FUN: Wholesome Posts May Cheer You Up — interspersed with comments on aging

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/wholesome-posts-memes/?lctg=5b61141e-0270-4a35-bef0-7cb2bcf31a0e

Wholesome
Aug 09, 2024
If You Are Having A Bad Day, These 50 Wholesome Posts May Cheer You Up Interview With Expert
Justin Sandberg and Justinas Keturka

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Bored Panda got in touch with the lovely ladies behind Love of Aging, an organization dedicated to helping older folks live life to the fullest. Naturally, we wanted to know if there was any story behind its creation.

“Love of Aging was founded in 2020 by three friends — Candace Shivers (now 77), Liz Dietz (now 70), and Maureen Charles (now 64) – all experts on the difference that attitude makes one’s experience of life. As we aged, we noticed that society wanted us to believe that life after 60 was on an inevitable downward slope, but that was not our experience. We found a lot to love about this stage of life, and we suspected that the key to our own experience was our attitude.”

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In between the copied posts, some good observations about aging.

I loved the one about Robin Williams.  His death was sad enough but reading the story make it even more so.

Sigh!

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FUN: “That’s the biggest chicken I’ve ever seen.”

Monday, May 6, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-68931938?ICID=ref_fark

Repton: Rhea on the run in village shocks driver

A rhea on the run left a driver in shock after it jumped out in front of his car.

The large, flightless bird was seen running down Main Street in Repton, Derbyshire, on Sunday afternoon.

Robert Jay, a window cleaner in the village, was driving with his wife when the rhea suddenly appeared.

Mr Jay shared a video, which was filmed by his wife, on social media with the caption: “That’s the biggest chicken I’ve ever seen.”

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I just found this video funny and can not imagine that I’d have thought it was chicken.

Laugh!

Not every story has to be a serious Debby Downer.

Poor “chicken”.

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FUN: Skydiving beavers — another Gooferment idea that was not half bad

Friday, March 29, 2024

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70282/watch-beavers-parachute-planes-footage-1948?ICID=ref_

Watch Beavers Parachute From Planes in Footage From 1948
Skydiving beavers. What could possibly go wrong?
By Rebecca OConnell | Mar 25, 2024, 3:27 PM EDT

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With the help of test beaver Geronimo, Heter created a special wooden box that opened on impact. In total, 76 beavers were dropped in Chamberlain Basin, with all but one surviving. They went on to live fruitful, busy lives in their remote new home. 

The story of the furry skydivers may sound too silly to be true, but there is video evidence. Fish and Game historian Sharon Clark found the forgotten footage, and thanks to the magic of the internet, we can all enjoy it today.

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Well for one beaver, it didn’t work out so well.

Pretty funny to me.  Wonder what the beavers thought of it?

Do beavers think?

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FUN: If I knew then what I know now, what different world it would be.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

https://punchdrink.com/articles/third-shift-bars-detroit-michigan/?utm_placement=newsletter

Detroit’s Best Third Shift Bars Are a Vital, Dying Breed | PUNCH

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Reminds me of the River Road Tavern in Piscataway off Centennial Avenue to have a few quick ones before I had to jump on 287 and race for injinnering skrule up in the Bronx.

Laugh!  I miss those easy old days.  And the overtime paychecks!

Sigh!  

Sadly so many wasted hours and brain cells.  If I knew then what I know now, what different world it would be.

Coincidences seem to govern our destinies?  

“Regrets I’ve have few but too few to mention.”  — Frank Sinatra singing My Way

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FUN: Lawyers’ ads that don’t take themselves too seriously

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-attorney-ads-for-dogs-kensingtoncampbell/

 

Funny Personal Injury Ads For Dogs (11 Pics)

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Very funny. And, shows a fun side of advertising.

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FUN: How high can an emu jump?

Saturday, April 15, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11975989/Hilarious-videos-escaped-EMU-leading-Tennessee-police-20-mile-chase-speeds-40mph.html

Road runner! Hilarious video shows escaped EMU leading Tennessee police on 20 mile chase at speeds of up to 40mph after breaking free of his enclosure

  •     MeeMoo cleared the fence of his enclosure with a seven-foot vertical leap and led police on an incredible 20-mile chase through a Tennessee town
  •     Harry McKinney said his pet escaped on Wednesday after being spooked by construction workers logging behind his home
  •     Police eventually surrounded the flightless bird, which had clocked speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, and MeeMoo made it back home safely

By Kamal Sultan For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:20 EDT, 15 April 2023 | Updated: 09:37 EDT, 15 April 2023 

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If you answered more than 7 feet, you’re right.  

MeeMoo’s next challenge is 9 feet.  Anyone giving odds it can do it?

Remember  “Now ladies, I’ll share some advice that I picked up from a tattooed lady in a bar on Second Avenue late one Saturday night at closing time. She said ‘Sonny, if a man wants to bet you that he can have the Jack of Spades jump out of that deck of cards there on the bar there and it will piss in your ear, be prepared to have a wet ear.’ Sorry, that’s the whole and literal truth. My betrothed made me promise to tell the whole exact truth.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 234

Laugh!

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FUN: CLUE would be fun but not for 60$/year

Friday, March 31, 2023

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/classic-mystery-board-game-clue-lands-in-apple-arcade/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Tech Gaming
Classic Mystery Board Game Clue Lands in Apple Arcade

  • Eat your heart out, Sherlock Holmes.

Zachary McAuliffe
March 24, 2023 12:23 p.m. PT

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Get your magnifying glasses ready because Clue: Hasbro’s Mystery Game Plus, based on the classic board game, arrived on Apple Arcade Friday. If you subscribe to Apple Arcade ($5, £5 or AU$8 a month), you can play this game free of cost, ads or in-app purchases.

Marmalade Game Studios is responsible for bringing the board game to your screen, and this isn’t the first time the studio has brought a board game to digital devices, either. The studio has digitized other classic games, like Monopoly and Battleship, too.

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I was initially attracted to it. BYAS (But Yet Another Subscription) turns me off BIG TIME!

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FUN: How to remember the digits of pi when checking dollar bills.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

I can use this, when I look at serial number of dollar bills, seek ing π!

Laugh!

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FUN: How to become a “real” programmer — screw up big time; then you have been “trained”!

Monday, July 18, 2022

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vz8t4y/its_official_boys_im_a_real_programmer_now/

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u/nosam56
3 hours ago
Bravo!Press FHelpful3WholesomeSilver3Narwhal Salute
It’s official boys, I’m a real programmer now

Just accidentally deleted every single entry in our production database. At 4:50pm. And i fucked up the backup, so we have to wait till tomorrow for someone to do a system restore.

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I just thought this was hilarious!

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FUN: USA – USSA 2032?

Sunday, May 15, 2022

https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/children-of-the-free-states-2?s=r

Https bucketeer e05bbc84 baa3 437e 9518 adb32be77984 s3 amazonaws com public images 0f238d44 6f2b 42a6 9e64 5ae6d0a94069 1027x611

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