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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - September 28, 2025 [Doof]
Quote of the Day Scott Jennings
No responsibility for the radicalization on the left that’s causing this violent outbreak... So it’s Trump’s fault? I want you to understand that we are in the middle of an epidemic of left-wing violence. They’re attacking ICE. They shot Charlie. It’s happening all over the country. We have these free Palestine people running around trying to burn down the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, on and on and on. It’s not Trump’s fault that the left has radicalized to the point of saying, we’re done talking and we’re gonna start shooting.
For many children, the idea of surgery is scary. But one doctor in Brazil has found a heartwarming way to turn fear into courage — by letting his young patients enter the operating room dressed as superheroes. Dr. Leandro B. Guimarães, an ear, nose, and throat specialist, began this practice after a difficult moment with a little girl named Allana. Just two years old, she cried uncontrollably as he carried her toward the operating room. That day, he made himself a promise: no child would ever go into surgery in tears again. “I let the child choose which one they want to wear,” Guimarães explained. “I tell them we will go in ‘flying’ or running and that we are going to clear their nose and ears. I enter the surgical room when they are ready and engaged in the game.” He even encourages parents to join if a child is still nervous. The goal is always the same — to make the experience calmer, lighter, and a little bit magical. The doctor records the joyful entrances, sometimes running alongside kids dressed as Batman, Spider-Man, or Wonder Woman, and shares the videos with parents. “They love it because they can show their children how brave they were!” he said.Check out the whole thing.
If you’ve been saving your fingernail clippings and need some quick money, you should consider selling them as traditional medicine ingredients in China. Fingernail clippings are usually discarded as disgusting pieces of trash, but according to Chinese traditional medicine, they are valuable ingredients in concoctions used to treat conditions like abdominal distension in children and tonsillitis. Companies producing traditional Chinese medicine reportedly purchase fingernail clippings from schools and villages, which they then wash thoroughly before drying and grinding them into a fine powder that gets mixed into various medicinal products. Because human adults only grow about 100 grams of fingernails per year on average, collecting enough to keep up with demand is a difficult task and the price of clippings is relatively high. *** And before you even think about it, no, you can’t sell your toenails. Fingernail processor make it very clear that they check their stock very carefully and toenails are not accepted.
The Palm Room evolved over decades, reflecting each administration’s style. In the 1960s, Lady Bird Johnson leaned into the garden vibe, adding treillage wallpaper (a chic faux-lattice design) on the side walls and hanging flower baskets, echoing her passion for beautification projects like wildflower-planted highway medians. Nancy Reagan’s 1980s touch brought gray slate tiles, sleek benches, and more palms, balancing sophistication with greenery. The Bushes kept things low-key (save for adorable photos of their dog Millie), while the Clintons and Obamas leaned rustic with distressed wooden tables and Michelle Obama’s addition of chrysanthemum-filled baskets for a cozy, lived-in feel.
On September 23, 2025, President Trump unveiled the revamped Palm Room via Truth Social, proclaiming, “New lobby leading to Oval Office—Magnificent marble floor, compliments of President Donald J. Trump!” Designed by Tham Kannalikham, Melania Trump’s trusted interior designer for both presidential terms, the renovation channels the opulent aesthetic for which the Trump’s are known. Gone are the gray slate tiles, replaced by gleaming white marble floors, possibly sourced from Alabama, reflecting Trump’s penchant for luxurious materials. The subtle light fixtures? Swapped for dazzling crystal chandeliers that scream glam. Stark white walls amplify the brightness, while the Brumidi frescoes and treillage wallpaper remain untouched, anchoring the space in its historical roots. The elaborate chandeliers are a mystery—no brand or supplier has been confirmed, though speculation suggests they could be custom-made, possibly from a high-end vendor tied to Trump’s Palm Beach properties. Most potted palms and benches are currently MIA, however the White House hints at their return to soften the sleek vibe. Privately funded by Trump and “patriot donors”.
Reactions are polarized, of course. Personally, I’m obsessed with the marble floor—it’s a bold, timeless statement. The chandeliers add undeniable glamour, and the preserved mid-century treillage wallpaper (a Southern design staple seeing a 2025 resurgence) keeps things sophisticated. I’m hopeful the promised return of greenery will balance the dazzle, and I’d love to see benches with a glam Chinoiserie flair over generic glitz. Something like this:
What’s Your Verdict? Is this a sparkling triumph or a soulless hotel lobby? Let me know your thoughts, and I’ll keep digging for any updates on those elusive chandeliers should a foyer lobby renovation be in your future! ------ Thanks, Piper - needs more elbows, though.
Assigning Chores to the Kids
Fixing Everything Themselves
The Traditional Dad Chair
The Family Fishing Trip Check out the rest at the link.
(from thisdayinmusic.com) Born on this date in 1952: Andy Ward from British rock band Marillion
On this date in 1976: Stevie Wonder released his eighteenth studio album, Songs in the Key of Life. Considered to be one of his greatest masterpieces, the double LP featured such hits as “Isn’t She Lovely,” “I Wish,” and “Sir Duke.”
On this date in 1991: American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Miles Davis died of a stroke and pneumonia. His 1959 album 'Kind of Blue', is a major influence on jazz music. Davis is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:00 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 28, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: GWB at September 28, 2025 10:00 PM (Dvcu+)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-20
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 28, 2025 (PDT)
Launch Time: 7:04 p.m. PDT ( September 29, 02:04 UTC, 04:04 CEST)
https://youtu.be/UW0NSTZdokY
Posted by: Joyenz at September 28, 2025 10:01 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 28, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)
She hates the hospital food, so we were bringing her stuff to eat. her appetite is low, but she has no dietary restrictions.
I hated leaving, but life intrudes. She understands.
Georgia is an interesting place. Mom and brother and his wife live an hour away from Savannah.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 28, 2025 10:00 PM (0aYVJ)
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Had to drag this poat up the stairs.
Hi, all.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 28, 2025 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)
https://tinyurl.com/3765wszz
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 28, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: angsterdam at September 28, 2025 10:03 PM (van9r)
Posted by: angsterdam at September 28, 2025 10:04 PM (van9r)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:04 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:04 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:05 PM (L5ksW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:06 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2025 10:06 PM (AOsQT)
HOA Karens are bad enough. Government Karens are worse.
Posted by: RickZ at September 28, 2025 10:06 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:04 PM (uQesX)
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You're just aspen for it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:07 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:07 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:07 PM (L5ksW)
Sure they do.
As our Chinese acquaintances say, don't trust anything from China.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:07 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (A0sqA)
And I say this as someone who owns a boat and has owned RVs. But they were either in storage or in the back out of view from the street.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:04 PM (fveCG)
Fine and dandy? Or just dandy?
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (QMAsf)
Silver at $46.62 per oz. That means a pre-1965 silver dime has $3.33 worth of silver in it.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Cosda at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (YRV46)
Love the boat fence -- victory HOA!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (RY+bB)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:07 PM (L5ksW)
Alleviate or cure TDS. He can only make it worse!
Posted by: Gref at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2025 10:06 PM
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No idea, but wonder how many passed on the opportunity if that's the pick.
Posted by: TRex - dino declined to dance at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:04 PM (uQesX)
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You're just aspen for it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:07 PM (JkO4W)
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You just pine away for it.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:10 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: TRex - it was dino in the palm room with a wrench at September 28, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Good evening darlin'...
On to content...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:05 PM (L5ksW)
Howdy COMM!
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2025 10:11 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (wrRTB)
Only fags hide their toys in the back. If you've got it, flaunt it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:11 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2025 10:11 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (L5ksW)
Posted by: Don Black at September 28
He is a Puerto Rican singer.
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (OoFl2)
Silver at $46.62 per oz. That means a pre-1965 silver dime has $3.33 worth of silver in it.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (Da7Vv)
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I was a paper boy from 1963-66. Made collections in cash. So many good coins literally slipped through my fingers. Oh, the humanity!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (RY+bB)
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2025 10:06 PM (AOsQT)
Blue Bunny ice cream that got left out on the counter overnight?
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (cYBz/)
Don't tell mom what we saw at the movies
Always the best fungus for the mu shu
Let's see where this road goes
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28,
Of course I will!
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:13 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: COMountainMarie"
If Trump cured cancer he would be accused of taking jobs away from countless medical professionals.
Posted by: Ripley at September 28, 2025 10:13 PM (PTDkx)
It'll be a triumph. And if it isn't, he still has three years to fix it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:13 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:14 PM (L5ksW)
Good evening! I love the marble floor and I want to slide around on it in my socks. I can't decide whether I want the room warmed up with a little foliage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:14 PM (n7CIX)
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I'll withhold judgment until the slot machines are installed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:14 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:14 PM (OoFl2)
Do they pay extra for the boogers or are those gratis?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:15 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2025 10:15 PM (3ek7K)
Good evening! I love the marble floor and I want to slide around on it in my socks. I can't decide whether I want the room warmed up with a little foliage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:14 PM (n7CIX)
A pool table right in the middle would be a nice touch. Big, luxurious pool table. The best pool table.
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 28, 2025 10:15 PM (Yt3ED)
Thanks to Piper for the glam tour of the White House. I like the white marble floors and the stately update.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 28, 2025 10:15 PM (kB9dk)
It's not completely soulless, but I prefer the original.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:16 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:16 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Don Black
One of many ticket-taking satanic manufactured music stars. Lots of satanic symbolism and one-eye signs in photos and music videos. Sold his soul, literally. Wealthy beyond imagination, but it's on loan, and like the rest in his club, death is the only way he can leave.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 28, 2025 10:16 PM (GYGpZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (A0sqA)
Howdy, SF
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2025 10:16 PM (QMAsf)
Good evening! I love the marble floor and I want to slide around on it in my socks. I can't decide whether I want the room warmed up with a little foliage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:14 PM (n7CIX)
I bet more than a few Morons would pay to see this.
Maybe some *nice* shrubbery and/or other plants, not the crap they had before, I guess not-too-expensive isn't so much of a priority for Orange Man Bad.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (ULPxl)
When I was stationed in Sinop Turkey...a real backwater, the Turks put in a outdoor privy. It was a classic outdoor privy, but done in the most beautiful marble I had ever seen short of Rome.
Kinda of classic Turk.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: Muchas buchas at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (6bdjY)
Posted by: James Phillips at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (3Zx4o)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Elmer Fudd at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (i0F8b)
Western societies need more inbred Pakistanis and Somalis...
The Telegraph@Telegraph
The NHS says first-cousin marriage is linked to “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 28, 2025 10:17 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:16 PM (OoFl2)
Your paycheck will be docked accordingly
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2025 10:18 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (QMAsf)
Larry's first comedy team. Then he left for the Stooges.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:13 PM (fveCG)
Maybe the chi is different? It's Chinese medicine... don't expect it to make sense.
Posted by: Average Guy at September 28, 2025 10:18 PM (lPHZZ)
Posted by: TRex - it was dino in the palm room with a wrench at September 28, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Yo, Dino!
Posted by: Doof at September 28, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)
Next day - email update that app was accepted, $ accepted, all is well, expect the new one in 4 to 6 weeks.
I received it in the mail three days later.
Gee - What could have possibly changed within our Federal Leviathan and the Administration of such recently?
Tis a mystery it is!
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (wrRTB)
Only fags hide their toys in the back. If you've got it, flaunt it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"
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I grew up in a block of early 20th century brick double homes. Every house had a small front yard. After high school I bought a Starcraft runabout, backed the trailer onto the front yard, and chained it to the brick column at the porch corner. The lady next door said it gave the neighborhood a resort look.
Posted by: Cosda at September 28, 2025 10:19 PM (YRV46)
Yes! Screw "em and their little sensitivities! Of course, I have no neighbors...nothing to worry about...🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (L5ksW)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (3ha+O)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (GYGpZ)
Can you be my neighbor? I live in a lake community, or maybe "commune" as in hippy commune because the men who wanted to hunt and fish out here built their homes. When they died, their spouse and then later the children inherited the property and treated the land as a landfill for their junk. One property here has rusting out motorcycles, cars and other machinery clearly visible from the road. Another has a trailer that has black mold and tree damage to it.
I tell people to go past the junkyard, the landfill and the crack house then turn left past the burned out shack and rusting boat and trailer, after the dilapidated fence look for .... then describe my property which is always Home & Garden photo essay ready.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (a4flb)
Don't tell mom what we saw at the movies
Always the best fungus for the mu shu
Let's see where this road goes
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2025 10:12 PM (A0sqA)
My Dad's 70's traditions?
Station wagon with 440 inches and Holly card under the hood... El Camino with a 454 which was rebuilt by a family friend to original, non 70's HP.
Come home from work, get a glass of wine, and spend the next hour watering all the plants before dinner...
Never busting me or my Brother... even though I'm convinced he knew exactly all the shenanigans we were up to.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (mP0Kj)
I'm here in suburban Birmingham, on the last leg of my trip back to Da Swamp. Many thanks to those who had advice for me on the Tech Thread this morning.
I'm beginning to think that what I'll have to do is zero in on an area where I want to live, fly there and look it over, and then go back, put my stuff in storage, return to the new place, and rent for a while. Thus I can look around. This method would allow me to rent in a larger town than I really want, while I check out the surrounding communities. I resent the costs involved in the storage and the renting, none of which will go toward the purchase of the house; but it begins to look like I have to do just that.
I'm tired and depressed. The whole business seems somehow insurmountable right now . . . and I'd thought checking out Evansville and Owensboro would be a huge step forward in my plans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (5VPj1)
Because toenails are gross and disgusting, so of course nobody wants to eat them. Fingernails, on the other hand, yummmmmm!
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:13 PM (fveCG)
Well, since traditional Chinese medicine has a lot of magic to it, I'd say simply that toenails have bad juju.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:21 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:07 PM (JkO4W)
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You just pine away for it.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:10 PM (2WIwB)
Perennial work, you two. But, try to branch out into other things.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:21 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Joemarine at September 28, 2025 10:21 PM (y171U)
https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo
https://youtu.be/8wI4jMxveyI
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 28, 2025 10:21 PM (S/Y4j)
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Looks like a lux bathroom in a 5 star hotel...they should bring as much greenery as possible to conceal that a bit..
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:22 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2025 10:22 PM (3ha+O)
Next day - email update that app was accepted, $ accepted, all is well, expect the new one in 4 to 6 weeks.
I received it in the mail three days later.
Gee - What could have possibly changed within our Federal Leviathan and the Administration of such recently?
Tis a mystery it is!
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)
I had a similar experience 3 months ago, renewing by mail. I received the new one 11 days after I express mailed the application. I was pleasantly astounded.
Posted by: Gref at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (wrRTB)
Only fags hide their toys in the back. If you've got it, flaunt it.
And this is why we have HOAs. Don't want to see other peoples boats in the front yard? See if the HOA allows it or not.
Don't want other people telling you you can't have a boat in your yard? Same answer.
As long as you know up front, no problemo.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (Riz8t)
But they were either in storage or in the back out of view from the street.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (wrRTB)
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Our RV is in the driveway next to the garage, but it's set back 150 feet from the road. It's in view of the road, for certain values of "in view".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (tgvbd)
And at least one small statue of a naked chick, painted gold. Put it in front of the Jack Daniels mirror.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (wLsnt)
Good evening! I love the marble floor and I want to slide around on it in my socks. I can't decide whether I want the room warmed up with a little foliage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:14 PM (n7CIX)
/ques up 'Old Time Rock and Roll'
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)
We kids were allowed to sit in it. But only when he wasn't in the room. Whenever he came in, we got up without being told.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (Lo97M)
You agreed to be ruled by their edicts when you signed the dotted line.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Otto Pen at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:13 PM (fveCG)
Because you walk on the dirty ground through dog poop!
Posted by: Says guy who has no toilet paper at September 28, 2025 10:24 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:24 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at September 28, 2025 10:24 PM (4nX8n)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:24 PM (4a+wk)
Don't want other people telling you you can't have a boat in your yard? Same answer.
As long as you know up front, no problemo.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (Riz8t)
Prob is the an HOA can change the rules on you.... and you don't necessarily get a say in it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:24 PM (mP0Kj)
That's an excellent way to describe it.
It could use a full-size Pegasus fountain. Yes, someone in my general vicinity has several in his yard.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:25 PM (Riz8t)
On Saturday and Sunday mornings he would take my brother and me "out": to the shopping center or hobby store, or to the park or Chalmette Monument. And that was pretty much it. Until very recently I had no idea where he worked or where he lived when he wasn't with us. Inquiries like that were not encouraged in my family.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:25 PM (5VPj1)
We kids were allowed to sit in it. But only when he wasn't in the room. Whenever he came in, we got up without being told.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 28, 2025 10:23 PM (Lo97M)
I still have Dad's last chair... and he's been gone for over 20 years.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: James Phillips
Andy was their tour drummer for 3 months, between the recording of their 1st and 2nd albums. He was gone 12 years before "Beautiful" was recorded, even if it is a "beautiful" song.
Here's Andy with Camel, in 1974:
https://youtu.be/mIIL1Xtz-3s
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (nhCoE)
>>>>>>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (5VPj1)
Don't you know New Orleans really well? Sounds like a good place to stay if moving is so tough.
Posted by: Scoldilocks The Berating at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (ZZXCI)
Posted by: 1-800-588-EMPIRE at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (3ek7K)
I read Powerline's (sympathetic) summary of Andy McCarthy's (disapproving) indictment of James Comey, and I had to draw a diagram to figure it out. I still haven't figured it out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (n7CIX)
When I still lived near Orlando the HOA got so rabid and Karen-y that some friends of mine took it over and then refused to enforce any rules.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (3ha+O)
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I would have gone with Laocoön and His Sons. More drama, just ignore the naked dudes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:27 PM (4a+wk)
Just plain courtesy but some people don’t like being told or even asked what to do , rule or no rule.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 10:27 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:24 PM (4a+wk)
hey, a fella can spend a pretty penny throwing darts at the state fair to win one of those
Posted by: Otto Pen at September 28, 2025 10:27 PM (sJHOI)
>>Prob is the an HOA can change the rules on you.... and you don't necessarily get a say in it.
HOA's ain't a democracy, they are iron fisted fiefdoms ruled by psychopaths, generally.
That's why you don't move into one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2025 10:27 PM (XV/Pl)
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I don't think I believe that picture, though I like the sentiment.
How is he ever going to move the boat from that position?
How does that driveway/garage combination work?
Posted by: Methos at September 28, 2025 10:27 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at September 28, 2025 10:27 PM (4nX8n)
Posted by: Scoldilocks The Berating at September 28, 2025
***
I know it far too well -- I've lived there most of my life and have watched it decay. I hate it, the streets, the weather, the denizens, and want to flee.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (5VPj1)
Posted by: Javems at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (z5deb)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (DoBxX)
The Trumps, God love 'em, have very nouveau richetaste.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (L5ksW)
Well, if you weren't living in a cave, you'd have lots of neighbors.
Posted by: Welcome Wagon at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (uQesX)
Because people act like savages and wild animals when you don't have HOA Karen harassing them.
In the city, there are allegedly noise ordinances, and HOA keeps people from putting two hundred neon colored ping pong balls on stakes throughout the front yard, or raising chickens and row crops between the house and the road.
I'm out in the sticks where everyone has some acreage but that extra land leads them to think that they are on a deserted island. Neighbors on both sides each have kennels of feral high energy dogs that only eat, bark, shit and bark (they don't sleep, they bark).
I long for an HOA and HOA Karen to harass them into moving.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Don Black at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (kurEY)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (Da7Vv)
I remember buying silver ounces for $15. I sold a bunch when it got to $21 and I thought I was making a killing.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (rbvCR)
Because toenails are gross and disgusting, so of course nobody wants to eat them. Fingernails, on the other hand, yummmmmm!
Posted by: Archimedes
This checks out.
I've known people who chewed their fingernails.
I've never known anyone who chewed their toenails.
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (nhCoE)
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I would have gone with Laocoön and His Sons. More drama, just ignore the naked dudes.
Or you could go full classy, like the Saudi prince awhile back, who bought statues of nude women, and then painted pubes on them. You have to be born with style like that.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:29 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (g47mK)
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This man knows his art.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:29 PM (4a+wk)
I guess a black velvet Korean nude is too much to hope for?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:29 PM (2WIwB)
You've thought and wished and dreamed for this change for so long, it's probably built up a little bit more in your mind -- the best house you can afford, in a great neighborhood, in a town with good roads -- and the reality presents as something different.
One step at a time, and you've at least taken the first step by going on the roadtrip. You know we are all cheering for you. Get some rest and go home to your kitties. The way forward will become clear.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2025 10:29 PM (OAsOu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yeah, probably bad juju. Thanks, AOP.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:30 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (a4flb)
Maybe you should move. To a condo in a subdivision where every damned house looks alike.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:30 PM (o46Y5)
I'm in a similar situation, but I don't bother the neighbors when they're fixing a small-block Chevy and much noise ensues, and they don't bother me when I feel like exercising my $5000 surround sound speaker system.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2025 10:30 PM (3ha+O)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:22 PM (g47mK)
Our toilets are nicer than most people's homes.
Posted by: Engulf and Devour at September 28, 2025 10:30 PM (uQesX)
A half naked broad holding a jug will make it more classy.
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (g47mK)
_________
While smiling and winking at you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 10:31 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:31 PM (5VPj1)
Posted by: Archimedes
Yup.
You can bite your fingernails in public and most people won't care too much. Might not want date you. Or not give a hoot.
But, start gnawing on your toenails... Suddenly you are freak.
Gnaw on anothers then you are a pervert.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 10:31 PM (/lPRQ)
I got an address from you in an email, but Mapquest doesn't like it.
Is there a trick to entering it or do you have actual directions you can email me?
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 10:31 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 28, 2025 10:31 PM (Vvh2V)
When I was a kid and still had excellent OEM teeth, I bit my nails constantly. Don't know if it was nerves or what, but by the time I was in my late teens, I just stopped. Coincidentally, I never had abdominal distention or tonsillitis, so maybe they have something there.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (QdGJh)
I've never known anyone who chewed their toenails.
My granddaughter gets her foot to her mouth quite easily, but she has no teeth yet, so I guess she gums them.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (nhCoE)
Ballet dancers probably could.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Is This The Food Thread? at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (oftw2)
>>I long for an HOA and HOA Karen to harass them into moving.
I'm set back 100 feet from the the road and you can't see onto my property, I also have a giant barndominium that can house all my stuff comfortably and I technically have neighbors, we can't see each other for all of the woods and trees.
They could be parting out air-craft carriers and nobody would know.
And that's how I like it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)
'The Telegraph@Telegraph
The NHS says first-cousin marriage is linked to “stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages”'
They're such gaslighting assholes. It's obviously dysgenic and they know it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (fd80v)
You've thought and wished and dreamed for this change for so long, it's probably built up a little bit more in your mind -- the best house you can afford, in a great neighborhood, in a town with good roads -- and the reality presents as something different.
One step at a time, and you've at least taken the first step by going on the roadtrip. You know we are all cheering for you. Get some rest and go home to your kitties. The way forward will become clear.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2025
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Thanks for the encouragement, TecumsehTea. Yeah, after I pet the monsters and give Linda her present, things may look better.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:33 PM (5VPj1)
Posted by: Ring The Bell For Mental Health at September 28, 2025 10:33 PM (oftw2)
I got an address from you in an email, but Mapquest doesn't like it.
Is there a trick to entering it or do you have actual directions you can email me?
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 10:31 PM (144I4)
Try bing.com/maps, or even googlag, or some other mapping service.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 10:34 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:34 PM (n7CIX)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2025
Crazy it is that close!
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:34 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 28, 2025 10:34 PM (DoBxX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:34 PM (4a+wk)
They're such gaslighting assholes. It's obviously dysgenic and they know it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (fd80v)
Well, when you beget a cripple or a retard, there will be extended family to care for it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:35 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (JkO4W)
I'll take tranny hookers for $2,000.
Posted by: Hunter Biden at September 28, 2025 10:35 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (nhCoE)
Ballet dancers probably could.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Flexibility wise, I suppose so but have you ever seen ballerinas' feet? They are galactically ugly and beat up. Yuck!
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2025 10:35 PM (cYBz/)
Isn't there a place where civilized people live where they can have property, a view, peace and quiet and not have it junked up with shit and debris, loud stereos and a dozen dogs that 24/7 bark like they treed a coon?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:36 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 28, 2025 10:36 PM (DoBxX)
HOAs...*spit*,,,
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:36 PM (L5ksW)
Posted by: 1-800-588-EMPIRE
There goes my plan.
Was going to suggest that Trump put some cooling coils under that floor and keep a thin ice glaze on it.
He can wear his cleats and laugh as everyone else slides on their asses.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 10:36 PM (/lPRQ)
I'm here in suburban Birmingham, on the last leg of my trip back to Da Swamp. Many thanks to those who had advice for me on the Tech Thread this morning.
I'm beginning to think that what I'll have to do is zero in on an area where I want to live, fly there and look it over, and then go back, put my stuff in storage, return to the new place, and rent for a while. Thus I can look around.
. . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (5VPj1)
Renting for a few months in a new potential location is a good idea. I've relocated to an entirely new, unknown location four times as an adult and always initially rented. I never regretted the time I spent renting, as it let me get more familiar with the areas and make better decisions about where I wanted to buy. In one case, I wound up only staying in the area six months, but that departure was job-related, not housing. I was grateful I was renting and didn't need to sell a house, or stay in a bad job situation.
Have you considered taking a more extended road trip and covering more ground, to look at more, different areas before focusing on one or two?
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 28, 2025 10:36 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at September 28, 2025 10:36 PM (4nX8n)
Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2025 10:37 PM (kurEY)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Gotta keep the invaders happy.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:37 PM (fveCG)
That's why you don't move into one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender "
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Our developers came up with a self serving association years after they had the subdivision approved. We got together and sued them, the township, and the county. Ended up with a settlement that got our roads up to snuff and a requirement that we file our own owners association. I wrote it with our lawyer. It basically says the association will take care of the roads. You do what you want with your property.
Posted by: Cosda at September 28, 2025 10:38 PM (YRV46)
They could be parting out air-craft carriers and nobody would know.
That is the way it should be. There does seem to be a strong correlation of people who hate HOAs but are also the very reason why HOAs exist.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:38 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (5VPj1)
Why not move more west or central Louisiana like DeRidder or Alexandria area. Lafayette is a great city. Then you wouldn’t have the hassle out all the admin stuff you have to do when moving out of state.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 10:38 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:36 PM (a4flb)
I'm sure there is an HOA community somewhere that will meet you needs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:38 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: mikeski
Ballet dancers probably could.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That's why I said "I've never known anyone who....."
And I didn't say "I searched OnlyFans thoroughly, and couldn't find anyone who....."
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2025 10:38 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2025 10:35 PM (cYBz/)
Is this nice?!? 🤣
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:38 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at September 28, 2025 10:27 PM (4nX8n)
No! Wait! Rules are rules, and forcing them on others is how we show we are virtuous enough to be allowed to advance socially!
I also lick spittle well, and toadying is a specialty.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 10:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:28 PM (g47mK)
Which half?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:39 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: QED Texan at September 28, 2025 10:40 PM (fveCG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:25 PM (5VPj1)
You may not know it, but your old man's a spy. He's an undercover agent for the FBI.
Posted by: Charlie Daniels at September 28, 2025 10:40 PM (uQesX)
Some people interpret that as a requirement to open a hog rendering facility or convert the front yard into a motocross dirt track, or cook meth while running a commercial dog kennel.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:40 PM (a4flb)
A rare Albino Bigfoot was spotted ambling down School Street in Agawam, Mass.
Surprisingly, or unsurprisingly, the People's Republic with 3 Million acres of forest is a strong gathering place for the hirsute ones.
There have been many sightings in the Bridgewater Triangle, Monsterland (Fitchburg and Leominster), Douglas State Forest and Central Mass.
Here's a brief look: https://tinyurl.com/bdfu8amx
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 28, 2025 10:40 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 28, 2025 10:34 PM
***
I hear bonsai is quite a popular hobby.
Posted by: TRex - everything connects to the hobby thread at September 28, 2025 10:41 PM (IQ6Gq)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:29 PM (2WIwB)
First question: Male or Female?
Observation: not a lot of black Koreans. Few of those are velvety
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 10:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ian S.
The one HOA I was disgruntled with I found they had to renew their corporate paperwork yearly or it would go kaput... But. But, w won't be able to tell our neighbors what to do....
This HOA had NO assets or amenities, just liability to maintain storm water pond. If it dissolved then pond land title and upkeep would go to the country.
Meh. I just moved rather than deal with Karen.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 10:41 PM (/lPRQ)
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy have stopped for the evening a little south of Chattanooga. To northern Virginia tomorrow, then Somerset, NJ on Tuesday.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 10:41 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ripley at September 28, 2025 10:42 PM (PTDkx)
/ques up 'Old Time Rock and Roll'
Posted by: Romeo13
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How's it going, Romeo?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:34 PM (n7CIX)
Just finished the evening routine...
Check the gates... locked...
Check the doors... locked...
Shotgun... check... .45... check...
Glass of wine... yup... /smile.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:42 PM (mP0Kj)
Remember that X-Files episode that went after some mythical creature that a new neighborhood's HOA somehow conjured up??
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 10:42 PM (8z6SV)
I read Powerline's (sympathetic) summary of Andy McCarthy's (disapproving) indictment of James Comey, and I had to draw a diagram to figure it out. I still haven't figured it out.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:26 PM (n7CIX)
Andy McCarthy is a deep state plant. Everything he says is propaganda. He's one of those guys I used to like, but came to realize what he really is.
Posted by: UltraChad SnizzMaster at September 28, 2025 10:42 PM (Yt3ED)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 10:42 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:43 PM (g47mK)
I liked the bars, the Englehard 100 ounce bars make an impressive paperweight. I sold the second to last one exactly when spot last hit 48 bucks. Almost 5 grand in crisp 100s. I actually thought silver was going to go higher, but as the saying goes nobody ever went broke taking a profit. I can’t recall what the cost basis was, but it seemed like a reasonable thing to do.
The one big mistake I see is people talk about “investing” in gold or silver. They are not investments, they are much closer to currency speculation. An alternative to saving dollars. In that sense they performed perfectly.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2025 10:43 PM (wHaGM)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 28, 2025 10:32 PM (fd80v)
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omg. How about eating your own shit? Any nutritional advantages? Economic advantages for sure, you save on groceries!
I scarcely know of anything more basic than Do Not Breed With Your Close Family Members except the suggestion I made above.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 10:43 PM (n7CIX)
Posted by: Christmas time will be here again soon at September 28, 2025 10:44 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 10:44 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: mikeski
Ballet dancers probably could.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That's why I said "I've never known anyone who....."
And I didn't say "I searched OnlyFans thoroughly, and couldn't find anyone who....."
Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2025 10:38 PM (nhCoE)
Dated a Ballet Dancer... ugliest feet I've ever seen....
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 28, 2025 10:44 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:43 PM (g47mK)
But only allowed out when certain guests are there. Peacocks are so loud and mean!
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:44 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at September 28, 2025 10:45 PM (4nX8n)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 10:45 PM (144I4)
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The one big mistake I see is people talk about "investing" in gold or silver. They are not investments, they are much closer to currency speculation. An alternative to saving dollars. In that sense they performed perfectly.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 28, 2025 10:43 PM (wHaGM)
They're an inflation hedge.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 10:45 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Charlie Daniels
He's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Posted by: Uneasy Rider at September 28, 2025 10:45 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 28, 2025 10:45 PM (SRRAx)
Do they pay extra for the boogers or are those gratis?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:15 PM (Riz8t)
The pinworms are free too!
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 10:46 PM (144I4)
Decaf is a thing. Check into it.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:46 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Charlie Daniels
He's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Posted by: Uneasy Rider at September 28, 2025 10:45 PM (oftw2)
May I suggest...
Sending Lawyers, guns, and money?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:46 PM (mP0Kj)
There have been many sightings in the Bridgewater Triangle, Monsterland (Fitchburg and Leominster), Douglas State Forest and Central Mass.
Here's a brief look: https://tinyurl.com/bdfu8amx
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 28, 2025 10:40 PM (TGPs7)
***
Grew up in the shadows of Mt Rainier and Mt St Helens. We scoff at your wussy east coast Bigfoot.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB)
You are missing the point. Or maybe that is it. Civilized people organize HOAs, feral people with zero respect for anybody and a particular exhibition of utter contempt and hatred for their neighbors live outside them.
Its weird. I grew up in a lake community of GM executives, later a semi-rural community where people took pride in their homes and properties - none were HOAs., just normal people who weren't utter slobs and reprobates. Then three different suburban communities where HOA membership was optional (to use the common areas like tennis courts and pools) but wasn't a problem.
The last was turning into a problem as one neighbor was an active drug dealer (parents eventually threw him out) and another collected junk cars and frequently left his rusting hulk treasures parked out in the street for months on end.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:46 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:33 PM (5VPj1)
He'll be so tired when he gets home that he'll give the cats a present and pet Miss Linda.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:47 PM (uQesX)
Well, to be sure, I don't remember my father doing too many of the things on the list. He was a good man and a good provider but his work was the most important thing to him. Doing things with the kids wasn't much of a thing for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 10:47 PM (tgvbd)
Do they pay extra for the boogers or are those gratis?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:15 PM (Riz8t)
The pinworms are free too!
Ack! I thought I might be getting too gross, but now I see that I wasn't trying hard enough.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:47 PM (Riz8t)
I genuinely think that's one of the reasons why black men love him in unprecedented numbers. If he put gold spinner rims on the Beast he would truly be America's first *real* black President.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2025 10:47 PM (3ha+O)
You got it backwards. People who bitch about HOA’s shouldn’t move to a community with an HOA.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 10:47 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:43 PM (g47mK)
But only allowed out when certain guests are there. Peacocks are so loud and mean!
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:44 PM (Wmg4n)
How about three doors to three different aviaries - one with ostriches, another with emus, and another with cassowaries.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 10:48 PM (ULPxl)
That's why you don't move into one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
The shit-hole HOA I bailed out of existed soley for the developers benefit - basic rules -
- developer owned lots were worth four votes and exempt from assessments.
- developer was exempt from all rules.
IOW - you pay the developer whatever they want $$$ when they finish out your new home and you'll get whatever you can afford. Otherwise you get nothing. And never will. At least until they they sell off 80% of the lots.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 10:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025
***
Same problems of nasty hot weather and, in the case of Lafayette, bad streets. I want to see something other than endless flat green and to hear people speaking in something other than Lousy-ana patois.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:48 PM (5VPj1)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:46 PM (Riz8t)
Decaf is for wusses.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 10:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (4nX8n)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 10:48 PM (ULPxl)
no, no, we want to keep is simple...
Posted by: runner at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (g47mK)
Its hard to find a topic that if discussed in person for any length of time will result in gunfights. I can't think of a more anger inducing topic than HOAs.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (a4flb)
You sir, have described me to a "T".
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:48 PM (5VPj1)
Yeah, friend of mine has been trying to talk me into moving to Branson Missouri... spent a couple weeks there... hated the weather. Humidity was like Florida... and rained a LOT.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (mP0Kj)
I just learned that in 1992, John Hughes inked a deal with Charles Schulz to make a live-action Peanuts movie.
Obviously that never came to fruition.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025
I live in the mountains. I own my home. I'm proud of keeping my property well maintained. However, I will NOT allow some little wanna be tyrant tell me what color my house can be, or the height of my lawn. Just sayin'...
Again...HOA...*SPIT*🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 10:51 PM (L5ksW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:48 PM (5VPj1)
That’s not my experience.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 10:51 PM (EYmYM)
You sir, have described me to a "T".
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (TfUTr)
/Fistbump
Present company excluded... I've pretty given up on people... even most of my family.
Curmudgeon... it's not just a word...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:52 PM (mP0Kj)
I remember being told the J6 protests were seriously bad. Because, you know, people pushed cops.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 10:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 10:52 PM (tgvbd)
If you don’t have a HOA why so freaking angry?
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 10:53 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 10:53 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2025 10:53 PM (Riz8t)
Go for it all, Carolina Squat the Beast's suspension with the spinners.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:54 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 28, 2025 10:54 PM (vKEG1)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 10:52 PM (sKqQm)
Yeah, they were so bad we never testified about it! oh... wait... shit
Posted by: 275 FBI agents at September 28, 2025 10:54 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 10:55 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (a4flb)
Most everyone agrees that to live in a society one must surrender part of his or her desires and freedom to do whatever necessary to be acceptable and fit within that society.
The sticking point is whether that is best moderated by history, culture and interpersonal relations, or if it is best moderated by a bunch of your neighbors who got power over your actions and what you do with your own land because they had nothing better to do and they like having the power to control others for their own good
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 10:55 PM (rbvCR)
Station wagon with 440 inches and Holly card under the hood... El Camino with a 454 which was rebuilt by a family friend to original, non 70's HP.
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Our family car in the 70s was a 66 Galaxy 500 that had so much redundant power that it would spin the rear wheels if you tried to drive normal.
Pretty sure my dad hid his Playboys intentionally bad so my brother and I would find them and learn to love tiddies as much as he did!
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 28, 2025 10:56 PM (kDHiw)
Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2025 10:57 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: 625Boatrider at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (4nX8n)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
If there was ever an automotive trend that is downright ugly and stupid, I'd like to know what that is.
Posted by: Continetal Kits and Vinyl Roofs at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 10:47 PM (EYmYM)
Which is exactly why I don't have an HOA at either home, And people who bitch about cars up on blocks, or RV's parked in the yard should not move to a community where such things are permitted.
My nearest neighbor here is a quarter mile away. And we get along fine. And he has as much junk in the yard as me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 10:55 PM (rbvCR)
The real sticking point is who gets to decide how much freedom we give up.
It's like the National Security argument where some here have called me an isolationist because I don't think we need US Troops everywhere all the time... (currently have US troops in 170 countries).
It's a question of where is the line... where is the balance.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (mP0Kj)
All cultures are equally and all that stuff
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 10:50 PM (mP0Kj)
I've been in the Northeast, the Southwest, Central CA and visited a few other areas. Can't see living anywhere other than where I am. The good thing is, I don't have any friends so I don't have to worry about someone telling me to move where they live!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: Cookie at September 28, 2025 10:59 PM (6piUq)
Posted by: Continetal Kits and Vinyl Roofs at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (oftw2)
What ever happened to hanging a racoon tail from the radiator cap?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 10:59 PM (rbvCR)
If you’ve been saving your fingernail clippings and need some quick money, you should consider selling them as traditional medicine ingredients in China.
________
It's not difficult to imagine fingernail clippings snobs developing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 11:00 PM (tgvbd)
Pamela Hensley@PamelaHensley22
BREAKING: Over 100,000 federal employees are expected to resign on Tuesday. This will be the largest exodus in U.S. history.
Learn to code!!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 28, 2025 11:00 PM (TGPs7)
I hear you. I know people who live in the HOAs where H stands for Hell and A means Asshole. Because they won't let people lift the hood on the car if in any way it is visible to the street. All homes must fit within a very tiny band of acceptable earth tone colors. No car on the street more than eight hours. No use of gasoline powered yard tools EVER. Only small children friendly penants can be on display for no more than a week and fines go out if the colors are in any way faded. Christmas lights must be approved by the board and installed professionally and removed by the First weekend in January.
Its like Mother May I for the Damned. I just don't want my neighbor burning his car in his front yard. Is that too much to ask?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 28, 2025 11:00 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (uQesX)
I'm still looking to move from Central Calif to South of Reno Nevada... close to skiing and mountains... but reasonable weather.
And even if Nevada is a bit Blue? its WAYYYYYY better than Calif.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (2NHgQ)
How did they become HOA President?
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:01 PM (EYmYM)
Pamela Hensley@PamelaHensley22
BREAKING: Over 100,000 federal employees are expected to resign on Tuesday. This will be the largest exodus in U.S. history.
Learn to code!!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 28, 2025 11:00 PM (TGPs7)
Good, good.
MORE!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 11:01 PM (ULPxl)
This is especially effective in cities - when your neighbor is a few miles away who cares what they are doing? But when their are dozens of others families crammed into an apartment building around you? Then...well...I can see/hear them doing something WRONG.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:02 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (5VPj1)
A friend of mine wants me to move to northern Maine where she moved to, and be her neighbor. I mean sure, the blackflies, the grinding winter, Quebec across the river, what is not to love?
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 11:02 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2025 10:08 PM (JkO4W)
Is it adjacent to the Rose(ie) room?
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 11:02 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2025 11:02 PM (snZF9)
Learn to code!!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 28, 2025 11:00 PM (TGPs7)
In the immortal words of that great Thespian, and wordsmith, Curly Bill Brocius:
Well... bye....
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:02 PM (mP0Kj)
Good God! What this will do to the Jobless number? Trump is dooooooomed!!!!
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 11:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot
I'll trade you for a pristine Crown Air Freshener.
Posted by: fab five freddy at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:02 PM (sKqQm)
Covid... it's not just the Left.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (mP0Kj)
Over 100,000 federal employees are expected to resign on Tuesday. This will be the largest exodus in U.S. history.
_________
Are these the ones that took the buyout?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (tgvbd)
Maine in the summer = nice
Maine in the spring, fall = ok
Maine in the winter = just how negative can the temperature get? Also, will this snow melt by May do you think? Note, sometimes the answer to that is no.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (L5ksW)
But it mostly was. And interestingly most of the anti-Covidian left moved right, and most of the pro-Covidian right moved left. Or, perhaps, was revealed to be...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:05 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Archimedes
I went most of my life without knowing about those. Kinda wish I still didn't. So all I can do is pass on that knowledge.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 11:06 PM (144I4)
Posted by: ah, city life at September 28, 2025 11:06 PM (hlJBQ)
Posted by: Kindltot
The two-week hiatus between blackfly and mosquito season is glorious, though.
Posted by: Maine Man at September 28, 2025 11:06 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 11:06 PM (tgvbd)
But it mostly was. And interestingly most of the anti-Covidian left moved right, and most of the pro-Covidian right moved left. Or, perhaps, was revealed to be...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:05 PM (sKqQm)
Pre Napoleon, the King of France would put on great Masked Balls... elaborate costumes... and at midnight, everyone took off their masks to show who there were...
It was called, the Great Reveal...
we are still in the Middle of the US's Great Reveal
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:07 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)
Especially if you're in Stockton!
Gov is R, but only one R rep. The rest are commies. Both Sens are commies, too. Only my county supe is R.
Minden and Gardnerville are ok, or have been. Ask Reforger about Reno. Lake Tahoe is for money, or twenty to a rental. Carson City is nice, but a lot bigger than it used to be.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 11:08 PM (uQesX)
_________
Are these the ones that took the buyout?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Actually, I understand it is 154,000 Fed employees that took the buyout. Last day is Sept 30th as this is the end of the Fiscal Year.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2025 11:08 PM (cYBz/)
It was called, the Great Reveal...
we are still in the Middle of the US's Great Reveal
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:07 PM (mP0Kj)
Masked Balls: to avoid Covid of the testicles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:08 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:08 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (sKqQm)
I have no idea why she moved to Maine other than Covid and she hated her job here. She is from South America and never saw ice that didn't come from the store before she was 21. Maine is slightly nicer than a dairy farm in North Dakota, I admit that. I met a Cuban who wound up working on a dairy farm in North Dakota. I think he was insane.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 11:09 PM (rbvCR)
I’m sure I could name a dozen things ‘permitted’ that you would have a problem with. Unknown Drip was talking about things 90% of people would have a problem with.
Distance though is better than fences . The closer the neighbor the more likely problems to occur without ‘rules’ .
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:09 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:01 PM (mP0Kj)
You wouldn't have a room for rent, wouldja? ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:09 PM (8z6SV)
If they are expecting sympathy or to bring the country to its knees they are mistaken. It will be more like everybody’s HOA quitting.
Posted by: Ripley at September 28, 2025 11:10 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Still is but just a wee bit farther west.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2025 11:10 PM (cYBz/)
Oh honey. I'm not angry. I don't have to be. I don't have to deal with an HOA. I'm very happy😃
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 11:10 PM (L5ksW)
Romeo13, let me know when you make your move, if you have a room available for rent. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:10 PM (8z6SV)
Gov is R, but only one R rep. The rest are commies. Both Sens are commies, too. Only my county supe is R.
Minden and Gardnerville are ok, or have been. Ask Reforger about Reno. Lake Tahoe is for money, or twenty to a rental. Carson City is nice, but a lot bigger than it used to be.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 11:08 PM (uQesX)
I'm in a small town about 1.5 hours South of Stockton... Red County, good Sheriff... City Council voted to tell the State to F off on Covid regs.
But... it's getting worse all the time.
Would love to find something around Minden, so I could Day ski in Tahoe (have had the Epic pass for years).
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2025 11:11 PM (YMMPC)
My nearest neighbor here is a quarter mile away. And we get along fine. And he has as much junk in the yard as me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (o46Y5)
When I was looking at my first house we were walking through with the real estate person. Somebody did a killer burnout a block over as she was talking about the neighborhood (lol). I remembered seeing a house on the next block with a race car trailer and a car in the driveway. I put it together that he must have gave it a test. The real estate agent look concerned. I said not exactly a quiet neighborhood I see. She looked almost frozen. I said, "I'm going to like it here". You could see color returning to her face. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2025 11:11 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 11:04 PM (2NHgQ)
👍
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:11 PM (EYmYM)
I know people that winter in FL and summer in New England and...because urban New Englanders being Massholes, I can see the appeal of that.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 11:10 PM (L5ksW)
You shouldn’t spit so much then.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:13 PM (EYmYM)
HOA moved into my neighborhood and said that my travel trailer could not be parked on the side street. (I lived on the corner) I moved the trailer to the driveway. HOA said that it could not be parked in the driveway. So, I made a bigger gate and moved the trailer into the back yard next to the garage. Nah ah, we can see that trailer from the street, no good.
I sold the house to Guatemalans.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2025 11:13 PM (OS3X9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2025 11:13 PM (tgvbd)
But I want to run it past you first. If you're interested, I can send you a picture of it.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 11:13 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 11:13 PM (2WIwB)
BREAKING: Over 100,000 federal employees are expected to resign on Tuesday. This will be the largest exodus in U.S. history.
Learn to code!!
Posted by: Mister Ghost
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Is there any chance a significant number of them will move out of the area?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 28, 2025 11:13 PM (n7CIX)
Distance though is better than fences . The closer the neighbor the more likely problems to occur without ‘rules’ .
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:09 PM (EYmYM)
Well, if my neighbor wanted to burn a car in his front yard, I would offer him a few bucks to take it off his hands, and then I would salvage whatever parts I thought might be worth saving, and render the rest down for scrap. Could be a C-note in scrap value there. But If he insisted on burning it, I'd come up with a lawn chair and a cooler of beer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:14 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 28, 2025 11:15 PM (vKEG1)
- Great cajun/creole food
- Weather that will literally drive you insane
- Oil companies basically own the state
- All the roaches want to be your friend
:-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:15 PM (8z6SV)
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Oh heck, that will leave only 2.8 million to serve us.
Posted by: Javems at September 28, 2025 11:15 PM (z5deb)
Posted by: haffhowershower
Is it a Commemorative Plate?
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:15 PM (TfUTr)
Three blocks to the left is a mosque and six blocks to the right is an Islamic preschool and elementary.
HOA did me a great favor.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2025 11:15 PM (OS3X9)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, +CK+ at September 28, 2025 10:03
Hey Mikey, I was going to respond to you on the other thread...I can identify, a lot.
Hoped to make it to TX but events and health issues intrude.
Had to leave Dad last Nov 8, he went septic at the rehab facility and was just sent back to the hosp. But Jules said she was sick, I needed to come home.
Got home and took her right to the ER. While waiting for a room there J went code blue. Then she got a room pretty quick.
Turned out it was severe septic shock, due to a perforated ulcer, causing multiple organ failures. Just wow, after a week in a medically induced coma, on life support, she is transferred to a larger hosp.
And it goes on from there. Jules lived thru 49 days of hosp, 10 days of rehab and came home Jan 8, 2 months to the day. Still recovering to this day.
Kept track of Dad, got him into a better place that was actually run by a friend of his. But the hosp had let a bedsore develop, which got worse at the first rehab. Went into hospice in Dec and died May 29.
I'm rambling, but point is if you think you have it bad, there's someone else who has it worse. I got thru this, you can too.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 28, 2025 11:16 PM (55Qr6)
Oh, noes. Anyways . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 28, 2025 11:16 PM (wVcYX)
Would love to find something around Minden, so I could Day ski in Tahoe (have had the Epic pass for years).
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:10 PM (mP0Kj)
Although I have one aunt and two cousins there, I won't go back except for cemetery visits, then outta there. Too dangerous.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 28, 2025 11:17 PM (uQesX)
What if he invited a few of his friends and burnt a cross?
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:18 PM (EYmYM)
Would have gladly skipped living with an hoa, that said we lived in a beautiful area that came with an hoa. I still live by that rule from the neighborhood I grew up in, don’t be an asshole.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 11:18 PM (2NHgQ)
Hi Ben Had,
I got an address from you in an email, but Mapquest doesn't like it.
Is there a trick to entering it or do you have actual directions you can email me?
Posted by: haffhowershower
Try bing.com/maps, or even googlag, or some other mapping service.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Get the longitude and latitude coordinates.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2025 11:19 PM (63Dwl)
BREAKING: Over 100,000 federal employees are expected to resign on Tuesday. This will be the largest exodus in U.S. history.
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youtube.com/watch?v=XE4OOYpnoIU
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2025 11:19 PM (OS3X9)
I know people that winter in FL and summer in New England and...because urban New Englanders being Massholes, I can see the appeal of that.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 28, 2025 11:11 PM (sKqQm)
I really like Maine. New England in general is really nice. I'm basically talking about the scenery. I took some road trips around Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine when I was in my 20's. I went back to Maine a few times since.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2025 11:20 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Some Rat
It is not. There must be a story there, care to share the backstory?
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 11:20 PM (144I4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2025 11:22 PM (ZVgZ4)
Where did they get this,?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 11:22 PM (/lPRQ)
If I had FU money I’d like to live in New Hampshire.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:23 PM (EYmYM)
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When is that meeting with the generals?
Posted by: Methos at September 28, 2025 11:23 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 11:22 PM (/lPRQ)
I think it’s a result of the buyout offered a while back.
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:24 PM (EYmYM)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 11:24 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: 18-1
Paper Walls
IOW - none of ya businey.
Ancient Asian Tradition
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (/lPRQ)
Maine in the spring, fall = ok
Maine in the winter = just how negative can the temperature get? Also, will this snow melt by May do you think? Note, sometimes the answer to that is no.
Posted by: 18-1"
***********
I live in northeast PA. When I retired 10 years ago we bought a little camp on a lake above Bangor ME. I've found that our NEPA winters are often more severe than our place in Maine. The average temp in Maine is slightly colder but the proximity to the coast keeps it moderate where here in PA we get spells that don't get much above 20F.
Posted by: Cosda at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (YRV46)
There is a persistent, but probably false, rumor of Commemorative Plates at the MoMe. Cost of sharpies and paper plates have skyrocketed.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (TfUTr)
...Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (L5ksW)
So what was the "exodus" at the end of the last fiscal year? And is this resign, or retire?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:14 PM (o46Y5)
I had an audition with a band one time. The studio was in an old factory building with a huge parking lot in some industrial part of town. After the practice they went down to the parking lot where a friend had brought an old car and proceeded to destroy it with a pick axe.
I would be sitting in that lawn chair next to you. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2025 11:27 PM (snZF9)
Just kidding. Enjoying reading others' comments for a change.
Only thing that bugs me about Trump's fed employee buyout: the smart, *self-reflective* fed employees are most likely to take it, whereas the dumb-as-dirt leftist lifers are most likely to dare the pres to just fire them.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:27 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Aha.
That must be it.
tcn in ak ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 28, 2025 11:27 PM (/lPRQ)
There is a persistent, but probably false, rumor of Commemorative Plates at the MoMe. Cost of sharpies and paper plates have skyrocketed.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (TfUTr)
Probably need the Platinum membership to get them though...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:28 PM (mP0Kj)
Backup lamp cable is connected, as is neutral safety cable. And I took the dash ground off the brake booster, spliced (crimped and soldered) on an extension, and screwed it to the engine block. Huge improvement. RH signal telltale comes on when parking lamps illuminated; that means there is a bad ground at the RH park lamp socket, an easy fix.
Looks like I am go for putting the new transmission in there now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:28 PM (o46Y5)
There is a persistent, but probably false, rumor of Commemorative Plates at the MoMe. Cost of sharpies and paper plates have skyrocketed.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (TfUTr)
Probably need the Platinum membership to get them though...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:28 PM (mP0Kj)
I hadn't heard that, but I suspect you Must Be Present To Win.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 11:28 PM (ULPxl)
I just learned that in 1992, John Hughes inked a deal with Charles Schulz to make a live-action Peanuts movie.
Obviously that never came to fruition.
Good grief!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 28, 2025 11:30 PM (lUFok)
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Oooooo klahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2025 11:30 PM (OS3X9)
I would be sitting in that lawn chair next to you. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2025 11:27 PM (snZF9)
Was on a Navy ship that had to get rid of some old Crypto equipment.... it had to be bashed then thrown into deep water.... soooo....
Yeah.. PARTEH ON THE FLIGHT DECK!
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 11:30 PM (L5ksW)
Probably just as well it didn't get made. I'm not sure how Peanuts could work in live-action.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:31 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:18 PM (EYmYM)
Well, I would not participate, nor would I interfere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:31 PM (o46Y5)
BREAKING: Over 100,000 federal employees are expected to resign on Tuesday. This will be the largest exodus in U.S. history.”
Don’t get too excited; story comes from The Guardian, so it’s probably mostly wishful thinking.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 28, 2025 11:32 PM (YMMPC)
Yeah.. PARTEH ON THE FLIGHT DECK!
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Did you get to use the catapults? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2025 11:32 PM (snZF9)
Good grief!
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 28, 2025 11:30 PM (lUFok)
Well, if Disney buys the property, it will come to fruitition.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:32 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: The way I see it at September 28, 2025 11:18 PM (EYmYM)
Well, I would not participate, nor would I interfere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:31 PM (o46Y5)
I thinking the saying is "not my circus, not my monkeys" lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 28, 2025 11:33 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 28, 2025 11:33 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 11:34 PM (L5ksW)
The least offensive thing they would do is make Snoopy a furry. Just some freak in a suit pretending to be a beagle.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 28, 2025 11:34 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Peanuts characters CGI rendered with the same loving care as the remake Seven Dwarfs would be a wonder to behold.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:35 PM (TfUTr)
Scott Jennings
No responsibility for the radicalization on the left that’s causing this violent outbreak... So it’s Trump’s fault?
This is what an actual insurrection looks like. Dearborn has already become a de facto Muslim shariah state within a state. Terrorist groups are using murder and mass violence to suppress speech and to stop the administration from enforcing the longstanding law of the land. We are watching an insurgency here.
Posted by: Nothing is anyone's fault but PDT at September 28, 2025 11:36 PM (TbWk/)
He then pushes her back and down a hallway, finally eliminating her gravitational potential energy (put her down on her back, on the floor). She continued to wail like some movie demon.
Anyway seems like the FO phase is starting for the thugs harassing ICE. And there was an indictment of 3 idiot women in LA who followed an ICE agent home to dox him.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2025 11:37 PM (U/Byj)
He loved it there, but his wife didn't (lonely-socially). The wind can really howl down the valley.
Posted by: 13times at September 28, 2025 11:38 PM (y5h6c)
I've read that Disney has been wanting the Peanuts franchise for years, but the family won't sell to them. Just one reason: if the Schulz family gave in to the Mouse, Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park would have to give up Camp Snoopy.
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:39 PM (8z6SV)
Anyway seems like the FO phase is starting for the thugs harassing ICE. And there was an indictment of 3 idiot women in LA who followed an ICE agent home to dox him.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2025 11:37 PM (U/Byj)
"The woman was foaming at the mouth. I thought she must be rabid, so I shot her to avoid being bitten."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:39 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:32 PM (o46Y5)
Just for that crack, I am withdrawing my retirement papers.
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at September 28, 2025 11:39 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:25 PM (TfUTr)
Probably need the Platinum membership to get them though...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 28, 2025 11:28 PM (mP0Kj)
I hadn't heard that, but I suspect you Must Be Present To Win.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 28, 2025 11:28 PM (ULPxl)
Lol!
I may have to retract my offer because that's too much pressure to live up to that.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 11:40 PM (144I4)
I think it went right over your head: "fruitition vs fruition".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:41 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:41 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:41 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 28, 2025 11:42 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 28, 2025 11:37 PM (U/Byj)
More in this vein from X
https://tinyurl.com/2pe325yp
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 11:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 28, 2025 11:42 PM (L5ksW)
https://tinyurl.com/2pe325yp
Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2025 11:42 PM (rbvCR)
Heh. Pantyfa's get bent into pretzels.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:45 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 28, 2025 11:45 PM (72t+/)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2025 11:45 PM (o46Y5)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:27 PM (8z6SV)
Ok, let’s fire them for cause then and confiscate their pensions!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2025 11:47 PM (ZVgZ4)
https://tinyurl.com/2pe325yp
Posted by: Kindltot
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Looks like the plan is coming together.
Last clip of Bondi and company at the White House; she looks as if the job is taking a toll on her.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 28, 2025 11:47 PM (OS3X9)
Well, if Disney buys the property, it will come to fruitition.
The least offensive thing they would do is make Snoopy a furry. Just some freak in a suit pretending to be a beagle.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
A beagle flying a dog house.
https://youtu.be/MTnnXhcmSgY
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2025 11:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: 496 at September 28, 2025 11:50 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2025 11:50 PM (8z6SV)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 28, 2025 11:50 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas
Speaking of nail biting, right?
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 28, 2025 11:52 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief
Don't think so, that last pass and catch looked like divine intervention.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 28, 2025 11:53 PM (TfUTr)
In the meantime, coat hanger wire is holding up well.
- > It was not an online purchase I do not have an account there.
Via telephone I talked with a pleasant human for the transaction.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:01 AM (OS3X9)
https://tinyurl.com/2pe325yp
Posted by: Kindltot
Shit man. I think he was in game of thrones.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 12:01 AM (snZF9)
https://tinyurl.com/2pe325yp
Posted by: Kindltot
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In another life I was a 12B deployed and on the QRF.
We got the call and I sent to the AF rec tent to gather up one of the squad mates.
Full battle rattle, M-249 tucked under arm and baseload (600 rounds in three drums), and two cans of demo in the left hand, I walked briskly up to the door. Pushed it open with the right hand and walked up, "Govea, you got a job to do..."
Govea signs, "Oh, man..." Gets up and heads out door..
As I walk to the front door some AF SGT says,
"The door. Opens. The other way."
LOL, it opens both ways now
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 12:02 AM (/lPRQ)
Decaf was actually a good suggestion.
Calm it down a bit.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at September 29, 2025 12:06 AM (n9ltV)
The filling was apples with a teaspoon of apple jelly to firm it up.
I hope I can keep making the crust as good as this
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)
CBD, you doing the book thread next week?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 29, 2025 12:07 AM (uQesX)
https://youtu.be/MTnnXhcmSgY
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2025 11:48 PM (63Dwl)
Thats great. Mrs B loves her snoopy. She just giggled like a school girl watching that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 12:09 AM (snZF9)
The filling was apples with a teaspoon of apple jelly to firm it up.
I hope I can keep making the crust as good as this
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)
Kicks dirt. Made a grilled cheese sammich for dinner.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2025 12:16 AM (o46Y5)
It is overwhelming and beautiful.
https://tinyurl.com/3wp72bnc
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:16 AM (OS3X9)
https://tinyurl.com/3wp72bnc
Posted by: Braenyard
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Geez, there's an orchestra up in the... orchestra loft?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 12:19 AM (n7CIX)
Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2025 12:20 AM (oFukc)
I hate to preen, but I made a great pie crust today. I added a tot of rum after adding the cold water, which seems to have made the crust much lighter.
The filling was apples with a teaspoon of apple jelly to firm it up.
I hope I can keep making the crust as good as this
Posted by: Kindltot
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Congratulations, it's very satisfying when you can make a good crust. I've made tons of crusts and I never seem to remember which one came out best. Butter? Bacon? Hot water? Icewater?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 12:21 AM (n7CIX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2025 12:16 AM (o46Y5)
That's OK, I like those too.
I also canned the last 12 quarts of grape juice for this year. I am drying chiles, and the season is pretty much done.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 12:21 AM (rbvCR)
Getting the paper in his tighty whiteys every morning.
I know what you meant, but I just had an image of a guy standing on his front lawn trying to cram a newspaper into his underpants.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 29, 2025 12:22 AM (lUFok)
How you all doing this fine night?
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 29, 2025 12:22 AM (25kuG)
There are various recipes for this cure-all -- one I remember is donkey, dolphin, and dog.
I think I'll stick with Vicks Vap-O-Rub, whiskey, lemon juice, and honey myself.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:22 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:23 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 12:21 AM (n7CIX)
Butter, a teaspoon of crisco, tablespoon of cold water and a tot of rum.
I make bread so it seems wrong not to knead pastry.
(secret - do not knead pastry)
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 12:24 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:16 AM (OS3X9)
Nice!
However, I'd hate to be the dishwasher, 'speshully cuz I bet this is one of those dos that involves about a hundred dedicated pieces of silverware... olive spoons, bean knives, soup straws...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:26 AM (qpyNK)
Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur. 🕊️
Today we honor the life and legacy of a revolutionary fighter, a fierce writer, a revered elder of Black liberation, and a leader of freedom whose spirit continues to live in our struggle.
Assata refused to be silenced. She taught us that “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
--
Based Jane Doh retweeted
Joel M. Petlin@Joelmpetlin Sep 28
Replying to @CTULocal1
No teacher should be a member of a union that "honors the life and legacy" of a convicted cop killer. And no parent should want their children educated by the people who would honor a terrorist.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:29 AM (OS3X9)
Little boy asks an older boy how he can grow taller.
Older boy tells him to rub grease on his chest.
Little boy tries it for a couple of weeks. Doesn't seem to be working.
Older boy: What kind of grease are you using?
Little boy: Crisco.
Older boy: Stupid. That's shortening.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:29 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 29, 2025 12:29 AM (SRRAx)
I just had an image of a guy standing on his front lawn trying to cram a newspaper into his underpants.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310
Sandy Berger
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2025 12:30 AM (63Dwl)
There are still 8 in storage at AMARC: 3 F-14A, 2 F-14B, and 3 F-14D. Plus, the ones on display, one source counts 91 while another article says 97 are preserved.
There are still 8 two-seat Skyhawks in storage also.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2025 12:30 AM (hfmuC)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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That picture calls to mind all of the protocols that Barry and Mike broke. Wagering that President Trump and Melania were the very representation of proper protocol.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:31 AM (OS3X9)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
And he resembled Bill the Cat.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 29, 2025 12:32 AM (n4GiU)
There are various recipes for this cure-all -- one I remember is donkey, dolphin, and dog.
I think I'll stick with Vicks Vap-O-Rub, whiskey, lemon juice, and honey myself.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:22 AM (qpyNK)
We here could have told them that the 3 D's are good for what ails ya.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 29, 2025 12:32 AM (144I4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:31 AM (OS3X9)
Yep. You just know that Mooch has lousy table manners, and Barky, being a Muslim, probably thinks it's fine to eat with his hand (as long as it's the right hand, natch).
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:33 AM (qpyNK)
There are still 8 in storage at AMARC: 3 F-14A, 2 F-14B, and 3 F-14D. Plus, the ones on display, one source counts 91 while another article says 97 are preserved.
There are still 8 two-seat Skyhawks in storage also.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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So, you guys thinking we're going to pull some goodies out of mothballs?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:33 AM (OS3X9)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:35 AM (U/Byj)
231 Go for it all, Carolina Squat the Beast's suspension with the spinners.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
If there was ever an automotive trend that is downright ugly and stupid, I'd like to know what that is.
Posted by: Continetal Kits and Vinyl Roofs at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (oftw2)
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Truck nutz...?
Posted by: As not seen on TV at September 29, 2025 12:36 AM (+idSP)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 29, 2025 12:36 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:35 AM (U/Byj)
Jaegermeister would probably not work well in most dishes.
Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:36 AM (qpyNK)
Elbows, heh.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 29, 2025 12:37 AM (144I4)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:35 AM (U/Byj)
I soak anise and star anise in rum and I use that in my pie crust if I am not making a pot pie
Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2025 12:38 AM (rbvCR)
Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Works in some bishes though.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 29, 2025 12:39 AM (144I4)
My crusts are not bad at all, but I'm looking for a flaky result similar to the better professional stuff I see around here from bakeries. Varies a bit but my issue is my crusts are just a bit too tough or chewy, vs. flaky. For my taste/ambitions, anyway. Everybody has praised the pies I've made.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:40 AM (U/Byj)
Back to trying to suss out Tomcat photos I have not seen before, like the VF-213 Black Lions Turkey that suffered a mid-air with another F-14, lost almost half of its right wing, and still landed in Singapore. The other 'cat went into the drink and crew rescued.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2025 12:42 AM (hfmuC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2025 12:42 AM (o46Y5)
Since the alcohol % is important, wonder if high-proof booze would work even better? Some 100-proof vodka is only half water, so for enough liquid to get the dough wet enough would only be 50% of the gluten formation? Worth a try. I use 100-proof for my limoncello, so it won't go to waste.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:43 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
If there was ever an automotive trend that is downright ugly and stupid, I'd like to know what that is.
Posted by: Continetal Kits and Vinyl Roofs at September 28, 2025 10:58 PM (oftw2)
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Aha
Carolina Squat
Just saw one today. Remarked that it looked like a dog dragging its ass across the carpet.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 12:44 AM (/lPRQ)
What I'd really like to be able to make is crust like the ones on the old-school Hostess fruit pies.
Failing that, the original McDonald's deep-fried hot apple pies with the filling about the temperature of the surface of the sun.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:45 AM (qpyNK)
NSFW
Horrible beyond compare...
https://tinyurl.com/mtkauekp
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 29, 2025 12:46 AM (TGPs7)
One Sunday night my friend called and asked if I wanted to go check out a carrier (Bonhomme Richard). His dad had paperwork/etc to do prior to a deployment (Vietnam). Sunday night, ship was deserted. His dad found a chief and asked him to show us around. Amazing great evening for a kid.
Just thinking, this was before the Coronado bridge was in I think, so we must have taken the ferry (can't remember that detail). Double win. Ferry ride to a carrier tour.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:47 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 29, 2025 12:47 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:49 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:51 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:51 AM (U/Byj)
NSFW
Horrible beyond compare...
https://tinyurl.com/mtkauekp
Posted by: Mister Ghost
I expected a Haitian with a buba straw and a big ol fat tabby, and maybe some rum, a birthday cake, and an old crone shaking a chicken in the background.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 12:52 AM (/lPRQ)
https://tinyurl.com/mtkauekp
Posted by: Mister Ghost
I expected a Haitian with a buba straw and a big ol fat tabby, and maybe some rum, a birthday cake, and an old crone shaking a chicken in the background.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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You watched? I'm not going near that. I don't care if Mister Ghost is joking, I'm not taking the risk.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 12:54 AM (n7CIX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 29, 2025 12:55 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:55 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 29, 2025 12:47 AM (0nHVk)
Super simple.
For two crusts (top and bottom):
2 C flour
2/3 C shortening (could be lard if you wish)
1 t. salt
1/3 C cold water
Blend the flour and shortening and salt until it is crumbly. Use a pastry blender or pulse it in a food processor. Add the water. To be sure it will work, add another T of water, just in case the flour is dry. Mix it with a fork for a very few turns. Gob it together with your hands. Divide in two and roll.
Flour can be fussy depending upon where it comes from. It can be drier or not, so the water determines how well it will hold together and roll. The dryer you can make it hold together, the more flaky, but wetter works too.
Make sure the oven is 450 or more for 15 minutes and then bake as usual until the filling is done. I brush the top with milk and sprinkle with sugar, because it browns better, but you don't have to.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 12:55 AM (urtE/)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Cat getting a scalp massage.
He likes it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 12:55 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:56 AM (OS3X9)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:49 AM (U/Byj)
Yep, they sure did.
I think you could duplicate that with just a little powdered sugar and water, but I could well be wrong.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:58 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:59 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 12:59 AM (urtE/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 01:01 AM (OS3X9)
Cat getting a scalp massage.
He likes it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Holy smack, that cat is almost exactly like mine. Tortoise shell markings and everything.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 01:01 AM (n7CIX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 29, 2025 01:02 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:16 AM (OS3X9)
Nice!
However, I'd hate to be the dishwasher, 'speshully cuz I bet this is one of those dos that involves about a hundred dedicated pieces of silverware... olive spoons, bean knives, soup straws...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:26 AM (qpyNK)
I would hate to be the poor bastard that had to french polish that table.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:02 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 12:59 AM (urtE/)
So the pie can enjoy it too?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:03 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 29, 2025 12:49 AM (U/Byj)
Yep, they sure did.
I think you could duplicate that with just a little powdered sugar and water, but I could well be wrong.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgial
Very thick. More than simple syrup
Throw in some honey too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 01:03 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 01:06 AM (n7CIX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:31 AM (OS3X9)
They were a fine demonstration of ghetto. What a tacky motherfucker he was.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:06 AM (snZF9)
Brigitte Bardot is 91 today.
Confucius is 2,576 today.
Maybe it's yesterday, time zones being what they are.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 01:08 AM (n7CIX)
Posted by: azjaeger at September 29, 2025 01:10 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: azjaeger at September 29, 2025 01:10 AM (3/XaG)
Sounds very.... Alaskan.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 01:11 AM (urtE/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:06 AM (snZF9)
Still are, as far as I can tell. Money doesn't fix a lack of class. They are nothing but envy wrapped in stupidity.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 01:12 AM (urtE/)
I have so many emails. 176!!
Anyhoo. Has anyone ever removed an IUD with a pair of needle-nose pliers? Looking to Hordesource a procedure. Doctors are so expensive!
Posted by: Tickled Pink at September 29, 2025 01:12 AM (DZBap)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:16 AM (snZF9)
Libs respond:
https://tinyurl.com/mpz2puvu
Posted by: Braenyard
.........................................
Don't eat hemlock cookies.
youtu.be/fqJGBsMCl-c
Posted by: Donald Trump at September 29, 2025 01:18 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 29, 2025 01:19 AM (0nHVk)
It is designed to ensure the continuity of government and military command during national emergencies, such as nuclear conflict or the destruction of ground-based command centers, by providing a highly resilient command, control, and communications center.
The aircraft is a militarized version of the Boeing 747-200, modified to withstand electromagnetic pulse (EMP) effects, nuclear detonations, and thermal radiation.
It is operated by the 1st Airborne Command and Control Squadron of the 595th Command and Control Group at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
https://tinyurl.com/5xykrbes
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 01:20 AM (OS3X9)
Posted by: Archer at September 29, 2025 01:25 AM (IDphi)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at September 29, 2025 01:12 AM (DZBap)
WTF? Don't contracept and you won't have these problems.
FFS. Get that fixed. Pay the cash.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 01:25 AM (urtE/)
++++++
I feel like Forest Gump, how many times I have crossed paths with POTUS, AF1, and E-4B...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 01:26 AM (/lPRQ)
It's not just the direct violence from antifa, lone loons, and unbalanced adjuncts/lawyers/karens/fat rage-boomers. It's also the overlapping attacks on our civilization from the illegal-immigration enablers and the de-policing/revolving door enablers.
Far, far more people are killed, maimed, or raped by those efforts than by what are normally considered the direct political attacks. But the quantities involved really make the antifa stuff a sideshow, while the big picture stuff is no less deliberate - just more indiscriminate.
Just had someone in my own circle murdered by someone that had no business being here in the first place, and THEN should have been deported after the first felony. Totally senseless, with a bunch of lives shattered because some fucking inbred third worlder can't manage to act human - and because of a long chain of prog enablers. Fuck all of them; if they actually ended up stuffed into the hyperbolic camps they're crying about, I wouldn't lift a finger for them.
People joke about trains running on time, but we're well beyond complaints about transit efficiency
Posted by: heya at September 29, 2025 01:27 AM (NES2I)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 29, 2025 12:33 AM (qpyNK)
I am so pleased I never have to see that fishwife waddle around wearing a boob belt again.
Ghastly.
I'm no prize, but FFS, get some manners, listen to your betters, act like you've been there before.
She was so sure she was everything and a bag of chips. Turned out, she was just a bag.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 01:29 AM (urtE/)
I pray for their souls, but they also really need to fuck off.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 01:32 AM (urtE/)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 01:33 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 29, 2025 01:36 AM (VlDdN)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 29, 2025 01:41 AM (0nHVk)
Roughly a dozen U.S. Air Force KC-135R/T “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers are currently up from a number of airbases across the United States, heading northeast and preparing to cross the Atlantic towards Europe, with several appearing to be enroute to RAF Mildenhall in England
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 01:41 AM (OS3X9)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 01:32 AM (urtE/)
I pray for them too. I pray they die in a tire fire.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:41 AM (snZF9)
I pray for their souls, but they also really need to fuck off.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 01:32 AM (urtE/)
They really can't see it in the sense you mean, here. What is "right" is by definition what they say or want, because they are good, and all who oppose them are evil. It's as simple as that. They don't have differing criteria; their entire concept of what truth and good means is fundamentally and forever incompatible with yours - it's all about the world revolving around them. You are expected to join, or die... or join *and* die if it suits their whim.
They don't need to fuck off so much as occupy any place other than as our countrymen. Even if that place is at the bottom of a hole. But for now the long unmasking continues as normies realize what is up. The longer this goes, the more join Team Hole.
Posted by: heya at September 29, 2025 01:42 AM (NES2I)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:41 AM (snZF9)
Necklacing R Us, The Winnie Mandela Way.
Posted by: RickZ at September 29, 2025 01:46 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: heya at September 29, 2025 01:27 AM (NES2I)
Yeah, but the Nazis... or at least Socialists, are running California...
And no High Speed Rail... so it's running about 20 years late.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2025 01:47 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Archer at September 29, 2025 01:25 AM (IDphi)
Grew up 2 miles from a SAC base... training base for B-52s and KC-135s.... touch and goes 24/7.
One of my Uncles was the Senior Enlisted in charge of the Base simulators.... so yeah... I bombed Moscow in the mid 70's...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2025 01:50 AM (mP0Kj)
Libs respond:
https://tinyurl.com/mpz2puvu
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 29, 2025 12:56 AM (OS3X9)
Trump says don't shoot yourself....
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 29, 2025 01:52 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 29, 2025 01:08 AM (n7CIX)
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I'm right here, ya know.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 01:56 AM (GZJe+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2025 02:01 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 02:24 AM (GZJe+)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, wait... tomorrow is Monday...
Well, happy tomorrow *anyway!*
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
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Sunny and still cool here in Jeru. I think I'll go out for my exercise walk now instead of later.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 02:25 AM (GZJe+)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:25 AM (rdVOm)
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Right now, I cannot think of anything else, unless we're talking about natural occurring TDS.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 02:27 AM (GZJe+)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:27 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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I was (kind of) kidding, but really... what's left?
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:28 AM (rdVOm)
- SAM-CD
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 29, 2025 01:33 AM (/lPRQ)
I think at this point it is just RIF, so either quit or get fired. Elon offered the buy out twice, I believe, and if you didn't figure it out by then, well, SOL.
I friended Elon on Facebook this week. He asked how I was doing. I told him I was fine, growing veggies and putting up food for the winter, and I thanked him for his service.
Honestly, no better deal than what I got.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 02:30 AM (urtE/)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)
Oh, wait... tomorrow is Monday...
Well, happy tomorrow *anyway!*
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
Honey, I'm retired. I can't be bothered to figure out what day it might be, until I need to go to Church.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 02:31 AM (urtE/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 01:41 AM (snZF9)
You will notice that Jesus just said pray for them, he didn't say WHAT to pray for them.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 02:32 AM (urtE/)
LOL!
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:33 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 28, 2025 10:20 PM (GYGpZ)
I recall some months ago, it was unnerving to stumble across a photo of a grown man with a hip-hop macho vibe, giving the classic "anime chick" pose of leaning forward and flashing a V-sign. Maybe it was one of Bad Bunny's homies, the caption wasn't clear, but then he was the one wearing pajama bottoms. It was all very gay, but in "look what they're making us do" kind of way that almost made me feel bad for them.
Posted by: SciVo at September 29, 2025 02:34 AM (VB5xp)
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Looks like the NC guy had been seriously mentally ill for some while. It also appears that that may have been a consequence of war experiences/wounds.
But those are just possibilities based on press reports. Whatever, he was not a stable person, and his action was clearly that of an unwell person.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2025 02:40 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
Sorry, not sorry.
Posted by: JQ
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Agreed...but it does explain irrational behavior.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2025 02:45 AM (XeU6L)
Sorry, not sorry.
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:43 AM (rdVOm)
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Depends on the level of insanity. Also whether self-created, such as brain damage via drug abuse.
Make Asylums Great Again.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 02:46 AM (P3X50)
Nuts enough to do something horrific? Nuts enough to get locked up.
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:47 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 02:48 AM (P3X50)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm)
Make Asylums Great Again.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 02:46 AM (P3X50)
No, it doesn't excuse anything. People who are mentally ill are quite aware of it, and when they refuse to get help, they inflict their illness on everyone else, whether they decide to shoot up a church or just be a general giver of chaos to their relatives.
Don't ask me how I know, I just do.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 02:51 AM (urtE/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 29, 2025 02:53 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Pickle Queen of AK at September 29, 2025 02:51 AM (urtE/)
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Not excusing. But there are insane people who did not inflict the insanity upon themselves and are literally mindless. Far fetched example: extreme brain damage via physical or environmental injury not self-inflicted.
All for asylums.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 29, 2025 03:05 AM (P3X50)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 03:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 03:26 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at September 29, 2025 03:28 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 28, 2025 10:09 PM (Da7Vv)
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I was a paper boy from 1963-66. Made collections in cash. So many good coins literally slipped through my fingers. Oh, the humanity!
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Yahbut...
If you had kept 10 of those silver dimes for another 10 years and invested their face value ($1.00) in the first index fund - VFINX, in 1976 - you would have $41.76 today, instead of $33.30.
Sticking your money in productive assets (the definition of "investing") will, over the long run, beat inflation.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 29, 2025 03:43 AM (55AVV)
Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2025 03:47 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Tickled Pink
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Sheeesh!
Go to your next local gun show, find the booth selling survivalist "first aid" supplies and pick up a 10 inch hemostat... On second thought, since I don't know your size, make that 14", better too much than not enough.
The right tool for the job.
Using a mirror and a flouroscope, ignoring the cramping sensation, just grab that little bugger with the hemostat and yank it out of there. Unless you're a dental technician, practice using the mirror first.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 29, 2025 04:03 AM (55AVV)
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