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Saturday Night "Club ONT" June 14, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
Saturday Night Joke and Other Funnies
An American legislator hosts a Russian legislator at his very nice, upscale home on a lake. The Russian is impressed and asks him how he affords this on a legislator's salary. The American points and says "See that $50 million bridge?" The Russian nods. "I got $55 million allocated to it, and through various means, I funneled $5 million of that to my own pocket in the process." The Russian looked very impressed. Later, the American visits the Russian, and was amazed when he saw that the Russian had an entire mansion. He asks him how he afforded it. The Russian points and says, "See that $50 million bridge?" "No" says the American. "Exactly" says the Russian. ******** Back in the 1980s, a reporter from NYC called Moscow and asked, "Is it true that under communism, grain grows like telegraph poles?" "In principle, yes. We don't quite have the size yet, but the spacing is right already."
🎉 250 Years Strong! 🇺🇸
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) June 14, 2025
Today, we celebrate 250 years of courage, commitment, and sacrifice. From 1775 to 2025, the U.S. Army has stood ready to defend freedom, at home and around the world.
Today we honor the legacy of the Soldiers who came before and the next generation who… pic.twitter.com/rDqV5BQd6f
The Club honors and thanks members and guests who have served in any branch of the US military, and today we send a special HOOAH! to those who served in the Army.
What is bourbon anyway? A Guide to America's Original Whiskey
Bourbon is a type of primarily corn-based whiskey that is made in the United States and aged in new charred-oak barrels. Although it legally must contain 51% corn in the mash (or total makeup of grains), most bourbons are often made with anywhere from 60-86% corn. The other grains in a bourbon can vary, but may include rye, wheat, or barley. There are no regulations as to how long bourbon must age, but to be labeled straight bourbon it must age for at least two years in new charred oak.This is helpful!
OK - but what's the BEST bourbon? That's a subjective question that involves a lot of different factors. Disco's 3-factor, as-objective-as-possible answer: 1. It tastes the way YOU want it to taste
2. It is priced at an amount YOU are willing to pay
3. It is available anytime YOU want it Yeah - YOU determine the answer! That 3rd one is the tricky one. Some brands (looking at you, Buffalo Trace) make great varieties of bourbon and are often at the top of people's lists of favorites -- but they are not always available everywhere. So keep trying different ones and find the one that YOU like best!
Horde approved whiskey decanters!
Bourbon. Neat.
Open a bottle of bourbon
Pour some in a glass
Sip bourbon
Repeat Actually, there's an important step in there before sipping it. Smell it! Jim Beam master distiller Fred Noe explains in this video. He also talks about "The Kentucky Chew" - the way his father, Booker Noe, tasted bourbon.
Time it right: You'll want to bury an unopened bottle of bourbon exactly one month before your wedding date near the site where you'll be reciting your vows.
The right way: Also, it has to be bourbon (not whiskey) and it must be buried upside down to ensure the best possible weather for your big day.The last step in completing this Southern tradition actually happens after the ceremony. Once you've officially sealed the deal, you have to dig your bottle of bourbon up and share it with your wedding party.
Well this is inventive!
— Croxxed Out (@FLCons) June 3, 2025
I want one!
Anyone else? 😄 pic.twitter.com/67bDyJKSpq
Beach Boys (From a Club approved movie)
Top 10ish comments of the week. Or thereabout...
Club ONT brought to you by the Department of Dog Ears.
Basically you need dog ears and even then you still can’t understand Bruce Springsteen 🤣 pic.twitter.com/vrcNYekdHK
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) June 7, 2025
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 10:00 PM (f6qDm)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:00 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at June 14, 2025 10:00 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 14, 2025 10:00 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 10:01 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 14, 2025 10:01 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 14, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)
I'm horrible at it, but if you'd do me the honor I'd be willing to give it a shot.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2025 10:01 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: mindful webworker - captain spoiler at June 14, 2025 10:01 PM (Z5w4n)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 14, 2025 10:02 PM (C26rB)
What a day. Demoncrats killing each other and the wonderful celebration of the Army's 250th Anniversary.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:02 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2025 10:03 PM (MWf2b)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)
Booze
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:04 PM (3ek7K)
I am on top of an Old Soviet ZSU-23-4 Shilka shooting at IDG F-16s singing old Country Joe and Fish Songs.
Posted by: Hanoi Jane Fonda at June 14, 2025 10:04 PM (aKoaI)
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:05 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:05 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:06 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)
I call it greatness!
Good evening, Club patrons!
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:06 PM (RFPHU)
I've always said if you see me dancing that means I"m shitfaced and it's time to go home, well, way past time, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:06 PM (3ek7K)
I bought some Montana bourbon on my last trip there in May. It's very tasty, though I normally lean towards Kentucky bottles.
Also, surprisingly, Jim Beam Straight Rye is good.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:07 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:07 PM (xcxpd)
Is that allowed during pride month?
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:08 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:09 PM (+qU29)
If you want a variety with a bit of spice, I recommend the "1776" brand from the James Pepper distillery in Lexington. Heavy on the rye, which gives it an added kick.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:09 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 14, 2025 10:10 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 14, 2025 10:10 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at June 14, 2025 10:11 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: mindful webworker - check POW at June 14, 2025 10:11 PM (Z5w4n)
If you want a variety with a bit of spice, I recommend the "1776" brand from the James Pepper distillery in Lexington. Heavy on the rye, which gives it an added kick.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:09 PM (jGGMD)
There was a bottle of such at the PNW MoMe. It was good.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:11 PM (xcxpd)
It just may be the most ridiculous show I have ever seen, but I can't stop watching it.
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:07 PM (xcxpd)
Is that allowed during pride month?
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:08 PM (RFPHU)
ISWYDT
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:12 PM (xcxpd)
Good evening, Club patrons!
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:06 PM (RFPHU)
So, you don't just pour it down the drain?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at June 14, 2025 10:14 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: RickZ at June 14, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 14, 2025 10:14 PM (kOluj)
If you want a variety with a bit of spice, I recommend the "1776" brand from the James Pepper distillery in Lexington. Heavy on the rye, which gives it an added kick.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:09 PM (jGGMD)
Four Roses makes outstanding bourbon. Their standard "yellow label" is only 80 proof, so not enough burn for me. But their single barrel and small batch select varieties are staples at Casa de Disco.
Pepper is an interesting distillery. I'm a fan of their barrel strength rye.
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 10:04 PM (0eaVi)
It's still bourbon but it starts getting expensive, as bourbon does evaporate over time and you get less and less out of the barrel.
I also find old bourbons to be a little bitter. Eagle Rare is a 10 year that is very smooth, however.
The sweet spot for me is 4-8 years.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 10:00 PM (f6qDm)
You can dance all by yourself, just discover you have a spider in your hair.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: F Asbury Park at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (rdVOm)
It just may be the most ridiculous show I have ever seen, but I can't stop watching it.
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)
I have been watching "The Conners" for the last few months.
Horribly woke. But I have bèen going through most of that.
Surprisingly....
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (e15Ap)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: huerfano at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 10:15 PM (e15Ap)
Wow. Never bought a Weller, I'd love to get into it.
Blanton's is my biggest expense, there's one liquor store near me that gets in a bottle or two each month.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:17 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 14, 2025 10:14 PM (kOluj)
I'm going old Maiden for ya! Very old.
https://youtu.be/2uvI7EFioe0
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:18 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:18 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Case at June 14, 2025 10:18 PM (k7qYZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (fab8c)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (faLVK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (QnmlO)
"Born to Run is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on August 25, 1975, by Columbia Records. Co-produced by Springsteen with his manager Mike Appel and the producer Jon Landau, its recording took place in New York. Following the commercial failures of his first two albums, the album marked Springsteen's effort to break into the mainstream and create a commercially successful album."
You have to admit, having people hating on your music after 50 years is kind of impressive.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (UJD2L)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:20 PM (77rzZ)
Funny thing, though, is that *everything* sounds garbled like that when you're hearing is fcuked up.
Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 10:20 PM (rdVOm)
Big Horn, Devil's Brigade and Penelope.
Also, Paul Masson Brandy that isn't peach, pineapple or red berry. Which is all I can find here. The straight up Masson is excellent.
Worth the drive since I also got some excellent cigars there.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 14, 2025 10:20 PM (1usj4)
Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 10:21 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (63Dwl)
In theory, a few months. But two years is the usual lead time. That's what they did with the Woodinville bourbon brand out here.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at June 14, 2025 10:21 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Case at June 14, 2025 10:18 PM (k7qYZ)
Well the protesters are Democrats. What other look do they have but stupid?
Posted by: RickZ at June 14, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
It just may be the most ridiculous show I have ever seen, but I can't stop watching it.
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)
It held my interest for a while, but the last two or three seasons are just....I'm not sure there's a word for it.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:21 PM (jGGMD)
Posted by: King Louis Philippe at June 14, 2025 10:22 PM (QnmlO)
I visited that distillery last time I was in Lexington and quite enjoyed it. Another lesser known brand is New Riff, which is quite good.
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 14, 2025 10:22 PM (faLVK)
Posted by: Open Blogger
* pours 2 fingers of Willet *
Cheers!
Yay, International Bath Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Hm.....
* checks the bar again *
Nope, no cute Japanese girl to bathe with.
One out of two ain't bad.
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 10:23 PM (DgGvY)
https://shorturl.at/8SfO2
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:23 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 14, 2025 10:24 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Legally or illegally?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:24 PM (fab8c)
Posted by: Case at June 14, 2025 10:18 PM (k7qYZ)
Well the protesters are Democrats. What other look do they have but stupid?
Posted by: RickZ at June 14, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
Fury and destruction.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 14, 2025 10:24 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (63Dwl)
Depends if you want it to be good. Anything worth buying should be aged for "several" years. There are some decent ones that are only aged 3-5 years. I'd say 8-12 years is the time for a solid bourbon. More than that for really good ones.
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:24 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 14, 2025 10:01 PM (hftn9)
_________
Orleans!!!
Posted by: King Louis Philippe at June 14, 2025 10:22 PM (QnmlO)
*golf clap*
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:24 PM (jGGMD)
https://youtu.be/7RWchZF9YqA?si=ajWJ17H6HuYVAUYZ
And the extended version
https://youtu.be/Lud3bgEJeTg?si=894HNxLGdZOCScvJ
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 14, 2025 10:25 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 10:25 PM (i0F8b)
Oh well.
Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 14, 2025 10:22 PM (faLVK)
Fistbump on New Riff. But don't tell too many people about it!!
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:26 PM (RFPHU)
Has Trump fled to Russia yet? I was told that Americans would rise up against him after today's rallies.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2025 10:27 PM (QnmlO)
Of course, I may have while I enjoyed the Pet Thread too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2025 10:27 PM (rvwwT)
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 10:25 PM (i0F8b)
I'll share this again:
https://is.gd/EIyBNb
@HarmeetKDhillon
Hey everyone:
"No Kings" day is July 4.
Pass it on!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:27 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
If you miss one of the rules, you ask your marketing department.
There's a Canadian one (missing the "in the USA" rule) that calls it "bourbon-style" whiskey.
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 10:27 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: RickZ
Smug, unhygienic, sexually frustrated . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at June 14, 2025 10:28 PM (gKWVE)
https://tinyurl.com/4y2d4upx
Anyone here at that game?
Posted by: Ciampino - deport to El Salvador? at June 14, 2025 10:28 PM (sPQoU)
Of course, I may have while I enjoyed the Pet Thread too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2025 10:27 PM
***
Ahem.
Posted by: Hobby Thread at June 14, 2025 10:28 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2025 10:19 PM (63Dwl)
Depends on what scale you're operating. If you're producing on the same level as Jim Beam, it'll take a few years before your bourbon can be considered good to sell.
But if you're just selling a few gallons here and there at first, it shouldn't take more than a few weeks or months. It's all about how much oak you have available for your product to come into contact with; a small batch in a small barrel will actually age quite rapidly. One company (Oak and Eden) actually sells oak sticks you can toss into a jar of white liquor, leave out for 3-7 days, and supposedly end up with a nicely-aged product.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:29 PM (jGGMD)
This stuff is so good it doesn't burn at all. And, as a result, will cause your clothes to fall off because you are WAY over the line before your taste buds tell you to stop.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2025 10:30 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 14, 2025 10:30 PM (FPGXM)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
It's like Kobe beef. Real Kobe beef has to be from Japan. That's the rule. If it's raised here in the US, it's called American Kobe.
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 10:30 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 10:30 PM (XjTSo)
It seems alcohol consumption is down bog time now that weed is becoming more available legally.
I know the younger generations think weed is harmless, especially when compared to alcohol.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at June 14, 2025 10:31 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:31 PM (RFPHU)
It was too slow.
Too many soldiers marching. Many out for a Saturday walk and a bunch out of step. Drives me crazy. Exceptions were the Cadets in the various military schools.
Saw some vehicles and weapons I'm not familiar with.
Must have been a Motor Sgt's nightmare.
The swearing in got to me.
All and all not too bad.
Night all.
Posted by: Javems at June 14, 2025 10:31 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:31 PM (uef1E)
This stuff is so good it doesn't burn at all. And, as a result, will cause your clothes to fall off because you are WAY over the line before your taste buds tell you to stop.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2025 10:30 PM
***
Tell me you live in Tennessee without telling me you live in Tennessee.
Posted by: TRex at June 14, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)
Of course, I may have while I enjoyed the Pet Thread too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Just saw an ad for 10 yr Bulliet on Facebook.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:32 PM (fab8c)
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 10:25 PM (i0F8b)
As a Twitterer more clever than myself said, they don't want No Kings, they simply want Different Kings.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:32 PM (jGGMD)
1 middle age lady with a no kings sign. Total count.
My daughter and I laughed for a few miles.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2025 10:32 PM (rvwwT)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:32 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at June 14, 2025 10:33 PM (026f8)
!!!America!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 14, 2025 10:30 PM (FPGXM)
Howdy COMM!
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2025 10:33 PM (RFPHU)
Posted by: GWB at June 14, 2025 10:33 PM (KoK5d)
Meanwhile out in LA they are celebrating Hatred for America.
Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 14, 2025 10:34 PM (8Vw5E)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 14, 2025 10:34 PM (hftn9)
The troops were not out of step. There are different steps for marching.
Today they were in Route Step.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)
The red item on the emblem is a Phrygian Cap. Associated with liberty from ancient times.
>>The Phrygian cap, also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia. The Phrygian cap was worn by Thracians, Dacians, Persians, Medes, Scythians, Trojans, and Phrygians after whom it is named.The oldest known depiction of the Phrygian cap is from Persepolis in Iran.
Although Phrygian caps did not originally function as liberty caps, they came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty first in the American Revolution and then in the French Revolution, particularly as a symbol of Jacobinism (in which context it has been also called a Jacobin cap). The original cap of liberty was the Roman pileus, the felt cap of emancipated slaves of ancient Rome, which was an attribute of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. In the 16th century, the Roman iconography of liberty was revived in emblem books and numismatic handbooks where the figure of Libertas is usually depicted with a pileus (hat in Greek).
Now you know!
Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2025 10:34 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:34 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 14, 2025 10:35 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:35 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 10:25 PM (i0F8b)
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Their astroturf efforts to subvert Flag Day and the Army's birthday have already failed. Most events failed to even happen, those that did consisted of wet hippies waving soggy signs and the rest of the country completely ignored it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:36 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie
Son bought a freeze dryer....holy shit! Those things are magical!
Posted by: Some Rat at June 14, 2025 10:36 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2025 10:36 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:37 PM (AOsQT)
A guy can write his name with snow peas, but a chick peas sitting down.
Posted by: Ciampino - do not call the Spelling Naziz at June 14, 2025 10:37 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 10:38 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Some Rat
Wish I had $3500 to spend. I've drooled over them for years.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:38 PM (fab8c)
The troops were not out of step. There are different steps for marching.
Today they were in Route Step.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)
Follow-up question for you military morons - is this an 'out of sync on purpose so we don't wreck the bridge via resonance' step?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:38 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Otto Zilch at June 14, 2025 10:38 PM (Ws2ua)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:39 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 14, 2025 10:40 PM (UJD2L)
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 10:25 PM (i0F8b)
I thank the Lord we will not have FJB's or Knee Pads' minions in charge of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the USA next year. The Leftists will do their best to ruin every celebration. At least they will not have the entire power of FedGov helping them.
Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2025 10:40 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:37 PM (77rzZ)
It's hilarious how these losers keep trying whatever they can, thinking they can still fool normies into believing they're on our side.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 14, 2025 10:40 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I couldn't drink that. I had to have my dog put to sleep last summer, and drinking Old Weller would make me sad.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:40 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 14, 2025 10:40 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 14, 2025 10:41 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:39 PM (77rzZ)
(Barack Obama voice) Was the Vienna overpass banner written in Austrian?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:41 PM (uef1E)
Posted by: Jen the original at June 14, 2025 10:41 PM (uFhcf)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 14, 2025 10:41 PM (Ux3xW)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:37 PM (AOsQT)
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A clue to the sport would be helpful. Panthers don't play today.
Posted by: Ciampino - Do not something at June 14, 2025 10:41 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (rvwwT)
Posted by: Case
Anyone get hit by lightning? I mean, you can hope.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Musical Snob at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Ciampino
I knew the now Mrs. TP was 'The One' when, early in our courtship, T. asked me to pull over as she had to pee RIGHT NOW!. I said something along the line of Babe, there's nothing out here but corn fields - can you wait 15 minutes until the next town?
Nope! I stopped, she hopped out and beat feet into the corn to get 'er done.
My kind of girl.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot
If you let it sit out, would it turn to wine. When I was in 4H, we had a Halloween party where the cider had turned. No one told our 4H leader.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: InZona at June 14, 2025 10:44 PM (qz1Fg)
Posted by: scampydog at June 14, 2025 10:44 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Nazdar at June 14, 2025 10:44 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 14, 2025 10:45 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: Jen the original at June 14, 2025 10:41 PM (uFhcf)
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That's like 1/4 of Hash Bash. Rookie numbers.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Lirio100 at June 14, 2025 10:46 PM (zS4/f)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:42 PM (6dYPy)
I saw some tall and beefy Rangers and soldiers in other units struggling to do constant 30-inch paces. I think they and all the marching troops did pretty good today.
Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2025 10:46 PM (aBgBM)
Where these F**kers when Auto-Pen was POTUS
and ordered the everybody to get that COVID Shot or be fired. Making you wear a Kotex on your face and Gays in the Military with different physical standards.
These people can rot in Hades...........
Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 14, 2025 10:46 PM (8Vw5E)
Posted by: scampydog at June 14, 2025 10:47 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 14, 2025 10:48 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:48 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 14, 2025 10:48 PM (XMwZJ)
Happy Father's Day tomorrow.
Happy, it's Back to me being the Monday Critic the day After That .....
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Saturdayday . . . at June 14, 2025 10:48 PM (cfyxU)
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 14, 2025 10:45 PM (Aqu9a)
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They had a lot of parade units involved - divisional bands and some historic ensembles.
A lot of folks are ignorant that there are a lot of military bands and they live for moments like this.
I liked the way the celebrated the various Army divisions. This was no Soviet parade, it was about American military traditions and it was very well done.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)
I saw some tall and beefy Rangers and soldiers in other units struggling to do constant 30-inch paces. I think they and all the marching troops did pretty good today.
Posted by: Gref
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Next parade they're going to be crisp.
There's going to be marching lessons the next week or two.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:49 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Ciampino -
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sure
it's hockey
FLA Panthers 5, Oilers 2
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:50 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:50 PM (jGGMD)
Just got home from the Jefferson Starship / 38 Special / Kansas concert. Not bad, not as good as any of them were in the early 80s, but still not bad. The crowd was well behaved, Smash said it was because no one wanted to throw out their back or break a hip.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 14, 2025 10:50 PM (MsrgL)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)
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My grandmother stored some apple cider in the garage because it was a cool fall. But then we had some warm days, and when we brought it in, it was kind of fizzy and tasted different. I was restricted on how much I could drink.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:50 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Some Rat
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Evening. Counting down the days to Corsicana!
Posted by: scampydog at June 14, 2025 10:50 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:51 PM (uef1E)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 10:51 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:51 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ciampino - Do not do something at June 14, 2025 10:51 PM (sPQoU)
There's going to be marching lessons the next week or two.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:49 PM (6dYPy)
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This was a test run for next July 4th.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:52 PM (77rzZ)
Either the CIA whisked the assassin away or he has killed himself.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:52 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:52 PM (+qU29)
https://youtu.be/OqPl4QrczTk
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 14, 2025 10:52 PM (UJD2L)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 10:53 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 10:53 PM (VofaG)
Everyone does parades and only spoil sports don't like them.
And some of those Asian women in skirts are hot.
And they could give what I saw today some lessons.
Guarantee, Hegseth didn't like what he saw.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:53 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:54 PM (+qU29)
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Posted by: Ciampino - deport to El Salvador? at June 14, 2025 10:28 PM (sPQoU)
So, the people running MLB are as dumb as the people in the movie industry. This country is split between liberals and conservatives. Insulting half your potential ticket buyers isn't a good business plan.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)
Where these F**kers when Auto-Pen was POTUS
and ordered the everybody to get that COVID Shot or be fired. Making you wear a Kotex on your face and Gays in the Military with different physical standards.
These people can rot in Hades...........
Posted by: Mike Hunt at June 14, 2025 10:46 PM (8Vw5E)
I had the thought earlier today of going up to those yahoos and asking them what's wrong with monarchy? If it was good enough for Alexander Hamilton, why isn't it good enough for you? Are you really saying you'd rather have Hitler than George VI? And just anything else to get that "deer in the headlights" look from them.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 14, 2025 10:54 PM (jGGMD)
Braenyard,
There are different marching steps they use. Today was a Route Step Day. Bands have a certain marching step they use.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 10:55 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:53 PM (6dYPy)
Results of four years of diversity training taking precedence over military skills.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:55 PM (uef1E)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:48 PM (ZOv7s)
I wasn't able to watch to the end but it seemed the parade included troops from all active divisions. Terrific.
Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2025 10:55 PM (aBgBM)
https://youtu.be/OqPl4QrczTk
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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The cadence in Sand Pebbles when McQueen was going to 'get some', was striking.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:55 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 10:51 PM (+qU29)
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In a crowd scene, it is very easy to start anticipating the step and fall out of phase. This was a great learning experience for next year.
Hegseth has been emphasizing core competencies, such as PT but also D&C and customs and courtesies. It will take time.
But the troops looked pretty stoked. Parades are great (said the high school/college marching band guy).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 10:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at June 14, 2025 10:57 PM (gf7Ez)
My daughter and I laughed for a few miles.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Yell out the window, "Hey! Where is everyone?"
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:57 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Bulg at June 14, 2025 10:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: four seasons
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It was disappointing, not crisp, no matter what step it should be precise. Call me on it next parade if I'm wrong.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:58 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 14, 2025 10:58 PM (TfUTr)
The red item on the emblem is a Phrygian Cap. Associated with liberty from ancient times.
>>The Phrygian cap, also known as Thracian cap and liberty cap, is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and Asia.
......
Now you know!
Posted by: Gref at June 14,
Oh sure, use historical facts and stuff. I still say Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh had a hand in the patch design.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 14, 2025 10:59 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 10:59 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 10:59 PM (cnfpB)
Thank you to the ‘Ron’s who will dance with me. I don’t really care if you step on my feet.
It’s funny. I was at the local watering hole watching game 5 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and there was a commercial, I flipped on the HQ, that song was on the overhead, so…..
I wanna dance with somebody! It’s a great song, actually.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 10:59 PM (1WD7A)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:00 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)
Musk just tweeted “the beams are on.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 11:00 PM (e15Ap)
Posted by: Bulg
They're still mad that they got spanked in November.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Gref
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7th Cavalry was on horseback.
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:53 PM (6dYPy)
Results of four years of diversity training taking precedence over military skills.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:55 PM (uef1E)
And they had to switch back to boots from high heels. Takes some time and practice to adapt.
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:55 PM (uef1E)
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Yes. If I can't trust you to turn right on command, how can I trust you not to shoot me by accident? How can I trust you to accurately call fire support when you can't stay in step?
This was a wakeup call, but it was fun. I don't get the the parade hate. Everyone loves parades. Every high school and college in the country has a homecoming parade.
Why not integrate the military into this? People love tanks. They love climbing over them and into them. You want future soldiers? Let them climb on your tank.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (ZOv7s)
https://tinyurl.com/ye4mscau
Posted by: Ciampino - Do not FAFO with horses at June 14, 2025 11:02 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Rough crowd. They don't usually start drinking Jack until 3rd grade.
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 11:03 PM (DgGvY)
Musk just tweeted “the beams are on.”
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Didn't want to be the one to bring it up first but
THERE'S ONE HELL OF A WAR GOING ON.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:03 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 10:53 PM (6dYPy)
Results of four years of diversity training taking precedence over military skills.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:55 PM (uef1E)
And they had to switch back to boots from high heels. Takes some time and practice to adapt.
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I suppose there will be some remedial drill practice time mandated from his office?
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:03 PM (XjTSo)
Hello everyone.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 14, 2025 11:04 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:01 PM (cnfpB)
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East Coast represent!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:04 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:04 PM (cnfpB)
>>I think the calendar is running slow this year.
Be patient. It's 10:42PM EDT, June 20 (June 21 02:42 Zulu). By tomorrow, it will have been earliest sunrise for all the lower 48.
It's a little over 5 hours later this year than 2024, and that's because only 365 days on the calendar. So the non-leap years are a little fast, making the solstice get later.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)
THERE'S ONE HELL OF A WAR GOING ON.
Yet again I'm the last one to find out.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (lUFok)
Musk just tweeted “the beams are on.”
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Didn't want to be the one to bring it up first but
THERE'S ONE HELL OF A WAR GOING ON.
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Even better, all the hell is being unleashed on Iran's side. I hope the popular uprising is successful this time.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 10:53 PM (XjTSo)
The Army should have ordered an ordnance unit to make a good mock-up of the quad-50 mount. With a budget for materials. Non-operational. Wouldn't have been difficult or very expensive, in my opinion. Use four real, spare, caliber-fifties. No cost there. Oh well.
Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)
She'd have had better luck with a "no man, someone please kiss me" sign
Posted by: gKWVE at June 14, 2025 11:06 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:07 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:07 PM (cnfpB)
what is a caisson
Posted by: Don Black
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That's easy. $20, same as in town.
Posted by: scampydog at June 14, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:08 PM (6dYPy)
https://tinyurl.com/ye4mscau
Posted by: Ciampino - Do not FAFO with horses at June 14, 2025 11:02 PM (sPQoU)
Get a fucking life, grandpa. And don't mess with the horse. Not even a little.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2025 11:08 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:08 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:03 PM (XjTSo)
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Probably. My Army experience was minimal, but the troops picked for these details are likely the ones who were the best at marching. The ones who tripped over their own toes were left out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Don Black
Technically, it is a footing for supporting bridges or buildings, cored into substrate with a wider base, and filled with concrete.
Well, you asked.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2025 11:09 PM (a4NoL)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:09 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Well, yeah, kindergarteners probably shouldn't drink it
Posted by: gKWVE at June 14, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)
A friend of mine was in this situation, then a car was approaching & bastard still was playing games... She floored it and barely got over in time, then got pulled over for speeding (!)
Went to court and beat the ticket, as it was "evasive action"
Posted by: JQ at June 14, 2025 11:09 PM (rdVOm)
Of course, I may have while I enjoyed the Pet Thread too.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Just saw an ad for 10 yr Bulliet on Facebook.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 10:32 PM (fab8c
Bulliet 10 yr is the shizzle. The younger never really did it for me. Maker's Mark is my go to for every day and it makes a fine Manhattan. My all time favorite is Rockhill Farms, which I believe is out of production. Discovered that on my first visit to Kentucky many years ago.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 14, 2025 11:09 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:10 PM (6dYPy)
THERE'S ONE HELL OF A WAR GOING ON.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:03 PM (6dYPy)
One of Khamenei’s top aides just got taken out - Israel is doing to them what they did to Hezbollah. Take out all the top people.
And someone today hightailed it out of Iran, probably to Moscow.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 14, 2025 11:10 PM (e15Ap)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2025 11:10 PM (fab8c)
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 11:03 PM (DgGvY)
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School-to-prison pipeline? Yeah, my school.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 11:10 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Lirio100 at June 14, 2025 11:10 PM (zS4/f)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)
Phrygian Smurfs. I hate them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 11:11 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:11 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 11:11 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:12 PM (cnfpB)
what is a caisson
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)
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Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trail and the caissons go rolling along! "Counter march!" "Right about!" hear the wagon-soldiers shout, and the caissons go rolling along.
For it's hi-hi-hee in the Field Artillery! Count out your numbers loud and strong!
Over hill, over dale - we shall never fail as the caissons go rolling along!
A caisson is the ammo box attached to the gun.
- A failed field artillerist
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:10 PM (6dYPy)
Hell if I know. The point is that they stay put.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2025 11:13 PM (a4NoL)
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The M2 battery can rotate & elevate, right?
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:13 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:13 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: Lirio100 at June 14, 2025 11:10 PM (zS4/f)
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How cool is that? This is how you know Trump loves the military. He makes memories for them. He doesn't have to, but he does.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:14 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Might work. I read somewhere that a lot of Puerto Ricans join the navy because they grow up seeing those lovely naval ships in port.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 11:15 PM (0Htd1)
Take out the space.
Posted by: tcn in AK at June 14, 2025 11:15 PM (a4NoL)
what is a caisson
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)
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Over hill, over dale, we have hit the dusty trail and the caissons go rolling along! "Counter march!" "Right about!" hear the wagon-soldiers shout, and the caissons go rolling along.
For it's hi-hi-hee in the Field Artillery! Count out your numbers loud and strong!
Over hill, over dale - we shall never fail as the caissons go rolling along!
A caisson is the ammo box attached to the gun.
- A failed field artillerist
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:12 PM (ZOv7s)
There are also gun limbers. Now we're getting into trivia!
Posted by: Gref at June 14, 2025 11:15 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:15 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2025 11:15 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 14, 2025 11:16 PM (UJD2L)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:16 PM (XjTSo)
Probably, never built this one. Now it joins the stash with the Rye Field Model Sd.Kfz.234/4 Pz. Spahwagen Rad 8 Puma.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:16 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 10:30 PM (i0F8b)
And keep it away from helicopters . . .
Too soon?
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:16 PM (D7oie)
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Working a mid-range a guy did that. Would not let me pass and would not speed up. Kept me pinned. I started playing with him, distracted him so much to the play that he stopped paying attention to the road only interested in stopping me.
He was a suit.
Almost ran into the car in front. Coffee and breakfast biscuit were all over his clothes. Don't know what happened for his next appointment. I made mine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:16 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Lirio100 at June 14, 2025 11:16 PM (zS4/f)
Did any of the units do a little Razzle Dazzle?
Posted by: Count de Monet
Truckin' like the doo dah man.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2025 11:17 PM (63Dwl)
THERE'S ONE HELL OF A WAR GOING ON.
A little unusual in that they are not adjacent countries.
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 11:17 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: EveR at June 14, 2025 11:17 PM (rdF17)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:15 PM (+qU29)
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As I said, I am a FAILED field artillerist.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:18 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 11:19 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Skip
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That's the ticket. The HQ way. Put out a wrong answer and someone who knows the correct answer will speak up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:20 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:20 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: davidt
And keep it away from helicopters . . .
Posted by: Kindltot
Unless you like it well done.
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 11:20 PM (DgGvY)
THERE'S ONE HELL OF A WAR GOING ON.
A little unusual in that they are not adjacent countries.
Posted by: davidt
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Starmer has sent jets to Cypress. Not sure what his game is.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:21 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Case at June 14, 2025 11:21 PM (k7qYZ)
Considering the guy was hoovering up government money, the pastor thing may have been a tax dodge.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2025 11:22 PM (lUFok)
A USAID contracting officer and three company executives have plead guilty to accepting/offering bribes to ensure two SBA designated small businesses received more than $550 million spread across 14 contracts over the span of a decade.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:22 PM (cnfpB)
After I jumped to the Air side, I heard that they got towed howitzers, which made a lot more sense.
Of course a bunch of our guys got sent down to Gitmo as guards, and I was happy to have missed out on that!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:23 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:23 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _
Insane in the membrane?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 14, 2025 11:24 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 10:44 PM (0Htd1)
I will do that with apple juice that I press (heavenly until it gets really hard) but I don't like home made wine made from Concords or Thompsons.
I can the juice and love it.
I also make apple cider vinegar
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:25 PM (D7oie)
Someone posted today that the Hoffman man who was shot returned campaign donations to some woman who was running some kind of "charity." Feed the something or other.
Apparently there is a ton of money laundering going on there. It will be interesting to find out WTF is going on.
Sorry I can't remember who posted that today.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 11:25 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:25 PM (cnfpB)
Probably, never built this one. Now it joins the stash with the Rye Field Model Sd.Kfz.234/4 Pz. Spahwagen Rad 8 Puma.
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Cool. The Puma is probably the best-looking armored car ever made.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:26 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:21 PM (6dYPy)
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Are they under the trees or in them?
Or do you mean an island in the eastern Med.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 11:27 PM (VofaG)
I have no idea what I am going to do with all the fruit.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:27 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2025 11:22 PM (lUFok)
Obviously, he knew how to play the game because his wife was CEO and he was just the operations guy of their security firm in MN.
Posted by: EveR at June 14, 2025 11:27 PM (rdF17)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:25 PM (cnfpB)
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CYPRUS (note the spelling!) is still a divided island.
Yeah, I suck at being field artillery, which is why I became a writer.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:29 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: davidt at June 14, 2025 11:29 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:29 PM (cnfpB)
n noun
1 a large watertight chamber in which underwater construction work may be carried out.
2 a vessel or watertight structure used as a gate across the entrance of a dry dock or basin.
ORIGIN
C17: from French, literally 'large chest', from Italian cassone, the spelling altered in French by association with caisse 'case'.
Posted by: Ciampino - from the pages of at June 14, 2025 11:30 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Dr. T
They already have the Judges.
Guess they want it all.
Totalitarians.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2025 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:31 PM (cnfpB)
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Holy moly! Can you detach one side section to do a cutaway display version?
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:32 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 11:32 PM (RIvkX)
The red item on the emblem is a Phrygian Cap. Associated with liberty from ancient times.
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Condom.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2025 11:32 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)
Dad didn't let me drink Jack in Kindergarten, I had to make do with white rum.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:32 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:26 PM (XjTSo)
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The Puma was one of those vehicles that micro-armor players would try to field *every model ever built* on the tabletop.
"It could happen!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:34 PM (ZOv7s)
What the fuck is a speedball?
He could that speedball by you, making love like a pool boy.
Makes no fucking sense.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler at June 14, 2025 11:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Shemp Howard at June 14, 2025 11:34 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 14, 2025 11:34 PM (wbZPZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:32 PM (D7oie)
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As a wedding present, my father-in-law gave me a gallon jug of White Lightning. Actual moonshine. Blue flame and everything. He knew a guy.
Took five years to get through it. Powerful stuff.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 11:35 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 14, 2025 11:35 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:36 PM (6dYPy)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler at June 14, 2025 11:36 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 11:27 PM (VofaG)
I don't know when Minnesota went from "Minnesota Nice' to what it is now as I really wasn't paying attention. But to my memory, importing a few Somalis seemed to do the trick.
Posted by: RickZ at June 14, 2025 11:37 PM (gKDq2)
Why does the Army Seal appear to have a French Republican "Jacques" cap prominently displayed right in the middle of it? Robespierre isn't a name I'd readily guess to be associated with the U.S. Army.
Posted by: mnw at June 14, 2025 11:37 PM (kd60y)
Posted by: Pat* at June 14, 2025 11:37 PM (Frf47)
Bells!
Full engine.
Whistles!
Two complete sets of tires since each set has a different tread.
Posted by: Anna Puma
And gongs!
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 11:38 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 14, 2025 11:38 PM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler at June 14, 2025 11:34 PM (0aYVJ)
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His voice is retarded and his lyrics are stupid.
His singing voice was terrible. Guy couldn't hold onto a pitch with a pair of vicegrips.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7s)
Driver hatch can be posed open. And for the brave can always open both of the lower hull midship hatches, but those are between wheels so might not see much. Unless you remove a wheel to gaze at the fully detailed running gear.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:39 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 11:11 PM (0eaVi)
In Belgium they are called "les Stroumpfs". In Holland they smash them flat and make "stroopwafels"
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:39 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: RickZ
Around when the DFL stopped giving a shit about the farmers and laborers, and just fellated the democrats.
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 11:40 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: mnw at June 14, 2025 11:37 PM (kd60y)
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Scroll up. The French stole it from the Phrygians, which is who the Army also attributed it to.
I like the Air Force heraldry because it is less cluttered. The Navy and Marines also have better flags.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:41 PM (ZOv7s)
https://mol.im/a/14813047
Posted by: Ciampino - from the pages of the OT at June 14, 2025 11:41 PM (sPQoU)
Cordials and brandy. Miklos can help you out with the plums, I think. Or maybe it's cherries. I dunno, but there is a fruity Eastern Eurooean liquor that will put hair in your chest!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 14, 2025 11:42 PM (Ezs10)
https://youtu.be/BSEnw-WZ_jA
Yeah, I know, low bar and all that.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 14, 2025 11:42 PM (lUFok)
https://mol.im/a/14813047
Posted by: Ciampino - from the pages of the OT at June 14, 2025 11:41 PM (sPQoU)
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The tide is turning. Make sodomy shameful again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:20 PM (cnfpB)
I wonder how many "pass through" people like that are out there? Routh apparently was another one, and I wonder who Paddock was actually working for
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:44 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 14, 2025 11:44 PM (6dYPy)
Two of my brothers were Army, middle brother was a Marine, like our old man. When I told Dad I had enlisted in the Army, he said, "well at least it's not the Air Force." Then he chuckled.
Baby brother was 82nd Airborne during the early days of the Iraq bullshit. He now flies Black Hawks. He has always been an overachiever.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler at June 14, 2025 11:45 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:18 PM (ZOv7s)
I didn't know you collected stamps at one time.
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2025 11:45 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:45 PM (mT+6a)
This is interesting. Decompression sickness was first called "caisson disease", as that was where it first encountered, pressurized caissons keeping water out for construction.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 14, 2025 11:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:47 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:20 PM (cnfpB)
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I wonder how many "pass through" people like that are out there? Routh apparently was another one, and I wonder who Paddock was actually working for
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:44 PM (D7oie)
Trump's DOJ is on the . . . {SNOREflugg} . . . What?
Impatient I am. Forthcoming they are not.
Posted by: RickZ at June 14, 2025 11:48 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I didn't know you collected stamps at one time.
Posted by: ...
You're thinking of a phlebotomist.
Posted by: mikeski at June 14, 2025 11:48 PM (DgGvY)
https://mol.im/a/14813255
Posted by: Ciampino - from the mad people at June 14, 2025 11:50 PM (sPQoU)
Klobucher, I eat my salad with a comb because my aide is an idiot, but I'm really the idiot, dined with the murdered woman last night.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 11:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:51 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:47 PM (+qU29)
Santee at Arizona Ghostriders did a vid about top hats today. Has other vids about different types of Old West hats as well.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 11:51 PM (0eaVi)
Cordials and brandy. Miklos can help you out with the plums, I think. Or maybe it's cherries. I dunno, but there is a fruity Eastern Eurooean liquor that will put hair in your chest!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
Slivovitz.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:51 PM (mT+6a)
Over 25 peeple showed up to show how much they be Hates Trump.
Is be was a bueatful thing to see alls these be peeple show up and protist King Trimp.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at June 14, 2025 11:53 PM (1sBXy)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:51 PM (mT+6a)
Cop's name in NYPD Blue, warn't it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2025 11:53 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:38 PM (ZOv7
He sounds okay to me.
Posted by: Bob Dylan at June 14, 2025 11:53 PM (UJD2L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:54 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2025 11:45 PM (E0p3T)
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A lot of soldiers collected tramp stamps. Very risky hobby.
One might attract a dependasaurus.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:54 PM (ZOv7s)
I still drink beer, but in moderation. I sometimes hear that one icky guy in Giant Spider Invasion: "ya been hittin' the booooze again"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler at June 14, 2025 11:54 PM (0aYVJ)
https://mol.im/a/14812295
Castrate.
Posted by: Ciampino - from the mad ROP at June 14, 2025 11:55 PM (sPQoU)
It is not quick but it is very fast. I use a garbage disposal attached to a salvaged kitchen sink to grind the fruit into a slurry for pressing
it is not the best rig in the world, but it is the cheapest build I have ever managed.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:55 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:51 PM (cnfpB)
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It was totally an artifact of the Microarmor stat line and the "Open selection" based on points.
Whenever historical gamers lecture me on why Warhammer 40k is unrealistic, I point out that I've faced every Puma ever built. Twice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:56 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 14, 2025 11:56 PM (cnfpB)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (Ezs10)
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (3ek7K)
https://mol.im/a/14812295
Castrate.
Posted by: Ciampino
That’s too nice. Feed them to starving wild pigs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
The thing about it i noticed right away is the sheer size of the ship and the obvious power of its (3) 3x16" turrets, and its batteries of 5" and 1.1" guns, and 20mm AA automatic weapons.
And, of course, the resplendent display of Japanese flags it had on it's hull.
But once I got below decks I noticed the quality of the work. Every one of millions of welds done beautifully, and burnished to a shine. Racks of sensitive equipment for electromechanical targeting in perfect alignment. Galleys and laundry facilities and print shops built to spec, and to withstand the most adverse conditions.
Truly impressive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2025 11:58 PM (BI5O2)
Nurse, yep and force feed the assholes a couple pounds of bacon before they "meet" the pigs.
Posted by: four seasons at June 14, 2025 11:59 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2025 11:59 PM (+qU29)
https://mol.im/a/14812295
Castrate.
Posted by: Ciampino - from the mad ROP at June 14, 2025 11:55 PM (sPQoU)
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Hang 'em high.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
*******
Only after they've been stripped naked, smeared with porcine pheromone and tied to mounting blocks.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 15, 2025 12:00 AM (Ezs10)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 14, 2025 11:55 PM (D7oie)
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Impressive, particularly the waste-disposal. How did you get everything clean at the outset?
Posted by: Ciampino - need --- invention at June 15, 2025 12:00 AM (sPQoU)
Unless the battleship staff is a bunch of completist masochists.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:00 AM (cnfpB)
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2025 11:45 PM (E0p3T)
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A lot of soldiers collected tramp stamps. Very risky hobby.
One might attract a dependasaurus.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 14, 2025 11:54 PM (ZOv7s)
*pouts*
Posted by: Tim aWalz at June 15, 2025 12:01 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Feeling Down at June 15, 2025 12:02 AM (G5+As)
Hello love!
It was a beautiful day here on the beach. High of 60 something. Sunny. Not too many folks on the beach, I guess they were out protesting.
Nonetheless. Wonderful day. Got my 14,000 steps in!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2025 12:02 AM (mT+6a)
(If you'd like to be hanged from a construction crane.)
Posted by: mnw at June 15, 2025 12:02 AM (kd60y)
Truly impressive.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2025 11:58 PM (BI5O2)
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Today's parade is about returning to that level of professionalism. It isn't just cashing a check, it's something deeper. That is what we are trying to get back.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 15, 2025 12:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2025 11:35 PM (VofaG)
Kaufman County murders. Guy was the Justice of the peace. Caught stealing and fired. He killed one prosecutor and another prosecutor and his wife.
At first they thought it was hits by the Aryan Brotherhood but a tip led them to Eric Lyle Williams.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:02 AM (VofaG)
https://mol.im/a/14812295
Castrate.
Posted by: Ciampino
That’s too nice. Feed them to starving wild pigs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
Can't you just find a really big wood chipper???
Posted by: starving wild pigs at June 15, 2025 12:03 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Tim aWalz at June 15, 2025 12:01 AM (ULPxl)
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Is there anything more pathetic than an incel soldier?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 15, 2025 12:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:03 AM (cnfpB)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 15, 2025 12:04 AM (XjTSo)
Suspended Sentence: One where the prisoner is hanged (Robert Meyers)
Posted by: Ciampino - need more puns at June 15, 2025 12:04 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:05 AM (cnfpB)
https://mol.im/a/14812295
Castrate.
Posted by: Ciampino - from the mad ROP at June 14, 2025 11:55 PM (sPQoU
Execute their entire families in front of them. Televise it..
Maybe next year.....
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 12:05 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 14, 2025 11:42 PM (Ezs10)
My favorite is a yellow cooking plum that I think is a peshore that make fantastic canned fruit, fruit tortes and wonderful prunes, but I have some other yellow plums that make a fantastic jam.
Oh, and I have two sprouted peach seedlings. I have no idea what they are but I may have fruit from them soon. I am running out of yard
Posted by: Kindltot at June 15, 2025 12:05 AM (D7oie)
And now we are have trouble finding welders for the shipyards. It’s one of the causes in the delay of building the long ago ordered submarines.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:05 AM (VofaG)
https://mol.im/a/14812295
Castrate.
Posted by: Ciampino
That’s too nice. Feed them to starving wild pigs.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
Can't you just find a really big wood chipper???
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-_I_KOSEJs
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 15, 2025 12:06 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
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Whoa. We do have some standards, you know.
Posted by: The wild pigs at June 15, 2025 12:06 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:06 AM (cnfpB)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at
See if you can find a gamma goat.
You tell the admiring throng that it eas originally made for the show "Space 1999".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 15, 2025 12:06 AM (/lPRQ)
Be glad for that. Around here if the elk don't destroy the tree before it can grow the squirrels will make a point of taking a bite of every piece of fruit they can reach.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 15, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok)
This is interesting. Decompression sickness was first called "caisson disease", as that was where it first encountered, pressurized caissons keeping water out for construction.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 14, 2025 11:46 PM (w6EFb)
As I recall it was a major factor in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 15, 2025 12:08 AM (e15Ap)
Maybe next year.....
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now
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This they understand.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 15, 2025 12:08 AM (/lPRQ)
Returning dignity, purpose, and "specialness" to an institution like the military is an obvious part of restoring it.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:08 AM (1m82a)
I give you the Williams Anti-Tank vehicle. Thing looks more at home being part of the original Star Wars trilogy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:08 AM (cnfpB)
That phrase was heard from CHRISTIAN revolutionaries in 1775-1783, spoken as "No king but Jesus!"
Also, it was actually aimed at real kings, not spoken with a forked tongue by those who would place us under a technocracy (and have already succeeded in doing so) whose word would be law.
I think we should fight back with our own protests, with the slogan "No godless commies!" And we need signs showing our snake biting Mexican "patriots" and guys in black bloc outfits.
Posted by: GWB at June 15, 2025 12:09 AM (KoK5d)
https://mol.im/a/14812295
Castrate.
Posted by: Ciampino
Honestly, did they need a reason other than they were muslims?
Posted by: GWB at June 15, 2025 12:10 AM (KoK5d)
LA protest was declared an unlawful assembly today after the assholes were throwing bricks, concrete and shooting off commercial fireworks at the police.
One witch, with crying burning eyes said "we just came here to support our people and now we're being teargassed for it.
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:10 AM (3ek7K)
There will be a scramble to restore shipbuilding and the short-term expedient will be help from South Korea and possibly Japan. Sort of poetic when looked at in a 70-year perspective, but anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:11 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at
See if you can find a gamma goat.
You tell the admiring throng that it eas originally made for the show "Space 1999".
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The Gamma Goat does give off that Seventies SF vibe, doesn't it? Must be why I always sort of liked it even though it didn't have a big gun.
Speaking of military SF association, the doggo style robots got a big cheer. We're gonna have frickin' Terminators in the 260th anniversary parade, I just know it!
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 15, 2025 12:11 AM (XjTSo)
Somali Institute of Chinese Studies
@Somali_ICS
36m
Netanyahu is no more! His days of unchecked power are finished. His days of running #TelAviv are done. He is not coming back from Cyprus. His own cabinet won't let him. His own settlers won't let him. The rules-based order system won't. A little face saving, maybe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 15, 2025 12:11 AM (6dYPy)
Sec Def slowed production on it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:06 AM (cnfpB)
The Virginia class subs.,the delays happened long before Trump administration DOD questions.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:11 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:12 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:12 AM (cnfpB)
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 15, 2025 12:12 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: GWB
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"No godless commies!"
Or tyrants in black dresses who choose to ignore the meaning of simple words, like "district".
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 15, 2025 12:13 AM (/lPRQ)
I’ve been saying for over a decade that we need to replace half of the college prep high schools with trade schools.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:14 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2025 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
Whenever the Russian troops encounter a feral hog in Ukraine, they do their best to shoot it, then let it lie.
Why, you may ask, do the Russians pass up the chance for some yummy roast pork to supplement their rations?
It's because the fleeing Ukrainian soldiers often are forced to abandon their unburied dead. Sometimes the hogs get there before the Russians do.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 15, 2025 12:14 AM (UJD2L)
Posted by: azjaeger at June 15, 2025 12:16 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: raimondo at June 15, 2025 12:16 AM (5VJeo)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 15, 2025 12:17 AM (lUFok)
Kindltot, that reminds me of something from years ago.
BF (at the time) came home from the job with a shovelful of dirt that had 2 tree sprouts in it. He was *so* excited, saying "Look! Look, I got you these 2 baby peach trees! They were growing under our client's peach tree and he said I could dig them up." And so we potted them. (Had just bought a house, so wasn't sure where they should go.) He LOVED peaches!
Anyway, I took good care of them even after BF passed away. It would've broken his heart to find out that they were cherry trees after all.
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 12:17 AM (rdVOm)
There will be a scramble to restore shipbuilding and the short-term expedient will be help from South Korea and possibly Japan. Sort of poetic when looked at in a 70-year perspective, but anyway.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:11 AM (1m82a)
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Try South Africa, many competent people there, not just farmers.
Posted by: Ciampino - need more puns? at June 15, 2025 12:17 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:17 AM (cnfpB)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:18 AM (1m82a)
Mrs D said something I had not considered. This was America's first big parade since 1991. Half of America has never seen a parade like this. It gave them an opportunity to experience it, to see that it's ok to be proud of our Army, and to proud of America. This is a good feeling.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:18 AM (W/lyH)
Why, you may ask, do the Russians pass up the chance for some yummy roast pork to supplement their rations?
It's because the fleeing Ukrainian soldiers often are forced to abandon their unburied dead. Sometimes the hogs get there before the Russians do.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Ahhh.
Probably ridden Uke parasites.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 15, 2025 12:18 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: mikeski at June 15, 2025 12:18 AM (DgGvY)
Keep wishing retardant. That was blue on blue murder. You commies always end up killing each other.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:18 AM (VofaG)
That is the narrative the media is pushing. He had a hit list.
So is he room temperature or is he still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:19 AM (cnfpB)
Posted by: Ciampino - need more puns? at June 15, 2025 12:20 AM (sPQoU)
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Posted by: rhomboid
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Slipped his mind that Trump is paying for it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 15, 2025 12:21 AM (6dYPy)
Diogenes,
Hubby and I had an awesome time watching the parade.
He teared up because he wishes he wasn't old now because he would love to be back in the Army.
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:21 AM (3ek7K)
Born in the USA is a hate song. He got lucky people just paid attention to the title.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:22 AM (VofaG)
Whoa. We do have some standards, you know.
Posted by: The wild pigs at June 15, 2025 12:06 AM (ZOv7s)
Can't you just find a really big wood chipper???
Posted by: starving wild pigs at June 15, 2025 12:03 AM (ULPxl)
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You're starving and these kind humans are offering you up some food. Be thankful and feast until you're full.
Besides, wood chippers are messy and we have a reputation of cleaning up every last scrap.
Posted by: Porkus, the D&D Pig God at June 15, 2025 12:22 AM (026f8)
And I still distinctly remember several acquaintances/friends at the time, their visceral disdain and annoyance at it all. Just ignorant narrow-minded historically illiterate unworldly "educated" people. The kind dragging the country down in every way for decades.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:23 AM (1m82a)
raimondo farted in here
Posted by: gKWVE at June 15, 2025 12:23 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Ciampino - need --- invention at June 15, 2025 12:00 AM (sPQoU)
It is a one HP Insinkerator that I bought brand new, and I run gallons of water through it afterwards to clean it. It has only ever had fruit through it, and it gets tenderly stored away at the end of each season
Posted by: Kindltot at June 15, 2025 12:24 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2025 12:24 AM (cnfpB)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:24 AM (1m82a)
@Somali_ICS
36m
Netanyahu is no more! His days of unchecked power are finished. His days of running #TelAviv are done. He is not coming back from Cyprus. His own cabinet won't let him. His own settlers won't let him. The rules-based order system won't. A little face saving, maybe.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 15, 2025 12:11 AM (6dYPy)
Man, when I want accurate news, the Somali Institute of Chinese Studies is my go-to source!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 12:24 AM (on8Xq)
He's a liability to them now. If he's not rapidly cooling under six inches of dirt already he will be soon.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 15, 2025 12:24 AM (lUFok)
He teared up because he wishes he wasn't old now because he would love to be back in the Army.
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:21 AM (3ek7K)
Heh. I had to tell Mrs D we needed to dust here a couple of times.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:25 AM (W/lyH)
Somalis and Chinese. At first I thought what a strange connection then I realized both groups want the same thing, which is to destroy our Country.
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:25 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:18 AM (VofaG)
Assassin's still on the run. Maybe he'll find raimondo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 12:26 AM (on8Xq)
Miramar's been very active lately. Shop is close to the base and the F-35s swing around just north doing touch n' gos. Suckas are very noisy (compared to F-18s). I was sitting outside on their porch trying to hear a news channel's audio (war news) and could only do so intermittently.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:27 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2025 12:28 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 14, 2025 10:51 PM (uef1E)
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Tim Walz isn't done blowing him yet
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 15, 2025 12:28 AM (Ux3xW)
MomoCon shared the convention center with a robotics con this year.
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See anything cool?
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 15, 2025 12:29 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 12:30 AM (on8Xq)
And I still distinctly remember several acquaintances/friends at the time, their visceral disdain and annoyance at it all. Just ignorant narrow-minded historically illiterate unworldly "educated" people. The kind dragging the country down in every way for decades.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:23 AM (1m82a)
Yeah. Met a few of those folks myself over the years. Best counter is to live well and laufrh at them.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:31 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:32 AM (VofaG)
Was aboard the New Jersey when she was brought out for Vietnam. Open house here at North Island. I recall I was the same height as the display 16-in projectile they had on the deck, which gives an idea of my age. I remember the teak decks were among the things that most hit me as a kid.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:33 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:34 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:34 AM (XTfpx)
Are you okay though??
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:34 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 12:35 AM (on8Xq)
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 12:36 AM (+qU29)
Man, when I want accurate news, the Somali Institute of Chinese Studies is my go-to source!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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They are a straight up Chinese propaganda op.
http://tiny.cc/pwym001
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2025 12:36 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:37 AM (3ek7K)
Sounds like a good smoke to enjoy along with one of the sounds of freedom...albeit some noisy bastards.
I've not picked out a stick for tomorrow yet. I need to rummage through the humidor and see what's in there. I think there is a Partagas Series D in there somewhere...
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:37 AM (W/lyH)
Actually following pretty closely. Losses, but seems to be going well. I know more than I want the world to know about operations in Iran, but unavoidable I suppose.
I do think Israeli officials should stop teasing that Iran is facing, to use the mullah's stupid tired formulation, "the gates of hell" in response to missile attacks on Israel. Just do your worst, you should anyway, it's all about neutralizing the threat and hoping for regime change before it can be restored.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:37 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: gKWVE at June 15, 2025 12:37 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:27 AM (1m82a)
Have the F-35s been battle tested yet? By us or any other country that flies them?
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:37 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 15, 2025 12:38 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: muldoon at June 15, 2025 12:39 AM (/iMjX)
Ramping up a technical skills training effort on an emergency basis seems like a no-brainer. It's been done before, sort of a similar effort, through major contractors, who already have a cadre of experienced people.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:40 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:34 AM (3ek7K)
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Sleep deprived 2 days now. Yesterday made up for it with a 2 hour afternoon sleep but my head feels like mush again. 7:40AM now. I'm usually here around 1.5 hours earlier.
All's well with us personally. One hit over the last few days in central Israel was too close to one of our pup's family. All were properly sheltered.
A little on topic, by koinkadinky, I opened a new bottle of Buffalo Trace just yesterday.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:40 AM (XTfpx)
I got a bunch of cool 4K footage from the USS North Carolina, too. At some point I'll cut it together.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Do they allow people into the engine room?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2025 12:40 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 12:35 AM (on8Xq)
We need my trade schools to replace a lot of high schools idea so we can implement your idea.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:41 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:41 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:37 AM (1m82a)
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Why would I disagree?!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:42 AM (XTfpx)
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 12:43 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:43 AM (1m82a)
A reply is sent
It may answer the question
Or perhaps it won't.
Haiku is easier than limericks.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:45 AM (W/lyH)
Have the F-35s been battle tested yet? By us or any other country that flies them?
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:37 AM (VofaG)
They are extremely effective in the current operation.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 15, 2025 12:46 AM (e15Ap)
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:41 AM (1m82a)
I still can’t believe we stopped making F-22s and destroyed the production machinery.
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:46 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: pjungwir at June 15, 2025 12:46 AM (q4wrI)
Good evening, all. I find it rather surprising that Boelter hasn't been found yet, dead or alive.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 12:47 AM (wbZPZ)
Electrical grid in Iran is s**t and unstable already, taking it out would be child's play (soft kills, or control rooms, for easier restoration post-festivities).
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:47 AM (1m82a)
I recall reading "Hotel" by Arthur Hailey (an author whose specialty was fictional books featuring how insiders deal with disasters, like "Airport" in case you're younger than 29). "Hotel" featured a young psycho who burns the hotel down.
Anyway, he's at this resort or whatever, and he sees that his mother shaves her pubes so she'll look like a child down there and it's portrayed as sick.
Frankly, it is kinda sick IMHO. Not that I judge anyone nowadays.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 15, 2025 12:47 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 12:47 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:48 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:46 AM (VofaG)
Well, I mean, why would we need the tooling for the best, most effective and dominant air to air fighter ever made?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 15, 2025 12:48 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:40 AM (XTfpx)
How ironic!
So did I!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:48 AM (W/lyH)
There’s a need to build a 1 mile road in DC and the guy in charge of that is taking bids. Contractor from Mississippi bids $1M. DC thinks well that’s reasonable. Then a contractor from California bids $2M. DC guy thinks well that’s more expansive but maybe he’s more experienced. Finally a contractor from Chicago bids $5M. Guy in charge is incredulous. How can you be so much more expensive.
Chicago guy says, here’s how it works. You hire me for $5M. I hire Mississippi guy for $1M and we split the $4M profit.
Deal, says DC guy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 15, 2025 12:48 AM (/CkK4)
It's on the very long list of things I still cannot believe actually happened.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 15, 2025 12:48 AM (1m82a)
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 12:43 AM (+qU29)
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See previous comment. For me, OK. Invited pups to move in with us.
Right now, drones have been heading in up north for about the last hour. But those are relatively easy to handle.
Seems like there are people missing, trapped or buried in one hit area in central Israel from last night.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:50 AM (XTfpx)
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:50 AM (3ek7K)
Good to hear from you! I’d send you a half dozen bottles of Buffalo Trace given half a chance!
You have done a lot for friends of the horde. And I thank you for it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2025 12:51 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 12:47 AM (wbZPZ)
Well, seems like he fled on foot from the murder scene, after a shootout with the cops. Either he had a confederate with another car waiting to pick him up, or he carjacked some poor bastard who is now dead, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 12:51 AM (on8Xq)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:40 AM (XTfpx)
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How
So did I!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:48 AM (W/lyH)
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FIFY
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:53 AM (XTfpx)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:54 AM (W/lyH)
I am jealous of your steps, and especially your weather. My dew point and humidity are almost 20 degrees higher than your air temps!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 15, 2025 12:54 AM (Ezs10)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2025 12:51 AM (mT+6a)
/autodialing SAC red phone number
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:55 AM (XTfpx)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 15, 2025 12:55 AM (e15Ap)
So did I!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:48 AM (W/lyH)
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FIFY
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:53 AM (XTfpx)
***
*lifts glass*
Clunk!
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:55 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:54 AM (W/lyH)
They were scheduled?
Posted by: polynikes at June 15, 2025 12:55 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 12:55 AM (on8Xq)
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 12:56 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 15, 2025 12:51 AM (mT+6a)
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Sigh. Everyone should be and get well.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 12:57 AM (XTfpx)
They were canceled because thunderstorms were expected.
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:57 AM (3ek7K)
They were canceled because thunderstorms were expected.
Posted by: four seasons at June 15, 2025 12:57 AM (3ek7K)
Don't want to take a chance of damaging one. They aren't making more.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 15, 2025 12:58 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: muldoon at June 15, 2025 12:58 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 12:59 AM (+qU29)
Might just record the effects I need, make get have to pick up a 4 track recorder, like a Tascam DR something or another.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 15, 2025 01:02 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 01:02 AM (XTfpx)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 12:54 AM (W/lyH)
They were scheduled?
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The Kid would gladly skip a parade flyby if he finally got a real chance to make an intercept!
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at June 15, 2025 01:02 AM (XjTSo)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 15, 2025 01:02 AM (XV/Pl)
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Whoa, what kind of app you building?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:02 AM (wbZPZ)
Probably realized an anti-American album wouldn't sell huge in 1984 so calculated with the flag and jeans cover most people wouldn't listen closely to the lyrics and the lyrics would make the lefty critics happy and he would still get the $$$$$$. After the touring for the album was over he basically told his long term loyal band they were on their own and completely changed the sound.
Posted by: azjaeger at June 15, 2025 01:04 AM (3/XaG)
Great News! My 2 stoplight has a McDonalds! My late Mother and I were so excited. We didn't eat fast food much but would end up driving to the next towns and cities for Arbys or A&W.
Tough day. My friend went at 10pm to get me a 6 pack, Big Mac, fries and chicken nuggets. I am a good friend too. Brought him to a nearby city to pick up a rental car. Bringing him back Monday. We have all been amazing friends to each other in horrible times.
My living situation has been jacked around by my brother for 5 months since Mom died. I never wanted more than 50% despite taking care of them for years into their 80's and 90's.
I figured he'd give me a year to get my caregiver life together. Nope. Twice he cancelled my living situation and threatened to sue me out of the house. I only took care of our elderly parents for 14 years. Classy.
Ben Had in another thread had it right. He feels guilty on some level.
But he came to pick something up today. We were supposed to be done. I let him in the house, still partly in his name, let him grab his crap and spend time crying in Mom's room I went for a walk.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 01:05 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Diogenes
Emerald Isle verse
always ribald and funny
Japanese don't rhyme
Posted by: mikeski at June 15, 2025 01:06 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 15, 2025 01:07 AM (w6EFb)
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Horizontall or vertical?
Posted by: muldoon
Vertical makes you horizontal, while horizontal might leave you vertical.
Posted by: mikeski at June 15, 2025 01:07 AM (DgGvY)
>>"I still can’t believe we stopped making F-22s and destroyed the production machinery."
It’s of a piece with, I can’t believe we left 100B dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan.
Destroying the machinery means the government will have to fork out the dough for new designs which means new machinery and processes and cash to make it all happen.
As someone opined, it’s not that there is corruption in the system, the system is corruption.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 15, 2025 01:07 AM (XV/Pl)
I've heard that you should never take melatonin
I could eat a whole bottle of that stuff and it won't even make me yawn.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2025 01:09 AM (63Dwl)
And throw in the fact that the "evil Jews" are tearing them up at will AND at least as we know so far not wiping out many "normal" Iranians the mullahs probably aren't looking too good
Posted by: azjaeger at June 15, 2025 01:10 AM (3/XaG)
>>Whoa, what kind of app you building?
The main thing I am writing is an ERP application, that’s about a year off before I will have an mvp candidate.
As I am learning and building different aspects of it, it’s spinning of test projects that I’m turning into utility apps that I intend to put on the App Store to get my feet wet in publishing apps.
I do not expect to make a dime, maybe a nickel off of these apps. Making money is not the point right now, just getting the experience.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 15, 2025 01:13 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:14 AM (wbZPZ)
I am still in the experiment process with it.
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 01:16 AM (+qU29)
MeTV is running the very first episode of "Lost in Space" now. Dr. Smith started out as more evil character than the comical one he became later on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 15, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 15, 2025 01:13 AM (XV/Pl)
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FASSScinating. May I ask, what is the need for sophisticated audio?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:20 AM (wbZPZ)
I came in and called for him. No answer. Went upstairs. Not there.
I actually hoped in my heart that he tried to teach me a lesson and hung himself in the basement. No such luck. I started going downstairs and he was coming up.
He told me have a good life in a bitchy way. I told him the truth which I was going to take to my grave not to hurt him. But I didn't imagine him being like this. Mom and Dad would both be so disappointed in him.
But Mom pretty much stopped talking on Monday. She dropped fast. People who were talking to her on Friday were coming into the room shocked she was almost gone.
But on Wednesday, one of Mom's friends came into the palliative care room. I was leaving to give them time together. Mom called out my name over and over.
I told that to Steve. I have no regrets. Dad and I were great. Mom and I were amazing. We told each other to have a good life. He cracked saying he never wanted to hurt me.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 01:21 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 15, 2025 01:22 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: publius
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Danger, Will Robinson!
Posted by: Robbie at June 15, 2025 01:23 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 01:25 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2025 01:25 AM (W/lyH)
Well, I can't get MeTV, but I do have Hulu and now I've turned on Episode 1 of Lost in Space. lol the supertitle says October 1997.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:27 AM (wbZPZ)
I think this exchange did you both good. If you can salvage a relationship, great. But don't feel guilty if you can't, or don't care to.
Don't hang on to bitterness or anger, but don't let guilt overrule your instincts about what is best for your mental health.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 15, 2025 01:27 AM (Ezs10)
Given the number of different rum labels I saw on that tour, there is likely ZERO difference between brands of rum.
Posted by: JB1000 at June 15, 2025 01:27 AM (+i0FF)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2025 01:30 AM (+qU29)
Good lord, DOCTOR MAUREEN ROBINSON, they're both astrophysicists and they still raised that utterly stupid girl "Penny" with her dog's name. IQ 147? She never used it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:32 AM (wbZPZ)
If things work out, it'll cost me about $55,000 to stay in the house for 2 years while I get my life together.
Caregiving sucks.
His car was in the driveway then the street for about 10 minutes. I think my brother was simulating human emotion.
Finally left. He has a cunt wife which I was apparently always correct about. His kids are good but they all LOATHE me, so I no longer have any immediate family.
But the cat Snowflake stolen in May is back! So Mom gone in January, Uncle Leonard in February, hard drive and Microsoft account in March, Trumpy stolen in April, Snowflake stolen in May and I lost the rest of my family this month. But Snowflake is back.
And I have friends I am determined to take care of.
And a few beers and classic 'Twilight Zone' episodes on.
And the cat and dog inside.
Tomorrow is a rest day. We have a rental to return on Monday.
Good night all.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 01:34 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:32 AM (wbZPZ)
Clearly adopted...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at June 15, 2025 01:35 AM (bA75n)
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I saw an interview with him somewhere- maybe on Bannon? Where he said "Sure, I know where they are-they are all in 8th grade. So figure out how to get them". Seems true. I've spent a lot of time around the gulf coast this year and there are billboards everywhere about shipbuilding companies hiring. If I was in my 20s again I'd do that in an instant.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at June 15, 2025 01:41 AM (BZ0MM)
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 01:46 AM (rdVOm)
Don't hang on to bitterness or anger, but don't let guilt overrule your instincts about what is best for your mental health.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 15, 2025 01:27 AM (Ezs10)
Thanks. I'm good.
I think others, Ben Had?, on another thread called it right. My mother had 4 brothers. That I like and care about! One is a Marine still working in his mid 80s, one in the Army and my favorite because he is pissed off as most of us---- he jokes---I think Coast Guard.
And then we had my Uncle Pete. Polio as a kid. Always walked with a cane. Worked as an orderly in a hospital at a job he loathed. And took care of Grandpa when he was dying of lung cancer and Bousha...Grandma...in her old age too.
Dude was Batman. FREAKING SERIOUSLY. BATMAN.
But I have never heard any of my uncles express any appreciation for him.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 01:49 AM (jvJvP)
Billy Mummy is the one I find really annoying.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 15, 2025 01:51 AM (w6EFb)
Bless you for being there for your parents, Stateless.
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
Clearly adopted...
Posted by: Joe Kidd
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Will Robinson is a pro-Wesley Crusher. As I recall, there's an early episode where the robot is on some deadly mission and Will distracts it by challenging it to a game of 3-D chess.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:52 AM (wbZPZ)
MeTV is running the very first episode of "Lost in Space" now. Dr. Smith started out as more evil character than the comical one he became later on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 15, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb
More child rapey in episode 1?
"Danger Will Robinson! Danger!"
Penny was my first crush......
Btw
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 01:53 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 01:54 AM (wbZPZ)
You've got this. Just get to the point where you simply don't care!
I'm so glad Snowflake is back, and that you once again do not have a cat! 😁
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 15, 2025 01:57 AM (Ezs10)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Billy Mummy played "Lennier", a Minbari, in the Babylon 5 TV series.
Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at June 15, 2025 01:58 AM (tjZg/)
*pours a double of "brown"*
To Vic. RIP, and thanks for all the news!
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
I've heard that you should never take melatonin
I could eat a whole bottle of that stuff and it won't even make me yawn.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2025 01:09 AM (63Dwl)
I'm really not proud of my sleep routine for the last 8 months or so. Melatonin, Super Sleep .... Costco, zzzQuil, booze and cannibus edibles.
I have 5000 hours of meditation under my belt. Thankfully or I'd be really messed up.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:04 AM (jvJvP)
Sci-fi Saturday night on MeTV is basically Irwin Allen appreciation night. Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, and Time Tunnel.
He pioneered the technique used in Star Trek TOS of shaking the camera while having the cast grab on to something and throw themselves back and forth to simulate the ship/submarine/airplane being buffeted. He used that in the "meteor storm" scene here in E1 of Lost in Space.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 15, 2025 02:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 01:52 AM (rdVOm)
It WAS my pleasure.
I am concerned about my immediate future but I have no regrets.
Not too bad.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:08 AM (jvJvP)
Generally, I just read until my eyes are tired.
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
My father, who served for 30 years, would have loved to have seen it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 15, 2025 02:08 AM (2Rbgs)
Generally, I just read until my eyes are tired.
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm
I have to do that too.
Or learn the techniques pilots use to fall asleep at the drop of a Kleenex.
Oh, I am up amd typing so Snowflake is downstairs on her cat bed. And not coming to sleep with me and the dog every 1.5 hours....
Which will make the natural approach a tiny more difficult.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:14 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 15, 2025 02:20 AM (on8Xq)
Posted by: JQ
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In my case, that may go on until it is getting light outside.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 15, 2025 02:23 AM (XeU6L)
Now that it's warmer, he stops by for some rubbys during the day, and sleeps in either a patio chair or the large flower pot. Crazy critter.
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
I'm so glad Snowflake is back, and that you once again do not have a cat! 😁
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 15, 2025 01:57 AM (Ezs10)
Thanks. I don't give a crap about my brother or his spawn. Or the bitch.
My friends across the street have been more than family for us. Oldest child always would come over and ask "How's Rose?" Tons of art. Lunches! Parades. Concerts!
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:25 AM (jvJvP)
Ice bin is full, mixers are in that cooler to the left of it...
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 02:27 AM (mP0Kj)
My father, who served for 30 years, would have loved to have seen it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 15, 2025 02:08 AM (2Rbgs)
I'm waiting for October 13... which will be the 250 for the US Navy
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 02:29 AM (mP0Kj)
Now that it's warmer, he stops by for some rubbys during the day, and sleeps in either a patio chair or the large flower pot. Crazy critter.
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm
I tried keeping Snowflake and Trumpy in through Canadian Winter. One cold for us!!
Minus 17 degrees Celcius and they still wanted outside. That pissed me off. Snowflake seems mostly indoors now.....
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:29 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 02:29 AM (mP0Kj
I looked up WW2 Navy stats. Pretty shocking until you realise there was no real retreat options....
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:32 AM (jvJvP)
I'm waiting for October 13... which will be the 250 for the US Navy
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 02:29 AM (mP0Kj)
I’m waiting for September 18, 2197.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 15, 2025 02:32 AM (2Rbgs)
Don't need to feed him much lately, he's been pigging out on vermin. Good kitty! Hmm. Need to check him for worms, probably.
Ok, really good night now!
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 02:35 AM (rdVOm)
the "meteor storm" scene here in E1 of Lost in Space.
Posted by: publius
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Gee, if only we'd thought of meteors. Otherwise, the supersophisticated, 40-years-in-the-making Jupiter II wouldn't have been smushed 5 minutes into its 200-year mission.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 02:40 AM (wbZPZ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 02:27 AM (mP0Kj)
We could call President Trump something else.
I suggest 'Father Trump Protector.' Let heads explode.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:40 AM (jvJvP)
Baby, we were born to scamper in our mobility scooters!
*ding* *ding* *ding*
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 15, 2025 02:41 AM (xIkyh)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 15, 2025 02:41 AM (sAmhv)
For sinuses try a NeilMed nose rinse solution.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:44 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 15, 2025 02:45 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 15, 2025 02:40 AM (wbZPZ)
Obama once set NASA's priorities as Muslim outreach.
A rocket blew up gloriously.
Mission accomplished.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:47 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at June 15, 2025 02:48 AM (NXz8h)
I'm done.
Thanks for the therapy.
Ralphy, my dog is on the floor. My friends' cat is sleeping in my bed. I'm sleeping in tomorrow. May as well until I know what is happening with the house.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:52 AM (jvJvP)
A rocket blew up gloriously.
Mission accomplished.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:47 AM (jvJvP)
Insh'allah.
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 02:53 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 15, 2025 02:45 AM (sAmhv)
I am getting kick ass returns on all of my Meatloaf CD's...
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 02:54 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 02:53 AM (gKDq2)
Which really should make us think.
Savages like this. Maintenance is an issue with them. The library system is lacking books on Victorious Islamic Strategies and Victories.
If we really wanted peacr, it would take what? Three years to completely break them?
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:00 AM (jvJvP)
While I enjoy these early "golden age" sci-fi series with their cheesy SFX and "monster of the week" stories and such, it does annoy me how the writers can't even be bothered to get what should be middle-school level understanding of astronomy and space.
For example, tonight, a controller called the White House to report that the Jupiter, due to engaging its "hyperdrive" willy-nilly, was now "out of our galaxy" and hopelessly lost in space. Well, champ, the Galaxy is a big place indeed. It was going to take them 5 years to get to Alpha Centauri, which is relatively near, and nothing compared to the Milky Way Galaxy's diameter.
You can generally substitute "solar system" for their usage of "galaxy". And then, early on, trying to mimic "rocket tech talk" they'd likely heard from real launches of the day, they reported the Jupiter II was a "maximum dynamic pressure". The scene showed the ship well out in space. No, champ writer, max dynamic pressure occurs very low in the atmosphere, where it is still thick. It increases with speed, but decreases with density. The max occurs pretty low.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 15, 2025 03:01 AM (w6EFb)
I remember being in grade 8 and explaining the difference between galaxy and universe to a very smart female classmate.
Not a great way to try to score....
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:05 AM (jvJvP)
Found it on BB's Top 20, which today, for some reason, are screen caps instead of embedded X posts:
https://tinyurl.com/bdercdk5
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 03:11 AM (EKfGo)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 02:53 AM (gKDq2)
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Which really should make us think.
Savages like this. Maintenance is an issue with them. The library system is lacking books on Victorious Islamic Strategies and Victories.
If we really wanted peacr, it would take what? Three years to completely break them?
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:00 AM (jvJvP)
One, of among many reasons, why Japanese ships fared worse than ours in battle was on-board fire suppression. Our ships were drilled in that, the Japanese not so much. Maintenance plus 'shit happens' drills. I don't see that happening when everything is fate in a god's hands. No resposibility for fallure. No wonder the Dems are in love with muzzie invasions.
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2)
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And CHYNEEZ. DataRepublican is right:
https://tinyurl.com/mpashtxc
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 03:15 AM (EKfGo)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2
Well 2024 election results didn't have them crying Insh'allah.
Hopefully 2026 and 2028 will be even more painful and make them ask why allah hates them.
It's late. I have a few beers left. I could help the Dems answer why allah hates them now, but let's see if they figure it out.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:16 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2)
US Navy was based on damage control, and fire suppression... which is why things like the LSD burning to the water line? makes us old Salts reallllllyyyy suspicious as to what the hell is going on in the Navy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 03:17 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2
Iran must be an exciting place to live now.
I'm pretty sure they are not up on "shit happens" drills.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:19 AM (jvJvP)
I'm pretty sure they are not up on "shit happens" drills.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:19 AM (jvJvP)
Old and busted: May you live in interesting times....
New Hotness: FA FO
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 03:24 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:28 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 03:24 AM (mP0Kj)
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IDF just issued warnings to Iranians to run away from anything looking like a weapons manufacturing facility.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 03:33 AM (EKfGo)
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:28 AM (jvJvP)
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That would be when all their first borns drop dead at midnight.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 03:34 AM (EKfGo)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 03:39 AM (EKfGo)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 03:11 AM (gKDq2)
That's really interesting and good to know.
Thank you so much!
Romeo13 too.
I had an uncle by marriage who served in WW2. I think he was on a sub which made me interested in this horrible topic.
You çan't retreat from a sub.
.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:43 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 15, 2025 03:34 AM (EKfGo)
Insh'allah.
Let's do the first ten, if allah wills it.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:45 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: JQ at June 15, 2025 01:58
Seconded JQ. His news was great as were the tales of the neighbor borrowing some brown.
National Bourbon Day, my Dad celebrated that about every day the past few yrs. After the covid shutdown let up he developed a routine of stopping by several establishments in the afternoon and having "just one" before eating supper and heading home.
But since his drink was bourbon on the rocks, light on the ice, his one was more like 3-4 ounces. He was a sociable guy who missed Mom more as time passed it seemed.
Since he died May 29 I've heard from folks I never heard of about how they enjoyed his company and conversation. RIP Dad, you were the easy to talk to guy that you admired your Dad and Uncle Warren for being.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 15, 2025 03:46 AM (55Qr6)
I had an uncle by marriage who served in WW2. I think he was on a sub which made me interested in this horrible topic.
You çan't retreat from a sub.
.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:43 AM (jvJvP)
Yeah... damage control is something that is practiced literally every day on a ship, with at least part of the crew, even in port.
I was a Damage Control Locker Leader... one of the few who would be in charge of those efforts... note... most of those lockers were NOT controlled by Officers... but Senior NCOS who had years, if not decades of experience.
A College degree in English or History aint gonna mean shit when there is a hole in yer hull...
Navy used to know that... not sure if it still does.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 03:50 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at June 15, 2025 03:46 AM (55Qr6
I KNOW that doesn't make everything better, but ir helps a bit.
May 29th? That's so soon. I hope all of you are as well as you can be.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:57 AM (jvJvP)
Navy used to know that... not sure if it still does.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 03:50 AM (mP0Kj)
I so know you would have better solutions than trying to plug the holes with tampons...
You should be a consultant!
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 03:59 AM (jvJvP)
I lost the rest of my immediate family yesterday. They HATE me though. And I am up a very fluffy cat which I prefer.
We'll see what happens.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 04:06 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Lirio100 at June 14, 2025 10:46 PM
We have troops on the moon.
Posted by: Dan Driscoll at June 15, 2025 04:12 AM (szqEY)
Navy used to know that... not sure if it still does.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2025 03:50 AM (mP0Kj)
I was never in the service, just a Navy brat from Nahfuk. Being on base(s) a lot growing up (indoor swimming, 8-lane bowling, etc.), there were two things I remember. One was the sound of the jets. No matter where you lived in Norfolk, there was the sound of jets overhead, moreso when actually on base. Two was the smell of paint. Somebody was always painting something. A ship's hull in the heat of summer, a handrail in front of a building here, a door on the building over there. The only concession to the heat being the sailors could roll up their light blue denim shirt sleeves. But the painting was constant, along with scraping. Maybe the budget ran out of money for cans of paint.
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 04:12 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 04:12 AM (gKDq2
That's hilarious.
Not entirely the same, by a mile, but my late Mother was a nun for 14 years in Cleveland. It wasn't constant painting BUT they did constant cleaning.
Mom told me she never touched a Bible.Always cleaning.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 04:18 AM (jvJvP)
Those Navy ships in port, along with anything in the port itself, were painted with a strong-smelling oil based paint. There was a lot of salt water moisture around. The need for scraping and painting was/is constant. At least to keep a ship ship-shape. From some of the pics I've seen of USS Rust Buckets in various ports, it's embarrassing.
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 04:26 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at June 15, 2025 04:26 AM (gKDq2
Thank you for that. It's interesting information.
I'd think a steel ship wouldn't need such maintenance.
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 04:31 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless.. 28% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 15, 2025 04:33 AM (jvJvP)
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Worked for me!
Posted by: Foster Brooks at June 15, 2025 08:10 AM (5xuJ/)
An African and an Asian go to college together. Five years later the African visits the Asian in his large, beautiful home with a BMW in the garage.
"My friend, how did you afford this?"
The Asian points in the distance and says, "You see that bridge over there?"
The African says, "Yes."
The Asian smiles, rubs his forefinger and thumbs together and says, "Ten percent."
Five years later the Asian visits the African. He has a palatial estate with a fleet of luxury cars.
"My friend, how did you afford this?"
The African points in the distance and says, "You see that highway over there?"
The Asian says, "No."
The African smiles, rubs his forefinger and thumb together and says, "100 percent."
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