Saturday Morning Weird News Dump

~~Good~~ Morning Morons.

Wow, it's Saturday again. Time to see what has happened in our world that didn't get too much attention here at the AoSHQ this past week.

Put the scissors down. Leave the inkwells alone. Don't even think about grabbing that straw. Here we go with some weird news or something else that tickles your fancy in this open thread.

Play nice with one another and have a great weekend!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:30 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:19 AM (WkMnJ)

2 Meme of the little kid and the fist pump.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:20 AM (WkMnJ)

3 NOT first

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 22, 2017 08:20 AM (pDZCs)

4 Ahhh, nice.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 08:22 AM (MINbv)

5 Let me serve this one up.

Heading out this morning to get wood.

BBL

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 22, 2017 08:23 AM (J+eG2)

6 7?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 08:24 AM (/qEW2)

7 7

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 08:24 AM (/qEW2)

8 I thoroughly enjoyed the service at the coffee shops in Seattle and out on the peninsula where bikini or lingerie clad hotties serve the jo. It would be a damn shame to see Everett pass such a stupid ordinance.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 22, 2017 08:25 AM (pDZCs)

9 >>>Now we know where all you CO Morons have been.

AAAAARRRRGHHH!

Posted by: John Blutarsky at July 22, 2017 08:26 AM (/qEW2)

10 I had this great idea: topless barber shop. What do you think?

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:26 AM (WkMnJ)

11 Let me serve this one up. "

Nah. Too easy. But hey, a noble effort.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 08:27 AM (MINbv)

12 I can't get on Weasel Zippers...Either it's down of this Government Computer is blocking it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 08:28 AM (m8J9w)

13 VIA you seem to have mistaken us for someone interested in your wood.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:28 AM (WkMnJ)

14 >>>>I had this great idea: topless barber shop. What do you think?
.
.
.Already been done at least in Korea when I would get Liberty there.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 22, 2017 08:28 AM (0pcwX)

15 I had this great idea: topless barber shop. What do you think?

Topless girls with straight razors. Hmmmmmm....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 22, 2017 08:28 AM (pDZCs)

16 An unnamed man from Guilin, China, has melted the hearts of millions after it was reported that he has been dressing as a woman ever since his sister passed away, 20 years ago, in order to console his grieving mother.

Keep an eye on Norman when he starts dressing up like his mother

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 22, 2017 08:29 AM (auHtY)

17 I had this great idea: topless barber shop"

Ah, no. And I guess you haven't met my barber...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 08:29 AM (MINbv)

18 I was just there nevergiveup.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 22, 2017 08:30 AM (CNHr1)

19 10 I had this great idea: topless barber shop. What do you think?

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:26 AM (WkMnJ)

Its bad enough when the barber's gut brushes against me. Why would I want him shirtless.

Posted by: buzzion at July 22, 2017 08:31 AM (cAnNx)

20 I was just there nevergiveup.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 22, 2017 08:30 AM (CNHr1)
LOL so it's The GOV at work

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 08:32 AM (m8J9w)

21 Ah got on Weasel Zippers thru a back door...there must have been a specific script on on page that this GOV Computer was blocking.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 08:35 AM (m8J9w)

22 No word if Chef Dildo approves.

Isn't charcoal a carcinogen? When I doze off and my chicken ends up looking like that, I know that it's going to be inedible.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 08:37 AM (/qEW2)

23 The last link is about activated charcoal cooking. Supposed to taste great, but it looks like raccoon crap on a plate. I think I'll pass

Posted by: Bruce at July 22, 2017 08:38 AM (8ikIW)

24 "waiting to see if my coffee uses its powers for evil or good"

Cuz' I'm burnt out on the datura and peyote.

Carlos Castenada

Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2017 08:39 AM (x9c8r)

25 I used to buy the instant 3-in-one coffee with ginseng in it from the Asian market. Ginseng tends to make everything it is added to taste sort of like dirt, but it does give a boost.

I had to stop drinking it because it made me want to fight people at work.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 08:39 AM (mkDpn)

26 I saw Chef Dildo open for The Waitresses back in 1981.

Tasty show!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 08:39 AM (5VlCp)

27 Charcoal fish? But why?

If you werent eating batter-fried fish in the first place, maybe you wouldnt need to have so many "toxins" removed from your body.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2017 08:39 AM (JvZF+)

28 25

The people at work made me want to fight the people at work.

Posted by: Bruce at July 22, 2017 08:41 AM (8ikIW)

29 27

If you eat batter fried fish and drink beer at the same time, the beer flushes out the toxins

Posted by: Bruce at July 22, 2017 08:43 AM (8ikIW)

30 I had this great idea: topless barber shop. What do you think?
Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:26 AM (WkMnJ)

There was a lady who opened up a barber shop in town, she would wear spandex and a tight scoop neck, serve you beer and cut your hair.

She did a terrible job of cutting hair, and according to my barber, one of her victims came in and asked for a decent cut, and the barber told him to come back in a week when he could do something about it.

(My barber is a bit of a bastard, you might be able to tell)

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 08:43 AM (mkDpn)

31 Heading out this morning to get wood.

BBL

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I got some. I should warn you, it's a bit green.

Posted by: Kermit the Frog at July 22, 2017 08:46 AM (/qEW2)

32 I had this great idea: topless barber shop. What do you think?

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:26 AM (WkMnJ)

It was done here about 15 years ago, I think the novelty kind of wore off and it closed after a few months. (upstate NY)

Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2017 08:46 AM (7/EbC)

33 If you eat batter fried anything and drink beer at the same time"

There, FIFY.

BTW, recently hit up Hickory Hollow for their legendary Chicken Fried Steak (search for it in Houston. The Food Network had a show on it some time ago).

I sadly admit to not being able to handle the "large rancher"

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 08:47 AM (MINbv)

34 Actually, male frogs, like male birds, have no penis, only a cloaca. Please don't tell Miss Piggy, though. I don't want her suicide on my conscience.

Posted by: Kermit the Frog at July 22, 2017 08:48 AM (/qEW2)

35 The people at work made me want to fight the people at work.

Some folks need a 2 X 4 across the forehead. Or a kick in the keister. Or a punch in the nose. Any way they want it that's the way I'll do it. Oooh all night, all night . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2017 08:49 AM (JO9+V)

36 I sadly admit to not being able to handle the "large rancher"

Wow. That would be a lota food!

Posted by: Bruce at July 22, 2017 08:49 AM (8ikIW)

37 Ugh, those fish and chips look like burnt turds.

Posted by: no good deed at July 22, 2017 08:50 AM (hsb2w)

38 Have a early 20's hot nursing student in my shower. This is the 6th time in a a few weeks. Dare I say it's a thing? I think it's a thing. Sex and Netflix. Simple. Simple is amazing.

Glad for this place where I got my GAINZZZ on and get to act out being a Moron so I don't act like that in real life.

Y'all have a blessed Saturday.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 22, 2017 08:50 AM (2qHjF)

39 Wow. That would be a lota food!"

Indeed. The youngest mouse went for it and did yeoman's work on that and the deep fried mashed potato w/jalapenos...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 08:52 AM (MINbv)

40 Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 22, 2017 08:50 AM (2qHjF)

Only thing in my shower is mildew.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 08:52 AM (0mRoj)

41 Only thing in my shower is mildew."

Got that. And a loofah.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 08:54 AM (MINbv)

42 A father in England said his daughter was left in tears after being fined for setting up a lemonade stand.

If they don't have the money to pay, she can work it off by doing "favours" for our burgeoning population of "asian men".

Posted by: Tower Hamlets council at July 22, 2017 08:54 AM (/qEW2)

43 More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 08:39 AM
~~~~~

Tea drinker here. But I drink it like a coffee addict and like it very strong.

Best tea in America (imho) if you like it strong is Red Rose. Looks like black coffee by the time I'm ready to drink it, and it never gets bitter, unlike Lipton, which is just as ubiquitous as CNN in airports, cafes, hotels, etc.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 08:54 AM (HiDrR)

44 That looks like a burnt penis. Pass.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 22, 2017 08:55 AM (CNHr1)

45 @38 not so loud everyone will want one.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:55 AM (WkMnJ)

46 Well, gotta get to the Saturday list. Chance of rain today, so think I'll wash the truck (thus ensuring rain)

Later dudes and dudettes...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 22, 2017 08:55 AM (MINbv)

47 One more hour to wait on this plane.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:56 AM (WkMnJ)

48 Ugh, those fish and chips look like burnt turds.

Posted by: no good deed

What happened to Turd Ferguson? I hope he didn't get banned. Sometimes you just tire of a blog and fade away.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 08:57 AM (/qEW2)

49 Irish Ei, Red Rose is OK, but I have found PG Tips to be a wonderful tea, if you can find it and it is at least moderately fresh.

It has been a long time since I drank a lot of tea, so I forget the brands I used to drink.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 08:57 AM (mkDpn)

50 "Easy as 1-2-3."
-- Jackson 5

The Fibonacci series really is everywhere.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 08:59 AM (zkGZ8)

51 47 One more hour to wait on this plane.
Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 08:56 AM (WkMnJ)

Flying sucks. I do it way too much.

Please accept my condolences.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 22, 2017 08:59 AM (fiGNd)

52 Red Rose Tea! Red Rose Tea!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prVRwXAWFeA

This has been reducing my dad to gasps and tears for over 50 years now.
We still buy the product based on this ad.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 22, 2017 09:01 AM (H5rtT)

53 Have a early 20's hot nursing student in my shower.

You're commenting from your shower?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 09:03 AM (v0wHy)

54 Thankfully, I don't have to fly much.

May as well slap a greyhound symbol on the plane

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 22, 2017 09:04 AM (89T5c)

55 You're commenting from your shower?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 09:03 AM (v0wHy)

Nah, he's locked out of the bathroom.

Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2017 09:05 AM (x9c8r)

56 Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 08:57 AM (mkDpn)
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I do like some British teas as well as Barry's (Irish.) However, they are pretty pricey and I drink a LOT of tea. e.g. P.G. Tips is over $16.00/160 bags, and I can usually get Red Rose for $2.99/100.

Brought some Barry's home from Ireland last time I was there, but sadly, it just wasn't the same. Had to be the water.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:08 AM (HiDrR)

57 Sounds like the apt super should get her shower fixed so your neighbor doesn't have to keep borrowing yours.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2017 09:08 AM (JO9+V)

58 Actually, male frogs, like male birds, have no penis, only a cloaca. Please don't tell Miss Piggy, though. I don't want her suicide on my conscience.
Posted by: Kermit the Frog at July 22, 2017 08:48 AM (/qEW2)

So what your telling me is Choo Choo Biden is a frog?

I learn something new every day.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 09:08 AM (5VlCp)

59 Those early 20's nursing students really were The Hawt.
With the short curlered hair, and the flapper fringe dresses, and all.
A lot of them smoked, and would sip whiskey in the rumble seat IYKWIM.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 22, 2017 09:09 AM (H5rtT)

60 This has been reducing my dad to gasps and tears for over 50 years now.
We still buy the product based on this ad.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 22, 2017 09:01 AM
~~~~~

That clip is hysterical! I'm not sure I remember it which is surprising since I'm almost 29. The musical chimps thing is very familiar though.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:10 AM (HiDrR)

61 My my, hey hey
This here blog is here to stay
It's better to be chicken fried
Than to fade away
My my, hey hey.

Posted by: PreZombie Neil Young Ties This Thread Together at July 22, 2017 09:10 AM (9q7Dl)

62 Oh boy. She is making coffee and cooking breakfast. She plans on staying till tomorrow. She just asked what I was doing on the computer and said that I hope you do not watch porn like my past boyfriends.

Boyfriend.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 22, 2017 09:11 AM (2qHjF)

63 >>>Talk about a Mamma's boy.

They are so low-T. How did they ever manage to break a billion?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 09:13 AM (/qEW2)

64 The college I went to had a BSN program. Once a week the students had practicum in the hospital, so they wore their nurses' uniforms. With the white stockings and cute little cap. The sexual tension on campus that day spiked in a big way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 22, 2017 09:13 AM (JvZF+)

65 "It's better to be chicken fried
Than to fade away
My my, hey hey. "

~~~~~

Reminds me of a eulogy someone gave for a bird funeral a couple of years ago (don't ask!)

"Better to be a bird that flied than an egg that fried."

Had us all in stitches, but bird-Mom was not amused.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:14 AM (HiDrR)

66 Husband putting together storage chest for new outdoor couch cushions. One hour in, he has been in 10 times to reread directions, but so for he has not uttered his frustration curse, sh*t, GD it. He always uses the same tone of voice when saying it, the grown kids and entire neighborhood love to imitate him.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 22, 2017 09:14 AM (SoJdk)

67 Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 22, 2017 09:11 AM (2qHjF)

Does your wife know about this?

Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2017 09:14 AM (x9c8r)

68 Congrats Pepe!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:14 AM (6FqZa)

69 "British Food Supplies" online has a wide selection of "British" teas, meaning tea as drunk in Britain. You can get good prices on the sales and the volume discounts. Teas custom-blended to meet different local water conditions.

Tea used to be from Ceylon. Remember Ceylon? Now its Kenya mostly.
World's biggest tea vendor is Ahmed. Just what you think it is. The Ahmeds act pretty darn English, though.

My favourite is Lifeboat Tea. A portion of the proceeds goes to support the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. "Drown ye may, buy go ye must."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 22, 2017 09:15 AM (H5rtT)

70 Oh boy. She is making coffee and cooking breakfast.
She plans on staying till tomorrow. She just asked what I was doing on
the computer and said that I hope you do not watch porn like my past
boyfriends.

Boyfriend.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 22, 2017 09:11 AM (2qHjF)

Tomorrow? Better eat your Wheaties, son.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 22, 2017 09:16 AM (JO9+V)

71 what's that Le'Smell ? another highjacked thread. ooffddaahhh

Posted by: chango butt at July 22, 2017 09:18 AM (ZrrAS)

72 Pepe and nursey sittin' in a tree
K-i-s-s-i-n-g.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:18 AM (HiDrR)

73 Sounds like Pepe is off to a good weekend and I'm stilling waiting to find out L'Elles secret but gotta get going, get shit done. Have a good one everybody. I will try to stop in on the pet thread.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at July 22, 2017 09:19 AM (CNHr1)

74 This is still the complaining thread right?

I'm soooo done with summer. I'm tired of the heat, humidity, insects and weeds.

Posted by: Tami, Public Ineffectual at July 22, 2017 09:19 AM (Enq6K)

75 Alors, le film Val‚rian et Laureline a 55% maintenant. Il semble ˆtre une merde.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:19 AM (6FqZa)

76 Babysitting Dan at the show.

The Houston Area Hound Association is currently having a raffle for its scholarship fund. There's about 75 nice items available to bid on.

One item will attract a huge number of bids. There will almost be fights over it:

A pair of scissors.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 09:19 AM (v0wHy)

77 ‚, ˆ

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:20 AM (6FqZa)

78 Sigh. �EA;

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:21 AM (6FqZa)

79 >>>Always read the fine print.

Ok, it was a hoax. But England are so far gone that I was certain it was serious before I read it, like Obama and his "mandatory volunteerism".
Someday, it really will come to "pitchforks and lamposts".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 09:21 AM (/qEW2)

80 I'm confused (not really)

Excavation and restoration works on a tiny Greek islet west of
Antiparos, itself a well-known speck of land in the central Aegean, has
unearthed the foundations of a temple that archaeologists believe was
dedicated to the worship of mythical Apollo during antiquity.

Why is this little island still above water after centuries. 2015 excavations at the Archaic (6th C BC) sanctuary site....With rising sea levels because of Al Gores GW, this makes no sense that this island isn't under water by now....

Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2017 09:22 AM (7/EbC)

81 ê

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:23 AM (6FqZa)

82 Irish Ei, I tend to buy teas at the Asian markets too, a lot of loose leaf stuff

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 09:23 AM (mkDpn)

83 For Christ's sake don't drag the ONT drama into today.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 09:23 AM (6hLK2)

84 One good thing about this heatwave is that you don't see hipsters dbags wearing scarves as fashion accessories.

Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:25 AM (ANIFC)

85 My favourite is Lifeboat Tea. A portion of the proceeds goes to support the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. "Drown ye may, buy go ye must."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 22, 2017 09:15 AM
~~~~~
Just checked out the website, Mark T. Wendell Tea Cou., and it sounds pretty gooud. Maybe will try a boux and keep it four special ouccasions. I drink way toou much tou make it my regular.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:25 AM (HiDrR)

86 Test trés.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 09:26 AM (/qEW2)

87 Here is a note. On Spirit they have 28 inch pitch seats and no reclining.

When they ask for volunteers fir exit row, take it. They still don't recline but a couple more inches of leg room.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:26 AM (WkMnJ)

88 84 Irish Ei, I tend to buy teas at the Asian markets too, a lot of loose leaf stuff
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 09:23 AM (mkDpn)

I get tea from Harney & Son or Stash. Lots of varieties of loose teas

Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:26 AM (ANIFC)

89 someone is on a coke binge.

Posted by: chango butt at July 22, 2017 09:27 AM (ZrrAS)

90 If aliens surruptitiously took over, how would it look different from the Left and the Swamp?

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/270741/

Sarah Hoyt is all out of bubblegum.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 22, 2017 09:27 AM (rnAwa)

91 Sorry if I contributed to that, Insomniac.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (6FqZa)

92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xGY4f8BISQ

Doris Day with nips.

Imma giver.

Posted by: Infidel at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (gDoff)

93 My question about Soylent Green: why did Heston dress like Charles Nelson Reilly?

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (WkMnJ)

94 BTH, I je ne parle pas Francais, but 55% is better than most. TinTin was at about 60% and that was mostly due to the use of a bazoooka in a car chase.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (mkDpn)

95 Irish Ei, I tend to buy teas at the Asian markets too, a lot of loose leaf stuff
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 09:23 AM (mkDpn)
~~~~~

I should look into that. Nearest Asian market is about 40 mins. away, but there are other things I have been wanting to go there for as well, so six birds, one stone.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (HiDrR)

96 Some of you salty dogs have owned a plank before, so, do the preview, will you? CiC is commissioning some little boat today. Big day for Michigan football...

Does that stage involve the "man the ship" command, where everybody runs like hell and stands to the rail all the way around? Because that is fun to watch.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 22, 2017 09:29 AM (H5rtT)

97 should look into that. Nearest Asian market is
about 40 mins. away, but there are other things I have been wanting to
go there for as well, so six birds, one stone.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (HiDrR)

Live chickens?

Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2017 09:30 AM (7/EbC)

98 Last time I had a date with a nurse in uniform she was a real professional, even had a credit card app on her phone with a 2% discount...memories, what else do you really have?

Posted by: Tentotwo at July 22, 2017 09:30 AM (yhf6w)

99 Tea used to be from Ceylon. Remember Ceylon?

Yes. Those robot things from Battlestar Galactica. They were monotheists because the show's creator was a polytheist Mormon.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 09:31 AM (/qEW2)

100 That's okay. Apparently I can't speak unicode-decimal.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:31 AM (6FqZa)

101 Thanks Horde. Just finished breakfast, it's been 9 months since I had breakfast. She is now outside waiting on me to catch some sun..... She cleaned off both lawn chairs. it's kinda cute and endearing. She is an introvert for sure.

I have no idea what her endgame could be.

There is merit to sorting yourself out and cleaning your room as Dr. Peterson teaches.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 22, 2017 09:33 AM (2qHjF)

102 One good thing about this heatwave is that you don't see hipsters dbags wearing scarves as fashion accessories.
Posted by: josephistan at July 22, 2017 09:25 AM (ANIFC)

what, no shemaghs?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 09:33 AM (mkDpn)

103 Ceylon. Remember Ceylon?

Yeah, but I don't remember how it became Kenya.

Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2017 09:33 AM (x9c8r)

104 My first encounter with a bikini/lingere coffee hut was right next to a gun range, and all I could think of once I got past my shock was how the young lady would deal with hot brass dressed like that. Or hot coffee, for that matter.

And why are there never any studly male baristas serving coffee, hmm? *goes off to sulk* I am not a prude, but I would like some kind of warning the place is a clothing-optional beverage stand before Miss July and her mammary glands ask what they can get started for you.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at July 22, 2017 09:33 AM (hnzFp)

105 93,
"If aliens surruptitiously took over, how would it look different from the Left and the Swamp?
"

The aliens among us.

http://tinyurl.com/y9ye6roe

I am struck by how much Mayor Hodges looks/acts like Hillary (just younger) when she is speaking.

Posted by: geoffb5 at July 22, 2017 09:34 AM (d3wbb)

106 Live chickens?
Posted by: Colin at July 22, 2017 09:30 AM
~~~~~

Nah. Just the feet. If you hold one in your hand and use your thumb to pull back the skin on top, you can animate the little claws and make them go up and down, all scary like, and chase your little sister around with it. Don't ask me how i know. Traumatic childhood.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:34 AM (HiDrR)

107 Miss July and her mammary glands ask what they can get started for you.

Um... hold the milk ?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:34 AM (6FqZa)

108 I should look into that. Nearest Asian market is
about 40 mins. away, but there are other things I have been wanting to
go there for as well, so six birds, one stone.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (HiDrR)

Stay away from the duck eggs with the red stamps on them.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 09:35 AM (mkDpn)

109 As to and why are there never any studly male baristas serving coffee, hmm?

This is why South Beach was invented . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:35 AM (6FqZa)

110 Mornin' Horde. Drama I wasn't a part of, dare I research it?

Nah. I'm in too good a mood right now. And I'm trying to behave.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, not a damn failure at July 22, 2017 09:36 AM (66CWr)

111 Turning off the computer now and going to get a tan exploring this potential unicorn taking a near naked sun bath in my front yard.

Have a peaceful and blessed weekend.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 22, 2017 09:36 AM (2qHjF)

112 81 And if any of you resort to making those same cheap shots
like Chi did last night about him again, you will get an earful.

Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2017 09:21 AM (Rsi2C)

I mean this in the nicest possible way - nobody cares. You shouldn't either. Focus on something that makes you happy for a few hours.

Posted by: Mx4 at July 22, 2017 09:36 AM (A+OVN)

113 We have a large H-Mart Asian supermarket nearby. There is a large sign on the store that they are not responsible for accidents in the parking lot.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:36 AM (WkMnJ)

114

Took a nap on the helipad... summer nights...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at July 22, 2017 09:37 AM (qul7b)

115 Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2017 09:29 AM (Rsi2C)

Drop this entire subject right now, forever.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 09:37 AM (wYseH)

116 Well, it seems that Pepe is off to a good start this weekend.

Hope the rest of you do the same. The depression clouds seem to be lifting for me. They always do. I just hate having to ride out the storm.

And now that I've mangled some weather metaphors, it's time to go to play rehearsal.

Be good to each other, OK?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at July 22, 2017 09:38 AM (rJUlF)

117 L tedid you ever tell us what happened with the massage?

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:39 AM (WkMnJ)

118 Husband putting together storage chest for new outdoor couch cushions.
Posted by: LMD Outer Banker
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Where on OBX?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 22, 2017 09:41 AM (OdK9v)

119 Where are the aliens? Possible answer: the Old Ones solved all the problems they needed to, way back when, got bored, and are now in hibernation: tinyurl.com/lhh9lqg

Until something attracts their attention and they rise from their eldritch tombs . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 22, 2017 09:41 AM (6FqZa)

120 Until something attracts their attention and they rise from their eldritch tombs . . .

O PLEASE O PLEASE O PLEASE...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at July 22, 2017 09:42 AM (qul7b)

121 >>>If aliens surruptitiously took over, how would it look different from the Left and the Swamp?

Well if they did take over, no doubt they'd enlist the help of opportunistic, nutless, turncoat humans. Oh wait, what kind of aliens are we talking about here?

Posted by: ¡Jeb! at July 22, 2017 09:44 AM (/qEW2)

122 She just asked what I was doing on the computer and said that I hope you do not watch porn like my past boyfriends.

"Do I tell dare tell her about AoSHQ or do I say I was only watching a little pr0n?"

Posted by: Saturday dilemmas at July 22, 2017 09:46 AM (h6Z8X)

123 Doris Day at 52. I always liked her.

Kept a good figure.

Posted by: JAS at July 22, 2017 09:47 AM (UnDQI)

124 There is a large sign on the store that they are not responsible for accidents in the parking lot.
Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:36 AM
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LOL Not known for good driving skills, that's for sure. Was sitting on a bench one lunch hour outside a courthouse in a small city in NJ. Some guy comes driving down the wrong way on a fairly wide one-way street. Sheriff's officer jumps in front of him and tells him to turn around. So he decides the prudent thing to do is use the sidewalk and goes up the curb, around a fire hydrant, a mere two feet from our bench, to make his u-turn. Officer just shakes his head and walks away.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:47 AM (HiDrR)

125 122 You seem to care enough to reply to me.
Or did not you think this through enough before you replied to me?/
Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2017 09:41 AM (Rsi2C)

I care enough about YOU to try to help you calm down and have a good day. I'm suggesting that nobody cares if someone they don't know on the internet says something bad about the boyfriend, who they don't know, of someone they also don't know.

I'm not trying to fight you one little bit. I really do hope you'll reset, move on, and have a great day.

Posted by: Mx4 at July 22, 2017 09:50 AM (A+OVN)

126

And tell the milkman, No More Cheese!

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at July 22, 2017 09:50 AM (qul7b)

127 Stay away from the duck eggs with the red stamps on them.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 22, 2017 09:35 AM
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Those the ones with the little baby ducks in them? *Makes combo yikes/yuck face*

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:52 AM (HiDrR)

128 South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging South Carolinians to vote against him when they disagree with his support for a national amnesty plus a greater inflow of foreign workers to take Americans jobs.

Probably the first thing he ever said I agree with

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 09:52 AM (m8J9w)

129 Phew it's hot.

Puppy only got a one block walk.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 09:52 AM (hMwEB)

130 Outer Banks- Kill Devil Hills

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 22, 2017 09:52 AM (SoJdk)

131 cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: chango butt at July 22, 2017 09:53 AM (ZrrAS)

132 Le(lle) sigh.

Posted by: Lurkers Everywhere at July 22, 2017 09:54 AM (SeIF3)

133 Puppy only got a one block walk.
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 09:52 AM (hMwEB)
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How is the puppy doing, votermom? And how old is he now?

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:55 AM (HiDrR)

134 @134 seems like he doesn't know the voters in SC. They will.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:56 AM (WkMnJ)

135 >>>And why are there never any studly male baristas serving coffee, hmm?

It's a shameful state of affairs! I'm thinking about filing a complaint with the EEOC.

Posted by: Shep Smith at July 22, 2017 09:57 AM (/qEW2)

136 Outer Banks- Kill Devil Hills
Posted by: LMD Outer Banker
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Hmm. Probably pretty busy this time of the year.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 22, 2017 09:58 AM (OdK9v)

137 Happy Saturday, ya'll.

Nothing like staying up all night to watch The Open to realize you are a nerd.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 09:59 AM (smD62)

138 Phew it's hot.

Puppy only got a one block walk.

Posted by: @votermom

There needs to be a government funded study on the link between global warming and pet obesity. O why, O why was Hillary not elected President?

Posted by: Al Gore at July 22, 2017 09:59 AM (/qEW2)

139 seems like he doesn't know the voters in SC. They will.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:56 AM (WkMnJ)

Well, they haven't so far

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:00 AM (m8J9w)

140 Family boarding plane with double stroller and two dogs in carriers. They have like a truckload of stuff in cabin.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:01 AM (WkMnJ)

141 Tea, my Grandma and our neighbor would have tea together at tea time. She was Irish and our neighbor was English, they got along well, especially since my Grandma HATED the English. She grew up under British occupation in Ireland.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:02 AM (dKiJG)

142 Mike Hammer - yes it is crowded, but I live in a neighborhood back on the sound, away from the noise and traffic. Also, if you have not been here for a while, beach replenishment is almost completed in Kitty Hawk, what a difference on the beach.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 22, 2017 10:02 AM (SoJdk)

143 @146 NGU he hasn't made it this plain before.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:02 AM (WkMnJ)

144 Family boarding plane with double stroller and two dogs in carriers. They have like a truckload of stuff in cabin.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:01 AM (WkMnJ)

Hasidim?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:02 AM (m8J9w)

145 @151 no.

Crew just pulled them aside. No way all that is going in the plane.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:04 AM (WkMnJ)

146 NGU he hasn't made it this plain before.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:02 AM (WkMnJ)

I hope but didn't he just get re-elected?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:05 AM (m8J9w)

147 How is the puppy doing, votermom? And how old is he now?
Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 09:55 AM (HiDrR)

He'll be 6 months in a couple of weeks and is 38 pounds.

He's a sweetie! Playful and cuddly.

The adult teeth are mostly in and I love how they are not razors like the puppy teeth. He is still mouthy but gentle, definitely improving.

I need to give him cut and a bath though - so shaggy again.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:06 AM (hMwEB)

148 For Christ's sake don't drag the ONT drama into today.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 09:23 AM (6hLK2)

There's only one person doing that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:06 AM (XUcIQ)

149 seems like he doesn't know the voters in SC. They will.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:56 AM (WkMnJ)

Well, they haven't so far
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:00 AM (m8J9w)

I did last time but there were too many challengers in the primary.

Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2017 10:06 AM (x9c8r)

150 Grandma HATED the English. She grew up under British occupation in Ireland.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:02 AM
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Mine too. Once dated a guy named Don Murphy. Nanny was thrilled that he was Irish. Never let her know that his family was from the North, and was very Protestant--she would've killed me, or him.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 10:06 AM (HiDrR)

151 Wegmans has some cool loose teas.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:08 AM (hMwEB)

152 NGU he was elected in 2014. Going into 2020 with don't vote for me if you don't love illegal aliens as a message seems like electoral suicide.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:08 AM (WkMnJ)

153 How many of y'all have done this? You're on a plane for a long flight. You have your aisle seat and no one is beside you. Then you see a woman coming down the aisle with an infant. You're thinking no no no please God no! Not beside me or anywhere close. No no no FUCK!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 22, 2017 10:09 AM (O5U4s)

154 My question about Soylent Green: why did Heston dress like Charles Nelson Reilly?
Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (WkMnJ)

It was a Swedish Pron thing with the kerchief around the neck and such.

70's style.......early 70's.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 10:10 AM (5VlCp)

155 128 She just asked what I was doing on the computer and said that I hope you do not watch porn like my past boyfriends.

"Do I tell dare tell her about AoSHQ or do I say I was only watching a little pr0n?"

There's always the danger she'll turn out to be an 'Ette.

Posted by: Fox2! at July 22, 2017 10:11 AM (brIR5)

156 How many of y'all have done this? You're on a plane for a long flight. You have your aisle seat and no one is beside you. Then you see a woman coming down the aisle with an infant. You're thinking no no no please God no! Not beside me or anywhere close. No no no FUCK!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 22, 2017 10:09 AM (O5U4s)

Kids don't bother me..enormous smelly people do

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:11 AM (m8J9w)

157 Mike Hammer - yes it is crowded, but I live in a neighborhood back on the sound, away from the noise and traffic. Also, if you have not been here for a while, beach replenishment is almost completed in Kitty Hawk, what a difference on the beach.
Posted by: LMD Outer Banker
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We generally stay down at the south end, Buxton or Hatteras Village. I do prefer soundside. A quiet view of the sound trumps beach access.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 22, 2017 10:11 AM (OdK9v)

158 He'll be 6 months in a couple of weeks and is 38 pounds.
He's a sweetie! Playful and cuddly.
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:06 AM (hMwEB)
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Awww. Did you send pics in to the Pet Thread? I don't think I've seen him yet. Pretty sure they must have a ton of pics to go through since I sent mine four months ago and they haven't appeared yet.

Whiskey's seven months now and 64 lbs. Gonna be a big boy and will probably top out at about 85.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (HiDrR)

159 You know what this blog needs? Drama. And more drama. Nothing but drama.

If only someone would step up to the plate.

* and, in the spirit of FenelonSpoke and Bluebell, from whom I have learned quite a bit about gratitude over the years, prayers sent.

Posted by: Lurkers Everywhere at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (SeIF3)

160 **ponders options**

I'll catch y'all another time.

Endeavor to persevere

Posted by: Muldoon at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (wPiJc)

161 I'd rather be beside or behind a kid on a flight than in front of one.
Oh those little kicking feet!

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (hMwEB)

162 I'm still here.

Posted by: L, Elle
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Good! What're your plans for the day?

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (zkGZ8)

163 So, after disrupting 2 threads and having been told by several mods to knock it off, and agreeing to stop... you now try to derail a THIRD thread to insist your boyfriend was wrongly accused of sucking cock.

Interesting. I wonder why the mods don't ban you. From what I gather from other comments, you constantly ignore the rules and stir up drama and nothing ever happens to you.

But I bet *I* get in trouble for pushing back against the double standard.

Why should I respect what Ace or the mods say when they have one set of standards for us and a lesser standard for you?

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (l12Jm)

164 Agriculture companies in California are being forced to develop and deploy labor-saving machinery and techniques because reduced illegal immigration is allowing American farmworkers raise their poverty-level wages, according to Los Angeles Times.
But the double-dose of good news more productive technology and higher American wages is threatened by farm industry lobbyists who are pushing Congress to approve a much greater inflow of cheap-labor H-2A visa workers. An amendment approved last week would allow many more farm companies to ignore Americans workers and instead to hire cheap-labor from foreign-labor brokers.

Left Wing Lunacy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:13 AM (m8J9w)

165 Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 09:23 AM (6hLK2)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:06 AM (XUcIQ)

Maybe everybody should just shut the fuck up about it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:13 AM (wYseH)

166 I think Heston sported such 70s sartorial elegance in that California earthquake movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 22, 2017 10:13 AM (n5CNg)

167 Mine too. Once dated a guy named Don Murphy. Nanny was thrilled that he was Irish. Never let her know that his family was from the North, and was very Protestant--she would've killed me, or him.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 10:06 AM (HiDrR)

I made the mistake of ordering a Black in Tan in Ireland, I was Warned by the bartender in a polite but firm manner.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:13 AM (dKiJG)

168 Duke,
Never an infant. Always the person of size who does absolutely nothing to minimize their space. Quite the opposite. If female, with enough perfume to fell an ox.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 10:13 AM (v0wHy)

169 Good morning all! Of course, lost my whinge about the heat and humidity to hitting refresh instead of post. This is my life.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 22, 2017 10:14 AM (MIKMs)

170 Whiskey's seven months now and 64 lbs. Gonna be a big boy and will probably top out at about 85.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (HiDrR)

Wow! He's big!!

I did get his photo on a pet thread once. I will have to dig it out. He's a standard poodle who is black right now but will eventually be some shade of dark gray (aka "blue")

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:14 AM (hMwEB)

171 >>How many of y'all have done this? You're on a plane for a long flight. You have your aisle seat and no one is beside you. Then you see a woman coming down the aisle with an infant. You're thinking no no no please God no! Not beside me or anywhere close. No no no FUCK!

Many, many, times. Years ago I was going to a trade show in Vegas. I had an aisle seat and the two other seats in my row were empty and the plane had almost finished loading.

I was just about to start manspreading when down the aisle comes this pair of orcas. I mean yuuuge. They had to walk down the aisle sideways. And of course they were my seat mates.

I'm not a tiny guy so when they got into their seats the guy next to me spilled so far into my seat that I was practically sitting in the center aisle. Right after takeoff I went back to the galley area and was standing there while the stewardesses were getting the drink cart ready.

One of them told me "sir, you can't stand there for the whole flight". I pointed to my seat and said "you try and sit there". She took one look and then pulled down the jump seat and I sat there the whole flight.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:15 AM (/tuJf)

172 I think there will be a strong primary challenger to Graham in 2020. The problem in 2014 was not number but strength. He beat the whole rest of the field by like 20 points.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:16 AM (WkMnJ)

173 Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2017 09:59 AM (Rsi2C)
Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2017 10:11 AM (Rsi2C)

I said drop it. Completely.

Last chance.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:16 AM (wYseH)

174 Yeeesh.

Morons,

98% of what's said on this blog is some form of venting or humor.

If somebody tweaks you the wrong way, don't assume malice,

it was probably misfiring venting or failed humor.

I think we're all mature enough here that we don't have to fight every single real or imagined slight from the Pixel People.

Let alone drag it out for hours.

I would suggest if there's a thread or discussion not to your liking that you bail for a bit.

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 22, 2017 10:17 AM (9q7Dl)

175 No kidding, I typed my to-do list in Excel, then everything on the laptop went Not Responding. Had to restart, lost everything I typed. Restarting the day.

Putting procrastination on my new list. Of course, I won't get around to that until later (maybe tomorrow) so I actually accomplished a couple of productive things.

Pretty soon, I'm going to get wise to these tricks I play on myself. In the meantime, don't tell me.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 10:17 AM (zkGZ8)

176 keep fucking that chicken. it's allowed here.

Posted by: chango butt at July 22, 2017 10:18 AM (ZrrAS)

177 Make me moderator please. I don't know anyone here, so I have no favorites. I've been a troll for some 20 years so I know all the tricks. And I've been at Ace's since Althouse was inspecting Jessica Valenti's boobs.

Make me a mod and I'll fix this "drama" so fast your head will spin.

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 10:18 AM (l12Jm)

178 I was worried about that truck full of beer, but after learning it was Bud Light I felt better.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gentleman Drunkard at July 22, 2017 10:18 AM (lXk/B)

179 One of the stories in one of yesterday's posts (probably the morning post) had a link to a story of a 3-year-old and 22-month-old who drove their mother's car 17 miles to the Dairy Queen. Not a single accident on the way.

The mom left the kids in the car in Florida while she had a mani-pedi. After an hour the kids got thirsty and headed to their favorite restaurant. Once they were in the drive-thru lane a police officer spotted them and approached the car. The 3-year-old rolled down the window and said, "Hi Officer, was I doing something wrong?"

Aside from the mother leaving her kids in a car in Florida, it was the funniest story I've read in quite a while.

Posted by: biancaneve at July 22, 2017 10:18 AM (QeLWM)

180 Let me calm down a minute before I attempt a reply

Posted by: L, Elle
________

Fair enough. I'm going outside for a smoke. See you in 10?

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 10:18 AM (zkGZ8)

181 It's been well over a year since I had to get on a flying machine. And I can't remember the last time I spent a night in a hotel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 10:19 AM (v0wHy)

182 The legroom on this exit row is excellent!

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:19 AM (WkMnJ)

183 @161

About 7 or 8 years ago, I was on an early morning flight. There was 4 of us in the party, and seats were 3 across on each side. So, my parents and Uncle sit on one side...I am on the aisle seat across from them, and there is a lady on the window seat, an empty seat between us.

We were maybe 3rd or 4th row back from the front, so we were amongst the first to get on. Sat there and waited and waited and waited for people to load, and was shocked that no one selected the middle seat between us, especially considering how far up in the cabin we were. So, it gets down the very end, and I was thinking, "Heck yeah, bonus!"

And, literally seconds before the doors close, this lady rushes in, in her inside out pajamas, looking like a mess. And, she is dragging her little hellion with her. Luckily she passes us up, but there are no seats together. So, the stewardesses go to a row near us and ask if someone would move. They said no.

So, then they come to us....and I tell them no, I'm not moving. The lady with the window seat says no, she's not moving, and they are pretty much begging us. And the lady and I have a bit of a "who's flinching first" contest; I felt bad, as she was there first, but I wanted to sit with my family and she was alone. So...we were facing off, as it were. In the end, I "won." She agreed to move to a nearby center seat.

And, I ended up sitting next to pajama lady and her kid. Which....if she would have taken the window seat, and put her kid in the middle would have been fine. But, no she sits RIGHT next to me and lets her kid have the window seat. But, then she slept the whole time while her child didn't. The stewardess had to wake her up on several occasions because she was falling asleep ON me. They kept waking her up and telling her she needed to stay in her seat and not obstruct mine. In the middle of her naps, little JaRico or whatever it was starts taking off his shoes and socks and throwing them at me.

Yeah, I won. At least the kid didn't scream.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 10:19 AM (smD62)

184 I was worried about that truck full of beer, but after learning it was Bud Light I felt better.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gentleman Drunkard at July 22, 2017 10:18 AM (lXk/B)

Thousands of cases of heartburn averted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:19 AM (XUcIQ)

185 Why should I respect what Ace or the mods say when they have one set of standards for us and a lesser standard for you?

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 10:12 AM (l12Jm)

www.hotair.com

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:20 AM (wYseH)

186 The people with the truckload of stuff still not on board.

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM (WkMnJ)

187 192 The legroom on this exit row is excellent!
Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 10:19 AM (WkMnJ)

There's more legroom in the cargo hold. It's a bit chilly in there from what I hear, though.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM (ywNoU)

188 Try sitting next to some Somali's, who never heard of a shower during a flight.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM (dKiJG)

189
07 Ceylon. Remember Ceylon?

Yeah, but I don't remember how it became Kenya.
Posted by: BignJames at July 22, 2017 09:33 AM (x9c8r)

I'll never forget those Red Eyed Cyclopian Bastards!

Posted by: Drunk Viper Pilot at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM (e1mEI)

190 199 Try sitting next to some Somali's, who never heard of a shower during a flight.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM (dKiJG)

Planes generally don't have showers.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 10:22 AM (ywNoU)

191 All you haters can keep on hating. Your intended audience won't see any of it.

Me.

Posted by: L, Elle at July 22, 2017 10:20 AM (Rsi2C)

Did you happen to notice comment #183?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:22 AM (wYseH)

192 My question about Soylent Green: why did Heston dress like Charles Nelson Reilly?

Posted by: blaster at July 22, 2017 09:28 AM (WkMnJ)

It was a Swedish Pron thing with the kerchief around the neck and such.

70's style.......early 70's.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 10:10 AM (5VlCp)

It's groovy, man.

Posted by: Fred of Mystery, Inc. at July 22, 2017 10:22 AM (JO9+V)

193 I took a nap and I'm awake again.

Luckily I don't have to do any yard work today. I did that last week and it looks fine now. I'm at the point in summer where the grass isn't growing so fast and I can afford to skip a week.

The risk is if it rains next weekend, I could be in trouble.

Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 10:22 AM (sdi6R)

194 A UPI headline reads "Costco shopper left pant less when phone catches fire in his pocket".

If he's a Moron, can we do a quick GoFundMe so that he can participate in The Book Thread tomorrow?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 10:22 AM (UYwDL)

195 South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging South Carolinians to vote against him when they disagree with his support for a national amnesty plus a greater inflow of foreign workers to take Americans jobs.

When you learn to lie, Lindsey, give us a call. Until then, you're on your own.

Posted by: DNC at July 22, 2017 10:22 AM (kuiuS)

196 I did get his photo on a pet thread once. I will have to dig it out. He's a standard poodle who is black right now but will eventually be some shade of dark gray (aka "blue")
Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:14 AM
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Okay, great! Got to run now but I'll look for a link when I get back.

And by the way, you better watch your back! That puppy is just playing with you now--pretty soon he'll be ruling the roost. Poodles are wicked smart!

Posted by: IrishEi at July 22, 2017 10:23 AM (HiDrR)

197 Try sitting next to some Somali's, who never heard of a shower during a flight.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM (dKiJG)

I'd settle for "before".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:23 AM (XUcIQ)

198 One of them told me "sir, you can't stand there for the whole flight". I pointed to my seat and said "you try and sit there". She took one look and then pulled down the jump seat and I sat there the whole flight.

Posted by: JackStraw

Maybe you should have said something.

Kevin Smith got kicked off a plane because he was too obese to properly fit in the seat.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:23 AM (/qEW2)

199 Many years ago I wheeled my then 6 month old son down the aisle in his stroller on the plane. As I moved toward them, I saw naked fear in their eyes; as I passed them, all the tension drained from their faces.

Posted by: RM at July 22, 2017 10:24 AM (eP+dt)

200 He's a standard poodle who is black right now but will eventually be some shade of dark gray (aka "blue")
-----------

*hmm. I might be able to do something with that for a book title*

*snap!*

Even Poodles Get the Blues.

Posted by: Tom Robbins at July 22, 2017 10:25 AM (OdK9v)

201 Colloquy between me and a flight attendant.

FA: You know you're in an exit row.
Me: Yes.
FA: You may have to open that door.
Me: I know.
FA: Do you feel capable of doing it?
Me: Yes.
FA: Do you have any questions?
Me: Can I practice?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 10:25 AM (v0wHy)

202 Try sitting next to some Somali's, who never heard of a shower during a flight.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM

To be honest, I do everything I can to avoid using the bathrooms on-board planes for anything, much less a shower.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 10:26 AM (UYwDL)

203 >>Kevin Smith got kicked off a plane because he was too obese to properly fit in the seat.

Eh, I'm generally a live and let live type. And I sort of felt bad for them, I don't think anybody wants to be that fat.

But it was literally impossible for me to sit in my seat. I've done a lot of flying and I'm used to the arm rest wars but I draw the line on rolls of fat in my lap. Other people's rolls of fat.

It all worked out. I had a nice flight with the stews and they kept feeding me beer and snacks.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (/tuJf)

204 snort another line

Posted by: chango butt at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (ZrrAS)

205 214 Try sitting next to some Somali's, who never heard of a shower during a flight.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at July 22, 2017 10:21 AM

To be honest, I do everything I can to avoid using the bathrooms on-board planes for anything, much less a shower.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 10:26 AM (UYwDL)

That blue water doesn't do shit.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (ywNoU)

206 IrishEi, here's the photo of vpup from May

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/369702.php

He's twice as big now.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (hMwEB)

207 What happened to Turd Ferguson? I hope he didn't get banned. Sometimes you just tire of a blog and fade away.

Naw, not this place. Once a member of the "Moron Nation" always a Moron. I have been here since I ran across "teh Algore Glamor Pic's".

Posted by: Paladin at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (Ay0jS)

208 It all worked out. I had a nice flight with the stews and they kept feeding me beer and snacks.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (/tuJf)

Were any of them hawt?

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 10:28 AM (ywNoU)

209 "I'm at the point in summer where the grass isn't growing so fast and I can afford to skip a week.

The risk is if it rains next weekend, I could be in trouble."

____________________

Ha! Last weekend I said, literally, the same thing to someone about why I wasn't mowing the lawn: "I can afford to skip a week."

Just looked at the yard, and man I wish I had mowed it 7 days ago!

Posted by: PrayForMojo at July 22, 2017 10:28 AM (SeIF3)

210 Try sitting next to some Somali's, who never heard of a shower during a flight.

You shower after you land. If you land.

Posted by: Somali Akhbar at July 22, 2017 10:28 AM (kuiuS)

211 The Troll stomping was Epic.

Posted by: Paladin at July 22, 2017 10:28 AM (Ay0jS)

212 216
It all worked out. I had a nice flight with the stews and they kept feeding me beer and snacks.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (/tuJf)

"Dear Penthouse Forum..."

Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 10:28 AM (sdi6R)

213
Votermom,
Standard poodle? In a month he'll be outsmarting you at every turn.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 10:29 AM (v0wHy)

214 Amused myself and the 3 grandkids this week by playing all the Christmas videos I could find on Netflix. It is so hot and sticky that nothing is moving but the bugs. If I could tolerate heat, I'd live in Florida or Louisiana, not Northern Illinois.

Ooh, ooh, ooh -- remind me on the book thread to talk about 'Fallen Angels' (Niven Pournelle) and global cooling climate change. I think I'll read that today to get in a cooler mood.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 22, 2017 10:29 AM (MIKMs)

215 It was a Swedish Pron thing with the kerchief around the neck and such.

70's style.......early 70's.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 22, 2017 10:10 AM (5VlCp)

It's groovy, man.

Posted by: Fred of Mystery, Inc.

I thought that was an ascot. Isn't a kerchief warn about the head?

"My wife in her kerchief and I in my cap
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap"

I don't think the narrator was married to some gay dude wearing a tie.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:29 AM (/qEW2)

216 >>Were any of them hawt?

Nah. Domestic flight so mom types.

Only hot ones I've seen in many years are on international flights. Virgin Australia is very nice.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:30 AM (/tuJf)

217 Is it time for the "I'm going out and eat some worms" song?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 10:31 AM (UYwDL)

218 They had to walk down the aisle sideways. And of course they were my seat mates.

And yet you were the one charged for having a bag that was three pounds over the 25 lb limit, right?

Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2017 10:32 AM (zEjuG)

219 Is it time for the "I'm going out and eat some worms" song?

I can dig it.

Posted by: JT at July 22, 2017 10:33 AM (4UrWm)

220 Pup is pretty smart.

On the walk today we didn't get that far until he had to do his business, which I picked up, and since we were still near home we headed back so I could throw it in the trash.

He raced right back to the trash can, waited until I tossed it in, then started heading back to resume the walk.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:33 AM (hMwEB)

221 Virgin Australia is very nice.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:30 AM (/tuJf)

Alitalia.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:34 AM (wYseH)

222 >>And yet you were the one charged for having a bag that was three pounds over the 25 lb limit, right?

Never. I travel light. One of the keys to life.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:34 AM (/tuJf)

223 Alitalia.

Is she a virgin ?

Posted by: JT at July 22, 2017 10:35 AM (4UrWm)

224 Votermom,

Standard poodle? In a month he'll be outsmarting you at every turn.

We have a new Australian Shepard pup (5 months old). When he goes to the Vet now, he trots over to the scale and poses for you. Our other dogs it is a battle to get them there and sit still.

Posted by: Paladin at July 22, 2017 10:35 AM (Ay0jS)

225 the airlines in Asia have pretty stewardesses, and bank tellers are pretty too.

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:35 AM (hMwEB)

226 Just looked at the yard, and man I wish I had mowed it 7 days ago!

Was just in Louisiana last week. I swear if you skipped a week there, you might never be able to find your house again! Green, green, green. I felt like I was in a jungle.

Posted by: t-bird at July 22, 2017 10:35 AM (kuiuS)

227 Ha! I had a flight from Banana to Kinshasa on a DC3. First half of the plane had seats and the back half was full of dried fish in gunny sacks.

Flew on a small prop plane in rough weather. The lady behind me had long nails. I still have scars on my shoulders.

Was on another small plane, a four seater where the seats face each other. Again in rough weather. This time the woman facing me puked all over my knees.

I could go on.......

Posted by: Javems at July 22, 2017 10:36 AM (yOqwj)

228 I'm watching the commissioning ceremony for the USS Gerald R Ford and thinking that must really be messing with the beach traffic today.

Anyway, I'd better get to the grocery store before all the vacationers arrive.

Posted by: biancaneve at July 22, 2017 10:36 AM (QeLWM)

229 Yay me. Sitting at vet's office waiting to get one of five cats dewormed. This is going to be my entire morning. Run them thru one at a time.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2017 10:36 AM (lQn8Y)

230 Is she a virgin ?

Posted by: JT at July 22, 2017 10:35 AM (4UrWm)

She was an angel.

One of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (wYseH)

231 the airlines in Asia have pretty stewardesses, and bank tellers are pretty too.

Not as hot as our ATMs!

Posted by: Tennesse Man at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (kuiuS)

232 I don't always shower on planes, but when I do, I use Axe Body Wash, because the attendants come running just as fast they can, and you can't lose when you smell as good as I do.

Posted by: The World's 2,433rd Most Interesting Man at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (UYwDL)

233 But it was literally impossible for me to sit in my seat. I've done a lot of flying and I'm used to the arm rest wars but I draw the line on rolls of fat in my lap. Other people's rolls of fat.

It all worked out. I had a nice flight with the stews and they kept feeding me beer and snacks.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:27 AM (/tuJf)

Any other kind of cargo, and transport is usually billed on size or weight. Why is it "per head" with people? Maybe airlines should offer some "extra wide" seats on every aircraft, say about a dozen or so. Let those who want extra comfort pay a bit more for them. But...make it understood, that if a real land whale boards the plane, holding a ticket for a standard seat, he/she gets moved to an "extra-wide" seat seat, and the normal or near-normal sized holder of that seat gets bumped to a standard seat, with an automatic voucher worth a bit more than the seat differential. Make it clear from the get-go that it's going to work that way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (XUcIQ)

234 >>Alitalia.

And oddly enough, Emirates. They seem to have a policy of picking young, pretty girls from all over the world. Which is nice.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (/tuJf)

235 Wow, Paladin!

Pup is super excited to see people who are not family so he's generally a handful at the vet's.

The one time he had to get an x-ray though, the vet told me he was really good. I was shocked.

(He'd swallowed a closed safety pin. He pooped it out after eating bread)

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (hMwEB)

236 And oddly enough, Emirates. They seem to have a policy of picking young, pretty girls from all over the world. Which is nice.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (/tuJf)

Probably slaves.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (ywNoU)

237 So, after a conversation with some friends, male AND female...it seems to be a rather common fantasy to be sitting alone on a flight, and a handsome/pretty stranger coming up to you and saying, "Is this seat taken?" And...bam, the love of your life. (Actually happened to a friend of mine)

So, last October, my Mom and I were sitting on a flight, me in the window seat, Mom next to me....and like out of a dream it happens. After flight after flight of it never happening...it finally happens. This handsome guy walks up, looks me straight in the eye, and says, "Is this seat taken?"

Then, he spent the entire flight talking to my Mom, while I sat there useless.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (smD62)

238
The Troll stomping was Epic.
=====

Hodor!

That had to be one of the funniest I had ever seen. Ace and his crew really learned just how crazy some of the crime followers can be. I won't mention the name of the international case (based in Italy), but there was a crew of trolls who appeared like magic with paragraphs upon paragraphs of conspiracy crime theories.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (MIKMs)

239 "I would suggest that if a thread is not to your liking - "

See here's the thing - if the counter-trolling bothers you, you can't really suggest others ignore the trolling. Does that make sense? Complaining that we can't ignore the troll, from people who cannot ignore the counter-troll.

"www.hotair"

No idea what that is supposed to mean. I don't frequent that site and last I heard there were silly shenanigans there that resulted in something.

I just want you to enforce the rules. I play very nice when the rules are applied equally across the board. Whereas double standards and mean girl clics are why we got Trump.

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 10:38 AM (l12Jm)

240 I'd kind of like to fly on a DC-3. They're such historic aircraft.

But then I think of some "historic" cars I've owned that were only held together by rust.

Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 10:39 AM (sdi6R)

241 On the walk today we didn't get that far until he had to do his business, which I picked up, and since we were still near home we headed back so I could throw it in the trash.

I love that phrase "doing his business". I think all EPA employees should be given honorary MBAs.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:39 AM (/qEW2)

242 But...make it understood, that if a real land whale boards the plane, holding a ticket for a standard seat, he/she gets moved to an "extra-wide"

LMAO....I would love to hear that on an
announcement !

Posted by: JT at July 22, 2017 10:39 AM (4UrWm)

243 I wanted to see the Ford be commissioned, I think I read President Trump is supposed to be there, but I can imagine gridlock in Norfolk, VA Beach and the traffic trying to get to the Outer Banks, so I am reading here instead

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 22, 2017 10:39 AM (SoJdk)

244 Run them thru one at a time.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2017 10:36 AM

Depending on how many worms they each have, that could take a while.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 10:40 AM (UYwDL)

245 I'm watching the commissioning ceremony for the USS Gerald R Ford and thinking that must really be messing with the beach traffic today.

Anyway, I'd better get to the grocery store before all the vacationers arrive.

Posted by: biancaneve at July 22, 2017 10:36 AM (QeLWM)

I would not be caught dead anywhere near there today

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:40 AM (m8J9w)

246 Halleluyah. let there be peace on earth.

Posted by: chango butt at July 22, 2017 10:41 AM (ZrrAS)

247 Depending on how many worms they each have, that could take a while.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

*snort.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2017 10:41 AM (lQn8Y)

248
LMAO....I would love to hear that on an
announcement !
Posted by: JT at July 22, 2017 10:39 AM (4UrWm)

It's hauling ass, and it's taking two trips!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2017 10:41 AM (pNxlR)

249 So, last October, my Mom and I were sitting on a flight, me in the window seat, Mom next to me....and like out of a dream it happens. After flight after flight of it never happening...it finally happens. This handsome guy walks up, looks me straight in the eye, and says, "Is this seat taken?"

Then, he spent the entire flight talking to my Mom, while I sat there useless.

Posted by: Tickled Pink

Emmanuel Macron?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:41 AM (/qEW2)

250 Yes I heard PDT is suppose to be down here to day also.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 22, 2017 10:41 AM (m8J9w)

251 I just want you to enforce the rules. I play very
nice when the rules are applied equally across the board. Whereas
double standards and mean girl clics are why we got Trump.

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 10:38 AM (l12Jm)

If you don't like the way this blog is managed there are other places on the internet.

It's not a democracy. You don't get a vote.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:42 AM (wYseH)

252 All you White privileged people. Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country? That's an experience.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 10:43 AM (IDPbH)

253 I'd kind of like to fly on a DC-3. They're such historic aircraft.

But then I think of some "historic" cars I've owned that were only held together by rust.

Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 10:39 AM (sdi6R)

I have flown as a passenger on a DC3. Years ago, from Whitehorse, Yukon to Mayo, Yukon. Nice flight. A little noisy. The low wing on the airplane creates quite a ground effect, so the landing was very smooth.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:43 AM (XUcIQ)

254 I'd kind of like to fly on a DC-3. They're such historic aircraft.

Posted by: rickl
------------

Same thing I said...

Posted by: Zombie Rick Nelson at July 22, 2017 10:43 AM (OdK9v)

255 it seems to be a rather common fantasy to be sitting alone on a flight, and a handsome/pretty stranger coming up to you and saying, "Is this seat taken?" And...bam, the love of your life.

That is how Dana Perino met her husband Peter McMahon.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:43 AM (/qEW2)

256 Or simply have a standard seat at the entrance to the jetway, just like they have for carry-on bags.

If you can't sit in the standard seat without bulging over, then you have to buy the upgrade to a wide seat.

It's ridiculous that they allow these issues to blossom on board the planes, when they could and should be dealt with before anyone boards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:44 AM (wYseH)

257
252 All you White privileged people. Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country? That's an experience.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 10:43 AM (IDPbH)

Upper Michigan to New Hampshire and back again. It was something to behold...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2017 10:44 AM (pNxlR)

258 My lasting memory of Gerald Ford is an old SNL skit. Dana Carvey played Tom Brokaw, who was ready to go on vacation, but he wanted to be the anchor to broadcast the announcement that Ford had died in case that happened while he was away. So he taped himself reporting on Ford's passing with every imaginable scenario including being killed by a pack of wolves.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 10:45 AM (zkGZ8)

259 I work near Ellington Field in Houston. Now and then I have seen an odd looking plane taking off or landing I haven't been able to recognize. Finally found out it's a B-57 Canberra flown by NASA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 10:45 AM (v0wHy)

260
221 Virgin Australia is very nice.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:30 AM (/tuJf)

Alitalia.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:34 AM (wYseH)

Soon to be rebranded Al-Italia.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 22, 2017 10:45 AM (e1mEI)

261 That is how Dana Perino met her husband Peter McMahon.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:43 AM (/qEW2)

I thought his name was Jasper?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:45 AM (wYseH)

262 Then, he spent the entire flight talking to my Mom, while I sat there useless.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM

This person. He was not The Paolo.

Call me.

Posted by: Paolo at July 22, 2017 10:45 AM (UYwDL)

263 All you White privileged people. Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country? That's an experience.

Posted by: Jack Sock
---------

I wrote a song about it.

Posted by: Paul Simon at July 22, 2017 10:46 AM (OdK9v)

264 Yeah, that friend I mentioned....

Her husband she met....they actually lived 20 minutes apart, and met on a flight going to the same wedding. They had mutual friends but had never met each other.

Fate is an amazing thing sometimes.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 10:46 AM (smD62)

265 All you White privileged people.

Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country?

--
Not if my life depended on it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 22, 2017 10:46 AM (lQn8Y)

266 Interesting about discrimination against smokers or overweight.

I worked at a place that would not hire smokers because of the smell. Isn't that discrimination?

Posted by: Emmie at July 22, 2017 10:47 AM (ZapPq)

267 In the 50's my dad was stationed in Puerto Rico, then transferred to Bethesda. The Navy flew our family back in some large converted aircraft (family history says is was a bomber, but they could have been conflated over the years. My parents and 5 children seated each in some kind of sling hanging from the ceiling, noisy, to this day I do not like to fly.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at July 22, 2017 10:48 AM (SoJdk)

268 Her husband she met....they actually lived 20 minutes apart, and met on a flight going to the same wedding. They had mutual friends but had never met each other.

Fate is an amazing thing sometimes.
Posted by: Tickled Pink
------------

Ah, yes. The Bridesmaids. At an out-of-town wedding. Targets of opportunity.

So they tell me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 22, 2017 10:48 AM (OdK9v)

269 >>>>All you White privileged people. Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country? That's an experience.
.
.
.Try riding the Phillipino bus from Manila to Subic Base Naval Base during the summer because your flight was late and you missed the Navy bus. Never again. More livestock than people on that bus.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 22, 2017 10:48 AM (0pcwX)

270 All you White privileged people. Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country? That's an experience.

Posted by: Jack Sock

I took the greyhound from upstate New York to LI when going to/from college when the term started/ended. I think I prefer that to riding the E-train into Manhattan. I'm really starting to hate the MTA. I think they're trying to torture us so we won't complain the next time there is a fare hike.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:48 AM (/qEW2)

271
266 Interesting about discrimination against smokers or overweight.

I worked at a place that would not hire smokers because of the smell. Isn't that discrimination?
Posted by: Emmie at July 22, 2017 10:47 AM (ZapPq)

I'm willing to bet that whoever made that rule was totes down with the extra cigarette taxes to pay for SCHIP. For the chirruns!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2017 10:49 AM (pNxlR)

272 259 I work near Ellington Field in Houston. Now and then I have seen an odd looking plane taking off or landing I haven't been able to recognize. Finally found out it's a B-57 Canberra flown by NASA.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 22, 2017 10:45 AM (v0wHy)

They're the last of the bat-winged high altitude variants. Canberras were and are an amazing platform.

Posted by: Fox2! at July 22, 2017 10:49 AM (brIR5)

273 240
I'd kind of like to fly on a DC-3. They're such historic aircraft.

But then I think of some "historic" cars I've owned that were only held together by rust.

Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 10:39 AM (sdi6R)

------------------------------

This was Air AMAZ, run by Belgians in Zaire, back in about 1975. We called it Amazing Air. They had a small fleet of DC3's. Cool part was hearing those engines fire up.

I also flew on one, can't recall if it was commercial, contract or military, from Ft. Sill OK to Dallas after AIT back in 1965.

Posted by: Javems at July 22, 2017 10:50 AM (yOqwj)

274 I've taken a number of lengthy bus trips. Being young, I thought they were adventuresome. Recently, I took a multi-hour trip to Knoxville. There were four people on the whole bus. I didn't even know the others were there. Enjoyed the mountain views, a book, and coffee.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,etc. at July 22, 2017 10:51 AM (OdK9v)

275 I'm really starting to hate the MTA.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 10:48 AM

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Charlie's wife at July 22, 2017 10:51 AM (UYwDL)

276 203 >>Kevin Smith got kicked off a plane because he was too obese to properly fit in the seat.

Had a client that was charged for a second seat on an international flight.

Take up two seats, pay for two seats.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 22, 2017 10:51 AM (yKB8T)

277 When I was 14, I was on Eastern Airline flight returning to Louisiana from JFK when the entire hydraulic system went out right after take off. They had to rip up the aisle carpet and hand crank the landing gear back down or something like that and let out all the fuel for an emergency landing. I was 14 so I thought it was an adventure. All the aldults of course thought it might be their last day on earth. Anyway of course we made it back safely with the runway covered with emergency vehicles.

The next year , I believe it was the same flight and same Eastern Boeing 727 plane that crashed at JFK killing over a hundred people.

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 10:51 AM (IDPbH)

278
240
I'd kind of like to fly on a DC-3. They're such historic aircraft.

I am reasonably certain that I flew on one back in the mid-50s as Dad moved from one airfield to another during his time in the USAF. I remember nothing, however.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2017 10:52 AM (pNxlR)

279 Or simply have a standard seat at the entrance to the jetway, just like they have for carry-on bags.

If you can't sit in the standard seat without bulging over, then you have to buy the upgrade to a wide seat.

It's ridiculous that they allow these issues to blossom on board the planes, when they could and should be dealt with before anyone boards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:44 AM (wYseH)

That makes entirely too much sense. Also no reason they could not have scales built into the floor at the check-in counter. Clerk reads from script: "Our scales indicate that your weight is 375 pounds. FAA rules require that we place you in one of our extra-wide seats near the C.G. of the aircraft. That will cost you an extra $40.00"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:53 AM (XUcIQ)

280 Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country?
________

I knew someone who was going from (way) Upstate New York to Florida. To save money, she decided to take a bus instead of fly. She had a habit of turning the smallest kvetch into an endless tirade. Before she left, all she could talk about was how expensive plane tickets were.

When she got back, she recounted that her bus was (get this) not a non-stop route. Then she provided details of her experience in Albany, and Kingston, and New York City, ....

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 10:53 AM (zkGZ8)

281

I flew on DC-3's and dirt strips in Central America in the 80's. Half seats have livestock and cargo. Awesome.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at July 22, 2017 10:53 AM (Wz9PZ)

282 @268

Haha. She was not a bridesmaid, just a regular guest. She was also in a relationship at the time she met said guy, so not an easy target at all.

It makes me wonder....when I fly to meet my guy...what if I meet "The One" on the plane? Will I recognize it, as my mind will be on my guy? (By the way, I don't really think this will happen...just saying, what if?)

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 10:54 AM (smD62)

283 Kevin Smith had lost a lot of weight in the past couple of years.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 22, 2017 10:55 AM (q6C1L)

284 >>Fate is an amazing thing sometimes.

And sometimes, it is a horror.

Best/Worst flight story. When I was moving back from Puerto Rico the guys at my dive shop through me a big party at one of the lounges at the airport. Needless to say, I was toasted. I was also looking forward to getting home where I had a bunch of friends waiting to take me out in Boston for the night.

So I settled in my seat, through on my headphones and sat back as the plane was filling. I opened my eyes for some reason as a stew was helping this older woman to her seat. She was obviously distraught and crying. We made eye contact and I smiled sort of sheepishly cause I didn't know what else to do and closed my eyes as they continued down the aisle.

The seat next to me was open and this was working out to be a great flight. Until I got a tap on my shoulder. It was the crying woman and she asked if the seat next to me was open. uuuuuh.. yea?

So she sits down and proceeds to tell me that she is coming how from St Thomas, it was the first vacation she and her husband had taken in like 30 years since they had spent all their time and money putting their 4 kids through school and college. It was carnival weak in St Thomas and while they were there her husband suffered a massive heart attack. She had to spend an hour each way from her hotel to the hospital everyday because of all the partying crowds.

All her children were too busy to come and help her so she was all alone, scared and frightened. And now her husband was coming home with her. In a box, in the baggage compartment.

She cried on my shoulder the entire way home. My buzz level plummeted below zero.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:55 AM (/tuJf)

285 What goes up doesn't always come down. I have 6 more takeoffs in DC3s and R4Ds (its proper designation) than landings.

Now, get off my LZ.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 10:56 AM (UYwDL)

286 And now her husband was coming home with her. In a box

Look at the bright side....at least they didn't put
HIM in the seat next to ya.

Posted by: JT at July 22, 2017 10:58 AM (4UrWm)

287 FAA rules require that we place you in one of our
extra-wide seats near the C.G. of the aircraft. That will cost you an
extra $40.00"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 10:53 AM (XUcIQ)

I have always wondered about that.

When I worked for UPS, "weight and balance" was a huge deal. I remember getting containers back from the airport because they were too heavy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:58 AM (wYseH)

288 266
I worked at a place that would not hire smokers because of the smell. Isn't that discrimination?
Posted by: Emmie at July 22, 2017 10:47 AM (ZapPq)

The word has a flexible definition nowadays.

Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 10:59 AM (sdi6R)

289 I've sat next to enough fat people on a plane to merit wearing a leather jacket with spikes.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 22, 2017 10:59 AM (q6C1L)

290 New post up when you're ready. Have a great day.

Posted by: KT at July 22, 2017 10:59 AM (BVQ+1)

291
CLINTON, Tenn. (AP) -- Jake Butcher, who helped bring the World's Fair to Knoxville before his family's East Tennessee banking network collapsed amid a federal investigation, died Wednesday. He was 81.

Interestingly enough, the first Mrs. Krebs and I attended said fair in 1982, not once, but twice. Rode a bus to and from it both times, too.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yb3srzsc

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 22, 2017 11:00 AM (pNxlR)

292 Never. I travel light. One of the keys to life.

Posted by: JackStraw

Yup. I've never done "checked baggage". I've heard too many horror stories about that. Just two carry-ons for me. Of course, I've never visited with anyone for more than a few days.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 22, 2017 11:00 AM (/qEW2)

293 When I worked for UPS, "weight and balance" was a huge deal. I remember getting containers back from the airport because they were too heavy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 10:58 AM

You can weigh out before you cube out, and vice-versa.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 11:00 AM (UYwDL)

294 Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:55 AM (/tuJf)

I read that as a scene from a movie where at the end of her story you say in your best pick up voice " So, you're single? "

Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 11:01 AM (IDPbH)

295 285
What goes up doesn't always come down. I have 6 more takeoffs in DC3s and R4Ds (its proper designation) than landings.

Now, get off my LZ.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 10:56 AM (UYwDL)

-------------------------------

My son has probably 50 -75 jumps. He always wanted to jump a DC3 but never made it. They were scheduled to jump one in an air show once but it was scrubbed due to high winds.

Posted by: Javems at July 22, 2017 11:01 AM (yOqwj)

296 All her children were too busy to come and help her so she was all alone, scared and frightened. And now her husband was coming home with her. In a box, in the baggage compartment.

She cried on my shoulder the entire way home. My buzz level plummeted below zero.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 10:55 AM (/tuJf)

It is good that you were there to comfort her. Maybe the buzz you lost went into her soul and helped her cope.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 22, 2017 11:01 AM (XUcIQ)

297 You can weigh out before you cube out, and vice-versa.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 11:00 AM (UYwDL)

Yup.

I remember a FedEx plane at Oakland airport dropping on its tail because some knucklehead wasn't paying attention.

Imagine the repair bill....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 11:03 AM (wYseH)

298 >>I read that as a scene from a movie where at the end of her story you say in your best pick up voice " So, you're single? "

It was more like comforting grandma. Someone else's grandma.

That is one flight I will never forget. What kind of miserable humans leave their mother and dying father stranded like that?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:03 AM (/tuJf)

299 "If you don't like the way this blog is managed - "

Lighten up Francis, I'm just trying to understand what the rules are so I can stay inside them. Do I get bonus points if I have boobs?

And I've lost count, was that her final final warning or her final final final warning?

You want to come off as a Mall Cop because you don't feel your Authorty is being respected, that's on you.

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 11:04 AM (l12Jm)

300 It makes me wonder....when I fly to meet my guy...what if I meet "The One" on the plane? Will I recognize it, as my mind will be on my guy? (By the way, I don't really think this will happen...just saying, what if?)

Posted by: Tickled Pink
________

Hmm. There's a lot of stuff in your questions, Tickled Pink.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 11:04 AM (zkGZ8)

301 All you White privileged people. Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country? That's an experience.

I take that and raise you an AMTRAK trip. I madea last minuit trip from Seattle to San Diego for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Was saposto be 24 hour trip. We were 36 hours late. Those obnoxious kids that are not allowed to fly, go AMTRAK ... they ran out of beer north of LA...**shutters**

Posted by: Paladin at July 22, 2017 11:05 AM (Ay0jS)

302 HaHaHaHa...more Mizzou pain: The Social Justice Indoctrination Center masquerading as a university announced (Friday, of course) they were closing a "$10 million research facility b/c of shortfalls in budget." Melissa Click et al really boned that place. We have a bright red state legislator, and a red Governor. Also, if they think the alumni bucks are going to bail them out, I think they're sadly mistaken.
When the libtard coach of their football let the BLM agenda take over his team, then slink away w/a full pension, that sealed the deal.
F-Mizzou.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 22, 2017 11:05 AM (ty7RM)

303 You want to come off as a Mall Cop because you don't feel your Authorty is being respected, that's on you.

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 11:04 AM (l12Jm)

How about if you mind your own business and stop being insulting?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 11:06 AM (wYseH)

304 ""All you White privileged people.

Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country?""

Took one from jersey up to maine when I was in my really early 20's. The girlfriend at the time had family up there on some island and there was a family vacation/reunion. Yeah that was an experience.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at July 22, 2017 11:06 AM (aMlLZ)

305 298
It was more like comforting grandma. Someone else's grandma.

That is one flight I will never forget. What kind of miserable humans leave their mother and dying father stranded like that?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:03 AM (/tuJf)

I guess it was good that you were able to comfort her somewhat.

Posted by: rickl at July 22, 2017 11:07 AM (sdi6R)

306 Do I get bonus points if I have boobs?

Pic's or it not real. See AoSHQ style book.

Posted by: Paladin at July 22, 2017 11:07 AM (Ay0jS)

307 >>It is good that you were there to comfort her. Maybe the buzz you lost went into her soul and helped her cope.

She was a very sweet old lady. There wasn't much I could do but listen and let her lean on me. Anybody would have done it, I just happened to be there.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:07 AM (/tuJf)

308 JS, did you go to the Peter Wolf/Tom Petty show last night?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 22, 2017 11:08 AM (PUmDY)

309 Fen: Drama has been banned. Chill. Don't wanna see you go too.

Posted by: chango butt at July 22, 2017 11:08 AM (ZrrAS)

310 @300

Er, is this good or bad?

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 11:09 AM (smD62)

311 >>JS, did you go to the Peter Wolf/Tom Petty show last night?

Nah, I've seen enough Wolf to last me a lifetime.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:09 AM (/tuJf)

312 Anybody would have done it, I just happened to be there.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:07 AM (/tuJf)

Well...except for her children.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 11:12 AM (wYseH)

313 Do I get bonus points if I have boobs?

Busty lesbian pron appears to be well-regarded in some provinces of Hordeistan.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 11:12 AM (UYwDL)

314 JS, I haven't, ha ha. Going to see him with Garland Jefferys, Winwood and Jackson Browne next month at Jones Beach.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 22, 2017 11:13 AM (PUmDY)

315 >>Well...except for her children.

Special place in hell for people like that.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:13 AM (/tuJf)

316 Er, is this good or bad?

Posted by: Tickled Pink
________

It's very likely that I misread your post (#282) but it came across to me that your mind may not be on your guy now.

(Here's to hoping I got it wrong.)

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 11:13 AM (zkGZ8)

317 >>JS, I haven't, ha ha. Going to see him with Garland Jefferys, Winwood and Jackson Browne next month at Jones Beach.

Cool. I grew up with the Geils band. Pretty much literally. Wolf always brings the energy.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:14 AM (/tuJf)

318 Probably slaves.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 10:37 AM (ywNoU)
In Houston they say 20% of the national traffic in slaves comes through here. And 27% of all children in Houston are starving. We need to up our game on the slave trafficking
And its a little warm here in the summer.

Posted by: MAC SOG at July 22, 2017 11:16 AM (QPdNE)

319 Er, is this good or bad?
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 11:09 AM

It just is.

FWIW (~0), what jumped out for me was "my guy" hasn't transitioned to "The One", at least not yet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 22, 2017 11:16 AM (UYwDL)

320 @316

I am a preparer. As in, I always plan for the worst, and hope for the best. I guess I feel like if I prepare myself that things don't work out, I'll be less hurt that way?

Not just in relationships but life in general.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 22, 2017 11:16 AM (smD62)

321 JS, boards2go.com has all the Dead and cosbds from this past tout.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 22, 2017 11:17 AM (PUmDY)

322 ""All you White privileged people.
Ever ride a Greyhound or Trailways cross country?""

I got a bus ticket from El Paso to StL upon my divorce from the US Army. Met up w/this poor black kid, maybe 18 y/o, w/ a 1 year old daughter. All he had was some cold fried chicken to feed her. I helped him out as I could, had plenty of time too: we basically made a circle around OK, stopping at EVERY little town along the way. I think it took 14 hours. Never. Again.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 22, 2017 11:17 AM (ty7RM)

323 >>JS, boards2go.com has all the Dead and cosbds from this past tout.

Awesome. Thanks very much.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 22, 2017 11:21 AM (/tuJf)

324 Tickled Pink @ 320 --

I don't know. For myself (married) I commit absolutely. Then again, it turned out that I committed unilaterally.

So I truly don't know.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 11:22 AM (zkGZ8)

325 I don't know. For myself (married) I commit absolutely. Then again, it turned out that I committed unilaterally.

Been there done that.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 11:26 AM (ywNoU)

326 IrishEi,

East Friesian. They drink strong tea all day long. The stuff I get can be oversteeped and is still tasty.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 22, 2017 11:28 AM (Lqy/e)

327 Thanks for that, Insomniac. Sometimes it's nice to know that the universe hasn't singled me out.

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 11:31 AM (zkGZ8)

328 327 Thanks for that, Insomniac. Sometimes it's nice to know that the universe hasn't singled me out.
Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 11:31 AM (zkGZ

No problem. I feel the same way. It doesn't work when only one party takes their vows seriously but the other doesn't. It sucks and you end up feeling like a chump.

Posted by: Insomniac, Professional Nobody at July 22, 2017 11:35 AM (ywNoU)

329 Word up.

Well, there's a new thread. Shall we join the others?

Posted by: FireHorse at July 22, 2017 11:44 AM (zkGZ8)

330 "How about you mind your own business and stop being insulating "

First, you are the one who chose to escalate into insults. I know this is not a democracy, and I know being a mod sucks, and I know Ace is fed up with people griefing his mods. So, not a democracy, check. But I'm still assuming their is some set of Principles in play here, some shred of respect for your customers here, since Ace expects us to extend some respect towards him and his joint. Am I wrong? If so, that's fine too, and I'll adjust accordingly.

Second, it IS my business. Because if a spat breaks out over some current news bs or whatever, I'm going to check the rules posted over the bar and follow them. But if the rules are situational or not enforced or don't apply to the Pretty People, then I need to know that too so that I can either join the Pretty People Club or burn the place down.

I'm not here to tweak you, but I'm too old to put up with bullshit. It's why I ditched Althouse - one jerk was allowed to stink up the bar while 30 regulars were forced out on the patio. They are still out there trying to pretend there is no stench. Is that what Ace wants to inflict on us?

I'm not unreasonable. I'm not here to be an ass. I'm not here to troll. But I'm also not going to take it up the ass. You want to reset and recalibrate? Or double down with more snark?

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 11:52 AM (l12Jm)

331 Stop beating me!

Posted by: A Dead Horse at July 22, 2017 12:04 PM (O5U4s)

332 277 When I was 14, I was on Eastern Airline flight returning to Louisiana from JFK when the entire hydraulic system went out right after take off. They had to rip up the aisle carpet and hand crank the landing gear back down or something like that and let out all the fuel for an emergency landing. I was 14 so I thought it was an adventure. All the aldults of course thought it might be their last day on earth. Anyway of course we made it back safely with the runway covered with emergency vehicles...Posted by: Jack Sock at July 22, 2017 10:51 AM (IDPbH)

Wow! The EXACT same thing happened to me in '09 flying into LaGuardia. We were diverted to Kennedy for the longer runway. I did not get too worries even though a stew was sitting next to me sweating an ocean.

When we landed (with all the fire vehicles) I said loudly: "Wow! Whose balls will drop first - mine or Michelle Obama's!"

About 80 % laughed lustily and 20 were disgusted and appalled (perfect ratio I'd say

)

Posted by: The Gimp! at July 22, 2017 12:07 PM (jdWK0)

333 Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 11:52 AM (l12Jm)

Take potshots at me to your heart's content, but the next time you suggest that you are going to "burn the place down" you will be banned.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 22, 2017 12:29 PM (wYseH)

334 "...he has been dressing as a woman ever since his sister passed away, 20 years ago, in order to console his grieving mother."

OK, while really weird, I guess I could sympathize with a few months of cross-dressing here. Not really, but let's go with it anyway. But 20 yrs? C'mon, man. At that point, are you really doing it for mom?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 22, 2017 12:57 PM (H8S+R)

335 Dave, It's a metaphor for abding by the rules or ignoring them, based entirely on whether those rules are enforced or exceptions made due to corruption, nepotism, whatever.

I think your ego is clouding your judgement. This was not a difficult complaint to handle. Maybe a woman would have done a better job. I know I would have -:you have to know your audience, else you're just making work for yourself. I'm a 40 year old infantry Marine, putting up is not going diffuse the situation. If Chuck Liddell had a beef for me to settle, I would be savy enough to realize that talking trash is not going to fix the situation.

Regardless, it looks like someone here (you?) did the right thing, and so my respect for the ruleset and the mods is restored - the rules trump bias or favorites. So I would like to apologize for coming down on you like I did, it was wrong.

I just went through a big thing in the SCA trying to stop a Knight who was molesting people. Everyone closed ranks on me, people I admired stunned me, I was threatened with violence and financial ruin. I had to go to the FBI. I've lost faith in people, and this site has been the only political harbor where I feel I'm with my own people. So, not excusable, but maybe I took my loss of faith in authority out on you. Again, I apologize.

I'm not afraid of a ban. I read Insty and Ace every single day, and I don't need to comment here to do that. I'm not saying that as a challenge, I just want you see that my apology is sincere and not just some suckup to avoid banhammer. You want to ban me, no big deal.

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 02:26 PM (l12Jm)

336 Charlie not Dave

Posted by: Fen at July 22, 2017 02:27 PM (l12Jm)

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