[normhead]

Hence the slogan "Think globally, act locally".

I'm so at odds with my local population, hunters and gatherers, I literally mean my own back yard. Not my community. "Mind your own business and make sure no one else is minding your business." has become my moto. When I want to improve things, I try and create a better environment for the birds I feed.

I'm not trying to improve anything I can't see out my windows.

I did volunteer to ump a few baseball games at the local July 1st tournament. You have to support what you believe in.

Right now I believe I'll have another beer.

[Mikesul]

I'm so at odds with my local population, hunters and gatherers, I literally mean my own back yard. Not my community. "Mind your own business and make sure no one else is minding your business." has become my moto. When I want to improve things, I try and create a better environment for the birds I feed.

I'm not trying to improve anything I can't see out my windows.

I did volunteer to ump a few baseball games at the local July 1st tournament. You have to support what you believe in.

You may be more of an activist than you are willing to admit, Norm.

[normhead]

You may be more of an activist than you are willing to admit, Norm.

I wonder if I ran on a platform of more baseball tournaments with more beer tents and hamburger stands I could get on council.

I went to the town planning committee to tell them they needed a Tim Horton's. Honestly from what I can tell, a Timmy's is a preferred social environment as compared to the local seniors centre that barely gets used. I see old folks every where sitting in Timmy's gabbing to their friends every day. God knows us old folks don't want a place where there's no one to bring us a coffee for $1.75. Tess and I have to drive 49 km to get to the nearest Timmy's. That's real social inequality.

Imagine 700 people who have to drive 40 minutes to get a coffee and a donut. In this day and age, It's outrageous. It's also proof capitalism doesn't work. We need a socialist Timmy's that will run even though 10 months of the year it will lose money.

That's my platform, a Timmy's in every community, more baseball tournaments with beer tents.

The funniest thing about this, was I was expressing my views to a former mayor of Whitney over at the doctors office the other day. . He said, "You should run for mayor." I kid you not.

[boriscleto]

I wonder if I ran on a platform of more baseball tournaments with more beer tents and hamburger stands I could get on council.

I went to the town planning committee to tell them they needed a Tim Horton's. Honestly from what I can tell, a Timmy's is a preferred social environment as compared to the local seniors centre that barely gets used. I see old folks every where sitting in Timmy's gabbing to their friends every day. God knows us old folks don't want a place where there's no one to bring us a coffee for $1.75. Tess and I have to drive 49 km to get to the nearest Timmy's. That's real social inequality.

Imagine 700 people who have to drive 40 minutes to get a coffee and a donut. In this day and age, It's outrageous. It's also proof capitalism doesn't work. We need a socialist Timmy's that will run even though 10 months of the year it will lose money.

That's my platform, a Timmy's in every community, more baseball tournaments with beer tents.

The funniest thing about this, was I was expressing my views to a former mayor of Whitney over at the doctors office the other day. . He said, "You should run for mayor." I kid you not.

All the Tim Horton's in Syracuse closed. Can't compete with Dunkin' down here...Crispy Creme didn't last very long either...

[monochrome]

I think it best I should mark this entire threaad boriscletoed.

Fortune | Duty | Service

I am fortunate to be where I am, when I am and what I am, and to have what I have. It is my duty to return a portion of my good fortune - whatever portion I decide through prayer and contemplation - to my community through gifts of service (Time, Talent and Treasure). I must decide the meaning of community, the portion and what constitutes service. Actively contemplating the answers to those questions (who, what and how much) inevitably leads to a softening of all selfish thoughts and reliance on oneself as the sole arbiter of all things. There must be a higher power. It is enough that I serve those I can actually touch, so my family, my fellow parishioners, my neighbors, my actual friends and acquaintances, my clients and the anonymous people I meet in daily life, for whom a simple smile might be enough, and a kind answer to a question is more than they expect.

I’ll let the globalists take care of the world. I’m a localist.

[Mikesul]

I wonder what would happen if one of these threads ever stayed on topic past the first page?

[boriscleto]

I wonder what would happen if one of these threads ever stayed on topic past the first page?

We would never get to 40K posts...

[Mikesul]

We would never get to 40K posts...

You are right. I keep losing track of the prize

[gmans]

I think it best I should mark this entire threaad boriscletoed.

Fortune | Duty | Service

I am fortunate to be where I am, when I am and what I am, and to have what I have. It is my duty to return a portion - whatever portion I decide - to my community through gifts of service. I get to decide the meaning of community, the portion and what constitutes service. Actively contemplating the answers to those questions (who, what and how much) inevitably leads to a softening of all selfish thoughts and reliance on oneself as the arbiter of all things. There must be a higher power. It is enough that I serve those I can actually touch, so my family, my fellow parishioners, my neighbors, my clients and the anonymous people I meet in daily life, for whom a simple smile might be enough, and a kind answer to a question is more than they expect.

I’ll let the globalists take care of the world. I’m a localist.

Out.

Sounds good have a Card Games and play either Past/or Old Maid, Eucha and/or Poker? But it is local. Cheers

[bhbrake]

I wonder what would happen if one of these threads ever stayed on topic past the first page?

Made me laugh.. I read the first page that struggled to stay on topic, then skipped to the last page and wondered what on earth I missed. There has been a substantial surge in posts this month though as mentioned. I think a few folks really want a K-1ii.

[clackers]

I wonder what would happen if one of these threads ever stayed on topic past the first page?

It's a wondrous feature of these forums, right?

Worth paying for, anyone who's not yet a member ...

[monochrome]

All the Tim Horton's in Syracuse closed. Can't compete with Dunkin' down here...Crispy Creme didn't last very long either...

Tim Horton’s made a bad deal with a Private Equity investor (who sold franchises and expanded too quickly), got in a spitting match with them - and all the franchisees lost their rights and were forced out of business. Lawyers will have a decade of income sorting things out and Tim Horton’s will shrink to its original Canadian locations.

Crispy Kreme made the same error 20 years ago.

.:

[monochrome]

I wonder what would happen if one of these threads ever stayed on topic past the first page?

It is evident that at their size, ranked. in such company, Pentax has become a philosophical enterprise. They create for the joy of it and in the end will win a somewhat different game. We’re in at the second beginning. Many of us were in at the first beginning and the first ending.

I wish I was a younger man. It is unlikely I will be here for the crescendo.

[RobA_Oz]

At Jamestown, the first 'permanent' English settlement in what became the US, the first rules were a 'Communistic' "from those who can do, to those need", but when people became hungry that morphed into "Those who don't work don't eat" ..... turned out that too many were just sitting around {and they didn't even have an Internet to tempt them}.

Much the same thing happened to the first British settlement in Australia, and probably for similar reasons: they simply couldn’t imagine that their new neighbours might actually know something more about feeding yourself in the new landscape than they did. It’s taken us over two hundred years to begin acknowledging that simple mistake of cultural “superiority”. In our case, those who sat around had the guns, while those who “did” had manacles. George Orwell had it about right concerning revolutions, though.

[normhead]

Much the same thing happened to the first British settlement in Australia, and probably for similar reasons: they simply couldn’t imagine that their new neighbours might actually know something more about feeding yourself in the new landscape than they did. It’s taken us over two hundred years to begin acknowledging that simple mistake of cultural “superiority”. In our case, those who sat around had the guns, while those who “did” had manacles. George Orwell had it about right concerning revolutions, though.

Over time, you learn to be content with the slow rate of change. When I was youth it was inconceivable a black man with a muslim name would ever become president. Change is slow, but it's steady. Those who complain about the racial violence today have never seen anything like Detroit burning in the 60s. There are ups and downs, advances and retreats, but change is going to come.