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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/26/21)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

"It really looks like straight men and women don't like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny," or woman-hating behavior. From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic." University of California-Riverside Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Ward

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Quote II

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain


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Quote III

“If you pass a piece of legislation that breaks down on party lines, but it gets passed, that doesn’t mean there wasn’t unity,” White House Occupant Joe Biden


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Quote IV

“None of us on either side want to live in a scorched-earth Senate. This gambit would not speed the Democrats’ ambitions. It would delay them terribly. Sen. Mitch McConnell (China Whore- KY)

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Quote V
“Restaurants cannot sustain themselves or their employees when they operate with strict capacity limits, which means the state should long ago have crafted a comprehensive aid package to help these small businesses hibernate.” California Restaurant Association CEO Jot Condie


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Quote VI

If you still have deep feelings for each other during the lows, then the highs could be amazing.’ Relationships Coach and author of Happy Relationships Sam Owen


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Quote VII

“During the Trump Administration, for all ammunition companies, it was a tough business. The industry was over capacity and that leads companies to not invest in expansion or refrain from capital expenditures that may be needed.” Vista Outdoor President of Ammunition Jason Vanderbrink

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The Misanthropic part of me sees no issue with this.

MEN ARE LOSING THE ABILITY TO REPRODUCE, RESEARCHER WARNS
CHEMICALS IN PLASTICS AND FOOD ARE AFFECTING HUMANITY'S ABILITY TO REPRODUCE.


Common chemicals called phthalates, which are found in products including plastics, cosmetics, and food packaging, seem to have a serious impact on our health — and even humanity’s ability to reproduce.

That’s according to Shanna Swan, a reproductive epidemiologist at Mt. Sinai who told The Intercept in a new interview that these chemicals likely have serious implications for the future of humanity.


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Now you can differentiate the differences between Geeks and Nerds.

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I'm so happy that my dating life is behind me and I don't live in Russia.


Speaking of relationships:Be careful out there.

One in five people in the United States has a sexually transmitted infection, according to estimates released Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That means nearly 68 million people are positive for STIs, including HIV, herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, agency data, also published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, showed.


Anger is a luxury none of us can afford today, especially spouses.

Husband stabbed repeatedly by his wife after she finds photo of him with young skinny girl, turns out it's an old picture of her.


It's a wife's worst nightmare: imagine for a moment, your husband is outside working on the lawn and won't be back inside for a while. You notice he left his phone inside, right there on the breakfast bar. Without hesitation you decide to pick up his phone—because you haven't spied on him since earlier this morning.


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Expectations vs. Reality NSFW-Language


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I'm shocked at how the "Democrats" cured the Kung Flu.........

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Well it's happened again. Another conservative voice has been banned from Twitter. It is time to deplatform every fucking leftist we can.

Twitter has permanently suspended the account of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

Newsweek reported Lindell's account was removed by Twitter for alleged violations of the platform's misinformation policy. Lindell, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, has claimed there was voter fraud during the presidential election.

And he has maintained fraud led to Trump's election loss.

Lindell has noted that Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl's, HEB Stores, Wayfair, and Canadian channel Today's Shopping Choice had all stopped selling his products.

See yesterday's thread by Buck Throckmorton. But please don't comment there.


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Just because you want something to happen doesn't mean it will. And contrary to Joe Biden's delusional mind, he doesn't have a magic fucking wand.

U.S. President Joe Biden committed on Monday to replacing the entire federal fleet of vehicles, including cars, trucks and SUVs, with electric ones manufactured in the United States.

It’s a massive undertaking. In 2019, the federal fleet was made up of more than 645,000 vehicles, including 224,000 passenger cars and more than 412,000 trucks, TechCrunch reports — including hundreds of thousands of Post Office vehicles alone.

The move is part of Biden’s Made in America executive order, a greater effort to create one million new jobs in the American auto industry.


I want to see see Air Force One electrified.


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I bet #LearnToCode is more difficult than #LearnToJournalist or sucking d*ck like former mayor Butt Plug.

After killing the Keystone pipeline and 11,000 union jobs, Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg said those workers will need to get “different ones.”

Biden is eliminating good American jobs in the middle of a pandemic, endangering American energy independence, and likely causing a rise in gas prices. As of now, there are no jobs for the newly unemployed pipeline workers.

Instead of pandering to the Far Left, Biden should focus on helping all Americans stay employed.

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Don't you just love it when a downtrodden individual pulls herself up by her boot straps? Sure I know you do.

When one looks at a situation like Monday's insanity-fueled, retail induced short squeeze across the board, one must ask: who are the government officials that have allowed this to happen and what have they been doing during the time they should be regulating such multiple-sigma market absurdities?

Allow us to offer a partial answer. If you were Nancy Pelosi and her husband, you were buying call options in names like Apple, Tesla and Disney. That's what a new disclosure, detailed in Barron's, revealed late last week.

Paul Pelosi purchased LEAPS in Tesla, Apple and Disney and shares in AllianceBernstein on December 22, the disclosure revealed. In other words, it's not just clueless retail Robinhood investors that are speculating; it's also clueless politicians.

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Pepsi and Beyond Meat. A merger made in the kitchen.

PepsiCo, the planetary purveyor of sugary drinks, greasy chips, and (weirdly) oatmeal, hummus, and gazpacho(?) is partnering with Beyond Meat, the publicly traded plant-based protein provider, on a poorly named joint venture to hawk new plant-based food and beverages to consumers.

The PLANeT Partnership (which was clearly branded by the same genius behind the comic sans font), will combine Beyond Meat’s skills with protein prestidigitation and PepsiCo’s marketing and manufacturing savvy to flood the global market with new snacks and drinks, the two companies said.

Neither company disclosed any financial terms and other pesky details around who, what, where, and when, except to say that the the joint venture operations will be managed through the newly created PLANeT Partnership.

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Kung Flu detection: Anal swabs. Yes, anal swab testing is the route to go.

As the “science” around Covid-19 continues to evolve over the course of a year of debilitating lockdowns and mask ordinances, “experts” in China are now recommending anal swabs inserted rectally to detect traces of Covid as opposed to serum antibody tests and nasal and throat swabs.

Beijing disease specialist at You’an Hospital’s Li Tongzeng stated, “What we’ve found is that in some infected patients, the coronavirus survives for a longer period of time in their digestive tract or excrement than in their respiratory tract.” This digestive longevity leads Li and other experts to believe that anal swabs may be more effective.

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The ONT Musical Interlude



Born on this day: 26 Jan 1953
Lucinda Williams, rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter who wrote 'Passionate Kisses' the Grammy winning song made famous by the 1993 single version by Mary Chapin Carpenter.via thisdayinmusic.com


AND


Born on this day: 26 Jan 1957
Eddie Van Halen, Dutch guitarist with Van Halen who had the 1984 US No.1 & UK No. 7 single 'Jump'. His guitar solo in the track 'Eruption' was voted No.2 on Guitar World magazine's readers poll of the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. Halen also played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's 'Beat It'. Van Halen died on 6 October 2020 at the age of 65, the Dutch-American musician had been receiving treatment for throat cancer. Van Halen have sold more than 80 million worldwide, making them one of the best-selling groups of all time. via thisdayinmusic.comk


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Posthumous Genius Award.

Police: Man who fled police recovered from flooded quarry

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Knock it off!! I can see you now. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.


Things are going swimmingly for the first patient ever to receive an artificial cornea implant, who was able to see his family immediately after waking up.

The 78-year-old man was able to perform the classic eye exam test of identifying numbers and letters from a distance.

Developed by an Israeli firm called CorNeat, the KNet implant actually merges with natural human tissue, meaning it can integrate directly with the eye wall and replace scarred or damaged cornea through injury or disease.

“The surgical procedure was straight forward and the result exceeded all of our expectations,” said Professor Irit Bahar, director of the Ophthalmology Department at Rabin Medical Center.


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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Parenting Skills.


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Notice: Tonight's ONT was reluctantly posted with the Ace Media Empire and AceCorp, LLC's permission. Tonight's thread was carefully crafted in The ONT Utility Kitchen.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:06 PM




Comments

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1
When it's least expected, You're elected,
You're the star to-daaaay.
Smile! You're on
[ ♪suspenseful chord♪ ]
The All-Seeing Eye of Sauron

Whut?

Posted by: mindful webworker - time is preciousmy side
at January 26, 2021 10:06 PM (rTqAd)

2 1st?

Posted by: Numbuh Two, 2x4 Technology Operative at January 26, 2021 10:06 PM (YWBlw)

3 st

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 10:06 PM (z79tQ)

4 !הראשון

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (rm8S6)

5 evening

Posted by: wing at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (JFzNN)

6 th

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (1uBGK)

7

Jane Fonda will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award from the Golden Globes on February 28th. The two time Oscar winner will be honored for her acting, activism, and philanthropy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (63Dwl)

8 Wasn't me

Posted by: mindful webworker - time is preciousmy side
at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (rTqAd)

9 Meh, no love lost for leaky Pat Leahy.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (qZdIZ)

10 Greetings! CC n coke

Posted by: Zeera at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (RLANM)

11 Bah! And I'm not closing the tag either.

Posted by: Numbuh Two, 2x4 Technology Operative at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (YWBlw)

12 Happy ONT!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (Dc2NZ)

13 Whut? Indeed. Off to the barrel with you

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (z79tQ)

14 Dang. it was me. *puts on barrel waders*

Posted by: mindful webworker - time is preciousmy side
at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (rTqAd)

15 Thanks to MisHum (again) and Pixy for the assist in getting me unbanned. I have a foolproof way to get an IP address insta-banned and will train you for only $29.99

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:08 PM (1uBGK)

16 Oooh! Art thread is early!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy (Now 80% Google Free!) at January 26, 2021 10:08 PM (dNzKv)

17 Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Iris at January 26, 2021 10:08 PM (6lKe4)

18 8 Wasn't me
Posted by: mindful webworker - time is preciousmy side
at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (rTqAd)

It was, you're not going to blame me

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:09 PM (aA3+G)

19 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at January 26, 2021 10:09 PM (SchxB)

20 Top twenty?

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:09 PM (TdMsT)

21 Love Lucinda Williams.

Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Norman Spiny at January 26, 2021 10:09 PM (NNN/R)

22 As I will continue to remind my friends here at AoS:

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"If you pass a piece of legislation that breaks down on party lines, but it gets passed, that doesn't mean there wasn't unity,"
------------------------

This is what is called "fucking with you". Seeing it for what it is will do wonders for your nerves.

Posted by: ... at January 26, 2021 10:09 PM (jBRLB)

23 Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain

this is so much BS

Posted by: REDACTED at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (zZxh0)

24 There may be some multi-counting of some people with STDs. Some folks gotta catch them all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (ynpvh)

25 15 Thanks to MisHum (again) and Pixy for the assist in getting me unbanned. I have a foolproof way to get an IP address insta-banned and will train you for only $29.99
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:08 PM (1uBGK)


How much is my cut?
Enough to cover my Dental deductible?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

26 Wasn't me
Posted by: mindful webworker - time is preciousmy side
at January 26, 2021 10:07 PM (rTqAd)

Nobody saw me.

Can't prove anything.

sigh, they deserved it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (z79tQ)

27 {{{Ladyl}}}

Posted by: wing at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (JFzNN)

28 Re: Quote I, Batman's words to the Joker at the end of The Dark Knight come to mind: "What did you think, that deep down, everyone was as ugly as you?"

Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (pxDdN)

29 Kroger also kicked out MyPillow.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

30 Fucking assless chaps?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2021 10:11 PM (xT2tT)

31 *muffled cry from the barrel*

It's been so long since I was here. It's worse than I remembered. I had blocked it all out!
___

Baby-tossing bottom pic: Once watched my kinda-wild oldest brother (RIP) help my very little boy crawl out onto a dangerous precipice. Since panic wouldn't help, and I didn't want to distract them by yelling... I just filmed it. They got back okay. My stomach untightened. Sometimes you have no choice but to trust.

But I still wouldn't toss that baby like that.

Posted by: mindful webworker - close relative of time and space
at January 26, 2021 10:11 PM (rTqAd)

32 the Turtle never wants to go to war

cause then he would have to pick a side

Posted by: REDACTED at January 26, 2021 10:11 PM (zZxh0)

33 Assless chaps sounds like a huge disappointment to English poofters.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 10:12 PM (z79tQ)

34 32 the Turtle never wants to go to war

cause then he would have to pick a side
Posted by: REDACTED at January 26, 2021 10:11 PM (zZxh0)


His hill to fight on is his Louisville mansion and wallet.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:12 PM (aA3+G)

35 I popped in and there were no comments ... so I typed my comment and knew I was the second mouse.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (qZdIZ)

36 Oh yes, the tragedy of straight relationships. Not anywhere near as loving and nurturing as the relationships formed in a SF bathhouse.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (H5knJ)

37 I watched John Carpenter's "The Fog" tonight. Damn, that man had an eye, as well as a gift for pacing and presenting. And soundtrack. Not so much writing, but I guess you can't have them all.

He was a better film-maker than Christopher Nolan.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (l9m7l)

38 Darling {{{Wing}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (TdMsT)

39 Mike Lindell has been through worse. He'll be fine.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (nxdel)

40

Leaders Of Denmark And Netherlands Warn Countries Are Both Headed To Civil Wars If Rioting Isn't Contained Very Soon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (63Dwl)

41 "...getting me unbanned."

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:08 PM (1uBGK)

Are you shitting me? Again?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (xT2tT)

42 MisHum--I'd love to see one of your paintings as the top picture, some evening.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (TdMsT)

43 finished watching Oldboy

I can't decide whether it's pro or anti revenge

Posted by: Herr Frau Doktor vmom Staunch Demofaszi (on gab as @vm) at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (nUhF0)

44 Me and my brother climbed Battery 223 as kids and snuck inside. It was a 20-foot precipice over jagged surf at the time. Now it's all padded out with sand.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (vuisn)

45 "Tonight's thread was carefully crafted in The ONT Utility Kitchen."

Some people like cupcakes better.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 26, 2021 10:15 PM (t+qrx)

46 Mike Lindell has been through worse. He'll be fine.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (nxdel)

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True. But he also shouldn't have to.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 10:15 PM (3RlYu)

47 Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (TdMsT)


Holds index finger to lips and whispers Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:15 PM (aA3+G)

48 45 "Tonight's thread was carefully crafted in The ONT Utility Kitchen."

Some people like cupcakes better.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 26, 2021 10:15 PM (t+qrx)


I for one care less for them.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:16 PM (aA3+G)

49 Unity... NOW! Or else.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at January 26, 2021 10:16 PM (3H9h1)

50 Did someone say anal swabs?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt at January 26, 2021 10:16 PM (RzGcW)

51 How much is my cut?
Enough to cover my Dental deductible?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)


Depends. You floss?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:16 PM (1uBGK)

52 I hope the "Parenting Skills" image is a photoshop. Sheesh.

Posted by: sinalco at January 26, 2021 10:16 PM (yODqO)

53 Leaders Of Denmark And Netherlands Warn Countries Are Both Headed To Civil Wars If Rioting Isn't Contained Very Soon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (63Dwl)

Misleading Headlines for 200?
Does that mean Denmark and Netherlands going to war with each other, because that's not civil war.
Or, are both countries near to squashing rebellions of their own citizens for daring to want to live?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 10:16 PM (z79tQ)

54 Fixerupper.. I know and I should have noted that. This so outrageous. I just have no words anymore. I'm furious.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (nxdel)

55 Eddie V was born in '57 and died in 2020 and was 65?
I know that math is a no-no here, but....

Posted by: Al Bundy at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (Z7toj)

56 47 Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (TdMsT)


Holds index finger to lips and whispers Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:15 PM (aA3+G)


Wait--is it?

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (TdMsT)

57 Leaders Of Denmark And Netherlands Warn Countries Are Both Headed To Civil Wars If Rioting Isn't Contained Very Soon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (63Dwl)


They could always resign.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (pxDdN)

58 >>> 50 Did someone say anal swabs?
Posted by: Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt at January 26, 2021 10:16 PM (RzGcW)

Pick me!!!

Posted by: Shep! at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (TK8Ry)

59

Music video with baby tossing

https://youtu.be/8bBDFGwOZA8

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (63Dwl)

60 Tonight's thread was carefully crafted in The ONT Utility Kitchen.


I bet the Utility Kitchen has some bitchin' Utility Knives.

Posted by: Chef Miklos, having a smoke with Darleen in the Waffle House parking lot at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (QzkSJ)

61 This is not a fake President. No, really. The American people decided that this guy was so on the ball that he could do the job. Really, they did that. Yep.

Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:18 PM (RzGcW)

62
If you ha "1" for the Moron Pool number of posts it takes to earn a barrelin, step forward and claim yer winnings.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 10:18 PM (3RlYu)

63 Thanks for the girthy ONT, Mis Hum! The photo up top is surreal. The actions in the last photo are. . . unreal.

Twain nailed it: Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (I think he meant "share" and not "divide.")

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (rwusL)

64 Tonight's thread was carefully crafted in The ONT Utility Kitchen.

Luxury! I got heated over a pellet of C4.

Posted by: Ham & Lima Beans at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (DMUuz)

65 Being banned from Twitter is a badge of honor these days.

Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (RzGcW)

66 29 Kroger also kicked out MyPillow.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

Dagnabit, I'm running out of places to shop.

Can't do Meijer, because Peter "my colleagues are assholes and I voted for impeachment" Meijer is part of their ownership

Giant Eagle is out, for reasons that I may one day get into.

Now Kroger? FML ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (1uBGK)

67 Hey everybody. Hey ONT! Hey MisHum!

Where was the top photo taken MisHum? Nice spot!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (L2ZTs)

68 61 This is not a fake President. No, really. The American people decided
that this guy was so on the ball that he could do the job. Really, they
did that. Yep.

Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:18 PM (RzGcW)

https://tinyurl.com/y6drsd85

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (ynpvh)

69 I hope that photo of the baby-tossing is fake.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:20 PM (L2ZTs)

70 "In 2019, the federal fleet was made up of more than 645,000 vehicles, including 224,000 passenger cars and more than 412,000 trucks,"

Cripes, don't electrify the fleet. Reduce it! WTF do they need 2/3 of a million vehicles for? Does that include military?

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:20 PM (qpX6U)

71 Oh, and {{{Ladyl}}}

Hope all is well tonight!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:20 PM (1uBGK)

72 I didn't think Galts Gulch would have a linen section

Posted by: Jean at January 26, 2021 10:20 PM (Xih1H)

73 64 Tonight's thread was carefully crafted in The ONT Utility Kitchen.



Luxury! I got heated over a pellet of C4.

Posted by: Ham Lima Beans at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (DMUuz)

Just don't stomp the C4 when your done being warmed...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:20 PM (ynpvh)

74 "In 2019, the federal fleet was made up of more than 645,000 vehicles, including 224,000 passenger cars and more than 412,000 trucks,"

Make em take mass-transit, like they want all of us to do.

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (qpX6U)

75 I just have no words anymore. I'm furious.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (nxdel)

-----

I think there will come a time where that righteous fury will come in handy.

Soon.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (3RlYu)

76 I have loved Central Market (an HEB store) in my area. I just cant fathom a Texas store taking a stand to crush free speech and alienate at least half their customer base. Who runs their f---ing marketing department?

Posted by: AnnaS at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (l4l/z)

77 That's a Neil Young song!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (U2p+3)

78 He was a better film-maker than Christopher Nolan.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (l9m7l)


I have been debating watching Tenet on pay per view. Would it be worth it?

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (KuDNQ)

79 41 "...getting me unbanned."

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:08 PM (1uBGK)

Are you shitting me? Again?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (xT2tT)


I'm a dumbass, CBD. No other ready explanation for it.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (1uBGK)

80 The top photo looks to me like somewhere in Northern California. Shasta?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (L2ZTs)

81 Today Morningside elementary (part of Atlanta public schools) sent out a notice that the book 'something happened in our town' will be mandatory reading for all kindergarteners in February. Two excerpts from the preview are
'they shot him because he's black'

And

'cops stick up for each other, said the brother malcom. And they don't like black men'

I don't live in Morningside but it will be in my republican district when Abrams is elected. The left is feeling pretty confident now I take it. Not sure where to go from here other than move into the woods and homeschool.

Posted by: BacktoGA at January 26, 2021 10:22 PM (MPYWI)

82 Being pissed off about the election steal is no way to go through life...I keep telling myself, every morning.

One of these days, I'll believe it.

Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:22 PM (RzGcW)

83 645,000 vehicles in the government fleet? Jesus H Fuck! does everyone get a car?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:22 PM (h1jJh)

84 So, why the dog-pile on Lindell? Did he do something illegal?

Or is this just the unpersoning of someone who supported Trump?

If I were a betting man...

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 10:23 PM (z79tQ)

85 Ah, my hated nemesis, the Dutch.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2021 10:23 PM (LxTcq)

86 81 Today Morningside elementary (part of Atlanta public schools) sent out a
notice that the book 'something happened in our town' will be mandatory
reading for all kindergarteners in February. Two excerpts from the
preview are
'they shot him because he's black'
And
'cops stick up for each other, said the brother malcom. And they don't like black men'
I
don't live in Morningside but it will be in my republican district when
Abrams is elected. The left is feeling pretty confident now I take it.
Not sure where to go from here other than move into the woods and
homeschool.


Posted by: BacktoGA at January 26, 2021 10:22 PM (MPYWI)

And here I thought it was going to be a redux of "My Two Mommies".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

87 I have been debating watching Tenet on pay per view. Would it be worth it?
Posted by: Toy Cannon

No
Just rent the dvd at redbox

Posted by: Herr Frau Doktor vmom Staunch Demofaszi (on gab as @vm) at January 26, 2021 10:23 PM (nUhF0)

88 Techno Viking doesn't dance to the music, the music dances to Techno Viking.

Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2021 10:23 PM (l3+k2)

89 I have been debating watching Tenet on pay per view. Would it be worth it?

Not according to my kids. Save your money.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:23 PM (nxdel)

90 79 41 "...getting me unbanned."

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:08 PM (1uBGK)

Are you shitting me? Again?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 26, 2021 10:14 PM (xT2tT)

I'm a dumbass, CBD. No other ready explanation for it.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (1uBGK)
-----
But you're our dumb ass.
So you got that going for you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:24 PM (aA3+G)

91 I laughed until I cried---actually cried--tonight.

I had internet problems and called my provider. I got a woman with a strong accent on the phone. Every time she spoke I heard loud screeching in the background.

I said--is that a ROOSTER??? She said--it is neighbor's rooster. It is morning in the Philippines.

She went on to try to solve my problem, but every time she spoke the rooster crowed. It sounded like it was in her lap. I was laughing so hard I couldn't talk, and she couldn't talk over the rooster.

We finally gave up. I'm still laughing.



Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:24 PM (TdMsT)

92 The top photo looks to me like somewhere in Northern California. Shasta?

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (L2ZTs)



My money's on the Canadian Rockies...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at January 26, 2021 10:24 PM (ZSK0i)

93 I have been debating watching Tenet on pay per view. Would it be worth it?
Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (KuDNQ)


I haven't watched it, but I heard the critics panned it pretty badly. And nothing with Twinkles the Twilight Vampire in it can be all that promising at first sight.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (pxDdN)

94 {{{S'puppy}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (TdMsT)

95 Covid testing out back.

Posted by: Cicero kaboom! Kid ez swab (tm) at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (n/szn)

96 Ah, my hated nemesis, the Dutch.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2021 10:23 PM (LxTcq)



You must be from western Michigan.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (ZSK0i)

97
Cancel Culture needs another name. Sounds like an 80s band.

What it REALLY is is Cultural Apartheid.


We are SO headed for a National Divorce.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (3RlYu)

98 The biggest myth about roosters is that they only crow at dawn.

They do that, yes, but they also crow at pretty much any other time, mostly to send the message "I am a rooster!"

Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (RzGcW)

99 Toy Cannon and Dr T, our own movie reviewer here, TheJamesMadison, liked Tenet.

OTOH I've hard numerous bad things about it. Maybe wait 'til you can get a viewing for less than $5.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (L2ZTs)

100 But you're our dumb ass.
So you got that going for you.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


"Love..is a burning thing..."

Posted by: Miklos "Johnny" Cash at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (QzkSJ)

101 Ok, sounds like a no on Tenet, thanks. What about the Tom Hanks western, can't think of the name?

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (KuDNQ)

102 Oh my God Ladyl!!! I'm not sure if I would have laughed or gone Rambo on everyone in my vicinity.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (nxdel)

103 She went on to try to solve my problem, but every time she spoke the rooster crowed. It sounded like it was in her lap. I was laughing so hard I couldn't talk, and she couldn't talk over the rooster.

We finally gave up. I'm still laughing.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:24 PM (TdMsT)


I'm laughing just from your description. I'm also restraining myself really, really hard from making "cock crowing" jokes ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (1uBGK)

104 Tonight's thread was carefully crafted in The ONT Utility Kitchen.

I bet the Utility Kitchen has some bitchin' Utility Knives.
Posted by: Chef Miklos, having a smoke with Darleen in the Waffle House parking lot at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (QzkSJ)
* * * *
And I bet the Utility Kitchen has potting soil, seeds and seedlings. In addition to the Utility Knives.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (rwusL)

105 Is there a fuckJackDorsey discount code for MyPillows

Posted by: Jean at January 26, 2021 10:27 PM (Xih1H)

106 Pete Buttigieg said those workers will need to get "different ones."
---
#LearnToAnalSwab

Posted by: screaming in digital at January 26, 2021 10:27 PM (kTRt4)

107 None of us on either side want to live in a scorched-earth Senate. This gambit would not speed the Democrats' ambitions. It would delay them terribly. Sen. Mitch McConnell (China Whore- KY)


Delaying them is what you are paid to do you stupid terrapin motherfucker.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 26, 2021 10:27 PM (s4dNo)

108 Cancel Culture needs another name. Sounds like an 80s band.



Cancel Culture Club Really Wants to Hurt You

Posted by: Miklos, 80s fashion icon at January 26, 2021 10:27 PM (QzkSJ)

109 willowed:
ingredients are in order of quantity, until you get to 2% or less...

i have become an expert on ingredient labels, out of self preservation...

if
you hate someone, wish adult onset Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis
Syndrome on them, with soy as the trigger. there is SFA out there that
doesn't have soy something in it, and your dining out days are DONE.


Posted by: redc1c4 (Biden Cheated!) at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (tdA/m)

Posted by: redc1c4 (Biden Cheated!) at January 26, 2021 10:27 PM (tdA/m)

110 Well, I wish I could say I was shocked by H-E-B deciding to be dicks about Mr. Lindell, but Charles Butt has been a major Dem donor for years.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (7PCMN)

111 Is there a fuckJackDorsey discount code for MyPillows

*snort. Send the suggestion to Lindell.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (nxdel)

112 I have been debating watching Tenet on pay per view. Would it be worth it?
Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (KuDNQ)

It is not as good as Inception. Worth ~$10.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (LxTcq)

113 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOE BIDEN?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (h1jJh)

114 "Love..is a burning thing..."
Posted by: Miklos "Johnny" Cash at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (QzkSJ)


"Ring of Fire" still evokes unpleasant memories of the last time I cooked with habañero peppers ... more specifically, the day after ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (1uBGK)

115 "Cancel Culture needs another name."

Totalitarianism. Compulsory conformance to a political dogma.

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (qpX6U)

116 I don't live in Morningside but it will be in my republican district when Abrams is elected. The left is feeling pretty confident now I take it. Not sure where to go from here other than move into the woods and homeschool.
Posted by: BacktoGA at January 26, 2021 10:22 PM (MPYWI)


You could coach your kindergartener to raise his hand at the end of the story and ask, "Why, were the cops Mexicans?"

It's not much, but it would be worth it just to bring the teacher to a screeching halt. Sometimes a pie in the face works better than dramatic gestures.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2021 10:29 PM (pxDdN)

117 Cancel Culture needs another name. Sounds like an 80s band.

What it REALLY is is Cultural Apartheid.


We are SO headed for a National Divorce.

==

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry..

Posted by: runner at January 26, 2021 10:29 PM (zr5Kq)

118 108 Cancel Culture needs another name. Sounds like an 80s band.



Cancel Culture Club Really Wants to Hurt You
Posted by: Miklos, 80s fashion icon at January 26, 2021 10:27 PM (QzkSJ)

Boy, George!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 10:29 PM (oHd/0)

119 Cancel Culture Club Really Wants to Hurt You

-----

Hah! I Almost typed that

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 10:29 PM (3RlYu)

120 114 "Love..is a burning thing..."

Posted by: Miklos "Johnny" Cash at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (QzkSJ)



"Ring of Fire" still evokes unpleasant memories of the last time I
cooked with habanero peppers ... more specifically, the day after ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (1uBGK)

There's a joke that ends, "Come on Ice Cream!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

121 76 I have loved Central Market (an HEB store) in my area. I just cant fathom a Texas store taking a stand to crush free speech and alienate at least half their customer base. Who runs their f---ing marketing department?
Posted by: AnnaS at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (l4l/z)

See #110.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 10:29 PM (7PCMN)

122 drat...

Posted by: runner at January 26, 2021 10:29 PM (zr5Kq)

123 Romeo, don't make too much fun of Boy George. He was supportive of DJT as president.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:30 PM (L2ZTs)

124 Eddie V was born in '57 and died in 2020 and was 65?
I know that math is a no-no here, but....
Posted by: Al Bundy at January 26, 2021 10:17 PM (Z7toj)
______________
Yeah, I saw that too. Math is hard.......

Posted by: Norman Spiny at January 26, 2021 10:30 PM (NNN/R)

125 Unity... NOW! Or else.

And by Unity we mean do what we fucking tell you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy (Now 80% Google Free!) at January 26, 2021 10:30 PM (dNzKv)

126 113 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOE BIDEN?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (h1jJh)

I'm not looking for him....

I think he is hanging with Waldo, and trying to sniff Carmen SanDiego's hair.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 10:30 PM (oHd/0)

127 102 Oh my God Ladyl!!! I'm not sure if I would have laughed or gone Rambo on everyone in my vicinity.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (nxdel)


It was hysterical, Jewells!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:30 PM (TdMsT)

128 Eddie VH partied so hard for so long, he earned some extra years!

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:30 PM (L2ZTs)

129 Being pissed off about the election steal is no way to go through life...I keep telling myself, every morning.

One of these days, I'll believe it.
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:22 PM (RzGcW)


I have completely shut off politics after thirty years of total obession. Not sure I will or want to back to it again. I think I'm done with it.

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 10:30 PM (KuDNQ)

130 113 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOE BIDEN?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (h1jJh)


Dr Jill? Is that you?

Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (RzGcW)

131 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOE BIDEN?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (h1jJh)

I saw a video of him trying to use a pen. It did not go well.

Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (S8ePJ)

132 Re: Parenting Skills--I am tired of yelling at my computer. From now on, I am going to be on the comments here with you morons (whom I love) and watching Ozzy Man videos.

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (xDMjB)

133 Toy Cannon and Dr T, our own movie reviewer here, TheJamesMadison, liked Tenet.

OTOH I've hard numerous bad things about it. Maybe wait 'til you can get a viewing for less than $5.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:25 PM (L2ZTs)


Fair either way. Like I said, I haven't watched it; I might if it ever comes up on TNT or another network, but I probably won't make the effort beyond that.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (pxDdN)

134

I saw Cancel Culture Club open for The Seekers at Moomba in '74...

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (rm8S6)

135 "During the Trump Administration, for all ammunition companies, it was a tough business. The industry was over capacity and that leads companies to not invest in expansion or refrain from capital expenditures that may be needed."

====
Two years ago, all of the big Interweb gun and ammo outfits sent sales or free-shipping offers to me, almost daily, by email. Free shipping on any quantity of ammo and bullets, that are, of course, pretty heavy. Incredible deal.

Brownell's had weekly, one-day, 10% off everything sales, including all in-stock firearms! I made some sweet purchases gun from them with that incentive, I can tell you, during the spring of 2019!

Those were the days...it's incredible how swiftly things can change in the 21st Century in the Manic States of America.

Posted by: Gref at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (AMIL/)

136 MEN ARE LOSING THE ABILITY TO REPRODUCE, RESEARCHER WARNS
CHEMICALS IN PLASTICS AND FOOD ARE AFFECTING HUMANITY'S ABILITY TO REPRODUCE.

Well hell.
Procreate harder!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (axyOa)

137 Anal swabs????? Idiocracy was set 500 years in the future, or so we thought.

Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (CBrao)

138 131 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOE BIDEN?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (h1jJh)



I saw a video of him trying to use a pen. It did not go well.

Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (S8ePJ)

Last I saw he mumbled to a couple of Marines, saying "Salute the Marines".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

139 Dr T, I admit I don't like watching movies on regular TV with commercials anymore. IMHO the ad breaks can really mess with a great movie's pacing.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:32 PM (L2ZTs)

140 If you play a Carribean pirate conquest game ... you know that Spanish are conquistadors. And you know the French as colonial as hell. And you know the sun doesn't set on the British Empire.

And then there's the Dutch, just like ... AN ORANGE WAVE DESCENDS UPON YOU ... OUR WINDMILLS WILL BLOT OUT THE SUN.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2021 10:32 PM (LxTcq)

141 "don't make too much fun of Boy George."

There are eight words that were never assembled in that order before.

Boy George, planning his career: "First, I must adopt a fashion which nobody can make fun of."

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:32 PM (qpX6U)

142 You have more patience than me Ladyl. When our internet is down, everything is down and I'm not a happer camper when that happens.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:32 PM (nxdel)

143 645,000 vehicles in the government fleet? Jesus H Fuck! does everyone get a car?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:22 PM (h1jJh)
* * * *
Every gubmint employee gets more than one car... ever see them travel alone? Nope, always in a caravan it seems.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 10:32 PM (rwusL)

144 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOE BIDEN?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (h1jJh)

Dr Jill? Is that you?
Posted by: Splunge


Remember when Slick Willie lost the nuclear codes for two months?

Good times.

Posted by: Miklos, 80s fashion is coming back, so no new clothes at January 26, 2021 10:33 PM (QzkSJ)

145 That's why, even thought everything in me is screaming go to cash, I continue to leave my life savings in the stock market, as the public political battlefield now seems to dominated by the fight between the greedy corrupt fascist left and the greedy corrupt communist idealist left, the stock market may be safe for now.

Posted by: yop at January 26, 2021 10:33 PM (nqhkI)

146  Covid testing out back.

Posted by: Cicero kaboom! Kid ez swab (tm) at January 26, 2021

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: TheHoser at January 26, 2021 10:33 PM (ioRP+)

147 144 HAS ANYONE SEEN JOE BIDEN?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (h1jJh)


Dr Jill? Is that you?

Posted by: Splunge


Remember when Slick Willie lost the nuclear codes for two months?


Good times.

Posted by: Miklos, 80s fashion is coming back, so no new clothes at January 26, 2021 10:33 PM (QzkSJ)

That wasn't the cigar incident, was it?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (ynpvh)

148 What the hell. The Travel Channel is showing travelogue crap. I need to find bigfoot, damnit.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (cGzSC)

149 I for one prefer muffins

Posted by: CarpetheadLaRo at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (+ITg4)

150 I like kicking the Russians as much as the next guy, maybe more than the next guy. But the story on weird photos of Russian chicks seems unremarkable to me. Several seem like people goofing off. You could find worse phots of American chicks on social media.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (H5knJ)

151 "don't make too much fun of Boy George."


Like Morrissey, Boy George has become surprisingly and rather vehemently Politically Incorrect.

Go figure.

Posted by: Miklos, also Johnny Rotten at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (QzkSJ)

152 142 You have more patience than me Ladyl. When our internet is down, everything is down and I'm not a happer camper when that happens.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 26, 2021 10:32 PM (nxdel)


It was kind of fading in and out for a while. But the rooster. Omg.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (TdMsT)

153 Kroger has pillows? Not my local Kroger?? By the way, the 'locally owned family friendly' Boscovs here also has removed the My Pillows. Very disappointed.

Posted by: RedDish haz new computer at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (AjwWO)

154 148 What the hell. The Travel Channel is showing travelogue crap. I need to find bigfoot, damnit.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (cGzSC)

You may get your chance in Oklahoma...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (ynpvh)

155 Remember when Slick Willie lost the nuclear codes for two months?

Turned out he had 'em stored in Monica's cooch. Whodathunkit??

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (L2ZTs)

156 "Love..is a burning thing..."

Posted by: Miklos "Johnny" Cash at January 26, 2021

----

Thought for sure this was going to be about STD link.

Posted by: TheHoser at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (ioRP+)

157 100 But you're our dumb ass.
So you got that going for you.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


"Love..is a burning thing..."
Posted by: Miklos "Johnny" Cash at January 26, 2021 10:26 PM (QzkSJ)

So is the clap......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (aA3+G)

158 "I continue to leave my life savings in the stock market,"

You should diversify your assets.

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (qpX6U)

159 MisHum: I didn't know you paint. I agree with LadyL, you should occassionally post a picture of one of your paintings.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (d9Cw3)

160 Now Kroger? FML ...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 10:19 PM (1uBGK)

---
Kroger can eat a truck load of dicks... i w*rked at their local chain HQ for 6 long months, and boy is the local, and chain environment toxic. i drive past their store to get to a competing chain, because i can.

Posted by: redc1c4 (Biden Cheated!) at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (tdA/m)

161
I saw a video of him trying to use a pen. It did not go well.

Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (S8ePJ)


Is this for real?

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (TdMsT)

162 gp, 100% correct that he should diversify his assets. He should give $1000 to you, $1000 to me, $1000 to MisHum...

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (L2ZTs)

163 "645,000 vehicles in the government fleet? Jesus H Fuck! does everyone get a car?"

At any one time, probably 98% parked, 25% down for repairs.

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (qpX6U)

164 156 "Love..is a burning thing..."


Posted by: Miklos "Johnny" Cash at January 26, 2021


----


Thought for sure this was going to be about STD link.

Posted by: TheHoser at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (ioRP+)

The ONT is young...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

165 Recall petitions cure COVID? Let's all get cured of democrats.

Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (KnJdm)

166 I continue to have my life savings in tranquilizer darts and zip-ties.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (RzGcW)

167 159 MisHum: I didn't know you paint. I agree with LadyL, you should occassionally post a picture of one of your paintings.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (d9Cw3)


MisHum is very talented. His landscape paintings are beautiful.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (TdMsT)

168 Miklos, yup.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:37 PM (L2ZTs)

169 It was a typo.

Posted by: Bigfart at January 26, 2021 10:37 PM (l3+k2)

170 I saw a video of him trying to use a pen. It did not go well.

Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (S8ePJ)

Is this for real?
Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (TdMsT)

Yep.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y2gk4vha

Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:37 PM (S8ePJ)

171 Watched a few minutes of Bad Teacher on cable. Is there any Hollywood hottie who lost it faster than Cameron Diaz?

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 10:37 PM (KuDNQ)

172 "They do that, yes, but they also crow at pretty much any other time"

in my previous country place, my neighbor was about 1/4 mile away, but he had like a dozen pretty roosters ... every ten to thirty seconds at least one would crow, all day, all night. It was amazing, I wondered if they took shifts, or how they were so consistent even at night ... (maybe they had some breaks at night, but not many)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2021 10:37 PM (Cus5s)

173 MisHum is very talented. His landscape paintings are beautiful.
Posted by: Ladyl


He learned everything he knows from Bob Ross.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (L2ZTs)

174 Ha! The Van Halen video features assless chaps.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (s4dNo)

175 "He should give $1000 to you, $1000 to me, $1000 to MisHum..."

Diversify wisely. Due diligence. Finance is the one place where "diversity" is a really and truly good thing, not just a political slogan to insult you.

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (qpX6U)

176 Had a kind of random thought for a hashtag or major nationwide political campaign.

#StealItBack

Still working on the details of exactly how that works....

Okay, got that off my chest. Think about it, though, mkay?

Posted by: mindful webworker - resembles actual human
at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (rTqAd)

177 Rich Lowry fills the intellectual and emotional gap created by John Boehner's appearance from the national stage.

He's the GenX Arlen Specter.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (B6a/Y)

178 145 That's why, even thought everything in me is screaming go to cash, I continue to leave my life savings in the stock market, as the public political battlefield now seems to dominated by the fight between the greedy corrupt fascist left and the greedy corrupt communist idealist left, the stock market may be safe for now.
Posted by: yop at January 26, 2021 10:33 PM (nqhkI)

Worldwide "they" have printed something like 12 trillion dollars in the last year. It has to go somewhere.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (Wm5SB)

179 The more Jason Vanderbrink speaks, the more of an asshole he seems.

I've got $20 that says he's voted Democrat.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (uxJPn)

180 My recent smart move... I noticed that there was pretty much a complete news blackout on Trump's Middle East peace deals, no analysis, no comments in the media. The investment community is all Dem. How did Trump do it? I think commercial appeal, Israel is world leader in science, tech, medicine, water desalination, nuclear, agriculture, the muslim states were sold on prospering through cooperation and trade. There was a news story today confirming that, the UAE is doing big things with Israel, so I pounded all my loose cash into Israeli ETFs and they're steadily up about 20%.

Posted by: yop at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (nqhkI)

181 MisHum is very talented. His landscape paintings are beautiful.
Posted by: Ladyl

He learned everything he knows from Bob Ross.
Posted by: qdpsteve


Hairstyle?

Posted by: Miklos "Clean Head" Molnar at January 26, 2021 10:39 PM (QzkSJ)

182 Any truth to the rumor that Mr. Biden had the bust of The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill removed from the White House in favor of a bust of Lord Kinnock?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 10:39 PM (7PCMN)

183 I like kicking the Russians as much as the next guy,
maybe more than the next guy. But the story on weird photos of Russian
chicks seems unremarkable to me. Several seem like people goofing off.
You could find worse photos of American chicks on social media.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 10:34 PM (H5knJ)

Yeah. Some were not bad. And honestly, what is wrong with a sturdy girl with an orthodox background and a healthy appreciation that communism sucks ass?

Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 10:39 PM (KnJdm)

184 I admit my portfolio (if I ever have one) will be heavy on tech. Tesla, NVIDIA, Uber...

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:39 PM (L2ZTs)

185 Miklos, that I can't tell ya. MisHum will NOT send me his selfies.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:39 PM (L2ZTs)

186 It wouldn't make up for all of Lindell's losses, but I can't see any reason why every single bed in every single Trump hotel and resort oughtn't have a set of My Pillows as the standard issue, throughout.

VERY disappointed in H.E.B. Don't bother writing to them, they've been infected with SJW since the mid '90s. And they'll just send your name up to the feds as a Person of Concern if you send.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 10:40 PM (QzJWU)

187 The impression I get from the "From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic" article is:

1. The people in my circle are absolute amoral, thoughtless, dissolute wretches
2. Of course all the people in my circle are leftists, because I only associate with the finest quality people on the loftiest peaks of leftist academia
3. Still haven't managed to put two and two together but I'm working on it

Posted by: hogmartin at January 26, 2021 10:40 PM (t+qrx)

188 176 Had a kind of random thought for a hashtag or major nationwide political campaign.


#StealItBack


Still working on the details of exactly how that works....


Okay, got that off my chest. Think about it, though, mkay?

Posted by: mindful webworker at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (rTqAd)

That's what the Dems did. They stole the WH back.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:40 PM (ynpvh)

189 Biden was trying to surreptitiously steal the pen. Epic Fail.

Posted by: davidt at January 26, 2021 10:41 PM (l3+k2)

190 Leaders Of Denmark And Netherlands Warn Countries Are Both Headed To Civil Wars If Rioting Isn't Contained Very Soon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 10:13 PM (63Dwl)

So I haven't seen an answer to this, and you can't really tell from the pictures, but when they say "youths" are rioting and starting cars on fire, do they mean what our newspapers mean when they say "youths" or do they mean actual, you know, just young people?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 26, 2021 10:41 PM (UPoLF)

191 That's what the Dems did. They stole the WH back.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:40 PM (ynpvh)

Steal Back Better.

Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:41 PM (S8ePJ)

192
Yep.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y2gk4vha
Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:37 PM (S8ePJ)


Dementia for certain sure.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:41 PM (TdMsT)

193 The good news is 4 out of 5 don't have STDs.

Queers make up 85% of syphilis cases and 70% of HIV cases and have higher rates of oral and anal HPV.

Don't bang a queer dude and you'll probably be alright.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:42 PM (7WitR)

194 "heavy on tech [stocks]."

I mean diversify across asset classes: stocks, cash, real estate, precious metals, maybe even (ugh) bonds. It would scare the shit out of me to be 100% stocks. Some people are 100% in stocks, and it's way margined; that's just nuts.

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:43 PM (qpX6U)

195 VERY disappointed in H.E.B. Don't bother writing to them, they've been infected with SJW since the mid '90s. And they'll just send your name up to the feds as a Person of Concern if you send.

Jim


Don't know anything about HEB. There are Krogers here.

Supermarkets generally work on very thin margins. Sounds Problematic.

Maybe they have been promised extra moneys for every EBT or WIC purchase.

Posted by: Miklos , retail economist at January 26, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)

196 Diversify wisely. Due diligence. Finance is the one place where "diversity" is a really and truly good thing, not just a political slogan to insult you.
Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (qpX6U)

Oh, now you tell me! I put my 401(k), my IRA, all my savings, and my rent check in GME today. $1000 or bust! YOLO!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 26, 2021 10:43 PM (UPoLF)

197 gp, fair enough.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (L2ZTs)

198 "I want to see see Air Force One electrified"

Start small, with the chair.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (28uvR)

199 "645,000 vehicles in the government fleet? Jesus H Fuck! does everyone get a car?"

At any one time, probably 98% parked, 25% down for repairs.
Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (qpX6U)
* * * *
That sounds like Dr. Jill math...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (rwusL)

200 Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim a

One would think 80 million of us could make companies whos political views we agree with.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (r1z5A)

201 Once again, S.F. weather disappoints. Chilly, bit of rain, not much wind.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (KAi1n)

202 I see Biden's pic in the news every day. Did he disappear? Why are people looking for him?

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (qpX6U)

203 John McMillan is a really smart and funny guy. Unlike most of the other people featured here.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (W+kMI)

204 Boscovs too,damn

Posted by: Jean at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (Xih1H)

205 178 145 That's why, even thought everything in me is screaming go to cash, I continue to leave my life savings in the stock market, as the public political battlefield now seems to dominated by the fight between the greedy corrupt fascist left and the greedy corrupt communist idealist left, the stock market may be safe for now.
Posted by: yop at January 26, 2021 10:33 PM (nqhkI)



I've concluded that right now there is nowhere to run and hide in in the financial markets. Scary.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (TdMsT)

206 Well hell.
Procreate harder!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (axyOa)

Well that makes a lot more sense than voting harder!
More fun, too!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (z79tQ)

207 , do they mean what our newspapers mean when they say "youths" or do they mean actual, you know, just young people?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes


THIS COMMENT IS HARAM!!!!

Posted by: Mullah Miklos, enturbanated at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (QzkSJ)

208 ...Don't bang a queer dude and you'll probably be alright.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:42 PM



Indeed! I've read one in five homosexual males are HIV-positive...

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (rm8S6)

209 201 Once again, S.F. weather disappoints. Chilly, bit of rain, not much wind.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (KAi1n)

Sometimes the weather is nice. I remember flying in ONCE at 6:00 a.m. and there was no fog at the airport.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (ynpvh)

210

Errr, one in five IS!

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (rm8S6)

211 "Once again, S.F. weather disappoints."

At least it's dependable.

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (qpX6U)

212 In compliment to Ms Hum's photo at the top of the thread, here's a likely candidate as to it's I.D.

From the always top notch, American Digest blog:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y44svnxa

My best writing is but a child reciting the alphabet, compared to when Gerard takes keyboard in hand.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (QzJWU)

213 Indeed! I've read one in five homosexual males are HIV-positive...

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (rm8S6)


.....

They estimate that basically every queer male over 40 has an STD.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:46 PM (7WitR)

214 Ha! The Van Halen video features assless chaps.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 26, 2021 10:38 PM (s4dNo)

Well, to be fair, Dave had an ass like a young Kiefer Sutherland.

That said, some rock bands sound like shit live.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 10:46 PM (x8Wzq)

215 Ward, Joshua Tree is in the Mojave desert in Riverside County. From what I understand, it's pretty dry and desolate.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:46 PM (L2ZTs)

216
Don't bang a queer dude and you'll probably be alright.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger


Wasn't that secret discovered in the 80s?

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 10:46 PM (r1z5A)

217 Note to self; order a pillow from MyPillow soon.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 26, 2021 10:47 PM (W+kMI)

218 Well I'm off, probably for the evening. Lots of things to take care of, mouths to feed, and so forth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 26, 2021 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

219 Indeed! I've read one in five homosexual males are HIV-positive...
Posted by: Zettai


I hope you didn't read that in something from your local Free Clinic.

Posted by: Sincerely, Miklos at January 26, 2021 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)

220 Don't know anything about HEB. There are Krogers here.

Supermarkets generally work on very thin margins. Sounds Problematic.

Maybe they have been promised extra moneys for every EBT or WIC purchase.
Posted by: Miklos , retail economist at January 26, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)

H-E-B is the grocery chain of choice in TX...if one is near you. They just got to Lubbock last October and the word on the street is that they already have land purchased for another store there. And...possibly in Amarillo as well.

But, as I noted in #110 above, Charles Butt, who has been running the show for 50 years, is a big Dem contributor.

You are right on thin margins. A supermarket has to sell $1 of groceries to make a $0.01 profit.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 10:48 PM (7PCMN)

221 dominated by the fight between the greedy corrupt fascist left and the greedy corrupt communist idealist left, the stock market may be safe for now.
Posted by: yop at January 26, 2021 10:33 PM (nqhkI)

----------

Yeah.... Everytime I get ready to flee to cash, the market does something to dissuade me.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 10:48 PM (3RlYu)

222 I continue to have my life savings in tranquilizer darts and zip-ties.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at January 26, 2021 10:36 PM (RzGcW)

--
Smart!

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 26, 2021 10:48 PM (h1jJh)

223 Note to self; order a pillow from MyPillow soon......for every liberal family member and friend as a Christmas present.

And, oops, lose the receipt.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:48 PM (7WitR)

224 "Wasn't that secret discovered in the 80s?"

Ask Fauci. Didn't he have a dog in that fight, the one that got him his first big celebrity status?

Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:49 PM (qpX6U)

225 Is anyone here old enough to remember Network with Peter Finch? I'm thinking of the scene where he went live on television, calling for people to show their anger. He wanted people to open their windows and shout "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore". I'm suggesting that rather than applauding our heroic health frontline workers, banging pots and pans, we should do as the Finch character says. How about Thursday evening at 20.00 local time?

Why?

It's simple, If enough people do this it will recruit more, more of those sitting at home worrying about the future. If pushback reaches a critical mass their response becomes our recruiting sergeant.

https://youtu.be/WINDtlPXmmE

I'm throwing this idea around the blogs I visit. It's about all a Brit can do without a second amendment.

Posted by: Andy5759 at January 26, 2021 10:49 PM (w/0Ju)

226 193
Don't bang a queer dude and you'll probably be alright.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:42 PM (7WitR)


We in the Surprise Anal Otter Union immediately revoke the membership of those who surprise queers.

Posted by: Media Relations Office, SAOU Local No. 1 at January 26, 2021 10:49 PM (AMIL/)

227 Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/yxutpoyn

https://tinyurl.com/y3wcfsvb

https://tinyurl.com/y247anxm

https://tinyurl.com/y5hx5y53

https://tinyurl.com/y5kqnb2d

Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2021 10:49 PM (qAR6u)

228 I saw a video of him trying to use a pen. It did not go well.
Posted by: AF

I sleep soundly at night knowing the most powerful man in the world can't find a fucking pen in his own hand.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 26, 2021 10:49 PM (28uvR)

229 Good evening y'all!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 26, 2021 10:49 PM (/UQ/R)

230 I think it's poetic that the #Party of Women is going to install a slag who literally slept her way to the top as the FFP. Brings a tear to your eye. Grrl Power!!!!

Posted by: ... at January 26, 2021 10:50 PM (uEbPt)

231 Any truth to the rumor that Mr. Biden had the bust of The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill removed from the White House in favor of a bust of Lord Kinnock?



==

Sofia Loren.

Posted by: runner at January 26, 2021 10:50 PM (zr5Kq)

232 Errr, one in five IS!

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM 

----

At the bathhouse, it's generally five in one.

Posted by: Barackakke at January 26, 2021 10:50 PM (ioRP+)

233 Dr Jill? Is that you?
Posted by: Splunge at January 26, 2021 10:31 PM (RzGcW)
Its Dr. Doctor Jill, the doctor!

Posted by: Jimco Industries at January 26, 2021 10:50 PM (buTO7)

234 We finally gave up. I'm still laughing.

Posted by: Ladyl

Posted by: Herr Frau Doktor vmom Staunch Demofaszi (on gab as @vm) at January 26, 2021 10:51 PM (nUhF0)

235 {{{WDS}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:51 PM (TdMsT)

236 More Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/yxlu4euy

https://tinyurl.com/yxf72twf

https://tinyurl.com/y577goav

https://tinyurl.com/y3dafba6

https://tinyurl.com/y2p8g9sc

Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2021 10:51 PM (qAR6u)

237 201 Once again, S.F. weather disappoints. Chilly, bit of rain, not much wind.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 10:44 PM (KAi1n)

Sometimes the weather is nice. I remember flying in ONCE at 6:00 a.m. and there was no fog at the airport.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Jim, you misunderstand. There should be a pounding, 40 mph wind, gusting to 70, and heavy rain at a bone-chilling 38 degrees. Maybe the forecast will improve as promised. I hope the kittehs are ok.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 10:51 PM (KAi1n)

238 Hello Horde! Our high temp today was 72. Woo Hoo! I love living in the South.

Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2021 10:52 PM (WSGpY)

239 So plastics are eeeevvvillll because they cause sterility?

Well, the abortion mills are humming so it's all good with them I guess

Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2021 10:53 PM (qAR6u)

240 I am not financially equipped to buy bricks of ammo.

I decided that I need to work on my jiu-jitsu. my boxing is going well. Need to step things up.

Also, the simple art of hitting people with heavy objects: Pick-axe handles, baseball bats, bags of oranges.

And then, then, there are knives.

*waggles eyebrows*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 10:53 PM (x8Wzq)

241 Al Pacino Approved ONT Compliance Pics


The first message from twatter is "That is not available to you"

C'est vrai, c'est dommage

Posted by: Miklos, disagreeing with Edit Piaf at January 26, 2021 10:53 PM (QzkSJ)

242 Nancy Pelosi needs to be tossed out on Congress on her ear.

Corruptocrat.

Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2021 10:53 PM (WSGpY)

243 ((( 'ettes! ))) All a' Y'all!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 10:54 PM (QzJWU)

244 "From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic." University of California-Riverside Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Ward

From a mental health perspective, Gender and Sexuality Professors look like sad, pathetic little creatures. (of indeterminate gender).

Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2021 10:54 PM (Rvt88)

245 What is in my hand, Doctor Mommy Jill?
A pen is.

Posted by: Resident Ruprecht at January 26, 2021 10:54 PM (28uvR)

246 Men and women have complained about each other since Adam and Eve argued over who ate all the apples

Of course LGBT couples have nothing but logical drama free relationships. Will and Grace told us so.

Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2021 10:55 PM (qAR6u)

247 Hubs finally found some 32's. Pity that firearm was lost in the tragic boating accident.

Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2021 10:55 PM (WSGpY)

248 {{{Jim}}}

How are you?

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:55 PM (TdMsT)

249

It snowed a bit today at the palatial Zettaibunker...

My utterly ancient snowblower threw a shear bolt on the auger, and I didn't hit anything that I know of...

Twenty-nine years old and it still starts on the first pull!

The snowblower, that is...

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 10:55 PM (rm8S6)

250 Thanks for the bragging ALH......winter reared its head today with snow all day and 15 degrees tonight

{{{{Ladyl}}}}.........my toy isn't broken anymore

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (/UQ/R)

251 I got a box of 9 mm this morning. They would only sell me one, so I have to go back every day.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (TdMsT)

252 From Babylon Bee:

"'You can reopen now!' Governor Newsom shouts at row of abandoned, dilapidated buildings"

https://tinyurl.com/y4aljas8

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (L2ZTs)

253 Also, the simple art of hitting people with heavy objects: Pick-axe handles, baseball bats, bags of oranges.

And then, then, there are knives.

*waggles eyebrows*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 10:53 PM (x8Wzq)


Nothing beats a good piece of hickory.

Posted by: Man with no Name at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (z79tQ)

254 It seems that the only way the left can keep this charade going is if most people play along.

What if a bunch of people just stopped complying with unwise, unlawful, unhelpful things that the left keeps mandating? Would we overwhelm their oppressive efforts?

Is there something we can do when the health department comes to shut down a business, or if a licensed person loses their license for wrongthink? Can't we do something?

Posted by: Emmie at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (ofYez)

255 Hi Jim!

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 26, 2021 10:58 PM (/UQ/R)

256 Hubs finally found some 32's. Pity that firearm was lost in the tragic boating accident.
Posted by: ALH

Still kicking myself for not grabbing that Ruger 327

Posted by: Jean at January 26, 2021 10:58 PM (Xih1H)

257 Without looking, any guesses on which state has the highest STD rate per 100,000?

The lowest?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (jk7Q4)

258 ..How are you?

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:55 PM (TdMsT)


Pulse is normal. Jurys still out on the brainwaves. And you, ma'am?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (QzJWU)

259 192
Yep. https://preview.tinyurl.com/y2gk4vha
Posted by: AF at January 26, 2021 10:37 PM (S8ePJ)
Dementia for certain sure.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:41 PM (TdMsT)


Things we may never see Biden do
1. Get off Air Force One, 747-variety, using stairs, from the plane's main-deck level.
2. Hold a real, honest-to-gosh press conference.

Posted by: Media Relations Office, SAOU Local No. 1 at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (AMIL/)

260 Highest STD rate = California
Lowest STD rate = Alaska

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (L2ZTs)

261 Buck up, folks, it's not all that bad.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (03n3v)

262 Nothing beats a good piece of hickory.
Posted by: Man with no Name

Or a shillelagh. Can't board a plane with them though, depending on the mood of the TSA mental defective.

Wait a minute! I don't care! I don't fly anymore.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (Rvt88)

263
{{{{Ladyl}}}}.........my toy isn't broken anymore
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (/UQ/R


Oh good!

What a relief!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (TdMsT)

264 250 Thanks for the bragging ALH......winter reared its head today with snow all day and 15 degrees tonight

Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (/UQ/R)

Dang that sounds miserable. Winter isn't over, today was a temporary reprieve. A nice surprize.

Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (WSGpY)

265 Without looking, any guesses on which state has the highest STD rate per 100,000?



The lowest?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger


Cali? Wyo?

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (r1z5A)

266 Nothing more vicious than a lesbian.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (2DOZq)

267 Nothing beats a good piece of hickory.
Posted by: Man with no Name at January 26, 2021 10:57 PM (z79tQ)

When I finally pass the age of 29, my walking stick is gonna be something beefy. None of that skinny aluminum for me. Hickory is my first choice. And it will look like Treebeard's arm.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (x8Wzq)

268 I've said it before and I'll say it again, all the non-leftists that already have been or think they might be canceled need to band together and form their own economic bloc. If all anyone does is sit around whining about these 'free' services that obviously had ulterior motives, nothing is going to change.

One of the reasons why the left has so much functional power these days is that they're willing to trade a little bit of money and comfort now in the name of The Cause and possible long-term future benefits. Conservatives and libertarians usually struggle to see anything beyond their own wallets.

Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (zcf1k)

269 246 Men and women have complained about each other since Adam and Eve argued over who ate all the apples

Posted by: kbdabear at January 26, 2021 10:55 PM (qAR6u)


Mr. Bassman is currently in the doghouse for making absolutely no effort to not share his cold with me.

Posted by: Emmie at January 26, 2021 11:01 PM (ofYez)

270 244 "From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic." University of California-Riverside Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Ward

From a mental health perspective, Gender and Sexuality Professors look like sad, pathetic little creatures. (of indeterminate gender).
Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2021 10:54 PM (Rvt8

Just as the Anti Racist movement is now destroying Race Relation, Women's Lib has destroyed the relationship between Men and Women.

Men can't act like Men, Women are not supposed to act like Women. Geeeee, wonder why everyone is unhappy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:01 PM (oHd/0)

271 Without looking, any guesses on which state has the highest STD rate per 100,000?

The lowest?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (jk7Q4)
* * * *
High - New York
Low - Wyoming

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:01 PM (rwusL)

272 WDS

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 11:01 PM (QzJWU)

273 Nothing more vicious than a lesbian.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look

They certainly seem to be an angry bunch.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:02 PM (r1z5A)

274 257 Without looking, any guesses on which state has the highest STD rate per 100,000?

The lowest?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (jk7Q4)

My guess?

New York highest
New Hampshire lowest.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 26, 2021 11:02 PM (UPoLF)

275

I'd always thought Alaska had one of the highest STD rates...

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 11:02 PM (rm8S6)

276
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:01 PM (rwusL)


Its frightening you would know...........

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:02 PM (aA3+G)

277 + 1 for Zettai.

Alaska is number 1.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:03 PM (jk7Q4)

278 258 ..How are you?

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 10:55 PM (TdMsT)

Pulse is normal. Jurys still out on the brainwaves. And you, ma'am?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (QzJWU)


I'm doing great, Jim. I had a really fun day.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 11:03 PM (TdMsT)

279 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (x8Wzq)

I keep my Grandfather's hardwood cane in the truck.

add 30 years of sword fighting?

/evil smile

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:03 PM (oHd/0)

280 Without looking, any guesses on which state has the highest STD rate per 100,000?

The lowest?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 10:59 PM (jk7Q4)

Highest would be Florida, because those seniors in the Villages are hot to trot.

Lowest would be Hawaii, because they're all stoned.

Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2021 11:03 PM (WSGpY)

281 I'll give you a hint on the lowest.

Randy Moss is from there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:04 PM (jk7Q4)

282 265: AK

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:04 PM (7PCMN)

283 273 Nothing more vicious than a lesbian.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look

They certainly seem to be an angry bunch butch.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp

FIFY

Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2021 11:04 PM (Rvt88)

284 Twitter has permanently suspended the account of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

---

Whatever, I've been assured by true conservative Jonah Goldberg that this is perfectly fine because Lindell was lying about the election being stolen.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at January 26, 2021 11:04 PM (aex00)

285 When I finally pass the age of 29, my walking stick is gonna be something beefy. None of that skinny aluminum for me. Hickory is my first choice. And it will look like Treebeard's arm.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,


Normally, we only sell to the trade, but on occasion...

Posted by: Crazy Miklos Discount Gutta-Percha Warehouse at January 26, 2021 11:05 PM (QzkSJ)

286 283 273 Nothing more vicious than a lesbian.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look

They certainly seem to be an angry bunch butch.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp

FIFY
Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2021 11:04 PM (Rvt8

I don't know. I've never seen a Happy Tranny.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:05 PM (oHd/0)

287 I keep my Grandfather's hardwood cane in the truck.

add 30 years of sword fighting?

/evil smile
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:03 PM (oHd/0)

Noice. Sword fighting is another skill-set I would like to work on.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:05 PM (x8Wzq)

288 281 I'll give you a hint on the lowest.

Randy Moss is from there.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:04 PM (jk7Q4

Minorities and homosexuals have the highest rates, and straight white people have the lowest. So i'm just guessing based on that. No idea where Randy Moss is from, but I'm guessing somewhere very white, and possibly religious.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 26, 2021 11:06 PM (UPoLF)

289 281 I'll give you a hint on the lowest.

Randy Moss is from there.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:04 PM (jk7Q4)

The Hood of W VA?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:06 PM (aA3+G)

290 Kroger can eat a truck load of dicks... i w*rked at their local chain HQ for 6 long months, and boy is the local, and chain environment toxic. i drive past their store to get to a competing chain, because i can.
Posted by: redc1c4 (Biden Cheated!) at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (tdA/m)


Whenever I see the UFCW label on the door of Kroger, I'm inclined to agree.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 11:06 PM (1uBGK)

291 Men can't act like Men, Women are not supposed to act like Women. Geeeee, wonder why everyone is unhappy.
Posted by: Romeo13

I counseled all my sons to pay attention to women at pro-life gatherings or church. At least there they have a chance.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 26, 2021 11:06 PM (Rvt88)

292 + 1 for MisHum.

West Virginia is the lowest rate.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:06 PM (jk7Q4)

293

I'd read that Miley Cyrus has objectively made the decision to adopt the homosexual lifestyle choice based on the axiomatic proposition that "tits are prettier than balls"...

Srsly!

I'll try and find a link...

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 11:07 PM (rm8S6)

294 Nothing more vicious than a lesbian.
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM (2DOZq)


Lesbian domestic abuse rates are absolutely off the charts. The only thing like it is black men with white women.

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 11:08 PM (KuDNQ)

295 + 1 for MisHum.

West Virginia is the lowest rate.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:06 PM (jk7Q4)
* * * *
They counted the sheep in Wyoming, didn't they? Dang! And I was soooo close to winning...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:09 PM (rwusL)

296 The last pic reminds me of my brother and his wife. Their son would love that. He is gonna be the next Julius Caesar, or Gaius Marius.

Also, me and my wife never coddled our two sons. Very much in the "rub some dirt into it" mindset.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:09 PM (x8Wzq)

297 Miley is in her 20s, right?

While there's never a union between the appearance of tits and balls, I think she's going to find that more than just balls are droopy and wrinkled by a certain age.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 11:10 PM (H5knJ)

298

Miley Cyrus:


https://preview.tinyurl.com/miley-cyrus-tits-balls

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 11:10 PM (rm8S6)

299 Wyoming was 5th lowest, you were on the right track.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:10 PM (jk7Q4)

300 I see Biden rubber stamped few more EO today focusing on ending racism and discrimination and systemic evilness of Americans Pretty much Obama on steroids and the Fed are going to be in everybody's business creating Utopia. Or else. I'd be interested know just who is writing and putting these things together.
I hope Never Trump Inc are the first ones sued to force diversity requirements be met and every wine mom get a low income housing project within looting distance of her suburban home.

Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2021 11:12 PM (PTDkx)

301 287 Noice. Sword fighting is another skill-set I would like to work on.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:05 PM (x8Wzq)


If you pick up a sword, make sure you get a real one that's made out of carbon steel from a reputable manufacturer. The cheap, shiny stuff you see in most stores is made out of stainless steel; they are brittle and not remotely usable as intended.

Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:12 PM (zcf1k)

302 Wyoming was 5th lowest, you were on the right track.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:10 PM (jk7Q4)
* * * *
I guess we need a hint for the highest. I thought for sure it would be California or New York.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:13 PM (rwusL)

303 Wyoming was 5th lowest, you were on the right track.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:10 PM (jk7Q4)

* * * *

I guess we need a hint for the highest. I thought for sure it would be California or New York.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:13 PM

Nevada.

Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (KnJdm)

304 It was further upthread.

Alaska is number 1.

Baltimore is the most disease riddled city.

Washington D.C. is number 17.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (jk7Q4)

305 Someone already said that Alaska was highest

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (UUBmN)

306 I see Biden rubber stamped few more EO today focusing on ending racism and discrimination and systemic evilness of Americans Pretty much Obama on steroids and the Fed are going to be in everybody's business creating Utopia. Or else. I'd be interested know just who is writing and putting these things together.
Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2021 11:12 PM (PTDkx)
* * * *
This has Obama 3.0 written all over it.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (rwusL)

307 The cheap, shiny stuff you see in most stores is made out of stainless steel; they are brittle and not remotely usable as intended.
Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:12 PM (zcf1k)

Yup. Prolly actually cheaper to buy ammo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (x8Wzq)

308 297 Miley is in her 20s, right?

While there's never a union between the appearance of tits and balls, I think she's going to find that more than just balls are droopy and wrinkled by a certain age.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 11:10 PM (H5knJ)

Billy Ray Cyrus not only inflicted bad music upon us, he inflicted his demon spawn upon us.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:15 PM (7PCMN)

309 If I had to guess the highest, I'd guess Massachusetts, because it has Bostonians, which are basically New York's feral Neanderthal cousins.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 11:15 PM (H5knJ)

310 Noice. Sword fighting is another skill-set I would like to work on.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:05 PM (x8Wzq)

I trained for a few years with the Gentleman who is the number one Rapier fighter in the world right now.

Had to give up tournaments because my elbow tendons could not take it anymore. Throwing full speed extended thrusts is like a Fast Ball pitcher throwing 100 MPH fast balls, with something a whole lot heavier.

Eventually, as you age, something gives.

My group is the Black Tigers... if you search for Black Tiger Rapier on U Tube, there's video up there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (oHd/0)

311 Wyoming was 5th lowest, you were on the right track.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:10 PM (jk7Q4)

-----------

New Jersey

Iowa

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (8ldDC)

312 Snowed today along the banks of the Willamette river. Put out extra food for the feral kitties and changed their water this afternoon. Met one of them last week on a night patrol with the grandkids. Seems like a once upon a time domesticated cat.

Posted by: Old Doc Beartooth at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (necEF)

313 305 Someone already said that Alaska was highest
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (UUBmN)

That be me, and I knew that because when I lived there...well, I heard stories. I was warned that Fairbanks in particular was bad.

In subzero weather, there ain't much to do other than drink, burn some hippie lettuce, and f***.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (7PCMN)

314 U.S. President Joe Biden committed on Monday to replacing the entire federal fleet of vehicles, including cars, trucks and SUVs, with electric ones...

********

This is fantastic and so super-duper green.

Hundreds of thousand of new vehicles - with rare earth metals mined in horrible 3rd world countries - that might last for 3 years tops before being auctioned off for nothing because the batteries are shot and no one wants them. That's not a joke. You can go to craigslist right now and find all the three to four year old $45K Nissan Leafs that you want for $10K-15K. They're worn out unknown quantities now.

Compare that to internal combustion engines that will run for decades, and which hundreds of thousands of low income families rely on and can afford.

Instead we'll build brand new vehicles for the feds every three years and throw the old ones away, and we'll do it all to save the environment.

LOVE IT

Posted by: Mr. Gray #9 at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (/BX3R)

315 Now I peeked, and it is not AK with the highest, overall.

alarms.org/ std-statistics/

Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:17 PM (KnJdm)

316 it has Bostonians, which are basically New York's feral Neanderthal cousins.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 11:15 PM



**SNORT**

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 11:17 PM (rm8S6)

317 Nevada is the go to spot for syphilis, ranking 1st.

But it comes in at a disappointing 11th overall.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:17 PM (jk7Q4)

318 Billy Ray Cyrus not only inflicted bad music upon us, he inflicted his demon spawn upon us.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:15 PM (7PCMN)

Even better. he did some kind of horrible Roadhouse movie.

yes. As featured on Rifftrax. The name escapes me, because of course.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:17 PM (x8Wzq)

319 Yup. Prolly actually cheaper to buy ammo.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (x8Wzq)

-------

ALWAYS bring a gun to a sword fight.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2021 11:18 PM (8ldDC)

320 Went to the republic of San Marino several years ago and couldn't keep count how many idiots with little ones were hanging off the edge by the tippy top of the castle thing taking selfies.
Also, you can buy guns every fifty feet or so there.
https://tinyurl.com/y6ydzqw4

Posted by: Nora at January 26, 2021 11:18 PM (nyQyG)

321 Nevada is the go to spot for syphilis, ranking 1st.

But it comes in at a disappointing 11th overall.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:17 PM (jk7Q4)


Be Better, Nevada.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 26, 2021 11:18 PM (t+qrx)

322 If you pick up a sword, make sure you get a real one that's made out of carbon steel from a reputable manufacturer. The cheap, shiny stuff you see in most stores is made out of stainless steel; they are brittle and not remotely usable as intended.
Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:12 PM (zcf1k)

Very true. I've had Rapiers I've used on the tourney circuit for years, but they were specially made.

Darkwood Armory is my go to.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:18 PM (oHd/0)

323 Billy Ray Cyrus not only inflicted bad music upon us, he inflicted his demon spawn upon us.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:15 PM (7PCMN)

His biggest hit destroyed him. His other music is rather good if you like country music.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:18 PM (2DOZq)

324 I've got a cheap mass-produced late 19th century US Army officer's dress sword hanging on the wall here, was my grampaw's, kinda pretty, lots of engraving on the blade including a big eagle.

Posted by: yop at January 26, 2021 11:18 PM (nqhkI)

325 This was the site I was looking at.

It may be wrong, it was citing the CDC, but I didn't follow the links.

https://tinyurl.com/yyzpfq2d

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:19 PM (jk7Q4)

326 I sleep soundly at night knowing the most powerful man in the world can't find a fucking pen in his own hand.

-----
Bob Dole at least is enough of a hoopy frood to always know where his pen is.

Posted by: 3 angry Irish inches at January 26, 2021 11:19 PM (nkfRj)

327 Well, I just didn't have the juice today to hand shovel 6" or so of snow we got last night. Damned if the 82nd Airborne next door didn't shovel my ass out when I wasn't looking. Case of beer incoming! I think I'll be picking up a couple MyPillows too.

Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:20 PM (+ya+t)

328 307 Yup. Prolly actually cheaper to buy ammo.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:14 PM (x8Wzq)


I haven't followed the sword game in a few years but I think you're looking at about $250 for a basic longsword or rapier, $500 for a good one, and up to a couple thousand for something really special. Japanese stuff tends to be either really cheap or really expensive, not much middle ground. Note that MSRP is usually at least 50% more than what the retailers and distributors actually sell them for.

Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (zcf1k)

329
In subzero weather, there ain't much to do other than drink, burn some hippie lettuce, and f***ish.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (7PCMN)


FIFY

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (aA3+G)

330 Went out to close the chicken door. Had a Great Horned Owl sitting in a tree about 50 feet from the coop. Dang I feel sorry for all you city folk and your silly little lattes.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * country boy through and through at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (4LWBx)

331 323 Billy Ray Cyrus not only inflicted bad music upon us, he inflicted his demon spawn upon us.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:15 PM (7PCMN)

His biggest hit destroyed him. His other music is rather good if you like country music.
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:18 PM (2DOZq)

Are you sure it's country and not western?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:22 PM (aA3+G)

332 Now I peeked, and it is not AK with the highest, overall.

alarms.org/ std-statistics/
Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:17 PM (KnJdm)
* * * *
Mississippi!! I would have never guessed.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:22 PM (rwusL)

333 Are you sure it's country and not western?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:22 PM (aA3+G)

He does both kinds.

Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:22 PM (KnJdm)

334 Mississippi!! I would have never guessed.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Hoping 4 and Praying at January 26, 2021 11:22 PM (rwusL)

As Bitter Clinger noted, his source with different methodology has AK as #1.

Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:23 PM (KnJdm)

335 330 Went out to close the chicken door. Had a Great Horned Owl sitting in a tree about 50 feet from the coop. Dang I feel sorry for all you city folk and your silly little lattes.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * country boy through and through at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (4LWBx)

That's pretty cool.

Sunday morning under a spruce tree 10' from the bird feeders was a hefty bobcat.

Hope he sticks around and thins out the pine squirrel population.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:23 PM (aA3+G)

336 Damned if the 82nd Airborne next door didn't shovel my ass out when I wasn't looking. Case of beer incoming! I think I'll be picking up a couple MyPillows too.
Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:20 PM (+ya+t)

Cool as hell. Baby brother was 82nd. Give those fookers a hooah!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 11:23 PM (x8Wzq)

337 266 Nothing more vicious than a lesbian.
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me

267 Nothing beats a good piece of hickory.
Posted by: Man with no Name

I love the juxtaposition, but you two need to figure it out.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:24 PM (KAi1n)

338 329
In subzero weather, there ain't much to do other than drink, burn some hippie lettuce, and f***ish.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (7PCMN)


FIFY
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (aA3+G)

And if it were summer, I agree! Combat fishing. Especially in the Kenai.

Wintertime, not so much. I didn't run into many ice fishermen up there.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:24 PM (7PCMN)

339 "I sleep soundly at night knowing the most powerful man in the world can't find a fucking pen in his own hand."

At least he doesn't mean Tweet. Although he would threaten to beat white racists up but can't get the Tweets to go out on his blackberry

Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2021 11:24 PM (PTDkx)

340 Are you sure it's country and not western?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:22 PM (aA3+G)


He goes both ways.

Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2021 11:25 PM (WSGpY)

341 Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (zcf1k)

Prices for anything good are skyrocketing right now. Lots of folks have been driven out of business by a combination of the cancel culture (don't you DARE say anything Conservative of the SCA Twitter Nazi's will swarm you), and the lack of shows due to the Covid shut down.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:25 PM (oHd/0)

342 He does both kinds.
Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:22 PM (KnJdm)

Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:25 PM (aA3+G)

343 Reporting for anal swab duty, Mir (Ma'am/Sir the Ma'am comes first because, you know...)

[salutes limply]

Posted by: Health Department Seaman Recruit 3rd Class Klein, Ezra at January 26, 2021 11:25 PM (S2/iO)

344 As Bitter Clinger noted, his source with different methodology has AK as #1.

Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:23 PM (KnJdm)

.....

It still had Mississippi as number two, narrowly.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:26 PM (jk7Q4)

345 315 Now I peeked, and it is not AK with the highest, overall.

alarms.org/ std-statistics/
Posted by: 4 at January 26, 2021 11:17 PM (KnJdm)

So I was close when I said NH as the lowest.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 26, 2021 11:26 PM (UPoLF)

346 I do wonder if Joe DoubleDigits actually wipes his own butt.

Really skeptical about that one.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:26 PM (i9ZF7)

347 Since we can now impeach ex-presidents, somebody please tee up Obama.

Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2021 11:26 PM (WSGpY)

348 @337 SFGoth-Is it windy in SF yet? It's blowing pretty hard here in Brentwood. Chunks of palm tree are bouncing off the side of my place right now.

Posted by: JROD at January 26, 2021 11:27 PM (0jZnq)

349 -----
Bob Dole at least is enough of a hoopy frood to always know where his pen is.
Posted by: 3 angry Irish inches at January 26, 2021 11:19 PM (nkfRj)


Love the reference. Laughing like a hyena.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 26, 2021 11:27 PM (TdMsT)

350 The site I was looking at had New Hampshire 48th

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 26, 2021 11:28 PM (jk7Q4)

351 waggles eyebrows*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Being Moar Dumber at January 26, 2021 10:53 PM (x8Wzq)


Nothing beats a good piece of hickory.
Posted by: Man with no Name

Hillbilly persuader. 14 inch piece of 3/8 automotive fuel hose filled with BB shot and plugged with 1/4 inch wooden dowel. You fold it and it fits right in your back pocket. Very efficient in persuading some miscreant to scream like a little girl.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * country boy through and through at January 26, 2021 11:28 PM (4LWBx)

352 I spent my teens in WI. Saw plenty of ice fishing. My father was into it. Freezing my ass off and not catching anything. I recall it well and not happily!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 11:29 PM (H5knJ)

353 Weather in SF is unusually cold, in the 40s and gusts of wind, intermittent rain.
I am wearing my favorite "Connecticut Crusher" felt rain hat.

Posted by: navybrat, curiously enlightened at January 26, 2021 11:29 PM (w7KSn)

354 346 I do wonder if Joe DoubleDigits actually wipes his own butt.

Really skeptical about that one.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:26 PM (i9ZF7)

Im not touchin that! I didnt do it! Fn Cornpop! One of these days Im gonna catch him in the act!

Posted by: Joe Blowout at January 26, 2021 11:29 PM (+I6Y/)

355 341 Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (zcf1k)

Prices for anything good are skyrocketing right now. Lots of folks have been driven out of business by a combination of the cancel culture (don't you DARE say anything Conservative of the SCA Twitter Nazi's will swarm you), and the lack of shows due to the Covid shut down.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:25 PM (oHd/0)


That's unfortunate. I've been eyeballing a couple of rapiers over the years but never got around to buying them. The last time I bought a bunch of swords was right before Hanwei's factory burned down and everyone's prices suddenly doubled; I've got a sinking feeling that all this money-pumping is going to cause some INSANE inflation in the next three years so I should probably see about converting some more paper into steel.

Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:29 PM (zcf1k)

356 Since we can now impeach ex-presidents, somebody please tee up Obama.
Posted by: ALH


I like that that Rep. Green has already moved to impeach Biden.

Won't go anywhere, but still.


More, please.

Posted by: Miklos, turning about and playing fair at January 26, 2021 11:30 PM (QzkSJ)

357 Nothing more vicious than a lesbian.
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:00 PM


How would you feel if you had to wear flannel AND drive a Subaru?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2021 11:30 PM (DMUuz)

358 352 I spent my teens in WI. Saw plenty of ice fishing. My father was into it. Freezing my ass off and not catching anything. I recall it well and not happily!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 26, 2021 11:29 PM (H5knJ)

That's too bad. If you are comfortable and it is possible its a hell of a fine escape in the winter.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:30 PM (aA3+G)

359 "replacing the entire federal fleet of vehicles"

maybe I could pick up one of those little post office jeeps for cheap ... upgrade from my little Mule.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2021 11:32 PM (Cus5s)

360 That's too bad. If you are comfortable and it is possible its a hell of a fine escape in the winter.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


Hamm's would still be in business if they had given away reasonably flameproof ice fishing tents

Posted by: Miklosian Post-Facto Marketing SA de CV at January 26, 2021 11:32 PM (QzkSJ)

361 San Marino also has the Torture Museum and the Arms Museum - well worth the trip up the mountain https://tinyurl.com/y2btm54r

Posted by: Nora at January 26, 2021 11:33 PM (nyQyG)

362 maybe I could pick up one of those little post office jeeps for cheap ... upgrade from my little Mule.
Posted by: illiniwek


Sell 'em to the English, what drives on the Left

Posted by: Ye Venerable Miklos at January 26, 2021 11:33 PM (QzkSJ)

363 Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:29 PM (zcf1k)

Darkwood Armory is still going, and he's an artist.

Over the years bought 4 swords and a couple of Main Gauche from him, never had anything even come close to breaking, even with really hard use. (I currently have two, Son has the other two).

Plus, he's a good Conservative guy! LOL

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:34 PM (oHd/0)

364 Especially in the Kenai.

Wintertime, not so much. I didn't run into many ice fishermen up there.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Wintertime in Alaska is when you set your sanity aside. Still never met anyone crazy enough to fish in the dark on that icey cold river. Lived on a bluff about 200 yards above the Kenai outside of Soldotna.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * country boy through and through at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (4LWBx)

365 I'd bet money that before Mumbles issued his ridiculous EO about electric vehicles, all the congressmen bought stock In GM.

It's not insider trading when they do it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (i9ZF7)

366 Heh, the Destination America channel is showing Food Paradise episodes and the one on Pizza is on now.

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (2DOZq)

367 359 "replacing the entire federal fleet of vehicles"

maybe I could pick up one of those little post office jeeps for cheap ... upgrade from my little Mule.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2021 11:32 PM (Cus5s)

ENTIRE fleet of Vehicles?

an Electric M1A2 Ahbrams Tank??? WOW!!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (oHd/0)

368 "maybe I could pick up one of those little post office jeeps for cheap..."
The ones where you drive on right hand side.

Posted by: navybrat, curiously enlightened at January 26, 2021 11:36 PM (w7KSn)

369 363 Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:29 PM (zcf1k)

Darkwood Armory is still going, and he's an artist.

Over the years bought 4 swords and a couple of Main Gauche from him, never had anything even come close to breaking, even with really hard use. (I currently have two, Son has the other two).

Plus, he's a good Conservative guy! LOL
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:34 PM (oHd/0)


Good that the Darkwood guy's still around. I think I talked to him about some custom work back in the day but never went forward with it. Seemed like a real stand-up guy.

A&A has some really eye catching stuff, but it costs a small fortune.

Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:37 PM (zcf1k)

370 Heh, the Destination America channel is showing Food Paradise episodes and the one on Pizza is on now.
Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (2DOZq)


We did pizza in the last thread.

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 26, 2021 11:38 PM (KuDNQ)

371 ..Six-Pack of Hamm's in my fridge, even now. Sixteen ounce cans, $5.50 at Kroger. Good beer? Nah, adequate at best. But, adequate will do for washing down dinner, and maybe a splash in the skillet, depending on what I'm cooking.

One beer per day please, Vasily. Only one beer.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 11:38 PM (QzJWU)

372 I want one of those Dept of Education SWAT SUVs.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:38 PM (i9ZF7)

373 Never could see a reason to ice fish, even just to drink. The bar is much warmer and the girls have less clothes on.

Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:38 PM (+ya+t)

374

The USPS "jeep" is known as an "LLV" (Long-Life Vehicle)... Made by Grumman... Last year of production is 1994... They're all literally classics now!

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 11:39 PM (rm8S6)

375 211 "Once again, S.F. weather disappoints."

At least it's dependable.

So kinda like the Human Race?

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 26, 2021 11:40 PM (rt0xh)

376 Am I to believe that the reason the post office can't pull their heads out of their asses is because they need new electric vehicles?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:40 PM (i9ZF7)

377 Did I mention the Torture Museum has a chastity belt and the "Iron Maiden" of Nuremberg?
https://tinyurl.com/y2btm54r

Posted by: Nora at January 26, 2021 11:41 PM (nyQyG)

378 Good evening, good people.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 26, 2021 11:41 PM (KATBx)

379 Wintertime in Alaska is when you set your sanity aside. Still never met anyone crazy enough to fish in the dark on that icey cold river. Lived on a bluff about 200 yards above the Kenai outside of Soldotna.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * country boy through and through at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (4LWBx)

In defense of AK winters...

I found that once the temp goes below zero, it is the best sleeping weather. Because you don't want to do much else.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:41 PM (7PCMN)

380 373 Never could see a reason to ice fish, even just to drink. The bar is much warmer and the girls have less clothes on.
Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:38 PM (+ya+t)

Spoken like a true Flatlander


Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:42 PM (aA3+G)

381 377 Did I mention the Torture Museum has a chastity belt and the "Iron Maiden" of Nuremberg?
https://tinyurl.com/y2btm54r
Posted by: Nora at January 26, 2021 11:41 PM (nyQyG)

IRON MAIDEN! EXCELLENT!!!

Posted by: Bill & Ted at January 26, 2021 11:42 PM (7PCMN)

382 Thanks for the ONT, Mis Hum.

Good evening everyone.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 26, 2021 11:42 PM (IDhUW)

383 maybe I could pick up one of those little post office jeeps for cheap ... upgrade from my little Mule.

I'd stay with the mule. Those things are beat to shit.

Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:42 PM (+ya+t)

384 Larry Kudlow to host show on Fox Business.


Hmmm

Posted by: MiklosMediaWatch at January 26, 2021 11:43 PM (QzkSJ)

385 bought a couple new guns, now I feel a need for a gun safe. For security but also it seems it is better to keep a rifle out of the humidity. They're in climate control environment, but not always low humidity. Same with that expensive ammo I guess.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2021 11:43 PM (Cus5s)

386 Am I to believe that the reason the post office
can't pull their heads out of their asses is because they need new
electric vehicles?

Posted by: AlaBAMA


Can't wait for this clusterfuck dumpster fire of an all electric fleet...Math, it sure as hell ain't for liberals.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:44 PM (r1z5A)

387 they have highlands in wisconsin? who knew? who cared ?

Posted by: santeria chicken at January 26, 2021 11:44 PM (g741k)

388 381 - chef's kiss

Posted by: Nora at January 26, 2021 11:44 PM (nyQyG)

389 376 Am I to believe that the reason the post office can't pull their heads out of their asses is because they need new electric vehicles?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:40 PM (i9ZF7)

Nope. Literacy, or the lack thereof. I keep getting mail from other addresses. I need to go to the post office and tell them they owe me several books of stamps for sorting the mail FOR them AFTER they deliver it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:44 PM (7PCMN)

390 I watched John Carpenter's "The Fog" tonight. Damn, that man had an eye, as well as a gift for pacing and presenting. And soundtrack. Not so much writing, but I guess you can't have them all.

He was a better film-maker than Christopher Nolan.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm


We watched Carpenter's "Vampire" last night. What a weird movie. Fun watching vampires burst into flame in sunlight. James Woods and one of the Baldwin brothers were in it. Woods yells at a priest and calls him obscene names. Hilarity ensues.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at January 26, 2021 11:45 PM (ZCiJZ)

391 Can't wait for this clusterfuck dumpster fire of an all electric fleet...Math, it sure as hell ain't for liberals.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:44 PM (r1z5A


Sorry. No mail today. Bob forgot to plug the car in.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:45 PM (i9ZF7)

392 Spoken like a true Flatlander

:}

Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:45 PM (+ya+t)

393 In subzero weather, there ain't much to do other than drink, burn some hippie lettuce, and f***ish.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:16 PM (7PCMN)


FIFY
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 11:21 PM (aA3+G)

I don't know nuttin bout the Alaskan Ice fishing culture, but I doubt it's like ours. No shanty cities popping up like hobo towns on the ice.

Polar bears and Grizzlies might spoil the fun.
By joining.

Posted by: Man with no Name at January 26, 2021 11:45 PM (z79tQ)

394 ENTIRE fleet of Vehicles?

an Electric M1A2 Ahbrams Tank??? WOW!!!!
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (oHd/0)

I know, right?

Posted by: Ferdinand Porsche at January 26, 2021 11:46 PM (gAFsE)

395 Never could see a reason to ice fish, even just to drink. The bar is much warmer and the girls have less clothes on.
Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:38 PM (+ya+t)

Spoken like a true Flatlander


Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


As long as the girls aren't "flatlanders"

Posted by: Miklos at the bar at January 26, 2021 11:46 PM (QzkSJ)

396 "Last year of production is 1994... They're all literally classics now!"

wow ... I'm in the country, have not seen them around. Thought they still used them in town, but maybe not.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2021 11:46 PM (Cus5s)

397 Burn some hippie lettuce? Arugula or watercress?

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:46 PM (KAi1n)

398 390 I watched John Carpenter's "The Fog" tonight. Damn, that man had an eye, as well as a gift for pacing and presenting. And soundtrack. Not so much writing, but I guess you can't have them all.

He was a better film-maker than Christopher Nolan.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

That might be fitting viewing for me tonight. The DISMAL FOG (h/t, Slayer) shrouds the house and the lad around for miles...

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:47 PM (7PCMN)

399 397 Burn some hippie lettuce? Arugula or watercress?
Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:46 PM (KAi1n)


Kale

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:47 PM (i9ZF7)

400 gotta start wearing my glasses more.

Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:47 PM (+ya+t)

401 Sorry. No mail today. Bob forgot to plug the car in.

Posted by: AlaBAMA


Do these waste of skin idiots realize there are rural areas in this nation?

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:47 PM (r1z5A)

402 401 Sorry. No mail today. Bob forgot to plug the car in.

Posted by: AlaBAMA


Do these waste of skin idiots realize there are rural areas in this nation?
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:47 PM (r1z5A)


Sir, here's your mail. Do you mind if I plug my car in?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:48 PM (i9ZF7)

403

It's "flyover country", so Air Mail?

Posted by: Zettai at January 26, 2021 11:49 PM (rm8S6)

404 Make em take mass-transit, like they want all of us to do.
Posted by: gp, CTO, Jukt Micronics at January 26, 2021 10:21 PM (qpX6U)

PLEEB, thats not how any of this works! WE get luxury vehicles, YOU get nothing

Posted by: Govt grift INC at January 26, 2021 11:49 PM (+I6Y/)

405 We watched Carpenter's "Vampire" last night. What a weird movie. Fun watching vampires burst into flame in sunlight. James Woods and one of the Baldwin brothers were in it. Woods yells at a priest and calls him obscene names. Hilarity ensues.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....Outlaw in America at January 26, 2021 11:45 PM (ZCiJZ)

Based on the book by John Steakley. The guy who wrote my favorite SciFi book , Armor. He only wrote two books .

Posted by: Mr. Meeseeks, Look at me at January 26, 2021 11:49 PM (2DOZq)

406
Is anyone here old enough to remember Network with Peter Finch? I'm thinking of the scene where he went live on television, calling for people to show their anger. He wanted people to open their windows and shout "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"

But then he got called into the office and told who was really running the world.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2021 11:50 PM (63Dwl)

407 How would you feel if you had to wear flannel AND drive a Subaru?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 26, 2021 11:30 PM (DMUuz)

Do it all the time.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 11:50 PM (z79tQ)

408 ENTIRE fleet of Vehicles?

Battery-operated P-51's!

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:50 PM (KAi1n)

409 If they sold those postal trucks at auction for stupidly cheap they would probably be great platforms for heavy customization and/or learning car stuff. Unlike regular trucks and SUVs there won't be a bunch of soccer moms compensating yuppies driving the prices up.

Posted by: CppThis at January 26, 2021 11:50 PM (zcf1k)

410 Polar bears and Grizzlies might spoil the fun.
By joining.
Posted by: Man with no Name at January 26, 2021 11:45 PM (z79tQ)

Not that time of year. Unless you tempt fate by going to a bear's den.

It's just too bloody cold. I remember well one cold, clear night where I got to see auroras for the first time (as someone who loves astronomical phenomena, I approved). My thought process was, roughly, "Wow, this is trippy. The sky is half-green. I wonder if there will be anyo other colors. You know what the temp is right now? Fucking TWENTY-FIVE BELOW. The truck better be warm. I have GOT to get out of this shit, and NOW...."

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:51 PM (7PCMN)

411 Beyond Meat and Pepsi sounds as appetizing a Lena Dunham making sexy time with Borat.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at January 26, 2021 11:51 PM (3AD8C)

412 240 I am not financially equipped to buy bricks of ammo.

Since we are talking finance too, I'm buying ammo like stocks, Dollar cost averaging

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 26, 2021 11:51 PM (rt0xh)

413 I do wonder if Joe DoubleDigits actually wipes his own butt.

Really skeptical about that one.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 26, 2021 11:26 PM (i9ZF7)

Can you imagine the masturbatory book Jill is going to write after he dies or gets the 25th across the neck?

Her, the Devoted Wife, looking on helplessly as the great man slowly slides from coherence... Doing her part to help him, as a Devoted Wife should, helping him with day to day tasks, wringing her hands about what the evil Republicans will do to this poor man, who just wanted to help his country heal from the Orange Hitler. It'll give you diabetes through the paper, she'll get a huge advance and sell 5,000 copies, and every talk show and talking head will bring her on and absolutely tongue her ass on live TV.

Posted by: Ferdinand Porsche at January 26, 2021 11:52 PM (gAFsE)

414 I would loved to have seen the Great Horned Owl. Good thing you locked up your chickens. We had a beautiful solid black cat who disappeared for a couple of days. When he returned he was covered in weeds and had a three pointed wound on his head. We figured he must have been picked up, fought back hard, and got dropped. We were glad to have him back.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 26, 2021 11:52 PM (IDhUW)

415 Do these waste of skin idiots realize there are rural areas in this nation?
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:47 PM (r1z5A)

I seriously doubt they know what "rural" means, much less seen it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:52 PM (7PCMN)

416 Off Nazi panzerbuilder sock

Posted by: Vanya at January 26, 2021 11:53 PM (gAFsE)

417 Fucking TWENTY-FIVE BELOW. The truck better be warm. I have GOT to get out of this shit, and NOW...."
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:51 PM (7PCMN)

Yeah. We get that here occasionally. Like, once a decade. snot-freezing cold.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 11:53 PM (z79tQ)

418 Army Group Center would've loved to have had 25 below zero.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:53 PM (KAi1n)

419 I thought the other thing with EVs is, they may say that it has a 300 mile range. But not if the temperature is too hot

Or to cold

Or you run the heater
Or the air conditioner

Or the lights

Posted by: Bruce at January 26, 2021 11:54 PM (vd8XM)

420 Fucking TWENTY-FIVE BELOW. The truck better be warm. I have GOT to get out of this shit, and NOW...."
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 11:51 PM (7PCMN)

Yeah. We get that here occasionally. Like, once a decade. snot-freezing cold.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 26, 2021 11:53 PM (z79tQ)

I turned my A/C on two days ago.

On the other hand... South Louisiana summer.

Posted by: Vanya at January 26, 2021 11:54 PM (gAFsE)

421 Wonder how the electric mail vehicles will handle near zero temps...wood stoves in the back to help increase mileage?

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 26, 2021 11:54 PM (+I6Y/)

422 I hope your cat was ok.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:55 PM (KAi1n)

423 If they sold those postal trucks at auction for stupidly cheap they
would probably be great platforms for heavy customization and/or
learning car stuff. Unlike regular trucks and SUVs there won't be a
bunch of soccer moms compensating yuppies driving the prices up.

They do but they're so beat up you wouldn't want one. Driven 6 days a week by people who couldn't care less might be worse than an Army jeep.

Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:55 PM (+ya+t)

424 Vanya, where are you from? Louisiana seems like an interesting place to hang around for awhile.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:57 PM (KAi1n)

425 Vanya, where are you from? Louisiana seems like an interesting place to hang around for awhile.
Posted by: SFGoth at January 26, 2021 11:57 PM (KAi1n)

Chicago. Been down here since 2008 though.

Posted by: Vanya at January 26, 2021 11:57 PM (gAFsE)

426 I never understood Ice fishing either. Just go to 7-11, fishing for it seems to be a poor allocation of time.

Posted by: Quint at January 26, 2021 11:58 PM (3BHQi)

427 Wonder how the electric mail vehicles will handle near zero temps...wood stoves in the back to help increase mileage?

Posted by: a dude in MI

Rolling black outs and an all electric fleet...what could go wrong?

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 26, 2021 11:58 PM (r1z5A)

428 I see Elliot Page is getting a divorce. Apparently his gay wife still wants to be gay.

Logic. How does it work.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 27, 2021 12:00 AM (i9ZF7)

429 Obviously, male and females are complementary. Culture decay has confused most of us. I don't think I will be able to be the same example to my children that my grandparents were to me and that makes me sad.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:00 AM (IDhUW)

430 I never understood Ice fishing either. Just go to 7-11, fishing for it seems to be a poor allocation of time.
Posted by: Quint at January 26, 2021 11:58 PM (3BHQi)

Hunting too. It is a waster of money, not time.
But that misses the whole point of it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2021 12:00 AM (z79tQ)

431 423 If they sold those postal trucks at auction for stupidly cheap they
would probably be great platforms for heavy customization and/or
learning car stuff. Unlike regular trucks and SUVs there won't be a
bunch of soccer moms compensating yuppies driving the prices up.

They do but they're so beat up you wouldn't want one. Driven 6 days a week by people who couldn't care less might be worse than an Army jeep.
Posted by: dartist at January 26, 2021 11:55 PM (+ya+t)


Depends on the price. I know a guy who's into buying absolute shitpile Jeeps for a couple hundred dollars and then fixing/modding them extensively. So, yeah, for the right price I'd consider a postal LLV as a garage project. And by right price I mean $200.

Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2021 12:00 AM (zcf1k)

432 I never understood Ice fishing either. Just go to 7-11, fishing for it seems to be a poor allocation of time.

Posted by: Quint


Wild ice is always better than that farm raised crap.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at January 27, 2021 12:02 AM (r1z5A)

433 What part? I've farted around N.O. a bit. I got stuck sitting next to a guy from Houma on a flight out once. They cut him off after 1 drink when he asked to have a female stewardess. The bayous sound interesting. But don't mess with my toot toot.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:02 AM (KAi1n)

434 I see Elliot Page is getting a divorce. Apparently his gay wife still wants to be gay.

Logic. How does it work.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 27, 2021 12:00 AM (i9ZF7)

What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:02 AM (gAFsE)

435 I'll take one of those presidential limos. And Biden gets to be dragged around in the back of a Prius.

Posted by: Ripley at January 27, 2021 12:02 AM (PTDkx)

436 I turned my A/C on two days ago.

On the other hand... South Louisiana summer.
Posted by: Vanya


A/C=Crawdad season

Posted by: Miklos "Bubba" Boudreaux at January 27, 2021 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)

437 422 I hope your cat was ok.

----
Thank you, he healed up nicely, but is now losing an eye probably because of that. But he doesn't seem to be bothered by it and seems happy enough, with a purr like a deisel engine.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:03 AM (IDhUW)

438 LOL, Hetch Hetchy wild-caught ice beats farmed and wild. Real soft and low in both natural and artificial adulterants.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:04 AM (KAi1n)

439 I was thinking $1000 for a functional one, but yeah, depends on the condition ... 30 years is pretty old for a vehicle used every day.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2021 12:04 AM (Cus5s)

440 Daughter bought a Chevy electric--Bolt? Can't remember. Said nothing, we had our discussion about advantage/disadvantage in depth earlier, but she's convinced they're sustainable.

I notice after a few months she doesn't mention ANY of the disadvantages I harped on, in fact when you ask how it's doing she just gives a tiny smile and changes the subject. I won't push, she always tells her Dad in due time.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 27, 2021 12:04 AM (KATBx)

441 I'll take one of those presidential limos. And Biden gets to be dragged around in the back of a Prius.
Posted by: Ripley at January 27, 2021 12:02 AM (PTDkx)

Yeah, I want to see the mileage limits on an up-armored electric car. Have a flatbed following behind it with an NOV generator on the back and a cable run to Presidential Prius, it'd be easier.

Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:05 AM (gAFsE)

442 I loved fishing up north for many years and there is nothing like fresh fish. I imagine a lot of people have never tasted it like seafood on the coasts. I assume it's the same for game meat.

Posted by: dartist at January 27, 2021 12:06 AM (+ya+t)

443 I pounded all my loose cash into Israeli ETFs and they're steadily up about 20%.
Posted by: yop

Interesting. Gonna look into that. Thanks yop.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * country boy through and through at January 27, 2021 12:06 AM (4LWBx)

444 But don't mess with my toot toot.
Posted by: SFGoth


Rockin' Sidney did that before Jean Knight.

But Miss Jean, whose day job was a nurse, agreed to hep me! If I ever had a heart attack right in front of the stage during "Mr. Big Stuff".

Posted by: Miklos, oh Lawd! at January 27, 2021 12:06 AM (QzkSJ)

445 Awwww. When I see kittehs missing eyes, it really saddens me. Or legs, even though I had a sweet tripod. She was inspirational.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:06 AM (KAi1n)

446 I see Elliot Page is getting a divorce. Apparently his gay wife still wants to be gay

--

Poor Elliot, married to a transphobe

Poor Mrs Page, married to a misogynist.

Posted by: vmom - Trump won! at January 27, 2021 12:07 AM (nUhF0)

447 I only know Rockin' Sidney. Who is Jean Knight?

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:07 AM (KAi1n)

448 Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:02 AM (KAi1n)

Lafayette. If you're a drunk or you work in healthcare or oil (or all three), there's a lot to do. A lot of guys come down here and don't like it, but I don't give a shit as long as people leave me alone and where I live, they do.

Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:07 AM (gAFsE)

449 > Developed by an Israeli firm called CorNeat, the KNet implant actually merges with natural human tissue,

Damned Jews are always inventing stuff like that.

Why can't they be more like the "Palestinians" and invent stuff like child-sized bomb belts and religious rules for having sex with livestock?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:08 AM (LOTm4)

450 This can't be real.

Joe Biden signed an EO banning the term China Virus.


Bwahahahahaha

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 27, 2021 12:09 AM (i9ZF7)

451 Those Postal Service Jeeps are 2 wheel drive, three speed automatic transmission facsimiles of a Real Jeep. Though engineered for long life, the suspension would be woefully inadequate for any upgrade to 4x4 for off road use.

So, upgrading a Postal Jeep would require at least a new transmission, transfer case, front differential, maybe changing steering to left side control. ALL of the suspension and brakes would have to be changed, from the frame rails down. And the interior "comforts" in those are straight up 1960s finest. The sliding doors on those are also drafty, noisy and not all that weather tight. For all that though? They work GREAT on farm & ranch as a non-road titled utility goat.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 12:10 AM (QzJWU)

452 I only know Rockin' Sidney. Who is Jean Knight?
Posted by: SFGoth

Rockin' Sidney did a kinda semi-zydeco version, produced by Jim of Jim's Rare records in New Orleans.

Miss Jean did The Unbeatable Groove

https://tinyurl.com/y6codqc7

Posted by: Miklos, many time eye and ear witness at January 27, 2021 12:11 AM (QzkSJ)

453 Joe Biden signed an EO banning the term China Virus.


Bwahahahahaha
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 27, 2021 12:09 AM (i9ZF7)

You ain't lying.

https://www.independent.co.uk/
news/world/americas/us-politics/
biden-covid-racism-china-virus-b1792937.html

Remove spaces. At this point I'm beginning to actively root for the Debt Bomb.

Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:11 AM (gAFsE)

454 actual headline from NBC in New York. "Biden's Commerce pick, Raimondo, Voices Tough Line on China"

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:11 AM (3BHQi)

455 We Jews do have religious rules for having sex with livestock: Don't have sex with livestock.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:13 AM (KAi1n)

456 At a game processing business, they had a funny blurb about game vs beef with the premise that if you chased a cow thru the woods, shot it, dragged it home, cut it up on the table in the garage.....well, it'll taste like venison.

Obviously not true, but humorous.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:13 AM (IDhUW)

457 290 Kroger can eat a truck load of dicks... i w*rked at their local chain HQ for 6 long months, and boy is the local, and chain environment toxic. i drive past their store to get to a competing chain, because i can.
Posted by: redc1c4 (Biden Cheated!) at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (tdA/m)

Whenever I see the UFCW label on the door of Kroger, I'm inclined to agree.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at January 26, 2021 11:06 PM (1uBGK)

Yep I was agnostic on Unions until I worked for Kroger and saw how useless and self-serving the Union folk are. Didn't care at all about the rank & file.

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 27, 2021 12:13 AM (rt0xh)

458 I see Elliot Page is getting a divorce. Apparently his gay wife still wants to be gay
Poor Elliot, married to a transphobe
Poor Mrs Page, married to a misogynist.
Posted by: vmom

I, too, will welcome our alien overlords when they invade. There's no way they would have mastered interstellar travel if they were mired in this sort of idiocy.

Posted by: Resident Ruprecht at January 27, 2021 12:14 AM (28uvR)

459 So, upgrading a Postal Jeep would require at least a new transmission, transfer case, front differential, maybe changing steering to left side control. ALL of the suspension and brakes would have to be changed, from the frame rails down


AOP calls that "Tuesday"

Posted by: Miklos, back in the shop at January 27, 2021 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)

460 > We Jews do have religious rules for having sex with livestock: Don't have sex with livestock.

Hate has no home here!

Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Zoophile at January 27, 2021 12:15 AM (LOTm4)

461 I posted earlier that I will never understand why Obama didn't order 100,000 Chevy Volts when the government owned GM. Back in the early 80s, government motor pools were full of K-cars the GSA bought when we were bailing out Chrysler. I guess the Obama Administration was run by kids with no historical memory and whoever was in charge of GM was no Lee Iacocca.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:15 AM (BMmaB)

462 ENTIRE fleet of Vehicles?

an Electric M1A2 Ahbrams Tank??? WOW!!!!
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 26, 2021 11:35 PM (oHd/0)

I know, right?
Posted by: Ferdinand Porsche

I got to test a hybrid electric M113 - I would have taken it over the early M2s

Posted by: Jean at January 27, 2021 12:16 AM (Xih1H)

463 actual headline from NBC in New York. "Biden's Commerce pick, Raimondo, Voices Tough Line on China"

It's nice to see one of our trolls graduate to greater things.

Posted by: Methos at January 27, 2021 12:16 AM (kOpft)

464 Thank you, he healed up nicely, but is now losing an eye probably because of that. But he doesn't seem to be bothered by it and seems happy enough, with a purr like a deisel engine.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:03 AM (IDhUW)

Having survived that, every day is free and he knows it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2021 12:16 AM (z79tQ)

465 actual headline from NBC in New York. "Biden's Commerce pick, Raimondo, Voices Tough Line on China"
Posted by: Quint

No line is too tough for me!

Posted by: Hunter Biden, purveyor of familial poon at January 27, 2021 12:17 AM (28uvR)

466 Something tells me I'm gonna regret asking this, but should I know who "Elliott Page" is?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:17 AM (LOTm4)

467 ..AOP calls that "Tuesday"

Posted by: Miklos, back in the shop at January 27, 2021 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)


Pity, Panhard never made a Jeep. AOP would make it.. elegant!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 12:17 AM (QzJWU)

468 466 Something tells me I'm gonna regret asking this, but should I know who "Elliott Page" is?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:17 AM (LOTm4


He played a goblin in LOTR Two Towers

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 27, 2021 12:18 AM (i9ZF7)

469 At a game processing business, they had a funny
blurb about game vs beef with the premise that if you chased a cow thru
the woods, shot it, dragged it home, cut it up on the table in the
garage.....well, it'll taste like venison.



Obviously not true, but humorous.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:13 AM (IDhUW)

most of the grass fed stuff is pretty gamey. It also has little to know marbling. To each his own, but the grass fed beef I see at the store is often discounted.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:18 AM (3BHQi)

470 450 This can't be real.

Joe Biden signed an EO banning the term China Virus.


Bwahahahahaha
------
Made me laugh too until I was reminded that China forbade mention of Winnie the Pooh (who dear leader resembles) and outlawed sarcasm.

We have the right to free speech. That is an unconstitutional eo, not that that matters much at the moment.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:18 AM (IDhUW)

471 Kroger can eat a truck load of dicks... i w*rked at their local chain HQ for 6 long months, and boy is the local, and chain environment toxic. i drive past their store to get to a competing chain, because i can.
Posted by: redc1c4 (Biden Cheated!) at January 26, 2021 10:35 PM (tdA/m)

I've noted this before, but one of the best lessons I learned as a young lad was the value of unions. In this case, the unions drove Kroger from San Antonio and Austin.

See, back around late 1992/early 1993 the chain had stores in both cities. H-E-B was squeezing them pretty good in terms of competition. Kroger decided to talk to the unions about wage freezes/cuts, until such time that the situation improved. And most of the unions, seeing the writing on the wall and not wanting to commit business suicide, signed on. All, that is, but the meat cutters. They would not budge and decided to take the adversarial approach to Kroger. They didn't strike, but they flat refused to do anything to help the situation because Kroger is evl and greedy, you see.

So, after some months of this, Kroger just said "fuckit" and had all their stores closed. By the end of August 1993, they left the area.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:18 AM (7PCMN)

472 Something tells me I'm gonna regret asking this, but should I know who "Elliott Page" is?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:17 AM (LOTm4)

The pixie lesbian actress Ellen Page, who recently declared that she was actually a man, to the expected oohs and aahs from the Herd of Independent Minds in the media. However, this makes things weird because s/he is married to a woman.

Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:18 AM (gAFsE)

473 Something tells me I'm gonna regret asking this, but should I know who "Elliott Page" is?

Ellen Page, but desperate for attention.

Posted by: Methos at January 27, 2021 12:18 AM (kOpft)

474 > AOP calls that "Tuesday"

Indeed. He probably even has all the parts on hand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:19 AM (LOTm4)

475 This digestive longevity leads Li and other experts to believe that anal swabs may be more effective.

"watch deez dumb woundeyes take it up de ass becowz dey fear dee viwus!"

Posted by: CCP at January 27, 2021 12:19 AM (sAW0o)

476 actual headline from NBC in New York. "Biden's Commerce pick, Raimondo, Voices Tough Line on China"
Posted by: Quint

Unlike Ace's earlier thread which used Obama and moral compass in the same sentence, this I believe. Raimondo's posts do occasionally sound like there is a tinge of MBA in them.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * country boy through and through at January 27, 2021 12:19 AM (4LWBx)

477 461 I posted earlier that I will never understand why Obama didn't order 100,000 Chevy Volts when the government owned GM. Back in the early 80s, government motor pools were full of K-cars the GSA bought when we were bailing out Chrysler. I guess the Obama Administration was run by kids with no historical memory and whoever was in charge of GM was no Lee Iacocca.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:15 AM (BMmaB)

History? Leftists?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:20 AM (7PCMN)

478 I have a "step doggie" (not my dog but sometimes it is my dog) He lost a leg in a car incident, so now he has 3 legs, missing his rear right leg.
He is happy as a clam. He has no idea he is in any way diminished.

Posted by: navybrat, curiously enlightened at January 27, 2021 12:20 AM (w7KSn)

479 They work GREAT on farm ranch as a non-road titled utility goat.



My place isn't huge, but my knee currently makes long walks painful ... 2 wheel drive would work fine most of the time, especially on frozen ground. But my truck works fine for that too, so don't need another vehicle to fix, unless it was a deal.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2021 12:20 AM (Cus5s)

480 Ah, that Juno chick. Okay, I was worried it might be someone important.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:20 AM (LOTm4)

481 4chan is ruining a hedge fund that shorted GameStop.

Gotta love it.

Posted by: Golfman at January 27, 2021 12:20 AM (YHZjL)

482 Something tells me I'm gonna regret asking this, but should I know who "Elliott Page" is?


Formerly "Ellen" should tell you all you need to know.

Posted by: dartist at January 27, 2021 12:21 AM (+ya+t)

483 I, too, will welcome our alien overlords when they invade. There's no way they would have mastered interstellar travel if they were mired in this sort of idiocy.
Posted by: Resident Ruprecht at January 27, 2021 12:14 AM (28uvR)

I have believed for a long time that the idiocy -- the diversity mandates, the sustainability goals, the mentally ill who don't know which bathroom to use -- is a sign that we are such an affluent society that we can afford to tolerate this kind of frivolity. So a little bit of it is something to be celebrated: Hey, look at how rich we are, we can pay this idiot to spout ridiculous nonsense in the classroom and publish nonsense in academic journals. But at some point, the inmates took charge of the asylum. We need some hard times to straighten society out.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:21 AM (BMmaB)

484 461 I posted earlier that I will never understand why Obama didn't order 100,000 Chevy Volts when the government owned GM. Back in the early 80s, government motor pools were full of K-cars the GSA bought when we were bailing out Chrysler. I guess the Obama Administration was run by kids with no historical memory and whoever was in charge of GM was no Lee Iacocca.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:15 AM (BMmaB)


Because, stupid as they are, even they probably realized they didn't want 100,000 electric cars made by GM.

Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:21 AM (gAFsE)

485 I'm not rural and pretty sure we've got Horned Owls here, certain in fact. Huge suckers. They rotate between different tall vantage points, telephone poles, etc. on different nights. Love their hooting, but love that they're out there predating rats and mice even more.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:21 AM (OTzUX)

486 Pity, Panhard never made a Jeep. AOP would make it.. elegant!

Jim
Well, Panhard made this.

AOP may be doing deep OPSEC

https://tinyurl.com/y3nqr25e

Posted by: Miklos,, thinking a "Tecnical" needs a four man crew at January 27, 2021 12:22 AM (QzkSJ)

487 History? Leftists?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:20 AM (7PCMN)

That was like two years ago, dude!

Posted by: Tommy Vietor at January 27, 2021 12:22 AM (BMmaB)

488 > 481 4chan is ruining a hedge fund that shorted GameStop.

Yeah, I've been enjoying following that.

"We can remain retarded longer than you can remain solvent."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:22 AM (LOTm4)

489 Something tells me I'm gonna regret asking this, but should I know who "Elliott Page" is?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Dime-a-dozen carpet munching actress graduating to fully-insane addadicktome.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, purveyor of familial poon at January 27, 2021 12:23 AM (28uvR)

490 484 461 I posted earlier that I will never understand why Obama didn't order 100,000 Chevy Volts when the government owned GM. Back in the early 80s, government motor pools were full of K-cars the GSA bought when we were bailing out Chrysler. I guess the Obama Administration was run by kids with no historical memory and whoever was in charge of GM was no Lee Iacocca.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:15 AM (BMmaB)

Because, stupid as they are, even they probably realized they didn't want 100,000 electric cars made by GM.
Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:21 AM (gAFsE)

Yeah, but STIMULUS!!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:23 AM (BMmaB)

491 Yep I was agnostic on Unions until I worked for Kroger and saw how useless and self-serving the Union folk are. Didn't care at all about the rank & file.
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 27, 2021 12:13 AM (rt0xh)

Indeed. As far as I am concerned the unions ran Kroger out of San Antonio (see #471) and showed me to be absolutely worthless. In taking an adversarial stance against Kroger, they coughed up the union dues paid for by the labor they "represented". This was a big lesson for me and has colored how I see unions since.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:23 AM (7PCMN)

492 481 4chan is ruining a hedge fund that shorted GameStop.

Gotta love it.
Posted by: Golfman at January 27, 2021 12:20 AM (YHZjL)

One must not anger the 4chan

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 27, 2021 12:24 AM (+I6Y/)

493 I learn so much here.

*Sobs*

*changes name to "Ellen" on resume*

Posted by: Miklos, turnin' his life around at January 27, 2021 12:24 AM (QzkSJ)

494 That was like two years ago, dude!
Posted by: Tommy Vietor at January 27, 2021 12:22 AM (BMmaB)

"Yeah, but history is, like, in the past, man!"

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:24 AM (7PCMN)

495 So the quote above from the Vista Outdoors guy was saying limp demand (at least no panics) during the Trump years left the industry under-capacity?

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:24 AM (OTzUX)

496 Something tells me I'm gonna regret asking this, but should I know who "Elliott Page" is?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:17 AM (LOTm4)


A one time young cute actress who came out as a dyke but is now a dude or something.

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 27, 2021 12:26 AM (KuDNQ)

497 481 4chan is ruining a hedge fund that shorted GameStop.

Gotta love it.
Posted by: Golfman at Janu

We made out like bandits today with that stock. We bought our son some shares a long time ago and we bought ourselves 500 shares. My son told us about it Friday and we sold the shares at 120. If he wouldn't have told us we wouldn't have known to sell our shares.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 27, 2021 12:27 AM (MYL08)

498 We need some hard times to straighten society out.
Posted by: Caesar North

The pointy edge of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs will cut a bitch!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 27, 2021 12:27 AM (28uvR)

499 A one time young cute actress who came out as a dyke but is now a dude or something.
Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 27, 2021 12:26 AM (KuDNQ)

Lesbian wife hardest hit.

Posted by: Golfman at January 27, 2021 12:27 AM (hOMhY)

500 Yep I was agnostic on Unions until I worked for Kroger and saw how useless and self-serving the Union folk are. Didn't care at all about the rank & file.
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 27, 2021 12:13 AM


You should have been (forced to) be a member of the Communications Workers of America like I was. Nightmare.

Posted by: CCP at January 27, 2021 12:27 AM (sAW0o)

501 Off, DementiaJoe sock

Posted by: Bert G at January 27, 2021 12:28 AM (sAW0o)

502 Having survived that, every day is free and he knows it.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 27, 2021 12:16 AM (z79tQ)

Nice observation, thanks.

We, too, should live free.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:28 AM (IDhUW)

503 "All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management."

Posted by: Miklos Delano Roosevelt at January 27, 2021 12:28 AM (QzkSJ)

504 I have believed for a long time that the idiocy -- the diversity
mandates, the sustainability goals, the mentally ill who don't know
which bathroom to use -- is a sign that we are such an affluent society
that we can afford to tolerate this kind of frivolity. So a little bit
of it is something to be celebrated: Hey, look at how rich we are, we
can pay this idiot to spout ridiculous nonsense in the classroom and
publish nonsense in academic journals. But at some point, the inmates
took charge of the asylum. We need some hard times to straighten society
out.

I think you are exactly right. It's going to have to suck for awhile to straighten this shit out if it doesn't change.

Posted by: dartist at January 27, 2021 12:29 AM (+ya+t)

505 More accurately, "off DementiaJoe's Master's sock".

Posted by: Bert G at January 27, 2021 12:30 AM (sAW0o)

506 Ah geez. Story from Fox5 San Diego:

Audit: Millions may have to repay California jobless aid

"A new audit says California's unemployment agency might have overpaid millions of people since March.

The report from California State Auditor Elaine Howle says the state stopped enforcing some eligibility rules so they could process claims faster. The result is up to 4.1 million claimants could have to repay some or all of the unemployment benefits they got during the pandemic."


This state is too stupid to live.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 27, 2021 12:30 AM (L2ZTs)

507 493 I learn so much here.

*Sobs*

*changes name to "Ellen" on resume*
Posted by: Miklos, turnin' his life around at January 27, 2021 12:24 AM (QzkSJ)

Don't even think about it Miklos.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:31 AM (IDhUW)

508
We need some hard times to straighten society out.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon


Happy days are here again. An impossible chicken in every pot.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 27, 2021 12:31 AM (63Dwl)

509 wow ... I'm in the country, have not seen them around. Thought they still used them in town, but maybe not.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2021 11:46 PM (Cus5s)

If your area is like mine, the USPS uses contracted vehicles. In my case I typically see a Suburban with a flashing light mounted on it, with U.S. MAIL placards on it. That's how the mail gets to me. The mail vehicles with the right hand steering columns? You'll see those in towns and cities.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:31 AM (7PCMN)

510 Ace's earlier thread which used Obama and moral compass in the same sentence
Posted by: Sock Monkey

lose the "m" and "comp" in "moral compass" and all is right with the world again.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (28uvR)

511 GME was well over 2 bills after hours. What might come tomorrow is anyone's guess. I have an idea but wont say it here. I don''t even like recommending blue chips as there is nothing to gain from it. The GME situation is one to watch and if someone wants to gamble, then, they can do so.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (3BHQi)

512 > . The result is up to 4.1 million claimants could have to repay

Yeah, good luck collecting that, Elaine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (LOTm4)

513 This state is too stupid to live.
Posted by: qdpsteve at Januar

People have quit working for me and then applied for unemployment and we fight it, they still get unemployment. Our state is stupid and poorly managed. It happens all the time.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (MYL08)

514 You should have been (forced to) be a member of the Communications Workers of America like I was. Nightmare.
Posted by: CCP


I was a temporary member of SAG when I was an extra in a terrible movie.

Never really got to see Phoebe Cates neither (nor her nethers).

Posted by: Miklos, somewhere in the background of one scene in "Shag" at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (QzkSJ)

515 Love..is a burning thing...

I heard that in my head as the Zappa version.

Posted by: Bosk at January 27, 2021 12:33 AM (lDdRA)

516 CaliGirl, yup. It's ridiculous.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 27, 2021 12:33 AM (L2ZTs)

517 The result is up to 4.1 million claimants could have to repay

Yeah, good luck collecting that, Elaine.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


TWO DOLLARS

Posted by: Better Off Miklos at January 27, 2021 12:33 AM (QzkSJ)

518 I have believed for a long time that the idiocy -- the diversity mandates, the sustainability goals, the mentally ill who don't know which bathroom to use -- is a sign that we are such an affluent society that we can afford to tolerate this kind of frivolity. So a little bit of it is something to be celebrated: Hey, look at how rich we are, we can pay this idiot to spout ridiculous nonsense in the classroom and publish nonsense in academic journals. But at some point, the inmates took charge of the asylum. We need some hard times to straighten society out.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:21 AM (BMmaB)

Mr. Limbaugh put it best when he said we have to invent our crises.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:33 AM (7PCMN)

519 The mail vehicles with the right hand steering columns? You'll see those in towns and cities.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 27, 2021 12:31 AM (7PCMN)

And amazingly, they all sound the same

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 27, 2021 12:34 AM (+I6Y/)

520 "Hard times" probably won't "straighten society out", I don't think. Look at this in detail.

"Diversity" = racist tokenism and nose-counting by skin color and substituting this for the literal basis of our society and civic culture, the individual.

"Transgender" nonsense involves a tiny invisible sliver of the populace, and is just indulging mental illness, or, indulging individual choice far far beyond the civilized norms everyone else lives by.

A stagnant economy like we will now have thanks to, inter alia, the idiocy of the American people, the collapse of the country's institutions, and the uselessness of the GOP won't put any dent in any of this. Instead, whereas Trump was a pause and a chance at recovery towards decency and sanity (barring "critical race theory" crackpot racist indoctrination, for example), that's now gone, and Obama's 3rd term/Hillary's first term (what we have now) is extremely unlikely to see the lazy shiftless approach to some of these toxic attacks on a healthy society of Obama's first 2 terms.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:35 AM (OTzUX)

521 Yeah, I'm too cowardly to buy any, but I'm amused at the thought of the hedge funds being down $5 billion from selling it short, all because of a bunch of ZFG types on 4chan and Reddit.

"He who sells what isn't his'n,
Must buy it back or go to prison."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:36 AM (LOTm4)

522 Don't even think about it Miklos.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel


Gummint jobs pay more, great benefits, and all Remote Work (apparently Yucatan is included) 'cause Joe sez.

One must consider.

Posted by: Don Mikloso de Yucatan at January 27, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)

523 recommending blue chips as there is nothing to gain from it. The GME situation is one to watch and if someone wants to gamble, then, they can do so.
Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (3BHQi)

My husband had a theory but I'm just happy took the money and ran.
I read what they were doing in some article. I'm just glad our boy told us. He sold his shares too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 27, 2021 12:36 AM (MYL08)

524 extremely unlikely to see the lazy shiftless approach to some of these toxic attacks on a healthy society of Obama's first 2 terms.
Posted by: rhomboid


I can do lazy and shiftless

*checks hammock prices on Amazon*

Posted by: Don Mikloso de Galtieri at January 27, 2021 12:37 AM (QzkSJ)

525 I worked for the USPS Rural Delivery and one of the requirements for the job was to be able to drive from the passenger side and be tested for it, lol. I think they required you own a van too iirc.

Posted by: dartist at January 27, 2021 12:38 AM (+ya+t)

526 My best writing is but a child reciting the alphabet, compared to when Gerard takes keyboard in hand.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 26, 2021 10:45 PM (QzJWU)

According to Tineye, it's a photo of Mt. Robson in British Columbia, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. That would be the upper reaches of the Fraser River, I think. I have driven past it many times, seen it a few times. Very often shrouded in clouds, it is.

IIRC, 12,972 feet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 12:38 AM (mzC78)

527 Well I haven't gotten $hit even though I made $3,500 last year.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:39 AM (KAi1n)

528 He who sells what isn't his'n,
Must buy it back or go to prison."



when we were going through our training the instructor when your uncovered shorts go bad it is time to open the window and think about your future.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:39 AM (4Jold)

529 recommending blue chips as there is nothing to gain
from it. The GME situation is one to watch and if someone wants to
gamble, then, they can do so.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (3BHQi)



My husband had a theory but I'm just happy took the money and ran.

I read what they were doing in some article. I'm just glad our boy told us. He sold his shares too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 27, 2021 12:36 AM (MYL0

smart move imo. It is not investing at this point. If people want to do this, fine, they can do so. I do think you did the right thing because you got out ahead. Unless it is throw away money, which it rarely is, then for sure you did well and can find a better place to invest it.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:40 AM (3BHQi)

530 in fairness, this is the stupidest market since tulips

or

since I got in a bidding war over a a strpr with my best friend.
we were hammered.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:41 AM (4Jold)

531 when we were going through our training the instructor when your uncovered shorts go bad it is time to open the window and think about your future.
Posted by: confederatefifth


Nonsense

Posted by: First Bank of Miklos (Macao) at January 27, 2021 12:41 AM (QzkSJ)

532 Isn't the (reasonably) estimated *fraud* in CA worker's comp equal to the national budgets of mid-sized European countries? All by itself?

A friend with legit issues was in it for a while, and was stunned at the waste and abuse, from every angle (not just beneficiaries). Vendors, agencies, everybody - always trying to "up sell" him to buy more/take more assistance.

It's so bad that they put up billboard ads with a tip-line number for fraud. Think about that for a second. A sub-mediocre, corrupt, stupid, ineffective, unprofessional "government" like CA has *advertising* for tips on fraud. THAT is how bad it is.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:41 AM (OTzUX)

533 BTW, Biden didn't outlaw general use of "Chinese ...." He forbade federal agencies from referring to it in that manner. Anyone who has any connection to a federal agency....

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 12:42 AM (KAi1n)

534 Nonsense
Posted by: First Bank of





Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:42 AM (4Jold)

535 The GME situation is one to watch and if someone wants to gamble, then, they can do so.
Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:32 AM (3BHQi)

So now is the time to short.

Posted by: Golfman at January 27, 2021 12:43 AM (hOMhY)

536 since I got in a bidding war over a a strpr with my best friend.
we were hammered.
Posted by: confederatefifth


I don;t know what a strpr might be, but I read it as "Stupor".


I can understand that much.

Posted by: Miklos, thinking Greek Philosophers (no homo) at January 27, 2021 12:43 AM (QzkSJ)

537 this is definitely a markt for trading not for holding.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:43 AM (4Jold)

538 "It really looks like straight men and women don't like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny," or woman-hating behavior. From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic." University of California-Riverside Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Ward

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

I've known a lot of lesbians. Many of them hate men far more than any straight woman I've ever met. The same goes for gay men hating women.

But most of all they have contempt for each other. Lesbians look down on gay men and gay men laugh at lesbians. There's no such thing as an LGBT "Community," it's nothing but PR.

This whole "tolerant, well adjusted homosexual" thing is a myth. I've never seen more domestic abuse, drunk driving, racism, alcoholism, drug abuse and just general disfunction then when I was hanging out with my gay friends and their friends.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 27, 2021 12:44 AM (BJKQV)

539 AOP, thanks! We're truly blessed with beautiful vistas in these lands. Pity schlubs like Dementia Joe are busily selling 'em out to the enemy, right from under our feet.

I'll self edit at this point.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 12:45 AM (QzJWU)

540 A stagnant economy like we will now have thanks to, inter alia, the idiocy of the American people, the collapse of the country's institutions, and the uselessness of the GOP won't put any dent in any of this. Instead, whereas Trump was a pause and a chance at recovery towards decency and sanity (barring "critical race theory" crackpot racist indoctrination, for example), that's now gone, and Obama's 3rd term/Hillary's first term (what we have now) is extremely unlikely to see the lazy shiftless approach to some of these toxic attacks on a healthy society of Obama's first 2 terms.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:35 AM (OTzUX)


Well let's look at the bright side.

Posted by: Toy Cannon at January 27, 2021 12:45 AM (KuDNQ)

541 hey can do so. I do think you did the right thing because you got out ahead. Unless it is throw away money, which it rarely is, then for sure you did well and can find a better place to invest it.
Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:40 AM (3BHQi)

I think so too, my husband had some theory and I told him just take the money and run. We had more shares of that in another account and my husband got rid of it in December and he's kicking himself now. But oh well. We buy our kids stock on their birthday and one of our kids wanted that stock years ago. He did well with that pick today.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 27, 2021 12:45 AM (MYL08)

542 > So now is the time to short.

Maybe, but see above. "We can remain retarded longer than you can remain solvent."

These are a bunch of basement-dwelling autists playing with their fast food paychecks.

The thing is, there are a LOT of them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:46 AM (LOTm4)

543 I heard that the rest of the Union gets to pay for the California homeless in hotels. Must be nice to live in a world without consequences. /s

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:46 AM (IDhUW)

544 The resizing/decapping of the 30-06 brass has become onerous. Just too much of it.

Wondering if I should think outside the box.

Would a church or NGO give me a grant to employ an illegal to do it for me? Unskilled labor, process can be taught in 5 minutes.

Some kind of "Compassion Grant". The Church/churches are just so bursting with compassion, and $$, that it seems natural they'd be interested. No need to explain the connection to Evil Gunzzz.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:47 AM (OTzUX)

545 BTW, Biden didn't outlaw general use of "Chinese ...." He forbade federal agencies from referring to it in that manner. Anyone who has any connection to a federal agency....
Posted by: SFGoth


I nominate Flip Wilson as Presiding Judge Plenipotentiary

https://tinyurl.com/yyj4ht5p

Posted by: Miklos, with Earnestine on the Joo-ry at January 27, 2021 12:47 AM (QzkSJ)

546 These are a bunch of basement-dwelling autists playing with their fast food paychecks.

The thing is, there are a LOT of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:46 AM (LOTm4)

Heh. Apparently Friday's are the big day of the week. Calls made on Fridays?

Posted by: Golfman at January 27, 2021 12:48 AM (hOMhY)

547 ince I got in a bidding war over a a strpr with my best friend.
we were hammered.
Posted by: confederatefifth


I don;t know what a strpr might be, but I read it as "Stupor".


I can understand that much.
Posted by: Miklos, thinking G

girl what swings around sans garments

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:48 AM (4Jold)

548 This 4chan business gives me the warm fuzzies. You go, nerds.

Nevermind that something like this could f up my investments. Still smiling.

Posted by: Funsize at January 27, 2021 12:48 AM (EiPf6)

549 So, I told DH that once Murkowski gets her ERA passed, he will be able to win all the ladies' bowling championships.

He smiled a little bit.

Then he asked if he had to wear lipstick. I said no. The ladies don't do that, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at January 27, 2021 12:50 AM (qQnCr)

550 rhomboid, wasn't it Washington State that had their unemployment raided for millions by Nigerians on the internet? It could be worse.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:50 AM (BMmaB)

551 rhomboid, wasn't it Washington State that had their unemployment raided for millions by Nigerians on the internet?


rather the nigerians get it

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:51 AM (4Jold)

552 girl what swings around sans garments
Posted by: confederatefifth


???


Oh.

Gar-monts


Ooo la La!

Posted by: Mikleuse, dancing a Can-Can, but not so you can see it, because I am Kind at January 27, 2021 12:51 AM (QzkSJ)

553 rather the nigerians get it
Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:51 AM (4Jold)

Modalities and all

Posted by: Golfman at January 27, 2021 12:51 AM (hOMhY)

554 rather the nigerians get it
Posted by: confederatefifth


dammit dammit

What's Nigerian for "Ellen"?

Help a poor girl out.

Posted by: Mikl....(TBD) at January 27, 2021 12:52 AM (QzkSJ)

555 I was a temporary member of SAG when I was an extra in a terrible movie.
-----
Soldiers Against Government?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (IDhUW)

556 Maybe, but see above. "We can remain retarded longer than you can remain solvent."

These are a bunch of basement-dwelling autists playing with their fast food paychecks.

The thing is, there are a LOT of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:46 AM (LOTm4)

543 I heard that the rest of the Union gets to pay for the California homeless in hotels. Must be nice to live in a world without consequences. /s
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:46 AM (IDhUW)

Ironic to see the juxtaposition of these two posts. Are the American people the solvent ones and the California government the retarded ones? Or are they geniuses for getting us to pay for the hotels for their homeless?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (BMmaB)

557 AKestrel, that's one of the many important items on the list of catastrophes the country just inflicted on itself.

The disastrous vandalism and incompetence of "blue" states (and some red) for the C19 situation will now never have *any* day of reckoning, politically, or financially. Or substantively - ditto for the federal clownshow. CDC, a clown car lashed to a flat car of a train on fire and plunging off the tracks - no accountability. Nothing.

People like to comfort themselves with all kinds of marginal or imagined silver linings, but the last year of stupefying collapse in just about everything worthwhile in America now gets a free pass, an endorsement, a subsidy, a pay-day. And that's leaving aside the Zimbabwe-ization of the country in terms of election process, and the degradation of the ongoing lynch mob disgrace.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (OTzUX)

558 But oh well. We buy our kids stock on their birthday
and one of our kids wanted that stock years ago. He did well with that
pick today.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 27, 2021 12:45 AM (MYL0

very nice. If parents did that fifty or sixty years ago, that could have changed some lives. It is pretty interesting how widespread stock ownership is a fairly recent thing in this country.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (3BHQi)

559 This whole "tolerant, well adjusted homosexual" thing is a myth. I've never seen more domestic abuse, drunk driving, racism, alcoholism, drug abuse and just general disfunction then when I was hanging out with my gay friends and their friends.
Posted by: 29Victor at January 27, 2021 12:44 AM (BJKQV)


Well, now they have divorce, which they use frequently, and then there's the kids they get via turkey baster. They are just accessories who get discarded when sista wants to find another scissor pal.

What I see in the homosexual community is self-hate, manifested as women-hating, men-hating, and general abuse of everyone and everything.

I guess if you don't know how to use your sex parts properly, there are probably a lot of other things you just don't get.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (qQnCr)

560 550 rhomboid, wasn't it Washington State that had their unemployment raided for millions by Nigerians on the internet? It could be worse.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:50 AM (BMmaB)

California.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 27, 2021 12:54 AM (oHd/0)

561 outlaw general use of "Chinese ...." He forbade federal agencies from referring to it in that manner. Anyone who has any connection to a federal agency....
Posted by: SFGoth

Which includes all public schools.....

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:55 AM (IDhUW)

562 And that's leaving aside the Zimbabwe-ization of the country in terms of election process, and the degradation of the ongoing lynch mob disgrace.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (OTzUX)


I read that as the Zamboni-ization. Not quite the same thing, but probably more entertaining.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at January 27, 2021 12:55 AM (qQnCr)

563 People like to comfort themselves with all kinds of marginal or imagined silver linings, but the last year of stupefying collapse in just about everything worthwhile in America now gets a free pass, an endorsement, a subsidy, a pay-day. And that's leaving aside the Zimbabwe-ization of the country in terms of election process, and the degradation of the ongoing lynch mob disgrace.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (OTzUX)

Gee, rhomboid, you think we're headed for a train wreck or something?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:55 AM (BMmaB)

564 Soldiers Against Government?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel


Screen Actors Guild, of which Ronald Reagan was once president.

Reagan is the only US President who was also president of a labor union.

Posted by: Miklosian facts of Fun at January 27, 2021 12:56 AM (QzkSJ)

565 "maybe I could pick up one of those little post office jeeps for cheap..."
The ones where you drive on right hand side.
Posted by: navybrat, curiously enlightened at January 26, 2021 11:36 PM (w7KSn)

And which are not 4WD, which sort of defeats the purpose of having a Jeep.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 12:57 AM (mzC78)

566 Reagan is the only US President who was also president of a labor union.
Posted by: Miklosian facts of Fun at January 27, 2021 12:56 AM (QzkSJ)

And if I'm not mistaken, he was the moderate New Deal Democrat running against a communist.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 12:57 AM (BMmaB)

567 And that's leaving aside the Zimbabwe-ization of the country in terms of election process, and the degradation of the ongoing lynch mob disgrace.
Posted by: rhomboid


Getting rid of all the White farmers....what will the Chinese eat?

Posted by: Miklos, recalling the absurd Pigford bidnis at January 27, 2021 12:58 AM (QzkSJ)

568 Getting rid of all the White farmers....what will the Chinese eat?
Posted by: Miklos, recalling the absurd Pigford bidnis at January 27, 2021 12:58 AM (QzkSJ)


White farmers, one presumes.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at January 27, 2021 12:59 AM (qQnCr)

569 it would be much easier to find another Reagan than it would be to find another 1984 American electorate.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 12:59 AM (3BHQi)

570 I still think stocks are a bubble, and could be cut in half or worse. BUT they are intent on blowing the currency bubble forever, so inflated stocks might be better than almost hyper inflated currency. -- Inflation in goods prices might not happen, since people are not making much money ... it mostly goes to the richest (holders of the wealth in assets, which is where the inflation is "hiding")

Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2021 12:59 AM (Cus5s)

571 People like to comfort themselves with all kinds of marginal or imagined silver linings, but the last year of stupefying collapse in just about everything worthwhile in America now gets a free pass, an endorsement, a subsidy, a pay-day. And that's leaving aside the Zimbabwe-ization of the country in terms of election process, and the degradation of the ongoing lynch mob disgrace.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 12:53 AM (OTzUX)

We know the quote, "slowly, then all of a sudden". It certainly feels like an acceleration now.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 12:59 AM (IDhUW)

572 542 Maybe, but see above. "We can remain retarded longer than you can remain solvent."

These are a bunch of basement-dwelling autists playing with their fast food paychecks.

The thing is, there are a LOT of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 12:46 AM (LOTm4)


It's a great example to my earlier point about what can be accomplished by those that aren't afraid to use their own wealth and earnings as a weapon of war.

Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2021 01:00 AM (zcf1k)

573 There has been a significant increase in incidents of harassment and
violence towards Asian Americans since the onset of the coronavirus
pandemic. - UK propaga-er, "article"

Where's the video of this in our always-on-camera society? Of course there isn't any, this claim is just pulled out of the Independent's arse.

Posted by: pookysgirl calls it Kung Flu, actually at January 27, 2021 01:00 AM (XKZwp)

574 And if I'm not mistaken, he was the moderate New Deal Democrat running against a communist.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon


Things were changing.

Reagan's letters were published post mortem. He had an intelligent, inquiring mind. Quite remarkable.

Posted by: Miklos, actual accredited Historian at January 27, 2021 01:00 AM (QzkSJ)

575 the thing is is, if you do not light your hair afire and run around screaming there are going to be many opportunities in the biden presidency and in the next Trump presidency.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:00 AM (4Jold)

576 Oh - and I left out the National Racist-Totalitarian Street Festival, from May to October.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:01 AM (OTzUX)

577 White farmers, one presumes.
Posted by: tcn in AK

The Soy Boys are pre-seasoned.

Posted by: Miklos, with chef fuck-these-people kiss at January 27, 2021 01:02 AM (QzkSJ)

578 Lafayette. If you're a drunk or you work in healthcare or oil (or all three), there's a lot to do. A lot of guys come down here and don't like it, but I don't give a shit as long as people leave me alone and where I live, they do.
Posted by: Vanya at January 27, 2021 12:07 AM (gAFsE)

I spent a month or two in Lafayette. I liked it. Got to see some countryside, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 01:02 AM (mzC78)

579 We know the quote, "slowly, then all of a sudden". It certainly feels like an acceleration now.
Posted by: Amer

everybody thinks that they are in the burning times but they rarely are.

when everybody thinks of ww2 they think of winning, the do not very often think of how it was the day after pearl harbor.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:02 AM (4Jold)

580 Zamboni-zation sounds good to me. Haven't played hockey since last March. Worst thing (personally, practical level) about the last year.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:05 AM (OTzUX)

581 Reagan's letters were published post mortem. He had an intelligent, inquiring mind. Quite remarkable.
Posted by: Miklos, actual accredited Historian at January 27, 2021 01:00 AM (QzkSJ)


I saw something he wrote by hand in a memo about throw-weights of ICBM warheads that was very advanced nuclear weapons strategy (the kind we've forgotten since then). Reminds me of the SNL sketch with Phil Hartman.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:05 AM (BMmaB)

582 I spent a month or two in Lafayette. I liked it. Got to see some countryside, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


I listen to cajun Radio from KRVS in Lafayette

Posted by: Miklos, eh cher at January 27, 2021 01:05 AM (QzkSJ)

583 Pity, Panhard never made a Jeep. AOP would make it.. elegant!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 12:17 AM (QzJWU)

They made a pretty cool armored car.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 01:05 AM (mzC78)

584 They made a pretty cool armored car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*he says, knowingly*

Posted by: Miklos, not at all fooled at January 27, 2021 01:07 AM (QzkSJ)

585 Caesar, the burocrat in charge of so much money going to Nigeria just got promoted to the federal government. Failing up so she can waste everyone's money.

Posted by: Funsize at January 27, 2021 01:08 AM (EiPf6)

586 the do not very often think of how it was the day after pearl harbor.
Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:02 AM (4Jold

Try 6 months after Pearl Harbor. We had lost Guam and the Philippines, ships were being sunk in the Atlantic, and U-boats were off our coasts.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:08 AM (BMmaB)

587 Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2021 12:59 AM (Cus5s)

I know gas was easily had for $1.90 a gallon even six months ago. Now you are lucky to find it for $2.20, and the stations in nice areas charge $2.60. I see just decent steak going for $20 at the store, to small cuts. Even Ground beef is $14.00 for the equivalent of two or three burgers. No way we don't have inflation.

I won't predict the stock market but sometimes the market goes up during rising inflation. As prices for goods rise, the same can happen for stocks. And the one thing I do know is all the big players are all in on Biden. It wouldn't look good for them to tank the market right after he wins.


Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 01:08 AM (3BHQi)

588 This is not a prediction as I don't do that. My view is to prepare
for inflation. That can mean owning gold, beef, an even tech as they
keep gobbling up the dollars.

Sure it
could crash but I know a lot of people have a serious interest in making
sure that does not happen. We shall see how it goes.

btw, China Virus.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 01:09 AM (3BHQi)

589 585 Caesar, the burocrat in charge of so much money going to Nigeria just got promoted to the federal government. Failing up so she can waste everyone's money.
Posted by: Funsize at January 27, 2021 01:08 AM (EiPf6)

I thought I saw that somewhere a few days ago. Top. Men.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:09 AM (BMmaB)

590 History really is fascinating. It helps provide perspective. There was great uncertainty re whether America should even get involved in wwII.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 01:09 AM (IDhUW)

591 Caesar, absolutely not - think a "trainwreck" is unlikely.

Only if there is a currency crisis, or monetary crisis, though it seems there really aren't actual "markets" any more, at least not any that are mostly market-driven or can't be manipulated by a central bank.

Everyone talks about "civil war" and other dramatic kinetic developments. Nah, possible but very unlikely.

What's more likely? 3rd Obama term/first Hillary term. Continued rot in all directions. Enormous foregone opportunities (Trump gone), wasted potential, fantastic trends (like rises in lower quintile household real income, and real un/semi-skilled wage rates), stagnation, malinvestment in make-believe/grifting "sectors" ("green" energy).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:10 AM (OTzUX)

592 576 Oh - and I left out the National Racist-Totalitarian Street Festival, from May to October.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:01 AM (OTzUX)

It may just be the regular festivities this year, too soon for the War of the Fellow Travelers, but maybe not.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:11 AM (BMmaB)

593 the thing is is, you are conquering france and then you are in a bunkr under your bombed out chancery murdering your dog and eating your walthr.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:11 AM (4Jold)

594 girl what swings around sans garments
Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 12:48 AM (4Jold)

"Quit the grinnin', and drop those vowels!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 01:12 AM (mzC78)

595 I'll concede these slobbering droolbuckets won A battle this time. But the good guys own the War. And ultimate victory is ours.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 27, 2021 01:12 AM (KATBx)

596 "Quit the grinnin', and drop those vowels!"
Posted by: Alber




Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:13 AM (4Jold)

597 This is not a prediction as I don't do that. My view is to prepare
for inflation. That can mean owning gold, beef, an even tech as they
keep gobbling up the dollars.


Although an economist from Karl Marx U., I admit to being a terrible economist.

I am allergic to debt.

A more sensible economist would be borrowing against the heirloom jewelry right now.

Posted by: Miklos, reconsidering at January 27, 2021 01:13 AM (QzkSJ)

598 I'll concede these slobbering droolbuckets won A battle this time. But the good guys own the War. And ultimate victory is ours.
Posted by: i




indeed

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:13 AM (4Jold)

599 593 the thing is is, you are conquering france and then you are in a bunkr under your bombed out chancery murdering your dog and eating your walthr.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:11 AM (4Jold)

Watched Band of Brothers marathon this weekend and one thing I hadn't noticed before was that twice after the war was over one of the troops asked a German, WHY? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:14 AM (BMmaB)

600 Watched Band of Brothers marathon this weekend and one thing I hadn't noticed before was that twice after the war was over one of the troops asked a German, WHY? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?




in fairness, atrocities and war crimes aside, conquering a bunh of euroweenies does seem fun.

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:15 AM (4Jold)

601 Other non-spectacular, but critical, kinds of rot -

* lawlessness in immigration, collapse of sovereignty/borders, will become irreversible, regardless of legislation (there won't be any, rump of the GOP isn't that suicidal) or court action - a continuation of the process since the late 80s, which Trump (partially) interrupted

* whatever one calls the shredding of the civil contract we saw from May to October all over the country

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:15 AM (OTzUX)

602 Zamboni-zation sounds good to me. Haven't played hockey since last
March. Worst thing (personally, practical level) about the last year.

Started playing hockey with roller skates in the street with rubber balls before it got organized and popular around here. My dad drove my 3 brothers around to all the rinks to play for years. Couple of their buddies got to play in the minors.

Posted by: dartist at January 27, 2021 01:15 AM (+ya+t)

603 Oh - and I left out the National Racist-Totalitarian Street Festival, from May to October.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:01 AM (OTzUX)

It may just be the regular festivities this year, too soon for the War of the Fellow Travelers, but maybe not.
Posted by: Caesar North


All tacos are not the same.

Posted by: Miklos, agent provocateur at January 27, 2021 01:16 AM (QzkSJ)

604 Ok, now I know the media is lying to me. There is no way in hell this constitutes heavy rain and 34 mph winds. The winds may be gusting to 34, but there's hardly any rain. I'll give them honesty on the temp. I had better not anger the weather gods by pressing my desire for real weather tonight though. Earthquakes have a way of changing your disposition real quick.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 01:16 AM (KAi1n)

605 went away @308, for a chat with Herself and to make dinner...

chatty fing bunch here tonight, ain't cha?

Posted by: redc1c4 (Biden Cheated!) at January 27, 2021 01:16 AM (tdA/m)

606 I got banned from the sewer Twitter years ago.

Trendsetter.

Posted by: torabora at January 27, 2021 01:16 AM (mJcWO)

607 Screen Actors Guild, of which Ronald Reagan was once president.
Reagan is the only US President who was also president of a labor union.
Posted by: Miklosian facts of Fun

Jugears could've run the Film Actors Guild, but then he got high.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 27, 2021 01:16 AM (28uvR)

608 went away @308, for a chat with Herself and to make dinner...

chatty fing bunch here tonight, ain't cha?
Posted by: redc1c4


As you were, soldier.

(and look at his hair-and those clothes!)

Posted by: Miklos, ONT Chatty Cathy at January 27, 2021 01:19 AM (QzkSJ)

609 in fairness, atrocities and war crimes aside, conquering a bunh of euroweenies does seem fun.
Posted by: confederatefifth

But for Germany not having sloped armor until after 1941, losing a sh!tload of planes and aircrew in the pointless bombing of Britain, not having a heavy tank, and production being a fraction of what was achieved in 1944 under relentless heavy bombing, things could've turned out very differently.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 01:22 AM (KAi1n)

610 Well, a red-letter day for me today. Had the building inspector come out to check the sheetrock work I had done, and he OK'd that. Then he said I would have to close in walls in the trailer, and do some work on the passages between the trailer and the add-on portions of the house, and I agreed, and said that those were definitely on my agenda. So he signed off the permit card for the sheetrock, and left, after some small talk about Covid and the political situation. (!)

A few minutes later, he was back, and said. "I am going to sign you off as a final inspection. I know you will do what needs to be done, because why would you not want to do it? And with travel from Canada to here being problematic, why should I saddle you with another deadline? Get it done when you are able."

So, I am off the building permit treadmill at last! And damn right, I shook his hand.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 01:22 AM (mzC78)

611 But for Germany not having sloped armor until after 1941, losing a sh!tload of planes and aircrew in the pointless bombing of Britain, not having a heavy tank, and production being a fraction of what was achieved in 1944 under relentless heavy bombing, things could've turned out very differently.
Posted by: S



indeed ,what is more, they had great unis.

if you're going to be evil, do it

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:23 AM (4Jold)

612 Everyone likes a winner. Even if the winner is Nazi Germany, and it's prior to June 21, 1941, and "everyone" is most Germans.

Goebbels' diary turns out to be the single most valuable primary document from the German side, as far as understanding regime thinking, *and* popular opinion. The SD reports on mood and views of the populace, which Goebbels based much of his musings on, are also key.

Two key data points. When the western offensive was launched in May 1940, Germans held their breath - There was no celebration or public outcry. Most people were quite content with recovery of the Saarland, Anschluss with Austria, and the thuggish grab of half of Poland and Czechoslovakia. AFTER the quick victory, Goebbels choreographed a triumphal conqueror's return day for Hitler in Berlin.

June 21, 1941. Goebbels describes empty Berlin streets. Silence. Nobody saying much. Animal instinct told many - now we're over the edge, anything could happen, much of it horrible.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:24 AM (OTzUX)

613 Nobody saying much. Animal instinct told many - now we're over the edge, anything could happen, much of it horrible.
Posted by: r

that reminds me of a girl

Posted by: confederatefifth at January 27, 2021 01:26 AM (4Jold)

614
But for Germany not having sloped armor until after 1941, losing a sh!tload of planes and aircrew in the pointless bombing of Britain, not having a heavy tank, and production being a fraction of what was achieved in 1944 under relentless heavy bombing, things could've turned out very differently.
Posted by: SFGoth


What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?

Posted by: Miklos, with SNL humous that has been disappeared at January 27, 2021 01:26 AM (QzkSJ)

615 that reminds me of a girl
Posted by: confederatefifth


More than three-fifths

Posted by: Miklos, consulting Experts at January 27, 2021 01:27 AM (QzkSJ)

616 What if Eleanor Roosevelt could fly?
Posted by: Miklos, with SNL humous that has been disappeared at January 27, 2021 01:26 AM (QzkSJ)

She would have been a helicopter. They don't actually fly; they are just so ugly, the Earth rejects them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 01:27 AM (mzC78)

617 June 21, 1941. Goebbels describes empty Berlin streets. Silence. Nobody saying much. Animal instinct told many - now we're over the edge, anything could happen, much of it horrible.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:24 AM (OTzUX)

The Soviet Union was a very big place to try to conquer. And, as it turns out, wet with a horse-drawn army stuck in the mud, and then cold. Very cold.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:29 AM (BMmaB)

618 How much is my cut?
Enough to cover my Dental deductible?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 26, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)


This descent into commercialism, it's so... tacky. Unseemly. All American.

Besides, how much can it cost for an hour's rental of a stainless steel hammer and chisel from Bob's DIY Dentistry?

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 27, 2021 01:29 AM (F0YaR)

619 SFGoth if you have the inclination, read Tooze's "Wages of Destruction" (if you haven't already). Very comprehensive and solid, and somewhat dense, economic history of Nazi Germany. One of the things that stood out was his repeated references to Hitler being quite aware of, and very worried about, America's industrial potential. It came up, naturally, in his interactions with his economic and mobilization advisers, but seems like most people, including historians, are unaware, or ignore this.

Yes on the surface he dismissed America as a mongrelized soft society being manipulated by World Joory, but his private and deadly serious interaction with top advisers shows he understood Germany's chances were not great if the US became a mobilized enemy.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:29 AM (OTzUX)

620 "Helicopters don't fly -- they beat the air into submission. An airplane by its nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to."

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 27, 2021 01:30 AM (rt0xh)

621 Had the building inspector come out to check the sheetrock work I had done, and he OK'd that.


In the Great State of SC (politicians excepted) building inspectors do not check or care about drywall.

Mainly electrical, not much else.

Posted by: Miklos, Redneck Bidnis Ventyoors at January 27, 2021 01:30 AM (QzkSJ)

622 It is kind of unexpected to read that ordinary Germans did not want war with France and certainly not with Russia. Think about what was going on in May, 1941 -- Britain and France had declared war because of invading Poland, which who was clamoring in the streets to do? no one, and that mess had not yet been sorted out, but the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles had been cast off, Germany reunited + Saarland + Bohemia so let's get back to before November, 1918, and then, ooops. Russia.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 01:31 AM (KAi1n)

623 rhomboid, I am struck by how much of Germany's consumer sector economic success in the early years was based on looting the conquered territories. Everything from furniture to clothing made available to the Germans on the home front at bargain basement prices, and transport resources devoted to booty.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:32 AM (BMmaB)

624 A few minutes later, he was back, and said. "I am going to sign you off as a final inspection. I know you will do what needs to be done, because why would you not want to do it? And with travel from Canada to here being problematic, why should I saddle you with another deadline? Get it done when you are able."

So, I am off the building permit treadmill at last! And damn right, I shook his hand.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Wait...you mean you got a *sane* inspector? I'm on the property committee, and the administrative board, for a local charity. We have a number of facilities, and one large construction project.

The inspectors are absolutely unpredictable. What one makes no comment about, another will give the thumbs down. It's astonishing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 27, 2021 01:33 AM (ELgVT)

625 Yes on the surface he dismissed America as a mongrelized soft society being manipulated by World Joory, but his private and deadly serious interaction with top advisers shows he understood Germany's chances were not great if the US became a mobilized enemy.
Posted by: rhomboid


Hitler and Roosevelt shared the same idea of how war between Germany and the US could happen. Like 1917. U-boats had very strict orders to be careful about US ships (the US still had a Merchant Marine).


Hitler's declaration of war against the US might have been his biggest, and most insane blunder.

Then again his Intelligence Service was remarkably incompetent, and largely against him anyway.

Posted by: Miklos, who reads books 'n stuff at January 27, 2021 01:35 AM (QzkSJ)

626 Wait...you mean you got a *sane* inspector? I'm on the property committee, and the administrative board, for a local charity. We have a number of facilities, and one large construction project.

The inspectors are absolutely unpredictable. What one makes no comment about, another will give the thumbs down. It's astonishing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 27, 2021 01:33 AM (ELgVT)

I have dealt with this guy for several years, and he acts like a straight shooter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 01:36 AM (mzC78)

627 When I deployed to USAEUR, rearmament of Germany was just underway. Every vet I talked to (to a man) was incredulous at the idea of giving these people lethal arms AGAIN, given what they did to Europe twice already.

I'm kinda surprised they haven't started making noises yet, maybe they're having issues for real about troops. Still scary to contemplate what it might be like with modern weapons, trying to pacify them.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 27, 2021 01:37 AM (KATBx)

628 And I am going to go to bed. It has been a long day, and I look forward to sleeping in in the morning.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2021 01:37 AM (mzC78)

629 SFGoth - exactly. Most Germans up to May 1940 were quite content, and very ready to stop right there, and hope for pre-1918+, in terms of economic development. No war fever to speak of in the general populace. As I said they held their breath with the western offensive, were jubilant when it was a quick/relatively cheap victory, and then they were *really* happy to settle for the status quo. June 1941 was a shock, and the early jubilation at rapid advances in Russia hid a baseline dread for what might come.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:37 AM (OTzUX)

630 This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to."
Posted by: Pikov Andropov


I propose, as a counter example, a certain former helicopter pilot and member of the House Of Battenberg-Windsor who clearly did not see disaster coming (sic)

Posted by: Miklos MountGinz at January 27, 2021 01:39 AM (QzkSJ)

631 Caesar, I command you (OK, I strongly suggest - think of it like a Trump directive to the armed forces) you to read "Hitler's Beneficiaries" by Gotz Aly.

There you will be amazed, I think, at the multi-faceted, often subtle ways in which Germany looted the occupied countries - and even some allied countries - beyond the aspect you mentioned. Really an interesting story, about which I knew bupkis prior.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:39 AM (OTzUX)

632 623 rhomboid, I am struck by how much of Germany's consumer sector economic success in the early years was based on looting the conquered territories. Everything from furniture to clothing made available to the Germans on the home front at bargain basement prices, and transport resources devoted to booty.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 01:32 AM (BMmaB)


It was basically a super-sized version of the Caribbean pirate republics--with the same result.

If I was in Germany back then I wouldn't have been celebrating in Berlin, either. I'd be looking for a way out of the big cities, because they way overextended themselves by pissing off everyone at the same time. I mean, I get it, the rest of the world at the time was like a bunch of toddlers fighting over table scraps that could be easily rolled over, but still...that's a lot of land mass and unhappy locals that now have to be occupied.

Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2021 01:40 AM (zcf1k)

633 But Miklos, U-boats sank the Reuben James with major loss of life - and still the US public opposed joining the war. Adm. Stark said "we're at war, the public just doesn't know it".

But Doenitz *was* the top war-hawk when it came to the US, precisely to unleash his U-boats. If he'd had a quick survey of what US shipbuilding capacity would be like in 2 years' time, he might have reconsidered.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:43 AM (OTzUX)

634
Mainly electrical, not much else.
Posted by: Miklos,
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Heh...hurricane straps in the roofing.

As an aside, last week I received a note about John Rhodes, former mayor of Myrtle Beach, died. Covid.
https://tinyurl.com/yyhwgwr7

Nice guy, and a schoolmate. In the later years we shared drinks a few times.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 27, 2021 01:45 AM (DMQdU)

635 Favorite Cold War-era comment about the Germanies:

"I like Germany so much, I want there to be two of them"

But I wouldn't sweat the Hun these days. Disarmed and clueless. In any case, without exaggeration, they (or anyone else) could conquer half or all of Europe today and .... as long as I could visit some historic sites, I wouldn't care a bit.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:46 AM (OTzUX)

636 Don't know about helicopters being ugly.

Apaches, looking like insects, were beautiful, always a welcome sight. "My favorite kind" as I would always say.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:47 AM (OTzUX)

637 Tis time. Got snow removal this AM,but it's only 6" of really light fluffy powder.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 27, 2021 01:51 AM (KATBx)

638 Rhomboid - good book. Day-to-day battle stuff bores me, even Tiger-on-JS action. I like military stuff at least at regimental level but the amount of stuff on economics, industrialization, psychology, logistics and management, intelligence and espionage, and then it all branches out further when you get curious about all the references to Moltke the Elder, Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and then you get told by a gothchick in Munich that I know more about Germany than most Germans do. LOL, I don't think so. I just may be able to discuss more of what I know in English better, but only a little better.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 01:51 AM (KAi1n)

639 635 But I wouldn't sweat the Hun these days. Disarmed and clueless. In any case, without exaggeration, they (or anyone else) could conquer half or all of Europe today and .... as long as I could visit some historic sites, I wouldn't care a bit.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2021 01:46 AM (OTzUX)


Poland and Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia are bro-tier allies, we owe it to them to keep them out of the shit. And the UK special relationship matters, even if some donkey-faced assholes disagree. Rest of the continent can bite me though--not my problem.

Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2021 01:53 AM (zcf1k)

640
I shall leave All Good Morons with a bit of wisdom-


"There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one’s own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive, grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine-forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden."

Posted by: Miss Miklos Manners at January 27, 2021 01:56 AM (QzkSJ)

641 Rhomboid - I knew a guy who was a captain in the Germany reserves. He'd train in the U.S. a few times a year. We never could synch our schedules to meet up. Anyway, he was a DJ at a great goth club in Munich - that's where I him. Good guy, would take no sh!t from anybody, and was a guy I'd much rather have on my side (for my own self-preservation). No way in hell he'd want to go romping through Europe.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 01:57 AM (KAi1n)

642 110 Well, I wish I could say I was shocked by H-E-B deciding to be dicks about Mr. Lindell, but Charles Butt has been a major Dem donor for years.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 26, 2021 10:28 PM (7PCMN)


That's sad. My grandfather and H. E. But were good friends and deacons together at First Baptist Church in San Antonio. During the Depression, they would drive a panel truck down to the Rio Grande Valley and bring back vegetables and fruits to sell to stores.

I vaguely knew some of the Butz family because of the amount of time I spent in San Antonio as a child.

It's sad to see a once good family turn to the dark side.

Posted by: Michael the Texan at January 27, 2021 01:58 AM (9IdCK)

643 None of them do. Ok, I've only been to certain parts of Europe for certain things so I've only met a slice of society, but I've looked around. In the 2000's when I went to Germany several times a year, from what I saw, Western Europe has found Heaven-on-Earth and it is called "The Middle Class". Seriously. These are people who can trace their family back to stone knives and bearskin rugs. They have modern housing, climate control, on-demand everything, electronics, great trains, and they love to meet and hang out with people from other countries within Europe. That's what they seem to want -- a comfortable, 30-hour/week job, a decent apartment/house, and all the little things they like to do in life. They don't want to kill people and break things, anymore.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 02:00 AM (KAi1n)

644 rhomboid, I'll find the book. You need to watch "The Ascent."

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 02:07 AM (rxtQa)

645 Good night, Horde, I've enjoyed all the different topics that have come up on the thread tonight, looks like I have some reading to do. This place is like taking a history class every night, I learn so much here.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz, Trump Won at January 27, 2021 02:11 AM (a4EWo)

646 ..Poland and Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia are bro-tier allies, we owe it to them to keep them out of the shit. And the UK special relationship matters, even if some donkey-faced assholes disagree. Rest of the continent can bite me though--not my problem.

Posted by: CppThis at January 27, 2021 01:53 AM (zcf1k)



Which of these will allow my immigration along with the entire contents of my soon to be illicit gunroom?

I'll load a container and board the ship inside of two weeks after the house here is sold. I'll even bring Herself New Dawn & the cats.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:11 AM (QzJWU)

647 I ordered a pair of MyPillows last week, to support Mike Lindell in the face of these stupid boycotts. I hope I end up liking them as much as Mike says I will!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:14 AM (H3MF8)

648 Which of these will allow my immigration along with the entire contents of my soon to be illicit gunroom?


Sorry.

Only speeky Engrish and Magyar.


Posted by: Miklos, thinking of Jim as a mail order Groom at January 27, 2021 02:15 AM (QzkSJ)

649 ..I ordered a pair of MyPillows last week, to support Mike Lindell in the face of these stupid boycotts. I hope I end up liking them as much as Mike says I will!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:14 AM (H3MF


The most popular girl on a dating site today, will be the one who prominently features photos her brazenly displaying her pair of My Pillows for one and all to see.

And wearing a MAGA hat but nothing else, in the doing.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:17 AM (QzJWU)

650 "This digestive longevity leads Li and other experts to believe that anal swabs may be more effective."

I told you guys months ago that this was spread mostly through contact and fecal contamination. It hasn't exactly been a secret, but the media has largely ignored it because there isn't any political hay to be made there.

"After killing the Keystone pipeline and 11,000 union jobs, Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg said those workers will need to get "different ones."

It would seem we're hitting our "let them eat cake" point ahead of schedule.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at January 27, 2021 02:17 AM (EEVQU)

651 Warbler, the jingle says it's the best night's sleep in the whole wide world.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 27, 2021 02:17 AM (rxtQa)

652 "It really looks like straight men and women don't like each other very much, that women spend so much time complaining about men, and we still have so much evidence of misogyny," or woman-hating behavior. From an LGBT perspective, [being straight] looks actually very tragic." University of California-Riverside Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Jane Ward

The lesbo is right! This is a huge problem for society. More and more men are going MGTOW, because the modern woman does not love a man; she only loves what that man can do for her. And the moment she thinks she can do better, that love is just gone, never to return.

Oh, sure, you can try going to counseling or bending over backwards in whatever way you think will please her, but that actually just makes things worse! See, she already thinks she's too good for you, and by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to try to keep her, you're actually just reinforcing that view. The harder you try, the more she grows to despise you.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:26 AM (H3MF8)

653 More and more men are going MGTOW, because the modern woman does not love a man; she only loves what that man can do for her. And the moment she thinks she can do better, that love is just gone, never to return.


COVID travel restrictions are just a plot to keep good American men and Central European women apart.

Posted by: Mail Order by Miklos at January 27, 2021 02:28 AM (QzkSJ)

654 I am happy with the MyPillows that I bought. They quickly became my favorite pillows. I'm going to buy a couple more and some sheets directly from his site. I bought thru Amazon last time.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:29 AM (IDhUW)

655 Now, who wants hotscakes?

Posted by: Mail Order by Miklos ad #1 at January 27, 2021 02:30 AM (QzkSJ)

656 So, upgrading a Postal Jeep would require at least a new transmission, transfer case, front differential, maybe changing steering to left side control. ALL of the suspension and brakes would have to be changed, from the frame rails down


AOP calls that "Tuesday"
Posted by: Miklos, back in the shop

And a drywall interior.

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2021 02:30 AM (arJlL)

657 Don't forget to order a few sets of Mike's Giza Cotton sheets.

I have 3 sets, and they really are superbly comfortable!

Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at January 27, 2021 02:30 AM (QU+qf)

658 ..I am happy with the MyPillows that I bought. They quickly became my favorite pillows. I'm going to buy a couple more and some sheets directly from his site. I bought thru Amazon last time.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:29 AM (IDhUW)


DON'T!! Love Lindell and his company, but once their "site" has your email address, your email inbox will be ravaged like a German virgin in in the face of the Soviet advance on Berlin. Try eBay, if you must. Or some other discount reseller. Don't go direct, it's even worse than the NRA's mail.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:33 AM (QzJWU)

659 657 Don't forget to order a few sets of Mike's Giza Cotton sheets.

I have 3 sets, and they really are superbly comfortable!
Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at January 27, 2021 02:30 AM (QU+qf)

Thanks, Nellie! I'll keep that in mind.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:33 AM (H3MF8)

660 658 ..I am happy with the MyPillows that I bought. They quickly became my favorite pillows. I'm going to buy a couple more and some sheets directly from his site. I bought thru Amazon last time.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:29 AM (IDhUW)

DON'T!! Love Lindell and his company, but once their "site" has your email address, your email inbox will be ravaged like a German virgin in in the face of the Soviet advance on Berlin. Try eBay, if you must. Or some other discount reseller. Don't go direct, it's even worse than the NRA's mail.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:33 AM (QzJWU)

This is true! I've been getting constant emails from MyPillow since I placed that order. This might be another good use for a throwaway email address.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:35 AM (H3MF8)

661 DON'T!! Love Lindell and his company, but once their "site" has your email address, your email inbox will be ravaged like a German virgin in in the face of the Soviet advance on Berlin. Try eBay, if you must. Or some other discount reseller. Don't go direct, it's even worse than the NRA's mail.

------
Well, that does sound like something to avoid. thanks for the info.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:36 AM (IDhUW)

662 Yeah, he does spam the hell put of his websites' customers. [gallic shrug] I don't care, it takes but a second to delete those emails as I'm going through my inbox every day

I'm thinking of ordering his mattress topper for the bed in my guest room -- my sister claims it's too hard. (She shelters here when hurricanes come.)

Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at January 27, 2021 02:40 AM (QU+qf)

663 Well.

I will find what all this Geezer Sheets hullabaloo is all about, you whippersnappers.

Posted by: Persnickety Miklos at January 27, 2021 02:42 AM (QzkSJ)

664 STP >> STD

So. 1 in 5 eh? Maybe, just maybe, instead of washing our faces and hands frequently, the aim should be a bit... lower down.

And mask them puppies too. Double mask, to be safe.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 27, 2021 02:43 AM (F0YaR)

665 Don't all your commercial emails have that little unsubscribe fine print at the bottom? I thought it was the law that you had to be easily able to stop them.

Posted by: yop at January 27, 2021 02:43 AM (nqhkI)

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 27, 2021 02:43 AM (F0YaR)

667 I pledge to you Horde, this. Because I have a decade of Fortune 1000 Boardroom executive experience in my background, I kind of know how to maneuver around the various gatekeepers and protectors of the Executive Suite.

I'll strive to get a message to said Executive Suite which will be seen and read. Can't promise a damn thing here, but I'll try to produce a result that will offer an option to NOT be besieged my mail in the face of a Direct Order. I'm pretty good at this shit, but I'll still need your prayers.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:43 AM (QzJWU)

668 -----

Well, that does sound like something to avoid. thanks for the info.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:36 AM (IDhUW)

that has not been my experience. We have owned their pillows for over a decade. I get a flying in the mail from time to time but it is no big deal. My email gets so much spam I never really look at that stuff to be honest.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 02:43 AM (3BHQi)

669

OK

"Hotscakes, dahlink?"

Posted by: Miklosian Magyar Marketing Kft. at January 27, 2021 02:44 AM (QzkSJ)

670 Prayers up Jim

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:46 AM (IDhUW)

671 665 Don't all your commercial emails have that little unsubscribe fine print at the bottom? I thought it was the law that you had to be easily able to stop them.
Posted by: yop at January 27, 2021 02:43 AM (nqhkI)

Oh, that reminds me! After I left the GOP last week, they stopped spamming my phone with calls and texts to beg me for money! Yay! It's nice being an Independent!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:46 AM (H3MF8)

672 I would love some hot cakes! With huckleberries?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:47 AM (IDhUW)

673 I'm pretty good at this shit, but I'll still need your prayers.

Jim


In Hoc Signo Vince

https://tinyurl.com/y3dkchu5

Posted by: Miklos the lazy pirate at January 27, 2021 02:49 AM (QzkSJ)

674 Quint?

Your addy is on an old and mostly "retired" campaign software distribution list. They'll run that "campaign" maybe once per year, in the slowest of their sales seasons. Order again. Now your addy is on the "Active" campaign design lists. To say "you'll notice the difference" would be a MASSIVE understatement. You want to be the guinea pig here? Feel free, and tell us of your experience after you do.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:49 AM (QzJWU)

675 Well done GnuBreed

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:50 AM (IDhUW)

676 I would love some hot cakes! With huckleberries?
Posted by: AmericanKestrel


You may speak with the Hungarian lovely for $4.99/ minute.

Translation, photos, and modalities extra.

Posted by: Miklos, Ukrainians half-price this week! at January 27, 2021 02:51 AM (QzkSJ)

677 663 Well.

I will find what all this Geezer Sheets hullabaloo is all about, you whippersnappers.

Posted by: Persnickety Miklos at January 27, 2021 02:42 AM (QzkSJ)

ISWYDT

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:52 AM (IDhUW)

678 Well done GnuBreed
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Gnow we gnow

Posted by: Miklos, saving his vowls for needy Croatian children at January 27, 2021 02:53 AM (QzkSJ)

679 677 663 Well.
I will find what all this Geezer Sheets hullabaloo is all about, you whippersnappers.
Posted by: Persnickety Miklos at January 27, 2021 02:42 AM (QzkSJ)

ISWYDT
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:52 AM (IDhUW)

Yeah, I'm not all that old, but I might like the sheets if I end up ordering them!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:54 AM (H3MF8)

680 Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:49 AM (QzJWU)

I don't doubt they spam people. I haven't ordered from them in many years but we have used their products for well over a decade. It is a good pillow but they can wear out.

It was a long time ago but if I recall correctly we ordered by phone. To each his own but if I wanted one I would order by phone and tell them they are not going to get an email, take it or leave it.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 02:54 AM (3BHQi)

681 Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 27, 2021 02:55 AM (H3MF8)

682 Not to jinx anything, but the trolls are quiet.

Too quiet.

Posted by: Miklos, Bofors at the ready at January 27, 2021 02:57 AM (QzkSJ)

683 Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:49 AM (QzJWU)

sounds right. Similar to the NRA. Too bad they punish those who support them. I get the reasoning, at least for the NRA. But a man knows when and if he needs a new pillow.

Posted by: Quint at January 27, 2021 02:57 AM (3BHQi)

684 Re men are losing ability to reproduce

Has anyone seen the movie Children of Men? Is it any good? It is based on the premise that the human race becomes infertile at the same time and how people dealt with that. PD James is the author, very good. This was a different kind of story for her. She typically writes murder mysteries.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 02:58 AM (IDhUW)

685 Quint.

Pro Tip. If you tell the NRA membership desk to code your membership NO PROMOTIONS. You get nary a scrap of mail nor a ghost of a call.

Lindell needs to mirror this in his system.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 02:59 AM (QzJWU)

686 Good night PW

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 03:00 AM (IDhUW)

687 code your membership NO PROMOTIONS.


Same for the military under FICUS Biden.

Posted by: Miklos, decimation being another option at January 27, 2021 03:00 AM (QzkSJ)

688 682
Yes, it has been pleasant hasn't it.

And I laughed at your 676

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 03:04 AM (IDhUW)

689 It takes one or two clicks to send all emails from one site to the spam folder, never to be seen again.

C'mon, man, it ain't that hard. *that's what she said*

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 27, 2021 03:04 AM (F0YaR)

690 Well, grey box friends, I'm going to try to sleep.

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 27, 2021 03:05 AM (IDhUW)

691 Miklos. I was in the USAF during the Carter admin.

No Promotions was the paradigm we all struggled under, then. The old Chiefs had to retire or die, for us to advance.

And funds for training, well, they weren't.

I'm not sour on the USAF. I'm sour on the USAF's choices when the budgets were cut to nothing.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 03:07 AM (QzJWU)

692 I'm to the snoozer, y'all.

Hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 27, 2021 03:10 AM (QzJWU)

693 I was in the USAF during the Carter admin.


Three (3) friends went into the USAF in the 80s.

They all wanted to fly fighters, but gut assigned to BUFFS

"Why not...Minot?"

I offered to buy each a cowboy hat to keep in the safe on the BUFF, if they got such duty. Slim Pickens like.

Dammit, the code safes had been swapped out for microwave ovens, which would not hold a proper hat.

Posted by: Miklos, toe to toe with the Rooskies at January 27, 2021 03:13 AM (QzkSJ)

694 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 27, 2021 03:19 AM (rBZey)

695 Mornin'
(sips coffee)
Posted by: Puddleglum

Coffee and bourbon don't mix.

Oh wait


*sips Covfefe*

Posted by: Miklos, both late and early at January 27, 2021 03:21 AM (QzkSJ)

696 Republican party has its first woman presidential nominee for 2024 marjorie taylor green! She makes trump look like a moderate.

Posted by: raimondo at January 27, 2021 03:22 AM (9aEV6)

697 See yesterday's thread by Buck Throckmorton. But please don't comment there.



Ixnay on the Iyahay

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2021 03:23 AM (arJlL)

698 Is this one of those nights when other people have to work in the morning?

Posted by: Miklos. vaguely passionately uninterested at January 27, 2021 03:23 AM (QzkSJ)

699 The last pic is young Chuck Yeager

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2021 03:24 AM (arJlL)

700 stop nomination republicans died one fat sells the black pressional district of north carolina 9th continue to be post office off. thanks to prevent families run by republicans because he democrat trying to fight and sucker caravan for every woman democratic voter scalping!

Posted by: raimondo on tap, LLC at January 27, 2021 03:25 AM (QzkSJ)

701 And a drywall interior.
Posted by: JT
----------

Mud and caulk will take care of most of it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 27, 2021 03:26 AM (CTJwJ)

702 698: Apparently. No booze in my coffee. Just coffee.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 27, 2021 03:27 AM (rBZey)

703 Mud and caulk will take care of most of it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer


Mud it three times if yer doin it rite.

Posted by: Miklosian Home Renovations PLC at January 27, 2021 03:27 AM (QzkSJ)

704 Hmm. I see the Gibberish-to-English translator isn't working tonight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at January 27, 2021 03:27 AM (CTJwJ)

705 Do they even make Bondo anymore?


Asking for a...friend

Posted by: Dr. Jill at January 27, 2021 03:28 AM (QzkSJ)

706 Of course Jill they make epoxy Bondo

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 03:32 AM (Cxk7w)

707 For 72 hours only

With TWO My Pillows, you get an Ed.D. from the University of Miklos for only $19.99!

Posted by: Dr. Prof. Dr. Miklos at January 27, 2021 03:33 AM (QzkSJ)

708 The Carter years sucked, but still always wonder if should have stayed in another 4

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 03:35 AM (Cxk7w)

709 The Carter years sucked, but still always wonder if should have stayed in another 4
Posted by: Skip

It will be Morning Again in America

Posted by: Ronald Wilson Miklos-Reagan at January 27, 2021 03:38 AM (QzkSJ)

710
In what can only be called a "come back to bite you in the ass move"
a Judge in Texas has issued a Nationwide injunction against the

fascist xiden* regimes EO to change immigration law.. I'm not in any way
for judges interference but if the leftards are going to use it we gotta use it..

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 03:38 AM (kq199)

711 We might all be the Shelly Winters character in the Poseidon Adventure first though

Posted by: Ronald Wilson Miklos-Reagan at January 27, 2021 03:39 AM (QzkSJ)

712 I'm not in any way
for judges interference but if the leftards are going to use it we gotta use it..
Posted by: beanervt


I could live pretty well in Hawaii on a Federal Judge's salary.

Posted by: His Honor Miklos "Flip" Wilson, here come the Judge at January 27, 2021 03:40 AM (QzkSJ)

713 "If you pass a piece of legislation that breaks down on party lines, but it gets passed, that doesn't mean there wasn't unity,"

Don't worry! My friends and I will make sure that nothing passes on a strict party-line vote.

Posted by: Mitt Romney at January 27, 2021 03:55 AM (qZQDK)

714 Re: Professor Jane WardVery sad that you have never been in love, and due to your warped view of the world you will never be, but please spare us who do love your clueless pontifications.

Posted by: IMR4198 at January 27, 2021 03:58 AM (sjUF+)

715
The Army has stepped up to the bat to protest the dire treatment of their
brothers in arms defending the First Fraud Resident... on his visit to

Arlington the Gun crew shot off a volley of 3 with a 10 sec interval....
This is used for dignitaries and FUNERALS..... They fully honored

Pres Trump on his departure with the full 21 gun salute...

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 04:00 AM (kq199)

716 Coffee is up, it's a start

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 04:13 AM (Cxk7w)

717 A cold 9 degrees this morning. Got about 8 inches of snow yesterday.

Mornin', all.

Posted by: My life is insanity at January 27, 2021 04:16 AM (LYSrS)

718 JT if your out there , even in Allentown yesterday was no snow, more winter mix sleet.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 04:17 AM (Cxk7w)

719 So no snow here but heard around weekend snow, guess I should go look at forecast

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 04:18 AM (Cxk7w)

720 I thought it was gonna rocket up to 40 deg today.

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2021 04:21 AM (arJlL)

721
Morning MLii,, hope that 8" of snow if fluffy stuff.... 25 here going to 28
with a little dusting of snow.

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 04:22 AM (kq199)

722 Bruce - are you in here ?

Posted by: JT at January 27, 2021 04:22 AM (arJlL)

723 Not seeing snow in forecast which is fine to me

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 04:26 AM (Cxk7w)

724 So, now the Cult of Chinese Flu want to go up your ass?

I don't like you that way, Karen!

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2021 04:27 AM (FYe3W)

725 It wasn't too heavy a snow beanervt, but heavy enough. A lot of blowing in the beginning of the storm.

Supposed to get another storm through this weekend

Posted by: My life is insanity at January 27, 2021 04:29 AM (LYSrS)

726 Somebody probably needs to reboot the raimando generator.

He had been getting lucid in recent weeks.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2021 04:29 AM (FYe3W)

727 The way that I got fooled into thinking that raimando might have somebody backing it is a pretty good indicator that "raimando" is a Turing Test project.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2021 04:31 AM (FYe3W)

728 I am pretty sure that Joe Bidet has late-stage Syphilis.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 27, 2021 04:35 AM (2BZBZ)

729
"Supposed to get another storm through this weekend"
Well MLii,, hopefully that's a small one.. moving snow ain't fun unless
you have a plow truck.. My Bro in law and neighbor does mine with a 4

wheeler.. does good if you get it before it builds.. I have a blower but

rarely have to use it..

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 04:36 AM (kq199)

730 So, now the Cult of Chinese Flu want to go up your ass?

Funny thing. 10% of patients enjoy it

Posted by: Old Boys in the Hall punchline at January 27, 2021 04:37 AM (2BZBZ)

731 >>rarely have to use it..
Posted by: beanervt

Nice!

We shovel. All good except when your back is messed up! Good thing I have 2 capable sons that can do it when I can't.

Posted by: My life is insanity at January 27, 2021 04:40 AM (LYSrS)

732
Now that pisslousy has invested 1 million in Tesla will we see the majority
of xidens* 650K gov vehicles switched to battery bought from Tesla??
if so does she go to prison like Martha Stewart?

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 04:40 AM (kq199)

733 Now that pisslousy has invested 1 million in Tesla will we see the majority
of xidens* 650K gov vehicles switched to battery bought from Tesla??
if so does she go to prison like Martha Stewart?
Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 04:40 AM (kq199)
---
That's not how it works for Congress seat holder, citizen.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2021 04:42 AM (FYe3W)

734 Overnite
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/breaking nypd officer shot back bronx

Perp caught but of course they don't want to release who.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 04:47 AM (Cxk7w)

735 So there's this article that is referred to an Insty, that says that secession is just what Putin wants.

And it says that Federalism is the answer instead of secession. And I would agree that Federalism is preferable to breaking up the country.

However, we're all out of federalists who are actually in power. That's like saying that the ultimate strategy for anything is the solution challenged by the people out of power and not too popular.

I thought that a bright spot for Trump for Democrats is that they might decide that federalism is a good idea. But they have shown that they prefer outright state revolt when out of power in Washington, and fascism when in.

There's no principle to it, except "We're going to tell everybody under us what to do".

So federalism might work if conservatives get far enough into the power to change it, but we've just seen what a handful of blue states can do to a country, in both the lockdown and elections.

I don't think that the preference of a group of people out of power--and perhaps without a party *can be* "the solution" until it's even "okay" to disagree with The Party.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2021 04:56 AM (FYe3W)

736 Just saw a comment at NewNeo that is getting passed around but there was no counter protests on Capital Jan 6.
First time ever I would think in 4 years a Trump rally had no detractors, but there were undercover operatives in the Capital.

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 05:09 AM (Cxk7w)

737 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 27, 2021 05:09 AM (6Pqz7)

738 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2021 05:13 AM (lmikk)

739 I'm outta here, doubt this gets to 1K but have a go at it.
Wonder want decrees Emperor Fk Stick will sign today?

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2021 05:13 AM (Cxk7w)

740 Have a good one, Skip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2021 05:17 AM (lmikk)

741 Morning Skip et al.

Really need to sleep, timing is all off. Got about 6"of snow yesterday. Thankfully the neighbor helped, God Bless Him.

I've still got work to do tomorrow.

Posted by: Farmer at January 27, 2021 05:29 AM (55Qr6)

742 I find the argument that 'This is exactly what China or Russia want' against Secession to be somewhat silly. Why, because the current rulers of the US are such a hinderance to them?

-China is now allowed back into the US power grid

-Bans on fracking and pipelines are good for the Russian economy.

-China invades Taiwan's airspace and I have not heard a peep from the Biden admin.

Seems kind of like this admin is coming up roses for China and Russia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2021 05:32 AM (lmikk)

743
"Seems kind of like this admin is coming up roses for China and Russia.



Posted by: Aetius451AD"
And he's back to supporting the Palistine pukes and appointed a hate the
Jooo's ambassador to Israel continuing the support terrorist initiative
of the lefturds...

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 05:40 AM (kq199)

744 And he's back to supporting the Palistine pukes and appointed a hate the
Jooo's ambassador to Israel continuing the support terrorist initiative
of the lefturds...
Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 05:40 AM (kq199)

Indeed. My point is that considering external situations on what we should do is kind of silly. Whether it helps or hurts third party countries is immaterial. It is whether WE find the situation here in the US intolerable, not whether what we do is going to help or hurt those other external forces.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2021 05:46 AM (lmikk)

745
I wonder why the lame ass media isn't calling pedo joe

a dicklesstater with the worlds record 19 EO's in 3 days... they called

President Trump one with just 1... Obola the kocksucca had 5 at the same time..

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 05:47 AM (kq199)

746 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 27, 2021 05:50 AM (ju2Fy)

747
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 27, 2021 05:52 AM (Ifj+D)

748 I wonder why the lame ass media isn't calling pedo joe

a dicklesstater with the worlds record 19 EO's in 3 days... they called

President Trump one with just 1... Obola the kocksucca had 5 at the same time..
Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 05:47 AM (kq199)

We all know why.

There is not argument or logic or any consistency. There is only power.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2021 05:56 AM (lmikk)

749 The sad thing is that, unlike Trump, Biden has the entire apparatus of the government on his side, so he should be able to go the normal legislative route for his agenda, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2021 05:59 AM (lmikk)

750 Men don't need pillows; they want them. Men need heavy rain and wind to give them a good night's sleep. Damn you, weather report.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 27, 2021 06:00 AM (ma0+Q)

751
The slime stream media urinalist are already promoting kameltoe da
hoe as the first black vagina veep.... she is the first anchor baby
non black Indian/Caribbean hoe to rise to Willies willy to get her startin the corrupt political scene. Born to slave owner family and moved

to America to pilfer the system like so many of the ungrateful in government

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 06:05 AM (kq199)

752
", so he should be able to go the normal legislative route for his agenda, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD"
He saving that for the tax raises on the middle class, who he promised
he wouldn't raise a dime on... that we he can spread the blame aroundfor his feckless waste of our tax monies...

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 06:11 AM (kq199)

753 Very nice picture, up top; Thanks, MisHum

And today's devotional from "The Upper Room" because I won't be around to post it later-"Promise in Uncertainty" from
Psalm 36:

https://www.upperroom.org/devotionals/en-2021-01-27

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2021 06:12 AM (VP4Cd)

754 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2021 06:15 AM (u82oZ)

755 He saving that for the tax raises on the middle class, who he promised
he wouldn't raise a dime on... that we he can spread the blame aroundfor his feckless waste of our tax monies...
Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 06:11 AM (kq199)

Kind of hilarious, in a way. I wonder if they will bother to vote on Butt's plan to institute a mile driven tax.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2021 06:16 AM (lmikk)

756 beanervt

Failure theater.

I'll take Palestine and Dems for $400, Wolf Blitzer.

What are two organizations that exist for the leaders only.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2021 06:19 AM (u82oZ)

757 G'morning, all.


Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2021 06:19 AM (S7VTO)

758 > I'm thinking of ordering his mattress topper for the bed in my guest room

Memory foam? I like mine very much.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 27, 2021 06:19 AM (LOTm4)

759 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2021 06:20 AM (u82oZ)

760 Earth Porn-Amazing pictures of light and landscape:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2021 06:25 AM (VP4Cd)

761 So now I need to put Bed, Bath and Beyond, as well as Kohl's on the 'Ain't getting my money' list?

OK.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2021 06:26 AM (S7VTO)

762
" I wonder if they will bother to vote on Butt's plan to institute a mile driven tax. Posted by: Aetius451AD"

I'm sure that will be part of the plan to pay for the 650K new ele vehicles for
the government.. Problem is it's going to be a fight for who gets the taxesfirst.. Feds or States.. Most Dem states with the tight shut downs are now
hurting like hell from the lack of tax revenue.. their going to be hitting the
middle class hard too.. Leftist idiocy is likely to lead us to another depression..

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 06:26 AM (kq199)

763 The irony is that because of PDT, all those businesses were doing great, until Wuhan Flu.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 27, 2021 06:27 AM (2BZBZ)

764 It's all "Not my circus, not my monkeys" now.

I an leaving politics behind.

30+years of sound decisions, making people free in control-freak central of Reston, VA, getting behind good people, door-knocking, marching in parades, the Constitution Bee, sweat equity fundraising, clearing the local area of bad office-holders, and my path to County Commissioner, all gone.

I'm registered as Unaffiliated now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2021 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

765 I guess I have to learn to say "good morning" in Mandarin

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Hey! You can't do that here! at January 27, 2021 06:29 AM (gkHkW)

766 FenelonSpoke

Thank you for your links. I appreciate it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2021 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

767 Now I understand the reason that 'Firefly' was a universe of english, and mandarin.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2021 06:32 AM (S7VTO)

768 Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2021 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

You are welcome, brother, and I appreciate your regular morning encouragement about smiling and being happy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2021 06:33 AM (VP4Cd)

769 Well, time to get busy. It's earlier than usual because we had 2.2 inches of snow last night. I have some decisions to make.

Have a wonderful day, everyone. I'd say more about the local political scene, but I've already been rebuked by the County Republican Party chair for my last letter to our local Federal Senator.

Rotten structures and organizations do not stand.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 27, 2021 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

770 The rumor is any company that has federal contracts will have to sign up for "critical race theory" sessions. Could anything possibly be more overtly Maoist? Incredible.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Hey! You can't do that here! at January 27, 2021 06:34 AM (gkHkW)

771 Be safe, Salty

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2021 06:36 AM (S7VTO)

772 Good morning!

What's the good news?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 27, 2021 06:36 AM (5XK0y)

773 Morning!

Being in the over 29 crowd, I gave thanks to the inventor of the snowblower yesterday. Would have been a bugger to shovel.

Just like when it's hot and humid, Willis Carrier is given thanks

Posted by: Bruce at January 27, 2021 06:36 AM (vd8XM)

774 Principal takes second job at Walmart to help low income students:

https://tinyurl.com/y3yj9fc9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2021 06:36 AM (VP4Cd)

775
The irony is that because of PDT, all those businesses were doing great, until Wuhan Flu.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 27, 2021 06:27 AM (2BZBZ)


A key metric, the USA Labor Participation Rate, reversed a nearly two decade long decline - under Trump it was moving steadily upward. Until the China virus.

Oops... I called the China Virus the China Virus. Biden* signed an EO forbidding such speech. When is the next bus to the reeducation camp?

Posted by: Pennsylvania Conservative at January 27, 2021 06:37 AM (N/gDA)

776
"What's the good news?"
Hey CoJ
Xiden* is still sleeping and not screwing up America more as of yet...

Posted by: beanervt at January 27, 2021 06:39 AM (kq199)

777 "When is the next bus to the reeducation camp?"

Weekday schedule, they come along about every 13 minutes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2021 06:39 AM (S7VTO)

778 Geologist finds quartz formation that looks like the Cookie Monster:

https://tinyurl.com/y365n7h7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2021 06:40 AM (VP4Cd)

779 Good morning!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2021 06:42 AM (bDqIh)

780 Geologist finds quartz formation that looks like the Cookie Monster:

Yet another sign that the secularized world is coming closer to Judgement Day....

These formations used to look like the Virgin Mary.

Posted by: Observer at January 27, 2021 06:44 AM (C+evo)

781 "When is the next bus to the reeducation camp?"

Weekday schedule, they come along about every 13 minutes.


Or until the batteries die out

Posted by: Observer at January 27, 2021 06:46 AM (C+evo)

782 Or until the batteries die out
Posted by: Observer

No problem, Sloe Joe will sign an EO that all must be equipped with a wind turbine, mounted to the roof of the vehicle, to generate electricity to charge the batteries as it drives along.

WINNING!

Posted by: Bruce at January 27, 2021 06:48 AM (vd8XM)

783 NOOOOD

Posted by: Bruce at January 27, 2021 06:49 AM (vd8XM)

784 Morning all

Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2021 06:50 AM (Q4b3v)

785 Le NOOD

It be here

And shit!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2021 06:50 AM (S7VTO)

786 So now that the Virginia Board of Elections has determined that:

1: Accepting mail in ballots without a postmark was illegal

2: Have passed into law that it will be illegal to allow it in the future

Can we throat punch the folk that keep shouting that nothing done during the election was illegal?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2021 10:41 AM (S7VTO)

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