@averagejoe1 said
That was not the worst thing he has done in his life , you shluld google all his lying, I thought you would know not to 'go there'. All the family coal mining is a lie, and how about raised in a below average financial household, with puertoricans, blacks, Jews, (Phjew) but saying a few days ago how they would not let his family join the Club. Hmmmmmmmm. Join a Club?
...[text shortened]... reepy climate maniacs. Costing us all big time.
I know,,,,,you hate Trump. That is about it.

Just for the sake of whataboutism, Avjoe, let's just pretend they're ALL bad.

Trump was there first. Whatever the bad thing is. Let's see him get his just deserts. Then, and only then, can we start investigating the next guy, Biden.

Try to concentrate. One at a time, please.

@very-rusty said
I believe the true count is gone now. 🙂

-VR

It's easy enough to check, Rusty. On the thread list page it shows the number of posts in the thread.
This is the 244th post.

Sir Andrew Davis, orchestra conductor, 80.

@rookie54 said
241
is one short of 242
which is 200 long of 42
which is the answer to everything

I'll take that 2.4.2 pattern, thanks rookie.

240 pennies in a pound, in the good old days before metrication made so many things easier.

@drewnogal said
How many tries would it take for us to get that 13 digit number?
Would one and a half dozen years be long enough? That’s 157,680 hours?

A decent supercomputer could crack it in a day, but there's a cost for computer time. For my $500 limit I don't think they'd bother.

We oldies just had radio, and even then people became alcoholics. Pile on cinemas, TV, internet, streaming services, mobile smartphones. It's impossible for a kid to grow up in any society (excepting maybe the Amish) without being constantly bombarded with advertising and propaganda, peddled by people whose lifeblood is money. What amazes me is that so many kids still manage to get through it and become mature, responsible adults.

@very-rusty said
LOL...Just make sure you don't give out the rest of the number on your credit card. 🙂

-VR

Just how stupid do you think I am? 13 unknown digits is enough protection. But thank you for giving me another pattern number - 234.

Australia made the mistake of not restricting vaping sales as they wanted to encourage smokers to use vaping to help quit. Now we have an epidemic of kids vaping they've restricted vape sales to prescription-only at pharmacies. I suspect the kids will start getting their vapes from the friendly drug dealers because the genie's out of the bottle. Normal smoking is dying out here, has been long before vapes arrived.

232
Last 3 digits of my credit card, and another pattern number. I love patterns.

228
For those of you who grew up with tables, it's 12x19. I had a maths teacher who thought 12 wasn't enough so we went for 20. It's been surprisingly useful over the years.

Thanks Rusty for 2.2.2

218
What Minnesota, Libya and BMW have in common.

@averagejoe1 said
Actually one of my favorite subjects, which I did a thread on a few yers ago, is that 'Why' is basically irrelevant. If I tell you I am late to the party, and you ask why. and I am standing there, Why is truly irrelevant. Would be glad to discuss it, start a thread. Drove my daughter crazy with it for years, and she could never defeat the argument.
My other argu ...[text shortened]... ent is that what other people do is irrelevant to me, I know you, as a liberal, would HATE that one.

Why do you think I am a liberal? I'm definitely not any of your idiotic labels. I'm a believer in rational discussion, and I'm proud not to be American if you're an example. I think back to a decision made by my father (America or Australia) and am so happy he lost the coin-toss in 1924.

@wildgrass said
Yikes, Joe asks a question, everyone answers. Then Joe rants about no one answering his questions.

AND the question itself was insane. Should illegal things be illegal?

A better question, Joe: why is the speaker of the house flying to mar a Lago to meet with the former president and declare they're making things illegal that are already illegal?

That's too hard for joe. He's the kindergarten kid who says
* why?
the adult tells him in simple words.
* but why?
adult patiently repeats simple answer.
* but you don't say just why?
adult tries a more detailed answer, but patience is wearing thin.
* but you never answer my questions. why can't you give me an answer?
adult, at his wit's end: either "go play in the road" or "because I said so"
* stamps foot and runs to mom for sympathy.

Joe - you're the asterisk.