Hoodoo Cafe

The crying squirrel is saved, the next day the little one shows up again and from that moment he became a part of family pic.twitter.com/WemoJhDtDt
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) July 29, 2025

When the vibes hit, even the kitty joins in pic.twitter.com/zFjT43RCEH
— We don't deserve cats 😺 (@catsareblessing) July 29, 2025

pic.twitter.com/VRce82mndl
— love aniamals (@loveanimal111) July 29, 2025

The beluga tried to scare the boy twice and when it didn't work, he decided to play around. pic.twitter.com/ut3nuyBeEb
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) July 30, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:56 PM

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1 Meep meep!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 30, 2025 07:56 PM (KW5no)

2 That’s a river otter, ace.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 30, 2025 07:56 PM (KW5no)

3 Very eldritch.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 30, 2025 07:58 PM (gKWVE)

4 Valley of Bad Dreams, I would say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 30, 2025 07:59 PM (XeU6L)

5
Feeling better. After I came in after spending three hours working in the yard, with the temps in the 90s, I was in bad shape. Took a shower and just sat in my armchair for the rest of the afternoon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 30, 2025 08:00 PM (HZi96)

6 Hulk's poor dog.

Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.5 % at July 30, 2025 08:00 PM (jvJvP)

7 Cats with good genes (who are obviously Nazis, especially the one with the Hitler mustache).

Cats that look like that all get named "Adolf Kittler," right?

Posted by: mikeski at July 30, 2025 08:02 PM (DgGvY)

8 That’s a river otter, ace.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 30, 2025 07:56 PM

Well, yeah, he did say "the good kind".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 30, 2025 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

9 >>>Grooming a teddy bear dog.

Pervert.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 30, 2025 08:03 PM (p4nXC)

10 There is something wrong about that bottom pic. I suspect Ai.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:04 PM (idIpT)

11 Watching cats watching The Lion King is my jam

Posted by: gKWVE at July 30, 2025 08:04 PM (gKWVE)

12 hitler cats!!

Posted by: runner at July 30, 2025 08:05 PM (g47mK)

13
Dutch (the Beeg Boy) would not only twitch in his sleep but also snore. He was no fun to share a bed with.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 30, 2025 08:05 PM (HZi96)

14 Oh dear Lord ace, I hope you knew that bottom collage was AI...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:05 PM (idIpT)

15 The sleeping dogs video has got me laughing so hard.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 30, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)

16 Dutch (the Beeg Boy) would not only twitch in his sleep but also snore. He was no fun to share a bed with.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 30, 2025 08:05 PM

Anything else?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) new hyper-masculine face of the Democrat Party at July 30, 2025 08:06 PM (0sNs1)

17 Dutch (the Beeg Boy) would not only twitch in his sleep but also snore. He was no fun to share a bed with.

Yeah our current cat Dexter snores, but its quiet sort of kitty snores, not disturbing. He does chase stuff a lot in his dreams though. And jerks away suddenly a lot. Doesn't seem very restful but he sleeps most of the day anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:06 PM (dfIr7)

18 wait, wut ? is that funeral pic for real ??? ok, people, we need warnings. some of us sensitive to open casket shots.

Posted by: runner at July 30, 2025 08:06 PM (g47mK)

19 Eric Swalwell (D-CA) new hyper-masculine face of the Democrat

Dude, he was benching 135 pounds, he is all that is man!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:07 PM (dfIr7)

20 like, "if you want to see open casket shot of XYZ celebrity, ..click on this" kinda thing

Posted by: runner at July 30, 2025 08:07 PM (g47mK)

21 I lived in San Juan County, NM for a long time. There are all sorts of badlands, interesting rock formations and lots of BLM and BOR land.

I really miss the desert, but I do not miss living in New Mexico.

Posted by: huerfano at July 30, 2025 08:07 PM (n2swS)

22 No, it's not for real:

1) different stocking caps

2) one picture would have required him to be bisected mid torso.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:08 PM (idIpT)

23 Willowed:

{ 184, previous thread }

ace, Ian S., A.H. Lloyd, Gref, Harry, SpeakingOf, and Elric:

Just wanted to say thanks for the replies to my question. I think I've got a better grasp of how the back and forth in this 15% tariff works, and why it's going to be so successful for the USA.

Much appreciated.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 30, 2025 08:08 PM (O7YUW)

24 I ain't even gonna lie, i think 135 is probably my max.

But i don't actually tell people that. I mean I'll tell you people that. But not people people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:09 PM (Dsfam)

25 Hogan's eyes are open in one picture and closed in another? That's... odd.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 30, 2025 08:10 PM (O7YUW)

26 But i don't actually tell people that. I mean I'll tell you people that. But not people people.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:09 PM (Dsfam)

Never know when Sydney Sweeney might be lurking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:10 PM (idIpT)

27 135 for reps, people! Reps!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) new hyper-masculine face of the Democrat Party at July 30, 2025 08:10 PM (0sNs1)

28 There is something wrong about that bottom pic. I suspect Ai.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Look at the lower left. The cut the Hulkster in half to fit him in the box sideways.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2025 08:10 PM (6WCwE)

29 Never know when Sydney Sweeney might be lurking.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:10 PM (idIpT)

Hey, i look like i could bench 200, and at the end of the day, isn't that what really matters?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:11 PM (Dsfam)

30 Look at the lower left. The cut the Hulkster in half to fit him in the box sideways.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2025 08:10 PM (6WCwE)

I know. That would make a visitation awkward as fuck.

I hate visitations anyway...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:12 PM (idIpT)

31 Great game for you and your cat and it's free.

The video cut off just before the cat chomped one of them.

Posted by: mikeski at July 30, 2025 08:13 PM (DgGvY)

32 If anyone is looking for light mens shorts for hot weather, I recommend the wrangler authentic on Amazon. Thin, lightweight. Plenty of pockets. Like 25-30 a pair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:14 PM (idIpT)

33 27 135 for reps, people! Reps!
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) new hyper-masculine face of the Democrat Party at July 30, 2025 08:10 PM (0sNs1)

Yes, yes. And if you ever hit a buck fifty, you can run for senate, bubbelah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:14 PM (Dsfam)

34 sorry. I thought the Hulk pic was real. I'll take it down.

Posted by: ace at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (KRtlO)

35 But i don't actually tell people that. I mean I'll tell you people that. But not people people.

I don't know how much I could press, but you and I don't go around portraying ourselves as manly masculine tough guy leaders. Well, I don't at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (dfIr7)

36 Well, I don't at least.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (dfIr7)

I do. But only ironically.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (Dsfam)

37 Hogan's eyes are open in one picture and closed in another? That's... odd.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

He changed from a white- to yellow-lettered bandana, and black to white shirt, too.

Posted by: mikeski at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (DgGvY)

38 at the end of the day my quality control drops to 0

Posted by: ace at July 30, 2025 08:16 PM (KRtlO)

39 I think the whole "view the deceased" thing is freaking bizarre personally. I don't want to see a corpse. It has been tough enough to have to see too many of my family dead already without going to see some random dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:16 PM (dfIr7)

40 I do. But only ironically.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (Dsfam)

I just had a mental image of Macho Man Randy Savage with a hipster fedora...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:16 PM (idIpT)

41 That’s a river otter, ace.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 30, 2025 07:56 PM

Well, yeah, he did say "the good kind".
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 30, 2025 08:03 PM

Can I have your stuff?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 30, 2025 08:16 PM (Wnv9h)

42 34 sorry. I thought the Hulk pic was real. I'll take it down.

Posted by: ace at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (KRtlO)

The sentiment was nice.
It probably went viral for whoever did it.

I thought it was real at first glance, and then read the comments.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 30, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt)

43 >>>14 Oh dear Lord ace, I hope you knew that bottom collage was AI...

I saw that just before I posted it... it was a last-second addition. I just went "oh this is topical, and it has a dog, I should post it"

Posted by: ace at July 30, 2025 08:17 PM (KRtlO)

44 sorry. I thought the Hulk pic was real. I'll take it down.
Posted by: ace at July 30, 2025 08:15 PM (KRtlO)

Just because it's not real does not mean it's not hilarious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:17 PM (idIpT)

45 I thought it was real at first glance, and then read the comments.

AI isn't good enough yet, but there will be a day soon when its going to be brutally hard for elderly to tell what's a scam and what is real.

My mom used to get phone calls from scammers claiming to be "your grandson" and asking for money. Being a Silent Gen she was always very polite and felt guilty for not helping them but she would insist on a name.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:18 PM (dfIr7)

46 at the end of the day my quality control drops to 0
Posted by: ace at July 30, 2025 08:16 PM (KRtlO)

How dare you besmirch this cafe of light hearted blow off stuff meant to cleanse the palate from a day's worth of pinko buttfuckery with such slapdash efforts at sharing memes?

Be better, ace. Be better.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:18 PM (Dsfam)

47 British singer Paul Mario Day, best known as the original singer in Iron Maiden, died at 69 this week.

Posted by: SMOD at July 30, 2025 08:18 PM (GITLP)

48 Days worth of pinko buttfuckery...

Must have missed that...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:19 PM (idIpT)

49 I just had a mental image of Macho Man Randy Savage with a hipster fedora...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:16 PM (idIpT)

So you've seen my linkedin profile, then?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:20 PM (Dsfam)

50 Dog dreams...so funny!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 30, 2025 08:20 PM (zYpTz)

51 Kitten is overseeing her servant.

Eh. She lays here, or she lays on the keyboard.

Posted by: working-at-home gal at July 30, 2025 08:20 PM (DgGvY)

52 British singer Paul Mario Day, best known as the original singer in Iron Maiden, died at 69 this week.

He wasn't bad but yeah, I'd hate to have to compete with Bruce Dickinson. Well other than an IQ contest

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:20 PM (dfIr7)

53 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2025 08:20 PM (6WCwE)

54 Some of those cats look like they were stitched together by Dr. Frankenstein.

Posted by: Toad-0 at July 30, 2025 08:23 PM (/rmtj)

55 I'd hate to have to compete with Bruce Dickinson. Well other than an IQ contest
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

What that THE Bruce Dickinson?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2025 08:23 PM (6WCwE)

56 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2025 08:20 PM (6WCwE)

(And everyone goes silent)

Good people are here? Crap! SCATTER!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:24 PM (Dsfam)

57 Dudes seeing the big cat video all look at each other and nod knowingly.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 30, 2025 08:24 PM (wzAuc)

58 The Atlantic: Damn conservative commentators are arguing that it's OK for men to like big boobs.

https://is.gd/zMxpI6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 30, 2025 08:24 PM (L/fGl)

59
Look at the lower left. The cut the Hulkster in half to fit him in the box sideways.
Posted by: Tonypete

Contents may shift during shipping.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 30, 2025 08:27 PM (63Dwl)

60 The Atlantic: Damn conservative commentators are arguing that it's OK for men to like big boobs.

https://is.gd/zMxpI6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 30, 2025 08:24 PM (L/fGl)

If "big" were the only criterion, we'd all be slavering over Karen and Shantiqu'a in the Sprunt commercials.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 30, 2025 08:27 PM (Dsfam)

61 Cats that look like that all get named "Adolf Kittler," right?
Posted by: mikeski at July 30, 2025 08:02 PM (DgGvY)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 30, 2025 08:28 PM (zYpTz)

62 Squirrel is clearly a Moron...made a leap for those tittays!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 30, 2025 08:28 PM (Wnv9h)

63 AI isn't good enough yet, but there will be a day soon when its going to be brutally hard for elderly to tell what's a scam and what is real.

My mom used to get phone calls from scammers claiming to be "your grandson" and asking for money. Being a Silent Gen she was always very polite and felt guilty for not helping them but she would insist on a name.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:18 PM (dfIr7)

They're already doing that.

Last year some scammers made off with $25 million from a Hong Kong company when they used AI to deepfake a video and audio conference call from the CFO, along with some other fake coworkers, of the company telling the employee to transfer the money in 15 different transactions.

People have been AI deepfaking voices to impersonate relatives begging for money for a few years now.
It usually involves being held for ransom or needing bail money or something similar.
The voices are convincing if the crooks have a recording of your voice to start with.

This sort of thing will be as commonplace in the future as scam phone calls are now unless we figure out a way to prevent it/label it, detect it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 30, 2025 08:28 PM (6ydKt)

64 The Atlantic: Damn conservative commentators are arguing that it's OK for men to like big boobs.

Best comment:
Geez, guys. Why isn't the left appealing to men?

https://is.gd/zMxpI6

Posted by: Archimedes at July 30, 2025 08:30 PM (Riz8t)

66 Watching Thunderbolts* because I like Florence Pugh

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 30, 2025 08:31 PM (eZ5tL)

67 Dudes seeing the big cat video all look at each other and nod knowingly.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

(honey, are you awake?)

Honey, are you awake?

HONEY, ARE YOU AWAKE?

Posted by: the leopardess at July 30, 2025 08:31 PM (DgGvY)

68 If "big" were the only criterion, we'd all be slavering over Karen and Shantiqu'a in the Sprunt commercials.

Right? And there are those of us who prefer a more balanced figure.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 30, 2025 08:31 PM (Riz8t)

69 Some of those cats look like they were stitched together by Dr. Frankenstein.
Posted by: Toad-0

Glitches in the Matrix. It started drawing an orange tabby, and switched to tuxedo halfway through.

Posted by: mikeski at July 30, 2025 08:33 PM (DgGvY)

70 The Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness (Valley of Dreams) is in NW New Mexico and is in a dark sky region. It is a godly place. For extra credit Chaco Canyon is near by. Its has magnificent ancient Puebloan ruins and is the type of place that can and does send chills up your back; it is place where you can be walking along and out of the blue an overwhelming sense of a presence of something bigger that what you can see visits you.

The photo is of one of the iconic Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah land forms and gets a close as you can in a photo to how the night sky there can leave you with tears running down your cheeks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 30, 2025 08:37 PM (9vYpt)

71 Heh. Top post at insty.

Nice cleavage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

72 Watching Thunderbolts* because I like Florence Pugh
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

pew-pew~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 30, 2025 08:38 PM (mlg/3)

73 one way to help with scams would be for all AIs to have a code they embed in their work that can be detected, something that flags their stuff as AI. That won't stop crooks from using their own, but AIs are not cheap or easy to develop

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:39 PM (dfIr7)

74 Wasn't Pugh nekkid in Oppenheimer?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:39 PM (zZu0s)

75 Watching Thunderbolts* because I like Florence Pugh

She's one of those girls that is cute but has a gymnast body, very blocky and squat. I knew a girl in high school like that, she was a cutie and very sweet. Always seemed like she was kind of shrugging.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:41 PM (dfIr7)

76 73 one way to help with scams would be for all AIs to have a code they embed in their work that can be detected, something that flags their stuff as AI. That won't stop crooks from using their own, but AIs are not cheap or easy to develop

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:39 PM (dfIr7)

It's going to have to something like that and/or some kind of app that scans and detects AI in real time, and gives a warning flag when it's found.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 30, 2025 08:42 PM (6ydKt)

77 74
Topless. My son and his friends went to go see Oppenheimer twice because of that. He didn't remember anything else about it. Teenagers

Posted by: jmel at July 30, 2025 08:42 PM (bVhJi)

78 British singer Paul Mario Day, best known as the original singer in Iron Maiden, died at 69 this week.

Posted by: SMOD at July 30, 2025 08:18 PM (GITLP)

Damn. He's gone, Paul Di Anno is gone, Clive Burr is gone. 3 ex maiden members.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 08:42 PM (snZF9)

79
My mom used to get phone calls from scammers claiming to be "your grandson" and asking for money. Being a Silent Gen she was always very polite and felt guilty for not helping them but she would insist on a name.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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This has happened to me. A 'nephew', he claimed. 'Oh, says I, 'What is your mother's name?' *click*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 30, 2025 08:44 PM (XeU6L)

80 What a day.

I need me some Philippians 4:6-7

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:45 PM (mzM2O)

81 74 Wasn't Pugh nekkid in Oppenheimer?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:39 PM (zZu0s

She was. Very hot.

Get it. Hot.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:47 PM (mzM2O)

82 80 What a day.

I need me some Philippians 4:6-7

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:45 PM (mzM2O)
And all GOD's children say 'Amen!'

Posted by: Eromero at July 30, 2025 08:48 PM (LHPAg)

83 She's one of those girls that is cute but has a gymnast body, very blocky and squat. I knew a girl in high school like that, she was a cutie and very sweet. Always seemed like she was kind of shrugging.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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And a ring in her nose. Pas O ley

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 08:48 PM (85azL)

84
Last year some scammers made off with $25 million from a Hong Kong company when they used AI to deepfake a video and audio conference call from the CFO, along with some other fake coworkers, of the company telling the employee to transfer the money in 15 different transactions.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

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

That scam has existed for 30 years. It used to be to get a low-level employee to fax sensitive information to the scammer under the guise of the boss's urgent request. Scammers are always early adopters.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 30, 2025 08:49 PM (jEpJm)

85 The breakout over the Sweeney thing is really bizarre. You'd expect a bit of the fringe wackos would flip, but they always do. There seem to be a significant number of chick's losing their shit.

Wth?

They're boobs. They are meant to bring us together, not drive us apart.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

86 84
Last year some scammers made off with $25 million from a Hong Kong company when they used AI to deepfake a video and audio conference call from the CFO, along with some other fake coworkers, of the company telling the employee to transfer the money in 15 different transactions.

Posted by: SpeakingOf

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

That scam has existed for 30 years. It used to be to get a low-level employee to fax sensitive information to the scammer under the guise of the boss's urgent request. Scammers are always early adopters.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 30, 2025 08:49 PM (jEpJm

AI is gonna kill us all.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:51 PM (mzM2O)

87 And a ring in her nose. Pas O ley

I hadn't seen that. I'd say "instant pass" but its not like she'd give me the time of day anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:52 PM (dfIr7)

88 I may be in the minority but Sweeny is pretty basic. She's got a nice rack but she's a Walmart 9.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:52 PM (mzM2O)

89 Crikey, A/C guy came and did a service check. Checks the thermostat. He reset the temp to 74. It's freezing in here.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 08:53 PM (HFcKg)

90 AI is going to cause problems. There are the political ramifications, certainly.

But I was thinking about porn. Porn is usually an early adopter. Will it cause it to crater or will people want the real thing. I'll admit, I don't know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

91 She's got a nice rack but she's a Walmart 9.

She's cuter than any girl I ever got to kiss.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:54 PM (dfIr7)

92 I like how the one dog tried to wake up the dreaming dog

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Oy! at July 30, 2025 08:54 PM (AOsQT)

93 She's got a nice rack but she's a Walmart 9.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:52 PM (mzM2O)

Pointy elbows.

I wouldn't go anywhere near that far. She has the languid eyes and her delivery is ofd, but she seems fun and a smile transforms her face.

Pretty gal. Scoog hard 1.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:54 PM (zZu0s)

94 He reset the temp to 74. It's freezing in here.

*looks at AC set at 68*

women...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:55 PM (dfIr7)

95 ============

That scam has existed for 30 years. It used to be to get a low-level employee to fax sensitive information to the scammer under the guise of the boss's urgent request. Scammers are always early adopters.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 30, 2025 08:49 PM (jEpJm

AI is gonna kill us all.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
-------------------------

Several places, including banks, are using voice ID instead of codes. That's not going to go well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 08:55 PM (85azL)

96 91 She's got a nice rack but she's a Walmart 9.

She's cuter than any girl I ever got to kiss.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 08:54 PM (dfIr7)

She's cute. Not saying she's not. But she's not a classic beauty like say a Jolie or Theron. Ana De Armas is a 10/10 in my book.

I'd give Sweeney a 7/10 with a bonus .7 for a nice chest.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:56 PM (mzM2O)

97 I'd agree on Theron but hard disagree on Jolie. Huh. People are different.

Angels on the head of a pin, tbf.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:58 PM (zZu0s)

98 I want to post this in the morning but couldn't find it.
It's a study they did with twins. One had Multiple Sclerosis and one didn't . They found two bacteria in the gut microbiome that seem to be responsible for MS and may give them a way to treat it.

https://tinyurl.com/35jc7m5k
(Goes to Substack)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 30, 2025 08:58 PM (TEi+a)

99 Pointy elbows.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:54 PM (zZu0s

The downfall of many a pretty lass.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 08:58 PM (mzM2O)

100 Saw the Sweeney ad, it was well done.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 08:58 PM (85azL)

101 Several places, including banks, are using voice ID instead of codes. That's not going to go well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 08:55 PM (85azL)

You'd have thought that would be a no brainer a decade ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:59 PM (zZu0s)

102 85: 85 The breakout over the Sweeney thing is really bizarre. You'd expect a bit of the fringe wackos would flip, but they always do. There seem to be a significant number of chick's losing their shit.

Wth?

They're boobs. They are meant to bring us together, not drive us apart.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
.....................................

There are those who just want to watch the world burn.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2025 08:59 PM (sAmhv)

103 I watched PDT hit a drive at his course in Sterling VA over the Fourth. He crushed the ball!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 30, 2025 08:59 PM (W/lyH)

104 Saw the Sweeney ad, it was well done.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 08:58 PM (85azL)

Am i the only one who saw it and thought 'Denim leisure suit. Boobs'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:00 PM (zZu0s)

105 Our Golden would have let anyone in the house...and take them to the laundry room where his treats were stored. To be fed before the bloody rampage of his owners.

The Golden greeting the man above gets his stuffed animal. They do this when they are happy to see you. It is sort of a pacifier.

Our Golden was also addicted to our son's dirty socks and would hide them. Granted the boys were pigs and often did not put them in the laundry basket in their closets. Their father told me to "pick my battles" and I gave up on their rooms in high school.

He once met a couple we were having for dinner, and did not know really well. He arrived in the foyer with a pair of one son's dirty underwear in his mouth to say hello. He reserved this for special guests. Fortunately they had a Golden as well who was a nutcase.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 30, 2025 09:01 PM (6PCLE)

106 Apparently Tom Cruise is dating Ana De Armas.

Cruise is 63 and she's 37.

Good for him, I say.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:03 PM (mzM2O)

107 I think golden just love everyone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:03 PM (zZu0s)

108 Anatolian shepherd is smart. Took and held the high ground.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 30, 2025 09:04 PM (W/lyH)

109 I watched PDT hit a drive at his course in Sterling VA over the Fourth. He crushed the ball!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 30, 2025 08:59 PM (W/lyH)

I shot a friend in the face with a 28 gauge.

Posted by: Dick Cheney at July 30, 2025 09:04 PM (g47mK)

110 103 I watched PDT hit a drive at his course in Sterling VA over the Fourth. He crushed the ball!
Posted by: Diogenes
---

The one over a sand then water trap that ended about a foot and half from the pin?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 09:04 PM (85azL)

111 Plenty of space in the sky of that top photo for the book title and the author's name.

OUTHOUSE of the COVEN
by John Crapper

(Sorry, that formation definitely looks like an outhouse, and you will never un-see it now.)

Posted by: tankdemon at July 30, 2025 09:04 PM (yLlTi)

112 103 I watched PDT hit a drive at his course in Sterling VA over the Fourth. He crushed the ball!
Posted by: Diogene
.................................
Big deal. I can crush a golf ball to. It even lands on a fairway. Usually the one on the right, parrellel to the actual hole I'm on. I recently hit a ball so far to the right, it landed two holes over. A push slice or something. I haven't golfed much the last couple of years and it shows.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2025 09:06 PM (sAmhv)

113 Several places, including banks, are using voice ID instead of codes. That's not going to go well.

Posted by: B

theres an option to decline

Posted by: n at July 30, 2025 09:06 PM (vuem7)

114 Haiti's gangs control 90% of Port-au-Prince
youtu.be/CkwVKdURLwU

Posted by: gKWVE at July 30, 2025 09:07 PM (gKWVE)

115 Haiti's gangs control 90% of Port-au-Prince

==

huh, and neither France, the UK or Canada are concerned for the well being Haitians; weird

Posted by: Dick Cheney at July 30, 2025 09:10 PM (g47mK)

116 106 Apparently Tom Cruise is dating Ana De Armas.

Cruise is 63 and she's 37.

Good for him, I say.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:03 PM (mzM2O)

She's obviously too old for Leonardo DiCaprio.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 30, 2025 09:10 PM (yLlTi)

117 off!

Posted by: runner at July 30, 2025 09:10 PM (g47mK)

118 Haiti's gangs control 90% of Port-au-Prince
youtu.be/CkwVKdURLwU
Posted by: gKWVE at July 30, 2025 09:07 PM (gKWVE)

How do they measure that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

119 I watched PDT hit a drive at his course in Sterling VA over the Fourth. He crushed the ball!
Posted by: Diogenes
---

The one over a sand then water trap that ended about a foot and half from the pin?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 09:04 PM (85azL)
***

This one was in the middle of the fairway. Pretty impressive.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 30, 2025 09:11 PM (W/lyH)

120 How do they measure that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s

Via helicopter?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:12 PM (mzM2O)

121 I had a place broken into, when I had a Golden. She had a litter of puppies. They held her off with a mop handle and didn't stay long. They did get my mom's M-1 carbine

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 30, 2025 09:12 PM (TEi+a)

122 Haiti's gangs control 90% of Port-au-Prince
youtu.be/CkwVKdURLwU
Posted by: gKWVE
===

Were they better off under Papa Doc and the tontons?

They haven't gotten better.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 30, 2025 09:14 PM (/lPRQ)

123 That dog packing for his trip is a hoot.. He even brought his kibble...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 30, 2025 09:14 PM (VPPG8)

124 .................................
Big deal. I can crush a golf ball to. It even lands on a fairway. Usually the one on the right, parrellel to the actual hole I'm on. I recently hit a ball so far to the right, it landed two holes over. A push slice or something. I haven't golfed much the last couple of years and it shows.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2025 09:06 PM (sAmhv)
***

Hmmmmm.
So. I'm thinking a golfing MoMe...say a few bucks a hole???

Posted by: Diogenes at July 30, 2025 09:14 PM (W/lyH)

125 I watched PDT hit a drive at his course in Sterling VA over the Fourth. He crushed the ball!
Posted by: Diogene
.................................
Big deal. I can crush a golf ball to. It even lands on a fairway. Usually the one on the right, parrellel to the actual hole I'm on. I recently hit a ball so far to the right, it landed two holes over. A push slice or something. I haven't golfed much the last couple of years and it shows.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2025 09:06 PM (sAmhv)

I would miss the earth.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 09:15 PM (snZF9)

126 So. I'm thinking a golfing MoMe...say a few bucks a hole???
Posted by: Diogenes at July 30, 2025 09:14 PM (W/lyH)

You should know better than that. Start off 'just having fun'. Then after a hole or two, how about we make things interesting?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

127 The Anatolian Shepherd Dog has Balls of Steel!

Posted by: Duke Nukem at July 30, 2025 09:16 PM (i0F8b)

128 Plus, I have not hit a golf ball in anger in almost 20 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:16 PM (zZu0s)

129 If you ain't got that swing it don't mean a thing !

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:16 PM (HFcKg)

130 You should know better than that. Start off 'just having fun'. Then after a hole or two, how about we make things interesting?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:15 PM (zZu0s)

Don't give it away!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:16 PM (mzM2O)

131 Diogenes' bag probably includes a well-used 1-iron.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 30, 2025 09:19 PM (8AONa)

132 Hmmmmm.
So. I'm thinking a golfing MoMe...say a few bucks a hole???
Posted by: Diogenes
.....................................
i can think of better ways to throw money away. Booze, guns, and ammo for instance. A golf MoMe would be interesting though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2025 09:20 PM (sAmhv)

133 Been to a Top golf a couple times with coworkers. I suck at first but by the start of the second game I get a little back into my golf form from mumbly years ago.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 30, 2025 09:20 PM (pvAU4)

134 The Anatolian Shepherd Dog has Balls of Steel!
Posted by: Duke Nukem
-------

Not on my watch

Posted by: Anatolian Shepherd Dog at July 30, 2025 09:20 PM (XeU6L)

135 Diogenes' bag probably includes a well-used 1-iron.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 30, 2025 09:19 PM (8AONa)

That would be known as a tell.

Unless by wellbused you mean blood and hair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:21 PM (zZu0s)

136 Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 30, 2025 09:06 PM (sAmhv)

I would miss the earth.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 09:15 PM (snZF9)

My father was very good at golf. He taught us tennis, basketball, badmitton and baseball. He wanted to teach me golf, figuring I could be (back then) one of the rare females to get a college scholarship and save him money. He was always thinking ahead. I told him it was too slow paced.

I do regret now not having it a try as it would have been more time with him as a teen. But it would probably be only one lesson as I would throw my putter or club as well as the ball as far as I could if I did not succeed quickly. I was known to throw my tricycle in the early days of toddlerhood.

He also taught me to shoot pool, which came in handy at bars in college. I was pretty good.

No scholarships were ever won by me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 30, 2025 09:22 PM (6PCLE)

137 ChristyBlinky, please give the TXMOME a thought. You would be right at home.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:24 PM (HFcKg)

138 Trump cracks me up. He is all La Tee Da Ho Hum I guess I'll just fly to Scotland to open my new world class golf course and country club . while I'm in town I'll visit my first course then make a couple of international deals. On my lunch break I think I'll call Cambodia and tell them to make nice nice with Thailand.. Just another day in Trumps world..
The man is truly one of a kind. I am cherishing every minute of his administration like I did Reagan's. We need to keep busy and hard at work to beat these F'n commie NWO weirdo bastards!!!! gonna take another 40-50 years...

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 30, 2025 09:26 PM (VPPG8)

139 They're boobs. They are meant to bring us together, not drive us apart.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Lift and separate.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 30, 2025 09:26 PM (L/fGl)

140 ChristyBlinky, please give the TXMOME a thought. You would be right at home.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:24 PM (HFcKg)

Yup, basically the human version of the Starwars bar at Mos Eisley, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 09:27 PM (snZF9)

141 116 106 Apparently Tom Cruise is dating Ana De Armas.

Cruise is 63 and she's 37.

Good for him, I say.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:03 PM (mzM2O)

So she’s auditioning for the role of prospective Mrs Millionaire. I wonder how hard she’s working for it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 30, 2025 09:28 PM (t+64Y)

142 Berserker, any chance your brother would join us again?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:29 PM (HFcKg)

143 140 ChristyBlinky, please give the TXMOME a thought. You would be right at home.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:24 PM (HFcKg)

Yup, basically the human version of the Starwars bar at Mos Eisley, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 09:27 PM (snZF9)

Posted by: Eromero at July 30, 2025 09:29 PM (LHPAg)

144 From the Bee.

Kamala Announces She Will Step Away From Politics To Spend More Time With Vodka

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 30, 2025 09:29 PM (L/fGl)

145 So she’s auditioning for the role of prospective Mrs Millionaire. I wonder how hard she’s working for it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I imagine she is really putting her back into it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2025 09:30 PM (6WCwE)

146 Lift and separate.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 30, 2025 09:26 PM

Cross your heart.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 30, 2025 09:30 PM (0sNs1)

147 The Anatolian Shepherd Dog has Balls of Steel!
Posted by: Duke Nukem at July 30, 2025 09:16 PM (i0F8b)

Dog was a female in heat. Wolves were all boys just looking for a night on the town.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 30, 2025 09:30 PM (4rENN)

148 143 140 ChristyBlinky, please give the TXMOME a thought. You would be right at home.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:24 PM (HFcKg)

Yup, basically the human version of the Starwars bar at Mos Eisley, lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 09:27 PM (snZF9)
3rd time on Beetlejuice.

Posted by: Eromero at July 30, 2025 09:31 PM (LHPAg)

149 So she’s auditioning for the role of prospective Mrs Millionaire. I wonder how hard she’s working for it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 30, 2025 09:28 PM (t+64Y)

She'd fit the Katie Holmes mold.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:31 PM (zZu0s)

150 Brennan and Clapper wrote an Opinion piece for tomorrow's NYTimes. You won't be surprised to hear that Trump and his cronies are a bunch of meanies.

https://archive.ph/KohNZ

Posted by: IrishEi at July 30, 2025 09:31 PM (3ImbR)

151 Brennan and Clapper wrote an Opinion piece for tomorrow's NYTimes. You won't be surprised to hear that Trump and his cronies are a bunch of meanies.

https://archive.ph/KohNZ
Posted by: IrishEi at July 30, 2025 09:31 PM (3ImbR)

And they are on the side of the Angels?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:32 PM (zZu0s)

152 137 ChristyBlinky, please give the TXMOME a thought. You would be right at home.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:24 PM (HFcKg)

What dis? Is it a good thing? Or Amway and like a MLM?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 30, 2025 09:32 PM (6PCLE)

153 Let's hope he doesn't turn her into a Scientology psychonaut.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:32 PM (mzM2O)

154 Berserker, any chance your brother would join us again?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:29 PM (HFcKg)

Highly unlikely. He'll probably be running some big renovation somewhere. But, if it happens to be in between jobs you never know, although that rarely happens because sometimes he running 2 at once with others overlapping.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 09:33 PM (snZF9)

155 Plenty of pockets. Like 25-30 a pair.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 08:14 PM (idIpT)

That is a lot of pockets for a pair of shorts.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 30, 2025 09:36 PM (D7oie)

156 ChristyBlinky, it is for real, food, booze, guns and the Horde .

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:37 PM (HFcKg)

157
He reset the temp to 74. It's freezing in here.

Well turn it up, Man!

Posted by: Freedom Rock at July 30, 2025 09:37 PM (63Dwl)

158 Booze after the guns, not before, right?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:38 PM (mzM2O)

159 AlaBAMA, definitely. Best RSO's and safety standards to be found. No exceptions.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:40 PM (HFcKg)

160 154 Berserker, any chance your brother would join us again?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:29 PM (HFcKg)

OH! The Moron get together! I am so stupid! I would be honored to go if I were not married to someone who does not know I hang out here. I would tell him I am flying off and he would ask questions and possibly arrange an intervention with our sons. "Your mother is flying to meet strangers that call themselves Morons!"

Honored, however, to be thought of, Ben. Seriously. I am sure these are so much fun!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 30, 2025 09:40 PM (6PCLE)

161 Booze after the guns, not before, right?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:38 PM (mzM2O)

Yeah they don't fuck around there. The guns get put away and stashed before you even see booze.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 30, 2025 09:40 PM (snZF9)

162 159 AlaBAMA, definitely. Best RSO's and safety standards to be found. No exceptions.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:40 PM (HFcKg)

I wouldn't expect less from ya'll.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:40 PM (mzM2O)

163 Booze after the guns, not before, right?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:38 PM

Guns, booze, dancing, Horse Trailer. Very strict order.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 30, 2025 09:41 PM (0sNs1)

164 BREAKING: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna just said House leadership is trying to pressure her into NOT bringing a petition to pass a ban on Congressional stock trading.

"I was told that I was 'putting the republic in jeopardy' because 'I was going to cost us the midterms' if I brought this to the floor.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Oy! at July 30, 2025 09:42 PM (AOsQT)

165 Two IRS harridans suspended from duty (excuse me, "placed on administrative leave") for targeting the Tea Party, back in the day.

I'm not going to start sucking my own dick until I actually see them in the dock in manacles, but a boy can dream.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 30, 2025 09:42 PM (qpyNK)

166 The infamous horse trailer.

What happens at a mome stays at a mome, I know.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:42 PM (mzM2O)

167 ChristyBlinky, Jewells had to assure her family that she was not going to be kidnapped by a cult before her first MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:43 PM (HFcKg)

168 >>>And they are on the side of the Angels?
~~~~~

Of course!

Posted by: IrishEi at July 30, 2025 09:44 PM (3ImbR)

169 You know the old adage about politics making strange bedfellows?

Ilhan "BroFo" Omar has come out in support of a congressional stock trading ban.

Although I suppose if I had to have a strange bedfellow, I'd rather it be her than Ratsheeta Taliban or Maxine Waters.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 30, 2025 09:44 PM (qpyNK)

170 I'm not going to start sucking my own dick until I actually see them in the dock in manacles, but a boy can dream.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 30, 2025 09:42 PM

Exceptions can be made.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at July 30, 2025 09:44 PM (0sNs1)

171 @106

>>Good for him, I say.

They are a generation apart, the only thing they would have in common is being in the movie business, and I can't imagine that being very exciting to talk about for too long.

Plus he's Tom Cruise, he can't really go anywhere without causing a panic, who would want to deal with that drama.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2025 09:44 PM (XV/Pl)

172 Sheep, are you sure you're stuck?

Posted by: Muhammad Muhammad at July 30, 2025 09:45 PM (i24o9)

173 > I can't imagine that being very exciting to talk about for too long.

What is this "talk" of which you speak?

Posted by: Tom Cruise's Penis at July 30, 2025 09:46 PM (qpyNK)

174 You know the old adage about politics making strange bedfellows?

Ilhan "BroFo" Omar has come out in support of a congressional stock trading ban.

Although I suppose if I had to have a strange bedfellow, I'd rather it be her than Ratsheeta Taliban or Maxine Waters.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 30, 2025 09:44 PM (qpyNK)

Omar doesn't need Congressional insider trading to make money. She has the muzzie contingent in Minnesota to financially support her.

Posted by: RickZ at July 30, 2025 09:46 PM (gKDq2)

175 Also, Ana De Armas is a lot older than I thought she was.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2025 09:47 PM (XV/Pl)

176 I must put the horse trailer myth to rest. It was simply a place for "city boys" that had never taken a leak outside.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:48 PM (HFcKg)

177
Wacky prediction:

As robots become more ubiquitous, the goblins& freaks will insist they make "gay" robots, too.

Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at July 30, 2025 09:48 PM (JNJHK)

178 Wacky prediction:

As robots become more ubiquitous, the goblins& freaks will insist they make "gay" robots, too.
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at July 30, 2025 09:48 PM (JNJHK)

Then the Robot Wars began.

Posted by: RickZ at July 30, 2025 09:49 PM (gKDq2)

179 176 I must put the horse trailer myth to rest. It was simply a place for "city boys" that had never taken a leak outside.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:48 PM (HFcKg)

They've never watered a tree??

City boys. Sheesh

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:49 PM (mzM2O)

180 @173

>>What is this "talk" of which you speak?

As cool as Cruise is, he's still an old smelly dude with ear hair.

They'll be sick of each other within a year.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2025 09:49 PM (XV/Pl)

181 That is a lot of pockets for a pair of shorts.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 30, 2025 09:36 PM (D7oie)

Dollars. per pair of shorts, not pockets.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:50 PM (zZu0s)

182 AlaBAMA, there was a tree right next to the horse trailer.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:50 PM (HFcKg)

183 I must put the horse trailer myth to rest. It was simply a place for "city boys" that had never taken a leak outside.
Posted by: Ben Had

The worst slam my sainted mother would utter was: "City kids!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 30, 2025 09:50 PM (6WCwE)

184 179 176 I must put the horse trailer myth to rest. It was simply a place for "city boys" that had never taken a leak outside.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:48 PM (HFcKg)

They've never watered a tree??

City boys. Sheesh
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:49 PM (mzM2O)

Probably never skinny dipped either

A wasted youth … 🤦‍♂️

Posted by: browndog barfing on the carpet at July 30, 2025 09:51 PM (TTAGa)

185 Enjoyed the tortoise video very much!!

Posted by: Gamera, Friend To All Japanese Children. at July 30, 2025 09:51 PM (G5+As)

186 re: Elaine Godfrey's Atlantic piece published on Sunday

Finally, she let readers know that Crockett received 7,000 fewer votes in her re-election campaign in 2024 than her predecessor, the late Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, did in 2020.

In other words, though Crockett hails from a safe district in Dallas, she is losing support even there.

The overall message of The Atlantic piece is clear: Jasmine Crockett should not be taken seriously or in any way become the face of the Democratic Party.

https://tinyurl.com/mrwy7zw8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 09:51 PM (85azL)

187 167 ChristyBlinky, Jewells had to assure her family that she was not going to be kidnapped by a cult before her first MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:43 PM (HFcKg)

Yep! They are all in jobs involving Internet stuff (well, husband is retired) and trust no one on the Internet. In another blog, which is for more old people (I am olde but do not feel old or act old), I post photos of my grands from the back only with no google ID. Due to the dark web stuff and knowing I'd kill someone if they messed with my grandchildren's faces. Some post photos but I know better (or think I do). So I remain in my castle on a hill.

I will be with y'all in spirit. If there is gin, have a gin and tonic for me.

I come here to be among normal people and laugh. Honored, though, Ben. Means a lot.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 30, 2025 09:51 PM (6PCLE)

188 I want to post this in the morning but couldn't find it.
It's a study they did with twins. One had Multiple Sclerosis and one didn't . They found two bacteria in the gut microbiome that seem to be responsible for MS and may give them a way to treat it.

https://tinyurl.com/35jc7m5k
(Goes to Substack)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 30, 2025 08:58 PM (TEi+a)

I want this to be true. Also there was a recent paper researching employees of Santander bank in Spain that indicated that cholesterol levels are influenced heavily by the microbiome as well.

MS and cardiovascular disease are not understood, and have only had pallitive treatments to date. Those treatments are pretty harsh

Posted by: Kindltot at July 30, 2025 09:51 PM (D7oie)

189 Who hasn't looked off into the middle distance or at some cows on the other side of a fence and said, 'Hey guys. Don't mind me. Just taking a whizz.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:52 PM (zZu0s)

190 browndog, there is that great pond right by the house !

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:52 PM (HFcKg)

191 189 Who hasn't looked off into the middle distance or at some cows on the other side of a fence and said, 'Hey guys. Don't mind me. Just taking a whizz.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:52 PM (zZu0s

We all pissed on the electric fence to see if it was true.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 30, 2025 09:52 PM (mzM2O)

192 As cool as Cruise is, he's still an old smelly dude with ear hair.

They'll be sick of each other within a year.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
---------------

Envy? Jealousy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 09:53 PM (85azL)

193 "I come here to be among normal people and laugh."

Here? Normal people?

Posted by: davidt at July 30, 2025 09:53 PM (i0F8b)

194 190 browndog, there is that great pond right by the house !
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:52 PM (HFcKg)

I do remember …

And now that the subject has been broached …

Well, things could get interesting this year

😉

Posted by: browndog barfing on the carpet at July 30, 2025 09:54 PM (TTAGa)

195 @192

>>Envy? Jealousy?

Absolutely.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2025 09:54 PM (XV/Pl)

196 We all pissed on the electric fence to see if it was true.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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I stepped on a wire when I was 6. I didn't need to piss on the wire.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 30, 2025 09:54 PM (85azL)

197 I tried hopping over an electric fence once. It didn't end well.

Posted by: davidt at July 30, 2025 09:56 PM (i0F8b)

198 193 "I come here to be among normal people and laugh."

Here? Normal people?
Posted by: davidt at July 30, 2025 09:53 PM (i0F8b)

Crazy people? My kind of people. I am from the Deep South and that's what I am used to.

I mean, this blog can go from whatever Ace posts to arguing about Lucy and the football, and if Peppermint Patty is a lesbian in a matter of minutes. That's the content I need in 2025.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 30, 2025 09:56 PM (6PCLE)

199 Imidazole propionate is a driver and therapeutic target in atherosclerosis

An antagonist that blocks uptake of Imidazole P in mouse models stops artherosclerosis.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09263-w#Sec7

Posted by: Kindltot at July 30, 2025 09:57 PM (D7oie)

200

hahaha, gaza freaks tossed red paint all over NYT building

Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at July 30, 2025 09:57 PM (JNJHK)

201 "Your mother is flying to meet strangers that call themselves Morons!"

We can work with that. Jewell's family thought we were probably psycho killers or something.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 30, 2025 09:58 PM (/y8xj)

202 ChristyBlinky, while we joke about it, it isn't actually possible to shove bacon through a USB.

However, there is real bacon at the TX MoMee, delivered by a Bacon Wench.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 30, 2025 09:59 PM (ULPxl)

203 How do they measure that?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 30, 2025 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

It is the sort of thing the US Census Bureau does on off years.
They say Kosovo was fun, in its day

Posted by: Kindltot at July 30, 2025 09:59 PM (D7oie)

204 177
Wacky prediction:

As robots become more ubiquitous, the goblins& freaks will insist they make "gay" robots, too.
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at July 30, 2025 09:48 PM (JNJHK)

My word!

Posted by: C3PO at July 30, 2025 09:59 PM (yLlTi)

205 Actually Cruise, like Pitt are starting to hit the wall, I think Pitt can become a decent character actor, I can't really see Cruise being able to pull that off.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 30, 2025 10:00 PM (XV/Pl)

206 182 AlaBAMA, there was a tree right next to the horse trailer.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 09:50 PM (HFcKg
A tree?

Posted by: Eromero at July 30, 2025 10:00 PM (LHPAg)

207 You enjoy the blog but the Horde in real life is even better.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 10:00 PM (HFcKg)

208 NOOD

ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 30, 2025 10:01 PM (ULPxl)

209 I must put the horse trailer myth to rest. It was simply a place for "city boys" that had never taken a leak outside.
Posted by: Ben Had
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I don't know much about men, admittedly, but I thought ALL of them like to pee outside?

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 30, 2025 10:02 PM (DnMuk)

210 However, there is real bacon at the TX MoMee, delivered by a Bacon Wench.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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And brownies! The best ever!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 30, 2025 10:03 PM (DnMuk)

211 210 However, there is real bacon at the TX MoMee, delivered by a Bacon Wench.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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And brownies! The best ever!
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 30, 2025 10:03 PM (DnMuk)

Indeed SiD ... indeed!

Posted by: browndog with the rule book at July 30, 2025 10:07 PM (TTAGa)

212 So she’s auditioning for the role of prospective Mrs Millionaire. I wonder how hard she’s working for it.

All of his girlfriends are very very carefully vetted by the Church of Scientology and arranged for him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 10:07 PM (dfIr7)

213 I don't know much about men, admittedly, but I thought ALL of them like to pee outside?
Posted by: screaming in digital

Preferably off a high point - cliff into a river a thousand below for example.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 30, 2025 10:08 PM (/lPRQ)

214 I don't know much about men, admittedly, but I thought ALL of them like to pee outside?

Depends how many mosquitos or observers there are

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 30, 2025 10:09 PM (dfIr7)

215 I saw a twitter questionaire the other day.
You got 10 points for each incident (each counts once, not each time)

Stitches
Covid
Tattoo
Fired a gun
Broken a bone
Slept in a tent
Been snow skiing
Been stung by a bee
Travelled to another country
Failed a class

I got 90, and I was surprised that people admitted to getting 40

Posted by: Kindltot at July 30, 2025 10:11 PM (D7oie)

216 I must put the horse trailer myth to rest. It was simply a place for "city boys" that had never taken a leak outside.
Posted by: Ben Had

You have Poison Oak in TX?

Once, the day after a kegger, my roommate started complaining that he caught poison oak while whizzing against a tree.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 30, 2025 10:14 PM (D7oie)

217 207 You enjoy the blog but the Horde in real life is even better.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 30, 2025 10:00 PM (HFcKg)

Oh, I can only imagine! In my prime I loved parties. If there were people I did not know at keggers or mountain bon fires, even better! I never meet a stranger.

Hollow leg and all that, last person standing in those daze. Almost every weekend in college if anyone asked I'd be there...and where I really met my husband. Had seen him around at the hospital where I trained.

I would also say yes to anything, so you bet if I were young and single I'd be there! Thank you again!!!

I'm tied down, too, with the birth of a new baby girl next month (we'll have her siblings for a few nights), company visiting, etc into November. I never say never, however!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 30, 2025 10:42 PM (6PCLE)

218 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- Everybody Lies, Including Sleeping Dogs at July 31, 2025 12:27 AM (NufQ3)

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