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Monday Overnight Open Thread (5/17/21)
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Quote I “First tings first, I want to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ, that’s No. 1. “No. 2, I want to dedicate this fight to all the people who’ve been hurt by Marxist ideologies.” UFC fighter Beneil Dariush
Quote II "In training if a dog is perfect and never misses, and never is recorded to make a mistake, then there are a couple of problems. Either the training is not rigorous or the record keeping is bad."Law enforcement consultant Mary Cablk
Quote III “The U.S. Constitution does not say you have a right to keep and bear arms as long as you pay what amounts to a gun tax in the form of permit fees. It says you have the right to keep and carry firearms, period.”Shane Stringer, Captain with the Mobile County Sheriffs Department and Alabama State Rep.
Quote IV "The thought of those kids leaving our museum and having the first thing they see is the undergarments and underwear of this enormous Marilyn sculpture would be highly offensive," Grachos told the council. Louis Grachos, the director of the Palm Springs Art Museum
Quote V “We are used to the fact that we have clean water coming from our taps we should expect clean, pollutant- and pathogen-free air” from indoor spaces Lidia Morawska, a distinguished professor in the school of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia
Not everyone in Hollywood is a Karen. Actor Ricky Schroder isn't.
Former "Silver Spoons" and "NYPD Blue" actor Ricky Schroder shared a video of a confrontation he had with a California Costco worker who wouldn’t let him enter the store without a mask. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, stores have been requiring patrons to wear a face covering of some kind in order to be allowed to shop. Many are doing it in compliance with their respective state’s mandates on masks and public gathering spaces. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week announced that fully vaccinated Americans can go without masks and social distancing, with some key exceptions. This was the crux of the argument being made by a visibly upset Schroder as he accosted a Costco employee, who identified himself as front-end supervisor Jason, outside a store located in California.
It's not just the USA. The entire world has gone f*cking nuts.
Francisco José Contreras, deputy to Spain’s far-right Vox Party, was locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours last week after saying “a man cannot get pregnant” because they have “no uterus or eggs.”
Scientific facts are not hate.
'Sure, you don’t get those grill marks, but have you ever stopped to wonder what’s accumulated on your BBQ over the years? Even with regular maintenance using a grill brush?' Well, my Give-A-Shit meter is broken.
The Future of Grilling Season Is a Levitating Hot Dog Roaster Looking for a more hygienic way to roast a hot dog that doesn’t involve it rolling around on a rarely cleaned grill? Taking advantage of the Coandă effect, YouTube’s NightHawkInLight has created a bizarre BBQ alternative that instead levitates a wiener inside a red hot coil. Even if you’re not familiar with the Coandă effect, you’ve probably seen a video or two online of it in action, and have definitely experienced it in real life. Named after Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, it describes an effect where a fluid jet—either a liquid or gas—has the tendency to cling to the contours or a convex surface. If you’ve ever tried to empty a mug into a sink and had the coffee run down the side and drip off the bottom of the mug, that’s the Coandă effect at work. But it can also be used to make objects with curved surfaces float using an air gun by generating lift that counteracts the effects of gravity, like ping pong balls, oranges, screwdrivers, and now grilling season staples.
A federal government left ‘completely blind’ on cyberattacks looks to force reporting
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to make sure the government is never left in the dark about serious hacks again. The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, which led to hoarding and fuel shortages across the East Coast, is spurring new efforts in Congress to require critical companies to tell the government when they’ve been hacked. Even leading Republicans are expressing support for regulations after this week’s chaos — a sharp change from past high-profile efforts that failed due to GOP opposition.
I can envision the Federal Bureau of Incompetence salivating about this law.
Everybody has different hobbies. Hobbyist sets new world record.
Man Stacks an Amazing 1,512 Jenga Blocks Onto One Vertical Jenga Block Breaking His Own World Record
Visiting a ghost town is one of the closest things we have to time travel. If left undisturbed, the town remains suspended in time; perpetually stuck in the year it was abandoned. Fortunately, some ghost towns have been incorporated into state and national parks, which tend to leave them in their state of natural ruin—the most famous example being the former gold mining town of Bodie, California. But there are at least 3,800 ghost towns located throughout the United States (in a variety of conditions), and on occasion, entire towns are up for sale. While owning your own ghost town may sound great in theory, in practice, it could be a very different story (depending on what you want to do with the abandoned property and structures). Before even getting to that part, you have to go through the process of purchasing the ghost town—which, it turns out, is a little different than buying your average not-abandoned home. Here’s what to keep in mind if you’re in the market for a ghost town to call your own, courtesy of an article by Joe Pye on Debt.com.
Doctor apologizes for letting a registered sex offender into a retreat for sex assault survivors 'If I had a chance to do it all over again, this would not have happened,' said Dr. Manuela Joannou
The doctor running Project Trauma Support now says she regrets her decision to allow a registered sex offender to peer mentor a group of sexual assault survivors with post traumatic stress disorder under her care. Seven female first responders and Canadian Forces veterans shared their story publicly with CBC News yesterday. They said their trust was violated by Dr. Manuela Joannou because she failed to tell them their peer mentor recently had been convicted in two separate cases of sexual assault before attending the six-day trauma retreat in July 2018.
On this day: 17 May 2012
Donna Summer, the 1970s pop singer known as the Queen of Disco, died of lung cancer, an illness she believed she contracted from inhaling toxic particles released after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. She won five Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and had three multi-platinum albums, including the hits 'Hot Stuff', 'Love to Love You, and 'Baby' and 'I Feel Love'. via thisdayinmusic.com
On this day:17 May 2016
American Texas country and folk singer, songwriter Guy Clark died in Nashville following a lengthy battle with lymphoma. He wrote songs for Johnny Cash, Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett and many other artists. via thisdayinmusic.com
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s CEO suggested that fans who are angry about induction choices “need to expand their thinking” about what the genre really is. Greg Harris was answering another round of queries about the class of 2021, which includes Jay-Z but not Iron Maiden. The metal legends were nominated for the first time this year even though they have been eligible for induction since 2005, but they failed to receive enough support from the 1,000 or so industry people who cast the votes.
It's a good thing she didn't have a frozen beef pie. Genius Award Winner.
MAY 13--Responding to a report of a disturbance in the potato chip aisle of a Walmart in Ohio, police Tuesday arrested a Cleveland woman for allegedly striking a female victim in the face with a 10-pound log of ground beef. The confrontation at the store in South Euclid, a Cleveland suburb, involved two women--Maneka Garner and Precious Jackson--who once lived in the same duplex, cops say. Jackson, 36, who was battered with the ground beef, previously secured a protection order against the 25-year-old Garner. According to police, when the pair spotted each other, Garner threatened to beat up Jackson (as well as her seven-year-old daughter, who was with Jackson at Walmart). Garner, cops say, pulled down Jackson's mask and attempted to spit on her. When she missed the target, Garner reached into Jackson’s shopping cart and removed the prepackaged meat log, which she then used to strike the victim "a couple of times in the face," cops charge. In the "Weapons Used" section of a South Euclid Police Department report, the ground beef is described as a "blunt object." The meat logs, seen in the above police photo, retail for around $22.
Never too old for love. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
94-Year-Olds Find Love During The Pandemic
A couple in upstate New York, both widowed twice, was determined to hang onto love during the pandemic. John Shults and his girlfriend, Joy Morrow-Nulton, are both 94 years old. Despite all the restrictions due to the pandemic, John and Joy were determined to make it work. "She was worth it. It was a pain in the neck, though," John said of maintaining the relationship through the pandemic. John's son Pete said the two would call each other every day. "They'd find a way to get together. They did whatever it took," Pete said. What it took, they say, was a return to simple pleasures, like long drives to nowhere, batting balloons around the house and a lot of selflessness.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Moonbeam at May 17, 2021 08:57 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 08:57 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Moonbeam at May 17, 2021 08:57 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 17, 2021 08:58 PM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Zeera at May 17, 2021 08:58 PM (GVZIJ)
Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2021 08:59 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 08:59 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: wing at May 17, 2021 08:59 PM (JFzNN)
Posted by: Zeera at May 17, 2021 08:59 PM (GVZIJ)
Posted by: Sandy at May 17, 2021 09:00 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:01 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp
It's certainly alot sweeter smelling than that dude in the tank of the porta-potty.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:02 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:02 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:02 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Zeera at May 17, 2021 09:02 PM (GVZIJ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 17, 2021 09:03 PM (XLHhm)
No sense of humor on the Far Side.
Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2021 09:03 PM (Y274z)
Posted by: Mogo at May 17, 2021 09:03 PM (D5GV3)
Posted by: chango lot at May 17, 2021 09:03 PM (g741k)
Posted by: Zeera
Spent 1/2 hr. on hold and talking to an agent, who at the end, told me they could not provide the help I required. (their jacked up website.)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:04 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 09:04 PM (zcf1k)
Hi lovely ones!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:04 PM (uaw4A)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 17, 2021 09:04 PM (a4EWo)
It says you have the right to keep and carry firearms, period
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Not quite. It says your right shall not be infringed. Your rights aren't a gift from the government.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 17, 2021 09:05 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2021 09:05 PM (Y274z)
I know we have looked at some very disturbing news items recently, but we do have reassuring things to be thankful for. All the 'rons and 'ettes I've had the honor to meet reassure me that there is an island of sanity in these crazy times. I am proud to call you my brothers and sisters.
Stay strong, my friends!
Posted by: Emmie at May 17, 2021 09:05 PM (ofYez)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 17, 2021 09:05 PM (IYHxL)
Posted by: chango lot at May 17, 2021 09:06 PM (g741k)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 17, 2021 09:06 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:06 PM (uaw4A)
Posted by: chango lot at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (g741k)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (oUcR5)
In the interests of inclusivity and diversity, how about the occasional accordion masterwork?
Posted by: zombie Myron Florin at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (DMUuz)
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Someone doesn't understand what a peer is. A peer is someone with a lived experience similar in some way to the person they are talking/working with, not someone with experience in creating the people looking for help.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: chango lot at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (g741k)
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Now that's just mean.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (fLVm1)
Blessing of Lard or Bacon
Priest: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Respondents: Who has made heaven and earth.
Priest: The Lord be with you.
Respondents: And with your spirit.
Bless, Lord, this bacon which You have made, that it may be a healthful food for mankind. Grant by the invocation of Your holy name that all who partake of it may receive health of body and safety of soul, through Christ our Lord,
Amen.
*holy water to now be sprinkled over the bacon*
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: zombie Myron Florin at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (DMUuz)
What this blog needs is a good polka band!
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at May 17, 2021 09:08 PM (oUcR5)
How many pathogens can live at that temperature? The answer is...
None!
Who gives a shit whether there is a bit of carbon on the grates.
Fucking retards.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 17, 2021 09:08 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: dartist at May 17, 2021 09:08 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:08 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: zombie Myron Florin
Brother!!
--- Zombie Frankie Yankovic
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:09 PM (Rvt88)
Lady cop comes flying up, hustles back there and retrieves him back to cruiser walking him out by his ear.
We all got a lecture about drinking in public ...and let go.
Amazing what I've gotten away with. God is good.
Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2021 09:09 PM (Y274z)
I didn't see accosting there, not even close to what the Left does do people every day. He should probably move though, it is better than pissing up a rope.
Posted by: Quint at May 17, 2021 09:09 PM (gCeUK)
Posted by: chango lot at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (g741k)
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Now that's just mean.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (fLVm1)
But that doesn't make it not true.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:09 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:09 PM (PYaGV)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at May 17, 2021 09:10 PM (cJSGn)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:10 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Robert sez keep metal underground at May 17, 2021 09:10 PM (PYaGV)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 17, 2021 09:08 PM (Q9lwr)
But they love science sexually!
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:11 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at May 17, 2021 09:11 PM (oUcR5)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:10 PM (r1z5A)
Better than any of us has, I assure you.
Now grab a beer and crank that shit to 11!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Robert sez keep metal underground at May 17, 2021 09:12 PM (PYaGV)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 17, 2021 09:12 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 17, 2021 09:03 PM (XLHhm)
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First thing I noticed...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 09:12 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 09:13 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 09:13 PM (bP0Cy)
A nice article about the new gatehouse recently dedicated at our parish.
https://fssp.com/gatehouse-blessing-regina-caeli-in-houston/
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 17, 2021 09:13 PM (mht8P)
It's a thing.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at May 17, 2021 09:13 PM (cJSGn)
Whoever can tell with an ONT..
Let's go,pals..
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:13 PM (uaw4A)
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 09:14 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2021 09:09 PM (Y274z)
I had nothing to do with it. I was just too busy pissing myself laughing to smite thee.
Posted by: The LAWD yo GAWD at May 17, 2021 09:14 PM (PYaGV)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:14 PM (IgrLN)
In Hell, it's accordions!
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 09:14 PM (x/IHv)
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In Sheol, it's all vuvuzelas, all the time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:14 PM (fLVm1)
EU and Principled Free Trade(tm) establishmentarianism: Absolutely right on the regulation--the EU charter is something like ten thousand pages and it's all enforced. Great for crooks and cronies pretending to be bidniss-men, not so great for those trying to get stuff done. In a previous life I had to deal with some of that. Company made a very expensive piece of equipment and started selling it over there, but one of our German corporate frenzz wanted to flex its nuts so they got their regulatory frenzz to cut off the whole Eurozone market until a costly redesign was undertaken. But, y'know, like, freedom, maaaan.
That said, I will grudgingly give the EU credit for actually enforcing privacy and consumer-protection laws though. We have a lot of that on the books too but it convienently never seems to show up when it matters.
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 09:15 PM (zcf1k)
The first LP is still great.
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:15 PM (IgrLN)
Blessing of Lard or Bacon
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There is no corresponding Blessing of Creamed Corn or Blessing of Brussels Sprouts.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 17, 2021 09:16 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: dartist at May 17, 2021 09:16 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: zombie Myron Florin at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (DMUuz)
Does a hot chick with an accordion count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznVH-lSATA
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:16 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Methos at May 17, 2021 09:16 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:17 PM (BbWMC)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2021 09:17 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 17, 2021 09:17 PM (fSn94)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 17, 2021 09:17 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: Toni at May 17, 2021 09:18 PM (/c+mq)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2021 09:17 PM (axyOa)
It'll just make you fat. Here, let me take that off your hands.
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:18 PM (PYaGV)
Priest and Maiden will get in eventually but the Fame will flip off the fan base until the bitter end , very much reminiscent of the GOP.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 17, 2021 09:18 PM (XLHhm)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:18 PM (tX2P+)
I'd of been first but Mrs D had just set out some brownies with ice cream.
Posted by: Diogenes
Geez blog blocked by your own wife....
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:19 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: chango lot at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (g741k)
That's a terrible thing to say!
Also, I agree about the officer's booty. Muy bonita.
PJW video was on the mark. The only thing I hate more than modern art, which is essentially a middle finger to the viewer, is publicly-funded-with-millions modern art, which is the other middle finger and a bonus crotch-grab. They hate beauty, and the only thing they love more than destroying it is getting us to pay for it, and knowing we know.
And by "they", I don't mean " them". IYKWIM.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 17, 2021 09:19 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 17, 2021 09:19 PM (qc+VF)
Whoever can tell with an ONT..
Let's go,pals..
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:13 PM (uaw4A)
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Whimsically serious, or seriously whimsical?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 09:20 PM (CAJOC)
He is holding a grudge because Poison never won, either.
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:17 PM (BbWMC)
*looks* Huh, someone still signed them to release records post Native Tongue. Never would have guessed.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:20 PM (Ojki1)
There is a dingus with a chingus that has an apparatus which squirts warm cream corn.
Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 17, 2021 09:20 PM (fSn94)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:18 PM (tX2P+)
Otherwise known as a "fat ass."
No thanks.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 17, 2021 09:21 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:17 PM (BbWMC)
I'm holding a grudge because nobody ever blow torched those poser mofos. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:21 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 17, 2021 09:21 PM (IYHxL)
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:22 PM (PYaGV)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:19 PM (r1z5A)
Yeah.
Not as good as shouting NOOD though. .
Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2021 09:22 PM (axyOa)
I feel a little bit of sympathy for the non-crazy females who just got caught in the crossfire, but on the other hand it does come across at least for the older ones as one of those "first they came for the retards and I said nothing..." situations. Maybe there's just not a winning move here.
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 09:23 PM (zcf1k)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznVH-lSATA
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:16 PM
She's quite talented, too!
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 09:23 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:23 PM (tX2P+)
We need a Rock and Roll Hall of Quality. Some people erroneously equate the two.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 17, 2021 09:23 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:24 PM (uaw4A)
How yo been, Bers?
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:23 PM (tX2P+)
Tired from this miserable ass sucking move.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:24 PM (VwHCD)
If she dedicated herself to a seriousregiment of flat-footed reverse-cowgirl, she'd have a great ass.
Right now it's sloppy.
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:24 PM (tX2P+)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 17, 2021 09:23 PM (OssQ4)
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We don't get it.
Posted by: Milli Vanilli at May 17, 2021 09:25 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: dartist at May 17, 2021 09:25 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:21 PM (VwHCD)
Their attempt to reinvent themselves and try to be serious was hilariously sad though. Oh look, KISS dropped the makeup and tried to change their sound, maybe we should do the same! Kind of interesting how many groups around that time tried to ho they had range outside the genera that made them famous only to discover the audience did not agree-or at least weren't interested in playing along.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:25 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:25 PM (tX2P+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 17, 2021 09:26 PM (Dc2NZ)
tinyurl.com/3ej6r2d2
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 17, 2021 09:27 PM (DMUuz)
Thanks for the pic of the *original* Boulder toilet hobo. That helps with my diet quite a bit.
And MisHum, by any chance, have you heard the album Death By Sexy by Eagles Of Death Metal? I listened to it last night. OMG, what a great album. Hope you can feature a song or two by them soon.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:27 PM (L2ZTs)
OTOH, less competition...
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 09:28 PM (zcf1k)
Posted by: chango lot at May 17, 2021 09:28 PM (g741k)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 17, 2021 09:28 PM (uVhaL)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 17, 2021 09:29 PM (tVOev)
Posted by: Zeera at May 17, 2021 09:02 PM (GVZIJ)
Those brawlin' Bettys sure had a beef, huh?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 17, 2021 09:29 PM (mdjgu)
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 09:29 PM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 17, 2021 09:29 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:30 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 09:30 PM (2DOZq)
And Maiden came out and G*d. Damn. F*cking KILLED. It was stupendous. It was amazing. It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen live on stage. Judas Priest was good that night but Iron Maiden were a revelation and everyone there knew it.
Never forget the killer climax run of "Transylvania/Phantom of the Opera" and then into their theme song, packed house on their feet in sweaty headbanging ecstasy screaming "Iron Maiden! gonna get ya- wherever you are! Iron Maiden! Gonna get ya - How near or how far!" And most of them had never heard a note by this band before! That's when I knew something very special had just happened.
They went on to bigger and better things with Dickinson, but for me, though he was fired only a few months after the show I saw, Paul D'anno was the MAN and nothing will ever beat early Maiden.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 17, 2021 09:30 PM (Bmy3R)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 17, 2021 09:23 PM (OssQ4)
Eh, its a gimmick run for a buck that somehow managed to be "legit" in the eyes of many. I can't think of a single reason to go to Cleveland, and "Here is a picture and guitar from some band you barely remember hearing a song on the radio for" isn't remotely going to change that. The HoF is about as legit as the WWE's non-existent building/website only HoF which is heavily biased by the people in charge as well.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:31 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 17, 2021 09:29 PM (tVOev)
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It's in Cleveland, right? Fucking Cleveland.
Keep your expectations very low.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:31 PM (fLVm1)
Can't help myself, mind if I share thoughts about that band? I've noticed over the years that Kansas and Styx seemed rather similar as bands... plus both kind of tried to be "lite" American versions of Queen, IMHO.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:31 PM (L2ZTs)
OTOH, less competition...
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 09:28 PM (zcf1k)
I think we're all just spoiled by KBDaBear's Compliance Pics.
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:32 PM (ceEqg)
Wouldn't even be an issue if they just named it the music Hall of Fame. Would make them look less like idiots if they did that.
Posted by: buzzion at May 17, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)
And who you gonna trust with your gear?
Not many.
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:25 PM (tX2P+)
None, thats how many. I moved it all myself. Had to rent a box truck and make a few trips. The upside is I found a few guitars I forgot about, and a gibson explorer that was a complete mystery. I opened the case and was like well helloooo, where the fuck did you come from. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:33 PM (VwHCD)
Seeing (for free) where they shot parts of "A Chistmas Story" was better.
Posted by: Chuck C at May 17, 2021 09:33 PM (awtm/)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 17, 2021 09:33 PM (jvt6t)
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:32 PM (ceEqg)
Fair point.
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 09:34 PM (zcf1k)
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free
While God is marching on
Posted by: Greyman27 at May 17, 2021 09:34 PM (TiMI9)
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:34 PM (ceEqg)
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody
It may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 17, 2021 09:36 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:36 PM (uaw4A)
Keep your expectations very low.
Posted by: Cicero
The only real use for the HOF is as a landmark for the USS Cod. She's retired now and tied up nearby.
Take a tour and discover how big the balls were of our submariners during WWII.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:36 PM (Rvt88)
Keep your expectations very low.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Did Cleveland have a rich and historic Rock n Roll tradition?
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:36 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 17, 2021 09:37 PM (uVhaL)
Posted by: buzzion at May 17, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)
In fairness most people don't want to go to Cleveland.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:37 PM (Ojki1)
It was stupendous. It was amazing. It was one of the greatest things
I've ever seen live on stage. Judas Priest was good that night but Iron
Maiden were a revelation and everyone there knew it.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 17, 2021 09:30 PM (Bmy3R)
That tour was the shot heard around the world. I saw it at Asbury Park convention center in jersey. Priest comes out singing heading out to the highway and maiden comes out hammering Killers. It was no contest. They wiped the floor with priest.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 17, 2021 09:37 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: buzzion at May 17, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)
In that case call it The Lowest Common Denominator Garbage Mill For Weak Minded Lemmings Hall Of Fame.
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:37 PM (JsqpZ)
Posted by: Miso Horney at May 17, 2021 09:37 PM (Re9MM)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2021 09:37 PM (DpkTQ)
https://tinyurl.com/pjexy6ck
https://tinyurl.com/9b4a8yar
https://tinyurl.com/94mpdya4
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https://tinyurl.com/2wmy2uvm
Posted by: kbdabear at May 17, 2021 09:38 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2021 09:38 PM (DpkTQ)
Posted by: klaftern at May 17, 2021 09:38 PM (r4sI4)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 17, 2021 09:38 PM (EZebt)
The "hot chick" playing the accordion in the acoustic metal band vid is one Netta Skog...
nettaskog .com
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 09:39 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:37 PM (JsqpZ)
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That won't fit on the $19 Official Souvenir Flying Disc.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:39 PM (fLVm1)
Though I did see Kansas live and they were quite good.
Bit too much for me. I like my keyboards to be Organ or in a Funk Band. Unless we are talking Jazz.
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:39 PM (IgrLN)
Posted by: 18-1
They're probably right. Add in the usurious mortgage rates that will be visited upon us and we'll have a huge mess.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:39 PM (Rvt88)
they believe that Biden-nomics is soon going to leave us too poor to buy
lots of lumber.
That's not an unreasonable assumption. A similar thing happened during the obama years where no one wanted to take any financial risk lest they give the government an opportunity to steal from them.
Posted by: Methos at May 17, 2021 09:40 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:36 PM (uaw4A)
Long story short (too late): Was moron in good standing, TDS took it's toll and then completely lost what was left of hir mind over masks. Like super screeding about how masks are salvation and if we all just wore them and stapled them around our door frames the Angel of Rona would pass over our house.
That last part is a little poetic license, but I'd argue accurate.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:40 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: klaftern
They're talking about The Bruce Dickinson.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:40 PM (Rvt88)
https://tinyurl.com/5cfxm62w
https://tinyurl.com/r5hrr2bb
https://tinyurl.com/smnm66k7
https://tinyurl.com/99tkxwrk
https://tinyurl.com/kjjmr54f
Posted by: kbdabear at May 17, 2021 09:40 PM (qAR6u)
Go find the people behind the colonial hack and hang them.
Then hang the next group and so on.
With the risks going up there will be fewer people willing to do the crime.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2021 09:40 PM (DpkTQ)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:41 PM (IgrLN)
Ya know, first time I took this shit I had the most strangely vivid dream I ever had. Second time, still pretty vivid. Every time thereafter I get bupkiss.
I want weird and vivid dreams, dammit!
Anyway...night!
Iron Maiden - Strange World
https://youtu.be/loNv0yB5Bqs
Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2021 09:41 PM (JsqpZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:39 PM (fLVm1)
Records are hip again, just record it in the groves.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:42 PM (Ojki1)
Yep. You walked out knowing *something* just changed. *Metal* just changed. That's a rare thing.
Saw Maiden again a little over a year later, 10/15/82 at Buffalo's late lamented Memorial Aud, and this time, with Dickinson on board and "Run to the Hills" on the charts, Judas Priest was opening for THEM! Well, technically it was a double-bill but Maiden went on second at least that night. And again they were great, but it was *just* a great concert. Not a revelation.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 17, 2021 09:42 PM (Bmy3R)
"The meat logs, seen in the above police photo, retail for around $22."
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 09:44 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:44 PM (IgrLN)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 09:44 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:41 PM (IgrLN)
Soon to be fewer et when Twatter asks for $3 a month in subscription fees for some services and the FSA locusts over somewhere else to bitch about Twatter not giving them free shit anymore.
Probably while also running ad blocking software at the place they descend upon.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:44 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 17, 2021 09:44 PM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 09:44 PM (xK9An)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:45 PM (IgrLN)
"The meat logs, seen in the above police photo, retail for around $22."
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 09:44 PM (Atzlh)
Time for common sense meat log control!
Phrasing intended!
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:45 PM (Ojki1)
- US Government
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 09:45 PM (bP0Cy)
You see Karens bopping down the road to songs about pimps smacking their hoes, and middle manager Kyles singing about killing rival drug dealers...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2021 09:46 PM (DpkTQ)
Can't believe Ted agreed to perform on a song with (gasp) STRINGS on it!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:46 PM (L2ZTs)
- US Government
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 09:45 PM (bP0Cy)
Lol. Like the govt's taking in money is in anyway related to its printing activities.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:47 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 09:47 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 17, 2021 09:47 PM (jvt6t)
I used kind of like Boulder hobo. Too bad he lost his mind to the leftist think.Masks! OMG!
Good f'n grief!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:48 PM (uaw4A)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:46 PM (L2ZTs)
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It wasn't violins, it was compound bows.
Bambi gets it in the 2nd movement.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 09:48 PM (fLVm1)
Government 'deficits' do not matter.
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 09:48 PM (xK9An)
Every dollar in deficit spending is at least one dollar in future taxes AND a reduction in the value of your money today.
If we had a Supreme Court they might decide that such taxation without representation is a problem in an American Republican government...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2021 09:48 PM (DpkTQ)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 09:49 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 17, 2021 09:49 PM (EZebt)
"The constitution says we have the right to keep and bear arms, not the right to keep and bear arms but only if we keep our weapons, which can't be black or menacing looking or have the thing that goes up, or even a bayonet lug, unloaded and locked in our safe at home and only after getting a background check, a psych eval, and spending 9 years kissing the ass of a local sheriff trying to get a carry permit and only if our life is in imminent danger."
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (Atzlh)
(*the checks bounced)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Cicero
You do not want to be the Mom character in any Disney film. You aren't gonna make the final scene.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (DpkTQ)
He can say what he wants, but listen to some of that early stuff. "Running Free" isn't punk-metal? "Iron Maiden"? And I was there live and I know what I saw and heard on that early tour. Yes, they were doing some amazing things with prog-metal right from the get-go, but the other p word was present through DiAnno's departure.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (Bmy3R)
Tommy Shaw and Ted Nugent. Together.
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:45 PM (IgrLN)
Shaw told a story where at end of show Ted would play them out and he would end up on his back playing and the band members would drag him off the stage. During one show Ted was doing his thing and started to be dragged off and he started screaming and they thought he might have hurt himself and when they got closer to ask him what's wrong he yelled at them ' you're standing on my fucking hair !'
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 09:51 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at May 17, 2021 09:51 PM (R1NI2)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (DpkTQ)
And just remember, since 95 the repubs have been in charge of the purse for a large number of those years of being "Fiscally responsible."
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:52 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:52 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 09:53 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at May 17, 2021 09:53 PM (4GA/5)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 17, 2021 09:53 PM (/UQ/R)
give to those who dont. Then they print trillions more to give to their
cronies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
That's a great point! As long as the government is going to print more money that it takes in...reduce the income tax to 0 and just print a couple billion to cover the graft.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:53 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 09:53 PM (bP0Cy)
I only have the one Kansas album everyone had. Not just for the song but also the great cover art.
Styx, I enjoy a lot more while realizing it’s not great music. I think the first album I picked up was Lady and probably solely on the cover art (with my finances as a kid, I mostly bought cassettes from the Meijer Thrifty Acres bargain box). Probably it’s just memories as one of my first albums, but I still enjoy it.
Also enjoy the albums The Grand Illusion, Pieces of Eight (which, come to think of it, was probably the first album of theirs I bought, via the Columbia Record and Tape Club), and Paradise Theatre.
The last album of theirs I bought at the time was Kilroy Was Here, which I played a lot. Loved he whole concept. Individually the songs probably don’t stand up but it was a standout concept album.
I’ve since picked up other albums of theirs, but nothing is as memorable as those five.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 17, 2021 09:54 PM (CX3cf)
Donna Summer is...
mort?
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 09:53 PM (x/IHv)
It's OK, it's Recovery Summer and she'll get better! My word as a...er, chamberpot.
Posted by: Bidet, eater of paste. at May 17, 2021 09:54 PM (Ojki1)
)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 09:54 PM (uaw4A)
She worked hard for the money. So hard for it, honey.
That's conservatism right there in them lyrics.
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 09:55 PM (xK9An)
Posted by: Gentle But Fast-Acting gp at May 17, 2021 09:55 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:55 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 09:55 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America
When I first saw it I thought, oh, Bob Ross painting. Beautiful.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 09:55 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Gentle But Fast-Acting gp at May 17, 2021 09:56 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 09:57 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 09:57 PM (2DOZq)
"What the... You're not made of Tuesday!" "You calling me craaaaazz-y? Ha-HA!" "Just because I have a hotel in my foot doesn't make me a boogily-moogily-moogily!"
Posted by: Roberto at May 17, 2021 09:57 PM (Re9MM)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - The Original Fanilow (since 1974) at May 17, 2021 09:58 PM (SRRAx)
That's conservatism right there in them lyrics.
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 09:55 PM (xK9An)
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Can't disagree with that.
Nice to see you back, Zod.
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at May 17, 2021 09:58 PM (R1NI2)
Posted by: Quint at May 17, 2021 09:59 PM (ktJa5)
Posted by: garrett at May 17, 2021 09:59 PM (2Akm1)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 17, 2021 09:59 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (d9Cw3)
Absolutely. One of the real greats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 09:59 PM (BV9I2)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 17, 2021 09:59 PM (4fSQf)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 09:59 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Dolly Parton at May 17, 2021 10:00 PM (2Akm1)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 17, 2021 10:00 PM (ybIRR)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 17, 2021 10:00 PM (iTXRQ)
(*the checks bounced)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM (L2ZTs
If the SCOTUS didn't do this, they would have destroyed the 4th.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 17, 2021 10:01 PM (4fSQf)
Posted by: zombie Myron Florin at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (DMUuz)
Some Ponty Bone and the Squeezetones would be fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 10:01 PM (BV9I2)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at May 17, 2021 10:02 PM (4l77G)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:02 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 17, 2021 10:03 PM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 17, 2021 10:04 PM (Jzz++)
(high school girlfriend Jill) "How about this?"
(Pops cassette into tape-deck of Zod's not-very-cool tank-heavy white Mustang II with the red trim and red interior)
"Styx? Huh."
"You don't like them?"
"Do you?"
"Yeah!" (She smiles)
"Yeah. Me, too. Let's drive."
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 10:04 PM (xK9An)
Posted by: chango lot
Sometimes you have to take off the masks to get a breath of fresh air.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 17, 2021 10:04 PM (ezqmI)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 17, 2021 10:03 PM (a4EWo
He was so wore out the next day, he called a LID at 1 pm
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 17, 2021 10:04 PM (4fSQf)
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at May 17, 2021 10:05 PM (R1NI2)
Airlines may start WEIGHING people at the gate amid fears aircraft are being overloaded by fat passengers
Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 17, 2021 10:05 PM (bTQ72)
Posted by: ChJe at May 17, 2021 10:05 PM (Re9MM)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 17, 2021 10:03 PM (a4EWo
You know he ate the little pencil.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 17, 2021 10:06 PM (uVhaL)
The Fed is not going to let interest rates rise. They can't. Doing would so would destroy the federal govt. And the Fed itself.
They will let inflation rip and pretend it doesn't exist. They'll have their buds at the BLS (Bureau of Lies and Statistics) rejigger the CPI and even PPI to make that core inflation number low.
Big Tech will start censoring and banning anyone who mentions inflation. If you do, you are right-wing insurrectionist terrorist who wants to destroy our democracy by undermining faith in our currency and economy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:06 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 09:07 PM (Ojki1)
I was going to comment on that. That "doctor" is just a New Age scam artist, and half-assed witch. Did you see that pic of the "patients" having a group hug in the "labyrinth" made out of stone circles? Just a mash-up of Druid shit, and indian mysticism. And her "patients" look like the sort of weak minds that are susceptible to that line of woo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 10:07 PM (BV9I2)
Posted by: klaftern at May 17, 2021 10:07 PM (r4sI4)
Posted by: ChJe at May 17, 2021 10:05 PM (Re9MM)
*touches nose*
*winks*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at May 17, 2021 10:08 PM (4l77G)
A nice article about the new gatehouse recently dedicated at our parish.
https://fssp.com/gatehouse-blessing-regina-caeli-in-houston/
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 17, 2021 09:13 PM (mht8P)
Congrats to you and your parish!...so great that they named the gatehouse after Blessed Solanus Casey!
Posted by: RondinellaMamma - Trump is still The Duly Elected President of the USA at May 17, 2021 10:08 PM (8/7u2)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2021 10:08 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Zeera at May 17, 2021 08:59
I didn't forget, filed my first extension ever yesterday. Somehow couldn't get it done, even tho I'm off work disabled. Too much bad stuff in the last few months, and uncertainly about future income.
To be honest, forced on disability then having your job of 32 yrs eliminated really is a mindf*ck. I think I have been depressed, but didn't realize it.
Well, onward, I'm retirement age and we will see what this next step of life is like.
Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2021 10:10 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 17, 2021 10:10 PM (4fSQf)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:11 PM (pNxlR)
...was on the local radio here when they unveiled the choices. Most of the morning crew didn't say a word after Jay-Z and Carole King were announced. They're very corporate and knew better.
Posted by: t-bird at May 17, 2021 10:12 PM (1vynn)
Posted by: Tonypete
Jim Gaffigan has outted himself as a bit of a lefty wanker lately, but he has an hilarious bit about bacon:
https://youtu.be/RqFi0cZ4p1E
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 10:12 PM (Atzlh)
Keep your expectations very low.
Posted by: Cicero
Home of the Steamer...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 17, 2021 10:13 PM (ezqmI)
Airlines may start WEIGHING people at the gate amid fears aircraft are being overloaded by fat passengers
Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 17, 2021 10:05 PM (bTQ72)
Haven't they been doing this on smaller flights for quite a while? Ron White even has a joke about it. "Well fill it up! I weigh a thousand pounds!"
Posted by: buzzion at May 17, 2021 10:14 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:14 PM (pNxlR)
Speaking of lumber, I was just looking, lumber futures are cooling down a bit. They reached a peak of over $1700/bd-fit, but have dropped down to $1330.
That's still 4 times what it was over a year ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:14 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at May 17, 2021 10:15 PM (cJSGn)
"Accident of Birth" and "Chemical Wedding" are flawless. Adrian Smith is a huge part of that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at May 17, 2021 10:15 PM (4l77G)
Indian Covid victim, 76, wakes up on her funeral pyre moments before she is due to be cremated because family thought she was dead
Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 17, 2021 10:15 PM (bTQ72)
Posted by: buzzion at May 17, 2021 10:16 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 10:16 PM (zcf1k)
Inflation will be a Russian plot, I'm sure. Putin is hacking all the price scanners making the price go up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:16 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: will choose a nic later
Burnt? Delicious!
Posted by: ChJe at May 17, 2021 10:16 PM (Re9MM)
Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 17, 2021 10:15 PM
And then the family had to hold her down with sticks?
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 10:17 PM (x/IHv)
When the aliens finally(!) arrive, they're gonna seek out those wit names not unlike their own.
Jor-El. Spock. T.T. Boy. Zardoz. LL Cool J. Jay-Z.
Good luck then, 'original gangsters.'
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 10:17 PM (xK9An)
Posted by: will choose a nic later
Get on the cart! You'll be stone cold dead in a minute!
Posted by: ChJe at May 17, 2021 10:17 PM (Re9MM)
No better example is the con-artist Banksy who literally destroyed some spray painted childish thing he did after some imbecile who wanted to be noticed paid millions for the privilege. Good on Banksy - at least he knows he's a con-artist, and he knows his marks...he doesn't even pretend he's doing real art, he tells you to your face - the con is the art.
Posted by: Boswell at May 17, 2021 10:18 PM (w2LAm)
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 10:17 PM (x/IHv)
Gee, thanks. LOLing at that just earned me a week in Purgatory.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at May 17, 2021 10:18 PM (4l77G)
Happy tax day for those who forgot
Like I give a shit. They (Congress) cannot be bothered to pass budget bills, much less on time, I feel no compulsion to adhere to the gubmint's purely arbitrary deadlines.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:19 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 10:20 PM (xK9An)
That's a supply and demand issue right? As soon as the mills get their workers back and supply increases it should drop even more.
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:20 PM (2DOZq)
No, you illiterate, fundamentally stupid retarded nitwits. The Ganges is a sacred river in India and it is considered a high honor to have your body floated in it.
There is usually little mention of this river being a major water supply for drinking and cooking, also bathing, along its length.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at May 17, 2021 10:21 PM (cJSGn)
literally destroyed some spray painted childish thing he did after some
imbecile who wanted to be noticed paid millions for the privilege. Good
on Banksy - at least he knows he's a con-artist, and he knows his
marks...he doesn't even pretend he's doing real art, he tells you to
your face - the con is the art.
Posted by: Boswell at May 17, 2021 10:18 PM (w2LAm)
"Exit Through the Gift Shop" is one of my top five movies of all time. It's not until about halfway through that you realize you're getting conned by Banksy. It's brilliant.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:21 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Did pee-resident Gump make a sand castle in a trap, then make special mudpies to put on top?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 17, 2021 10:22 PM (ezqmI)
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 10:22 PM (zcf1k)
That's going to get messy, but they gave up caring about customer relations long ago.
Do I get a reduced rate if I help out by weighing less than 250 lbs?
Posted by: t-bird at May 17, 2021 10:23 PM (l0Lgi)
Posted by: t-bird at May 17, 2021 10:23 PM (l0Lgi)
You can weight it forward to the next wideload
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 17, 2021 10:24 PM (+I6Y/)
the mills get their workers back and supply increases it should drop
even more.
Posted by: Can't help myself
BIL said he passed a sawmill, N. Id. 10 acres fence to fence of bundled lumber...another friend stated they have a hard time finding truck drivers who can pass a drug test...
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 17, 2021 10:24 PM (r1z5A)
Yep. However, the lumber mills aren't increasing supply, as they usually would. They're afraid to, for one thing (fearing it's a flash in the pan), and this is the key monetary component, all the stimulus and free govt money is driving a lot of the demand. It's free money being thrown at the lumber industry thanks to Uncle and the Fed keeping rates so low.
Big Lumber is quite happy to keep supply low and rake in that free cash. And that is the classic inflationary condition of too much money chasing too few goods.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:24 PM (Mzdiz)
Who could forget, getting sandfucked the first 4 mos of the year?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 17, 2021 10:24 PM (ezqmI)
https://youtu.be/RqFi0cZ4p1E
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 10:12 PM (Atzlh)
I don't deny that as it is a shame, he could be funny. But what he did was on a different level. There was hate there, there was the desire to burn bridges for good. Not saying he he has never been funny. But what he did was not playing around. He went to war against his own fans and it was done for a reason.
Posted by: Quint at May 17, 2021 10:25 PM (ktJa5)
There is usually little mention of this river being a major water supply for drinking and cooking, also bathing, along its length.
Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at May 17, 2021 10:21 PM (cJSGn)
Sacred river = open sewer. The turds all float.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 10:25 PM (PrwJN)
"The Jerk."
It's not until about halfway through that you realize that Navin R. Johnson is going to have his name tattooed on Patty's ass.
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 10:25 PM (xK9An)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at May 17, 2021 10:25 PM (4l77G)
futures are cooling down a bit. They reached a peak of over
$1700/bd-fit, but have dropped down to $1330.
That's still 4 times what it was over a year ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:14 PM (Mzdiz)
If only there were some invisible mechanism through which supply and demand determined prices.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:25 PM (BMmaB)
They will let inflation rip and pretend it doesn't exist...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:06
I agree w/ you, that was a very astute analysis. Do you have any ideas how to protect yourself and yours?
Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2021 10:28 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 17, 2021 10:28 PM (+I6Y/)
The liberal cannot have it so that you are not the aggressor.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 10:29 PM (Eicbe)
Start your own country completely disconnected from the dollar.
Posted by: Methos at May 17, 2021 10:29 PM (kOpft)
The liberal cannot have it so that you are not the aggressor.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 10:29 PM (Eicbe)
In fairness, I do plan on ostracizing the practitioners of the Cult of the Mask.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:30 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 10:31 PM (fLVm1)
I thought part of the reason they couldn't meet demand was the lack of workers. Is that not accurate?
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:31 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Megthered at May 17, 2021 10:31 PM (AdxHD)
Not a recco as gold can be volatile. World governments can decide to tank the price on a whim.
Posted by: Quint at May 17, 2021 10:31 PM (ktJa5)
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:30 PM (Ojki1)
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I've been practicing my exaggerated eyeroll for months already.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 10:32 PM (fLVm1)
Not really. The only that matters in such inflationary times (and shit hit the fan times in general) is physical stuff. Real stuff. Paper of all kinds is no good.
Now, some paper can do well, but that's basically luck and knowing the right thing and the right time. You can read of people who did well in ridiculous inflations of history.
But it varies with each instance.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:32 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at May 17, 2021 10:05 PM
the third verse about the alien encounter seems really tacked on. Like their manager told them they needed to capitalize on all the Star Wars and Close Encounters hoopla. Dennis DeYoung says: I've got this song about a boat. Give me an hour to fix it.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 17, 2021 10:32 PM (O6DoG)
Posted by: Megthered at May 17, 2021 10:31 PM (AdxHD)
in lots of Red America, that would be true. Even in Blue States, if you went to red areas, they were not masking 6 months ago.
Posted by: Quint at May 17, 2021 10:33 PM (ktJa5)
Head up... robbery/carjacking spree in south #Mpls in last hour. We've posted several.
Robbery of person at gunpoint.
25xx Bloomington Ave S
Suspect vehicle: red
22:25
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 17, 2021 10:33 PM (nI1Kq)
Hockney is modern art personified - an arrogant, ignorant, talentless snake oil salesman.
Real art requires craftmanship first, knowing your materials and building a skill, like making a fine cabinet or a table with your hands. Add in a little creativity and thought, and you may, I say may, have a real work of beautiful art. David Hockney is a finger painting child compared to the masters who understood this.
Posted by: Boswell at May 17, 2021 10:33 PM (w2LAm)
*****
Whacked in the face Twice with a 10# beef tube... Ow.
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I broke my self-ban on Reason articles to read about the K9 drug dog farce. The USSC really screwed the pooch on that ruling. They didn't impose any training or accuracy conditions on the dogs, or even any recordkeeping requirements.
So. Of course some police departments abuse the fuck out of that gaping hole in the 4th Amendment that the Justices created. Here's a brief summary of it --
United States v. Place, 462 US 696 (1983)-The court determined that the sniffing of personal items of a person in a public place by a dog for the purpose of finding contraband was not a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 17, 2021 10:34 PM (F0YaR)
I remember when Kevin Smith the overweight director complained about this. It was before I had started flying Southwest, and it was one of the reasons I started preferring them.
Weighing passengers is probably inevitable. The laws of physics do not provide for compassionately looking the other way.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 17, 2021 10:34 PM (CX3cf)
Cool, but I am in Montana, so my smug mask-less strut will be moot by the time I get back home.
But, you know, there will come another Crisis What Will Destroy Us!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at May 17, 2021 10:34 PM (4l77G)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 10:31 PM (fLVm1)
yeah, Norm is on a another level.
Posted by: Quint at May 17, 2021 10:34 PM (ktJa5)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 17, 2021 10:32 PM (O6DoG)
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But Boston took all the cool spaceship album covers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 10:34 PM (fLVm1)
That's part of it too, and that is affecting many industries. Hell, a local Waffle House around has gone take-out only two nights a week because they can't get enough staff in.
The free govt. money is making the labor market much tighter than the unemployment rate would suggest.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:35 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Spinal Tap at May 17, 2021 10:36 PM (rt0xh)
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Disneyland is at reduced capacity because its workers don't want to come back. President Dumpster Fire is doing a bang-up job.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 10:37 PM (fLVm1)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 10:37 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 10:38 PM (DBkYX)
To boil it down, our elites and leaders in the govt. and the Fed are doing everything they can to create stagflation. It's almost like they want to.
If you got everybody together and said, hey let's create stagflation that would make the '70s look tame, then you'd being doing exactly what they're doing now.
Paying people not to work. Scaring people not to work. And then throwing free money to all those people not working.
That means more money chasing things, and killing production of those things the money is chasing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:38 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at May 17, 2021 10:32 PM (O6DoG
One of the funniest bits I've ever heard (and you really have to hear it to get the full effect), was Dennis De Young introducing a song, saying it was little known that it was actually written by Jerry Lewis. The interviewer says, "Really?" then Dennis starts playing the piano intro to "Lady" and then yells "LADY!" like Jerry Lewis the bellboy. It was funny as hell.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:39 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Harry Psalmer at May 17, 2021 10:39 PM (Re9MM)
Saw it today. Watch for the big turn around. People who wear masks are trying to say that they're ostracized by people who don't wear masks.
No, you fools ostrichize yourselves.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:39 PM (pNxlR)
It's a shame that unemployed Waffle House staff cannot be purchased to work as domestic help.
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 10:40 PM (xK9An)
Posted by: Harry Psalmer at May 17, 2021 10:39 PM (Re9MM)
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PRO TIP: You can be as fat as you want with a first class ticket. Hell, they encourage it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 17, 2021 10:40 PM (fLVm1)
Mayor Con is only about 4'2".
He actually grows higher when he us lying down.
Snark.
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 17, 2021 10:40 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 10:41 PM (DBkYX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:41 PM (bP0Cy)
create stagflation that would make the '70s look tame, then you'd being
doing exactly what they're doing now.
Paying people not to work. Scaring people not to work. And then throwing free money to all those people not working.
That means more money chasing things, and killing production of those things the money is chasing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 10:38 PM (Mzdiz)
Don't forget bringing back regulation with a vengeance on crap like fluorocarbons, COVID safety, and sustainability disclosures. That stuff always boosts productivity in an economy.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:41 PM (BMmaB)
In fairness, I do plan on ostracizing the practitioners of the Cult of the Mask.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:30 PM (Ojki1)
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Understood, but the lackeys of the authoritarian mask regimes, really have no ground to stand on to suddenly yell victim, when those that don't agree with them catch their first shift of freedom.
But you can't claim the status without a claim to victimhood.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 10:42 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 17, 2021 10:34 PM (F0YaR)
It isn't a search though. The dog is just sniffing the air. Which is not private property.
An actual issue is whether a dog alerting should constitute reasonable suspicion for a detention and search, and that should probably be based on the statistical accuracy of the alerts.
Posted by: Sjg at May 17, 2021 10:42 PM (gDSJf)
This may have already been covered here at AoSHQ, but I keep reading at other sites that there's a legal standoff going on right now between New York and Florida.... basically NY state prosecutors want to fly down to Mar-A-Lago and arrest DJT, but DeSantis won't stand for it?
Anybody know how true this is, and if so, the ins and outs? Thanks in advance.
(And I think everyone already knows that if DJT actually gets arrested, all hell will break loose.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 10:43 PM (L2ZTs)
Newyorkistan goes mask-free for the *vaccinated* this Wednesday, though I suppose many of those going about without masks thereafter will not actually be vaccinated, and many of those who actually are will still be wearing...
I can't hardly wait to see how it all goes down!
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 10:43 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 17, 2021 10:43 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: ZOD at May 17, 2021 10:40 PM (xK9An)
I had an uncle once who put it, "I don't mind that I'm paying for that woman laying on the couch watching Oprah. I just wish I could get some work out of her."
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:43 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Harry Psalmer at May 17, 2021 10:39 PM (Re9MM)
They could just put strain gages in the landing gear of airliners, and know in real time if the load was approaching maximum gross takeoff weight. Then shut down boarding.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 10:44 PM (PrwJN)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:44 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 17, 2021 10:43 PM (2SdPm
As a Houstonian, thank you.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:44 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 10:44 PM (uaw4A)
Ok. So it's a serious whimsical ONT. Off to the lurking corner. Love you guys!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Set your "unseriousity" knob to "11" and make it change for the better!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:46 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:44 PM (bP0Cy)
I heard they finally ditched "fear of the Rona" from being an acceptable UI reason.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:46 PM (Ojki1)
Do they have refineries on the east coast?
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:46 PM (2DOZq)
Hahahaha hahaha ha ha ha ha.
LOLGF Minneapolis-Stan. Hows that defund the police thingy working out for you?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:46 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:46 PM (2DOZq)
Even been on the New Jersey Turnpike?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:47 PM (BMmaB)
Do they have refineries on the east coast?
Posted by: Can't help myself
They had one outside Philly in Marcus Hook, PA. Then it done blowed up real good about three years ago. Now it is no more.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:47 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:46 PM (2DOZq)
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I would assume they do, but, if they have to ship fuel from Houston, probably not nearly enough.
And, last I heard, a new refinery hasn't been built in decades in the US. All that has happened is expansion of existing refineries.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 17, 2021 10:47 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: ZOD
You can have Charleen for cheap.
I'd have to ask more for Darleen or Marleen.
Posted by: Miklos, ready to Make a Deal at May 17, 2021 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)
It is state by state so some have ditched it some havent. And given the huge numbers of applications I doubt much is being checked since they are so backed up.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:48 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:44 PM (bP0Cy)
They don't really expect applicants to show evidence that they're trying to find a new job these days, either. It's literally free gubmint money until they stop extending the cutoff date.
There's only one way this ends, it's just a matter of time and how long the world's economic engine can run on fumes.
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 10:49 PM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Miklos, ready to Make a Deal at May 17, 2021 10:48 PM
Charging by the pound?
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 10:49 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 17, 2021 10:49 PM (r1DzX)
The alkylation unit involved in a massive fire on Friday at Philadelphia Energy Solutions Inc's oil refinery has been completely destroyed, which will hamper the supply of gasoline from the U.S. East Coast's largest refinery, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Two years ago, June 2019.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:50 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:50 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 17, 2021 10:49 PM (r1DzX)
That's called "maintaining the African oral tradition", you heathen.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 10:50 PM (PrwJN)
in decades in the US. All that has happened is expansion of existing
refineries.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 17, 2021 10:47 PM (2SdPm)
This is correct. The permitting process would effectively make it impossible. So it's much easier to expand an existing site than to start a new one.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Zettai
That and the revolving Line of Credit at the Bail Bond place.
Posted by: Miklos, every penny helps at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:50 PM (2DOZq)
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And, they have kids at home, due to schools being closed.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 10:44 PM (uaw4A)
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I got yer whimsy right here! Or not. To be honest, not quite sure how to classify this.
https://youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (CAJOC)
They don't really expect applicants to show evidence that they're trying to find a new job these days, either. It's literally free gubmint money until they stop extending the cutoff date.
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 10:49 PM (zcf1k)
Depending on the state they have rarely actually asked for evidence unless the payer of the insurance requests it as a final FU to the fired employee I guess).
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Cunta Kinte
Posted by: Miklos, the Pale Griot at May 17, 2021 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 10:50 PM (pNxlR)
My alkylation unit is doing just fine, thanks.
(hic)
Posted by: Hillary at May 17, 2021 10:52 PM (PrwJN)
subsidizing the state rates without consideration of the prior salary of
the unemployed. These unskilled and some skilled workers are making
more on unemployment.
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:50 PM (2DOZq
Texas stopped taking the Fed supplement today. Governor Abbott noted that the number of open jobs and the number of people drawing unemployment were approximately equal.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:52 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:52 PM (bP0Cy)
Later, all!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 17, 2021 10:53 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Miklos, every penny helps at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (QzkSJ)
Is there a discount applied if you go 5 bonds without the place having to pay a bounty hunter to collect your ass?
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:53 PM (Ojki1)
I would watch more golf if they shoed biden playing
Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 17, 2021 10:54 PM (bTQ72)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:52 PM (bP0Cy)
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It's not so bad once you get used to it.
Posted by: V.P. Kamala "Heels Up" Harris at May 17, 2021 10:54 PM (fLVm1)
and der glock, which crashed in pennsylvania, in the future
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 10:54 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Joe XiDen
Yes, but I'm not on UI
Posted by: Cummala Harris at May 17, 2021 10:54 PM (QzkSJ)
That's why the annualized inflation rate is already over 50%.
And that was with gasoline and food removed from the measure.
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 17, 2021 10:54 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (bP0Cy)
But there's no shortage of talent at levitating hot dogs.
I say let the ladies have at it.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (vuisn)
Head up... robbery/carjacking spree in south #Mpls in last hour. We've posted several.
Robbery of person at gunpoint.
25xx Bloomington Ave S
Suspect vehicle: red
22:25
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 17, 2021 10:33 PM (nI1Kq)
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That's about 3 blocks from where I used to live. I am so glad we got out of there when we did.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (PrwJN)
Posted by: Miklos, every penny helps at May 17, 2021 10:51 PM (QzkSJ)
Is there a discount applied if you go 5 bonds without the place having to pay a bounty hunter to collect your ass?
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:53 PM (Ojki1)
Discount card get bailed 12x and the 13th is free
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (f+WdM)
Posted by: Rbastid at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (nX9Jd)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:52 PM (bP0Cy)
Friend of mine did that during The Great Recession. He got some unreported income, employer got a break on the hourly wage and associated employee taxes.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 10:56 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:56 PM (bP0Cy)
Posted by: Bete
It ain't me that's the problem. Not since December 2018 anyway.
Posted by: Miklos, long suffering at May 17, 2021 10:57 PM (QzkSJ)
And no worries, it looks like Meghan will be putting Harry through the D-I-V-O-R-C-E ringer by the end of the year.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 10:57 PM (L2ZTs)
up in arms over the fact a pipeline that carries 45% of the fuel needed
for the East Coast was shut down...but, no one questions why 1 pipeline
is responsible for that much fuel, and, no one questions why in the
world fuel intended for the East Coast is shipped from refineries
located in Houston.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 17, 2021 10:43 PM (2SdPm)
refineries are usually only in certain places. Houston is known, aka Valero. What bothers me is that a computer hack can stop the gas from flowing. I admit I sound stupid but to be honest I don't care. I recall a famous donut shop that shut down because the computer was down. I guess none of them have heard of a pencil. The computer shut down and they acted as useless as tits on a bull. To me it is not an improvement if a software glitch makes you inept in ways people of 200 years ago would not understand. I thought this stuff was supposed to make things better and improve society.
Posted by: Quint at May 17, 2021 10:58 PM (ktJa5)
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:46 PM (2DOZq)
Even been on the New Jersey Turnpike?
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:47 PM (BMmaB)
8 of the top 10 refineries are in TX , LA and MS. The other 2 are in the Midwest. IN and IL iirc.
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 10:58 PM (2DOZq)
I wonder if gun shops have discount cards like that...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 10:58 PM (L2ZTs)
And no worries, it looks like Meghan will be putting Harry through the D-I-V-O-R-C-E ringer by the end of the year.
Posted by: q
mmdkh
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 10:58 PM (3qVqc)
22:25
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 17, 2021 10:33 PM (nI1Kq)
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That's about 3 blocks from where I used to live. I am so glad we got out of there when we did.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (CAJOC)
If the Minneapolis cops catch the suspect vehicle, and kneel on it until the engine quits, will there be a retaliatory traffic jam?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 10:58 PM (PrwJN)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 10:58 PM (DBkYX)
Posted by: Bete
It ain't me that's the problem. Not since December 2018 anyway.
Posted by: Miklos, long suffering at May 17, 2021 10:57 PM (QzkSJ)
Ok, has Darleen made it 5 bonds without needing a bounty hunter sic'd on her (for collection, not pleasure) and gotten a discount?
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 10:58 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
There are people who've had Boston's first album since 1976 who still don't realize the space ships are guitars.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 10:59 PM (Atzlh)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 17, 2021 10:59 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 17, 2021 10:59 PM (f+WdM)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 10:59 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Revenant at May 17, 2021 11:00 PM (oXIiU)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 10:56 PM (3qVqc)
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No, but you go right ahead and say it if you want to.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 11:00 PM (DBkYX)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:00 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Bete
Like I care. She's still visiting her "cousin" down at Frogmore. Let them work it out.
Posted by: Miklos, patience all beat to hell at May 17, 2021 11:01 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (bP0Cy)
That's right when my 26 weeks ends. Is U/I extended?
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 17, 2021 11:01 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 10:59 PM (L2ZTs)
They ought to just lock him in there, and call the service company, and get them to bring a pressure washer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:01 PM (PrwJN)
Apparently ~20% of men think they could take a King Cobra on.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:02 PM (Eicbe)
And that Witch of the North Gretchen is shutting down another Canadian pipeline that crosses her fiefdom.
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 17, 2021 11:02 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Joe
in other words, whores get easier injuly
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:02 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 11:03 PM (bP0Cy)
That’s an important issue with the ever-increasing regulatory burden: the more work an employer has to put in to legally hire someone, the more incentive they have to hire someone willing to work under the table. And the more money the employer has to pay that the employee never sees makes for an incentive for both employee and employer.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 17, 2021 11:03 PM (CX3cf)
if a house hits her, grab her shoes.
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:03 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:02 PM (Eicbe)
If I had a 12-gauge, yeah, i could.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (PrwJN)
Posted by: Doof at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (mZUr4)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2021 11:05 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Rbastid at May 17, 2021 10:55 PM (nX9Jd)
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Yeah but he uses unnatural substances like faith for his motivation! He can't just be a natural nice guy!
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:05 PM (Eicbe)
Apparently ~20% of men think they could take a King Cobra on.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:02 PM (Eicbe)
*raises Eyebrow*
I could probably take a hampster. If it is lazy.
Course little bastards are rodents and have a hell of a bite on them...which I discovered when semi new hampster demonstrated he had a completely different temperament than previous hampster, and valued being left TF alone.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:05 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (3qVqc)
Step one: knock its teeth out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:06 PM (PrwJN)
Posted by: Axeman
Ima stick with the Olde English 800
Posted by: Miklos, out on the porch at May 17, 2021 11:06 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Corner Stone at May 17, 2021 11:06 PM (r1DzX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 17, 2021 10:56 PM (bP0Cy)
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Paste is still low.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 11:06 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:06 PM (3qVqc)
5. "Oprah's not available anymore? Can you get us on Ellen? What??..."
4. "I didn't mean you were RACIST racist... what's that Grandma? It's something I learned from Meg's pal Whoopi... you know, the usual American word salad... never mind"
3. "Oh yes I love playing dress-up the bad little tartlet I love it I love it spank me more Headmistress Markle"
2. "But I'm tired of always having to be the woman in this relationship!"
1. "I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes with Archie... just say it like it's nothing... I'm going out for a pack of cigarrettes with Archie... maybe I should say a six-pack of beer... no wait she'll never believe that... let me try it again..."
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 11:07 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2021 11:05 PM (vuisn)
So now you have a mad with pain, and also on fire snake lunging at you.
I think I saw that movie.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:07 PM (Ojki1)
how?
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (3qVqc)
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Well in my head it's funnier with fisticuffs.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:07 PM (Eicbe)
There also is a nominal 210,000 bbl/day refinery in Delaware City, DE that formerly was owned by Valero.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 17, 2021 11:08 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 11:08 PM (x/IHv)
how?
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (3qVqc)
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With the Mongoose-O-Matic! Just watch this baby in action, and you'll be sold!
-- Billy Mays
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 11:08 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Arrest DJT for what, exactly? For filing tax returns prepared by the nation's best accounting firm which were then reviewed by the nation's best tax attorneys, and which were then audited by the Internal Revenue Service every year for the past 30 years?
Somehow I think whatever Cyrus Vance Jr has cooked up is not something you want to try to arrest a former president over. But he is a DemonRat, so . . .
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 11:08 PM (Atzlh)
One quote I used regularly in my last job (and few sadly understood) was Douglas Adams’s fictional requirement that all windows must be openable no matter how reliable you say your air conditioning system is.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
It really should be tattooed on every bureaucrat.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 17, 2021 11:09 PM (CX3cf)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:09 PM (Eicbe)
At this stage Cuomo doesn't need a reason, he just wants to be able to say he got DJT arrested.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 11:09 PM (L2ZTs)
reauthorization of the preclearance requirements of the Voting Rights
Act. Manchin's pitch to republicans, apparently, is that it's an
alternative to HR1.
Posted by: Revenant at May 17, 2021 11:00 PM (oXIiU
I'd be OK with that if it applied to all 50 states.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 11:09 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Zettai
Look out for the Bull, The Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull...
Posted by: Miklos, we sing that every Friday at May 17, 2021 11:10 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:10 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:10 PM (Eicbe)
Look at a refinery map of the US. You'll see a big hole basically in the SE. We are very dependent on those pipelines to get gas in.
One of the Colonial pipelines goes right by me. It's about a mile as the crow flies. And there's an old one that goes right through our property here. It's not used for pumping petroleum anymore. They ran some big fiber optic lines through it for a major trunk or something a while back.
One night back in the late '70s, there was a big boom. Turned out that main pipeline above sprung a leak in a spot about 2 miles away. There was a lake of diesel fuel.
They keep the tracts mowed and inspect them all the time. Back in HS, my friends and I would have a skip school outing. We'd walk the 5 miles or so back home by walking the pipeline. Had great fun and got into "meanness" as my paternal grandmother would say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:11 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 17, 2021 11:11 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 11:11 PM (DBkYX)
if a house hits her, grab her shoes.
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:03 PM (3qVqc
Froggy Son Of Froggy is supposedly saying that if the wicked witch kills Ontario's fuel supply then it's on like Donkey Kong. Trudeau may be asshoe but I'm not gonna argue with him on this one...also, a three way FFA between them and Slow Joe should be entertaining.
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 11:11 PM (zcf1k)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:11 PM (Eicbe)
Somehow I think whatever Cyrus Vance Jr has cooked up is not something you want to try to arrest a former president over. But he is a DemonRat, so . . .
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 11:08 PM (Atzlh)
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I always assumed it would be incitement to riot, and probably conspiracy to commit domestic terrorism, based on the discussion earlier today.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 17, 2021 11:11 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:10 PM (Eicbe)
Stomping scorpions, barefoot? bad idea.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:12 PM (PrwJN)
Quote I: I haven't watched UFC in a minute, because I've been too busy. But good for homeboy. Values are more important than fame from winning a title, and maybe he got both for that.
Quote II: Yeah, or maybe consider that it wasn't lazy training or bad clerks, but perhaps a plan to raid everyone they could.
Quote III: Good. Thanks, Shane. It won't make a difference, but I'm glad someone put it on record.
Quote IV: Again, good. CA kids don't rate; they should build in a feature that dumps realistic Kennedy crotch-rot all over them from Monroe's soiled derriere.
Quote V: Yeah, that's a pretty sweet idea, and it's why most a lot of large office structures already do it. Try it for small businesses and SMEs. You can't, because the expense would ruin them. Or maybe that's the point.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2021 11:13 PM (Uh2oA)
Posted by: CppThis at May 17, 2021 11:11 PM (zcf1k)
What, he'll show up like he is an extra in the Fargo film and call her a meanie?
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:13 PM (Ojki1)
how?
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (3qVqc)
I once hunted and killed a 6-rattle snake with a rock. Took two throws. Snakes don't have much offense in open desert. It was busy running from me.
Tried to get the wife to cook it, but she sadly declined. Kept the rattle though.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 17, 2021 11:14 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2021 11:14 PM (Uh2oA)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
New York is going to have a tough time asserting subject matter jurisdiction over something that occurred in DC, I think. But again, the Law is now what any DemonRat says it is.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 11:15 PM (Atzlh)
He took off his pants, bent over and yelled "sock it to me baby!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 11:15 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:15 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 17, 2021 11:16 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:15 PM (Eicbe)
Billy Dee would just use a Colt .45.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2021 11:16 PM (vuisn)
Definite Uncle Remo.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:17 PM (Eicbe)
she has missed three shows in a row.
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:17 PM (3qVqc)
Well, I think I might have found out why they're a joke....
Posted by: GWB at May 17, 2021 11:18 PM (aDTsF)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 17, 2021 11:18 PM (vuisn)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 11:18 PM (DBkYX)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 11:19 PM (uaw4A)
Posted by: Zettai
Look out for the Bull, The Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull...
Posted by: Miklos, we sing that every Friday at May 17, 2021 11:10
Back in my college days I worked in a college bar/pizza place. At one point in the 70s, to promote Schlitz Malt Liquor, Spike ran it at $1.50 a pitcher. And if your group at the table bought 6 pitchers the 7th was free.
Yeah, there were a lot of drunk college students, I was one.
Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2021 11:19 PM (55Qr6)
Posted by: GnuBreed
I once caught a rattler by slipping a noose hanging from the end of three feet of 1/2 inch dowling that I fashioned. I was far enough away that the heat sensors in the back of his throat couldn't figure out what I was doing.
We drove back to Corvallis (college) from the AZ desert with the rattler in a pillow cover, invited a bunch of people over, got drunk and let the snake loose in the apartment.
Hilarity ensues.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 11:19 PM (Atzlh)
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Most of the people running the registers can't do the math.
Posted by: junior at May 17, 2021 11:19 PM (PTw5h)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 17, 2021 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 11:20 PM (DBkYX)
Kat had one of the best lines, but I was already chuckling from the graph itself.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:21 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 11:21 PM (x/IHv)
in tijuana way more women think they could, more than half have.
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:22 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 17, 2021 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
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Your assignment is to watch Napoleon Dynamite before class resumes.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:23 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Sure, pal.
That's what most, or a least a lot of people say.
Posted by: Miklos, moderately sceptical at May 17, 2021 11:23 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 11:24 PM (x/IHv)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:04 PM (3qVqc)
Step one: knock its teeth out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Nah. Charm, that's the answer.
Posted by: A pungi player at May 17, 2021 11:25 PM (bPH26)
*inquiring minds want to know!
Posted by: Zettai at May 17, 2021 11:24 PM (x/IHv)
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She said she's starting to get an idea on why women live longer than men. LOL.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:25 PM (Eicbe)
He looked at the money, he looked at me, thought for a second and entered the sums into the register.
Bewildered, he handed me a dollar and a dime.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 11:26 PM (DBkYX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 17, 2021 11:20 PM (63Dwl)
And that is why Tremors is one of the most fun movies ever.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:26 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: A pungi player at May 17, 2021 11:25 PM (bPH26)
Only if the stakes are high.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:26 PM (PrwJN)
I like rap. I have a badass rap collection. I have a couple of Jay-Z records, mostly because he had a couple of cool songs, on a couple of records. He's not actually very good.
Jay-Z is famous for his couple of good raps, and then for his couple of good rappers he produced, and then for his prodigious success in the music business (and liquor, and finance, and somewhat less in real estate). I respect the man as a businessman much more than as a musician.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2021 11:27 PM (Uh2oA)
And of course they won't block Voting Rights Act preclearance reauthorization, right?
Because of charges of "racism", I assume they haven't considered ending that ridiculous thing. And of course aren't on any kind of warpath to try and restore some credibility and integrity to elections, make the Dems defend their audacious Third World approach, every day, make it the issue that can't be avoided.
But don't worry, the mid-terms are gonna rock! Or something.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 17, 2021 11:27 PM (OTzUX)
then for his couple of good rappers he produced, and then for his
prodigious success in the music business (and liquor, and finance, and
somewhat less in real estate). I respect the man as a businessman much
more than as a musician.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2021 11:27 PM (Uh2oA
He did OK in the hot spouse department too.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 11:28 PM (BMmaB)
Most of the people running the registers can't do the math.
Posted by: junior
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I actually saw a young woman using her phone calculator at a cash register. I mean, she was the cashier. I can't imagine what inspired that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 17, 2021 11:28 PM (GBHAb)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 17, 2021 11:26 PM (DBkYX)
Now you've done it! There's an old song with the line, "all I had left was a dollar and a dime".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:28 PM (PrwJN)
But don't worry, the mid-terms are gonna rock! Or something.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 17, 2021 11:27 PM (OTzUX)
Can't wait to vote soooo hard...
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:29 PM (Ojki1)
The king cobra was the trope playing Adventurer out on in the back yard or out in the woods.
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:30 PM (Eicbe)
DHL apparently looks a Google maps to find an address. If Google tells that it is non-existent, and they see and empty field on the map, they give up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:30 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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'Brother Can You Spare A Dime' + inflation
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 17, 2021 11:32 PM (GBHAb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:30 PM (Mzdiz)
I actually had Purolator Courier manage to find my house for a pickup today.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:32 PM (PrwJN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 17, 2021 11:33 PM (GBHAb)
DHL is apparently (currently) the worst. Miley has been on the phone with them several times today (and Friday). She's explained, no the map is old. If you drive by, you'll see a new house there. There's a mailbox. There's a driveway. All you have to do is go to a well-know existing address right next to us, and voila, you're there.
They apparently can't the message to the local idiots.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:36 PM (Mzdiz)
DHL apparently looks a Google maps to find an address. If Google tells that it is non-existent, and they see and empty field on the map, they give up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:30 PM (Mzdiz)
When I worked for Dewy, Huey and Louie the driver would go to the "address", and if they couldn't find it they'd call back to base and they'd google it.
Literally once sat looking at an empty field as dispatch said the map put it there. Turns out whoever wrote the zip wrong and it was a different road of the same name 20 miles away well on the other side of the city it claimed to be in.
Coworker had a package they couldn't deliver cause the address was wrong, they opened it at the office to see if they could find some other info as they couldn't find a record of the receiver and discovered a giant block of weed. It was then the cops looking for the addressee.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:36 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
One cat wanted a bottle of wine
He hit that cat for a dollar and a dime
Posted by: Miklos, Drinking Wine Spodee O-Dee at May 17, 2021 11:36 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: confederatefifth at May 17, 2021 11:37 PM (3qVqc)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
U speled Idjit rong
Posted by: Miklos Bodine, carry the nought at May 17, 2021 11:38 PM (QzkSJ)
He hit that cat for a dollar and a dime
Posted by: Miklos, Drinking Wine Spodee O-Dee at May 17, 2021 11:36 PM (QzkSJ)
Yeah, I remember that one. But the song I was thinking of had the singer bemoaning the fact that couldn't buy what he needed, because all that he had was a dollar and a dime.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:39 PM (PrwJN)
You see Karens bopping down the road to songs about pimps smacking their hoes, and middle manager Kyles singing about killing rival drug dealers...
I worked in a mall in about 1996 which was when it happened in my area. Over that summer, the kids who had long hair and wore metal shirts got haircuts, started wearing basketball jerseys and chains and listened to rap. I am pretty convinced the music industry did it on purpose because the grunge leaders all pretty much self imploded and stopped making product. Rap is basically post early rock and pre-Beatles music. Created by producers in a studio and the "artists" are as replaceable as Frankie Avalon. If they stop working, you get another. Product keeps coming.
Posted by: azjaeger at May 17, 2021 11:39 PM (3/XaG)
My mother used to a be rural mail carrier. She retired in the early '90s. She started in the '70s. During that time, UPS was the main big package delivery service. They had drivers then with regular routes and territories.
There was no GPS, no smart phones, no nothing. The UPS drive around here shared much of his route with my mother. The dude had to know his area. Often, he would get some crazy address and/or name that wouldn't make sense.
He knew my mother's router as well as his own, and she knew his. He knew where she would be at any time, and even knew when she would make a stop to move mail around to get right at hand. So, he'd come up, show her the address, and they'd consult and could usually figure out where the package was supposed to go.
H
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:39 PM (Mzdiz)
>I once had an encounter with grizzly and my horse decided not to take him head on. I ended up in a barbed wire fence, my horse ran off, and I was shitting bricks.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 17, 2021 11:39 PM (tVOev)
They apparently can't the message to the local idiots.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:36 PM (Mzdiz)
Since they screwed up the whole "Gonna be as big in the US as Europe!" DHL has gotten worse than they or Airborne Express were before DHL bought AE. They were literally loading out of a straight truck in a parking lot here as the contractor didn't want to rent a building. The vans were then parked overnight in the lot of whoever they threw a few bucks at to do so.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:40 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 17, 2021 11:42 PM (PrwJN)
the US as Europe!" DHL has gotten worse than they or Airborne Express
were before DHL bought AE. They were literally loading out of a straight
truck in a parking lot here as the contractor didn't want to rent a
building. The vans were then parked overnight in the lot of whoever they
threw a few bucks at to do so.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:40 PM (Ojki1)
I have to send stuff to Africa occasionally. DHL is the only company that will get it there. It's not cheap, but it's reliable.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 11:43 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 17, 2021 11:39 PM (tVOev)
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So, put you down as a yes or a no on grizzly bears?
Posted by: Axeman at May 17, 2021 11:45 PM (Eicbe)
Posted by: Sharkman at May 17, 2021 11:19
There are a few Morons I've met IRL. And they were a blast. You are now added to my "must meet this Moron" list. Hopefully someday.
Posted by: Farmer at May 17, 2021 11:46 PM (55Qr6)
Several years ago my siblings and I bought a digital camera for my dad for his birthday or something. I, as the guy who knows computers, was elected to order it online and send it to my brother who lived down the street from my parents.
We’re talking a very rural area. They lived outside a town of less than a thousand people, about an hour away from Muskegon, Michigan.
I’m watching the tracking on whatever primitive web site UPS had at the time, and the package gets to Muskegon fine, then stops. Marked as delivered. After a frantic call to my brother, it turns out the UPS driver knew where my brother worked, just outside of Muskegon, and delivered it directly to him instead of driving all the way to my brother’s house.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 17, 2021 11:47 PM (CX3cf)
Well, they can't be.
DHL is mainly owned by the German Bundespost, and as a 25%+ foreign owned company are not allowed to transport domestically in the US, only to/from foreign destinations.
Cabotage rules apply.
Posted by: Miklos, out-pointing at May 17, 2021 11:48 PM (QzkSJ)
register. I mean, she was the cashier. I can't imagine what inspired
that.
was an episode of hardcastle ampersand mccormick in which a character is plugging away at a mac, suddenly opens a desk drawer revealing a calculator, makes a calculation or two, closes the drawer, and goes back to working on the mac.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 17, 2021 11:48 PM (5br8a)
Hi Miklos. I know you've been ignoring me. Fine. Be like that. I still like ya...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 17, 2021 11:49 PM (uaw4A)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 11:43 PM (BMmaB)
Overseas was always their bread and butter. Their States work...At one point there were people shipping with us as the billing was so screwed up there was a chance they weren't ever going to get billed for it. There was a slip drivers were suppose to turn in for billing as well and since they never explained what it was for more than a few didn't pay it much attention to it. Oops.
My fav was the hub was Ohio (I think Cinci or close) and the pilots who brought stuff to our airport would share stories on how apparently DH would go out at night and find homeless persons to run the sorting lines as they expanded their need for employees faster than their recruitment of same.
Not a shock if you are picking people off the streets that all the obviously pill shipments all arrived at our station having been opened...for safety inspection I am sure.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:49 PM (Ojki1)
The story of the founder of DHL and his Many Many babies on South Pacific Islands, and the litigation to get some of his money is pretty epic.
Died young and probably exhausted.
Posted by: Miklos, additionally out-pointing at May 17, 2021 11:49 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 17, 2021 11:50 PM (+I6Y/)
Woo hoo!Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 17, 2021 11:51 PM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: Miklos, a mere Molnar at May 17, 2021 11:51 PM (QzkSJ)
He was an out-and-proud child molester and actually wanted his attorneys to argue he could rape whomever he pleased, because he wasn't a citizen of any country and lived in international waters.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 11:51 PM (L2ZTs)
The bodies of the pilot and passenger were recovered; Larry's, not so much.
Go figure.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 17, 2021 11:53 PM (F0YaR)
Well, they can't be.
DHL is mainly owned by the German Bundespost, and as a 25%+ foreign owned company are not allowed to transport domestically in the US, only to/from foreign destinations.
Cabotage rules apply.
Posted by: Miklos, out-pointing at May 17, 2021 11:48 PM (QzkSJ)
...I can tell you they not only were doing that in 03 when they bought Airborne Express but apparently still do it as there is a company that makes shirts in Chicago that uses them to ship in the US (at least of my last order about a year ago). Not sure how they got/get around that rule.
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:53 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 11:54 PM (L2ZTs)
That UPS driver knew us all well. More than once, to save driving out to our house if he didn't have anything, he'd leave packages when he'd see us out in the field. Say we're planting or something out in a field. We'd have a truck parked there close to the road with seed and chemicals and whatnot.
He'd just leave the package in the cab of the truck, waving at us if he caught our eye. I was on a tractor alone in one field, no truck. He stopped, flagged me down, and asked if I could take it. Small thing, which I just put behind the seat.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:56 PM (Mzdiz)
>Those bad boars and sows and tweeners will do whatever they want, so you best watch your ass. But I still love them.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 17, 2021 11:56 PM (tVOev)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 17, 2021 11:54 PM (L2ZTs)
Funny enough, outside of very rarely even mentioning their name I never heard anything about the founders other than the story of the companies founding while working there.
Weird, huh?
Posted by: Bete at May 17, 2021 11:56 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: qdpsteve
And now you know...the rest of the story.
Posted by: Paul Miklos-Harvey at May 17, 2021 11:57 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: JT at May 17, 2021 11:59 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
The mailman in Budapest used to bring letters and pension payments down to the neighborhood pub. Several regulars got their mail and newspapers there.
Posted by: Miklos does recall at May 18, 2021 12:00 AM (QzkSJ)
Is it wrong that I actually am a bit disappointed by this as I want a ticket out of this freak show of a reality?
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:00 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM
That's because Disney really, really likes orphans.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 18, 2021 12:01 AM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Miklos does recall at May 18, 2021 12:00 AM (QzkSJ)
That actually makes some sense. Also keeps payments from being swiped out of mail (slots? boxes?).
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:02 AM (Ojki1)
Is it wrong that I actually am a bit disappointed by this as I want a ticket out of this freak show of a reality?
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:00 AM
Great news, and yes!
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:02 AM (x/IHv)
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:00 AM
Great news, and yes!
Posted by: Zettai
Seconded!
Posted by: Miklos unfortunately due for a thyroid biopsy again at May 18, 2021 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Bete
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*looks around*
Not really.
Glad you're still in remission, though.
Posted by: SMH at May 18, 2021 12:05 AM (bSk6g)
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:05 AM (x/IHv)
Posted by: SMH at May 18, 2021 12:05 AM (bSk6g)
But then I've noticed a lot of the wealthy business owners and millionaires (or near-millionaires) I've known, have what could be called 'strange ethics.'
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 12:05 AM (L2ZTs)
Is it wrong that I actually am a bit disappointed by this as I want a ticket out of this freak show of a reality?
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:00
No, not wrong, understandable. If you read my post above I'm in a similar situation. My email is below if you want to chat sometime.
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Posted by: Farmer at May 18, 2021 12:07 AM (55Qr6)
Last year some time around Christmas, there was a group going around stealing mail, and they hit a road close by. They were stealing gift cards primarily, IIRC. They'd just grab mail, go through it, looking for those prepaid gift cards being sent as gifts. They also got some checks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:07 AM (Mzdiz)
There's a story that when Disney first bought his animation studio, formerly a hospital, in Burbank (which is still there) in 1928, he showed his father and his then-new wife around, so excited about the future, and all his dad could say was "what if your plans fail? what if this fails?" After a few hours, Walt finally just gave in and said "it can be turned into a hospital."
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 12:08 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Miklos unfortunately due for a thyroid biopsy again at May 18, 2021 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)
I lucked out as they put on the gel and the sticker wrap thing and the Dr. decided that since the nodule on the one side and gland on the other were smaller than in November she was going to pass on the biopsy unless I really, really wanted one.
Nope. I'm good with the ultrasound, thanks.
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:08 AM (Ojki1)
Is it wrong that I actually am a bit disappointed by this as I want a ticket out of this freak show of a reality?
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:00 AM (Ojki1)
Serious case of prostate cancer here; 15 years later and I'm still cancer free. FUCK cancer. And btw, I credit my surgeon with saving my life. He got it all.
Every day is a bonus, and I try to accomplish a little something every day. I do, however, have to take frequent breaks from the news, as the current shit is too depressing.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2021 12:08 AM (F0YaR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 12:05 AM
There does seem to be some correlation there, causal almost...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:09 AM (x/IHv)
T
Posted by: Farmer at May 18, 2021 12:07 AM (55Qr6)
Email copied. Will shoot one in the near future.
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:10 AM (Ojki1)
The funniest story from my mother's mail days was one I think I've told here before. It involved a city carrier, also a female, at the Simpsonville post office. She was not uneasy on the eyes. In fact could cut a fine figure, one might say.
Well, as a town carrier, she drove a little mail jeep, and would get out with a satchel on the little streets and deliver mail to door boxes and door slots. Rural carriers have to provide their own vehicles. Rural and city carriers are two different categories entirely.
Anyway, she was going up this house to put mail in the box and it had an enclosed screen front porch.
She heard something strange. Heard some guy breathing sort of choppy, "Huh, huh, huh".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:12 AM (Mzdiz)
If you had a mail problem and called the postmaster, would he yell "D'oh!!"
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 12:13 AM (L2ZTs)
She didn't pay it much attention, but when it happened the third or fourth time, she looked inside the screen porch good.
Some dude was in there with his pants down, jacking off to her.
Well, she went back and reported it. Long story short, but that got the Postal Inspectors involved. Federal law enforcement, big time. They have SWAT teams now, BTW.
I don't think "jacking off to a federal mail carrier" is a specific federal crime, but they had a number of things to charge him with. They set up a sting. Postal inspectors got telephoto lens and photographed in the act.
They threw the book at him.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:15 AM (Mzdiz)
NTTIAWWT.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2021 12:16 AM (F0YaR)
Last year some time around Christmas, there was a group going around stealing mail, and they hit a road close by. They were stealing gift cards primarily, IIRC. They'd just grab mail, go through it, looking for those prepaid gift cards being sent as gifts.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:07 AM (Mzdiz)
Worked with a guy @DHL who claimed he threw some of the packages out at the end of the day cause he didn't want to drive all the way out in the sticks to deliver. Turns out while he might have been doing that as well, he was also swiping high value stuff like computers and pawning them, then going to the local casino and gambling. One day a very well dressed man appeared in the station, approached the guy by his van and they then walked to the office. Dumb ass even had a swiped Blockbuster gift card in his wallet. Oh, and even DHL shipped things count as "crossing State lines for commerce" so felony.
He made bail and skipped town. Last I heard was a few moths later he was jailed in Florida after driving off without paying for gas. Dumb ass judge granted him bail, he somehow posted it, and then was gone.
Cont
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:16 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Zettai
*temples fingers while assistant strokes long haired white cat*
Posted by: Jeff Bezos at May 18, 2021 12:18 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 17, 2021 10:47 PM
Kathy and I were too busy counting the cars.
Posted by: Paul "Rhymin'" Simon at May 18, 2021 12:19 AM (awtm/)
Posted by: Floridachick at May 18, 2021 12:20 AM (DnWIB)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2021 09:50 PM
That's because Disney really, really likes orphans.
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There's some where that's not the case (and ignoring step-mothers; those are always wicked, of course). Mulan (both versions) and The Aristocats both come to mind. IIRC, Sleeping Beauty's mother is still alive, as well (though the Queen's more background scenery than character; the King, on the other hand, gets a scene or two). There's also Perdita and her owner in 101 Dalmations. Plus the mother of Lady's house in Lady and the Tramp.
There might be more, but I'd have to pull up a full list of Disney's filmography to check.
Posted by: junior at May 18, 2021 12:21 AM (PTw5h)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 12:21 AM (L2ZTs)
But no, dumbass did this with packages he checked into his own van. Thus making tracking him down junior detective intern level work.
Dumbass.
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:21 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
I didn't know you could gift cards for Chicks.
Posted by: Jeff BezosMiklos, to whom no one ever tells anything at May 18, 2021 12:22 AM (QzkSJ)
From the DM:
Man in Fargo ND suicides by slitting his own throat with a "shank" in a court room right after a 'guilty' verdict is read against him on charges of stalking...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:24 AM (x/IHv)
I'm trying to remember the resolution of that mad masturbator case. I don't think they went through with federal charges, just used that as leverage to get him to plead out to state charges, whatever it would be indecent exposure and lewd conduct or something.
But I'm here to tell you. Don't get caught beating off to the mail lady. Uncle Sam takes a dim view of that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:24 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 12:21 AM (L2ZTs)
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Like a PSRT sandwich?
Posted by: Axeman at May 18, 2021 12:25 AM (Eicbe)
Posted by: junior at May 18, 2021 12:21 AM (PTw5h)
I think dead parent/s is a quick short cut to establishing why a character has it rough without having to do a lot of character building. And given many of the early Disney animated movies (and some modern ones) tend to be on the short side of a theatrical length ave I'd guess this is a story telling shortcut. Well, except for the fable ones where that is part of the story, probably for the same short cut reasons.
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:26 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 12:27 AM (L2ZTs)
But I'm here to tell you. Don't get caught beating off to the mail lady. Uncle Sam takes a dim view of that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:24 AM (Mzdiz)
A female coworker @DHL had a guy answer the door nude once. Don't know/remember if they got the cops involved or not.
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:28 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:24 AM
One would think any normal woman would be flattered, or so I've heard...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:29 AM (x/IHv)
Somehow, I am visualizing Lily Tomlin as The Mail Lady
Posted by: Miklos, recalling Officer Love, who was Lovely at May 18, 2021 12:29 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: publius
I ain't sayin' nuttin'
Posted by: The Ficus at May 18, 2021 12:31 AM (QzkSJ)
I don't see how anyone could be prosecuted for lewd acts committed in one's own home, even if it was the deteſtable vice of ſelf-abuſe...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:31 AM (x/IHv)
Another funny one. My mother's route included our house and the area around it. This was when I was a teenager, in school, maybe middle school. Anyway, my father was in the field, and my mother came by and stopped, upset. She said she thought someone was following her.
Well, that got my father fired up. He had our old '72 pickup in the field, and even had a gun in the glove box. He got in the truck, put the gun in his pocket, and watched. Sure enough, he saw this car coming up, which matched her description of it. He saw the guy slow down to a near stop when she stopped at a box down the road, the start up again when she did.
Well he just dug out in the truck, sort of jumping a little ditch right in the front of the guy, blocking him. He didn't pull the gun, but got out and hollered, "What are you doing following my wife!"
The guy quickly pulled out his badge. He was a postal inspector, doing a random check of the mail carriers, which they do.
That became a legend with the post office locally, and the local postal inspectors.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:32 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Axeman at May 18, 2021 12:33 AM (Eicbe)
Quis inspects ipsos Postal inspectors?
Posted by: Miklosius at May 18, 2021 12:34 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Farmer at May 18, 2021 12:34 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Miklosius, of Inquiring Mind at May 18, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:24 AM
How transphobic.
Posted by: The Left at May 18, 2021 12:37 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:24 AM
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Okay, there's that one too.
Posted by: Christopher Cross at May 18, 2021 12:39 AM (Eicbe)
You can do all the lewd acts you want in your own home, certainly by yourself, and even with others if all are agreeable. I'd even encourage it.
However, theave falls under the category of sort of public indecent exposure and public lewdness.
If I take the ficus out on the front porch and fertilize it in plain view, I think I'd be running afoul of some standards. And if I did it when some sexy mail lady pulled up in plain view of her, I'd be running further afoul, maybe in the assaulty direction.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:39 AM (Mzdiz)
I have absolutely no idea (without looking it up) what a postage stamp costs these days... We rarely use them anyway, and if we do we've got a veritable lifetime supply that we've gathered from the begging letters we've got from the Wounded Warrior Project over the years...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:40 AM (x/IHv)
The best that you can do, the best that you can do, is finish the job.
Posted by: Christopher Cross at May 18, 2021 12:42 AM (Eicbe)
If I take the ficus out on the front porch and fertilize it in plain view, I think I'd be running afoul of some standards. And if I did it when some sexy mail lady pulled up in plain view of her, I'd be running further afoul, maybe in the assaulty direction.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:39 AM (Mzdiz)
It is tricky. I remember a case in the last couple of years where someone who walked around the house nude got in trouble because kids walking home from school could see him (IIRC). Don't recall the outcome but I don't think he was sentenced to jail time.
Posted by: Bete at May 18, 2021 12:42 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Bete
Sounds like probation
Posted by: Miklos, rond about at May 18, 2021 12:45 AM (QzkSJ)
Come to think of it, there was a case here in recent years where a local man (a policeman, IIRC) was arrested for defiling himself in front of a window in his own house...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:46 AM (x/IHv)
Posted by: Zettai
He used a file? That would probably hurt.
Posted by: Miklos, speculating at May 18, 2021 12:47 AM (QzkSJ)
Just last week, the WWP sent me a challenge coin that I'm sure will be followed by a letter next month asking if I'm enjoying my gift...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 12:49 AM (x/IHv)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 18, 2021 12:49 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Bete
Sounds like probation
Posted by: Miklos, rond about at May 18, 2021 12:45 AM (QzkSJ)
Sounds like masturbation.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 18, 2021 12:50 AM (SDdx5)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at May 18, 2021 12:51 AM (SDdx5)
Posted by: Miklos, speculating at May 18, 2021 12:47 AM (QzkSJ)
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Dr. Kinksky used to carve into his.
Posted by: Axeman at May 18, 2021 12:53 AM (Eicbe)
While I hate to sound like Comey, it boils down to intent. If you accidentally happen to let someone see something, that's one thing. But if you're sort of doing on purpose, like someone who get a real thrill from doing naughty things in public, then it's a different thing.
There's the old joke about a cop who responds to some woman claiming a man is exposing himself at his window. He goes over, and looks and says, "I don't see anything". She says here, stand on this stool and look through these binoculars.
Some similar happened here. Older woman who lived in this house up at the crossroads was upset. Long story, but I figured out what it was. Some old boy had lost his car and needed a ride back and forth to work. He had worked something out, where one guy would take him part of the way home, then he'd wait for a half hour or so, and this other guy would pick him up.
He stood right near that corner at an old house place. The woman said she had seen him "exposing himself" and she had binoculars. All the guy was doing was taking a leak, in the brush at the old house place.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 12:54 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Nice sleepy dreamies!
Posted by: Miklos, moving in the same direction at May 18, 2021 12:55 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Sandy's backward cousin at May 18, 2021 12:56 AM (HBp0A)
Yeah, I looked up the basics of these indecent exposure and similar charges. It's all about willful intent.
If you're not meaning to, it's just an accident, that's not a crime. You've got to intend to expose yourself in public.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 01:00 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: publius,
Talk about News You Can Use
Posted by: Miklos, typical Moron at May 18, 2021 01:01 AM (QzkSJ)
I wish the Wounded Warrior Project would stop sending us things... I don't mind the simple solicitations but they're not going to guilt me into donating again!
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 01:02 AM (x/IHv)
Posted by: Miklos, contingent at May 18, 2021 01:04 AM (QzkSJ)
But when I do it's unintentional.
Posted by: The Most Interesting Man In The World at May 18, 2021 01:08 AM (Eicbe)
*huge daisy cutter explodes*
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 01:10 AM (L2ZTs)
The lovely and long-suffering Mrs Z has taken to donating from time to time to the local humane society lately and their solicitations are relentless: every other day, almost! She buys things from their Amazon wish list to be shipped directly to the shelter, in addition to money...
Posted by: Zettai at May 18, 2021 01:12 AM (x/IHv)
*huge daisy cutter explodes*
Posted by: qdpsteve
Now see?
We can think about nice things.
Posted by: Miklos, both content and continent at May 18, 2021 01:12 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 01:15 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 17, 2021 11:30 PM (Mzdiz)
I had a new driver call me from a hospital saying "I have my GPS on but it doesn't show me how to get to the OR" Double face palm!
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at May 18, 2021 01:21 AM (rt0xh)
Well, she went back and reported it. Long story short, but that got the Postal Inspectors involved. Federal law enforcement, big time. They have SWAT teams now, BTW
Now, I sold mp5sds to them in the 90s
Posted by: Jean at May 18, 2021 01:24 AM (wvCEt)
One more funny mail story. One afternoon, my father gets a call out in our shop. It's the postmaster, who says, I don't want to upset you, but your wife may have been kidnapped on the route.
Well, hell. Postmaster hadn't called anyone else. Some lady had called and said she saw a strange, suspicious looking man driving my mother's mail vehicle, which at the time was a Jeep Cherokee with dual controls.
This postmaster was sort of a dufus and otherwise infuriating, sort of a pass the buck type who wasn't going to do any more than he absolutely had to.
Anyway, all it was was this nice old lady was the type who jumped to conclusions and would assume the worst. It was a very cold day and my mother was wearing a stocking cap and a big coat. The old lady didn't recognize her and thought it was some suspicious looking strange man driving the Jeep.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 01:27 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
And here I was alone in Denver tonight
Posted by: Jean at May 18, 2021 01:28 AM (wvCEt)
Posted by: qdpsteve
In regular ordinance. If you ask nicely the guys st dugway, wsmr, or Yuma cam mix up something nice
Posted by: Jean at May 18, 2021 01:31 AM (wvCEt)
Goodnight all, thanks for the chat tonight.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 18, 2021 01:52 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve
"chat" is French for cat
Let there be no misunderstanding
Posted by: Miklos, The Most Intersetingly Misunderstood Man in the World at May 18, 2021 01:55 AM (QzkSJ)
On final mama mail story. When she retired, our local podunk newspaper (This was what became of the Tribune Times -- look up Robert Quillen, famous resident of Ft. Inn, SC) did a story on her.
They found several little old lady types on my mother's route who were sad to see her go. And told the stories. I showed Miley that story. It's quite sweet.
Anyway, a rural carrier is supposed to be a "post office on wheels", providing all the services of the post office for rural customers. Said carrier is supposed to provide stamps if needed, do certified and registered mail, and weigh packages and letters and so forth.
My mother took that to heart, and happily did all that for the little old ladies and anyone else on her route. Turns out a lot of the carriers would lie and tell people, "Oh you've got to go the post office in town for that." Not so, at least at the time. I don't know what the rules are now.
At any rate, in the retirement piece, they devoted a paragraph to one of the little old ladies telling how my mother would make sure to get her the "pretty stamps" and not the ugly ones.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 01:57 AM (Mzdiz)
At the time my mother was carrying the mail, if a rural customer of hers needed to mail something, but didn't have a stamp, the rules and law were she could pay postage right there. My mother did that service more than a few times. So, imagine a woman standing at the mail box, who flags my mother down. She needs to mail a letter. My mother takes her money, and puts the necessary postage on herself.
Or someone needs to send a certified letter. My mother carries all the forms and stickers needed. She calculates the cost, and the person pays. Right there in the road from her Jeep, she does all the necessary things and takes the certified letter.
Again, the law was that was what a rural carrier was supposed to do. (City carriers didn't have to) Provide a full Post Office on wheels for the rural residents. She had scales in her Jeep and could take, weigh, and calculate postage for a package. And she did that more than a few times.
Again, at the time many of her fellow rural carriers would refuse to do that, lie and say they didn't have to.
Again, I don't know if the rules are still the same, but that's the way it used to be.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 02:04 AM (Mzdiz)
When it absolutely, positively, has to be right.
Posted by: Miklos, saluting Mama Publius at May 18, 2021 02:08 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 18, 2021 02:09 AM (5kh8A)
"He was a writer of paragraphs and short editorials. He always hoped to write something of permanent value, but the business of making a living took most of his time and he never got around to it. In his youth he felt an urge to reform the world, but during the latter years of his life he decided that he would be doing rather well if he kept himself out of jail."
Posted by: Miklos, this sounds oddly familiar at May 18, 2021 02:13 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 02:04 AM (Mzdiz)
I love reading things like this. No matter what your job, do it well.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Back in Montana at May 18, 2021 02:13 AM (4l77G)
Posted by: Miklos by snow or rain or heat or gloom of night
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Unstayed by snow or rain or heat or gloom of night
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2021 02:20 AM (WZ5i4)
Posted by: SFGoth at May 18, 2021 02:09 AM (5kh8A)
Funny, I've always thought that old Maiden was punk, but I liked it well enough. I always thought it to be more well-practiced punk. Even more funnier, Steve Harris, bass guitar and one of the founding members of Iron Maiden, hates punk.
Huh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Back in Montana at May 18, 2021 02:20 AM (4l77G)
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2021 02:23 AM (WZ5i4)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Back in Montana at May 18, 2021 02:24 AM (4l77G)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Back in Montana at May 18, 2021 02:13 AM (4l77G)
It's how I was raised
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 02:25 AM (Tp7F+)
I just scanned the Postal Service web site. All those rural carrier services are still there, if I read it right. Another one is money orders, which I remember my mother doing now. Priority and Express Mail too, now.
If you're on a rural route, it's still "Post Office on wheels" service. That's the law. City carriers don't have to do this -- if you're in the city, it is go to the Post Office. But for rural customers, you get the post office on wheels.
I remember mail boxes used to have a little change box built in them. This was for paying for postage directly, without a stamp, or buying stamps.
I remember, and my mother did this many times per day. A rural customer would put a note in the box, "Need $X stamps", with payment. My mother would take the money and leave the requisite number of stamps. Some days, she might run out, but that rarely happened. If so, she would take the money, and leave a note, telling them she was sorry, and would have their stamps the next day.
They are still supposed to do that on rural routes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 02:26 AM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Ain't we fancicus pantsibus
Posted by: Miklosius Caroliniensis at May 18, 2021 02:26 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 02:26 AM (Tp7F+)
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But not savings stamps. Ended in 1970.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2021 02:29 AM (830x5)
Posted by: Miklos, down by one of the few remaining Piggly Wigglys at May 18, 2021 02:31 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2021 02:29 AM (830x5)
Found a shoebox of books of those when I went through my dad's stuff
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 02:32 AM (Tp7F+)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 02:26 AM (Mzdiz)
We live on a rural route, and we are lucky the mail-person spends the effort to close the mailbox door after putting the mail in. *personal peeve*
I've driven down the road a couple of miles and spotting 3-4 other mailboxes without the door closed.
Supreme effort -- Hah!
Minimal effort -- Also Hah!
And I'm so old I remember leaving a Xmas cash gift for my carrier in the box.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 18, 2021 02:34 AM (F0YaR)
You should talk to Sheriff Andy.
Posted by: Mayberry RFD at May 18, 2021 02:36 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 18, 2021 02:37 AM (uxUoN)
Speaking of neither rain, nor sleet, etc, etc. I can remember that well. Brakes were quite a thing. My father and I became expert brake men. You wouldn't believe how quickly brakes wear out on mail vehicle.
I can remember a few times, as a kid and teenager, when my mother got stuck in the snow, the few rare snow storms we have. Rules and law was, the mail carrier must make a good faith attempt to deliver the mail, no matter what. My father and I did a lot to ensure my mother could make such a good faith attempt.
One time, her vehicle was pretty stuck, before daddy got her a 4-wheel drive Scout. So, what did they do. He drove her in our old pickup, weighted down with blocks in the back and chains. She didn't have much left on her route, and the rest of the mail fit in the pickup. He drove, she rode and put the mail in the boxes.
That was technically a violation of the rules. No one but an authorized employee of the postal service is supposed to deliver or handle the mail. But let's just say, such was overlooked, as the spirit of the law was to get the mail faithfully delivered. She handled and delivered it, he just drove her.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 02:39 AM (Mzdiz)
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Posted by: Miklos, in his Best Cajun French at May 18, 2021 02:47 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2021 02:47 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Miklos, srsly at May 18, 2021 02:51 AM (QzkSJ)
My mother used to get quite the haul come Christmas. She was well liked. One season, she got so many gifts, she had to run back to the house to unload, 'cause it was filling up her Jeep and she was out of room.
And she always left a thank you note. To everybody who gave her a gift.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 18, 2021 02:54 AM (Mzdiz)
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For years, a Mr. Penland delivered my paper. I never met him, but I always left a card and a $20 in the newspaper box each Christmas, and I always received a hand-written thank-you note from Mrs. Penland.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2021 03:00 AM (830x5)
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2021 03:16 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2021 03:18 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 18, 2021 03:00 AM (830x5)
(And I know from experience that those cards were much appreciated!)
A hand written rhank you note was something I was brought up as to be required. Taught my kids ghe same.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 03:19 AM (Tp7F+)
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2021 03:25 AM (Cxk7w)
I always sent a thank you note. At another event they always held at Christmastime, the owner's wife came up to me and thanked me for those notes. She told me that no one, in all of the years they had done the summer weekend party, had anyone given her a thank you note! She hugged me with tears in her eyes. I said I couldnt believe that no one had before. She laughed and said my parents raised me right!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 03:26 AM (Tp7F+)
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Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2021 03:25 AM (Cxk7w)
Supposed to help a friend start to put in his garden this afternoon. Forecast shows rain tho.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 03:44 AM (Tp7F+)
Posted by: Skip at May 18, 2021 03:48 AM (Cxk7w)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 03:55 AM (Tp7F+)
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 03:44 AM (Tp7F+)
Not sure what conditions are 'over there' but we need the rain
Posted by: a dude in MI at May 18, 2021 03:58 AM (+I6Y/)
Seriously, been there. It does get better.
Farmer, hope you are healing.
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at May 18, 2021 04:00 AM (Tp7F+)
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A blog audience with one active thread always knows where to comment, a blog audience with two or more threads is never sure.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 18, 2021 04:38 AM (Jcrm4)
Gateway Pundit has video of Joe Biden hitting the links in Wilmington on Sunday. Some secret service guy will get a great book deal in the future.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
The doofus has access to private golf links at Camp David and he chooses to play in Wilmington, DE instead? Oh yeah, he's on top of "his game".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 18, 2021 04:43 AM (Jcrm4)
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