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Quarantine Cafe: Dogs Posting Their W's Online Edition

Dying dog, unable to move, walk, or even stand, is found in the trash. But is nursed back to health.

I've been watching this dog grooming channel a lot. Here's one with a golden retriever puppy, and here are more puppies.

This one will make you cry: "super senior" dog, probably abandoned because of his cancer, almost becomes a puppy again.

Terrified puppy learns to be a brave boy.


Dog with a leg so badly injured it might have to be amputated is so cute the vet asks to foster it.

Man rescues an injured dog from the woods and adopts her. And she comes with nine little secrets inside her.

Posted by: Ace at 08:07 PM




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1 ?

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 07:07 PM (Xih1H)

2 Yes SPONGE!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2021 07:07 PM (OCTRt)

3 Roomy in here.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2021 07:07 PM (Rvt88)

4 I still don't get cruelty to animals.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 07:08 PM (Ojki1)

5 I detest cruelty to animals

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2021 07:09 PM (Cxk7w)

6 Kitten Attack.

I've been watching a lot of bobcat vids on the youtubes. Bobcats catching rattlesnakes and shit.

Amazing how, from big to medium to small to tiny, cats have some seriously deadly speed.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 07:09 PM (Bmy3R)

7 Get yourself a decent weekend ace.

Posted by: ... at April 23, 2021 07:10 PM (uEbPt)

8 Use to be sound asleep and the cats would quietly sneak in and pounce on me

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2021 07:10 PM (Cxk7w)

9 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 23, 2021 07:11 PM (OCTRt)

10 Still bat free.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:11 PM (4FeUN)

11 Don't you love me anymore?!

Posted by: Capybara at April 23, 2021 07:12 PM (vMCab)

12 11 Don't you love me anymore?!
Posted by: Capybara at April 23, 2021 07:12 PM (vMCab)

You deserve it, Home wrecker.

Posted by: Bats at April 23, 2021 07:13 PM (Ojki1)

13 I can't watch the dog videos. I just can't..,

Posted by: Ladyl at April 23, 2021 07:13 PM (+4oV5)

14 >>>10 Still bat free.


I think some of you guys have a very unrealistic estimate of the number of cute bat videos available.

Santa cannot make toy trains without wood.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2021 07:13 PM (5+1A/)

15 I will watch these videos. But all videos seem pale and wan to me today. Yesterday there was the greatest video, Cat Waps SJW Announcing Her Pronouns Across Her Stupid SJW Face, and all else is mere chaff to me now.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:15 PM (RzGcW)

16
Frederik the Great, a Frisian stallion, struts his stuff and knows he's the boss.

https://youtu.be/Z2U6mwKhBS8

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:15 PM (mht8P)

17 Of the 17 dogs I have taken as rescues 15 have died of old age here on the farm. I have two that will see me to my demise.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:16 PM (P93Is)

18
I live to serve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiQ9jdVKU-w

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 23, 2021 07:16 PM (Uh2oA)

19
That old dog Henry was a sweet story.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:16 PM (FCP94)

20
I have two that will see me to my demise.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:16 PM (P93Is)

_________

Not soon, we pray.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:16 PM (mht8P)

21 We are going to look back at 2020 much like we look back at 1939.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 23, 2021 07:17 PM (w3nMT)

22 bah, you and your batless excuses!!!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 23, 2021 07:17 PM (KZzsI)

23 Still bat free.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:11 PM


Chiroptophobia runs deep,
into your heart it can creep.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2021 07:18 PM (DMUuz)

24 {{{Ben Had}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 23, 2021 07:18 PM (+4oV5)

25 I think some of you guys have a very unrealistic estimate of the number of cute bat videos available.

Santa cannot make toy trains without wood.
Posted by: ace at April 23, 2021 07:13 PM (5+1A/)

The Horde? Unrealistic expectations?

Next you'll be saying that the 29 thing is a meme and may not be reflective of reality.

Posted by: Bats at April 23, 2021 07:18 PM (Ojki1)

26 Ah poo i missed the Gainnzzz thread. Gonna go dance and see if I get any new gainzzz. Puppies are cool though.

Posted by: Funsize at April 23, 2021 07:19 PM (EiPf6)

27 Bats do eat their fair share of insects

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2021 07:19 PM (Cxk7w)

28 that little boy is awesome

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 23, 2021 07:19 PM (GBZnB)

29 Recoil mag has leaked copy of atf changes on gun parts

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 07:19 PM (Xih1H)

30 Santa cannot make toy trains without wood.
Posted by: ace at April 23, 2021 07:13 PM (5+1A/)


Neither can a bunch of drunk frat boys.

Posted by: Brett Kavinaugh at April 23, 2021 07:19 PM (4FeUN)

31 16
Frederik the Great, a Frisian stallion, struts his stuff and knows he's the boss.

https://youtu.be/Z2U6mwKhBS8
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:15 PM (mht8P)


Frisians really are the boss. But where there is a boss, there is a pretender. Behold the Gypsy Vanner, the preferred horse of every teenage girl whose family has acquired money, but not class. It reminds me of that one-named dude with the long hair who used to be on so many romance novel covers. Can't come up with the name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-7GbOzWswQ

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:20 PM (RzGcW)

32 Hadrian, not soon but I have them provided for should anything sneak up on me.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:21 PM (P93Is)

33 Fabio!



*Disclaimer* F**k no, I didn't read that kind of thing.

Posted by: April at April 23, 2021 07:21 PM (OX9vb)

34 Cat was funny.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 23, 2021 07:22 PM (HPSCb)

35
Can't come up with the name.

__________

Fabio

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (mht8P)

36 33 Fabio!

*Disclaimer* F**k no, I didn't read that kind of thing.
Posted by: April


Didn't he catch a pigeon in the face at some amusement park?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (Rvt88)

37
Anyone remember the "electronic" family board game TRAC 4?

I do not.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (FCP94)

38 Splunge, I'm sorry that you did not get to meet Fabio. He belongs to our blog friend SixKiller.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (P93Is)

39 Our bat house goes up next weekend. It should hold about 30 bats, probably bachelors during the winter.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (so0nV)

40 35 Fabio
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (mht8P)


That was it, thank you. I wonder what happened to him?

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (RzGcW)

41 Fabio!

*Disclaimer* F**k no, I didn't read that kind of thing.
Posted by: April at April 23, 2021 07:21 PM


It was disappointing. So much so, I had to start writing my own.

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at April 23, 2021 07:24 PM (DMUuz)

42
For the lads:

https://tinyurl.com/56mhkjne

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 23, 2021 07:24 PM (Uh2oA)

43 I will watch these videos. But all videos seem pale and wan to me today. Yesterday there was the greatest video, Cat Waps SJW Announcing Her Pronouns Across Her Stupid SJW Face, and all else is mere chaff to me now.
Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:15 PM (RzGcW)


That really is the definition of the perfect video. 10 seconds in length, punchline in 3, can be set to loop indefinitely and never gets tiresome. And, after 60 some odd years of people telling me reasons cats are great adorable tolerable, I actually found one I can respect. Whole lotta levels at play.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:25 PM (4FeUN)

44
I seriously considered getting one of those Bat Houses things for the backyard, last year, for mosquitoes. One of you here told me about them.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:25 PM (FCP94)

45 YD - Eddie Izzard's "Cake or Death" bit still will send me into screams of laughter.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2021 07:25 PM (Rvt88)

46 38 Splunge, I'm sorry that you did not get to meet Fabio. He belongs to our blog friend SixKiller.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:23 PM (P93Is)


I have gotten lost among the Fabios. This one is a horse, right? What kind? I would like to meet him.

You know, if Texas people had smaller ranches, these sort of meetings would happen organically. But that would be wrong.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:26 PM (RzGcW)

47
*Disclaimer* F**k no, I didn't read that kind of thing.
Posted by: April at April 23, 2021 07:21 PM (OX9vb)

___________

Her Majesty reads those by the dozen. Always with titles like "The Sheikh's Mistress", never "The Lusty Dutchess's Kept Stableboy".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:26 PM (mht8P)

48 A nesting mallard pair had set up shop beneath the outside stairs to the sunroom near the pond a few days ago. This morning I found all the eggs torn apart and the contents eaten. No feathers though. I'm guessing a raccoon.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2021 07:28 PM (Rvt88)

49 seriously considered getting one of those Bat Houses things for the backyard, last year, for mosquitoes. One of you here told me about them.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate

I've had the bat house a couple years but finally going to have the help install it. I live near the Willamette river so we get flying bugs in the evening which makes dinning on the deck suck.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 07:28 PM (so0nV)

50 43 That really is the definition of the perfect video. 10 seconds in length, punchline in 3, can be set to loop indefinitely and never gets tiresome. And, after 60 some odd years of people telling me reasons cats are great adorable tolerable, I actually found one I can respect. Whole lotta levels at play.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:25 PM (4FeUN)


Yes, exactly. Part of me wanted to skip work today, and just watch it on a loop. And the comic timing is perfect.

*cat is chilling as owner talks*
My pronouns are
*cat raises head in alarm*
blah blah...
*cat identifies the threat, and neutralizes it with speed and dispatch*
(outraged SJW face)

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:29 PM (RzGcW)

51 Splunge, definitely a horse. A Friesian.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:30 PM (P93Is)

52 I think this should be included in the cafe sometime.

https://youtu.be/DhPQLpG7G3Q

Posted by: buzzion at April 23, 2021 07:30 PM (vMCab)

53 "I seriously considered getting one of those Bat Houses things for the backyard"

I built a couple and put them up but no bats roosted in them.
We still have bats though, I don't know where they live.

Posted by: f'd at April 23, 2021 07:30 PM (Tnijr)

54 Math is merely a construct of white males:

More than 6 in 10 college-age Americans approve of President Biden's job as president thus far, according to a new youth poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, representing the highest figure for any president in the history of the survey.

Overall, 59 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds approve of Biden's job as president,


"More than 6 in 10..." "59%

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (w3nMT)

55 51 Splunge, definitely a horse. A Friesian.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:30 PM (P93Is)


I would love to meet him. But Mrs. Splunge would love to meet him about 50x more. You know how she is.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (RzGcW)

56 Nora Roberts has no home here.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (P93Is)

57 There's a breed of small wild cat called "sand cats", that look like kittens when they're full adults. They eat snakes, lizards, rodents, that sort of thing.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (Fq1gB)

58 ACE IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT I SAY I'M GOING TO HOLD MY BREATH AND DEPLOY STAMPY FEET!!1! I HAVE A BLOG!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (DXFDM)

59
I've had the bat house a couple years but finally going to have the help install it. I live near the Willamette river so we get flying bugs in the evening which makes dinning on the deck suck.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 07:28 PM (so0nV)

_________

During lovebug season last year I was mowing the back 40 and there were a dozen martins booming and zooming just above ground level.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (mht8P)

60
I live near the Willamette river so we get flying bugs in the evening which makes dinning on the deck suck.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 07:28 PM (so0nV)


Well, bats swooping down at twilight and eating those bugs should make for interesting dining.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:32 PM (FCP94)

61 Ace,
Dunno if you're here, but thank you for introducing me to Owlkitty. Love her.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:32 PM (U2p+3)

62 They're sending her for gastro tests now. Kind of weird, obviously they did the necessary as one of the first emergency tests to check for blood in the stomach, so I don't know what they're searching for.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 07:00 PM (Bmy3R)

looking for bleeds the ER might have missed, probably

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 23, 2021 07:33 PM (GBZnB)

63
But Mrs. Splunge would love to meet him about 50x more. You know how she is.
Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (RzGcW)

_________

"Beware the hobby that eats."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:34 PM (mht8P)

64
Fauci wanted find out more about COVID, so he started frequenting bat houses. For science.

But then he found out the stuff he'd heard about these places was all wrong; no gay shit even happens there at all, so he cut his losses and just banned everything.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 23, 2021 07:34 PM (Uh2oA)

65 >A nesting mallard pair had set up shop beneath the outside stairs to the sunroom near the pond a few days ago. This morning I found all the eggs torn apart and the contents eaten. No feathers though. I'm guessing a raccoon.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2021 07:28 PM (Rvt8

Nature, red in tooth and claw

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 07:34 PM (DXFDM)

66 Dog Thinks Through a Problem.

https://youtu.be/m_CrIu01SnM

Posted by: buzzion at April 23, 2021 07:34 PM (vMCab)

67 54 Math is merely a construct of white males:

"More than 6 in 10..." "59%
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 23, 2021 07:31 PM (w3nMT)

Wait, so we've moved on from the Arabs and/or the Mayans invented math?

Posted by: April at April 23, 2021 07:35 PM (OX9vb)

68 If there is one thing I can be certain of from this week in review is the knowledge that Bruce Jenner could outsmart Gavin Newsom just like OJ Simpson outwitted LeBron James.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 23, 2021 07:35 PM (PLitN)

69 We're all hoping that that's not true, BenHad !


Rescue dogs from bad situations have to rediscover real dog-ness when moved into a loving environment and often have a "late puppyhood" ... we are working through that right now with our dog.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 07:35 PM (uk6Gp)

70 >>>Dunno if you're here, but thank you for introducing me to Owlkitty. Love her.


yes very fun. and you're welcome, of course.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2021 07:35 PM (5+1A/)

71 Splunge, you must come early so that the Mrs. can ride with us.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (P93Is)

72 Bats tend to live near water, they may not come to bat houses if no water is near.

Posted by: Funsize at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (EiPf6)

73 63 "Beware the hobby that eats."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:34 PM (mht8P)


*looks out at pasture*

It's way too late for that.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (RzGcW)

74
Rescue dogs from bad situations have to rediscover real dog-ness when moved into a loving environment and often have a "late puppyhood" ... we are working through that right now with our dog.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 07:35 PM (uk6Gp)

____________

We had a foster Borzoi who had no idea how to run around in the exercise paddock.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (mht8P)

75 Ace,
Have you seen a Canadian show "Letterkenny?"

It's hysterical. Will make you laugh out loud. By yourself.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:37 PM (U2p+3)

76 Sometimes, you just gotta wash your ass.

https://bit.ly/3dLX8DU

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:37 PM (4FeUN)

77 71 Splunge, you must come early so that the Mrs. can ride with us.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (P93Is)


I will relay that, and you can bet she will want to take you up on it.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:37 PM (RzGcW)

78 thanks for all the dog videos tonight, Ace; really needed them.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 07:37 PM (uk6Gp)

79
*looks out at pasture*

It's way too late for that.
Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (RzGcW)

_________

*looks out at kennel*

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:38 PM (mht8P)

80 >I've had the bat house a couple years but finally going to have the help install it. I live near the Willamette river so we get flying bugs in the evening which makes dinning on the deck suck.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 07:28 PM (so0nV)

I went camping on the John Day river a few years back, in an area where there was a cliff on the other side of the river, with some obvious bat caves.

The spectacle at dusk, where a huge swarm of insects would come out onto the river, followed by a massive horde of bats coming down to feast was something to behold. So many of them zig-zagging everywhere, gliding close to the surface of the river to feast on bugs. Pretty neat.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 07:38 PM (DXFDM)

81 {{{NurseRatched}}}

Hope you had a great week!

Posted by: Ladyl at April 23, 2021 07:38 PM (+4oV5)

82 at least in Jim Snow America we can still own dogs

Posted by: AmericaHatesWhitePeople at April 23, 2021 07:38 PM (yC/eQ)

83 Cats and Dogs are gifts from a loving God, they enabled man to transcend hunter-gathering.....

abuse them at your soul's peril.

Posted by: sven at April 23, 2021 07:38 PM (Lzpvj)

84 Goshdanggit. Once again, missing the meaty, juicy threads, and returning for the Cafe. Which I respect, and don't want to sully with the crap I usually rant abou.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:38 PM (OTzUX)

85 Reading posts about what imbecile wannabes vomit forth on their various social media outlets makes me increasingly happy that I spend at most only a vanishingly small amount of time on social media.

Posted by: Pussy Galore at April 23, 2021 07:39 PM (doAIC)

86 rant "about", that was, but you knew that

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:39 PM (OTzUX)

87 Owlkitty is one of the few good things to come out of Portland.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 07:39 PM (DXFDM)

88 sock_rat, Oh no, I'm not going anywhere, but the bloom is definitely off the rose and I don't leave things to chance.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:39 PM (P93Is)

89 72 Bats tend to live near water, they may not come to bat houses if no water is near.
Posted by: Funsize at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (EiPf6)

Are you sure? I've never lived near water, but everywhere I've ever lived, there have been bats. I've never heard that.

Posted by: April at April 23, 2021 07:40 PM (OX9vb)

90 rhomboid

Your rants are the keen observations of the one-eyed seer in the land of the blind.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 23, 2021 07:40 PM (u82oZ)

91 85 Posted by: Pussy Galore at April 23, 2021 07:39 PM (doAIC)


The goal is "zero", and we are in the middle of a pretty sporty thunderstorm....

Thank God I came in out of the field yesterday.

Posted by: sven at April 23, 2021 07:40 PM (Lzpvj)

92 Ben Had

♪ ♫ Good evening! ♫ ♬

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 23, 2021 07:40 PM (u82oZ)

93
Anyone remember that conspiracy movie with Mel Gibson and...Julia Roberts? I forget what its called.

But that's the movie we're living in, now. That and Devil's Advocate.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:41 PM (FCP94)

94 rhomboid

Your rants are the keen observations of the one-eyed seer in the land of the blind.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 23, 2021 07:40 PM (u82oZ)

---------

Yep. Always a must-read.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 07:41 PM (fLVm1)

95 There's a tornado warning....I may win the grand prize!

That would be a beautiful cap to the 2021 I have grown to know and love....

house smashed by a cyclone, Joey Plugz as "PotUS", and a surge in illegals not asked to mask.

Posted by: sven at April 23, 2021 07:41 PM (Lzpvj)

96 We have bats around, plenty of ponds, creeks and a river with a couple miles.

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (Cxk7w)

97 93
Anyone remember that conspiracy movie with Mel Gibson and...Julia Roberts? I forget what its called.

But that's the movie we're living in, now. That and Devil's Advocate.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:41 PM (FCP94)



Conspiracy Theory.

Posted by: buzzion at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (vMCab)

98 Hi Ladyl!

Not particularly. It's been rough. I'm worn down by the lies and the hypocrisy and the shutdowns. I'm
Sad all the fucking time. Well, except when I'm talking to or with my boys.

The signs are back up on the beach. "Mask up!" "This is what six feet looks like!"

Fuck my life.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (U2p+3)

99 93 Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:41 PM (FCP94)

The eponymous "conspiracy" IIRC.....

Posted by: sven at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (Lzpvj)

100 "82 at least in Jim Snow America we can still own dogs

Posted by: AmericaHatesWhitePeople at April 23, 2021 07:38 PM (yC/eQ) "


for the moment, anyway ... Soviets back in the 20's - 30's had municipal officials whose job was going around shooting dogs.
I give it maybe 5 to 10 years and we will see that here.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (uk6Gp)

101 NaCly, you are a song that bring me sunshine.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:43 PM (P93Is)

102 Cool story about the bitch found in the woods. I wonder how her legs were broken.
Glad the puppies all found a home.

Posted by: clutch at April 23, 2021 07:43 PM (9UmRs)

103 Bats tend to live near water, they may not come to bat houses if no water is near.
Posted by: Funsize at April 23, 2021 07:36 PM (EiPf6)

Are you sure? I've never lived near water, but everywhere I've ever lived, there have been bats. I've never heard that.
Posted by: April at April 23, 2021 07:40 PM (OX9vb)


Nah, depends on the bats. Yeah, I see a lot fishing around lakes - I think that huge flat surface makes for an easy time with radar/bugs. But I lived up in the hills for many years, not much in the way of water, and lots of bats. Enough I considered building a bat house, but they seemed to be doing just fine.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:43 PM (4FeUN)

104 Beartooth we really enjoyed our few days in the northern Willamette Valley. August, a few years ago. The wine, the scenery, very friendly. Amazing food (fruit, berries).

We have been mulling a trip east to/through AZ, but we are wondering/worrying about how much idiocy we can take, or that would make a trip not worthwhile right now. The mask idiocy especially.

Places like OR seem like they might be off the list for a long time.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:43 PM (OTzUX)

105 I had a bat take up residence inside my patio umbrella once. Closest water was 10 miles away, small lake. No idea what that means.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 23, 2021 07:44 PM (P/sWs)

106 Not a bat video, just a frightened family:

https://youtu.be/y9lXfu6jLDw

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:44 PM (4FeUN)

107 The signs are back up on the beach. "Mask up!" "This is what six feet looks like!"

Fuck my life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (U2p+3)

---------

Do they still have geoduck clams at the beaches up there?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 07:44 PM (fLVm1)

108 wait no it was conspiracy theory....

Conspiracy was on the Wannsee Conference with Branagh and Tucci

Posted by: sven at April 23, 2021 07:44 PM (Lzpvj)

109 Can't stay awake much longer
Have good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2021 07:44 PM (Cxk7w)

110 >>>I've been watching this dog grooming channel a lot.

I have always wanted to meet a German Shepard who smells like a blueberry.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at April 23, 2021 07:44 PM (hVqGz)

111
And remember that 90's movie, Grisham novel?, with the movie Speed lady who isn't that pretty? The Net?

She was the first person to be "Canceled," if you think about it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:45 PM (FCP94)

112 Nurse, there will be some sunshine and love enough to carry you through those bad days soon. So says the magic 8 ball.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:45 PM (P93Is)

113 All of us in Brattleboro think that the Federil Govenorment should identify the gay pet crisis as a item that must be addressed now and placed in the budgit. Many gay pets are rejected by there owners and suffer pyschological effects thats lasts for a lifetime. This is just as improtant as Global Warming and Racism against all persins of coler. We calls on Senitor Leahy to address this now ........

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at April 23, 2021 07:46 PM (JLQTf)

114 Cool story about the bitch found in the woods. I wonder how her legs were broken.
Glad the puppies all found a home.
Posted by: clutch at April 23, 2021 07:43 PM (9UmRs)


Damn, scared me. For a second I thought you found that wh... er, never mind.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:46 PM (4FeUN)

115 >>>10 Still bat free.


I think some of you guys have a very unrealistic estimate of the number of cute bat videos available.

Santa cannot make toy trains without wood.
Posted by: ace at April 23, 2021 07:13 PM (5+1A/)

23 April. This blog has been bat free for zero days.

Posted by: BifBewalski - the bats made me do it at April 23, 2021 07:46 PM (VcFUs)

116 Ace should get on a Red Panda kick next.

https://youtu.be/dI6ULnKkHus

Posted by: buzzion at April 23, 2021 07:46 PM (vMCab)

117 Do they still have geoduck clams at the beaches up there?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April


Of course! But you gotta know where to go and have a big negative tide.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:46 PM (U2p+3)

118 104 We have been mulling a trip east to/through AZ, but we are wondering/worrying about how much idiocy we can take, or that would make a trip not worthwhile right now. The mask idiocy especially.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:43 PM (OTzUX)


Many AZ businesses have some mask requirements, yes, but the level of idiocy is really minimal. If you chose to never wear a mask during your entire visit here, it is more likely than not that no one would say a word the entire time.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:46 PM (RzGcW)

119 Ben Had.

Can't wait.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:47 PM (U2p+3)

120 Rats are like bats. I'm sure there are plenty of rat videos.

Posted by: f'd at April 23, 2021 07:47 PM (Tnijr)

121 48 A nesting mallard pair had set up shop beneath the outside stairs to the sunroom near the pond a few days ago. This morning I found all the eggs torn apart and the contents eaten. No feathers though. I'm guessing a raccoon

Aw, man! I live adjacent to a Mallard Protection area. I like 'em. So much better mannered than geese. Raccoons are asshoe.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 07:47 PM (Bmy3R)

122 So you're saying I'm half-blind!!!!

Outrageous!!





Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:47 PM (OTzUX)

123 98 Hi Ladyl!

Not particularly. It's been rough. I'm worn down by the lies and the hypocrisy and the shutdowns. I'm
Sad all the fucking time. Well, except when I'm talking to or with my boys.

The signs are back up on the beach. "Mask up!" "This is what six feet looks like!"

Fuck my life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (U2p+3)


I've retreated into a bubble of happiness. Fvck the left. It's is determined to destroy what is good in the world.

Posted by: Ladyl at April 23, 2021 07:47 PM (+4oV5)

124 116 Ace should get on a Red Panda kick next.

https://youtu.be/dI6ULnKkHus
Posted by: buzzion at April 23, 2021 07:46 PM (vMCab)

Master Shifu. FTW!

Posted by: BifBewalski - Furious Five at April 23, 2021 07:48 PM (VcFUs)

125 glad to hear it, BenHad !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 07:48 PM (uk6Gp)

126 Frederik the Great, a Frisian stallion, struts his stuff and knows he's the boss.

https://youtu.be/Z2U6mwKhBS8


"I'm TOO SEXY for my hooves, TOO SEXY for my mane, TOO SEXY . . . "

Oh my. Makes me almost want to be . . . a mare.

Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at April 23, 2021 07:48 PM (QU+qf)

127 The clip in the margins of the British pub owner lecturing and throwing out of his pub the Labor minister is one more reminder to me of a spirit of rebellion (seen in bits and pieces in England and Canada) so far completely absent in America. What the hell happened to us?

Posted by: Homo Viator at April 23, 2021 07:49 PM (C3zFG)

128 In the old days, when castles were about defense, there was the concept of the castle keep, a central place you could retreat to, to defend against attack, when the walls had been overwhelmed.

If you are within 90 minutes of any sort of ocean beach, it's time to relocate to the keep.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 07:50 PM (RzGcW)

129 Places like OR seem like they might be off the list for a long time.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:43 PM

There are lots of wonderful things about this area that we try to take advantage of but we've wanted out for a long time. With grandkids now we're stuck for another nine years but leave we will no matter our age.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 07:50 PM (so0nV)

130 Ladyl, no one can destroy what we hold dear to us. There isn't a leftist alive that could ever take away the joy of you and Nurse from me...

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:51 PM (P93Is)

131 Thanks for the intel, Splunge. Actually have a list of places I'm going to call to ask them about their current "policies". Pima Air Museum, for one. We'd be headed for TX, to visit my friend who was a SEAL.

It's just the idea of having to check. I've had the fun of traveling to lots of off-beat and sometimes dicey areas in the past, and to be doing the "advance work" that I used to do for those trips, *for the US* ....... WTF.


Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:51 PM (OTzUX)

132 Nurse,

now you're here and I still remember - I follow a page called otters daily on instagram - and they had a link to otter charms a few weeks ago I meant to post when you were here if such things interest you:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JuniperProvisionsCo

But I know pics of otter pups are always popular:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPBcKlgpMc/

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:51 PM (4FeUN)

133 Could someone link the swj pronoun cat video? I can't find it.

Thank you kindly in advance.

Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at April 23, 2021 07:51 PM (Bh9Dt)

134 eder Tag war ein Fest,
Und was jetzt? Pest, die Pest!
Nur ein grob' Leichenfest,
Das ist der Rest.

Posted by: runner, drive BLM to the 'burbs at April 23, 2021 07:51 PM (V13WU)

135 Jeder Tag war ein Fest,
Und was jetzt? Pest, die Pest!
Nur ein groß' Leichenfest,
Das ist der Rest.

Posted by: runner, drive BLM to the 'burbs at April 23, 2021 07:51 PM (V13WU)

136 rhomboid

Hmmm. No math on the blog, but since most of us have two eyes, that means you have three eyes.

Makes one wonder.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 23, 2021 07:52 PM (u82oZ)

137
Things I'd Like To See Someday But Probably Never Will
Castles
Lighthouses
Mt Rushmore
A real ghost town

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:52 PM (FCP94)

138 What the hell happened to us?
Posted by: Homo Viator at April 23, 2021 07:49 PM (C3zFG)

This video from the last thread is both the greatest and the saddest thing I've seen in some time.

Five Times August "Jesus -Whatever happened to us"

https://tinyurl.com/y4xfmn7r

It feels like the requiem for the Republic.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 07:53 PM (Bmy3R)

139
for the moment, anyway ... Soviets back in the 20's - 30's had municipal officials whose job was going around shooting dogs.
I give it maybe 5 to 10 years and we will see that here.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM


de Tocqueville mentions seeing that very thing in NYC on his fabled journey

Posted by: The Syncategorematic AltonJackson, Carbosexual at April 23, 2021 07:54 PM (DUIap)

140 runner , could you say that again?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:55 PM (P93Is)

141 The signs are back up on the beach. "Mask up!" "This is what six feet looks like!"

Fuck my life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (U2p+3)

Are they in Spanish as well, or does the Rona respect them and their culture and leave them alone?

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 07:56 PM (Ojki1)

142 Things I'd Like To See Someday But Probably Never Will
Castles
Lighthouses
Mt Rushmore
A real ghost town
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:52 PM (FCP94)


Really? I'd think at least 2 of those would be extremely possible. A visit here to CA (ugh, I know) would click 3 of those off of your list. If Hearst Castle counts - and I'd put it up there with stuff in Scotland. We got some cool ghost towns - so does Nevada, and a few lighthouses - although I think some of the cooler ones are on the right coast.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:56 PM (4FeUN)

143
Ireland (!) bans outdoor confessions.

https://tinyurl.com/edfrtmkd

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:56 PM (mht8P)

144 for the moment, anyway ... Soviets back in the 20's - 30's had municipal officials whose job was going around shooting dogs.
I give it maybe 5 to 10 years and we will see that here.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (uk6Gp)

I suspect you could see that today in Detroit given the stories of dog abandonment that have been coming out of their for years.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 07:57 PM (Ojki1)

145 Re: sidebar

What the actual fuck? What could the old man have possibly done to warrant that kind of reaction? I do not see any blood on the ground so he did not shoot one of them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 07:57 PM (lmikk)

146 @nurse ratched, have you seen the pepper spray guy again?

Posted by: davidt at April 23, 2021 07:58 PM (ez/ed)

147 143
Ireland (!) bans outdoor confessions.

https://tinyurl.com/edfrtmkd
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 07:56 PM (mht8P)

Looks like time for St. Patrick to return and drive out the snakes again.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 07:58 PM (Ojki1)

148 runner , could you say that again?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2021 07:55 PM (P93Is)


Posted by: runner, drive BLM to the 'burbs at April 23, 2021 07:58 PM (V13WU)

149 runner, your deutsche poetry/lyrics reminded me of one of my favorite sarcastic lyric substitutions, for the German World War I war song "Wacht am Rhein".

Lieb Vaterland macht ruhig sein,
Die Flotte schlaft, im Hafen ein

Caustic reference to the German fleet that had absorbed oceans of funding before the war, yet rarely ventured out of port once the fightin' was on.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:58 PM (OTzUX)

150
Really? I'd think at least 2 of those would be extremely possible.
Posted by: clutch cargo


Yeah, it's now a matter of motivation.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:58 PM (FCP94)

151 Hotair is very very concerned that Biden is a hard core leftist senile man. Very concerned!!! And remember voter more harder in 2022!!! Here is a poll.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 23, 2021 07:59 PM (P/sWs)

152 Fuck my life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (U2p+3)


I'd be tempted to put a sign next to that that says "and this is what 5 hands looks like" with 5 severed hands hanging underneath it.

Mannequin hands of course.

Yeah, mannequin.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 07:59 PM (4FeUN)

153 Every day was a feast,
Now we just have the plague!
Just a great corpse's feast,
That is the rest.

Posted by: runner, drive BLM to the 'burbs at April 23, 2021 07:59 PM (V13WU)

154 *ponder*

*thinks better of it and decides to read Hadrian's link first*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 07:59 PM (lmikk)

155 145 Re: sidebar

What the actual fuck? What could the old man have possibly done to warrant that kind of reaction? I do not see any blood on the ground so he did not shoot one of them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 07:57 PM (lmikk)

He didn't respect their authority!
#BacktheBlue

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 07:59 PM (Ojki1)

156 rest easy, dear Fatherland
the fleet sleeps, in port

instead of the actual:

rest easy, dear Fatherland
the watch on the Rhine stands true and fast

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 08:00 PM (OTzUX)

157 137

My Rushmore is kinda meh. And a real pain in the ass to get there.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 23, 2021 08:00 PM (P/sWs)

158
Caustic reference to the German fleet that had absorbed oceans of funding before the war, yet rarely ventured out of port once the fightin' was on.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 07:58 PM (OTzUX)

__________

It was a bad day when Kaiser Wilhelm II started reading Mahan.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 08:00 PM (mht8P)

159 >There are lots of wonderful things about this area that we try to take advantage of but we've wanted out for a long time. With grandkids now we're stuck for another nine years but leave we will no matter our age.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 07:50 PM (so0nV)

I wouldn't begrudge anyone sane leaving states like Oregon, but I'm done retreating. All we ever do is retreat. It's goofy as hell, but Picard's line in First Contact was right. No further. I believe that nurse has expressed similar sentiments.

This shit's coming to everyone's neighborhood eventually, unless you are no-shit living off of the grid, which I don't think anyone here is doing. So laugh at people like me if you like, but don't think you're safe because you live in a "red" state.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 08:01 PM (DXFDM)

160 151 Hotair is very very concerned that Biden is a hard core leftist senile man. Very concerned!!! And remember voter more harder in 2022!!! Here is a poll.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 23, 2021 07:59 PM (P/sWs)

Hotgas is concerned that their former readership hasn't flocked back like they hoped would happen with a Dem to serve as their target rather than Trump.

Would be so sad to hear Salem went out of business. So, so sad.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:02 PM (Ojki1)

161 Clutch,

Thanks!

I also subscribe to "The Daily Otter."
I get an email every morning at 6am with a picture of an otter. Now, they don't discriminate between those nasty, aggressive river otters and the sweet, playful sea otters, but it's ok. I just delete all the river otters.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 08:02 PM (U2p+3)

162 *feast or fest; fest is best... I contest

Posted by: runner, drive BLM to the 'burbs at April 23, 2021 08:02 PM (V13WU)

163 Ok, first. Kudos to the Father for having possibly the most Irish name I have ever read from a real human: Paddy McCafferty. The only thing better would be Paddy O'Rourke.

Also, Ireland went pretty hard to the anti-religious when they allowed abortion, didn't they?



Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:03 PM (lmikk)

164 159

Word. And red or blue states have less impact that local govt. most of the stupid shit that affects day to day life is at the city level not the state. Things like police protection especially. That shit is all local.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 23, 2021 08:03 PM (P/sWs)

165 Just out of curiosity, why is it legal to sue Red Bull energy drink company under the auspices that it's misleading advertising could lead the average individual to believe that its consumption may, in fact, allow the consumer to sprout 'wings'?

And why is it legal to sue a talcum powder company under the premise that its misapplication in extreme cases may have a loosely based correlation to cooch cancer?

And why, at the same time, is it illegal to sue a pharmaceutical company that is injecting a billion people with a hastily produced 'vaccine' that has bypassed typical protocols and eschewed long term studies, and yet has been declared...I think the scientific term here is 'totes safe'?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 23, 2021 08:04 PM (ioHi8)

166 Hadrian the Seventh

It was a good day. 4 more army corps with siege artillery trains would have won WWI for the Germans.

And the likelihood of the UK staying out of it would go up.

JMHO.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 23, 2021 08:04 PM (u82oZ)

167 159 So laugh at people like me if you like, but don't think you're safe because you live in a "red" state.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 08:01 PM (DXFDM)


I would never laugh about that, and I do not think I'm safe. I do think, though, that my perimeter might be a tad more defensible.

Posted by: Splunge at April 23, 2021 08:04 PM (RzGcW)

168 Yeah, it's now a matter of motivation.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 07:58 PM (FCP94)


I hear ya. But take Hearst Castle for instance, there's a lot of awesome visits nearby. But, I keep forgetting - all the things are closed in california still. So, you could go to Hearst Castle, but not get anywhere near it. Same with the lighthouses. Same with the ghost towns (although soon that will be any town around here).

Every time I think "yeah, that'd be fun I need to get the fuck out of here before I go crazy and..." that comes up. I totally get where Nurse is coming from, the insanity here is killing me.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 08:04 PM (4FeUN)

169 Wasn't gold bond used for chaffing? Didn't it have talc?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:05 PM (lmikk)

170 I think the scientific term here is 'totes safe'?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 23, 2021 08:04 PM (ioHi


I see you have not yet adsorbed the complex subtleties of graft in political action!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 23, 2021 08:05 PM (hOUT3)

171 Five Times August "Jesus -Whatever happened to us"

https://tinyurl.com/y4xfmn7r

It feels like the requiem for the Republic.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 07:53 PM (Bmy3R)

Thanks.

Posted by: Homo Viator at April 23, 2021 08:06 PM (C3zFG)

172 43rd Ward alderman when I was a little kid was Matthias "Paddy" Bauler ... last of the Chicago aldermen who ran their ward out of a tavern.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 08:07 PM (uk6Gp)

173 I went to the Rebuilding Center in Portland today. It's the one in the building with the cobb front. I haven't been in a couple of years. They get to recycle some of the old houses in town so usually have cool stuff. Not so much any more. It's down to about half what they usually have. Nearby businesses seem to have "black lives matter" signs or bars on the windows or both.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 23, 2021 08:07 PM (YynYJ)

174
It was a good day. 4 more army corps with siege artillery trains would have won WWI for the Germans.

And the likelihood of the UK staying out of it would go up.

_________

Should have said it was a bad day for Germany. Investing zillions on a fleet that made no strategic sense to defend a non-existent empire and needlessly antagonizing the one country they couldn't afford to have as an enemy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 08:08 PM (mht8P)

175 What is happening with the Newsom recall effort? Still something there?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 23, 2021 08:08 PM (P/sWs)

176 The Canadian dude didn't apologize for being Canadian. Sometimes cops got to get their freak on, eh?

Posted by: Only Context at April 23, 2021 08:08 PM (Enpnw)

177 I just delete all the river otters.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 08:02 PM (U2p+3)


I figured you were probably on top of all of that - I just never remembered to ask. And I showed you that video my friend in South Africa took of the river otter that hangs out in his back yard didn't I? They don't seem to be so bad if they're not initiated into gangs.

I know, it's just lulling him into a false sense of security before it kills him, burns down his home and steals his car.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (4FeUN)

178 172 43rd Ward alderman when I was a little kid was Matthias "Paddy" Bauler ... last of the Chicago aldermen who ran their ward out of a tavern.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 08:07 PM (uk6Gp)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (lmikk)

179 And why, at the same time, is it illegal to sue a pharmaceutical company that is injecting a billion people with a hastily produced 'vaccine' that has bypassed typical protocols and eschewed long term studies, and yet has been declared...I think the scientific term here is 'totes safe'?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 23, 2021 08:04 PM (ioHi
---------------
Because the government granted them immunity before they made the vaccines.

Posted by: zmdavid at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (xqRaG)

180 I just delete all the river otters.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 08:02 PM (U2p+3)


Seems a bit harsh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (lmikk)

181
Speaking of WWII,

I just downloaded an old, free video game called Battlefield 1942. I can't figure out how to play it, but it's pretty good.

From a site called abandonware games.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (FCP94)

182 I'm single and long-time work from home since years before the Coup Flu. So, my job is completely mobile within the United States as long as I have high-speed internet.

Figure I might as well light out for one of the Free States. Sucks because I have no roots or family or anything in any of them. South Dakota's closest and probably the best fit for me.

Hate to pull up roots and go somewhere just for the freedom, but I do love freedom a whole f*#&ing lot.

But I'm an alien on my own planet and in my own country. All the rules have changed. There are no other boxes to tick anymore. The Free States may not - hell, I know deep down they probably will not - remain free. But, I'm in a position to take the chance, at least. Ain't a whole hell of a lot more I can do.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (Bmy3R)

183 68 If there is one thing I can be certain of from this week in review is the knowledge that Bruce Jenner could outsmart Gavin Newsom just like OJ Simpson outwitted LeBron James.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 23, 2021 07:35 PM (PLitN)

Oh SMOD, where art thou?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (4LwIn)

184 So...why are the people behind Biden making the stock market go down by threatening to tax the oligarchs that put them in there? Does that make any sense? Not unless this is all a movie, does it?

Posted by: azjaeger at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (3/XaG)

185 But I'm an alien on my own planet and in my own country. All the rules have changed. There are no other boxes to tick anymore. The Free States may not - hell, I know deep down they probably will not - remain free. But, I'm in a position to take the chance, at least. Ain't a whole hell of a lot more I can do.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (Bmy3R)

We're pretty damned free up here. Don't see that changing much. We had a bumper sticker make the rounds for a while for a beer we used to make that said "We don't give a damn how they do it in the Lower 48." Pretty much still in effect.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (4LwIn)

186 134 Pest, die Pest!
there's a sentiment i can agree with!

Posted by: the terminix guy at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (5br8a)

187 Oh SMOD, where art thou?
Posted by: tcn in AK

___


*Peruses Revelation*

Hmmm...here we go...somethingsomething Wormwood.

Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (MeU/y)

188 I think Mt. Rushmore is phenomenal, especially when lit at night. To scale up a portrait sculpture and chip it out of a mountain with that level of skill is right up there with the greatest accomplishments of the early 20th century in America, imho.

Posted by: dartist at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM (+ya+t)

189
I'm trying to get one of the Castle Wolfenstein games. Don't know much about them, except they're banned in Germany.

I like the old DOS based video games from the late 90's, which you can still play with the Scummvm program.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM (FCP94)

190 The old Canadian guy was just trying to prevent the cop from getting a full mount. I thought I was watching an MMA bout.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM (2DOZq)

191 Y'all broke Cicero.

Happy now?

Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM (MeU/y)

192 New store just opened at the Barrel Shoppes:

Bat Barf & Beyond

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM (L2ZTs)

193 I just downloaded an old, free video game called Battlefield 1942. I can't figure out how to play it, but it's pretty good.

From a site called abandonware games.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (FCP94)

Lol. That may not be just because you cannot find a manual. A buddy of mine played one in college called High Command. He played through all of WWII- never having figured out how to train/requisition/make/build new units.

A couple other good ones from way back in the day: Steel Panthers. I would only recommend Hearts of Iron III if you really want to go down the time rabbit hole.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM (lmikk)

194 We're pretty damned free up here. Don't see that changing much. We had a bumper sticker make the rounds for a while for a beer we used to make that said "We don't give a damn how they do it in the Lower 48." Pretty much still in effect.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (4LwIn)

I'm seriously looking at Rapid City. Got to escape Polesmoker's Paradise. CO sucks so bad now.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:13 PM (Bmy3R)

195 175 What is happening with the Newsom recall effort? Still something there?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at April 23, 2021 08:08 PM (P/sWs)

It's the weekend. I'm trying to not recall him, at all.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:13 PM (4LwIn)

196 Hmmm...here we go...somethingsomething Wormwood.
Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (MeU/y)

Chernobyl?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:13 PM (lmikk)

197 175 What is happening with the Newsom recall effort? Still something there?
the way things are going, we might not last until november

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 23, 2021 08:13 PM (5br8a)

198 I just downloaded an old, free video game called Battlefield 1942. I can't figure out how to play it, but it's pretty good.

From a site called abandonware games.

Check Gamefaqs.com. There maybe some info there for it.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:13 PM (Ojki1)

199 Chernobyl?

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Not even close.

Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:14 PM (MeU/y)

200 I missed the one yesterday with the cat slapping the SJW. Serves me right.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 23, 2021 08:14 PM (OU+8W)

201 Hmmm...here we go...somethingsomething Wormwood.
Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (MeU/y)

Luckily I know how that one turns out.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:14 PM (4LwIn)

202 Amen, tcn.

Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:14 PM (MeU/y)

203 Biden's tax plan is bread and circuses. The guy in the article said go after marginal income rates and death taxes because, surprise rich people don't pay higher marginal rates or estate tax.

Posted by: Only Context at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (Enpnw)

204 201 Hmmm...here we go...somethingsomething Wormwood.
Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:11 PM (MeU/y)

Luckily I know how that one turns out.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:14 PM (4LwIn)

Unfortunately the markers along the way all suck. Bigly.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (Ojki1)

205 Stores at the Barrel Shoppes Mall:

- Bat Barf & Beyond
- H(old) & M(angle)
- Orange Jethro
- Fears
- Banana Peel Republic
- Sam Goodass
- Montgomery Wank

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (L2ZTs)

206 BTW, Hadrian, your link would not load the page for me. I went to the main page and found the story.

This one should work (at least it worked for me when I just tried it to be sure)

https://tinyurl.com/wjvcwr5w

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (lmikk)

207 What is happening with the Newsom recall effort? Still something there?


State still trying to throw out signatures but looks like enuf to ditch that prick (see what I did Bruce?)

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (t2VIm)

208 203 Biden's tax plan is bread and circuses. The guy in the article said go after marginal income rates and death taxes because, surprise rich people don't pay higher marginal rates or estate tax.
Posted by: Only Context at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (Enpnw)

As if "and" isn't already part of the plan.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (Ojki1)

209 Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 08:01 PM (DXFDM)

I've always wanted to leave Oregon. Just like I always left the other states I have lived in. The goal was always to return to my home state of Montana. The other states were where the job was. They were never home.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 23, 2021 08:16 PM (so0nV)

210 I remember liking Devil's Tower which I saw on the same trip as Mt. Rushmore.

Of course you can see Devil's Tower in "Close Encounters" and you can see Mt. Rushmore in "North by Northwest".

Posted by: zmdavid at April 23, 2021 08:16 PM (xqRaG)

211
Every time I think "yeah, that'd be fun I need to get the fuck out of here before I go crazy and..." that comes up. I totally get where Nurse is coming from, the insanity here is killing me.
Posted by: clutch cargo


I don't know how you can stand it.
Massachusetts is bad enough. I couldn't take CA.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:16 PM (FCP94)

212 It was a bad day when Kaiser Wilhelm II started reading Mahan.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2021 08:00 PM (mht8P)

Larry?

Posted by: clutch at April 23, 2021 08:16 PM (9UmRs)

213 I'm seriously looking at Rapid City. Got to escape Polesmoker's Paradise. CO sucks so bad now.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:13 PM (Bmy3R)

I live close-ish to Rapid City. I recommend it.

But anything is better than Colorado. That place has been full of jerks for decades.

I love Wyoming though. But it might not have a big enough city for you. I never have liked Casper. Dunno why I just don't.

Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at April 23, 2021 08:16 PM (Bh9Dt)

214
Another thing I forgot to put on my list above to visit but never will:

The Pyramids

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:17 PM (FCP94)

215 Dog grooming?
My god, that's disgusting!
Oh, you meant something else. Sorry.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 23, 2021 08:17 PM (CTKUo)

216 141 The signs are back up on the beach. "Mask up!" "This is what six feet looks like!"

Fuck my life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (U2p+3)

Are they in Spanish as well, or does the Rona respect them and their culture and leave them alone?
Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 07:56 PM (Ojki1)

Just carry a protest sign. You'll be fine.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:18 PM (4LwIn)

217 My thing about Rushmore: The heads are far enough away from the Visitor's center to not be as visually impressive as they really are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:18 PM (lmikk)

218
Check Gamefaqs.com. There maybe some info there for it.
Posted by: Bete


Thanks.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:18 PM (FCP94)

219 Pharmaceutical companies had successfully negotiated away liability for most vaccines by the 1990s if I remember right, not just the current experimental emergency WuHan mRNa shot.

Vaccines weren't big moneymakers, once the patents ran out, and hardly anyone was willing to make them anymore. It just wasn't worth the risk. Consequently DOD wasn't able to procure them in large enough quantities. Congress came up with a sweetheart deal where the taxpayer will assume all liability, just mix up another batch.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2021 08:19 PM (HddOg)

220 I love Wyoming though. But it might not have a big enough city for you. I never have liked Casper. Dunno why I just don't.
Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at April 23, 2021 08:16 PM (Bh9Dt)

My daddy grew up on a farm in Laramie. It's lovely there, and not too far from Sheridan. Spring comes a bit late, and winter a bit early, but it really is nice, especially in the Snowy Range.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:19 PM (4LwIn)

221 I remember liking Devil's Tower which I saw on the same trip as Mt. Rushmore.

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Kinda cool to think it was a marker for those moving west of the Mississippi in the early days too.

Posted by: dartist at April 23, 2021 08:19 PM (+ya+t)

222
214
Another thing I forgot to put on my list above to visit but never will:

The Pyramids
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:17 PM (FCP94)
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I took Mrs. Cicero and the little girl there in 2003. I don't know if I would go back now, but it was awesome back then.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:20 PM (fLVm1)

223 GF and I would like to know Teh Horde's opinion on watching Twin Peaks for the first time. Is it worth it? Will we need to watch esoteric breakdowns after each episode?

Posted by: End Year Gen X Based Retard at April 23, 2021 08:20 PM (IdnEA)

224 Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (L2ZTs)

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LOL

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:20 PM (fLVm1)

225 I love Wyoming though. But it might not have a big enough city for you. I never have liked Casper. Dunno why I just don't.
Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at April 23, 2021 08:16 PM (Bh9Dt)

I'm only 50 minutes from Cheyenne - go up all the time. More than I go to Denver, which I can't stand. Only the airport, and not since the Before Times on that. WY's nice to visit but yeah, populations a little too sparse for me. I like some sparcity but not that sparse LOL

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:21 PM (Bmy3R)

226 I was born in Rapid City so I've been to all the sites a days drive away. Unfortunately I was 7 when we moved to Louisiana so I don't really have a sense of what I saw. I'd like to go back and see it all as an adult.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:21 PM (2DOZq)

227 Y'all broke Cicero.

Happy now?
Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM (MeU/y)

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Damn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:21 PM (fLVm1)

228 I've made my peace that there are things I will never see or do in this life.

Posted by: SMH at April 23, 2021 08:21 PM (MeU/y)

229 Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:15 PM (L2ZTs)

You left out "Taco Hell."

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:21 PM (4LwIn)

230 Rushmore

We must return the balance of nature and renew the mountain to it's natural state with explosives!

Posted by: Commisar of the Interior at April 23, 2021 08:21 PM (t2VIm)

231 I took Mrs. Cicero and the little girl there in 2003. I don't know if I would go back now, but it was awesome back then.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:20 PM (fLVm1)

Do they let you get right up on them? They are giant piles of rock. Hard to damage them more than the locals have over the centuries.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (lmikk)

232 The signs are back up on the beach. "Mask up!" "This is what six feet looks like!"

Fuck my life.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:42 PM (U2p+3)

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Wear the mask across your forehead. The sign says "Mask Up", after all. And since anything qualifies as a mask these days, a nice head scarf should do.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (CAJOC)

233 188 I think Mt. Rushmore is phenomenal, especially when lit at night. To scale up a portrait sculpture and chip it out of a mountain with that level of skill is right up there with the greatest accomplishments of the early 20th century in America, imho.
Posted by: dartist at April 23, 2021 08:12 PM

Agree completely

Posted by: clutch at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (9UmRs)

234 223 GF and I would like to know Teh Horde's opinion on watching Twin Peaks for the first time. Is it worth it? Will we need to watch esoteric breakdowns after each episode?
Posted by: End Year Gen X Based Retard at April 23, 2021 08:20 PM (IdnEA)

First season, yes. After that, run.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (lmikk)

235 IDK why I said Sheridan. I meant Cheyanne.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (4LwIn)

236
I took Mrs. Cicero and the little girl there in 2003. I don't know if I would go back now, but it was awesome back then.
Posted by: Cicero


Oh, wow, because things were heated in 2003.
Wasn't Mubarak barely in control?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (FCP94)

237 TCN, can't believe I forgot that one!
Also Burger Thing.

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:23 PM (L2ZTs)

238
I want to go inside a Pyramid.
I want to go where they buried pharoahs.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:24 PM (FCP94)

239 Being a Wyoming boy, I have never liked Casper either. Grew up in Cody, pretty town, but being devoured by the locusts.

Sheridan, Buffalo, Cheyenne, and the little towns near the SD border are really nice. Gillette would do in a pinch. it's got a pretty lively economy what with all the coal and petroleum. But it tends toward dusty.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 23, 2021 08:25 PM (4l77G)

240 Restaurants at The Barrel Shoppes:

- Scarro
- Olive Burden
- Black Fangus
- SmashyourfaceBurger
- Tony Soma's

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:25 PM (L2ZTs)

241 Jackson WY is right out. totally ruint.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 23, 2021 08:26 PM (4l77G)

242 Yep, the Germans always seemed to go for that. "We are going to build us a world class fleet and challenge the British!" But the British always spent most of their money on their fleet, and the Germans, sitting in the middle of a lot of land, had to spend most of their money on the army. Sooo..barring the Germans having more than twice as much resources as the British, they were always going to basically be wasting a good chunk on a non-competitive fleet. In both wars they would have been better off just building subs and enough torpedo boats to make it too risky for the British to just sail up offshore and start shooting. And spending the rest on more army.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 23, 2021 08:26 PM (3/XaG)

243 Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 23, 2021 08:25 PM (4l77G)

I want to go to Cody just to see the William Cody gun museum.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:27 PM (2DOZq)

244 First season, yes. After that, run.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (lmikk)

Thanks, Aetius. Will do.
She is a completionist though so I see at least 6 months of Deep Dives in our future.

Posted by: End Year Gen X Based Retard at April 23, 2021 08:27 PM (IdnEA)

245 The whole complex at Giza is interesting, because nobody has figured out what any of that stuff was for. I'd want to try and line up a tour with somebody that knows what they are doing, there are many interesting things to see, not just the pyramids.

The valley temple, the osirion, the temple at abydos, the ancients were masters at working with huge blocks of granite and similar like diorite. The Cairo museum would also be on the list.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2021 08:27 PM (HddOg)

246 Nordstrom Torture Rack?
STD Maxx?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:28 PM (Bmy3R)

247 Guy, those just opened at The Barrel Shoppes! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:29 PM (L2ZTs)

248 Mr The Trump's likeness belongs at Rushmore.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 23, 2021 08:29 PM (EFCBR)

249 I've read Nordstrom as a company is super-woke too btw.

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:29 PM (L2ZTs)

250 Oh , I almost forgot.

I live in a small town. Whole school district (4 towns together) is less than 900 kids. The only place there is a mask mandate is on the school bus because the kids have to sit together. You hardly ever see anyone wearing one ever here.

Yesterday I was stopped behind the school bus after school. A kid about second grade size gets off. He has one of those Mexican wrestler masks on. I don't know who he is but I just know he's a moron in training.

Now I want a Mexican wrestler mask. And to meet his parents.

Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at April 23, 2021 08:30 PM (Bh9Dt)

251 Also, The Barrel Shoppes main anchor stores:

- Turgid
- Cussco

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:30 PM (L2ZTs)

252 Oh I want to see the Cody Museum! I absolutely love the museum at The Great American Rodeo in Cheyenne, with all the tons of old pre-automobile vehicles. What an amazing collection. Surprisingly few guns there though.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:30 PM (Bmy3R)

253 the Germans always seemed to go for that. "We are going to build us a world class fleet and challenge the British!" But the British always spent most of their money on their fleet, and the Germans, sitting in the middle of a lot of land, had to spend most of their money on the army. Sooo..barring the Germans having more than twice as much resources as the British, they were always going to basically be wasting a good chunk on a non-competitive fleet. In both wars they would have been better off just building subs and enough torpedo boats to make it too risky for the British to just sail up offshore and start shooting. And spending the rest on more army.
Posted by: azjaeger




the thing is is, you needed to have a fleet to have an empire so they were trying to do that.

Posted by: confederatefifth at April 23, 2021 08:31 PM (4Jold)

254
Thanks, Aetius. Will do.
She is a completionist though so I see at least 6 months of Deep Dives in our future.
Posted by: End Year Gen X Based Retard at April 23, 2021 08:27 PM (IdnEA)

You'll know pretty quickly if it is for you. The reason to watch it is the first season is extremely captivating even now. It still has it's oddities, but they are... subdued, if that is possible with Lynch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:31 PM (lmikk)

255 Here's my list:

The Pyramids; The Great Wall; Angkor Wat; A sidewalk cafe in Paris; The rooftop restaurant at the Hotel Danieli in Venice; Mt. Everest base camp in Tibet; The lobby bar in the Hong Kong Intercontinental at sunset; A Buddhist monastery in the Himalayan foothills; Midnight in a Bedouin camp in the Jordanian desert; The Siq in Petra; The Tomb of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem

All are peak experiences

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:31 PM (fLVm1)

256 Being a Wyoming boy, I have never liked Casper either. Grew up in Cody, pretty town, but being devoured by the locusts.

Sheridan, Buffalo, Cheyenne, and the little towns near the SD border are really nice. Gillette would do in a pinch. it's got a pretty lively economy what with all the coal and petroleum. But it tends toward dusty.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Friend just bought a place in Laramie

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 08:31 PM (Xih1H)

257 252 Oh I want to see the Cody Museum! I absolutely love the museum at The Great American Rodeo in Cheyenne, with all the tons of old pre-automobile vehicles. What an amazing collection. Surprisingly few guns there though.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:30 PM (Bmy3R)

Over 7,000 guns at the Cody Firearm Museum. They feature it on I believe the Guns and Ammo show on the Outdoor channel.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:33 PM (2DOZq)

258 The Germans may have taken a loss on the High Seas Fleet, but the U-Boats certainly paid dividends.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:33 PM (lmikk)

259 From twatter user @emeriticus (no the irony is not lost on me, but it's still a good message):

"The left is willing to deplatform and deperson their enemies. If the right isn't willing to see antagonistic businesses go bankrupt, turn off sports, use anti-trust action, see the NCAA disbanded--then there shouldn't be any complaining about the country going to hell.
The left wages total war, the right whines and tries to find a middle ground, moving itself left in the process, while binging on outrage porn"

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 23, 2021 08:33 PM (DXFDM)

260 Holy cow. I'm reading this book on the making of "Alien" and the casting of the lead, Ripley, still hadn't been settled even as they were setting up to film. The NY casting director suggested two women: an unknown named Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep.

Meryl's longtime companion (Casale?) had just died and they didn't feel comfortable approaching her about the role, so they tried Weaver.

Alan Ladd showed her screen test to a group of secretaries and they all liked her.

Ha! Imagine Meryl as Ripley!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 23, 2021 08:34 PM (Dc2NZ)

261 Cicero, you've given that some thought. That's an impressive list. Making me think of what I'd add...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:34 PM (Bmy3R)

262
Here's my list:

The Pyramids; The Great Wall; Angkor Wat; A sidewalk cafe in Paris; The rooftop restaurant at the Hotel Danieli in Venice; Mt. Everest base camp in Tibet; The lobby bar in the Hong Kong Intercontinental at sunset; A Buddhist monastery in the Himalayan foothills; Midnight in a Bedouin camp in the Jordanian desert; The Siq in Petra; The Tomb of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem

Posted by: Cicero


How many of these are famed "Seven Wonders of the World? 1?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:34 PM (FCP94)

263 If I was going to travel abroad and could go to just one area it would be to the Holy Land.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:35 PM (2DOZq)

264 das Boot

Posted by: runner, drive BLM to the 'burbs at April 23, 2021 08:35 PM (V13WU)

265 common Tater @ 245- Nobody has figured what it was for? Maybe they're asking the wrong people? They should talk to that ancient aliens crowd.

Posted by: Eromero at April 23, 2021 08:36 PM (0OP+5)

266 "The whole complex at Giza is interesting, because nobody has figured out what any of that stuff was for."
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*ahem*

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalos at April 23, 2021 08:36 PM (Dc2NZ)

267 Oh, wow, because things were heated in 2003.
Wasn't Mubarak barely in control?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:22 PM (FCP94)

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It was 2years after 911. Our Egyptair flight from JFK to Cairo was full of dead ringers for terrorists. It was...unnerving.

That said, Egypt went out of its way to make us feel safe. We had our own assigned bodyguard with a Tec 9 under his jacket the entire time, except for the Nile cruise days. Interesting experience, to say the least.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:36 PM (fLVm1)

268 I don't care much for Big Whiskey Wyoming.

Posted by: William Muny at April 23, 2021 08:37 PM (ez/ed)

269 This AZ ballot audit is wild. I definitely don't understand the mechanics, but they seem kinda crazy.

A judge ordered a "pause" until Monday - guess it was gonna start tomorrow - but then later the Dems did not ante up a $1M bond, so now the audit will start tomorrow, again (I think).

WTF?

In a country and culture I clearly recall, this behavior - one party going to outlandish lengths to prevent a simple thing like an audit of ballots, from an election process they scream was fine, and secure - would kind of be a gigantic, existential PR problem for them.

Yeah, I know.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 08:37 PM (OTzUX)

270
I mentioned this before, but I'd also like to see the watery grave of the Arizona at Pearl Harbor. But there's no way I'm flying on a plane for 12 hours with Other People.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:37 PM (FCP94)

271 St Peters. It's impressive.

Plus, The Pieta. In my mind, the greatest piece of art ever made by the hand of Man (although that is debatable.)

The Sistine Ceiling, of course. The Curia. Moses. The Forum in general. St Paul Outside the Walls. St Mary Major. The French National Church (beautiful in it's own right for being both different and still classic, but also has Caravaggio's Triptych on St Matthew.

The thing about Rome is that you can hit so many bucket list items. Possibly one of the best places on Earth for that. Just try not to go during a mad cow scare (ask me why.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:38 PM (lmikk)

272 I'd most like to visit the tiny southern Italy mountain village where 3/4's of my family came from. It's not easy even after getting there, which isn't easy. My grandmother, who was born there, used to go every 5 years or so. You have to take a tramway thing up the side of a mountain for the last leg. You leave your car at the bottom. The houses are built all over each other all over the sides of the mountain in that crazy European way. It's really rustic. Everybody has a plot of land at the bottom to grow lemons and figs and all that.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:39 PM (Bmy3R)

273 but then later the Dems did not ante up a $1M bond


Put your money where your mouth is bitches

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 08:39 PM (Xih1H)

274
Yeah, and I'd like to see Sicily.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:39 PM (FCP94)

275
And I want to go inside a volcano.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:40 PM (FCP94)

276 Have a great night, everyone.

May eliminating social distancing be ... fun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 23, 2021 08:41 PM (u82oZ)

277
I want to go to space

Posted by: The Syncategorematic AltonJackson, Carbosexual at April 23, 2021 08:41 PM (DUIap)

278 Yeah, and I'd like to see Sicily.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:39 PM (FCP94)

Taormina... one of the coolest and prettiest places I've been.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 23, 2021 08:41 PM (oHd/0)

279 Cicero, EgyptAir is something I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do.

Don't have a list, per se. Have done a few of those things on yours. Petra is great, and while there, nobody should miss Wadi Rum, not far away (you'll be basing out of Aqaba most likely anyway, so, easy).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 08:41 PM (OTzUX)

280 I've flown several times from Germany into Milan and I'd always see the tiny towns in the valleys of those rugged mountains. I'd like to visit those villages.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 08:42 PM (5XK0y)

281 On my way home from knife fighting class, I stopped to get some Italian iceies.


Gonna get into a mess of bourbon to go with this lemon icy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 23, 2021 08:42 PM (yk7js)

282 Mars Base 1 would be top of my list if I'd live to see it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 23, 2021 08:42 PM (Bmy3R)

283 3 things on My List (that I probably won't get to)
1) The Acropolis, Athens
2) Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
3) Gobekli Tepe

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 23, 2021 08:43 PM (bxPTJ)

284
Mt Washington, NH isn't a very far drive for me. I should do that.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:43 PM (FCP94)

285 Well, the U. of Maryland system is jumping on the vaccine mandate bandwagon. No vaxee, no attendee. Except for religious or medical reasons.
Guess who's kids are now Christian Scientists!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 23, 2021 08:43 PM (O6DoG)

286 Mrs. Refugee and I would love to visit a small British village, but not get caught up in a murder spree.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 23, 2021 08:43 PM (8AONa)

287 Don't have a list, per se. Have done a few of those things on yours. Petra is great, and while there, nobody should miss Wadi Rum, not far away (you'll be basing out of Aqaba most likely anyway, so, easy).

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I hired a Jordanian army colonel to take me and Mrs. Cicero deep into Wadi Rum. We spent a full day four-wheeling it far from the nearest road. It was a great experience, the scenery was out of this world.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:44 PM (fLVm1)

288 Night NaCLy Dog.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 23, 2021 08:44 PM (lmikk)

289 I want to go to Cody just to see the William Cody gun museum.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:27 PM (2DOZq)

It's an unbelievably impressive collection. But I always spent most of my visits in the art gallery, especially the Remington and C.M. Russell aisles.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 23, 2021 08:45 PM (4l77G)

290
Does anyone live at Graceland?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:46 PM (FCP94)

291
Ha! Imagine Meryl as Ripley!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 23, 2021 08:34 PM (Dc2NZ)

Last minute casting can be amazing. Hugh Jackman was brought on after X-Men had already started filming for instance.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:47 PM (Ojki1)

292 Ace,
Dunno if you're here, but thank you for introducing me to Owlkitty. Love her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 07:32 PM (U2p+3)

Not as fun, but if you like pretty cats look up Smoothie and her brother Milkshake.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 23, 2021 08:47 PM (eoQWY)

293 Eromero - that's the problem, there is no rational, middle ground. The Egyptologists say they were simply tombs, or temples, and all the construction was done with copper chisels and stone pounders, which is completely ridiculous. Large saw cuts are plainly visible on many pieces, something the ancients weren't supposed to have. There are lathe turned exquisite diorite vases and bowls in the Cairo museum, something else that hadn't heen invented yet. Engineers estimate they were able to drill into granite at a 1 in 60 feed rate, or about a tenth of an inch per revolution, which is completely insane. They made the really major stuff out of single pieces of granite, basalt, or diorite, sometimes weighing 30 tons or more, with precision surfaces.

They don't acknowledge any of this. So this leaves a huge vacuum for the nutbar "it was aliens" folks. The Great Pyramid alone is interesting to study, it was obviously built for a purpose, but nobody really has anything convincing. The level of precision in some aspects of materials and consteuction is a bit unnerving, because nobody goes to those extremes just for the hell of it. Really strange.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2021 08:48 PM (HddOg)

294 I would like to eat at Peter Luger someday, but that's the only thing I would ever care to do in NYC anymore. So I doubt it'll ever happen.

Basically I want to be able to eat there without actually entering or seeing any other part of the city, I guess.

Maybe if they opened a SoCal or Vegas location...

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:48 PM (L2ZTs)

295 Well, the U. of Maryland system is jumping on the vaccine mandate bandwagon. No vaxee, no attendee. Except for religious or medical reasons.
Guess who's kids are now Christian Scientists!
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell

Thank Wolfus from an earlier thread

https://tinyurl.com/5h7hrm88

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 08:49 PM (Xih1H)

296
In a country and culture I clearly recall, this behavior - one party going to outlandish lengths to prevent a simple thing like an audit of ballots, from an election process they scream was fine, and secure - would kind of be a gigantic, existential PR problem for them.

Yeah, I know.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2021 08:37 PM (OTzUX)

Shame the fire that is going to break out around 2 am tonight will destroy all the ballots.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:49 PM (Ojki1)

297 I don't want to be alone anymore.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 08:50 PM (U2p+3)

298 Yeah, and I'd like to see Sicily.

Loved it when I stopped off in Sigonella.

Posted by: clutch at April 23, 2021 08:50 PM (9UmRs)

299 Really strange.
Posted by: Common Tater

All I know is that the modern Egpytians couldnt have built them.

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 08:50 PM (Xih1H)

300 We lived onthe west bank of NOLA for a few years, and we visited the Nottaway Plantation. The place was amazing, and the people working there knew their history.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 08:50 PM (5XK0y)

301

What's that song that goes one is the loneliest number?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:52 PM (FCP94)

302 It's an unbelievably impressive collection. But I always spent most of my visits in the art gallery, especially the Remington and C.M. Russell aisles.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 23, 2021 08:45 PM (4l77G)

I would probably enjoy that just as much.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:52 PM (2DOZq)

303 Sooth: "One" by Three Dog Night.
Written by Harry Nilsson.

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:52 PM (L2ZTs)

304 300 We lived onthe west bank of NOLA for a few years, and we visited the Nottaway Plantation. The place was amazing, and the people working there knew their history.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 08:50 PM (5XK0y)

Oh my wife and I love that place! Now they've turned into this big corporatized Retreat destination, but I remember we stayed there when it was just a not well known B&B. One night we were there in an off season, we were able to stay in the Big House, the manager was offsite, and about 11 pm we were able to wander all over, we had the whole house completely to ourselves!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 23, 2021 08:53 PM (bxPTJ)

305 No one lives at Graceland. The upstairs at Graceland is still blocked for the family only, but I was told they don't visit much anymore. Pretty small house in truth.

Posted by: Only Context at April 23, 2021 08:53 PM (Enpnw)

306 270
I mentioned this before, but I'd also like to see the watery grave of the Arizona at Pearl Harbor. But there's no way I'm flying on a plane for 12 hours with Other People.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:37 PM (FCP94)

It's OK, the natives seem to be ok with not having visitors anymore anyway.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:53 PM (Ojki1)

307
Really?
I thought it was Paul McCartney and Wings or something.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:54 PM (FCP94)

308 3 things on My List (that I probably won't get to)
1) The Acropolis, Athens
2) Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
3) Gobekli Tepe
Posted by: Tom Servo

Gobekli is in a questionable area, but you can fly in to Turkey without much COVID hassle. The drive from Attica to Istanbul is great.

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 08:54 PM (Xih1H)

309 McCartney was in that other band, before Wings, the "Bugs"? Something like that.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2021 08:55 PM (HddOg)

310 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 23, 2021 08:53 PM (bxPTJ)

Thats amazing! Have you ever been to Oak Alley? Or any of the other river road plantations?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 08:55 PM (5XK0y)

311
Prague always looked interesting on TV.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:56 PM (FCP94)

312 Speaking of WWII,

I just downloaded an old, free video game called Battlefield 1942. I can't figure out how to play it, but it's pretty good.

From a site called abandonware games.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:09 PM (FCP94)

I see three videos telling how to play it online in 2020 and 2021 on Youtube in the google search result i did.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 23, 2021 08:56 PM (eoQWY)

313 Tater, was it the Travelling Wilburys?

Posted by: Funsize at April 23, 2021 08:56 PM (EiPf6)

314 309 McCartney was in that other band, before Wings, the "Bugs"? Something like that.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2021 08:55 PM (HddOg)


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Just one-hit wonders, or so I've heard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:56 PM (fLVm1)

315 McCartney was in that other band, before Wings, the "Bugs"? Something like that.
Posted by: Common Tater


My youngest sister (I am the oldest of eight) actually said to me once: "Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

Um, yeah Beth. I seem to remember that.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 23, 2021 08:57 PM (Rvt88)

316 I'm wondering if I'll end up continuing 100% WFH unless/until I get vaccinated. I don't think the TPTB have a plan on that yet at my work. Doesn't really matter to me. My loose plan is go in to the office 1/day a week if/when they are not crazy about masking and if they don't demand vaccination. After a year of WFH, I'm fine with zero in office days if need be, but going in to town 1x/week would probably be good for me overall.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply Irredeemable at April 23, 2021 08:57 PM (Aashi)

317 299 Really strange.
Posted by: Common Tater

All I know is that the modern Egpytians couldnt have built them.
Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 08:50 PM (Xih1H)
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Sad to say it but I think we're going to find Americans are no longer capable of manned Moon landings, either.

Posted by: zmdavid at April 23, 2021 08:57 PM (xqRaG)

318 Hey nurse, you wanna hang out sometime? Idk what we'd do but I figured i'd offer.

Posted by: Funsize at April 23, 2021 08:57 PM (EiPf6)

319 knife fighting class, wow, sounds like fun ... 20 + years ago I had buddies who would do knife sparring once in a while ... nothing since then, but I still carry a Gerber MkII as part of Heavy Urban Carry Mode ... (2 pistols, big knife, telescoping baton, butwaitthere'smore!) and of course I observe Gibbs' Rule, so I often have a knife when I hit the bathroom in the middle of the night, and always have the 3 Basics when making pre-dawn breakfast ...
(knife, flashlight, pistol) ... & speaking of pre-dawn breakfast, g'night everyone !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 08:58 PM (uk6Gp)

320 311
Prague always looked interesting on TV.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:56 PM (FCP94)

---------

If you go to the Prague Castle you can see the famous window site of the First Defenestration of Prague.

It started a war, you know.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 08:58 PM (fLVm1)

321 300 We lived onthe west bank of NOLA for a few years, and we visited the Nottaway Plantation. The place was amazing, and the people working there knew their history.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 08:50 PM (5XK0y)

Used to visit the bed and breakfast plantations in the St Francisville area for a few years with my lady friend . Her idea but I actually enjoyed it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:58 PM (2DOZq)

322 ----------
Sad to say it but I think we're going to find Americans are no longer capable of manned Moon landings, either.
Posted by: zmdavid at April 23, 2021 08:57 PM (xqRaG)

Not sure most are capable of making a cross country trip.

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 08:58 PM (Ojki1)

323 I went to Oak Alley and a Cajun plantation. Really enjoyed the tours. I would like to go back for a visit again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 23, 2021 08:58 PM (YynYJ)

324 My list:

Gobekli Tepe
McMurdo Station
Machu Picchu

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 08:59 PM (Xih1H)

325
Wow, you've been around, Cicero.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:59 PM (FCP94)

326 The level of precision in some aspects of materials and consteuction is a bit unnerving, because nobody goes to those extremes just for the hell of it. Really strange.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2021 08:48 PM (HddOg)

Who says they did it for the hell of it? They had their reasons, why do you ignore them?

Nobody claims a bunch of European serfs could never build the cathedrals and churches all around.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 23, 2021 08:59 PM (eoQWY)

327 Thats amazing! Have you ever been to Oak Alley? Or any of the other river road plantations?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 08:55 PM (5XK0y)

Yes, my wife's from Shreveport, relatives in N.O., and one year we took a long slow river road trip, 5 days to visit as many of the old houses as we could. I remember the Audubon house particularly because they had so much of his original work there! But there are so many great places to see.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 23, 2021 09:00 PM (bxPTJ)

328 A good plantation to visit is San Francisco. Supported by a refinery nearby, its impeccable.

Posted by: Only Context at April 23, 2021 09:00 PM (Enpnw)

329 294I would like to eat at Peter Luger someday, but that's the only thing I
would ever care to do in NYC anymore. So I doubt it'll ever happen.



Basically I want to be able to eat there without actually entering or seeing any other part of the city, I guess.



Maybe if they opened a SoCal or Vegas location...

Posted by: qdpsteve at April 23, 2021 08:48 PM (L2ZTs)
I would like to visit Fraunces Tavern in NYC. Much history made there.

Posted by: Javems at April 23, 2021 09:00 PM (8SSHh)

330 Defenestration of Prague -- Slavic Metal band

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 23, 2021 09:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

331 Sad to say it but I think we're going to find Americans are no longer capable of manned Moon landings, either.
Posted by: zmdavid

I think Musk naturalized

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 09:00 PM (Xih1H)

332 325
Wow, you've been around, Cicero.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 08:59 PM (FCP94)

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Yeah but I'm no smarter for it. Still a Deplorable.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2021 09:00 PM (fLVm1)

333 And I want to go inside a volcano.
Posted by: S


you effing virgins

Posted by: confederatefifth at April 23, 2021 09:01 PM (4Jold)

334 Nobody claims a bunch of European serfs could never build the cathedrals and churches all around.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 23, 2021 08:59 PM (eoQWY)

We are the smartest people who've ever lived. If we can't figure it out, it must be aliens.

/

Posted by: Bete at April 23, 2021 09:01 PM (Ojki1)

335 somebody needs to unconstruct the pyramids so wwe get to see what is inside

Posted by: confederatefifth at April 23, 2021 09:01 PM (4Jold)

336 Used to visit the bed and breakfast plantations in the St Francisville area for a few years with my lady friend . Her idea but I actually enjoyed it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 08:58 PM (2DOZq)

I remember being in St. Francisville one August day when both the temperature and the humidity were close to 100, an the only breeze was the mosquito wings beating on us. BUT there are marvelous things to see, The Myrtles is honestly a very creepy place. Supposedly the most haunted place in America, and when you're there you believe it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 23, 2021 09:02 PM (bxPTJ)

337 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 23, 2021 09:00 PM (bxPTJ)

Ever go to the supposed haunted Plantation, the Myrtles ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 09:02 PM (2DOZq)

338 o-tay, 1 more shot before bedtime ... & really g'night, Horde !

see youse onna EMT then !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 09:02 PM (uk6Gp)

339
We are the smartest people who've ever lived. If we can't figure it out, it must be aliens.

/
Posted by: B



so in the midst of everybody shitting bricks about shooting a girl trying to cut a bitch and you think that needs a /

Posted by: confederatefifth at April 23, 2021 09:03 PM (4Jold)

340 The list of places I want to visit is yuge.

The practicality of ever seeing most of them is very low.

At this point, I am happy just to take a camping trip to the Bighorns or the Flat Tops.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, On Location in Montana at April 23, 2021 09:03 PM (4l77G)

341 If I had only waited another minute or so.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 09:03 PM (2DOZq)

342 I'd like to see the Mayan ruins in the interior of the Yucatan and Guatemala

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 09:04 PM (5XK0y)

343 342 I'd like to see the Mayan ruins in the interior of the Yucatan and Guatemala
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 09:04 PM (5XK0y)

Me too and with a young Rachel Ward.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 23, 2021 09:05 PM (2DOZq)

344 fuck, so many hairtrigger touchy people here justabout anything needs a /sarc tag these days

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 23, 2021 09:05 PM (uk6Gp)

345 Hate be that guy, but since I am, the engineering and construction of the pyramids dwarfs any medieval construction by miles. It is the equivalent of space travel to the Wright Brothers.

Posted by: Only Context at April 23, 2021 09:05 PM (Enpnw)

346 Who says they did it for the hell of it? They had their reasons, why do you ignore them?

That's my point, they are ignoring it. They constructed certain things, using specific materials, with a precision that is absolutely astonishing, and all sorts of weird designs that were done for a purpose, but it doesn't make any sense from an engineering perspective.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 23, 2021 09:07 PM (HddOg)

347

Noodd: todd edition

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at April 23, 2021 09:08 PM (FCP94)

348 >>Jean at April 23, 2021 08:49 PM (Xih1H)

Thanks, Wolfus! Good to have just in case.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 23, 2021 09:10 PM (O6DoG)

349 Heya funsize.

We are planning a PNW camping trip in may.
Contact Mark Andrew edwards. Click on his nic for his email addy.

Bring the kids.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 23, 2021 09:12 PM (U2p+3)

350 >>> I'd like to see the Mayan ruins in the interior of the Yucatan and Guatemala
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 23, 2021 09:04 PM (5XK0y)


I've been to a few. They let me walk up and down the pyramids and peek into chambers and stuff. Got to walk around on the fields where they played soccer with heads. They were strangely ok with you just walking around on everything but were very protective of the ants walking on the forest floor. They put little markers down so you'd know where the ant trail was at that moment. And you couldn't take flash photography.


This was about 15 years ago. Hopped across from Cozumel and they drove us into the Peninsula.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 23, 2021 09:14 PM (Fq1gB)

351 somebody needs to unconstruct the pyramids so wwe get to see what is inside
Posted by: confederatefifth

Do they blend?

Posted by: Jean at April 23, 2021 09:24 PM (Xih1H)

352 "345 Hate be that guy, but since I am, the engineering and construction of the pyramids dwarfs any medieval construction by miles. It is the equivalent of space travel to the Wright Brothers.
Posted by: Only Context at April 23, 2021 09:05 PM (Enpnw)"

I suspect that a fuller understanding of those and certain other structures is going to be put on hold while we toy around with posisbly entering a new dark age, which is... sad, but pretty low on the list of problems.

A lot of first world problems are starting to come off that list because that's what happens when you start losing first world status. I would much rather be chilling out in a functional society and spending my spare time reading about crapsack dystopias, than having to deal with descending into one.

Posted by: somedood at April 24, 2021 02:20 AM (3RlYu)

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