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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 23, 2025 09:56 PM (Y+AMd)
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 09:57 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2025 09:58 PM (LHPAg)
This one's from Gordion in Achaemenid Phrygia -
oglaf.com/macrame/
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2025 09:59 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 23, 2025 10:01 PM (DiN/5)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2025 10:01 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2025 10:02 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Darles Chickens at May 23, 2025 10:03 PM (vOKvj)
Posted by: Weirddave at May 23, 2025 10:04 PM (df/te)
They also swapped "tbh" with "desu", but that didn't bother me much desu.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2025 10:04 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Something's going down here. A lot. at May 23, 2025 10:07 PM (TbWk/)
Look closer
Posted by: Weirddave at May 23, 2025 10:04 PM (df/te)
... at the bracelet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2025 10:07 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:08 PM (jGeiA)
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 10:09 PM (ypFCm)
But, hi Horde!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 23, 2025 10:09 PM (b29oM)
No work for a week. Best of all, I don't have anything horrible waiting for me upon my return (well, not at this point, at least).
Gonna spend part of it around home, and part of it doing amateur radio nerd stuff out in the field.
Posted by: PabloD at May 23, 2025 10:09 PM (KnSOh)
Posted by: IYKWIM at May 23, 2025 10:09 PM (TbWk/)
As for not knowing fire, I call bullshit. Balochestan has all manner of mines with gold to this day (which is why China was meddling) so its people likely knew how to smelt that. More likely if it's hot all the time, drying the fish kills the germs and cooks it for you.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2025 10:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 10:10 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2025 10:10 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2025 09:58 PM (LHPAg)
Look at her wrist.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 23, 2025 10:11 PM (zrlyb)
I thought the Last Emperor was long
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 10:11 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at May 23, 2025 10:11 PM (hOUT3)
Thanks, Dave. Stayed up for this. You may be the last sane man.
Posted by: Auspex at May 23, 2025 10:12 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: IYKWIM at May 23, 2025 10:09 PM (TbWk/)
Maybe Annie Knight will learn when it's possible to be sharing too much of a good thing.
Posted by: somewhere around 583 at May 23, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
But, hi Horde!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Hey, at least you're still trying....unlike some of us who have become comfy with "also ran" status.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 23, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)
The company just fired a guy for refusing to use a transgender or mentally sick employee's preferred pronouns.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:14 PM (VofaG)
Country ain't dead, it's just not getting airplay.
A lot like rock and metal.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 23, 2025 10:14 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:08 PM
Where did they catch these dry land fish?
Posted by: huerfano at May 23, 2025 10:15 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 10:16 PM (ypFCm)
The company just fired a guy for refusing to use a transgender or mentally sick employee's preferred pronouns.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:14 PM (VofaG)
Kohler
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2025 10:16 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:08 PM (jGeiA)
I guess they sun baked their bread too.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:16 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 10:17 PM (ypFCm)
Well done!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2025 10:18 PM (W/lyH)
Country ain't dead, it's just not getting airplay.
A lot like rock and metal.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 23, 2025 10:14 PM (0aYVJ)
Is that "Fucking A" or "Fuckin' gay"?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 23, 2025 10:18 PM (N4aB6)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 23, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 23, 2025 10:19 PM (b29oM)
Posted by: It ain't 1955 anymore at May 23, 2025 10:19 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Something's going down here. A lot. at May 23, 2025 10:07 PM (TbWk/)
Truth in advertising. Dude can't say he wasn't warned. He's got a picture as proof.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Kanye doesn't get it at May 23, 2025 10:20 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: PabloD at May 23, 2025 10:20 PM (tK60h)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2025 10:16 PM (D7oie)
Thanks. I was unaware of that. Just did a quick look on the intertubes. They appear to be more expensive but consensus is they are better built.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:21 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
I bet a LOT of people have pics!
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 23, 2025 10:22 PM (144I4)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 23, 2025 10:22 PM (b29oM)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 23, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)
Don't confuse the two.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:22 PM (gKDq2)
Fake but True.
Guy telling this story is correct.
But I'd he knew that much he would have said "F-U" to the exit interview and walked out. If they obstructed him he would have 9-1-1 on line and stated that he is being held against his will... No waiting for legal to tell the a-holes that, "Yup, you are commiting a serious felony that justifies any level of force,, including lethal, to make you stop."
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 10:23 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: PabloD
Remember to check for ticks afterward.
Posted by: Prudence Dictates at May 23, 2025 10:23 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2025 10:23 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2025 10:24 PM (CHHv1)
Maybe, but they're not entirely wrong. The game changed and it's kinda shit.
Posted by: It ain't 1955 anymore at May 23, 2025 10:19 PM (TbWk/)
Excuses. Maybe show the guy the vid of the guy explaining playing in the woods all day.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:24 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 23, 2025 10:22 PM (144I4)
I'm sure she's famous on the internet. "Amateur girlfriends."
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:24 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 23, 2025 10:25 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Something's going down here. A lot. at May 23, 2025 10:07 PM (TbWk/)
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These 29+ eyes missed the small print the first time.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 23, 2025 10:25 PM (NOSDa)
But I sure didn't think of that until my mom said that her Generac generator didn't kick in when she lost power during a storm (when you need it most and that's why you have the freaking thing!).
I don't know much about it, so who knows, maybe there is a battery monitor and she didn't know it or didn't pay attention to it, or whatever.
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 23, 2025 10:26 PM (144I4)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:26 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
I am very much surprised.
Rubio makes an outstanding minion.
Trump should appoint as "Cleanser of the District Courts".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 10:27 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:28 PM (VofaG)
I got me a Generac some years ago. Probably my best investment since I live where my power can often go out for no damn reason. Being an over 29 kinda gal, it surely beats the fk out of starting the pull genny - yeah, I'm good with it...
And yeah...I have several gennies...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 23, 2025 10:29 PM (b29oM)
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2025 10:23 PM (DgGvY)
I want to say he was probably a retired pilot who was bored staying at home .
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:30 PM (VofaG)
Country ain't dead, it's just not getting airplay.
A lot like rock and metal.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Lots of good county/western out there on the interwebs. Just got to dig around for it. I like listening to 'radiowv' on YTube. Mostly acoustic, Appalachia, music. There are other similar sites like it all around.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2025 10:30 PM (jFCkp)
I assume technological advances and moving production out of China have made new iphones essentially free?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:31 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2025 10:31 PM (FBjP2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:08 PM (jGeiA)
I guess they sun baked their bread too.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:16 PM (VofaG)
I don't know if there is a primitive human tribe anywhere that is so backward they don't use fire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:31 PM (0INzb)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 23, 2025 10:32 PM (y8DUh)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 23, 2025 10:33 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Miklos in best Johnny Carson voice at May 23, 2025 10:33 PM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Something's going down here. A lot.
I saw Engaged Cumslut open for Everything But The Girl at the Calgary Stampede in '88.
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2025 10:33 PM (DgGvY)
I thought it was funny but I punched out before the end of the video. Many a good comedy bit, book, movie, etc. is diminished by carrying it on for too long.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2025 10:33 PM (/y8xj)
Look at her wrist. If you still don't see it, look at the filename of the picture. Then look at her wrist again.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 23, 2025 10:33 PM (p4nXC)
1. Today was the start of the "1000 for 1000" prisoner swap. Tellingly, the Ukrainians didn't have enough Russian POWs to swap, so they supplemented their batch with some civilians.
2. Showing they still have some fight left in them, the Ukrainians counter-attacked at a couple of locations and drove the Russians out of a couple of villages, at least until the Russians can counter-counter-attack.
3. The Russians showed pictures of a "sabotage van", complete with a drone launching rail in the cargo area, that they captured inside Russia. This explains the drone strikes that have been happening impossibly deep inside Russia.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 23, 2025 10:33 PM (N4aB6)
Country ain't dead, it's just not getting airplay.
A lot like rock and metal.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Lots of good county/western out there on the interwebs. Just got to dig around for it. I like listening to 'radiowv' on YTube. Mostly acoustic, Appalachia, music. There are other similar sites like it all around.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2025 10:30 PM (jFCkp)
Hard to believe but former rapper Post Malone's debut Country album is really good . Lot of duets with other country stars but he has a really good voice.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (VofaG)
Try not to do something really stupid and be home by dinner was my weekends when I was a kid.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Nope, he was hilarious.
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2025 10:23 PM
I like that the black passengers were cracking up at pretty "white guy" humor.
For normies, there are zero problems with race relations.
I think Democrats do have one thing right. That racism is a learned behavior ... from "elite" institutions.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Romulus and Remus at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (K6h4I)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 23, 2025 10:35 PM (CKOCg)
Maybe he'd pull, if he quit whining and touched grass.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 23, 2025 10:36 PM (NmA+5)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:24 PM (VofaG)
Maybe. But one big difference, at least here, is foreign cash buyers. My friend sold her parents' house for $600K. To a Chinese family who could not speak English. All communication through the agents/attorneys. That is an issue we did not have 40 or more years ago.
CA is also an example of what not to do. While they froze assessment increases on owned property to 2%, new houses/sales were assessed at market rate. So the house one lived in was, say, valued at $300K. On the market it's now $1.1M, e.g.
On the negative side, kids now go out to eat too much, but that's a bit of a nitpick. But I think i's a lot of money that adds up pretty quick. Cooking at home is so blasé.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2025 10:31 PM
I assume you left him crying?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:36 PM (HlyYF)
I'm with you on this. I guess they also never interacted with anyone outside their tribe .
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:37 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (lUFok)
This story sounds like the work of one of those ancient Greek philosophers who just made shit up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:37 PM (0INzb)
Was the guy being laid off or fired? I don't get being a dick if you're laid off.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:26 PM (VofaG)
_________
Being "laid off" implies that there's some seasonal slowdown and that when things pick up, you'll go back to work. That hasn't been the case for 60 years and more. Whatever it's called today - laid off, separated, made redundant - your company will forget you existed five minutes after you leave.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2025 10:38 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)
Gen Z whines
Does Gen Z whine about the problems in America in large measure because they don't want to put in the hours? Yes.
But...they aren't entirely wrong. I'm old enough to remember what America used to be, and it sure as shit isn't what it is now. And the USSA fucked everything up...things I didn't think even could be fucked up. No the USSR couldn't give normal people a decent place to live or well food on a regular basis.
But even in the abyss of Soviet Russia no one was running around telling the proles they needed to cut their balls off and put on a dress.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 10:39 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:31 PM
I am not too sure about that.
If you took ten recent college graduates with "studies" degrees and gave them any of the tools (short of matches) used to start a fire, I suspect that tribe would be eating raw food and sleeping cold.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:39 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:37 PM (0INzb)
It sounds like Herodotus or one of those tales from Mandeville's travels
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2025 10:39 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:26 PM (VofaG)
When you get down to it, laid off = fired. Sure, different words but the effect is the same. IMAO, 'fired' was from when we had 'PERSONNEL' departments. 'Laid off' comes from Human Resources.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
Um, if they didn't know how to use fire, how were they baking their bread?
Posted by: Elihu Smails at May 23, 2025 10:41 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:41 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2025 10:33 PM
Saturday Night Live has now entered the chat.
Except of course, for the part about a good comedy bit!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:41 PM (HlyYF)
He's got some good points but he suffers for unreal expectations. Hopefully, he'll grow out of it. Youth seems to suffer from this the most. Open your horizons! Busty, blue eyed brunettes are perfectly fine too.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2025 10:42 PM (jFCkp)
My company had layoffs recently. And they let those us not laid off know it wasn't because the company was in financial trouble...but because they thought they could increase earnings this way.
Anyone that thinks of a company as anything more then an arrangement where you give them 40 hours of work (or whatever your exact deal is) and you get a paycheck is...foolish. It isn't a family. Treat you coworkers decently, but apply the same logic to the company they'd apply to you, no less certainly, but also no more.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 10:42 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2025 10:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:39 PM (HlyYF)
But they would be culturally aware of the value of fire for keeping oneself warm, and for cooking food, they'd just be helpless to make it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 10:42 PM (0INzb)
Anything?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 23, 2025 10:42 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
No can opener?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (RIvkX)
To me laid off is your position is being eliminated. Fired is for cause and you're being replaced.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (VofaG)
He's got some good points but he suffers for unreal expectations. Hopefully, he'll grow out of it. Youth seems to suffer from this the most. Open your horizons! Busty, blue eyed brunettes are perfectly fine too.
Blondes are nice. Brunettes too. Just watch out for the redheads or you too might lose your very soul...and enjoy every minute of it.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Tenement housing framed with whale bones and sheathed in scales.
Whale scales?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (Xlykt)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2025 10:24 PM (CHHv1)
Thanks BC, right back at ya.
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 23, 2025 10:44 PM (144I4)
WARNING: You've got to be a real oddball steeped in pre-Classical minutiae to get it. May be best not to admit anything.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 10:44 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 23, 2025 10:44 PM (Ls+Bx)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 23, 2025 10:45 PM (MZ+PY)
Trump should appoint as "Cleanser of the District Courts".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 10:27 PM (/lPRQ)
Saw a media interview with Rubio early on. He was asked the difference between being a senator and a secretary. He replied, 'One boss'. I think that summarizes Marco. When he finds the right team, he's balls to the wall. A follower and not a leader, and that's not a knock. He has really impressed me. I also like Scott Bessent. No, not that way! As Secretary of Treasury.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)
So sorry to hear. Been there and there are no words that will make it better.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 10:45 PM (t0Rmr)
And my former employees who had that attitude were the last I considered for promotions. It also one consideration on how I distributed raises when I was limited by my bosses.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:47 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
H.R. fired them after their commentary on the Dylan Mulvaney debacle.
"Bud."
"Hired."
".....Her?"
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
They reminded me of Hypno Toad from Futurama.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2025 10:47 PM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 23, 2025 10:45 PM
Not so sure about that.
He was trying to land on the 9th fairway, but hooked it too much and ended up near the tee box on #1!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:47 PM (HlyYF)
WARNING: You've got to be a real oddball steeped in pre-Classical minutiae to get it. May be best not to admit anything.
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Yes, but only because 'the world's oldest bad yelp rating' has come up n the ONT before.
Posted by: Methos at May 23, 2025 10:47 PM (Dnobf)
I'm always watching out for redheads. *nudgenudge*
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 23, 2025 10:48 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:41 PM (VofaG)
Ok boomer
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 23, 2025 10:49 PM (NmA+5)
Have you seen the massive rings of shells in Georgia from 2000bc?
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 23, 2025 10:49 PM (VJc7E)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 23, 2025 10:49 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 10:49 PM (Xlykt)
Posted by: free tibet at May 23, 2025 10:50 PM (1wtUm)
Posted by: tankdemon
************
OK, I can now sign off and go to sleep. Nite Horde....
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 23, 2025 10:50 PM (Ls+Bx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2025 10:51 PM (63Dwl)
And my former employees who had that attitude were the last I considered for promotions. It also one consideration on how I distributed raises when I was limited by my bosses.
Sorry, I've *never* seen someone promoted for "working harder" in my decades in corporate America. And that includes my own promotions.
Smarter? Sure. Sometimes. Depends on how good your own boss is. Harder? Fools game.
If you want to put in 80 hours a week and get anything out of it you better be doing it at your own company.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 10:51 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 23, 2025 10:49 PM (NmA+5)
Maybe the Gen Z guy would like to be drafted.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:52 PM (VofaG)
It's absolutely not.
Technology has not set us free. It's enslaved us in many ways.
Paradise for kids was maybe the 60s and early 70s before we were slaves to technology. Kids played without play dates. We weren't slaves to screens, we entertained ourselves with outdoors and talked to each other face to face. We found a way to constantly entertain ourselves.
There wasn't the constant threat of child predators and there was always some adult watching over the neighborhood just in case.
We got on our bikes and had adventures without a care in the world other than being home before dinner.
We were the most free spirits in the world It was absolute paradise.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 10:53 PM (viF8m)
He was trying to land on the 9th fairway, but hooked it too much and ended up near the tee box on #1!
Stayed out of the sandtraps, though.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 23, 2025 10:53 PM (MZ+PY)
Good grief. There are oh so many ways to make fire (Vaseline with cotton, char cloth....jeez)...can the kiddies be this damn stoopid??? Maybe raw food can teach a lesson....or make one puke...and possibly choke to death? Just sayin"
Only my opinion. Not a suggestion.... 😙
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 23, 2025 10:53 PM (b29oM)
Whale scales?
Posted by: Braenyard
Speaking of whales, be sure to pre-order your Fudgie the Whale for your Whale of a Dad this Father's Day! At your participating Carvel Dealer.
Posted by: Tom Carvel at May 23, 2025 10:54 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: David Gillies at May 23, 2025 10:54 PM (Czfxu)
Anything?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 23, 2025 10:42 PM (Eo96p)
Not that I've seen.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2025 10:55 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: JackStraw
Unless your mother called you using your middle name
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings at May 23, 2025 10:57 PM (K6h4I)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 23, 2025 10:58 PM (144I4)
Posted by: David Gillies
********
And apparently delicious.
Posted by: Cosda at May 23, 2025 10:58 PM (H8A8a)
Posted by: DBCooper at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (y1Mvi)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 10:43 PM (VofaG)
TomaTO, toMAHto. That employer can't tell a future employer why you're no longer there, fired or laid off, just the basics of period of time employed and department/job title; they can't even discuss salary.
But I agree that's the understanding with which I grew up. But no longer. Been 'laid off' with no hope of ever recovering those jobs. So, fired.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (gKDq2)
Only my opinion. Not a suggestion.... 😙
Posted by: COMountainMarie
*surreptitiously removes olives from martini*
Posted by: Prudent bartender Miklos at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (K6h4I)
For me it was my full first name not the short version.
That was game over.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (Uzn0I)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2025 10:51 PM
Marketing prowess of Budweiser frogs >>> Dylan Mulvaney!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (HlyYF)
Unless your mother called you using your middle name
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings
HARCOURT FENTON MUDD!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: JackStraw
Unless your mother called you using your middle name
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings at May 23, 2025 10:57 PM (K6h4I)
Isn't that why we have middle names? So we know when we're in real trouble?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)
Smarter? Sure. Sometimes. Depends on how good your own boss is. Harder? Fools game.
If you want to put in 80 hours a week and get anything out of it you better be doing it at your own company.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 10:51 PM (t0Rmr)
Playing the right office politics and being liked by the right people are what get you up the ladder. Or being related to someone high up the chain.
Posted by: Hard work just gets you more work at May 23, 2025 11:00 PM (TbWk/)
Smarter? Sure. Sometimes. Depends on how good your own boss is. Harder? Fools game.
If you want to put in 80 hours a week and get anything out of it you better be doing it at your own company.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 10:51 PM (t0Rmr)
Then you apparently don't realize that bosses , all things being equal otherwise , can tell who will come through when a little extra effort is needed or in the alternative knows who has the attitude of that 'it's not my job' . At least I did.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 11:01 PM (VofaG)
Maybe the Gen Z guy would like to be drafted.
Amusingly, we dodged the youth of America getting drafted by the election of Trump. And yes the people complaining the most about how unfair everything is now likely mostly voted for Harris.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 11:01 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 23, 2025 11:01 PM (b29oM)
Inspired a poem-
Tinkle tinkle little doggie
Make the grass all wet and soggy
Posted by: At least Miklos tries at May 23, 2025 11:01 PM (K6h4I)
He was trying to land on the 9th fairway, but hooked it too much and ended up near the tee box on #1!
Stayed out of the sandtraps, though.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 23, 2025 10:53 PM
VERY long drive, plus stayed out of trouble, he probably did par the hole!
I expect he is probably a scratch pilot.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 11:02 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings at May 23, 2025 10:57 PM (K6h4I)
It was first and middle name for me. Time to face the music....
Posted by: Farquad at May 23, 2025 11:02 PM (GQ/vu)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2025 11:02 PM (D7oie)
Make the grass all wet and soggy
I laughed. I shouldn't have, but I did.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 23, 2025 11:03 PM (lUFok)
Anything?
Posted by: TecumsehTea at May 23, 2025 10:42 PM (Eo96p)
Not that I've seen.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2025 10:55 PM (VNX3d)
Me either. I am really worried.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2025 11:04 PM (/sySz)
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings at May 23, 2025 10:57 PM (K6h4I)
If your Mom was so flustered she called you by all your other siblings names then you knew you were up the creek
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2025 11:05 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM
For us, that is the reason.
I just wish parents would stop giving middle names to nascent serial killers!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 11:05 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 23, 2025 11:05 PM (0Yq/f)
Unless your mother called you using your middle name
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings
HARCOURT FENTON MUDD!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (63Dwl)
Disabling the off function was the cruelest thing Kirk ever did.
Posted by: Stella! SHUT! UP! at May 23, 2025 11:05 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 11:06 PM (VofaG)
Water buckets in the kennel emptied, cleaned and refilled, kennel dogs fed and put up for the evening, house girls let out for a last turn, evening prayers said. Good night, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2025 11:06 PM (QnmlO)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 10:53 PM (viF8m)
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The whole city (not Staten Island) was our playground (not Harlem either)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 11:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: JackStraw
Unless your mother called you using your middle name
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings
Boy howdy! When Mom got it all out in one breath I knew I was toast.
Posted by: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula etc. etc. Ruiz y Picasso at May 23, 2025 11:07 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2025 11:07 PM (0JWOm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2025 10:59 PM (VNX3d)
LOL! Never thought about it that way.
As a kid, when I heard 'Richard' and not 'Rick', I got skeered.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:07 PM (gKDq2)
https://youtu.be/tdcPSFR_dGs?si=cJdQuwTSZSje4zPi
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:07 PM (BI5O2)
76 So, um, if the "fish eaters" didn't know how to use fire, where did they get the heat to bake their bread?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 23, 2025 10:34 PM (lUFok)
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Maybe that discrepancy is why it was posted.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:08 PM (ufCEJ)
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 11:06 PM
My son (at his first post-college job) really likes all three bosses in each level above him.
I told him that he was exceedingly blessed to be in that rare position!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 11:09 PM (HlyYF)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Hmmm
What about the Euro-types with five or eight names?
Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor
You know that boy ain't right
Posted by: Queen Miklos at May 23, 2025 11:09 PM (K6h4I)
Good evening, good people, from the definitely wet and chilly Adirondacks. Good weather for camping in front of the fireplace. Though we did spend most of the day planting flags.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 23, 2025 11:10 PM (hKoQL)
-JackStraw
I agree with you JackStraw. Those were good times. Other than going to school we had the world (at least our world) on a string. Everyday could be a new adventure.
Posted by: Case at May 23, 2025 11:11 PM (a1g6Z)
Also miss AndyCanuck, if you're out there.
Posted by: haffhowershower at May
Pretty sure I have Whig”s email, if he isn’t around tomorrow, I can check on him.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2025 11:11 PM (/sySz)
Posted by: Kindltot
But you knew who to blame it on
Posted by: Less than entirely candid Lil' Miklos at May 23, 2025 11:12 PM (K6h4I)
I can only imagine. I was just north of the Bronx. More suburban but still the same.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 11:12 PM (viF8m)
For me it was my full first name not the short version.
That was game over.
Posted by: JackStraw
Dad would get flustered and just run down the list of our names and pounce on the one who looked guilty.
Mistakes were made.
Posted by: Some Rat at May 23, 2025 11:12 PM (TfUTr)
The Gen Z guy who is complaining is not a little kid. But you knew that.
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2025 11:13 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:13 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Kindltot
Long lost brother?!
Posted by: Some Rat at May 23, 2025 11:14 PM (TfUTr)
Sure wish we could get an update on Stateless.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 23, 2025 11:14 PM (Vvh2V)
She would have been great at recon
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 11:14 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May
Pretty sure I have Whig”s email, if he isn’t around tomorrow, I can check on him.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2025 11:11 PM (/sySz)
e-mailed Andy last week. He is OK, just taking a sabbatical from the blog.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 11:15 PM (0INzb)
Posted by: polynikes
Paradise for kids was maybe the 60s and early 70s before we were slaves to technology.
Posted by: JackStraw
The Gen Z guy who is complaining is not a little kid. But you knew that.
Posted by: polynikes
Yeah, the two of you are commenting on different memes. Please uncross your streams before the total protonic reversal.
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2025 11:16 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Miklos had childhood forebodings at May 23, 2025 10:57 PM (K6h4I)
It was first and middle name for me. Time to face the music....
Posted by: Farquad at May 23, 2025 11:02 PM (GQ/vu)
Eh she was always angry. I swear some parents have children just so they can have transference objects for their own rage. Like getting a small dog just so you can kick it when you're pissed off.
Posted by: Some people should not have kids at May 23, 2025 11:16 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 23, 2025 11:17 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 23, 2025 11:17 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot
The middle name "Wayne" seems to be highly correlated.
Posted by: Karl Franz Josef Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria Miklos I at May 23, 2025 11:17 PM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 23, 2025 11:17 PM (Vvh2V)
Using aluminim panel reflector ovens given to them by aliens.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Blog PTO is a thing.
Doesn't roll over, so use it or lose it.
Posted by: Miklos checks the calendar annually at May 23, 2025 11:20 PM (K6h4I)
I'm gonna take that as a joke seeing that he is a fat-ass Irishman from County Mayo named Garron
Posted by: RobertM at May 23, 2025 11:20 PM (btIS/)
No one cares how hard you work. No one. Especially the good bosses.
Now, if you solve problems? That's something the good boss notices.*
*Your results will differ in say a Japanese company.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 11:21 PM (t0Rmr)
But hey. I am starting anew career as a dancer.... Yep you heard right.
I am moving to Agana, Guam and will be the main attraction at the Club Yobo located just outside the Anderson AFB Main gate. I will be dancing under the name of "Jeena Bon Bon and not Kami.
This is my way of giving something to guys in uniform. That is Herpes.... Kami's Got Back............
Posted by: Kami Harris at May 23, 2025 11:22 PM (7uGna)
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 11:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: haffhowershower at May 23, 2025 11:24 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Something BAD happens. When you become a manger. at May 23, 2025 11:25 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: John Steele, brandishing cane at May 23, 2025 11:27 PM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Is that even allowed?
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2025 11:27 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 23, 2025 11:17 PM (Vvh2V)
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They used large magnifying glasses to cook the bread. When they weren't using them to torture ants, that is.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 11:27 PM (dDmld)
But hey. I am starting anew career as a dancer.... Yep you heard right.
Posted by: Kami Harris at May 23, 2025 11:22 PM (7uGna)
How On Man's Vision Can Change The World...
https://tinyurl.com/k5n8mvmx
[An X link; it's short, 14 seconds]
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:28 PM (gKDq2)
Its common in corporate culture to have completely unrealistic requirements coming down from higher management. So then middle/line managers who generally weren't "doers" that long ago have to somehow square what management wants with what their team can deliver.
There are a lot of responses to this, one very common one is to just pretend the upper management requests aren't ridiculous, plan them out as if they are reasonable, and then just pretend its a surprise when miracles don't happen and the schedule gets missed.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2025 11:28 PM (t0Rmr)
Because a lot of them get fired.
You'd be surprised how much business is just like government.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 11:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Something BAD happens. When you become a manger. at May 23, 2025 11:25 PM (TbWk/)
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We need your stapler.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 11:29 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 23, 2025 11:30 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 23, 2025 11:30 PM (ZVgZ4)
The ones who stay on and go for a little bit more money become those dumb managers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:30 PM (BI5O2)
If I were to say, I loath Tim Scott's intrusive way he manipulates my phone. Would that be hate speech?
Or it boils me when I turn on the phone and my home screen is different and widgets are added that I had nothing to do with?
Buddy tells me android is worse.
Pixy says Pine Phone has an excellent $225 phone - only problem is they want $1,200.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 11:30 PM (Xlykt)
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:19 PM (gKDq2)
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Like my aunt Yetta would hold under chins when sitting out in the sun.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 11:32 PM (RIvkX)
WARNING: You've got to be a real oddball steeped in pre-Classical minutiae to get it. May be best not to admit anything.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 10:44 PM (JkO4W)
Ignore it, it's typical Ur disinformation. Nanni was framed.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 23, 2025 11:32 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 23, 2025 11:33 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 23, 2025 11:33 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (dDmld)
Looking at current events brings a huge surge of optimism about the future of my beloved country. There's a lot of hard road ahead but with this man plus JD Vance succeeding him we'll prevail as we have in other situations I'm dead sure of it.
So remember we are Americans thus that head is held HIGH and PROUD.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (K6h4I)
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I checked it out just now, and it turns out that Tim Scott is an American Senator, so saying that you loathe him is evidence that you have a soul.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Some people should not have kids at May 23, 2025 11:16 PM (TbWk/)
My mom wasn't always angry but when she did, it could get bad. She has a terrible temper and it took a while for her to cool down. Until then she would transfer her anger to anyone else who came within range and annoyed her even a little bit. I wonder how so much anger could fit in such a small frame. The fights she and my little sister would get into during our teenage years, egads.
Posted by: Farquad at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (GQ/vu)
I do still wish her the best
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 11:35 PM (ypFCm)
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Tim Cook loathes him too.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 11:35 PM (dDmld)
Kami loves you long time........
Only five dollar.............
Posted by: Kamala "Cackle Cackle" Harris at May 23, 2025 11:35 PM (kDgJM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (dDmld)
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*backs out of ONT slowly*
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 11:36 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero
I thought Elementary School was about out for the summer
Posted by: Miklos is admittedly unfamiliar at May 23, 2025 11:36 PM (K6h4I)
Yeah, happened to my office mate when I had a postdoc with the NRL. It was like her IQ dropped in half. But that’s not what really happened. It was just that she was now working along diametrical purposes to doing research, innovating, thinking new thoughts, etc. She now had different goals.
I was glad when she moved out.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 23, 2025 11:37 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Something BAD happens
It's the Peter Principle.
If you're good at your job, you deserve to be promoted. Maybe as far as management.
If you're good at management, maybe a directorship, or a vice-presidency, someday.
But if you're NOT good at management, there you sit as a first-line manager until your pension kicks in.
Peter Principle: eventually an organization becomes incapable of doing anything because everyone is promoted to their level of incompetence. See: The Federal Government.
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2025 11:37 PM (DgGvY)
Now, if you solve problems? That's something the good boss notices.*
*Your results will differ in say a Japanese company.
Posted by: 18-1
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Somebody has to solve problems.
Somebody has to manage.
You solve problems? That is where you stay.
Ivy Leage (and Academy guys in the MIC)? You manage.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 11:38 PM (/lPRQ)
205 If I were to say, I loath Tim Scott, would that be hate speech?
If I were to say, I loath Tim Scott's intrusive way he manipulates my phone. Would that be hate speech?
Or it boils me when I turn on the phone and my home screen is different and widgets are added that I had nothing to do with?
Buddy tells me android is worse.
Pixy says Pine Phone has an excellent $225 phone - only problem is they want $1,200.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 11:30 PM
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Senator Tim Scott's people are remotely modifying your phone?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:39 PM (ufCEJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:39 PM (BI5O2)
The ones who stay on and go for a little bit more money become those dumb managers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:30 PM (BI5O2)
Correct on both counts.
Friend of mine, my age (not 29), when she took her current job decided it would be her last. She had been a manager/officer in another real estate company. When she took this job, she told them she didn't want any title/responsibility, just to be a worker bee. They were fine enough with that, and her experience, to hire her. But they kept pushing for her to accept a title. She kept telling them 'no'. Finally, they gave the supervisor title to an incompetent who begged for the promotion, one who thinks 'bosses' don't have to work, just tell everybody what to do and even the 'what to do' is usually wrong.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:39 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (K6h4I)
*wipes tear*
I'm...I'm so
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 23, 2025 11:40 PM (xcxpd)
It was not expressed to illustrate how detail oriented they were but in a way that illuminated their neurotic compulsion. I'm not saying that Tim Cook or Alphabet or any these other voyeurs who are psychologically compelled to catalog and herd every detail of other peoples lives are Nazis; simply expressing that they are very sick people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 11:41 PM (Xlykt)
Posted by: Something BAD happens. When you become a manger. at May 23, 2025 11:25 PM (TbWk/)
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Sr Managers will never admit 'they fucked up' if they promote / hire an incompetent. Fail Upwards is real.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 11:41 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Skip
Little Skippy is so good and kind.
Don't tell him that I cancelled his enrollment in the pre-Harvard prep course. He turned his little green Army Men into Tenured Professors from the age of 6.
Posted by: Concerned Auntie Miklos at May 23, 2025 11:41 PM (K6h4I)
POLITICOEurope
@POLITICOEurope
King Charles III is not letting Donald Trump grab his coveted “51st state” without a fight."
Yehhh.While handing his kingdom over to mooslim invaders.
Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2025 11:41 PM (9C+Yt)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 23, 2025 10:36 PM (HlyYF)
I'm not sure I can take all the credit-- there were onions invilolved.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2025 11:43 PM (FBjP2)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2025 11:32 PM (RIvkX)
By the time your Aunt Yetta was using aluminum panels to tan/sunburn we had figured out how to make them, so your aunt didn't have to go through the alien acquisition route.
But then I don't know your family history.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:43 PM (gKDq2)
224 Did Yasser Arafat film himself contracting AIDS?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:39 PM
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The PLO said it was food poisoning -- something he got from an infected can.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:44 PM (ufCEJ)
Posted by: Ciampino - definitely at May 23, 2025 11:44 PM (sPQoU)
What if the title came with land and a coat of arms?
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2025 11:45 PM (gKWVE)
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Senator Tim Scott's people are remotely modifying your phone?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Thank you for the head's up. Although Tim Scott is a POS,
Tim Cook is the man of my rant. They should get together, although I don't think their egos would fit in the same room.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 11:46 PM (Xlykt)
The PLO said it was food poisoning -- something he got from an infected can.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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That's what happed when swallowed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 11:47 PM (Xlykt)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:44 PM (ufCEJ)
Heh. Maybe he got it on a Palestinian submarine - they're full of Arab se(a)men.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:47 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2025 11:48 PM (ypFCm)
The PLO said it was food poisoning -- something he got from an infected can.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:44 PM (ufCEJ)
ISWYDT
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2025 11:48 PM (0INzb)
It’s why they’ve had to turn to insect-based pet food as a last resort"
Not on the Davos menu?
Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2025 11:50 PM (9C+Yt)
The PLO said it was food poisoning -- something he got from an infected can.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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He's got the whole world dancing; none of them know when he's chumming or when he's serious. (Maybe Putin) Actually he's chumming and serious at the same time.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2025 11:50 PM (Xlykt)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at May 23, 2025 10:50 PM (Ls+Bx)
Good nite. Thanks for the compliment.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2025 11:51 PM (FBjP2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 11:51 PM (dDmld)
Not always unfortunately.
Business is no different than politics. In many ways they are the exact same thing. The higher you go in business the more it's about politics and not performance and that's why you get so many shit managers.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 11:51 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 23, 2025 11:51 PM (ZVgZ4)
So far I have learned-
No one is irreplaceable
If somehow you are (best warehouse manager or whatever) you will never be promoted
Do not do "miracles", or you will get the reputation and others will slack off because, oh, Miklos will fix it after the last minute
Posted by: Miklos, Gentleman of Leisure at May 23, 2025 11:52 PM (K6h4I)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 23, 2025 11:53 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:44 PM (ufCEJ)
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Heh. Maybe he got it on a Palestinian submarine - they're full of Arab se(a)men.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:47 PM (BI5O2)
Back when he died of AIDS, I remember reading a blurb about how some intelligence agency (Russian?) had recordings of him screwing some young man while 'roaring like a lion'.
That last phrase is seared, seared into my memory.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)
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It's a fine, worthy culture.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 11:54 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Cicero
Was pretty good money in those days
Posted by: Miklos, angling for "Senior Market" Hai Karate reboot ads at May 23, 2025 11:55 PM (K6h4I)
Posted by: RickZ
*does several quick shots to prevent any such*
Posted by: Prophylactic Miklos at May 23, 2025 11:56 PM (K6h4I)
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Back when he died of AIDS, I remember reading a blurb about how some intelligence agency (Russian?) had recordings of him screwing some young man while 'roaring like a lion'.
That last phrase is seared, seared into my memory.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)
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I believe it was Bulgaria of all places. He was visiting for some reason and they bugged his room. He travelled with young bodyguards who, it developed, were 'dual use.'
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:57 PM (ufCEJ)
Not always unfortunately.
Business is no different than politics. In many ways they are the exact same thing. The higher you go in business the more it's about politics and not performance and that's why you get so many shit managers.
Posted by: JackStraw
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This is an old one -
'A' listers hire 'A' listers
'B' listers hire 'C' listers
Even with the 'A' team, a 'B' lister might slip through... Then it is all downhill from there. Good news is - if it is a strong company (or country) the B and C team can live off the carcass for 50 years.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2025 11:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at May 23, 2025 11:58 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at May 23, 2025 11:58 PM (Uzn0I)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 23, 2025 11:59 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Cicero
Contrary to popular myth, "How much for the women" is rarely said by wealthy Arabs.
Posted by: Record-Straight-Setting Miklos at May 24, 2025 12:01 AM (K6h4I)
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Not always unfortunately.
Business is no different than politics. In many ways they are the exact same thing. The higher you go in business the more it's about politics and not performance and that's why you get so many shit managers.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2025 11:51 PM (viF8m)
I also think when you get to certain positions, CEO, CFO, VP, Director, and the like, it's a small club. Those people change jobs at that level a lot, going from running a widget company to managing a company selling food. The headhunters know who's in the game at that level.
Once you get to that salary level, the hundreds of thousands to millions, you're in -- pretty much forever. Unless you are a complete and total incompetent disaster. Even then you still might get ahead, like that marketing woman from the Budd Lite/fake woman debacle, Shein-something. Gone from Bud Lite but she moved on up to another firm.
Posted by: RickZ at May 24, 2025 12:02 AM (gKDq2)
And I was able to effect a repair to my cordless reciprocating saw. Zero dollars, just bent the tips of the brush springs. Put a pruning blade in it, and lopped off a mess of overhanging limbs around the place.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2025 12:03 AM (0INzb)
That last phrase is seared, seared into my memory.
Posted by: RickZ at May 23, 2025 11:53 PM (gKDq2)
When the old faggot finally starting dying from his AIDS, his camel banging inbreed countrymen obviously couldn't come up with anything to help him besides poultices made from desert flowers and so forth.
So, in '04, they transferred him to an Israeli hospital in Ramallah, which treated him until he was irretrievably ill, and then shuffled him off to a French hospital that specialized in AIDS patients like him, where he just died in hospice after awhile.
The fun part is that while the Israelis treated the old faggot as a diplomatic gesture, the Palistinians now claim the Jews poisoned him on the way to France.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2025 12:03 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2025 12:03 AM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
The former President of the University of South Carolina, James Holderman, had and did similar.
Posted by: He was fired an imprisoned, and Miklos Helped with that at May 24, 2025 12:04 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: gKWVE at May 24, 2025 12:04 AM (gKWVE)
These guys bust their asses at work during 10 hour days and are your typical red blooded males.
They have their shit together and are not your Starbucks barrista types.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at May 24, 2025 12:06 AM (elaR+)
OK
Need some work done to Albertan Quality
Can pay in BBQ, beer, cash, or any combination thereof.
Posted by: Miklos has a List at May 24, 2025 12:07 AM (K6h4I)
>>'A' listers hire 'A' listers
'B' listers hire 'C' listers
At least in my experience it's not even so much that.
The closer you get to the top there are other factors that come in to play. No business operates in a vacuum, family and friend ownership, investors, potential mergers or acquisitions, government regulations, etc., all start to factor into play. And then decisions have to get made.
What would you do if given the choice to grab a golden ring if it required you to fuck over some of your employees? Would you take it if meant you and your family would prosper but some of the people who worked for you faithfully would get screwed?
It's not always a hypothetical. It happens pretty much every day. That's business.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2025 12:07 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:57 PM (ufCEJ)
Now that you mention Bulgaria. Thank you.
The Bulgaria Assassination Bureau were always the bad guys, the KGB's best proxy. Bulgarian Intelligence did use Ali Agca to try to kill John Paul II as a part of Cold War Real Politik.
Posted by: RickZ at May 24, 2025 12:08 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2025 12:09 AM (ZVgZ4)
What does that asshole care? Greenland is a Danish possession.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 24, 2025 12:10 AM (lUFok)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2025 12:12 AM (ZVgZ4)
What does that asshole care? Greenland is a Danish possession.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 24, 2025 12:10 AM (lUFok)
That porphyria-ridden Saxe Coburg dotard needs to float a Navy capable of stopping it before he opens his mouth and fills his drool cup.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2025 12:12 AM (BI5O2)
224 Did Yasser Arafat film himself contracting AIDS?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2025 11:39 PM
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The PLO said it was food poisoning -- something he got from an infected can.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
A can of cumslut man juice?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 24, 2025 12:15 AM (jFCkp)
Amanda
A prehistoric dolmen dedicated to Mercury by the Romans was built on the volcanic plug before the construction of the chapel. Three stones from this dolmen are said to be incorporated into the chapel
Posted by: Ciampino - definitely too many steps at May 24, 2025 12:15 AM (sPQoU)
Maybe that's why Hillary had him killed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2025 12:15 AM (Xlykt)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
I think he's cute
Posted by: Dr. DOCTOR Jill, looking for a new gig at May 24, 2025 12:16 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2025 12:12 AM (BI5O2)
Funny how 'Defender Of The Faith' morphed into 'defender of pisslam' under King Chuckles.
Posted by: RickZ at May 24, 2025 12:17 AM (gKDq2)
https://mol.im/a/14743073
Posted by: Ciampino - definitely not 39 steps at May 24, 2025 12:19 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Ciampino
Ciampino seems fully back in action.
Prayers were answered.
Posted by: Miklos sez Ciao bambino or however the mafia puts it at May 24, 2025 12:19 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Ciampino - I didn't know he was alive at May 24, 2025 12:20 AM (sPQoU)
Dangerous to whom?
Posted by: Miklos has Questions and Skepticisms at May 24, 2025 12:20 AM (K6h4I)
What does that asshole care? Greenland is a Danish possession.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Canada.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 24, 2025 12:20 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2025 12:24 AM (BI5O2)
https://mol.im/a/14743073
Posted by: Ciampino
Things must be improving and Trump's plan is working. So, everything is an op, everything is gay, etc.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 24, 2025 12:24 AM (jFCkp)
https://mol.im/a/14743983
Posted by: Ciampino - I didn't know he was alive at May 24, 2025 12:20 AM (sPQoU)
See? I always said gay was a mental illness.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2025 12:25 AM (BI5O2)
https://tinyurl.com/429r8svx
Posted by: Ciampino - I didn't know at May 24, 2025 12:25 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Canada.
Posted by: Puddleglum
The entire UK land forces number about 55,000.
No long haul transport unless borrowed from the US.
Bring it, King Chuck
Posted by: Miklos has Questions and Skepticisms at May 24, 2025 12:26 AM (K6h4I)
https://mol.im/a/14743983
Posted by: Ciampino
Sad. I like Billy Joel.
youtu.be/BopLuwJJEkY
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 24, 2025 12:27 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Miklos O'Miklos has Whiskey in the Jar at May 24, 2025 12:28 AM (K6h4I)
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The Bulgaria Assassination Bureau were always the bad guys, the KGB's best proxy. Bulgarian Intelligence did use Ali Agca to try to kill John Paul II as a part of Cold War Real Politik.
Posted by: RickZ at May 24, 2025 12:08 AM
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They did the umbrella gun dissident killing in London, I believe. Projectile was a micro-bb with ricin in it.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2025 12:28 AM (ufCEJ)
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You don't have to live like this, brother.
https://tinyurl.com/54psj9w6
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2025 12:31 AM (BI5O2)
I am now armed with two cans of spray. One that sprays a general mist (defense) and one that shoots a strong stream. Tomorrow may be the day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2025 12:31 AM (Xlykt)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 12:31 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2025 12:28 AM (ufCEJ)
Yep, Georgi Markov, too. Bulgaria did a lot of nefarious shit back in the day.
Posted by: RickZ at May 24, 2025 12:31 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2025 12:31 AM (Xlykt)
Why am I hearing the musical score from 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'?
Posted by: RickZ at May 24, 2025 12:34 AM (gKDq2)
People. But that requires skills. Which need to be taught. Yet there’s virtually no education provided on how manage once that happens.
It’s a real weird thing corporate America does.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 24, 2025 12:35 AM (b3G0I)
Posted by: Puddleglum
The entire UK land forces number about 55,000.
No long haul transport unless borrowed from the US.
Bring it, King Chuck
Posted by: Miklos
And Canada's armed forces could probably be handled by the National Guard from any of about 38 states.
Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2025 12:36 AM (DgGvY)
These guys bust their asses at work during 10 hour days and are your typical red blooded males.
They have their shit together and are not your Starbucks barrista types.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at May 24, 2025 12:06 AM (elaR+)
I have two 20-somethings who work directly under me. Both good dudes, both married. One is about to have a first kid. They’re no different than when I was their age.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 24, 2025 12:39 AM (b3G0I)
I am now armed with two cans of spray. One that sprays a general mist (defense) and one that shoots a strong stream. Tomorrow may be the day.
Posted by: Braenyard
Any beekeepers around who might want them? Or are honeybees prevalent enough in your neck of the woods?
And, at least they were bees. Wasps are asshoe. Hornets are extra-strength asshoe.
Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2025 12:39 AM (DgGvY)
Yes, bosses are very good at knowing who they can exploit so the politically favored can coast.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 24, 2025 12:40 AM (QZThv)
WARNING: You've got to be a real oddball steeped in pre-Classical minutiae to get it. May be best not to admit anything.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2025 10:44 PM (JkO4W)
The numbers should be base 60.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 24, 2025 12:40 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 24, 2025 12:40 AM (b3G0I)
https://tinyurl.com/4yzws2e7
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2025 12:43 AM (viF8m)
The UK Royal Navy has more admirals than warships
The Royal Army has more horses than tanks
BUT WAIT- THERE'S MORE
Turns out the US Navy has more admirals than ships
Posted by: Miklos , and The World Wonders at May 24, 2025 12:44 AM (K6h4I)
WARNING: You've got to be a real oddball steeped in pre-Classical minutiae to get it. May be best not to admit anything.
Posted by: Cicero
The case is ongoing
Posted by: Ur-Miklos, attorney for Ea-Nasir at May 24, 2025 12:45 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
I wondered that, myself.
1) DDG says "accent nails" are a thing.
B) Maybe it's some sort of code for what sort of cumslut she is?
iii) Or she just ran out of Tweety Bird Yellow after painting 9 of them.
Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2025 12:46 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Mayor Pete at May 24, 2025 12:46 AM (dDmld)
And, at least they were bees. Wasps are asshoe. Hornets are extra-strength asshoe.
Posted by: mikeski
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No, but it is an idea. I have a friend whose is on Facebook, she could ask around. It is a much better alternative. Second thoughts, the fellow that trapped my attic squirrels may know some one.
Thanks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2025 12:48 AM (Xlykt)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
I have worked with the whinier gen Z types and they are a PITA.
This crew is a breath of fresh air.
It also doesn't hurt that I'm not in charge, but I wouldn't mind being so in this case.
Working with people that want to work is a nice change of pace.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at May 24, 2025 12:48 AM (elaR+)
Charles' pickup line was "Well, I am a Prince, you know"
Newman's trailer park character began thinking and saying "King Darryl the First"
Posted by: Miklos looked, but did not find the clip at May 24, 2025 12:51 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 12:54 AM (ypFCm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2025 12:57 AM (0INzb)
Posted by: mikeski
Montana State Troopers will do.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 24, 2025 12:58 AM (jFCkp)
The PLO said it was food poisoning -- something he got from an infected can.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 23, 2025 11:44 PM (ufCEJ)
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Everybody knows it was that pretty goat sold to him by someone from the next village. You all know why you don't buy a used goat from your own village.
Posted by: Ciampino - You didn't know that? at May 24, 2025 12:58 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at May 23, 2025 11:34 PM (K6h4I)
*wipes tear*
I'm...I'm so horny happy, I mean.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 23, 2025 11:40 PM (xcxpd)
Makes you wonder what her father said when he saw the post. Naaahh, I'm just messin' with ya, she hasn't seen her father in years.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 24, 2025 01:00 AM (pIfcn)
You aren't in the desert Southwest, are you? If those are africanized honeybees, you have trouble on your hands. Since you didn't say anything about getting stung multiple times, they probably aren't.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 24, 2025 01:01 AM (N4aB6)
I did find this-
Prince Charles "How to pick up girls"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEtMLhgydCZ/
*you have to turn on the sound*
Posted by: Miklos should forget more at May 24, 2025 01:03 AM (K6h4I)
https://mol.im/a/14744085
Posted by: Ciampino - a spree alright at May 24, 2025 01:07 AM (sPQoU)
Thanks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2025 12:48 AM (Xlykt)
Why not just shoot them? I thought that's what the old .22 rifle was for. It is in my neck of the woods.
But you have to throw their little carcasses into the woods for the bears.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2025 01:08 AM (a4NoL)
Officials are urging all Facebook users to change their passwords, freeze their credit, and activate fraud alerts on their bank accounts.
https://mol.im/a/14739873
Posted by: Ciampino - another at May 24, 2025 01:10 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 01:10 AM (ypFCm)
Screechy innumerate hippies hardest hit.
Still not tired of winning.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2025 01:12 AM (W5ArC)
Do you think it could be for all those Obama era hoe-ready jobs?
https://tinyurl.com/dycevvt9
Posted by: Ciampino - the chinee shovels broke at May 24, 2025 01:13 AM (sPQoU)
But you have to throw their little carcasses into the woods for the bears.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2025 01:08 AM (a4NoL)
Shoot the bees? That could run up a serious ammo bill!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 24, 2025 01:13 AM (N4aB6)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls
She's probably got a fraternal twin half-sister.
Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2025 01:13 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Miklos von und zu Miklostein at May 24, 2025 01:14 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: mikeski
Montana State Troopers will do.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 24, 2025 12:58 AM (jFCkp)
Or a Cub Scout troop, on a good day.
Nah, Canadian soldiers are actually pretty good.
The problem is that they only have about five of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2025 01:14 AM (W5ArC)
Officials are urging all Facebook users to change their passwords, freeze their credit, and activate fraud alerts on their bank accounts.
Posted by: Ciampino
Another bot account.
Another bot account.
Oh, a real one! Crap, a 14-year-old kid from Guam.
Another bot account.....
Posted by: an identity thief trying to use this data at May 24, 2025 01:16 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Miklos recalls Bader- "Those fokkers were flying Messerschmitts" at May 24, 2025 01:17 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls
She's probably got a fraternal twin half-sister.
Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2025 01:13 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Jerry Springer Segment Producer at May 24, 2025 01:18 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Jerry Springer Segment Producer at May 24, 2025 01:18 AM (pIfcn)
- - - - --
On a flat rock that's been sitting in the sun (think of your car hood in the summer.) Remember also that the "bread" isn't going to be the fluffy loaves we moderns are used to, but a thin flat dough like na'an. Toast on one side on one hot flat rock, then flip to another hot rock to toast the other side.
"Primitive" don't always mean "stupid"... ;-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at May 24, 2025 01:18 AM (+Uof+)
Posted by: Ciampino
Facebook 'em, Danno
Posted by: Miklos McGarrett at May 24, 2025 01:19 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2025 01:13 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Jerry Springer Segment Producer
Joined at the hip???!!!
BOOK 'EM
Posted by: Jerry Springer at May 24, 2025 01:21 AM (K6h4I)
The problem is that they only have about five of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2025 01:14 AM (W5ArC)
Just like there are a very few good Brit Troopers...
And French? The Legion... although the rest aint worth much.
Germans? It all depends on if you are past their 40 hour work week (yes, they now get overtime pay....).
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 24, 2025 01:22 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 01:22 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 24, 2025 01:22 AM (mP0Kj)
Well, the Foreign Legion does have the significant advantage of not actually being French.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2025 01:25 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
*looks at clock*
*Trump says No Tax on Overtime*
Belly up, or writhe seductively over to the bar, Ladies
Posted by: Miklos needs bass Boat money at May 24, 2025 01:26 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2025 01:25 AM (W5ArC)
Worked with some ... shit... 40 years ago in Lebanon...
Bad Ass... and I doubt they've changed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 24, 2025 01:28 AM (mP0Kj)
Spider solitaire is evil
Have a great rest of the night everyone
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2025 01:29 AM (ypFCm)
Still not tired of winning.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Blue hair dye comes from nuclear power plants
Pass it on
Posted by: dis-info-Miklos at May 24, 2025 01:33 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 01:37 AM (0nHVk)
Blue hair dye comes from nuclear power plants
Pass it on
Posted by: dis-info-Miklos at May 24, 2025 01:33 AM (K6h4I)
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The effect of Cherenkov radiation on hair gel. Everybody knows that.
Posted by: Ciampino - remember Bluebeard? at May 24, 2025 01:42 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
Oh hell
I mistakenly gave her a Russian Quaalude.
Let's see if she notices.
Posted by: Miklos-in-Error at May 24, 2025 01:42 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 01:44 AM (0nHVk)
Miklos, let's have a round for the bar, please... I'm in a mood and need to be with some happy people.
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: rhomboid at May 24, 2025 01:48 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 01:50 AM (0nHVk)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 12-22
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: May 24, 2025
Launch Time: 1:19 p.m. EDT, 1719 UTC, 19:19 CEST
https://www.youtube.com/live/419oXoaPTJU
Posted by: Ciampino - Bluebeard is not Bluetooth at May 24, 2025 01:51 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
-Long Island Ice Tea
-Mai Tai
-Margaritas
-El Especial
Be happy, no bitchin'
Posted by: Bitchin' cool Miklos in shirt with the entire WWII Pacific battles on it at May 24, 2025 01:54 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: JQ
Old Soviet Union joke-
So Ivan, how are you doing today?
"average"
What do you mean "average"?
"Better than yesterday, worse than tomorrow"
Posted by: Miklosov, Ancient Slavonaut Theorist at May 24, 2025 01:57 AM (K6h4I)
*cranks up some early Bob Marley*
Specifically "MAGA dog"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxkwDnVe9o
Posted by: Late Nite Miklos at May 24, 2025 02:00 AM (K6h4I)
This is the Maga Dog I was looking for.
It's got a beat, and the kids can dance to it
https://tinyurl.com/52xcy9wp
Posted by: Late Nitely "Erroneous" Miklos (my actual legal name) at May 24, 2025 02:06 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Optimistically Miklos at May 24, 2025 02:07 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Miklos Bodine, Double Naught Spy at May 24, 2025 02:09 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at May 24, 2025 02:11 AM (Ezs10)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 02:15 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 02:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 02:28 AM (0nHVk)
youtube.com/watch?v=TnwqUEelQjE
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 02:31 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 02:32 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 02:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Oops. Should have said O'Miklos.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 02:39 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ
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[slips wad of Confederate tens back into pocket]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 02:45 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm)
I don't know what is in the El Especial, but I barely even notice the back pain now.
Aw, JQ, you have a friend here any time you need one. Don't let the weight of everything crush you.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 02:48 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Miklos, 80s kid who maybe did Stuff at May 24, 2025 02:57 AM (K6h4I)
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Anytime Miklos turns his back while pouring, it's a good idea to be cautious.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 02:59 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
FUN FACT
The Old Confederate Money Printing Plant is now part townhouse condos and a Publix
Posted by: Miklos, tight parking lot there at May 24, 2025 03:00 AM (K6h4I)
But I was younger then. Had family support and a job to throw myself into...
Now? No family. No support. No job. And hubby is "alive" but no longer "all there" ... and just hanging on and on and on. He's just aware enough to recognize me and want me with him all the time (unfortunately not possible) and there's so many responsibilities for me and this POS house is giving me headaches.........
FML!!!!!!
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos, adjusting apron and monocle at May 24, 2025 03:01 AM (K6h4I)
The Old Confederate Money Printing Plant is now part townhouse condos and a Publix
Posted by: Miklos
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Ironically, Confederate bills are now worth more than the fiat stuff being printed by Treasury.
A Confederate $1,000 note printed in May 1861, can bring anywhere from $3,500 to $35,000 at auction
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 03:04 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
The fatassed Scots is an Irishman, if accents mean anything.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
Ass-fattened or not, I am one-quarter either Scots or Scots-Irish.
So I can get drunk and fight with anybody.
Posted by: Miklos, whose relavites on the Outer Banks talked funny at May 24, 2025 03:06 AM (K6h4I)
FML!!!!!!
Posted by: JQ
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I can relate to this.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 03:07 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 03:07 AM (0nHVk)
I'll be OK. I've got to be OK-- I'll find a way through.
I shoulda kept my mouth shut.
Don't want to burden anyone else.
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:10 AM (rdVOm)
A Confederate $1,000 note printed in May 1861, can bring anywhere from $3,500 to $35,000 at auction
Posted by: Mike Hammer
*breaks into the basement, who knows*
https://tinyurl.com/3d2mzmn8
Posted by: Miklos, whose relatives on the Outer Banks talked funny at May 24, 2025 03:10 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:11 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Miklos, whose does prayers too at May 24, 2025 03:12 AM (K6h4I)
Need to vent sometimes.
I can do this. I can do this. I can do this...
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMRX-Wj2WOk
For this, I will be either murdered or killed.
Posted by: Miklos, resigned to his fate at May 24, 2025 03:16 AM (K6h4I)
FML!!!!!!
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
{{{hugs}}}
If life were easy, there would be no need for heaven.
Make contact if there is anything I can do. The COBs can make my email available.
Do what you need to do to remain sane, and then do the best you can but don't expect to do anything more than that.
You are on my nightly rosary. So, there's that. St. Jude is a miracle for lost causes. I can add him to that rosary if need be.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2025 03:19 AM (a4NoL)
Posted by: JQ
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Okay...that's bullshit. Support by blog ain't exactly very helpful. But, it *is* cathartic for *all* of us.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 03:19 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:20 AM (rdVOm)
Mike Hammer, is life slowly returning to normal for you yet??
I feel like the survivors of Helene have been forgotten of late.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 03:21 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:21 AM (rdVOm)
youtube.com/watch?v=92i5m3tV5XY
Posted by: JQ
Chick done out-funned me
ANOTHER ROUND
Also have access to a lady who sells Healing Crystals
Posted by: Miklos, taking DEEP BREATHS and searching Within at May 24, 2025 03:27 AM (K6h4I)
Cat soaks up my tears with his fur.
God is with me, somewhere... somehow...
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:30 AM (rdVOm)
Deep Dog Diving or whatever
or not
Does not respond to "Namaste".
Bacon or whatever I''m eating, yes
Posted by: Miklos actually did Tai Chi once at May 24, 2025 03:31 AM (K6h4I)
I feel like the survivors of Helene have been forgotten of late.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Things here are still a mess. For me, not so much from The Storm (other stuff is a different matter). Just had a hard hailstorm, which damaged the roof, and haven't even had The Storm damage repaired.
I have recounted several times the struggle to get the destroyed Veteran's Restoration Quarters re-established. It's going to take a long time. We still have vets eating in a mess tent, some with walkers or in wheelchairs, guys in their late 70s.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 03:33 AM (XeU6L)
My troubles pale...
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:35 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Yeah, and then there's *that*!
Again, my troubles pale...
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:37 AM (rdVOm)
Thank you
Posted by: JQ
Your membership includes complimentary rides home.
Or just sleep here at one of the booths until we open in the morning. Under a pile of tablecloths, if that is comfy.
Insurance says we gotta lock up, but any late Nite or Early Morning consumption is written off as "Loss and Breakage".
Posted by: Miklos has actually done that, and cheerily greeted the owners the next AM at May 24, 2025 03:38 AM (K6h4I)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 03:33 AM (XeU6L)
Fucking hell. Call the Pentagon. Enough with the bullshit. Pete Hegseth should know about this.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2025 03:41 AM (a4NoL)
I crawl home. Is OK.
Thank you for hospitality!
*places substantial tip on bar*
Good night, kind bartender.
Good night, Horde. Thank you all.
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:42 AM (rdVOm)
Most useless ONT ever.
Like watching a hawk snatching a little kitten out of your backyard.
I wish I was dead.
Posted by: Just Sayin... at May 24, 2025 03:47 AM (/ZZmT)
Posted by: tcn
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We have brought a lot of political pressure to bear, still waiting to see if it produces any fruit. The SNAFU's are with FEMA and State funding. There's plenty of money, but obtaining it is a different matter.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 03:48 AM (XeU6L)
[bows out, with prayers for all]
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2025 03:50 AM (XeU6L)
Wow, you're a better ray of sunshine than I am!
Congratulations!!!
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May your wish be granted.
Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2025 03:51 AM (rdVOm)
It's May 24th, and temp is now 48.6F outside. Record low for the 24th at GSP is 41F. Doubt it will make that, but it's going to drop a few more degrees before sunrise, I'm sure.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 24, 2025 03:56 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 24, 2025 03:57 AM (0nHVk)
Good night, Horde. Thank you all.
Posted by: JQ
At one bar where I worked, this was a usual closing music at 4 AM and the lights came up-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of5lE6gaVXE
Posted by: Miklos has Memories at May 24, 2025 03:59 AM (K6h4I)
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