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Posted by: mindful webworker - sooner or later love is gonna getcha at August 01, 2025 09:58 PM (+fWH5)
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2025 10:00 PM (g0Y10)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 01, 2025 10:01 PM (QGaXH)
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Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 01, 2025 10:02 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:02 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 01, 2025 10:03 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:03 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 10:04 PM (pRpzT)
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Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:04 PM (6WCwE)
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Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2025 10:06 PM (g0Y10)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 01, 2025 10:06 PM (pK932)
I am always kinda just a gal here...nobody special...
I do love all the folks here, for what it's worth.
Thanks WD for your crazy content🤪!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:06 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Rodney at August 01, 2025 10:07 PM (G5+As)
And a raven brings black babies,
What bring no babies at all?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:04 PM (6WCwE)
A swallow
Posted by: tankdemon at August 01, 2025 10:07 PM (pK932)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:08 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 10:09 PM (pRpzT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:09 PM (HZi96)
I would have been crying like a little girl just smelling that stuff
Posted by: browndog coulda been first at August 01, 2025 10:10 PM (TTAGa)
youtu.be/IxuEtL7gxoM
Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM (gKWVE)
Actually, male and female skulls are not identical.
The liberal skull in the bottom right is spot-on, though.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)
Have Crew-11 docking with the ISS soon.
SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-11
Docking International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Docking: August 2, 2025, at 3:00 a.m. EDT (0700 UTC, 09:00 CEST)
Hatch opening is scheduled for 4:45 a.m. EDT (0845UTC, 10:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/Id-RTwnFltM
Posted by: Joyenz at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM (sPQoU)
I am always kinda just a gal here...nobody special...
I do love all the folks here, for what it's worth.
Thanks WD for your crazy content🤪!!!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
{{{Marie}}}. Look kiddo, you'll always be one of the Algonrat Round Table...and that comes with cardboard level status!
Posted by: Some Rat at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM (TizQb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (igexu)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
And fine the victim in World Court.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 01, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 10:13 PM (AKpb0)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2025 10:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:14 PM (HZi96)
2nd meme: Doncha hate it when tyops spoil a meme? Little girl rides home every day in "a car made by het father." "Cart" not "car." "Het" was presumably supposed to be "her"… but nowadays you never know.
😉
How beers got their names: Oh, my! Look at all that tiny type. Wonder if I'll get curious enough to look closer later. Maaaayyybe
Posted by: mindful webworker - sooner or later love is gonna getcha at August 01, 2025 10:14 PM (+fWH5)
Posted by: The Craw! at August 01, 2025 10:14 PM (G5+As)
What happens when little dog cart girl turns into a Lizzo-class landwhale?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)
Get a bigger dog ?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 01, 2025 10:14 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at August 01, 2025 10:14 PM (lHy6J)
What happens when little dog cart girl turns into a Lizzo-class landwhale?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)
Your gonna need a much bigger
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:15 PM (ynpvh)
What if Hitler became evil because so many people went back in time to try and kill him?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, punching the iPad screen like a chimp at August 01, 2025 10:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:15 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 01, 2025 10:16 PM (w3u3d)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - sooner or later love is gonna getcha at August 01, 2025 09:58 PM (+fWH5)
You're really in trouble when you feel like your going around and around, just before going down the drain of time.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2025 10:16 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Piercello at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (G6MQh)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (cduTK)
I would have been crying like a little girl just smelling that stuff
Posted by: browndog coulda been first at August 01, 2025 10:10 PM (TTAGa)
It was 'only' 151 proof, not the 190 proof Everclear I had in college. That stuff didn't put hair on your chest, it incinerated it.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Olsen Johnson at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (63Dwl)
"Google doesn't know what a woman is?"
Google could be on the leftist wing of the Supreme Court.
"Google doesn't know what a donut is?"
Or not.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bert G at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (VARTN)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)
Your gonna need a much bigger boat train flatcar...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:15 PM (ynpvh)
Time to renovate the 40 mule wagon.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (S/Y4j)
Actually, male and female skulls are not identical.
The liberal skull in the bottom right is spot-on, though.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)
Asian teeth have a slightly different shape. The skulls of various races have slightly different features.
"There are certain markers in a skull that help identify a person’s race, Paschal said. For instance, Asians have wider cheekbones than other races, Caucasians have longer faces, and Native Americans have teeth that are curved on the back."
--intertubes
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:12 PM (ynpvh)
Surprised he wasn't wearing a purple helmet
Posted by: Jon Townsend at August 01, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:18 PM (igexu)
I used it to fuel my Swedish camping stove. It was very efficient and left almost no soot on my cookware!
(I knew better than to drink it - Neutral grain spirits are not for drinking)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (rbvCR)
https://shorturl.at/vJdEu
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (ULPxl)
"Google doesn't know what a woman is?"
Google could be on the leftist wing of the Supreme Court.
"Google doesn't know what a donut is?"
Or not.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)
Son had same issues when looking at turtle pictures. Ocassionally would say the turtle was a cat, or a donut or some other weird thing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (ynpvh)
Favorite was the Ding Dong Ditch...it's easy to pile on the Dad for reactionaries.....but some things stand out. First, it's a doorbell. No one's getting hurt. The kid is excruciatingly polite which tells me the Dad is a good one. The old man is hilarious. "Run you idiot." Were I in the place of the woman who caught him, I'd be laughing my ass off.
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Firefighter Fred Scuttle at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (igexu)
Say, you gotta match to prop my table? Holy cow! I kinda got a buzz already...we'll, it is Friday....(hic)....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (L9kkv)
https://shorturl.at/vJdEu
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (ULPxl)
Very dangerous birds...considered the world's most dangerous living bird...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Ditto here. I also have a tripod-mounted, home-brew LEO tracking rig. Driven by stepper motors and...a Tandy Model 100
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2025 10:21 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (igexu)
Even for skulls of trannies...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:21 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream
I always found it humorous that there was a Mexican Restaurant chain call 'Chi Chis'.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:21 PM (6WCwE)
https://shorturl.at/vJdEu
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
What the hell kind of Jurassic nightmare is that?!
Posted by: Some Rat at August 01, 2025 10:21 PM (TfUTr)
In Texas recently it went very badly for a high school senior. He graduated to the cemetery.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 10:22 PM (AKpb0)
They call it whiskey.
Or "whisky" if you're a bloody Scotsman.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:22 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (dIske)
Probably a leftists by her attitude. The kid should have come back that night and egged the house.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 01, 2025 10:22 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:22 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:19 PM (igexu)
Can they even tell if this happened?
https://youtu.be/UeY_111Wq1E
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:23 PM (ynpvh)
Some guy bought two water buffalo at an auction a few weeks ago. He thought it would be cool to have them.
They killed him when he was trying to get them in the pasture.
It was somewhere in the Midwest.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 10:23 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:23 PM (igexu)
Posted by: Arminius at August 01, 2025 10:23 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Bird Brain at August 01, 2025 10:23 PM (G5+As)
I would have been crying like a little girl just smelling that stuff
Posted by: browndog coulda been first at August 01, 2025 10:10 PM (TTAGa)
_____________________________
I don't want to cast aspersions, but anyone who can dunk a glass that big of Everclear and not even make a face has an historical background in wayyyyy toooooo much drinking.
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 10:24 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bird Brain at August 01, 2025 10:23 PM (G5+As)
Closest thing to a living terror bird...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Things are getting a little out of control so I brought my floor jack.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Boss Moss
There was a time PGA (Pure Grain Alcohol) was 190 proof. You can still find 200 proof food grade ethanol but it can only be bought at retail for non-beverage uses.
Yeah, right.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (igexu)
Discuss, and show your work.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:26 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
Yes, please pay us to take these murderous birds away so they can kill you instead! Cheap! Only $12K!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:26 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:14 PM (HZi96)
They're everywhere though! How do they get reversed? Or why? Is it something someone does to avoid copyright strikes? I don't understand it. It's hard to flip something accidently in editing software so I assume it's intentional.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:27 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: pookysgirl do not think this ended well at August 01, 2025 10:27 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Emily Litella at August 01, 2025 10:27 PM (G5+As)
https://youtu.be/sY1M2GW_euw
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:21 PM (6WCwE)
________________________________
Was just reading recently that some guy in Wisconsin bought the trademark and rights and wants to bring it back. Might be tough. That's one restaurant that got sunk by Hepatitis.
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 10:29 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Emily Litella at August 01, 2025 10:27 PM (G5+As)
https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:29 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 01, 2025 10:29 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Boss Moss
DDG-AI says Virginia and Vermont limit alcohol sales to 151 proof.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 10:29 PM (DgGvY)
They can tell your race and your sex from your skull.
Posted by: Boss Moss
I learned that from Quincy, M.E.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 10:29 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 01, 2025 10:30 PM (7+Xt0)
When our sons were in junior high their friends down the street pranked us. An odd prank, maybe a FL thing. They rode their bikes to the front porch and smeared pizza on the front doors.
They did not know my husband, in his teens and college, once ran 4min miles and long distances. They found out that night and he chased them barefoot down the street and caught them both. They were hiding in bushes and he hauled them to their mothers. One mother profusely apologized. The other could not believe her boy did this.
Guess whose sons were successful in life? Ours, plus the mother's boy who apologized. He was later made to come to our house and apologize.
The other turd might not be in prison but he did not do as well, nor did his sister.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:30 PM (6PCLE)
The number one boys name in the US is Liam.
Ironic, don't you think...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2025 10:31 PM (XV/Pl)
I bet you would too.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 10:31 PM (viF8m)
The front facing "selfie" camera is mirror reverse by default usually, isn't it. Just checked with my stupid phone, and that's the case.
When you're looking at yourself on a screen like that, you automatically think you're looking in the mirror. If it wasn't mirrored, it would be very weird looking, as if you've seen yourself in monitor, where everything goes the wrong way.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 10:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 01, 2025 10:32 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:33 PM (L9kkv)
The number one boys name in the US is Liam.
Ironic, don't you think...
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Complete the cycle! Is the #1 name in Pakistan something like "Two Dogs Fucking?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 10:33 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 01, 2025 10:34 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2025 10:34 PM (6aG9P)
That 3% of federal funding broke the camels back.
Planned Parenthood, I'm looking at you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:36 PM (dDmld)
On December 3, 2024, it was announced that the restaurant chain will re-launch in the United States in 2025. Michael McDermott, son of original owner, Marno McDermott, will lead and operate the new restaurants under Chi-Chi's Restaurants, LLC. Hormel Foods, the current owner of the Chi-Chi's trademark, has allowed the use of the Chi-Chi's name for the physical restaurant locations. A few months later, McDermott announced that he will convert his two Rojo Mexican Grill restaurants in St. Louis Park and Maple Grove to the revived Chi-Chi’s brand.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 10:38 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
(checks pockets)
Guess I will just buy one, and breed it myself.
Posted by: David Hogg, buff stud at August 01, 2025 10:38 PM (6aG9P)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:38 PM (igexu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2025 10:34 PM (6aG9P)
That would still cut off too soon. I want to see the Messerschmidt strafe a 'refugee' column. Britain might re-learn how to strafe 'refugee' boats and sink them.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:38 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:38 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:39 PM (igexu)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 01, 2025 10:25 PM (SRRAx)
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(checks pockets)
Guess I will just buy one, and breed it myself.
Posted by: David Hogg, buff stud at August 01, 2025 10:38 PM (6aG9P)
Just because you're a bird brain yourself, Davy, doesn't mean you're supposed to fuck 'em.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:40 PM (igexu)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 01, 2025 10:32 PM (MZ+PY)
I once thought this about myself. Until I had my first taste of tequila (de-kill-ya) on Beale Street in Memphis. Visiting friends. Beer plus tequila shooters on apparently an empty stomach did not do well. At all. I did discover that I did not, after all, have a hollow leg. I still don't care for tequila. The only time I have ever puked. Live (hopefully) and learn.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:40 PM (6PCLE)
Liam
Oliver
Noah
Theodor
Elijah
Mateo
James
Lucas
William
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2025 10:40 PM (XV/Pl)
https://tinyurl.com/yrxbrwjf
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 10:40 PM (AKpb0)
https://shorturl.at/vJdEu
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Holy shit, those are for sale where I live!
Posted by: Aviator at August 01, 2025 10:41 PM (HQ9Sl)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2025 10:41 PM (KY4Yu)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:38 PM (igexu)
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Just wait until the buyers find out that Sydney Sweeney's child-bearing hips are not included.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:41 PM (dDmld)
Liam
Oliver
Noah
Theodor
Elijah
Mateo
James
Lucas
William
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2025 10:40 PM (XV/Pl)
Diogenes is making a comeback! Just you wait! You'll see.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:42 PM (W/lyH)
The guy knows my way home🤪....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:42 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2025 10:43 PM (cHNrw)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:43 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:43 PM (igexu)
Posted by: Boss Moss
===
Do these jeans make my boobs look big ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 10:44 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Braenyard
Twasn't a chick or a Fokker.
Posted by: BF-109 at August 01, 2025 10:45 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:43 PM (6PCLE)
Miklos mentioned to me here months ago that Dixie Beer
Said they held a New Orleans-style funeral parade when the brewery closed.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:43 PM (igexu)
Or Milwaukee's Beast
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:46 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
Actually the closest living relative to the "terror bird" or Phorusrhacidae is the Seriema of South America. They also have those hooked claws, but they use them for holding prey down while tearing off chunks.
They hunt like a roadrunner by chasing down or stalking their small prey of rodents, lizards and snakes, and kill prey by throwing it repeatedly to the hard ground. They also do this to golf balls they find, making them the terror of the links.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 01, 2025 10:46 PM (rbvCR)
Yup, not a dog with a gun, these days one never knows.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2025 10:46 PM (KY4Yu)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 10:46 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:47 PM (igexu)
Don't know what the point was, but it is a lie.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:42 PM (L9kkv)
(shrugs_
Ok. You're a cab.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 01, 2025 10:47 PM (0eaVi)
Discuss, and show your work.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 10:26 PM (dDmld)
However, Arminius was actually singing "Du Hasst"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2025 10:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 10:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:43 PM (6PCLE)
Miklos mentioned to me here months ago that Dixie Beer ist kaput.Said they held a New Orleans-style funeral parade when the brewery closed.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)
There's Abita at least. One of my favorite brands where you can get it.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 10:49 PM (cduTK)
>>Diogenes is making a comeback! Just you wait! You'll see.
In New Rome, every boy will be named Diogenes and every girl will be named Margaret.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2025 10:49 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 10:49 PM (63Dwl)
Gutfeld was just showing some clips. Apparently, Abercrombie and Fitch have released a fat girl jeans ad in response.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: fourseasons
You haven't seen gluttony until you have seen six old Chinese women fighting over the chicken claws.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Boss Moss
at least until Les Grossman get ahold of it
Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2025 10:49 PM (XV/Pl)
What, not Messalina? That's no fun.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2)
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - autocorrect has an aneurism at August 01, 2025 10:51 PM (+fWH5)
Don't know what the point was, but it is a lie.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Skullduggery is afoot, Sir!
Posted by: Inspector Holmes at August 01, 2025 10:51 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:51 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)
Well, that's a pity. Now an abandoned building on the river, I guess. We are in NOLA about once a year, en route to my family farm in MS, by trying to avoid the Hotlanta airport.
The food is still fantastic at Galatoire's and other places. My grandkids make the 5th generation to eat there. The police control the wackos in the daytime when we are out and about in the Quarter.
No more Mardi Gras for me...I did that in college. Back then it was safer by a bit. Not by a lot.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:52 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: publius,"
It's a bold move, Cotton.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 10:52 PM (fV+MH)
Just got to digging in the stupid phone (android) camera settings. It always displays the front selfie camera in mirror mode (it would drive you crazy otherwise), but it saves everything in normal mode by default.
And that has varied with different phones and versions.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 10:52 PM (w6EFb)
Allegedly some leftoids are buying them so they can virtue signal with burning jeans videos on TikTok.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 01, 2025 10:52 PM (lUFok)
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker"
Leave one foot on the floor.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 10:53 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: PabloD at August 01, 2025 10:53 PM (eU7D4)
And darn...where's my cab....🤨....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:51 PM (L9kkv)
Miklos was here last evening.
Posted by: David Hogg, buff stud at August 01, 2025 10:54 PM (6aG9P)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2025 10:54 PM (6aG9P)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 10:54 PM (3ek7K)
Allegedly some leftoids are buying them so they can virtue signal with burning jeans videos on TikTok.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 01, 2025 10:52 PM (lUFok)
That’ll show ‘em!
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 10:54 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2025 10:55 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 01, 2025 10:52 PM (lUFok)
And the cash register goes Kaching!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2025 10:55 PM (GphIt)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:56 PM (igexu)
Gutfeld was just showing some clips. Apparently, Abercrombie and Fitch have released a fat girl jeans ad in response.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
Hilarious!
I guess for the Lizzo Walmart Wighat Fighter Club? From what I have seen (that I don't want to see), most could use some giant size jeans vs their underwear.
What has cracked me up for many years is the cost of jeans with holes in the knees and thighs. I don't know why you would pay for this when you could buy jeans and rip them yourself? Plus! If my knees were poking out when I sat down, it seems to me that would annoy me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:57 PM (6PCLE)
Do people really eat chicken feet?
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025
Yes. In China and here in the South. But I do not partake.
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 10:58 PM (p4NUW)
Glad the jeans are selling out. Maybe some sanity is returning to our country.
Make America 🇺🇸 Great Again!!
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 10:58 PM (3ek7K)
NB: I'm talking about the good Doctor who, from the 60's-80's.
Not the bilge that the woke BBC insists on shoveling out.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2025 10:58 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 10:56 PM (igexu)
Of course. Model not included.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:58 PM (gKDq2)
Har, har. The Yankees led the Marlins 6-0, 9-4 and 12-10. They lost 13-12.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 10:58 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 10:54 PM (3ek7K)
Yes. Normally they are stewed down for the gelatin, but they have some meat on them after they have been cooked down. Chinese also eat pig ears prepared much the same way.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2025 10:58 PM (rbvCR)
What has cracked me up for many years is the cost of jeans with holes in the knees and thighs. I don't know why you would pay for this when you could buy jeans and rip them yourself? Plus! If my knees were poking out when I sat down, it seems to me that would annoy me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 10:57 PM (6PCLE)
Don’t peep in my closet. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 10:59 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2025 10:59 PM (4rENN)
And darn...where's my cab....🤨....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 01, 2025 10:51 PM (L9kkv)
Wait until you see who is driving the cab.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 10:59 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 10:24 PM (ynpvh)
Actually the closest living relative to the "terror bird" or Phorusrhacidae is the Seriema of South America. They also have those hooked claws, but they use them for holding prey down while tearing off chunks.
They hunt like a roadrunner by chasing down or stalking their small prey of rodents, lizards and snakes, and kill prey by throwing it repeatedly to the hard ground. They also do this to golf balls they find, making them the terror of the links.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 01, 2025 10:46 PM (rbvCR)
Terror Turkey.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2025 10:59 PM (4rENN)
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The tale of Leander and Hero rewrit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:00 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:00 PM (igexu)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 10:59 PM (p4NUW)
Oh, ignore me. I am an olde hippie. Back then we made our own weird jeans and sewed stuff on them. No holes in the knees that I can recall. Daisy Dukes, yes.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (6PCLE)
... will probably have nightmares about cassowaries peering in my windows.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: fourseasons
You haven't seen gluttony until you have seen six old Chinese women fighting over the chicken claws.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (6WCwE)
Chicken's feet are tasty...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (ynpvh)
I would have been crying like a little girl just smelling that stuff
There is no way that was actual undiluted Everclear.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:00 PM (ynpvh)
They finally caught on to Thanksgiving.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2025 10:49 PM (XV/Pl)
What, not Messalina? That's no fun.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 10:51 PM (gKDq2)
I'm waiting on a resurgence for Agnes and Dorcas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:02 PM (igexu)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (ynpvh)
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Well, sure. Just think of all the places they've been.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:03 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 10:59 PM (p4NUW)
Must be difficult having to chase Barack Obama out of there all the time
Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 11:03 PM (gKWVE)
https://shorturl.at/vJdEu
I was this close to purchasing, but they are $6k a piece. I shall cancel the pending Cassowary Castle construction.
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2025 11:03 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:01 PM (ynpvh)
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Well, sure. Just think of all the places they've been.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:03 PM (dDmld)
I've eaten pigs feet too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:03 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:00 PM (igexu)
Sounds more like a pitching staff duel.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
Can we expect a cross over ad? The Abercrombie and Fitch chick starts dancing and singing about lowering her A1C?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (W/lyH)
Neighbors behind us , very near us have chickens. Boy howdy, sitting on the patio some days the chicken shit smell is overwhelming.
I ain't eating chicken feet, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (4rENN)
Spit, don't swallow...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: fourseasons
I've been to two dim sum restaurants.
Both offered chicken feet first, with wonton wrapper draped over them like a blanket.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (ynpvh)
I do not concur.
Posted by: Kamala Harris at August 01, 2025 11:07 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (63Dwl)
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Don't even ask about the Beef Pizzle industry. It's ugly.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:07 PM (dDmld)
Neighbors behind us , very near us have chickens. Boy howdy, sitting on the patio some days the chicken shit smell is overwhelming.
I ain't eating chicken feet, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons
Make them wipe their feet on the mat.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 11:07 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:08 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:09 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:09 PM (igexu)
In New Rome, every boy will be named Diogenes and every girl will be named Margaret.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2025 10:49 PM (XV/Pl)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wb2nZR6qbE
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at August 01, 2025 11:09 PM (xRaGD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
They make good canes for whipping yutes who misbehave.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 11:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Gross. at August 01, 2025 11:10 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:10 PM (igexu)
Posted by: Gross. at August 01, 2025 11:10 PM (TbWk/)
No hammers...?
Posted by: Paul Pelosi at August 01, 2025 11:11 PM (ynpvh)
SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-11
Docking International Space Station ISS - Space Affairs Live
Docking: August 2, 2025, at 3:00 a.m. EDT (0700 UTC, 09:00 CEST)
Hatch opening is scheduled for 4:45 a.m. EDT (0845UTC, 10:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/Id-RTwnFltM
Posted by: Joyenz
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Elon Musk@elonmusk
SpaceX does more meaningful, cutting-edge “research” on the advancement of rockets and satellites than all the academic university labs on Earth combined.
But we don’t use the pretentious, low-accountability term “researcher”.
Engineer.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2025 11:12 PM (KY4Yu)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 11:12 PM (viF8m)
Husband's Dad and uncle had a commercial chicken business. Husband had to work in them.
He will not eat eggs. I'm surprised he eats chicken.
I can't boil eggs in the house, the smell makes him sick.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:13 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:16 PM (igexu)
Just sayin...
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 01, 2025 11:16 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 11:17 PM (dIske)
I know a little guy named Liam. Has a heart valve problem and has already had several open heart surgeries at age 9. Toughest person I've ever met.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 01, 2025 11:17 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 01, 2025 11:19 PM (bss/y)
The liberal skull in the bottom right is spot-on, though.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM
Liberals hate Grok, so no. Probably a Gateway Pundit commenter skull.
Also shut up, Wesley!
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 01, 2025 11:19 PM (GYGpZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:09 PM (igexu)
My Dad was a health inspector in Norfolk and one of his assignments was to travel over the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel to the Eastern Shore and inspect the plants there; I think Tyson and somebody else. He never talked to me about his experiences in detail since I was a young kid but he must have talked to my Mom about it.
Mom never made anything with chicken my entire life. She could cook fried chicken, she just hated making it.
She'd buy a bucket of fried chicken from a local place if guests suddenly dropped by but she never cooked chicken herself. Plus, as a kid on the farm with a pet chicken, one day her Mom handed her an axe and said, 'We need dinner'.
As a result of their I guess quite understandable biases, took me a long time to even start eating chicken, much less enjoying it as much as I do now.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:22 PM (gKDq2)
(if the comments don't appear in one they will in the other)
@DrInsensitive Jul 29
Insightful. Women are built to be traded to another tribe (or captured) and slide seamlessly into their new culture. That keeps them safe,even though they are physically weak.
20 years after they are captured, they are the matriarchs who enforce that culture.
That is why women conform to the dominant culture, and thereby amplify that culture.
IMO, that is why Western women, raised in anti-white culture, are now amplifying anti-white culture, even though they are white.
They think that keeps them safe, and they are correct, but only in the sort term. In the long term, they will be forced to remember they are white.
Better they are reminded of that by white men, because the alternative is not so gentle.
https://tinyurl.com/5n7ehbt5
https://tinyurl.com/bdcuudwd
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2025 11:23 PM (KY4Yu)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:24 PM (77rzZ)
They're kind of brutal stupid things.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:24 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: publius
Marketing genius! They'll crush American Eagle by the square yard!
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:24 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2025 11:25 PM (cHNrw)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:05 PM (ynpvh)
Now, you tell me!
Posted by: Kamala at August 01, 2025 11:25 PM (hoKl2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:26 PM (igexu)
They're kind of brutal stupid things.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:24 PM (fV+MH)
Yes, they do. There's a reason why chicks will often have the tips of their beaks trimmed. Once we had a chick that got injured (was bleeding), and before we could get it out, the other chicks attacked it and killed it, tearing it apart. Granted these "chicks" were already several weeks old.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: GWB at August 01, 2025 11:27 PM (b+M7l)
Posted by: publius
Marketing genius! They'll crush American Eagle by the square yard!
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:24 PM (DgGvY)
LITERALLY crush...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Gross. at August 01, 2025 11:10 PM (TbWk/)
No shit. It's a toxic lifestyle, which is why most societies have found it repellent throughout history.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2025 11:28 PM (hoKl2)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:27 PM (77rzZ)
Howdy, Bulg, how'r you doin'?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:28 PM (ynpvh)
I'm reading on FOX how Las Vegas tourism has declined.
Apparently bedbugs are a huge issue according to Attorney Brian Virag, founder and CEO of My Bed Bug Lawyer.
Can you imagine how bad it must be if the guy has a bed bug practice. ?
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:28 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Agnes could happen. I know a couple young girls named Evelyn, and that's a Silent Gen name in my headcanon.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:29 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
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Of course, CNN Mike Jeffries: Former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has been indicted on 16 federal counts of sex trafficking and international prostitution in New York, and is accused of leveraging “a...
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2025 11:29 PM (KY4Yu)
I'm reading on FOX how Las Vegas tourism has declined.
Apparently bedbugs are a huge issue according to Attorney Brian Virag, founder and CEO of My Bed Bug Lawyer.
Can you imagine how bad it must be if the guy has a bed bug practice. ?
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:28 PM (3ek7K)
I often thought of most lawyers as rats, but bedbugs work too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:30 PM (ynpvh)
— Laws
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:30 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2025 11:30 PM (FwJ+V)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Agnes could happen. I know a couple young girls named Evelyn, and that's a Silent Gen name in my headcanon.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:29 PM (DgGvY)
Knew a guy I sometimes worked with that, when something would go wrong, would shout, "F**k me, Agnes!"...
I had a great-aunt Agnes, but she was not ugly. I also knew at least one cute Bertha...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:31 PM (ynpvh)
Can you imagine how bad it must be if the guy has a bed bug practice. ?
Posted by: fourseasons
I can't imagine trying to write the tiny little summons for them.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:31 PM (DgGvY)
They believed after MeToo that they had really cowed everyone into saying in a broad sense that attractive women are not attractive.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (3ek7K)
Can you imagine how bad it must be if the guy has a bed bug practice. ?
Posted by: fourseasons
I can't imagine trying to write the tiny little summons for them.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:31 PM (DgGvY)
Or ensuring proper delivery...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (ynpvh)
They're kind of brutal stupid things.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:24 PM (fV+MH)
There's a lot of people out there who think chickens are sweet, cuddly little vegetarians and not vicious omnivores.
They're the living ancestors of dinosaurs FFS; they'll kill anything, including one of their own showing any signs of weakness. They'll pile on like a bunch of 'hood rats pummeling a white guy.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Gross. at August 01, 2025 11:10 PM (TbWk/)
You'd think the life expectancy charts for homosexuals would discourage that particular deviance, but apparently the lure of exceptionally strange is just too much for some degenerates.
Culture of death.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:33 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2025 11:33 PM (KY4Yu)
I often thought of most lawyers as rats, but bedbugs work too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:30 PM (ynpvh)
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*throws white spats in trash*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:33 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: AlmostYuman at August 01, 2025 11:34 PM (bj34f)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (77rzZ)
Doing okay. Unintended bag damage getting up from a table, but caught the problem early before things got messy...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:34 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2025 11:35 PM (FwJ+V)
I can't remember exactly (check out the replay later), but in the A&F fat girl ad, she said something about liking jeans that made her butt look good. Gutfeld said something about NASA confirming, as you can see her butt from orbit.
And, every night, he gets in a "The View gals are fat pigs" joke. Tonight, he started out with the story about whales beaching in Japan after the earthquake. The audience started laughing immediately, knowing a View joke was coming. It was, "Amazing how far they can swim" with a picture of the View.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:36 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Blitzkrieg Bop at August 01, 2025 11:37 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:34 PM (77rzZ)
James Bond movie had a Holly Goodhead...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:37 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Bedbugs are worse asshoe than rats.
How asshoe are bedbugs?
Male bedbugs have boy parts. Female bedbugs don't have the matching girl parts. Males just punch a hole in the female's carapace to use. Biologists call this "traumatic insemination."
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:38 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:36 PM (77rzZ)
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It was the Mother and Child Reunion?
Posted by: Paul Simon at August 01, 2025 11:38 PM (dDmld)
https://tinyurl.com/ew5xtuey
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:38 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2025 11:39 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:39 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:29 PM (DgGvY)
________________________
Ooof....I think that might be my least favorite female name next to Hillary. I'm old enough to remember Hurricane Agnes. It was not a good time even up in the MidAtlantic states.
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 11:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:31 PM (ynpvh)
My late M-i-L was named Bertha. Back in her day she was a looker.
She was also related to Donald Trump's mother.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at August 01, 2025 11:39 PM (xRaGD)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:26 PM (igexu)
Smithfield's on the southside of the James, between Norfolk and Petersburg. The smell of smoking hams wasn't the worst memory from when the car went by there on the way to a nearby Boy Scout camp that was on the James. Hated 'swimming' in that river. Only later did we find out about Kepone.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:40 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:39 PM (1Gsou)
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Man. Tough crowd.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 01, 2025 11:41 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)
Envy is one of the seven deadlies for a reason.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:41 PM (1Gsou)
Is it really necessary to resort to name calling? I thought we were better than that here. Sheesh.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:41 PM (gzzK/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Bedbugs are worse asshoe than rats.
How asshoe are bedbugs?
Male bedbugs have boy parts. Female bedbugs don't have the matching girl parts. Males just punch a hole in the female's carapace to use. Biologists call this "traumatic insemination."
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:38 PM (DgGvY)
If you ever read the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, she was "sewn up" as part of what her muslim tribe did to girls, and when she first had relations, the removal was...less than pleasant...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:42 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: mikeski
If you ever read the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Muslims are worse asshoe than bedbugs? Unsurprising.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:44 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2025 11:44 PM (FwJ+V)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:44 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 01, 2025 11:41 PM (dDmld)
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Y..y...y...you w...wanna...talk tough c...c....c...crowd. I've g...g...g...got In-laws who w...w...w..work f...f...for the Mob. They d...d...d...dis...dis...dispo...dispo...They eat the c...c...c...c...corpses.
Posted by: Porky Pig at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (dIske)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: mikeski
If you ever read the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Muslims are worse asshoe than bedbugs? Unsurprising.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:44 PM (DgGvY)
Bed bugs don't spontaneously explode after shouting "Allahu Akbar".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (ynpvh)
I had an Auntie Evelyn. She was quite the force of nature, the first of seven kids, and by "auntie" I mean great-aunt. My grandpa's older sister. She carefully explained to my dad when he was young that it wasn't dignified for him to be called Corky when his name was Alan. Of course, her kids went by Minnie, Kink, and Squeak. The irony totally escaped her.
But she was a pretty good painter, and some of her paintings are in the museum in Laramie.
I always thought Evelyn was a lovely name.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (77rzZ)
Nice pic. My sister-in-law is part of the Fletcher Corn Dog Empire. Come to think of it, she's probably seen things you people wouldn't believe, attack ships on... and I haven't racked her brain for a single story to share. I've been remiss, I'm sorry. What was I thinking.
Maybe I can bring her here to sing the song of her people.
And now I'm hungry. Great.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2025 11:46 PM (FwJ+V)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2025 11:30 PM (FwJ+V)
By feel? Easy, a female bone will vibrate slightly as it tries to bitch at you from beyond the grave.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 11:47 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:47 PM (77rzZ)
She picks up her phone, a glitch allows her to overhear a murder being planned. She gets agitated and we get to hear her even more agitated. I think the wind up she was alone in a snowstorm and they were coming to her house to wack her.
The whole plot was silly, if she’d had a firearm. The script writers always assumed no decent people ever had a weapon. Females were always just wilting hysterical flowers, generally. Or complete psychotics. No in between.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:48 PM (FiefX)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 11:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2025 11:31 PM (ynpvh)
My Aunt Bertha was not cute. Sturdy farm stock.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:48 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:45 PM (77rzZ)
Just now, high 60's and cloudy. Was raining yesterday, which was nice to knock down wildfires.
Sun should be out Sunday through the rest of the week, probably highs in the low 70s, so really hot.
Good fishing weather for the last dregs of salmon. Tons of raspberries just now, the carrots are big and edible, and the potatoes are getting close. I picked the last of the honeyberries this week. Dropped off my canning exploits at the State Fair this morning. Wish me luck. I think it's $5 for a blue ribbon. Woot!Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:48 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2025 11:48 PM (bP/i4)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:49 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:48 PM (gKDq2)
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Did she at least give milk?
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 01, 2025 11:49 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:49 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:50 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: tcn in AK
It is. But the ones I know are Silents or Alphas. No Boomers, Xs, Ys, or Zs. The name sort of vanished for a century.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:50 PM (DgGvY)
They're kind of brutal stupid things.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:24 PM (fV+MH)
There's a lot of people out there who think chickens are sweet, cuddly little vegetarians and not vicious omnivores.
They're the living ancestors of dinosaurs FFS; they'll kill anything, including one of their own showing any signs of weakness. They'll pile on like a bunch of 'hood rats pummeling a white guy.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)
I have co-workers that learn a little about farming and have great pity for chickens. I tell them that raising chickens has...eliminated any pity that I had for them. They forget their flock-mates after 24 hours and peck anything red or bleeding. We're just lucky that they're small.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 01, 2025 11:50 PM (6nQni)
Daily Mail did a poll about Trump's posse, favorability and all that. The top five are Melania, Baron, Homan, Tulsi, and Sweet Karoline. Followed by Ivanka, Kash, and Marco.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 11:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 11:32 PM (gKDq2)
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Chickens originated in Southeast Asia. I saw some in Cambodia that were huge. They were like feathered velociraptors.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:53 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:50 PM (fV+MH)
I think its to wind up a flywheel to get momentum that eventually gets applied to the crankshaft. Inertia start or some shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 11:54 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 11:54 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:54 PM (77rzZ)
Daily Mail did a poll about Trump's posse, favorability and all that. The top five are Melania, Baron, Homan, Tulsi, and Sweet Karoline. Followed by Ivanka, Kash, and Marco.
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I guess Pam Bondi fell off the list after the Epstein fiasco.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:54 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 01, 2025 11:54 PM (6nQni)
Sort of like Adrienne (Dri) or Jocelyn (Jos)
I'd stay away from a name like Bigus especially if your last name is Johnson, or Dickus.
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 11:55 PM (dIske)
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:55 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: RickZ
Because, unless you grew up on a farm, the first female chicken you met was Miss Prissy, the wallflower Southern Belle trying to woo Foghorn Leghorn.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:55 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division "
Right. But is there something strange going on I'm meant to see?
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:55 PM (fV+MH)
You just watch out for Aunt Bee’s Kerosene Cucumbers. They’s terrible!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:56 PM (hF3wE)
They're the living ancestors of dinosaurs FFS; they'll kill anything, including one of their own showing any signs of weakness. They'll pile on like a bunch of 'hood rats pummeling a white guy.
Posted by: RickZ
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I have four old hens and picked up ten chicks in the spring.
One of the chicks died in a day or two.
One turned out to be a rooster.
I named him Rudy. He's been sizing me up, wondering if he can take me. Need to make him my bitch and let him work over 'his harem' as he sees fit...
A rooster will try to take out anything that threatens their girls.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 11:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:56 PM (igexu)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:50 PM (fV+MH)
It appears to have an inertia starter. Hand crank spins up a big flywheel, and when it gets up to speed, it is clutched into the engine to spin the engine over.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2025 11:57 PM (hoKl2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 01, 2025 11:56 PM (igexu)
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Yes.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 11:58 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:58 PM (hF3wE)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:56 PM (hF3wE)
I put in my spicy sweet pickles. They are divine, if I do say so myself, and I do. But this year they demanded to see the recipe, and although they claim they won't show anyone but the judges, those judges better not steal it, or there will be a reckoning. That's why I didn't put in my smoked salmon this year. I finally perfected the brine, and I don't want anybody stealing it.
Silly, really. But I make good food. If you want it, come and get it, but don't steal it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2025 11:58 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:55 PM (fV+MH)
I don't know, seemed pretty normal to me. Maybe whoever filmed the vid thought it was funny, like starting a Model A or something.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2025 11:59 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2025 11:59 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 11:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Common Tater"
Flight of the Phoenix.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:59 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:58 PM (hF3wE)
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A key plot point in "Flight of the Phoenix."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 11:59 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 11:56 PM (/lPRQ)
There is a rooster in this neighborhood who at some point will come to a bad end. Jackass doesn't know when to shut the hell up. Who keeps a rooster these days, in a neighborhood? Well, it is Alaska, but still. I have two dogs and I'm not afraid to use them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2025 12:00 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 11:50 PM (fV+MH)
I think its to wind up a flywheel to get momentum that eventually gets applied to the crankshaft. Inertia start or some shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
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Generally referred to as a 'Friction Motor' starter. As in the friction motor toy cars. One spins up the flywheel of the 'motor', then dumps a clutch to the crankshaft to turn over the engine. The planes did not have batteries or electric starters.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2025 12:01 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:01 AM (fV+MH)
In retrospect they should have went with a shotgun shell probably. More fun anyways.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:02 AM (qwEFl)
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2025 12:02 AM (77rzZ)
Biggus Dickus' wife's name was Incontinentia Buttocks, IIRC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2025 12:01 AM (XeU6L)
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We see a similar startup with the trainer Hendley and Colin steal in "The Great Escape."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2025 12:03 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Berserker
That's what I thought. Sort of like showing a rotary phone to a Millennial.
Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2025 12:06 AM (DgGvY)
I learned something about automotive alternators this week. They've changed a lot. The one on the '08 Crown Vic went out driving home from the hospital a couple nights ago. It had been slowly dying, I now realize.
Anyway, I looked up the circuit diagram for the thing, and it happened to have the alternator internals listed. It blew my mind. Rather than the 6-diode 3-phase bridge, it had two more, connected to from the neutral both ways to the + and - recitified output bus.
WTF, I thought, what good would that do. Then a session with Grok on that, and I learned something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
In retrospect they should have went with a shotgun shell probably. More fun anyways.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:02 AM (qwEFl)
I remember those. 1960-something. They were called "impulse starters" and could be found on several brands. If the engine was in a good state of tune, and easy to start, they worked fine. If it was out of tune, you soon wore yourself out winding the damned thing. And those springs inside them were dangerous.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 12:08 AM (hoKl2)
Apparently bedbugs are a huge issue according to Attorney Brian Virag, founder and CEO of My Bed Bug Lawyer.
Oh hey Mr. Virag got a minute?
-- Carnival Cruise Lines
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 02, 2025 12:08 AM (VPPG8)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:03 AM (w6EFb)
They have a very good fwiend in Wome, I hear.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 02, 2025 12:08 AM (6nQni)
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The B-29 had 4 Wright-Cyclone 18 cylinder engines. Called “Wrong” engines at times, because they had a bad habit of catching on fire.
I guess the ground crew had to turn them over by hand 3 or 4 complete revs before starting, to circulate oil thoroughly first, probably helped with compression.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:08 AM (r3wfs)
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 11:55 PM (DgGvY)
Even though I'm a 'city boy', I'm grateful to have had various relatives who had farms/country acreage on which I could roam. Before I got my own dog, my Grandma had a collie. As an 8-year-old, I could roam the hills across from her house with Princess by my side; she'd let me know if something bothered her. Looking back, it was like Mayberry but real.
When you visit the Hungarian Grandma and see the pig hanging upside down with a .22 hole in the head, then have sausage for breakfast a couple of days later, you appreciate where food comes from.
I remember this one from somewhere:
Kid is asked where hamburger comes from. Kid answers, 'from a package in the grocery store'.
Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 12:08 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:58 PM (hF3wE)
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A key plot point in "Flight of the Phoenix."
Posted by: Captain Obvious,
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Didn't work out for me.
Posted by: Paul Mantz at August 02, 2025 12:09 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
They put them there so they can short and burn out the stator, obliging you to buy a new alternator.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 12:11 AM (hoKl2)
You mean you're only a model engineer????
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 02, 2025 12:11 AM (VPPG8)
Sort of like Adrienne (Dri) or Jocelyn (Jos)
I'd stay away from a name like Bigus especially if your last name is Johnson, or Dickus.
Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 11:55 PM (dIske)
I used to make a living issuing garnishments, back when I did wrong things for money, and my suggestion is to name kids normal, boring, common names that are hard to find in a database.
If you want them to stand out, give them a radical nickname to carry through school. My great uncles had nicks like "hen" "Teddy" and second cousin named "Penny"
If your kid is named something dramatic and unique . . . Better teach them to never miss a payment.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2025 12:12 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at August 01, 2025 10:11 PM (TizQb)
I don't about this case, but that's usually done to prevent automated detection of copyright violations. A naive algorithm will be fooled by that.
> Everclear is used to spike trashcan punch or if you are a "sophisticate", used in a jelloshot recipe.
Topical this week: the Jello shot was invented by Tom Lehrer, the writer of sarcastic songs (and math professor) who passed away this week.
He got assigned to the NSA at Fort Meade during WWII, and the fort had a strict rule against alcoholic beverages. The reg said nothing whatsoever about alcohol in (semi) solid form, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 02, 2025 12:12 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Common Tater
Not always true! Take the 1938 Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes. At certain point in the action, the train everyone is riding on is diverted to a branch line in the made-up foreign country they are traveling through, and set upon by apparent bandits who at the train. The British passengers pull guns out of their bags(!) and return fire, holding the bandits (in reality, soldiers of the made-up country in disguise) off! The train is put back on the tracks and apparently leaves the country, because everyone meets up in London where all sorts of mysteries are explained. Now you wouldn’t see British train travelers acting like that today, more’s the pity, but it was played as a plausible response to the situation in a 1938 British movie!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2025 12:12 AM (FwJ+V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2025 12:14 AM (KY4Yu)
Didn't work out for me.
Posted by: Paul Mantz
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How it actually ended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObF-trpesLc
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2025 12:14 AM (XeU6L)
It hit me that if you had a phase loss, diode burned out, or winding failure, then the other two would just make a single phase full-wave with the 6 diode bridge. Now, adding the two on the neutral, would bring the absolute value of the phase to neutral into it, and they would fill in the gaps of that somewhat. And that is one of the purposes of the 8 diode design.
But guess what, they operate during normal operation as well, and about 10 -15% of the output power is supplied through that neutral diode part. And how does that work. Normally, the phase to neutral would never exceed the ripple of the 6-diode'd output.
But, due to the ridiculous increase in current requirements with all the modern electrical loads, alternator design has been pushed to the limit, packing as much current capacity into as small a physical package as possible....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:14 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tcn in AK
Rudy found his voice about a week ago but doesn't crow much.
Supposedly that means they aren't looking for a fight or harem... IOW it's all good.
Your neighborhood rooster may not have enough hens to satisfy or have issues with the owner, or maybe there is a fox skulking about.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 02, 2025 12:15 AM (/lPRQ)
You mean you're only a model engineer????
Posted by: Captain Fantastic"
The German guy was so good in that. Hardy Kruger.
Stewart just came across as an old cranky control freak.
Flawed movie but entertaining.
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:15 AM (fV+MH)
Derek Lipp and his son Dawson.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 02, 2025 12:16 AM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2025 12:14 AM (KY4Yu)
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All the more ironic as Anthony Fokker was Dutch.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2025 12:16 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2025 12:16 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:16 AM (fV+MH)
Never heard of cranking up an engine? It’s what they did before starter engines. The plane appears to have a fly wheel that was being spun up to start the engine.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2025 12:16 AM (FwJ+V)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 11:58 PM (hF3wE)
Not just planes. It was a pretty common method of starting farm tractors and stationary engines, too. Usually engines large enough that it would be a monumental pain in the ass to use a kick, crank, or pull starter.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 02, 2025 12:17 AM (qpyNK)
The result of that pushing to the limit is very non-linear output from the phases. Core tends to saturate, and the flux distribution gets all wonky. They produce a lot of harmonics, and the 3rd harmonics, being additive, do allow the phase to neutral voltage to exceed the phase-to-phase at the lowest points on the ripple wave.
They thus supply some current. The AC output of these modern things is just a mess, AC "quality" wise, but it's rectifed to DC, and that's what's going on. Blew my mind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:18 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:18 AM (49u8i)
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2025 12:20 AM (77rzZ)
Here's one in action:
https://tinyurl.com/4whmeuab
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 02, 2025 12:20 AM (qpyNK)
Even was used on ground machines
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2025 12:20 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit "
Hah. Yes I have. I was just wondering what was special about this vid that I was meant to see.
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:20 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:21 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Still true.
Would help with cars & bikes, but unless you you hardcore you just jump in and fire it up. Performance nuts have ways to circulate before trying to start the engine.
Good mechanics would pull the distributor and use a drill to run the oil pump before starting a rebuilt engine. Or disconnect the ignition system while using the starter motor to circulate oil.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 02, 2025 12:23 AM (/lPRQ)
A lime green dildo was thrown onto the court once again, marking the second time in just a week that a sex toy has disrupted a professional women’s basketball game.
The latest incident took place during the third quarter of a matchup between the Golden State Valkyries and the Chicago Sky.
The game was abruptly halted after a lime-green sex toy was thrown onto the court.
A referee quickly nudged the unwelcome projectile to the side before someone scooped it up using a cloth, as if it were just another day at the office in the WNBA’s new circus act.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 02, 2025 12:23 AM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 02, 2025 12:23 AM (sVtt/)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:18 AM (49u8i)
If the alcohol evaporates, you might wind up with some sort of equivalent to an aerogel. But in gelatin, not silicone.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2025 12:25 AM (rbvCR)
Most of them were diesels that used a lit wick, sometimes in combination with an oil drip for preheating the cylinders rather than a modern glow plug. The wick preheater combined with the shotgun shell start meant that your tractor didn't need any electrics at all. That was a real advantage in the early days.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 02, 2025 12:25 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
How has that car been reliability wise? I'm asking because I'm not a ford fan, but my 92 year old uncle decided he was done driving and last week gave me his '08 mercury marquis limited, which is pretty much the same car. Its a florida car, he's the original owner, never seen snow or salt, and it only has 19K miles. Its like new. I need another car like a 3rd asshole, but he wanted it to stay in the family, and I'm literally the only gear head on that side of the family, so he knows it's in good hands. I really don't know what to do with it. It cruises killer, and I was tempted to use it for road trips, but...ford. I'm trusting the acura way more.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2025 12:25 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 02, 2025 12:26 AM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 02, 2025 12:26 AM (sVtt/)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 02, 2025 12:26 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2025 12:27 AM (KY4Yu)
A referee quickly nudged the unwelcome projectile to the side before someone scooped it up using a cloth, as if it were just another day at the office in the WNBA’s new circus act.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic
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I'd size it up and see if I could kick it some 'loft' into the third row.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 02, 2025 12:27 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:18 AM (49u8i)
The alcohol won't evaporate as you don't 'cook' jello. But the alcohol will settle after a couple of days. I made alternating rum/vodka jello parfaits one time. Made them a day ahead of time. The top part was tasty but by the time you got to the bottom, they snuck up on you.
Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 12:27 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 02, 2025 12:26 AM (sVtt/)
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Ask Merlyn. His big problem is remembering stuff from the future where he's already lived.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2025 12:27 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2025 12:28 AM (+qU29)
Clean, tight electrical grounds & connections. Even a paper thin, nearly invisible bit of corrosion on a ground point will absolutely cripple alternator output and charging. This is because we’re dealing with high current low voltage.
Even a fraction of a single ohm excess resistance will cause major trouble. An ohmeter is useless here. “The grounds look good!” people will say. You got X-Ray vision?
The trick is to measure Voltage Drop. The amount of resistance can be inferred by measuring in parallel, at a low voltage setting while in operation.
Zero voltage drop would be ideal, but impossible. 0.5 volts is considered acceleration for the negative side of the circuit, slightly more on the positive. Each connection, ground point, splice is a potential failure point and will (eventually) fail. The starter & alternator also mate to the block, that’s how it gets ground. Clean!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:29 AM (kUfEw)
Well without see if I get a decent sleep period.
Have a great night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2025 12:30 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:20 AM (fV+MH)
I saw some films of ME 262 jet engines being started, they used a generator thingy to spin the engine and what looked like a propane weed torch to get it started, and it dribbled burning fuel until it got running.
That was scary to watch
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2025 12:30 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2025 10:50 PM (w6EFb)
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Of course, CNN Mike Jeffries: Former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch has been indicted on 16 federal counts of sex trafficking and international prostitution in New York, and is accused of leveraging “a...
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2025 11:29 PM (KY4Yu)
It wasn't that long ago that A&F and American Apparel were featuring nude models in their advertising. Ironically their own political allies turned into far greater prudes than the puritanical windmills they tilted at. Their new mission statement is more about punishing "the male gaze" then selling their product.
Posted by: Sjg at August 02, 2025 12:31 AM (aqZN1)
I love it. My father was a Ford man through and through (who married into a GM clan), and that rubbed off on me.
It's got about 106K on it, only thing that went out to date was the T-stat stuck closed back in winter of 2024. And incidentally that happened when Mama was last in the hospital due to that fall and stroke. So Mama goes to the hosptial, Crown Vic pulls something as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:31 AM (w6EFb)
Or as I call them, Ubercrappie and Felch.
My great-grandfather used to buy stuff like hip waders and fishing rods from them.
I'm glad he's not around to see what they turned into.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 02, 2025 12:32 AM (qpyNK)
I just remembered. It did have on major problem, and that was the stupid plastic intake manifold (it has some aluminum parts in it as well).
It got to leaking antifreeze back around 2015 or so, and that was shop repair job. I'd forgotten about that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Set your voltmeter to the lowest setting. Place one probe on say, the negative battery post. The other probe on the negative headlight terminal.
Turn the headllights on. The voltage displayed is the amount lost (due to resistances in connections & grounds) in the circuit.
The old school cars had the foot switch. Handy, but a VERY long run. Relays kept the current loss from burning up headlight switches. Ever had your headlights go out? Notice there isn’t a fuse, it’s a built in circuit breaker. Heat. That’s why. Will wake yer ass up, let me tell you.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:35 AM (kUfEw)
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 02, 2025 12:36 AM (nftVU)
I thought it was neat-o.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 02, 2025 12:38 AM (sVtt/)
Posted by: Weirddave "
I was waiting for some hijinks. Like a face full of exhaust or something.
Didn't mean to be a wet rag.
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:41 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Weirddave at August 02, 2025 12:41 AM (sVtt/)
US manufacturing was on an accelerated basis too. The B-29 was ordered into production and 200 or so paid for, before even a prototype had been built, much less flown. This was a huge pain in the ass, all the bugs had to be worked out later. And there were a lot. They spent more money on the B-29 program than anything else iirc. More than the $2.2 billion Manhattan project, which was no slouch either, albeit that was completely secret. Not so with B-29
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:42 AM (gIVe3)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2025 12:43 AM (KY4Yu)
"It is with great regret and sorrow that I share news of our beloved Chairman, Shunsaku Tamiya. He passed away on 7/18/25 at the age of 90. We can’t express enough how much it saddens us to have lost our inspirational leader. At Tamiya America, it always gave us immense pleasure to have our chairman come visit us in the USA and in turn us going to see him in Japan at Tamiya hobby events he was deeply involved with. Mr. S. Tamiya always made sure to let his global staff know how much he appreciated everyone’s efforts in being staunch advocates for the company he’s led since being appointed President in 1977."
https://www.tamiyausa.com/blog/loving-memory-s-tamiya/
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2025 12:43 AM (rbvCR)
Good call, because everyone knows that I'm an authoritarian asshole who will ban you if you don't respect my authoritah.
Posted by: Weirddave at August 02, 2025 12:43 AM (sVtt/)
About a half-minute's worth of effort. I managed to do it OK.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 12:44 AM (TNJzY)
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Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 02, 2025 12:46 AM (KAi1n)
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Since the name of the company is "Tamiya" it seems like he was kind of a shoo-in.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 02, 2025 12:47 AM (hY4dx)
One of the low points in British history.
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:47 AM (fV+MH)
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I'd like to fight a guy who had 16 beers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 02, 2025 12:47 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2025 12:48 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2025 12:49 AM (63Dwl)
In retrospect they should have went with a shotgun shell probably. More fun anyways.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:02 AM (qwEFl)
We had one of those when I was a teenager. We had a half acre of field, not lawn, that would often cause the blade to stop and the engine to stall. When it stalled, I'd crank it up, pop the release, and restart it.
One time the mower stalled, I cranked it, hit the release, and nothing happened. I rolled the mower on its side and found a big rock stuck between the blade and frame. I gave the rock a shove.
The rock came out, the blade was free, and the released spring loaded engine instantly roared to life. By sheer luck, both my hands were clear of the spinning blades. I went back to mowing.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 02, 2025 12:49 AM (4rENN)
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There was that one time when I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
Posted by: Capt. Spalding at August 02, 2025 12:49 AM (hY4dx)
I've used baking soda, generally when they're already gunked up on tractors and stuff. They make these felt terminal protector washers you put under the terminal clamps. I got to using those with new batteries. Also, some spray-on protector jizzum. Sticks like paint.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 12:50 AM (w6EFb)
Wasn't that the place to go for a pith helmet and an elephant gun?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."
Holy re-branding Batman.
Posted by: eleven at August 02, 2025 12:50 AM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 02, 2025 12:51 AM (nftVU)
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 02, 2025 12:45 AM (nftVU)
Used to apply grease to battery terminals to block corrosion. Wait! Grease is an insulator! Yes, but when you wring the terminal down tight on the post, and tighten the bolt, you get good metal-to-metal contact just the same. And the grease squeezed out fills any tiny gaps, and helps prevent acid fumes from going to work on the lead or copper.
You used to be able to buy chemically-treated felt washers to put on battery posts for the same purpose.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 12:51 AM (TNJzY)
Here’s a bit of trivia. What was the last car offered with a hand crank? I think it was Citroen, but I’m not sure.
I had my Ford Y-Block tuned to the gnat’s ass. When it was warmed up, just a click of the starter, a split second, would re-start the engine. I could have got a “free start” if I rigged up the right spark plug I bet.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:51 AM (Ms2yN)
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Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 02, 2025 12:49 AM (4rENN)
You were very lucky indeed. Could have been a shorts-spoiling moment. Or worse.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 12:54 AM (TNJzY)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 02, 2025 12:52 AM (vd6bO)
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I might just come on down. You see, I'm a fiddle player too.
Posted by: The Devil at August 02, 2025 12:55 AM (hY4dx)
I had my Ford Y-Block tuned to the gnat’s ass. When it was warmed up, just a click of the starter, a split second, would re-start the engine. I could have got a “free start” if I rigged up the right spark plug I bet.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 12:51 AM (Ms2yN)
I had a 1960 VW transporter. It had a hand crank.
Watching the Garage 54 guys on Youtube, and they are always messing with old Ladas, and the engines have a hand-crank dog on the front crankshaft bolt. And those are 1980's cars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 12:58 AM (ZO20Q)
Likewise his subordinate Curtis LeMay took an enormous risk in radically changing the tactics with said B-29 to low-level, night firebombing (the plane, amazing for its era, was specifically built for high-altitude daylight precision bombing). There had been some talk of this, and one small test raid of sorts, but LeMay put all his chips in the middle when he ordered the Tokyo raid of March 8/9.
Those few years were packed with people putting it all on the line, many without hesitation.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2025 12:59 AM (KY4Yu)
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Posted by: The Devil at August 02, 2025 12:55 AM (hY4dx)
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Heh.
My name's not Johnny, but these kids of mine can sure play that fiddle. Starting at 11 tomorrow.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 02, 2025 01:00 AM (vd6bO)
Batteries outgas when charging, this is both necessary or typical in the absorption phase. But it should be minimized, they actually stop outgassing when they reach full charge. I noticed once I started keeping batteries plussed up with a charger, terminal corrosion disappeared completely.
The other end of the negative cable, where it attaches to the block, is equally important. This is the main connection. Everything works fine when new, but a couple years exposure to road spray and salt, it will degrade. Just a few hundredths of an ohm extra resistance will reduce alternator current output by about 30%! Clean, tight electrical connections are key.
I always re-install charged batteries. A dead battery is torture for Alternator. Not designed for that!
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 01:00 AM (B0ATO)
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That's why the first thing I do before I tip my mower on its side is pull the spark plug wire. But with a spring-loaded engine-turner, still dangerous.
Then, because I'm 29, I put it back upright, pull the cord a couple times to flood it, then remember to put the wire back on the spark plug, set the throttle to minimum, pull the cord a few more times to clear the flood.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2025 01:02 AM (DgGvY)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at August 02, 2025 01:00 AM (igexu)
Pure lead. I think you used to be able to buy pure lead battery post shims, already formed.
Heh! Amazon sells them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 01:06 AM (ZO20Q)
A lot of guys like to install a single ground point connection at the frame. Detroit liked to use the lightest gauge copper wire and cable they could get away with, and run it to the firewall. Cheap bastards. I would get OO double ought and run it direct to a starter bolt.
One would think copper washers would be better for ground bolts on the frame. Something to do with dissimilar metals and fretting corrosion. Steel washers are OK. OEM use those rough star washers that “bite” into the metal, they work good for a while at least.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 01:09 AM (B0ATO)
They tell you to disregard or reject everything you’ve ever heard. It’s all lies! Except them, of course. But they have to isolate you, and prevent you from getting any outside or unapproved knowledge.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 01:13 AM (MsRtR)
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2025 12:02 AM (77rzZ)
Sorry, took a break to pick raspberries.
I'm in Knik.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2025 01:22 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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A segment of a Skoal can, found in a ditch by the road. Strip ripped out with a pair of pliers.
Still there, a year later.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2025 01:23 AM (XeU6L)
Would you believe, that in my life of 58 years, I've had three batteries explode on me?
The first one was in a car when I was driving back and forth from Clempson cow college on the weekends. Stopped at a gas station to fill up on the way down, and got back in an hit the started. Boom! Put a dent in the hood, and sprayed acid all over everything.
That was a classic explosion failure mode. It was "maintenance free", and the level had dropped below the plates (I surmise this). Now, it was a hot day in Sept, I believe, and the thing had been charging, electrolyzing water and getting H2 and O2 over the top. Now, when the electrolyte level is below the plates, something can happen and cause a little short to happen on heavy current draw. Spark and boom inside the battery cells.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 01:23 AM (w6EFb)
--from GP
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 02, 2025 01:23 AM (VPPG8)
Something to do with getting a better aspect ratio without blocking the camera. It also allows you to keep the cell phone within arms reach to adjust quality, lighting, zoom, etc. I forget the specifics. I wanted to confirm before posting but I can't find my phone. Try it with yours.
(Edit: Hello, Miss. I anticipated that you would suspect he was playing you but I want to reassure you that studies have shown a scantily clad girl in frame is necessary to prove my point. Have fun.)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at August 02, 2025 01:26 AM (ciYHQ)
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There's your answer, bovine methane leached its way in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2025 01:27 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 10:04 PM (6WCwE)
A swallow
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OMG I love you all!! I come here for the smart military stuff but that's just what I tell my family, they don't need to know how vulgar you all are :-D
Posted by: NC Ref at August 02, 2025 01:32 AM (/zsRh)
Second battery boom was on a combine, cutting very dusty grain in hot July. It was another maintenance free type. They got little vents and I think the vent got plugged with dust. The battery was exposed to all the dust. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I think overpressure burst, followed by fire.
The third battery explosion happened right under my ass on a riding lawn mower. The dinky battery was completely dead, and I was just boosting it off with the charger to start it, hadn't gotten around to replacing it.
I was on the side of little bank and felt a big "whump". I thought I must have ran over something, but couldn't see anything.
When I got back it and got off it, I noticed a little trickle of liquid running down. That dinky battery just the top off itself right under my ass beneath the seat.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 01:33 AM (w6EFb)
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Hey! I resemble that remark!
Posted by: RickZ at August 02, 2025 01:34 AM (gKDq2)
I have Question and Invitation
Miz Miley may email if lake Jocassee is of interest.
Posted by: Miklos prays for MR at August 02, 2025 01:41 AM (whVCA)
And before I was born, my father had a battery explode as well, but that more due to "operator error". Had an old '55 F-500 truck. It had a 6V system with a positive ground.
You can jump off 6Vs from a 12V system, you just don't want to leave it connected too long. It's gonna charge the hell out of the 6V battery, but the 6V starter will spin pretty fast.
He had a field hand helping him who was more of the strong back and weak mind type. He understood the "red was hot" and black was ground. He connected the 6V side, backwards. My father didn't think to check him, and he connected the 12V side, last.
When he made that connection, it was both batteries in series dead shorted. The 6V battery just exploded. The helper had stepped back enough, and the explosion just went more straight up. He got a little acid on him, but nothing serious.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 01:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2025 01:45 AM (QpSHc)
Miz Miley may email if lake Jocassee is of interest.
She has gone to sleep, I just noticed. Will relay this tomorrow.
Mama is back home, discharged yesterday around noon. She's doing well, looks and sounds much better. Now, just to hope her platelets don't crash again.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 01:47 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2025 01:00 AM (B0ATO)
You would not believe how many times i have to tell people to charge a new battery fully before sticking it in their harley. I hear this shit almost every week. Oh I put a new battery in and its dead. Well, did you charge it? No they said it was charged. NO..NO, they are never frigging charged. Just because the frigging ass picker at the counter where you got it says that he's full of shit. 12.6 off the shelf is not charged. Stick a battery in like that it and its over, the bike will never charge it right and the battery will be doomed. We charge them up to 13.5 and they work every time. Even my asshole brother did this TWICE with a full custom bike with stroker engine I built him. Puts a battery in, bike won't crank good, battery eventually dies. DID you charge it? Uh.. no. I tell him charge the new battery. He puts another in down the road, and no charge, and the bike is the same unreliable shit all over again. Now I own the bike. I put a fully charged battery in 1.5 years ago and its been golden the whole time.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2025 01:48 AM (snZF9)
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Also, docking to the ISS is live
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Posted by: Joyenz at August 02, 2025 01:48 AM (sPQoU)
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This is good
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Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 01:47 AM (w6EFb)
Glad to hear it. Prayers for continued healing and health.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 02, 2025 01:54 AM (sPQoU)
They took her off two of her medications. Both can rarely cause the platelet drop, but not usually a crash like she had. They're not really sure what caused it, but they're going to monitor her levels closely from now on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Finally got some decent rain. 1.01" tonight. And the other two little ones totaled 1.56" for the week.
July was just 2.64", which is just a little bit over half of normal. It was very spotty rainfall around here, and some spots just a couple of miles away got up to 5" for the month.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 02:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 02, 2025 02:18 AM (nftVU)
Yep, letting the water level get below the plates is bad, and after all that, I've learned to check that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2025 02:28 AM (w6EFb)
An interesting day in US History:
From a previous thread here today, Joe Biden's consigliore, Mike Donillon, says Kammie is indeed running in 2028, Mark Halperin says Family Biden is threatening to release details of Kammie's utter failures if Kammie talks about Joe, and Kammie is/might be writing a book.
I predict the book does get written, initially sells well, then fails, as too many items are just unbelievable and the ghostwriter just isn't that good.
Kammie uses her book money and some/lots of her husband's fortune to finance the campaign. Her campaign fails and he ends up being not a billionaire. I feel sympathetic butt-hurt.
But the big question: who, either side or third-party, will leak forbidden information about Joe or Kammie?
I predict that both sides are loading torpedo tubes, and it will be a combination of low-level flunkies on both sides that start the fight.
DC area, so I guess this will be Third Battle of Manassas.
Posted by: Arbalest at August 02, 2025 02:59 AM (FlRtG)
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Had a mid-frame 6V battery blow the top off while I was kick-starting a Suzuki T-350. Later, when I washed the jeans that I had been wearing, the left leg of the jeans looked like I had taken a load of buckshot in the leg.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2025 03:01 AM (XeU6L)
That frozen battery blowing on charging was interest, and I had Grok go over a possible mechanism. Grok thinks it was likely expansion due to freezing warped messed up the internal conditions, possibly a short or the other way, making a high resistance path.
Some tiny current would flow, although the ice would limit it. But, with some heating, it thinks little pockets of liquid would developed, and they would electrolyze pretty quickly, giving some H2/O2 production in little pockets. As it loosened up, a spark or hot spot sets it off.
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