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The reason that Conservatism is "pro-family" is because no ideology can ultimately be defined in purely negative terms. It is not enough to say that we oppose big government, because to oppose anything is necessarily to advocate whatever must exist in it's place. In this case that  is not simply "the individual".  American economist Milton Friedman once said   "We tend to talk about an individualist society, but it really isn't, it's a family society. And the greatest incentives of all, the incentives that have really driven people on, have largely been  the incentives of family. ".  No free society has ever existed that was constituted primarily of individuals pursuing their own interests as isolated individuals. It is stable, successful families, and communities of families, that make a free society possible.  The only real world alternative to a society built upon the state, is a society built upon the family.

-- Philosophical Conservatism in The Real Meaning Of Limited Government

New Trick of the Patriarchy: Oprressing teh Womenz Through Sexual Equality

Jessica Valenti American blogger and feminist writer, known for having founded the feminist blog Feministing in 2004 claimed that the patriarchy is using equality to oppress women.

"Now we need a new wave of feminism to be more equal than men, I mean recently I saw this video on YouTube with over one million views and a way more likes than dislikes, at first I thought it was no big deal as the man was hiding in a store and defending himself from what I presumed from an aggressive man that was hitting him but then I saw it was a woman that was hitting him and I was terrified at how he violently abused her and literally threw her into a glass window shattering it or 'defended himself' as a rape apologist would put it as"

Self-defense now also part of rape-culture apparently.

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Yet Another Discriminatory Tool of the Patriarchy: Women's Public Restrooms

Feminist writer, media critic and activist Soraya Chemaly, whose areas of expertise include "Gender Violence and Women's Equity, Sexual Assault, Women in Media, Rape, Gender-based Violence, Media Portrayal, Women in the Military, Gender Equality Issues, Free Speech, Gender Politics, Business and the Economy, Education, Media and Entertainment, Politics, Religion Social Justice", is on a roll about the unfairness of women's public restrooms. And you know whose fault that is? You've got it: men's. In what suspiciously sounds like a bad case of penis envy, Chemaly is upset that all public restrooms are not equal-opportunity facilities:

"[W]omen are still forced to stand in lines at malls, schools, stadiums, concerts, fair grounds, theme parks, and other crowded public spaces. This is frustrating, uncomfortable, and, in some circumstances, humiliating. It's also a form of discrimination, as it disproportionately affects women.

bathroom-wait

"Who Bitch This Is?!"

When a women tried to force a guy celebrating a video game tournament win back into his chair, he issues the ultimate put-down. (Thanks to Tammy)

Man Shoots OK Police Chief During Raid, Does Not Get Charged

One Heck of a JV Team

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Boys Town Switching to a Focus on Vocational Training

The demand for skilled workers reaches far beyond the companies Boys Town administrators talked to. Similar needs were cited by employers included in an Atlantic piece on attempts to replicate the German apprenticeship model in the United States. This shift seems like a smart move on the part of Boys Town, and one that traditional schools could imitate in their own way. American primary education ought to be devising more programs that prepare students for futures other than those associated with the four-year residential college path. If Boys Town, and the local schools whose example it is following, are any indication, more educators are starting to realize this.

Greenpeace Gives Up Names of Four Activists (Out of Twenty) Involved in Nazca Site Vandalism

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Washington Free Beacon: Machine Guns Ranked

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The Constitution-Free Zone

I recall reading a while back that something like 40% of all Americans live in the government-defined 'border zone' where Constitutional rights are limited.

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15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German

9. OSTALGIE

Ostalgie is nostalgia for the old way of life in East Germany ("ost" means East). If you miss your old Trabant and those weekly visits from the secret police, you may have Ostalgie.

10. ZEITKRANKHEIT

Zeitkrankheit is "time sickness" or "illness of the times." It's a general term for whatever the damaging mindset or preoccupations of a certain era are.

11. WELTSCHMERZ

Weltschmerz or "world pain," is a sadness brought on by a realization that the world cannot be the way you wish it would be. It's more emotional than pessimism, and more painful than ennui.

The Rise And Fall of 'Hippiedilly' in 1969

On the Sunday morning of 21 September 1969, a slightly-built Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector convinced some squatters at a large five storey mansion at 144 Piccadilly to lower an improvised wooden drawbridge so doctors could help a seriously ill person inside. The drawbridge came down and Chief Inspector Michael Rowling flung himself bravely across the barricaded opening to establish a bridgehead. Within seconds a police sergeant blew his whistle and shouted: "Come on lads - let's go in!" A hundred policemen, seemingly from nowhere, charged over the bridge and straight through the front door.

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Where Are They Now?

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Fried Egg Bandit Baffles UK Coppers

The Group knows what you did.

Tonight's post brought to you by why you don't eff with the chimps:

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1 No way.

Posted by: mindful webworker at January 22, 2015 10:46 PM (ACs58)

2 Way!

Posted by: mindful webworker at January 22, 2015 10:47 PM (ACs58)

3 Hey morons

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 10:47 PM (y2suD)

4 This morning Hector made a salient point. I am not supporting Moo Moo, this time; but Hector had a point: Republicans have their own agenda.

I'm not talking Conservatives here. Conservatives stand on principle. I cannot say that I always agree with these principles, but Conservatives do stand on them. Republicans are something else again: they are a political party. Individual Republican-voters may hold principles in the abstract; but when they become politicians, their job is to get elected. And, to get elected, Republicans need to know their constituents. And that means it is their very life to run statistical analyses.

And what Republicans have found is firstly that young single people are irresponsible and (especially women, at least in my state) want to have their misdeeds erased; and secondly that it's dangerous to allow a lot of bastards growing up to learn how the electoral system works.

The United States isn't the world of Game Of Thrones. Here exists no "Wall" whither to send children born out of wedlock. Adoption is an option, as we keep getting told; but not all children get adopted. For those who "fall through the cracks" America offers a welfare system; and they also have the extended family - cousins, aunts, grandparents. Here is the world of The Wire.

So, yes, Hector had a point. Republicans (and not Conservatives) do have an interest in abortion - lots of abortion. Abortion lowers the demographic of The Wire. In years to come, it lowers the number of bastards who will more-likely vote for freebies that is, for the commies (end-state of "democrats").

This is what has to be kept in mind when we see how actual Republicans (read: not teh Moron Horde) vote.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 10:48 PM (AVEe1)

5 "Who bitch this is?!"

If Obama had a son...

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 10:48 PM (FsuaD)

6 Well, that excitement was short-lived. Guess I'll read the post.

Posted by: mindful webworker at January 22, 2015 10:48 PM (ACs58)

7 The Joooos did it!

So.....what happened?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 22, 2015 10:49 PM (Zu3d9)

8 Women are forced to stand in lines for restrooms? Has this fuckhead been to a stadium recently? Ever since they took the troughs out and out individual urinals in the lines at the men's room dwarves those at the women's room. What a crock of shit

Posted by: The real ch3 at January 22, 2015 10:50 PM (LwKUt)

9 "We tend to talk about an individualist society, but it really isn't, it's a family society. And the greatest incentives of all, the incentives that have really driven people on, have largely been the incentives of family. ".

So if the Federal government restricted itself to only choosing your family for you it would be a limited and responsible government under this rubric?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2015 10:50 PM (fADgx)

10 Evening horde.

What's this shit I've heard about TFG referring to ISIS as Dash or something?

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 10:50 PM (zxCGA)

11 Good evening, all.

I hate my life. I hope you all are doing better.

BTW, that chimp looks older than me, and MUCH better built.
yes, morons that noticed. Both his muscles AND his sack.
His cranium looks like it holds bigger brain, too - now I hate my life even more...

Posted by: shredded chi at January 22, 2015 10:52 PM (Ixwf5)

12 Da'Ish I guess.

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 10:52 PM (zxCGA)

13 Thank you, Maetenloch.
I was reading & watching FNC for an hour & could feel BP rising.
I am going to watch one or two episodes of Boardwalk Empire.
I almost always read content the next morning.

Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:52 PM (sj3Ax)

14 GOP Roadmap On Immigration

Senator Jeff Session (R - AL), has put out a handbook on immigration reform. the full roadmap can be seen below.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8074

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 22, 2015 10:52 PM (0Ew3K)

15 Jessica Valenti American blogger and feminist writer, known for having founded the feminist blog Feministing in 2004...


"Feministing?" Is that when a couple ugly lesbians use their entire hands to...


You know what, never mind.

Posted by: Country Singer at January 22, 2015 10:53 PM (nL0sw)

16 The men's rooms vs women's rooms things isn't political, but it is annoying -- and stupid. Invariably at any public facility, especially theaters, concert halls, auditoriums, etc, there are huge lines at the ladies rooms. Why architects don't make more facilities for women is beyond me.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:53 PM (9BRsg)

17 Fairy Guinea Pig Whines About Cultural Appropriation

Is there anything more oppressive to a guinea pig than people dressing up like magical fairies on Halloween?

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=8038

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 22, 2015 10:53 PM (0Ew3K)

18 Howdy, y'all!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 22, 2015 10:53 PM (T1005)

19 Hoooorde!

That is some excellent ONT, meat locker.

Including Daphne, which is where my crush on soul stealing gingers started.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 10:53 PM (e+1S5)

20 Look closely at the wall in the "machine guns ranked" story.

"I'd like to introduce you to a close, personal friend of mine."

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 10:54 PM (doBIb)

21 5: Jane: Oblabla couldn't sire a son. I'm pretty sure Malaria and whatever her name is are both aberrations. Who knows who knocked up Mooch.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:54 PM (ucDmr)

22 Ok, so our foreign policy is name calling now.

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 10:54 PM (zxCGA)

23 Just watched Backstrom. Not bad.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 22, 2015 10:55 PM (zt+N6)

24 How much you bench, bro?

Posted by: Meathead Chimpanzee at January 22, 2015 10:55 PM (LKBn6)

25 Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (doBIb)

26 If universities will kick out men accused of rape, without due process, and based solely on the testimony of the women who say they were raped, can it be turned around?

Can a man claim he was raped by a woman, and will the university give that woman the same treatment they would if the sexes were reversed? Expulsion? Life in ruin?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (vSxTY)

27


"Feministing?" Is that when a couple ugly lesbians use their entire hands to...


You know what, never mind.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 22, 2015

Butch spreading?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (y2suD)

28 Ya know, Cthulhu, I'm not sure "howdy" is fitting with your image. You may want to roughen that up a bit, like "Greetings. May I suck you into the horrifying abyss of the elder ones?" or something.

Just sayin'

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (KG0mU)

29 Da'ish or Daesh is a somewhat common acronym that represents the full, arabic name of ISIS/ISIL.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (GEICT)

30 >>Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?

We're braiding each other's hair and having pillow fights.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (9BRsg)

31 25 Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (doBIb)

Do you really want to know?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 10:57 PM (y2suD)

32 evening all

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 10:57 PM (VkSuo)

33 Why architects don't make more facilities for women is beyond me.
PP. Penis Privilege!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 10:57 PM (L6/+u)

34 Soothsayer did warn us about the chimps.

Posted by: Colonel Taylor at January 22, 2015 10:57 PM (XCD15)

35 Could be worse ...

It can always be worse ...

Posted by: Adriane the Bad Poetry Critic ... at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (P+IZm)

36 We're braiding each other's hair and having pillow fights.


But your sisters are waiting outside with full bladders!

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (doBIb)

37 I was #13? 13 is number of Colonies we had when Declaration of Independence was written.

Good Night, Horde!
I've been up since 5 Something.

Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (sj3Ax)

38 That guy didn't shoot very many machine guns. Guy down the road has an Uzi, wimpy with 9mm but quite a bit of fun in 45.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (zauWW)

39 "Self-defense now also part of rape-culture apparently"

A number of months ago a contestant in a beauty pageant, it may have been Miss USA, used self defense skills as her talent. She was trashed by feminists who seemed to think that a woman protecting herself from rape equated with blaming the victim. I'd say that was the dumbest things to come out of the feminist movement, but there's so much stupid that it's hard to pick the dumbest.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (DXcH1)

40 Holy Crap.... I'm in the Zone.... never would have thunk it...

(North of Fresno Ca, up 99 Highway...)

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (qh617)

41 Hey ladies. Technology has overcome the bathroom line. Depends and smooth-eye catheters. Google them.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (8MjqI)

42 Why architects don't make more facilities for women is beyond me.
PP. Penis Privilege!

---

Yeah, but ultimately some penis possessor is being inconvenienced waiting for his date to get out of the rest room.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (9BRsg)

43 >>>Da'ish or Daesh is a somewhat common acronym that represents the full, arabic name of ISIS/ISIL.

And conveniently drops that pesky first "I" that might cause people to ask questions like "what does ISIS stand for?"

Oh, the Islamic State, huh? Well, that certainly has nothing to do with islam.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (e+1S5)

44 25 Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (doBIb)


it is hard doing whatever you are gonna do while standing in a squat atop a toilet seat. naturally, you have to clean everything before you use it since the previous person made a mess of everything.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (VkSuo)

45 Yeah.....about those chimps.

Posted by: Woman whose face was mauled by a monkey on meds at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (GFmII)

46 Data shows women on average spend twice as long in a public restroom.

Several facilities that use double the number of women's restrooms to men's restrooms have no long lines.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (u82oZ)

47 38 That guy didn't shoot very many machine guns. Guy down the road has an Uzi, wimpy with 9mm but quite a bit of fun in 45.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (zauWW)


got to shoot a Thompson once....

/smile...

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (qh617)

48
So, yes, Hector had a point. Republicans (and not Conservatives) do have an interest in abortion - lots of abortion. Abortion lowers the demographic of The Wire. In years to come, it lowers the number of bastards who will more-likely vote for freebies that is, for the commies (end-state of "democrats").

This is what has to be kept in mind when we see how actual Republicans (read: not teh Moron Horde) vote.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo


Bullshit.

Any 'conservative' that places a thinly perceived political advantage over lives isn't much of a conservative.

We don't go around calling ourselves stoic rationalists or utilitarians.

And, further, what you are forgetting is that Hector is a premature senile teenager with peen issues.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (fADgx)

49 I'm pretty sure all of us here are suffering from that last one.

Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (MYCIw)

50 I'm linking this owl cam here, in case any of you morons have trouble getting to sleep tonight.

It's strangely soothing.

And it's in my neighborhood:

http://landingsbirdcam.com/

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:00 PM (FsuaD)

51 29 Da'ish or Daesh is a somewhat common acronym that represents the full, arabic name of ISIS/ISIL.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (GEICT)

Why do they consider it an insult? Or did WaPo just pull that out of their ass?

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:00 PM (zxCGA)

52 The Constitution-Free Zone

I recall reading a while back that something like 40% of all Americans live in the government-defined 'border zone' where Constitutional rights are limited.


It's worse than that. The area around international airports is also included in "border zones".

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 22, 2015 11:00 PM (0Ew3K)

53 Why architects don't make more facilities for women is beyond me.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:53 PM (9BRsg)

So....architects should recognize the differences between men and women and design accordingly?

Are you going to pay the legal fees for the class-action suits that are filed within seconds of the first public footstep in the building?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (Zu3d9)

54 Why architects don't make more facilities for women is beyond me.
PP. Penis Privilege!
Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 10:57 PM (L6/+u)

YES! we have come full circle and now feminists are more or less arguing Freudian penis envy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (VkSuo)

55 "25 Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow? "

Also women have...womenly things that have to be taken care of. And that whole not being able to pee standing up unless you sort of squat and hope to God no part of you touches the toilet thing sort of holds everything up.

Posted by: Lauren at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (MYCIw)

56 Abortion lowers the demographic of The Wire. In years to come, it lowers the number of bastards who will more-likely vote for freebies that is, for the commies (end-state of "democrats").


The guy who wrote Freakanomics said the same thing. Abortion lowers crime rate in the next decade.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (doBIb)

57 And conveniently drops that pesky first "I" that might cause people to ask questions like "what does ISIS stand for?"

Oh, the Islamic State, huh? Well, that certainly has nothing to do with islam.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (e+1S5)


It's not that deep, buddy. It's literally just an acronym for the arabic translation of their name. Which has "Islam" in it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (GEICT)

58

And, further, what you are forgetting is that Hector is a premature senile teenager with peen issues.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2015 10:59 PM (fADgx)

And Moo Moo in 3....2......1

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (y2suD)

59 I pride myself in my ability to pee quickly at a public restroom, but it is just slower to have to go into a stall, close the door, "unveil" the nether regions, do one's business, wipe, and reassemble the whole beauteous "ensemble"... then wash my hands and check my gorgeous self in the mirror.

That takes longer than unzip, pull out, pee, shake, re-zip and -- one hopes -- washing one's hands.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (9BRsg)

60 31: MH: Who you want me to piss off tonite?

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:02 PM (ucDmr)

61 "[W]omen are still forced to stand in lines at malls, schools, stadiums, concerts, fair grounds, theme parks, and other crowded public spaces."

So it's men's fault that they can pee standing up without taking 3 layers of clothing down?

Also, some of this is due to women dawdling.
I know, because I dawdle.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:02 PM (DXcH1)

62 38 That guy didn't shoot very many machine guns. Guy down the road has an Uzi, wimpy with 9mm but quite a bit of fun in 45.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 10:58 PM (zauWW)




yeah, all those are great guns but nowhere near the best machine guns.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:02 PM (VkSuo)

63 Wimminz like to go to the restroom and talk with their friends and look through their purses. That's my take anyway.....

Posted by: Trunk Monkey at January 22, 2015 11:02 PM (fLKzW)

64 got to shoot a Thompson once....


I got to squeeze off a hundred rounds on an M-60 in ROTC. It's a slow gun.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:02 PM (doBIb)

65 So....architects should recognize the differences between men and women and design accordingly?

Are you going to pay the legal fees for the class-action suits that are filed within seconds of the first public footstep in the building?

--

Yes, yes I am.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (9BRsg)

66
50 I'm linking this owl cam here, in case any of you morons have trouble getting to sleep tonight.

It's strangely soothing.

And it's in my neighborhood:

http://landingsbirdcam.com/
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:00 PM (FsuaD

I've always felt the 'Snowdrift Cam' to be relaxing.



http://tinyurl.com/qgpbsaz

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (zxCGA)

67 Notice that Maet didn't include Scooby in that pic. After this much time, we all know that Scooby and Scrappy(thankfully) have crossed the Rainbow Bridge.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, 0 days without a fapping incident at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (+Fae7)

68 56 Abortion lowers the demographic of The Wire. In years to come, it lowers the number of bastards who will more-likely vote for freebies that is, for the commies (end-state of "democrats").


The guy who wrote Freakanomics said the same thing. Abortion lowers crime rate in the next decade.
Posted

Roe vs. Wade 1973, love to see inner city crime stats since then

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (y2suD)

69 So, yes, Hector had a point. Republicans (and not Conservatives) do have an interest in abortion - lots of abortion. Abortion lowers the demographic of The Wire. In years to come, it lowers the number of bastards who will more-likely vote for freebies that is, for the commies (end-state of "democrats").
This is what has to be kept in mind when we see how actual Republicans (read: not teh Moron Horde) vote.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo


Sorry but this is bullshit. The GOP has been the one party that has been consistently anti-abortion ever since Roe v. Wade. A procedural kerfuffle over a single bill to restrict federally-funded late-term abortions does NOT all of a sudden make it a pro-abortion party.

Posted by: Maetenloch at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (pAlYe)

70 Jessica Valenti may be a batshit crazy feminist, but she is pretty damn smoking hot, in a Xena kind of way.

Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (sdi6R)

71 the German system of schooling

be careful what you wish for. They test kids when they are very young, age 10. How you perform on a test when you are 10 determines if they will allow you to apply for college or if you should go to a votec instead

Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (zOTsN)

72 This is what has to be kept in mind when we see how actual Republicans (read: not teh Moron Horde) vote.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 10:48 PM (AVEe1)


This troubles me too, this extreme anti-choice position will only alienate the sensible center.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 11:04 PM (8zCR+)

73 I couldn't or intend to put smiley face after last post. I
Put (: & ?) because I wasn't sure when I woke up.
I got up a little after 6 am, but only care what time it us when I'm out in Rose garden & know when sunset is.

Posted by: Carol at January 22, 2015 11:04 PM (sj3Ax)

74 >>>It's not that deep, buddy. It's literally just an acronym for the arabic translation of their name. Which has "Islam" in it.

Yeah, but "Daesh" or whatever doesn't sound like an obvious acronym just a foreign word. ISIS does, unless you're an Archer fan. Then, it's just funny.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:04 PM (e+1S5)

75 'Desh' was the middle-eastern Treadstone/Blackbriar assassin in The Bourne Supremecy.

Posted by: davidt at January 22, 2015 11:04 PM (fBxC6)

76 maybe some special snowflake princess should design a toilet that speeds up the bathroom routine for women, instead of bithching and whining until some man comes up with a solution.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:04 PM (VkSuo)

77 Why do they consider it an insult? Or did WaPo just pull that out of their ass?

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:00 PM (zxCGA)


Nope, that's legit.

"There are many different spellings of this acronym with DAESH gaining acceptance. ISIL considers the name Da'ish derogatory for it sounds similar to the Arabic words Daes, "one who crushes something underfoot," and Dahes, "one who sows discord. and reportedly uses flogging as a punishment for those who use the name in ISIL-controlled areas"

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:04 PM (GEICT)

78 Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?

Women's clothing is often more complicated than men's, particularly if we're talking business or formal attire; try rassling with a pair of pantyhose some time without causing a snag or runner.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (omf9g)

79 Yeah, but ultimately some penis possessor is being inconvenienced waiting for his date to get out of the rest room.
We figure that isn't likely to be a problem for the type of guys that go to recitals, musicals and concerts.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (L6/+u)

80 M-60 in ROTC. It's a slow gun

butter, butter, butter, jam, butter, butter, butter, jam

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (zauWW)

81 http://tinyurl.com/qgpbsaz

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (zxCGA)


Damn you to hell. *borrows raptor from AtC's stable*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (FsuaD)

82 28
Ya know, Cthulhu, I'm not sure "howdy" is fitting with your image. You
may want to roughen that up a bit, like "Greetings. May I suck you into
the horrifying abyss of the elder ones?" or something.



Just sayin'

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (KG0mU)


Irony -- do you speak it?

Besides, it would more likely be, "I will swallow your soul!" -- http://tinyurl.com/m6f2h9v

Posted by: cthulhu at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (T1005)

83 Chavez piss away buddy. Oh btw happy "Friday"

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (y2suD)

84 country's being run by a German word not mentioned in the post.

sitzpinklers.

All of 'em. Except maybe Hillary.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (KG0mU)

85
This morning Hector made a salient point
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo




You should probably seek prompt medical attention for that concussion.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 11:06 PM (kdS6q)

86 butter, butter, butter, jam, butter, butter, butter, jam


Stop twisting the belt!


Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:06 PM (doBIb)

87 84: Thanks man. Will enjoy my extra day.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:06 PM (ucDmr)

88 maybe women could get in and out of the restroom more quidkly if they had a trough like the men do?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:06 PM (VkSuo)

89 That chimp pitches for the Gombe Fuvking Monkeys.

Posted by: Garrett at January 22, 2015 11:06 PM (PyRKS)

90 To recap the foreign policy events of just the last few days:

Yemen is pretty much a failed state now (after being touted by Obama as a major foreign policy success) and Nigeria is close with Boko Haram (not a terrorist group according to Hill-dawg).

The Big Cheese Saudi King just departed this mortal coil, inserting even more uncertainty.

And that "ceasefire" in Ukraine is still going on, with Donesk being shelled and that airport (a symbol of resistance) being finally taken by the Russian-backed rebels.

http://tinyurl.com/p66m4u9

Oh and ISIS is metastasizing in Syria.

Did I miss anything?

Posted by: Thrawn at January 22, 2015 11:06 PM (d7XFS)

91 Women could just wear loincloths.

Posted by: eman at January 22, 2015 11:07 PM (MQEz6)

92 Checking in to say that I wished I'd had a "Morons for Life" banner at the March for Life today. The best sign was held by a normal-looking middle aged guy standing on the sidewalk near the end at Capitol Hill. Homemade: "I lost a child to abortion. Don't lose yours.'
I waved to him but he didn't see me.
Glad I was able to go, though.

Posted by: LadyS at January 22, 2015 11:07 PM (5dip8)

93 I'd pay to see that chimp in a cage match with Seth Rogan and Michael Moore.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:07 PM (FsuaD)

94
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday tapped former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as chairman of his education foundation, turning over the organization to the former diplomat and academic



Common Core trend-ucation plus incompetent Bush administration management? What's not to like?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 11:08 PM (kdS6q)

95 67 Notice that Maet didn't include Scooby in that pic. After this much time, we all know that Scooby and Scrappy(thankfully) have crossed the Rainbow Bridge.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, 0 days without a fapping incident at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (+Fae7)

He also did not put in Shaggy.... who is now Rear Admiral Shagster, head of the National Security Agency.

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 22, 2015 11:08 PM (qh617)

96 That map of the Constitution Free Zone is a bit misleading. They could take all that orange color, and just layer it directly atop Washington, D.C.

I hear that "orange" is a happening color there, these days?


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 22, 2015 11:08 PM (RzZOc)

97 I also know that no matter how hard you shake, or how hard you dance..... the last drop always falls in your pants. It is tough to be a dude at times.......

Posted by: Trunk Monkey at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (fLKzW)

98 If the line was too long at a bar, I told my wife just go between cars in the parking lot. I'll stand guard. Chivalry and all. You know?

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (ucDmr)

99 Women's clothing is often more complicated than men's, particularly if we're talking business or formal attire; try rassling with a pair of pantyhose some time without causing a snag or runner.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (omf9g)




well, as soon as they get the vote they can pass some laws to make men stop making them dress in certain clothes and wear easy access, high efficiency clothing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (VkSuo)

100 He also did not put in Shaggy.... who is now Rear Admiral Shagster, head of the National Security Agency.


I thought Shaggy ended up CEO of Domino's?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (doBIb)

101 country's being run by a German word not mentioned in the post.

Scheisskopfen will do nicely too.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (omf9g)

102 I'd pay to see that chimp in a cage match with Seth Rogan and Michael Moore.
Posted by: Jane D'oh


Unfair advantage for the chimp.

Rogan and Moore would be stunned, wondering what those things between its legs are.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (fADgx)

103 Meh. Whatever the bloodthirsty head choppers want to be called, I'm cool with it. Find out what it is, and write it in pigs blood on every JDAM we have.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (e+1S5)

104 well, as soon as they get the vote they can pass some laws to make men stop making them dress in certain clothes and wear easy access, high efficiency clothing.


Nothin but skirts!

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (doBIb)

105 yes you missed Israel

Iran and Hezbollah are building four missile sites on the Syrian border with Israel to fire into the Golan. Israel objected and drone an Iranian General and some very high ranking Hezbollah

and the JEF isnt speaking to Netanyahu and is trying to affect Israeli elections

and he says he doesnt have to get Congressional approval of the "deal" he is making with Iran

Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (zOTsN)

106 93 I'd pay to see that chimp in a cage match with Seth Rogan and Michael Moore.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:07 PM (FsuaD)

They would piss & shit themselves in horror. Gutless, spineless, testicle free squishes

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (y2suD)

107 I'm waiting for teh men to start wearing nothing but kilts.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (FsuaD)

108 Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Thursday tapped former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as chairman of his education foundation, turning over the organization to the former diplomat and academic



Common Core trend-ucation plus incompetent Bush administration management? What's not to like?
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 11:08 PM (kdS6q)



jeb tapped condi?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (VkSuo)

109 Clint Eastwood threatened to kill Michael Moore.


Snopes- 'True'


*smile on my face

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (zxCGA)

110 I'm starting to catch on. You're not the *real* Cthulhu, are you? You rascal.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (KG0mU)

111 Thelma is into swinging now with multiple men.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (JO9+V)

112 Ok, I've had a day. Time to get into the tequila.

Who's with me?

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (e+1S5)

113 106: Testicle free. Sounds organic. I hate organic.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (ucDmr)

114 Future clothing will contain nanotechnology.

These advanced little helpers will allow you to pee or crap in your clothes at any time and neither you or anyone else will notice a thing.

Except a refreshing scent of jasmine.

Posted by: eman at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (MQEz6)

115 Sorry but this is bullshit. The GOP has been the one party that has been consistently anti-abortion ever since Roe v. Wade. A procedural kerfuffle over a single bill to restrict federally-funded late-term abortions does NOT all of a sudden make it a pro-abortion party.


Posted by: Maetenloch at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (pAlYe)


I will predict that even with majorities in the House and Senate... the 20 week bill will NOT pass...

Our betters in Washington are not really interested in this fight... or any fight that matters to We, the People.

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 22, 2015 11:12 PM (qh617)

116 98 If the line was too long at a bar, I told my wife just go between cars in the parking lot. I'll stand guard. Chivalry and all. You know?
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22

Ha. Lots of corn fields there in Hooterville.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:12 PM (y2suD)

117 Nothin but skirts!

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (doBIb)


I was wondering if rebellious girls in no go zones go commando under their burkas?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:12 PM (VkSuo)

118 114 Future clothing will contain nanotechnology.

These advanced little helpers will allow you to pee or crap in your clothes at any time and neither you or anyone else will notice a thing.

Except a refreshing scent of jasmine.
Posted by: eman at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (MQEz6)



The guys get Stillsuits!!!


Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:12 PM (doBIb)

119 112 Ok, I've had a day. Time to get into the tequila.

Who's with me?

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:11 PM (e+1S5)



You're about 5 hours behind.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:12 PM (GEICT)

120 the future belongs to the pantsless

Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 11:13 PM (zOTsN)

121 116: That too. Oh to be young again.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:13 PM (ucDmr)

122 98 If the line was too long at a bar, I told my wife just go between cars in the parking lot. I'll stand guard. Chivalry and all. You know?
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22

Ha. Lots of corn fields there in Hooterville.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:12 PM (y2suD)



I believe that is referred to as the dunham.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:13 PM (VkSuo)

123 Wasn't Velma featured at the SotU? Soon to have a show on MSNBC?

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:13 PM (zxCGA)

124 Hmmm. Advanced little helpers in my pants. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 11:14 PM (KG0mU)

125 Abortion lowers the demographic of The Wire. In years to come, it lowers the number of bastards who will more-likely vote for freebies that is, for the commies (end-state of "democrats").
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 10:48 PM (AVEe1)

Talk to people who work in schools. It's middle class, productive people who are limiting the number of children. The FSA are having larger families than people who have good incomes. Apparently, a lot of them don't want abortions. We have easily available abortions, and yet the number of people needing food stamps, rent subsidies, and so on is huge. Abortion is not solving the problem of ignorant, irresponsible people having multiple children that they can't care for decently.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:14 PM (DXcH1)

126 107 I'm waiting for teh men to start wearing nothing but kilts.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (FsuaD)


Celtic Faire... March... Sonora CA....

BB Wolf in his Kilt... With his Lady Little Red wearing her dress.... and Long Red Cape...

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 22, 2015 11:14 PM (qh617)

127 That picture of Jessica Valenti. She looks,,,,ok. Physically I mean. BUT,,,,,she reminds me of a woman I was stationed with in Florida. A hazel eyed blond with a figure women usually starve themselves for and she came by hers naturally. Physically a very pretty girl. She was also a miserable, nasty piece of work and that is what shown through, unfortunately. When I knew her, she was 23 and had already been married 3 times.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:14 PM (cEzLK)

128 If the line was too long at a bar, I told my wife just go between cars in the parking lot. I'll stand guard. Chivalry and all. You know?
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22



Haha, friend of the wife got busted doing that and ticketed for public indecency somethingorother.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:14 PM (doBIb)

129 when does that TV show with the men in kilts and the time traveling lady start up agin

Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 11:15 PM (zOTsN)

130 It seems to me the best defense against rape is to look like Jessica Valenti.

Or at wear a t-shirt with that pic on it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 22, 2015 11:15 PM (oFCZn)

131 Sweat pants, down up. What's the fugging problem.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:15 PM (y2suD)

132 Who's with me?

happy to help ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H6amDbAwlY

Posted by: Adriane the Tequila Critic ... at January 22, 2015 11:16 PM (P+IZm)

133 Future clothing...

Erin Gray in Buck Roger's spandex will do nicely.

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:16 PM (zxCGA)

134 Rub a dub dub, eating Fruit Loops in my tub.
Oh....and interviewing the leader of the free world.

Posted by: Glozell Green at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (GFmII)

135 Speaking of tequila.....a while back an Ette recommended Milagro tequila to me. Does anyone happen to remember who it was? Or maybe that person is here.....

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (GEICT)

136 is there a point where ugly women complain about rape discrimination because rapists ignoring them?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (VkSuo)

137 Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (doBIb)


Gotta hang your purse up, or find a way to keep it off floor if no hanger is present. If this involves hanging it around your neck, you then are slowed down even further.

Check for seat covers.

If no seat covers are present, you have to inspect seat very carefully to decide how many layers of TP are going to be needed to make one.

The first one you make invariably falls in, so you have to make another. Usually with your fucking purse slapping you some where, or doing its best to fall in to the toilet.

Then you disrobe and we have more layers, as a rule. everything has to come off, we can't just reach in and whip anything out.

Then we have to tear off a foot or so of TP on the roll and place it atop the dispenser, so as to avoid catching cooties from whoever touched it last.

By this time it is entirely possible that we have used all the TP, and need to dig around inside the dispenser to get the other roll started. This alone can take 5 minutes, certainly no less than 3.

Then the clean up commences; Sheryl Crow can kiss my ass...I like to be clean and dry when I am done and this takes time, and plenty more TP. And may I remind you that this is in all likelihood being done with a purse on your lap.

So all the layers have to be hiked back up or down, and you have to make sure everything is tucked back in or lined back up or isn't all bunched up and your panties aren't showing.

Then you have to flush a time or two because of the multiple layers of makeshift toilet seat cover. And the piece of TP you tore off and didn't use.

Then of course you have to wash up, and if you wear makeup, touch that up, and maybe fix your hair which has gotten all tangled up in the damn purse strap you have had around your neck all this time.

Add ten minutes to this if it's your Shark Week and things need attending to.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (Pauop)

138 Valenti is married to some beta male pajama boy.


I would jump off a building instead.



On fire.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (doBIb)

139 128: How is that indecent? I don't get it. Unless......

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (ucDmr)

140 Haha, friend of the wife got busted doing that and ticketed for public indecency somethingorother.
Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:14 PM (doBIb)

And cops wonder why they are considered dicks at times?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (y2suD)

141 The guy who wrote Freakanomics said the same thing. Abortion lowers crime rate in the next decade.
Steve Sailer's statistical analysis showed that to be wrong. What accounted for the crime drop was young blacks killing each other at younger ages than ever before so they weren't around to commit more crimes in their late teens and early twenties; and there were problems with the dates they based their claims on as I vaguely recall. He fought it out with one of the Freakanomics authors online (libertarian site?) but when I just tried accessing the pages for the fight I bookmarked years and years ago, they were dead. Maybe there are live links archived at Sailer's blog?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (L6/+u)

142 Advanced little helpers in my pants.

Sounds more like a bad case of crabs rather than nanotechnology.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (omf9g)

143 yankeefifth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:18 PM (Pauop)

144 For those who missed it earlier today, a poster offered this, the C-More Systems M26 http://tinyurl.com/mnhoujv

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:18 PM (vPh3W)

145 Add ten minutes to this if it's your Shark Week and things need attending to.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (Pauop)

so you are saying we need a combination toilet bidet?

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:18 PM (VkSuo)

146 My sister works as a teachers' aide in a public school. Not only do poor people continue having kids when they can't feed the ones they already have, but the kids are a mess. We aren't just paying for these kids through welfare, EBT cards, and so on. We're paying enormous amounts of money for their education because many of these kids need very expensive special ed services. She works in a school that is kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades. Every week she has stories of 5 year olds how hitting teachers, spitting at them, having to be picked up and carried to the office because they are out of control. Abortion is NOT solving these problems because either the people want the free shit that kids entitle them to, or they're just too dumb to take responsibility for their reproduction.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (DXcH1)

147 >>>You're about 5 hours behind.

Not my fault. I only got home two hours ago, and then had 90 minutes of admin bullshit work and prep for tomorrow.

Working for a living is a real pain in the dick. But I like money. I'm really a big fan of it.

So, I guess I will work diligently at catching up to the rest of the horde.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (e+1S5)

148 Thank you for causing all the deforestation ladies!


Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (doBIb)

149
Add ten minutes to this if it's your Shark Week and things need attending to.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (Pauop)

Love ya Tammy. But next time stay home, Depens or a catheter

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (y2suD)

150 That is an awfully long 100 miles.

Posted by: Javems at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (ZnvRl)

151 But OWS ers can shit on squad cars. A ok. Fuckin bullshit I say.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (ucDmr)

152 Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (Pauop)

you forgot the part about arranging for all the men to have mismatched socks ...

Posted by: Adriane the Hosiery Critic ... at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (P+IZm)

153 MissTammy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:20 PM (VkSuo)

154 And cops wonder why they are considered dicks at times?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (y2suD)



Yeah, it's terrible how they enforce laws to keep people from pissing and crapping in the streets.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:20 PM (GEICT)

155 Why architects don't make more facilities for women is beyond me.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:53 PM (9BRsg)

I have been in design conferences and openly advocated unisex restrooms with long slit trenches - reduces cost and environmental impacts (which was the whole point of the conference - they best they came up with was waterless urinals). It's coming...

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2015 11:20 PM (NaeCR)

156 Ever since they took the troughs out and out individual urinals in the lines at the men's room dwarves those at the women's room. What a crock of shit
Posted by: The real ch3 at January 22, 2015 10:50 PM (LwKUt)

Troughs? What the hell? I thought they had urinals all along.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:20 PM (DXcH1)

157 It seems to me the best defense against rape is to look like Jessica Valenti.
-----------------------

"Who's bitch is this!"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:20 PM (vPh3W)

158 135
Speaking of tequila.....a while back an Ette recommended Milagro tequila
to me. Does anyone happen to remember who it was? Or maybe that person
is here.....

Posted by: BCochran at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (GEICT)




*waves*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:21 PM (FsuaD)

159 >>>Speaking of tequila.....a while back an Ette recommended Milagro tequila to me. Does anyone happen to remember who it was? Or maybe that person is here.....

That was me, you dick. Although I think an ette did recommend it as well.

Milagro silver is the best buy out there, maybe $28 or less. Espolon is good too. That's what I've got currently.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:22 PM (e+1S5)

160 I'm waiting for teh men to start wearing nothing but kilts.
So, ya think I'm sexy!

Posted by: fat bastard at January 22, 2015 11:22 PM (L6/+u)

161 Troughs? What the hell? I thought they had urinals all along.
Posted by: nerdy
-------------------

A trough is just that. A long uninterrupted trough. Used to be commonplace.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:22 PM (vPh3W)

162 be careful what you wish for. They test kids when they are very young, age 10. How you perform on a test when you are 10 determines if they will allow you to apply for college or if you should go to a votec instead

Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 11:03 PM (zOTsN)


One of the comments about the American Army is that "war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis". I think this applies to much of American culture. We don't require or do well in the rigid, formal structures that you see in places like Germany or East Asia. The result is often messy, but much more flexible. I like the idea that in America people go to community college to take a couple of classes that they need, and then jump back into the working world. That a person can change their whole life at 40 if they want to.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 22, 2015 11:22 PM (10ydV)

163 Troughs? What the hell? I thought they had urinals all along.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:20 PM (DXcH1)



Nope. Years ago in places like athletic stadiums (baseball or football stadiums) There was a single trough that ran the length of a wall. Water flowed constantly down the trough. Drains every so often.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:22 PM (GEICT)

164
A procedural kerfuffle over a single bill to restrict federally-funded late-term abortions does NOT all of a sudden make it a pro-abortion party.
Posted by: Maetenloch




I can remember when the Republican Party wasn't a pro-Amnesty or pro-gay marriage party either. 2012 I think.

But here we are. After a long couple of years worth of kerfuffles.


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 11:23 PM (kdS6q)

165 We have a nearly empty bottle of Milagro Romance tequila on the bar now.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:23 PM (FsuaD)

166 That underslung shotgun is pretty pimp. Wish I had one.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:23 PM (doBIb)

167 154: Judging by last years protests, they don't. Relieving oneself in public in big city's is now considered free expression. Or something. Fucking lefties.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:23 PM (ucDmr)

168 144 For those who missed it earlier today, a poster offered this, the C-More Systems M26 http://tinyurl.com/mnhoujv
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January

Them ruffed grouse up at the cabin don't stans a chance.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:23 PM (y2suD)

169 22 Ok, so our foreign policy is name calling now.
Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 10:54 PM (zxCGA)

And bald, has been, 70's pop singers singing annoying songs. Don't forget that strategy.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:23 PM (DXcH1)

170 Love ya Tammy. But next time stay home, Depens or a catheter
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:19 PM (y2suD)


Trust me, I usually wait it out and go at home. But sometimes that isn't possible, although I did once manage to hold it three days going across country.

It ended in a hospital, though.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:24 PM (Pauop)

171 That was me, you dick. Although I think an ette did recommend it as well.

Milagro silver is the best buy out there, maybe $28 or less. Espolon is good too. That's what I've got currently.
Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:22 PM (e+1S5)



Ha!!! I'm pretty sure an Ette did as well. Anywho, I'm not sure whether to thank y'all or throatpunch you. That shit is good, way too good.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:24 PM (GEICT)

172 A trough is just that. A long uninterrupted trough. Used to be commonplace.

Can still be found in the men's room at Wrigley Field; no wonder the Cubs haven't won the Series since 1908.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22, 2015 11:24 PM (omf9g)

173 I can remember when the Republican Party wasn't a pro-Amnesty or pro-gay marriage party either. 2012 I think.
---

Hater.
/s

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 11:24 PM (9BRsg)

174 That underslung shotgun is pretty pimp. Wish I had one.
Posted by: EC
--------------

Sorry..., barrel is too short for citizens to own.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:24 PM (vPh3W)

175
Ha!!! I'm pretty sure an Ette did as well. Anywho, I'm not sure
whether to thank y'all or throatpunch you. That shit is good, way too
good.



*WAVES AGAIN*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:25 PM (FsuaD)

176 Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (vSxTY)

There need to be lawsuits. Ordinarily I don't care for lawsuit lawyers, but kicking people out without due process is just wrong.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:25 PM (DXcH1)

177 Sorry..., barrel is too short for citizens to own.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Hmmm. Just came to me, how come a Taurus Judge is legal?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:25 PM (vPh3W)

178 170: three days? Damn , there are no words. I went three hours once, thought I was gonna die. Holy shit.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:26 PM (ucDmr)

179 Sorry..., barrel is too short for citizens to own.


*prepares NFA paperwork*

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:26 PM (doBIb)

180 Nothin but skirts!





Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (doBIb)

If they are modest they can pull the waistline up above their breasts.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 22, 2015 11:26 PM (NaeCR)

181 30 >>Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?

We're braiding each other's hair and having pillow fights.
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 10:56 PM (9BRsg)

And getting naked. Gotta get all nuded up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:26 PM (DXcH1)

182 >>>Ha!!! I'm pretty sure an Ette did as well. Anywho, I'm not sure whether to thank y'all or throatpunch you. That shit is good, way too good.

So you're just gonna ignore Mrs. D'oh?

Your funeral.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:27 PM (e+1S5)

183 167 154: Judging by last years protests, they don't. Relieving oneself in public in big city's is now considered free expression. Or something. Fucking lefties.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:23 PM

BC a woman relieving herself in some out of the way spot in parking lot could've been sent home by the cop. Cops do have discretion. If a ticket had to be given I'm betting that a disorderly or drunk in public beats an indecent exposure charge. The problem with discretion is that a lot of cops don't know how to use it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:27 PM (y2suD)

184 Hmmm. Just came to me, how come a Taurus Judge is legal?


Because that's a pistol, and not a SBR.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:27 PM (doBIb)

185 *prepares to throatpunch BCochran*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:27 PM (FsuaD)

186 21
5: Jane: Oblabla couldn't sire a son. I'm pretty sure Malaria and
whatever her name is are both aberrations. Who knows who knocked up
Mooch.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 10:54 PM (ucDmr)
I think Mooch knocked up Choom.

Posted by: Titanium at January 22, 2015 11:27 PM (u9UgT)

187 And getting naked. Gotta get all nuded up.


I sense cuts within jibs within newsletters.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (doBIb)

188 56 Abortion lowers the demographic of The Wire. In years to come, it lowers the number of bastards who will more-likely vote for freebies that is, for the commies (end-state of "democrats").


The guy who wrote Freakanomics said the same thing. Abortion lowers crime rate in the next decade.
Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:01 PM (doBIb)



I think that's bullshit. He attempted to use roe to justify this. The problem is that there were several states that had legal abortions before. But his book didn't account for that iirc.

Posted by: Buzzion at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (71CVf)

189 A trough at a sports stadium is a great place to deflate your balls, y'know.

Posted by: T. Brady at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (RzZOc)

190 *WAVES AGAIN*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:25 PM (FsuaD)



My apologies! I didn't see your comment. It's late, I'm tired and a few tequilas in.

It's an excellent tequila, like I said. Too good.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (GEICT)

191 geez Tammy, I got four sisters and didn't know all that. Amazing what you can learn here!

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (KG0mU)

192 "Feministing?" Is that when a couple ugly lesbians use their entire hands to...


You know what, never mind.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 22, 2015
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Whenever my eyes see the word "Feministing", my brain sees "Fisting".

I gotta go with my brain on this one.

Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (fWLrt)

193
Hater. /s
Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober




I proactively denounce myself -- in the form of a cake frosted with the appropriate castigation.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (kdS6q)

194 Because that's a pistol, and not a SBR.
Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:27 PM (doBIb)

*****

*Cough* Revolver *Cough*

/Pedant

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 22, 2015 11:28 PM (bWGM5)

195 And yeah, I have to ration my Milagro buying. Rule is, if I buy a bottle on Friday, I can't buy another one for two weeks. Even if the bottle doesn't live to see sunrise on Sunday. Goes down waaaay too easy to be compatible with productivity at zero five.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (e+1S5)

196 Because that's a pistol, and not a SBR.
Posted by: EC
-------------------------

How can it evade the distinction of being a shotgun?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (vPh3W)

197 172 A trough is just that. A long uninterrupted trough. Used to be commonplace.

Can still be found in the men's room at Wrigley Field; no wonder the Cubs haven't won the Series since 1908.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22

The Metro-dome in Minneappolis had the rain gutter urinal system

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (y2suD)

198 Not getting the Jessica Valenti h8.

She looks awesome in that photo.

Of course, I'd probably do well to stay far, far away from her.

Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (sdi6R)

199 I am going to buy a bacanora because it has the oily smoky taste you get in some of the single malt scotches.

From a strain of agave called pacifica, the brand I can get in a local store is Cielo Rojo, at about $48 a bottle.

Anybody tried it?

Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (vSxTY)

200 Posted by: ThunderB, ShapeShifter at January 22, 2015 11:10 PM (zOTsN)

Good point.

Also about Iran, the Iranian ICBM program is going along.

http://tinyurl.com/m3lotap

Posted by: Thrawn at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (d7XFS)

201 I have no doubt that these feminist writers and analysts have always been Amanda Marcotte level batshit crazy. But now that they and their employers feel no need to hide it from the general public, what was sitting between their ears has come out in the open.

What happens when the feminist batshit crazy comes in conflict with other SJW crazies who want THEIR butthurts soothed immediately?

The only reason they ignore other politically correct groups coming in conflict with them is that the feminists were never about women but about THE cause of world socialism. Women's complaints get short shrift should it come in conflict with the Long March

Posted by: kbdabear at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (GrXXa)

202
Milagro silver is the best buy out there, maybe $28 or less. Espolon is good too. That's what I've got currently.
Posted by: DC in River City


I've said it before; HACIENDA DE CHIHUAHUA, Better than the best tequila.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (fADgx)

203 'Hey, babe! Ever been to Gombe? It's all the rage this year!'

Posted by: Eromero at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (go5uR)

204 The Astrodome had Texas-sized troughs. Great for returning all that Dome Foam.

Sigh. Another piece of history lost to the ages.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (JO9+V)

205 How can it evade the distinction of being a shotgun?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:29 PM (vPh3W)


Rifling in the barrel I believe. Even if it was unused.

Posted by: Maetenloch at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (pAlYe)

206 It's two, two guns in one!

Posted by: Doublemint Twins at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (fBxC6)

207 Cut down a single shot 12 ga. to the dimensions of a Judge, and you would be nabbed faster than you can say 'Ruby Ridge'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (vPh3W)

208 My party would make more headway with the American people if they would stop following far-right ideologues like Boehner. We would do better with leaders who would show some willingness to meet President Obama in the middle.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (8zCR+)

209 Our Milagro Romance tequila is in a bottle shaped like a bong (not that I'd know anything about that).

It's two tequilas in one bottle.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (FsuaD)

210 163: The last time I saw a trough was at the now defunct Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas VA. It was like the speedway, old and functioning and thats about it. It closed because they got tired of fighting city hall. The Manassas of today is WAAAAAYYYY different from the one when the track opened (50's). Taken over by beta males who find stock car racing icky; as suppose to the blue collar types and farmers it used to be.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:31 PM (cEzLK)

211 >>>And getting naked. Gotta get all nuded up.

This comment is worthless without visual aids.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:31 PM (e+1S5)

212 Troughs? What the hell? I thought they had urinals all along.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 22, 2015 11:20 PM (DXcH1)



Behold! http://tinyurl.com/lo4rmgk

Posted by: Country Singer at January 22, 2015 11:31 PM (nL0sw)

213 How can it evade the distinction of being a shotgun?


Because a pistol can fire a .410 shell too. There's another pistol, small thing that can fit inside your palm that holds two .410 shells. Looks like a pocket gun from hell.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:31 PM (doBIb)

214 Can still be found in the men's room at Wrigley Field; no wonder the Cubs haven't won the Series since 1908.
Posted by: Basement Cat
------------------

Last summer at Wrigley, I almost pulled out my cellphone to take a picture of the infamous trough system. But then I thought, what the hell am I thinking? Too many 10 dollar beers that day.

Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2015 11:31 PM (fWLrt)

215 Rifling in the barrel I believe. Even if it was unused.
Posted by: Maetenloch
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Ah. That's what I was looking for...., but it implies that a rifled shotgun barrel can be shortened below the 18" limit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (vPh3W)

216 I proactively denounce myself -- in the form of a cake frosted with the appropriate castigation.
---

Hate cake goes great with hate chicken.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (9BRsg)

217 This talk of urinal troughs is making me feel a tad nauseous.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (FsuaD)

218 I did not know what Greenpeace had actually done the the Nazca Plains till I saw the photo at the link.

What they did is a crime against a national treasure and I'm pretty sure that the 20 or so idiots that perpetrated it will rot in Peru's worst prisons for a long time if they are ever extradited and stand trial.

Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (baiNQ)

219 186: That delivery room must have been a fuckin hoot.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (ucDmr)

220 CHIHUAHUA-yummy
Posted by: Muzzie dog eaters everywhere

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (y2suD)

221 Troughs - efficient. Anyone ever been in the men's room at Madonna Inn in central California?

OK that didn't sound too good.

Anyway. Like pissing in the town fountain or something.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (KG0mU)

222 Because a pistol can fire a .410 shell too. There's another pistol, small thing that can fit inside your palm that holds two .410 shells. Looks like a pocket gun from hell.
Posted by: EC
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That's begging the question. That it has a pistol grip matters little. A cut-down shotgun might also have a pistol grip.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:33 PM (vPh3W)

223 Ah. That's what I was looking for...., but it implies that a rifled shotgun barrel can be shortened below the 18" limit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (vPh3W)



Are you trying to make sense of federal gun laws?

Dude, that way lies madness.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:33 PM (GEICT)

224 >>>I've said it before; HACIENDA DE CHIHUAHUA, Better than the best tequila.

Reviews look good, but I haven't seen it around my little town. Looks a little spendy, but if I see it, I'll give it a try.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (e+1S5)

225 I remember troughs at Connie Mack Stadium in 1969. I was 11 years old, and I think it scarred me for life.

Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (sdi6R)

226 Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:31 PM (cEzLK)


There are still some troughs in Davis-Wade Stadium at Mississippi State. They're often referred to as "The Templeton Troughs" in honor of a past, despised Athletic Director who absolutely refused to spend money on repairing or upgrading athletic facilities.

Posted by: Country Singer at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (nL0sw)

227 Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:26 PM (ucDmr)

I have, well had, Shy Bladder Syndrome as a yute. I couldn't "go" in a public restroom til I was 21. I could hold it a loooooong time! That particular trip is what made me realize I needed to GTF over it!

The first year Thor and I were married, I'd ask him to go get me a fountain coke if he was home when I needed to do that thing that girls don't do.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (Pauop)

228 Troughs are dangerous, too easy to cross the streams.

Posted by: Dr Egon Spengler at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (fBxC6)

229 177
Sorry..., barrel is too short for citizens to own.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

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Hmmm. Just came to me, how come a Taurus Judge is legal?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:25 PM (vPh3W)


'Cause it's meant to be fired one-handed.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (T1005)

230 This talk of urinal troughs is making me feel a tad nauseous.
Posted by: Jane
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You ought catch a whiff of one...., in an unairconditioned head...., in August. It's like a giant cat box, that has turned.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (vPh3W)

231 The men's rooms in the tents at Munich's Oktoberfest - you can actually go while walking through the entire system. In one door and out the other. And, the trains run on time.

Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (fWLrt)

232 Who bitch is dis?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (6fyGz)

233 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:17 PM (Pauop)

Let's not forget those terrible moments when you discover there is no toliet paper in your stall. So you ask the women in the stalls next to you. They say, "Damnit no, we don't have any toliet paper either."

So then you have to dig frantically through your purse trying to find Kleenex. If you can't, you're screwed and have to squat there and try to drip dry.

Boys, you have no idea...

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (+XMAD)

234 I am happy to report that Texas World Speedway near College Station, TX still uses the trough system. Like walking through a time tunnel when you go through the men's room doors. Well, the building archway where the doors would go if they had doors.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (JO9+V)

235 63 Wimminz like to go to the restroom and talk with their friends and look through their purses. That's my take anyway.....
Posted by: Trunk Monkey at January 22, 2015 11:02 PM (fLKzW)

Well there's more going on than that. Don't ask how I know.

Posted by: Chuck Berry at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (DXcH1)

236 The first year Thor and I were married, I'd ask him to go get me a fountain coke if he was home when I needed to do that thing that girls don't do.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (Pauop)

*******

Pass gas?

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (Vf63U)

237 I remember troughs at Connie Mack Stadium in 1969. I was 11 years old, and I think it scarred me for life.

Posted by: rickl at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (sdi6R)


Numbah One Piano Bar, Naples IT.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (6fyGz)

238 Its very simple, ladies. Go back to wearing the long skirts, with open crotch drawers. You'll be able to pee in public like the guys do

Posted by: notsothoreau at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (Lqy/e)

239 My party needs to stop putting forward arch-conservatives like Boehner and McConnell that pander to the base, and instead find leaders able to reach consensus with President Obama.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (8zCR+)

240 215 Rifling in the barrel I believe. Even if it was unused.
Posted by: Maetenloch
---------------
Ah. That's what I was looking for...., but it implies that a rifled shotgun barrel can be shortened below the 18" limit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:32 PM (vPh3W)


True but then it may run into caliber restrictions that make .410 the only viable shotgun ammo.

As an aside I've been looking at some of the 12 gauge adapters for sale that convert a 26.5mm flare gun into a single-shot firearm. But I don't see how there's any legal way for you to actually use them without running afoul of some federal law.

Posted by: Maetenloch at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (pAlYe)

241 228 Troughs are dangerous, too easy to cross the streams.
Posted by: Dr Egon Spengler at January 22, 2015 11:34 PM (fBxC6)

Many a midget has fallen in. Doomed.

Posted by: eman at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (MQEz6)

242 So then you have to dig frantically through your purse trying to find Kleenex. If you can't, you're screwed and have to squat there and try to drip dry.


No wonder you carry everything in there!

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:37 PM (doBIb)

243 Numbah One Piano Bar, Naples IT.


Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (6fyGz)


God.... hadn't thought of that place in YEARS....

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 22, 2015 11:37 PM (qh617)

244 There was a bar in Detroit many years ago that had a galvanized trough at the base of the bar so you could drink and pee and the same time. Not much time to get soused on a union lunch break.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 22, 2015 11:37 PM (l3vZN)

245 Sigh. I look into what Conservatives believe, versus where Republicans' electoral self-interest lies; and it's called "bullshit".

You are not them. They are not you. Please quit pretending otherwise.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 22, 2015 11:37 PM (AVEe1)

246 #JeSuisPage3 ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/558131181263552513

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/558132298911334400

Posted by: kbdabear at January 22, 2015 11:38 PM (GrXXa)

247 Evenin' everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 22, 2015 11:38 PM (UVfht)

248 Cazadores, Herradura, Don Julio - in Silver or anejo - repasado is like green label JD - to be avoided ...

Posted by: Joe at January 22, 2015 11:38 PM (e5rWY)

249 Jordan Carver has some bigguns.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:39 PM (doBIb)

250 227: Tammy, I've heard of that. Hope you are through with that shit. On the other hand, public restrooms suck. Unless you are really wasted or desperate.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:39 PM (ucDmr)

251 What's fun is watching the drunks and/or unsupervised little guys start to wash their hands in the water spray of the "big sink."

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2015 11:39 PM (JO9+V)

252 Well, our son has officially closed his Facebook account, but got in one last dig at his old CiC.

Husband suggested since he's looking to go into certain gubmint work after getting his criminal justice degree, he should keep all his shit to himself.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:40 PM (FsuaD)

253 198:I don't think anybody is hating her looks. She's pretty. She also a bitter, nasty, harpy.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:40 PM (cEzLK)

254 Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (+XMAD)

Seriously, only happened to me once.

I am very thorough in my forays into Public Restrooms.

I check for TP, check to make sure the door locks, etc etc.

And lets not forget some bitches is just straight-up nasty and you may have to check three or four stalls out before finding one that is fit. More time spent.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:40 PM (Pauop)

255 Taurus Judge is legal because it has a rifled barrel. Were it a smoothbore, it'd be an illegally short-barreled shotgun.

Downside of course, is that said rifling really plays hell on a .410 shot cartridges pattern at much beyond 10 yards or so. And it's not exactly a tack driver with .45 Colt, with that massive "jump" from the cartridge, through the excess chamber necessary for the .410 cartridges, and other variables along the way.

Some of the rounds developed specifically for the Judge, perform reasonably well. But, you can get the same or better performance, in guns half the size or smaller, with two to three times the Judge's five-round limited capacity.

There is nothing that recommends the Judge, beyond the mere novelty thereof, or the "comforting" feel of having such a massive paperweight on one's nightstand.

And this, from a seriously dedicated wheelgun user. I shoot IDPA with a S&W Model 28-2, 4" Highway Patrolman. I'm not against revolvers at all. It's just that there are so many better, wiser choices than the Taurus Judge or S&W Governor.

Oh, and I did get to check out the new Ruger LCR, in the 3" version, with adjustable sights and exposed hammer for a single-action option, to compliment the basic design's double-action-only, original inception.

Damn thing is light as a feather. Double action was smooth, could be lighter. The single action was easily a six-pound pull. If Ruger has a S&W style "custom shop", I'd want mine to take a detour there for a good action job, first.

But I'm seriously going to add one to the inventory. Will be perfect for extreme summer carry.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (RzZOc)

256 Ah. That's what I was looking for...., but it implies that a rifled shotgun barrel can be shortened below the 18" limit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January

Our betters.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (y2suD)

257 >>>As an aside I've been looking at some of the 12 gauge adapters for sale that convert a 26.5mm flare gun into a single-shot firearm. But I don't see how there's any legal way for you to actually use them without running afoul of some federal law.

Time comes you're using a converted flare gun to fire a 12 gauge shell, I think we're well into the Burning Times, and federal regs are gonna be the least of your concerns.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (e+1S5)

258 I can break these cuffs!

Posted by: Miracle Midget at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (XweGt)

259 If you can't, you're screwed and have to squat there and try to drip dry.

Boys, you have no idea...
Posted by: Donna
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That's why I always wear socks. Never know when one might come in handy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (vPh3W)

260 Ginger Thursday #JeSuisPage3 ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/558309044046528512

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/558309309831217152

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/558310813615013888

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/558311723124662274

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/558334409301295104

Posted by: kbdabear at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (GrXXa)

261 Herradura is what the mister likes.

Posted by: Y-not, stone cold sober at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (9BRsg)

262
And lets not forget some bitches is just
straight-up nasty and you may have to check three or four stalls out
before finding one that is fit. More time spent.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:40 PM (Pauop)


Never go into a stall after a toddler, whose mom has proudly let her go "by herself."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (FsuaD)

263 Yet Another Discriminatory Tool of the Patriarchy: Women's Public Restrooms

Excuse me while I whip this out

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at January 22, 2015 11:42 PM (0Ew3K)

264 Damn, shinblade doesn't look like a Republican.

Posted by: Randy Westerfeld at January 22, 2015 11:42 PM (rJRsj)

265 >>Women's clothing is often more complicated than men's, particularly if
we're talking business or formal attire; try rassling with a pair of
pantyhose some time without causing a snag or runner.

Posted by: Basement Cat



I'm pretty sure men didn't make the decision to replace garter belts and stockings with pantyhose.

Posted by: Aviator at January 22, 2015 11:42 PM (3rrMW)

266 Posted by: notsothoreau at January 22, 2015 11:36 PM (Lqy/e)

You still have to gather that skirt up and keep it up off the nasty ass floor, let alone out of the toilet before you sit down. I have maxi-dresses, trust me on this.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:43 PM (Pauop)

267 34: Oh, thought they closed that place years ago. What races there?

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:44 PM (cEzLK)

268 Nothing, but nothing is as bad as Port-A-Potties, especially in the summer. Summer nights when you close the door and it's dark in there and you're desperately trying to keep your person and your person from touching anything in that foul cesspool because you feel like if your skin even brushes a port-A-potty seat, you'll come down with crabs and scabies and ass cancer. And you're breathing through your mouth because the smell could knock over a skunk.

Hell isn't flames and pitchforks, it's being trapped in a Port-A-Potty for all eternity (unless you're the Boulder Toilet Hobo.)

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:45 PM (+XMAD)

269

Boys, you have no idea...
Posted by: Donna
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That's why I always wear socks. Never know when one might come in handy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:41 PM (vPh3W)

Sock fail?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:46 PM (y2suD)

270 234:Oh, thought they closed that place years ago. What races there?

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:46 PM (cEzLK)

271 I'm pretty sure men didn't make the decision to replace garter belts and stockings with pantyhose.
Posted by: Aviator
-----------------

Yeah..., I don't think you're going out on a limb there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:46 PM (vPh3W)

272 Let's not forget those terrible moments when you discover there is no toliet paper in your stall. So you ask the women in the stalls next to you. They say, "Damnit no, we don't have any toliet paper either."

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:35 PM (+XMAD)

I'm sorry I can't spare a square!!!

Posted by: Jamie Gertz at January 22, 2015 11:47 PM (GrXXa)

273 We had to destroy the planet in order to save it ...

Posted by: Greenpeace at January 22, 2015 11:47 PM (e5rWY)

274 'Night all.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 22, 2015 11:48 PM (FsuaD)

275 Nothing, but nothing is as bad as Port-A-Potties,
---------------

Speaking of that, I think the guy that finally figured out that putting a funnel/urinal in Porta Potties should win a prize. Maybe a Nobel..., because he actually did something.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:48 PM (vPh3W)

276 God.... hadn't thought of that place in YEARS....

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 22, 2015 11:37 PM (qh617)


Sadly it's gone now, and the trough was filled in years before they closed it. Naples has really cleaned up its act, last time I was there (2003) there wasn't a HeyJoe in sight on the main street.

Not saying you couldn't find them, they just weren't out on the main drag like they used to be.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 22, 2015 11:48 PM (6fyGz)

277 >>>I'm pretty sure men didn't make the decision to replace garter belts and stockings with pantyhose.

Yeah, feminists, let's go with that. Down with the patriarchy! Bring back garters! Bring back garters!

Posted by: DC in River City at January 22, 2015 11:48 PM (e+1S5)

278 Posted by: Aviator at January 22, 2015 11:42 PM (3rrMW)

Yea, sure...YOU try peeing while wearing them. I dare ya.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:48 PM (Pauop)

279 99 Women's clothing is often more complicated than men's, particularly if we're talking business or formal attire; try rassling with a pair of pantyhose some time without causing a snag or runner.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (omf9g)




well, as soon as they get the vote they can pass some laws to make men stop making them dress in certain clothes and wear easy access, high efficiency clothing.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 22, 2015 11:09 PM (VkSuo)




I'd vote for thigh highs, mini skirts, and some sexy panties as the required outfit for wimmens going out to theaters/arenas/stadia/etc..

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, 01 days without a fapping incident at January 22, 2015 11:49 PM (+Fae7)

280 Oh, thought they closed that place years ago. What races there?


Car clubs. Some events are open to the public, some are closed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2015 11:49 PM (JO9+V)

281 I'm sorry I can't spare a square!!!
Posted by: Jamie Gertz at January 22, 2015

Damn, I thought that was Cheryl Crowe

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:49 PM (y2suD)

282 I'm beginning to omit words. Must be bedtime.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:49 PM (vPh3W)

283 Ok, beef jerky or leftover salted cold turkey.

How about bout!


Done!

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:49 PM (zxCGA)

284 268: Donna, They are the worst. I can't imagine a female using one. Hell, I puked in one at Indy one year it was so bad. I told my wife, move along, you don't have to go that bad.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:50 PM (ucDmr)

285 Why didn't Shinblade do a spinning uppercut on her?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:50 PM (doBIb)

286 Whoz bitch this is?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 22, 2015 11:50 PM (FZbaK)

287 Both

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:51 PM (zxCGA)

288 "check to make sure the door locks"

Oh, yeah, cause that's always fun too - you find the door doesn't lock or stay shut, so you have to squat, hold your purse in one hand and keep the door shut with the other....

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:51 PM (+XMAD)

289 Fuck skirts.

Fuck pantyhose.

And I have yet to see a female latrine that grossed me out less than the shitters we used in 2003...where the shit piles up until it gets burnt the next morning.

JP-8 does help with the smell...somewhat.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 22, 2015 11:51 PM (OsWis)

290 Hi Megyn Kelly!

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:51 PM (zxCGA)

291 288 "check to make sure the door locks"

Oh, yeah, cause that's always fun too - you find the door doesn't lock or stay shut, so you have to squat, hold your purse in one hand and keep the door shut with the other....
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:51 PM (+XMAD)




Do they have stalls with locks in the female barracks at boot camp?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:51 PM (doBIb)

292 The Porta Potty Chronicles

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:52 PM (vPh3W)

293 Whoz bitch this is?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 22, 2015 11:50 PM (FZbaK)


Little late to start acting like you care now.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at January 22, 2015 11:52 PM (6fyGz)

294 #221

Specifically, San Luis Obispo. I used to make a point of stopping there for a break whenever I had to make a trip up the 101 to the SF area from LA. Nowadays it makes more sense to take the 5 most of the way, considering it is walking distance from my house and I live one exit away from the base of the Grapevine.

Oh my, have I doxxed myself?

Posted by: Epobirs at January 22, 2015 11:52 PM (IdCqF)

295 Regarding the video game winner:

Was the "bitch' a random spectator, or someone with 'authori-tye'?
If random, then I am also asking "Whose bitch is this?"
If she was responsible for running that tournament, then the easiest way to get that wang-doodle in his seat is to just start the next match - if you snooze, you lose, biotches.

I am not a big fan of massively exuberant displays of celebration, but that is just me and my stuffy white privilege, probably.

His query WAS hilarious, however.

Posted by: Ian Galt at January 22, 2015 11:52 PM (dmepw)

296 Do they have stalls with locks in the female barracks at boot camp?

Posted by: EC
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Stalls? Who had stalls?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:52 PM (vPh3W)

297 Perhaps some sort of centrifuge....

Posted by: eman at January 22, 2015 11:53 PM (MQEz6)

298 Oh yeah. And suck it happy fun ball. I win!

Posted by: Buzzion at January 22, 2015 11:53 PM (71CVf)

299 296 Do they have stalls with locks in the female barracks at boot camp?

Posted by: EC
------------------

Stalls? Who had stalls?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:52 PM (vPh3W)



I'm asking.

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:53 PM (doBIb)

300 White guys' club rule: clothing is optional for the ladies. Bring your own cigars, however.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at January 22, 2015 11:53 PM (FZbaK)

301 Yay!

New ICBM silo in Iran.

Damn Varsity squad!

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:53 PM (zxCGA)

302 didn't have stalls in '87...had them in 2001

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 22, 2015 11:53 PM (OsWis)

303 Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:45 PM (+XMAD)

Oh dear God.... my worst nightmare.

I once was in charge of 8 little kindergartners on a field trip to go see the floats after the Rose Parade. Nothing but Port A Potties. And by the time my poor babies had to go, all of them were brim full. I had to hold the girls up while they did their little business. I was terrified I would drop them.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:54 PM (Pauop)

304
296 Do they have stalls with locks in the female barracks at boot camp?

Posted by: EC
------------------

Stalls? Who had stalls?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January

Special snowflakes?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:54 PM (y2suD)

305 GI nostalgia : http://tinyurl.com/p7qfh5d

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:55 PM (vPh3W)

306 so ICBM silos are needed to supply Iran with nuclear energy now?

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 22, 2015 11:55 PM (OsWis)

307 Watching The Kelly File. She's pretty. The world is going down the shitter. She's pretty. The country is boned. She's pretty.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:55 PM (cEzLK)

308

JP-8 does help with the smell...somewhat.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 22, 2015

James Taylor I've seen fire and ive seen rain.......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:56 PM (y2suD)

309 Posted by: Ian Galt at January 22, 2015 11:52 PM (dmepw)

The story that accompanies the link is the funniest thing I have read in a good while. Classic anti-feminazi stuff. Worth checking out. Probably offensive to the righteous.

I think someone in the comments mentions that she was trying to provoke him so she could say he attacked her and get him banned.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:56 PM (Pauop)

310 Damn. Bolton is walking his 10,000 steps a day.

Stay healthy John, we need you.

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:56 PM (zxCGA)

311 Megyn Kelly on the TV: "This just in: Obama has just lobbed nukes at China, creating a nuclear war. We're all gonna die!!!"

Puddleglum: "Damn she's pretty..."

;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 22, 2015 11:57 PM (elbY7)

312 Hi everybody.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 22, 2015 11:58 PM (elbY7)

313 306 so ICBM silos are needed to supply Iran with nuclear energy now?

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 22, 2015 11:55 PM (OsWis)



Oh that reminds me.....any of the Horde have some good knowledge or practical experience with nuke energy?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:58 PM (GEICT)

314 SMFH - It's hard to completely trust a man who's never been assigned shit-burning detail.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:58 PM (vPh3W)

315 Hi qdpsteve

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:58 PM (y2suD)

316 Hey MH.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 22, 2015 11:59 PM (elbY7)

317 Best comment in the YouTube channel:


"Probably the first time this grease pig touched a black man without reaching through a hole in a wall first".

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:59 PM (doBIb)

318 295 Regarding the video game winner:
Was the "bitch' a random spectator, or someone with 'authori-tye'?


In the original article there's a link to someone who claims to know her and says that she's a well known SJW-type who hates shinblade and was trying to goad him into attacking her so he would be disqualified and she could play the martyr.

Posted by: Maetenloch at January 22, 2015 11:59 PM (pAlYe)

319 Jen Psaki bobs her eyes around like a Wii character.

Posted by: RWC at January 22, 2015 11:59 PM (zxCGA)

320 Indy 2001: Went into a porta, puke everywhere. Walls,seats,floor, everywhere. August,hot as hell. On the wall, between barf, someone with a sharpie wrote "Bob's Buffet". Instant hurl for me. I finished it off.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:59 PM (ucDmr)

321 Reflecting on the sensible solutions President Obama put forward in his State of the Union speech has caused me to realize that I have been part of the Party of No. And it doesn't feel very good.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 12:00 AM (8zCR+)

322 For a long time I thought Amanda Marcotte was the world's worst feminazi, but now I'm thinking Valenti tops her.

On the plus side, you should see how much they both motivate the Men's Rights sites such as avoiceformen.com. There's a famous pic of Valenti at the beach wearing a shirt that says "I bathe in male tears." Well, AVFM is now making mucho moola selling mugs that read "Feminazi tears."

;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (elbY7)

323 It's as though all of those race fans in the infield at Indy drink a lot.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (vPh3W)

324 320 Indy 2001: Went into a porta, puke everywhere. Walls,seats,floor, everywhere. August,hot as hell. On the wall, between barf, someone with a sharpie wrote "Bob's Buffet". Instant hurl for me. I finished it off.
Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 22, 2015 11:59 PM (ucDmr)

Indy? Or Alpine Valley South

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (y2suD)

325 This State Department broad is adorable. Stupid but adorable. I should be outraged. I wait till I'm done laughing at her.

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (cEzLK)

326 321: Thanks Mary.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (ucDmr)

327 Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:51 PM (+XMAD)

Which generally means being half off the seat while you're doing your business, which in turn means you have to clean up the mess you made in there, and then scrub your hands afterwards like you were about to perform surgery.

Oh and if they only have those blower dryer things... more time spent, because you have scrubbed from the elbows down and so need to contort yourself up under that damn thing to get thoroughly dried off.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (Pauop)

328 313. In a former life.

Posted by: flounder at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (FZbaK)

329 Heh. Just walked by the fiancee's study and she's watching The Dirty South video from last night (I sent her the link).

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:02 AM (T1005)

330 MH: still not as bad as Home Town Buffet.

:-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:02 AM (elbY7)

331 324: Brickyard. Never again.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 23, 2015 12:02 AM (ucDmr)

332 Hey SMFH!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:03 AM (Pauop)

333 328 313. In a former life.
Posted by: flounder at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (FZbaK)



Sweet.

By any chance did you see the article over at Insty's today on thorium reactors?

Curious on the feasibility of them. Are they as advertised? How hard would it be to rework our current reactors? How difficult is it, comparatively, to weaponize thorium?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:03 AM (GEICT)

334 Marine stepson told me they make four, five Marines squeeze into a single Port a Potty at bootcamp to do #1. Lots of contortions and acrobatics inside.

Posted by: EC at January 23, 2015 12:04 AM (doBIb)

335 Oh and if they only have those blower dryer things... more time spent, because you have scrubbed from the elbows down and so need to contort yourself up under that damn thing to get thoroughly dried off.
Posted by: Tammy
-----------------

Sounds like BC has in mind a nuclear sanitizer. Maybe life will get easier. I hate those damn blowers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 12:04 AM (vPh3W)

336 I like the Dyson Blade blower/driers. They work great and fast

Like a marsupial.

Posted by: Obi wan Y-not on the phone at January 23, 2015 12:04 AM (9BRsg)

337 My bathroom complaint is third worlders who normally crap just anywhere come here to America and make a damn mess out of civilized otherwise nice bathrooms. Why don't they stay (and crap) in their own countries?

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2015 12:04 AM (go5uR)

338 >>Brickyard. Never again.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo

I've never been to the Brickyard, been to the 500 a number of times. Maybe a different crowd at the two. I've never encountered anything that nasty at the 500.

Posted by: Aviator at January 23, 2015 12:05 AM (3rrMW)

339 Know nothing of thorium. Experience was with conventional U235. Did not see the article, but will seek it out.

Posted by: flounder at January 23, 2015 12:05 AM (FZbaK)

340 My bathroom complaint is third worlders who normally crap just anywhere come here to America and make a damn mess out of civilized otherwise nice bathrooms. Why don't they stay (and crap) in their own countries?
Posted by: Eromero
---------------------------------

That has become a significant problem at the department store where Mrs. Hammer works.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (vPh3W)

341 My all-time worst bathroom was one in downtown Los Angeles at a Mobil station when I just couldn't hold my urine anymore.

Not only was the entire thing a godawful mess, even the lights didn't work anymore. It was literally The Place Where Heroin Addicts Go To Die.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (elbY7)

342 Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:55 PM (cEzLK)

Thor would leave me for Megyn. In a heartbeat!


She is adorable, but has a horrible profile.

Well, not horrible, but she isn't near as attractive from the side.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (Pauop)

343 Qdp alpine valley is an amphitheater in SE Wiscosin. Restrooms are fuggin disgusting, parking horrible. I was there in 1997? For the Horde Festival. I knew we were in trouble at that time

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (y2suD)

344 333
328 313. In a former life.

Posted by: flounder at January 23, 2015 12:01 AM (FZbaK)





Sweet.



By any chance did you see the article over at Insty's today on thorium reactors?



Curious on the feasibility of them. Are they as advertised? How hard
would it be to rework our current reactors? How difficult is it,
comparatively, to weaponize thorium?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:03 AM (GEICT)


Karl Denninger has been pushin' the idea for a while. They are as advertised -- someone had one running for about 30 years [Oak Ridge?]. They are totally incompatible with current reactors. The easiest way to weaponize thorium is to sell it and buy guns.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (T1005)

345 Why don't they stay (and crap) in their own countries?
Posted by: Eromero
---------------------------------

That has become a significant problem at the department store where Mrs. Hammer works.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
---------------

Even in the dressing rooms.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (vPh3W)

346 I never heard of the Hippiedilly thing before. Piccadilly is not a cheap area of London - how 100 hippies managed to take over a mansion in a high rent area is not explained in the article.

I liked the begging sign the hippies had posted outside the place: We need food, money, old (and new) furniture, mattresses, blankets, etc.." So they could establish a HQ "for guerrilla activities."

Yeah, hippies, here's a mattress and some groceries and cash so you can engage in guerrilla activities.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (+XMAD)

347 Well, not horrible, but she isn't near as attractive from the side.


Which side?

Posted by: EC at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (doBIb)

348 Hey Tammy : )

MH, all my joes (had no female troops) burned shit in 2003. At the ass end of our deployment in 2004, portapotties were being delivered, so the unit that replaced us in Bayji didn't have that hardship.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 12:07 AM (OsWis)

349 318 295 Regarding the video game winner:
Was the "bitch' a random spectator, or someone with 'authori-tye'?

In the original article there's a link to someone who claims to know her and says that she's a well known SJW-type who hates shinblade and was trying to goad him into attacking her so he would be disqualified and she could play the martyr.
Posted by: Maetenloch at January 22, 2015 11:59 PM (pAlYe)


And according to a youtube comment she claimed repeatedly that he was the one who grabbed her. Until the video came out and showed that it was the opposite.

FYI I don't know anything about shinblade, this event, or this whole sub-culture at all so I'm just relying on what's been posted.

Posted by: Maetenloch at January 23, 2015 12:07 AM (pAlYe)

350 She is adorable, but has a horrible profile.

Well, not horrible, but she isn't near as attractive from the side.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (Pauop)

********
I do not understand those words in that order.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (sdPF/)

351 339 Know nothing of thorium. Experience was with conventional U235. Did not see the article, but will seek it out.

Posted by: flounder at January 23, 2015 12:05 AM (FZbaK)



Oops. Was up yesterday. But anyway, here's the link:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (GEICT)

352 >>Well, not horrible, but she isn't near as attractive from the side.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor

In all fairness, most men are more interested in the view from the front.
Or the back.

Posted by: Aviator at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (3rrMW)

353 "343 Qdp alpine valley is an amphitheater in SE Wiscosin. Restrooms are fuggin disgusting, parking horrible"

Oh, God - I went there once. Never again.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (+XMAD)

354 Just saw Scott Walker on Megyn Kelly's show. He's said "Radical Islamic Terrorists". Right there that makes him the Presidential front runner. Obama can let those words pass his lips and, quite frankly, I don't recall any other candidates, other than Bobby Jindal, stating so either.

Can we please have a candidate with some some stones?

Posted by: Mr. Natural at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (/pOl7)

355 309 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 22, 2015 11:56 PM (Pauop)

That article IS funny and incisive!

Posted by: Ian Galt at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (dmepw)

356 Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (sdPF/)

OF COURSE you don't, because she has cast her evil wicked pretty woman spell on you, too!

And hello!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:09 AM (Pauop)

357 210 163: The last time I saw a trough was at the now defunct Old Dominion Speedway in Manassas VA. It was like the speedway, old and functioning and thats about it. It closed because they got tired of fighting city hall. The Manassas of today is WAAAAAYYYY different from the one when the track opened (50's). Taken over by beta males who find stock car racing icky; as suppose to the blue collar types and farmers it used to be.
Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 22, 2015 11:31 PM (cEzLK)


You will be pleased to know, that Richmond International Raceway still has troughs in the men's rooms. At least they did about 5 years ago in the Turn 1 restrooms.

Martinsville? Never found out. They only had portopotties.

I was disappointed that UVa removed the "piss walls" that they used to have in Scott Stadium back in the 70's. The bathrooms had a concrete wall, with water trickling down it, that emptied into what looked like a concrete culvert in the floor. Not much of a line for the men's rooms.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, 02 days without a fapping incident at January 23, 2015 12:09 AM (+Fae7)

358 MH, no worries, I believe you.

If anyone here ever finds themselves passing through Long Beach, *do not ever* use one of the public park restrooms.

Glory holes galore.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:09 AM (elbY7)

359 And according to a youtube comment she claimed repeatedly that he was the one who grabbed her. Until the video came out and showed that it was the opposite.


Not very smart on her part. A room full of nerds filming the fight and she tries to say it was him that grabbed her?


Stupid.

Posted by: EC at January 23, 2015 12:09 AM (doBIb)

360 This State Department broad is adorable. Stupid but adorable. I should be outraged. I wait till I'm done laughing at her.
Posted by: puddleglum not at work


It's all shits and giggles until a critical mass says 'Amen.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:09 AM (fADgx)

361 Well, not horrible, but she isn't near as attractive from the side.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (Pauop)



What about the back of her head? Or the top?

*denounces self*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:10 AM (GEICT)

362 I'm almost drunk on Smith and Forge Hard Cider. This is some good stuff!

Posted by: Eduardo Lucas at January 23, 2015 12:10 AM (LoVhJ)

363 353 "343 Qdp alpine valley is an amphitheater in SE Wiscosin. Restrooms are fuggin disgusting, parking horrible"

Oh, God - I went there once. Never again.
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands

Stevie Ray Vaughns last words

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:10 AM (y2suD)

364 Oh, and incidentally -- supposedly there's enough thorium in coal to power Fischer-Tropsch conversion on the coal with some left-over to feed into the grid.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:10 AM (T1005)

365 That article IS funny and incisive!
Posted by: Ian Galt at January 23, 2015 12:08 AM (dmepw)


Isn't it, though? I laughed hard. Like...wheezy, snorty hard.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:11 AM (Pauop)

366 OF COURSE you don't, because she has cast her evil wicked pretty woman spell on you, too!

And hello!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:09 AM (Pauop)

******
Why, yes. Yes she has indeed. And Hey! Back atcha Missy.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 12:11 AM (bWGM5)

367 "How difficult is it, comparatively, to weaponize thorium?"

Considerably more so than with the classic uranium fuel cycle.

Thorium proponents are known to throw around words such as "impossible". No. Not impossible. Difficult and unlikely.

I personally think that proliferation concerns with the classic uranium fuel cycle are enormously overhyped.

It was basically a lawfare approach by the antinuclear left to get perfectly good plants cancelled. A product of the Carter era, and just as profoundly dumb as so much else that emerged from the time.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (noWW6)

368 I'm pretty sure men didn't make the decision to replace garter belts and stockings with pantyhose.
Posted by: Aviator at January 22, 2015 11:42 PM (3rrMW)

That became necessary in the sixties when mini skirts went higher and higher up the thigh.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (DXcH1)

369 Karl Denninger has been pushin' the idea for a while. They are as advertised -- someone had one running for about 30 years [Oak Ridge?]. They are totally incompatible with current reactors. The easiest way to weaponize thorium is to sell it and buy guns.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:06 AM (T1005)



Hmmm. Thanks.

So there's no "switching over to thorium". It'd be a tear down and rebuild.

But it would seem to me to be a viable thing for, say, countries who could benefit from the power supply, but we're concerned about them having nuclear material.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (GEICT)

370 Regarding shin blade..

Dumbass gamer who grew balls in front of the camera.

She was wrong too, but he's a pussy.

Posted by: RWC at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (zxCGA)

371 338: I'm sure you are right. The Brickyard back then brought out the worst of humanity. Just awful. Even downtown Indy after the race was a cluster of epic proportions. Just like Charlotte after the Coke 600. NASCAR blows.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 23, 2015 12:13 AM (ucDmr)

372 Hell isn't flames and pitchforks, it's being trapped in a Port-A-Potty for all eternity (unless you're the Boulder Toilet Hobo.)
Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 22, 2015 11:45 PM (+XMAD)

Don't for get the freaks who settle in down there in the, um, sewage to get an eyeful. Literally.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 23, 2015 12:13 AM (DXcH1)

373 The bathrooms had a concrete wall, with water trickling down it, that emptied into what looked like a concrete culvert in the floor. Not much of a line for the men's rooms.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's
------------

Used to be that way at Road Atlanta too. Don't know about now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 23, 2015 12:14 AM (vPh3W)

374
Not very smart on her part. A room full of nerds filming the fight and she tries to say it was him that grabbed her?

Stupid.
Posted by: EC


Evidence is now 'oppression and marginalization of women.'
tinyurl.com/odd8rwh

*again, hard to know these days who is full of bullshit and who is just bullshitting.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:14 AM (fADgx)

375 Looking at the Scooby Doo pictures, I think Velma is definitely a good friend of Mary Cloggensteins.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 12:14 AM (+XMAD)

376 It was basically a lawfare approach by the antinuclear left to get perfectly good plants cancelled. A product of the Carter era, and just as profoundly dumb as so much else that emerged from the time.

Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (noWW6)



I'm thinking of Iran. They keep claiming they have a nuke program for power purposes. We all know that's bullshit. They want a weapons program.

So you make the offer of being perfectly fine with nuke power, as long as it's via thorium nuke plants.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:14 AM (GEICT)

377 PLEASE women, don't ever give up your pantyhose. Some of us really admire them.

If you ruin a pair, just be sure to be wearing another pair underneath them. And another pair underneath those, and another pair underneath those, and another underneath those, and...

;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:14 AM (elbY7)

378 If a man put hands on a woman the way "who bitch" put hands on that man, he'd be dealing with the criminal justice system.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at January 23, 2015 12:15 AM (kTTUz)

379 Glory holes galore.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:09 AM (elbY7)


He is not telling any lies.

Steve, when I worked after school and day care camps at the Y, I had to send counselors to the bathrooms along with the kids. ( By counselors, I just mean the employees who watched the kids, that's what we called them)

Even on the east side... I caught some asshole at freaking Heartwell Park trying to hit on one of my 6th graders! Jesus!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:15 AM (Pauop)

380 so I listened to the Bcochran Alexthechick podcast. I am not sure it is AOSHQ appropriate. When I think of this place I think less podcast more sextape.


only kidding it was good.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 12:15 AM (VkSuo)

381 Posted by: nerdygirl at January 23, 2015 12:13 AM (DXcH1)

That would be the Boulder Toliet Hobo!

I can't imagine.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 12:15 AM (+XMAD)

382 Bemoaning the bathroom habits of other cultures makes you a prima facie racist.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 12:15 AM (8zCR+)

383 Marine stepson told me they make four, five Marines squeeze into a single Port a Potty at bootcamp to do #1. Lots of contortions and acrobatics inside.

Posted by: EC at January 23, 2015 12:04 AM (doBIb)


Go on...

Posted by: Barney Frank at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (0Ew3K)

384 The easiest way to weaponize thorium is to sell it and buy guns.
Posted by: cthulhu


Sell it to whom?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (fADgx)

385 281 I'm sorry I can't spare a square!!!
Posted by: Jamie Gertz at January 22, 2015

Damn, I thought that was Cheryl Crowe

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:49 PM (y2suD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gysu0kgFwT0

Posted by: Jamie Gertz at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (GrXXa)

386 Thorium info @ Wikipedia -- http://tinyurl.com/cwqkwd

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (T1005)

387 Lmao at Y5


Glad you enjoyed it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (GEICT)

388 Tammy, Heartwell is quite close to me. I believe ya 100%.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (elbY7)

389 That became necessary in the sixties when mini skirts went higher and higher up the thigh.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (DXcH1)

********
I am having some difficulty squaring this circle to find this "necessary" thing you alluded to.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (Vf63U)

390 pantyhose are evil.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (OsWis)

391 She was wrong too, but he's a pussy.
Posted by: RWC at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (zxCGA)


In all fairness, I do not think he realized it was a chick at first.

God knows I didn't.


She looked like the guy he beat.

As soon as he realized it was a girl, he let up.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:17 AM (Pauop)

392 Enough with the potty talk for me. Goodnight all!

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at January 23, 2015 12:17 AM (+XMAD)

393 Last time I used the trough was at Dodger Stadium back in 2007

That was when McCourt owned the Dodgers, the new ownership group upgraded the stadium, I assume the bathrooms got cleaned up as well

Posted by: kbdabear at January 23, 2015 12:18 AM (GrXXa)

394 SMFH: sure, if they're not skintone.
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:18 AM (elbY7)

395 285 Why didn't Shinblade do a spinning uppercut on her?

Posted by: EC at January 22, 2015 11:50 PM (doBIb)


Umm, huh. Some people call it a Shinblade, I call it a Kaiser blade.

I reckon you can fix me some french fried potatoes now.

Posted by: Karl Childers at January 23, 2015 12:18 AM (+Fae7)

396 Went to a chili cook-off where the sponsors had this notice taped up everywhere, including on the shiter doors-
'Be sure to keep you spoon for tasting!'

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2015 12:18 AM (go5uR)

397 376
It was basically a lawfare approach by the antinuclear left to get
perfectly good plants cancelled. A product of the Carter era, and just
as profoundly dumb as so much else that emerged from the time.



Posted by: torquewrench at January 23, 2015 12:12 AM (noWW6)





I'm thinking of Iran. They keep claiming they have a nuke program
for power purposes. We all know that's bullshit. They want a weapons
program.



So you make the offer of being perfectly fine with nuke power, as long as it's via thorium nuke plants.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:14 AM (GEICT)


I'm hoping for no deal with Iran until ValJar is safely back in the Crony Socialism Paradise that is Chicago....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:19 AM (T1005)

398 In San Francisco we still have troughs.
I know a place that has one 20 feet long, with a slight inclination and a drain at one end.

Posted by: navybrat at January 23, 2015 12:19 AM (JgC5a)

399 >>That became necessary in the sixties when mini skirts went higher and higher up the thigh.

Posted by: nerdygirl

I don't know. I've seen the combination of garters/stockings and very short skirts in some high brow fashion magazines.

Posted by: Aviator at January 23, 2015 12:19 AM (3rrMW)

400 Night Donna

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:19 AM (y2suD)

401 Tammy, Heartwell is quite close to me. I believe ya 100%.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (elbY7)



Yep! It was the one by the golf course, east of Woodruff. The bathroom is right on the damn corner, you'd think it wouldn't be a good place for a glory hole. Fucking perverts. There's an entire section of Long Beach that is gay, why can't they go there and do that shit?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:20 AM (Pauop)

402 Re: thorium, read the article. Note the main benefit, harder to weaponize, would not effect countries intent on seeking nukes. Another benefit, less waste is in dispute as to magnitude, but it seems sound that there could be less, with potentially safer designs, too.

On balance, it seems like a viable tech that would be a better focus than wind/solar only. The weaponizable reactors will likely remain as fuel for existing weapon stocks require updating to my understanding.

Posted by: flounder at January 23, 2015 12:21 AM (FZbaK)

403 I'm hoping for no deal with Iran until ValJar is safely back in the Crony Socialism Paradise that is Chicago....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:19 AM (T1005)


Oh yeah, no doubt. I was just thinking in general, not specific to right now.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:21 AM (GEICT)

404 384
The easiest way to weaponize thorium is to sell it and buy guns.

Posted by: cthulhu



Sell it to whom?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (fADgx)


Craigslist.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:21 AM (T1005)

405 Dern it, Donna, I was just about to describe the HORROR of the bathrooms at the Original Tommy Burger on LA!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:21 AM (Pauop)

406 Tammy, yep.

The Heartwell Golf Course is interesting, by the way. Supposedly it's where Tiger Woods first learned golf, and I've read he still recommends it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:22 AM (elbY7)

407 There's one good reason why France gets over 70% of it's electricity from nuclear power.

They settled on a standard design for their reactors and installations, and stuck with it for the vast majority of their nuclear plants. Tried, true, proven and reliable.

Each new build doesn't have to be the latest and greatest, bleeding-edge technological leap. In fact, unless it's specifically FOR changing to a different physics solution (thorium, etc.), it's advantageous to stay with (but yes, refine) a standard design.... everyone has the same safety training, systems knowledge, etc.

And maintenance is vastly cheaper, too. Keeping an inventory of 500 identical pump motors on hand, is far cheaper than keeping 5 unique motors in store for the one and only plant that uses that particular model.

Further, Admiral Rickover had the right idea insofar as who runs the damn thing. He wanted ONLY U.S. Military to run 'em, due to the inherent self-discipline and adherence to training that a military mindset brings to the equation.

History and experience, I think, bear out his concerns.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 23, 2015 12:23 AM (RzZOc)

408 George Carlin had the right idea.

Every year, for one day, murder is legal.




Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 12:23 AM (OsWis)

409 Pantyhose are hot and miserable but I'll take them any day over garters and stockings for day wear.

Happy fun time is a different thing altogether, of course.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:24 AM (Pauop)

410 Craigslist.
Posted by: cthulhu


heh.

Posted by: NSA at January 23, 2015 12:24 AM (fADgx)

411 Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:16 AM (fADgx)


Craigslist.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:21 AM (T1005)

Casual encounters or rants & raves?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:24 AM (y2suD)

412 Anyone still curious about how the Taurus Judge can be legal, and not considered a short barreled shotgun?

It is a .45 Long Colt Revolver. Period, end of story.
Well, not really, because everyone knows it a .410 shotgun shooting short range demon.

But that isn't really any different than shooting shot rounds made for .357, or any other handgun caliber shot shell.

In the judges case, it's just a lucky coincidence that an existing shotgun round can be used in it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 23, 2015 12:24 AM (XmOA9)

413 Worst bathroom ever is the Arby's on the Eastern Shore of MD. I was a teenager on a family vacation down to Ocean City. This town we stopped at, the bathroom. The sink was missing, the mirror smashed, fuck you graffitied on the floor, And the toilet looked like it had been bombed, with a pipe jutting through the rubble and shit everywhere.


In fairness, it was an Arby's.

Posted by: CAC at January 23, 2015 12:25 AM (BOJHN)

414 HOLY SHIT.

So I checked the stats on the two podcasts AtC and I have done.

You guys are fucking awesome. Thanks so much for listening.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:25 AM (GEICT)

415 Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:22 AM (elbY7)

Could be, he is from Cypress, and his first foundation HQ was in Los Alamitos, just around the corner from there. I interviewed for a position there, very nice guys.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:25 AM (Pauop)

416 Is it just me, or does this girl sort of look like Bat Boy? Probably NSFW (censored nude thumbnails on the page, linking to uncensored nude pics)...

http://preview.tinyurl.com/qb3e448

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 23, 2015 12:25 AM (5pg79)

417 >>>Just like Charlotte after the Coke 600. NASCAR blows.

The only way nascar is interesting is live. Live nascar is a fucking disaster. I went to Dover 3 times, and Bristol once. Never again. It's honestly worse than Preakness or Derby in the infield.

Like an Irish bar on St Patrick's day. Fucking amateurs who drank too much at 10 am and want to pick a fight at 2 PM. Ugh.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 23, 2015 12:26 AM (e+1S5)

418 413 Worst bathroom ever is the Arby's on the Eastern Shore of MD. I was a teenager on a family vacation down to Ocean City. This town we stopped at, the bathroom. The sink was missing, the mirror smashed, fuck you graffitied on the floor, And the toilet looked like it had been bombed, with a pipe jutting through the rubble and shit everywhere.


In fairness, it was an Arby's.

Posted by: CAC at January 23, 2015 12:25 AM (BOJHN)


That's nuts. Maybe it was a franchise because I can't see corporate going with that.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:26 AM (oFCZn)

419 413 Worst bathroom ever is the Arby's on the Eastern Shore of MD. I was a teenager on a family vacation down to Ocean City. This town we stopped at, the bathroom. The sink was missing, the mirror smashed, fuck you graffitied on the floor, And the toilet looked like it had been bombed, with a pipe jutting through the rubble and shit everywhere.


In fairness, it was an Arby's.
Posted by: CAC at January 23, 2015

You sure it wasn't the strip bar The Boom Bay Bar, Rhinelander, Wis?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:27 AM (y2suD)

420 In fairness, it was an Arby's.

O.o Sounds like the previous occupant had Taco Bell the night before.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 12:27 AM (UVfht)

421 409: Tammy, Daisy Dukes work everywhere. Except maybe funerals. Depends who died.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 23, 2015 12:27 AM (ucDmr)

422 My party is going to continue to struggle until it embraces the 21st century values of tolerance. The modern age has no place for Homophobia or anti-Islamic sentiment.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 12:27 AM (8zCR+)

423 I don't know the Arby's around here seem really clean.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:27 AM (oFCZn)

424 Tammy, I've read and heard Tiger's a nice guy to meet.

Supposedly a few years ago, he volunteered to teach kids golf for a few weeks at Skylinks (near Long Beach Airport). As you can imagine, the course was packed during that time.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:27 AM (elbY7)

425 The only way nascar is interesting is live. Live nascar is a fucking disaster. I went to Dover 3 times, and Bristol once. Never again. It's honestly worse than Preakness or Derby in the infield.

Like an Irish bar on St Patrick's day. Fucking amateurs who drank too much at 10 am and want to pick a fight at 2 PM. Ugh.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 23, 2015 12:26 AM (e+1S5)



Man, that sucks. I've been to the 500 probably a half dozen times. Only bad part about it is that you usually end up parking a mile away. Other than that, love the thing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:28 AM (GEICT)

426 Chavez, funerals require the hose and *black* cutoff DDs. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 12:28 AM (elbY7)

427 417: Nailed it!

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 23, 2015 12:29 AM (ucDmr)

428 Posted by: CAC at January 23, 2015 12:25 AM (BOJHN)

But was it at least clean?

Honestly, I don't care if its raggedy, but it needs to look AND SMELL clean.

I do not need to see...something..... smeared ALL OVER THE WALLS like I did at the nasty-ass bathroom at The Original Tommy Burgers in Los Angeles.

Nastiest grossest bathrooms I have ever seen, Mexico and New Orleans included.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:29 AM (Pauop)

429 Ha!!! I'm pretty sure an Ette did as well. Anywho, I'm not sure whether to thank y'all or throatpunch you. That shit is good, way too good.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 22, 2015 11:24 PM (GEICT)



It was jewells

Posted by: Buzzion at January 23, 2015 12:31 AM (71CVf)

430 My first few jobs were working in places where you had to clean the shitter.

There's always someone that smears poop on the walls. Always.

Then there was the kid who came in walking funny and ran back out. Turns out he shit his pants and stuffed his shit filled underwear in the trash.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:32 AM (oFCZn)

431 430 My first few jobs were working in places where you had to clean the shitter.

There's always someone that smears poop on the walls. Always.

Then there was the kid who came in walking funny and ran back out. Turns out he shit his pants and stuffed his shit filled underwear in the trash.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:32 AM (oFCZn)

Stimulus project. Shovel ready jobs. Some assembly required.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:33 AM (y2suD)

432 BC a woman relieving herself in some out of the way spot in parking lot could've been sent home by the cop. Cops do have discretion. If a ticket had to be given I'm betting that a disorderly or drunk in public beats an indecent exposure charge. The problem with discretion is that a lot of cops don't know how to use it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 22, 2015 11:27 PM (y2suD)


In Canada, I'm pretty sure that being "caught short" and absolutely having to go is a valid defense against a public indecency charge, as long as the individual makes a reasonable attempt at being discreet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 12:34 AM (upitO)

433 I am sadly beyond the age where Daidy Dukes would be appropriate attire, but I rawked the hell out them in my time. (Provided white legs are not a problem for you)

The only other serious boyfriend I ever had besides Thor used to beg me to wear them.

I wore them to work one day per his request (we all worked at the Y, and it was a beach day!) and I got sent home!

I was ashamed then, but I can laugh about it now.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:34 AM (Pauop)

434 Here's one of the Freakonomics authors on the abortion-crime controversy replying to Sailer in 2005 with Sailer responding in the comments. (The first comment about, oddly enough, AGW is also worth a read.)
http://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-should-you-believe/

And here's Sailer's response from two days later:
http://isteve.blogspot.ca/2005/05/abortion-and-crime-sailer-responds-to.html

You can decide for yourself who sounds more convincing.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2015 12:35 AM (L6/+u)

435 Stimulus project. Shovel ready jobs. Some assembly required.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:33 AM (y2suD)


Just for that I'm not rooting for the Badgers to make it to the Final Four this year*.

*not really...how are they doing anyway?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:35 AM (oFCZn)

436 >>>Man, that sucks. I've been to the 500 probably a half dozen times. Only bad part about it is that you usually end up parking a mile away. Other than that, love the thing.

NASCAR wasn't all bad. Pre-Cougar, I lived in Ocean City, MD. So I went to Dover every year in June. Even had a platform for the truck. You had to line up for the infield at like 9 PM Saturday night, because you had to drive across the track to get in, so they shut down access at like 4 AM so the drivers can practice.

It's like a frat party outside, lots of grills and kegs and such. I had some very good times in the infield line. Lots of single serving friends, and a few that I still keep in touch with.

But damn, after 20 hours of drinking, some people just need to be choked out. Not that I ever did that.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: DC in River City at January 23, 2015 12:35 AM (e+1S5)

437 Shrewd wins!

You moralists fail...again! I love my...

PATS, PATS, PATS PATS!!!

It's called W.I.N.N.I.N.G...

Posted by: Mr Moo Moo at January 23, 2015 12:36 AM (zW/rD)

438 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:32 AM (oFCZn)

I can see a little one doing that after an accident!

You know it's some deeply disturbed adult who smears it on the wall, though.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:37 AM (Pauop)

439 433: so did my wife. Today, not so much. But, then again, I'm no prize. Eh, life goes on.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 23, 2015 12:38 AM (ucDmr)

440 I guess I ran yankee off. And no small blame.

Better call it a night....sleep sweet, dear ones!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:38 AM (Pauop)

441 Some places you have to watch where you walk, and that's not just in other countries.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2015 12:39 AM (go5uR)

442 *not really...how are they doing anyway?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:35 AM (oFCZn)

Well. How about you? Bo Ryan appreciates your support

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:39 AM (y2suD)

443 Re: women's pissoirs:


"Biology is Destiny"

Posted by: S. Freud (remember me?) at January 23, 2015 12:40 AM (HFSaY)

444 The karaoke bar I work at still has a trough in one of the men's restrooms.

You haven't live until you have to fish beer bottles our of one...and that ain't beer in that bottle.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 23, 2015 12:41 AM (rJUlF)

445 Architects are already required to provide more restrooms for women. Especially in public gathering places like stadiums; depends on what kind of occupancy it is. But I guess it's never enough.
http://tinyurl.com/ke2uenv


Posted by: isostan at January 23, 2015 12:41 AM (bzlC6)

446 Further, Admiral Rickover had the right idea insofar as who runs the damn thing. He wanted ONLY U.S. Military to run 'em, due to the inherent self-discipline and adherence to training that a military mindset brings to the equation.

History and experience, I think, bear out his concerns.

Posted by: Jim at January 23, 2015 12:23 AM (RzZOc)


Nuke programs are in civilian hands, for the most part. A "military mindset" isn't really what is required. It is a dedication to the science. Nuclear reactors are just ways of making energy, and nuclear weapons, from Czar Bomba to an a-bomb hand grenade, are just way of making pretty, pretty explosions...

Posted by: The Nukular Hat at January 23, 2015 12:42 AM (0Ew3K)

447 Cut down a single shot 12 ga. to the dimensions of a Judge, and you would be nabbed faster than you can say 'Ruby Ridge'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 22, 2015 11:30 PM (vPh3W)


It's the cutting down that is illegal, not the barrel length per se, I believe. You are taking a non-concealable firearm and making it concealable. At least it appears that way to the jaundiced eye of the law.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 12:42 AM (upitO)

448 410
Craigslist.

Posted by: cthulhu



heh.

Posted by: NSA at January 23, 2015 12:24 AM (fADgx)


Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to own radioactive substances. You probably have some in your nearest smoke detector.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:43 AM (T1005)

449 Even while I have some differences with President Obama on fiscal policy, I applaud his resolute stand against homophobia. I also stand with the President in his declaration that the future doesn't belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 12:43 AM (8zCR+)

450 But I guess it's never enough.

Put a trough under every row of seats, and a hole in the seat. Turn a stadium into one gigantic shithouse.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 12:43 AM (UVfht)

451 Re: women's pissoirs:

"Biology is Destiny"

Posted by: S. Freud (remember me?) at January 23, 2015 12:40 AM (HFSaY)


Remember, according to the Left, biology is just a social construct and a woman can have a penis...

Posted by: The Biological Hat at January 23, 2015 12:43 AM (0Ew3K)

452 414
HOLY SHIT.



So I checked the stats on the two podcasts AtC and I have done.



You guys are fucking awesome. Thanks so much for listening.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 23, 2015 12:25 AM (GEICT)


So, what were they?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:44 AM (T1005)

453 The key is to pick bathrooms that have to achieve low traffic flow based on their location.

Pier 1 before noon. Odds are real good you will be the first dude in it all day.

Or, the nicest hotel you can find. That's always a safe bet.

Posted by: Garrett at January 23, 2015 12:44 AM (PyRKS)

454 Eh, too bad troughs are no longer legal.

Posted by: isostan at January 23, 2015 12:44 AM (bzlC6)

455 Adios peeps. Sleep well.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at January 23, 2015 12:45 AM (ucDmr)

456 When a fem harpy claims she can do anything a man can do, just ask her to pee through a straw.

As I said: Biology is destiny.

Posted by: S. Freud (remember me?) at January 23, 2015 12:45 AM (HFSaY)

457 Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to own radioactive substances. You probably have some in your nearest smoke detector.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:43 AM (T1005)


Yup, Americium.

Fiestaware's orange tint comes from uranium, and it gives glass a wonderful yellow hue.

Thorium gas mantles (with 1% CeO2) are still the best gas mantles.

Also, bananas...

Posted by: The Radioactive Hat at January 23, 2015 12:45 AM (0Ew3K)

458 Oh and the smell. Hot garbage, Indian food, and vomit. It was atrocious. The next time we hand gone through the town (a year later) it was closed.

Posted by: CAC at January 23, 2015 12:45 AM (BOJHN)

459 444 The karaoke bar I work at still has a trough in one of the men's restrooms.

You haven't live until you have to fish beer bottles our of one...and that ain't beer in that bottle.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at January 23, 2015 12:41 AM (rJUlF)

As a parent of 3
Diaper changing is no walk in the park at times

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:46 AM (YOPoU)

460 The family is also a "point of resistance to the state" as Allan Bloom put it. A man and woman who marry and have children and accumulate property want to protect it from all others, including the state.

That's why the left hates the family, except gay families, I guess, for now at least. That's why they want The Life of Julia for all of us.

Posted by: PJ at January 23, 2015 12:47 AM (cHuNI)

461 As a parent of 3

Diaper changing is no walk in the park at times


It'd be easier if pressure washers were smaller.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 12:47 AM (UVfht)

462 The Lolita Express

Flight logs on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's private jet puts Bill Clinton sharing a ride with a pornstar, as well as a woman who procured underage hookers for the billionaire.

http://tinyurl.com/nhd9v8y

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 12:50 AM (0Ew3K)

463 It'd be easier if pressure washers were smaller.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 12:47

I would hold them by the nap of thei necks and hold them under the bath faucet

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:51 AM (YOPoU)

464 Privately owned isotopes? Tritrium night-sights on my 1911 oughta qualify for that one.

Remember when those first hit the scene in the '80s? They had to be registered with the DOE.

Go back a few decades to the Rhodium watch dials. Some of those babies were hot!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 23, 2015 12:52 AM (RzZOc)

465
>>>Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 12:50 AM (0Ew3K)<<<
Not only am I a doer, bu so is Bill...
... in fact, he'll do anything!

Posted by: Cankles Clinton at January 23, 2015 12:53 AM (LKBn6)

466 430 My first few jobs were working in places where you had to clean the shitter.

There's always someone that smears poop on the walls. Always.

Then there was the kid who came in walking funny and ran back out. Turns out he shit his pants and stuffed his shit filled underwear in the trash.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:32 AM (oFCZn)


About 15 years ago we had a bunch of friends over for a Memorial Day cookout. After everyone left and we were cleaning up, I hear the Mrs yell "there is shit all over the bathroom". I thought she meant there was some trash or something, but then she yelled it louder. I went to see what she was talking about, and the towels everyone had been using had shit smeared on them. The door knob had shit smeared on it. The door had shit smeared on it. The bathroom counter had shit smeared on it. The faucet had shit smeared on it. Well, you get the point. The only kid there shit himself and just wiped it everywhere, and we had no idea until after everyone had left.

BTW, the kid's mother went in to help him, and said absolutely nothing to us about it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 23, 2015 12:54 AM (+Fae7)

467 It'd be easier if pressure washers were smaller.



Try the new junior size Shark Steamer!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2015 12:55 AM (JO9+V)

468 Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to own radioactive substances. You probably have some in your nearest smoke detector.
Posted by: cthulhu


If thorium is the equivalent of a smoke detector, how much sweet, sweet gun money is it worth?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:55 AM (fADgx)

469 Well. How about you? Bo Ryan appreciates your support

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:39 AM (y2suD)


Nebraska isn't doing that well this year. I'll root for anyone in the conference that makes it as far as they can.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:55 AM (oFCZn)

470 That's what you get for inviting Mike Moore's mom and him to a cookout, MrCaniac.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 23, 2015 12:56 AM (L6/+u)

471 About 15 years ago we had a bunch of friends over for a Memorial Day cookout. After everyone left and we were cleaning up, I hear the Mrs yell "there is shit all over the bathroom". I thought she meant there was some trash or something, but then she yelled it louder. I went to see what she was talking about, and the towels everyone had been using had shit smeared on them. The door knob had shit smeared on it. The door had shit smeared on it. The bathroom counter had shit smeared on it. The faucet had shit smeared on it. Well, you get the point. The only kid there shit himself and just wiped it everywhere, and we had no idea until after everyone had left.

BTW, the kid's mother went in to help him, and said absolutely nothing to us about it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 23, 2015 12:54 AM (+Fae7)


I get why she didn't say something about it, but why in the hell didn't she clean it up?

People are strange. And weird.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:57 AM (oFCZn)

472 Nebraska isn't doing that well this year. I'll root for anyone in the conference that makes it as far as they can.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23

I always cheer for the Big 14 or whatever it is these days in bowl games & March madness.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 12:58 AM (YOPoU)

473 Seriously, outside of a few dozen uni chem labs, who the fuck is going to buy thorium?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:58 AM (fADgx)

474 I get why she didn't say something about it, but why in the hell didn't she clean it up?

To be fair, even though it was her kid, it wasn't her shit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 12:59 AM (UVfht)

475 I often find myself wishing my party had leaders as forward thinking as President Obama, Vice-President Biden and Secretary Clinton. Instead I am represented by radicals like Walker and Cruz.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 12:59 AM (8zCR+)

476 471,

Which is why it's best to avoid most of them at all costs.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 01:00 AM (OsWis)

477 To be fair, even though it was her kid, it wasn't her shit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 12:59 AM (UVfht)


Hey Blanco!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 01:00 AM (oFCZn)

478 464
Privately owned isotopes? Tritrium night-sights on my 1911 oughta qualify for that one.



Remember when those first hit the scene in the '80s? They had to be registered with the DOE.



Go back a few decades to the Rhodium watch dials. Some of those babies were hot!







Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 23, 2015 12:52 AM (RzZOc)


When you've got all these people wetting themselves about "oooooh, radiation", I think back on how surprised radium watch-dial painters were that so many of them developed lip cancer.....after twirling the brushes in their mouths to get a good point.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:00 AM (T1005)

479 hi all

Posted by: chemjeff at January 23, 2015 01:00 AM (9GG/0)

480 Yo, Dack!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 01:00 AM (UVfht)

481 A quotation from The Book of Papa Basura comes to mind:

When in doubt, cut a bitch.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 01:01 AM (oFCZn)

482 Happy-ish thursday evening, chemjeff ...

Posted by: Adriane the Hosiery Critic ... at January 23, 2015 01:01 AM (P+IZm)

483 468
Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to own radioactive
substances. You probably have some in your nearest smoke detector.

Posted by: cthulhu



If thorium is the equivalent of a smoke detector, how much sweet, sweet gun money is it worth?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:55 AM (fADgx)


I didn't say it was the most efficient way, I said it was the easiest.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:02 AM (T1005)

484 Well this island certainly beats Superman's Fortress of Solitude or Wonder Woman's home island. So after winning a lottery and can buy the Norwegians off...

At first I thought this was this island was The Land That Time Forgot.
http://tinyurl.com/kaqgfjs


Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:02 AM (9qt0N)

485 #471: Yeah, if you're too ashamed to say anything about it, you should be too ashamed to leave the mess behind, too.

She was probably counting on the number of people there creating enough doubt for plausible deniability so she wouldn't have to do any dirty work herself.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 23, 2015 01:02 AM (5pg79)

486 A quotation from The Book of Papa Basura comes to mind:



When in doubt, cut a bitch.


He was a genius.

Or at least that's what Mensa said.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 01:03 AM (UVfht)

487 hi Adriane
I see radiation is the topic? awesome

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:03 AM (9GG/0)

488 473
Seriously, outside of a few dozen uni chem labs, who the fuck is going to buy thorium?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:58 AM (fADgx)


Etsy?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:03 AM (T1005)

489 Smoke detectors and radioactive materials?

Don't tell me we are going to discuss that American teen who basically turned his parents' garage into a Super Fund site?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:03 AM (9qt0N)

490 If thorium is the equivalent of a smoke detector, how much sweet, sweet gun money is it worth?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:55 AM (fADgx)

I didn't say it was the most efficient way, I said it was the easiest.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:02 AM (T1005)


Thorium != Americium

Their chemistries are completely different, particularly the tirvalent state.

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (0Ew3K)

491 I wonder if it has ever been postulated that the relatively high radioactivity of bananas led to genetic mutations in primate species which then facilitates the evolution of humans

just an idle thought

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (9GG/0)

492 I guess I ran yankee off. And no small blame.

Better call it a night....sleep sweet, dear ones!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 23, 2015 12:38 AM (Pauop)




MissTammy! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


crap.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (VkSuo)

493 Don't tell me we are going to discuss that American teen who basically turned his parents' garage into a Super Fund site?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:03 AM (9qt0N)


Poseur.

Posted by: Enrico Fermi at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (0Ew3K)

494 Hi Yankeefifth! how is life?
Did you ever escape from New York?

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (9GG/0)

495 Seriously, outside of a few dozen uni chem labs, who the fuck is going to buy thorium?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:58 AM (fADgx)



The same people that buy this?

http://tinyurl.com/orl5tuu

Posted by: Country Singer at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (nL0sw)

496 487
hi Adriane
I see radiation is the topic? awesome


Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:03 AM (9GG/0)


Hey, chemjeff -- if someone offered to sell your school a bunch of pure thorium, cheap, how much would they buy?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (T1005)

497 Poseur.

Posted by: Enrico Fermi at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (0Ew3K)

lol yeah I think the guy who almost blew up Chicago wins the prize

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:06 AM (9GG/0)

498 I wonder if it has ever been postulated that the relatively high radioactivity of bananas led to genetic mutations in primate species which then facilitates the evolution of humans

just idle thought
Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (9GG/0)



well someone has now. may explain that bald ape upthread.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:06 AM (VkSuo)

499 I get why she didn't say something about it, but why in the hell didn't she clean it up?

People are strange. And weird.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 12:57 AM (oFCZn)


She was drunk and getting her feet massaged by some guy that she brought. Her best friend was watching out for the kid.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 23, 2015 01:08 AM (+Fae7)

500 490
If thorium is the equivalent of a smoke detector, how much sweet, sweet gun money is it worth?



Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 12:55 AM (fADgx)



I didn't say it was the most efficient way, I said it was the easiest.



Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:02 AM (T1005)



Thorium != Americium



Their chemistries are completely different, particularly the tirvalent state.

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (0Ew3K)


I took his comment to be: "if, commercially, thorium is the equivalent of a dead smoke detector...." -- not that they were chemically equivalent.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:08 AM (T1005)

501
Hey, chemjeff -- if someone offered to sell your school a bunch of pure thorium, cheap, how much would they buy?


Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (T1005)


hmm to be honest I don't know what we would do with pure thorium. No one on our campus does any sort of research or experimentation with that type of material, at least to my knowledge. So my school, probably not much. But a big research school, like Mizzou, might, they actually have a nuclear reactor on campus, not to mention much larger chemistry and physics departments.

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:08 AM (9GG/0)

502 Oh, and incidentally -- supposedly there's enough thorium in coal to power Fischer-Tropsch conversion on the coal with some left-over to feed into the grid.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:10 AM (T1005)


I have never heard of there being significant thorium in coal. Thorium usually occurs in a mineral called monazite, which occurs as an accessory in granite rocks, and is released as grains of sand when the rock weathers. In some places, notably India, monazite sand is concentrated on beaches by wave action, forming mineable deposits. I know of no mines producing thorium from primary occurrences.


But uranium does occur in coal, particularly lignite. The U.S. government mined and burned huge heaps of lignite in North Dakota in the 1950's to get uranium minerals from the coal ash.


The notion that thorium is somehow more plentiful than uranium, or easier to get, just does not hold water. There is no shortage of uranium. We now know a whole lot more about about how to explore for it, and to produce it, than we did in the early years of the nuclear age.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:09 AM (upitO)

503 Their chemistries are completely different, particularly the tirvalent state.

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (0Ew3K)


Shouldn't that be "trivalent"?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:09 AM (T1005)

504 I mean, it would be neato as a curiosity, but that is about it.

I suppose our department could probably come up with a use or purpose for some pure thorium but I don't know what that might be at this moment.

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:09 AM (9GG/0)

505 well someone has now. may explain that bald ape upthread.
Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:06

Teenagers

And on that note goodnight morons. Be well.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 23, 2015 01:09 AM (YOPoU)

506 They're showing Tombstone on AMC and it's good. Saw it in the theater when it came out and liked it. But I gotta say I prefer the Costner version. Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday is just a joy to behold.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 01:09 AM (oFCZn)

507 I didn't say it was the most efficient way, I said it was the easiest.

Posted by: cthulhu


It's easy to buy and sell thorium.

Roight... and now you're going to tell me you've cast your balls in iron.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:10 AM (fADgx)

508 I suppose our department could probably come up with a use or purpose
for some pure thorium but I don't know what that might be at this
moment.


Make a hammer?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 01:10 AM (UVfht)

509 Hi Yankeefifth! how is life?
Did you ever escape from New York?
Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (9GG/0)


He CJ. Everything is fine. I am in NYC.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:11 AM (VkSuo)

510 Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (VkSuo)

You're alive!

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 01:11 AM (0Ew3K)

511 A thorium hammer?

Thor, "Mjolnir, are you being critical?"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:11 AM (9qt0N)

512 502
Oh, and incidentally -- supposedly there's enough thorium in coal to
power Fischer-Tropsch conversion on the coal with some left-over to feed
into the grid.



Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:10 AM (T1005)





I have never heard of there being significant thorium in coal.
Thorium usually occurs in a mineral called monazite, which occurs as an
accessory in granite rocks, and is released as grains of sand when the
rock weathers. In some places, notably India, monazite sand is
concentrated on beaches by wave action, forming mineable deposits. I
know of no mines producing thorium from primary occurrences.





But uranium does occur in coal, particularly lignite. The U.S.
government mined and burned huge heaps of lignite in North Dakota in the
1950's to get uranium minerals from the coal ash.





The notion that thorium is somehow more plentiful than uranium, or
easier to get, just does not hold water. There is no shortage of
uranium. We now know a whole lot more about about how to explore for it,
and to produce it, than we did in the early years of the nuclear age.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:09 AM (upitO)


I'm not certifying to it, myself, but that's my recollection of Karl Denninger's back-of-the-envelope calcs.....and he always seems like a bright enough guy.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:12 AM (T1005)

513 Well, goodnight everybody, and once again great chat tonight.

"Keep your pantyhose on!!" - The Abyss, 1989
;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 23, 2015 01:13 AM (elbY7)

514 Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:04 AM (VkSuo)

You're alive!
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 01:11 AM (0Ew3K)



Indeed! Hey TPH

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:13 AM (VkSuo)

515 I took his comment to be: "if, commercially, thorium is the equivalent of a dead smoke detector...." -- not that they were chemically equivalent.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:08 AM


Dude...

Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to own radioactive substances. You probably have some in your nearest smoke detector.
Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:43 AM

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:13 AM (fADgx)

516 Hey, chemjeff -- if someone offered to sell your school a bunch of pure thorium, cheap, how much would they buy?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:05 AM (T1005)


First, thorium is kinda toxic. You can still get thorium gas mantles, but it is worse than uranium by a multiple factors of ten.

That being said, there are a hell of a lot of scientists who would love to work with thorium metal!

Commercially, the oxide is usually what you have to work with. The metal has many advantages in making various thorium chemicals. Especially with the limitations on use due to its radioactivity and toxicity, the metal in an inert environment (glovebox or Schlenkline) is often the preferred precursor, though it is almost impossible to get now-a-days, even with connections.

Trust me on this.

Posted by: The Actinide Hat at January 23, 2015 01:15 AM (0Ew3K)

517 508
I suppose our department could probably come up with a use or purpose

for some pure thorium but I don't know what that might be at this

moment.

Make a hammer?


Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 01:10 AM (UVfht)


It's in TIG electrodes, maybe a shop class might be interested.....and, yes, they could make a hammer.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:16 AM (T1005)

518 Re: thorium, read the article. Note the main benefit, harder to weaponize, would not effect countries intent on seeking nukes. Another benefit, less waste is in dispute as to magnitude, but it seems sound that there could be less, with potentially safer designs, too.

On balance, it seems like a viable tech that would be a better focus than wind/solar only. The weaponizable reactors will likely remain as fuel for existing weapon stocks require updating to my understanding.

Posted by: flounder at January 23, 2015 12:21 AM (FZbaK)


I believe India built a thorium bomb, just to satisfy themselves that it could indeed be done. So, "harder to weaponize" does not mean "impossible to weaponize", if the would-be weaponizer is motivated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:16 AM (upitO)

519 I don't have any thorium but I may know a guy who knows a guy that can get you some red mercury.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:17 AM (VkSuo)

520 Also, thorium is an anicritical material. It is a by-product from mining other materials. It isn't really used for anything, so it becomes expensive to keep it... so much so that the benefit from the mining quickly vanishes with increasing stores of thorium.

The more use that can be gained from thorium, the more it will encourage mining of other elements, and thus lower their prices.

Posted by: The Actinide Hat at January 23, 2015 01:17 AM (0Ew3K)

521
I believe India built a thorium bomb, just to
satisfy themselves that it could indeed be done. So, "harder to
weaponize" does not mean "impossible to weaponize", if the would-be
weaponizer is motivated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:16 AM (upitO)

yeah but India has actual smart people living there, unlike your typical Muzzies

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:18 AM (9GG/0)

522 Whelp, it got way late in a hurry.

I am happy Y5 is haunting the ONT again. I am not happy about that stupid alarm clock that starts buzzing in 5 hours.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 23, 2015 01:18 AM (e+1S5)

523 515
I took his comment to be: "if, commercially, thorium is the
equivalent of a dead smoke detector...." -- not that they were
chemically equivalent.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:08 AM



Dude...



Contrary to popular belief, it is not illegal to own radioactive substances. You probably have some in your nearest smoke detector.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 12:43 AM



Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:13 AM (fADgx)


Dude, back... I was agreeing with you....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:19 AM (T1005)

524 I believe India built a thorium bomb, just to satisfy themselves that it could indeed be done. So, "harder to weaponize" does not mean "impossible to weaponize", if the would-be weaponizer is motivated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:16 AM (upitO)


I believe it was a U-233 bomb obtained by conversion from Th-232 (neutron capture followed by successive beta decays).

India is big on thorium because they have a lot of it and not a lot of uranium. They really like to be self-sufficient.

Posted by: The Actinide Hat at January 23, 2015 01:19 AM (0Ew3K)

525 Lessons for the Morons:


Don't break your tibia.


Speak clearly to the 911 dispatcher before you pass out from shock.


Make sure you know where your critters and children are while the EMTs are trying to "find the break."


Fight for surgery if you think you need it.


Ignore what the doctors say your body "should" be doing and focus on what it actually is.


TAKE ALL OF THE HAPPY DRUGS.

Posted by: pookysgirl at January 23, 2015 01:20 AM (FUlNJ)

526 I wonder how brave the iranians are? given their experience wit stuxnet they would have to wonder if the coordinates they enter into their missiles are the same as the coordinates going into the guidance system. maybe all coordinates lead to tehran.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:20 AM (VkSuo)

527 pookysgirl, oh dear! are you all right?

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:21 AM (9GG/0)

528 TAKE ALL OF THE HAPPY DRUGS.

At the same time?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 01:21 AM (UVfht)

529 The "Who bitch this is?" is hilarious.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 23, 2015 01:21 AM (ZPrif)

530 My real fear is that my party will nominate a far-right ideologue like Governor Walker in 2016 and that the American people will be forced to choose Hillary Clinton to continue the centrist policies of President Obama.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 01:22 AM (8zCR+)

531 >>>TAKE ALL OF THE HAPPY DRUGS.

Dilaudid or GTFO. I do hope you're ok, and heal quickly. Stay ahead of the pain. Meds take time to work, and of you don't fight for it, you won't get it.

Posted by: DC in River City at January 23, 2015 01:22 AM (e+1S5)

532 Get well soon, Pookysgirl!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 23, 2015 01:22 AM (5pg79)

533 519
I don't have any thorium but I may know a guy who knows a guy that can get you some red mercury.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:17 AM (VkSuo)


The road to one of the parks we like to hike goes by a fancy-schmancy subdivision (I think they have a golf course) called "Cinnabar Hills." I, of course, hear this in my mind as "Piles of Toxic Mercury Oxides".

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:23 AM (T1005)

534 ouch, get well

Posted by: Costanza Defense at January 23, 2015 01:25 AM (ZPrif)

535 525
Lessons for the Morons:


Don't break your tibia.


Speak clearly to the 911 dispatcher before you pass out from shock.


Make sure you know where your critters and children are while the EMTs are trying to "find the break."


Fight for surgery if you think you need it.


Ignore what the doctors say your body "should" be doing and focus on what it actually is.


TAKE ALL OF THE HAPPY DRUGS.


Posted by: pookysgirl at January 23, 2015 01:20 AM (FUlNJ)


Oh, dear, pookysgirl.....I'm hoping that's not from recent personal experience.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:25 AM (T1005)

536 Dude, back... I was agreeing with you....
Posted by: cthulhu


....

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:26 AM (fADgx)

537 G'night everyone.

BTW, for the tentacled horror among you, I'll be out your way on Monday and Tuesday. Email for more.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 23, 2015 01:26 AM (UVfht)

538 The road to one of the parks we like to hike goes by a fancy-schmancy subdivision (I think they have a golf course) called "Cinnabar Hills." I, of course, hear this in my mind as "Piles of Toxic Mercury Oxides".
Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:23 AM (T1005)


heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:27 AM (VkSuo)

539

Thorium != Americium


... and, to follow a possible train of thought (and end it), collecting enough used smoke detectors to get a usable amount of Americium is a bad plan ... a quantity of Americium the size of an eraser on the end of a pencil (assuming enough smoke detectors can be obtained) is lethal ... in 2-3 hours. I once worked in a place that had such an amount. It was stored in a solid steel cask, just a bit smaller than a 55 gallon drum, and 3-4" thick borated polyethelyne slabs were leaned against it, to catch most of the remaining escaping neutrons. I did not stay for the extended tour.

Posted by: Arbalest at January 23, 2015 01:28 AM (FlRtG)

540 night Blanco Basura

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:28 AM (VkSuo)

541 Night all.

Here is the ending to "Unbreakable Machine-Doll":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Nvgfa9hIM

I'm off to read about the Hittites before hitting the sack...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 01:28 AM (0Ew3K)

542 night DC

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:29 AM (VkSuo)

543 The road to one of the parks we like to hike goes by
a fancy-schmancy subdivision (I think they have a golf course) called
"Cinnabar Hills." I, of course, hear this in my mind as "Piles of Toxic
Mercury Oxides".


Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:23 AM (T1005)

yeah, but it sounds better than "Litharge Lane"

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:29 AM (9GG/0)

544 ... and, to follow a possible train of thought (and end it), collecting enough used smoke detectors to get a usable amount of Americium is a bad plan ... a quantity of Americium the size of an eraser on the end of a pencil (assuming enough smoke detectors can be obtained) is lethal ... in 2-3 hours. I once worked in a place that had such an amount. It was stored in a solid steel cask, just a bit smaller than a 55 gallon drum, and 3-4" thick borated polyethelyne slabs were leaned against it, to catch most of the remaining escaping neutrons. I did not stay for the extended tour.

Posted by: Arbalest at January 23, 2015 01:28 AM (FlRtG)


Pffft, at least you didn't have to deal with Am-Be alloy... or even Cf... in a plastic garbage bin...

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 23, 2015 01:30 AM (0Ew3K)

545 and night all y'all. I have to get some sleep so I can go make money or something, at least have coffee, tomorrow.

Posted by: yankeefifth at January 23, 2015 01:30 AM (VkSuo)

546 good night Y5
be well

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:31 AM (9GG/0)

547 Wow the Miss Universe 'national' costumes. Many are eye searing in the faux-pas. Like Canada...

http://tinyurl.com/nr6vmwp

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:31 AM (9qt0N)

548
Am-Be alloy

The plan is simple: if someone is sanding, filing or milling anything with Beryllium in it ... stop breathing and run to the nearest exit. Shower ... several times.

Posted by: Arbalest at January 23, 2015 01:32 AM (FlRtG)

549 547
Wow the Miss Universe 'national' costumes. Many are eye searing in the faux-pas. Like Canada...

http://tinyurl.com/nr6vmwp


Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:31 AM (9qt0N)

holy shit some of those costumes are ridiculous.
Did you see Miss Venezuela? looks like a f'n tree

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:34 AM (9GG/0)

550 Posted by: pookysgirl at January 23, 2015 01:20 AM (FUlNJ)


Good grief! Take care of yourself!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 23, 2015 01:35 AM (oFCZn)

551 but yeah I gotta say, Miss Canada is a real 'winner'

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:36 AM (9GG/0)

552 Looks like gay Mardi Gras in the French Quarter

Posted by: Edmund Burkes Shade at January 23, 2015 01:37 AM (cmBvC)

553 I believe it was a U-233 bomb obtained by conversion from Th-232 (neutron capture followed by successive beta decays).

India is big on thorium because they have a lot of it and not a lot of uranium. They really like to be self-sufficient.

Posted by: The Actinide Hat at January 23, 2015 01:19 AM (0Ew3K)


So, the bomb was made of thorium; transmuted into uranium. Point being, it was done once, and monkey-see, monkey-do muzzies can copy the recipe, or hire it done. And I'll bet you that India might find some seriously rich uranium deposits if they thoroughly explored the basal contact of the Deccan plateau basalts.


I just don't see thorium as a "magic bullet" to make nuclear power all green and peaceful and oovy-doovy. I see it more as a scheme by the anti-nuke crowd to delay further development and deployment of uranium reactors by hinting at something "much better right around the corner" (along with my flying car).

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:37 AM (upitO)

554 I get that Boehner and McConnell were put in power by the nativist and racist base of party. But will we ever have someone who can match the intellectual firepower of President Obama?

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 01:37 AM (8zCR+)

555 With Miss Germany I was expecting the speakers to start playing 'Springtime for Hitler' in sympathy. Miss Holland you notice her skirt is a print of the painting Starry Night.

Most of Latin America embraced Carnival in their fashion design.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:39 AM (9qt0N)

556 oh, if I had a hammer,
I'd hammer in the mourning,
I'd hammer me some thorium,

Posted by: Loki ... at January 23, 2015 01:41 AM (P+IZm)

557 The stuff they gave me in the ER made me throw up, so now I'm on Roxicotin or some such spelling (my sister says that I'm now a rock star). They're trying to keep the pain managable while waiting for a small window in the orthopedic surgeon's busy schedule to open up. Right now the pain sucks, but my daughter survived the fall without a scratch, so to me, that's all I care about.

Posted by: pookysgirl at January 23, 2015 01:41 AM (FUlNJ)

558 539




Thorium != Americium





... and, to follow a possible train of thought (and end it),
collecting enough used smoke detectors to get a usable amount of
Americium is a bad plan ... a quantity of Americium the size of an
eraser on the end of a pencil (assuming enough smoke detectors can be
obtained) is lethal ... in 2-3 hours. I once worked in a place that had
such an amount. It was stored in a solid steel cask, just a bit smaller
than a 55 gallon drum, and 3-4" thick borated polyethelyne slabs were
leaned against it, to catch most of the remaining escaping neutrons. I
did not stay for the extended tour.



Posted by: Arbalest at January 23, 2015 01:28 AM (FlRtG)


Isn't that something like 6.022 x 10^23 smoke detectors? I think you'd have other problems besides the Americium.....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:41 AM (T1005)

559 ok time for bed as well.
good night all
get well pookysgirl!

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:42 AM (9GG/0)

560 but I gotta confess, Miss Lithuania and Miss Argentina were my two faves

Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:43 AM (9GG/0)

561 D*mn that is a big number

Posted by: Amedeo at January 23, 2015 01:43 AM (cmBvC)

562 You mean See-thru-ania?

Israel and Argentina went for classy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:43 AM (9qt0N)

563 Posted by: pookysgirl at January 23, 2015 01:20 AM (FUlNJ)

May you be blessed with health and healing; obedient children, and sufficient Happy Drugs, even though pharmacuitical companies didn't really make them ...

Posted by: Lizzy High Cheekbones Warren ... at January 23, 2015 01:44 AM (P+IZm)

564 557
The stuff they gave me in the ER made me throw up, so now I'm on
Roxicotin or some such spelling (my sister says that I'm now a rock
star). They're trying to keep the pain managable while waiting for a
small window in the orthopedic surgeon's busy schedule to open up. Right
now the pain sucks, but my daughter survived the fall without a
scratch, so to me, that's all I care about.


Posted by: pookysgirl at January 23, 2015 01:41 AM (FUlNJ)


Criminy, pookysgirl -- Hang In There!!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:44 AM (T1005)

565

Isn't that something like 6.022 x 10^23 smoke detectors?


--> to follow a possible train of thought (and end it),

It's a large number.

Posted by: Arbalest at January 23, 2015 01:45 AM (FlRtG)

566 561
D*mn that is a big number

Posted by: Amedeo at January 23, 2015 01:43 AM (cmBvC)


You like it? Here -- it's yours!!!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:46 AM (T1005)

567 Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:43 AM (9qt0N)

Is Miss Peruvia wearing stompy boots and gauchos?

Posted by: Enquiring Minds want Pics or it Didn't Happen ... at January 23, 2015 01:46 AM (P+IZm)

568 I just don't see thorium as a "magic bullet" to make nuclear power all green and peaceful and oovy-doovy. I see it more as a scheme by the anti-nuke crowd to delay further development and deployment of uranium reactors by hinting at something "much better right around the corner" (along with my flying car).
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


I don't either see it as a Philosophers Stone, but it's at the very least worth exploring. In any energy scheme, we get nothing greater than what is delivered to it.

That said, I've never, even once come across an anti-nuke denigration of further research of Thorium. Yes, 'argument from ignorance,' but the the green-nazis haven't really addressed it much.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:47 AM (fADgx)

569 Every one of those chem textbooks that say "cthulhu's number" will have to be revised, of course......

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:47 AM (T1005)

570 Alas Miss Peruvia was not invited. They probably feared her entourage of Uzi armed Raptors.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:48 AM (9qt0N)

571 Technically, the proper query is:


Whooze beyotch is dis?

Posted by: model_1066 at January 23, 2015 01:49 AM (uCgaE)

572 6.022 x 10^23

smaller than 6.022 x 10^23 + 1 ...

not to be pedantic about it ...

Posted by: The Unpedantic Pedantic ... at January 23, 2015 01:49 AM (P+IZm)

573 I just got an email from my local freecycle that says, "OFFER: Ikea "Jerker" computer desk" -- any of you have any experience with these?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:51 AM (T1005)

574 Avogadro's # is my cue to leave.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 23, 2015 01:51 AM (uCgaE)

575 Alas Miss Peruvia was not invited.

Nor I, Ms. Benghazi. No ramps for The Imperial Walker. Lawsuit to follow.

Posted by: Hillary! at January 23, 2015 01:51 AM (FcR7P)

576 What about Avacado's number?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:52 AM (9qt0N)

577 Sadly when I look at Governor Walker I see only strife and division. Hillary can continue the centrist policies of President Obama.

Posted by: Moderate Republican at January 23, 2015 01:52 AM (8zCR+)

578 Hey, I'm no fruit

Posted by: Amedeo at January 23, 2015 01:53 AM (cmBvC)

579 Incidentally, IKEA returns zero results when you search for "Jerker".



This is the entire listing:




OFFER: Ikea "Jerker" computer desk
I have an Ikea Jerker computer desk available. A bit of wear and tear,

but otherwise in good condition. please contact me if you're interested.



Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:54 AM (T1005)

580 Pooky, get well soonest.

Time for sleep I think. Or revise a short story.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 23, 2015 01:55 AM (9qt0N)

581 551 but yeah I gotta say, Miss Canada is a real 'winner'
Posted by: chemjeff eats radioactive bananas at January 23, 2015 01:36 AM (9GG/0)


Don't know why they made the Stanley Cup part of her costume.

The Cup hasn't resided in Canada for 20 years.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at January 23, 2015 01:55 AM (+Fae7)

582 Good night, ChemJeff! Good night, Anna Puma!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 23, 2015 01:55 AM (5pg79)

583 That said, I've never, even once come across an anti-nuke denigration of further research of Thorium. Yes, 'argument from ignorance,' but the the green-nazis haven't really addressed it much.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:47 AM (fADgx)


That said, I've never, even once come across an anti-nuke denigration of further research of Thorium. Yes, 'argument from ignorance,' but the the green-nazis haven't really addressed it much.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:47 AM (fADgx)


Thanks for making my point for me. The anti-nuke crowd has been notably silent on thorium precisely because they see the thorium fanbois as useful tools to help impede the further deployment of uranium technology. FUD: fear, uncertainty, doubt. In this case, thorium fits the "uncertainty" niche. "Gee, Mildred, I think we ought to vote against building that new nuclear plant in the county, because thorium reactors are almost ready for widespread use, and they use cheaper fuel that can't be weaponized, and makes less waste, too."


Let's not make the "perfect" the enemy of the perfectly satisfactory.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:56 AM (upitO)

584 579
Incidentally, IKEA returns zero results when you search for "Jerker".



This is the entire listing:




OFFER: Ikea "Jerker" computer desk

I have an Ikea Jerker computer desk available. A bit of wear and tear,


but otherwise in good condition. please contact me if you're interested.





Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:54 AM (T1005)



Maybe I should wait a couple of weeks and try listing an IKEA "Fapper" computer desk....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:57 AM (T1005)

585 573 I just got an email from my local freecycle that says, "OFFER: Ikea "Jerker" computer desk" -- any of you have any experience with these?


Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 01:51 AM (T1005)


Jerker computer desk???

Well... the internet IS made for porn...

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf at January 23, 2015 01:57 AM (qh617)

586 #581: I have a co-worker who's a big Red Wings fan, and she has a newspaper clipping from the last time they won the Stanley Cup with the headline, "Stanley Steamer". Every time I see it, I'm grateful that the Cup was named after Lord Stanley and not Grover Cleveland.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 23, 2015 01:58 AM (5pg79)

587 Good night, everyone! I'll leave you with the anthem of the modern feminist...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRMV8CsDNvQ

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at January 23, 2015 02:02 AM (5pg79)

588 GN, ProWar ...

Posted by: War! whoo wah What is it Good For? at January 23, 2015 02:03 AM (P+IZm)

589 583
That said, I've never, even once come across an anti-nuke denigration of
further research of Thorium. Yes, 'argument from ignorance,' but the
the green-nazis haven't really addressed it much.



Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:47 AM (fADgx)





That said, I've never, even once come across an anti-nuke
denigration of further research of Thorium. Yes, 'argument from
ignorance,' but the the green-nazis haven't really addressed it much.



Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 01:47 AM (fADgx)





Thanks for making my point for me. The anti-nuke crowd has been
notably silent on thorium precisely because they see the thorium fanbois
as useful tools to help impede the further deployment of uranium
technology. FUD: fear, uncertainty, doubt. In this case, thorium fits
the "uncertainty" niche. "Gee, Mildred, I think we ought to vote against
building that new nuclear plant in the county, because thorium reactors
are almost ready for widespread use, and they use cheaper fuel that
can't be weaponized, and makes less waste, too."





Let's not make the "perfect" the enemy of the perfectly satisfactory.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 01:56 AM (upitO)


I get your point, and wouldn't put it past 'em....but it seems like a helluva lot of nuclear regulation is like the gun regulation bandied about earlier -- it's intentional confusion meant to render actual progress uncertain and uneconomic. If there were safe-harbor "cut-outs" that would give the bureaucrats less leeway, a thousand flowers might soon bloom.....and thorium-fuel-cycle would be a good place for such a cut-out.

Another great place for a cut-out might be for things like http://tinyurl.com/o2f2b3d

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:03 AM (T1005)

590 Thanks for making my point for me. The anti-nuke crowd has been notably silent on thorium precisely because they see the thorium fanbois as useful tools to help impede the further deployment of uranium technology. FUD: fear, uncertainty, doubt. In this case, thorium fits the "uncertainty" niche. "Gee, Mildred, I think we ought to vote against building that new nuclear plant in the county, because thorium reactors are almost ready for widespread use, and they use cheaper fuel that can't be weaponized, and makes less waste, too."

Let's not make the "perfect" the enemy of the perfectly satisfactory.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


I'm not against any kind of current radio-tech, but in the same breath, Cthulhu's argument was that thorium can be sold to fund weapons. That is bullshit, regardless of any viability of thorium or green-nazi agitation.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:05 AM (fADgx)

591 590
Thanks for making my point for me. The anti-nuke crowd has been
notably silent on thorium precisely because they see the thorium fanbois
as useful tools to help impede the further deployment of uranium
technology. FUD: fear, uncertainty, doubt. In this case, thorium fits
the "uncertainty" niche. "Gee, Mildred, I think we ought to vote against
building that new nuclear plant in the county, because thorium reactors
are almost ready for widespread use, and they use cheaper fuel that
can't be weaponized, and makes less waste, too."



Let's not make the "perfect" the enemy of the perfectly satisfactory.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon



I'm not against any kind of current radio-tech, but in the same
breath, Cthulhu's argument was that thorium can be sold to fund weapons.
That is bullshit, regardless of any viability of thorium or green-nazi
agitation.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:05 AM (fADgx)


My argument was that it would be easier to sell thorium and buy real weapons than it would be to make thorium itself into a weapon. Thorium is a soft, heavy metal that is flammable. It is slightly radioactive, with most of it having a half-life of 14.05 billion years -- and that decay gives off alpha particles, which don't penetrate skin. You'd be more likely to sell it to someone making TIG welders than terrorists -- but, then, you could turn around and buy real arms at the local gun shop.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:12 AM (T1005)

592 You want to see the thorium fanbois in action, read few threads on Anthony Watts" blog, WUWT. If a thread gets onto the subject of nuclear power, the thorium fanbois usually appear with positively evangelical zeal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 02:13 AM (upitO)

593 If only the Second Amendment had an additional clause: "A well energized citizenry being necessary to the security of a free
economy, the right of the people to keep and bear nuclear powerplants shall not be
infringed."

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:19 AM (T1005)

594 My argument was that it would be easier to sell thorium and buy real weapons than it would be to make thorium itself into a weapon.
Posted by: cthulhu


I realize this is a shaggy-dog argument at this point; but To whom would a seller of thorium sell?

You want to see the thorium fanbois in action, read few threads on Anthony Watts" blog, WUWT. If a thread gets onto the subject of nuclear power, the thorium fanbois usually appear with positively evangelical zeal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Watts has what, 1 out of 100 posts, on nuke power?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:20 AM (fADgx)

595 The current market for thorium is so small, that I expect India simply owns it, and users buy on contract. If it came into wide use as a nuclear fuel, other producers would likely crop up, but I doubt that any clandestine group or rogue state could earn enough money selling thorium to finance the horribly expensive process of making an A-bomb.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 02:21 AM (upitO)

596 Watts has what, 1 out of 100 posts, on nuke power?

true dat. The other 99 are gaming posts, gardening posts, book posts ...

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at January 23, 2015 02:23 AM (P+IZm)

597 The current market for thorium is so small, that I expect India simply owns it, and users buy on contract. If it came into wide use as a nuclear fuel, other producers would likely crop up, but I doubt that any clandestine group or rogue state could earn enough money selling thorium to finance the horribly expensive process of making an A-bomb.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


As the New Orleans' monosyllabic chef says, 'BAM.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:26 AM (fADgx)

598 592
You want to see the thorium fanbois in action, read few threads on
Anthony Watts" blog, WUWT. If a thread gets onto the subject of nuclear
power, the thorium fanbois usually appear with positively evangelical
zeal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 02:13 AM (upitO)


Thing is -- thorium is nearly as common as lead or molybdenum on earth, and is twice as common as arsenic and three times as common as tin. The form most found in nature has a half-life of 14.05 billion years by itself. But if you juice it up in a reactor, you can get it going very nicely. There's a lot to like about it -- and some research reactors have run for decades with it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:27 AM (T1005)

599 I don't care what you think it means, means, but that whole "karma is a bitch meme can bite me."
I actually a previous type good guy (I think).

My first post tonight was just hating having to work at ungodly hours - this one?
Dealing with Cocky police officers half my age while trying to secure a fire-burnt property. I just got home. And I have learned a new form of hatred for Police.

I'm having a hard time respecting the men in blue lately...
Sorry. I SO want to respect them all.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 02:28 AM (959n9)

600 Watts has what, 1 out of 100 posts, on nuke power?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:20 AM (fADgx)


Not many explicitly on the topic, but climate-change rhetoric hinges a lot upon energy policy. If "carbon pollution" is a real and present danger, then CAGW true believers ought to welcome nuclear power as a way to wean the grid off coal, right? I kid, I kid. But the topic comes up for discussion quite often, and when it does, it seems there is always a thorium fanboi in there pitching. Not to mention the cold-fusion fanbois. Both tend to get played with there, just as trolls get played with here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 02:28 AM (upitO)

601 >>Watts has what, 1 out of 100 posts, on nuke power?

true dat. The other 99 are gaming posts, gardening posts, book posts ...
Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused


Ground Control to Major Thom.
http://youtu.be/58gjuawF5Hc

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:29 AM (fADgx)

602 Sorry - looks like like you 'ron's were having a convo -
I just needed to vent for a hot minute.

See you tomorrow, maybe.
Be well.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 02:30 AM (959n9)

603 Miss Korea's outfit likely induced several epileptic fits.

Posted by: Epobirs at January 23, 2015 02:32 AM (IdCqF)

604 Sorry - looks like like you 'ron's were having a convo -
I just needed to vent for a hot minute.

See you tomorrow, maybe.
Be well.
Posted by: shredded chi


Holy hell, just post your vent. This isn't a restricted forum.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:33 AM (fADgx)

605 594
My argument was that it would be easier to sell thorium and buy real
weapons than it would be to make thorium itself into a weapon.

Posted by: cthulhu



I realize this is a shaggy-dog argument at this point; but To whom would a seller of thorium sell?



You want to see the thorium fanbois in action, read few threads
on Anthony Watts" blog, WUWT. If a thread gets onto the subject of
nuclear power, the thorium fanbois usually appear with positively
evangelical zeal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon



Watts has what, 1 out of 100 posts, on nuke power?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:20 AM (fADgx)


Chem labs looking for experience with actinides, Craigslist, Etsy, TIG welder supply manufacturers, makers of gas lantern mantles, and the curious. I'm sure there are others. You can sell anything at some price. The original question was "how do you weaponize thorium?" and my answer was "sell it and buy a gun." It doesn't matter if you have to deliver 13,000 metric tons to Shengzhou for the price of a pocket pistol, it's still easier than....y'know, wait.....fine, I stand corrected -- the easiest way to weaponize thorium is to drop it on someone's head.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:35 AM (T1005)

606 Etsy? Esty ...

BWAHAHAHA!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:37 AM (fADgx)

607 602
Sorry - looks like like you 'ron's were having a convo -

I just needed to vent for a hot minute.



See you tomorrow, maybe.

Be well.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 02:30 AM (959n9)


We're always having a convo -- pull up a chair and join in.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:39 AM (T1005)

608 606
Etsy? Esty ...



BWAHAHAHA!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:37 AM (fADgx)


You evidently missed @488.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:40 AM (T1005)

609 Etsy? Esty ...

the etsy thorium spider, climbed up the water spout ...
Down came the rain, cause a hard rains gonna fall,

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at January 23, 2015 02:44 AM (P+IZm)

610 Thing is -- thorium is nearly as common as lead or molybdenum on earth, and is twice as common as arsenic and three times as common as tin. The form most found in nature has a half-life of 14.05 billion years by itself. But if you juice it up in a reactor, you can get it going very nicely. There's a lot to like about it -- and some research reactors have run for decades with it.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:27 AM (T1005)


Please don't mistake "abundance in the earth's crust" with "able to be readily mined". Thorium is moderately abundant, but mostly in the form of discrete mineral grains sparsely scattered throughout huge bodies of very tough rock. And as a minor constituent of some rare earth deposits. If there are any large, unexploited thorium deposits in North America, we should have probably found them with Geiger counters while searching for uranium. Uranium may be less abundant, but it tends chemically to segregate out into deposits wherein it is sufficiently concentrated to be mined at a profit, i.e. "ore" by definition. I have held in my hand a baseball-sized hunk of pitchblende that would peg out a scintillometer set on the least sensitive scale.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 02:44 AM (upitO)

611 609
Etsy? Esty ...



the etsy thorium spider, climbed up the water spout ...

Down came the rain, cause a hard rains gonna fall,



Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at January 23, 2015 02:44 AM (P+IZm)


See -- there's your market right there.....Etsy thorium spiders. There's probably some 70-year-old cat-lady in Wichita that's churning 'em out by the dozens, and is concerned that the thorium supply provided by her late husband is running low.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:47 AM (T1005)

612 Tired.

Good night, all...

Take care.

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused ... at January 23, 2015 02:48 AM (P+IZm)

613 The bad part, weft is that I'm trying to catch a bourbon buzz -- doubt that I can catch up with you fools, but I'm working on it!

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 02:48 AM (959n9)

614 cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:47 AM (T1005)

you could write a bad 70s arts and crafts book about that!

Posted by: Adriane the Literary Critic... at January 23, 2015 02:49 AM (P+IZm)

615 "Dear Etsy Bwanna,

I have recently become a possesor of a quantity of thorium. I hope to have a exchange of the cash money and the letters by which we shall communicate!"

Posted by: Nigerian 404+1 at January 23, 2015 02:51 AM (fADgx)

616 610
Thing is -- thorium is nearly as common as lead or molybdenum on earth,
and is twice as common as arsenic and three times as common as tin. The
form most found in nature has a half-life of 14.05 billion years by
itself. But if you juice it up in a reactor, you can get it going very
nicely. There's a lot to like about it -- and some research reactors
have run for decades with it.



Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:27 AM (T1005)





Please don't mistake "abundance in the earth's crust" with "able to
be readily mined". Thorium is moderately abundant, but mostly in the
form of discrete mineral grains sparsely scattered throughout huge
bodies of very tough rock. And as a minor constituent of some rare
earth deposits. If there are any large, unexploited thorium deposits in
North America, we should have probably found them with Geiger counters
while searching for uranium. Uranium may be less abundant, but it tends
chemically to segregate out into deposits wherein it is sufficiently
concentrated to be mined at a profit, i.e. "ore" by definition. I have
held in my hand a baseball-sized hunk of pitchblende that would peg out a
scintillometer set on the least sensitive scale.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 02:44 AM (upitO)


Please note @520....it isn't readily mined for itself, true, but it is a common-enough contaminant to be a by-product.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:53 AM (T1005)

617 Maybe one could knit crochet the thorium spider silk into self-heating dick cozies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 02:53 AM (upitO)

618 613
The bad part, weft is that I'm trying to catch a bourbon buzz -- doubt
that I can catch up with you fools, but I'm working on it!

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 02:48 AM (959n9)


Email.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:54 AM (T1005)

619 The bad part, weft is that I'm trying to catch a bourbon buzz -- doubt
that I can catch up with you fools, but I'm working on it!

Posted by: shredded chi

Email.
Posted by: cthulhu


"Email" ?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:56 AM (fADgx)

620 615
"Dear Etsy Bwanna,



I have recently become a possesor of a quantity of thorium. I hope
to have a exchange of the cash money and the letters by which we shall
communicate!"

Posted by: Nigerian 404+1 at January 23, 2015 02:51 AM (fADgx)


Can you forward list of weapons needed and bank account numbers? Also, good times to visit lovely country and enjoy hospitality?

Posted by: Nigerian 404-1 at January 23, 2015 02:57 AM (T1005)

621 The bad part, weft is that I'm trying to catch a bourbon buzz -- doubt
that I can catch up with you fools, but I'm working on it!

Posted by: shredded chi


The secret to the ONT conversations is that it really doesn't matter; we're all self-acknowledged gas-bags.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:58 AM (fADgx)

622 619
The bad part, weft is that I'm trying to catch a bourbon buzz -- doubt

that I can catch up with you fools, but I'm working on it!



Posted by: shredded chi



Email.

Posted by: cthulhu



"Email" ?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:56 AM (fADgx)


Chi doesn't check his email when he's reading the comments, because it's all on his phone. So if I've sent him an email backchannel, I have to tell him in the comments.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:59 AM (T1005)

623 Please note @520....it isn't readily mined for itself, true, but it is a common-enough contaminant to be a by-product.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:53 AM (T1005)


Which means that once the present glut is consumed, future supply is limited, and cannot readily be expanded. Which is exactly what happened to propane as a motor fuel.


I'm not suggesting thorium is totally worthless as reactor fuel; I'm saying it is being over-hyped.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 03:02 AM (upitO)

624 Posted by: cthulhu
"Email" ?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:56 AM (fADgx)
--------------------
Weft -
I think he was telling me me that I had an incoming email...

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 03:03 AM (959n9)

625 621
The bad part, weft is that I'm trying to catch a bourbon buzz -- doubt

that I can catch up with you fools, but I'm working on it!



Posted by: shredded chi



The secret to the ONT conversations is that it really doesn't matter; we're all self-acknowledged gas-bags.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 02:58 AM (fADgx)


And, when I've actually met them IRL, a bunch of truly remarkable, talented, interesting, entertaining, kind, and caring people. True fact -- I was recently at the local supermarket with the fiancee in the deli aisle and she said something about not having the right kind of turkey. I did a pout and said, "what about me?" -- and she replied, "I wasn't looking for ham."

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:03 AM (T1005)

626 Weft -
I think he was telling me me that I had an incoming email...
Posted by: shredded chi


Ah, understood.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 03:03 AM (fADgx)

627 You may be wrong on this one one, Elder God - apparently, T-Mobile just fooking sucks...

I still have zero notification of incoming email.
Apparently, my email is slower than Moo Moo.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 03:08 AM (959n9)

628 Well, time for this cowboy to hit the sack. Night, all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 03:10 AM (upitO)

629 And, when I've actually met them IRL, a bunch of truly remarkable, talented, interesting, entertaining, kind, and caring people.
Posted by: cthulhu


No, I've never thought of the Horde as anything less; to do so would be to deny the obvious wit, etc. etc. etc... this auto-ass-kissing is tiring@!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 03:11 AM (fADgx)

630 623
Please note @520....it isn't readily mined for itself, true, but it is a common-enough contaminant to be a by-product.



Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 02:53 AM (T1005)





Which means that once the present glut is consumed, future supply is
limited, and cannot readily be expanded. Which is exactly what happened
to propane as a motor fuel.





I'm not suggesting thorium is totally worthless as reactor fuel; I'm saying it is being over-hyped.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 23, 2015 03:02 AM (upitO)


Which, again, gets me back to Denninger. He seems to think that enough thorium drops out of Fischer-Tropsch conversion to (a) power the Fischer-Tropsch conversion, (b) do the thorium recovery, and (c) actually give back to the grid.

Myself, I don't know -- and if commonsense inquiries about the world in which we live have to go through bureaucratic channels in DC, we'll never know.

I should also note that you've been great about puttin' some knowledge into the comments. *hic*

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:12 AM (T1005)

631 AOP - I don't say "Hi" to you often enough. "Hi."
And, goodnight.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 03:12 AM (959n9)

632 627
You may be wrong on this one one, Elder God - apparently, T-Mobile just fooking sucks...



I still have zero notification of incoming email.

Apparently, my email is slower than Moo Moo.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 03:08 AM (959n9)


How would you even measure this? A Nano-moo?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:13 AM (T1005)

633 heya chi.

hey cooth.

The pats need to lose, just so MooMoo has the sadz.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:19 AM (OsWis)

634 You know - I walked in at what ? 2:30 this morning? Mad at the world.


I should take a minute to thank you Morons for putting me in a better mood & lowering my blood pressure.

So, Thank You.

Posted by: shredded chi at January 23, 2015 03:20 AM (959n9)

635 629
And, when I've actually met them IRL, a bunch of truly remarkable,
talented, interesting, entertaining, kind, and caring people.

Posted by: cthulhu



No, I've never thought of the Horde as anything less; to do so would
be to deny the obvious wit, etc. etc. etc... this auto-ass-kissing is
tiring@!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 03:11 AM (fADgx)


Well, there is a bit of self-selection involved. I've never felt tempted to meet MUMR or Dr Oink Oink, for instance. But of the subset I've decided to meet, they've been awesome.

I do try to encourage Morons to meet and socialize in meatspace, and I'm not ashamed of that....and I can reel off a bunch that I've met, and honestly say that I've never been disappointed or regretful.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:21 AM (T1005)

636 How would you even measure this? A Nano-moo?
Posted by: cthulhu


A Nano-lathotep?
tinyurl.com/mwboluq

*sunglasses*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 03:21 AM (fADgx)

637 633
heya chi.



hey cooth.



The pats need to lose, just so MooMoo has the sadz.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:19 AM (OsWis)


Howdy, SMFH.

I'd heard about the shit-burning detail, way back when, but it struck me as odd in that you'd be fighting a substantial water content -- and, worse, if you doused it in enough fuel to burn, you'd probably boil the water under the fuel and have it spatter. Were there some sort of recommended practices for this, beyond, "get yourself to somewhere civilized"?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:25 AM (T1005)

638 636
How would you even measure this? A Nano-moo?

Posted by: cthulhu



A Nano-lathotep?

tinyurl.com/mwboluq



*sunglasses*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 23, 2015 03:21 AM (fADgx)


Ohhhhhh.....sucker-punch.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:27 AM (T1005)

639 Chi, my timestamp says sent at 11:46. It is 50 minutes later. How slow are these electrons?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:28 AM (T1005)

640 I have gotten mail from Yahoo that is time stamped over 8 hours old. That is the oldest I can remember getting.

Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 23, 2015 03:32 AM (91eZY)

641
637,

Pour a fuckton of JP-8 into the shit stew, light some paper, throw it in said shit stew, stir for a few hours, bury the ashes.

It does get cold in Iraq (especially north of Tikrit), so as long as you weren't upwind of the shit-burning, it wasn't too bad, warmth-wise.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:34 AM (OsWis)

642 of course, if someone had an especially loose booty (the runs) it would take additional fuel and longer to burn.

I'm not a chemist like you folks, so I don't know exactly the shit to fuel ratios.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:36 AM (OsWis)

643 640
I have gotten mail from Yahoo that is time stamped over 8 hours old. That is the oldest I can remember getting.


Posted by: GMB - Tyrant 2nd Class at January 23, 2015 03:32 AM (91eZY)


I was doing some internal audit work at a client in Sunnyvale. I'd often send some spreadsheets, a list of things I needed to go over, and some attached scans of source documents....and casually walk out, walk across the parking lot, get checked-in to the other building, and walk up to the person's desk just in time for the email to show up. Seriously, when you've got electrons that can't outrun this fat old dude, you need to trade 'em in on some new ones.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:38 AM (T1005)

644 642
of course, if someone had an especially loose booty (the runs) it would take additional fuel and longer to burn.



I'm not a chemist like you folks, so I don't know exactly the shit to fuel ratios.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:36 AM (OsWis)


Who came up with this? The natives weren't stupid enough to do this, were they?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 03:41 AM (T1005)

645 in 2003, we were living in a bombed-out hangar, where we both lived and would work on both track and wheeled vics (even a roof with holes is better than nothing when working inside a tank at 120F).

No electricity, beyond what are generators provided, no running water (bottled water and water that were in our water buffalos, which was not potable and was used for washing/bathing purposes.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:46 AM (OsWis)

646 Oh, and no portapotties. Had to build our own shitters...if you want to know what they look like, they looked like the ones that were built in 'nam (wooden box with a hole cut into the bench, 50 gal drum cut in half.

Yeah. Fun times.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:50 AM (OsWis)

647 laters y'all.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:57 AM (OsWis)

648 oh, btw, here's something that should be all the rage for the 'rons here...

https://tinyurl.com/mlluo88


Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:02 AM (OsWis)

649 645
in 2003, we were living in a bombed-out hangar, where we both lived and
would work on both track and wheeled vics (even a roof with holes is
better than nothing when working inside a tank at 120F).



No electricity, beyond what are generators provided, no running
water (bottled water and water that were in our water buffalos, which
was not potable and was used for washing/bathing purposes.





Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 03:46 AM (OsWis)


I feel like I should back up a few steps, kick the dirt a little, and start over.....

Due to a few accidents of birth, some odd bits of time, parental aspirations and personal sloth, I have never served....my paternal uncle died as a Marine, and his youngest son is a CPO in the Navy, last I checked; my maternal uncle was also in the service as a translator. Nonetheless, I have come to admire and honor those who have and do serve.

In doing so, it is impossible to miss the fact that our political class is almost always incredibly unworthy of the fine sailors and soldiers who serve at its whim. Duty, honor, and country run deep in the services -- while grandstanding, focus groups, and factionalism run deep in DC.

When I think of waste disposal, I look at it in the context of my dad and my uncle going back to Colorado around 1973 to install indoor plumbing for my grandfather......who had previously had an outhouse. And I think, "who the fuck comes up with the idea of burning mostly-liquid shit and inflicts this onto soldiers as SOP?"

Maintaining tracks and wheeled vehicles in the shit is what you need to do. Shortages of water and electricity is what you had. Primitive toilet issues are par for the course.....

But where I'm not clear is -- do the locals incinerate it (doubtful) or who decided to go all 'fancy' on it?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:08 AM (T1005)

650 649 Cthulu,

A *lot* could be solved if we forced the US government to endure the conditions it inflicts on US business and service members even 50% of the year....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:21 AM (/4AZU)

651 649,

We had very few LNs (local nationals) where we were at.

It was either burn it or bury it. We did both.

The few toilets I did see in Iraq through three deployments were pretty much holes in the ground.

I hate not being able to sleep.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:25 AM (OsWis)

652 650
649 Cthulu,

A *lot* could be solved if we forced the US
government to endure the conditions it inflicts on US business and
service members even 50% of the year....


Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:21 AM (/4AZU)


Howdy, Sven.

I'd hit that shit-burning story before, and had thought "WTF?", but hadn't previously interacted with someone who would have been subject to that policy. When SMFH was talking about her group doing it, I was naturally curious.

I should point out, however, that I'd much rather be talking about happy subjects -- her kids, her sports teams, the weather -- but since it came up.....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:29 AM (T1005)

653 651 SMFH,

Wife said poo burning was the ultimate punishment detail....

If you need to sleep comrade count the hypocritical things WRT civil servants vs green shirters.....


You will either sleep or be busy for a decade.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:31 AM (/4AZU)

654 Kids are ok. Just can't answer a fucking phone. I hate texting.

Raiders still suck, god love 'em.

Weather sucks.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:32 AM (OsWis)

655 651
649,



We had very few LNs (local nationals) where we were at.



It was either burn it or bury it. We did both.



The few toilets I did see in Iraq through three deployments were pretty much holes in the ground.



I hate not being able to sleep.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:25 AM (OsWis)


So, were you stationed on a limestone shelf where burying wasn't feasible?

I sympathize with "I hate not being able to sleep" -- but, y'know, it could be worse. Imagine not being able to sleep and not having Morons-in-a-box to amuse you!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:32 AM (T1005)

656 650
649 Cthulu,

A *lot* could be solved if we forced the US
government to endure the conditions it inflicts on US business and
service members even 50% of the year....


Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:21 AM (/4AZU)

=====Suggestion:
Move all of Wash DC to Amchitka, Adak or Shemya. Set up gun emplacements to sink the lobbyist yachts.
Every congressional session will be over in 3 weeks, and a whole bunch of the egomaniacal assholes that now want to be preznit would probably give it another thought before assigning their own asses to 4 years there.

Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 04:32 AM (iRJ+A)

657 652 Cthulu,

Just another day and subject in paradise...

One nice thing about MREs is the poo cannon is literally like a cannon ball....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:34 AM (/4AZU)

658 654
Kids are ok. Just can't answer a fucking phone. I hate texting.



Raiders still suck, god love 'em.



Weather sucks.





Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:32 AM (OsWis)


Fine. You pick the happy subjects.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:34 AM (T1005)

659 653,

Wasn't a punishment for us. Had to be done.

when I went back in 2006 and 2008, there were portapotties on the larger FOBs.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:34 AM (OsWis)

660 and also decent toilet/shower trailers, courtesy of KBR.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:35 AM (OsWis)

661 A friend who usta run a comedy club said that he solved the problem of long lines between shows at the ladies' room. He removed the mirrors. Solved the problem instantly.

Posted by: brian mckim at January 23, 2015 04:36 AM (32N+1)

662 656
650

649 Cthulu,

A *lot* could be solved if we forced the US

government to endure the conditions it inflicts on US business and

service members even 50% of the year....




Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:21 AM (/4AZU)

=====Suggestion:
Move all of Wash DC to Amchitka, Adak or Shemya. Set up gun emplacements to sink the lobbyist yachts.
Every
congressional session will be over in 3 weeks, and a whole bunch of the
egomaniacal assholes that now want to be preznit would probably give it
another thought before assigning their own asses to 4 years there.


Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 04:32 AM (iRJ+A)


Move everything elected to Thule [ http://tinyurl.com/3c4mal ]. That'll keep em focused....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:36 AM (T1005)

663 cooth,

the only thing that would make me happy right now is that SMOD decided to pay a special visit to DC....especially to that five-sided nuthouse where officers go to get castrated.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:37 AM (OsWis)

664 659 SMFH,

It's a lot like cleaning out IED humvees.... not technically a shit list detail but one that was in the mid nco ranks a lot more than in GW version 1.0.......

Used to be private work but now privates are a protected species.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:38 AM (/4AZU)

665 663 SMFH,

I'm hoping Yellowstone is a volcanic ventriloquist....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:39 AM (/4AZU)

666 Boom

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:39 AM (/4AZU)

667 663
cooth,



the only thing that would make me happy right now is that SMOD
decided to pay a special visit to DC....especially to that five-sided
nuthouse where officers go to get castrated.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:37 AM (OsWis)


Isn't that technically in Arlington? I'm thinking SOTU was a missed opportunity.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:39 AM (T1005)

668 664,

IED tanks and Brads aren't much fun to clean either.

I got out as a Sgt after 10 years.

Yes, privates are now special snowflakes.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:39 AM (OsWis)

669 Bwahaha my work here is done....on to Boston

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:40 AM (/4AZU)

670 667,

Fine. A SMOD that will take out DC AND Arlington.

Yes it was.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:41 AM (OsWis)

671 So, SMFH -- kid #1, cutest moment growing up......go!

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:42 AM (T1005)

672 Yellowstone will work also...in fact, I keep up with what that bad boy is doing...so far, zip.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:42 AM (OsWis)

673 669
Bwahaha my work here is done....on to Boston


Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:40 AM (/4AZU)


Boston?!?!?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:43 AM (T1005)

674 Move everything elected to Thule [ http://tinyurl.com/3c4mal ]. That'll keep em focused....


Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:36 AM (T1005)

=====luxury. you really need to be in the Aleutians for a while to get it --

Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 04:44 AM (iRJ+A)

675 671,

#1 was three at the time, her little friend next door pissed her off, my dad told her to ball her fist up and slug her (he was joking).

She proceeded to haul ass out the front door, little fist upraised.

I was able to grab her in time.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:46 AM (OsWis)

676 674
Move everything elected to Thule [ http://tinyurl.com/3c4mal ]. That'll keep em focused....




Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:36 AM (T1005)

=====luxury. you really need to be in the Aleutians for a while to get it --


Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 04:44 AM (iRJ+A)


You've had moose pics -- I figured you were on the mainland.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:46 AM (T1005)

677 672 SMFH,

Cheer up wife's trying to get a billet in butte, given my famous "luck" that means it'll get hot then....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:48 AM (/4AZU)

678 677,

Well, I don't want anything to happen to you or yours. That's just mean.

Hopefully, if your famous "luck" does kick in, you'll get enough of a head start to GTFOOD.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:52 AM (OsWis)

679 675
671,



#1 was three at the time, her little friend next door pissed her
off, my dad told her to ball her fist up and slug her (he was joking).



She proceeded to haul ass out the front door, little fist upraised.



I was able to grab her in time.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 04:46 AM (OsWis)


That was good for a laugh.

We don't have kids -- but we have three godkids that we've known since they were born. When #2 godkid [#1 son] was about 10 years old, he's down for a godparent visit, we're out at a local non-chain pizza place, and the cashier is a fetching brunette in her 20s.....

....and he is workin' it like you wouldn't believe. He's into "what's your sign?" territory or "what time do you get off?" -- and the fiancee and I are just awestruck.....because by the time her shift ends, he'll be asleep on our fold-out couch.

OK, your turn -- kid #2.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:55 AM (T1005)

680 673 Cthulu,

A personal slang....

Read Tiger Ellison's treatiste on the Run and Shoot offense....


You either go to hell or Boston, and I seldom could tell the difference.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:55 AM (/4AZU)

681 You've had moose pics -- I figured you were on the mainland.


Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:46 AM (T1005)

====I didn't say I'm in the Aleutians now. Never saw a moose there but I did see caribou.
Actually, one day on Adak the weather blew out (after months of nothing but wind and rain) and it was crystal clear and sunny for a whole day. Astounding beautiful. Volcanic islands, eagles, otters, whales, porpoises, etc. all visible from shore. Outrageous. Then the weather blew back in and I never saw the sun there again.
combination of the latitude of the northern rain forest with a position at the top of the pacific. cold, wet, rainy bitch with clouds down to the ground until it freezes. >50 MPH up to hurricane force winds a lot. Then it freezes and becomes a cold, wet, rainy, frozen bitch with clouds down to the ground. wet and cold is way, way worse than just cold.

Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 04:57 AM (iRJ+A)

682 678 SMFH,

Hopefully, although I'd trade my safety for the boy's..... and it'll be an awesome sight in the truest sense of the word.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 04:58 AM (/4AZU)

683 667, 670: sniff Fine.........I live in Alexandria, but I understand. For the Greater Good I will sacrifice myself to SMOD. weeps bitterly

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 23, 2015 04:58 AM (cEzLK)

684 683
667, 670: sniff Fine.........I live in Alexandria, but I understand. For the Greater Good I will sacrifice myself to SMOD. weeps bitterly

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 23, 2015 04:58 AM (cEzLK)

===I heard that SMoD can be counteracted with tinfoil and sunscreen.

Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 05:00 AM (iRJ+A)

685 kid #2 trying to do the Tootsie Roll at the age of two like her big sister (who was six at the time).

Kid #2 also swore she'd never have kids.

So she grows up, finds a ginger dude (he's a good guy), and they have a baby in the woods. Alone. Just the two of them. No doctor. No birth certificate.

Grandbaby is a year old now.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:02 AM (OsWis)

686 684,

I'm sorry. I don't include any of the horde in my various disaster scenarios.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:04 AM (OsWis)

687 683 Puddleglum,

Cheer up, you have Chuck Shooma's magnetic personality as a shield....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:04 AM (/4AZU)

688 Oh good gawd. I just read the piece at the link "Who's bitch this is". The write-up is even funnier than the video.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:05 AM (DmNpO)

689 683
667, 670: sniff Fine.........I live in Alexandria, but I understand. For the Greater Good I will sacrifice myself to SMOD. weeps bitterly

Posted by: puddleglum not at work at January 23, 2015 04:58 AM (cEzLK)


I sincerely hope that you and Vendette get clear.....but there are 535 legislators and 2 executives that will determine whether SMOD is a net cost or benefit.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:05 AM (T1005)

690 681
You've had moose pics -- I figured you were on the mainland.




Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 04:46 AM (T1005)

====I didn't say I'm in the Aleutians now. Never saw a moose there but I did see caribou.
Actually,
one day on Adak the weather blew out (after months of nothing but wind
and rain) and it was crystal clear and sunny for a whole day. Astounding
beautiful. Volcanic islands, eagles, otters, whales, porpoises, etc.
all visible from shore. Outrageous. Then the weather blew back in and I
never saw the sun there again.
combination of the latitude of the
northern rain forest with a position at the top of the pacific. cold,
wet, rainy bitch with clouds down to the ground until it freezes. >50
MPH up to hurricane force winds a lot. Then it freezes and becomes a
cold, wet, rainy, frozen bitch with clouds down to the ground. wet and
cold is way, way worse than just cold.


Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 04:57 AM (iRJ+A)


Don't hold back -- tell me how you really feel......

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:07 AM (T1005)

691 688 Niedemeyer's Dead Horse,

It galls me we can't split that coalition...

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:11 AM (/4AZU)

692 Don't hold back -- tell me how you really feel......


Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:07 AM (T1005)

===did I mention that it is a cold, wet, rainy bitch with clouds right down to the ground? just imagine having those special days in SF stay that way for months at a time.

Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 05:12 AM (iRJ+A)

693 691,

heh.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:12 AM (OsWis)

694 685
kid #2 trying to do the Tootsie Roll at the age of two like her big sister (who was six at the time).



Kid #2 also swore she'd never have kids.



So she grows up, finds a ginger dude (he's a good guy), and they
have a baby in the woods. Alone. Just the two of them. No doctor. No
birth certificate.



Grandbaby is a year old now.



Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:02 AM (OsWis)


Congrats!!!! Post some baby pix!!!


So, what is this "doing the tootsie roll"?

Incidentally, I was on a business trip and spent the night in a Travelodge that backed up against (and was downwind from) the tootsie-roll plant in Chicago. This is on my big list of "never do that stupid shit again."

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:13 AM (T1005)

695 692,

It would put a damper on those gay pride parades.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:13 AM (OsWis)

696 688
Oh good gawd. I just read the piece at the link "Who's bitch this is". The write-up is even funnier than the video.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:05 AM (DmNpO)


NDH!!!! How have you been keepin' yourself???

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:14 AM (T1005)

697 688 Oh good gawd. I just read the piece at the link "Who's bitch this is". The write-up is even funnier than the video.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:05 AM (DmNpO)


Should be required reading. I suspect the Horde has a new meme.

Morning all.

Now off to work to prepare the ark.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at January 23, 2015 05:16 AM (wVWRM)

698 cooth,

Tootsie Roll

https://tinyurl.com/cu4utn3

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:16 AM (OsWis)

699 crazy daughter and grandbaby in nick.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:18 AM (OsWis)

700 NDH!!!! How have you been keepin' yourself???

****

I'm well. Thanks for asking.

Busy during the day and exhausted at night, which is how it should be.

You?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:19 AM (DmNpO)

701 Watched the video again. Notice how long it takes the guy to realize that it's a woman who's grabbing at him.

That's not good. For her.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:21 AM (DmNpO)

702 Watched the video again. Notice how long it takes the guy to realize that it's a woman who's grabbing at him.

That's not good. For her.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:21 AM (DmNpO)

703 WHy am I double-posting?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:21 AM (DmNpO)

704 697 Golfman in NC,

Who SCOAMF this is?

//Warrior-Poet Slingblade

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:22 AM (/4AZU)

705 702,

I thought it was a dude also.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:23 AM (OsWis)

706 Who came up with this? The natives weren't stupid enough to do this, were they?

That constitutes an improvement over the way the natives do it.

Posted by: Jean at January 23, 2015 05:24 AM (TETYm)

707 706,

Yep.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:25 AM (OsWis)

708 702 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse,

It's like a copy of a copy of a copy of MSLSD....

Ray Maddow/Christine Hayes and Tarde

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:26 AM (/4AZU)

709 703 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse,

I paid pixy off to keep me from the wall of fame Sunday...

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:27 AM (/4AZU)

710 It's like a copy of a copy of a copy of MSLSD....

Ray Maddow/Christine Hayes and Tarde

****


Maddow? Hayes? Maddow? Hayes?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:29 AM (DmNpO)

711 I paid pixy off to keep me from the wall of fame Sunday..

****

On a tear again? You had been away for a while.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:30 AM (DmNpO)

712 710 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse,

I remain unconvinced that Maddow/Hayes is not one dude collecting two paychecks.....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:31 AM (/4AZU)

713 712
710 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse,

I remain unconvinced that Maddow/Hayes is not one dude collecting two paychecks.....


Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:31 AM (/4AZU)

=====have they ever been seen together?

Posted by: jc at January 23, 2015 05:32 AM (iRJ+A)

714 700
NDH!!!! How have you been keepin' yourself???



****



I'm well. Thanks for asking.



Busy during the day and exhausted at night, which is how it should be.



You?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 23, 2015 05:19 AM (DmNpO)


Slowly going insane from the constant realization that I'm at ground-zero for collapse of the "surveillance/adserve/FarmVille" economy, and out in the starving hinterlands of the "something to eat/things people want/services that need doing" economy.

Hoping that you've been busy in a good way.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:33 AM (T1005)

715 She's my sister, brother, sister, brother....


//Maddow/Hayes sobbing in front of a mirror....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:34 AM (/4AZU)

716 709
703 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse,

I paid pixy off to keep me from the wall of fame Sunday...


Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:27 AM (/4AZU)


I didn't know you could do this....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:34 AM (T1005)

717 711 Niedermeyer's Dead Horse,

Been exercising and pondering wife's next assignment.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:37 AM (/4AZU)

718 New Years Eve (and day) was the only time I graced the wall of fame.

Figures.

still don't understand how in a mere 24 hours, I managed that.

Oh yeah. I was really, really....really drunk.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:39 AM (OsWis)

719 and scared to lie down.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:39 AM (OsWis)

720 SMFH,

We've all been there....

I got to 1300 posts in ~36 hours once

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:42 AM (/4AZU)

721 720,

Wow.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:42 AM (OsWis)

722 SMFH -- one of my earliest experiences of being a godparent....carrying around the goddaughter in Mendocino and showing her that you can poke the banana slugs on their bodies and their eyestalks come out to see what you're doing -- but if you poke their heads, they retract the eyestalks for safety.


Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:44 AM (T1005)

723 721
720,



Wow.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:42 AM (OsWis)


I should point out that Sven is in a class of his own when he is rolling -- he can saturate the zone all by his lonesome. It's not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it is exceptional.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:47 AM (T1005)

724 722,

Awww...last time I saw my granddaughter was last May...they live in IL, near the daddy's parents. Kid#2 hates Texas, so not going to see much of either of them in the near future.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:47 AM (OsWis)

725 in person anyways

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:48 AM (OsWis)

726 Ok I'll bite. Out of lurking to try and find out what SMFH stands for, I'm not up on all the jargon.

Posted by: Panhandler at January 23, 2015 05:49 AM (jYXC7)

727 Shaking
My
Fucking
Head

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:49 AM (OsWis)

728 724
722,



Awww...last time I saw my granddaughter was last May...they live in
IL, near the daddy's parents. Kid#2 hates Texas, so not going to see
much of either of them in the near future.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:47 AM (OsWis)


Goddaughter is in college now -- but she's grown up with this odd connection with nature and banana slugs over all the years.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:50 AM (T1005)

729 I tend to do that a lot...especially for the past six years or so.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:51 AM (OsWis)

730 729
I tend to do that a lot...especially for the past six years or so.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:51 AM (OsWis)


Who hasn't?

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 05:51 AM (T1005)

731 Shaking
My
Fucking
Head

Aha, the simplicity of it all reveals itself - is this the late ONT crew or are there some other day walkers around?

Posted by: Panhandler at January 23, 2015 05:52 AM (jYXC7)

732 728,

That's sweet. Good that you're still in her life.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:52 AM (OsWis)

733 I sometimes lurk during the day, don't say much, due to the extreme head shaking and cussing.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:53 AM (OsWis)

734 731 Panhandler,

The day crew will be in shortly....I'm gonna drop lad off and hit the gym....and reflect on Slingblade's primal warcry "who bitch this be?"

Isn't "cis-normative" a verbose synonym of "normal"?

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:56 AM (/4AZU)

735 One good thing about working/going to school online, you get to pretty much set your own hours.

I have found, especially in the Army, that I concentrate much better at night/early morning hours.

Plus, less people.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:56 AM (OsWis)

736 I've found that the weekday day threads are great for political doings, any ONT is the general knowledge session and the weekend threads are item specific. If I start to get migraines from head shaking I leave the weekday ones alone.

Posted by: Panhandler at January 23, 2015 05:58 AM (jYXC7)

737 In case Vic misses it, the feel-good story of the day! Hope Ace has an extra bottle of Valu-Rite.

http://bit.ly/1y7cTFT

Posted by: RushBabe at January 23, 2015 05:59 AM (gEuvX)

738 735 SMFH,

I'm trying and failing at nudging Lad10077 into being an AM Alpha....

Having "getting your gameface on" occur at 0530 or sooner is a competitive advantage....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 05:59 AM (/4AZU)

739 736,

Don't blame you one bit.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:03 AM (OsWis)

740 g'morning, All.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2015 06:05 AM (PJJ0o)

741 737,

Looks like he's prepping his mouth for the beejers he'll be giving out shortly.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:06 AM (OsWis)

742 That guy is a fucking lunatic.

His statement after his sentencing pretty much says it all.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:10 AM (OsWis)

743 I see where the DC Cops wanted to slam David Gregory for possession of a standard size magazine,
But, the higher ups didn't.

I wonder what kind of unseen rift that might have caused between the street cops and the Administration.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2015 06:11 AM (PJJ0o)

744 732
728,



That's sweet. Good that you're still in her life.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 05:52 AM (OsWis)


I had a lengthy bit that I scrubbed....there's a nonzero chance that she'll be at my deathbed to hold my hand when I go. I'm glad we maintain a relationship, too.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 06:11 AM (T1005)

745 744,

You're lucky you have that.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:13 AM (OsWis)

746 743 Village Idiot's Apprentice,

Likely none, the dutiful refuse to grasp the beautiful think they are the new aristocracy....

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 23, 2015 06:15 AM (/4AZU)

747 "Likely none, the dutiful refuse to grasp the beautiful think they are the new aristocracy...."

You're more then likely correct, unfortunately.

Just seems like that old saw "Rules for thee, but not for me" really is getting a workout lately.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2015 06:17 AM (PJJ0o)

748 So, where's J.J.?

Got an idea for a movie script.

A modern feminist is caught up in a micro-wormhole, and transported back in time to the forming up, and beginning of a wagon train heading out west.

Shhh...
let's watch, and see what happens.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2015 06:19 AM (PJJ0o)

749 745
744,



You're lucky you have that.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:13 AM (OsWis)


I think the boys would be there for me, as well -- and the fiancee is a given, if I predecease her. But it's not like I have a long list......hell, it doesn't need a lot for the only folks to see me off to be Morons.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 06:20 AM (T1005)

750 Remember the old days, when someone would announce the arrival of the morning thread?

Yeh...good time,

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2015 06:20 AM (PJJ0o)

751 Oh hell no.

Some officer's wife is DEMANDING that she's saluted when coming on post at some Air Force base.

https://tinyurl.com/kckado3

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:22 AM (OsWis)

752 New post for daywalkers.....

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 06:22 AM (T1005)

753 ......hell, it doesn't need a lot for the only folks to see me off to be Morons.
Heck, I'd show up just to see the majesty and pomp of the Great and Fearsome One's sendoff. Should be an interesting coffin.

Posted by: Panhandler at January 23, 2015 06:23 AM (jYXC7)

754 "78
Why do women take so long in the restroom anyhow?



Women's clothing is often more complicated than men's, particularly
if we're talking business or formal attire; try rassling with a pair of
pantyhose some time without causing a snag or runner.

Posted by: Basement Cat at January 22, 2015 11:05 PM (omf9g)"

I once knew a woman who had taken a bus across Afghanistan back before it went all to shit. (Yes, I am that old.) She said the first day she wore jeans. Then during the trip the bus would stop from time to time in the middle of nowhere and all the men would go on one side of the bus and all the women on the other. The women would squat down and when they stood up there was a puddle of pee on the ground. After an excruciating day of travel they stopped at a town with an inn. The next day she wore a long skirt and no underwear. Much more comfortable day.

Just saying.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at January 23, 2015 06:25 AM (KDbAT)

755 I am so fucking tired of these entitled bints that think that their hubby's rank gives them rank.

It doesn't.

Fuck you.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:26 AM (OsWis)

756 753
......hell, it doesn't need a lot for the only folks to see me off to be Morons.

Heck, I'd show up just to see the majesty and pomp of the Great and Fearsome One's sendoff. Should be an interesting coffin.

Posted by: Panhandler at January 23, 2015 06:23 AM (jYXC7)


I could care what my coffin looks like....I'm more worried about that last moment when the abyss opens in front of me -- I want to know I'm not alone.

Posted by: cthulhu at January 23, 2015 06:26 AM (T1005)

757 I will be a special kind of pissed if the abyss opens up...

...

and it's full of clowns.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at January 23, 2015 06:31 AM (OsWis)

758 Escort girls http://REGMODELS.RU

Posted by: Tina at January 23, 2015 07:56 AM (X3avc)

759 I can't tell how much of that feminist article is satire and how much real.

Seems to be a common hazard nowadays.

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at January 23, 2015 08:04 AM (vFmT2)

760 In the video game incident the woman was trying to pull the man on top of her so she could claim he attacked her and get him disqualified. This was planned. You can hear her friends begin yelling for his disqualification immediately after she grabs his shirt.

Posted by: teapartydoc at January 23, 2015 08:34 AM (QStGO)

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