Noah's Recreational Ark Cafe

The maned wolf has long legs

Little girl missed her older brother, who's now going to Big Kid School. (Elementary school.)

Sea wolf.

Golden retriever is treated as a threat by kittens, until their mama vouches for him.

Copykitten.

A very cute rescued baby elephant.

Corgi helps.

Cat hostess.

Covid hoarding affected dogs, too.

Contagious yawning in cats. I could have told them all about this. I used to fake-yawn to cause a cat to yawn in reply.

The "sky train," a hanging elevated train with windows in the floor.

Horses on the beach.

They're living their best life.

[📹 Valdiney in Amazonia] pic.twitter.com/cUclji7Pz2
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 28, 2026

😂 pic.twitter.com/nOpgCiO0LM
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 28, 2026

That’s a way.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/USmqPuQA8r
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 27, 2026

A landslide in China. Scary.

A Landslide sweeps down a steep Himalayan slope in Chame, Manang, Nepal. pic.twitter.com/FwCJ8eKJB2
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 28, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1
Yay!!

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:31 PM (/QHx4)

2 Woohoo !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 28, 2026 07:32 PM (VyBeY)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

4
Hiya Skip

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:34 PM (/QHx4)

5 The cat flopping down the stairs is too cute.

That level of cuteness and silliness is not allowed in my household!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (FZ29D)

6 I’ll have an espresso, please!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (fheZL)

7
Video of this morning's Starship launch showing the rocket transiting the sun. Note the humongous shock waves:

https://t.ly/vpmu3

Andrew McCarthy got a bunch of shots himself, so keep an eye on this feed, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 28, 2026 07:37 PM (w6EFb)

8 That wolf has to be AI

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Good thing that Nepalese juggler was around to hold the camera.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:38 PM (ESbQX)

10 Happy cafe!

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

11 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (vJrRc)

12
French's fried onions are so good.

Hope I don't eat them all before time to top the green bean casserole.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (/QHx4)

13 "I’ll have an espresso, please!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

You have to use the app to order. Duh.

*rolls eyes, walks away*

Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:40 PM (MWfyi)

14 * sniffs carefully *

Nice!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

15
A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)

16 Breakfast starts at 6 am. All we have left is these boiled peanuts and 3 cans of Tab.

Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)

17 Nepalese dude with the camera was the only smart one there, telling everyone to come farther away from the edge that just fell off the mountain

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM (vJrRc)

18 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)
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I'll have what he's having.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM (uyuYG)

19 Better cell service in the Himalayas than North Dakota.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 28, 2026 07:44 PM (3ImbR)

20 11 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?
Posted by: FeatherBlade

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That is like the most inappropriate use of glass ever. It's as if they all grew up in villages farming chickens and now they are designing trains.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 28, 2026 07:44 PM (ESbQX)

21 "I'll have what he's having.
Posted by: bluebell"

*delivers bowl of boiled peanuts and a Tab*

Here's your check. I already filled out the tip for you.

Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (MWfyi)

22 Willowed and nerdy: I think the polling is bullshit this year and a lot of the polls are not even Random Digit Dialing anymore but where they send out texts and a self selected group responds back to be surveyed either online or via a subsequent phone call. Shitty methodology.
Posted by: whig at September 28, 2026 07:35 PM (E4rtv)
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Random Digit Dialing wont work anymore because you can't guaranteed the area code is tied to a landline. People get a phone number and then move five times.

In the 1990s we saw it as a blunt instrument, very expensive and time-consuming. Much better were cross-indexing primary voters with the phone book.

I get a ton of random texts, which I assume is the same thing, because people rarely answer unknown numbers, but it's still self-selecting to "shy Trump voters" are invisible.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)

23 I don't watch fake news.
My mom, who watches fake news, just texted how the Starship launch had engine problems. So I have to take this as the fake-news spin on this launch.
Overall I consider getting into orbit, rather than into space, to take a good deal more thrust and maybe ISP. So the engines have to work past the parameters of earlier launches.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (88C+u)

24 bluebell is in the house !!! Hello, dear lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (QwZKw)

25 That wolf has to be AI
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0)
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Nope
https://tinyurl.com/ytnw4fvm

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (3ImbR)

26 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Sounds damn good but I'm hopping for rye toast. Making some rye bread right now.

Why yes, I put molasses of color in mine. Doesn't everyone?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (ktgTW)

27 11 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?

Just wait until you see the design for the replacement for the Three Gorges Dam. It's a civil engineering FIRST.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (guGkK)

28 Why yes, I put molasses of color in mine. Doesn't everyone?
Posted by: Tonypete

Is that what the dark color in rye bread is? Today I learned

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (vJrRc)

29 Nepalese dude with the camera was the only smart one there, telling everyone to come farther away from the edge that just fell off the mountain

While I would like to think that that would be me ... probably I would be leaning over yelling, 'Hey I think I can get some stuff out of the shed!!!'

Posted by: Adriane the Tectonic Critic. . . at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (3ZUWJ)

30 Here's your check. I already filled out the tip for you.
Posted by: Your waiter at September 28, 2026 07:45 PM (MWfyi)
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Thank you, but you can just take the tip in boiled peanuts and Tab. And here's a wooden nickel.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:48 PM (uyuYG)

31 Hello, Ben Had!

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:48 PM (uyuYG)

32 Got some more decluttering done today. I read an article about all the crap aging boomers like me have hoarded up. It said nobody wants our "brown furniture." It's true, and the phrase is memorably apt.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Jr5Lq)

33 Willowed and nerdy….

Whig, I think you just accidentally wrote our musical subtitle!

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (ZdaMQ)

34 Just wait until you see the design for the replacement for the Three Gorges Dam. It's a civil engineering FIRST.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

... one does have to admit that a glass dam would be incredibly impressive.

I wonder if you could even see through glass as thick as dam concrete?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (vJrRc)

35 Cat sliding down the steps is showing all the signs of having a catnip 'problem.'

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (4HoLg)

36 What it is with China and making the floors over long drops transparent?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:39 PM (vJrRc)
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They are trying to project the image of being edgy and cool, but their actual floors are crumbling because they used garbage concrete and coat hangers for rebar. Even when something is built to code, it is thinner than any Western nation would permit.

Corruption is endemic, and the landslides are often the result of deforestation, and the overuse of dams for hydro power that destabilizes slopes as water levels fluctuate.

I mention that in my series on China invading Taiwan (ahlloyd.com link in nic) and my next installment is about establishing a beachhead, with bonus references to Dieppe, Okinawa and the Falkland Islands. I'm up to part 7 for those of you following at home.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:50 PM (ZOv7s)

37 That is freaky and apparently not AI.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

38 I wonder if you could even see through glass as thick as dam concrete?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (vJrRc)

Have ye considered transparent aluminum laddie?

Posted by: Engineer Scott at September 28, 2026 07:51 PM (guGkK)

39 ... one does have to admit that a glass dam would be incredibly impressive.

I wonder if you could even see through glass as thick as dam concrete?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (vJrRc)

Glass is a fluid, if a slow flowing one. I'd expect the force of the water would make it change shape with time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 07:52 PM (uhVAy)

40
They are trying to project the image of being edgy and cool, but their actual floors are crumbling because they used garbage concrete and coat hangers for rebar. Even when something is built to code, it is thinner than any Western nation would permit.

___________

But they met the deadline.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:52 PM (eRlcH)

41 They are trying to project the image of being edgy and cool, but their actual floors are crumbling because they used garbage concrete and coat hangers for rebar. Even when something is built to code, it is thinner than any Western nation would permit.

___________

But they met the deadline.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:52 PM (eRlcH)

emphasis on dead.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (uhVAy)

42 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)
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I'll have what he's having.
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:43 PM

Me, too, except with grits, biscuits, and a piece of one of bluebell's pies.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1)

43 Just wait until you see the design for the replacement for the Three Gorges Dam. It's a civil engineering FIRST.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (guGkK)
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When it was built, the government was more tolerant of dissent, especially in the technical/scientific fields and one of the leading scientists said that if they build it (which they did) they would also tear it down, it was only a matter of time.

Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (ZOv7s)

44 Got some more decluttering done today. I read an article about all the crap aging boomers like me have hoarded up. It said nobody wants our "brown furniture." It's true, and the phrase is memorably apt.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Actually, supposedly the younger kids are all sick of minimalism and white, black and grey everything and are embracing "grandma core" - your stuff is in style!

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:54 PM (uyuYG)

45 A stack of wheat cakes with lots of melted butter and maple syrup. And fry me three, four, five eggs with a mess of sausages and a mountain of white toast with strawberry marmalade. And keep the coffee coming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:41 PM (eRlcH)

I made blueberry pancakes for my wife on Sunday.
She didn't want any eggs and never eats the bacon

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 07:54 PM (rbvCR)

46 Im sorry, that wolf thing looks wrong. Evidently nearly extinct in Uruguay. If it was night and your dog was going nuts outside and you saw one of those stinking about in the bare darkness, you'd reach for the Winchester too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:55 PM (zZu0s)

47 Me, too, except with grits, biscuits, and a piece of one of bluebell's pies.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
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Coming up! Pie season is almost upon us.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:55 PM (uyuYG)

48 Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Man things really don't ever change in China.

They've been having problems with corrupt officials skimming flood control funds for thousands of years.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:56 PM (vJrRc)

49
The source of the order.

https://youtu.be/12iewuXNhbE

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 07:56 PM (eRlcH)

50 Got some more decluttering done today.
Posted by: gp

One of the students at the local college published a story recently about 'stuff' and rental units. Around here, a typical storage unit will run you about $1500-2000 per year. According to the article, the average worth of the stuff in the unit is worth $2000. The median time the unit is rented is 7 years (and then the stuff is cleared out and donated to Habitat for Humanity).

So, one spends about $10.5k on the rental for shit that you give away at the end of it all.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (ktgTW)

51 Actually, supposedly the younger kids are all sick of minimalism and white, black and grey everything and are embracing "grandma core" - your stuff is in style!
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 07:54 PM (uyuYG)

My grandma had a violent red leather couch with a steer skull stitched in the cushions. And loved wood paneling.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

52 Got some more decluttering done today. I read an article about all the crap aging boomers like me have hoarded up. It said nobody wants our "brown furniture." It's true, and the phrase is memorably apt.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:49 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Here's my hottest take: we are at just past peak gun collecting. Prices are going to start falling and will do so for years as the Boomers sell off their collections, and there will be more than Gen X and the impoverished Millennials can possibly buy. We saw a preview of this with slot cars and model railroading, but millions of "Dad's rifles" are going to hit the market and there will not be enough people to buy them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)

53 What? There's a landslide and our entire backyard has just fallen off a cliff? Let's go look over and stand around checking it out.

How DOES the human race survive?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 07:58 PM (Riz8t)

54 "grandma core"

I want to get rid of every piece of furniture that's too big and/or awkward for me to move myself. And everything that cats can hide under; I'm tired of digging them out from under the brown furniture when it's time to go to vet.

Took another load of books to Salvation Army today. "Oh, swell, more books," they enthused.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 07:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

55 I built my own furniture because I couldn't live with cheap particle board crap.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 07:59 PM (QwZKw)

56 I have my grandparents motorized "Space chair" recliner from the 60s. It's orange and really cool and everybody who sees it wants to sit in it.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 07:59 PM (MWfyi)

57 I need to watch that movie, Hadrian. I've never seen it.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (uyuYG)

58 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.

Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Fn+3X)

59 I'm looking forward to the day when Ace posts some links of "Idiots doing selfies and becoming lunch."

It's not like they aren't all over the place.

I was a bit surprised how many originate from India. Bengal Tigers, 3 different kinds of leopard, sloth bears, Asiatic lions, Dholes or wild dogs, wolves, mugger crocs.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (dIske)

60 Many of you Anglophiles are fans of Spotted Dick, but what of a rasher of bacon?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (0sNs1)

61 Well never saw a giraffe wolf before

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

62 Man things really don't ever change in China.

They've been having problems with corrupt officials skimming flood control funds for thousands of years.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 28, 2026 07:56 PM (vJrRc)
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Yes, but this time it is very different. China always had excellent craftsmanship, and it built to last. When dams failed, it absolutely was corruption and that signaled that a new dynasty was needed.

But Communism took it to the next level. Mao is the only emperor in history to create and *empire wide* famine. That cannot happen absent Communism.

And there is no longer any pride in workmanship, it's just garbage and what you can get for it. Family formation has collapsed as well, and Chinese society is collapsing at its most basic level.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:01 PM (ZOv7s)

63 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.
Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Fn+3X)

Stupidest dog i have ever seen: American Eskimo my aunt and uncle took in. Beautiful dog. Named milo. No trace of thought in those eyes. None. Black marbles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

64 I just watched "Unabomber" on Netflix. The story has been "dramatized", IOW there is a fictional female agent fighting against all the male pigs who don't take her seriously, and she solves the case pretty much singlehandedly.

Netflix denies that it's "woke".

Yeah, SMD.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (Riz8t)

65 My grandma had a violent red leather couch with a steer skull stitched in the cushions. And loved wood paneling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)
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Was she a Texan?

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (uyuYG)

66
We have chigi. Smartest dog we have ever had. She looks just like a Corgi.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (/QHx4)

67 My grandma had a violent red leather couch with a steer skull stitched in the cushions. And loved wood paneling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

I have a red leather couch. Don't know that it's violent. I also have a giant south-facing window, so parts of the couch are turning orange.

Ah, well. I have bulldogs, so we can't have nice things, anyway.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (zYpTz)

68 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.
Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM

QE II's were quite flatulentic, according to reports.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:03 PM (0sNs1)

69 29 Nepalese dude with the camera was the only smart one there, telling everyone to come farther away from the edge that just fell off the mountain

While I would like to think that that would be me ... probably I would be leaning over yelling, 'Hey I think I can get some stuff out of the shed!!!'
Posted by: Adriane the Tectonic Critic. . . at September 28, 2026 07:47 PM (3ZUWJ)
______________________________

Backing away and warning others to do the same has a lot to do with who you are hanging out with at the time.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 08:03 PM (dIske)

70 Was she a Texan?
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (uyuYG)

*looks around in terror* um no, while she lived in El Paso for over 40 years, she was still from Queens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)

71 I saw the other version with CIA woman tracking down Bin Laden all by herself

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)

72 Corgis are quite cute, but seem to have a low IQ.
Posted by: Towering Intellect at September 28, 2026 08:00 PM

QE II's were quite flatulentic, according to reports.

Yes, but when they farted, they were smart enough to blame in on Charles, who was convinced they were right.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (Riz8t)

73 The Nepalese lawn tractor, picks, shovels and implements of destruction, all fell thousands of feet. From their reaction to the landslide, I'd posit the Nepalese IQ is below the corgi.

Posted by: They Have Home Depot Over There? at September 28, 2026 08:05 PM (Fn+3X)

74
The story has been "dramatized", IOW there is a fictional female agent fighting against all the male pigs who don't take her seriously, and she solves the case pretty much singlehandedly.

___________

Was she a gorgeous, pouting blonde? This is a relatively recent movie trope.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (eRlcH)

75 The maned wolf has long legs

So then, the Long-Legged Wolf must have a mane?

Posted by: mikeski at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (VHUov)

76 Ah, well. I have bulldogs, so we can't have nice things, anyway.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:02 PM (zYpTz)

If you had seen it, you'd understand. It was a very virulent shade of fire truck red.

Had wagon wheels for the ends. She painted them. Loved wood paneling, but did not like the natural look of wood on that couch.

She was an odd woman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

77 >>Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.

One of the coolest structures I've visited is the Storm Surge Barrier at the Delta Works in Zeeland, Holland. It's a series of gates that can be opened and closed with a massive hydraulic system to prevent another flood condition. The Zeeland area is at or below sea level and years ago there was a massive flood that killed a lot of people.

You can tour it and see how the whole thing works. The Dutch know a thing or two about water management.

https://tinyurl.com/ysjmjhcu

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (viF8m)

78 Never ask if someone's from Texas. If they are, they'll tell you.

If not, why embarrass them?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (0sNs1)

79 I saw the other version with CIA woman tracking down Bin Laden all by herself
Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (Ia/+0)
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This movies will be watched by my grandkids with delight and derision, like stale 70s sitcoms are today.

"Oh wow, another girlboss saves the day!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:07 PM (ZOv7s)

80 Had wagon wheels for the ends. She painted them. Loved wood paneling, but did not like the natural look of wood on that couch.

She was an odd woman.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

Wagon wheels...I'm dying. That was big in the 70s.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (zYpTz)

81 I couldn't have leather furniture, we have cats. I have to hide my good shoes from them because they like to use them for sharpening their claws.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (rbvCR)

82 Was she a gorgeous, pouting blonde? This is a relatively recent movie trope.

She was an average looking brunet, however she did kill her kids, so Netflix approves.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 28, 2026 08:09 PM (Riz8t)

83 55,000 Dot Indians die from snakebite every year.

Posted by: Man From Calcutta! at September 28, 2026 08:09 PM (Fn+3X)

84 with a massive hydraulic system to prevent another flood condition. The Zeeland area is at or below sea level and years ago there was a massive flood that killed a lot of people.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM

Don't blame me.

Posted by: The boy with his finger in the dyke at September 28, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)

85 Oh oh oh never mind polls are all wrong. Everyone loves Trunp and his retarded war. Voters love nothing more than $5 gas for no reason other than a pissing contest with some mullahs.

Carry on.

Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (vKzvA)
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Hey there, have you learned to access the RCP polling archive yet, or are you still going to spread easily disproven lies.

God bless you. You first shamed yourself by lying for money almost 12 hours ago. Don't they give you a break? Are you always on call? God is waiting. Come home.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (ZOv7s)

86 Why do they fk with snakes so.much? Leave the damn snakes alone and they won't bother you

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Ia/+0)

87 I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

88 *looks around in terror* um no, while she lived in El Paso for over 40 years, she was still from Queens.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:04 PM (zZu0s)
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Ah. That explains everything. Queens is responsible for the violent red and El Paso is responsible for the steer head and wagon wheels.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (uyuYG)

89 Wagon wheels...I'm dying. That was big in the 70s.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM (zYpTz)

They had a bar just off the living room. Whole nine yards. Brass rail. Bar stools. Mirror behind the bar. Fully stocked. Brass Spitoon (Dont even think about it.) She always put a fresh playboy or penthouse calendar in there- she said she liked playboy 'because the girls were prettier.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

90 Way past my bedtime and another long commute tomorrow
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 28, 2026 08:12 PM (Ia/+0)

91 77 >>Lots of dams are failing in China right now, flooding is now pretty much endemic. The Mandate of Heaven is being withdrawn.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (viF8m)

________________________________

Keep an eye on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou province, China, which opened to traffic on September 28, 2025. It's exactly a year old. China was very boastful about it being the highest and longest suspension bridge in the world....for now.

It's built in a province known for earthquakes. It's even money as to whether it will be there next year IMO.

Posted by: Orson at September 28, 2026 08:12 PM (dIske)

92 "I couldn't have leather furniture, we have cats."

Ha! I'm presently contemplating getting an air mattress. Hesitant because cats.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (Jr5Lq)

93 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

How is your wife handling the chemo?
I've been looking for updates but haven't seen any. She is in my prayers.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (FGA9/)

94 SC senate race is in play. Texas is basically gone. Michigan too. Iowa slipping away. Alaska gone.

Oh oh oh never mind polls are all wrong. Everyone loves Trunp and his retarded war. Voters love nothing more than $5 gas for no reason other than a pissing contest with some mullahs.

Carry on.
Posted by: AOS Cope at September 28, 2026 08:08 PM

So, you welcome our Big Penguin Overlords?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (0sNs1)

95 Aetius, your grandma must have been a hoot.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (uyuYG)

96
China technology incredible!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (eRlcH)

97 You can tour it and see how the whole thing works. The Dutch know a thing or two about water management.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:06 PM (viF8m)
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China used to do epic canal building, and used water diversion with great caution. The issue is that Maoism was all about "mastering the earth" and that mean building dams all over the place, without regard to downstream effects.

Oh, and hydro power is the future! So they are now stuck with layered dams which have to keep the reservoirs high to max out electricity, but when heavy rains come, they will be overtopped, so they open the flood gates.

Only it's not one dam. It's every dam, passing the flood onto the one below it. Absolutely crazy, and they're doing this in Tibet and Nepal as well. Nepal gets hosed because it's downstream.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (ZOv7s)

98 "I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.
Posted by: gp a"

Doesn't really matter if you have a sawzall.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (MWfyi)

99 I smile now. She was one of the strongest personalities I have ever known. Temper like a sudden bonfire. Sharp as a tack. Read and watched and listened to everything she could get her hands on.

Grandpa worshipped her. You could see it every time he looked at her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (zZu0s)

100
Dinner tonight is large hamburgers we grilled half way. Now in the oven with brown gravy, mushrooms and onions. Mashed taters and green bean casserole.

Come on over.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (/QHx4)

101 Ha! I'm presently contemplating getting an air mattress. Hesitant because cats.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (Jr5Lq)
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Yeah, that's probably not a good idea...

Though I do have an inflatable globe that's managed to hang on to its air...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (FZ29D)

102 "Doesn't really matter if you have a sawzall."

I do! I'll take that under advisement.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:16 PM (Jr5Lq)

103 88 I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.
Posted by: gp

We've got plenty of boy's restrooms in middle schools that could use tappan dispensers if you have some you're looking to get rid of!

Posted by: Governor Tim Walz at September 28, 2026 08:16 PM (PkrKm)

104 Mane Wolf? Looks like Dork Wolf.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 28, 2026 08:17 PM (u73oe)

105 How is your wife handling the chemo?
I've been looking for updates but haven't seen any. She is in my prayers.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2026 08:13 PM (FGA9/)
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She's doing okay. We're going to swap out all the bedding tonight because there may be lingering poisons in it. I guess it has to be washed twice.

In terms of chemo sessions, two down, ten to go. One a week, and she's coming out of this week's infusion. Basically, we're figuring out the rhythm.

Thank you for your prayers. I assure you they are working.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:17 PM (ZOv7s)

106 Dinner tonight is large hamburgers we grilled half way. Now in the oven with brown gravy, mushrooms and onions. Mashed taters and green bean casserole.

Come on over.

Posted by: four seasons

How can you tell?

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at September 28, 2026 08:18 PM (PkrKm)

107 Sawzalls fix many problems.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 28, 2026 08:18 PM (HW/1v)

108 I dread moving Mrs fd's piano again. Last time was almost 25 years ago. I was in better shape then.

Of course, I have a tractor now. Hmm...

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM (MWfyi)

109
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM (/QHx4)

110 Dinner tonight is large hamburgers we grilled half way. Now in the oven with brown gravy, mushrooms and onions. Mashed taters and green bean casserole.

Come on over.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:15 PM (/QHx4)
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*Places plate next to USB port*

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:20 PM (ZOv7s)

111 What? There's a landslide and our entire backyard has just fallen off a cliff? Let's go look over and stand around checking it out.

How DOES the human race survive?
Posted by: Archimedes

What do you mean? The weak part all just fell off. What's left is solid, man.

* stomps foot *

Posted by: random Nepali dude at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (VHUov)

112 Sawzalls fix many problems.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Sawzalls don't do sheet metal nicely.
If you can bury the blade up to the hilt, you're fine, but I doubt that'll be the case with a range.
I bet a phillips screwdriver would take it apart.

Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (q6tQZ)

113
In 1975, the failure of the Banqiao Dam caused the failure of 61 other dams in the region. The death toll was on the order of a quarter million people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (eRlcH)

114 95 Aetius, your grandma must have been a hoot.
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:14 PM (uyuYG)

I'm imagining two inches of ash hanging on to the end of her cig.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (zYpTz)

115 >>Only it's not one dam. It's every dam, passing the flood onto the one below it. Absolutely crazy, and they're doing this in Tibet and Nepal as well. Nepal gets hosed because it's downstream.

It's not just the dams. I saw some examples of Chinese engineering and construction in Macau that were shockingly bad. Brand new buildings that were already falling apart.

But then you got to place like the Forbidden City and see buildings that are hundreds of years old and really well built. Communists ruin everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)

116 What do you mean? The weak part all just fell off. What's left is solid, man.

* stomps foot *
Posted by: random Nepali dude at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (VHUov)
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I mean, that *is* how we survive. The cautious people move away, the incautious look over the edge.

The cautious people then tell their grandchildren about that guy who stomped after the landslide...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)

117 I'm imagining two inches of ash hanging on to the end of her cig.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (zYpTz)

More 100s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

118 "Sawzalls don't do sheet metal nicely."

Demolition is never nice. You gotta hang on hang on that baby and go at it like a Texas chainsaw massacre.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

119 I'm imagining two inches of ash hanging on to the end of her cig.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:21 PM (zYpTz)
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Absolutely. And lots of forbidden treats for the grandkids when the parents aren't looking.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (uyuYG)

120 Has Eromero said anything about how his wife is doing?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (FGA9/)

121 Ha! I'm presently contemplating getting an air mattress. Hesitant because cats.
Posted by: gp

"Air mattresses are good for when you want to sleep on the floor, but not right away."

Posted by: the meme about that at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)

122 118 Well stated.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:23 PM (Jr5Lq)

123 Try looking up something like "Step by step tutorial on how to restore your Vintage Tappan Deluxe Stove" on YouTube

Those old stoves are lovely. I am stuck with Yang-Poon appliances with once-reputable manufacturing names on them

The Maytag man in now in a labor camp in Western China and is no longer idle.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (rbvCR)

124 Roto Zip.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (QwZKw)

125 It's not just the dams. I saw some examples of Chinese engineering and construction in Macau that were shockingly bad. Brand new buildings that were already falling apart.

But then you got to place like the Forbidden City and see buildings that are hundreds of years old and really well built. Communists ruin everything.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)
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The Chinese have somehow figured out how to make a new, even worse form of Communism that is basically the highest form of rapacious capitalism waving a red flag.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (ZOv7s)

126 I mean, that *is* how we survive. The cautious people move away, the incautious look over the edge.

The cautious people then tell their grandchildren about that guy who stomped after the landslide...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (ZOv7s)
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The REALLY incautious don their wingsuits and leap off the new cliff.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (FZ29D)

127 Demolition is never nice. You gotta hang on hang on that baby and go at it like a Texas chainsaw massacre.
Posted by: fd

Ha!
I was thinking as much the noise as the effects.
But you're right. It's going away... how to make it easier?

Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:24 PM (q6tQZ)

128 I dread moving Mrs fd's piano again. Last time was almost 25 years ago. I was in better shape then.

Of course, I have a tractor now. Hmm...
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM

Put it on a boat. You can tune the piano while you tuna fish!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:25 PM (0sNs1)

129 If the hoses will reach upstairs you can just use a cutting torch. Maybe if you slide the stove closer to the door.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)

130
Huh. Case Keenum is starting QB for the Bears because Caleb Williams is injured. I've always liked Case. No, he's not a great QB, but he's a very reliable backup.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:26 PM (eRlcH)

131 "Air mattresses are good for when you want to sleep on the floor, but not right away."

I've been sleeping on the floor for many years, and I want to try an air mattress. They're inexpensive ($20), so if one fails it's not too big a deal. They are said to be patchable. I assume every brand needs its own proprietary branded pump with nonstandard nipple.

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:26 PM (Jr5Lq)

132 gp, you could probably put a pic of that stove up on the bulletin board at the grocery store, or post it on facebook marketplace (I know, I don't use fb, either, but if you do...) and someone would get it out of there for you if you let them have it for free.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:27 PM (zYpTz)

133 I dread moving Mrs fd's piano again. Last time was almost 25 years ago. I was in better shape then.

Of course, I have a tractor now. Hmm...
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:19 PM

Put it on a boat. You can tune the piano while you tuna fish!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 28, 2026 08:25 PM (0sNs1)
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We were given pianos twice. Free pianos. My wife insisted we take the.

No one plays the piano. But we would learn!

No one learned to play the piano. Both were donated on the condition that the recipient move them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:27 PM (ZOv7s)

134
We have enough beds for the grandkids who live four blocks away. They love spending the night with us They love sleeping on the air mattresses. Probably because they are set up in the den and family room and they watch tv most of the night. Not allowed at home, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at September 28, 2026 08:27 PM (/QHx4)

135 "someone would get it out of there for you if you let them have it for free.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!"

oh wow way to take all the fun out of it.

Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

136 I have to share this text I just got from my sister. First, you have to understand my sister is a child whisperer. It is uncanny, her talents here. She is a BCBA-D, owns a very respected clinic, etc. okay…the text:

“Was chatting with a kiddo this afternoon about a plan to poop on the potty at school and he said how about you don’t talk anymore. Just i will talk. And you will not.”

I am crying.

Posted by: Piper at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

137 "Step by step tutorial on how to restore your Vintage Tappan Deluxe Stove"

Aha! Excellent suggestion, thanks!

Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

138 >>>Contagious yawning in cats.

Cats can also be passive-aggressive with their yawning. Just after they smack the dog upside the head, they will move off a couple of feet and then yawn.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 28, 2026 08:29 PM (syz1S)

139 oh wow way to take all the fun out of it.
Posted by: fd at September 28, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

LOL

I've never been accused of being any fun.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 28, 2026 08:29 PM (zYpTz)

140 We were offered an old upright grand Cable Nelson.
I checked with two piano guys I know. Both said the same thing... and the same way.
"Good piano. Heavy piano."

Posted by: MkY at September 28, 2026 08:30 PM (q6tQZ)

141 I don't think people welded every part into the stove. It's got to have screws for final assembly.

I'm that guy who did not pay to have basement appliances removed. You just pull all the screws out, gather up the pieces, and take it to the scrap yard. It's pretty easy. A small hammer will knock stuff apart if you get impatient and/or need anger management.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 28, 2026 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)

142
But then you got to place like the Forbidden City and see buildings that are hundreds of years old and really well built. Communists ruin everything.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 28, 2026 08:22 PM (viF8m)

__________

How many Gothic cathedrals are still standing after 800-1000 years? Meanwhile, Yankee Stadium, built in 1923, was falling apart by 1970. So they closed it for two years for renovations. And 30 years later it was falling apart again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 28, 2026 08:31 PM (eRlcH)

143 87 I've got an old (ca 1949?) Tappan range I want to get out of here. Are those things welded, or screwed together, or what? If I can take it apart, I don't have to pay somebody to get it down from the second floor. I have no clue how they got it up here in one piece.
Posted by: gp at September 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

Around here you just call Superman and they send over three huge Samoans. I have never seen any moving company do these things faster or better. They literally hand huge furniture pieces over a balcony into the truck. One dude will pick up a full dresser and just walk it out. I was in awe.

I also sprung for pizza, and it took a lot of pizza. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 28, 2026 08:31 PM (GYqb1)

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