I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Good morning all!  Just sitting here reading the news sites and found this story from Sweden that tickled my funny bone.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/29122322/detail.html

Drunk Moose Found Stuck In Apple Tree

My favorite line from the article ... "In the wind I heard something screaming with a very dark voice," Johansson told CNN. "At first I wondered if it was the crazy neighbors,"

Was glad to see that the authorities just left the moose to sleep it off!

Sunflowers ... agreed.  But it is what it is and we just all need to know that and work around it.  This is still a very very nice B&G and place to visit with and support our friends ... old and new ... and it will continue to be just that regardless. 

Good to see you again Belinda and jeeza.  Looks like Barbara and blue are already off to start their day.  It's going to take another few cups of coffee before I start anything.    

WR, that article was hillarious!  Especially since I live in an apple orchard.  No moose here though we do have a lot of deer around.

Pip .. thanks for the article.  My favorite line, "We .. just forgot."  I guess Canada is such a far off place and so tiny, it was easy to overlook!

Rabbit .. that poor drunk moose.  Still can't figure out how he got in that tree!

Blue .. have fun today with George.

Hope everyone has a good day!

Bren

Sunflowers, I believe that the moderators have asked many times that we not refer to other sites on this thread. 

"just STOP IT.  Leave us alone.  We don't go to where you post & bother you."

Many of us have been members of this board since long before you arrived, and you don't get to run us off. This is our place too, so please lay off the insults.

hugs pat mom, haven't been in chat in a while.

Please, EVERYONE be respectful.  No one has ownership of anyone else in body or thoughts.

we all should be adult enough to agree or agree to disagree that does not preclude comments just let them be respectful. 

Morning Athena ... glad you got lots of sleep.  My dogs woke me up early and I'm thinking about a mid morning nap before I start mowing.

hugs,

Bren

PatMom said ..."It is very difficult to be supportive of, and embracing of people who time and time again attack you.  Doesn't matter what day of the week it is when that happens. ...  It is also difficult to sit by idly while falsehoods are being posted about you and your friends on a public thread."

I can certainly agree with that sentiment.  The board who must not be named is also public.  Those of us who are insulted there do not even have the option to respond there ... and you all have the authority over there to delete anything you don't agree with immediately. 

I'm seeing a large disconnect between preaching and practice here.  We would probably all like to be able to say and do whatever we want with no consequences ... while at the same time stopping other people from doing the same.  So I suppose I can understand your wish to have just that.  Probably not ever going to work out that way ... we're all human. 

Personally I would much prefer to talk about other things and that is what we do 99.9% of the time.

It's also an interesting tactic: a discussion on the problems that ail our country and affects us all (Canadians included, as Lassie pointed out)  is diverted. Rather anti-intellectual, which to me is never a good thing, although I realize that for others it is. In a race to not debate ideas, jingoism and other interruptions happen.

Doesn't that sound a lot like what happens in American political life? Remember how some of us were complaining that Obama's ideas got side tracked in the cacophony of ideologically bankrupt opponents whose sole purpose was to torpedo him (and wage a war on science)? Rather similar to what is happening here, what... Not that I or anyone else is Obama - we are merely posters exchanging ideas.

It seems that some people don't like ideas or trains of thought.

I think, ladies and genetlemen, that the political discussion here continues in the attitudes of some posters who are breaking their own rules by interrupting discourse with diversion tactics, as is done in my town of Washington.

And, WR, as you imply, we here can't break a filibuster. This is the more august and egalitarian Senate, perhaps (whose meandering slowness makes breaking a filibuster very hard these days)? Maybe House rollicking governs other territories, I don't know. 

The moral of the story: any political discussion on this thread is in compliance with BCO rules because it really does affect many posters' mental and physical health. :-)

And so we're all happy.  

WR   Agree - have a sunny day - I can hear Grace Slick singing!

Gorgeous Fall day in NE - blue sky, lots of sunshine, thiings are finally beginning to dry!

Also wonderful as I got to register for all the Art Classes I wanted for the year: Drawing, Landscape painting, and my latest interest - Botanical Illustration.  

I've got lots of flowers pressed, interesting acorns, paper wasp nest - all ready.  SO excited!

I have also been amused twice in the last couple of days by the references to not visiting here or any place you all post if I do not agree with you.  First of all, this is a non profit benefiting from tax preferences established by the US government and the non-profit owns the servers, the business, the forums, and the threads.  As a former tax professional, I think I can make that observation.  I also happen to know that this non-profit is (at least) incorporated in Pennsylvania and possibly other states as well.  Presumably we can all use those forums and threads as long as we obey the rules.  One of the rules is discussing politics.  I have my own opinions about the political strife in this country but there are many sites on the Internet to express those not on BCO according to the rules.

covertanjou:

Am I misunderstanding you when you say or infer that this is a Canadian thread?

I love the fact that this thread attracts posters from both sides of the U.S.-Canada border (and from both hemispheres, for that matter).

L

LOL, Athena.  Well, I am off to run some errands.  If anyone wants to direct questions at me, I will be back later to respond.

Thunder shower chased me in. Hmmm, how do people even find this thread unless they know what to look for?