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Overnight Open Thread (4-13-2016) - Oopsie Poopsie Edition
The government of Shanghai says that under new rules residents who fail to visit their elderly parents will get black marks on their credit records.
A new set of regulations released recently by the government of the eastern city says that adult children living apart from their parents should "visit or send greetings often." Parents who think their children are not fulfilling this responsibility can file lawsuits against them for neglect.
Liberal opinion in Britain has, for more than two decades, maintained that most Muslims are just like everyone else. Britain desperately wants to think of its Muslims as versions of the Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, or the cheeky-chappie athlete Mo Farah. But thanks to the most detailed and comprehensive survey of British Muslim opinion yet conducted, we now know that just isn't how it is.
-- Trevor Phillips, former head of Britain's Equalities and Human Rights Commission
Do You Live in a Bubble? Take the Charles Murray Quiz
Do you live in a bubble?There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large, argues Charles Murray, a libertarian political scientist and author.
Take this 25-question quiz, based on a similar one published in Murray's 2012 book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010," to find out just how thick your bubble is.
Patterico: My Answers From The Quiz
One Year Later Fake Black Woman Regrets Nothing
Each of you, my young friends, will find in life some personal "Westerplatte." Some measure of tasks that have to be undertaken and fulfilled. Some rightful cause for which one cannot avoid fighting. Some duty, or necessity, which one cannot shun. From which one cannot desert. Finally, some order of truth and values, which must be held and defended, like this Westerplatte, within oneself and around oneself.
-- Pope John Paul II (1987)
RSM - The New Thought Crime: 'Adultism'
Modern Academia: Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity through Meat-free Sex
Modern Academia: Quote the Bible, Get Expelled
Shock: Actual Grownups Discovered Inside a University Front Office
Ohio State Vice President Jay Kasey to student occupiers: If you don't leave, you will be arrested and expelled.
That Time Soviet School Children Bugged the US Ambassador's Office
The Thing went undetected for years because it was small, required no power source, and was not an active transmitter. Rather it worked by modulating incoming microwave signals with room audio and re-radiating it at a different harmonic frequency. To power it the Soviets had to beam a strong UHF signal at the embassy and have a good receiver listening on the harmonic frequency.
#1 1234 10.713%
#2 1111 6.016%
#3 0000 1.881%
#4 1212 1.197%
#5 7777 0.745%
#6 1004 0.616%
#7 2000 0.613%
#8 4444 0.526%
#9 2222 0.516%
#10 6969 0.512%
#11 9999 0.451%
#12 3333 0.419%
#13 5555 0.395%
#14 6666 0.391%
#15 1122 0.366%
#16 1313 0.304%
#17 8888 0.303%
#18 4321 0.293%
#19 2001 0.290%
#20 1010 0.285%
Remembering When Disneyland Had Real-Life Mermaids
The Group knows your sins but doesn't care.
Tonight's post brought to you by how we meet:
Notice: Posted by implicit permission of AceCorp LLC. Do that thing. Or not. But remember this: the bathrooms do not clean themselves. Nor does Ace's car self-wax.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:05 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:06 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at April 13, 2016 11:06 PM (R5HRU)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:07 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: tbodie at April 13, 2016 11:07 PM (hQt/L)
Posted by: mindful webworker - uncertainly at April 13, 2016 11:07 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:07 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Farmer at April 13, 2016 11:09 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:09 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at April 13, 2016 11:10 PM (P8951)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:10 PM (voOPb)
Bunch of good content to soak up. Thanks, Matlock Error.
Posted by: Chi at April 13, 2016 11:10 PM (Te2JU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 13, 2016 11:11 PM (sl+zA)
No meat during sex? Ok, fine.
But there best be sammiches afterward!
Posted by: typical Moron at April 13, 2016 11:12 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Jim at April 13, 2016 11:12 PM (McRlu)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 13, 2016 11:13 PM (EzgxV)
Choose snark:
a) So, just lesbians, then?
b) But, we're all meat! https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ
c) That was supposed to be "meet"?
d) (c) was lame.
e) Flying none of the above.
Posted by: mindful webworker - undecidedly at April 13, 2016 11:13 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:13 PM (bQxkN)
I don't want to kill this person, but what happens in a private atmosphere may be damaging to their fragile psyche.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (pUDQf)
Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (xUVR8)
Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: davidt at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (8aOqE)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (KlVdw)
Cultural and class questions aside, anyone who transacts their daily personal business in United States dollars is living in a bubble.
Posted by: torquewrench at April 13, 2016 11:15 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 13, 2016 11:15 PM (sl+zA)
Posted by: mindful webworker - underwateredly at April 13, 2016 11:16 PM (5a8XA)
What am I supposed to slap her thighs with?
Posted by: garrett at April 13, 2016 11:14 PM (xUVR
Silicone?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:16 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 13, 2016 11:16 PM (pUDQf)
>>What am I supposed to slap her thighs with?
Bar-B-Q sauce is 'technically' not meat ...
Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Cuisine Critic ... at April 13, 2016 11:16 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Abiss at April 13, 2016 10:58 PM (UsgHM)
Cross my heart and hope to die,
I'm scentless, silent, and totally dry!
(muahahah! sucka!)
Posted by: Your cheatin' fart at April 13, 2016 11:16 PM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 13, 2016 11:17 PM (sl+zA)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at April 13, 2016 11:18 PM (YJmuy)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 13, 2016 11:18 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Blano at April 13, 2016 11:19 PM (heN73)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 13, 2016 11:16 PM (pUDQf)
Blano's definition of sex:
Something other people get to enjoy.
Posted by: Blano at April 13, 2016 11:20 PM (heN73)
Posted by: NCKate at April 13, 2016 11:21 PM (B7rRP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 13, 2016 11:15 PM (sl+zA)
mMmmmmm. Rubenesque women. Nom.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 13, 2016 11:21 PM (TVASf)
Posted by: Your cheatin' fart at April 13, 2016 11:22 PM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:22 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: tbodie at April 13, 2016 11:22 PM (hQt/L)
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 13, 2016 11:22 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Kim Kardashian's Gluteus Maximus at April 13, 2016 11:23 PM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: tbodie at April 13, 2016 11:24 PM (hQt/L)
Posted by: mindful webworker - fresh out of banter at April 13, 2016 11:25 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 13, 2016 11:25 PM (TVASf)
Bless her heart
Posted by: tmitsss at April 13, 2016 11:25 PM (sUvQQ)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 13, 2016 11:16 PM (pUDQf) fnord (pUDQf)
Don't ask me, as far as I'm concerned it's a myth.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 13, 2016 11:27 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 13, 2016 11:27 PM (wB8Tg)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 13, 2016 11:12 PM (McRlu)
I laughed. That was pretty good.
Posted by: Moki at April 13, 2016 11:28 PM (ezHMO)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 13, 2016 11:28 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: JoeF. at April 13, 2016 11:28 PM (8HGb7)
-Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 13, 2016 11:17 PM (sl+zA)
-Well, there would be thirty forms to fill-out.
-Seventeen needing approval from several different boards.
-Seven, of which, you would have to appear in front-of, so as to state your case.
-Fourteen-Thousand Dollars in Fees, Fines, Regulatory Expenses and Taxes.
-A written statement from the Mermaid's Fish-Father on the declared intent.
-An installed sink near the door of an aquatic establishment. -(Hygiene)
...and a written Pledge of Safety against Fish-Fuckers.
So there's that.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:28 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Ignoramus
-----------------
That's awesome. Good for you!
I saw SD @ Meriwether Post Pavilion on their first tour in decades - I remember almost floating out afterwards...
No. Not high, just a very happy man.
(Yeah, I'm a big fan. Sorry, zombie)
Posted by: Chi at April 13, 2016 11:31 PM (Te2JU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 13, 2016 11:15 PM (sl+zA)
It is the most erotic of the salted, cured meats
Posted by: George Costanza at April 13, 2016 11:32 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 13, 2016 11:33 PM (ucDmr)
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:33 PM (bQxkN)
Scored a 63 on the Charles Murray test. If they had asked about sleazy honky-tonks and sleeping on the sidewalk, I might have bumped that up a bit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 13, 2016 11:34 PM (9mTYi)
Watching an exchange last night, I thought, not only can you be a socially-helpful advisor, you can be admirably patient with some commenter's temperamental response.
And in longer-range observation, I'd say, by the time a commenter's temperament has degenerated to the point of flaming at you, they're pretty much tempting the banhammer, in general.
For whatever such observations are worth. (2¢ less sales tax)
Posted by: mindful webworker - jus' sayin' at April 13, 2016 11:34 PM (5a8XA)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:35 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 13, 2016 11:35 PM (ucDmr)
Quote the bible- get expelled. Scary stuff coming out of Britain (no longer Great). The quote was from a private facebook discussionlater made public, not at school.
But a little further down the page is a 20 minute video about men that have used the transgender bathroom laws to sneak into women's bathrooms and video or spy on the women folk. Many of them registered sex offenders.
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 13, 2016 11:35 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: don lemon at April 13, 2016 11:37 PM (3MK6t)
If you have a chance to see Boz he's in fine form with a solid band. His voice has actually gotten better with time. He does blues R&B ballads rock and even threw into two cajun songs
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:38 PM (bQxkN)
Posted by: don lemon at April 13, 2016 11:37 PM (3MK6t)
Pffffff
Posted by: Anderson Cooper
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:38 PM (voOPb)
That wouldn't do at all.
I live inside a sturdy plastic
human hamster ball.
Posted by: mindful webworker - rollin' at April 13, 2016 11:38 PM (5a8XA)
The bartender says: "What the holy hell was that?"
The man says: "Hey even Frank Sinatra has to clear his throat."
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 13, 2016 11:38 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: bubble boy at April 13, 2016 11:39 PM (3MK6t)
Posted by: JoeF. at April 13, 2016 11:28 PM (8HGb7)
There's a little-known album, "James Newton Howard and Friends" that was recorded at Sheffield Labs in Montecito, California that really shows Porcaro at the top of his game. It was recorded direct-to-lp-master with a digital copy. Each side was done in a single take. Besides percussion, every other instrument is a Yamaha synth, played by an LA session musician.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 13, 2016 11:39 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:39 PM (bQxkN)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 13, 2016 11:40 PM (9ym/8)
My high-school coach introduced me to my husband- he was a blind date to a dance in 1970.
My bubble score was 37, but I, too, wonder about the preconceived notions behind the questions.
Posted by: Sal at April 13, 2016 11:40 PM (MRX6w)
Posted by: don lemon at April 13, 2016 11:40 PM (3MK6t)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:41 PM (OQ9R7)
McGyver, out
Posted by: McGyver at April 13, 2016 11:43 PM (roQ8j)
I may have just cursed it.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 13, 2016 11:44 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 13, 2016 11:44 PM (fC9RO)
Posted by: scrood at April 13, 2016 11:45 PM (3b9U4)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 13, 2016 11:45 PM (3MK6t)
4-4 after facing giants Astros and Cards I'm thrilled!!
Imagine if Peralta pitched like something even remotely close to a top starter.
They aren't going to be as bad as everyone assumes
Posted by: H Badger at April 13, 2016 11:46 PM (+xIXD)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:46 PM (ntObR)
I just recently finally got his 1976 classic album "Silk Degrees." Very good, wish I had discovered it sooner.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:47 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 11:47 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:48 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 13, 2016 11:48 PM (3MK6t)
Watching an exchange last night, I thought, not only can you be a socially-helpful advisor, you can be admirably patient with some commenter's temperamental response.
And in longer-range observation, I'd say, by the time a commenter's temperament has degenerated to the point of flaming at you, they're pretty much tempting the banhammer, in general.
For whatever such observations are worth. (2¢ less sales tax)
Posted by: mindful webworker - jus' sayin' at April 13, 2016 11:34 PM (5a8XA)
Appreciate the kind words. I was a young obnoxious punk on top of the world until I was dumped by my college girlfriend. The realization that not everything goes the way I want it to led me to reassess the messages I was sending -- and realize that I'd frequently hurt people I cared about by not considering their situation.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 13, 2016 11:48 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:39 PM (bQxkN)
I wouldn't bet against Ian Andersons band at the moment. They've been on the road basically 2 years
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:48 PM (voOPb)
The Male whale sees a ship and gets pissed: "That's the ship that harpooned my father!", he gurgles.
The female says: "What are you going to do about it?"
The male devises a plan: "We'll both swim beneath that boat and blow out all our air and it will capsize."
The female says: "What if they swim and reach the shore?"
The male says: "We eat them before they reach the shore."
The female says: "Listen... I was okay with the blow-job, but if you think I'm swallowing seamen, you're fucking crazy!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 13, 2016 11:48 PM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:48 PM (ntObR)
I couldn't agree more.
I almost sent a couple emails today, but decided against it (I don't want to bother these good folks).
But, it's what that guy does. Regularly. Not the first time, won't be the last...
Posted by: Chi at April 13, 2016 11:49 PM (Te2JU)
Posted by: H Badger at April 13, 2016 11:49 PM (+xIXD)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:35 PM (voOPb)
....except it never was a "band", as such. It was Fagan and Becker and whatever studio guys ended up on the wax.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 13, 2016 11:50 PM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 13, 2016 11:50 PM (9ym/8)
Not seeing any ALL CAPS DRUDGE POSTS.
Did we leave that horse alone....granted, it was funny as hell.
How's everybody.
*scrolling up
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 11:50 PM (hlMPp)
Knowing it ain't really smart...
Posted by: juicy newton at April 13, 2016 11:50 PM (fshLz)
God those guys were outrageous -- e.g. Animal House is tame compared to a lot of the rest of what they did.
They would be crucified today for putting out even a single issue.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:51 PM (bQxkN)
Why is he standing in your spangled leather poncho
with the alligator shoes?
Bodacious cowboys
such as your friend
will never be welcome here
high in the Custerdome
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:51 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: H Badger at April 13, 2016 11:49 PM (+xIXD)
I almost never go out to eat as it is. I have owned a pickup truck though.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 11:51 PM (0mRoj)
Course I'll have to adjust my sleep cycles, quit my job, sleep alone, get some sort of blue light blocker........
Posted by: kraken at April 13, 2016 11:51 PM (sdxPm)
ace and everyone were talking in Drudgeline speak.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (hlMPp)
I got a 36, my husband scored an 11. I'm not sure what it means.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: tbodie at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (hQt/L)
If you ask me,
A bunch of bores,
Like two prides of lions,
exchanging roars ...
Posted by: Adriane the Bad Poetry Critic ... at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: Dolly Shartin' at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (3MK6t)
Posted by: Kindltot at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (TVASf)
ace and everyone were talking in Drudgeline speak.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (hlMPp)
That was meant for Ricardo Kill.
I swear, EVERY iOS update they fuck it up even more.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 11:53 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:53 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: cthulhu
------------------
Which was usually 35+ of the best studio musicians of their day.
If you told me that I could only take ONE album with me on that deserted island?
Gaucho.
Posted by: Chi at April 13, 2016 11:54 PM (Te2JU)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 13, 2016 11:54 PM (HalrA)
103 RWC- SEE ME AT 42!
Posted by: tbodie at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (hQt/L)
Gawddammit.
Well, the horde doesn't disappoint.
But that was headache inducing while being funny.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 11:54 PM (hlMPp)
Posted by: H Badger at April 13, 2016 11:55 PM (+xIXD)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 13, 2016 11:54 PM (HalrA)
That's another thing. I watch very little network TV.
Posted by: Insomniac at April 13, 2016 11:55 PM (0mRoj)
Quite true in their heyday, but they have a cast of regulars now that have done all their stuff for the last ten years and more. e.g. the Stones steal Cindy Mozelle away as their #1 backup when they do their tours, but she always come back to the Dan
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:55 PM (bQxkN)
Also, do assholes go around quizzing their neighbors on degrees acquired?
Posted by: Lauren at April 13, 2016 11:55 PM (+xTTN)
Just finished my taxes.
I hate the IRS with the heat of a thousand burning galaxies.
Gonna read the content now.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 13, 2016 11:56 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: jake at April 13, 2016 11:56 PM (92+OH)
Read the story of the album at Wiki, apparently Becker and Fagen had all kinds of trouble getting it completed, including having to dump a song after an engineer accidentally erased the master... this after literally months of supposedly trying to get that one track perfect.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:56 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: jake at April 13, 2016 11:56 PM (92+OH)
ace and everyone were talking in Drudgeline speak.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 11:52 PM (hlMPp)
That was meant for Ricardo Kill.
I swear, EVERY iOS update they fuck it up even more.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 13, 2016 11:53 PM (hlMPp)
Entropy.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 13, 2016 11:56 PM (EzgxV)
I like Boz scaggs. Lido shuffle.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2016 11:56 PM (egOGm)
Posted by: H Badger at April 13, 2016 11:57 PM (+xIXD)
Posted by: scoville at April 13, 2016 11:57 PM (0adl+)
Posted by: jake at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (92+OH)
**looks at left hand**
Boston
**looks at right hand**
Head East - Flat as a Pancake
Yeah, I'm gonna cheat on this one.
Posted by: tbodie at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (hQt/L)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720306320599986181
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720306494051262464
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720306644802928641
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720306816714809346
Posted by: kbdabear at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (G3ZCw)
Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Infrastructure Critic ... at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (AoK0a)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: cthulhu
------------------
Which was usually 35+ of the best studio musicians of their day.
If you told me that I could only take ONE album with me on that deserted island?
Gaucho.
Posted by: Chi at April 13, 2016 11:54 PM (Te2JU)
I'd probably go for Aja over Gaucho.....
Posted by: cthulhu at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (EzgxV)
Just got finished. Scored a 50.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (9ym/8)
I did a Drudge headline, not realizing it was against the rules right now
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (bQxkN)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (3MK6t)
I like Boz scaggs. Lido shuffle.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 13, 2016 11:56 PM (egOGm
I always liked Robert Palmer, esp. "Some Like it Hot".
Posted by: kraken at April 13, 2016 11:59 PM (sdxPm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 13, 2016 11:59 PM (ntObR)
One thing that stood out was "have you hitchhiked?"
That seems more like an age question than a bubble question. I've hitchhiked oodles and picked up countless hitchhikers, but that's a thing of the past.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 13, 2016 11:59 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 13, 2016 11:59 PM (voOPb)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720306978963099648
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720307137558151168
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720307297675706368
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/720307443301912577
Posted by: kbdabear at April 13, 2016 11:59 PM (G3ZCw)
Gonna get 'em before long. I already have Gaucho...
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:00 AM (ntObR)
Bless his soul.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2016 12:00 AM (TVASf)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 14, 2016 12:00 AM (3MK6t)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:00 AM (+xTTN)
and I'm smiling,
walk a mile to
drink of water ...
Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Infrastructure Critic ... at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM (AoK0a)
Y'know I'd
love to love you
and above you
is no other....
Posted by: cthulhu in the past at April 14, 2016 12:01 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: gm at April 14, 2016 12:01 AM (K0tm3)
Apparently there is a bunch of Left Wing lunatics who unironically post in a magazine called "Jacobin". Apparently in this magazine, they allow grad students who rant idiotically how the Constitution is for suxxors!
More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=11468
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 14, 2016 12:02 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 14, 2016 12:02 AM (ucDmr)
Today was enough for me to register displeasure on the caps thread.
I did,and got invited to find my safe space by Ace.
Didn't find much funny on that thread, it was ( to me) juvenile when it got going.
Guess I'll keep what commenting I do here on the ONT.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:02 AM (P/8aq)
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2016 12:02 AM (sdxPm)
Posted by: The Devil that what Disguises Hell as a desert island with a Stingy Music Store ... at April 14, 2016 12:02 AM (AoK0a)
I know the occupation of my immediate neighbors and that is it.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:03 AM (+xTTN)
I had not heard of most of the TC shows they listed nor seen a single one of the movies.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:03 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: JROD at April 14, 2016 12:03 AM (wnwJC)
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 12:03 AM (8QGte)
I can't comment on day threads from work anymore for some reason, but I won't even if I'm home reading on my lunch break.
I'd just rather hang out here with the more mellow crowd.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 12:03 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 12:04 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 14, 2016 12:04 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:04 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 14, 2016 12:04 AM (sqpGi)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:04 AM (egOGm)
Yeah, especially since my trashier neighborhoods were in NYC where it was rare to know one neighbor.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 14, 2016 12:05 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Jim at April 14, 2016 12:05 AM (McRlu)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at April 13, 2016 11:10 PM (P8951)
Now if they would be so kind as to beat the Cubbies. I'm sick of their fans already ordering their World Series tickets.
The Mets are driving me nuts, getting great pitching as expected other than Matz the other night being unable to shake the rust, but they're not hitting even bad pitching right now. Every marginal pitcher looks like Kershaw against them. They've got the talent to hit, but it drives me nuts waiting for them to break out of a teamwide hitting slump. Then there's Terry Collins bullpen management for drama even when they do manage to score.
Posted by: kbdabear at April 14, 2016 12:05 AM (G3ZCw)
Posted by: Othello at April 14, 2016 12:06 AM (Z1+Wk)
-Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:02 AM (P/8aq)
You got the "gist" wrong. I read your post and I think you misinterpreted the CAPITAL LETTERS.
It was a "Drudge joke."
He writes headlines in CAPS all the time.
You missed the "intro", I.G.
Glad you're still here!!!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 12:06 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:07 AM (ntObR)
Saw that happen today. It all got kind of stupid,so I checked out. I really don't like the tribal warfare, and fight-picking.
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2016 12:07 AM (sdxPm)
Posted by: Othello at April 14, 2016 12:06 AM (Z1+Wk)
Is that like Moor's law where it gets twice as complicated every two years?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 14, 2016 12:07 AM (TVASf)
asked about sleazy honky-tonks and sleeping on the sidewalk, I might
have bumped that up a bit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 13, 2016 11:34 PM (9mTYi)
I have actually been to the Dew Drop Inn of "The Waltons" fame. It is a shit hole of a honky-tonk that we stopped at when my granddad took us up into the mountains to see the homestead where he grew up.
Even without a question about honky-tonks, I scored a 75 on that quiz.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:08 AM (nUJM6)
The closest restaurant to your house is inside a gas station. And the menu was not in English.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:08 AM (+xTTN)
-Posted by: kbdabear at April 14, 2016 12:05 AM (G3ZCw)
I'd have thought you'd lived in Cleveland with that post!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 12:08 AM (OQ9R7)
My head is always held high--for the reason I state each night.
I'm not butthurt, simply respect the host enough not to get into a pissing match.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:08 AM (P/8aq)
Not first song by far. 3rd album? Katy Lied, I think?
I'm sure Fagan wrote it.
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:09 AM (Te2JU)
This is the... O N T!!!!
Posted by: king leonidas at April 14, 2016 12:09 AM (3MK6t)
Posted by: Warren/Kerry 2016 at April 14, 2016 12:09 AM (Z1+Wk)
Ummm...
Option B-Taqueria
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:10 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Othello
Better than having a heart attack ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1X4FZxx6CQ
Posted by: Adriane the TV Critic ... at April 14, 2016 12:10 AM (AoK0a)
Doesn't he do work for the defense dept? I've seen him on Red Eye.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:10 AM (egOGm)
was a regular in last year's set list.
Nearly every great studio drummer has played with Steely Dan. Jim Gordon -- who wrote the second half of Layla -- played drums on the Dan's third album and brought along the son of his friend, Jeff Porcaro. Jim and Jeff played double drums on Parkers Band, when Jeff was 17 or 18. Jeff than played 9 of 10 tracks on the 4th album, Katy Lied. The 10th track was drummed by the legend of legends, Hal Blaine
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 14, 2016 12:10 AM (bQxkN)
Guess I'll keep what commenting I do here on the ONT.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:02 AM (P/8aq)
IG, glad your still around. Lately you have to pick and choose what threads you want to be involved in. I do. I still scroll through but any T/C fight threads I'm out. I think the horde was just blowing off steam through humor rather than fighting. Still a shit ton of good folks here.
My .0002 Zimbabwean cents.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 12:11 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 14, 2016 12:11 AM (BYJ2T)
Not first song by far. 3rd album? Katy Lied, I think?
I'm sure Fagan wrote it.
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:09 AM (Te2JU)
Thanks. That's it. I never here it on my Classic Oldies station. Go figure.....
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2016 12:11 AM (sdxPm)
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:11 AM (92+OH)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 12:12 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:12 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 14, 2016 12:12 AM (3MK6t)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:12 AM (+xTTN)
My # 161 was a fond nod of respect to ya, sir. An acknowledgement, if you will.
And I agree with you on passing on the butthurt. I concur, the joke ran stale by the 50th comment, with scant few glimmers of the usual Moronic Brilliance sprinkled randomly about.
But really, not enough brilliance to save the thread, or the joke.
Frankly, it made Kaboom seem to be nutritious and delicious.
And now, I'm hungry.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at April 14, 2016 12:12 AM (McRlu)
Posted by: Alan Moor at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (Z1+Wk)
Good day.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (egOGm)
He lives not too far away from me. Very interesting man. I think he is living humbly these days, which is likely appropriate for a man of his years.
Back in the day he was making bank like a bandit.
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (BYJ2T)
Posted by: NCKate at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (B7rRP)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2016 12:13 AM (sdxPm)
Downgraded to a 34.
Hoping for a 32.
Beach and boat season coming up
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 12:14 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: king leonidas at April 14, 2016 12:15 AM (3MK6t)
Bill Whittle, Firewall
Fuck Yeah!!!
https://www.billwhittle.com/firewall/appropriate
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 12:16 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: dennis moore at April 14, 2016 12:16 AM (3MK6t)
Well, at least the owl-ettes dined well this evening.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:16 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Alan Moor at April 14, 2016 12:17 AM (Z1+Wk)
For those of you who didn't read the comments at the link - Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity through Meat-free Sex
Here's one: "Of course they turn to each other. No sane person has any interest in physical relations with a spindly, ricket-ridden, milky, wizened, dim-eyed, gammy-handed, limpy thing."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:17 AM (mxCgt)
Posted by: Zakn at April 14, 2016 12:17 AM (d2pTe)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:08 AM (+xTTN)
The menu was in English, but until we moved recently (to a much less gunfire-y neighborhood) the closest food establishment was inside the BP Gas Station a block away from our house. Their cook made most excellent soul food (pigs feet, pork chop sandwiches, collard greens, mac and cheese, bologna burgers and really good peach cobbler).
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:17 AM (nUJM6)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 14, 2016 12:11 AM (BYJ2T)
*bebe's peeking in to make sure of clean undies...
**going through bebe's laundry while she is distracted...
BLOG COMMENTER IS KIDDING!!
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 12:17 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 12:17 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Michael Moor at April 14, 2016 12:18 AM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:19 AM (P/8aq)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 14, 2016 12:19 AM (DW+jj)
Chili's, which was crap, revamped their menu and now is pretty good for a casual bite.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 12:19 AM (hlMPp)
Peeks in. Is it safe? Everyone have clean undies on?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 14, 2016 12:11 AM (BYJ2T)
Does no underwear count?
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 14, 2016 12:19 AM (fC9RO)
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, and his horse Concorde.
He steals from the rich and gives to the poor,
Mr Moore, Mr Moore, Mr Moore.
dum, dum, dum
Posted by: chorus at April 14, 2016 12:20 AM (3MK6t)
Posted by: Michael Moor at April 14, 2016 12:20 AM (Z1+Wk)
It's been a while since I saw skunk on red eye, I got the impression he was a conservative in military matters. I think he may be good at math. Music and math are connected?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:20 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:20 AM (mxCgt)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 14, 2016 12:21 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 14, 2016 12:21 AM (sqpGi)
I've had the Chili's enchiladas, a fairly new menu item. Pretty good, pretty good.
Used to like Applebee's for a decent, quick cheap steak. Haven't been (or had steak) in a long time.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:21 AM (9ym/8)
Oh and speaking of ownership of rethuglikkkan items, my kids had a check up today and they gave me a paper telling me that guns make my house less safe, dontchaknow.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:21 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:20 AM (egOGm)
He's an expert in missle defense.
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 14, 2016 12:22 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 14, 2016 12:22 AM (3MK6t)
mow lawns
change sprinkler pipes/hand lines
move wheel lines
buck hay(unpaid)
set siphon tubes
dig ditch
hoe onions
work cattle
roofer
framer
painter
grounds keeper
auto mechanic
retail sales
retail cashier
concrete worker
work in cattle slaughter house on both the kill floor and the fab room
I don't do that now, because I busted my ass for a better job
those snowflakes can suck my ass and I'm not even 50 yet
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (92+OH)
If my SUV is built on a legit truck frame does that count?
I could go back and grab some more points.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: concrete girl at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (ceWrl)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: Michael Jackson at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (Z1+Wk)
Drinking moonshine......eating greens.....screwing your cousin........
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (9ym/8)
So are we. My husband drives a pickup and drinks coors light. We are definitely country, I think the quiz is goofy.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (egOGm)
When I was a kid we'd get a churchkey and use it to pop holes around the lower end of a coffee can. Then we'd flip the can upside down over a lit candle, fry up some bologna for sandwiches.
If you're old enough to be on my lawn you know what I am talking about.
Posted by: tbodie at April 14, 2016 12:23 AM (hQt/L)
Morning coffee get together conversation started off with "how many did you hear" and "which direction did they come from".
Posted by: Ralph at April 14, 2016 12:24 AM (gjgWX)
The menu was in English, but until we moved recently (to a much less gunfire-y neighborhood) the closest food establishment was inside the BP Gas Station a block away from our house. Their cook made most excellent soul food (pigs feet, pork chop sandwiches, collard greens, mac and cheese, bologna burgers and really good peach cobbler).
Posted by: redbanzai
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Send me some GPS coordinates, please!
I might find myself in that area next week - do they know how to fry a chicken liver?
(BTW, a BP around the corner from me has the best soul food you've ever tasted! )
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:24 AM (Te2JU)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:24 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:24 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: Michael Jackson at April 14, 2016 12:25 AM (Z1+Wk)
Not to be a dick, but me too. Keep your yard mowed, your dog outta my yard, no wild parties.....we're good. I don't need to make small-talk with you or anything. My time alone is precious.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:25 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 14, 2016 12:19 AM
Makes mental note to never sit on Alex's sofa when he moves out here.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at April 14, 2016 12:26 AM (BYJ2T)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:26 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 14, 2016 12:27 AM (3MK6t)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 12:27 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 12:27 AM (HtUkt)
I might find myself in that area next week - do they know how to fry a chicken liver?
(BTW, a BP around the corner from me has the best soul food you've ever tasted! )
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:24 AM (Te2JU)
Sadly their fried chicken livers were not all that great. Every time I got them, they were overfried and chewy... not gizzard chewy but chewy nonetheless. BTW, they also have fried gizzards.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:28 AM (nUJM6)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:28 AM (P/8aq)
Because people with active open minds and a bit of curiosity usually don't have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes to understand their perspective. Just a matter of thinking.
Most of the most "bubbled" people I know would score middling scores. They are bubbled because they are incurious, crippled by strong assumptions/bigotries from the outset, and marinating in nonsense and supportive crap (media, pop culture) 24 hours a day.
I don't think it's about bubbles - those are always entirely a product of an individual's own choices, predilections, abilities, habits.
And it's really about thinking, or not thinking, critically.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
How'd you like to be a cunt tender? I can't take much more of this.
Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM (Z1+Wk)
Yep, and it wasn't that fancy-schmancy Oscar Meyer bologna, either. It was the kind the meat market guy cut off a huge log of grainy mystery meat. And it was spelled "baloney" right there on the package.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM (rJUlF)
GO PENS!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2016 12:30 AM (syGA0)
Being raised by commonsense parents did the trick. Doing ag work at 10 keeps you real.
Hang around smokers because it triggers flashbacks. That way I don't need one... today.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at April 14, 2016 12:30 AM (HOB9K)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 14, 2016 12:30 AM (MNgU2)
Posted by: andycanuck at April 14, 2016 12:30 AM (3MK6t)
You can be elite without being a snob. I have to think about it long and hard to come up with just how I'd put things and classify things.
Me, I have a contrarian streak that doesn't want to go along with the crowd. You're not going to see me anywhere near outlets of mass-market cultural rot LIV shit.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 14, 2016 12:30 AM (DW+jj)
How to make fire with a lemon. Well, lessee. You need a lemon, steel wool, 5 steel nails, wire, and 5 copper nails. Riiiight! I always have those in my pockets when I get lost in the woods. How about a Bic lighter instead?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2016 12:30 AM (UsLZp)
Here's a question. How do I keep mice out of my car engine?
It rained last week so I drove my Tahoe. I opened my hood to put the trickle charger on my car and I found this.
http://tinypic.com/r/301pzx0/9
I live on a ranch.
I don't open the hood unless I'm not going to drive the car for a while.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:31 AM (egOGm)
Yes, I have lived in poverty,and if Obama gets his way, I will be again. When I was a kid, we lived subsistence in Alaska. Shoot a moose and catch fish and grow veggies and taters, or perish. We were just fine, thank you.
Yes, I have lived for extended periods in towns with as few as 400 people. I'm from Alaska. We do that. Wisconsin, too, for that matter. Mazomanie finally has more than 5,000 to count, but you can bet most of them are on farms.
I have wrapped packages, cleaned fish, bussed tables, waited tables, answered phones and mucked out barns for a living. Right now I make soap, in a tiny factory, and yes, everything hurts. That's why God made weekends.
I also have a Master's Degree and an architectural license, some of my friends have Doctorates, some drive trucks, one hauls trash, and such.
I think that survey is a pile of horse manure, something I'm sure the author of said survey has never shoveled a day in his life.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:31 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:31 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM (+xTTN)
It is amazing how hooked to our memories food can be.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:31 AM (nUJM6)
One is on the Muscle Schoals AL studio and their house band. The first thing they recorded was a song sung by a sharecropper's son who lived down the road, Percy Sledge. Aretha Franklin made her name here. These guys got a bit of pay, but no fame. Except Duane Allman. Hearing Wilson Pickett's cover of Hey Jude over in England, Eric Clapton went on a mission to find the guy who did the outro guitar lead. He expected to find an old black guy.
Another is on LA's Wrecking Crew, where Hal Blaine was the #1 drummer. They were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and then did more. These guys got pay, most got no fame, but a few broke out on their own. Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Sonny & Cher.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown is about Motown's house band, the Funk Brothers. These guys got no money and no fame. Bass player James Jamerson may be the best of all time, and hardly anyone know his name.
It's amazing how much these three groups of musicians influenced all of our popular music in the 1960s and 1970s.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 14, 2016 12:32 AM (bQxkN)
mowed for 2 years then moved up to irragating.......
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:32 AM (92+OH)
Mmm. Fried.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 14, 2016 12:32 AM (3MK6t)
They can't do that or wear that because SJW Rulez!.
Microwave ovens, (Percy Spencer), should be off-limits. Smart phones, (Steve Jobs), are appropriating White Culture.
White males invented the internet. They invented Facebook and Twitter.
Immunization and Pasteurization, as well as most antiseptics should not be available to Those Who Refuse To Invent.
Not my words...
Bill Whittle says it much better than I:
https://www.billwhittle.com/firewall/appropriate
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 12:32 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:31 AM (egOGm)
Dryer sheets. It works in the camper, which we fold up and put away for the winter. I got tired of having to replace mouse-pissed-upon cushions, so now I load the floor with dryer sheets before we put it away. Works like a charm.
I guess they don't like to get all fluffy and static free.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:32 AM (+YMhA)
I'm sure it was a fine cut of meat. Don't mind the eyelashes and hoof chunks.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:32 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (QDnY+)
They probably gave me serious points for checking Waffle House with enthusiasm.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (T/5A0)
Posted by: JROD at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (wnwJC)
Posted by: Hal L. Chicken at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (Z1+Wk)
I scored 57.
How come no Golden Corral? Ours here rocks.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:28 AM (P/8aq)
Haven't been to a local one but there was one by Kings Dominion back in the day that was really good (for a buffet.)
Now we only have Old Country Buffet.
No thanks.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: gm at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (K0tm3)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:34 AM (+xTTN)
You mentioned hole-in-the-wall places.
Any Mexican places in that category in your area that come to mind? ("your area" encompassing northern SB county and southern SLO county)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 12:34 AM (QDnY+)
It is. Had a lot of balogna sammiches for lunch as a kid and I can remember the way the tasted. But it seems like none of the balogna I can but today tastes like it did back then.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:35 AM (9ym/8)
No I think you can get up to 100? I'm not sure about that though.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:35 AM (+xTTN)
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Not to be a dick, but me too. Keep your yard mowed, your dog outta my yard, no wild parties.....we're good. I don't need to make small-talk with you or anything. My time alone is precious.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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I'm the exact opposite.
I have been in, under, on top of or in the attic of 70% of the houses on my block.
Keep your friends close...
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:36 AM (Te2JU)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (QDnY+)
Every day at 5:00 sharp, we in Anchorage get to hear the National Anthem and then taps, courtesy of Joint Base Elmendorf-Ft. Richardson. It is a lovely sound.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:36 AM (+YMhA)
They probably gave me serious points for checking Waffle House with enthusiasm.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (T/5A0)>>>
I forgot to even include Waffle House. We don't have any around here, but when we went cross country last a few months back, hit it several times.
Posted by: gm at April 14, 2016 12:36 AM (K0tm3)
I suppose that we will just have to deal with the consequent devastation.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:36 AM (mxCgt)
Posted by: garrett at April 14, 2016 12:36 AM (xUVR8)
We called it the Redneck birthday.
He loved it from end to end.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (9ym/8)
Something to watch in Saratoga Springs, they passed an ordinance requiring all firearms be kept under lock and key when not being used.
No more gun on the nightstand or shotgun near the bed. Has to be secured.
No mention on how they plan to verify that.
It stems from a kid finding a loaded handgun with predictable results. No evidence the parent ever taught the kid about gun safety.
So the creeping cancer that is the left managed to get a ridiculous ordinance enacted. Our fishwrap is orgasmic about it, and wants the same for our county.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (P/8aq)
Posted by: JROD at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (wnwJC)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (mxCgt)
-Posted by: Hal L. Chicken at April 14, 2016 12:33 AM (Z1+Wk)
The Moors changed the bloodline of Sicilians forever!
Heh?
...yeah.
*gets shot in head*
Worth It.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (OQ9R7)
Interesting.
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 12:38 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:31 AM (+YMhA)
Yeah, the quiz was rigged. But I like to see how they see me.
"Did every part of your body hurt?"
Well yes....but I didn't go through the hell of cleaning a cereal bowl.
Fuckers never worked a day in their life and they want to cast aspersions. Fuck them. Fuck that grinned up quiz.
Gin?!?
-Hillary!!
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 12:38 AM (hlMPp)
Posted by: garrett at April 14, 2016 12:38 AM (xUVR8)
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (P/8aq)
That's easy. Always keep it on hand, and always be prepared to use it. You can explain that when you point it directly at the leftist asshat who feels the need to ring your doorbell to tell you to lock it up.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:39 AM (+YMhA)
Mmm. Fried.
Posted by: andycanuck at April 14, 2016 12:32 AM (3MK6t)
Bologna burgers are really thick cut (about 1/2 inch) so they don't curl up. My grandma used to make us fried bologna using the thinner stuff though. She made no attempt to make it not pop up and called it bologna hats... we loved them
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:39 AM (nUJM6)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2016 12:40 AM (syGA0)
No mention on how they plan to verify that.
It stems from a kid finding a loaded handgun with predictable results."
I think it would be that. Kid shoots self/someone else.....not "secured" and whammo. Also if the cops are called to your house and find an un-locked firearm in the open. Whammo again.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:40 AM (9ym/8)
Used ones (only used, not new) are simply magic in the tumblers used to clean brass for reloading ammunition. Absorb suppress the dust and absorb the carbon/lead residues, like magic.
Walnut shell "lizard litter" from the pet store, used dryer sheets, mineral spirits, liquid car wax - and beautiful shiny brass (with even a hint of wax that makes resizing easier - though for rifle you add lube to each case at the press).
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 12:40 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 12:40 AM (HtUkt)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 14, 2016 12:41 AM (MNgU2)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 14, 2016 12:41 AM (DW+jj)
A rat chewed the wires on a new hauling truck we parked here over the winter, $4,000 worth of damage. The guy at the dealership found the rat. I saw the pic. It was huge.
Last week, they chewed the wires to the battery in the riding mower. I have a live trap trying to catch that one.
Do I put the dryer sheets in the engine compartment?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:41 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Roethlisberger News Network at April 14, 2016 12:42 AM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 14, 2016 12:41 AM (DW+jj)
My mother's invaluable advice: Bake whatever you want to. If it fails, dump it over ice cream and claim that's what it's supposed to be. Works every damned time.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:42 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: redbanzai
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See? We need to make up our own quiz: "Have you ever eaten fried bologna?" That would be worth at least 10 points.
I would add: "Have you ever slopped hogs?" Hell, that would be an easy 10 pointer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:42 AM (mxCgt)
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 12:43 AM (HtUkt)
Posted by: Rbastid at April 14, 2016 12:43 AM (SSvAG)
Like my steaks well-done. Burnt up. Watching a cooking show I learned restys save the worst/oldest cuts for "well-done" orders.
Oh well, that's the way I like it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:43 AM (9ym/8)
And I've been advocating Steely Dan's "Barrytown" as the theme song for the Obama years for quite a while. So what if it was recorded iin the '70's?
Posted by: filbert at April 14, 2016 12:43 AM (s5o+q)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:41 AM (egOGm)
I'd put 'em anywhere you think a rodent might gain access. I suppose you could use duct tape or something to keep them there.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:43 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:31 AM (egOGm)
with out knowing all the details....mouse traps and poison
do you park in a garage, with a door that can shut?
or do you park outside?
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:43 AM (92+OH)
Posted by: GnuBreed at April 14, 2016 12:44 AM (gyKtp)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:34 AM (+xTTN)
Easier to not think about the past. Does no good.
Besides, just think, in a matter of months, we'll all look back at this time with fondness.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 12:44 AM (rlfds)
when i was growing up this valley was so quiet my pop's voice would echo when he'd yell at me. and if the horses got out at night i'd hear their clip clopping on the street and have to go catch a lead horse.
not anymore.
Posted by: concrete girl at April 14, 2016 12:45 AM (ceWrl)
Posted by: Lirio100 at April 14, 2016 12:45 AM (WY8ka)
Please, allow me.
-Castrated a bull calf.
-Replaced a hydraulic hose.
-Operated a reloading press.
-Bowled a deer head.
-Played high school football.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:45 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:42 AM (mxCgt)
Also a good question, how many Waylon Jennings/Merle Haggard/George Jones songs do you know?
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:45 AM (nUJM6)
The Krauts have a thing called Leberkaese, sometimes sold as veal loaf, which is very much like bologna except you slice it much thicker. Fried with fried eggs it's an awesome breakfast.
Interesting that someone upthread took the test on behalf of their kids. I did too, and it was depressing.
When my father's family had chicken for dinner it meant Mom went out back and killed one. I've murdered some waterfowl and the occasional grouse. My kids think chicken comes from cellophane.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 14, 2016 12:46 AM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:46 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: garrett at April 14, 2016 12:46 AM (xUVR8)
Simple. Cut the slices as they fry with the spatula - just one radius - so it looks like a Pac-Man as it cooks. No bubbling.
Then mustard & a piece of cheese. Served on racist white bread, of course.
Damn, now I want a sammich...
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (Te2JU)
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (92+OH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (+xTTN)
Something to watch in Saratoga Springs, they passed an ordinance requiring all firearms be kept under lock and key when not being used.
No more gun on the nightstand or shotgun near the bed. Has to be secured.
No mention on how they plan to verify that.
It stems from a kid finding a loaded handgun with predictable results. No evidence the parent ever taught the kid about gun safety.
So the creeping cancer that is the left managed to get a ridiculous ordinance enacted. Our fishwrap is orgasmic about it, and wants the same for our county.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:37 AM (P/8aq)
Fun project: replace every mention of firearns in the ordinance with a reference to news reporting. Submit for obvious approval. Watch hilarity ensue.
Posted by: filbert at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (s5o+q)
I am thinking about .001% of us have done that.
I don't even do it anymore but I've done it about a dozen times over the years.
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (8QGte)
Remember, y'all, we are Americans, so the head is held HIGH--most especially during these times.
Celebrate our country.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (P/8aq)
-Played high school football.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:45 AM (9ym/
Gutted and quartered a moose?
Cleaned more than 20 salmon at a time?
Grown and stored your own potatoes for the year?
Washed clothes in a five-gallon bucket and hung them outdoors to freeze and dry?
Canned your own veggies, jam, pickles and smoked fish?
Or, for you Lower 48ers, eaten something for dinner that was alive and moving earlier in the day?
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:48 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:49 AM (92+OH)
My answer would be yes and sliced and fried on white toast with mustard.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:49 AM (nUJM6)
I like la simpatia in Guadalupe. They have a bar too. Good food. Also in Guadalupe I like Guadalupe restaraunt. They deep fry thick bacon for breakfast.
Charlies in Los Alamos is a burger joint, but they make really good tacos and chili rellanos and chili verde but it's red.
Not really a hole in the wall but it's good is industrial eats in buellton.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:49 AM (egOGm)
Most importantly, it's absolutely not the case that one has to score high on the test to understand and sympathize with the actual important problems facing the high-scorers, and support policies to address them. Of course most low-scorers don't - but that's because they're incurious, lazy, attached to their bigotries and tribal myths, or (increasingly, though still a small group) making bank on the problems (think "green energy" employee/investor vs. real energy worker/investor).
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 12:50 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 14, 2016 12:50 AM (sqpGi)
Oh well, that's the way I like it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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You're in luck!
We have a local guy named Chemchef that has a recipe for you...
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:50 AM (Te2JU)
Fry up onions and balogney in bacon grease, serve on toasted slabs of homemade bread.
Posted by: Ti at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (mL2BD)
Posted by: garrett at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (xUVR8)
In the future most of the contitents have sunk (I think). A naval ship on it's first voyage with a new crew is going on a training mission and attacked by another ship from the same training mission. The ship that was attacked managed to damage the attacking ship and escape, but now for some reason their ship is being reported sa being taken over...
Also, the crews of all vessels are cute high school girls...
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (vBeA5)
Shooed the chickens off the porch?
Relied on water from a hand pump?
Operated a tractor? (I'm still giving bonus for using mules)
Bonus - Picked tobacco, corn, cotton, or dug peanuts?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (mxCgt)
-Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 12:44 AM (rlfds)
Scarily presceint. I'll buy that for whatever you're charging for a Wallet-Sized Photo of today.
I've saved $1.75 and will add the $5.00 Postage and Handling.
Br nice. I'm an internet virgin.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (92+OH)
For our popup camper, I put in about 20, but that's because there are so many places the little fuckers can get in, and it has to last all winter.
I would think that once you identify the places they can get access, and put one at each point, you should be fine. Just make sure they can't get ignited by the, um, ignition.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (+YMhA)
I forget, tcn, what planet are you from?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: garrett at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (xUVR8)
Well, his Labor opponent opened his tax returns up as part of the pressure on Cameron.
Turns out Mr. Socialist didn't report 3 different pensions on his tax return.
Posted by: sexypig at April 14, 2016 12:52 AM (dZQh7)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (MNgU2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (syGA0)
Guess you haven't been to Golden Corral for a while. Last time my son and I went for dinner there, it cost me around $20 per person.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (rJUlF)
Relied on water from a hand pump?
Operated a tractor? (I'm still giving bonus for using mules)
Bonus - Picked tobacco, corn, cotton"
Oh I've never picked cotton, but my mama did and my uncle did and their brother died younnng
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: redbanzai
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Ah. You've brought to mind another question:
"Drank clear liquor from a jar?"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (mxCgt)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 12:54 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:54 AM (92+OH)
Guadalupe, of course! Should have guessed.
Yeah - Los Alamos is now a "thing" with food, based on what I read. Funny, I've stopped there for gas many times.
Will note your intel in my travel info.
Of course Jocko's is already on the list for the non-cheap dinner night (hope it doesn't change due to ownership, or am I thinking of someplace else?). And it's hard not to hit Hitching Post #1 when we're in the area.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 12:54 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Jean at April 14, 2016 12:54 AM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (9ym/
It works really well! You get the bucket with a lid, and cut a hole in the lid, and put a CLEAN toilet plunger through that hole. Clothes, soap and water in, a few swishes with the plunger, pour out the water, add rinse water, you get the idea.
We had no electricity, so we hung clothes out to dry. In the winter. It worked like a charm, so long as you brought them inside before you tried to fold them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (+YMhA)
I actually had a great day today, hope everyone else did too
scored a 36 on the quiz, guess that makes me only kinda-bubbly?
anyway I can't stay up too late tonight, so just wanted to check in
Posted by: chemjeff at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (uZNvH)
My car is in the garage. I use glue traps, snap traps and bait stations. I haven't filled the T's because the Owls have babies and I'm trying not to use as much poison.
I'm thinking about making a bucket mouse trap.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 12:56 AM (rlfds)
CA
not many nice people here.
except for neighbor paul.
today he came and tractored just because.
Posted by: concrete girl at April 14, 2016 12:56 AM (ceWrl)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:56 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (92+OH)
Plutonium.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (UsLZp)
"Drank clear liquor from a jar?"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (mxCgt)
I have drunk moonshine from a relative's illegal still... do I get extra point for the middle finger to the revenuers?
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (nUJM6)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 12:51 AM (+YMhA)
so the dryer sheets plug entry points like you can with steel wool?
I'm obviously not getting this
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (92+OH)
Yes - it's everything but the squeal. Makes a good addition when fried and crumbled over potato'n egg hash.
Posted by: Ti at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (mL2BD)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: eman at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (+xTTN)
Never liked that song.
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 12:57 AM (HtUkt)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2016 12:58 AM (syGA0)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (+xTTN)
(slow clap)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: eman at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (MQEz6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: redbanzai
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Depends... was there jail time involved? Gunfire? Both worth +10 points each.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (mxCgt)
I believe that. Watch those Alaska shows. Fantastic cabins. Chemical toilets and grey water systems. Backup out-houses. Make boat/snow-machine trips for water.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (9ym/8)
Yeah it's like WTF, dude? You think you're better than your cotton pickin' kin because you became a criminal instead?
Screw you.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: eman at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (MQEz6)
-Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 12:56 AM (rlfds)
*Heh*
"Is this a drill, or is it Real World?"
-This is Real World.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:00 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 01:00 AM (rlfds)
"Drank clear liquor from a jar?"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:53 AM (mxCgt)
Done that. Not that long ago, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2016 01:00 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: A Yorkshireman's Hat at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2016 12:58 AM (syGA0)
The NBA is nothing but thug ball, since the sainted Michael got to use three steps to the basket.
It ain't basketball anymore.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (+YMhA)
356 so what component of a used or new dryer sheet deters rodents?
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 12:47 AM (92+OH
What in crayons attracts them.
Posted by: Jean at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (cXiMR)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (rlfds)
The Mexican place is not "hole in the wall" aesthetically, just authentic and pretty good. Also not far from Andersen's.
Speaking of Andersen's - not sure if "any relation", because the abundance of Danish sorts in those parts, but Andersen's restaurant/deli on State St. in SB is outstanding. Usually stop there on the drive north for lunch.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:00 AM (OQ9R7)
Is this the Real Life?
Is this just Fantasy?
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (9ym/8)
Some recommendations for Los Alamos are bell street cafe. Exspensive but so good. Pork sandwich and the meatloaf sandwich are really good.
Flatbreads is another exspensive one but really good.
Flatbreads is only open Thurs - Sunday, no lunch
Bell street is open Thursday-Monday, no dinner. Made yelps top 100 restaurants.
I like dos Carlitos in Santa ynez, Red Barn, Santa ynez,
Santa ynez kitchen. All exspensive.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (mxCgt)
LOL... not for me personally but several of my granddad's people spent time in jail for moonshining.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (nUJM6)
Also a good question, how many Waylon Jennings/Merle Haggard/George Jones songs do you know?"
All of them.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 12:59 AM (9ym/
We had a well, hand pump, under the house so it stayed thawed.
We had an outhouse. No chemical toilets or incinerators, either. Nasty things, those. Who wants a bunch of poop ashes to clean up?
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I, on the other hand, know nothing about it.
BTW, did you catch the link to the Land Rover on the last thread?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 01:03 AM (mxCgt)
All of them.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (+xTTN)
Lauren, you are my kind of people.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 01:03 AM (nUJM6)
Also a good question, how many Waylon Jennings/Merle Haggard/George Jones songs do you know?"
All of them.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (+xTTN)
Plus Johnny Cash and George Strait, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline....
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:03 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:03 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 01:04 AM (Te2JU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 01:04 AM (ntObR)
Interesting. I haven't seen anything about that. I can see it staying sway if the house is well heated.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:04 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 01:00 AM (rlfds)
I meant, as a joke, belonging to the Raiders fan club as your "bubble"
Posted by: chemjeff at April 14, 2016 01:04 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 01:04 AM (Te2JU)
Country AND Western
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 01:04 AM (nUJM6)
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:05 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:02 AM (+xTTN)
Mama tried to raise me better.
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 01:05 AM (HtUkt)
Right across from pea soup is a great breakfast place, Ellen's pancake? Good breakfast.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:05 AM (egOGm)
Never fail. Bucket, hanger, Coke Can, Stick and some peanut butter...and anti-freeze.
Posted by: garrett at April 14, 2016 01:05 AM (xUVR8)
Just watched the Jimmie Johns Sub sandwich commercial with the hispanic family. As usual, Daddy gets no respect until he delivers the goodies, in this case, delivery food. Daddy also looks like an overweight schlub that manages a chain store or CarMax.
At the end, the wife winks at the delivery guy, who compared to daddy looks pretty buff and manly. He smiles back. So, in the imaginary backstory, is she schtupping the JJ delivery dude?
Posted by: rd at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (v0YLX)
Wonder how many people here know, Robert Schuller's family had to sell the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove a few years ago.
Supposedly it's now a Catholic church but not sure of the name.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: garrett at April 14, 2016 01:05 AM (xUVR
But use water if you have dogs that can get to that bucket, please.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 01:05 AM (HtUkt)
But her pleading I denied.
That leaves only me to blame
Cause mama tried.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (nUJM6)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (9ym/8)
-It ain't basketball anymore."
-Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:01 AM (+YMhA)
You were where during the late Eighties to early Nineties???
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:07 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2016 01:07 AM (syGA0)
Think I'll turn in.
Y'all have fun with your bubbles.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 01:07 AM (rlfds)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:07 AM (+xTTN)
I love it
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 01:07 AM (nUJM6)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 14, 2016 01:08 AM (uZNvH)
Posted by: Puddleglum at April 14, 2016 01:08 AM (syGA0)
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain... at April 14, 2016 01:09 AM (rlfds)
A clean page and clean morals equal Win-Win!
Posted by: Yngvar at April 14, 2016 01:09 AM (bDKvH)
You probably already know, if you care, but up in Paso, east side, there is a great little Mexican store/deli. Of course I can't remember the name, but Yelp would find it easily.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:09 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (9ym/
What?
Posted by: PrezHillary at April 14, 2016 01:09 AM (HtUkt)
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:09 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:10 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 01:10 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Disney Mermaid 69 at April 14, 2016 01:10 AM (gwG9s)
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 01:11 AM (HtUkt)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (OQ9R7)
Watching baseball and hockey.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:11 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: BignJames at April 14, 2016 01:11 AM (HtUkt)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:06 AM (9ym/
FIFY
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 01:12 AM (nUJM6)
It was not her first kid by a good bit.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at April 14, 2016 01:12 AM (DW+jj)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 14, 2016 01:12 AM (uZNvH)
I use dryer sheets to deter moths.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:12 AM (egOGm)
BTW, did you catch the link to the Land Rover on the last thread?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 01:03 AM (mxCgt)
I did, and responded to it. I did a wonderful red-necky thing today. Took apart my defunct down-hole well pump, with its burnt-out half-horse electric motor. Decided it would be nice to salvage the copper wire from the windings. Except they were all potted in resin of some kind, very throughly. So I stood the stator on end, filled the cavity with some good Alberta bituminous coal, and lit it with a propane torch. Then I rigged up the blow gun from my air compressor to send a gentle stream of air into the bottom of the cylinder. It took over an hour, and I had to add more coal, twice, but at the end it really got going, and I had a foot-long jet of pale orange flame roaring out the top, and the melted resin was burning off the wires like wax from a candle wick. Took it two hours to cool down, too. But when I was done, all the resin was gone, all the insulating paper, and most of the varnish on the wire itself. Got about a pound of copper out of that puppy. For a few cents' worth of coal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2016 01:13 AM (UsLZp)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:13 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (egOGm)
My uncle had a Torino that mice made unusable.
you gotta kill a lot of mice and also find out what is drawing them in.
dog food?
cat food?
something else
they are hanging out by your truck for some reason
we had a mouse prob while I fed the hounds outside, in the back yard.
once I stopped doing that , no more mices.
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 01:14 AM (92+OH)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:14 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:13 AM (9ym/
Blame it on the late hour.
Speaking of which, I have an early meeting so good night all.
Posted by: redbanzai at April 14, 2016 01:14 AM (nUJM6)
Such a perfect example of stated and intended goals diverging greatly.
Posted by: Lauren at April 14, 2016 01:14 AM (+xTTN)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at April 14, 2016 01:15 AM (hlMPp)
Rhomboid say this but it triggered something. logprof. He's in E.P. but I haven't seen him in a while.
Any idea?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:15 AM (9ym/8)
-Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:11 AM (+YMhA)
So was I, but the Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks all had Thugs to take fouls and dish-out punishment for even intruding their lane!
That was thugball as its finest.
This NBA is sweet, pure and vitamin enhanced compared to those days.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:16 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 12:55 AM (ntObR)
We used to do a "familial legend" about Andersens that basically used the intro to "The Beverley Hillbillies" to explain why the restaurant exists. Instead of oil, of course, they found pea soup.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 01:16 AM (EzgxV)
I use dryer sheets to deter moths.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:12 AM (egOGm)
No. Some scent in the dryer sheets repels them. Works for some people, some mice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2016 01:16 AM (UsLZp)
I didn't know to add antifreeze, I would only use that in the garage or barn where no non target animals could get to it.
I'm making one tomorrow. I about died when I saw that nest in my car.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:17 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:17 AM (OQ9R7)
Sorry for the confusion. My fault for sometimes turning this part of the ONT into a central/So Cal travel discussion.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:18 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Ralph at April 14, 2016 01:19 AM (gjgWX)
woke up hours later naked, with no teeth left in his mouth.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 01:19 AM (ntObR)
Scored 53 on the bubble test. A big part of it, I think, was having lived for 20 years in a smallish working class town in the Upper Midwest. The missus smokes, we have bought mass market beer and I walked / worked in factory floors for secen years. As for the mass media questions, I haven't watched a single one of the choices.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 14, 2016 01:20 AM (BK3ZS)
I never liked pea soup, but my family stopped there at least once (our trip to Hearst Castle, I believe).
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:20 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:20 AM (OQ9R7)
No problemo. I just saw "Paso" and it made me think. Ain't no thing.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:20 AM (9ym/8)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 01:20 AM (ntObR)
Posted by: Ralph at April 14, 2016 01:19 AM (gjgWX)
I just got me an Australian Terrier. No rodents of any kind, in the house or yard, after about three days.
But a very well fed and entertained terrier.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 01:20 AM (+YMhA)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 01:21 AM (ntObR)
Get a cat, preferably a male.
A feral, male cat. Neuter it, or not.
Maybe get several.
Rodents, gone.
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 01:23 AM (8QGte)
Posted by: vivi at April 14, 2016 01:23 AM (11H2y)
https://youtu.be/MlG3oLyVcAc
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 14, 2016 01:24 AM (VdICR)
Knew a lady that had a pair of, I think, rat terriers. Small, blonde, curly haired dogs. Purse dogs.
Turn the bastards loose and they'd find a mouse and rip it to pieces. Bloody and vicious.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 14, 2016 01:24 AM (9ym/8)
The truck was parked under the trees next to ivy all winter, we won't do that again.
There is nothing in my garage to eat. It's warm and dry. We kill a ton of mice. We have chickens, but they are far from the garage. 500 yards maybe.
I am going to put dryer sheets out there tomorrow.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:24 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 01:24 AM (8QGte)
No. Some scent in the dryer sheets repels them. Works for some people, some mice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2016 01:16 AM (UsLZp)
,,,,,,,,
ok got it now
you had the snap trap in a paper bag idea, at least I think
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 01:26 AM (92+OH)
I like that diner, great breakfast. That's funny you ate there.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:26 AM (egOGm)
Nope, unfortunately.
Closest I can claim is drinking home-made wine from ceramic jugs. And then local hooch (called - no kidding - "cha cha") from a jar. Western Georgia (republic, not state), at the home of the former KGB boss of Kutaisi (Georgia's second largest city).
But the memorable part was the cheese-bread (khachapuri) made in cast-iron forms in the coals of a big open fireplace in the kitchen (separate little building next to the house). Cold rainy night. Amazing.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:26 AM (QDnY+)
Unfortunately, PC cases are not designed that well below the $100 price-point, so everything's a *little* harder than necessary.
Mobo trays and removable panels help. Grey or white interior panels help a lot.
The next time I strip one down, I have some painting to do (or vinyl wrap might be even better).
Hope everyone else is doing well.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 14, 2016 01:27 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:29 AM (egOGm)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away:
Torque, to then-girlfriend: "I aired up your spare tire if you have to swap it. Um, do you know how to do that? I can give a quick how-to course."
Then-girlfriend: "I pay AAA to do those sorts of things for me."
::: several months later :::
Then-girlfriend calls. "I have a flat. I'm waiting for AAA to show up."
::: two hours later :::
"They never showed. Can you come do this for me?"
Posted by: torquewrench at April 14, 2016 01:29 AM (noWW6)
There is a feral cat living on the premises and she's doing a pretty good job.
Posted by: Ralph at April 14, 2016 01:30 AM (gjgWX)
"You ever think you're just releasing some pressure, as you do several times a day, and then you suddenly realize, just as that hot bubble of horror erupts..., "
Now, that there is a bubble.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 01:30 AM (9mTYi)
BTW, did you catch the link to the Land Rover on the last thread?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 14, 2016 01:03 AM (mxCgt)
I did, and responded to it. I did a wonderful red-necky thing today. Took apart my defunct down-hole well pump, with its burnt-out half-horse electric motor. Decided it would be nice to salvage the copper wire from the windings. Except they were all potted in resin of some kind, very throughly. So I stood the stator on end, filled the cavity with some good Alberta bituminous coal, and lit it with a propane torch. Then I rigged up the blow gun from my air compressor to send a gentle stream of air into the bottom of the cylinder. It took over an hour, and I had to add more coal, twice, but at the end it really got going, and I had a foot-long jet of pale orange flame roaring out the top, and the melted resin was burning off the wires like wax from a candle wick. Took it two hours to cool down, too. But when I was done, all the resin was gone, all the insulating paper, and most of the varnish on the wire itself. Got about a pound of copper out of that puppy. For a few cents' worth of coal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 14, 2016 01:13 AM (UsLZp)
But, but.....think of the carbon offsets!!!!!
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 01:30 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:31 AM (egOGm)
As you said, the bubble survey is a crude tool - but I'm sure the author, who is a savvy guy, realizes that.
I just shake my head at the question about political disagreements with friends/acquaintances. Many of us live isolated, in some ways closeted existences, surrounded by clueless people who are not even worth engaging. Oh - and in my case, these are exclusively low-scoring, bubblish, urban/coastal "educated" types.
"Clueless" as citizens, voters, citizens of the world, that is.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:32 AM (QDnY+)
The full gamut from solid cylinder to shart.
My output tends to be more austere.
It merely varies a bit 'twixt yellow and clear.
Posted by: schlong bard at April 14, 2016 01:33 AM (Z1+Wk)
the hound would crunch one rodent then drop it while it was still quivering and go hunt down the next one.
awesome spectcal, unfortunately Betsy the Yorkie died a few years ago.
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 01:34 AM (92+OH)
I was in none of them with any of you.
They were all in my head.
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:35 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: Ralph at April 14, 2016 01:19 AM (gjgWX)
As an added bonus, the anticoagulant baits make them extremely thirsty as the damage adds up, so they find their way outside to find water before they expire.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 01:35 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 14, 2016 01:36 AM (OQ9R7)
Posted by: schlong bard at April 14, 2016 01:36 AM (Z1+Wk)
Cute girls doing cute things... with bread crust somehow involved...
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at April 14, 2016 01:36 AM (vBeA5)
A friend complained about mice in his hay. I told him to quit kill the snakes.
What a look I got.
You have to learn friend or foe but they do a good job.
Posted by: Ralph at April 14, 2016 01:36 AM (gjgWX)
something on the news recently ...
NYers hunting with rat terriers trying to keep local neighborhoods rat free ...
Posted by: Adriane the Dog Breed Critic ... at April 14, 2016 01:37 AM (AoK0a)
I never liked pea soup, but my family stopped there at least once (our trip to Hearst Castle, I believe).
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:20 AM (QDnY+)
That one is gone, but the one in Santa Nella is still there (for a total of 3 at peak).
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 01:37 AM (EzgxV)
I haven't eaten at pea soup since I was a kid.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:38 AM (egOGm)
I'm sure another nest will soon appear, but two summers ago I committed rat genocide, think I killed an entire nest that was a threat to my tomatoes. 11 or 12 confirmed kills, I think. Good old school traps with the big metal U-shaped thinggy. Cheese. "Thwack!"
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:38 AM (QDnY+)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 14, 2016 01:39 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:39 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: vivi at April 14, 2016 01:40 AM (11H2y)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:31 AM (egOGm)
the idea is put a loaded snap trap inside a paper bag on its side and when the trap gets a rodent, it is no mess just pick up the bag and toss it.
I used to do a similar thing with news paper but the critter would land off the paper.
Which was not as easy of disposal as when they landed on the newspaper
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 01:41 AM (92+OH)
We have coyotes and red foxes too. I lift up the food and water containers in the chicken coop and the chickens eat the mice. The chickens are cat like. They eat the babies.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:42 AM (egOGm)
I haven't eaten at pea soup since I was a kid.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:38 AM (egOGm)
You never do the tourist stuff that you grow up next to -- I only did the Santa Barbara zoo after I'd moved away.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 01:43 AM (EzgxV)
I saw that one on YouTube. I may make both kind of bucket traps.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:44 AM (egOGm)
I've never had to walk out of a social event - but that's because I just deflect/avoid with the mastery of someone accustomed to making small talk with (literally) enemy personnel.
I liken my situation (and yours, and that of many) to being an undercover FBI agent at a KKK rally. WTF? Do these people *really* believe this nonsense? This is what it's like for a reasonably worldly, informed, thinking person to listen to "educated" coastal/urban types parade their NPR-level ignorance, bigotry, and arrogance.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:45 AM (QDnY+)
We use the snap traps again. I don't pick them up, my husband does.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:45 AM (egOGm)
Undercover FBI agent at a Klan rally.
I think others would find these metaphors useful and evocative, vivi .......
Posted by: rhomboid at April 14, 2016 01:46 AM (QDnY+)
I still like the SB zoo. I haven't been in a few years.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:47 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: Needs to Know at April 14, 2016 01:48 AM (N7G17)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 14, 2016 01:51 AM (ntObR)
Outcasts we are. Average Joes loathe us, but the wealthy disdain us even more. So we eat arugula salads down by the railroad tracks and sing songs of pain and rejection, accompanied by One-Eyed Jake on the harpsichord.
Posted by: zombie at April 14, 2016 01:53 AM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Undercover FBI agent at Klan rally at April 14, 2016 01:54 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:45 AM (egOGm)
when I was really killin mice I'd re-use them until there was too much blood on them.
now that I do not have a mouse prob and am older, just one/ then done
no mice for a few years. and I keep hot traps with good bait going day in and day out.
I really dislike mice in my personal space
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 01:55 AM (92+OH)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:55 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: vivi at April 14, 2016 01:57 AM (11H2y)
Goodnight and welcome to you.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:58 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: jake at April 14, 2016 01:58 AM (92+OH)
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 14, 2016 01:58 AM (egOGm)
Posted by: angela urkel at April 14, 2016 02:01 AM (Z1+Wk)
Zombie apocalyps with villages walled off and connected only by steam train.
Also, it's Japanese Steam Tech.
Auto-asphyxiation somehow can stop zombie virus... I think...
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at April 14, 2016 02:02 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Tim in GA at April 14, 2016 02:04 AM (06b4v)
Posted by: angela urkel at April 14, 2016 02:05 AM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: Snow globe figurine at April 14, 2016 02:07 AM (Z1+Wk)
Zombie apocalyps with villages walled off and connected only by steam train.
Also, it's Japanese Steam Tech.
Auto-asphyxiation somehow can stop zombie virus... I think...
Posted by: [Hat]
Ah, the Triple Alignment has finally occurred!
-- steam punk (check!)
-- zombies (check!)
-- anime (check!)
The Alignment has awakened the Ancient Ones, who will now destroy humanity for having finally exhausted all possible cultural cross-pollinations.
Posted by: zombie at April 14, 2016 02:07 AM (jBuUi)
Posted by: vivi at April 14, 2016 01:40 AM (11H2y) fnord (11H2y)
We can let it slide, to an extent, because it's not everything to us. It's everything to them.
Which is how we get where we are, in this kind of mess.
Part of the advantage of strictly limited government is that you don't have to go *MAD* when someone else has a different opinion, because there's less they can do to impose on you.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 14, 2016 02:09 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 14, 2016 02:10 AM (wB8Tg)
Saw some discussion of critter pests?
There were a couple of blackbirds building a nest up in... call it the rafters... of my front porch. Bits of dropped nesting material and splatters of bird poop under the area.
I considered various ways to discourage them, from chemical warfare (will this wasp spray drive them off?) to throwing some cat litter box cleanings up there, but these ideas had... potential drawbacks.
So, while moving some things in the house, a rubber snake gets knocked down, and I think, hey, the answer literally fell into my hands!
I hung the snake up where they were getting in.
This morning I noticed bits of nesting material dangling off the snake. I don't think they got the message.
That's my contribution for the night.
*pretends to take a last gulp*
* stumbles off into the night *
Posted by: mindful webworker - rats! at April 14, 2016 02:12 AM (G0G8s)
Sharts, Trump, Cruz,
Giants lost tonight,
I got my taxes filed and paid. (Yes, I pay)
It's all good.
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 02:13 AM (8QGte)
Of course I saw Batman and Nightmare Before Christmas before I knew who Oingo Boingo was.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 14, 2016 02:16 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: navybrat at April 14, 2016 02:16 AM (8QGte)
Of course I saw Batman and Nightmare Before Christmas before I knew who Oingo Boingo was.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 14, 2016 02:16 AM (VdICR)
Hanging out here gets you edumicated in all sorts of ways.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:20 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: rickl at April 14, 2016 02:24 AM (sdi6R)
Walls won't work. Why not try an act of love instead? Let us in.
All we want to do is... never mind.
Posted by: zombie Jeb Bush at April 14, 2016 02:24 AM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: rickl at April 14, 2016 02:25 AM (sdi6R)
I think that everyone should schedule their colonoscopies for tax day.....it contributes so much to the mood.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:28 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Adriane the Musical Score Critic ... at April 14, 2016 02:30 AM (AoK0a)
Here is a simple activity that the BF can do during recovery ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47sNEv6ykU
or sleep. Sleep is good.
Posted by: Adriane the Musical Score Critic ... at April 14, 2016 02:32 AM (AoK0a)
I have to say, after I had that, I redecorated the bathroom. Any place I have to spend that much time in, with that sore of an asshole, had better be a lot nicer than what I had.
I think I am done with those, anyway. They end up costing way too much, for new fixtures an such.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 14, 2016 02:35 AM (+YMhA)
-- steam punk (check!)
-- zombies (check!)
-- anime (check!)
The Alignment has awakened the Ancient Ones, who will now destroy humanity for having finally exhausted all possible cultural cross-pollinations.
Posted by: zombie at April 14, 2016 02:07 AM
(jBuUi)
Pffft.
The confluence of Japanese school girls, Steve Jobs, and crabs didn't result in anything, so I doubt this will either...
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at April 14, 2016 02:38 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: zombie Jeb Bush at April 14, 2016 02:40 AM (Z1+Wk)
505 zombie
Ah, the Triple Alignment has finally occurred!
... it's the end of the world as we know it ...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/o9bxaxj
Posted by: Jean-Pierre Folderol, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at April 14, 2016 02:43 AM (FlRtG)
Expect things to be that much more cheerful in the forthcoming 48 hours
I take it, then, that you won't make the meeting.
If there is any, I'll save some loot for you.
Posted by: Arbalest at April 14, 2016 02:47 AM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Michael Stipe at April 14, 2016 02:48 AM (Z1+Wk)
Posted by: Hayfever Heart at April 14, 2016 02:53 AM (Z1+Wk)
**looks at left hand**
Boston
**looks at right hand**
Head East - Flat as a Pancake
Yeah, I'm gonna cheat on this one.
Posted by: tbodie at April 13, 2016 11:58 PM
Now that's just awesome. I remember seeing Head East at the Red Lion in Bloomington IL when I was in college. You sir have great taste in music.
Posted by: Farmer at April 14, 2016 02:55 AM (o/90i)
1) Who the hell ever met anyone at a restaurant? At a bar, sure. But not at a restaurant. At a bar that had a restaurant ... but that's really still a bar. I guess it sounds classier if you say you met in a restaurant ...
2) Why didn't they put the homosexual plots up there? They would be pretty easy and consistent. At a public restroom, at a softball game, and teaching in elementary school (meeting young prospects).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 02:55 AM (zc3Db)
But not to me -- I could care. To them.....to everyone you hurt poking at their recent pain contrary to my heartfelt advice. I've been there and tried to save you, but you made me out as an asshole for trying.
Step forward, into the light, and testify.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:56 AM (EzgxV)
Expect things to be that much more cheerful in the forthcoming 48 hours
I take it, then, that you won't make the meeting.
If there is any, I'll save some loot for you.
Posted by: Arbalest at April 14, 2016 02:47 AM (FlRtG)
Oh, no -- I fully intend to make it.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:59 AM (EzgxV)
Alien mecha invaders.
United Nations.
Naked hunky men jumping out of ancient cubes wielding swords...
Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at April 14, 2016 03:04 AM (vBeA5)
Expect things to be that much more cheerful in the forthcoming 48 hours
I take it, then, that you won't make the meeting.
If there is any, I'll save some loot for you.
Posted by: Arbalest at April 14, 2016 02:47 AM (FlRtG)
Oh, no -- I fully intend to make it.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:59 AM (EzgxV)
And I fully intend to score those collets. They'd be a great addition to the micro CNC mill, and I've got a scheme to jailbreak it.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 03:05 AM (EzgxV)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
How'd you like to be a cunt tender? I can't take much more of this.
Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM
OK I just woke up from a sound sleep and started reading here, this made me LMFAO.
So on the quiz I got a 51, WTH does that mean?
Posted by: Farmer at April 14, 2016 03:08 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
How'd you like to be a cunt tender? I can't take much more of this.
Posted by: Huma Abedin at April 14, 2016 12:29 AM
OK I just woke up from a sound sleep and started reading here, this made me LMFAO.
So on the quiz I got a 51, WTH does that mean?
Posted by: Farmer at April 14, 2016 03:08 AM (o/90i)
It means you got a 51 on that whack-job quiz. Sadly, no more than that.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 03:10 AM (EzgxV)
I have been in, under, on top of or in the attic of 70% of the houses on my block.
Keep your friends close...
Posted by: Chi at April 14, 2016 12:36 AM
Now that doesn't surprise me. You are a good soul Chi. Keep on keeping on.
T
Posted by: Farmer at April 14, 2016 03:17 AM (o/90i)
Step forward, into the light, and testify.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:56 AM (EzgxV)
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Again, go fuck yourself. Asking why someone died is not pushing buttons, you narcissist asshole. You really are sick.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 14, 2016 03:23 AM (iQIUe)
Step forward, into the light, and testify.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:56 AM (EzgxV)
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Again, go fuck yourself. Asking why someone died is not pushing buttons, you narcissist asshole. You really are sick.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 14, 2016 03:23 AM (iQIUe)
I believe that there will come a day when you become a better person. I regret that today is not the day. I continue to have hope for tomorrow.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 03:26 AM (EzgxV)
I'm reminded of the scene in Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns.' As part of his plan to fake Bruce Wayne's death and go underground, Alfred is blowing up Wayne Manor and has a fatal stroke at the moment of the blast. His final thought is "How appropriate."
Posted by: Epobirs at April 14, 2016 03:30 AM (IdCqF)
Posted by: Epobirs at April 14, 2016 03:34 AM (IdCqF)
Step forward, into the light, and testify.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 02:56 AM (EzgxV)
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Again, go fuck yourself. Asking why someone died is not pushing buttons, you narcissist asshole. You really are sick.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 14, 2016 03:23 AM (iQIUe)
And, BTW, you are at imminent risk of being banhammered -- and I say this not because I have a special "in", but because it's very obvious -- ask any of the oldtimers. If a cob "calls" your hand, I'd recommend that you immediately "fold", lest you be removed from the game.
And I'd rather you stayed until you were civilized.
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 03:36 AM (EzgxV)
>> more than that.
It means you got one more than I did.
Posted by: JEM at April 14, 2016 03:42 AM (o+SC1)
I slept at my usual time today, woke refreshed and revitalized, ready to greet the day (or rather, the evening) with a glad cry and a heart full of the will to do things, and then went to lie down again.
And here I am, wide-awake at the oddest of times.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 14, 2016 03:50 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: The Political Hat at April 14, 2016 03:53 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 14, 2016 04:03 AM (lutOX)
I hear ya. I keep an unusual schedule, and it's a pretty slippery thing. Sometimes I'll get home from work, find something to do, then when I look up at the clock it's 2 PM. I didn't get up until 9 today.
Third shift is weird.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 14, 2016 04:03 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 14, 2016 04:03 AM (lutOX)
Hear, hear!
But I would point out that my text box is not grey. If yours is I would ask for a refund.
I would also add that asking how or why someone died is not inconsiderate or wrong. It happens at funerals and there is nothing wrong with it. Maybe not interrogating the family members during the service, but commenters hardly qualify as "family" and threads are not services.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 04:08 AM (zc3Db)
I've got a piece of software that cracks wifi and other wireless pins - for security-auditing purposes, of course.
I'd never use a neighbor's - or say, a municipal office's - wifi for free internet....
It's funny how many wireless routers have a simple ascending numerical sequence for their pin. Makes me wonder if it's a factory default the owner never reset.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 14, 2016 04:13 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 14, 2016 04:03 AM (J+mig)
***
Yeah, they work us on the Panama Schedule - 12 hour shifts - 4 days on, four days off, three days on, three days off.
On paper, it leaves one lots of time to do things; as a practical matter, it makes one an unglamorous sort of vampire.
Got my provigil coming - legit script, but coming from an overseas pharmacy - and that'll help.
Anyone working a weird schedule would be well advised to look into it - I used it for years to counteract fatigue from my other medications, and it's amazing stuff.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 14, 2016 04:16 AM (lutOX)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 04:08 AM (zc3Db)
***
Some people are sort of touchy about death; I get that.
But it's not as if being touchy does anyone any good.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 14, 2016 04:18 AM (lutOX)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2016 04:22 AM (miXPX)
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip at April 14, 2016 04:22 AM (miXPX)
***
Well, you can keep waiting.. I ain't making it.
And good morning, Skip. What ho there, wretched mortal!
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at April 14, 2016 04:41 AM (lutOX)
"Makes me wonder if it's a factory default the owner never reset."
I would guess the owner never reset. You can lists of the default passwords at various places for just about any kind of router.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Let's play two! at April 14, 2016 06:05 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Let's play two! at April 14, 2016 06:05 AM (WVsWD)
Those things are very helpful to any IT dork that's ever worked with an ISP. "Okay, did you ever change the password? Great, what model is it? Okay, it's monkeybutt. That's the default, give it a try." It's nice when you can solve the problem over the phone and not have to send a tech. They think you're geniuses and it keeps the customers loyal.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 14, 2016 06:09 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 06:09 AM (zc3Db)
I scored a 30 on the bubble quiz but neither of the descriptions fits
me. I like Charles Murray and I like these sorts of quizzes but I don't
think this one says much. Needs better questions.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 06:09 AM (zc3Db)
It's a decent idea, but I agree, the questions could have been a lot better. And there's just some people like me who are going to be outliers no matter what. 2nd generation middle class. Except for 14 years of grinding poverty between those states, being raised upper-mid until the family fortune was shredded by fraud, and establishing myself as lower-mid.
That kinda life history tends to skew your answers all over the map...
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 14, 2016 06:13 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Let's play two! at April 14, 2016 06:14 AM (WVsWD)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 14, 2016 06:20 AM (ptqRm)
I thought the restaurant questions were a bit weird - no diners? - and the TV show and movie questions didn't seem like they would indicate much, outside of having some taste if you didn't mark any of them. And a lot of the questions seemed to imply that one would necessarily be in a bubble if one didn't live in certain circumstances, which is certainly not true - not even generally true.
But, people love these sorts of quizzes (myself included) and almost everyone loves getting a single number score (man's obsession with lists and linearizing all information) so ... there's that. A bit of a disappointing end, though.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 06:23 AM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Let's play two! at April 14, 2016 06:26 AM (WVsWD)
Yeah. The restaurant question should have probably been less brand-specific, and more geared to type of restaurant. Fast food, local diner, national chain, or Michelin rated.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 14, 2016 06:30 AM (J+mig)
Just need to know Teh Roolz on this one.
Posted by: creeper at April 14, 2016 06:36 AM (W0VID)
Posted by: creeper at April 14, 2016 06:36 AM (W0VID)
Meh. It was dropped purely on a technicality. Michelle Fields is left handed and couldn't sign the complaint against Lewandowski since he had ripped her left arm off.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 06:41 AM (zc3Db)
I actually feel sorry for ace on this one. He was really invested in it.
Hurry, November.
Posted by: creeper at April 14, 2016 06:44 AM (W0VID)
Posted by: creeper at April 14, 2016 06:44 AM (W0VID)
Don't feel bad. He'll make it all back on the monster civil suit.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 14, 2016 06:46 AM (zc3Db)
But for todays kids, it needs to be updated to say
Putin is simply rolling coal in Obama's face.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 14, 2016 06:46 AM (ptqRm)
All 50 states go at once. The top 5 are kicked to the next round. Then the top 4. Then the top 3. Then the top 2. Then you've got a clear winner and the convention is just a formality to certify the results of Round 5 and promote your new candidate.
Round 1: Unlimited
Round 2: Top 5
Round 3: Top 4
Round 4: Top 3
Round 5: Sudden Death
Boom. Done. Hold each round one week after the last. Stop the national torture that drags on for 6 months.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at April 14, 2016 06:46 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: creeper at April 14, 2016 06:46 AM (W0VID)
I see a lot of Steely Dan fans here. I had been coincidentally listening to Fagan's album "The Nightfly" yesterday and will gift you with "Ruby Ruby":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G187v1HEjqs
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at April 14, 2016 06:47 AM (jR7Wy)
The position here will be-
He said it. He owns it.
He said it but didn't really mean it.
Over there!! Squirrel!!
Posted by: teej at April 14, 2016 07:06 AM (0RM+L)
Glad I cleared that up.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at April 14, 2016 07:14 AM (BNs9e)
Posted by: Marooned at April 14, 2016 08:12 AM (XhyuK)
Look, it gets my heart rate up without me having to put on pants and go outside to run.
Posted by: vivi at April 14, 2016 08:26 AM (11H2y)
To ace and company,
Here is an enlightened perspective worth considering:
http://buchanan.org/blog/can-gop-get-together-cleveland-125098
Posted by: Testy Stoic Trumpublican at April 14, 2016 08:47 AM (AhiRu)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 14, 2016 03:26 AM (EzgxV)
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You will never be anything but a jackass.
Any you and your butt buddy better worry about your own bannable behavior. You really think your shit dont stink. lol
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 14, 2016 09:04 AM (iQIUe)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 14, 2016 09:13 AM (TPimP)
And here is a VERY important follow up fact regarding that piece by Patrick J. Buchanan:
At the 1976 Republican National Convention, President Ford did not have enough delegates to secure the nomination. BUT he had amassed more delegates than Regan. And President Ford had one the plurality of the popular vote. And he had won more States.
But it was a razor-close delegate contest. Fewer than 50 delegates separated Reagan and Ford until Ford managed to woo over enough uncommitted voters to secure 52% of the delegates.
The final delegate tally was Reagan with 1,070 defeated by Ford with 1,187.
Now why is this important?
Because in modern politics, no nominee for POTUS has been shoved out of the way despite having led in delegates, State wins, and total voter count.
- Not even when it was close and the alternative was Ronald Reagan!
All these "arguments" that Donald Trump's Art of the Deal aura is bogus because his organization is being out-hustled by Cruz in the ground game of wooing delegates for 2nd+ ballot casting is bullshit.
When it comes to deal making, you have to have leverage.
And OF COURSE Donald Trump has no leverage with the GOP Establishment and the "Never Trump" factions and the Cruz for president people. How could he? Aside from corrupt bribes, Trump has nothing to leverage those delegates with. If he were to make a serious play at securing the loyalties of these Anti-Trump factions by employing an intricate ground game: Trump would only be lending credit to their jumping ship on the 2nd+ ballots. It would be foolish for him (or anyone else in a similar position - which no one else is) to play that game. It can only hurt him.
Instead, Trump is intelligently using the only leverage he's got: appropriate voter outrage at having their voices silenced by INSIDER Establishment gamesmanship whereby the grassroots are defeated on arcane technicalities designed by the Establishment.
But note that if Trump loses it won't be because he was "out hustled" by smarter political players. That's pure self deception on the part of Trump Haters.
Rather, Trump if Trump loses it will be because he is willfully shut out by the Establishment using a Party system that was designed by the Establishment to shut out undesirables. - Even when an undesirable is elevated above all others by grassroots enthusiasm.
Maybe we win with Trump in November. (- I think we probably will.) Maybe we lose with him in November.
But we definitely lose with anyone else who is FOISTED on to the ticket against the will of an intensely enthusiastic grassroots movement.
Posted by: Testy Stoic Trumpublican at April 14, 2016 09:31 AM (AhiRu)
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