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Games Animals Play Cafe

owlinflight.jpg

Owl enjoys a pet.

Playing Gorilla Tag.

"Come out to the coast," she says, "we'll get married on a farm, we'll have a few laughs..."

Put the phone down, it's family time.

Cross-species Siamese twins. (Not really.)

Fawn cleans a dog.

Kitten does her sexy walk.

Puppies and kittens cuddle together in the ruins of a building.

Ruins in the middle of a river (IG).

Peruvian dragon mantis.

The joy of a young nerd.

Apes play the universal game of Stop Touching Me/You're the One Who's Touching Me.

Bunny and dog play the Stop Imitating Me game.

"Gandalf the Golden." Much better than the Amazon woke bus crash.

He's got the swagger of a panther.



Posted by: Ace at 07:23 PM




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1 First!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

2 I have en-NOODed the other thread.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

3 Next !

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 07:24 PM (7kKPC)

4 Looking at that owl...I wonder if there were dinosaurs that would have been great pets.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:29 PM (fV+MH)

5 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 07:29 PM (tSsdA)

6
woke Macy's gay parade can go horsefuck, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:30 PM (89upD)

7 210 um the latest Taibbi thing is SHOCKING

dem dirty tricks featuring THE rick Wilson and a bunch of other slugs

link in sig but it's sadly paywalled
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 26, 2024 07:21 PM (Pv3Rg)

https://archive.ph/mOrHx

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 07:30 PM (tSsdA)

8 That owl would be a great divebomber.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)

9 Great Owl Pic.

Posted by: garrett at November 26, 2024 07:30 PM (z/jjr)

10 He's got the swagger of a panther.

She's got the eyes of a panther, lips like Stan...

Posted by: Steel Panther at November 26, 2024 07:31 PM (KcwUg)

11 We shall feed Rick Wilson to the owls.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:31 PM (ZOv7s)

12 I have en-NOODed the other thread.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:24 PM


Can you do anything about the penguin smell here?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 26, 2024 07:31 PM (a3Q+t)

13 Can you do anything about the penguin smell here?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 26, 2024 07:31 PM (a3Q+t)
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Cleansing fire should do the trick. Stand back.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:32 PM (ZOv7s)

14 >>> 9 Great Owl Pic.
Posted by: garrett at November 26, 2024 07:30 PM (z/jjr)

Great Horned Owls are *way* bigger than that little guy.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 26, 2024 07:32 PM (KcwUg)

15
I might even watch a bit of gay anderson cooper and fake unfunny "comedian" kathy griffin (who is close friends with Taylor Lorenz, 50, btw) do their stupid New Years Eve show, just to see their bitterness as they welcome in The Trump Years, Part Deaux.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:32 PM (89upD)

16 That owl would be a great divebomber.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


I think it's a stealth owl. Small radar signature with the wings pulled in like that.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 07:33 PM (DgGvY)

17 Cool owl!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 26, 2024 07:33 PM (u1uWe)

18 >>Great Horned Owls are *way* bigger than that little guy.


I've got one that likes to live in and around the hay barn, here.

Yeah - Yuge compared to the little guy above.

Posted by: garrett at November 26, 2024 07:34 PM (z/jjr)

19 Humourous enough for the Café...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 40m
LIARS: Senior aids to Kamala Harris have told the Huffington Post in an interview that internal polling NEVER showed her ahead of Trump. Basically, they ran a ONE BILLLION DOLLAR campaign based on a lie.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:34 PM (hovnC)

20 Shoot, I missed the last thread:

>This would medically discharge 15,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.


Will there be an seamen discharged?

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 26, 2024 07:34 PM (NMT5x)

21 "Gandalf the Golden."

I think you just gave Disney their next idea for a huge financial loss.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:35 PM (fV+MH)

22 "Come out to the coast," she says, "we'll get married on a farm, we'll have a few laughs..."

That cracked me up big time. I needed that. Thanks, ace.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 07:36 PM (mH6SG)

23
Ant is watching a 1951 short about Thanksgiving. I cued it up to a very interesting part that relates to today:

https://is.gd/Ppx0Y1

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:36 PM (89upD)

24 Middle-aged Taylor Lorenz being fixated on youth is nothing new. The Boomers pioneered the unprecedented inversion of status where youth was exalted and age denigrated.

A large part of this had to do with loss of faith in God. If you accept the reality of the afterlife, than death holds no fear for you.

However, if you deny the hereafter, than your entire being is swept up in a desire to deny the passage of time, to pretend you're still 29, and this requires facial surgery, supplements, etc. to maintain this illusion.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:36 PM (ZOv7s)

25 Doing some cleanup here. Any reason to keep MS Windows 3.1 diskettes, with Excel?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 07:36 PM (ak1cE)

26 I love da owl, even more than I love da bats.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:37 PM (RsS92)

27 Chuck Callesto @ChuckCallesto 1h
BREAKING REPORT: Court of Appeals in the 11th Circuit agrees to DROP Trump’s Florida documents case...

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:37 PM (hovnC)

28 The joy of a young nerd.

I hope that was the optometrist putting those glasses on, and not his mom.

"What was the first thing you ever saw when you got glasses?"

"Boobies!" * giant grin *

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 07:37 PM (DgGvY)

29 "Cracker Jack Changes Name To Less Offensive Caucasian Jack"
The Babylon Bee

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:38 PM (RsS92)

30 Doing some cleanup here. Any reason to keep MS Windows 3.1 diskettes, with Excel?

Nope.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 07:38 PM (mH6SG)

31 Not a lot of Otter representation lately

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 07:38 PM (7kKPC)

32 thanks, Robert!

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:38 PM (KRtlO)

33 I've got one that likes to live in and around the hay barn, here.

Yeah - Yuge compared to the little guy above.
Posted by: garrett at November 26, 2024 07:34 PM (z/jjr)
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I"ve got it! Train huge owls to attack drones. Give them armored claws or something, a wee helmet as well.

No one will see it coming.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:38 PM (ZOv7s)

34 Middle-aged Taylor Lorenz being fixated on youth is nothing new. The Boomers pioneered the unprecedented inversion of status where youth was exalted and age denigrated.

Yeah, Boomers in particular are youth-fixated, Gen X is a bit as well. Then there's Millennial songbird Taylor Swift who apparently thinks she's 14 still.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:38 PM (RsS92)

35 Doing some cleanup here. Any reason to keep MS Windows 3.1 diskettes, with Excel?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


As museum relics?

Drink coasters?

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 07:39 PM (DgGvY)

36 they ran a ONE BILLLION DOLLAR scam.

Posted by: fd at November 26, 2024 07:39 PM (vFG9F)

37 DogeDesigner @cb_doge 3h
BREAKING: The FCC has officially approved Starlink’s license for its Direct-to-Cell program.

Starlink Satellites will be able to broadcast direct to your mobiles. There will be no deadzone anywhere in the world for your cell phone. Starlink will save lives.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:39 PM (hovnC)

38 That Norway pic,?
Ok, that's where I turn around for the trailhead I left from. flat rate no.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:39 PM (gY0JQ)

39 Drink coasters?
Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 07:39 PM (DgGvY)

Heh! I like that idea.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 07:40 PM (ak1cE)

40 >>> 37 DogeDesigner @cb_doge 3h
BREAKING: The FCC has officially approved Starlink’s license for its Direct-to-Cell program.

Starlink Satellites will be able to broadcast direct to your mobiles. There will be no deadzone anywhere in the world for your cell phone. Starlink will save lives.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:39 PM (hovnC)

We'll see about that!

Posted by: FEMA at November 26, 2024 07:40 PM (KcwUg)

41 Starlink Satellites will be able to broadcast direct to your mobiles. There will be no deadzone anywhere in the world for your cell phone.

My mom's house was a dead zone for TMobile, I cannot figure out why. Its not some remote place, it was just in town, near a high school. No signal at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:40 PM (RsS92)

42 Doing some cleanup here. Any reason to keep MS Windows 3.1 diskettes, with Excel?
---
Coasters?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 26, 2024 07:40 PM (BpYfr)

43
Ace asked earlier if you did all your shopping for Thanksgiving.

But You People missed it because you don't read the posts.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:41 PM (89upD)

44 We'll see about that!
Posted by: FEMA


One of my favorite games Deus Ex has a plot involving a bio weapon and FEMA. Was eerily predictive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:41 PM (RsS92)

45 @ 37:

WANT!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:41 PM (gY0JQ)

46
Did everyone do their shopping?

Do You have all your Movies picked out for Thanksgiving?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:41 PM (89upD)

47 You can call it Justice if it works, but yeah, I want some fucking Revenge.

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 07:42 PM (7kKPC)

48 willowed
235 180
'Stone looks like Michael Douglas but her cooter looks like Burl Ives.

"Have a Holly Jolly, Christmas!. It's the Best Time of the Year..."

Posted by: Sharon Stone's beaver at November 26, 2024 07:42 PM (3wi/L)

49 The Boomers pioneered the unprecedented inversion of status where youth was exalted and age denigrated.

Not this Boomer. Sheesh, yet another blanket condemnation. It really gets old.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 07:42 PM (mH6SG)

50 Norway -
Yeah. I try to kick that rock loose too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 26, 2024 07:42 PM (/lPRQ)

51 Never knew that the night before their death ride towards Okinawa, the crews of the Yamato and its little task force partied like crazy (as if it were the last time they would).

"All divisions to receive sake". Ships' stores were thrown open. CO of Yamato was seen two-fisted drinking straight from bottles, his XO was wrestling junior officers. Sailors sitting in circles on the deck, singing drunken songs.

When visiting last year, was surprised to learn Yamato was anchored its last night (April 6) just off the island where the kaiten suicide torpedo base/museum is located. Getting the book by surviving junior officer on Yamato, Yoshida Mitsuru (Requiem for Battleship Yamato) wherein all the juicy details were reported.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 07:43 PM (1m82a)

52 anyone here own a D-Link router? congratulations! you just put an ad out for a network administrator
youtu.be/52v6gKPA4TM
whether you want one or not, you're probably getting one

Posted by: gKWVE at November 26, 2024 07:43 PM (gKWVE)

53 Do You have all your Movies picked out for Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:41 PM (89upD)

The Ref

Christmas Vacation

Christmas in Connecticut

Die Hard

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 07:43 PM (7kKPC)

54 Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29 7h
JUST IN: Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth has reportedly just reached an all time high of $264 Million.
👀

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:44 PM (hovnC)

55 Got all the Thanksgiving shopping done yeap. It was more than $58 and we don't even have 10 people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:44 PM (RsS92)

56
I'm toying with the idea of watching all the old Twilight Zones. Haven't done so in years.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:44 PM (89upD)

57 thanks, Robert!
Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:38 PM (KRtlO)

You're welcome, but as I was reading it I realized I only succeeded in removing a banner or something and the story is still mostly paywalled.

Still, the bit that I could read was sleazy as fuck.

These people deserve free helicopter rides on the Pinochet Express.

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 07:44 PM (tSsdA)

58 AOP - sometimes they have collector value ... check that first?

I sold my Windows 95 on 21 Floppy Discs set for a goodish bit of $

(in its day that could recover any w95 machine, if you had patience ...)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:45 PM (gY0JQ)

59 Not trying to crack anyone's balls here, but wouldn't it be great if we could stop sequestering ourselves into generations?

Or separating our society in all the ways of the people who want us separated?

I live in blue Austin and for the last three weeks people have been so nice. And I am the guy that looks like the patriarchy.

Young guys and gals have just been totally cool to me.

Like, everything feels so NORMAL.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:45 PM (fV+MH)

60 'Of course he speaks russian'

I don't think I've seen a happier bear.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 26, 2024 07:45 PM (3wi/L)

61 Doing some cleanup here. Any reason to keep MS Windows 3.1 diskettes, with Excel?
--------
Shurikens!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:45 PM (hovnC)

62 Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29 7h
JUST IN: Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth has reportedly just reached an all time high of $264 Million.
👀
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:44 PM (hovnC)

Who knew being a Congresscritter was so lucrative?

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 07:45 PM (tSsdA)

63 Doing some cleanup here. Any reason to keep MS Windows 3.1 diskettes, with Excel?


.22 targets

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 26, 2024 07:46 PM (NMT5x)

64 Got all the Thanksgiving shopping done yeap. It was more than $58 and we don't even have 10 people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:44 PM (RsS92)

We're north of $150 even without the wine. Butter, cream and pecans are extremely expensive right now. .

Posted by: LASue at November 26, 2024 07:46 PM (lCppi)

65 @51, rhomboid, how interesting ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:46 PM (gY0JQ)

66 Via InstaPundit:

RIP: Earl Holliman, Star of The Rainmaker, Forbidden Planet, Dies at 96. “In television, he had a recurring role on ‘Police Woman’ and also appeared in ‘Hotel de Paree’ and ‘Wide Country.’”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 07:47 PM (TGPs7)

67 >>>Do You have all your Movies picked out for Thanksgiving?

I started watching Madame Web as a goof. It's very boring and amateurish. It's not "so bad it's good," it's just so bad it's bad.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:47 PM (KRtlO)

68 The Conservative Woman: A vaccine guinea pig’s heartrending chronicle of a life destroyed

https://tinyurl.com/4ppabuyr

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 07:47 PM (tSsdA)

69 There is a youtube guy who calls out to stray cats in different languages (using their version of pspspsps). He chooses different calls until they respond, its hilarious. Oh, this cat is Mexican!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (RsS92)

70 Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (63Dwl)

71
Isn't that the movie with the girl with the teets?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (89upD)

72 I live in blue Austin and for the last three weeks people have been so nice. And I am the guy that looks like the patriarchy.

Young guys and gals have just been totally cool to me.

Like, everything feels so NORMAL.
Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:45 PM (fV+MH)

In my experience, being a Texan trumps politics, religion, and pretty much everything else.

Posted by: LASue at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (lCppi)

73 Um...excuse me.

Sorry to be a bother but does anyone know what happened to the underwear?

It's bothering me.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (aOqEy)

74 We're north of $150 even without the wine. Butter, cream and pecans are extremely expensive right now

Unpossible, we were told by the Democrats and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) that its down almost 20% from last year and costs $58 for a thanksgiving meal for 10!

Maybe in 1987

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (RsS92)

75 "Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth has reportedly just reached an all time high of $264 Million."

Huh. Just as her tits hit an all time low. What a coincidence.

Posted by: fd at November 26, 2024 07:49 PM (vFG9F)

76 We buy a fresh turkey every year from a turkey farm.

Butterball's suck.

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 07:49 PM (7kKPC)

77 That "Russian" bear is enormous. I wouldn't even be near him in a car.

Posted by: Decaf at November 26, 2024 07:49 PM (unUNN)

78 Already reported in detail today but an interesting aside:

Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello 7h
GOOD NEWS: If you trying looking for Walmart's DEI details--it' GONE.

They deleted the DEI page on their website.

Great work, @robbystarbuck!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:49 PM (hovnC)

79 Good evening everyone from Biden County again
Hopefully leaving before 9pm

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 07:49 PM (e3RQI)

80 >>>Isn't that the movie with the girl with the teets?

yeah she provides the only points of interest but she's barely in it and she's playing a teenager so they try to hide the puppies

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:50 PM (KRtlO)

81 Do You have all your Movies picked out for Thanksgiving?



Already watched Animal House Christmas Vacation.

May pull out "Every time a bell rings, a democrat loses their seat".

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at November 26, 2024 07:50 PM (pS9uE)

82 Isn't that the movie with the girl with the teets?

...you're gonna have to be more specific

By the way if you need something to relax to, I recommend Vice Grip Garage. He's like a cross between Pogo Possum and Bob Ross, fixing old abandoned or forgotten cars and getting them running to drive home. Its oddly soothing and comforting to watch and listen to, even if you know nothing about how to fix a car.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:50 PM (RsS92)

83
Speaking of dragoons...

Have we ever fought over dragons?

Are they 2-legged, or 4-legged?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:51 PM (89upD)

84 "Um...excuse me.

Sorry to be a bother but does anyone know what happened to the underwear?

It's bothering me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA"

If they have a cat or a dog, I think I might have a theory.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (fV+MH)

85 New York Post @nypost 8h
Beware these 4 foods that can give you gas on Thanksgiving — including a side dish that leads to ‘pretty stinky farts’
trib.al/AnbMIk0

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (hovnC)

86 67 >>>Do You have all your Movies picked out for Thanksgiving?

I started watching Madame Web as a goof. It's very boring and amateurish. It's not "so bad it's good," it's just so bad it's bad.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:47 PM (KRtlO)

I surprisingly liked HELLBOY AND THE CROOKED MAN, He's not saving the World just a small town in WV that's under the grip of Witches and the Crooked Man.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (FCrpy)

87 I watched Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves last night. Its okay, 3 out of 5. It spends way too much time trying to give every character a sad backstory and resolving them all, and there's way too much millennial snarky humor that feels wrong for the tone of the setting, but its pretty amazing to look at and is fun enough.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (RsS92)

88 I watched Watership Down for the first time in like 45 years the other night.

Someone mentioned it online as a Gen X scarring movie.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (aOqEy)

89 eh, movie for the weekend?, maybe "Fifth Element" ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:53 PM (gY0JQ)

90
Because Game of Thrones had both, dual and quad legged dragons, I think. And that supposedly annoyed Grrrge RR Mrrrtin.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:53 PM (89upD)

91 Ace asked earlier if you did all your shopping for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:41 PM (89upD)

My small town Kroger doesn't carry phyllo dough. So Thanksgiving baklava might not happen. I do have to go to bigger town tomorrow for an MRI, so I'll get some then, but it's kind of a labor-intensive endeavor to start in the evening.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 26, 2024 07:53 PM (OX9vb)

92 @ 82, C R Taylor, that's another one on my list

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 07:55 PM (gY0JQ)

93
Doing some cleanup here. Any reason to keep MS Windows 3.1 diskettes, with Excel?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 07:36 PM


I was looking for something else this afternoon and found all the disks for MS Office for XP...

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 26, 2024 07:55 PM (tljrc)

94 I shopped yesterday

Wegmans was packed … at noon no less

I can only imagine what tomorrow would be like 😱

Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 07:55 PM (TTAGa)

95 If they have a cat or a dog, I think I might have a theory.
Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (fV+MH


That's a decent theory. Cat decided to play with the panties and got them stuck on his head. Took off tearing the house and out the doggie door. $50 panties then landed beside some unsuspecting dude's truck.

His girlfriend then saw the panties and now they are breaking up and she's gonna go bang the guy she met in art class at the community college. Later she will get pregnant and the art class guy leaves her for his ex-girlfriend.

Cats.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 07:56 PM (aOqEy)

96 Not this Boomer. Sheesh, yet another blanket condemnation. It really gets old.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 07:42 PM (mH6SG)
---
It is not a condemnation, it is an explanation, nothing more.

I'm encouraged by the example of Justine Bateman, who has chosen to age naturally and has considerable insight in where we are at the moment.

I think stigmatizing plastic surgery would be a good start on "normalizing" society.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:56 PM (ZOv7s)

97 Um...excuse me.

Sorry to be a bother but does anyone know what happened to the underwear?

It's bothering me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (aOqEy)


Boyfriend thought it was a covid mask and wore it to work.
Boss gave him a funny look.

He did wear it to work after all

Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 07:56 PM (D7oie)

98 85 New York Post @nypost 8h
Beware these 4 foods that can give you gas on Thanksgiving — including a side dish that leads to ‘pretty stinky farts’
trib.al/AnbMIk0
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (hovnC)

All of us read that to find out how to get the stinkiest farts

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 07:56 PM (7kKPC)

99
Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5

Awww, man...

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:56 PM (89upD)

100 That kitten would rather everyone not mention the war.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2024 07:57 PM (Y6IkP)

101 I just re-watched On Her Majesty's Secret Service on Amazon. It remains really good. It's got all the good stuff you want in a James Bond movie, and it's all well done.

I tried to get a girl to watch it with me and my selling point was, "It's almost like a real movie." By which I mean, it's more than a very formulaic Bond movie. Though the formula is there (and really well done), it's more than that.

It has some of the funniest lines of any Bond film.

I also watched Dr. No. The first half is pretty good, the second half is meh. There are no twists in it at all. Bond follows the breadcrumbs directly to the villain's lair, then has a punch-up with him. Then it's over.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:57 PM (KRtlO)

102 We just need a few things for Thanksgiving. I'll get them tomorrow evening. Some sweet potatoes, little marshmallows, a frozen turkey, stuff like that.

Posted by: fd at November 26, 2024 07:57 PM (vFG9F)

103 "Wegmans was packed … at noon no less"

Everyone in American took this whole week off apparently.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:58 PM (fV+MH)

104 Though lacking baby goats, yaks or gnus, the Games People Play Cafe made me smile. (For all but the man with the bear. Yikes!)

Posted by: L - L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 26, 2024 07:58 PM (NFX2v)

105 Awww, man...
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:56 PM (89upD)

My boys still have me in exile … 🤷‍♂️

Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 07:58 PM (TTAGa)

106 yeah she provides the only points of interest but she's barely in it and she's playing a teenager so they try to hide the puppies
Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:50 PM (KRtlO)
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Only fricken Disney Marvel would take a smokeshow like that and make her frumpy.

And then expect to make money at the box office.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)

107
Everyone craps on George Lazenby. I like him.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:59 PM (89upD)

108 >>>Everyone craps on George Lazenby. I like him.

Just a slight stiffening.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:59 PM (KRtlO)

109 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 07:56 PM

Thanks for the thoughtful clarification. I wasn't lashing out at you personally. Just get weary of the Boomer Wars, that's all.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 07:59 PM (mH6SG)

110 "That's a decent theory. Cat decided to play with the panties and got them stuck on his head. Took off tearing the house and out the doggie door. $50 panties then landed beside some unsuspecting dude's truck.

His girlfriend then saw the panties and now they are breaking up and she's gonna go bang the guy she met in art class at the community college. Later she will get pregnant and the art class guy leaves her for his ex-girlfriend.

Cats.
Posted by: AlaBAMA "


Excellent. You need a job in Hollywood.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:00 PM (fV+MH)

111 >>> I watched Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves last night. Its okay, 3 out of 5. It spends way too much time trying to give every character a sad backstory and resolving them all, and there's way too much millennial snarky humor that feels wrong for the tone of the setting, but its pretty amazing to look at and is fun enough.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 07:52 PM (RsS92)


I'd like a full motion cartoon finale for the 80s cartoon. I really liked that as a kid. I heard they had a small live action part for them but I want a proper finale. WotC are dickheads though.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2024 08:00 PM (Y6IkP)

112 Already reported in detail today but an interesting aside:

Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello 7h
GOOD NEWS: If you trying looking for Walmart's DEI details--it' GONE.

They deleted the DEI page on their website.

Great work, @robbystarbuck!
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 07:49 PM (hovnC)

There's a VTuber named Kirsche who has made a project out of tracking something called BRIDGE. I've only caught a little so far but it's super interesting and worth a listen.

https://tinyurl.com/a4wtw7fv

As a bonus if you really watch it you get to see an anime fox girl with big bouncing jugs.

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 08:00 PM (5YOFv)

113 ANY Bond is better than Daniel Craig.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (fV+MH)

114 Excellent. You need a job in Hollywood.
Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:00 PM (fV+MH)


That's actually a better plot than Cats. What music does it have?

Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (D7oie)

115 I have a good friend who gave me a 10 lb ham for thanksgiving, he and a couple guys hunt feral hogs, then they take the good ones and smoke about 300 - 400 lbs to give to their friends, he takes his him and first wraps them tight and injects them with Chardonnay overnight, then smokes them in a big smoker for 5 or 6 hours. I gotta keep it on a garage fridge, because it’s so smoky that it’s just too strong to keep in the kitchen fridge. But it tastes wonderful.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (W6hoT)

116 107
Everyone craps on George Lazenby. I like him.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 07:59 PM (89upD

I don't think I ever watched a Lazenby Bond flick. My Bond experience started with Connery.

Roger Moore was the dividing point for me. They chose to make the Bond movies extra cheesy with him.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (aOqEy)

117 if anyone hasn't seen OHMSS yet, give it a try. You'll get used to the one-and-done actor in the James Bond role. It's odd at first but then you accept it.

He could have been good. This was his first real acting job.

He quit because he was a hippy and his hippy manager/advisor told him the "era of cop films was over" in the Age of Aquarius and that James Bond was a dead-end and the series would end in a movie or two.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (KRtlO)

118 I tried to get a girl to watch it with me and my selling point was, "It's almost like a real movie." By which I mean, it's more than a very formulaic Bond movie. Though the formula is there (and really well done), it's more than that.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 07:57 PM (KRtlO)
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From Russia With Love is probably the most Cold War-ish of all the Bond films. I keep meaning to buy one of the DVD sets.

Best Roger Moore movie is For Your Eyes Only. Also Cold-War focused, and the scene where Moore kicks the car of the cliff face is stone cold.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (ZOv7s)

119 >>>I don't think I ever watched a Lazenby Bond flick. My Bond experience started with Connery.

OHMSS is legit. Great theme, too.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:02 PM (KRtlO)

120 94. Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5

Awww. 🤗

Posted by: L - L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 26, 2024 08:02 PM (NFX2v)

121 Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes 4h
Who is the worst governor in the United States?

https://tinyurl.com/mx6xrm9b
photos

Elon Musk @elonmusk 4h
Tough call 🤔
====
I only recognize Newsome [CA state flag] and I assume Whitler but not the other two.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:03 PM (hovnC)

122
Like, everything feels so NORMAL.
Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 07:45 PM



It's a TRAP!

A. Ackbar

Posted by: pawn at November 26, 2024 08:03 PM (QB+5g)

123 "That's actually a better plot than Cats. What music does it have?
Posted by: Kindltot"


Flock of Seagulls. What else?

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:03 PM (fV+MH)

124 Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 07:58 PM

That makes two of us, bro. I guess it is what it is.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 08:03 PM (mH6SG)

125 113 ANY Bond is better than Daniel Craig.
Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (fV+MH)

The Timothy Dalton ones sucked.

I like Casino Royale and Goldfinger.

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 08:04 PM (7kKPC)

126 >>>113 ANY Bond is better than Daniel Craig.

he really crapped the bed. I still haven't bothered to see No Time to Die. (A bad title, as it turns out.)

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:04 PM (KRtlO)

127 Unpossible, we were told by the Democrats and the legacy media (but I repeat myself) that its down almost 20% from last year and costs $58 for a thanksgiving meal for 10!

Maybe in 1987
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

===

Not even if get hot dogs, good hot dogs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 26, 2024 08:04 PM (/lPRQ)

128 if anyone hasn't seen OHMSS yet, give it a try. You'll get used to the one-and-done actor in the James Bond role. It's odd at first but then you accept it.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:01 PM (KRtlO)
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Telly Savalas as Blofeld is great. Can't leave that out.

Lazenby had two problems. First, he was terrible at stage fighting. Did not project strength.

Second, he was Australian, which cause the Bond Establishment to detest him. It's one thing to have Bond played by a Scot, or an Irishman or even a Welshman, but Aussies, were right out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:05 PM (ZOv7s)

129
If you like Roger Moore, he's really good in North Sea Hijack. It's on youtube for free:

https://is.gd/yCM1jy

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 08:05 PM (89upD)

130 >>> Sorry to be a bother but does anyone know what happened to the underwear?
It's bothering me.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 07:48 PM (aOqEy)

Covid happened. No, really:

x.com/ComradeArthur/status/
1861501707642937433

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2024 08:05 PM (Y6IkP)

131 Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 08:03 PM (mH6SG)

👊

Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 08:06 PM (TTAGa)

132 >>>Lazenby had two problems. First, he was terrible at stage fighting. Did not project strength.

i thought he was good. They did some experimental stuff with the fights which I appreciate. They jump-cut to make the blows seem faster, and also he does these super-exaggerated wind-ups and follow-throughs. Like in a comic book, where you always want to draw the most extreme part of a movement.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:06 PM (KRtlO)

133 ANY Bond is better than Daniel Craig.

he really crapped the bed. I still haven't bothered to see No Time to Die. (A bad title, as it turns out.)
Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:04 PM (KRtlO)
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I watched Casino Royale and was done. Craig was terrible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:06 PM (ZOv7s)

134 Dr. No is all about seeing Ursula come strolling out of the sea like Venus in a bikini. The rest of the movie is filler.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 08:06 PM (W6hoT)

135 >>.Telly Savalas as Blofeld is great. Can't leave that out.

yeah he's grown on me.

i wish they had cast someone with a similar voice to the one we heard in Thunderball, though. Super-menacing.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:07 PM (KRtlO)

136 OHMSS

And no one’s mentioned the scrumptious
Diana Rigg

#bebetter

Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 08:08 PM (TTAGa)

137 The only question is how much did kamadollar pocket.
Thanksgiving movies: lions and bears, giants and cowboys, dolphins and packers.
Wife has to work all four nights.

Posted by: Accomack at November 26, 2024 08:08 PM (MeckE)

138 Who was the best Bond girl?

I vote for Jane Seymour.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:08 PM (aOqEy)

139 The Timothy Dalton ones sucked.

I like Casino Royale and Goldfinger.

Posted by: jsg at November 26, 2024 08:04 PM (7kKPC)
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Dalton was awesome in Flash Gordon. Honestly, so was everyone. Brian Blessed, Max von Sydow and Orinella Mutti in a skin tight lycra suit being flogged by a black-clad dominatrix.

And it was a kids' movie!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:08 PM (ZOv7s)

140 russian bear video reminds me why i carry the 629 snubbie this time of year.

not that i would bust a cap on somebody's tame bear, just sayin ...

it's (minimally) orange hat season here, so i am carrying heavy right now justincase, whatever.
and of course wearing the orange stocking cap I bought at the amish hardware store over next countywards

in These Troubled Times:
1- head on a swivel
2- always have a plan
3- always be carrying ... something. what you got. carry it.
4- opsec, opsec, opsec. what i tell you 3 times is true.

innit?

& wear orange in hunting season, amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:09 PM (gY0JQ)

141 Dalton redeemed himself in Hot Fuzz.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:10 PM (aOqEy)

142 Jane Seymour was an underrated Bond chick. Smokin' hot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 26, 2024 08:10 PM (dR6yv)

143 The guy who wrote or performed (or both, dunno) the signature guitar twangy riff thing for Bond soundtrack just died, I think.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:10 PM (1m82a)

144
Sharon Stone, who looks like Michael Douglas at this point: Americans voted for Trump because they are "uneducated" and "don't travel" -- in fact, they don't even have passports.

_______

I don't go to anyplace where I'm unwelcome. That would be rude.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:11 PM (dxSpM)

145 Connery Bond is best Bond.

Posted by: Eromero at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (LHPAg)

146 … and I say again:

Diana fuqing Rigg

She just made the young ‘dog tingle …

Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (TTAGa)

147 Jane Seymour was an underrated Bond chick. Smokin' hot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 26, 2024 08:10 PM (dR6yv)
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I saw that streaming again not long ago. The zombie guy turned pitchman for 7-Up (the un-cola) made me buy a six pack of the stuff the next day.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (ZOv7s)

148 @ 134 is not wrong ...
that really was the nub or crux of the matter, as Bertie Wooster said ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (gY0JQ)

149 He tells the bear he is beautiful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (RIvkX)

150 Who was the best Bond girl?

I vote for Jane Seymour.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:08 PM (aOqEy)


You Jane and Me, Funky

Five Fingers of Funk agrees with you

youtu.be/2M7OtSXrfIM

Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (D7oie)

151 124. That makes two of us, bro. I guess it is what it is.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

🤗 You, too.

Posted by: L - Rooster today, feather duster tomorrow. But not w/o a fight. at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (NFX2v)

152 I don't think Craig crapped the bed, the scriptwriters did after Casino Royale. Same story with Brosnan. Both have the chops to play Bond. The writing has been horrible for decades, in no small part, I think, because the IP holders are imbeciles, who gave us such glories as the bowdlerized version of the books so that no ones feelings would be hurt by the racial views of time.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 26, 2024 08:13 PM (12gd1)

153 Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:10 PM (1m82a)

Yep..,

Like buzzion, he’s dead

Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 08:13 PM (TTAGa)

154 I don't go to anyplace where I'm unwelcome. That would be rude.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:11 PM (dxSpM)
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I recall one time you came into an ont and put your muddy boots on the table.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2024 08:14 PM (RIvkX)

155 Daily Mail: The little-known racial slur that landed Kendrick Lamar in hot water

https://tinyurl.com/48ddr9wz

The word is Eskimo.

Eskimo?

Guys, is Eskimo a racist slur?

I'm a Southerner and I like to think I'm up to date on all my slurs. When did Eskimo become a slur?

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 08:14 PM (5YOFv)

156 Saw buzzion here sometime recently. He's scarcer than I have become, but I'm not dead, so he has that excuse.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:14 PM (1m82a)

157 Same story with Brosnan. Both have the chops to play Bond. The writing has been horrible for decades, in no small part, I think, because the IP holders are imbeciles, who gave us such glories as the bowdlerized version of the books so that no ones feelings would be hurt by the racial views of time.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 26, 2024 08:12 PM (pjs7m)
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If you want a great role for Brosnan, grab the DVD of Noble House. It's a role he was born to play and he nails it. All 80s corporate raiding in Hong Kong but you've got the British still in charge but the ChiComs are going to take over in 1997, so everyone is paranoid.

Bonus points for Tia Carrerra and Julia Nickson. John Rhys-Davies is the villain. Really good. Watched it twice and love it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)

158 I recall one time you came into an ont and put your muddy boots on the table.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2024 08:14 PM (RIvkX)

At least he didn’t wipe his dick on the curtains …

Posted by: Kamala at November 26, 2024 08:15 PM (TTAGa)

159 145. there it is. boom. deal with it.

iffya read the old boox, Fleming described Connery to a T, as Bond.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:16 PM (gY0JQ)

160 No movies planned, but have podcasts (videos) to catch up on after my trip. And several interesting WWII Pacific titles soon at the library.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:16 PM (1m82a)

161 Bonus points for Tia Carrerra and Julia Nickson. John Rhys-Davies is the villain. Really good. Watched it twice and love it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)

I just the-read that this past summer.

You’re correct on all counts

Posted by: browndog has joss at November 26, 2024 08:16 PM (TTAGa)

162 Oh, that rock in that Instagram photo was on the cover of Dream Theater's A View From The Top Of The World.

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 08:16 PM (5YOFv)

163 153 Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:10 PM (1m82a)

Yep..,

Like buzzion, he’s dead
Posted by: browndog dining alone - year 5 at November 26, 2024 08:13 PM (TTAGa)

Geoffrey Holder. Played Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (aOqEy)

164 A lot of cute and a lot of funny and a lot of cute and funny. Thanks, Ace. Nice way to start the evening.

Posted by: JTB at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (yTvNw)

165 I just re-watched On Her Majesty's Secret Service on Amazon. It remains really good.

Lazenby was great in that, its better than its given credit for. The sped up fight scenes were not great but other than that, I really enjoy it.

Daniel Craig was a bad Bond. He was good at playing stoic, but had zero chemistry with any of the women and looked all wrong. Plus, by that point, everyone thought spy trillers had to be Bourne Identity, and they completely lost their way with how to write and direct a Bond movie. Had some good action sequences, but almost always very much following in the footsteps of previous films, where the older Bond movies led the way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (RsS92)

166 "I placed the DeArmond pickup near the bridge. I put a crushed cigarette packet underneath it. That helped to get that round sound.” Vic Flick, guitarist behind the iconic James Bond theme, has died. Read our historic interview with him
By Martin McQuade published 19 November 2024
The late guitarist also told us about meeting the Beatles, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page

https://tinyurl.com/5vt3sur9
detailed interview etc. from the Guitar Player site; and a YT of the Bond work.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (hovnC)

167
recall one time you came into an ont and put your muddy boots on the table.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2024 08:14 PM (RIvkX)

_________

Eh. Shag carpet, paneled walls, black velvet paintings of Elvis singing from Heaven. Like it was some high-class joint.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (dxSpM)

168 I just the-read that this past summer.

You’re correct on all counts
Posted by: browndog has joss at November 26, 2024 08:16 PM (TTAGa)
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Find you a woman who will call you "Tai-pan" and you will live in happiness forever.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (ZOv7s)

169 When did Eskimo become a slur?

Descendents Of Ancient Peoples.
DOAPS.

DOPES.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (hCjtc)

170
I think this is the first year CBS isn't going to air Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving.

They want you stream it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 08:18 PM (89upD)

171 I'm liking the owl pics. 🦉 Neat birds.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 26, 2024 08:18 PM (dR6yv)

172 If you people are still tangled up in Sharon Stone's underwear and where they went, I have a theory. You know how when a person is about to sneeze violently they suck in a lungful of air?

Posted by: Eromero at November 26, 2024 08:18 PM (LHPAg)

173 Anyone else think that owl in the top photo looks ready to start a strafing run?

Posted by: JTB at November 26, 2024 08:18 PM (yTvNw)

174 jeepers, I hiked today, don't get me started about muddy boots ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:18 PM (gY0JQ)

175 iffya read the old boox, Fleming described Connery to a T, as Bond.

Initially, he described Bond as a "wicked Hoagy Carmichael" which sounds ridiculous but if you see pictures of Carmichael from the early 60s yeah he looks genuinely sinister and impressive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:19 PM (RsS92)

176 Anyone else think that owl in the top photo looks ready to start a strafing run?
Posted by: JTB at November 26, 2024 08:18 PM (yTvNw)
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Torpedo bomber.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:19 PM (ZOv7s)

177 black velvet paintings of Elvis singing from Heaven. Like it was some high-class joint.

Paintings with little clocks in them?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 26, 2024 08:19 PM (hCjtc)

178
Oh Lord, Her Majesty is cooking Brussels sprouts and now the whole house stinks of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:20 PM (dxSpM)

179 Eh. Shag carpet, paneled walls, black velvet paintings of Elvis singing from Heaven. Like it was some high-class joint.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (dxSpM)
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You left out the dogs playing poker.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:20 PM (ZOv7s)

180 I guess some (jealous, ignorant) folks in the UK carped that Fleming had no cloak/dagger/intel background back when the Bond thing was taking off. True, but he did have *some* intel background - as in being secretary to the chair of the UK's most important naval intel committee during the war (something like that, of course I forget details), and so was read in to just about all the high-level intel traffic of the war. Few novelists in the intel realm have anything like that background, AFAIK.

Clavell did have the experience of actually being in the Chang-I POW camp during the war, so "King Rat" was in his lane. Just thinking of one novelist who was writing from direct experience.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:20 PM (1m82a)

181 Eh. Shag carpet, paneled walls, black velvet paintings of Elvis singing from Heaven. Like it was some high-class joint.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:17 PM (dxSpM)
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Was probably muddy already.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 26, 2024 08:21 PM (RIvkX)

182 "Jane Seymour was an underrated Bond chick. Smokin' hot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"

Absolutely stunning.

But my fave is Jill St.James.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:21 PM (fV+MH)

183 I'd like a full motion cartoon finale for the 80s cartoon. I really liked that as a kid. I heard they had a small live action part for them but I want a proper finale.

Yeah they are one of the 19230182 easter eggs in the movie, no lines but in the background a few times. The writers went out of their way to make a lot of D&D references, and there were plenty of monster examples from the series (including a Displacer Beast, although it looked like the writers didn't quite get what the creature actually was like).

But they didn't do a good job with character classes. Everyone was kind of generic slightly sneaky light fighter except the barbarian girl. The "druid" was just a shapeshifter, she had zero magic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:21 PM (RsS92)

184 Guys, is Eskimo a racist slur?

I'm a Southerner and I like to think I'm up to date on all my slurs. When did Eskimo become a slur?
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They're now called Inuit; I think eskimo was a [Cree?] Indian word for 'blubber-eaters' and not what they called themselves. So it's now Inuit.

In Alaska though, one of our Moronettes has said in discussing this in the past at the HQ, there is a group that is called Eskimos.

And not to be confused with Innu who are a group from Northern Quebec and Labrador.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:22 PM (hovnC)

185 >>>But my fave is Jill St.James.

oh I just watched Diamonds Are Forever, too.

Really not great. I guess Jill St. James is pretty but the character is a mess.

The whole thing is a mess.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:22 PM (KRtlO)

186 Oh Lord, Her Majesty is cooking Brussels sprouts and now the whole house stinks of them.

What did you do to piss her off so much?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:22 PM (RsS92)

187 What was the Bond movie with Grace Jones?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:23 PM (aOqEy)

188 Quillette: My Friend the Chatbot

https://archive.is/3pLky

Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 08:24 PM (5YOFv)

189 Really not great. I guess Jill St. James is pretty but the character is a mess.

The whole thing is a mess.


Yeah it is a terrible movie. The intro is okay but then its way down hill, like Die Another Day. Jill St James looks nice in a bikini but that's all she really had to offer. I am quite fond of Carole Bouquet personally.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:24 PM (RsS92)

190 >>>187 What was the Bond movie with Grace Jones?

From a View to a Kill.

The Duran Duran one.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:24 PM (KRtlO)

191 Really not great. I guess Jill St. James is pretty but the character is a mess.

The whole thing is a mess.
Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:22 PM (KRtlO)
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By that point, late 60s/early 70s ugly was setting in. Bald guys growing out their hair.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

192 >>Connery Bond is best Bond.

Some people have other opinions. There opinions are wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 08:25 PM (LkLld)

193 What was the Bond movie with Grace Jones?

View to a Kill. Great theme song, horrendous movie. Even Christopher Walken couldn't save it, although he was good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:25 PM (RsS92)

194 Kind of related is The Thomas Crown Affair. The chess scene is awesome.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (ZOv7s)

195 I got a chuckle from a Mark Felton video yesterday. He's a British historian. It's up at his site. Nazi Bandits invade Germany.
It seems that in 1934, some idiot released two mating pairs of trash pandas into the area around Kassel. Now, 90 years later there are two million raccoons running all over the place with the cops shooting everyone the can.
Unintended consequences anyone?

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, McFailure wing of the Uniparty at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (Bm5i4)

196 From a View to a Kill.

The Duran Duran one.
Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:24 PM (KRtlO

That's it. Probably my favorite Bond song.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (aOqEy)

197 i always (still do) wanted a black velvet painting of jfk & elvis playing poker with dogs (tbd) . if it was really a custom job , make the dogs from our own littl fleet of terriers, misc. & n. o. s.
might be bonus points if Winston &cigar was at the table.

but what-evah, ...
eh, la, g'night everyone!


*sighs like No-Face in Spirited Away*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (gY0JQ)

198 I rank Timothy Dalton higher than Connery as Bond because despite having pretty poor writing and plotting, he exemplifies the book version of Bond the best of all the actors. He was supposed to do Goldeneye, which would have rescued his career as Bond, but scheduling conflicts.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (RsS92)

199 Ooops sorry...Jill StJohn.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (fV+MH)

200 Fucking dumbass cops...

But, good news:

https://youtu.be/jtRU3vZI-QU?feature=shared

The Civil Rights Lawyer

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (ufFY8)

201 I really don't care what a bunch of ice aboriginals prefer to call themselves. They have as much relevance to modernity as lost Amazonian tribes. Die salty, eskimos.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (12gd1)

202 Oh Lord, Her Majesty is cooking Brussels sprouts and now the whole house stinks of them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:20 PM (dxSpM)

Oh, no. Do you have to eat them, too?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 26, 2024 08:27 PM (OX9vb)

203 And not to be confused with Innu who are a group from Northern Quebec and Labrador.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:22 PM (hovnC)

I guess Newfies is right out too 🤔

Posted by: browndog ragging at November 26, 2024 08:27 PM (TTAGa)

204 I'm going to watch 'Saw 7' in a few minutes. I've enjoyed the series and I like how each movie builds on the others and makes you re-evaluate what happened.

The cats Snowflake and Trumpy are sleeping downstairs. It's cooler today and they didn't stay out often. I'd love for them to go out for a few hours now so we can have a quiet night.

Posted by: Stateless at November 26, 2024 08:28 PM (jvJvP)

205 Re Bond girls - Maud Adams was gorgeous.

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at November 26, 2024 08:28 PM (EmT/E)

206 Quilters photo. Are we supposed to want to be that dude?

Posted by: From about That Time at November 26, 2024 08:28 PM (4780s)

207 In Alaska though, one of our Moronettes has said in discussing this in the past at the HQ, there is a group that is called Eskimos.
And not to be confused with Innu who are a group from Northern Quebec and Labrador.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:22 PM (hovnC)


When I talk to South Americans I encourage them to call me a Gringo because we don't have time to faff around not hurting my feelings or or pronouncing Estadounidiense all the time.

Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 08:28 PM (D7oie)

208 Kind of attached to the Golden Era Bond movies myself, probably because I saw them at a different age (as the philosopher said, you never step in the same river twice).

And possibly because they were just classier, more classic products.

Only much later have I learned, and find very amusing, that in Dr No the hotel room scene where Bond kills the professor, they apparently were too lazy or unable to provide the professor with the proper gun - and didn't bother to change the script.

The professor has a 1911 (whose slide is not back, indicating it's not necessarily empty, as the script requires), not a revolver. Yet Bond calmly lets him retrieve and try to shoot the gun (click), and says "but that's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six" before dispatching him with the suppressed PPK (?). Really egregious gun-accuracy there, yet the scene still works (and was apparently shocking by the norms of the time, for the cold-blooded kill).

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:29 PM (1m82a)

209 I am fond of the D'Abo girls, Maryam was quite fetching in Living Daylights

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:29 PM (RsS92)

210 Christopher Lee was the ww2 badass; he once advised his director that the sound of cutting a throat was incorrect ... ; from, shall we say, personal experience

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:30 PM (gY0JQ)

211 John Ekdahl @JohnEkdahl 3h
I wish I could go back in time a month and change my vote to Kamala.
I didn’t know about the avocado prices.
I DIDN’T KNOW!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:30 PM (hovnC)

212 That's it. Probably my favorite Bond song.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (aOqEy)
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"Goldfinger" is best. Best film, best music, best everything. The epitome of Bond in every way. When you hear that music, those cues, you think Bond. Connery strapped down under the laser, all of it defined the genre for good or ill.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

213 Absolutely stunning.

But my fave is Jill St.James.
Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:21 PM (fV+MH)

Oh yes by far! The secondary Bond theme plays during the Helicopter attack on the oil rig scene, I know you’d all recognize. Our local T’V station used that as the theme for News 12 Action News in the early to mid 70’s. It’s the kind of song Ron Burgundy would have chosen for his show.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 08:31 PM (W6hoT)

214 The professor has a 1911 (whose slide is not back, indicating it's not necessarily empty, as the script requires), not a revolver. Yet Bond calmly lets him retrieve and try to shoot the gun (click), and says "but that's a Smith & Wesson, and you've had your six" before dispatching him with the suppressed PPK (?). Really egregious gun-accuracy there, yet the scene still works (and was apparently shocking by the norms of the time, for the cold-blooded kill).

Yeah there are all sorts of gun shenanigans going on in that but it was such a great scene all but the most pedantic viewers don't really notice. It was terrific at establishing Bond as cold as ice.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:31 PM (RsS92)

215 "Goldfinger" is best. Best film, best music, best everything. The epitome of Bond in every way. When you hear that music, those cues, you think Bond. Connery strapped down under the laser, all of it defined the genre for good or ill.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

Can’t you just hear Shirley Bassie…
“Gold finGAH…”

Posted by: browndog ragging at November 26, 2024 08:32 PM (TTAGa)

216 When did Eskimo become a slur?

Descendents Of Ancient Peoples.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism


As though Wipepo were brewed up in some alchemical lab in the 1700s?

We're all descended from ancient peoples.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 08:32 PM (DgGvY)

217 I guess Newfies is right out too
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No, that's still allowed, boyo.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:32 PM (hovnC)

218 Christopher Lee was the ww2 badass; he once advised his director that the sound of cutting a throat was incorrect ... ; from, shall we say, personal experience

Apparently he caused some slowdowns in filming the Lord of the Rings because he'd get to telling stories and everyone just stopped what they were doing to listen. He was all that is man.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:32 PM (RsS92)

219 @ 212, bingo!

the timer on the nuke stopping at 0 07

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:32 PM (gY0JQ)

220 Goldfinger is the movie that Bond really got his ass kicked repeatedly.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:33 PM (fV+MH)

221
Oh, no. Do you have to eat them, too?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 26, 2024 08:27 PM (OX9vb)

_______

They're all HM's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:33 PM (dxSpM)

222 not even to mention Goldfinger's Rule

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:33 PM (gY0JQ)

223 Christopher Lee was the ww2 badass; he once advised his director that the sound of cutting a throat was incorrect ... ; from, shall we say, personal experience
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:30 PM (gY0JQ)
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Peter Jackson was trying to give direction about Saruman's murder, and he told Lee to scream when Grima drove the knife into his lungs. Lee explained that when you pierce a lung, it loses air pressure, so you can't scream, you sort of hiss and gurgle.

Because he was in the War, you know.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)

224 "When did Eskimo become a slur?
Descendents Of Ancient Peoples"

Used in a sentence:

"I don't know but I've been told, Descendents Of Ancient Peoples pussy is mighty cold."

Nah, doesn't quite work.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 26, 2024 08:33 PM (UcNMi)

225
Can’t you just hear Shirley Bassie…
“Gold finGAH…”
Posted by: browndog ragging at November 26, 2024 08:32 PM (TTAGa


*cough*

Bassey

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (aOqEy)

226 Good evening! Always love an owl!

Posted by: Piper at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (p4NUW)

227 Yeah Goldfinger for me, Thunderball close second. Just the whole feel.

And one of the best lines of the entire series.

"No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die"

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (1m82a)

228 which is of universal applicability

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (gY0JQ)

229 184 Guys, is Eskimo a racist slur?

I'm a Southerner and I like to think I'm up to date on all my slurs. When did Eskimo become a slur?
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They're now called Inuit; I think eskimo was a [Cree?] Indian word for 'blubber-eaters' and not what they called themselves. So it's now Inuit.

In Alaska though, one of our Moronettes has said in discussing this in the past at the HQ, there is a group that is called Eskimos.

And not to be confused with Innu who are a group from Northern Quebec and Labrador.
Posted by: andycanuck


It's more complicated than that.

Only white people and a few "woke" natives insist that Eskimo is now to be deemed a slur.

The problem is that "Inuit" in a specific tribal name, and not all people formerly classified as "Eskimos" are actually "Inuits." Other northern peoples are Yupiks, Aleuts, Inupiats, etc. who would punch you in the nose if you tried to call the "Inuits," whom they regard as a totally different tribe.

So, if you get rid of the sobriquet "Eskimo," there is actually no replacement word that means the same thing. "Eskimo" basically was a catchall term meaning "Any tribe above the Arctic Circle." Not an insult.

Posted by: zombie at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (pMi6S)

230 The theme to You Only Live Twice has been a Muzak favorite for decades.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (W6hoT)

231 innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:35 PM (gY0JQ)

232 Goldfinger is the movie that Bond really got his ass kicked repeatedly.

He spends the first half of the film absolutely dominant, controlling everything and getting the upper hand. Then he runs into a mirror and its all downhill from that point on. Very clever writing, actually. I like From Russia With Love better but Goldfinger is really the ultimate Bond movie.

The only real glaring flaw is the cubed oldsmobuick being driven around in the back of an El Camino. I loves me some El Camino but its not hauling around 3 tons of crushed car.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:35 PM (RsS92)

233 cough*

Bassey
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (aOqEy)

I thought it looked wrong, but I was too lazy to check it .

Posted by: browndog tail between legs at November 26, 2024 08:35 PM (TTAGa)

234 Can’t you just hear Shirley Bassie…
“Gold finGAH…”
Posted by: browndog ragging at November 26, 2024 08:32 PM (TTAGa)

The best!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 26, 2024 08:35 PM (OX9vb)

235 Got my haircut today. My barber is a good old school barber, no fro fro shit, just cuts my hair. But he loves old, eclectic music and fishing and his shop has a big bay window that looks out over the bay and he's a really good guy.

Today was a rainy, gloomy day on the bay and this came on his mix. I haven't heard this song in decades. Neil Young is a putz but this was a perfect song for the day. Dark and disturbing and pretty good.

https://tinyurl.com/55vwxzmn

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 08:36 PM (LkLld)

236
It's like when we started to call them "Indigenous People" or "First Nations" instead of "Heathen Savages".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:36 PM (dxSpM)

237 & jeez, 1930, now rly gnigh't !!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:36 PM (gY0JQ)

238 Apparently Lee Marvin did a bit of that (correcting a director on some combat stuff) in a movie or two.

How did I not know that Don Adams was on Guadalcanal?

Related, funniest WWII/Hollywood personality story I've heard was Mel Brooks talking about how, as a student in the ASTP program, he found himself (a NY Jewish kid) marching formation around statues of Confederate generals at the Citadel. Like all ASTPers he got dumped into the active service when we started to run short of bodies, ended up experiencing the Bulge.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:37 PM (1m82a)

239 It's like when we started to call them "Indigenous People" or "First Nations" instead of "Heathen Savages".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:36 PM (dxSpM)
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Fun fact: the actual tribes still call themselves "Indians."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:38 PM (ZOv7s)

240 Neil Young is a putz but this was a perfect song for the day. Dark and disturbing and pretty good.

He's one of the artists I can ignore his stupid personal problems and politics and just enjoy the music. Its like Midnight Oil. They are knucklehead leftists (especially the idiot lead singer) but I really like their music. It helps that their politics are Australian, so they don't mean much to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:38 PM (RsS92)

241 skeletonized .25 beretta ftw!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 26, 2024 08:39 PM (gY0JQ)

242 Mia K. @miakhalifa 11h
I was making dinner reservations in New Orleans and came across a “middle eastern” restaurant that advertised as Lebanese cuisine …and Israeli. So I phoned them to ask where they stand on apartheid and genocide so I could make an informed decision about places I patron and spend my money. Anyways, they’re colonizers that added “Lebanese” because clearly boycotts over genocide and are affecting sales. Stay safe out there, y’all! Not everyone has integrity

Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando 1h
“Yes, I’d like to make a reservation. At your middle eastern restaurant. I need to know WHERE you STAND on GENOCIIIIIIDE!”

https://tinyurl.com/j39dph75
photo

Bestiuk @Bestiuk1 1h Replying to @Oilfield_Rando
"We don't take a stance on political matters."

"BUTTFUCK!!!!!"
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I'm not familiar with the reference from the photo, I assume.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:39 PM (hovnC)

243 Fun fact: the actual tribes still call themselves "Indians."

All the Indians I know (and I know quite a few) call themselves Indians. I think they prefer their tribe first, but Indian doesn't bother them at all. They are also very down on government control or regulation as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:40 PM (RsS92)

244 "Fun fact: the actual tribes still call themselves "Indians."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd "

Can attest. Crossed paths with an Indian kid when I was a kid and he said "Don't fuck with Indians".

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 08:40 PM (fV+MH)

245 Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 08:36 PM (LkLld)

You think Drury’s serious about shopping Kreider and Trouba 🤔

Posted by: browndog tail between legs at November 26, 2024 08:40 PM (TTAGa)

246 184 Guys, is Eskimo a racist slur?

I'm a Southerner and I like to think I'm up to date on all my slurs. When did Eskimo become a slur?
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They're now called Inuit; I think eskimo was a [Cree?] Indian word for 'blubber-eaters' and not what they called themselves. So it's now Inuit.

In Alaska though, one of our Moronettes has said in discussing this in the past at the HQ, there is a group that is called Eskimos.

And not to be confused with Innu who are a group from Northern Quebec and Labrador.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:22 PM (hovnC)

The only people to whom eskimo is a slur are the woke white folk, as usual. There are many tribes of northern peoples, and they do keep track of all of them, but if you ask a Yupik or Cupik or whatever what race they are, the will say "Eskimo." That is true in Alaska. And beyond that, they are "Alaska Native." As opposed to Native Alaskan, which is what I am, born and raised, but white.

And if you asked the Natives along the Yukon (mostly Athabaskans) 100 years ago, they would have said there are three types of white people: white people, black white people, and Swedes. Make of that what you will.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 26, 2024 08:40 PM (byWhc)

247 Mia K. @miakhalifa 11h
I was making dinner reservations in New Orleans


...a trashy whore says what?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:41 PM (RsS92)

248 How did I not know that Don Adams was on Guadalcanal?

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:37 PM (1m82a)
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Because everyone was in The War and not a lot of people liked to talk about it. Especially the Pacific.

I binge-watched some Carson on youtube, and by the 1970s they were comfortable chatting about what they did. Ed MacMahon was a Marine colonel, if you can believe it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:41 PM (ZOv7s)

249 20 minutes til the ceasefire takes effect. Get your targeted strikes in while you can.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:41 PM (1m82a)

250 Ed MacMahon was a Marine colonel, if you can believe it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:41 PM (ZOv7s)


***Johnny Carson voice***

I did not know that …

Posted by: browndog tail between legs at November 26, 2024 08:42 PM (TTAGa)

251 ***Johnny Carson voice***

I did not know that …
Posted by: browndog tail between legs at November 26, 2024 08:42 PM (TTAGa)
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Jimmy Stewart was a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:43 PM (ZOv7s)

252 Jimmy Stewart was a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:43 PM (ZOv7s)

That I did know …

Posted by: browndog tail between legs at November 26, 2024 08:44 PM (TTAGa)

253 The word is Eskimo.

Eskimo?

Guys, is Eskimo a racist slur?

I'm a Southerner and I like to think I'm up to date on all my slurs. When did Eskimo become a slur?
Posted by: Robert at November 26, 2024 08:14 PM (5YOFv)

"Supposedly" the term "Eskimo" derived from a Dene Indian word meaning "eaters of raw flesh". To the Dene, it may have been a slur, but the European explorers and settlers just figured, "ah, so that's the name for these folks." White people did not use "Eskimo" as a slur; it was simply the recognized name for those folk. Usually, they were admired for their toughness.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 26, 2024 08:44 PM (e6Irp)

254 Speaking of D&D, Wizards of the Coast is in hot water for trashing Gary Gygax as a sexist and racist who was pro-slavery for... having slavers in his game setting as bad guys. It works if you pump enough ozempic, luudes, and adrenochrome into your system I guess.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:45 PM (RsS92)

255 So, if you get rid of the sobriquet "Eskimo," there is actually no replacement word that means the same thing. "Eskimo" basically was a catchall term meaning "Any tribe above the Arctic Circle." Not an insult.
Posted by: zombie at November 26, 2024 08:34 PM (pMi6S)

Aleuts are not above the Arctic Circle. Same with Tsimshian, most Athabaskans, Tlingets, etc. So, there are Aleuts, Indians, and Eskimos, and they are considered separate identities in Alaska. Beyond that are tribes, and then families. The odd ones are Haidas, who most resemble natives of the south Pacific, so who knows where they came from. Everyone here is an Alaskan, so there's' that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 26, 2024 08:45 PM (byWhc)

256 My question about Adams was actually rhetorical, since I'm pretty familiar with the WWII backgrounds of the actors of my era. I was supposed to meet McMahon several times via a volunteer gig involving the USMC, but never did. Ditto Lee Ermey. Annoying. They showed up at events every year where I was involved.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2024 08:45 PM (1m82a)

257 Speaking of D&D, Wizards of the Coast is in hot water for trashing Gary Gygax as a sexist and racist who was pro-slavery for... having slavers in his game setting as bad guys. It works if you pump enough ozempic, luudes, and adrenochrome into your system I guess.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:45 PM (RsS92)
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WotC really doesn't seem to understand how roleplaying games work....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 26, 2024 08:46 PM (BpYfr)

258 >>You think Drury’s serious about shopping Kreider and Trouba 🤔

I do. He tried to move Trouba over the Summer but limited no trade clauses and his ridiculous salary made it tough. Kreider is a bit more surprising but he's not getting any younger and right now the team looks dysfunctional.

Tougher for me to see Kreider go given his history with the team but the team does not look good right now and as tough as either them will be to move they seem to be the best options, maybe Lindgren, but that's about it and changes need to be made. There is some young talent that needs ice and I don't see this team going anywhere they way they are constituted now.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 08:46 PM (LkLld)

259 The only people to whom eskimo is a slur are the woke white folk, as usual. There are many tribes of northern peoples, and they do keep track of all of them, but if you ask a Yupik or Cupik or whatever what race they are, the will say "Eskimo."
Posted by: tcn in AK


Yep.

The woke white academics who are insisting on deeming "eskimo" to be a colonialist slur are in fact themselves repeating the same exact colonialist arc, once again imposing white naming protocols on a native population. The woke academics' heads would explode if they realized this -- that they are being just as "racist" as the 18th-century Canadian fur-trappers who started saying "Esquimaux" in the first place.

Posted by: zombie at November 26, 2024 08:46 PM (pMi6S)

260 And just by serendipity tonight, conservative Horde Mind across the 'Net...

The Associated Press @AP 7h
Making 'Queer' required openness. Daniel Craig was ready apnews.com/article/daniel-cr…

Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando 6h
Again, once again, Brosnan was the best Bond

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:47 PM (hovnC)

261 WotC really doesn't seem to understand how roleplaying games work

They don't seem to understand gamers in general or how to sell games.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:48 PM (RsS92)

262 "He's shot more people than Trump..."


Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Alec Baldwin in Italy: After Trump's victory, "half the people in the country are very unhappy, it’s a very difficult time ... Americans are really uninformed about reality, what's really going on — w/ climate change, Ukraine, you name it ... Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information"

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 08:48 PM (TGPs7)

263 All Bonds were the best Bonds, while you were watching them. Men are men, women are women, some are nice and some are nasty, but Bond never blurred those lines. Add the over the top music and acting, and you have a success. If Bond goes gay, that ends it. Then there's no point whatsoever.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 26, 2024 08:49 PM (byWhc)

264 Alec Baldwin in Italy: After Trump's victory, "half the people in the country are very unhappy, it’s a very difficult time ... Americans are really uninformed about reality, what's really going on — w/ climate change, Ukraine, you name it ... Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information"
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 08:48 PM (TGPs7)

And that idiot is going to inform us? Get out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 26, 2024 08:50 PM (byWhc)

265
"Esquimaux" sounds classy. Like when people address me as "Sir" instead of "Hey, stupid!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:50 PM (dxSpM)

266 Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 08:46 PM (LkLld)

Kreider would look good in Blue and Gold

Wonder what he’d cost:
1) middle 6 forward + draft pick
B) prospects + 1st rounder
iii) top 6 forward / Rags retain salary

Posted by: browndog tail between legs at November 26, 2024 08:50 PM (TTAGa)

267 If Bond goes gay, that ends it. Then there's no point whatsoever.

How about if he whines like a pansy and then commits suicide because he's bummed over his dead half brother and missing family?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:50 PM (RsS92)

268 173 Anyone else think that owl in the top photo looks ready to start a strafing run?
Posted by: JTB at November 26, 2024 08:18 PM (yTvNw)
I thought of the A6 Intruder loaded with ordnance ready to ruin some people's stuff.

Posted by: Eromero at November 26, 2024 08:51 PM (LHPAg)

269 I binge-watched some Carson on youtube, and by the 1970s they were comfortable chatting about what they did. Ed MacMahon was a Marine colonel, if you can believe it.
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I remember them teasing a guest because he had "only" served in Korea. I think it was Bob Newhart [USN?] but wouldn't swear to it. I think Don Rickles was there that night too.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:51 PM (hovnC)

270
If you like Roger Moore, he's really good in North Sea Hijack. It's on youtube for free:

https://is.gd/yCM1jy
Posted by: Soothsayer


aka ffolkes

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 26, 2024 08:51 PM (63Dwl)

271 Vice Grip Garage. He's like a cross between Pogo Possum and Bob Ross, fixing old abandoned or forgotten cars and getting them running to drive home. Its oddly soothing and comforting to watch and listen to, even if you know nothing about how to fix a car.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November

I have him on in the background frequently. Wife is annoyed that I'm starting to pick up Derek's aphorisms

Posted by: TexasDan at November 26, 2024 08:51 PM (IokZF)

272 Making 'Queer' required openness.

Gaping open you might say.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 26, 2024 08:52 PM (w5OQI)

273 I like Eskimo Pies.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 08:52 PM (W6hoT)

274 I'm pretty sure Trump's election confirmed that global warming and Ukraine are way down the list of things people care about.

Posted by: Broken Record at November 26, 2024 08:52 PM (su8eT)

275 Speaking of D&D, Wizards of the Coast is in hot water for trashing Gary Gygax as a sexist and racist who was pro-slavery for... having slavers in his game setting as bad guys. It works if you pump enough ozempic, luudes, and adrenochrome into your system I guess.
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Ace has some tweet/s about it so I'm wondering if it's going to feature in a holiday post??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:53 PM (hovnC)

276 270
If you like Roger Moore, he's really good in North Sea Hijack. It's on youtube for free:


Peak Roger Moore was when he ran across the water on the alligators backs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 08:53 PM (W6hoT)

277 Wife is annoyed that I'm starting to pick up Derek's aphorisms

Yeah, that'll happen to a guy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:54 PM (RsS92)

278 Peak Roger Moore was when he ran across the water on the alligators backs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 08:53 PM (W6hoT)
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Hate to tell you this, but he was being doubled by the guy who owned the alligator farm.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 26, 2024 08:55 PM (z0QHk)

279 >>The secondary Bond theme plays during the Helicopter attack on the oil rig scene, I know you’d all recognize

The secondary Bond theme is called "007." It hasn't been used in any movies since, like, Moonraker.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:55 PM (KRtlO)

280 it's a good theme, I wish they'd bring it back.

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:55 PM (KRtlO)

281 Okay. Saw 7.

The guy was busy in Saw 6. Working alone, mostly and there were about 10 people kidnapped, kept drugged, placed into their traps and then heck broke loose.

That's a lot of work.

Posted by: Stateless at November 26, 2024 08:55 PM (jvJvP)

282 The "007" theme


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9FzgsF2T-s

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:56 PM (KRtlO)

283 I'm pretty sure Trump's election confirmed that global warming and Ukraine are way down the list of things people care about.

Yeah, its easy to get lost in the weeds as an idealist. Its like a conservative upset that people didn't vote on obscure hot button issues for us like the federal reserve and jailing Fauci.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:56 PM (RsS92)

284 The secondary Bond theme plays during the Helicopter attack on the oil rig scene, I know you’d all recognize
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I like, during the helicopter attack, the guy who keeps announcing, "Two minutes and cooouunting." He had one job and by God, he's going to do it!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at November 26, 2024 08:56 PM (z0QHk)

285 >> I like Eskimo Pies.

Posted by: Tom Servo

I have a treat for you!

Posted by: Lena Dunham in a walk in freezer at November 26, 2024 08:57 PM (HQ9Sl)

286 The guy was busy in Saw 6. Working alone, mostly and there were about 10 people kidnapped, kept drugged, placed into their traps and then heck broke loose.

Its like The Joker in an extremely unconvincing nurse costume planting 9000 gasoline bombs in an active hospital with nobody noticing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:57 PM (RsS92)

287 I like Eskimo Pies.
Posted by: Tom Servo
-------
And a new Hannibal Lecter meme is born!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 08:58 PM (hovnC)

288 whoops that was just the James Bond theme. It's hard to google.

Here's the 007 theme from Thunderball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=c6sHi5HtvnU&list=PL8855330573089E44&index=11

Posted by: ace at November 26, 2024 08:58 PM (KRtlO)

289 Connery wore a baby blue romper in Goldfinger, so no

https://tinyurl.com/yz4rb2jd

Posted by: Don Black at November 26, 2024 08:58 PM (/7KEl)

290
How did I not know that Don Adams was on Guadalcanal?

You missed it by that much.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 26, 2024 08:59 PM (63Dwl)

291 "Connery wore a baby blue romper in Goldfinger, so no"

Eh you take the bad with the good.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:00 PM (fV+MH)

292 I mean Mel Brooks was at the Battle of the Bulge. Not on the lines, mind you, he was busy playing psychological games with the Germans

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:00 PM (RsS92)

293 Holy shit.

Dildo is gonna ban ace!

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:01 PM (fV+MH)

294 The only real glaring flaw is the cubed oldsmobuick being driven around in the back of an El Camino. I loves me some El Camino but its not hauling around 3 tons of crushed car.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:35 PM (RsS92)
Lincoln Continental in back of Ford Falcon Ranchero. yeah, bullshit.

Posted by: Eromero at November 26, 2024 09:01 PM (LHPAg)

295 Holy shit.

Dildo is gonna ban ace!
Posted by: eleven
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LOL.

Posted by: scampydog at November 26, 2024 09:02 PM (41CYW)

296 Lincoln Continental in back of Ford Falcon Ranchero.

Was it a Ranchero? I love those, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:03 PM (RsS92)

297 Ahwhh damn. I need to get our cat some breath mints

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:04 PM (RsS92)

298 >>Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information

The US has never had such a one sided media as we've had over the last decade or so. And we are bombarded with it. Every mainstream network news is leftwing, so are nearly all of the cable networks, virtually all of the print and they do nothing but preach about the horrors of global warming, Ukraine and every other leftwing emergency.

And the American people have overwhelmingly rejected them. And they have also rejected Hollywood and all other Hollywood and music influencer including Baldwin. We are done with all of them.

The American people are a whole lot smarter than these assclowns ever considered and there is a major realignment coming.

This is an amazing time to be alive.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:04 PM (LkLld)

299 @kaxev
Over 100+ dead in one of the deadliest day in Pakistan's history as Pakistan Army Rangers targets unarmed protestors using sniper and machine gun fire.

#IslamabadMassacre

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 09:04 PM (TGPs7)

300 75 "Nancy Pelosi’s Net Worth has reportedly just reached an all time high of $264 Million."

Huh. Just as her tits hit an all time low. What a coincidence.

Posted by: fd at November 26, 2024 07:49 PM (vFG9F)


I expect her positive popularity ratings with independents and moderates of both parties have also hit an all-time low. The Democrats running focus groups of independents must be ready to commit seppuku, after trying for three weeks to find out which hard-left prominent Democrats have high-enough nationwide positives to be the face of the Resistance.

Pelosi? Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries? Newsom? Whitmer? Jared Polis? J.D. Pritzker? Shapiro? Schiff? AOC? Kamala? Lieawatha? Mayor Buttplug? Bernie? Dick Durbin? Each and every one is toxic for independents right now.

Posted by: Gref at November 26, 2024 09:05 PM (aBgBM)

301 Glasses kid is a cute vid.

Posted by: scampydog at November 26, 2024 09:06 PM (41CYW)

302 There was a longer version of the thong video on x. The boyfriend thought it was a fancy civic mask and wore it to work. His boss gave him a strange look.

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at November 26, 2024 09:07 PM (OpLc2)

303 "This is an amazing time to be alive.
Posted by: JackStraw "

It is!

Women saying fuck you. Latinos saying fuck you!

More Blacks than ever saying fuck you!

And YOUNG people saying fuck you!

They are at sea.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:07 PM (fV+MH)

304 Just after the ONT begins ....

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR NOVEMBER 26

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-76
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 25, 2024 ET
New T-Zero: November 26, 10:05 p.m. ET / November 27, 0305 UTC, 04:05 CET.

https://www.youtube.com/live/lrOqfA5Ni7o


Ciampino - firm commitment to firmament

Posted by: Ciampino - firm commitment to firmament at November 26, 2024 09:08 PM (i0xsb)

305
The US has never had such a one sided media as we've had over the last decade or so.

___________

100 years ago, there was no TV or radio and newspapers were both more numerous and more locally owned. So they were more sensitive (at least from a business standpoint) to the communities they served and you had a much more diverse range of opinions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 09:09 PM (dxSpM)

306 After the company leaves, I'm planning on watching "Friendly Persuasion"- one of my favorite "Americana" movies.

Pretty strict about Advent, so no Christmas movies til after the day.

Posted by: sal at November 26, 2024 09:12 PM (f+FmA)

307 The cafe threads were one of the few good things to come out of Year Zero in 2020.

Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:12 PM (HnUIn)

308 This is an amazing time to be alive.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:04 PM (LkLld)
_________________________

It's not all rainbows and unicorns....Why on here yesterday someone was talking about making lasagna with cabbage leaves....and some other heathen was putting carrots in chili.

Posted by: Orson at November 26, 2024 09:12 PM (dIske)

309 "Come out to the coast," she says, "we'll get married on a farm, we'll have a few laughs..."
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Right reaction, by the looks of it. Laugh and roll with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:13 PM (HnUIn)

310 There is a tater-tot mafia now:

From Not the Bee
tinyurl.com/ttmafia

This would be a great thing for Stelter to investigate.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2024 09:13 PM (Y6IkP)

311 The joy of a young nerd.
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LOL.

Glasses are really life changing. I'd probably be dead without mine, or at least very poor and chronically injured.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:15 PM (HnUIn)

312 Aw, RIP Earl Holliman.
Just saw him last week in an old noir- he was a gay gangster.

Posted by: sal at November 26, 2024 09:15 PM (f+FmA)

313 So I listened to Slow Joe's Rose Garden Speech on the "DEAL" between Isreal & Hezzbola

Only a "DEAL" because the Democraps were going to cut off more military hardware...(see) bombs, Ammo, and other critical war fighting elements needed to continue to prosecute the war with Hezzbola.

In other words... removing the ability for Isreal to fight EFFECTIVELY...in essence Biden went to the political CHOKE HOLD against one of AMERICA's GREATEST ALLIES in the middle east.

And there that FPOSDFTOBAMABUTTBUDDY...(Whoops)

prances out into the Rose Garden and sounds somewhat cognitive like that is going to be his legacy.. "I made this HAPPEN."

FJB now and forever.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 26, 2024 09:15 PM (TDvv2)

314 Holy shit.
Dildo is gonna ban ace!


A Cage Match!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:16 PM (mH6SG)

315 When your dog catches you with another dog..
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LOL

The green-eyed monster does not manifest only in man...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:16 PM (HnUIn)

316 >>It's not all rainbows and unicorns....Why on here yesterday someone was talking about making lasagna with cabbage leaves....and some other heathen was putting carrots in chili.

We will always have subversives and evil walking among us. They shall be cast into the dustbin of history. That includes that whack job who thought making a lasagna with steakums instead of lasagna noodles was somehow acceptable.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:17 PM (LkLld)

317
Aw, RIP Earl Holliman.

Posted by: sal at November 26, 2024 09:15 PM


another grim milestone for the biden-harris administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 26, 2024 09:17 PM (tljrc)

318 ISRAEL!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 26, 2024 09:17 PM (TDvv2)

319 he was a gay gangster

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:17 PM (mH6SG)

320 I made lasagna with zucchini slices once, it turned out okay. Not as hearty as with pasta but it wasn't bad. Its all about the sauce and cheese anyway

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:18 PM (RsS92)

321 MILO
@Nero
We have no idea what happened in the last ten years of our own civilization, and we just lived through it, which is why the best kinds of histories are meditations on morality and character, e.g. Plutarch. Human nature is the only thing we know for sure about the past.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 09:19 PM (TGPs7)

322
Aw, RIP Earl Holliman.
Just saw him last week in an old noir- he was a gay gangster.
Posted by: sal


The Big Combo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 26, 2024 09:20 PM (63Dwl)

323 I did some lasagna experiments this year. I learned two things about lasagna:
1. It's actually quite a lot of work
2. It's surprisingly expensive

But damn it's good.

#worthIt

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:20 PM (HnUIn)

324 speaking of coders who fuck over their customers with spurious "end-of-life" claims, heeerrre's Gearbox:
youtu.be/KhwZvZuclzY

people paid $100 for Homeworld 3 with the expectation of DLC and, of course, they're not getting it.
It was so bad Steam/Valve had to update their terms of use to shift blame to companies that do this. So, luckily, refunds are forthcoming.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 26, 2024 09:20 PM (gKWVE)

325 Winning.

>>@DrJBhattacharya
·
34m
I am honored and humbled by President
@realDonaldTrump
's nomination of me to be the next
@NIH
director. We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:20 PM (LkLld)

326 320 I made lasagna with zucchini slices once, it turned out okay. Not as hearty as with pasta but it wasn't bad. Its all about the sauce and cheese anyway
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:18 PM (RsS92)
_________________________

My corvette looks awesome with that one GMC Pacer side panel, provided you are standing on the correct side of the car. Just kidding. And, btw, I went to school with a girl named Sue Keeney.

Posted by: Orson at November 26, 2024 09:21 PM (dIske)

327 @DrJBhattacharya
I am honored and humbled by President @realDonaldTrump's nomination of me to be the next @NIH director. We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!
Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:20 PM (LkLld)
++++
Replace "reform" with "remake entirely" and we might get somewhere...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:22 PM (HnUIn)

328 Its all about the sauce and cheese anyway

Respectfully disagree. The pasta is a key ingredient. Just my 2 cents. If it is absent, it ain't lasagna.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:22 PM (mH6SG)

329 Glasses are really life changing. I'd probably be dead without mine, or at least very poor and chronically injured.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:15 PM (HnUIn)

Still remember the day walking out of eyeglass place as a youth...trees have individual leaves? Single blades of grass?

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 26, 2024 09:22 PM (/6GbT)

330 Still remember the day walking out of eyeglass place as a youth...trees have individual leaves? Single blades of grass?
Posted by: A dude in MI at November 26, 2024 09:22 PM (/6GbT)
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Never got that bad for me, thankfully. Everyone in my family has poor eyesight and my folks kept an eye on it. I got 'em at the "things are kinda blurry" phase, not the "holy shit, I was *blind* before" stage. My eyesight got worse *fast* at that time, though. My poor parents had to get me new glasses (new prescription and lenses, at least) a couple of time a year for a little bit there. Stabilized in my teens, but there were some years I needed more than one pair a year to keep up with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:25 PM (HnUIn)

331 And, btw, I went to school with a girl named Sue Keeney.

I had a girl named Sue Kinney as a girlfriend in 6th grade for like 2 weeks. Then her parents moved her to a Catholic school. We're practically brothers!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:25 PM (RsS92)

332 100 years ago, there was no TV or radio and newspapers were both more numerous and more locally owned. So they were more sensitive (at least from a business standpoint) to the communities they served and you had a much more diverse range of opinions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 09:09 PM (dxSpM)


Both yes and no. For local and relevant state news this how it was, but for international and US news often the local paper would either have the plates sent down from a large regional paper, or would have those sections printed and sent down by train. At the most breaking news the wire services would send out information by telegraph as well.

the local paper in Tenino, where my Grandfather grew up, had a local paper, and the international news and big national news sections were sent down from Olympia and folded into the local paper. Getting pre-set type was another option for a middling big paper too.
The Salem Oregon Capital Journal kept a telegrapher on staff until the 40's when they got the teletype (and then kept him on as a sportswriter) to get wire service news.

Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 09:25 PM (D7oie)

333 Don't forget to pick up a few $20 scratch tickets...


The Redheaded libertarian

@TRHLofficial
I’m a snow bunny in Massachusetts for the week. Gonna go down the Cape, hit the packie, bang a Uey at the rotary, get a frappe at Dunks and catch the Pats, gonna be wicked sweet, broski. Free Tom Brady. Fk Goodell.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 09:25 PM (TGPs7)

334 I tried to make eggplant parmesan once.

What a disaster.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:25 PM (fV+MH)

335 It's like when we started to call them "Indigenous People" or "First Nations" instead of "Heathen Savages".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 08:36 PM (dxSpM)

Don't forget the Indigiqueer.

I shit you not.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 26, 2024 09:26 PM (ufFY8)

336 Breaking911 @Breaking911 19m
OK, who did this?😆
Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸
Nov 27, 2024 · 2:04 AM UTC

https://tinyurl.com/2a5vs8vk
13 seconds; from Kamala's first public statement since her loss and the HI vacation!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:26 PM (hovnC)

337 Respectfully disagree. The pasta is a key ingredient. Just my 2 cents. If it is absent, it ain't lasagna.

Had to cook it for someone who couldn't eat wheat :/ But I agree, its just not right without the pasta. Especially that top layer that gets all crispy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:26 PM (RsS92)

338 @TRHLofficial
I’m a snow bunny in Massachusetts for the week. Gonna go down the Cape, hit the packie, bang a Uey at the rotary, get a frappe at Dunks and catch the Pats, gonna be wicked sweet, broski. Free Tom Brady. Fk Goodell.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 09:25 PM (TGPs7)
++++
This is barely comprehensible. I assume on purpose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:26 PM (HnUIn)

339 he was a gay gangster

What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: Notorious BFD


It's tough to stay on target when you limp-wrist your Thompson?

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 09:27 PM (DgGvY)

340 Lasagna is a lot of work if done well. There will always be bad ways to do it. There are some cheaper ways that still taste ok. The best versions always seem to take a long time, a lot of work, and aren't inexpensive. I make a lasagna bolognese that takes 2 days because one day is just for making the sauce.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 26, 2024 09:27 PM (VCgbV)

341 Yeah...good luck trying to get scientists to be legit again.

Would be nice if it could happen!

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:28 PM (fV+MH)

342 >>Replace "reform" with "remake entirely" and we might get somewhere...

Replace Fauci with Bhattacharya and we did get somewhere. Trump already got both Canada and Mexico to agree to stop flooding the country with illegals and drugs and he won't even take office for 2 months.

We won. Way bigger than just a normal election. Enjoy it for at least a couple days.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:29 PM (LkLld)

343 I tried to make eggplant parmesan once.

Eggplant is up there with liver and brussels sprouts for me, there just does not seem to be a good way to prepare them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:29 PM (RsS92)

344 @TRHLofficial
I’m a snow bunny in Massachusetts for the week. Gonna go down the Cape, hit the packie, bang a Uey at the rotary, get a frappe at Dunks and catch the Pats, gonna be wicked sweet, broski. Free Tom Brady. Fk Goodell.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

This is barely comprehensible. I assume on purpose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


I think the less-comprehensible parts are "buy some booze at the package store" and "make a U-turn at the roundabout."

But I speak Minnesotan, so yah sure, take your own guess.

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 09:30 PM (DgGvY)

345 We won. Way bigger than just a normal election. Enjoy it for at least a couple days.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:29 PM (LkLld)
++++
Oh, I am.

But "reform" is not the medicine America's government-scientific complex needs. Total reconstruction is more in order, and at a tremendously smaller scale.

Will things get better? Yeah, probably, to some degree. Will trust be restored? That's a pretty damn tall order.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:30 PM (HnUIn)

346 There are some cheaper ways that still taste ok.

Its like pizza, even bad pizza is pretty good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:30 PM (RsS92)

347 Don't forget the Indigiqueer.
-------
"Two-Spirited" people.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:30 PM (hovnC)

348 >>I’m a snow bunny in Massachusetts for the week. Gonna go down the Cape, hit the packie, bang a Uey at the rotary, get a frappe at Dunks and catch the Pats, gonna be wicked sweet, broski. Free Tom Brady. Fk Goodell.

I understand every word of that.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:31 PM (LkLld)

349 334 I tried to make eggplant parmesan once.

What a disaster.
Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:25 PM (fV+MH)
I usually order eggplant parmesan with a side of spaghetti. It makes me happy.

Posted by: Eromero at November 26, 2024 09:31 PM (LHPAg)

350
Holy Shit, You People see this??

New video of malaka harris.

And she looks DRUNK as a skunk. AND HUNGOVER.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:32 PM (89upD)

351 Damn. I gotta go out tomorrow to get some stuff, mostly in the adult beverage category. Not looking forward to it. Oh, well.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:32 PM (mH6SG)

352 But I speak Minnesotan, so yah sure, take your own guess.

My favorite scene in Fargo:

Marge Gunderson: Okay, I want you to tell me what these fellas looked like.
Hooker No. 1: Well, the little guy was kinda funny-lookin'.
Marge Gunderson: In what way?
Hooker No. 1: I dunno, just funny-lookin'.
Marge Gunderson: Can you be any more specific?
Hooker No. 1: I couldn't really say. He wasn't circumcised.
Marge Gunderson: [amused by this unhelpful detail] Was he funny lookin' apart from that?
Hooker No. 1: Yah.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:32 PM (RsS92)

353 Hey Baldwin. I've got some information for you:
Treat every gun as if it is loaded. Never point a gun at anything that you do not wish to destroy. No gun fires itself.

Posted by: Cosda at November 26, 2024 09:32 PM (u83p8)

354 Its like pizza, even bad pizza is pretty good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:30 PM (RsS92)
++++
It *is* pizza. Most of the same ingredients, just a different form factor and ratio of stuff.

Pizza, lasagna, spaghetti with red meat sauce, ravioli - they are all much more alike than they are different. But the margins are always where the action is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:32 PM (HnUIn)

355 323 I did some lasagna experiments this year. I learned two things about lasagna:
1. It's actually quite a lot of work
2. It's surprisingly expensive

But damn it's good.

#worthIt
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:20 PM (HnUIn)

Dad insisted on forming and frying little meatballs instead of just randomly crumbling ground beef between the layers. I gotta say, it took mom's lasagna to a whole nother level..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2024 09:32 PM (Cbio9)

356 Eggplant is completely different when cooked in the microwave.

Posted by: Wenda at November 26, 2024 09:33 PM (6mIH4)

357
MUST WATCH NOW!!!

She's fucking skunked!

https://is.gd/b7jfrg

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:33 PM (89upD)

358 Its like pizza, even bad pizza is pretty good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Not really, bad pizza is just bad pizza...

Posted by: lin-duh at November 26, 2024 09:33 PM (VCgbV)

359 "Eggplant is up there with liver and brussels sprouts for me, there just does not seem to be a good way to prepare them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"

While I disagree on liver - agree on the rest.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:33 PM (fV+MH)

360 Hey Baldwin. I've got some information for you:
Treat every gun as if it is loaded. Never point a gun at anything that you do not wish to destroy. No gun fires itself.
Posted by: Cosda at November 26, 2024 09:32 PM (u83p
++++
"There is no such thing as an 'accidental discharge,' just a 'negligent discharge' or a 'reckless discharge.'"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:34 PM (HnUIn)

361 Pizza, lasagna, spaghetti with red meat sauce, ravioli - they are all much more alike than they are different.

People make fun of Taco Bell having six ingredients prepared fifty ways, but almost all ethnic food is like that. Its how you portion and prep them like you say, and it can be amazingly varied.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:34 PM (RsS92)

362 No. Liver. Ever.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:34 PM (mH6SG)

363 Eggplant is up there with liver and brussels sprouts for me, there just does not seem to be a good way to prepare them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:29 PM (RsS92)
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I am very mildly allergic to it. Annoying allergic, not dangerous allergic. Which is too bad, because I actually like various forms of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:35 PM (HnUIn)

364 ">>I’m a snow bunny in Massachusetts for the week. Gonna go down the Cape, hit the packie, bang a Uey at the rotary, get a frappe at Dunks and catch the Pats, gonna be wicked sweet, broski. Free Tom Brady. Fk Goodell.

I understand every word of that.
Posted by: JackStraw"

Hah...I did too!

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:35 PM (fV+MH)

365
WTFF?!

She did a fake "call" with Knucklehead her loser running mate, and they read from a self-fellating script to each other.

He looks like a bozo, talking about, I shit you not, "joy," and she looks like just got home from a BENDER.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:35 PM (89upD)

366 Don't forget the Indigiqueer.

I shit you not.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt


Get with the times - it's "Two-Spirit" (i.e. the term for "queer native American").

Never mind the fact that the term "Two-spirit" is not an actual Native American phrase or concept -- it was made up out of thin air in 1990 by a bunch of woke twenty-something gay Indians at some conference, and that 95% f Native Americans have still never heard of it.

No matter -- it's now the strictly enforced term used by racist white leftists on any quaint Noble Savage who is light in the moccasins even though (outside of gay circles) no Native Americans use the term.

Once again, leftist neo-colonialism beclowns itself.

Posted by: zombie at November 26, 2024 09:36 PM (pMi6S)

367
Are You People familiar with the phrase "bender?"
I don't know. Really. I don't.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:36 PM (89upD)

368 Leading Report @LeadingReport 1h
BREAKING: Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon says a major factor in Kamala’s landslide loss was the media portraying her as too scared to do interviews.
===
Gee, I wonder why?

I guess the DUmmies will have a new talking point soon to fit into their "capitalist papers and TV are all rightwing like the NYT" crazy worldview.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:36 PM (hovnC)

369 My mom used to get liver at the store and make it for dinner and one night as I was stirring it around on the plate trying to find a way to hide that I had eaten none of it, her and dad got into a discussion in which they both admitted that neither really liked it much and thought the other did. She stopped buying it (which was too bad, it was pretty cheap, just disgusting).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:36 PM (RsS92)

370 He looks like a bozo, talking about, I shit you not, "joy," and she looks like just got home from a BENDER.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:35 PM (89upD)
++++
Leave me out of this. I don't play with human women.

Except Lucy Liu, I guess. But whatever. She was fun on a bun! Kamala, though? Yeesh. Bite my shiny metal ass.

Posted by: Bender Bending Rodriguez at November 26, 2024 09:37 PM (HnUIn)

371 341 Yeah...good luck trying to get scientists to be legit again.

Would be nice if it could happen!

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:28 PM (fV+MH)


Biggest liar/faker gets the most research grant money. It is yet another huge racket funded by FedGov with little fiscal or scientific oversight. I mean, why would a researcher diss another researcher's grant application when next year the investigator/reviewer roles may be reversed? Yet some people remain amazed when papers published in scientific journals are later determined to be worthless or worse (sending other researchers down useless paths).

Posted by: Gref at November 26, 2024 09:37 PM (aBgBM)

372 >>Will things get better? Yeah, probably, to some degree. Will trust be restored? That's a pretty damn tall order.

It's a tweet.

Bhattacharya was one of the few and prominent voices during the virus madness who spoke out against Fauci and his corruption and for that they tried to ruin him.

They tried to get him cancelled at Stanford and ruin his career in the name of "science'. I think he knows the stakes. At the very least let the team Trump is assembling get into office before assuming they will all fail. After all, most here thought Trump was going to lose. That turned out ok.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:38 PM (LkLld)

373 Are You People familiar with the phrase "bender?"
I don't know. Really. I don't.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:36 PM (89upD)
++++
Don't call it a bender! I've been drunk for years!

Posted by: With apologies to LL Cool J at November 26, 2024 09:38 PM (HnUIn)

374 Eggplant is up there with liver and brussels sprouts for me, there just does not seem to be a good way to prepare them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:29 PM (RsS92)


My wife likes the Asian eggplants raw.
However they are good in babaganoush. You have to singe the skin to get the bitter off of it.

Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 09:38 PM (D7oie)

375 Whitney Webb
@_whitneywebb
With the substitution of Pam Bondi for Matt Gaetz, the Trump team is now complete. It’s a serious team with a serious mission: to dismantle the deep state and restructure American government to better represent the people of Israel.

There, fixed it for you.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 09:39 PM (TGPs7)

376 254 Speaking of D&D, Wizards of the Coast is in hot water for trashing Gary Gygax as a sexist and racist who was pro-slavery for... having slavers in his game setting as bad guys. It works if you pump enough ozempic, luudes, and adrenochrome into your system I guess.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 08:45 PM (RsS92)

You can literally buy people at the auction in their Neverwinter MMORP game. They're called "Companions".

Posted by: Reforger at November 26, 2024 09:39 PM (xcIvR)

377 Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Get with the times - it's "Two-Spirit" (i.e. the term for "queer native American").

LOL.

I just learned the word last week, watching the LA City Clowncil on Smoke N Scan. Gay Indians (feather) were feted.

There is an indigiqueer.org website.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 26, 2024 09:39 PM (ufFY8)

378
What a beautiful Thanksgiving gift from the harris/walz campaign.

Truly, the Cherry on top of a great campaign!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:39 PM (89upD)

379
No. Liver. Ever.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:34 PM (mH6SG)

_________

The dogs love it. We'd give it raw to mothers who had just had a litter for the iron content.

As for me, it's fine as liverwurst or braunschwieger, but otherwise, no.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2024 09:39 PM (dxSpM)

380 They tried to get him cancelled at Stanford and ruin his career in the name of "science'. I think he knows the stakes. At the very least let the team Trump is assembling get into office before assuming they will all fail. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at November 26, 2024 09:38 PM (LkLld)
++++
I know, and I wish him luck and I'm rooting for him.

But restoring a semblance of trust is going to be a generational effort. Has to start somewhere, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:39 PM (HnUIn)

381 Leading Report @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio has reached an all-time high, bringing her estimated worth to $264 million.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:40 PM (hovnC)

382 Not fond of Trump's choice for Labor secretary. Dude is kind of an outlier, I wonder if it was some kind of deal with the unions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:40 PM (RsS92)

383 Saw 7: The Final Chapter in 3D....but not on my tv.

30 minutes in. Checking on Mom, dog Ralphy and cats Snowflake and Trumpy resting downstairs for whatever happens tonight.

The movie has been a gorefest but a good gorefest. I was disappointed because 4 people were put in a trap for being racists and hurting people I guess. Eye rol

But we'll see where this goes.

Posted by: Stateless at November 26, 2024 09:41 PM (jvJvP)

384 MUST WATCH NOW!!!

She's fucking skunked!
====
See #336

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:41 PM (hovnC)

385 @LeadingReport 2h
BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio has reached an all-time high, bringing her estimated worth to $264 million.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:40 PM (hovnC)
+++++
Trump can't win 'em all.

Will they report on it when stock valuations come back down to earth and she takes big paper losses? Of course, her losses are unlikely to be as bad as average...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:41 PM (HnUIn)

386 The song in the third tile of the Normay Instagram thing is

Ca Plane Pour Moi, by Plastic Bertrand. French song in a punk style sung by a Belgian.

Some of the lyrics in English:
Yam! Bam!
My cat Splash is crashed out on my bed
He's swallowed his tongue
From drinking all my whisky
Whereas me, not much sleep, drained, pissed off,
I had to sleep in the gutter,
Where I had a vision
In four colours

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2024 09:41 PM (bss/y)

387 >>>Leading Report @LeadingReport 1h
BREAKING: Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon says a major factor in Kamala’s landslide loss was the media portraying her as too scared to do interviews.

Hey Jen, you loser, now do press conferences. Your candidate did zero of them. What's your CYA excuse for this? Was she scared to do them or not?

Posted by: Gref at November 26, 2024 09:41 PM (aBgBM)

388 You can literally buy people at the auction in their Neverwinter MMORP game. They're called "Companions".

And Gygax had zero to do with that. I wonder how Neverwinter/Sword Coast ended up their default setting, you never hear about Grayhawk any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:42 PM (RsS92)

389 My mother used to make fried liver, bacon, onions and the ubiquitous boiled potatoes a couple of times a month. It wasn't bad. But then again, bacon improves the taste of everything...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 26, 2024 09:42 PM (TGPs7)

390 The dogs love it. We'd give it raw to mothers who had just had a litter for the iron content.

There's no doubt that liver is packed with essential nutrients. I just can't abide by it. My loss, I guess. *shrugs*

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:42 PM (mH6SG)

391 BREAKING: Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon says a major factor in Kamala’s landslide loss was the media portraying her as too scared to do interviews. ...
Posted by: Gref at November 26, 2024 09:41 PM (aBgBM)
++++
She routinely collapsed even during softball interviews and refused to do them.

The press didn't "portray" her as afraid to do interviews, she did that to herself. The press tried to portray it as normal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:43 PM (HnUIn)

392 212 That's it. Probably my favorite Bond song.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 26, 2024 08:26 PM (aOqEy)
---
"Goldfinger" is best. Best film, best music, best everything. The epitome of Bond in every way. When you hear that music, those cues, you think Bond. Connery strapped down under the laser, all of it defined the genre for good or ill.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 26, 2024 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)
----
In the book it's a large circular saw and he is strapped to the moving table, crotch-first. The whine of the saw beats any laser for suspense (in the mind).

Posted by: Ciampino - agoraphobia at November 26, 2024 09:43 PM (i0xsb)

393
andycanuck scooped me!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:43 PM (89upD)

394 Smells like two spirit.

Posted by: Curt Nobrain at November 26, 2024 09:43 PM (63Dwl)

395 369 My mom used to get liver at the store and make it for dinner and one night as I was stirring it around on the plate trying to find a way to hide that I had eaten none of it, her and dad got into a discussion in which they both admitted that neither really liked it much and thought the other did. She stopped buying it (which was too bad, it was pretty cheap, just disgusting).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:36 PM (RsS92)

The liver truck made the rounds in Newark every Saturday back before the city went to hell. Good Humor man, too, in those nifty Willys-looking trucks. Which truck would mom send me out with a fiver to intercept? Every damn Saturday...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2024 09:44 PM (Cbio9)

396 In the book it's a large circular saw and he is strapped to the moving table, crotch-first. The whine of the saw beats any laser for suspense (in the mind).

It would be much more terrifying for viewers, although less visually dazzling. Viewers wouldn't really know much about lasers or how painful they are but a saw, everyone gets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:46 PM (RsS92)

397 Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: A Missouri judge has upheld the state’s ban on “gender-affirming care” for minors, which prohibits the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery for minors.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:46 PM (hovnC)

398 Grandpa loved liver and onions. Also pickled pigs feet.

But he also loved steak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 26, 2024 09:46 PM (bss/y)

399 There's no doubt that liver is packed with essential nutrients. I just can't abide by it. My loss, I guess. *shrugs*
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 09:42 PM (mH6SG)
++++
It's weird. I usually hate liver. Sometimes, though, I will get an overpowering craving for liverwurst. When that happens, I *must* have it. Like "I'll get dressed and get in the car and go to the supermarket and buy it and start eating it on the drive home" kind of compulsion. I'll eat it in large quantities.

Then, suddenly, I'll hate it again. I will find it revolting and unpalatable and whatever is left over will go to waste.

I suspect it happens when I'm iron-deficient. My body knows it and demands immediate action and then once the problem is dealt with, I get to have my normal tastes and preferences back.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:46 PM (HnUIn)

400 I suspect it happens when I'm iron-deficient. My body knows it and demands immediate action and then once the problem is dealt with, I get to have my normal tastes and preferences back.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:46 PM (HnUIn)


I worked with a lady who said that she could tell when she was getting anemic when wet soil smelled really good to her. When that happened she would go get liver for dinner.

Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 09:48 PM (D7oie)

401 I worked with a lady who said that she could tell when she was getting anemic when wet soil smelled really good to her. When that happened she would go get liver for dinner.
Posted by: Kindltot+ (now with streaming!) at November 26, 2024 09:48 PM (D7oie)
++++
Huh.

The human body is a marvel. "I need X. I'll make you want X. Fill in the blanks however you need to, but GET ME X." Crazy that is works at all. Truly amazing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (HnUIn)

402 Older people used to eat some truly heinous stuff, I suspect they grew up with it in their youth and just were used to it like head cheese and haggis.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (RsS92)

403 andycanuck scooped me!
Posted by: Soothsayer
-----
Not exactly; mine was a parody of the real 2-minute address that you linked.

https://tinyurl.com/2a5vs8vk
13 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (hovnC)

404 Finally getting out of work, what a long day
Now the long road home

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (e3RQI)

405 Circular saw to the groin....that's my cue to get back to the movie.

The worst stuff in the movies I've seen have actually been people put in situations where they mutilate themselves, genotals too.

Posted by: Stateless at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (jvJvP)

406 MUST WATCH NOW!!!

She's fucking skunked!

https://is.gd/b7jfrg
Posted by: Soothsayer

A dementia patient and a chronic alcoholic with zero primary votes were the two people leading this country for the past four years.

And they got 10 million more votes than any other dem ticket in 20 years.

Yeah.

Posted by: eleven at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (fV+MH)

407 I worked with a lady who said that she could tell when she was getting anemic when wet soil smelled really good to her. When that happened she would go get liver for dinner.
Posted by: Kindltot+


Which is cheaper by the pound, liver or potting soil?

Posted by: mikeski at November 26, 2024 09:51 PM (DgGvY)

408 And Gygax had zero to do with that. I wonder how Neverwinter/Sword Coast ended up their default setting, you never hear about Grayhawk any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:42 PM (RsS92)

He is thanked in the credits. I'd bet there is a copyright issue with Grayhawk. Lots of early AD&D stuff is represented but through RA Savatore's books.The Legacy campaigns are based on old AD&D modules.

Posted by: Reforger at November 26, 2024 09:52 PM (xcIvR)

409 402 Older people used to eat some truly heinous stuff, I suspect they grew up with it in their youth and just were used to it like head cheese and haggis.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (RsS92)

I like head cheese.

Can't get it anymore in ,y part of Canada.

This is why you stay away from the HQ when watching movies.....

Posted by: Stateless at November 26, 2024 09:52 PM (jvJvP)

410 A dementia patient and a chronic alcoholic with zero primary votes were the two people leading this country for the past four years.

That's just it, clearly they were't running jack so... who is doing things? Is it just the bureaucracy? Do they have meetings where they snap fingers instead of clapping? Nobody seems to give a damn in the media.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:52 PM (RsS92)

411 399 Little is a fool for liverwurst and I can't keep enough of it in the house when he's here. I like it too, but he'd have it for lunch everyday if he found it in the fridge..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 26, 2024 09:53 PM (Cbio9)

412 The human body is a marvel. "I need X. I'll make you want X. Fill in the blanks however you need to, but GET ME X." Crazy that is works at all. Truly amazing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:50 PM (HnUIn)

AWFLs and man flesh.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 26, 2024 09:53 PM (i24o9)

413 I'd bet there is a copyright issue with Grayhawk.

Yeah he probably took all his toys with him when he left. He had a much more basic Euro-Medieval setting than fantasy really.

Can't get it anymore in my part of Canada.

Its like Thuringer and Pimento Loaf, a lot of those variant sausages and deli meats just aren't around anymore except maybe in Queens.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:54 PM (RsS92)

414 Funny how every time Kamala starts to gain a little bit of sympathy and support, she shows up in public and ruins everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 09:54 PM (W6hoT)

415
Not exactly; mine was a parody of the real 2-minute address that you linked.

https://tinyurl.com/2a5vs8vk
13 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck


This is now my favorite meme of Election 2024.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 26, 2024 09:54 PM (89upD)

416 >>>It's like when we started to call them "Indigenous People" or "First Nations" instead of "Heathen Savages".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

>You might consider killing them all. Or moving into the 21 century.

All human tribes for all times are murderous killers. The heathen savages of old were over a century in the past.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 26, 2024 09:55 PM (fY84s)

417 And as someone with the 'Fiend Folio' and a bunch of other stuff upstairs, ohhh AD&D conversations.

Cats are up....

Posted by: Stateless at November 26, 2024 09:55 PM (jvJvP)

418 Funny how every time Kamala starts to gain a little bit of sympathy and support, she shows up in public and ruins everything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 26, 2024 09:54 PM (W6hoT)
++++
LOL.

Not exactly promising for a politician...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 26, 2024 09:56 PM (HnUIn)

419 403 andycanuck scooped me!
Posted by: Soothsayer
-----
Not exactly; mine was a parody of the real 2-minute address that you linked.

https://tinyurl.com/2a5vs8vk
13 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)
---

It's all a parody, we a just a projection from a mind game of lizards from the back side of Uranus.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 09:56 PM (xn0Ie)

420 394 Smells like two spirit.
Posted by: Curt Nobrain


LOL

Posted by: zombie at November 26, 2024 09:56 PM (pMi6S)

421 Chet has words for Kamala

https://youtu.be/mcUWG23hqvw

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 26, 2024 09:56 PM (RsS92)

422 Everyone have a great night.

Posted by: Stateless at November 26, 2024 09:56 PM (jvJvP)

423 304 Just after the ONT begins ....

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR NOVEMBER 26

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-76
LC-39A - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: November 25, 2024 ET
New T-Zero: November 26, 10:05 p.m. ET / November 27, 0305 UTC, 04:05 CET.

https://www.youtube.com/live/lrOqfA5Ni7o


Ciampino - firm commitment to firmament
Posted by: Ciampino -
---

Anxious for the next triad of Vandenberg, Boca Chica, Canaveral.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 09:58 PM (xn0Ie)

424
As Seen on TV: the Ronco HoverOwl

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 26, 2024 09:58 PM (PNqaO)

425
'"There is no such thing as an 'accidental discharge,' just a 'negligent discharge' or a 'reckless discharge.'"

I don't have to worry about any of that shit. I'm a big person. I don't answer to little people.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at November 26, 2024 09:59 PM (3wi/L)

426 OSINTdefender @sentdefender 43m
Heavy gunfire can be heard throughout Beirut, likely in celebration.

OSINTdefender @sentdefender 20m
The Residents of Southern Lebanon have started making their way back to their Homes after the announcement of the Ceasefire.

OSINTdefender @sentdefender 9m
IDF Spokesman Brigadier General Avichai Adrei urged the Residents of South Lebanon: "Do not move towards the evacuated Villages or towards the Forces. We will update you on the safe time to return to your Homes." Despite this statement, some Residents have begun returning to their Homes.

R A W S G L 🌎 B A L @RawsGlobal 3m
Signs of apparent celebration in Beirut and no reported violations shortly after Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect. - AP

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 10:00 PM (hovnC)

427 This is now my favorite meme of Election 2024.
--------

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 10:01 PM (hovnC)

428 Finally getting out of work, what a long day
Now the long road home


Safe travels, Skip.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 26, 2024 10:01 PM (mH6SG)

429 ONT nood

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 26, 2024 10:02 PM (hovnC)

430 NOOD ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 26, 2024 10:04 PM (KcwUg)

431 Starlink 6-76 - LC-39A
and we have separation

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at November 26, 2024 11:44 PM (xn0Ie)

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