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Overnight Open Thread (13 Aug 2016)

Here's what the Pre Market Tobacco Application (PMTA) involves for e-cigs. All of this simply because a judge ruled that e-cigs were tobacco. Even though they don't have any tobacco.

Arms Dealing

CIA annex in Benghazi shipped arms from Libya to Syria; Clinton lied about it. OK, let's suppose that airtight proof comes up that Hillary was directly involved and had direct knowledge and/or directed said arms transactions. Does anything think that the Republicans have the balls to do anything about it that is meaningful?

Hollywood War Movies

Heh. 56 movie mistakes: The Longest Day.

GPS Jammers

It's too easy and cheap to do. GPS under attack as crooks, rogue workers wage electronic war.

Livestock Auctioneer Rappers

Bill Clinton Whining

In answer to your question Bill, yes there are 300 career diplomats who were on those emails that were careless with national security. It's simple. You aren't supposed to use personal email for official business. Period. The mere fact that they didn't report it is a violation in of itself.

Chemtrails

Probably won't change the minds of those who believe chemtrails are nefarious. 'Chemtrails' aren't a thing: top scientists refute conspiracy theories. Of course they had to include that chemtrails may last longer because of climate change. If only these 'top scientists' would check their 'climate change' conspiracy theories.

Outside experts ding EPA fracking report's optimistic conclusions. That's rich. They're whining about the EPA not giving them enough quantitative information. Have these guys ever said the same thing about AGW or climate change crap?

Political correctness prevents advancement of science.

Not only do intellectuals refuse to abandon politically correct beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence, but simply questioning them can ruin a person's career. Lawrence Summers' tenure as president of Harvard was cut short because he suggested that there are intellectual differences between men and women. As a result of such punitive pushback, some researchers are afraid to investigate differences between male and female brains, which certainly exist. Without a doubt, this reticence is holding back the field of neuroscience.

A similar chilling effect can be seen in climatology. The only politically correct belief regarding the climate is that humans are 100% responsible for everything bad that happens and that the Four Horsemen are already marching toward Earth. Questioning that apocalyptic and unscientific belief has resulted in multiple researchers being labeled "climate deniers." Climatology would greatly benefit from the more skeptical approach of so-called "lukewarmers," but far too many are ostracized and demonized.

Volleyball

Scott Sterling is back and this time, he's playing volleyball.

MLB Team Names

Interesting. Some of these I never knew. The origins of all 30 MLB team names.

Nice

Need more of this. Meet the public university that actually has a surprisingly high number of Republican professors.

Getting Old

Man. 34 years ago today, Fast Times At Ridgemont High was released. I still love Phoebe (NSFW).

Now for the 'ettes, Sonny Bunch's Top 5 man crushes.

Cat Video

Tonight's ONT brought to you by 1940's High School Hair-Do Code:

Cat pic via.

Yo! If you played in the moron FFL last year (you know who you are), check your email, log in, and be ready. If you don't log in, Ima gonna have to find replacement morons.

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Comments

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1 Caturday!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 13, 2016 09:44 PM (jR7Wy)

2 Konbanwa's y'all!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 09:44 PM (kP16F)

3 3rd?

Posted by: Weasel at August 13, 2016 09:45 PM (Sfs6o)

4 Sloppy seconds... Jeesh!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 09:46 PM (kP16F)

5 Early ONT! Yea!

Posted by: tbodie at August 13, 2016 09:47 PM (BN/jk)

6
IDIOT ME read the content again.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 09:49 PM (5o5ek)

7 Evening!

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod at August 13, 2016 09:50 PM (+eR2D)

8
Does anything think that the Republicans have the balls to do anything about it that is meaningful?

That's a trick question, right?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 09:50 PM (IqV8l)

9 Arms Dealing - McCain was in it up to his eyeballs too.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 13, 2016 09:50 PM (P/kVC)

10 Last night of swimming thank god.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 09:50 PM (MNgU2)

11 Better be careful about where I've been putting my daughter's hair bow cause apparently she out to get her a man.....she's 7.

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 09:51 PM (xVgrA)

12 I've read that Brazil's excuse for the green water in the Olympie diving pool is that "chemistry is not an exact science"...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 09:52 PM (kP16F)

13 Howdy-do, ONT.....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 09:53 PM (9ym/8)

14 So if all the girls have the bow in the back, I went into the wrong bar?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 13, 2016 09:53 PM (vyqqu)

15 Arms Dealing - McCain was in it up to his eyeballs too.


Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 13, 2016 09:50 PM (P/kVC)

But I'm betting that AZ will re-elect this doofus nonetheless!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 13, 2016 09:53 PM (wYnyS)

16 I've read that Brazil's excuse for the green water in the Olympie diving pool is that "chemistry is not an exact science"...


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 09:52 PM (kP16F)


But "climate science" is exact, comrade!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 13, 2016 09:55 PM (wYnyS)

17 >>>But "climate science" is exact, comrade!


Posted by: Hrothgar at August 13, 2016 09:55 PM (wYnyS)<<<

Well, duh. Carbon Dioxide isn't a chemical, silly.

Posted by: Bill (de)Nye the Science, guy at August 13, 2016 09:57 PM (H9MG5)

18 Is that a polite way of saying that Betty Dupree is a lesbo?

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 09:58 PM (sdi6R)

19
Does anything think that the Republicans have the balls to do anything about it that is meaningful?

That's a trick question, right?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 09:50 PM (IqV8l)
-----------------

Help us, Juli-an Kenobi. You're our only hope.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 09:58 PM (5o5ek)

20 Finally we get some rain in Houston.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 09:58 PM (MNgU2)

21 "So if all the girls have the bow in the back, I went into the wrong bar?"


Aunt spent a summer in Hawaii one year. She learned that wearing the flower in her hair on one side (I think left) meant she was available. On the other side, taken.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 09:59 PM (9ym/8)

22 Aunt spent a summer in Hawaii one year. She learned
that wearing the flower in her hair on one side (I think left) meant
she was available. On the other side, taken.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 09:59 PM (9ym/

On the top, a mahu.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 13, 2016 10:00 PM (P/kVC)

23 Well, duh. Carbon Dioxide isn't a chemical, silly.


Posted by: Bill (de)Nye the Science, guy at August 13, 2016 09:57 PM (H9MG5)

I knew there was a sound scientific reason for the concensus!

Posted by: Dihydrogen Monoxide at August 13, 2016 10:00 PM (wYnyS)

24 Women strike gold in 4x100 medley.

'Murica!

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out clap at August 13, 2016 10:01 PM (H9MG5)

25 Well... If Ann Mitchell is "out to get herself a man", I wish her luck...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:06 PM (kP16F)

26 Scott Sterling is amusing.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 13, 2016 10:06 PM (0tfLf)

27 I didn't see the first two Star Trek reboot movie and saw the third one tonight. Was bored through most of it but at the climax when Beastie Boys "Sabotage" played, I almost lost it. That scene was so silly and contrived but it was so epic in its own way.

Posted by: auscolpyr at August 13, 2016 10:06 PM (Ht/4p)

28 Federal Government to Fund Creation of Catgirls

The National Institute of Health planning to lift its moratorium on funding that could lead to the development of catgirls.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12305

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 13, 2016 10:06 PM (vBeA5)

29 I've been listening to Bob Dylan's epic 7/29/65 recording session, when he recorded "Tombstone Blues", "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry", "Positively 4th Street", and "Desolation Row". That was pretty good day's work.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 10:07 PM (sdi6R)

30 I think the bow is just there to provide a good hand hold.

Posted by: Gmac- 'all politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at August 13, 2016 10:08 PM (MjmD5)

31 I guess if you don't wear a flower you are signaling that you've been deflowered?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 10:08 PM (MNgU2)

32 What if the bow is tattooed just above her ass?

Posted by: freaked at August 13, 2016 10:09 PM (BO/km)

33 Funny stuff CDR M.



The auction rap is perfect.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2016 10:09 PM (qUNWi)

34 Target practice!

Posted by: Gmac- 'all politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at August 13, 2016 10:10 PM (MjmD5)

35 Kateurday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764510432363106304

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764510544803995649

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764510702866313216

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764510836194893824

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764511020677115904

Posted by: kbdabear at August 13, 2016 10:10 PM (GrXXa)

36 The National Institute of Health planning to lift its moratorium on funding that could lead to the development of catgirls.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12305

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 13, 2016 10:06 PM (vBeA5)


A catgirl that got the cattributes in the wrong places might be a cat-asstrophe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 10:11 PM (oqkO3)

37 I have been impressed with the Cowboy backup QBs tonight.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod at August 13, 2016 10:11 PM (+eR2D)

38 More Kateurday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764511204618358784

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764511364425457664

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764511643531251712

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764511788666720256

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/764511929058537472

Posted by: kbdabear at August 13, 2016 10:11 PM (GrXXa)

39
Any Irish in here?

Get out!

Just kidding. I was told that wearing your Claddagh Ring a certain way sent a message, too. True?

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 13, 2016 10:12 PM (lN+xb)

40 'Sup! Have to agree...Phoebe for the win.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 13, 2016 10:12 PM (qbnYE)

41 Phelps calls it a career (maybe?) with another gold. Men's team wins 4x100 medley.

'Murica... Fuck Yeah!

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out clap at August 13, 2016 10:13 PM (H9MG5)

42 [Jane, can I ask you something? ]


Does anyone else thing Julian Assange is full of it? I've been hearing about game-changers and deadly blows since 2008 and the traitors are laughing harder than ever.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:13 PM (5o5ek)

43 Howdy, y'all!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 13, 2016 10:13 PM (EzgxV)

44 Happy Caturday, Horde!

It's that time of year again: ramping up for the 3rd Annual Southwest Ohio Moron Meetup.

Tentatively scheduled for mid-October in the Dayton area.

Want to be kept in the loop?

Drop me a line at swohmome@mail.com (and please include your nic).

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2016 10:13 PM (vUcdz)

45 I have been impressed with the Cowboy backup QBs tonight.

With the way Dak Prescott looked I think they can put to bed the search for a vet backup.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2016 10:14 PM (qUNWi)

46 Hola all.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 10:14 PM (heN73)

47 12 ZR

Much to the amusement of Daughter The Youngest (Chem PhD student).

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2016 10:15 PM (vUcdz)

48 Just kidding. I was told that wearing your Claddagh Ring a certain way sent a message, too. True?

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 13, 2016 10:12 PM (lN+xb)


I can send messages with my ring, too.

Posted by: Hope Solo at August 13, 2016 10:15 PM (oqkO3)

49 I liked the East Carolina University article, but I'll be really impressed if they can find a university with a decent ratio among its Political Science and History departments. I'll be absolutely astounded if they can find a Sociology department that isn't completely dominated by conflict theorists (they can even be Democrat, and I'll be happy).

Posted by: lowtech redneck at August 13, 2016 10:16 PM (KF8B+)

50 >>>With the way Dak Prescott looked I think they can put to bed the search for a vet backup.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2016 10:14 PM (qUNWi)<<<

I was a little disappointed, so I just signed Johnny Manziel to be our backup.

**hic**

Posted by: Jerry "Al Davis without the track suit" Jones at August 13, 2016 10:18 PM (H9MG5)

51 "On the top, a mahu."



Does on the top mean "taken" or "available?"




*somebody will say "yes"*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:18 PM (9ym/8)

52 51 RK

Yes.

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2016 10:19 PM (vUcdz)

53
So yeah, little R2D2 died.

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 13, 2016 10:20 PM (lN+xb)

54 53 MM

They killed Kenny!

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2016 10:20 PM (vUcdz)

55
*beep beep* *boop* *beep* *be.....

Posted by: Mister Magoo's at August 13, 2016 10:20 PM (lN+xb)

56 "With the way Dak Prescott looked I think they can put to bed the search for a vet backup."



Pretty fine for a rookie 4th Rounder.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:21 PM (9ym/8)

57 So much for "the science is settled"...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/gog8myk

Posted by: The Muonic Hat at August 13, 2016 10:21 PM (vBeA5)

58 With the way Dak Prescott looked I think they can put to bed the search for a vet backup.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2016 10:14 PM (qUNWi)


Agreed. I don't think there's anything to worry about if Romo gets hurt and the future is set.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod at August 13, 2016 10:22 PM (+eR2D)

59 "Yes."



I knew that would happen.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:22 PM (9ym/8)

60 23 golds, 3 silver, and 2 bronze for 28 total....can anyone touch that?

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:22 PM (xVgrA)

61 Do you know USA Olympic shooting teams / individuals don't have any sponsors outside of gun related companies. Shooting events are one of the top medal earners for the USA. Big time Olympic sponsors like Coca Cola and P&G refuse to sponsor. Fuck them all.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 10:24 PM (MNgU2)

62 59 RK

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2016 10:24 PM (vUcdz)

63 all anybody is going to remember is arms to Syria, good i guess??? then lying, what do you expect?

unless you directly tie it to isis or make the case that kaddafy was killed in order to do it none of that will mean much.

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:24 PM (U0lQa)

64 Prescott is so composed and calm in the pocket. Seriously impressive for a kid.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod at August 13, 2016 10:24 PM (+eR2D)

65 So Sonny Bunch is gay?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 13, 2016 10:24 PM (+wjl1)

66 #9834 #9835 Take the ribbon from your hair... Help me make it through the ONT! #9836

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:25 PM (kP16F)

67 Ceomiket cosplay

http://preview.tinyurl.com/gqo33s7

Ads at site are NSFW

Posted by: 政治的な帽子 at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM (vBeA5)

68 I've been seeing some anti-trump commercials approved by hellory during the Olympics. About the Don's ties and shirts being made in China and Bangladesh.

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM (xVgrA)

69 68.

Posted by: Darrell at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM (DHXYY)

70 Still no special character privilege...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM (kP16F)

71 Damn!

Posted by: Darrell at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM (DHXYY)

72 >>>23 golds, 3 silver, and 2 bronze for 28 total....can anyone touch that?

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:22 PM (xVgrA)<<<
Yes. I will get more gold medals, because I deserve them, just by participating.

And I was totally robbed, not getting to carry the flag into the stadium because of that racist, bigot Phelps... and the Joos.

Posted by: fenching bitch in a burqa at August 13, 2016 10:27 PM (H9MG5)

73 Federal Government to Fund Creation of Catgirls

Oblig. (Politial Hat):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpdHMaccjw4

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 10:27 PM (044Fx)

74 I could tell from the typography of the hair bow photos that they were from Life magazine. You can browse any issue here:

https://tinyurl.com/jozsw6c

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 10:27 PM (sdi6R)

75 [My instinct tells me that pedantry is an essential characteristic for capturing Nazis.]


'Nother question. How does going bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee at machine-gun speed help sell livestock? I watched some other auctions at youtube to see if those "rappers" were par for the course and they are. I couldn't tell what they were saying. If I went there to buy livestock I'd just give and go home.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:27 PM (5o5ek)

76 McCain was in it up to his eyeballs too.

===

McCain ran right over there for face to face meets. With people later shown to be isis and al quaeda

they all know exactly who's who over there.

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:28 PM (U0lQa)

77 Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 10:24 PM (MNgU2)


But responsible gun-owners have nothing to fear: (h/t WZ)

http://www.weaselzippers.us/289326-obama-regime-seeks-to-restrict-gunsmiths/

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 13, 2016 10:28 PM (wYnyS)

78 "Still no special character privilege..."



Only Hat. And I've never figured out Hat does it.


*rubs chin*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:29 PM (9ym/8)

79 *fencing.

Even autocorrect is racist and bigoted. Probably programmed by the Joos.

Posted by: fencing bitch in a burqa at August 13, 2016 10:29 PM (H9MG5)

80 28 Federal Government to Fund Creation of Catgirls

The National Institute of Health planning to lift its moratorium on funding that could lead to the development of catgirls.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12305
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 13, 2016 10:06 PM (vBeA5)
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Does Anna know about this?

Does she know she can walk in the light of day without fear of jackbooted thugs dragging her back to the underground laboratory?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 13, 2016 10:29 PM (jR7Wy)

81
I've been seeing some anti-trump commercials approved by hellory during the Olympics. About the Don's ties and shirts being made in China and Bangladesh.
Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM (xVgrA)
----------------------

Weak. I wonder how you make a compelling commercial about shipping guns to Islamic rads through Libya to Syria, though.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:30 PM (5o5ek)

82 79 *fencing.

Even autocorrect is racist and bigoted. Probably programmed by the Joos.
Posted by: fencing bitch in a burqa at August 13, 2016 10:29 PM (H9MG5)

Although 'Fenching' sounded vaguely dirty.

Thanks for the ONT btw.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:30 PM (WV3Yp)

83 Mother born in Ireland, family immigrated in the 1930s, legally. The Claddaugh ring worn towards you means your heart is taken. Wearing it with the heart pointing away from you means your open to whatever. Our family tradition is a Claddaugh ring on your first aniversary, don't know why.

Posted by: Abby at August 13, 2016 10:31 PM (HBU7W)

84 Fenching Frenchie Fencer

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 10:31 PM (IqV8l)

85 @78, RK

...and "Donna, etc." and her bleeding ampersands!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:31 PM (kP16F)

86 So Sonny Bunch is gay?



My first thought too.

Posted by: Infidel at August 13, 2016 10:32 PM (nWhru)

87 I've been seeing some anti-trump commercials
approved by hellory during the Olympics. About the Don's ties and shirts
being made in China and Bangladesh.

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM (xVgrA)

I think a lot of Clinton Foundation money has been "made" overseas, so she might want to be a bit cautious about those comments!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 13, 2016 10:32 PM (wYnyS)

88 ...and "Donna, etc." and her bleeding ampersands!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:31 PM (kP16F)

She should get a shot of penicillin to clean those up. Could get serious otherwise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:32 PM (WV3Yp)

89 76 McCain was in it up to his eyeballs too.

===

McCain ran right over there for face to face meets. With people later shown to be isis and al quaeda

they all know exactly who's who over there.
Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:28 PM (U0lQa)

McCain really is the worst type of narcissist . One that is easily fooled . They have no capacity to back out of anything that they've agreed to because that would make them wrong.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 10:32 PM (MNgU2)

90 'Nother question. How does going bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee at machine-gun speed help sell livestock? I watched some other auctions at youtube to see if those "rappers" were par for the course and they are. I couldn't tell what they were saying. If I went there to buy livestock I'd just give and go home.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:27 PM (5o5ek)


The idea is to generate some excitement. Auctioneers selling cars and other goods do it, too. If you are there to buy, you just raise your hand (or your bidder's card) to indicate that you agree to the current price quoted. If you are involved as a buyer or seller, the patter is not that hard to follow.

Posted by: Hope Solo at August 13, 2016 10:33 PM (oqkO3)

91 >>>Although 'Fenching' sounded vaguely dirty.

Thanks for the ONT btw.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:30 PM (WV3Yp)<<<



Don't fench me in.

Posted by: Hope Solo's hole-o at August 13, 2016 10:33 PM (H9MG5)

92 "@78, RK"


&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:34 PM (9ym/8)

93 Here's what the Pre Market Tobacco Application (PMTA) involves for e-cigs. All of this simply because a judge ruled that e-cigs were tobacco. Even though they don't have any tobacco.


Anybody else tired of these pinch-faced neo-Puritan control freak assholes? I know I am.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:34 PM (0mRoj)

94 Federal Government to Fund Creation of Catgirls

The National Institute of Health planning to lift its moratorium on funding that could lead to the development of catgirls.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12305
Posted by: The Political Hat at August 13, 2016 10:06 PM (vBeA5)
----
Does Anna know about this?

Does she know she can walk in the light of day without fear of jackbooted thugs dragging her back to the underground laboratory?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at August 13, 2016 10:29 PM (jR7Wy)


Catgirl research is from the NIH.

Robotics and artificial intelligence would be funded by other agencies.

Posted by: The Dominion Hat at August 13, 2016 10:34 PM (vBeA5)

95 off, sock

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 10:34 PM (oqkO3)

96 Hehehe......


*wiggles eyebrows*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:34 PM (9ym/8)

97 for a commercial I'd go the political cartoons route. show a Hillary turning a Libyan upside down and shaking out coin

explain that they just cracked libya open and emptied it

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:35 PM (U0lQa)

98
Anybody else tired of these pinch-faced neo-Puritan control freak assholes? I know I am.
Posted by: Insomniac


They've only just begun.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 10:35 PM (IqV8l)

99
McCain was in it up to his eyeballs too.

===

McCain ran right over there for face to face meets. With people later shown to be isis and al quaeda

they all know exactly who's who over there.
Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:28 PM (U0lQa)
-------------------

So does this mean that in 2022 when he's running for Senate he'll be doing ads about arresting those weapons-trafficking SOBs who armed ISIS?

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:35 PM (5o5ek)

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:36 PM (kP16F)

101 89
McCain really is the worst type of narcissist . One that is easily fooled . They have no capacity to back out of anything that they've agreed to because that would make them wrong.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 10:32 PM (MNgU2)


Well said.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 10:36 PM (sdi6R)

102 Anybody else tired of these pinch-faced neo-Puritan control freak assholes? I know I am.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:34 PM


*raises hand*

e-cig =/= tobacco

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 10:36 PM (044Fx)

103 Because juries of one's peers is just a tool of The Patriarchy™, right?

via The Guardian: "Juries have no place at rape trials - victims deserve unprejudiced justice"

http://archive.is/OHzgu#selection-713.1-723.12

Posted by: The Dominion Hat at August 13, 2016 10:36 PM (vBeA5)

104 "McCain ran right over there for face to face meets. With people later shown to be isis and al quaeda "



I appreciate the man's service and his sacrifice. I do.


But, good Lord.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:36 PM (9ym/8)

105 Well, Hellory did donate a million dollars to charity last year....96% to her own F'ing foundation! Why claim a bunch of income you have to pay taxes on when you can park it in a tax free foundation and draw "expenses" as needed. Viola, no need to pay taxes.....silly man, taxes are for the middle class and poor!!!/////11//////

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:37 PM (xVgrA)

106 explain that they just cracked libya open and emptied it

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:35 PM (U0lQa)


A cartoon showing Hillaroid in a chef's hat, making an omelet for some swarthy, knife-toting ISIS and Al Qaeda types, with some broken eggs nearby bearing the names of the 4 murdered Americans from Benghazi.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 10:38 PM (oqkO3)

107 Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:36 PM (kP16F)

Them's fightin' words.

Posted by: angry man at August 13, 2016 10:38 PM (UOgBc)

108 And Amazon has splashed in it's front page an advertizement for something on Woodstock. "Three days of Peach, Love and Music changed the world in 1969."

What, no mentions of rampant drug use, std swapping, property damage, mud, and smelly hippies?

This happened 6 years before I was born, and I am beyond tired of hearing about it, I can only imagine how it felt to people who were adults when this goat rodeo was going on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:38 PM (WV3Yp)

109 Cameron Crowe wrote "Fast Times" after spending a year masquerading as a high school student, supposedly the book was based on real stories. I read it while a senior and it bore zero resemblance to my HS.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 10:39 PM (EZebt)

110 I got the coveted "C" spot and my ampersands are invisible! Once I whined about not having "o-macron" privilege so "Ryoiki" could be spelt properly, and Pixy magically fixed it for me -- just that one time, though...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:39 PM (kP16F)

111 Still no special character privilege...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:26 PM


Try to develop something memorable. This can be done quite quickly, as Banana Splits Guy has demonstrated.

Or, you can form a band, like Donna & The Ampersands.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2016 10:40 PM (OF/aZ)

112 Peach=Peace. Vodka talking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:40 PM (WV3Yp)

113 Well, Hellory did donate a million dollars to charity last year....96% to her own F'ing foundation!

Y'know, lindafell, we should ALL be doing this...

Just make sure not to use certain words in the Foundations' names...

coughPatriot coughConstitution coughTea coughcough

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 10:41 PM (044Fx)

114 "Them's fightin' words."



A lot can be said with just a blank post.



*grabs popcorn*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:41 PM (9ym/8)

115 Cameron Crowe wrote "Fast Times" after spending a year masquerading as a high school student, supposedly the book was based on real stories. I read it while a senior and it bore zero resemblance to my HS.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 10:39 PM (EZebt)


I always figured it depended a lot on the high school and how social you were in it. I wasn't--so it didn't.

Posted by: AD at August 13, 2016 10:42 PM (TOa4G)

116 Cooth gave me a link to character converter tool but that didn't work, either...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:42 PM (kP16F)

117 Solid thread

Posted by: BacktoGA at August 13, 2016 10:42 PM (/22Vh)

118 All of this simply because a judge ruled that e-cigs were tobacco. Even though they don't have any tobacco.


Ah, but they identify as having tobacco.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 13, 2016 10:42 PM (SRKgf)

119 Peach=Peace. Vodka talking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:40 PM (WV3Yp)


If your vodka is talking to you, you might not want to that much L.S.D. to it...

Posted by: Psychedelicat at August 13, 2016 10:43 PM (vBeA5)

120 Perhaps AoSHQ could apply to The Clinton Foundation for a grant to upgrade Pixy?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2016 10:43 PM (OF/aZ)

121
If you are there to buy, you just raise your hand (or your bidder's card) to indicate that you agree to the current price quoted.
----------------------

The current price being dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee bada dee bada bee.

I couldn't hear any numbers.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:43 PM (5o5ek)

122 23 golds, 3 silver, and 2 bronze for 28 total....can anyone touch that?

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:22 PM (xVgrA)

I was here first.

Posted by: M.C. Hammer at August 13, 2016 10:43 PM (heN73)

123
Peach=Peace. Vodka talking.

You were thinking of the Atlanta Pop Festival!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 10:43 PM (IqV8l)

124 If your vodka is talking to you, you might not want to that much L.S.D. to it...
Posted by: Psychedelicat at August 13, 2016 10:43 PM (vBeA5)

Well, it is Dan Aykroyd's brand of vodka, so it is a possibility.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:44 PM (WV3Yp)

125 Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod at August 13, 2016 10:22 PM (+eR2D)

Pre season defenses are the definition of vanilla, so let's not go sucking each other's.....well you know, as Harvey Keitel said.

Posted by: F.N.G. at August 13, 2016 10:45 PM (kiSdp)

126 I thought peach was schnapps not vodka?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:45 PM (LdMbv)

127
for a commercial I'd go the political cartoons route. show a Hillary turning a Libyan upside down and shaking out coin
-----------------------

Maybe someone can do something clever with "We came, we saw, he died." That smug-ass look on her face.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:45 PM (5o5ek)

128 I didn't finish my tell-all book!

Posted by: Zombie R2 R.R. D2 at August 13, 2016 10:45 PM (3b9U4)

129 109 Cameron Crowe wrote "Fast Times" after spending a year masquerading as a high school student, supposedly the book was based on real stories. I read it while a senior and it bore zero resemblance to my HS.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 10:39 PM (EZebt)

..............

I'm getting so old I really only have clear memories of my senior year. It involved getting to school early and cruising our little tiny town and drinking. Then off to welding class and sneaking in a jug for the boys. ( I did end up wiping the floor grade wise tho) then it was home ec and then drivers Ed. ( I was sober by then) I would ask my instructer if we could go to the next town where my boyfriend was. Of course we could!! I had all credits done by jr year so Senior yr was just plain fun

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 10:46 PM (shN0m)

130 "I couldn't hear any numbers."




Meh, started off too high.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:46 PM (9ym/8)

131 Dr. McGillicuddy's 100 proof Peach Schnapps... oh, the memories... backed w/Seagram's Original wine cooler (dry, white wine)

Mmmm-- Sweet 'n' Sour Alcohol!

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 10:47 PM (044Fx)

132 Δ

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:47 PM (hVdx9)

133 126 I thought peach was schnapps not vodka?
Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:45 PM (LdMbv)

Different country. Dekuyper.

And is that pronounced De-coup-er or Du-Keye-per?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:47 PM (WV3Yp)

134 98
Anybody else tired of these pinch-faced neo-Puritan control freak assholes? I know I am.
Posted by: Insomniac

They've only just begun.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 10:35 PM (IqV8l)

Oh, of course. They won't be satisfied until they control every little goddamn thing.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:48 PM (0mRoj)

135 Woot woot awesome ONT

Thanks Admiral

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2016 10:48 PM (voOPb)

136 >>>Well, Hellory did donate a million dollars to
charity last year....96% to her own F'ing foundation! Why claim a bunch
of income you have to pay taxes on when you can park it in a tax free
foundation and draw "expenses" as needed. Viola, no need to pay
taxes.....silly man, taxes are for the middle class and
poor!!!/////11//////

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 10:37 PM (xVgrA)<<<

We also donated a million bucks worth of used underwear.

Between me and Hill, we go through an awful lot of drawers in a year.

Posted by: B.J. Clinton at August 13, 2016 10:48 PM (H9MG5)

137 Ω
Ψ
Ξ

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:48 PM (hVdx9)

138 Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:47 PM (hVdx9)

Watch out, he's going to change on us!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:48 PM (WV3Yp)

139 Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:48 PM (hVdx9)

So you're a frat orca?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:49 PM (0mRoj)

140 still jumping to the bottom

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 10:49 PM (bxM2E)

141 TKAW




Now, you're just showing off. Where'd you get all that shit?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 10:50 PM (9ym/8)

142 Maybe someone can do something clever with "We came, we saw, he died." That smug-ass look on her face.

====

too much political crap maybe

but that was all her baby. Obama wasn't much involved with it all. horrible judgement, horrible follow through, created a bigger mess and a new horrifying Muslim terror movement

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:50 PM (U0lQa)

143 And for all that nonsense fuckupery I did my senior yr I did learn a few things. I can lay a bead welding, I make a mean white sauce ( home ec) and I don't think I ever drank a beer before noon again ( in the central time zone)

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 10:50 PM (shN0m)

144 I note that Willy Sea Panda Surf Skeeter is taunting me with his privilege now, too...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:50 PM (kP16F)

145 Nice, Molly. My experience was a little ,ore like that.

But no pools, no malls, no surfer dudes in NYC.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 10:50 PM (EZebt)

146 Granny Botox McGrannyPanties is much aggrieved with a flood of 'sick and obscene' phone calls after hackers probe her backdoor...

On Drudge.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (+wjl1)

147 >>>Different country. Dekuyper.

And is that pronounced De-coup-er or Du-Keye-per?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:47 PM (WV3Yp)
<<<




Dee-kooey-pee-ar.



Posted by: Al Sharpton, linguistics expert at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (H9MG5)

148 "...humans are 100% responsible for everything..."

No, Republicans are responsible for everything. The Fall of Constantinople? Republicans. The Irish Potato Famine? Bush. And don't get me started on Reagan and the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Typical anti-intellectuals.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (J8/9G)

149


Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (hVdx9)

150 I always figured it depended a lot on the high school and how social you were in it. I wasn't--so it didn't.
Posted by: AD at August 13, 2016 10:42 PM (TOa4G)

High school was a mixed bag for me. I have some pretty good and some really bad memories. I didn't have exactly what you would call high-level social skills.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (0mRoj)

151 de coy per i think

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (U0lQa)

152

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (LdMbv)

153 He's repressin' me! Did you see 'im repressin' me?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (kP16F)

154 Question for male morons over 45 -

Has anyone experience a complete loss of drive? Lack of interest?

Lack of focus?

Lack of .... um ... stuff?

Don't make fun. Your young ass is next.


Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (zu88C)

155 146 Granny Botox McGrannyPanties is much aggrieved with a flood of 'sick and obscene' phone calls after hackers probe her backdoor...

On Drudge.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (+wjl1)

I am trying to summon outrage, but the best I can do is giggling...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (WV3Yp)

156 Found a site that shows what to enter.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (hVdx9)

157 Only Hat. And I've never figured out Hat does it.

It's called HTML codes. It's how I have the power to umlaut and to do three different forms of ampersand...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 13, 2016 10:53 PM (vyqqu)

158 Granny Botox McGrannyPanties is much aggrieved with a flood of 'sick and obscene' phone calls after hackers probe her backdoor...

On Drudge.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (+wjl1)

*****

You're going to have to be more specific.

Evening all.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 10:53 PM (8mwfn)

159 Lack of interest? Yes, but not by me.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at August 13, 2016 10:53 PM (J8/9G)

160 This is the one I use for e.g. the musical notations:
http://www.fillster.com/htmlcodes/specialcharacters.html

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:53 PM (LdMbv)

161 154 Question for male morons over 45 -

Has anyone experience a complete loss of drive? Lack of interest?

Lack of focus?

Lack of .... um ... stuff?

Don't make fun. Your young ass is next.


Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (zu88C)

I completely stopped giving a fuck some time ago, but that's probably not what you're hinting at.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:53 PM (0mRoj)

162 ⊙ ⊙

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:54 PM (hVdx9)

163 >>>No, Republicans are responsible for everything. The
Fall of Constantinople? Republicans. The Irish Potato Famine? Bush.
And don't get me started on Reagan and the burning of the Library of
Alexandria. Typical anti-intellectuals.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (J8/9G)<<<

I'm also re-flooding Louisiana. Because I had so much fun doing it with Katrina.

Posted by: Dick Cheney and the Haliburton Hurricane Machine at August 13, 2016 10:54 PM (H9MG5)

164 #160 Addendum: although it's not too extensive. Generally, no Greek.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:54 PM (LdMbv)

165 No, Republicans are responsible for everything. The Fall of Constantinople? Republicans. The Irish Potato Famine? Bush. And don't get me started on Reagan and the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Typical anti-intellectuals.
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (J8/9G)

Yeah, Lincoln was at the head of the Mongol Hordes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:54 PM (WV3Yp)

166 ⊙ ⊙
o

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:55 PM (hVdx9)

167 Two words that will help me through until Jan 20:

Good Riddance

F*ck Obama

'Bye Asshole

(assuming Hellory doesn't win.)

If Hellory wins, it's:

Oh Shit

Goodbye America

Hello Anarchy

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 10:55 PM (044Fx)

168 I would crank call Stretch but I figure taking a leak on Nancy Pelosi Drive was enough psychic relief for me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 10:55 PM (EZebt)

169 Question for male morons over 45 -

Has anyone experience a complete loss of drive? Lack of interest?

Lack of focus?

Lack of .... um ... stuff?

Don't make fun. Your young ass is next.




Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (zu88C)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Not sure what you're talking about there.

Have a hard time getting excited about much of anything the last few years, be it goals or whatever. Maybe motivated to start, but following up is a whole 'nother ball game.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (heN73)

170 146 Mr P

Phrasing!

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (vUcdz)

171 Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 10:55 PM (044Fx)

Full magazine, ammo stockpile, and molon labe.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (0mRoj)

172 #9824;

Posted by: angry man at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (UOgBc)

173

Sorry for the wasted posts. Just testing stuff.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (hVdx9)

174 High school was a mixed bag for me. I have some pretty good and some really bad memories. I didn't have exactly what you would call high-level social skills.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (0mRoj)

...............

High school.............. mixed bag. I was always in the top tier but was never comfortable. I had more fun with the "lessers" because they were real. When I go back home that's who I hang out with.

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (shN0m)

175
Has anyone experience a complete loss of drive? Lack of interest?

====

stop dragging yourself in for self abuse then. treat yourself to a nice romantic dinner. some sweet talk in the mirror. buy your hand a little something.

Posted by: Bigby's Ouija Board at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (U0lQa)

176 Has anyone experience a complete loss of drive? Lack of interest?

Lack of focus?

Lack of .... um ... stuff?

Don't make fun. Your young ass is next.

Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (zu88C)

****

I'm 53, and around 47 I did. I was doing the divorce thing at the time, so thought it was stress. Started taking testosterone supplements after I moved out. Fixed me up after about 2 months.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (8mwfn)

177 dangit

Posted by: angry man at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (UOgBc)

178 o, Republicans are responsible for everything. The Fall of Constantinople? Republicans. The Irish Potato Famine? Bush. And don't get me started on Reagan and the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Typical anti-intellectuals.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (J8/9G)


The Republicans killed Caeser.

Posted by: Mark Antony at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (vBeA5)

179 I completely stopped giving a fuck some time ago, but that's probably not what you're hinting at.

Posted by: Insomniac



No, brah.


That is it . Exactly.


Test therapy? Gel ? Injections?

Gettin really fkn worried about my apathy.

Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (zu88C)

180 Ace of ♠

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (hVdx9)

181 Maybe someone can do something clever with "We came, we saw, he died." That smug-ass look on her face.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:45 PM (5o5ek)



Run that quote, four times in sequence. Each with a fade in and fade out, of the Benghazi Four, one at a time.

But precede it with the clip of her saying Trump isn't fit to serve. Then play that "came, saw, died" sequence.

Fade to black, with Trump 2016, nothing more need be said.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2016 10:58 PM (v5iqM)

182 o, Republicans are responsible for everything. The Fall of Constantinople? Republicans. The Irish Potato Famine? Bush. And don't get me started on Reagan and the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Typical anti-intellectuals.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at August 13, 2016 10:51 PM (J8/9G)


They killed my Grandpa!

Posted by: Kylo Ren at August 13, 2016 10:58 PM (vBeA5)

183 Did you mean & and not #, angry man?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:58 PM (LdMbv)

184 Here is the site I found.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z4g6ndr

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 10:58 PM (hVdx9)

185 The Republicans knew about the arms for GoFo's program. There were at least 4 Repubs, Mitch, Boner, Mike Rogers, and Saxy Chambliss who had to know per the Intelligence Act rules (these and their 4 D'rat counterparts make up a "Gang of Eight" defined in the Intel Act).

Ol' Mike Rogers (he's retired from Congress, now) actively tried to suppress any Benghazi probe, and they wouldn't let Trey Gowdy actually tell the truth about it, I mean the real purpose.

You can be sure McCain and the bunch, my own senator Grahamnesty and the other stooges were all for it.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 13, 2016 10:58 PM (DW+jj)

186 Join the ♣

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:58 PM (LdMbv)

187 Did you mean & and not #, angry man?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 10:58 PM (LdMbv)


With some browsers, the "&" is stripped out, thus denying the user the ability to use special characters in HTML code...

Posted by: The & Hat at August 13, 2016 10:59 PM (vBeA5)

188 High school.............. mixed bag. I was always in the top tier but was never comfortable. I had more fun with the "lessers" because they were real. When I go back home that's who I hang out with.

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (shN0m)

High school was ok. Played a few sports, top ten in grades, won a couple awards at graduation. Kind of a somebody, but it was also a small town.

Then I went to college and basically spent the next four years drinking and wasting my time.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 10:59 PM (heN73)

189 High school.............. mixed bag. I was always in the top tier but was never comfortable. I had more fun with the "lessers" because they were real. When I go back home that's who I hang out with.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (shN0m)

I never breathed the rarified air of the A crowd in HS.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:59 PM (0mRoj)

190 My hash changed. I will miss you, 3Zorf!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 13, 2016 10:59 PM (WV3Yp)

191

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:59 PM (5o5ek)

192 Best thing about my high school was there was a lot of mixing among social groups. Everyone did their own thing, but everyone also got together a lot. Stoners, eggheads, hippies, motor heads, jocks, dweebs...you never knew who was going to show up at the diner after the bars closed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 11:00 PM (EZebt)

193 181 Jim

This assumes competent GOPe.

Posted by: ibguy at August 13, 2016 11:00 PM (vUcdz)

194

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 11:00 PM (IqV8l)

195 I was a boss in Jr. High

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:00 PM (bxM2E)

196 154: Get your testosterone checked. That's a classic symptom of it being on the low side.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 13, 2016 11:01 PM (DW+jj)

197 Gettin really fkn worried about my apathy.


Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (zu88C)

Yeah I wonder about mine too.

I keep hearing one reason may be low testosterone and keep hearing about these treatment centers, but not sure that's something I want to try. Sounds kinda like a fad. Plus I don't have the money.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 11:01 PM (heN73)

198 Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (zu88C)

Well, I'm under the age cutoff, but my state of being is more a mindset issue than a physical one.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:01 PM (0mRoj)

199 High school.............. mixed bag. I was always in the top tier but was never comfortable. I had more fun with the "lessers" because they were real. When I go back home that's who I hang out with.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (shN0m)




everbody knows that everyone in the "in crowd"always says "there is no in crowd."

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2016 11:01 PM (AoSQU)

200 I couldn't hear any numbers.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:43 PM (5o5ek)


I listened to the video. I heard numbers, most of the time. I haven't gone to stock auctions, but I have gone to enough car auctions and farm auctions (many of which are run by the same guys as do the livestock sales). So I guess I have a bit of an ear for it. That video is showing clips of the guys in peak spiel. And some were wearing badges that said "contestant". So I think we were watching excerpts from an auctioneering contest. Usually when selling an item, they will start out sort of slow, until they get the first bid, and then the spiel ramps up to entice other bidders into the fray.


In some instances, say with a "mystery box" of tools at a farm sale, they will start the bidding too high, and have to come down: "Now here's a fine box of tools from Alec's shop here...lotta good stuff in it...do I hear ten dollars?. (silence from crowd)...alright, then, do I hear five dollars? (silence from crowd)...OK, let's start 'er at a dollar...do I hear ONE dollar?...right!...Mike from the Huxley colony raises his hand....there's a man who knows a bargain...Now I got one dollar, do I hear two dollars....?"

And so on. Point is, if you are there, and interested in the item up for bid, and been following it from the git-go, it's easy to follow the spiel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 11:01 PM (oqkO3)

201 I never breathed the rarified air of the A crowd in HS.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:59 PM (0mRoj)

*****

I did, cuz I played football. Most of them were assholes then, and are now huge assholes 35 years later.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:02 PM (8mwfn)

202
Get your pet ♠

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:02 PM (5o5ek)

203 Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM

Oh, yeah-- I was only spouting words. Slogans, if you will....


I'm ready, just like you suggest.

I'm not in the greatest health, so will simply stand my ground... until I'm no longer able.

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:03 PM (044Fx)

204 Burp ™

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:03 PM (hVdx9)

205 Started taking testosterone supplements after I moved out. Fixed me up after about 2 months.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty

====


I suffered a career-ending, life-changing injury, sold my house, put all but one kid in college, bought a new house, Changed jobs.

Kind of a stress cocktail but not nearly as bad as a divorce I am quite sure,

What form of test therapy worked for you?


Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 11:03 PM (zu88C)

206 I did, cuz I played football. Most of them were assholes then, and are now huge assholes 35 years later.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:02 PM (8mwfn)

After college I never went back to a class reunion, and made no attempt to stay in touch with anybody. Didn't care.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 11:03 PM (heN73)

207 ☻ BLM ☻

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 11:04 PM (LdMbv)

208 I did, cuz I played football. Most of them were assholes then, and are now huge assholes 35 years later.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:02 PM (8mwfn)

Heh, go figure. I wasn't big enough for football, but had no real interest in team sports anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:04 PM (0mRoj)

209 Run that quote, four times in sequence. Each with a fade in and fade out, of the Benghazi Four, one at a time.



But precede it with the clip of her saying Trump isn't fit to serve. Then play that "came, saw, died" sequence.



Fade to black, with Trump 2016, nothing more need be said.






Trump needs to hire you for an ad rep.

Posted by: Infidel at August 13, 2016 11:04 PM (nWhru)

210 Lack of interest?>>>

Yes after giving away 2 houses my interest is lacking. I pick poorly so I quit trying to save money.

Posted by: Willy J. at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (BZey7)

211 Gettin really fkn worried about my apathy.
Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:57 PM (zu88C)

.............

I'm a gal so take this with a grain of salt. At some point you just say I'm done, I can find better things to do with my time than get sweaty and have to get naked. Might have something to do on my part being in a marriage for many years where I wasn't attracted anymore. I travel a lot and have had many opportunities to try but I just can't see where it would be worth the effort. Give me a lawnmower or a dog to walk, that's what I like now

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (shN0m)

212 I'm not in the greatest health, so will simply stand my ground... until I'm no longer able.
Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:03 PM (044Fx)


Pile of empty brass.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (0mRoj)

213 I never breathed the rarified air of the A crowd in HS.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 10:59 PM (0mRoj)

I did, cuz I played football. Most of them were assholes then, and are now huge assholes 35 years later.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:02 PM (8mwfn)


With not much to show for it afterwards.

Posted by: AD at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (TOa4G)

214 I would send you the forms for the Apathy Club but I can't be bothered to look for them.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (LdMbv)

215 If you are worried about your apathy then you aren't apathetic.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (IqV8l)

216
some were wearing badges that said "contestant". So I think we were watching excerpts from an auctioneering contest.
----------------

That's why I youtubed a plain ol' livestock sale and lo, there was the same thing. I think listening is a skill at those things, too.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (5o5ek)

217 Predator targeting

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (hVdx9)

218 I'll this acursed "HTML" business figured out yet!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (kP16F)

219 I would send you the forms for the Apathy Club but I can't be bothered to look for them.

First rule of Apathy Club is....eh, fuck it.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 13, 2016 11:06 PM (+wjl1)

220 I'll GET this acursed "HTML" business figured out yet!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:06 PM (kP16F)

221 Yes after giving away 2 houses my interest is lacking. I pick poorly so I quit trying to save money.
Posted by: Willy J. at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (BZey7)

There is that. After getting royally screwed over there's not a lot of motivation to put your neck in that noise again.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:06 PM (0mRoj)

222
If you are worried about your apathy then you aren't apathetic.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (IqV8l)
-----------------

"He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle.
And he's awake who thinks himself asleep."

--Keats

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:07 PM (5o5ek)

223 This one looks like boobs

ϖ

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:07 PM (hVdx9)

224 I'll this acursed "HTML" business figured out yet!


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
*****

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:08 PM (hVdx9)

225 Nice aim point icon you've got there, Willy!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:08 PM (kP16F)

226 HS and life is basically social skills.
Some people have them, some learn them, some are gloriously unaware


sorta like a box of chocolates....

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:08 PM (bxM2E)

227 Has anyone experience a complete loss of drive? Lack of interest?

Lack of focus?

Lack of .... um ... stuff?

Don't make fun. Your young ass is next.
--

I believe the solution you're looking for is "gardening."

Completely predictable, low energy and familiar. All things that older people like.

There's also crochet.

/are you aware that your post sounded like an ad for low testosterone?

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at August 13, 2016 11:09 PM (tvyXw)

228
After college I never went back to a class reunion, and made no attempt to stay in touch with anybody. Didn't care.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 11:03 PM (heN73)
-----------------

Same here, mainly because I hated high school with a passion and never wanted to look back, unless it was to people who equally hated it. But they're not the ones who run the reunions and keep the email lists.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:09 PM (5o5ek)

229 27:Beastie Boys "Sabotage"


I hate rap/hip hop/whatever, but this BB song and the music video for it are one of my favorites. Probably only favorite in that particular genre. I just love that video.

https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE

Posted by: Puddleglum is on vacation, Weeeee at August 13, 2016 11:09 PM (rJxzw)

230 Hillary's tax return also shows Bill was paid 16 million dollars to be an honorary board member of some type of scholastic type business. Who pays an honorary board member 16 mil?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (MNgU2)

231 Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 10:07 PM (sdi6R)

I'm in the mood for some Highway 61 Revisited.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (fTFPL)

232 The Apathy Club is overrated.

The real fun can be had at the Everyone Is An Idiot Club.

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (tvyXw)

233 The omicron with macron! Nice...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (kP16F)

234 I believe the solution you're looking for is "gardening."

Completely predictable, low energy and familiar. All things that older people like.

There's also crochet.
................

don't forget the all you can eat early buffets

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (bxM2E)

235 Ok, last one

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (hVdx9)

236 Agreed. I don't think there's anything to worry about if Romo gets hurt and the future is set.
Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod at August 13, 2016 10:22 PM


IF?
You mean when.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 13, 2016 11:11 PM (kKHcp)

237 The difference between ignorance and apathy?

I don't know, and I don't care.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2016 11:11 PM (v5iqM)

238 I'm thinking of taking a subtle jab at the movement by sporting a bumper sticker saying WILDLIFE MATTERS.

Will I be jailed for this?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at August 13, 2016 11:11 PM (9v5zv)

239 228
After college I never went back to a class reunion, and made no attempt to stay in touch with anybody. Didn't care.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 11:03 PM (heN73)
-----------------

Same here, mainly because I hated high school with a passion and never wanted to look back, unless it was to people who equally hated it. But they're not the ones who run the reunions and keep the email lists.
Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:09 PM (5o5ek)

I only went to one HS reunion.

I went to my 10 year class reunion high as a kite.

A guy in y class had a sex change operation

Guess what we talked about that night?,

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2016 11:11 PM (voOPb)

240
don't forget the all you can eat early buffets
--

cable tv is pretty awesome as well.

/sitting down things just ROCK. as does sitting down.

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at August 13, 2016 11:12 PM (tvyXw)

241 well, the "in crowd" had an unusually high number of people with dome sort of major dysfunction in their family.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2016 11:12 PM (AoSQU)

242
Run that quote, four times in sequence. Each with a fade in and fade out, of the Benghazi Four, one at a time.
----------------

I was also thinking of showing other people who died, except victims of terrorism.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:12 PM (5o5ek)

243 cable tv is pretty awesome as well.
................
only if the volume is set at 85

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:13 PM (bxM2E)

244 I've never been to any of my HS reunions.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:13 PM (0mRoj)

245 Give me the Hebrew, zayin-tav-yud-yud [space] resh-yud-vav-yud-qof-yod!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:13 PM (kP16F)

246 Nice aim point icon you've got there, Willy!


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
****

Got a few now.




Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (hVdx9)

247 230
Hillary's tax return also shows Bill was paid 16 million dollars to be
an honorary board member of some type of scholastic type business. Who
pays an honorary board member 16 mil?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (MNgU2)


Scholastic type business? Like Trump University?

Whenever you look at what they're screaming about most, that's what they've been doing.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (EzgxV)

248 Give me a lawnmower or a dog to walk, that's what I like now

====


Mollyk, yup.


It's not so much the sex thing as much as the goal , achieve, attack, conquer mindset that has carried me from the locker room to the board room.

My get up and go, got up and went.


I dont trust many of these MD pill- pushers who insist that I need to replace this or enhance that. At the same time , I have been lifting long enough to know of the miracle of hormonal treatments.

Any positive experience of turning it around that can be shared?


Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (zu88C)

249 I have my 30 yr reunion next yr. dear lord where the time go. I'll go but only because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice. I don't take being vindictive lightly but she made my life hell.

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)

250 Hillary's tax return also shows Bill was paid 16
million dollars to be an honorary board member of some type of
scholastic type business. Who pays an honorary board member 16 mil?

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (MNgU2)

The one that the Dept of State under Hillary gives a $50 mil grant to.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (P/kVC)

251 I gave up years ago. The pr0n is hollow bullshit, the women I met were taken or trainwrecks, and I'm no prize myself, so I just said to hell with it.

It's done wonders for my outlook and stress level, might I note.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (vyqqu)

252 I'm just the opposite. I've got a large group of friends that I've gone to school with since elementary and through college. We even had a turning 50 High School reunion .

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (MNgU2)

253 If I went there to buy livestock I'd just give and go home.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 10:27 PM (5o5ek)

Go to a live auction. It's the difference between a stereo and a concert.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (fTFPL)

254 I'm weird and lucky, I guess. I've kept the same circle of 6 since kindergarten. That was almost 50 years ago. With the advent of texting, we are still in touch almost every day,

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (EZebt)

255 I liked the 3-dot one from Predator...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (kP16F)

256 Or was that Call of Duty?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (kP16F)

257 Correction, $55 mil

Link in Nic

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (P/kVC)

258 Pile of empty brass.

Yes.

"Let not my last words be: 'If only I had a gun'... and, Lord, if today is truly the day you call me home, then let me die in a pile of empty brass."

Or something to that effect.

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:17 PM (044Fx)

259 Any positive experience of turning it around that can be shared?
Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (zu88C)
................
what is your deadlift?

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:17 PM (bxM2E)

260 Also, I thought the first rule of Apathy Club was not to talk about ...


oh shit.

Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 11:17 PM (zu88C)

261 AOS will never be the same. It will be known as the night of the symbol invasion.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:17 PM (hVdx9)

262 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (EZebt)

Must be the age since I'm the same age as you.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:17 PM (MNgU2)

263 have my 30 yr reunion next yr. dear lord where the time go. I'll go but only because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice. I don't take being vindictive lightly but she made my life hell.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)



you were in the in crowd how could she torment you?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2016 11:18 PM (AoSQU)

264 Mortimer.... No mind blowing wisdom. Just gave up the needing someone to validate me. I can still try to hold myself together and wear nice things. It's for me now tho and not someone else that demands it.

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:18 PM (shN0m)

265
Give me a lawnmower or a dog to walk

I want a dog to walk my lawnmower.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 13, 2016 11:18 PM (IqV8l)

266 SCOTT STERLING!!!!

Posted by: Sharkman at August 13, 2016 11:18 PM (CS7jF)

267 I got nothing.

Posted by: blaster at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (ACqhm)

268 This month's Apathy Club meeting is canceled for lack of interest.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (+wjl1)

269 That's why I youtubed a plain ol' livestock sale and lo, there was the same thing. I think listening is a skill at those things, too.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (5o5ek)


Try going to an actual auction. Estate auction, or farm auction, going-out-of business auction. Most towns have one or more auction houses where furniture, antiques, and odd lots get sold one or two days or evenings a week. Auctions are fun to attend, sort of a carnival atmosphere. They can be quite the social event in a small town. Generally these days, in order to bid, you have to register as a bidder, and are given a card with a number on it, and to bid, you raise the card. The auctioneer will have several helpers working the crowd, and once you have been identified as an active bidder (by raising the card), the helper will keep an eye on you, and the other active bidders, and further increases in your bid can often be made by just a nod to the helper. If you want to drop out, an emphatic "no" gesture is a good idea.


I'll repeat it: auctions can be a lot of fun, if the goods being sold are of some general interest to you, or its a local sale in your own community. Attend a few, and pay attention, and you will soon find the auctioneer's spiel begins to be comprehensible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (oqkO3)

270 because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice.
...............
nice, payback is a real bitch

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (bxM2E)

271 Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)

Plus we know you are hawtt, hawt, hawt

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (voOPb)

272 "Same here, mainly because I hated high school with a passion and never
wanted to look back, unless it was to people who equally hated it. But
they're not the ones who run the reunions and keep the email lists.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle"

I've found that the ones that seem the most interested are the girls. The guys pretty much don't give a darn.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (w+Jhj)

273 I gave up years ago. The pr0n is hollow bullshit, the women I met were taken or trainwrecks, and I'm no prize myself, so I just said to hell with it.

It's done wonders for my outlook and stress level, might I note.


Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (vyqqu)

Well there's still other things I'd like to do, accomplish, etc. besides that but staying excited about and sticking with him has been a struggle for years.

I don't always have the best attitude toward things either which I'm sure doesn't help. Getting over all those humps and getting/staying enthusiastic has been nigh well impossible for a while.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 11:20 PM (heN73)

274 Posted by: yankeefifth at Augu

........

She didn't weigh 250 then and she came from money. We were poor.

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:20 PM (shN0m)

275 251 I gave up years ago. The pr0n is hollow bullshit, the women I met were taken or trainwrecks, and I'm no prize myself, so I just said to hell with it.

It's done wonders for my outlook and stress level, might I note.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (vyqqu)


Yes. All of this.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 11:20 PM (sdi6R)

276 I liked the 3-dot one from Predator...


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
****

As you wish

∴ ∴ ∴ ∴

∴ ∴


Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:20 PM (hVdx9)

277 Left high school happily and with a sense of relief.

Never went to a single damn reunion. Got myself taken off the MIA list.

Never had a Facebook page. One of my greatest achievements.

Never had to look at a single one of those a-holes again.


Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 11:20 PM (zu88C)

278 "Got a few now. "



Looks at TKAW........*points*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:20 PM (9ym/8)

279
I've found that the ones that seem the most interested are the girls. The guys pretty much don't give a darn.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (w+Jhj)
------------------

I went to a girls' school. I was a rebellious little cynic.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:21 PM (5o5ek)

280 I've never been to any of my HS reunions.

Lol! Me neither!

I was a geek before computers... before it was 'cool' (and was outcast, despite the 4.0 average) F em all, I say. I see they're the same shallow a-holes today that they were back then and I'm glad to not associate. Still.

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:21 PM (044Fx)

281 everyone realizes the 'in crowd' still fuck with their in-group right?

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:22 PM (bxM2E)

282 249 I have my 30 yr reunion next yr. dear lord where the time go. I'll go but only because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice. I don't take being vindictive lightly but she made my life hell.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)

I certainly won't judge. I take guilty pleasure in the fact my ex has probably put on about 40 pounds but I'm still the same. I'll take my victories where I can get them, even if they are petty.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:22 PM (0mRoj)

283 Issues tonight......

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:22 PM (9ym/8)

284 don't forget the all you can eat early buffets
====
The Early Bird Special!

Posted by: morty seinfeld at August 13, 2016 11:22 PM (LdMbv)

285 I would send you the forms for the Apathy Club but I can't be bothered to look for them.
--------------

That's okay. I don't care.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2016 11:22 PM (oFSUK)

286 My HS might have well been Ridgemont.

Go Dolphins!

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at August 13, 2016 11:23 PM (rwI+c)

287 I don't always have the best attitude toward things either which I'm sure doesn't help. Getting over all those humps and getting/staying enthusiastic has been nigh well impossible for a while.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 13, 2016 11:20 PM (heN73)

Take up nihilism. Solves all ills.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:23 PM (0mRoj)

288 Thanks, Shamu!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:23 PM (kP16F)

289 Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:17 PM (MNgU2)

=====

We added a couple more in 7th grade. Maybe it was the times. I really never figured it out. Maybe we never learned how to make new friends.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 11:23 PM (EZebt)

290
I'll repeat it: auctions can be a lot of fun, if the goods being sold are of some general interest to you, or its a local sale in your own community. Attend a few, and pay attention, and you will soon find the auctioneer's spiel begins to be comprehensible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 11:19 PM (oqkO3)
------------------

Actually, I was involved in a real estate bid once that took place in a court. It was a three-way and it was pretty suspenseful.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:24 PM (5o5ek)

291 Never been to any of my HS reunions either.
Hated school. Boring as hell.



Although the lovely ladies...schwing ♂

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:24 PM (hVdx9)

292 per deadlift question above.

I had a personal best bench of 400+ , a squat of 500 and was working toward my dream of a 600 dead when I got injured.


It changed everything.

Working my way back to regular lifting. Praying it will solve the problem.

Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 11:25 PM (zu88C)

293 I was a geek before computers... before it was 'cool' (and was outcast, despite the 4.0 average) F em all, I say. I see they're the same shallow a-holes today that they were back then and I'm glad to not associate. Still.
Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:21 PM (044Fx)

I can understand that. I did have friends in high school, but there are very few I would be interested in ever seeing again.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:25 PM (0mRoj)

294 261
AOS will never be the same. It will be known as the night of the symbol invasion.






Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:17 PM (hVdx9)


You do know about the night that got symbols banned, don't you?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 13, 2016 11:25 PM (EzgxV)

295
281 everyone realizes the 'in crowd' still fuck with their in-group right?
Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:22 PM (bxM2E)
=====

*blushes*

W-w-what do you mean?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 11:26 PM (EZebt)

296 "

Although the lovely ladies...schwing"




He just can't help himself.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:26 PM (9ym/8)

297
I have my 30 yr reunion next yr. dear lord where the time go. I'll go but only because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice. I don't take being vindictive lightly but she made my life hell.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)
--------------------

Now we have to think of something cutting for you to say to the bitch.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:26 PM (5o5ek)

298 Thanks, Shamu!


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
****

You see the sites posted above?

160 and 184

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:27 PM (hVdx9)

299 If TKAW keeps up his antics, I fear we should run out of pilchards soon...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:28 PM (kP16F)

300 I did have friends in high school, but there are very few I would be interested in ever seeing again.

This^

My *best friend* moved away and we tried to keep touch over the years... I don't "do" fakebook, but she does... it tempts me, but I think it's better to just let it go. We no longer have anything in common.

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:28 PM (044Fx)

301 only if the volume is set at 85
And, like my 91-year-old dad, the other remote control's is set to 15 at the same time.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 11:28 PM (LdMbv)

302 299 If TKAW keeps up his antics, I fear we should run out of pilchards soon...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:28 PM (kP16F)

Semolina pilchard?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:29 PM (0mRoj)

303 I'll repeat it: auctions can be a lot of fun, if the goods being sold are of some general interest to you, or its a local sale in your own community. Attend a few, and pay attention, and you will soon find the auctioneer's spiel begins to be comprehensible.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---------------

Also, preview. And I don't mean in the 1/2 hour before the auction. Generally the sale items will be viewable a day or two before the auction. Go look and appraise any items that you are interested in. KNOW what your top bid is, and stand firm.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2016 11:29 PM (oFSUK)

304 On the CIA annex in Benghazi...

The reason the Repubs will not do anything is that THEY WERE IN ON IT!

Congressional Repubs, like Juan McCain, were fully briefed on it... and were in favor OF IT...

Their fingerprints are all over it, not just the Dems... which is why....

....Crickets....

Posted by: Don Quixote, aka BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at August 13, 2016 11:30 PM (qf6WZ)

305 You do know about the night that got symbols banned, don't you?


Posted by: cthulhu
****
I do not recall that. Then again there are many things I don't recall.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:30 PM (hVdx9)

306 "I fear we should run out of pilchards soon..."


Are those things they serve of TGIFriday's? Ya know, when they bring you your drinks?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:30 PM (9ym/8)

307 297
I have my 30 yr reunion next yr. dear lord where the time go. I'll go but only because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice. I don't take being vindictive lightly but she made my life hell.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)
--------------------

Now we have to think of something cutting for you to say to the bitch.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:26 PM (5o5ek)


The ultimate Reunion cut...

'my, you've aged well'....

Posted by: Don Quixote, aka BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (qf6WZ)

308 While out walking the cat tonight, I saw a meteorite track. Cool. I was actually looking at the moon when it passed through my field of vision.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (oFSUK)

309 @298, TKAW

Yep! there4;

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (kP16F)

310 My best friend from jr high died, so did the bff from hs. I have a few really good friends now, but I don't trust people much,

Posted by: Infidel at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (nWhru)

311 My *best friend* moved away and we tried to keep touch over the years... I don't "do" fakebook, but she does... it tempts me, but I think it's better to just let it go. We no longer have anything in common.
Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:28 PM (044Fx)

I don't do social media either. Sometimes when people change that much there isn't really a point anymore.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (0mRoj)

312 #8756;

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (kP16F)

313 Tonight's little wildlife show was a coyote pup, all alone, standing in the headlights, in the level stretch of the gravel road after we leave the upland meadows and track the brook more closely through a long wooded section.

Exact same coat and shape and gait of our Belgian sheepdog beauty when she was about sixteen weeks. Dye that little coyote black, and she'd be our Lulu.

God, we miss her.

The coyote chorus three nights ago, just before full dark, was a wild one. Three groups, maybe four, spread all along the brook valley, were competing to see who could do the wildest screams, yells, howls, and barks. Seeing this pup tonight made me think the chorus must have included a bunch of young ones.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (9v5zv)

314 I certainly won't judge. I take guilty pleasure in the fact my ex has probably put on about 40 pounds but I'm still the same. I'll take my victories where I can get them, even if they are petty.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:22 PM (0mRoj)

****

I lost 40 lbs. After I moved out and I got all my levels back to normal. My ex found those 40 plus twenty more since. Bwahaha.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (8mwfn)

315 "I do not recall that. Then again there are many things I don't recall. "



Neither does she. Thank your stars.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (9ym/8)

316 And the pilchards are like peanuts. You can't stop at just one.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:33 PM (hVdx9)

317 231
I'm in the mood for some Highway 61 Revisited.
Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 13, 2016 11:10 PM (fTFPL)


He recorded that on 8/2/65. I'm still working my way through the 7/30/65 session. The multiple takes of "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" are interesting.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 11:33 PM (sdi6R)

318 BTW, Soros's Open Society group had its computers hacked and its contents posted online by DC Leaks. See the sock link.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 11:33 PM (LdMbv)

319 I lost 40 lbs. After I moved out and I got all my levels back to normal. My ex found those 40 plus twenty more since. Bwahaha.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (8mwfn)

Sometimes you just have to enjoy the little things.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:33 PM (0mRoj)

320 my dad is a Navy man
so I had
2 pre-schools
2 kindergartens
a different 2nd grade
a different 3rd grade, etc.

I had to learn way early how to make friends, how to 'be cool', how to fight the local bully


at the time it sucked, but now

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:34 PM (bxM2E)

321 "My best friend from jr high died, so did the bff from hs. I have a few really good friends now, but I don't trust people much,"




Sorry, In'.


If I understand, I'm the same way. Few, but strong friends.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:34 PM (9ym/8)

322 Posted by: Don Quixote, aka BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at August 13, 2016 11:30 PM (qf6WZ)

Don't know why they have to be quiet. I may not agree with some of the covert ops we do but I understand we do them. To me the issue isn't the operation that we were running out of Benghazi. It was our response on 9/11/12 to the attack that is my problem and no one in Congress is directly responsible for that.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:34 PM (MNgU2)

323 The ultimate Reunion cut...

'my, you've aged well'....
Posted by: Don Quixote, aka BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (qf6WZ)

*****

*I didn't even recognize you! You look so............good!"

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:35 PM (8mwfn)

324 I'm quite those treats they give the dancing sea pandas at Sea World aren't made of pasta!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:35 PM (kP16F)

325

High school.............. mixed bag. I was always in the top tier but
was never comfortable. I had more fun with the "lessers" because they
were real. When I go back home that's who I hang out with.

Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 10:56 PM (shN0m)









everbody knows that everyone in the "in crowd"always says "there is no in crowd."

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 13, 2016 11:01 PM (AoSQU)








Although I was mostly in the stoner crowd, I generally had good relations with most of the other cliques. At least until I went to my 20th reunion. The cliques were actually WORSE that night. Either really snooty or envious resentment. *rolls eyes*

But fuckit. I hang out with the cool kids now. Horde rules.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:35 PM (LuZz8)

326 "Never been to any of my HS reunions either.
Hated school. Boring as hell."

Yeah, by and large I didn't want to see any of those fuckers while I was IN high school, so why would I want to see them now?

Posted by: lowtech redneck at August 13, 2016 11:35 PM (KF8B+)

327 Errr, quite SURE!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:36 PM (kP16F)

328 See ZeroHedge. One of DoucheBank's pooh-bahs said the only was to get out of this mess is crash, a big one, a YUGE drop in "risk assets" (he means stocks and stuff).

He recognizes it's all a central-bank created sham, but then he wants a crash to force "real fiscal stimulus" by panicked politicians. You know, a typical Keynesian scheme.

He does recognize that real economies are in the shitter, and the status quo isn't going to lead to any economic growth.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 13, 2016 11:36 PM (DW+jj)

329 #8756;

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki
****

Are you denied ampersand privileges?

& #8756; (remove the space)

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:36 PM (hVdx9)

330
I lost 40 lbs. After I moved out and I got all my levels back to normal. My ex found those 40 plus twenty more since. Bwahaha.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (8mwfn)


Best part of seeing the Ex Wife? Letting her new Hubby see who I'm sleeping with now...

He always looks depressed...

Posted by: Don Quixote at August 13, 2016 11:36 PM (qf6WZ)

331 "Sometimes you just have to enjoy the little things."



*nods........winks*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:37 PM (9ym/8)

332 I maintained exactly one friendship from high school. He was a football star. I was in band. Years after graduation, we reflected on school days. To say the least, we saw things quite differently.

Posted by: FireHorse at August 13, 2016 11:38 PM (lhvb+)

333 249 I have my 30 yr reunion next yr. dear lord where the time go. I'll go but only because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice. I don't take being vindictive lightly but she made my life hell.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)


I'm thinking a great big grin and Nelson Muntz's "HA-Ha!"

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 11:38 PM (sdi6R)

334
305
You do know about the night that got symbols banned, don't you?





Posted by: cthulhu

****

I do not recall that. Then again there are many things I don't recall.



Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:30 PM (hVdx9)


It started out as innocent experimentation about the capabilities of the blog. If you used [you], for instance, the reader would find his own nic in that part of the sentence -- so, if you said, "....the real source of the problem, of course, is [you], the asshole." -- you could personally insult everyone on the blog by nic.

Then there was writing in colors -- you could quote someone in red and reply in green. You could do writing that was white-on-white and only showed up when highlighted (like the hints on the chess thread). Then, someone figured out how to make text [flashing][/flashing]. Gradually, the ONT was turning into an LSD trip.

And then it stopped.....and when we woke up the next morning, it was like pulling teeth to even get an ampersand -- and when you quoted anything interesting, it was full of black diamonds.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 13, 2016 11:38 PM (EzgxV)

335 #8756;

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:38 PM (kP16F)

336 My ex found those 40 plus twenty more since.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:32 PM (8mwfn)

Which is pretty much unassailable proof that there is a God.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2016 11:39 PM (Zu3d9)

337 Hey everybody.

Listening right now to Weird Al Yankovic's very first album, from 1983. It is fantastic.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2016 11:39 PM (q7T0y)

338 Free Republic's got an "HTML Sandbox"... I should go play there!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:39 PM (kP16F)

339 A few months ago I got a call from my best friend in high school.

We were in touch on and off in college, she had kids, divorced, and then we lost touch again.

She still has the same issues she had freaking 30 years ago.

/I'm not saying psychiatry works, but DAMN. Try to grow as a person.

Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at August 13, 2016 11:39 PM (tvyXw)

340 "But fuckit. I hang out with the cool kids now. Horde rules."



There are "cool kids" here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:40 PM (9ym/8)

341
Well, as I recall the [you] thing was only operative on the "new" site....... that Teh Ewok and Pixy abandoned.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:40 PM (LuZz8)

342 I never went to a HS reunion either. College was a much deeper and more interesting experience for me, socially, intellectually, emotionally.

I didn't hate my HS experience, I was somewhere in the middle of the food chain....sometimes I was the Louisville Slugger, sometimes the ball, and all that.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 13, 2016 11:41 PM (oAY8z)

343 339 A few months ago I got a call from my best friend in high school.

We were in touch on and off in college, she had kids, divorced, and then we lost touch again.

She still has the same issues she had freaking 30 years ago.

/I'm not saying psychiatry works, but DAMN. Try to grow as a person.
Posted by: shibumi who now just wants to yell at stupid people at August 13, 2016 11:39 PM (tvyXw)

Some issues run VERY deep and can inhibit personal growth without getting a lot of outside help. Just sayin.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:41 PM (0mRoj)

344 Although I was mostly in the stoner crowd, I generally had good relations with most of the other cliques. At least until I went to my 20th reunion. The cliques were actually WORSE that night. Either really snooty or envious resentment. *rolls eyes*

But fuckit. I hang out with the cool kids now. Horde rules.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:35 PM (LuZz

******

Yeah, I was dumb enough to go home for my 30th. 2 of the Super cool kids rode with me back to our hotel, and said "I can't believe I'm riding in a car with MWNP!." Just like that.

I pulled over and said "not any more you're not." Onto the side of the road with bewildered expressions they went. I hope they had to blow someone to get home.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:41 PM (8mwfn)

345 If I understand, I'm the same way. Few, but strong friends. If I understand, I'm the same way. Few, but strong friends.



^^^THIS

Posted by: Infidel at August 13, 2016 11:42 PM (nWhru)

346 Yeah, I was dumb enough to go home for my 30th. 2 of the Super cool kids rode with me back to our hotel, and said "I can't believe I'm riding in a car with MWNP!." Just like that.

I pulled over and said "not any more you're not." Onto the side of the road with bewildered expressions they went. I hope they had to blow someone to get home.
Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:41 PM (8mwfn)

Epic.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:42 PM (0mRoj)

347 154 Question for male morons over 45 -

Has anyone experience a complete loss of drive? Lack of interest?

Lack of focus?

Lack of .... um ... stuff?

Don't make fun. Your young ass is next.


Posted by: Mortimer at August 13, 2016 10:52 PM (zu88C)


Might want to get your thyroid checked too especially if your skin is dry, you feel cold, depression, and brittle nails. I had all of those and the doctor has been monitoring my thyroid levels for the last few years, and last fall put me on thyroid hormone pills.

While hypothyroidism is largely diagnosed in women, men get it too.

Male, 50, got diagnosed and treated early, so I shouldn't have any complications.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (1JnAL)

348 Man you guys hold grudges.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (MNgU2)

349 do not recall that. Then again there are many things I don't recall.



Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:30 PM (hVdx9)


It started out as innocent experimentation about the capabilities of the blog. If you used [you], for instance, the reader would find his own nic in that part of the sentence -- so, if you said, "....the real source of the problem, of course, is [you], the asshole." -- you could personally insult everyone on the blog by nic.

Then there was writing in colors -- you could quote someone in red and reply in green. You could do writing that was white-on-white and only showed up when highlighted (like the hints on the chess thread). Then, someone figured out how to make text [flashing][/flashing]. Gradually, the ONT was turning into an LSD trip.

And then it stopped.....and when we woke up the next morning, it was like pulling teeth to even get an ampersand -- and when you quoted anything interesting, it was full of black diamonds.


Posted by: cthulhu
****
So that wasn't a dream. I've actually been lurking/playing on AOS for a long time, with some breaks in between. I do remember that a little, but it's a foggy memory at best.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (hVdx9)

350
There are "cool kids" here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:40 PM (9ym/








Compared to the cretins in the comments at HotGas? Dood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (LuZz8)

351 Heh.
The Commander always brings the heat.
The Scott Sterling video alone was worth the price of admission...

Posted by: Chi at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (E/j+Q)

352 Which is pretty much unassailable proof that there is a God.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 13, 2016 11:39 PM (Zu3d9)

*****

Yes! It is a rare example of him showing his karmic magic.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:45 PM (8mwfn)

353 that clip of Hillary stroking out is freaky

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:45 PM (bxM2E)

354 "Man you guys hold grudges."


Screw you.




s\

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:45 PM (9ym/8)

355 254 I'm weird and lucky, I guess. I've kept the same circle of 6 since kindergarten. That was almost 50 years ago. With the advent of texting, we are still in touch almost every day,
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 11:16 PM (EZebt)

Circle of four here. We text constantly, often with bathroom humor, and have dinner every few weeks. We're extremely blessed to have each other.

We weren't the coolest kids in high school, but now some of the ones who were want to hang with us. They're good folks too.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 13, 2016 11:46 PM (ozZau)

356 Hated high school, and everyone there. I kept getting postcards about our 30th reunion and finally I sent it back in the return envelope after having written on it in black sharpie
"I didn't like any of you while I was there, I will not pay to see any of you now"
They stopped sending me any information about any reunions.

Posted by: abby at August 13, 2016 11:46 PM (HBU7W)

357 Our response to 9/11 should have been war; real hell war on any entity associated with the act.

Posted by: gNewt....panhandlers never seem to not have their hands out ~ at August 13, 2016 11:46 PM (fTFPL)

358

Man you guys hold grudges.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (MNgU2)







I'm still pissed at you for stealing my favorite Spiderman pacifier.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:47 PM (LuZz8)

359 The 2 people I was still in contact with after high school talked me into our tenth HS reunion. The only one I attended. Now, my thirty is next year too. I haven't heard anything about it. I still exchange xmas cards with one and talk to the other once or twice every year or two. I don't think my graduating class is really into reunions. There were 900+ in my class. I think the smaller classes are more into them since everyone basically knew everyone, for good or bad. I can't remember most of the people and really don't care.

Posted by: lindafell de spair -racist, redneck, sexist, bitter clinger, Moron in TEXIT! at August 13, 2016 11:47 PM (xVgrA)

360 Speaking of thyroid, Mom had her needle biopsy of the enormous lump growing on her thyroid, and she reported today that there was . . .

NO CANCER!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sharkman at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (kdTI+)

361 Posted by: abby at August 13, 2016 11:46 PM (HBU7W)

A simple RSVP no would have sufficed.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (MNgU2)

362 Posted by: Infidel at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (nWhru)

I hope their memory is a blessing for you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (EZebt)

363 I was only popular in high skool because my sisters were well sought after, and oddly, so was my mum...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (kP16F)

364 360 Speaking of thyroid, Mom had her needle biopsy of the enormous lump growing on her thyroid, and she reported today that there was . . .

NO CANCER!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sharkman at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (kdTI+)

Fantastic news! What a relief!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (0mRoj)

365
361
Posted by: abby at August 13, 2016 11:46 PM (HBU7W)



A simple RSVP no would have sufficed.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (MNgU2)







But not nearly as much fun.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:49 PM (LuZz8)

366 A simple RSVP no would have sufficed.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (MNgU2)

*****

You take pleasure in these little moments when life affords them to you.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:49 PM (8mwfn)

367

356 Hated high school, and everyone there. I kept getting postcards about our 30th reunion and finally I sent it back in the return envelope after having written on it in black sharpie
"I didn't like any of you while I was there, I will not pay to see any of you now"
They stopped sending me any information about any reunions.
Posted by: abby at August 13, 2016 11:46 PM (HBU7W)

Sounds like me & the Republican Party. Yet they keep sending me stuff

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 13, 2016 11:50 PM (voOPb)

368 by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:47 PM (LuZz

That was almost a month ago . Get over it.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:50 PM (MNgU2)

369 A simple RSVP no would have sufficed.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (MNgU2)


But telling them to fuck off is so satisfying. Worth the cost of the stamp, at least.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 11:50 PM (oqkO3)

370
318 BTW, Soros's Open Society group had its computers hacked and its contents posted online by DC Leaks. See the sock link.


I'm sure they don't mind. After all, Open Society and all that...

'Night all!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 13, 2016 11:51 PM (BK3ZS)

371 Here's a happy cheery song for you all, the final song on Weird Al Yankovic's first album from 1983.

"Mr. Frump In The Iron Lung"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKRqDtzOlQ

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2016 11:51 PM (q7T0y)

372 361 Joe- They kept sending me crap after I had RSVP'd a no. This stopped it for good.

Posted by: abby at August 13, 2016 11:51 PM (HBU7W)

373 That was almost a month ago . Get over it.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:50 PM (MNgU2)

*****

Are you a pacifist, as your posts suggest, or passive-aggressive in hiding?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:52 PM (8mwfn)

374 Life is short. My free time won't be spent on high school, college or law school reunions. Ever.

Posted by: NCKate at August 13, 2016 11:52 PM (968UG)

375 " If I understand, I'm the same way. Few, but strong friends. "



A buddy will go to town on pay-day and get a BJ. A friend will go to town on pay-day, get two BJs, and bring one back for you.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:52 PM (9ym/8)

376 This joke about the law of diminishing returns gets less successful each time I repeat it.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 13, 2016 11:52 PM (LdMbv)

377 371 Here's a happy cheery song for you all, the final song on Weird Al Yankovic's first album from 1983.

"Mr. Frump In The Iron Lung"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKRqDtzOlQ
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2016 11:51 PM (q7T0y)

One of his darkest songs.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:53 PM (0mRoj)

378 On exes: both are dead. Don't know/care how either of them died. If only they could see me now! Happy, stable, doing *just fine* without them. (Even before yet another remarriage!)

Only sorry about X#1, we married too young and he needed to 'go play' IFYKWIM.

X#2 was a total POS, druggie, can't believe I ever gave him the time of day.

Happily married now to a super kind, reliable and decent man. Don't know what he sees in me sometimes, but the last 14 years have been so good for us both!

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:53 PM (044Fx)

379 There are "cool kids" here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill
------------------
I can score some really good weed on pretty short notice.
30 years ago , that made me cool...

Posted by: Chi at August 13, 2016 11:53 PM (E/j+Q)

380
368
by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:47 PM (LuZz



That was almost a month ago . Get over it.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:50 PM (MNgU2)







*snort*

Just keep your grubby hands off my sippy-cup.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2016 11:53 PM (LuZz8)

381
Gradually, the ONT was turning into an LSD trip.

And then it stopped.....
--------------------

The BLOG was colorful, and full of symbols? Well, I don't blame them one bit for banning such frippery. This isn't a Christmas tree.

What's that!? Is someone vaping???

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:54 PM (5o5ek)

382 Leroy van Dyke, "The Auctioneer" from 1962:


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

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 13, 2016 11:54 PM (oqkO3)

383 211
Give me a lawnmower or a dog to walk, that's what I like now
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (shN0m)


*perks up*

I don't have a dog, but if you like 95 degrees and 110% humidity, I have a lawn that needs mowing.

Posted by: rickl at August 13, 2016 11:55 PM (sdi6R)

384 Eh... I don't hold grudges anymore. Not with anyone. I've forgiven them and I hope they've forgiven me for my jackass-ery back in the day. I figure we're all too old for that shit and we don't have long to go. Might as well remember the good times, or a least a shared history, troubled at times, or not.

Posted by: otho at August 13, 2016 11:55 PM (EWg9n)

385 The ultimate Reunion cut...

'my, you've aged well'....
Posted by: Don Quixote, aka BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (qf6WZ)

*****

*I didn't even recognize you! You look so............good!"
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
--------------

My favorite was when I spoke to a guy who had been a real asshole, "Why, you haven't changed a bit!", and left it at that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2016 11:55 PM (yddCj)

386 I went to my 10 yr. reunion in '86.

Rode an '83 Aspencade virtually nonstop, San Antonio, to San Diego for the event. A nap on a picnic bench in Deming, NM, and another under a shade tree in Yuma, AZ.

It was 117 degrees when I stopped in Gila Bend, AZ. I quite literally took a gas-station water-hose at the pump island, and ran it over my head for a good five minutes, which I'm convinced, saved me from the oncoming heat stroke.

While in San Diego for the reunion, I lodged aboard a friend's 27 ft. Reinell sloop for my "hotel"., only about 1/2 mi. from the reunion venue on Harbor Island.

Rode the bike to the venue, and parked it out front under the porte-cochere at the hotel, (and it was fully, dazzlingly detailed, shined, armor-all'd), strolled in wearing fine attire, a zillion dollar tan (crossing a series of Western deserts on a bike will do that for ya), and had a good enough time, all in all.

Got some quality offers to help rock the boat, but alas, was married at the time, and had to decline.

Wife flew to my aunt's place a hundred miles North, a few days later. Her work precluded her being there for the reunion it'self.

So, I rode up to Buena Park, collected her there, and made the ride back to San Antonio, via a day's scenic touring of San Diego County.

Haven't been to a reunion, since. Even though they send me stuff, I've never worked up the interest nor afforded the expense.

Of course, being a Navy brat, I went to nine different elementary schools.... so, I'm not hard-wired to have deeply socialized through my High School days.

Happy Dayz, they wasn't. Didn't suck, but wasn't sweet. Just something to endure and from which to proceed.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (v5iqM)

387 " I was only popular in high skool because my sisters were well sought after, and oddly, so was my mum..."


*Ears perk*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (9ym/8)

388 This reminds me of the scene in Billy Madison when Billy calls Steve Buscemi to apologize and Buscemi crosses him off his kill list.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (MNgU2)

389 Insomniac, it's interesting. My own sense of humor has grown rather dark as I get older.

What's also weird: when I see/hear other people do dark comedy, sometimes I find it a bit disturbing. But when *I* come up with stuff even darker, I can almost always laugh it off.

I once wrote a comedy sketch of me crashing a party held by a woman who didn't like me, and at the end of the sketch I end up being carted out the door by the police with a sheet over my body... and an, er, 'protrusion' sticking up and out that sure looks a lot like a huge knife. Well, I showed this sketch I had written to a counselor of mine... and she couldn't believe I thought it was funny. I tried to explain just the above to her, but it didn't quite take to her. Oh well.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (q7T0y)

390
Speaking of thyroid, Mom had her needle biopsy of the enormous lump growing on her thyroid, and she reported today that there was . . .

NO CANCER!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sharkman at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (kdTI+)
-----------------

YAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (5o5ek)

391 Give me a lawnmower or a dog to walk, that's what I like now
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:05 PM (shN0m)

*perks up*

------------

Yeah, really. I wish Molly lived down the street. Have dog, and lawn that needs mowing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 13, 2016 11:57 PM (yddCj)

392 Happily married now to a super kind, reliable and decent man. Don't know what he sees in me sometimes, but the last 14 years have been so good for us both!
Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 13, 2016 11:53 PM (044Fx)

Glad there was a happy ending. That's not something I see for myself, but I can certainly celebrate it for others.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:57 PM (0mRoj)

393 " can score some really good weed on pretty short notice.
30 years ago , that made me cool..."



Wholesale?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 13, 2016 11:57 PM (9ym/8)

394 peace out

Posted by: Jake at August 13, 2016 11:58 PM (bxM2E)

395 Zettai Ryoiki, jealousy of &&&&& is not becoming.

And my ampersands do not bleed. They twinkle and smell like cinnamon buns.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 13, 2016 11:58 PM (P8951)

396 388 This reminds me of the scene in Billy Madison when Billy calls Steve Buscemi to apologize and Buscemi crosses him off his kill list.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (MNgU2)

I think a lot of people have or have had mental kill lists like that.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:59 PM (0mRoj)

397 Oh, thank the Lord, Sharkman! So happy for you and your Mom!!!

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 12:00 AM (044Fx)

398 This reminds me of the scene in Billy Madison when Billy calls Steve Buscemi to apologize and Buscemi crosses him off his kill list.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (MNgU2)

****

Sure. Cuz we're all totes like that.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 14, 2016 12:00 AM (8mwfn)

399 One of my weird dark jokes:

"I used to have a girlfriend who made a living popping out of cakes at men's parties, but she quit. Well, actually she had to quit... it wasn't exactly her choice. They delivered her inside of a cake to an Overeaters Anonymous meeting, and they ate the whole thing with her still inside."

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:00 AM (q7T0y)

400 grudges anymore. Not with anyone. I've forgiven them and I hope they've forgiven me for my jackass-ery back in the day. I figure we're all too old for that shit and we don't have long to go. Might as well remember the good times, or a least a shar
------
Otho, no grudges held. It was a class of 150 I might want to see 2-3 guys. Haven't seen them in almost 40 years. I will get over it

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 14, 2016 12:00 AM (voOPb)

401 Posted by: qdpsteve at August 13, 2016 11:56 PM (q7T0y)

That's certainly...different.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:01 AM (0mRoj)

402 Posted by: Sharkman at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (kdTI+)

Great news, what a relief for you both!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 14, 2016 12:02 AM (EZebt)

403 Insomniac, one of my potential movie scripts, the one about the teenagers making a movie? I think it's funny, but it's also *very* dark, in fact I would say near-Clockwork Orange dark.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:02 AM (q7T0y)

404 "Have dog, and lawn that needs mowing."



Don't invite phoenix girl. Promises and promises. Never shows. Like so many contractors.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 14, 2016 12:02 AM (9ym/8)

405 403 Insomniac, one of my potential movie scripts, the one about the teenagers making a movie? I think it's funny, but it's also *very* dark, in fact I would say near-Clockwork Orange dark.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:02 AM (q7T0y)

Does it involve bowler hats and comically large codpieces?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:04 AM (0mRoj)

406 My reunions have become roundtable discussions of hip and knee replacements, rotator cuff repairs, etc.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:04 AM (yddCj)

407 Insomniac, no. But it is violent. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:05 AM (q7T0y)

408 396
I think a lot of people have or have had mental kill lists like that.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:59 PM (0mRoj)


I used to, but now I'm now more like the passage in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead".

I don't remember who said what, but one character says, "What do you think of me?" and the other one replies, "I don't think of you."

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:05 AM (sdi6R)

409 My reunions have become roundtable discussions of hip and knee replacements, rotator cuff repairs, etc.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:04 AM (yddCj)

******

Are there flipcharts, markers and post it notes to go along with the Powerpoint for pictures?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 14, 2016 12:05 AM (8mwfn)

410 osted by: Insomniac at August 13, 2016 11:57 PM

Thanks, Insomniac!

Tell you what... I never foresaw my own "happy ending"... spent 16 years after Divorce #2 just. not. interested. but kinda lonely, but not "dating" or "going out"

Friend of a friend made an introduction and the rest is history. I never expected or anticipated any relationship to develop.

It's all good. Would've been OK if nothing had happened.

'They' say that you've got to be alright with yourself before you can be alright with anyone else, and I believe it's true.

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 12:06 AM (044Fx)

411
What must those other swimmers think of Katie Ledecky? She was about 25m ahead of the silver medalist in the 800m freestyle. It must be like, What is that machine? Best to forget about it and race amongst ourselves.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:06 AM (5o5ek)

412
grudges anymore. Not with anyone. I've forgiven them
and I hope they've forgiven me for my jackass-ery back in the day. I
figure we're all too old for that shit and we don't have long to go.
Might as well remember the good times, or a least a shar

------

Otho, no grudges held. It was a class of 150 I might want to see 2-3
guys. Haven't seen them in almost 40 years. I will get over it

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 14, 2016 12:00 AM (voOPb)








The only guy I MIGHT have a grudge against was the hulking bastard who made it his duty in life to kick my ass weekly during freshman year.

I figured it wasn't worth thinking about when he was put away for a triple murder about 8 years later.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 14, 2016 12:06 AM (LuZz8)

413 'They' say that you've got to be alright with yourself before you can be alright with anyone else, and I believe it's true.
Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 12:06 AM (044Fx)

I've heard that. I'll probably never get there but I fake it fairly well.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:07 AM (0mRoj)

414 Posted by: Sharkman at August 13, 2016 11:48 PM (kdTI+)

Great news, what a relief for you both!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Indeed. After the nightmare we went through with Dad this year, it is nice to have good news.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 14, 2016 12:07 AM (kdTI+)

415 Don't invite phoenix girl. Promises and promises. Never shows. Like so many contractors.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
-----------

Well, someone better get with it, or it's gonna take a sickle blade. It's either too wet, too hot, or I just can't get to it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:07 AM (yddCj)

416 Well, my birthday party (shared with my brother and nephew) put me in a rather down mood.

According to my family, Hillary is sleazy and not a good candidate - but Trump is nuts and like Hitler. They believe every damn thing the msm tells them.

I thought for a minute "I don't like these people very much. They are political idiots." Then I felt ashamed because they had thrown me a party and given me some nice presents. I love them. But I was happy when the subject moved away from politics.

My ex-bil was there (big Dem) and his cousin showed up (was a NYC cop for 25 years and loves Trump). She shouted at us to stop talking politics and we did, because although she is originally from here, 25 years of working the Manhattan beat has given her a certain - assertiveness that shuts up midwesterners. I felt grateful to her. She pulled me aside later and said, "I doubt there's a cop in America who is going to vote for that stinking bitch."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:08 AM (P8951)

417 Wholesale?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
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It'd be as hard as a phone call. Just sayin'...

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 12:09 AM (E/j+Q)

418 349 do not recall that. Then again there are many things I don't recall.



Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:30 PM (hVdx9)


It started out as innocent experimentation about the capabilities of the blog. If you used [you], for instance, the reader would find his own nic in that part of the sentence -- so, if you said, "....the real source of the problem, of course, is [you], the asshole." -- you could personally insult everyone on the blog by nic.

Then there was writing in colors -- you could quote someone in red and reply in green. You could do writing that was white-on-white and only showed up when highlighted (like the hints on the chess thread). Then, someone figured out how to make text [flashing][/flashing]. Gradually, the ONT was turning into an LSD trip.

And then it stopped.....and when we woke up the next morning, it was like pulling teeth to even get an ampersand -- and when you quoted anything interesting, it was full of black diamonds.


Posted by: cthulhu
****
So that wasn't a dream. I've actually been lurking/playing on AOS for a long time, with some breaks in between. I do remember that a little, but it's a foggy memory at best.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (hVdx9)



I do remember and miss that.

You could also actually post pictures in the comments.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at August 14, 2016 12:09 AM (1JnAL)

419 Are there flipcharts, markers and post it notes to go along with the Powerpoint for pictures?
Posted by: ManWithNoParty
-------------------

Not that bad, but there is a lot of commiseration.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:09 AM (yddCj)

420 I used to, but now I'm now more like the passage in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead".

I don't remember who said what, but one character says, "What do you think of me?" and the other one replies, "I don't think of you."
Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:05 AM (sdi6R)

Good thought. I remember all the names but the desire for vengeance has dissipated for the most part.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:09 AM (0mRoj)

421 "Well, someone better get with it, or it's gonna take a sickle blade. It's either too wet, too hot, or I just can't get to it."



No, no.......took care of it. Hey, you learn lessons......sometimes over again.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at August 14, 2016 12:10 AM (9ym/8)

422 12 ga expanding slug

http://preview.tinyurl.com/j6ttsp3

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 14, 2016 12:10 AM (hVdx9)

423 297
I have my 30 yr reunion next yr. dear lord where the time go. I'll go but only because the girl who tormented me in high school now weighs 250 and had been divorced twice. I don't take being vindictive lightly but she made my life hell.
Posted by: Molly k. at August 13, 2016 11:15 PM (shN0m)

The only good reason to attend hs reunions.

I never have because I kept in touch with the ones I liked and the rest of them can go to hell. (I went to an all girls Catholic school and hated it, although academically it was far superior to the public hs close to our house.)

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:10 AM (P8951)

424 My reunions have become roundtable discussions of hip and knee replacements, rotator cuff repairs, etc.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:04 AM (yddCj)

oooh yeah. I'm just glad we haven't lost anyone yet, that I know of (it's a small class). My best friend's first grandchild was born a few weeks ago with a defective brain and didn't survive, but we old people are still gimping along somehow. Most are grateful for what we have and humbled by life's challenges.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 14, 2016 12:10 AM (ozZau)

425 413 'They' say that you've got to be alright with yourself before you can be alright with anyone else, and I believe it's true.
Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 12:06 AM (044Fx)

I've heard that. I'll probably never get there but I fake it fairly well.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:07 AM (0mRoj)


Oh, I'm perfectly all right with myself. I still can't stand other people.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:11 AM (sdi6R)

426 Anybody who is in Milwaukee, please stay safe.

Violence erupts after police shooting in Milwaukee

http://tinyurl.com/grftbsd

Posted by: Thrawn at August 14, 2016 12:12 AM (cC/ZB)

427
It's not so much the grudges, which are against the bitch teachers anyway. It's that the experience was miserable for me and I don't want to revisit it.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:12 AM (5o5ek)

428 Fake it till ya make it, Insomniac!

But seriously, I hope you can overcome whatever is troubling you, and are able to realize your dreams.

BBL.

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 12:12 AM (044Fx)

429 Over at renowned TV writer Ken Levine's blog, he shared a bit about how much he hates (or hated) when legendary star singers, like Sinatra or Dean Martin, would stop in the middle of a song to say things like "let's hear it for our stage manager tonight, Biff Baff!!" and stuff like that.

I went ahead and posted in his comment section:

* * *

LOL. Just wait 'til this trend of interrupting comes to... the medication commercials on TV we've all had to suffer through:

"I had so many worries about my flop sweat dysfunction until my doctor recommended Supercalifragilistimab. And now let's hear it for the prop director who stuck me in this cool canoe!!" :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:13 AM (q7T0y)

430 What rational person would set a gas station on fire because they were mad at the cops?

"After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. CT that a gas station was set on fire. Police said firefighters could not get close to the blaze because of gunshots."

Posted by: Thrawn at August 14, 2016 12:13 AM (cC/ZB)

431 12 ga expanding slug
---------------

Heh. For those moments when an ordinary 12 ga slug just won't do enough damage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:14 AM (yddCj)

432 Unless old age, insomnia, alcoholism, and boredom are illnesses; I've little to complain about...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 14, 2016 12:14 AM (kP16F)

433 Oh, I'm perfectly all right with myself. I still can't stand other people.
Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:11 AM (sdi6R)

*****

I would refine this to say that I am now neutral to other people, but have much less tolerance for fools and assholes than I used to.

Maybe I have your position and don't realize it yet. Dunno.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 14, 2016 12:14 AM (8mwfn)

434 Speaking of expanding slugs, what's Hillary been up to lately? Besides not dying, I mean?

[/rimshot]

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:14 AM (q7T0y)

435 430 What rational person would set a gas station on fire because they were mad at the cops?

"After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. CT that a gas station was set on fire. Police said firefighters could not get close to the blaze because of gunshots."
Posted by: Thrawn at August 14, 2016 12:13 AM (cC/ZB)

Not that I am recommending or condoning the following, but wouldn't it make more sense to set, say, the police station on fire?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:14 AM (0mRoj)

436 "I had so many worries about my flop sweat dysfunction until my doctor recommended Supercalifragilistimab. And now let's hear it for the prop director who stuck me in this cool canoe!!" :-P

Haha! and I'm stealing that drug name.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 14, 2016 12:15 AM (ozZau)

437 Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 12:12 AM (044Fx)

That's kind of you.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:15 AM (0mRoj)

438 stace, go for it, thanks. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:15 AM (q7T0y)

439 Evening roonz and roonettez! I have potato chips so my dog is my BFF right now. He's not getting any, but he has high hopes.

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 14, 2016 12:16 AM (vbvxt)

440 My best friend's first grandchild was born a few weeks ago with a defective brain and didn't survive, but we old people are still gimping along somehow. Most are grateful for what we have and humbled by life's challenges.
Posted by: stace...TEXIT
---------------

I've lost a bunch, out of a class of 59. Six to VN alone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:17 AM (yddCj)

441 439 Evening roonz and roonettez! I have potato chips so my dog is my BFF right now. He's not getting any, but he has high hopes.
Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 14, 2016 12:16 AM (vbvxt)

Haven't seen you around in a while. How you be?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:17 AM (0mRoj)

442 Apathy; Mortimer

Several years ago I was extremely ill. After a number of days, the recovery began. As it proceeded, came the realization that I had lost the 'spark' of motivation. Totally gone. Not just the motivation to walk across the room, even to sit upright, nor to flex a finger. Moving my eyeballs was beyond me. Laying there, the thought came that, though I felt dead, I was still alive. Therefore, I must act as if alive, and 'acting' it would be. An attitudinal adjustment would not be sufficient, it would need to be pure will. Willed myself to move. Every move required tremendous will. Will turned out to work like a muscle--the more it is used, the larger and stronger it becomes. After weeks, months, and years the ability to accomplish things became greater.

Now in my seventies, I own a business and work sixty plus hours a week. There is still no 'spark,' but I look at what needs to be done and do it. Like Rush Limbaugh says "It is what it is." Knowing where I came from to where I am now keeps me content.

This may not apply to your case, but you asked for responses. Good Luck.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 12:18 AM (WMvHw)

443 Evening roonz and roonettez! I have potato chips so my dog is my BFF right now. He's not getting any, but he has high hopes.
Posted by: GGE
--------------------

He's eating ANOTHER one!

Posted by: GGE's doggeh at August 14, 2016 12:18 AM (yddCj)

444
Would you look at the amount of TEXT in this vintage ad? In those days you wanted 8 or 10 punchy paragraphs to sell a car.

http://tinyurl.com/guepxk2

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:18 AM (5o5ek)

445 I went to the county fair, saw the animals, sat through the 4-H FFA auction, talked to a niece that I hadn't seen for 5 years.

Last time I talked with my niece her oldest daughter had set a neighbor's combine on fire during grass seed harvest, and was irritated that she no longer had a job. Now my niece is a grandmother.

I am also vowing to enter the local canning competition and enter a loaf of bread in the baking competition.

Posted by: Kindlot at August 14, 2016 12:18 AM (ry34m)

446 Posted by: Thrawn at August 14, 2016 12:12 AM (cC/ZB)

Thanks, I hadn't heard about that. Things are quiet on my side of town.

The North Side of Milwaukee is a pit and the Sherman Park neighborhood is a tragedy. During my childhood it was a nice middle class neighborhood with some lovely old homes. The ghetto took over in the '70's and '80's and now those lovely old homes look like shit.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:19 AM (P8951)

447 Yeah, I don't think Michael Phelps is all that great. He can swim a little, but I would totally school him in thrash-core-skatepark-parkour, yo.

Posted by: Random D-bag at August 14, 2016 12:19 AM (2cS/G)

448 A heads up: SpaceX is planning a 1:26 am Eastern time satellite launch.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:19 AM (sdi6R)

449 But I was happy when the subject moved away from politics.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V
________

Politics with most of my family these days is a non-thing. During the primaries, my Mom wanted Trump. I said I was for Cruz. She didn't like Cruz. So we voted. My wife comes home and said she voted for Kasich. Not a single hard feeling among the three of us.

Also: Happy birthday, Donna!

Posted by: FireHorse at August 14, 2016 12:19 AM (lhvb+)

450 448 A heads up: SpaceX is planning a 1:26 am Eastern time satellite launch.
Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:19 AM (sdi6R)

Cool

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:20 AM (0mRoj)

451 Anybody who is in Milwaukee, please stay safe.

Violence erupts after police shooting in Milwaukee

http://tinyurl.com/grftbsd

Posted by: Thrawn at August 14, 2016 12:12 AM (cC/ZB)


From the link:

*Nefataria Gordon said she knew the man who had been killed by the officer. "He was a nice good person. He was really respected. That's why everyone came out. They're angry."*


No, you stupid scrunt, he was not a "nice, good person" he was a thug who was running around with a stolen handgun.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 12:21 AM (oqkO3)

452 The Longest Day writers are a bunch of fags.

Posted by: Dogbert at August 14, 2016 12:21 AM (ChQEz)

453 A heads up: SpaceX is planning a 1:26 am Eastern time satellite launch.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:19 AM (sdi6R)

Cool, I'll run outside and look up... well, more north.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 14, 2016 12:22 AM (P/kVC)

454 Mortimer, a lot of what you are mentioning can be loss of testosterone, depression, or just being bored with a life that has become predictable and non-challenging.

You can test for the first two fairly easily.

However, you can tell you are really getting old when the "little blue pill" you are excited about taking is Naproxen Sodium.

Posted by: Kindlot at August 14, 2016 12:22 AM (ry34m)

455 435 430 What rational person would set a gas station on fire because they were mad at the cops?

Would rational people set black-owed business aflame in Ferguson because of what a white cop did? They did - because they are not rational people. No problems with shitting in their own nest.

And that ball-less SOB Mayor Barrett won't do a goddamn thing.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:23 AM (P8951)

456 Nefataria?

*types*

*deletes*

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:25 AM (sdi6R)

457 Haven't seen you around in a while. How you be?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:17 AM (0mRoj)


Loving life! A little disappointed that there was no NoVaMoMe this year but I guess you can't have it all. The missus is keeping me pretty busy, painting and landscaping, but she's going back to work in a couple of weeks. It looks like my schedule is going to change as well. But the cars are running, the roof doesn't leak and I have potato chips that I'm keeping from the dog. So, it could be a lot worse.
And beer. I have beer. Life is good.

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 14, 2016 12:25 AM (vbvxt)

458 Would you look at the amount of TEXT in this vintage ad? In those days you wanted 8 or 10 punchy paragraphs to sell a car.

http://tinyurl.com/guepxk2


What? GM hired a Frenchman to flog Camaros?

Posted by: dogs and cats, living together at August 14, 2016 12:26 AM (UOgBc)

459 I feel young now reading the stories. /

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2016 12:27 AM (89T5c)

460 Throwing some spin into the ONT, but what is it with the commercials that Volvo is running?

Middle aged bearded beta male, angsting over gawd knows what, some hipster douchebag in the right front seat, looking at a chick in a wedding dress, on the digital display of a thirty-thousand dollar Hasselblad medium format camera.

Bearded dude's Alpha wife(?)driving.

And the fvcking annoying whiny, shit ass, atonal, repetitive, incomprehensible wail that's trying to pass as a song for the ad? Whutizzit?

The only thing that could improve that ad is another fifteen seconds of footage, with the occupied Volvo being the centerpiece of a Predator drone strike.

And they want this ad to actually sell cars?



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 12:27 AM (v5iqM)

461
Speaking of expanding slugs, what's Hillary been up to lately? Besides not dying, I mean?

[/rimshot]
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:14 AM (q7T0y)
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Folks, I am here to tell you that I am close to achieving lofovo status. I'm watching so little news (thanks to disgust) that when my bil started talking about an October surprise re the Clinton Foundation or Julian Assange the other day, it was like the German I studied in high school. Like, Oh, I only know a few words of that anymore. I don't know anything right now and I'm thinking of serving as your official lofovo so you can know what they're thinking.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:28 AM (5o5ek)

462 I've lost a bunch, out of a class of 59. Six to VN alone.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:17 AM (yddCj)

Damn, that's a lot to lose in a class that small. That's a huge sacrifice.
My class was not only too young for VN, but also all female. We can't find a couple of the ones who moved out of town decades ago.

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 14, 2016 12:28 AM (ozZau)

463 Yeah, I was dumb enough to go home for my 30th. 2 of the Super cool kids rode with me back to our hotel, and said "I can't believe I'm riding in a car with MWNP!." Just like that.

I pulled over and said "not any more you're not." Onto the side of the road with bewildered expressions they went. I hope they had to blow someone to get home.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 13, 2016 11:41 PM (8mwfn)

That's awesome.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 12:29 AM (Idu2i)

464
I ought to have better sense than to tell this, but I'm getting old and like all of 'em, I love to talk about all my ailments. My testosterone was low enough that clinical intervention was medically warranted -- meaning the insurance has to pay for it. (300 ng/dl or whatever the units are is the threshold).

My doctor decided to test it, saying he could tell -- how, I asked. Well, you're looking a little sissy, he said (he didn't that word, but we don't want to be homophobic and all that). Actually, it's some of the drugs I take with this stupid arthritis can do that, and they had.

I really hadn't noticed anything. Things still worked. But after the shots, things improved. Didn't know how much I'd lost. But there are some strange little side effects in that function, the details of which I won't go into.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 14, 2016 12:29 AM (DW+jj)

465 and I have potato chips that I'm keeping from the dog. So, it could be a lot worse.
And beer. I have beer. Life is good.
Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter
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And skirts. He has man-skirts, so there's that.

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 12:30 AM (E/j+Q)

466 108 ... I was in high school when Woodstock happened. Unless you were trying to be a hippie (I wasn't) it was no big deal. Just another rock concert. The hype and BS glorification came afterwards. By that time I had already seen about every giant of jazz from Duke Ellington to Dave Brubeck to Herbie Mann. I had been to concerts by The Beatles, the Stones, Blood, Sweat and Tears and others.

I do watch the Woodstock movie every few years. It reinforces my sense of moral and intellectual superiority over the Leftards who thought it was wonderful. Unfortunately, too many of them are now in office.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2016 12:31 AM (V+03K)

467 That's good shit right there, MWNP.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 14, 2016 12:32 AM (89T5c)

468 stace, go for it, thanks. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 12:15 AM (q7T0y)

Well I think I'm probably already on that drug anyway--who the hell can keep track?

Goodnight everyone!

Posted by: stace...TEXIT at August 14, 2016 12:33 AM (ozZau)

469
What? GM hired a Frenchman to flog Camaros?
Posted by: dogs and cats, living together at August 14, 2016 12:26 AM (UOgBc)
-------------------

You have to read the whole thing to find out why. And by the time you finish, you'll be itching to buy a Camaro for sure.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:33 AM (5o5ek)

470 There is an upside to the Milwaukee story - the mob chased reporters and photographers from the Journal-Sentinel and punched a reporter.

The Urinal-Sentinel has been publishing glowing articles about BLM since Ferguson. It's not so great when the fury of the mob is turned on you, is it, you pack of SJW pusses?

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:33 AM (P8951)

471 I went to my 10-year Reunion, that's it, it was pretty blasé. All boy's high school (not boarding). After Sophomore year or so, there wasn't much of a divide between cool/not-cool kids. Guys just want to do their time and move on.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 14, 2016 12:34 AM (2cS/G)

472 And they want this ad to actually sell cars?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
------------

Yeah, I realized a few years ago that I was no longer the target audience for *any* of the car ads.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:35 AM (ZxmMG)

473
What's VN?

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:35 AM (5o5ek)

474
Nefataria Gordon said she knew the man who had been killed by the officer.

Does Nefataria eat in the cafeteria?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 14, 2016 12:36 AM (IqV8l)

475 There is an upside to the Milwaukee story - the mob chased reporters and photographers from the Journal-Sentinel and punched a reporter.

The Urinal-Sentinel has been publishing glowing articles about BLM since Ferguson. It's not so great when the fury of the mob is turned on you, is it, you pack of SJW pusses?


Posted by: Donna&&&&&V
****

And those reporters will still blame whites for the violence.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 14, 2016 12:36 AM (hVdx9)

476 The Urinal-Sentinel has been publishing glowing
articles about BLM since Ferguson. It's not so great when the fury of
the mob is turned on you, is it, you pack of SJW pusses?



Posted by: DonnaV (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:33 A


Any footage? Cause that would send me to sleep with good dreams.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 12:37 AM (nWhru)

477 Viet Nam

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 14, 2016 12:38 AM (IqV8l)

478 OK, I'm into the 8/2/65 recording session now. Take 3 of "Highway 61 Revisited" was a hoot.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:38 AM (sdi6R)

479 After Sophomore year or so, there wasn't much of a divide between cool/not-cool kids. Guys just want to do their time and move on.
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 14, 2016 12:34 AM (2cS/G)

My older sister went to the same hs I did and loved it- her class was one big family. she always goes to her reunions.

Because her experience had been so much fun, I really looked forward to hs. My experience was the exact opposite - cliques and bitchiness and backbiting and the rich girls sneering at the poor ones who had to work in the cafeteria to help with the tuition.

I loved college after that.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:39 AM (P8951)

480 I realized something was awry with the car ads when they starting advertising that you can connect your cell phone to the damn thing. When that is the prominent feature you're having to hawk, something is very different.

I remember some hilarious piece written by a guy trying to sell a car himself, and he was surprised by the number of people who were obsessed with the cup-holders. They didn't seem to care much about anything but if had cup-holders, and were they the proper kind and all that.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 14, 2016 12:39 AM (DW+jj)

481 What's VN?
Posted by: iforgot
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I assumed in this context, Vietnam.

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 12:40 AM (E/j+Q)

482 Oh man, if you want to talk about interrupting songs with some bullshit, Bono from U2 used to be a major offender. Bono's homily in the "Bullet The Blue Sky" version in "Rattle and Hum" was particularly egregious.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 14, 2016 12:40 AM (6FqZa)

483 That'll teach Sheriff Clarke for running his yapper on Faux News

Posted by: SCOAMF at August 14, 2016 12:40 AM (89T5c)

484 Conversely, a great ad.

Samsung is running one, with a middle aged, Eurotrash, arrogant, elitist snob, wearing a tweed (of course) jacket, and musing aloud, how we Americans tend to use such a device to work, work, work. Even when on vacation, etc.

He then asks, rhetorically, "and where as that gotten you", and the scene shows him in Revolutionary War uniform saying "You built your own country, from scratch", then on driving a Lunar Rover, looking up at Earth from within his spacesuit, saying something like, "Making it the most prosperous and influential country in the world".....

and then segues into him stepping out of an all-American 2 story home, planting an American flag in the garden, exchanging greetings with his (black, upper middle class) neighbor, then gathering his NOW AMERICAN family to him, and proclaiming his pride in being an American!

That ad, first time I saw it, blew me away. So much frikkin AMERICA, Fk YEAH! in one single ad.

Bet it made some libtards haids all 'splodey.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 12:40 AM (v5iqM)

485 It's funny how women's beach volleyball is played as a game of strength and power whereas men's beach volleyball is a finesse game.

Posted by: FireHorse at August 14, 2016 12:40 AM (lhvb+)

486 Any footage? Cause that would send me to sleep with good dreams.
Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 12:37 AM (nWhru)

Unfortunately not. It was mentioned in the USA Today story someone linked to above.

I'm sure Sheriff Clarke will have a few things to say about this

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:41 AM (P8951)

487 Wholesale?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill
-----------------
It'd be as hard as a phone call. Just sayin'...

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 12:09 AM (E/j+Q)

For some reason this reminded me of my years in Aspen, Colorado where it was easier to get a gram of coke than it was to get a 6-pack of beer.

Great times.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 12:41 AM (Idu2i)

488 Have you been to Aspen lately, Country Boy? It probably still is

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 14, 2016 12:42 AM (6FqZa)

489 I remember some hilarious piece written by a guy trying to sell a car himself, and he was surprised by the number of people who were obsessed with the cup-holders. They didn't seem to care much about anything but if had cup-holders, and were they the proper kind and all that.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 14, 2016 12:39 AM (DW+jj)


Brings to mind the ads for some current Lincoln (which looks like a Subaru SUV). Some smug, self-satisfied hipster douche gets in, and pushes the "engine start" button, as though it were an accomplishment not unlike climbing Mt. Everest barefoot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 12:43 AM (oqkO3)

490 I'm sure Sheriff Clarke will have a few things to say about this


I love that man. Would love to have a few beers with him.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 12:45 AM (nWhru)

491 Oh, I'm perfectly all right with myself. I still can't stand other people.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 12:11 AM


LOL!! Oh, I totally *get* this!

"People" piss me off, more often than not...

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 12:45 AM (044Fx)

492
a middle aged, Eurotrash, arrogant, elitist snob
---------------

That's Christopher Waltz. He's a popular foreign-born Hollywood actor.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:45 AM (5o5ek)

493 Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 12:18 AM (WMvHw)

Your name doesn't look familiar. Please post more often.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 12:46 AM (Idu2i)

494 The ultimate Reunion cut...



'my, you've aged well'....
Posted by: Don Quixote, aka BB Wolf, aka Romeo13 at August 13, 2016 11:31 PM (qf6WZ)


Ooooohhhhh! Taaaaaammmmyyyyy!!! I could tell it was you immediately! You look just like I thought you would. Introduce me to your husband [number one now long gone], is he here? I could tell he was so right for you. Are you the general manager of a bank like we though you would be?!?


(extra points for volume and sounding like a basket of puppies to cut through the general polite babble)

Posted by: Kindlot at August 14, 2016 12:46 AM (ry34m)

495 I didn't even recognize you! You look so............good!

Didn't recognize my prom date and (classmate of five years) at the 10-yr. I couldn't even see a resemblance when she was telling me who she was. Wish I could have stammered out something that polite, but I was speechless.

Posted by: t-bird at August 14, 2016 12:47 AM (ZxmMG)

496 >> Ceomiket cosplay
>>
>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/gqo33s7

When a girl tweets her own camel toe shots I suppose you can assume that the shot wasn't a sneak upskirt...

Posted by: JEM at August 14, 2016 12:48 AM (o+SC1)

497 Those engine start buttons do not impress me one bit, and I wouldn't have one really. I just do not like software starting the engine.

And I'm just wondering how that works if you working on it, and needed to bump the starter a bit and all that. I guess you're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to take it to dealer and pay $$$, but get free wi-fi in their silly waiting rooms or something.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 14, 2016 12:49 AM (DW+jj)

498 So apparently there were reports of a live shooter at a local mall today. Ten people were wounded, trampled as they evacuated the mall. At this time it cannot be confirmed that there actually was a shooter, and there have been no injuries reported due to gunshots.


The mall, FWIW, is a gun-free zone.


{smfh}

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 14, 2016 12:49 AM (vbvxt)

499 The Urinal-Sentinel has been publishing glowing articles about BLM since Ferguson. It's not so great when the fury of the mob is turned on you, is it, you pack of SJW pusses?


Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:33 AM (P8951)

That sounds like a great letter to the editor.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 12:49 AM (Idu2i)

500 That's Christopher Waltz. He's a popular foreign-born Hollywood actor.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:45 AM (5o5ek)




Count me a fan, then. He did a great job on the whole cycle of the ad, especially the proud embrace of Americanism at it's best!

Seriously, that's a beautiful ad. How good?

Ace, or one of the COBs or Opens needs to give it a post.

That's how good.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 12:49 AM (v5iqM)

501 >>>The only thing that could improve that ad is another
fifteen seconds of footage, with the occupied Volvo being the
centerpiece of a Predator drone strike.

And they want this ad to actually sell cars?
Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 12:27 AM (v5iqM)<<<




There's another version/part (like it needed a dumb ass sequel) of that add that shows bearded beta male is going to his daughter's wedding. Pretty sure he was writing something to her, then boom he's in the next ad being driven by his wife because he's too emotional to drive? Just weird.

But the new XC90 isn't too bad.

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at August 14, 2016 12:50 AM (H9MG5)

502 What's VN?

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:35 AM (5o5ek)

Lawn. Off.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 12:50 AM (Idu2i)

503 Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 14, 2016 12:25 AM (vbvxt)

Glad to hear you're doing well.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 14, 2016 12:52 AM (0mRoj)

504 Have you been to Aspen lately, Country Boy? It probably still is

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at August 14, 2016 12:42 AM (6FqZa)

Nah, although I do want to go back to see what it's like now.

I lived there in the early 80's after college. Favorite hangout was Woody Creek Tavern.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 12:52 AM (Idu2i)

505 Man you guys hold grudges.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at August 13, 2016 11:43 PM (MNgU2)


Only against people who have wronged me.

Posted by: Kindlot at August 14, 2016 12:53 AM (ry34m)

506 Just got back from the Brewers/Reds game in Milwaukee. Daughter texts me, "what the hell is going on in Milwaukee". So I put the TV on. Yikes! I almost drove home close to that. Glad common sense prevailed and I took the longer, safer route home. Could have unknowingly driven into the "troubles".

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 12:54 AM (/pOl7)

507 And I'm just wondering how that works if you working on it, and needed to bump the starter a bit and all that. I guess you're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to take it to dealer and pay $$$, but get free wi-fi in their silly waiting rooms or something.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 14, 2016 12:49 AM (DW+jj)

****

It's still just power to the starter. Can be accomplished at either end.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 14, 2016 12:54 AM (8mwfn)

508 And they want this ad to actually sell cars?







Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 12:27 AM (v5iqM)




There was a Subaru add a while back where some angsty fucknut was pretending to be an artist. I wanted to yank my eyeballs out and use them for earplugs every time the ad came on.


And skirts. He has man-skirts, so there's that.

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 12:30 AM (E/j+Q)


Not till September. I do have my Edsall tartan ready to go though.

I graduated high school during the Reagan administration and have never been to a reunion.

Posted by: GGE Hades of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at August 14, 2016 12:56 AM (vbvxt)

509 There's another version/part (like it needed a dumb ass sequel) of that add that shows bearded beta male is going to his daughter's wedding. Pretty sure he was writing something to her, then boom he's in the next ad being driven by his wife because he's too emotional to drive? Just weird.

But the new XC90 isn't too bad.

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at August 14, 2016 12:50 AM (H9MG5)



Saw that, too, but didn't include it in the rant, just for clarity's sake. But, yeah...you nailed it in one.

But if those ads are meant to represent the vehichle, they need to rename it from "XC90", to PC90", and just go all in and have Pajama Boy be their pitchbitch man.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 12:56 AM (v5iqM)

510 Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 12:54 AM (/pOl7)

Disaster both inside the ballpark and out.

Well, it was a disaster if you're a Brewers fan - but then we're used to that.

The Crew is making the Reds look like the 1928 Yankees.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 12:57 AM (P8951)

511 And I'm just wondering how that works if you working on it, and needed to bump the starter a bit and all that.
---------------

There's probably an app for that...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 12:58 AM (ZxmMG)

512
Count me a fan, then. He did a great job on the whole cycle of the ad, especially the proud embrace of Americanism at it's best!

-----------------
Then he goes and says Brexit was monumentally stupid. But I do love the ad. You can enjoy it again here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H_PCKxTjMU

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:58 AM (5o5ek)

513 Those engine start buttons do not impress me one bit, and I wouldn't have one really. I just do not like software starting the engine.

And I'm just wondering how that works if you working on it, and needed to bump the starter a bit and all that. I guess you're not supposed to do that. You're supposed to take it to dealer and pay $$$, but get free wi-fi in their silly waiting rooms or something.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at August 14, 2016 12:49 AM (DW+jj)


It would be fun to troll the owners of such cars, say at the parking lot of a fancy restaurant with valet parking. Drive up in some rancid old beater, but one that you have equipped with a prominent "Engine Start" button. Arrange to have the engine stall as a group is standing there. Then loudly say, "Start the car, Jeeves!" and right on cue, a skeletal hand and arm reaches out from the center console, and pushes the "Engine Start" button, and slowly withdraws back into the console.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 12:59 AM (oqkO3)

514 The Crew is making the Reds look like the 1928 Yankees.

That's for sure. But we picked up some cheap, excellent seats. And there was a crew of women there dressed as the Rockford Peaches, having fun. So there's that.

And now I see on WTMJ TV that there is a 3rd fire underway. So the trouble makers are out to stir shit up.

Could be a long night in Brew City.

Ooh, ooh, the Mayor is on TV right now. All will be well.

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 12:59 AM (/pOl7)

515 The SpaceX webcasts are up!

Hosted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZTCEO0gvLo

Technical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERDIFnFvHs

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:01 AM (sdi6R)

516 Goodnight and thanks for the great chat tonight everyone. Happy Sunday!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 14, 2016 01:01 AM (q7T0y)

517 Ooh, ooh, the Mayor is on TV right now. All will be well.

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 12:59 AM (/pOl7)


Black Looters Massing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:01 AM (oqkO3)

518 >>>But if those ads are meant to represent the
vehichle, they need to rename it from "XC90", to PC90", and just go all
in and have Pajama Boy be their pitchbitch man.

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 12:56 AM (v5iqM)<<<




PC90?! Oh heavens no. No, no, no, too close to a P90, evil black machine gun. **runs to nearest fainting couch**

Posted by: Volvo marketing team at August 14, 2016 01:02 AM (H9MG5)

519 GGE -

a kilt, eh?

You know what to say when some smirking dumbass asks what you're wearing under it, dontcha?

'Your mother's/wife's/girlfriend' lipstick.' Always a crowd pleaser.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:02 AM (GQEs8)

520
What's VN?

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 12:35 AM (5o5ek)

Lawn. Off.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 12:50 AM (Idu2i)
----------------

My mom says you're weird!

[throws rock]

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 01:03 AM (5o5ek)

521 Sooooo, the rioters all gathered on Facebook before starting tonight's festivities.

It's Facebook's fault.

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 01:03 AM (/pOl7)

522
Well, good night all. Fading, faded, fade.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Fleegle at August 14, 2016 01:05 AM (5o5ek)

523 AOP -

I use the valet parking from time to time.

97 corolla, what's got the body damage to prove its age.

Always a hoot.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:06 AM (GQEs8)

524 "Only 132 Looting Days left until Christmas!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:06 AM (oqkO3)

525 Country Boy

Thanks. Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks are far to intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me to be breaking your rhythm.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:06 AM (WMvHw)

526 I have a question for Steely Dan...


How come William and Mary won't do?

Why are you never going back, to your old school?

Does "do" rhyme with "school"?

It's 1:10 in the morning and I gots to know.

Posted by: eleven at August 14, 2016 01:09 AM (qUNWi)

527 525
Country Boy



Thanks. Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks are far to
intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me to be
breaking your rhythm.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:06 AM (WMvHw)


Is this Ace???

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:09 AM (EzgxV)

528 Thanks. Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks are far to intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me to be breaking your rhythm.
Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:06 AM (WMvHw)

****

Jump on in. We ain't that smart, just faster to comment about a topic. You'll get used to it.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 14, 2016 01:09 AM (8mwfn)

529 >>>Does anything think that the Republicans have the balls to do anything about it that is meaningful?

Look at it from a cost/benefit perspective. Who is willing to die for the sake iof "outing" me? I'm not the Hill to die on.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 14, 2016 01:10 AM (ey3qv)

530 So, Michael Phelps finally got his 23rd gold medal. Big deal, everyone's done that.

Whereas Iqtahib Muhammad (or whatever) wore a hijab and won a team bronze! If only she were black and lesbian, too!

Flag carrier, I say!

Posted by: Bob Costass at August 14, 2016 01:10 AM (mxCgt)

531 "Only 132 Looting Days left until Christmas!"

Okay, I lol'd...

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 01:13 AM (044Fx)

532 I use the valet parking from time to time.

97 corolla, what's got the body damage to prove its age.

Always a hoot.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:06 AM (GQEs


Hah. One time, back in the '80's, I drove from Calgary to Vancouver in an extremely rusty '76 Datsun 710 fastback. It was simply festering all over, and had a stack of 2X6's in the trunk to keep the back ends of the rear spring from popping through the trunk lid. I had bought it for its engine, which was really good, to replace a blown engine in a Datsun pickup I owned. But I had to get to Vancouver, and the engine swap had to wait, so I drove the 710, which ran great, incidentally. But I had to meet my sister and her family at a snooty restaurant on Granville Island, so I drove down there. They had valet parking, and the valet refused to park it, saying, "I can't drive standard shift." I just laughed, and said, "It's OK, I know how to park it myself."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:14 AM (oqkO3)

533 Here's another group of people that need to be bitch slapped into reality.

People who are buying a 200 sq ft tiny house when they have one two year old kid, and another baby on the way. What the fuck is wrong with them?

There's barely space for two people, let alone four (including two potentially wild kids). What happens when baby is crying and there's no place to escape the noise. And how do you go about engaging in that activity that made those two kids? There's really no possibility for privacy. This shit is creepy.

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at August 14, 2016 01:14 AM (H9MG5)

534 Thanks. Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks are far to intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me to be breaking your rhythm.
Posted by: French Jeton
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The only rhythm this group has would cause a pod of dolphins to beach themselves.
Jump in. Worst that can happen is you get ignored. You may surprised, though...

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 01:15 AM (E/j+Q)

535 I'm not the Hill to die on.
Posted by: Hillary Clinton


If I die on top of Hillary, I ask that my family not claim the body.

Posted by: t-bird at August 14, 2016 01:15 AM (J3phO)

536 Cthulhu

No, not Ace.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:16 AM (WMvHw)

537 517 Ooh, ooh, the Mayor is on TV right now. All will be well.

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 12:59 AM (/pOl7)

There will be a heavy police presence in Sherman Park tomorrow, according to Hizzoner. Oh, that will go over well with the blm crowd.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 01:18 AM (P8951)

538 #464 Explains the Prius.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at August 14, 2016 01:18 AM (Kucy5)

539 More Comiket Cosplay

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zcqfsnh

Ads at site are NSFW

Posted by: The Animu & Mango Hat at August 14, 2016 01:18 AM (vBeA5)

540 530 So, Michael Phelps finally got his 23rd gold medal. Big deal, everyone's done that.

Whereas Iqtahib Muhammad (or whatever) wore a hijab and won a team bronze! If only she were black and lesbian, too!

Flag carrier, I say!

Posted by: Bob Costass at August 14, 2016 01:10 AM (mxCgt)



Damn muzzies got their early start at the point of their swords. And no one sees the irony in this Hefty Bag clad Jew hating piece of ugly-to-the-soul jihadist bitch, wielding her sword in some sad, sick, sordid search for superiority and supremacy?

Her next opponent needs to coat her rapier in bacon grease, at the very least.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 01:18 AM (v5iqM)

541 OK, MKE mayor basically said, get your damn kids home and knock this shit off.

They need Sheriff Clarke to get in there and knock some heads around.

Time for a candle light vigil.

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 01:19 AM (/pOl7)

542 This tiny house crap isnout of control. As a cheap means of providing something like decent shelter, it was a good thing.

But people went nuts with it, corrupting what were just slightly classier travel trailers into the latest hipster bauble.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:19 AM (GQEs8)

543 528 Thanks. Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks are far to intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me to be breaking your rhythm.
Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:06 AM (WMvHw)

Oh, hell, I say stupid shit all the time. I'm just not shy.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 01:20 AM (P8951)

544 530 So, Michael Phelps finally got his 23rd gold medal. Big deal, everyone's done that.

Whereas Iqtahib Muhammad (or whatever) wore a hijab and won a team bronze! If only she were black and lesbian, too!

Flag carrier, I say!
Posted by: Bob Costass at August 14, 2016 01:10 AM (mxCgt)


She is black.

Posted by: buzzion at August 14, 2016 01:20 AM (ZlqIN)

545 Hmm. 600 mi to Canaveral from here, clear night.

*wonders if binocs might glimpse the launch*

Seems highly unlikely.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 01:20 AM (ZxmMG)

546 ...There's barely space for two people...

Comrade, at 18.5806 sq. meters it is more than enough for 4

Posted by: Uncle Josef at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (044Fx)

547 Time for a candle light vigil.
Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 01:19 AM (/pOl7)

Let's all hold hands and sing "Imagine."

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (P8951)

548 T minus 5 minutes.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (sdi6R)

549 There will be a heavy police presence in Sherman Park tomorrow, according to Hizzoner. Oh, that will go over well with the blm crowd.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 01:18 AM (P8951)


So why doesn't the damned Mayor simply go down there right now, read the Riot Act, declare the mob an unlawful assembly, and give them ten minutes to disperse before the cops open fire? Does no mayor do that anymore?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (oqkO3)

550 I really enjoyed high school and beside classes was involved in music and sports. But I never felt a desire to keep reliving those years. I did go to the tenth reunion, but since I was never a rah-rah type, it wasn't a big deal. Can't imagine going to the 50th coming up in a few years. It would be mostly "OMG! You're still alive!!" No thanks.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (V+03K)

551 But people went nuts with it, corrupting what were just slightly classier travel trailers into the latest hipster bauble.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:19 AM (GQEs

****

Exactly. They sound like my 30' travel trailer, at 2 x the price.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 14, 2016 01:22 AM (8mwfn)

552 But people went nuts with it, corrupting what were just slightly classier travel trailers into the latest hipster bauble.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
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Go long on Easy Bake ovens.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 14, 2016 01:23 AM (ZxmMG)

553 So why doesn't the damned Mayor simply go down there right now, read the Riot Act, declare the mob an unlawful assembly, and give them ten minutes to disperse before the cops open fire? Does no mayor do that anymore?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (oqkO3)

The mayor is a Democrat(like all big city American mayors).

Blacks vote D. There's your answer.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 01:24 AM (P8951)

554 536
Cthulhu



No, not Ace.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:16 AM (WMvHw)


Maet?!?!?

'Cause this could be read as some master-level snark-fu.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:24 AM (EzgxV)

555 Easy Bake Oven? No-- won't work now...

Can't get 100watt bulbs anymore (the bastards) and that's what EBOs used. (Yes, I had one and it was Awesome)

Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 01:26 AM (044Fx)

556 542
This tiny house crap isnout of control. As a cheap means of providing something like decent shelter, it was a good thing.



But people went nuts with it, corrupting what were just slightly classier travel trailers into the latest hipster bauble.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:19 AM (GQEs


It's outright propaganda, just like "Queer Eye" was. "Let's have a show to make the outrageous acceptable....." according to our media elites.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:26 AM (EzgxV)

557 MWNP -

I'm planning to sell off the business and live in a 30 footer. Not retiring - still gotta work - but I'm tired of owning property, and the upkeep on a house is absurd. As is rent of an apartment or a house. Had it to do over again, I'd have started and stayed in one of those. Comfy, cheap, and more than enough for one guy with occasional guests.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:27 AM (GQEs8)

558 After the Mayor, the alderman got on and said they needed more money and an end to the repression of the blacks.

Yup, the people are hurting so they burn buildings down. Makes sense to me.

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 01:28 AM (/pOl7)

559 Tiny house. Yeah.

I lived for seven years aboard a 30 ft. sloop, center cockpit, aft cabin. Maximum beam was 8ft, 6in.

Master berth aft, was between full and Queen sized. Four ft. of hanging rod in the the clothing locker. Good amount of drawer and cabinet space, aft.

Two burner stove in the galley, with a chicken-sized oven. Augmented with a hot plate.

Forward, a vee berth, approximating full sized berth.

The head was okay, but you had to back your way in to "sit down", and the head-enclosure was also the shower. Only used offshore, at anchor, but still.

The New Dawn was a great home for me and two cats. Even then, it was some tight squeezing to live, day to day. Especially with a heavy armory on board, even then.

Now, I've been ashore a decade. And I'm more sure now than ever, that I'll go back to a boat to retire upon the waves.

Next one though, will be closer to fifty ft., than to forty.

Fvck that "tiny" shit. I want some elbow room and amenities, this time around.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 01:29 AM (v5iqM)

560 Stage separation and stage 2 ignition.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:29 AM (sdi6R)

561
557 MWNP -

I'm planning to sell off the business and live in a 30 footer. Not retiring - still gotta work - but I'm tired of owning property, and the upkeep on a house is absurd. As is rent of an apartment or a house. Had it to do over again, I'd have started and stayed in one of those. Comfy, cheap, and more than enough for one guy with occasional guests.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:27 AM (GQEs


My mortgage payment on a 3 bedroom is almost the exact same as the one bedroom I was renting.

Posted by: buzzion at August 14, 2016 01:30 AM (ZlqIN)

562 Easy Bake Oven? No-- won't work now...

Can't get 100watt bulbs anymore (the bastards) and that's what EBOs used. (Yes, I had one and it was Awesome)


Posted by: JQ Flyover at August 14, 2016 01:26 AM (044Fx)

If you really want to use it, I could send you a couple. I bought a lifetime supply before they were banned.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 01:31 AM (Idu2i)

563 The mwk cops need to skip- shoot some birdshot into the mobs. Riflemen for the ones who break off from the crowd.

Bloody, but it would guarantee against a repeat.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:31 AM (GQEs8)

564 Stage 1 entry burn.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:33 AM (sdi6R)

565 I hear thunder rumbling in the distance. Waiting for the power bump....

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:33 AM (oqkO3)

566 546
...There's barely space for two people...

Comrade, at 18.5806 sq. meters it is more than enough for 4


Posted by: Uncle Josef at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (044Fx)


Our "immigration ships" would regularly budget 1 square meter per person -- g/wiki/File:Slave_ship_diagram.png .

Posted by: John Newton at August 14, 2016 01:34 AM (EzgxV)

567 Stage 1 landing burn.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:34 AM (sdi6R)

568
Now, I've been ashore a decade. And I'm more sure now than ever, that I'll go back to a boat to retire upon the waves.

For a three hour tour. A three hour tour.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 14, 2016 01:34 AM (IqV8l)

569 T minus 5 minutes.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:21 AM (sdi6R)

It's hazy, rocket out of sight before you could hear the rumble.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 14, 2016 01:35 AM (P/kVC)

570 Buzzion -

Centex real estate is through the roof. Rentals, purchase - all are out of control. Cant move because kids are here.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:35 AM (GQEs8)

571 >>>This tiny house crap isnout of control. As a cheap means of providing something like decent shelter, it was a good thing.



But people went nuts with it, corrupting what were just slightly classier travel trailers into the latest hipster bauble.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:19 AM (GQEs<<<

Yeah, I've been watching one of the (now many) tiny house related tv series because the guy who works the construction side of things does come up with some pretty cool, space saving creations.

For a lot of the people on the show, these houses can be pretty nice, inexpensive living solutions. A single or couple in 200-300 sq ft isn't too bad. It's tight, but a lot of them have other priorities and just need a place to rest their head when they get home at night.

But to bring in kids is asinine. Having so many people on top of each other in such a confined space is going to lead to conflicts and privacy problems you just won't be able to escape.

Hipsters always ruin everything.

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at August 14, 2016 01:36 AM (H9MG5)

572 This tiny house crap isnout of control. As a cheap means of providing something like decent shelter, it was a good thing.

But people went nuts with it, corrupting what were just slightly classier travel trailers into the latest hipster bauble.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:19 AM (GQEs


It won't be long before they're all living in cardboard boxes like Barky's brother.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 14, 2016 01:36 AM (zc3Db)

573 They're reporting that the satellite has been inserted into the parking orbit and the first stage has landed on the droneship.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:36 AM (sdi6R)

574 I'm planning to sell off the business and live in a 30 footer. Not retiring - still gotta work - but I'm tired of owning property, and the upkeep on a house is absurd. As is rent of an apartment or a house. Had it to do over again, I'd have started and stayed in one of those. Comfy, cheap, and more than enough for one guy with occasional guests.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:27 AM (GQEs

*****

My plan is a little different. I am going to buy a self storage place by my lake. I already have 6 lots along with it on the river that feeds the lake. Should be done within 3 years.

After that, all I need is another 1K a month.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at August 14, 2016 01:36 AM (8mwfn)

575 It won't be long before they're all living in cardboard boxes like Barky's brother.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 14, 2016 01:36 AM (zc3Db)


I wanna tree fort.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:37 AM (oqkO3)

576 Cthulhu

No, not Maet. No, not master snark. Truly meant what I wrote about you folks (intelligent, informed & entertaining). You gave a good opportunity for me to mess with you, but I wouldn't do that. My function is to lurk, only.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:37 AM (WMvHw)

577 558 After the Mayor, the alderman got on and said they needed more money and an end to the repression of the blacks.

Yup, the people are hurting so they burn buildings down. Makes sense to me.
Posted by: Pete Seria at August 14, 2016 01:28 AM (/pOl7)

Yeah, that alderman is an bonehead.

I can't wait until President Choom weighs in. He'll probably say something similar.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 01:37 AM (P8951)

578 Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine,

A week or so ago you mentioned getting an 8x10 portrait camera as an unexpected gift. (Hope your questions for the Horde that night proved helpful.) Out of curiosity, what is the make of the camera and details of the lens? I've never dealt with anything larger than a 4x5 press camera.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2016 01:38 AM (V+03K)

579 MWNP -

Self storage business for the win!

Live in is quite normal for those, and a good location, it sounds like.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:39 AM (GQEs8)

580 I wanna tree fort.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:37 AM (oqkO3)


You might have to wrestle with the local government over that.

The business connected with Animal Planet's Treehouse Masters show has been fined $5,000 for building a tree house in Oregon without a contractor's license. The state Construction Contractors Board was alerted to the illegal building after a tree house construction project in Neskowin was on the show.

The show features Pete Nelson, of the Fall City, Washington, company Nelson's Treehouse Supply, traveling the country building elaborate tree houses with electricity and plumbing.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 14, 2016 01:40 AM (zc3Db)

581 558 After the Mayor, the alderman got on and said they needed more money and an end to the repression of the blacks.

Yup, the people are hurting so they burn buildings down. Makes sense to me.
Posted by: Pete Seria
****

And yet they continue to vote democrat.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale-Skeet Surfer at August 14, 2016 01:40 AM (hVdx9)

582 "Buildings on fire" and firefighters won't go in due to gun fire. But they're (FNC) calling it protests or at least, violent protests. Are they totally clueless? No. They are in the drama business.
Words matter.

Posted by: OldDominionMom at August 14, 2016 01:41 AM (GzDYP)

583 We're still waiting for the second second stage engine burn that will send the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, but in the meantime, they're making the first stage landing look routine.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:42 AM (sdi6R)

584 Centex real estate is through the roof. Rentals, purchase - all are out of control. Cant move because kids are here.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:35 AM (GQEs

Same here in DFW. Prices are ridiculous. I'm just renting the top half of a house for now. Even crap apartment complexes are ridiculous.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 14, 2016 01:43 AM (Idu2i)

585 576
Cthulhu



No, not Maet. No, not master snark. Truly meant what I wrote about
you folks (intelligent, informed entertaining). You gave a good
opportunity for me to mess with you, but I wouldn't do that. My
function is to lurk, only.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 01:37 AM (WMvHw)

I had thought it might be humorous if one of the actual posters were having one on about each one of their posts generating hundreds of comments....but now I have a new concern: we have a commenter that declares its function is only to lurk....which strongly suggests that it's an AI. Possibly Guccifer 3.141592.....maybe under Russian control.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:43 AM (EzgxV)

586 Evenin' everyone.

Mini-rant: If you're hired to work on computers, you probably shouldn't be too fucking stupid to use one.

That is all.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 14, 2016 01:47 AM (T/cxb)

587 Easy Bake Oven? No-- won't work now...

Can't get 100watt bulbs anymore (the bastards) and that's what EBOs used. (Yes, I had one and it was Awesome)


I pined for one as a kid, never happened.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 01:47 AM (nWhru)

588 I'm thinking that Guccifer 3.141592 was named that because it runs on a $35 Linux machine....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:47 AM (EzgxV)

589 Well, bed time for me. Night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 14, 2016 01:48 AM (oqkO3)

590 JTB -

It's a Deardorff. The lensboard is empty - makes me think the lens is still in his studio.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:48 AM (GQEs8)

591 The next engine burn is less that 6 minutes from now, but everything seems to be going perfectly so far.

Landing the first stage on a postage stamp in the middle of the ocean? Ho hum. Happens every day.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:49 AM (sdi6R)

592 It won't be long before they're all living in cardboard boxes like Barky's brother.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 14, 2016 01:36 AM (zc3Db)


Luxury!

Posted by: A Yorkshireman at August 14, 2016 01:52 AM (vBeA5)

593 Second stage engine has reignited.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:53 AM (sdi6R)

594 587
Easy Bake Oven? No-- won't work now...

Can't get 100watt bulbs anymore (the bastards) and that's what EBOs used. (Yes, I had one and it was Awesome)


I pined for one as a kid, never happened.


Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 01:47 AM (nWhru)


Incidentally, that is the dark side to any appreciation I might have for Kate Upton.....she seems a happy, pleasant, zaftig girl who is delightful to behold -- while her dastardly uncle is the scolding overcontrolling asshole behind the light-bulb ban.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:53 AM (EzgxV)

595 Goodnight, horde. I'm going to get a better night's sleep than Mayor Barrett tonight.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&V (whitely waiting for the ballgame) at August 14, 2016 01:53 AM (P8951)

596 Shutdown. "Nominal GTO insertion".

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:54 AM (sdi6R)

597 591
The next engine burn is less that 6 minutes from now, but everything seems to be going perfectly so far.



Landing the first stage on a postage stamp in the middle of the ocean? Ho hum. Happens every day.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:49 AM (sdi6R)


Outstanding! "Oh, yeah, we solved the first stage landing problem in a way that it stays solved......next!"

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:55 AM (EzgxV)

598 Thanks. Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks
are far to intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me
to be breaking your rhythm.

Posted by: French Jeton


Hell, they haven't kicked me out yet, how picky can they be...?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Guy at August 14, 2016 01:56 AM (vyqqu)

599 590 JTB -

It's a Deardorff. The lensboard is empty - makes me think the lens is still in his studio.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 01:48 AM (GQEs



In the words of the immortal Yosemite Sam..."Ah Hates Yew!"

Deardorff. FUCKING DEARDORFF!

Aaaaaaauuuugggghhhhhhh !!!!!

I just want to shoot one plate from one, once, please, before I die.

It is THE zen of what a view camera is. It's the Strad, the Steinway, the Martin.... it is the instrument of the ages.

That one plate though, could be a decade in the making.

Finding a shot like Moonrise over Hernandez, NM, just doesn't happen in a whim.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 01:57 AM (v5iqM)

600 cthulhu, can't pick your relatives. Thankfully, I may only be a long distant relative of one.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 01:57 AM (nWhru)

601 596
Shutdown. "Nominal GTO insertion".

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:54 AM (sdi6R)


https://youtu.be/q3svW8PM_jc

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 01:57 AM (EzgxV)

602 Payload deploy! A completely successful mission.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:58 AM (sdi6R)

603 602
Payload deploy! A completely successful mission.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 01:58 AM (sdi6R)


Awesomesauce on steroids!!!! Thank you, rickl, for keeping the ONT posted while we did our usual diversionary tactics.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 02:04 AM (EzgxV)

604 Jim -

Yep. I was shocked when I got it. You don't find those magnificent beasts just floating around. They're a yuuuugggge investment.

If his sister can't find the lens, I'll have to spend bigly and get one for it. And the lenses, brother, those large format lenses, they aint cheap.

Heh....now, as to whether I could get a good image with the rig is something else altogether.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:04 AM (GQEs8)

605 At the end of the SpaceX webcast, they mentioned the late Kenny Baker, who was apparently the voice of R2D2. Or he moved it. I don't know how that works exactly.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 02:06 AM (sdi6R)

606 Thanks for the selection of 'man crushes" for the 'ettes. Although I didn't see Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, which is an almost inconceivable error.

Posted by: vivi at August 14, 2016 02:07 AM (11H2y)

607 590 ... Thanks. Hope you end up with the lens as well or can find an affordable one. The cost of the film, even at B and H, makes me wince but the level of detail must be staggering.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2016 02:09 AM (V+03K)

608 Cthulhu

There, you proved my three adjectives to be correct.

Posted by: French Jeton at August 14, 2016 02:09 AM (WMvHw)

609 speaking of CenTex, what can all y'all tell me about Sugar Land, other than it's near Houston and likely humid as hell?

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 02:11 AM (sUQ21)

610 Jtb -

Yep. But with 8x10, you don't need to enlarge much at all.

Hell, I've seen contact prints of portraits done at that format. Amazing is right.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:11 AM (GQEs8)

611 605
At the end of the SpaceX webcast, they mentioned the late Kenny Baker,
who was apparently the voice of R2D2. Or he moved it. I don't know how
that works exactly.

Posted by: rickl at August 14, 2016 02:06 AM (sdi6R)


Kenny Baker was the guy inside R2D2. You might think of him as a puppeteer, or as a guy in EXTREME makeup (since you never saw his flesh) -- but he was responsible for giving R2D2 a personality and succeeded in doing so.

If you were doing it again today, you'd never involve a person inside the robot -- actual robot mechanisms have improved to the point where it'd be stupid. But, just like how the doors to the bridge on the original Enterprise in ST:TOS were moved by staffers, it all looks different since the technology has caught up.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 02:13 AM (EzgxV)

612 Unka Palp


You get the lens, and I'll help as I can with the tilts, swings and bellows.

I figure the skills I picked up learning the 4"x5" Toyo, oughta translate, just a bit.

A great deal will depend on what lens(es) you find, and what emulsion you select.

But, I can put a good, well adjusted, sharply focused and properly oriented, image on the groundglass.

Might take some teamwork to decide the exposure(s), but I think we can get it done.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 02:13 AM (v5iqM)

613 goodnight, all...another day with a heat index over 100 on Sunday. NYC weather sucks - the summers and winters are long and brutal, spring is short and rainy, and only fall is okay. Those Lenape Indians probably thought they pulled the real estate con of the millennium on the Dutch, thus starting another NYC tradition.

Posted by: vivi at August 14, 2016 02:15 AM (11H2y)

614 Jim - nice!

Yeah, the movements on the thing will be a challenge for me - dicked around with a 4x5 in my student days, but never was happy with the results.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:17 AM (GQEs8)

615

8x10 may be enlarged.Is the print to be larger or smaller than 8x10? Is your enlarger big enough? If you are a commercial shop (or a real serious photographer), you likely have such an enlarger

Larger formats (16x20, 20x24) are usually made by contact print, although if you have (built) such a camera, you likely also have (built) an enlarger.

Posted by: Arbalest at August 14, 2016 02:18 AM (FlRtG)

616 I guess they don't try to find you for reunions if you weren't part of a graduating class. Things were already going badly wrong then and it hasn't gotten any better.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 02:19 AM (IdCqF)

617 614
Jim - nice!



Yeah, the movements on the thing will be a challenge for me - dicked
around with a 4x5 in my student days, but never was happy with the
results.





Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:17 AM (GQEs


And your discussion with Jim highlights the fact that this was given to you for a reason....

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 02:21 AM (EzgxV)

618 Still enlarger shopping. The surprise camera means I'll either have to drop big bucks, wait for a once in a lifetime deal, or farm out the printing for the deardorff.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:22 AM (GQEs8)

619 Uncle Palp, I agree. Even a contact print at that size would be remarkable.

Shit. Now I'm wondering: If I had such a camera (I never will) what would I record with it? I figure there's several months worth of speculation. :-)

PS: Just a guess, but Jim in Galveston might be a wee bit envious of the Deardorff. LOL

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2016 02:22 AM (V+03K)

620 614 Jim - nice!

Yeah, the movements on the thing will be a challenge for me - dicked around with a 4x5 in my student days, but never was happy with the results.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:17 AM (GQEs



I haz a weirdness. I can be "under the hood", and think and see, completely upside down, and reversed from tfel to thgir.

Fact is, the larger the format, and slower the approach, the more I relate to the process.

What it's worth, queue up some chamber music to go along with the actual photography. It's part of the zen.

I'd wager, once I press the cable release, that what you'd bring forth from the film and print darkrooms, would be beyond magic.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 02:22 AM (v5iqM)

621 Epobirs, didn't graduate either. Earned my GED before my class graduated. High school sucked. That was back in the 70's.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 02:22 AM (nWhru)

622 French Jeton #525: ...Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks are far to intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me to be breaking your rhythm.

Aw, go ahead and break their rhythm. I do it alla time, adding essentially nothing to the conversation. Like, for example, this very comment.

Chi #534: Worst that can happen is you get ignored. You may surprised, though...

I can testify especially to the getting ignored part! Although, it's not necessarily the worst. Make a typo, leave an unclosed tag, or (shudder) be careless about your phrasing, inadvertently saying something suggestive, and you'll feel like you've been thrown to the lions.

Gentle, fluffy, happy lions. But lions.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at August 14, 2016 02:24 AM (yCZVl)

623 Dunno if addressed above, but I think high school Crowe attended as basis for Fast Times was Clairemont High in San Diego - and his mother was the librarian there. Believe Jim/Sunk New Dawn and Grampa Jimbo were both in SD at that time. Friend is a teacher for 20 years now @
Clairemont.


Separately, as I've explained before, if an operation was underway in Benghazi, it was likely done under a "finding" approved by the congressional Intel committees. However idiotic or defensible such an op might have been, it is unlikely to be a question of "legality" under the US system.

The loss of a chief of mission under the given circumstances, and the outrageous histrionic mendacity of the entire US leadership about the nature of the attack, and the still unbelievable perp walking of an irrelevant US citizen and even official broadcasts to Islamic target audiences playing to the worst anti-US bigotries and delusions of the mob, stand as disastrous and despicable malfeasance without parallel in our history.

Any covert op is really an irrelevant side-issue by comparison.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 14, 2016 02:25 AM (IK6jz)

624 Ben Burtt Jr is the 'voice' of R2D2 as the sound designer for Lucas. He also created the light saber hum and Darth Vader's breathing was Burtt himself through a SCUBA regulator. He also did major portions of WALL-E.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 02:25 AM (IdCqF)

625 Jim -

Funny. I've usually got Mahler or some R. Strauss playing when I'm feeling artsy.

Yes, even 35mm slows people down. When you get to the big boys, everything goes glacial. Has to - you can't rush it, and you don't get a second chance.

When I shoot 6x9, still just roll film, I find people getting huffy and impatient. But then they see the results......

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:27 AM (GQEs8)

626 good evening all

Posted by: chemjeff at August 14, 2016 02:29 AM (uAvJJ)

627 Shocks me he used it mostly for portraits. ......

I know he did some landscapes, and some architectural stuff with it. But portraits were his bread and butter.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:30 AM (GQEs8)

628 616
I guess they don't try to find you for reunions if you weren't part of a
graduating class. Things were already going badly wrong then and it
hasn't gotten any better.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 02:19 AM (IdCqF)


I've had a tendency to not attend my graduations. As far as reunions go, I was mostly not unioned in the first place. At either the 10th or 15th HS reunion, they promised a "memory book" for the occasion, which I paid for....never got it.
Everything's tending toward digital now -- which means it's susceptible to ransomware. Would I pay $100 for every memory of my High School years? Day-by-day I'm moving to "probably not."

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 02:30 AM (EzgxV)

629 626
good evening all


Posted by: chemjeff at August 14, 2016 02:29 AM (uAvJJ)

Hiya, CJ!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 02:32 AM (EzgxV)

630 Sometimes I wonder what the average age is here.
I dont want to admit why I wonder that right now...

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 02:35 AM (E/j+Q)

631 Chi, when you average in Vic, old.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 02:36 AM (nWhru)

632 My favorite film vs digital anecdote:

Using a crappy old Kiev 88 (a soviet copy of an obsolete hasselblad) loaded with Portra, I shot a roll of my angel during the golden hour. Free-hand, and with exposure determined by TLAR methodology.

When she showed the prints to her family, they all wanted to know how I photoshopped it so well......

Heh....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:36 AM (GQEs8)

633 Palp....Rhomboid.

A frightening thought. Put us all in the same studio, with drinks, cigars, music, the requisite cameras, along with Palp's nieces and associates for models, of course.

And with that, I'll bid Teh Hrode, a fond Hasta la nite nite!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 02:39 AM (v5iqM)

634 HS sucked: i was the only white kid for 4 *very* long years...

didn't graduate college, and most of my friends were either in the class before mine, or after... haven't been able to make any for mine since the 5 year one.

did make a reunion for a Army unit i was in back in the late 80-s.

the fun part were the ones that ignored me as if i wasn't there, and the one officer who tried to give me shit...

i was good, and simply rang rings around her with wise cracks, rather than ripping her a new asshole.

a good time was had by most of us, and now i'm home drinking martinis, as my reward for being (for me) good.

now, what about Sugar Land Tx?

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 02:40 AM (sUQ21)

635 Jim -

We'd have us a time!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at August 14, 2016 02:40 AM (GQEs8)

636
630
Sometimes I wonder what the average age is here.

I dont want to admit why I wonder that right now...

Posted by: Chi at August 14, 2016 02:35 AM (E/j+Q)

One of my local clubs lost its academic sponsor recently, then lost another member just a few weeks ago. Two members out of 50-75 in the course of a year?

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 02:40 AM (EzgxV)

637 58.

My lawn is no longer open to pedestrian trespass.

Conversely, unlike Vic, my lawn yet still lives and is green, contrasted to his, which is now but petrified grass.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


I'm to the snoozer now, fer sher. zzzzzz

Posted by: Jim at August 14, 2016 02:48 AM (v5iqM)

638 For your camera amusement. Years ago I was using a 4x5 press camera borrowed from an acquaintance. Had it on a tripod at a nearby Civil War battlefield, figuring the statue and cannons weren't going to move and I could take my time focusing and establishing the shots. There were a lot of families touring the grounds. I quickly became part of the tour.

Turns out the little kids were fascinated with the camera, never having seen anything like it. I guess all the metal and glass and knobs looked pretty fancy compared to their parents' credit card size digital stuff. The kids weren't shy and started asking several hundred questions. I finally lowered the tripod almost to ground level and let them see what things looked liked under the cloth. The upside down and reversed image had some of them giggling and others trying to figure it out. I had more fun with those kids than I did exposing film that day. I still smile thinking about it.

I get a similar reaction from youngsters at the range when I'm using a flintlock. I love it when young people show curiosity and really want to learn.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2016 02:48 AM (V+03K)

639 #621

My sister was the opposite of me. Her reaction to hating school was to push really hard to get the credits needed to graduate a year early. But she didn't have my fucked up brain. I'm probably smarter than her in terms of IQ but functionally she is far more capable. They didn't have the term attention deficit disorder yet when I was in grade school but it really applies, even though some now argue it doesn't exist. My mother would probably have been given the label too if she were growing up today. That, combined with the tendency for depression, really messed up my life.

Today was one of the bad days. I mostly slept except for occasional trips to the toilet. I simply couldn't think of any reason to be awake.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 02:50 AM (IdCqF)

640 For your camera amusement. Years ago I was using a 4x5 press camera borrowed from an acquaintance. Had it on a tripod at a nearby Civil War battlefield, figuring the statue and cannons weren't going to move and I could take my time focusing and establishing the shots. There were a lot of families touring the grounds. I quickly became part of the tour.

Turns out the little kids were fascinated with the camera, never having seen anything like it. I guess all the metal and glass and knobs looked pretty fancy compared to their parents' credit card size digital stuff. The kids weren't shy and started asking several hundred questions. I finally lowered the tripod almost to ground level and let them see what things looked liked under the cloth. The upside down and reversed image had some of them giggling and others trying to figure it out. I had more fun with those kids than I did exposing film that day. I still smile thinking about it.

I get a similar reaction from youngsters at the range when I'm using a flintlock. I love it when young people show curiosity and really want to learn.

Posted by: JTB at August 14, 2016 02:48 AM (V+03K)


When it comes to kids, everything can be a teaching moment, no matter how trivial it may seem.

Posted by: The Educational Hat at August 14, 2016 02:51 AM (vBeA5)

641 JTB, great story. You really should post a pic of the flintlock. sounds awesome.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 02:52 AM (nWhru)

642 622
French Jeton #525: ...Rarely post. Come here to read. You folks are
far to intelligent, informed, and entertaining for the likes of me to be
breaking your rhythm.



Aw, go ahead and break their rhythm. I do it alla time, adding
essentially nothing to the conversation. Like, for example, this very
comment.



Chi #534: Worst that can happen is you get ignored. You may surprised, though...



I can testify especially to the getting ignored part! Although, it's
not necessarily the worst. Make a typo, leave an unclosed tag, or
(shudder) be careless about your phrasing, inadvertently saying
something suggestive, and you'll feel like you've been thrown to the
lions.



Gentle, fluffy, happy lions. But lions.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click me and win! at August 14, 2016 02:24 AM (yCZVl)

Our city did a "citywide garage sale" today, and one of the 220+ sales was a place with a totally mellow husky dog that was extremely distracting. He was just so adorably fluffy.

It was a quasi-estate sale (delayed) for a guy who repaired pianos (he passed a while back, but everything was kept the same for his spouse). It looked like he had permanently loaded medium and fine belt-sanders.

Posted by: cthulhu at August 14, 2016 02:55 AM (EzgxV)

643 Epobris, took a nap today bc hangover from 77 yo dad bday. If you want to talk, i will give you my email addy.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 02:58 AM (nWhru)

644 my tin foil hat is firmly in place.

djt is shooting imams

just at will!!!!

it's a start!?

Posted by: ontario lurker at August 14, 2016 03:09 AM (j6qoi)

645 cthulhu #642: ...Our city did a "citywide garage sale" today, and one of the 220+ sales was a place with a totally mellow husky dog that was extremely distracting. He was just so adorably fluffy....

You quote back my whole comment, just to riff off the word "fluffy"?

I'm... honored to just be not ignored.

I feel the tireds creeping up on me. Was thinking I could stay up until the Fateful Number, but probably not.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ignored is better than ignorant at August 14, 2016 03:11 AM (yCZVl)

646 I used to chuckle at chemtrail conspiracies... and then I started working in aviation. The next time I saw "waffle patterns" over my home town, I knew they weren't following any regular commercial or military flight paths. This was blatantly back-and-forth spraying over the city.

I saw the same thing in Bath, England: a tight waffle pattern that covered the city, and nothing at all outside of the city limits.

Does anyone really believe that if our "betters" wanted to spray "helpful" chemicals on us they would check with us first and ask our permission?

There's a wikipedia page on Unethical Science Experiments that is excellent. Feeding radioactive food to handicapped kids, unleashing radioactive material over cities, etc.

Government spraying chemicals on us is not absurd.

Posted by: RKae at August 14, 2016 03:12 AM (CYNno)

647 Bedtime for bonzo.

Posted by: Infidel at August 14, 2016 03:17 AM (nWhru)

648 >>>>>They didn't have the term attention deficit disorder yet when I was in grade school but it really applies, even though some now argue it doesn't exist. My mother would probably have been given the label too if she were growing up today. That, combined with the tendency for depression, really messed up my life.

---------------


I think most are willing to admit it exists. Over diagnosed though.

Posted by: buzzion at August 14, 2016 03:22 AM (ZlqIN)

649 I think I may have dated Betty Dupree for a few months.

Bitch.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 14, 2016 03:24 AM (/wm8n)

650 #MilwaukeeLootCrew on Twitter...

Posted by: @ThePoliticalHat at August 14, 2016 03:24 AM (vBeA5)

651 #MilwaukeeUprising on Twitter...

Posted by: @ThePoliticalHat at August 14, 2016 03:30 AM (vBeA5)

652 hi cthulhu

sorry was reading a story, based on something I heard on the radio

http://www.si.com/vault/2008/12/08/105760296/2-on-5

It's a really fascinating and sad story, you have to excuse the formatting and the non-linear manner in which the story is told

Posted by: chemjeff at August 14, 2016 03:35 AM (uAvJJ)

653 I'm com'n 4 u little bill!

Posted by: sad clown at August 14, 2016 03:46 AM (j6qoi)

654 Good evening/morning, everyone.


Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 14, 2016 03:49 AM (sZ8UC)

655 Good evening/morning, everyone.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 14, 2016 03:49 AM (sZ8UC)


'sup

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 14, 2016 03:51 AM (vBeA5)

656 'sup?

The usual...trying to wind down after working at the karaoke bar.

About class reunions...I missed my 10th and my 20th. The 30th would have been a couple of years ago, but no one ever bothered to put it together. It's too bad, because I was hoping for a trifecta.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 14, 2016 03:53 AM (sZ8UC)

657 yeah I went to my 10th reunion, but none after that.

my 30th is coming up in about 4 years.

Posted by: chemjeff at August 14, 2016 03:54 AM (uAvJJ)

658 TINS: Resident Evil and i were wine tasting around SLO on the Central Coast a few years back, and we pulled into a winery where a station wagon was parked in the lot with a sticker from where i went to college for a few years...

they were the only other people in the room...

i remarked on the sticker, and they gushed about meeting a fellow alum (bear in mind, we pulled up in a MB-SLK, i was still in the Army, and looked it and HRH is a *very* nice looking high end blonde (don't ask me how i managed that)

they were ho-hum 'bubia, with a Audi wagon. (kids, apparently)

all was old home week, until, after they mentioned their class year, i told them that was mine too, and mentioned my name...

all the air went out of the room, and the temp dropped about 20*s...

yeah, i wasn't in the k3wl kliqu3, but i won at life, and they were pissed off something fierce.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:04 AM (sUQ21)

659 Soon we'll be like the Scots, laying outlawed juices on outlawed epipes.

The following will happen:

1. Prices will go up, probably a lot.
2. New taxes will be tacked on.
3. Consolidation, mergers, buyouts etc. will result in only a few big players in the ecig market, the natural result of onerous regulation.
4. A black market will develop, and a new class of 'criminals' to supply it and buy it.
5. Many suppliers will move operations overseas, taking their jobs with them.

We've only seen this movie a hundred, nay a thousand times.

Let's run it again!

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2016 04:06 AM (gyKtp)

660 well I am getting sleepy too.
good night all

Posted by: chemjeff at August 14, 2016 04:06 AM (uAvJJ)

661 Our "immigration ships" would regularly budget 1 square meter per person -- g/wiki/File:Slave_ship_diagram.png .

They didn't offer much more when they went into the Irish emigrant trade after the RN ended blackbirding.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 14, 2016 04:06 AM (brIR5)

662 I went to the 25th HS reunion, mainly cuz two of my friends begged me to. One of them, a cop, threatened to arrest me too if I didn't show lol.

Guess who I spent my time there talking to? We could have had a better time at a bar or the golf course. I told cop friend, next time arrest me. Please.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2016 04:10 AM (gyKtp)

663 i recently had someone contact me through a web site about all the "fun" we had in HS together...

senior year wasn't too bad, as the mob suddenly realized that brains might be useful... i was actually offered bribes to take SAT tests for people...

yeah, like my blonde haired, hazel eyed ass was going to pass for Jorge Gutierrez or whatever.

F you all, for all the shit you gave all those years.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:15 AM (sUQ21)

664 1

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:16 AM (sUQ21)

665 volleyball set, so who's to spike?

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:17 AM (sUQ21)

666 me?

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:17 AM (sUQ21)

667 that's about as lame as being Homecoming King at your 30 year reunion...

but i'll take it.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:18 AM (sUQ21)

668 guess i'll head on over to twitter and heckle looter supporters, since i've apparently killed the thread...

for nao, anyway

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:21 AM (sUQ21)

669 it's down to 1 last vote.

Posted by: and hell is com'n with me at August 14, 2016 04:29 AM (j6qoi)

670 usually it takes a couple of layers!?

wake up .............

Posted by: tin foil at August 14, 2016 04:33 AM (j6qoi)

671 here's a new hashtag for the riots coming our way...

#LetTheGhettoBurn

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 04:38 AM (sUQ21)

672 'Morning, horde.

Nice, meaty ONT, CDR M. Thanks.

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 04:41 AM (0e24x)

673 So....

Ball-bearing 'rons, we need to talk. Now I realize you of the male persuasion are genetically programmed to believe that machines are the sole province of men and that women should never be allowed near them.

But a Salad Shooter? I coulda sliced that cucumber myself, once I got it unstuck. I didn't need Special Forces to take over for me.

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 04:44 AM (0e24x)

674 673 >> But a Salad Shooter? I coulda sliced that cucumber myself, once I got it unstuck.

You broke it, didn't ya.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2016 04:57 AM (gyKtp)

675 You broke it, didn't ya.
---
LOL... same thing i thought.

true story: my 6 element is, generally, a better shot than i am: fewer bad habits from being in the Army, and better training from the start.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 14, 2016 05:02 AM (sUQ21)

676 You broke it, didn't ya.


Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2016 04:57 AM (gyKtp)
Never got the chance. When the first cucumber got stuck the visiting Special Forces soldier (son of good friends) couldn't stand it and commandeered the Salad Shooter.Hmmm...maybe it wasn't the "machine" aspect the enamored him, so much as the name. Either way, he had it firing those cucumber slices like a Tommy gun.

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:06 AM (0e24x)

677 Just teasin' you, creeper.

Sounds like he commandodeered it.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 14, 2016 05:11 AM (gyKtp)

678 OK, let's suppose that airtight proof comes up that Hillary was
directly involved and had direct knowledge and/or directed said arms
transactions. Does anything think that the Republicans have the balls
to do anything about it that is meaningful?



As I recall ojn TV during the hearings one of the Republicans held up a letter/document that was sent o Scankles telling her about it. They had proof then and did nothing. They never intend to do anything. Onbe Republican wanted to charge her with criminal contempt and lying to congress and was blocked by the House leadership.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:13 AM (mpXpK)

679 'Morning, Vic.

Hillary could eat a baby on the White House lawn and no one would raise an eyebrow.

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:25 AM (0e24x)

680 679
'Morning, Vic.

Hillary could eat a baby on the White House lawn and no one would raise an eyebrow.


Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:25 AM (0e24x)

A couple would but they would be blocked by the corrupt leadership.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:28 AM (mpXpK)

681 Why link to a video that requires you to register to prove your "age" to watch it when the thing was only rated R to begin with?

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:30 AM (mpXpK)

682 BTW you can find that same video at a ton of different sites that do not require anything. But if you are using Bing you will have to enable "adult" search.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:36 AM (mpXpK)

683 Facts:
1. Iman and friend shot
2. Hispanics reject Trump
3. 'Tall Hispanic' shoots Iman
4. Trump is to blame

I could drink a pot of coffee and still not get that to compute.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 14, 2016 05:40 AM (ZnIt3)

684 I'm seventy years old. There's not much I haven't seen. So when I come across a site that wants me to jump through a bunch of hoops to see their content I just quietly close it out.

The same goes for sites that only allow FB comments.

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:41 AM (0e24x)

685 To make matters worse the above imbed wants you to register with Google.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:44 AM (mpXpK)

686 That was fun. Shortly after my last post I had an attack of vertigo and nausea. I barely made it onto the bed, which is the only place in my room where I could lay flat. It would be preferable to grab a pillow and go lay on the floor downstairs as you become acutely aware of any elevation in this state.

Still on the bed but I was able to get to the toilet and back. I'm typing this on a tablet, which is painfully slow compared to the desktop keyboard.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 05:44 AM (IdCqF)

687 After the DCCC hack, the usernames and passwords of democrat commenters at 'The Blaze' were revealed. I wonder if anyone has gone back through the comments to find out what they said?

Probably calls to violence and insurrection. Usual moby shit.

Posted by: free range 'sorta' conservative but not 'true' conservative at August 14, 2016 05:45 AM (ZnIt3)

688 Good morning horde
Just got up, lots of comments, have to see what was going on

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2016 05:47 AM (bksJQ)

689 688
Good morning horde

Just got up, lots of comments, have to see what was going on

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2016 05:47 AM (bksJQ)

Don't forget Krak will have an EMT at 6:00

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:48 AM (mpXpK)

690 I'm not sure about this one, it mostly just makes me sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Be2Xq_-YwQ

Posted by: somejoe at August 14, 2016 05:52 AM (nbm9s)

691 Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 05:44 AM (IdCqF)

Could you possibly be dehydrated? I have those spells, too, and it's always when I haven't been drinking enough water.

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:52 AM (0e24x)

692 Vic, will your news be on the EMT or here?

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:53 AM (0e24x)

693 691 Could you possibly be dehydrated? I have those spells, too, and it's always when I haven't been drinking enough water.


Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:52 AM (0e24x)

I get dizzy spells if I get up out of a chair too quick. It is from one of the drugs I take and there is an actual warning with the paperwork that came with it.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

694 692
Vic, will your news be on the EMT or here?


Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:53 AM (0e24x)

On weekends I put it on the EMT, otherwise it would get willowed. Besides, I like it at the top.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 14, 2016 05:55 AM (mpXpK)

695 American thinker has artical the Democrats log in was
change me.

Its so painfully obvious leftists have no clue about security, not putting classified to top security info on a open email system is not a problem for them

Posted by: Skip at August 14, 2016 05:56 AM (bksJQ)

696 Posted by: somejoe at August 14, 2016 05:52 AM (nbm9s)

Didn't get "sad" out of that. Got scared spitless with her standing on the end of that plank over the abyss.

Posted by: creeper at August 14, 2016 05:57 AM (0e24x)

697 Where does hellary where her bow? Same place as ubama?

Posted by: Eromero at August 14, 2016 06:01 AM (zLDYs)

698 #691

On one hand, I went nearly 24 hours with no more than a few sips of water from the bathroom sink, as part of the sleep all day and hope to die mood I was in. But around the time I first posted I h ad got up to take my blood pressure meds an drank a whole 16.7 ounce bottle of water with them.

I had several attacks like this a few years ago, at the same they troubled my mother but I thought that was the end of it. Meneire's Syndrome can come and go without explanation. It's possible I have a potassium deficiency, which is believed to have role in many such problems as it is a factor in how the balance mechanism of the inner ear works.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 06:03 AM (IdCqF)

699 #693

This is far worse. It's like your chair has become a wildly spinning carnival ride and you can't make it stop. The only thing that helps is lying down low as you can get and waiting it out.

Posted by: Epobirs at August 14, 2016 06:08 AM (IdCqF)

700 Something is up with chemtrails. I'm thinking they are to hide high-altitude or near-Earth-orbit stuff. The only example I have personally seen the pilot made a checkerboard pattern over a large manufacturing facility (1500+ workers). Scrums formed to watch. Took the plane over ten minutes.

Might be something for missile defense. Possibly similar to chaff. Or a target for microwaves. Which could be for attempted weather control. The cabal could be trying to offset global cooling.

Posted by: conspiracy nut at August 14, 2016 08:36 AM (CRXed)

701 "All of this simply because a judge ruled that e-cigs were tobacco."

SCOTUS ruled Government Agencies can stop you from growing wheat to feed your farm animals. Wooden stake through the heart of the US Constitution. Has only gotten worse since then. 50%+ of voters just want to be sure they get their part of the loot.

Problem (@!&!!!) have is that they have ran out of other people's wealth (loot). Stealing future loot doesn't work because future loot shrinks rapidly as more and more catch on.

Posted by: conspiracy nut at August 14, 2016 08:48 AM (CRXed)

702 I am an NCO and work at US Africa command in the J2 and receive 10 -15 classified emails a day. What I don't understand is how the Secretary of State can have only one device for work and not have any classified information sent or received. Seriously, how was she doing her job without being at a classified level. It is no wonder we are 2-3 steps behind the rest of the world if we are not operating at a classified level.

Posted by: Noneya at August 14, 2016 10:19 AM (ADdRj)

703 I wonder if there's a connection between the number of GOP bureaucrats publicly signing on with Hillary and those 9,000 stolen FBI files early in the first Clinton Regime.

Posted by: vivi at August 14, 2016 11:06 AM (11H2y)

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