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Skilled Tradesmen vs Journalists - Who is Smarter?
[BUCK THROCKMORTON]
Following the Don Lemon/Rick Wilson incident in which CNN journalists mocked working-class Trump voters as stupid people intimidated by reading and geography, Ace explained that journalists are people of average intelligence who fetishize being high IQ – because most of them are not.
I’d like to expand on that and state that the average tradesman is much more intelligent than the average journalist – especially at STEM skills. If any of those snotty journalists ever actually observed the tradesmen who make our lives possible, they would be shocked to learn how much math and science is required to do their jobs. Carpenters, plumbers, and electricians are employing science and math in their jobs all day long. Can you imagine a journalist trying to understand amperes? Of course they couldn’t. Yet because they can identify Ukraine on a map they think they’re smarter than an electrician.Here is just one example of how a journalist can skate through college without having to be academically challenged at all in science or math: A student can get a degree in journalism at the University of Texas’ “prestigious” School of Journalism without taking a single math class nor a meaningful science class. There is a whopping requirement of one Math class (3 hours), but the journalism student has the option of substituting it with Educational Psychology, Sociology, or African Diaspora Studies. The requirement for 6 hours of Science can be satisfied with a combination of Astronomy, Nutrition, and Geography. (I verified this at the University of Texas’ Moody College of Communication web site regarding the 2019-2020 year curriculum.)
So bravo to our journalism students. While they’re making “A”s in Educational Psychology and learning how to find Ukraine on the map, nursing student are studying Physiology and Microbiology, and electricians are studying joules and volts. Oh, and let’s not forget machine operators. They’re skillfully operating backhoes, excavators, cranes and such, while the stars of CNN need assistance to change the battery in their personal groomers before going on air to insult those machine operators. No, not only are journalists not as smart as they pretend to be, they’re not as smart as the people they mock. Not even close.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 31, 2020 07:38 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Two Weeks From Everywhere at January 31, 2020 07:39 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 31, 2020 07:39 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at January 31, 2020 07:39 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 31, 2020 07:40 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 31, 2020 07:40 PM (e7Ugy)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 07:40 PM (7bcfy)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 31, 2020 07:40 PM (e7Ugy)
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Why are you picking on us?
Posted by: Chimpanzees everywhere at January 31, 2020 07:41 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 31, 2020 07:41 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:41 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Grump928(C) reminds you at January 31, 2020 07:41 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: m at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 31, 2020 07:40 PM (oVJmc)
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And Brit newsreaders are probably smarter than the journalists over here.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (WEBkv)
This is not surprising. They said the gap narrowed some under Trump, but I believe that is because he has attracted more traditional Democratic constituencies so of course the gap would close some.
Posted by: Thatch at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (llU0Y)
Posted by: Fredo Cuomo at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (WX+x0)
You write something wrong, you get yelled at.
You mis-operate a piece of heavy machinery, people die.
What was the question again?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (CDGwz)
Have you ever seen a troop of journalist trying to fuck a football? It's hysterically funny.
Posted by: Grump928(C) reminds you at January 31, 2020 07:43 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at January 31, 2020 07:43 PM (HuH1F)
But what was truly exceptional was their ability to avoid situations where those skills would be put to . . . uh . . . work.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 31, 2020 07:43 PM (8AONa)
Plus, I like GILFs.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2020 07:38 PM (zBaqJ)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (q1Pj5)
But.
I'd like to see some idiot journalist draw up, create and install a cornice.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (axyOa)
Sad thing is that even the journalism majors know the education majors are completely retarded.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
And both look down on Bitter Women's Studies majors.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Syzygy at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (B3kya)
Posted by: henry at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (J3Rfi)
Pish. I'm still pissed about his anti Free Trade post. I got into it too late too have much of an impact, but I don't like people who haven't made their bones around here insulting me.
Yes, journalism degrees are not worky. Brilliant.
Next up, seals can be trained to clap.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (Tnijr)
Started in the trades, taught myself some good skillz that have been harnessed into a decent aerospace engineer job in north 'bama.
There were journalists in my graduate American literature electives, and they were dumber than a rusty box of files.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Fredo Cuomo at January 31, 2020 07:42 PM (WX+x0)
"I'm smart. Not like everybody says, like dumb."
Posted by: m at January 31, 2020 07:45 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: Diogenes
I once had a girlfriend named Cornice.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 07:45 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (KmeWm)
When I was at UVA 25 years ago, if you were in the school of government and international relations you could get out of taking math if you had taken calculus in high school, which I had.
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (8r7DE)
Posted by: paleRider is simply irredeemable at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (eASYU)
Posted by: April at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (OX9vb)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (JFO2v)
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 07:47 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Diogenes
I once had a girlfriend named Cornice.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 07:45 PM (T6t7i)
She was one game hen!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 07:47 PM (NWiLs)
494
481
403. - Nicola Paget, Jean Shrimpton, Minnie Driver, Julie Christie
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:40 PM (KmeWm)
Hayleey Atwell. Half Brit, half American. I'll give them the benefit of doubt on Brexit day.
Maybe NSFW. Just barely.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/v68gv8a
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 31, 2020 07:47 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (KmeWm)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (M+Lyo)
I installed a water heater for a really nice couple, both teachers at
SUNY Fredonia. The guy asked me if he could watch, she joined him, and
they thought I had cracked alchemy when I started soldering the pipes.
Neither taught in the engineering department. Appreciation of something
101 I think.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (C1Lsn)
Soldering the pipes, huh? That's what the kids are calling it now?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (KP5rU)
Thing is I don't qualify most newspersons as journalists anymore. Not in any real sense. They are just people with opinions on par with pretty much anyone who breathes. Not exceptional in any way but for the rare bird who, by virtue of lots of worldly experience, acquires knowledge from many specialties and an ability, acquired from somewhere else other than academia, to critically think.
They are mostly infotainers.
And we won't even address the integrity component of people composing paid promotional material for editors and owners who are equally agenda-driven.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 07:49 PM (6eEQ+)
Journalists don't know shit.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at January 31, 2020 07:38 PM (ExV1e
Why would I want to pay attention to these people's journals anyway?
Posted by: NOT THAT GUY at January 31, 2020 07:49 PM (gVDpb)
Posted by: kallisto ]/i]
Was gonna swipe left, but saw Minnie. Wish it was POV.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 07:49 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Rock Girthpounder at January 31, 2020 07:49 PM (oQJgr)
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 07:49 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:46 PM (KmeWm)
I did ! Are you saying all English, or none are ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 07:49 PM (zr5Kq)
Buck, Your a nice guy but Ace you ain't. You need to think a little harder for this audience.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (n7enF)
Journalism degrees are a joke.
Learn to code.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (haWye)
Posted by: David Prince at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (JkygK)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway
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Fixed the leaky shower-tub faucet today. I expect most people would have paid ~$200.00 to a plumber. My cost? $1.59...plus tax.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (CDGwz)
Define "mentally challenged" because, otherwise, it's an easy call.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2020 07:51 PM (q1Pj5)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:51 PM (KmeWm)
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2020 07:51 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Rock Girthpounder at January 31, 2020 07:51 PM (oQJgr)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 07:51 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 07:52 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (1CjJc)
At least he let him watch.
Kinky!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2020 07:52 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:52 PM (KmeWm)
There are many "journalists" who have managed to do just that.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 31, 2020 07:52 PM (y/fJ4)
David Alexander Clarke Jr. is an American former law enforcement official who served as Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin from 2002 to 2017. In 2002, Clarke was appointed to the position by Governor Scott McCallum and later elected that same year to his first four-year term.
Posted by: Infidel at January 31, 2020 07:52 PM (MTxDQ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (CDGwz)
A set of rules they came up with. It's all very inside baseball, I think.
Posted by: m at January 31, 2020 07:52 PM (M5wRT)
The Brits call them 'newsreaders.'
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 31, 2020 07:40 PM (oVJmc)
Can anyone find out if he even got a degree? All his bios use weasely language about attending Brooklyn College and then continuing his journalism "studies" at LSU. None that I've seen say that he was graduated from LSU with a degree. Just struck me as odd....
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2020 07:53 PM (Ed8Zd)
Skilled Tradesmen vs Journalists - Who is Smarter?
Tradesmen, but there are a few notable exceptions among journalists.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 07:53 PM (zr5Kq)
school of government and international relations you could get out of
taking math if you had taken calculus in high school, which I had.
Posted by: radar
Pep daughter #3 was admitted to UVA but chose WandM. Good choice for her. She was an IR major, which I originally wasn't thrilled about, but was a superstar in the department. She worked her ass off, won every award there was to win, including best Russian student (except she wasn't a Russian major). Anyway, she turned that in to admissions to HLS and Stanford LS. She told Harvard to get bent. She's now clerking, and will start at a big law firm making more than I did when I finished my career.
Point is, there are a lot of slackers in the humanities, but also some very smart, very hardworking people.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 07:53 PM (T6t7i)
42 - flounder, I'm waiting for clearance from runner on my picks. And I can't access your link right now unfortunately.
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:51 PM (KmeWm)
AoSHQ has standards? What?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 31, 2020 07:53 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: LASue
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Mass Communications degree > Communications degree > Journalism degree
Because, Mass more better.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:53 PM (CDGwz)
I believe this is the part of the Con known as "The Blow Off". All the guilty parties will fade into the wood work with the money. We'll be left knowing we got scammed, having a good idea who did it, but able to do nothing about it.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (Wm5SB)
Buncha my peers would swap cards and backplanes and chase bits and bytes with a logic probe. There's a reason tradesmen are more successful and happy. We don't fvck around with stoopid shite
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (axyOa)
They deserves ridicule for their lack of manly acumen. That, and their man boobs and/or bleached anus.
Posted by: Vibratodora de Sally Yates at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (el849)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (KmeWm)
I've met two people from Europe with doctors in geography. Neither of them knew the capital of Uruguay. What do I know about world geography? Just that and nothing else is as big as Texas.
Posted by: David Prince at January 31, 2020 07:54 PM (JkygK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 07:55 PM (C1Lsn)
One time I watched a master carpenter build a set of stairs by eyeball, without wasting more than a few small scraps of wood. I ask him how he does it and he just shrugs - "I see it in my mind, then I build it". Guy is basically free handing with a circular saw.
Training the mind to see logically and clearly is a skill. What classes do journalists take that teach them that?
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 31, 2020 07:55 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 07:55 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at January 31, 2020 07:55 PM (COzlW)
Yeah, pull the other one. There is no country named Uruguay.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 07:56 PM (T6t7i)
January 31, 2020 -Whitehouse Press Briefing with Members of the President's Coronavirus Task Force
1- No 100% accurate test for nCoV
2- US citizens returning from Hubei Province will be quarantined for 14 days at DHS selected facilities.
3- US citizens returning from China will be funneled to 7 airports, subject to stricter medical screening, and then self-isolate for 14 days while being monitored by local health departments.
4- Foreign nationals (other than permanent residents and immediate family of citizens) who traveled in China in past 14 days will be denied entry after Sunday February 2nd @5pm EST.
5-Funneled airports are: JFK, Chicago O'hare, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Honolulu, and LAX.
6- No travel ban, but travel from China down 20% and travel to China down 50%.
Robert Redfield CDC Director:
"We have done virus isolation. But I want to be clear the current tests that we developed at CDC is not we're not sure of the natural history of how the virus is isolated. Can you isolate it one day, then, three days later, you can and we are seeing in the cases that are in the hospital. We've seen people had detectable virus, then they didn't have detectable virus. Then three days later, they had detectable virus. We're using the virus cultures right now and these individuals more to help us learn about this virus. How much asymptomatic carriage in fact is there? So I want people to understand that distinction. We're not using it as a release criteria, because we don't know the natural history of how this virus is secreted. And this is what we're continuing to learn"
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 07:56 PM (G546f)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 31, 2020 07:56 PM (zlgJP)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 31, 2020 07:56 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:50 PM (CDGwz)
My wife wanted the faucets changed out in the bathroom, the L stops were frozen. I did it myself. My wife was amazed when I told her a plumber would have charged 400 bucks.
She is always amazed that i can " fix things " none of her family knows how to to anything, really bad
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 07:56 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:56 PM (CDGwz)
Let the dick jokes commence.
The plane/HJ thread will never die; it will just weave its way through the blog for eternity. Which is nice.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 07:56 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 07:57 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 07:57 PM (n7enF)
Mkay
Minnie - part Welsh
Paget - Anglo-Welsh name
Shrimpton ...not sure
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 07:57 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 07:57 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: paleRider is simply irredeemable at January 31, 2020 07:57 PM (eASYU)
46 heh. Flounder, I was going to say sweating the pipes but I figured the usual response would be about the same.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 07:55 PM (C1Lsn)
Now you're talking!
The funny thing is, with all the people who don't know how to do stuff, most of what you need is a little confidence, some good search skills, some time on youtube, and a trip to the hardware store.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 31, 2020 07:57 PM (1CjJc)
496 Prayers for her, and both of you, YD !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 31, 2020 07:48 PM (zlgJP)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at January 31, 2020 07:57 PM (zlgJP)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2020 07:58 PM (q1Pj5)
It's next to Peruvia. Update your globe.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 07:58 PM (6eEQ+)
And the general collapse of the press and information system that "news" used to constitute - I mean their standards and intelligence, not the business model - is not a laughing matter.
Along with the collapse of the education system WRT civics, history, humanities, govt., it's one of the key factors that brought us to where we are. Which is not a good place.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 07:58 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (axyOa)
I'd like to see a journalist do an estimate on a freeway overpass, and bid it correctly.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 07:58 PM (7bcfy)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 07:58 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 31, 2020 07:59 PM (DhaqP)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 07:51 PM (KmeWm)
AoSHQ has standards? What?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 31, 2020 07:53 PM (1CjJc)
How come I didn't read that as "picks?"
I need a beer.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2020 07:59 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 31, 2020 07:59 PM (tdJoo)
He could do Anything except advanced electric and I could see it required knowledge of the base. principles of algebra and physics. And economics. And planning skills. And hand skills. And strength and stamina
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 31, 2020 07:59 PM (RmCBS)
That is one of my favorite things to do. Visualize something and build it. Sometimes I'll draw plans after working out most of it in my head.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (q1Pj5)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (iPbC0)
/sarc
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (T6t7i)
Point is, there are a lot of slackers in the humanities, but also some very smart, very hardworking people.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 07:53 PM (T6t7i)
Congratulations on raising a smart, hardworking and sensible daughter.
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (Ed8Zd)
I can do that with pretty much most of the world except Africa, which is the ones over here, the ones over there, and that jumble in the middle.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:00 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 31, 2020 08:01 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 08:01 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 31, 2020 08:01 PM (PBmdd)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:01 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2020 08:01 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:01 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM (tdJoo)
I miss Texas and very sorry I never made a meetup.
Posted by: David Prince at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM (JkygK)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Cannibal Blob at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM (hmgiv)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM (KP5rU)
If the senate votes 2/3 for impeachment the prez is toast, if the impeachment vote fails then the speaker of the house is...
Posted by: Pliney at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM (nzKWW)
Geography is history. Geography is destiny. Why is Istanbul a thing? Look at a map. It's because if you want to from where the money is to where the silk is you have to go through there.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:03 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Wait, is this about close tags and the Barrel?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:03 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2020 08:03 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Infidel at January 31, 2020 08:03 PM (MTxDQ)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 07:44 PM (gd
Sorry Bandersnatch. I missed that post. Now I feel bad.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:03 PM (7bcfy)
"average tradesman is much more"
Only two results; this post, and a comment in the Check Hook Boxing forums from 2014, by someone named "ero-sennin", in a thread titled "Plumbers earning £100k a year".
His avatar is an engraving called "Charon, the Ferryman of Hell" by Gustave Doré.
(Yes, I'm bored; no direct link implied.)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at January 31, 2020 08:03 PM (+oVP5)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:04 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2020 08:04 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: Pliney
...assigned to muck out the stables where the D.C. police horses are kept.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:04 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:04 PM (zr5Kq)
102 Youtube is amazing in that you get a tutorial, step by step, for
mundane things that if just explained would be rocket science. I looked
up front brakes on my car the other day, and the total time for one
side was 11 minutes, and it wasn't some stoner doing it. Yet, some of
our betters can't change a light bulb.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM (C1Lsn)
FiL will fix most anything. He busted into a FWD tranny to repair, never having repaired one before. He got to putting it back together, and he couldn't figure out the assembly of one last part.
I spent about ten minutes on the web and had an exploded diagram, and viola, it was back together.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 31, 2020 08:05 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: LASue
Thanks. Clearly she takes after her mother.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 08:05 PM (T6t7i)
We blue collar garbage people are good at certain things-- math, reading blueprints, welding, machining, carpentry, and suchlike. These are our chosen trades and we are generally good at them.
Journalists are good at slinging opinion, manipulating information and deep throating political cock like the world's most enthusiastic porn performer. Those are their chosen trades and they are generally good at them.
And they get paid more and run less risk of being killed on the job. Sure, they're amoral scum, but when you live in a mostly consequence free environment you can stop caring. Oh, the rubes don't like you? What are they going to do? Any action taken against a journalist will result in closing ranks and destroying whoever does it.
Yeah, I know-- your plumber, your mechanic, your electrician, makes two hundred large a year. Seems like everybody's does. And yet, very few people quit their office job and go to plumber school or go join as an apprentice.
I used to work with a guy who'd had a successful career doing HVAC until he hung it up and became a diver. Why? Because he got sick of crawling through people's attics, inhaling dead bugs and mouse shit.
So: define 'smart'. If it's income divided by risk, the journalists win. If it's home life, the journalists win. If it's taking pride in your work and producing things of value, we blue collar dumpster babies win, but try giving those things to your fucking mortgage lender on the first of the month instead of money. If it's not being lying scum, the dumpster babies take it again, and that and a buck will get you a cup of coffee.
Do not fetishize blue collar. I'm blue collar and it suits me-- I'm far too impatient to have succeeded in college straight out of high school, I like working outside, and the idea of doing the same thing every day for thirty years makes me want to deep throat my .357. I would do very badly in an office environment, I despise administrators and double talkers and useless interfering busybodies, I know it so I stay in my lane. But that lane includes being a contractor and hoping there's enough work and I can save my money for the future because there won't be no four oh motherfuckin' one kay.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:05 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: McLurkerson at January 31, 2020 08:06 PM (A3w0Q)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 08:06 PM (KmeWm)
AKA Master Craftsmen.
Some of them are as skilled as brain surgeons but simply use different talents and neural centers to excel in their field.
Drive down any urban/suburban street and look at everything left and right. The amount of specialized skill - and very high level at that - to produce all that that you never notice is incredible. Brilliant people shine everywhere in modern societies, but they don't go bragging about it incessantly on national TV or on Twatter.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:06 PM (6eEQ+)
It's worse than that: in the above circumstances "journalism" would only appeal to people with no curiosity about other things, which in general equates to mediocre intellect.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:06 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (fRrb6)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: lowandslow at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2020 08:04 PM (d9Cw3)
I did refute your arguments in the trade thread, but I was in it late. I am possibly the last free trader at the HQ but I'm a true believer and have a grad degree in free trade.
My other beef was that you haven't established cred by mixing it up in the comments. Here you are now. Welcome to the Horde.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (El6T/)
Same for trades people. You have to focus on minutiae that most "journalists" are incapable of.
If you asked "Them" where water comes from they'll say the faucet. Electricity comes out of a wall outlet, food from a grocery store, gasoline from a gas station.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (VYwSh)
If Mitch let's those Senators go to Iowa Monday he will have shown who he is.
He is holding off the vote to Wednesday.
Trump should just send a letter for SOTU. Fuck those guys. All of them.
Meanwhile a bunch of my neighbors voted to raise my taxes fuck you very much.
Also ever notice if you ask a man if he's upset he never answers well I wasn't but now that you have asked I am!
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (ZfRYq)
At least that's what I read in Order of the Phoenix. Some muggles were banished there. Only books I've ever read.
Posted by: David Prince at January 31, 2020 08:08 PM (JkygK)
That guy was smart. A scumbag, but smart. And two hundred rock solid upstanding tax paying good citizens with combined hundreds of years of experience were scrambling to find work.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:08 PM (U7voe)
They remind me of school girls obsessed with the cute boy, who is totally unaware they exit.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 31, 2020 08:08 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 08:09 PM (ZfRYq)
It can't be that hard, they let me do it.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 31, 2020 08:09 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:09 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 08:09 PM (G546f)
Prolly the biggest thing that sets us apart from them is taking pride in our work. I always enjoyed doing a job well, making a good part to specifications, shipping it out the door and never seeing it again (because it was made properly).
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 31, 2020 08:10 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 08:10 PM (El6T/)
I think Introduction to Resistors would probably weed most Comms/Journo majors from studying Electronics.
Posted by: McLurkerson
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That resistor code trick is misogynistic! I won't learn it.
Posted by: Jurno SJW at January 31, 2020 08:10 PM (xSo9G)
Specific to individual, topic, context, etc.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 08:07 PM (El6T/)
I know a few super smart people that seem to have no common sense. Such as the brain surgeon with terrible people skills and a terrible bedside manner. He'd make me cry in the hospital
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:10 PM (7bcfy)
Well, to be fair, Strasburg *is* sometimes in Germany.
Posted by: rhomboid
As are Poland and a good part of Russia.
Posted by: pep at January 31, 2020 08:11 PM (T6t7i)
Mr. Other Ridge gave up being a lawyer (10 years) to become a flight paramedic (20 years). It does happen.
(Disclosure: He works as a college professor now, since once you turn 29, doing flight shifts gets progressively harder on a body.)
Posted by: Linn Ridge. Kiss my Bot. at January 31, 2020 08:11 PM (4R6Rp)
Posted by: Alsach at January 31, 2020 08:11 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2020 08:11 PM (UUkQp)
Posted by: vmom 2020
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Soft spoken enforcer. Tread carefully.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:12 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: McLurkerson at January 31, 2020 08:06 PM (A3w0Q)
As an undergrad I worked for a chem prof who worked on, inter alia, the mechanism by which vitamin B12 works its magic physiologically.
He went to give a seminar at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, a hotbed of Red activity at the time, his title being something like "Vitamin B12: In Support of Free Radicals," one of the mechanistic hypotheses extant at the time.
The lecture theater was packed with a raucous and unusual audience that quickly melted away when they realized that the "free radicals" he was talking about were chemical species with an unpaired electron, not free political radicals.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:12 PM (YqDXo)
IS buck throckmorton ace or is he ace's secret roommate?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 08:09 PM (G546f)
Buck is an algorithm in the matrix.
Posted by: Cannibal Blob at January 31, 2020 08:12 PM (hmgiv)
--
Youtube is amazing in that you get a tutorial, step
by step, for mundane things that if just explained would be rocket
science. I looked up front brakes on my car the other day, and the
total time for one side was 11 minutes, and it wasn't some stoner doing
it. Yet, some of our betters can't change a light bulb.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:02 PM
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Someone should (and probably has) make a youtube vid on how to be a journalist, i.e. writing a typical msm npc article about how America/Trump/Liberty is awful, and all the while playing it straight as if it's a legitimate how-to.
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 08:12 PM (RVcmP)
Understanding amps, volts, and watts is not trivial.
Every electrician I've ever hired understands them better than I do.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 31, 2020 08:12 PM (PHotS)
That guy was smart. A scumbag, but smart. And two hundred rock solid upstanding tax paying good citizens with combined hundreds of years of experience were scrambling to find work.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:08 PM (U7voe)
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Bain Capital, Pierre Delecto.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 31, 2020 08:13 PM (VYwSh)
Posted by: Pliney at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM (nzKWW)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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I've known EE PE's (registered Professional Engineer) who could not change a battery.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM (ykYG2)
Many things changed since you went to school. New data, new trends. I have a feeling that Friedman would have amended some of his pure free market theories, or at least explained what would not work in today's economic context. At one time demand side and Keynes were all the rage and the only game in town too...
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM (zr5Kq)
Every electrician I've ever hired understands them better than I do.
Except for Smoky. Some people call him ember. Twitchy little guy. Still smells vaguely of bacon.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM (gd9RK)
Montevideo. Weather was perfect (kind of like today in SoCal - hot and clear). Beautiful beach area, neighborhood reminded me of La Jolla Shores area. Nice, quiet, kind of old downtown.
Not sure if the Graf Spee monument was there yet, didn't see it (but I did eat at the German restaurant with the old waiters who were supposedly crew from the ship, in Buenos Aires, the day before).
Was hard to picture Montevideo gripped in terrorist violence (Tupumaros, 60s/70s).
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM (PBmdd)
You sweat JOINTS.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM (u+zQ1)
They get around 70% of the shit completely wrong
Just crap pumped out by their anti-American state-run media.
Posted by: Austria-Hungary at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM (7rVsF)
Posted by: Bandersnatch
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No eyebrows...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 08:16 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 08:12 PM (RVcmP)
Isn't there a website that'll generate gibberish papers on intersectionality theories on genderqueer wild animals? It would be funny to have a program that generated msm articles on orange man bad.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:16 PM (7bcfy)
That guy was smart. A scumbag, but smart. And two hundred rock solid upstanding tax paying good citizens with combined hundreds of years of experience were scrambling to find work.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:08 PM (U7voe)
What's the difference between this and what Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta did to that guy's restaurant after he went into business with Paulie in Goodfellas?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 31, 2020 08:16 PM (j3npP)
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2020 08:17 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:17 PM (C1Lsn)
Completely pathetic that they wont acquit our President until after the State of the Union. Fucking losers
Posted by: lousagirl at January 31, 2020 08:17 PM (+dLD3)
Annoying, isn't it? I've heard that "warmonger" charge, and on the next breath heard Americans been blamed for not rescuing Europe from the Nazis sooner.
Plus, Strasbourg is within spitting distance of Germany. A good base hit in Strasbourg lands in Germany, and residents of Strasbourg typically are bilingual.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:17 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM (CDGwz)
Engineer: I need you to install a remote camera next to the last valve on the assembly.
Me: No problem. What for?
Engineer: We're pushing all the air out of the pipeline, so we need to know when it stops.
Me: Well, I can do that, but the work site is only thirty feet underwater and forty feet off the stern. Can I just have a guy stand at the railing with a radio and tell us when the bubbles stop?
Engineer: [blue screen of death face] Yes, or that.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:17 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 31, 2020 08:17 PM (aqwWL)
This is an official invitation to come to the TX MoMe on Oct 23/24 and meet the people you are talking to.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (u+zQ1)
"...we're not sure of the natural history of how the virus is isolated. ... How much asymptomatic carriage in fact is there? So I want people to understand that distinction. We're not using it as a release criteria, because we don't know the natural history of how this virus is secreted. And this is what we're continuing to learn"
Well, duh, round eyes. That's how we engineered it.
Posted by: PLA Bioweapons Division at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (786Ro)
Huh. Don't know where I got the wrong idea from. Elsass-Lothringen sounds like a LofR character.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (/k0JD)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Decade? Jeebers, damn near since the begging of recorded history.
Posted by: A Tatar at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM
It's almost like God gives gifts with one hand and deficiencies with the other.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (7bcfy)
Posted by: A Tatar at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 08:18 PM (Tnijr)
They remind me of school girls obsessed with the cute boy, who is totally unaware they exit.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 31, 2020 08:08 PM (+DS2f)
This shit drives me nuts, I was in China last year and this German started on that shit. I halfway lost and told him, we rebuilt your country after you assholes trashed half the world. My dad was in the Army Corp of Engineers and did his whole stint in Germany building shit.
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:19 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 31, 2020 08:16 PM (j3npP)
He had better accountants.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:19 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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See: John Nash, Turing, et al
Posted by: A Tatar at January 31, 2020 08:19 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 31, 2020 08:20 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: David Prince at January 31, 2020 08:20 PM (JkygK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2020 08:20 PM (3hv+K)
Posted by: Paid Radicals at January 31, 2020 08:20 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 31, 2020 08:20 PM (H8QX8)
There's a couple of youtubers who get into technical crap.
bigclive likes to take apart cheap chinese junk.
Technology Connections explains interesting things, such as how AM radios work.
Curious Droid explains Space and rockets and shit.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (u+zQ1)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (fRrb6)
IS buck throckmorton ace or is he ace's secret roommate?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 08:09 PM (G546f)
_________
Buck Throckmorton is an anagram for "Trunk Crock Hobo(TM)." Coincidence? I don't think so ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Day 1,105 of the Trump Impeachment at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (q1Pj5)
Posted by: David Prince
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There must be some way to work 'intersectionality' in there, maybe 'heuristics' too.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Bosk at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (9m9TT)
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 08:22 PM (Q+VZw)
Posted by: David Prince at January 31, 2020
Lol, the sad thing is someone will get that article published.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:22 PM (7bcfy)
That's the easy part.
The hard part is diagnosing electrical problems. I put in a GFCI that kept tripping. Diagnosing it, I found that the load side - which should be cold - had 60 V on it. I was baffled.
Turns out an electrician I hired figured out that the circuit had an open neutral and was being backfed by another (hot) circuit. I'd have died of old age before figuring that out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:22 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:22 PM (C1Lsn)
He was as impressive lawyer.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 31, 2020 08:22 PM (4thlk)
It'd be nice if we had a Home Improvement thread on Sundays, or on Saturdays at Noon. The Garden Thread can go up at 6am or something.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:22 PM (u+zQ1)
bigclive likes to take apart cheap chinese junk.
Technology Connections explains interesting things, such as how AM radios work.
Curious Droid explains Space and rockets and shit.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:21 PM (u+zQ1)
I will study them.
Posted by: Clock Boy at January 31, 2020 08:22 PM (q1Pj5)
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 08:23 PM (Q+VZw)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2020 08:20 PM (3hv+K)
Yes, I don't want to drink Lemon milk!
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 08:23 PM (fRrb6)
Posted by: McLurkerson at January 31, 2020 08:06 PM
I thought it was, like, "The Resistance". I didn't know there would be math.
Posted by: SJW student at January 31, 2020 08:23 PM (r6GXX)
If Don LeMon ended up on a milk carton, would anyone care?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2020 08:20 PM (3hv+K)
_________
It would be racist unless it was a chocolate milk carton.
Posted by: ShainS -- Day 1,105 of the Trump Impeachment at January 31, 2020 08:23 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:23 PM (n7enF)
During the Nixon and Clinton 'peach mint were the witnesses during the Senate phase new witnesses or simply witnesses that were called during the House phase?
Posted by: Horus Hearsay at January 31, 2020 08:23 PM (DB16e)
I bet that 99/100 journalists cannot change a tire or make change without a calculator/cash register.
Prove me wrong... you can't.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserios at January 31, 2020 08:24 PM (pw+jk)
This.
If they're going to play games, then let's play games.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:24 PM (6eEQ+)
I've pimped the crazy German, Joerge Sprave (?), youtube channel a couple of times, but no one cares. He makes crossbows and shit. Plus he has the best maniacal jovial laugh you'll ever hear.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:24 PM (u+zQ1)
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Ha! ...the resistor color code. Bad boys rape...etc
I'm sure that had been 86'd log ago.
Posted by: Pliney at January 31, 2020 08:14 PM
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Heh. I worked as a tech for a big communications company back in the nineties. I remember getting an email (that we had to dial in for) telling us not to use the terms dykes (for diagonal cutters) or gender-benders (for cable gender changers).
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 08:24 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: kallisto at January 31, 2020 08:25 PM (KmeWm)
Posted by: David Prince at January 31, 2020 08:25 PM (JkygK)
https://tinyurl.com/wwypngd
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2020 08:25 PM (wiXsO)
The path was always EE, CHEM-E -> lesser Engineering -> Business -> journalism.
Some majors, like History or Math did not seem to have a lot of movement, while others lost a lot of kids and the bottom was always journalism.
No one started out as a Freshman planning to be a journalism major and decided they couldn't handle it so became a Physics major instead.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 31, 2020 08:25 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: ryukyu at January 31, 2020 08:25 PM (vKhgw)
Lol, the sad thing is someone will get that article published.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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I never tire of reminding of the Sokal Affair:
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:26 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 08:26 PM (Q+VZw)
There was no senate trial for Nixon. He resigned before getting peached.
Posted by: fluffy at January 31, 2020 08:26 PM (dCRRg)
open neutral and was being backfed by another (hot) circuit. I'd have
died of old age before figuring that out."
The art of diagnosing problems comes from experience. I'm sure that electrician seen it dozens of times but his first few had him scratching his head for hours.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 31, 2020 08:26 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (3hv+K)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: McLurkerson at January 31, 2020 08:06 PM
I thought it was, like, "The Resistance". I didn't know there would be math.
Posted by: SJW student at January 31, 2020 08:23 PM
Resistors? Resistance? No math! I'm going to my happy place and meditate.
Ohm... Ohm... Ohm...
Posted by: Hands at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (786Ro)
I'm normally a calm man but I have to say, if this completely scaled over shower/tub mixing valve and cartridge continues to vex me, I just may take my Sawsall to the entire bathroom.
I'm about out of swear words.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (Y4EXg)
I didn't think resistors were that tough. Transistors took longer to figure out.
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 08:26 PM (Q+VZw)
Please respect the LGBTQsistors!
Posted by: Gaysistor at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (q1Pj5)
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 31, 2020 08:26 PM (xSo9G)
Thanks guys, I wasn't aware of that hoax.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (7bcfy)
Posted by: ryukyu
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Okay, I know what a 'tire' is, but what is an 'Oldsmobile'?
Posted by: A Millenial at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (PUmDY)
I'm about out of swear words.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (Y4EXg)
Man I have one of these and im afarid to take it apart
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (M+Lyo)
Oh, right. I actually did know that. Thanks!
Clinton? Anyone?
Posted by: Horus Hearsay at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (DB16e)
Posted by: CaliGirl
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It was real, and it was spectacular.
Posted by: A Millenial at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (xSo9G)
This.
If they're going to play games, then let's play games.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:24 PM (6eEQ+)
Except PDT relishes any opportunity to talk about the state of the union. He'll thrive at this.
Posted by: m at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: steevy at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (KNsKs)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM (El6T/)
It was beautiful, and the sunset tonight is especially spectacular, but offshore winds bring the pollen of something to the coast that drives my immune system insane. Running around at baseball practice I could barely breathe.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (PUmDY)
Blue shirts and jackets with a yellow skirt! Because UKRAINE!!!!!!
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:29 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 08:29 PM (Q+VZw)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM
Also, it was one of the countries in "Risk"
Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2020 08:29 PM (r6GXX)
Posted by: steevy at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (KNsKs)
Squeallllllllllll
that banjo kid is creepy
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:29 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 31, 2020 08:29 PM (H8QX8)
https://tinyurl.com/wwypngd
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2020 08:25 PM (wiXsO)
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That evil bastard! Trying to distract us from his eternal shame and the death of our Constitution by murdering a noble community organizer and social justice warrior!
Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at January 31, 2020 08:29 PM (xmKbk)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM
Orange jumpsuits and leg irons. I can dream.
Posted by: Hands at January 31, 2020 08:29 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (ABuva)
Posted by: steevy at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (KNsKs)
Does it hold up?
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (fRrb6)
Posted by: steevy
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You're not going to like the squealing part.
Posted by: A Pig at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (CDGwz)
He should have been knighted, but that is the next best thing.
Posted by: Simplemind at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (ZuGkg)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: steevy at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (KNsKs)
Posted by: Groundhog at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (VYwSh)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (ABuva)
remember when they lost that airplane
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:30 PM (M+Lyo)
This shit drives me nuts, I was in China last year and this German started on that shit. I halfway lost and told him, we rebuilt your country after you assholes trashed half the world. My dad was in the Army Corp of Engineers and did his whole stint in Germany building shit.
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway
Too bad we took so long to invent the A-bomb.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (aKsyK)
justacarguy.blogspot.com/judas goat bombers assembly ships
https://tinyurl.com/rne4gl5
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (ZCEU2)
I'm about out of swear words.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:27 PM (Y4EXg)
Do you have one of those cartridge extraction tools? They're worth their weight in gold dust.
https://tinyurl.com/wbmmlzg (goes to Amazon)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (zr5Kq)
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
After the essay it generates, you get this:
The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link.
Posted by: m at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (M5wRT)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (r+sAi)
I just looked up ZeroHedge. What got them suspended from Twitter was a piece claiming the new coronavirus was a genetically engineered bioweapon that got loose.
They named some ChiCom bioscientist as the mastermind of it.
One of the claims is a gene sequence from the HIV virus was inserted into this virus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 31, 2020 08:31 PM (f1Vqw)
Some people confuse the Common and the Ground and the Neutral, and end up with farked up outlets and switches.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (u+zQ1)
I saw our local 6pm TV news anchor walk into a tire store. He wanted a new set of tires. When asked what size he replied that he didn't know. They said no problem, what make and model of car? He replied that he didn't know but it was blue.
Posted by: Panhandler at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (S/rwf)
Posted by: steevy at January 31, 2020 08:28 PM (KNsKs)
The love story?
Posted by: Mayor Buttplug at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 31, 2020 08:15 PM (PBmdd)
All you really have to know is that it's west of Russia, and adjacent to Russia. Pretty much a "gimme" on a trivia game.
And best wishes that your little girl's surgery is a complete success, YD.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: steevy at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (KNsKs)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:30 P
Are we going to start a pool whether Buck is Ace or not?
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:33 PM (7bcfy)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 31, 2020 08:33 PM (H5knJ)
German SS uniforms. The wimmenz can wear corsets and black stockings and all that supporting stuff. And whips. They need whips.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 31, 2020 08:33 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 08:33 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: radar
I just kinda 'got it. Even radar theory, bucking signals and up/down chirping the RF in the transmitter and receiver.
Made keeping the hanger queen full operational capable really easy for me.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 08:33 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Infidel at January 31, 2020 08:33 PM (MTxDQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Dayumm DJG!
For $14 that's deal.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (Y4EXg)
When they're on a specific beat, that knowledge (or should I say simple fact) is acquired in a few seconds. It's not deep, analytical theory or higher learning: it's a simple regurgitation of trivia that takes almost no time to master.
Now, if you're Victor Davis Hanson noting those facts, that's a different story entirely. Because information like that is simply the building block of his real constructs which are huge and spectacular.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (ZfRYq)
The Herman Potocnik space station, courtesy Project Rho.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:32 PM (u+zQ1)
A buddy who now lives on the East Coast, in the course of finding any number of crimes found that some genius had put a switch on the hot side downstream of an appliance.
Yeah, it worked, but ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 08:33 PM (ZfRYq)
Right after the House voted to deny funds for unilateral strikes by the President.
Hahahahaha!!!! Another Fuck You headed Nancy's way.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: ryukyu at January 31, 2020 08:25 PM
About 25% of new cars are sold without spare tires.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (r6GXX)
Ace's hash starts with pbp. That's how you can find him socking in threads.
Also, Ace is funny.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Shep! at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: pookysgirl, now worth 100 Grand (candy bar) at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (XKZwp)
Din't HIV jump from chimpanzees to humans ? And isn't there a claim that Corona jumped form snakesor bats to humans. Would it not be possible to have that type of mutation/sequence without genetic engineering ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (zr5Kq)
They basically know how to f*ck, eat, open a government check, roll a blunt, and shit the majority of time in a toilet.
That's why the old joke:
What's the difference between a Democrat voting demographic and a large pizza?
A large pizza is able to feed a family of four.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (C2rVF)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (KP5rU)
For $14 that's deal.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (Y4EXg)
Happy to be of service. It's a must-have for plumbing stuff here in SD, where the water is full of crap that scales over everything in no time flat. Saves a lot of fervent, fluent Anglo-Saxon commentary!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (YqDXo)
Or worse, dead.
Gotta admit, even when I'm absolutely positive I've hooked things up properly, I'm sure I did it wrong.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:37 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:37 PM (zr5Kq)
Din't HIV jump from chimpanzees to humans ? And isn't there a claim that Corona jumped form snakesor bats to humans. Would it not be possible to have that type of mutation/sequence without genetic engineering ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (zr5Kq)
Another reason to hate fucking monkeys.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (NWiLs)
I have no idea one way or the other, don't know nuttin' bout this subject. I assume this bioweapon stuff is just woo.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (f1Vqw)
For $14 that's deal.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:34 PM (Y4EXg)
Pro tip: when you replace the cartridge, be sure to lube the replacement up with silicone plumber's lubricant.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ben Had at January
Yeah, that does not work the way some think it does.
You wind up with a domain and no readers.
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (HALdu)
"BREAKING: The "extreme conservative" and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, @SenatorRomney is formally NOT invited to #CPAC2020," tweeted Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the conference.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (xzSON)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (u+zQ1)
Posted by: nono at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (2Cm6i)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (zr5Kq)
Sheesh, whats next ? a middle eastern goat virus ?
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: The boys smoking in the bathroom at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (DMUuz)
You forgot 'near feral'. And that last bit is a black joke.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:39 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (NWiLs)
You know what to do then...
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:39 PM (zr5Kq)
Why thank you dear lady, I find hugs are irreplaceable but due to distance I can't reciprocate.
If I can ever get my nic to go red you can send me your address and I'll send you some fresh Gulf grouper. NOM NOM
Posted by: Panhandler at January 31, 2020 08:39 PM (S/rwf)
Coincidence?
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2020 08:39 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: runner at January
Having the monkeys fuck you is not going to work either.
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (Q+VZw)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:37 PM (6eEQ+)
For peace of mind, get one of these:
https://tinyurl.com/uezyfbl (goes to Amazon; damn, I should get a commission)
Best $7 you'll ever spend. After you're out of high school, that is.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (M+Lyo)
Not sure there isn't one, but...low population density, so transmission risk is low.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (zr5Kq)
The flamethrower episodes were outstanding.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (gSgAd)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (KP5rU)
Ace is married now??????
Another brother lost.
*starts 3 day mourning period*
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (HALdu)
I'll take your word for it.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Hands at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (H8QX8)
I installed 2 Remote Starter in my cars.
Not difficult, but not for novices. I'd say Intermediate skill and knowledge is required.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (u+zQ1)
Posted by: the monkey at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (Tnijr)
You never see a homeowner and a cat burglar in the same place at the same time. Maybe Buck is a Macedonian hacker who just shows up when the boss isn't looking.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: runner at January
Having the monkeys fuck you is not going to work either.
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM (HALdu)
That's in the Soviet Union.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: runner at January
I wasn't the guy complaining about hating fucking monkeys
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (HALdu)
historical horror fantasy with witches and such
Luna Nera
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Panhandler at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (S/rwf)
Posted by: your Uniparty betters at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Dr Spank at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (4e+hS)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
* sneaks up behind Insom*
I'll give you a reason mister!
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM (aiDK7)
Posted by: Hands at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (786Ro)
Buck Throckmorton....YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!!!
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 08:43 PM (wh02m)
What's a Food thread without CBD
An ONT with out Weird Dave or Mis Hum?
A gun thread without Weasel?
You fucking earn the trust.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:43 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Hands at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (786Ro)
Maybe that's Aces porn name. Buck Throckmorton, it sounds like a porn name.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:43 PM (7bcfy)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (M+Lyo)
Not sure there isn't one, but...low population density, so transmission risk is low.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM
And surely it's an STD. So only transmitted through nookie.
Posted by: Hands at January 31, 2020 08:44 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 08:44 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 31, 2020 08:44 PM (qAYFA)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 08:44 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 08:44 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: the monkey at January 31, 2020 08:41 PM (Tnijr)
Joe Biden, staffer, airplane.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:44 PM (zr5Kq)
Good night all, were almost done this nightmare.
Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2020 08:45 PM (ZCEU2)
--
Forgotten Weapons (Gun Jesus, Ian) is indeed great.
He's figured out a good gig. Like when he goes to the auction house
and does a video on some incredibly cool collectible milsurp, which he
gets to handle, and shoot.
The flamethrower episodes were outstanding.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 08:40 PM
-------------------------
Gun Jesus is the best. (other than, you know, the Savior one)
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 08:45 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM
Don't forget to check your six.
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 31, 2020 08:46 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 08:46 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:46 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Infidel at January 31, 2020 08:47 PM (MTxDQ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:47 PM (aiDK7)
Journalism degrees are a joke.
Posted by: Czech Chick
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And to think, there are graduate courses in Journalism.
What the hell does an M.A. in Journalism teach you?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2020 08:47 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:42 PM
Don't forget to check your six.
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 31, 2020 08:46 PM (DMUuz)
Damn, there goes my surprise.
Posted by: The Otter at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 08:43 PM
Not going to check to see if Ewok pron is a niche. Wouldn't be prudent.
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (DMUuz)
I did refute your arguments in the trade thread, but I was in it late. I am possibly the last free trader at the HQ but I'm a true believer and have a grad degree in free trade.
Searches for Bandersnatch in Buck's previous thread result in zero results. Searches for his hash: 0
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere
Tactical is my second nature.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (aiDK7)
So they sent him an Unvitation.
Now there's a business idea. Optimize and formalize an efficient process to send people a personal notice that they are explicitly not welcome to your fancy soiree.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: radar
Started with the hi-par in Nike Hercules, then moved to the Nike Hercules warhead (w8
. Made warrant officer in that field then got retreaded into Patriot and the AN/MPQ-53.Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (DMUuz)
Rule 34. No exceptions.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (U7voe)
This is the new London Boys?
Watch at least the first 45 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htBfNPyKKoI
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (u+zQ1)
hahahaha, me commenting on the content at #378.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (13CQC)
What's your position on Chinese bat-monkey hybrids?
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 08:44 PM (q0qV7)
So we're not doing phrasing anymore?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (YqDXo)
This is an absurd claim, but you have to wonder if they made that to discredit the truth. IOW, an early piece of false information so that when people find out China created the virus they will not believe.
This is common tactic that the dems use, and you see it a lot from china - they attack the US for foreign entanglements, oppression of minorities, bullying neighbors, etc. All stuff that China does, and they attack the US as a form of equivalency.
Anyway, it made me suspicious that they would claim the US engineered the wuhan virus.
Russia, OTOH, always thinks that everything is part of a larger conspiracy so that type of rumor always starts in Russia simply because they naturally think everything is part of an epic battle between DC and the Kremlin. That is different but in China a rumor like that has to be approved by the party and there has to be a reason.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:46 PM (n7enF)
And back atcha!!
Not that anyone noticed, but I don't get around these hallowed halls much lately. Trying to make this my year, despite my daughter's monkey wrench.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: Klutz, I.M.A at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (/LQkF)
Din't HIV jump from chimpanzees to humans ? And isn't there a claim that Corona jumped form snakesor bats to humans. Would it not be possible to have that type of mutation/sequence without genetic engineering ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:36 PM (zr5Kq)
HIV is almost certainly the product of two different viruses in some kind of monkey. Viruses and bacteria swap gene sequences all the time.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: deplorable unperson
Do they squeak when u fvck 'em?
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (6eEQ+)
I think the McCain's already started that business. Funerals are their specialty.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (2DOZq)
Looks like PUA game to me.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: The Otter
Stay out of this Otters. I'm more inclined to a good smack up side of the head.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (aiDK7)
Posted by: radar at January 31, 2020 08:26 PM (Q+VZw)
That's because their resistance is "intersectional".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (Dc2NZ)
Anyway to dedicate the ONT to Nigel Farage?
He should have been knighted, but that is the next best thing.
Posted by: Simplemind
=======
He's attending the SOTU. Won't it be great if Trump gives him a shout-out? MAKE ENGLAND GREAT AGAIN or something?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2020 08:51 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:48 PM (6eEQ+)
Five bucks says it's bullshit anyway. Impeachment will end, this will fade and he'll be back in.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 08:51 PM (U7voe)
Looks like PUA game to me.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo
Cut him some slack. He's stuck in a room all day with a bunch of middle school terrorists.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:52 PM (aiDK7)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 31, 2020 08:52 PM (flINI)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (wGeit)
OK.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:52 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 08:53 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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At the advanced age of 29, I pretty much lube everything up.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:53 PM (Y4EXg)
I kick myself every single day for going into this line of work. I should have listened to my mom and gone to law school...
If you have kids who want to go into journalism, my advice would be: Don't. Unless it's something they really, really want to do and would do for free, they should avoid it. Because believe me, with the salaries it pays, it feels like you're almost working for free. And in return, everybody hates you.
I'd note that nearly all of the best journalists I've met during my career have been kids from rich families, like Tucker Carlson. They're doing it because they love it and their families are willing to subsidize them for as long as it takes. Not having to worry about money gives them a lot of freedom; they can pursue important stories without worrying about whose toes they step on. They can't be threatened because if they lose their job -- hey. They'll be fine. Daddy can write them another check.
On the other hand, I've known lots of awful journalists from rich families. I'd say it's a condition that's necessary, but not sufficient, for reaching the top of the profession.
Posted by: Ex-liberal at January 31, 2020 08:53 PM (R1mDg)
Looks like PUA game to me.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo
Cut him some slack. He's stuck in a room all day with a bunch of middle school terrorists.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 08:52 PM (aiDK7)
He works at CNN?
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 08:53 PM (wh02m)
Oh, I already have a Fluke that detects hot.
Still doesn't change the dynamic. Electricity makes me nervous.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:54 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 31, 2020 08:54 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Adriane the Pithy Saying Critic ... at January 31, 2020 08:54 PM (LPnfS)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 08:54 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Gadzooks Mike at January 31, 2020 08:55 PM (mAxkE)
Posted by: Infidel at January 31, 2020 08:55 PM (MTxDQ)
The one where he talked about sneering condescension? I was there, man, I was in the shit.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:57 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Klutz, I.M.A at January 31, 2020 08:49 PM (/LQkF)
Two things, after "de-energizing" a circuit, as you think:
1. Make sure you're not the path to ground. So rubber soles if you're on concrete, etc.
2. After rule #1, follow rule #1: when in doubt, only touch a conceivably hot circuit with one hand.
Fatal currents (a few hundred milliamps) go through the body. From hand to feet passes through the heart, and you're potentially (?) dead. From left hand to right hand, same thing. The rule of thumb we always observed in working on high voltage scientific equipment: rubber-soled shoes, and one hand in the pocket. At all times.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:57 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (2DOZq)
It's now off Broadway and touring!
Posted by: Meghan McCain at January 31, 2020 08:57 PM (2N7oZ)
Is this the #metoo offspring g of Bandersnatch and Panhandler?
Asking for a journalist.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 08:57 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 31, 2020 08:57 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Czech Chick
=========
And to think, there are graduate courses in Journalism.
What the hell does an M.A. in Journalism teach you?
That 'splains why Ben Rhodes wanted 27-year-old "journalists." They have all the intelligence and intellectual curiosity of gnurr.
They're not smart enough to question anyone or anything they're told.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 31, 2020 08:58 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 08:59 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 08:53 PM (Y4EXg)
Never argue with someone who buys lube by the barrel.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 31, 2020 08:59 PM (2N7oZ)
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Huh, some say the same thing about PornHub.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 08:59 PM (zr5Kq)
He should have been knighted, but that is the next best thing.
Posted by: Simplemind
=======
He's attending the SOTU. Won't it be great if Trump gives him a shout-out? MAKE ENGLAND GREAT AGAIN or something?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2020 08:51 PM (13CQC)
He should be granted honorary US citizenship. That's a higher honor than knighthood.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 08:59 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 08:54 PM (6eEQ+)
That's good. Fear is a great motivator. I used to worry about the foolhardy in the lab.
Actually, that's not true. I never let into the lab anyone who struck me as foolhardy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 08:59 PM (YqDXo)
Looks like PUA game to me.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (ykYG2)
I do not know what PUA means.
I attacked the Throckmorton, not another poster, and I hugged Ben Had for agreeing that this post was kind of low hanging fruit and he hadn't earned his Horde stripes.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 09:00 PM (gd9RK)
The one where he talked about sneering condescension? I was there, man, I was in the shit.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 08:57 PM (gd9RK)
From the beginning of the month? He posted one today you could have pushed your beef in instead of whining here.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:00 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (HALdu)
He's better than some of the COBs we've had in the past.
Of course he's not Ace, but then who is?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (PHotS)
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (Z7lwY)
Fatal currents (a few hundred milliamps) go through the body. From hand to feet passes through the heart, and you're potentially (?) dead. From left hand to right hand, same thing. The rule of thumb we always observed in working on high voltage scientific equipment: rubber-soled shoes, and one hand in the pocket. At all times.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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I worked (as a laborer, NOT a sparky) in an industrial shop for a time. One of the electricians made a booboo and, as a result, melted a screwdriver down to it's handle in an energized electrical panel.
The only reason he lived was that he was working one handed.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (HALdu)
They're typically stuck with choosing from British or European royalty?
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 31, 2020 08:50 PM (ykYG2)
I do not know what PUA means.
Pick Up Artist.
Something I'm clearly not.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 08:59 PM (Izzlo)
Anyone with "Sir" in front of their name is a jerk, unless their name is "Sir Duke", because that's a great Stevie Wonder song.
Posted by: Jimmy Lennon's Junior at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 31, 2020 08:57 PM (yQpMk)
Absolutely. I told my sons that. One of the big problems is figuring out how things are connected, i.e., to answer the eternal question: is this shit just stuck, and I should muscle it, or is there another fastener somewhere that I haven't noticed?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (HALdu)
Eh... Kate Middleton?
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (wGeit)
GFCIs (of the shock protecting variety) are set for about 5 mA differential current trip level. 10mA is considered the threshold for shock.
Some people can feel currents lower than that. I've run across a couple of these very sensitive people. I didn't believe him until my meters confirmed it.
I saw a woman who could feel a very small leakage current from an ungrounded refrigerator. The current was just a couple of mA.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (KP5rU)
That's an interesting observation.
I wonder how many who graduate remain (or were ever) critical thinkers? If they've gone through indoctrination where questioning the professor gets you failed, I'm concluding that they make fine experts at dictation which is to say not a journalist. Reporter, sure, but most certainly not a journalist.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (Y4EXg)
Barge I was working on in 2018 and 19 had electrically driven anchor winches. Electrician fucked up while working on one and stopped 400 DC amps with his face.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel
A radar's 400hz filtered power will turn you into a junky for zaps overnight...if you survive the first hit.
Got a brand new shoulder joint from a 440vac filter that had a leak to the case. Would be serenading satan's torture chamber had I not been reaching up. Woke up on the ground six feet away with my humorous in my rib cage and 2"off my needle nose pliers missing.
Scary fvcking night.
Put my k ee on my hand and reset my shoulder. Woke up the 2nd time and drove myself to the ER. Almost got company grade ucmj for working g by myself that night.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (VcFUs)
They're typically stuck with choosing from British or European royalty?
Posted by: buzzion at January
They should have some kind of contest where everyone gets to vote.
Get some hot asians or saudis.
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (KP5rU)
I post sporadically and have no standing.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 31, 2020 09:04 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (HALdu)
Eh... Kate Middleton?
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:02 PM (wGeit)
Kate Middleton I wouldn't say is hot. Pretty, yes, but she needs to eat some cheeseburgers.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:04 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (HALdu)
Don't know much about history...
Posted by: Zombie Sam Cooke at January 31, 2020 09:04 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (6eEQ+)
You're allowed to question your professor... as long as your questioning eventually leads to agreement.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:04 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: rd at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (+0uDE)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2020 08:38 PM (M+Lyo)
I don't see why not. We already had a middle eastern camel virus (MERS)...
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Weasel at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January
I don't get why anyone things she is anything more than not ugly.
definitely not hot
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: IC at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (sYDum)
I wasn't sorry when he got pissed off and left.
Oh right Gabe Malor, wasn't it?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (PHotS)
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:01 PM (Z7lwY)
I understand that you're not a fan of my oeuvre, dead boy. You post sneering condescension toward me and don't defend yourself in comments I don't respect your standing.
Ace plays with us in comments, not always but a lot and he's ace. Sefton mixes it up, the Dildo does too. Throckmortong pissed me off and so I said he pissed me off and this time he showed up to play. That's where cred comes from.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 09:06 PM (gd9RK)
Did that once poking around inside an excimer laser. The tips on my multimeter probe pretty much exploded...
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 31, 2020 09:06 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 09:06 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2020 09:06 PM (Njtx4)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 09:06 PM (ErdyI)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:07 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: IC at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (sYDum
I would love to buy him a pint, but I'm guessing he doesn't need it.
Posted by: Jimmy Lennon's Junior at January 31, 2020 09:07 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 31, 2020 09:07 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (q0qV7)
Travel screening, Quarantines for some travelers, contact tracings. Everything that should have been done with Ebola last time, but Obama did not. And by next Friday, expect a whole lot more restrictions and quarantine categories.
An expert with the University of Minnesota says that the nCov illnesses in the US will peak in April or May. Remember this all started in China on about December 1, 2019; it is two months later, January 31, 2020, and is still increasing rapidly. Exponentially even.
This will be what the Spanish Flu was like in 1918-1920. Prep now. Practice your hand washing, make it a habit.
This is the start of the beginning.
Posted by: rd at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (+0uDE)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (zDcjz)
I own a Multimeter, and know the basics on how to use it.
I wonder how many "journalists" can pick out a multimeter out of
a lineup.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (ErdyI)
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM (2DOZq)
"Where's the USB port for this thing??"
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January
I don't get why anyone things she is anything more than not ugly.
definitely not hot
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:05 PM (HALdu)
I guess everyone has their own idea of what "hot" is. In my book Kate Middleton was smoking hot in her late 20s before three children. I think she's still pretty attractive today at age 38.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 31, 2020 09:07 PM (7s3Gx)
Same.
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (n7enF)
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It surely is! I'm also getting almost halfway competent in hooking shit up to it.
Posted by: Weasel at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (mQ82A)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (L2ZTs)
That dick was a guy.
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (q0qV7)
Who liked dick, amirite?
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (wh02m)
That's...interesting
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (PHotS)
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (AvfCy)
This is the start of the beginning.
Posted by: rd
Purell doesn't do a thing for coronavirus.
Sodium hypochlorite, aka bleach, will.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (Njtx4)
appeal is that she dresses very well. She looks classy. It's an
appealing quality, especially in an age when the average chick is doing
hobo chic.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (H5knJ)
What does she have that I don't?
Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (2N7oZ)
Unless it's stuck. Which btw a big truck was stuck in the mud in my yard today and we had to use the tractor and sheets of plywood and blocks and shovels and sand to get it unstuck.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (KP5rU)
Sure you have standing, come on, stand up and be recognized! Oh God love ya, what am I saying?
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 31, 2020 09:12 PM (NWiLs)
Did you know both Lena Dunham's and Rosie O'Donnell's Hitachi Magic Wands have gasoline engines?
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 09:12 PM (L2ZTs)
In my case, the operative phrase was "attention getter".
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 31, 2020 09:12 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:12 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (PHotS)
Why even bother suing? That Ebola nurse just screwed off home and IIRC nothing happened to her. Just leave, and scream about death camps.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:12 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (L2ZTs)
Unless it's stuck. Which btw a big truck was stuck in the mud in my yard today and we had to use the tractor and sheets of plywood and blocks and shovels and sand to get it unstuck.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (Tnijr)
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I put an enormous WARN winch on the front of my truck. Haven't been stuck since!
Posted by: Weasel at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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If I was a motivated sort, I'd post the multitudes of "Ohm" cartoons.
Ohm on the range.
Nobodys Ohm.
Steals Ohm.
etc., etc.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (2N7oZ)
You, multiplied by .45.
And not hateful.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (AvfCy)
It will. They'll probably hold off on doing business on Monday so Bernie and Warren can go to Iowa. So probably more crap on Tuesday.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: klaftern at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (RuIsu)
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i post alot, and have no standing.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:03 PM (KP5rU)
I post sporadically and have no standing.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 31, 2020 09:04 PM
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My standing is usually wobbly. (beer)
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: Dean Martin at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (gAXBD)
For sure the trained and skilled in any branch are heads and tails smarter.
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 09:12 PM (L2ZTs)
Diesel. More torque.
Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Lena Dunham
She doesn't have vaginal dentata, less than 1/4 of 'dat ass, a personality...
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 09:10 PM (NWiLs)
Don't be blase. How much current you took depends on how much resistance you offered. Cool, dry hands, one thing. Sweaty hands, another. Touching ground at the time, still another.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (YqDXo)
Unless it's stuck. Which btw a big truck was stuck in the mud in my yard today and we had to use the tractor and sheets of plywood and blocks and shovels and sand to get it unstuck.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (Tnijr)
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I put an enormous WARN winch on the front of my truck. Haven't been stuck since!
Posted by: Weasel at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (MVjcR)
If it actually WARNed you, you wouldn't have sunk in the first place.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (KP5rU)
Yeah, that's the stuff I'd really like to avoid.
I'm terribly slow the few times I work on circuits. I go through a mental checklist after. every. move. every. time.
It's probably painful to watch. Don't care. I'd kinda like to enjoy the fruits of my obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: klaftern at January 31, 2020 09:13 PM (RuIsu)
Natch.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: David French at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (CLteG)
Posted by: Chris M at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (6XZdO)
This was a big freight truck, about 28 feet. They got stuck turning around on an incline. That thing was sliding sideways down the hill.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (Tnijr)
This is the time he should actually do that.
There is no honor in either body.
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 09:15 PM (RVcmP)
Switch to tobacco smoke. And bleed yourself a half pint.
Posted by: Dr. Benjamin Rush at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (VcFUs)
Oh, yeah? Does she have crabs?
Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (2N7oZ)
Well, if that is true, why are they monitoring people who get sick in wuhan so closely that they even notice this?
They seemed know right where it started (they blamed the market, but I think that is a red herring and fog-of-war type misinformation.)
If China ignored it completely, then I would think - yeah, it just happened.
But China reacted aggressively, but late. Why? Does everyone who shows up in clinic in china get their virus sequenced to see what it is?
So either it was killing a lot of young people - and so very dangerous and maybe like SARS, and you would expect Drs and Hospitals to start investigating, or it was something they understood before it started spreading.
Otherwise, why not just assume it is a flu? What made china sequence the first couple dozen patients?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: runner
Unscented, plain 6.25% sodium hypochlorite.
16 drops to 1 gallon of suspect water to purify.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (Njtx4)
I love that baby trees are grown just perfectly sized to winch my V-8 4WD out of the mud.
Thank you , God!
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (YqDXo)
OK. It wasn't some kind of challenge, just a fact. It wasn't fun.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: N.L. Urker Philips Screwdriver of the Gods at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Rock Girthpounder at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (CLteG)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 09:14 PM (C1Lsn)
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This is a regular utility tractor. Thanks to my pal Ben Had's excellent advice, I found a '99 model, before all the stupid smog shit, with 300 hours. Love it.
Posted by: Weasel at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Sock Monkey...waxing bananas at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (aiDK7)
This is the start of the beginning.
Posted by: rd at January 31, 2020 09:08 PM (+0uDE)
There a few reasons this is likely to be far less deadly than that flu. For one thing, the Spanish Flu of 1918 was likely to kill someone in perfect health (well, pre-flu, anyway). This particular virus has about the same profile as a normal flu - it tends to kill people with heart disease and COPD. It kills the old and the very young. We lose between 30k and 80k people in the US every year to flu.
The other difference is Coronaviruses tend not to live very long on objects. It's pretty easy to get the flu from a doorknob or a keyboard. So we're not looking at something that's going to race through the population like influenza.
And that last part is important - you stand a very good chance of surviving if you get medical attention. The doomsday scenario for this sort of thing is it races through the population and there's nobody healthy enough to feed you or hook you up to an IV.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (wGeit)
There is no honor in either body.
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2020 09:16 PM (ZfRYq)
Nope, he needs to show up and give a giant FU to the house.
Posted by: Jimmy Lennon's Junior at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM
********
Mortician?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (flINI)
Otherwise, why not just assume it is a flu? What made china sequence the first couple dozen patients?
Posted by: Gentlemen
There are "theories" that this was engineered in a lab and it got out. So yeah, they'd know about it. They created it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (Njtx4)
i am getting madder by the day at the Lying Media breathlessly reporting the daily "revelations" about Trump bribing Zelensky, then praising the courage of the "truth tellers," and never asking:
If you have information about crimes committed by the President of the United States, why didn't you do the right thing, the thing any true patriot would do, and report this long ago? The House of Representatives opened investigations into this issue months ago. Why have you remained silent until today? Why should we believe you now?
Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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See, that was the thing. The shop I worked at had a very primitive electrical distribution setup. OSHA would have shut us down had they ever visited us.
You couldn't lock out certain circuits except at the stepdown substation and nobody's got time for that.
This 'safety' talk when I got there was one of the old guys telling me who not to work with. 'Those guys will get you killed.' He wasn't kidding.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (d9Cw3)
When I was about 8 I stuck a piece of Erector Set in a socket. I learned a lot about electricity that day.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (2N7oZ)
It's more all the things you have that she doesn't.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Rock Girthpounder at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (CLteG)
I wish.
Posted by: The Harry formerly known as Prince at January 31, 2020 09:19 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 31, 2020 09:19 PM (+0AKE)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (flINI)
Probably something health and safety related.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:19 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel
This became my mantra. Hand in pocket (feel cocky all day), deliberate, planned moves, cautious spoken intent before action. After Nike, that kept me alive long enough to learn caution and limits.
Probably why most of the Fulda Gap still exists when we found that warhead was popping fuses in '86.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:19 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at January
Isn't that kind of like asking someone if the live in San Quentin?
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (gAXBD)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (zr5Kq)
When I was about 8 I stuck a piece of Erector Set in a socket. I learned a lot about electricity that day.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (Tnijr)
Quick lesson in negative reinforcement...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (NWiLs)
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Did you know both Lena Dunham's and Rosie O'Donnell's Hitachi Magic Wands have gasoline engines?
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 31, 2020 09:12 PM
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Heh. Back in high school, the guys had this running joke how this one teacher (kinda big gal) could kill the motor on hers, which was equipped with a 454 chevy.
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (dUJdY)
Educational psychology doesn't have anything to do with counseling. It's the study of how the learning process occurs in the brain.
That said, there's a lot of garbage pseudoscience in that field (as there is in all psychology-related fields) and I don't believe that anything useful would likely to be learned in an undergraduate GenEd course in the subject.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2020 09:21 PM (qUFPp)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 31, 2020 09:19 PM (+0AKE)
I worked with signal electronics without fear my whole career. The thing you're talking about would scare the shit out of me too.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:21 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: N.L. Urker Philips Screwdriver of the Gods at January 31, 2020 09:17 PM (Uu+Jp)
You'd get along great with my son. I think I can get you a Chinese petroleum board membership.
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 31, 2020 09:21 PM (2N7oZ)
Savages. Modern science has proven that heroic purging the only way to rebalance the bodily humours.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 31, 2020 09:21 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:22 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:22 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM
********
Mortician?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (flINI)
Workers Compensation.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:22 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (gAXBD)
Henry Purcell? I thought he was just a composer.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:22 PM (Tnijr)
Infinity because they'd never achieve it.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2020 08:35 PM (r6GXX)
Then don't buy it. I wouldn't.
Posted by: ryukyu at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (vKhgw)
Posted by: Weasel
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I had a Ford 9N manufactured before I was born for about 20 years. I loved that thing. Damn near bomb proof and you still could get parts for in in the 90's.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Dorothy of Kansas at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (gAXBD)
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (7ZQe3)
Posted by: Gentlemen
something something unusual pneumonia
not sure exactly how it's unusual
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (dUJdY)
Speculation is he wants to make sure all the Democratic Senators need to be in DC on primary day.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (wGeit)
First tier commenters = Brahmins : like Brahminsnatch or CBD or garrett or atc
Second tier = Kshatriyas Grump928 or soothsayer
Third tier =Vaishyas Tami and bluebell
Fourth tier = Shudras chavez the hugo
Untouchables = me and the rest of us
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (q0qV7)
joke how this one teacher (kinda big gal) could kill the motor on hers,
which was equipped with a 454 chevy.
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (RVcmP)
Too much choke?
Posted by: Roseann O'Donnell at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (2N7oZ)
until Wednesday. Once again they bend over for Democrats. What a bunch
of shit. If I were president, I would move SOTU until It was done and
award the Slackard Placard to the senate.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, Direct Fire! at January 31, 2020 09:11 PM (AvfCy)
Enough GOPers wanted time to publicly debate their positions that a push to finish things tonight or tomorrow would have failed. Final arguments from both the House people and the President's people will be on Monday and there will be time for senators to talk on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before the final votes on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Posted by: Vendette at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (SL4lK)
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (dUJdY)
Lazy. Can't hold the vote during the Iowa Caucus. I think it was mentioned about a concession by McConnel to get the witness vote done today.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: Weasel
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I had a Ford 9N manufactured before I was born for about 20 years. I loved that thing. Damn near bomb proof and you still could get parts for in in the 90's.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:23 PM (Y4EXg)
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Aren't they great? I do some very advanced thinking while driving around on my tractor.
Posted by: Weasel at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (dUJdY)
until Wednesday. Once again they bend over for Democrats. What a bunch
of shit.
"Mitch is orchestrating this perfectly"
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (q0qV7)
until Wednesday.
Alternative take: every day this drags on is a day that Bernie and Fauxcahontas can't be campaigning in Iowa.
I think Biden is done, so anything that harms those two is probably a good thing.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (qUFPp)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:09 PM
********
Mortician?
Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (flINI)
Workers Compensation.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:22 PM (2DOZq)
Can I file a wrongful death suit against ace?
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: Eromero at January 31, 2020 09:26 PM (UUkQp)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (Tnijr)
Quick lesson in negative reinforcement...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020
When I was a kid my cat would lick the outlet in the living room. She seemed to be getting shocked then do it again. I put her outside. I never saw her do it again. It was a Siamese kitty.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 09:26 PM (7bcfy)
Workers Compensation.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:22 PM (2DOZq)
^^^
This guy gets it.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:26 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 31, 2020 09:26 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:26 PM (dUJdY)
President's people will be on Monday and there will be time for senators
to talk on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before the final votes on
Wednesday at 4 p.m.
I can't wait!
Posted by: Mitt Romney at January 31, 2020 09:26 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (dUJdY)
So the New York Slimes has more time to drop more "bombshells."
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:27 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 09:27 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 31, 2020 09:27 PM (qAYFA)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:27 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: your Uniparty betters at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
First tier commenters = Brahmins : like Brahminsnatch or CBD or garrett or atc
Second tier = Kshatriyas Grump928 or soothsayer
Third tier =Vaishyas Tami and bluebell
Fourth tier = Shudras chavez the hugo
Untouchables = me and the rest of us
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (q0qV7)
Fuck You!!! I'm Nirvana Tier, Bitchez!!!
Posted by: Gautama Girthpounder at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (CLteG)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (gAXBD)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (Tnijr)
Quick lesson in negative reinforcement...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020
When I was a kid my cat would lick the outlet in the living room. She seemed to be getting shocked then do it again. I put her outside. I never saw her do it again. It was a Siamese kitty.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 09:26 PM (7bcfy)
I tried to pet a horse through an electric fence when I was a kid. Yeah, only did it once.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (wh02m)
until Wednesday. Once again they bend over for Democrats. What a bunch
of shit.
"Mitch is orchestrating this perfectly"
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (q0qV7)
People have been bashing Cocaine Mitch since this started, but from where I'm standing it looks like a field of unmitigated win.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:27 PM (wh02m)
Yeah they're probably trying to find something to push out that will get them to call for a new vote for witnesses.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (KP5rU)
Well, your ghost can. You'll need a sue-ance, though.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy
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Only peed on the electric fence on a dare once too, amirite?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: Gautama Girthpounder at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (CLteG)
Smells like teen spirit.
Posted by: Zombie Kurt Cobain at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
DC is pretty safe, but AC will put you... Back in Black.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:30 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (Z7lwY
You would have to establish gross negligence on his part. Should be a breeze.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:30 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:30 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:30 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
The first one kills you at much lower amperage. Don't mess with either without training.
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:31 PM (U7voe)
First tier commenters = Brahmins : like Brahminsnatch or CBD or garrett or atc
Second tier = Kshatriyas Grump928 or soothsayer
Third tier =Vaishyas Tami and bluebell
Fourth tier = Shudras chavez the hugo
Untouchables = me and the rest of us
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:24 PM (q0qV7)
what was you screen name before ? a couple of year ago ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:31 PM (zr5Kq)
We would like to talk to you about your money. And you.
Posted by: Scientology at January 31, 2020 09:31 PM (q0qV7)
We're supposed to care about Ukraine?
OK, WELL:
WHO DID NOTHING WHILE RUSSIA ABSORBED ALL THE PARTS OF UKRAINE IT WANTED?
President Barack Hussein Obama, MMM, MMM, MMM! did.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Underemployed in Greenland at January 31, 2020 09:31 PM (rfqsR)
Posted by: freaked at January
What did they do this week?
Posted by: not so at January 31, 2020 09:31 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:31 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:18 PM (Tnijr)
Remember camera flash bulbs? I wondered what would happen if I put one of those in a nightlight socket. That produced a bright flash and a quick trip to the fuse box.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 31, 2020 09:31 PM (y7DUB)
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (Z7lwY)
McConnell made sure that as part of the deal to let this carry on there can't be another move to call for new witnesses or documents. It'll just be a bunch of talking.
Posted by: Vendette at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (SL4lK)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (wh02m)
My friend put shock wire in the flowerbeds to keep the dog from digging. Her niece brought her stupid dog over and (dalmation) my friend had to go pick the dog up because it just sat there getting shocked. She then turned it off.
The lab was smart enough to test if it was on, if it wasn't she would dig.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (7bcfy)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (gAXBD)
From 1987 and they are a doozy!!!!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (/2026)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
Ask Topsy the Elephant
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:30 PM (Tnijr)
Seriously? How stupid do you have to be to keep voting for me?
Posted by: Mitt Romney at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (Z7lwY
You would have to establish gross negligence on his part. Should be a breeze.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
shouldn't have stood under that shelf
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (G546f)
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Purcell was originally designed to be a papercut detector.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM
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I did stuff besides that!!
Posted by: Sarah Purcell at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (RVcmP)
Exactly. I'm so fucking fed up. I've never seen anything like this in my life. Never ever when he was elected did I think I would see this kind of derangment from the left. They will hound him until the day he dies. They will never ever let up. They are pure fucking evil. I hate them with every fiber of my being.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (7ZQe3)
Nothing. Instead of shutting this BS down on Monday they played theater all week.
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (Tnijr)
That's a keeper.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (6eEQ+)
dick cheese, or cheese dick
something with cheeses and dicks I think
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Serious Cat at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (RT6Hk)
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:20 PM (dUJdY)
Speculation is he wants to make sure all the Democratic Senators need to be in DC on primary day.
I mentioned this in passing in a previous thread but found a more precise link to Instapundit et al.'s take on this. Enjoy:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/356654/
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:25 PM (Z7lwY
You would have to establish gross negligence on his part. Should be a breeze.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:30 PM (2DOZq)
"Your Honor the defendant doesn't even know how to use a screw gun."
Posted by: Gautama Girthpounder at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (CLteG)
Posted by: Serious Cat at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (RT6Hk)
I'll be honest, it was mildly upsetting.
Posted by: Serious Cat at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (RT6Hk)
So the New York Slimes has more time to drop more "bombshells."
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:27 PM (wh02m)
No one cares about this any more. Except for the fanatics in the MFM no one really cares about this
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (/2026)
dick cheese, or cheese dick
something with cheeses and dicks I think
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (q0qV7)
was that before or after CBD banned you ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (zr5Kq)
The impedance of the human body varies greatly. It's non-linear and voltage and frequency dependent. And varies with the individual.
If you look at the electrical characteristics of the human body, you get a bell curve type of distribution.
For the effects of shock, there is a standard time-current graph. Higher currents can be tolerated for shorter time periods without injury. One graph is the hand to feet graph, for a current passing from hand to feet.
There's v-fib probability curves. For a current with a duration of over 1s, 200mA is the 50% v-fib probability threshold, eyeballing the graph.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (rCwaK)
Posted by: Vendette at January 31, 2020 09:32 PM (SL4lK)
I'll believe it when it is all over. It's not a criticism of McConnell (on this) but every day it drags on is just a chance for some new fuckery.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (7ZQe3)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy
Crossed a dry creek bed on a cousin's dairy farm. Thought I got low enough. I did. Shotgun barrel didn't. Let you know it toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (Njtx4)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
A device that will operate equally well on either alternating or direct current.
Basically obsolete now, since I don't think DC distribution is done anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (q0qV7)
I call bullshit on that. Nobody gets a word in edgewise on the Sean Hannity Show!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (qAYFA)
Posted by: BadOrangeMan at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (CLteG)
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (U7voe)
Posted by: Jean at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (xL1oi)
Exactly. I'm so fucking fed up. I've never seen anything like this in my life. Never ever when he was elected did I think I would see this kind of derangment from the left. They will hound him until the day he dies. They will never ever let up. They are pure fucking evil. I hate them with every fiber of my being.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (dUJdY)
For you and me it would be horrible to have that kind attention, but Trump thrives on it. He lives for the day he can open up Twitter and put his thumb in their eye.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
Shit. You. Not.
Training film for Nike Hercules electronics mechanics.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Awkward davies at January 31, 2020 09:36 PM (iviHh)
Posted by: Kazi at January 31, 2020 09:36 PM (0x00j)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:33 PM (Tnijr)
Hold on a minute, I pretended to not hate America. This time.
Posted by: Susan Collins at January 31, 2020 09:36 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: BadOrangeMan at January 31, 2020 09:37 PM (CLteG)
Posted by: Jean at January 31, 2020 09:37 PM (xL1oi)
Which time? You really need to narrow it down.
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (q0qV7)
Thanks. I was looking for that.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:37 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (7ZQe3)
I expect him to start pushing for amnesty again the Wednesday after the election.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:38 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:38 PM (2DOZq)
Monday: 11:00am closing arguments by House Managers and Defense (two hours each for a total of four hours); then the senate, regular session, floor speeches begin.
Tuesday: 11:00am full day of floor speeches. Each Senator limited to ten minutes.
Wednesday: 4:00pm A final vote on the articles of impeachment.
Posted by: rd at January 31, 2020 09:38 PM (+0uDE)
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (7ZQe3)
If he's on tape saying grab them by the balls, I'm in.
Posted by: Jimmy Lennon's Junior at January 31, 2020 09:38 PM (2N7oZ)
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What does ac/dc mean electric current wise?
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Current-wise it means Axl Rose in in there. And even he is 57.
Posted by: irright at January 31, 2020 09:38 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy
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Only peed on the electric fence on a dare once too, amirite?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:29 PM (Y4EXg)
Why yes, yes I did.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:39 PM (wh02m)
Then lonelyahole on CTH.
But they banned me. Then I think , gvmearzn2liv on Twitter.
But I never posted, Just read stuff.
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:39 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 31, 2020 09:40 PM (qAYFA)
Posted by: ... at January 31, 2020 09:40 PM (uEbPt)
His approximate non-existence as Judiciary Chairman, when that committee has more and more consequential crap to deal with than perhaps any time in its history, is also something.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 09:40 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Vanya at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (U7voe)
And if you want roast pork, leave it plugged in for ten minutes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 09:40 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
A device that will operate equally well on either alternating or direct current.
Basically obsolete now, since I don't think DC distribution is done anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I see 24VAC devices that can run 24VDC. 24VAC is a security and control standard and 24VDc is a Power over Ethernet standard.
Posted by: Jean at January 31, 2020 09:40 PM (xL1oi)
Posted by: Kazi at January 31, 2020 09:36 PM (0x00j)
These kinds of diseases are a normal and expected part of life. Yes, it sucks, but we're not looking at something that's going to kill a third of the population like medieval plagues.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: freaked at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (Tnijr)
Poets, Priests and Politician can say anything. Unlike a farmer, who is ruined if he doesn't do the things that lead to a good crop, or an engineer who's structures fail when he doesn't cleave to reality, or an electrician who will be fried if he doesn't heed the laws of physics, a journalist can spout any nonsense regardless of how complicated or simple it is to understand, and the only ones who come to eventual harm are those who listen to these charlatans.
When these people promote a narrative instead of facts, truth and news they don't have to be smart. In fact intelligence may be a hindrance. Because it has electrolytes.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (dBHUz)
Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (B+t5k)
Posted by: Jean
Isn't 24v dc what military vehicles run on?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (Njtx4)
about. And he's got an incredibly stupid, irresponsible, and arrogant
position, of course.
His approximate non-existence as Judiciary Chairman, when that
committee has more and more consequential crap to deal with than perhaps
any time in its history, is also something.
He rides the emotional waves like no other.
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Pete Seria at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (7ZQe3)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (zDcjz)
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:27 PM (wh02m)
No one cares about this any more. Except for the fanatics in the MFM no one really cares about this
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 31, 2020 09:34 PM (/2026)
No Decent People care about it anymore, agreed.
MFM will still fight and pander to it's base to the end. My Club 85 coworkers are a testament to that. They take whatever their white masters on the Democratic plantation say as gospel.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (KP5rU)
Basically obsolete now, since I don't think DC distribution is done anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (LxWV7)
Didn't AC / DC get their name from a label on one of their mothers old sewing machine?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
A device that will operate equally well on either alternating or direct current.
Basically obsolete now, since I don't think DC distribution is done anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (LxWV7)
They're starting to do super high voltage DC again for trunk line power distribution. It has a lot of advantages.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Vanya
Why? Shooting it is a lot easier and safer.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (Njtx4)
Monday: 11:00am closing arguments by House Managers and Defense (two hours each for a total of four hours); then the senate, regular session, floor speeches begin.
Tuesday: 11:00am full day of floor speeches. Each Senator limited to ten minutes.
Wednesday: 4:00pm A final vote on the articles of impeachment.
Posted by: rd at January 31, 2020 09:38 PM (+0uDE)
So freakin much hot air. I guess strategically, its a good way of making the American public completely tune out. And think the Senate is a bunch of lazy asses. There's no reason this could not be wrapped up Monday
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (n7enF)
Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 31, 2020 09:41 PM (B+t5k)
Pffft those are rookie numbers to me.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (PUmDY)
Huge credit card debt.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:44 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 31, 2020 09:44 PM (Dc2NZ)
Jewells, the white hats have this covered.
They truly do.
I've seen enough of what's been accomplished already and seen enough proofs that who I'm reading is truly as close as peas in a pod with my president that I'm just waiting for it to happen.
Also trust they know the best time and circumstances to do it.
I'm just stocking up on popcorn.
Posted by: teej who will never buy another Yamaha instrument at January 31, 2020 09:44 PM (8VsQb)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at January 31, 2020 09:44 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: rickb223
Yes.
Gives the starter more 'ummmpf' for a cold start on the Siberian plain.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:44 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wGeit)
Thomas Edison must be rolling over in his grave. But never in the same direction for very long.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:45 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 31, 2020 09:45 PM (B+t5k)
What each and every journalist needs is a good horsewhippin'
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 31, 2020 09:45 PM (pNxlR)
and Defense (two hours each for a total of four hours); then the senate,
regular session, floor speeches begin.
Tuesday: 11:00am full day of floor speeches. Each Senator limited to ten minutes.
Wednesday: 4:00pm A final vote on the articles of impeachment.
Posted by: rd at January 31, 2020 09:38 PM (+0uDE)
There will be a one-hour reception with dinner following the vote. Jerry Nadler's staff needs to request any additional meatball subs prior to 4PM Wednesday.
Posted by: Senate Catering at January 31, 2020 09:45 PM (2N7oZ)
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Sorry for electric questions. Why was San Diego the Chargers?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM
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They thought the Light Brigade was something to emulate.
Posted by: Chargers Fan at January 31, 2020 09:46 PM (RVcmP)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:46 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2020 09:46 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 31, 2020 09:44 PM (Dc2NZ)
Go on.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 31, 2020 09:46 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wGeit)
Thomas Edison must be rolling over in his grave. But never in the same direction for very long.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:45 PM (Z7lwY)
AC made sense back then, because transformers are easy to make compared to what you need for DC. They tell me the DC stuff is cheaper now, so it's a real option if you need to move gigawatts from here to there.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:47 PM (wGeit)
Monday: 11:00am closing arguments by House Managers
and Defense (two hours each for a total of four hours); then the senate,
regular session, floor speeches begin.
Tuesday: 11:00am full day of floor speeches. Each Senator limited to ten minutes.
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Wait a minute, there are closing arguments AND "floor speeches"?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2020 09:47 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 31, 2020 09:47 PM (Dc2NZ)
I kind of hate this new pattern. Not that I care much about sportsball, but I don't want to see govt. officials, even the top one, in connection with sports events.
Let sports be f***ing sports (applies to all other silly diversions/entertainments).
Kind of related, one fascinating thing has been Trump entering gigantic sporting venues. Used to be - and for most politicos, still is - an ironclad rule: you never, never, put your guy into a large arena or stadium. Americans, gawdblessem', historically have exercised their right to boo and cat-call the most exalted public figures (it's glorious, actually), as much as "on principle" (we can do it) as because they don't like them.
Anyway, Trump hasn't exactly walked into a Warriors game, his events have been fairly permissive - Army/Navy games, college championship between 2 southern teams, played in a southern city - but still.
Interesting.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 09:47 PM (El6T/)
MFM will still fight and pander to it's base to the end. My Club 85
coworkers are a testament to that. They take whatever their white
masters on the Democratic plantation say as gospel.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:42 PM (wh02m)
I know some RINOs/NeverTrumpers and libs and they just don't care about it. They won't vote for Trump but the whole impeachment thing is done. They were all hot and bother for Lurch Muller and when they went nowhere the whole remove him from office started to lose steam and this impeachment has been a whole lot of nothing. This is just for the hard core fanatics now
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 31, 2020 09:47 PM (v3iUt)
Posted by: Paula Gropp at January 31, 2020 09:48 PM (gMJK8)
Posted by: Jasper Moore at January 31, 2020 09:48 PM (B+t5k)
and Defense (two hours each for a total of four hours); then the senate,
regular session, floor speeches begin.
Tuesday: 11:00am full day of floor speeches. Each Senator limited to ten minutes.
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Wait a minute, there are closing arguments AND "floor speeches"?
*fapfapfapfapfapfap fapfapfap*
Posted by: CSPAN2 at January 31, 2020 09:48 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:48 PM (2DOZq)
I'm finding the reactions for various pundits and Twitter "influencers" telling. It reveals who's deep down a measured thinker and who's a hysterical pseudo-intellectual.
Posted by: Serious Cat at January 31, 2020 09:48 PM (RT6Hk)
Posted by: Chargers Fan at January 31, 2020 09:46 PM (RVcmP)
All in the valley of Death
waddled the Nadler.
Posted by: Zombie Alfred, Lord Tennyson at January 31, 2020 09:49 PM (2N7oZ)
Indeed. What makes this possible is the solid state revolution that makes very high voltage and power rectifiers and inverters become cost feasible.
Interrupting very high voltage DC is still the bugaboo. Breaking a kA at a MV DC without destroying the equipment is still problematic. All the breaking is still done on the AC sides.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 31, 2020 09:49 PM (rCwaK)
Which I think (strictly among us) is nuts, especially since her GG was an m.d. from Creighton and old Omaha packing business. I bet she'd do better there than Seattle.
Posted by: Kazi at January 31, 2020 09:50 PM (0x00j)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:50 PM (q0qV7)
Why the fuck are they waiting til fucking Wednesday??? God bless America I'm about to pop a vessel here.
Posted by: Jewells45
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Someone on Twitter whose guess is as good as mine says:
McConnell and Schumer, after a quick discussion with their respective caucuses, agreed to the decision because both parties know the plays extremely well. Democrats absolutely had the procedural means to deny an acquittal vote before SOTU.
A senseless battle on this would have bloodied both sides to no good purpose. As they said, the decision was taken quickly to avoid 'needless pain and suffering' on both sides.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 31, 2020 09:50 PM (13CQC)
Got booed when he and Melania showed up for game 5 of the World Series. Of course, it was in DC so that's not a shock.
Posted by: Vendette at January 31, 2020 09:51 PM (SL4lK)
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:45 PM (Z7lwY)
Tesla can suck it!
Posted by: Zombie Tom Edison at January 31, 2020 09:51 PM (2N7oZ)
I have an Associate's Degree in Drafting Technology. Yup. 2 year degree.
But the work experience I have gained over the ensuing two plus decades in the civil engineering/land survey fields is worth its weight in gold.
I am blessed to work where I do. Because the people who run this company value skill and experience far more than formal education.
Also, they like beer as much as I do.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 31, 2020 09:51 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 09:52 PM (q0qV7)
Posted by: Paula Gropp
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Word. I did 40 years in corporate IT and never felt comfortable with it and made, (and wasted!) a boatload of $$. If I could do it over again, I'd learn the machinist trade. Or welding.
Hard, but honest work.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:52 PM (Y4EXg)
I thought it was because DC couldn't travel a long enough distance and you had to have a lot of stations.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:53 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wGeit)
That's for transmitting bulk power over long distances. We have some HVDC lines in Alberta that ship to U.S. destinations. But once it gets delivered, it's inverted to AC for distribution.
Some of the real early power distribution networks used the Edison system: generate DC, and distribute DC. At 110 volts, I think. So appliances that could be run on either AC or DC were marked as such. Series-wound electric motors are inherently AC/DC; vacuum cleaners, power tools, mixers, etc. As are heating elements and incandescent lamp bulbs. Vacuum tube radios and TV's could be made either AC/DC, or AC-only.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 09:53 PM (LxWV7)
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 31, 2020 09:53 PM (+lVUW)
As I droned earlier, actual real journalism is vital, and its absence is a big part of how we got here.
Just a tiny but illustrative example. A pretty big piece in Ukraine-as-part-of-the-anti-Trump-2016 operation was reported by Politico (it's frequently cited/linked by the independent types who are the best sleuths on the Mega-Scandal). Now generally you can ignore Politico. But just this one properly done story shows how important *real* journalism (fact-based, rigorous, fair, open-minded, HUMBLE) can be.
I worked around/knew a very senior journalist who was a very, very savvy guy, whose views were sought out by presidents and senior military commanders, on big questions (this remains unknown to this day) - for good reason. He's retired. I'm not aware of *anyone* even remotely similar in stature or quality still journalisming today.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 09:54 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Paula Gropp at January 31, 2020 09:48 PM (gMJK
That was me, only accounting. Didn't care for it at all, but I had a family to feed. All I've ever wanted to do was trade. So now my current dead end job is at least giving me a chance to do that.
Didn't get anywhere in January, but it was still fun. Only "job" I've ever loved. If I lose my money, so be it. At least I gave it one last shot.
Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at January 31, 2020 09:54 PM (wh02m)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
It's like being thunderstruck.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 09:54 PM (NWiLs)
See the Pacific Intertie for a famous example of a HVDC transmission line. It's a 3.1GW line, operating "bipolar" at +/- 500kV. That is, 500kV line to ground, 1MV line to line. Note that's a current of 3100A at max capacity.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at January 31, 2020 09:55 PM (rCwaK)
Hard, but honest work.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 31, 2020 09:52 PM (Y4EXg)
It may be if you'd been a machinist you'd be thinking "If I had it to do over again, I would have gone into computers." Particularly if you found yourself working outdoors in inclement weather at age 50. Blue collar work can be hard on the body, too. I know lots of guys who were basically used up by their early 50s.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 09:56 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:28 PM (PUmDY)
It's like being thunderstruck.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 31, 2020 09:54 PM (NWiLs)
Yep, then you get a Whole Lotta of Rosie.
Posted by: Jimmy Lennon's Junior at January 31, 2020 09:57 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: rickb223
Damn Straight!
Basically a one stop shop from machinist and blacksmith to carpenter, to mill Wright, to animal husbandry, to plant whisperer.
Smartest person in the room. Unless there was another farmer.
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:57 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:57 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Rex B at January 31, 2020 09:57 PM (QJmZy)
Anyway, like I said, interesting. Trump is unlike any other recent political figure. My hunch is he's actually very, very popular, much more than "polling" will ever reveal.
Because he's popular the way a president should be - many don't like his style or are stuck on various misunderstandings about him - BUT they can see results, and they like them.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 09:57 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:58 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2020 09:58 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 31, 2020 09:57 PM (PUmDY)
I think they're wishing that the nutheads in the House hadn't even put them in this position.
Posted by: buzzion at January 31, 2020 09:58 PM (Z7lwY)
When my father died, I looked through the paperwork from when he was in the army air force during world war II. He did airplane maintenance and had certification for doing certain work on airplanes, and also paperwork for being an instructor. The military had a whole system for training recruits in the skills they needed, then having some of the trained soldiers training the next group of recruits. It was interesting looking at how they fulfilled their technical needs with all the young men they drafted.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 31, 2020 09:58 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at January 31, 2020 09:59 PM (zDcjz)
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2020 10:00 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 10:00 PM (El6T/)
Basically obsolete now, since I don't think DC distribution is done anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2020 09:35 PM (LxWV7)
most small appliance motors are "universal motors" which have brushes and a coil on the rotor and stator. They work on AC or DC (hence the name).
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 31, 2020 10:00 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Rex B at January 31, 2020 10:01 PM (QJmZy)
Posted by: - at January 31, 2020 10:01 PM (RVcmP)
sides) and become a fireman.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 31, 2020 09:58 PM (2DOZq)
Same. Family were all upright citizens, and instead I became a Senator.
Posted by: Joe Biden at January 31, 2020 10:02 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: boynsea at January 31, 2020 10:02 PM (Fks5r)
Ridiculous. A gigantic slab of prime rib, fabulous, but enough to feed about 4 people (and this was when I could eat twice what I can now).
But I did imagine to myself the glory days of SAC, with B-52 crews returning after incredibly grueling alerts/flights, ordering that ridiculous glorious slab of beef.
America, f**k yeah!!
Posted by: rhomboid at January 31, 2020 10:03 PM (El6T/)
That brings up another thing that pisses me off about Schiff and the entire Dem-Media Complex:
Alexander Frickin' Vindman is not the only Purple Heart-wearer in the United States military. Do they think I believe that only one person wearing the uniform of my country is brave enough to call-out the President for treason and bribery? Every other active military officer and enlisted has been hoodwinked by Trump and can't see his sell-out to Russia? Give me a break. These accusations make me sick.
Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2020 10:06 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2020 10:07 PM (n7enF)
The JackStraw Theorum -- and he is much better informed than I -- is that the 2014 Ukraine revolution was an Obama administration coup.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 10:10 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at January 31, 2020 10:14 PM (zDcjz)
he'd cut a piece of wire, paper clip, etc..., and bend in a 'U' and hold in a book and insert into wall socket. He'd experiment with different plugs. He figured out how to shut down entire wing of school or clocks and lights. He went on to removing plates for intercom access, started pulling out all the wires, and whadda ya know, the intercom fried.
It was evident from that early age that journalism wasn't in his future.
I don't know what happened to him; I guess he got bored with me daring him.
I got a real job throwing newspapers!
Posted by: LaRro at January 31, 2020 10:16 PM (10GNe)
The JackStraw Theorum -- and he is much better informed than I -- is that the 2014 Ukraine revolution was an Obama administration coup.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 31, 2020 10:10 PM (gd9RK)
Whether or not it's true, the Russians seem to believe it.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 31, 2020 10:16 PM (wGeit)
Maybe I'm just asking too much of a guy, but is there a reason that an electrician or a plumber would not know where Ukraine is?
My dad is 97, did not finish the junior year of high school, was a truck driver and backhoe man, and by god he knows where the hell Ukraine is. And some things that have gone on there, over the years.
So many of you guys are just spoiling for a fight, you forget yourselves.
A journalist is not an intellectual. They are not professors. You're so god-damned envious and angry here every day, and it shows, believe me. Perhaps we should be spending more of our effort thinking about what everybody ought to know, or what we should know ourselves.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 31, 2020 10:19 PM (oRpiG)
guy, whose views were sought out by presidents and senior military
commanders, on big questions (this remains unknown to this day) - for
good reason. He's retired. I'm not aware of *anyone* even remotely
similar in stature or quality still journalisming today."
rhomboid, was this senior journalist the product of a journalism school? I suspect he did it the old-fashioned way. Back in the day, a journalist would follow either of two paths: On the first path, he could work his way up as a reporter - from police courts at midnight, through city hall, to the state capitol, and finally to Washington - learning the nitty gritty of politics and governance and human nature along the way, while learning how to write quickly, accurately, and colorfully. Or he could follow the other path, of acquiring a deep knowledge of a given subject area, and go into journalism because of a talent for writing that clarified the subject for non-experts.
Journalism school has brought about the death of journalism.
Posted by: Brown Line at January 31, 2020 10:21 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Brown Line at January 31, 2020 10:25 PM (S6ArX)
Journalism self-selects for morons, similar to gender studies type stuff. No thinking person would ever consider such a major: few jobs->low demand->crappy pay.
The only ones who pick these things are idiots that can't math and people who have a parental free ride to pursue this nonsense- and thus can't even change a spark plug.
Posted by: Jim at January 31, 2020 10:26 PM (HxQiV)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 31, 2020 10:27 PM (q0qV7)
I have a PhD in freaking plasma physics. I do math for fun that would make these corporate-vogon newsies' virgin eyeballs bleed to look at. It would be more insulting if it wasn't so absurd that *these people* look down on the learning of *my people*.
Posted by: MadRocketSci at February 01, 2020 01:13 AM (+G8SK)
How many journolists does it take to figure out the maximum mechanical advantage you can rig using 5 blocks and rope?
Posted by: mer at February 01, 2020 02:30 AM (or4l7)
I would never trust a journalist anywhere near a pool supply store. They sell dangerous as all hell chemicals. I mustard gassed myself twice. The chlorine ain't your momma's bleach. It'll eat through your clothes and then your skin. The acid eats concrete . You mix them and it's mustard gas and yes it's yellow green.
Journalist should only have access to safety scissors and wear a helmet and goggles whilst using them.
Posted by: KeaponLaffin at February 01, 2020 09:55 AM (rrXjx)
Posted by: Johnathan Birks at February 01, 2020 12:10 PM (l/YqL)
Posted by: Clean Willie at February 02, 2020 07:20 PM (5FRbo)
concerning my study and knowledge.
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