Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (5/28/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
There is nothing better than working at a profession that you enjoy. I treasured the camaraderie of my colleagues and the friendships I have made along the way, including our locker room attendants in all the various cities. MLB Umpire Angel Hernandez

Quote II
“I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way,” Billionaire Larry Connor

Quote III
“They want to financially hurt the company and compromise the investments of millions who rely on the dividend as part of their retirement portfolio.” CEO ExxonMobil Darren Woods

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Watch out Mrs. David French. I believe your husband has his eye on this candidate.

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If he had a conscience, it might matter. Lying, adulterous, traitor enabling Congressman gets scorched by Common Sense. Unfortunately this slime ball will not change.

Eric Swalwell slammed as a ‘terrorist sympathizer’ for angry post defending Hamas

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Speaking of unhinged speakers. Love the NYC honk.

Not every old actor has lost their flipping mind. Or has Richard Dreyfuss lost his as well?

Richard Dreyfuss Angers Left by Blasting Transgender Ideology at ‘Jaws’ Event: ‘Bad Parenting’

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I saw the following headline 'Our schools don’t prepare young people for life. National service could change that'. It is an interesting story from the UK.

Rishi Sunak’s reinvention of national service is a desperate, last-minute election gimmick. But that does not make it a bad idea. If there is one phase in education across Britain that is way off course, it is the higher teens. Sixth-form, higher and further education are deeply reactionary, more plagued than ever by introverted academic syllabuses and obsessive testing. For decades it has eluded progressive reform.
Sunak’s idea of a year’s military training would be a costly waste. The army has said it does not want amateur conscripts. The defence of Britain against improbable attack requires highly skilled operatives, not trench-war cannon fodder. By all means recruit more of them, but polls show that barely 10% of young people would volunteer for war service and a third would resist formal conscription. Under Sunak’s plan, an overwhelming majority would choose the civilian alternative of spending one weekend a month for a year in a public or charitable service. Germany’s non-military alternative to national service – both it and military conscription were abolished in 2011 – was hugely popular.
This must be a good idea. Working under supervision even for a few days a month in the care sector, the NHS, emergency services or selected charities could be a civic duty welcomed by every public-spirited citizen. As “community service” punishments have shown, such work can require expensive oversight. But it should be advantageous to all parties, to hard-pressed services and to the individuals involved.

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If I received a jaywalking citation. I would be upset. However, not to this extent.

A cop gave a California man a jaywalking ticket. Then came a ‘campaign of hate and revenge’
For nearly a month, a Fresno police officer and his family were the targets of a relentless campaign of harassment and revenge by a man furious over being given a ticket for jaywalking, according to a civil lawsuit.
The officer, who is identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, was on duty Oct. 25, 2019, about 2 p.m. when he spotted a man, later identified as John Christopher Spatafore, illegally crossing the street in downtown Fresno near Fresno City Hall and the railroad tracks.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Pasta Emporium

Born Today In Music May 28th (via thisdayinmusic.com

1944 - Gladys Knight
American singer, songwriter Gladys Knight, who had the 1973 US No.1 single 'Midnight Train To Georgia', and the 1975 UK No.4 single 'The Way We Were' plus 20 other UK Top 40 singles. Best known for her work with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips.

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Interesting take on an older classic.......

1945 - John Fogerty
American musician, singer, and songwriter John Fogerty from Creedence Clearwater Revival who had the 1969 UK No.1 and US No.2 single 'Bad Moon Rising', plus ten other US Top 30 hits and the 1970 US & UK No.1 album Cosmo's Factory. After CCR parted ways in 1972 Fogerty had a successful solo career.

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Unnamed lucky Genius Award Winner. Many not so lucky.

The warning comes after a 19-year-old man fell about 400 feet on Saturday while trying to walk in the wooded area beneath the bridge, according to Sheriff's Deputies. It's where what looks like a trail quickly turns into a dangerously steep cliff.
Somehow, the teenager had only minor injuries.
"He should buy a lottery ticket," said Ripp.

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They are too old to be FWB. So they just tied the knot. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Timeless Love: 100-Year-Old Grandfather Marries 102-Year-Old Sweetheart
Today's good news story comes from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In a heartwarming celebration that beautifully illustrated the timeless nature of love, Bernie Littman, 100, and Marjorie Fiterman, 102, exchanged vows on Sunday, May 19.
This unique ceremony took place at the senior living facility where their love story began, marking a momentous occasion filled with joy, laughter, and cherished memories.

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:55 PM

Comments

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1 Howdy.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 28, 2024 10:00 PM (DTX3h)

2 Good evening MisHum!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 28, 2024 10:00 PM (cQRrW)

3 Ola

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 28, 2024 10:00 PM (hftn9)

4 argue

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, this side at May 28, 2024 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

5 ONT-tastic!

Posted by: TRex at May 28, 2024 10:00 PM (IQ6Gq)

6 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 28, 2024 10:00 PM (rbKZ6)

7 Yay, National Brisket Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 28, 2024 10:01 PM (dZVON)

8 In before 10?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 28, 2024 10:01 PM (w6EFb)

9 Sorry I'm late, Otis wouldn't give me a lift

Posted by: tankdemon at May 28, 2024 10:01 PM (Mm2BH)

10 It's all fun and games until the spring ice debacle.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)

11 “I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way,” Billionaire Larry Connor

Says a guy who never was on the ocean for a living.

The Ocean is a bitch, who is ALWAYS out to kill you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2024 10:01 PM (xaFKb)

12 What happened to the Libertarians? The Party of Ron Paul and Harry Browne? They have totally lost it. Frustration Psychosis? Or a hilarious inside joke or prank?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 28, 2024 10:03 PM (hftn9)

13 The Ocean is a bitch, who is ALWAYS out to kill you.

So kind of like a big, wet version of Australia?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 28, 2024 10:03 PM (dZVON)

14 Gotta love the Pips:

"Woo! Woo!"

*Executes flawless kick turn*

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 10:04 PM (WXNFJ)

15 Finally home, and one cat is trying to make up for a day's worth of laptime. Bel doesn't care if she gets fetal kicks, she just wants HER mobile nap platform back.

Posted by: pookysgirl, cat butler at May 28, 2024 10:04 PM (dtlDP)

16 Jeff Beck rips it up on the Van Morrison mystery click.

Posted by: chris+opher at May 28, 2024 10:04 PM (dSco/)

17 I coulda been a contender, instead, I got a one way ticket to ONT palookaville.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:04 PM (vJiyU)

18 Not sure of that final wedding venue.
I figure Walmart will not allow a refund.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 28, 2024 10:05 PM (cQRrW)

19 Looks over the post. Oh well, guess you didn't get my e-mail in time, MisHum.

There's always tomorrow for dreams to come true....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

20 Says a guy who never was on the ocean for a living.

The Ocean is a bitch, who is ALWAYS out to kill you.
Posted by: Romeo13

Right before I left home, my Dad imparted some words of wisdom - "Boy, you'd sure as hell better respect Mother Nature because She doesn't give a tinker's damn about you."

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 10:05 PM (WXNFJ)

21 Richard Dreyfuss Angers Left by Blasting Transgender Ideology at ‘Jaws’ Event: ‘Bad Parenting’

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Nobody knows just what he said but everybody knows it was horrible. Reminds me of the old Dylan song . . .

Look out, kid, it's somethin' you did
God knows when, but you're doin' it again

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (L/fGl)

22 Right before I left home, my Dad imparted some words of wisdom - "Boy, you'd sure as hell better respect Mother Nature because She doesn't give a tinker's damn about you."
Posted by: Tonypete

Sigh, what ever happened to dads who gave real, practical life advice?

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (vJiyU)

23 Thanks for the swell ONT, Mis Hum!

That cabin up top has the perfect location. Would be nice to spend a summer there.

I know the wedding at WalMart is supposed to be humorous, but a wedding is a wedding and I think it's sweet.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U)

24 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

https://mol.im/a/13467943

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, that side at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (qfLjt)

25 I coulda been a contender, instead, I got a one way ticket to ONT palookaville.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:04 PM (vJiyU)

That isn't so bad. ONT Palookaville is just down the road from Petticoat Junction and the Douglas' farm. You'll love the Missus' pancakes. With or without syrup.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (emlEe)

26 Dreyfus maybe of the left, but he's not wrong.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)

27 A wedding by the ATM. How romantic?

Perhaps they should have wed at a Costco, and held the reception in the snack bar.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

28 Top pic:
Man, do I need to do some creek fishing.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)

29 I know the wedding at WalMart is supposed to be humorous, but a wedding is a wedding and I think it's sweet.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U)

That's a good point. Marriage is vital to the success of our culture, so I guess we shouldn't mock it.

[MisHum...what do you have to say for yourself?]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2024 10:10 PM (d9fT1)

30 Dreyfus maybe of the left, but he's not wrong.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)

I saw Dreyfuss, well before COVID-1984, on Tucker defending free speech. I'm guessing he's an old school liberal (read: has common sense), not one of the woke liberal variety.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:11 PM (emlEe)

31 Billionaire Larry Connor

Hopefully he learned lessons from the previous guy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:12 PM (ynpvh)

32 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

https://mol.im/a/13467943
Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, that side at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (qfLjt)

Maybe Israel will get lucky, and it breaks their enemies radios. Wait, ..., that includes us with FJB in charge.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 10:13 PM (VNX3d)

33 I came for the comments. I stayed for the condiments.

And yes, Beff Jeck gets down and gets it done on the mystery click.

Posted by: lost in space at May 28, 2024 10:13 PM (glxRK)

34 Eric Swalwell slammed as a ‘terrorist sympathizer’ for angry post defending Hamas
So, a democrat who isn't satisfied with just being pro criminal, gotta be pro terrorist too.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2024 10:13 PM (0Htd1)

35 I like to think that couple met in the checkout line at Wal-Mart.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 28, 2024 10:13 PM (FkUwd)

36 I think the Walmart wedding is just fine. The venue probably has meaning for the bride and groom. Maybe they met there. The little bridesmaids are cute.

Posted by: Tuna at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (oaGWv)

37 Sigh, what ever happened to dads who gave real, practical life advice?
Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (vJiyU)

I was 15. Me 'ol man came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder, looked me in the eye, and said: "Diogenes, don't ever gamble. You will lose."
He wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (W/lyH)

38 29 I know the wedding at WalMart is supposed to be humorous, but a wedding is a wedding and I think it's sweet.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U)

That's a good point. Marriage is vital to the success of our culture, so I guess we shouldn't mock it.

[MisHum...what do you have to say for yourself?]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 28, 2024 10:10 PM

MisHum's exact quote: "Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Marriage Venues."

I detect no mockery. Just a slight hat tip to an important sponsor!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (HlyYF)

39 Billionaire Larry Connor

Hopefully he learned lessons from the previous guy.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Remember: What goes up, must come down.

Forget: What goes down, must come up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (L/fGl)

40 Thanks for the swell ONT, Mis Hum!

That cabin up top has the perfect location. Would be nice to spend a summer there.

I know the wedding at WalMart is supposed to be humorous, but a wedding is a wedding and I think it's sweet.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U)

That cabin is in for a world of hurt if that creek ever floods. I'd have put it on 3-foot piers, myself.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (6RYcT)

41 I like to think that couple met in the checkout line at Wal-Mart.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

"How you doin'? Could I interest you in some tater-tots?"

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (WXNFJ)

42 Speaking of unhinged speakers. Love the NYC honk.

So he's joined their campaign:
shorty, sniffy, and sucky. What a team-up!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:15 PM (ynpvh)

43 That Walmart ATM is where they met. So romantic!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (w6EFb)

44 Mis Hum, possibly your best cabin/stream photo ever, IMO!

Nice ONT!

Posted by: LRob in OK at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (TSQkU)

45 Not sure of that final wedding venue.
I figure Walmart will not allow a refund.

As long as they keep the receipt they should be fine.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (dZVON)

46 I could live in that cabin.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (W/lyH)

47 Went walking tonight, before the rain hit. Nice evening. While walking on a path, I saw a biker up ahead riding way to fast. The biker yelled at the two guys in front of he/her and the two guys moved. They didn't see this genderless biker so how would the know it's coming. Anyway, the biker continued to ride way to fast, and I had moved aside. This biker was typical of Babylon DC. Gender undetermined, wearing a mask, and was angry. Maybe if the genderless quim just slowed down, it would have realized what a lovely evening it was. Lots of sad, broken people around.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (sAmhv)

48 Had an external ultrasound this morning, and Lil Pooky was stubborn as always. He looks healthy and he had the hiccups (so cute!).

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to take it easy at May 28, 2024 10:17 PM (dtlDP)

49 Got a feeling this won't be in the top 10.

Good evening, y'all. Stay safe & dry.

Posted by: mindful webworker - least but not last at May 28, 2024 10:17 PM (UrLdJ)

50 That cabin is in for a world of hurt if that creek ever floods. I'd have put it on 3-foot piers, myself.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM

That was my exact thought also when looking at that picture!

Might be near the top of the watershed, hopefully?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:17 PM (HlyYF)

51 Speaking of unhinged speakers. Love the NYC honk.

The comments at that twitter post are great. I love how mean people can be online.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2024 10:18 PM (0Htd1)

52 So, a democrat who isn't satisfied with just being pro criminal, gotta be pro terrorist too.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2024 10:13 PM (0Htd1)

Name me one Democrat who isn't pro-criminal (including being for criminal illegals) and pro-terrorist/Ham-ass. They kind of go hand in hand with the common thread being lovers of criminality. If it that criminality hurts average Americans, so much the better.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:18 PM (emlEe)

53 29 I know the wedding at WalMart is supposed to be humorous, but a wedding is a wedding and I think it's sweet.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (U3L4U)

I agree. They are getting married, and not throwing a bombastic event, they are doing what they can afford. And those little girls are beautiful! Those parents are teaching their kids something with their actions, and that is a rare and wonderful thing these days!

Posted by: Moki at May 28, 2024 10:18 PM (wLjpr)

54
Angel Hernandez is the Joe West of Eric Greggs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2024 10:18 PM (MoZTd)

55 Little known fact: Van Morrison followed up his hit song "Into the Mystic" with "Into the Septic". It was much less successful.

Posted by: Musikladen at May 28, 2024 10:18 PM (V5BDR)

56 Shorter Rishi Sunak: Hey, you seem aimless and shiftless, how does being conscripted and sent off to die for the cause of Globalist Adventurism sound?

These people cannot be parodied anymore than they are a parody.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2024 10:19 PM (XV/Pl)

57 ...erhaps they should have wed at a Costco, and held the reception in the snack bar. Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

If they'd both have packed on 50 more pounds, they'd have been perfect for a Costco Bulk Wedding.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 28, 2024 10:19 PM (e6UQI)

58 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

My Starlink service stopped working for ten minutes, just before the ONT started. Then there was static on my FM radio. I sat here, waiting for the lights to go out. Then all was well.

A real Carrington Event, that knocked out the world's electrical grid, would be a bitch.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 28, 2024 10:19 PM (Js20g)

59 I like to think that couple met in the checkout line at Wal-Mart.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 28, 2024 10:13 PM (FkUwd)

Such a romantic!

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:19 PM (emlEe)

60 If I received a jaywalking citation. I would be upset. However, not to this extent.

Jaywalking is "decriminalized" in Kali anymore, unless what was done was dangerous.

Under the new law, pedestrians would be able to legally cross the street outside of designated intersections without the threat of a hefty citation “unless a reasonably careful person would realize there is an immediate danger of collision with a moving vehicle or other device moving exclusively by human power.”
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM (ynpvh)

61 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (sAmhv)

You are a much more polite person, than I am...

Slow the fuck down asshole, this trail does NOT belong to you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM (xaFKb)

62 Sigh, what ever happened to dads who gave real, practical life advice?
Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:07 PM (vJiyU)
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My dad said "Whatever you do, don't join the f---ing Army, kid!" ((He was in the Army))

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM (FkUwd)

63 As I gaze upon the ONT's mystery click's picture I note the river and the lush vegetation, the beautiful patio and realize I'd have to own a 100% DEET manufacturer to be able to use said patio.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM (cQRrW)

64 If they'd both have packed on 50 more pounds, they'd have been perfect for a Costco Bulk Wedding.

Jim

Heh. We bought 10' Kayaks from Costco. They were only sold in a two-pack. Not kidding.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (WXNFJ)

65 I was 15. Me 'ol man came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder, looked me in the eye, and said: "Diogenes, don't ever gamble. You will lose."
He wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (W/lyH)

My Dad always said that if I ever started off with my left foot he would break my leg. He was proud as punch when I got my butter bars.

Posted by: javems at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (8I4hW)

66 54 Angel Hernandez is the Joe West of Eric Greggs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2024 10:18 PM

Ouch.

That is beyond the Mr. Magoo level of umpiring.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (HlyYF)

67 @11

>>The Ocean is a bitch, who is ALWAYS out to kill you.

The Universe wants you dead, head on a swivel at all times, you never know when and errant meteor is making a bee line for your noggin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)

68 Don't sit down if you can lie down. Sleep all you can.

My dad's advice to me when I jerned up with the Air Corps.

Posted by: LRob in OK at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (TSQkU)

69 bang

Posted by: JackStraw at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (LkLld)

70 Darren Woods is a good man and he's right. Last year BlackRock and Vanguard and State(?) colluded to put 3 watermelons on the board of directors. I hope he kicks their ass.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 10:22 PM (YdEcD)

71 They are too old to be FWB.

Four-Wheel Braking?
Oh, Friends With Bennies. Got it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:22 PM (ynpvh)

72 Thx MisHum, evening everyone. Best line I heard today "Angel Hernandez finally made the right call"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2024 10:23 PM (wu1+q)

73 American singer, songwriter Gladys Knight, who had the 1973 US No.1 single 'Midnight Train To Georgia', and the 1975 UK No.4 single 'The Way We Were' plus 20 other UK Top 40 singles. Best known for her work with her group Gladys Knight & the Pips.
---------

Weirdly, Gladys Knight is a resident right here in Asheville. One of the local venues put up a plaque listing performers who have played here. On the list was 'Galdys Knight'.

You had one job...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 28, 2024 10:23 PM (XeU6L)

74 I have to agree with Angel Hernandez: the comaraderie of a profession, of working with others to make something good happen - life has few greater pleasures.

I just wish he was a better umpire.

Posted by: Nemo at May 28, 2024 10:23 PM (S6ArX)

75 That Walmart ATM is where they met. So romantic!
Posted by: Miley

I was wondering why it was there, and not in the garden center. Thanks!

I also learned that once you're the baby daddy three times over, you gotta put a ring on it.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 10:23 PM (DgGvY)

76 Notoriously woke school district now wants to rename 10 'problematic' schools and ditch their mascots - and it'll cost taxpayers $25million

https://mol.im/a/13468103

This is bad. If they waste that money then property owners need to say NO to any more school funding - if you have $25M to waste on this non-academic endeavor then you don't need our money.

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, monkeyoxide at May 28, 2024 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

77 The Universe wants you dead, head on a swivel at all times, you never know when and errant meteor is making a bee line for your noggin.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)

Or a toilet seat ('Dead Like Me').

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:23 PM (emlEe)

78 24 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

https://mol.im/a/13467943

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, that side at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (qfLjt)

Why they need to get Trump into Rikers...so the solar flare can take out the cameras...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:24 PM (ynpvh)

79
We got hammered with storms this afternoon. Luckily the dogs had been put up earlier in the day, so they weren't affected. Power frequently flickered off and on. An unpleasant afternoon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 28, 2024 10:24 PM (MoZTd)

80 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (JUgGx)

81 That cabin is in for a world of hurt if that creek ever floods. I'd have put it on 3-foot piers, myself.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM

That was my exact thought also when looking at that picture!

Might be near the top of the watershed, hopefully?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

Son went and looked at 10 acres with creek about a month ago...said the pictures must have been taken in August, cause it would require an airboat to survey the property the other 11 months of the year.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU)

82 I think the Walmart wedding is just fine. The venue probably has meaning for the bride and groom. Maybe they met there. The little bridesmaids are cute.
Posted by: Tuna at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (oaGWv)
* * * *
So is the little bridegroom standing on the right side.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (U3L4U)

83 “Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present in dreams of the past and future. Rinaldo is a flaming torch of idealism, rising, as he thinks, to overthrow a tyrant and liberate the people. As for me—well, a few months ago I had lost all ambition but to raid the caravans for the rest of my life; now old dreams stir. Conan will die; Dion will mount the throne. Then he, too, will die. One by one, all who oppose me will die—by fire, or steel, or those deadly wines you know so well how to brew. Ascalante, king of Aquilonia! How like you the sound of it?”

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (lhenN)

84 28 Top pic:
Man, do I need to do some creek fishing.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)

My knees creak when I try fishing; does that count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (ynpvh)

85 The Universe wants you dead, head on a swivel at all times, you never know when and errant meteor is making a bee line for your noggin.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 28, 2024 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)
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https://tinyurl.com/2nmn8csk

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (FkUwd)

86 The jay-walking harasser is a psychopath; cop is just an asshole.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (XMwZJ)

87 Jaywalking is "decriminalized" in Kali anymore, unless what was done was dangerous.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM

If he had been smoking a giant doobie, while injecting some fentanyl, while punching a tiny old Asian lady from behind, while screaming "Free Palestine", THEN it would have been legal walking.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:26 PM (HlyYF)

88 I was 15. Me 'ol man came up to me, put his hand on my shoulder, looked me in the eye, and said: "Diogenes, don't ever gamble. You will lose."
He wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes
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At about that age my father and I were playing poker for matchsticks. As he swept up a sizable pot he said, 'Son, never gamble more than you can afford to lose'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 28, 2024 10:26 PM (XeU6L)

89 Once a music-inclined guy from the hood could aspire to be a Pip. Now, aspiring rapper is their only aim. Sad.

Posted by: Return to Motown at May 28, 2024 10:26 PM (V5BDR)

90
"The best part is no part" Is an alien concept to public employees.

Posted by: Auspex at May 28, 2024 10:26 PM (j4U/Z)

91 39 Billionaire Larry Connor

Hopefully he learned lessons from the previous guy.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Remember: What goes up, must come down.

Forget: What goes down, must come up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 28, 2024 10:14 PM (L/fGl)

::: Kumala has entered the chat :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:26 PM (ynpvh)

92 Trump is now reposting videos that (checks notes) threatens to kill all liberals if Elected. On Sunday, Donald Trump posted video of a man raging and cursing uncontrollably at MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough...As the man delicately puts it:

He’ll get rid of all you fucking liberals. You liberals are gone when he fucking wins.

Gone means dead. I don't think there's any doubt.

Gone does not equal dead. Politicians - gone from office. Journalists gone from broadcasting and print. All horrific losses of freedom and the end of democracy. But, it is not killing.

MAGA's execution fetish is certifiably insane.

If people think that you are being hyperbolic they should consider the executions rushed through by Trump in his final six months. He did this because he knew that it would enliven and excite his base.

Nazi Rs will most definitely hunt liberals if Trumphitler wins.In the abstract, if Trumphitler did win in Nov., the entire U.S. would collapse by December after the biggest run on banks in history along with millions fleeing the country.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 28, 2024 10:27 PM (ycI94)

93 Richard Dreyfuss was very kind to my Mom when she was ill many years ago and I will speak well of him.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 28, 2024 10:27 PM (J8OCH)

94 Weirdly, Gladys Knight is a resident right here in Asheville. One of the local venues put up a plaque listing performers who have played here. On the list was 'Galdys Knight'.

You had one job...
Posted by: Mike Hammer

There are 16 errors on the Stanley Cup, mostly misspellings.

There would be 21, but they started correcting them with "Adam Deadmarchsh" in 1996.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 10:27 PM (DgGvY)

95 Why they need to get Trump into Rikers...so the solar flare can take out the cameras...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
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Or -- OR, the security system goes down, Trump escapes, and goes full Snake Plissken.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 28, 2024 10:27 PM (FkUwd)

96 61 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (sAmhv)

You are a much more polite person, than I am...

Slow the fuck down asshole, this trail does NOT belong to you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM

I am pretty sure God invented the 'ol stick in the spokes trick for just such a circumstance!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:28 PM (HlyYF)

97 80 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28

I would love to, but one is laying across my legs and the other on my arm. But they are happy and have been glued to me since I got back!

Enjoy your evening, friends. Off to bed for my early start.

Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2024 10:28 PM (pZEOD)

98 This biker was typical of Babylon DC. Gender undetermined, wearing a mask, and was angry. Maybe if the genderless quim just slowed down, it would have realized what a lovely evening it was. Lots of sad, broken people around.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (sAmhv)

Oh no! Sorry about the stick that got caught in your spokes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 10:28 PM (0eaVi)

99 What happened to the Libertarians?

Infiltrate an institution. Kill it, gut it, wear its skin as a suit, and demand respect. That’s what happened.

I used to read everything I could find by Harry Browne back in the early days of the web. He made a lot of sense to me. Sadly he passed away far too soon. Good guy.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 10:29 PM (PpROq)

100 41 I like to think that couple met in the checkout line at Wal-Mart.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
"How you doin'? Could I interest you in some tater-tots?"
Posted by: Tonypete

Clint Eastwood likes tater tots.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Hv55K8-CbF8

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 28, 2024 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

101 86 The jay-walking harasser is a psychopath; cop is just an asshole.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM (XMwZJ)

Agreed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

102 Watching the Yankees and Michael Kay told a Bill Walton story. Mike Breen was doing NBA games with Walton and he said he and his brother were taking their father who was dx with Parkinson's to San Diego to see aircraft carrier museum ship as the father has served on one. Breen asked Walton for a good hotel in San Diego as Walton lived there. Walton said you're not staying at hotel you're staying at my house. Breen said Walton never left his father's side an his dad had a great time

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2024 10:29 PM (wu1+q)

103 I still peruse Lew Rockwell’s website. I’ll have to see what he says, if anything, about the Twink in charge of the party.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 10:30 PM (PpROq)

104 What happened to the Libertarians? The Party of Ron Paul and Harry Browne? They have totally lost it. Frustration Psychosis? Or a hilarious inside joke or prank?
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 28, 2024 10:03 PM (hftn9)

It's simple. They were never a Party with a clear sense of direction. It was always a debate club dressed up as a political party, with no underlying structure or any concrete goals.

The Democrat Party is... Not that. They are very well developed in politics. In fact, they pursue acquisition of political power with a manic, singleminded, psychotic drive.

They looked at these weakest gazelles on the Right, and took them down easily. They hijacked that Party and turned it into a stalking horse. That's why its focus is getting high and grooming kids now.

It's basically a smaller example of what they did to the GOP, just done a whole lot cheaper. They didn't have to shell out the wealth of Croesus to buy off these dweebs. It just took a few blunts and some tubes of monkeypox salve to put the LP on the take.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2024 10:30 PM (0FoWg)

105 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2024 10:16 PM (sAmhv)

You are a much more polite person, than I am...

Slow the fuck down asshole, this trail does NOT belong to you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM

I am pretty sure God invented the 'ol stick in the spokes trick for just such a circumstance!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:28 PM (HlyYF)

I thought that's what a clothesline tackle was for, taking down idiots. Of course, I base this on the original The Longest Yard movie, so I _could_ be wrong.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 10:30 PM (VNX3d)

106 There we go. Instead of allowing civil society to flourish on its own, let’s have the police force young people to do charitable work. At which point it ceases to be charity.

Too many people in too many places see the solution to everything as applying violence and force against its own citizens.

Instead of families teaching the value of charity, just call the police and have them do it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 10:31 PM (8sMut)

107 The jay-walking harasser is a psychopath; cop is just an asshole.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

So the moral of the story is "don't be an asshole to a psychopath."

The Brothers Grimm couldn't have said it better.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 10:31 PM (DgGvY)

108 While walking on a path, I saw a biker up ahead riding way to fast.

What's even better is the hot new thing of "e-bikes", which can crank along at 30 MPH or so with no effort required of the rider.

Literally hot - they have lithium batteries which frequently catch fire.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2024 10:31 PM (uxCna)

109 It just took a few blunts and some tubes of monkeypox salve to put the LP on the take.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2024 10:30 PM (0FoWg)

——————-

That’s some Ace level cruelty right there.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 28, 2024 10:32 PM (u73oe)

110 The entire libertarian party problem can be summed up by the last presidential candidate *Gary " something who couldn't answer anything coherently because he was stoned

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 28, 2024 10:32 PM (wu1+q)

111 - So I'm missing out on Jeff Beck. Stopped doing the mystery clicks sometime back after the third or fourth. To much of am pain to close out of and get back here.
At least for me on this phone. And at least a couple I was trying to close out of after 10 or 15 seconds.

Appreciate Gladys singing about that Midnight Train. If ya enjoy youngsters doin' it well, as I do, check out School of Rock doing that tune.

Posted by: TeeJ at May 28, 2024 10:33 PM (xZpzx)

112 Fugitive murder suspect cries as she's arrested at a traffic stop - Texas

https://mol.im/a/13467483

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, apoxide at May 28, 2024 10:33 PM (qfLjt)

113 Well, the Z-Man is now demanding that Biden attend his "peace conference" in Switzerland.

To minimize conflict at the "peace conference", the Russians aren't invited.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2024 10:33 PM (uxCna)

114
if Trumphitler did win in Nov., the entire U.S. would collapse by December after the biggest run on banks in history along with millions fleeing the country.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Wouldn't like bank runs but millions fleeing might be all right.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

115 Son went and looked at 10 acres with creek about a month ago...said the pictures must have been taken in August, cause it would require an airboat to survey the property the other 11 months of the year.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:25 PM

The tiny creek on our farm (much smaller than the creek in the picture) crested 17 feet above normal during our most recent big flood.

I went out with survey flags and marked the edges of the flow right at the crest. Now I have my "never build below this level" line well marked out to avoid future stupidity on my part!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:34 PM (HlyYF)

116 24 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

https://mol.im/a/13467943
Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, that side at May 28, 2024 10:08 PM (qfLjt)

**********

Well, I'm trying to send that Solar Belch From Hell to you but I just can't muster enough juice right now.

Posted by: The Carrington Event2 at May 28, 2024 10:34 PM (xxG/v)

117 along with millions fleeing the country

They keep promising to do that when someone they don't like gets elected, but they never do.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2024 10:34 PM (uxCna)

118 Richard Pryor had a short-lived variety show. One of the highlights was the skit "... and the Pips"
Starts at the 2:00 mark in the youtube link below

remove the space before the question mark
https://youtu.be/NP0bot4-qmM ?si=XLXAb_RKS7EM4k14

Posted by: Chuck C at May 28, 2024 10:34 PM (yOPBE)

119 Incredible Rescue: Woman Plunges Into River To Save Kittens in Plastic Bag

https://tinyurl.com/3pyshmh2

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, ipoxide at May 28, 2024 10:35 PM (qfLjt)

120 This must be a good idea. Working under supervision even for a few days a month in the care sector, the NHS, emergency services or selected charities could be a civic duty welcomed by every public-spirited citizen.

Putting a smiley face on slavery.

It used to be that forced labor was something you did when performing some non-violent civil misdemeanor. Now putting on a neon vest and picking garbage up from the median is "public spirited".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:36 PM (iruKY)

121 I went out with survey flags and marked the edges of the flow right at the crest. Now I have my "never build below this level" line well marked out to avoid future stupidity on my part!

I knew an engineer in Central Washington who knew exactly how high the water would get near him if Grand Coulee Dam failed. (His house was above the failure line.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2024 10:36 PM (uxCna)

122 12 What happened to the Libertarians? The Party of Ron Paul and Harry Browne? They have totally lost it. Frustration Psychosis? Or a hilarious inside joke or prank?
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 28, 2024 10:03 PM (hftn9)

You are full of crap as usual. We are smarter and better than you are, voting for your stupid two parties. We’d have a chance too if not for unfair ballot access laws. Our ideas are extremely popular with voters and it’s the two parties that keep us down. You just don’t like us because you are a blithering idiot. It’s not our fault. We shouldn’t have to put forth candidates people like or win hearts and minds. We are too good for that.

Where’s the drugs?

Posted by: Libertarians at May 28, 2024 10:37 PM (8sMut)

123 For a post-Apocalypse view of life after a Carrington Event, I can recommend the "Fire From the Sky" novels by N.C. Reed on Kindle. Premise is a Special Forces operator gets an advance warning that a disaster is coming, takes his team to his family's farm, preps, and then rides out the collapse of civilization.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 28, 2024 10:37 PM (Js20g)

124 Good evening morons and thanks mh

A cop gave a California man a jaywalking ticket. Then came a ‘campaign of hate and revenge’
===

It all depends on race.

Also, jaywalking was since legalized. Disparate impact means black folks just can't stay in the crosswalk.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2024 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

125 Two weeks from now we'll have the memories.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 28, 2024 10:38 PM (CHHv1)

126 92:Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

I do wish they would stop making Trump sound so cool!! I mean I'm voting for him anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2024 10:39 PM (sAmhv)

127 I thought that's what a clothesline tackle was for, taking down idiots. Of course, I base this on the original The Longest Yard movie, so I _could_ be wrong.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 10:30 PM

"I think I broke his f**ckin' neck!"

"I think he broke his f**ckin' neck!"

"I think he broke his f**ckin' neck!"

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:39 PM (HlyYF)

128 Under the new law, pedestrians would be able to legally cross the street outside of designated intersections without the threat of a hefty citation “unless a reasonably careful person would realize there is an immediate danger of collision with a moving vehicle or other device moving exclusively by human power.”
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:20 PM (ynpvh)

Peon's Rule of jaywalking: if you cause vehicle operators to hit the brakes or take evasive action to avoid hitting you, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 10:39 PM (OwAOz)

129 Where’s the drugs?
Posted by: Libertarians at May 28, 2024 10:37 PM (8sMut)

They haven't been delivered yet. You'll have to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to pick them up. When you get there, ask for Mohammed.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 10:39 PM (VNX3d)

130 118
remove the space before the question mark
https://youtu.be/NP0bot4-qmM ?si=XLXAb_RKS7EM4k14

Posted by: Chuck C at May 28, 2024 10:34 PM (yOPBE)
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You only need everything to the left of the ?
https://youtu.be/NP0bot4-qmM

In youtube, hit SHARE then COPY. Paste the result and remove everything from the ? to the end. Now you have a shortened URL that fits the margins.

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, opoxide at May 28, 2024 10:39 PM (qfLjt)

131 There we go. Instead of allowing civil society to flourish on its own, let’s have the police force young people to do charitable work. At which point it ceases to be charity.

Cool. So we can send young adults out to harvest the sugar cane like Castro's conscripted slaves?

Does this mean that the North American Economic Zone can return to their native lands those agricultural laborers because the neo-slaves will do the work Americans won't do (voluntarily)?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:40 PM (iruKY)

132 The two pillars of Libertarianism - legal drugs and repealing the age of consent laws.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 28, 2024 10:40 PM (uxCna)

133 Re: About giving advice.

I've told this before.

When I was 16-17 (I had my driver's license), my Mom worked with a black man who was the summer referee for the Virginia Squires. On that team was a young phenom named Dr. J. My Mom was invited to dinner at his house with Doc. My Mom said she couldn't go but could her son? So that's how I ended up having dinner in a private house with Dr. J.

After dinner, some of the young black kids from the neighborhood heard he was there and stopped by. They were carrying on, being with a basketball legend in the making. But Doc was having none of it. He asked the boys how they were doing in school. He told them how he had to crack every bone in his body to get out of bed (and he was only 22-23!) and that you can't play sports forever and you need an education. Quieted the boys down a bit. I still respect that conversation as it wasn't for the cameras, just a private honest talk to kids coming from an athlete whom they idolized.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:41 PM (emlEe)

134 Saw Dreyfuss several years ago on FOX - he seemed rational, not conservative, but rational.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 10:41 PM (YdEcD)

135 Putting a smiley face on slavery.

It used to be that forced labor was something you did when performing some non-violent civil misdemeanor. Now putting on a neon vest and picking garbage up from the median is "public spirited".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:36 PM (iruKY)

Way, way too many people in this country think this is a good idea here. It’s easier, I suppose, than actually raising well-adjusted kids who will want to volunteer on their own in things they want to do of their own free will.

Another thing: whatever happened to families preparing children for life? I didn’t go to school to be prepared for life. No school taught me how to run a washing machine or how to change a tire. I took two home ec courses but even then I had the basic principles of cooking down from my family.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 10:41 PM (8sMut)

136 A meme reply to alexthechick re. Libertarians' choice:

https://tinyurl.com/4sp28hvs

Catturd ™ @catturd2
Libertarians …
How they tweet …………… How they vote.

https://tinyurl.com/33rbcb86
IMAGE

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 28, 2024 10:41 PM (ZdexC)

137 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

https://mol.im/a/13467943

Is this that same big sunspot come around for another kick at the cat?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 10:42 PM (OwAOz)

138 I'll join the move out club.

If Ted Cruz loses in November I'm moving out of Texas.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2024 10:42 PM (SHMXB)

139 Richard Dreyfuss and his lefty Hollywood comrades weaved the rope and built the scaffolding that the woke left is hanging them from.

They never remember that the Left always eats their own.

Posted by: kbdabear at May 28, 2024 10:42 PM (pW3w9)

140 Most pathetic police car chase ever: California cops take far too long to pull over gunman on a bicycle

https://mol.im/a/13469131

Posted by: Ciampino - Epoxide? No, Upoxide at May 28, 2024 10:42 PM (qfLjt)

141 Once Around is an underrated Dreyfuss movie.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2024 10:43 PM (SHMXB)

142 The entire libertarian party problem can be summed up by the last presidential candidate *Gary " something who couldn't answer anything coherently because he was stoned

So what is the Democrats' excuse with Biden?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:43 PM (iruKY)

143 I do wish they would stop making Trump sound so cool!! I mean I'm voting for him anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

Heh!

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:43 PM (vJiyU)

144 Cool. So we can send young adults out to harvest the sugar cane like Castro's conscripted slaves?

Does this mean that the North American Economic Zone can return to their native lands those agricultural laborers because the neo-slaves will do the work Americans won't do (voluntarily)?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:40 PM (iruKY)

People here who like the idea of forcing young people into national service must also love the idea of everyone in Uzbekistan being forced to do service harvesting cotton two weeks out of the year.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 10:44 PM (8sMut)

145 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

If we would just eat bugs in the dark and pay more taxes then these auroras wouldn't be such an existential threat.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:45 PM (iruKY)

146 Most computers are stored in metal boxes (faraday cages) which are also in houses fully wired up with copper (so are also faraday cages) and if they are important, like server-farms, they were probably underground too.
Surges in copper wire happen, as Quebec 1989, but I believe we've been hardening the infrastructure since then.
I really am not seeing the hype around Carrington, even around Miyake.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2024 10:45 PM (gKWVE)

147 I'm writing up a learned treatise on extending the longevity of a Heritage Rough Rider .22 revolver, which is made of pot metal ad melted down bottle caps. However, if you get a good one, where all the tolerances coincide in miraculous descent, they can shoot like a house afire... as long as they don't wear, which given the materials, is inevitable, like Love Story, with the smoking chick who conveniently dies of Movie Disease right about the time you get sick of her shit.
The answer is to lube the living shit out of the gun with variable viscosity grease, and for real put it on and into with one of those disposable utility brushes.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 10:45 PM (zOUn5)

148 138 I'll join the move out club.

If Ted Cruz loses in November I'm moving out of Texas.
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2024 10:42 PM (SHMXB)

I’m thinking the impeachment of AG Paxton last year is causing the purge of RINOs, which is badly needed.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 10:46 PM (8sMut)

149 107 The jay-walking harasser is a psychopath; cop is just an asshole.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

So the moral of the story is "don't be an asshole to a psychopath."

The Brothers Grimm couldn't have said it better.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 10:31 PM (DgGvY)

Pied Piper is a great example of such a story.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:47 PM (ynpvh)

150 In the 70s and 80s, Dreyfuss made quite a few appearances in the media as the representative of Hollywood's liberal wing when the media had Hollywood's left and right debating political issues. I didn't agree with what Dreyfuss usually said but he always stated his positions in an intelligent manner.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 28, 2024 10:48 PM (xxG/v)

151 Dreyfuss got typecast with What About Bob? And that one with Nick Nolte.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 10:48 PM (9yXr+)

152 I do wish they would stop making Trump sound so cool!! I mean I'm voting for him anyway.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 28, 2024 10:39 PM (sAmhv)

Yeah, I know, it's terrible. Trump gets cool then people start voting for him. Like that mugshot, now available on t-shirts nationwide.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:48 PM (emlEe)

153 Helluva an ONT, Mis Hum. Nicely done and thank you.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 10:49 PM (41CYW)

154 Another thing: whatever happened to families preparing children for life? I didn’t go to school to be prepared for life.

Hold on.

Top Men have told us that by forcing young adults at gunpoint to pick up garbage and empty bedpans will provide them deep life skills like balancing a checkbook, making a budget, choosing a proper diet, how to choose a life-long mate, how to stay out of jail, properly investing, and how to apply a tourniquet.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:49 PM (iruKY)

155 Once a music-inclined guy from the hood could aspire to be a Pip. Now, aspiring rapper is their only aim. Sad.
Posted by: Return to Motown

Pipping ain't easy.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 28, 2024 10:49 PM (u/Zei)

156 Damn good musical choices tonight - all of 'em.

Posted by: 496 at May 28, 2024 10:49 PM (DEKg9)

157 114
if Trumphitler did win in Nov., the entire U.S. would collapse by December after the biggest run on banks in history along with millions fleeing the country.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

Wouldn't like bank runs but millions fleeing might be all right.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

Funny, that didn't happen the last time...and the economy, despite for the Wuhan Virus, was doing pretty good.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

158 Dreyfuss played a great punchable bad guy in Red.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2024 10:50 PM (SHMXB)

159 According to Yann, there was no such thing as science until peer reviewed journals came around. All those aqueducts and pyramids must have been happy little accidents!

https://tinyurl.com/2rjecx8r

All those Trade Secrets were just magic then.

Posted by: Ciampino - Metal smelting is magic at May 28, 2024 10:50 PM (qfLjt)

160 I really am not seeing the hype around Carrington, even around Miyake.

If your cell phone or AM radio works in the building you are NOT in a Faraday cage.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:51 PM (iruKY)

161 Coke fueled Dreyfuss was over the top as Baby Face Nelson in Milius' DILLINGER and weird but relatable as a doomed dirtbag in... oh what was that one not SECONDS. . Hang on

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 10:51 PM (9yXr+)

162 Colin Powell was a supporter of mandatory volunteerism.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 10:51 PM (63Dwl)

163 80 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Rub rub rub those fuzzy furry bellies!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 28

Okay, I did that, and now my stomach is kind of red and raw. What next?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 28, 2024 10:51 PM (Js20g)

164 103 I still peruse Lew Rockwell’s website. I’ll have to see what he says, if anything, about the Twink in charge of the party.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 10:30 PM (PpROq)

Better you than me. Mr. Rockwell is a whack job.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 10:52 PM (8sMut)

165 Earth poised for another major solar storm this WEEK creating magnificent auroras - as NOAA gives 60% chance of radio blackouts

An increase in solar storms is DEFINITELY a sign that global warming is increasing!!! Wake up, sheeple!! Just like this May, being the wettest recorded in US history, is due to the increased moisture in the air due to warming!!!!

Posted by: Rabid Green Leftard, throwing red paint on priceless art at May 28, 2024 10:52 PM (ycI94)

166 I was searching YouTube to see how to tighten shades, and saw this
💀

https://tinyurl.com/fyp7rafb

Posted by: Ciampino - you may call it what you want at May 28, 2024 10:52 PM (qfLjt)

167 Inserts. And I forgot about MOON OVER PARADOR which is slight but funny.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 10:53 PM (9yXr+)

168 Right before I left home, my Dad imparted some words of wisdom - "Boy, you'd sure as hell better respect Mother Nature because She doesn't give a tinker's damn about you."
Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 10:05 PM (WXNFJ)

As Prof. Neil E. Peart says, “…and the stars look down.”

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 10:53 PM (8sMut)

169 147 I'm writing up a learned treatise on extending the longevity of a Heritage Rough Rider .22 revolver, which is made of pot metal ad melted down bottle caps.

Posted by: LenNeal at May

I picked up one of those for my youngest daughter.

Got the 6.5" barrel to give her a little longer sight radius. It is a really sweet shooter!

Don't know about the wear and tear yet - haven't put enough rounds through it.

Hopefully, the "gun bug" will bite her a little bit.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (HlyYF)

170 if Trumphitler did win in Nov., the entire U.S. would collapse by December after the biggest run on banks in history along with millions fleeing the country

Maybe for totally different reasons; namely that the Left and the lame duck politicians would completely chimp out. But from what I can tell of much of the Left, they sponge off their parents, have trust funds, or are on the government payroll.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (iruKY)

171 Mis Hum highlights John Fogerty tonight, which is a big step up from Yoko.

I read Fogerty's autobio "Fortunate Son," and also watched a short YouTube documentary, "The Tragedy of Creedence Clearwater Revival."

Here are my conclusions:

1) Fogerty was cheated endlessly by his original, crooked record company.* Not the first artist to have that experience. Fogerty gets some of the blame for being a total fool about business matters & not hiring a competent atty (or indeed ANY atty at all) before he signed away everything he would ever earn, during his entire musical career, for a handful of beans.

2) The other members of CCR, including Fogerty's older brother, had no songwriting talent, & never produced ANYTHING which had any commercial value. (I could put the period after the word "anything" & stop right there, btw.)

3) I don't feel all THAT bad for Fogerty because his net worth, finally, is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $100 mil. He's still alive, btw. He paid a lot of heavy dues, & I'm glad he survived.

*think shell corporations in the Netherland Antilles

Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (NLIak)

172 I can't wait to read the ONT later. Thanks MH!

I'm upstairs but the tablet rang regarding house renovations.

I'm watching 1925 'Phantom of the Opera' which is surprisingly good for a silent film. They had a chandelier drop in the Paris Opera House and that was very well done, even by today's standards.

The woman who played Christine Gaae was pretty hot. Especially in the wig. She's probably not bangable now unless you're Hunter Biden high on whatever.

Posted by: Stateless at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (jvJvP)

173 Overtime

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (ZdexC)

174 Top pic:
Man, do I need to do some creek fishing.
Posted by: Some Rat
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Agree. Long overdue. Grew up fly fishing the St. Joe National Forest outside..... or up the hill from Wallace, ID. Nostalgia kick. The artwork on the album cover behind the awesome top pic is cool too.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (41CYW)

175 Right before I left home, my Dad imparted some words of wisdom:

Don't ever lend to anyone your car, your wife or your underwear.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 28, 2024 10:55 PM (iruKY)

176 162 Colin Powell was a supporter of mandatory volunteerism.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 10:51 PM (63Dwl)
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Wonderful oxymoron, goes well with military intelligence.

Posted by: Ciampino - you may call it what you want ... at May 28, 2024 10:55 PM (qfLjt)

177 "Charlamagne tha God" is on the Gutfeld show. He thinks Trump attempted a coup on Jan 6 and will destroy the USA if elected. What a loser. Don't know why Gutfeld has him on. Diversity, I guess.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 10:55 PM (63Dwl)

178 "If ExxonMobil succeeds in silencing voices and upending the rules of shareholder democracy, what other subjects will the leaders of any company make off limits? _Calpers

Shareholder democracy? What the hell is that? Sounds like California crap. Is this lawsuit going to be in CA or TX?

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 10:56 PM (YdEcD)

179 Overtime
Posted by: andycanuck

Again.

Cats and Rags thinking hockey needs to be played in quarters, not thirds.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 10:56 PM (DgGvY)

180 Gladys Knight was a peach, for sure.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 28, 2024 10:57 PM (mH6SG)

181 3) I don't feel all THAT bad for Fogerty because his net worth, finally, is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $100 mil.

Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM

According to rocket surgeon, Cate Blanchett, that makes Fogerty "middle class".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 28, 2024 10:57 PM (HlyYF)

182 According to Yann, there was no such thing as science until peer reviewed journals came around. All those aqueducts and pyramids must have been happy little accidents!

https://tinyurl.com/2rjecx8r

All those Trade Secrets were just magic then.

Posted by: Ciampino - Metal smelting is magic

Einstein paraphrased:
"If you ever peer review me again, I will never publish in your rag again."

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 10:57 PM (vJiyU)

183 Here are my conclusions:

1) Fogerty was cheated endlessly by his original, crooked record company.* Not the first artist to have that experience.

Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues comes to mind also, iirc.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 10:58 PM (WXNFJ)

184 Just what America needs - kids spending *even more* time in their formative years locked in to rigidly conformist government institutions, whose leadership are all unstable deviants hell bent on channeling the power of youth towards their unseemly ends.

That oughta fix things right up. Can't wait to see what this "public service" looks like.

"What was your MOS?"

"Statue smashing. You?"

"That's cool. I got DQSH. I dressed up like Divine and read Gender Queer to kids in Knoxville for two years."

"Awesome! Hand me a Bud Light, bruh. It's Mulvaney Time!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 28, 2024 10:58 PM (0FoWg)

185 Dreyfuss. Seems like he doesn't much give a shit if he gets cancelled. Heh.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 10:58 PM (41CYW)

186 177 "Charlamagne tha God" is on the Gutfeld show. He thinks Trump attempted a coup on Jan 6 and will destroy the USA if elected. What a loser. Don't know why Gutfeld has him on. Diversity, I guess.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 10:55 PM (63Dwl)

When someone wants to be an idiot, and say idiotic things, hand the dude a mike, and get out of his way. Encourage him, even. Maybe Greg Gutfield is following that formula.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 10:58 PM (8sMut)

187 I once stole poster while in college from the local movie theater (thank Gaia it wasn't North Korea); there were like four of us in the raid for different posters. So I got a 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz' poster, with Dreyfus. Have no idea what happened to that poster.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 10:58 PM (emlEe)

188 146 Most computers are stored in metal boxes (faraday cages) which are also in houses fully wired up with copper (so are also faraday cages) and if they are important, like server-farms, they were probably underground too.
Surges in copper wire happen, as Quebec 1989, but I believe we've been hardening the infrastructure since then.
I really am not seeing the hype around Carrington, even around Miyake.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 28, 2024 10:45 PM (gKWVE)

Houses are NOT Faraday cages, unless you've done something special to your house. Your computer is susceptible via wires going in and coming out (e.g. power cord, USB cables).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:59 PM (ynpvh)

189 Coke fueled Dreyfuss was over the top as Baby Face Nelson in Milius' DILLINGER and weird but relatable as a doomed dirtbag in... oh what was that one not SECONDS. . Hang on
Posted by: LenNeal

I loved the bit in Dillinger where he shoots his mouth off and insults the entire gang and Dillinger takes him down to the lakeslide and proceeds to a lengthy session of pimp-slapping.

Warren Oates was fantastic as Dillinger in that picture, as was Ben Johnson as Purvis. Steve Kanaly's final scene as Pretty Boy Floyd was one of the most perfect evocations of the complicated vision Americans have regarding certain outlaws in our culture.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 28, 2024 10:59 PM (u/Zei)

190 Magnificent Aurora, she commin' ta see me round about midnight.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 11:00 PM (YdEcD)

191 Houses are NOT Faraday cages, unless you've done something special to your house. Your computer is susceptible via wires going in and coming out (e.g. power cord, USB cables).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 10:59 PM (ynpvh)

True, dat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 11:01 PM (OwAOz)

192 176 162 Colin Powell was a supporter of mandatory volunteerism.

Correct me if I am wrong, residents of the People’s Republic of MD, but isn’t it a graduation requirement (HS) to “volunteer” X amount of time?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:01 PM (8sMut)

193 Paolo Pininfarina, who has died after a long illness aged 65, was not only the custodian of a great Italian automotive institution, but also the man who steered the Pininfarina company into the modern age of global industrial design.
***

Awwww
So now we know.
Ladies everywhere are in mourning.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 28, 2024 11:01 PM (W/lyH)

194 Dreyfuss has made some stinkers since 2000. Red being the exception.

Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2024 11:02 PM (SHMXB)

195 First-in-the-nation reparations scheme SLAPPED by lawsuit that calls $25,000 payouts to blacks unconstitutional

https://mol.im/a/13469051

Analogous to money spent on renaming schools, teams, etc.

Posted by: Ciampino - you may call it what you want .. at May 28, 2024 11:03 PM (qfLjt)

196 Re Yann....aside from the obvious nonsense about no science without publication (and I bet he's got a list of approved publications too) it would be GREAT if scientists today actually followed what he lined out. Fewer and fewer seem to do so.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 28, 2024 11:03 PM (I5U35)

197 Houses are NOT Faraday cages
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Trying to resist the puns.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (41CYW)

198 Too bad. Movie posters are worth alot because the theatres either tossed them when the newer films rotated in or pasted the newer ones over the old.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (ZdexC)

199 National service could change that'. It is an interesting story from the UK.

In that environment? Under the diktat of neo-marxists? Hell no.

"You will now volunteer to set up drag shows, vaxx events, NHS self-deleting demos, and elevating the temperatures of the few open churches. Yeah, service~!"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (IG4Id)

200 Re Yann....aside from the obvious nonsense about no science without publication (and I bet he's got a list of approved publications too) it would be GREAT if scientists today actually followed what he lined out. Fewer and fewer seem to do so.
Posted by: Lirio100 at May 28, 2024 11:03 PM (I5U35)

Anyone willing to bet he's not 100% in on the Gerbil Worming scam?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 11:05 PM (OwAOz)

201 197 Houses are NOT Faraday cages
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Trying to resist the puns.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (41CYW)

Why?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 28, 2024 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

202 Kittens
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZUEiwyq4W8c

Posted by: Ciampino - you may call it what you want . at May 28, 2024 11:06 PM (qfLjt)

203 Re Yann....aside from the obvious nonsense about no science without publication (and I bet he's got a list of approved publications too) it would be GREAT if scientists today actually followed what he lined out. Fewer and fewer seem to do so.
Posted by: Lirio100 at May 28, 2024 11:03 PM (I5U35)

Anyone willing to bet he's not 100% in on the Gerbil Worming scam?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 11:05 PM (OwAOz)Re Yann....aside from the obvious nonsense about no science without publication (and I bet he's got a list of approved publications too) it would be GREAT if scientists today actually followed what he lined out. Fewer and fewer seem to do so.
Posted by: Lirio100 at May 28, 2024 11:03 PM (I5U35)

Anyone willing to bet he's not 100% in on the Gerbil Worming scam?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 11:05 PM (OwAOz)

He doesn't support Richard Gere's method of dealing with tapeworms?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (VNX3d)

204 People in glass Faraday cages shouldn't throw lightning.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (lhenN)

205 Houses are NOT Faraday cages, unless you've done something special to your house. Your computer is susceptible via wires going in and coming out (e.g. power cord, USB cables).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Like the holes in the door of your microwave, the wires in your house and the "holes" between them do constitute a Faraday cage, if the ground wires are actually grounded. The cage is just tuned to such a low frequency that it doesn't matter.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (DgGvY)

206 Correct me if I am wrong, residents of the People’s Republic of MD, but isn’t it a graduation requirement (HS) to “volunteer” X amount of time?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:01 PM (8sMut)

Yes, that was true. There were forms to fill out to submit for credit. I felt very subversive that I was able to give kids volunteer hour credit for volunteering at our Vacation Bible School (we described it as character building).

Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (n3DL0)

207 Youngest granddaughter, who turns 3 today, is in good musical company I see.

When the kids were young and we were teaching them life skills, I would explain how they would be grateful for this later. Son finally said "Mom, I will do this and I'll do a good job, if you will please just not tell me how happy it will make me in ten years".
I may have overdone it a little.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (IZjwR)

208 The two pillars of Libertarianism - legal drugs and repealing the age of consent laws.

The two pillars of Moronism -
That damn GOP! I wish somebody would kill them all for me.
Those damn Dems! I wish somebody would kill them all for me.

All day, every day.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (zdLoL)

209 Re Yann....aside from the obvious nonsense about no science without publication (and I bet he's got a list of approved publications too) it would be GREAT if scientists today actually followed what he lined out. Fewer and fewer seem to do so.
Posted by: Lirio100

Physics! PHYSICS!! Been around since God wore short pants. NOT settled science.
Global warming? 40 years and that shit's settled.
Give me a break....

Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 11:08 PM (vJiyU)

210 Trying to resist the puns.
Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (41CYW)
Why?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Conducting myself with grounded forbearance.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:08 PM (41CYW)

211 or pasted the newer ones over the old.
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (ZdexC)

LOL! That's how I got that poster. It was like the second or third one down, helpfully stapled not glued. One guy wanted the top poster, but we had no idea what was underneath.

"You're asking too much. The staple holes affect the value." ~ Rick Harrison

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 11:09 PM (emlEe)

212 The two pillars of Libertarianism - legal drugs and repealing the age of consent laws.

The two pillars of Moronism -
That damn GOP! I wish somebody would kill them all for me.
Those damn Dems! I wish somebody would kill them all for me.

All day, every day.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (zdLoL)

Nah, I just wish most of the politicians had to clean out septic tanks or cattle/horse barns every summer for 3-6 months. They pile so much manure on us, so they should have to shovel it out to make up the difference

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 28, 2024 11:11 PM (VNX3d)

213 In that environment? Under the diktat of neo-marxists? Hell no.

"You will now volunteer to set up drag shows, vaxx events, NHS self-deleting demos, and elevating the temperatures of the few open churches. Yeah, service~!"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (IG4Id)

In any environment forced “national service” is a bad idea.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:11 PM (8sMut)

214 The two pillars of Moronism -
That damn GOP! I wish somebody would kill them all for me.
Those damn Dems! I wish somebody would kill them all for me.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (zdLoL)

I'm standing right here.

Posted by: Movies at May 28, 2024 11:12 PM (IZjwR)

215 I like the "Wedding Venue" sponsorship - as a Mom with two children expecting to have weddings in the next year or so - I am liking the affordability of the offerings. :-)

Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at May 28, 2024 11:12 PM (n3DL0)

216 Yes, that was true. There were forms to fill out to submit for credit. I felt very subversive that I was able to give kids volunteer hour credit for volunteering at our Vacation Bible School (we described it as character building).
Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (n3DL0)

You'll do well in the camps.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 11:12 PM (emlEe)

217 GAME OVAH!
18:48 on a powerplay

3-2 FL

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 28, 2024 11:12 PM (ZdexC)

218 I still peruse Lew Rockwell’s website. I’ll have to see what he says, if anything, about the Twink in charge of the party.
Posted by: Common Tater

I used to go to that sight a lot. Voted for Harry Browne. Sane class act. Ron Paul too. A bit wonky now and then...

I want to know who they are now. Who is it that wears the skin of the original party? Who would nominate this leftist moron. Seems like the final death knell. Any one who was old school will leave. Trump benefits?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 28, 2024 11:12 PM (hftn9)

219 Florida ties the series.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 28, 2024 11:12 PM (u73oe)

220 [iPhysics! PHYSICS!! Been around since God wore short pants. NOT settled science.
Global warming? 40 years and that shit's settled.
Give me a break....
Posted by: Some Rat at May 28, 2024 11:08 PM (vJiyU)

About 40 years ago they realized the science of Ice Ball Earth wasn't getting any funding, so the science settled in on gerbil worming for funding. Damn if it didn't work.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 11:15 PM (emlEe)

221 I'm watching 1925 'Phantom of the Opera' which is surprisingly good for a silent film. They had a chandelier drop in the Paris Opera House and that was very well done, even by today's standards.

The woman who played Christine Gaae was pretty hot. Especially in the wig. She's probably not bangable now unless you're Hunter Biden high on whatever.
Posted by: Stateless at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (jvJvP)

The primitive color sequence is fun, too.
The 1925 "Ben Hur" has one as well.

Posted by: Movies at May 28, 2024 11:16 PM (IZjwR)

222 I'm standing right here.
Posted by: Movies
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(*)(*)

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 28, 2024 11:16 PM (ZdexC)

223 All day, every day.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 28, 2024 11:07 PM (zdLoL)

You're free to stay away from such a monotonous site.

One wonders what compels you to return and reiterate your disappointment with the crowd here.

All day, every day.

Posted by: spindrift at May 28, 2024 11:17 PM (9UkPu)

224 Oops. I wanted to sock "Bewbs" for that one.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 28, 2024 11:17 PM (ZdexC)

225 Exxon Mobile giving an eye poke to CalPERS is amusing. I doubt it has legs but is an inch in the right direction.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:19 PM (41CYW)

226 169

That revolver is made of melted down cap guns and bottle caps, but the design is so good you can really get a good one. My 6.5 inch is astonishingly accurate. I recommend lubricating the crap out of it even before shooting it. I use White Lithium Grease and synthetic transmission fluid. The hammer face on mine after 1000 rounds of standard velocity 40gr has a divot in it from hitting the firing pin! Also the hammer face was concave.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:19 PM (9yXr+)

227 I saw the following headline 'Our schools don't prepare young people for life. National service could change that'. It is an interesting story from the UK.

TLDR version: Assholes who have most kids for 12 years or so say they can really get through to them of you just mandate one more year.

How fucking stupid would you have to be to believe this laugh-out-loud-funny horsehit?

Posted by: Nah, guv, get stuffed in the bad place at May 28, 2024 11:20 PM (c3ZiX)

228 The woman who played Christine Gaae was pretty hot. Especially in the wig. She's probably not bangable now unless you're Hunter Biden high on whatever.
Posted by: Stateless at May 28, 2024 10:54 PM (jvJvP)

Like a bag full of antlers, you mean?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 11:20 PM (0eaVi)

229 I never paid any attention to the Libertarian Party platform. It's a lunatic's wet dream, I see.

But I've paid plenty of attention to the populist conservative candidates who lost to liberal DEMs, thanks to the good old libertarians.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) is Exhibit A. The Libertarian who got Tester re-elected* last time was a Gabby Hayes lookalike who said Trump was "squishy soft on the Second Amendment"!

* The Libertarian vote + the GOP vote didn't quite surpass Tester's vote. However, the Gabby Hayes dude hurt Tester's GOP opponent (Matt Rosendale) in the polls, & thereby dried up Rosendale's fundraising.

Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2024 11:21 PM (NLIak)

230 How do the proponents of National Service square that idea that (particularly here in the US) "community service" is most commonly understood as a judicially-mandated punishment?

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 28, 2024 11:23 PM (u/Zei)

231 IT jaywalker was a dumbass.

There are a lot less illegal ways of making the dickhead cop uncomfortable.

Or so I've been told.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 28, 2024 11:23 PM (ufFY8)

232
The Libertarian who got Tester re-elected* last time was a Gabby Hayes lookalike

Does he have teeth?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 11:23 PM (63Dwl)

233 Like a bag full of antlers, you mean?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Give it a few years. It'll be like two pigs in a gunny sack. Which isn't any better.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:23 PM (41CYW)

234 That little neighbor dog was trotting down the middle of the road in his jammies again tonight. Wouldn't let me near him.

Either he's afraid of me or he was looking for love up the road.

Posted by: KT at May 28, 2024 11:24 PM (rrtZS)

235 169

Also along with the lubricant advice, clean, clean, clean. The 'metals' involved are both dissimilar and cheap, so any friction is Death.
For real, mine was supposed to be a garden gun shot maybe 50 times in its lifetime but I took it the range and Holy Hell when all the QC lines up you can get a real shooter.
Comparing the Heritage to a Ruger or Colt is stupid. It's closer to something like the H&R utility revolvers.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:25 PM (9yXr+)

236 Apparently the Libertarian candidate for Senator who turned his skin blue by taking silver isn't available for their Presidential nomination.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 28, 2024 11:25 PM (Js20g)

237 This dude Charlamagne has no f*cking clue what he is talking about.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2024 11:27 PM (RIvkX)

238 230 How do the proponents of National Service square that idea that (particularly here in the US) "community service" is most commonly understood as a judicially-mandated punishment?
Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 28, 2024 11:23 PM (u/Zei)

“We need to instill patriotism and the desire of service to others in young people” is what you will most commonly hear.

But yes, how having a police officer shove a gun in their back as they volunteer helps the cause is beyond my feeble understanding.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:28 PM (8sMut)

239 1925 Ben Hur surprised me with its emotional punch.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:28 PM (9yXr+)

240 236 Apparently the Libertarian candidate for Senator who turned his skin blue by taking silver isn't available for their Presidential nomination.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 28, 2024 11:25 PM (Js20g)

What’s a closer approximation to the bar scene from Star Wars: the Dem or Libertarian conventions?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:30 PM (8sMut)

241 Funniest thing about my Heritage .22 is I enjoy it so much, as it is crazy accurate, and I want to preserve that, it's led to much more attentive cleaning of my other better guns that aren't nearly as junky.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:30 PM (9yXr+)

242 What’s a closer approximation to the bar scene from Star Wars: the Dem or Libertarian conventions?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Before the shootout, Libertarian. After, Dem.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 11:31 PM (DgGvY)

243 239 1925 Ben Hur surprised me with its emotional punch.
Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:28 PM (9yXr+)

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I'll never forget the part where his mother and sister turned into leopards.

And Massala was exposed as a cheetah.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:31 PM (bo7UB)

244 If national service is grand, I assume the left has no objection to press-ganging border crossers into roadside litter crews.

Posted by: If it's good enough for high school grads, it's good enough for illegals at May 28, 2024 11:32 PM (c3ZiX)

245 TLDR version: Assholes who have most kids for 12 years or so say they can really get through to them of you just mandate one more year.

How fucking stupid would you have to be to believe this laugh-out-loud-funny horsehit?
Posted by: Nah, guv, get stuffed in the bad place at May 28, 2024 11:20 PM (c3ZiX)

The town nearest me is full of people who probably think the same.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:32 PM (8sMut)

246 What’s a closer approximation to the bar scene from Star Wars: the Dem or Libertarian conventions?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:30 PM (8sMut)

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Nowhere will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:32 PM (bo7UB)

247 Mos Norm Eisen

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2024 11:33 PM (RIvkX)

248 Nowhere will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Posted by: Cicero
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We are willing to toss our hat in the ring.

Posted by: DC at May 28, 2024 11:34 PM (41CYW)

249
I'll never forget the part where his mother and sister turned into leopards.

And Massala was exposed as a cheetah.
Posted by: Cicero

That was the SCTV version.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 11:34 PM (63Dwl)

250 210 Trying to resist the puns.
Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:04 PM (41CYW)
Why?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Conducting myself with grounded forbearance.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:08 PM (41CYW)
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Those puns have a high potential but I'm winding down for the evening. I'll call Henry to see if the core can be activated. Meanwhile keep all valuables in the volt.

Posted by: Ciampino - Ohmmm at May 28, 2024 11:35 PM (qfLjt)

251 It would be high comedy indeed, with a bath salt chaser, were the Babylonians in DC to try to spool up a military draft for yet another one of their patented overseas expeditions to save “democracy”.

The wailing and screeching from the usual suspects would be audible from outer space. I can’t wait.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 11:35 PM (PpROq)

252 Bunch of ho mhos.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 11:36 PM (63Dwl)

253 Imo, there are much better ways to solve the U.S. armed forces serious recruiting problems than by bringing back the draft.

The draft gets you a bunch of short-timers who don't want to be there. During the VN era, commanders in VN said the one thing they would most like to have was a fast way to get rid of fuckups.

As for recruiting, how 'bout better wages, hours, benefits & conditions of employment? Plus a renewed attempt to make the image of our soldiers proud fighting men and women? Instead of guess-my-sex admirals and drag queens?

Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2024 11:36 PM (NLIak)

254 189 Coke fueled Dreyfuss was over the top as Baby Face Nelson in Milius' DILLINGER
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Come for the thrills stay for the movie tips, downloading it now.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 11:36 PM (YdEcD)

255 Holy crap, that article on how good mandatory national service would be was in The Guardian, the UK’s Communist mouthpiece. That explains a lot. The Guardian’s view on quaint things like personal freedom and liberty is dim at best.

“This will show young people how their communities function”: congratulations, you just delivered a damning indictment of schools and families in the UK.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:36 PM (8sMut)

256 To finish this up with the Heritage business the front sight on mine was both obviously not centered and also bent to the left. However it shot great except a little high and the top was poorly radiused. So just as a test I picked up a three square 6" file from Menards and within 3 strokes had removed enough metal to scare me.
I haven't seen a barrel that soft since the Stevens 15!

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:36 PM (9yXr+)

257 Too bad. Movie posters are worth alot because the theatres either tossed them when the newer films rotated in or pasted the newer ones over the old.
Posted by: andycanuck

My Grandpop was a local big wheel for War Bond Drives during WWII and was a guy that saved everything. As a result, when we cleaned out the house after he and Grammi passed, we found a number of posters from the drives. Some were pretty chewed by mice but a few were in pretty good shape.

The 'Deliver Us From Evil' one with the crying little girl superimposed over a swastika brought a ton of $$$.

https://shorturl.at/mx5xS

Posted by: Tonypete at May 28, 2024 11:37 PM (WXNFJ)

258 Royal Caribbean horror as passenger dies after 'jumping' from ship

https://mol.im/a/13467531

Posted by: Ciampino - Ohmmm Ohmmmm at May 28, 2024 11:37 PM (qfLjt)

259 How do the proponents of National Service square that idea that (particularly here in the US) "community service" is most commonly understood as a judicially-mandated punishment?
Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 28, 2024 11:23 PM (u/Zei)

You're catching on, peasant.

There'll be lots of carve outs for the elites, just like Vietnam era deferments. Either that or you went to Vietnam to run for president.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 11:37 PM (emlEe)

260 Royal Caribbean horror as passenger dies after 'jumping' from ship

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I can understand why you'd want to escape that human layer cake at any cost.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:38 PM (bo7UB)

261 254

You've never seen DILLINGER?!

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:38 PM (9yXr+)

262 As for recruiting, how 'bout better wages, hours, benefits & conditions of employment? Plus a renewed attempt to make the image of our soldiers proud fighting men and women? Instead of guess-my-sex admirals and drag queens?
Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2024 11:36 PM (NLIak)

And try not pissing off the veterans, either. Why? Because how many people in the military right now come from military families? That is a lot of free recruitment right there.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:39 PM (8sMut)

263 Guess I shouldn't be shocked that I step away for a few short minutes and return to electricity puns.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 28, 2024 11:39 PM (dZVON)

264 Godfather producer Al Ruddy dead at 94

https://mol.im/a/13468727

Posted by: Ciampino - 80+ is a good run at May 28, 2024 11:39 PM (qfLjt)

265 What’s a closer approximation to the bar scene from Star Wars: the Dem or Libertarian conventions?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:30 PM (8sMut)

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Nowhere will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:32 PM (bo7UB)

Hey, wait a minute!

Posted by: Congress at May 28, 2024 11:40 PM (emlEe)

266 The chariot race in 1925 Ben Hur I'm pretty sure killed or crippled about 56 people.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:40 PM (9yXr+)

267 Come for the thrills stay for the movie tips, downloading it now.
Posted by: Braenyard

Keep an eye out for Harry Dean Stanton as Homer Van Meter and Steve Kanaly as Pretty Boy Floyd. Amazing performances from both men. I really believe that Dillinger is one of John Milius's greatest films.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 28, 2024 11:41 PM (u/Zei)

268 Those puns have a high potential but I'm winding down for the evening. I'll call Henry to see if the core can be activated. Meanwhile keep all valuables in the volt.
Posted by: Ciampino
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I see what you did there. Impressive meshing and distribution thereof.

Posted by: DC at May 28, 2024 11:41 PM (41CYW)

269 Off DC sock. Damnit.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:41 PM (41CYW)

270 Bunch of ho mhos.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

There are bunches of them, as hos offer little resistance.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 11:41 PM (DgGvY)

271 251 It would be high comedy indeed, with a bath salt chaser, were the Babylonians in DC to try to spool up a military draft for yet another one of their patented overseas expeditions to save “democracy”.

The wailing and screeching from the usual suspects would be audible from outer space. I can’t wait.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 11:35 PM (PpROq)

At the rate they are going it won’t be used for any overseas expedition. Rather, it will be used to replenish the ranks they have now.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:41 PM (8sMut)

272 266 The chariot race in 1925 Ben Hur I'm pretty sure killed or crippled about 56 people.
Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:40 PM (9yXr+)

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Go Greens

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:41 PM (bo7UB)

273 266

On my own comment, clearly that doesn't count the extras who got leprosy.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:42 PM (9yXr+)

274
Your house isn't a Faraday cage. Even your microwave oven isn't one. The microwave is just specially "tuned" to contain the microwave frequency it operates at.

The door has a tuned channel in it that reflects microwaves at the operating frequency. That keep leakage out of the gap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2024 11:43 PM (w6EFb)

275 Royal Caribbean horror as passenger dies after 'jumping' from ship

https://mol.im/a/13467531
Posted by: Ciampino - Ohmmm Ohmmmm at May 28, 2024 11:37 PM (qfLjt)

Ye Gods! That ship is quite the abortion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 11:43 PM (OwAOz)

276 California used to export energy, in the before times. Before bolsheviks. Oil wells everywhere, probably Beverly Hills. Close enough.

I just wish these corporations would give all these assholes what they say they want. No cars? “Beyond Oil”?

OK motherfuckers. No Oil For You. No diesel trucks either no diesel trains. We won’t sell JP8 or kerosene or heating oil either. Fertilizer? Forget it, made with natural gas. And so on.

Education is key. None of the children in college rioting and burning has a fucking clue on anything, they are just useful idiots. I know this, I was one too.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 11:44 PM (PpROq)

277 And try not pissing off the veterans, either. Why? Because how many people in the military right now come from military families? That is a lot of free recruitment right there.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:39 PM (8sMut)

But remember, that's not who they want.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 11:44 PM (0eaVi)

278 267

Harry Dean Stanton's demise in DILLINGER is a highlight of World Cinema.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 28, 2024 11:44 PM (9yXr+)

279 225 Exxon Mobile giving an eye poke to CalPERS is amusing. I doubt it has legs but is an inch in the right direction.
Posted by: scampydog
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If he gets the attention of the shareholders, and I think he will, come vote time they just might vote those three bitches out.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 11:45 PM (YdEcD)

280 Ye Gods! That ship is quite the abortion.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 11:43 PM (OwAOz)

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Almost six times the displacement of the Titanic.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:45 PM (bo7UB)

281 There'll be lots of carve outs for the elites, just like Vietnam era deferments. Either that or you went to Vietnam to run for president.
Posted by: RickZ

I had asthma, fat.

And a stutter

Posted by: Medically exempt Joey B. at May 28, 2024 11:45 PM (wWqRd)

282 Go Greens
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:41 PM (bo7UB)

Blues!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 11:46 PM (0eaVi)

283 Met's 'Apache' curator is accused of lying about Native American roots

https://mol.im/a/13469039

Where's Half-breed Cher ....

Joking aside, now one has to be a registered Indian to be an Indian? Ludicrous.

Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Speed at May 28, 2024 11:46 PM (qfLjt)

284 244 If national service is grand, I assume the left has no objection to press-ganging border crossers into roadside litter crews.
Posted by: If it's good enough for high school grads, it's good enough for illegals at May 28, 2024 11:32 PM (c3ZiX)

No, no, no. National service is for the disgusting citizenry. We have long ago forfeited the confidence of the government. Illegal,aliens are all SWEETHEARTS. Laws cannot and should not apply to them, ever. If U.S. citizens are raped and murdered? So be it.

Such is what the government and media will tell you.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:47 PM (8sMut)

285
The threat of a big Carrington Event to power lines is due to the changing magnetic field that such storms induce. Locally, it isn't much, but it adds up over long distances, hundreds and thousands of miles.

On the time scale of the event, relative to 60 Hz, the wig-woggling of the geomagnetic field's horizontal component induces DC currents in long transmission lines, most pronounced in the east-west direction.

Now, big AC transformers do not like DC currents. It can drive the cores into saturation, at which point the AC voltage on top will drive enormous currents. Second just the heating of the DC current itself.

Again, locally, you wouldn't see anything due to this on small scale electrical systems. But if you got big-ass wire stretched for hundreds to a thousand miles, you've got problems.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 28, 2024 11:47 PM (w6EFb)

286 Education is key. None of the children in college rioting and burning has a fucking clue on anything, they are just useful idiots. I know this, I was one too.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 11:44 PM (PpROq)

Like a Congressman asking a Dem witness wanting to reduce oil use at some green hearing: "What are your glasses made of?"

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 11:47 PM (emlEe)

287 Joking aside, now one has to be a registered Indian to be an Indian? Ludicrous.
Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Speed at May 28, 2024 11:46 PM (qfLjt)
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You have to be "enrolled" with a recognized tribe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2024 11:48 PM (RIvkX)

288 You've never seen DILLINGER?!
Posted by: LenNeal
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I've walked out of more movies than I've sat through.
Bullshit movies, which are most, are an insult.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 11:49 PM (YdEcD)

289 But remember, that's not who they want.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 28, 2024 11:44 PM (0eaVi)

Ah, good point! Who was the dummy who said that?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 28, 2024 11:49 PM (8sMut)

290 I can understand why you'd want to escape that human layer cake at any cost.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:38 PM (bo7UB)

Human layer cake, hah.

They're impressive feats of engineering, and I wouldn't mind taking a tour of one to see what makes it tick, but spending a week or more aboard isn't my cup of tea.

Posted by: spindrift at May 28, 2024 11:49 PM (9UkPu)

291 If he gets the attention of the shareholders, and I think he will, come vote time they just might vote those three bitches out.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Three!?!? I sold when they voted the one in. And yes, get those kucklenutz out.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:50 PM (41CYW)

292 As for recruiting, how 'bout better wages, hours, benefits & conditions of employment? Plus a renewed attempt to make the image of our soldiers proud fighting men and women? Instead of guess-my-sex admirals and drag queens?
Posted by: mnw at May 28, 2024 11:36 PM (NLIak)

The Russians still have conscription, however the conscripts are forbidden by law from serving outside Russia's borders. The guys slugging it out in Ukraine are "volunteers," and there are plenty of them. A volunteer is highly paid, compared to other Russians, and are presently very respected.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 28, 2024 11:52 PM (Js20g)

293 The door has a tuned channel in it that reflects microwaves at the operating frequency. That keep leakage out of the gap.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Think Faraday cage has to be sealed.

As for as voltage riding the big wires I read it will ride the top of a chain link fence and fry the transistors in the car parked next to it.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 28, 2024 11:53 PM (YdEcD)

294 They're making those cruise ships bigger and bigger.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 28, 2024 11:53 PM (63Dwl)

295 They're impressive feats of engineering, and I wouldn't mind taking a tour of one to see what makes it tick, but spending a week or more aboard isn't my cup of tea.
Posted by: spindrift at May 28, 2024 11:49 PM (9UkPu)

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FUN FACT: The massive diesel generators that run full time on a modern cruise ship are not connected to the drive train. The drive is all-electric, so the diesels just serve as generators to charge the batteries and power the immense draw of a ship full if 10,000 people.

They're full hybrids. Like electric locomotives.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 28, 2024 11:53 PM (bo7UB)

296 Military aircraft crashes at Albuquerque airport in New Mexico

https://mol.im/a/13469239

Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Speed? at May 28, 2024 11:54 PM (qfLjt)

297 US will REMOVE Biden's $320million Gaza pier because it is 'sinking': Disaster for president's floating aid dock as its taken from beach for repairs after just two weeks

https://mol.im/a/13468893

Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Spending on dirtbags at May 28, 2024 11:55 PM (qfLjt)

298 How do “they” square the leftist imperative of ruining the military - we’re seeing this come to fruition (heh) over the last 40 years

AND

Wanting to fight 2 or 3 overseas wars at once, and presumably, be kinda sorta effective, albeit nobody can articulate any compelling national interest. Still, they want to be able to project credible power when necessary.

I suppose they want to maintain enough military to effectively kill Americans, too. Somewhere in the mix. They took “civilian control” of the military a little too far, but I don’t know how they could have prevented the rot from infecting the .mil Very sad

Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2024 11:55 PM (PpROq)

299 Almost six times the displacement of the Titanic.
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Cicero

Six times the displacement, but only about twice the passenger capacity. If you think modern cruise ships are crowded, you'd have jumped off the Titanic before it hit the iceberg.

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 11:56 PM (DgGvY)

300 "Your kids will all be like us. Your kids are all queer" - Pride parade in Switzerland.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3dpvmy

Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Spending on dirtbags! at May 28, 2024 11:56 PM (qfLjt)

301 Like a Congressman asking a Dem witness wanting to reduce oil use at some green hearing: "What are your glasses made of?"
Posted by: RickZ a
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And shoes, toothbrush, aspirin, clothing, etal. Unpossible as the old AOS word once went.

Posted by: scampydog at May 28, 2024 11:57 PM (41CYW)

302 US will REMOVE Biden's $320million Gaza pier because it is 'sinking': Disaster for president's floating aid dock as its taken from beach for repairs after just two weeks

$320,000,000 for 2 weeks?

About 23 million a day.

About a million an hour.

But a nice budget-minded 265 dollars per second!

Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 11:58 PM (DgGvY)

303 Six times the displacement, but only about twice the passenger capacity. If you think modern cruise ships are crowded, you'd have jumped off the Titanic before it hit the iceberg.
Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 11:56 PM (DgGvY)

Titanic was not a cruise ship. It was a liner. Its function was to get a large number of passengers across the ocean as quickly as possible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2024 11:59 PM (OwAOz)

304 "Your kids will all be like us. Your kids are all queer" - Pride parade in Switzerland.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3dpvmy
Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Spending on dirtbags! at May 28, 2024 11:56 PM (qfLjt)

I guess I'd better start getting ready. Looks like a lot of work ahead.

Posted by: Millstone at May 28, 2024 11:59 PM (0eaVi)

305 Gaza pier because it is 'sinking': Disaster for president's floating aid dock as its taken from beach for repairs after just two weeks

https://mol.im/a/13468893
Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Spending on dirtbags
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Not a big conspiracy person but this one tilts my head. What was the real goal. Any/all with any common sense knew this was a Charlie Foxtrot. So what was the game?

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:00 AM (41CYW)

306 >>>The Russians still have conscription, however the conscripts are forbidden by law from serving outside Russia's borders. The guys slugging it out in Ukraine are "volunteers," and there are plenty of them. A volunteer is highly paid, compared to other Russians, and are presently very respected.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Read recently that many convicts had served their term in Ukraine and were going home with fat bonuses.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:01 AM (YdEcD)

307 $320,000,000 for 2 weeks?

About 23 million a day.

About a million an hour.

But a nice budget-minded 265 dollars per second!
Posted by: mikeski at May 28, 2024 11:58 PM (DgGvY)

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Lucky for us, we're not spending all that scratch on a border wall!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2024 12:01 AM (bo7UB)

308 Not a big conspiracy person but this one tilts my head. What was the real goal. Any/all with any common sense knew this was a Charlie Foxtrot. So what was the game?
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:00 AM (41CYW)

Re-arming the enemy.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 29, 2024 12:02 AM (0eaVi)

309 296 Military aircraft crashes at Albuquerque airport in New Mexico

https://mol.im/a/13469239
Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Speed? at May 28, 2024 11:54 PM (qfLjt)

The Sunport, thank you very much!

Posted by: ABQ at May 29, 2024 12:03 AM (8sMut)

310 Re-arming the enemy.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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I was on this and/or the graft play. Of which both are sickening.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:03 AM (41CYW)

311 297 US will REMOVE Biden's $320million Gaza pier because it is 'sinking': Disaster for president's floating aid dock as its taken from beach for repairs after just two weeks

https://mol.im/a/13468893
Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Spending
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Totally typical of this Pentagram. The pier they built is for class 3 seas and less. That beach is consistently a class 4 and more.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:04 AM (YdEcD)

312 I thought the Titanic sank with about 2400 SOB.

The Icon of the Seas carries 10,000.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2024 12:04 AM (bo7UB)

313 Not a big conspiracy person but this one tilts my head. What was the real goal. Any/all with any common sense knew this was a Charlie Foxtrot. So what was the game?
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:00 AM (41CYW)

Win Dearborn's vote, winning Michigan this November.

"War is the continuation of politics by other means." ~ von Clausewitz

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:05 AM (emlEe)

314 Not a big conspiracy person but this one tilts my head. What was the real goal. Any/all with any common sense knew this was a Charlie Foxtrot. So what was the game?
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:00 AM (41CYW)

Tinfoil hat time: The brass in the Pentagon knew this wouldn't work, but are hoping this will be such an embarrassment that the White House won't dare order a disastrous invasion of Gaza.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 29, 2024 12:06 AM (Js20g)

315 Interesting side-note on Millius and Dillinger - it was his maiden effort as a director, and American International Pictures took him onboard because he promised he would write the screenplay for a fraction of the usual price if they would let him direct.

AIP offered him three options: a project known as "Blacula," "Black Mama, White Mama," or an indefinite gangster film about Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, or another 30s era outlaw.

What we as an audience ended up with was an amazing film, but I still have to wonder about the prospect of "John Milius Presents: Blacula."

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 12:06 AM (u/Zei)

316 Technology company that sparked outrage with 'whites only' job advertisement reveals who is to blame

https://mol.im/a/13466117

So one cannot advertise Blacks or Colored only? Women only? Good to know.

Posted by: Ciampino - How about a non-citizen in weapons research? at May 29, 2024 12:06 AM (qfLjt)

317 "War is the continuation of politics by other means." ~ von Clausewitz
Posted by: RickZ
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And there's the Smarty AOS people sending me to reading/researching. You people make me look up more stuff. Humbling group to interact with.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:07 AM (41CYW)

318 253 “Imo, there are much better ways to solve the U.S. armed forces serious recruiting problems than by bringing back the draft.

“The draft gets you a bunch of short-timers who don't want to be there. During the VN era, commanders in VN said the one thing they would most like to have was a fast way to get rid of fuckups.”

From time to time I would travel cross country or intra state, in uniform and some people, especially some vets, mentioned that they would love to see the draft come back, because we need to instill patriotism in young people and give them a sense of discipline and direction. Which is not the purpose of the military. I’d be left SMH hearing this.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:09 AM (8sMut)

319 At face value this is funny. RoboCop?
Denver police say DRONES will respond to 911 calls instead of cops after city defunded the force by millions

https://mol.im/a/13465921

Posted by: Ciampino - How about a non-citizen in weapons research?? at May 29, 2024 12:09 AM (qfLjt)

320 So one cannot advertise Blacks or Colored only? Women only? Good to know.
Posted by: Ciampino - How about a non-citizen in weapons research? at May 29, 2024 12:06 AM (qfLjt)

That didn’t stop us from advertising to black and Latino teachers on FB.

Posted by: Dallas ISD at May 29, 2024 12:10 AM (8sMut)

321 I thought the Titanic sank with about 2400 SOB.
The Icon of the Seas carries 10,000.
Posted by: Cicero

You're counting the crewmembers on the Icon but not on the Titanic.

2453+874 vs 5610+2350.

Though if there's more than 2 per cabin (kids on board), Icon can be 7600+2350.

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2024 12:12 AM (DgGvY)

322 "Your kids will all be like us. Your kids are all queer" - Pride parade in Switzerland.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3dpvmy
Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Spending on dirtbags! at May 28, 2024 11:56 PM (qfLjt)

Yes Virginia, they really do want to fuck little boys.

Posted by: But but but they just wanted to marry! at May 29, 2024 12:12 AM (k3d8O)

323 317

There are also guns and boobs.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:12 AM (9yXr+)

324 And there's the Smarty AOS people sending me to reading/researching. You people make me look up more stuff. Humbling group to interact with.
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:07 AM (41CYW)

On War is like watching paint dry. Drink lots of coffee or tea while reading.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:12 AM (8sMut)

325 You’ll hear people say “the military doesn’t want draftees”

So what? They didn’t want queers and transvestites either. But they got ‘em. Deal with it.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2024 12:13 AM (PpROq)

326 Denver police say DRONES will respond to 911 calls instead of cops
Posted by: Ciampino

"Did you save her?"

"No, but check out this awesome GoPro footage!"

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2024 12:13 AM (DgGvY)

327 RickZ. The Clausewitz reference. Bookmarked some reading. Very interesting. Quick scan of approach = win. Will see what deeper reading reveals. Thanks.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:14 AM (41CYW)

328 Denver police say DRONES will respond to 911 calls instead of cops
Posted by: Ciampino

"Did you save her?"

"No, but check out this awesome GoPro footage!"
Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2024 12:13 AM (DgGvY)

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"When seconds count, the police drone is minutes away."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2024 12:14 AM (bo7UB)

329 Funny, I always thought of her group as "Gladys Knight and the Pimps".

Posted by: Noam Sayen at May 29, 2024 12:15 AM (/eQgM)

330 Totally typical of this Pentagram. The pier they built is for class 3 seas and less. That beach is consistently a class 4 and more.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:04 AM (YdEcD)

Pentagram of blood holds the jackal’s truth

Posted by: Slayer at May 29, 2024 12:15 AM (8sMut)

331 325 You’ll hear people say “the military doesn’t want draftees”

So what? They didn’t want queers and transvestites either. But they got ‘em. Deal with it.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2024 12:13 AM (PpROq)

Uh, yes it did. In America, anyway.

Posted by: Heather's two mommies made her army strong at May 29, 2024 12:16 AM (k3d8O)

332 Air Force vets who served at top secret Area 52 base reveal how it made them sick with tumors but say they can't get aid because the government refuses to acknowledge their mission

https://mol.im/a/13466265

Posted by: Ciampino - huh? at May 29, 2024 12:17 AM (qfLjt)

333 There are also guns and boobs.
Posted by: LenNeal
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So Sherman's march on the south, but without the bewbs.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:18 AM (41CYW)

334 So what? They didn’t want queers and transvestites either. But they got ‘em. Deal with it.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 29, 2024 12:13 AM (PpROq)

Yeah. We know. We are. Be thankful for Article 88 of the UCMJ.

Posted by: NCOs and junior officers at May 29, 2024 12:18 AM (8sMut)

335 "When seconds count, the police drone is minutes away."
Posted by: Cicero

* fistbump *

Delayed HordeMind! I said that in an earlier thread.

.....pardon all the mental clutter in here. I'll clean it up.

Posted by: mikeski at May 29, 2024 12:19 AM (DgGvY)

336 318

In The Balkans anyone with a savior complex died quick. As did heroes or risk takers.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to kill as many of them as possible with as little risk to yourself as possible, which is plain murder. Then if you win everyone hates you because now you're a murderer.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:19 AM (9yXr+)

337 The late generation Ocean Liners are/were, Seriously Fast. As in, up into the mid to high 30 knot range.

And the United States was proven to be able to hold a true, 40 knot cruise, and captured the last Blue Riband of the Ocean Liner Era.

Said Blue Riband has since been seized by customized, mid 100 ft. size ocean going speedboats, that can carry enough fuel on board for the 3,000 mile crossing.

But a 40 kt. Cruise. That's "Classified" territory for both CVN Carriers and U.S. Subs, which are both published as "30 knots, plus".

The average water skier can't stay behind the boat at much over 35 mph.

The modern Cruise Ships, including the Icon, all top out at +/- about 25 knots. Which is VERY respectable, given their +200,000 gross tons displacements.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 12:21 AM (e6UQI)

338 Early for me, Horde, but at my age I would prefer to be unpredictable. I would like to deviate significantly from any algorithm which determines when I am no longer of use to society.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 29, 2024 12:21 AM (Sgq8y)

339 On War is like watching paint dry. Drink lots of coffee or tea while reading.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:12 AM (8sMut)

Same with Sun Tzu.

But both are essential reading nonetheless.

Like Marcus Aurelius.

If I were a dictator for a day I would revamp the mandatory reading curriculum to include writers from various epochs like those three, along with quite a few others, and how their experiences still apply today, human nature being what it is. I guess that also means the old 'everybody gets a trophy' is out; no more teaching to the lowest common denominator.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:22 AM (emlEe)

340 Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to kill as many of them as possible with as little risk to yourself as possible, which is plain murder. Then if you win everyone hates you because now you're a murderer.
Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:19 AM (9yXr+)

“As usual, if you or any of your IM force is caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any kniwledge of your actions. This tape will self destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.”

“Jim: Nah, I’m good.”

Posted by: NCOs and junior officers at May 29, 2024 12:22 AM (8sMut)

341 They had the draft in both WW1 and WW2. I think about 10 million got drafted in WW2 throughout the war.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2024 12:22 AM (SHMXB)

342 319 At face value this is funny. RoboCop?
Denver police say DRONES will respond to 911 calls instead of cops after city defunded the force by millions

https://mol.im/a/13465921
Posted by: Ciampino - How about a non-citizen in weapons research?? at May 29, 2024 12:09 AM (qfLjt)

Not that I like them repurposing the money to coddle illegals, but the police budget is probably bloated all to hell to begin with. Layers of unnecessary administration, overtime gaming, double dipping. And it's not just cops, it's the firefighters, school districts, you name it. But they don't like their ox getting gored and unfortunately people who have nothing to do with any of this bullshit will bear the brunt of it.

Posted by: In conclusion, fuck Denver anyway. at May 29, 2024 12:23 AM (k3d8O)

343 304 "Your kids will all be like us. Your kids are all queer" - Pride parade in Switzerland.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3dpvmy
Posted by: Ciampino - Ludicrous Spending on dirtbags!
---------------------------

There's a fix for that and those like that around kids. These people think that they are cute. This is the or one of the most evil things on this earth.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:24 AM (YdEcD)

344 scampydog,

You're most welcome. And thank you for the kind words.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:24 AM (emlEe)

345 Bye bye sock.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:24 AM (8sMut)

346 On War is like watching paint dry. Drink lots of coffee or tea while reading.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:12 AM (8sMut)
Same with Sun Tzu.
Posted by: RickZ
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Thanks for confirmation of my nerd status. First time I read Sun Tzu, I had the highlighter in hand.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:24 AM (41CYW)

347 Like Marcus Aurelius.

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Julius Caesar' The Gallic Wars > Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

CHANGE MY MIND

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2024 12:25 AM (bo7UB)

348 The primitive color sequence is fun, too.
The 1925 "Ben Hur" has one as well.

Posted by: Movies at May 28, 2024 11:16 PM (IZjwR)

I had a few beers and didn't notice.

1925 'Ben Hur'...sounds like I'm in.

'Phantom of the Opera' was pretty fucked up, especially for 1925. I enjoyed it. And hope our elites enjoy the same fate....

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:27 AM (jvJvP)

349 Not that I like them repurposing the money to coddle illegals, but the police budget is probably bloated all to hell to begin with. Layers of unnecessary administration, overtime gaming, double dipping. And it's not just cops, it's the firefighters, school districts, you name it. But they don't like their ox getting gored and unfortunately people who have nothing to do with any of this bullshit will bear the brunt of it.
Posted by: In conclusion, fuck Denver anyway. at May 29, 2024 12:23 AM (k3d8O)

Augment/replace firefighters with volunteers. Besides, the amount of territory covered by volunteers will astound most people. Audit the police and school budgets and be brutally probing about it.

Dream world, I know. But as you said, in conclusion…

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:27 AM (8sMut)

350 Steven Pressfield’s historical fiction on ancient wars is my preferred reading.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2024 12:28 AM (SHMXB)

351 I had my hands full trying to explain to a bunch of mountain hicks that you could maneuver a victory without getting close up with all the stealing and looting and raping.
Really tiresome.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:29 AM (9yXr+)

352 ----------
So Sherman's march on the south, but without the bewbs.
Posted by: scampydog
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Go easy on NC boys, many of them are with us.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:29 AM (YdEcD)

353 Well, I am feeling sleepy. Going to call it a night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2024 12:29 AM (OwAOz)

354 'night

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:31 AM (YdEcD)

355 346 On War is like watching paint dry. Drink lots of coffee or tea while reading.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:12 AM (8sMut)
Same with Sun Tzu.
Posted by: RickZ
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Thanks for confirmation of my nerd status. First time I read Sun Tzu, I had the highlighter in hand.
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:24 AM (41CYW)

Sun Tzu, however, was concise.

I was one of those nerds who believed every military officer should read them…and I paid attention to the CSAF Reading List. How horrified I was when I was told by senior officers at various forums to instead study how Toyota did things or read Investor’s Business Daily.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:31 AM (8sMut)

356 Julius Caesar' The Gallic Wars > Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2024 12:25 AM (bo7UB)

With my Latin teacher, Sr. Cor Maria (Heart of Mary) looking down from somewhere above, I'd better say Caesar's 'Gallic Wars'. One of those works we had to translate.

Caesar's Battle of Alesia is still taught in military circles: A double encirclement.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:31 AM (emlEe)

357 Pardon my indelicateness but you fuckers are dropping some reading / studying materials. At 29, I have time but this homework is cutting into my golf and bewbs time. Clausewitz and Gallic Wars.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:31 AM (41CYW)

358 If you read Carl von Clausewitz, you should probably read both Basil Liddell-Hart's and Raymond Aron's take on him, as well as the conflicting interpretations of Michael Howard and John Keegan for further context. Vom Kriege has that quality that some texts have, such that scholars have battled over almost every sentence.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 12:33 AM (u/Zei)

359 Go easy on NC boys, many of them are with us.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Meant no disrespect. Was referencing the slog of the work at hand.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:35 AM (41CYW)

360 The primitive color sequence is fun, too.
The 1925 "Ben Hur" has one as well.

Posted by: Movies at May 28, 2024 11:16 PM (IZjwR)
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I had a few beers and didn't notice.

1925 'Ben Hur'...sounds like I'm in.

'Phantom of the Opera' was pretty fucked up, especially for 1925. I enjoyed it. And hope our elites enjoy the same fate....
Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:27 AM (jvJvP)

If you guys like that stuff, check out a dark film noir flick from Weimar Germany in '31, 'M', starring Peter Lorre.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:35 AM (emlEe)

361 I've spent a year rehabilitating my backyard to be an enjoyable place to hang out only to be beset by high winds that would tear the beer from your hand.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 29, 2024 12:35 AM (MeG8a)

362
Met Museum's 'Apache' [African-American] curator is accused of lying about Native American roots
_DM

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:36 AM (YdEcD)

363 357 Pardon my indelicateness but you fuckers are dropping some reading / studying materials. At 29, I have time but this homework is cutting into my golf and bewbs time. Clausewitz and Gallic Wars.
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:31 AM (41CYW)

Golf can wait. And there is just so much you can do with bewbs. Get to work!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:36 AM (8sMut)

364 The only reason I would, at this point, even consider returning to San Francisco would be to meet for lunch with San Fran psycho and have an animated discussion about handguns.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:37 AM (9yXr+)

365 The movie threads comment section may swerve old school this weekend.

I'm not a movie person, I have seen probably less than 100, but the house is being renovated and horror movies put things in perspective.

But if the topic of old movies comes up, I once saw 'The Thin Man.' That was a fun movie and I should check out the series.

Look at me getting modern into the 1930's..

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:37 AM (jvJvP)

366 I had a few beers and didn't notice.

1925 'Ben Hur'...sounds like I'm in.

'Phantom of the Opera' was pretty fucked up, especially for 1925. I enjoyed it. And hope our elites enjoy the same fate....
Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:27 AM (jvJvP)

If you guys like that stuff, check out a dark film noir flick from Weimar Germany in '31, 'M', starring Peter Lorre.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:35 AM (emlEe)

I’m chopped liver I guess.

Posted by: Sergei Eisenstein at May 29, 2024 12:37 AM (8sMut)

367 Met Museum's 'Apache' [African-American] curator is accused of lying about Native American roots
_DM
Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:36 AM (YdEcD)

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But did he plagiarize his Master's Thesis? Because that's the mark of a brother who's truly down for the cause.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2024 12:38 AM (bo7UB)

368 high winds that would tear the beer from your hand.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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Cold. Dead. Hands.

Posted by: Heston liked beer too at May 29, 2024 12:38 AM (41CYW)

369 I had a few beers and didn't notice.

1925 'Ben Hur'...sounds like I'm in.

'Phantom of the Opera' was pretty fucked up, especially for 1925. I enjoyed it. And hope our elites enjoy the same fate....
Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:27 AM (jvJvP)

If you guys like that stuff, check out a dark film noir flick from Weimar Germany in '31, 'M', starring Peter Lorre.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:35 AM (emlEe)

If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

Posted by: Scott McKenzie at May 29, 2024 12:39 AM (8sMut)

370 Golf can wait. And there is just so much you can do with bewbs. Get to work!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:36 AM (8sMut)

After our combined reading list, wait'll he sees the final, right?

It took me months to read Gulag Archipelago. A slog, but a damn necessary one.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:39 AM (emlEe)

371 Oh! The Kid decided the Cat Fountain was poorly designed (true) and bought instead an aquarium pump. However it needs a specific size of bowl/bucket to really work, leading to a Thrift Store Search, which led to my purchase of, for $1.49 each

Continued...

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:40 AM (9yXr+)

372 RickZ, great comment, I agree, wholeheartedly.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 29, 2024 12:40 AM (Sgq8y)

373 Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:37 AM (9yXr+)

Or you could have an interesting lunch with 'Inflated Scrotum Guy.'

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:41 AM (jvJvP)

374 https://tinyurl.com/bdfm283v

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:41 AM (jvJvP)

375 I mean you can still hang out there but I've clocked winds of 40 to 50 mph.
At this point the food gets blown off your plate and your wine glass with my expensive Pinot Noir is toppled.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 29, 2024 12:41 AM (MeG8a)

376 I stole everything from DW Griffith.

Posted by: Sergei Eisenstein at May 29, 2024 12:42 AM (9yXr+)

377 123, most people in the military do come from military families. Sure we are talking 1 to 3 percent of the population now. That is how few proud Americans actually serve.

The military gets its recruits from a tiny bowl, many areas of the Deep South are overrepresented. It seems to me the military made a recent about face, and dropped some of the woke advertising. It is not that the leaders and advertisers have changed, it is that they realize how badly they f’ed up.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 12:42 AM (Wn1ON)

378 Golf can wait. And there is just so much you can do with bewbs. Get to work!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:36 AM (8sMut)

After our combined reading list, wait'll he sees the final, right?

It took me months to read Gulag Archipelago. A slog, but a damn necessary one.
Posted by: RickZ
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20 mins ago I liked you.

Posted by: Heston liked beer too at May 29, 2024 12:42 AM (41CYW)

379 It took me months to read Gulag Archipelago. A slog, but a damn necessary one.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:39 AM (emlEe)

I still need to read that. But I have read The Black Book of Communism, which is also necessary, if not depressing as hell.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:42 AM (8sMut)

380 Gulag Archipelago is indeed, a slog.

And the best antidote to Commie Infatuation ever prescribed to a pseudo-intellectual leftie of the "developing" sort.

That is, High School or College Freshman skull fulla mush. Much after that, and you've gotta take off and nuke 'em from orbit, etc.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 12:43 AM (e6UQI)

381 Off Heston sock. Yet another sock fail. Consistency is my superpower apparently.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:44 AM (41CYW)

382 And bookmarked to read.

Good night all...

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:47 AM (jvJvP)

383 But if the topic of old movies comes up, I once saw 'The Thin Man.' That was a fun movie and I should check out the series.

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:37 AM (jvJvP)

A bit of a spoiler: The other five in the series, while having moments, are not as good as that first one. It's a classic. And I've watched all six many times as they are flypaper movies for me: When I'm scrolling, I get stuck watching them.

When Myrna Loy says to a cop posing at a waiter at their dinner table with all the crazy suspects in the denouement scene, she says, 'Would you please serve the nuts? I mean would you please serve our guests the nuts?'

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:47 AM (emlEe)

384 Record Albums, all in perfect condition likely from an estate:

The Ventures, Walk Don't Run and Where The Act!on Is, original Dolton pressings! Both Stereo.
Dean Martin:
I'm The One Who Loves You
Italian Love Songs
Everybody Loves Somebody

Jewish Dances, Diplomat F 300
Terry Baxter And His Orchestra, The Best of 1970 and 1971
(Boxed)
And Reader's Digest 6 disc Boxed set Lawrence Welk, Listening And Dancing.
I left at least a dozen Doris Day records.

Posted by: Sergei Eisenstein at May 29, 2024 12:50 AM (9yXr+)

385 I still need to read that. But I have read The Black Book of Communism, which is also necessary, if not depressing as hell.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 12:42 AM (8sMut)

A good novel (i.e., a shorter read) about that period is Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness At Noon'.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:51 AM (emlEe)

386 Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:47 AM (emlEe

Thanks.

I just saw it once. Decades ago! But it stuck with me as such a fun movie. Quick witty dialogue.

Diana Rigg 'The Avengers' type dialogue.

I'm not that old. But you stumble across quality and it sticks with you...

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:51 AM (jvJvP)

387 --------
Meant no disrespect. Was referencing the slog of the work at hand.
Posted by: scampydog
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I know. Was pointing a finger at NC.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:51 AM (YdEcD)

388 I understand that anyone can comment on the military that is our God-given right as Americans, but it is interesting that so few serve these days even compared to the 90s. It is a minuscule amount now.

This made me think of a discussion recently about which foreign language is more important to learn Spanish or French. You will get 90% of the average Americans to tell you it’s much more important to learn Spanish than French. Yes, none of them will ever learn either language, but they will always be sure that Spanish is more important to learn.

Don’t take my point too seriously, but there is a little bit of a point there. The point is everyone’s opinion matters, but it also matters how much skin is in the game.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 12:52 AM (Wn1ON)

389 Also at Goodwill got three Milwaukee 14.4V tools, two drills and an impact driver, for $15.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:53 AM (9yXr+)

390 If things come down in a bad way there will be a rhyming with the old times.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:53 AM (YdEcD)

391 With my Latin teacher, Sr. Cor Maria (Heart of Mary) looking down from somewhere above, I'd better say Caesar's 'Gallic Wars'. One of those works we had to translate
Posted by RickZ

"Gaul is divided into three parts..."

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 12:55 AM (u/Zei)

392 When I was in school, law majors learned Latin and music majors learned German.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:56 AM (YdEcD)

393
I know. Was pointing a finger at NC.
Posted by: Braenyard
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May I be of help?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2024 12:56 AM (XeU6L)

394 Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 12:52 AM (Wn1ON

I'm half French. Hell, I have no desire to learn French....socialist gutter language.

Of course, English speaking areas arem't looking that great lately either....sigh...

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:57 AM (jvJvP)

395 I used to despise these kinds of gauche records but I've learned to appreciate the consummate musicianship.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 12:57 AM (9yXr+)

396 If things come down in a bad way there will be a rhyming with the old times.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Orange.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:58 AM (41CYW)

397 I just saw it once. Decades ago! But it stuck with me as such a fun movie. Quick witty dialogue.

Diana Rigg 'The Avengers' type dialogue.

I'm not that old. But you stumble across quality and it sticks with you...
Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 12:51 AM (jvJvP)

Oh boy, if you like witty dialogue, go with 'His Girl Friday' (1940), with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russel. You'll want to rewind as the barbs come so fast. Another one is 'The Front Page', the 1931 version.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:58 AM (emlEe)

398 392, makes sense to me. Latin is law and also it is all around us. My guess is the German guys or the music guys just like Mozart.

I’ve always wanted to dabble with Latin since I have studied French Spanish and not enough Italian. I always support studying romance languages. I think it’s just good as a mental exercise if nothing else.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 12:58 AM (Wn1ON)

399 in German too by the way, it seems in the language community that language is growing in popularity, not going down to me. That’s interesting.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 12:59 AM (Wn1ON)

400 Hiya

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2024 01:00 AM (fwDg9)

401 388

I did not go into the US military in the 1990s as there was nothing going on and I wanted to get dirty and test myself. There's always a way if that's what you want.
My first choice was Marines but as I say, nothing going on. I'm going to join up to drill, make paperwork, and pick up cigarette butts? Get blow jobs from Asian ladyboys?

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:01 AM (9yXr+)

402 RickZ, great comment, I agree, wholeheartedly.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 29, 2024 12:40 AM (Sgq8y)

No offense, but you'll have to be a bit more specific. I've been running my ~~mouth~~ fingers tonight.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 01:02 AM (emlEe)

403 400th!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:03 AM (v6JzV)

404 394, I have my ups and downs with French. I grew up in a hard-core military family, and it was raised to not like the French so much, Experiences traveling Europe showed me the French are pretty cool, but those are generalizations and everyone has their own experiences.

The cool thing about French for a native English speaker is you learn A lot about why the word you use mean what they do, The French shows you the root of the word and why it means what it means other than just accepting it, which is not a bad thing at most times.

The negative thing about is it’s too much of a cult, they are too focused on if you make one mistake, A language should not be a cult. On the other hand, the French are actually actually more accepting of American Anglicisms than the Spanish and for sure the French Canadians.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:04 AM (Wn1ON)

405 Dammit. Serves me right for joining the thread so late.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:05 AM (v6JzV)

406 This made me think of a discussion recently about which foreign language is more important to learn Spanish or French. You will get 90% of the average Americans to tell you it’s much more important to learn Spanish than French. Yes, none of them will ever learn either language, but they will always be sure that Spanish is more important to learn.
Posted by: Quint
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Tangentially related. Taking one of those 3 week Euro vacations this fall. I Habla, and thought it would be good to learn some French. No bueno. Actually muy malo. Italian much easier on the brain. No idea why. And nothing to do with my punctuation lack-o-skillz nor run on sentences.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 01:05 AM (41CYW)

407 392 When I was in school, law majors learned Latin and music majors learned German.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 29, 2024 12:56 AM (YdEcD)

I was learning German because I was learning German from a young age, living in Germany and visiting the local Bäckerei.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 01:06 AM (8sMut)

408 Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:58 AM (emlEe

Thanks so much RickZ!

I will.

Have a great night!

Posted by: Stateless at May 29, 2024 01:08 AM (jvJvP)

409 Russian is the coolest foreign language. Wonderful language.

Learn it and become a Putin stooge today!/

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:09 AM (v6JzV)

410 409 Russian is the coolest foreign language. Wonderful language.

Learn it and become a Putin stooge today!/
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:09 AM (v6JzV)

Second hardest language for an English speaker to learn.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 01:10 AM (8sMut)

411 340

There's a MI movie where Ethan Hunt goes into a record store and is greeted by a SMOKING French chick.
I'd have checked out right there. Do your own impossible missions.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:13 AM (9yXr+)

412 That is, High School or College Freshman skull fulla mush. Much after that, and you've gotta take off and nuke 'em from orbit, etc.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
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Nominating Jim SND to deal with the self-hatred, softhead crowd. They need a heavy hand of common sense and an intolerance of stupid.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 01:13 AM (41CYW)

413 Aw Rick, I can't even remember. Now I am agreeing with your movie dialogue observations. I just love the witty dialogue in old movies, non-existent today, there are no writers amongst us anymore. They also have no sense of humor or double entendre.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 29, 2024 01:14 AM (Sgq8y)

414 410 I heard Arabic is tough, and I don’t doubt it. A lot of language people take Arabic. I’ve also heard a lot of Americans are trying to learn Japanese based on TV shows and feeds they watch, I know that is the case it is weird to me, but it is what it is.

I took Spanish in college, though the language I wanted to study was Italian. Based on travels in Western Europe and just thinking, it would be cool to learn that language. For sure, learning one helps with the other for sure romance languages are related. I don’t agree with people who say if you study one or two at the same time, you’ll mix them up that is not been my experience. And I bet a ton of people here can also test it is hard to actually learn another language to learn it.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:15 AM (Wn1ON)

415 410

Slavic languages are difficult for English speakers because they express an utterly different way of thinking.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:16 AM (9yXr+)

416 What I meant to say there is it is actually really hard to fully learn another language. If I have to be on and I am always honest on this site, I started Spanish before French and I’ve been folding with French now for almost 30 years. I think my Pronunciation, grammar and vocab are superior to my Spanish, but that hasn’t been independently tested. I know a ton of Spanish words, and at least in this country the way we’ve created it that knowledge is a lot more useful than French.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:18 AM (Wn1ON)

417 The pier in Gaza has become the perfect metaphor for US middle eastern policy under Biden - it was never needed, it wasted a huge amount of money, it never did even one bit of good for anyone, and in the end the project collapsed in complete failure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2024 01:19 AM (S6gqv)

418 I was learning German because I was learning German from a young age, living in Germany and visiting the local Bäckerei.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

That level of immersion when is young is a major plus for language learning - plus, it offers you the chance to acquire the skills that Frederick Forsythe wrote about in his memoir (he was fluent in French, Spanish, and German); namely, his recommendation that you have to be able to speak a language with your face and body added in.

Gestures, expressions, when and when not to raise an eyebrow or two - that allows you to recognize when an otherwise normal conversation with a Parisian, for example, includes him putting his nose into his wine glass while engaging in a silly grin, He's saying pardon me, my friend, I've overindulged and what I'm saying may not be coming out the way I intended.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 01:21 AM (u/Zei)

419 409 Nonsense. Russian is pretty easy to learn, the Cyrillic Alphabet notwithstanding.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:22 AM (v6JzV)

420 The pier in Gaza has become the perfect metaphor for US middle eastern policy under Biden - it was never needed, it wasted a huge amount of money, it never did even one bit of good for anyone, and in the end the project collapsed in complete failure.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 29, 2024 01:19 AM (S6gqv)

Success!

Posted by: Democrats (The Media Sagely Nods In Agreement) at May 29, 2024 01:22 AM (emlEe)

421
Evening, all. I'm obsessed with this Rekieta drama.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 29, 2024 01:22 AM (qLL9b)

422 Re Slavic languages....I studied Russian all four years in college, finally approaching at least basic conversation. I agree there were some concepts that were hard to grasp, my Waterloo was determinate/indeterminate verbs.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 29, 2024 01:23 AM (I5U35)

423 415 the French would argue the same thing. And it is true there are many words in French that don’t exist in English and vice versa. I don’t deny that the slavs experience this even more.

But you have to get the French credit they are hard-core. They spend a ton of money on that French 24 or France 24 news channel because they said it was important to give the world another virgin of reality the French version of reality if there was only just one. The government decided what the reality was.

The funny thing about French is all the people were we respected from the past from George Washington on all studied French in school. Now the French teach their own English, so well that studying their language doesn’t seem as important. For sure, the northern Europe countries are way better. They teach English to an almost native level, but the French teach it to.

I can see the argument for someone that they can run into someone who flood out knows no English at least in this country. That’s a hell of a lot more common the running into a Frenchman that speaks English. That is not of studies, But I understand why so many studies Spanish. I do think studying Spanish in America is

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:25 AM (Wn1ON)

424 I think speaking Spanish is a native born American. It’s a bit overrated. I run into these Spanish-speaking people all the time and the last thing they wanna do is speak Spanish with you. In my experience, that was not true 30 or 40 years ago, but it is true today. Maybe they want to be like the Italian immigrants and assimilate. In my personal experience, sure if you speak Spanish, the world will be plenty of people. You can speak Spanish with it hospitals government centers, etc.. But in reality, most Hispanic immigrants one speak English with you they don’t want to do a cultural exchange.

In fact, I would say you’d be better off doing a language language exchange with a Frenchman, then with the recent immigrant crossing the Rio Grande.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:28 AM (Wn1ON)

425 415 More nonsense. Sapir-Whorf bullshit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:28 AM (v6JzV)

426 The Russian aristocrats and the British aristocrats all wanted to speak French, and they spoke French. It is a weird part of history, but it is historical reality. The Russians in particular could not let go of French.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:30 AM (Wn1ON)

427 Spanish isn’t a language, it’s an accent.
— Russian students at DLI

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:31 AM (v6JzV)

428 419

Speaking and reading a Slavic language isn't difficult particularly like Hungarian. That language is impossible.
But I've built respect for digging into the root words and the concepts, which are not Western European at all.
My spoken Slavic is primitive and shitty, but I work with concepts not specific words.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:35 AM (9yXr+)

429 220
About 40 years ago they realized the science of Ice Ball Earth wasn't getting any funding, so the science settled in on gerbil worming for funding. Damn if it didn't work.

Posted by: RickZ at May 28, 2024 11:15 PM (emlEe)
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After the ice bomb they tried Population Explosion/Food. Failure. Then, in no particular order, acid rain, ozone hole, water? Then AGW. That somehow took off.

Posted by: Ciampino - food shortages ? at May 29, 2024 01:36 AM (qfLjt)

430 424 can relate - whitey born in USA . I Habla but refuse to do so unless absolutely necessary.

Posted by: scampydog on his phone because internet crapped out at May 29, 2024 01:36 AM (JUuER)

431 I speak barely enough Spanish to be able to order at Taco Bell.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 01:39 AM (e6UQI)

432 Brief example: there are no Slavic equivalents of gift-giving, no unilateral transaction. There is an exchange but handing someone something, an object, does not mean what it means in Western Christian practice.
I had a long talk about this with a colleague and I explained that English has multiple expressions of handing something over to someone else, different categories, and he said, Yeah, we don't have that.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:40 AM (9yXr+)

433 431

Taco John's?

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:41 AM (9yXr+)

434 After the ice bomb they tried Population Explosion/Food. Failure. Then, in no particular order, acid rain, ozone hole, water? Then AGW. That somehow took off.
Posted by: Ciampino
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They are joyless. Seeking anything - minutia they can blow up to make themselves relevant in their mind and/or the cult they desire favor with. Exhaustingly boring people. I'm not that smart but they are intellectually lazy and predictably hollow.

Posted by: scampydog on his phone because internet crapped out at May 29, 2024 01:43 AM (JUuER)

435 Sapir Whorf?

Off to the Interwebs!

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:43 AM (9yXr+)

436 430 I knew some of those guys in South Texas and I looked up to them. It was cool that they could speak Spanish. I also think it’s a cool thing to know Spanish now it’s kind of a superpower. You get to understand what all the people around you the immigrants around you are saying. I do Get what you were saying too, I recall when people would go out of the way to say Spanish speakers went crazy over a Anglo who spoke their language that is not true today in my experience. People also say that the French don’t give a damn about non-French people who speak their language, also, in my experience that’s really not true.

I am not the better than Latinos or people from the Spanish-speaking world because that would be very difficult to quantify. However, I will say this to you because it’s accurate. I’ve had a lot more positive experiences with random strangers in France than I’ve ever had in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, or Spain. That is the opposite of what I expected, but it is what I have seen over many years of traveling to those countries,

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:45 AM (Wn1ON)

437 ...Taco John's? Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:41 AM (9yXr+)

That's Strike Juan. Two more, and yer out!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 01:46 AM (e6UQI)

438 I speak barely enough Spanish to be able to order at Taco Bell.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
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Dos cervezas, cuanto cuestan, y done esta El Banos. That covers the important stuff.

Posted by: scampydog on his phone because internet crapped out at May 29, 2024 01:46 AM (JUuER)

439 'Night, Horde, and get the heck offa my lawn.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 29, 2024 01:47 AM (Sgq8y)

440 Sapir Whorf Hypothesis is contextual and immediate, a form of linguistic Lysenkoism.
Bulgar...etc
The point is fair.
But I have encountered multiple examples of very old linguistics pre-Christian that simply don't have an expression for a unilateral gift. Which if there is no way to describe it, becomes difficult to communicate.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 01:48 AM (9yXr+)

441 G'night DD.

Posted by: scampydog on his phone because internet crapped out at May 29, 2024 01:48 AM (JUuER)

442 Then AGW. That somehow took off.
Posted by: Ciampino - food shortages ? at May 29, 2024 01:36 AM (qfLjt)

They learned to cook the books. Remove temp stations enmasse and just plain lie

Posted by: a dude in MI at May 29, 2024 01:49 AM (+I6Y/)

443 438, this man knows language training!

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 01:50 AM (Wn1ON)

444 You could make the case that the difficulty of learning a language is inversely proportional to one's commitment, desire, and/or necessity to do it. That said, though, there are outliers like Finnish and Hungarian that can be extra-challenging, and the absence of a workable alphabet really complicates Asian languages as a whole.

The other problem is that what you're learning may not be what you'll encounter - Arabic is notorious for this, and people who learn what could be called Standard Arabic will find their skills next to useless in many Arab populations.

Additional complication - fluency. How fluent do you want/need to be? If you're searching for near complete fluency, be prepared to scramble to keep up with ever evolving slang and the rise and fall of dialects.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 01:50 AM (u/Zei)

445 That's Strike Juan. Two more, and yer out!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 01:46 AM (e6UQI)
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I will poorly be the judge of that.

Posted by: Angel Hernandez was FIRED at May 29, 2024 01:54 AM (41CYW)

446 I had a long talk about this with a colleague and I explained that English has multiple expressions of handing something over to someone else, different categories, and he said, Yeah, we don't have that.
Posted by: LenNeal

Japanese must extremely difficult for them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 29, 2024 01:54 AM (IG4Id)

447 440 I hold to a very weak form of Sapir-Whorf. Language is suggestive but not determinative.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:54 AM (v6JzV)

448 The other problem is that what you're learning may not be what you'll encounter - Arabic is notorious for this, and people who learn what could be called Standard Arabic will find their skills next to useless in many Arab populations.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea

I think this applies to any multi-national language. Textbook vs. actual conversation.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 29, 2024 01:56 AM (IG4Id)

449 You could make the case that the difficulty of learning a language is inversely proportional to one's commitment, desire, and/or necessity to do it.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea
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3 week vacation to Euroland this fall. Learning French is giving me the redass. Italian, much easier. No clue why. Suspect it's because the French are historically pussies, but I'm just spitballin.

Posted by: Angel Hernandez was FIRED at May 29, 2024 01:57 AM (41CYW)

450 419 409 Nonsense. Russian is pretty easy to learn, the Cyrillic Alphabet notwithstanding.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:22 AM (v6JzV)

Not me saying it, it’s DLI. (Who also say that Mandarin Chinese is THE hardest.)

The easiest? Any Romance language, due to the Latin/French influence in English. Germanic languages can’t be far behind them as English is officially a Germanic language.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 01:58 AM (8sMut)

451 Sigh... The off sock. Yet again. Slow learner.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 01:58 AM (41CYW)

452 440 LenNeal — That’s why languages borrow words, and the concepts behind them, from each other.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 01:59 AM (v6JzV)

453 444 Well stated.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:01 AM (v6JzV)

454 406, I love Italian. When faced with having to take a foreign language in college, that is the language I wanted to study. It turned out that if I wanted to graduate on time, I had to take Spanish so I did like everyone else and study Spanish and just like them I knew very little of it upon graduation.

I took on my own completely on my own after traveling through Europe after college. I wish I had stuck with one of those languages more and made myself fluent but damn is that hard living in the USA at least the USA of the 90s etc. I’m in my 50s now and I’m still going back-and-forth with Spanish and French and even dabbling with Italian. Maybe I will never live on the Cote D’azur of France, The Amalfi coast of Italy, Or in the white villages of Spain. There is still hope because I am a dreamer and always thought I would be the best as an American expatriate like Hemmingway.

But I still love studying those languages to me. It is an intellectual exercise and quitting would be much more of a step than just keeping on going.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:02 AM (Wn1ON)

455 452 I am well known here for commenting on French words who that have become English words. Everyone has their own interest interest, but that is a really interesting subject and there’s so much info there. It is like, “ok, that is why we say that!”

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:05 AM (Wn1ON)

456 A good novel (i.e., a shorter read) about that period is Arthur Koestler's 'Darkness At Noon'.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 12:51 AM (emlEe)

Yep. Read it, and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 02:05 AM (8sMut)

457 But I still love studying those languages to me. It is an intellectual exercise and quitting would be much more of a step than just keeping on going.
Posted by: Quint
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My whoopsies on the double euro post at 406 and 449. WiFi crapped out and went to phone (double dumbass post). Nevertheless, can relate on your sentiment. It gets to be a challenge that one does not want to get on the bad side of for ID and other ornery reasons. Wildcard on my adventure....ScampyWife will brute force the French language so we will be be passable while there. Love that woman and her honey badger ways.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:09 AM (41CYW)

458 450 I studied and worked at DLI. I know their classification of languages. I agree that the Romance Languages are the easiest. But Russian is not difficult, once one gets over the different alphabet.

Orthography is often the greatest hurdle in language-learning, even if the grammar and pronunciation of a language are otherwise fairly easy to master.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:11 AM (v6JzV)

459 450 many 12 lists will list French Spanish and Italian. Those that do their home will also mention Swedish Dutch and Afrikaans.

When you ever look up French versus Spanish, you will hear a line from all the professionals that most people ignore. The line is Spanish gets harder while French gets easier. Most of the arguments random people make about French are based on pronunciation, etc. Those are easy cliffs to negotiate. French and Spanish are both romance languages, but Spanish is actually much more complicated and the further you study the language it becomes even more complicated. When other Americans that Spanish is easier than French, they are wrong for one. They’re not lying because they don’t know any better, But they are probably right if the person is only gonna take a semester or two to get a grade. Other than that is actually easier than Spanish

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:13 AM (Wn1ON)

460 I think this applies to any multi-national language. Textbook vs. actual conversation.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Absolutely - people run into it with Italian, for example. They've studied what amount to Florentine Italian, and when they get down to Napoli or Sicily, the dialect difference is so emphatic that they assume you're speaking very bad Spanish.

With Arabic, it may be even worse - a university level course will equip you to read the Koran and to watch Arab state media, but mingle with regular folks, and intractable differences emerge sometimes between one city and another. Most of the academic specialists I know say the best option is to learn the Egyptian dialect of Arabic, because there's at least a chance you will understand and be understood.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 02:14 AM (u/Zei)

461 I know that because I’ve studied both language is for decades. I am sure of it. It is a fact, and almost every serious teacher of both languages. Will tell you that. But if you ask a friend at high school or if you ask a mom at the PTA, they will tell you otherwise.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:14 AM (Wn1ON)

462 Yep. Read it, and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 02:05 AM (8sMut)

A lot of Solzhenitsyn's novels are quite good.

But his calling was as a chronicler.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 02:15 AM (emlEe)

463 Bulgar.... were you at DLI Monterrey, or DLI Lackland AFB, TX?

I knew a few DLI folks. Pretty normal, save for some really high I.Q. quirks.

But there was also a Cryptology Tech School at Lackland AFB.

Those were the Other Planet Kidlets. Quite parallel profile to the D&D and JRR Tolkien ADDICTS from High School years.

I don't mean the casual appreciators of the game or the author. I mean, the HARD CORE, INJECT THE MAINLINE, ADDICTS.

They were on a different planet, and their planet wobbled a great deal more than does Planet Earth.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 02:18 AM (e6UQI)

464 So, how many of you aficionados of the Romance Languages know Romanian?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:18 AM (v6JzV)

465 463 Jim, I was in Monterey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:21 AM (v6JzV)

466 459 461 Interesting thoughts. I often wonder if it's because I was young and had THE BEST SPANISH TEACHER ever (sorry BEN ROETHISBEGER) or if it was desire, aptitude, smarts, etc. The remainder is that the third language (Italian) comes easier than the French language.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:21 AM (41CYW)

467 Busty lesbian porn was but a single shining moment in the history of the HQ.
That time is now long gone.
We shall not see its like again in our lifetimes.
*sheds tears*
Posted by: naturalfake at May 28, 2024 10:55

From the last thread I present my nomination for Quote of the Week. Well done naturalfake.

Tho it is possible for anyone to make the same mistake twice. No you dirty pervs, I mean Ace might ban himself again, not that he might post busty lesbian porn again.

Posted by: Farmer at May 29, 2024 02:24 AM (55Qr6)

468 Germanic languages can’t be far behind them as English is officially a Germanic language.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

The thing with German is that people get daunted by the gender and case aspects, but they're usually rolled out early in any course, and once you've grasped the rule set, a lot of the difficulty vanishes. They've also absorbed a lot of English words and phrases, like "OK" and "cool." Dialects are an issue, especially in southern Deutschland, but they can be navigated.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 02:25 AM (u/Zei)

469 466, The Spanish language is such a broad subject. In college, I had a Cuban, A Mexican, A gringo, And I’m not sure about the fourth teacher. I still study Spanish today because I love the language and I think it is an important skill to have who would not want to have that skill? I laughed at they still argue about Spanish from Spain or whatever country. I mostly go with Spain because I love Spain and have an off for the nation and culture. I legit don’t care that very few from Spain move here. The reality is French people really don’t move here they make a point of not moving here and we should give them more plaudits for that.

The cool thing about French is everyone wishes the spoken the Parisian accent so at least you know the accent to study. If you ever look at the back of a DVD when they dub the DVD into French, they actually make a point of telling you if it was done in Quebec. They know people will be let down because the Canadian French is not considered to be equal. That’s an interesting interesting thing by the way that I wanted to pass along you guys I just find it interesting they actually make a point. They will always tell you “dubbed in Quebec”.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:28 AM (Wn1ON)

470 The thing with German is that people get daunted by the gender and case aspects, but they're usually rolled out early in any course, and once you've grasped the rule set, a lot of the difficulty vanishes. They've also absorbed a lot of English words and phrases, like "OK" and "cool." Dialects are an issue, especially in southern Deutschland, but they can be navigated.
Posted by: John Drake
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Methinks this good advice. Understanding the vocab and rules makes the rest of the learning incrementally easier. Regardless of the subject.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:28 AM (41CYW)

471 446

My daughter speaks and reads fluent Japanese in multiple dialects. My Serbian colleague hooked me up with a Hokkaido DJ and my daughter has latched onto that. She sent me a Discord visual essay which I forwarded all in Japanese and he responded to ask who it was, and he would assume it was from a Japanese woman.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:29 AM (9yXr+)

472 Bulgaroctonus... well at Monterey, you got the better scenery and locale, that's for sure.

Mid '70s Tech School Lackland, were mostly Korean War era "temporary" wooden barracks, not bulldozed down until well into the 1980s, or later.

Add, heat, humidity, cockroaches.

Hey, at least we had that USAF chow hall, and the base golf course of which a damn I gave about, never.

I don't know phhhtttt from "linguistics". I do know though, that after two weeks in Costa Rica in the '80s, I was gettin' along OK en espanol. With the occasional Spanglish thrown in to confuse the natives. *grin*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 02:30 AM (e6UQI)

473 464

I can read it and get by spoken.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:30 AM (9yXr+)

474 Thanks for confirmation of my nerd status. First time I read Sun Tzu, I had the highlighter in hand.
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 12:24 AM (41CYW)

I have to laugh at this.

Talk about being a nerd! How many people have a copy of The Warren Commission Report on their bookshelves?

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 02:32 AM (emlEe)

475 Hello Hordelings. Heading to Salisbury Cathedral today with a small subset of our tour group.

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 29, 2024 02:33 AM (oqbns)

476 English may well be nature's perfect linguistic predator in the way that it can effortlessly absorb words from other languages. It helps that we don't have the equivalent of the Académie Française or the Goethe-Institut riding herd over how the language evolves.

Non-English speakers of my acquaintance have almost consistently complained about the rules of spelling in English, and I can see their point. One just has to trot out Bernard Shaw's maxim that the English word "fish" could also be spelled "ghoti," if one is looking at the pronunciation.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 02:33 AM (u/Zei)

477 If I received a jaywalking citation. I would be upset. However, not to this extent.
A cop gave a California man a jaywalking ticket. Then came a ‘campaign of hate and revenge’...

...The officer, who is identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, was on duty Oct. 25, 2019, about 2 p.m. when he spotted a man, later identified as John Christopher Spatafore"

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An IT worker at a hospital a block away from where he was ticketed. If I had to guess it probably had something to do with the law no longer meaning anything and not being equally applied.

I doubt Trayvon George Martin-Floyd ever has too much to worry about regarding jaywalking, and this fellow likely noticed that, too. HE was easy to (ahem) "make contact" with, though, and he got the quota mandated ticket.

He was clearly already nuts, but that moment gave him focus and meaning.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Except for religious obedience, name one benefit marriage provides to men at May 29, 2024 02:35 AM (uei2D)

478 Also name field change

Posted by: Moron Robbie is on the lookout for gay hate at May 29, 2024 02:36 AM (uei2D)

479 469
Had a Cuban, Spanish teacher that was a teaching savant. One of the best teachers ever (wish more like her). Made it easy. Darling Daughter is in the DR, working for the Mets. She has all the Central and South American players speaking various dialects. Can make sense of it, but different. Thankfully she is smarter than the scampydad. The French....I appreciate what you are saying, but it is still a door stop to me. I hear it and translate in my small brain from French to Spanish to English. Which is clunky at best.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:37 AM (41CYW)

480 In Japan, Hokkaido, I was fine. People got used to me on the subway every day.
I also shoveled out the neighborhood trash recycling bin, so as far as I could tell the locals figured me for a diseased foreigner but, hey, I contributed to the communal welfare so...
After a week neighbors were waving and saying

HERRO

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:37 AM (9yXr+)

481 474

Me

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:38 AM (9yXr+)

482 Welcome to Nerdville, LenNeal.

'Tis a silly place.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 02:39 AM (emlEe)

483 If Trump is convicted of ANY offense as a result of this political persecution (NOT a misspelling) then it's time to peacefully gather to petition for redress of grievances. None of this shit has had any legal relevance from the onset.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 29, 2024 02:40 AM (hKoQL)

484 Talk about being a nerd! How many people have a copy of The Warren Commission Report on their bookshelves?
Posted by: RickZ
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Shit. Sheepishly raises hand.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:41 AM (41CYW)

485 472 Jim, yes, Monterey was wonderful.

And language learned on the spot is often the best language.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:41 AM (v6JzV)

486 476, true in all languages. People had the same arguments about French and I promise you many other languages. With French alone, there is the language you learn in books in textbook that teach you the language and then there’s the language they speak on the street. I am not talking gutter, language, or the thing you would hear in Goodfellas I’m talking normal French pronunciation. It kills every language student to realize they spent so much time learning one way to read, speak, etc. and then all of a sudden they learn another way. To be honest as someone who loves studying languages, It is actually kind of cool. Once you get past a certain door, they tell you how to get past the next one.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:43 AM (Wn1ON)

487 The cool thing about French is everyone wishes the spoken the Parisian accent so at least you know the accent to study. If you ever look at the back of a DVD when they dub the DVD into French, they actually make a point of telling you if it was done in Quebec. They know people will be let down because the Canadian French is not considered to be equal. That’s an interesting interesting thing by the way that I wanted to pass along you guys I just find it interesting they actually make a point. They will always tell you “dubbed in Quebec”.
Posted by: Quint

In one of the French spy-parodies from the OSS-17 series, there's a scene where the French hero and his Belgian associate are speaking with a French Canadian. The French audience needed subtitles added before they could understand anything the Québec fellow was saying.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 02:43 AM (u/Zei)

488 475 Hello Hordelings. Heading to Salisbury Cathedral today with a small subset of our tour group.
Posted by: screaming in digital

It's lovely.

Are you going to see Dartmoor or Exmoor NPs? It's not that far from where you currently are.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 29, 2024 02:43 AM (sAmhv)

489 475 Hey, SiD! You going by Stonehenge?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:44 AM (v6JzV)

490 Shit. Sheepishly raises hand.
Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:41 AM (41CYW)

Ve're finding ze reazon behint Ze Horde Mind, ja?

Posted by: Sigmoid Colon at May 29, 2024 02:45 AM (emlEe)

491 If Trump is convicted of ANY offense as a result of this political persecution (NOT a misspelling) then it's time to peacefully gather to petition for redress of grievances. None of this shit has had any legal relevance from the onset.
Posted by: irongrampa
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IG, you are an AOS treasure but can we skip ahead to the piano wire part for these rottens?

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:45 AM (41CYW)

492 Hokkaido Japan has a robust deer hunting culture. So in certain shops you can buy antlers for about USD$5. Nobody wants them, when a deer is culled they sell the meat to restaurants and the hide to other outlets but nobody wants the antlers.
I want a set for gun grips.
I have to figure out how to import them personally.
I want a set of Japanese deer stag grips on my French police Smith & Wesson M10.
Yeah.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:46 AM (9yXr+)

493 Bulgaroctonus.... another Lackland, AFB 1970s note.

DLI had the far more comely WAF's in their ranks.

Crypto? You had to decode their looks in order to gain access.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 02:47 AM (e6UQI)

494 I also have the Warren Commission Report.

It’s pretty sus now, as far as I’m concerned.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:47 AM (v6JzV)

495 I totally understand why language learners want to learn one word for a specific thing and only one word, no exceptions. Those that criticize Spanish in French, ignore that English is just as bad. In the end, they really are no tricks. There are no quick fixes. I myself struggle with going back with French and Spanish every time I’m not kidding with you not to sound like Biden, but that’s a real thing. In a perfect world, I would just do French. The problem is where I live. I would never have anyone to speak with. I also really do like Spanish, It is a very interesting language. Sure, if I can only pick one I would pick French, but that is not the way it is. If I had only done one, I would be fluent by now that is one thing I know for sure

Don’t feel bad for me though because I really like studying languages I enjoy the pursuit.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:47 AM (Wn1ON)

496 OSS-17 movies are hilarious.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:47 AM (9yXr+)

497 IG, you are an AOS treasure but can we skip ahead to the piano wire part for these rottens?

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:45 AM (41CYW)

I said it on another forum: We have far too many lampposts going underutilized.

Besides, no need to penalize the music industry. We now have more than enough hemp in this country to fulfill the need (for the deed).

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 02:49 AM (emlEe)

498 Gulag Archipelago is indeed, a slog.
And the best antidote to Commie Infatuation ever prescribed to a pseudo-intellectual leftie of the "developing" sort.
That is, High School or College Freshman skull fulla mush. Much after that, and you've gotta take off and nuke 'em from orbit, etc.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 12:43

You have inspired me Jim SND. I'll have to ask if GA is allowed to be read in college classes where my cousin D is head of the history dept.

He's really quite the lefty, despite his mother's Estonian parents being persecuted by the Soviets during WW II. His grandfather was a prominent preacher in the capital, Tallinn, and was jailed by the Soviets when they took over. Eventually the family reunited by way of escape from Siberia, to India, the UK and then WI, USA.

Yet despite this, D's mother is a raging lefty. She influenced my uncle, Lutheran minister, and go figure. They raised a leftist who's educating America's youths today.

Posted by: Farmer at May 29, 2024 02:50 AM (55Qr6)

499 Anyone else see that one movie with Warren Beatty? Where he gets blown away at the end?

The Parallax View.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:51 AM (9yXr+)

500 Farmer,

That's crazy.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 02:51 AM (emlEe)

501 487, lol, yeah it is another language. I also like oss-17

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:51 AM (Wn1ON)

502 493 Jim, DLI chicks were wonderful. I speak from personal experience.

And the civilian chicks in Monterey were nothing to sneeze at, either.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 29, 2024 02:52 AM (v6JzV)

503 Bernard Shaw
Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea
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I find Shaw and his mental travels to be odd. He has my all time fave quote however....
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:52 AM (41CYW)

504 498

The source, in my opinion, is Self Negation.
It's common thread in all religions but it's antique.

That I'm working on now.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:54 AM (9yXr+)

505 The Parallax View.
Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:51 AM (9yXr+)

I saw that so long ago I couldn't tell you a thing about it.

I guess it was memorable. And maybe not enjoying Beatty as an actor might have something to do with my opinion. Didn't care for 'Dick Tracy', 'Reds', even 'Bonnie and Clyde'. Just not a fan.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 02:55 AM (emlEe)

506 With French alone, there is the language you learn in books in textbook that teach you the language and then there’s the language they speak on the street. I am not talking gutter, language, or the thing you would hear in Goodfellas I’m talking normal French pronunciation.
Posted by Quint

Spot-on! One thing I think that really freaks out French students is the rapidity and merging together of the words. They approach a helpful member of the Police Nationale and ask "Où est les Champs-Élysée" and Monsieure l'Agent responds with what sounds like "champzayluhzay."

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 02:55 AM (u/Zei)

507 So I was at a thrift store today and they had not won, but two copies of the remake of the taking of Pelham 123. I thought how many crimes against humanity can we have? I am not saying, the remake of the taking of Colham 123 was the worst movie ever. I think it was probably one of the five worst remakes in history. They say the remake of red Dawn was horrible and I believe them it is also probably in the top five. But let’s be serious here the original taking of Pelham 123 come out that was a hell of a lot better than red Dawn and I loved red Dawn.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:55 AM (Wn1ON)

508 507 Remake of Red Dawn was awful. But the wine box AWFL's approved of Hemsworth, of course.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 02:59 AM (41CYW)

509 Haha my Church hometown just got entry into the Euro League for the first time since founding, 101 years, so they celebrated by lighting off enough ordnance to eradicate Iraq and then slaughtered a bull. I am not making this up.

Holy Shit

I arrive to Church from time to time unannounced and always I'm WTF I turn my back on you people for a MINUTE

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:01 AM (9yXr+)

510 Didn't care for 'Dick Tracy', 'Reds', even 'Bonnie and Clyde'. Just not a fan.
Posted by: RickZ
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Son-of-a-gun. You are right. Never put that common actor theme together. All were non-starters. Power marketing, weak movies.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 03:02 AM (41CYW)

511 ...I want a set for gun grips. I have to figure out how to import them personally. I want a set of Japanese deer stag grips on my French police Smith & Wesson M10. Yeah. Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:46 AM (9yXr+)

I've been around a herd of Japanese deer. 1960s, "Japanese Deer Park", CA. (IIRC, Buena Park or Whitter or such.

They're a small breed of deer. Even a large Buck, the antler is going to be too small at the base to cover the base of a "K-frame" S&W square butt revolver. "J frame" round butt, at best.

Opt instead for the Sanbar Stag, from India. Gorgeous, and hard antler throughout.

U.S. Whitetail, and even Elk, are far too "pithy" (porous) for good grip panels. That said? SANDED elk-antler is insanely good knife grip material. 'Cause no matter HOW elbow deep you are in the gut pile, the handle will never, ever, get slippery. You can take that fact, to the bank.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 03:02 AM (e6UQI)

512 But let’s be serious here the original taking of Pelham 123 come out that was a hell of a lot better than red Dawn and I loved red Dawn.
Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 02:55 AM (Wn1ON)

It had that gritty New York City feel that a lot of movies from the late '60s to the early '70s had. A lot of Roy Scheider movies are like that, besides 'The French Connection'. There's 'The Seven-Ups', for one.

Another underrated, gritty, movie set in NYC is 1981's 'Wolfen', with Albert Finney. The rubble-strewn South Bronx was the star.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 03:03 AM (emlEe)

513 511

Hokkaido grows much larger deer, they are at least as big as Wisconsin bucks.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:04 AM (9yXr+)

514 The original The Taking of Pelham 123 has that beautiful comedic moment at the end where the last suspect is sure he got away with it, then sneezes. And Walter Matthau's face comes back around that door with that "I gotcha" look.

It's kind of like in the Great Escape where three of the English prisoners are almost there, boarding the train to Switzerland, when one of the Gestapo officers says very casually in English "Good luck," and the Brit can't help himself saying "Thank you." And, of course, the jig is up.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 03:05 AM (u/Zei)

515 Puddleglum, no, that's not on the itinerary for this trip and I'm not brave enough to go off on my own yet.

Bulgaroctonus, I'm not sure if we have time for Stonehenge but I will listen to the Spinal Tap song today regardless

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 29, 2024 03:06 AM (a+cUC)

516 514

The original Pelham 123 is a masterpiece.
"Do you have the death penalty here?"
"No, we don't do that any more."
"Pity."

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:08 AM (9yXr+)

517 512 sure my knick is Quint, and the man himself starred in the taking of him 123, But I think that was a great standalone film not to be messed with, You don’t get much better, Certainly not these days.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 03:08 AM (Wn1ON)

518 ...Hokkaido grows much larger deer, they are at least as big as Wisconsin bucks. Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:04 AM (9yXr+)

Then I want some Kobe Deer!

You can have all the fuckin' antlers you want.

/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 03:09 AM (e6UQI)

519 512

Across 110th Street.

"No more crucifixions"
"That's Wop shit."

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:10 AM (9yXr+)

520 If you follow the original course of events post redress of grievances it gets to the bob wire part with shocking abruptness.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 29, 2024 03:11 AM (hKoQL)

521 Thanks for another incidental learning session. Much reading to do after tonight, so thanks. Y'all are a bunch of smarties and not a single one thinks themselves the center of the intellectual universe. There were no beheadings and nobody got bitchy about white New Balance sneakers being out of style.

Posted by: scampydog at May 29, 2024 03:11 AM (41CYW)

522 t had that gritty New York City feel that a lot of movies from the late '60s to the early '70s had. A lot of Roy Scheider movies are like that, besides 'The French Connection'. There's 'The Seven-Ups', for one.
Posted by RickZ

That car chase in The Seven Ups is an underappreciated marvel. Nail-biting, intense, and when Scheider slams at full speed into the back of that semi trailer, a real punch in the gut. I wanna say they used the same stunt driver from Bullit to handle the villain's car.

Scheider was so unappreciated as a talent - the French and the Italians had the sort of respect he deserved, but here in the States, not so much.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 03:12 AM (u/Zei)

523 518

I was shocked at the antlers for sale for almost nothing on the train line to Sapporo Airport. Some were HUGE.
What I saw would easily make J frame grips, or truly unique bonded grips.
Really I saw sets that were enormous, with bowls. And the grain is different. They are clearly different from American antlers.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:15 AM (9yXr+)

524 Which was the movie where Schinder was the firefighting pilot in the doomed A-26, which blew up....

.... and then he came back into ghostly being, in order to guide Our Heroine into making her right Romantic Choice?

Only been forty years or so since I saw that movie, so I hope you'll forgive my lapse of memory.

So help me Ibden!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 03:17 AM (e6UQI)

525 521

I was tasked some 5 years ago by The Kid to get her Engrish something from the Chinese section in Belgrade Serbia, so I found a T shirt emblazoned

NEW CALANCE

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:18 AM (9yXr+)

526 Scheider was so unappreciated as a talent - the French and the Italians had the sort of respect he deserved, but here in the States, not so much.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 03:12 AM (u/Zei)

Story I was told by my ex-MIL: Before they bought a house in Brooklyn, they lived on the Upper West Side. One of their neighbors who would occasionally babysit my ex was Roy Scheider. The ex was born in '62, so this was somewhere in the early to middle '60s, way before he was a star.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 03:18 AM (emlEe)

527 Farmer,
That's crazy.
Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 02:51

It is indeed Rick. I've just thought of another great example of my beloved Estonian aunt's crazy outlook.

In a Christmas letter they send out to many folks my aunt proudly mentioned that she was a member of PFLAG? or something like that, a group of relatives of gay folks who feel...blah, blah, blah.

I thought that's a helluva way to out your gay son who hasn't come out to most family. But you get your libtard status checked.

Posted by: Farmer at May 29, 2024 03:20 AM (55Qr6)

528 Blue Thunder was huge when it came out. Sûre They were trying to make societal points, but most people just wanted to see a good show.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 03:21 AM (Wn1ON)

529 Moderately amusing Roy Scheider - I was highly amused when my old Vice Principal, a Church Deacon in the buckle of the Bible Belt, hosted a student visit to a competition in Tishimingo County. Since it was an overnight stay, he thought it would be a treat to the kids to take them to see a movie, He chose a Roy Scheider film that he understood to be a musical, and huddled the young'uns into the theater. It was a Roy Scheider film, alright - "All That Jazz."

Still not sure how he kept his job after that, but he could honestly say it was a faux pas.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 03:23 AM (u/Zei)

530 ...They are clearly different from American antlers.
Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:15 AM (9yXr+)

They are very closely related to the Indian Sanbar.

Hard, Clear, pure Bone to the core.

Whitetail and Elk, have more of a Bone Marrow core. Porous bone, like we have up in our sinus, but even finer, smaller porosities.

Fallow Deer also have hard bone antler, looking more like a half scale moose rack.

And if I have to teach anyone here the difference between antler and horn? You haven't yet earned the custom knife, or pistol grips, from either.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 29, 2024 03:23 AM (e6UQI)

531 Wasn’t Shider in the French connection? I know the great gene Hackman was in that film. I am a big history buff. I think people know that and also love trivia basically trivia history, booze, etc. people that know me know me.

A great trivia question for friends is if they know whom the fast food restaurant Popeyes was named for. It was named for Popeye Doyle from the French connection. Yeah, that sounds weird. It sounds like something that can’t actually be true, but it is.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 03:24 AM (Wn1ON)

532 I don't know if that was Roy Schieder but I have a soft spot for him. I was slumped drunk in a hotel lobby chair watching Blue Thunder while some equally drunk doppelganger fooled around with a loaded M57. I also had a fractured skull at the time and was afraid to go to sleep.
Schieder is also ferocious in SORCERER.
Any time I'm in Mexico....

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:28 AM (9yXr+)

533 When it comes to Scheider, I even enjoyed that sci-fi dolphin tv show he did, 'Sea Quest'. He's just a solid actor. 'Jaws', anyone?

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 03:33 AM (emlEe)

534 Scheider was a solid actor. I was wondering if anybody else saw 'Sorcerer'. That movie was,,,intense.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 29, 2024 03:35 AM (sAmhv)

535 530

The Japanese mainland tried to emulate a gun free society only to find that in Hokkaido it resulted in an explosion of bears, and wolves people thought were extinct.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:35 AM (9yXr+)

536 Wasn’t Shider in the French connection? I know the great gene Hackman was in that film. I am a big history buff. I think people know that and also love trivia basically trivia history, booze, etc. people that know me know me.

A great trivia question for friends is if they know whom the fast food restaurant Popeyes was named for. It was named for Popeye Doyle from the French connection. Yeah, that sounds weird. It sounds like something that can’t actually be true, but it is.
Posted by Quint

Yep, Scheider was in The French Connection, playing the more rational cop that often had to rein Popeye Doyle in. His real-life counterpart went on to become a low-key Hollywood producer.

The Popeye's Restaurant thing both is and isn't true. The founder named the chain after Popeye the Sailor, but when King Features found out and threatened a lawsuit, the founder then claimed that Popeye Doyle was the inspiration, and actually sold the court on that idea. I imagine Gene Hackman got a chuckle out of that one.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 03:35 AM (u/Zei)

537 Puddlegum,

No, never saw 'Sorcerer'. Never even heard of it.

Posted by: RickZ at May 29, 2024 03:36 AM (emlEe)

538 534

The most intense movie nobody saw. That movie gives me anxiety just thinking about it.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:36 AM (9yXr+)

539 Dream woke me up

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2024 03:37 AM (fwDg9)

540 498
The source, in my opinion, is Self Negation.
It's common thread in all religions but it's antique.
That I'm working on now.
Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 02:54

Whoa LenNeal, don't try to make me think too hard this late at night. Cereally, it is an interesting observation.

"That I'm working on now." could be taken several ways to my mind. You're working on a treatise on self-negation in all religions or ?

Posted by: Farmer at May 29, 2024 03:39 AM (55Qr6)

541 SORCERER.

Oh, oh. Holy shit.
I cannot even imagine seeing that in maybe surround sound in 70mm. Traumatic.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:39 AM (9yXr+)

542 I remember watching Talking of Pelham 123 when I was little. Maybe 12-15. I think I liked it, but again, I was 12 or so years old so I was possibly recreating the scenes with Lego and Nerf guns while I watched.

Posted by: Moron Robbie rejects and calls out any and all gay hate at May 29, 2024 03:42 AM (uei2D)

543 'Sorcerer' premise is fairly basic. Four guys who have never met, with sketchy backgrounds, have to move a dangerous product in the backwoods of South America from point A to point B. The movie takes that and, I can't even describe it accurately. It's a fantastic movie but it does drain you. I'm not an anxious person. This movie made me anxious. As I mentioned above, it's an intense movie. Great acting too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 29, 2024 03:44 AM (sAmhv)

544 540

Yes, it's becoming an imperative to my explanation of unilateral gift to evolving Pagan societies with no comprehension of such a thing. I'm baptized into an autocephelous Church in The Balkans, committed to being support to a child to have that child killed in an earthquake.
I was a few weeks ago in The Balkans making efforts to sort out this theology and cosmology with a mixed marriage between a Muslim and her husband, a nominal Orthodox Christian.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:45 AM (9yXr+)

545 Sorcerer is nail-biting, visceral viewing - far superior to the French original Le Salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear). Friedkin got screwed by the studio on that one, because they insisted on marketing it as something supernatural, to snag audiences who were looking for another Exorcist movie. That nightmare journey through the jungle mixed in with a noir aspect is one of Friedkin's better dramatic efforts.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 03:47 AM (u/Zei)

546 536 I can’t comment on that one because I have no info on that. I am sure people can do their Internet, voodoo and figure out what was the deal with that situation. If I am wrong about that, no problem but I promise you I thought that was actually correct. My guess is people think it’s some Cajun cooking guy, but whatever.

Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 03:47 AM (Wn1ON)

547 Goodnite, good people. Be safe, sleep well and always remember to hold that head HIGH and PROUD as befits an American.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 29, 2024 03:50 AM (hKoQL)

548 Sorcerer is technically a remake OF WAGES OF FEAR.
Again I went to see my brother ina Mexican Shithole and on my way out there was a huge fiery crash of trucks on the only highway out, I have harrowing footage of our contact taxi driver roaring through lawless Guerrero on burro paths to get me to the airport.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:51 AM (9yXr+)

549 If I am wrong about that, no problem but I promise you I thought that was actually correct. My guess is people think it’s some Cajun cooking guy, but whatever.
Posted by: Quint

That's the thing, though, you are right. Popeye's as it now exists cites Popeye Doyle as the source of their name and brand. It's just that the founder originally cited the animated King Features Popeye as the source of the name, and was able to dodge a lawsuit or enforced name change by switching to Gene Hackman's character as the inspiration. Friedkin and the studios couldn't be bothered to look into it, so the name stuck.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 29, 2024 03:56 AM (u/Zei)

550 For what it's worth, anywhere I go, I am proud to tell people I'm the Real American.
I am the Real Thing.
This is, Who We Are.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:57 AM (9yXr+)

551 Also, I would tell you I'm not a spy, but that's what a spy would say!

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 03:59 AM (9yXr+)

552 Morning, insomaniacals,

That Walmart pic looks just like the ones I go to. Except the wedding party is better dressed.

After being short on sleep yesterday, I slept solidly. I dreamed but recall nothing solid. It rained yesterday evening after I got home; it looked outside my window as if the temps were 58 in March instead of 88. So it's less hot outside and I need to go work out, as much as I'd prefer to take it easy this morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 29, 2024 04:01 AM (omVj0)

553 Well Wolfus if it's worth noting my dreams are either about work or War.
I hate the War ones and I yelled at SMH about her crying and whining about barbecued friends in M1A1s.
I did apologize for being rude.
But for me, the Mountains are back.
Also, the cats know they aren't going anywhere.
"Yeah, You, Stupid. We know your job."

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 04:18 AM (9yXr+)

554 Good early morning everyone.

How many times does an old man have to get up in the middle of the night?

The answer is 'all of them or you'll wet the bed'.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2024 04:20 AM (WXNFJ)

555 Whoa
I just had a flash of who else could do

Shit

Okay next time.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 04:20 AM (9yXr+)

556 A great trivia question for friends is if they know whom the fast food restaurant Popeyes was named for. It was named for Popeye Doyle from the French connection. Yeah, that sounds weird. It sounds like something that can’t actually be true, but it is.
Posted by: Quint at May 29, 2024 03:24

What weirds me out is that a family pizza place up the road in Oregon, IL was involved in the true story. And odder yet it is still open and the family still owns it. Alfanos I think.

Posted by: Farmer at May 29, 2024 04:25 AM (55Qr6)

557 554

The funniest meme I've ever seen was forwarded to me, which I've since lost. Guy races into a public bathroom, unzips, AHHHHHH

Cuts to guy waking up next to his wife

Posted by: LenNeal at May 29, 2024 04:29 AM (9yXr+)

558 JAYWALKING: God bless John Christopher Spatafore!
In the context of California cops turning a blind eye to illegals' many crimes and daily black looting,
the cops can go GFthemselves; they deserve every ounce of scorn in every wayh they get.

Posted by: Ed W at May 29, 2024 04:53 AM (K99w4)

559 Is Angel Hernandez the poster child for affirmative action, or is he the best specimen of the Dunning-Kruger Effect of the last 30 years?

Clearly, he misjudged his audience.

Posted by: B Dubya at May 29, 2024 06:42 AM (AjEcy)

560 Last I saw, the Drinker of the House kept his House seat. But barely. I think he is DONE as the Drinker of the House as a result.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 29, 2024 07:36 AM (8sMut)

561 That cabin is awfully close to the water.
What if there is a flood?

Posted by: The Doctor at May 29, 2024 11:05 AM (qNzP3)

562 17 feet? more like one foot max.

Posted by: Nightfall at May 29, 2024 04:21 PM (xd3qE)

563 Currently it looks like Movable Type is the top blogging platform out there right
now. (from what I've read) Is that what you are using on your blog?

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