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Sunbathing seals need to scratch an itch.

A potty-trained dog. Sort of. I wouldn't want to have to clean that grill.

Puppy does an evasive Kirk Roll.

Lava cat.

Ocean's 11 but with a dachshund.

Monkey and dog share a milkshake.

90% of the population of Whittier, Alaska lives in a single apartment building.

Owls pose for the cover of their first album. I think it's a shoegazer album.

Minor content warning: A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

Young crested myna bird, having been mouth-fed by mother all its life, is frustrated that a worm won't just jump into its mouth like the other worms did.

The kookaburra's call, which I've mentioned before is used in almost every jungle scene, despite the bird only living in Australia.

Dale Irby, the most interesting man in the world.

You can't fool me, this is a Muppet. That's how every larger-sized Muppet's arms move.

Wolves eat each other's faces out of love. This may be slightly alarming for humans.

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973

The Batman effect.
A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).
[Francesco Pagnini et al.,"Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect", Nature, 2025]

Be Batman, people. #BeBatman.

A kestrel hovering. Well not really hovering. Just flying at the same speed as the wind, but in the opposite direction, so that it remains over the same point.

A python could totally climb the rope in gym class.

"Get in here and say that to my face!"

Aw: Man helps fawn over fence to rejoin his mama.

You (the dumb one): Worms are cute!

Me (the smart one): Worms are gross and weird, you dum-dum.

Very few species have been observed imitating human behavior, but the list of observations has recently grown.

This is a quokka being amazed by juggling and trying to repeat the movements.

[📹 lukeforrester_circuspic.twitter.com/VX4gQ7oN7o
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 30, 2026

Tigers live in lush tropical jungles with lots of wide rivers. They can have territories as large as 100 square km and being able to swim across rivers is a big evolutionary advantage

[read more: https://t.co/YrPQ2kUeGz]
[📹 https://t.co/plGrvQMCtG]pic.twitter.com/qFtMrkWELm
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 24, 2022

The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents. That’s one bookshop per 77 people.

[📹 happyenchantedhome] https://t.co/Xs1YOWkLNB
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 30, 2026

Dogs are hypersocial and awesome:

This pet store's dogs are so anxious of being adopted that make even customers anxious.pic.twitter.com/XKmxjsCpnU
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 16, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=97hyh43DG5E

Ozzyman

Posted by: Kittens! at September 30, 2026 07:33 PM (jrgJz)

2 Yay Cafe!

Posted by: Zombie Billy Mays at September 30, 2026 07:36 PM (VyBeY)

3 Willowed: Supremes just said the Tennessee woman awaiting execution doesn't have to wait any more, over ruling a lower court's stay.

That's nice.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 07:37 PM (l26NL)

4 That album cover is clearly The Who.

Posted by: ibid at September 30, 2026 07:37 PM (D5eeg)

5
*looks at Café menu*

"Sautéed Cervaux"?
"Tête de veau"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 07:37 PM (eRlcH)

6 Big ol' bear crashed the Aspen farmers market, nom-nommed all the pastries at a bakery vendor's table.

https://tinyurl.com/ycxvssp8

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 07:38 PM (rOKnE)

7 I hope "The Batman effect" doesn't have actual, you know, bats in it, because the link is down. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:38 PM (0sNs1)

8 "Minor content warning: A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like."

Wow. Even The Paolo doesn't cause them to lose their heads literally.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)

9 Minor content warning: A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

Comment warning: lots of feminist retards.

Posted by: BIRM at September 30, 2026 07:40 PM (TbWk/)

10 I used to have a cat who when I would clench my had to him would clench his paw and extend those 5 big claws then blink at me.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:40 PM (uhVAy)

11 The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books

Whereas the village of Ham-on-Rye is dedicated to sammich shops.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (/C5Rl)

12 "Sautéed Cervaux"?
"Tête de veau"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

We are fresh out of Tete and the Cervaux got 86ed. The special tonight is Patagonian Flipper Cheese on artisanal waffles. Do you want mushrooms and onions on that?

Posted by: Your waiter at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (MWfyi)

13 Willowed:

That's a part of the boomer hate but the big part IMO is that typically boomers have significantly more money to spend than younger generations and that causes some serious resentment.

I have some money now but I sure didn't when I was their age.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:16 PM (Cqx++)

Very True.

It took a long time before I didn't feel that I was just running in place.

I was always moving forward, but the benefits of normal life accrue fairly slowly and then they take off.

Someone whining to me that it just isn't fair that they don't have what I have, can just bite my ass.

They haven't worked as hard or as long as I have.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (YSUhf)

14 No bats in The Batman effect.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)

15 Someone whining to me that it just isn't fair that they don't have what I have, can just bite my ass.

They haven't worked as hard or as long as I have.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (YSUhf)

I lived for a long time in one of the most expensive cities in the US working for well below minimum wage. It's called grad school and I couldn't get payments from mama and papa.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:44 PM (uhVAy)

16 A trip to Hay-on-Wye is definitely on the Bucket List.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 30, 2026 07:45 PM (xg/DD)

17
Me (the smart one): Worms are gross and weird, you dum-dum.

Wow. Looks like a miniature model for a scene from the next Alien movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:45 PM (YSUhf)

18 'E's got the same number of them I had.

Posted by: zombie Adolf H. at September 30, 2026 07:45 PM (0sNs1)

19 The Corgi Store

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 07:46 PM (Cqx++)

20 A big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.

No, young people shouldn't be laying blame. At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

"Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (oqH4h)

21 Scene up top looks like a good place for some samurai to recite some haikus and commit seppuku.

Posted by: Eromero at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (LHPAg)

22 11 The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books

Whereas the village of Ham-on-Rye is dedicated to sammich shops.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (/C5Rl)

Excellent!

I hope they're next to each other; reading gives me an appetite.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (zYpTz)

23 >>>Wolves eat each other's faces out of love.

That bear and dog from yesterday were perfectly happy eating each other's faces, except for that damn monkey that had to keep jumping up and slapping them upside their heads.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (syz1S)

24 A trip to Hay-on-Wye is definitely on the Bucket List.

Archer City, TX was a bookstore town while Larry McMurtry was alive. I know there was talk of keeping it going but I don't know if they did.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (vTZFs)

25 That python climbing the tree is the stuff nightmares are made of.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 07:48 PM (ftFVW)

26 Someone whining to me that it just isn't fair that they don't have what I have, can just bite my ass.

They haven't worked as hard or as long as I have.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:41 PM (YSUhf)

I lived for a long time in one of the most expensive cities in the US working for well below minimum wage. It's called grad school and I couldn't get payments from mama and papa.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:44 PM (uhVAy)

I did grad school. The final straw was me getting a $75K grant from the NIH that was "appropriated" by my major prof for her stuff.

I quit and went to dental school. It was especially easy once I learned what Ph.Ds who I knew did great work wind up as lab assistants for years.

Bah.

Time wasted but at least I moved onto better things.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:49 PM (YSUhf)

27 Every time this subject comes up, it turns into The Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (rbvCR)

28 big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.
-------------------------------------
Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

29 >>>The Batman effect.

I expect you all to be on your best behavior.
--Batman

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (syz1S)

30 Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

"We never had a cup, we drank out of a rolled-up newspaper."

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (rbvCR)

31 Is Wales book village at risk of having Diversity dumped there?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (4HoLg)

32 ***A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.
--

Gross, at least they didn't show her intestines.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 07:52 PM (JS6jE)

33 msnow/membership

Posted by: SMOD at September 30, 2026 07:52 PM (gWCxi)

34 TN execution is back on apparently.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (k2hhB)

35 yeah the Tiger Song that Hobbes makes Calvin sing is pretty much true. Tigers can do anything, including swim.
- but they didn't swim across the Wallace Line. Tigers stopped at Bali and did not swim to Lombok or points east.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (88C+u)

36 I don't know why it bothers me, but the principal character in most novels is a voracious reader. Can't get enough books. Typically buys dozens of copies and places them around the house so one will always be at hand. All her relatives love the stacks of books she gives them on their birthdays and at Christmas.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (2ap+5)

37 >>>Big ol' bear crashed the Aspen farmers market, nom-nommed all the pastries at a bakery vendor's table.
https://tinyurl.com/ycxvssp8

what do I keep telling people?

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (1wjle)

38
A big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.
... At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.
Posted by: ballistic

Exactly. I barely recognize the country I grew up in. I'd very much enjoy the retribution extracted on the surrender monkeys in the GOPe that allowed this to happen while I spent my health, and youth protecting the place they all shit up with their grift. I'll crawl through burning gasoline soaked glass sherds to vote anyone not demoncrat, just to get them out of office.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (QVmho)

39 Bats are flying rodent vermin. Batman is fine.

Posted by: Penguin Pool Pete at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (Fn+3X)

40
The same people whining the loudest about high rents are the loudest advocates for unlimited immigration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (eRlcH)

41 Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

"We never had a cup, we drank out of a rolled-up newspaper."
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (rbvCR)

Someone claiming to rate historical eras needs to know more than the one they are living in. I didn't ever say things aren't tough now, but they seem to think that Boomers had a life of sunshine and posies and free Internet for life.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (uhVAy)

42 Gross, at least they didn't show her intestines.

Posted by: Braenyard

Oddly enough, the dude's intestines are what I couldn't stop looking at. They look so frilly.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 07:54 PM (ftFVW)

43 Owls pose for the cover of their first album. I think it's a shoegazer album.

Who?

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (88C+u)

44
Lets see...the Carter inflation and Reagan recovery...looks to me like it was worse then by quite a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:50 PM (uhVAy)

"We never had a cup, we drank out of a rolled-up newspaper."
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 07:51 PM (rbvCR)

Well, people's hard times may be just a joke to you. But, believe me they weren't fun to live through. But, also, that's life. Live and learn, do your best blah-blah-blah.

I'm glad that at least your life went perfectly in a straight arrow for success.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (YSUhf)

45 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (Ia/+0)

46 You can't fool me, this is a Muppet. That's how every larger-sized Muppet's arms move.
---
Must be the cousin of Sam the Eagle.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (FZ29D)

47 I don't know why it bothers me, but the principal character in most novels is a voracious reader. Can't get enough books. Typically buys dozens of copies and places them around the house so one will always be at hand. All her relatives love the stacks of books she gives them on their birthdays and at Christmas.
Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 07:53 PM (2ap+5)

Might need to pick different novels. None of the ones I read have characters like that.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (uhVAy)

48 I don't mind snakes. I see plenty around the grounds of my abode. But, for all that is holy, there should be a size limit. Boas and Anacondas don't belong here. They should be on some other planet somewhere....that's inaccessible.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (dIske)

49 Origin of bats
tinyurl.com/mpwfbne3
[spoiler: Europe, not long after Chicxulub]

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (88C+u)

50 "Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots"

If they can't take good advice then f'em. Stupid punks.

Posted by: Your waiter at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

51 Bookstores are subversive. Mostly filled with novels. Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? Have enough trouble with my brain without that.

Posted by: We Choose Truth Over Facts at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Fn+3X)

52 That apartment building town doesn't sound like me

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

53 Senator Hollen is looking out for your rights!

Sen. Chris Van Hollen Says Act to Ban Stock Trading Would 'Disenfranchise American Voters'

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 07:59 PM (ndZc7)

54 I fixed the Batman Effect post. I just copied it right into the post.

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 07:59 PM (1wjle)

55 52 That apartment building town doesn't sound like me
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

_______________________

Yeah, me either. I can see a definite "Lord of the Flies" scenario starting up in a situation like that. Plus you have to fight to use the ping pong table every night.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (dIske)

56 I did grad school. The final straw was me getting a $75K grant from the NIH that was "appropriated" by my major prof for her stuff.

Time wasted but at least I moved onto better things.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:49 PM (YSUhf)

I didn't even get the degree out of it. Good thing I had taken Computer Science in college to get a skill out of it. Of course the Gulf War starting out the same month made job searching dicey.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (uhVAy)

57
Bookstores are subversive. Mostly filled with novels. Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? Have enough trouble with my brain without that.
Posted by: We Choose Truth Over Facts at September 30, 2026 07:57 PM (Fn+3X)

.....uh.

Okay, you do you.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (YSUhf)

58 Ozzyman
Posted by: Kittens! at September 30, 2026 07:33 PM (jrgJz)

Can't stand the guys voice.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (MQYOv)

59 Most bookstore owners are Communists. Then there's the pants rule.

Posted by: Knickerless Parsons at September 30, 2026 08:00 PM (Fn+3X)

60 I heard the cafe has secret menu options...

Posted by: Max Power at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (SwyyQ)

61 I don't mind snakes. I see plenty around the grounds of my abode. But, for all that is holy, there should be a size limit. Boas and Anacondas don't belong here. They should be on some other planet somewhere....that's inaccessible.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM (dIske)

Its the little ones you step on you might need to worry about.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (uhVAy)

62 I fixed the Batman Effect post. I just copied it right into the post.
Posted by: ace

FWIW the link worked for me.

*shrugs*

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (ftFVW)

63 "I love fiction-books"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfFNJ7mEOgI

Posted by: ace at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (1wjle)

64 Every time this subject comes up, it turns into The Four Yorkshiremen sketch.
Posted by: Kindltot

Luxury!

Posted by: A Yorkshireman at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (l26NL)

65 How much did that iphone cost? That's 1/20 of a $20k down payment. Did you take a trip to Cancun? What would forgoing that trip do for your house fund?

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (MWfyi)

66 >>"Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

This

Worse are the ones who tell college kids who've been sold the "everyone goes to college!" and college=career lie peddled by politicians for the past few decades to "go be a Panda Express manager, or take up a trade.

No different than lecturing laid off coal miners to "learn to code."

Think of all the American med students who didn't get a residency placement vs. the 80 foreigners who took the 82 spots at Rochester hospital (which is the trend, not an anomaly) - should they bootstrap a residency, become an HVAC tech, or "learn to code?"

Gen Z's future has been hijacked by DEI, H1-b and offshoring. Telling the ones who can't find jobs it's solely their fault is maddening.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:02 PM (rOKnE)

67 Origin of bats
tinyurl.com/mpwfbne3
[spoiler: Europe, not long after Chicxulub]
Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 07:56 PM

This. This is the kind of hard-hitting and impactful information that keeps people coming back to AoSHQ!

Posted by: Chiroptophiles of AoSQH at September 30, 2026 08:02 PM (0sNs1)

68 Bookstores are also dusty and musty. Mold growing between the covers. Don't you value your lungs?

Posted by: Have Another Hit-Of Fresh Air at September 30, 2026 08:03 PM (Fn+3X)

69 Government employment is at a 60 year low. Also, 65% of black college graduates work for the government at some level. That's 65% of all black women with college degrees.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 08:04 PM (l26NL)

70 >>A big part of the boomer hate is also the fact that there is a significant portion of boomers who steadfastly refuse to comprehend/admit that shit in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1976 and in fact bears little to no resemblance at all.

I don't see that. We know it's not the same.

But then it wasn't the same in the 1940s as it was in 1976. But blaming changes that most of us had nothing to do with and don't embrace either doesn't make a lot of sense.

Both or our enemies are over that way, both boomers and younger generations. It's not like all of you guys are hitting it out of the park either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:04 PM (viF8m)

71 Books do make a nice bonfire, though.

Posted by: Hilter Jugend Bund #49 at September 30, 2026 08:04 PM (Fn+3X)

72 Its the little ones you step on you might need to worry about.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM (uhVAy)

____________________________

I used to work for a company that had me do crisis management after extreme weather events. Every hurricane had me sent down to Florida. No one talks about it, but right after a hurricane down there you see snakes everywhere. They were flooded out of their nests and holes. Hundreds of them everywhere.

That taught me to look where I'm waking...as well, as which ones to look out for, and which ones get the boot print. I just don't like the ones that would beat me at arm wrestling.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM (dIske)

73 winning hearts and minds.
Posted by: ballistic

No proof they have the latter.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM (NnhvP)

74 I'm glad that at least your life went perfectly in a straight arrow for success.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 07:55 PM (YSUhf)

Having survived adversity may be something to be proud of, but pain, poverty and loss do not make people inherently better or more noble. Don't compete at who had it worse, there is always someone who had it worse, and wear it better.

The joke of the Four Yorkshiremen is not that they suffered in poverty as children, it is that they think it is some sort of proof of superiority and are competing over it. The second joke is that they truly suffered in their childhood and yet they claim to be perfectly happy to force this same level of pain on "kids these days" as if the suffering is some sort of gift.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM (rbvCR)

75 Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? Have enough trouble with my brain without that.
Posted by: We Choose Truth Over Facts

Depending on the novel, books can show you that life can be different than the one you're living.

If your life is miserable, but you have no idea that it can be different or how to make it so, a good book can demonstrate a different and possibly better way of living.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 30, 2026 08:07 PM (vJrRc)

76
The correct response is the one you got from your Dad, if you were lucky. "That's nice, now go back to work"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:07 PM (rbvCR)

77 >>The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents. That’s one bookshop per 77 people.

Heh, I have a Little Free Library on practically every other block in my neighborhood.

But the one in the tweet picture looks nice!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:08 PM (rOKnE)

78 Kinda cool take on In the Air Tonight.

https://tinyurl.com/mwm8v7u9

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:08 PM (ftFVW)

79 FWIW the link worked for me.

*shrugs*
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:01 PM

That's because Ace, who loves us, even as we disappoint him, loves us, and fixed it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 08:08 PM (0sNs1)

80 3 Willowed: Supremes just said the Tennessee woman awaiting execution doesn't have to wait any more, over ruling a lower court's stay.
---

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZiX0oO_3Ls

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:09 PM (JS6jE)

81 "Novels are made up lies, who wants to fill their head with lies? "

People like stories. That's one thing that makes us people. Giraffes don't care about stories, nor your cat. The stories can be real or made up, we don't care, we still like 'em.

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:10 PM (MWfyi)

82 as if the suffering is some sort of gift.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:06 PM

cf. MisHum with Yoko videos, and CBD with man on the ottoman paintings.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 30, 2026 08:10 PM (0sNs1)

83 Here are the facts. For most of us, life is just going to suck. It'll be hard work for little gain. You'll be on a hamster wheel for most if not all of your prime years. You will be exploited, betrayed, and burned over and over. People will walk off with your work, time and assets, then laugh at you for being such a sucker. Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.

Posted by: Map of life at September 30, 2026 08:11 PM (TbWk/)

84 When I was a child, I would run across these horrid spy novels. The one I remember is the Parsifal Mosaic. It was just so boring and it's embarrassing to admit my life was so uneventful that I finished it. Never again though.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:11 PM (2ap+5)

85 cf. MisHum with Yoko videos, and CBD with man on the ottoman paintings.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

If I had to see it, so do you!

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:12 PM (ftFVW)

86 >> as if the suffering is some sort of gift.

*Recalls my dad's favorite response to adversity: "It builds character!"

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:13 PM (rOKnE)

87 @83

>>Then in the end you die and go to hell.

Or you go to heaven or return to non-existence and as far as your concerned, none of this ever happened.

So there's that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (XV/Pl)

88 Speaking of books....in the highly coveted and difficult to find:

"Orson's Perfectly Harmless Practical Jokes & Revenge"

...I offer up simple payback mechanisms. For example, if your better half is giving you a hard time for whatever reason....just change the bookmark page in what she is currently reading. You're welcome.

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (dIske)

89 Gen Z's future has been hijacked by DEI, H1-b and offshoring. Telling the ones who can't find jobs it's solely their fault is maddening.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:02 PM (rOKnE)

They should've curried favor with the right people.

Posted by: SWIDT? I just slay me at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (TbWk/)

90 Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.
Posted by: Map of life at September 30, 2026 08:11 PM (TbWk/)

I posted a link in an earlier thread to a hadith in Ibn Majah's book.
Sometimes we get day trips to blow the muhajidoun in Paradise. Their houris can be male you know.
So we'll have that to look forward to.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (88C+u)

91 "Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares."

Enjoy it while it lasts!

Posted by: fd at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)

92 "Out of Sight" is a pretty good film. George Clooney is a pretty bad actor, but Jennifer Lopez is surprisingly good.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 30, 2026 08:16 PM (CHHv1)

93 I posted a link in an earlier thread to a hadith in Ibn Majah's book.
Sometimes we get day trips to blow the muhajidoun in Paradise. Their houris can be male you know.
So we'll have that to look forward to.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:15 PM (88C+u)

Super.

Posted by: But I don't wanna sucka the cock! at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (TbWk/)

94 if your better half is giving you a hard time for whatever reason....just change the bookmark page in what she is currently reading. You're welcome.
Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (dIske)

I'm pretty sure this is grounds for divorce.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (zYpTz)

95
...Don't compete at who had it worse, there is always someone who had it worse, and wear it better....

You got a weird belief going here.

I'm not competing with anyone. I'm simply stating my lived experience, and nice or no-

My lived experience doesn't give me a whole lot of sympathy for someone complaining that they don't have what I have, as if I had some magical lucky life. It's a childish view. I worked and so should they and eventually if you make the right choices things will work out.

Good that your life was a perfectly successful from the beginning, but as striving doesn't make you better or superior, nor does your weird trying to tutor people on the meaning of the Yorkshireman joke But, please continue...nothing is more entertaining than having simple jokes explained.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (YSUhf)

96 Mentioned last night on ONT then again on Tech thread there is a Great Horned Owl around here. Wish could get a picture of it.

Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

97 they seem to think that Boomers had a life of sunshine and posies and free Internet for life.

Well, it didn’t cost anything, I’ll give you that.

But the various BBS’s sure did. We need to have a day of prices from the eighties, where you have to pay by the minute to use your phone for anyone outside your area code. And possibly inside, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (kYmoU)

98 Heart of the Beast was okay. The special effects weren't very good and it was not clear to me why Brad Pitt and Odin (the combat dog) were in Alaska. But the dog was a real scene stealer.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (2ap+5)

99
A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

-------

All I see is a bunch of cut-up human meat. With a dick in it. Now I'm not happy.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (HLgI3)

100 Mentioned last night on ONT then again on Tech thread there is a Great Horned Owl around here. Wish could get a picture of it.
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

Put out some mice for it. Perhaps it will pose for you.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (uhVAy)

101 Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.
Posted by: Map of life

====

In the meantime, hockey season started!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (4HoLg)

102 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

"The state’s execution order expires at midnight, according to Kelley Henry, a Nashville-based attorney experienced with Tennessee death penalty law. If time runs out, the state Supreme Court would need to set a new date."

https://tinyurl.com/yjfmb8cm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (ndZc7)

103 But the various BBS’s sure did. We need to have a day of prices from the eighties, where you have to pay by the minute to use your phone for anyone outside your area code. And possibly inside, too.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (kYmoU)

I remember in our dorm in college getting a phone bill of 200 dollars because of one long distance call to Israel of all places mistakenly getting stuck on our bill. Had to get them to remove it because there was no chance the 5 of us could have paid such a charge.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:23 PM (uhVAy)

104
A split-down-the-midline anatomical model of what sex looks like.

-----

Really, it looks like a pervert was suddenly killed while having sex with a side of beef. Now his deviated preversions are recorded for all time, and he can't defend himself because he's dead.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 30, 2026 08:24 PM (VWtfl)

105 Posted by: She Hobbit

Nice voice. Are you doing the same at the Mome?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 08:25 PM (NnhvP)

106 Mentioned last night on ONT then again on Tech thread there is a Great Horned Owl around here. Wish could get a picture of it.
Posted by: Skip at September 30, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

One night when, the kiddos were very young there was a Great horned Owl on a lower branch of our next door neighbor's tree.

It was huge. You don't realize how big they are until you can practically walk right up to one, which is what we did.

The funny thing is that the owl just gave us a cursory glance than looked away.

I never thought of an owl as an apex predator, but that's exactly the attitude.

In his world he was an apex predator.

He patiently waited until we walked into our house then flew away.

Incidentally, that summer most of the rabbits and squirrels in our neighborhood disappeared.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:25 PM (YSUhf)

107 102 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM
____________________________

We could really make it painful by putting Piper in charge of her last meal. "Nope, that's it. Kale. Eat it or don't. I don't care."

Posted by: Orson at September 30, 2026 08:25 PM (dIske)

108 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

"The state’s execution order expires at midnight, according to Kelley Henry, a Nashville-based attorney experienced with Tennessee death penalty law. If time runs out, the state Supreme Court would need to set a new date."

https://tinyurl.com/yjfmb8cm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (ndZc7)

I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (vzuC7)

109 SCOTUS says the Christa Pike execution is back on. I don't know if that means tonight, tomorrow, next month, or next year.

"The state’s execution order expires at midnight, according to Kelley Henry, a Nashville-based attorney experienced with Tennessee death penalty law. If time runs out, the state Supreme Court would need to set a new date."

https://tinyurl.com/yjfmb8cm
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:21 PM (ndZc7)

I'm sick of this crap. States should just pass a law saying that at t minus 6 months from execution you are done with appeals and shit. Everyone having to do this last minute judge shopping and performance lawyering and keeping all these workers on alert is just absurd and it happens nearly all the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (uhVAy)

110 Nice voice. Are you doing the same at the Mome?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Nah. I'm trying to figure out what will annoy Sponge the most without going straight for the Cranberries.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 30, 2026 08:28 PM (ftFVW)

111 "Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

OK, then what is the "winning message"?

"Here, let me give you all the shit I have busted my ass to earn all of my life so that you don't have to."

because any variation of "Poor thing, have a cookie" doesn't fix the problem that out of all the nations on the Earth these malcontents will be forever ungrateful that they weren't born into a massive trust fund in the most prosperous, generous and opportunistic country that ever existed.

Of course this isn't the monoculture of the 1970s-1980s, but the whining generation is the one throwing their bodies in front of ICE demanding that trillions of fraud and total destruction of the culture continues.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (nCgQz)

112 I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (vzuC7)

Well i would promote torture murder with perverse trophies well over the average as murderers go, but I don't have to do a rank-ordering since I support the same for all of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (uhVAy)

113
Good that your life was a perfectly successful from the beginning, but as striving doesn't make you better or superior, nor does your weird trying to tutor people on the meaning of the Yorkshireman joke But, please continue...nothing is more entertaining than having simple jokes explained.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:17 PM (YSUhf)

You probably shouldn't go the rest of your life nursing resentment that other people had it easier than you.

As a parent, and as a mentor - or even as a co-worker - the goal should be to try to get people with less experience see the potholes and avoid them. If you force them to go through them without warning, to preserve equity or whatever, you just have to wait for the poor souls to pick themselves and figure out what just happened, like you did. They will no doubt go on to find greater problems to get tripped up by, but in a way that is also progress, they don't have to solve the same damned problems on their own that we already have figured out how to solve

There is no inherent goodness in suffering. There may be something in having survived suffering, but a lot of shitty adults had shitty childhoods too.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (rbvCR)

114
Heart of the Beast was okay. The special effects weren't very good and it was not clear to me why Brad Pitt and Odin (the combat dog) were in Alaska. But the dog was a real scene stealer.
Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:20 PM (2ap+5)

I enjoyed HotB.

Simple plot but well-made.

I have a couple of issues with it but I'd have to go into spoilers so I'll avoid doing that.

anyway, I think most morons and ettes would enjoy it.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:30 PM (YSUhf)

115 I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It was an extremely cruel murder of an innocent 19 year old girl.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (ndZc7)

116 Really, it looks like a pervert was suddenly killed while having sex with a side of beef.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

That was a side-plot of the "Preacher" comic. Garth Ennis I think...

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (88C+u)

117 I've tried posting a few times today and they've been disappeared each time.

Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

I don't remember being warned about anything objectionable.

Trying it another way now.

Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (Xa1PG)

118 >>>At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

"Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, you frivolous idiots" isn't exactly winning hearts and minds.

Posted by: ballistic
---

Rummages through closet, grabs dusty black case, carefully takes out violin, rosins up bow. ƒ mmm 🎵 🎵

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:32 PM (JS6jE)

119 Well i would promote torture murder with perverse trophies well over the average as murderers go, but I don't have to do a rank-ordering since I support the same for all of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (uhVAy)

Yeah, by all means fry them all. I was just a little surprised since I heard of cases where I thought for sure they would tire fire some of these assholes and yet they get life.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:32 PM (vzuC7)

120 Corgis are very smart doggehs. Friends of ours have a pair and they are a really great property patrol team, they know exactly where the boundaries are. Even the coyotes keep their distance, so you know they are tough little guys.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:32 PM (j/Zm5)

121 or return to non-existence and as far as your concerned, none of this ever happened.

So there's that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 08:14 PM (XV/Pl)

That is my vision of hell. Oblivion. As if I never was.

I hope that my legacy (that loved ones and others remember me, fondly or otherwise) prevents me from fading into bolivian.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 08:33 PM (0aYVJ)

122 I did a quick wiki on her (TN condemned woman) case this morning.

She committed a second murder in jail years into her confinement. Also, in the original crime she carved up the victim before crushing the skull with a rock.

Then she carried a piece of skull around in her coat pocket around college for show and tell.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (r7+Q7)

123 fading into bolivian.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Could be worse. Could be El Salvador.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (88C+u)

124 Corgis are not cuddley though, so if that is important choose another breed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (j/Zm5)

125 It was an extremely cruel murder of an innocent 19 year old girl.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (ndZc7)

Like I said, I don't know much about it. I only heard of it like super recently. I'm almost afraid to dig into it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (vzuC7)

126 Of course this isn't the monoculture of the 1970s-1980s, but the whining generation is the one throwing their bodies in front of ICE demanding that trillions of fraud and total destruction of the culture continues.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 30, 2026 08:29 PM (nCgQz)

monoculture? with hippies around??

What I suggest to everyone at any position is to identify with reason what is the best path for the security, prosperity, and morality of yourself and the country around you and find out who to oppose and who to support going forward. I did that in the 70s and opposed the Democrats AND the GOPers who were "liberal" or "east coast elitists" then and the GOPe clowns after them. I know how to spot the white hats and the black hats no matter what they label themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (uhVAy)

127 Then she carried a piece of skull around in her coat pocket around college for show and tell.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd

I can save her.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (88C+u)

128 I did a quick wiki on her (TN condemned woman) case this morning.

She committed a second murder in jail years into her confinement. Also, in the original crime she carved up the victim before crushing the skull with a rock.

Then she carried a piece of skull around in her coat pocket around college for show and tell.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 30, 2026 08:34 PM (r7+Q7)

Ah, so evil incarnate. Yeah, she should have been blow torched immediately.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (vzuC7)

129 I don't know why it bothers me, but the principal character in most novels is a voracious reader.
Posted by: Burnham

Is it possible that you've only read three books?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (nEUC6)

130 Ah, so evil incarnate. Yeah, she should have been blow torched immediately.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (vzuC7)

Yeah, that's basically rabid animal territory. End it, incinerate it, and try not to get any on ya.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at September 30, 2026 08:39 PM (r7+Q7)

131
Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

132
..You probably shouldn't go the rest of your life nursing resentment that other people had it easier than you....

Once again, this is your weird baggage. Please don't have me carry your oddball explanations around.

I have no resentment for you or anyone. It's silly to weigh your life and experience by someone else's.

Not once have I advocated for the nobility of suffering.. Seriously, this is a bee in your bonnet. Not mine.

You're arguing or "mentoring" against your past, I guess. Cause what you're saying has zero to do with me or my life or beliefs.

Please, you're better at explaining jokes. Explain a knock-knock joke. That's more entertaining.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (YSUhf)

133 Is it possible that you've only read three books?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 08:36 PM (nEUC6)

Like Dan Quayle, I try to read Plato's Republic every year.

But I just can't make heads or tails out of it.

Posted by: Burnham at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (2ap+5)

134 >>>At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

I don't recall on this instance being asked for understanding or sympathy as a human, but being attacked for being in the socialist grouping "Boomers". Since I am not a socialist, that's offense two.

If asked, you might have found that I have both understanding and sympathy for young people today and their situation. But its easier to just lash out.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (uhVAy)

135 >>>>Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

Apparently not.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 08:42 PM (viF8m)

136
Nah. I'm trying to figure out what will annoy Sponge the most without going straight for the Cranberries.
Posted by: She Hobbit

Everyone needs goals. Choose wisely!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 30, 2026 08:43 PM (NnhvP)

137 Nidec Corporation, formerly known as Nippon Densan Corporation, is a Japanese manufacturer and distributor of electric motors. Its products are found in hard-disk drives, electric appliances, automobiles and commercial and manufacturing equipment.
- - - -

*NIDEC SHARES FALL 18% AFTER AUDITOR WITHHOLDS OPINION

Ruh Roh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:43 PM (JS6jE)

138
At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.

___________

My sympathy is tempered by the thought that the most strident complainers consistently advocate the wrong solutions to address their problems.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:45 PM (eRlcH)

139 @121

>>As if I never was.

Oblivion means, from your point of view, you never had a point of view, none of this happened.

Existence springs from the conscious mind, without a conscious mind there is no existence.

I don't believe we are merely tied to a conscious mind solely, I believe there is another level we attain, whether that's a new consciousness, our current consciousness going to another realm or place, I don't know, I'll find out soon enough.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2026 08:45 PM (XV/Pl)

140 I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18. I'm just a little curious how gang bangers who kill multiple people get life, but this chick gets death. Is there something I'm missing?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 30, 2026 08:27 PM (vzuC7)

Gangbangers generally kill other scumbags. No one really cares. One animal is killed, and another is caged. There are whole urban neighborhoods that could hit with chemical weapons and no one would give a rat's hindquarters.

Pike killed an ordinary citizen apparently, and a pentagram was carved into the victim's body. Pike practically requested the express lane to Hell.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 08:45 PM (jBygX)

141
Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

I don't remember being warned about anything objectionable.

Trying it another way now.
Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (Xa1PG)

_________

*starts in surprise*

How did you get in here? Security!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:46 PM (eRlcH)

142
Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

I don't remember being warned about anything objectionable.

Trying it another way now.
Posted by: LTG at September 30, 2026 08:31 PM (Xa1PG)

_________

*starts in surprise*

How did you get in here? Security!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:46 PM (eRlcH)

143 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

We live in the wilderness.

Posted by: Pittsburgh Pirates at September 30, 2026 08:47 PM (xxBSa)

144 My neice had an Owl. My brother keeps them and one imprinted on her.
She goes to kindergarten talking about her owl.
Everyone thinks she is nuts.
Teacher calls my brother. "does ... have an owl?"
"No, she has 5"
"Uhh okay. Can you bring one in to show the class?"
"Sure"
So the kids are sitting in a circle on the playground and my brother shows up. Bird sees neice, spreads his wings and flys right to her, lands in front of her and starts nuzzling her. Coolest kid in the school after that.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 08:47 PM (Ae6Br)

145 Always be yourself.

Unless you can be Batman.

Then always be Batman.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (amcLV)

146 Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress.
_[Apple Tree] Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

rolol

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (JS6jE)

147 Coolest kid in the school after that.
Posted by: Reforger

Who?
(Had to do that.)

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 30, 2026 08:50 PM (Fv808)

148
Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November.

___________

Sure, they're dying to run out and vote for people who have said they want to nuke the Constitution, nuke Israel and nuke anyone who opposes them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:51 PM (eRlcH)

149 [Apple Tree] Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

rolol
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (JS6jE)

Wow. Is Ron Paul still alive?

There's a scam that ought to have run it's course.

He's like the Bernie for Republicans. Did he at least get a couple of bakehouses out of his libertarian shenanigans

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:51 PM (YSUhf)

150 Always be yourself.

Unless you can be Batman.

Then always be Batman.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 30, 2026 08:48 PM (amcLV)

Reminds me of a great meme: Live your life like an 8-year-old boy in a Batman costume.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 08:53 PM (0aYVJ)

151 Astros in the playoffs are like Tom Cruise sneaking into the castle with a stolen password.
They should be thankful they weren't publicly stripped of their uniforms and subjected to a ritual shunning.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 30, 2026 08:53 PM (88C+u)

152 *sigh*

bakehouse = lakehouse

Unless Ron Paul is a Kebler elf, then-

carry on!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:54 PM (YSUhf)

153 >>I don't really know much about the case, but from what I understand is she killed somebody when she was 18.

I believe it involved torture, inflicting a slow painful death, and then post-murder weirdness, like a satanic ritual using body part or something?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:54 PM (rOKnE)

154 >>bakehouse = lakehouse

Darn

Posted by: Paul Hollywood at September 30, 2026 08:54 PM (rOKnE)

155 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

Yes

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 30, 2026 08:55 PM (P4Pk9)

156 There are whole urban neighborhoods that could hit with chemical weapons and no one would give a rat's hindquarters.

been done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 30, 2026 08:55 PM (jrgJz)

157 Like I said, I don't know much about it. I only heard of it like super recently. I'm almost afraid to dig into it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

She and her co-defendant boyfriend were Satanists at the time. Now she's a Buddhist. She made a statement to the effect that she can't cooperate with her execution because execution is against her Buddhist beliefs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:56 PM (ndZc7)

158
Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

Yes
Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 30, 2026 08:55 PM (P4Pk9)

Rangers are out too.

Maybe Dime Box outta get an MLB team and show these losers how it's done.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:57 PM (YSUhf)

159 >>So the kids are sitting in a circle on the playground and my brother shows up. Bird sees neice, spreads his wings and flys right to her, lands in front of her and starts nuzzling her. Coolest kid in the school after that.

So cool!
Heck, I'm not a kid, and I am envious.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2026 08:57 PM (rOKnE)

160 Reminds me of a great meme: Live your life like an 8-year-old boy in a Batman costume.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at September 30, 2026 08:53 PM (0aYVJ)

Piss myself because I trick or treated too long and cry because my caramel popcorn balls got confiscated because everyone in authority is deathly afraid of razorblades that never materialize? It's a weird kink, but I aim to please.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 30, 2026 08:58 PM (jBygX)

161 Please, you're better at explaining jokes. Explain a knock-knock joke. That's more entertaining.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (YSUhf)

You do realize that means you are turning this into a Four Yorkshiremen sketch? "The young today . . . "

Or intentional hazing?

I would stick with the unintentional humor if I were you. It is a better look.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 08:59 PM (rbvCR)

162 >>She and her co-defendant boyfriend were Satanists at the time. Now she's a Buddhist. She made a statement to the effect that she can't cooperate with her execution because execution is against her Buddhist beliefs

That's convenient.

Unfortunately for her, I don't her cooperation is required.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:00 PM (viF8m)

163 WHITE Sox.

Hoochie mama!

Gonna go get black out drunk now in celebration.

Probably post some really dumb barely cogent stuff too. So not much different than any random day of the week.

Posted by: GigantorX at September 30, 2026 09:00 PM (PXkCx)

164 >>>Unless you can be Batman.

Then always be Batman.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea
----

youtube.com/watch?v=GQsjBLPBB8M

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:01 PM (JS6jE)

165 Seems I've been banned, not sure why, as I've been posting some lately without any problem.

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We saw what you did on a Flock camera.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:01 PM (ndZc7)

166
You do realize that means you are turning this into a Four Yorkshiremen sketch? "The young today . . . "

So, weird that you base your life philosophy and meaning around a Monty Python skit.

But, carry on. You do you.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (YSUhf)

167 Just tell the psycho bitch to be "one" with the electric chair.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (vE0+H)

168 Evenin’, All. Here’s a fun fact:

The Nahuatl (Aztec) word for “armadillo” is, literally, “turtle rabbit.”

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)

169 It's one of those NRO editors, right?

@nypost 10s
Man nabbed by SWAT officers after planning 'violent attack' on Texas state capitol, authorites say

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (nEUC6)

170 Pregnant woman? Will offer a seat. Healthy woman under 40?
Nope, I'm old now and tired of them wanting chivalry from men and none from them.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at September 30, 2026 09:03 PM (qvwZI)

171 I learned something I didn't know from watching PBS. There are pens designed expressly for the left handed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (ndZc7)

172
Evenin’, All. Here’s a fun fact:

The Nahuatl (Aztec) word for “armadillo” is, literally, “turtle rabbit.”
Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (77rzZ)

Turtle Rabbit would be a pretty cool sidekick for Batman.

Make it so, DC!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (YSUhf)

173 156 There are whole urban neighborhoods that could hit with chemical weapons and no one would give a rat's hindquarters.
been done
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
Posted by: what the cat drug
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My recollection is that the whole row of houses were notorious.
Not is a good way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (JS6jE)

174 I learned something I didn't know from watching PBS. There are pens designed expressly for the left handed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (ndZc7)

How the hell would that work?

I'm left-handed.

That's got to be a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (YSUhf)

175 So, weird that you base your life philosophy and meaning around a Monty Python skit.

But, carry on. You do you.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:02 PM (YSUhf)

I am not the one who got bent out of shape because I mentioned the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. You apparently are doing you, and if not, you apparently are practicing extra hard tonight to achieve it.

Here's a tip, stop engaging with me and I will not mention it again. Or keep being a clown so I can laugh.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (rbvCR)

176 She and her co-defendant boyfriend were Satanists at the time. Now she's a Buddhist. She made a statement to the effect that she can't cooperate with her execution because execution is against her Buddhist beliefs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 08:56 PM (ndZc7)

That just cries out for a session in the electric chair: "Om mani padme (jailer throws switch) Hummm!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:09 PM (C6xWR)

177
Pregnant woman? Will offer a seat. Healthy woman under 40?
Nope, I'm old now and tired of them wanting chivalry from men and none from them.
Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at September 30, 2026 09:03 PM (qvwZI)

__________

Her Majesty and I were at a restaurant for breakfast and there was a wait. We fell in to chatting with another couple, also of age. All the chairs were taken in the waiting area.

Then a party of three who had been sitting were called. The ladies in our quartet sat down. The other gentleman and I both refused to take the third seat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:09 PM (eRlcH)

178 People like stories. That's one thing that makes us people. Giraffes don't care about stories, nor your cat. The stories can be real or made up, we don't care, we still like 'em.
Posted by: fd

My cat loves my stories. I have many of them to regale him with. None of them are lies.

Posted by: The Mind That Alters, Alters All at September 30, 2026 09:09 PM (Fn+3X)

179 I don't recall on this instance being asked for understanding or sympathy as a human, but being attacked for being in the socialist grouping "Boomers". Since I am not a socialist, that's offense two.

If asked, you might have found that I have both understanding and sympathy for young people today and their situation. But its easier to just lash out.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 30, 2026 08:40 PM (uhVAy)
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I said "a significant portion of boomers" purposefully to not tar everyone with the same brush.

If you find yourself reflexively defending yourself against that statement, you're saying more than you're probably meaning to say.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)

180 I am not the one who got bent out of shape because I mentioned the Four Yorkshiremen sketch. You apparently are doing you, and if not, you apparently are practicing extra hard tonight to achieve it.

Here's a tip, stop engaging with me and I will not mention it again. Or keep being a clown so I can laugh.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (rbvCR)

Nah.

I shan't.

Again the yorkshireman joke is your thing. Not mine.

If some 50 year old skit is the apex of wit for you, please continue. Maybe you can dig up a Leave it to Beaver joke to base your philosophy around.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (YSUhf)

181 Different states have different laws. Some states don't have a death penalty. Others do. A new law goes into effect tomorrow in Alabama that carries the death sentence for raping or other serious offensive acts on children twelve or younger. It's about time to get serious on these terrible people. They don't belong in society, they are evil.

Posted by: Case at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (9+0gc)

182 How the hell would that work?

I'm left-handed.

That's got to be a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake

No, they're real. I don't know how well they work.

https://tinyurl.com/mwrcd2np

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (ndZc7)

183 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm not trying to be mean to you Hadrian, but the White Sox sort of got me back into baseball. All those 100 loss seasons with two of my kids living in Chicago, I just fell for them.

The Sox and Ohtani if I'm being honest. They got me back into baseball. And now there's going to be a lock out.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (l26NL)

184 101 Then in the end you die and go to hell. So in summary, fuck it, who cares.
Posted by: Map of life

====

In the meantime, hockey season started!
Posted by: 2009Refugee

Stuck at work, so no hockey. (checks score of Pens game). 5-0, Penguins over the vile vermin from Philthy. Still 2nd period. Which give the Pens plenty of time to fritter away the game and lose in OT.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 30, 2026 09:11 PM (pLaQB)

185 Does Batman have to be Batman all the time? Sometimes he could be Bruce Wayne.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 09:12 PM (Cqx++)

186 Apparently you overlooked kindletot's and naturalflake's admonition.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (JS6jE)

187 Also some boomers: "Stop spending your money on Starbucks and Netflix, losers!"

Without knowing literally a damned thing about anyone's personal financial situation. They could be living in a yurt eating nothing but instant ramen, but hey we had to endure Jimmy Carter so suck it up, pussies.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (oqH4h)

188 An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead.

Posted by: John Dawson, NRPS,1972 at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (Fn+3X)

189 Eff that shit about giving up your seat for “ladies.”

Hey, toots, you got the vote. You can shuffle in the dust like the rest of us.

Posted by: Bulg at September 30, 2026 09:13 PM (77rzZ)

190 Healthy woman under 40?
Nope, I'm old now and tired of them wanting chivalry from men and none from them.
Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me

Lately young women have been holding the door open for me if they get there first. I have grown old.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:14 PM (ktgTW)

191 I learned something I didn't know from watching PBS. There are pens designed expressly for the left handed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:05 PM (ndZc7)

How the hell would that work?

I'm left-handed.

That's got to be a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 30, 2026 09:07 PM (YSUhf)

I have a left-handed framing hammer, which I used when I was a field survey crewman. I also have a left-handed baseball bat, and left-handed eatin' irons.

But lefty scissors are of the devil.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:14 PM (0aYVJ)

192 I'm fairly ambidextrous, but writing left-handed was a bridge too far.
Mom was left handed. Wrote with the paper all whackadoodle.

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:14 PM (ZHRuH)

193 Recent article on how writing with your off hand will cause your brain to grow. I wrote a complete legible paragraph with my off hand. I feel better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (JS6jE)

194 An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead.
Posted by: John Dawson, NRPS,1972

Also, no machine gun ports.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (ndZc7)

195 I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (ktgTW)

196 If some 50 year old skit is the apex of wit for you, please continue. Maybe you can dig up a Leave it to Beaver joke to base your philosophy around.
Posted by: naturalfake

More lies. Any Leave it to Beaver joke is 63-69 years old.

Posted by: On Air 1957-1963 at September 30, 2026 09:16 PM (Fn+3X)

197 When I was in drafting school, they had left-hand adaptors for Leroy lettering kits. 'Twas shit. I just did Leroy lettering right handed. I also shoot right.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (0aYVJ)

198 What if you're righty but crank your hog with your left? Does that count?

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (oqH4h)

199 >At the same time, older people should try to muster up some measure of understanding and sympathy to facts on the ground that are markedly different to the ones they experienced at that age.-------

That doesn't help your argument at all. Life's core problems haven't really changed in over 5000 years.

And the American way is to tell whiners to suck it up and solve the problem instead of blaming others for it. That's why we remain the greatest country in the world and will continue to be so until we stop that attitude.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (KC5Lt)

200
Recent article on how writing with your off hand will cause your brain to grow. I wrote a complete legible paragraph with my off hand. I feel better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:15 PM (JS6jE)

__________

Writing with the accustomed hand has become painful. Takes five minutes to make out the check for my Sunday offering.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (eRlcH)

201 143 Well, my Astros are out. The future is bleak. I see a tear-down and several years in the wilderness.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

We live in the wilderness.
Posted by: Pittsburgh Pirates

But we finished above .500!! The ticker tape parade will be this Saturday in Uniontown, PA!! Come early!!

Posted by: Pittsburgh Pirates at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (pLaQB)

202 If you find yourself reflexively defending yourself against that statement, you're saying more than you're probably meaning to say.

The problem is a significant number of the people tossing the accusation over and over and over and over are whiny little bitches who deserve the scorn they get. They have zero appreciation for what generations before them went through and don't care. They don't read books and get all their news from Tik Tok and are dumb as fuck. And they over generalize and never stop feeling sorry for themselves because they are little snowflakes that are the first generation that had to start with nothing and work for what they want in life.

I'm sorry if you think this applies to you. I said a significant number. If you think it applies to you well I didn't say that.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 30, 2026 09:18 PM (viF8m)

203 Recent article on how writing with your off hand will cause your brain to grow. I wrote a complete legible paragraph with my off hand. I feel better.

Posted by: Braenyard

I gotta ask... so if I jerk off with my left hand...

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:18 PM (ZHRuH)

204
An armadillo is kinda like an armored car, 'cept it's got feet instead.
Posted by: John Dawson, NRPS,1972

Bedrock National Bank

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 30, 2026 09:19 PM (Cqx++)

205 Without knowing literally a damned thing about anyone's personal financial situation. They could be living in a yurt eating nothing but instant ramen, but hey we had to endure Jimmy Carter so suck it up, pussies.

Posted by: ballistic
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Rummages deeper in closet, picks up tan colored case, takes out gramp's silver trombone.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:19 PM (JS6jE)

206 I always find it funny that I can see a southpaw immediately. While rightys will pause, and then say, wait, you're lefthanded?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:19 PM (0aYVJ)

207 Bedrock National Bank
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

That mastodon that used his trunk to squirt off Wilma in the shower had the best gig ever.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:20 PM (ktgTW)

208 >>>with my left hand...

Posted by: MkY
=---

There's only one way to find out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (JS6jE)

209 Barney Rubble...what an actor!

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (ZHRuH)

210 I thought the joke of the four yorkshiremen was the ever increasing absurdity of their claims.

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 09:22 PM (vE0+H)

211 Yet another fun left-handed fact: Both my parents were right handed, but me, a sister and two brothers are left-handed.

Behold the supremacy of the Southern Paw.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:22 PM (0aYVJ)

212 That mastodon that used his trunk to squirt off Wilma in the shower had the best gig ever.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:20 PM (ktgTW)

Th part where he applied the body lotion was cut, because NSFW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:22 PM (C6xWR)

213 Barney Rubble...what an actor!
Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (ZHRuH)

Great movie. Last scene of Bill diving from the balcony makes me laugh just thinking about it.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:23 PM (KC5Lt)

214 Barney Rubble...what an actor!
Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:21 PM (ZHRuH)

Betty Boop, nice gams.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:23 PM (0aYVJ)

215 Fuck Hitler

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:24 PM (0aYVJ)

216 Hi friends! What’s new?

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

217 That doesn't help your argument at all. Life's core problems haven't really changed in over 5000 years.

And the American way is to tell whiners to suck it up and solve the problem instead of blaming others for it. That's why we remain the greatest country in the world and will continue to be so until we stop that attitude.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:17 PM (KC5Lt)
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Very convenient that you cut off the part where I said younger people shouldn't be laying blame.

This is definitely the mark of someone making an earnest argument.

The American way is actually generational transfer of knowledge and lessons learned that have kept us in the driver's seat for so long, not looking at subsequent generations and saying "suck it up, buttercup."

Young people always have problems listening.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:25 PM (oqH4h)

218 I play hockey left handed and put my belt on like a left hander. I'm also left eyed dominant.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:26 PM (KC5Lt)

219 Left handedness throughout history is a fascinating subject.
Posted by: LTG

How gauche.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 30, 2026 09:27 PM (ktgTW)

220 It's okay guys, a newly-married couple with one income can easily save up the money to afford a down payment on a modest home in a decent area so they can start a family in 2026, if only they'd cancel Netflix and make coffee at home.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:27 PM (oqH4h)

221 And other things people who haven't been in the housing market in 70 years believe.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:28 PM (oqH4h)

222
Left handedness throughout history is a fascinating subject.
Posted by: LTG

__________

To begin with, we're higher on the evolutionary ladder than the common ruck of righties.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 30, 2026 09:28 PM (eRlcH)

223 Ima order a left handed pen. I had no idea that's how it worked. I though I was just right handed.

Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 09:29 PM (MQYOv)

224 That mastodon that used his trunk to squirt off Wilma in the shower had the best gig ever.
Posted by: Tonypete

Ashley loved that thing!

Posted by: Joseph Robinette Something at September 30, 2026 09:29 PM (Fn+3X)

225 Young people always have problems listening.
----

Gaw this is tedious.

So to you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (JS6jE)

226 Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:25 PM (oqH4h)

I didn't cut off anything. I was addressing the specific recommendation you made for more understanding.

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (KC5Lt)

227 Ima order a left handed pen. I had no idea that's how it worked. I though I was just right handed.
Posted by: Reforger at September 30, 2026 09:29 PM (MQYOv)

Get the left-handed eraser, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (C6xWR)

228 Oh. Well. We are hating on Boomers (no, I am not one), hating on women (praise the stars I live in the Deep South where manners matter and being polite is an Olympic event), and Tonypete is being hysterical. Awwww, home. 😊

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

229 __________

To begin with, we're higher on the evolutionary ladder than the common ruck of righties.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Yar, right on the edge of evolution, one might say.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (JS6jE)

230 I play hockey left handed and put my belt on like a left hander. I'm also left eyed dominant.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:26 PM (KC5Lt)

I bat left, throw left, but shoot right.

I put on my belt like the Army taught me. Also thread my shoelaces like what the Army taught me. I am also very aware of removing my cover when entering a building.

That's a different thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (0aYVJ)

231 Sinister is a synonym for left-handedness.

Posted by: Right On! at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (Fn+3X)

232 You know who else liked Olympic events?

Posted by: ... at September 30, 2026 09:31 PM (vE0+H)

233
I didn't cut off anything. I was addressing the specific recommendation you made for more understanding.
Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (KC5Lt)
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Uh yeah hoss, you did. I said young people shouldn't blame, and you specifically ignored that part so you could get up on that high horse.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:32 PM (oqH4h)

234 Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:25 PM (oqH4h)

Calm down

Posted by: polynikes at September 30, 2026 09:32 PM (KC5Lt)

235 I guess y’all ate all the snacks, too?

Posted by: Piper at September 30, 2026 09:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

236 Get the left-handed eraser, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I liked the left handed baseball bat mentioned earlier.

Posted by: MkY at September 30, 2026 09:33 PM (ZHRuH)

237 Posted by: ballistic
~~~~~

Let it go. You're not winning the argument and you risk making yourself toxic at the HQ.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at September 30, 2026 09:33 PM (3ImbR)

238 Only the chocolate covered or sugary one's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:34 PM (JS6jE)

239 Gaw this is tedious.

So to you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 30, 2026 09:30 PM (JS6jE)
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Cool man, go dig for another instrument. If you find a flugelhorn maybe give that a whirl and see if that's satisfying.

Posted by: ballistic at September 30, 2026 09:34 PM (oqH4h)

240 Lets try to avoid any altercations here.

Posted by: davidt at September 30, 2026 09:34 PM (Q+gd/)

241 Mastodon.

Saw them open for Slayer many years ago. I briefly wondered why the roadies were suddenly playing the set list. Then I got it: good metal bands know their settings.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw from the Mountains at September 30, 2026 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)

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