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How About a Little Game Theory?


The untenable tension between freedom of speech and freedom of association

Sonny Bunch starts off:

These are dark times for those who believe in unfettered freedom of expression. These are amazing times for those who believe in unfettered freedom of association. And these are untenable times for those who hope to balance both.

See, my position on this is simple: Both should be near absolute (Can't start a riot, etc...usual caveats). You want to shout the N-word in a crowded theater? Go ahead. Refuse to serve white people (or black people, or Democrats, or Christians, or anybody) at your restaurant? Knock yourself out. The market will take care of the latter and societal opprobrium (or a punch in the snoot) the former. But that's not the world we live in.

If you create a world in which you appeal to principles and then weaponize these principles in such a way that only one side of the fight is hurt — a world in which Kevin D. Williamson is canned from the Atlantic while Sarah Jeong maintains her position at the New York Times; a world in which right-wing YouTubers are demonetized while left-wing videos skate by; a world in which conservative voices see their tweets disappear while liberal voices flourish — you encourage people to abandon their principles altogether. (That’s why conservative provocateurs tweet about following “new rules”: They see principles as a weakness, and in a total cultural war, they might not be wrong.)

This is where I disagree. I'm not abandoning my principles, My principles are fine, as long as they apply to everybody. When they don't, when as he says they are weaponized against one side and not the other, then we are no longer talking about a principled society. Now we're talking game theory, specifically The Prisoner's Dilemma. From Wiki:

Albert W. Tucker formalized the game with prison sentence rewards and named it "prisoner's dilemma",[1] presenting it as follows:


Two members of a criminal gang are arrested and imprisoned. Each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of communicating with the other. The prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to convict the pair on the principal charge, but they have enough to convict both on a lesser charge. Simultaneously, the prosecutors offer each prisoner a bargain. Each prisoner is given the opportunity either to betray the other by testifying that the other committed the crime, or to cooperate with the other by remaining silent. The offer is:

If A and B each betray the other, each of them serves two years in prison

If A betrays B but B remains silent, A will be set free and B will serve three years in prison (and vice versa)

If A and B both remain silent, both of them will only serve one year in prison (on the lesser charge).

It is implied that the prisoners will have no opportunity to reward or punish their partner other than the prison sentences they get and that their decision will not affect their reputation in the future. Because betraying a partner offers a greater reward than cooperating with them, all purely rational self-interested prisoners will betray the other, meaning the only possible outcome for two purely rational prisoners is for them to betray each other.[2] The interesting part of this result is that pursuing individual reward logically leads both of the prisoners to betray when they would get a better reward if they both kept silent. In reality, humans display a systemic bias towards cooperative behavior in this and similar games despite what is predicted by simple models of "rational" self-interested action.

I've stated my principles above, however, if I do nothing in the name of “principle” when the other side violates them to my detriment, then pretty soon I'll be removed from the board. The ONLY* way to move back to the principles that I want is to make the other side suffer as much as I do until they cry “Uncle”. Then we can discuss a world where we both have the freedoms that we should.

*This is the part of the argument that I never see the “Muh principles!” crowd making. OK, fine, what is your suggested course of action to bring society back to equilibrium? Seriously, game theory is nasty and dirty and no fun for anyone. Give me an alternative. I've never seen any of them suggest anything other than martyrdom. Martyrdom's great-except martyrs never encourage the other side to do anything, they usually function as the butt of a joke. They only function to encourage the losing side to finally fight back. If you don't like what I've proposed, suggest another course of action, one with a chance of working. I'm waiting.

The Chicago Way

Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance

But hey, let's talk about the NRA, M'kay?


Heroes Walk Away From Explosions


Women in Combat


Since this has been in the news lately, Jesse Kelly had some thoughts:


Click on the link and scroll down to read the thread. Jim Webb was even more blunt (if that's possible) way back in 1979. I think it's a bad idea in general, but any woman who wants to serve in combat and can meet the exact same physical standards required for men, should be allowed to. If we stick to that, I think it'll be a vanishingly small number of women who find themselves on the front lines, and those that do will have absolutely earned the right to be there.

Dys_____(fill in the blank)


11 Facts About the Math Disorder Dyscalculia


Interesting read. Dyslexia gets the attention all, but I suffer from a related disorder, dysgraphia (I kan't spel). Spell check was a godsend for me, but sometimes you might notice it creeping into my posts. Homonyms are the worst because spell check doesn't catch them, whether and weather, for example. I actually do know the difference, but sometimes I'll use the wrong one and my brain just doesn't see it when I'm proof reading. Other times I'm just an idiot, last week I heard myself saying “So that's apt K as in 'cat'”, for example. I know that one too, but sheesh.

That's How You Get More Trump

Firefighters Filming Trump Motorcade Going By Get Sudden Surprise They Wouldn’t Soon Forget

That's another thing that doesn't get mentioned enough. After who knows how many years of studied disdain for the common man from those that consider themselves to be our betters, Trump cuts right through all of that, and for all his faults he obviously has a real appreciation for Joe and Jane Six-Pack. Say what you will, but stuff like this happens too often for it to be anything but genuine.

Tonight's ONT brought to you by Baroque Obama:

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Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:03 PM




Comments

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1 Thir&3383t!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:03 PM (e9G8E)

2 unfirst

Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 16, 2018 10:03 PM (H5knJ)

3 Thir&383t?

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:04 PM (e9G8E)

4 Top ten sweet

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 16, 2018 10:04 PM (A3hZc)

5 Grey Box!

Posted by: Surfperch at August 16, 2018 10:04 PM (AcZtS)

6 Now...

Thirſt!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:04 PM (e9G8E)

7 Who the fuck is Jesse Kelly? Should I care? What a douchenozzle.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:04 PM (dUJdY)

8 Thanks for the ONT.

Geez, Bernie, how many pretzels does one guy need, really?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:05 PM (6U3DW)

9 Easy to read!

Posted by: Surfperch at August 16, 2018 10:05 PM (AcZtS)

10 Please clap...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:05 PM (e9G8E)

11 Heh. A bow tie on Ingram's show. Hasn't spoken yet, but...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 10:05 PM (xSo9G)

12 Dave borrowed my gray box magic

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:05 PM (3Pma+)

13 ONT was never great, not until all morons and ettes are engaged.

Andrew "Medically Induced" Cuomo

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 16, 2018 10:06 PM (A3hZc)

14 Nobody needs more than one Pretzel!

Posted by: Bernardo Sandernista, finishing his Fifth Pretzel at August 16, 2018 10:06 PM (AcZtS)

15 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2018 10:07 PM (0pdRb)

16 Is that Little Lord Fauntleroy?


Can't we ever get rid of that fellow?

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:07 PM (6Zmow)

17 Is that Barry's face over Anthony Andrews in the Scarlet Pimpernel?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2018 10:07 PM (SiINZ)

18 You didn't build that pretzel!

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:07 PM (dUJdY)

19 Heh. A bow tie on Ingram's show. Hasn't spoken yet, but...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Yeah, ghey.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 10:08 PM (xSo9G)

20 For the first time in Marine Corps history, a woman is in charge of an infantry platoon



Cue the Mrs Grey scene in The Enforcer

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2018 10:08 PM (SiINZ)

21 I always found that picture a crime. I believe that picture was taken from the Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and a smoking hot, young Jane Seymour (but I repeat myself.)

The thing about that is, the Scarlet Pimpernel was Batman- before Batman. He played the fool and popinjay to divert suspicion to be able to do noble work- not because he actually was a fool and a popinjay.

I always liked the story- and Jane Seymour.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:08 PM (6U3DW)

22 Is it too late?

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 10:08 PM (txw6d)

23 Is it too late?

Only if you want to turn back.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:09 PM (dUJdY)

24 When they started hiring women to be firefighters, I had the same fear - if I need rescuing, she's going to have to drag my carcass down the stairs - and I'll hit my head on every riser.

Sometimes you just need a MAN.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:10 PM (6Zmow)

25 Hello, Horde!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 16, 2018 10:10 PM (uDcBt)

26 I want to suck your blood.

Posted by: Dyscalculia at August 16, 2018 10:10 PM (IqV8l)

27 Can yuo believe that thaet eevil rayciss Trump fired John Brennan just so he could kidnap more cihldren ov cohller?

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (AcZtS)

28 Dave borrowed my gray box magic
If preview would handle the command properly, neither one of us would have it.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (bQXMb)

29 Also, of course the act by Trump was genuine. If Hillary or Obama had done it, the camera carried by the 'average joe' would have been an IMAX quality camera.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (6U3DW)

30 I was never in the infantry, or anywhere that didn't have air conditioning and hot coffee and a quiet shitter with the UCMJ printed on the wall, but we had guys who wouldn't have been able to drag all 180lb of me out of a smoke-filled compartment, and some guys who couldn't have been dragged two feet by a team of mules. It's not always a guy-dragging contest. In the military, every team is made up of individuals who each work together to form a cohesive whole that's as completely useless as a left-handed football bat, as one. That's what really matters.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (y87Qq)

31 Shut up Mary.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (dUJdY)

32 ''I always liked the story- and Jane Seymour. ''

The movie with Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon is the best. Raymond Massey as the baddest of bad guys and a host of wonderful character actors.

Posted by: Tuna at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (jm1YL)

33 Dave borrowed my gray box magic
If preview would handle the command properly, neither one of us would have it.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (bQXMb)

Just give it a whack with the hammer.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:12 PM (6Zmow)

34 26 When they started hiring women to be firefighters, I had the same fear - if I need rescuing, she's going to have to drag my carcass down the stairs - and I'll hit my head on every riser.

Sometimes you just need a MAN.
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:10 PM (6Zmow)


I weigh half again what my wife weighs. We once tried this, and she could barely drag me half a dozen feet. No reflection on her: I'd be hard-pressed to drag a 270 lb. man very far myself. Most MEN are not fit (or young) enough to qualify as firefighters, never mind most women.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 16, 2018 10:12 PM (YqDXo)

35
Baroque Obama's carriage would run down some poor workman just trying to earn a loaf of bread for his family. Then courtiers would burn down said workman's house when his widow complains.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM (LsBY9)

36 Sometimes you just need a MAN.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:10 PM (6Zmow)




Barry O: Sometimes?!?! More like ALL the time!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM (SiINZ)

37 Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:07 PM (6Zmow

Yoko isn't so bad afterall?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM (3Pma+)

38 22 I always found that picture a crime. I believe that picture was taken from the Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and a smoking hot, young Jane Seymour (but I repeat myself.)

The thing about that is, the Scarlet Pimpernel was Batman- before Batman. He played the fool and popinjay to divert suspicion to be able to do noble work- not because he actually was a fool and a popinjay.


There was an older movie version. I think it had Leslie Howard.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

39
Yoko isn't so bad afterall?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM (3Pma+)

Hi MisHum. How have you been? Did you get your big project under control?

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:15 PM (6Zmow)

40 Look, I like America Ninja Warrior. Here's the thing: only one woman competitor on that show is anywhere near the level of the good guys. And she's a one in a million girl. Jesse Graf could haul me out of a fire, but she's the exception to the rule. The vast majority of even the fit, training all the time women on that show can barely, on their best day, dream of doing what the average competitor on that show can do.

So yeah, put Jessie Graf in charge of the platoon. No problem. How many Jessie Graf's are there out there? There's her... and that's about it. Maybe 10 other women with that ability in the world. Not enough to change the law for, in my opinion.

Posted by: Vanceone at August 16, 2018 10:15 PM (A9Gmy)

41 Posted by: Weirddave at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (bQXMb)


Some day those hamsters are going to chew on us.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:15 PM (3Pma+)

42 24; Miley, it's never too,late.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 16, 2018 10:15 PM (KP5rU)

43 Did you get your big project under control?


Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:15 PM



huhuhuh uh huhuh....

Posted by: butthead at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (LkFnL)

44 Hello, Horde!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 16, 2018 10:10 PM


Hello Teresa! How are things in Cowtown?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (DMUuz)

45 Thanks for the nice ONT, WD! Love the Trump video. That just made me smile.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (WY9Hg)

46 Sometimes you just need a MAN.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:10 PM (6Zmow)




Barry O: Sometimes?!?! More like ALL the time!!!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM (SiINZ)

This x1000.

Posted by: SHEP! at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (AcZtS)

47
Who the fuck is Jesse Kelly?

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:04 PM (dUJdY)

Somebody who has seen combat and might know a thing or two...

Men have attributes that are advantageous in war. Women have attributes that are advantages in other walks of life.

Sorry...chicks can't fight.

Posted by: Key Grip at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (wYseH)

48 Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:15 PM (6Zmow)

Hi ALH
Will know more Monday

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (3Pma+)

49 There was an older movie version. I think it had Leslie Howard.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

1934, according to IMDB. I will have to try to track it down.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (6U3DW)

50 I'm a small guy who served only in peacetime and MI. I knew at least one enlisted lesbian who was butcher than me. But not stronger, and not more fit, despite my manifest shortcomings. Infantry is a man's job.

Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (H5knJ)

51

I don't like your cuffs!... I don't like your cuffs! I don't like your cuffs! A man's cuffs should be even with the tip of his 'pee-pee'. Yours are all the way down to your balls!

Posted by: Baroque Obama at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (UFLLM)

52
Teresa! Good to see you here!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (LsBY9)

53 "last week I heard myself saying 'So that's apt K as in cat', for example. I know that one too, but sheesh."

Ok, WeirdDave, I'll get off your lawn.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (T71PA)

54 Is it too late?


Posted by: Miley


Its never too late.

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (0pdRb)

55 32 Also, of course the act by Trump was genuine. If Hillary or Obama had done it, the camera carried by the 'average joe' would have been an IMAX quality camera.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop


Be fair. Hillary couldn't have done it because she would have fallen down. It would have just created more work for the firemen.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (+lVUW)

56 Baroque Obama is a ponce!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (EZebt)

57 Teresa! Good to see you here!

Seconded

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (0pdRb)

58 Game theory: "I've Tried Subtlety"

https://youtu.be/qzponB9XhtA

Posted by: logprof at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (e7oj4)

59 And if they were female firefighters, they might not have been able to pick her big ass up off the ground.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (+lVUW)

60 54 I'm a small guy who served only in peacetime and MI. I knew at least one enlisted lesbian who was butcher than me. But not stronger, and not more fit, despite my manifest shortcomings. Infantry is a man's job.
Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (H5knJ)


Even if she were, it doesn't matter. We're not talking about absolutes, but rather making statistical statements. Yao might be seven feet tall, but the fact remains that most Chinese are relatively short.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (YqDXo)

61 Is it too late?


Posted by: Miley

Yes, the fat lady sang.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (6Zmow)

62 Deep Swamp Felons all conspire together to their nefarious ends, and so far, damn near all of them remain free of their richly deserved prosecutions.

But let us here discuss the compiling of lists of those self-same shitheels, and begin to divide those lists into targets and assignments, and it'd be PMITA prison of the *not* Club Fed variety, before you could close the lid on the laptop.

Mussolini's end, write large.

It'd make billions on Pay Per View.

One can but dream.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (QzJWU)

63 I'd prefer Broke Obama.

Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (JCmKL)

64 Can yuo believe that thaet eevil rayciss Trump fired John Brennan just so he could kidnap more cihldren ov cohller?
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM



Speaking of dysgraphia, I note Cloggenstien has misspelt her name, again...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (e9G8E)

65 I had read about Trump and the firefighters, but I had not watched the video until now. Thanks, WeirdDave! That genuinely made me happy to watch.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 16, 2018 10:20 PM (NL6wI)

66
Baroque Modern Obama is a ponce!

Fixed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2018 10:20 PM (LsBY9)

67 Iterated prisoner's dilemma explains the current "conservative "philosophical divide that's going on pretty well.

The acela corridor shouting "muh principles" is saying we need to always cooperate, no matter how many times we're betrayed. Whether because they truly advocate for the other side or they fear endless betrayal on both sides depends how much you believe them.

The make them live by their own rules is saying we need to adopt a tit for tat strategy in order to punish the other side back into cooperating. In practice it's a far superior play than always cooperate and even if the other side refuses to ever return to cooperation, it's a far more just system than one side always suffering for the other's benefit.

Posted by: Sjg at August 16, 2018 10:20 PM (gDSJf)

68 ''1934, according to IMDB. I will have to try to track it down. ''

You won't be sorry. Leslie Howard nails the part and Merle Oberon is breathtakingly beautiful.

Posted by: Tuna at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (jm1YL)

69 Ace had a game theory post... it wasn't the Prisoner's Dilemma but it showed that if the other player isn't following etiquette and is "punishing" you, the only winning strategy is to behave the same towards them.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (/qEW2)

70 The contrast between Trump and Obama in that video - remember when Obama made the Marine hold the umbrella for him in the rain?

That man was a king size asshole.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (6Zmow)

71 Why are all these "Constitutional" Fucking "Lawyers"
gayer than the cast of fucking La Cage aux Folles...

Posted by: thence nada at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (YiSMO)

I don't know, but maybe AlexTheChick knows.

Ask her.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (wYseH)

72 Why are all these "Constitutional" Fucking "Lawyers" gayer than the cast of fucking La Cage aux Folles in a San Francisco gay bar filming themselves sucking immigrant dicks for Likes on Facebook by Nambla and OrganizingForObama.org ?
Posted by: thence nada at August 16, 2018 10:18 PM (YiSMO)


Well, that there is pretty gay alright.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (T71PA)

73 Why's Chicago the Windy City?

Because it's politicians are full of hot air!

Posted by: Surfperch at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (AcZtS)

74 75 The contrast between Trump and Obama in that video - remember when Obama made the Marine hold the umbrella for him in the rain?

That man was a king size asshole.
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (6Zmow)

You ain't just whistling Dixie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:22 PM (6U3DW)

75 Ha! Obamadeus.

Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2018 10:22 PM (ltmZG)

76

Ride a manwhore, save a cowboy!

Posted by: Broke Back Obama at August 16, 2018 10:22 PM (UFLLM)

77 Yoko isn't so bad afterall?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:13 PM


You are one of the few COBs who appreciate her greatness, Misanthropic Humanitarian.

Posted by: Intragalactic Yoko Ono Artistry Appreciation Society, Claque of AoSHQ at August 16, 2018 10:23 PM (DMUuz)

78 80 Ha! Obamadeus.
Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2018 10:22 PM (ltmZG)

threadwinner!

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:23 PM (6Zmow)

79 78 Why's Chicago the Windy City?

Because it's politicians are full of hot air!
Posted by: Surfperch at August 16, 2018 10:21 PM (AcZtS)


Ironically, I believe that that's actually the origin of the nickname. Nothing to do with the weather. Chicago was the site of a political convention (IIRC in the late 19th century) and was characterized by a reporter as "the Windy City" because of the long speeches.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 16, 2018 10:23 PM (YqDXo)

80 Really like the foppish Baroque Obama picture.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 16, 2018 10:23 PM (Zskvw)

81 I think less female marines and more female cops
ive seen a few insanely hot ones on Live PD and would like to see more

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:23 PM (pWEY3)

82 .... write = writ.

I blame it on the Derp State.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 10:24 PM (QzJWU)

83 That man was a king size asshole.


For some reason, I've always thought of 0bama as queen sized.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at August 16, 2018 10:25 PM (IcT7t)

84 Oh Piss Boy! Wait for the shake!

Posted by: Fritz at August 16, 2018 10:25 PM (CdLX2)

85 That video of Donny Two Scoops and the firemen is awesome.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 16, 2018 10:25 PM (8iiMU)

86 84 as someone lucky enough to be born and raised in the center of the universe, aka Chicago....
you are exactly right

God bless the glory known as the home of the real pizza Chicago

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:25 PM (pWEY3)

87 Those firefighters are lucky The Big Black Van will never hold the President of the United States, because they'd have to carry her!

Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2018 10:25 PM (oLWxf)

88 Does the word "pimp" come from "Pimpernal?"

Posted by: JoeF. at August 16, 2018 10:26 PM (o1fzk)

89 Barack the catamite.

Posted by: CMU VET at August 16, 2018 10:26 PM (C+wjz)

90 Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:23 PM (pWEY3)

I got a speeding ticket on 101 North in northern California from an incredibly beautiful, smokin' hot CHP officer.

And she was an amazing bitch too.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 10:26 PM (wYseH)

91 Hey everybody.

Thought people here would appreciate this: 50 Chuck Norris jokes.

http://qr.ae/TUNRFg

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:26 PM (km8m2)

92 Sorry...chicks can't fight.
Posted by: Key Grip


Never been in a Walmart on Black Friday, have you?

Posted by: Adriane the Seasonal Critic ... at August 16, 2018 10:27 PM (AoK0a)

93 Her opinion is less than unbiased.

Posted by: thence nada at August 16, 2018 10:25 PM (YiSMO)

And you are obtuse.

Tone it down.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 10:27 PM (wYseH)

94 32---That's what really matters.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 10:11 PM (y87Qq)
------------------------
No, what really matters is that men never, ever have a room of their own.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 10:27 PM (0jtPF)

95 By the way, my previous doctor's son became a firefighter. A big proportion of what they do is emergency medical calls. If my dad fell and I called 911, the firefighters were sent, they would decide whether an ambulance was needed.

What usually happened was that two of them would come in. Sometimes one of them would be a woman. In medical emergencies one person doesn't lift, whether it was two men or a man and a woman.The woman was usually pretty big and strong. I think they do have rigorous standards.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:27 PM (+lVUW)

96 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 16, 2018 10:26 PM (wYseH)

Goes hand in hand more often than not

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:27 PM (3Pma+)

97 Those firefighters are lucky The Big Black Van will never hold the President of the United States, because they'd have to carry her!
Posted by: t-bird at August 16, 2018 10:25 PM


The horror ... the horror ...

Posted by: Fire Captain Kurtz at August 16, 2018 10:28 PM (DMUuz)

98 Had to watch that Trump vid a few times. He does love us morons!

Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:28 PM (pcnVL)

99 And you are obtuse.

I prefer to think of myself as perpendicular...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:28 PM (km8m2)

100 98 Sorry...chicks can't fight.
Posted by: Key Grip

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Huh.

You don't say...

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 10:29 PM (L282n)

101 96 hey CBD, long time
I know a Sgt here on HPD, just freakishly hot but will throw a punch in a second
nck idolizes her, go figure

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:29 PM (pWEY3)

102 Video of Trump is awesome but I bet he drives the SS detail nuts.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:29 PM (dUJdY)

103 Ironically, I believe that that's actually the origin of the nickname. Nothing to do with the weather. Chicago was the site of a political convention (IIRC in the late 19th century) and was characterized by a reporter as "the Windy City" because of the long speeches.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 16, 2018 10:23 PM (YqDXo)

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I grew up there, and have had to pull myself along Lake Shore Drive with the rope they have to put up in the Winter because it is so windy. The lake on both ends of LSD, and tall buildings on both sides to funnel and focus said wind.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 10:29 PM (o3Kzf)

104 All of this, all of this, will not end well. The most far-sighted science fiction writers never thought of a world devouring itself because of one horrible woman. (You know the one I mean.)

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 16, 2018 10:29 PM (l9m7l)

105 In principle, the idea that if a woman can meet the physical standards for combat then she should be allowed is fine. The problem is that eventually the standards will be lowered to please the screeching harpies that are complaining because very few women are qualifying.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 16, 2018 10:29 PM (xPl2J)

106 SMH

My money's on you. I'll even hold your beer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 10:29 PM (hyuyC)

107 Posted by: Adriane the Seasonal Critic ... at August 16, 2018 10:27 PM (AoK0a)

LOL

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:30 PM (3Pma+)

108 64 - I think you're right about the statistics. The point I was trying to make (poorly) is that it's not just that men are so much stronger/faster etc. on average, it's that even bottom-rung males tend to be markedly better than the vast majority of females at the physical tasks that infantrymen perform.

Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 16, 2018 10:30 PM (H5knJ)

109 >>>Chicago was the site of a political convention (IIRC in the late 19th
century) and was characterized by a reporter as "the Windy City" because
of the long speeches.<<<

And the inside joke subtext is 'wind' is a euphemism for fart, as is 'hot air', which sums up most politician's utterances.

Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2018 10:31 PM (JCmKL)

110 I had a refrigerator delivered at my old house. Because the kitchen was smallish it was one of the smaller refrigerators. The deliverers were a man and a woman. They carried it in, didn't wheel it on a dolly. She carried her side as easily as he did, but, again, she was not a petite woman.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:31 PM (+lVUW)

111 FB meme:

All of America can fit into Texas, FOUR times!

Don't think so, but that could be true of the new SuperTexas that's still in an experimental phase at the lab...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:31 PM (km8m2)

112 109 its not that bad off LSD
now Lincoln ave by Belmont in November...holy crap that was bad

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:32 PM (pWEY3)

113 one horrible woman. (You know the one I mean.)

RBG in a bikini?!???!

Posted by: Adriane the Obtuse Critic ... at August 16, 2018 10:32 PM (AoK0a)

114 French Lessons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLUhw0cvZA0

Posted by: Off the reservation at August 16, 2018 10:33 PM (vWMNq)

115 Hey Wierd Dave, how bout not linking us to a fucking paywalled WaPo piece, m'kay?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 16, 2018 10:33 PM (a06i9)

116 everybody is waiting.

Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:33 PM (pcnVL)

117 Here it comes.....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (89T5c)

118 Hillary Clinton will never stop a motorcade to shake hands with firefighters as President of the United States.

Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (JCmKL)

119 A good book on Game Theory and John von Neumann is Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone.

Tit for Tat is not the very best play, but it is a strategy very hard to beat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (hyuyC)

120 its not that bad off LSD
now Lincoln ave by Belmont in November...holy crap that was bad
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:32 PM (pWEY3)

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Hell, I lived out in Park Ridge and we got it there sometimes too.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (o3Kzf)

121 RBG in a bikini?!???!
Posted by: Adriane the Obtuse Critic ... at August 16, 2018 10:32 PM (AoK0a)


At last, we know what killed Scalia.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (km8m2)

122 everybody is waiting.

lol.. I know.. I kinda want to go to bed but...

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (dUJdY)

123 I've always thought that using spell-check, autocolander, and such was cheating, made the brain soft, etc...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (e9G8E)

124 I sure am glad that Donald Trump is the president.

That's all I have to say about that.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (6Zmow)

125 122 how bout not linking us to a fucking paywalled WaPo piece, m'kay?

you read the content?
wtf, is that a thing now?

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (pWEY3)

126 Almost there........

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 16, 2018 10:35 PM (89T5c)

127 Hi Infidel! How have you been doing lately with the family?

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:35 PM (km8m2)

128 Have a great night everyone.

Second day of school tomorrow.

I did not assign homework the first day. I've mellowed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 10:35 PM (hyuyC)

129 you read the content?
wtf, is that a thing now?
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!!


Hey!

Posted by: Penthouse Readers in their Smoking Jackets, Local 203 ... at August 16, 2018 10:36 PM (AoK0a)

130 So. I've read the comments. Now for the content.

Posted by: Off the reservation at August 16, 2018 10:37 PM (vWMNq)

131 128 I grew up on the lake side of Wrigley then moved to the other side right near Lincoln

Clark and Lincoln act like wind tunnels
add some wind chill and bony skinny butts like mine and pain, much terrible pain

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:37 PM (pWEY3)

132
109 its not that bad off LSD

It's not that bad ON LSD.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 10:37 PM (IqV8l)

133 I can't imagine that the ban is too far away. Again.
Posted by: thence nada at August 16, 2018 10:31 PM (YiSMO)

You do realize that there are two COBS's here tonight, right?


Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:37 PM (6Zmow)

134 Hey Wierd Dave, how bout not linking us to a fucking paywalled WaPo piece, m'kay?
Hey, Les, how about I give you a complete refund for everything you paid for the content, m'kay?

Posted by: Weirddave at August 16, 2018 10:38 PM (bQXMb)

135
Second day of school tomorrow.

I did not assign homework the first day. I've mellowed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 10:35 PM (hyuyC)


Where? Dotheboys Hall? Have the little tykes scrub the floor and polish the chandelier.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2018 10:39 PM (LsBY9)

136 White T-shirt Contest!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zSz2VnFY_Q

Posted by: Off the reservation at August 16, 2018 10:39 PM (vWMNq)

137 Hi qdp! It's been rough. The first day back to work today was good. Bro still being himself. Trying to force PR to start probate. For what little hasn't been taken care of. I just want everything to be settled instead of all the turmoil. Trying to get the TPO's withdrawn prior to the court date on Mon. Dad gave me a plan, trying to stick to it. I will fall apart later.

How goes the job?

Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:40 PM (pcnVL)

138 As the ONT goes on, the comments *become* the content.

Very Zen, this.

ommmmmm



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 10:40 PM (QzJWU)

139 137 dude, what the hell is wrong with you?
daddy didn't give you enough attention?
got to play internet bully behind a screen while living with your parents?

go out, have a whiskey sour, look and some strippers, get your manhood back you cuck
its not too late

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:40 PM (pWEY3)

140 I grew up on the lake side of Wrigley then moved to the other side right near Lincoln

Clark and Lincoln act like wind tunnels
add some wind chill and bony skinny butts like mine and pain, much terrible pain
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:37 PM (pWEY3)

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Were you there in '81-'82 (I think) winter when it got down to 80 below with the wind chill? Holy phuch!

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 10:40 PM (o3Kzf)

141 86 I think less female marines and more female cops
ive seen a few insanely hot ones on Live PD and would like to see more
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!!


I've watched that show. It has Pasco County, Florida, home of the white trash caricatures, many of whom have trouble wearing clothes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:41 PM (+lVUW)

142 Hey Wierd Dave, how bout not linking us to a fucking paywalled WaPo piece, m'kay?
Posted by: Les Kinetic
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*?*

I had no trouble linking.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 10:41 PM (xSo9G)

143 142 three at least three COBs present

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:41 PM (pWEY3)

144 That parakeet was trained by Bruce Willis.

True fact.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 16, 2018 10:42 PM (0ogQG)

145 Posted by: thence nada at August 16, 2018 10:39 PM (YiSMO)

Buh-bye

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:42 PM (3Pma+)

146 You do realize that there are two COBS's here tonight, right?



Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:37 PM



I count three...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:42 PM (e9G8E)

147 Some people have too much time on their hands. I'm not one of them.. night all.

Stay safe.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:42 PM (dUJdY)

148 BOOM.

Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:42 PM (pcnVL)

149 OH just in time!!! OK.. now I'm going to bed.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 16, 2018 10:43 PM (dUJdY)

150 Thank you, MisHum!

Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:43 PM (pcnVL)

151 140 youre thinking about the blizzard of 79
my freshman year at Lane
it was insane

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:43 PM (pWEY3)

152 Looks like I missed the action. Typical.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 10:43 PM (NWiLs)

153 lol Jewell

Niters

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 10:43 PM (L282n)

154
Last night, I did something I hadn't done a long time, listened to Coast to Coast AM. George Noory is no Art Bell. But last night was Bigfoot, and it was pretty good.

He had some character one who claims to have pictures of the goomers. Here's some of the pics,

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8w4fx6a

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 10:44 PM (8O3HH)

155 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 10:35 PM (hyuyC)

I believe you have 178 days to make it up

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 10:44 PM (3Pma+)

156 "That man was a king sized asshole."

Too much butt sex.

Posted by: colfax mingo at August 16, 2018 10:44 PM (NgPkP)

157 Am I in trouble with the 'ettes here?

Yesterday I tried to say hello to Miley, nothing.
Today I tried to say hello to Infidel...

I'm probably just too dang needy for my own good.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:44 PM (km8m2)

158 Haha! Suicide by COB.

Good night all...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 16, 2018 10:45 PM (Wo0KV)

159 141 im watching it now
they added Thursdays as of today

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:45 PM (pWEY3)

160 I'll be glad to buy Bernie a soft pretzel every day for the rest of his life, as long as he eats each one in full.

There's probably not a worse food for an elderly person on the planet.

Heck, I'll buy him two!

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 16, 2018 10:45 PM (0ogQG)

161 I count three...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto


No maths ... No maths ...

Posted by: Adriane the Numerology Critic ... at August 16, 2018 10:45 PM (AoK0a)

162 Hey, qdp, I responded. A little slow on the uptake tonight?

Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:45 PM (pcnVL)

163 >> Yesterday I tried to say hello to Miley, nothing.

The Duchess has a lot, and I mean a lot on her plate. She's quite exhausted.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 10:46 PM (8O3HH)

164

I see four Cobs.

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at August 16, 2018 10:46 PM (IqV8l)

165 The other problem with women in combat is, even given equivalent levels of strength, it was found that in mixed infantry platoons of males and females, the females suffered 8x the injuries of the males. Thus, the mixed infantry platoons suffered because they had many more people who were out because of injuries.

David

Posted by: David, Russian Internet Dreamer Bot at August 16, 2018 10:46 PM (avSZz)

166 I'm probably just too dang needy for my own good.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:44 PM (km8m2)

Hi qdpsteve from this Ette. Hope everything is good with you!

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:46 PM (6Zmow)

167 >>>Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance

That explains so much. I guess Chicago's demographics have reached a tipping point. If most of the population are gangstas, so will the politicians and judges.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 16, 2018 10:46 PM (/qEW2)

168 157 Am I in trouble with the 'ettes here?

dude, just offer up heels or chocolates
ettes are easy creatures to capture in the wild

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:47 PM (pWEY3)

169 140 youre thinking about the blizzard of 79
my freshman year at Lane
it was insane
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:43 PM (pWEY3)

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No, I remember that well, because the mounds of snow were so high that this 17 year old HS football player could not even throw snow over them.

It was either 2 or 3 winters later that it got so cold that it popped the freeze plugs on my car. Maine South, 1981 for me.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 10:47 PM (o3Kzf)

170 qdp.... have you tried 1-900-Rent n' Ette?

It's like fone secks, but you've got to provide your own lube for the fone.

/snrk



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (QzJWU)

171 "I grew up on the lake side of Wrigley then moved to the other side right near Lincoln " Cornelia, then Clark&Sheffield, then Wilton&Grace. 18 years. The neighborhood improved significantly after (because?) I moved out.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (mk9aG)

172 And NOW I see Infidel's response to me! Thanks Infidel, sorry about my whine at 157.

Sounds like things are going halfway decently, which is good. As I recall, you come from a liberal family from hell. Or is that zombie?

As for the job, I had a better week. My boss managed to keep her sense of humor, which I always welcome (and nurture by responding to it).

We also got to talking about past jobs. It turns out she also used to work in the Hollywood/NY music publishing business, and was talking to me about how incestuous show business in general is. She mentioned how everybody not only works together, they socialize together, eat out together, go to bars together, shop together...

She admitted it's like a cult, and even acknowledges most of them are all-out liberal hypocrites. (They all live in some of the whitest neighborhoods in all of Southern California, and all in the San Fernando Valley, which they rarely leave.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (km8m2)

173 Hey, qdpsteve, you coming to the MoMe in Irvine next week?

David

Posted by: David, Russian Internet Dreamer Bot at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (avSZz)

174
Joe West umpired his first MLB game for the 5,164th time Wednesday night.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (LsBY9)

Posted by: tbodie at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (YdSkn)

176 No, what really matters is that men never, ever have a room of their own.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 10:27 PM (0jtPF)


We're not talking about the barracks, are we. I'm perceptive like that.

For whatever it's worth, I didn't sign up for a boy's club,* and I care as much about keeping military communities sexually-segregated as much as I do about arbitrarily integrating them, which is to say, not at all. The purpose of the exercise is to hurt bad people and break their toys, if you can do that, IDGAF. I know this bears only on a very selective community in one particular branch, but that's all I have any experience to speak from. I worked with guys who could have carried me under one arm and were so transcendently useless that they would have dragged us both INTO the fire. If a girl can lift about 50 pounds, operate a valve, detect, track, and classify broadband and narrowband acoustic signals, display the occasional flash of common sense, and show up to work on time, she could have done pretty much everything I did. Basic adult hygiene skills a bonus.

I hope this doesn't come across as snippy, it's not meant to be.

* OK technically I did, but that wasn't why I signed up for it.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (y87Qq)

177 Bernardine Dohrn grew up a block over on Roscoe.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (mk9aG)

178 157 Am I in trouble with the 'ettes here?

Yesterday I tried to say hello to Miley, nothing.
Today I tried to say hello to Infidel...

I'm probably just too dang needy for my own good.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:44 PM (km8m2)

Stuff scrolls by fast, man. Do not take it personally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:49 PM (6U3DW)

179 Infidel, yup, slow on the uptake. Again sorry. ;-)

Hi ALH! Thanks! :-)

Militarized, LOL. I have some old heels from when I used to dress up in drag for Halloween at work...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:49 PM (km8m2)

180 WD, MisJum, CBD...
ekhad, shnayim, shalosh...
Ayup, thar's three of 'em alright!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:49 PM (e9G8E)

181 The Prisoners' Dilemma Game:

Strikes me as being a little simplistic.

In real life, defense attys would confer & explain to their clients that if they BOTH clam up, they both walk. Also, there are things called "Joint Defense Agreements." Also, most prosecutors wouldn't indict either dude if there's not enough evidence to convict, absent some unknown future cooperation. They're not supposed to, & nobody likes to eat an NG verdict.

What a prosecutor would more likely do is offer the less culpable one immunity in return for truthful testimony, & then stick him in the GJ to lock his testimony down.

Thx for indulging me in my little rant.

Posted by: strawdog at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (Cssks)

182 Aetius, I didn't even know you were an 'ette. :-) Thanks...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (km8m2)

183 170 qdp.... have you tried 1-900-Rent n' Ette?

It's like fone secks, but you've got to provide your own lube for the fone.

/snrk



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (QzJWU)

Why would anyone want to lube a phone?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (NWiLs)

184 Why stop at one pretzel, Bernie? Or two? In fact, I'll buy you a third pretzel.

Posted by: Hillary at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (2NqXo)

185 Sometimes AoSHQ reminds of a scene from All In The Family...

Meathead (very upset, sputtering): Y'know Archie, you eat my heart out! Day by day, piece by piece, you eat my heart out!

Archie (listening, considering, snidely, mutters): I don't care.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (EZebt)

186 119 Hillary Clinton will never stop a motorcade to shake hands with firefighters as President of the United States.
Posted by: davidt


She wouldn't have even if she'd won, God forbid, because she hates men in uniform.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (+lVUW)

187 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 10:51 PM (vwf8z)

188 qdp, that you mixed me up with zombie, well. Thanks, but I am not in her/his league. My family is conservative, bro is just the freak show. Glad you had a good week.

I'm out. exahsted.

Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:51 PM (pcnVL)

189
You Meathead, you!

Posted by: Archie Bunker at August 16, 2018 10:51 PM (8O3HH)

190 OK, rechecking my figures, I see that the injury rate for women in mixed platoons was about 2.8x times the injury rate for men. Sorry for the exaggeration.

David

Posted by: David, Russian Internet Dreamer Bot at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (avSZz)

191 Speaking of Halloween - I bought some batteries for my skeletons today. I have this cool one that is a candy dish and when you reach for the candy he moves and scares the bejeebus out of you. He's a new one.
I'm going to start the Fall decorating over Labor Day week-end.
It's almost Fall ya'll! Pumpkin Spice Everything!

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (6Zmow)

192
You Big Dummy!

Posted by: Fred Sanford at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (8O3HH)

193 168 I remember 91-92 was really bad cold wise for like two straight months, so cold it couldnt snow so maybe that
I also remember the coldest day on record at the time, jan 20, I was in boot camp at great lakes
timing was not good for that one

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (pWEY3)

194 Jim, I'm on hold as we speak. ;-)

(The hold music is...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jewWk8k4V5k

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (km8m2)

195 Sorry my jokes bombed so bad last nite. I'm working on new material, and I'm honing it in the clubs before I try it here. I have a good pee-party story about Lena Dunham. Crowd reaction is mixed so far, but WTF do they know anyway? A-holes.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (mk9aG)

196 182 Aetius, I didn't even know you were an 'ette. :-) Thanks...
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (km8m2)

*checks*

I am not. I was but speaking in the 'ettes defense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (6U3DW)

197 Why would anyone want to lube a phone?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM

Philistine. A lubaphone is the greatest orchestral noisemaker ever. Requirement: ostrich jacket for live performances.

Posted by: Lubaphone player at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (2NqXo)

198 Infidel, thanks again for the update. Glad to hear you only have one crazy to deal with. :-) Goodnight!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (km8m2)

199 My #24 became #22

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (txw6d)

200 "So that's apt K as in 'cat'", for example. I know that one too, but sheesh.

I seem to recall Kelly Bundy having trouble with that one, too. The difference is, I'd allow her to leave cracker crumbs in my bed.

For weirddave, this is my floor.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (0ogQG)

201 Aetius, you're trans. Got it. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (km8m2)

202 Night Infidel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:54 PM (6U3DW)

203 Speaking of Halloween - I bought some batteries for my skeletons today.
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (6Zmow)


I still have this stupid manual skeleton

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 10:54 PM (y87Qq)

204 Why would anyone want to lube a phone?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (NWiLs)

---
because they vibrate when they ring?


Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 10:54 PM (vwf8z)

205 "Why would anyone want to lube a phone?" Try it without lube, then get back to us.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (mk9aG)

206 201 Aetius, you're trans. Got it. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (km8m2)

See if I speak up for you next time, you little b... scamp.

j/k

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (6U3DW)

207 My #24 became #22
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (txw6d)

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A few troll posts went *poof*.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (o3Kzf)

208 Men have attributes that are advantageous in war. Women have attributes that are advantages in other walks of life.

Sorry...chicks can't fight.
Posted by: Key Grip at August 16, 2018 10:16 PM (wYseH)


Women can fight, but fighting is only part of the job in the infantry. A woman who can carry an 80 pound pack plus a rifle plus 210 rounds of 5.56 NATO up the side of a mountain in the thin Afghani air is a freak of nature, assuming she exists.

But the military has had good results with women in mounted roles. This gal, for example:

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/3885

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (h2Bdk)

209 171 I know the area well
I started at grace and broadway (technically the corner at pine grove then moved to damen and Addison (actually Patterson)
went to Our Lady of Mt Carmel on Belmont
neighborhood changed

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (pWEY3)

210 Aetius, just kidding. Ya know I love ya! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (km8m2)

211 The post -- it's filled with words!

Eyes so tired from driving, even if it was a nice drive.

Saw many patriotic displays and thank you Trump signs across Missouri and southern Illinois.

Also what looked to be a vacant billboard on which someone spray-painted "Claire McAsskill is not one of us!" while listening to a long pro-McAsskill ad on the radio.

'Nother traveler observation: there are many morbidly obese people out there and they seem to be of both genders and different races.

And of course the Uranus fudge company in Illinois. Let's take the kids there! said no smart parent.

Posted by: mindful webworker - as if anybody cared at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (jpzQ9)

212 She wouldn't have even if she'd won, God forbid, because she hates men in uniform.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM


A real peach, that one, treating her SS detachment like she did!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (e9G8E)

213 203 Speaking of Halloween - I bought some batteries for my skeletons today.
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (6Zmow)

I still have this stupid manual skeleton
Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 10:54 PM (y87Qq)

LOL!

Standard skeletons are cheaper and less prone the theft!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (6U3DW)

214 Why would anyone want to lube a phone?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (NWiLs)

Landline....non cordless.

Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (tbq1U)

215 Anyone have a theory as to why the Steele dossier did not see the light of day until after the election?

Isn't that basic October surprise material?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (FUnZV)

216 And I can comment again.

Thanks WD for the ONT.

Posted by: tbodie at August 16, 2018 10:57 PM (YdSkn)

217 It's almost Fall ya'll! Pumpkin Spice Everything!

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (6Zmow)

Yes, everything. I saw Pumpkin Spice M&Ms for sale today.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 16, 2018 10:57 PM (wfFu4)

218

The problem with phone sex is getting it back out again.

Pro Tip: Don't unplug the cord...

Posted by: Broke Back Obama at August 16, 2018 10:57 PM (UFLLM)

219 204 Why would anyone want to lube a phone?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (NWiLs)

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because they vibrate when they ring?


Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 10:54 PM (vwf8z)

Indeed. I seem to remember a still from an 'educational video' on this subject. publius has seen it, I am sure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:57 PM (6U3DW)

220
Women can fight, but fighting is only part of the job in the infantry.

Didn't they tell us years ago that the future of warfare was going to all be pushbutton stuff?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 10:57 PM (IqV8l)

221 I'm demanding Trump revoke my security clearance.
Also, I could use a couple cartons of smokes.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at August 16, 2018 10:58 PM (sXefu)

222 Question, if only 1% of Women could meet the stringent necessities of the modern battlefield.


Why then create all the Havoc that dual Sex units create?


Fact is, when under stress, your sex drive INCREASES... it does not diminish.


Fact is that ANY type of romance in any unit, degrades unit cohesion... whether male on male, or male on female...


Fact is that there is a MONETARY cost to putting women in combat units...


And the simple fact is, they add NOTHING to combat effectiveness... nothing...


AND you do not have the RIGHT to serve... yes, its a privilege... but one with numerous and stringent requirements...


And YOUR Feelings, should not be the cause of MEN getting killed in combat.

Posted by: Don Quixote at August 16, 2018 10:58 PM (NgKpN)

223 203 Speaking of Halloween - I bought some batteries for my skeletons today.
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (6Zmow)

I still have this stupid manual skeleton
Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 10:54 PM (y87Qq)

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pikers my is nuclear powered

Posted by: Hilary! at August 16, 2018 10:59 PM (FUnZV)

224 "209 171 I know the area well
I started at grace and broadway (technically the corner at pine grove then moved to damen and Addison (actually Patterson)
went to Our Lady of Mt Carmel on Belmont
neighborhood changed"

Le Moyne ES, Lane Tech HS, Lutheran Church at Addison and Reta. Before that neighborhood was platted, back in the 19th century, it was the largest celery farming region in the world.

Clark&Sheffield are going to be dark and weird when they put up that flyover thing.

I sure couldn't afford to live there now. Not even close.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 10:59 PM (mk9aG)

225 215 Anyone have a theory as to why the Steele dossier did not see the light of day until after the election?

Isn't that basic October surprise material?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (FUnZV)


It was shopped around in time, but editors at the major news outlets took one look and knew it was bullshit. The only reason anyone knows about it is Comey put it in the president's daily security briefing, which couldn't happen until after the election. Once it was in the briefing, they could report it as a document supplied to the president.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 10:59 PM (h2Bdk)

226 208 im torn when it comes to women in combat
im pretty much for it but there does have to be a minimum requirement
that being said, a good nco will know how to use the ability of his people effectively
its not fair but I never saw the word FAIR in my contract

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:59 PM (pWEY3)

227 Actual questions at Quora I was reading the answers to, last night:

What happens if you defy a Drill Instructor's direct order in basic training?

What happens if you challenge your DI to a fight in basic?


(One of the answers to the second question was: you finish your training at Leavenworth.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 11:00 PM (km8m2)

228 Am I in trouble with the 'ettes here?



Yesterday I tried to say hello to Miley, nothing.

Today I tried to say hello to Infidel...



I'm probably just too dang needy for my own good.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 10:44 PM (km8m2)

C'mon, Steve - what have you done to offend me? I got distracted (which happens a lot nowadays) and forgot to return your greeting.
Hi qdpsteve!

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:00 PM (txw6d)

229 Standard skeletons are cheaper and less prone the theft!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (6U3DW)


If someone offered me a no-kidding Deus Ex: Human Revolution augmentation kit I would mortgage the discarded parts of my puny human carcass for it in a myoelectrically-enhanced heartbeat. I already have the titanium robot hip, I just need to collect the whole set.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 11:00 PM (y87Qq)

230 Why would anyone want to lube a phone?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM (NWiLs)


Princess phones have that big lip on the end. It'll be rough without it. Trust me.

Posted by: Sandra F. - now with more of me to love at August 16, 2018 11:00 PM (sXefu)

231 Hi Miley! Like I said, I'm just too sensitive for my own good.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 11:01 PM (km8m2)

232 >> publius has seen it, I am sure.

I don't know where you all get these ideas about me. I'm pure as the driven sludge.

Lube is necessary for a lady to properly receive a gentleman caller.

And seriously, cell phones are some of the things that ER docs have to remove from vaginas. It's twue.
TV remote controls have been fished out as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 11:01 PM (8O3HH)

233 But the military has had good results with women in mounted roles. This gal, for example:

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don't I know it buster

Posted by: Buck Turgidson at August 16, 2018 11:01 PM (FUnZV)

234 Chavez!

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:01 PM (txw6d)

235 I WILL NOT BE MOCKED!!!!

Posted by: Baroque Obama at August 16, 2018 11:02 PM (FAO5C)

236 Didn't they tell us years ago that the future of warfare was going to all be pushbutton stuff?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 10:57 PM (IqV8l)


https://youtu.be/B203twyaMfM?t=34s

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (y87Qq)

237

Hitlery has her nuclear powered exoskeleton fuel rods changed out every three months in Moscow.

You should see where they put 'em!

If ever I needed a reason to stay gay...

Posted by: Broke Back Obama at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (UFLLM)

238 Aretha Franklin passed away today. I liked her music.
R E S P E C T

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (6Zmow)

239 Like I said, I'm just too sensitive for my own good.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 11:01 PM (km8m2)

Well, you're only 29. When you get older, you won't give a shit what people think. It's liberating.

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (txw6d)

240 I WILL NOT BE MOCKED!!!!


Posted by: Baroque Obama at August 16, 2018 11:02 PM (FAO5C)


The devil is not mocked.

Posted by: Zombie Manly Wade Wellman at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (sXefu)

241 I WILL NOT BE MOCKED!!!!
Posted by: Baroque Obama at August 16, 2018 11:02 PM (FAO5C)


Someone should produce a spoof of Fatal Attraction. Donald Trump in the Michael Douglas role, Barack Obama in the Glenn Close role.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (km8m2)

242 A real peach, that one, treating her SS detachment like she did!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM

I was shocked at how harsh she treated them.

Posted by: Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (2NqXo)

243 222 Question, if only 1% of Women could meet the stringent necessities of the modern battlefield.


Why then create all the Havoc that dual Sex units create?


Fact is, when under stress, your sex drive INCREASES... it does not diminish.


Fact is that ANY type of romance in any unit, degrades unit cohesion... whether male on male, or male on female...


Fact is that there is a MONETARY cost to putting women in combat units...


And the simple fact is, they add NOTHING to combat effectiveness... nothing...


AND you do not have the RIGHT to serve... yes, its a privilege... but one with numerous and stringent requirements...


And YOUR Feelings, should not be the cause of MEN getting killed in combat.
Posted by: Don Quixote at August 16, 2018 10:58 PM (NgKpN)

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This^

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (L282n)

244 236 Didn't they tell us years ago that the future of warfare was going to all be pushbutton stuff?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 10:57 PM (IqV8l)

https://youtu.be/B203twyaMfM?t=34s
Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 11:03 PM (y87Qq)


That was a decent movie that would have been great if they'd hewed closer to the book.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 11:04 PM (h2Bdk)

245 Speaking of Chicago and Obama, you seen the plans for the Obama Stalagmite yet? At his presidential "library?" My my, they scraped the bottom of the ugly barrel for that architecture.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 11:04 PM (mk9aG)

246 Miley: true!

I'm only 26. (For the second time.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 16, 2018 11:04 PM (km8m2)

247 224 played much baseball at LeMonye and the police league at the park in the summer
I did Mt Carmel. Lane for two then Holy Trinity for two (rm 144 and I were friends,,i think his name was Mr Burns?), then IIT, then the Navy

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:04 PM (pWEY3)

248 im torn when it comes to women in combat
im pretty much for it but there does have to be a minimum requirement


I would put them in support positions which includes sniping. Not the grunt stuff which requires speed with heavy equipment

What happens if you challenge your DI to a fight in basic?

That depends, doesn`t it? It sounds like if a sparring match is arranged and it's not a challenge to his authority, that could be part of the training. I don't know USMJ obviously.

Sucker punching the superior officer or talking back to him or insulting him, that's different.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 16, 2018 11:06 PM (N1ZXu)

249 Lube is necessary for a lady to properly receive a gentleman caller.



Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 11:01 PM (8O3HH)


My land line is moist.

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:06 PM (txw6d)

250 Who is the third COB? I apologize for missing him.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 11:06 PM (6Zmow)

251 I still have this stupid manual skeleton
Posted by: hogmartin

Standard skeletons are cheaper and less prone the theft!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop


I'm glad mine is a standard, then, too.

Waking up in an ice bath with a missing kidney was bad enough. A whole missing skeleton? Yikes!

Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2018 11:06 PM (P1f+c)

252

Where'd I leave my phone? Around here someplace... somebody call me...

Holy Lenin, that's what I call Butt Dialing!

Posted by: Broke Back Obama at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (UFLLM)

253 The only reason anyone knows about it is Comey put it in the president's daily security briefing, which couldn't happen until after the election. Once it was in the briefing, they could report it as a document supplied to the president.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 10:59 PM (h2Bdk)

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They could have put it in Obama's briefing just as easily.


All I can think of was that it was thier insurance policy, but that Clinton looked to be up enough in the polls that they didn't feel a Need to get it into the public sphere.

Posted by: Buck Turgidson at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (FUnZV)

254 I was a 1st responder once...those glory-holes must be manned!

Posted by: Cuckstar Rick Wilson at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (yhf6w)

255 im torn when it comes to women in combat
im pretty much for it but there does have to be a minimum requirement
that being said, a good nco will know how to use the ability of his people effectively
its not fair but I never saw the word FAIR in my contract
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 10:59 PM (pWEY3)


I think we're pretty much on the same page, within tolerances. I can't speak for women in combat, but I was never in combat, I was in sonar on mission. Which is roughly equivalent to five or six people doing all the air traffic control for the region between DC and Boston on Christmas Eve, only with more dick jokes.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (y87Qq)

256 167 >>>Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance

That explains so much. I guess Chicago's demographics have reached a tipping point. If most of the population are gangstas, so will the politicians and judges.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear


I'm not sure the demographics are that bad. I think it is that the population is largely liberals and democrats who are so used to wallowing in identity politics that they can't deal with gang members effectively. They really think you can play nice with thugs.

They're the midwest version of the "leaders" on the west coast who are letting homeless and junkies shit in the street and shoot up in public. No brains and no balls makes for bad leadership.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (+lVUW)

257 heh, let me try my skills, been a while

hello Miley, my name is navycopjoe, im new here
do you have a dog?

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (pWEY3)

258 women in mounted roles.

The Scythians had that. It`s supposed to be the real-world origin for the Amazon myth

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (N1ZXu)

259 Did you know that bats yawn when they wake up? Saw it with my own eyes tonight.

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM (txw6d)

260 The skeleton I wake up with is quite different from the one I go to bed with.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM (mk9aG)

261 Who is the third COB? I apologize for missing him.
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 11:06 PM (6Zmow)

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Take a look at the author of the post. WeirdDave.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM (o3Kzf)

262 234: Miley! How are you this fine evening?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM (KP5rU)

263 258 women in mounted roles.

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I miss tanks...

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM (L282n)

264 That was a decent movie that would have been great if they'd hewed closer to the book.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 11:04 PM (h2Bdk)


I find it's easier to enjoy them both if I pretend they just share a name by sheer coincidence and aren't related at all.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 11:09 PM (y87Qq)

265 Waking up in an ice bath with a missing kidney was bad enough. A whole missing skeleton? Yikes!
Posted by: mikeski at August 16, 2018 11:06 PM (P1f+c)


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spines are so overrated

Posted by: GOPe at August 16, 2018 11:09 PM (FUnZV)

266 Take a look at the author of the post. WeirdDave.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM (o3Kzf)

And MisHum and who else? TIA, Calm Mentor!

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 11:09 PM (6Zmow)

267 250 CBsextoy, DavetheWeird, and some dude from cheeseland

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (pWEY3)

268 I was a 1st responder once...those glory-holes must be manned!

Posted by: Cuckstar Rick Wilson at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (yhf6w)


Once more unto the breach!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (sXefu)

269

One of my military advisors said Mooch could 'take a 105 shell and never notice.'

I wish I knew what that meant...

Posted by: Broke Back Obama at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (UFLLM)

270 >> Did you know that bats yawn when they wake up?

No I did not. Some day that knowledge may well save my life.

Challenge to the Horde: come up with a plausible scenario in which knowledge of bat yawning proves life-saving.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (8O3HH)

271 heh, let me try my skills, been a while



hello Miley, my name is navycopjoe, im new here

do you have a dog?

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (pWEY3)

I did, but Barry Soetero ate it. And my homework. Then he bogarted my joint.

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (txw6d)

272 I weigh half again what my wife weighs. We once tried this, and she could barely drag me half a dozen feet. No reflection on her: I'd be hard-pressed to drag a 270 lb. man very far myself. Most MEN are not fit (or young) enough to qualify as firefighters, never mind most women.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with an added spark of divinity at August 16, 2018 10:12 PM (YqDXo)

Reminds me of my H2S Alive course that I must do every 3 years to keep working in the oilfield. No way I could drag some 200 pound fit guy out of a confined space, being a 200 pound unfit guy. But I can learn how to don and use the SCBA, so that I don't become a casualty that the 200 pound fit guy has to drag to safety. So there's that.

And I if go to work on a potentially sour well that has an Emergency Response Plan, it's almost always my job to go to the regional response center and receive civilians evacuated from the exclusion area around an uncontrolled sour well. They get me off the lease, and I have something useful to do. Never had to do it, fortunately. You plan to deal with disasters, you have fewer disasters. Funny, that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (LI7AQ)

273 hello Miley, my name is navycopjoe, im new here
do you have a dog?
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:07 PM (pWEY3)

Made me laugh.

Posted by: tbodie at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (YdSkn)

274 Who is the third COB? I apologize for missing him.

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 11:06 PM

CBD, MisHum, and I also counted our gracious host and MC, Weirddave...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (e9G8E)

275 And MisHum and who else? TIA, Calm Mentor!
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 11:09 PM (6Zmow)

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CBD

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (L282n)

276 250 CBsextoy, DavetheWeird, and some dude from cheeseland
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (pWEY3)

We're Surrounded!

Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (6Zmow)

277 I sent in a pic of my Mitten for the Pet Thread. Hope it hits soon. You morons will love her. Gonna go viral.

Posted by: gp at August 16, 2018 11:11 PM (mk9aG)

278 Women in mounted roles.

hubba hubba!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 11:11 PM (QzJWU)

279 Academic Agent has a channel with long rambling chats about economics and world politics. His short videos are terrific, maybe a fair substitute for Prager U videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/
UCyawG3aTE7RmNQcFQskDWcw


He said something that made me think of Cassandra. Cassandra was cursed in a creatively cruel way by the Greek gods. She was given the ability to see every disaster ahead of time, EG an earthquake killing people in her town. And the curse was that no one would ever listen to her no matter what she said or how she acted. You can see how frantic and tortured she would be, stuck between two conditions, one made horrendous by the other.
Unsaid and unnecessary to the story, is that Cassandra is not a misanthrope. She loves her friends and neighbors like a normal person would.

He briefly outlined the leftward drift of every government over the past 50 years as something tragic and a symptom of low moral or sense of purpose. How sad that these decades were mostly the life of Thomas Sowell. Sad that he was the greatest and clearest conservative of all, and while giving his very best, he watched the nation go slouching in the opposite direction. And especially in the last ten years.

I have no intention of being a Cassandra. We will win or go down swinging, and that inescapable choice has been laid before us. This may be the most accurate division between myself and GOPe. Fuck Bill Kristol, he has a mouth made for a BOD. Him and his cocktail coterie of bugmen can go to hell, less-cheerful that they didn't take us with them.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 11:11 PM (rnAwa)

280 Challenge to the Horde: come up with a plausible scenario in which knowledge of bat yawning proves life-saving.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (8O3HH)


This guy here will kill you if you don't know whether a bat yawns when it wakes up or not.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 11:11 PM (y87Qq)

281 Challenge to the Horde: come up with a plausible scenario in which knowledge of bat yawning proves life-saving.

Canary in a coal theory in a cave full of CO2...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:12 PM (UFLLM)

282 🚢 🍆

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 11:12 PM (rnAwa)

283
I miss tanks...
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM (L282n)

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lead them a little more

Posted by: GOPe at August 16, 2018 11:12 PM (FUnZV)

284 176---I hope this doesn't come across as snippy, it's not meant to be.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 10:48 PM (y87Qq)
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Didn't seem snippy to me, just an impassioned argument from another point of view!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 11:13 PM (0jtPF)

285 Once more unto the breach!
Posted by: Bill Kristol at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (sXefu)
..................
You she-devil...

Posted by: Cuckstar Rick Wilson at August 16, 2018 11:13 PM (yhf6w)

286 271 wow, that sums that up

273 I may not be around much but my reputation is legend

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:13 PM (pWEY3)

287 The smoke from Canadian wildfires is making for creepy sky tonight. Need rain to bring it down.

Today's news about the Manafort jury is a hopeful sign. Mewler may get another blemish on his spotful resume. Trump will have the last laugh.

Posted by: colfax mingo at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (NgPkP)

288 Posted by: Infidel at August 16, 2018 10:40

Be well Infidel. Sorry for your loss and hope the ensuring stuff goes smoothly.

Posted by: Farmer at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (yJ1e6)

289 >> My land line is moist.

Well, better call the telephone man.

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

Show me where you want, and I'll put it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (8O3HH)

290 I saw 3 Cob Night open for 3 Dog Night. It was confusing.

Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (JCmKL)

291 Posted by: GOPe

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As if you've lead anything.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (L282n)

292 Why would a cave be filled with CO2?

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (txw6d)

293 Challenge to the Horde: come up with a plausible scenario in which knowledge of bat yawning proves life-saving.

It's not a yawn, he's mouthing a warning about the Sleestak behind you...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (UFLLM)

294 MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:10 PM (pWEY3)


Hi Spam Man errrr I mean Navy Cop Joe

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 11:15 PM (3Pma+)

295 Also, of course the act by Trump was genuine. If Hillary or Obama had done it, the camera carried by the 'average joe' would have been an IMAX quality camera.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Be fair. Hillary couldn't have done it because she would have fallen down. It would have just created more work for the firemen.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:17 PM (+lVUW)

Just to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, I will grant the possibility that Trump stopping his motorcade to press the flesh with firefighters was a scripted event. Big deal. Barky and/or Hillaroid would never even have contemplated doing that, because they hate the kind of people that become firefighters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:15 PM (LI7AQ)

296 292 Why would a cave be filled with CO2?

Too many midget hyperventilators.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:15 PM (UFLLM)

297 Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (JCmKL)

What do you expect you're from the south shore

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 11:16 PM (3Pma+)

298 294 whatup!!!
ready for another fun filled season of da bears crushing my dreams?

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:16 PM (pWEY3)

299 Did you know that bats yawn when they wake up? Saw it with my own eyes tonight.


Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:08 PM


They're not 'yawning', they're disgorging the previous night's blood meal...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:16 PM (e9G8E)

300 *273 I may not be around much but my reputation is legend
Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:13 PM (pWEY3)*

I've been, mostly, lurking a long time. Good to see you are here.

Posted by: tbodie at August 16, 2018 11:16 PM (YdSkn)

301 Show me where you want, and I'll put it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (8O3HH)

My fingers did the walking on the telephone man.

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (txw6d)

302 Why would a cave be filled with CO2?

In coal country, caves fill with methane. If there is a spark and oxygen about, there is a big bang and a cave full of co2. Sometimes dead miners.

This happened a lot. That`s why they brought canaries.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (N1ZXu)

303 Baroque Obama. WeirdDave, send him that picture and he'll be your bess friend.

Posted by: Barley Corn at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (242F/)

304 Women can fight, but fighting is only part of
the job in the infantry. A woman who can carry an 80 pound pack plus a
rifle plus 210 rounds of 5.56 NATO up the side of a mountain in the
thin Afghani air is a freak of nature, assuming she exists.
(snip)
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (h2Bdk)

---
to be honest, as an old 11 Series myself (H/B), most of the guys who can do that, w/o sustaining serious, lifelong damage to their body, are freaks too.

the rest of them wind up in the VA at an early age.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (vwf8z)

305 Ship of eggplant

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (IqV8l)

306 Just to play Devil's Advocate for a moment, I will grant the possibility that Trump stopping his motorcade to press the flesh with firefighters was a scripted event. Big deal. Barky and/or Hillaroid would never even have contemplated doing that, because they hate the kind of people that become firefighters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:15 PM (LI7AQ)


Any other president and I would assume it was scripted. With this guy... probably has SS escort shitting its collective pants because they weren't prepared to cover him out of the car at that particular spot.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (h2Bdk)

307 CO2 is heavier that air. It fills up caves and deep ocean trenches forcing naturally cool areas to warm and make extreme weather to kill the poor.

Posted by: colfax mingo at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (NgPkP)

308 Anyone have a theory as to why the Steele dossier did not see the light of day until after the election?

Isn't that basic October surprise material?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 16, 2018 10:56 PM (FUnZV)


She planned to use it on him while she was president and he a citizen. As a lesson to the hoi polloi.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (rnAwa)

309 ready for another fun filled season of da bears crushing my dreams?

Come to Houston. This is a service Rockets can provide.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 16, 2018 11:18 PM (N1ZXu)

310 They're not 'yawning', they're disgorging the previous night's blood meal...


Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:16 PM (e9G8E)

Nothing fell out.

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:18 PM (txw6d)

311 292 Why would a cave be filled with CO2?
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (txw6d)

Sefton had a seltzer party?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 11:18 PM (NWiLs)

312 Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:16 PM (pWEY3)

You have your Cubs

Will see what your qb is made of this year.

I could see them 8-8

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 11:18 PM (3Pma+)

313 I'm imagining that Miley has a Princess Phone, but would really appreciate a Magic Jack?


/moron



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 11:18 PM (QzJWU)

314 *Why would a cave be filled with CO2?
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (txw6d)*

Coal mines are frequently filled with gases. In my experience it had been methane.

Posted by: tbodie at August 16, 2018 11:19 PM (YdSkn)

315 304 Women can fight, but fighting is only part of
the job in the infantry. A woman who can carry an 80 pound pack plus a
rifle plus 210 rounds of 5.56 NATO up the side of a mountain in the
thin Afghani air is a freak of nature, assuming she exists.
(snip)
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (h2Bdk)

---
to be honest, as an old 11 Series myself (H/B), most of the guys who can do that, w/o sustaining serious, lifelong damage to their body, are freaks too.

the rest of them wind up in the VA at an early age.
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (vwf8z)


I couldn't have done it on my best day. But at least there are enough of those kinds of guys to put together a few divisions.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 11:19 PM (h2Bdk)

316 Fun Fact, a bat that yawns is rabid, signaling it is about to attack. Easy way to remember it:

You
Are
Warned
Now

Posted by: Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS at August 16, 2018 11:19 PM (2NqXo)

317 313 I'm imagining that Miley has a Princess Phone, but would really appreciate a Magic Jack?


/moron



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at August 16, 2018 11:18 PM (QzJWU)

Rotary.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 11:20 PM (NWiLs)

318 313 I'm imagining that Miley has a Princess Phone, but would really appreciate a Magic Jack?

I expect Miley has a Magic Jack.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:20 PM (UFLLM)

319 >> My fingers did the walking on the telephone man.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess

How do you handle Peter the Meter Reader?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLss0Uk2ZeU

There's something he wants to see. You'll need to show him your box.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 16, 2018 11:20 PM (8O3HH)

320 lead them a little more

Posted by: GOPe at August 16, 2018 11:12 PM (FUnZV)

---
naw, just use a SACLOS system, and keep the cross-hairs on the point of aim.

#ProblemSolved

Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 16, 2018 11:20 PM (vwf8z)

321 I love The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book, the movie. It would make an awesome television series. Except Hollywood would ruin it.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at August 16, 2018 11:20 PM (ODpID)

322 222 Question, if only 1% of Women could meet the stringent necessities of the modern battlefield.

Why then create all the Havoc that dual Sex units create?

Fact is, when under stress, your sex drive INCREASES... it does not diminish.

Fact is that ANY type of romance in any unit, degrades unit cohesion... whether male on male, or male on female...

Fact is that there is a MONETARY cost to putting women in combat units...

And the simple fact is, they add NOTHING to combat effectiveness... nothing...

AND you do not have the RIGHT to serve... yes, its a privilege... but one with numerous and stringent requirements...

And YOUR Feelings, should not be the cause of MEN getting killed in combat.

Posted by: Don Quixote at August 16, 2018 10:58 PM (NgKpN)
-----------------------------------
Well said.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 11:21 PM (0jtPF)

323 300 good to see you too
312 im hoping for 9-7
thatd be solid

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:21 PM (pWEY3)

324 It's kinda weird hearing about the place of my birth (Chicago), and never having lived there.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:21 PM (L282n)

325 Tit for Tat is not the very best play, but it is a strategy very hard to beat.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 16, 2018 10:34 PM (hyuyC)

If you go to a gentlemens' club with a few pounds of tat, you could do very well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:22 PM (LI7AQ)

326 So methane made the canaries die?

Sorry, I have no cleverness tonight, folks. Too pooped from spending the day at the VA with my brother. They'll take good care of him. We have some good ones in PA.
Good night, everyone, and thank you for your continued prayers.

Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:22 PM (txw6d)

327 Sweet dreams, Miley.

Prayers up always.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:24 PM (L282n)

328 "I think it's a bad idea in general, but any woman who wants to serve in combat and can meet the exact same physical standards required for men, should be allowed to. If we stick to that, I think it'll be a vanishingly small number of women who find themselves on the front lines, and those that do will have absolutely earned the right to be there."

No. Guy who was in the infantry in Iraq, here. No.

First of all, women will never, ever be held to the same standards as men. We don't do so normally, and we won't change anytime soon. Oh, I treat my female employees the same as... Yeah, sure you do. You do double entry bookkeeping. Nobody gives a shit. Add young high-T men and stress and see what happens.

Second, women fuck up men's group cohesion and dynamics. Don't look at me like that. Infantrymen are typically 18-25 and they want to bang everything that walks. Drop a female into that and the immediate unspoken question becomes, 'who's going to fuck her'. These are... The Days of Our Lives, coming to a barracks near you.

Or she's a short haired butch lesbian who everyone just hates and... Spoiler... she's still physically marginal compared to everyone else.

'But the Kurds. But the Israelis. But the Russians.' Yeah. Heard it. What do they have in common? NO FUCKING CHOICE, that's what. When the Wehrmacht, the Arabs and ISIS come knocking in a war of extermination against you? Yeah, every warm body. But we're not there. You put women in combat when you're on the ropes and it's that or you lose to someone who will not be nice if they win.

My little brother is in the USMC infantry. The battalion next to theirs had a female. She didn't want to come to formation one morning. Squad leader pounded on the door and told her in no uncertain terms to get the fuck outside.

The squad leader got in trouble.

That woman you read about in Larry Correia books? The badass who's just One Of The Guys? We create that fantasy in our heads because we want to think they're like that, they're like us, it's like the computer gamer who dreams of that perfect girl who'll play DOOM with him. Are they out there? Yes. But you've got a better chance of being struck by lightning.

--

Posted by: Executive Outcomes at August 16, 2018 11:24 PM (7PLM4)

329 also counted our gracious host and MC, Weirddave...

Oh man, I gotta MC too? I wrote the OP in just under an hour, going flat out. Finished right at 10, I though I was done for the night.

Uh, thank you everyone, try the veal!

Posted by: Weirddave at August 16, 2018 11:24 PM (bQXMb)

330 Miley, may you and your's be graced with God's mercy.

Posted by: colfax mingo at August 16, 2018 11:24 PM (NgPkP)

331 Nite, Miley.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 16, 2018 11:24 PM (KP5rU)

332 "Anyone have a theory as to why the Steele dossier did not see the light of day until after the election?"

It was obvious bullshit and everyone knew Hillary was going to win, so why bother?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 16, 2018 11:25 PM (PHotS)

333 I think I understand why I always wind up back here on AoS.

Just tried to comment on Instapundit:

"Jackass of Twitter is a cock juggling fascist fuckass piece of shit of a thundercunting twat waffle."

Instapundit: Your comment has been placed in moderation for review

Then tried to comment at Breitbart:

"Brennan can go get ass fucked by a barbed swordfish."

Breitbart: Your comment has been placed in moderation for review

Gees, there's like no place on the net to have a grownup, adult conversation anymore.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at August 16, 2018 11:25 PM (+dsLj)

334 212 She wouldn't have even if she'd won, God forbid, because she hates men in uniform.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 10:50 PM
A real peach, that one, treating her SS detachment like she did!
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto


It has been said that during Bubba's presidency military officers were told not to wear uniforms when they went to the white house.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 16, 2018 11:25 PM (+lVUW)

335 Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 11:12 PM (rnAwa

This will never get old.

Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 16, 2018 11:25 PM (tbq1U)

336 It's kinda weird hearing about the place of my birth (Chicago), and never having lived there.

Born in London, here.

Fucking surreal.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 16, 2018 11:26 PM (N1ZXu)

337 Nothing fell out.


Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:18 PM


Chewing their cud...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:26 PM (e9G8E)

338 Nite all, I'm off to bed, work beckons tomorrow.

I may be up to annoy you in the middle of the night.

Posted by: Farmer at August 16, 2018 11:26 PM (yJ1e6)

339
That woman you read about in Larry Correia books? The badass who's just One Of The Guys? We create that fantasy in our heads because we want to think they're like that, they're like us, it's like the computer gamer who dreams of that perfect girl who'll play DOOM with him. Are they out there? Yes. But you've got a better chance of being struck by lightning.

--
Posted by: Executive Outcomes at August 16, 2018 11:24 PM (7PLM4)

----

Heh.

HALO, not DOOM.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:27 PM (L282n)

340 326 So methane made the canaries die?

No.

The Methane combines with lead in the rocks to make an anal STD known as a 'Fart Knocker' which they picked while sitting down on their lunch break.

This STD was, in turn transmitted to their gay lovers 'up top' who then unfortunately passed it by sneezing - or other things - on their pet birds, which is always fatal in birds with decorative plumage.

When a load of canaries died off in camp they then knew there was Methane in the mines...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:28 PM (UFLLM)

341 Speaking of Halloween - I bought some batteries for my skeletons today.
Posted by: ALH at August 16, 2018 10:52 PM (6Zmow)

I still have this stupid manual skeleton
Posted by: hogmartin
-------

Last year the wind blew over our Porch Witch. She did a face plant on the front stoop. In some ways, she's scarier now.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7epzqnm

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 11:28 PM (xSo9G)

342 *So methane made the canaries die? *

Miley, methane displaced O2, canaries would suffocate. And they would die early enough so any miner paying attention might be able to escape before suffocating.

Very crude esrly warning system.

Posted by: tbodie at August 16, 2018 11:28 PM (YdSkn)

343
I love The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book, the movie. It would make an awesome television series. Except Hollywood would ruin it.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at August 16, 2018 11:20 PM (ODpID)

There was a series from 1999-2000 with Richard E. Grant that's worth watching.

https://tinyurl.com/y9333wpx

Posted by: Some Jackass at August 16, 2018 11:29 PM (sXefu)

344 Philistine. A lubaphone is the greatest orchestral noisemaker ever. Requirement: ostrich jacket for live performances.
Posted by: Lubaphone player at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (2NqXo)

True, dat. Only thing that beats it is the swynet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:29 PM (LI7AQ)

345 336 It's kinda weird hearing about the place of my birth (Chicago), and never having lived there.

Born in London, here.

Fucking surreal.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 16, 2018 11:26 PM (N1ZXu)

---

Southern Illinois is as close I want to get to Chicago...lol.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:29 PM (L282n)

346 Gees, there's like no place on the net to have a grownup, adult conversation anymore.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at August 16, 2018 11:25 PM


I would also posit that there are very few places IRL (at least in my world) where one can discuss these matters as well...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:30 PM (e9G8E)

347 >>>This STD was, in turn transmitted to their gay lovers 'up top' who then unfortunately passed it by sneezing - or other things - on their pet birds, which is always fatal in birds with decorative plumage.


Sounds like an episode of Barry & Moochelle

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 11:30 PM (3Pma+)

348 Thanks to Weird Dave's smart phone we haven't seen a really bad spell of weather in months.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2018 11:30 PM (m45I2)

349 Southern Illinois is as close I want to get to Chicago...lol.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:29 PM (L282n)

-----------

Smart Lady {waves}. It was OK there until about the early 80s. Serious decline began after that.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 11:31 PM (o3Kzf)

350 345 Southern Illinois is as close I want to get to Chicago...lol.

heathen!!!
the near north side is really nice and not really dangerous
not to sound racist, the rule of thumb is if you see no white people either turn back or ignore red lights

Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:32 PM (pWEY3)

351 Thanks to Weird Dave's smart phone we haven't seen a really bad spell of weather in months.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2018 11:30 PM (m45I2)

Weird Dave has the remote for the weather machine!?

Posted by: tbodie at August 16, 2018 11:32 PM (YdSkn)

352 Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030135778091909124

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030135860572958721

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030135941351006208

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030136020317233153

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030136097614057473

Posted by: kbdabear at August 16, 2018 11:33 PM (0Ntuf)

353 Posted by: MILITARIZED THUG NCJ!!!!11!! at August 16, 2018 11:32 PM (pWEY3)

Funny thing I was told that in 1992 in Miami when I was working there

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 11:34 PM (3Pma+)

354 ALH: You might appreciate this.

Driving the twins to high school, I passed a house located around a Catholic church and its cemetery. Between the back end of the cemetery and this house was a small vacant lot. Every year for Halloween, the home owner would create a Halloween creche scene. Pumpkins, skeletons, the whole nine yards. I loved it. Then around the Thanksgiving, the owner would switch out the Halloween creche for a traditional Christmas scene. I always wondered what the priest of the church thought of this terrific parody.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 16, 2018 11:34 PM (HbhJW)

355 Funny thing I was told that in 1992 in Miami when I was working there

Being in Miami '91-'95, I can say they were right!

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:34 PM (UFLLM)

356 More Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030136171538591744

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030136251368792069

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030136329403867136

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030136409422790656

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/1030136490473517057

Posted by: kbdabear at August 16, 2018 11:35 PM (0Ntuf)

357 No. Guy who was in the infantry in Iraq, here. No.

First of all, women will never, ever be held to the same standards as men.


You don't get to disagree with me and then change the premise in the first sentence. I said it would be acceptable if X. If you start out "But not X.." then you're done. It's not X. Not acceptable. End of discussion.

In this case, X is so exceedingly rare that if it ever happened, the consequences could be easily managed (and many of them only exist because you started with not X rather than X).

Posted by: Weirddave at August 16, 2018 11:36 PM (bQXMb)

358 Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:34 PM (UFLLM)

You lived thru Andy?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 16, 2018 11:37 PM (3Pma+)

359 Hey CM!

Dude, I was born about three weeks after the 1968 election. My dad was in the Navy at the time, saw the sh*tstorm forming, and put in for the West Coast somewhere.

We were in San Diego when I was about three months old.

Lat time I set foot in Chicago was when I was eight or so, for Gramp's funeral.

My dad had his reasons for not wanting his kids to have anything to do with Chicago.

From what I've seen and read, can't blame him.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:37 PM (L282n)

360 The smoke from Canadian wildfires is making for creepy sky tonight. Need rain to bring it down.

Today's news about the Manafort jury is a hopeful sign. Mewler may get another blemish on his spotful resume. Trump will have the last laugh.
Posted by: colfax mingo at August 16, 2018 11:14 PM (NgPkP)

Smoky here in Alberta, too. So smoky, you can't see if the sky is cloudy or clear, unless the Sun vanishes from time to time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:38 PM (LI7AQ)

361 344 Philistine. A lubaphone is the greatest orchestral noisemaker ever. Requirement: ostrich jacket for live performances.
Posted by: Lubaphone player at August 16, 2018 10:53 PM (2NqXo)

True, dat. Only thing that beats it is the swynet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:29 PM (LI7AQ)


You're just dying for someone to ask what a swynet is aren't you?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 11:38 PM (NWiLs)

362 Read up to my own comment. Wonder how far behind I am now?

Were you there in '81-'82 (I think) winter when it got down to 80 below with the wind chill? Holy phuch!
Posted by: Calm Mentor


Milady and I lived in Oklahoma the summer of '80, where it was highs over 100° and never got below 80° even at night for weeks. Actually got so hot for so long it was a dry heat.

That fall we moved to Chicago. That winter had the coldest night on record.

We told ourselves, we really know how to live!

Heading in to the Big Potato tomorrow morning.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Big Potato #2 comic linked here at August 16, 2018 11:39 PM (jpzQ9)

363 Later, everybody. The news-and-trivia-of-the-day rotator on the breakroom TVs at work said that today's safety tip is "Inspect your equipment daily for proper fit and function!". So, off to do a thorough inspection and function check of my equipment. For safety!

Posted by: hogmartin at August 16, 2018 11:39 PM (y87Qq)

364 You lived thru Andy?

Yup. Spent the next several weeks running MEDCAPS in the shit zone and pulling bodies out of canals, from under trees, etc. who were 'killed by the storm' apparently by having lead pebbles flung at > Cat V speed into their brains... odd, that...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:40 PM (UFLLM)

365 356 More Ginger Thursday ONT Compliance Pics

Welp, good thing I didn't need my soul anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 11:40 PM (NWiLs)

366 Posted by: Executive Outcomes at August 16, 2018 11:24 PM (7PLM4)

---
Amen, younger brother.

Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 16, 2018 11:40 PM (vwf8z)

367 Awesome! Trump with the firefighters!

Posted by: m at August 16, 2018 11:40 PM (CwOPz)

368 Hello, red.

How are you doing?

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:40 PM (L282n)

369 Any other president and I would assume it was scripted. With this guy... probably has SS escort shitting its collective pants because they weren't prepared to cover him out of the car at that particular spot.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 11:17 PM (h2Bdk)

I really doubt it was scripted. Looked genuine to me, too. Just pointing out that it would never have crossed Barky or Hillaroid's mind to do such a thing, because firefighters are unpersons in their world.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:41 PM (LI7AQ)

370 jesse kelly is one of the good guys on twitter.
and elsewhere.

Posted by: concrete girl at August 16, 2018 11:41 PM (Tm+wy)

371 'Swynet' = swinette?

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:41 PM (e9G8E)

372 I'm dumb. I said the Uranus fudge company in Illinois. It's in Missouri. Back to catching up on comments.

Posted by: mindful webworker - duh at August 16, 2018 11:41 PM (jpzQ9)

373 "Big deal. Barky and/or Hillaroid would never even have contemplated
doing that, because they hate the kind of people that become
firefighters."
Hillary would have done it but there would have been half a dozen adorable prop girls there to spontaneously give her hugs and flowers.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 11:42 PM (NbRJx)

374 372 I'm dumb. I said the Uranus fudge company in Illinois. It's in Missouri. Back to catching up on comments.
Posted by: mindful webworker - duh at August 16, 2018 11:41 PM (jpzQ9)

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Yeah.

About eating fudge from Uranus...

No.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:43 PM (L282n)

375 They're not 'yawning', they're disgorging the previous night's blood meal...
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto

Nothing fell out.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess


Zettai was a bit off. We keep the blood, and spit out the souls. Souls aren't very digestible.

It's why we prefer feeding in ISIS camps.

Posted by: vampire bats at August 16, 2018 11:43 PM (P1f+c)

376 About eating fudge from Uranus...

The line forms on the Left!

Posted by: Baroque Obama at August 16, 2018 11:44 PM (UFLLM)

377 So methane made the canaries die?

Sorry, I have no cleverness tonight, folks. Too pooped from spending the day at the VA with my brother. They'll take good care of him. We have some good ones in PA.
Good night, everyone, and thank you for your continued prayers.
Posted by: Miley the Duchess at August 16, 2018 11:22 PM (txw6d)

Enough methane would probably sedate them. But the #1 gas danger in coal mines is carbon monoxide. It kills you dead, and canaries, being little birdies with a much higher metabolic rate than coal miners, are more susceptible than humans. So if Tweety stops singing, and falls to the floor of its cage with a Thump, it's time to unass the place.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (LI7AQ)

378 376 About eating fudge from Uranus...

The line forms on the Left!
Posted by: Baroque Obama at August 16, 2018 11:44 PM (UFLLM)

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Heh.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (L282n)

379 324 It's kinda weird hearing about the place of my birth (Chicago), and never having lived there.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:21 PM (L282n)
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Mr. DeV. was born there too, although they moved to the 'burbs when he was a rugrat.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (0jtPF)

380

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police are investigating after a video shows a man spanking a hippopotamus at the Los Angeles Zoo.

The video shows the man crossing a railing last week and sneaking up on two hippos, Rosie and Mara. He smacks Rosie on the rear and her mother lifts her head as the man runs off and raises his arms in gesture of victory.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (IqV8l)

381 Hillary would have done it but there would have been half a dozen adorable prop girls there to spontaneously give her hugs and flowers.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 11:42 PM (NbRJx)

And therein lies the rub: the photo op would have to focus on her- not on the hoi polloi. In this one, Trump is in frame for what 5-10 seconds, mostly you see the backs of people as the guy with the cameraphone tries to move around (although I did notice the SS guys seemed agitated and dropping into 'hold the crowd back' mode.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (6U3DW)

382 Mr. DeV. was born there too, although they moved to the 'burbs when he was a rugrat.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (0jtPF)

---

Cali and Hawai'i here.

Gotta love the Navy.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:46 PM (L282n)

383 LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police are investigating after a video shows a man spanking a hippopotamus at the Los Angeles Zoo.

The video shows the man crossing a railing last week and sneaking up on two hippos, Rosie and Mara. He smacks Rosie on the rear and her mother lifts her head as the man runs off and raises his arms in gesture of victory.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (IqV8l)

There is a man with balls as big as church bells but a brain the size of a walnut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:47 PM (6U3DW)

384 Spanking the hippo...

...

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:47 PM (L282n)

385 I don't know if I laughed harder at the first or the last picture?

Well done.

Posted by: garrett at August 16, 2018 11:47 PM (7QCyX)

386 384 Spanking the hippo...

...
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:47 PM (L282n)

1000 quatloos to the first moron to look that up on Urban dictionary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:48 PM (6U3DW)

387 lol

Yeah, not taking that bet.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:49 PM (L282n)

388 Owls 'yawn' and disgorge the skeletons of their prey... They're night hunters, too, like bats!

Coincidence? Je crois que non, mes amis![i/]

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:49 PM (e9G8E)

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:49 PM (e9G8E)

390 371 'Swynet' = swinette?
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:41 PM (e9G8E)
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I have tape over that camera lens thingy.
So how did you know about the second doughnut?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 11:49 PM (0jtPF)

391 And Zettai, with the save.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:50 PM (6U3DW)

392 How's the Horde tonight?

I had a particularly hordish evening dealing with one of my douchebag elected officials. He began berating a 73 year old woman at our county Republican Party meeting and I had to make him sit down and STFU.

It was uncomfortable, but he grew to see things my way.

I hope your evenings were appreciably better.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2018 11:50 PM (aE+Wq)

393 You're just dying for someone to ask what a swynet is aren't you?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 16, 2018 11:38 PM (NWiLs)

Who, me? No, whatever gave you that idea?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:51 PM (LI7AQ)

394 I wonder how many different varieties of pretzel Bernie had to choose from.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2018 11:51 PM (m45I2)

395 UD has 'hippospanking'...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:51 PM (e9G8E)

396 Zettai - nice save.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 16, 2018 11:51 PM (CDGwz)

397 Sink me!

Posted by: Fox2! at August 16, 2018 11:52 PM (brIR5)

398 One big point on the women in combat crap. I agree - they need to meet the same physical standard as men.

The only PROBLEM is, as time went on and NO women could meet the standard for Marines in IOC (Infantry Officer Course) after literally hundreds had tried, then they reduced the standard for EVERYBODY.

Multiple extremely difficult physical events went from actual evaluated events to simple complete/not complete.

So in order to get women in they lowered the standard for MEN too.

It's a fucking joke.

Posted by: DudeAbides at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (setIA)

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (e9G8E)

400 What's a swynet?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (m45I2)

401
Owls 'yawn' and disgorge the skeletons of their prey... They're night hunters, too, like bats!

The bat was disgorging mosquito skeletons.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (IqV8l)

402 Mr. DeV. was born there too, although they moved to the 'burbs when he was a rugrat.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 11:45 PM (0jtPF)

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I was born and lived only the first nine months of my life in the city. My parents bought a place literally next to a landfill that they were promised would be turned into a school in Park Ridge in 1963 for 28k.

Growing up, I thought it was a boring town. Looking back, it was a great place to grow up. The town was already built out, so no subdivisions. Just blocks of houses. You could ride a bike all the way across it by crossing 3 4 lane streets.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (o3Kzf)

403 It was uncomfortable, but he grew to see things my way.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2018 11:50 PM (aE+Wq)

That line goes well when you have a couple of towering dudes cracking their knuckles standing behind you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (6U3DW)

404 392 How's the Horde tonight?

I had a particularly hordish evening dealing with one of my douchebag elected officials. He began berating a 73 year old woman at our county Republican Party meeting and I had to make him sit down and STFU.

It was uncomfortable, but he grew to see things my way.

I hope your evenings were appreciably better.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2018 11:50 PM (aE+Wq)

---

Good for you that you put a douchebag in his place.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (L282n)

405 Also forgot to mention - the Marine Corps did a very in-depth study of pure men vs co-ed units with women that met the physical standards.

In EVERY metric the co-ed unit performed worse. They were slower, less accurate and took more casualties.

Posted by: DudeAbides at August 16, 2018 11:54 PM (setIA)

406 For your consideration, Spanking The Hippo:


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

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:54 PM (e9G8E)

407 Absolutely verklempt and so upset about the POS that murdered his pregnant wife and his two young daughters!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at August 16, 2018 11:54 PM (c1nDO)

408 382---Cali and Hawai'i here.
Gotta love the Navy.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:46 PM (L282n)
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Great places to grow up!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 16, 2018 11:54 PM (0jtPF)

409 What's a swynet?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (m45I2)

I think Insomniac knows the answer...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:55 PM (LI7AQ)

410 un Fact, a bat that yawns is rabid, signaling it is about to attack.

WTF?

Posted by: Adriane the Hidden Dirty Sock Critic ... at August 16, 2018 11:55 PM (AoK0a)

411 "As we go to the bottom of the third inning of the Celebrity Softball game, Yanni is at the bat."

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2018 11:55 PM (m45I2)

412 400 What's a swynet?

About 3 lbs.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 16, 2018 11:56 PM (UFLLM)

413 I see Trump made some short statement of condolences about Aretha Franklin and the left mob is ripping him apart for some imagined fake insult proving he is racist that thinks he owns all black people.Can't believe the filth I read on a couple Twitter feeds. Never in my most darkest thoughts about Obama did I ever come close to what these lunatics proudly shout for to all the world to hear. We are dealing with some seriously sick people.

Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 11:56 PM (NbRJx)

414 Brain dysfunction sucks, along with motor control and balance and eye and hearing issues there are the memory and speech issues. My vocabulary is getting smaller and my word finding sucks. A progressively shrinking Cerebellum is a bad thing.


I understand brain issues intimately.

The struggle is real.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at August 16, 2018 11:56 PM (0OmEj)

415 What's a swynet?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM



It's like a Jew's harp, but with a pig's arse...

"swinette", c.f.

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 16, 2018 11:57 PM (e9G8E)

416 My dad grew up in a middle-class home in southside Chicago.

Still have kin there. Unfortunately, the neighborhood has degraded greatly since my dad was a kid.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:57 PM (L282n)

417 Fact, a bat that yawns is rabid, signaling it is about to attack.
========

Now you tell me.

Posted by: Cujo at August 16, 2018 11:57 PM (xSo9G)

418 That line goes well when you have a couple of towering dudes cracking their knuckles standing behind you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (6U3DW)

....

That's more or less how it went.

I'm about 6" taller and 30 pounds heavier.

I walked up behind him and told him to watch his tone while talking to an elderly lady. He turned to size me up and thought better of it.

He started to prattle on again and point fingers and I told him to stop pointing his finger as well. The Chairman ultimately took my side and took the floor back.

He sat down for a minute or two more and then slunk out the back door.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2018 11:58 PM (aE+Wq)

419 This just in.
It was Ride Your Bicycle to Work Day in the U.K.
Queen's physician killed by truck in traffic.
He was a homeopathic and holistic practitioner, though, so we may assume she has other doctors. There is a persistent rumour here that Warren Harding died because his doctor was a homeopath.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 11:58 PM (8ZmvG)

420 He sat down for a minute or two more and then slunk out the back door.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2018 11:58 PM (aE+Wq)

Good on you. Courtesy is a societal form that has to be enforced and reinforced to be continued.

Wait, the little old lady was not Hillary! right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:59 PM (6U3DW)

421 It's like a Jew's harp, but with a pig's arse...
"swinette", c.f.

Oh, a Swine Harp, if you know offshore salvage work...

'A strand of horsehair strung tight across a pigs arse. Very musical.'

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 17, 2018 12:00 AM (UFLLM)

422 I see Trump made some short statement of condolences about Aretha Franklin and the left mob is ripping him apart for some imagined fake insult proving he is racist that thinks he owns all black people.Can't believe the filth I read on a couple Twitter feeds. Never in my most darkest thoughts about Obama did I ever come close to what these lunatics proudly shout for to all the world to hear. We are dealing with some seriously sick people.
Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 11:56 PM (NbRJx)

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It is on his twatter from today. Short and respectful.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 17, 2018 12:00 AM (o3Kzf)

423 Wait, the little old lady was not Hillary! right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2018 11:59 PM (6U3DW)

.....

Far from it.

She's a lady that gave $25,000 to our county to open an animal shelter out of her own pocket.

I just don't appreciate people acting that way.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 12:01 AM (aE+Wq)

424 Here is Trump's 'offensive' statement:

"I want to begin today by expressing my condolences , to the family of a person I knew well. She worked for me on numerous occasions."

Posted by: Cujo at August 17, 2018 12:02 AM (CDGwz)

425 402---
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 16, 2018 11:53 PM (o3Kzf)
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Heh.
Mr DeV. grew up in Mt. Prospect.
Pretty much the same verdict you had re Pk Ridge--- boring, but you could bike or walk all over the place. All in all, kid friendly.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 17, 2018 12:02 AM (0jtPF)

426 Oops. /rabid dog sock

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2018 12:02 AM (CDGwz)

427 Far from it.

She's a lady that gave $25,000 to our county to open an animal shelter out of her own pocket.

I just don't appreciate people acting that way.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 12:01 AM (aE+Wq)

Sounds like a nice lady.

Wait, he was berating her for that? Let me guess: they found other uses for the money...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 17, 2018 12:02 AM (6U3DW)

428 Whoa!!

Mark Steyn with no facial hair!

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 12:03 AM (e7oj4)

429 What's a swynet?
Posted by: Muldoon


A small pig.

Just like an asset is a small donkey.

Or a small Democrat, I forget which.

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 12:04 AM (P1f+c)

430 Sounds like a nice lady.

Wait, he was berating her for that? Let me guess: they found other uses for the money...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August

No, our county voted to enact a Charter so that we could put term limits in play.

He sat on the Charter Commission with several other elected officials who then chose not to enact a Charter and hence no term limits.

She asked why he didn't follow the will of the people in a very polite fashion. So he stood up and started a tirade.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 12:06 AM (aE+Wq)

431 I really doubt it was scripted. Looked genuine to me, too. Just pointing out that it would never have crossed Barky or Hillaroid's mind to do such a thing, because firefighters are unpersons in their world.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 16, 2018 11:41 PM (LI7AQ)


But George Snuffalupagus would have realized it needed to happen, and Hillary would have duly followed the script, even if it meant wiping her hand with wet wipes after.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 12:07 AM (h2Bdk)

432 But George Snuffalupagus would have realized it needed to happen, and Hillary would have duly followed the script, even if it meant wiping her hand with wet wipes after.

And not just her hands...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 17, 2018 12:09 AM (UFLLM)

433 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVz8rvIl_vY

Jeddah the bat ...

Posted by: Adriane the Hidden Dirty Sock Critic ... at August 17, 2018 12:09 AM (AoK0a)

434 Will resist ogling gingers...
will resist...

she seems nice....

Posted by: mindful webworker - weakwilled at August 17, 2018 12:09 AM (jpzQ9)

435 It also looks like Bernie is wearing the People's All-Weather Trekking Jacket, $450 from Patagonia.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:09 AM (m45I2)

436 Anyway, I don't like to intimidate people.

By the same token though, some of these local yokel politicians think they have been elected emporer.

It gets the best of me at times.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 12:10 AM (aE+Wq)

437 Baroque Obama-----


Is He the Teapot or the Candle holder from Beauty and the Beast. Not sure what character Michelle played.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 12:11 AM (kG2lj)

438 Bats and hummingbirds eat small insects. Mama hummingbirds regurgitate partially digested mosquitos and sugar water into their babies' mouths.

Bats and hummingbirds are both okay in my book.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:11 AM (m45I2)

439 Speaking of misspelt nics...

Yeah. I'm lookin' at you, IVV!

(Unless it's deliberate!)

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 17, 2018 12:12 AM (e9G8E)

440 How are you doing?

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 16, 2018 11:40 PM (L282n)

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sucks to be me, same as always...

the witch that got Herself fired was her self fired. as a Korean female, her diversity card beat Re5ident 3vil's white, female card, but then she tried the same shit with the only competent biller the shop had, who happened to be black, female, and got her sorry ass kicked to the curb, boinking the boss or no.

my new primary care @ the VA is a slag, so time for a fifth one.

not any younger, not any healthier, and not any less broke.

other than that, everything is Great!

BBIAB, it's supposedly dinner time.


Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 17, 2018 12:12 AM (vwf8z)

441 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMh8-htFRhw

Ruby the Red Flying Fox ...

Posted by: Adriane the Hidden Dirty Sock Critic ... at August 17, 2018 12:12 AM (AoK0a)

442 DO NOT SPANK THE HIPPO

Posted by: LA Zoo signs at August 17, 2018 12:13 AM (89T5c)

443 A dull orange crescent Moon is glimming faintly in the southwestern sky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:14 AM (LI7AQ)

444 It gets the best of me at times.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 12:10 AM (aE+Wq)



I think what you did is commendable.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 12:14 AM (qyZxC)

445 Anyway, I don't like to intimidate people. ---


I don't either. Mostly because most of them are worth my time/attention.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 12:14 AM (kG2lj)

446 What's a swynet?
Posted by: Muldoon

A small pig.

********


I'm basically lazy. I used to do an abridged version of the "This Little Piggy" toe counting game with kids.

It went like this:

"Pig-Pig-Pig-Pig-Weeeee!"

They were seldom amused.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:14 AM (m45I2)

447 It also looks like Bernie is wearing the People's All-Weather Trekking Jacket, $450 from Patagonia.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:09 AM (m45I2)

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Ssshhh......the peasants are not supposed to notice stuff like this. I want them to nominate Comrade Sanders to run against PDT in 2020, as a throwaway. There is not enough popcorn for this event.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 17, 2018 12:14 AM (o3Kzf)

448 A dull orange crescent Moon is glimming faintly in the southwestern sky.


*******


Ooooh! A crowdsourced novel opening. Go on...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:15 AM (m45I2)

449 The LA Zoo has a sign on Monkey Island, for the monkeys: 'Do Not Spank The Human', or so I've been told!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 17, 2018 12:16 AM (e9G8E)

450 He was a homeopathic and holistic practitioner, though, so we may assume she has other doctors. There is a persistent rumour here that Warren Harding died because his doctor was a homeopath.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 11:58 PM (8ZmvG)

Maybe they could revive him by putting his corpse out on a level crossing?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:16 AM (LI7AQ)

451 "What's a swynet?"

$5, same as in town.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 17, 2018 12:16 AM (3JQ/p)

452 >>A dull orange crescent Moon is glimming faintly in the southwestern sky.


What planet are you on? It's well past Crescent.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:16 AM (7QCyX)

453
My dad grew up in a middle-class home in southside Chicago.



Still have kin there. Unfortunately, the neighborhood has degraded greatly since my dad was a kid.

Posted by: SMH
.........Yeah.. no shit.. I did a Google street view tour of my old neighborhood.. It is like a wasteland.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 17, 2018 12:17 AM (438dO)

454 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHGbgh0UFLI

Blossom the Miniature Bat ...

Posted by: Adriane the Hidden Dirty Sock Critic ... at August 17, 2018 12:17 AM (AoK0a)

455 Haha, the Unitard is back on Tucker's show.

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 12:17 AM (e7oj4)

456 DO NOT SPANK THE HIPPO
Posted by: LA Zoo signs at August 17, 2018 12:13 AM (89T5c)


DO NOT RIDE THE BOMB

Posted by: qdp "Simpsons fan" steve at August 17, 2018 12:18 AM (km8m2)

457 I see Trump made some short statement of condolences
about Aretha Franklin and the left mob is ripping him apart for some
imagined fake insult proving he is racist that thinks he owns all black
people.Can't believe the filth I read on a couple Twitter feeds. Never
in my most darkest thoughts about Obama did I ever come close to what
these lunatics proudly shout for to all the world to hear. We are
dealing with some seriously sick people.


Posted by: Ripley at August 16, 2018 11:56 PM (NbRJx)


They're making it easier and easier to find laborers when the time comes to pave the road with their bones.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 17, 2018 12:18 AM (9Om/r)

458 ...in the southwestern sky.


*******


...when the clip-clop clip-clop of a riderless horse echoed down the deserted tumbleweed-strewn main street of the little frontier town....

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:18 AM (m45I2)

459 What planet are you on?

Planet... Joint. *giggle*

Posted by: Gary Johnson at August 17, 2018 12:19 AM (N1ZXu)

460 This weekend, we will probably drive - at least so son can show his wife - to see the apartment building where our daughter was born, and where we lived when her twin brothers were born; where they all spent their pre-teen years before we skedaddled.

We will NOT be going by Milady's childhood home. Once a lovely neighborhood of Catholics and Jews, Irish and Greek. Destroyed in the criminal red-lining of the 1960s. Now one of the top shooting neighborhoods.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but... Greek Islands! at August 17, 2018 12:19 AM (jpzQ9)

461 Wait a second! There was hippo spanking going on and nobody informed me! Why do I always miss the fun events. I love a good pachyderm paddling.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:20 AM (m45I2)

462 >>...when the clip-clop clip-clop of a riderless horse echoed down the deserted tumbleweed-strewn main street of the little frontier town....


*Chorus Sings*

'There was a peaceful Town called Rockridge...'

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:20 AM (7QCyX)

463 What planet are you on? It's well past Crescent.
Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:16 AM (7QCyX)

A day or two? It's less than First Quarter, I think. Mostly obscured by smoke.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:20 AM (LI7AQ)

464 Blossom the Miniature Bat ...

Posted by: Adriane the Hidden Dirty Sock Critic ... at August 17, 2018 12:17 AM (AoK0a)

....

Thank you! Exactly what I needed!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 12:20 AM (aE+Wq)

465
>>A dull orange crescent Moon is glimming faintly in the southwestern sky.





What planet are you on? It's well past Crescent.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:16 AM (7QCyX)


He's in Canada. Trudeau is big on the Crescent.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 17, 2018 12:21 AM (9Om/r)

466 I love a good pachyderm paddling.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:20 AM (m45I2)


And then later we'll play "Pancake the Corrie."

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:21 AM (km8m2)

467 ...when the clip-clop clip-clop of a riderless horse echoed down the deserted tumbleweed-strewn main street of the little frontier town...

"Help! Help!", neighed Mr. Ed. "Wilber fell down the well on ol' Doc Parson's Place!" ...

Posted by: Adriane the Literary Critic ... at August 17, 2018 12:22 AM (AoK0a)

468
What planet are you on? It's well past Crescent.
Posted by: garrett
--------

Canadian moon. Metric, so different.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2018 12:25 AM (CDGwz)

469

From out of the clear blue of the western sky comes Sky King

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2018 12:25 AM (IqV8l)

470 There were numerous Lassie episodes with Timmy-in-danger storylines, that were never aired on TV back in the 1960s:

- Timmy meets L. Ron Hubbard

- Timmy decides to play with needles he finds at the park

- Timmy goes to work as an intern for Harv Weinstein

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:25 AM (km8m2)

471 "Help! Help!", neighed Mr. Ed. "Wilber fell down the well on ol' Doc Parson's Place!" ...


*******

Old Missus Switzer said, "I'd toss him a rope, but these days it's gotten awfully hard to raise a son..."

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:25 AM (m45I2)

472 Just add a piano and candelabra and Baroque O turns into Libarackey.

Posted by: Rex B at August 17, 2018 12:25 AM (BsFLV)

473 I like belly rubs...

Posted by: Blossum T. Bat at August 17, 2018 12:26 AM (e9G8E)

474 445 Anyway, I don't like to intimidate people. ---


I don't either. Mostly because most of them are worth my time/attention.
Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 12:14 AM (kG2lj)


I don't either. Mostly because I'm short, fat, and old.

Man, I wish I could intimidate people.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 12:26 AM (h2Bdk)

475 Only reply I got tonight was about Uranus fudge.

I think I'll do the qdpsteve pout.

Wait.. no time. It's a roaring storm outside and I have to get up early.

G'night. Sleep tight. Don't do anything to make the cobs bite.

Posted by: mindful webworker - out for now at August 17, 2018 12:27 AM (jpzQ9)

476 I think there was a Lassie episode where Timmy got caught in an animal trap and wanted something to compress the spring. He told Lassie to go get a C-clamp. Lassie came back with a coping saw and Timmy said, "Nice try, Lassie. It's the right shape. Now go get the C-clamp...the C-clamp!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:27 AM (m45I2)

477 Light night I see

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2018 12:27 AM (lxZ71)

478 DO NOT SPANK THE HIPPO
Posted by: LA Zoo signs at August 17, 2018 12:13 AM (89T5c)

Also Don't slap the Shots Girl's ass at the Bar.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9nva2bl

dailymail

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 12:27 AM (kG2lj)

479 Just add a piano and candelabra and Baroque O turns into Libarackey.
Posted by: Rex B at August 17, 2018 12:25 AM (BsFLV)

Heh.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:27 AM (LI7AQ)

480 Current moon pic:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/imagery/moon

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2018 12:28 AM (CDGwz)

481 That's No Moon!

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:29 AM (7QCyX)

482 "And then later we'll play "Pancake the Corrie."

Yeah, *cough*. That's what we were doing at the New Mexico jihadi compound.

Posted by: FBI at August 17, 2018 12:29 AM (BsFLV)

483 ...oh, wait.

That's totally the Moon.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:30 AM (7QCyX)

484 482 "And then later we'll play "Pancake the Corrie."

Yeah, *cough*. That's what we were doing at the New Mexico jihadi compound.
Posted by: FBI at August 17, 2018 12:29 AM (BsFLV)


To believe that I'd have to believe the FBI was actually working in the interests of the country.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 12:30 AM (h2Bdk)

485 mindful, my pout takes years to master... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:31 AM (km8m2)

486 You people crack me up.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:31 AM (m45I2)

487 >>my pout takes years to master... ;-)


The Strut is really the hardest part.

Posted by: Sheena Easton at August 17, 2018 12:31 AM (7QCyX)

488 Also Don't slap the Shots Girl's ass at the Bar.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9nva2bl

dailymail
Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 12:27 AM (kG2lj)


"The strange tradition at the american bar involves a routine whereby a punter is slapped intermittently in a revolving barber chair while liquor is poured in their mouth and breasts are rubbed in their face."

They say that as though it were a bad thing. (shocked face)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:32 AM (LI7AQ)

489 Wasn't Lassie transgender?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:32 AM (m45I2)

490

The evening moon is shining like a white rubber ball.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2018 12:32 AM (IqV8l)

491 QDPSteve, Piper Blush is French Canadian, so she does a "Pout-ine"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2018 12:32 AM (2K6fY)

492 487 >>my pout takes years to master... ;-)


The Strut is really the hardest part.
Posted by: Sheena Easton at August 17, 2018 12:31 AM (7QCyX)


But the sugar walls pretty much came standard and were more interesting.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 12:33 AM (h2Bdk)

493 >>"The strange tradition at the american bar involves a routine whereby a punter is slapped intermittently in a revolving barber chair while liquor is poured in their mouth and breasts are rubbed in their face."



It's barbaric!

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:33 AM (7QCyX)

494 Yes yes YES!!!

A Lindsey Buckingham solo hits collection is FINALLY coming out in October!!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:33 AM (km8m2)

495 Sheena: it would help if I had legs like yours... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:34 AM (km8m2)

496 >>But the sugar walls pretty much came standard and were more interesting.


You know that Ace wrote Sugar Walls, don't you? The residuals paid for the New Comments Thingy.

at least, that's the internet rumour I started.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:34 AM (7QCyX)

497 I already ate the sugar walls.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:34 AM (km8m2)

498 The evening moon is shining like a white rubber ball.


******


There's a lesson to be learned from this and I learned it very well.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:34 AM (m45I2)

499 Kindltot, sounds de-lish

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:34 AM (km8m2)

500 A Lindsey Buckingham solo hits collection is FINALLY coming out in October!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:33 AM (km8m2)

They finally got enough to fill both sides of a ten-inch 78?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:35 AM (LI7AQ)

501 Both Bob Seger and Sheena Easton had hits titled "Strut," and they both rock.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (km8m2)

502 Gah!

I am listening to an Analogue Productions Presitge Mono Series LP and the Drummer has a squeaky high hat pedal. It's fuckin' killing me.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (7QCyX)

503 Our punters are way better than their punters.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (8ZmvG)

504 The evening moon is shining like a white rubber ball.

Red rubber ball gag is more in keeping with my interests...

Posted by: Baroque Barky at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (UFLLM)

505 I don't either. Mostly because I'm short, fat, and old. ---

Not tall 5'9" Have been fatter but down to 205 (which is not skinny) now. But I have to tamp down my wanting to smack stupid people. Not because I fear them. But they might not let me back into my favorite bar.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (kG2lj)

506 That Sheena album is actually really well recorded and mastered.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (7QCyX)

507 496 >>But the sugar walls pretty much came standard and were more interesting.


You know that Ace wrote Sugar Walls, don't you? The residuals paid for the New Comments Thingy.

at least, that's the internet rumour I started.
Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:34 AM (7QCyX)


Reading through the lyrics again I'm a little surprised she got away with that in 1984.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 12:37 AM (h2Bdk)

508 AOP, see for yourself:

https://tinyurl.com/y7tdqxlb

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:37 AM (km8m2)

509 They finally got enough to fill both sides of a ten-inch 78?

AOP, you are a bad man! ROTFFLMAO...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 17, 2018 12:37 AM (UFLLM)

510 6'2" 240#


Not at all intimidating. I play with kids for a living.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:38 AM (m45I2)

511 5'9", 168 lbs.

I get called intimidating a lot.

Dunno why.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 12:39 AM (L282n)

512 >>A Lindsey Buckingham solo hits collection is FINALLY coming out in October!!


I am pretty sure I have at least one early Buckingham Solo LP in the boxes.

I don't think I have ever spun it though...

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:39 AM (7QCyX)

513 Strut spelled backward is Turts

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:39 AM (m45I2)

514 AOP, see for yourself:

https://tinyurl.com/y7tdqxlb
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:37 AM (km8m2)

Amazing! He must have made some bad short calls on the market, and is scrambling to pay for them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:40 AM (LI7AQ)

515 >>Not at all intimidating. I play with kids for a living.


You look sexy as hell in that Clown Outfit, I'll bet.

Though, I thought you were a gynecologist. Which makes it all, well...kinda weird.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:41 AM (7QCyX)

516 Though, I thought you were a gynecologist.


*******


Heh. Just on weekends.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:42 AM (m45I2)

517 510 6'2" 240#


Not at all intimidating. I play with kids for a living.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:38 AM (m45I2)


6' 0" 220....


Its about attitude, not just size.

Posted by: Don Quixote at August 17, 2018 12:42 AM (NgKpN)

518 6'2" 240#

Not at all intimidating. I play with kids for a living.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:38 AM (m45I2)

-------

That is a great living, as I know you are a pediatric Doc. 6'1", down from 245 to 175 here. Gotta train the brain to be disinterested.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 17, 2018 12:42 AM (o3Kzf)

519 They finally got enough to fill both sides of a ten-inch 78?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:35 AM (LI7AQ)


Now, now. The dance mix cut of Tusk should fill one whole side of an EP by itself.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2018 12:43 AM (2K6fY)

520 AOP, well Lindsey's scrambling since he got bounced from Fleetwood Mac. ;-)

garrett, take a look please and let me know which one it is. I've owned Law And Order, Go Insane, and Out Of The Cradle. All three are great. (It's obvious that after 1980, LB was saving the best material for his solo albums, NOT the Mac.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:43 AM (km8m2)

521 Fleetwood Mac were pretty good, back when they were a British blues band. Then they went on to fame, fortune, and mediocrity.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 12:43 AM (LI7AQ)

522 AOP, ever seen the cover of "English Rose"?

Mick Fleetwood has always had a good sense of humor, apparently.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:44 AM (km8m2)

523 I don't know which is worse, Beatles threads or Fleetwood Mac threads.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:46 AM (m45I2)

524 I can't quite bring myself to call 'Sara' a mediocrity, AOP

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 17, 2018 12:46 AM (N1ZXu)

525 Beatles threads

Slurp ass with a plastic silly straw.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 17, 2018 12:47 AM (UFLLM)

526 6' 2" 250#

I also have long hair and a beard.

Unfortunately I play with drunks for a living. Drunk people occasionally want to mess with me because I'm bigger. I tend to use humor most of the time because I'm generally a nice person.

Alas, over the years I've had to play bouncer too many times. I'd much rather make people a drink. The other stuff gets very old after a while.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 12:47 AM (aE+Wq)

527 Back to lurking.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:47 AM (m45I2)

528 6'2" 240#


Not at all intimidating. I play with kids for a living.
Posted by: Muldoon
I grew up in Minnesota. The neighbor kids were yuge. One got to 6'9" and the one that was my best friend only made it to 6'4". The 6'9" guy was way less intimidating. He was a little slow but if he went Lenny on you it would have been game over.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 12:48 AM (kG2lj)

529 boulder, there's a song on Tango In The Night (which came out eight years after Sara and Tusk), called, interestingly enough:

"Welcome to the Room... Sara"

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:48 AM (km8m2)

530 also boulder, I admit there's something haunting about "Sara." Not many FMac songs are like that.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 12:49 AM (km8m2)

531 Just add a piano and candelabra and Baroque O turns into Libarackey.
Posted by: Rex B at August 17, 2018 12:25 AM (BsFLV)


I made this photoshop back in January. Does Corey count?

https://twitter.com/weirddave0/status/953732161273847808?s=21

Posted by: Weirddave at August 17, 2018 12:49 AM (CTvSA)

532 5'9", 168 lbs.

I get called intimidating a lot.

Dunno why.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 12:39 AM (L282n)

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

May be the facial expressions and body posture. Don't you go changing..,..,,

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 17, 2018 12:49 AM (o3Kzf)

533 Anagram for gynecologist is NYC Geologist.

Posted by: Rex B at August 17, 2018 12:52 AM (BsFLV)

534

Like Liberace I also am a fan of Anal Nitrate, er, Amyl Nitrate...

Posted by: Baroque Barky at August 17, 2018 12:52 AM (UFLLM)

535 Wasn't planning on it, besides dropping another ten lbs or so.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 12:52 AM (L282n)

536
I made this photoshop back in January. Does Corey count?

https://twitter.com/weirddave0/status/953732161273847808?s=21
Posted by: Weirddave


They laughed when he sat down at the piano...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 17, 2018 12:53 AM (IqV8l)

537 That's Obama's face over Hugh Laurie (House) as the Prince Regent in Blackadder III.

Posted by: Grouchy Dino at August 17, 2018 12:53 AM (P4myz)

538 I don't know which is worse, Beatles threads or Fleetwood Mac threads.
posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:46 AM (m45I2)


Scarlett Johanson put together a band with actual musicians she could front. She called it The Singles, and got hit with a cease and desist, since that name was already taken.


Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2018 12:56 AM (2K6fY)

539 That's Obama's face over Hugh Laurie (House Bertie Wooster).

Edited, respectfully.

Posted by: Jeeves at August 17, 2018 12:56 AM (CDGwz)

540 506 That Sheena album is actually really well recorded and mastered.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (7QCyX)

--Did Prince produce it, as well as write some of her songs?

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 12:56 AM (e7oj4)

541 I've just read Buckingham was sacked by Fleetwood Mac some months ago...

He looks a bit like a youthful Keith Richards now... Just watched a concert clip of him from last year with an equally hard-ridden Stevie Nicks!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Botto at August 17, 2018 12:56 AM (e9G8E)

542 524 I can't quite bring myself to call 'Sara' a mediocrity, AOP
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 17, 2018 12:46 AM (N1ZXu)

--That, and "Tusk" were great songs.

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 12:57 AM (e7oj4)

543 540 506 That Sheena album is actually really well recorded and mastered.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 12:36 AM (7QCyX)

--Did Prince produce it, as well as write some of her songs?
Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 12:56 AM (e7oj4)

---

You can't tell??

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 12:57 AM (L282n)

544 Scarlett Johanson put together a band with actual musicians she could front. She called it The Singles, and got hit with a cease and desist, since that name was already taken.


Posted by: Kindltot
------

Should have gone with 'The Shingles'. No one wants that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2018 12:57 AM (CDGwz)

545 517 510 6'2" 240#


Not at all intimidating. I play with kids for a living.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 17, 2018 12:38 AM (m45I2)


6' 0" 220....


Its about attitude, not just size.
Posted by: Don Quixote at August 17, 2018 12:42 AM (NgKpN)


Wait, what? At 6' you're taller than 85% of men in the US. How would you know if it's not about size?

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 12:58 AM (h2Bdk)

546 Geeze, I'm surrounded by big guys. OTOH, I've outlived most of you...so far.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2018 12:59 AM (CDGwz)

547 I get called intimidating a lot.

Dunno why.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 12:39 AM (L282n)

I was a tiny skinny kid in high school. Graduated at about 145lbs. But I didn't have to deal with bullies too much because I always fought back. Yeah I lost most fights but they had to pay something.

Attitude and confidence scare most bullies.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:00 AM (kG2lj)

548 Just read at Wikipedia:

When Fleetwood Mac were making Tango In The Night in 1987, everyone was pretty unmotivated. On top of that, Fleetwood admits the band more or less forced Lindsey Buckingham to write and produce most of it, which he resented.

Buckingham had a revenge of sorts: he forced everyone, including Stevie Nicks (who he had publicly broken up with 10 years earlier), to record their vocals in a studio that was set up in... Buckingham's bedroom. Yeah, I'm sure that wasn't awkward.

Nicks kinda/sorta got revenge by helping herself to Lindsey's liquor cabinet, drinking a gallon of brandy and running through her takes pretty much slobbering drunk. Lindsey says he had to more or less fake her vocals himself, because of it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 01:01 AM (km8m2)

549 5'9", 168 lbs.

I get called intimidating a lot.

Dunno why.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left


Because we couldn't outrun you?

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:02 AM (P1f+c)

550 Looked it up: nope, Prince was not the producer.

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 01:04 AM (e7oj4)

551 Nite Horde.

Thanks for the chat and the laughs. Y'all are always good to chat with.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 17, 2018 01:05 AM (aE+Wq)

552 550 Looked it up: nope, Prince was not the producer.
Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 01:04 AM (e7oj4)

---

Huh.

Must be thinking of someone else.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 01:05 AM (L282n)

553 Because we couldn't outrun you?
Posted by: mikeski

If someone want's to beat your ass running is the worst option. Ground and pound really sucks if you're face down.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:08 AM (kG2lj)

554 Huh.

Must be thinking of someone else.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 01:05 AM (L282n)

--Prince did produce Sheila E's debut album.

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 01:08 AM (e7oj4)

555 Green Manalishi with a Two-Prong Crown. Pretty heavy business.And then, all of a sudden, there was this girly band, sounded like the Monkees, Savoy Brown fans said. Not the only band to have that happen to it, but that one was a sudden surprise.

OK, you lose a group once in awhile. The hard to take part was all the new convertees, who'd never heard of Peter Green, hootin and hollerin about this wondrous new discovery. Like going from The Great Society to 1910 Fruit Gum Company.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 17, 2018 01:09 AM (8ZmvG)

556 Geeze, I'm surrounded by big guys.

OK, I'll help bring the horde back down to size.

I'm 5'9", 200. I should be lighter, obviously, even with what Palp might call 'burly SMR genetics.'

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:09 AM (P1f+c)

557 Prince did produce Sheila E's debut album.
Posted by: logprof


And he wrote songs for Sheena Easton, including the aforementioned Sugar Walls.

So there's plenty of room for confusion.

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:11 AM (P1f+c)

558 557 Prince did produce Sheila E's debut album.
Posted by: logprof

And he wrote songs for Sheena Easton, including the aforementioned Sugar Walls.

So there's plenty of room for confusion.
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:11 AM (P1f+c)

---

Yep.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 01:12 AM (L282n)

559 6' 2" - 230

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2018 01:13 AM (7QCyX)

560 557 Prince did produce Sheila E's debut album.
Posted by: logprof

And he wrote songs for Sheena Easton, including the aforementioned Sugar Walls.

So there's plenty of room for confusion.
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:11 AM (P1f+c)

--He wrote a lot of songs that became chicks' biggest hits: Sheila E, Sheena Easton, Chaka Khan, The Bangles, Sinead O'Connor . . . he had a thing for female singers, not always necessarily romantically.

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 01:18 AM (e7oj4)

561 Damn, Sara Carter was hawt tonight.

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 01:19 AM (e7oj4)

562 I am 5'9" and 205 now. But I would not have posted my weight when I was 245. Gainz I guess and semi connected to Ace's posts even if I don't follow the advice religiously. Thanks Ace for the direction.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:21 AM (kG2lj)

563 Well, time for me to call it a night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 17, 2018 01:21 AM (LI7AQ)

564 Fact is that ANY type of romance in any unit, degrades unit cohesion... whether male on male, or male on female...

-====
Baen author Tom Kratman, Colonel (ret) has a book,The Amazon Legion, on this very topic. His mantra is ' Eros makes Mars her bitch'. His solution was to create a unit of just women with adjustments such as oversized squads.

Training was carried out by gay troops. Interesting ideas.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 17, 2018 01:22 AM (PQsar)

565 553 Because we couldn't outrun you?
Posted by: mikeski

If someone want's to beat your ass running is the worst option. Ground and pound really sucks if you're face down.
Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:08 AM (kG2lj)


Unless you can, you know, actually outrun him.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 01:24 AM (h2Bdk)

566 makes sense.

Posted by: meet the standards at August 17, 2018 01:25 AM (7fs1E)

567 Unless you can, you know, actually outrun him.
Posted by: Ace's liver

I am not a fast runner. So my bet bet is to stand my ground an act crazy.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:27 AM (kG2lj)

568 5'10", 215.

Enough muscle mass to disguise the gut.

And the poker face from hell. I'm a NICE guy, but people don't believe me till they meet me.

Even then, they're not always sure.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 17, 2018 01:27 AM (QzJWU)

569 Night all. Be well.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 17, 2018 01:29 AM (o3Kzf)

570 Goddamn you people are tall. Makes me want to never be seen in public.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:31 AM (NWiLs)

571 Do Hooter girls like a bit 'o slap and tickle after you order a plate of wings and slide a Benjamin underneath their top? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Texarkana Pete at August 17, 2018 01:34 AM (QMwOT)

572 *looks for nearest trash compactor to throw myself into*

Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:34 AM (NWiLs)

573 Niters, CM.

5'9" is tall?

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 01:34 AM (L282n)

574 Goddamn you people are tall. Makes me want to never be seen in public.

We`re also overweight. So you wouldn`t be!

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at August 17, 2018 01:35 AM (N1ZXu)

575 Crap I screwded up on 567.Best and and should be in that post.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:35 AM (kG2lj)

576 573 Niters, CM.

5'9" is tall?
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 01:34 AM (L282n)

For a female.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:35 AM (NWiLs)

577 567 Unless you can, you know, actually outrun him.
Posted by: Ace's liver

I am not a fast runner. So my bet bet is to stand my ground an act crazy.
Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:27 AM (kG2lj)

Knife helps
Glock helps more

Posted by: Texarkana Pete at August 17, 2018 01:36 AM (QMwOT)

578 572 *looks for nearest trash compactor to throw myself into*
Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:34 AM (NWiLs)


You know, that'll make you shorter.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 01:38 AM (qyZxC)

579 Goddamn you people are tall. Makes me want to never be seen in public.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:31 AM (NWiLs)

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I

Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 17, 2018 01:38 AM (o3Kzf)

580 577 567 Unless you can, you know, actually outrun him.
Posted by: Ace's liver

I am not a fast runner. So my bet bet is to stand my ground an act crazy.
Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:27 AM (kG2lj)

Knife helps
Glock helps more
Posted by: Texarkana Pete at August 17, 2018 01:36 AM (QMwOT)


That would be nice, but I think I'll have to leave the People's Democratic Republic of California for those options.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 01:38 AM (h2Bdk)

581 @570 Insomniac-Most important is how tall you are laying on your back aroused .

Posted by: JROD at August 17, 2018 01:38 AM (ZBGyR)

582 ...That would be nice, but I think I'll have to leave the People's Democratic Republic of California for those options.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 01:38 AM (h2Bdk)]/I]


So, while Ace is in NYC, his liver resides in the State of California.

I think I'm beginning to grok the nature of the Slo-Gainz in teh threadz.

Long distance metabolism is a bitch!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 17, 2018 01:41 AM (QzJWU)

583 Most important is how tall you are laying on your back aroused .
Posted by: JROD


I was about to ask "what if the tallest part is your protruding gut?"... but I guess that would still be the most important, just in a negative sense.

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:42 AM (P1f+c)

584 544 Scarlett Johanson put together a band with actual musicians she could front. She called it The Singles, and got hit with a cease and desist, since that name was already taken.


Posted by: Kindltot
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Should have gone with 'The Shingles'. No one wants that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2018 12:57 AM (CDGwz)

ScarJo got it from Jeter.

Posted by: your neighbor with a telescope at August 17, 2018 01:43 AM (tbq1U)

585 mutherfvckin' close tags for the muthefvckin' save.

time for me to un ass the coordinates.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!




Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 17, 2018 01:43 AM (QzJWU)

586 Toodles, Jim.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 01:44 AM (L282n)

587 Knife helps
Glock helps more
Posted by: Texarkana Pete


I backed down a guy that pulled a knife on me. By acting crazy. He pulled a knife and I banged my head on my car pumping myself up for the fight. He ran away.

Always keep at least a knife in my pocket now though.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:45 AM (kG2lj)

588
There is a persistent rumour here that Warren Harding died because his doctor was a homeopath.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 16, 2018 11:58 PM (8ZmvG)

Well, I read the doctor was biquestioning. And a crappy doctor.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 17, 2018 01:46 AM (e1mEI)

589 578 572 *looks for nearest trash compactor to throw myself into*
Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:34 AM (NWiLs)


You know, that'll make you shorter.
Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 01:38 AM (qyZxC)

True, but then it won't really matter.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:46 AM (NWiLs)

590 Do Hooter girls like a bit 'o slap and tickle after you order a plate of wings and slide a Benjamin underneath their top? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Texarkana Pete at August 17, 2018 01:34 AM (QMwOT)


Does your 'friend' like having his waitress whip off her pantyhose in two seconds and being strangled with them?

(But seriously, I've read about Hooters waitresses. They do NOT like their clientele, at all.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 01:47 AM (km8m2)

591 Scarlett Johanson put together a band with actual musicians she could front. She called it The Singles, and got hit with a cease and desist, since that name was already taken.
Posted by: Kindltot

Should have gone with 'The Shingles'. No one wants that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.


My youtube wanderings once led me from Postmodern Jukebox to Morgan James to a band called "The Skivvies"... who perform while dressed in only that.

Unfortunately for the 'Rons (though fortunately for the 'Ettes), they're mostly male. Some of their guest vocalists (like Morgan) are nice, though.

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:47 AM (P1f+c)

592 583 Most important is how tall you are laying on your back aroused .
Posted by: JROD

I was about to ask "what if the tallest part is your protruding gut?"... but I guess that would still be the most important, just in a negative sense.
Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:42 AM (P1f+c)

Fortunately it's not. Not that it matters. At all.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:47 AM (NWiLs)

593 True, but then it won't really matter.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:46 AM (NWiLs)

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It would matter to us.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 01:48 AM (L282n)

594 I backed down a guy that pulled a knife on me. By acting crazy. He pulled a knife and I banged my head on my car pumping myself up for the fight. He ran away.

Always keep at least a knife in my pocket now though.
Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:45 AM (kG2lj)


That kind of stuff works great... until you run into another crazy guy.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 01:48 AM (h2Bdk)

595 True, but then it won't really matter.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:46 AM (NWiLs)


It doesn't matter now either, but we went thru this before and I know I can't talk you out of it. You are so silly sometimes.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 01:50 AM (qyZxC)

596 583 Most important is how tall you are laying on your back aroused .
Posted by: JROD


The Pup tent gauge?

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:50 AM (kG2lj)

597 (But seriously, I've read about Hooters waitresses. They do NOT like their clientele, at all.)
Posted by: qdpsteve


The ones who would do like that sort of clientele make 10x as much at the seedy joint down the street.

Posted by: mikeski at August 17, 2018 01:50 AM (P1f+c)

598 It doesn't matter now either, but we went thru this before and I know I can't talk you out of it. You are so silly sometimes.
Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 01:50 AM (qyZxC)

Trust me, it matters.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:52 AM (NWiLs)

599 >>>108 64 - I think you're right about the statistics. The point I was trying to make (poorly) is that it's not just that men are so much stronger/faster etc. on average, it's that even bottom-rung males tend to be markedly better than the vast majority of females at the physical tasks that infantrymen perform.
Posted by: bear with assymetrical balls at August 16, 2018 10:30 PM (H5knJ)

I appreciated your personal take. You've been in a situation I haven't been in, and your observation from that viewpoint is useful.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 01:55 AM (CwOPz)

600 Goddamn you people are tall. Makes me want to never be seen in public.
Posted by: Insomniac
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Heh. Not me brother. On the upside, we get to stand at the front of the group photo.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 17, 2018 01:55 AM (CDGwz)

601 8 It doesn't matter now either, but we went thru this before and I know I can't talk you out of it. You are so silly sometimes.
Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 01:50 AM (qyZxC)

Trust me, it matters.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:52 AM (NWiLs)


Trust me it doesn't, unless the woman is shallow or sensitive about her own height, bcz she's super tall. It works both ways. Anyway, we've been there, and you know you look at the negative. If you were 5 foot 2 or 5 foot 5 it'd be different.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 01:56 AM (qyZxC)

602 I'm going to try to sleep now. Have to get up early-ish regardless. Not looking forward to it. Later.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 17, 2018 01:57 AM (NWiLs)

603 That kind of stuff works great... until you run into another crazy guy.
Posted by: Ace's liver

My options were limited. He may have been crazier than me and stabbed me. But at that moment WTF do you do if you have no weapon. Shit when I was young there are at least a hundred stupid things I did that should have killed me.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 01:57 AM (kG2lj)

604 Good night Insomniac. Try to be kinder to yourself.

Posted by: platypus, gumdrop gorilla channel at August 17, 2018 02:00 AM (qyZxC)

605 Niters (((Insomniac)))

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 02:01 AM (L282n)

606 Love the butt pirate Obama.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 17, 2018 02:05 AM (uSlc8)

607 >>>208 But the military has had good results with women in mounted roles.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 16, 2018 10:55 PM (h2Bdk)

Phrasing.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 02:06 AM (CwOPz)

608 These are amazing times for those who believe in unfettered freedom of association.

Where the hell does he get this idea? The right to free association is far more restricted than the right to free speech. Has been for a handful of decades, now.

Enemies of America are enjoying pretty much unfettered free association and seditious planning but Americans are generally forced to associate with people that the government declares they should associate with. No right of freedom anywhere in there.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 17, 2018 02:15 AM (OYwKq)

609 Goodnight all, thanks for the fun chat tonight.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 17, 2018 02:18 AM (km8m2)

610 That's pretty much a terrible idea. You've got a 50/50 chance of your platoon commander being useless anyway. Now throw in the fact that she can't drag the biggest dude off the battlefield. Horrible. https://t.co/fJOqZZZoPL
-- Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 13, 2018


It's not just the strength issue, it's the whole circumstance. There's not a single pro sport out there where even one woman could make the men's team as a decent contributing member (outside of drag racing, it seems). Do people really not think that professional sports would be drooling all over themselves to be able to field at least one woman if they could. But they can't. They can't even fake it and field a female benchwarmer.

But our military is going to take the most dangerous and important sport of all and field women. Great stuff, guys. Thanks a bunch. You're the best. Really. The best.

PS - to the cobs, I really wish you guys would stop posting crap with characters that we have to friggin clean before Pixy accepts the paste. It's a royal pain in the ass.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 17, 2018 02:22 AM (OYwKq)

611 >>>279 And the curse was that no one would ever listen to her no matter what she said or how she acted.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 16, 2018 11:11 PM (rnAwa)

They would *listen* to her, but they would never believe her.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 02:28 AM (CwOPz)

612 It's not just the strength issue, it's the whole circumstance. ---


Aggression is a testosterone thing. Aggression is a big deal in battle IMO.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 02:28 AM (kG2lj)

613 PS - to the cobs, I really wish you guys would stop posting crap with characters that we have to friggin clean before Pixy accepts the paste. It's a royal pain in the ass.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 17, 2018 02:22 AM (OYwKq)

-- +1

Posted by: logprof at August 17, 2018 02:30 AM (e7oj4)

614 As long as Ace doesn't make me post through Facebook or some thing like it Pixiware is fine for me. Pain is weakness leaving your body.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 02:38 AM (kG2lj)

615 As long as Ace doesn't make me post through Facebook or some thing like it Pixiware is fine for me. Pain is weakness leaving your body.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 02:38 AM (kG2lj)


I have no problems with Pixy's system, but the cobs can just clean their posts before they publish them so that you and I can copy and paste the stuff in the main post without having to get that annoying error page and go through the paste cleaning up all the rejected characters.

You know, some people's browsers don't save the entered text when they get that error page and they have to type their comments all over again. I'm not one of those people but they do exist.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 17, 2018 02:55 AM (OYwKq)

616 Pain is weakness leaving your body.

Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 02:38 AM (kG2lj)


Pain is something you will grow to love.

Posted by: Marquis de Sade at August 17, 2018 02:58 AM (8lsuS)

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 17, 2018 03:01 AM (mpXpK)

618 >>>518 6'1", down from 245 to 175 here. Gotta train the brain to be disinterested.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at August 17, 2018 12:42 AM (o3Kzf)

Yep. Good luck!

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 03:04 AM (CwOPz)

619 612 It's not just the strength issue, it's the whole circumstance. ---


Aggression is a testosterone thing. Aggression is a big deal in battle IMO.
Posted by: X-ray at August 17, 2018 02:28 AM (kG2lj)


Yeah... again:

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/3885

Aggression, huh? I should hook you up with my ex.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 03:05 AM (h2Bdk)

620 exceptions are NOT rules.

Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 17, 2018 03:08 AM (nOoxP)

621 pain is your body trying to tell you that you are doing something stupid.

when you get older, you will wish you had listened.

ask me how i know.

Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 17, 2018 03:10 AM (nOoxP)

622 Vic sighting.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 03:14 AM (CwOPz)

623 /off ancient grunt sock.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 17, 2018 03:16 AM (nOoxP)

624 620 exceptions are NOT rules.
Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 17, 2018 03:08 AM (nOoxP)


True. But like I said, women operating from vehicles have a pretty good track record. They're not all bona fide heroes like Hester, but you can train aggression into women. You have to train it into a lot of men, too.

But women in dismounted infantry is a bad idea. They just don't have the upper body strength, and a your average 20 year old woman has the oxygen carrying capacity of a 50 year old man.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 03:16 AM (h2Bdk)

625 I just watched PDT-with-firemen again. "Awesome" is exactly what it is. Awesome!

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 03:20 AM (CwOPz)

626 621 pain is your body trying to tell you that you are doing something stupid.

when you get older, you will wish you had listened.

ask me how i know.
Posted by: redc1c4, 11H10 long, long ago at August 17, 2018 03:10 AM (nOoxP)


Heh. For me it's more like "I wish I had listened 20 years ago".

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 17, 2018 03:21 AM (h2Bdk)

627 The PDT-with-firemen video was shot in June, according to this site. Not sure where.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9doxofm

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 03:24 AM (CwOPz)

628
That's another thing that doesn't get mentioned enough. After who knows how many years of studied disdain for the common man from those that consider themselves to be our betters, Trump cuts right through all of that, and for all his faults he obviously has a real appreciation for Joe and Jane Six-Pack. Say what you will, but stuff like this happens too often for it to be anything but genuine.


I was at the second 9/12 march in DC. Before it got underway, we were chased out of the street because Preznint Roundball's motorcade was zipping down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House from the Hill (roundball was his GAME, donchano). Arrogant and disdainful prick he is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 17, 2018 03:30 AM (kEb8E)

629 The PDT-with-firemen video was shot in June, according to this site. Not sure where.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 03:24 AM (CwOPz)


If my memory serves (unfortunately it goes on strike a lot), it was filmed somewhere on LonghIsland.

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 03:33 AM (8lsuS)

630 Will wonders never cease? My memory served this time.

According to the following link, , it occurred May 23rd when the President was leaving Bethppage LonghIsland after attending a conference on illegal immigration.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8je63cd

The touching incident occurred on May 23, but the video went viral just this weekend. In the video, President Trump emerges from his limousine clapping. He thanks the firefighters, shakes their hands, and poses for selfies. "Thank you, thank you," Trump says as excited firefighters eagerly surround him.

"That's awesome!" one firefighter is heard saying in the YouTube video posted by Viral Hog.

President Trump was leaving Bethpage, New York, that day following a forum on illegal immigration, where he paid tribute to families whose loved ones were murdered by MS-13 gang members. Long Island is a hotbed for MS-13 gangs, whose motto is "Kill, Rape, and Control."

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 03:44 AM (8lsuS)

631 shit: last minute 0730 CT scan appt @ the Left LA VA in a few hours...

hasta, y'all!

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 17, 2018 03:45 AM (nOoxP)

632 630 According to the following link, , it occurred May 23rd when the President was leaving Bethppage LonghIsland after attending a conference on illegal immigration.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8je63cd

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 03:44 AM (8lsuS)

Excellent. Thanks. And a photo from the Bethpage Fire Department facebook site, confirming all of that (May 23, 201:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8b85uyc

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 03:58 AM (CwOPz)

633 Time to make the coffee and promise just oatmeal

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2018 04:01 AM (lxZ71)

634 633 Time to make the coffee and promise just oatmeal
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2018 04:01 AM (lxZ71)

(Psst. No maple syrup.)

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 04:05 AM (CwOPz)

635 Time to make the coffee and promise just oatmeal
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2018 04:01 AM (lxZ71)
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(Psst. No maple syrup.)

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 04:05 AM (CwOPz)


Heathen! I always toss in a splash of maple syrup and a touch of brown sugar, along with a cinnamon stick, to my oatmeal. Sometimes I'm really decadent and add raisins/craisins and chopped walnuts after the oatmeal is cooked, too.

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 04:11 AM (8lsuS)

636 PS - to the cobs, I really wish you guys would stop posting crap with
characters that we have to friggin clean before Pixy accepts the paste.
It's a royal pain in the ass.

And
I have no problems with Pixy's system, but the cobs can just clean their
posts before they publish them so that you and I can copy and paste the
stuff in the main post without having to get that annoying error page
and go through the paste cleaning up all the rejected characters.

I "wash" all of my posts through a unicode to HTML tool. That changes all of the unicode character that Pixy doesn't understand (it turns them into black diamonds) into normal text. For example, it changes a curly apostrophe into # 8 2 1 7(remove spaces). This takes extra effort on my part, for something I am not getting paid for, but I do it in order to present the best possible product to y'all. If you are having trouble cut and pasting stuff because the unicode characters exist after you've copied the text, you can do the same thing using the tool here: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_center_css
The conversions work as well in the comments as they do in the OP. We (or at lest I) DO our best to present a coherent text within the bounds of the limitations of the software. And we do it all for free. If that is not to your liking, I have a simple solution.

Go find yourself a chainsaw. It doesn't have to be a good one, or a modern one, but it should at least run. Take that thing and tweak it until it runs as smoothly as a baby's bottom. Once you have it purring like a kitten, I suggest you take some time to make sure it is lubricated properly. Make sure the bar oil reservoir is filled up, and be sure that the fuel it is running on is a proper 40:1 mix. Rev it up. RRRRR! RRRRR! Feel the power vibrating in your hands. IT'S LIKE BEING A GOD, isn't it?
Next, hit the kill switch and lube up the chain itself. I suggest you use Johnson and Johnson KY jelly. Make sure you lube the casing at the base of the bar! We wouldn't want any non-lubricated parts to spoil the nickelodeon, now would we?
Then, I suggest that you pull the cord and fire that puppy up. Let it warm up, as I said, feel the power in your hands. Once the chainsaw is good and warmed up, squeeze the trigger to maximum..

And shove that bad boy right up your ass until you can feel it behind your eyeballs. This same advice holds true for people who complain about gifs.
Trust me, you'll feel a lot better when you finish.
No, scratch that. *YOU* won't, but *I* will.


Posted by: Weirddave at August 17, 2018 04:15 AM (bQXMb)

637 That it works more or less is amazing to me

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2018 04:19 AM (lxZ71)

638 The best one I've seen is when a Marine standing by the Presidential helo loses his cover to the wind.

Trump is walking up as the hat comes off. Trump leans down, scoops up the hat, goes over and puts it on the marines head and pats him on the shoulder and then proceeds to enter the helo.

That's a leader of men.

I think it was Christ who said that to be a leader of men you must become their servant.

Not a slave and not an inferior but their servant. Respecting them as you expect them to respect you. Doing your share of the work that you are able and required to do.

The feudal system had it embedded in it. Along with a man's pledge to his lord, the lord also pledged to look out for the man.

Every good leader that is loved will have this trait.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 17, 2018 04:19 AM (wb4G5)

639 I more often than not just put in raisins and cinnamon, maybe next time try MS

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2018 04:29 AM (lxZ71)

640 >>>638 The best one I've seen is when a Marine standing by the Presidential helo loses his cover to the wind.

Trump is walking up as the hat comes off. Trump leans down, scoops up the hat, goes over and puts it on the marines head and pats him on the shoulder and then proceeds to enter the helo.

That's a leader of men.

I think it was Christ who said that to be a leader of men you must become their servant.

Not a slave and not an inferior but their servant. Respecting them as you expect them to respect you. Doing your share of the work that you are able and required to do.

The feudal system had it embedded in it. Along with a man's pledge to his lord, the lord also pledged to look out for the man.

Every good leader that is loved will have this trait.
Posted by: jakee308 at August 17, 2018 04:19 AM (wb4G5)

Hear, hear! Even CNN liked it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAbgc41pksE

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 04:35 AM (CwOPz)

641 I dont beleive chicago is in venzuela. how many homeless people were shot by the police in venzuela so far this year? and how many homeless people were shot by the police in america so far this year? how about what is going on in columbia and central america by our client states? trump beat 16 republican free traders along with democrat closet free traders like clinton. he asked bernie sanders supporters to vote for him against free trade and unlike republicans he would protect social security and medicare and they did vote for trump. get rid of medicare or get rid of conservative libertarian ayn randists who want to get rid of medicare which do you think the ameican people would vote to get rid of medicare or you?

Posted by: wammo at August 17, 2018 05:07 AM (p1Bp4)

642 I just finished reading the 1979 piece by Jim Webb about women in the military and man, I have a couple of thoughts:

1 - It's a loooong essay. Amazing that the The Washingtonian expected the average reader to have the attention span required to read such a long piece. Have we really become so distracted and so used to dumbed-down articles that anything longer than three pages now feels like a chore?

2 - Much of what Webb wrote almost 30 years ago is so un-PC it feels revolutionary now. How far have we strayed that simply stating that the purpose of the military academies is to train men to fight now seems like a forbidden thought. And Webb acknowledges obvious differences between men and women - and expects the reader to understand those differences, too - differences we dare not mention these days.

3 - What the hell happened to Jim Webb? How is he still a member of the Democratic Party? How on earth does the 1979 Webb go along with the Dem party's current embrace of feminism and LGBTQ politics?

Posted by: biancaneve at August 17, 2018 05:16 AM (A/iod)

643 Wake up! It's time to make money

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2018 05:18 AM (lxZ71)

644 >>>642 What the hell happened to Jim Webb? How is he still a member of the Democratic Party? How on earth does the 1979 Webb go along with the Dem party's current embrace of feminism and LGBTQ politics?
Posted by: biancaneve at August 17, 2018 05:16 AM (A/iod)

I liked him at the time. I read his "Fields of Fire" in the runup to the 2016 Presidential election. I think being in the public eye on that scale overwhelmed him.

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 05:24 AM (CwOPz)

645 Jim Webb:
Here's his official website:
http://www.jameswebb.com

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 05:28 AM (CwOPz)

646 Morning, All.

>>> I dont beleive chicago is in venzuela

I see the geographer has wandered in.

Posted by: fluffy at August 17, 2018 05:34 AM (cHbmY)

647 It looks like the pridoner's dilemma thing that Weirddave posted is just another way of saying that when 2 sides are at war, one side must completely capitulate before the war truly ends. And I agree with that.

Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 05:35 AM (kiSdp)

648 Posted by: biancaneve at August 17, 2018 05:16 AM (A/iod)

Jim Webb is still a Democrat because he is a social liberal, plus the fact that he was born a Democrat.

Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 05:40 AM (kiSdp)

649 Hmm, according to Amazon's author bio of Jim Webb, in July 2015 he announced he was running for president but then in October 2015 he pulled out, stating he was uncomfortable and not happy with many of the Dem party's positions.

Posted by: biancaneve at August 17, 2018 05:42 AM (A/iod)

650 Clutch - yep, Jim Webb is someone who should have become a Trump voter in 2016. He's probably disillusioned with the current Dem party, but unwilling to switch.

Posted by: biancaneve at August 17, 2018 05:44 AM (A/iod)

651
I keep

https://www.charset.org/html-special-characters

'pinned' so I can access it quickly to clean up any 500 error issues. Almost every website that I 'cut' a couple of lines of text from will have some characters that need cleaning up.

It's no big deal. But some people just like to bitch about everything.

Thank you, Dave for your efforts. I lol'd at Baroque Obama.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 17, 2018 06:02 AM (LOgQ4)

652 Heh. So Lizzie Warren is calling for the Federal Government to seize control of all companies.

They're starting to worry they won't get #FullCommunism before they die.

Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 06:15 AM (9De+S)

653 Women are uselss in combat. In fact they are pure dead weight for the men in their unit. Keep them in REMF occupations who never leave CONUS-- it will cut down on pregnacies to get out of deployement and the unit deploying under strength.

Posted by: Old Marine at August 17, 2018 06:16 AM (Oemjl)

654 Good morning!

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:19 AM (hyuyC)

655 What would our personnel policy in our military units, where small unit cohesion is vital, if we had two years warning of a Great Power war with China?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:22 AM (hyuyC)

656 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:24 AM (m8J9w)

657 Hikaru

"Lizzie Warren is calling for the Federal Government to seize control of all companies. "

Why, I do believe that never works. We need to send her on a fact-finding trip to Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:24 AM (hyuyC)

658 Nevergiveup

Good morning, sir.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:25 AM (hyuyC)

659 Women are uselss in combat. In fact they are pure dead weight for the men in their unit. Keep them in REMF occupations who never leave CONUS-- it will cut down on pregnacies to get out of deployement and the unit deploying under strength.

Posted by: Old Marine at August 17, 2018 06:16 AM (Oemjl)


They can Deploy to War Zones. In fact todays' Military would be hard pressed to funtion without women deployed. The question is should they be in Ground Combat Units? And in general my answer would be NO

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:26 AM (m8J9w)

660 653 Women are uselss in combat. In fact they are pure dead weight for the men in their unit. Keep them in REMF occupations who never leave CONUS-- it will cut down on pregnacies to get out of deployement and the unit deploying under strength.
Posted by: Old Marine at August 17, 2018 06:16 AM (Oemjl)

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lol

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:27 AM (L282n)

661 Ferguson Riot Organizer Leads Pledge from Communist Manifesto After Chat with Kirsten Gillibrand

Breitbart

Least anyone forget who our enemy is

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:30 AM (m8J9w)

662
The cobs do a great job bringing the content for the ravening Horde. I may joke about it every now and then about it but don't think I'm not grateful.

I've been chased off from commenting everywhere else so it's a pleasure to come here, where the standards are sufficiently low.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2018 06:30 AM (0yNYg)

663 They're starting to worry they won't get #FullCommunism before they die.
Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 06:15 AM (9De+S)

I've often wondered if these Democrats realize that they would be dead and in Hell (for their support of abortion) long before they implement their utopia on earth.

Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 06:31 AM (kiSdp)

664 Old Marine

My second ship was the third Haze Gray and Underway ship (tenders do no count) to integrate women into the crew. 10% swap. A lot of training.

We had a good CO who made it work. Even with the ability of female sailors to get pregnant to avoid sea-time. But I have some stories.

And fortunately nothing really bad happened. There still is a big place for upper body strength in damage control. Prevention, in peacetime, does work.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:31 AM (hyuyC)

665 I've been chased off from commenting everywhere else so it's a pleasure to come here, where the standards are sufficiently low.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I got nowhere else to go!!!!

Posted by: Soros at August 17, 2018 06:32 AM (8ikIW)

666 666!

Posted by: m at August 17, 2018 06:32 AM (CwOPz)

667
"666!"

The Comment of the Beast.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2018 06:33 AM (0yNYg)

668 SMH

I've seen your pictures. And despite you being a tall drink of water, I'd still put money on you in a bar fight. Or parking a tank.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:34 AM (hyuyC)

669 Good Morning

I like how Trump's! statement on Aretha that she worked FOR him on numerous occasions is considered racist

Posted by: Soros at August 17, 2018 06:34 AM (8ikIW)

670 663 I've often wondered if these Democrats realize that they would be dead and in Hell (for their support of abortion) long before they implement their utopia on earth.
Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 06:31 AM (kiSdp)

I think the more cynical ones do. The ones who want to permanently pull the ladders up and shut the door so that they're the last generation to live a comfortable lifestyle.

But the true believers? It probably doesn't cross their minds.

Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 06:35 AM (9De+S)

671 Comment # 606 is the area code of the Beast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:35 AM (hyuyC)

672 Racist Racist Racist to replace Russia Russia Russia

Posted by: Soros at August 17, 2018 06:35 AM (8ikIW)

673 Posted by: Old Marine at August 17, 2018 06:16 AM (Oemjl)

I was on one of the 1st Navy ships with women on it. A few had boiler tech and machinist mate ratings. They did not learn in A school that the fire room was routinely 115 degrees. A couple announced that they would get pregnant when they encountered that, they did, and left the engine room on port and report.

Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 06:36 AM (kiSdp)

674 Second day of school preps commence.

Have a wonderful day, everyone. Remember we are blessed to be in the longest peace from Great Power wars since the Treaty of Westphalia created nation states.

Have you thanked our nuclear warheads today?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 17, 2018 06:39 AM (hyuyC)

675 Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:30 AM (m8J9w)

Didn't Gillibrand used to be pro 2nd amendment? Now she is encouraging communism?

Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 06:39 AM (kiSdp)

676 Heh SaltyDawg.

More liable to bean you with a Bible than get into a bar fight (gotta set an example for the g-babies).

I do miss my tanks though...and my Herc.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:41 AM (L282n)

677 THANKS NUKES!!!

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:42 AM (L282n)

678 Didn't Gillibrand used to be pro 2nd amendment? Now she is encouraging communism?

Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 06:39 AM (kiSdp)


yeah when she was appointed, she was considered "Middle of the road"...how the worm has turned

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:42 AM (m8J9w)

679 Have fun with the urchins, SaltyDawg.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:43 AM (L282n)

680 675 Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:30 AM (m8J9w)

Didn't Gillibrand used to be pro 2nd amendment? Now she is encouraging communism?
Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 06:39 AM (kiSdp)

Between that and Fauxcahontas' bill to seize control of corporations, they seem to think this is the winning play for the midterms and beyond.

Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 06:43 AM (9De+S)

681 And get this. She's calling the bill the "Responsible Capitalism Act".

Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 06:44 AM (9De+S)

682 Didn't Gillibrand used to be pro 2nd amendment? Now she is encouraging communism?

Posted by: clutch at August 17, 2018 06:39 AM (kiSdp)


Baby Kirsten is a leaf in the wind when it comes to principles. That's why she's a Dim/she's dim.

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 06:45 AM (8lsuS)

683 Well, of course she is...

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:46 AM (L282n)

684 communism = responsible capitalism

okay...

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:48 AM (L282n)

685 I thought that VICE TV had actual tapes of Trump! that Tom Arnold had. No, the show is The HUNT for Trump Tapes.

So all accusations and innuendos all the time.

What a f'n joke

Posted by: Soros at August 17, 2018 06:49 AM (8ikIW)

686 communism = responsible capitalism

okay...

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:48 AM (L282n)


Kulaks need not apply because we all know 'they didn't build that'.

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 06:50 AM (8lsuS)

687 Heh RickZ

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:52 AM (L282n)

688 The funny thing is ( and no I am not laughing) but today's Liberals are almost making Fredo look like a Capitolistic Pig

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:53 AM (m8J9w)

689 The funny thing is ( and no I am not laughing) but today's Liberals are almost making Fredo look like a Capitolistic Pig
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Fredo was the Judas Goat to lead the sheeple to slaughter

Posted by: Soros at August 17, 2018 06:54 AM (8ikIW)

690 capitalistic...

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:55 AM (L282n)

691 sorry Ngu...don't mean to go all spell nazi on ya.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:56 AM (L282n)

692 Fredo was the Judas Goat to lead the sheeple to slaughter

Posted by: Soros at August 17, 2018 06:54 AM (8ikIW)


If anyone knows about slaughter, it would be you.

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 06:57 AM (8lsuS)

693 sorry Ngu...don't mean to go all spell nazi on ya.

Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:56 AM (L282n)


Hey that's ok, I can't spell. And I write, well like a DR. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:57 AM (m8J9w)

694 Good morning! Whats the good news?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2018 06:58 AM (ZYcR0)

695 Good morning! Whats the good news?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2018 06:58 AM (ZYcR0)

I'll have to get back to ya on that one?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 06:58 AM (m8J9w)

696 If anyone knows about slaughter, it would be you.
Posted by: RickZ


Well crap. I left that sock full of shit on since yesterday

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2018 06:58 AM (8ikIW)

697 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 17, 2018 07:00 AM (wldC6)

698 A Democrat seeking a U.S. House seat in deep-red West Virginia bills himself as a Trump Democrat even though he has claimed the president hasnt done shit, backs a pathway to citizenship for illegal immgrants and opposes a border wall.

yeah right he's a Trump Democrat like I'm Mickey Mantle

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 07:00 AM (m8J9w)

699 695>> heh! C'mon Skipper...you don't have to think hard. You lookin at the grass from the top or the bottom? You getting a paycheck for being a HMFIC in big Navy?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2018 07:01 AM (ZYcR0)

700 sorry Ngu...don't mean to go all spell nazi on ya.
Posted by: SMH - Get right or get left at August 17, 2018 06:56 AM (L282n)
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Watch out, SMH - he's got a drill and he's not afraid to use it.

Posted by: bluebell at August 17, 2018 07:01 AM (JJZzu)

701 yeah right he's a Trump Democrat like I'm Mickey Mantle

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 07:00 AM (m8J9w)


So, a jump to the head of the line for a liver transplant?

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 07:03 AM (8lsuS)

702 Watching the LL World Series yesterday. They have tough rules and they ENFORCE them.
The coach of the Australian team didn't have one player play the minimal amount of time that he was supposed to...Coach can't coach the rest of the Series.

Australia lost, but what a kick in the teeth

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2018 07:03 AM (8ikIW)

703 You getting a paycheck for being a HMFIC in big Navy?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2018 07:01 AM (ZYcR0)


LOL...I am kinda the Aide to the big HMFICs. After they make a public statement that " We will do this", They turn to me and say " can we do that" and I have to tell them well no SR. Then they say " Well figure out what we can do"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 07:04 AM (m8J9w)

704 So, a jump to the head of the line for a liver transplant?

Posted by: RickZ at August 17, 2018 07:03 AM (8lsuS)


Surgeon was probably a Yankee Fan of about my age

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 07:05 AM (m8J9w)

705 LOL...I am kinda the Aide to the big HMFICs. After they make a public statement that " We will do this", They turn to me and say " can we do that" and I have to tell them well no SR. Then they say " Well figure out what we can do"
Posted by: Nevergiveup

And if we can't do it, pretend to do it until everyone forgets that we're supposed to do that.

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2018 07:07 AM (8ikIW)

706 681 And get this. She's calling the bill the "Responsible Capitalism Act".
Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 06:44 AM (9De+S)


Boy, if that doesn't sound like something straight out of "Atlas Shrugged".

Posted by: rickl at August 17, 2018 07:07 AM (sdi6R)

707 Are cardigans a thing for guys who are 29? Cause I can't find one that doesn't look like its a knee length coat or without a hood or that has V down to the navel...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2018 07:08 AM (ZYcR0)

708 Hoping to see a verdict today on the Manafort clown show.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 17, 2018 07:09 AM (wldC6)

709 And get this. She's calling the bill the "Responsible Capitalism Act".

Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 06:44 AM (9De+S)



Boy, if that doesn't sound like something straight out of "Atlas Shrugged".

Posted by: rickl at August 17, 2018 07:07 AM

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One more Soviet 5 year plan or the "Affordable Care Act"......

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 17, 2018 07:09 AM (JUOKG)

710 Hoping to see a verdict today on the Manafort clown show.

Hoping to see team Meuller embarrassed bigly today. And then see Snoozy McSnoozerson and the entire executive leadership team at the FBI shit canned.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2018 07:11 AM (ZYcR0)

711 Got my usual morning update from the Boston Globe. They are so proud of themselves this am. They repeated what they wanted the newspapers all over America to print.

Posted by: Colin at August 17, 2018 07:12 AM (Jvjsh)

712 Hoping to see a verdict today on the Manafort clown show.



Hoping to see team Meuller embarrassed bigly today. And then see
Snoozy McSnoozerson and the entire executive leadership team at the FBI
shit canned.


Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 17, 2018 07:11 AM

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It would be nice to see the Jury return with NG on all counts.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 17, 2018 07:13 AM (JUOKG)

713 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2018 07:13 AM (DKgtk)

714 Hoping to see a verdict today on the Manafort clown show.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 17, 2018 07:09 AM (wldC6)


I really hope it a not guilty verdict, but I would be almost as happy with a hung jury. Aftert all he does seem like a slime bucket and is at the very least skirting the Tax Laws....but it not as if he is the only one doing that...I was a rather selective prosecution

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 17, 2018 07:13 AM (m8J9w)

715 nice read

http://thedeclination.com/sympathy-is-not-respect/

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2018 07:13 AM (JFO2v)

716 And get this. She's calling the bill the "Responsible Capitalism Act".

Ever notice how real estate developers name their subdivisions for what they destroy? A place where quail used to live, is named 'Quail Run'. A place where deer used to run is named 'Deer Crossing'. Quail gone, deer gone, name stays.

Politicians use the same playbook. There was nothing 'affordable' about the 'affordable care act'. The "Responsible Capitalism Act" will seek to destroy free markets.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at August 17, 2018 07:14 AM (LOgQ4)

717 Whatever the verdict is in the Manafort Trial, it will have absolutely nothing to do with Trump or collusion.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 17, 2018 07:15 AM (oVJmc)

718 Got my usual morning update from the Boston Globe.
They are so proud of themselves this am. They repeated what they wanted
the newspapers all over America to print.





Posted by: Colin at August 17, 2018 07:12 AM

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Our local paper went all in on that and got beat the fvck up by 99.99% of their online subscribers in the comments section.


It was not a prudent fiscal decision for them to run that editorial. Now they will bitch that they have to raise subscription prices due to falling revenue.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 17, 2018 07:15 AM (JUOKG)

719 I'm really not a huge fan of POTUS tweeting all the time, but how anyone could be offended at Donald Trump's tweet about legendary gospel singer Aretha Franklin is beyond me.

Posted by: Gem at August 17, 2018 07:16 AM (XoAz8)

720 Boy, if that doesn't sound like something straight out of "Atlas Shrugged".
Posted by: rickl at August 17, 2018 07:07 AM (sdi6R)

Liawatha thinks Shrugged and 1984 are rule books.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2018 07:16 AM (JFO2v)

721 Ever notice how real estate developers name their subdivisions for what they destroy? A place where quail used to live, is named 'Quail Run'. A place where deer used to run is named 'Deer Crossing'. Quail gone, deer gone, name stays.


We've got one nearby that's called 'Lake View'.
They're about 10 miles from the nearest lake and in a dip in the topography

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2018 07:17 AM (8ikIW)

722 I'm really not a huge fan of POTUS tweeting all the time, but how anyone could be offended at Donald Trump's tweet about legendary gospel singer Aretha Franklin is beyond me.

Posted by: Gem

It was in some official statement. He said that Aretha worked for him. People are saying that's Racist

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2018 07:19 AM (8ikIW)

723 "You don't want to help me? You don't care about me!"

No. You bring these trouble upon yourself. It's your own damn fault.

Posted by: JAS at August 17, 2018 07:19 AM (3HNOQ)

724 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 17, 2018 07:20 AM (ZQfW9)

725 ""You don't want to help me? You don't care about me!"

No. You bring these trouble upon yourself. It's your own damn fault."


Idiot friend: Everything happens for a reason

Me: In many cases it's because you make stupid life choices and decisions.

Idiot friend: *Blink...Blink*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 17, 2018 07:21 AM (wldC6)

726 Idiot friend: Everything happens for a reason

Me: In many cases it's because you make stupid life choices and decisions.

Idiot friend: *Blink...Blink*
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

HA!!

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2018 07:22 AM (8ikIW)

727 It was in some official statement. He said that Aretha worked for him. People are saying that's Racist

Sure, if you're a psycho.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 17, 2018 07:25 AM (oVJmc)

728 "Sure, if you're a psycho."

That's racist.

Posted by: The Left at August 17, 2018 07:26 AM (wldC6)

729 711 Got my usual morning update from the Boston Globe. They are so proud of themselves this am. They repeated what they wanted the newspapers all over America to print.
Posted by: Colin at August 17, 2018 07:12 AM (Jvjsh)

350 papers printing the same thing at the same time is just the Pravda.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2018 07:26 AM (JFO2v)

730 Morning all, I feel like I should stand up and salute all you fine Military Horde this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 17, 2018 07:26 AM (Pmv65)

731 Love the Julie Kelly, Cuckhunter sidebar story on Noah Rothman. He annoys me.


NeverTrump: Carter Page should've been spied on.


NeverTrump: Alex Jones should have his FB page removed.


NeverTrump: Peter Strzok is a victim.


NeverTrump: Trump revoking Brennan's security clearance is a constitutional crisis.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Indians fan at August 17, 2018 07:26 AM (ULoJS)

732 ell, looks like more rain sometime today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 17, 2018 07:27 AM (wldC6)

733 Speaking of our local newspaper (I don't get the print edition anymore). Their website is now degraded to horrible. Looks like it was put together by a third grader. (sorry, but a third grader probably could do better) Gannett should be proud, they must have fired their layout person.

Posted by: Colin at August 17, 2018 07:27 AM (Jvjsh)

734 It's good to be the king.

Posted by: Jim H at August 17, 2018 07:28 AM (Un7SJ)

735 That's racist.
Posted by: The Left at August 17, 2018 07:26 AM (wldC6)

Please o Please continue the racist thing. It already means about 10 different things and will become meaningless very soon.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2018 07:28 AM (JFO2v)

736 "Southern Hills" sits in the middle of a flat area.

Posted by: JAS at August 17, 2018 07:28 AM (3HNOQ)

737 It was in some official statement. He said that Aretha worked for him. People are saying that's Racist
Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2018 07:19 AM (8ikIW)

Thanks, Bruce!

So, he hired her at her accepted working fee, she performed as promised, he paid her. *Now* I see the racist hate.

(Keeping up with the lunatics is exhausting.)


Posted by: Gem at August 17, 2018 07:30 AM (XoAz8)

738 Pissboy, get your ass over here, I've got a lot!

Posted by: Colin at August 17, 2018 07:31 AM (Jvjsh)

739 " Speaking of our local newspaper (I don't get the print edition anymore). Their website is now degraded to horrible"

Two days ago, our local CBS affiliate' website had news of Hurricane Sandy as their "Latest News" lead.

And every article for about an hour was from 2013.

Professionals, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 17, 2018 07:31 AM (wldC6)

740 Quail gone, deer gone, name stays.


Rule of life: The deer are never gone.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Indians fan at August 17, 2018 07:32 AM (ULoJS)

741 Their website is now degraded to horrible. Looks like it was put together by a third grader.'


That's like our local paper's site. And now it's behind a paywall. And added a slogan "Journalism that matters".

Posted by: freaked at August 17, 2018 07:32 AM (UdKB7)

742 Nood jj

Posted by: JAS at August 17, 2018 07:32 AM (3HNOQ)

743 350 papers printing the same thing at the same time is just the Pravda.
Posted by: rhennigantx


Definitely collusion.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2018 07:32 AM (DKgtk)

744 Thanks, Bruce!

So, he hired her at her accepted working fee, she performed as promised, he paid her. *Now* I see the racist hate.
(Keeping up with the lunatics is exhausting.)
Posted by: Gem at August 17, 2018 07:30 AM (XoAz

Dont you know it is racist for a white man to hire a black woman. Wait wait that came out wrong. White men should not be allowed to hire black women performers for their parties. Wait thats not it either. gimmme a second.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2018 07:33 AM (JFO2v)

745 This morning as I walked the dogs I looked all around at the beauty of God's creation and said to myself, "What a bunch of racists on this street!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Indians fan at August 17, 2018 07:33 AM (ULoJS)

746 RE: Security Clearance / "Freedom of Speech"...

Are they making the argument that only people with security clearances have freedom of speech? And therefore arguing that those of us who aren't NatSec or Officers DON'T (and shouldn't) have freedom of speech?

Because it kind of sounds like that's what they're saying.

Posted by: Hikaru at August 17, 2018 07:35 AM (4nN12)

747 Are those Hot Dogs real are they made from Meat or are they those putrid vegan ones the PETA jerks are demanding we eat or are they made from alien food stuffs

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at August 17, 2018 12:10 PM (FLiOE)

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