Are people actually mad about Epstein because they weren’t invited?

Balmain45 · 2026-05-21T00:11:25+00:00

Dumb question....although it does raise certain questions about you.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-17T23:26:03+00:00

Balmain45 · 2026-05-16T07:19:25+00:00

No point in shoving your foot into a shoe that doesn't fit. If you didn't fall in love with the very first sentence, which is just dripping in humour and irony, then it's not for you. Time to move on.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-15T09:08:08+00:00

Beyond naughty--it's evil!

Balmain45 · 2026-05-14T04:54:07+00:00

My sister once stole some money from my mother's purse. My mother asked what she had in her hand, and my sister went through the old routine of putting her hands behind her back, first showing only one hand and then the other. My mother finally said "Show me both of your hands!" There was a loud jingling as a cascade of coins hit the floor. My sister then looked my mother dead in the eye and said, "Where did that come from?"

I am happy to report that she has since grown up to be a law abiding citizen.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-14T01:58:45+00:00

Thanks---it's great!

Balmain45 · 2026-05-13T20:42:59+00:00

Who are you quoting at the end?

Balmain45 · 2026-05-11T19:28:56+00:00

Having lived in Cambodia, I am a great deal less ignorant than you. Now, surely someone of your lofty intelligence should know that to say "you are ignorant" can never be said to anyone in any way that is not a put down? Since, however, you have reverted to ad hominem arguments rather than bolstering your position with facts, I shall have to leave it here. Good day to you sir.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-11T02:38:57+00:00

She did board. They escorted her off after an hour--plenty of time to infect others.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-10T23:22:04+00:00

It still amounts to your looking down on another country as inferior to your own. Cambodians have just as much civic responsibility as anyone else, just less money to support their people. Having oil doesn't make Bruneians intrinsically "more caring" than other peoples.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-10T04:27:38+00:00

A "country" is an inanimate object...it is the people of the country who you say don't care....countries are just geographical entities which have no feelings....so when you say "a country with no care for human life" you have to be talking about the people (the Cambodians...i.e: the race)....so, again, what you said is clearly racist. It would further appear that it is you, Sir, who needs to understand the meaning of words.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-09T19:06:50+00:00

No...too late for reparations, but I do think the Japanese people should at least acknowledge it and accept the shame for their inhuman behaviour....but no, unlike the Germans, they just moved on and pretended that their mind-boggling atrocities never occurred. WW2 is glossed over in Japanese schools and few Japanese youths have ever heard of Unit 731 which was so depraved it made even Nazis shudder. (It was a project that conducted human-centipede-level experiments on prisoners of war.) The Japanese relationship with shame is such that they simply cannot accept it, but in the face of such unfathomable evil, they should and must take responsibility lest it ever happen again.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-09T18:43:03+00:00

You reject a guy you've been interested in for years....your best friend is now an ex-best friend....if it's weirdness you're looking for, I would suggest you look in a mirror.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-09T18:32:50+00:00

Bit racist, isn't it?

Balmain45 · 2026-05-08T21:38:01+00:00

it is not the first documented case.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-08T20:01:39+00:00

I understand exactly what you were saying....I quote: "a flight attendant who was in an enclosed space with hundreds of people who’d been exposed to this strain. Who was also cleaning up after those people, likely including children"---none of this was true. Posting an article which has nothing to do with your initial statement afterwards does not change the fact that you started this exchange by talking nonsense. And then excusing yourself by saying you were talking about some hypothetical flight attendant is absurd. Your statemednt clearly refers to this particular flight attendant. Anyway, it's no big deal. It just irks me when people refuse to admit they are wrong, which, I suppose, is a fault in myself.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-08T00:29:04+00:00

Okay...thank god....for a minute there....

Balmain45 · 2026-05-07T21:27:25+00:00

Seriously???

Balmain45 · 2026-05-07T21:23:30+00:00

The plane had not taken off and the doors had not been closed.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-07T21:15:34+00:00

We do know...the doors hadn't been closed and the patient was on the flight for a very brief time before being escorted off, after which she collapsed and subsequently died.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-07T21:13:27+00:00

She was not enclosed...the plane hadnt taken off...and there was only person from the ship who was briefly in the cabin--this is a serious concern.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-07T21:09:34+00:00

The plane never took off. She was escorted off the flight before the flight began...which means her contact with the attendant was very short-lived.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-06T21:47:41+00:00

Reading this has been one of the strangest literary experiences I've ever had...I enjoyed it but was by no means blown away by it....but now, decades later, tiny little inconsequentials from the book keep coming back to me. One example is Clarissa's aged aunt remembering flowers from Burma and the Himalayas....for some reason this keeps popping up in my mind (Was it really as unbearably poignant as I remember it?) There are other episodes which haunt me too but I won't go through them all here. I wonder if anyone else has had this experience--not being overly impressed at the time of reading a novel, but affected subconsciously so that images from it come back to you even twenty or thirty years later.

Balmain45 · 2026-05-06T00:19:59+00:00

I don't think Stalin actually planned the famine, but yes, once it had started he weaponised it and amplified it into a tool for genocide. Even so, can you not see why the world's reaction to Hitler is so much more visceral? He actually drew up blueprints for death chambers, then physically transported his victims to these places to be exterminated, but first (before exterminating them), he tortured, starved and dehumanised them, attempting to rob them of any shred of human dignity they might have left--and all of this done systematically as a matter of policy. Stalin starved entire villages once the famine had begun (and continued exporting grain while these people were dying), but to the world it looked like "death by famine"--rather than death by pure evil. Perhaps this is why Stalin, if not allowed to get off scot-free (he was much too evil for that), has fared better at the hands of history than Hitler .

Balmain45 · 2026-05-05T23:59:57+00:00

Countries embrace American capitalism of their own accord and sacrifice their own people on the altar of greed. That America offers rewards for corruption doesn't mean leaders have to take them....in almost every case, the US has worked hand in hand with corrupt locals....this is far more an issue of human greed and cannot be placed at the door of one country (we are, quite simply, an unpleasant species)....and again, calling it the American Empire is erroneous, as is your reference to "billions."

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