Saturday Overnight Open Thread (6/26/21)

(Mystery Click Tune H/T Sock Monkey)

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The Saturday Night Joke
Three women die together in an accident and go to Heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says. “We only have one rule here in heaven, don’t step on the ducks!”
So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck and although they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one.
Well, along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw. St. Peter chains them together and says. “Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!”
The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck, and along comes St. Peter, who doesn’t miss a thing. With him is another extremely ugly man. He chains them together with the same admonishment as for the first woman.
The third woman has observed all this and not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, is very careful where she steps. She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks. And then one day St.Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on – Very tall, long eyelashes. and muscular.
St. Peter chains them together without saying a word.
The happy woman says. “I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you for all of eternity?”
The guy says. “I don’t know about you, but I stepped on a duck!”

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Saturday night, The ONT should be lighthearted yet educational........

So let's start with this video.

AND MOAR LEARNING

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It sounds like a morale problem in the City of Glendale, AZ.

Fiery accusations have now gone public against Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers for harassing and threatening a Gila River Arena employee. It all came to light at this week's City Council meeting and it got extremely heated.
"He then told me to eat sh**t and die. My response was appropriate. It was, 'F**k you get out of my garage,'" said Robert Nejbauer, at Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Those words were all allegedly over leaving a parking garage. Nejbauer said he came to public comment to let the other council members know what Mayor Weiers said to him. Nejbauer said his job was to make sure people safely exit the parking garage, and after June 12 UFC fights, he claims Mayor Weiers started trying to go around cars to get out faster.
"He was going fast enough he would've rear-ended the people that were stopped in front of him. I yelled at him to stop and head out the north exit. He pulled up next to me, rolled the window down and said, 'Can the attitude. You don't want to get started with me.' Well, I said, 'You don't want to mess with me. Go out the north exit the way I'm instructing you,'" Nejbauer told the council.
That's when Nejbauer said he would call more security because the mayor was holding up traffic, and things escalated. "He then told me to eat sh**t and die. My response was appropriate. It was, 'F**k you get out of my garage,'" Nejbauer said. "I found out later from a hotel employee that when he got to the top of the ramp that [he said] the guy in the garage should be terminated. 'I'm the mayor. I was about to get out for my car and kick his ass,'" Nejbauer told the council.

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Special Snowflakes given time outs so they don't melt.

Bumble, the dating app where women are in charge of making the first move, has temporarily closed all of its offices this week to combat workplace stress.
Its 700 staff worldwide have been told to switch off and focus on themselves.
One senior executive revealed on Twitter that founder Whitney Wolfe Herd had made the move "having correctly intuited our collective burnout".
Bumble has had a busier year than most firms, with a stock market debut, and rapid growth in user numbers.
The company announced in April "that all Bumble employees will have a paid, fully offline one-week vacation in June".

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Ah the joys of youth and the opposite sex.

You've bin defeated! Two boys try to impress girls by attacking a trash can… but the teenagers come off worse when it 'fights back'
Two Russian teenage boys from Naberezhnye kicked a street bin to impress girls
The bin turned upside down and hit both of the youngsters, leaving them in pain
The two boys, 13, were sent to a local hospital - and the girls were not impressed

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When I was a kid circuses and fairs had side shows with freaks. This link is associated with The Saturday Night Joke.

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Ever have a bad day at work? Ever have a bad day at work then ended up on YouTube? Ozzy Man play by play-NSFW

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Talk about knowing where your target is. Job well done.

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The following video was not taken at Mike Hammer's mountain retreat.............

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Born on this day: 26 Jun 1955
Mick Jones, guitarist, singer with The Clash, who had the 1979 UK No. 11 single London Calling and the 1982 US No. 8 single 'Rock The Casbah. Their 1991 UK No.1 single 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go', was first released 1982. And with Big Audio Dynamite had the 1986 UK No.11 single 'e=mc2'. Jones plays with Carbon/Silicon and also toured the world as part of the Gorillaz live band. via thidayinmusic.com

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On this day:26 Jun 1977
Elvis Presley made his last ever live stage appearance when he appeared at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. Presley would die less than two months later. The last two songs he performed were ‘Hurt’ and ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water.’ Before the show Elvis was presented with a plaque commemorating the 2 billionth record to come out of RCA’s pressing plant. via thisdayinmusic.com

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The Horde is excellent at solving the world's problems. Let's look at this one: Patron leaves incredible tip for server. Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?

‘I think the f*ck not’: Bartender’s $16,000 tip gets split, sparking debate
People are review bombing the restaurant.
An anonymous customer at a New Hampshire restaurant left a $16,000 tip on a $37.93 tab, but people online are outraged that the entire tip did not go to the server. “The waiter who did the work deserves ALL of the 16k,” one user wrote.

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New vehicle prices continue to rise and rise and rise......

You may recall we reported on the average new car price crossing the $40,000 mark back in December 2020. However, Friday's forecast from J.D. Power is remarkable because December auto sales often show inflated dollar figures simply due to increased luxury vehicle purchases: Lexus' "December to Remember" and all that jazz. So for the average new car sold in June of 2021 to cost $40,206 is -- frankly -- ridiculous.
J.D. Power's June forecast showed the expected average transaction price will increase to the $40,000-plus figure, which will be a new record. The ATP is up by $1,667 from May of this year, the previous record by this measure. Vehicle prices, on average, are expected to be 15% higher than in June 2020, mostly due to automakers pulling back on incentives. There's no need to incentivize a car purchase with all the pent-up demand following the pandemic, especially with inventory squeezed by the ongoing chip shortage. Incentive spending will be down about 6%, or nearly $2,000, according to the monthly forecast.

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Drug dealer playing hide and seek is tonight's Genius Award Winner.

Curious about where the average street dealer safely stores their stash?
Wonder no more!
A Florida Man whose rap sheet includes more than a dozen drug convictions was arrested last month after jailers discovered four “crystal rocks” of methamphetamine stored inside the defendant’s “penis skin,” according to an arrest affidavit.
Shaft Bang Adams, 30, was collared in mid-May for driving with a suspended or revoked license and booked into the Orange County jail on the misdemeanor count.
Adams, an Orlando resident, was familiar with the lockup owing to his 20-plus prior convictions for offenses like domestic assault; battery; possession of a controlled substance; delivery of cocaine; possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; false imprisonment; and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:30 PM

Comments

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1 Yo.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 26, 2021 08:31 PM (DTX3h)

2 Beefy!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 26, 2021 08:32 PM (Dc2NZ)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 08:32 PM (arJlL)

4 Ooo!

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at June 26, 2021 08:33 PM (EiPf6)

5 Asin, surprise and alarm.

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at June 26, 2021 08:34 PM (EiPf6)

6 You NightCrawlers give me the heebie-jeebies....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 26, 2021 08:34 PM (jvt6t)

7 The ducks reminded me of this funny skit

https://tinyurl.com/cnm6xbr4

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 08:35 PM (83lwH)

8 Be nice day walker

Posted by: Mis Hum cell phone at June 26, 2021 08:35 PM (aVY3U)

9 Long eyelashes? That's an attractive trait in a guy?

And I've been working on these pecs and six-pack all these years for nothing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 08:38 PM (Jsl/h)

10 LOL at the Sat. Night Joke.

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 08:38 PM (arJlL)

11 You know what they say. Long eyelashes probably gay.

Posted by: f'd at June 26, 2021 08:39 PM (Tnijr)

12 *mumblety-teenth*

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at June 26, 2021 08:39 PM (tHk1T)

13 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 08:38 P
The Fabulous Mrs. Mis Hum. does

Posted by: Mis Hum cell phone at June 26, 2021 08:40 PM (aVY3U)

14 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at June 26, 2021 08:41 PM (Jsl/h)

15 good evening

Posted by: wing at June 26, 2021 08:41 PM (JFzNN)

16 Fine. Drink your wine. Look at what you're doing to Gaia just for cork!!

Posted by: Greta Thunberg's Anus at June 26, 2021 08:41 PM (jvt6t)

17 Are wine corks still all made in Portugal? They've had a lock on the cork industry since the Middle Ages.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 08:42 PM (Jsl/h)

18 Trump won.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 08:42 PM (8Mt/C)

19 Great joke.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 26, 2021 08:43 PM (axyOa)

20 And I am really me. (8Mt/C)

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 08:44 PM (8Mt/C)

21 St. Peter gonna put you all back in chains.

Posted by: Joe Biden's Last Remaining Synapse at June 26, 2021 08:44 PM (Jsl/h)

22 Great joke.
Posted by: Diogenes

Concur. But the bearded ladies were grim.

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 08:45 PM (arJlL)

23 YAY! Early ONT! Love the joke MisHum!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 26, 2021 08:45 PM (nxdel)

24 Are wine corks still all made in Portugal? They've had a lock on the cork industry since the Middle Ages.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Before that it was the Moops.

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 08:45 PM (arJlL)

25 Just watched the rally. T is in it to win it.
(8Mt/C)

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 08:45 PM (8Mt/C)

26 25 Just watched the rally. T is in it to win it.
(8Mt/C)
Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 08:45 PM (8Mt/C)
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I tapped out early. Is he running again?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 26, 2021 08:47 PM (Dc2NZ)

27 Eris, he didn't come out and say it. But "my prediction" - signs point to yes.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 08:48 PM (8Mt/C)

28 I watched the rally. I was bored to tears until the last 20 minutes.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 26, 2021 08:49 PM (nxdel)

29 Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?

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ALL employees? Even ones who were off that night? I hope so, because they were doing just as much to get part of the money as the other wait staff.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (HBEnm) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 08:49 PM (yK9py)

30 Eris I would say yes and he hasn't lost a beat. But the first hour was ho hum.. he really got going the last 15 or 20 minutes.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 26, 2021 08:50 PM (nxdel)

31 ha, hash change

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 08:50 PM (yK9py)

32 The tip should not be split between everyone. The tip should go to the government. Duh.

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2021 08:50 PM (Sq5xa)

33 He's a bit out of practice, Jewells. He really didn't get fired up until he concentrated on the steal.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 08:50 PM (8Mt/C)

34 These jokes are starting to make me feel old. I've heard that one since I was a kid.

But there's worse out there, I suppose.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 26, 2021 08:51 PM (cneZH)

35 I'm watching it from the Steal portion onward.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 26, 2021 08:51 PM (Dc2NZ)

36 Vehicle prices, on average, are expected to be 15% higher than in June 2020, mostly due to automakers pulling back on incentives.

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Thank goodness there's no inflation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 08:51 PM (yK9py)

37 That rally was so bittersweet. I really miss Trump's attitude. I just can't get my head around where the country stands today after just half a year after this guy was thrown out of DC.

Posted by: pawn at June 26, 2021 08:52 PM (DIok7)

38 He really didn't get fired up until he concentrated on the steal.

Totally agree.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 26, 2021 08:53 PM (nxdel)

39 Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?

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I don't like it but, the owner can do what he wants right? Of course, so can the waitstaff and move to a place that rewards promptness, courtesy, and professionalism.

We went out for our anniversary yesterday. The waiter we had was fantastic. Made excellent suggestions and his service was top rate. I tipped him in cash.

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 08:53 PM (Rvt88)

40 Great thread, MisHum.

Speaking of black bears, I found this one in my yard this morning.

https://i.___ur.com/2HEpfhq.jpeg

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 26, 2021 08:55 PM (OssQ4)

41 The female CEO of Bumble (where the staff was given a paid week off) is 31 but looks 51 to me.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at June 26, 2021 08:56 PM (Hh3y4)

42 That's i m g u r dot com, of course.

Forgot about Pixy's aversion.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 26, 2021 08:56 PM (OssQ4)

43 Didn't think that that cork punching was done in America. Someone might hurt himself.

Posted by: Braenyard (QQcV5) at June 26, 2021 08:57 PM (QQcV5)

44 Just imagine being the most powerful person in the world, winning in a landslide and having it stolen from you. And you're in it for the American People.
And then having it stolen by the corruptocracy.
I still get sick about it.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 08:57 PM (8Mt/C)

45 I just can't get my head around where the country stands today after just half a year after this guy was thrown out of DC.

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The part that I keep trying to not stare directly at for too long is the realization that not only did the Democrats and Republicans (and FBI) at the state and federal level work together to make sure everyone knew voting machines weren't connected to anything on the other side, and that EVERY failsafe was meaningless, but:

They intend to punish us - ALL of us - for our insolence in daring to reject their service and wisdom by voting for a pro-freedom / pro-American candidate.

It's why things have moved so quickly over the last five months, and we're just getting started.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 08:58 PM (yK9py)

46 Just imagine being the most powerful person in the world, winning in a landslide and having it stolen from you.
I still get sick about it.
Posted by: RI

how do you think most of us got here?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 08:58 PM (nBCCt)

47 "Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?"

Wrong. That's marxism. Destroys the incentive of your waiter to provide good service, since he can lay back while others do the work necessary to get the bigger tips.

Eventually, even the workhorses realize they are getting robbed and start slacking off. Customer service in general falls.

Same thing happened in the Soviet Union with farmers. Could have been the bread basket of Russia and instead they were starving.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 08:58 PM (83lwH)

48 As usual it appears the news has got the story wrong. If the secondary reports are to be believed, *every* tip is split between staff. If that's the case, then the tip should go to all of them. If you got a piece of my 100 dollar tip a few weeks ago, why shouldn't I get a piece of your 16,000 dollar tip today?

If that's literally the way the place is run, then the story has been delivered this way ("owner" splits employee's large tip) to make people angry. An act of generosity becomes yet another source of division, anger and class strife. Shocker.

OTOH, the secondary reports might not be true. Moral: Don't believe anything you read, especially by a "journalist".

Posted by: ... at June 26, 2021 08:58 PM (Sq5xa)

49 "Sweep away the monsters and demons!"
Chairman Mao

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 08:59 PM (hOUT3)

50 I missed The Donald's brassy Queens voice and willingness to say "ass".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 26, 2021 08:59 PM (Dc2NZ)

51 I just can't get my head around where the country stands today after just half a year after this guy was thrown out of DC.

the thing is is, nothing much has changed

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 08:59 PM (nBCCt)

52
I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver
(I want to swap it for a tow hook)
F150

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 08:59 PM (iTXRQ)

53 Oh, and a 16oz ribeye cooked rare, properly, is one of the earth's greatest pleasures.

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 09:00 PM (Rvt88)

54 Yeah, Robbie, they are moving at break-neck speed. They are trying to consolidate in this brief interval before the system perhaps rights itself.
Although I have no delusions about the certainty of that.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:00 PM (8Mt/C)

55 Tonypete

Happy Anniversary to you and the Missus !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:00 PM (arJlL)

56 Eventually, even the workhorses realize they are getting robbed and start slacking off. Customer service in general falls.

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You're describing every government agency and office.

Also anywhere that Karmella and Stacy Abrahms clones have worked (and we have all worked with them).

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:01 PM (yK9py)

57 h, and a 16oz ribeye cooked rare, properly, is one of the earth's greatest pleasures.
Posted by: T

you're a chick?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:01 PM (nBCCt)

58 Thanks JT!

And they said it wouldn't last. Go figure.

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 09:01 PM (Rvt88)

59 49 "Sweep away the monsters and demons!"
Chairman Mao
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 08:59 PM (hOUT3)

Good luck with that you moley commie.

Posted by: Greta Thunberg's Anus at June 26, 2021 09:01 PM (jvt6t)

60 I like to pay tips in cash so my waitslave gets all of it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 26, 2021 09:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

61 I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver

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That's curious. Did the pin come out okay?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:02 PM (yK9py)

62 ahhhhh, 7pm time for the ONT! ....What the hell?

Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at June 26, 2021 09:02 PM (r1z5A)

63 "Sweep away the monsters and demons!"
Chairman Mao

And ghosties and beasties and long-legged whaddyacallits.

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:02 PM (arJlL)

64 C5, I've been trying not to focus on it - I took months off of the blog after November. But seeing Gen. Milley the other day was a gut punch. I'm sure he was one of the ones who told Trump, "Na, bro."

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:03 PM (8Mt/C)

65 I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver
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I can help you get the chrome off that thing

Posted by: Commiela at June 26, 2021 09:03 PM (Sq5xa)

66 >That's curious. Did the pin come out okay?
Posted by: Moron Robbie

I just tried to move the hitch by hand. It's 10 years' worth of stuck.

Gonna try some WD40 and a BFH

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:04 PM (iTXRQ)

67 And ghosties and beasties and long-legged whaddyacallits.
Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:02 PM

"Long-legged mack daddies!" -- Pastor Manning

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 26, 2021 09:04 PM (OssQ4)

68 >>>They intend to punish us - ALL of us - for our insolence in daring to reject their service and wisdom by voting for a pro-freedom / pro-American candidate.

It's why things have moved so quickly over the last five months, and we're just getting started.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 08:58 PM (yK9py)
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No disagreement.
However, they will not sleep well tonight and well, an inspired 75,000,000 people will offer some push back.

Posted by: Braenyard (QQcV5) at June 26, 2021 09:05 PM (QQcV5)

69 Arf!
Posted by: Sandy at June 26, 2021 08:41 PM (Jsl/h)

Why was Little Orphan Annie crying?

There was a solar eclipse.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 26, 2021 09:05 PM (axyOa)

70 Gonna try some WD40 and a BFH
Posted by: DB- just DB

Chain, tree. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at June 26, 2021 09:06 PM (r1z5A)

71 Gonna try some WD40 and a BFH

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Rubber mallet if you've got one to start. Yes to chemicals, too. Heat if you can do it safely.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:06 PM (yK9py)

72 65 I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver
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Do you have a 5 lb hammer?

Posted by: Braenyard (QQcV5) at June 26, 2021 09:06 PM (QQcV5)

73 "People that are well-deserving got a huge tip" Zarella said.

But I did not give the tip to them

https://tinyurl.com/4mh79r88

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (83lwH)

74 I like the chain idea.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (yK9py)

75 I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver
(I want to swap it for a tow hook)
F150
Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 08:59 PM (iTXRQ)

A Master Chief of my acquaintance would say "Get a bigger hammer!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (hOUT3)

76 ber. But seeing Gen. Milley the other day was a gut punch. I'm sure he was one of the ones who told Trump, "Na, bro."
Posted by: RI

I am as unhappy about it as you, I am just saying that there is a bunch of noise and steam but nothing much has changed.

those that were traitors were there before Trump got in and the shit they are doing now was shit they were going to do wherever Trump was.

Either way, my thought is things are going to be fine and I am going to spend my spare time figuring out how to do so.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (nBCCt)

77 I saw Big Audio Dynamite open for U2 at Wembley Stadium in London, 1993. Not a meme, I really did. They were pretty good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (QFVV9)

78 >Do you have a 5 lb hammer?

yes
I hammer in the mornin'
I hammer in the e-eve-nin'

no I have a cool rubber mallet that might work

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (iTXRQ)

79 Braenyard, you misspelled 16 lb sledge.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:08 PM (8Mt/C)

80 They intend to punish us - ALL of us - for our insolence in daring to reject their service and wisdom by voting for a pro-freedom / pro-American candidate.

It's why things have moved so quickly over the last five months, and we're just getting started.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

nothing has moved quickly.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:09 PM (nBCCt)

81 Puddleglum, I love B.A.D.!

"Rush":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8zs898lr4

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 26, 2021 09:09 PM (Dc2NZ)

82 72 65 I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver
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chain it to a big tree

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2021 09:09 PM (8o8kf)

83 James T. Kirk getting a Piece of the Action on MeTV.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:09 PM (ufFY8)

84 "So for the average new car sold in June of 2021 to cost $40,206 is -- frankly -- ridiculous."

You ain't seen nothin yet.

Posted by: Super Flower Blood gp at June 26, 2021 09:09 PM (qpX6U)

85 First make sure the clevis pin is removed. This is important. Then try in order, with moderate force:

1) WD40 or other penetrating oil to break the crud holding it together
2) small hammer to shock the crud holding it together
3) large hammer (ditto because clearly the small hammer was not enough)
4) acetylene torch to heat the receiver to break free the hitch from the receiver through unequal heating and expansion of the receiver and the hitch.
5) take off a corner of the receiver with an angle grinder to release pressure from a warped receiver
6) logging chain from the hitch to an immovable object, lock in the hubs, put it in granny-gear, ease out to where the chain is taut, rev the engine and pop the clutch.

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:09 PM (ySM85)

86 yes
I hammer in the mornin'
I hammer in the e-eve-nin'

no I have a cool rubber mallet that might work
Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (iTXRQ)

Si....muy bien!!

Posted by: Mexican Auto Technician at June 26, 2021 09:10 PM (jvt6t)

87 Corks remind me of one of my first jobs operating a punch press. Sit next to a giant pile of small pieces of steel, set one into the press and step on the pedal. With about 1/4 inch to hold on to, get antsy to go faster, hold the pedal down and it goes faster. All of the jobs I've had working on machines with zero safety's. Don't know how but I still got em all.

Posted by: dartist at June 26, 2021 09:10 PM (+ya+t)

88 Mike Hammer's mountain retreat.
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'Redoubt'...it's a redoubt.

And, that's kind of a small bear. I would have shooed the bugger off of the deck.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2021 09:10 PM (CTJwJ)

89 Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:07 PM (iTXRQ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbtNK1U6Cew

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:10 PM (hOUT3)

90 and all of this feeds into that piece above about new car and truck prices

it's ridiculous
so I am KEEPING my 2004 F150 with its LACK of touchscreens and backup cameras and wifi and all the other bells and whistles I don't want or need

AT AC and 4WD is all I want

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:11 PM (iTXRQ)

91 72 65 I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver
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actually, if you have access to a torch, heat the hitch up

should loosen, maybe even spray some water on it for a shock

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2021 09:11 PM (8o8kf)

92 JT. We should get a stock of Thomas Sowell books to fill Free Libraries.

And if there is an abridged version of Atlas Shrugged, without the cringe-worthy sex scenes and short Powerpoint speeches, we can add that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (whRlH) at June 26, 2021 07:10 PM (whRlH)

I've been meaning to get some of those Tuttle Twins books to put I those free libraries - for the children. They teach conservative principles like the law and the golden rule - both of which seem to be in short supply lately.

Posted by: InCali at June 26, 2021 09:12 PM (ov5G+)

93 Don't know how but I still got em all.
Posted by: dartist at June 26, 2021 09:10 PM (+ya+t)

Yep. Know a lot of "nubbies" out there.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 26, 2021 09:12 PM (jvt6t)

94 That Glendale mayor sounds like a douchebag.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:12 PM (ufFY8)

95 logging chain from the hitch to an immovable object, lock in the hubs, put it in granny-gear, ease out to where the chain is taut, rev the engine and pop the clutch.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Also the formula for stationary wheelstands.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2021 09:12 PM (CTJwJ)

96 Commish,

I have that song, but by Merle Travis

that Nitty Gritty Dirt Band double album that came out decades ago

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:13 PM (iTXRQ)

97 nothing has moved quickly.

***

Sorry, I was focused almost entirely on household income, wealth, and well-being. I don't disagree that this whole thing is a multi-year and well-planned event (and it's pretty shocking that it worked), but I was only referring to everyday people and families. I should've been clearer.

Trump increased median household income by something like $6k. He accomplished what politicians have been claiming to want to do for 40 years.

I would bet $50 that the last five months of gas prices, inflation, etc. have negated all of those gains, and it's all on purpose.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:13 PM (yK9py)

98 >> James T. Kirk getting a Piece of the Action on MeTV.

Watching that now, the gangster planet episode.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 26, 2021 09:14 PM (Mzdiz)

99 C5 - yes, for varying degrees of fine.
I'm in a good place geographically, mentally, physically and prep-wise. But I look back over my several 29 years and realize that my son and future progeny will not have it that fine.
Don't want to be a downer tonight but I watched lots of Trump rallies last Fall and was sure we were headed to a better place. Tonight's was a reminder.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:14 PM (8Mt/C)

100 If your hitch is stuck one can always apply significant heat to the rear area of the vehicle where the gas tank is located. This will ensure a total separation of hitch from vehicle. And you.

That'll be $49.99

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 26, 2021 09:15 PM (3H9h1)

101 98 >> James T. Kirk getting a Piece of the Action on MeTV.

Watching that now, the gangster planet episode.

Jim, it's dead.

Posted by: Zombie Bones at June 26, 2021 09:15 PM (jvt6t)

102 Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:13 PM (iTXRQ)

True. A classic by many groups!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:15 PM (hOUT3)

103 Watching that now, the gangster planet episode.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 26, 2021 09:14 PM (Mzdiz)

Get me 100 of these heaters!
Kirk, or somebody, said it was Chicago in 1992.
If they only knew....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:15 PM (ufFY8)

104 joke was funny
I LOLef

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (oEn12)

105 Corks remind me of one of my first jobs operating a
punch press. Sit next to a giant pile of small pieces of steel, set one
into the press and step on the pedal. With about 1/4 inch to hold on to,
get antsy to go faster, hold the pedal down and it goes faster. All of
the jobs I've had working on machines with zero safety's. Don't know how
but I still got em all.
Posted by: dartist at June 26, 2021 09:10 PM (+ya+t)

Used to work around the Scotsman punch and was always trying to figure out a use for the punched out pieces. They were just soo cool!

That takes me back.

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (ySM85)

106 Careful about using a chain and a tree, check the frame where the hitch bolts to it, mine is pretty corroded on my 2001 F-150.

Posted by: lowandslow at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (qH6FZ)

107 The opening joke is a variation on this one from the '50s:

Man is given tour of the afterlife. He sees Khrushchev having sex with Marilyn Monroe. Man remarks, "I'm surprised a man as bad as Khrushchev would receive such a reward." Satan replies, "That isn't Khrushchev's reward. It's Miss Monroe's punishment."

Posted by: mnw at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (Cssks)

108 Don't want to be a downer tonight but I watched lots of Trump rallies last Fall and was sure we were headed to a better place.

**

We were, and Americans voting overwhelmingly for it.
Never fall prey to the lie that Biden won. He was mad president, but Americans voted for America.

I don't know where we go from here, though. It's nowhere good, I'm afraid.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (yK9py)

109 "You're describing every government agency and office."

Yup. My wife works for a federal agency. She is one of the few workhorses left. The other workers would go out of their way to pretend they didn't know how to do a thing because they knew she would swoop in and fix it.

Finally, even she was too stressed out. I said to her: what would happen if you didn't fix it? Would it be the end of the world?

"What do you mean? Let it fail? That's not - No I can't - I've never considered what would happen..."

Next week she did just that (painfully) and let a few projects fail. Her supervisor got his @ss reamed for missing deadlines, so he took the workload of 3 people away from her and spread it around. And she has been much happier since.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (83lwH)

110 hitch your truck to post on a raised deck

soon you will not be worried about the hitch

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (8o8kf)

111 Sorry, I was focused almost entirely on household income, wealth, and well-being. I don't disagree that this whole thing is a multi-year and well-planned event (and it's pretty shocking that it worked), but I was only referring to everyday people and families. I should've been clearer.

Trump increased median household income by something like $6k. He accomplished what politicians have been claiming to want to do for 40 years.

I would bet $50 that the last five months of gas prices, inflation, etc. have negated all of those gains, and it's all on purpose.
Posted by: M

I agree with that, but if they are punishing the right with economics they are punishing their side too, and most of their side is going to feel it more since they are poorer, in higher tax states with shitty economies.

They are going to screw themselves to the wall if they think screwing our side financially is a win win for their side and it is going to mean we get the house.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:17 PM (nBCCt)

112 48 As usual it appears the news has got the story wrong. If the secondary reports are to be believed, *every* tip is split between staff. If that's the case, then the tip should go to all of them. If you got a piece of my 100 dollar tip a few weeks ago, why shouldn't I get a piece of your 16,000 dollar tip today?If that's literally the way the place is run, then the story has been delivered this way ("owner" splits employee's large tip) to make people angry. An act of generosity becomes yet another source of division, anger and class strife. Shocker.
OTOH, the secondary reports might not be true. Moral: Don't believe anything you read, especially by a "journalist".Posted by: ... at June 26, 2021 08:58 PM (Sq5xa)

Yeah if its more standard for that place then its going to be understood. Sucks for the guy that got the original huge tip and I don't think a place should do that in general. But I understand making that policy if you are in a place where you deal with a lot of cheapskates aka European tourists who lie that they don't understand how to tip.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2021 09:17 PM (vMCab)

113
"The Book" was published in 1992, they said. A book about 1920s Chicago. The aliens were a highly imitative bunch, and took that to be the gospel.

Kirk has to straighten them out and put 'em back on the straight and narrow. Shredding the Prime Directive 6 ways to Sunday.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (Mzdiz)

114 Greetings.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (OU+8W)

115 60 I like to pay tips in cash so my waitslave gets all of it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 26, 2021 09:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

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This. I love to see their ears perk up when those two quarters hit the table.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (Jsl/h)

116 Happy rainy Saturday to you all.

Posted by: Muad'dib at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (02ckt)

117 yes, for varying degrees of fine.
I'm in a good place geographically, mentally, physically and prep-wise. But I look back over my several 29 years and realize that my son and future progeny will not have it that fine.
Don't want to be a downer tonight but I watched lots of Trump rallies last Fall and was sure we were headed to a better place. Tonight's was a reminder.
Posted by: RI

not saying you are being a downer, just that they want us depressed and giving in, things have been more dangerous for the republic before and this is going to be fine even if it is miserabl for a bit or so

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (nBCCt)

118 Also the formula for stationary wheelstands.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2021 09:12 PM (CTJwJ)

And collapsed back porches, yes.

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (ySM85)

119 Fizzbin!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (ufFY8)

120 FREE BRITTANY!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (nxdel)

121 104 joke was funny
I LOLef
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (oEn12)

yeah and it was clean

Posted by: Joe at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (8o8kf)

122 ah you guyz are a riot

I'm not a fan of torches or chains
I'm thinking chemical attack, followed by percussive persuasion

but thank y'all for the suggestions

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (iTXRQ)

123 That'll be $49.99

***

A buddy of mine's shop has a sign that says something like:

RATES
bonk-clang-bonk! $125
RRR-boom-clang! $200
click-click-RRR-BOOM-clang! $350
etc

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (yK9py)

124 I can't get the trailer hitch out of the receiver
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I can help you get the chrome off that thing
Posted by: Commiela at June 26, 2021 09:03 PM (Sq5xa)

The Horde never disappoints.

Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel (4I/2K) at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (4I/2K)

125 OTOH, the secondary reports might not be true. Moral: Don't believe anything you read, especially by a "journalist".
Posted by: ...

Words that should be memorized by every school kid in the West.

The split tip arrangement is common in many restaurants. Yes, that could be bad or good depending upon the staff, but if those were the standing rules, then the bartender agreed to split it by working there. It has nothing to do with socialism. It's called being a person of your word.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (M119n)

126 Happy rainy Saturday to you all.

It's been raining off and on for 3 days here. I had to bring all my plants back up on the deck where the overhang is or they will all die. God I hate Missouri.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 26, 2021 09:20 PM (nxdel)

127 This. I love to see their ears perk up when those two quarters hit the table.
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at June 26, 2021 09:18 PM (Jsl/h)

I am like Ron Paul, two silver dimes should be adequate for any level of service!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:20 PM (hOUT3)

128 And, that's kind of a small bear. I would have shooed the bugger off of the deck.

Posted by: Mike Hammer,

*****

Grandkids ran in a few minutes ago with a dog update. "Ewww, Buckley's eating bear poop. Fresh bear poop!"

A few minutes later they came in and said, "Nevermind Grandpa, he was just eating his own throw-up!"

I remained ensconced in my easy chair. I've learned not to respond too quickly to certain things.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 26, 2021 09:20 PM (Fc5rx)

129 > FREE BRITTANY!!

did the Germans invade France again?

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:20 PM (iTXRQ)

130 Happyish Saturday Evening ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic at June 26, 2021 09:21 PM (FFujb)

131 Grandma will be 98 in November. They're not operating on her metastasized cancer, she's got a DNR on her fridge, and told me today that she does NOT want to reach 100. I don't think she's going to give a duck about marching through heaven when she gets there.

Posted by: pookysgirl comes by her stubbornness rightly at June 26, 2021 09:21 PM (IH4XL)

132
Spock gets to talking gangster talk at the end, IIRC. I can't wait.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 26, 2021 09:21 PM (Mzdiz)

133 Woman in my office had to have her face waxed every two weeks.

Posted by: Braenyard (QQcV5) at June 26, 2021 09:21 PM (QQcV5)

134 Also, the horror stories you hear of how hard it is to fire a subpar federal employee are true. She had one that they spent a year on, filing all the proper reports and warnings, etc. It was open and shut. All i's dotted, all t's crossed. Even the union couldn't help with their usual EEO complaint.

Political appointee upstairs reversed it. All that time and energy wasted trying to go through the proper procedure. SMH.

Most of the problem children get "promoted" to another department so they become someone else's nightmare

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:21 PM (83lwH)

135 The bearded ladies are all zeros.

Posted by: a.moron at June 26, 2021 09:22 PM (I5FZ1)

136 Mel, from Mel's Diner!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:22 PM (ufFY8)

137 Is Mel pimping out Linda Lavin to Kirk?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (ufFY8)

138 "I agree with that, but if they are punishing the right with economics they are punishing their side too, and most of their side is going to feel it more since they are poorer, in higher tax states with shitty economies."

I'm pretty sure that "they" care as little about their side as about us. They intend to crash the system to consolidate their control. We are the only armed free population in the way of one-world. And "they" think they are one step away from getting rid of us.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (8Mt/C)

139 >Woman in my office had to have her face waxed every two weeks.
Posted by: Braenyard

park her in the shade

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (iTXRQ)

140 Howdy ho, yall!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (wAcdS)

141 Woman in my office had to have her face waxed every two weeks.
Posted by: Braenyard

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (Rvt88)

142 I can help you get the chrome off that thing
Posted by: Commiela at June 26, 2021 09:03 PM (Sq5xa)

how about a golf ball stuck in a garden hose ?

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (8o8kf)

143 Bought a Mac license for"Affinity Photo" because it looks great and is only $25 for a few days. Looks great.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (OU+8W)

144 I agree with that, but if they are punishing the right with economics they are punishing their side too, and most of their side is going to feel it more since they are poorer, in higher tax states with shitty economies.

***

I'd like to think so, but I have to assume the feds won't let that happen. Rich people and politicians will always write a way out of the situation, states will be funded because COVIDs, poor people will continue to be propped up and not feel much of anything, and middle class people will get poorer and poorer.

IIRC Biden is already demanding a Continuing Resolution so that the $4T or whatever they've spent will be baked into the cake and can be spent annually from here on out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (yK9py)

145 Happy rainy Saturday to you all.
Posted by: Muad'dib

Backatcha !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:23 PM (arJlL)

146 I don't know where we go from here, though. It's nowhere good, I'm afraid.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (yK9py)

I am going to be serious for a minute. It does not matter where we go from here, what is important is that we survive it. Be aware, be prepared, and remember that even if the best thing happens, it means nothing if you are not ready to take advantage of it. Luck is the roll of the dice, good fortune is turning that into a pile.

Also, be willing to support and be a place of refuge for people who are able to fight on.

anyhow, back to bad shade-tree mechanics!

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:24 PM (ySM85)

147 "Sucks for the guy that got the original huge tip"

Also sucks for the guy who thought he was giving a generous tip to one specific person. Was their policy posted where customers would know?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:24 PM (83lwH)

148 131 Grandma will be 98 in November. They're not operating on her metastasized cancer, she's got a DNR on her fridge, and told me today that she does NOT want to reach 100. I don't think she's going to give a duck about marching through heaven when she gets there.
Posted by: pookysgirl comes by her stubbornness rightly

My grandmother lived to be 101. A week before she died, my sister and I called her. She made an off hand remark that she had no idea why she was alive. She was in a hospital at that point but all the nurses loved her. She was nice. Always figured God kept her around so people could see a nice normal old lady. Normal is rare these days.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 09:24 PM (QFVV9)

149 Woman in my office had to have her face waxed every two weeks.
Posted by: Braenyard (QQcV5) at June 26, 2021 09:21 PM (QQcV5)

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Wax on

Wax off

Posted by: Mr. Miyagi at June 26, 2021 09:25 PM (Jsl/h)

150 Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (iTXRQ)

You might consider a jack under the trailer hitch to supply upward pressure followed by more benign treatments of WD40 or PB Blaster (which had done miracles for me)!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:25 PM (hOUT3)

151 Easy compromise. Tips in the standard range (say up to 20% of the tab) are pooled and split evenly among the entire staff. Excess amounts of tips above that range, the remainder goes to the server who established rapport with the customer in whatever way.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 26, 2021 09:26 PM (Fc5rx)

152 AT AC and 4WD is all I want
Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ)

Oh.

I thought you said AtC.

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:26 PM (arJlL)

153 "most of their side is going to feel it more since they are poorer, in higher tax states with shitty economies."

Felt the same way about all those "idiots" who took out college loans for some studies degree. Now it's looking more and more like *I* am the idiot who will get stuck bailing them out.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:26 PM (83lwH)

154 And, yes, I'm depressed - but not giving in. Just upgrading my resolve.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:27 PM (8Mt/C)

155

Ho, ho, ho, now Kirk has a machine gun.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 26, 2021 09:27 PM (Mzdiz)

156 Affinity Publisher is great. Dont have the other apps.

Posted by: Adriane the Critic at June 26, 2021 09:27 PM (FFujb)

157 heating the fucker up with a torch is the best way

but you got to get really hot, not just ready for sex

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2021 09:28 PM (8o8kf)

158 The Bumble thing sounds really great and caring until one considers that they obviously got into that situation by pulling the "we move fast and break things, therefore we own you 24/7" techbro hustle. Not the sort of place I'd like to find myself at.

If these tech companies were really as into the work life balance as they say they are, they'd either pay by the hour with regular, non-exempt labor rules or the employment contract would stipulate that if the employee works more than X hours a week they automatically get more money--like OT but for salaried guys. A few of them actually do this sort of thing, but it's rare.

Posted by: CppThis at June 26, 2021 09:28 PM (8h1h1)

159 Affinity Publisher is great. Dont have the other apps.
Posted by: Adriane the Critic

"PENDANT ? Those bastards !"

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:28 PM (arJlL)

160 135 The bearded ladies are all zeros.

Not according to Jonah Goldberg

Posted by: Mis Hum cell phone at June 26, 2021 09:28 PM (aVY3U)

161 If it moves, salute it.
If it doesn't move, pick it up.
If you can't pick it up, paint it.

Posted by: a.moron at June 26, 2021 09:29 PM (I5FZ1)

162 I always thought that Wd 40 and duct tape came with a pair of vise grips

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2021 09:29 PM (8o8kf)

163 Them bearded wimmins - they sure are purty...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 09:30 PM (wAcdS)

164 Fiddling with a new linux distro, ZorinOs

May be the best linux desktop i've come across.

It's in a VM right now, if it pans out, may roll it onto a 8 GB RasberryPi.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 26, 2021 09:30 PM (P4KTL)

165 d by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:26 PM (83lwH)

154 And, yes, I'm depressed - but not giving in. Just upgrading my resolve.
Posted by: RI

there is nowhere else to go, either we win here or they win everywhere.

have fun with it.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:30 PM (nBCCt)

166 Oxnicks called Spock as dummy. lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:30 PM (ufFY8)

167 120 FREE BRITTANY!!
Posted by: Jewells45

This. I'm totally with the "leave Britney alone" YouTube guy. LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! *sob*

Posted by: yop at June 26, 2021 09:30 PM (V0Ztm)

168 Next week she did just that (painfully) and let a few projects fail. Her supervisor got his @ss reamed for missing deadlines, so he took the workload of 3 people away from her and spread it around. And she has been much happier since.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:16 PM (83lwH)

*Muttley laugh*

Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel (4I/2K) at June 26, 2021 09:31 PM (4I/2K)

169 It's been raining off and on for 3 days here. I had to bring all my plants back up on the deck where the overhang is or they will all die. God I hate Missouri. Posted by: Jewells45 (nxdel)

103 and muggy today. 110 tomorrow they say. At least the corn and squash is growing like weeds

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:31 PM (ySM85)

170 Them bearded wimmins - they sure are purty...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 09:30 PM (wAcdS)

COMM, please don't make me think I misjudged your potential here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:31 PM (hOUT3)

171 147 "Sucks for the guy that got the original huge tip"

Also sucks for the guy who thought he was giving a generous tip to one specific person. Was their policy posted where customers would know?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:24 PM (83lwH)

Yeah...I don't know the specifics of this case but it's very likely one of those things where it's a regular customer who got friendly with some of the staff, and the waiter in question had mentioned that they were gonna go to college, or buy a car or something.

Posted by: CppThis at June 26, 2021 09:31 PM (8h1h1)

172 "most of their side is going to feel it more since they are poorer, in higher tax states with shitty economies."

Felt the same way about all those "idiots" who took out college loans for some studies degree. Now it's looking more and more like *I* am the idiot who will get stuck bailing them out.
Posted by: H

they are not goin to do that.

there are more than a few guys that remain pissed about violating the absolute priority in bankruptcy under ozero

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:32 PM (nBCCt)

173 On the other hand, Good News! Which I will repeat on the Gub Thread.
Wipe-Out is a superior cleaner for copper in rifle barrels. Foams up, leave it for an hour or two or overnight.
Swap with clean patch - if it's blue, do it over.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:32 PM (8Mt/C)

174 164 Fiddling with a new linux distro, ZorinOs

May be the best linux desktop i've come across.

It's in a VM right now, if it pans out, may roll it onto a 8 GB RasberryPi.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Better than Linux Mint? I've had that on my ancient workstation for a couple of years now. I like it quite a bit. Very stable.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 09:32 PM (QFVV9)

175 Which I will repeat on the Gub Thread.
Wipe-Out is a superior cleaner for copper in rifle barrels. Foams up, leave it for an hour or two or overnight.
Swap with clean patch - if it's blue, do it over.
Posted by: RI

nice

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:33 PM (nBCCt)

176 39 Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?

--

I don't like it but, the owner can do what he wants right? Of course, so can the waitstaff and move to a place that rewards promptness, courtesy, and professionalism.

We went out for our anniversary yesterday. The waiter we had was fantastic. Made excellent suggestions and his service was top rate. I tipped him in cash.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Yep, cash directly to the server is what we normally do as well. But, we've talked to a few servers at some of our watering holes who have said the staff agreed to share tips by choice so we add those tips to whatever method we are paying with.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 26, 2021 09:33 PM (+ldAm)

177 147 "Sucks for the guy that got the original huge tip"

Also sucks for the guy who thought he was giving a generous tip to one specific person. Was their policy posted where customers would know?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:24 PM (83lwH)

Who knows. Like I said, I don't agree with it unless its at a place where you get asshole customers on the regular that leave the change only or a Eurotrash.

But what I do know is that the one person whining about the owner paying employees "$2.13 an hour," is full of shit. And that is what all the rage is about it seems, not that the tip is split actually but the bullshit "living wage" liberal garbage.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)

178 Better than Linux Mint? I've had that on my ancient workstation for a couple of years now. I like it quite a bit. Very stable.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 09:32 PM (QFVV9)

Mint seems like a very stable well-thought out desktop to me, been using it for a long time now!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:35 PM (hOUT3)

179 After Season 1 Star Trek pretty much exhausted all possible worlds like the "Gangster Planet," "Roman Planet," "Wild West Planet," and more than one "Hippie Planet."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 26, 2021 09:35 PM (vuisn)

180 I do the same thing as eris, I tip the waiter and essential staff in cash.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:35 PM (nBCCt)

181 'December to Remember' and all that jazz.

Say the magic woids and win a free ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xk7thZL4s0

Posted by: Braenyard (QQcV5) at June 26, 2021 09:35 PM (QQcV5)

182 Thanks for the chat, y'all. I'm out.

Endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 26, 2021 09:36 PM (Fc5rx)

183 "Absolute Priority Rule?" I take it you are familiar with 11 USC Sec 1, et seq.?
Yeah, the GMC bailout violated just about every BK rule there is.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:36 PM (8Mt/C)

184 Hello Darlings, how's every little thing?

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at June 26, 2021 09:36 PM (NDANa)

185 I'd advises ya to keeps dialing, Oxnicks...

Posted by: Spock at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (3Bi4L)

186 Funniest responses to the bearded lady pics:

I believe my penis just fell off…
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Reply
It wasn’t well attached then. You are one of them now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (CTJwJ)

187 'Night Muldoon !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (arJlL)

188 Grandma will be 98 in November. They're not operating on her
metastasized cancer, she's got a DNR on her fridge, and told me today
that she does NOT want to reach 100. I don't think she's going to give a
duck about marching through heaven when she gets there.
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God Bless that lady. My dad was pissed he lived to 91. His sister in her mid 90s couldn't care less if she dies. I feel very fortunate that she calls me about those goddamned democrats "excuse my language" and Trump when she gets a notion. She may outlive me.

Posted by: dartist at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (+ya+t)

189 Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 26, 2021 09:33 PM (+ldAm)

Always tip cash to the server, never on the credit card or restaurant bill is my model!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (hOUT3)

190 My Jeep is ten years old and I hope to be driving it for another 10 years. I'm going to have sticker shock when I have to replace it.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (2DOZq)

191 I can't believe that Muldoon is leaving without giving us a limerick.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (NDANa)

192 "Absolute Priority Rule?" I take it you are familiar with 11 USC Sec 1, et seq.?
Yeah, the GMC bailout violated just about every BK rule there is.
Posted by: RI

indeed.

it was fun to see a bunch of guys in finance essentially doing the "if comrade obama was aware of this he would surely stop it face" when it happened.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:38 PM (nBCCt)

193 I don't know much, but I know I'd love to be a customer trying to do something nice for a specific waitress and then find out that Jimmy the Perpetually Unemployed Criminal Pothead Dishwasher in the kitchen got $4000 of it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:38 PM (yK9py)

194 39 Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?

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Not legal in California. Employees keep the tips they earn

Yes, it is an odd and unexpected departure from the usual Communist People's Paradise that one expects in this shitty state.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 09:38 PM (Jsl/h)

195 Hello Darlings, how's every little thing?

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at June 26, 2021 09:36 PM (NDANa)

Its . . . *looks down shyly*

Its not really that little.

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:38 PM (ySM85)

196 "Absolute Priority Rule?" I take it you are familiar with 11 USC Sec 1, et seq.?
Yeah, the GMC bailout violated just about every BK rule there is.
Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:36 PM (8Mt/C)

BUT, did the right people get the graft?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar ~ Lay back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at June 26, 2021 09:38 PM (hOUT3)

197 Thanks for the chat, y'all. I'm out.

Endeavor to persevere.
Posted by: Muldoon at June 26, 2021 09:36 PM (Fc5rx)

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Wait. Don't go.

I was going to make espresso!

Posted by: The Blind Hermit at June 26, 2021 09:39 PM (Jsl/h)

198 BUT, did the right people get the graft?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

that is the thing with the students, there are no right guys to get the graft

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:39 PM (nBCCt)

199 I've watched that video of the guy leaping over the wall into the water, and I'm fascinated by what appears to be a person under the water near the pole. A diver? Pareidolia? Something else?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:39 PM (CAJOC)

200 Always figured God kept her around so people could see a nice normal old lady. Normal is rare these days.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 09:24 PM (QFVV9)
Grandma is great, but she is a vocal conservative in Illinois. She went off on her pastor about his all-but-endorsement of Biden from the pulpit, and is sure he won't come back to visit her. I told her that if he refuses to see her because of that, he's not fit to be a pastor. She replied, "We'll see."

Posted by: pookysgirl also comes by her politics rightly at June 26, 2021 09:39 PM (IH4XL)

201 Concrete Galoshes.

Posted by: Scotty at June 26, 2021 09:39 PM (3Bi4L)

202 We've been travelling. Went out west to see the Grand Canyon.
It's amazing, words do not describe it.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at June 26, 2021 09:40 PM (NDANa)

203 We've been travelling. Went out west to see the Grand Canyon.
It's amazing, words do not describe it.

ditch

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:40 PM (nBCCt)

204 If you put the tip on the card, the owner generally takes the merchant fee for processing the card out of the tip.

Also, cash buys ciggies on the way home.

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:40 PM (ySM85)

205 170

Sorry CH...sometimes I go off my rocker...
I'm ok now. Fresh cocktail.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 09:40 PM (wAcdS)

206 @174

Zorin, like Mint is based on Ubuntu/Debian.

It's GUI is very slick, it also has a neat app store.

It's mostly to have a friendly easy to use interface for the Plex server that the family uses.

Rasbian is kind of a pain in the ass to navigate if you don't know what you're doing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 26, 2021 09:41 PM (P4KTL)

207 There's something fishy about that center bottle of wine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 26, 2021 09:41 PM (1vynn)

208 Its not really that little.
Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 09:38 PM (ySM85)

You know the rules...

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at June 26, 2021 09:42 PM (NDANa)

209 Regarding the tip "scandal", I think sharing it around between the other servers and cooks is the best policy. The food must have been good, or the guy probably wouldn't have left a huge tip. Should the cook not get a share of the tip, then?

In the case of a huge tip like that, the first thing I would, if I were the manager, is contact the patron ask if he is certain that he intended to leave such a large tip. Maybe the guy was math challenged, and thought he was leaving $16.00, which would have been a large tip on that bill in any case.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 09:42 PM (ij6zD)

210 We've been travelling. Went out west to see the Grand Canyon.
It's amazing, words do not describe it.

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We called it, "game over"

Posted by: Spanish Imperial Expansionists at June 26, 2021 09:42 PM (Jsl/h)

211 190 My Jeep is ten years old and I hope to be driving it for another 10 years. I'm going to have sticker shock when I have to replace it.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 09:37 PM (2DOZq)
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The goal is for you not to be able to replace it.

Posted by: Braenyard (QQcV5) at June 26, 2021 09:43 PM (QQcV5)

212 "And, yes, I'm depressed - but not giving in. Just upgrading my resolve."

Understood. And depression is a normal reaction to what we are going through. There is no shame in it.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:43 PM (83lwH)

213 There's something fishy about that center bottle of wine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

"Ya know, when you read Moby Dick the second time, Ahab and the whale become good friends !"

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:43 PM (arJlL)

214 10% of all tips go to the big guy.

Posted by: Hunter at June 26, 2021 09:44 PM (3Bi4L)

215 That's the biggest fallout from the last decade - we've gone from a high-trust society where many believed that the laws were generally applied equally, to the opposite.
In reality, I suppose they never were, but it's become obvious now.

Posted by: RI Red - White Supreme at June 26, 2021 09:44 PM (8Mt/C)

216 If you have kids around I would strongly advise removing them. They will become a nuisance as their numbers grow.[/i}

Well, yeah.... but, most people say raising a family is very, very rewarding. It is our purpose as parents, to bring them up right.
Posted by: Common Tater at June 26, 2021 01:35
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This made me cry, TY CT. It was posted on the gardening thread. Right after...

64 Yellowjackets
I you have kids...

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2021 09:44 PM (55Qr6)

217 crap, did I forget closing tags?

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2021 09:46 PM (55Qr6)

218 @190

Keep it up the maintenance and you can easily have it for another ten years.

There's way too much technology in new cars that simply is not going to be able to repaired or replaced in 20 years.

I've been driving a new rental car at least once a week for the last 8 months and while the fully digital/led dash is great in say a Jeep Grand Cherokee, there is simply no way you are going to be able to get a replacement for it 20 years from now if you need one.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 26, 2021 09:46 PM (P4KTL)

219 Perpetually unemployed dishwasher? Seems a bit contadictory....

Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 09:46 PM (DN9hz)

220 213 There's something fishy about that center bottle of wine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc

"Ya know, when you read Moby Dick the second time, Ahab and the whale become good friends !"
Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:43 PM (arJlL)

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You should read his follow up, "Ahab", told from the whale's point of view.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:46 PM (CAJOC)

221 Kateurday ONT Compliance GIFs

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

Posted by: kbdabear at June 26, 2021 09:47 PM (qAR6u)

222 I always leave a pretax 20% tip but I do note the inequity between waiter waitress tips depending where you work though the work itself is basically the same.

Just because the food is more expensive doesn't make the work any more difficult. I do understand the Waffle House waitress may not be a fit for a high class steak house.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 09:47 PM (2DOZq)

223 And now they claim we'll hit 115 for two days. This is my last summer here. If I have to live with this kind of weather, I want to live in a place where air conditioning is common.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 26, 2021 09:47 PM (YynYJ)

224 You should read his follow up, "Ahab", told from the whale's point of view.
Posted by: No One of Consequence

Does the whale belch at the end ?

Use Ahab's leg as a toothpick ?

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:48 PM (arJlL)

225 Perpetually unemployed dishwasher? Seems a bit contadictory....
Posted by: SFGoth

***

Only if you've never worked in a kitchen.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:48 PM (yK9py)

226 In reality, I suppose they never were, but it's become obvious now.
Posted by: RI Red

I think this is PDT's greatest achievement. There were plenty of folks that couldn't believe we have been getting played for years. They know now. Many of them may not do anything about it but they know.

It's something.

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 09:48 PM (Rvt88)

227 217 crap, did I forget closing tags?
Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2021 09:46 PM (55Qr6)

If you fuckup the closed tags it almost never carries through. So like you have the [/i} that will mess up your comment but not screw up anyone else. Same if you go with i/ instead of /i. I think only fully forgetting to attempt a close tag causes a barrelling.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2021 09:48 PM (vMCab)

228 The thing about the crt is if your ancestors were slaves but your family is criminals, what is the math for that?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:48 PM (nBCCt)

229 There's something fishy about that center bottle of wine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

moby dick was not a fish

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:49 PM (nBCCt)

230 by the way, moby dick way overrated

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:49 PM (nBCCt)

231 You should read his follow up, "Ahab", told from the whale's point of view.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:46 PM (CAJOC)

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The backstory of what made the whale evil? It's box office DYNAMITE!

Get Ta Nahesi Coates on the phone!

Posted by: The Suits at Disney at June 26, 2021 09:49 PM (Jsl/h)

232 Oh, I guess I'd better clean up my nic. That was a middle of the night wakeup, go online, make silly comment.

Posted by: RI Pink at June 26, 2021 09:50 PM (8Mt/C)

233
Kirk's hat, while cool, is a bit too fuzzy for my tastes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 26, 2021 09:50 PM (Mzdiz)

234 What if you forget to close the sarc tag?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 09:50 PM (DN9hz)

235 moby dick was not a fish

A legume ?

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:50 PM (arJlL)

236 A black woman invented the cathode ray tube in the 12th century.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:50 PM (yK9py)

237 Just the tip? I thimk not!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at June 26, 2021 09:51 PM (ufFY8)

238 "but if those were the standing rules, then the bartender agreed to split it by working there. It has nothing to do with socialism. It's called being a person of your word."

No, it's called coercion.

"Congrats you're hired".... Yay!

"Also, we split tips around here".... Boo!

"You want the job or not?" ... Need the job.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:51 PM (83lwH)

239 I was going to put $16,000 in Ace's tip jar, but he said he would just split it among the CoBs.

Posted by: Miklosian Conundrae LLP at June 26, 2021 09:51 PM (QzkSJ)

240 231 You should read his follow up, "Ahab", told from the whale's point of view.
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The backstory of what made the whale evil? It's box office DYNAMITE!

Get Ta Nahesi Coates on the phone!
Posted by: The Suits at Disney at June 26, 2021 09:49 PM (Jsl/h)

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"So, you've got a villain origin story for me"

"Yes, sir, I do..."

--Pitch Meeting for "Ahab"

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (CAJOC)

241 My experience with Raspbian is that it's great as long as you use it exactly how the RPi Foundation expects you to, but go off the reservation and its very ugly very quickly. Stick with x86 if you care at all about third party software.

Also be aware that unlike x86, ARM software performance is *extremely* sensitive to whether or not it was compiled for the specific flavor of ARM that it's running on.

Posted by: CppThis at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (8h1h1)

242 I still do instacart, got a shopper on her 2nd job and the store was out of almost everything I ordered. I did order a bottle of Tito's and she was so apologetic she said she might need some. Set it up on my porch and we did one. So nice I tipped her more than I probably should have. Ordered yesterday and the kid says you know my mom? Looking for my name for a bigger tip but I don't mind. Mom was a cutie too.

Posted by: dartist at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (+ya+t)

243 And now they claim we'll hit 115 for two days. This is my last summer here. If I have to live with this kind of weather, I want to live in a place where air conditioning is common.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward

You don't have A/C ?

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (arJlL)

244 Ducks! If it's not monkeys, it's ducks!

Posted by: mindful webworker - fashionably late to the party at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (xdNUT)

245 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it. at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (Usfbf)

246 bad weather is free entertainment, enjoy

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (nBCCt)

247 I was born a poor black whale.

Posted by: Moby Dick at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (3Bi4L)

248 ah you guyz are a riot

I'm not a fan of torches or chains
I'm thinking chemical attack, followed by percussive persuasion

but thank y'all for the suggestions
Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (iTXRQ)

Length of chain, maybe six to ten feet, heavy weight, with a hole, so it can be shackled to chain. An old flywheel is about perfect. Hitch it all up. Wearing gloves, stand over the weight, and swing it from your arms, so that at the end of the arc, the chain pulls up tight. Delivers "hammer blows" to pull on the hitch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (IJDQe)

249 Just about to get off the couch to make dinner and..., the kitteh decides to lie down on me....

Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (DN9hz)

250 230 by the way, moby dick way overrated
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:49 PM (nBCCt)

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I've never been able to make it past the first ten pages.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (CAJOC)

251 236 A black woman invented the cathode ray tube in the 12th century.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news

Troof! Unfortunately she used it as an ear ring.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (QFVV9)

252 Just because the food is more expensive doesn't make the work any more difficult. I do understand the Waffle House waitress may not be a fit for a high class steak house.

Posted by: Just a side note

Oh, they like the steak alright.

Posted by: Miklos having a smoke out back of the Waffle House at June 26, 2021 09:54 PM (QzkSJ)

253 I've never been able to make it past the first ten pages.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (CAJOC)

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I know, right? Moby DICK, and not a single penis in the entire first chapter!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at June 26, 2021 09:55 PM (Jsl/h)

254 "The thing about the crt is if your ancestors were slaves but your family is criminals, what is the math for that?"

Considering what was going on in West Africa at the time (tribes declaring war on each other SOLELY to acquire captives to trade as slaves for Euro liquor and firearms)... if your ancestors were slaves, odds are your other ancestors were slavers.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:55 PM (83lwH)

255 I've never been able to make it past the first ten pages.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (CAJOC)

Moby Dick was great.
But, I had an excellent teacher of it in high school.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 09:55 PM (ufFY8)

256 250 230 by the way, moby dick way overrated
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 09:49 PM (nBCCt)-------------------------
I've never been able to make it past the first ten pages.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 26, 2021 09:53 PM (CAJOC)

I read it in the 7th grade. Don't really remember anything about it. I read it for Accelerated Reader and it was worth like 32 points which is about the entire amount needed for the quarter. I got like 28 and my teacher gave me 10 extra for actually finishing it.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2021 09:56 PM (vMCab)

257 Whales?

Posted by: Oregon Highway Department at June 26, 2021 09:56 PM (4I/2K)

258 I thought step on a duck was euphemism for farting .

At least according to Rodney Dangerfield.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 09:56 PM (2DOZq)

259 As a lawyer, it has been very disconcerting seeing the law being spindled, folded and mutilated. I used to tell people that the thing I enjoyed most was understanding how the law underlaid everything and that I knew how it all tied together.
Now, it heightens my awareness of how off the rails we've gone.
At the local level, following the law makes sense - doing 50 in a 20 zone is a bad idea. At the federal level, let's see, I'm paying taxes to support illegal immigration and a regime that wants me dead. Consent of the governed, you say?

Posted by: RI Pink at June 26, 2021 09:57 PM (8Mt/C)

260 by the way, moby dick way overrated
Posted by: confederatefifth

Was on a "gonna read the classics" binge, co-workers said it was the only time he'd seen anyone read it without being ordered to.

Posted by: Some Rat in the Swamp at June 26, 2021 09:57 PM (r1z5A)

261 did somebody say forklift? https://youtu.be/CyNnXg18qUc

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 26, 2021 09:57 PM (BGdiD)

262 Added to the Jobs I do not Want list:

Any job where I would have to search some dude's "penis skin."

Posted by: Splunge at June 26, 2021 09:58 PM (RzGcW)

263 A modern day remake of Moby Dick will have Moby as the hero avenging the murder of the whales by the evil whalers.

Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (3Bi4L)

264 I'm out. Y'all have fun.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (yk9py) Juneteenth, because America needs a holiday celebrating ignorance of news at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (HBEnm)

265 "Just because the food is more expensive doesn't make the work any more difficult."

More expensive food = more difficult people.

I started out as a busboy at Maceo's Seafood in Austin. Got yelled at one night for taking the initiative to pour some guy's wine, didn't know then there was a proper way to do it.

Yah, those Maceo brothers. One of them asked me to go start his car. I just laughed at him, and ran out the back.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (83lwH)

266 I've read Moby Dick twice.

Unabridged, too. I like Ahab.

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (iTXRQ)

267 263 A modern day remake of Moby Dick will have Moby as the hero avenging the murder of the whales by the evil whalers.
Posted by: davidt at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (3Bi4L)

Doesn't change it that much then really.

Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (vMCab)

268 Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?

Not my business. It's a concept that needs more of a workout than it gets these days.

Posted by: Splunge at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (RzGcW)

269 No, no AC. This is PNW and the high was 66 for most of the month. We sometimes get a stretch of hot weather for a couple of weeks. I've always threatened to get a cooler for the bedroom. If it's too bad tomorrow, I'll take a short ride. The car has AC

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 26, 2021 10:00 PM (YynYJ)

270
Whales?

Posted by: Victorias Secret at June 26, 2021 10:00 PM (+ya+t)

271 Bearded women - could not keep scrolling through them. Not enough I've got a clogged ear and a broken tooth, now I have burned-out eyeballs.

Posted by: mindful webworker - doing fine except for that at June 26, 2021 10:00 PM (xdNUT)

272 wanna talk over-rated

Atlas Shrugged

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 10:00 PM (iTXRQ)

273 "As a lawyer, it has been very disconcerting seeing the law being spindled, folded and mutilated."

I'm always curious if lawyers still have faith in the Rule of Law. These times must suck for you guys more than most.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 10:00 PM (83lwH)

274 'Night Robbie !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:00 PM (arJlL)

275 Moby Dick: Junior year in ("cathaholic")high school for me.
Queeqeg the cannibal was the most Christian character, if I recall.
The beginning is hilarious, when Ishmael had to share a bed with him before boarding the ship.
They did that scene nicely in one of the film versions.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 26, 2021 10:01 PM (ufFY8)

276 Any job where I would have to search some dude's "penis skin."

Posted by: Splunge at June 26, 2021 09:58 PM (RzGcW)

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This attitude is why the Brotherhood of Snake-Theme Tattoo Artists is always struggling to recruit new members.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 10:01 PM (Jsl/h)

277 252

Miklos, I believe you are a glutton for punishment.
Do you ever find cool 'treasures' back there behind the WH?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 10:01 PM (wAcdS)

278 Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 09:59 PM (83lwH)

I'm sure you've been in a diner at 2am on a Friday after the bars have closed. Now that's a difficult crowd.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 10:01 PM (2DOZq)

279 I'm not a fan of torches or chains
I'm thinking chemical attack, followed by percussive persuasion

but thank y'all for the suggestions
Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 09:19 PM (iTXRQ)

the torch is the way to go

Posted by: REDACTED at June 26, 2021 10:01 PM (8o8kf)

280 Notsothoreau - look forward -

You need a Punkah Wallah !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:02 PM (arJlL)

281 But what I do know is that the one person whining about the owner paying employees "$2.13 an hour," is full of shit. And that is what all the rage is about it seems, not that the tip is split actually but the bullshit "living wage" liberal garbage.
Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2021 09:33 PM (vMCab)

And the dead guy nails it!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 10:03 PM (IJDQe)

282 263 A modern day remake of Moby Dick will have Moby as the hero avenging the murder of the whales by the evil whalers.
Posted by: davidt

That was done in the 70s. Richard Harris starred in it. I think it was called Orca. It wasn't good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 10:03 PM (QFVV9)

283 Was on a "gonna read the classics" binge, co-workers said it was the only time he'd seen anyone read it without being ordered to.
Posted by: S

indeed

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:03 PM (nBCCt)

284 I presume any comments about "Shaft Bang Adams's 'penis skin'" have already been covered by the Horde.

Has anyone said, I saw Shaft Bang Adams's Penis Skin open for the ... [never mind]

Posted by: mindful webworker - fashionably late to the party at June 26, 2021 10:04 PM (xdNUT)

285 They were big in Galveston and then did something wrong. I think they got "exiled" to Austin instead of ... you know:

https://tinyurl.com/yvawpf76

I was too young then to know the details. My father was a lawyer for some very interesting people LOL. They use to take him out to the boonies to shoot machineguns.

Can you imagine? Driving out to nowhere with these guys, watching them pull machineguns out of the trunk and not being 100% if it was for the pigeons or for you this time?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 10:05 PM (83lwH)

286
Take your Nike products and burn them:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
news/article-9728061

"And we're a brand of China and for China," said Nike's CEO.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 26, 2021 10:05 PM (Mzdiz)

287 HPTP, I still do at the local level. If I do a real estate closing the buyer ends up with the property and a recorded deed, the seller ends up with money and I end up with a fee.
Not so much for the big stuff. Perkins Coie in DC, for example, looks like a political criminal enterprise, making millions for subverting election law.

Posted by: RI Pink at June 26, 2021 10:05 PM (8Mt/C)

288 Shaft Bang Adams's Penis Skin

Was that the 4th Shaft movie, or the 5th ?

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:06 PM (arJlL)

289 272 wanna talk over-rated

Atlas Shrugged
Posted by: DB- just DB

It was a great idea for a story in desperate need of an editor. Rand could ramble on a bit.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 26, 2021 10:06 PM (QFVV9)

290
ok friends, goodnight
catch you on a subsequent thread

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 10:06 PM (iTXRQ)

291 'Night DB !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:07 PM (arJlL)

292 Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 26, 2021 10:06 PM (iTXRQ)

DB, two words:

Bigger

Hammer

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Fearless Leaders Have, and Deserve, Special Privileges! at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

293 Do you ever find cool 'treasures' back there behind the WH?
Posted by: COMountainMarie

I am that treasure.

Posted by: Miklos ho ho and a bottle of rum at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (QzkSJ)

294 I once worked in a warehouse that held all the products made by Campbells soup and those forklift accidents were daily.

Watched someone try putting a double stack of Pace salsa into a rack. The rack entrance was 40 feet in the air, and its a tricky thing even if you are skilled.

It didn't go well, and a ten foot stack of cases (5000 pounds) fell onto his tow motor, busting open and drenching him in salsa.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (buTO7)

295 259 As a lawyer, it has been very disconcerting seeing the law being spindled, folded and mutilated. I used to tell people that the thing I enjoyed most was understanding how the law underlaid everything and that I knew how it all tied together.
Now, it heightens my awareness of how off the rails we've gone.
Posted by: RI Pink at June 26, 2021 09:57 PM (8Mt/C)

It blows my mind that there's been no avalanche of class-action litigation against the donkey barn dictators and their spurious "emergency powers" that never end--if for no other reason than lawyers love money and there's lots of money to be made in getting people back to work. It's not like the single-plaintiff cases that went to court get shot down out of hand, either; they typically win albeit with a limited "you can be open, but not your neighbor" ruling.

As you say, very telling about the current state of affairs.

Posted by: CppThis at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (8h1h1)

296 The house stays cooler than outside as long as you close it up early morning. I don't handle the heat as well as I used to so I try and stay inside.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (YynYJ)

297 Ordered yesterday and the kid says you know my mom? Looking for my name for a bigger tip but I don't mind. Mom was a cutie too.
Posted by: dartist

"Mom? You still up?"

We've used this phrase more this week than all the previous weeks put together. What a place.

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (Rvt88)

298 ...thou damned whale.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (vuisn)

299 I always leave a pretax 20% tip but I do note...
Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 09:47

Well said. As a former tender/restaurant worker I think that makes much sense.

Think I tended bar from 1974-1989, yeah I'm a dinosaur. Jules and I were both co-managers of a college bar at one point. I'll sure say the employees rec time after work was much fun some of those years.

Posted by: Farmer at June 26, 2021 10:10 PM (55Qr6)

300 My favorite classics are the ones I guess you would say they are directed toward young readers by today's standards.

Tarzan
Captains Courageous
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Silas Marner

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 10:11 PM (2DOZq)

301 Well, I've consumed my allotted portion of C2H5OH (and I didn't have to share it!) for the night. I will attempt to sleep but may end up back here in the wee hours.
G'night, Horde, you keep me sane, well, sort of.

Posted by: RI Pink at June 26, 2021 10:12 PM (8Mt/C)

302 I once worked in a warehouse that held all the products made by Campbells soup and those forklift accidents were daily.
-------------
Drive one off a dock and retire early.

Posted by: dartist at June 26, 2021 10:12 PM (+ya+t)

303 293

Is that what the gals tell you

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 10:12 PM (wAcdS)

304
Keep it up the maintenance and you can easily have it for another ten years.

There's way too much technology in new cars that simply is not going to be able to repaired or replaced in 20 years.

I've been driving a new rental car at least once a week for the last 8 months and while the fully digital/led dash is great in say a Jeep Grand Cherokee, there is simply no way you are going to be able to get a replacement for it 20 years from now if you need one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 26, 2021 09:46 PM (P4KTL)
Part 1 of 2.
Replacement parts. Out for a motorcycle ride with Smash today, got held up by dumbassed LEO directing traffic for an H1 event at Lake Guntersville, AL. Bike got hotter than the fires of hell, boiled off the hydraulic fluid in the clutch slave cylinder and then i couldn't disengage the damned clutch. In traffic. Bumping it off to get moving, flipped off the state trooper fucking up the traffic, and the bike sounded like it threw a rod. Fuck it, i just flipped off a state trooper. Ride the 40 miles home, bike knocking a rattling like a worn out hay thresher.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 26, 2021 10:12 PM (VcFUs)

305 Tarzan
Captains Courageous
Robinson Crusoe
Treasure Island
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Silas Marner
Posted by: J

as a moron it is abhorrent that another moron would have such a list and not have penthouse forum included.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:13 PM (nBCCt)

306 DB, two words:

Bigger

Hammer
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Fearless Leaders Have, and Deserve, Special Privileges! at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

-----------

Cue Verdi's Anvil Chorus

Gypsies!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 10:13 PM (Jsl/h)

307 as a moron it is abhorrent that another moron would have such a list and not have penthouse forum included.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:13 PM (nBCCt)

You are conflating fiction and non-fiction, there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 10:14 PM (IJDQe)

308
You are conflating fiction and non-fiction, there.
Posted by: Alber

nice

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:15 PM (nBCCt)

309 'Night Pink !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:16 PM (arJlL)

310 294 I once worked in a warehouse that held all the products made by Campbells soup and those forklift accidents were daily.

Watched someone try putting a double stack of Pace salsa into a rack. The rack entrance was 40 feet in the air, and its a tricky thing even if you are skilled.

It didn't go well, and a ten foot stack of cases (5000 pounds) fell onto his tow motor, busting open and drenching him in salsa.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 26, 2021 10:09 PM (buTO7)

I handled more than a few workplace forklift accidents with a couple being fatalities . I'm surprised that there were not more. I remember myself as a 16 year old working in the Lowes lumberyard slicing the rear tire of a flat bed that I was loading.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 10:16 PM (2DOZq)

311 Part 2 of 2.
Broken muffler mount. Not a thrown rod. Ve ting exhaust gas onto the rear cylinder via the clutch slave cylinder. Woohoo!

Ordered replacement muffler stud, gasket and acorn nuts from a 3rd party parts house for $27 including shipping.

Older bike, 2005 kawasaki vulcan classic 1600, a3 engine. 53,000 miles on it. Parts are available AF.

Replacement parts. New vehicles, and bike not so lucky. I'm never getting rid of this thing. Probably didn't tighten the acorn nut to the right tightness when i did the clutch pack at 52,000 miles.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 26, 2021 10:16 PM (VcFUs)

312 There seems to be a suspicious amount of book talk tonight. Does this mean I have to put my pants on?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 10:17 PM (wAcdS)

313 Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 26, 2021 10:12 PM (VcFUs)

Mechanical stuff that fails, many homegrown "mechanics" can repair with chewing gum and baling wire...

Electronics that fail and that are critical to the essential functions of the device, forget it, unrepairable, especially after the parts are no longer even made, much less in the supply chain.

Gotta love it when a plan comes together!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Fearless Leaders Have, and Deserve, Special Privileges! at June 26, 2021 10:18 PM (hOUT3)

314 There seems to be a suspicious amount of book talk tonight. Does this mean I have to put my pants on?
Posted by: COMountainMarie

wait until you finish

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:18 PM (nBCCt)

315 as a moron it is abhorrent that another moron would have such a list and not have penthouse forum included.

Posted by: confederatefifth

The only one of those letters that I remember was

"So, I took off all my clothes and sat in the bathtub..."

"And then my husband came in and peed on me"

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:19 PM (arJlL)

316 There seems to be a suspicious amount of book talk tonight. Does this mean I have to put my pants on?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 10:17 PM (wAcdS)

No, you're good. Could you tilt the webcam a little more?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 10:20 PM (IJDQe)

317
Owner of establishment takes tip and splits it between all employees. Right or wrong?

___________

Wrong. The owner of establishment takes tip and splits it among all employees.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 26, 2021 10:20 PM (mht8P)

318
"So, I took off all my clothes and sat in the bathtub..."

"And then my husband came in and peed on me"
Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:19 PM (arJlL)

"Then quiqueg began sharpening his harpoon"

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 26, 2021 10:20 PM (VcFUs)

319 The only one of those letters that I remember was

"So, I took off all my clothes and sat in the bathtub..."

"And then my husband came in and peed on me"
Posted by: J

I am going with true.

did she say how long she had to sit there and wait?

It was not so much getting pissed it was that he mad here sit there cold and nakd for an hour before.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:21 PM (nBCCt)

320 Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 10:16 PM (2DOZq)

As a shallow yout', I was playing games with a loaded forklift. Fortunately, I came to my senses and realized this thing could kill me if it went unstable and slowly lowered the pallet to a safe level.Never played those games again!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - Your Fearless Leaders Have, and Deserve, Special Privileges! at June 26, 2021 10:22 PM (hOUT3)

321 The only one of those letters that I remember was

"So, I took off all my clothes and sat in the bathtub..."

"And then my husband came in and peed on me"
Posted by: J

the nice thing about that is that it is so old that you are sure it was written by a womn.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:22 PM (nBCCt)

322 That was done in the 70s. Richard Harris starred in it. I think it was called Orca. It wasn't good.
Posted by: Puddleglum

"Shamu" kind of ruined the idea that orcas are killer whales. Mostly.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 10:22 PM (KAi1n)

323 When we were traveling in the plains states we stopped at a roadside rest. As I was looking over the vastness of the area a trucker came over to me and said this was probably one of the pioneer's "oh shit" moments. No trees, so no shade, just flat grass as far as you can see. And the wind is constant. We decided that the pioneers had many "oh shit" moments on their journey, from the Mississippi river to the coast.

Posted by: megthered at June 26, 2021 10:24 PM (94IUd)

324 the nice thing about that is that it is so old that you are sure it was written by a womn.
Posted by: confederatefifth

Lol !!!

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:26 PM (arJlL)

325
so, dear penthouse

When we were traveling in the plains states we stopped at a roadside rest. As I was looking over the vastness of the area a trucker came over to me and said this was probably one of the pioneer's "oh shit" moments. No trees, so no shade, just flat grass as far as you can see. And the wind is constant. We decided that the pioneers had many "oh shit" moments on their journey, from the Mississippi river to the coast.
Posted by: m

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:26 PM (nBCCt)

326 Howdy ONT Hordelings! Thanks for the great content, Mis Hum!

Posted by: Doof at June 26, 2021 10:26 PM (mZUr4)

327 It blows my mind that there's been no avalanche of class-action litigation against the donkey barn dictators and their spurious "emergency powers" that never end--if for no other reason than lawyers love money and there's lots of money to be made in getting people back to work.

That's not how class action suits work. The more variability you have amongst the class members, the less of a class you have. There'd be no money in it because every member would have different damages, so each of those would have to be tried separately. Besides, the only way to get $ from the gub would be to prevail on either a takings or civil rights claim, neither of which is going to succeed. People have gotten certain orders/restrictions eliminated or modified, but you don't need a class for that. That's just a straight-up suit in equity.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 10:27 PM (KAi1n)

328 Doof!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 10:28 PM (wAcdS)

329 Does this mean I have to put my pants on?
Posted by: COMountainMarie

Heavens No!

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 10:28 PM (Rvt88)

330 Finished Sun Valley marathon this morning. Personal record by 15 minutes. Tough conditions, really hot and no shade.

Posted by: Dave in Idaho +LyKe at June 26, 2021 10:28 PM (4Q1w7)

331 Finished Sun Valley marathon this morning. Personal record by 15 minutes. Tough conditions, really hot and no shade.
Posted by: D

in fairness it was entirely downhill so

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:29 PM (nBCCt)

332 The store's popsicle section was decimated. I bought the kaboom of popsicles.

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at June 26, 2021 10:29 PM (EiPf6)

333 Nice going Dave - congrats!

Posted by: Tonypete (Rvt88) at June 26, 2021 10:29 PM (Rvt88)

334 Finished Sun Valley marathon this morning. Personal record by 15 minutes. Tough conditions, really hot and no shade.
Posted by: Dave in Idaho +LyKe at June 26, 2021 10:28 PM (4Q1w7)

Sal-lute!

Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel (4I/2K) at June 26, 2021 10:30 PM (4I/2K)

335 The store's popsicle section was decimated. I bought the kaboom of popsicles.
Posted by: F

there is quite a bit to work with here.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:30 PM (nBCCt)

336 Would you believe that lawyers are not required in residential real estate sales in CA? That's one East Coast scam we don't do.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 10:31 PM (KAi1n)

337 Hello, horde!

Said goodbye to a friend's dog - good old Tommy, an ancient Lab who will be put to sleep on Monday. He's got a lot of medical problems and is suffering.

In his prime, Tommy was a klepto - he once stole my hairbrush and wallet out of my purse and hid them under his dog bed. He also liked to steal my friend's makeup bag and hide it. The best Tommy story was when he crept into the yard of the 80-year-old next door neighbor, who, lacking a clothesline, had draped wet clothing over her patio furniture. Tommy took her bra. The neighbor lady spotted him and came running out in her bathrobe, screaming in a voice to wake the dead "DAMN YOU, TOMMY, LET GO OF MY BRA!"

Posted by: Donna, now with 100% new and improved &&&&&&&&& at June 26, 2021 10:34 PM (HabA/)

338 336 Would you believe that lawyers are not required in residential real estate sales in CA? That's one East Coast scam we don't do.
Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 10:31 PM (KAi1n)

Yeah in Texas the Title companies take care of the transactions.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 10:34 PM (2DOZq)

339 331 Finished Sun Valley marathon this morning. Personal record by 15 minutes. Tough conditions, really hot and no shade.
Posted by: D

Good for you!

Posted by: Donna, now with 100% new and improved &&&&&&&&& at June 26, 2021 10:35 PM (HabA/)

340 Fans

I remember when a good fan would cool the whole room. Today's fans are meh:

1) can't feel the air outside of 6 feet
2) they have 3 settings LOL Normal, Weak, Lame

Also, who was the genius that designed bathtub faucets to be JUST short enough that you can't place a bucket under them. You have to stand there and hold the bucket so it leans under the water.

It's the same guys that screwed up my dishwasher and dryer cycle, isn't it? The Eco crowd dies first.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 10:36 PM (83lwH)

341 wow, the thread really got it in the shorts there.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:38 PM (nBCCt)

342 "We decided that the pioneers had many "oh shit" moments on their journey"

That "oh shit" moment when you realize you have the most meat on your bones...

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 10:38 PM (83lwH)

343 You don't have A/C ?
Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 09:52 PM (arJlL)

Forget it Jack, this is the Pacific North West

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 10:39 PM (ySM85)

344 Yep, it was downhill. Which it tougher than you would expect. But saved me from mile 23 to the finish.

Thanks all!

Posted by: Dave in Idaho +LyKe at June 26, 2021 10:41 PM (4Q1w7)

345 There are a couple of the overhead fans that wobble on high. I've got those on low. I really prefer fans to AC but sometimes you need to really cool off. No other way to do it when it's humid. The neighborhood is deserted right now. They are all inside.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 26, 2021 10:41 PM (YynYJ)

346 Yep, it was downhill. Which it tougher than you would expect. But saved me from mile 23 to the finish.

Thanks all!
Posted by: D

I was just teasing, did not know that.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:42 PM (nBCCt)

347 During my brief and indistinguished legal career I helped with a case in which a guy at a chicken processing plant lifted a large crate of live birds from on top of a stack, and proceeded to drive through the plant with the crate at the top of the fork's lifting height until it got hung on a low ceiling, tipped over and fell on top of the driver, killing him.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at June 26, 2021 10:43 PM (0V/8D)

348 During my brief and indistinguished legal career I helped with a case in which a guy at a chicken processing plant lifted a large crate of live birds from on top of a stack, and proceeded to drive through the plant with the crate at the top of the fork's lifting height until it got hung on a low ceiling, tipped over and fell on top of the driver, killing him.
Posted by: J

the weird thing is that in factories the fork lift drivers are the smart guys.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 10:45 PM (nBCCt)

349 "I really prefer fans to AC but sometimes you need to really cool off."

I just wonder who they think they are fooling with the three settings. I always use the highest. It's like being in the ER and the Doc comes in:

"Would you like Low relief from your pain? Medium relief? Or would you like Maximum relief from you pain?"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 10:46 PM (83lwH)

350
It was a great idea for a story in desperate need of an editor. Rand could ramble on a bit. Posted by: Puddleglum

Ayn was supposedly asked once if she had said that Atlas Shrugged didn't need editing any more than the Bible needed editing.
She supposedly responded something like, "of course not, the Bible needs editing, is far too long and wanders"

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 10:47 PM (ySM85)

351 Well, dinner isn't going to cook itself. Back in a bit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 10:48 PM (x+JPM)

352 The best Tommy story was when he crept into the yard of the 80-year-old next door neighbor, who, lacking a clothesline, had draped wet clothing over her patio furniture. Tommy took her bra. The neighbor lady spotted him and came running out in her bathrobe, screaming in a voice to wake the dead "DAMN YOU, TOMMY, LET GO OF MY BRA!"
Posted by: Donna, now with 100% new and improved &&&&&&&&&

He was taking it to Insom to get it autographed.

Hiya Donna of the Ampersands !

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:49 PM (arJlL)

353 The computer science in me is to reverse the last two stages in that engineering flowchart so as to share the "No Problem" branch.

Posted by: Eric at June 26, 2021 10:49 PM (GuAuv)

354 347 During my brief and indistinguished legal career I helped with a case in which a guy at a chicken processing plant lifted a large crate of live birds from on top of a stack, and proceeded to drive through the plant with the crate at the top of the fork's lifting height until it got hung on a low ceiling, tipped over and fell on top of the driver, killing him.

-----------

Another tragic poultry-related fatality.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 10:51 PM (Jsl/h)

355 I'm probably more Rand-influenced than most people here and I've never felt the need to read through Atlas Shrugged in its entirety. Fountainhead was great, Anthem was great, but the famous libertarian doorstopper? Ain't nobody got time fo' dat!

Posted by: CppThis at June 26, 2021 10:51 PM (8h1h1)

356 318 "Then quiqueg began sharpening his harpoon"
not gonna check urban dictionary. wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 26, 2021 10:52 PM (BGdiD)

357 Another tragic poultry-related fatality.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Think they made nuggets out of him ?

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:53 PM (arJlL)

358 When we were traveling in the plains states we
stopped at a roadside rest. As I was looking over the vastness of the
area a trucker came over to me and said this was probably one of the
pioneer's "oh shit" moments. No trees, so no shade, just flat grass as
far as you can see. And the wind is constant. We decided that the
pioneers had many "oh shit" moments on their journey, from the
Mississippi river to the coast.
Posted by: megthered at June 26, 2021 10:24 PM (94IUd)

Fred Lockley did a lot of interviews with pioneers in the 20's, and they were collected in a couple of books, Conversations with Pioneer Women, and Conversation with Pioneer Men.
There are some first hand discussions of traveling in the wagon trains,

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 10:55 PM (ySM85)

359 Another tragic poultry-related fatality.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Think they made nuggets out of him ?
Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 10:53 PM (arJlL)
---------

Poor guy got cold-cocked.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 10:56 PM (Jsl/h)

360 Doof!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 26, 2021 10:28 PM (wAcdS)

Howdy COMM!!

Posted by: Doof at June 26, 2021 10:56 PM (mZUr4)

361 Finished Sun Valley marathon this morning. Personal record by 15 minutes. Tough conditions, really hot and no shade.
Posted by: Dave in Idaho +LyKe at June 26, 2021 10:28 PM (4Q1w7)

Congratulations, Dave!!

Posted by: Doof at June 26, 2021 10:58 PM (mZUr4)

362 Hello, JT!

Posted by: Donna, now with 100% new and improved &&&&&&&&& at June 26, 2021 10:59 PM (HabA/)

363 When I worked nights and slept days, my favorite trick in the Summer was to turn the heater off on my waterbed

I slept sooooo well.

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 10:59 PM (ySM85)

364 Just tell her you're trying to find your sea legs.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 26, 2021 10:59 PM (vuisn)

365 322 "Shamu" kind of ruined the idea that orcas are killer whales. Mostly.
Posted by: SFGoth at June 26, 2021 10:22 PM (KAi1n)

Tilikum has been my spirit animal ever since I read about his misadventures in on of the Darwin Award books many years ago. Killer whale in every sense of the word, no actual fucks given. If he had a son, that was probably the star of the Steve Inman wildlife bit that someone linked a few days ago.

Posted by: CppThis at June 26, 2021 11:00 PM (8h1h1)

366 A/c was maybe the best $ we everspent (this spring). It was 110 today in my corner of pugetopolis.

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at June 26, 2021 11:02 PM (NSFCQ)

367 Hello, JT!
Posted by: Donna, now with 100% new and improved &&&&&&&&&

Posted by: JT at June 26, 2021 11:03 PM (arJlL)

368 "my favorite trick in the Summer was to turn the heater off on my waterbed"

Oh God yes. I would also only fill it 3/4 full of water, so that you sank into it and were mostly cocooned. I think it's bad for the long-term integrity of the waterbed but short term it was worth it.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 11:03 PM (83lwH)

369 Ccp, i loved atlas sheugged. But she should have listened to her editor.

I wanted to reread but seem to have lost mycopy.

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at June 26, 2021 11:04 PM (NSFCQ)

370 Most of the tow motor accidents I witnessed were because the idiot was driving with the load in the air. Speed was another factor, when taking corners. The load shifts, inertia does its thing and flings the product from the pallet.

Driving with the load in front of you, instead of in reverse would lead to sight problems. The final factor would be wonky hydraulics or a clutch that led to overcorrection or load-bounce.

Every rig was different and sometimes, I'd forget that I wasn't driving my usual sled. Even veterans can shake a load, especially if it is not taped or wrapped very well.

Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at June 26, 2021 11:05 PM (Ckg4U)

371 Kansas is one big piece of chalk .

Posted by: Just a side note at June 26, 2021 11:05 PM (2DOZq)

372 hash check

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at June 26, 2021 11:06 PM (2SdPm)

373 hash check check

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 26, 2021 11:08 PM (2SdPm)

374 Tilikum is Chinook for person or people.

I know a wee bit of Chinook, It is an Oregon thing I suppose

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 11:10 PM (ySM85)

375 Good night, Morons.

Posted by: Camper (+BWyJ) at June 26, 2021 11:10 PM (+BWyJ)

376 G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy.

*pulls string*

*click*

Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at June 26, 2021 11:12 PM (Ckg4U)

377 Unless the tip was in cash. it was meaningless. That $16,000 transaction was most likely flagged by the IRS.

Posted by: Camper (+BWyJ) at June 26, 2021 11:15 PM (+BWyJ)

378 Have you guys seen the new use of force laws up here? Hb 1310. Shit is about to get rough.

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at June 26, 2021 11:18 PM (EiPf6)

379 Unless the tip was in cash. it was meaningless. That $16,000 transaction was most likely flagged by the IRS.
Posted by: Camper (+BWyJ) at June 26, 2021 11:15 PM (+BWyJ)

It'd be funny as Hell, if it turned out to be a stolen debit card.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 11:18 PM (RFRXG)

380 OT on the OT: anyone notice how the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel hasn't found anything to rip on Biden about? I mean whenever the guy opens his mouth it's a gaffe a minute. Maybe he can't make him sound any more absurd than he already does.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 26, 2021 11:22 PM (0M2wm)

381 yeesh what was it that murdered the thread?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 26, 2021 11:24 PM (nBCCt)

382 'G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy.
*pulls string*
*click*

---

Why am I envisioning a garage door pull with a shotgun trap?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 11:24 PM (83lwH)

383 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary! 2016, Who Will Never Be President of the United States at June 26, 2021 11:25 PM (Jsl/h)

384 OT on the OT: anyone notice how the Bad Lip Reading
YouTube channel hasn't found anything to rip on Biden about? I mean
whenever the guy opens his mouth it's a gaffe a minute. Maybe he can't
make him sound any more absurd than he already does.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 26, 2021 11:22 PM (0M2wm)

Doesn't Bai-den always wear a mask?

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 26, 2021 11:26 PM (ySM85)

385 OT on the OT: anyone notice how the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel hasn't found anything to rip on Biden about? I mean whenever the guy opens his mouth it's a gaffe a minute. Maybe he can't make him sound any more absurd than he already does.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 26, 2021 11:22 PM (0M2wm)

Kinda like how the late night talk show hosts couldn't find anything worthy of satirizing with Obama. And SNL found nothing worth parody of him. It's amazing!

Posted by: Doof at June 26, 2021 11:27 PM (mZUr4)

386 I recently started watching Last Man Standing. The first season had its weak episodes like the one where a woke prick is indictronating a toddler at the childvare center and the mom of the kid is pissed her dad "offended" the woke "teacher". But the rest of the season got much better, with a few episodes that were very funny.

Then I watched the first episode of the sevond season. It aired on Nov 2, 2012 tight before the election.

The damn thing is cringey and unwatchable. One of the woke daughters goes full retard about how great Obama was on and on. She repeated every single narrative spewed by the Left back then, including Traitor Romney's dog story. Of course, no mention of Benghazi.

It literally was propaganda. I find it hard to believe that Fox broadcast it.

The woke daughter just ruined the show for me.

A "funny" moment was when the woke daughter whines about a 1 billion dollar porkulus bill Bush signed in his term and a 9 trillion dollar national debt in 2008.

I said open out loud: "oh baby, wait till you see what happens in the future thanks to people like you".

Posted by: Camper (+BWyJ) at June 26, 2021 11:32 PM (07jz7)

387 Another beautiful day in Comcast Land.

100% service interruption, till about 30 minutes ago. Just getting caught up on things, here.

*pours bourbon* (late) ONT Greetings, Horde! Cheers!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim (QzJWU) at June 26, 2021 11:33 PM (QzJWU)

388 It'd be funny as Hell, if it turned out to be a stolen debit card.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 11:18 PM (RFRXG)

No kidding. One day, some wise ass somewhere wrote down my credit card and name and purchased not obe, but two $5,000 network printers. Fortunately Citi acter fast.

Posted by: Camper (+BWyJ) at June 26, 2021 11:35 PM (07jz7)

389 "The computer science in me is to reverse the last two stages in that engineering flowchart so as to share the "No Problem" branch."

Can you do it while preserving the Yes/No pattern? Or maybe No/Yes? I tried but it made my brain hurt.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 11:35 PM (83lwH)

390 And SNL found nothing worth parody of him. It's amazing!
Posted by: Doof at June 26, 2021 11:27 PM (mZUr4)

The creepy whispering alone would be enough material for a year.

Posted by: Camper (+BWyJ) at June 26, 2021 11:38 PM (07jz7)

391 @384 Rarely.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 26, 2021 11:42 PM (0M2wm)

392 I see dead people.

Posted by: Camper (07jz7) at June 26, 2021 11:42 PM (GP+Mg)

393 Jim get rid of Comcast. Get Sling. Cheap and good!

Posted by: AnnaS at June 26, 2021 11:42 PM (xj8kt)

394 Whispering: I got hairy legs that shine under the sun and the roaches used to jump into the pool to rub my legs up and down.

Posted by: Camper at June 26, 2021 11:45 PM (GP+Mg)

395 392 I see dead people.
Posted by: Camper (07jz7) at June 26, 2021 11:42 PM (GP+Mg)

---------

That's just buzzion. He's a regular.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 11:45 PM (Jsl/h)

396 Even my Weather Report now has clickbait

"If You See This, Get Out of the Pool Immediately, Experts Warn"

I'm guessing I won't believe what happens next? Or do I have to try not to laugh at this one weird trick the people in [my area] are doing to meet Hot Hungarian Women to marry?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 26, 2021 11:47 PM (83lwH)

397 Even my Weather Report now has clickbait

---------

I still want to know why you should put a plastic bag on your rear view mirror when you're in a strange neighborhood.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 11:51 PM (Jsl/h)

398 ..Jim get rid of Comcast. Get Sling. Cheap and good!
Posted by: AnnaS at June 26, 2021 11:42 PM (xj8kt)

Tell me more about this "Sling"? How does one acquire it, if this infernal municipality allows Comcast a monopoly as to cable delivery? And AT&T's fiber system doesn't reach into this neighborhood.

I'm open to ideas, but alas, Starlink is barely competitive with Comcast's most basic pricing, here.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim (QzJWU) at June 26, 2021 11:52 PM (QzJWU)

399 Posted by: Camper (+BWyJ) at June 26, 2021 11:32 PM (07jz7)

I liked the show. It is certainly the only modern sitcom I have cared to watch. Sure they have some characters who are liberal and some who are conservative. It would get boring without some level of conflict. Is there another modern mainstream sitcom that shows conservatives without making them seem like simple punchlines? I can't think of an 80s or 90s sitcom that did that.

I do think the last season was weak. They did throw in some unnecessary wokism imo. I will have to check the episodes again, but for sure they were the weakest of the series. That is nothing unusual though, most really good sitcoms peak in the 3rd to 5th seasons.

To each his own. But you will never find a single Leftist that is a fan of Last Man Standing. Also, my favorite character was Ryan. He has the biggest character arc on the show. He wasn't so much in the last season, but that can be said of all of them. In the end, it was a pretty good show.

Posted by: Quint at June 26, 2021 11:53 PM (gJfTA)

400 Struggling to make 400. It isn't looking good.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 11:57 PM (Jsl/h)

401 400 Struggling to make 400. It isn't looking good.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 26, 2021 11:57 PM (Jsl/h)

400 Found

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 26, 2021 11:58 PM (KzmzQ)

402 Ive seen nasty accidents with pallet jacks, dont even have to get fancy and put propane motors on them. Momentum and Mass are without a soul

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2021 12:00 AM (Xih1H)

403 Youtube's "here try this" algorithm works once in a while.

https://youtu.be/85drl9-lqRU

Posted by: mikeski's hash is well-integrated at June 27, 2021 12:00 AM (P1f+c)

404 at the Babylon Bee:

Elon Musk unveils new Tesla F-15

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 27, 2021 12:01 AM (ySM85)

405 After eight or nine years of that show I did see one final theme. All of the characters, particularly the children were influenced in one way or other by their dad. They might have rebelled and also simply had their own views, but in the end, they were heavily influenced by him. It shows with all the characters in the end.

Posted by: Quint at June 27, 2021 12:07 AM (gJfTA)

406 Thomas is the only Justice that uses common sense. All of the other Justices said it's okay that a student can post on the internet to fuck everyone involved in a school activity and the school can't act against the student by simply suspending her from that activity. The world is getting more and more bizarre and amoral. It's sickening that the girl was only 14 with the mouth of a sailor who was whining because she didn't make the varsity squad and her parents filed suit. In a normal world the parents would have punished her instead of condoning her behavior. And why did the SC have to hear this shitty case in the first place.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 12:09 AM (2DOZq)

407 374 Chinook is Helicopter for "leaks like a sieve."

Posted by: callsign claymore (+SX4/) at June 27, 2021 12:09 AM (rHYuY)

408 Chinook is Helicopter for "leaks like a sieve."

Posted by: callsign claymore (+SX4/) at June 27, 2021 12:09 AM (rHYuY)

named for Native Americans right? I assume the military will get around to cancelling the helicopter names too. The Chinook, Apache, Iroquois, Blackhawk, etc.

Posted by: Quint at June 27, 2021 12:12 AM (gJfTA)

409 Thomas is the only Justice that uses common sense. All of the other Justices said it's okay that a student can post on the internet to fuck everyone involved in a school activity and the school can't act against the student by simply suspending her from that activity. The world is getting more and more bizarre and amoral. It's sickening that the girl was only 14 with the mouth of a sailor who was whining because she didn't make the varsity squad and her parents filed suit. In a normal world the parents would have punished her instead of condoning her behavior. And why did the SC have to hear this shitty case in the first place.
Posted by: J

in fairness, it is not about common sense, it is about the constituitin.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:12 AM (nBCCt)

410 named for Native Americans right? I assume the military will get around to cancelling the helicopter names too. The Chinook, Apache, Iroquois, Blackhawk, etc.
Posted by: Q

think it was named after the fish

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:13 AM (nBCCt)

411 in fairness, it is not about common sense, it is about the constituitin.
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:12 AM (nBCCt)

Don't be obtuse. Common sense about interpreting the Constitution.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 12:14 AM (2DOZq)

412 406 Thomas is the only Justice that uses common sense. All of the other Justices said it's okay that a student can post on the internet to fuck everyone involved in a school activity and the school can't act against the student by simply suspending her from that activity. The world is getting more and more bizarre and amoral. It's sickening that the girl was only 14 with the mouth of a sailor who was whining because she didn't make the varsity squad and her parents filed suit. In a normal world the parents would have punished her instead of condoning her behavior. And why did the SC have to hear this shitty case in the first place.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 12:09 AM (2DOZq)

I'm kind of against Thomas on this. Freshmen having a temper tantrum off property on a weekend and you're going to kick them off? And then argue that the reason you have the right to do it is to prevent cyberbullying? Yeah fuck that school.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2021 12:15 AM (vMCab)

413 The job interview

https://tinyurl.com/mtm77tuw

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 27, 2021 12:17 AM (ySM85)

414 Don't be obtuse. Common sense about interpreting the Constitution.
Posted by: J

that is not obtuse thinking that the constitutin is about commn sense is how we got here.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:18 AM (nBCCt)

415 named for Native Americans right? I assume the military will get around to cancelling the helicopter names too. The Chinook, Apache, Iroquois, Blackhawk, etc.
Posted by: Q
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Yeah, we're done for too.

Posted by: The Dakotas at June 27, 2021 12:18 AM (l0Lgi)

416 Hey everybody! Hey ONT! Hey MisHum!

OMG that top photo
*(drools like Homer Simpson)*

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at June 27, 2021 12:18 AM (L2ZTs)

417 Hey everybody! Hey ONT! Hey MisHum!

OMG that top photo
*(drools like Homer Simpson)*
Posted by: q

this is the afterthread, somebody murdered the thread sometime ago

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:19 AM (nBCCt)

418 Don't most cheer squads have some kind of decorum clause? Like if you post nude selfies they can kick you off?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:19 AM (83lwH)

419 Don't most cheer squads have some kind of decorum clause? Like if you post nude selfies they can kick you off?
Posted by: H

just if they are fat or ugly

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:20 AM (nBCCt)

420 Elvis and the Clash and that top picture, spectacular

Posted by: Summer of Love at June 27, 2021 12:20 AM (FJrl0)

421 I'm kind of against Thomas on this. Freshmen having a temper tantrum off property on a weekend and you're going to kick them off? And then argue that the reason you have the right to do it is to prevent cyberbullying? Yeah fuck that school.
Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2021 12:15 AM (vMCab)

free Speech says I can do speech you don't like.

Get over it buttercup. If we had not coddled the last generation and wrapped them in bubble wrap, we'd be much better off.

Posted by: Gen. George S. Patton at June 27, 2021 12:20 AM (oHd/0)

422 c5, so threads have afterlives?

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at June 27, 2021 12:20 AM (L2ZTs)

423
just if they are fat or ugly
Posted by: confederatefifth
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Bearded?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2021 12:21 AM (l0Lgi)

424 Don't most cheer squads have some kind of decorum clause? Like if you post nude selfies they can kick you off?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:19 AM (83lwH)

You say that as though it were a bad thing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 12:21 AM (KzmzQ)

425 Don't most cheer squads have some kind of decorum clause? Like if you post nude selfies they can kick you off?

Old old joke: why does (name of football team you don't like) use astroturf in their stadium? So that their cheerleaders can't graze after the game.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at June 27, 2021 12:22 AM (L2ZTs)

426 Love how we are supposed to call them native americans when they weren't here first either.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:22 AM (83lwH)

427 o threads have afterlives?
Posted by: q

this is just the chalk outline

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:23 AM (nBCCt)

428 424 Don't most cheer squads have some kind of decorum clause? Like if you post nude selfies they can kick you off?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:19 AM (83lwH)

You say that as though it were a bad thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 12:21 AM (KzmzQ)

I would submit it should be up to the rest of the squad.... not those outside of it... not someone trying to push morality onto the group.

Let the group fail... if they are sluts? The REST of the student body will decide.

You know.. that whole dang freedom thing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:23 AM (oHd/0)

429
free Speech says I can do speech you don't like.

Get over it buttercup. If we had not coddled the last generation and wrapped them in bubble wrap, we'd be much better off.
Posted by: Gen. George S. Patton at June 27, 2021 12:20 AM (oHd/0)

But at the same time you don't get freedom from consequences of that speech. But like I said I think the school fucked up by trying to argue that they had to kick her off because cyberbullying.

Posted by: buzzion at June 27, 2021 12:23 AM (vMCab)

430 I've seen robot tow motors stacking pallets of cans in 50 foot high bays one on top of another, 10 high, 10 wide, 30 deep. They do this autonomously but the robots have a slight flaw in that they don't know if the bays are going up straight. They just know to put one pallet on top of the other one correctly but they also don't know if a splinter sticking off the side of a CHEP pallet is just a 6-inch long splinter or the entire width of the pallet so they just keep on going up, not knowing the entire bay is looking like the leaning tower of piza.

Eventually, it falls down and makes one hell of a mess.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 27, 2021 12:23 AM (buTO7)

431 "so threads have afterlives?"

Only in the Underverse.

Never could understand that concept. I think it was meant to be vague and undefined.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:24 AM (83lwH)

432 424 Don't most cheer squads have some kind of decorum clause? Like if you post nude selfies they can kick you off?
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:19 AM (83lwH)

You say that as though it were a bad thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 12:21 AM (KzmzQ)

I am a Native American, even though of French Descent.

ie... my ancestors were here before there was an America... direct descendent of someone at Valley Forge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:25 AM (oHd/0)

433 everybody needs to be bullied some time

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:25 AM (nBCCt)

434 Chinook is Helicopter for "leaks like a sieve."

Posted by: callsign claymore (+SX4/)

That was a design feature on the CH46

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2021 12:26 AM (Xih1H)

435 "Unobtanium" ruined Avatar for me. About half the people in the audience laughed out loud with me. Couldn't take it seriously after.

But I worry that was my generation's version of The Man Who Stopped Clapping First. We all got put on a list somewhere.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:27 AM (83lwH)

436 433 everybody needs to be bullied some time
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:25 AM (nBCCt)

Braces... Glasses... three sci fi and D&D books under my arms in High school...

Oh, and older Brother? Not only QB of the F'n Football team, but took the Prom queen to the dance.

so... yeah... bullied.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:27 AM (oHd/0)

437 Chinook is Helicopter for "leaks like a sieve."

Posted by: callsig

it was designed that way because over mach 3 the exterior heats, expands, and seals.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:27 AM (nBCCt)

438
everybody needs to be bullied some time
Posted by: confederatefifth

Wasn't that a Dean Martin song?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2021 12:28 AM (63Dwl)

439 it was designed that way because over mach 3 the exterior heats, expands, and seals.
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:27 AM (nBCCt)

Chinooks did over mach 3?

Wow... when I rode em them must have been holding back....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:28 AM (oHd/0)

440 But like I said I think the school fucked up by trying to argue that they had to kick her off because cyberbullying.
Posted by: buzzion

Just kick her off because shes a foul mouthed whiner. Its a subjective sport anyways.

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2021 12:28 AM (Xih1H)

441 Chinooks did over mach 3?

at the blade tips, maybe

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2021 12:29 AM (Xih1H)

442 everybody needs to be bullied some time
Posted by: confederatefifth

Wasn't that a Dean Martin song?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2021 12:28 AM (63Dwl)

/gold clap

Well done... wigged googly!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:29 AM (oHd/0)

443 Wow... when I rode em them must have been holding back....
Posted by: R

they were using the jato

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:29 AM (nBCCt)

444 "But at the same time you don't get freedom from consequences of that speech"

There's a meme that's similar to that, it says:

"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences"

Printed over the silhouettes of three hanged people.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:31 AM (83lwH)

445 if you stare at it for an hour or so the ak is so ugly it starts to get attractive

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:31 AM (nBCCt)

446 443 Wow... when I rode em them must have been holding back....
Posted by: R

they were using the jato
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:29 AM (nBCCt)

You know who HATES Jato? Anyone who has to fix the damn flight deck on anything that launches from them.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:31 AM (oHd/0)

447 You know who HATES Jato? Anyone who has to fix the damn flight deck on anything that launches from them.
Posted by: R

in fairness, even with the jato the hinooks needed the catpults to get off the deck with the fuel to get to mach 3.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:33 AM (nBCCt)

448 in fairness, even with the jato the hinooks needed the catpults to get off the deck with the fuel to get to mach 3.
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:33 AM (nBCCt)

Hmmm.... Ch-46s and Ch-53s... rode in em both many times...

Guess you are just playing troll.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:34 AM (oHd/0)

449 it is kind of the same as staring at harris, you start to think she could get my dick and balls in her mouth, bet that feels good.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:34 AM (nBCCt)

450
Guess you are just playing troll.
Posted by: R

or I was funning about the sr71

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:35 AM (nBCCt)

451 Is Miklos around? He would love this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p4GFQRyZpgg

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - The Original Fanilow (since 1974) at June 27, 2021 12:36 AM (SRRAx)

452 it is kind of the same as staring at harris, you start to think she could get my dick and balls in her mouth, bet that feels good.
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:34 AM (nBCCt)

She'd have to spit out a couple of other sets, first, to make room.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 12:36 AM (KzmzQ)

453 She'd have to spit out a couple of other sets, first, to make room.
Posted by: Alber

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:36 AM (nBCCt)

454
if you stare at it for an hour or so the ak is so ugly it starts to get attractive
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:31 AM (nBCCt)

Well, maybe the airport at Ketchikan, and some parts of Sitka

Posted by: Kindltot - FREE BRITTANY at June 27, 2021 12:37 AM (ySM85)

455 Well, maybe the airport at Ketchikan, and some parts of Sitka
Posted by: Kindltot - FREE B

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:37 AM (nBCCt)

456 or I was funning about the sr71
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:35 AM (nBCCt)

Yeah, because the SR 71... which it just so happens one of my retired Neighbors FLEW... is just the same as a slow helicopter from the Viet Nam Era...

ok... then...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 12:37 AM (oHd/0)

457 Wonder what would have happened if Foul Mouthed Cheerleader had said "Hunter's L****p"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:39 AM (83lwH)

458 Yeah, because the SR 71... which it just so happens one of my retired Neighbors FLEW... is just the same as a slow helicopter from the Viet Nam Era...

ok... then...
Posted by: R

see anything in there that might be remind you of stories abut sr71s?

374 Chinook is Helicopter for "leaks like a sieve."
Posted by: callsign claymore

see anything in there that might be remind you of stories abut sr71s?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:40 AM (nBCCt)

459 Y'all stop your quibbling 'bout them helicopter specs.

I mean, everyone knows that retreating blade stall limits a choppers forward speed to Mach 1.8 or so.

Right? RIGHT?

/snrk

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim (QzJWU) at June 27, 2021 12:40 AM (QzJWU)

460 Yeah, because the SR 71... which it just so happens one of my retired Neighbors FLEW... is just the same as a slow helicopter from the Viet Nam Era...

ok... then...
Posted by: R

the go to 437

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:44 AM (nBCCt)

461 One day i was sitting in the club and a table of pilots got into a big discussion on which way the rotors turned. It was hilarious. Deadly serious they were. I dont think they ever figured it out. Alcohol was involved

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:45 AM (axyOa)

462 was sitting in the club and a table of pilots got into a big discussion on which way the rotors turned. It was hilarious. Deadly serious they were. I dont think they ever figured it out. Alcohol was involved
Posted by: Diogenes

when the get going fast enough they go backwards

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:46 AM (nBCCt)

463 Weekend talk show had a caller who had been at the Loudon County School Board meeting. He was not allowed to speak and wanted to give his one minute speech on air. The school board had given time slots to 250 people but only allowed 50 to speak. He said the first 12 were "pro-trans" advocates.

Just heard l bit of it, but school boards like this graduate to similarly totalitarian government bodies higher up the government ladder.

Posted by: KT at June 27, 2021 12:47 AM (BVQ+1)

464 At FB right now, someone is selling... onion-flavored beef liver crisps.

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at June 27, 2021 12:47 AM (L2ZTs)

465 AOP, this made me think of you. guy gets a 1925 studebaker truck running. when you have the time, check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7XQ838rVjs

Posted by: choogle at June 27, 2021 12:47 AM (dkyex)

466 At FB right now, someone is selling... onion-flavored beef liver crisps.
Posted by: q

in a chinook at mach 3 with jato?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:49 AM (nBCCt)

467 Okay, a semi-serious take on a seemingly contentious subject.

Look at the British Fairy Rotodyne helicopter of the late '50s/early '60s. Whee howdy, 106 db of screeching noise!

Can we land one of those anywhere that any Dem rep is speaking? Please? It's shrieking din will be a serenade compared to the (D) whining and wheedling.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim (QzJWU) at June 27, 2021 12:51 AM (QzJWU)

468 Professor Plum, in a chinook at mach 3, with the crisp bag.

Posted by: mikeski is clued in at June 27, 2021 12:51 AM (P1f+c)

469 c5, reminds me of Jesse Ventura getting frustrated when no one would take his offer of chewin' tabacca in the helicopter on the way to the mission, in Predator. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at June 27, 2021 12:51 AM (L2ZTs)

470 Okay, a semi-serious take on a seemingly contentious subject.

Look at the British Fairy Rotodyne helicopter of the late '50s/early '60s. Whee howdy, 106 db of screeching noise!

Can we land one of those anywhere that any Dem rep is speaking? Please? It's shrieking din will be a serenade compared to the (D) whining and wheedling.

J

it is not even a bit of something cntentious. I was having fun and whatshername lost her shit and started flinging insults.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:53 AM (nBCCt)

471 reminds me of Jesse Ventura getting frustrated when no one would take his offer of chewin' tabacca in the helicopter on the way to the mission, in Predator. ;-)
Posted by: q

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:54 AM (nBCCt)

472 so there is 77 grain 5.56 out there for $1 a round now.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:56 AM (nBCCt)

473 see anything in there that might be remind you of stories abut sr71s?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 12:40 AM (nBCCt)

See anything that might mean your obtuse 'humor' might not be shared by those of us who had to fly these things into combat?

Yeah... humerous....

I'm out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 27, 2021 01:01 AM (oHd/0)

474 See anything that might mean your obtuse 'humor' might not be shared by those of us who had to fly these things into combat?
Yeah... humerous....
I'm out.
Posted by: R

so funning about the design charactersitics of aircraft is verboten because they were in combat?
something in a few funnies about a mach 3 helicopter with jatos upset you?
do you have some list of things that we are not to discuss when you are around?
everybody, romeo13 was in combat in a helicopter, no more discussing helicopters.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:08 AM (nBCCt)

475 no more discussing helicopters.
Posted by: confederatefifth

Switch to autogyros, then. They look like helicopters, but the rotor is unpowered and spins the other way, forcing air up rather than down.

This still provides lift. Physics is weird.

Posted by: mikeski is spun right round at June 27, 2021 01:29 AM (P1f+c)

476 Switch to autogyros, then. They look like helicopters, but the rotor is unpowered and spins the other way, forcing air up rather than down.

This still provides lift. Physics is weird.

Posted by: m

I was going to go with something using the coanda effect in honor of the ufo thingy being dod did

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:31 AM (nBCCt)

477 who writes my comments anyway?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:32 AM (nBCCt)

478 AOP, this made me think of you. guy gets a 1925 studebaker truck running. when you have the time, check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7XQ838rVjs
Posted by: choogle at June 27, 2021 12:47 AM (dkyex)

That was an interesting video. Got a little tired of his cutesy nicknames for all the parts, though. One thing he should have done was to use an oil can to put a good slug of oil into each spark plug hole. Lubricates the cylinders, and helps the rings seal, giving more compression to start. Really helps a lot.

And if he cannot find the right Ball & Ball carburetor, just about any updraft carb of similar size would work to get it running. And a machine shop could make a new lid for the bowl. The old lid looks like it was made of pot metal, and a lot of pot metal from the era just disintegrated from intercrystalline corrosion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 01:35 AM (KzmzQ)

479 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:38 AM (TZgEk)

480 That was an interesting video. Got a little tired of his cutesy nicknames for all the parts, though. One thing he should have done was to use an oil can to put a good slug of oil into each spark plug hole. Lubricates the cylinders, and helps the rings seal, giving more compression to start. Really helps a lot.

And if he cannot find the right Ball & Ball carburetor, just about any updraft carb of similar size would work to get it running. And a machine shop could make a new lid for the bowl. The old lid looks like it was made of pot metal, and a lot of pot metal from the era just disintegrated from intercrystalline corrosion.
Posted by: Alber

I am thinking, hey, I bought the parts for an ar, built it and it is working.

You are smelting ore and building machine shops with robots to build ars.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:38 AM (nBCCt)

481 if you were not in canada where even illicit thoughts about ars get you in dutch with justin.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:38 AM (nBCCt)

482 476 Switch to autogyros, then. They look like helicopters, but the rotor is unpowered and spins the other way, forcing air up rather than down.

This still provides lift. Physics is weird.

Posted by: m

I was going to go with something using the coanda effect in honor of the ufo thingy being dod did
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:31 AM (nBCCt)

confederatefifth! I have spotted a problem with your shortening of nics.

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:40 AM (TZgEk)

483 If you fuckup the closed tags it almost never carries through. So like you have the [/i} that will mess up your comment but not screw up anyone else. Same if you go with i/ instead of /i. I think only fully forgetting to attempt a close tag causes a barrelling.
Posted by: buzzion at June 26, 2021 09:48

TY buzzion. I just understood very little of that. Could it be the Merlot? Prolly not, I'm a techno-idiot because my wife is brilliant at this puter stuff so I don't learn much.

BTW, I know you're supposed to be dead, but when was your "death"? You've sure been commentating a lot for a dead dude.

Posted by: Farmer at June 27, 2021 01:40 AM (55Qr6)

484
confederatefifth! I have spotted a problem with your shortening of nics.
Posted by:

what!

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:41 AM (nBCCt)

485 ; )

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:42 AM (TZgEk)

486 why is pixy relegated to having a thread in the midst of nowhere?

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:43 AM (nBCCt)

487 486 why is pixy relegated to having a thread in the midst of nowhere?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:43 AM (nBCCt)

wut

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:44 AM (TZgEk)

488 why is pixy relegated to having a thread in the midst of nowhere?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:43 AM (nBCCt)

Pixy is in Australia, i think, so 12 hour time difference.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 01:44 AM (KzmzQ)

489 i think, so 12 hour time difference.
Posted by: Alber

thanks

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:46 AM (nBCCt)

490 I think when Pixy posts his thread on his own blog, he then pops it on here, too.

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:47 AM (TZgEk)

491 I think when Pixy posts his thread on his own blog, he then pops it on here, too.
Posted by: m

thanks, that is interesting.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:48 AM (nBCCt)

492 AOP, I have a question for you...
is it still legal in Canada for individuals to purchase and own handguns?

I just read elsewhere that Canada's not as anti-gun as many believe...

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at June 27, 2021 01:51 AM (L2ZTs)

493 who writes my comments anyway?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:32

Inquiring minds want to know.

I recall this quote, anyone know what I'm remembering?

Posted by: Farmer at June 27, 2021 01:52 AM (55Qr6)

494 I mean, everyone knows that retreating blade stall limits a choppers forward speed to Mach 1.8 or so.

Right? RIGHT?

/snrk

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Not if you stack 5 or 6 sets of rotors

Posted by: Jean at June 27, 2021 01:54 AM (Xih1H)

495 AOP, I have a question for you...
is it still legal in Canada for individuals to purchase and own handguns?

I just read elsewhere that Canada's not as anti-gun as many believe...
Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at June 27, 2021 01:51 AM (L2ZTs)

Yes. One has to get a "restricted" firearms licence. Then you can buy and own a handgun, but the only place one can legally shoot is at an official range. You cannot carry one at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 01:54 AM (KzmzQ)

496 Inquiring minds want to know.

I recall this quote, anyone know what I'm remembering?
Posted by: F

national enquirer

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:54 AM (nBCCt)

497 493 who writes my comments anyway?
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:32

Inquiring minds want to know.

I recall this quote, anyone know what I'm remembering?
Posted by: Farmer at June 27, 2021 01:52 AM (55Qr6)

I don't know the original source, but my sister picked up on it and still to this day says it about once per email.

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:55 AM (TZgEk)

498 . . . as in "How are you doing? Inquiring minds want to know."

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:56 AM (TZgEk)

499 Well, it's about 0100 here. Time for me to go to bed.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 01:56 AM (KzmzQ)

500 Inquiring minds want to know.

I recall this quote, anyone know what I'm remembering?
Posted by: F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qA-28UT8e0

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:56 AM (nBCCt)

501 And "Did the package arrive? Inquiring minds want to know."

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 01:56 AM (TZgEk)

502 it's about 0100 here. Time for me to go to bed.

Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alber

night

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 01:57 AM (nBCCt)

503 Pixy's own blog is:

https://ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at June 27, 2021 02:05 AM (TZgEk)

504 Pixy is in Australia, i think, so 12 hour time difference.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 27, 2021 01:44
......
But he uses a site from Nauru. You're right AOP. Maybe some day Jules and I will make it to the south Pacific.
Yean, I'd be lucky to make it to Chitown, 100 miles away.

Wait, they burned that good shit down. We're staying home and enjoying rural IL. F' Chicago and Laurie Lighheaded.

Posted by: Farmer at June 27, 2021 02:09 AM (55Qr6)

505 Have to see Pixy's blog, last time had to give up a orange to get in.

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2021 02:14 AM (Cxk7w)

506 But he uses a site from Nauru.
Posted by: Farmer

.nu is Niue. Still an island in the south Pacific. Not that any of the server hardware is there.

Posted by: mikeski thinks it's okay for adults too at June 27, 2021 02:18 AM (P1f+c)

507 Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2021 02:14

Haven't you gone to bed, or are you up? It's a weekend why be up at this time?

Wait, am I posting? Scurrys away.

Posted by: Farmer at June 27, 2021 02:19 AM (55Qr6)

508 Must be oh-dark-thirty, I forgot to change my nick from the last comment.

Posted by: mikeski should be sleeping at June 27, 2021 02:20 AM (P1f+c)

509 Still an island in the south Pacific.
--------

What? Not swallowed by sea rise yet?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2021 02:24 AM (ELgVT)

510 What? Not swallowed by sea rise yet?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

It hasn't tipped over, either.

Posted by: mikeski is level-headed at June 27, 2021 02:28 AM (P1f+c)

511 What? Not swallowed by sea rise yet?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2021 02:24

The predictions are funny on Gorebull warming. They all buy expensive estates on the ocean, go figure.

Posted by: Farmer at June 27, 2021 02:34 AM (55Qr6)

512 The predictions are funny on Gorebull warming. They all buy expensive estates on the ocean, go figure.
Posted by: F

was going through the computer and ran across the attendees for gnamm.

bunches of the horde that attended are not at the hq anymore.

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 02:36 AM (nBCCt)

513
It hasn't tipped over, either.
Posted by: mikeski
------

Curiously, if that happened to Manhattan I would not be as disturbed as I might be.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2021 02:36 AM (9Fwwf)

514 ONT has been Pixilated.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 27, 2021 02:42 AM (CTJwJ)

515 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rhSntdt70w

Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 02:45 AM (nBCCt)

516 Semi-OverNight Thread

Posted by: mindful webworker - signing off at June 27, 2021 02:55 AM (xdNUT)

517 was going through the computer and ran across the attendees for gnamm.
bunches of the horde that attended are not at the hq nymore.
Posted by: confederatefifth at June 27, 2021 02:36

Well that happens.

I found a receipt, cleaning out the luggage.
Masquerade Bar 9/24/2017
Total : $23 for 3 beers

That was us, I think Eris was there and Cooth. This is after the Ice Bar. Time stamp 2:43.That was a good time.

Posted by: Farmer at June 27, 2021 03:07 AM (55Qr6)

518 Short Melania bio on newsmax.

Gosh, my live is dull. Can't sleep.

Posted by: Infidel at June 27, 2021 04:05 AM (dYrVA)

519 live=life

Posted by: Infidel at June 27, 2021 04:06 AM (dYrVA)

520 Can someone clue me in as to why this site crashes whenever I try to read the ONT? I only seem to have problems there, and that's before clicking on the provided links to some really great stories. It just takes forever to read them when it does this.

I am reading from a samsung tablet, so any suggestions on how to fix would be appreciated.

Posted by: Dwayne at June 27, 2021 07:54 AM (gtu/X)

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