The Best Things....2023

[rareboy]

It is always tempting to leave the old year, only mindful of worst.

The challenge will be to come up with some of the best things that happened in 2023. It can be something personal or something with global impact. Small thing or large thing or any size thing.

I'll start:


Guinea worm disease is almost eradicated with only 13 human cases reported last year...compared to millions in the 1980's.

President Jimmy Carter may actually achieve his dream of being alive long enough to see it eradicated.

 

[Peloso]

One of my favorite films finally came out in 4k after only being available on a poorly mastered DVD for 28 years.

Also: brownies.

That's about it.

 

[rareboy]

 

[belamyi]

The prick-squeezing hairy PHat butch ass I moan-fucked for ten full minutes back in July... who cares about sex anymore after that.

Well, maybe also the hoard of collegey-jockishy pretty blonds and reds who seem to be more a feast to the eyes and brains than to the cock and heart rate.

 

[belamyi]

^ Moan-fucked and bitchcheekslapped (poor reception girl six meters away, at the other side of the room door).

 

[NotHardUp1]

^ Y'know, that will lead to some analysis that increased water use will be untenable.

Paper still seems a possible alternative. It's certainly biodegradable. And it must be possible to make it from the potato peelings they take off french fries, or from bamboo, or some other organic by-products rather than deforest the planet to support the drive-throughs.

I'm glad France is ahead of us, just not sure it's not moving the deck chairs about.

 

[rareboy]

Miriam Margolyes Vogue shoot.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It may sound snarky, but I think one of the best things in 2023 is the number of Trump's minions who turned on him and revealed the certainty of the conspiracy to defeat the U.S. Constitution and take power in 2020 in effectively a coup.

It is also somewhat comforting to see the GOP support Trump, as it ends all debates and arguments about GOP's values, aims, and patriotism. No one looking on can surmise anything other than the party is falling back to "at least we're not as bad as Biden" while throwing out sand from the hole they are digging.

Another bright moment was India's successful landing on the moon in August. They deserved their success.

And right before that, Pat Robertson went to meet his maker. We don't even have infrared images of that.

 

[belamyi]

^ Y'know, that will lead to some analysis that increased water use will be untenable.

Paper still seems a possible alternative. It's certainly biodegradable. And it must be possible to make it from the potato peelings they take off french fries, or from bamboo, or some other organic by-products rather than deforest the planet to support the drive-throughs.

I'm glad France is ahead of us, just not sure it's not moving the deck chairs about.

Increased water use is untenable from the very start.

You can be dead certain about that.

 

[belamyi]

Miriam Margolyes Vogue shoot.

That cover looks ridiculously stooopeed and cheap with all that crappy photoshopping -0.0.

This is WAY better:

 

[NotHardUp1]

Another thing comes to mind: the rains giving California problems surely must be helping to refill Lake Mead and Lake Powell have regained some of their levels.

Lake Mead, for example, was at a depth of 1,068 ft. just yesterday, up from 1,044 ft. a year ago. Full lake is at 1,229, but a 22 ft. improvement in just a year is remarkable and not exactly getting the media attention that the depletion got.

Our news system is designed to be an endless series of worry beads.

 

[Peloso]

Another thing comes to mind: the rains giving California problems surely must be helping to refill Lake Mead and Lake Powell have regained some of their levels.

Lake Mead, for example, was at a depth of 1,068 ft. just yesterday, up from 1,044 ft. a year ago. Full lake is at 1,229, but a 22 ft. improvement in just a year is remarkable and not exactly getting the media attention that the depletion got.

Our news system is designed to be an endless series of worry beads.

They need republican leadership to keep their swimming pools filled.

 

[pornoboy]

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[PalacePaul]

Strictly personal:
-my 40th birthday celebration in May
-my new job in November

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

My beautiful German-Tunisian friend came to celebrate New Year's Eve with me in Amsterdam.

It was wonderful.

 

[PrinceCory]

The challenge will be to come up with some of the best things that happened in 2023. It can be something personal or something with global impact. Small thing or large thing or any size thing.

I finally took a real vacation (holiday for you foreigners). I've not taken a real vacation is probably a couple decades or longer. I don't count, as a vacation, a week long business trip, or a long weekend to visit a relative or a couple night in another town to shop. This trip was to a neighboring State a few hundred miles away at a snow ski resort off-season with a couple of family members.