Gentlemen, This Is The ONT Manifest

Welcome to meme day! How about we start with some animal facts?

Fido Friday: Ow, my balls!

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Diplomatic

Camo patterns

What a trooper!

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Americans will use absolutely anything except the metric system

Sweet story with a sad ending

When fish go humaning

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The importance of the Oxford comma

I remember those days. Well. Some of them.

Mess with the bull, you get the horns

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The oysters at the bar the next day were the small ones

Perfect response

Here's a meme referencing a meme

If you don't get it, Google "Democracy manifest".

Shootout

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This happened in Anchorage. Two girls were thrown out of a bar for starting fights. They returned with 2 large men, both “recently arrived” from Somalia. Security spotted them coming and coordinated a response on their radios, which is why one of them goes out to his car to kit up. When the Somali started fighting another security guard, then pulled out a gun and started shooting, the second guard canceled all of his birthdays.

True fact

Urban vs rural

The kids are alright

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Odd, that

Move over Waffle House

Oh no! It's the consequences of my own actions!

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I'm good with it

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by skydiving cats:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 G'evening Horde.

I'll go summon the others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2025 09:59 PM (O7YUW)

2 Every time they look at me they find something new that's haywire with my body. Plainly, medical examination is causing these problems. Stay away from doctors. Drink more water.

Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent at July 25, 2025 09:59 PM (iaVKI)

3 Trump. Badass.

Posted by: admiral spinebender at July 25, 2025 10:00 PM (hftn9)

4 The Democracy Manifesto guy is my hero. Fighting against gestapo tactics.

"Get your hands off my penis, sir!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 10:02 PM (kpS4V)

5 Meow. Over shot the end

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 25, 2025 10:02 PM (w3u3d)

6 Buddy's parents used to grow worms out by the garage.

for fishing

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:03 PM (LWopF)

7 Howdy Horde!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 25, 2025 10:03 PM (P+Pug)

8 willowed:

Compendium of Epoch Times links to its _ 'Spygate' articles.
Must have for fans of the upcoming trials.

https://tinyurl.com/vzv8dsxk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:04 PM (LWopF)

9 Good evening Horde. Thanks WD!

Posted by: TRex - better not to become fish food at July 25, 2025 10:06 PM (cCn4/)

10 Evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 10:06 PM (+qU29)

11 Lots of terrific content! Thank you WD. (Not to be confused with WC - down the hall to the right....)

Thread title reminds me of poster with nic 'gentlemen this is junta manifest' who seemed to disappear after election. Did he change nic? Or simply disappear? Or suffer the banhammer?

Enquiring minds want to know.

Also is Miklos MIA?

Will check back in late tonight....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 25, 2025 10:06 PM (FGcsb)

12 Jeez. That motorcycle story is rough.

Love the ow my balls video

Thanks for the ont.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 10:06 PM (zZu0s)

13 Anyone laying odds on what tankdemon's excuse will be tonight?

Posted by: The Grateful at July 25, 2025 10:07 PM (cCn4/)

14 It's the WeirdeDave ONT. This is the best way to start the weekend!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 25, 2025 10:07 PM (CHHv1)

15 "Get your hands off my penis, sir!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Why?

Posted by: Lindsey! at July 25, 2025 10:08 PM (gKWVE)

16 Favorite camo patterns in Michigan include "Woodland Wendigo" and "Werewolverine".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 10:09 PM (kpS4V)

17 A: The "Oxford comma" bit is right on point. A member of my former writing critique group used to say, "I don't do the oxford comma, don't put that into my critiques." I wish I could show this item to him.

B: The blonde insisting on dinner? Her attitude is such that any sensible man, if he somehow got hornswoggled into taking her out, would excuse himself part way through dinner and take the back way out, leaving her to pay for everything and to get home on her own.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:09 PM (omVj0)

18 BCE?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 10:09 PM (63Dwl)

19 My, what an entitled lirrle judgmental little princess, Sors he use his chiotsticks correctly? He has to pay of course to be studied and judged. I weep for the sucker who marries her. Gives women a bad look. No matter how good she looks naked...No Fucking way. Sorry sweetheart, you have already ruled your self out. I studied you first, and you are an emphatic Hell No.

Posted by: admiral spinebender at July 25, 2025 10:10 PM (hftn9)

20 When frozen egg lady said "We are gonna see your table manners" all I could think was "We? What are you, bringing a chaperone? A emotional support dog? Planning to livestream to your Tiktok followers?"

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (KVJAR)

21 Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (4NjOL)

22 Blonde chick could be making fun of others but it's still funny.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (ULPxl)

23 And I followed the comments on that earlier item about Gen Z employees being useless and difficult. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that any more.

If I do have to apply for a job again, I'm going to emphasize that I come from a cohort of Americans with a real work ethic. Who knows if it'll work, but if the hiring manager is sensible . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (omVj0)

24 B: The blonde insisting on dinner? Her attitude is such that any sensible man, if he somehow got hornswoggled into taking her out, would excuse himself part way through dinner and take the back way out, leaving her to pay for everything and to get home on her own.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Did you watch the second half? That's what all of them did!

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)

25
No-egg lady seems to share an apparently widespread delusion. Men have to prove themselves and have all the boxes checked while women don't have to consider what they bring to the party. That's how you get Women Blubbering in Cars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)

26
B: The blonde insisting on dinner? Her attitude is such that any sensible man, if he somehow got hornswoggled into taking her out, would excuse himself part way through dinner and take the back way out, leaving her to pay for everything and to get home on her own.

I can't help but feel pity for her. It's a devastating thing to find out you won't have kids, no matter how asinine your previous behavior. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Well, maybe Hillary.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)

27 Sorry I'm late, I had to bring Cerebus a doggie treat. I was halfway there when I realized one doggie treat might not suffice.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (dGB1t)

28 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)

29 Sylvester McCoy's "Doctor Who" stories were pretty much all terrible. He could have been a great Doctor, but he had a terrible script editor and composer. And JNT the producer was kind of a p3d0.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)

30 Trump. Badass.
Posted by: admiral spinebender at July 25, 2025 10:00 PM (hftn9)

Now what did he do? Or is this just mentioning his general badassery?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

31 Her attitude is such that any sensible man, if he somehow got hornswoggled into taking her out, would excuse himself part way through dinner and take the back way out, leaving her to pay for everything and to get home on her own.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Maybe Lindsey was right all along

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:13 PM (gKWVE)

32 >>> 23 And I followed the comments on that earlier item about Gen Z employees being useless and difficult. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that any more.

If I do have to apply for a job again, I'm going to emphasize that I come from a cohort of Americans with a real work ethic. Who knows if it'll work, but if the hiring manager is sensible . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (omVj0)

"But we can hire H1Bs or get support staff in India!!!" -- super genius MBAs

I expect remote work will stay under its peak during the woofloo retardry but, long-term it will *not* go away.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 10:14 PM (ULPxl)

33 Welll I had to watch all the great content or I would of been first.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2025 10:15 PM (9Tdlv)

34 Bottom story of the day, so to speak:
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 25, 2025 10:16 PM (p4nXC)

35 *would have

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:16 PM (gKWVE)

36 Sorry I'm late, I had to bring Cerebus a doggie treat. I was halfway there when I realized one doggie treat might not suffice.
Posted by: tankdemon
**********
Only you would have a 3 headed dog....well, maybe not only you, but only you would build it into your excuse...

Posted by: The Grateful at July 25, 2025 10:17 PM (cCn4/)

37
Oxford comma. I use it when I need it but I don't make a fetish of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (HZi96)

38 If the guy was telling the truth about the skydiving psychopath, the jump master and pilot should also have their ass kicked for allowing the psychopath to attempt his experiment.

But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (VofaG)

39 >Every time they look at me they find something new that's haywire with my body.

---

I am marking 2025 as the year my body turned against me

Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (AOsQT)

40 The skydiving cats is actually pretty funny 😁

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 25, 2025 10:19 PM (w3u3d)

41 Commas be important:

Is it;

Pardon impossible, to be executed.

OR

Pardon, impossible to be executed.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)

42 Women should be discerning, but polite. Men should be gentlemen. Cats shouldn’t skydive. None seem to be the rule anymore.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (hlNLQ)

43 You could just switch the positions of the direct objects instead of the Oxford comma.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (VofaG)

44
I had to google "low egg count." Even if thot was married she'd have a problem.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (lCaJd)

45 Sorry I'm late, I had to bring Cerebus a doggie treat. I was halfway there when I realized one doggie treat might not suffice.
Posted by: tankdemon

Good call. Might have wound up like the humaning-fish video, otherwise.

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:21 PM (DgGvY)

46 Perhaps it is my age, but I have never been on a date that was a disaster. Sure, there were many that weren't a match for me (and many where I wasn't a match for her) but none where either one of us was a complete asshoe.

Maybe just lucky I guess.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 10:22 PM (cYBz/)

47 The little boy getting his blood drawn gives me hope for the next generation

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:22 PM (r/nnx)

48 37
Oxford comma. I use it when I need it but I don't make a fetish of it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (HZi96)

They don't seem to fix misplaced or dangling modifiers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

49 You could just switch the positions of the direct objects instead of the Oxford comma.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (VofaG)

Yup. There are better ways to phrase things. I write good and stuff. Allow me to be followed, regarding tips.

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)

50 Honestly, I thought she was pretty and giving decent advice,not particularly obnoxious. Icould see how one could take it as “I’m so pretty/special that you must treat me like a queen.” But that’s not really her message, as I see it. It’s more, “don’t half ass the effort” and “show some manners/decorum” versus a demand for over the top treatment.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (hlNLQ)

51
have you ever come across a long-form post written by some kool kid where there's no capital letters and minimum punctuation? it's hard as hell to read and i never bother getting to the end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)

52 I don’t disagree with the lady on how I think a date should be but it should just be her preference, not a demand. And instead of just enjoying what she laid out she made it like a job interview.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (VofaG)

53 Kid giving blood is going to be Special Forces one day.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (W/lyH)

54 The little boy getting his blood drawn gives me hope for the next generation
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:22 PM (r/nnx)

Right? He powered through like a champ. just do it!!!!

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)

55 Damn "the fatigue" has even reached Alaska.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 25, 2025 10:26 PM (GYGpZ)

56 I went on one date where she was impossibly nervous. That was probably the worst. The others went fine.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (gKWVE)

57 But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (VofaG)

Getting four grown cats into a pillowcase would be a feat in itself.

Now please excuse me, I need to go flick the safety on my Glock on and off.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (49Yi3)

58 Anyone laying odds on what tankdemon's excuse will be tonight?
Posted by: The Grateful

If you had "dogsitting for Hades," pick up your winnings at the window. Otherwise, the pot rolls over to tomorrow's ONT.

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:28 PM (DgGvY)

59 I had the day off, so I went for a hike on a new-to-me trail. It's also new enough that it hasn't been added to any of my mapping apps. I had no trouble following the trail up the hill even though it was just a narrow foot path and not marked at all. However, when I came back down it sorta just... disappeared about half a mile into my return journey. It took close to an hour to find an alternate trail (again, very narrow and barely noticeable), but luckily it dropped me about 1/2 mile from my car. It's been about 20 years since I got disoriented in the woods.

Posted by: PabloD at July 25, 2025 10:28 PM (ZnYKP)

60 I don’t disagree with the lady on how I think a date should be but it should just be her preference, not a demand. And instead of just enjoying what she laid out she made it like a job interview.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (VofaG)

Well, dating is like an interview, isn't it? I couldn't tell if vid number two was the same woman or not. So, if you took vid number one as an insulting lecture, why does that mean she's getting what she deserves because of her attitude?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

61 have you ever come across a long-form post written by some kool kid where there's no capital letters and minimum punctuation? it's hard as hell to read and i never bother getting to the end.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)

i hate that

Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)

62 57 But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (VofaG)

Getting four grown cats into a pillowcase would be a feat in itself.

Now please excuse me, I need to go flick the safety on my Glock on and off.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (49Yi3)

Not necessary on a Sig Sauer M18...
At least that's what I read...
https://tinyurl.com/bjjx8aye

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

63 61 have you ever come across a long-form post written by some kool kid where there's no capital letters and minimum punctuation? it's hard as hell to read and i never bother getting to the end.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)

i hate that

Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)

I saw that cummings...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

64 Well, dating is like an interview, isn't it? I couldn't tell if vid number two was the same woman or not. So, if you took vid number one as an insulting lecture, why does that mean she's getting what she deserves because of her attitude?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

Love is a battlefield.

Posted by: Pat Benatar at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (49Yi3)

65 Oxford comma. I use it when I need it but I don't make a fetish of it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (HZi96)

I do both. A box of ribbed commas makes all the English majors' hearts a-flutter.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (6nQni)

66 I saw that cummings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

i had to type fast figured someone else would do it too

Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (0eaVi)

67 It's fun seeing how people react the size of whales.

And they won't hurt you.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)

68 58 If you had "dogsitting for Hades," pick up your winnings at the window. Otherwise, the pot rolls over to tomorrow's ONT.

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:28 PM
***
Winnings will be paid in Club ONT restroom tokens.

Posted by: TRex - counting my eggs at July 25, 2025 10:33 PM (cCn4/)

69 61 have you ever come across a long-form post written by some kool kid where there's no capital letters and minimum punctuation? it's hard as hell to read and i never bother getting to the end.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)

i

hate

that

Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)

Posted by: FIFY at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (6nQni)

70 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (uGaBv)

71 Love is a battlefield.
Posted by: Pat Benatar at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (49Yi3)

Wouldn't have minded a bout with her in the before time.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (0eaVi)

72 Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

Not for me . I think it should just happen organically. Either you click or you don’t.

I do admit a girl could sucker me in by just laughing at my stupid jokes though.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (VofaG)

73 I fully admit that I cannot explain good writing. I could not purposely create a dangling participle, but I know when it happens. I cannot explain what a gerund is.

Hear this; I do not like passive voice. Say what you want to say.

And stop with the uptalking! Please. It sounds like you are not certain that what you are saying is worth saying.

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (0aYVJ)

74 Who was the prankster that convinced all these self-absorbed idiots that botoxed lips was a good idea and looked great? Because, I'd like to buy that guy a beer. Whoever it was played the long game and didn't go for the accolades. He can just log onto any of these tiktok screeds and admire his work. Instant gratification.

Also, massive amounts of make-up is deceitful, and IMO reflects the character of the individual. They aren't happy with who they are, and you shouldn't be either.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)

75 So, if you took vid number one as an insulting lecture, why does that mean she's getting what she deserves because of her attitude?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Because when she says, in so many words, "I'm judging you," and it turns out no one was up to her high standards, some comeuppance is nice. The concept predates English: hubris and nemesis.

If her standards were just "spend some money on me, be nice, and don't eat like the Tasmanian Devil on meth," you'd think she could have found at least one guy. Apparently the rest of the list didn't make the video.

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

76 On worms...

Back when A&E used to have the Improv comedy show on, they had the actor from Wiseguy on as the emcee.
He talked about being from Jersey (IIRC) and having a voice coach to help him enunciate and such and get rid of his accent.

He's with the coach one day at his place, working through his diction, when his buddies come over. They want him to drop what he's doing and go out to party. He wants to finish his lesson. One of the buddies says "What is he supposed to say?" The coach says "Arthur Carter raise purple earthworms in a cardboard box by the airport."

The buddy says, "Ahtu Cahtu razes poiple oitwoims in a cahdboahd bax ba thu aihpoht. See, that wasn't so hard, let's go."

I've remembered that bit for like 30 years.

Thanks for the ONT, WD!

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (h61ld)

77 60- she just wants to be wooed, treated decently, honestly she’s asking for what would be the norm pre-feminism. It’s how I treat my date. I pay. I drive. I open her door. I comport myself as an officer and a gentleman. Just not seeing how her expressing this desire makes her deserving of infertility (nor honestly even how it’s related). So, if instead she said, “boys, I’m an alley cat in heat, let’s go Dutch on a sixer behind the Circle K and then I’ll blow you by the dumpster” that’d be better? She’d deserve our moron babies?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (hlNLQ)

78 A new Gen Z trend involves not saying “hello” when answering the phone, instead waiting for the person that called to speak first. It’s a behavior that is frustrating older generations.

Generation D.
Douchebag.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)

79 Also, massive amounts of make-up is deceitful, and IMO reflects the character of the individual. They aren't happy with who they are, and you shouldn't be either.
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)

Thank the gay guys in the beauty departments.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:38 PM (0eaVi)

80
Well, the Astros are getting their crullers beaten in tonight, but the Yankees lost, again, so it's all good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:38 PM (HZi96)

81 It's fun seeing how people react the size of whales.

And they won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)

Not on purpose, anyway.

Wife and I saw gray whales on a boat tour out of Depoe Bay. Very cool. The deck hand said, try not to let their blow-hole spray hit you.

Like dead meat, it is. I caught a whiff, and Wow!

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)

82 David Spade tells a funny story about going on a date during the height of his fame with a hot wannabe actress waitress. He said that all during the date he felt like she was interviewing him to see if he was good enough for her.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:40 PM (VofaG)

83 Wife and I saw gray whales on a boat tour out of Depoe Bay. Very cool. The deck hand said, try not to let their blow-hole spray hit you.

Like dead meat, it is. I caught a whiff, and Wow!
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery

You ever seen an oil tanker carrying Listerine?

Me neither.

Posted by: a gray whale at July 25, 2025 10:41 PM (DgGvY)

84 Like dead meat, it is. I caught a whiff, and Wow!

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ
--------
"Was it a Titleist?"

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (zs22P)

85 Well, the Astros are getting their crullers beaten in tonight, but the Yankees lost, again, so it's all good.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:38 PM (HZi96)

I think it’s the Astros farm team that got beat they have so many injuries.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (VofaG)

86 The "Oxford comma" bit is right on point. A member of my former writing critique group used to say, "I don't do the oxford comma, don't put that into my critiques." I wish I could show this item to him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:09 PM (omVj0)

I once got dinged on training for the only fill-in-the-blank on the exam (this was administered by computer) because I used an Oxford comma.

The possible answer it was programmed to accept included "a b c", "a b and c", "a, b and c", and different words for "a b c". "a, b, and c" was NOT a correct answer.

I don't think the HR folks thought I was serious when I told them I felt they should rescore my exam as 100%. They told me they would take that into account next time.

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (h61ld)

87 Spider solitaire is evil, but killed 40 minutes

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 10:43 PM (+qU29)

88 Because when she says, in so many words, "I'm judging you," and it turns out no one was up to her high standards, some comeuppance is nice. The concept predates English: hubris and nemesis.

If her standards were just "spend some money on me, be nice, and don't eat like the Tasmanian Devil on meth," you'd think she could have found at least one guy. Apparently the rest of the list didn't make the video.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

Maybe she's from a place where people are straightforward? Would a different tone of voice change opinions about her?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (hlNLQ)

So, right. People think she deserves vid number two because of her presentation in vid number one?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:43 PM (0eaVi)

89 Goodnight everybody!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:43 PM (hlNLQ)

90 Happy Friday! Thank you for the great content!

Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2025 10:44 PM (bOJ2I)

91 Not necessary on a Sig Sauer M18...
At least that's what I read...
https://tinyurl.com/bjjx8aye
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

I have an Air Force cop story.
Security Policeman was driving on the flightline late one night, when he claimed he had an accidental discharge of his M16 and the bullet went through his foot. He passed out from the pain and his patrol car rolled along and bumped into an airplane.

It turned out he had actually fallen asleep, let his car roll into the airplane, and in his panic concocted the story and shot himself.

They threw the book at him.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:44 PM (49Yi3)

92 while women don't have to consider what they bring to the party.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)

She knows she's hot and thinks that more than enough.

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (h61ld)

93 ***It's the consequences of my own actions!
----

Stopped watching. Wouldn't be seen in public with her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (LWopF)

94 When I answer a call, I say hello.

On teams I usually fumble for my headphones, hitting the unmute button and saying, Hi, can you hear me? Hello?

It works, most of the time.

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (0aYVJ)

95 It turned out he had actually fallen asleep, let his car roll into the airplane, and in his panic concocted the story and shot himself.

They threw the book at him.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:44 PM (49Yi3)

I guarantee you I could come up with a much better story that wouldn’t require me to shoot myself.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (VofaG)

96 84 Like dead meat, it is. I caught a whiff, and Wow!

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ

__________________________________

I got spit on by an Alpaca. I don't recommend it. Those bastards (I found out after the fact) pull up the loogie right out of their digesting stomach, and lets say it's fragrant.

Alpacas, old Chinese ladies and Democrats. Always spitting.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (dIske)

97 Evening all!

That little boy getting his blood taken was a trooper. Let's hope he never has to have the blood gas test as that is extremely painful.

Posted by: Joyenz at July 25, 2025 10:46 PM (sPQoU)

98 Goodnight everybody!
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:43 PM (hlNLQ)

BBB.

or

B-b, B.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:46 PM (0eaVi)

99 2 Every time they look at me they find something new that's haywire with my body. Plainly, medical examination is causing these problems. Stay away from doctors. Drink more water.
Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent
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Precisely. Agree with you more and more every day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (LWopF)

100 I'm puzzled about the worms. In my neighborhood, they seem to be committing suicide. They crawl out on the sidewalk and shrivel in the heat. I'm used to only seeing that when it rains. Is the problem that they have no clue what's going on?

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (FMtrg)

101 >>Not on purpose, anyway.

It's their world. Act accordingly.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (viF8m)

102
He said that all during the date he felt like she was interviewing him to see if he was good enough for her.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:40 PM (VofaG)

_________

If that's the case, I think I'd ask if she was right or left-handed, then suggest that by amputating the opposite arm, she could utilize bodily resources more efficiently at minimum cost. I mean, I may as well just burn it all down at that point.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (HZi96)

103 I don't know how they are now but we did a school trip to an NYPD station when I was a kid and the cops told us " make sure the perp is inside your house before you kill him and everything is okay".

Posted by: steevy at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (YwEeS)

104 A new Gen Z trend involves not saying “hello” when answering the phone, instead waiting for the person that called to speak first. It’s a behavior that is frustrating older generations.
Generation D.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

I've done that, to unknown numbers, ever since the autodialer thing started up. If you say "hello," it connects you to the telemarketer. Silence, and it'll just hang up on you after a couple seconds.

This predates GenZ by a lot, because my answering-machine message used to be short enough that it was over by the time the autodialer connected to the human drone. "mikeski's out. go. *beep*"

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (DgGvY)

105
Every time they look at me they find something new that's haywire with my body.

_________

I don't mind getting old, but my body seems to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (HZi96)

106 Launch in the early morning

GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-26 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS

Launch Date: July 26, 2025
Launch Time: 4:34 a.m. EDT (0843 UTC, 10:43 CEST)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM240ysQXdE

Posted by: Joyenz at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (sPQoU)

107
Never answer the phone. There's only someone at the other end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (HZi96)

108 "Sweet story with a sad ending"
********
We're in that kind of situation now. She's stage 3 and being treated with infusion therapy. It sounds promising.

Posted by: Cosda at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (ruKs7)

109 Like dead meat, it is. I caught a whiff, and Wow!

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ
--------
"Was it a Titleist?"
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (zs22P)

A hole in one

-sheepish Kramer

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (0aYVJ)

110 "Small Town Sheriff"

One of the great defenses of democracy is elected county sheriffs, which is why the Left hates them so much.

Posted by: The ARC Of History! at July 25, 2025 10:52 PM (xTIDn)

111 How do big worms make little.worms?
See picture up top.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2025 10:52 PM (W/lyH)

112 I don't know how they are now but we did a school trip to an NYPD station when I was a kid and the cops told us " make sure the perp is inside your house before you kill him and everything is okay".
Posted by: steevy at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (YwEeS)

My Mom was told that at a Community meeting by a Norfolk cop -- in the late '50s. Mom said his final aadvice was 'And if he falls out the window into the yard, call me, I'll help you lift him back inside through the window.'

Apparently cops hate testifying in court.

Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

113 Every time they look at me they find something new that's haywire with my body. Plainly, medical examination is causing these problems. Stay away from doctors. Drink more water.
Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent

I've given blood so much lately, they're running out of veins...

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 25, 2025 10:53 PM (3ZUWJ)

114 I'm puzzled about the worms. In my neighborhood, they seem to be committing suicide. They crawl out on the sidewalk and shrivel in the heat. I'm used to only seeing that when it rains. Is the problem that they have no clue what's going on?
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (FMtrg)

If I see a worm on the sidewalk while it's till moist, I will toss it back on the grass. If it's already jerky-chew, then, eh.

Wife thinks worms are icky.

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (0aYVJ)

115
It's difficult to take one, whose mouth looks like and Orangutan's ass, serious.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (LWopF)

116 she just wants to be wooed, treated decently, honestly she’s asking for what would be the norm pre-feminism. It’s how I treat my date. I pay. I drive. I open her door. I comport myself as an officer and a gentleman. Just not seeing how her expressing this desire makes her deserving of infertility (nor honestly even how it’s related).
Posted by: Farmer Bob

Because, presumably, at least one man she met would have treated her that way.

But she didn't wind up with him. Or with anyone else.

Because the short list of "must haves" in the video was page one of a novel.

Infertility isn't the point. She'll be a spinster with nine cats no matter how good her ovaries work.

Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)

117 Made it to 11
Have a great night everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (+qU29)

118 My favorite movie first date scene is from I Married An Ax Murderer.

She asks him what he looks for in a woman he dates.

He says: well I know everyone always says sense of humor but I’d really have to go with breast size.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (VofaG)

119 Ahem
*taps microphone*
*sets voice emulator to 'Bob Seger'*

He's totally committed
To her major gasiness
But he's a creepo through and through
They give off quite an aroma
But they shoulda just stayed home-a
He'll stalk some
He'll sniff some too

[Chorus]
But oh he love to inhale her funk
Oh he do obsess her butt
He loves to sniff her junk
(Ooh, oh yeah, oh)
That lady's funk

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 10:56 PM (144I4)

120 the guy was telling the truth about the skydiving psychopath, the jump master and pilot should also have their ass kicked for allowing the psychopath to attempt his experiment.

But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes at

I'm not sure you are remembering the sixties correctly. Three wars worth of veterans all young enough to still get their yahoo on.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (n4GiU)

121 Bottom story of the day, so to speak:
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

Saw one of those in a Publix - cute young'un stocking shelves in the fridge section had to stand on small step stool to get to top shelf. Weirdo was eyeing her up walked over acting all interested in things on bottom of reefer getting nose w/i 3-4 inches of her ass pausing for a lonnnng time.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (/lPRQ)

122 "...the only member of the skydiving club that was displeased with the results of his experiment."

That's hilarious.

Posted by: mot at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (fIPNY)

123 Rockies actually made a comeback and beat the Orioles. World Series here we come!

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)

124 I went on one date where she was impossibly nervous. That was probably the worst. The others went fine.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (gKWVE)

Did she have a friend in the courthouse? Maybe someone who had seen the police blotter?

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (h61ld)

125 Good on those kittehs!

Posted by: jocon307 at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (EuROc)

126 >>>That lady's funk
Posted by: haffhowershower
---------------------

Metal fan?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:59 PM (LWopF)

127 Bottom story of the day, so to speak:
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
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That dude's got Shrek ears.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 10:59 PM (XZ5S6)

128 The girl thrashing the mosh is awesome. But the guys in the pit were amazing. I am guessing most of them are dads. I love this vidya.

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 10:59 PM (0aYVJ)

129 If the guy was telling the truth about the skydiving psychopath, the jump master and pilot should also have their ass kicked for allowing the psychopath to attempt his experiment.

But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes
===

Had an Uncle who a jumpmaster and rigger... Tricked out an army duffle-bag to strap a quad amputee to his chest for a tandem jump.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)

130 Another first date scene in Going the Distance

Her: what’s your favorite food ?

Him: Tortellini

Her : How would you like to die

Him: over eating Tortellini.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:01 PM (VofaG)

131 Rockies actually made a comeback and beat the Orioles. World Series here we come!
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)

"Rocky Mountain High! (in Colorado)"

Pass the doob. Sounds like good shit.

Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)

132 So those worms might not know what's going on, but my hens sure could teach them pretty damn quick🐓🤪...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 25, 2025 11:02 PM (L9kkv)

133 I went on one date where she was impossibly nervous. That was probably the worst. The others went fine.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
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Did she have a friend in the courthouse? Maybe someone who had seen the police blotter?
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (h61ld)

Was he a contestant on The Dating Game?

Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 11:02 PM (gKDq2)

134 Rockies actually made a comeback and beat the Orioles. World Series here we come!
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)

So, like, 20 wins?

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)

135 she just wants to be wooed, treated decently
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (hlNLQ)

Malarkey. She starts off with "A walk for a date? What am I, a dog?" She has an attitude that she is more than all that, and worth spending money on. Definitely "queen" material. (If she wanted to get to know me, a walk would probably actually be the best place to do so. She wants to test me.)

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 11:04 PM (h61ld)

136 A new Gen Z trend involves not saying “hello” when answering the phone, instead waiting for the person that called to speak first. It’s a behavior that is frustrating older generations.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)

Actually, a lot of it is based on phone scams - "Hello" and "Yes" can be used to call up some company and, say, change your service. Early "AI" did that, not Gen Z.

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 11:06 PM (h61ld)

137
Never answer the phone. There's only someone at the other end.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

After a little bit more AI there won't be a person at the other end of the call.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 11:06 PM (63Dwl)

138 I wonder if Caesar ever wondered what the years were counting down to.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)

139 I'm not sure you are remembering the sixties correctly. Three wars worth of veterans all young enough to still get their yahoo on.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (n4GiU)

I know my Korean War vet father wouldn’t have let the psychopath on the plane. But again I think the story is bullshit. You ain’t getting 4 grown cats in a pillowcase.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:08 PM (VofaG)

140 I wonder if Caesar ever wondered what the years were counting down to.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
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It was just the odd, backward way of counting they had then (per "1066 And All That").

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:08 PM (XZ5S6)

141 Maybe he drugged the cats?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)

142
Commas be important:
Is it;
Pardon impossible, to be executed.

OR

Pardon, impossible to be executed.
Posted by: Tonypete
===

My writing skills are marginal. Was lucky to get even C's in writing classes.
But, sentence diagramming, dead-on 100%.
Same with reading comprehension aptitude tests.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (/lPRQ)

143 ...letting hypotheticals out of my mouth like that is probably how I make dates nervous

Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)

144 Damn, that story of the woman with leukemia and the motorbike hit a little close to home. A few years ago I was rebuilding a harley for a dude who had an older bike that he had for years with some serious problems. It started with a normal engine rebuild, but the engine cases were toast, so it needed the entire motor done with new cases along with a good list of other things. Originally it wasn't a priority, just a regular build in the normal time frame. He came in the shop one day and told us his wife had cancer, aggressive, and he was worried she would never get a ride on the bike they spent many years with. We decided to make it our mission, pull every miracle we could to get this thing ready. We did some long hours, and I even hit my private stash of vintage parts just to keep things rolling with no delays. We pulled a miracle. He brought her in to see it. She was all smiles, but you could tell she wasn't good. She got her ride, then died a couple weeks later. It was a tough build, it beat the shit out of us, but it was a small price to pay.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)

145 "she just wants to be wooed, treated decently"

---
Two-way street, young lady.

I am not just some dude with a fat wallet, a full head of hair and a sweet car.

In fact, I am none of that. Your loss, honey.

I grow weary of the whole "he was so horrible to me" posts.

Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (0aYVJ)

146 ...letting hypotheticals out of my mouth like that is probably how I make dates nervous
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)

Which hypothetical?

The Rockies in the World Serious or the skydiver drugged the cats?

Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (gKDq2)

147 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)

Dude! Fucking awesome! I'm all emotional now.

Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (0aYVJ)

148 Happy Friday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (0nHVk)

149 LOL. That weirdly sewn up chick isn't nearly hot enough to warrant some expensive outing that involves fancy accoutrement like chopsticks. She's definitely "coffee/walk in the park/human shield from mugger" material.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (BI5O2)

150 Love the cat story. Heh.

Posted by: Beverly at July 25, 2025 11:17 PM (Epeb0)

151 True or not, the cat story is funny. Thanks for posting it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (lUFok)

152 My writing skills are marginal. Was lucky to get even C's in writing classes.
But, sentence diagramming, dead-on 100%.
Same with reading comprehension aptitude tests.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (/lPRQ)

I can relate. I'm in awe of people who can just write what they want to say.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (FMtrg)

153
Honestly, I thought she was pretty and giving decent advice,not particularly obnoxious. Icould see how one could take it as “I’m so pretty/special that you must treat me like a queen.” But that’s not really her message, as I see it. It’s more, “don’t half ass the effort” and “show some manners/decorum” versus a demand for over the top treatment.
Posted by: Farmer Bob

==============

The part about "I don't go out for drinks" is good advice, and it's been around for ages.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (lCaJd)

154 but it was a small price to pay.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)

You did it for her (and him). It was a sacrifice of love.
*raises a glass to you*

Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (h61ld)

155 2 Every time they look at me they find something new that's haywire with my body. Plainly, medical examination is causing these problems. Stay away from doctors. Drink more water

When my 93 yo mother was in hospice and on her death bed, we asked her what advice she had for the rest of us. I expected something religious, but she calmly said "drink more water".

The next day, at her side she told me "this place is terrible, they only give me water, you'd think theyd have juice?"

Still rattling that one around in my head.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 25, 2025 11:23 PM (zs2tC)

156 I don't know how they are now but we did a school trip to an NYPD station when I was a kid and the cops told us " make sure the perp is inside your house before you kill him and everything is okay".
Posted by: steevy

"Duty to retreat" states would tell you that.
Had a cop on a school trip tell us that you are required to run out the back door... Better to run to an interior room with the shotgun and make sure the perp knows where you are by screaming "Don't hurt me..." until he opens the door then blast him. Because all these perps are repeat offenders and they will do it to someone else or even come back to your house.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

157
"I'm not a dog, I don't need to be walked" was kind of dopey. Going out for coffee or a walk is a good way for BOTH people to test each other out with no pressure if you discover halfway through appetizers that this isn't going to work.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 11:24 PM (lCaJd)

158 But again I think the story is bullshit. You ain’t getting 4 grown cats in a pillowcase.
Posted by: polynikes

You have a point there. But I knew wwii vets still doing crazy ass stuff in the sixties, so I'll give you unlikely but not unreasonable.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 11:25 PM (n4GiU)

159 Dude! Fucking awesome! I'm all emotional now.

Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (0aYVJ)

Yeah, that was a sad one. Every time I found something serious it was like a gut punch, where normally I would be like, well fuck it, it will get done eventually. This wasn't one of those times. Of all the frigging bikes this one was the one I was hoping wouldn't go like this. There are steel liners cast into the aluminum cases that hold the bearing races for the crank. One of them had broken loose in the casting. Somewhat rare, but not unheard of. Rare enough to where I only saw 3 or 4 do this in 30 years, and of course it had to be this one. I felt like I was racing the reaper himself on this build.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9)

160 Isaw a Zippo lighter that said licensed to carry small arms. It had a picture of a T-Rex on it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 25, 2025 11:30 PM (sbwx6)

161 Posted by: Farmer Bob

She has a lot of plastic surgery and a snide attitude.

Any man older than 21 should know better than to stay with her for more than evening. Every one she met did, and that's why she's crying about her infertility in the latter half of that clip.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 11:30 PM (BI5O2)

162 Wow, Bers.. What a story of kindness and determination!

Bless you and your crew.

Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:34 PM (rdVOm)

163 But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes at

______________________________

If you can't remove a cat from your person, you are either incredibly weak, or have arms like T-rex.

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 11:34 PM (dIske)

164 140 I wonder if Caesar ever wondered what the years were counting down to.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
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It was just the odd, backward way of counting they had then (per "1066 And All That").
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:08 PM (XZ5S6)

IIRC, the romans did not really number their years. They named the year by that year's Consuls.

I think they judged time (like 50 years) from the founding of the city or the Republic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 25, 2025 11:35 PM (bss/y)

165 >>>She's definitely "..." $20, same as in town, material.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:36 PM (LWopF)

166 I concede the cat story had a great middle and ending.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:36 PM (VofaG)

167 On the other hand:

Google has removed nearly 11,000 YouTube channels tied to state-run propaganda campaigns for China, Russia, and other nations over the past few months.
_Epoch Times

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:37 PM (LWopF)

168 I think they judged time (like 50 years) from the founding of the city or the Republic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 25, 2025 11:35 PM (bss/y)

---------

753 wait for it...

B.C.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:38 PM (JkO4W)

169 Evening, WD, and ONT Horde. Back from another exciting 5-hour stint in the ER, brought on by crazy low heart rate. Going to cut back on the acebutelol. 50 mg seemed OK, 100 might be too much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:38 PM (u9yM+)

170 134 Rockies actually made a comeback and beat the Orioles. World Series here we come!
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)

So, like, 20 wins?
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)
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Yeah, well, if the Rockies want to make it to the World Series, they're gonna have to get through the Pirates in the NLCS.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 25, 2025 11:39 PM (QdGJh)

171 On a positive note, Caesar was mentioned in quite a few well read comic books of the modern age.

Perry White: "Great Caesar's Ghost!!!"

Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 11:39 PM (dIske)

172 Yikes, AOP!

Glad you're still with us!

Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)

173 169 Evening, WD, and ONT Horde. Back from another exciting 5-hour stint in the ER, brought on by crazy low heart rate. Going to cut back on the acebutelol. 50 mg seemed OK, 100 might be too much.

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Good to hear they have a plan.

Also, if you got out with both your legs still attached, obama says you beat the odds.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:43 PM (JkO4W)

174
AOP,

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope everything works out for you.

Posted by: fourseasons at July 25, 2025 11:43 PM (3ek7K)

175 Bottom story of the day, so to speak:
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 25, 2025 10:16 PM (p4nXC)

Damn! Those ears make his head look like a distorted mooring cleat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:44 PM (u9yM+)

176 On a positive note, Caesar was mentioned in quite a few well read comic books of the modern age.

Perry White: "Great Caesar's Ghost!!!"
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 11:39 PM (dIske)
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In the Steve Reeves TV series, Caesar's ghost really did appear to Perry White (of course, it turned out that bad guys were attempting to scam him, but still...).

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:44 PM (XZ5S6)

177 Yarlung Tsangpo River

Upper stream of the Brahmaputra River
The Yarlung Tsangpo River, also known as Yarlung Zangbo in Tibetan and Yalu Zangbu River in Chinese, is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River. It is located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The river runs almost 3,000 kilometers through the plateau to the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, and then out into the Bay of Bengal via Bangladesh. It is the highest major river on Earth, running at an average elevation of 4,000 meters.
Wikipedia

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:45 PM (LWopF)

178 Radio Free Asia@RadioFreeAsia

China has started to build a massive dam on Tibet’s longest river, a move approved by the central government in December despite concerns by India, Bangladesh and Tibetan rights groups about its impacts on residents and the environment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:46 PM (LWopF)

179 George Reeves, not Steve Reeves. (Too many Reeveses, I guess.)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:47 PM (XZ5S6)

180 I got a kick out of the little guy getting his blood drawn..

I've told the story before about an Army senior NCO's five-year-old soon getting blood drawn. Macho dad accompanied the boy into the treatment room, leaving mom and siblings in the waiting room. Dad was hectoring the lad to "Be tough, don't cry, be a big boy." I was focused on the task, and as I inserted the needle and the blood flashed back into the tubing I heard a loud crash from behind me. Macho man Sgt Badass was white as a sheet and had gone down like a ton of bricks. After getting his Snoopy BandAid the little boy jumped up and ran into the waiting room yelling for the whole room to hear, "Mommy, Mommy!! Daddy fainted!!" It took his dad a few minutes to come around and slink out to the waiting room as meek as a lamb..

Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2025 11:47 PM (poXs5)

181 Tranny plays the hurdy-gurdy aka wheel-fiddle:
youtube.com/watch?v=Sy3sRKEXW4E

Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 11:47 PM (hNDvI)

182
Lol muldoon

Posted by: fourseasons at July 25, 2025 11:48 PM (3ek7K)

183 Hey Stymie, where ya goin'?

Fishin'

Got worms?

Yeah, but I'm goin' anyway!

Posted by: Stymie Beard, Our Gang at July 25, 2025 11:48 PM (G5+As)

184 A new Gen Z trend involves not saying “hello” when answering the phone, instead waiting for the person that called to speak first. It’s a behavior that is frustrating older generations.

Generation D.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)

I do that sometimes, especially if the call is from a non-local number. So many damned scam robocalls these days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:49 PM (u9yM+)

185 I remember being a well-dressed, athletic, good-looking college student, long before I was just some dumpy old dork with a happy family.

I was standing on the stairs of the Auraria Library in January, smoking a Marlboro, and wearing an Yves St. Laurent 3/4-length woolen coat because of the weather. I looked cool, and I could see this chick checking me out.

ThIs chick was hot, and wearing a t-shirt in this horrible weather, to show off her tits. It said "If you can't afford a [Mercedes-Benz logo] YOU CAN'T AFFORD ME."

I thought "If he can afford an M-B, he knows he can't afford to keep trash like you around for very long. You're higher maintenance and less reliable. Somehow."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 11:50 PM (BI5O2)

186 178 Radio Free Asia@RadioFreeAsia

China has started to build a massive dam on Tibet’s longest river, a move approved by the central government in December despite concerns by India, Bangladesh and Tibetan rights groups about its impacts on residents and the environment.

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If they block the Bagmati, the Nepalis won't have anywhere to dump the corpses.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:50 PM (JkO4W)

187 {{{AOP}}} I hope that the reduction in meds is beneficial. I pray that you have good doctors.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2025 11:51 PM (0nHVk)

188
@grok [consensus centrist AI] . 14h

Replying to @IndiaUpdated_ @Middle_Eastern0
The dam is the Medog Hydropower Station, located in Medog County, Tibet, on the Yarlung Tsangpo River
(Brahmaputra's upper reach), near India's border.

It won't "block all water access" to India—that claim is exaggerated. However, it could reduce dry-season flows and increase flood risks, per Indian experts, though China asserts minimal downstream impact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (LWopF)

189 I like the Small Town Sheriff. LOL.

Miss Thang with the dinner fixation is something else.

Considering the cost of a *nice* dinner... I think a guy should be able to take you out for coffee first, especially if you'd expect him to pay for that dinner. You know-- to check out your table manners. See if you can treat a server with respect. Carry a reasonably intelligent conversation. Who knows? Maybe he'd be better off taking *somebody else* out for that fine dinner! (after a cup-of-coffee interview, of course)

Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (rdVOm)

190 Sorry to hear of your travails, AOP. Hopefully they can get you to a stable med regimen.

Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (poXs5)

191 I've seen the Brahmaputra. They do "sky burials" along its course in the Himalayas.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:53 PM (JkO4W)

192 It took his dad a few minutes to come around and slink out to the waiting room as meek as a lamb..
Posted by: muldoon

Did that happen in March?

"In like a Lion, out like a lamb"

Posted by: Almanac of Old Farmers at July 25, 2025 11:54 PM (lenBr)

193 Evening, WD, and ONT Horde. Back from another exciting 5-hour stint in the ER, brought on by crazy low heart rate. Going to cut back on the acebutelol. 50 mg seemed OK, 100 might be too much.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Dang. I hope you feel better soon.

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 25, 2025 11:55 PM (3ZUWJ)

194 >>I grow weary of the whole "he was so horrible to me" posts.

I've had an awesome life. No complaints and thanks I can never repay.

Get on with living or get on with dying.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 11:56 PM (viF8m)

195 All my "interview dates" involved Waffle House, tips, and tits

Posted by: Respecter of Oxford Commas at July 25, 2025 11:57 PM (lenBr)

196 I can get blood drawn without any apprehension at all. Tell me me you need to put an IV on the top of my hand and I will immediately start trying to negotiate a different option.

Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:57 PM (VofaG)

197 I can get blood drawn without any apprehension at all. Tell me me you need to put an IV on the top of my hand and I will immediately start trying to negotiate a different option.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:57 PM (VofaG)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (XZ5S6)

198 169 Evening, WD, and ONT Horde. Back from another exciting 5-hour stint in the ER, brought on by crazy low heart rate. Going to cut back on the acebutelol. 50 mg seemed OK, 100 might be too much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:38 PM (u9yM+)

Hate to hear. Got to be careful with heart drugs. I might suggest getting a blood pressure machine. They do heart rates as well. My docs are whispering about a pacemaker to keep mine up. Do not want.

Posted by: javems at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (8I4hW)

199 Someone should take that sweet blonde skydiving

Posted by: Skydiving cats at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (szqEY)

200 Glad you're still with us!
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)

So am I. I am comfortable right now, but my energy level is nearly zilch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:59 PM (QjQFX)

201 So am I. I am comfortable right now, but my energy level is nearly zilch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:59 PM (QjQFX)
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Don't you hate it when it feels like your docs are just noodling around with your meds and haven't the slightest idea of what they're doing?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (XZ5S6)

202 Wow, Anti Trump Judge in Chicago suddenly discovers teh 10th Amendment.... citing that it says that a State can ignore Federal Laws like Aiding and Abetting Illegals... by creating Sanctuary policies and laws.

Because... state rights... Yes, Illinois... the LAND OF LINCOLN, just declared States have Rights!

/Facepalm

Posted by: Goose at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (mP0Kj)

203 Having blood drawn is one time in your life when you hope the technician's efforts are in vein.

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (poXs5)

204 Apparently wishing Johnson and Thune get rectal cancer is enough to get kicked off twitter, again.

Posted by: TC at July 26, 2025 12:02 AM (szqEY)

205 Hubby asked me out to the County Fair for our first date. Daytime. Fun! Rides, food, critters, and plenty to talk about!

Best of all-- no pressure. We enjoyed a whole day together & couldn't wait to do it again.

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 12:02 AM (rdVOm)

206 200 Glad you're still with us!
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)

So am I. I am comfortable right now, but my energy level is nearly zilch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:59 PM (QjQFX)

I had Covid in late January... took me down for three weeks... my energy levels STILL have not recovered...

This old age thing... I don't recommend it.

Posted by: Goose at July 26, 2025 12:03 AM (mP0Kj)

207 Don't you hate it when it feels like your docs are just noodling around with your meds and haven't the slightest idea of what they're doing?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (XZ5S6)

I hate the ones who toss meds cookie cutter like at everyone. Like the mechanic who don't know shit and thinks everything is cured with spark plugs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:03 AM (snZF9)

208 Sorry to hear of your travails, AOP. Hopefully they can get you to a stable med regimen.
Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (poXs5)

Thank you! Going for a CT scan on the 31 of this month, and then maybe an angiogram. They did 2 blood draws today, no elevated triponin detected.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:03 AM (QjQFX)

209 Having blood drawn is one time in your life when you hope the technician's efforts are in vein.
Posted by: muldoon

Phlebotogical humour is a rare type.

Posted by: This is my "O" face at July 26, 2025 12:04 AM (lenBr)

210 184 A new Gen Z trend involves not saying “hello” when answering the phone, instead waiting for the person that called to speak first. It’s a behavior that is frustrating older generations.

Generation D.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)

I do that sometimes, especially if the call is from a non-local number. So many damned scam robocalls these days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:49 PM (u9yM+)

If the number is not on my caller ID... I ALWAYS wait for them to identify themselves... and if I don't want to talk to them... just hang up without saying a word.

Posted by: Goose at July 26, 2025 12:05 AM (mP0Kj)

211 Posted by: Goose at July 26, 2025 12:05 AM (mP0Kj)

Dang.... duck... duck.... SOCK

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 26, 2025 12:06 AM (mP0Kj)

212 Evening Horde and I'm going to jump in with this...

In spite of the WTF reaction to the Epstein files and the double down WTF to going after Berry TSSPOSTUTBTCIC...

I'm gonna go with...The Prez. is in total pay back mod all the while getting his agenda done and codified into law.

Meanwhile, the Democrat party continues to shit themselves.

That's what I think.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:06 AM (25kuG)

213 I do that sometimes, especially if the call is from a non-local number. So many damned scam robocalls these days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I did that for a while then decided that if they wanted to talk to me they would leave a message. Back and forth with insurance co today and waiting for a call, phone said, SPAM, but since I was expecting a call from them I took a chance and it was the insurance co. Overall procedure is not going to change.
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Blood pressure is a tricky thing. Went along several years on the same then one new thing threw everything off. Sometimes is takes a while to get the right balance.

Nurse told me to get an Omron home machine, about $30, they are more accurate for the price and accurate enough. Recommending to pony up the extra bucks for the one that keeps the event date along with the pressure. - it's a convenience -

Take the reading in the morning before breakfast.
Food intake will lower pressure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:06 AM (LWopF)

214 Hate to hear. Got to be careful with heart drugs. I might suggest getting a blood pressure machine. They do heart rates as well. My docs are whispering about a pacemaker to keep mine up. Do not want.
Posted by: javems at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (8I4hW)

I have one! That's what sent me to the ER. Was out on the riding mower, did a lot of cutting, put the mower away, came in the house. Felt faint, went for a lie-down. Put on the BP monitor, and it said "pulse rate: 30". I drove to the ER.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (QjQFX)

215 Something tells me Ten Bears had been reading the Old Testament.

The Prophet Jeremiah Wales:

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. /Jer 21:9

"Let it be life."
"I reckon maybe so."

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (poXs5)

216 The story about the Alaskan Somali isn't getting enough love tonight ...

Watching him catch all that metal ... gratifying.

Posted by: browndog wearing goggles at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (TTAGa)

217 I found out the home of a famous Confederate general is pretty near where I live, and I wanted to check it out. But it's owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and they keep it gated off and don't let anyone tour it.

At first, that annoyed me, but then I realized people are probably trying to vandalize it, and they have to lock it to the public.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:10 AM (BI5O2)

218 I have one! That's what sent me to the ER. Was out on the riding mower, did a lot of cutting, put the mower away, came in the house. Felt faint, went for a lie-down. Put on the BP monitor, and it said "pulse rate: 30". I drove to the ER.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (QjQFX)

Jeez, amazed you could still walk at 30.

Posted by: javems at July 26, 2025 12:11 AM (8I4hW)

219 Phrenology>>>Phlebotomy>>>Lobotomy

Posted by: Here Comes The Ice Pick In The Forehead! at July 26, 2025 12:11 AM (G5+As)

220 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:10 AM (BI5O2)
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Which general?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:11 AM (XZ5S6)

221 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

********

Do you know if your slow heart rate is sinus bradycardia or heart block? The two entities have different implications.

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (poXs5)

222 Boom boom boom, let's go to the autopsy room

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (WF/xn)

223 Nathan Bedford Forrest

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (BI5O2)

224 Phlebotogical humour is a rare type.
Posted by: This is my "O" face at July 26, 2025 12:04 AM (lenBr)

O? Negative or positive? We might need you.

Posted by: Blood Bank at July 26, 2025 12:13 AM (sNI6D)

225 Having blood drawn is one time in your life when you hope the technician's efforts are in vein.

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (poXs5)

When I had my surgery last year everything went smooth the whole time I was there. I was in shock how smooth things went and how professional my team was. Until this one night. Ok, time for berserker rant mode-

it was 2 am, the lights go on and this fat ass mother fucking gargantuan of a woman comes waddling in and grunts out " I'm here to take blood". yeah, ok, they do it every night, so? I ask here where she is going to take it from since i had all kinds of taps in the one hand, and good scar on my other wrist where they removed an artery. She grabs my arm and starts tying her rubber thing AROUND my fresh scar. I pull back to say woah wait, and she grabs my hand and jabs the needle in. I start reaching on my tray for something to beat her in the face with but I was too far. The next day my hand is black, and my nurse says how is everything? I said this- I don't know who sent mengele in to take blood last night, but if you send her again I'm going to beat her dead with a fucking food tray and I'm going to blame it on the drugs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)

226 I love the description in Shelby Foote's history of the ACW where he writes: "Grant's problems at Holly Springs could be summed up in three nouns of two syllables each: Nathan Bedford Forrest."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:14 AM (XZ5S6)

227 210 So many damned scam robocalls these days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:49 PM (u9yM+)
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I was thinking just the other day about how frustrating it is. Just 30-40 years ago, we had Ma Bell, the occasional fax machine, and an internet that wasn't anywhere near in general use. Just 30-40 years later, most phone calls are robocalls, most texts are scams, most emails are spam, and most social media activity is bot generated. In just over a generation we've gone from "the tech doesn't exist" to "the tech is not useful anymore."

Dead internet theory indeed. More like dead everything theory.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 26, 2025 12:15 AM (QdGJh)

228 During my time as a nurse working ER...I could draw blood from a Herion Addict's near (L) chest nipple cuz there was nothing else short of a central line and those were expensive.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:16 AM (25kuG)

229 I have one! That's what sent me to the ER. Was out on the riding mower, did a lot of cutting, put the mower away, came in the house. Felt faint, went for a lie-down. Put on the BP monitor, and it said "pulse rate: 30". I drove to the ER.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (QjQFX)

Holy shit man.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)

230 True...ER nurses could draw blood from a rock.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:18 AM (25kuG)

231 229

so....a pacemaker for you after that episode?

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)

232 Do you know if your slow heart rate is sinus bradycardia or heart block? The two entities have different implications.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (poXs5)

They call it PVC, premature ventricular contractions. On the EKG monitor, the trace occasionally shows a sharp down-tick in the signal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (QjQFX)

233 Way-ull...nitey nite, folx.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (XZ5S6)

234 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

********

Heh!

You know they draw the blood at 2 a.m. solely for the convenience of the doctors, so that when they come in after their three martini breakfast to make morning rounds the results will be on the chart. Fuck the notion of you getting anything remotely like some restful healing sleep.

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (poXs5)

235 214 Hate to hear. Got to be careful with heart drugs. I might suggest getting a blood pressure machine. They do heart rates as well. My docs are whispering about a pacemaker to keep mine up. Do not want.
Posted by: javems at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (8I4hW)

I have one! That's what sent me to the ER. Was out on the riding mower, did a lot of cutting, put the mower away, came in the house. Felt faint, went for a lie-down. Put on the BP monitor, and it said "pulse rate: 30". I drove to the ER.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yo, pacemaker alone, indicates an electrical problem not muscular. You won't know it's there (well if you press around you can feel it) otherwise go on about your day.

My electrophysiologist was a/hoe. We discussed and agreed that
I would have a general anesthesia. Well, the kid in OR is tying my hand down. Why? I'm going to be out. Well... It wound up an argument between me and the electrophysiologist - him saying the anesthesiologist gone home - it was protracted and intense
culminating in, legally he couldn't put me under but would put me down as far as he could. - out of bits - it was settled and done.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (LWopF)

236 I wonder if Caesar ever wondered what the years were counting down to.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM

He didn't know his death day was going to be March 15. Think of all the March fifteens he lived through in his life and had no idea that was going to be the day, someday.

None of us knows when our death day is coming. I wonder sometimes what mine will be. Not so much the year, but the month and day, and what else happened on that day throughout my life.

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (J+20f)

237 I do have a new electrophysiologist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:22 AM (LWopF)

238 @234 was meant for Bererker

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:22 AM (poXs5)

239 Nite all. Take care AOP

Posted by: javems at July 26, 2025 12:22 AM (8I4hW)

240 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:14 AM (XZ5S6)

Sherman said "I don't care if it costs 10,000 men and the whole treasury if that's what it takes to hunt down and kill Forrest."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:24 AM (BI5O2)

241 >>>"pulse rate: 30"

Hubby has a weird heart rhythm (started doing it ~2 years ago) and the fingertip pulse/ox devices only pick up 1/2 the beats.

*freakout* in the Dr. offices... until they check his chart.

He'd had the 3-day Holter monitor and several ECGs when it was first discovered. BP is fine.

Hubs doesn't desire any treatments for it. In fact, he has DNR and "minimal intervention" stipulation now: just antibiotics if needed, and basic first aid.

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)

242 I want to avoid a pacemaker if I can. I do a lot of welding, and electric welding is unfriendly to pacemakers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:25 AM (QjQFX)

243 I wonder what the largest non-flying animal that can't die from falling is.

Squirrels, for example, can fall quite far without getting injured, though I've also seen some injured if they fell from a large tree.

Would a pygmy squirrel for example be able to survive a fall at terminal velocity?

Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 26, 2025 12:27 AM (t0Rmr)

244 The before and after you tube chick is sad. Hubris and Nemesis are more real than we care to admit.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 26, 2025 12:28 AM (ZCVDG)

245 232

But, the predisposing cardiac anomaly is usually a conduction defect related to...say a 2nd degree AV block or 3rd degree block with AV disassociation.

Pacemaker time in either case when baseline heart rate drops below 40.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:28 AM (25kuG)

246 They call it PVC, premature ventricular contractions. On the EKG monitor, the trace occasionally shows a sharp down-tick in the signal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

**********

Not sure what to make of that. If you need something translated from Medspeak to English let me know. I don't want to intrude, but fee free to e-mai me.

On that note I'm out for the night.

Endeavour to persevere y'all.

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:30 AM (poXs5)

247 Hi javems, it is good to see you. I enjoyed your dental stories last night.

Bers, I needed a good laugh, thank you!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 12:30 AM (0nHVk)

248 242

AAHHhh. AL, completely understand my friend.

But, your ticker may need some backing my friend.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (25kuG)

249 Heh!

You know they draw the blood at 2 a.m. solely for the convenience of the doctors, so that when they come in after their three martini breakfast to make morning rounds the results will be on the chart. Fuck the notion of you getting anything remotely like some restful healing sleep.

Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (poXs5)

Well I had the greatest team I could ever imagine. These nurses were like tier 1 operators of the cardiac wing. I thought I died during surgery and this was heaven. Beautiful blond nurses who were top notch, my surgeon was one of the best in the country, who visited me every day, so I didn't give a shit if they came in at 2am. I would just go back to sleep. That fat bastard hag I was ready to throw out the window though. She ruined a perfect stay, because all the others that drew blood were fantastic. The wing I was in was only a year old, it was state of the art. Private room, 60"TV, a tablet that controlled the heat, AC, the TV, the blinds, everything. Star trek was on a lot, the food was killer, and that fat fucking land whale killed what would have been a perfect score.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (snZF9)

250 Ok, I misremembered the quote. Sherman said "That devil Forrest must be hunted down and killed if it costs ten thousand lives and bankrupts the federal treasury."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (BI5O2)

251 67 It's fun seeing how people react the size of whales.

And they won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)

——/

Ahem…

The Orcas

Posted by: EFG at July 26, 2025 12:33 AM (edBJm)

252 One suspects that AOP can make his own pacemaker from some random Studebaker parts

Posted by: Trusting Trusted Expert of Alberta at July 26, 2025 12:33 AM (lenBr)

253 242 I want to avoid a pacemaker if I can. I do a lot of welding, and electric welding is unfriendly to pacemakers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Thought I could find a ready answer but not today.
Seems like a dental vest used during x-rays would do the trick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (LWopF)

254 AAHHhh. AL, completely understand my friend.

But, your ticker may need some backing my friend.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (25kuG)

If I must have a pacemaker, so be it. Supposedly Medtronics has one that is safe for welding at currents under 140 amps.

Seems to me it ought to be possible to make a wearable Faraday shield to protect a pacemaker from some of the EM effects.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (Ux/Nh)

255 It's fun seeing how people react the size of whales.

And they won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)

Tell that to the one who took blood from me at 2am.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)

256 Thought I could find a ready answer but not today.
Seems like a dental vest used during x-rays would do the trick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (LWopF)

I suspect there is a yuuge liability chill for any manufacturer wanting to offer an EM shield for pacemaker users.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:39 AM (Ux/Nh)

257 254

I want you to be happy and productive with your life Al.

Even though we are not spring chickens any longer.

I'm trying not to turn into a fat old man...and losing the battle these days.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:39 AM (25kuG)

258 Seems to me it ought to be possible to make a wearable Faraday shield to protect a pacemaker from some of the EM effects.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (Ux/Nh)

Well, if you want to look like a villain from batman or something. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:39 AM (snZF9)

259 Regarding "country everybody hates but millions want to enter & live in":

The Republic of South Africa, i.e., the former apartheid regime, had a serious problem with... immigration. They had real difficulty keeping Africans from nearby countries from entering illegally & then remaining there.

Because jobs; money that was worth more than its weight in toilet paper; etc.

Posted by: mnw at July 26, 2025 12:43 AM (kd60y)

260 If I'm not mistaken the blonde with the list of demands for a date thing was that her standards were so high that so much time had passed she was running out of eggs without finding a mate.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 26, 2025 12:45 AM (iUORZ)

261 One thing I always found interesting about Forrest is that he altered cavalry tactics by treating them as mounted infantry that ran behind heavy artillery, like Rommel one day would copy with armor - and that the VMI student Patton would reject that approach in favor of treating his tank columns as armored cavalry.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:47 AM (BI5O2)

262 'Bout a hundred comments behind, but won't be catching up 'cause it's shut-eye time. First, though, some accumulated comments:

Tonypete: …I have never been on a date that was a disaster.…

Remind me some day to regale you all with that date 'way back in High School after which I had to de-frost the passenger side of my Mustang. It wasn't the weather. OTOH, my buddy's date in the back seat left scorch marks.

&
That kid getting the needle, as I said the last time it was posted, did much better than I did — just yesterday morning. The injecting nurse was not real good at it.

&
So, two new units of measurement tonight: Blue Whales, and Danny DiVito. The long and the short of it.

&
That gal with the dating demands: here's one like her.
https://youtu.be/tEL0YqOFKSk

& finally, some lively music
https://youtu.be/KIgCkyoqDe8

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - careful with commas, apostraphes, and ampersands at July 26, 2025 12:49 AM (iaVKI)

263 Ya all have a fine evening...

Fat man punching out.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:54 AM (25kuG)

264 When hubs was still living here with advanced dementia he got quite animated about fat people. Family, neighbors and close friends were used to it, but when we went out to a restaurant or bar he would always comment very loudly about the size of someone's ass, didn't matter male or female.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 12:54 AM (0nHVk)

265 So this proves Trump is dumb as a worm !!!!

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 26, 2025 12:58 AM (vL1lZ)

266
" if you send her again I'm going to beat her dead with a fucking food tray "

- - - - -

The bed pan is probably a closer reach... ;-)

Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 26, 2025 01:00 AM (C/gyy)

267 >I have an Air Force cop story.
>Security Policeman was driving on the flightline late one night, when he claimed he had an accidental discharge of his M16 and the bullet went through his foot. He passed out from the pain and his patrol car rolled along and bumped into an airplane.
>It turned out he had actually fallen asleep, let his car roll into the airplane, and in his panic concocted the story and shot himself.
>They threw the book at him.

A rant about the P320.

If a hundred people with Sigs NG, ninety of them will blame the gun. The company has not done itself any favors as far as PR, and appears to be run by a "cabal of its enemies".

The people who got tired of telling us that those plastic guns will jam in an emergency (as opposed to the thousand rounds the owner spent at the range) or blow up, now love to laff at Sig.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 01:00 AM (lhenN)

268 New rule, every time a migrant commits a crime, it will be described in detail to the family of the bureaucrat that allowed him to enter.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 01:02 AM (lhenN)

269 When hubs was still living here with advanced dementia he got quite animated about fat people...
Posted by: Debby
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They really do lose their filters, huh?

Hubby makes *comments* too. Fortunately, he doesn't speak very loudly. LOL, sorta.

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

270 Using “BCE” is just like using “chest feeder.”
It’s woke bullshit.

Posted by: Floridacracker at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (4qnde)

271 New rule, every time a migrant commits a crime, it will be described in detail to the family of the bureaucrat that allowed him to enter.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 01:02 AM (lhenN)

That bureaucrat doesn't care. His bosses want those aliens here. That's all that matters to Joe Q. Pencilpusher. It especially helps if the victims were dirty people who shop at grocery stores with their own grubby little hands instead of receiving their Thai food from a Guatemalan Doordasher.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 01:08 AM (BI5O2)

272 Using “BCE” is just like using “chest feeder.”
It’s woke bullshit.
Posted by: Floridacracker at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (4qnde)

I always read it as "before Christian era", anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 01:08 AM (pV3p7)

273 270 Using “BCE” is just like using “chest feeder.”
It’s woke bullshit.
Posted by: Floridacracker
------------

I appreciate that they telegraph exactly who they are.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:09 AM (LWopF)

274 269 When hubs was still living here with advanced dementia he got quite animated about fat people...
Posted by: Debby
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Going into the dining hall with Rodney Dangerfield.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:12 AM (LWopF)

275 Using “BCE” is just like using “chest feeder.”
It’s woke bullshit.
Posted by: Floridacracker at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (4qnde)

I always read it as "before Christian era", anyway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Seriously always thought it was something like "before Christ estimated" because honest historians were never able to pin down down the exact date that drives the western calendar.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 01:13 AM (/lPRQ)

276 I typed a pretty lengthy comment and then I hit refresh instead of post, guess that I don't need a drink after all. I do wish that there was a pitcher of something behind the bar though.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:13 AM (0nHVk)

277 Debby, I got a half-pitcher (*hic!*) of spicy margarita right here...

Pour you a glass? LOL

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

278 .. BCE, a distinction without a difference.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 01:16 AM (/lPRQ)

279 BC and AD, are good enough for me. They can screw off with the BCE and CE bullcrap.

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

280 I'm shocked that even in Alaska, the crime is being committed by people who look like Obama's sons if he had any.

As for the woman in that video, it's hilarious her saying she wants a real date, while using so many bad AI filters that it looks like the various parts of her face are falling off. Maybe they don't want to book a real date because odds are high the 30 year old 9 that they saw on the dating app, in reality is a meth faced 50 year old whose entertained entire football teams every weekend.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 26, 2025 01:16 AM (ikBGF)

281 " if you send her again I'm going to beat her dead with a fucking food tray "
- - - - -
The bed pan is probably a closer reach... ;-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV

But what if you have to go? Would you want to put your junk near a bed pan covered in someone else's blood?

Though I suppose you could hit the 'call' button and get a new bed pan.

Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 01:19 AM (DgGvY)

282 Former BF had a (very negative) thing about, ahem, *obese* women.

We were in line behind one, and her husband/bf at the grocery one day. BF looks at all their stuff on the conveyor belt, leans toward the other guy & says: "You forgot the flour."

Ohhhhhh.......

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

283 >>> Ghislaine Maxwell Has Been Granted Limited Immunity by the DOJ To Be Interviewed: REPORT

So much for Trump trying to bury it.

Should have been given full immunity as she had already been convicted of delivering fresh meat to Epstein. Let her turn State's evidence against Epstein and what he did afterwards, those that took part, and those that sealed the broader testimony.

Classic Trump - Whatever you do, do not open THAT door.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 01:24 AM (/lPRQ)

284 >> I always read it as "before Christian era"

That is actually pretty spot on. CE = "common era" which is a synonym for "Christian era".

I forget exactly, but the first use of this was in writings by Kepler. I think. He used "vulgar era". Back then, "vulgar" didn't have the negative connotations it has today, and it just meant "common".

This "common" was opposed to some regnal year numbering schemes, like the year 'n' of King Chuckles reign and crap like that. The commoners were used the AD scheme.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (w6EFb)

285 Hey, you can laugh about chest feeders all you want.

But your former Secretary of Transportation took several of months of maternity leave during an unprecedented port crisis so he could strap on a pair of fake rubber titties and use them to nurse his gay butt baby with formula that was in short supply for your real baby, and then fly off for a Spanish vacation with his catamite on a private jet, while TSA agents made you wear a muzzle as they groped your balls.

Who's laughing now?

Posted by: Pete at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (BI5O2)

286 "You forgot the flour."

Ohhhhhh.......

You got me bitten.

I have a cat. I did not raise him from a kitten. He has several bad habits from his former life. He does not like people laughing. He got me on the arm from behind.

Posted by: clarence at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (PlJ5c)

287 JQ, that is exactly what I was looking for, thank you.

I definitely thanked Pete Bog for the Greek mythology reference, I need to reread my book of mythology.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

288 >>He does not like people laughing. He got me on the arm from behind.

Oh, dear.. Sorry, clarence!

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:31 AM (rdVOm)

289 >> honest historians were never able to pin down down the exact date that drives the western calendar.

That's spot on as well. Again, I forget the details, but they think it was some guy back in the early centuries AD who chose the current year roughly close to when they thought Christ was born, but to make the leap year arithmetic work out nicely to a multiple of 4. Otherwise, there would've been an offset that made things complicated.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:33 AM (w6EFb)

290 It's a harmless blue whale.

Tough guys.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:37 AM (viF8m)

291 If a pi;; has a score on one side, dows that mean it can be cut?

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:38 AM (3ZUWJ)

292 Oh Lord, pill ...

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:39 AM (3ZUWJ)

293 Adriane-- my BP pills are scored, and one of them is a "one-and-a-half" per day Rx. Makes it easier to break without a pill cutter.

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

294 I have a cat. I did not raise him from a kitten. He has several bad habits from his former life. He does not like people laughing. He got me on the arm from behind.

Posted by: clarence at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (PlJ5c

We have a Siamese that swats my wife if she laughs at him. Any other time he is such a sweetheart.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:44 AM (WF/xn)

295 The video lady looks like she could get a good deal with those lips

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:46 AM (WF/xn)

296 I meant seal, but that could make a deal

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:48 AM (WF/xn)

297 This is Amox-Clav and the darn thing is longer than my thumbnail. Fortunately not as wide...

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:48 AM (3ZUWJ)

298 >> Ghislaine Maxwell Has Been Granted Limited Immunity by the DOJ To Be Interviewed: REPORT

Happened yesterday to appease the smooth braines on both sides.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (viF8m)

299
My cats are something. One here, and he just did this, has learned there's one spot on the computer desk here I don't want him to jump on. So, when he wants my attention and I'm ignoring him, what does he do?

He jumps right up on that spot. He then stares at me, knowing I'm going to react.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (w6EFb)

300 A set of nail cutting scissors for a cat or dog works great for cutting pills. Not the one you use on them of course

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (WF/xn)

301
He jumps right up on that spot. He then stares at me, knowing I'm going to react.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (w6EFb)

Ours start pulling out the computer wires if you don't feed him on time

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:52 AM (WF/xn)

302 Have a pill cutter.

Threw up this a.m. taking it. Want to avoid a repeat performance.

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:53 AM (3ZUWJ)

303 Epstein was CIA.

Do you really figure you will find out anything you don't already know?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:54 AM (viF8m)

304
Another funny thing with leap years. After Julius Caesar instituted the 4-year leap rule, the Roman priests screwed it up for a while, making a off-by-one error similar to that which plagues index variables (do you start at 0 or 1).

The priests went 1, 2, 3, leap. But they started counting the leap year as 1 again, and thus added leap days every 3 years not 4. They caught the error, and Augustus ordered it fixed by skipping 3 leap years over a 12 year total period.

Only problem is they aren't sure exactly when that happened. It was correct no later than 8 AD, but it could've been before, maybe be 4 AD. They're not sure, and so dates before then in the Roman calendar are not certain before 8 AD.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:57 AM (w6EFb)

305 Adriane, I hope that you feel better.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:59 AM (0nHVk)

306 Sorry, Adriene. That sucks.

Antibiotics turn my stomach too. Try taking it with some food? Like, toast or biscuit with butter & jam.

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 02:05 AM (rdVOm)

307 Adriane, I hope that you feel better.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:59 AM (0nHVk)

Seconded!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 02:06 AM (lB2e2)

308
If a pill has a score on one side, does that mean it can be cut?
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . .

That, or it has a subscription to ESPN and it can run through that day's MLB results. The name of the teams are quite hard to discern, however.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 02:07 AM (Tv15w)

309 I actually decided to read the content. Damn, that blonde chick is a head case. Hot chicks never learn this one single lesson. A dude who could get a chick that hot to start with has no reason to deal with your bullshit, he'll just pass you by to find a more normal hot chick. I watched my brother for years perfect this. A former band mate of my mine from years back, basically the other guitar player, said this to a hot chick with an attitude. "I would step over 10 like you to jerk off". Because he also knew, why drive the broke down POS when a new car is always around the corner.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 02:09 AM (snZF9)

310
Originally leap days were bisexual....

They didn't have a Feb. 29, but repeated Feb 24. This was called the "bisextus". Romans counted inclusively, which is where that off-by-one error came from. The "sextus" was the 6th day before the calends, or the first of the month. So, in Roman inclusive counting, the 6th day before Mar, 1 was 1, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24.

So Feb 24 was the sextus, and repeating it gave you a bi-sextus. Now, question is which is considered the odd one, the extra one, the first Feb. 24, or the second. By the Roman logic, it should be the first one, I think.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 02:12 AM (w6EFb)

311
The video lady looks like she could get a good deal with those lips
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway

I do not understand the appeal of the overinflated lips' "beauty enhancement". It's obviously artificial and it sounds out, like a klaxon, "I am a sucker for the current thing".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 02:14 AM (Tv15w)

312 Put down aluminum foil where you don't want cats to go.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 02:15 AM (lhenN)

313 >I do not understand the appeal of the overinflated lips' "beauty enhancement". It's obviously artificial and it sounds out, like a klaxon, "I am a sucker ~~for the current thing~~".

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 02:16 AM (lhenN)

314
It wasn't until maybe the 15th century when Feb. 29 started being used much.

Hell, the House of Commons continued to use bisexual leap days for a long time. It wasn't until the New Style calendar act was passed (which adopted the Gregorian without calling it that, because Catholic) that Feb. 29 became official law. It was used unofficially well before then.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 02:16 AM (w6EFb)

315 That, or it has a subscription to ESPN and it can run through that day's MLB results. The name of the teams are quite hard to discern, however.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

Ya got a magnifying glass I can barrow?

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 02:17 AM (3ZUWJ)

316
publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Where do you find the time to take in such chronotrivia?

Yes, that was rhetorical.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 02:17 AM (Tv15w)

317 Night, all. Sleep beckons.

Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 02:19 AM (rdVOm)

318 The Biden administration trafickked hundreds of thousands of children into the US. They were abused.

Find them. Children are not detable.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 02:21 AM (viF8m)

319
Our scout troop would go to the enormous Cabela's outlet store in Hamburg, PA after we finished our session in the rock climbing gym. This was an every other year trip.

Back then (about fifteen years ago) outdoor goods' stores were slapping camo on everything. Among such things was camo sleepwear and crib bedding for infants. I would tell the scouts that such s combo was extremely dangerous.

"Why, Mr. KvC?"

"Have you any idea how many babies are irretrievably lost every year because parents dressed them in camo sleepwear and then set then down in their crib that was fitted out with camo bedding? Well, do you?"

Yes, I wore out that joke after about five years. I haven't tried in on my gKids, however. That will be its farewell tour.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 02:30 AM (Tv15w)

320 Adriane, I hope that you feel better.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Seconded!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Turns out there is a big difference between liquid diet and clear liquid diet ...

But thanks. Prayers for health and healing for us all ...

Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 02:32 AM (3ZUWJ)

321 Put down aluminum foil where you don't want cats to go.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 02:15 AM (lhenN)

Or the government.

Posted by: RickZ, Adjusting Tin Foil Hat at July 26, 2025 02:37 AM (gKDq2)

322 Well, I am off to bed. Tired, but not feeling unwell. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 02:40 AM (qLXme)

323 That's what I thought.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 02:43 AM (viF8m)

324 Greetings Everyone

Scrolled thru all the posts- sleep beckons here on the lefty coast.

AOP - prayers for your continued good health.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 26, 2025 02:48 AM (QGaXH)

325 I was single for 10 years after my divorce and went on 3 dates during that time, all of which were unmitigated disasters, redeemed only by the fact that they made good stories later. So I gave up on dating and just married my friend. We'll hit 24 years in November.

Posted by: Frankie at July 26, 2025 02:57 AM (ODcS5)

326 242 I want to avoid a pacemaker if I can. I do a lot of welding, and electric welding is unfriendly to pacemakers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:25 AM (QjQFX)

I guess you could hire an assistant to jump up behind you and scare hell out of you every few minutes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 03:04 AM (1Gsou)

327 I have been to the Gaslight Bar in downtown Anchorage. A very long time ago. Back when bars in Anchorage were somewhat more notorious than they are now.

However, the clientele has changed a bit over the years. And yes, we have Somalians, Nigerians, every African shithole national Joe Biden could send over the border. They usually last one winter and then skedaddle. Apparently not soon enough in this case.

And I am surprised that it took a security guard to off the dude. I'm sure he wasn't the only one there packing. I know for a fact that I would not go downtown unarmed these days. Anchorage is rapidly becoming a leftist shithole.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 03:08 AM (1Gsou)

328 Anyone who thinks the blonde in the video is "hot", either needs their eyes checked or is desperate. Those Botox filled clown lips should be the red flag you need re her mental instability.

Posted by: Lock n Unload at July 26, 2025 03:17 AM (4U+8N)

329 Launch time changed.

GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-26 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS

Launch Date: July 26, 2025
New T-Zero: 5:01 a.m. EDT (0901 UTC, 11:01 CEST).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM240ysQXdE

Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 03:32 AM (sPQoU)

330 Well, I am off to bed. Tired, but not feeling unwell. Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 02:40 AM (qLXme)

Hope you feel better AOP

Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 03:35 AM (sPQoU)

331 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM240ysQXdE
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 03:32 AM (sPQoU)

Thank you. Joyenz.

Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 04:01 AM (sNI6D)

332 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

333 333

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

334 Do not fuck with cats. I'm suffering from only 4 puncture wounds and my right hand is swollen to the point of being out of order, basically.

Fun fact I learned at the urgent care yesterday: 85% of cat bites get infected, while only 15% of dog bites get infected.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 26, 2025 07:03 AM (w6EFb)

335 OK, finally an entertaining ONT! It's been a while.

Posted by: BufordGooch at July 26, 2025 09:33 AM (ZoHZd)

336 That kid getting the IV is a natural-born Navy Seal for sure.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at July 26, 2025 09:34 AM (ERYKL)

337 Well, dating is like an interview, isn't it? I couldn't tell if vid number two was the same woman or not. So, if you took vid number one as an insulting lecture, why does that mean she's getting what she deserves because of her attitude?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)

The woman in the second video has the same eyes and nose, but her lips aren’t as puffed and the caterpillar eyebrows look trimmed. Certainly in the first video, she isn’t pretty enough to me to carry the attitude.

Oxford commas somehow fell into disrepute, but their absence changes the meaning of the sentence. There are times when that matters a great deal.

Posted by: Advo at July 26, 2025 11:46 AM (jO4mz)

338 Camo favorites
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