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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Salmon given cocaine work harder than those without cocaine, according to researchers at the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester.

Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study shows
Salmon exposed to cocaine in the water swim longer distances than those that go without, according to a study released this week.

I love you, Science.

Cocaine use is on the rise worldwide, with the U.N. reporting an estimated 25 million people used the stimulant in 2023 and the drug being increasingly found in waterways.
Joint research released Monday by scientists at Australia's Griffith University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences studied how the drug affected the movements of wild fish in their natural habitats.
Researchers took 105 wild Atlantic salmon in Sweden's Lake Vattern and exposed them to both cocaine and benzoylecgonine -- a metabolite created by the drug in the liver -- and then tracked their movements.
They found the river-dwellers exposed to the drugs traveled 1.9 times farther per week than their clean-living control cousins.
Those exposed to the by-product also swam 7.6 miles farther, the study found.

How much medical-grade cocaine do you think is "naturally" lost in experiments like this? Is a 20% unexplained loss of cocaine a reasonable figure?

Steven Greene had a good headline at Instapundit: THEY ALSO WON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT THEIR NEW IDEA FOR A TECH STARTUP.

Thanks to Chuck Martel.

Also in from the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester: Germany's back-to-back abandonment of both coal and then nuclear was a "huge mistake," leading authorities say.

German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake'
Katherina Reiche, Germany's economy and energy minister, discussed the likely impact on the country's economy if the Iran conflict continues - as well as the need for a "correction" to energy policies in Europe, at a conference in the USA.
Speaking at the CERAweek international energy event in Houston, Texas, she said that prices of petrol, diesel and jet fuels in Germany were spiking "but we don't see any scarcities in terms of volume - but if the conflict doesn't end we [will] see this probably later in April or May".
She added that the longer the crisis continues the more stress will be put on the "fragile recovery of Germany's economy".

Please please please Trump keep the conflict going at least through June. (So close to Pride Month!)

Remember when people used to respect Germans as sober-minded and good at things? Ye Olden Times.

Neat idea about how to gerrymander Virginia from the federal level: Cancel the old, Racist separation of Northern Virginia from DC because they wanted to keep our Black Brothers in chains.

Here's the history. In 1790, both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to create the new national capital. Virginia's portion -- what is now Arlington County and the city of Alexandria -- remained part of the District of Columbia until 1847, when Congress returned it to Virginia. The reason? To protect slavery. The District had abolished it, and Virginia slaveholders didn't want to give up their slaves. Democrats love to talk about the legacy of slavery to justify tearing down statues, renaming buildings, etc. -- to be consistent, they should give that piece of land back to the District.
The legal questions over this retrocession have never gone away. President William Howard Taft and others argued that it was unconstitutional and pushed to reclaim the land for D.C. However, the Supreme Court has never definitively settled the matter.
Mizelle's proposal is for Trump to issue an executive order declaring that slavery-motivated retrocession unconstitutional. That order wouldn't need to resolve everything on its own -- it would immediately trigger litigation and force federal courts to finally answer the question: Do Arlington and Alexandria legally belong to Virginia or to the District of Columbia?
The legal footing here is rock solid, but the cultural argument is just as strong.

Obviously, with Alexandria and Arlington re-added to DC -- as it should be -- Virginia would be permanently red again. Oh, it would lose a couple of seats in the next redistricting, but worth it.

But wouldn't DC pick up a couple of electoral votes? No, not necessarily. DC's electoral votes are established by legislative fiat, not by a count of DC's population.

Storied men's haberdasher (did I use that right?) Brooks Brothers has gone bankrupt because, as Stephen Green says, "American men now insist on dressing like 14 year olds into their dotage."

So they're trying something new.

But as the 55-year-olds dressing like 14-year-olds say: This ain't it, Chief.

Remember in the late eighties when we thought, for literally five minutes, that two-tone jeans -- half blue, half white or half blue, half black -- were rilly rilly cool? I remember owning a pair just because they went out of fashion so quickly that stores were choked with unsalable jeans and I picked up a pair for like six buck.

And then I didn't wear them, because they're stupid. And what the hell, it was only six buck.

Well Brooks Brothers remembers.

Brooks Brothers, you better Swatch yourself!!!

Old Brooks Brothers: Not exciting but never actually unfashionable

New Brooks Brothers: Will you be a hon and stir my Amaretto Zima with your dick?

Like eight years ago I wanted to buy some new togs so I went into J. Crew, figuring, well, J. Crew will always be J. Crew. Good stuff, overpriced but good.

Nope. It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's hamster and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells.

More whining about extravagantly overpaid USAID workers -- formerly making $272,000 per year, courtesy of the American taxpayer -- now working for $19 per hour in the private sector.

As this guy says: That's perfect evidence that you were always worth $19 per hour.

Having to take a pay cut when moving from the public to private sector is a pretty good indicator that you were overpaid. https://t.co/AilCKaCenV
— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) April 23, 2026

Geverett11
@Geverett111

50m
If your next best option is $19 an hour, what exactly was on your resume to begin with? And were you ever qualified to be taking in $272,000?
Don't mean to be cruel, but that's the obvious question.

Senator Eric Schmitt
@SenEricSchmitt
NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs.
In reality, this tells a darker story--we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological.

If this guy gets bored of being a Senator, I'd like to ask him to be a coblogger. There's no pay but the sex is outrageous.

Here’s a rundown on how many private employees it takes to pay for 1 “Taxpayer Funded” employee, @SenWarren @as400495 pic.twitter.com/vPQZJNRd32
— Kevin Parrock (@ParrockKev73739) April 23, 2026

Oilfield Rando
@Oilfield_Rando
When the world shut down over a 99.9999% survivable virus, I had to tell a few dozen rig hands they were out of a job.
Then I had to tell even more frac hands. Then snubbing hands.
Then I went home to wait for my layoff.
Then I spent 6 months applying for jobs with no interviews because corporate America had banned White men in honor of Saint George Floyd, Patron Saint of Fentanyl.
A great Twitter friend who I am indebted to forever got me a job with a 25% pay cut, and I had to work physically harder than I had in a decade.
Anyway. Nobody in news media ever reached out for my story. And it wasn't a unique story, I was one of a couple hundred thousand guys going through this.

When the world shut down over a 99.9999% survivable virus, I had to tell a few dozen rig hands they were out of a job.

Then I had to tell even more frac hands. Then snubbing hands.

Then I went home to wait for my layoff.

Then I spent 6 months applying for jobs with no… pic.twitter.com/PHUlsnzK2o
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 23, 2026

This fills the lulzbucketz:

Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani.

Now they’re suing Mamdani because he’s planning to relocate Bellevue homeless shelter to the East Village. https://t.co/O9so7tGGlt pic.twitter.com/B1wPupD7RE
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 22, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:48 PM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 23, 2026 06:50 PM (4ZxBh)

2 NEWS YOU CAN USE: Salmon given cocaine work harder than those without cocaine, according to researchers at the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester.

Cocaine Dispensers at work?

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 23, 2026 06:50 PM (IifOV)

3
Fashion doesn't make the person.

Look at the perverts who swear about wearing the latest fashion.

You are giving your hard earned money to fags.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 06:51 PM (3ek7K)

4 [WILLOWED:]

Damn Islamic monkeys!

US Sailor Attacked By Monkey In Thailand While Preparing For Minesweeping Mission In Strait Of Hormuz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 06:46 PM (ndZc7)

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The monkey was last overheard screaming "Allahu Admiral Ackbar!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 06:52 PM (teZkF)

5 >>>Salmon given cocaine work harder than those without cocaine

Crackheads gonna die sooner than later anyway.

Posted by: Couch Fucker at April 23, 2026 06:52 PM (tVc9W)

6 NIMBY's.. Too bad so sad....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 23, 2026 06:53 PM (FtULh)

7
Libs are always screaming "Not in MY neighborhood!"

Give it to 'em Good and Hard, Mandani. Good and Hard.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 23, 2026 06:53 PM (IifOV)

8 Germany's back-to-back abandonment of both coal and then nuclear was a "huge mistake," leading authorities say.

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Who'd athunk it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 06:53 PM (ndZc7)

9 Nothing gives me more joy then hearing these former government employees cry now that they are in the real world.

Posted by: steevy at April 23, 2026 06:54 PM (YwEeS)

10 East Villagers sue Mamdani to stop relocation of notorious Bellevue men's homeless shelter into their neighborhood https://trib.al/LtTU4vZ
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The "warmth of collectivism", just not for you!

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 06:54 PM (Fi81e)

11 I know I'm not first.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 23, 2026 06:54 PM (Kd28s)

12 Remember the temperature sensitive fabric shirts?

Good times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 23, 2026 06:54 PM (zZu0s)

13

I bet Swallshitass was wearing the latest fashion to lure in the women he was raping.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 06:54 PM (3ek7K)

14
Old: Grass Fed Beef

New: Cocaine Fed Salmon

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 23, 2026 06:55 PM (IifOV)

15 NIMBY's.. Too bad so sad....
Posted by: It's me donna at April 23, 2026 06:53 PM (FtULh)
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They think conservatives are way to NIMBY, and we should use their backyards whenever possible.

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 06:55 PM (Fi81e)

16 Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study shows

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BREAKING: Hunter Biden Qualifies For the 2028 Olympic ~~Freestyle~~ Freebase Swim Team. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 06:56 PM (teZkF)

17 I'm in full support of putting homeless, drug and aids centers right in the heart of these ridiculous f***k weasel's neighborhoods.

Eat it you f****g c****

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 23, 2026 06:56 PM (Kd28s)

18 I always have extra cocaine with my Salmon.

Doesn't everyone?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (jehhT)

19 Remember the temperature sensitive fabric shirts?

Good times.
Posted by: Aetius451AD w

Hypercolor!

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (YZ0Fo)

20 Salmon exposed to cocaine swim almost twice as far as those without, study shows.

Imagine how far, with a candy bar.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (1Ff7Z)

21 >>>17 I'm in full support of putting homeless, drug and aids centers right in the heart of these ridiculous f***k weasel's neighborhoods.

I keep trying to figure out some way we can legally/legislatively do that.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (1wjle)

22 I wonder...would those two-toned jeans go with my Nerhu jacket?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (2WIwB)

23 So that's how the bears get the cocaine.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (Kd28s)

24 It's been a productive week.

But man, what I could probably get done on coke.
Or meth but I need my teeth.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (Sco7b)

25 Remember when people used to respect Germans as sober-minded and good at things?

Felix Steiner disabused me of that particular notion. Sad!

Posted by: zombie Adolf H. at April 23, 2026 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

26 >>>Remember the temperature sensitive fabric shirts?
Good times.
Posted by: Aetius451AD w
Hypercolor!

i must be an old soul because even as a mid-teen I thought, "This is too stupid."

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 06:58 PM (1wjle)

27
Who'd athunk it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 06:53 PM (ndZc7)

_____________

"What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass" - Lord Melbourne

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2026 06:58 PM (tgvbd)

28 > Remember the temperature sensitive fabric shirts?
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Sweat stains?

Yea...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 23, 2026 06:58 PM (jehhT)

29 I wasn't Doged, I was bought out by Elon. I also left my job in March of 2025, but I was paid through the end of December, whereupon I retired. Pretty damned good deal. And I sure as hell was never paid $275,000 a year. Not even half that. With a Master Degree and 30 years of experience as a Registered Architect. So these little whiners can suck my girl dick and learn to code.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (DwqWV)

30 traveled 1.9 times farther

also swam 7.6 miles farther

I hate this. People (not Ace, the author he quotes) write this without ever thinking those two numbers have absolutely NO RELATIONSHIP AT ALL to each other in the form presented. If a base distance were provided right there, it would at least be figurable. But not like that.

I also now wonder if the author really meant "1.9 times farther" or "1.9 times as far." Because most journalists do not have any idea of the difference in those two phrases.

Posted by: GWB at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (4yJz0)

31 >>>Brooks Brothers, you better Swatch yourself!!!

I tried to get my kids to bring back the Swatch in my AO.

No go.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (tVc9W)

32 Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt

NYT frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi-property right to high-paying, taxpayer-funded jobs.
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You know, it hasn't been that long ago that progs tried to make jobs "possessions". And I'm sure they are still on that.

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (Fi81e)

33 If I burn a cocaine field salmon is it really crack fish? And is that racist? (Rhetorical question. I am an white male....so it is all racist)

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (cI94r)

34

"Now they’re suing Mamdani because he’s planning to relocate Bellevue homeless shelter to the East Village."

Hopefully the rapes are something they like.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (och2J)

35 I love you, Science.

Sexshually???

Posted by: Anthony SCIENC! Fauci at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (9vFyc)

36 Remember in the late eighties when we thought, for literally five minutes, that two-tone jeans -- half blue, half white or half blue, half black -- were rilly rilly cool?

No. I'd never wear dungarees.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (1Ff7Z)

37 I'm going to break out my mood ring and parachute pants

Posted by: turambar at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (Q0yOR)

38 We've cut off USAID, now, let's cut off congress.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (LA6Ib)

39 The only fad I got invested in was playboy jackets.

Looking back at the pictures, I sure looked silly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (Kd28s)

40 To be fair, I like my fish fried.

Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (vFG9F)

41
Apparently, a lot of legal and illegal drugs are surviving sewage treatment and going into the rivers.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (bYpLU)

42

Mallamutt,

You are white so you are racist.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:00 PM (3ek7K)

43 i must be an old soul because even as a mid-teen I thought, "This is too stupid."

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 06:58 PM (1wjle)

Probably wearing your garden variety tie dyes, eating your Kaboom.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (tVc9W)

44 25 Remember when people used to respect Germans as sober-minded and good at things?

Felix Steiner disabused me of that particular notion. Sad!
Posted by: zombie Adolf H. at April 23, 2026 06:58 PM (0sNs1)

No love for Mike Myers' Sprockets? I never saw anybody ever touch his monkey.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (DwqWV)

45 Also in from the University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester: Germany's back-to-back abandonment of both coal and then nuclear was a "huge mistake," leading authorities say.

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Next you'll be telling me that Germany -- against President Trump's warnings -- set themselves up for dependency, blackmail, and shortages (not to mention funding Russia's war with Ukraine) by agreeing to buy natural gas from Russia via the Nord Stream pipeline.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (teZkF)

46 Brooks Brothers is now the Chess King of Banana Republics.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (1wjle)

47 I also now wonder if the author really meant "1.9 times farther" or "1.9 times as far." Because most journalists do not have any idea of the difference in those two phrases.

Posted by: GWB at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (4yJz0)
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Yes. 1.9 times "farther" could be 2.9 times the square salmon.

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (Fi81e)

48 Spent an hour yesterday trying to find an ordinary white dress shirt, 15 32, button down collar. Not to be had from any shop/clothing store here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (XeU6L)

49 Now try salmon on crystal meth.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (T6aVk)

50 This Men's Fashion Post would be considered rather gay, if someone from outside were to stumble in here.

Posted by: I'm Used To It, Though at April 23, 2026 07:02 PM (oftw2)

51 I'm having salmon for dinner. Omega 3 and cocaine, what's not to like?

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 23, 2026 07:02 PM (wVcYX)

52 United Colors of Benetton looked at that shirt and said "good lord that's fucking ugly"

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 07:02 PM (YZ0Fo)

53 How can Brooks Brothers survive in an era where going out in public looking like a slob is the height of fashion? Not to mention going out in public looking like you just woke up.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 23, 2026 07:02 PM (T6aVk)

54 >>If this guy gets bored of being a Senator, I'd like to ask him to be a coblogger. There's no pay but the sex is outrageous.

So not just garrett, you're having sex with all the cobloggers?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (viF8m)

55 40 To be fair, I like my fish fried.
Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (vFG9F)

But probably not buzzed.

And don't fry salmon. That's just abuse.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (DwqWV)

56 Now try salmon on crystal meth.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM (T6aVk)
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I believe in crystal meth
'Cause I believe in speed!

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (Fi81e)

57 "Mizelle's proposal is for Trump to issue an executive order declaring that slavery-motivated retrocession unconstitutional. That order wouldn't need to resolve everything on its own -- it would immediately trigger litigation and force federal courts to finally answer the question: Do Arlington and Alexandria legally belong to Virginia or to the District of Columbia?"

D.C. residents have no senator and only a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (vOtXJ)

58 Probably wearing your garden variety tie dyes, eating your Kaboom

Cocaine laced Kaboom makes you give up on life 1.9 times faster.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (cI94r)

59 Unpossible that laid off fed gov. workers can only jobs paying 20% of what they were making. I have been told many many times that people sacrifice higher pay in the private sector to serve their country and for more job stability and benefits. LOLing too hard, cant keep this up.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (+89TD)

60 *works on pitch for "Cocainesalmonnado"*

Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (vFG9F)

61
Speaking at the CERAweek international energy event in Houston, Texas,

__________

Maybe she came for a square meal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (tgvbd)

62 I’d pay extra for the wired salmon

Posted by: Billythesquid at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (HxpHp)

63 To be fair, I like my fish fried.
Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 06:59 PM (vFG9F)

But probably not buzzed.

And don't fry salmon. That's just abuse.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (DwqWV)
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Baked, then.

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 07:03 PM (Fi81e)

64

Okay, wearing the latest fashion doesn't cover up that you are a worthless fucking piece of shit.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:04 PM (3ek7K)

65 NIMBY's.. Too bad so sad....
Posted by: It's me donna
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This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Martha's Vineyard at April 23, 2026 07:04 PM (XeU6L)

66 " I'd like to ask him to be a coblogger. There's no pay but the sex is outrageous."

I'm looking for new Opportunities

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at April 23, 2026 07:04 PM (wyznS)

67 "going out in public looking like a slob is the height of fashion"

I call it 'staying gray.' Beneath notice.

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:04 PM (N8ZBc)

68 "There's no pay but the sex is outrageous."

1. I find this a little difficult to believe.
2. From what I hear the Senate is full of its own sexual outrageousness.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:04 PM (ftFVW)

69 58 Ha!

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (N8ZBc)

70 "Yes. 1.9 times "farther" could be 2.9 times the square salmon.
Posted by: Axeman"

What's that in giraffes?

Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

71
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (2/MrR)

72 49 Now try salmon on crystal meth.
Posted by: Cow Demon

You haven't lived until you've watched male salmon try over and over and again to impregnate a field of small pebbles.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (gKWVE)

73 Not to mention going out in public looking like you just woke up.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 23, 2026 07:02 PM (T6aVk)

I'd be just as happy not seeing women dressed in pajamas and Ugg boots.

And for heavens sake, men, if the belt isn't getting it done, get some suspenders. Enough with the hairy butt cracks. Particularly at the Three Bears.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (DwqWV)

74 >>>1. I find this a little difficult to believe.

It's my Tom Sawyer Pitch.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (1wjle)

75 I eat a salmon salad sandwich twice as fast when on cocaine.

Posted by: Lex at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (y4H1r)

76 70 "Yes. 1.9 times "farther" could be 2.9 times the square salmon.
Posted by: Axeman"

What's that in giraffes?
Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

We measure everything in Altuve's.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:06 PM (DwqWV)

77 "There's no pay but the sex is outrageous."
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That was my vision statement.

Posted by: Former Congressman Eric Swalwell at April 23, 2026 07:06 PM (Fi81e)

78 I don't recall two tone jeans in the 80's...working three jobs while in college kept me out of the swing of things I guess

I remember my mom giving an older brother one of those weird suits that were gay as hell right before he went off to the Marines but that was the late 70s

Leisure suit, thats it

Posted by: DanMan at April 23, 2026 07:06 PM (8uzBS)

79 We measure everything in Altuve's.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April

But an Altuve is so small you have to use scientific notation.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (YZ0Fo)

80 Remember when people used to respect Germans as sober-minded and good at things? Ye Olden Times.

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The Austro-Prussian War of 1866?

[Honorable Mention: Rudolf Diesel (1858 – 1913), inventor of the diesel engine,]

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (teZkF)

81 "There's no pay but the sex is outrageous."
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That was my vision statement.
Posted by: Former Congressman Eric Swalwell at April 23, 2026 07:06 PM (Fi81e)

and my value proposition.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (wVcYX)

82 2. From what I hear the Senate is full of its own sexual outrageousness.
Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:04 PM (ftFVW)

Was it a Senate chamber where those fags filmed themselves in flagrante delicto?

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (DwqWV)

83 I never got the Brooks Bros business model. You can get a bespoke (that's "custom-tailored" for the yokels) suit exactly to your size, style and fabric selection from hundreds of fabric swatches for the price of an off-the-rack suit from BB that's a compromise in every way. Why would anyone buy a suit at Brooks Bros?

To be fair, they did have good ties.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (guGkK)

84 How can Brooks Brothers survive in an era where going out in public looking like a slob is the height of fashion? Not to mention going out in public looking like you just woke up.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 23, 2026 07:02 PM (T6aVk)

Yes...folks dress like they are 8 years old. Little animals on their jammies and ball caps and jerseys of sportsball teams in cities and places they couldn't find on a map with their man titties and beer guts protruding from tshirts and ass cracks open to the wind.

Posted by: What Happened To All The Adults at April 23, 2026 07:08 PM (sDJiP)

85 Are jeans shirts still cool? How about the ones with roses on them?

Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 07:08 PM (vFG9F)

86 We measure everything in Altuve's.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April

But an Altuve is so small you have to use scientific notation.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (YZ0Fo)

I know from small.

Posted by: Mrs. Planck at April 23, 2026 07:08 PM (wVcYX)

87 LL Bean has great shirts. I have two Brooks Bros. French blue with white stripes shirts.
And a bunch of Beans.

Posted by: Accomack at April 23, 2026 07:08 PM (GbONR)

88 Also, are we talking metric salmon or imperial?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:08 PM (guGkK)

89 AMENDMENT XXIII

Passed by Congress June 16, 1960. Ratified March 29, 1961.

Section 1.

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

Section 2.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 23, 2026 07:08 PM (T6aVk)

90 i don’t remember the two tone jeans but i do remember the ralph lauren polo pony stuff

Posted by: cherries in season at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM (+mkoG)

91 I heard one of the sportsball leagues has some annual thing going on starting tonight.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM (0sNs1)

92 would those two-toned jeans go with my Nerhu jacket?

You'd look like G'hand-eye in Kahackies.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM (zdLoL)

93
Was it a Senate chamber where those fags filmed themselves in flagrante delicto?

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (DwqWV)

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Committee room, if I be not mistaken.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM (tgvbd)

94
Spent an hour yesterday trying to find an ordinary white dress shirt, 15 32, button down collar. Not to be had from any shop/clothing store here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2026 07:01 PM

yeah, nobody stocks your basic standard white shirt anymore

I've had good luck on amazon for long sleeve, button down collar oxford cloth white shirts. IIRC, they're Van Heusen

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM (2/MrR)

95 So…as I read this, the number of electors DC can have is fixed at three. It’s not up to Congress.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 23, 2026 07:10 PM (T6aVk)

96 ... to be consistent, they should give that piece of land back to the District.

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STOLEN LAND???

Quelle Horreur!!!

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:10 PM (teZkF)

97 I recently bought a suit at JC Penney. I be stylin'.

My first suit. It's appropriately non-descript, charcoal gray. But I did wear MST 3k socks at my son's wedding. Gotta have a little whimsy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 23, 2026 07:10 PM (0aYVJ)

98 I've seen leggings as pants, joggers, and Harley Davidson t-shirts at my supposedly professional office this week. SMDH

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:10 PM (ftFVW)

99 i don’t remember the two tone jeans but i do remember the ralph lauren polo pony stuff
Posted by: cherries in season at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM

The Izod shirts where the preppies would take an alligator off of one, and sew it on another in a 'humping' position was droll.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2026 07:10 PM (0sNs1)

100 We've cut off USAID, now, let's cut off congress.

no pay until the budget is balanced, it'll get fixed overnight

Posted by: DanMan at April 23, 2026 07:10 PM (8uzBS)

101 88 Also, are we talking metric salmon or imperial?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:08 PM (guGkK)

Being the salmon snob that I am, I'm talking either Kasilof River Red, or Copper River Red. Silver is okay, but only if they are smaller. The big ones get mushy and bland. Kings are fun to catch, but not all that tasty.

Atlantic salmon is.... not salmon.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:11 PM (DwqWV)

102 >>>17 I'm in full support of putting homeless, drug and aids centers right in the heart of these ridiculous f***k weasel's neighborhoods.

I keep trying to figure out some way we can legally/legislatively do that.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 06:57 PM (1wjle)

Proposal: When these things get put on the ballot ("Should the city fund more homeless shelters?" etc), whatever district voted the most for it gets the homeless shelter/methadone clinic/shoot-up spot.

Posted by: pookysgirl, championing representative governemnt at April 23, 2026 07:11 PM (Wt5PA)

103 The cut on men's suits is terrible. They all make the suits look too small. The other is the shirt collars that stick out sideways from the tie instead of down.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2026 07:11 PM (DIbRX)

104

Husband and I don't look at what people are wearing when we go shopping. We keep our heads down hoping we don't get shot whilst buying groceries.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:11 PM (3ek7K)

105 >>Nope. It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's hamster and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells.

Don't make me laugh, my liver pops out when I laugh.

Posted by: Marilyn Manson at April 23, 2026 07:11 PM (uUHnE)

106 I read that leggings are now out.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2026 07:11 PM (0sNs1)

107 I had white and grey jeans in highschool. I forget exactly what the pattern was. But like ace was describing.

Posted by: banana Dream - totally awesome at April 23, 2026 07:11 PM (3uBP9)

108 Leisure suit, thats it
Posted by: DanMan at April 23, 2026 07:06 PM (8uzBS)

Ban-Lon. The stuff of nightmares.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at April 23, 2026 07:12 PM (sDJiP)

109 The Izod shirts where the preppies would take an alligator off of one, and sew it on another in a 'humping' position was droll.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Double izod or polo with collars popped up.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 07:12 PM (YZ0Fo)

110 >>Why would anyone buy a suit at Brooks Bros?

My dad worked for IBM for many years. Brooks Brothers was the official IBM suit. It was basically a uniform and IBM was hardly unique back then. They owned a couple generations of men in some areas who wore suits to work 5 days a week. Habit.

And then fashion changed and BB didn't. For the first half of my career I wore a suit everyday. Probably count on one hand how many times I've worn once since.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 23, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

111 If this guy gets bored of being a Senator, I'd like to ask him to be a coblogger. There's no pay but the sex is outrageous.
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"Outrageous" covers rather a lot of territory.

It's a neutral term that can mean mind-blowingly awesome or debauchery incarnate.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 23, 2026 07:13 PM (gnNyN)

112 Are jeans shirts still cool? How about the ones with roses on them?
Posted by: fd

Tons in the petite section. Regrettably. Also embroidered cats.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:13 PM (ftFVW)

113 Apparently I can find better car insurance.

Posted by: Slacker De-Luxe at April 23, 2026 07:13 PM (qUkBO)

114 Committee room, if I be not mistaken.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM (tgvbd)

This 'motion' is... clogged

Posted by: gKWVE at April 23, 2026 07:13 PM (gKWVE)

115 >>>95 So…as I read this, the number of electors DC can have is fixed at three. It’s not up to Congress.

even better! and as someone posted earlier, they have no senator and only a non-voting delegate in the House.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 07:13 PM (1wjle)

116 I heard one of the sportsball leagues has some annual thing going on starting tonight.

is it Rangers beat a hippie night?

Posted by: DanMan at April 23, 2026 07:13 PM (8uzBS)

117 no pay until the budget is balanced, it'll get fixed overnight Posted by: DanMan

The leadership will all end up with interest-free loans that mysteriously don't get reported. The junior and icky conservative members will be forced to quit. Problem not solved.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 23, 2026 07:14 PM (diia5)

118 I never got the Brooks Bros business model. You can get a bespoke (that's "custom-tailored" for the yokels) suit exactly to your size, style and fabric selection from hundreds of fabric swatches for the price of an off-the-rack suit from BB that's a compromise in every way. Why would anyone buy a suit at Brooks Bros?

To be fair, they did have good ties.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:07 PM (guGkK)

Loro Piana wool.

Posted by: LASue at April 23, 2026 07:14 PM (lCppi)

119 oh yeah, the color mix was blue and gray jeans. I guess I blocked it out of my mind.

Posted by: ace at April 23, 2026 07:14 PM (1wjle)

120 I'll never need to wear a suit again, unless I discard all my suits, in which case an occasion will surely arise where I need to wear one.

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:14 PM (N8ZBc)

121 New: Cocaine Fed Salmon

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 23, 2026 06:55 PM (IifOV)

We don't need no steenkin' fish ladders!

Posted by: Coked-up Salmon at April 23, 2026 07:14 PM (utfVc)

122 $325.

I imagine the whole point of that shirt is to tell the "right" people that you spend $325 on a shirt that isn't fit to wash the car in.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 23, 2026 07:15 PM (uUHnE)

123 I grew up in a small town in the 1980s. There was very little of the 80s fashion one saw on the MTV. Mostly it was t-shirts and jeans (Wranglers or Levis - I preferred Levis on the girls, BTW)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 23, 2026 07:15 PM (0aYVJ)

124 And then fashion changed and BB didn't. For the first half of my career I wore a suit everyday. Probably count on one hand how many times I've worn once since.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 23, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

DH wore suits to work when we lived in WI. I suppose people thought it made them look professional.

He hasn't had one on since we moved back up here. Nobody here really cares. Professionals wear nice jeans with polo shirts and work boots. Easier to go out on jobsites that way. Plus, nobody mistakes you for a CA lawyer.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:15 PM (DwqWV)

125 Committee room, if I be not mistaken.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2026 07:09 PM (tgvbd)

This 'motion' is... clogged
Posted by: gKWVE at April 23, 2026 07:13 PM (gKWVE)
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You don't wanna know what they did with that gavel.

Posted by: Former Congressman Eric Swalwell at April 23, 2026 07:15 PM (Fi81e)

126
Qiana shirts!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2026 07:16 PM (tgvbd)

127 *decides to not mention Members Only jackets*

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 23, 2026 07:16 PM (wVcYX)

128 [Honorable Mention: Rudolf Diesel (1858 – 1913), inventor of the diesel engine,]

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Jumped, fell, or was pushed off a boat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:16 PM (ndZc7)

129 I want a suit like the one Brian Doyle Murray wore in Groundhog Day.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 23, 2026 07:16 PM (0aYVJ)

130 The cut on men's suits is terrible.

we need Piper to critique the ridiculous shoulder pads on the suits they wear on Gutfeld

Posted by: DanMan at April 23, 2026 07:17 PM (8uzBS)

131 Have no idea, but if DC's electoral votes are "fixed", they're fixed either by the constitution (pretty sure that's not it) or statute. All statutes can be repealed or amended (well, at least ones that would help the racist-totalitarian cretins, i.e. the Dems).

So on paper the number of votes can be changed, and with the GOP being such a pathetic non-entity that it is, it's barely actually possible it can happen (as opposed to the situation where DC would become an instant/forever GOP bastion as opposed to Dem, in which case nobody would waste their time even proposing it).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2026 07:17 PM (U/Byj)

132 Damn, Ace - you're on a roll today! Thanks for the belly laughs (in particular, the Brooks Bros story).

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 23, 2026 07:17 PM (EjgNj)

133 I'll never need to wear a suit again, unless I discard all my suits, in which case an occasion will surely arise where I need to wear one.
Posted by: gp

A lot of dudes keep one in which to be laid to rest. So I've heard.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:17 PM (ftFVW)

134 The worst is that the ultra baggy jeans of the 90s are back now. Come on people we went through this already.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 07:17 PM (YZ0Fo)

135 For the first half of my career I wore a suit everyday. Probably count on one hand how many times I've worn once since.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 23, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

I worked for a 500+ lawyer firm back in the '90s doing work for big Fortune 500 clients. The endless-and-never-resolved controversy there was whether the firm would allow "casual Fridays." It was suits and ties every day and for about half of the partners, the idea of coming to work in khakis and an open-neck shirt was apostasy.

The firm dissolved before the burning issue was ever finally decided.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (guGkK)

136 I remember we wore painters hats and pants and high top sneakers

Posted by: turambar at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (Q0yOR)

137
"Coke Salmon 'Nado" is going to be one lit film!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (xG4kz)

138 Back in the day, I had a Nehru jacket.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)

139 $325.

I imagine the whole point of that shirt is to tell the "right" people that you spend $325 on a shirt that isn't fit to wash the car in.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 23, 2026 07:15 PM (uUHnE)

You don't need a pricey shirt (or dress) to wash a car.

Posted by: Zombie Joy Harmon at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (wVcYX)

140 I've got a single black wool suit left.

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 07:19 PM (Fi81e)

141 I guy I know moved up to my mid Hudson city from the East Village. He was one of the few Republicans in that area . His girlfriend is a leftist. Both are Jewish. He shook his head and predicted that Mamdani would screw the East Village. Too many white folks. My friend was spot on

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 23, 2026 07:19 PM (gu0hJ)

142 D.C. residents have no senator and only a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives.

Posted by: The Whine Guy
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D.C. means District of Columbia, not city, it's not a city of any state, it's a set aside. That responsibility of DC belongs to congress. Congress sluffed that off just like it's other responsibilities and slithered away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 07:19 PM (LA6Ib)

143 I remember during the Pipeline days, that would be the late 70's and early 80's, all the oil company wives were pissed that they had nowhere to wear their dressy clothes. Nobody in AK bothered, and you couldn't really buy them up here, anyway. Buncha hicks, they thought.

And after most of the left, an awful lot of them came back, realizing it was more fun and easier to ditch all that society crap.

AK is an acquired taste.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:19 PM (DwqWV)

144 Boots. And Wranglers stacked for boots. And a shirt that looks like you make enough money to have paid for it. And a belt, for cat's sake. Make your Mama proud, GOD rest her soul.

Posted by: Eromero at April 23, 2026 07:20 PM (LHPAg)

145
this guy gets bored of being a Senator, I'd like to ask him to be a coblogger. There's no pay but the sex is outrageous.
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So not just garrett, you're having sex with all the cobloggers?
Posted by: JackStraw

Why doesn't garrett get to coblog? Drags his teeth, bad breath, why?

It's the crocs, isn't it?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 23, 2026 07:20 PM (QVmho)

146 The worst is that the ultra baggy jeans of the 90s are back now. Come on people we went through this already.
Posted by: BruceWayne

JNCO doesn't need a second birth!

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:20 PM (ftFVW)

147 Old and busted: undercover narc

New and cool: under water narc4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:20 PM (ndZc7)

148

Laid to rest, lol. That has always cracked me up. You are dead.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:20 PM (3ek7K)

149 D.C. means District of Columbia, not city, it's not a city of any state, it's a set aside. That responsibility of DC belongs to congress. Congress sluffed that off just like it's other responsibilities and slithered away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 07:19 PM (LA6Ib)
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They have more time to concentrate on what's really important: graft.

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 07:21 PM (Fi81e)

150
I've had good luck on amazon for long sleeve, button down collar oxford cloth white shirts. IIRC, they're Van Heusen
Posted by: AltonJackson
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Thanks. Noted, but I am appalled that such basic business dress is not available locally. All sorts of other styles, but nothing basic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2026 07:21 PM (XeU6L)

151 Back in the day, I had a Nehru jacket.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)

Were you in a rock band or something?

Posted by: The Byrds at April 23, 2026 07:21 PM (sDJiP)

152 AK is an acquired taste.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:19 PM (DwqWV)

Come for the long frigid winters, stay for the grizzly bear attacks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:22 PM (guGkK)

153
"Yes, I'll have the Coke-Dusted Salmon on a Bed of Wild Rice, but I'd like the Coke to be served as a side dish, please"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:22 PM (xG4kz)

154 Brain Dead is a street wear brand, and this is a collaboration trying to reach out to a different audience than one who would typically think Brooks Bros. Pattern matching is definitely a thing, though.

For those wanting a dress shirt, J’s go to for off the rack is Eton in slim or contemporary fit.

Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 07:22 PM (Dd38x)

155 "Dude, I wonder what would happen if we gave coke to a fish"
"Dude!"
"Dooood!"

Posted by: "Researchers" at April 23, 2026 07:22 PM (eOqcD)

156 Thanks. Noted, but I am appalled that such basic business dress is not available locally. All sorts of other styles, but nothing basic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 23, 2026 07:21 PM (XeU6L)

Lands End used to carry them, even in DH's size.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:22 PM (DwqWV)

157 Back in the day, I had a Nehru jacket.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)

Were you in a rock band or something?
Posted by: The Byrds

I was just ubercool.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (ndZc7)

158 131 Have no idea, but if DC's electoral votes are "fixed", they're fixed either by the constitution (pretty sure that's not it) or statute. All statutes can be repealed or amended (well, at least ones that would help the racist-totalitarian cretins, i.e. the Dems).

So on paper the number of votes can be changed, and with the GOP being such a pathetic non-entity that it is, it's barely actually possible it can happen (as opposed to the situation where DC would become an instant/forever GOP bastion as opposed to Dem, in which case nobody would waste their time even proposing it).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2026 07:17 PM (U/Byj)

Appears it was set by the Amendment that gave them electoral votes. "No more than the least populous state"

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (okun6)

159 AK is an acquired taste.
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:19 PM (DwqWV)

I loved living up there for about 18 months. But I was restless and went to Arizona, then joined the Army. I would love to move back, but my bride would divorce me. I'll settle for a vacation trip.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (0aYVJ)

160 It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's hamster and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells.

That's some seriously gay stream-crossing. Nostalgia off the charts.

Posted by: Ah the days of pre-internet urban legends at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (TbWk/)

161 I was just ubercool.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Right on, man.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (YZ0Fo)

162 It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's hamster and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells.

Damn, that's gay!

Posted by: Liberace's hairdresser at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (GB0bk)

163 >>He hasn't had one on since we moved back up here. Nobody here really cares. Professionals wear nice jeans with polo shirts and work boots. Easier to go out on jobsites that way. Plus, nobody mistakes you for a CA lawyer.

That's the thing. There were rules back then that in certain jobs you wore a suit. At IBM it was a suit and white shirt. I doubt it was ever written but everyone knew the rule and everyone followed it. They weren't kidding, dress conformity was a thing. BB was a safe choice.

I still remember when the company I was working for at the time had our first casual dress day. It was dress slacks, oxford shirt and a sport coat. Nothing flashy or actually casual. Now practically anything goes.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (viF8m)

164 The only adulteration I want on my salmon is a good brine and smoking, prior to canning.

Fresh salmon? Just a little pepper and then a thin-sliced lemon over top, and grill it until it's nice and flaky.

Don't fuck it up with cocaine or anything else, like lousy heavy sauce.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:24 PM (DwqWV)

165
I bought some Van Heusen shirts via Amazon and they worked out just fine. There's really only two places I wear coat and tie nowadays: church and stewarding at dog shows.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 23, 2026 07:24 PM (tgvbd)

166 We weren't wealthy enough to follow trends when I was a kid. But by golly I got a pair of green jeans when I was in 8th grade. Silly.

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (ftFVW)

167 Ex-FIB-ber Steve Friend on X:
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SPLC training from the FBI academy taught our class that pro lifers were more dangerous terrorist threats than radical Muslims
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Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (Fi81e)

168 I'm pretty sure you have to be gay to wear that shirt. I don't know why I know that I just do.

Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

169
Crystal Pepsi
Salmon Coke

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (IifOV)

170 Back in the day, I had a Nehru jacket.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:18 PM (ndZc7)
Were you in a rock band or something?
Posted by: The Byrds
I was just ubercool.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM (ndZc7)

Far out man! Groovy!

Posted by: The Byrds at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (sDJiP)

171 I am almost 66
I live south of I10
It is >80 most the year
Ola Kais Shorts and a nice T or Tori Richards shirt

What the fuck am I supposed to wear.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (/+uur)

172 153
"Yes, I'll have the Coke-Dusted Salmon on a Bed of Wild Rice, but I'd like the Coke to be served as a side dish, please"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:22 PM (xG4kz)

Is that you, Lisa Murkowski?

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:26 PM (DwqWV)

173
D.C. residents have no senator and only a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives.

Posted by: The Whine Guy

Fine. We'll assign you back to Maryland.

Consider it an opening salvo for Civil War II.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:26 PM (xG4kz)

174 Remember when people used to respect Germans as sober-minded and good at things? Ye Olden Times.
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That was back when they wrote symphonies.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (AlhUl)

175 166 We weren't wealthy enough to follow trends when I was a kid. But by golly I got a pair of green jeans when I was in 8th grade. Silly.
Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (ftFVW)

Elephant legs. A step up from bell bottoms.

Oops. My age is showing.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (DwqWV)

176 Salmon Coke

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 23, 2026 07:25 PM (IifOV)
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Pink Coke?

Sounds gay.

Posted by: Axeman at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (Fi81e)

177 "Laid to rest, lol."

Whatever folks want to do with my corpse, I don't care. All I ask is that they make sure I'm positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably, most sincerely dead before they do it. Then have fun. YOLO.

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (N8ZBc)

178 I was in a nice local store Harolds about 3 times a year
But a 650 to 900 dollar suit
It was good for about 3 to 4 years as style changed

WHY is that important now?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (/+uur)

179 Thanks. Noted, but I am appalled that such basic business dress is not available locally. All sorts of other styles, but nothing basic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I, too, tried to find a button down Oxford in white. Not to be found in KC. Closest was the black guy dress store. Their collars are NOT meant for me.
Ditto on casual dress pants.
I guess I didn't support them... now they ain't there fer me.

Posted by: MkY at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (q6tQZ)

180 I would wear bowling shirts but Charlie Sheen ruined that for everyone.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (guGkK)

181

The first dead person I saw was one of my grandmothers.

My father insisted I go up to her coffin and touch her. I didn't want too but he was insistent. She was cold and I told him she's not the grandmother I remember.

I'm still traumatized by that, I was 10 then and it's always stuck with me.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (3ek7K)

182 Worse than I thought.

New Evidence Reveals Judas Received His 30 Pieces Of Silver From The SPLC

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (ndZc7)

183 Good evening, horde!

I just got here. Did we talk about pleated baggy jeans yet? Acid wash, natch.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (zYpTz)

184 Aha, I see it's a constitutional amendment. So it can't be easily changed. Well, unless SCOTUS, using it's self-acknowledged powers, just decides it means the opposite of what it says, in order to reach a political objective. Given 2A "jurisprudence" (love that pretentious word), not really a stretch for SCOTUS to give DC 10 electoral votes.

Dude, once you apply "doctrines" and, well, just make shit up and invert the meaning of words, the full arbitrary Revolutionary Command Council powers of SCOTUS can flourish. Think big.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (U/Byj)

185 Remember in the late eighties when we thought, for literally five minutes, that two-tone jeans -- half blue, half white or half blue, half black -- were rilly rilly cool?

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I still see younger folks wearing jeans with pre-made rips in them -- usually in the knees.

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (teZkF)

186 Cotton, linen and wool. I can't wear synthetics because they feel like sleezy to me.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (DIbRX)

187
Is that you, Lisa Murkowski?
Posted by: tcn in AK

I loved it when Ace was mocking her snow-nosed lifestyle with Coke Bear memes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (xG4kz)

188 A lot of dudes keep one in which to be laid to rest. So I've heard.
Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:17 PM (ftFVW)

Get a celluloid suit if you plan on cremation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (utfVc)

189 I still remember when the company I was working for at the time had our first casual dress day. It was dress slacks, oxford shirt and a sport coat. Nothing flashy or actually casual. Now practically anything goes.
Posted by: JackStraw

Casual dress used to mean you didn't wear a tie.

Posted by: MkY at April 23, 2026 07:29 PM (q6tQZ)

190 Snakeskin belt with your initials on the back and a good buckle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 07:29 PM (LA6Ib)

191 It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's hamster and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells.

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"You know what saved me from HIV and AIDs in the 90s?

... I liked to watch!"

-- Reginald Kenneth Dwight (AKA Elton John)

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:31 PM (teZkF)

192 My father insisted I go up to her coffin and touch her. I didn't want too but he was insistent. She was cold and I told him she's not the grandmother I remember.

I'm still traumatized by that, I was 10 then and it's always stuck with me.
Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (3ek7K)

What, you didn't take pictures with her??

Posted by: Filipinos at April 23, 2026 07:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

193 847 moves
Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

194
Casual dress used to mean you didn't wear a tie.
Posted by: MkY
--

And a short sleeved shirt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 07:31 PM (LA6Ib)

195 I went to college with
About 5 concert Ts
About 3 workout T and Shorts.
2 501s and a pair of pressed wranglers
Boots topsiders adidas 3 stripes
I had a gator polo and 2 button downs.

I now have
*runs to closet*
69 shirts on hangers
I am no happier

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:32 PM (/+uur)

196 I still see younger folks wearing jeans with pre-made rips in them -- usually in the knees.
Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (teZkF)

*Stares at knees and is grateful for the lack of Horde Cam.*

Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 07:32 PM (Dd38x)

197 So that's how the bears get the cocaine.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I never knew the Cocaine Bear movie was a documentary.

Posted by: mikeski at April 23, 2026 07:32 PM (VHUov)

198 I'm still traumatized by that, I was 10 then and it's always stuck with me.
Posted by: four seasons

I had a similar experience. Hate open casket.

When my husband passed, only close family (his mom, my boys, me) saw him at private viewing. Mostly I wanted to make sure the mortuary did everything per his wishes and give the kids some closure if they wanted it. After that, closed!

Posted by: She Hobbit at April 23, 2026 07:32 PM (ftFVW)

199 My father insisted I go up to her coffin and touch her. I didn't want too but he was insistent. She was cold and I told him she's not the grandmother I remember.

I'm still traumatized by that, I was 10 then and it's always stuck with me.
Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (3ek7K)

At least she didn't breathe on you.

Posted by: Audrey Griswold at April 23, 2026 07:33 PM (wVcYX)

200
Don't fuck it up with cocaine or anything else, like lousy heavy sauce.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Not a fan of the bottled viscous goo that grocery stores flog as "marinades" or cooking sauces, are we?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:33 PM (xG4kz)

201 If your next best option is $19 an hour, what exactly was on your resume to begin with? And were you ever qualified to be taking in $272,000?

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That's 13,600 hand jobs/year -- @ $20/pop -- same as in town.

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:33 PM (teZkF)

202 Get a celluloid suit if you plan on cremation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (utfVc)

Closed casket? Of course we'll put you into your fine new suit.

Posted by: Undertakers doing some taking at April 23, 2026 07:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

203 180 I would wear bowling shirts but Charlie Sheen ruined that for everyone.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (guGkK)

I had about 12 Nate Naste
I gave away all but 3 collectable.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:34 PM (/+uur)

204 Bolivian ~~marching~~ swimming powder

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 23, 2026 07:34 PM (a+4eV)

205 Get a celluloid suit if you plan on cremation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (utfVc)

My uncle said dont bury me with cash
thats just more to burn

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:35 PM (/+uur)

206 In reality, this tells a darker story--we spent half-a-century debt-financing a managerial class of Leftists whose only qualifications were ideological.

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... and hand-jobs, but mostly hand-jobs.

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:35 PM (teZkF)

207 I see a headline AP - Trump orders shoot to kill small boats choking Dog Leg of Hormuz in Iran
Now we are talking

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

208 New Evidence Reveals Judas Received His 30 Pieces Of Silver From The SPLC

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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:27 PM (ndZc7)

ha

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:36 PM (/+uur)

209 If this guy gets bored of being a Senator, I'd like to ask him to be a coblogger. There's no pay but the sex is outrageous.

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$20 same as in town.

/I can't help myself ... lol

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:36 PM (teZkF)

210
Orange Ent.

One of my sisters was taking lots of pictures of our wonderful mother in her coffin. I was horrified. I asked her what are you going to do with them, invite your friends over for dinner and have a fucking slide show?

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:36 PM (3ek7K)

211 Whatever folks want to do with my corpse, I don't care. All I ask is that they make sure I'm positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably, most sincerely dead before they do it. Then have fun. YOLO.
Posted by: gp

I'm sure you've seen the elaborate gizmos they had to ensure the "dead" remined dead in the 1800's?
e.g.
https://tinyurl.com/2b77sh9e

Posted by: MkY at April 23, 2026 07:36 PM (q6tQZ)

212
My MiL said that her husband could be buried in his pajamas.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:37 PM (xG4kz)

213 Sigh.
My wife and kid will never survive on the eastern shore. I just spent 35$ for a pound of cheese from some dairy in Connecticut that she can pick up for free! at Union Square.
Sigh.

Posted by: Accomack at April 23, 2026 07:37 PM (GbONR)

214 for coke salmon runs they just wet down the asphalt with a hose

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:37 PM (/+uur)

215 Whatever folks want to do with my corpse, I don't care. All I ask is that they make sure I'm positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably, most sincerely dead before they do it. Then have fun. YOLO.
Posted by: gp

Funeral pyres are legal in Maine.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 23, 2026 07:37 PM (YZ0Fo)

216 The other feel good news besides PDT's shoot to kill order is 100 Basij jihadis were poisoned and several have died.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2026 07:37 PM (DIbRX)

217 I was just ubercool.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:23 PM

Shouldn't that be übercoöl, according to the Style Guide?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2026 07:37 PM (0sNs1)

218 I'm pretty sure you have to be gay to wear that shirt. I don't know why I know that I just do.
Posted by: fd

It's like when you look at a stealth bomber, and say to yourself "I bet that doesn't show up on radar."

The shirt is the opposite of that.

You look at that shirt, and your gaydar goes off. Doesn't have to have a person wearing it.

Posted by: mikeski at April 23, 2026 07:38 PM (VHUov)

219 Not a fan of the bottled viscous goo that grocery stores flog as "marinades" or cooking sauces, are we?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:33 PM (xG4kz)

What about that white goop that French chefs put on everything?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:38 PM (utfVc)

220 "Get a celluloid suit if you plan on cremation."

I'm a movie buff. Wrap me up in old film stock of Clara Bow, Joan Blondell, and Ruby Keeler. Let our powerful mutual lust kindle the bundle.

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:38 PM (N8ZBc)

221
$20 same as in town.

/I can't help myself ... lol
Posted by: ShainS

Never apologizing for letting fly our classic bon mots!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:38 PM (xG4kz)

222 "I'm sure you've seen the elaborate gizmos they had to ensure the "dead" remined dead in the 1800's?"

I want to be buried with a Life Alert pendent.

Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 07:38 PM (vFG9F)

223 Hillbilly Bear >> Coke Bear

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:38 PM (/+uur)

224 186 Cotton, linen and wool. I can't wear synthetics because they feel like sleezy to me.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (DIbRX)

That's because they are sleazy. I avoid polyesters as much as possible. Not meaning to turn this into a boob thread, but brassieres are the exception, and that's only because there is nothing else in industrial strength bras.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 23, 2026 07:39 PM (zYpTz)

225 Lefty Driesell vindicated at last.

Posted by: Tommy Shanks at April 23, 2026 07:39 PM (KDpmu)

226 My daughter was 10 when she saw her great uncle in the open casket.

Posted by: Accomack at April 23, 2026 07:39 PM (GbONR)

227 One of my sisters was taking lots of pictures of our wonderful mother in her coffin. I was horrified. I asked her what are you going to do with them, invite your friends over for dinner and have a fucking slide show?

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:36 PM (3ek7K)

Yeah, I'm not into that. Had a couple of funerals when with the first wife, didn't join in the pix. Saw Dad in the bed in his underwear, next time I saw him, he was in a little wooden box. Same with Mom.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

228 The boats the IRGC uses are excellent targets for Apaches and decent ones for A-10s. And fun, I'd bet. I'd like to see weaponized versions of our USVs (Unmanned Surface Vessels) used, also an ideal application. We've been using them to do minesweeping tasks. I hope we've developed some "suicide" USVs. Awfully handy, against both peer and non-peer adversaries. And cheap. Japan had their "Shinyo", but those of course were *manned*, and fortunately didn't get much use thanks to pre-emption.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (U/Byj)

229

Yep, back in the day there was a bell suspended in your coffin you could ring if you weren't dead.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (3ek7K)

230 I want to be buried with a Life Alert pendent.
Posted by: fd

Har!

Posted by: MkY at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (q6tQZ)

231 I shot a coke bear in a wide collared silk shirt and sansabelt slacks

He looked maaavaaalasss

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (/+uur)

232 Wear a shirt like that and you get a free bowl of soup.

Posted by: Al Czervik at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (wVcYX)

233 It takes roughly 7 private-sector employees earning $125k (single filer, 2025 standard deduction) to cover one $125k federal salary via their federal income taxes alone.

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In a rational society, that number would be somewhere between 7,000 and 70,000 private-sector employees.

But, alas ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (teZkF)

234 What about that white goop that French chefs put on everything?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:38 PM (utfVc)

Semen? You're thinking of British chefs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (guGkK)

235 I'm buried and I can't get out!

Posted by: fd at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (vFG9F)

236 That's because they are sleazy. I avoid polyesters as much as possible. Not meaning to turn this into a boob thread, but brassieres are the exception, and that's only because there is nothing else in industrial strength bras.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 23, 2026 07:39 PM (zYpTz)

(blink, blink)

Looks at hands.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 23, 2026 07:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

237 "I'm sure you've seen the elaborate gizmos they had to ensure the "dead" remined dead in the 1800's?"

I want to be buried with a Life Alert pendent.
Posted by: fd

"Help! I'm buried and I can't get up!"

Posted by: mikeski at April 23, 2026 07:41 PM (VHUov)

238 222 Ha!

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:41 PM (N8ZBc)

239 Yeah Ben Had that was interesting about the Basij having a bad meal. Nice tactic. Not only does it do damage, it raises fear among the bad guys.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2026 07:41 PM (U/Byj)

240 I see a headline AP - Trump orders shoot to kill small boats choking Dog Leg of Hormuz in Iran
Now we are talking
Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2026 07:35 PM (Ia/+0)

Heavy-lift helicopter. Thousand yard of wireline. One of those big claws like in the claw machines in bars. Pick up fast boat, hoist it 2000 feet into the air, open claw. Oopsie!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:41 PM (utfVc)

241 Anyway. Nobody in news media ever reached out for my story. And it wasn't a unique story, I was one of a couple hundred thousand guys going through this.

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White Privilege!

And Lear To Code, h8r!

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:42 PM (teZkF)

242 228 The boats the IRGC uses are excellent targets for Apaches and decent ones for A-10s. And fun, I'd bet. I'd like to see weaponized versions of our USVs (Unmanned Surface Vessels) used, also an ideal application. We've been using them to do minesweeping tasks. I hope we've developed some "suicide" USVs. Awfully handy, against both peer and non-peer adversaries. And cheap. Japan had their "Shinyo", but those of course were *manned*, and fortunately didn't get much use thanks to pre-emption.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (U/Byj)

Navy spends 100k to 2 M on drones for targets.
They are now shooting gallery duck at the State Fair.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:42 PM (/+uur)

243 LMAO...you can't make this stuff up. I found an old article on Sheryl Cowan (the USAID employee who was raking in $272k). She was telling a story about a family dinner where she admitted that even her family didn't know what she did for a living.

Posted by: Orson at April 23, 2026 07:42 PM (dIske)

244 Brooks Brothers made absolutely wonderful shirts that were just a hair better than Nordstrom shirts before Nordstrom decided to go into children's funware for adults as well.

The problem wass that the shirts are 300+ and the only way I could afford them was to snap them up from the Goodwill stores that were closest to the retirement homes.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

245 207 I see a headline AP - Trump orders shoot to kill small boats choking Dog Leg of Hormuz in Iran
Now we are talking
Posted by: Skip
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Trump is letting this drag out on purpose. Have you noticed, or actually not noticed, the lack of wailing over Gaza and Lebanon? The murderous Jews are off the front page while they clean house. That's one part of Trump's play. Giving them cover.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (LA6Ib)

246 "Look it's getting late. He'll be dead by tomorrow anyway."

Posted by: Gravediggers of Yore at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (guGkK)

247 233 It takes roughly 7 private-sector employees earning $125k (single filer, 2025 standard deduction) to cover one $125k federal salary via their federal income taxes alone.

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In a rational society, that number would be somewhere between 7,000 and 70,000 private-sector employees.

But, alas ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:40 PM (teZkF)

I think every EBT card holder needs to come mow my laws and scrub the whitewalls on the Family Truckster.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (/+uur)

248 The other feel good news besides PDT's shoot to kill order is 100 Basij jihadis were poisoned and several have died.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2026 07:37 PM (DIbRX)

Wow! They have Xipotles locations in Iran?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (utfVc)

249 Photography of the dead was in way past history was often. I am a bit horrified with that now

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)

250 "Trump orders shoot to kill small boats choking Dog Leg of Hormuz in Iran"

That should have been RoE from the beginning, IMHO.

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (N8ZBc)

251 I saw Ho Chi Minh in his mausoleum in Hanoi back in the 90s. He looked fine for a really dead guy.

Funny thing was it was about 1 billion degrees with 100% relative humidity that day (June), so obvious everyone shuffling through the room was slow-walking it, to enjoy the nice cool dry air. The white-gloved stern looking honor guards rudely shooed us along.

Despite several technical opportunities I never did get to see Vladimir on Red Square.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (U/Byj)

252 That's 13,600 hand jobs/year -- @ $20/pop -- same as in town.
Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:33 PM

38.68 minutes/hj IF you're going 24/7 x 365.25.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (0sNs1)

253 Couple fires in DC- a bus and now smoke over the Washington Monument.

Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (Dd38x)

254 Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani.

Now they’re suing Mamdani because he’s planning to relocate Bellevue homeless shelter to the East Village.

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"Hey, you got chocolate commie on my schadenboner!"

"Hey, you got schadeboner on my chocolate commie!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (teZkF)

255
Crystal Pepsi
Salmon Coke
Posted by: Frank Barone

Chicken Pot Pie

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)

256 "The boats the IRGC uses are excellent targets for Apaches and decent ones for A-10s."

Do we have bases within range from which to sortie those?

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:45 PM (N8ZBc)

257 As a youth, when we had to go to a relatives funeral we had to kiss them on the cheek as they lay in the casket.

Posted by: Old Ways Are Best at April 23, 2026 07:45 PM (sDJiP)

258 They found the river-dwellers exposed to the drugs traveled 1.9 times farther per week than their clean-living control cousins.

Those exposed to the by-product also swam 7.6 miles farther, the study found.

Um... those are two different types of increase: a multiplier and an additive. So... what's the apples to apples? Let me guess, science insider?

Posted by: RandomDave at April 23, 2026 07:45 PM (aJQbY)

259 244 Brooks Brothers made absolutely wonderful shirts that were just a hair better than Nordstrom shirts before Nordstrom decided to go into children's funware for adults as well.

The problem wass that the shirts are 300+ and the only way I could afford them was to snap them up from the Goodwill stores that were closest to the retirement homes.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

Gettman Bros made my fav shirts.
Last time I needed dress shirts I did Indochina. 3 great shirts for about 180.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 23, 2026 07:46 PM (/+uur)

260 nood

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:46 PM (N8ZBc)

261 From above, "More whining about extravagantly overpaid USAID workers -- formerly making $272,000 per year, courtesy of the American taxpayer -- now working for $19 per hour in the private sector."

Let's take the highest alleged salary:

IF Senior Executive Service (SES), an actual Federal employees, members do not receive locality pay. Unlike General Schedule (GS) employees, SES pay is a single, nationwide rate based on performance rather than geographic location, meaning the pay range for a DC-based SES executive is the same as elsewhere.

2026 SES Pay Range: As of January 2026, the basic pay range is to a maximum of $228,000 (with a certified performance appraisal system) or $209,600 without.

Total aggregate pay is capped, often tied to the salary of the Vice President, per OPM.gov.
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BUT Based on reports regarding the dismantling of USAID in early 2025, individuals with high salaries in that range (such as $272,000) were primarily working as senior executives, senior vice presidents at USAID-funded NGOs, or specialized contractors, rather than standard federal employees.

Solution: Go get a GS-7, Step 1 job ($57736) & work upwards, whiners.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 23, 2026 07:46 PM (NFX2v)

262 LMAO...you can't make this stuff up. I found an old article on Sheryl Cowan (the USAID employee who was raking in $272k). She was telling a story about a family dinner where she admitted that even her family didn't know what she did for a living.

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Her cover story was she was trafficking children.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:46 PM (ndZc7)

263 Couple fires in DC- a bus and now smoke over the Washington Monument.

Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (Dd38x)

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Please tell me that "Dirty Harry" Callahan is on that bus.

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:46 PM (teZkF)

264 CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 23, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)

265 Nood cafe

Posted by: Kratwurst at April 23, 2026 07:47 PM (9gKa/)

266 I always have felt that men's fashions hit a peak of stylishness around 1947, so that's the way I dressed my whole career in banking and subsequently at an agency of the federal government in D.C. Tailor-made double-breasted suits and fedoras (Panamas in the summer). And I genuinely mean this with the utmost respect - I never passed a black lady on the street, in the Metro or in the halls of my agency over the age of 50 who didn't tell me she loved the way I dressed (frequently with the observation that I reminded her of her father).

Posted by: Paco at April 23, 2026 07:47 PM (2L+MU)

267
You are trafficking children, instant death. No trial nothing but instant death.

Posted by: four seasons at April 23, 2026 07:47 PM (3ek7K)

268 244 Brooks Brothers made absolutely wonderful shirts that were just a hair better than Nordstrom shirts before Nordstrom decided to go into children's funware for adults as well.

The problem wass that the shirts are 300+ and the only way I could afford them was to snap them up from the Goodwill stores that were closest to the retirement homes.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 23, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

________________________________

There was a Brooks Brothers Outlet store up in Freeport ME, across the street from the LL Bean Homestore. Always a good deal....every thing they offered. It was my goto place to grab some pull over sweaters.

Posted by: Orson at April 23, 2026 07:47 PM (dIske)

269 I am possibly 100% wrong but I think the reason Phelan was terminated was because of a failure with the fast attack boats, thus PDT'S shoot to kill order.

Been wrong before and will be again.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2026 07:47 PM (DIbRX)

270 LMAO...you can't make this stuff up. I found an old article on Sheryl Cowan (the USAID employee who was raking in $272k). She was telling a story about a family dinner where she admitted that even her family didn't know what she did for a living.

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Her cover story was she was trafficking children.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at April 23, 2026 07:46 PM (ndZc7)

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I assumed she was a ChiComm honeypot. Fang-Fang hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 23, 2026 07:48 PM (teZkF)

271
University of No Fuckin' Duh, Chester

Flog it all you want, but it's still a backwater branch of University of No Fuckin' Duh, Dewey

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 23, 2026 07:49 PM (xG4kz)

272 Chicken Pot Pie
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)

Never fail to ask your waitress if the pie is made from organic, free-range pot. I have actually had them go to the kitchen ask the chef.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 23, 2026 07:49 PM (utfVc)

273 Do we have bases within range from which to sortie those?
Posted by: gp
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Helos and Warthogs are mid-air refuel capable.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 07:49 PM (LA6Ib)

274 263 Couple fires in DC- a bus and now smoke over the Washington Monument.

Posted by: Piper at April 23, 2026 07:44 PM (Dd38x)

Confirmed - Metro bus on fire inside 9th St. tunnel. Bus unoccupied and driver safely removed. Apparently a number of cars had to be abandoned in the tunnel and occupants evacuated.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 23, 2026 07:50 PM (NFX2v)

275 "refuel capable." I didn't even think of that! Imaderp.

Posted by: gp at April 23, 2026 07:51 PM (N8ZBc)

276 Closed casket? Of course we'll put you into your fine new suit.
Posted by: Undertakers doing some taking at April 23, 2026 07:33 PM (1Ff7Z)
For an hour.

Posted by: Eromero at April 23, 2026 07:53 PM (LHPAg)

277 Cotton, linen and wool. I can't wear synthetics because they feel like sleezy to me.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 23, 2026 07:28 PM (DIbRX)

Also they won't stick to you when they catch on fire.
Granted, I haven't caught on fire much in my life so far, but I am sure they stressed the whole stop-drop-and-roll training in grade school for a reason.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 23, 2026 07:55 PM (rbvCR)

278 DC's electoral votes are not established by "legislative fiat". According to the 23rd amendment, DC gets the number of electoral votes it would have if it were a state (i.e., based on population) BUT "in no event more than the least populous state" which mean in practice that they get 3 votes, the same as Wyoming etc.

Posted by: bof at April 23, 2026 07:56 PM (wQY1T)

279 "Nope. It was like Freddy Mercury came all over Richard Gere's hamster and then they pumped Rod Stewart's stomach and found it was literally made of cum-cells."

And this is why I pay for the premium content.

BTW, it was a gerbil ... not a hamster.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at April 23, 2026 08:00 PM (pE12i)

280 Any boat that tries to run the blockade we seize, take to the US auction the cargo, then auction the ship.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 23, 2026 08:06 PM (LA6Ib)

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