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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (7W0uI)
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Al Gore never had rhythm, did he?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)
@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (mlg/3)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - triple crown at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (7W0uI)
I wonder how good a flanged mace would be. You'd think it would get caught in shit. Would a big ball be better?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (zZu0s)
We were killing about 100,000 every 6 months to stop slavery and now we are somehow the bad guys.
Posted by: rhennigantxs Mother at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (gbOdA)
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Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)
Parents Music Resource beat him out with a shovel.
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Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (HFcKg)
I figured that was beef stroganoff.
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Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (U8bu3)
Are we sure the car is what's for sale in that ad?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:14 PM (DgGvY)
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
I guess the war is over.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)
I shit you not.
Posted by: Tonypete
It was "Goomba," but she Anglicized it when she emigrated from Super Mario World.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Vice Principal Orlando at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)
I shit you not.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)
I think it was Michael. Hit FLA in 17 or so.
1. Line at COSTCO near road had pallets of Titos and Jack. With card reader.
2. We had Generac but after a day or so went out and TA DA WaHo. I think I had waffle with cheeseburger.
3. FEMA has WaHo map after disaster.
4. When Putin drops Nuke there will be a WaHo open by daylight.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (gbOdA)
LOL FB Marketplace romance shot. BLEAH
My war weapon is between a war hammer and morningstar. Hard time deciding.
The UK boat ride with rednecks he will tell his grandchildren. America.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (6PCLE)
Worcestershire does not have that cloying sweetness to it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
In my cooking, Worchestershire pretty much can go in anything, with limited exceptions. Never owned a bottle of A1, only tried it out at a restaurant once. ONCE. Horrible stuff.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (gKDq2)
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Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (U8bu3)
‘Stop All Fighting Forever’: Trump Secures Major Peace Deal Between Armenia, Azerbaijan
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (AOsQT)
Between 6:00 AM and noon, Waffle House is actually not a bad place to eat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (kkTda)
pussy
Real WaHo people show up at 0100.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (HFcKg)
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I was just thinking that was a typical Friday night in Miklos-world. The only question is who was the waitress? Charlene, Darleen, or Marlene?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 10:20 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:20 PM (0Htd1)
Um… well… that could have gone worse.
Pass that one to the Gun Thread.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and the bullet one, too at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Auto Hijinks at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)
Cliff Sex
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (gbOdA)
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Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)
In Rome Empire there was a fish sauce that went on everything.
Like Chic Fil A sause.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (WzM/W)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj)
You did not list set list from juke box so this did not happen.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (gbOdA)
Ran errands with Her Majesty today and we stopped at our favorite Cajun restaurant for lunch. We both had one of their chalkboard specials, blackened tilapia with shrimp and crabmeat butter on rice and garlic spinach. That was truly excellent.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (kkTda)
A nice pan sauce bordelaise is better than any commercial sauce. It's pretty easy to make.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (Riz8t)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Desi Patel at August 08, 2025 10:26 PM (G5+As)
Common Tater, the chef types call that "compound butter", mixing in herbs/etc to butter. Agreed, butter with garlic and chives on beef (or chicken, or ..... a cracker) can be quite good. I make them with fresh lemon zest and garlic to put on grilled fish.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 10:26 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:27 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)
Please. Lee & Perrins has fermented anchovies.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)
Sadly, right now I'm putting my odds of making it to MoMeX at about 1 in 3. But like that skater kid, I'm not giving up yet.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Sheik Yerbouti at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)
Getting hit with a 50 from a sling would be like a tree falling on you.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Josephistan
War. Hammer.
Only substitute acceptable for the standard entrenching tool with a serrated edge for roots. Roots always be needing cut while flailing the dirt out of the trench.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (QcUc+)
Posted by: Hee-Haw History at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)
Yeah, I realized that the first time I had something with Worcestershire sauce in it. I was well acquainted with A1 sauce growing up since my mom insisted on cooking steaks well done and A1 was the only thing other than ketchup that would make such an abomination somewhat edible. I'm surprised my dad never objected to well done steaks, but he always loved everything she made.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (znbnV)
India is retaliating against Trump's tariffs by refusing to export any more H1Bs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (kkTda)
Now do old people scams.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (gbOdA)
Like Chic Fil A sause.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)
Garum.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Allowed ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)
Truth.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (D6+4s)
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Yes, and historians believe the ancient Romans had something quite similar to Worcestershire sauce, too.
Here’s a question for the ever so brainy Horde. There are these artifacts that are fairly rare from Roman times. Maybe a couple dozen extant, made of bronze. They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served. Some have suggested some sort knitting device for making gloves, a device for estimating range or height. Candlestick holder has been rejected as well.
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (NqWk4)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (cduTK)
This guy gets it.
Am I infantry fighting armored cavalry? beak of the chicken. That's a nice can opener. If we're fighting shield wall to shield wall I want the war hammer with a long handle so the second rank can hammer over the shields.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (HFcKg)
Couple of questions:
2012 Nissan Altima for only $96?
What is "yandere behavior?" Never mind I websearched.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and the bullet one, too at August 08, 2025 10:32 PM (7W0uI)
I've seen someone show how to make a fine gold chain using one of those dodecahedrons. I think we won't know until someone finds a mosaic or a fresco depicting one in use.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 10:32 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)
Yeah, I realized that the first time I had something with Worcestershire sauce in it. I was well acquainted with A1 sauce growing up since my mom insisted on cooking steaks well done and A1 was the only thing other than ketchup that would make such an abomination somewhat edible. I'm surprised my dad never objected to well done steaks, but he always loved everything she made.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (znbnV)
My parents ate steak nearly raw. Once at a restaurant, my mom ordered a steak and told the waiter to "wave a flame under it ceremoniously and bring it to me."
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: moki at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (HFcKg)
I can't think of anything better than a Ben Had Bloody Mary.
Soon.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (HFcKg)
No halberd?
what a gyp
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)
The question is for bludgeoning weapons. Halberds don't qualify as they are cutty/pokey weapons.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (znbnV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Flange bends armour a breaks bones mo betta than a ball.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:35 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)
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Truth.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (D6+4s)
Absolutely. Forget the celery stick, though, go witha crisp slice of thick slab bacon as a 'stirrer'.
When I buy horseradish, it's usually for two 'dishes', bloodys and red cocktail sauce for fried shrimp/seafood. Can't think of anything else I use it in. Don't do roast beef/horseradish sauce. . . . Nope, can't think of anything. But for those two dshes, yes I want horseradish. Gold's Horseradish, the white one not the red one with beets.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater
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12 sided dildo launcher.
Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (HFcKg)
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
I guess the war is over.
Posted by: JackStraw
It is for the Ukes.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:38 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Stuff was in the pipeline, headed towards Ukraine. Somebody finally got their courage up and waved the red flag that US stockpiles were getting dangerously low. SecDef ordered the shipments stopped. WH countermanded that order. Confusion reigned. Looks like someone finally made up their mind.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33
"Saw off the horns, wipe it's ass and plate it" is how I sometimes ordered it. My tastes have become a bit more refined, especially with marbled cuts like ribeye. Gotta render at least some of that fat...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:41 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Desi Patel
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Call up Freeport McMoRan, they've got lots of extra copper now that Trump dropped the tariff on foreign copper.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (I1XLT)
Three potions, and the recipe for one? Plus one if you take one of the semi-cursed ones?
Red, orange, and yellow. And the recipe for yellow so I can keep my
Unless you're Elon Musk and you're moving to Mars, then the green one is life-altering. But if you're eternally young, physically perfect, and immune to common infections and diseases, this planet will have to get pretty rough before you need to avoid eating, drinking, and breathing.
Though I can see an argument for red, orange, and yellow, plus pink for the easy sexy times, plus purple & recipe for the "witness protection program" power the pink one would require.
Posted by: and the tentacle sex, obviously at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (1Jemc)
Watching the 4K of "Cat O'Nine Tails" from Dario Argento. Stylish and affordable!
Speaking of cats, where do you fall on the line--
1. Cats are evil and cannot be redeemed.
2. You have a cat who is evil, and I would like to take him from you so that I might experience spiritual evil and...I get lost at this point.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Cook Mine, Please at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (G5+As)
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?
@JesseBWatters
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1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥
Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (I1XLT)
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (AOsQT)
In Korea (and I'm sure other Asian countries) they use a fish sauce in place of soy sauce sometimes. It is extremely salty, though, saltier than soy sauce.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (znbnV)
@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Not allowed! Turn that ship around!
Posted by: Judge Hooha Yomama at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)
>>Whaddaya think?
One of the executives of the Lea and Perrins company built a brick mansion on Newport Harbor. The place has a bunch of chimneys and all of them are shaped like the original Worcestershire Sauce bottles. Just because he could.
Imagine what some archeologist will make of that in 200 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (I1XLT)
Flails are nice for the intimidation factor, but they're unitaskers.
Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (AiNp4)
It's not Greta Thunberg.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:48 PM (1Jemc)
Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
Weren't flails used for threshing grain?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:49 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Ah...
I would have guessed that one of the 3-5 'Judges" that been issueing hundreds of injunctions against Trump tried to force sending munitions to the Ukes.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)
A little public shaming goes a long way.
Posted by: Mostly Caught Up at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (G5+As)
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?
@JesseBWatters
·
1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥
Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)
I have and read the book. Not quite the same since that was a covert war with special forces and this sounds more overt.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (znbnV)
Posted by: far cry at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (TsMtx)
Please. Lee & Perrins has fermented anchovies.
Posted by: RickZ
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I know, right? Crazy
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AOsQT)
That garum from Roman times was also an anchovy sauce. And I would assume fermented as well due to a lack of refrigeration. Apparently garum was ubiquitous at food establishments throughout the city, like abottle of ketchup here in the States, each with their own recipe.
Word I learned from cooking tv is 'umami', the flavor of meat. An enhancement. They say Worchestershire has it. Mushrooms, too. I like both with various meats, that's all I can say.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (D6+4s)
My parents, Lord love them, were brutal to steaks, pork chops, hell, even chicken. I do not do blue rare steak, but I do somewhere between rare and medium rare. to clarify: steaks. Rare chicken is a no-go, of course. I do pork chops just a little past the pink leaving.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table
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Well, that will at least hurt the CIA's bottom line.
Posted by: Methos at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (zLwRl)
Posted by: scampydog
You're kidding? They can't just throw the things onto the floor at WNBA games?
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (AOsQT)
I don't know how long the effects of the potions are supposed to last, particularly when any one of them could be made and given/traded away.
But I think it would be use-case based:
Probably the most useful combination is orange, blue, grey (physical, mental and luck)
• Pro athlete
• Hedge Fund management
• Entrepreneur
Purple (shape-shift) would be impossible to keep a wardrobe. Does this include changes in mass and volume? Go from Jekle to Hyde, Banner to Hulk? Andre the Giant to a 4'2" petite? I'm trying to think of the logistics in the process of changing form - not necessarily something you want to do without preparation and definitely not in public.
Green (simplification) only makes sense if a sniper or a hostage.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (HFcKg)
I'd have to thank Vodka and his sidekick, Tomato Juice . . . .
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (G5+As)
😜
Posted by: mindful webworker - The Voynich Manuscript is the instruction book at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (o55mS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (1U0OF)
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black
In Korea (and I'm sure other Asian countries) they use a fish sauce in place of soy sauce sometimes. It is extremely salty, though, saltier than soy sauce.
Posted by: Farquad
The word "sauce" works two ways in English. Sauce for something, like steak sauce, and sauce of something, like tomato sauce. Finding out fish sauce is the latter and not the former weirds out Westerners.
I have a bottle of Thai fish sauce. It's made by putting fish and salt in a container, leaving it out in the sun, waiting for it to ferment, and straining out the remaining solids. Sounds gross, but it has its place. It's protein salt.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (1Jemc)
I can't imagine a better recruiting campaign than stick in the minds of young men guerilla warfare against enemy cartels.
Finally an opportunity to make a real difference rather than keep sociopaths, grifters and strong men in political power.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: pookysgirl
Northern England, for sure.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (PGK1w)
h/t tankdemon
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (144I4)
Party pooper.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)
Horseradish and a bit of mustard is the correct spread for a kielbasa sammich...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (znbnV)
I have a bottle of fish sauce from an Asian grocery store. You use it sparingly in anything you make. I can use Kikkoman's Low Sodium Soy (the best-flavored commercial soy by far) much more liberally than any straight-out-of-the-bottle fish sauce. Fish sauce is overpowering in anything but tiny doses.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yes. Not the spiked-ball and chain kind in the picture, though.
Threshing flails look like nunchucks, which were also threshing tools, for rice. Western ones usually had a long handle and and a short business end, so you didn't thresh yourself.
Both became weapons because peasants weren't allowed military weapons, and you go to war with the sickle you have, not the sword you wish you had.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (a4flb)
Heh. Better to be a party pooper than to have a party in your pooper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (PGK1w)
I was thinking York, or maybe Manchester.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: mikeski
Fish sauce is filtered and clarified. Looks almost like apple juice.
Bagoong is basically unprocessed fish sauce. Very chunky. Sometimes you can identify where on the fish a chunk came from.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yes. Not the spiked-ball and chain kind in the picture, though.
Threshing flails look like nunchucks, which were also threshing tools, for rice. Western ones usually had a long handle and and a short business end, so you didn't thresh yourself.
Both became weapons because peasants weren't allowed military weapons, and you go to war with the sickle you have, not the sword you wish you had.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)
all true, can confirm
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 11:02 PM (xcxpd)
who thought that was a good idea?
Garum was a fish based sauce, rather salty, and one of the mainstay condiments of the Roman Empire. They used it throughout the Empire, for centuries. It was made by fermenting fish with salt, and presumably was very much like present day Asian fish sauces.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:02 PM (q1mTS)
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table
Maduro has been funding the cartels and gangs like TdA. Human trafficking and drugs into the US.
Still think that the $50 million bounty on Maduro was a bluff?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Not the gold tattoo?
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)
Sorry about that. Tummy's been kind of gippy lately.
Posted by: A seal at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (1Jemc)
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?
@JesseBWatters
·
1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥
Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)
I have and read the book. Not quite the same since that was a covert war with special forces and this sounds more overt.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (znbnV)
Sicario did it better
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)
I am picturing Maria Ouspenskaya in my head.
Posted by: Two Oscar Nominations at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (G5+As)
"This potion grants idealization. When drunk, you...."
Does that mean one can only change form when shitfaced?
That would be wild. Go to the bar gat hammered and when waking end up like the plot line in the Ellen Barkin movie "Switch".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (dDmld)
fish sauce is horrifying and will never be in my house
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (cPGH3)
Blue states with ZERO Republican House seats:
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Vermont
New Hampshire
Hawaii
New Mexico
Connecticut
Delaware
...
The reason Democrats are screaming for Texas to stop redistricting is because Democrats have almost nothing left to gerrymander
They already rigged the map years ago and hate to see Republicans actually fighting back
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (dDmld)
Sumerians, Cimmerians, 220/221
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (1Jemc)
Must've used a slingshot...
Reminds me of an episode of one of those forensic files shows, where a team for one side created a video of a shooting in a hotel room where the bullet crossed walls...the entire cartridge...
Also like this case too:
https://tinyurl.com/35dse695
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Leutonian Benevolent Society at August 08, 2025 11:08 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
If you had to really define one American dish, it would be the red cocktail sauce with horseradish, lemon, Worchestershire and Tabasco.
I don't know where it originated, but when you think about it, it is served across the entire country. I don't know if there's anything like it in other countries. Chili sauces, sure, but not horseradish. I have to think that one's uniquely American, or is uniquely American now.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:08 PM (gKDq2)
Do they pay bounties to Special Forces members?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:09 PM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:09 PM (HFcKg)
The scientific consensus now holds that that the use of the cudgel dates to the Fred Flintstone Epoch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Ben Had
And your attorney?
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (TfUTr)
""It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!" Mark McCloskey posted to his X account on Friday, along with several photos of him carrying the gun. "
They are currently awaiting the return of Patricia's pistol.
LINK (FOX News) https://tinyurl.com/2bpcd9ev
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (GIcqz)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (I1XLT)
That is the combo to really succeed in the pr0n industry.
If the purple allows you to idealize into looking young with pr0n scale genitals, then swap yellow for orange and get maximum endurance.
I think the Pink (extremely attractive) would be profoundly dangerous in that occupation.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (a4flb)
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Do they pay bounties to Special Forces members?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Maybe if they do it off duty.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (HFcKg)
But really, if they were for throwing bones or something like that, scrying, etc, I'd not be shocked. Someone needs to make one and do random stuff with it. Experimental archaeology is where it's at.
Posted by: H at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:12 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 08, 2025 11:13 PM (3ek7K)
LINK (FOX News) https://tinyurl.com/2bpcd9ev
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rj6Yv)
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The inert prop-gun.
Missouri needs to get off the fence and get its laws in line with the people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:13 PM (I1XLT)
And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.
Her stuff tastes inky.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Lady Dimitrescu has entered the chat.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 11:14 PM (QcUc+)
But really, if they were for throwing bones or something like that, scrying, etc, I'd not be shocked. Someone needs to make one and do random stuff with it. Experimental archaeology is where it's at.
Posted by: H at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (2gjbv)
In this day age, they'll add it to the tip of a green dildo...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (ynpvh)
I think Sun Tzu is looking down at Trump and saying "My man!".
Trump completely reset the battlefield by closing the border tighter then a frog's ass. There isn't a refried bean fart getting through. At the same time he has reordered the world trade market and took a dump on Mexico while doing it.
Not that media has noticed but this didn't happen by chance. It just took someone with brains and balls who really means it when he says he loves this country.
It's fun as hell to watch this happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (TfUTr)
Most welcome. If it worked, do write it down, as I've forgotten some awesome preparations, especially those assembled in the heat of the moment and under the influence. Made an amazing pineapple and rum glaze for grilled lamb chops once. Once...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (iP/6R)
I recall back during all the hoohah about Black Talon ammo some national news showing an animation of the jacket opening up during flight and spinning like a buzzsaw, multiple rotations per inch of travel.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Interesting thought. A Special Forces commander decides to go rogue. He commits his entire unit to the task of capturing Maduro.
Let's say a Battalion.
Let's assume he spends a month on training, and gets the job done.
I bet he wouldn't be able to spread $100/ per after expenses... ?
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: irright at August 08, 2025 11:17 PM (vIK+M)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 08, 2025 11:17 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:18 PM (gTHdJ)
(YouTube) LINK: https://tinyurl.com/5y5rh7rh
Interesting food history lesson included.
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:19 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 11:20 PM (VmgCW)
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You know those "we're #1" foam hands people wave at sporting events? I can think of a minor modification that would make them very suitable for WNBA games. You could even get one in your own team's color/logo. Easy to smuggle in, and if everybody in the stands was waving one TPTB couldn't do a damn thing about it.
Business opportunitiy?
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)
Posted by: Pungent Petey at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (G5+As)
Flails are nice for the intimidation factor, but they're unitaskers.
Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)
Depends on what your costs to sales ratio must be to make a profit. There aren't a whole lot of WNBA fans out there, even fewer willing to buy team logo'd junk.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)
Not that media has noticed but this didn't happen by chance. It just took someone with brains and balls who really means it when he says he loves this country.
It's fun as hell to watch this happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)
Time for him to put the screws to that deranged fag Mark Carney in Ottawa.
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Frankie at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (nVUa4)
Posted by: 80's music fan at August 08, 2025 11:25 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:26 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (/y8xj)
Have you ever watched any of the Tao Fledermaus videos on youtube? The shoot all sorts of weird home-made slugs out of 12 ga. shotguns, often with a rifled barrel. They have a high-speed video camera watching the slugs go down range, and impacting on various targets. A slug spinning at 20,000 RPM will be making roughly one revolution per yard of travel.
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (1Jemc)
All it took was a new president to shut down the border!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)
Depends on what your costs to sales ratio must be to make a profit. There aren't a whole lot of WNBA fans out there, even fewer willing to buy team logo'd junk.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM
Tell you what, that'd be one episode of Shark Tank I'd tune in for...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:32 PM (1Jemc)
When I was seventeen, it was ...
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:34 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)
Not a bluff, but Maduro never leaves Venezuela. It would take an army to get at him, just like Saddam.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (N+wXz)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)
Time for him to put the screws to that deranged fag Mark Carney in Ottawa.
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (1Jemc)
The military treating Narco Gangs as international terrorists is a real game changer as well. Allows military assets to be used.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:37 PM (yGKb5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday. . . at August 08, 2025 11:38 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
Always wondered how they named the Morningstar.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)
Denny's or Steak and Shake were the best places in Bloomington.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I liked Taco John's.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 11:41 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:43 PM (bss/y)
Iirc, it wasn’t botulism, it was e.coli …
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday. . . at August 08, 2025 11:43 PM (3ZUWJ)
Probably closer to Noriega.
Maduro has not only used Venezuelan government money but much of his own money to pay the cartels to smuggle people and drugs to the US. He also sent TdA.
Unless all the reporting is wrong Trump just authorized the military to take out the cartels. And he put a $50 million bounty on Maduro.
If I'm playing poker with Trump I don't think he's bluffing. Putin doesn't seem to think so.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
"Great news, Senor Maduro! You are the Grand Prize Winner in our Publishers' Clearing House Sweepstakes! One million dollars! That's right, one million dollars! Just come to Belize City on September 4th to collect it."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:46 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:47 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
Or Noriega. The US has a $50,000,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest of Maduro. That helps, too.
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2025 11:49 PM (P5MIT)
Posted by: Ben Had
By weight, you're mostly human.
By cell count, you're mostly bacteria.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:51 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:52 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:52 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:54 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:55 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Braenyard
How is it wrong? Too few bulldozers?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:58 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (JvZF+)
The big hassle was getting the drift pins out so I could disassemble the guts.
The jack is the central part of a juice press, and the apples are ripe.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:01 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard
How is it wrong? Too few bulldozers?
Posted by: mikeski
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Man of my heart.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:01 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
Always wondered how they named the Morningstar.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)
Intertubes say:
" the name comes from the comparison of the head to a star. Apparently it is used earliest to describe the weapon in Danish, is adopted into German and reaches English in the 17th. century."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 12:04 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
There was a special group that went in to pull the Venezuelan opposition leaders who had been hiding in the Argentine embassy out of Caracas a couple of months ago. I suspect they entered through Colombia since Maduro shut down direct flights from Colombia soon after that. It was sort of like the whole Argo mission to get the other Americans out of the Canadian embassy in Teheran once upon a time.
No idea if a team could extract Maduro against his will, but I bet he is having security scans of the dust bunnies under his bed this week.
(also, it could be pushed in Congress that Venezuela has declared defacto war on the US at some point)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (0nHVk)
The default dinner over a griddle with a side of hashbrowns and baked beans was the "Minute Steak" which came in frozen packs with a slice of butter in the middle. With lakeside campouts, whatever trout we caught were also added to the feast.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (25kuG)
Probably means that Rhoda, MTM’s friend, was most likely the devil’s daughter.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (q+E/R)
Then there's the Holy Water Sprinkler...
"The holy water sprinkler (from its resemblance to the aspergillum used in the Catholic Mass), was a morning star used by the English army in the sixteenth century and made in series by professional smiths..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (ynpvh)
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater
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The Romans had Circuses, right?
Peepshow tokens!
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 12:06 AM (ha888)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 09, 2025 12:06 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)
I dug the volunteer horseradish out of my garden this week when I dug my potatoes. What is the process of turning the roots into lovely sauce? I get it every year and the only thing I can do with it is cook the greens.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)
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Guy with the wrench. Yeah, he fucked up. Still...that heartbreaking 'tink' when you over-tighten a bolt is a learning experience. The second half of that lesson, if you are unlucky, is extracting the remnant.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:08 AM (XeU6L)
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black
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The entire Far East. I can't remember the name, but Koreans have the FISH!! sauce that'll curl your toes.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 12:09 AM (ha888)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (0nHVk)
Happy Friday to you as well, Debby! Got any weekend plans?
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 09, 2025 12:09 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (q1mTS)
>>Whaddaya think?
A Dutchman thinks they are a sort of sun dial, for determining seasons from the angle of the Sun
www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
You're in luck, you get three! And the recipe to make one of those three!
And a 4th or 5th good one if you drink one or all of the cursed ones.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:12 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:12 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
She claims it's a geology tool, but it's really to balance her front.
Posted by: girl's got a rack at August 09, 2025 12:13 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:14 AM (viF8m)
"barfing out the backs of our tents" will now be my euphemism for explosive diarrhea.
Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:15 AM (vIK+M)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 09, 2025 12:16 AM (FMtrg)
"Vietnamese fish sauce, known as nước mắm, is a key ingredient in Vietnamese cuisine made from fermented fish and salt. It is used to add a savory umami flavor to various dishes and is often combined with ingredients like lime juice, sugar, and garlic to create dipping sauces."
Bet it would have spiced up the C-rations.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 12:16 AM (bKn1x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:09 PM (zZu0s)
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My steaks don't need sauce.
15 years ago, my friend went to put some A1 on a steak I cooked for him and I threw an apple at him and hit him in the head before he could ruin it. He was pissed, but not as pissed as I was. I told him to at least take a bite before dousing it in sauce that hides the magnificent flavor of a perfectly seasoned and cooked NY strip. He later said it was the best steak he had ever had.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (8P/xB)
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Betting the kid invests in a torque wrench. Betting that was a head bolt. Not a fun extraction.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (RT3YC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:20 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:20 AM (q1mTS)
www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Sounds exceedingly complicated. Surely the Romans knew how to determine the equinoxes and solstices; they could simply count days. And a simple instrument like an astrolabe would be easier to make for the purpose than a dodecahedron.
Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)
Look up any horseradish root to horseradish recipe. Here's one, at AllRecipes https://tinyurl.com/335r9tmn
"It's usually made with just the root, vinegar, sugar, and salt."
From what I'm reading, just a liitle effort and some time. Doesn't last long, though, even frozen.
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Horseradish mixed with whipped cream to make a horseradish cream sauce for smoked fish as an appetizer (the fish on a leaf lettuce bed). Had that a few times (mackerel and sea trout). It's so good. One of those horseradish dishes I forgot.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 12:22 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:23 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)
The Morning Star was Venus, and it was traditionally shown as a spiky ball - I don't know why but that is the classic way of depicting it all the way back to the Greek city states.
The name Lucifer also means morning star, and so I suppose it is the very devil to face in a melee
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:23 AM (rbvCR)
www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Sounds exceedingly complicated. Surely the Romans knew how to determine the equinoxes and solstices; they could simply count days. And a simple instrument like an astrolabe would be easier to make for the purpose than a dodecahedron.
Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)
Is the Roman version Crucifixions and Decimations?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:24 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: girl's got a rack at August 09, 2025 12:13 AM (DgGvY)
You’ve obviously watched it!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:24 AM (q1mTS)
To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (/y8xj)
The Younger Dryas impact theory just got a boost with this paper:
https://tinyurl.com/24epjam9
The lead author there is from the University of SC here. Anyway, they found evidence of comet material in core samples from Baffin Bay at the YD boundary.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)
They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served.-
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When you are dealing with Romans, it's always buttplugs, all the way down.
Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (vIK+M)
They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served.-
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When you are dealing with Romans, it's always buttplugs, all the way down.
Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (vIK+M)
I thought it was the Greeks that were into the butt stuff...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (ynpvh)
276 Let's not forget the greatest sauce from England...Worcestershire sauce which is derived from a recipe from the mid 1800's and still produces from the original recipe to this day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)
Worcestershire sauce is believed to be the most similar modern sauce to Garum, a fermented sauce used heavily throughout the Roman world, and thought to have somehow survived in rural England through the centuries.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Nightwatch
How's the neighborhood? Are the natives restless?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (RT3YC)
276 Let's not forget the greatest sauce from England...Worcestershire sauce which is derived from a recipe from the mid 1800's and still produces from the original recipe to this day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)
Worcestershire sauce is believed to be the most similar modern sauce to Garum, a fermented sauce used heavily throughout the Roman world, and thought to have somehow survived in rural England through the centuries.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (q+E/R)
Garum was the alien on Deep Space 9...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:27 AM (ynpvh)
The dildo situation at the WNBA games was never funny. I look at it the same way as when they throw bananas at Black soccer players in Europe. It's ridiculous and it should get people permanently banned
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Wa, What? They throw bananas at black players in Europe?
That's racist. Thought Europe was anti-racist.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (I1XLT)
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)
I have to be careful with commercial horseradish because of the sulfites in it. It turns brown after grating.
From what I remember from my maternal grandparents' stories, you grate it into vinegar soon before you intend to use it. Maybe outdoors to keep from weeping.
I like horseradish slathered on a browned pot roast before finishing the low temperature phase of cooking. Changes the flavor, isn't hot. Haven't made it in years.
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 12:30 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (q1mTS)
I thought it was the Greeks that were into the butt stuff...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM-
Some invent, some perfect.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (vIK+M)
Dave's Insanity.
For when you need to introduce a fool (in my case, an Indian co-worker, who said that He would be the Judge of hot) to "hot sauce".
He took the bottle home for lunch, and had his mother prepare a dish. He returned, admitted (1) defeat, and (2) that he was still hurting about 3 hours later. Heh.
Posted by: Arbalest at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM (FlRtG)
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)
Are they green?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (q1mTS)
Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)
Possibly, but they are not Roman, they are only found in Germanic lands, and also remember that the first developments usually are complicated and overbuilt, like Gastrophetes and arbolests coming before crossbows.
Refinements come after the initial develpment.
The argument that they were used for knitting falls apart with the analysis of the objects for repetitive wear: the knobs don't show wear around the necks, but they do show wear where you would expect on the knobs if the object were regularly set on the ground in various faces.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (YlWIZ)
A color map of which states are betting which colors on the next dildo to hit the WNBA courts.
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https://tinyurl.com/bdh6t92x
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:36 AM (I1XLT)
Yep. Exact moment of syzygy was 11:54PM EDT, a little less than a hour ago.
And this is the Sturgeon Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:27 AM
Just watched Andrew Robinson in a role I had forgotten he played. Annoying dumbshit police brass in Cobra. I thought I liked the guy in everything before I saw that.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 09, 2025 12:37 AM (TdCYS)
High Loon will be 1:32AM here. That's close enough for you as well, our longitude is very close. So if you want to go out and howl at it then, that's the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)
Are they green?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM--
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Unsure, but it would completely believable for David French's anus to be seeking government subsidies.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:39 AM (vIK+M)
Oh, and there will be a nice conjunction of Venus (in Morning Star mode) and Jove the morning of the 12th. Jupiter has swung around to the morning side. Provided the weather cooperates, look east about 2 hours before local sunrise, and you should see a nice show.
And, there will be UFO reports from this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
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Hmm. probably better not. So far, the neighbors regard me as only a harmless eccentric.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:44 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Love the cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime. Who knew geology was cute?
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:45 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:45 AM (vIK+M)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:46 AM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:47 AM (XeU6L)
The cutting off of water to the central valley by Lamocrate policies over the last 10 years have pretty much destroyed this economy.
Keep voting Lamocrate.
Newsome 2028.... 💩
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:47 AM (25kuG)
A color map of which states are betting which colors on the next dildo to hit the WNBA courts.
https://tinyurl.com/bdh6t92x
Posted by: Braenyard
Imagine explaining this to someone from 1963.
Heck, 1983.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:46 AM (q1mTS)
I love wear evidence. Once objects are made, they are used in typical manners, and that use wears them in specific patterns.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (q1mTS)
No 'potions' for me. Everything poses a trade-off of some kind, ya know?
Skater kid is inspirational! Go, girl!
Quds are liars. Why do they get the time of day from anyone?
I learned how to flip eggs (and other foods) like that. Practice! Can be messy while learning, LOL
Howdy, horde!
Great content, Weirddave!
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (q1mTS)
Yes, that was interesting. Would the Younger Dryas impact also be related to the one that formed the Carolina Bays?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:52 AM (Jhqzr)
My next-door neighbor went and fired semi-auto rounds of at 2 AM a couple of weeks ago at perceived Armenian gang threats (his people) which totally freaked out my daughter whose window was just next to the driveway.... other than that...ya know...
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:55 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:55 AM (rbvCR)
This is fascinating from the paper, putting together their scenario for the Younger Dryas impact. It wasn't one giant impact, but more like a shotgun blast, and one with a lot of buckshot.
On a faithful day some 12,800 year ago, the Erf slammed into the debris tail of comet break up. This comet was likely the progenitor of the Taurid stream, and current Comet Encke is likely a remnant.
The Northern hemisphere, particularly NA, was deluged with airbursts. A shitton of dust and soot was deposited in the atmosphere, triggering a several year "impact winter" event.
The shockwaves and all that destabilized the ice sheet margins, leading to the collpase of some of those glacial lakes and a bunch of freshwater going into the ocean, which messed up the thermohaline circulation. Temp dropped 18F, and sea level rose 16' in a very short time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 12:57 AM (giVIm)
>>To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
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Ugh! BTDT.
Sad...
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, a lot of people link those. I'm trying to remember. One idea is ejecta from impacts.
Imagine you a get a touching airburst, or even a impact from big fragment on top of a big glacial ice sheet. It throw chunks of glacial ice far and wide. That had something to do with the Carolina bay theory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)
There is a theory (not loved by anyone) that Drake's Passage was iced over from South America to Antarctica, which moderated the temperature and storminess in the Southern hemisphere, and that when the ocean level rose, it floated the ice sheet off its moorings and broke up, to both increase the storminess, change the climate to cooler weather in South America, and raise the ocean level yet further.
To date the only evidence is secondary, and it is helped along only with a lot of handwaving.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:03 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:05 AM (RT3YC)
I'm not sure as to which is hotter, Beaver xtra or wasabi, but they'll both clean out your sinuses.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:09 AM (ha888)
Our current period is called the Holocene, which sort of means "whole new". A whole new world. That was after the temperature rebounded from the Younger Dryas. This is our modern world, the last half of which is pretty much all of known human history.
Before then, there were a bunch of megafauna species roaming NA. Mammoths, elephants, woolly rhinos, lions, and other big cats. Also giant beavers (the size of a bear) and giants sloths. Also humans, the Clovis culture.
They all got extinctified.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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No takers, huh?
The official count, outside the wrapper is 9, front label 43, (37 in the black border,)back label 3, total 55 Lea & Perrins's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 01:11 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (rbvCR)
There are a lot of 'weather' and climate stuff we don't understand... like right now the Arctic is loosing Ice, while the Antarctic is gaining Ice at a record pace.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 09, 2025 01:12 AM (mP0Kj)
>>To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
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Torque Wrench
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:12 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: buddhaha
I prefer the Xtra. The Wasabi is good and hot but it's green, which always looks wierd on a sandwich.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:15 AM (RT3YC)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
YES! Did the Beaver with a roast a month ago. Eye watering with a distinct mouth pop and a finish down the throat that required a swallow of wine to quell the fire.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:18 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 01:18 AM (q1mTS)
"Doot de doot" she called it.
Wonder where/how she's doing now? Lost track of her & her mom over the years.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
Working as a machinist mate aboard a DE with a diesel engine where you can stand on the piston tops when the head is off is not good training for merely mortal gas engines.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:19 AM (ha888)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (RT3YC)
Aren't head bolts torque to yeald? Like grade 14 or some shit. I would think there would be a greater release when it snapped if it was a head bolt. He also never actually shows the bolt. I've only done one head replacement, years ago, on a isuzu off highway diesel and had a journeyman mech doing most of the work. It involved some sort of clocking attachment to the wrench. AOP probably knows what I'm talking about.
Anyway I think that video is faked.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:23 AM (h5TUr)
As part of our vow renewal at our upcoming anniversary party (#2weeks), the pastor asked both of us to answer 20 questions.
I am not kidding when I say that it was eerie how many of them both of us answered with almost identical responses! 😲😲😲
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 09, 2025 01:26 AM (SRRAx)
Dial in the setting and ease up to it. My old SnapOn has a dial indicator in front of the handle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:28 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Reforger
Cynically, you're probably right. Why have a camera set up for that? And the headlamp in the brightly-lit room, just so he could take it off in disgust.....
But what did he expect to happen? He was using a breaker bar!
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 01:29 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:30 AM (25kuG)
Anyway I think that video is faked.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:23 AM (h5TUr)
There is a thing called a torque-angle gauge, which is basically a protractor device. You torque to X torque value, attach the gauge, and move the bolt head an additional angle of degrees. I don't think torque-to-yield head bolts showed up in mainstream automotive applications until the early '90's. Studebaker V8's have 18 bolts per head, and they are 7/16 NC, and Grade 5. They can definitely be reused, unless somehow damaged.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:33 AM (Ufl/X)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (25kuG)
I was taught (not in a classroom, but...) that you followed the specified sequence *several* times:
1st pass-- just to "snug" by feel
2nd pass-- 20lb less than final value
3rd pass-- 10lb less than final value
4th pass-- final torque value
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)
Dial in the setting and ease up to it. My old SnapOn has a dial indicator in front of the handle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:28 AM (I1XLT)
I have an ancient Snap-On inch-pound torque wrench that belonged to my father. Round dial, reads 0-150 inch pounds in either direction. You just pull on it until the dial reaches your desired torque value, then stop. I used it this week to to torque the valve body bolts in the transmission I am doing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:37 AM (Ufl/X)
Well, thanks to Mike mentioning it, I had to go out an observe High Loon. Clouds had moved in, but it was still shining nicely. Altitude was 36 deg, higher than the Sun at winter solstice here, 32 degrees. Still relatively low, but nothing like June this year, where the altitude was 26.5 degrees, and 26.1 the day after full moon.
That was the lowest we'll see the full moon for another 18.6 years. Things worked out just right to get full moon very close to the solstice and minimum declination during the peak of the 18.6 major lunistice cycle.
The Moon is a harsh orbital mistress with all her cycles.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (25kuG)
Also extension pointed straight down. If he was working on a V8, that would rule out a head bolt. Carb flange bolt, maybe? And if he was using a reducer and 3/8 drive socket, maybe the "ting" was the socket splitting?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:39 AM (Ufl/X)
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THERE'S NO WAY OUT!! AHH! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! NOW WE'VE GOT YOU! AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO! HA HA AHH HA HA!!!
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 09, 2025 01:40 AM (1AZG0)
Thank you for the celestial observation points.
With that, I will take wine glass in hand, step out into the night,
and observe.
Goodnight, Horde.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:43 AM (25kuG)
Not necessarily. I think most newer diesel engines use TTY. I don't know about newer gas engines except Subaru, which is TTY. Older Chevy and Ford weren't TTY but I can't ever remember any of my wrench twisting friends ever reusing a head bolt.TTY requires a specific torque pattern but you can definitely snap a head off. I don't mess around at that level anymore, I know a guy. I did just finish putting a new cylinder and crank in my baby Stihl yesterday but it came fully assembled.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:43 AM (RT3YC)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Old?!!..Dial.indicator?
My first torque wrench was a 50# max Craftsman, with a beam mounted on the socket connection extending parallel to the shaft and bent 90 degrees to create a pointer, which was over a plate, engraved with numbers that was fastened to the shaft with the numbers extending at a right angle to the shaft. 0 to 50 to the right and 0 to 50 to the left. As you tested on the handle, the beam would deflect to the pressure applied.
I rarely use it, but it's still in the original box in one tool cabinet out in the garage.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:44 AM (ha888)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:37 AM (Ufl/X)
I have 2 inch pound torque drivers, 1/4 through 3/4 torque wrenches. Plus a 4 to 1, 3/4 to 1 inch MAC torque multiplyer. My shitty to get around having to buy a 1" torque wrench. 8 in all plus the multiplyer.
All sitting in cases on shelves in my shop as I'm WAY out of the heavy equipment gig.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:46 AM (h5TUr)
Otherwise, they're okay.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2025 01:48 AM (WZFEa)
Teresa, I am not surprised about you and Mr. TIFW having so many similar answers, 45 years is a testament to both of you!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 01:49 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Locarno at August 09, 2025 01:50 AM (wiYsG)
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:54 AM (h5TUr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That sounds like what I was describing. I guess you could call it ancient; I bought it around '66, when I moved away from.guys who I could borrow a torque wrench from.
Excuse me, "from whom I could borrow." 😁
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:55 AM (ha888)
My first torque wrench was a 50# max Craftsman, with a beam mounted on the socket connection extending parallel to the shaft and bent 90 degrees to create a pointer, which was over a plate, engraved with numbers that was fastened to the shaft with the numbers extending at a right angle to the shaft. 0 to 50 to the right and 0 to 50 to the left. As you tested on the handle, the beam would deflect to the pressure applied.
I rarely use it, but it's still in the original box in one tool cabinet out in the garage.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:44 AM (ha88
AFAIK, beam type torque wrenches are still made. Pretty hard for them to go out of calibration. The click-type ones, you are relying on internal mechanism to remain in calibration, or else you are just guessing. The dial-type Snap-On I have seems to be basically a dial indicator gauging the deflection of an internal beam, I think.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:57 AM (Ufl/X)
Replacement guarantee??? LOL! B!tch at the counter told me it's "not a hand tool" and said it had only a 1-year warranty. Wanted to see the purchase receipt. Huh? (It was a gift.)
I looked at it, turned it over a couple times & told her I didn't see a cord, and asked how it's *not* a "hand tool"??
Fk Sears. No wonder they went T.U.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
She must have used hers WNBA-style.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 02:03 AM (DgGvY)
Little b!tch was barely 20 years old. Probably didn't even know what TF I had in my hands. Of course, Sears was starting to go under by then, and so probably all employees were told to reject all the returns that they could.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
* checks *
Created in '96, started playing in '97. So almost 30 years ago?
If you would have asked me that at Bar Trivia Night, I'd have said they've been playing about 15-20 years. And even "our" "local" team has been around since '99.
So, in answer to your last question: No. No, it was not ever.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 02:14 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 09, 2025 02:16 AM (nftVU)
Called Sears. Gave make, model, serial # of dryer and asked for a new element. Kid says OK and sends me one, charged to my SearsCard.
Wrong. Doesn't fit. Not even close! So, I took it to the store to return & credit my account.
Manager got snippy with me, that *I* ordered the wrong part, and they cannot accept the return. Well, I explained, I did NOT order any specific part number-- the customer service person decided which part I needed and he was wrong...
Took a while, but I got the charge removed. As soon as the ZERO balance statement arrived, I closed my account. F 'em.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
I got interested in the history of what's dubbed "Lunar Theory", basically the equations that tell you where the Moon gonna be at at some time in the future.
Think of simple Keplerian ellipse. The Moon, due to all the perturbations and complexities deviates from that. By the mid 18th century, they were getting good, and needed about 30 extra perturbation terms for those deviations.
By the start of the 20th Century, it was up to 1400 terms. Now mind you, this was done before computers.
When computers came along, direct numerical integration of the mess of the whole solar system became possible, and that has taken over. JPL's DE440 is the current gold standard.
However, analytical work still continues, and some Frog group has the latest and greatest. It has tens of thousands of perturbation terms. With the numerical methods, you can miss interesting periodic behavior. By working out these 10s of thousands of periodic deviations, they're looking for interesting cycles.
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If you don't need something like Snap On, I've had good luck with Stanley tools. They have better metal and better ergonomics than similar priced tools. The only tool that broke is a 1/4" ratchet and I'll never say that I abused the 1/4" to 3/8" drive booster socket with a cheater pipe.
However, when it broke (10yrs) I called Stanley and the lady said, we'll send you a new one". - Where do I mail the old one for verification? "Not necessary" OK, that's good business.
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Like Chic Fil A sause.
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One of their favorite delicacies was lampreys. Today in Wisconsin you can buy them in bait shops as "suckers".
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>>Under the car, I saw a small fire. Some piece of his car, under the trunk, was on fire. It suddenly flashed and fell of the car, towards my car. It went under me so no damage but he quickly pulled over.
Wonder if the guy ahead of you had a 'friend' what pulled some practical joke on him?
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah, I'm late. I'm always late to these things. Oh, sure, I collect "firsts", but that's because I was so late for the previous thread that I happened to log in here at the turning of the tide, as it were.
Anyway, Nature called me to be awake now. I respectfully disagree and am going back to sleep. Keep it down in here, would ya?
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Older bro had put a zip-tie on the drive shaft. LOL.
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Older bro had put a zip-tie on the drive shaft. LOL.
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And then older bro told him to take it back to the dealership so they could check the muffler bearing?
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Hahaha, I don't know... I just remember younger bro being all upset & then older bro laughing his azz off.
Those were the days.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:47 AM (rdVOm)
This is quite impressive. How accurate is JPL's DE440? In angular terms, for the Moon, it's at 1-2 mas, that's 2/1000 of one arcsecond.
In terms of positional accuracy, imagine the barycentric reference frame as an XYZ coordinate system in free fall with the solar system around the Galaxy. The accuracy for the Moon's position is about 4" over a decade, increasing to about 20" over 100 years.
That French semi-analytic thing has 20,000 terms. Imagine an equation with 20K terms. The error of that is 100 - 1000x DE440 over 100 years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 02:51 AM (w6EFb)
If Mr. Newton and the boys could come back now, I think they'd be quite impressed at how things have progressed.
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SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
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That took me a minute, because there isn't anybody who's literally someone I'd set on fire.
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