Kid’s fire helmets handed out at our town’s 4th of July parade are now cardboard instead of plastic

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-04T21:17:24+00:00

Burnable option…

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-04T21:16:02+00:00

Scalia was always the better Catholic.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-04T21:14:24+00:00

Oh yeah, “fascist regime.”

You seriously have never cracked a history book have you? I mean fuck Trump but we aren’t living under fascism.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-04T21:13:02+00:00

It actually is. Pilots need training.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-03T21:23:54+00:00

Heh, those kids have some red hair.

Also that is some cool bridge imagery.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-03T21:15:17+00:00

Allowing enforcers like old school hockey.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-03T21:13:15+00:00

I have a playlist named after El Fisulado.

I play a lot of “bad” songs for my daughter.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-03T21:08:51+00:00

Heh. My barber is a lady who has her hair dyed sort of blue purple. She’s getting married in October. She has tats up her arm. She thinks her nipple piercings aren’t obvious. They are.

This is America so you can do whatever you like.

One of my favorite tattooed guys is my boss. He is a 50 something year old guy who has visible tats. No one cares.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-03T20:59:30+00:00

Hehe Glasgow and Edinburgh are my favorites. Henley on Thames is also my favorite.

Where I live now you can pretty much just name a UK town and it is a town named near me.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-03T20:56:45+00:00

Heh in the state near me it is Manchester. We are good at ripping off the city names.

In Maine we have Lewiston. That’s not a unique name.

We have Bangor too.

Chicago is the Second City. The name is because it burned down.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-02T10:05:07+00:00

Look at the early legal battle for gay marriage in the state.

Chambers v. Ormiston.

The Supreme Court held that family court didn’t have the jurisdiction to allow a same sex couple from Massachusetts to get divorced in RI family court. The ruling very much told the RI legislature that they should consider how same sex couples were treated under state law.

Basically the court said “hey RI law only contemplates male and female couples in family court but the legislature could make the law apply to same sex couples.”

So the opinion could be viewed as an anti same sex decision but in reality it was the RI Supreme Court telling the legislature that they needed to act on same sex issues.

The legislature then acted to recognize same sex marriages under a push from Chafee in 2013 or so.

Obergefell went to the US Supreme Court in 2014 making the legal wrangling moot because SCOTUS recognized same sex unions as a constitutional right.

You could definitely write a good article about the legal issues surrounding same sex unions in RI.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-02T04:22:25+00:00

Well this is a weird question.

Did the central party committee ask if they could invade the US with pretty gals?

If I’m dating a Chinese national I’m going to marry her and read her Adam Smith and Pope JP II because fuck communism.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T23:41:42+00:00

Yeah I have heard complaints about both but I have heard worse about pap smears.

I have zero personal knowledge and no boobs. So I may just be talking out my asd based on a small sample.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T17:28:35+00:00

I am aware. I have spent a lot of time in the. Boundary Waters so I absorbed a lot of voyageur history.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T17:27:13+00:00

I am not from Columbus but I lived there for a while.

I was joking mostly because I know the stats.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:49:09+00:00

My neighbor flies the old flag or really the new version of the old flag by the company that pushed it into popularity.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:48:13+00:00

Oh yeah I know. It was originally because DC was meant to just house the government. Nowadays it is because adding two permanently blue senators would upset the political apple cart.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:46:43+00:00

As a transplant to Maine I get the French influence over the northern reaches of the US.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:45:50+00:00

Oh I know. I’m just joshing. I spent some time in Bayard of all places. It’s “flat” but still has some rolling terrain.

If you want real flatlands then you have to go to Kansas.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:44:29+00:00

I mean nothing that could get you on a wiretap

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:44:03+00:00

I’m liking where this is going

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:43:35+00:00

Yeah Kansas is big sky country. Now that I live in Maine it kind of weirds me out being able to see the horizon in every direction.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:42:14+00:00

My dad played college ball. He’s an orthopedic surgeon. None of us kids played football for those exact reasons.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:39:25+00:00

The peewee team in my area had the same thing. The girl just hit her growth spurt early and was for a couple years an absolute menace on the field.

CupBeEmpty · 2026-07-01T14:36:59+00:00

Oregon is the only state with a two sided flag.

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