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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-coffin-found-alive-cremation-buddhist-temple-thailand/ "...Pairat Soodthoop, the temple's general and financial affairs manager, told The Associated Press on Monday that the 65-year-old woman's brother drove her from the province of Phitsanulok to be cremated. He said they heard a faint knock coming from the coffin. "I was a bit surprised, so I asked them to open the coffin, and everyone was startled," he said. "I saw her opening her eyes slightly and knocking on the side of the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite some time.""... I guess there's a reason that only health professionals can issue death certificates. 🫢

Interesting list. Of all the US Presidents, it's amazing to see Herbert Hoover as a top pick. He's most commonly ranked in the bottom quartile in his performance, per scholarly rankings... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

I have no idea why he posts such ludicrous BS. Does he think he's being funny? Does he think as if it somehow gives him the "last word"? Does he enjoy humiliating himself? At least Pam Bondi gets paid to humiliate herself by spouting ridiculous crap.

The reason has nothing to do with slavery. They simply strike me as highly intelligent, so I find it difficult to believe that they believed in God, although they lived in a time in which admitting to atheism was almost unthinkable. When he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was chastised by other members of the Continental Congress for not including religious references into the document, and was essentially bullied into adding references to God. I'd also like to ask Lincoln if he was gay. Historical documents suggest strongly that he was, but, of course, he never copped to this during his lifetime.

Well, in history, I'd like to meet Ben Franklin, Tom Jefferson, and Abe Lincoln. Among other things, I'd like to ask them if they were atheists. As for real people today, I remember a cousin once asking me, several years ago, if I could show him examples of men who were "my type." The first person who came to mind was Broadway's Nick Adams. He seems like a nice enough man, too. I wonder what he's really like. As for someone I might actually meet, I've wondered how much it would cost to hire David Archuleta to sing at one of my parties. I'm sure it would be interesting to talk to him for a bit. Quite a few hunky men in their early 30s come to my parties, so he might meet someone nice, if he's not already attached. Well, summer's a ways away.

@Moses, everyone on this forum knows who you are. (And, as you know, those two saboteurs entered and left Poland via Belarus, Not Ukraine)

Some of your lies have been more audacious than others. Some more black-and-white lies were when you supplied a link to United Nations World Court proceedings from the Hague, and stated the link cleared Putin of wrongdoings, when, in fact, the proceedings came to the opposite conclusion. Or, even more audaciously, when you took a list of the world's most voracious drinkers of vodka, and simply renumbered them, omitting #1 through #5 from the list (#1 was Russia). In this instance, whether or not these saboteurs were citizens of Ukraine or not depends on your viewpoint. Putin, and probably most Russians, would argue that these people are Russian citizens. From a factual standpoint, I doubt these people can go to some passport office in Donetsk or Luhansk, and obtain Ukrainian passports (I suspect they have Russian passports). However, even if one accepts the international viewpoint that these were, in fact, Ukrainian citizens, what cannot be denied (by anyone who has at least 5 neurons in his brain) is that your post was clearly intended to falsely implicate Ukraine in the act of sabotage. When you deny what's obvious to absolutely everyone, you not only come off as a liar, but also give yourself the appearance of a dumbass as well. As you often do, you stupidly thought that no one would check your references (perhaps imagining no one could translate the Polish), and got caught. Rather than confess and apologize, you diverted to some stupid argument about citizenship, which everyone recognizes as inane, and has nothing to do with the underlying fact that this operation was carried out by Russian intelligence (although they fumbled even then). If you're not going to apologize, one can hope that you'd at least not dig yourself deeper and come off as a jackass as well.

Well, the bottle specifically states (as do most condiments) "Refrigerate After Opening." Both bottles have "Best By" dates which are over a year from now, so it's pretty safe to say they'd be good for another year, though perhaps less after opening. When buying something at a 2 for 1 discount, and the "Best By" dates are well over a year into the future, what would be wasteful would be not to accept the free bottle.

It's not one of life's biggest problems, but I'm curious how common this is. I didn't have this problem with my previous two domestic partners (13.5 years and 2.5 years), but it's taken years of begging and pleading with my husband to get him to check if there's already an open bottle (of mustard, ketchup, whatever) before opening a new bottle. I finally "trained" him, but what's got me curious is that it's been a problem with visitors as well, so I'm wondering what most people do. Both of our usual house-sitters have the same annoying habit of opening new bottles without checking. For example, we had a half-used one liter bottle of maple syrup in the fridge, and the house-sitter went into the pantry and opened a new bottle and stuck it into the fridge, right next to the half-used one. They both had the same "Best By" dates, since they were purchased at the same time in a buy-one-get-one-free situation. We also get our fridge full of two partially used bottles of various condiments. And a couple of weeks ago, I had a house guest who took bagels from a new bag, although there was another bag with two left. The bag with two left had a "Sell By" date in 3 days, and the new one's "Sell By" date was in 9 days--so both were perfectly fine. Both bags were in the same breadbox, so he couldn't have simply not noticed the partially-used bag. (Incidentally, he did the same with some bread buns) Before I open a new can/bottle/bag of anything, I ask myself "Is there already one open?" and look. Is this an uncommon behavior?

I would advise you to stop wasting your time, @iendo. The board's veteran liar will never admit (much less apologize) for his lies. He will come up with more lies, resort to whataboutism, or deflect to completely irrelevant discussions, such as whether or not Ukrainian citizens are Ukrainian. Apologize for falsely implying Ukraine was behind the sabotage in Poland? Don't make me laugh. There is no need to try to "convince" him, since he already knows he's lying. He's been caught lying red-handed multiple times, and always resorts to irrelevant deflections and/or more lies.

Thanks for the additional information, @PeterRS. With that being known, I'd have to agree that he belongs in prison, not in rehab. It's sad to think he could have been left off the hook because he claimed to have "found God." Shameful how people can hide behind religion to shield their wrongdoings.

Dude, in English, a citizen of Ukraine is called a Ukrainian. If you're a citizen of Russia, you're Russian--even if you have dual citizenship.

You're so predictable. You imply that Ukraine was behind this, when your own reference states the exact opposite. This is a direct translation of the Polish article (for some reason, you foolishly believed none of the readers had the technology to translate Polish??): "Two Ukrainian citizens collaborating with Russian intelligence are responsible for the recent acts of sabotage on the railway, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the Sejm. He added that the men fled Poland through the border crossing in Terespol... Donald Tusk announced that both Ukrainians identified as saboteurs reached Poland from Belarus. One of them was convicted by a court in Lviv in May for acts of sabotage in Ukraine. The other, a native of Donbas, previously worked in the prosecutor's office... Referring to the details of the acts of sabotage, the Prime Minister said that a steel clamp attached to the tracks near the Puławy station was intended to cause the train to derail... The driver did not even notice the incident while passing through the place , he said... The Prime Minister emphasized that the Russians are interested in fueling chaos, panic, and speculation...". Incidentally, by calling those from Donbas Ukrainians (which they are), you're agreeing that Russian claims to sovereignty in that region are bogus (though presumably those from Donbas speak Russian rather than Ukrainian). It wouldn't surprise me if Poland's next step will be to fully close the border between Poland and Belarus.

I don't know enough about the case to be able to say whether he's simply nuts or simply an evil person. If he's not nuts, I agree with you that a substantial prison sentence would have been advisable. I think everyone would agree that he should never be able to fly an airplane again, and even that he should need to go through a substance abuse program in order to earn his license to operate a motor vehicle back.