Confused Penguin

@confusedpenguin

Runaway Penguin on the former place. History enthusiast doomed to watch history repeat itself.

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Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· 22d

Dammit beat me to it...

Trump yelling at lawn mowing kid "Show me your ID!"

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jul 12

See ALT text.. Sir PTerry knew :)

There is a saying, “You can’t fool an honest man,” which is much quoted by people who make a profitable living by fooling honest men. Moist never tried it, knowingly anyway. If you did fool an honest man, he tended to complain to the local Watch, and these days they were harder to buy off. Fooling dishonest men was a lot safer and, somehow, more sporting. And, of course, there were so many more of them. You hardly had to aim.

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jun 24

The things it immediately evoked this in me is a Star Destroyer bridge tower and a turbolaser turret from Star Wars :D

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jun 23

Commander Ivanova from Babylon 5 says "Boom. Sooner or later."

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jun 19

Já byl na Petříně . I s tímhle krasavcem :)

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jun 19

Seems they entered the war under a rather childish notion...

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jun 18

Let's break up the gloom with bits of nature :) #summer #nature #drone #Prague

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jun 17

Co je dobré pro Kolaloku, je dobré i pro zákon.

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jun 8

Thinking wider, Whiskey Pete seems to be in a perfect position to be blamed for rhe Iran debacle by rhe Dear Leader... #IYKYK

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· May 23

Saw a buch yesterday as well :)

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· May 18

To reduce all the doom and gloom, some floofs from the morning run :) #fluffy #bunny #bunnies

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· May 14

Or pumped-storage hydropower... I bet US of A has enough suitable hills even outside nature preserves, unlike our wee country:)

Lower and upper reservoirs for pump-storage Dlouhé Stráně, CZ.

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· May 11

Let's dilute the bad news by some nature :) Jeseníky mountain range, CZ.

Ice-formed layered rocks on top of Koperník

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· May 3

Just some random space balls. May the 4th be with you!

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Apr 10

Indeed.

Pope Leo holding a baseball bat on a plane.

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Mar 27

With the March 28 approaching, wondering if anyone already roleplayed Nac Mac Feegle in the No Kings protests :) "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!" Fingers crossed!

Cover of the novel The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett displaying the Nac Mac Feegle.
"Pictsies or Nac Mac Feegle are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble gnomes, but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such."

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Mar 13

Frank Herbert knew it first... "The slow balde penetrates the shield..." "Yeah yeah, that's what they'd tell you, but it came about only because Duke back then fired all the supply guys and did not have Shield Penetrator Mk.Is at hand..."

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Mar 12

Oh he has the best man doing that. Sleeper cells awake with cold sweat from nightmares in which his eyebrow chases them. (As a side note, are we sure the guy should not be in the Lord Vetinari Ward at Lady Sibyl's?)

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Mar 3

Literal meme...

Meme template "My source is that I made it up"

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Feb 4

If you see this, post a dragon.

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jan 16

There is no cat. Just a weird orange creeper, and as a reader of Discworld I know these are to be avoided.

Excerpt from the Eric by Terry Pratchett, describing the jungles of Klatch.
The few explorers who have returned have passed on handy hints to those who follow after, such as: 1) avoid if possible any hanging-down creepers with beady eyes and forked tongue at one end; 2) don't pick up any orange-and-black-striped creepers that are apparently lying across the path, twitching, because there is ften a tiger on the other end; and 3) don't go.

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jan 11

Confused Penguin@confusedpenguin· Jan 9

The Ankh-Morpork Guild of Fools and Joculators and College of Clowns should dispatch some of their finest specialists (Jolly Good Pals), it seems some unlicensed clowning is happening here.