumbs of interest to create
a ratings-pulling story-line.

They are bribing your children in school to get Vaxxed and Not To Tell You!

Quote:CA Mom Claims School Bribed Son With Pizza To Get Vaccine, Told Him Not To Tell Her

Don't tell you parents, let this be our little secret, I have candle for you,,, come inside my Van and Lay Down,,,,,,,,,,
Sick Bastard!!!!!

Quote:A California mother is furious at her son’s school because she claims they bribed him with pizza to get him vaccinated and then instructed him not to tell her he did so.

Maribel Duarte, who is vaccinated, stated that her 13-year-old son, a student at the Barack Obama Global Prep Academy in South LA, brought home a vaccine card and told her he got vaccinated in return for a pizza.

Duarte claimed, “The lady that gave him the shot and signed the paper told my son, ‘Please don’t say anything. I don’t want to get in trouble.’” NBC News reported.

“It hurt to know he got a shot without my permission, without knowing and without signing any papers for him to get the shot,” Duarte added.
Source

The name of the school should be enough to warn you to, "Stay Away"!
Named after one of our biggest Scammer POTUS ever.

(12-08-2021, 07:21 PM)guohua Wrote: They are bribing your children in school to get Vaxxed and Not To Tell You!

Quote:CA Mom Claims School Bribed Son With Pizza To Get Vaccine, Told Him Not To Tell Her

Don't tell you parents, let this be our little secret, I have candle for you,,, come inside my Van and Lay Down,,,,,,,,,,
Sick Bastard!!!!!
A California mother is furious at her son’s school because she claims they bribed him with pizza to get him...

Exactly, the same words an adult would use when knowingly abusing a child and not wishing to get caught doing it.
For the few seconds of that injection, that boy belonged to the Government-paid woman with the needle and not his parents.

(12-08-2021, 07:35 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(12-08-2021, 07:21 PM)guohua Wrote: They are bribing your children in school to get Vaxxed and Not To Tell You!

Quote:CA Mom Claims School Bribed Son With Pizza To Get Vaccine, Told Him Not To Tell Her

Don't tell you parents, let this be our little secret, I have candle for you,,, come inside my Van and Lay Down,,,,,,,,,,
Sick Bastard!!!!!
A California mother is furious at her son’s school because she claims they bribed him with pizza to get him...

Exactly, the same words an adult would use when knowingly abusing a child and not wishing to get caught doing it.
For the few seconds of that injection, that boy belonged to the Government-paid woman with the needle and not his parents.

Correct, Correct, Yes That is The Truth!!!!!

(12-08-2021, 12:53 PM)BIAD Wrote:

(12-08-2021, 10:48 AM)727Sky Wrote: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid...passengers

Quote:COVID Outbreak On US Cruise Ship Despite Fully Vaxxed Passengers...

Yeah I saw that and thought it's an ideal example of the stupidity we're being asked to accept!
Tests, jabs, tests, jabs... are we now hinting that the ship-rats brought it aboard?!!
You have to watch these articles because sometimes they're partially-invented to evoke emotions through selective wording.

It's like the 'artillery-shell-up-the-ass' story I posted in another thread. It originated from an earlier article about the Bomb-Squad
being called out on the Isle of Wight in the UK, where an unexploded ordnance was found at a construction site.

It's just the tale wasn't juicy enough, so they used the old cliche about 'accidents' and dildo-shaped objects.
(In my day it was usually a ketchup bottle, a locked-out shopper falling onto his groceries after failing to get in a window!)

You'd be surprised how articles are generated. It's like this site (RN), one member may be here and at the time of writing this,
85 outsiders are perusing the threads. Some are Bots, but others are Journalists looking for crumbs of interest to create
a ratings-pulling story-line.

In my day, it was usually a frozen hot dog that managed to thaw out during the act, and then, according to the circulating tale, broke off, necessitating an embarassing visit to the hospital for removal.

Never mind asking what sort of super-human could withstand thawing out a frozen hot dog under such circumstances - just follow the narrative, prole!

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