Arcadia

Classic.

Right, I was thinking of my circumstances specifically … where I was raised thinking I had to right to question any kind of authority, including religious ones, as long as I'm not breaking a law. I've never had to live under a theocracy or some such, thank goodness. But I feel bad for people who do. Yeah, that's where it gets tricky. Like the case of the bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. I didn't agree with their refusal, but I think I have to respect their right to make that decision. I kept thinking … what if it was me, and someone commissioned me to make a painting celebrating Nazism? Absolutely I think I should have the right to turn them down, if their beliefs offend me. Yet they have a right to not be declined service for something that is personal. Or do they? It's hard to know where to draw the line, sometimes. Are you a better person for adhering strictly to your own beliefs? Or are you better for being tolerant of other people's beliefs? I think there's usually a middle ground in there somewhere, but it keeps shifting around.

Now I'm going to have to watch me some of those. The Scarlet Claw pops up in my YouTube suggestions a lot, perhaps I shall start with that. Later.

All puns are pitiful. It is in their nature. 😛

Or, "you're going to Hell." I've had a couple of people tell me that's where I'm headed, since I don't follow their faith. So charming. When did it become acceptable to drag faith into a public debate, anyway? When I was a kid, I was taught that was very impolite … faith, like sex, was a private matter, not a public one. I'd just as soon they had both stayed that way. *sigh*

This!!! …. This is what hiatus reduces us to. Making pitiful puns and spinning kooky conspiracy theories. Curse you, Moftiss!!!!!!

A mortarboard, as far as I know, is that little square thing you wear on your head at graduation... ---> 🎓 I fear Carol was making a punny….. I think it's plasterboard too. And what looks like a bit of insulation on top of the cabinet. Apparently Eurus blew up the professor's office too, and clean up's still underway.

Just dropping in to say I wholeheartedly agree with each of the last dozen or so posts.

Listen to you two! Since that one went over so well....

Yeah, their molasses ones are especially good … never buy 'em, too dangerous.

Haven't the foggiest. You wouldn't think they'd make it that easy to make a copy, would you? But it occurs to me that's exactly what I can do with my music files … make CDs out of them. Hm.

Cockatiel, maybe? They all seem to have red spots on their cheeks: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cockatiels&cbir=sbi&imageBin=&qs=n&form=QBIR&sp=-1&pq=cockatiels&sc=8-10&sk=&cvid=5EF29F60194F4F18895F15CEBF65EA2E#

Well, I thought I'd be safe, because like I said … I don't ordinarily enjoy cookies that much. A package of cookies will usually last for weeks in this house. My mistake, apparently, was buying good cookies.