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Overnight Open Thread (3-25-2015)
Busy. Been drinking. Not interested in your complaints. Just be glad you're not getting a punishment ONT. Or my oft threatened Yoko Ono Retrospective Week.
6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
It's brutal, rude, and borderline sociopathic, and also it is an honest and accurate expression of what the world is going to expect from you. The difference is that, in the real world, people consider it so wrong to talk to you that way that they've decided it's better to simply let you keep failing.
...Alec Baldwin was nominated for an Oscar for that movie and that's the only scene he's in. As smarter people have pointed out, the genius of that speech is that half of the people who watch it think that the point of the scene is "Wow, what must it be like to have such an asshole boss?" and the other half think, "Fuck yes, let's go out and sell some goddamned real estate!"
Is Baldwin's character a jerk or a savior? The genius of the story is that half of you will have completely misunderstood it, and you like mint chutney and food stamps. The secret is at the beginning, at 0:15, where it is revealed that Alec Baldwin doesn't feel any of this, the whole speech is a work. If you were in that room, some of you would understand this as a work, but feed off the energy of the message anyway, welcome the coach's cursing at you, "this guy is awesome!"; while some of you would take it personally, this guy is a jerk, you have no right to talk to me like that, or-- the standard maneuver when narcissism is confronted with a greater power-- quietly seethe and fantasize about finding information that will out him as a hypocrite. So satisfying.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 10:50 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 10:50 PM (YOPoU)
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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 10:51 PM (YOPoU)
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Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2015 10:52 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 10:52 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2015 10:52 PM (T1005)
Posted by: ColdBeer1 (Slap) (T) at March 25, 2015 10:53 PM (16bOT)
Posted by: Yip at March 25, 2015 10:53 PM (84SRe)
Posted by: Barry O. at March 25, 2015 10:53 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 25, 2015 10:53 PM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 10:54 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 25, 2015 10:54 PM (ko4zy)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 10:54 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Barry O. at March 25, 2015 10:54 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 10:55 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: NCKate at March 25, 2015 10:55 PM (D0HJ3)
The answer is: thick cut eggplant, but only if it's cooked tender but not mushy
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 25, 2015 10:55 PM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 10:55 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 10:56 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 10:56 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Garrett at March 25, 2015 10:56 PM (YnCWt)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 10:56 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: mpfs, sad today at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (si/E8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (b4JMJ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (FsuaD)
You should be thanking me.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (e+1S5)
what's more better parmesan style?
Thick-cut eggplant or thinly cut.>>>
Eggplant processed by a cow and cut up into thick cut steaks.
Posted by: Robinson at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (W2Cji)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 10:58 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 10:58 PM (9iR5/)
It's looking into the camera.
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (b4JMJ)
It's still so cute and fuzzy. Hope the mom or dad brings it some food.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 10:58 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: eman at March 25, 2015 10:58 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Bruce Jenner's Plastic Vag at March 25, 2015 10:58 PM (ZgXPR)
What's nice is that gas went 8 pennies in the last two weeks. I woulda guessed it was headed the other way.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 25, 2015 10:58 PM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (t//F+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Eggplant Answers For Free at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (YnCWt)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580811568251846656
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580811723600498692
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580811924562137088
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580812098739040256
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (GrXXa)
That's it!
Now why didn't I think of that?
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 25, 2015 10:59 PM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Pocket Trout at March 25, 2015 11:00 PM (jHvcP)
could train it to develop a taste for pajambois. And shrinking harridans
of all SJW stripes."
This is all I'm saying. Teach them to key on horn rimmed glasses and ugly chicks.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:00 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:00 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 10:58 PM (I8yfx)
Frightening that she would just leave
Drunk?
Alzheimer's?
Just too good?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:00 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (UVfht)
Posted by: Eggplant Answers For Free at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (YnCWt)
Bergdahl served just like Nidal Hassan did.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 25, 2015 09:33 PM (VpkjW)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (Du4AU)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580918010048839680
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580918314630799360
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580918518528536576
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/580918813346136064
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (GrXXa)
Looks like I missed a new meme. Reader's digest version?
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (NeFrd)
*looks around innocently*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Splunge at March 25, 2015 11:01 PM (qyomX)
Gamier.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March
Eagles are stringy
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:02 PM (YOPoU)
Somebody linked this video not long ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMG6hHx8FXA
That plane was also turned into confetti on impact. The story of the investigation is fascinating. Definitely watch the whole thing. I started watching and it sucked me right in.
I'm not saying that's what happened here, but this video gives a good account of what the investigators in this case have to work with.
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2015 11:02 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM (MDgS8)
Wonder how she'd handle the scalp of Debbie Wassaman-Schultz?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM (FsuaD)
Oh, cool. Bring it, Maet. I listen to Yoko Ono for fun.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM (tBSrv)
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 2
Yeah, we're still swirling
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM (GrXXa)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:04 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:04 PM (I8yfx)
Alzheimer's?
Just too good?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:00 PM (YOPoU)
My money is on drunk, my second choice is that she thinks that angled parking is stupid and she is going to do it her way, no matter what anyone says and it is not like she will get a ticket anyways.
The two positions are not exclusive by the way
Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2015 11:05 PM (t//F+)
I'm clearly out of the loop. Not the first time. Won't be the last.
Fuck it, I'm gonna shower and do some drinking. Back later. Maybe.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:05 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015
Mayonnaise hair is deadly to birds
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:05 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:05 PM (MDgS8)
http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Banana_Conf.html
Posted by: Bruce Jenner's Plastic Vag at March 25, 2015 11:06 PM (ZgXPR)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:06 PM (FsuaD)
ISIS attack on Italy coming
http://tinyurl.com/pur3roe
Posted by: Thrawn at March 25, 2015 11:06 PM (Z1b6E)
Posted by: Charles Manson at March 25, 2015 11:06 PM (qyomX)
Posted by: Kindltot at March 25, 2015 11:05 PM (t//F+)
Cops should've been called and field sobriety tests given. And here Elenor blow on this
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:07 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:08 PM (NeFrd)
I'm weary of all the second guessing. And where would the passengers be?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:08 PM (FsuaD)
Haven't you seen Birds?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2015 11:08 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Charles Manson at March 25, 2015 11:06 PM
I also listen to your album.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:09 PM (tBSrv)
Outside of work, the closest I come to interacting with humans is commenting here.
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2015 11:09 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 25, 2015 11:09 PM (WUYpW)
Posted by: Bruce Jenner's Plastic Vag at March 25, 2015 11:10 PM (ZgXPR)
Ok, the 6 harsh truths were awesome. Some crossover and corollary to Cochran's Rules of Life.
Glengarry Glen Ross is always awesome.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:11 PM (GEICT)
US Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Program
http://tinyurl.com/nrrems9
Posted by: Thrawn at March 25, 2015 11:11 PM (Z1b6E)
Excitable boy, they all said
Then he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
They took in the 4am show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette's leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
He took little Susie to the junior prom
Excitable boy, they all said
then he raped her and killed her when he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
After 10 long years, they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:11 PM (elbY7)
Climbing furniture, using safety pins as grappling hooks, all the while staying clear of the monstrous house cats.
Posted by: FireHorse at March 25, 2015 11:11 PM (2OdVw)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:11 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: Matt at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM (1MydW)
Outside of work, the closest I come to interacting with humans is commenting here.
Posted by: rickl at March 25, 2015
I work from home. Some days I'm out of the house other days im in. I'm getting more and more secluded.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
It would slip right out of the talons. Butter hair you know.
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM (xrURQ)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM (YOPoU)
Has been clocked flying at over 200mph.
Known to eat other birds, INCLUDING OWLS.
* dusts hands *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (JBzwC)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (8zCR+)
Yup along with the statement that there's no real interest amongst the public for him to serve time.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (GEICT)
Gamier.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March
Eagles are stringy
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:02 PM (YOPoU)
Obligatory.
https://youtu.be/TIt89l0VZb0
Posted by: buzzion at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (zt+N6)
Every man has a women who loves him ... is a very good song.
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (nSOh+)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (YOPoU)
Spotted owls taste like eagle, but a bit less gamey.
Posted by: steveegg at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:14 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:14 PM (KH1sk)
Yup along with the statement that there's no real interest amongst the public for him to serve time.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM (GEICT)
That's certainly true for me.
Hang him immediately.
Posted by: buzzion at March 25, 2015 11:14 PM (zt+N6)
If'n were talkin' raptors, the only answer is the Peregrine.
Has been clocked flying at over 200mph.
Known to eat other birds, INCLUDING OWLS.
* dusts hands *
There's a great video (from the Owl Cam) that shows a Great Horned Owl diving into Lake Michigan to avoid a pair of Peregrines. It literally swims, using its massive wings, to shore.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:15 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:15 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:15 PM (b4JMJ)
Posted by: Robinson at March 25, 2015 11:15 PM (W2Cji)
Golden Eagle. Most bad-ass bird on the planet.
Posted by: FireHorse at March 25, 2015 11:15 PM (2OdVw)
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call...me...owl!
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:15 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:14 PM (KH1sk)
To crush the enemy, see him driven before you and to hear the lamentations of his women.be
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:16 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:16 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:16 PM (nSOh+)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:17 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 25, 2015 11:17 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: FireHorse
Peregrines have killed Goldens before. Just sayin'...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2015 11:17 PM (JBzwC)
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:17 PM (o2yvE)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:17 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (MDgS8)
I suck.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015
Something more than that bothering you Ricky?.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (YOPoU)
They're saying they think it was Bigfoot.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (GEICT)
If only he could remember the words.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:15 PM (YOPoU)
Hey der hey. I'm not in long.
Posted by: steveegg at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (cL79m)
The Freshman, Marlon Brando, Matthew Brodderick, IIRC ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (nSOh+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (b4JMJ)
Posted by: Matt at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM (1MydW)
So a Yoko fan then. Alright.
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (MhQ84)
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (o2yvE)
But, what about the OWLS???
well, right now I only see one of the cute fluffy little murder machines, younger sibling Pokie needs to get a move on and start doing a bit more branching before he completely gets left behind.
Posted by: the_Finn at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (b7AU3)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (nSOh+)
The A-10 to be exact.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (GEICT)
BCochran and the GAU-8 (but mostly the GAU-
for the win.Posted by: steveegg at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (b4JMJ)
If anything, at least your colon will be evacuated quickly.
Posted by: Thrawn at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (Z1b6E)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:13 PM
Yeah, she's got some good songs. Not a shitload of them, but there are some where her voice suits the tune etc. Mind you, when I play Yoko, it's usually the psycho stuff. I wouldn't recommend Yoko to anybody. You start on the ok sounds, but eventually you develop a tolerance and end up using the hard stuff.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (tBSrv)
Nah. Cleaning my ORD op as we speak.
I've given that speech, minus cussing, before.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Matt at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM (1MydW)
So a Yoko fan then. Alright.
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (MhQ84)
SONOFA...
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:19 PM (GEICT)
http://tinyurl.com/ps9dv57
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:20 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:17 PM (9iR5/)
******
I do believe that phrase is already spoken for. Evening all.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 25, 2015 11:20 PM (iKG5d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11
I don't care for the bamboo or the shyness. But to each their own. They kind of taste like chicken too
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:20 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Depends.
Are you a fan of shitting your pants and/or vomiting?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2015 11:20 PM (JBzwC)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:20 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:20 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (MhQ84)
*****
NNNOOOoooooooo........!
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (xrURQ)
Posted by: buzzion at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (zt+N6)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (8zCR+)
If only he could remember the words.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (NeFrd)
Uuuurp.
Posted by: Peregrine at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (e+1S5)
1 for 2 ain't bad
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:21 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: irrigt at March 25, 2015 11:22 PM (DtNNC)
Why don't you think about it while taking the rest of the week off with pay.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:22 PM (YOPoU)
Peregrine falcons are also occasionally used to scare away birds at airports to reduce the risk of bird-plane strikes, improving air-traffic safety, and were used to intercept homing pigeons during World War II.
*dusts hands again *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2015 11:23 PM (JBzwC)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 25, 2015 11:20 PM (iKG5d)
-------Well, darn. And a good evening to you as well. I'll have to come up with a different slogan.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:23 PM (9iR5/)
Pound for pound, the hummingbird is the most bad ass bird on the planet.
Crossing the Gulf of Mexico in a single pass, with wings going a
gazillion flaps a second on a single tank of sugar water.
If only he could remember the words.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (NeFrd)
Actually, there are two types of birds that other birds never mess with -- one is hummingbirds. The fact that they can fly backwards and upside down and their great speed means that they can always end up behind the attacking bird with plenty of time to find just the right spot to mess with tends to act as a deterrent.
And the other type? Woodpeckers. Birds of prey don't like to get in fights where a single strike can break a wing, talon, or skull.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2015 11:23 PM (T1005)
Posted by: Matt at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM (1MydW)
So a Yoko fan then. Alright.
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM
Awww, shit. Why must you people taunt happy fun ball? That's not rhetorical, I want a fucking answer. Why?
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:23 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM
I never knew you were such a sick MFer. Hope you can get well.
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015 11:23 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:24 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March
Been hanging with Nip Sip?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:24 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:24 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:25 PM (I8yfx)
And have their own tv show!
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:25 PM (nSOh+)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2015 11:23 PM (T1005)
Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh! Hehehehehehehehehe!
Posted by: Woody Woodpecker at March 25, 2015 11:25 PM (cL79m)
If Maet follows through on his threat.....Blog War.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:25 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2015 11:25 PM (JBzwC)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:25 PM (MDgS8)
------
I dunno. I do know that I wouldn't want a crow knockin on my noggin.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:24 PM (FsuaD)
We're all gonna die!!!!
Posted by: Doomed guy at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: The Rev Al ... at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (nSOh+)
Amazing how its someone that has never commented before is bitching about the content."
Fuck. You.
Posted by: Corn Cob at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (I8yfx)
****
Thought exercise: If a hummingbird flew into your arm at full speed which would be the most likely outcome-
1. Puncture wound
2. Crumpled beak
???
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Thor's feather duster at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (JgC5a)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Jane
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#7 shot work pretty well.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (F2IAQ)
Now, imagine raptors going batshit crazy. Yep, we'd all be doomed.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (FsuaD)
If Maet follows through on his threat.....Blog War.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:25 PM (GEICT)
All we are saying...
Is give
Posted by: steveegg at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (cL79m)
They're building a Panda Express here. Are they any good?
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (b4JMJ)
Pandas are delicious.
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (o2yvE)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (nSOh+)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (e+1S5)
Well to you I'm sure she said "Don't worry baby, it happens to every guy from time to time. We'll try again later."
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March
Mr. Hammers cat framing another innocent creature
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (YOPoU)
Or, death by Yoko.
No difference, really.
Posted by: Thor's feather duster at March 25, 2015 11:26 PM (JgC5a)
Er, the latter is banned under the Geneva Convention.
Posted by: steveegg at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (PZ6/M)
He's pretty sure it was an owl. Freaked him out.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:29 PM (FsuaD)
158
What it the movie The Birds ever became real? We'd all be doomed, right?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:24 PM
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Fight back with DDT. In a few years, their egg shells might get thinner. But probably not.
Posted by: irright at March 25, 2015 11:29 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:12 PM
But somehow we found you at Oneida. Showed my wife the pic of us all today. She said you all look like normal folks. LOL
God knows what she expected!
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015 11:29 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: irrigt at March 25, 2015 11:22 PM
I'm not paying you for sex. I'm paying you to leave once it's over.
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2015 11:29 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:29 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (I8yfx)
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Owl assassins and eating endangered species.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (b4JMJ)
***
Erect hundreds of thousands of scarecrows.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (NeFrd)
Heh. Projection ain't just a river in Egypt.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (KH1sk)
Two men enter...
No women leave.
Posted by: steveegg at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Pocket Trout at March 25, 2015 11:00 PM (jHvcP)
Blow him first.
Posted by: just a tip from your Uncle Obama at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (a3NCX)
What is this ONT about?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (I8yfx)
Atheists vs. Christians. Thunderdome.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: irright
Not is the probably the correct answer. Silent Spring has been repeated fisked. The egg shell claim had no research behind it. Carson made it up.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (JBzwC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:30 PM (b4JMJ)
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Wrong wife. That was the super-crazy ex.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:28 PM (I8yfx) Stream of consciousness as near as I can tell.
Posted by: tbodie at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (Ea0JH)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (I8yfx)
fights where a single strike can break a wing, talon, or skull.
You'd have to be a real weasel to attack a woodpecker.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (UVfht)
I always thought a restaurant called "Endangered Species" would be a hit.
The Freshman, Marlon Brando, Matthew Brodderick, IIRC ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 25, 2015 11:18 PM (nSOh+)
have to watch it.
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (o2yvE)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (0NdlF)
195 Doesn't Linda McCartney just have one leg?
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015
She's dead, but before death she was missing a boob. His 2nd wife was a hop-along
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (YOPoU)
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Whatever you do, do not throw that match that you just lit your cigarette with into that pool of gas that you let happen just because you couldn't pay attention.
Kind of a funny story. I was at a convenience store filling up my truck when these two twenty something girls came in and gassed up. They were all giggly and cutting up. Well, when they left, they had forgotten to take the hose out of their car. I hollered and whistled but they kept right on going until they took the hose off the gas pump. They were lucky that the hose was fitted with a break away nozzle. After that they weren't quite so giggly.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (9iR5/)
It's going well. My heart's in good shape, I'm losing some wait and the physical therapy people only get six more sessions of trying to kill me.
Still loving the podcast.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (rJUlF)
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I had an owl take a pass at the cat while I had him out on a leash. I was standing still in the dark, and the owl apparently didn't realize that I was there, or changed his mind about the cat. At any rate, I felt the whuff of air as he swooped by.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2015 11:32 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: tbodie at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (Ea0JH)"
Hey, fcuk off,
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:32 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2015 11:32 PM (8zCR+)
At least, that's what my dad tells me. I was only three.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:32 PM (rJUlF)
Here we go in my best Ava voice: I do want to see the little snit (new one) with the inbred eyes, to get blown to smithereens. Where is smithereens you might ask? Well, it is where I would like to take some people I have encountered today: family (a wee bit passive and irritating and paranoid inducing, fussing over "irrevocable trust" yet changing a few acres for brother (who I want to be happy) and leaving me off call and yada ophra issues I cannot be bothered with. Oh, but I'm a part of trust? Yes, just sigh here, Christy, you ignorant slut, just do whatever the hell you are going to, Mama, as you don't listen to me anyway. pfft I honestly wish I were raised by wolves sometimes.
Oh, and moving lady? And how you are suddenly adding pounds to our move? Well, my husband, who is no math slouch, has your number and you'd best on your pretty toes next Wed.
Oh, and fancy lady who is coming to appraise a treasure or two for my move? Don't effing confuse my tired mind with your emails. I am ready to lock everyone out of my life who even talk to me. Morons are the exception.
I woke up in a perfectly good mood for packing and the rotating fan started flinging feces....and I then look like mooch by noon,but with more hair and less caboose.
I think the folks on Justified have the right idea: bourbon befor noon. I may try that tomorrow and see how many boxes I can pack totally bombed. Hail, nothing will make it there anyway in one piece. I may as well start my mourning.
And if my husband does his daily irritation I may pack him in shrink wrap and stuff him in a box and fed ex him to my son. xoxo Prepare for some type of snark tomorrow. I will be sharpening my claws my flying monkeys. xoxo
Posted by: ChristyBlinky is back from the brink at March 25, 2015 11:32 PM (TIGDR)
Yoko Ono and owls. Have you ever smelled an owl? They smell like Yoko sings.
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 25, 2015 11:32 PM (o/3Hk)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 25, 2015 11:33 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:33 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:33 PM (rJUlF)
Brackets. Looks like peregrine falcons, golden eagles, woodpeckers and hummingbirds are in the final four.
Posted by: FireHorse at March 25, 2015 11:33 PM (2OdVw)
Or Putin.
https://twitter.com/_jamesabraham/status/572744095187267584/photo/1
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2015 11:33 PM (0NdlF)
Husband had a fantasy of hosting a "mystery meat" dinner party. I declined to co-host it.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015 11:23 PM
There's a method to the madness, amigo. After listening to great music for a long time, you get jaded. A binge of Yoko sort of resets your brain and listening to your fave LP's that you've thrashed to death all of sudden sound fresh again. Hell, even polka, accordion and bagpipes sound good.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (tBSrv)
Now, imagine raptors going batshit crazy. Yep, we'd all be doomed.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:27 PM (FsuaD)
Imagine all the limbs I could break.
Posted by: Steven Seagull at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (Z1b6E)
Kind of a funny story. I was at a convenience store filling up my truck when these two twenty something girls came in and gassed up. They were all giggly and cutting up. Well, when they left, they had forgotten to take the hose out of their car. I hollered and whistled but they kept right on going until they took the hose off the gas pump. They were lucky that the hose was fitted with a break away nozzle. After that they weren't quite so giggly.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (9iR5/)
Pass-through penalty on car 69.
Posted by: NASCAR official at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (cL79m)
All I can say is, Jesus must have been rebelling against His Dad.
His Dad is a sadistic monster who cannot--and I mean CANNOT--pass up an opportunity to kick me in the nads. Every. Chance. He. Gets.
So, yeah, Jesus gets points but since His Dad runs the show, he's the hippie son who was disowned and can't really do anything other than rap about how your troubles are like, so awesome, man, and this is, like, terrible, and so unfair. Any more Colombian?
Posted by: Null at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (o2yvE)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (NeFrd)
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Mothman. It's given me the creeps when camping in the mountains of WV.
http://tinyurl.com/rojnc
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (F2IAQ)
Yoko Ono and owls. Have you ever smelled an owl? They smell like Yoko sings.
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 25, 2015
Lead, steel or bismuth?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (NeFrd)
Posted by: irright at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (DtNNC)
MH, "black democratium", I think, is actually a legit mainstream (and accurate, funny) expression when used in proper context. But I understand your reference to a regular commenter. Funny, you and others (buzzion, for example) have called him out a few times, I just sit back and stay quiet, but I think most of the Horde is in agreement with you.
Sad, it sort of is a microcosm of what's been lost (uh, destroyed) in America: the unwritten rules, the context-and-heart-dependent filter to determine what's edgy vs. what's offensive (in the old, meaningful sense). But here in the comments, you can see the good ol' ways still alive, and practiced by such as yourself.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (afQnV)
My representative, that bloated wood tick Elijah Cummings, is actually sounding coherent as he grills the Secret Service on their recent string of failures.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (KH1sk)
Please!! For the love of all that good and kind and decent in the world, please ...
No Yoko {wimper}{sniff}
Posted by: dissent555 at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (yR6A1)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (I8yfx)
I stopped in earlier tonight to read the Phil Robertson thread. Then I had to take a break.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (rJUlF)
Yoko Ono and owls. Have you ever smelled an owl? They smell like Yoko sings.
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 25, 2015
Lead, steel or bismuth?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (YOPoU)
Brimstone.
Posted by: steveegg at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:32 PM (I8yfx) .
I am not talking about Maet's work. I was talking about the comments.
Posted by: tbodie at March 25, 2015 11:35 PM (Ea0JH)
I'm with Maet and I guess, otho and Adrienne too. Go Team Yoko!
Posted by: L, Elle at March 25, 2015 11:36 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: TheDiddy at March 25, 2015 11:36 PM (GT1SH)
I've done this. I wasn't drunk or stoned or anything (as far as any of you can prove), just stupid.
When I heard the *thunk* of the quick release, I knew right away what it was.
My second thought was "there's a reason that exists. Because I'm not the first one to do it."
My third thought was "and that fact won't save me from the mockery of these fuckers"
I was right on all counts.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:36 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (NeFrd)
They would Chuck as much as a woodchuck could
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:36 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Zombie Jeremy Clarkson at March 25, 2015 11:36 PM (cL79m)
It's going well. My heart's in good shape, I'm losing some wait and the physical therapy people only get six more sessions of trying to kill me.
Still loving the podcast.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:31 PM (rJUlF)
Glad to hear the health stuff is going well.
And thank you.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:37 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:37 PM (FsuaD)
Understand.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:37 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:37 PM (MDgS8)
I missed that totally. What did Maet do?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:38 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:39 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: L, Elle at March 25, 2015 11:36 PM
Yay! One of us... one of us...
BTW- Yoko does have some good songs.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:39 PM (tBSrv)
Well, off to bed to get into another terrifying novel that will keep me awake all night.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:37 PM (FsuaD)
Wait Jane! whats your terrifying novelist of choice?
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:39 PM (o2yvE)
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Still laughing! *In a mocking sort of way*
And there, but by the grace of God, go I!
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:40 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: t-bird at March 25, 2015 11:40 PM (FcR7P)
My second thought was "there's a reason that exists. Because I'm not the first one to do it."
My third thought was "and that fact won't save me from the mockery of these fuckers"
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* not mocking *
Well...., no doubt others have done it..
* whistles innocently, while staring at the sky *
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:40 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:39 PM (tBSrv)
Good, bad - she's NOT the one with the voice.
Posted by: Ash - Housewares at March 25, 2015 11:41 PM (cL79m)
I was being snarky.And I took a cheap shot at Nip.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:41 PM (YOPoU)
Here's my contribution to improved man-woman relationships tonight - not? (photo sfw no spiders):
http://tinyurl.com/nuvczbp
Posted by: mindful webworker - need... therapy... beer! stat! at March 25, 2015 11:41 PM (ACs58)
Polkas and accordions always sound good. Bagpipes? Thats just crazy talk.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 25, 2015 11:41 PM (6yehy)
I'm sure Jesus was a "nice guy" and he "cared a lot" and folks who follow his teachings are "helping the world."
All I can say is, Jesus must have been rebelling against His Dad.
His
Dad is a sadistic monster who cannot--and I mean CANNOT--pass up an
opportunity to kick me in the nads. Every. Chance. He. Gets.
So,
yeah, Jesus gets points but since His Dad runs the show, he's the hippie
son who was disowned and can't really do anything other than rap about
how your troubles are like, so awesome, man, and this is, like,
terrible, and so unfair. Any more Colombian?
Posted by: Null at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM (xjpRj)
So, what's up? I've seen you drop in a couple of times, but it always seems like a "one-and-done" comment. How's the cat?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2015 11:41 PM (T1005)
Yeah.
I did that. Gas all over my front.
Burned like a bitch all the way home.
Shut up.
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:42 PM (MDgS8)
I missed that totally. What did Maet do?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:38 PM (I8yfx) 253 As long as Maet doesn't post another punishment thread, I'm happy.Posted by: Captain Whitebread (Face For Radio, Voice For Print) at March 25, 2015 11:39 PM (rJUlF) .Maet did the AWESOME ONT and we just don't deserve the goodness that he brings. Plus he threatened another punishment ONT, Yoko Ono themed.
Posted by: tbodie at March 25, 2015 11:42 PM (Ea0JH)
"I am not talking about Maet's work. I was talking about the comments."
I missed that totally. What did Maet do?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:38 PM (I8yfx)
motivational piece about real estate or something.a lot of hollering. great cussing.
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:42 PM (o2yvE)
Posted by: Big Bird at March 25, 2015 11:42 PM (t2aeH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:42 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:42 PM (I8yfx)
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at March 25, 2015 11:33 PM
Yes even you.
She wants to come to the MoMee next year. The nine week old puppy is the reason she didn't make it.
The pup is fun, slowly growing up. She already knows sit and shake at her age. I think that's good. What is normal for that age?
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015 11:43 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:43 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:39 PM (tBSrv)
Riiight, we can keep those to ourselves. All I heard was some "song" of her wailing and screaming sounding like a cat dying. Nails on a chalkboard type stuff.
Posted by: L, Elle at March 25, 2015 11:43 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: tbodie at March 25, 2015 11:43 PM (Ea0JH)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2015 11:43 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: fairweatherbill at March 25, 2015 11:44 PM (FviSe)
Posted by: Farmer
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Chewing stuff..., stuff you never imagined that they would chew.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:44 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:44 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (XAFOu)
The sign is true. But it's so much tastier when you get a shmexy woman to do it. With a smile.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (XAFOu)
I did that. Gas all over my front.
Burned like a bitch all the way home.
Shut up.
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:42 PM
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I know it's Monday-morning-quarterbacking, but perhaps you should have hunted down an extinguisher.
Posted by: irright at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (DtNNC)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (UVfht)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 25, 2015 11:38 PM (I8yfx)
Consider your fate. Well among other things....
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (MhQ84)
Posted by: tbodie at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (Ea0JH)
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 25, 2015 11:41 PM
It's all relative. Put on the "Life With The Lions" LP. Then, play some bagpipe music. It sounds like angels.
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:46 PM (tBSrv)
What a tragic loss Bruce Jenner passing away during gender reassignment.
RIP Bruce.
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:46 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015
Awesome Farmer. I'm sending Abu Nidal Dreamer your way for training
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:46 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:47 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2015 11:48 PM (8zCR+)
I think my message started out that I, Christy Brinkly, aging supermodel who now looks like the Duchess of Alba due to stress, once dated a young man named Pecker. I saw nothing wrong with this at all. But buzz-kill Mama gave it the old third degree and she could not call him that, all high and mighty. So I rolled my eyes and told her his real name and that he'd had the nickname since childnood due to red hair. I mean, duh, Mama. Bite moi. She is kind most of the time. But sometimes, my little morons and 'ettes, some type of weird voodoo passive aggressive jolt of memory of my childhood comes to the surface. I am a good daughter. I don't want her damn money but want her to make good decisions, yada. But! I am a woman. And men are who she trusts (see, brothers). So bite moi. I got enough problems staying out of straight jackets without this family trust crap. I may soon declare myself kidnapped and found after moving van comes to new house (like that chick in CA).
Posted by: ChristyBlinky is back from the brink at March 25, 2015 11:48 PM (TIGDR)
https://youtu.be/ZDCs7ijNUVM
Posted by: Zombie Bon Scott at March 25, 2015 11:48 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at March 25, 2015 11:48 PM (t2aeH)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:49 PM (MDgS8)
No, that was Brian Dennehy.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:49 PM (e+1S5)
Kidding
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:45 PM (XAFOu)
hook. line. sinker. almost googled. lol.
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:49 PM (o2yvE)
289 Took the folks to IHOP tonight...pro tip- if any of your party is a senior everybody's meal is half off.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 2
Who you calling senior, sonny?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:49 PM (YOPoU)
Good night, Mongo Owlstein, wherever you are.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 25, 2015 11:49 PM (KH1sk)
Posted by: tbodie
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I'm gonna have to take a picture of the neighbor's German Shepard. Biggest one I've ever known of. He can put his paws on my shoulders, and look down on me. Big damned dog, and sweet as a teddy bear.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:49 PM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2015 11:48 PM (8zCR+)
Well he went out the way he wanted to - doped up and penis-less.
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:50 PM (MhQ84)
I'll just say the bad stuff eventually goes away or at least lessens. My thoughts are with you and your lovely kitteh and your work.
Posted by: L, Elle at March 25, 2015 11:50 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky is back from the brink at March 25, 2015 11:50 PM (TIGDR)
But they're not invulnerable. I watched a starling go into a Hairy (Downy?) Woodpecker cavity, kill mom dad & babies, kick the copses out, then take over the home.
Since that day, I deliver justice with my trusty Daisy to any starling that flies onto the compound. They are a nuisance. Officially designated such, in fact. The only bird that nests year round in all fifty states.
*Pileated woodpecker got me into birding. Badass. I think they carry Samuel Jackson's wallet from Pulp Fiction.
Posted by: Tucker at March 25, 2015 11:51 PM (jjHp6)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 25, 2015 11:51 PM (XO6WW)
Actually no. And the lack of mocking speaks volumes.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (e+1S5)
Husband had a fantasy of hosting a "mystery meat" dinner party. I declined to co-host it.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM
LMAO Jane.
Reminds me of when my roommate had a boa constrictor that was going to give birth. I had dibs on one of the offspring.
As it turned out I had to move out-of-town before they were born. I asked my girlfriend, now my wife, if she would watch the snake till I could get it to my new home.
She declined to co-host it.
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (MDgS8)
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:50 P
** giggles**!
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Maetenloch at March 25, 2015 11:50 PM (MhQ84)
or penised up and dope-less.
Posted by: Badda Bing at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (o2yvE)
Who you calling senior, sonny?,
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:49 PM (YOPoU)
Give me the breakfast sampler....and get off my lawn dagnabbit!
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (b4JMJ)
Why is so angry at religious opinions lately?
I really hope Ace is joining the atheist line-of-thinking that the world be better off without religion.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 25, 2015 11:53 PM (ko4zy)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:52 PM (e+1S5)
Well, I mean, that wasn't even sporting.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:53 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:53 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: tbodie at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (Ea0JH)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (jjHp6)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky is back from the brink at March 25, 2015 11:50 PM (TIGDR)
Tragically passed during an addaclitome procedure.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (8zCR+)
I came back off a run one time and went out to go home and the car wouldn't start. I get under the hood and see that it's not getting any fuel. I start tracing the fuel line back and get to a little rubber hose between the fuel line and the fuel tank. I go into the shop and bum six inches of rubber hose and go replace it.
So, I'm laying under the car and I decide to suck on the hose to prime it. I get a mouthful of gas, turn my head real quick and get gas in my ear. I swear I bounced my head off the frame and the ground about a dozen times each getting out from under the car.
Went to the emergency room because the pain was freaking intense. Doctor told me that the eardrum was a little inflamed, and commented that it was the cleanest ear he had ever seen. Asshole.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (9iR5/)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (MDgS8)
Actually no. And the lack of mocking speaks volumes.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor
No mockery here.
Never did that
But ain't gonna laugh
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (elbY7)
Biggest one I've ever known of. He can put his paws on my shoulders, and
look down on me. Big damned dog, and sweet as a teddy bear.>>>
BIL had a black lab that size. The most dangerous part of that dog was his giant tail wagging and whacking you in the nuts.
Posted by: Robinson at March 25, 2015 11:55 PM (W2Cji)
"Hell, even polka, accordion and bagpipes sound good."
Polkas and accordions always sound good. Bagpipes? Thats just crazy talk.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 25, 2015 11:41 PM (6yehy)
Letter written by Angus McPherson, Freshman, University of Leeds:
Dear Mum,
Though classes have yet to start, you'll be happy to know that I'm settling in well. The food is poor, but ample -- I have yet to find a proper haggis. The dorms are roomy, but there are no proper peat fires to settle in with.
I am a bit concerned about the folks in the rooms adjacent to mine, however. On one side, the fellow shrieks and moans at all hours of the day or night for no apparent reason at all. On the other, it often sounds like he's banging his head against the wall.
The good news is that classes will start soon, and I won't hear them so often. In the meantime, I pay them no mind, and just continue to quietly practice my bagpipes.
Your loving son,
Angus
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2015 11:55 PM (T1005)
Yeah, because you're known for laying off the hanging curve.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:56 PM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Ted Cruz at March 25, 2015 11:56 PM (e8nnW)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 25, 2015 11:56 PM (e+1S5)
Laying off the hanging curve.
Is that some sort of hippy pot head code lingo?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (elbY7)
*******
Must be trending on Twatter.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM (5qEZd)
Not finding anything at Bing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:54 PM (elbY7)
So the Illuminati got to the MSM as well.
(Just messing around qdpsteve. He/she/it isn't dead.)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Bones McCoy at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM (cL79m)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM (b4JMJ)
Posted by: otho at March 25, 2015 11:34 PM
That makes some sense. But I'm never willingly listening to YO for the rest of my life.
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March
But first you will blow me
Pis off and
Get off my lawn
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Bridgette Jenner at March 25, 2015 11:58 PM (o2yvE)
Posted by: eleven at March 25, 2015 11:58 PM (MDgS8)
Jenner does seem incredibly depressed. Can't help but believe having gender reassignment surgery won't help him with that very much.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:59 PM (elbY7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 25, 2015 11:59 PM (b4JMJ)
So that's the secret code. Much obliged.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:59 PM (XAFOu)
Posted by: Brucelina Jenner at March 26, 2015 12:00 AM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 12:00 AM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 12:00 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 25, 2015 11:59 PM (XAFOu)
As I age, basically my disposition
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:00 AM (YOPoU)
But ain't gonna laugh
Meh. It was more than a decade ago. I did something stupid. Go ahead and laugh. It's fucking funny.
It would be funnier with a multi-state crime spree or a clown with a tomahawk buried in his head, but the best part is that it happens often enough that every gas nozzle in America has a quick release because dummies like me drive away often enough to make that cost worthwhile.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:00 AM (e+1S5)
I'm not dead yet!
Posted by: Bridgette Jenner at March 25, 2015 11:58 PM
--------
You're not fooling anyone.
Posted by: irright at March 26, 2015 12:00 AM (DtNNC)
Is the Jenner dead yet?
You know the boys in the ONT
Got a ruinning bet.
Posted by: Dr. Don Henley at March 26, 2015 12:01 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: Brucelina Jenner at March 26, 2015 12:01 AM (JO9+V)
It's true, 2nd place don't mean nothin' in the real world. When it happens, you're *lucky* if you get steak knives.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:02 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: irright at March 26, 2015 12:02 AM (DtNNC)
But I don't want to go on the cart!
Posted by: Brucelina Jenner at March 26, 2015 12:01 AM (JO9+V)
your gonna be dead soon.
*hits him with club*
Posted by: Monty at March 26, 2015 12:02 AM (o2yvE)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 25, 2015 11:59 PM (elbY7)
He has to be. The ex used to watch the Kim show when it first came on and they treated him like absolute shit. Gender surgery won't help but living with a fuckwad piece of shit family doesn't help. I actually feel sorry for him. But to each his own.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 26, 2015 12:03 AM (XAFOu)
Bad news: had to pull 'em out of my back first.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:03 AM (elbY7)
*hits him with club*
Posted by: Monty at March 26, 2015 12:02 AM (o2yvE)
If that's the real Monty and not this Python piker, we're in the terminal stages of bonage.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:04 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:04 AM (9iR5/)
"Origins of human alcohol consumption revealed"
Link:
http://tinyurl.com/odt7bw2
Spoiler Alert: Morons been around a long time.
Posted by: tbodie at March 26, 2015 12:04 AM (Ea0JH)
It would be. But I don't have any fucking ganja. Which is very much not cool.
Especially in a week when Cougar, Princess and Beagle are all gone.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:04 AM (e+1S5)
Bad news: she drove through a lake.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:05 AM (elbY7)
He is weird. Will give him that.
And WHY are the Kardashians everywhere? Like herpes, they keep coming back and get into every single story on DM when I want to read about the Royal Fambly or mooch's lack of wighats. I finally had to ask my DIL who those people are. I mean, they are like the Honey Boo Boo family but up nawth.
Well, guess I'd better head off to slumber. More crap awaits me mana. xoxo
Posted by: ChristyBlinky is back from the brink at March 26, 2015 12:05 AM (TIGDR)
Posted by: exhippie at March 26, 2015 12:05 AM (+QdPO)
your gonna be dead soon.
*hits him with club*
Posted by: Monty at March 26, 2015 12:02 AM (o2yvE)
If that's the real Monty and not this Python piker, we're in the terminal stages of bonage.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:0479m)
Watch this action!!!
Posted by: The Full Monty at March 26, 2015 12:06 AM (o2yvE)
But I have to hide my good shoes since she loves nothing more than sharpening her claws on leather shoes. The better the shoes the more she hones in on them
My Florsheim wingtips live in the upper shelf of the closet for that very reason.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 26, 2015 12:06 AM (t//F+)
he>s and s>he as pronouns for the confused ...
Posted by: Adriane the Practical ... at March 26, 2015 12:07 AM (nSOh+)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:04 AM (e+1S5)
Dude, you've been there how long? You got nobody?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2015 12:07 AM (GEICT)
-----
Just off the top of my head, I believe that there are elephants in India that scoop up fermenting fruit off the ground at a certain time of year. Apparently, they get quite toasted. How would you like to be a bouncer at that party?
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:07 AM (9iR5/)
Jack Butler: "I understand that you little guys start out with your woobies and you think they're great... and they are, they are terrific. But pretty soon, a woobie isn't enough. You're out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, or maybe a quilt. And the next thing you know, you're strung out on bedspreads. That's serious, Ken."
Sleep sweet fellow babies!
Posted by: madamemayhem at March 26, 2015 12:07 AM (WPm3x)
There is no more Bruce Jenner.
There was, once. But he's gone...into the ether..
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky
As I said to a guy who I knew who became a girl. I was so stoned. All that would come out of my mouth was, "a guy has to do what a guy has to do" and I walked away. Nice 10th year hs reunion
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:08 AM (YOPoU)
Posted by: The Full Monty at March 26, 2015 12:06 AM (o2yvE)
You're going to spill that Val-U-Rite. Let me hold that for you.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:08 AM (cL79m)
Gonna get 'em soon!! Workin' on it.
Posted by: Kindltot's Miss Puss at March 26, 2015 12:08 AM (elbY7)
"So THAT's why he always insisted on pantyhose under his uniform..."
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:09 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: billygoatpuke at March 26, 2015 12:11 AM (l5QMI)
Is the Jenner dead yet?
You know the boys in the ONT
Got a ruinning bet.
Posted by: Dr. Don Henley at March 26, 2015 12:01 AM (cL79m)
Heh, Good stuff.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 12:11 AM (8zCR+)
And our cat is dumber than a bag of hammers, but she beat the salesman.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:11 AM (9iR5/)
was so stoned. All that would come out of my mouth was, "a guy has to do
what a guy has to do" and I walked away. Nice 10th year hs reunion
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:08 AM (YOPoU)
I love that MH. lol.
Ok. Night all. Kittahs going to lull me to sleep.
Posted by: The Full Monty at March 26, 2015 12:12 AM (o2yvE)
I mean, he won the triathalon or Wheaties or something, right? But wanted to do it as a woman. Ok. This is where I get really mixed up. He is a woman, or is becoming one, to date men. Right? Why can't he just be gay and do this vs surgery and hormones and weird crap. Life is weird, Christy, deal with it and your mother issues. pfft xoxo
Posted by: ChristyBlinky is back from the brink at March 26, 2015 12:12 AM (TIGDR)
Dang, missed Asheville by a few minutes.
Wanted to thank him for reminding me of CC Lemon, and other beverages in Japan.
On the earlier thread, I meant to mention that he had left off my favorite Japanese beverage (at least by name): Pocari Sweat. Perhaps the all-time poor product name-in translation.
Though I like it. Curiously, I can only recall ever drinking it in Dubai, not in Japan.
If weft is around, he will know about Pocari Sweat.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 12:12 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:12 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 25, 2015 11:44 PM
Oh she's an expert at that.
We have tons of dog toys. Tell her no and shove a toy in her mouth to chew on, inside of something inappropriate.
Posted by: Farmer at March 26, 2015 12:13 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Farmer at March 25, 2015 11:57 PM
You haven't lived until you've listened to side-B of "Live Peace In Toronto", all the way through. Trust me.
Posted by: otho at March 26, 2015 12:13 AM (tBSrv)
I'm sorry I can't credit the Yahoo Group member that recommended in 3013.
It's given more detailed results than I've found on 20 years looking for truth about someone I knew was arrested but Ixquick had more detail than most & I'm horrified I did NOT notice signs of drug, alcoho, ecstasy & other drugs. I found using Ixquick.
Thank you, Maetenloch!
I've taken vacation from news & still read some here or might have Fox (taped early Bill O'Ego ) since Boner sold out.
C
Posted by: Carol at March 26, 2015 12:13 AM (sj3Ax)
368 MH, I imagine it especially doesn't help when the guy used to be your high school's star quarterback. ;-)
"So THAT's why he always insisted on pantyhose under his uniform..."
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:09 AM (elbY7
It was a shock since we graduated from a Christian hs. He wasn't a jock more of a dirtball. Never came across as feminine. My wife commented on his sharp elbows. I kept my mouth shut.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:14 AM (YOPoU)
Posted by: tbodie at March 26, 2015 12:14 AM (Ea0JH)
Nah. No friends, and my only acquaintances are the guys and girls I work out with.
I don't care, I'm just bored. And a nice bowl would pass the time nicely.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:14 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: Epobirs at March 26, 2015 12:14 AM (IdCqF)
Bridge of my nose is bleeding like hell and my story is 'I was at the HQ and scratched my nose with long fingernails.'
Yay me.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 26, 2015 12:15 AM (XAFOu)
Had to think about it for a minute. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:15 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:16 AM (YOPoU)
As smarter people have pointed out, the genius of that speech is that
half of the people who watch it think that the point of the scene is
"Wow, what must it be like to have such an asshole boss?" and the other
half think, "Fuck yes, let's go out and sell some goddamned real
estate!"
This is one situation where I have sort of a middle-of-the-road opinion. "Wow, Mr. Fuck You speaks some harsh and necessary truths, and it's an awesome scene, and I'm really glad I don't do the sort of work that he's trying to motivate people to do better." Yeah, I've tried sales work, and I'm just not cut out for it.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 26, 2015 12:16 AM (9I2hz)
Oops, husband is calling me from box I stuffed him in for FedEx. Need to apply more paper and shrink wrap. later...
Posted by: ChristyBlinky is back from the brink at March 26, 2015 12:16 AM (TIGDR)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:14 AM (e+1S5)
Where are you again? Lexington?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 26, 2015 12:16 AM (GEICT)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:16 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: Mistress Overdone at March 26, 2015 12:17 AM (2/oBD)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:17 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26
Just curious as I will be traveling are you in a Motel?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:17 AM (YOPoU)
Is the Jenner dead yet?
We have the technology.
We can make him better, stronger, whinier.
Posted by: Dr. Rudy Wells at March 26, 2015 12:18 AM (W5DcG)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:18 AM (zOTsN)
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Myself, I would never do that. We let the cat outside and even though she doesn't wander far, there are predators in the neighborhood. I would never deny her the ability to defend herself for my convenience.
Also, I think that it is mutilation. YMMV, and I'm not going to pontificate. Just my view is all.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:19 AM (9iR5/)
Finished tricking out my M1A. Only .5 moa at 1K but sexy still.
Nightforce glass, featherweight stock, some other bells and whistles...
Oh, and added another handgun to the boat. S and W hammerless .38 spcl. Got a deal on it couldn't pass it up.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:20 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 12:20 AM (8zCR+)
Actually, qdp, isn't pantyhose under a uniform (for some part of the body) a thing for football or baseball? Dunno, only uniforms I ever put on were ice hockey and volleyball and body armor (where breathable under-armor-type stuff was definitely the call in 110-degree heat).
Carol - Ixquick. Only search engine I've used for years.
Part of my ridiculous, futile, pathetic acts of defiance againstFascist Tech - the big tech companies that fuel so much idiocy, degradation, lawlessness, and destruction through their idiotic political donations and voting (staff). Google, which uses taxpayer-subsidized fuel for its private jet fleet (I think that'sa solid rumor), and has weekly meetings at this utterly disastrous, alien, bizarre White House. Oh - and which rarely acknowledge real, important holidays (Sept. 11, Memorial Day, D-Day) but of course are awash in contemporary fake holidays and crap.
Dunno if Ixquick, at some level, just piggy backs on vile parasites like Google, but as I said, "futile, pathetic" act of defiance .....
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 12:21 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 11:46 PM
Thanks so much. I think I'll let the wife continue w/ the training.
At least she won't grow up to be a Muslim terrorist pilot.
Posted by: Farmer at March 26, 2015 12:22 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: LITTLE DICK Durbin at March 26, 2015 12:23 AM (CZexX)
In fact in my neck of the woods, I've found it's not uncommon to catch young teenaged men in public in their athletic uniforms, with these types of tights on and showing under their shorts.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:23 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015
No, but the Vice Principal caught him smoking on school grounds. Made him smoke a cigar under a metal waste basket in the boiler room. "Chris" passed the test with out puking his guts. He was a guy at the time.
I heard a couple of years after the reunion he/she wasn't doing well had been beaten up bad a couple of times, drinking and drug problems.
Now we have parents/grandparents forcing this fucking trans shit on kids who are not capable of making those type of decisions. Latest example is Eep Honda and his grandson dressed up as a girl. Rot in hell gramps
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:23 AM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Mistress Overdone at March 26, 2015 12:23 AM (2/oBD)
Posted by: LITTLE DICK Durbin at March 26, 2015 12:23 AM (CZexX)
Sooner or later, everybody's under my bus.
Posted by: Teh SCOAMT at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (cL79m)
No, I'm home. They're gone. But I do way too much travel and pretty much have the shitty business hotel scene wired. Why do you ask?
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (e+1S5)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: LITTLE DICK Durbin at March 26, 2015 12:23 AM (CZexX)
Wager a Jackson that she couldn't make it to the back of the bus
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (YOPoU)
Yep, that's about how it went for me. Sales is not my thing; production is.
Unless we're talking about my writing, in which case procrastination and uncertainty are my thing. Come to think of it, this applies to my love life, too.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (9I2hz)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 12:25 AM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: Archie Bunker at March 26, 2015 12:25 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 12:25 AM (7d8Ef)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:19 AM (9iR5/)
.
Cats never go outside so self defense is not an issue.
Posted by: tbodie at March 26, 2015 12:26 AM (Ea0JH)
Saudi is sending 150k troops,into,Yemen.
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (zOTsN)
I didn't know the Saudi Army had 150k troops. How many guest fighters are they sending, 149K?
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:27 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: Farmer at March 26, 2015 12:22 AM
Cool,on your part. It's law she is coming next year. We are ok on the sitting part still working on the paw shaking. He's 10 months old.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:27 AM (YOPoU)
Posted by: Mistress Overdone at March 26, 2015 12:23 AM (2/oBD)
Decidedly *not* Northrup Grumman or Lockheed Martin.
Worst companies. Evar.
Double on Lockmart. 'em fuckers need to be hanged in the public square.
I give you the F-35 as an easy example but being in the weeds with their PMs? assholes.
Shit, even assholes are offended that I call Lockmart assholes.
bottom feeding armpit smelly bits of failure... each and every fucking one of them.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:28 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: ThunderB
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See? That's how it is done.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 12:28 AM (F2IAQ)
I get the top bunk by the window.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:28 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:29 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Obama at March 26, 2015 12:30 AM (1vYi0)
Posted by: ThunderB
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See? That's how it is done.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 12:28 AM
wow. that was quick
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 12:30 AM (7d8Ef)
Isn't this Yemen thing really an iran/Saudi war?
Yikes.
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:29 AM (zOTsN)
Effectively yes. Is the Quds force in Yemen? That's the $5/gallon question.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:30 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: steveegg
Probably conscripts from their slave labor pool with the wives held conveniently without passports..
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 12:31 AM (JBzwC)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 12:31 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Obama at March 26, 2015 12:30 AM (1vYi0)
You're letting the softballs arc by you. You gotta stay on your toes, toes that is.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at March 26, 2015 12:31 AM (cL79m)
SBIRS
over a decade late on delivery and about 20 billion over budget.
lockmart couldn't tie two sticks together without fucking it up and overcharging the taxpayer.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:31 AM (x3YFz)
Yep, that's about how it went for me. Sales is not my thing; production is.
Unless we're talking about my writing, in which case procrastination and uncertainty are my thing. Come to think of it, this applies to my love life, too.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 26, 2015
We will start a club next week. My dad was a hell of a salesman. He sold gmc trucks for 20+ years then off to sell school buses and parts. The man knew his customers and what they needed and wanted. He could sell furnace to folks in Phoenix and ice to Eskimos.
Me, hey wanna buy this truck? Hats off to a good honest reputable sales reps
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:32 AM (YOPoU)
he was pondering common last words of pilots
"The most frequent last words I have heard on cockpit voice-recorder tapes are, 'Oh Shit,' said with about that much emotion. There's no panic, no scream, it's a sort of resignation: we've done everything we can, I can't think of anything else to do and this is it."
Frank McDermott
Partner, McDermott Associates
Specialists in cockpit voice recorders.
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 12:32 AM (7d8Ef)
Not sure
Isn't this Yemen thing really an iran/Saudi war?
Yikes.
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:29 AM (zOTsN)
Pretty much. And we just got within spittin' distance of hydrocarbon parity.....which means that every other nation on the planet will want a say on how things shake out.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:32 AM (T1005)
Those comments in the previous thread were driving me crazy.
Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2015 12:33 AM (GjSGU)
Getting a lot of help from Egypt.
We didn't know about the coalition. Seems they have figured out we had picked a side.
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:33 AM (zOTsN)
T9, "only" .5 MOA @ 1K? You planning to shoot out lit matches sticking out of people's mouths, or what? Sounds good to me. I have a related comment I'll share if there's interest.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 12:34 AM (afQnV)
I've had a few bosses that liked to scream. One of em thought he was a real badass.
I stared right through his head every time, no reaction at all. When he asked me "well, aren't you going to say anything?" I calmly replied "I've been thrashed before. Do you really think you scare me more than a guy that caught a bullet in Fallujah?"
He didn't like that answer. I guess I should have respected his authoritah a little more.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:35 AM (e+1S5)
he was pondering common last words of pilots
"The most frequent last words I have heard on cockpit voice-recorder tapes are, 'Oh Shit,' said with about that much emotion. There's no panic, no scream, it's a sort of resignation: we've done everything we can, I can't think of anything else to do and this is it."
Frank McDermott
Partner, McDermott Associates
Specialists in cockpit voice recorders.
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 12:32 AM (7d8Ef)
having been in the "oh hell this isn't going to end well" scenario a few times, what could have been my last words consisted of:
"shit"
and
"oh fuck"
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:35 AM (x3YFz)
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TFG hasn't given 150 !seconds of thought to the mater
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:35 AM (YOPoU)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:32 AM (T1005)
Not to mention Yemen is on the "safe" side of the Gulf of Aden, and pretty much everything flowing from the Persian Gulf on east to Europe (and the oil to America) flows through said gulf.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:35 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:24 AM (YOPoU)<<<
Unless it's a short bus, where I definitely belong.
Posted by: Special Ed Eleanor at March 26, 2015 12:35 AM (CZexX)
I know others think it's stupid, but IMHO black boxes just aren't enough in situations such as several recent crashes. Am thinking that some sort of tamper-proof video transmit-to-cloud system really would be useful at this stage.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:36 AM (elbY7)
Getting a lot of help from Egypt.
We didn't know about the coalition. Seems they have figured out we had picked a side.
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:33 AM (zOTsN)
You're damn right I did. For the Brotherhood!
Posted by: Kane Obama at March 26, 2015 12:37 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: Archie Bunker
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Heh. I was in traffic court, when a kid who could not have been more than 20 was called up for 15 mph over the limit. Turns out the kid was driving a Ferrari 308. The kid blurted out to the judge that the only reason that the cop stopped him and gave him a ticket was that the cop was jealous that he could not afford a Ferrari.
The judge stared at the kid a moment and said, "I imagine that he gave you a ticket because of your attitude", *bang*, "$150.00 plus court cost". "Next case."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 12:37 AM (F2IAQ)
I think by that time, I had Tucker sitting, lying down, staying, and shaking.
At two, he gets Left & Right correct about 80 percent of the time (shake has turned into hi-five). I walk to the mailbox & he stops 15 feet behind me, sits and just waits. If I say it's OK, we cross the street to visit Shirley so he can get a treat.
Still can't get him to speak on command, tho. Unless it's dinnertime - then he SPEAKS.
If/when we go for walks, I put a leash on him, but never hold it. He just drags it. Never a problem - he stops when I tell him to, sits and waits for me.
Kinda amazing how he picked up so much so quickly, really...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 26, 2015 12:37 AM (jjHp6)
Getting a lot of help from Egypt.
We didn't know about the coalition. Seems they have figured out we had picked a side.
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:33 AM (zOTsN)
Are there any solid reports of troop movements into Yemen? Air-strikes is all that have been reported so far.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 12:37 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: President Flounder at March 26, 2015 12:38 AM (JO9+V)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:38 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 12:39 AM (ko4zy)
And by the way, if you like your GPS, Lockheed is building and launching those satellites.
So before you start bitching about government contractors being idiots, you need to start looking at the government demanding those contracts.
Also, I agree about the F-35. It's almost like the ME-262. Awesome air superiority weapon. Hitler wanted it to have a ground attack role like the Stuka. Delayed its deployment by almost two years, lucky for the Allied Air Force.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:40 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:36 AM
That sort of thing is in the works. But, it's gonna be hella expensive, apparently. Who's gonna pick up the bill? Passengers. Prices will go up.
Posted by: otho at March 26, 2015 12:40 AM (tBSrv)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:40 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:41 AM (cL79m)
I really really hope Israel was savvy enough to not divulge major secrets to the U.S. govt.
They had to have been, right? Because it would be naive to believe that every U.S. president would be an ally.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 12:41 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 12:34 AM (afQnV)
as a physicist and a sniper, and having run about with Brandon Webb, Chris Kyle, Nick Irving (and Nick is about 5' even and all muscle... I call him Fireplug... great dude) everyone is picky and shaving 0.005 off moa with kit, technique, skillz, wild rabbits and luck is all the rage ; )
Competitive critters.
When yer actually giving a shit about humidity and pressure and the corialis force, you know the big kids are playing.
To me it's more of a science: balancing barrel twist with round mass.... so many variables... it's addicitve.
Good stuff.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:41 AM (x3YFz)
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The 14th Street Bridge crash at National.
Copilot: "If you can get her nose up, she'll fly."
Pilot: "Yeah, I know..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 12:41 AM (F2IAQ)
>>>I had a boss that tried screaming at me once. Only once.
I've had a few bosses that liked to scream. One of em thought he was a real badass.
I stared right through his head every time, no reaction at all.
When he asked me "well, aren't you going to say anything?" I calmly
replied "I've been thrashed before. Do you really think you scare me
more than a guy that caught a bullet in Fallujah?"
He didn't like that answer. I guess I should have respected his authoritah a little more.
Posted by: DC in River City, temporary bachelor at March 26, 2015 12:35 AM (e+1S5)
I had a boss who needed to scream at his sales guy -- who would have folded like a cheap suit. So he screamed at me (Accounting and Operations) instead -- about things that were the sales guy's responsibility.
And I mean screamed -- face flushed, throbbing forehead vein -- "Close those fucking deals! Get those fucking POs! We need backlog!"
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:42 AM (T1005)
She's already a pseudo congressman.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2015 12:42 AM (W5DcG)
Wow. I can't believe I just typed the above.
But here we are. We have a political terrorist in the White House and I'm here hoping that a foreign nation doesn't trust us. Wow.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 12:42 AM (ko4zy)
Good stuff.
Posted by: TangoNine
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Squeezing off the round between heartbeats.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 12:43 AM (F2IAQ)
Come to think of it, this will all likely be a major selling point for autonomous, driverless cars as well. They'll be sold as (a) an alternative to flying, and (b) an option that, while taking longer, allows you to relax almost as much as you could on an airliner.
"Sleep, read, watch a movie! Let Google do the driving for you!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:43 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: People Corp at March 26, 2015 12:43 AM (TzeLs)
ThunderB, thanks for your (actual) expert commentary on the Bergdahl thing - and please keep it up as things develop.
And yes, I'd bet at least $17 that "advisers" from IRGC/Quds/intel are in Yemen with the Houthis.
Yemen - starting to feel like the 1970s again. South vs. North, tribe vs. tribe.
And keep in mind, all, that Yemen is the one frontier of the Kingdom that remained "interesting" after the 1950s. Trucial States (now UAE) were under British protection. Oman too, but also kind of not core Saudi interest anyway.
But Yemen "should" have been part of al-Saud's conquests, it's the "one that got away". So I'd expect the Saudis to putserious effort, and bring serious tribal/intrigue game, to this one.
Oh - and Adel al-Jubeir is the Saudi ambassador? Ha! Knew him when he was merely a pup, and on his first gig in DC. Back then Prince Bandar was at the peak of his influence and skill as ambassador. Saudis (and othersfrom that area) do not sendseat-warmers to Washington.Come to think of it, right now we've got fifth-rate "Americans" dominatingthe Beltway, yet many countries still send first-rate types there. Interesting.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 12:44 AM (afQnV)
Pretty much. And we just got within spittin' distance of hydrocarbon
parity.....which means that every other nation on the planet will want a
say on how things shake out.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:32 AM (T1005)
Not to mention Yemen is on the "safe" side of the Gulf of Aden, and
pretty much everything flowing from the Persian Gulf on east to Europe
(and the oil to America) flows through said gulf.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:35 AM (cL79m)
What I was trying to imply was that we could ride out a total war in Arabia at the moment....but Europe and Asia would be totally hosed. Many countries would be facing a near-existential threat.....and would likely throw-in with one side or the other.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:44 AM (T1005)
Imagine being able to drink yourself stupid blind at a club right up 'til closing time on the weekend. Then when it's time to go home... just climb in, pass out in the back seat, and gurgle to Google, "take me home."
I can see the upsides. I can see the downsides.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:44 AM (elbY7)
150k would be a rather large portion to send into Yemen?
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 12:45 AM (GoyxN)
They are calling it "Firmness Storm"
Bwhahahhaha
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:45 AM (zOTsN)
the cheek weld isn't the best and I have to give up about 20% eye relief *or* slide forward to an unnatural position.
Not a deal breaker, but perfect is perfect and it must be achieved ; )
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:46 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:46 AM (zOTsN)
MH, sounds like Dreamer is doing well.
I think by that time, I had Tucker sitting, lying down, staying, and shaking.
At two, he gets Left Right correct about 80 percent of the
time (shake has turned into hi-five). I walk to the mailbox he
stops 15 feet behind me, sits and just waits. If I say it's OK, we cross
the street to visit Shirley so he can get a treat.
Still can't get him to speak on command, tho. Unless it's dinnertime - then he SPEAKS.
If/when we go for walks, I put a leash on him, but never hold it. He
just drags it. Never a problem - he stops when I tell him to, sits and
waits for me.
Kinda amazing how he picked up so much so quickly, really...
Posted by: shredded chi at March 26, 2015 12:37 AM (jjHp6)
I note the absence of "don't nip the Elder God" on that list of abilities.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:47 AM (T1005)
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What are you trying to say?
Posted by: Caroline Kennedy at March 26, 2015 12:47 AM (F2IAQ)
And keep in mind, all, that Yemen is the one frontier of the Kingdom that remained "interesting" after the 1950s. Trucial States (now UAE) were under British protection. Oman too, but also kind of not core Saudi interest anyway.
But Yemen "should" have been part of al-Saud's conquests, it's the "one that got away". So I'd expect the Saudis to putserious effort, and bring serious tribal/intrigue game, to this one.
Oh - and Adel al-Jubeir is the Saudi ambassador? Ha! Knew him when he was merely a pup, and on his first gig in DC. Back then Prince Bandar was at the peak of his influence and skill as ambassador. Saudis (and others from that area) do not send seat-warmers to Washington.Come to think of it, right now we've got fifth-rate "Americans" dominating the Beltway, yet many countries still send first-rate types there. Interesting.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 12:44 AM (afQnV)
From Teh SCOAMT's perspective, all that's missing is the IslamoCommunists, combining the religion of Obama's youth and the religion of Obama's adulthood (yes, fellow Morons, there was once such a creature in South Yemen).
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:47 AM (cL79m)
Bwhahahhaha
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:45 AM
1) Probably better in the original tongue and...
2) I might very well take that as a jab at my administration if I where BO
So, yeah hahahaha!
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 12:47 AM (7d8Ef)
Also, I agree about the F-35. It's almost like the ME-262. Awesome air superiority weapon. Hitler wanted it to have a ground attack role like the Stuka. Delayed its deployment by almost two years, lucky for the Allied Air Force.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:40 AM (9iR5/)
not going to change my mind. I was one of those contractors subbed to LM.
and they were fuckers from start to finish.
Wife works with the now and yup: fuckers start to finish.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:49 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: TangoNine
Is that an after-market stock?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 12:49 AM (JBzwC)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 12:49 AM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:49 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 26, 2015 12:50 AM (9iIQZ)
It's terribly difficult to defeat an enemy that scurries away like insects and then blends in with the populations to await for another day.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 12:50 AM (ko4zy)
yes. I have an axe to grind.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:50 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 12:51 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:43 AM
As useful as sat transmitted data would be for airlines and I know that it can be useful for problem solving and safety... I'm unsure I'd be onboard with it. I like cheap air travel and as far as it goes, it's not crash prevention. If I'm going into the ground on a flight, I'm not gonna give a fuck what the data says after I'm dead. The sat system will improve data recovery over black boxes to a degree, but, relative to the expense, is it worth it?
Posted by: otho at March 26, 2015 12:51 AM (tBSrv)
This woman had pictures of another dent in my car and told the judge, "see! she doesn't care and won't even use the money to fix her car!" He explained to her that what mattered was that she had damaged property. Pay for it. She was so pissed she messed up the check, had to rewrite it. I bought a stereo.
Posted by: Archie Bunker at March 26, 2015 12:52 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: MUMR at March 26, 2015 12:52 AM (1mXtG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 12:49 AM (JBzwC)
made of baby gay hair.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:52 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:44 AM (T1005)
Europe, most certainly. Asia, not nearly as much (what do they get out of Europe anyway?).
So, will the pEU throw in with the Mad Mullahs or the Mad Sultans?
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:52 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:52 AM (cL79m)
Whomever can offer us the most oil, bitte.
Posted by: German "Technocrat" with a Clipboard at March 26, 2015 12:54 AM (Z1b6E)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 12:49 AM (JBzwC)
it's a a composite I picked up at SHOT 2013 from the springfield armory guys.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 12:54 AM (x3YFz)
steveegg, aha! another MidEast geek - though actually that's not my specialty, my obscure ridiculous knowledge is mostly by osmosis from a true expert geek I used to work with.
And yes, "Marxist" South Yemen (Aden) was a true wonder of the late Soviet era. Marxist tribal Sunni qaat-chewing Yemenis ..... one hopes that Trotsky and others are spinning in their graves savoring that one.
The Kingdom has minimal force-projection capacity (naturally), so I'd be shocked if there are anything close to 150K troops actually in/around Yemen or border areas. Also, Pakistan and Sudan as part of the "coalition"? Pakistan maybe - officers/advisers, and recall Saudis hosted Paki troops at one point to boost their infantry power. Sudanese? Most capable Sudanese I've known were Sufi interpreters/helpers for us in various colorful locales.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 12:54 AM (afQnV)
Both countries know they have no ally with the king putt regime. Both countries are also on the persian hit list. Both countries also know when push comes to shove, Israel is no enemy.
I would say that a Saudi-Egyptian partition of Yemen is possible.
Likelihood?
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 12:55 AM (GoyxN)
Me, hey wanna buy this truck? Hats off to a good honest reputable sales reps
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 26, 2015 12:32 AM (YOPoU)
******
Ahhhh, but folks in Phoenix don't need furnaces and Eskimos don't need ice, now do they?
A successful salesperson ( my whole career) listens closely to clients needs and sells ways to fill said needs. Full stop. Nothing more.
If you are able to sell them something they do not need once, you will likely never sell them anything again. One and done artists don't last long in Sales.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 26, 2015 12:56 AM (JVKFK)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 26, 2015 12:56 AM (GzDYP)
What I'd do is set a trap...an alluring trap.
Operation: Bug Light
You draw them in like a swarm by building, say, a giant cross and a giant star of David memorial in, say, Afghanistan. Surround it by enormous walls. Inside the walls is nothing. It's a trap. It's a pit a mile deep.
They enter and never leave. No one lives to tell the tale.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 12:57 AM (ko4zy)
So Saudi Arabia and nine other countries, so that's -- let's see -- a coalition of ten nations, led by a dictatorial American President with an obscure past who hates Israel, has started a war in the Middle East.
Hmmmmm -- seems somehow oddly familiar.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2015 12:58 AM (kdS6q)
Oh he will have a legacy alright. Not the one he thinks
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 12:58 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Some Dude at March 26, 2015 12:58 AM (1mXtG)
Winter was cold in Phoenix this year. Both days were brutal.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2015 12:58 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 12:59 AM (elbY7)
How do you people keep your nics straight after drinkthirty?
.
When does drinknow become drinkthirty?
Posted by: tbodie at March 26, 2015 12:59 AM (Ea0JH)
I can't totally disagree with you, nor can I totally agree with you. Like I said, I've worked on projects that I'm very proud of, like THAAD. I did do some good work there.
Are there idiots? Yes, any corporation that large is going to have their fair share of incompetents ,and unfortunately, they all seem to wind up in management.
But there are some really good, intelligent, and competent people working there who totally believe in what they are trying to accomplish.
You sometimes paint with a very broad brush.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 12:59 AM (9iR5/)
cm9000, even tho I made a reference to Saudi power projection capacity in last comment, let me answer you by saying "I don't really know" - just an educated guess based on prior, dated expertise.
But it's a border region (even if undefined, as pointed out by steveegg), so "projection" might be quibbled at by some. The Saudi forces are postured and developed (understandably) for defense. Incl. "defense" WITHIN the borders, against, uh, you know - their own people (National Guard used to have this role).
Mortifying beyond words. Not that long ago, I really could have given a solidly-based answer. Yikes.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:00 AM (afQnV)
What I was trying to imply was that we could ride out a total war in
Arabia at the moment....but Europe and Asia would be totally hosed. Many
countries would be facing a near-existential threat.....and would
likely throw-in with one side or the other.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 12:44 AM (T1005)
Europe, most certainly. Asia, not nearly as much (what do they get out of Europe anyway?).
So, will the pEU throw in with the Mad Mullahs or the Mad Sultans?
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 12:52 AM (cL79m)
Looking at http://tinyurl.com/p3u74mr , I think China would be verrrrry interrrrested in a Saudi v Iran showdown, being that Saudi's their #1 supplier, Iran's #3, Oman's #5, and Iraq's #6.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 01:00 AM (T1005)
I couldn't wear shorts outside for almost a week.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2015 01:00 AM (UVfht)
-- let's see -- a coalition of ten nations, led by a dictatorial
American President with an obscure past who hates Israel, has started a
war in the Middle East.
Hmmmmm -- seems somehow oddly familiar.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 26, 2015 12:58 AM (kdS6q)
Sounds almost revelatory.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 01:01 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 01:01 AM (zOTsN)
I just pick up enough info to be really dangerous.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 01:02 AM (cL79m)
I was more than once the unfortunate passenger in an enclosed space with one of their lieutenants (ya had to have them on missions due to the SOFA).
....and that's when I wanted so badly to remove my sense of smell.
A new england fisherman at sea for two weeks without a shower smells like a bouquet of honey roses compared to the saudis.
dude.
just.... wow.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 01:02 AM (x3YFz)
Blanco, you almost had to put on long undies eh? ;-)
I couldn't wear shorts outside for almost a week.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2015 01:00 AM (UVfht)
Criminy!
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 01:03 AM (T1005)
I'm watching an old episode of McMillan & Wife and they were just in a small twin engine plan. I could see the registration number so I looked it up.
A 1968 Beechcraft Baron. Still in service and owned by someone in North Carolina.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:04 AM (ko4zy)
A successful salesperson ( my whole career) listens closely to clients needs and sells ways to fill said needs. Full stop. Nothing more.
If you are able to sell them something they do not need once, you will likely never sell them anything again. One and done artists don't last long in Sales.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
Just my humble, but there are in fact 2 kinds of successful salesmen.
The first is just as you describe; responsive, helpful, and honest.
The second successful sales person is charismatic, dishonest, and - get this - promoted before any of his/her lies catch up with him/her.
Let's not pretend that all sales positions are filled with angels, or that all companies that employ sales staff are either.
***
And that's not to say I agree with the Glengarry critique above. \
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:04 AM (JBzwC)
And that, folks, is how I spend my evenings...
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:04 AM (ko4zy)
Remember the 2011 Salon Meritage murders in Orange County, California? The worst massacre in OC history.
Anyway, per this OCWeekly article, it looks like the perp, Scott Dekraai, will escape the DP... largely because of messups in the local DAs office.
http://tinyurl.com/q5zs9dj
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 01:05 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: Some Dude at March 26, 2015 01:05 AM (1mXtG)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 01:05 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 01:00 AM (T1005)
Only if it affects the Strait of Hormuz. At the moment, it looks to be a localized proxy war astride the Asia-to-Europe sea lines of communication.
If Iran lets loose the Kilos, mines and speedboats (the latter 2 again), Katie bar the door.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 01:05 AM (cL79m)
Luap Nor, excellent point about Egyptian intervention in Yemen (last one in 1960s?).
Some dude (and another commenter earlier, forget who) made a key point: with the US essentially not a factor any longer, or at least not a reliable factor in some astonishing respects, the region will do what the rational thing. It's the Persians vs. the Arabs, with a largely (though not cleanly - esp. in Iraq, believe it or not) Sunni/Shi'a split. Um .... with that Israeli thing thrown in.
Not much daylight between the practical interests of Jerusalem on the one hand and Cairo, Amman, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi on the other. And less and less with every step down in US competence, interest, or reliability.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:06 AM (afQnV)
They enter and never leave. No one lives to tell the tale.
Posted by: Soothsayer's
Fantastic.
Now exactly which fictional country do you conjure to do such a feat?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:07 AM (JBzwC)
The United Republic of Soothistan, of course.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:08 AM (ko4zy)
-- let's see -- a coalition of ten nations, led by a dictatorial
American President with an obscure past who hates Israel, has started a
war in the Middle East.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix
Sounds almost revelatory.
Posted by: cm9000
That deserves a golf-clap.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:08 AM (JBzwC)
Russia may well be the only stabilizing influence in the ME right now, and they are getting frisky in western Europe.
It's going to be an interesting next two years folks.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 01:10 AM (9iR5/)
soothsayer, that's cool! (the aircraft from the TV show)
Keep it up, and you'll be bidding for the honorary Non-military Anna Puma Chair in Aviation Info and Trivia!
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:10 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 01:05 AM (cL79m)
they can frontload a punch but have 0 sustainability.
We call these "48 hour threats" because that's about how long before they go from dangerous to out of resources and infrastructure. They can't keep up a fight is the bottom line.
While we, the good old US of A, have been fighting for about two solid centuries. All infighting aside, we're good at it.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 01:10 AM (x3YFz)
Let's not pretend that all sales positions are filled with angels, or that all companies that employ sales staff are either.
***
And that's not to say I agree with the Glengarry critique above. \
*****
Agreed. To me, your second category are the ones I call One and Done Sales critters. I find that they change companies they work for more than getting bumped up in a current company if this is their style. YMMV.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 26, 2015 01:10 AM (JVKFK)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:10 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: cthulhu
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Well, if you try THIS shit again, I'll check your whole leg off!
http://tinyurl.com/ng5n6hs
Posted by: Tucker at March 26, 2015 01:11 AM (jjHp6)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 01:11 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Some Dude at March 26, 2015 01:11 AM (1mXtG)
Keep it up, and you'll be bidding for the honorary Non-military Anna Puma Chair in Aviation Info and Trivia!
Ha!
Mention a weapon or a piece of military hardware here and within a minute a link to it will appear!
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:12 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Some Dude at March 26, 2015 01:11 AM (1mXtG)
so maybe we should listen to coulter, invade iran, replace leaders convert to Christianity or reform islam.
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 26, 2015 01:13 AM (gsfK5)
Actually, cm9000, the Saudis paid for all that. Gulf sheikhdoms tend to pay for all the nice US and Euro military hardware and training.
It's the Egyptians who get the aid. And in the scheme of things, very defensible expenditure since Camp David, I would argue.
Lots of misconceptions about Ba'athist Iraq's military hardware, too. Mostly paid for, in cash or oil. Some of the cash "borrowed" from Kuwait, S.A., and the Emirates. But cash.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (afQnV)
Interesting times
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (zOTsN)
Has anyone heard the Israelis be critical of Putin/Russia. Has anyone heard of Putin/Russia bark at Israel lately?
The Pentagon last week? declassified documents of the Israeli Nuclear program and not one Israeli howled about it?
prince sandtrap threatens Israel via the useless nations and again no one seems to care. No one that really matters that is.
Being ignored has to hurt the duke of five iron's feelings.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (GoyxN)
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
Yes, agree 99.99%.
...Spot me a point, will ya' pal, old friend?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (JBzwC)
It's going to be an interesting next two years folks.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 01:10 AM (9iR5/)
The Russians aren't exactly stabilizing the Middle East - they need the various Islamokazi factions to target each other (and Israel, and American interests) to keep them from marching on Moscow before they can get their Atlantic coastline.
they can frontload a punch but have 0 sustainability.
We call these "48 hour threats" because that's about how long before they go from dangerous to out of resources and infrastructure. They can't keep up a fight is the bottom line.
While we, the good old US of A, have been fighting for about two solid centuries. All infighting aside, we're good at it.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 01:10 AM (x3YFz)
You're assuming that (a) the US Navy will be allowed to do anything about it and (b) the USN ability against the Boghammers hasn't atrophied like the surface fleet's ASW capabilities.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (cL79m)
Without US leadership the Mideast will become chaos. Obama isn't smart enough to get this, but the people around him are.
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But with ValJar steering the ship, it would appear that she wants the chaos and Iran to win. Her loyalties are not to the US.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 01:15 AM (9iR5/)
Posted by: Soothsayer's
A rock...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:16 AM (JBzwC)
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM
Really? Damn. Link? Anyone?
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 01:16 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: Some Dude at March 26, 2015 01:17 AM (1mXtG)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (afQnV)
"Some" being a relative term, which is the major reason why Saddam Hussein went south in 1990.
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 01:17 AM (cL79m)
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 26, 2015 01:17 AM (elbY7)
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 01:17 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:17 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:16 AM
Hmmm. Any Palestinian military experts in the audience?
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 01:18 AM (JDOoY)
It is clear to all our old allies in the Middle East that we have switched sides and are now irans ally
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Especially to the Israelis. And the JEF wonders why he couldn't get Bibi kicked out of office.
Posted by: Old Blue at March 26, 2015 01:19 AM (9iR5/)
...Spot me a point, will ya' pal, old friend?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (JBzwC)
*****
Why, sure. *Adds it to order* No problem!
Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at March 26, 2015 01:20 AM (JVKFK)
Let me go through my browser history but I think it was a Jerusalem Post Article
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 01:21 AM (GoyxN)
Posted by: steveegg at March 26, 2015 01:21 AM (cL79m)
T9, re Straits of Hormuz, and steveegg's and ctulhu's comments about world oil flows - yes, your "48 hour threat" concept rings true - except .....
Today? I don't mean with the competence and commitment of our actual warriors and intel staff, but with the worldview and competence of national leadership.
Was it "Praying Mantis" back in July 1987? Pretty much a perfect object lesson in national will and international affairs. Iran tried to "horizontally" escalate against Iraq's financiers (Kuwait, S.A). US first reflagged Kuwaiti tankers - very clever move, actually. Then dealt with mine problem. Then, best part, when the Persians displayed the limits of their game savvy - we eliminated most of their navy in a few hours, after they gave us the perfect pretext.
Anyway, this ain't no 1987 USA, the alien mediocrity in the Oval Office ain't no RR, and so .... in extremis, the Persians pulling the very risky "nobody moves or the n***er gets it!" move in Hormuzmight NOT be so easily dealt with.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:21 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 01:23 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:25 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 01:25 AM (GoyxN)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:25 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:25 AM (JBzwC)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 01:25 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: Methos at March 26, 2015 01:28 AM (ZbV+0)
WRT rocks as weapons and Palestinians .....
Last night's quote of the day source, PJ O'Rourke, had a classic (of course) on the subject. (from memory)
(writing about the first "intifaada" in 1987)
If this had taken place in Panama, instead of the WestBank, the Israelis would have been driven out in a week. But Palestinians, like most non-baseball cultures,throw like girls.
One of his funniestcomments ever. Which is saying a gigantic amount.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:28 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Soothsayer's
"1610s, from Italian rocchetto "a rocket," literally "a bobbin," diminutive of rocca "a distaff," so called because of cylindrical shape. The Italian word probably is from a Germanic source (compare Old High German rocko "distaff," Old Norse rokkr), from Proto-Germanic *rukkon-, from PIE root *rug- "fabric, spun yarn." "
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 01:28 AM (JBzwC)
Interesting times
Posted by: ThunderB, Shapeshifter at March 26, 2015 01:14 AM (zOTsN)
let's make sure we understand that whabi muzzies are entrenched in saud culture.
They're not your friend.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 01:31 AM (x3YFz)
speaking of blunt trauma...
I bought a pair of small expandable batons "keychains" off ebay. You can't sell expandable batons on ebay but the seller listed them as keychains, which they are...
It is illegal for me to buy or own an expandable baton in my state. Yeah, really.
12" long, collapsed it is just under 6". It snaps right out to full length with a quick snap of the wrist. Nice solid feel.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:31 AM (ko4zy)
cm9000, if you're still here - puzzled by your comment that the folks "around" the president are smart enough to understand the disaster unfolding in the ME.
I don't see that. Quite the contrary, actually. McDonough, Rice, Kerry ..... still not a name who ever could have worked as my intern, based on substantive gravitas.
Now if you're talking select career types working closely with the political principals at the NSC, State, DOD - sure, I'd think their hair's been on fire forever, but ..... what do you do when the fifth-rate mediocre alien freaks have been empowered, twice, by the voters of what was once the greatest power on earth?
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:32 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 01:32 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 26, 2015 01:33 AM (9I2hz)
I note the absence of "don't nip the Elder God" on that list of abilities....
Posted by: cthulhu
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Well, if you try THIS shit again, I'll check your whole leg off!
http://tinyurl.com/ng5n6hs
Posted by: Tucker at March 26, 2015 01:11 AM (jjHp6)
For those who weren't there, I revved Tucker up quite a bit during my visit with Chi....which included miming a cartoon sneak when Chi was out of the room. Of course, this is the same Cthulhu that once handed the godkids back to their parents at the Jelly-Belly factory in Fairfield, CA....free samples!!!
So, in between whipping Tucker to a froth whenever Chi's back was turned and pretending to be an angel while Chi was around, I did managed to get nipped, lightly, no skin broken, just once. I deserved much, much worse -- and it probably took Chi a week to calm Tucker back down.
But it was fun at the time.
Next time I visit Chi, I'll probably try the total mellow thing with Tucker and see if I can get him to fall asleep on me. I got my cousin's abused psycho rescue dog to watch TV curled up next to me with my arm resting on her (though I couldn't pet her).
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 01:33 AM (T1005)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:21 AM (afQnV)
one of the best movie lines ever.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 01:34 AM (x3YFz)
Last week I was watching a couple vids where people were getting attacked my multiple attackers. It made me wonder what I could use, besides lethal weapons, to help me in that type of situation.
Expandable baton. I have to say, even this little
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:34 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 01:37 AM (8zCR+)
"1610s, from Italian rocchetto "a rocket," literally "a bobbin," diminutive of rocca "a distaff," so called because of cylindrical shape. The Italian word probably is from a Germanic source (compare Old High German rocko "distaff," Old Norse rokkr), from Proto-Germanic *rukkon-, from PIE root *rug- "fabric, spun yarn." "
Bravo, weft-puma!
We are now all a bit smarter than when we came in.
btw, I happen to know the abbreviation for "PIE" is proto-indo-european
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:37 AM (ko4zy)
There's several I'd like to mention, but I'm keeping my end of the deal on that 77-year non-disclosure agreement.
Here's what I didn't disclose: http://tinyurl.com/qduk4
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2015 01:38 AM (UVfht)
ThunderB (you can't still be here?) - not heartened so much as dumb-struck, that we're at a point where US weakness and worse has driven the Saudis and others to basically get on with it without us.
T9 - a wise experienced guy with deep connections in the Gulf once said to me "America HAS no friends in the Arab world". But, but ..... it's not really the point. We actually have had, and do have, Arab allies who are every bit as much allies as many we have had in other consequential struggles. It's about common interests, not love - or what happens after today's demons are vanquished.
"Yes, Yuri, that's all the A-20s and jeeps we have for you on this shipment. Now give the Krauts hell. Good luck" (slink away casting narrowed hard eyes at your Soviet Lend-Lease logistics coordinator .....)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:38 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 26, 2015 01:40 AM (9GG/0)
"Yes, Yuri, that's all the A-20s and jeeps we have for you on this shipment. Now give the Krauts hell. Good luck" (slink away casting narrowed hard eyes at your Soviet Lend-Lease logistics coordinator .....)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 01:38 AM (afQnV)
jordancomes to mind. and it's funny you said "Yuri" I have an IDF friend named Yuri ; )
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 01:41 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Soothsayer's
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Rockettes? No problem: http://tinyurl.com/pkgwfnj
Wait..., perhaps I misunderstood.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 01:41 AM (F2IAQ)
Posted by: Soothsayer's
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Rockettes? No problem: http://tinyurl.com/pkgwfnj
Wait..., perhaps I misunderstood.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 01:41 AM (F2IAQ)
hola, heff
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:41 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 26, 2015 01:13 AM (gsfK5)
yup. I was all for nuking a few small pissant arab countries immediately after 9-11. Why? To send a message.
War is a numbers game, period. Once a war starts, people are going to die, end of story. The thing is to keep your numbers low, and when you do that the lion's share of the total dead ends up on your enemy. WWII death toll was 50-60 million. We lost around 480,000. That sucks, but its good numbers for us and even some of our allies, because we went there and wrecked shit there.
Had we done nothing in WWII it eventually would have came here, and if we didn't go there the axis powers would have been free to spend less time wrecking shit there. With less resistance they would have rolled through countries leaving garrisons, and been a lot more rested to come fuck with us, and then WE would have the wrecked cities and huge civilian dead. Less there, more here. We would have shared a larger number of the total dead. But since we went there we skated compared to Europe. 50 mil dead there, .5 mil here instead of 30mil dead there and 20 mil dead here.Its a numbers game. The fucking japs killed 100,000 Chinese JUST in the search for the Doolittle raiders.
So..think about 9-11. Between all the scumbags we killed, and the innocent people the scumbags themselves killed, and the pople dying in Syria, etc, we got what, 4-500,000 dead? 600,000? And we lost over 4000 guys in there somewhere.
I would have hit 2 cities with fucking nukes, 1 of them being the Iranian capitol, and the other being that fucking borg cube for a total that's probably less than where we are now anyway. It would have showed those goat fuckers that we mean business and we would burn them from space if they don't cut the shit.
Oh yeah, our 4000 would probably still be alive too. I like those numbers.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2015 01:42 AM (FMbng)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 26, 2015 01:42 AM (F2IAQ)
I definitely appreciate a good leg.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:43 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 01:43 AM (ko4zy)
In a chicken yes, in a woman I prefer two.
Posted by: cm9000 at March 26, 2015 01:47 AM (8zCR+)
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 26, 2015 01:49 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: tbodie at March 26, 2015 01:49 AM (Ea0JH)
ISIS is a Sunni group.
They're opposed by the Sunni nations Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia... eh, there are more, but you get the idea. Special mention goes to Iraq, which was Sunni under Saddam Hussein's rule but is now Shiite.
They're also opposed by Shiite nations Iran and Iraq.
At the same time, they're supported by Sunni nations like Turkey and the now-lawless Libya, as well as the not-quite-a-nation Palestinians.
Jewish nation Israel opposes ISIS. The ostensibly Christian US supports both ISIS and most of its enemies, as well as its allies, while ISIS considers us an enemy. And we now treat our allies as enemies and our enemies as allies. While our allies got the memo, our enemies didn't. Or, more likely, they did, but they still consider us enemies.
Yeah, like I said... it's complicated.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 26, 2015 01:50 AM (9I2hz)
On his own or propelled by jihadi smuggled nuke?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2015 01:50 AM (UVfht)
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 26, 2015 01:49 AM (JoIcn)
I would say pretty good. The enemy probably already set him up with his own cushy bunker so he play his little gay harp and watch shit burn. Just like some other man child tyrant with an IQ of 30 did 2000 years ago.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2015 01:52 AM (FMbng)
odds this improves the U.S. response
FIFY
Posted by: tbodie at March 26, 2015 01:53 AM (Ea0JH)
My bookie says he will not take bets made on statistical impossibilities.
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 01:54 AM (U7H1n)
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 26, 2015 01:49 AM (JoIcn) <<<
Don't be absurd.
I watch tv in bed... with Reggie.
Posted by: Beary O'Brackets at March 26, 2015 01:56 AM (CZexX)
everyone knows barky doesn't watch TV. he gets all of his info when he reads the newspaper in the morning.
Posted by: chemjeff at March 26, 2015 02:00 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: sinalco at March 26, 2015 02:01 AM (bqB4w)
i wouldn't mind at all having takeout delivered to my window via drone
Posted by: chemjeff at March 26, 2015 02:02 AM (9GG/0)
*Applebee's stock crashes*
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2015 02:02 AM (UVfht)
What is the consensus at this moment about why the pilot was locked out and couldn't get back into the cockpit?
Options include:
1. The co-pilot was a secret Muslim terrorist who purposely locked him out and then crashed the plane intentionally as an act of terrorism.
2. The co-pilot passed out/had a heart attack/suffered a decompression and couldn't let the other pilot in because he was unconscious.
3. The door just inexplicably jammed and couldn't be opened from either side.
4. The co-pilot was a schizo maniac who locked out the other pilot not for political or religious reasons but because he was personally insane.
5. While the first pilot was off going pee, a terrorist briefly impersonated him by getting up and knocking on the cockpit door, saying to the pilot still in there, "It's me, the pilot, I'm done going pee now, let me back in," and then when the co-pilot cracks open the door, the terrorist rushes in, kills or disables him, then locks the door and crashes the plane.
6. Something else I haven't thought of.
Amongst those options, which one are people saying is the most likely?
Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2015 02:03 AM (K4YiS)
Posted by: Thor's feather duster at March 26, 2015 02:03 AM (JgC5a)
Not final round mind you, let's say second or third.
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 26, 2015 02:04 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: chemjeff at March 26, 2015 02:05 AM (9GG/0)
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 02:07 AM (ko4zy)
It's gold, Barry....gold!!
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at March 26, 2015 02:08 AM (JoIcn)
I thought it was the co-pilot who was locked out??
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions
Whatever their official titles were -- you know what I mean:
Pilot-y dude #1 who exited the cockpit
Pilot-y dude #2 who remained in the cockpit.
Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2015 02:09 AM (K4YiS)
number one.
Airplane is in perfect condition according to inspection the day before the flight. No mayday.
Posted by: Thor's feather duster at March 26, 2015 02:09 AM (JgC5a)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5K4Py1L7mc
"Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables", indeed. Check out Jesus kicking the money-changers out of the temple if you don't think there's just a bit of a parallel, there.
Good night, everyone!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 26, 2015 02:10 AM (9I2hz)
My bookie will you only 2-1 odds on that one.
I'll quote you the reason, "youse thinks he wants to watch all those whiteys golf?
Posted by: Luap Nor's last brain cell at March 26, 2015 02:10 AM (U7H1n)
Posted by: Ayatollah Kholmeini at March 26, 2015 02:12 AM (JoIcn)
zombie, I don't think there's a consensus. Could be wrong.
Think most are waiting for (lots) more info before "serious" speculation gets under way.
I haven't yet gone there, but if you are as diligent as I think and really want to get into the weeds with mostly well informed speculation, go to pprune.net (?) - anyway, easy to find. Professional pilots rumor network.
The "go-to" blog (just comment threads, really) for civil aviation incidents.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 02:12 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 26, 2015 02:14 AM (afQnV)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 26, 2015 02:16 AM (UVfht)
I bought into the Jihadi pilot scenario initally, but it's been a couple days now. If there was any audio that supported this theory with Allah being mentioned on the voice recorder in the last 8 fatal minutes it would have been leaked by now, I would think. The no names of the pilots being mentioned still gives me pause.
I'm not sure anymore.
Posted by: L, Elle at March 26, 2015 02:20 AM (4RRDi)
Motives why? There's examples in the past of crazy/pissed off, financially strapped people, and some whacko muslims who took down planes.
Could the motivation be muslim sympathy? Maybe. I'd say the fact that no pilot names have been released yet is.....odd to say the least.
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 26, 2015 02:21 AM (JoIcn)
Posted by: goon at March 26, 2015 02:22 AM (gNTQS)
So, everyone, someone, catch me up (been away from the computer for 10 hours):
What is the consensus at this moment about why the pilot was locked out and couldn't get back into the cockpit?
Options include:
1. The co-pilot was a secret Muslim terrorist who purposely locked
him out and then crashed the plane intentionally as an act of terrorism.
2. The co-pilot passed out/had a heart attack/suffered a
decompression and couldn't let the other pilot in because he was
unconscious.
3. The door just inexplicably jammed and couldn't be opened from either side.
4. The co-pilot was a schizo maniac who locked out the other pilot
not for political or religious reasons but because he was personally
insane.
5. While the first pilot was off going pee, a terrorist briefly
impersonated him by getting up and knocking on the cockpit door, saying
to the pilot still in there, "It's me, the pilot, I'm done going pee
now, let me back in," and then when the co-pilot cracks open the door,
the terrorist rushes in, kills or disables him, then locks the door and
crashes the plane.
6. Something else I haven't thought of.
Amongst those options, which one are people saying is the most likely?
Posted by: zombie at March 26, 2015 02:03 AM (K4YiS)
That's focusing the speculation in the wrong place.
Why do we know the names of dead passengers and crew, but not the pilots?
Why did the leaders of France, Germany, and Spain meet before releasing statements at the scene?
Why was this little tidbit leaked, without transcripts and tapes?
The deaths of 150 people are one thing.....but the possible government collusion behind the coverup/controlled reveal is another.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 02:24 AM (T1005)
regarding the theory that the windshield blew out.
the cockpit door is many things, but air tight isn't one of them. if he was locked out, and the plane was diving, smart money says either the other pilot took everyone with them, or there was some other sort of failure.
anyone wanna lay odds that the person at the wheel was a recent convert to the religion of pieces?
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 26, 2015 02:25 AM (Vha1U)
Posted by: goon
What an alpha male... *swoon*
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 02:26 AM (JBzwC)
I'd feel more inclined to believe in a non-sinister explanation if the guy's name ends up being Gunther Mahlberg. Might still be intentional, but probably less likely.
If it ends up his name is Muhammed bin Muhammed....all bets are off.
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 26, 2015 02:27 AM (JoIcn)
power-- quietly seethe and fantasize about finding information that will
out him as a hypocrite."
Not any more; now you just fake up a rape charge and get him fired / jailed.
Posted by: SDN at March 26, 2015 02:28 AM (0OFlK)
601 It's very odd that there's been no release. We're assuming no jihadi
motivation because there's no Allahu Ackbar.... But if he's just
whispering it or silently saying it, it might not register on the
recorder.
I'd feel more inclined to believe in a non-sinister explanation if
the guy's name ends up being Gunther Mahlberg. Might still be
intentional, but probably less likely.
If it ends up his name is Muhammed bin Muhammed....all bets are off.
Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 26, 2015 02:27 AM (JoIcn)
Let me go you one further -- if his name is Gunther Mahlberg, aged 63, 5'8", 280 lbs., then the focus will abruptly change. If his name was Hans Friedenstahl until last year, at which point it became Muhammed bin Muhammed, then the focus will abruptly change another direction. If his name was Johann Schmidt, aged 32, recently had a romantic breakup from his partner of 15 years -- well, then, it's something else.
But we're not being informed of his name.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 02:34 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 02:34 AM (T1005)
Yeah, I keep coming back to this. It's a sticking point.
Posted by: L, Elle at March 26, 2015 02:42 AM (2x3L+)
I reckon Airbus would be eager to release his name if they knew it, which they probably do.
Airbus wants this to be anyone's fault but there's. The airline, on the other hand, dreads the fact that one of their pilots was a suicidal maniac, if that's the case.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 02:43 AM (ko4zy)
... we're not being informed of his name.
This is the bottom line.
I'm inclined to go with the cracked window theory, and that the glass finally gave up, by sheer coincidence, when only 1 guy was in the cockpit. Even if the pilot and copilot had both been in the cockpit ...
... but if the cracked window theory was known(and apparently, a crack incident had happened earlier, and this plane reputedly was nearing disposal ... there must be a procedure) OR a crack was seen in the window ... why weren't the pilot and/or copilot strapped in, with masks already on?
I'd really like to hear the names.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 26, 2015 02:46 AM (FlRtG)
When a plane goes down, everyone; the airline, the manufacturer, the government, and even the airport from it where departed goes immediately into ass-covering mode. Their first interest is to themselves.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 02:46 AM (ko4zy)
I reckon Airbus would be eager to release his name if they knew it, which they probably do.
Airbus wants this to be anyone's fault but there's. The airline, on
the other hand, dreads the fact that one of their pilots was a suicidal
maniac, if that's the case.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 02:43 AM (ko4zy)
I'm assuming you mean "Lufthansa" (the parent company of the airline) everywhere you said "Airbus" (the manufacturer of the airplane).
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 02:47 AM (T1005)
...perfect ONT is perfect, thank you. I'm on the cusp of something new and scary and possibly life changing, and the topic is 100% prescient to my situation at this very moment, literally this second. Not a fake literary, a real one. Gotta get back to working on that lifechanging stuff, but I just wanted to pop in and let you know that your timing for this ONT could have not been more perfect, and you are the best.
(Until you do several days in a row of punishment ONTs again, that is. Truly was like gaping into the maw of horror for a bit, hah! But for the moment you are my favorite person.)
Posted by: LizLem at March 26, 2015 02:48 AM (yRwC8)
... we're not being informed of his name.
This is the bottom line.
I'm inclined to go with the cracked window theory, and that the
glass finally gave up, by sheer coincidence, when only 1 guy was in the
cockpit. Even if the pilot and copilot had both been in the cockpit ...
... but if the cracked window theory was known(and apparently, a
crack incident had happened earlier, and this plane reputedly was
nearing disposal ... there must be a procedure) OR a crack was seen in
the window ... why weren't the pilot and/or copilot strapped in, with
masks already on?
I'd really like to hear the names.
Posted by: Arbalest at March 26, 2015 02:46 AM (FlRtG)
....and the noise in the cabin....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 02:49 AM (T1005)
Back in January, IS called for muslims to carry out more attacks.
6 days ago this: An alleged American ISIS fighter in the Islamic State posted a call to Twitter on Thursday for Muslims to murder Americans (specifically veterans) at patriotic parades and to 'take down' President barack obama.
And recently IS said it will target places such as the Eiffel Tower.
Muslims hear this crap and some will actually do attempt to act out. So when a seemingly perfectly airplane is ditched into the ground at full tilt at a steady descent with evidence of the second pilot being locked out of the cockpit, my first thought is jihad. Call me wacky and paranoid.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 02:53 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 25, 2015 10:57 PM (YOPoU)
I'm told they taste like Bald Eagle, but you didn't hear that from me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2015 02:54 AM (KefbY)
Well, I meant Airbus would be relieved if it turns out it was a muslim maniac, whereas Lufthansa would not.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 02:55 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 25, 2015 11:03 PM (FsuaD)
"Hey kids, I got us some shag carpet!" Owlet: "Sniff, sniff. It smells like mayonnaise."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2015 02:59 AM (KefbY)
"Scott L
PacNW 1 hour ago
This should answer some of the questions raised in the comments. From The Sydney Morning Herald's current website:
"An Australian A320 pilot, who declined to be named, said the locked flight deck of the aircraft could be entered using an emergency code on a keypad. In the case of the pilot flying the aircraft being incapacitated, the door will automatically open after a set period of time if the correct code is entered.
"However, in the event a pilot flying the aircraft does not want the other pilot to enter the flight deck, the one in the cockpit has the ability to block entry if he reacts before the door would be opened automatically.
"'If the person on the other side of the door says 'no', you can't get in,' the Australian pilot said."
"A 2002 Airbus promotional video showed the reinforced flight deck could be entered after 30 seconds provided the right code was provided in the event of no response from pilots, but there is a manual override on the feature during that period"
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 02:59 AM (JDOoY)
Interesting info from NYT commenter.
"Scott L
PacNW 1 hour ago
This should answer some of the questions raised in the comments. From The Sydney Morning Herald's current website:
"An
Australian A320 pilot, who declined to be named, said the locked flight
deck of the aircraft could be entered using an emergency code on a
keypad. In the case of the pilot flying the aircraft being
incapacitated, the door will automatically open after a set period of
time if the correct code is entered.
"However, in the event a
pilot flying the aircraft does not want the other pilot to enter the
flight deck, the one in the cockpit has the ability to block entry if he
reacts before the door would be opened automatically.
"'If the person on the other side of the door says 'no', you can't get in,' the Australian pilot said."
"A
2002 Airbus promotional video showed the reinforced flight deck could
be entered after 30 seconds provided the right code was provided in the
event of no response from pilots, but there is a manual override on the
feature during that period"
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 02:59 AM (JDOoY)
They think of everything!!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 03:01 AM (T1005)
Yeah, there has absolutely got to be ways for a crew member to open that door. I cannot believe they'd forego emergency planning in the design of the lock.
But I can also understand there existing an override, as you mention above, by the person inside the cockpit just in case the Bad Guys ever got hold of the secret to opening the door from the outside, or held a crew member at gun-knife point to gain entry.
Posted by: Soothsayer's wacky futuristic predictions at March 26, 2015 03:02 AM (ko4zy)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 03:04 AM (T1005)
Why the leisurely 8 min descent?
Who knows. Maybe dude just wanted to die in the Alps.
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:08 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:12 AM (JDOoY)
Well it's a safe bet he wasn't yodeling Dixie.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 26, 2015 03:18 AM (Du4AU)
Is he heard on the CVR singing any Julie Andrews?
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:12 AM (JDOoY)
"The Hills Are Alive.....With the Sound of Adhan....."
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 03:19 AM (T1005)
"6
Asian or a suicide.
With the autopilot engaged,set an altitude of around sea level,
select "open descent" and push the expedite button on the dash. The Air
Bus will fly .80 Mach till indicated airspeed reaches 340 knots
indicated airspeed and will hold that all the way till the selected
altitude. Except that the terrain in that area was 6000 ft. (My level of
experience in the A320-24 years, last 19 as Capt)
Posted by: Bill Cook at March 25, 2015 11:59 PM"
seems reasonable to me.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 26, 2015 03:27 AM (I8nxO)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:30 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:31 AM (JDOoY)
#9834;
"Do,
a deer,
a female deer
Range ,
8 minutes to the alps...
#9835;
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:30 AM (JDOoY)
"The Lonely Goatherd" -- oh, wait, that's already there! http://tinyurl.com/nhj7sox
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 03:34 AM (T1005)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:34 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:36 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:37 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 26, 2015 03:48 AM (FMbng)
Still can't confirm it but bro. is a commercial pilot. I'll ask.
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:51 AM (JDOoY)
That plane crashed harder than Ted's Presidential run.
Ha. Haha.
**crickets** **tumbleweed rolls through set**
We sure do hate that uppity bastard.
Posted by: MSLSD panel tomorrow morning at March 26, 2015 03:53 AM (CZexX)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:56 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 03:57 AM (JDOoY)
Posted by: Super Cruz at March 26, 2015 04:00 AM (CZexX)
In the freighter I fly, we manage to make our own coffee, heat our own
meals and use the toilet without the help of an air hostess, all the
whilst complying with our SOP. If a galley and toilet were located
behind the cockpit door and my colleague were to become suicidal, at
least I would have a chance to disable him without being locked out of
the office, as long as he doesnt have over 100ml of toothpaste or
deoderant on him.
Posted by: jammer at March 26, 2015 04:00 AM (JDOoY)
/hums "little bit of chicken fried" from the zac brown band.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 04:22 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Tucker at March 26, 2015 04:24 AM (BISbA)
609
And if his name turns out to be Hans Gruber?
Then what?
Posted by: Tucker at March 26, 2015 04:24 AM (BISbA)
@609 points out 3 very different scenarios.....it is fairly obvious that the composition of the flight crew may be very germane to the investigation.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 04:28 AM (T1005)
Funny bit is 24 years ago at 0230 I'd be slammin the door to my truck, adjusting my campaign hat, walking into the tunnel of the 3711 BMTS with a cup of coffee for the poor bastard pushing 1 on 1 and had to pull CQ.
Humid texas air and the smell of the dining hall team firing up breakfast and fighting off the 30lbs roaches. the rank odor of new uniforms and fear.
Coming in the back door with a key I ain't supposed to have to see if the dorm guard is asleep...
Brings a tear to my eye.
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 04:28 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 26, 2015 04:30 AM (BISbA)
Posted by: shredded chi at March 26, 2015 04:30 AM (BISbA)
Die Hard!
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 04:33 AM (x3YFz)
You don't know who Hans Gruber is, do you?
Posted by: shredded chi at March 26, 2015 04:30 AM (BISbA)
It didn't immediately hit me, but I'm doing a few things at the same time.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 04:34 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 04:34 AM (T1005)
what the hell are you doing at 0230 that doesn't involve bleach and a chainsaw?
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 04:36 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: TangoNine
-------------------------
Seeing as it's only 0130 in his world, maybe it's lime and a shovel?
But I learned long ago not to ask those kinds of questions.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 26, 2015 04:40 AM (BISbA)
It didn't immediately hit me, but I'm doing a few things at the same time.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 04:34 AM (T1005)
what the hell are you doing at 0230 that doesn't involve bleach and a chainsaw?
Posted by: TangoNine at March 26, 2015 04:36 AM (x3YFz)
It's 1:30 here. Using the whole-house fan and not the AC, the temp just hit optimum sleeping -- 63 degrees. I was shutting down the whole-house fan and checking the skylights, windows, and vents -- and making sure the heater will kick in briefly in the morning to help the fiancee wake up. In addition, today is trash day and I was checking that everything normally locked between the garbage area and the street was secure. Then I was shutting down the lights on the far-end of the house since all I'll need to do later tonight is stagger to the next room.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 04:44 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 04:48 AM (T1005)
Who the hell is Hans Gruber?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 04:50 AM (T1005)
there is a youtube video from airbus explaining the security door in great detail.
The one I saw is for a second generation door, so not clear if all airbus now use this or if some have old version, but
the above is correct -- the man in the cockpit can lock you out, but it has to be an intentional act, not loss of consciousness.
Posted by: Gentlemen, This is democracy manifest at March 26, 2015 04:55 AM (LWu6U)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 05:01 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 26, 2015 05:02 AM (wlDny)
comments like people saying our irrational fear of terrorism made the US require security doors that made it impossible to help the poor pilot that must have had a heart attack and slumped over the "steerer" (no i did not make that up.)
other comments saying that if he wanted to kill himself, why didn't he just use a gun instead of taking a whole airplane of people with him.
another one that i liked was where someone listed all the recent murder/suicide pilots and said it was unfortunate that they all "happened" to be muslim. Someone with poor grasp of logic said that those countries are majority muslim, so what else would you expect.... (not understanding the correlation that majority Christian countries do not have these things happening.)
Posted by: Gentlemen, This is democracy manifest at March 26, 2015 05:02 AM (LWu6U)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 26, 2015 02:26 AM (JBzwC)
Just honest, not alpha. Hated it when I saw the movie years ago, and hate it still. I stand by my instincts. Those folks were sheep, and they shouldn't have been.
Posted by: goon at March 26, 2015 05:04 AM (gNTQS)
http://tinyurl.com/PilotLockedOut
/ my vote? Amish. Again.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 26, 2015 05:12 AM (xQX/f)
there was another instance where the pilot programmed the autopilot to drill into the ground. I think in africa, but don't remember exactly.
I think a lot of these people are nuts, and there is no figuring out nuts. but punching 100ft into the computer seems like a way to get it over with and prep for defense. Especially on airbus, where there are a lot of software protections to keep you from doing stupid stuff like stalling.
Posted by: Gentlemen, This is democracy manifest at March 26, 2015 05:16 AM (LWu6U)
Suicide by airplane, a little more then a year after the last time. The pilots names should be the giveaway.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 26, 2015 05:26 AM (xQX/f)
I think pilot leveled plane out at 38,000 feet and took a leak. Co-pilot
set autopilot to 6800 feet - a leisurely descent. Plane dropped for
eight minutes then leveled off. Meanwhile pilot returns, can not reenter
cabin.
Suicide by airplane, a little more then a year after the last time. The pilots names should be the giveaway.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 26, 2015 05:26 AM (xQX/f)
The pilots' names and histories should be a major focus of the investigation......and I'm really feeling very little confidence in any government concerned to be truthful.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 05:29 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 05:31 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 05:32 AM (T1005)
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 05:32 AM (T1005)
Remember the Egypt Air flight where the last words the pilot said were 'Allah Akbar' before he ditched it in the Atlantic? Our government lied to us about that one, too.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 26, 2015 05:33 AM (xQX/f)
The pilots' names and histories should be a major focus of the
investigation......and I'm really feeling very little confidence in any
government concerned to be truthful.
Remember the Egypt Air flight where the last words the pilot said
were 'Allah Akbar' before he ditched it in the Atlantic? Our government
lied to us about that one, too.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 26, 2015 05:33 AM (xQX/f)
Yep. I remember that.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 26, 2015 05:36 AM (T1005)
Posted by: Gentlemen, This is democracy manifest at March 26, 2015 05:41 AM (LWu6U)
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 26, 2015 05:46 AM (xQX/f)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 26, 2015 05:48 AM (WUYpW)
The regular nature of the descent screams deliberate act. It could have been a lone psychotic, but a Koran-inspired fanatic seemsmuch, much more probable.
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 26, 2015 05:51 AM (WUYpW)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2015 06:02 AM (F1jFR)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 26, 2015 06:02 AM (WUYpW)
Posted by: Conservative Crank at March 26, 2015 06:03 AM (WUYpW)
You're not gonna get that by sticking a gun in your mouth or driving into a bridge abutment at high speed. Take out a planeload of infidels, score some virgins, and leave your family with some serious coin.
Posted by: SE Pa Moron at March 26, 2015 06:09 AM (xQX/f)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2015 06:12 AM (F1jFR)
Right now the Rumsfeld Theory holds. About knowing what you don't know. Which in this case is a lot.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2015 06:17 AM (KJLsF)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 26, 2015 06:21 AM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 26, 2015 06:31 AM (KJLsF)
A NOOD!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 26, 2015 06:32 AM (F1jFR)
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