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So what happened to the ‘Read poetry!’ or ‘Do physics!’ ones?

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“So what happened to the ‘Read poetry!’ ”
You can’t read poetry if you don’t have any eyes. Duh…

These incompetents can’t even get Marxism right. Dangerous tools.

Ex-pat life is growing more attractive with each passing day.

> AliceH

Think twice before coming here. It’s nice, but dear God, it costs a lot to run a free society. And that’s when they’re honest. The Royal Mail should print a stamp that says, “REALITY. DON’T GET OVER IT.”

Oh, GIL, I have looked enough to know I can’t afford Jolly Old. I might possibly swing Ireland, but more likely, if I do this at all, I’d wind up some retirement community in Panama City or Mexico… no doubt dousing the walls with insecticide every week (I HATE BUGS!).

It’s shitty line quality trying to pass as style. Looks like someone had a concept sketch and ran smack into a deadline.

Kinda reminds me of the artwork for the London Olympics…that thing with Lisa Simpson giving head was priceless.

I could be persuaded to subscribe a Weasel comic. I am pretty sure.

They should have hired you. 🙂

But what a monumentally stupid reason to pull a stamp.

They do see everyone as faceless nonentities. It’s a prerequisite to seeing everyone as the means to their ends. Suck it up, joyless proles.

They reminded me of old Christmas stamps that the cancer society mailed out begging for cash.

There also appears to be a surprising lack of diversity. The lack of facial features makes it a bit uncertain but the vast majority of the hair colors and skin tones suggest that they are white folks.

Most of the activities on those stamps are not allowed in schools or on public playgrounds. The stamps are a lie.

Remember kiddies; a spoonful of sugar makes the Hope & Change go down!

Comment from AliceH
Time: October 11, 2013, 12:12 am

Ex-pat life is growing more attractive with each passing day.
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Me too, Alice . . . except that all the places that are affordable are hot countries, and I want to live where I get some winter. Fall and spring too. But Canada, England, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are all socialist, multi-cult paradises. Gah.

Bah, I’m stuck here in the US for better or for worse…so I might as well get a job as a government goon so I can tell people to stop recreating in national parks and crash many pension funds by giving Christmas bribes- I mean bonuses.

Gah! Juggling without a helmet! And the artwork is awful. Stamp art generally is subjected to intense scrutiny and review. The “Let’s Move” series smacks of intense backroom deal-making.

Well, commercial art is alot better than this usually…this really comes off as some know nothing ‘high artist'(emphasis on the high, de-emphasis on the artist) got the contract because she/he/it was the First Lady’s BFF.

Or maybe the contract was award to Natasha’s and Malia’s friend at school…you can never tell.

Yes, the art is total amateur-hour stuff.

(Then again, some people liked Keith Haring’s crap…)

What annoys me about the mess is that the Postal Service, a notionally “independent” entity, was sucking up to an unaccountable, un-elected, constitutionally powerless person’s ridiculous schemes.

The “First Lady” has and should have exactly zero power or influence; she most certainly shouldn’t be Trying To Fix The Country’s Personal God Damn Lives.

It appears steve has hit the dead pool w/ Erich Priebke.

What does climbing a rope have to do with hiking?

One of the meanings of “hike up” is to pull or raise. But yes, it’s another bizarre choice in a stamp series that’s full of them. Obviously, Michelle and Barack were made for each other: they’re both inept.

I’ve heard “hike up” used like that when pulling up your pants leg or sleeve. Not so much climbing a rope.

Now, I’ve heard of “shinny up” a rope

This whole farrago is a neat example of how state-sanctioned nannying is not merely useless but actively counterproductive. Why are kids fat today when 30-40 years ago they were not? Is it because they are eating vastly more? No. We weren’t short of calories back then. It is because they get very little exercise outside formal PE classes in school. Why? Because the sort of people who think someone doing a handstand needs to wear a goddamn piss-licking motherfucking crash helmet for the love of all that is holy you utter, utter fucksticks are exactly the sort of people who are too timorous to let kids run around and blow off steam. These cretins really need to be beaten to death with a sock full of brass doorknobs and pigshit.

“I’ve heard ‘hike up’ used like that when pulling up your pants leg or sleeve. Not so much climbing a rope.”

Which is why I said it was a bizarre choice. But in terms of literal meaning, It makes sense.

“Now, I’ve heard of ‘shinny up’ a rope”

I agree, that would have been much better.

Is it just me, or is it kinda creepy that there’s a line running through the word “forever”? USA Forever….er, not so much, in the Obama(per)verse.