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aka Contrarian

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  1. 9/11will soon be here. Maybe tomorrow we should all pause and observe a moment of silence for the dead end reached by Ubrachist in his ongoing search to explain why the Twin Towers collapsed.🤨
  2. 🤫A very bleak picture. Especially since there doesn't appear to be much chance of reform. This is the end result of humanity being self-destructive. (Just ask Harry Brown. ) When it all comes to a head and explodes ala the Big Bang, the world will be back at square one, ready to begin again, and will just keep on doing this until it gets it right. 🎶🎵That's the waaay Of the world Plant a diamond And grooow A pearl!🎶🎶 Or - maybe we'll all finally wake up from this hell of a nightmare, and find ourselves in Paradise. You, of course, envision a final showdown where you'll go down fightin...😉
  3. Isn't a UFO that was recently discovered headed toward Earth currently being tracked and monitored? The viewpoint that, as Civilzations go, Earth is neither technically nor mentally advanced enough for Aliens to find it worth their scrutiny, is sobering to me. Like, we are to them what ants are to us. 🫨
  4. The fact that this guy had a long criminal record and as a repeat offender should not have been released back onto the streets is a factor. This figures into a lot of Chicago's crime and was certainly what led to Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx's decision to not seek re-election. This sista faced a lot of criticism from both Whites and Blacks and her office was blamed for there being so many criminals roaming the streets, having been set free to commit more crimes. Overcrowded jails contributed to this problem. The situation is fraught with hopelessness. No easy answers.
  5. HAIR THEN HAIR NOW (What old ladies do when they have too much time on their hands.) 🙄 ************* No National Guard troops have shown up in Chicago yet. Latest news reports a confrontation between 2 women in a black neighborhood ends with one shooting the other in the face, killing her. Three-year-old playing with gun, accidently shoots and kills himself. And Life goes on... Or does it??
  6. I'm convinced somebody has put a 4th quarter hex on DA BEARS! ☹️ Ben Johnson needs to find a remedy for that. Maybe DA POPE should send him some holy water. It's gonna be a loooong season. Caleb has to be worried.
  7. Btw, I don't wear the corn rows on public They are just a way of keeping my real hair out of the way of my "artificial coiffs".😉
  8. Meh. Is that the best you can come up with? 'Never was into that sausage-nosed Idris Englishman. He does hsve a nice set of boobs, tho, for anyone who's interested. Hey, Baby. Nana needs a caregiver.😍
  9. My daughters and I are the same height. Get a life, Loser. I dare you to post a picture of yourself.
  10. Nah. Since my once thick bushy hair has thinned out with age and I'm all about convenience, I resort to doing what all those false-eyelash, acryllic nail wearing black woman are doing nowadays: wearing huge afro wigs made of synthetic hair, or long luxurious "baby hair" wigs made from hair imported from India, or braided extensions made from whatever the ones in the local Korean-owned beauty supply stores are made of. I dispense with all that glamour, however, and settle for styles that duplicate the ways I used to wear my hair which has turned completely gray. After my grand daughter does the cornrows, I'm good to go, although I don't do a lot of going nowadays which has a lot to do with the choices I make.
  11. Whatever. A jerk by any other name is just as "assinine". And that means YOU.
  12. Get real. In your case, it's called being an "insecure wanna be" who tries too hard.
  13. @Pioneer1Golly Gee. I had "jack off" but changed it to "jerk" because that's what you are and that's what you do. As I told you, Dummy, that's not a blond wig, it's a gray one and I put it on to cover my frizzy corn rows. Self-appointed phonies like you who are too dense to accept the reality of there just being one race are enough to drive people away. But I've reconciled with the human race. Maybe one day you can do the same when you stop walking on all fours.
  14. If the smash and grab break-in robberies would just stop! They are reported in great detail by the TV news every night, and from the views in the security cameras, the perpetrators apoear to be young black boys who are unloaded from SUVS to run into stores and steal merchandise after another vehicle has backed into and shattered the display windows. These jobs are clearly the work of organized burgarlry rings who hire kids to do their dirty work, and this just muddies the picture. Make no mistake about it. There are Chicagoans who would welcome the National Guard.
  15. The next time you get an urge to set aside a post for me, "stuff it" along with all of your unsolicited advice. You never give up in your quest to be in control.
  16. @Pioneer1Yada, yada,yada 🫸 talk to the hand. Like I care what you think. @ProfDReady for some Football. Bears vs Vikings. Who ya got?
  17. @Pioneer1Who are the "WE" who would all like examples of your closet homophobia? Your,yourself, and thee? Or the phantom audience you are playing to? I just gave you one explanation as to why I came to the conclusion you are a homophobe. Take it or leave it. It is a lot if trouble to go searching all around trying to find random examples of your disapproval of Gays and your fear of them corrupting the guillible. Especially on an Android phone. I don't do your bidding. You go find some examples yourself that prove my impressions wrong, that you have no problem with with "sissified" men.
  18. Because I don't feel like it. Any more questions?
  19. Implicit in your ongoing fear and distress about your perceived notion concerning the feminization of black men is the specter of homophobia. That along with your urgent need to emphasize the manliness and virility of black men seems symptomatic of a contempt for gay guys. That's my opinion and you are free to dispute it.
  20. Slow learning has nothing to with the population of Chicago
  21. That's not blond hair. That's a gray wig to cover up my frizzy corn rows. And I'm a passive, non jealous woman who never engaged in cat fights over men. I can understand if my husband hooked up with an old flame since I'm taking so damned long to join him on the "other side".
  22. @ProfD& @Pioneer1 Gimme a break! You two DO regularly engage in discussions that cast "women as sex objects", - a reference to a woman's body odor being the gist of a recent post from Pioneer. "Snatchbox" is a word ProfD coined for the vagina, a spot he and Pioneer love to penetrate so much that he gave it this pet name to spice up their bawdy conversations that hover on the threshold of "personal details". Anytime a woman's picture comes up on a thread, Pioneer immediately starts drooling, as ProfD eggs him on, altho during the most recent exchange ProfD deflated Pioneer's fantasizing about an 80 year old "aunty" he wanted to get next to. These are just a few examples of the male chauvanistic behavior you 2 are guilty of. And my calling Pioneer a "homophobe" is an accurate assessment inasmuch as he expresses his aversion to the "alphabet community" all the time! His disgust for homosexuals is obvious. I've never called ProfD a homophobe because he doesn't come across as one. And Pioneer's attempt at deconstructing my behavior is typical of his warped imagination. He's convinced that he influences my reactions and that I agree with others to spite him rather than because they make more sense than he does. (The mindset of a person who thinks he's always right.) He, himself, " is, a "grandstander", always playing to the lurkers and the peanut gallery, hoping to make himself come across as a winner instead of a loser. When it comes to the dynamics of this board, Pioneer, as usual, thinks he's got it all figured out. Probably lies awake at night assigning roles to everyone as he creates this movie in his head. He is really a character. My participation on this site is a passtime; a diversion. What I find fascinating is how, after a while, peoples' auras transcend their words and good and bad vibes come into play. I should be old enough to know better than to get caught up in all this foolishness....but - "no fools, no fun". 🤪

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