I ain't got no regrets. But, and this is a big butt, I do have one ragret. But so what? I look cool.
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The pain inside is now on the outside
(VICE) Why in the Hades would anyone get a tattoo on his, her, or their face? VICE speaks to tattoo artist Roblake to explore the trend of inking/disfiguring the human face: Subscribe to VICE.
Once you feel the stab of the needle as you get inked, you either wince and regret it or feel the rush of endorphins like you're being original while jumping on the bandwagon of the Basic, so basic. But the Straights just don't understand: It's cool, Man, so cool. Right? Isn't it? The drinkers at the bar think so. Other tatted folks think so. It's an arms race for blank space until nothing is left but the face.
Travis Barker-Kardashian is king of the dip...
Yeah, sure, Judaism and Christianity say it's a sin condemned by the Bible, but other religions are cool with it -- Buddhists, Tribal Islanders, Shamans, probably not Islam, um, Native Americans, the Maori and probably the Rosicrucians and Masons and Satanists, Luciferians/Illuminati, and Rap groupie chicks and gutter punks. Joe Ro' gets it:
"O meditators, an untaught ordinary worldling experiences pleasant feelings, experiences painful feelings, and experiences neutral feelings.
"Likewise, a well-taught noble [enlightened] disciple experiences pleasant, painful, and neutral feelings. What is the difference, the division, the distinction that exists herein [within this Doctrine/Dharma] between a well-taught noble disciple and an untaught worldling?
"When an untaught worldling is touched by a painful (bodily) feeling, that person worries and grieves, laments, beats his/her breast, weeps, and is distraught. One thus experiences two kinds of feelings, a bodily feeling and a mental feeling.
Post brand baloney is hard to knock if rappers/rockstars keep getting attention like Malone.
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I tatted myself tatting myself - double pain.
"It is as if a person were pierced by a dart and, following the first piercing, one were hit by a second dart. So that person will experience feelings caused by two darts.
"In just this way, an untaught worldling when touched by a painful (bodily) feeling worries and grieves, laments and beats her/his breast, weeps and is distraught.
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"So one experiences two kinds of [unpleasant] feeling, a bodily and a mental feeling.
"Having been touched by that painful feeling, one resists (and resents) it. Then in one who so resists (and resents) that painful feeling, an underlying tendency of resistance (dosa, aversion) against that painful feeling comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
Jelly Roll: I look hella good, and everybody likes it. I've felt alotta pain in life, y'know?
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What do I need to do to get noticed around here?
"Under the impact of that painful feeling, one then proceeds to [seek and] enjoy sensual pleasure/happiness.
"And why does one do so? An untaught worldling, O meditators, does not know of any OTHER escape from painful feelingsexcept the [endless pursuit of happiness through the unfulfilling and disappointing] enjoyment of sensual pleasure/happiness.
"Then in one who enjoys sensual pleasure/happiness, an underlying tendency to lust [lobha, greediness, grasping, clinginess] for pleasant feelings comes to underlie (one's mind/heart). One does not know, according to how it actually is, the:
arising and ending of these feelings,
nor the gratification, the
danger, nor the
escape connected with these feelings.
Jelly Roll's next tattoo is going to be so meta.
"In one who lacks this knowledge, an underlying tendency to ignorance (moha, delusion, confusion, wrong view) as to neutral feelings comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
"When one experiences a pleasant feeling, a painful feeling, or a neutral feeling, one feels it as one fettered [put in bondage] by it.
"Such a one, O meditators, is called an untaught ordinary worldling who is fettered by rebirth, by old age, by death, by sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair.
"One is fettered by suffering (dukkha, pain, disappointment, dissatisfaction, frustration, a feeling of never being fulfilled), I declare.
The difference
I get it! All that arises impersonally passes away.
"But in the case of a well-taught noble disciple, O meditators, when touched by a painful feeling, s/he will not worry nor grieve and lament. One will not beat his/her breast nor weep nor be distraught.
"One experiences one kind of feeling, a bodily one, but not a mental feeling.
"It is as if a person were pierced by a dart but were not hit by a second dart following after the first one.
"So this person experiences feelings caused only by a single dart. In just this way, a well-taught noble disciple when touched by a painful feeling will neither worry nor grieve, will not lament nor beat one's breast, not weep nor be distraught. One experiences a single feeling, a bodily one.
"Having been touched by that painful feeling, one does not resist (nor resent) it. Hence, in such a person no underlying tendency of resistance (dosa) against that painful feeling comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
The result
Then there was no more pain at all.
"Under the impact of that painful feeling, one does not seek to enjoy sensual happiness [to escape or compensate for it]. Why not?
"As a well-taught noble disciple, one knows of an actual ESCAPE from painful feelings other than by [the futile and disappointing distraction and diversion of] enjoying sensual pleasure/happiness.
"Then in one who does not seek to enjoy sensual pleasure/happiness, no underlying tendency to lust (lobha) for pleasant feelings comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
"One knows, according to how it actually is,
the arising and ending of those feelings, and
the gratification,
the danger, and
the escape connected with these feelings.
Ha, ya laugh at me, but ya notice, and I gets $$$
"In one who knows thus, no underlying tendency to ignorance (moha) as to neutral feelings comes to underlie (one's mind/heart).
"When one experiences a pleasant feeling, a painful feeling, or a neutral feeling, one feels it as one who is not fettered by it.
"Such a person, O meditators, is called a well-taught noble disciple who is [no longer] fettered by rebirth, by old age, by death, by sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, or despair. One is not fettered [not in bondage] to suffering, I declare.
"This, O meditators, is the difference, the division, the distinction that exists between a well-taught noble disciple and an untaught ordinary worldling."
If too tattooed, there's nothing to do but try to be in a band: Transplants
We are Americans. We have the right to "life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness." Never was our arrival at happiness promised. We have no "right" to be happy. That was never promised! We just thought it was. The founding document says, we have the right to endlessly pursue it, sucker.
We can have sex, have a spouse, even have kids, or stay single and chase wine, women, and song. There's a very funny Benny Hill quip that's hard to forget.
The Benny Hill Show is filth, funny, but filth.
A guy is in a bar boozing it up when an older man looks at him with disgust and says, "Wine, women, and song -- that's what killed your father!"
And the guy boozing it up quips, "Yeah, he couldn't get any, so he shot himself." Everyone laughs. Why? We imagine we would kill ourselves from all the pain, misery, and tedious drudgery of human life [at least in the West, where we have so much material surplus compared to everyone else on the planet] IF we couldn't enjoy our Hedonism and sensual pursuits, which we think make it all worthwhile or at least sufferable. Alcohol alone makes the medicine go down, and does anyone but the alcoholic realize how much harm is being done in the tradeoff? We can endure as long as we imagine there's more coming down the line, here or hereafter, by winning the lottery or getting into heaven. Maybe I should get a face tattoo, or a sexy one.
VICE, Aug. 12, 2018; Kid Cudi; Transplants (Rancid with Travis Kardashian); I. Rony, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Trump orders trans military ban and pardoned Jan 6ers are in legal trouble…again | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) Jan. 28, 2025: Michael Kosta checks in on the latest Trump World News: new press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the banning of trans people in the military, and the aftermath of pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Plus, Troy Iwata sets up an elaborate sting for J6 sex offenders. #DailyShow #Trump #Pardons #Trans
(Josh Johnson) Jan. 28, 2025: Just announced the first half of 2025 tour (joshjohnsoncomedy.com/tour) for dates and to sign up for the waitlist to be notified when performing in various cities.
Hi, friends.
This week let's talk about Trump’s executive orders and what they mean as well as some of the fallout since he has signed them.
Love the stories? There's a podcast that comes out every week: bit.ly/3NQmpio.
Hit him on them internets like Instagram: joshjohnsoncomedy.
I don't think it's the water. I feel like I'm just doing what I feel like doing. Deal with it! Snap!
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Sorry, Judy, I'm just not into it. - But your skin!
The herbicide atrazine is one of the most commonly applied pesticides in the world. As a result, atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide contaminant of ground, surface, and drinking water.
Atrazine is also a potent endocrine disruptor that is active at low, ecologically relevant concentrations.
The present study demonstrates the reproductive consequences of atrazine exposure in adult amphibians.
Atrazine-exposed males were both demasculinized (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults.
Ten percent of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs.
Atrazine-exposed males suffered from:
Scientists levitate frog. Now to transform it.
depressed testosterone,
decreased breeding gland size,
demasculinized/feminized laryngeal development,
suppressed mating behavior,
reduced spermatogenesis, and
decreased fertility.
These data are consistent with effects of atrazine observed in other vertebrate classes [like mammals and humans?].
The present findings exemplify the role that atrazine and other endocrine-disrupting pesticides likely play in global amphibian declines. Source: PMC (nih.gov)
Froggate turning the friggin frogs gay: Alex Joens conspiracy rant
(Whang!, 2/5/17) Alex Jones' rant about turning the frogs gay is perhaps his most famous, most outlandish, and most repeated freakout. It gets posted and referenced a lot. One has to wonder where he got the idea. It sounds ludicrous, yet he says it so casually and with so much certainly that it feels like he's assuming that we all already know about the gay frog subculture of West Pond. Look into it because it turns out there are chemicals in the water shown to have such effects, even turning male frogs into females. One is the pesticide atrazine. Another is a chemical called ethinyl estradiol, a synthetic estrogen found in some birth control pills. Although the research is clear that these chemicals are having negative effects on frog populations, there is much debate over what their presence in the environment means for humans.
Don't touch plastic debris or your sons will be...
LGBTQ chemical conspiracy theory: "Conspiracy theory"? Pesticides are good for humans to touch, drink, and eat, right? These synthetic chemicals like DDT developed by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical only alter, cripple, and kill insects, microbes, birds, fish, frogs, land animals (and farm workers who neglect to wear full hazmat suits and hold their breath while working and enemy combatants we throw them at).
The oldest attestation of this tale type in Russia is in a 1787 compilation of fairy tales, published by Petr Timofeev [36]. This tale is titled "Сказка девятая, о лягушке и богатыре" ("Tale nr. 9: About the frog and the bogatyr," Bogatyr being a surname).
In it, a king who is a widower has three sons [princes]. He urges them to find wives by shooting three arrows at random and to marry whoever they find on the spot the arrows land.
The youngest son, [Prince] Ivan Bogatyr, shoots his, and it takes him a long time to find it again. He trudges through a vast swamp and finds a large hut with a large frog [reptilian (nāga) shapeshifter] inside holding his arrow.
The "frog" presses Ivan to marry it, lest he will not leave the swamp. Ivan agrees, and [the transforming creature] takes off the frog skin to become a beautiful maiden.
Later, the king asks his new daughters-in-law to weave him a fine linen shirt and a beautiful carpet with gold, silver, and silk, and finally to bake him delicious bread.
Lizard people masking their bodies?
Ivan's [reptilian] frog wife summons the winds to help her in both sewing tasks. Lastly, the king invites his daughters-in-law to the palace, and the frog wife takes off its frog skin, leaves it at home, and goes to the palace on a golden carriage [vimana?].
While she dances and impresses the court, Ivan goes back home, finds the frog skin, and burns it.
The maiden realizes her husband's folly and, saying her name is Vasilisa the Wise, tells him she will vanish to a distant kingdom [another world or dimension] and begs him to find her [37]. Source
Something in the water makes me want to skip over to a different pad and find the boys.
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Yum, you're so rugged!
[(WQ) As fun as it is to laugh at the monster that is Alex Jones being taken down on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2018), does atrazine affect humans? You better believe it, as do xenoestrogenic plastics. How? That requires more study, the bill for which should be footed by pesticide producing corporations like Monsanto Bayer Corp. and Big Pharma in general. And is this why the folkloric tale of a princess or beauty kissing a lot of toads, frogs, or amphibians includes this animal form rather than other less shapeshifting beasts such as skunks, fish, birds, or wolves? What did the ancients know or observe about frogs?]
Stormy details sex with Trump, Jimmy mentioned again, and Republican Puppy and Pony Killer Noem's disastrous book
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 7, 2024: Today the prosecution called Stormy "Honeybunch" Daniels to the stand in Trump’s criminal financial fraud (a.k.a. hush money payment) case, Jimmy was mentioned AGAIN in reference to an interview she did on his show to talk about Trump's penis, she revealed some details about her sexual encounter with Trump, after hearing the first half of her testimony he took to his X-knock off "Truth Social" begging for a mistrial, after making a huge deal about missing his son Barron’s graduation, Don John T. is set to headline an event in Minnesota, dog killer Governor Kristi Noem is now distancing herself from her own autobiography after admitting to shooting her puppy, horses, goat, and lying about meeting Kim Jong Un, the Met Gala took place in New York last night, and the monologue gets interrupted by a man named Von SchitzInPantz (Shits in Pants), who bares the same name that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen came up with for Trump. #Kimmel
Count Flatula Trump’s big mouth could land him in jail, Republican puppy killer Kristi Noem lies about meeting Kim Jong Un
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 6, 2024: Guillermo was at the roast of Tom Brady, in NY the judge in the criminal trial found Trump to be in contempt for violating the terms of his gag order again, he is threatening to throw Trump in jail if he doesn’t stop talking about the case, Trump’s alleged former mistress Karen McDougal posted a picture of the book Catch and Kill from her bathtub, potential Trump VP and puppy killer Kristi Noem has a book coming out tomorrow where she lies about meeting North Korea's secretive leader.
Trump caught ‘cursing audibly’ during Stormy testimony
(MSNBC) May 7, 2024: In a private sidebar, Judge Merchan told Trump’s defense attorney that Trump was cursing and shaking his head during direct examination of Stormy Daniels. “It has the potential to intimidate the witness,” the judge said. Chris Hayes, Harry Litman, and Lisa Rubin discuss. #Trump #judge #hushmoney
Seth Meyers tries to summarize trial: penis testimony, Trump farting himself awake
Stormy Daniels will not describe Trump's genitalia at trial
(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Seth Meyers does his monologue for Tuesday, May 7th, before Late Night writer Amber Ruffin recaps what's happening in pop culture news.
Judge threatens to jail Trump over gag order violation, finds him in contempt for 10th time: A Closer Look (Late Night with Seth Meyers) May 6, 2024: Seth takes a closer look at the judge in Trump's criminal trial threatening to throw him in jail for violating his gag order while MAGA Republicans humiliate themselves in a desperate bid to become his running mate.
Y'guys are high if yous think it's The Interrupters' "She's Kerosene"! Recount. Who did the voting anyway? Guys, it should be a country hit, good ol' American ranching and cow killing music.
LYRICS
"i’m a match, she’s kerosene, you know she’s gonna burn down everything, she’s an arsonist, in her pastime, and i’ve been burned for the last time, it started out like any other morning, the sky was red, he took it as a warning, she kicked the hive, now the bees are swarming, then played the victim 'til the crowd starts forming, she’s got a history of making a scene, yeah she’s telling stories, she’s gaslighting, like he’s the executioner and she is the queen, but he’s the one who’s neck is in a guillotine, he said i’m a match, she’s kerosene, you know she’s gonna burn down everything, she’s an arsonist, in her pastime, and i’ve been burned for the last time, the smoke clears out, and he’s been awakened. he said this life could be mine for the taking, she needs a drink so she start shaking, and play the victim, 'til his heart starts breaking, no real tears cause she don’t mean it, this landscape used to be so scenic, and he could make it out, if he could dream it. rising up from the ash, he’s a phoenix, i’m a match, she’s kerosene, you know she’s gonna burn down everything, she’s an arsonist, in her pastime, and i’ve been burned for the last time, you play with me, you're playin' with fire."
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