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November 2, 2016

Love this meme -- GOTV

November 2, 2016

Are you still wearing jeans?

I saw this British article saying Brits have decreed age 53 to be the limit for donning denim.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bad-news-jeremy-clarkson-brits-9175615


Yeah, it's kind of silly and arbitrary but it does seem that as folks get older they tend to stray from jeans. Quite a few older fellows I know like the comfort of sweatpants, even if they aren't flattering.

I'm 43 and I have come to prefer khakis and cords to jeans. No sweatpants yet (my go-to workout wear would still be shorts).

November 1, 2016

Pope says women will never be priests

Even the progressive Pope Francis put an exclamation point on the issue of women never being ordained.

Lost cause. If they complain about running out of clergy they can go take a long look in the mirror.


The Catholic Church's ban on female priests will stand forever, Pope Francis said Tuesday. The pontiff made the declaration in response to a female reporter asking whether he thought women would one day serve as Catholic priests and bishops, noting the head of Sweden's Lutheran Church whom Francis met on his trip there is a woman.

"St. Pope John Paul II had the last clear word on this and it stands," Francis said during a news conference aboard the papal plane on the flight back to Rome, according to Reuters.

The reporter then asked "Forever, forever? Never, never?"

"If we read carefully the declaration by St. John Paul II, it is going in that direction," the pope responded.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/11/01/pope-women-banned-priesthood-forever/93118528/
November 1, 2016

Cutler and the Bears looking sharp in the Monday nighter

The offense has been varied and effective while the defense has shut the Vikings down. Minnesota has looked anemic last week and this week.

October 31, 2016

Bryan Cranston says he'll move to Canada if Trump wins

"Absolutely. I would definitely move. It’s not real to me that that would happen. I hope to God it won’t," Cranston on Sunday told The Bestseller Experiment podcast when asked if he would take an extended holiday to Vancouver if the Republican candidate prevails over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

“It wouldn’t be a vacation. I’d be an expatriate,” Cranston added. The Emmy-award winning actor is the latest Hollywood celebrity — joining Girls creator and star Lena Dunham, Chelsea Handler and Barbra Streisand — to claim they would move out of the country if Trump wins.

Cranston said university courses will be taught in the future on the Republican candidate. "There will be books written, movies made. I'm telling you, there will be theatrical productions about Donald Trump because of the anomaly that he presented," Cranston said.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bryan-cranston-says-he-will-move-canada-donald-trump-becomes-president-942423


As a Canadian, I would welcome Cranston as a fellow Canuck. Same with so many of you DUers. Hopefully no mass exodus will be required, however.


October 22, 2016

What's the longest you've been away from the DU?

There seems to be a good number of regular posters here.

What's the longest period you've gone without visiting this forum? Days? Weeks? Months? Years?

What precipitated the hiatus? Vacation? A feud with another forum member that left you fed up and ready for a break? Just got busy with other things?

October 15, 2016

How do you feel about DU threads

where the OP responds to every post? I'm not fond of that practice. It's not the worst offense of forum etiquette, by any stretch of imagination. But it seems to scream "Look at me," especially when some of the OP's replies (or many of them) are simply an acknowledgement that you posted.

Just curious how others perceive it.

October 14, 2016

Night Fever cover -- sacrilege or well done?

The original will always hold a special place, of course, but what are your thoughts on this modern version that was released Thursday?


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