<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I gave a friend my copy of a Playboy issue that had photos of Katerina Witt nude. Sigh.....wow wow wow</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Youtube - try it - it's really hard to whistle in tune.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Clipboard icon disappeared - spent 30 minutes online trying to find a way to see it - installed a new app and the icon is not to be found. Sigh..... bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 1:11 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7425632775305908287"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7425632775305908287WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hey cool, a new industry has just opened up which I think anyone here could pursue: an elite college deprogrammer! <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">An article a friend sent me:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="m_-7425632775305908287speakable" style="margin:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>…New York City pharmaceutical heiress Annabella Rockwell is claiming that her mother paid a $300-a-day "deprogrammer" after believing her daughter had been "brainwashed" by attending an all-female <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/education/college" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,102);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">elite liberal college</span></a> that left the young woman "totally indoctrinated" and estranged from the parents who raised her. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_-7425632775305908287speakable" style="margin:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">WOWsers, 300 bucks a day! I could sooooo deprogram that young scholar with a healthy dose of reality!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Read on please:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="m_-7425632775305908287speakable" style="margin:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-7425632775305908287speakable" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>…"I left school very anxious, very nervous, very depressed and sad," Rockwell, now 29, recently told The New York Post. "I saw everything through the lens of oppression and bias and victimhood. I came to the school as someone who saw everyone equally. I left looking for injustice wherever I could and automatically assuming that all White men were sexist. My thoughts were no longer my own."<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Noooo problem me lass. I can help you again see everyone equally, which leads to a calm sense of gratitude for how damn good we have it in this weary old world today, better than it has ever been in humanity’s long-suffering past: most people are doing pretty well for themselves, not that many who suffer from hunger, exposure or insufficient download speed. Some do still, but most have what we need to live a good life.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>…Rockwell, a former competitive figure skater…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Figure skater! That sport gives them such tight buns! I kid you not, google on “figure skaters” and hit images. Whaddya see please? I rest my case. I cheerfully offer a 10% deprogramming discount for figure skaters.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>… who grew up on the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/new-york-city" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,102);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Upper East Side…,</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Well there ya go. Spend some time with those of us who grew up on the lower south side. Cured! We see everyone as equal down here. We all suck, of course, but equally so. We don’t discriminate.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> told The Post that at first, she was elated to attend Mount Holyoke College – a $60,000-a-year women’s institution…</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">No my son, you will not convince them that you identify as a woman and go there, I don’t care if it is a super target-rich environment with few competitors. That $60k a year business is right out of the question.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> in rural Massachusetts…</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Advice to high school seniors: beware of ANYTHING out in rural Massachusetts. That raises yellow flags in itself. This wouldn’ta happened had you gone to rural Texas or rural Florida. They don’t do sexism or racism there. Well… a little sexism perhaps, but in a healthy fun way, not the depressing kind. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s really fun if you loosen up and allow yourself to enjoy life a bit. For instance, the cheerleaders are nearly all biologically female. One forgets there is a sporting event of some kind going on behind them.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>…Unlike other first-year students, she said she did not participate in the "MoHo chop," an initiation ritual meant to shrug off gender roles by cutting one's hair… <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ja, I don’t recall any MoHo chops in the college I attended. People could still shrug off gender roles if they wished, but without the extreme measures. Suggested alternative: shrug off gender roles in such a way that is easily reversible, with clothing or costumes. Don’t wreck your hair, because that takes a while to grow back if you get tired of the silliness, and surgery, forget it. Painful and costs money.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)">>…By her junior year, however, Rockwell told the Post that she noticed a shift in herself after taking a Gender Studies class…</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oh that whole Gender Studies business, we knew that was trouble the minute we heard it wasn’t intended as a gag or self-parody. They really do have those classes. My advice is sincere my young college-bound friends: do your thing with clothing only, and most of all remember the song, play it often in your head:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Its my theme song since 1988. I love it! Adjusts one’s attitude in a most healthy way. High school seniors, sing it early and often. You will have a lot more fun in college, a real university mostly paid for by the state. Mainstream is good, you don’t need to attend these silly pretentious 60k institutions, you won’t even need 300 dollar a day deprogrammers afterwards. But if you do need one, I am soooo here for yas, discount available to figure skaters.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:21pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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