Posts by Matthew Young35

Real brandy will set you back $10 per bottle.
It kills viruses, bacteria, synapses... honestly, everything.

The cure for Corona is whiskey.

I’m certainly not saying that in public.

nimblemarlin9 said:You're sitting a little too high up there ☕

What exactly are you wearing?

Here’s a philosophical question for you.
Is there actually a platform out there where a person can just show up and talk absolute nonsense with complete strangers?
I’ve reached a point where my own friends don't really want to deal with me anymore, so I'm attempting to find some semblance of connection online.
I know the drill—there are plenty of places filled with girls looking for nothing but attention, but that kind of interaction comes with a price.
Good grief, surely there must be a chat site for talking to total strangers that doesn't immediately devolve into "what are you wearing."

ruggedjackal46 said:👍

Sure, a person is responsible for their own choices, but it's still terrifying to watch how a kid from the favelas gets catapulted into this insane world. On one hand, you have massive wealth, fame, and pure adrenaline, but on the other, you're constantly surrounded by lowlifes and the mob who just drain your money and your soul. It’s no wonder someone would lose it. He actually crossed my mind today while I was reading that story about Ronaldinho getting caught with a fake passport.

Slums are in Brazil.
Maradona is from Argentina.

So, basically fake news.

And I’ll shove that damn jerk right where the sun doesn't shine.

brightpilot6 said:Saw some people out on the riverwalk today—just three guys in total, one actual runner and two cultists walking their dogs (and looking pretty ridiculous without even wearing jackets). I mean, what the hell is 🤣

For crying out loud.
Isn't it enough that they drag them into restaurants? Now they're dragging them out to the riverbanks too.
Nothing is sacred anymore!

ironpanther5 said:Well, everyone has their own taste, I guess. Personally, I’d probably rather end up in Wuhan than spend a single second sitting in the west stands at Yankee Stadium... 😁

When you look at the West, Yankee Stadium is easily the most fascinating place to be. You’ve got tigers, lions, crocodiles... and then there’s that one black panther.
It’s dead quiet out here in the East. Honestly, what is there to do? Just a parrot, two rabbits, some half-baked dogs acting like they're wolves, a chicken, a pheasant, and a single crow. That's the whole scene.

ironpanther5 said:If you're looking for the one guaranteed safe zone to escape the Corona mess over the next few days—somewhere you can actually breathe some fresh air without bumping into a crowd of people—honestly, just head over to the eastern edge of Yankee Stadium.

I think it's finally time for me to call off the boycott.

Exactly. The east side.
Everywhere else in the stands is just way too crowded.

Pink Floyd - The Wall
No need for an explanation here.

Azra - Filigranski plocnici
A collection filled with plenty of great tracks that don't get nearly enough credit.

Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes.
A gathering of songs that, for one reason or another, didn't find a home on his earlier studio albums.

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti; it’s a live set, but it’s damn good, so I had to mention it.

Gerald Thompson62 said:Look at Italy—imagine a whole city under lockdown with no way in or out... which means no deliveries.

The issue isn't that food doesn't exist—it's that grocery stores don't keep massive stockpiles sitting on shelves. If you don't buy your essentials and your neighbors do instead, you’re going to be starving in a week and stuck knocking on their doors. It’s not really about the virus itself; it's about potential supply chain disruptions.
We get most of our produce from Spain, pork from Poland, and so on. Even our local manufacturers rely heavily on imports.

Take masks as an example—supply can't keep up, but everyone wants them to feel "safe." Most major mask producers are in China and Japan; right now, China can barely meet its own demand, so they've started buying back masks already sold to other countries, then reselling them to us at a premium.

It's simple supply and demand... when things get scarce, prices skyrocket. People born around 1995 haven't dealt with shortages, so they aren't prepared—but our grandparents lived through it and understand the value of a stockpile. Back when the American Civil War era hit, everyone had flour, sugar, oil, salt, and coffee tucked away. Everyone had reserves. If you look further back—say, during the 1940s—it was crystal clear: whoever holds the food holds the power. Back then, you could practically trade gold for basic goods.

What exactly are you getting at?

If I order a pizza, I'm not going to have it shipped all the way from Columbus, am I?
It’ll be delivered from within my own city.
So, aren't you just fueling unnecessary panic here?

Charles Roberts33 said:Ugh, it's not the end of the world. I'm not afraid to die.☕

I find myself grappling with a certain fear of death.
Damn, I really screwed the pooch on that one.
What a mess.

nimbleranger52 said:Brussels looks more like an Arab city than the heart of Europe. I haven't seen that much garbage in a European metropolis in a long time. Outside the city center, it's mostly Belgians, and even in the center, it's similar. But take the area by the FlixBus station, for example—it’s basically a mini ghetto. You've got weed being smoked and needles everywhere, and the police aren't even close. I was literally the only white guy surrounded by Black guys, and let me tell you, it wasn't exactly a comfortable feeling. It's not like anyone did anything to me personally, but it creates this heavy sense of unease. And then there was this one guy who tried to pick a fight with me. But yeah, the central station area is just full of drugs and needles and nothing happens. That’s Brussels for you.

Then I went back to Germany and realized that Germany is, in essence, still a white country—an ethnically homogeneous community. And honestly, my god, German cities are dirty, but Brussels makes them look spotless by comparison.

As far as Muslims go, most of them are Turks. They’re normal people. The problem is the Arabs. They don't want to, and frankly, they can't, adapt to Western values. They just have their "Allah spoke" mentality and refuse to budge.

But then again, the other day I see four Chinese kids speaking perfect German; I mean, these kids were raised in Germany and everything is totally normal. They’re essentially "original Germans," just of Chinese descent.

On the flip side, I work at this one facility, and I really feel for the Turk there. These attacks by lunatics in Hanover and Stuttgart... people don't talk about those attacks nearly enough. But they happened.
He immediately feels threatened, acting like it's an attack on Muslims specifically. It seems like Muslims always play the victim, and honestly, they’re often responsible for their own situation because the expectation is always that the host should adapt to them, rather than them adapting to the people who welcomed them.

If you go to the Maldives, you aren't allowed to carry a Bible or a cross, and you certainly can't bring pork. That's because of the laws on the islands, plain and simple.

But if you told Muslims they couldn't carry a Quran in some European country, they would scream about being persecuted and oppressed.

That's what this is: hypocrisy. And I hate it.

When you're in Rome, you act like a Roman. End of story.

You're a racist.

Larry Fox5 said:We grew up on Azra, but they grew up on Celine Dion.

That’s the whole damn problem right there.

🙂

It’s certainly one more brick in the wall.

Paul Sanders5 said:Who’s calling them closed-minded? Honestly, kids today are pretty stubborn, which makes sense given the state of the world, but people act like older generations here were some kind of bastion of tolerance. In what parallel universe?
If I had to guess, maybe the folks born from the 70s onwards were slightly more open-minded—and even then, I'm stretching it. Most of us born in the 80s and 90s definitely take the prize.

Give me a break... People born in the seventies and eighties are considered the "older generation" now.
Which older generations are you actually talking about?
Are we talking about Sava Kovacevic and Pavelić?

Those of us from the 80s and 70s are already 40 to 50 years old.

These 20-year-old kids are absolute idiots and completely narrow-minded. For 75% of them, it’s all God, the Church, Tonson, Ceca, dar bubati Mara, and the sanctity of marriage.
Seriously, what are you even talking about?

It’s honestly absurd when an 18-year-old kid starts lecturing you about the sanctity of marriage.
😲

Paul Sanders5 said:Of course the older generation is dug in, but honestly, that's probably true everywhere, not just here. You can't just flip a switch and overhaul your entire worldview overnight—especially when it's stuff you've been raised believing was absolute truth for over 60 years. That's why I don't even bother getting into those debates with my parents or relatives. What's the point? You aren't going to change their minds, you're just going to end up pissed off. 😁

Man, maybe we should just send them all to sensitivity training classes where they'll be told that homosexuals are just people too, that it's totally normal, and they need to accept it. The Germans do stuff like that for other issues, though it doesn't seem to have much of an effect. 🤣

The small issue is... For some, it certainly isn't. In fact, it seems that here in America, and perhaps everywhere else, the younger population is actually more stubborn than the older one for the first time in history.

Noah Roberts46 said:So basically, you don't know what's actually going on over there either, but you've decided I'm just talking trash because you haven't said anything useful yourself. Fine. Great.

If you were actually informed, you'd realize there are massive differences between individual states—both in lifestyle and local laws. I mean, surely you're aware that marijuana is legal in some states and not in others. Or that abortion is legal and easily accessible in some places, but not in others. And so on, and so forth...

Really? Thanks for that groundbreaking insight. Truly.

By generalizing "what's happening in the USA," you're proving you haven't the slightest clue about how things actually work in the States—how people live in specific states, what the local customs are, or what the actual local issues are. It's like concluding real estate prices are sky-high based on San Francisco, when you could buy a whole house in a small town in rural Wyoming for the price of a single balcony in San Francisco. Clear enough now?

This is such a ridiculous pivot. I was talking about extreme liberalism and the media outlets that fuel it. I'm talking about the narrative that is loudest simply because it comes out of Hollywood and holds the most powerful media platforms in the USA. I didn't say their opinion dictates everything—otherwise, as you pointed out, Trump wouldn't be president. I was mocking the hypocritical stances of these people who have clearly become exhausting to everyone, from late-night hosts and cancel culture to extreme versions of the "me too" movement, all the way to the hypocrisy seen in the NBA regarding China. It's precisely because these people have zero contact with the average person.

What you're doing is classic Great Britain "alt-right" logic—the "stop the thief" mentality. You're claiming that in a country where conservatives hold power, including the presidency and dominance in the Senate, in a country where gay partnership isn't even legal in many states, in a country where, for God's sake, Trump is president, you're telling me we "can't say anything anymore" because a "progressive minority rules and we're silenced."

More insinuations. Where did I ever say people aren't allowed to speak? Where did I say this minority is ruling? I only said they are the loudest, and I mocked the most extreme cases of liberalism. I don't know why this gets under your skin so much, but as usual, you've just dumped a pile of garbage here without answering the actual question. What exactly did I get wrong regarding those extreme liberals? Now I'll throw an insinuation back at you: you're clearly one of them, since a normal critique of this stuff seems to bother you so much.

Please, just tell me what you think about what Dr. Phil wrote. Does such a policy exist, and what's your take on it? Or what do you think about the situation in New York City, for example? Actually, don't bother. You'll probably just start rambling in a hundred different directions.

Here:

Noah Roberts46 said:Exactly. Just look at what’s happened in New York City and how much the crime rate has spiked over the last few years. To top it all off, the mayor basically tells everyone they just need to get used to terrorism—meaning he’d rather lecture us on acceptance than admit there's a crisis that needs fixing. Robberies, assaults, sexual violence... everything is up. But apparently, we aren't allowed to say anything about it. I honestly don't understand how anyone can defend such twisted politics when real people are paying the price.

Noah Roberts46 said:Exactly. Just look at what’s happened in London and how much the crime rate has spiked over the last few years. And the Mayor? He basically tells people they just need to get used to terrorism. They'd rather tell citizens to adapt than admit there’s a massive problem that needs solving. Robberies, assaults, rapes... everything is up. But heaven forbid anyone speaks up about it. I honestly don't understand how anyone can defend such twisted politics when it’s clearly costing lives.

So, when Churchill said they would face blood, toil, tears, and sweat, did he mean we should just accept it instead of actually solving the problem?

I think you're mixing things up a bit. Both were acknowledging that the struggle is real and must be endured, but that's a far cry from suggesting we shouldn't do anything to find a solution.

Paul Martinez73 said:And here comes Vekjov's guy...

You aren't being funny.
Try again.