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A genuine 1980 photograph shows the supertanker Esso Languedoc being struck by a massive rogue wave off Durban, South Africa. Captured by the ship's chief officer, the image remains one of the most famous examples of extreme ocean conditions.
The photograph captured what many scientists once considered nearly impossible: a rogue wave. Taken in 1980 as the oil supertanker Esso Languedoc sailed off Durban, South Africa, it shows a towering wall of water rising far above the ship's bow. The crew estimated the wave reached around 25--30 meters (82--98 feet) high.
For much of the 20th century, rogue waves were often treated as sailor's tales because traditional wave models suggested such extreme events were almost impossible. Images like this, combined with eyewitness accounts, helped change scientific understanding. Later advances in satellite monitoring, ocean buoys, and modeling confirmed that rogue waves are real and can form when multiple wave systems combine their energy into a single massive crest.
The waters off South Africa are especially dangerous because powerful Southern Ocean swells can collide with the strong Agulhas Current, creating unpredictable sea conditions. In 1995, the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea recorded the first scientifically measured rogue wave, a 25.6-meter (84-foot) wave that provided definitive proof these extreme events exist.

Cat adopts orphaned monkey.

Little kitten already understand there is no "I" in team.

This chicken has seen Roadhouse too many times.

Rescue dogs are extra-devoted.

Hero dog chases off bear menacing little boy.

Old but fun: Boys play ball with a playful elk.

Employee of the meownth.

Dog really wants to turn a kiddie pool into a boat but it's not big enough to support him.

Lion misses his Emotional Support Dachshund.

Out of control!

He's a regular Snake Plisskin.

This kid had 25 seconds to hit 4 shots for $10K… And he delivered. pic.twitter.com/5Elg0tIdMP
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 13, 2026

Beautiful moment when, 2-yr-old Nicolly, who was blind since birth, sees for the first time. pic.twitter.com/ZodwVWWJYh
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 13, 2026

This vulture waits for the dog to die to eat it, but the dog is just enjoying some sun.

[📹 tombirchy]pic.twitter.com/p4CDXgIU7M
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 14, 2026

When you have to landscape an overgrown lawn that hasn't been tended for years, it's time to bring in the heavy machinery.

And that heavy machinery is thirty-five goats.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM

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1 Does the lawn match the siding?

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 07:21 PM (vE0+H)

2 Cafe time!

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 07:26 PM (Dd38x)

3 the sea was angry that day, my friends!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 07:27 PM (VyBeY)

4 Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 07:21 PM (vE0+H)

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BTW, I belatedly (what else is new?) saw your hilarious response to my story a couple days ago about the gold-digger story and there being some additional irony to it:

"So you became rich and she became a broke-ass hoe?"

The Wifey and I had a good, long, hearty laugh -- and thanks, as I really needed one ...

Cheers and Ciao!

Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 14, 2026 07:29 PM (iCB1u)

5 Anyone what works on a ship has my respect.

That'd be a giant Hell, No! for me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 14, 2026 07:32 PM (zYpTz)

6 They use goats every year to clear out the brush on Lone Mountain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 07:32 PM (RIvkX)

7
omg those rogue waves. They're enough to keep me from ever taking a cruise.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 07:33 PM (mmrXZ)

8 There once was a ship that put to sea
The name of the ship was the Billy of Tea

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2026 07:34 PM (GD0B3)

9 Before the boat had hit the water
The whale's tail came up and caught her
All hands to the side, harpooned and fought her
When she dived down low

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2026 07:34 PM (GD0B3)

10 Poseidon Adventure

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2026 07:35 PM (Cqx++)

11 The complete mowing package. Goats for the woody stuff and sheep for the grass.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2026 07:36 PM (afJtY)

12 >>omg those rogue waves. They're enough to keep me from ever taking a cruise

Wanna see something that will give you pause? Search youtube for videos of the 1998 Sydney - Hobart Yacht Race.

It's one thing to be on a super tanker, something else to be on a 40 foot sailboat.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)

13 The comments on "Hero dog chases off bear menacing little boy" are terrible.
The bear was running away from the husky and dindu nuffin, the bear was just passing through...

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 07:37 PM (gKWVE)

14 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Wanna see something that will give you pause? Search youtube for videos of the 1998 Sydney - Hobart Yacht Race.

It's one thing to be on a super tanker, something else to be on a 40 foot sailboat.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)

No. No, I do not. I don't think my blood pressure could handle it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 14, 2026 07:39 PM (zYpTz)

16
Man, was I watching a freaky thing about blindness and schizophrenia today. It turns out blind people don't get schizophrenic, because schizophrenia is some mismatch between an expected sensation (visual in this case) and a delivered sensation. People who are blind from birth have no expected sensation, so they never get a mismatch.

It got me to wondering how they build up their library of expected sensations if they get eyesight later in life.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 07:39 PM (mmrXZ)

17 JackStraw, I admire your love and understanding of the sea but it scares the peediddlysquat out of me

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2026 07:40 PM (afJtY)

18 One can make up to 50K/month working an offshore oil rig. Or so they say.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2026 07:41 PM (GD0B3)

19 Oh that sweet baby girl!!

Posted by: LASue at July 14, 2026 07:42 PM (lCppi)

20 I think the idea of solitons and wave frequencies, coupled modes, constructively interfering and wotnot is interesting when observed from a great distance, preferably on dry land while enjoying a tasty beverage.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 14, 2026 07:43 PM (3uBP9)

21 Posted by: ShainS -- Tricentennial or Bust! at July 14, 2026 07:29 PM (iCB1u)

I try.

Though I don't believe I called her a garden implement, that wouldn't be like me. I do not believe in unnecessary vowels.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 07:43 PM (vE0+H)

22 Some lady just got swept off the beach on the west coast by a sneaker wave a few days ago. Never turn your back on the sea my friends.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 07:43 PM (RIvkX)

23 For much of the 20th century, rogue waves were often treated as sailor's tales because traditional wave models suggested such extreme events were almost impossible.

Nothing says SCIENCE! like ignoring eyewitness accounts of a thing because your fucking *model* can't explain that thing.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 14, 2026 07:43 PM (R+iUD)

24 Vulture is like
I wasn't trying to eat the dog, just here enjoying the sun

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2026 07:43 PM (Ia/+0)

25 You can sing the Star Spangled Banner to the tune of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

PS Got a invite to a gay Scottish wedding.
Michael Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmichael.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 14, 2026 07:44 PM (/+uur)

26 It smells better today than it did yesterday!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

27 Never turn your back on the sea my friends.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 07:43 PM (RIvkX)

I have a friend that saved a whale.

Posted by: Jerry S at July 14, 2026 07:45 PM (/+uur)

28 >>JackStraw, I admire your love and understanding of the sea but it scares the peediddlysquat out of me

Well nobody wants to be caught in a storm like that and with today's technology it's a lot easier to see conditions going pear shaped. The 1998 Sydney - Hobart was a series of horrible decisions that never should have happened.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)

29 The warning comes after a fisherman was swept into the ocean at San Francisco’s Baker Beach on Friday afternoon. People who saw the man and called 911 reported a sneaker wave “struck without warning,” sending him into the water, San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Baxter said on social media. Firefighters arrived at the scene around 1 p.m., joined by an SFPD police boat and drone units and an allied agency helicopter.

From a few weeks ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 07:45 PM (RIvkX)

30 18 One can make up to 50K/month working an offshore oil rig. Or so they say.
Posted by: runner at July 14, 2026 07:41 PM (GD0B3)

/punchline
Your are not going to like THursdays

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 14, 2026 07:46 PM (/+uur)

31 Interesting info on rogue waves.

Thanks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 07:46 PM (zZu0s)

32 Baker Beach is the original home of "Burning Man"

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 14, 2026 07:47 PM (DZ9Lv)

33 Remind NaCly Dog, if he happens to pass by close aboard, that there are two kinds of ships, submarines and targets.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

34 Oklahoma vs Tennessee is on. I wonder how good a coach is Huepel because he’s never had a good QB.
My daughter discovered some perfume she liked and now the whole place smells.

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 07:48 PM (GbONR)

35 Nobody’s answered my question from the last thread about Sydney Sweeney yet.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 07:48 PM (77rzZ)

36 People who are blind from birth have no expected sensation, so they are weaned on cock.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 07:49 PM (Kt19C)

37 Vulture is like
I wasn't trying to eat the dog, just here enjoying the sun

I thought the dog was Mitch...my bad.

Posted by: Black Vulture at July 14, 2026 07:49 PM (45BvE)

38 My daughter discovered some perfume she liked and now the whole place smells.
Posted by: Accomack

Is she a teenager because they always wear too much.

Posted by: Tuna at July 14, 2026 07:50 PM (lJ0H4)

39 >>> Nobody’s answered my question from the last thread about Sydney Sweeney yet.
Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 07:48 PM (77rzZ)

20 dollars, same as in town

Posted by: banana Dream at July 14, 2026 07:50 PM (3uBP9)

40 Baker Beach is the original home of "Burning Man"
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 14, 2026 07:47 PM (DZ9Lv)
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Damn hippies!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 07:51 PM (RIvkX)

41 Sweeney’s great beauty is her open happiness.

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 07:51 PM (GbONR)

42 "Raising the Bar: Guidelines for respectful media coverage in women's athletics", include a list of detailed illustrations on what shots are encouraged vs. discouraged.

"This is not a list of restrictions. Across high jump, pole vault, horizontal jumps and running events, the report demonstrates how the most compromising shots can be avoided with no loss of storytelling or visual quality," the guidelines state.

There is also "no reason to photograph camel toe, landing strips, lazy trims, or razor bumps".

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 14, 2026 07:51 PM (/+uur)

43 Nobody’s answered my question from the last thread about Sydney Sweeney yet.
Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 07:48 PM

I haven't seen the question, but I doubt the answer is $20, same as in town.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2026 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

44 25 Edmund Fitzgerald doesn’t have a tune.

And that’s kinda the point. It’s not something that you’re gonna sing at karaoke night.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 07:52 PM (77rzZ)

45 Sweeney’s great beauty is her open happiness.
Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 07:51 PM (GbONR)

And she's a gear-head. Gotta love that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, All Erudite and Stuff at July 14, 2026 07:54 PM (0aYVJ)

46 44 25 Edmund Fitzgerald doesn’t have a tune.

And that’s kinda the point. It’s not something that you’re gonna sing at karaoke night.
Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 07:52 PM (77rzZ)

Oh say can you see by the downs early light

tell me you did not sing that the EF cadence

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 14, 2026 07:54 PM (/+uur)

47 To all the native born, mind poisoned, pseudo-intellectuals who think that the USA is some horrid place, I suggest you watch what people from Europe think about the place where we live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBYEqRTmuVM
If you still think the USA is a bad place, I humbly suggest that you suck start a shotgun and put the world out of your misery. You suck and you are not worthy to breathe free air. You spit in the face of ELOHIM for all the blessings bestowed on this land because your are spawn of the evil one.
I recognize that I am blessed to have been born here to legal parents. My parents have been married for 71 years and are still in good shape in their 90s. We are blessed beyond measure, especially when compared to everyone else on the planet.
THANK YOU ABBA!

Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 14, 2026 07:54 PM (7aGEe)

48 My question about Sydney S. was, when/if she gets preggers (and I think that it’s far more a matter of “when” than “if”

, what size are her already impressive mammaries gonna inflate to?

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 07:55 PM (77rzZ)

49 41 Sweeney’s great beauty is her open happiness.
Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 07:51 PM (GbONR)

Judges would have accepted tits.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 14, 2026 07:55 PM (/+uur)

50 46 Nope, still not hearing it.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 07:57 PM (77rzZ)

51 Bulg that is something I know nothing about

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

52 I recognize that I am blessed to have been born here to legal parents. My parents have been married for 71 years and are still in good shape in their 90s. We are blessed beyond measure, especially when compared to everyone else on the planet.
THANK YOU ABBA!
Posted by: Bonecrusher at July 14, 2026 07:54 PM (7aGEe)

We were buying companies in 96 thru 2002.
They loved the US.
They wanted to go to Sam and Gap and Costco to take things back home.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 14, 2026 07:58 PM (/+uur)

53 She is one of the few white chicks I find attractive.

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 07:58 PM (GbONR)

54
*sits al fresco at bird-specked Café table*
*wandering dog pees on leg*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2026 07:59 PM (O0L8i)

55 Top picture is scary.

Posted by: Eromero at July 14, 2026 08:00 PM (UYYJi)

56 Been up since 2am
Better try and get some sleep
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

57 54 The Big Dummy?

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 08:00 PM (77rzZ)

58
Those 35 goats performed more real work in less than one week than Mamdani has done in his entire life.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 14, 2026 08:00 PM (ixS3i)

59 Some lady just got swept off the beach on the west coast by a sneaker wave a few days ago. Never turn your back on the sea my friends.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Years ago, one of our SVPs was swept out to sea and eventually drowned by a riptide.

She was in charge of Risk Assessment for our division.

Funny that. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 08:01 PM (VmkSV)

60
Status-anxious natives sneer at Americans to try to curry favor with the Eurotrash. Wasted effort. They'll always hate you for being American.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2026 08:03 PM (O0L8i)

61 *sits al fresco at bird-specked Café table*
*wandering dog pees on leg*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2026 07:59 PM

* wandering peon howls in the distance *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2026 08:04 PM (0sNs1)

62 51 Skip, same here, but I will be happy to undertake research on Sydney’s boobs on our joint behalf,

I’ll report back in six months…er, maybe more like five minutes…

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 08:05 PM (77rzZ)

63 Lawnmunchers Cafe

Carpet munchers > Lawnmunchers

Posted by: Hillary! at July 14, 2026 08:06 PM (oI/gx)

64
They think Chipotle is awesome. Haven't even been to Oscar's on Emerald Ave and gotten the grilled fish tacos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 08:07 PM (mmrXZ)

65 one of our SVPs was swept out to sea and eventually drowned by a riptide. She was in charge of Risk Assessment for our division.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 08:01 PM (VmkSV)

They hiring?

Posted by: I mean, I can't do a worse job at July 14, 2026 08:07 PM (gKWVE)

66 Cowboy 1-- that's the laziest dog in the world

Cowboy 2-- Oh, what a good boy, he is twitching in his sleep, dreaming!

Cowboy 1-- No, he's lying on an ant hill.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 08:07 PM (rbvCR)

67 Rogue wave hit the QE-2 one evening at dinner. Many screams from the diners and wide eyed looks on the staff’s faces. This is a very big ship.

Posted by: Javems at July 14, 2026 08:07 PM (+uKTE)

68
Remember at the beginning of June, with all the howling about the WC being in the (*ugh!*) United States and Trump was going to ruin everything and we should be boycotted because ICE would arrest every foreigner, who were all going to die from gun violence anyway?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2026 08:08 PM (O0L8i)

69 >>Some lady just got swept off the beach on the west coast by a sneaker wave a few days ago. Never turn your back on the sea my friends.

Happens around here from time to time. My neighborhood has a beach on the bay, pretty tame but flows to the ocean. Last summer I was walking Elvis by the beach and the place was packed with cops, firefighters and an ambulance. Body washed up. Fisherman. Former fisherman.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 08:09 PM (viF8m)

70 I couldn’t do another night of vacation food. They are eating cheeseburgers. I have grilled chicken, brown rice, broccoli and carrots.

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 08:10 PM (p4NUW)

71 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2026 08:08 PM (O0L8i)

That was, like, a month ago boomer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 14, 2026 08:10 PM (RIvkX)

72 every foreigner, who were all going to die from gun violence anyway?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Well France did lose today. On Bastille Day, no less.

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 08:11 PM (p4NUW)

73 OK, fine. I’ll answer my own question. A lactating Sweeney would have 32 MMs.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 08:11 PM (77rzZ)

74 The sea was angry that day my friends.

Posted by: Case at July 14, 2026 08:11 PM (IY9No)

75 My usual sanguine self decided that all the Yeah America! stuff was click bait.
Mostly Texas and Florida; some NY or Boston, no KC. Same Costco, WalMart and Bass Pro oh and ah, big trucks and yellow buses.
Click bait. Those folks did well.

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 08:12 PM (GbONR)

76 When one is standing watch on the bridge and you look up and see green water, it's going to be a long few hours.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 08:12 PM (VmkSV)

77 72 Everyone lost on Bastille Day.

Effing French Revolution.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 08:16 PM (77rzZ)

78 When one is standing watch on the bridge and you look up and see green water, it's going to be a long few hours.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 14, 2026 08:12 PM

That's the last time Mr. Sulu would have the helm.

Posted by: James T. Kirk at July 14, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

79
Click bait. Those folks did well.

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 08:12 PM (GbONR)

__________

If it makes you feel better, they'll all be arrested on their return for spreading disinformation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 14, 2026 08:16 PM (O0L8i)

80 My family were certainly not the brightest group. They chose Wrights beach to have the family Easter get together. Picture 8 old ladies that can't swim wading in front of a rip tide.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2026 08:18 PM (afJtY)

81 Must have been tough wresting the helm from Sulu when there was a black hole ahead.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 08:18 PM (gKWVE)

82 I try.

Though I don't believe I called her a garden implement, that wouldn't be like me. I do not believe in unnecessary vowels.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 07:43 PM (vE0+H)

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Well, crappe -- how dare I straine your credibilitey. ;-)

Now Imma gonna have to update my nic to "ShainS -- He of the Unnecessary Vowels!"

Posted by: ShainS -- He of the Unnecessary Vowels! at July 14, 2026 08:19 PM (9EFgU)

83
OK, fine. I’ll answer my own question. A lactating Sweeney would have 32 MMs.
Posted by: Bulg

Plain or peanut?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 14, 2026 08:19 PM (Cqx++)

84 Some lady just got swept off the beach on the west coast by a sneaker wave a few days ago. Never turn your back on the sea my friends.

Happens around here from time to time. My neighborhood has a beach on the bay, pretty tame but flows to the ocean. Last summer I was walking Elvis by the beach and the place was packed with cops, firefighters and an ambulance. Body washed up. Fisherman. Former fisherman.
Posted by: JackStraw

What was it that AtC used to say?
Oh yeah, outside is trying to kill you.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 14, 2026 08:21 PM (ZIVhI)

85 lol
And whining about no A/C .
It did reinforce the idea that most of Europe is north of us. Without A/C, how much of America is habitable year round? Accomack county would clear out.

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 08:22 PM (GbONR)

86 Tough day for maga

No more Gestapo ice traffic ice stops.

Sad!!

Posted by: MAGA lol at July 14, 2026 08:22 PM (Qn9hv)

87 83 Plain or peanut?

Both. One from each bounteous breast.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 08:23 PM (77rzZ)

88 we should dox trolls. for fun.

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2026 08:23 PM (GD0B3)

89 Must have been tough wresting the helm from Sulu when there was a black hole ahead.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 08:18 PM (gKWVE)

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Black Ho!

/more unnecessary consonants and vowels ...

Posted by: ShainS -- He of the Unnecessary Vowels! at July 14, 2026 08:24 PM (9EFgU)

90 When one is standing watch on the bridge and you look up and see green water, it's going to be a long few hours.
Posted by: Tonypete

Wait until you are driving 350 miles inland and see a wall of water/green clouds from ground to sky. Did that once back in high school out by DFW airport. Yea. Tornado. Hate that shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 14, 2026 08:24 PM (ZIVhI)

91 >>What was it that AtC used to say?
Oh yeah, outside is trying to kill you.

It can definitely be moody.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 08:26 PM (viF8m)

92 Kind of weak tea from the troll.

'Melania broke a nail! Lol Magats!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

93 rickb223, ran into one of those in New Mexico. You could not see beyond the wipers, no road or even the front of the truck.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2026 08:28 PM (afJtY)

94 My usual sanguine self decided that all the Yeah America! stuff was click bait.
Mostly Texas and Florida; some NY or Boston, no KC. Same Costco, WalMart and Bass Pro oh and ah, big trucks and yellow buses.
Click bait. Those folks did well.
Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 08:12 PM (GbONR)

Mostly. I think a few of them were real but those were channels which talked about the US from before. There's a couple which are still talking about the US despite being back in the UK and indicating that they want to return and are considering emigrating. But most were bullshit. The people acting like Taco Bell was the greatest thing they've ever eaten and whatnot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:28 PM (ExV1e)

95 rogue waves are real and can form when multiple wave systems combine their energy into a single massive crest.

Ah. The experts who said they can't exist are now experts in why they exist.

Posted by: t-bird at July 14, 2026 08:28 PM (XD+PD)

96 The people acting like Taco Bell was the greatest thing they've ever eaten and whatnot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:28 PM (ExV1e)

Evidently they missed the parasite.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:30 PM (zZu0s)

97 When one is standing watch on the bridge and you look up and see green water, it's going to be a long few hours.
Posted by: Tonypete

When you're driving through a typhoon and the captain decides that you can't dive below mumble mumble feet so you're doing 50-60 degree rolls. That was a long few hours.

Damn round hulls.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:30 PM (ExV1e)

98 Taco Bell = Chili Cheese Burrito

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:31 PM (zZu0s)

99 I've discovered my golden is a bit of a diva. I have a kiddie pool for her on the driveway, it's been so hot and more hot to come. Will only get in it on the day it has new water. Won't even look at it on day 2. Keeps me busy draining and refilling. Good thing I love her. My Alaskan Klee Kei won't even go near it.

Posted by: Molly k. at July 14, 2026 08:31 PM (j/yko)

100 rickb223, ran into one of those in New Mexico. You could not see beyond the wipers, no road or even the front of the truck.
Posted by: Ben Had

That's scary as hell. And that black/green wall. Sheesh.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 14, 2026 08:31 PM (ZIVhI)

101 Hi, ... , I saw your comment in the last thread. Yes, I still exist here, but I'm mainly lurking these days.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 14, 2026 08:31 PM (vV6n9)

102 What other kinds of waves may be amplified by combining waves? Light waves? Sound waves? BRAIN WAVES?

Posted by: fd at July 14, 2026 08:32 PM (MWfyi)

103 What other kinds of waves may be amplified by combining waves? Light waves? Sound waves? BRAIN WAVES?
Posted by: fd

Taco Bell & fart waves

Posted by: rickb223 at July 14, 2026 08:33 PM (ZIVhI)

104 BRAIN WAVES?
Posted by: fd at July 14, 2026 08:32 PM (MWfyi)

Rosie O'Donnell and Sean Penn might be able to warm a cup of coffee.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)

105 rickb223, scarier because of the 5 horses in the trailer being pulled.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 14, 2026 08:33 PM (afJtY)

106 Well, crappe -- how dare I straine your credibilitey. ;-)

Now Imma gonna have to update my nic to "ShainS -- He of the Unnecessary Vowels!"

Posted by: ShainS -- He of the Unnecessary Vowels! at July 14, 2026 08:19 PM (9EFgU)

Eh a spelling error is the least of my worries around here.

I mean there's always the "questions" surrounding my unquenchable sexual appetites for twink men being very sloppily covered up by a *supposed* lust for redheads with beautiful legs. Yeah right. Scottish Irish redhead babes with creamy skin and a few freckles... a likely story...

BTW you never want to lose control of your vowels.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 08:34 PM (vE0+H)

107 BRAIN WAVES?
Posted by: fd at July 14, 2026 08:32 PM (MWfyi)

Rosie O'Donnell and Sean Penn might be able to warm a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)

Unrealistic. Coffee is mostly water and heating water takes a lot of energy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:35 PM (ExV1e)

108 Speaking of waves.

My future ex husband and I were on a hiking trip along the western WA coast up by Shi Shi beach. We had a friend’s doggo with us, a lab mix named Fido. Great dog.

So we walked along the rocky beach, over huge logs and found a really big log that reached out over the water. We all walked out on the log to check it out. My ex plopped down, cracked a beer and gave a big huzzah.

Fido and I looked at each other and walked back about 200 feet and sat down.

Not two minutes later, a sneaker wave built up and completely douched my ex sitting on the log. It completely covered him. As it receded, he was clinging to the log, soaking wet, rocks in his beer, gasping for air.

Fido and I were laughing. Never seen a dog laugh before. This dog was laughing.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 08:35 PM (QBhXE)

109 Posted by: Lincolntf at July 14, 2026 08:31 PM (vV6n9)

Good to know!

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 08:36 PM (vE0+H)

110 Medieval Taco Bell’s caused the Great English Bowel Shift.

I blame John of Gaunt.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 08:37 PM (77rzZ)

111 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

If they/them ever engaged, you could ask xer how President Harris's ass tastes

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 08:38 PM (vE0+H)

112 We were at a Half Moon Bay beach bonfire party; a small creek bisects the beach and drains into the bay, we heard shouting, looked south, and two girls were being swept up the creek by a mammoth wall of foaming churn. They turned out to be okay.

Rogue waves? Impossible!

Posted by: 13times at July 14, 2026 08:39 PM (fnZRl)

113 Nurse Ratched, (apart from the ex-stuff, sorry to hear that) if I was the guy I would have thought that was awesome,. I've been fucked over by the ocean a few times, and the memories always make me laugh. Can't beat her, just gotta survive her.

Posted by: Lincolntf at July 14, 2026 08:40 PM (vV6n9)

114 My daughter discovered some perfume she liked and now the whole place smells.
Posted by: Accomack

Is she a teenager because they always wear too much.
Posted by: Tuna
------
I detest the perversion of the word "fresh" in service of selling shit.
Evidently today, "fresh" means "stinks up the place to the verge of nausea."

Posted by: buddhaha at July 14, 2026 08:40 PM (a8Wd8)

115 rickb223, scarier because of the 5 horses in the trailer being pulled.
Posted by: Ben Had

Dang. No bueno.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 14, 2026 08:40 PM (ZIVhI)

116 Scottish Irish redhead babes with creamy skin and a few freckles...

https://tinyurl.com/mtmd7bc5

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:40 PM (ExV1e)

117 Oh... SFW.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:41 PM (ExV1e)

118 Waves break way off shore of Assateague, very poor surfing. During storms, the wash comes up and over the dunes.

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 08:42 PM (8jVAy)

119 BTW you never want to lose control of your vowels.
Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 08:34 PM (vE0+H)

I still recommend Indian squats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)

120 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:40 PM (ExV1e)

Very nice. Hope you're feeling ok.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 08:44 PM (vE0+H)

121 Oh also off topic, but I have reintroduced cardio into my workout routine. 30 mins on the rowing machine. I both hate and love cardio. Love how you feel after it's done, but doing it kind of sucks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

122 117 Oh... SFW.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

:checks URL:
We're still at AOSHQ comments, right?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 08:45 PM (gKWVE)

123 Very nice. Hope you're feeling ok.
Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 08:44 PM (vE0+H)

Feel fine. Getting radiated doesn't feel like anything. If I get some unfortunate side effect from it, it probably won't happen for at least a week.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:45 PM (ExV1e)

124 Scottish Irish redhead babes with creamy skin and a few freckles...
Yikes!

Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 08:45 PM (GbONR)

125 Typhoon Cobra......look it up

Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 14, 2026 08:46 PM (jrgJz)

126 I was about 25 feet from the shore off Oahu, busy beach, lots of people. But I was in a spot that I couldn’t make headway. I would swim as hard as I could just to stay in one spot, and then try to gain some distance when the wave started coming in. It was exhausting. When I finally got back on land I decided to stay there for a while.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 08:46 PM (NaO3Q)

127 Wait until you are driving 350 miles inland and see a wall of water/green clouds from ground to sky. Did that once back in high school out by DFW airport. Yea. Tornado. Hate that shit.
Posted by: rickb223

Human: "The daytime sky can be a lot of colors, but it can't be neon green."

The sky over the Great Plains: "Hold my beer."

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 08:46 PM (VHUov)

128 :checks URL:
We're still at AOSHQ comments, right?
Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 08:45 PM (gKWVE)

I only post NSFW stuff when people start crying that they don't know how to use the internet to find a photo of a boob.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:46 PM (ExV1e)

129
Rogue waves? Impossible!
Posted by: 13times

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

Ten of them roaming the planet at any one time, according to estimates.

TEN. Anywhere. Like too close to your cruise ship to do anything about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 08:47 PM (mmrXZ)

130 :checks URL:
We're still at AOSHQ comments, right?
Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 08:45 PM (gKWVE)

Sponges faux pax earlier was not that bad. It was just the search string 'busty lesbians.' I think on duck duck go. The only way you'd see nudity is if your safesearch was already turned off (it's on by default.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

131 Fido and I were laughing. Never seen a dog laugh before. This dog was laughing.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 08:35 PM (QBhXE)

Dog be like...Duh!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 14, 2026 08:49 PM (2WIwB)

132 Fido and I were laughing. Never seen a dog laugh before. This dog was laughing.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 08:35 PM (QBhXE)

Dog be like...Duh!
Posted by: Diogenes

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at July 14, 2026 08:49 PM (ZIVhI)

133 Honestly, considering, we have had very few wander off the sfw reservation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

134 Never seen a dog laugh before.

First time taking acid?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:49 PM (ExV1e)

135
I was about 25 feet from the shore off Oahu, busy beach, lots of people. But I was in a spot that I couldn’t make headway. I would swim as hard as I could just to stay in one spot, and then try to gain some distance when the wave started coming in. It was exhausting. When I finally got back on land I decided to stay there for a while.
Posted by: Common Tater

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

Ugh, I got caught in a rip once, also barely offshore, but FUCK, I couldn't touch the bottom and I couldn't get back. It was a cold beach, and my wetsuit was waterlogged. Finally got back in somehow. I was thinking at the time, if I'd had a phone on me while I was being slapped by waves from both directions (waterproof of course) I'd have been tempted to dial 911.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 08:49 PM (mmrXZ)

136 Paux?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

137 113 Nurse Ratched, (apart from the ex-stuff, sorry to hear that) if I was the guy I would have thought that was awesome,. I've been fucked over by the ocean a few times, and the memories always make me laugh. Can't beat her, just gotta survive her.

Posted by: Lincolntf

Oh, it’s one of our favorite memories together. He triumphantly drank the rest of that Rainier beer, rocks, salt water and all and proclaimed a temporary victory over the sea.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 08:50 PM (X1Jq6)

138 Dammit, it's faux pas.

<--- idiot

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

139 rogue waves are real and can form when multiple wave systems combine their energy into a single massive crest.

The Paolo, he like, understands when energy forms into a single massive wave.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 14, 2026 08:52 PM (2WIwB)

140

Rowing a small Boston Whaler on the flood tide (trolling a small string of flashers) Everett Bay, Wa. Very enjoyable!

Posted by: 13times at July 14, 2026 08:52 PM (fnZRl)

141 Dammit, it's faux pas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

I was told there would be no math.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 08:53 PM (vE0+H)

142 The Paolo, he like, understands when energy forms into a single massive wave.
Posted by: The Paolo at July 14, 2026 08:52 PM (2WIwB)

*lights cigarette*

Posted by: Whoopi! at July 14, 2026 08:54 PM (gKWVE)

143 The Paolo, he like, understands when energy forms into a single massive wave.
Posted by: The Paolo at July 14, 2026 08:52 PM (2WIwB)

*lights cigarette*
Posted by: Whoopi! at July 14, 2026 08:54 PM (gKWVE)

On deck! -- James Talarico

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:55 PM (ExV1e)

144 @135. Hmmm...maybe outside IS trying to kill us. I laughed that off at first, but now.....

Posted by: Case at July 14, 2026 08:57 PM (IY9No)

145 Was that a riptide? I dunno. Or didn’t know. It was mostly annoying, but I was young and in shape. I could see where it was deceptive and easily kill people. Maybe I could have swam obliquely at a 90 deg. angle 20 feet or so and got out of it? I didn’t know. It was super bizarre to be so close to shore and not getting there

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 08:57 PM (NaO3Q)

146 Wait...there's photos of boobs in the internet?

*scribbles notes furiously*

Posted by: My 12 y.o. self at July 14, 2026 08:57 PM (2Ez/1)

147 >>Was that a riptide? I dunno. Or didn’t know. It was mostly annoying, but I was young and in shape. I could see where it was deceptive and easily kill people. Maybe I could have swam obliquely at a 90 deg. angle 20 feet or so and got out of it? I didn’t know. It was super bizarre to be so close to shore and not getting there

Trying to fight a riptide is how a lot of people drown. Even strong swimmers can be beaten by a strong riptide.

Ride the rip until you are out of it and then swim to shore.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 08:59 PM (viF8m)

148 Never seen a dog laugh before.

First time taking acid?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:49 PM (ExV1e)

I am disappoint.

Posted by: Muttley at July 14, 2026 09:01 PM (wVcYX)

149 We had a friend’s doggo with us, a lab mix named Fido.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Is this a case of "names changed to protect the innocent?"

If not, that's amazing. Everyone knows "Fido" is a dog's name, but that's literally the first real-life contemporary "Fido" I've heard of. I've only heard it used in movies and cartoons and stuff, or stories from a century ago.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 09:01 PM (VHUov)

150 Did you notice the kid winning the halftime basketball contest not only made all 4 shots, but that all four shots hit nothing but net. And he was cool doing it.?

Posted by: Solutus at July 14, 2026 09:02 PM (ASBBI)

151 Never seen a dog laugh before.

First time taking acid?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 08:49 PM (ExV1e)

I am disappoint.
Posted by: Muttley at July 14, 2026 09:01 PM (wVcYX)

I'd make a comment that you weren't a dog but, damn, Muttley was a dog.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 09:02 PM (ExV1e)

152 mikeski,
It was the doggo’s real name.

Good dog. Scared off a bear for us in the rainforest that trip. We high tailed it out of there to the coast.

Don’t mess with bears.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 14, 2026 09:05 PM (yYecZ)

153 If not, that's amazing. Everyone knows "Fido" is a dog's name, but that's literally the first real-life contemporary "Fido" I've heard of. I've only heard it used in movies and cartoons and stuff, or stories from a century ago.
Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 09:01 PM (VHUov)

its from Latin, means "Loyal"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 09:05 PM (uhVAy)

154 >>>Maybe I could have swam obliquely at a 90 deg. angle 20 feet or so and got out of it? I didn’t know. It was super bizarre to be so close to shore and not getting there

Posted by: Common Tater

>After the first time I got caught in a riptide I decided I would never swim in the ocean again without swim fins. Those riptides are brutal.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 14, 2026 09:06 PM (sYM3s)

155
Maybe I could have swam obliquely at a 90 deg. angle 20 feet or so and got out of it?

-----------

Ride the rip until you are out of it and then swim to shore.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

What? NO! Never mind outside -- JackStraw is trying to kill you.

If you get caught in a rip, swim parallel to the shore to get out of it. Then swim or wade in.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 09:07 PM (mmrXZ)

156 Wait...there's photos of boobs in the internet?

*scribbles notes furiously*
Posted by: My 12 y.o. self
----
http://www.boobpedia.com

We didn't have the internet. We had to peer through the cracks of the basement blinds at the VFW when the Cooties had a stag.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 14, 2026 09:08 PM (a8Wd8)

157 If not, that's amazing. Everyone knows "Fido" is a dog's name, but that's literally the first real-life contemporary "Fido" I've heard of. I've only heard it used in movies and cartoons and stuff, or stories from a century ago.
Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 09:01 PM (VHUov)

its from Latin, means "Loyal"

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 09:05 PM (uhVAy)

So just like the root of the F in FBI!

What...?

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 09:08 PM (vE0+H)

158 75 My usual sanguine self decided that all the Yeah America! stuff was click bait.
Mostly Texas and Florida; some NY or Boston, no KC. Same Costco, WalMart and Bass Pro oh and ah, big trucks and yellow buses.
Click bait. Those folks did well.
Posted by: Accomack at July 14, 2026 08:12 PM (GbONR)

And if it wasn’t?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 14, 2026 09:08 PM (4g5V+)

159 >>What? NO! Never mind outside -- JackStraw is trying to kill you.

>>If you get caught in a rip, swim parallel to the shore to get out of it. Then swim or wade in.

Yea, that's what I said.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 14, 2026 09:09 PM (viF8m)

160 They give rip tide warnings at the beach but I never really get in the water anyway. I will wade around on the shore. I never liked to get in the water unless I can see what's in the water.

Posted by: Case at July 14, 2026 09:11 PM (IY9No)

161 I'd make a comment that you weren't a dog but, damn, Muttley was a dog.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And was "carefully" parodied in the NSFW anime "Asobi ni Iku yo!"

(Literally "We've Come To Play," and for some crazy reason re-titled "Cat Planet Cuties" for the US market.)

"Carefully," as in, the character's name was still "Muttley" and everything. He was a robot/android thing from the Dogsian planet.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 09:12 PM (VHUov)

162 Well France did lose today. On Bastille Day, no less.
Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 08:11 PM (p4NUW)

Ooh, il n'y a pas de pain, laissez-les manger du gâteau

Il n'y a pas de fin à ce qu'ils prendront
Afficher les fruits de la naissance noble
Laver le sel dans la terre
Mais ils marchent pour le jour de la Bastille
La guillotine réclamera son prix sanglant
Libérez les donjons des innocents
Eh bien, le roi doit s'agenouiller pour laisser son royaume s'élever

Posted by: Prof Neil E. Peart at July 14, 2026 09:12 PM (4g5V+)

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