Favourite quotes

[briantrumpet]

AI has been very busy today.

I hope Al gets a good night's sleep then.

 

[secretsqirrel]

“if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.”

Mark Carney - Davos January 2026

 

[Psamathe]

Maybe a quote for Starmer?
"If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between shït and syphilis in the dictionary"

 

[briantrumpet]

Nothing's going to beat this (for all the wrong reasons) from a Trump lackey:

Dr Oz: "One in three Americans are under-babied"

 

[Ian H]

Nothing's going to beat this (for all the wrong reasons) from a Trump lackey:

Dr Oz: "One in three Americans are under-babied"

I'm sure I read somewhere that rich white yanks are breeding like rabbits, in contrast with their less-well-off or less-white fellow citizens.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm sure I read somewhere that rich white yanks are breeding like rabbits, in contrast with their less-well-off or less-white fellow citizens.

Well, I guess as the rich white Yanks want to get rid of the black population through death or deportation, they need working class whites to breed like rabbits too to empty the trash, mow the lawns etc. and to pay taxes so that they don't.

 

[Pblakeney]

Well, I guess as the rich white Yanks want to get rid of the black population through death or deportation, they need working class whites to breed like rabbits too to empty the trash, mow the lawns etc. and to pay taxes so that they don't.

Meanwhile, the poor white working class cannot feed themselves far less a newborn.
Better wages? No. That reduces our profits.

 

[briantrumpet]

"Liars often set their own traps" - Aesop

I'd not really appreciated how many of Aesop's pithy quotes were still well known, and all still most apt.

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/aesop-quotes

 

[Poacher]

"Voters are not fools and they deserve honesty" - Nigel Farage

 

[Rusty Nails]

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln (possibly).

 

[TailWindHome]

 

[stephec]

"Voters are not fools and they deserve honesty" - Nigel Farage

For a second there I thought I was reading the political jokes thread.

 

[Psamathe]

I identify myself as male but the Sainsbury's Sticky Toffee pudding I have just bought identifies me as a family of four.

 

[briantrumpet]

I think I've just seen my favourite quote ever, and one I aspire to: "We're here on Earth to fart around." Sadly sometimes I fail and try to act serious and like I know what I'm doing.

 

[Pblakeney]

I think I've just seen my favourite quote ever, and one I aspire to: "We're here on Earth to fart around." Sadly sometimes I fail and try to act serious and like I know what I'm doing.

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You know, since I've become Eeyore I've decided that as there is little I can do to change my situation I may as well fart around.
I now feel vindicated.