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Overnight Open Thread (3-16-2016)

Sometimes things come up.

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Paris Massacre Suspect Shot Dead During Brussels Police Raid Yesterday

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The White Room


THEN WHO WAS PHONE: The HBO Slenderman Documentary

When Ad Servers Go Bad

Frenchman Steals The Cheese

40 Highfalutin H-Words To Heighten Your Vocabulary

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1 Ok, no, better wait. Wouldn't be prudent to rush into a new thread.

Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:26 PM (jCnQn)

2 Yo!

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:26 PM (YLidQ)

3 First-ish

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (uBSn/)

4 First! & I read the content!

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (lRwmz)

5 At long last, ONT greetings, Horde!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (McRlu)

6 Top 10 for sure.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (heN73)

7 All this time waiting for the ONT to drop...like my nuts

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 10:27 PM (uBSn/)

8 Content!

Posted by: pilot141 at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (W4wsw)

9 Are we happy or not-happy?

Posted by: Josephistan at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (7qAYi)

10 Damn! Shouldn't have wasted prescious seconds trying to remember what Simpsons episode that was from.

Posted by: Landofskybluewater at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (lRwmz)

11 Wowza!

Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (EzgxV)

12 Leading with an Irish picture in honor of Saint Patrick's day?

Posted by: Jake (not officially a regular) at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (e3LFu)

13 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (ZYjbh)

14 Evening horde...


Wait....low double digit comments on the ONT?!


*tip toes around until safety is assured

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:29 PM (hlMPp)

15 (Sees all the water in the pic) Holy crap! Someone REALLY needs to jiggle the handle on that toilet.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:30 PM (hVdx9)

16 Woot woot ONT

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:30 PM (voOPb)

17 And don't worry 'bout no Teknickel Duffycults. We're just happy n' relieved to have a fresh new ONT to befoul as only Teh Horde knows how.

Thanks, Maet!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2016 10:30 PM (McRlu)

18 Willowed myself again dammit. Thus........

1876 Presidential Election Results

Republican - Rutherford B. Hayes 185 Electoral Popular Vote 4,033,497

Democratic - Samuel J. Tilden 184 Electoral Popular Vote 4,288,191

Nothing like a photo finish in the electoral college.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 10:31 PM (heN73)

19
Nothing like a photo finish in the electoral college.
Posted by: Blano


You betcha!

Posted by: Dimpled Chad at March 16, 2016 10:32 PM (FkBIv)

20 We don't need no stinking content

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:32 PM (voOPb)

21 Yo
And back to the guitar with nck
Bbl

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (wMHCu)

22 In Ireland, St. Patrick's Day is a day of holy obligation. As in mass.

*Then*, like Americans on Cinco de Mayo, we get drunk.

But, y'know, Irish drunk, unlike those Mexicans, who are the other great Roman Catholic contributors to American insobriety.


In honor of Dickie.

Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (1zS3A)

23 I feel better now that being happy or sad is no longer a part of the equation!

Posted by: Tyler Mason at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (t/2s7)

24 Histriomastrix was a hilariously devious character in that one Asterix book.

Pity he never saw that volcano coming.

Posted by: hebdomad humpday at March 16, 2016 10:33 PM (vC3VP)

25 Interesting NIRP news from Euroland. The ECB just lowered their main interest rate from -0.3% to -0.4%. Some big German outfit, one of the biggest reinsurers in the world, has reacted. Remember the problem of firms with huge amounts of money trying to convert to cash. It's just physically impossible to do.

So what are they doing? They're buying gold with some and parking the rest in foreign currencies *that do not have a negative interest rate*. I wonder if the economic central planning wizards of smart have fully thought through the consequences of causing a flight from their own currencies.

Now, if the Fed goes NIRP, then dollars won't be an option for these guys either and they'll move to something else.

Oh, what is a reinsurer you ask? Basically, it's insurance for insurance companies. There is what is known as tail risk, the low probability of having a bunch of claims occur at once in some event. They purchase insurance themselves for such a tail risk.

Which leads to "tail of the tail" risk. What happens if everybody has a tail event? That is an even more vanishingly small probability. But not zero. Govts would step if it wasn't too big. If too big even for govts, well, we're talking some serious biblical shit here.

Anyway, the Kraut reinsurer realizes that NIRP has very negative consequence for it tail risk exposure.

Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)

26 1876 Presidential Election Results

Republican - Rutherford B. Hayes 185 Electoral Popular Vote 4,033,497

Democratic - Samuel J. Tilden 184 Electoral Popular Vote 4,288,191

Nothing like a photo finish in the electoral college.


Posted by: Blano
****

Only answer: Thunderdome

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (hVdx9)

27 Well, time to mix with all the happy laughing baby watchers.

Posted by: iforgot at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (5o5ek)

28 Tsunami of 2011 was highly over-rated.

The Tsunami of 2004, that was a Tsunami.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 16, 2016 10:35 PM (T78UI)

29 Capitulation. I'm glad my demands on the last thread were met.

Posted by: Greg at March 16, 2016 10:36 PM (M1lTk)

30 Well, time to mix with all the happy laughing baby watchers.

Posted by: iforgot
****

Baby watchers? Well that explains the talcum powder and poop smell.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:36 PM (hVdx9)

31 Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)

****

They are not either thinking or leading. They are reacting, which is berry, berry much bad. Because they are the ones who are supposed to be leading.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (YLidQ)

32
Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.
Posted by: publius


Janet delayed a planned interest rate hike here.
Wonder what will happen for the rest of the year?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (FkBIv)

33 Paris Massacre Suspect Shot Dead During Brussels Police Raid Yesterday

We're being spoiled by good news threads!

Posted by: t-bird at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (Z58Xa)

34 Interesting NIRP news from Euroland. The ECB just lowered their main
interest rate from -0.3% to -0.4%. Some big German outfit, one of the
biggest reinsurers in the world, has reacted. Remember the problem of
firms with huge amounts of money trying to convert to cash. It's just
physically impossible to do.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)



Hookers and blow. It is the only way.

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:38 PM (T78UI)

35 happy?
Posted by: Josephistan at March 16, 2016 10:28 PM (7qAYi)

My migraine backed off with some fresh air and the coffee bean ice blended & mega aspirin dose treatment. So happyish?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 16, 2016 10:38 PM (k53nK)

36 Well,

I, for one, am not worried about negative interest rates, since I don't own any bonds that pay a negative rate of return.

For those who do.......hahahahahahahahah. Sucks to be you.

Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (jCnQn)

37 Janet delayed a planned interest rate hike here.
Wonder what will happen for the rest of the year?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:37 PM (FkBIv)

****

The Fed is apparently good with having a figurative gun with no ammo.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (YLidQ)

38 The Happy thread was going on all evening.

What the fuck is there to be happy about?

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (hlMPp)

39 *kidding

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (hlMPp)

40 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 16, 2016 10:40 PM (YJmuy)

41 "Paris Massacre Suspect Shot Dead During Brussels Police Raid Yesterday"

Oh please. They sent in Van Damme. He did the splits which made the terrorist double over and grab his junk, then Claude kicked the terrorist's head into another zip code.
It's not like they can tell you truth about what happened, so the terrorist was "shot" to death.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:40 PM (hVdx9)

42 Only answer: Thunderdome

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (hVdx9)

Sarah Palin in Tina Turner's role?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 10:41 PM (GzDYP)

43 I, for one, am not worried about negative interest rates, since I don't own any bonds that pay a negative rate of return.

For those who do.......hahahahahahahahah. Sucks to be you.
Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:39 PM (jCnQn)

****

You will not be laughing when every other type of account you own follows suit. And they all will.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 10:41 PM (YLidQ)

44 >>>Hookers and blow. It is the only way.

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:38 PM (T78UI)

***

I suggest adding gin to the list. There's no better way to dissipate the taste of cigarettes and hooker spit.

Posted by: An Poc Ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:41 PM (1zS3A)

45 I suggest adding gin to the list.


*checks glass*

Good on the gin.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (1xUj/)

46 So going to see this new start up basketball team out of Harlem on Friday.

They look like they have the skills to win big!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (hlMPp)

47 Sarah Palin in Tina Turner's role?

Posted by: OldDominionMom
****

Or S.E. Cupp if all you want is eye candy.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (hVdx9)

48 You will not be laughing when every other type of account you own follows suit.


hahahahahhahaha... you presume I have accounts.

hahahahahaahahahaha
You funny guy.

Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (jCnQn)

49 Haven't been able to touch gin since the 10th grade OBX vacation. Smells and tastes like hairspray to me now.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)

50
Where's the pissed off ONT?

/didn't read squat

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (RcpcZ)

51 I was watching all the tsunami vids from a hospital bed. Having been stricken with septicemia from a kidney stone that got stuck.

Emergency operation. They said I was very close to dying. (I'd been fighting the infection it for weeks not realizing I was getting worse but with no money to even see a GP, I had to hope for my body to provide the cure didn't know the stone was stuck though.

And no. No bright lights or relatives calling me home or anything. The tsunami cheered me up though as I realized there were people in the world worse off than me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (Xo1Rt)

52 mmmmmm fresh ONT

Relatively fresh.

Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (ubByS)

53 I have no idea what QuEen Janet is going to do. They will go NIRP if things go sideways again. That's all they've got. Current economic theory is basically failing. We're outside it's envelope of accuracy. They don't want to admit it, but the system ain't behaving the way theory says. NIRP is what theory says to do, so they'll do it.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (dvuhZ)

54 If Palin shows skin & keeps her pie hole shut I'm ok with her

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (voOPb)

55 Okay, I read my great argument.

Anybody got something better?

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (RcpcZ)

56 Wednesday Night ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179307184889857

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179481047146497

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179665760161795

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179832185933824

Posted by: kbdabear at March 16, 2016 10:46 PM (cSnXm)

57 Only answer: Thunderdome
Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (hVdx9)


I would think more along the lines of "Bumfight".

Posted by: Bill H at March 16, 2016 10:46 PM (pAH7H)

58 The negative interest rate accounts shouldn't bother most people.

Those accounts are usually more than 5-6 figures.

Generally they don't do that to those with smaller accounts.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 16, 2016 10:46 PM (Xo1Rt)

59 Palin sightings?

I hope her hubby is healing.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (RcpcZ)

60 More along the lines of a snuff flick starring Hillary and Huma.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (ioqGj)

61
you presume I have accounts.
hahahahahaahahahaha
You funny guy.
Posted by: Leon James


A no account guy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (FkBIv)

62 "I wonder if the economic central planning wizards of smart have fully
thought through the consequences of causing a flight from their own
currencies."

Or if they even have the capacity for such thinking.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 16, 2016 10:47 PM (noWW6)

63 Moar Wednesday Night ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710179981050126336

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710180138059735041

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710180274013872128

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/710180371179167744

Posted by: kbdabear at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (cSnXm)

64 been able to touch gin since the 10th grade OBX vacation. Smells and tastes like hairspray to me now.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)

Southern comfort. I puked like a champ

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)

65 publius, "We've started to test those historic patterns" -- 'Margin Call'

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (6FqZa)

66 Southern Comfort for me too but just the bed spins.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (ioqGj)

67 Palin keeping her mouth shut?

I'm thinking more of her in some Slut Warrior Princess get-up, screaming like a banshee.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (dvuhZ)

68 How were 2 able to flee the shoot-out? I don't think that would happen here...our guys would supply enough lead to open a smelter.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (j7iSn)

69 Or S.E. Cupp if all you want is eye candy.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:43 PM (hVdx9)

Heh. Well, if all I want is eye candy I could go with Mr. Dude Palin.

After he heals up, of course.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (GzDYP)

70 BTW, to parse the name:

"An" means "The"

"Poc" means "Billygoat"

"ar" means "on"

"Buile" means "Rampage".

That is all. And, I'm sure, of no interest to most.

It's from an old rebel song.


So, please, call me "Poc" when time or space press.




Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (1zS3A)

71
Southern comfort. I puked like a champ

Vile stuff.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (RcpcZ)

72
I'm thinking more of her in some Slut Warrior Princess get-up, screaming like a banshee.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)


We've found our new Xena!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (FkBIv)

73 I would think more along the lines of "Bumfight".

Posted by: Bill H
****

You think so small.
Go big or go home. Make it Pay-Per-Screw, have ultra slow mo, ads for various edged weapons used in the "Dome", sell bits of the bloody clothing from the "contestants", and maybe even limited edition death masks of the losers.
The sky is the limit here!

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (hVdx9)

74 The White Room.

Not funny.

Good snappy dialogue. Terrible ending.

Posted by: Leon James at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (jCnQn)

75 been able to touch gin since the 10th grade OBX vacation. Smells and tastes like hairspray to me now.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)

Small problem of perspective, it is the hairspray that smells of gin.
Now the gin is good and the hairspray should make you want to pour a gin and tonic.

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (T78UI)

76 >>>Haven't been able to touch gin since the 10th grade OBX vacation. Smells and tastes like hairspray to me now.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (hlMPp)

***

I have the same reaction to poitin.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (1zS3A)

77 A good impression of teh don will start with a good impression of Jerry Lewis.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (VdICR)

78 Posted by: kbdabear at March 16, 2016 10:46 PM (cSnXm)

Hmmmmm... Seals and Crofts.

Posted by: Bill H at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (pAH7H)

79 I'm thinking more of her in some Slut Warrior Princess get-up, screaming like a banshee.


Posted by: publius
****

I like the way you think.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (hVdx9)

80 Behind the Green Door.
But for some reason there's not much dialogue.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (ioqGj)

81 Southern comfort. I puked like a champ

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)

I forget what they were called but you put gin, Sprite, and a dash of grape juice in a glass and slam it so the carbonation takes away the burn.

Hacked in the street. So happily it was there when we woke up. 6'+ in diameter.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (hlMPp)

82 Now, the burning question: Who would be Sarah's Gabrielle? Andrea Tantaros? Joanne Nosuchinsky? Or hey, Katherine Timpf!

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (dvuhZ)

83 Spoiler alert: the White Room does not have black curtains and is not near the station.


Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at March 16, 2016 10:54 PM (7FH+T)

84 Behind the Green Door.
But for some reason there's not much dialogue.

Posted by: andycanuck
****

My now elderly aunt, Debbie, raved about her time in Dallas.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (hVdx9)

85 >>66 Southern Comfort for me too but just the bed spins

Bed spins? Fuck, mine did somersaults

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (voOPb)

86 "horally" and "happing" do not mean what you think they mean.

Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (7FH+T)

87 >>>And no. No bright lights or relatives calling me home or anything. The tsunami cheered me up though as I realized there were people in the world worse off than me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 16, 2016 10:44 PM (Xo1Rt)

***

Back in the day I stepped in a spiked booby trap and almost bled out. My last memories were of Souza-type music.

I got bettah.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:55 PM (1zS3A)

88 Vile stuff.


Posted by: Ed Anger at March 16, 2016 10:50 PM (RcpcZ)

I've had better tasting cough syrup.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (j7iSn)

89 Yup, Southern Comfort in the 9th grade I think it was. And now I can stand maybe a teaspoon over some vanilla ice cream.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (/WPPJ)

90
Small problem of perspective, it is the hairspray that smells of gin.

Now the gin is good and the hairspray should make you want to pour a gin and tonic.

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:51 PM (T78UI)

Nah, I tried the same mind game with crack and snowflake cookies. Didn't work.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (hlMPp)

91 @81 RWC ouch

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (voOPb)

92 Nah, I tried the same mind game with crack and snowflake cookies. Didn't work.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:56 PM (hlMPp)

But bath salt is still just bath salt, right?

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (T78UI)

93 I don't know if she can sing, but Kim Guilfoyle sure could run Thunderdome with authoritie.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (GzDYP)

94 Prove that you suck less at filling out your brackets than the rest of the horde.

March Madness Tournament Pool for the HQ. It is on Yahoo.

http://tinyurl.com/zff8qfc is the link

AoSHQ March Moron-ness Pool

Password is Kaboom.


Picks need to be in by tomorrow 12:15 Eastern time.

Working on getting prizes that include Lifetime Supply of Kaboom Cereal, and early access preview of the All Yoko Ono ONT.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:00 PM (zt+N6)

95 I'm seeing dead posters again!

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (hVdx9)

96 Yeah, the fancy term is "disassociative reaction". I got the flu for a week after eating my mom's meatloaf as a preteen and I couldn't eat it again until my forties.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (ioqGj)

97 Brackets in heaven? How awesome buzzion

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (voOPb)

98 My next door neighbor is out on the street having a loud conversation on his cell phone. At fucking mid-fucking-night.

I may have to go kill him.

With an entrenching tool.

Hiya doin' there, Dickie?

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (1zS3A)

99 Good evening all.


Thanks Maet.


Wish I was Irish.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, just being Muldoon at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (NeFrd)

100 Back in the day when I could drink, it was Jim Beam or bust. As Hank Jr sang, "Now, I have loved some ladies, and I have loved Jim Beam. And both tried to kill me back in 1973".

Back in my carefree college days, some of us went on a little Caribbean cruise. Jim Beam was smuggled onboard in pretty good quantities. It's a wonder I'm still alive.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:02 PM (dvuhZ)

101 I may have to go kill him.

With an entrenching tool.

Hiya doin' there, Dickie?

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile
****

I'd love to see that on You Tube.
Yes I have issues.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:03 PM (hVdx9)

102 Look

We all know Master Blaster run Bartertown.

I think I just found the answer to Trump's hair


Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:03 PM (uBSn/)

103 Are we done being happy yet?

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:03 PM (ntObR)

104 Speaking of dead posters, has everyone heard about the American kid who got 15 years hard labor in North Korea for stealing a security poster from his hotel room?

Random association, etc.

Oh, and "Dickie."

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:04 PM (1zS3A)

105 "Are we done being happy yet?"

No yet. Probably another 100 or so comments before the angry times get here.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Yada, yada, yada.... at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (WVsWD)

106 Southern Comfort for me too, junior year in high school, worst hangover I've ever had, haven't had a drop of it since and never will, just the thought of it makes me gag like Alex in A Clockwork Orange after he went through therapy for ye olde ultra violence.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (Sqwro)

107 Why would anyone go to North Korea?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (FkBIv)

108 89: southern comfort is vile.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (ucDmr)

109 The lad is graduating with a BA in history and ZERO
college debt. He's been active in conservative campus groups-and as a
result has some political connections that might be useful.
He's been talking about maybe getting a gig with Texas Right To Life.


Posted by: annoyinglittletwerp at March 16, 2016 09:21 PM (yBKiN)
Sounds like he's going places and doing useful things. You done good as a parent.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 16, 2016 09:26 PM

Posted by: Farmer at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (o/90i)

110 Speaking of dead posters, has everyone heard about the American kid who got 15 years hard labor in North Korea for stealing a security poster from his hotel room?

Random association, etc.

Oh, and "Dickie."

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile
****

Well, he wanted to go Nork. Now he gets the full experience.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:05 PM (hVdx9)

111 Everyone should watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zezhdw_dNlU

Very interesting.

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (qUNWi)

112 91 @81 RWC ouch

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:58 PM (voOPb)

"I swear it must have been some bad seafood I ate last night"


*wonder if everyone knew I hate seafood.... Besides shrimp and scallop and clams and lobster

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (hlMPp)

113 Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (1zS3A)

We scare deer away with bottle rockets. Want one?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (GzDYP)

114 96
Yeah, the fancy term is "disassociative reaction". I got the flu for a
week after eating my mom's meatloaf as a preteen and I couldn't eat it
again until my forties.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 11:01 PM (ioqGj)


Went to my cousin's birthday party when I was about six. On the way home (the aunt was well known for light meals), stopped off at Der Wienerschnitzel. Got the stomach flu and puked for three days. Haven't had a hot dog since -- no ballpark franks, no kosher all-beef, nada.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (EzgxV)

115 Seamus,

I already coif my butt hair in honor of him

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:07 PM (uBSn/)

116 rumor has it ac/dc kicked brian johnson to the curb. his hearing is fine.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:08 PM (ucDmr)

117 I want to start an AC/DC cover band called Tesla/Edison

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:09 PM (uBSn/)

118 117: smart. i have not had a hot dog for years. pig lips and shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:09 PM (ucDmr)

119 I want to start an AC/DC cover band called Tesla/Edison
----
You could electrocute an elephant live on stage!

Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2016 11:10 PM (ioqGj)

120 117: awsome. you could tour with the five stoned idiots.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:10 PM (ucDmr)

121 >>>We scare deer away with bottle rockets. Want one?

Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:06 PM (GzDYP)

***

Thanks, but I prefer to let the rage build 'til I do something irrational.


BTW, back in the day, I went to school at Christopher Newport College *and* Old Dominion University.

I really enjoyed Virginia. Mind you, I was hop, skip, and jump away from Fort Monroe and the Yorktown Peninsula. It doesn't really get an better for a history buff.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:10 PM (1zS3A)

122 Well, has the establishment figured out yet how much freedom they are going to let us have?

I'm just glad they still let you keep your own ideas to profit off of....

Posted by: Zombie Robert Heinlein at March 16, 2016 11:11 PM (J3UIw)

123 Electrocute an Elephant...It s the conservative version of a Donkey show

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:11 PM (uBSn/)

124 Hey everybody.

Read that Jared Fogle got an extra-large knuckle sandwich with a side of extra blood in prison today.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ntObR)

125 118
117: smart. i have not had a hot dog for years. pig lips and shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:09 PM (ucDmr)


Yeah, but.....I've been to Nathan's at Coney Island -- I just didn't eat anything.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (EzgxV)

126 Well I am out for the night. Try not to huff up all the gold and silver paint. Upsets the daywalkers when you leave none for them.
Oh, and watch out for the guy with the entrenching tool. I'm betting he knows how to use it and he's not in the best of moods.

Posted by: Tilikum Armored Killer Assault Whale at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (hVdx9)

127 123: lmfao!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ucDmr)

128
124
Hey everybody.



Read that Jared Fogle got an extra-large knuckle sandwich with a side of extra blood in prison today.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ntObR)




Yeah......durned shame about that.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:13 PM (EzgxV)

129 Another innocent 'disassociative reaction' (thanks andycanuck) is butterscotch ice cream topping. Had surger when I was 5 and basically had the run of the place since the folks felt so guilty....gorged myself on jars upon jars until again.....nice big puddle of sweet smelling vomit was left on the kitchen floor.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:13 PM (hlMPp)

130 124: heard he got a free footlong too.q

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:14 PM (ucDmr)

131 cthulhu, couldn't happen to a nicer perverted pitchman.

chavez, I'd bet. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:14 PM (ntObR)

132 Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:08 PM (ucDmr)


First Phil, then Malcolm and now Brian, not much good news from AC/DC these days.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (Sqwro)

133 Is it a new trend to release the testimony you are going to give before Congress to the AP in advance of testifying? Or have I missed this practice in the past?

"Ex-Flint Emergency Manager says he relied on experts in water crisis."

Experts at what?


Posted by: KT at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (qahv/)

134 RWC -- you ate jars of butterscotch topping?

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (qUNWi)

135 132: it's over angus. bury it already dude.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (ucDmr)

136 Anyone who goes to N. Korea is fucking nuts

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)

137 Chavez !

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:17 PM (voOPb)

138 >>>First Phil, then Malcolm and now Brian, not much good news from AC/DC these days.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (Sqwro)

***

'ow many of their drummers have exploded?

Posted by: David St. Hubbins at March 16, 2016 11:17 PM (1zS3A)

139 it's over angus. bury it already dude.

Not as long as I can find schoolboy britches that fit, mate!

Posted by: Angus Young at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (YJmuy)

140 81 Southern comfort. I puked like a champ

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)

I forget what they were called but you put gin, Sprite, and a dash of grape juice in a glass and slam it so the carbonation takes away the burn.

Hacked in the street. So happily it was there when we woke up. 6'+ in diameter.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 10:53 PM (hlMPp)
***
My own favorite is something I call the Balkan Express:

In a highball glass, equal parts:

Slivovitz
Absinthe

A dash of bitters, then top up with ginger ale.

It's a wonderful drunk it gives one, but the old lemon is apt to be a bit foggy the next morning.

Mind-bending, and with an

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (lutOX)

141 137: MH! How's everything in God's country?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (ucDmr)

142 MH, yup. I really believe a lot of these nutbags go to hellholes like NK just because deep down they believe:

"Oh, NOTHING will happen to lil' ol' special snowflake me!! Besides, I'm an American!!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (ntObR)

143 Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:10 PM (1zS3A)

I wish the rest of the state would push NOVA out and into DC where it really belongs.

But the way the calmly eating all of my plants deer jump straight up, legs going everywhere and freak out before they run like hell is pretty funny.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (GzDYP)

144 I just want post again my belief that good conquers evil, always. It just sometimes takes awhile.

Also the tv show Supernatural (on Netflix) is awesome. Like X-Files but not as lame. Fight the fairies, vamps, zombies, angels. demons, the king of hell, Lucifer, wenbago's, werewolfe's, etc. They hunt monsters with guns, .45, 9 mm etc. it's pretty good.

A show where good beats evil. Kinda rare nowadays....

Posted by: prophet of the Elysian Fields at the end of Group W bench at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (KIJKy)

145 Is this thread really discussing Jared Fogle and butterscotch ice cream topping. And not combining the two?

Bad horde

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:19 PM (uBSn/)

146 Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:13 PM (hlMPp)
I have one as well. My last surgeries I was in the hospital for 10 days. I vomited all day and night. I can't even smell chicken or beef broth without gagging. I haven't had soup since.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 16, 2016 11:19 PM (egOGm)

147 >>>Anyone who goes to N. Korea is fucking nuts

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)

***

Ivy league colleges. Relative thing. Etc.

I await the tell-all book.

Actually, he'll likely be traded back to the US in a couple of years for a few kilos of yellowcake.

Because that's how we roll, these days.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (1zS3A)

148 Butterscotch is Jared's Bitch Name in the joint.

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (ntObR)

149 carry on my wayward son...

Posted by: prophet of the Elysian Fields at the end of Group W bench at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (KIJKy)

150 Posted by: prophet of the Elysian Fields at the end of Group W bench at March 16, 2016 11:18 PM (KIJKy)
We have started streaming supernatural. I like it. It does remind me of the x-files.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 16, 2016 11:20 PM (egOGm)

151 134 RWC -- you ate jars of butterscotch topping?

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:15 PM (qUNWi)

I was 5. Probably had some pain mess in me but yeah, at the very least 2 1/2. I think I buckled under tha 3rd. I remember dropping the jar and then just getting sick.


Hey! I was transitioning from an 'outie' to an 'innie'

I needed the support

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (hlMPp)

152 listening to zevon right now. lost one hell of a talent there i say.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (ucDmr)

153 When I was in the joint, my Bitch Name was Cotton Crotch.

Don't ask...

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (ntObR)

154 When are you gonna release another podcast

Posted by: Ben at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (u9wGx)

155 Not ONTime. Late. Does that mean I have keep thinking happy thoughts? I mean, I can come up with a handful or two more, but I'm seriously having a problem doing it with the thought of a Madame President burning through.

Posted by: Hank at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (B7DEG)

156 Meant to say:

"Mind-bending and with an absolutely soul-raping hangover."

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)

157 Hanging in there Chavez lots of gloom & rain

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:22 PM (voOPb)

158 Picks need to be in by tomorrow 12:15 Eastern time.

Working on getting prizes that include Lifetime Supply of Kaboom Cereal, and early access preview of the All Yoko Ono ONT.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:00 PM (zt+N6)

Every time I try to go in it says "unable to find site's URL to connect to."

Have tried 4 or 5 times.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:22 PM (3eoPa)

159 152 listening to zevon right now. lost one hell of a talent there i say.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (ucDmr)

One of my favs
Could t agree with you more
I have all his LPs

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (voOPb)

160 Hey! I was transitioning from an 'outie' to an 'innie'

I needed the support



Yikes...Butterscotch vomit.

Where do you even begin to clean that up?

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (qUNWi)

161 I remember three distinct scenes of my operation when I was 5...

But can't remember what happened last week.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (hlMPp)

162 MH, even the one Zevon released in 1969??

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:24 PM (ntObR)

163 25 Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)

===============================

Nobody has thought this shit through. And nobody wants to 'talk' about it.

Posted by: Dickie Betts fan at March 16, 2016 11:24 PM (aUQgu)

164 North Korea...Lord, the places kids go on Spring Break.

Assuming he survives, he'll be a hipster god.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:24 PM (lutOX)

165 I also have the Southern Comfort nightmares.

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:25 PM (qUNWi)

166 Posted by: Buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:00 PM (zt+N6)

linky no worky

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 11:25 PM (j7iSn)

167 If Palin shows skin & keeps her pie hole shut I'm ok with her

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 10:45 PM (voOPb)


Any word on Todd's condition?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:25 PM (/i7Ua)

168 >>>"Mind-bending and with an absolutely soul-raping hangover."

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)

***

My one and only experience of poitin ended with the administration of adrenaline, or some such, to bring me back to life. I am foggy on the details.


Yes. Yes indeed. I did have a drinking problem before I joined the US military.

But I *honed* it.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1zS3A)

169 Where do you even begin to clean that up?

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:23 PM (qUNWi)

I was 5. I had staff at that time

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (hlMPp)

170 Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuhZ)


Some "brilliant" leftist "economist" probably came up with this scheme and couched it in all the terms that lefties eat up and sold that thing hook, line and sinker.

And if the reinsurers go tits up, you have 2008 all over again.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1JnAL)

171 159: me too my friend. best storyteller ever. too fucking soon. in a related note, the best ferrari restoration guy in the world died this weekend he was from my hometown, knew him well. great guy. very young too.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (ucDmr)

172 A sliver of hope?

Well, as bad things are here, they're not *quite* as bad as in Brazil, but they're close:

From the International Spectator-

Brazil

- Worst recession in decades
- Largest ever anti-govt protests
- President facing impeachment
- Zika virus
- Olympics in August

Posted by: Thrawn at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (s87AC)

173 Did anyone notice The White Room was sponsored by MSNBC?

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (uBSn/)

174 Wanted Dead or Alive, yup. My favorites are Stand in The Fire & Mr.mBad Example

Is that the one qdp?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:27 PM (voOPb)

175 IIRC, it's called taste aversion, although it involves smell. It's a low-level feedback thing that our ancestors developed to avoid poisoning. You eat that thing and get violently ill, that taste and smell will make repulse you.

The problem with it is when the food is not the actual cause of the violent sickness. It still kicks in. It's a problem for people getting treatments that cause nausea. They can develop the aversion to normal foods they were eating.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:28 PM (dvuhZ)

176 And if the reinsurers go tits up, you have 2008 all over again.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1JnAL)

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is big into reinsurance.

Would love to see those suckers get hit with multiple calamities at once.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:28 PM (3eoPa)

177 BTW, to parse the name:

"An" means "The"

"Poc" means "Billygoat"

"ar" means "on"

"Buile" means "Rampage".

That is all. And, I'm sure, of no interest to most.

It's from an old rebel song.


So, please, call me "Poc" when time or space press.




Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 10:49 PM (1zS3A)


Thanks, Poc. Got to admit I was wondering, myself. My nic should be self-explanatory: a peon in the oil industry in Alberta, kind of an ironic riff on the common term "Oil Baron".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (/i7Ua)

178 124 Hey everybody.

Read that Jared Fogle got an extra-large knuckle sandwich with a side of extra blood in prison today.
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:12 PM (ntObR)


Heard he got a footlong from Reuben.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (1JnAL)

179 MH, yup that's the one. And I love Mr. Bad Example, it's Weird Al-level funny. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (ntObR)

180 I could never get an aversion to cheeseburgers.

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (qUNWi)

181 Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is big into reinsurance.

Would love to see those suckers get hit with multiple calamities at once.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:28 PM (3eoPa)

****

Sadly, no you wouldn't. You would end up paying to keep them whole.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (YLidQ)

182 Hey, is there a moron working for the Colorado Symphony??

http://preview.tinyurl.com/h9bwu73

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (kgqJX)

183 Heard he got a footlong from Reuben.

Ashley, with extra Kraut. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (ntObR)

184 Be well all, I'm off to bed to contemplate this mess.
T




























Posted by: Farmer at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (o/90i)

185 Farmer's sleeping in The Barrel tonight!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 16, 2016 11:31 PM (YJmuy)

186 Anyone who goes to N. Korea is fucking nuts

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)


Kim Jong is a grotesque zeta male, the Michael Moore of Communist dictators. Why he hasn't been toppled yet I'm assuming is due to oriental customs regarding respect of authority figures.

Posted by: angela urkel at March 16, 2016 11:31 PM (TJbU1)

187 WTF?

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:32 PM (YLidQ)

188 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:25 PM (/i7Ua)

News on my radio (I haven't looked it up further) said he had a broken shoulder and ribs and punctured lung, which would have put him in endangered status at first, but now upgraded.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at March 16, 2016 11:32 PM (GzDYP)

189 168 >>>"Mind-bending and with an absolutely soul-raping hangover."

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)

***

My one and only experience of poitin ended with the administration of adrenaline, or some such, to bring me back to life. I am foggy on the details.


Yes. Yes indeed. I did have a drinking problem before I joined the US military.

But I *honed* it.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1zS3A)
***
Good man!

I recall, after a session of what we in my family call "therapy," that involved a handle of Jameson brought to bear on a broken heart, waking in an ER, with some smart-ass doctor or something saying to me, "Welcome back."

Since then, no more Irish whiskey - it's too smooth, too seductive - it's the woman at the end of the bar who will not only wreck your life, but will leave you longing for the sweet release of death when she leaves you.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (lutOX)

190 Hi ho the merry oh
The farmer takes a dive

(into the barrel)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (6FqZa)

191 Everyone should watch this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zezhdw_dNlU


Very interesting.

Posted by: eleven>>>

The concept of Ideological lens is misnamed IMO. When I hear lens I think photography. A better word would be ideological filter. The point being made is good just the filter to make the image the right color for ones personal ideology makes more sense to me. I suppose as with most things leftist they picked the word lens to better hide the fact they are lying when applying it to a subject. Filter would imply a real change to how one is viewing things.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (On7rW)

192 When I was in prison my bitch name was "Grace Jones" i never got it. I never got the name that is... I did get "IT'. It means penis

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (uBSn/)

193 168 >>>"Mind-bending and with an absolutely soul-raping hangover."

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:21 PM (lutOX)

***

My one and only experience of poitin ended with the administration of adrenaline, or some such, to bring me back to life. I am foggy on the details.


Yes. Yes indeed. I did have a drinking problem before I joined the US military.

But I *honed* it.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:26 PM (1zS3A)
***
Good man!

I recall, after a session of what we in my family call "therapy," that involved a handle of Jameson brought to bear on a broken heart, waking in an ER, with some smart-ass doctor or something saying to me, "Welcome back."

Since then, no more Irish whiskey - it's too smooth, too seductive - it's the woman at the end of the bar who will not only wreck your life, but will leave you longing for the sweet release of death when she goes.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (lutOX)

194 Clutch - X Ray Vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cmbmwFAl8

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (VdICR)

195
Every time I try to go in it says "unable to find site's URL to connect to."

Have tried 4 or 5 times.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:22 PM (3eoPa)



Works for me. You can also find it by going to yahoo sports and choosing to join.

AoSHQ March Moron-ness Pool is the name.

Password is Kaboom

Posted by: buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (zt+N6)

196 I have an ideological instagram filter.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (VdICR)

197
Sadly, no you wouldn't. You would end up paying to keep them whole.
Posted by: Tim in GA


It's good to be the king of too big to fail.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (FkBIv)

198 Since then, no more Irish whiskey
----------------

My every experience with Old Bushmill's has ended badly.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (9mTYi)

199 Sadly, no you wouldn't. You would end up paying to keep them whole.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (YLidQ)

You may be right, but would still love that left wing shitstain to eat some crow.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (3eoPa)

200 Anyhoo, g'night horde.

Have a blessed Thors Day,

Off to mix a butterscotch gin rickie

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (hlMPp)

201 It's good to be the king of too big to fail.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:35 PM (FkBIv)

****

Yup. This is where we are now.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (YLidQ)

202 The concept of Ideological lens is misnamed IMO. When I hear lens I think photography. A better word would be ideological filter. The point being made is good just the filter to make the image the right color for ones personal ideology makes more sense to me. I suppose as with most things leftist they picked the word lens to better hide the fact they are lying when applying it to a subject. Filter would imply a real change to how one is viewing things.


Posted by: Willy J. at March 16, 2016 11:33 PM (On7rW)

Willy...have you seen this before?

I never have before tonight. It's intriguing, but I don't know what it is.

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (qUNWi)

203 I'd bet this happened on the Kaboom line:

"Investigation launched after video appears to show man urinating on Kellogg's food"

http://tinyurl.com/h4z4dun

Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (ntObR)

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (qUNWi)

205 Does anyone else think Butterscotch is really a euphemism for dead hooker?

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (uBSn/)

206 >>>Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (lutOX)

***

Ah. So you've met my wife.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (1zS3A)

207 You may be right, but would still love that left wing shitstain to eat some crow.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:36 PM (3eoPa)

*****

See 201. Warren would eat nothing. All of us would share the resulting shit sammich.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (YLidQ)

208 Here's the theory. You see there's this thing called Aggregate Demand (AD). That is the total demand for shit, goods and services in an economy. During recessions, aggregate demand goes down. People stop buying shit.

Now, why would people do that? Well common sense could help you there. Things like fear, untenable debt and all that. But somehow the Wizards of Smart have decided that AD is some magical thing. Why if aggregate demand stayed up, then people wouldn't get scared and wouldn't worry about debt. What's debt anyway? It's someone else's asset. We all owe it to ourselves, ultimately. When you include the whole world as the system, that is true.

So somehow AD just magically goes down and we have a recession. So, get out of the recession by stimulating AD. Keynesian prescription: govt stimulus. Monetarist prescription: Central bank lowers rates, goes QE and helicopter money if necessary.

This latter encounters the "zero bound" on interest rates. If AD is so in the shitter and you get a deflationary compounding vicious cycle, zero is not enough. Liquidity Trap and all that shit.

So you go negative (and have to try to get rid of physical cash). By charging people to hold money, you make them spend it, and thus restore AD.

Savers bad, spenders good, see. When AD has dropped, those nasty savers are fucking us up. So NIRP = fuck those savers in the ass and make them spend.

Now, some economic poohbah reading that would say I'm grossly oversimplifying and mocking their sound theory, but that's the basics of it.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (dvuhZ)

209 Does anyone else think Butterscotch is really a euphemism for dead hooker?

I was thinking Southern Comfort.

Posted by: eleven at March 16, 2016 11:39 PM (qUNWi)

210 most of my drinking in public deals end badly. i'm a fucking idiot sometimes. can't help it.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:39 PM (ucDmr)

211 Thanks, Poc. Got to admit I was wondering, myself. My nic should be self-explanatory: a peon in the oil industry in Alberta, kind of an ironic riff on the common term "Oil Baron".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:29 PM (/i7Ua)
***
Well, since we're explaining our monnikers:

Took one of those BBC online test to rate my sociopathy - "decidedly devious" - worked for ages at a place where, for cultural reasons, young girls called an older man "uncle," and in this place did frolic not a little, and with whose former inmates I desport myself even now, hence the "still accepting and etc."

"Palpatine" came from one of the nieces, who made fun of my 'accent' and cadence the first time we met....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:39 PM (lutOX)

212 Willy...have you seen this before?>>>

No I had never seen it before.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (On7rW)

213 Does anyone else think Butterscotch is really a euphemism for dead hooker?

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:37 PM (uBSn/)


Her rye was drinkable, butterscotch would take the finish off a granite gravestone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (/i7Ua)

214 Works for me. You can also find it by going to yahoo sports and choosing to join.

AoSHQ March Moron-ness Pool is the name.

Password is Kaboom

Posted by: buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (zt+N6)

Still can't find it.

This is why I don't bother usually: I need keystroke by keystroke instructions, otherwise I manage to screw it up somehow.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (3eoPa)

215 Oh I am confused. I thought Southern Comfort was Fetid Hobo Bunghole.

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (uBSn/)

216 >>>Why he hasn't been toppled yet I'm assuming is due to oriental customs regarding respect of authority figures.

And the way he dispatches his opponents. The guy is sadistic

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)

217 See 201. Warren would eat nothing. All of us would share the resulting shit sammich.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (YLidQ)

Yeah I got it the first time, still a boy can dream.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:41 PM (3eoPa)

218 Ashley, with extra Kraut. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at March 16, 2016 11:30 PM (ntObR)


He likes them with extra mayonaise.

Plus, he likes to eat them with relish.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 16, 2016 11:42 PM (1JnAL)

219 Posted by: buzzion at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (zt+N6)

I'm at work...and apparently blocked...azzholes.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2016 11:42 PM (j7iSn)

220 Yeah I got it the first time, still a boy can dream.
Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:41 PM (3eoPa)

****

I take zero pleasure in stating that. Buckle up and keep your shit tight. Be well.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:42 PM (YLidQ)

221 206 >>>Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:34 PM (lutOX)

***

Ah. So you've met my wife.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (1zS3A)
***
Cut. Jib. Newsletter.

And, well, sorry about that. i'd never knowingly tag the spouse of a 'ron.......

We cool, as the young folks say?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (lutOX)

222 I got fired after an incident involving Kraken rum. At a startup!

So, y'know, no more of that stuff.

The best booziest companies I ever worked for were British. Jaysus, they drink! Not as much as the Irish, obviously, but they have more of a global reach.

Should you be looking for your next hangout, etc.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (1zS3A)

223 And the way he dispatches his opponents. The guy is sadistic

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)


The Norks are awaiting their Stauffenberg.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (/i7Ua)

224
Savers bad, spenders good, see.

But they tell me to feed the pig.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 16, 2016 11:44 PM (FkBIv)

225 Jared prefers the snap of a natural casing

Allegedly....

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:44 PM (uBSn/)

226 >>most of my drinking in public deals end badly. i'm a fucking idiot sometimes. can't help it
-----
Yup, and that's why I gave it up

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:44 PM (voOPb)

227 209
Here's the theory. You see there's this thing called Aggregate Demand
(AD). That is the total demand for shit, goods and services in an
economy. During recessions, aggregate demand goes down. People stop
buying shit.

Now, why would people do that? Well common sense
could help you there. Things like fear, untenable debt and all that. But
somehow the Wizards of Smart have decided that AD is some magical
thing. Why if aggregate demand stayed up, then people wouldn't get
scared and wouldn't worry about debt. What's debt anyway? It's someone
else's asset. We all owe it to ourselves, ultimately. When you include
the whole world as the system, that is true.

So somehow AD just
magically goes down and we have a recession. So, get out of the
recession by stimulating AD. Keynesian prescription: govt stimulus.
Monetarist prescription: Central bank lowers rates, goes QE and
helicopter money if necessary.

This latter encounters the "zero
bound" on interest rates. If AD is so in the shitter and you get a
deflationary compounding vicious cycle, zero is not enough. Liquidity
Trap and all that shit.

So you go negative (and have to try to
get rid of physical cash). By charging people to hold money, you make
them spend it, and thus restore AD.

Savers bad, spenders good,
see. When AD has dropped, those nasty savers are fucking us up. So NIRP =
fuck those savers in the ass and make them spend.

Now, some
economic poohbah reading that would say I'm grossly oversimplifying and
mocking their sound theory, but that's the basics of it.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (dvuhZ)
===============================
Wake up. This is something.

Posted by: Dickie Betts fan at March 16, 2016 11:45 PM (aUQgu)

228 I think it's actually in the law that Uncle Sugar would have to bail out the reinsurers in the event of a tail of the tail event.

In a sound system, think of it as rules of the public roads, if you're going to be an insurance company, you've got to be sound. That is, you've got to run a mathematical analysis of your risk, and be able to handle what is likely to come. Now your tail risk is handled by reinsurance. Which can basically be just a consortium of all the insurance companies together.

This means you can't run an insurance company like a casino (or drive like NASCAR on the public roads -- if you want a race, get your ass to a private race track).

During the orgy of the 90s, guess what all the Wall Street banksters and their buddies did? Lobby Congress and Billy Boy to allow them to run it more like casinos.

The old Glass-Steagal also had a provision that put a wall between insurance and the investment banking casino that got relaxed.

You know those Credit Default Swaps and all that shit? It was basically offering insurance without properly covering your risk.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:45 PM (dvuhZ)

229 >>>Why he hasn't been toppled yet I'm assuming is due to oriental customs regarding respect of authority figures.



And the way he dispatches his opponents. The guy is sadistic

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:40 PM (voOPb)

He always has at least five people who do not trust each other in his presence at all times.


Ever played the old RPG "Paranoia"?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (T78UI)

230 Plus Jared found out that "All Beef Frank" is actually a proper name

Posted by: Mythx at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (uBSn/)

231 Wake up. This is something.


Posted by: Dickie Betts fan at March 16, 2016 11:45 PM (aUQgu)

Yes, but ignores the fact that people will also just deposit their money in Bank of Serta.

If nothing else, cash becomes worthless just a little slower.

Posted by: Blano at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (3eoPa)

232 >>>We cool, as the young folks say?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (lutOX)

***

Of course! I write outrages in dust. I carve compliments in stone.

....

Or is it the other way?

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (1zS3A)

233 @232

Hey, I can write my name with piss in the snow

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:50 PM (voOPb)

234 On the machining front, I got a new toy today. A 7" Ammco shaper. Motor, motor mount, and jackshaft are with it, but few accessories. All the motions move, but stiffly. Needs cleaning and lubricating, mostly, I think. Has a "War Production Board" plate on it, so it's WWI vintage. Neat relic, if nothing else.


I think it may be quite possible to mount a small router on the tool holder, so that I could do light milling on 3 axes. It's a substantial hunk of iron, over 200 pounds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:50 PM (/i7Ua)

235 i am mr. bad example personified sometimes.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (ucDmr)

236 223 I got fired after an incident involving Kraken rum. At a startup!

So, y'know, no more of that stuff.

The best booziest companies I ever worked for were British. Jaysus, they drink! Not as much as the Irish, obviously, but they have more of a global reach.

Should you be looking for your next hangout, etc.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:43 PM (1zS3A)
***
Poc - ever go drinking with Chinese?

Gan bai!

Or with Koreans, known, affectionately, and with not a little awe as 'the Irish of Asia'....

The FOB's in general, and the girls in particular, seem to have rather strong opinions regarding the drink-capacity of westerners....

But the Chinese nicknamed me "eluosi" - "the Russian," because of my looks - so my boozing is not considered exceptional.

Drank more than one 'niece' under the table, but there was a Korean girl who very nearly prevailed....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (lutOX)

237 209
Here's the theory. You see there's this thing called Aggregate Demand
(AD). That is the total demand for shit, goods and services in an
economy. During recessions, aggregate demand goes down. People stop
buying shit.

Now, why would people do that? Well common sense
could help you there. Things like fear, untenable debt and all that. But
somehow the Wizards of Smart have decided that AD is some magical
thing. Why if aggregate demand stayed up, then people wouldn't get
scared and wouldn't worry about debt. What's debt anyway? It's someone
else's asset. We all owe it to ourselves, ultimately. When you include
the whole world as the system, that is true.

So somehow AD just
magically goes down and we have a recession. So, get out of the
recession by stimulating AD. Keynesian prescription: govt stimulus.
Monetarist prescription: Central bank lowers rates, goes QE and
helicopter money if necessary.

This latter encounters the "zero
bound" on interest rates. If AD is so in the shitter and you get a
deflationary compounding vicious cycle, zero is not enough. Liquidity
Trap and all that shit.

So you go negative (and have to try to
get rid of physical cash). By charging people to hold money, you make
them spend it, and thus restore AD.

Savers bad, spenders good,
see. When AD has dropped, those nasty savers are fucking us up. So NIRP =
fuck those savers in the ass and make them spend.

Now, some
economic poohbah reading that would say I'm grossly oversimplifying and
mocking their sound theory, but that's the basics of it.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 11:38 PM (dvuhZ)


The real problem is that government shit sandwiches count in GDP just like Swedish massages by Inga and fine champagne. If you spend $100 on each, they're counted exactly the same in GDP. Which contribute more to people's sense of well-being?

Barack Obama has spent more money than anyone, ever, in the history of the world -- pissed it away like a firehose, on more government shit-sandwiches than can be reckoned in a month of Sundays -- in order to bring the GDP up to the level it was at before it tanked. We don't have more champagne, we don't have more Inga -- we have Solyndra and Obamacare and a rogue EPA and IRS, we have Title 9 fascism in education and DoJ studies to find racism in police departments.

The GDP of what we might have some slight desire for has taken it in the ass, while the GDP of shit we'd rather avoid has exploded -- and all the Wise Men of Economics say we must spend more.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:52 PM (EzgxV)

238 Please excuse me for a bit. I have to go kill my loud-talking cellphone neighbor, and then bury him discretely.

This may take some time.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)

239 I don't do St. Patrick's Day, because it's for amateur drunks. And I don't usually make a big deal out of Irish heritage other than naming my sons and the occasional bar fight.

But I do post this song on FB every year. It is, I think, the definitive song of the Irish-American experience.

The Pogues. Thousands Are Sailing.

https://youtu.be/gc1G7aCpSsI

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2016 11:55 PM (1xUj/)

240 Please excuse me for a bit. I have to go kill my loud-talking cellphone neighbor, and then bury him discretely.



This may take some time.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)

Just use an air rifle from the shrubs... just saying.

Trump will cover your legal bills.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 16, 2016 11:55 PM (T78UI)

241 Well Chavez as long as you aren't Suzy Lightning, you're ok in my book.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (voOPb)

242 238 Please excuse me for a bit. I have to go kill my loud-talking cellphone neighbor, and then bury him discretely.

This may take some time.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)

Sorry, I was trying to share the glory that is "Trash Humpers*" with someone, .

* - This movie exists and I only got 10 minutes through it.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (s87AC)

243 Poc,

Skip the killin' part. Just bury him with his phone. He'll go out, knowing the error of his ways.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (McRlu)

244 I had corned beef and cabbage tonight at one of the local bars. It was yummy. And the beer was not green.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:56 PM (/i7Ua)

245 adios all road trip tomorrow. be well.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:57 PM (ucDmr)

246 Please excuse me for a bit. I have to go kill my loud-talking cellphone neighbor, and then bury him discretely.

This may take some time.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:53 PM (1zS3A)

****

I have a few bags of lyme and a couple of shovels laying around, if you would find that helpful. Figuratively speaking only, of course.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 16, 2016 11:57 PM (YLidQ)

247 234 On the machining front, I got a new toy today. A 7" Ammco shaper. Motor, motor mount, and jackshaft are with it, but few accessories. All the motions move, but stiffly. Needs cleaning and lubricating, mostly, I think. Has a "War Production Board" plate on it, so it's WWI vintage. Neat relic, if nothing else.


I think it may be quite possible to mount a small router on the tool holder, so that I could do light milling on 3 axes. It's a substantial hunk of iron, over 200 pounds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2016 11:50 PM (/i7Ua)



I'm not sure what one of those might be -- could you toss a quick link to either a modern or historical example?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:58 PM (EzgxV)

248 and the wind whispers mary.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 16, 2016 11:58 PM (ucDmr)

249 >>>Drank more than one 'niece' under the table, but there was a Korean girl who very nearly prevailed....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (lutOX)

***

The Koreans are *awesome*. When I worked in Totsuka, I stopped in at a British-style pub run by a Korean on the way home from work most days. He took to ordering in Korean delicacies for us, which are spicy. Really spicy.

The Japanese are drinking lightweights. Maybe that's a cultural thing. They all get shit- and red-faced really fast, and that's the end of that.

Never went drinking with Chinese. Have drunk Chinese beer. No complaints.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:59 PM (1zS3A)

250 You know, there was some Aussie "rogue economist" some professor Down Under, who demolished this theory that "debt doesn't matter". He correctly analyzed the problem, but his solution was more heroin really. You just can't get people to accept that There Must Be Pain to restore balance to the system.

I can't remember his name, but he did something I thought was impressive. He came up with a cycle model. Now, fitting the past to a curve is well, you can always do that. Doesn't tell the system will behave the same in the future.

But he got the behavior. You try to prevent recessions, the natural oscillations of the system. You do this with Central Bank and Keynesians meddling. You damp the swings, and finally get a period of "sustained growth". The sky's the limit. Then it crashes. Hard. Biblical proportions.

That was what we went through in the late 80s and the 90s. The "Great Moderation" they called it, the reduction in the volatility of the "business cycle". Then came 2008.

So he got a model that produced that behavior. Moderation period followed by Great Crash.

It impressed me.

But the dude had no solution other than "give free shit to the people".

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 17, 2016 12:00 AM (dvuhZ)

251 "disassociative reaction"... this is supposedly a leftover from our caveman days.

When you're a hunter/gatherer/scavenger, you eat anything that might have calories. If you eat something that makes you sick, you better have a good way to make sure you never eat anything like that again. There are still a few neurons way back there in the brain stem that do this for us.

Of course, the food doesn't have to cause the sickness. Feed a colicky baby strained peas at the wrong time, and the kid won't touch peas for three decades, if ever.

Posted by: mikeski at March 17, 2016 12:00 AM (LIUK5)

252 Interesting NIRP news from Euroland. The ECB just
lowered their main interest rate from -0.3% to -0.4%. Some big German
outfit, one of the biggest reinsurers in the world, has reacted.
Remember the problem of firms with huge amounts of money trying to
convert to cash. It's just physically impossible to do.

So what
are they doing? They're buying gold with some and parking the rest in
foreign currencies *that do not have a negative interest rate*. I wonder
if the economic central planning wizards of smart have fully thought
through the consequences of causing a flight from their own currencies.

Now, if the Fed goes NIRP, then dollars won't be an option for these guys either and they'll move to something else.


Oh, what is a reinsurer you ask? Basically, it's insurance for
insurance companies. There is what is known as tail risk, the low
probability of having a bunch of claims occur at once in some event.
They purchase insurance themselves for such a tail risk.

Which
leads to "tail of the tail" risk. What happens if everybody has a tail
event? That is an even more vanishingly small probability. But not zero.
Govts would step if it wasn't too big. If too big even for govts, well,
we're talking some serious biblical shit here.

Anyway, the Kraut reinsurer realizes that NIRP has very negative consequence for it tail risk exposure.

Again, I wonder just how much the Wizards of Smart have thought this shit through.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 16, 2016 10:34 PM (dvuh

There is no thought involved (and certainly no respect for the property rights of currency holders to the value of their money).




There is only mad panic and the idea that there must be some lever available to them to MAKE PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY WANT THEM TO DO... even if what they want them to do is stupid and nonsensical.




As Smith pointed out though, in his talk of Man of System" people have their own agency and are not pawns on a chess board to be moved at the whim of planners and with no ability to deviate from those plans. Which is why the main stimulus to the economy in Japan from negative interest rates was to stimulate the sale of home safes where cash can be kept at an interest rate of 0%.

Posted by: redbanzai at March 17, 2016 12:01 AM (NPofj)

253 249 >>>Drank more than one 'niece' under the table, but there was a Korean girl who very nearly prevailed....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:51 PM (lutOX)

***

The Koreans are *awesome*. When I worked in Totsuka, I stopped in at a British-style pub run by a Korean on the way home from work most days. He took to ordering in Korean delicacies for us, which are spicy. Really spicy.

The Japanese are drinking lightweights. Maybe that's a cultural thing. They all get shit- and red-faced really fast, and that's the end of that.

Never went drinking with Chinese. Have drunk Chinese beer. No complaints.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:59 PM (1zS3A)



Part of the problem is that China is an empire. It contains multitudes of very different peoples -- and they have a wide range of tolerance for drinking.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:02 AM (EzgxV)

254 Hey cooth.

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (rlfds)

255 Good nite morons
Be well

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (voOPb)

256 254 Hey cooth.

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (rlfds)



Howdy, howdy!!!! Howzit goin'?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:04 AM (EzgxV)

257 Here's a Youtube of an Ammco shaper making chips:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1Ggiyb1JA&feature=youtu.be

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:05 AM (/i7Ua)

258 229 Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 16, 2016 11:48 PM (T78UI)


Lil Kim is also great entertainment....

for example he gave some retard who decided Pyongang was a great vacation destination 15 years for trying to steal a 15 cent propaganda banner...

you just can't buy humor like that.

Dumbass Ohioan who went to UVA should be a cautionary tale to moonbats that collectivism sucks and is overwrought INSTEAD you go to MSLSD's site and they say "well the Norks have rules"...

yes, yes they do and so will the assholes you dumbasses keep electing sport.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (g8Hfr)

259 That Slenderman article was horrible. Could not make heads or tails of what the author was talking about.

Had to do a Google search to learn ...

Slenderman is modern folk tale horror story thing
Some teens attempted a murder and blamed it on Slenderman
Now there's a documentary

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (1D4Ef)

260 Getting to be a time I would rather not be here. Night all.

Posted by: Tim in GA at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (YLidQ)

261 Never went drinking with Chinese. Have drunk Chinese beer. No complaints.
Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 16, 2016 11:59 PM (1zS3A)
***
You mean German beer brewed in China.....

http://tsingtaobeer.com/

From a german trading colony set up in the 19th century....

But baiju and soju......Lord, have mercy.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (lutOX)

262 The State Department vs. Its Ultimate Foe: Microaggressions

The insanity of "microaggressions", which are perceived slights that exist in the subject viewpoint of self-identifying victims, is no longer reserved for the madness that is academia. Unsurprisingly, the same administration that declared that failure to affirm homosexuality as being something wonderful, even if one is tolerance and accepting of homosexuality, is tantamount to oppression, is now embracing the war on "microaggressions."

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11354

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 17, 2016 12:09 AM (vBeA5)

263 253 Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:02 AM (EzgxV)


Yup the Chinese recognize 50+ internal nationalities....

and the further north the original tribes are the worse drunks they seem to be....

"Go Mongols"

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:09 AM (g8Hfr)

264 publius, I like your financial affairs comments - good to get these huge matters into the mix of discussion.


On the credit default swaps (among other things), to me the most important thing to keep reminding/correcting people is that the main problem (mortgages and related derivatives) could never have become the disaster they became without public (govt.) involvement. At both inception, and in blowing up the balloon with "investors" (esp. foreign banks)


Glass-Steagal repeal didn't immediately, or even soon, lead to this disaster, for a reason. The disaster was in no way an inevitable consequence of repeal. It was the specific result of reckless, optional actions by Fannie and the Fed, over a period of years.


And the reaction to the disaster was no less reckless and incompetent than the actions that led to it.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2016 12:10 AM (QDnY+)

265 Right. So. St. Patrick's day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGvsYV_-mu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wny_0pi4hR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa7birRBmNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvECtlJQ4dU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-PmyAfQ5xY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAOW23GnFM


Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:11 AM (1zS3A)

266 I remember seeing video taken from a helicopter of the 2011 Japanese tsunami traveling across the countryside. The water was black as chocolate syrup and it just kept going and going, mile after mile, obliterating towns and farms and greenhouses, engulfing roads full of vehicles, even sweeping over raised overpasses and disappearing the bridges and vehicles that were thirty feet or so above the plain. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever seen.

The world is out to get us.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 17, 2016 12:12 AM (/f6Nd)

267 The GDP of what we might have some slight desire for has taken it in the ass, while the GDP of shit we'd rather avoid has exploded -- and all the Wise Men of Economics say we must spend more.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:52 PM (EzgxV)


Don't forget that Barack the Wise decided that how the US calculates GDP should change.

http://tinyurl.com/h8ypcex

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 17, 2016 12:12 AM (1JnAL)

268 Most charming drinking from my career thus far:

I was in Boston, and scraped acquaintance with a charming young lady from Seoul who wanted to try "bu lan di and soda," bless her heart....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (lutOX)

269 Am I still here?

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (RcpcZ)

270 258 Here's a Youtube of an Ammco shaper making chips:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1Ggiyb1JA&feature=youtu.be

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:05 AM (/i7Ua)



That is incredibly cool. How much did it cost you? How did you find it?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)

271 Most charming drinking from my career thus far:

I was in Boston, and scraped acquaintance with a young lady who wanted to try "bu lan di and soda," bless her heart....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (lutOX)

272 And the reaction to the disaster was no less reckless and incompetent than the actions that led to it.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2016 12:10 AM (QDnY+)


And there's another one coming down the pike:



http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2016/03/its-probably-no-376.html#comments

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (/i7Ua)

273 Hi, y'all.

I missed a happiness thread?

That makes me unhappy!

Hey, it's my website's anniversary. Offering homespun webworks direct to websurfers since 1996 March 17. And still one of the web's best-kept secrets.

Alexa global ranking: #5,085,067!

Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 12:16 AM (5a8XA)

274
INSTEAD you go to MSLSD's site and they say "well the Norks have rules"...

Would they have said the same about apartheid?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 17, 2016 12:17 AM (FkBIv)

275 "Community" query - what's with Tim in GA saying "Getting to be a time I would rather not be here," and signing off? Think I've seen it a few times.


Just a reference to the hour (late)?


Just curious, if anyone knows.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (QDnY+)

276 I think there's a dynamic something like this. Remember the hell of the Depression. The generation that went through that was shaped by it. My parents were kids then basically, and my grandparents (all long dead) were the young(ish) adults at the time. It impressed the hell out of them: stay out of debt, don't recklessly spend. Save for a rainy day.

The memory of that fades. A generation takes the reins that has never experienced a crash of that magnitude. They tend to get more reckless, knowing nothing but gambles that pay off basically.

Remember the stereotype of the "banksters" back in the day? Think Mr. Drysdale from the Beverly Hillbillies. Mr. Mooney from the Lucy Shows.

These guys were tightwads extraordinaire. Absolutely constitutionally opposed to spending money. They'd die if they had to spend money. They wanted it all it vault where they could just wallow in it.

They weren't high rollers wanting the high life and hookers and blow. Now the stereotype of a banker is a high roller chasing return, recklessly with other people's money.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (dvuhZ)

277 That is incredibly cool. How much did it cost you? How did you find it?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)


The one in the video isn't mine, but it is for sale for $750, and well worth it, I'd say.


A friend was at a yard sale behind a business in east Mesa. Seller had a lot of stuff. This shaper was on a pallet along with a 5" South Bend lathe, also with a War Production Board label on it. Guy wanted $500 for both, would not separate. So we bought it jointly, and buddy got the lathe, and I got the shaper. So $250 to me.


So I'm researching them on the Web, and first link I find, some guy got one for $25 at an auction. Sniffle. But I think I did OK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (/i7Ua)

278 274 Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 17, 2016 12:17 AM (FkBIv)


No of course not which is what makes it all the more funny.

The only Culture on Earth not allowed to have rules evidently is the Anglosphere, and any trespass on morality is to be forgiven if the despot's melanin content is past a certain point.

That sane people of good character with core Judeo-Xian values cannot find common cause in thwarting genuine evil is the best indicator that the evangelical "collectivist" atheist movement has in fact driven western civ insane.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:22 AM (g8Hfr)

279 267 The GDP of what we might have some slight desire for has taken it in the ass, while the GDP of shit we'd rather avoid has exploded -- and all the Wise Men of Economics say we must spend more.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 16, 2016 11:52 PM (EzgxV)


Don't forget that Barack the Wise decided that how the US calculates GDP should change.

http://tinyurl.com/h8ypcex

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 17, 2016 12:12 AM (1JnAL)




Meh. Fiddling around the edges. The fundamental conceit that coerced spending benefits people as much as voluntary spending just buries the "GDP is good" crowd.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:22 AM (EzgxV)

280 >>>Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 17, 2016 12:08 AM (lutOX)

***

Soju. Jesus. Never again.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:23 AM (1zS3A)

281 Here's a Youtube of an Ammco shaper making chips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh1Ggiyb1JA&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:05 AM (/i7Ua)

That is incredibly cool. How much did it cost you? How did you find it?
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)


Wow!

When was that sort of machine made?

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (1D4Ef)

282 Elle King - Under the Influence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtM7zIF-IlU

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (VdICR)

283 Hmm. Name origin? Cato's one I've been using for a long time. I've always liked Latin names, and when the Tea Party kicked off, I used a whole bunch of 'em as an homage to the people who wrote the Federalist Papers. Cato is the one I kept, mostly because I thought I'd end up like Cato the Younger for fighting against the DC megalomaniacs, particularly after Breitbart's sudden and conveniently timed demise. Against all expectations, I'm still alive, and thanking God for it as often as I remember to do so.

The "Rebel Without a Party" bit is an homage to some of my favorite 'rons that frequent the morning hours, and was something I tagged on as my regular epithet after a long morning rant a year or two ago when a whole bunch of us (phoenixgirl, born a rebel - Vic we have no party, ManWithNoParty, etc.) came to the inescapable conclusion that "our representatives" were playing for the other team for real. I don't even remember what the issue was, probably something with Obamacare.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 17, 2016 12:26 AM (J+mig)

284 OK, post my annual Pogues song and the autoplay feature has sent me completely down a Pogues rabbit hole.

I'm not entirely complaining, but I feel robbed of volition.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (1xUj/)

285 Watching "How the internet ruined my life " on the SyFy channel. They just did hit piece on gamergate with Brianna Wu. If I didn't know anything about it before seeing this episode, I would think that all gamergaters where sick women-haters who needed large doses of anti-psychotic medications. At no point did they say that the people after her are a fringe element denounced by the vast majority of gamergate or even discuss how gamergate started.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (6n332)

286 277 That is incredibly cool. How much did it cost you? How did you find it?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:13 AM (EzgxV)


The one in the video isn't mine, but it is for sale for $750, and well worth it, I'd say.


A friend was at a yard sale behind a business in east Mesa. Seller had a lot of stuff. This shaper was on a pallet along with a 5" South Bend lathe, also with a War Production Board label on it. Guy wanted $500 for both, would not separate. So we bought it jointly, and buddy got the lathe, and I got the shaper. So $250 to me.


So I'm researching them on the Web, and first link I find, some guy got one for $25 at an auction. Sniffle. But I think I did OK.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:20 AM (/i7Ua)




I knew there had to be a story. Cool beans!!!! I'm assuming it's Mesa, AZ -- is it going to be heading north?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (EzgxV)

287 282 Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (VdICR)

Elle Fitzgerald-Undecided

https://youtu.be/_ksEQUiDp0s

Woman could flat out sing...

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 12:28 AM (g8Hfr)

288 They just did hit piece on gamergate with Brianna Wu. If I didn't know anything about it before seeing this episode, I would think that all gamergaters where sick women-haters who needed large doses of anti-psychotic medications. At no point did they say that the people after her are a fringe element denounced by the vast majority of gamergate or even discuss how gamergate started.
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (6n332)



I'm guessing they didn't go into how Brianna Wu is a he. It explains the drama queen behavior.

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:29 AM (1D4Ef)

289 256 254 Hey cooth.

Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at March 17, 2016 12:03 AM (rlfds)



Howdy, howdy!!!! Howzit goin'?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:04 AM (EzgxV)




How'd the game come out?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (EzgxV)

290 St. Patrick's Day. Pogues and Dubliners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au30c9ZMIPg

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (1zS3A)

291 When was that sort of machine made?

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (1D4Ef)


I think metal shapers of that general type were devised in the late 19th Century, and were made at least as late as the 1960's. I think milling machines have largely supplanted them, but I am no expert.


The one I have has a brass plate on the side that reads "War Production Board" so it is probably of WWII vintage. Which is cool in it's own. A little piece of the Arsenal of Democracy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)

292 The one I have has a brass plate on the side that reads "War Production Board" so it is probably of WWII vintage. Which is cool in it's own. A little piece of the Arsenal of Democracy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)


Was thinking the same.

So what can you make with one?

*utter mechanical ignoramus*

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:32 AM (1D4Ef)

293 I knew there had to be a story. Cool beans!!!! I'm assuming it's Mesa, AZ -- is it going to be heading north?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:27 AM (EzgxV)


I think I will be keeping it here for the time being.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:34 AM (/i7Ua)

294
291 When was that sort of machine made?

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:25 AM (1D4Ef)


I think metal shapers of that general type were devised in the late 19th Century, and were made at least as late as the 1960's. I think milling machines have largely supplanted them, but I am no expert.


The one I have has a brass plate on the side that reads "War Production Board" so it is probably of WWII vintage. Which is cool in it's own. A little piece of the Arsenal of Democracy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)




They excel at making keyways and are probably made today. In a home shop, there's a gizmo like a flat step drill that you ram through your keyway with an arbor press, instead of gracefully shaving chips like this guy.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:35 AM (EzgxV)

295 Let's not forget the ANZACS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqN1glz4JY

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:36 AM (1zS3A)

296

Introduction to the metal shaper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4D9jKRvFhs

Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (FlRtG)

297 The article was unable to conclude that Slenderman was evil. God help us all.

Posted by: Phunctor at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (CKGil)

298 St. Patrick's Day. Pogues and Dubliners:


Heh. That was fascinating. I loved watching the musicians from the two bands watch each other and come together.

I do wonder if Ronnie Drew was questioning why he was there with Shane MacGowan.

It's the difference between talent and your gut maybe. Drew is a good singer, but MacGowan is compelling.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 12:41 AM (1xUj/)

299 297
The article was unable to conclude that Slenderman was evil. God help us all.

Posted by: Phunctor at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (CKGil)


Nothing is evil when everything is a shade of grey. That's why the world is fucked up. There is no room in the liberal mindset for objectivity, everything is subjective to them.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at March 17, 2016 12:41 AM (J+mig)

300 So what can you make with one?

*utter mechanical ignoramus*

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:32 AM (1D4Ef)


Well, you can make a smooth, true, flat surface on a piece of metal, which is useful. And by turning the work in the vise, or using an indexing head, you could machine a perfect cube, or a hexagon. Could cut gear teeth on a blank, or make a keyway in a bore.


Cutting hollows or recesses in a workpiece might be difficult, because the moving cutter would wind up jamming chips against the wall at the end of the stroke. But if one were to mount a small router on the end of the ram, in place of the tool holder, one could, in theory, add the last 20% of goodness to an unfinished part. So you could make nifty aluminum ash trays.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:42 AM (/i7Ua)

301 292 The one I have has a brass plate on the side that reads "War Production Board" so it is probably of WWII vintage. Which is cool in it's own. A little piece of the Arsenal of Democracy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:30 AM (/i7Ua)

Was thinking the same.

So what can you make with one?

*utter mechanical ignoramus*

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:32 AM (1D4Ef)



The reciprocating nature of this machine is good for making slots. Because you're moving linearly, you can make undercut slots or slots inside things ("keyways") -- which is a yuge pain-in-the-ass using a mill (which looks like a reinforced drill-press and uses rotational motion to shave the edges (interior or exterior) of things).

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 12:44 AM (EzgxV)

302 St. Patrick's Day:

McAlpine's Fusiliers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJ4q-TuDcs

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:48 AM (1zS3A)

303 But if one were to mount a small router on the end of the ram, in place of the tool holder,>>>

Watching the video the forward feed speed may be a problem. Can that be slowed? If not a Dremel type tool might work with a small tip.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:50 AM (On7rW)

304
Talking about evil - I just saw a segment on the death of Bob Crane.

Lots of bad in that story.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 17, 2016 12:51 AM (RcpcZ)

305 St. Patrick's Day:

Of the 3,500 Congressional Medals of Honor ever awarded, 2,000 have gone to Irishmen or Americans of Irish descent.

260 have gone to Irishmen who died in battle for the US before achieving US citizenship.


Suck it, Mexico.

Or Mario Rubio.

Or some such.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 12:55 AM (1zS3A)

306 I'm guessing they didn't go into how Brianna Wu is a he. It explains the drama queen behavior.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 12:29 AM (1D4Ef)


----

Yeah, nothing on her background. Or the fact that they have found out who was making and sending her pyscho death threat videos. Turns out it is a guy in some cult improve group and he was trying to make fun of gamergaters and isn't involved in gamergate.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (6n332)

307 Watching the video the forward feed speed may be a problem. Can that be slowed? If not a Dremel type tool might work with a small tip.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:50 AM (On7rW)


The ram doesn't have to be powered. There is a large knurled knob mounted in tandem with the belt pulley, so that you could stroke the ram very slowly indeed, just like hand-feeding the carriage on a lathe.


So the table feed gives you your X-axis, the ram feed the Y-axis, and the downfeed the Z-axis.


There apparently was a kit to mount a Dumore grinder to the Ammco shaper. The Dumore was like a Dremel, with a much larger motor. My late father had one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (/i7Ua)

308 Of the 3,500 Congressional Medals of Honor ever awarded, 2,000 have gone to Irishmen or Americans of Irish descent.


260 have gone to Irishmen who died in battle for the US before achieving US citizenship.
>>>

Well we do like a good fight even when outmatched. So it's kinda genetic.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (On7rW)

309 304
Talking about evil - I just saw a segment on the death of Bob Crane.

Lots of bad in that story.

Posted by: Ed Anger at March 17, 2016 12:51 AM (RcpcZ)



Quite freaky-deaky indeed. Outside of Crane's private life, it is astounding that Americans could be liberating Nazi death camps in 1945 and making comedy television series about Nazis in 1965 -- just 20 years later. Will we have a comedy series about Al-Qaeda in five years?

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (EzgxV)

310 >>>Well we do like a good fight even when outmatched. So it's kinda genetic.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (On7rW)

***

Just doing the US/Irish military PSA. Especially for those who consider the Irish inveterate drunks and unfit for service.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (1zS3A)

311 Well we do like a good fight even when outmatched. So it's kinda genetic.

Yeah. I kind of dislike the whole hyphenated American thing, and my people have been here long enough that we don't have any relatives in the Old Sod, but I named my boys Declan and Eamon and I do drink too much and I will punch you even if you're bigger than me.

There may be something to genetics.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (1xUj/)

312 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 12:57 AM (/i7Ua)>>>

$250 for an accurate 3D control system for a router/dremel is way cheaper than you could build one. And if you just need a slot or key the the original design is perfect.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:02 AM (On7rW)

313 Home, where the cats are. And I can finally relax.

White Room video - heh.

Listening to Ella. She could sing. Haven't heard that whole song in a long, long time. That drummer's kinda krupa, too.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:05 AM (sVGvG)

314 The Irish were the little dog to the English. We had to Embigin ourselves just to survive. Oh and I'm just a 1/4 Irish I wonder how huge I would believe myself to be if I were full.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:09 AM (On7rW)

315 >>>Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:09 AM (On7rW)

***

You are a very little, little man, aren't you?

I pray you live forever.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:11 AM (1zS3A)

316 Go ahead, ignore me. I'm used to it on the ONT. Don't mean nothing, right? Everybody's floating along.

Listening to McAlpine's Fusiliers.

Never could understand the Irish language. But I hung out at Irish bars in Chicago.

I'm English and some German, they tell me. My sainted Irish mother-in-law tolerated me, fortunately.

My wife and her kin are Irish, with (we think) a Chilean grandfather - Chicago "dark" Irish. My children are... great. We're all Okies, now.

(Looking for more music videos upthread.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:14 AM (sVGvG)

317 You are a very little, little man, aren't you?>>>

Little enough.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:15 AM (On7rW)

318 @238
Ima advise you to use a little discretion whilst burying all those separate parts. Maybe dumpsters in 7 different states?

Back while we were inventing dirt, distinguishing homonyms was part of the me-smart signal kit. And I just Kant give it up. Although I can will that everyone else do so.

Posted by: Phunctor at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (CKGil)

319 Introduction to the metal shaper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4D9jKRvFhs
Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 12:39 AM (FlRtG)


Neat. Wish the audio wasn't messed up though.

*click click click click click click*

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (1D4Ef)

320 How is some Jihadi puke "gunned down"?! He wasn't gunned down, he was sent to stand before his maker and think of an alibi that will keep him out of hell! A citizen of Paris, watching a rock'n roll concert was "gunned down", not some fucking snake, in a country illegally, with illegal weapons and bad intent in his heart. Political correctness run amok is what needs to be gunned down.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (gy5kE)

321 i'll add the shaper to the list of things i need to buy when i emigrate to a free state...

i'm sure there's a law against owning one here in #Failifornia

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:19 AM (5wiY1)

322 Too hammered to moderate at TheRightScoop.

Better hang out here till the coffee kicks in.

So. How are things?

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:19 AM (FvSck)

323 BTW, is it okay to start insulting each other yet, or have we not talked about the election campaign enough yet tonight?

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:21 AM (5wiY1)

324 >>>(Looking for more music videos upthread.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:14 AM (sVGvG)

***

Well, The Dubliners did have Dublin accents, which are difficult for Irish people outside Dublin in general. Still, they're fun.

If you want more traditional Irish music, look up Makem and Clancy, or the Clancy Brothers on YouTube.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:21 AM (1zS3A)

325 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqu2mwPdkGE

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:24 AM (1zS3A)

326 Wakey wakey. You can't all be sleeping already.

(don't worry, it's really a dream. Why else would you see me here mid-week?))

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:25 AM (FvSck)

327
(don't worry, it's really a dream. Why else would you see me here mid-week?))

we lost a bet?

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:26 AM (5wiY1)

328 An Poc ar Buile: The Dubliners did have Dublin accents, which are difficult for Irish people outside Dublin in general. Still, they're fun.

Irish version of cockney?

Enjoying more Irish tunes from upthread. But fading rapidly. Talk about metal shapers some more - better than a sleeping pill.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:26 AM (sVGvG)

329 question: does the white room have black curtains?

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (5wiY1)

330 324 >>>(Looking for more music videos upthread.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:14 AM (sVGvG)

***

Well, The Dubliners did have Dublin accents, which are difficult for Irish people outside Dublin in general. Still, they're fun.

If you want more traditional Irish music, look up Makem and Clancy, or the Clancy Brothers on YouTube.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:21 AM (1zS3A)




And, for the Irish experience -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApHj9vOu2eQ

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)

331 Maybe I need to just click it back-and-forth a few times.

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (FvSck)

332 Biddy Mulligan, the pride of the Coombe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ic9kz_u4Y0

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (1zS3A)

333 It's dead, Jim.

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (FvSck)

334 did anyone post any Flogging Molly?

yeah, they're leftards, IIRC, but they have some catchy tunes.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (5wiY1)

335 "did anyone post any Flogging Molly?"

Got to see them live. It was worth the security pat-down.

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:30 AM (FvSck)

336 >>>And, for the Irish experience -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApHj9vOu2eQ

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)

***

How do you confuse an Irishman?

Put a spade and a shovel against a wall, and ask himm to take his pick.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:32 AM (1zS3A)

337 I don't know about you, but I'm not getting into any more arguments here, or even looking like I am thinking about politics. Hell, I'm not even going to talk bad about the fucking NORKS any more! I'm just going to bring kitty videos and sunlight, as best I can, from now on. Just scroll down a few threads to Ace's final warning thing from early this morning. If that doesn't pretty much explain life, the universe and everything, then I don't know what will.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:32 AM (gy5kE)

338 Aargh. I saw Flogging Molly in a club in Hartford. Forget its name.

It's bascially a concrete quonset hut. Never been in a place with worse acoustics. So I saw Flogging Molly, but I've never really heard them live.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (1xUj/)

339 regarding the ad-blocker thingy, i run No Script, with a default of allow none.

then, if i need to actuate something, especially for a one time visit, i only temporarily allow the minimum # required, and only for authors i recognize.

so far so good. once i even got a ransomeware screen, but i LOLed and closed it, with no problem or consequences.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (5wiY1)

340 does the white room have black curtains?

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (5wiY1)


Well, it's at the station...

Posted by: The Cream Hat at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (vBeA5)

341 Neat. Wish the audio wasn't messed up though.

*click click click click click click*

Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 17, 2016 01:17 AM (1D4Ef)


Yeah. How hard would it be to simply edit the video with new narration, spoken into a good mike in a quiet room? You could always mix in a "little" shop noise to make it sound authentic.


There are a lot of Youtube videos, and I'm talking scripted and "produced" ones, not eyewitness-y sort of stuff, that are so poorly produced as to basically fail at their intended purpose.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 01:33 AM (/i7Ua)

342 >>>did anyone post any Flogging Molly?

yeah, they're leftards, IIRC, but they have some catchy tunes.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (5wiY1)

***

I mentioned "Float", somewhere above.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:34 AM (1zS3A)

343 I'll put you some knowledge. Al Saadi playing "Born Under a Bad Sign" live. Cat can shred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Vn19FTosk

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:34 AM (FvSck)

344 More Christy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBChWF9pZ5M



A slightly different Irish music group -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZP-4B7kHqA



And an Irish vocalist who got her start in the previous band -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOeDWynY4o




You might note a bunch of performers whose last name is Brennan in the last two links. "Clannad" means "family". They're all related.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (EzgxV)

345 Don't miss the organ solo.

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (FvSck)

346 i thought the whole purpose of the internet was to argue with strangers...

what else could you possibly use it for?

well, that and watching/reading pr0n, of course.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (5wiY1)

347

Reactionary Monster:

The clicking was brutal.

This is a very fast video ... 1/2" deep cut, about .1" wide ... the smoke is from the residual oil on the chips heating up.

Cincinnati Shaper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnE_h5qmjpk

If you have a spare 70 minutes,
"Making a straight edge blank Part 1/2"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5mOnjrd2Q
shows a lot of the same techniques, but it's not a tutorial, and Part 1 is 35 minutes.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 01:36 AM (FlRtG)

348 Coming along, cooth.

Just about to turn in...killer headache in progress.

Hope things are going well for you.

Posted by: SMFH at March 17, 2016 01:39 AM (rlfds)

349 X rated Irish flute lesson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goCd1mEWsWs

Skip a minute in.

Posted by: Willy J. at March 17, 2016 01:39 AM (On7rW)

350 By the way, Ralphie Armstrong kills on bass.

Detroit isn't dead. It's just that The Cool has had to bank its fires and dig deep.

The R&B and blues ain't dead till I say it's dead.

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (FvSck)

351 332 Biddy Mulligan, the pride of the Coombe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ic9kz_u4Y0

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:28 AM (1zS3A)



An alternative spelling of "Coombe" is "cwm" -- leading to both the "Cwm Fjord-bank Glyphs Vext Quiz" typing test (the writings on the bank of a wooded flooded rounded valley cause exasperation to a game-show host), and one of the classic hangman-game pwns -- "cwm" [others include "rhythm", "zymurgy", and "why"].

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (EzgxV)

352 >>>You might note a bunch of performers whose last name is Brennan in the last two links. "Clannad" means "family". They're all related.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (EzgxV)

***

"Clannad" are all Donegal Irish. We Connaught Irish shun them.

We've never forgiven the whole Ta'in Bo' Cu'ailnge thing.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (1zS3A)

353 336 >>>And, for the Irish experience -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApHj9vOu2eQ

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:27 AM (EzgxV)

***

How do you confuse an Irishman?

Put a spade and a shovel against a wall, and ask himm to take his pick.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:32 AM (1zS3A)



My dad, from whom I inherit my Irishness, would often refer to a pick as an "Irish typewriter".

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)

354 That vocabulary list is spectacular! HORSE-GODMOTHER, for example, means Hillary in the old tongue. Yeah, it says it, right there on the page.

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:43 AM (gy5kE)

355 >>>Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (EzgxV)

***

The Coombe was a slum in Dublin. Close by the Guinness brewery, if memory serves.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:44 AM (1zS3A)

356 348 Coming along, cooth.

Just about to turn in...killer headache in progress.

Hope things are going well for you.

Posted by: SMFH at March 17, 2016 01:39 AM (rlfds)



Well enough, dear -- I hope the headache sleeps away.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:45 AM (EzgxV)

357 Wow, Arb, that big Cincinnatti shaper really carves up that block, doesn't it? Fascinating to watch the process.


I look forward to playing with this one. It's going to need a table. I have built machine tables before by using the shell of an old top-loader washer. Put a thick wooden top on it, a bottom plate with casters, and a bottom and middle shelf. They are very sturdy, and cost next to nothing to make. Because of the reciprocating action of the shaper, I don't think having the table sitting on casters is a good idea. It would start sashaying around the shop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 01:47 AM (/i7Ua)

358 I better go watch a couple of episodes of Person of Interest, or maybe start the Longmire series over again. I'm getting a case of HORRIPILATION just thinking about it!

The moral to this story is: Never give a moron a vocabulary list!

Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:48 AM (gy5kE)

359 >>>My dad, from whom I inherit my Irishness, would often refer to a pick as an "Irish typewriter".

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)

***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:48 AM (1zS3A)

360 Wow. I already left. Just didn't realize it. Came back to say...

Good night, Gracies.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 20 Years on the Web at March 17, 2016 01:49 AM (sVGvG)

361 Hump day is sleeping.

Off to listen to more Al-Saadi. And beer and cigars. It's all we have left in Trump's 'Merica.

Posted by: K-Bob at March 17, 2016 01:50 AM (FvSck)

362 352 >>>You might note a bunch of performers whose last name is Brennan in the last two links. "Clannad" means "family". They're all related.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:35 AM (EzgxV)

***

"Clannad" are all Donegal Irish. We Connaught Irish shun them.

We've never forgiven the whole Ta'in Bo' Cu'ailnge thing.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (1zS3A)



Yeah, I got the "Western Slope of the Rockies" Irish. I did have a great-aunt that came over from the old country, fell off a truck onto a potato fork, and died from the subsequent impalement -- that's an authentic immigrant experience.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:50 AM (EzgxV)

363

AOP:

Your shaper is probably 350 lb. I'd get some 2" .120-wall tubing and a welder. This might avoid a lesson in the future.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (FlRtG)

364 359 >>>My dad, from whom I inherit my Irishness, would often refer to a pick as an "Irish typewriter".

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:42 AM (EzgxV)

***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:48 AM (1zS3A)



Some classic Irish. I take it you've seen Black Books.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (EzgxV)

365 >>>An alternative spelling of "Coombe" is "cwm" -- leading to both the "Cwm Fjord-bank Glyphs Vext Quiz" typing test (the writings on the bank of a wooded flooded rounded valley cause exasperation to a game-show host), and one of the classic hangman-game pwns -- "cwm" [others include "rhythm", "zymurgy", and "why"].

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (EzgxV)

***

I have just now re-read this and have begun to appreciate your total awesomeness. Honestly.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (1zS3A)

366 Unable to sleep, I get up and check the news and what do I see:

Cryin' Boehner endorses Paulie Boy if no candidate wins the nomination on the first ballot.

These motherfuckers are actually going to try this shit. I now favor civil war.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 17, 2016 01:55 AM (Dttnn)

367 >>>...and died from the subsequent impalement -- that's an authentic immigrant experience.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:50 AM (EzgxV)

***

Yes. Indeed. Irish women experiencing "implement" often die.

It's preferable to confession.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (1zS3A)

368 365 >>>An alternative spelling of "Coombe" is "cwm" -- leading to both the "Cwm Fjord-bank Glyphs Vext Quiz" typing test (the writings on the bank of a wooded flooded rounded valley cause exasperation to a game-show host), and one of the classic hangman-game pwns -- "cwm" [others include "rhythm", "zymurgy", and "why"].

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:41 AM (EzgxV)

***

I have just now re-read this and have begun to appreciate your total awesomeness. Honestly.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (1zS3A)



More like a trick memory filled to overflowing with useless trivia by compulsive reading as a child.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)

369 Christ! Shit! Fuck! Damn!

IMPALEMENT!!!

(And that's the sum total of my swear word vocabulary.)

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 01:57 AM (1zS3A)

370 Your shaper is probably 350 lb. I'd get some 2" .120-wall tubing and a welder. This might avoid a lesson in the future.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 01:52 AM (FlRtG)


Only about 250, apparently. At home, I have a brake lathe on one such table, and a Sioux valve grinder on another. The brake lathe is probably over 400 pounds, and the washing machine-based table holds it no problem at all. And it rolls easy on 4" iron-wheel casters.


Think of the shell of the washer as a giant box beam. Very strong in compression, which is the gravity load of the machine. Commercial machine tables are made quite similarly. Painted up to match the machine, these home made tables even look like factory issue.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 01:58 AM (/i7Ua)

371 St. Patrick's Day:

The Craic was Ninety:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HislZDHyTIg

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:01 AM (1zS3A)

372 366 Unable to sleep, I get up and check the news and what do I see:

Cryin' Boehner endorses Paulie Boy if no candidate wins the nomination on the first ballot.

These motherfuckers are actually going to try this shit. I now favor civil war.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at March 17, 2016 01:55 AM (Dttnn)




Civil war is horrible, ugly, and dangerous -- Weirddave had a very sober AoSHQ post on the subject quite a while ago. I'd suggest that certain elected officials visit Fort Marcy Park first for some "contemplation".

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (EzgxV)

373 >>>More like a trick memory filled to overflowing with useless trivia by compulsive reading as a child.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)


***

Clint. Grike. Define.

Without the Burren vocabulary search!

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)

374 373 >>>More like a trick memory filled to overflowing with useless trivia by compulsive reading as a child.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)


***

Clint. Grike. Define.

Without the Burren vocabulary search!

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)



Without looking at anything, I'm thinking "Clint" relates to stone, and "Grike" relates to birds. The word I schlonged on my PSAT in 10th grade was "pulchritudinous"; I now know it as part of Pelvicachromis pulcher.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:09 AM (EzgxV)

375 >>>Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at March 16, 2016 11:39 PM (lutOX)

***

"Decidedly devious" is awesome. I'm stealing it for nics elsewhere.


Once, when I was, y'know, in the depths of PTSD and locked up, I was cordially compelled to take the MMPI. I took it with the help of two other stressed-out campers who volunteered to help me. I am amazed that I am allowed to walk the streets, a free man.

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:15 AM (1zS3A)

376
AOP:

The shaper ram will vibrate; low frequency, some sinusoidal force; the ram is at least 50lb, maybe 75lb. This is VERY different from a lathe.


Cth (if you're reading):

The meeting is this weekend, and it's on the other side of the tunnel.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:19 AM (FlRtG)

377 "The Coombe was a slum in Dublin."

i thought Dublin WAS a slum...

/me ducks

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:21 AM (5wiY1)

378 374 373 >>>More like a trick memory filled to overflowing with useless trivia by compulsive reading as a child.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)


***

Clint. Grike. Define.

Without the Burren vocabulary search!

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)



Without looking at anything, I'm thinking "Clint" relates to stone, and "Grike" relates to birds. The word I schlonged on my PSAT in 10th grade was "pulchritudinous"; I now know it as part of Pelvicachromis pulcher.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:09 AM (EzgxV)



Clint -- (1) Geological Science) a section of a limestone pavement separated from adjacent sections by solution fissures. (2) (Physical Geography) any small surface exposure of hard or flinty rock, as on a hillside or in a stream bed.



One does not become a master bullshitter without some level of talent.....

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:21 AM (EzgxV)

379 373 >>>More like a trick memory filled to overflowing with useless trivia by compulsive reading as a child.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 01:56 AM (EzgxV)


***

Clint. Grike. Define.

Without the Burren vocabulary search!

Posted by: An Poc ar Buile at March 17, 2016 02:03 AM (1zS3A)



Grike -- (Geological Science) a solution fissure, a vertical crack about 0.5 m wide formed by the dissolving of limestone by water, that divides an exposed limestone surface into sections or clints.




....of course, there are limits.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:23 AM (EzgxV)

380 354 That vocabulary list is spectacular! HORSE-GODMOTHER, for example, means Hillary in the old tongue. Yeah, it says it, right there on the page.
Posted by: goon at March 17, 2016 01:43 AM (gy5kE)

I think you misspelt "whore's".

Pretty sure about that one.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:24 AM (+YMhA)

381 ....of course, there are limits.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:23 AM (EzgxV)

Okay, now we are in the category of clippens and fensters.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:24 AM (+YMhA)

382 376
AOP:

The shaper ram will vibrate; low frequency, some sinusoidal force; the ram is at least 50lb, maybe 75lb. This is VERY different from a lathe.


Cth (if you're reading):

The meeting is this weekend, and it's on the other side of the tunnel.

Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:19 AM (FlRtG)




Yikees! I missed the last one due to miscommunication with the fiancee.....but I'll need to make sure I end up in the right place for this one. I intend to attend.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:25 AM (EzgxV)

383 Clint and Grike sound like obsolete British, or perhaps Scottish terms for those geological features. I have never seen them used before. There are many, many terms in geology which are essentially archaic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 02:27 AM (/i7Ua)

384 Happy happy stuff!!

The boy's 10th birthday went off wonderfully. DH took him to the pro shop and got him his first official bowling ball. Boy's name is Thor, and the brand of the ball was Hammer, so of course he got it engraved "Mjolnir."

Boy says it is the coolest birthday present ever. He is having the hockey team to the bowling alley on Saturday for a birthday party. Rock on, buddy, rock on.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:27 AM (+YMhA)

385 "One does not become a master bullshitter without some level of talent....."

and yet, here you are.

%-)

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:28 AM (5wiY1)

386
I intend to attend.


Are you interested in carpooling? I think it's about an hour drive.


Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (FlRtG)

387 one day, maybe a fellow moron/ette will put me some knowledge re how to make real smileys here...

and maybe i'll win Miss America too. ;-)

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (5wiY1)

388 Incidentally, grikes are just "joints" which have been widened by solution. If solution had been the only mechanism at work, the cracks would meander. Joints are usually straight. And straight jointing of this nature is so characteristic of limestone that its symbol on a geological map or section is a "brick wall" pattern, colored blue.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 02:32 AM (/i7Ua)

389 381 ....of course, there are limits.
Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:23 AM (EzgxV)

Okay, now we are in the category of clippens and fensters.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 17, 2016 02:24 AM (+YMhA)



Look, I've had business meetings regarding perlins and sub-perlins, astragals and abutments (we were building a new HQ building). There is no end of technical terms within specialized fields.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:34 AM (EzgxV)

390 in case it hasn't been noted yet, the DD has now called Missouri for DT...

but since Ryan is going to be the nominee, i guess it doesn't really matter, does it?

/me ducks again

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:34 AM (5wiY1)

391 And I am off to bed. Night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 17, 2016 02:35 AM (/i7Ua)

392 one day, maybe a fellow moron/ette will put me some knowledge re how to make real smileys here...

and maybe i'll win Miss America too. ;-)

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (5wiY1)


http://smilies.mee.nu/

Posted by: The 8) Hat at March 17, 2016 02:36 AM (vBeA5)

393 386
I intend to attend.


Are you interested in carpooling? I think it's about an hour drive.


Posted by: Arbalest at March 17, 2016 02:30 AM (FlRtG)




Let me do some research. Might work.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:37 AM (EzgxV)

394 Night all.

Here is "Tryin' to Mess My Mind" by Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5uAGlXArx8

Posted by: The Political Hat at March 17, 2016 02:37 AM (vBeA5)

395 we were out doing the tour of favorite Valley FFLs last Caturday, like totally, and, while paying off a layaway at the first one, we found a like new Remington 7600 in 30-06, with a Nikon scope and a very nice padded sling, which we couldn't DROS that day, but could lay away for when we could. i got it because the guy who picked it up before me called his wife, and she said "neyt".

manly man that i am, and having my wife with me, i shamelessly begged until she gave in... %-)

total price, w/sales tax and DROS: $456. Similar gun at Guns America, ~$900, plus shipping tax DROS

early birthday present FTW WOOT!

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:41 AM (5wiY1)

396 Clint, grike are new on me, perlins, astragals and abutments I know.
But it's way to early for that.
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 02:43 AM (fizMZ)

397 Gracias Hat, as we say here in America...


Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:43 AM (5wiY1)

398 it fing w*rked???

kewl, now i can try to be part of the in crowd

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:45 AM (5wiY1)

399 hey Skip...

not sure anyone else is still here

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 02:51 AM (5wiY1)

400 396 Clint, grike are new on me, perlins, astragals and abutments I know.
But it's way to early for that.
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 02:43 AM (fizMZ)



I could go on for a while about the difference between depreciation and amortization. Like I said, "[t]here is no end of technical terms within specialized fields." Of course, that doesn't mean you can't do a certain ironic-borrow here-and-there -- IIRC Spider Robinson describes a woman as "spathic".....which, in geology, means "having good cleavage".

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 02:55 AM (EzgxV)

401 There was, BTW, a wave of instability going through search engines just now. I couldn't pull-up ixquick, bing, or google for a couple of tries.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 03:00 AM (EzgxV)

402 I just figured out I never set my alarm,
Was reading what I missed yesterday morning

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 03:02 AM (fizMZ)

403 401 There was, BTW, a wave of instability going through search engines just now. I couldn't pull-up ixquick, bing, or google for a couple of tries.

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 03:00 AM (EzgxV)



Which, incidentally, is a reason I've got "cache DNS" on my to-do-list

Posted by: cthulhu at March 17, 2016 03:02 AM (EzgxV)

404 for the Star Wars fans...

Red Leader is NOT standing by

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/220376.php

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 03:17 AM (5wiY1)

405 and with that, since i have to drive all over Lost Angels today, (S Valley, S Bay, Compton, Monterrey Park, NE Valley, Van Nuys and home, ima hit the rack.

see ya later.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 03:19 AM (5wiY1)

406 1 more thing: just noticed that Red Leader's passing was poast #404...

how appropriate.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 17, 2016 03:21 AM (5wiY1)

407 404 to funny,
Anyway article at American thinker going over Missouri' voting numbers. Quickly 38.86% record turnout, both Trump and Cruz each have more than 70,000 votes than Hildabeast.

Posted by: Skip at March 17, 2016 03:37 AM (fizMZ)

408 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 17, 2016 04:30 AM (ptqRm)

409 Happy Saint Patrick's Day, Horde!

May the good fairy wot sits in th' sky grant yer every wish!

(Okay it's from Bored of the Rings but still apropos)

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at March 17, 2016 04:46 AM (jR7Wy)

410 >>> wave of instability going through search engines just now. I couldn't pull-up ixquick, bing, or google for a couple of tries.

As though a billion tiny monkeys with keyboards cried out, then were silent.

Posted by: fluffy at March 17, 2016 04:49 AM (2hcmo)

411 So why does chessgames.com have the Danish Gambit as opening of the day? They should have the Sicilian Defense, O'Kelly version. Probably unwisely used it some day previously.

Posted by: fluffy at March 17, 2016 04:55 AM (2hcmo)

412 May you professional imbibers on this most holy of holy days be safe. And watch out for the amateurs who turn green. A good ten feet ought to keep you clear of the vomitus.

Posted by: RickZ at March 17, 2016 04:57 AM (7hoqr)

413 Had one heck of a little thundercell this morning. I don't know whether it the hail or the the dog trying to crawl under me in bed that woke me up but either are something since I'm a certified sound-sleeper.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 05:23 AM (vKoqL)

414
A West
Baltimoreresident is suing the mayor and the City Council and
two city contractors after she said she experienced emotional and
physical anguish and damage to her home after her toilet exploded in
November 2014. According to the lawsuit, filed in Baltimore City
Circuit Court in February/
Just a little story from the Baltimore Sun to show the way to make a few bucks off the city....


Posted by: colin at March 17, 2016 05:45 AM (og1C6)

415 I see Argentina has sunk a Chinese fishing boat...

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:47 AM (HOQAh)

416 *Looks at watch*

Was getting ready to see if the East Coast had been nuked overnight.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 05:49 AM (vKoqL)

417 Morning all

East coast is still here....for what it's worth

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2016 05:50 AM (mw8Dm)

418 *gives NGU a nickel*

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:52 AM (HOQAh)

419 *gives NGU a nickel*
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:52 AM (HOQAh)

Inflation? Used to only be a penny

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 17, 2016 05:53 AM (mw8Dm)

420 Feeling generous this morning.

I see the VA is firing three at the Phoenix hospital, how about fire the whole agency?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:58 AM (HOQAh)

421 East Coast girls are hip

Posted by: B. Wilson at March 17, 2016 05:59 AM (JO9+V)

422 Congratulations to Sambo and Mrs. Sambo on the birth of a baby girl-their fourth child named "Sambo" ;^). She was born yesterday afternoon around 5;30 Things are made easier in their household by assigning numbers after each Sambo-so they know which one is being called.

Really, congratulations. God knows you al by real name and loves you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:02 AM (w4NZ8)

423 420 Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:58 AM (HOQAh)


especially considering given the idiocy of this administration in all likelihood they fired the three people actually working.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:03 AM (g8Hfr)

424 415 Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 05:47 AM (HOQAh)


Yeah so much for the "Monroe Doctrine"....of course it is not like the US is ready to fight a tier one opponent at any rate.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:04 AM (g8Hfr)

425 Congrats Sambo, Ms. Sambo.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 06:04 AM (vKoqL)

426 Morning all

Posted by: Picric at March 17, 2016 06:04 AM (QnQ+g)

427 Congrats Sambo family...

I wish I had had 30 kids. or 40

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:05 AM (g8Hfr)

428 When it comes to geo-politics and March Madness, Coach Gaylord has turned a first seed team into a sixteenth seed team.

Jya ne!

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 06:07 AM (HOQAh)

429 412 Posted by: RickZ at March 17, 2016 04:57 AM (7hoqr)


Butte tried to go all out for St Paddy's day...

they get drunk, belligerent, and near the edge of life consciousness wise...

and I ask "this is different than yesterday how?"

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:07 AM (g8Hfr)

430 428 Posted by: Anna Puma at March 17, 2016 06:07 AM (HOQAh)


"the annual tradition" that ESPN will not continue if a Republican is elected...

I'd love nothing more than for ESPN to go bankrupt.

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:09 AM (g8Hfr)

431 Throwing some corned beef in the slower cooker after I get the kiddos off to school. Happy St. Patrick's Day! Lots of Patricks in my family.

Posted by: no good deed at March 17, 2016 06:09 AM (GgxVX)

432 "and I ask "this is different than yesterday how?"


They're wearing green today...?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 17, 2016 06:09 AM (vKoqL)

433 William Powell = Slenderman
Chazz Bono = Transgenderman
Tamerlan Tsarnaev = Fenderman
Brando = Contenderman

Today we are all Benderman.

Posted by: angela urkel at March 17, 2016 06:10 AM (TJbU1)

434 ugly video, up at the side-bar. RINO's sitting around feeding at the trough and talking about voting for Hillary, because a criminal is preferable to a junior Stalin.

Posted by: MTF at March 17, 2016 06:11 AM (TxJGV)

435 Tim Hawkins-Guitar Meltdown:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zmvkcnf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:14 AM (w4NZ8)

436 Congrats to the Sambo's!

Posted by: MTF at March 17, 2016 06:15 AM (TxJGV)

437 434 Posted by: MTF at March 17, 2016 06:11 AM (TxJGV)


If you're more afraid of Trump than a woman who shrugs at getting an embassy killed in the wake of a Military Operation approved by no one but Giggles you may need to look in the mirror WRT "what's wrong with America?"

Posted by: sven10077 at March 17, 2016 06:15 AM (g8Hfr)

438 8% body fat

Tim Hawkins:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zg4jhr8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:17 AM (w4NZ8)

439 "If you're more afraid of Trump than a woman who shrugs at getting an embassy killed"
------------------------------------------------

"We didn't lose a single person in Libya" says the Hag.

Can you believe that gall?

Posted by: MTF at March 17, 2016 06:18 AM (TxJGV)

440 Quotes of St. Patrick

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zf7sp97

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:27 AM (w4NZ8)

441 Glad to hear about your son's happy birthday, tcn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 17, 2016 06:38 AM (w4NZ8)

442 That story about the Frenchman stealing cheese is hilarious, as are some of the comments at the DM.

Shows how far the Brits have fallen though, when you have London store employees "terrified" by a 67 year old frog who is throwing blocks of cheese at them.

Nelson is spinning in his grave. That is not the spirit of Trafalgar, chaps.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at March 17, 2016 07:13 AM (P8951)

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