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Gun Thread: Second August Edition!
FUNdamentals Will someone please humor me and comment on how the diligent application of fundamentals has improved their shooting?? Pleeeeze?
M1 Garand Overrated? *GASP*! The hell? Has our pal hickok45 gone nutty in the haid?
Mobs Surrounding Your Car Pt. Dos More fun with mobs. Part II of the vid featured last week.
More Sig P320 Stuff Same guy, different topic.
Bronze Brushes? Bronze v. nylon? Comments? Concerns?
Dry Fire Laser Systems Someone recently asked about these in the comments and I found this from our pals at Gun Tests
Our Pal Asbestos in Paving!
Highway Patrol This week's episode: Reformed Criminal.
Gamera vs Zigra!
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Nicks Cigar World New! A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 10, 2025 07:00 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 07:00 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:00 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 10, 2025 07:01 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 07:02 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Coelacanth at August 10, 2025 07:02 PM (vt7xw)
Second, just a week ago I wrote:
I kind of wanted an M18 and would still get one if it came up at a really good price. Then it would go into the safe unloaded with the expectation that eventually Sig would have a verified fix or offer a full value trade-in on a follow-up model.
So... It's not an M18, it's a full sized P320 in .45 but it was on the used rack tagged at $350. By applying for a store credit card I got a $75 voucher. With tax, I'm out the door for $300 +/- the cost of a happy meal.
1/2...
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 07:02 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:02 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 07:02 PM (cmI4M)
First impressions:
It is a pretty light trigger pull for a duty weapon. We gun geeks like that but it may be less than ideal for a weapon meant to be used in high stress environments.
This example doesn't have the amount of play in the slide that a lot of the ones in Ewetoob vids have that seems to be correlated to the ability to make it trip with less than a full trigger pull. I was not able to replicate the failure by wiggling the slide while holding the trigger at the take-up point. Of course I didn't jack it around super hard or hit it with a hammer because I'm not making a video or trying to prove anything one way or the other.
That said, I'm still not going to trust it fully until there is some kind of resolution.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 07:03 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 07:03 PM (f1uyw)
Posted by: RI Red at August 10, 2025 07:03 PM (h87eb)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:04 PM (0sNs1)
Was that shooting accidental? We shall see…
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 07:05 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 07:05 PM (cmI4M)
Posted by: RI Red at August 10, 2025 07:05 PM (h87eb)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:06 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ed L at August 10, 2025 07:06 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at August 10, 2025 07:07 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 07:08 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 07:03 PM (f1uyw)
That would have been wild, to use black powder cartridges and watch the sets fill up with sulfurious smoke.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 07:08 PM (bKn1x)
The RMBS Mom is working on improving hand and arm strength as well as focusing on the fundamentals. More after next Sunday's range afternoon.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 07:09 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:09 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at August 10, 2025 07:10 PM (r36/K)
Posted by: Ed L at August 10, 2025 07:10 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:09 PM (+qU29)
Ditto...almost.
Did a cigar yesterday and will write a review tonight.
Scotch now is a very good idea.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 07:12 PM (2WIwB)
Well, the Communist twink DA in Travis County is still harassing him and prosecuting him for “deadly conduct”, which is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a tear in jail.
Perry’s defense attorney filed for a charge of venue, arguing the case was too well known in the Travis County SSR. The judge refused, saying the case is well known nationwide, so change of venue doesn’t matter.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 07:13 PM (vm8sq)
The FBI Ballistic Research Facilities report on the Michigan State Police P320 shows an “abrasion” inside the trigger guard in its Figure 13. Quoting from page 14: “It was reported by MSP that the motor officer’s weapon impacted the ground during the transition program. However it is unknown if this caused the abrasion.”
An FBI BRF technician used keys to discharge a P.320 (this pistol?) in the Alien Gear holster. See Page 20 of the report. They describe discharging the weapon in the holster, using keys, which created an abrasion entirely similar to the abrasion in the incident pistol noted on Figure 13.
The FBI BRF were not going to rat out the MSP officer responsible for this hoax, but they came close.
The Michigan State Police announced on July 16th that they have fully adopted the SIG Sauer P.320/M18 pistol.
Posted by: 10x25mm at August 10, 2025 07:14 PM (XzYdr)
Questioner: "Spring is in the air. Is that a good thing?"
My answer: "It depends on the context. A beautiful day like today in March, yes."
"Cleaning my rifle, no."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:14 PM (0sNs1)
https://tinyurl.com/3drsmbwy
Posted by: Paco at August 10, 2025 07:15 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 07:08 PM (3nLb4)
Odd,
I give mine a B. Agree with the app, but a careful set up makes it functional. After that it's all about FUNdamentals. My real issue with it is it gets boring.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 07:16 PM (2WIwB)
Thanks you Weasel (as always) and a great week for the GunHorde
Posted by: Coelacanth at August 10, 2025 07:16 PM (idhMh)
I asked how business was, prior to the $200 transfer tax dropping to zero on 1 Jan.
I was told the plant (I think they have a dozen guys working there) is running 40 hours a week as they ship inventory to dealers as fast as they can make it. They predict a rush of lay-away purchases in November, with ATF getting overwhelmed with applications in January.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 07:18 PM (bKn1x)
https://is.gd/FHCG24
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 07:18 PM (L/fGl)
BG answered. I practice the rudiments everyday..
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 10, 2025 07:18 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 07:21 PM (f7d4G)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 07:22 PM (cmI4M)
"When you master the basics, and execute them well, there's no need to worry about the score."
-- Frank Sonnenberg
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:22 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 07:23 PM (f7d4G)
Thanks for taking over the Sunday Morning Book Thread today.
I know it's in good hands with the Moron Horde.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 10, 2025 07:23 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 07:26 PM (cmI4M)
"There is no shortage of opportunity. There is only a shortage of those who will apply themselves to the basics that success requires."
-- Jim Rohn
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:26 PM (0sNs1)
"If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work."
-- John Wooden
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:30 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ed L at August 10, 2025 07:30 PM (BCwQW)
It's replacing a s&w .38 snubbie, the sock draw gun.
Big hands don grip as well as they did, need something more comfortable. Doubt I'll ever shoot any .357, have a good stash of .38 and shooting is not as big a part of life as it once was.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 07:32 PM (08mxj)
Food Thread:The Frogs Are The GOAT...At Least When It Comes To Goat Cheese
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?-- Charles de Gaulle Actually, de Gaulle underestimated the number, with most assuming that France has more than 1,000 different cheeses. He wasn't wrong about the "ungovernable" part, but that is a discussion for a different forum. The variety of cheese is astounding. There are three excellent cheese stores within a five-minute walk of my apartment, and that's not counting the supermarket, which has a mass-market selection that is nevertheless pretty good. That cheese in the photo is called La Tour Du Montot, made in eastern France by midget monks who live in a tower, and milk the goats only at night under a full moon, overseen by angels. Well, maybe not, but it is the best goat cheese I have ever tasted, and I have tasted a lot of goat cheese! Of course the other cheese on the table was an absolutely marvelous sheep's-milk cheese from...somewhere. How the hell am I supposed to keep track? I love America, and I am very pleased that I will be moving back, but damn! Great cheese and great bread is a wonderful thing, and the Frogs do them well...maybe the best in the world.
Freedom is an unalloyed good thing, even if it bites you in the ass because you did something stupid or even just unwise, or even something that has manageable but significant risk. Like drinking raw milk. Florida Department of Health Provides Update on Raw Milk
Due to continued recent severe cases of Campylobacter and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections linked to Keely Farms Dairy, located in New Smyrna Beach, FL (Volusia County), the Florida Department of Health is providing information to assist Floridians in making informed decisions about their health. Sanitation practices in this farm are of concern due to the number of cases. There have been 21 cases since January 24, 2025, including six children under the age of 10, and seven hospitalizations linked to consumption of raw milk from this farm. Severe complications have been reported in at least two cases. The Florida Department of Health will continue working with Keely Farms Dairy to ensure that effective sanitation practices are implemented consistently across every batch. STEC bacteria in its most severe form can result in hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) which is characterized by hemolysis and kidney failure, which is of particular concern for children. Groups at higher risk for severe illness include infants and young children, pregnant women, elderly individuals, and those with weakened immune systems. Floridians are encouraged to use this information to make informed decisions about their health and sources of raw milk should they choose to consume it.The state of Florida is managing this very well. Raw milk is legal in the state, and all they are doing is making sure that people are aware of the risks. They are treating Floridians like adults, which is a far cry from the nanny-state behavior in blue states and, sadly, in more than a few red states.
[The Spruce / Leah Maroney]
Remember that Croque Monsieur I waxed poetic about at the end of June? Yeah...we went back to the café to have another, and it was a decidedly inferior sandwich. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't special. Not crisp enough, not enough ham, and even the fries that were so delicious the first time were merely good. Maybe Thomas Wolfe is correct; "You can't go home again!"
I thought France would have good garlic, but the Frogs seem to have the same problem we have in the U.S. At least they don't import filthy garlic from China. Pork is great here, but no game, so send all of your extra antelope to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:00 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (RE0lB)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:04 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:05 PM (ZVgZ4)
Oh yes, I might have had my monthly Trader Joe's trip, and might be serving those this very night with burgers, TJ's peanut noodle salad, and a dragonfruit blueberry salad.
You just can't beat the goodness (and the price)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:05 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: 80's music fan at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:07 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (muwun)
He was less than enthusiastic about Trump so Trump deported him.
Sad, but he deserved it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 04:11 PM (lJ0H4)
There have been 21 cases since January 24, 2025, including six children under the age of 10,
Raw milk is legal in the state, and all they are doing is making sure that people are aware of the risks. They are treating Floridians like adults
So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
He was less than enthusiastic about Trump so Trump deported him.
Sad, but he deserved it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (viF8m)
I thought it was a long term job assignment? But I'm just an occasional visitor to this planet.....PLACE, I mean this place, honest....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:13 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:13 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:13 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:14 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes = Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:15 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Brett Favre
Children are not buying the milk...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:16 PM (nVXpg)
2 tablespoons maple syrup
??
Furthermore, the recipe goes on calling for reserving the rest for, and I quote,
"... and then smother the pancakes with the remaining maple syrup, arranging them on a twin to queen sized mattress, and make sweet sweet love to your partner while enjoying the divine gift of delicious maple syrup and pancakes.
- serves 2
- total calories net, (zero)
"
Oh my!
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 04:16 PM (cduTK)
I finally got the last parts I need for the juice press, and today, when it is cooler, I will be finishing the re-building and a thorough clean.
I do like having apple juice, it is always a good gift, and tasty in the winter.
They saying goes, "Apple juice is tasty, but it is terribly cruel to the worms"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Brett Favre
Children are not buying the milk...
Okay, but if their parents buy it and say "drink it, it's safe", they lack the agency to say no.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 04:11 PM (lJ0H4)
Spouse has gotten into granola, so I picked up their protein peanut granola. He's excited to give it a go, especially at the price point (under $4/bag). I've been continuing my 30 minute bake roasted chopped fruits with 2-3 TB sugar and 1 TB cornstarch dishes that get the 5 minute "granola topping" adds. Kids are demolishing them, and it's another way to remember to use up forgotten fridge fruits. Did it with less than perfect peaches and some blueberries yesterday and topping with a no-sugar or fake sugar blueberry vanilla granola...probably will try the peanut one soon in a PBJ type bake...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (kpS4V)
So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
It is why they have parents.
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:18 PM (tOcjL)
------------
He was less than enthusiastic about Trump so Trump deported him.
Sad, but he deserved it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (viF8m)
America was too close to the source of maple syrup.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 04:19 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:19 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
I understand your question, but this is a single dairy that has issues and is being monitored . You might just as well ask how you handle the situation where Peter Pan Peanut Butter has salmonella, and you gave it to kids who can't gauge the risk? Or bagged lettuce, or Boar's Head Meats, any of the myriad of other foods that have been recalled for salmonella or listeria?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:20 PM (h7ZuX)
==
Okay, but if their parents buy it and say "drink it, it's safe", they lack the agency to say no.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t)
1) I *knew* you weren't Brett Favre!!!
2) True, but how is this different that any other parenting issue? It's starting to look like "CPS" is a bigger problem than what it was (supposedly) intended to solve.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:20 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:19 PM (kpS4V)
Lots of cooks swear by it for cooking. I think it is sweeter.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 04:21 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 04:21 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
Fascism and totalitarianism backed by harsh sentences is the only answer. As Randi Weingarten says "CHILDREN ARE NOT YOURS, THEIR WELLBEING IS THE FULL AND TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE AND VARIOUS CHILDLESS KARENS ON THE INTERNET"
I feel that is a sufficient explanation.
Oh, look, a child is riding a bicycle without a helmet, I must contact the city cops, they care. K'bye, Thanx!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (rbvCR)
If you like cheddar seek out Prairie Breeze. It will change you.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)
Why these beans - they are my favorite four, separate from chickpeas and lentils (both of which don't belong in chili - yes, I know lentils "replace" beef, but I hate replace...I want to know a bean is a bean and a lentil is a lentil...and I like lentils as is)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:23 PM (zPc+3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:23 PM (zPc+3)
That... doesn't sound very appetizing. In fact I don't think I'd like 'Murican Nodules either.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (muwun)
Avoid the Croquet Masseuses. They pummel you with wooden mallets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:24 PM (zPc+3)
If you like cheddar seek out Prairie Breeze. It will change you.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)
Funny CBD mentioned cheese and milk - I have noticed that dairy products have been the cheapest proteins (sans tofu and beans) around per lb lately...if I could eat it, we'd be eating baked zitis and lasagnas and cheese quesadillas by the pound...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:25 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 04:25 PM (iGZ9n)
Europeans in general like a larger variety and better quality food than we Americans. Back then, we used to spend on average around 12% of our budget on food while the Euro's spent 25%. We have changed some since then as witnessed at a lot of our grocery stores. And in our bigger cities you can find more variety but then I wouldn't want to live in those Blue "Oases". Over there you find the variety in even the smaller towns. To some degree, I do still miss having butcher shops, bakeries, cheese shops and fruit-vegetable shops.
Posted by: BillB at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (TQxb9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
The responsibility lies with the parents.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (zPc+3)
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
Thats why they have parents.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 04:27 PM (iGZ9n)
Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 04:27 PM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t)
1) I *knew* you weren't Brett Favre!!!
2) True, but how is this different that any other parenting issue? It's starting to look like "CPS" is a bigger problem than what it was (supposedly) intended to solve.
It isn't necessarily different, but it's the food thread, and the extracts I clipped from the post raise a question. I think it's a reasonable question.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:28 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:29 PM (aURVT)
Did Charles de Gaulle inspire the Monty Python cheese shoppe sketch?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (63Dwl)
No, the Ministry Of Silly Walks.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (LHPAg)
-- Charles de Gaulle
hahahaha
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:29 PM (aURVT)
Balance it with 246 varieties of graft?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (zPc+3)
Well, they do. I don't. Gross.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (JvZF+)
The responsibility lies with the parents.
Thats why they have parents.
Yes, I get that, but these responses don't really answer the question of where to draw a line if the parents are irresponsible. I don't have a good answer, but Joseph and Magda Goebbels were parents, and I doubt most people would approve of their approach. Anyway, I don't want to sidetrack the thread away from food so I'll just leave it there.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:28 PM (Riz8t)
It is. If parents knowingly provide contaminated food, that's wrong, in my opinion. But they wouldn't have known until people fell ill and it was traced to the dairy. It is at that point, I presume, that the health department stepped in and started monitoring the dairy to make sure they are following safe practices, at which point the milk should be safe for consumption again.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (h7ZuX)
Open can. Pour half into a glass. Add vodka. Add ice. Add little paper umbrella.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (TnGg2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:23 PM (zPc+3)
Well deserved after the yard work you described on the previous thread.
Meanwhile it's approaching 'Sunday Afternoon Nap Time'. A revered tradition here in The OC.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (LHPAg)
But mostly wine. Speaking of which..........
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (iGZ9n)
And an equally amazing peach cobbler for dessert.
Just mmmm, so tasty!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (IBQGV)
What's cooking?
Posted by: Pete Bog
Hey Pete!
Tri- tip in a while. Bought a 20lb bag($ouch!) 7 tri=-tips. Life is good!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:33 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Riz8t)
Oh, I agree completely. Any parent who gives their children raw milk is ABSOLUTLY committing the same atrocity that the upper echelon of the Nazi party committed on Jews, Russians, Gypsies and Communists.
You sound concerned. Are you also missing the mask mandates and the one way stickers in Walmart?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:34 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:33 PM (nVXpg)
How is your recovery proceeding? I am planning to go to Corsicana by way of AJ, so I can bring along some artifacts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:35 PM (zPc+3)
Well, they do. I don't. Gross.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (JvZF+)
Bonfire roasted marshmallows are great...they really don't need anything extra. That's always the problem with smores. Dark chocolate is great, graham crackers are good, but they seem to drag done and make a mess of that perfect marshmallow vs improving it...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:35 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)
I bought a half bushel of Roma tomatoes and gave my friends 10.
The rest are mine to eat.
Canning...nope.
Making chilis or stews...nope
Freezing any...nope.
Just eating them. I'm going all Robert Gibbon Johnson on them.
Oh, inspired by the food thread, I did pick up new non-stick cookware yesterday. Nice set. I don't cook much...yet, but this is a start.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 04:36 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (zPc+3)
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Brett Favre
Their children, not for us to say.
None of our fucking business. Pretty simple really.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (RE0lB)
If your comments drop to zero we'll know.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:38 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (i49OE)
He'd tell you, but he'd have to kill you.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (aURVT)
How is your recovery proceeding? I am planning to go to Corsicana by way of AJ, so I can bring along some artifacts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Left side works but not well.
Let me know when you'll be comin into town, the pizza oven can be fired up!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (zPc+3)
Sounds like the making of an excellent Food/Drug Thread! Eat them all and report back pronto!
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (i49OE)
https://tinyurl.com/3ca5xzpw (local paper article on subject)
Posted by: wcgreen at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (u5BVN)
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (98kQX)
100% agree on this. I can stomach neither goat nor sheep cheese. I just smell goats and sheep.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Brett Favre
I think they’d go out of business. You have to buy and eat it the same day. We don’t have that culture here. French bakers thrive in France because “Il faut” - one must! - have bread to go with your meal. It must be baked that day and eaten the same day. We just don’t have that culture. Contrast that with imported cheeses. Cheese is meant to last, even to be aged. It does well here in the USA because it can be imported. You can’t import a baguette, or at least you shouldn’t. Although you’d swear it was hard as a rock, you really can’t drive nails with a two day old bâtard loaf!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (e58hu)
Moroccan Chickpea Stew. No clue. Other than chickpeas, which I don't hate. What in the world would go with this? Besides something like nan. Which she's serving too.
I'll be over there ----> with the Martinis.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 04:42 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 10, 2025 04:43 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 04:44 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (h7ZuX)
The rodeo I went to last evening had "mutton bustin'". Little kids riding on sheep, trying not to get bucked off. It was fun to watch. No kids or sheep were harmed in the production.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:44 PM (zPc+3)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:45 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: ZZ Top at August 10, 2025 04:46 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (98kQX)
100% agree on this. I can stomach neither goat nor sheep cheese. I just smell goats and sheep.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (h7ZuX)
No critters should stink unless they're crammed into a small area with insufficient bedding and/or the cleanout isn't happening often enough.
... OK goat *bucks* stink, because they pee all over themselves to attract the hot goat does. I've never had goat milk but I assume if the does are kept with the bucks year round, or they get into plants that affect the flavor of the milk, that can cause problems. And I've read that you have to get any critter's milk chilled ASAP to avoid picking up weird taste. Warm milk of any type on cereal does not appeal to me.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:48 PM (ULPxl)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:49 PM (ZVgZ4)
We have not one but 2 bakeries in my small town. They are always busy.
There's just no comparison between fresh baked and grocery store. I think a lot of people would agree if they had the option.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:49 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (e58hu)
Not just no, but hell no. I would have to be very, very, hungry, like death-bed hungry, and already have gagged my way through the last of the goat cheese, before I would even consider eating that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (h7ZuX)
You could force a surrender by waving a grilled wonderbread American cheese sandwich and the cheap brand tomato soup around.
Posted by: DaveA at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (FhXTo)
Same. Maybe I should layoff the asparagus.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:51 PM (viF8m)
https://tinyurl.com/yjb467pm
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 04:51 PM (e58hu)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:52 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:53 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:49 PM (viF8m)
Some of the better grocery stores have in-store bakeries. Heck, even Walmarts have in-store bakeries, but if you are in Halifax, be sure to Sikh one out that has uncontaminated ovens.
/self
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:53 PM (zPc+3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:53 PM (ZVgZ4)
I feel like I should know this in case I ever get hurled back in time
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 04:55 PM (6Tzur)
I feel like I should know this in case I ever get hurled back in time
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 04:55 PM (6Tzur)
It's a mold, not a bacterium.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (zPc+3)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (ZVgZ4)
Moroccan Chickpea Stew. No clue. Other than chickpeas, which I don't hate. What in the world would go with this? Besides something like nan. Which she's serving too.
I'll be over there ----> with the Martinis.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 04:42 PM (Q4IgG)
Fresh figs...Trader Joe's had them for a great price, and would totally work here...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: CBD
Keely Dairy states that it was not notified before the FL Dep't of Health issued its bulletin and it also has not been contacted about any investigations or actions. The dairy owner note that the dairy passed a health inspection the month before.
https://tinyurl.com/3ca5xzpw (local paper article on subject)
Posted by: wcgreen
Apparently, while "raw milk" is legal in Florida, it's not legal to sell it as food for humans.
From wcgreen's article:
"Raw milk is sold in Florida 'not for human consumption.' It is clearly stated on our labels as required by law. Due to legal requirements, in spite of the quality of the equipment used for processing and cleanliness of the facility, this milk is sold only as pet or livestock food."
So the people getting sick, and getting their kids sick, from raw milk are eating pet food.
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:57 PM (DgGvY)
You could force a surrender by waving a grilled wonderbread American cheese sandwich and the cheap brand tomato soup around.
Posted by: DaveA at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (FhXTo)
I've had a similar conjecture about a hypothetical North Korean invasion of the south. Just set up some big bar-b-que grills and fans to blow the smoke toward the invaders and watch hilarity ensue....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:57 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 04:36 PM (jvJvP)
That's great news!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:58 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (ZVgZ4)
I am 29 enough to remember both a milkman, and a bread man, who would come around daily in their Divco trucks, and drop off fresh milk and bread. And door-to-door vegetable peddlers in season, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (zPc+3)
Same. Maybe I should layoff the asparagus.
Posted by: JackStraw
Do I want to know why you're trying to attract she-goats?
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (DgGvY)
There's a small grocery store chain in RI, shut up, called Dave's. It's exactly how a grocery store should be run.
Not just an in-house bakery but every single department is excellent, from produce to meats to seafood. I don't even like shopping but going to Dave's is pretty fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)
I order from them when the weather cools off enough.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:01 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (VOrn4)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (6Tzur)
You could force a surrender by waving a grilled wonderbread American cheese sandwich and the cheap brand tomato soup around.
Posted by: DaveA at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (FhXTo)
hahahahaha
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (ZVgZ4)
Ok, fine. But remember your audience. Where are the descriptions of the Mademoiselles Fromagère?
#BeBetter, CBD, #BeBetter.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:03 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (ZVgZ4)
You can freeze it.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:03 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM
To be fair, who doesn't?
Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at August 10, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)
There is a "chain" here in Alberta called Freson Brothers IGA. They appear to be affiliated with the IGA chain, which are mostly mediocre stores. Freson's are several cuts above. Good in-store bakeries, good meat departments, outstanding deli sections. When I was working in the oilpatch, I would stop at Fresons in Whitecourt or Grande Prairie to load up on groceries and goodies to stock my pantry at the rig. Closest one to me now is in Drumheller, an hour away. Fine store, just too far for me go solely for groceries.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 05:06 PM (zPc+3)
Same. Maybe I should layoff the asparagus.
Posted by: JackStraw
Do I want to know why you're trying to attract she-goats?
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (DgGvY)
I want to know.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:07 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:48 PM (ULPxl)
——-
[Furiously taking notes]
— Akmed the Palestinian
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:08 PM (e58hu)
I think a cyanide tablet is on the menu for my dinner tonight.
BTW, these people STINK. I can't believe they're letting them use a nice hotel.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 10, 2025 05:08 PM (mBOKD)
Posted by:
Why I don't worry about finishing up moldy bread. Kill me or cure me.
As a single, freeze a lot of bread. Use half over two days, freeze half for some other two days.
I've also just sawed slices off a frozen Italian bread, micro ten seconds a side, and perfectly good for slopping up tomato gravy.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 05:09 PM (RE0lB)
You think you do but you don't.
It's better for both of us if we just move on from this topic.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)
Caragana is a fast-growing woody shrub that originated in Russia. Yellow flowers in Spring, that mature to brown seed pods that burst with an audible snap! and scatter the seeds. Makes good windbreaks. Stuff can spread and absolutely take over an old homestead.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 05:12 PM (zPc+3)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:12 PM (aURVT)
I think a cyanide tablet is on the menu for my dinner tonight.
BTW, these people STINK. I can't believe they're letting them use a nice hotel.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 10, 2025 05:08 PM (mBOKD)
YD.
The tablets go on the *commies'* plates, not yours.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 05:13 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:12 PM (aURVT)
——
Nah, bruh. Dick-Smoking Assfucks.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:14 PM (e58hu)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:15 PM (HFcKg)
There's another video where he watches Gordon Ramsay also make egg fried rice, except that Ramsay gets it right.
https://tinyurl.com/mw4rzmu4
Uncle Roger approved.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:15 PM (qpyNK)
DEM SOCIALISTS CONVENE IN CHICAGO TO CHART FUTURE AFTER MAMDANI’S WIN
After an incredible — and incredibly messy — year, Democratic Socialists of America will meet in Chicago for their national convention
https://archive.is/Q0Puk
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:16 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)
Get thee to Pullman Washington, and buy some of WSU's cheeses.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:16 PM (Fzkmo)
You think you do but you don't.
It's better for both of us if we just move on from this topic.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)
Now I'm scared.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (aURVT)
Good luck!
I had to look it up. DSA - Democratic Socialists of America
That's a tough break. On the pkus side, the chicks are probably giving it away. And you can impress them by telling them that France has well over 1000 types of cheese.
And is a socialist paradise. And Canadian healthcare is the best.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (kpS4V)
Wait.... aren't socialists supposed to be heroes of the proletariat? What the fuck are they doing in a fancy hotel?
They should stay in a flop house, or at least a Motel 6 or something, and give the rest of the money to the poor.
Why, it's almost like they're a bunch of dishonest hypocrites, isn't it?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:18 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:16 PM
For someone who likes robust cheeses, I'm surprised you'd recommend something that's not husky.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:18 PM (0sNs1)
Boiling the pistachios and removing the skins was quite the pain in the ***, so this dish had better rock.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM (/HDaX)
I'd recommend taking a very close look at those "chicks" before committing to anything.
Look for Adam's apples, five-o'clock-shadows, and suspicious bulges in recreational regions.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM (qpyNK)
By chance you wouldn't have given me a lifte England to Germany in 1979?
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM (+qU29)
I had to look it up. DSA - Democratic Socialists of America
That's a tough break. On the pkus side, the chicks are probably giving it away.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (jvJvP)
Yeah, but "it" is accompanied by other ... things. Ewwwwww.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM (e58hu)
----------
One would think they'd hit up the hostels, as would their ilk.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)
We'd take you seriously if weren't for those velcro gloves
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 05:21 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:21 PM (+qU29)
Yudhishthira, you gotta get a few of them drunk in the lounge and make some converts. It'll be like Legionnaires Disease, but with sanity as the bug. 🦠
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 05:22 PM (kpS4V)
"Please note that Solidarity Journal messages advocating for or against any convention proposal, NPC candidate, slate, or DSA caucus will not be accepted."
And you thought NPCs weren't real.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:24 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:26 PM (aURVT)
yeah, "WE" (USA) do have pretty safe food, but FDA failed us on the mRNA killer drug, and probably several other instances where "Safety" was used as a cudgel, not as "real science".
"Adults" probably don't generally have the capability to discover the (absolute?) safety of their foods. But "raw milk" and various cheeses produced is a fine line between FDA exerting its control, and safe foods for sale outside BigFood dominance.
The standards should be high, but not ridiculous, and certainly not based on punishing certain (conservative?) values, or protecting BigFood Industry.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 10, 2025 05:26 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM
"The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 90,000 members. We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:26 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Michelle O. at August 10, 2025 05:27 PM (0sNs1)
I shall. Vermont has some great little cheese makers as well.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:27 PM (viF8m)
You can report! Like the person who reports from the Democrat Underground!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:28 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 05:29 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:29 PM (aURVT)
Peter Max -- if he's still alive -- has dementia and his family was defrauding people by having other artists make copies or look-a-likes of his work and having him sign them. So, yeah, vibe checks out.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 05:31 PM (m3l72)
==
I admit I must be woefully uncultured, and I've never had goat cheese. But I have had goat milk and goat milk kefir. They are some of the nastiest stuff I've ever had. There is what's called, I think, a "goaty" flavor to goat dairy. An undertaste of plastic or something else I can't quite put my finger on. It's totally gross. But I'd give a bit of goat cheese a chance if I had the opportunity. I just don't think I'd like it!
*ducks the plates being thrown by the cultured crowd*
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:32 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:33 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Vacuum Critic. . . at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (1d8Ep)
STEAK POUTINE!
It was really good. So filling. I ordered a large and it had to weigh 2 pounds.
I didn't know there were so many types of poutine. Here's the menu....
https://tinyurl.com/56596v2y
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (p4NUW)
*ducks the plates being thrown by the cultured crowd*
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:32 PM (qBdHI)
If you've had feta cheese, you've had a sheep/goat milk cheese (usually in the US, it's a combo of both milks)...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (kUxzU)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:35 PM (i49OE)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:35 PM (i49OE)
Eat something...boxed wine and no food makes Jack a sad boy...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:37 PM (a5NDH)
Most milkers who aren't grazed live on corn, which can be hard for the cows to eat without crushing or other processing, the development agency suggests building shallow pans and sprouting the corn in the rainy weather, and feeding the sprouted corn when the leaves are about 2-5" long.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 05:37 PM (rbvCR)
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Yeah, then that assures me I probably wouldn't like it. No likey feta.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (a5NDH)
--
Then it's probably also killing the "good" bacteria in raw milk too? I thought that was the whole point in drinking raw milk (which I personally drink on occasion and love)... is getting those good bacteria for gut health.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:42 PM (qBdHI)
Eat something...boxed wine and no food makes Jack a sad boy...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)
I try, but any bread-like shit, most complex carbs, actually, make me throw it right up... I got yogurt, guess I gotta stick with that....
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (i49OE)
https://tinyurl.com/ytw9dxvv
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (i49OE)
Get a miso soup from a Japanese restaurant delivered...or buy a box of "bone broth" from Trader Joe's (or another grocery - I'm partial to their brand) - both will up protein and should be gentle on the stomach...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:45 PM (tOcjL)
I moved from L.A. to various cities in the Pacific/Mountain North (Also known as white people land) in 2018 after living my first 35 years in L.A. The quality of restaurant food is shockingly bad after coming from a metropolis like L.A. Fort the first time in my life I was presented with store bought "Old El Paso" style taco shells at a sit-down "high end" Mexican restaurant in Northern Idaho.
Here in Salt Lake City I live in an upscale neighborhood near a University called Sugar House. There is a lot of trendy restaurants and a particular Japanese Izakaya restaurant where I go for a decent Tempura every once in a while. First time it was great, crispy shrimp - great vegetables tender, but crispy. The next time the shrimp was limp and clearly past its sell by date. Don't get me started on good Chinese... it does not exist above the Nevada border.
It's so hit and miss when you don't live in a L.A., N.Y., Chicago kind of metropolis. I miss that the most. I will never move back to L.A., no matter how good the food is. But, I still lament.
Posted by: Croaker at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (AUB4U)
I don’t think that is what the little people monks are doing to the goats!
We are cooking seared pork Belly and diver sea scallops on a bed of arugula drizzled with a port wine reduction.
Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (f7d4G)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (+qU29)
Yeah, then that assures me I probably wouldn't like it. No likey feta.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (qBdHI)
Feta doesn’t have the muskiness that some goat cheese has. It’s salty, crumbly and really good. I have had all goats feta and it also doesn’t have that musky background flavor. There are some very nice goat cheeses (with figs, absolutely amazing) and there are some where it smells like you are about to eat a goat barn. I am not a fan of those.
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (Fzkmo)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 05:48 PM (9bq/n)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:48 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 05:49 PM (63Dwl)
My set up is:
An old stainless sink fitted with a (purpose bought) garbage disposal, which dumps the mush into a five gallon bucket
The press is a platform with an arbor rigged to hold a #3,500 tongue jack, which presses onto a stack of "cheeses" made of old sheets filled with the apple mush, separated by UHMW cutting boards.
It all flows into a 2'x3' cookie sheet I got at restaurant store, and from there through a hole I punched in it, into a bowl.
I can press juice faster than ever.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 05:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:49 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 10, 2025 05:50 PM (SOjx+)
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (LHPAg)
We have opened a nice merlot ?someone? Left.
Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (f7d4G)
No big deal, I was just wondering.
Posted by: EFG at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (KlyIH)
We are fortunate in my AO, some Vietnamese bakers trained in France opened croissanteries, and they are truly chef’s 💋
Posted by: kallisto at August 10, 2025 05:52 PM (sF9CX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:53 PM (HFcKg)
Judging by the sorority videos being posted by the girls of the SEC I'd say there's more than one.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (viF8m)
Surpise Plate Licker!!!
Spicy Eggplant Frittata
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spicy-eggplant-frittata
I didn't expect much from this because I made it-
1) because it looked stupidly easy
2) not a big eggplant fan. They're alright. Kind of the McDonald's Big Mac of vegetables
3) I only made it becuz I'd stuffed myself stupid with yummy Korean BBQ the night before and was still practically in a meat coma.
But, everyone loved it. I mean, LOOOOOOOOVED it.
Tips:
1) Don't skimp on the butter, people.
2) Use half and half instead of whole milk
WARNING!!!: Sorry. Those of you with inferior genetics will not be able to enjoy this becuz it contains a lot of cilantro.
Now, go eat your Cincinnati carrot chili!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: toby928 at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (jc0TO)
We are fortunate in my AO, some Vietnamese bakers trained in France opened croissanteries, and they are truly chef’s 💋
Posted by: kallisto at August 10, 2025 05:52 PM
We have Cambodian donut shops out the wazzoo. They mastered boudain and hot libnks PDQ,
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 05:55 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:55 PM (iJfKG)
Live in the NYC metro area. In France for awhile, but not permanently.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:56 PM (Fzkmo)
https://youtu.be/A4yKZT0jyt4
How to Slav Your Sushi.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 05:57 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Peter Bootygig at August 10, 2025 05:57 PM (0hToV)
Posted by: Eromero
You can always pull it out of the asian.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 10, 2025 05:58 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:37 PM
It's not meant to be taken literally. I assume it applies to all distributors of intestinal vapors.
Posted by: toby928 at August 10, 2025 05:58 PM (jc0TO)
Spicy Eggplant Frittata
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spicy-eggplant-frittata
I didn't expect much from this because I made it-
1) because it looked stupidly easy
2) not a big eggplant fan. They're alright. Kind of the McDonald's Big Mac of vegetables
3) I only made it becuz I'd stuffed myself stupid with yummy Korean BBQ the night before and was still practically in a meat coma.
But, everyone loved it. I mean, LOOOOOOOOVED it.
Tips:
1) Don't skimp on the butter, people.
2) Use half and half instead of whole milk
WARNING!!!: Sorry. Those of you with inferior genetics will not be able to enjoy this becuz it contains a lot of cilantro.
Now, go eat your Cincinnati carrot chili!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (iJfKG)
Saving this to try when I need a cheap meal (and funny enough, I bought a huge eggplant yesterday - yes, I know it's not Japanese, but sliced into the same size should work)...I was gonna say olive oil over butter...and then deciding what should sub for dairy milk...thinking rice "beverage", but you said fat is good, so maybe a different choice...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:58 PM (tOcjL)
It was great with pancakes, bacon, sausage and perfect, I mean absolutely perfect over-easy eggs.
It was yummy!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:59 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 06:02 PM (9bq/n)
I shall. Vermont has some great little cheese makers as well.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:27 PM (viF8m)
Cougar Gold and the other WSU cheeses are available online and they ship it to you in a metal container. it is really good.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:02 PM (iGZ9n)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:42 PM (qBdHI)
Probably, though the main benefit to a "cold process" is that it keeps the milk saleable longer, and it doesn't destroy the enzymes and such that are broken by pasteurization.
Some people prefer the taste and aren't worried about the good bacteria too, or worry about bacteria in general.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HFcKg)
Hey Ben Had,!
Yes, it's lots of fun and the food is great!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (Fzkmo)
I order from them when the weather cools off enough.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:01 PM (HFcKg)
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We go back to the cold and fog on Tuesday. Sadz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (f7d4G)
I need friends like that. Probably to thank you for being such a good host.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:06 PM (iGZ9n)
Posted by: kallisto
You sure they went to France? French ruled Indochina, they might easily have learned French technique in Vietnam.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 06:06 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:07 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 06:07 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:08 PM (4Iy7D)
Live in the NYC metro area. In France for awhile, but not permanently.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:56 PM (Fzkmo)
******
Cool. Sounds like you are having fun in France.
Keep rockin' on.
Posted by: EFG at August 10, 2025 06:09 PM (KlyIH)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:09 PM (HFcKg)
I've heard a lot of people say how good Cougar Gold is so I'll check it out.
By the way, thanks for the encouragement on the smoker. Having a ball with it. My regular grill is giving me side eye.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 06:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
Thats why they have parents.
Posted by: Pete Bog
The clientele who purchase raw milk is not uneducated. On the contrary, they are usually very fussy, very progressive and know EXACTLY what they are buying for their families. It’s a status thing. Statement milk.
Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)
I am really looking forward to trying the meat in a couple of weeks. While expensive we don't mind funding those kids College funds. And the meat is usually delicious.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (iGZ9n)
Used to walk into the retail shop and buy a ten for twenty dollars. Now, it's fifty dollars and half the quality. Fifty fucking dollars for a tin of cheese
2 restaurants here used to prominently feature them on the menu. Abandoned.
Fuck them in their woke squeek hole.
Posted by: Just Sayin... at August 10, 2025 06:13 PM (0hToV)
Just fyi
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:08 PM
Boston does that to a lot of people. But the Parker House did give us the eponymous dinner roll and the Boston Cream Pie, so they don't completely suck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:14 PM (Wnv9h)
I am really looking forward to trying the meat in a couple of weeks. While expensive we don't mind funding those kids College funds. And the meat is usually delicious.
Posted by: Pete Bog
Congrats on the auction wins and helping those future farmers.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 06:14 PM (nVXpg)
Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)
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When Girl F. was born our rich lib cousins gifted us an assortment of unpasteurized dairy products, which were all promptly discarded.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 06:15 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)
Thats why they have parents.
Posted by: Pete Bog
The clientele who purchase raw milk is not uneducated. On the contrary, they are usually very fussy, very progressive and know EXACTLY what they are buying for their families. It’s a status thing. Statement milk.
Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)
Do they never ask themselves why milk is usually pasteurized?
That was a big scientific/public health breakthrough that's is/was usually taught in school.
Maybe not anymore cuz Pasteur was an old white man who kept slaves in his Parisian apartment/ cheese plantation.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 06:16 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 06:16 PM (JvZF+)
Pete Bog,
The wildfire my son was called out to the other night was very challenging.
Sixty campers with the only access road already on fire.
Son and his crew got them all out, which was a miracle. Also no cellphone service.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 06:17 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:17 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:18 PM (HFcKg)
When it gets cold up there, try smoking some cheese.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 06:19 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:21 PM (HFcKg)
Boston does that to a lot of people. But the Parker House did give us the eponymous dinner roll and the Boston Cream Pie, so they don't completely suck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:14 PM (Wnv9h)
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We stayed there a lot when we were in town years back. Nice place!
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:21 PM (cmI4M)
Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched
>If my 29 year old memory serves, raw milk is best when you don't pay for it and right after you dispense it into a pail from the teats with your own cold hands.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 06:22 PM (9bq/n)
I learned after getting this smoker that was thing. Definitely on the agenda for this Fall.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 06:23 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had
And you know exactly what you are buying and then consuming and go out of your way to get it.
The arguement that people don’t know the pros/cons is ludicrous.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:23 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Ben Had at August
And raw cheese is very good. I have raw cheddar in the fridge as well speak.
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 06:23 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:24 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 06:24 PM (p4NUW)
Still...Go Cougs!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2WIwB)
Perkins Restaurant, once so common but those days seemed to have passed, too, though they featured good food, good prices & service and some nice pastry offerings.
And if that's not bad enough, all but a very few old fashioned diners in my region have closed, and some of those formerly quite dependable are falling down. (Problems with maintenance, staffing, food price fluctuations - I don't know - but it's sad and the region is losing charm, history, and even camaraderie. There's a sameness of everything taking hold.)
Posted by: L - No nic, cell phone at August 10, 2025 06:26 PM (6AIUQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:09 PM (HFcKg)
I've done this and it makes it even better.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 06:29 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:30 PM (HFcKg)
$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality
Excuse me...
Posted by: Evan Williams at August 10, 2025 06:31 PM (SwnK/)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:21 PM
It is a great place. Very old school. But they stopped serving dinner!!! WTF is that about?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:33 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:34 PM (HFcKg)
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That's weird. I wonder what the economics of that decision were all about,
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:34 PM (cmI4M)
YouTube is fuckin' MLM, maaan.
Posted by: Bombadil at August 10, 2025 06:36 PM (MX0bI)
My favorite place in France was Orange. Has a Roman theatre and Roman Arc. That was in 1994 so it may have changed.
Posted by: frankly at August 10, 2025 06:37 PM (0NFzq)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:34 PM
I'm curious about that, myself. Damned shame, though. They had a great menu.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:40 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 06:40 PM (3Ope8)
Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)
One reason French cheese is so good is that it is made from unpasteurized milk, of all sorts. On my culinary to do list is learning to make cheese. For that I would love to source unpasteurized milk. Otherwise I hardly ever touch the stuff anymore.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:42 PM (iGZ9n)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 06:17 PM (3ek7K)
Four Seasons that is great news. Last year was our turn in the wildfire barrel. Hopefully you get some rain soon.
There is a Perkins in our little wide spot.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:45 PM (iGZ9n)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:45 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 10, 2025 06:45 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:40 PM (Wnv9h)
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Bummer!
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:46 PM (cmI4M)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 06:47 PM (RBD82)
Thank you for raising your son who is out there literally saving lives.
We have a particularly nasty fire burning on the Olympic Peninsula. Fortunately it is not threatening people or structures at this time. It may burn until fall though. It was pretty smokey on my side last week.
Your son and DBCooper. They are my heroes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:48 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:42 PM
There was a Britcom around 1991 called "Chef!" One episode of Season 1 was about the titular character trying to source unpasteurized Stilton to impress Albert Roux. It's worth watching, and funnier if you know that Roux got into a bit of trouble years ago for bringing undeclared cheeses into the UK.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:48 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:50 PM (iGZ9n)
The stuff was about $50/pound. I got a couple ounces, and, um...
um...
It was good. Like, better than cheese. Just a wee little nibble to send your taste buds on a trip. Rogue Creamery still makes world-class cheese, but that one year the sun moon and planets must have just lined up, because they haven't made quite that same cheese since.
Posted by: Bombadil at August 10, 2025 06:50 PM (MX0bI)
If ever Zod posts again, ask him about making cheese. He’s been doing it for years and really enjoys it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (HFcKg)
nurse,
Thank you. We are proud of the man we raised.
People who fight fires are heros.
We haven't been able to talk with him yet about how they got those people out.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Michelle O. at August 10, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)
You guys were blocks from where I lived and worked for decades and you didn't call?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 06:54 PM (viF8m)
Woof. I hope they can keep this up!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:56 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 10, 2025 06:57 PM (/HDaX)
Quick!
Tune into PBS and you can watch fat melanotics teach you how to out on white pipples makeup!
Posted by: Just Sayin at August 10, 2025 06:58 PM (0hToV)
This is one of the many reasons I love my church.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 10, 2025 06:59 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:02 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (HFcKg)
I have been called worse. By you.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 07:05 PM (iGZ9n)
Are they blue? Are they pink? I don't know but they sure stink!
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see CBD's underwear!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 07:05 PM (9bq/n)
First World Problems...
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Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 01:53 PM (Y+jbb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 01:53 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 01:55 PM (Y+jbb)
Allo, yaz de plane, it falls! *points skyward*
Oui, oui monsieur but you have called ze wrong number!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 01:55 PM (JvZF+)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 02:02 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:03 PM (VofaG)
The French special forces and FFL guys we worked with were dialed in.
Also, their ration packs were outstanding. Way better than our MREs.
Posted by: Pendulating Richard at August 10, 2025 02:03 PM (xo7uQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 01:59 PM
If you don't hang up, they will insult you again.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:03 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 02:02 PM (jxs9b)
#666
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:04 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: davidt at August 10, 2025 02:04 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: davidt at August 10, 2025 02:04 PM (i0F8b)
Can I tell you how much I hate heat? Anything over 72 is intolerable. And no, I don’t have air conditioning. That’s my FWP.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: davidt at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 02:06 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: Pendulating Richard at August 10, 2025 02:03 PM (xo7uQ)
They always have crappy weapons though . Their procurement process and selection is worse than ours and that's saying something. At least we eventually correct ours for the most part.
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:06 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 02:06 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 10, 2025 02:06 PM (IBQGV)
But that would mean about 75% of those government jobs in the other call centers would become redundant.
Since the French government doesn't believe in redundancy in state jobs, they'll just raise taxes, add debt, and continue on.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 02:06 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: davidt at August 10, 2025 02:07 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 02:07 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 02:06 PM
ISWYDT.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:08 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: davidt at August 10, 2025 02:08 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Opus the Penguin at August 10, 2025 02:08 PM (IBQGV)
And, yay, they’re having an Alki Beach Pride Fest starting today through next week. Giant fag flag. The parade starts with Dykes on Bikes! FML.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:08 PM (RfKjF)
For a white person not speaking correct French.
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:09 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:10 PM (GkHiK)
Posted by: Louis XVI at August 10, 2025 02:10 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:09 PM (VofaG)
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Have you even been to Quebec??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 02:10 PM (JvZF+)
For a white person not speaking correct French.
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:09 PM (VofaG)
I was just wondering where the "Protection of the French Language Task Force/Snitch Line" line was.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 02:11 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 10, 2025 02:11 PM (2UnvF)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Opus the Penguin at August 10, 2025 02:08 PM (IBQGV)
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Same one as for if there is a fat woman gardening while wearing lime green hot pants.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 02:11 PM (WvZaB)
So close to Kwanzaa?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:12 PM (GkHiK)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:08 PM
Lay back, and think of TxMoMe X. Maybe you'll get to meet Mr. Baer again.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:12 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:10 PM (GkHiK)
If they're going to go after terribly offensive odors almost the entire city of Paris will get busted.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 02:13 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Ooooooooooooo!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:13 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:14 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Mo de Wang at August 10, 2025 02:14 PM (xo7uQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 02:02 PM (jxs9b)
#47526
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:15 PM (lmwvN)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:15 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 02:10 PM (JvZF+)
I'm sure people in France think they are speaking 'Ebonics French'
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:16 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:17 PM (GkHiK)
But since I shave my head, this drain plug gets all clogged up. Since it's just me now and the cat and dog, I've taken it out until I get a replacement.
Also, another 2 First World problems.
1. There are too many dildos being tossed onto the women's professional basketball courts.
2. We have women's professional basketball and the 'women' still whine.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 02:17 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 02:17 PM (2GCMq)
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Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mT+6a)
Holy hell in a handbasket, it's 2025
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:17 PM (lmwvN)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 02:18 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 10, 2025 02:18 PM (GZPAV)
during his flight in order not to hear the Adhan. Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:19 PM (GkHiK)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:16 PM (VofaG)
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Quebecois sets my teeth on edge like Jessica Tarlov's voice does.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 02:19 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 02:20 PM (viF8m)
I find it laugh out loud funny, as the voice actors play it straight.
I think it would make a great live action show, with wave after wave of CGI cats.
Of course, it would have to star Pedro Pascal.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 02:20 PM (bKn1x)
I didn't know it would do that... or if it will again.
Posted by: Rene Artois at August 10, 2025 02:20 PM (h5TUr)
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:20 PM (lmwvN)
Of course, in addition to your cellular number they want your name, address, spouse, etc. There's about a half dozen of these services, likely legit, and then another half dozen that probably aren't around here.
And that doesn't include those Amber, Silver, whatever alerts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 02:20 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2025 02:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mT+6a)
I thought it rained in Seattle so much you don't need A/C.
A little window unit, or one of those portable A/Cs would probably work fine there when you need it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 02:21 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 02:21 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:22 PM (ZVgZ4)
#86 to report a problem with trash pickup
# 999 to report we surrender
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:22 PM (VofaG)
Quebecois sets my teeth on edge like Jessica Tarlov's voice does.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
She gurgles.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 02:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 02:21 PM
Umm, isn't that what pool boys are for?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:22 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mT+6a)
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Consider yourself lucky:
https://tinyurl.com/4mb25vpn
Our pool water temperature is 91.5 and will go up.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 02:22 PM (Y+jbb)
It's your fault if you try to struggle through it.
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:23 PM (lmwvN)
Posted by: James Comey at August 10, 2025 02:23 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 02:24 PM (LnVym)
Posted by: James Comey at August 10, 2025 02:23 PM (0sNs1)
Go back to the turd you wriggled out from.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2025 02:24 PM (ynpvh)
It's your fault if you try to struggle through it.
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:23 PM (lmwvN)
You can also buy a non window unit .
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:25 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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Heh... ours is currently 94. Will probably be around 96 by tomorrow afternoon. No shade. Sun all day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 02:25 PM (Q4IgG)
It's your fault if you try to struggle through it.
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:23 PM (lmwvN)
You can also buy a non window unit .
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:25 PM (VofaG)
How do you vent the hot air from the unit?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ynpvh)
You now have multiple personalities?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (0sNs1)
It's a shame because Quebec City and Montreal are both cool cities. Other than the people.
Lots of them come down to the Cape and RI beaches and big old fat guys insist on wearing those ball hammocks. Nobody needs to see that.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Frank Bass at August 10, 2025 02:27 PM (Tkn22)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:25 PM (VofaG)
I have one for emergencies but they are much more $$$.
My mother borrowed it last year when her upstairs unit went tits up.
They work great, also, but still need to be vented.
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:27 PM (lmwvN)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:28 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ynpvh)
Outside window. Which makes the standard A/C unit more economical.
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:28 PM (lmwvN)
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:27 PM
TANSTAAFL.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:29 PM (0sNs1)
The freestanding portable ac units are great. We have one in the bedroom and one in the family room. Alot cheaper than central air. Living in Wyoming, we don't have a lot of hot days and no humidity.
Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 02:29 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:30 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ynpvh)
The ones I've seen have a hose that attaches to a window sill.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 02:30 PM (6ydKt)
Jeepers. Everyone else gets to whine.
I want some cheese and fruit with mine.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:30 PM (mT+6a)
In France, at that time all of those systems were disconnected from one another and they were overwhelmed with multiple calls into multiple systems and it became a mess. On top of that, France had an ambulance service that was government run, the ambulances were well stocked but the drivers poorly trained. There was a private service of EMTs that were well trained but poorly provisioned. The ambulance drivers were forbidden from letting the private EMTs use the equipment in the government ambulances. So Diana had well trained EMTs around her, but they couldn't use the medical equipment that was on site.
Another difference that lead to her death. Here in the US protocol is to stabilize the patient and transport the patient as fast as possible to a hospital which has the most staff and resources to help the patient.
That was not the French protocol at the time, which was to treat the patient on site. It was almost 2 hours after the accident when she ARRIVED at the hospital.
Posted by: Eric at August 10, 2025 02:31 PM (a2F+C)
Jeepers. Everyone else gets to whine.
I want some cheese and fruit with mine.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:30 PM (mT+6a)
None of this will matter in 2 months.
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:32 PM (lmwvN)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ynpvh)
Magic
Seriously the ones that do require venting can be venting a lot of different ways similar to your dryer.
The non vented units operate with ice or provided ice packs and require no venting.
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:32 PM (VofaG)
16 What's the number for when your country has been overrun by third world savages?
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 02:02 PM (jxs9b)
#666
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:04 PM
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If you call the invading savages emergency number, the police come to your house and take you away.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 10, 2025 02:33 PM (ES1Rb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:34 PM (ZVgZ4)
They must be single-digits, to get faster response to those French tragedies.
Posted by: Gref at August 10, 2025 02:34 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:27 PM
TANSTAAFL.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:29 PM (0sNs1)
You haven't met any of my cheap Co-workers....
Posted by: jsg at August 10, 2025 02:35 PM (lmwvN)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 02:37 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:37 PM (ZVgZ4)
Parlez-vous F*ck You?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 10, 2025 02:37 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at August 10, 2025 02:38 PM (cAexM)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10
Yes. And mine is in Italy. 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 02:38 PM (pZEOD)
On July 4th I got up early and did a low and slow with a pork butt. The neighbors came over around 4 and brought whiskey and tequila which was great because the beer and rum I was drinking wasn't enough in the hot sun.
Around 9 I was getting a bit sleepy so I closed my eyes for a second and the next thing I knew I had a combination of 8 firefighters, EMTs and cops in my backyard. My neighbors thought I had died. They stuck those probe holders all over my chest to do a EKG and I kept telling them I was just napping. The female EMT looked at the EKG readout and said it looked normal. I said yea, cause I was sleeping. Then she asked if I had been drinking. No, those whiskey, tequila and rum bottles are just decoration.
No bill but I am plotting my revenge on my neighbors.
They won't see it coming.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 02:39 PM (viF8m)
Oh yeah? October can be the hottest month around here (San Fernando valley).
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:39 PM (63e2V)
It only gets “hot” here for maybe a dozen days a year.
My electric bill for two months was $68.00.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:40 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 10, 2025 02:40 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:41 PM (63e2V)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 02:41 PM (AOsQT)
I have had the a/c off since 8/1. Very fall like weather.
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 02:42 PM (sSkke)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:43 PM (ZVgZ4)
Heh... ours is currently 94. Will probably be around 96 by tomorrow afternoon. No shade. Sun all day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 02:25 PM (Q4IgG)
I just turned off our fountains. I actually like the pool to feel a great big bathtub, but I am pretty sure I am solo in that. If our heater dies, I know it will be replaced with a heater / chiller and I will be mad.
Which sounds very much like another first world problem.
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 02:43 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 02:44 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 02:46 PM (3Ope8)
She saw a Nintendo 3DS that works for 125$. My FWP is how do I not buy it?
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 02:47 PM (sSkke)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 10, 2025 02:50 PM (MZ+PY)
Too much stuff.
I'm almost finished going through the last items in the house. So much went to Goodwill. I have 13 contractor bags of stuff. And there was so much duplication.
1. I'm looking at hundreds of envelopes in front of me.
2. So many pencils, pens, markers, paper clips, staples
3. So many air freshener plug ins.
4. There were a surprising number of Swifter pads
5. So much Clorox.
6. And a crazy number of those pads that go on the bottom of chairs.
And lastly, CD's, VCR tapes, CD-Rs, DVDs and books and duplicates of books.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 02:50 PM (jvJvP)
I guess I'll leave it until Spring.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 02:51 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Paco at August 10, 2025 02:51 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Big Green Dildo at August 10, 2025 02:52 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:53 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 10, 2025 02:54 PM (kUxzU)
Posted by: polynikes
Muggsy Bogues was even shorter, 5'3". But Spud, 5'7", could dunk.
Muggsy's name is also slightly sillier.
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 02:54 PM (DgGvY)
Talked to a guy from Belgium one time who scoffed at Quebecois ; called it "Brooklyn French".
Posted by: Paco at August 10, 2025 02:55 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 02:25 PM (Q4IgG)
I just turned off our fountains. I actually like the pool to feel a great big bathtub, but I am pretty sure I am solo in that. If our heater dies, I know it will be replaced with a heater / chiller and I will be mad.
Which sounds very much like another first world problem.
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 02:43 PM (p4NUW)
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Ours is above ground. There a deck off the back of house and another, connected to it, that semi-surrounds the pool Both decks have been undergoing a rebuild as they were in horrible shape. So, we've not been able to get in ours since last Tuesday.
And it's been in the low 90's every day since then. No rain either.
Hopefully the contractors will be done with the work tomorrow.
And then it will rain....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 02:55 PM (Q4IgG)
It is pretty funny - the EUcrats want to get involved in the Trump-Putin negotiations, so they can screw them up, like they did the Gaza negotiations.
I'm imagining the phone conversation:
EU - We're the EU! We have to be involved!
EU - So, where are you two meeting: Geneva or Vienna? Easy for us to get there!
US - Actually, Alaska.
EU - Alaska?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 10, 2025 02:58 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Marcel Marceau at August 10, 2025 02:58 PM (jc0TO)
Can I tell you how much I hate heat? Anything over 72 is intolerable. And no, I don’t have air conditioning. That’s my FWP.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mT+6a)
You must be acclimated to that sea air, nurse. Heck, I don't even turn on the a/c until it gets 90 degrees in the house.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 02:59 PM (Y1qgr)
My British friend insists we speak American not English.
To which I replied, fuckin' A.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 02:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 03:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Paco at August 10, 2025 02:55 PM (mADJX)
===
Exactly what it sounds like. Goombahs from Sheepshead Bay talkin' all French like.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 03:02 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 03:03 PM (QGaXH)
#19 German Tourists Under Eiffel Tower
#20 White Flag Soiled
#111 Snails Crossing Champs Elysees Traffic Jam
#113 Mime Shortage
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 10, 2025 03:03 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Peter Bootygig at August 10, 2025 03:04 PM (kqbXJ)
Posted by: Dial Soap at August 10, 2025 03:07 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 02:59 PM (Y1qgr)
I would die. But we don’t have to use heat for long, so I guess that is the trade off.
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 03:07 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025 03:08 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 03:09 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Reforger at August 10, 2025 03:10 PM (h5TUr)
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 03:10 PM (Kdsvb)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 03:12 PM (+qU29)
Diverse Cultural Rape Ahead.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 03:12 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 03:13 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 03:13 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (ynpvh)
Refrigerated ones have a 4" dia tube that goes out the window. Most also have a drip tray you have to mind. I have a friend who experienced significant water damage when a houseguest left the a/c unit on all day unmonitored.
Evaporative units might work well in commenter fourseasons' zero humidity climate. Not good for humid places like the south.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 03:14 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 03:10 PM (Kdsvb)
I spent a year one summer in San Antonio.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 03:14 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: L - No nic, cell phone at August 10, 2025 03:17 PM (6AIUQ)
I went to the Lourve once.
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 03:18 PM (Riz8t)
Went down to visit my friends in the Keys last August. My buddy kept trying to convince me it was lovely weather. When the numbers get into 3 digits it's not lovely.
About 80 here today but with a nice sea breeze and no humidity. Sitting on the patio under the umbrella. This is lovely.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 03:20 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Any change you could call it in as a public display of obscenity like the WNBA dildos-throws?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 10, 2025 03:21 PM (TRQeB)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 03:21 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Reforger at August 10, 2025 03:22 PM (h5TUr)
I find it laugh out loud funny, as the voice actors play it straight. Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
"Nyaight (sic)." As any Anna Puma will tell you, "nya" is Japanese for "meow."
I haven't been watching that one, but I've seen a couple positive references to it here. Maybe I should give it a try.
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 03:22 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 03:25 PM (Kdsvb)
They won't see it coming.
Posted by: JackStra
Apparently they only charge for an ambulance visit if they transport you.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 10, 2025 03:26 PM (TRQeB)
Posted by: JSchuler at August 10, 2025 03:26 PM (l6eKM)
While Youtube is a hive of scum & villiany, it is also a goldmine...
Someone put together a compilation video of Yvonne Craig putting her hands on her hips:
https://is.gd/1XcC57
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 10, 2025 03:26 PM (OXhy8)
Posted by: JackStraw
Great neighborhood story.
🤣
Posted by: L - No nic, cell phone at August 10, 2025 03:27 PM (6AIUQ)
Posted by: Reforger at August 10, 2025 03:28 PM (h5TUr)
Not even then around here. Had one take me to the hospital a few years ago at no charge. Didn't even ding me for the bridge toll.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 03:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 02:39 PM (63e2V)
I rate this as 'true'.
Hottest temps on record for Los Angeles occur in early October due to Santa Ana winds spiking temps.
Per my a/c dominated electric bills, hottest month overall is August followed closely by July and September.
And I live near the beach!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 03:29 PM (QGaXH)
a couple of the women were even Yvonne Craig
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 03:29 PM (AOsQT)
From about the Central Coast in California all the way up to Seattle if you're anywhere near the Pacific, you probably don't need A/C. Maybe once in a while, but generally along the coast to a couple miles inland, depending on the area, you'd hardly ever need it.
We didn't when we lived outside of Monterey, CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 03:30 PM (Q4IgG)
Paciugo... Gelato...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 03:09 PM
Baby, why don't we go...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 03:30 PM (wDRCg)
It's your fault if you try to struggle through it.
Posted by: jsg[/i}
I mean... you gotta ask yourself if it's worth it the cost and storage space.
You only need those for maybe one week out of the year.
Unless it's a year like, what, 2021? when it was 90 degrees in May and only got hotter from there.
And then there weren't any units available for love nor money, because everybody wanted one.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 10, 2025 03:31 PM (TRQeB)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 02:41 PM (AOsQT)
My condolences that you have to be in Stockton.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 03:32 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 10, 2025 03:34 PM (8P/xB)
Posted by: Accomack
Tell her you're not paying new console prices for old tech?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 10, 2025 03:38 PM (TRQeB)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 02:59 PM (Y1qgr)
I would die. But we don’t have to use heat for long, so I guess that is the trade off.
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 03:07 PM (pZEOD)
True. If it wasn't for all the lighted Christmas decor in our yard and house, Oct - Jan would be the smallest electric bills of the year.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 03:38 PM (0eaVi)
Nectarines!
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 03:38 PM (cmI4M)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 10, 2025 03:38 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: JackStraw
Great neighborhood story.
🤣
Posted by: L - No nic, cell phone at August 10, 2025 03:27 PM (6AIUQ)
Baksheesh.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 03:41 PM (LHPAg)
I have two
not sure they'd let me give them away but I'd give them away lol
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 10, 2025 03:41 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 10, 2025 03:43 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 03:44 PM (Kdsvb)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 03:44 PM (RE0lB)
and she is so cute too
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/
GYCUCRXeVYM
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 03:44 PM (AOsQT)
What was that british mystery t v series mentioned in the book thread? My brain is like swiss cheese and also iced coffee with vodka is really good...
Posted by: Ped Xing at August 10, 2025 03:44 PM (kqbXJ)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 10, 2025 03:49 PM (2ap+5)
So the cats in Japan say "nya" instead of "meow"?
Wild.
Posted by: Reforger at August 10, 2025 03:28 PM (h5TUr)
And Russian cats say мяукать "m-ya-oo"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 03:53 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (mT+6a)
It is supposed to get to 100 today and tomorrow, here.
It is miserable and muggy when it is like that here.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 03:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 03:53 PM (bKn1x)
"Miao" in Spanish.
They say something similar in Portuguese, but it is pronounced way different.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 03:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ped Xing at August 10, 2025 03:44 PM (kqbXJ)
Shetland? The actors all speak in a Shetlander accent by the way, so don't worry if they are all a little horse.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 03:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 03:55 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 03:55 PM (rbvCR)
Having a "Bronc" beer, brewed in Calgary. Tastes like PBR. Decent lawnmower beer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 03:58 PM (0KrkO)
Posted by: Oglebay at August 10, 2025 03:59 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:00 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 02:05 PM (0sNs1)
The ringtone is "dong".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:00 PM (0KrkO)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 04:00 PM (vHN7R)
Posted by: Kindltot
The lead doesn't come close. Also, neither does his son in law. And they ditched them both in the 4 and 5th season.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 10, 2025 04:00 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (ZVgZ4)
It is miserable and muggy when it is like that here.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 03:53 PM (rbvCR)
K-tot - whereabouts is 'here'?
We're only cooling off about 10 degrees or so overnight this time of year. Even tho our highs are not very high, it's still muggy. AC is a must!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (RE0lB)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:25 PM (VofaG)
But Linux air conditioners smell like penguin poop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:04 PM (0KrkO)
That was not the French protocol at the time, which was to treat the patient on site. It was almost 2 hours after the accident when she ARRIVED at the hospital.
Posted by: Eric at August 10, 2025 02:31 PM (a2F+C)
The only survivor of the wreck was her bodyguard, who was also the only person in the car wearing a seat belt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (0KrkO)
We're only cooling off about 10 degrees or so overnight this time of year. Even tho our highs are not very high, it's still muggy. AC is a must!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (QGaXH)
Salem Oregon area. We get hot spells from time to time, August is the worst, and it is always muggy
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 04:11 PM (F8aPo)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 03:53 PM (bKn1x)
"Miao" in Spanish.
They say something similar in Portuguese, but it is pronounced way different.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 03:54 PM (rbvCR)
Unlikely to adopt a Portuguese cat in ETEX.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Frank Bass at August 10, 2025 02:27 PM (Tkn22)
~~~~~
If your town has volunteer EMS and fire, there is no charge. Paid services will submit their charges to your insurance company.
But beware--you insurance company will not cover you if it was not a true emergency. Labor, broken arms, stitches, etc. are not considered emergencies.
Posted by: IrishEi at August 10, 2025 04:28 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 10, 2025 03:26 PM
Does she then jump to the left, and then a step to the right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 04:58 PM (0sNs1)
The Administrative State Is Broken, And The FAA Is A Prime Example
The conventional wisdom holds that an administrative state made up of professional government functionaries will run well in spite of the constant political changes that most free countries expect every four or five or six years. Institutional knowledge, subject-matter expertise, and a non-partisan mindset should make the day-to-day function of government a process, rather than a political minefield.
It very obviously does not work that way. The administrative state in America has morphed into the Deep StateTM, or maybe it was always that way and it took many years for it to destroy even a semblance of competence. Add in the catastrophically inefficient, labyrinthine process that our modern government does anything, and we have a reasonable explanation for the absolute mess that the FAA has made of our air traffic control system...over 40 years! FAA Plans to Hire Nearly 9,000 Air Traffic Controllers by 2028 Amid Nationwide ShortageThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Aug. 7 unveiled updated plans to hire thousands of air traffic controllers by the end of the year, and nearly 9,000 by 2028, as the agency looks to dig itself out of a now decades-long shortage of workers who are among the most critical for aviation safety.
The FAA has been beset by a decades-long shortage of air traffic controllers, who are critical for directing and overseeing air traffic in and out of the nations busiest and most congested air spaces. The issue dates to 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who were on strike, viewing it as an illegal strike. Months later, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) decertified the only existing air traffic controller union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), which was the first time in history that a national union was decertified.
Okay, it was a bit of a mess in 1981. But it is also a mess in 2025, and two generations of so-called professionals made an absolute mess of the entire system, allowing it to become technologically antiquated, poorly staffed, and for four years under the Biden/Obama junta a mess of DEI hiring over competence. For f*ck's sake...they still use floppy disks and CDs! And I am confident that the rest of the technology in our airport control centers is just as old. So why did this happen? The short answer is that they just don't give a sh*t, and care more about their pensions than their responsibilities to the people of the United States of America. The longer answer is that the administrative state does not have any market pressures to excel, and no penalties for failure. Congressmen move on, senators get bored, and their high profile hearings about the sorry state of the FAA or the DoD or the department flavor of the month gets subsumed in the next news cycle. So nobody is held accountable over the years, and the institutional rot caused by lack of accountability is built into the process. How to fix it? Decertify every government union. Employment must be at will. Make the compensation of all managers dependent on the successful and timely completion of capital projects. Do yearly evaluations with the expectation that people will get fired. And every one of us who has ever worked for any sort of large company recognizes that as business-as-usual! The trick is to get Congress to go along, and that will have to wait until the House of Representatives actually represents Americans, rather than 20,000,000 wetbacks and gerrymandered districts. Hopefully President Vance's second term will be calm enough that he can focus on the total restructuring of our civil service!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 10, 2025 12:04 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:04 PM (+qU29)
Someone is trying to deflect the current failures by saddling Reagan with it. Fvck them with a lime green used dildo from a WNBA game.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:08 PM (vOjEn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:09 PM (Ui59G)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:09 PM (3Ope8)
The larger they become, the less efficient they become.
The larger they become, the less effective they become.
As they grow, just like a biological organisms, they begin to develop self-defense mechanisms.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 12:10 PM (XeU6L)
Why wasn't Reagan/DC airport shut down after the Air Florida crash into the Potomac? Oh yeah, the politicians didn't want to commute from Dulles.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:12 PM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Rick at August 10, 2025 12:13 PM (/TNAS)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:13 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 12:15 PM (Y+jbb)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: It Is Balloon! at August 10, 2025 12:18 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Ben Had
And as a follow on, should be forced to compete for their jobs every 24 months. There should be ZERO job security in federal job positions.
*waves*
Hi Ben Had!
No promises, but I may be able to swindle my boss into sending me to Grand Prairie for two weeks in October.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 10, 2025 12:20 PM (QcUc+)
The problem was that they changed so often there was a valid criticism that just as someone was learning their area of responsibility, they were then being replaced.
So Augustus used freed slaves to populate his bureaucracy and it worked wonderfully. For a while. Then it started to become a power unto itself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)
That'll work great. Until it hallucinates a landing strip at Times Square.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (ha888)
-Bif
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (3Ope8)
"Hopefully President Vance's second term will be calm enough that he can focus on the total restructuring of our civil service!"
From your lips to God's ears!
Posted by: redridinghood at August 10, 2025 12:22 PM (NpAcC)
Without fail in every Republican admin I can remember there are sectors where employers are looking for thousands of workers and can’t fill the positions.
Think about that in relation to some of the really bad economic times.
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 12:23 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 12:25 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 10, 2025 12:26 PM (e/yD6)
-Bif
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
________
Squid game style for federal judges.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 12:26 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 10, 2025 12:27 PM (Jm6kM)
I thought unions for federal employees were from a JFK executive order.
If yes, then an executive order should be able to reverse it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 10, 2025 12:28 PM (3wi/L)
So why did this happen? The short answer is that they just don't give a sh*t"
Oh no, they care. The FAA is about safety in the extreme. I've worked on several FAA contracts and they're very serious about it. Their systems have multiple redundancies, and require less than a minute of downtime a year (or there abouts).
I was on the project to replace the voice switch (VCS21, part of the Next Gen series of contracts, to replace the current ATC comm. sys.) a decade ago and it was a disaster. Mostly due to requirements swirl, some of it due to project & tech. incompetence from our side.
They do care, they're just bad at it.
Posted by: wat at August 10, 2025 12:28 PM (Dk542)
Posted by: Crash Corrigan at August 10, 2025 12:29 PM (G5+As)
Oh, B*** Sh*t!!
The reason there's a shortage of air traffic controllers *24* years after Reagan is they went full DEI, chasing after candidates who were unqualified but presented the right demographics, while refusing to hire qualified candidates who put the time and training (at great expense).
Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:29 PM (GbwPZ)
There are air traffic controller schools for candidates. I assume the washout rate is significant.
It didn't help that the pipeline for controllers was broken when DEI infected it, with qualified people refused jobs because they were the wrong gender and color.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:32 PM (vOjEn)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 12:32 PM (2WIwB)
The FAA could never have enough employees to do all that. It's impossible. They would need millions and millions. All aviation in the country probably the world would grind to a halt. Because everyone uses US/FAA, even EASA harmonizes. So to allow things to work they delegate a good bit of the authority to the manufactures along with a lot of oversight and auditing.
It works well outside company "B" who have always had lose shit and been sneaky. They just need to treat "B" DERs/ARs like they do in the smaller bizz jet companies, as loyal dogs that need severe correction time to time. But, I've seen it work very well everywhere else.
ATC could work the same, private contractors with stringent oversight.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:33 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:35 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:32 PM (vOjEn)
And those hired in the Obama years are now hitting the supervisor levels. Do you think they will hire any new personnel smarter than they are?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 12:36 PM (2WIwB)
The ODA is singularly the worst thing the FAA has ever implemented.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:36 PM (3Ope8)
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I'm old enough to remember when attacking school kids was bad.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM
^^^ This. Even FDR (piss be upon him) understood this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 12:39 PM (wDRCg)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:36 PM (3Ope
I disagree. I've seen it work very well everywhere outside "B". And there is no way it could work without it. There are not enough FAA employees to do the job and there never will be.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:40 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 10, 2025 12:41 PM (k/soh)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 10, 2025 12:28 PM (3wi/L)
JFK signed the EO in 1962 but...
A Democrat Congress and Jimmy Fucking Carter enacted the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute in 1978.
This statute grants federal employees the right to organize, form unions, and engage in collective bargaining through representatives of their choosing, with the purpose of improving the conduct of public business and resolving employment disputes amicably. -- wiki
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)
You have to score 100% on every test. iirc. Had a relative who dropped out of school in 1981 and applied because of the opportunities thanks to the strike (his father was an air traffic controller who didn't strike and said "Do it now!"). He made it, his brother who also applied didn't make it - one wrong answer on one test.
Makes sense, when you consider one wrong decision = potentially a crash with many dead.
Read recently that the FAA was accepting applicants who were getting 30% on their exams to meet DEI requirements
30% error rate is acceptable? Really?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:43 PM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:44 PM (L/fGl)
Mandatory firing or demotion for those in the bottom 5%.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 10, 2025 12:44 PM (k/soh)
"Aviation is safe, in spite of the FAA"
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 10, 2025 12:45 PM (mRX+9)
Other than securing the border and providing for the common defense and making sure the States don't war with each other, everything else the feds do is a boondoggle wrapped in a clusterfuck inside a Big Green Dildo.
Posted by: Big Green Dildo at August 10, 2025 12:46 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:50 PM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:51 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (3Ope
I've seen variations, true. Most of my experience has been in companies with mature ODAs and hardline FAA field offices.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 12:53 PM (cduTK)
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh
UPDATE: Former deep state officials send an open letter, dubbed as “nonpartisan,” warning that President Trump, Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard’s efforts to purge the agencies are trampling the Constitution and undoing their work.
All the right people are scared right now…
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:54 PM (L/fGl)
George Will Wants Mamdani to Win for Some Reason
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (L/fGl)
He thinks that a Mamdani lead New York will become such a disaster that it will be a couple of generations before anybody tries that socialist idiocy again.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 10, 2025 12:54 PM (k/soh)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:57 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Grounded For Life at August 10, 2025 12:58 PM (G5+As)
Ah, let it burn.
Who would have imagined that less than 25 years after 9/11, our elite(ist) talking heads would be OK with handing over NYC to a foreigner (his mom says he's and African first, and Indian second; he does not see himself as an American) to teach those darn kids a lesson?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 01:00 PM (GbwPZ)
He's still alive?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 10, 2025 12:50 PM (GbwPZ)
Yeah, his theory seems to be 'give them what they want- good and hard.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 01:00 PM (bss/y)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jasmine Crockett compares Republicans to the KKK: "Once Trump won the second time, the hoods were off."
"I’m perfectly fine with it because I want to know that you’re a despicable human being who lacks all morality.”
Bold messaging plan for 2026, Democrats.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:01 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Wheels Up! at August 10, 2025 01:04 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:05 PM (0sNs1)
This NASCAR driver KO'd himself by falling out of his car while celebrating in Victory Lane
https://is.gd/mIPNWf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:06 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 10, 2025 01:00 PM
It has, how you say, worked for me.
Posted by: Paolo at August 10, 2025 01:07 PM (0sNs1)
'Who would have imagined that less than 25 years after 9/11, our elite(ist) talking heads would be OK with handing over NYC to a foreigner'
When you understand that everything the left does has its origin in giving the finger to people like you and me...
them handing NYC to a muzzie communist becomes very easy to imagine.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 10, 2025 01:07 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 01:08 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:11 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM
Is it autographed by the usee? Can it be authenticated?
Asking for some friends.
Posted by: WNBA Memorabilia Collector's Association at August 10, 2025 01:11 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Mole Person at August 10, 2025 01:12 PM (R/m4+)
Shobert's Grand Prix career was cut short at the third race of the season, where he was involved in a terrible crash with Kevin Magee on the cool off lap after the race, wherein Shobert drove into the back of Magee's motorcycle. Magee had stopped in the middle of the track and was performing a rear-wheel "burnout".[2] Eddie Lawson narrowly missed hitting Magee's bike after he and Shobert had just finished congratulating each other moments earlier and were not looking forward.[3][4] Shobert suffered severe head injuries but was able to recover after months of rehabilitation.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:12 PM (gg4h4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:44 PM (L/fGl)
She can't hold a candle to Cankles
Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 10, 2025 01:12 PM (P4Pk9)
The other thing I think affecting the FAA is the same thing that affects airlines. At the end of the cold war the gummint shut down the farm system, aka the military. Lots of guys working in military air traffic control would move to the FAA when their enlistments were up.
Posted by: George V at August 10, 2025 01:13 PM (HUbHH)
2,000 Iranian Clerics Endorse Assassination of Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)
100 million Americans endorse making your country glow bright enough to be seen 3 galaxies over.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 10, 2025 01:13 PM (snZF9)
(Shivers)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:14 PM (gg4h4)
Gosh, how am I going to get out of here. I couldn't stop laughing through the entire movie. It was worse than half-assed, thrown together skit from an elementary school drama class. I LOVED IT from a purely, "this is SO bad, it's funny" point of view.
Posted by: Orson at August 10, 2025 01:16 PM (dIske)
I'd just say that pushing responsibility and accountability to the individual level instead of the organizational level is a much better system.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 01:17 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:19 PM (dCtRx)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)
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Look closer to home:
https://tinyurl.com/5ha99p8c
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 01:20 PM (Y+jbb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)
Trump needs to EO the gassing of 20000 iranian "clerics".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:20 PM (Ufl/X)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 01:21 PM (Ui59G)
2,000 Iranian Clerics Endorse Assassination of Trump
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here
They want him to Rest In Peace.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 01:22 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:20 PM (Ufl/X)
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America needs to revise the Constitution.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 01:22 PM (Y+jbb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:20 PM
I'm good, but not that good.
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at August 10, 2025 01:24 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 01:25 PM (ZVgZ4)
https://is.gd/FHCG24
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 01:11 PM
Those they make up out of whole cloth
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 01:28 PM (+qU29)
Just have some controllers for the tough calls and to monitor the AI.
They could at least try it out at a few smaller airports and see how the experiment goes.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 01:29 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 01:29 PM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:30 PM (madDJ)
The problem with that, my friend, is finding the likes of Madison et al. to do the job, and not the likes of Schiff, or AOC, or Sanders.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 01:30 PM (ZVgZ4)
Since 95% of what the Federal Government does has no Constitutional authority, what part of the Constitution is being trampled in the purging of Deep State conspirators, saboteurs and traitors?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 01:30 PM (a4flb)
"I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!"
Starting and dragging-out a replacement FedGov computer or computer-reliant system is money in the pockets of two groups of Congresscritters and contractors - or maybe the same group.
Spend money to sustain and patch the existing, decrepit system, while spending money to write requirements, design, develop, test, and maybe install the replacement system. If you can drag-out development of the new system long enough, you can justify starting-over because of new/better technology, new requirements, and so on.
Quite a racket if you can get away with it. It seems they always do get away with it.
Posted by: Gref at August 10, 2025 01:31 PM (aBgBM)
It's just flyover country anyway.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:31 PM (madDJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 01:29 PM
Like, with a cloth?
Posted by: Hillary! 2028! 2032! at August 10, 2025 01:32 PM (0sNs1)
NY Gov Kathy Hochul: "Democrats always follow the rules"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Those they make up out of whole cloth
Posted by: Skip
Their rules. Their truth.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:33 PM (63Dwl)
Yoda voice-
Yeeuuus, much shit is this one full of.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 10, 2025 01:33 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 01:35 PM (+qU29)
This is what happens when people don't realize that the US Constitution required Divine Intervention.
Any "Constitution" made today would run thousands of pages and look like the Manifesto of your average school-shooting tranny off xer meds - complete with institutionalizing every demonic wish-list item that the most sociopathic sadist could ever dream up.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 01:35 PM (a4flb)
Gidget hardest hit.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:30 PM (madDJ)
The worst part of being 3' 6" tall is not the "demeaning" names, but having to go through life smelling other peoples' crotches.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:35 PM (Ufl/X)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:35 PM (madDJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:35 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:35 PM
It's a good thing AtC doesn't hang here much these days.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:36 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Those they make up out of whole cloth
Posted by: Skip
Calvinball Rules
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 01:36 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:37 PM (jxs9b)
Guy recently arrested here for being "serial buttsniffer".
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:38 PM (madDJ)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 01:17 PM (3Ope
I completely agree with that statement, it should be the model for delegated authority. The administrator level always gets lost in the weeds and needs to be kept to a small level. Top heavy bureaucracies are the problem throughout.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 01:38 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 01:38 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:37 PM (jxs9b)
The wrasslin ring gets in the way.
Posted by: Reforger at August 10, 2025 01:38 PM (h5TUr)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:39 PM (madDJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:37 PM (jxs9b)
I always figured basketball would be vastly improved as a spectator sport by putting little platforms around the basket, and having midgets as goal tenders. Cut down on the ridiculous scoring, and provide a role for short-statured people as sports heroes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:40 PM (Ufl/X)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:20 PM (Ufl/X)
He need make an EO labeling islam as a terrorist organization,a blight on mankind, and outlaw it in the country. Then he needs to built a colosseum, a big beautiful colosseum, better than anywhere, the best in the galaxy, with big beautiful seating and lighting never seen before, and then stock it with big beautiful lions.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 10, 2025 01:40 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:42 PM (jxs9b)
Someone is trying to deflect the current failures by saddling Reagan with it. Fvck them with a lime green used dildo from a WNBA game.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 12:07 PM
The author was barely born in 1981.
Posted by: toby928 at August 10, 2025 01:42 PM (jc0TO)
Any "Constitution" made today would run thousands of pages and look like the Manifesto of your average school-shooting tranny off xer meds - complete with institutionalizing every demonic wish-list item that the most sociopathic sadist could ever dream up.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 01:35 PM (a4flb)
You need a large group of like minded individuals going off somewhere to start things on their own. I'm absolutely serious when I say that Mars will be the next opportunity. You already see leftists clamoring to turn the planet into another one of their controlled national parks for there own enjoyment. Some people will have to go there and defend it from the statists with absolutely terrible violence. There's no other way. And it will be a war like no other before. Because people are too stupid to have nice things without violence.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 01:43 PM (cduTK)
You people should be ashamed of yourselves.
Posted by: Little people union local 3 at August 10, 2025 01:43 PM (h5TUr)
Remember GE's Jack Welch writing that companies should cull the bottom rated 10% of their workforce every year?
Not that I thought that was innately fair - performance reviews can be notoriously subjective and reviewers vindictive.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 01:44 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 10, 2025 01:40 PM (snZF9)
Heh. But to be serious for a moment, those 2000 "clerics"? If they can be identified, take them out, one by one, with Hellfire missiles launched from drones. No mercy. And if there's collateral damage? Tough shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:45 PM (Hm+HN)
Posted by: toby928 at August 10, 2025 01:42 PM (jc0TO)
Most people are barely born. The diaper comes a little later.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:46 PM (Hm+HN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 01:46 PM (Ui59G)
You people should be ashamed of yourselves.
Posted by: Little people union local 3 at August 10, 2025 01:43 PM
Concur. Making fun of midget sports is small ball.
Posted by: Brotherhood of Little People, Local #269 at August 10, 2025 01:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:42 PM (jxs9b)
the can also cure wounds or so I've heard.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at August 10, 2025 01:47 PM (89Sog)
AND
Posted by: davidt at August 10, 2025 01:48 PM (i0F8b)
2,000 cellphones on the other hand.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 01:46 PM (Ui59G)
Money well spent, though. And the price would come down, once mass production begins.
And I doubt you would have to whack all 2000. Once a few hundred got blown to bits, I expect the survivors would find a way to retract their previous words, and beg forgiveness.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:50 PM (Hm+HN)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 01:44 PM
Raise your hand if you believe your AoSHQ 2025 6 Month Commenter Performance Review was subjective.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:50 PM (0sNs1)
Kelly Johnson understood how to get things done.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 01:51 PM (3Ope8)
Except any average cloud service provider (eg. AWS, Azure, Google, etc.) is at least two orders, maybe three of magnitude more complex than the FAA's requirements.
The Feral Government is so profoundly and comprehensively corrupt, that the Obamacare launch website, rather than costing over a billion dollars to develop, could have been done in one or two Hackathons and the usual number boxes of pizza and cases of Bawls. Seriously.
What the FAA is solved science. Sadly, far too many big players like IAI, Motorola, RTX, GenDyn and others would wage war over the contract, then piss away hundreds of billions in fraud and graft.
Our government is so treacherous, they would likely contract out to AVIC or CASIC (CCP AV industry enterprises) just like the Obamacare website went to Big Mike's friends in Canada.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 01:51 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:42 PM (jxs9b)
the can also cure wounds or so I've heard.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at August 10, 2025 01:47 PM
No love for exhortations on holy days?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:52 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:52 PM (Hm+HN)
Posted by: JackWayne at August 10, 2025 01:53 PM (22a00)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:50 PM (0sNs1)
At least we don't all have to do our own performance rating and submit it to Ace. Of all the stupid things in modern corporations, making all your employees review themselves is the stupidest waste of damned time.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 01:53 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:52 PM
You're letting billg control you?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:55 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 01:53 PM
Ummmm, you know that the failure to submit that goes in your Permanent Record, right?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 01:55 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 10, 2025 01:55 PM (GZPAV)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 01:56 PM (GkHiK)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 01:58 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 01:53 PM (cduTK)
One place I worked your eveluation of yourself was 1/2 of the calculation for your yearly raise.
I held myself in high regard. Gave myself a 5 on everything. We can work on stuff after the math is done.
Posted by: Reforger at August 10, 2025 01:58 PM (h5TUr)
Do not confuse LLMs or generatives like DALL-E with Expert Systems like MYCIN that uses rules-based logic coupled with inference engines.
I could see additions that are sandboxed like Reinforced Learning systems interfacing with Planing Scheduling AI.
The risk would be in the integration of Anomaly Detection and Predictive Analytics. Those systems could shadow actual ATC agents and learn similar to how Tesla is training their self driving cars.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 02:00 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 02:00 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 02:00 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 02:01 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 10, 2025 01:37 PM (jxs9b)
Spud Webb is the greatest basketball player of all time IMO.
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 02:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:02 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 10, 2025 02:07 PM (SXxzC)
What?! China, maybe, if you mean the PRC versus Nationalist China, but Japan and South Korea? What kind of stuff you smoking in that hookah?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:08 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 02:10 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 02:12 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at August 10, 2025 02:50 PM (029Oi)
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at August 10, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Kimo Loka at August 10, 2025 03:12 PM (EjxK5)
And any problem with the FAA is Trump's fault, Pete was on 4 year p/m/s leave.
Posted by: PTSD giver at August 10, 2025 06:53 PM (8RDQ+)
Reading Thread 08/10/2025
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 09:00 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:00 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:01 AM (0eaVi)
Little more than a hundred pages to go in Rick Atkinson's Day of the Battle, a account of the Italian campaign in WWII
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 09:02 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:02 AM (omVj0)
Mucho thanks to Weasel for filling in.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:02 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 10, 2025 09:03 AM (XMwZJ)
Thanks for filling in, Weasel. I love vintage books with amusing covers. Look at Sergeant Dick, there, shootin' double-handed!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:03 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 09:04 AM (jvJvP)
Howdy, Horde, and if you're hanging around this morning, hello to the Perfessor.
The book cover reminds me of stuff I saw on my grandfather's bookcase when I was in 4th grade. Can't recall ever seeing him read one of 'em, but they were there. If failing memory serves, I read my first Tom Swifts from that shelf -- the old ones, not the later Tom Swift Jrs. Don't recall titles now, just that I read them and they were kinda fun.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:05 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 09:05 AM (1O6D8)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:06 AM (n4GiU)
It was suggested in the comments last week that we turn the Book Thread into a rotating pulpit, with several moderators/presenters taking turns. I'm willing to do my part!
This week, I finished another Jack Reacher, The Affair. It's a prequel to the first novel in the series, and recounts JR's last job in the military police and tells us why he left the army. This one is set in a small town in NE Mississippi. Fascinating stuff.
For those of you who read the series: How do you picture JR? We know Tom Cruise, good as he was, is way too short and slight for the role. I haven't seen the TV series, but photos on the DVD case suggest that actor is right. To me, JR looks like Rory Calhoun when he was about that age, thirty-six.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:06 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: PabloD at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (APp3S)
I met a Sgt. Dick in the Air Force. She was in public affairs, and had that look of someone who knows the joke and is weary of hearing it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (qBdHI)
* suspenseful music plays *
Just you wait, my pretties!!! You won't want to miss me!
Posted by: The Fourth Book at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (0sNs1)
recommended. plus, it's a fund raiser for a library. and it's KU.
Posted by: yara at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (EbWSH)
Posted by: PabloD at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (APp3S)
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"And now a reading from Ezell's Handguns of the World..."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Zoltan at August 10, 2025 09:09 AM (VOrDg)
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (U08HM)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (qBdHI)
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In his day, states had rules for citizenship. Grant was an Ohioan, and when he got stationed in Michigan, declined to change his citizenship and so did not vote while assigned there. The Michigan-Ohio thing goes back before football.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (omVj0)
A prayer for Perfessor Squirrel who is facing personal and professional challenges, and who had been providing a Book Thread for us morons in this space for a long time.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (JvZF+)
I may have been one of the last to refer to friends as chums.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:06 AM (omVj0)
Haven't read, haven't seen - certainly not interested in that little fairy Cruise in anything anymore - only read about the show, but I'd think if you don't see Clint Walker in the role, you may be wrong in your choice.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Zoltan at August 10, 2025 09:09 AM (VOrDg)
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Not to be confused with Radical Son by David Horowitz. Quite different!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 09:12 AM (0I+GC)
A tale that is prescient to today’s headlines coming out of Nova Scotia and Newfieland. Where if you go into the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise. Yeah, the RCMP will bust your sorry butt.
Combatting forest fires by banning everyone from traipsing through the woods under threat of fines or jail. Ban excludes Climate Change, Lightning, Arsonists, etc.
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:12 AM (DTBr0)
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (U08HM)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (Y+jbb)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:11 AM (bXbFr)
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His character got raped during a prison riot and I think he did not want to be typecast, so he only took roles where he played tough guys after that. I mean, it's typecast, but in a better way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 09:13 AM (emWn/)
*******
I'm still progressing through "All My Best Friends" by George Burns. Now he's writing about their investments, including the greatest investment -- marriage. Some did well, others failed.
Today is service project day at church, so this will be my only contribution. I'll spend this morning working in somebody's yard. I hope the heat holds off, but I'm packing plenty of water.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 10, 2025 09:14 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: RI Red at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (4TuXE)
"Southern" Gothic is stuff like Faulkner's Sanctuary (though I couldn't finish the book, it's supposed to be squarely in the SG tradition), and things like Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, and that novel The Beguiled (movie with Clint Eastwood long ago).
Probably "Gothic," Southern or not, is like pr0n: You know it when you see it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:08 AM
* uplifting orchestral music plays *
"A reading from The Guns of John Moses Browning ... "
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (0sNs1)
First, I came across a reference to "The Outermost House" by Henry Beston. It's about his observations of living in a small house on Cape Cod in the early 1920s. Since I grew up in that general area I thought it might be nostalgic, maybe with a nod to "Walden Pond". Beston's writing isn't just observation and philosophy. It is rich and poetic. His prose, consciously or not, uses many of the techniques that make a poem flow in pacing and sound. I should try reading parts aloud. His observations remind me, in clarity and attitude, of John Muir's essays in the American west. High praise.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (kpS4V)
I guess that's why they always get their man.
Superior fire power.
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:12 AM (DTBr0)
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Lots of forest fires are found by people just wandering the woods. I found one many years ago (probably from a cigarette butt) and because we spotted it quickly, it was put out before it could get going.
This being a book thread, I am reminded of Patrick F. McManus, whose woodsy anthologies I read quite a bit back in those days.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
Latest is Downfall, Richard Frank's book about the end of imperial Japan.
Hope this one keeps me reading. Recommended here I'm sure.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:10 AM (omVj0)
That sounds fascinating, put it on my library kindle ebook list.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (0I+GC)
Posted by: epador at August 10, 2025 09:17 AM (2blGY)
This is the story of Charles Hunter, a privateer in Port Royal, Jamaica. When a ship reaches port, bringing a new assistant for the governor, it also reports that a galleon is in the harbor of Matanceros, a well guarded Spanish island. What everyone in Port Royal knows is that a galleon in harbor there is loaded with gold and silver for the king of Spain. Hunter formulates a plan to capture the ship.
After a bloody struggle, Hunter and his crew manage to capture the galleon and take it out of the harbor, and return home. Meanwhile, the governor's new assistant, Hackett, has taken over Port Royal and charges Hunter with piracy. Hunter must use every favor he is owed to avoid the hangman. The story reflects the harshness of the age, but is an engaging read.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 09:18 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:15 AM (0sNs1)
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The planet he rules is a mecha-world. Imagine the guns Browning would make as a demigod. Like Warhammer 40k but everything is fire-blued with walnut stocks - even the space ships.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (kpS4V)
Neigh.
Posted by: Sgt. Dick's Mount at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Oy/m2)
And bitchy communications from vendors and clients.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (Lhaco)
Thanks also to " Perfesser" for hosting the book thread for so long and doing it so capably.
I have church and need to get things ready, but I wanted to lift up this story . Former Marine and social worker died at age 92, but he kept a record of the books he had read ( over 3000, but there's no list in the article) and his local library remembered him:
https://tinyurl.com/23u67yht
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (hDBOA)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (kpS4V)
I guess that's why they always get their man.
Superior fire power.
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (I0N4X)
——————-
Okay the revolver in his left hand goes into the left side holster. Since there’s a revolver already in the right side holster, one can only guess where the gun in his right hand is going to be “holstered”.
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (DTBr0)
Why I Hate Toni Morrison's Beloved: Several Decades of Reading Unwisely
and
Reading Great Books in the Bathtub: Essays and Reviews 2005-2021
Both are cheap on Kindle, and can probably be ordered in print from Amazon or direct from Bradfield (don't have that info handy, though). He's got a YouTube channel with something like 500 videos; guy's been at it for a while.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (q3u5l)
Superior fire power.
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM
Let us not be, how you say, misogynistic. Superior fire power is a great aid in getting your woman, too.
Posted by: Paolo at August 10, 2025 09:22 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025
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Walker had the size and heft. But somehow I see Reacher as being deceptive in his size -- that an opponent might underrate him because, while he is tall, he does not immediately appear so hefty. Sort of like the way John D. MacDonald had Travis McGee describe himself: "A man who gets a look at my wrists will realize I am bigger than I appear to be." Or words to that effect.
Rory Calhoun had the "dangerous edge" look, and you can imagine him moving whip-fast to finish a fight before the other guy knows it's started.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (XQo4F)
Latest is Downfall, Richard Frank's book about the end of imperial Japan.
Hope this one keeps me reading. Recommended here I'm sure.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (n4GiU)
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I certainly did. Not for the faint of heart. The description of the firebombings - which are almost entire forgotten - is much worse than just being vaporized.
If nothing else, the book forces critics to actually articulate an alternative. Call it quits and let Japan effectively win? If not, the only other options were a slow siege that would see millions die of disease and starvation or launching MacArthur's dream campaign that would also kill millions.
Pick one, and then explain why it's more moral than the others.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (hOUT3)
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025
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Slid into his belt; it was captured from one of the bad guys!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I worked with a 'BJ'. She much preferred that over 'Bobbi Jo'.
She had 'the look' - you didn't dare comment on her name.
Congrats Weasel!
Posted by: Tonypete at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (WzM/W)
His stories were always creepy.
I think he’s credited for inventing the mystery novel with his Auguste Dupin stories; The Murders in the Rue Morgue being the obvious one.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (6ydKt)
Tess Trueheart!
Dare I say "Hubba, Hubba"?
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:19 AM (I0N4X)
__________
Prudence Pimpleton!
Dare it say "Ugh"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: the Trees at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (L3gF5)
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (DTBr0)
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Appendix carry. Or on his horse.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Indiana Lurker at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (3ZVqj)
It's a paperback novel showing an attractive young lady in a not-quite-sheer-enough nightgown coming toward the reader across the dark moor; in the background is an ominous-looking castle with a light in one tower window.
Everyone knows that...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025
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Any thread can be all three, and more!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:25 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (XQo4F)
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For much of the week every thread is a dildo thread, so this is an improvement.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)
Well, I don't remember what Rory looked like, but from what apparently Reacher does, I assumed the person should be a rather good size. Certainly not poofter Cruise.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:26 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:26 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (omVj0)
Alan Ritchson, the actor in the series, doesn’t fit that description then.
He’s more like Clint Walker, a little smaller, but still built like a tank.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:27 AM (6ydKt)
This is mid-1970s NYC, and ex-cop Matthew Scudder makes a modest living doing favors for people. Not a licensed P.I., but he's good at the investigation. He works intuitively, drinks too much, accepts a system police being bribed, sleeps with prostitutes, you get the idea. He's not a moral beacon, but he's a good guy nonetheless.
Did one of you Morons recommend Lawrence Block, or did I come across this by accident?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:27 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (1O6D8)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM
* taps finger on chin *
Good start, but it's lacking a certain something to qualify as an average AoSHQ thread.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (0sNs1)
Do we contradict ourselves? Very well, then, we contradict ourselves. The Horde is vast, we contain multitudes. Or something like that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (q3u5l)
His stories were always creepy.
I think he’s credited for inventing the mystery novel with his Auguste Dupin stories; The Murders in the Rue Morgue being the obvious one.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025
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Poe came along a while after the subgenre started, so he could. Certainly the atmosphere in "The Fall of the HOuse of Usher" is Gothic.
The reason I ask, Miss Linda is going to a book club thing at the library this week and suggests I come along. They will be discussing the Gothic. I think this The Bog Wife qualifies. The ruined abode you usually find in such tales does not have to be a castle or a mansion; it could be a family home that has fallen on hard times even as its family did.
Anne Rivers Siddons' "haunted" house story The House Next Door -- even though it features a brand-new house being built as the story opens -- could be Southern Gothic. The house is "bad" from the beginning and ruins the lives of the people who live there.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:24 AM (6ydKt)
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Gothic, but credit has to be given to Ann Radcliffe, who was referenced by both Jane Austen and Alexandre Dumas, who at one point described a scene as being reminiscent of Radcliffe's work. She was that well known.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Because then it would have cost hundreds of thousands of Allies lives, also it would let Stalin get in the war and possibly take over Japan. Which is what the Ds would have preferred happen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (0eaVi)
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A turducken of all the best threads!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:29 AM (kpS4V)
A story full of suburban teenagers who are overly angsty for no good reason, who like to dress in black....no, wait...
From someone who isn't a connoisseur of the genre; Mood. Mood and setting. It needs to take place in over-sized and overly-grand buildings, which are no longer used for their intended purpose. The characters are a little bit lost, or feel small or lonely when set in their imposing surroundings.
...I actually need to read more stories about barbarians raging across Europe. The crumbling provinces of the Roman Empire would make for a really interesting (although hopefully not too timely) setting.
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Lhaco)
Adding a pair of a certain something would certainly qualify it.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 10, 2025 09:30 AM (NcvvS)
This is mid-1970s NYC, and ex-cop Matthew Scudder makes a modest living doing favors for people. Not a licensed P.I., but he's good at the investigation. He works intuitively, drinks too much, accepts a system police being bribed, sleeps with prostitutes, you get the idea. He's not a moral beacon, but he's a good guy nonetheless.
Did one of you Morons recommend Lawrence Block, or did I come across this by accident?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025
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We've mentioned the series here, and Block's work overall. He is one of the people who, when I see a book with his name on it, I grab it off the library shelf without reading the blurb.
I think Sins is the first in the Scudder series.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:26 AM (0eaVi)
Here’s an entire page of Rory Calhoun on Pinterest (somebody really likes the guy):
https://tinyurl.com/ycx6r5d6
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (6ydKt)
Hey, Wolfus! Maybe this lurker has some info that might help you decide where to move?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (1O6D
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Have you gotten to the demon rape scene? I hear those are quite common.
"Legend of the Overfiend" is something of an epistome.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)
Several of us have recommended Lawrence Block. He did the first three Scudders as paperback originals for Dell. Gap of several years, and then he picked it up again with A Stab in the Dark in hardcover. That's when the series really started to take off.
Enjoy.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:32 AM (q3u5l)
AHE,
OMG!!! Treasure Island was the first 'grown up' books I read. I was maybe 7 years old and had a dictionary at hand the whole time for the many unfamiliar words. Worth every second. And the Wyeth illustrations are mandatory for full enjoyment. I've said before, his painting of Blind Pew approaching the inn is still scary. It was terrifying, in a cool way, to a little boy. (I've given several copies as gifts over the years.)
FWIW, my favorite film version is with Charlton Heston as Long John Silver.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:32 AM (yTvNw)
Burke's thoughts on the Sublime, Terror, and Obscurity helped shape Gothic fiction's emotional and psychological tone. These sections can be summarized thus: the Sublime is that which is or produces the "strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling"; Terror most often evoked the Sublime; and to cause Terror, we need some amount of Obscurity – we can't know everything about that which is inducing Terror – or else "a great deal of the apprehension vanishes"; Obscurity is necessary to experience the Terror of the unknown.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 09:34 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Lhaco)
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Ammianus Marcellinus is a good primary source if you are into that sort of thing.
Evelyn Waugh's Helena also presents an interesting perspective as the generals are constantly moving about, cruching barbarians or each other.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm reading Edward Ashton's "Mal Goes To War," which is about a sentient malware program that tries to survive a war between the US government and a rebel group that hates technology. Interesting so far. Ashton is the author of Mickey7 and a couple of other clever science fiction works. I enjoy reading him.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 10, 2025 09:35 AM (/RHNq)
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Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:35 AM (yTvNw)
C. Montgomery Burns
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (DTBr0)
Several of us have recommended Lawrence Block. He did the first three Scudders as paperback originals for Dell. Gap of several years, and then he picked it up again with A Stab in the Dark in hardcover. That's when the series really started to take off.
Enjoy.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025
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Only two Scudders have been filmed as far as I know: The important to the book series Eight Million Ways to Die (mangled, but with Jeff Bridges as Scudder) and A Walk Among the Tombstones a few years ago, a good job with Liam Neeson.
Block's work dates back to the late Fifties or early Sixties. He was a buddy of Donald Westlake and others of the NYC-based crime writers of the time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)
Scudder who?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (0eaVi)
Barnes & Noble has a nice hardcover edition with Wyeth illustrations in its Classics section, if anybody needs a good gift idea for Christmas.
My own is an old 1930's library book I got at a library sale. Think of how many kids read it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025
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I suppose, then, Henry James's Turn of the Screw and Conrad's Heart of Darkness might come in under Gothic. Obscurity is everywhere in those two.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:28 AM (0sNs1)
Penguins? Bats? Evil River Otters?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM (vOjEn)
Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM
He still holds the record for the shortest eulogy ever.
"Nevermore."
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:38 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (Oy/m2)
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If you want some insight into his work through life experience, visit Fort Monroe in Virginia. The casemates are massive, the interiors gloomy and forbidding. You can well see how serving there in the Army he was inspired. Note that the crypt in The House of Usher had a copper floor, like a powder magazine.
Authors write what they know, and he probably spent enough nights gazing out at the mist over the ocean feeling chained to a dungeon.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)
That leads into a question for the horde: is there a level of death and destruction that actually takes you out of a story? I know I have my limits. And those limits are very tight in any sort of on-going story. I hate when those stories go too catastrophic, because the consequences will only ever be dealt with for one or two following installments, before fading into the background. Best to keep the stakes at a level where it is believable that a character can move past them...
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (6Tzur)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 09:37 AM
The many chiroptophiles in The Horde always consider one of those a good addition to any Thread!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:40 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:31 AM (omVj0)
Scudder who?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025
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"Scudder? I don't even know her!"
Matthew Scudder, known as Matt. He appears first as a ex-NYC cop, divorced, drinking way too much (important to the character), and making a living not as a licensed private eye but "doing favors for people," investigating things, for money. He is a very sharp detective, and the mystery plots are very good, but his alcoholism (which he does not acknowledge at first) is important to the series as a whole. I recommend them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:40 AM (omVj0)
For years he also wrote a column for Writer's Digest, and they were collected in 3 or 4 volumes later. All still available, all well worth a look for anyone hanging around the AoS writer's group, and even if you're not looking to do any writing they're filled with references and examples from tons of good writers so you'll get lots of recommendations of other good stuff.
For an account of his time starting out in the writing biz grab his more recent A Writer Prepares. An excellent read, as is almost anything by Block.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (q3u5l)
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I think it was some sort of stroke, after going on a several day bender and sleeping in the gutter for a few days. If I recall, he was found in the street and taken to some sort of hospice but died soon after.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (0I+GC)
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Interestingly, when Jeremiah singles out a particular individual and prophesies a dire punishment for iniquities, the prophecy often includes "you and your descendants shall not return from the Babylon captivity unto Judah" or some such. So the sins of the father were indeed punished in the sons..
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:41 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 09:16 AM (n4GiU)
I think I actually have that book on my shelf. I read it years ago, and I found it to be an engaging read, even if I can't remember anything specific about it now...
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:42 AM (Lhaco)
Back to Reading..
I would like to get back to reading. I finally got a copy of the 4th book in the Pierce Brown trilogy(third book story line successfully closed up but picks up same characters a little later on). Have not been able to actually get started. It's an electronic copy and surprisingly now that I've managed to read two actual books, seem to prefer them.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:42 AM (t/2Uw)
If it sounds familiar, it's because Tommy Lee Jones directed a movie based on the book thirty years ago, but which I never saw. Now, I'd like to see it. I'll look around. Everything is on the internet.
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 09:43 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:39 AM (Lhaco)
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Yes, and I avoid it by staying away from the horror/disaster genre entirely. Looking at TV/movies I see plenty of examples where the stakes are always global annihilation, massive CGI effects make the scale ludicrously big, and I completely lose interest.
It is much harder to write a "small" story of relatable people solving practical problems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Thanks to JackStraw for turning me onto to these comics some years ago.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)
1. A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.
2. A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically.
3. A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (0sNs1)
Weasel, thanks for stepping up. I also always check in on your gun thread and chuckle at your presentation of content.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (FMtrg)
So, when I moved about 4-5 years ago, I got rid of a LOT of books, donated to a local library / used book store. What I did keep are all truly excellent books n stories: "The Descent" by Jeff Long. THIS is a grabber, and frankly kinda freaked me out. Heavy shit man.
"Blood Music" by Greg Bear. I could not put it down and still sometimes consider the ending "what just happened here?!?!?!"
"Heavy Weather" by Bruce Sterling. Great story, interesting characters and locations. Have read this one dozens of times in the last 10 or even 15 years. Most recommended.
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:45 AM (Qd0+U)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM
For instance, 'raindrops' keep falling on my head?
Posted by: WNBA player at August 10, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:20 AM (kpS4V)
When I read the novel, the main thing I noticed were the little plot cul-de-sacs that never made it into any movie version; like Jim going back to the ship in that little round boat/raft thingy, and barely making it...
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 09:47 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)
The response I was looking for was:
Scudder, Hay!*
*real groaner pun
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:47 AM (0eaVi)
Finally I still have a copy of Michael Crichton's "Timeline". Time travel story done right.
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:48 AM (Qd0+U)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 09:50 AM (viF8m)
Welcome to Trudeau’s/Carney’s Brand New RCMP!
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at August 10, 2025 09:21 AM (DTBr0)
Any way you look at it he's still rootin' tootn' straight shootn' Sergeant Dick.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 09:50 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:50 AM (Qd0+U)
It is much harder to write a "small" story of relatable people solving practical problems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025
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The latter is much more my speed. A global annihilation story, or a global conspiracy/threat tale like Tom Clancy's, would be beyond me. My favorite James Bond novels are the ones where he is operating alone, or perhaps with Felix Leiter and the lady of the hour, like From Russia With Love and Doctor No. When he has help from a horde of U.S. Navy frogmen in Thunderball, I lose interest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:36 AM (omVj0)"
This one was written in 1976. I'm in kind of a '70s reading mood right now, so this fits. I enjoyed this bit from his Goodreads author bio:
"Born in Buffalo, N.Y., LB attended Antioch College, but left before completing his studies; school authorities advised him that they felt he’d be happier elsewhere, and he thought this was remarkably perceptive of them."
If you know anything about Antioch College, this makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (h7ZuX)
That's kind of a sticky one. In your average disaster movie, you've got a few characters you follow. Everyone else is just another shack washed away in the flood. Like the extras in a war movie. In Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, practically everyone's already dead -- it's background. Just as it is for any after the bomb or zombie apocalypse.
Then you take something like Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, or Mendal Johnson's Let's Go Play at the Adams. Both based on the same incident as I recall, and both restricted to one victim. Both very well done and both excruciating to read. I've read them both, but won't be revisiting them any time soon.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 09:52 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 09:52 AM (4qMiv)
Posted by: PabloD at August 10, 2025 09:07 AM (APp3S)
Lol, I was dreading something like this when I saw the name on the post. Turns out he's a bit more cultured than we gave him credit for :p
And speaking of Poe, anyone remember a short story he did in regards to the color pink? From what I remember it was about a woman suffering from post par tum depression and then descending into full blown madness due to the pink wallpaper in the house. Pink is the color of madness was the theme or something like that. I had to read it and other Poe stories in high school.
Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025 09:52 AM (znbnV)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (Qd0+U)
Posted by: Minuteman at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (47/pr)
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (I0N4X)
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Poe wrote one like that? That sounds like Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," which I have seen explained variously as a supernatural story, a story of madness, and one of patriarchal oppression. Amazing how they could get all of that out of one short story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (cmI4M)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)
Sounds like you need to start reading Vince Flynn's books.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)
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I think a great example of scalilng a story is Lord of the Rings. It starts very small, just a handful of characters, and the danger level is very personal - freezing in the snow, close-combats and the like.
But it continues to increase, until we finally get epic battles at the Hornburg and Minas Tirith. At that point the stakes should be high, and we're deeply invested in the characters. Despite the scale, Tolkien still zooms in to show what happened to each of them, how they felt and why it mattered. For example, Merry goes through the charge, helps strike down the Witch-King, but is ignored and become one of many wounded stragglers trying to find a place to get treated or even rest.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Sort of like how Star Trek did it, compared to CB DeMille.*
*Star Trek reference checked off
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 09:57 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:58 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (78a2H)
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Highly recommend tha5 series. Nice atmosphere, beautiful though stark scenery and relatable characters. Jimmy Perez has a great detective style...
Posted by: muldoon at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025
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One of his short stories in City has one of my favorite dialog exchanges. The governor of a exploration base on one of Jupiter's moons has been losing men. The volunteers are changed into "lopers," a native life form, and sent out . . . and never come back. The governor pats his dog, thinking, then calls his secretary. "We'll be sending out two more. One of them will be a dog."
"Your dog?" The woman is horrified. "Your own dog? After he's been with you all these years!"
"Exactly. Towser would be disappointed if I left him behind."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:59 AM (omVj0)
Keep it short.
Northanger Abbey, which also has the gift of being funny, as a gateway read to other 'literachur'.
Frankenstein, short (especially compared to Dracula) and always relevant: AI right now.
Just exposing kids to pivotal authors that they can read without too much griping will open many doors.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 10, 2025 10:00 AM (WvpwN)
Posted by: WNBA player at August 10, 2025 09:46 AM (0sNs1)
Those weren't raindrops, dude. It was White Rain shampoo.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:00 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Ninety percent of the malls I have ever been to are now empty or in the process of being torn down. Yet, there are a few that are thriving. That tells me it is more than online retail that has ended many malls.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 10:00 AM (Vfq+S)
I can watch the John Wick movies just because but I could only watch the first Narco series (the one about Pablo Escobar) once. I think it's because in the former the violence is warranted and in the latter it's gratuitous.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:01 AM (3Ope8)
Tolkien lived this, and it shows again and again in his writing.
Tolkien also wasn't afraid to borrow from history. We all know the Second Siege of Vienna inspired Minas Tirith, but it goes deeper than that. One of the key figures in keeping the garrison fighting was the Archbishop, who was constantly comforting the wounded, praying with them, and - when the relief came - he led a parties of civilians to rescue Christian prisoners and children from the Ottoman camp, sparing them from the slaughter.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025
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I'll take a look at the library this week!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:02 AM (omVj0)
He tackles nasty montenegrins faces off with dishy italian chick and some of his dupiicitous bosses
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 10:03 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Qd0+U)
Tom Cruise was a huge disappointment as Reacher. If one hadn't read the books, the movies were fine.
Alan Ritchman was closer but still not what I visualized. To much like someone who works out in a gym for someone who travels around with just a toothbrush.
I had a very clear image of Reacher from the books. Wondering if that's because as a woman immediately view him as a protector. Do me visualize him differently?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (t/2Uw)
The ones read by Adam Baldwin are specially awesome.
Weasel, you might appreciate that he has a Combat Wombat weapon.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (6Tzur)
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Yes. The big one on my side of the river, my first mall, now looks like Mogadishu with T-shirts and cell phone accessory kiosks. The problem with the book about malls I mentioned is that the author brings up the "teens," but completely avoids the identity of the "vandals" involved.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (omVj0)
I'm into the final week of the final class in the current sequence. I finished Sonny Magana's _Disruptive Classroom Technologies_ the first week and am nearly finished with J. Valacich's & C. Schneider's _Information Systems Today_. The former was just repackaging buzzwords and not recommended. The latter is pretty general but nonetheless a decent contemporary rundown of, well, information systems at the introductory level (you won't be able to pass A+, CCNA, or any of the major certification exams after reading this).
Happy Sunday, Horde!
Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (FDHJL)
Matheson's short stories are worth a look, too. His tale of an army that creates a unit of psychic teenage girls ... dang.
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (U08HM)
Do men visualize him differently
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t/2Uw)
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Yes, I watched the first run of the Shetland series. They were very well done and worth the time. Never watched the reboot of the show so don't know what that's like.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (qliBS)
Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 10:05 AM (p4NUW)
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Pants are not required for reading!
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (cmI4M)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)
Oh wow, that was over 30 years ago and my memory is starting to get hazy on it. Yeah it was probably that. We were reading a bunch of Poe at the time also so I probably just mixed a bunch of things up in my memory. The post par tum thing was actually from literary analysis, it was never spelled out in the story IIRC.
Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (znbnV)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 09:58 AM (kpS4V)
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Covid policies were far more lethal than any online competition.
All over town, businesses that lasted for decades were crushed. It's crazy how many landmarks disappeared thanks to the lockdowns. I was talking with a friend just yesterday that so many of the tradespeople we used to use closed up shop, and now we have to find new electricians, plumbers, etc, because the ones we had used and trusted are gone.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)
Tom Cruise was a huge disappointment as Reacher. If one hadn't read the books, the movies were fine.
Alan Ritchman was closer but still not what I visualized. To much like someone who works out in a gym for someone who travels around with just a toothbrush.
I had a very clear image of Reacher from the books. Wondering if that's because as a woman immediately view him as a protector. Do me visualize him differently?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025
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I guess men might look at him as a fantasy figure a la Bond: that they would like to be him. The elements I enjoy is that he is unfettered, usually, by bureaucrats and most law enforcement -- usually he is aided by the latter. And he is not simply an ex-military thug, but is intelligent, and reasons from clues and facts much like the classical detective.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:07 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)
I've looked at those Wallace books a time or two, but never purchased them. Probably heard about them from this thread. The only newspaper comic/webcomic collection I've bought lately (the past 10 years) has been "Forest Folk," starring a rather Calvin-eque fox and the assorted other forest creatures he annoys with his boisterousness.
I actually don't have the Calvin and Hobbes box set, but only because I still have all the original paperbacks that I bought as a teen!
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 10:07 AM (Lhaco)
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I am told that in the interregnum, spats and monocles are encouraged, but not required.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 10, 2025 10:07 AM (Vfq+S)
Bringing FUNdamentals to the book thread.
Last book I read was the latest in the Longmire series.
And prior to that I had read Bram Stokers "Dracula".
A good read
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 10, 2025 10:09 AM (vjPnb)
Narcos was good in that it showed how corruption and unchecked crime are symbiotic, how the results of it expand outwards exponentially and how loathsome the people engaged in it on both sides of the 'business' really are.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:09 AM (3Ope8)
Radical theory: what if Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for once in her life, wrote something that WASN'T just tendentious feminist jabber? What if she actually wrote a good story, just for the sake of writing one?
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:09 AM (78a2H)
Tom Cruise was a huge disappointment as Reacher. If one hadn't read the books, the movies were fine.
Reacher is 6'5" and a unit.
It's hard to act that large when you are 5 foot and change. I like Cruise as an actor but Jack Reacher he is not.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 10:11 AM (viF8m)
Since it's Weasel, I'm going to say overalls are probably acceptable. What you wear under them is your business.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:11 AM (q3dQV)
The big writing news is that school starts in 10 days, which means the grandkids will be in bed early, and that will finally give me quiet time to brainstorm and do research/story prep. I'm very much looking forward to it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 09:55 AM (omVj0)
Oh wow, that was over 30 years ago and my memory is starting to get hazy on it. Yeah it was probably that. We were reading a bunch of Poe at the time also so I probably just mixed a bunch of things up in my memory. The post par tum thing was actually from literary analysis, it was never spelled out in the story IIRC.
Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025
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Right; that sounds like "Yellow Wallpaper." She was apparently a big-time feminist, so I have no interest in reading more of her stuff, but "YW" is a good portrait of schizophrenia at the least.
I thought her story collection was called Ivy Gripped the Steps, a wonderful title, but that was by someone called Elizabeth Bowen, the 'Net tells me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:04 AM (Qd0+U)
I didn't find the violence gratuitous. I saw it as a very realistic portrayal of the South American drug business. The drug business is an extremely bloody affair.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (g8Ew8)
My wife and I did not expect to be putting a second generation of kids through preschool and kindergarten, but here we are.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm waiting for the sequel where he gets promoted to Major.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 10, 2025 10:13 AM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Get off my lawn at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (nnmm5)
Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (+ViXu)
Radical theory: what if Charlotte Perkins Gilman, for once in her life, wrote something that WASN'T just tendentious feminist jabber? What if she actually wrote a good story, just for the sake of writing one?
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025
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Gee, I first read it at age twelve and found it haunting and creepy. The other layers of jabber I read about many many years later. The "mental illness" interpretation I discovered in a book on schizophrenia, and that works too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (Qd0+U)
I hope all this reading is helping me to get edumacated. Unfortunately, I haven't read any Civil War or WW2 history so far, so don't have anything to talk about here on AOS. You all have a nice morning.
Posted by: Pod Hamp at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (91+Ul)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 10:06 AM (cmI4M)
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This guy gets it!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (kpS4V)
There is a YT channel I've been enjoying lately. Dr. Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry. He is a youngish (mid-thirties) Harvard PHD. Clearly, he has risen above that handicap and does an excellent job explaining the characteristics that make poetry such a rich resource for enjoyment and edification. I especially like the way he traces the pathways that poetry has followed over the centuries, both in meaning then and now and how certain poems have influenced later poets.
He has me reading Wordworth's Tintern Abbey at the moment, which is turning out to be a little jewel.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 10, 2025 09:56 AM (bXbFr)
Looks like something I'd enjoy. Not available on library's ebooks, darn it. Will have to put the hard copy on hold when I remember, but I already have a couple of 87th Precinct selections on reserve.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (h7ZuX)
The reason I don't like the last few books written with Andrew Child is because he does become a thug. He loses the "ethical" part in his taking out the bad guys.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 10:16 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)
While I also avoid horror or disaster movies, I will admit to enjoying big fate-of-the-world action movies. Provided they are done right, and treat the threat with the severity it deserves. This tends to be done best in stand-alone stories, or in epic fantasy. I also prefer the stories where the day is saved, with relatively little collateral damage along the way. (bonus points if the collateral damage actually affects the story or the characters.)
Posted by: Castle Guy at August 10, 2025 10:16 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Get off my lawn at August 10, 2025
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They did. Hammett had been a real private detective for Pinkertons, and so his stories -- when he was invalided out with TB and earned a living by selling to Black Mask -- had an authenticity most of the other pulp writers couldn't match.
"You've been thinking I'm a man and you're a woman," the Continental Op tells a woman criminal. "That's wrong. I'm a hunter and you're just something that's been running in front of me."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:16 AM (omVj0)
Now that you mention it, the vertical position is kind of weird. Not high enough to actually be "sighting" and now waist or belly height like you would see with what is called "point shooting." For the latter, bingle pictures of Elmer Keith.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (YLICC)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (78a2H)
You actually had to shoot the revolver in a throwing motion like the atlatl.
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 10, 2025 10:12 AM (78a2H)
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Handguns in military service were originally reserved for cavalry or officers, and were therefore paired with swords. That meant only using one hand, and this was reflected in training. The swords went away, but the one-hand technique remained because you still need that spare hand on the reins.
You start seeing more "modern" techniques after WW II.
Point-shooting was very popular because it is instinctive and fast. Vintage guns often had very rudimentary sights for this reason.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:18 AM (YLICC)
Yes it was kinda juvenile, I think that was part of the point.
Anyway...we had this intolerable doofus named David Dick at school.
Partly due to his realizing he was being targeted he tended to over react with a hissy fit once he realized he was being pranked resulting in many instances of...
>>>DICK!!!!!
...being yelled out in the student union and elsewhere.
Posted by: pawn at August 10, 2025 10:18 AM (EITcu)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes
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Eris, have you seen the originals in the Brandywine Museum?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (6Tzur)
The reason I don't like the last few books written with Andrew Child is because he does become a thug. He loses the "ethical" part in his taking out the bad guys.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025
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I haven't got to those later ones yet. To this point -- and I'm trying to read the books in order -- JR has been dealing with villains who are really horrible people, multiple murderers or human traffickers, etc.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (omVj0)
As I recall, good story. Simply as story.
Sometimes I wonder if one of the harder things about teaching literature over the past decades is finding something that might appeal to the class enough that they'll read it, and then finding a way to "teach" it so as to justify your job. If it kills off the students' enjoyment of the story, well, that's just a price we have to pay for education, now, ain't it?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (YLICC)
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Lucky Gunner's Youtube has a video on how the FBI adopted the shoot from the crouch because it was supposedly faster and they got some savant trick-shooter to teach it.
Like most of things involving the FBI, it was all bunk. Most people can't shoot well using that technique.
I hear a new book is coming out about Sykes and Fairbairn, who were all about the point shooting (and carrying with the chamber empty!).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)
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spoiler alert!
He was a bullfrog
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM (6Tzur)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM (h7ZuX)
As I recall, good story. Simply as story.
Sometimes I wonder if one of the harder things about teaching literature over the past decades is finding something that might appeal to the class enough that they'll read it, and then finding a way to "teach" it so as to justify your job. If it kills off the students' enjoyment of the story, well, that's just a price we have to pay for education, now, ain't it?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025
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If by some miracle I found myself teaching English lit, "reading," to a bunch of bright high-schoolers, I'd require Sweet Thursday by Steinbeck, Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford, and Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Or maybe some of her short stories, aside from "The Lottery," which has been over-scrutinized.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:23 AM (omVj0)
Concur. Both of those series were outstanding. My only point was that I could only watch it once.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:23 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (XvL8K)
Yes he did. The whole series is very well produced and acted. And I actually think they restrained the story a lot by not showing how bloody and violent the drug trade really is.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 10:23 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Norrin Radd at August 10, 2025 10:24 AM (tRYqg)
"This filthy enactment was made in the 19th Century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, reacting to the Fugitive Slave Law, 1851
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:25 AM (kpS4V)
The Weaver Stance was introduced by Jack Weaver during competition shoots involving Jeff Cooper in the 50s. Before that, aimed fire was one-handed with the arm straight out. You can find pictures of military training using that stance and it is still used for NRA Bullseye competition.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 10:25 AM (UDp5/)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:26 AM (t/2Uw)
I always pictured Reacher as a younger Liam Neeson.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 10, 2025 10:27 AM (Y1sOo)
"Before that, aimed fire was one-handed with the arm straight out"
heh. My dad shot like that.
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 10:27 AM (Qd0+U)
He was a bullfrog
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:22 AM
And he expected people to help him drink his whine.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 10:28 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 10:28 AM (3Ope8)
Connie Willis also wrote one of my all-time favorite short stories, an interpretation of Emily Dickinson's poetry as if War of the Worlds were true. It is one of the funniest damn things I have ever read.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (Y+AMd)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (FOGs2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)
IIRC, Sykes and Fairbairn developed their training for the Hong Kong Police, well before WWII. I bet having to deal with the Chinese recruits influenced what they thought was correct procedure.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (vOjEn)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 10:19 AM (6Tzur)
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No, alas, and I meant to all those years out east. If there's one thing I've learned from the Barnes Exhibit and other shows, it's that book reproductions just can't capture the magnificence of the original painting.
Seeing the glowing vermillion and retina-melting chartreuse of a real Van Gogh is mind-blowing.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:29 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)
You see that a lot in '30s oaters. I call it "throwing the gun."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)
You see that a lot in '30s oaters. I call it "throwing the gun."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (0eaVi)
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When you think about it, throwing the emptied revolver does give you one more effective round.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 10, 2025 10:31 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Norrin Radd at August 10, 2025
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It's a little slow at first -- until you hit the exploration of rabbit abnormal psychology!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 10, 2025 10:32 AM (yTvNw)
Emerson is one of the most overlooked people this country has ever produced.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 10:32 AM (viF8m)
It's a paperback novel showing an attractive young lady in a not-quite-sheer-enough nightgown coming toward the reader across the dark moor; in the background is an ominous-looking castle with a light in one tower window.
Everyone knows that..."
That's it! No more needs to be said.
Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025 10:33 AM (+ViXu)
Not JRR per se but books from his son Michael and Michael's daughter Judith. And the books were quite knackered which meant they all were definitely read to pieces in some cases.
All the Mowgli Stories from 1936 that was a gift from one of JRR Tolkien's associates. An illustrated large format hardcover of Robin Hood. In the 1950s a copy of The Children of Odin entered his collection. On more modern fare, a book of poetry Michael gifted to his daughter Judith is thoroughly annotated by her.
I found it very fascinating and charming, of books spanning the generations of a family and linking that family.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 10:17 AM (DXbAa)
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You see that a lot in '30s oaters. I call it "throwing the gun."
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025
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Robert Vaughn, later, was no gun aficionado. He often fired the U.N.C.L.E. gun with its blanks in just that fashion. Visually, dramatically, it worked, unless you know better.
David McCallum had been in the British army and knew a bit more about guns. I don't think he usually fired the handguns that way.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (0eaVi)
One of the strategies that Dad taught us as children was how to break a hold by a larger person on your arm or wrist - levering your arm against the grippers' thumb, which was the weakest part of the grip.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 10, 2025 10:36 AM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 10:36 AM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 10, 2025 10:37 AM (1O6D8)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025
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I can imagine Rory Calhoun saying that.
Reacher does kill during the course of the books I've read, sometimes with a gun, sometimes with his bare hands. But the recipients of those attentions have been major-league evil people.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:37 AM (omVj0)
"Southern" Gothic is stuff like Faulkner's Sanctuary (though I couldn't finish the book, it's supposed to be squarely in the SG tradition), and things like Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, and that novel The Beguiled (movie with Clint Eastwood long ago).
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Flannery O'connor, Harper Lee.
I've never spoken with anyone else who has read all of Erskine Caldwell.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 10:38 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025
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"Must go to Peeg Vater!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:38 AM (omVj0)
This carried over into the cartridge era, long after the need for it had gone away.
Next, why gangbangers hold their pistols sideways...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:39 AM (vOjEn)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025\
I loved the first several Reacher books, then it became obvious he was just writing them for the money and the quality declined.
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 10:40 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (yTvNw)
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He's in the bushes!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 10:30 AM (kpS4V)
I am not!
Posted by: Pinto at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (L/fGl)
Tommy always has the clever humor and the willingness to take people as they are no matter how silly they get, as opposed to Ian Flemming's open distaste of "foreigners acting British"
Hambledon books cover from WWI to the Cold War, and is more Harry Palmer than James Bond, and the benefit is that Coles could write the most amazing prose when it was appropriate, and write clear open action when it was needed.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 10:41 AM (rbvCR)
Having seen references to it over the years, figured I would give it a go. The jury is still out, as I'm only about 75 pages in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 10:42 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 10, 2025 10:31 AM (dDmld)
They never learn.
Posted by: Superman at August 10, 2025 10:42 AM (0eaVi)
I've never spoken with anyone else who has read all of Erskine Caldwell.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025
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O'Connor, yes, though I've read little of her work. Harper Lee? Mockingbird doesn't seem to be Gothic at all.
As for Caldwell, I've only read TR and GLA and a few of his short stories. The two novels are . . . disturbing, as if one were to cross Beverly Hillbillies, minus the humor, with incest-laden characters from Faulkner.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:43 AM (omVj0)
Might have to subscribe to Britbox.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:45 AM (t/2Uw)
Most of all, anybody writing about a man that big should know that much of the day is food-oriented! Am I near food? How far is it? etc.
Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 10:45 AM (/MyY+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:34 AM (omVj0)
That's probably why it was done. I never tried shooting that way. If I ever get out to the desert again, maybe I'll try it. It doesn't seem it would be too accurate, though.
Posted by: Superman at August 10, 2025 10:45 AM (0eaVi)
Hambledon books cover from WWI to the Cold War, and is more Harry Palmer than James Bond, and the benefit is that Coles could write the most amazing prose when it was appropriate, and write clear open action when it was needed.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025
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The few Hambledons I've read have been loads of fun. In the U.N.C.L.E. tie-in novel The Rainbow Affair, in which David McDaniel has Solo and Illya encounter most of the famous fictional British detectives and heroes (all unnamed), there is a scene with a British Intelligence officer who might well be Tommy Hanbledon. He tells a woman agent who is clearly Emma Peel, "Leave Mr. Solo alone, you little minx." That is not a LeCarre kind of spy character at all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:46 AM (omVj0)
O'Connor, yes, though I've read little of her work. Harper Lee? Mockingbird doesn't seem to be Gothic at all.
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The one line from O'connor's 'Wise blood' that I recall is:
Hazel:
No man with a good car needs to be justified!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 10:46 AM (XeU6L)
Try your best is still a decent philosophy.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 10:47 AM (n4GiU)
Tommy, in his irreverent way, refers to the explosive as "Poppo."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 10:40 AM (98kQX)
Writing for money?! Heaven forfend!
(looks at pile of unsold stories)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM (0eaVi)
After that it went all girl boss and I quit it.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM (Y1sOo)
"Gimme all the money!!" - Simon Tolkien. barrister and erstwhile writer.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 10:49 AM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025
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Child often has Reacher fueling up at diners, and tanking up on coffee. He's not much of a drinker and we're told he quit cigarettes long ago, so food is a big thing for him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:50 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 10:50 AM (2WIwB)
This carried over into the cartridge era, long after the need for it had gone away. . . .
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025
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Donald Hamilton, a gun aficionado, has Matt Helm tell us this in one novel.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 10:52 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:52 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: 3X12ax7 at August 10, 2025 09:45 AM (Qd0+U)
I liked his Schismatrix and Islands in the Net, both are worldbuilding on the results of decentralization of authority and society in a world coming to terms with new technologies and how that shifts power structures. I started another of his books, and didn''t finish it, and I don't remember why.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 10:53 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:53 AM (vOjEn)
Seem to recall Robert B. Parker having fairly frequent food-related moments in the Spenser books, and Parker was a pretty good-sized guy too.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (FOGs2)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Superman
The snubbie bouncing off George Reeve's chest instantly popped to mind.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 10:55 AM (n4GiU)
Prove me wrong !
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)
And Die Hard is a Christmas movie!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 10:56 AM (vOjEn)
Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 10:56 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 10:58 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: JTB
I have never read this but remember taking an ethics course in HS. This is why I am enrsged by Islamic teaching and the support of the terrorist regimes dominating the ME. They have perverted every ethical concept and done nothing to promote societal good. They have contributed nothing to science or the arts or any form of higher learning.
Your post sums up why they are the scum of the earth
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 10:59 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 09:53 AM (t/2Uw)
Yes. Great reading although at times a bit...detailed.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 10:59 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025
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I think I read the first one, or maybe two, of those. Yes, the TV adaptation was very well cast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (omVj0)
Heard many years ago a motorcycle accessory catalog grew so expensive to print, the printing company just bought the accessory company.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (XEI9S)
Highly recommended.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:00 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 10:58 AM (vm8sq)
One of the few benefits of being an adult is not having to face the end of summer and the return to school.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (vOjEn)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (+ViXu)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (/MyY+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (Ui59G)
Some bloody gore during the fight scenes which doesn’t bother me as it may others.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025
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Yes. Oh, Jesse is described at the start of the series of novels as much younger than Tom Selleck when he began playing the role; and I think some of the later TV-movies were originals and not based on a Parker novel. But Selleck is perfect and has made the role his own. The TV films use dialog from the books, and when you read them later you can hear Selleck's voice delivering the lines.
Robert B. Parker's early Spenser novels, the Jesse Stones, the Sunny Randalls (all in the same Boston-based universe), and his Westerns like Appaloosa are all in the hard-boiled, spare-language mode, and are terrific reads.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:04 AM (omVj0)
One of my best friends in high school was 6'2" as a sophomore and still growing. He was also strong as an ox. Starting left tackle as soon as he was eligible because nobody could deal with that. He was also very smart.
Large people make their presence known just by walking into the room. You can't act big.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:04 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Get off my lawn at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (nnmm5)
a fair number of his short stories did not get into anthologies, so if you read through what is put out in books, and you want more, try looking up archives of Black Mask Magazine, to dig out a few more of his works.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 11:04 AM (rbvCR)
The last two or three were originals for television, I think, and not based on Parker's novels. If you're looking only for adaptations from Parker, double-check the titles.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)
Perhaps you misspelled Kingdom with the dread i-m-g.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (vOjEn)
Also his Western series is terrific and the first book was made into a great movie.
I did really like the Jesse Stone movies however and wish theee were more of them.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: pawn at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (EITcu)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 10, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
You will dish out pain. Do you want the pain spread out and drawn out? Or, do you want it hyper concentrated in one place, or two, and gotten over it more quickly? That’s how I always framed it.
Better to have hyper concentrated doses of pain in Hiroshima and Nagasaki than just dragging out things for years.
War IS hell, a fact too many do not want to accept.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 11:05 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: one hour sober
"Some bloody gore" is an understatement. Doesn't bother me in the least. Life was tough in the early Middle Ages and the show does an excellent job of portraying it.
Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 11:07 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: who knew at August 10, 2025
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I love a line like that, when what is said implies something much more, but is not obscure.
There is one in David McDaniel's Dagger Affair. Thrush and U.N.C.L.E. have agreed to a truce to fight a common enemy, and Mr. Waverly says he will send his best two agents, Solo and Illya, to CA. Then he adds, "I think we will be sending a third party."
"Separate accommodations?" asks the Thrush.
"Not at all," says Waverly. "I plan to work in the same conditions my men do."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:07 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 11:02 AM (/MyY+)
Cyril Henry Coles, who actually was a British agent, who operated behind German lines and other places in both wars, and mastered most European languages.
Much more likable guy than Sidney Reilly by the way
Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 11:09 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025
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Those responsible for the autocorrect being sacked have been sacked.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:09 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at August 10, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 11:11 AM (scJ96)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:14 AM (t/2Uw)
Spenser's condo in the series was in a building right behind mine. When they were filming it was an enormous pain in the ass.
Yea, Urich was a big guy just like the books.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:15 AM (viF8m)
I started rewatching Rome. Still fun, though the explicit sex scenes are cringey, tbh.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 11:16 AM (6Tzur)
Posted by: Wenda at August 10, 2025 11:16 AM (/MyY+)
The best reason to watch The Last Kingdom is the actor playing Uthred.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:14 AM (t/2Uw)
There's some fine looking women in that series too.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2025 11:17 AM (g8Ew8)
The best reason to watch The Last Kingdom is the actor playing Uthred.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Yes, he's quite handsome.
Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 11:17 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 10:15 AM (yTvNw)
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JTB, you always amaze me. I haven't thought about Tinturn in ages.
Grumble, grumble, off to find a copy.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 10, 2025 11:18 AM (WvpwN)
Yea, Urich was a big guy just like the books.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025
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To this day I picture Robert Urich as Spenser and Avery Brooks as Hawk. Nobody else comes close. Joe Mantegna has effectively played an older Spenser in a couple of TV-movies, and they have cast Susan Silverman pretty well, but *nobody* has topped Brooks as Hawk.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:18 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 10:47 AM
Liver chopped am I?
Posted by: Yoda at August 10, 2025 11:22 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bluebbery at August 10, 2025 11:22 AM (XeU6L)
"Look, buddy. I'm tired of wearing these stupid pine tree air fresheners all the time to cover this smell.
Just what part didn't you understand about Bog Wife?"
Posted by: The Bog Wife at August 10, 2025 11:23 AM (iJfKG)
The best reason to watch The Last Kingdom is the actor playing Uthred.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:14 AM
The female gaze. It's real.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 11:24 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bluebberry at August 10, 2025 11:24 AM (XeU6L)
Or, will we have a separate writing thread later?
Seriously, thanks for filling in, Weasel.
G'morn, Hordeworld.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and what about grammar? at August 10, 2025 11:24 AM (7W0uI)
Urich always struck me as a bit young for the part, but otherwise he did a nice job in that series; probably as good as you could hope to get. And yes, NOBODY could beat Avery Brooks as Hawk.
Did kinda like the casting of Mantegna and Ernie Hudson in one or two of the later A&E Spenser movies, though.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (q3u5l)
(looks at pile of unsold stories)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 10:48 AM
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but come up with something newish. Looking at CJ Box, Craig Johnson and others, as well. I've read several series in the last few years although I had previously avoided them. The ones that come to mind that did not become overly repetitious were the Aubrey/Maturin, Kinsey Millhone, and Uhtred books. Maybe O'Brian, Grafton, and Cornwell were just better writers than Lee Child.
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (98kQX)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2025 10:58 AM
Are you deliberately trying to give Weasel ideas for his Gub Thread intro?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (0sNs1)
Duncanthrax -- check your keyboard; Woody Allen may have gotten to it.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:28 AM (q3u5l)
Urich always struck me as a bit young for the part, but otherwise he did a nice job in that series; probably as good as you could hope to get. And yes, NOBODY could beat Avery Brooks as Hawk.
Did kinda like the casting of Mantegna and Ernie Hudson in one or two of the later A&E Spenser movies, though.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025
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It's time for a solid biography of Parker, for sure. I'd like to know things like you mention, as to how he was inspired to create Spenser. When you find out the elements in his life that inspired an author, it can encourage you to use your own experiences in fiction.
Mantegna and Hudson were playing older versions of the characters too, from a later novel in the series, so they worked okay.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:29 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 11:25 AM (98kQX)
Well, I don't really want to write series. Of course, now I have another book from another aspect of a sci-fi novel. My short stories aren't, except for one about a loser named Harry set in the '30s.
I've never liked seeing "book one of twelve of..." kind of stuff.
Anyway, gotta go.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 11:30 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (0I+GC)
I sort of imagined that Kinsey Milhone would favor Sue Grafton. At least one of the books had her holding a small handgun in the author bio picture to support the idea. Then I saw her talk at a book signing and she said that she hated letting her publicist push her into doing that.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (Djb69)
I went back to the prayer thread yesterday and saw your question about Corrumpa Creek. The sign on the bridge over the usually dry wash says Corrumpa. All the old-timers I knew from that area lived on Carrizozo Creek or the Dry Cimarron.
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (98kQX)
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It amuses me to think that, during his service in Korea, Spenser might have passed through the 4077th M*A*S*H, and met Margaret Houlihan.
Napoleon Solo was in Korea too, so who knows. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025
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Thanks, huerfano. I guess Seton transcribed it the way he heard it, "Currumpaw."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:32 AM (omVj0)
Red Streak of the Iroquois - written in 1950 by Arthur C. Parker - a Seneca himself and an anthropologist.
Story of a young male Iroquois growing up in the times before the coming of the Europeans - shows the culture and customs back then - although the young lad may have a bit of Viking ancestry to explain the unusual red streak in his hair that gave him that name.
A good read, fascinating to me at the time.
Not a "woke" work as such - but interesting in that the protagonist was a bit uncaring about the then cultural division betweens male and female work tasks - wanting to learn about how to do both sorts,
Posted by: BobM at August 10, 2025 11:33 AM (y0oi5)
That's why so many books turned into movies fail. Before becoming a private dick Spenser was a heavyweight boxer. Urich looked the part. It's fundamental. If you don't cast the right people nothing is going to work.
Jack Reacher should have been Wenda's brother not Tom Cruise.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)
The "savant trick-shooter" was 'Jelly' Bryce, a former Oklahoma City LEO and FBI agent. Bryce could shoot very fast and very accurately from his low crouching stance, and so lots of people, including much of the LEO community and the FBI, concluded that LEOs taught his method could do the same. People tend to imitate the successful, and Bryce was a successful shooter in competition and in real life-he reportedly was successful in 19 gunfights as a LEO. Unfortunately, while Bryce's technique was teachable, his incredible hand-eye coordination and quickness was not and so the world mostly moved on, eventually, to other techniques that were not so idiosyncratic and ones where the accuracy was replicable through training and practice.
Posted by: Pope John 20th at August 10, 2025 11:34 AM (yl1YV)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 11:35 AM (2WIwB)
"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil."
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 10, 2025 11:35 AM (h/ffs)
I've never liked seeing "book one of twelve of..." kind of stuff. . . .
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025
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Series weren't usually pushed that way in decades past. The Ellery Queen novels, for instance, were not numbered like that; it was simply "An Ellery Queen Novel" or "A Problem in Deduction."
The advantages to a series: You don't have to build the background or major characters from scratch; and your readers can become very attached to your heroes or other characters. (Which last can be a drawback too.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:36 AM (omVj0)
Write what you know, and all that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:36 AM (q3u5l)
"Lend me one of your horses, driver,” he cried. “I must follow these ruffians without delay."
Sounds like something I would say.
Posted by: javems at August 10, 2025 11:38 AM (8I4hW)
"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil."
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 10, 2025
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She also, I think, said something about allowing criticism to depress you -- and deter you from writing the way you know you should -- is also of the devil.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (omVj0)
Same author wrote ' Deliverance'.
Posted by: El Borak at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (BSNnK)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (cmI4M)
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 11:40 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:40 AM (q3u5l)
Write what you know, and all that.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025
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I had thought his Ph.D. concentrated on Chandler and/or Hammett.
He has some savage satire about academia in the Spenser novels, including in his very first one.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:40 AM (omVj0)
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I've always had some difficulty taking a character named 'Natty Bumpo' seriously.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:41 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:42 AM (0I+GC)
JRR Tolkien thinking with pen poised, "his name shall be Bingo Baggins."
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 11:43 AM (Ui59G)
Chandler and Hammett may well have been included in some of that dissertation, but I'd have to double check that now; just too long since I looked over some of the old articles and interviews. He was certainly aware of them from the git-go.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:44 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Sadly, he just passed away a few months ago. What a warrior for truth and America.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 10, 2025 11:44 AM (/RHNq)
Your name is Mike Hammer.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:44 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 10, 2025 11:45 AM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:46 AM (q3u5l)
Chandler and Hammett may well have been included in some of that dissertation, but I'd have to double check that now; just too long since I looked over some of the old articles and interviews. He was certainly aware of them from the git-go.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025
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I suspect one of the reasons we haven't seen an in-depth biography of Parker and an analysis of his work is that academics are still furious at him for being so successful outside academia!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 11:47 AM (ZmEVT)
Southern Gothic enters TKaM with the character of Boo Radley.
He's a character straight out of Faulkner or O'Conner except he doesn't burn people alive or bang donkeys or some such thing and is actually a beneficial though broken fellow.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 11:48 AM (iJfKG)
He's a character straight out of Faulkner or O'Conner except he doesn't burn people alive or bang donkeys or some such thing and is actually a beneficial though broken fellow.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025
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Good point!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:48 AM (omVj0)
Free at gutenberg.org: https://tinyurl.com/323y3n45
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:49 AM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 11:49 AM (+qU29)
Wolfus, you're probably right. If your standard academic type did a study of Parker, it would probably be an envious takedown. Who needs it?
I'd like to see somebody like Lawrence Block do one, but he's largely retired now.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:49 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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I've read excerpts. Brutal.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:51 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (viF8m)
Some long-gun target shooters used a reclining position with the barrel resting on their feet.
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (0I+GC)
Thanks again for the thread, Weasel. I'm willing to help out some with content as well. Holler if need be.
And have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (q3u5l)
But hard to fit a book in 45 minute TV show so the books are better especially if you know Boston.
I did read that Susan Silverman was based on his wife and that they did have a dog like Pearl.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:53 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 11:55 AM (+qU29)
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Crossing the beams a bit, Patrick O'Brian's short stories are vastly different than later writing. Dark, dark stuff, Brit Goth, I would call it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:57 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 11:55 AM (+qU29)
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Mark Twain tears Cooper a new one over it. And the 1993 movie was based mainly on the earlier movie.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 11:57 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2025 11:58 AM (0I+GC)
Have a great day!
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 10, 2025 11:58 AM (t/2Uw)
The way Parker set it up, Hawk is Spenser's dark side made flesh, and Susan is his moral/ethical side, so we see the conflict in his nature in each story. This is like the splitting of Capt. Kirk's reasoning side and more emotional side into Spock and McCoy, respectively, so that the conflict between them can be dramatized.
Susan didn't appear until Book Two, though, and Hawk not until Four, so it took Parker a little while to get a real handle on what he had.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:58 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 11:57 AM (XeU6L)
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Haven't read his short stories, but his earlier noviels "The Golden Ocean" and "The Unknown Shore" (both based on Anson's voyage around the world) are great reading. And he did the English translation of "Papillon."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 11:59 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:59 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)
Yeah. Casting Cruise is sort of like casting Caillou as Reacher.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 12:00 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Captain Obvious
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A lot of extras during the filming were walking around town, Mohawk haircuts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 10, 2025 12:00 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 12:01 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 12:02 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 11:39 AM (cmI4M)
Now wait a minnit, Weasel. The book thread isn't over until WE say it's over!!!!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 10, 2025 12:03 PM (0eaVi)
This is very true, perhaps understated. The first time I read it was in a college library. I'm sure my laughing disturbed others but they were probably too afraid to approach the hysterical maniac to complain.
Posted by: JTB at August 10, 2025 12:05 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: scottst at August 10, 2025 12:08 PM (qcvs8)
Posted by: scottst at August 10, 2025 12:08 PM (qcvs8)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 10, 2025 09:03 AM (XMwZJ)
Meet Sergeant Rajpreet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:14 PM (joBNx)
Capt's Fairbairn and Sykes served in the Shanghai Municipal Police, Fairbairn eventually as Assistant Commissioner and Sykes as officer in charge of the sniper unit, before they returned to England to train the Commandos, Special Operations Executive and some American OSS types including Rex Applegate. While Fairbairn and Sykes were there Shanghai was an 'international' city, and its police department had units of Chinese, Russian, French, British police as well as other major nationalities present in the city. So the training developed by Fairbairn and Sykes, described somewhat in their book "Shooting to Live," was applied to a variety of nationalities with greatly differing cultures and levels of education and experience. I recall reading some reports of police raids conducted by riot squads under Fairbairn's command, but can't remember the book. IIRC, Fairbairn's riot squad contained both Chinese and non-Chinese policemen armed with Thompsons and riding in armored cars.
Posted by: Pope John 20th at August 10, 2025 12:21 PM (yl1YV)
Posted by: Zekesmom at August 10, 2025 12:47 PM (XQPm3)
Posted by: PabloD
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x.x - x.x for the 185, x.x - x.x for the 230.
Which illustrates why the only use I have for Bullseye is .38 shot shell (snake) loads. It's just waaay too easy to exceed pressure limits.. I load them low - don't need a lot of velocity at 15 ft ranges - and even a overload isn't going to have lot of back pressure (a felt wad has a lot of leakage) to shoot it into big over pressure territory.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 10, 2025 12:54 PM (ha888)
Perfesser is passing on the mantle . It is a bit much to do the thread every week . He is o.k , just concerned about his job as his supervisor seems to be giving him a hard time. He asked for prayer.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 01:13 PM (2GCMq)
what the Spenser TV shows didn't capture (well, one of them did, but it was a long time ago) was the moral ambiguity Spenser lived in. He had no god, but he had a code and only he would punish himself for the violations. How he lived out his code was what made his books.
Posted by: yara at August 10, 2025 02:26 PM (EbWSH)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 10, 2025 05:48 PM (E98Rf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 11:58 AM (omVj0)
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Brooks in person is not as prepossessing as Hawk is portrayed as being, but Brooks does indeed fill the role spectacularly well!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 10, 2025 05:52 PM (E98Rf)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 10, 2025 06:27 PM (q3u5l)
Daily-ish Tech News 10 August 2025
Top Story
- OpenAI has priced GPT-5 so low it may spark a price war. (Tech Crunch)
Chance would be a fine thing.
- OpenAI's GPT-5 comes with up to 80% fewer hallucinations. (The Register)
Fewer hallucinations are good, or so the voices tell me.
- OpenAI's GPT-5 is one hundred percent convinced that "blueberry" is spelled with three b's. (Kieran Healy)
Oops.
Not Really Tech News
- I have RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - and putting a name to it doesn't help at all to be perfectly honest.
I bought a COVID test because I was starting to suspect this wasn't just a cold, and the particular test also tested influenza A and B - it didn't feel like the flu, but okay - and RSV, which hadn't crossed my mind at all.
Good news: My lifetime 100% COVID-free rating remains untouched.
Bad news: RSV is bloody annoying.
The common symptoms in adults match mine precisely, so I haven't developed an idiosyncratic reaction.If present, symptoms are generally isolated to the upper respiratory tract: runny nose, sore throat, fever, and malaise. In most cases, nasal congestion precedes the development of cough. Unlike other upper respiratory infections, RSV is more likely to cause new onset wheeze in adults.
Still annoying.
Tech News
- HTTP is not a simple protocol. (Haxx)
It drives everything and is implemented everywhere but it is rarely if ever entirely correct. The original 1.0 version in 1997 ran to 18,615 words; the later 1.1 version currently runs to 95,740 words, as much as a substantial novel.
- HTTP/2: The sequel is always worse. (Portswigger)
It just is.
- Microsoft Lens - Window's free text-scanning app - is being replaced with AI. (Thurrott)
That's "blueberry" with three b's.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Five to nine is still worse though.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:30 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:30 AM (9vYpt)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:32 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:34 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:36 AM (aURVT)
Does that dictate a course of treatment?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)
Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/fw_Codf29Pw
Nobody asked for this but we got it.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (9vYpt)
I got about 20 seconds in and thought I dunno.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:40 AM (aURVT)
May munificent benefits be incurred for all your effort plus the accompanying heartburn for the leftwit fungi.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 10, 2025 04:41 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 04:42 AM (qKYfj)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 04:44 AM (qKYfj)
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Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 04:46 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 10, 2025 04:48 AM (XQo4F)
Sadly no. They say stay hydrated and get a humidifier - check and check - and take ibuprofen if you need it, but currently there are no really effective treatments. Well, oxygen, but I'd have to be a lot worse off to warrant that. Fortunately.
12 Pity, you might want to hit the Vitamin D and C.
I do take Vitamin C and multivitamins, so I'm probably covered there.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 04:49 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 04:50 AM (2GCMq)
https://tinyurl.com/37ukw6e9
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 04:53 AM (2GCMq)
They finished up the show with a blistering arrangement of Led Zeppelin's How Many More Times. The video is from a London show with a. Subset of his previous lineup that approximates the current band. There are videos with the current band playing but the audio is of such terrible quality they're unlistenable. This particular professionally shot version is spot on and is equally great to what I heard tonight.
If you like going to concerts this band should be one of your bucket lists. Bonus round: the audience aren't barbarians.
https://youtu.be/TuocThsJa0g
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:54 AM (9vYpt)
You Aussies don't know shit about medicine.
Bourbon.
Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (gHSfI)
Another 2020 election conspiracy, laughed at, looking like it might be true:
https://tinyurl.com/2khm6mus
I don't recall which brainy X accounts were shouting this in 2019 but they were mostly ridiculed into silence. Or were they threated by big law firms?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 04:58 AM (JdYf9)
Posted by: m
It is a pretty weird song choice for Dolly Parton. The interpretation is suss as hell. Why she decided to do this I have no idea. But she did so there we are.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 04:59 AM (9vYpt)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:59 AM (aURVT)
https://tinyurl.com/3zybkkzy
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 04:59 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)
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Had some yesterday and I'm still fit as a fiddle. See? It works!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 05:00 AM (JdYf9)
You Aussies don't know shit about medicine.
Bourbon.
Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)
Or tea?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (+qU29)
https://tinyurl.com/mhj6xb9v
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:03 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:07 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (+qU29)
You called a nood for the tech thread.
291 Tech thread is upstairs
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:31 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:08 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:13 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)
Or tea?
Posted by: m
Note: Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 05:16 AM (9vYpt)
Posted by: Pooklord at August 10, 2025 05:19 AM (asU3w)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 10, 2025 05:20 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 10, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)
Went to bed late, woke up early. Getting Her Majesty, Rosalind and The Big Dummy on the road to Denver this morning, then I'm headed off to Mass.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 05:23 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:26 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:26 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:27 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:28 AM (2GCMq)
Baltimore mass shooting last night.
https://tinyurl.com/wc7r293r
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 10, 2025 05:22 AM (a1415)
https://archive.is/qbC8Z
(same link without intrusive article-covering junk)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:28 AM (aURVT)
BPD mass shooting presser. Commissioner Worley says it seemed like people were sitting on their porch when someone opened fire:
• 6 victims
• 4 males
• 2 females
• 5 year old girl shot in hand
• man shot critical and surgery
• Homicide unit notified
• No arrests
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:33 AM (aURVT)
Hadrian, how is Diana doing?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:27 AM (HFcKg)
__________
Diana is on a couple of medications to ease her nerve pain and help her stomach. She gets chicken and hamburger twice a day and free feeding of kibble. She eats well and is energetic, but is still a hard keeper.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 05:34 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:34 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 10, 2025 05:35 AM (dKEEs)
Posted by: fluffy at August 10, 2025 05:39 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 04:55 AM (tVbC9)
Or tea?
Posted by: m
Note: Bourbon is the treatment.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 10, 2025 05:16 AM (9vYpt)
That was my dad's prescription, too.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:41 AM (2GCMq)
HM will be gone until the first week in September. Greeley, CO starting Thursday, then to Lake Elmo, MN the weekend after that for the Greater Twin Cities Borzoi Club specialties, then Amana, IA for a Hound Group show.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 05:43 AM (kkTda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKr3mhojyvY
Posted by: fluffy at August 10, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKr3mhojyvY
Posted by: fluffy at August 10, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)
hahahahahaha
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:50 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (tjClK)
Full moon.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 05:40 AM (XQo4F)
This is true!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (aURVT)
Been on site since 2:30 AM.
Maintenance window isn't going all that well. This is going to be a long day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (tjClK)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:52 AM (2GCMq)
Been on site since 2:30 AM.
Maintenance window isn't going all that well. This is going to be a long day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:51 AM (tjClK)
But you got a FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:52 AM (aURVT)
There is a vaccine for that.
I don't recommend taking it, however, I don't recommend taking any vaccines anymore since the medical and pharmaceutical industries have destroyed all their credibility.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:53 AM (tjClK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 05:56 AM (tjClK)
syncytium
noun (plural syncytia) Biology
a single cell or cytoplasmic mass containing several nuclei, formed by fusion of cells or by division of nuclei.
• Embryology syncytium forming the outermost layer of the trophoblast.
DERIVATIVES
syncytial (adjective)
ORIGIN
late 19th century: from syn- ‘together’ + -cyte ‘cell’ + -ium.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:57 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:58 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 05:58 AM (2GCMq)
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It's hilarious all around!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:01 AM (JdYf9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:01 AM (tjClK)
Pixy: "Fewer hallucinations are good, or so the voices tell me."
A worthy successor to the old "I can't come in to work. The voices told me to stay home and clean all the guns today."
Sorry to hear about the RSV. How long is a case supposed to last?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:06 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: The Legal Department at August 10, 2025 06:07 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: The Legal Department at August 10, 2025 06:07 AM (XQo4F)
"I've got Type II diabetes cuz I'm fat as a cow."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:08 AM (tjClK)
*
RSVP!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025
***
At my former work, a university, a colleague told me that the students in our major -- a very bright bunch, by all accounts -- did not know what "RSVP" meant. He had to use "Please reply" or wording like that on emails to them instead.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:09 AM (omVj0)
***
Sounds like a body structure. A private one that should not be discussed on genteel blogs like this one.
(I crack myself up sometimes.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)
Nedz coffee now
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)
Abacab.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:01 AM (tjClK)
When you wake in the morning
Wake and find you're covered in cellophane
Could be worse, Pixy!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:08 AM (tjClK)
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Fat cows don't have diabetes.
You're doing something wrong.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (JdYf9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
One to two weeks for the active stage, which is less time than it has lasted so far. Then possibly several more weeks with a persistent cough as your body gets rid of all the gunk.
I think I'm moving into the persistent cough stage now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)
***
Sounds like a body structure. A private one that should not be discussed on genteel blogs like this one.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (omVj0)
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The inner syncytium?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:14 AM (JdYf9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
One to two weeks for the active stage, which is less time than it has lasted so far. Then possibly several more weeks with a persistent cough as your body gets rid of all the gunk.
I think I'm moving into the persistent cough stage now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)
Oof.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (aURVT)
Little Dagny actually slept on the bed for part of the night. I was aware that something was on the covers down near my feet as I drifted up and back down into sleep. Then I woke, and there she was, grooming herself and acting like "No big deal."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (WvZaB)
You're doing something wrong.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:12 AM (JdYf9)
They are vegetarians. I eat vegetarian meats. They are tasty.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (tjClK)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)
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Our NC pup and family came down with RSV about 2 years ago. They're vax-free. Took about 2 weeks to get back to normal.
Get well fast.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 10, 2025 06:15 AM (JdYf9)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)
I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)
Posted by: The Legal Department at August 10, 2025
***
If you've never taken it, how do you know you're allergic to it?
Posted by: Pharmaceutical Rep at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Some Guy I Work With, Proud User of Term "Legalese" at August 10, 2025 06:22 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: 1st Book of Anatomy at August 10, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)
Amazing how your perceptions of external events can shift like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)
I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)
"Cyanide"?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)
I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)
"Cyanide"?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)
or
"Screaming Suicide"
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)
Amazing how your perceptions of external events can shift like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)
Next thing you know, the TxMoMe is upon us.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (tjClK)
Posted by: The Lawyers Make Us Say This Stuff at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:00 AM (aURVT)
I thought that was a Metallica song.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)
"Cyanide"?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)
or
"Screaming Suicide"
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:26 AM (aURVT)
or
"Sanitarium"
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:27 AM (aURVT)
Anyone ever hear of published side effects of the Fake Vax?
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:27 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: The Lawyers Make Us Say This Stuff at August 10, 2025
***
Oh, "cannibalism." That's okay then. As long as it doesn't lead to malicious gossip and posting of uncomplimentary memes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 06:28 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Some Guy I Work With, Proud User of Term "Legalese" at August 10, 2025 06:22 AM (vd6bO)
They write it off.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:29 AM (aURVT)
Paranoia, distrust of authority figures, suspicion of the CDC, cancellation of cable and satellite TV subscriptions, more time spent outside experiencing fresh air and sunshine.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:32 AM (XQo4F)
_-_-_
Had a family member telling me that one a while back. "I have an LLC, so I can just 'write-off the purchase'."
Sure, you won't have to pay income tax on it, but the money's still gone!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 10, 2025 06:33 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:37 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:37 AM (aURVT)
Full moon.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
Nah, just a Baltimore Saturday night.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 10, 2025 06:38 AM (sAmhv)
But it's in the works. Sliced Kalamatas, sliced pepperoni, sliced sweet red peppers along with a three-cheese combo of grated Romano, just a little slicing provolone and the mozzarella. Homemade sauce (already well-tasted).
14" pizza pan. Guardian Cookware. Heavy-duty aluminum. Got it for $10 at a flea market 30 some years ago. Best damn $10 I ever spent. Makes the best pie/crust. And I've made a few. Now to add one more.
Posted by: RickZ at August 10, 2025 06:39 AM (gKDq2)
Allow Kramer to explain:
https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:37 AM (XQo4F)
"It's a write-off for them. They just write it off."
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:43 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:01 AM (aURVT)
Rum Tea.
Fresh-brewed Lapsang Souchong, Meyers Dark Rum, brown sugar, fresh lemon juice. Kills anything.
Posted by: RickZ at August 10, 2025 06:43 AM (gKDq2)
The great weakness of "9 to 5" was having Jane Fonda in the cast.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 06:45 AM (Tv15w)
I think I'm moving into the persistent cough stage now.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 06:13 AM (BLOW1)
We can hang out and entertain you.
For some values of "entertain."
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:46 AM (aURVT)
So far, August has been a sweet October ride.
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 06:50 AM (Bbhox)
Full moons, like winter storms, are now referred to by name. Last night was the "Sturgeon Moon", in honor of Theodore Sturgeon, a noted author of science fiction.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 06:52 AM (Tv15w)
My I recommend:
https://youtu.be/rLdpprJ3jeE
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)
I'm gonna leave that running in the background for a while. Wondering if it'll help with tinnitus.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 06:54 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 10, 2025 06:17 AM (tjClK)
I maybe have never heard a Metallica song? I looked up "most popular" etc. and got "Enter Sandman" and that's not familiar to me.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:56 AM (aURVT)
I really wish people would stop lying about the results they are getting from ai, especially from the commercial ai, gpt-5 did not have the issue for me, nor could I get it to produce incorrect results for 20 other words.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Maybe it's not people reporting erroneous results arrived at through AI, but an AI engine.
Which are known to lie.
Doom loop, that is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 06:57 AM (Tv15w)
Try this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc
(No hot iron required.)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)
"The survey was conducted by Date Psychology, with the company creating a list of 74 male hobbies. Women were subsequently required to designate the hobby as “attractive” or “unattractive” for a man to do."
Fat book or fat wallet? Ladies, you decide!
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)
Try this:
https://youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc
(No hot iron required.)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:58 AM (XQo4F)
Thank you! I tried that when it was posted the other day and I keep trying it. So far I don't think it's working but we'll see. I think "distraction" is something that works, and both of these create that.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:07 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:08 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:09 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 07:11 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)
I tried to read an article in what was purported to be Newsweek. I had to fight my way through ads to see the scraps of an article whose first six or seven paragraphs don't even mention whe things in the headline. At that point I gave up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:12 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:12 AM (kkTda)
archive.is is your friend
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:13 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:14 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
The article notes that other people got different results.
But this is a known problem that happens for a known reason - that tokens in LLMs do not map isomorphically to letters or groups of letters - and LLMs can be remarkably bad at what appear to be simple tasks.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2025 07:18 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:21 AM (RECOl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:22 AM (RECOl)
"No one enters China without the Party’s permission, and when the Party spends money on a foreigner,"
Point I make often is China doesn't let its citizens out for purely economic, humanitarian or just a sense of freedom. Even one has been permitted to leave and expected to return something for it.
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:22 AM (+qU29)
My shirt is ragged, and my pants are tore
I ain't found nothin' I'm a-looking for
And I wanna go back to Baltimore
I miss my dinghy on the Chesapeake shore
The shrimp and the shad a-fish I adore,
And I wanna go back to Baltimore...
Posted by: Zombie Sonny James at August 10, 2025 07:23 AM (R/m4+)
It was a dating company doing the survey. As far as women rating things men do, I think it's in the jeans.
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)
I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: A big expensive yacht at August 10, 2025 07:23 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:26 AM (kkTda)
Men's hobbies women hate: Golf
Posted by: Wally at August 10, 2025 07:27 AM (AGl/x)
I don't have Sydney's Sweeney's jeans or genes and I've never ranked any hobbies in my life. I've also never read a dating magazine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:28 AM (2GCMq)
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case
===
One ofmy first cars was an IH Scout Traveler.
Title said "Station Wagon".
345 ci V8
And now you know why they do not make them anymore.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025 07:28 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)
"The survey was conducted by Date Psychology, with the company creating a list of 74 male hobbies. Women were subsequently required to designate the hobby as “attractive” or “unattractive” for a man to do."
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)
WWWS?
(What Would Weasel Say?)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:29 AM (aURVT)
Man cave: space for sports entertainment. Meant to hide from the wife.
Library: space for the works of the mind. Also, to hide from the wife.
Workshop: space for the works of the hand. And hiding from the wife.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:31 AM (kkTda)
Title said "Station Wagon".
345 ci V8
And now you know why they do not make them anymore.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025 07:28 AM (/lPRQ)
Reflecting the original purpose of transporting people and luggage between country estates and train stations,[7] the station wagon body style is called an "estate car" or "estate" in the United Kingdom or a "wagon" in Australia and New Zealand. (Wikipedia)
huh
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)
>>I know. Let's ask AI what is the most attractive hobby for a man.
AI ranks the following:
Playing a musical instrument
Sports/Fitness
Cooking
Travel/Adventure
Dancing
Photography/Art
Volunteer work
DIY/Craftsmanship
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 07:35 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)
Creative Hobbies:
Painting, drawing or photography
Active Hobbies:
Yoga, pilates, hiking or running
Musical Hobbies:
Playing Guitar or Piano and singing
Intellectual Hobbies:
Reading or learning a new language
Social Hobbies:
Volunteering or cooking classes
---
Yep. Sammich making.
Top of the list.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)
We'd have to add something to the prompt like "to attract the romantic interest of a woman."
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 10, 2025 07:37 AM (XV/Pl)
Ouch.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (aURVT)
Title said "Station Wagon".
345 ci V8
And now you know why they do not make them anymore.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025
***
Don't BMW and Mercedes each still make a wagon model? Possibly only for the Euro market, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: The Buick Roadmaster at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (XQo4F)
Library: space for the works of the mind. Also, to hide from the wife.
Workshop: space for the works of the hand. And hiding from the wife.
She Shed: A place for watching Oprah, making TikTok videos and where the Green Dildo goes to hide from the husband.
Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, Local democrat scold and busybody at August 10, 2025 07:40 AM (R/m4+)
The only company that makes a vehicle remotely station wagoney is Mercedes Benz
_________
I think the term is "station wagonish"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:44 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 07:44 AM (+qU29)
I thought the driver's seat of a car is the primary studio for women to make their TikTok videos.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (XQo4F)
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Stupid mirror___d videos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:45 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (kkTda)
I thought the driver's seat of a car is the primary studio for women to make their TikTok videos.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:43 AM (XQo4F)
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Stupid mirror___d videos.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:45 AM (kkTda)
Stupid mirrorIMGd videos.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (aURVT)
Stupid mirrorIMGd videos.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:46 AM (aURVT)
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That's more or less what I meant. What appeared is a mystery.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (aURVT)
... and is clevery replaced by a solid underline.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:48 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:49 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:47 AM (aURVT)
Quelle dommage.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 10, 2025 07:49 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:50 AM (aURVT)
Is that the type where a portrait oriented video is in focus with an out of focus landscape oriented video is behind it?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 07:50 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:51 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Don Blac; at August 10, 2025 07:52 AM (AOsQT)
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I think the term is "station wagonish"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Dodge Magnum ?
Or didi they stop making them, again.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 10, 2025 07:52 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:55 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh at August 10, 2025 07:56 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Subaru Outback at August 10, 2025 07:56 AM (XQo4F)
"Great question—and the truth is, yoga and dancing are attractive hobbies for men, but they’ve historically been underrepresented or stereotyped in certain cultures. Let’s unpack why that perception exists and how it’s changing:"
*eyeroll*
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (n4GiU)
"Great question—and the truth is, yoga and dancing are attractive hobbies for men, but they’ve historically been underrepresented or stereotyped in certain cultures. Let’s unpack why that perception exists and how it’s changing:"
*eyeroll*
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)
Does the answer come with a barf bag?
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (aURVT)
Classic request smuggling vulnerabilities mostly occur because the front-end and back-end disagree about whether to derive a request's length from its Content-Length (CL), or Transfer-Encoding (TE) header.
I felt so dirty after reading this.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: m"
It's ludicrously predictable. I did not alter a single word.
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: m"
It's ludicrously predictable. I did not alter a single word.
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)
And so affirming.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 07:59 AM (AOsQT)
Neither have I, but I can tell you one thing. They are HOT!
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F)
I agree! In the last week, I've had to deal with Pooky waking up in the middle of the night and him believing that:
Wizards are battling downstairs
The Muppet Show called him and he needed to call them back
Treasure was hidden throughout our house and he needed to find it
He needed to find the "Magic Rock of Denari" but couldn't so he "put everything back" (that was last night and I'm scared of what kind of random mess I'm going to find)
If those new meds he just got off of caused permanent damage, especially to his (and therefore my) sleep, his psych med PA is going to regret it.
Posted by: pookysgirl, groggy and irritated at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (Wt5PA)
Then, magically, a vaccine appeared.
Did they used to call that “hay fever”?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (6ydKt)
I read that in Cliff Clavin's voice.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Barry Boiler at August 10, 2025 08:01 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:02 AM (vFG9F)
I empathize. I am dealing with a son who is off meds and is not sleeping and having problems.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (6Tzur)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (+qU29)
My I recommend:
https://youtu.be/rLdpprJ3jeE
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)
I'm gonna leave that running in the background for a while. Wondering if it'll help with tinnitus.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 06:53 AM (aURVT)
I've had it running in the background for a little over an hour. I think it's helping.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (aURVT)
The Suburban is a full sized Sport Utility Vehicle.
Posted by: The good people of Chevrolet Motor Division at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:04 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (ZmEVT)
Brie!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:04 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Mary Ann at August 10, 2025 08:05 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:05 AM (2GCMq)
Neither have I, but I can tell you one thing. They are HOT!
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F)
I think we are discovering the intended audience for Forged in Fire.
Which is actually one of the better competition shows on TV.
It’s like Hell’s Kitchen but with more fire and less high-strung British guy randomly screaming at people.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (+qU29)
Good to see you on the tech thread, Skip.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:07 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:08 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:09 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 10, 2025 08:09 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:09 AM (oERdd)
https://tinyurl.com/yc3m8pt3
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (HFcKg)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: runner at August 10, 2025 08:11 AM (g47mK)
I read that in Cliff Clavin's voice.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:00 AM (XQo4F)
hahahahaha
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:11 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: runner at August 10, 2025 08:11 AM (g47mK)
Ace is the Énorme Fromage of this here blog.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:12 AM (aURVT)
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪
It is well know that you are HOT. And could end anyone that gets out of line.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:12 AM (u82oZ)
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Last week I saw an episode of that show. Everybody talks about it, so I wanted to see. Never saw it before.
Sarah Michelle etc is very cute and fun to watch, but there's no way I'm plowing thru 7 seasons of what is essentially live action Scooby Do.
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:13 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:13 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:14 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (HFcKg)
🎶 If I had a hammer
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:15 AM (aURVT)
Tell FenelonSon that sound sleep leads to over-performance when needed. A weekend in Paris Island with a Marine Drill instructor will motivate him to sleep.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (u82oZ)
Never seen it. Does she drive a groovy 70s era van?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (XQo4F)
Bring back the Crown Vic.
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:06 AM (2NHgQ)
I’m gonna take a wild guess and say Buffy is going to have to be the recruiter for some younger cheerleader gals to do all the heavy lifting this go-around. She’ll risk blowing a knee out if she tries some of those moves from her 20s.
She’ll probably just be Head Slayer this time.
Queen Slayer.
Chief Slayer.
Elder Slayer.
Slayer #1.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (6ydKt)
I've also never read a dating magazine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
No subscription to "Date Farmer's Monthly" in the Fen household?
Pity. They've got great recipes for dishes that use dates or figs.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:16 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:17 AM (HFcKg)
Launch very soon
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
SLC-40 - CCSFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 10, 2025
Launch Time: 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC, 14:57 CEST)
https://youtu.be/YEVD9hnk0YU
Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:17 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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I don't know if she has a driver's license. I only saw the pilot episode.
Buffy's way to young for me, but her mom is a looker.
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:18 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:18 AM (u82oZ)
I have a forge, anvil and various weights of turning hammers.
Posted by: Ben Had
Do you hammer in the morning? Do you hammer in the evening?
And now the kicker: all over this land?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 08:10 AM (HFcKg)
🎶 If I had a hammer
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:15 AM (aURVT)
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I have a forge, anvil and various weights of turning hammers.
Posted by: Ben Had
Do you hammer in the morning? Do you hammer in the evening?
And now the kicker: all over this land?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (Tv15w)
; )
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (aURVT)
They brought back The Librarians, a series I enjoyed. Haven't watched it yet in it's new format and probably won't. From pictures I've seen it looks very diverse.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:03 AM (2GCMq)
Sleep is so incredibly important to our health, especially mental health, and our modern "staring at screens til 2 a.m." society doesn't seem to understand that.
Posted by: pookysgirl has to take a sleeping pill every other night at August 10, 2025 08:23 AM (Wt5PA)
They's boiled dates, steamed dates, deep fried dates, date scampi, date salad. Pan fried, stir fried, pineapple dates, lemon dates, coconut dates, date burgers, and date sandwich.
Thass...thass about it.
Posted by: Bubba Date at August 10, 2025 08:24 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)
how would that go, exactly
Posted by: Don Black"
Let's ask AI. No, better yet, let's ask a real expert, Paul Pelosi.
Posted by: fd at August 10, 2025 08:24 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Farquad at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (znbnV)
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case
They still can't park them for shit. Almost every time I encounter a woman in one ever so tentatively trying to enter or leave a parking space in a lot, I'm tempted to holler, "If you can't park it, leave it at home!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:20 AM (u82oZ)
It was. Today's launch is the fourth try for this project. It keeps getting scrubbed. The weather is only 55% favorable.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (sPQoU)
I don't know if it's AI writing or not, but I see an article that says, "Retail Chain Closing 38 Stores". I click on it.
Now back in ancient olden times - like five years ago - the body of the article would have started, "So-And-So announced the closure of 38 stores." Nowadays, however, you get a long exposition of retail sales, economic conditions, the effects of COVID, and so on. Way, way down is the first you read of So-And-So.
My guess is so that you have to pass through a slew of in-story ads to reach the nugget of information promised by the headline.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM (kkTda)
A new T-Zero has been released: 9:13 a.m. EDT (1313 UTC, 15:13 CEST).
Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:29 AM (sPQoU)
John 8:12
Posted by: Marcus T at August 10, 2025 08:29 AM (seQ7t)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 10, 2025 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)
I liked the Noah Wyle movies because they reminded me of a cheesier & funnier Indiana Jones.
I think I watched maybe a half-dozen episodes of the TV series, which was entertaining but I moved on from it.
Didn’t even know about the new series until you mentioned it.
Yup, looks woke just checking out the Wiki article,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)
A new T-Zero has been released: 9:13 a.m. EDT (1313 UTC, 15:13 CEST).
Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 08:29 AM (sPQoU)
I've pulled it up on my desktop, hoping not!
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (aURVT)
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that's why the bread and milk are at the back of the store
make you walk by all the impulse buys* first
*Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (AOsQT)
Shocker, I know:
Many "short" videos in FB purporting to be of "Karen incidents" are staged, especially if the camera work is cleanly done.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:31 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 08:25 AM
Check out The Company Man on the Utoobz:
https://youtube.com/@companyman114
Posted by: Bubba Date at August 10, 2025 08:32 AM (XQo4F)
*Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos
Posted by: Don Black
* adds "Don Black -- Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos" to the "freely divulged weaknesses of the horde" list *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:34 AM (Tv15w)
https://youtu.be/71_UAZgeE9Q? is the answer to your question.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
I love that so much.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:35 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Bob Grindrod at August 10, 2025 08:36 AM (RtNHs)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:37 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
People used to buy newspapers in part because of the ads and local sales and skim them and/or go through in detail.
Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:37 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
People used to buy newspapers in part because of the ads and local sales and skim them and/or go through in detail.
Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:37 AM (/lPRQ)
... and obituaries.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (28cZF)
So now I have my mother for 5 days. She can barely walk so I'm trying to think of things to do with her.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (AOsQT)
Why has no composer stepped forward to offer up "The Mortar and Pestle Chorus"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:39 AM (Tv15w)
Very true . If you are a praying person let us pray for our children and each other as moms.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:39 AM (hDBOA)
make you walk by all the impulse buys* first
*Party Size Cool Ranch Doritos
Posted by: Don Black
Milk is in back because that is where the loading docks, chiller storage, and ability to restock from the backside make it practical to put it.
Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:40 AM (/lPRQ)
https://youtu.be/71_UAZgeE9Q? is the answer to your question.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)
I love that so much.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:35 AM (aURVT)
Even the gays like…
Hammer Time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:41 AM (6ydKt)
I appreciate a retail store app (like WallyMart) that tells me what aisle to locate a particular item.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 08:41 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)
Praise the Lord for a daughter in law of faith and looks and kindness. God bless them!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (hDBOA)
No "You be careful out among those English!" thread
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 08:42 AM (+qU29)
That would be grinding a tune out, not hammering.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:43 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at August 10, 2025 08:43 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:38 AM (28cZF)
Why?
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at August 10, 2025 08:44 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:44 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Savvy Investor Paul Pelosi at August 10, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: New Name at August 10, 2025 08:40 AM (/lPRQ)
Yes, but all if the candy bars, mints, and magazines are squished in next to the cash register.
Just in case you get an impulse to read People magazine while eating your Snickers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:45 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 10, 2025 08:45 AM (u82oZ)
There was discussion of fromage/cheese earlier in the thread.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:45 AM (aURVT)
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the KitKat bars know my name
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:50 AM (AOsQT)
People and/or Time are now flooding the checkout magazine offerings with "specials", like a single issue devoted to Pokemon, and such. Challenging intellectual fare, it is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Tv15w)
BJ's has their dairy chiller in a stand alone garage like space. Almost invariably with a loading door open. I don't buy ice cream there because who knows how long the ice cream has been thawing on the pallet before going into the display freezer.
Why? Because it is not an optimal use of a Sunday morning.
Carolina Pride hot sausage makes a great sausage gravy.
Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 08:51 AM (28cZF)
As they say if the product is free...
So what is Microsoft's angle since the product has worked fine without AI.
It might be that Lens is straight up espionage. People take photos of important documents that they want to keep, curate or share. Microsoft may be taking these documents and building patterns of life from Lens input of deeds, documents, receipts, licenses, wills and other things that users want to convert to PDF a/o archive.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 10, 2025 08:52 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 10, 2025 08:54 AM (kUxzU)
How the publisher of the periodical that featured Bat Boy failed to keep things above water with the intellectual heft of today's populace is a profound loss for us all.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:54 AM (Tv15w)
https://tinyurl.com/3drrb866
(Dutch on X)
But I bet her Mom has chewed every bit of her fingernails off.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:55 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Back in the day at August 10, 2025 08:56 AM (XQo4F)
There's also the sparkling dialog. (Not being sarcastic here.) It's witty and deft, completely unlike the cartoon series. To give you an example, one of the characters dubbed Buffy and her non-Slayer friends and evil fighters "the Scoobies"!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2025 08:56 AM (omVj0)
Got to get out and about. I am chauffeuring the gKids back to their home up north this day.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:57 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 10, 2025 08:57 AM (XMwZJ)
People and/or Time are now flooding the checkout magazine offerings with "specials", like a single issue devoted to Pokemon, and such. Challenging intellectual fare, it is.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 10, 2025 08:50 AM (Tv15w)
For some unknown reason I was getting People magazine in the mailbox every week for three months earlier this year.
Never ordered it, never had any intention of ordering it, but it was there.
Then it stopped as suddenly as it started.
I gave them all away.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 10, 2025 08:58 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 08:58 AM (AOsQT)
verb [with object] informal
refute the points made in (an article or other piece of writing) one by one: I was going to fisk their entire editorial, but if they're not going to take their work seriously then neither am I.
ORIGIN
early 21st century: from the name of the British political journalist Robert Fisk (1946–2020), whose articles have been refuted in a point-by-point way by various bloggers.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 08:59 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 09:00 AM (+qU29)
Now to think of something to add to the conv.
Beautiful day out, been up for a while now. I suppose pants soon.
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Saturday Night "Club ONT" August 9, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Arrive like a storm, dressed like the wallpaper. If you read the rules, congratulations. You are now the Director of HR for the evening.
If you love the bitterness of an Aperol Spritz, but enjoy the body of a old fashioned, the Paper Plane cocktail may just be the perfect drink for you. This modern cocktail was created in 2008 by NYC bartender Sam Ross and is the perfect marriage of bourbon, Amaro, and Aperol.Ingredients:
3/4 ounce Aperol
3/4 ounce Amaro Nonino
3/4 ounce bourbon
1/2 ounce lemon juice Directions:
Add a handful of ice to a cocktail shaker along with the Aperol, Amaro, bourbon, and lemon juice and shake for 15 seconds.
Strain into a coupe glass and serve immediately.
The cocktail can be garnished with a paper plane or an orange or lemon twist.
Enjoy!
With dozens of items unclaimed, the embarrassed owner took her search for Leo’s victims wider this month, posting photos of his hauls on a local Facebook page along with an apology and her address. Those who showed up to claim their belongings included a woman who recognized her pink and purple underpants and a boy whose beloved and missing sports jersey was helpfully identifiable by his name printed on the back.
AOL says it will discontinue dial-up internet on September 30
— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) August 9, 2025
May this sound echo in eternity:pic.twitter.com/I0zKIPERbX
Former jail guards sentenced for using "Baby Shark" to punish Oklahoma inmates
Two former Oklahoma County jail guards have pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor cruelty charge for forcing inmates to listen to "Baby Shark" as punishment. Gregory Cornell Butler Jr. and Christian Charles Miles were put on probation for two years and fined $200. They also were ordered to pay $300 in victims' compensation and complete 40 hours of community service. They were also banned from working in law enforcement. The two guards further mistreated inmates by playing children's music loudly on a loop, investigators reported. Both resigned after coming under investigation. The criminal case centered on four victims, but investigators believe there were more. One victim said he had to listen to "Baby Shark" for two hours straight, according to an investigative report. Another said the "weird little song" was blaring and played "over and over and over again."Cruel and unusual punishment.
— Wow Animals (@WOW_ANIMALS1) August 7, 2025
Some other twins
Top 10ish Comments of the Week. Or thereabout...
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 09, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 09, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:02 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:03 PM (WzM/W)
1 tankdemon sends his regrets that he won't be here tonight because he couldn't think of a witty excuse about being late.
Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (7W0uI)
8 Please excuse tankdemon from tonight's ONT. A fresh shipment of hamsters came in, and he had to go find some elderberries.
Posted by: tankdemon's Mom (Idaho Spudboy) at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:04 PM (VSht7)
Please purchase your restroom tokens when entering the Club. The line may be long if you wait til you need them!
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (QMAsf)
Former jail guards sentenced for using "Baby Shark" to punish Oklahoma inmates
Sounds fishy.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (WzM/W)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Vice Principal Orlando at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)
If I were concerned about my "permanent record" would I be hanging out at AoS?
Don't answer that.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (lUFok)
Busy day. Scrubbed down the pens in the kennel and vacuumed the work area. Gave Rosalind and The Big Dummy baths. Did Dot and Diana's nails. Cut down Dan and Dutchess's coats. Plus the usual stuff. I'm tired.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)
We made it to Funkytown?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:08 PM (AOsQT)
Don't answer that.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (VSht7)
All you need to do is bribe the right hamster to eat it. I don't know if playing the Hamster Dance would work, though.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (S/Y4j)
Then you hit refresh.
Virginity is fleeting.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:09 PM (p4NUW)
Ingredients:
3/4 ounce Aperol
3/4 ounce Amaro Nonino
3/4 ounce bourbon
1/2 ounce lemon juice
1) I have all of those things, I should try making one sometime.
B) It's an IBU standard cocktail, and that recipe is a bit off. It should be equal parts.
I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (qKYfj)
They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)
Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don Black
The game's getting too easy, I reckon. They'll have to switch to the Arena-Football-width uprights.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)
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that should count as a first
Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)
I'll turn in one restroom token as penance, for expecting people to water down lemon down their cocktails.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)
You're expecting standards? At Club ONT??
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (rFBCq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)
Just wait 'til you get the bill.
What, you thought this place was free?
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: mikeski
There's an Internet Law that every correction will contain one mistake, right?
IBA standard cocktail. IBUs are for beer.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (zBBwI)
When I belonged to an indoor range here, 1/2 of the business on weekdays was Asian (largely Chinese) students from UCSD etc who were renting guns. Clearly first-timers enjoying this distinctive opportunity in the US. Now of course someone in their party had to bring their own gun, in order to be able to rent. But this phenomenon was pronounced, at both indoor ranges where I was a member.
If you belong to/have access to a range, I would think you could bring them as guests, and empty brass.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (rFBCq)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Neat. I managed it a couple weeks ago, but I was wearing a sock for one, so there's an asterisk by my name in the record book.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (zBBwI)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)
They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)
I've seen plenty of YT vids of foreign visitors shooting at ranges.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)
Sheesh.
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Piercello at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (G6MQh)
Posted by: Doof
I have standards!
If you don't like the ones I'm using, I have others.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)
Roomy back seat.
Jus' saying, exciting things can happen in a roomy back seat.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)
Are we going to fine every child in the country for cruelty?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (RcIn0)
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)
Interesting. I had a similar thought about the brunette in that photo.
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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LOL. Hope my monitor likes Bacardi Coke - it's wearing it now.
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: rhomboid
These two don't have their green cards yet - Just visiting their Sis here so a simple visa.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:20 PM (WzM/W)
Jus' saying, exciting things can happen in a roomy back seat.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (VSht7)
Or in nice van, but you won't look like frigging clark grizwald. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)
What, you thought this place was free?
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)
I was told Beto's covering all that.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: mikeski
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And the other half of your penance will be one week of garden gnomes in your front yard. All staring at your house.
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:13 PM (2WIwB)
Were you pounding the left one, or the right one? I'll take the one on the left.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:23 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)
I love the BeeGees...if I don't have to look at them.
Side note, speaking of Aussies, the guy who married Olivia Newton John live down the street from me when I was a kid.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:23 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
That's a mini-house in Western PA.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)
Does the van have a picture of a unicorn painted on the side and an eight-track player blasting Zeppelin?
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (VSht7)
Police are looking into the shooting, they say.
Posted by: Case at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (Kdsvb)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)
Well, I think the first one is more like a comment of the week in law.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:24 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: TRex - who needs restroom tokens? at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)
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That looks a lot like a 96 Buick Roadmaster Wagon.
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Doof
Stoopid nipple-removing airbrushes!
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (RcIn0)
Meh! Then after all Dreamy Eyed Rickey Nelson and his band appeared that was cool. Fast forward to the 70's and Nelson put out Garden Party. Holy shit he looked better in 1971 than 1961. The guy was a phenom....
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (VPPG8)
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
Maybe she thought you said bare hunting?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)
So did every guy in the Horde.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: scampydog
I think I'm hearing things. Sounds like someone saying "soon."
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)
To me, that one proves Democrats are just frustrated theater kids.
Act hip and cool.
Run for office, twice.
Lose.
Make money from the losing campaigns.
Act cool and hip.
Think your somebody special whose opinions matter.
Like so many of them who think their opinion matters. What is it, less than 20% approval for the Dems? There's a reason for that. Beto's one of those reasons.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (U/Byj)
In the van you'll look like Temu Epstein, so there's that. Just paint "FREE CANDY" on the sides and be done with it.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 10:27 PM (wItF4)
I'm still trying to talk Mrs.D into going bear hunting.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (2WIwB)
Maybe she thought you said bare hunting?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (0eaVi)
Gawd. I hope not. Not at our age.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (2WIwB)
Mongo read content,
Mongo read comments,
Mongo refresh,
Mongo read fewer comments,
Just when Mongo know what to say,
Mongo sees NOOD.
Mongo not know what NOOD mean.
Have something to do with where thread go.
Posted by: Mongo at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (vd6bO)
Private ranges or clubs may have their own rules but I'm not aware of any actual laws. Purchasing requires a green card.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:29 PM (j2fld)
Mongo read content,
Mongo read comments,
Mongo refresh,
Mongo read fewer comments,
Just when Mongo know what to say,
Mongo sees NOOD.
Mongo not know what NOOD mean.
Have something to do with where thread go.
Posted by: Mongo at August 09, 2025 10:28 PM (vd6bO)
**c
Mongo just small commenter in great thread of life.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VSht7)
formerly known as 'The Three Gaymegos'
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VPPG8)
formerly known as 'The Three Gaymegos'
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:30 PM (VPPG
Er... isn't Captain Fantastic Elton John?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:31 PM (0eaVi)
I had been buying a succession of early seventies GM wagons for years, so i could carry my seventeen foot canoe.
The new wife thought I was crazy.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 09, 2025 10:31 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:32 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Doof
So did every guy in the Horde.
Posted by: Diogenes
The blonde one looks like she'd make a real nice sandwich. Laced with arsenic. Then use you hair hair to extend her macramé fringe.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 10:32 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 10:32
*Doof perks up*
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: QED Texan at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (fveCG)
Vedy Interesting.
-Embedded Islamic Cell Douchebags
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:35 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)
Ya berserker is correct.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:36 PM (MGB5H)
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes
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Oh, we're doing brushes with Greatness? Daliah Lavi used to live three doors down the street. RIP
Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.
Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon
That's all I got.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (Ui59G)
Posted by: Orson
I'm not sure I would admit to knowing that.
But nothing says "style" like faux woodgrain. Grandpa's pimpin' it.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)
So did every guy in the Horde.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:26 PM (2WIwB)
Perhaps. But I've been lucky enough to see her for a few days while tonight's Club was under construction. It pays to be a D!
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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As you wish. https://tinyurl.com/54ze82v3
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:34 PM (41CYW)
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Ahhh. The three B's.
Beer
Bewbs.
Blo....errr...Blondes.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:38 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:40 PM (DgGvY)
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes
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I took a leak next to COL Ollie North in the Reagan Airport.
No, I didn't talk to him there. I followed the Man Code. I waited until we were washing our hands.
"Good Afternoon, COL"
"Good Afternoon Son"
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (WzM/W)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (F3xjE)
Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.
Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon
That's all I got.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)
I drank at the same small hotel bar as Telly Savalas. We raised our glasses and nodded to each other.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 10:42 PM (viF8m)
I feel cheated.
Posted by: Diogenes
One of those gals seems to have an uncovered boob. She needs to improve her macrame skills.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 09, 2025 10:42 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM (p4NUW)
We made it to Funkytown?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)
This Funkytown (not really safe for work, I warned you)
https://tinyurl.com/3f5c2b24
Posted by: easy the elder at August 09, 2025 10:43 PM (W6SPY)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 10:44 PM (JvZF+)
Five out of five Morons disagree with your criticism.
Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 10:44 PM (APp3S)
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 10:41 PM (gKDq2)
No "who loves you, baby?" No raising of lollipops?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)
Does the tennis-ball launcher have a sensor on the front, so it doesn't launch with the doggo right in front of it?
Because that's what my brother's dog would do. She didn't play fetch, she played goalie.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (DgGvY)
Long story my buddy left when the departure was close. I was enamored by the whisky pouring through clear tubes and stayed long enough to miss my flight and had to book a 9 am Champaign flight to Ft Laud.. Was awesome. Only problem the wedding party stayed in a vacant family home and after the wedding I walked
There has to be a Costanza defense in here someware!! into the Maid of Honors bedroom in my under ware.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (VPPG8)
Using one of those stand-up phone booths at the airport in Atlanta, I turned and realized Stevie Wonder was using the adjacent phone.
Attended an afternoon high-ish tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas. “Pink right down to her underwear.” - Nixon
That's all I got.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (XeU6L)
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Well!
My brushes with greatness include Arnold Palmer, and General Schwarzkoph when he was a colonel, but the best one was Charles Lindbergh.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:25 PM (dIske)
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Hmm. I pegged it for the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, circa 1983
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: nerdygirl
* points back at comment #64 *
Stoopid nipple-removing airbrushes!
Posted by: mikeski
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:46 PM (DgGvY)
Y'all do terrific work, I don't care what the head Ewok says...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (kB9dk)
But nothing says "style" like faux woodgrain. Grandpa's pimpin' it.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:37 PM (DgGvY)
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I'm not ashamed to state for the record that I owned/drove an all black (dark red leather interior) Buick Roadmaster Sedan sometime back in my hazy past. It was awesome, and all my college friends called me "The Funeral Director."
Seriously, beggars couldn't be choosers at that age, and it was loaded. Like driving your living room around.
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (dIske)
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Cruel and unusual punishment.
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If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
If not - fvck the judges too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Real wood paneling: sexy. pimpin'.
Woodgrain vinyl sticker: very much less so.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 10:51 PM (APp3S)
Frankie Avalon
Bobby Rydell
Fabian Chubby checker were form pops neighborhood
Johnny Depp was a guitar player for the KIDZ in 1984 .
My brother was bass player represented by BUCCI Artist management from Miami. meh who knew?
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (2WIwB)
Such beautiful cars. I recall a few in the neighborhood as a kid, unrestored of course, one of which used in stereotypical fashion as a surf buggy, longboards sticking out the open back window.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (U/Byj)
They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Even though they can't shoot pew pew seeds at a range as they are foreign nationals?
When did that become a rule?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Oh that Manuel Noriega who started/invested in Dominion voting machines? That Guy???
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:54 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 10:50 PM (XeU6L)
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Well, you know Van Halen was in the mix with "Panama". I think I recall that they had The Clash (I fought the Law and the Law Won).
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)
Seriously, beggars couldn't be choosers at that age, and it was loaded. Like driving your living room around.
Posted by: Orson
You got me beat. Nothing says "this is what my high-school part time salary can afford" like a mid-80s Ford Tempo.
A rolling prophylactic. Not like there was room to get it on in the back seat, anyway, unless you had a midget fetish.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (DgGvY)
Any Girls?
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 10:56 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: javems at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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"Panama"
Van Halen
Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (AOsQT)
Had to put her some knowledge to Tommy James and the Shondells. She took it well. Gave me a high five without muttering Bless your heart...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 09, 2025 10:58 PM (F3xjE)
She's giving me excitations (Oom-bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrations, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations, bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrators, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations, bop-bop)
I'm pickin' up good vibrators (Good vibrators, bop-bop)
She's giving me excitations (Excitations)
- WNBA Fight Song
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:58 PM (L/fGl)
When did that become a rule?
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There's a major industry in Vegas where certain ranges ferry in foreign nationals (overwhelmingly Chinese) to have their first experience handling a firearm. For an extra fee they can even try full automatic.
The RSOs have a helluva time keeping them from aiming at each other for their once-in-a-lifetime Instagram posts.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 10:59 PM (dDmld)
https://youtu.be/dXcFFNx0_g8
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 11:00 PM (VSht7)
If not loud enough to cause damage to hearing - fvck the prisoners.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
https://youtu.be/POdbe-_bYbs
Posted by: mikeski regrets nothing at August 09, 2025 11:00 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:01 PM (L9kkv)
At my club, since it's a weekday, we rarely have newbies to worry about, though we like it when we do, because they're generally very open and we can give them an instant intensive course in etiquette and safety.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 11:03 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:04 PM (41CYW)
bands are the same as a can of soup new flavor.
You think you chose to like them but radio stations have a scale of minimum/medium/heavy rotation..
It's a club and you're not in it
-George Carlin
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 11:05 PM (VPPG8)
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PFFT!!! Ain't nuthin'!!!
One Christmas season, I had to listen to the *&^%^()&*^ Chipmunks' Christmas Album ALL day, EVERY day, for a whole effing WEEK.
Where's my reparationz????
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:05 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)
Where's my reparationz????
Posted by: JQ
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Flashbacks...not good ones. While in college I worked a Christmas season in a retail store.
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:07 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 11:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)
No. It was Christmastime in a small swanky hotel bar on Central Park South.
I was there for an office Christmas party somewhere upstairs. I was starting the party early. He was just sitting in a corner of the small bar having something straight on the rocks. He looked like he didn't want to talk so I didn't bother him, just acknowledged him with a raised glass and a nod. And he reciprocated.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:09 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: scampydog
"Once bitten... twiiice shy"
Posted by: George Michael at August 09, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)
STARSTRUCK
I fapped to a movie with Jayne Mansfield once I never saw really anyone having a catholic family and nuns at school where girls were reprimanded for altering school uniforms above the knee..
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 11:11 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Mr. Pitt at August 09, 2025 11:11 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)
Nova Scotia won't let anyone go out into the woods due to fire risks. It's a $25,000 fine if they catch you. Newfoundland just one upped that to $100,000 fine and prison time.
No hiking, no camping, no fishing, no hunting no nothing. They, basically, have negated one of the few remaining attributes of their country.
I wonder how that would play down here in the states. I think we might be a little more spiteful than they are.
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)
Send ace an email telling him which nights you're available to provide the kind of content you prefer
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 10:57 PM (U/Byj)
Well damn rhomboid, that's just mean.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:14 PM (2WIwB)
If not - fvck the judges too.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 10:47 PM (/lPRQ)
Alternate theory: The two guards were no-good-niks, and this was the only charge that the bosses could get to stick.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 11:14 PM (bKn1x)
===
My one brush with greatness?
Sum Dude mistook me for somebody famous...
"Excuse me, are you Johnny Depp".
To which I responded,
"Who the fuck is Johnny Depp?"
Wifey laughed her ass off... I really didn't know who "Johnny Depp" is, and now that I know, it's really quite embarrassing.
===
Politicians aren't great but inadvertantly found my self within rock-chucking distance of every President (some multiple times) since HW Bush, though technically MushBrain was just VP then.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:16 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 11:18 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE
His meat sack sat in the Oval Office sometimes. Does that count?
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 11:19 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: lin-duh at August 09, 2025 11:19 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 11:20 PM (sPQoU)
Or that cars for kids or whatever it is.
(Things I only know about from the Moron Horde.)
Bad enough the goofy songs already in my head.
https://youtu.be/ynWhozyOoZQ
https://youtu.be/H-K2DZojWi0
https://youtu.be/5jV-E09efRE
https://youtu.be/C6KEuseUTmA
https://youtu.be/ge9Ou3-YyqU&t=26
https://youtu.be/C6KEuseUTmA
Posted by: mindful webworker - brain full of earworms at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf)
. . . Wait for it. . . . Wait for it. . . . Wait for it -- There it is!
There's always one.
Geez Louise and FFS and all that. A post to bloody complain about content? Well, somebody's shit sure as hell doesn't stink.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:24 PM (bss/y)
https://tinyurl.com/z7hdffa3
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 11:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:25 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 11:27 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)
I, for one, want to complain about the lack of gladiator movies and documentaries about Turkish prisons.
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at August 09, 2025 11:28 PM (bKn1x)
Yo Pete!
Take a trip to Sinop Turkey. The prison there dates back to the times of the Hittites. Trust me...you'll love it.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)
https://tinyurl.com/bde2sxe6
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (bss/y)
*blushes*
Aw, shucks. Just having fun!
Thanks. Glad to
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (xFREA)
Take a trip to Sinop Turkey. The prison there dates back to the times of the Hittites. Trust me...you'll love it.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:32 PM (2WIwB)
Huh. Mithridates.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (bss/y)
3 cocktails in.
I'm ready for this here 'Group Therepy'🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:29 PM (L9kkv)
So...what cha drinkin'?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:34 PM (2WIwB)
Looks like they might of kilt it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (bss/y)
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Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (xFREA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:37 PM (xFREA)
It's not Rush. I hope it's not Rush.
Not a fan of Geddy Lee.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:39 PM (bss/y)
Making a note of the Judge's name in case I ever get a chance to vote against...
Posted by: RandomDave at August 09, 2025 11:40 PM (aJQbY)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (PlmO8)
Comely server was singing, I Think We're Alone Now
I think I'm a clone now
https://youtu.be/1kw_d3d0XAo
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (63Dwl)
Turned out he was a natural shooter, he just didn't know it.
Posted by: Beartooth at August 09, 2025 11:41 PM (BbZ1G)
Posted by: Don Black at August 09, 2025 11:45 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don Black
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They'd surely surrender.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 11:47 PM (xFREA)
Posted by: Don Black
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I'm sure this will stir up some shit. Pink Floyd is ear poison to me.
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:47 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:48 PM (rdVOm)
Pretty much any Canadian band would do.
Except Triumph. Trying to demoralize your enemy with "Never Surrender" would be a huge mistake.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 09, 2025 11:49 PM (lUFok)
Going to be a tight collection, whittling down 2tb of roms to 512gb.
And at the end of the day, I'll probably end up playing the same 20 games I've been playing for 40 years.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 11:50 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 09, 2025 11:50 PM (Ezs10)
G'night, horde. Thanks for lettin' me play a while.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 11:51 PM (rdVOm)
>>I can see using Rush albums as a sort of sonic weapon against the enemy
Rush are harmless little fuzzballs, the deep guttural sound of Cookie Monster Metal is better suited for the job.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 11:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (41CYW)
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Ha; There's a generation of people who don't know what that sound is.
Posted by: Braenyard
Almost 2 generations, now.
Gen alpha never heard it.
Gen Z thinks of it the way Gen X thinks of the sound of corduroy pants: something their parents subjected them to when they were little.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (DgGvY)
https://tinyurl.com/28empa6p
Waiting for the arrests, trials, and sentencings.
Waiting.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (PlmO8)
Except Triumph. Trying to demoralize your enemy with "Never Surrender" would be a huge mistake.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Corey Hart, for the same reason, strangely enough.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 11:54 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (QMAsf
🔥🔥🔥
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 11:55 PM (+dm09)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 11:56 PM (+dm09)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 09, 2025 11:57 PM (L9kkv)
There has never been a time when ace posted 24/7. Not ever.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 12:01 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:03 AM (xFREA)
Site is nothing like it was when ace posted 24/7.
_________
Removing myself from your lawn right now.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2025 12:07 AM (kkTda)
I dedicate this love's lost to the memory of my ex.
youtube.com/watch?v=w9iTjVfh558
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:08 AM (xFREA)
Posted by: Lumed Blewed and Tattooed at August 10, 2025 12:08 AM (144I4)
Florence man loses arm while trying to stop car thieves with grenade
According to a probable cause affidavit, David Ray Allen attempted to deter suspected car thieves in June by throwing the device, resulting in the loss of part of his forearm and hand.
Allen reported seeing four individuals near his vehicle at 43rd and Oak Streets in the middle of the night. He called the Florence police, who discovered his injuries upon arrival. Allen said the grenade exploded in his hand as he tried to throw it at the suspects. Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie at August 10, 2025 12:09 AM (nVUa4)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (rFBCq)
Sperm whale, it's time has come.
*off whole body deodorant for pits, tits and ass*
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 10, 2025 12:12 AM (144I4)
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025
Be better doof , do better
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:14 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 12:15 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Piper
Pretty much any Canadian band would do.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
Canadian and funky? I can do that.
https://youtu.be/fmxbaHXOXGw
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:15 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Frankie at August 10, 2025 12:09 AM (nVUa4)
Piker. He should have doused himself in gasoline, lit it, and then run screaming towards the miscreants. That would have certainly chased them off.
Posted by: Dept of Bad Ideas at August 10, 2025 12:17 AM (bKn1x)
Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie
"Grenade" or home made firecracker?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 12:18 AM (63Dwl)
Among the alleged “deep state” actors was now-former Special Agent Walter Giardina said to have once instructed fellow agents to use false justification to “dig around” on President Donald Trump.
Efforts to purge “political weaponization” in the federal government found FBI Director Kash Patel citing “poor judgment” in terminating an agent connected to the Steele Dossier and more.
bizpacreview.com/.../ patel-fires-deep-state-
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:19 AM (xFREA)
Posted by: Frankie
🎶 One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong 🎶
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 10:06 PM
For sure matched my lifetime deadlift and hadn't been training it all.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 12:18 AM (63Dwl)
Petard? As in hoisted on?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:20 AM (bKn1x)
Posted by: Yellow Fever at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (G5+As)
BREAKING: SH0TS are ringing out in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard, less than ONE MILE from the Capitol Building
Over 100 black teens have taken over the park, terrorizing the neighborhood
FBI and DHS responding now
TAKE OVER DC, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (TGPs7)
Police found charred cardboard, human flesh, a burnt fuse, and a lighter at the scene.
Posted by: Frankie
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We have modern devices that are factory safe to the user if used properly. - > see your local firearms store
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (xFREA)
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Great, just after I got my landline repaired. >:-(
Hopefully I can find a replacement service...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (xFREA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:24 AM (xFREA)
Over 100 black teens have taken over the park, terrorizing the neighborhood
FBI and DHS responding now
TAKE OVER DC, PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (TGPs7)
Trump is a racist. That's just boys being boys.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 10, 2025 12:24 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:21 AM (xFREA)
Just because a feller gets a half dozen convictions for meth possession, he isn't allowed to buy a gun anymore?
I thought this was America!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (bKn1x)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)
Saturday, Aug 09, 2025 - 08:00 PM
Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times via zero
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:27 AM (xFREA)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)
Earthly demands.
Keeps one grounded.
Posted by: RickZ at August 10, 2025 12:28 AM (gKDq2)
Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 10, 2025 12:29 AM (TGPs7)
I thought this was America!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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One of the benefits of being a law abiding citizen.
Violently break the law and lose serious privileges.
Can't vote anymore either.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:30 AM (xFREA)
Range? What is this range you speak of?
Posted by: Somewhere west of the Rockys at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (5UJkg)
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 11:13 PM (dIske)
OK, I believe enough time has passed that maybe the statute of limitations has run out. I confess that I tore down all of the police tape on the playground on Government Hill during the Covid crapola. I shoved it in a public trash can and moved on. Kids gotta play, they just do.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: publius
Your fault for choosing Earth. You wouldn't have to mow on any of the other planets in the solar system.
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Somewhere west of the Rockys at August 10, 2025 12:31 AM (5UJkg)
Yeah, that's just my back yard, I believe.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (1Gsou)
What park? The Navy Yard is a military installation.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (qKYfj)
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Great, just after I got my landline repaired. >:-(
Hopefully I can find a replacement service...
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)
I want my
I want my
I want my Web TV ..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 10, 2025 12:32 AM (wKhFy)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (r3G7K)
Well, DUT1, the difference between UT1, astronomical time (this is the closest thing to the old GMT, but much more precise) and UTC/Zulu hit +71 ms today, as of 8/10 Zulu.
This is the highest it's been since July of 2018. And this increase is entirely due to the the Erf speeding up. The leap second at midnight, rollover to 2017 knocked it up to 0.6 ms, and it was steadily falling going negative. But the Erf speeded it up a smidge around 2020. 2022 was the fastest mean spin since atomic clock regime started. And it has increased back to the positive side entirely due to that speed up.
I'm still thinking a negative leap second is probably not going to be needed by 2029/2030, but it is possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo
Posted by: Mister Ghost
* checks mug shot *
* sighs *
Posted by: The MSM at August 10, 2025 12:33 AM (DgGvY)
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what kind of beer
Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2025 12:34 AM (AOsQT)
I think Erf chose me, rather than me choosing it. Of course, I can't remember that far back.
Riding a tractor on Venus would be quite hot, and Mars would be too cold. I wonder how Martian regolith would plow?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:35 AM (w6EFb)
Memphis man shoots wife then drives her to hospital — but stops for beer along the way: cops trib.al/mjNQ2Fo
Posted by: Mister Ghost
youtu.be/0968f0VWvd8
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 12:35 AM (qKYfj)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:23 AM (0S8As)
I want my
I want my
I want my Web TV ..
Posted by: Joe Kidd
I still subscribe to Wometco Home Theater.
Posted by: Old Fossil at August 10, 2025 12:36 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:38 AM (xFREA)
They thought they died and went to heaven. You have never seen happier adult men.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)
I have shot at several ranges in Arizona, and I am a foreign national. Nobody ever said "boo!".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:39 AM (r3G7K)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)
Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban. If one of those wagons passed by me at the right price, I would snag it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:43 AM (r3G7K)
Tito's commercial of that Englishman firing that pistol - yeah, I think it's OK. Maybe some silly PA law but not in America.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:45 AM (xFREA)
Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban. If one of those wagons passed by me at the right price, I would snag it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Beef up the suspension a bit and it's a ride.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 12:46 AM (xFREA)
So the next time they visit, he will take them to the range, with the story that he "knows some guys" and pulled some strings for them.
They will be so grateful, and their visit will just happen to coincide with the house needing painting, the driveway sealed, etc...
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 10, 2025 12:47 AM (144I4)
Does this no foreign national apply only for commercial things like ranges? I'd assume it would be a different story say on private property, with no commercial activity? A foreigner visits and you let him shoot on your own private property. If that's illegal as well, I'd have a big problem with that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:48 AM (w6EFb)
*switches on the deep fryer*
There's a large tray of egg rolls in the walk-in. Gonna cook 'em up. Gallon of homemade sweet n sour for dipping, too.
Posted by: JQ at August 10, 2025 12:51 AM (rdVOm)
Woodgrain vinyl sticker: very much less so.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)
I know a guy who is restoring a '51 Monarch (Canadian Mercury) woody wagon, and it is going to be a no holds barred restoration. And the wood work is real maple and mahogany. It will be a beautiful piece when it is done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:52 AM (r3G7K)
I just looked this up, at least an overview. Non-immigrant aliens (those on a visa not on a green-card track) may not own, purchase, or "possess" firearms or ammunition.
Now, what is the meaning of "possess" here? If I let a foreign national under that definition shoot a gun of mine, is he "possessing" it? I'm not renting it to him, just letting him shoot it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:53 AM (w6EFb)
That doesn't apply to any country on the "visa waiver" program agreement, whatever that is. I'd assume Canada was in on that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Garbanzo at August 09, 2025 11:06 PM (7P3MX)
Well, as a has-bean, you oughta know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:56 AM (r3G7K)
Wow! Tonight's ONT is FULL of content - kind of like the Sunday New York Times newspapers used to be (maybe still are)! Thanks for all of the hard work, D's 😘😘😘
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 01:00 AM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 10:17 PM (snZF9)
Those are great cars for a long road trip, second only to a Suburban.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 12:43 AM (r3G7K)
I am a fan of wildly overpowered station wagons. Ultimate Q Ships. Nobody notices you and off you go.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 01:01 AM (iGZ9n)
According to Grok, "possess" the way the courts have interpreted means "having physical control of". So, yep, letting such a restricted foreign national that doesn't fall into any of the exceptions shoot a gun on your own private property would be a violation of this provision.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)
Ok, delved a bit further with this and it's around the Metro Station there. Lots of offices, hotels, and condos/apts there. Near the Nats ballpark. Lots of bars and nightclubs too. I don't recall any parks there but its been a few years since I was in that area.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (qKYfj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)
Sounds like the sort of thing that would only ever be prosecuted if something bad happened while the foreigner was using the weapon, like a negligent discharge resulting in injury or death.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:07 AM (On+XH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:06 AM (63Dwl)
They are really only noticeable if you are inclined to notice them. An awful lot of folks are really terribly incurious about cars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:09 AM (On+XH)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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They can kiss a pig.
_private property
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:09 AM (xFREA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:10 AM (On+XH)
Trump administration slashes DC’s security funding by 44%
That's FEMA funding they're whining about. I did not know FEMA provided law enforcement. Something called FEMA Urban Security Fund was cut. I suspect the money never went to fund security.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 10, 2025 01:11 AM (qKYfj)
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 01:17 AM (Kdsvb)
I was pleased to hear that.
He is a good speaker, has an easy manner about him, and does not come across as a phony or a stuffed shirt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (On+XH)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (xFREA)
And it looks like state laws can go further on this. Canada and the UK and Australia and a bunch of others are in on this visa waiver thing, and this doesn't apply to them. However, a state law could restrict them beyond federal law.
Looking, here in SC, the only problem is illegal aliens. I'm A-OK with that. It would be a felony to knowingly sell or give an illegal a firearm. I think even "possess" would fall under that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case
I used to drive a Fiat X1/9. Everybody blocked my view.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2025 01:17 AM (Kdsvb)
And SUV's come with all-wheel or 4-wheel drive. Very rare on wagons. AMC Eagle, maybe some Subarus?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:22 AM (On+XH)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 10, 2025 01:20 AM (w6EFb)
Well, an illegal alien is technically a felon, right?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:24 AM (On+XH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:22 AM (On+XH)
Audi and Volvo make AWD wagons. Think Mercedes has one as well
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 01:26 AM (iGZ9n)
Everything is SUV's now. They took over the station wagons. I think women like the SUV's because they sit higher and they can see the road better.
Posted by: Case
I LOVED my 1984 Chevy K5 Blazer. I drove it until 2002 and it had almost 300,000 miles on it. It was the first car I ever owned.
Many many hours on the road with my boys and Rush Limbaugh. Ferries. Parks. Mountains. Woods. Towing broncos out of deep sand on the coast. I freaking loved that rig. I had to drive backwards and jostle the steering wheel to disengage the hubs out of 4wd.
It was a beast. 13mpg. Hwy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 01:27 AM (1Bcgn)
The store gave him an award and sponsored his citizenship.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2025 01:29 AM (xFREA)
And AOP no, being in the US without status (illegally) is not always in itself a felony, but a civil violation. Unauthorized re-entry after removal (deportation) - and a list of other things - becomes a felony.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:36 AM (U/Byj)
Legal permanents (green cards) *may* purchase firearms. Not sure, but probably those here on diplomatic status as well.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:38 AM (U/Byj)
Legal permanents (green cards) *may* purchase firearms. Not sure, but probably those here on diplomatic status as well.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 10, 2025 01:38 AM (U/Byj)
I know that Arizona police are pretty chill about Canadian snowbirds possessing firearms. A guy I know was going through a nasty divorce, and his soon-to-be ex scooped up a bunch of his firearms and tried to dump them on the cops in Apache Junction. They kindly told her to not be doing that shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:48 AM (On+XH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 01:56 AM (On+XH)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 02:06 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 02:12 AM (On+XH)
Several decades ago - long before the Internet - one of our engineering friends (all of our friends are engineers) was stuck having to babysit some project in the lab on second shift for several weeks. He ended up getting lots of snacks from the vending machines - one of his favorites was M&Ms.
Being an engineer, he would pour the contents of the package out onto his desk, then sort them by color. He found himself counting the number of each color, and he started to notice a pattern in the distribution of the various colors.
Our friend LOVES to make graphs of things, so he plotted a graph of the colors, and sure enough, over the course of a couple of weeks, A pattern did, indeed, emerge.
He wanted to confirm his hypothesis, so he write a letter to the M&M company telling them what he had observed, and as king if they had some "formula" for how many M&MS of each color went into each bag.
Lo and behold, someone from the company actually wrote him back and said that yes, they did have a certain percentage of each color in all of their bags. (Cont.)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 02:16 AM (SRRAx)
SLC-40 - CCSFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 10, 2025
Launch Time: 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC, 14:57 CEST)
https://youtu.be/YEVD9hnk0YU
Posted by: Joyenz at August 10, 2025 02:19 AM (sPQoU)
Everyone just lost it 😂😂😂
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 10, 2025 02:20 AM (SRRAx)
While his baby sister was sleeping my grandson and I had fun with stomp rockets in the back yard. He is a great little guy, we have tons of fun together.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 02:46 AM (0nHVk)
Most ranges seem blissfully unaware of this law.
There are several exceptions to this law:
1) Foreign police or military personnel while on assignment in the United States.
2) Persons with a valid hunting license in any state.
3) Persons participating in a target shooting competition or practicing for such a competition.
Posted by: Engineer at August 10, 2025 02:47 AM (jGCIA)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:11 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:31 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 10, 2025 03:31 AM (0nHVk)
Thank you DDS!
All the best to you also and always.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 03:42 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 03:57 AM (+qU29)
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Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)
Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 8/9/2025
Taken
The last time I had to fill a post in the middle of a longer run, I talked about Bill & Ted and the three films the two dudes, focusing on how the three movies establish, break, and then retreat into formula. With that recently in my mind and a new hole forming in the middle of another run, my mind turned to the Taken franchise, a quick trilogy of films that blew up and went away almost as quickly at the box office.
Largely the brainchild of French director, Luc Besson, who cowrote (with Robert Mark Kamen) and produced all three films, it started as just...an action movie. Originally mean to star Jeff Daniels, he cast Liam Neeson once Daniels dropped out of the production, and the tight, 90-minute story of a retired CIA agent jetting to Paris to undo a sex trafficking ring run by Albanian gangsters in order to save his daughter became a surprise hit.
Made for $25 million, it ended up making over $200 million at the worldwide box office. And where there is success in the movie industry, even if based in France through EuropaCorp., Besson's production company, there will be more attempts to capture it. So, Besson wrote and produced two more until the third one which...made over $300 million off of a relatively modest $48 million production budget.
That there haven't been more confounds me, but there was a television series (starring Clive Standen as the main character, Brian Mills) based on the idea that ran for two seasons, so maybe that's where the energy for the franchise died out.
Anyway, the franchise interests me more for artistic purposes than commercial, so let's talk about the logic of sequels.
Take 2
The first film in the franchise is a lot like the first John Wick film: a very simple premise of revenge that sees a retired, professional killer go on a rampage. I completely get this genre of movies. They're fun as we witness an accomplished, competent professional do a professional job with little extra business. Being 90 minutes long really helps things along as well because there's no time for side-business. They have one hour and thirty minutes to barrel through everything before the credits.
The second film can't do the same thing. Where the first film kept reminding me of John Wick (which came out later, admittedly, the same year as the third Taken film), the second film instantly reminded me of the Death Wish sequels. Charles Bronson keeps finding increasingly distant relatives and friends to kill a bunch of people over. Well, in the second, Brian Mills' family, including his ex-wife, decide to surprise him in Istanbul, a roughly 11-hour car ride from Albania, and Mills just...accepts it with a smile.
He goes on a date with his ex-wife, even, leaving Kim alone in the hotel. Nevermind that Kim ends up fine, the only way that danger happens is because Mills...just lets it happen despite a recent history of his daughter being kidnapped by Albanian gangsters who might not be that far away. So, why does this happen? So the movie can happen.
I think back to my admiration of the weird turn in direction that Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey took from the original film, killing the characters and having them go through the afterlife instead of having them do another report, wishing that Besson and Kamen had gone off in a weird direction. Having Mills be a worker in a sewer to make ends meet and then facing down a mysterious creature who steals his daughter through her bathtub, or something. Set it up quick, and get him moving fast. Instead, the second film's first act is interminably slow as it sets things up, in particular the effort to repair the relationship between Mills and his ex-wife Lenore (played by Famke Janssen).
However, there is cleverness in the script despite the tortured beginning. It's not Kim, the daughter, who gets taken. It's Mills and Lenore. Mills has to guide Kim to finding him, and we get that same flavor of tense, accelerated problem solving (without much action because Kim is a teenaged girl with no combat training) as she uses grenades to create sound and help direct her to him through his instruction. It's actually quite fun. The movie as a whole flounders a good bit in the first and third acts, but that second act is a take on the original material with a fun twist. Could they have done more around it? Sure, but I'm happy we got at least that much.
Take 3
I was surprised at the attempt to actually play with the formula established in the first film through the second film, but the third film tosses all of it aside. I don't mind that in general (think back to my imagined first sequel idea of Mills chasing a monster through the sewers), but the move is to the laziest of directions: loud action.
I'm not one to demand adherence to formula just for the sake of formula. I often advocate for active movements away from formula in sequels, but as I noted in my Bill & Ted post, that effort often ends up not being done well, and Taken 3 is a good example of that.
I think the key to understand is that the first two films are not action movies. The appeal is a professional man doing professional things to cut through chaos with a clear goal. The action is present, but it's mostly incidental (and also kind of pedestrian in execution). That's not what the third film is. It's Mills, again stupid in order to make the film happen, having to investigate a shadowy conspiracy around Lenore's death that involves her current husband, Shaun, and a Russian gangster.
The break from the first two films by not bringing in Albanian gangsters again is fine. The change in genre, from action-thriller to outright action, could be fine. The movement to a shadowy conspiracy that Mills needs to unravel instead of just cut through could be fine. And yet, it ends up just noise. You have to cancel out who Mills is, again, just to get the film to start, including retconning stuff from the first film (he did a deep background check on Stuart that didn't pick up that he did business with a known gun runner?), and the investigation gets sidetracked for long stretches in favor of middling action sequences, the problem being that Mills often doesn't have a clear goal of why he's there. He's being chased instead of chasing, making him reactive instead of active.
And the appeal of the first film, in particular, is just lost. There's no clear goal. The main character gets sidetracked and pulled back and forth without agency. The action is prioritized over professional effort. I just found it a loud, confused mess.
Legacy
So it doesn't surprise me that Besson moved the property to television. With these kinds of stories, you're looking for just continuing adventures of a character where nothing really changes in him from one to the next. It also allows for more adherence to formula by taking the procedural route (I've never watched an episode, but the episode summaries I've read indicate an overarching story over 10 episodes where repetition of story beats within episodes is the norm).
The film trilogy, though, will always be primarily known for two things: the first film as a whole and the over-done editing (about 17 cuts) to get Liam Neeson over a fence in the third film.
The sequels have their fans, but the IMDb ratings say everything, I think. The first one has a 7.7/10. That's high. That's actually, really high. The second has an IMDb rating of 6.2. The third has an IMDb rating of 6.0.
Larger Lessons
Is there a larger lesson to learn from this? It might just be that sometimes sequels aren't necessary. We want more Taken, but more Taken is going to struggle to be like Taken but different. What if Luc Besson had gone from the success of the first film and made something else...new with Liam Neeson? Similar in look and feel but not hidebound by formula from the first film? Another adventure with a new character played by Neeson that treads on similar grounds?
I think back to the period after the release of Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead when no one knew what would be coming next. There were rumors of a direct sequel titled From Dusk 'til Shaun which would have the same character go into a vampire movie. I mean, it would have been a real break from the zombies of the first, but Wright and Simon Pegg decided to go ever more afield than that, making Hot Fuzz, a Michael Bay/Midsomer Murders parody/celebration, instead, and it's generally as beloved, if not more so, than the first film.
But, that's not a lesson Hollywood wants to learn. IP is king. Remember, the Taken sequels made more money than the first one, and that's ultimately all that matters because cashflow is vital to keeping these studios alive. Selling Taken 2 to audiences is a safer financial bet than selling Liam Neeson Does the same thing but slightly different with a different title would.
I just think a Luc Besson written adventure dealing with a new character played by Liam Neeson doing similar things but not dedicated to the formula and lore of the first Taken film might have been more entertaining.
Ironically, I think that the only people to actually understand this are the people who are bringing us the reboot for The Naked Gun, starring Neeson, that obviously plays on the image he's curated over the past 17 years as an action star. No idea if it'll be funny or good or anything, but the marketing on the film is obviously leaning into that idea of him as an action star and just putting silly stuff around it. It's honestly more interesting than anything I saw in the two Taken sequels.
A Note
I'm still in Europe. It is very late. There is no automatic scheduling in the blog software. I will probably not be commenting, just staying up late enough, with the help of the movies I downloaded into my phone (Stoker, for instance), until 1:45 in the morning, to hit the publish button.
Be good.
Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Weapons
Freakier Friday
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
Taken (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Not great cinema, but a solid entertainment." [Personal Collection]
Taken 2 (Rating 2/4) Full Review "The second act is shockingly solid, but the first act is boring and the third act hinges on emotional catharsis that neither makes sense nor the movie properly sets up." [Library]
Taken 3 (Rating 1/4) Full Review "It's just kind of a miserable third entry in a franchise that probably never should have existed beyond the first one. Not a surprise." [The Criterion Channel]
The Young Stranger (Rating 4/4) Full Review "It doesn't surprise me that no one searches out Frankenheimer's first film, a small family drama he made in the middle of his television career before Birdman of Alcatraz with no movie stars and not at all genre related. But, I think that should be fixed." [YouTube]
Impossible Object (Rating 1/4) Full Review "Really, the only way this makes sense to me is if Frankenheimer was intending a psychedelic or phantasmagoric journey into madness, and it's obviously not what the film is. What it is ends up being kind of just boring." [Library]
French Connection II (Rating 2/4) Full Review "So, the overall package is kind of weird. There isn't much of an overall package. It's too many different parts that don't gel together, but some of the individual parts have their charms from the innocent (Doyle trying to order whiskey at a bar) to the explosive (the shootouts). It's not a disaster, but it's not really good either." [Library]
Black Sunday (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It was about the thrills. He built up to the thrills, as inelegantly as he did, delivered the thrills, and exited stage right. I can't fault him for that." [Library]
Prophecy (Rating 1/4) Full Review "Frankenheimer wanted his own Jaws. He didn't get it." [Library]
Contact
Email any suggestions or questions to thejamesmadison.aos at symbol gmail dot com.
I've also archived all the old posts here, by request. I'll add new posts a week after they originally post at the HQ.
My next post will be on 8/30, and it will be about the directing career of John Frankenheimer.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (XMwZJ)
Screenwriter Guy: "So the movie can happen!"
Producer Guy: "Oh!"
Posted by: Sharkman at August 09, 2025 07:49 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (+qU29)
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Except Liam had a whole team of security professionals who were also his friends. They were on a celebrity bidyguard job at the start of the movie. I think the kidnapping of a daughter is one of those times you can ask your buddies for a big favor. He could have used that help I think.
Posted by: Fozzy at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (zH2yS)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:51 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (bXbFr)
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What do you mean?
*taps discreetly*
1..2..3..4
There's no formula.
*taps*
1..2..3..4
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (JvZF+)
which was poorly cat dane de haan
In part because of this he deepsixed his production company eurocorp
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:55 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 07:56 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: scottst at August 09, 2025 07:56 PM (XxFg+)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)
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Fun fact. The book's author later wrote Silence of the Lambs.
Other fun fact, BS introduced me to Bruce Dern who played a crazy /evil veteran /POW. That role caused me to see him like that for years. Similarly, Fantastic Voyage introduced me to Donald Pleasance and I saw him as an evil traitor for years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 07:57 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:57 PM (bXbFr)
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (tljrc)
They kidnapped the daughter of the man who trained Batman.
That's never going to end well for them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (IBQGV)
Leon the Professional - Very young lady protected by old tough guy
Fifth Element - Young naive alien girl protected by oler tough guy
Wasabi - Young Japanese girl protected by tould older cop.
I'm detecting a pattern in Luc Besson movies.
Posted by: Fozzy at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (zH2yS)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (+qU29)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Bryan Mills
Ted III (as a buddy film)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (y4H1r)
Props to him. Not a lot of actors have done all three, very different, genres and done them well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (bXbFr)
Thanks. I'm sure I 'vexhim in something . Just couldn't recall what and I haven't had a tv to see tv shows in about ten years,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)
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Although Valerian as a whole is not a great movie, I do really like the introduction, where we see the ISS grow organically over time to become this massive space station inhabited by cultures from all over the galaxy. Cool concept and well-executed. Then the rest of the movie happens.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:03 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)
I decided that this liked everything about Valerian - except the teenybopper male and female leads and every line either of them said. And since at least one of them is in every scene, that pretty much wrecked it for me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:04 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:04 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (0I+GC)
No jump cuts, just shooting in the face.
The Pitxh Meeting really gets this right that they kept it fairly tight and did not decide to over explain.
The biggest problem i think is Viggo being a credible physical threat at the end of the movie for John. Tbf, the execution of his son is pretty much the climax and everything is down hill from there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:52 PM (CHHv1)
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Although Valerian as a whole is not a great movie, I do really like the introduction, where we see the ISS grow organically over time to become this massive space station inhabited by cultures from all over the galaxy. Cool concept and well-executed. Then the rest of the movie happens.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (IBQGV)
Valerian was almost a spiritual sequel to The Fifth Element (which was an homage, shall we say, to the work of Mobius and Jean-Claude Mézières).
The problem was the casting and the acting. Both of the leads were horrible. The plot also was...weird. Which does match the source material in some ways but it deviated in important ways to make Valerian less manly and competent.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:04 PM (q+E/R)
You said it better than I did, yes agreed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (IBQGV)
It tried too much. It could have been three movies tied together by the Pearl McGuffin
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:06 PM (HFcKg)
Both of the female characters were terrible and stupid, I have no idea why.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (zZu0s)
I liked the first "Taken." I was smart enough to pass on the rest. Didn't bother Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Life is too short or long to watch/read shit.
How many sequels are better than the original?
"The Wrath of Khan."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I'm almost positive Luc Beeson 'borrowed' that character from 'Heavy Metal'. He basically used 'Harry Canyon' for Willis's character.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:59 PM (JvZF+)
While that is not the best sci/fi movie ever made, I will stand firm on my belief that 5th Element is by far the most entertaining sci/fi movie ever made.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (qKYfj)
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I've heard that as well.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (xcxpd)
The daughter in the first one is hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (zZu0s)
Leon the Professional - Very young lady protected by old tough guy
Fifth Element - Young naive alien girl protected by oler tough guy
Wasabi - Young Japanese girl protected by tould older cop.
I'm detecting a pattern in Luc Besson movies.
Posted by: Fozzy at August 09, 2025 07:58 PM (zH2yS)
He has a 'type'...and that is young. Check out how old his first wife was when he impregnated her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (xcxpd)
.Posted by: gp's Movie Laffs at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (xcxpd)
The daughter in the first one is hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (zZu0s)
Yeah but dumb. She ignored good advice. Drives me nuts when that happens, both in real life and in movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (q+E/R)
Hmmm. I want to be upset for Chris fucking Tucker alone. If you eliminated him though... damn that is an argument.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s)
Liam Neeson is a vile piece of komodo dragon scat who calls for gun confiscation while making a gazillion dollars on movies that celebrate the use of firearms to save and rescue people and stating that his movies are fantasy and don't reflect what real people do in the real world.
I hope dies in a dumpster fire being ass raped by rabid hyenas while drinking battery acid...
Posted by: Elderly Git at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (BEwiJ)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (ZmEVT)
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But did anyone call him "Shirley?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (IBQGV)
I'd have loved to see Neeson in more Lawrence Block/Matt Scudder adaptations; A Walk Among the Tombstones should have kicked off a really good series of films, but nope, never happened.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (xcxpd)
Lol. But that is why Taken is such wish fulfillment. She ignores her dad's advice and gets raped and sold into the sex market. She should have listened to her dad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (q3u5l)
I haven't seen that one. I'll have to try and find it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:12 PM (xcxpd)
Liam Neeson's character starts off not rich. His ex married a wealthy man, and there's still some romantic chemistry there, on his side at least. He adores his daughter and wants her approval, and gives into things so he can one-up his ex and her hubby that he later regrets.
The second film seems to gloss over these tensions. His ex's marriage is kaput, her new husband was a louse. So of course Liam and his ex get back together! Sigh. I was happy he got a win, because I've grown to love the character, but it was disappointing because it sapped away all that delicious tension. It was clear from the beginning scenes they would reconcile, and I may have rolled my eyes the first time I saw the film upon realizing this.
This is cozy thriller territory, more Charade than Bourne. Which is fine, but the audience was promised one thing and gets another. (Also see Joker and Joker 2 -- but at least Taken 2 doesn't completely troll its original fans, just gives them wish fulfillment.)
Posted by: LizLem at August 09, 2025 08:12 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:12 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 08:13 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:09 PM (xcxpd)
Lol. But that is why Taken is such wish fulfillment. She ignores her dad's advice and gets raped and sold into the sex market. She should have listened to her dad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:11 PM (zZu0s)
.....wish fulfillment. I would not have picked you for that sentiment
j/k
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:14 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:08 PM (qKYfj)
If you remember “Heavy Metal” the illustrated French sci/fi art magazine, its influence is throughout 5th element. (Main reason it looks so good). Besson hired Moebius , one of the main artists behind Heavy Metal, to do most of the concept artwork for 5th Element.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:14 PM (q+E/R)
https://tinyurl.com/3d3r9fh7
I enjoyed the movie. Starts slow, then hockeysticks to complete batshit crazy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:16 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:16 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:17 PM (q+E/R)
I have to say it is nice to hear he's got a spark with P. Anderson, so many years after his wife's untimely demise.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 09, 2025 08:17 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (bXbFr)
I will say, I think the first film did well because it gave normies a peek at the sex slave trade they had never seen before. The scene of his daughter at the end, wealthy men ready to bid on her, is horrifying. They dip into the reality of life outside the safe, American middle/upper class bubble, to reveal the horrors lurking on the other side. And tap into a real fear of parents, their kids flitting off to a trip to Europe, if it goes horribly wrong. Every parent wishes they could be or have a Liam in their life, with a certain set of skills in the background to save the day. With this movie, they get to pretend they do.
Posted by: LizLem at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (gWBY1)
Posted by: Kindltot
It insists upon itself.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 08:18 PM (63Dwl)
Jeffrey Rush, Barbossa is neat that he doesn't get angry and becomes more menacing the happier he is. I don't think his arc from villain to vague protagonist would chart out very well. Likewise Jack being almost-protagonist in the movie, someone who is "two steps forward, one step back" from Turner's point of view.
The Buster Keaton action set elements is the action signature of the Pirates series. Things that are "stagey" can be a good thing, EG Raiders.
Most of the music has melodies from the first film, which was a Zimmer collaboration but mostly not his. Like Train Your Dragon the more lyrical and complicated, the less it sounds like him. Zimmer will get a phrase out with with eight notes or less.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:19 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:19 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:19 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:21 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:21 PM (gbOdA)
My Rewatch list of 20+ year old movies You People should be rewatching but forgot they existed:
National Treasure
Batman Begins
Shanghai Noon
The Mummy (1999)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 09, 2025 08:22 PM (t0bKI)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:22 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 08:22 PM (GOJbT)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:24 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:24 PM (MGB5H)
And The Poseidon Adventure
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
And an evil cuckhold husband who gets his just desserts in Creep Show.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 08:24 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:26 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:27 PM (q+E/R)
National Treasure was good. Batman Begins also good. I think what's her name is a better Rachel than Maggie Gylenhal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:27 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:28 PM (bXbFr)
National Treasure
Batman Begins
Shanghai Noon
The Mummy (1999)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 09, 2025 08:22 P
Rumors in the last week they are FINALLY getting national treasure 3 off the ground.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:29 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 09, 2025 08:29 PM (e/yD6)
Posted by: Ben Had
That might be his best role. Really out of character for him and he nailed it. Solid movie.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:29 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (FqNtp)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (bXbFr)
National Treasure 3?
No thanks. No doubt it will be bait & switch with his plucky daughter taking the mantle.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (t0bKI)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (bXbFr)
Based around an illegal alien chick. BOMBED hard was canceled before it even completed its run.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:32 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:32 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 08:33 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (bXbFr)
https://tinyurl.com/3d3r9fh7
I enjoyed the movie. Starts slow, then hockeysticks to complete batshit crazy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 08:15 PM (kpS4V)
Absolutely loved. The amount of anxiety that it continually built up over the film was insane. And allowed just enough weird humor to expel some of the pent up energy. The acting, shooting, and pacing were all superb.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:34 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM (MGB5H)
I got half way through the movie before giving up on it. A weak script with unlikable characters, plot points that are telegraphed like the movie was written by Western Union, and absurd Amazon product placement.
I might watch it again and pretend the old MST3K crew is there, ripping on it.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 08:38 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 08:38 PM (2GCMq)
I got half way through the movie before giving up on it. A weak script with unlikable characters, plot points that are telegraphed like the movie was written by Western Union, and absurd Amazon product placement.
I might watch it again and pretend the old MST3K crew is there, ripping on it.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 08:38 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (FqNtp)
Astartes is better than most Hollywood movies
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: goatexchange at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (hyS0X)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:40 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (bKn1x)
Helsreach is amazing, I watch it about once a year. The animation style is the only reason it isn't mainstream.
Astartes OTOH is some of the best animation ever. The Space Marine episode of Secret Level is similar and amazing.
Space King is like Orville, parody but spiritually true to the franchise more than most of the franchise.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:42 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:42 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 09, 2025 08:41 PM (bXbFr)
Not even a little. A great Sam Raimi gem. I watched it so much as a yuute my vhs broke.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:43 PM (MGB5H)
All based on fancy Risk game play.
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:45 PM (+Bkka)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:45 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: goatexchange at August 09, 2025 08:47 PM (hyS0X)
The visuals are intense.
First thing I saw was a WWI short Kriegsmarine? Hooked.
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:48 PM (+Bkka)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 08:48 PM (0CtFW)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:50 PM (HFcKg)
I'm surprised Ace has never done the blog from Oktoberfest.
Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:53 PM (d03xA)
I'm surprised Ace has never done the blog from Oktoberfest.
Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:53 PM
I don't think doof is allowed in Europe.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:54 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 08:54 PM (HFcKg)
Gotta say, though, I really liked Raimi's movie from Scott Smith's A Simple Plan. Bleak feel to it, well-acted, and nicely adapted. Always struck me as Paxton's best work.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 08:54 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:55 PM (d03xA)
Apparently there is corruption in Chicago! I didn't know
Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (2AdwB)
Posted by: BruceWayne
"The only thing that matters to me in this crazy world is you kids. And I'm sorry that your holiday was ruined by those godless motherfuckers."
Classic, Neeson!
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: goatexchange at August 09, 2025 08:39 PM (hyS0X)
was DarkMan originally supposed to be a Shadow movie, or is that just a rumor?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 08:58 PM (rbvCR)
John Wick had a more compelling protagonist, and epic action scenes, and some great writing in spots ("May I ask why you did this?" "Oh." (click). But I agree that the ending fight after the ending fight was pretty silly.
Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:59 PM (d03xA)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (Vqav9)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (GOJbT)
I'm surprised Ace has never done the blog from Oktoberfest.
Posted by: Splunge at August 09, 2025 08:53 PM (d03xA)
Will Piper be reviewing the dirndles on the Teufelsrad?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at August
She doesn't quite have the attention span yet for full-length feature films.
So far, the only two she's willing to sit through are the 99s Hallmark version of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Despicable Me."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (QAfoy)
If you rob an blind man's house, and he turns out to be Vietnam-era Zatoichi, that isn't bad luck, it is karma coming at you quick.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 08:58 PM
My understanding is that Raimi wanted to make an original darker type "superhero" movie and was having trouble getting financing so pitched it under the cover of a Shadow movie. I could be misremembering tho.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (QAfoy)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:00 PM (GOJbT)
You hated Barbarian?!?!
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:01 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 09:04 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 09:04 PM (2AdwB)
Posted by: Ben Had
Heh! Yep! Tim Roth can sure play the heel very well.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:05 PM (qKYfj)
The 3rd should have had the wife and daughter trying to find Liam's character, switching it up. Not grrrl-boss nonsense, but by the time the 3rd occurs, they should have had some interest and particular skills in finding kidnapped victims.
2nd should have been the wife and kid joining some op to rescue kids in bondage in the background. The 3rd should have been the wife and kid hunting down the kidnappers of Bryan Mills.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2025 09:05 PM (mlg/3)
The visuals are intense.
First thing I saw was a WWI short Kriegsmarine? Hooked.
Posted by: Accomack
Astartes was a fan-film, and possibly copy-wright claimed by GW.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2025 09:06 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:05
Until she hulk when Disney cut off his balls.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:07 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 09:08 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Big +1 on Drag me to Hell. And Don't Breathe was great, though I didn't know they made a 2.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:08 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Ben Had
Incredible career. Good actor. But we don't have to speculate further.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2025 09:09 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Ben Had
He played a better 'Hannibal Lector'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:11 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 09:11 PM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Ben Had
If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:12 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 09:13 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 08:56 PM (lhenN)
That is good. Had not seen it all the way through.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:14 PM (zZu0s)
I hope dies in a dumpster fire being ass raped by rabid hyenas while drinking battery acid...
Posted by: Elderly Git at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM (BEwiJ)
^^^^^
This.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 09:15 PM (h5TUr)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:11 PM (qKYfj)
Manhunter>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Red Dragon
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:15 PM (MGB5H)
Kriegsmen
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:15 PM (FqNtp)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 09:17 PM (qKYfj)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM
I've mentioned that before. It's my favorite episode of the whole series! Neeson was hilarious and I love how the uncle's character is so perfectly placed. It's like they put him in the first season just to use him in that episode in season 3. I thought it was brilliant.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 09, 2025 09:17 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:18 PM (FqNtp)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 09, 2025 09:17 PM
+100
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:19 PM (MGB5H)
Leim Neeson decided to lecture the American People about owning guns, while constantly starring in movies where he used... oh... guns.
If you actually believed in what you said, you would not be making money, off of something you decided , AS a FOREIGHNER, to lecture us about.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 09, 2025 09:21 PM (mP0Kj)
He's got quite a long credit list on IMDB. Jeez.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 09:21 PM (q3u5l)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 09:21 PM (+qU29)
Feral Historian on Demolition Man
https://youtu.be/eVNgGXJwUro?si=5DuQtjYBlIcO_U_d
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 09:24 PM (lhenN)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:18 PM (FqNtp)
I am guessing either dead or pulled through to different places.
And how else would they board? Space Marines are the opposite of covert.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 09:25 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:28 PM (GOJbT)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:28 PM (GOJbT)
Teenage babysitters hardest hit.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:29 PM (MGB5H)
Are the books any good?
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 09:30 PM (6cOjz)
Posted by: Ben Had
If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.
Posted by: BruceWayne
Made an impression in "Braveheart" in a bit part as William Wallace's uncle.
Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2025 09:33 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had
If Brian cox is playing a supporting character you can believe it's at worst a watchable movie.
Posted by: BruceWayne
Made an impression in "Braveheart" in a bit part as William Wallace's uncle.
Posted by: Tuna
Loved him in Long Kiss Goodnight, too.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (ftFVW)
The visuals and imagination were fine, as were a number of side characters. But when you cast planks of wood as your leads, you're not going to get a movie that people could connect to.
With more charismatic leads, "Valerian" could have been awesome. With the duds they cast, it...was not.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:34 PM (ftFVW)
That movie is the tits. Better Bourne than any Bourne.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Brian Cox is fucking awesome.
Posted by: Nobody Reads my Comments at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2025 09:33 PM (lJ0H4)
Also in Long Kiss Goodnight (an underrated movie.)
That dog has been licking it ass for 20 mins...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:36 PM (L3gF5)
"Cold Pursuit"
Liam Neeson is a snow plow driver in the Colorado Rockies near Denver who sets out to avenge the murder of his only child by a drug running gang headed by a psychopath who presented his own young son with "Lord of the Flies" as the guide to life. Many twists and turns as the conflict gets escalated to involve a rival drug gang of Native Americans. Bodies pile up and are summarized with lists of their names alongside symbols of their putative faiths. Neeson offs the psychopath with a large tree he cut down, de-limbed and used as a pile driver on the bad guy. The hilarious fate of a Native American skier / paraglider who no doubt froze to death as he was in the air overnight in the winter ends the flick.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 09, 2025 09:36 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: BruceWayne
Brian Cox is fucking awesome.
Posted by: Nobody Reads my Comments
And who can forget his Scotch tasting YouTube video.
Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2025 09:37 PM (lJ0H4)
Besson seemed to have similar androgynous leanings in 5th Element.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:38 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Elderly Git at August 09, 2025 08:10 PM
Trees have harmed him more personally than guns.
Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:39 PM (L3gF5)
Posted by: Tuna
How can you tease something like that and not link it?!
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:40 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:39 PM
Laughed so hard. Def going to hell.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:40 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: toby928 at August 09, 2025 09:39 PM (L3gF5)
Fuck.
*picks up phone*
Hello, police? I'd like to report a fucking murder.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (RcIn0)
Posted by: the Trees at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (L3gF5)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (GOJbT)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:41 PM (RcIn0)
A number of years back I dated a British chippy. Anytime we had an argument I would say we fought a war so I don't have to care what you say. Don't understand why it didn't workout.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:45 PM (RcIn0)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (GOJbT)
Well, my mick friend...
-that guy from Godfather
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Megthered at August 09, 2025 09:43 PM (GOJbT)
Yup. British.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (RcIn0)
It would please me mightily if John Oliver was bound and returned to Great Britain gargling his own balls. I cannot abide that smug prick.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)
Drives me nuts death of Stalin is never streaming. Prly finally gotta bite the bullet and buy it. Great movie. Sisu is fun as hell.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:48 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BruceWayne
She couldn't appreciate a tension breaking joke?
Also, it's true so nyah!
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (ftFVW)
Or is he Northern Irish which makes him British. It’s all so gay and retarded.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (zBBwI)
Thanks for the thread, TJM.
Have a good one, gang, and will probably sorta kinda see some of you tomorrow in the space formerly occupied by the good Perfessor.
Enjoy.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (q3u5l)
Also, it's true so nyah!
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (ftFVW)
Hahah ya I wasn't joking 😂
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:50 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:48 PM (MGB5H)
Death of Stalin is worth buying.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 09:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 09:51 PM (kpS4V)
Or is he Northern Irish which makes him British. It’s all so gay and retarded.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:49 PM (zBBwI)
It's all British. Which is European. So it's all eurotrash.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:51 PM (MGB5H)
Quote from The Americanization of Emily
"You American-haters bore me to tears, Ms. Barham. I've dealt with Europeans all my life. I know all about us parvenus from the States who come over here and race around your old cathedral towns with our cameras and Coca-Cola bottles... Brawl in your pubs, paw at your women, and act like we own the world. We overtip, we talk too loud, we think we can buy anything with a Hershey bar. I've had Germans and Italians tell me how politically ingenuous we are, and perhaps so. But we haven't managed a Hitler or a Mussolini yet. I've had Frenchmen call me a savage because I only took half an hour for lunch. Hell, Ms. Barham, the only reason the French take two hours for lunch is because the service in their restaurants is lousy. The most tedious lot are you British. We crass Americans didn't introduce war into your little island. This war, Ms. Barham to which we Americans are so insensitive, is the result of 2,000 years of European greed, barbarism, superstition, and stupidity. Don't blame it on our Coca-Cola bottles. Europe was a going brothel long before we came to town."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 09:52 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 09:50
Oh I know. I love it. Just annoying that it's never available
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:52 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Hahahahaha, I'm so glad I looked him up just now.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:52 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Hahahahaha, I'm so glad I looked him up just now.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:52
Kurt Eichenwald is intrigued.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:54 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 09:54 PM (RcIn0)
Posted by: BruceWayne
That your honor, is when it turned to knives and guns. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Pants allowed, but only if they're crotchless.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM
Foreign film that had little to no marketing until like 2 weeks before release. Actually surprised it got a wide American release.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Pants allowed, but only if they're crotchless.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 09, 2025 09:58 PM (ftFVW)
Chaps mandatory.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 09:59 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: tankdemon at August
Suspect
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (gUs21)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2025 09:56 PM (snZF9)
ROFL
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (gUs21)
The problem with alien 3 was the studio ripped the movie away from David Fincher and re cut it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:02 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 09, 2025 10:00 PM (gUs21)
The problem with alien 3 was the studio ripped the movie away from David Fincher and re cut it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 09, 2025 10:02 PM (MGB5H)
Also they killed Newt and Hicks.
Fuck that.
Bad writing and I don't care who hears it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 10:14 PM (xcxpd)
Feral Historian on Demolition Man
https://youtu.be/eVNgGXJwUro?si=5DuQtjYBlIcO_U_d
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 09:24 PM (lhenN)
He's good, I've subbed to him
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 09, 2025 10:18 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 10:52 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 10, 2025 12:10 AM (0S8As)
Better than Taken(which is classic).
Posted by: Danimal28 at August 10, 2025 07:18 AM (mNOhh)
Posted by: Bob Foreaples at August 10, 2025 10:14 AM (N/XOu)
Hobby Thread - August 9, 2025 [Galileo Rex]
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. Good news! The Ace of Spades Wheel of HobbiesTM) is back in service. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it landed on telescopes and astronomy photography.
I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests. You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.
Saturn!
There are five reflecting panels on the Moon. Two were delivered by Apollo 11 and 14 crews in 1969 and 1971, respectively. They are each made of 100 mirrors that scientists call "corner cubes," as they are corners of a glass cube; the benefit of these mirrors is that they can reflect light back to any direction it comes from. Another panel with 300 corner cubes was dropped off by Apollo 15 astronauts in 1971. Soviet robotic rovers called Lunokhod 1 and 2, which landed in 1970 and 1973, carry two additional reflectors, with 14 mirrors each. Collectively, these reflectors comprise the last working science experiment from the Apollo era.
Scientists have been using reflectors on the Moon since the Apollo era to learn more about our nearest neighbor. It's a fairly straightforward experiment: Aim a beam of light at the reflector and clock the amount of time it takes for the light to come back. Decades of making this one measurement has led to major discoveries. One of the biggest revelations is that the Earth and Moon are slowly drifting apart at the rate that fingernails grow, or 1.5 inches (3.8 centimeters) per year. This widening gap is the result of gravitational interactions between the two bodies.
When 42-year-old Valerio Minato woke up on December 15, 2023, he said he felt "agitated." For six years he had been trying to capture a photo showing the perfect alignment of the Monviso, a mountain in the Alps in Northern Italy, the Basilica of Superga, near Turin, and the moon. Having very few opportunities throughout the year where these three elements line up, Minato had just a small chance of getting the perfect shot. Minato's research, patience, and dedication throughout the years paid off. He has been photographing Turin and its fascinating skyline and monuments for 12 years now and started trying to get this shot in 2017. "I started going around this area of hills northeast of Turin where you could see Monviso and Superga [a hill that hosts the Basilica of the same name on top]. After finding the three or four points where these two are perfectly aligned, I started to evaluate - let's say complicate my life - to try and take a very different picture from the ones I had already shot," Minato said, smiling. Other than researching the perfect locations, Minato had to study carefully the lunar phases that would allow for this alignment. He explained there were only around two days a year when he could attempt the photo and in some years the alignment didn't occur at all.
Webb's image is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length, a tiny sliver of the vast universe. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying more distant galaxies, including some seen when the universe was less than a billion years old. This deep field, taken by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours - achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest fields, which took weeks. This image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago, with many more galaxies in front of and behind the cluster. Light from these galaxies took billions of years to reach us. We are looking back in time to within a billion years after the big bang when viewing the youngest galaxies in this field. The light was stretched by the expansion of the universe to infrared wavelengths that Webb was designed to observe.
Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
Would TRex include a mystery click behind the top photo in a Hobby Thread? Maybe... If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, hijack the thread for your hobbying as you see fit. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 05:30 PM (0eaVi)
Actually bought myself a plastic plane model, A-10 in 1/72 scale. Probably won't get to it for awhile.
Was hoping for a bigger but thought small steps first
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:32 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM (/HI9S)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM (zZu0s)
It was incredible. The sky **EXPLODED** with stars that you cannot see otherwise. You'd think we were in the heart of a stellar cluster near the center of the galaxy.
The Milky Way was a bright ribbon in the sky.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:35 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM (/HI9S)
It'd have to be to hold Lizzo, Stacey Abrams, and Whoopi.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 05:35 PM (0eaVi)
RIP Jim Lovell
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 05:38 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:33 PM
No worries. I have my towel.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 09, 2025 05:39 PM (o+2eC)
Posted by: An incredulous Dave Bowman at August 09, 2025 05:39 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Douglas Adams at August 09, 2025 05:40 PM (/HI9S)
https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 05:41 PM (CHHv1)
This week is the peak of the Perseids shower, and I'll be listening and auto-logging MSK144 meteor scatter traffic on 6m. hamsci.org is encouraging all hams to participate on 6m and 10m, either making QSOs, or just listening and reporting to PSKReporter. If you already have and use WSJT-X software, then you're all set to easily try it. The peak is Mon-Tue.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:41 PM (0I+GC)
Boise seems to have some light pollution, but when we drove to SLC last weekend I saw Venus, big, bold and brash before sunrise.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 05:42 PM (0aYVJ)
I’m also addicted to ‘universe’ numbers.
It’s mind boggling that even if we could travel 1/10 the speed of light ( 67 million MPH) it would take us over 40 years to reach the closest star.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:44 PM (VofaG)
If spacetime was created at the Big Bang, then what exists outside of the universe has no space and no time.
Meaning that the Universe - beginning, middle and end -- has existed in a timeless stasis. I'd say "forever" but forever has no meaning where time doesn't exist.
Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.
Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 05:45 PM (/HI9S)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 05:46 PM (0aYVJ)
Hard to find a mention of frog-gigging in pop culture nowadays.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:46 PM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 05:41 PM (CHHv1)
Wow you did that? That’s NASA quality.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:46 PM (VofaG)
Currently winding up a painting of Crater Lake, based on an insipid photo taken there when we visited it back in June and which I've subsequently jazzed up. As there are pine trees framing the view, I'm having a hard time with it because I simply cannot seem to get the hang of painting realistic trees. The cure for that is painting more trees but I'm just disgusted with the entire concept. I'll be glad when it's all over and I can return to painting something I enjoy working on: another portrait.
When paintings don't go well, I console myself with my best friend's observation: "You know, that can't all be masterpieces."
Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (aT5K/)
We are currently in a black hole.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (VofaG)
What is also interesting is body language. It is a lot different than today.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 05:48 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:49 PM (+qU29)
( -- Bobby Hill)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:49 PM (omVj0)
"You know, they can't all be masterpieces."
Stupid fingers... I'm messed up from working on a translation of a book on ancient Russian costume and using a virtual Cyrillic keyboard!
Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:50 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)
But do not get me started on the blinking red lights courtesy of the ever increasing numbers of windmills.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)
Go for it, Piper!
Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)
----
Hot garbage can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions.
So you have that to look forward to.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025
***
Right, something close to a 90-degree axial tilt, as compared to the Earth's 23.4.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (omVj0)
So you have that to look forward to.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:52 PM (IBQGV)
That's so true, and so disgusting...
Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:54 PM (0I+GC)
Although it's located near a busy street (lots of light pollution), it was still neat to look at the Moon, Mars, and Saturn.
The shadows cast by the mountains on the Moon are razor sharp.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:54 PM (IBQGV)
I watched a few time lapsed videos of Michael James Smith doing landscapes and was able to figure out for the most part how to do semi realistic trees by watching him.
The guy is incredible to watch though I am not a fan of his work because I could just hang his reference photograph. That’s how photo realistic the guy can paint. Impressive but it’s got no emotion in it.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:56 PM (VofaG)
2017: The exact same one occurred in WY (thank you, Saros cycles). This I saw no problems. Not a cloud in the sky.
2024: saw the solar eclipse in Fredericksburg, TX for about 5-10 seconds or so. Damn clouds. Though it was weird. The clouds took out the corona view but you could see the eclipse, even some prominences coming off the sun.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025
***
Right, something close to a 90-degree axial tilt, as compared to the Earth's 23.4.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (omVj0)
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Uranus has some bizarre seasons because of its axial tilt:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6ezcdf
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 05:58 PM (L/fGl)
Thanks, that was done with my Nikon D70, with this huge 750mm no name zoom lens. I still have both.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 05:59 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (CHHv1)
The photos of the auroras earlier in the year we took with cell phone cameras where, surprisingly rather good.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)
Painting scares me. I do a lot of work with pencils, pens, charcoal, colored pencils and pastels. I've tried watercolor and acrylics, but I just can't figure it out. so, for me - drawing.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (0aYVJ)
My 2nd favorite TV series behind Daryl’s House is How the Universe Works.
I think of all the STEM professions I think astrophysicist is the one women are most drawn to if that TV series is any indication. They’re very good at it too.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:01 PM (VofaG)
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How does one get into the house garbage business?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 06:01 PM (L/fGl)
https://tinyurl.com/yc6ezcdf
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025
***
There is a Poul Anderson SF novel called War of the Wing-Men which takes place on an Earthlike world with a tilt like that. Nicholas van Rijn the interstellar trader and two other Terrans are stranded there, and they can't eat the local food; and the seasons affect everything. So van Rijn takes a hand in a local war so that the winners can bring the humans to rescue before they starve.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:01 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (aeiyZ)
My two favorite car colors are blue or orange.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 09, 2025 06:03 PM (cduTK)
The Dodecanese island group also includes Patmos, where John was exiled. 'Dodeca' means 'twelve,' which makes total sense considering there are 159 islands in the whole shebang.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 06:04 PM (0I+GC)
My old boss at Ames made some of those. The precision is astounding.
Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2025 06:04 PM (1I7ss)
I’m afraid I’d become a couch potato more than I am if I got into gaming. You can get lost in that world. Something I could easily do with how good the games are today. I can’t imagine how it will be in 10 or 15 years . I assume a real life holographic deck.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:06 PM (VofaG)
If you like doing something have at it.
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:06 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 05:51 PM (aT5K/)
It's not as hard as you think. Wet on wet is easiest to get started, then you can graduate to more traditional or go watercolor, which is apparently harder to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 06:07 PM (0eaVi)
I'm a big fan of being on the water at night, the further from land the better. If you are out of sight of land on a clear night you are surrounded by stars.
My God, it's full of stars.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 06:09 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:10 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Jim at August 09, 2025 06:12 PM (DcE5z)
https://tinyurl.com/yc6ezcdf
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:57 PM (IBQGV)
It's the Klingons, Perfessor.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 06:12 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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Nikon COOLPIX P900
357mm
f/6.5
1/250
ISO 400
no flash
Hand held
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:12 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 06:13 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:10 PM (VofaG)
——
‘Make by ass look good!”
— Xena Muffins, Vegas prostitute
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:13 PM (aeiyZ)
Painting board games, finished my Dark Souls figures that I had been doing since March.
I have a box of Heroquest with over a hundred done and a hundred to go.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:15 PM (lhenN)
You might think that would effect the earth’s gravitational forces over time which of course be mistaken by the Left as man made climate effects.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:16 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Jim at August 09, 2025 06:16 PM (DcE5z)
If spacetime was created at the Big Bang, then what exists outside of the universe has no space and no time.
Meaning that the Universe - beginning, middle and end -- has existed in a timeless stasis. I'd say "forever" but forever has no meaning where time doesn't exist.
Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.
Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 05:45 PM (/HI9S)
______
You're conflating different theories. Predestination concerns our spiritual destination. What you describe is a form of determinism or fatalism. It's related to Aristotle's "sea battle", and also to Parmenides's notion that change was an illusion. (There are really 4 different types of determinism, but enough for now.)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 06:17 PM (od0dV)
That would be one of my favorite meals. I’m having beef tips and rice tonight. Would prefer the pork chops.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:17 PM (VofaG)
Piper,
I really hope you do. My attempts at painting haven't got to the 'hot garbage level but it was fun trying. BTW, the brush techniques taught by the Bob Ross course do work.
Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 06:18 PM (yTvNw)
— Xena Muffins, Vegas prostitute
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 06:13 PM (aeiyZ)
I’ve read business is down in Vegas across the board. Haven’t been there in over a decade.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:19 PM (VofaG)
My theory on predestination /free will is that life is like the pachinko machine where God can intervene if he wants but eventually we all end up where we are going to end up. Though the path is random .
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:24 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 06:24 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 06:26 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:26 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 06:29 PM (yTvNw)
https://ibb.co/8DPNdwMW
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:30 PM (Q4IgG)
https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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wow! Love this.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 06:30 PM (7HoOO)
I happened to see a really good deal on an open box Sky Watchwr 250 at BH Photo. That’s a 10-inch reflector. Looks cool. Bought it. It shows up at my house and this thing is huge. Probably should have got an 8 inch or 6 inch. But it does get great views of the moon. And it came with what looks like a very cheap phone holder to hold the phone next to the eyepiece. Got some nice photos of the moon with it.
I’m going to try to bring it to the Texas MoMe. The sky is darker there.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 09, 2025 06:32 PM (EXyHK)
https://tinyurl.com/3k9nnddc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:33 PM (2GCMq)
Yeah I’m looking at the 8inch . I’m more into observing than photography.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:34 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:34 PM (lhenN)
Smaller is probably also a lot easier to transport to areas that are less light polluted than where I am.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 09, 2025 06:37 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:34 PM (lhenN)
I love beef stroganoff so much so that it’s one of my main freeze dried prepper food. Unfortunately last time I made it from scratch it was Hamburger Helper😀. I need a wife.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:38 PM (VofaG)
Many will remember seeing the Starlink satellites being released during one of the MoMes
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 06:39 PM (HFcKg)
Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero"
Why not include everything that CAN happen?
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 06:39 PM (vFG9F)
I load up images (false color of course) on my 75 inch 4k TV and it blows my mind. Literally tens of thousands of stars, butterfly nebula, dust clouds. It’s beautiful and better than anything I could possibly see through a small telescope.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 06:40 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 06:40 PM (sSkke)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 06:04 PM (0I+GC)
Well, Lake Maracaibo is not a lake, but they call it a lake anyway.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 06:40 PM (vm8sq)
It’s the difference between watching a sporting event live or on TV.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:43 PM (VofaG)
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We'll, if the universe is entirely deterministic, doesn't that govern one's spiritual outcome?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 06:44 PM (/HI9S)
It is a basic model. All manual. And I've forgotten how to calibrate it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:45 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
How is Sicily not in the Mediterranean?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (ZVgZ4)
https://tinyurl.com/488hsvr7
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
Nicely done!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (nVXpg)
https://tinyurl.com/3k9nnddc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's certainly OK, Fen. Did not know that about Buzz Aldrin. Thanks for the link.
Posted by: scampydog at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (41CYW)
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That's where Calvinism entered the room.
Posted by: Don in SoCo, whis 5 point Calvinist -adjacent at August 09, 2025 06:48 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:43 PM (VofaG)
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If the live sporting event is pee wee baseball and the TV event is the World Series.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 06:48 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 06:43 PM (VofaG)
Hockey: Live is best
Football: TV is best (the field is too friggin' big)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:49 PM (0aYVJ)
There were clouds which you could see in the projection.
Posted by: Bombadil at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
How is Sicily not in the Mediterranean?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025
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I think part of it fronts on the Tyrrhenian Sea, but part fronts on the Med? Something like that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (omVj0)
It is a basic model. All manual. And I've forgotten how to calibrate it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Do you still have the manual, and/or can you download one from the internet?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (ZVgZ4)
My God, it's full of stars.
Posted by: JackStraw
You have that right!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (nVXpg)
I always liked these books, great for getting into the hobby.
Nightwatch and The Backyard Astronomer by Terence Dickinson.
And hey, not a lurker any more!!!!!
Mostly because I read on my Ipad and it refuses to let me post a comment.
Posted by: Asko at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (vfh/m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (ZVgZ4)
Call customer service.
*snicker*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ)
You make distinctions that are finer than mine: according to Wikipedia - (emphasis mine) -
“The Tyrrhenian Sea (/tɪˈriːniən, -ˈreɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-;[1] Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or [-ˈreː-])[note 1] is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people identified with the Etruscans of Italy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 06:55 PM (ZVgZ4)
I'll never get to space but that line is exactly how I feel at night on the ocean. There are so many more visible stars in all directions than can be seen just about anywhere on land it's almost overwhelming.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 06:56 PM (viF8m)
-The Romans
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)
Probably the only real disappointment I’ve had on cruise ships is that they don’t turn the lights off at night.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 09, 2025 06:58 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 06:59 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
Do you still have the manual, and/or can you download one from the internet?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Probably.
It's manual and I (sort of) remember how the inclination and declination works at my latitude.
3D space. Not for the light hearted.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 06:59 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:01 PM (nVXpg)
“The Tyrrhenian Sea (/tɪˈriːniən, -ˈreɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-;[1] Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or [-ˈreː-])[note 1] is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian people identified with the Etruscans of Italy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025
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Yes, I glanced at the atlas after I posted, and there is no sharp delineation or strait that marks the T. Sea off from the Med. The entire basin is the Mediterranean, and the smaller seas like Ionian, Tyrrhenian, and Ligurian are all just names for regions within it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: JackStraw
2 long cruises on aircraft carriers taught me that.
The desert works just as well!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (nVXpg)
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That's a problem 'bout everywhere. People move out my way and get one if those @?!@!# guard lights that the utility companies sell. For just pennies a month you can make your rural place like those urban areas where it is NEVER DARK! When you live in a rural area, a guard light just says, "something woth steaking over here!"....oh, sorry, apparently complaining is my hobby.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (vd6bO)
Never had a telescope nor any success with night photography, I lack both the skill and equipment, but I suspect that even good equipment would not make up for the lack of skill. When I lived in the Midwest I was obsessed with photographing sunsets and captured many stunning ones with my cheap-ass phone camera. They are not professional quality, but I like them. I made a calendar of my sunset photos as a Christmas gift a couple years ago.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 07:06 PM (7HoOO)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:06 PM (ZVgZ4)
The desert works just as well!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:03 PM (nVXpg)
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The Himalayas at 17000 feet on a clear night.
That's the gold standard.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 07:07 PM (/HI9S)
Still nice but the ships lights makes a huge difference.
Back in my yute when I was living in PR we'd go to St Thomas occasionally. There was a place on the ocean side of the island called Larry's Hideaway. It was a campground on a beach in a cove and at the time there were very few houses in the cove. Very dark sky.
You could rent a tent that was built on a wood platform with two cots, no sheets or blankets, had to bring a sleeping bag or a blanket, for $15/night. It attracted young people from around the world somehow even if the days of no internet and night we'd all hang out on the beach, drink rum and stuff and look at the stars. Life was very good.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:07 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:07 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: polynikes
Temptation.
https://is.gd/lkor3T
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 07:08 PM (L/fGl)
Pictures will make it appear large due to foreground objects if pic taken early in evening.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:08 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:09 PM (nVXpg)
The Himalayas at 17000 feet on a clear night.
That's the gold standard.
Posted by: Cicero
Ill pass thank you.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:11 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:11 PM (ZVgZ4)
Pictures will make it appear large due to foreground objects if pic taken early in evening.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:08 PM (nVXpg)
I learned that as a kid. Hold a dime at arm's length on the horizon, it looks huge. Hold the same dime over head, it looks small. No magic involved, just perception.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:12 PM (0aYVJ)
That's the gold standard.
Posted by: Cicero
Ill pass thank you.
More like pass out. Not enough...ack....
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:12 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 07:14 PM (KePtS)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 07:14 PM (lhenN)
If spacetime was created at the Big Bang, then what exists outside of the universe has no space and no time.
Meaning that the Universe - beginning, middle and end -- has existed in a timeless stasis. I'd say "forever" but forever has no meaning where time doesn't exist.
Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.
Meaning that the Calvinists may have been onto something.
CHANGE MY MIND
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 05:45 PM (/HI9S)
One theory about time is that it exists so that everything doesn't happen all at once or more likely its existence prevents the universe from collapsing right after it forms, everything happening in an instant.
Posted by: Farquad at August 09, 2025 07:15 PM (znbnV)
Bighorn range WY in the fall. Friends and bourbon and night vision goggles. The Milky Way is mind blowing.
Spencer Spit off Lopez Island tied to a mooring buoy. There was also iridescence in the water. Plus the Perseid Metoer Shower. A stunning night.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 07:16 PM (366xU)
Does that work for dime bags?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 07:16 PM (KePtS)
Meaning that everything that has happened and will happen in the Universe is already written, and cannot be changed.
Posted by: Cicero
Or time exists because every thing is in the universe.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:11 PM (ZVgZ4)
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Agreed. You don't have to be out in the ocean; there are areas to see a sky full of stars all over this country.
Posted by: IrishEi at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 07:14 PM (lhenN)
On a clear night (Winter is best.) I can see the Milky Way from my back yard. All you have to do is get about 50 miles away from the light pollution of a big city.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (/lvBc)
Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 07:18 PM (yTvNw)
Acrylics dry faster so they require less time, but in my painting days I could never quite get used to them. You develop a "feel" for what you're working with. Been several years since I put brush to canvas.
Good luck! Remember, if you can sign your name consistently enough that your checks are cashed, you have the ability to draw.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:18 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (0aYVJ)
One of maaaany benefits!
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: IrishEi
Yup, we'll be driving 22 miles into the desert Tuesday and stay out all night
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:20 PM (nVXpg)
i mentioned the bighorn mountains.
Guess I'll go dark.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (0aYVJ)
Dang dude!
You have any idea how hard it is to copy and paste this without reading it???
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 07:22 PM (2WIwB)
i mentioned the bighorn mountains.
Guess I'll go dark.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 07:19 PM (0aYVJ)
Dang dude!
You have any idea how hard it is to copy and paste this without reading it???
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 07:22 PM (2WIwB)
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I didn't read ny of this...nice dark joke.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:24 PM (te4DV)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:26 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 07:27 PM (/lvBc)
I'm just finishing the final touches on my "last" telescope.
I call it "My Big Ten Inch!", thinking of getting some logo art put on the tube and I'm not sure how many exclamation points I should use.
Anyway, it's a custom F4.7, 10 inch Newt with all the trimmings including a carbon fiber tube and one of those new fangled strain wave mounts.
I've designed it around astrophotography which I've decide to take back up since the digital revolution has really made things tolerable.
I'm installing a full-frame cooled camera on it as soon as the adapters arrive.
I'll be sitting it out in my new to me backyard at my new house I just moved into after being a tech gypsy since the Space Shuttle program shut down.
They have all kinds of new gadgets for polar alignment but the problem right now for me is the clouds are stealing the show.
It's a semi portable rig and I was thinking of bringing it to the mome and set up if it looks like there might be some clear skies and Ben Had doesn't mind.
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:27 PM (EITcu)
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I've heard some people speculate about technology eliminating art, but it just ain't so. Endless possibilities
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:29 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:32 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 07:33 PM (xFREA)
I've been involved in amateur astronomy since I was in Jr HS.
If you are at all interested in learning about star stuff, the absolute best thing you can do is locate your nearest amateur astronomy group and go and introduce your self. The folks there love to talk about this stuff and are usually extremely helpful.
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:34 PM (EITcu)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:35 PM (+qU29)
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Like the HAM radio guys...might even be some overlap there...
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:36 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 07:36 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:38 PM (HFcKg)
>>I’m not too smart. But. It was very cool.
There are a number of places in PR, Fajardo is one, that have pretty spectacular bioluminescence. Pretty cool to swim around in it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:39 PM (EITcu)
Took the water taxi to downtown and walked all the way down to the sculpture park. It was stunning.
I bet sunsets from the lookouts bewilder tourists. Heck, I take pictures almost every evening. If you’re unlucky enough to have shared you contact info with me, you probably get them.
I’ve seen the Northern Lights from my home beach.
I love it here.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 07:40 PM (mT+6a)
Well that's a damn shame. That place was special.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 07:43 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:44 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:44 PM (HFcKg)
I've seen that and it's about as rapturing as walking into a field of hundreds of fireflies. Everything else in your mind just goes away.
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:45 PM (EITcu)
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Right! Likely a long wait. Useful interface to large datasets, but no thinking going on there.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 09, 2025 07:46 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (+qU29)
"Destroy all humans...destroy all humans........
Hey, baby, you wanna destroy all humans?"
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 07:48 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:20 PM (nVXpg)
I grew up in Phoenix, was in a very active Boy Scout troop. I loved the weekends when we could camp out in the desert! The adults would sleep, most of us boys never would - we would stay up and talk and watch the stars all night. When the sky is that clear of light, it’s just average to see 1 - 2 meteors per hour. Some just quick flashes of light, cosmic dust specks hitting the atmosphere, others more significant.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 07:48 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:47 PM (HFcKg)
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Holding my breath year-to-year...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:50 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:17 PM (nVXpg)
Or time exists because it is a property of *this* universe, but this universe is just a 4 dimensional bubble inside a far greater multidimensional reality, in which time, if it exists at all, is nothing at all like the time we experience here.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (q+E/R)
I'm sure I bore the crap out of most people but I thought someone here would appreciate that.
Sigh...
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:53 PM (EITcu)
Absolutely!
Thre Persieds' shower, associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle,can throw 80 to 100 an hour 'shooting stars Aug. 12th.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ)
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Most people don’t realize that each spot of light on the ground from the sun shining through tree leaves is actually an individual distorted image of the sun.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 07:55 PM (Vh9CX)
But they are gorgeous. I look forward to the Hunter Moon every year.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)
Easy peasy astrophotography system that does all the work and thinking for you.
https://www.seestar.com
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 08:00 PM (EITcu)
I laughed. Used to be a neighbor of Joe Perry.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 08:01 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 08:01 PM (ZVgZ4)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 08:05 PM (ZVgZ4)
Thre Persieds' shower, associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle,can throw 80 to 100 an hour 'shooting stars Aug. 12th.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 07:54 PM (nVXpg)
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Comet Swift Tuttle, the most dangerous object known to man.
https://youtu.be/gxpW7KxeAig
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 09, 2025 08:07 PM (Vh9CX)
I'm sure I bore the crap out of most people but I thought someone here would appreciate that.
Sigh..."
sorry Pawn, us lurkers read everything but seldom comment. I chuckled
Posted by: Wingnutt at August 09, 2025 08:16 PM (R8HM7)
Got to NW New Mexico or high in the Rockies away from a town and you see the night sky as our ancestors did. Regarding comfort, how many of us have slept under the sky, no tent, house, trailer or yurt? Or stacked up whores, for a certain former First Son?
Posted by: PTSD giver at August 09, 2025 08:27 PM (vvIbr)
Another place to visit, if one is interested in the history of astronomy, is Yerkes Observatory in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. While no longer a working observatory (too much light from Chicago), it still houses the world's largest refracting telescope, and the grounds and the architecture of the complex are well worth seeing in their own right.
Lake Geneva was also the home of Gary Gygax, one of the creators of Dungeons and Dragons. The Geneva Lake Museum has an interesting display on Gygax and D&D.
Posted by: Nemo at August 09, 2025 08:55 PM (4RPgu)
Posted by: H at August 09, 2025 11:52 PM (2gjbv)
Like my Verizon contract.
Posted by: VirginiaSmoker at August 10, 2025 02:12 AM (YC7Ue)
The Orion XT8 is probably the best “serious” starter telescope on the market. I’ve since upgraded to a full tracking (alt/az) 14’ telescope but not for astro. I have a buddy with an EQ mount 8” Mak I can use but I generally run my full frame mirrorless with wide angle (for MW shots) or a 600mm Zoom for specific objects on an EQ tracking platform. Pretty basic gear for pretty basic shots. I also have a couple of video cams for the telescopes for planetary imagiing.
The real work is processing. Single images are mostly easy enough with Adobe Creative Suite but multiple images or videos will require stacking software like Registax or Deep Sky Stacker and they take some effort to use.
Track down Brandon, put some ankle shackles on in and get him to contribute some astronomy content again!
Posted by: Phaedrus at August 10, 2025 07:36 AM (dPvdc)
Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 9
A dog who hasn't learned how to lead from behind
He tried his best LOL pic.twitter.com/KryPteuNcN
— Spill The Memes (@SpillTheMemes) July 15, 2025
Hi Katy, I personally do not like cats. I suppose they rub me the wrong way. But for those of you who do like cats:
Click over to X to read the details. Amazing that they would attract so much community support before they even open! That is an ambitious project! Interesting that they would focus on teaching kids how to interact with cats. Some people in the replies have some cautions. Thanks for sending it in, Biden's Dog!Coffee and a kitten! You can snuggle up with a feline friend at this N.J. cat café. | Paige Britt, NJ dot com
— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) July 27, 2025
Ben Hudes, 21, and Dora Gorvorko, 23, are making it their mission to bring a cat café to South Jersey. The couple are DIYing a space in Oaklyn that will feature pic.twitter.com/drJkCKU70C
Bro felt this feeling for the first time. pic.twitter.com/GZ3Sx6F24Z
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) August 8, 2025
Cow brush being installed.
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) August 4, 2025
Cows are supervising. pic.twitter.com/xJdORWHGiC
i don't know why these cats were getting high on rosemary 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/jjXCkdQ2mf
— Posts Of Cats (@PostsOfCats) July 18, 2025
Hey KT, Here is our latest family member, Stella! And yes, everyone does their best Marlon Brando when they hear her name. She came with the name, not sure if it will stick or she will be given a nickname that takes over. She is 8 months old and was rescued from a bad situation. The rescue got her and we had just put down our Gigi girl and Littleman was not handling her loss very well, in fact none of us were. We had a hole in our heart to fill and she needed a family to call her own so it seems it was a match made in heaven. We have no idea what breed she is or what mixture more like but we have sent off for the doggie DNA. She is sweet, curious, extremely smart, an incredible climber and jumper, loves to swim but hates the hose. There isn't a chew toy or stuffed toy she doesn't love, there are toys strewn all over the house. We already love her, as does Littleman except at feeding and treat time, she wants to eat her food and his food and he gets a little protective of his kibble. The cats after a few days of being wary have now accepted her as one of the pack. We have had to Stella-proof the backyard as I was watering in the front yard and she managed to jump over the gate in a single hop. Didn't want to run away, just wanted to be by me, she is my little shadow. We miss our Gigi, but Stella is helping heal our hearts, one day at a time. WeeKreekFarmGirlHow wonderful that you have found Stella! She looks right at home.
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Good afternoon KT and fellow Pet Morons,Those birds are making progress with your wonderful care!
Things are going well here. Chicks A & B continue to grow and are doing well. As you can see, Chick B's colors have really come in. They haven't taken their fledgling flight yet, but the primary and secondary feathers are in place and it should happen in the next few days. Chicks C & D are leaving the fuzzy state. Today I'd like to introduce you to another bird in the house, Phoenix. He is a White Bellied Caique, and if you are a regular consumer on this site you will recognize this breed. They are high energy, smart and easily trained. However they are not a beginner bird, because they are high maintenance, somewhat hard to find and fairly expensive. As you can see in the picture, he still enjoys the formula we feed the chicks. That may be because we got him 3 years ago before he was fully weaned and it brings back memories. The breeder let us have him a little early because she knew we raised babies too and used the same formula and methods. They are medium sized parrots and good family birds. We let him have a couple of sips of the leftover food, but not much. It's too rich for adult birds. Regards,
David
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 09, 2025 03:17 PM (2lp6s)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 03:18 PM (FFW2d)
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Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 03:26 PM (LHPAg)
Best dog ever.
I hope to see him on the other side someday.
You always hope that your pets can meet your previous pets and the pets of those you love in the Elysian fields they now play in, I wonder how that works. Is there like a Facebook for pets in the afterlife, indexed by smells?
Or does a benevolent God just sort all that out?
Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 03:26 PM (3tYRn)
Posted by: Nazdar at August 09, 2025 03:28 PM (NcvvS)
There's an update to our cat blog! I have one thing to add to the update.
Yesterday, when my sister got home late from work, she went to the backyard to feed the two new cats. What she found sitting with the kitten was another kitten—a new all-black one. So, we now have three new cats!
Link to cat fund: https://tinyurl.com/4k65zjkx
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 03:28 PM (sPQoU)
https://tinyurl.com/2zp5mkk2
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 09, 2025 03:30 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 03:34 PM (kUxzU)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 03:36 PM (PEWpN)
Posted by: pewp'n at August 09, 2025 03:37 PM (PEWpN)
Regarding cats and rosemary, I used to get rosemary olives from the deli and our tomcat used to go nuts for them, batting and chasing them around the floor. I thought he just like the roly-poly olives, but I guess he was trippin' on the herbs.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 03:38 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 03:40 PM (S/Y4j)
I am amazed at that squirrel. He must have been raised by his human to allow himself to be petted like that, and to be so attached.
I've never tried my cats on rosemary. Are they likely to go psycho -- more than on catnip, that is?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:42 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 03:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:45 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 03:46 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:46 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:47 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 03:47 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025
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Big black Stirling just hopped up on the couch, stood as if considering the lap, enjoyed some petting and scratching around the ears . . . then decamped for the floor again. Very different behavior from what he exhibited last Thursday, the day after we applied his topical flea treatment. He was zooming around, tunneling under the covers along my back in the afternoon, and curling in my lap multiple times. We figure the dying fleas must have been thrashing and/or biting as they expired.
Little gray Dagny, La Siberienne, got the flea treatment the same day as Stirling, and did not spring into activity the same way. She cavorted around Linda when she came over this morning, clearly asking for attention. This is a behavior she generally does not do with me. If she'd ask for petting, she'd get it, and she sometimes gets it anyway. But she's just not very demonstrative with me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:48 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:48 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025
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Sage advice
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:49 PM (omVj0)
So sorry you had to let Logan go. Sending comforting hugs your way.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 03:50 PM (sPQoU)
Or does a benevolent God just sort all that out?
Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025
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I imagine there will be jurisdictional disputes among my cats at the Rainbow Bridge. "Back off, black cat, he's *my *human!" "Stuff a fish in it, Fat Boy, he's *mine*!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (omVj0)
The insect photos last week seemed to be a bad fit for the Pet Thread, so I won't send any more unless somebody specifically asks for them.
My marmot spends part of every hot day lolling around on his cement slab. He looks like he really enjoys life.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (uBGP/)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (pZEOD)
Of course, the nursing part included not only lots of affection, but also lying on top of me while I recovered from a shattered pelvis, which hurt like hell. But the love made it all OK.
Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 03:55 PM (3tYRn)
I am assuming embark is a genetic testing service? I need to do that with reef. I am starting to suspect there is some jack Russell terrorist in there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 03:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 09, 2025 03:57 PM (2yoRf)
Fir me after doing plumbing since 10:30 having a glass of Scotch
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 03:58 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:58 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 03:59 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (FtJkr)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 09, 2025 03:59 PM (aeiyZ)
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Not to mention that there will be cat fur and cat litter EVERYWHERE, no matter how thoroughly you try to keep the place clean.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (IBQGV)
Cats can become attracted to olives due to a chemical compound called isoprenoids, which is similar to the active ingredient in catnip, nepetalactone.
I just looked up Rosemary.
Rosemary, like catnip, belongs to the Lamiaceae family, which is known for its aromatic qualities. If you have rosemary in your home or garden, it's best to supervise your cat's interaction with it. While small amounts of fresh rosemary are generally considered safe, large quantities can cause digestive upset due to the volatile oils.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest
And a happy Saturday to you, too! 😂
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:01 PM (p4NUW)
I am assuming embark is a genetic testing service? I need to do that with reef. I am starting to suspect there is some jack Russell terrorist in there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Yes. The other big one is Wisdom.
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:03 PM (p4NUW)
A cat cafe is a sus idea. Unless you think drinking coffee surrounded by cat piss and farts, and the potential to get scratched, is a good time. There’s a reason zoos smell like they do.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
Shark Tank says nope.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 04:03 PM (63Dwl)
My sister works at a Chicago cat shelter with a cafe. The cafe is a separate area, like a barista bar, where no cats are brought except upon demand. A five dollar donation gets you a free coffee and a half hour sitting with a cat. Their operation is astonishingly well-funded.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:04 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at August 09, 2025 04:05 PM (9vYpt)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (0I+GC)
I found the insects interesting. I may not like them IRL, it is always nice to see them close-up. Maybe we need a once a month insect thread or something.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:07 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:07 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:08 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:09 PM (JvZF+)
I see the cafe donation has risen to $10.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:10 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Joyenz
You're a sweetheart, Joyenz.
Posted by: old chick at August 09, 2025 04:11 PM (F3Dlr)
We were so surprised by the results we got from Wisdom Panel that we had Embark analyze Luna's DNA as well. They confirmed it. She's American pittie, cocker spaniel, and rottweiler, plus some other random stuff. No retriever at all.
She is a beautiful, loving, smart girl and we wouldn't trade her for anything...but she's not what we thought she was when we adopted her.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 09, 2025 04:14 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Sanj Franpsycho
I always enjoy reading about Boy F and where he finds joy. You never know how many lurkers find happiness in your comments.
Posted by: old chick at August 09, 2025 04:14 PM (F3Dlr)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
A golden deceiver!
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:15 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 04:17 PM (L/fGl)
The one blue heeler I've ever met was frighteningly intelligent. A frustratingly talented escape artist, and a determined digger.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:18 PM (0I+GC)
Cats can become attracted to olives due to a chemical compound called isoprenoids, which is similar to the active ingredient in catnip, nepetalactone. . . .
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025
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So *that* was why my boyhood cat Rusty loved slivers of olives as a treat!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:23 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:18 PM (0I+GC)
The only time I ever gotten bit by a dog was from a blue heeler. But it was not trying to hurt, merely get me away from his property. Did not break the skin, just nipped at me and barked a lot. Even so, in the future I took a different route home from school.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 04:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Yes. The other big one is Wisdom.
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025
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Do they do cat DNA? Dagny I'm sure is 100% Siberian, but Stirling is another mess of pottage entirely. Though the mix has come out perfectly!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:25 PM (omVj0)
https://is.gd/0N9DeZ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 04:17 PM (L/fGl)
That was funny.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:25 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 09, 2025 04:27 PM (sAmhv)
She actually is, but she's much more fun and unpredictable than a Golden would have been.
What's funny about dog DNA is that husband's sister just had the same experience with their newly-adopted puppy who was supposedly a boxer/retriever mix. Yep, neither one: supermutt, pittie, Russell terrier, and Pekinese. SiL about blew a gasket when she heard "Pekinese."
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 09, 2025 04:27 PM (FEVMW)
Our litter box arrangement was low odor until our kitty got very old and couldn't cover his mess effectively any more. We used a flushable wheat berry litter for awhile (no perfume) and then switched to a plain (no perfume) clay litter later when we moved from an apartment. Both litters were naturally absorbent and the smell was completely eliminated as soon as the spot got buried. When we scooped, we put clumps in a small covered trash can until it could be transferred to our outdoor trash bin.
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:29 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:25 PM (omVj0)
There is one called Basepaws that does dogs and cats.
https://basepaws.com/
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:30 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:30 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025
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You gotta keep up with it, though. If you let a day go by between scoopings, esp. if you have two or more cats, things can get out of control.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 03:54 PM (uBGP/)
Have you ever gone fishing at Point Defiance in Tacoma? I've caught some interesting things and seen some interesting things caught there.
Me and another guy hooked a stingray once. He snagged a wing, it had my hook and bait in it's mouth. Wicked looking stinger at the base of its tail. Cut the lines and kicked it back in.
Same guy at a later time hooked a seagull in a wing when it tried to steal his catch. Tried to fly away with his fishing pole, had to cut the line.
An older gentleman caught a small shark. Cut the line and kicked it back in.
I once caught a large starfish which had to weight over 30 pounds, almost broke my fishing pole until my dad intervened and cut the line. Good chunk of that weight was sea weed. Thought I caught me a big fish, bleh.
I've only caught salmon once and it was at that pier. Sadly it was 2 inches too small and my dad forced me to throw it back in, he didn't want to lose his fishing license. Don't remember what kind of salmon it was.
Posted by: Farquad at August 09, 2025 04:32 PM (znbnV)
*Raises hand* I am presently tearing out all the wall-to-wall carpet in here, in anticipation of better smell.
There's also superfine clay dust all over.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:32 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:33 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 04:33 PM (3tYRn)
https://basepaws.com/
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025
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Thanks, Joyenz, but I think I'll apply that $75 to Stirling's food and vet bills!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:33 PM (FMtrg)
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"Sorry. I can't give you a grade. My cat ate your homework."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (IBQGV)
We use Feline Pine Litter. Gives the whole house a really nice pine scent. Never smell the poo or urine and the cats like it.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (sPQoU)
When I visited Japan I didn't go to a cat cafe, but an *owl* cafe
They are very good about not stressing the birds, each one has a little ID card with how they like their human interactions (pet here and here, or no petting, or very soft contact). The other fun thing was the cafe was located in the trendy district next to Yoyogi park ... and the owls got taken for "walks" in the park, flying free for some outdoor time. And they always came back to the handlers, so I guess they were treated well.Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (xvXg6)
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (7vIsy)
I have to cover up things I care about, lest a cat puke on them. Never leave a laptop open unattended. Don't leave books lying next to the bed. Etc.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)
We had space in one of our bathrooms. Since we were in there anyway several times a day, we would scoop morning and night. The main issue was tracking litter. Our cat would go to great lengths to avoid any litter-catching mats.
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:36 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (omVj0)
Exactly why we have never tested some of our cats that we were curious about. Better ways to use that money.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:37 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 09, 2025 04:39 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:34 PM (IBQGV)
I never did figure out why he was so obsessed with her papers. These were worksheets I printed to hand out, so it was some smell picked up from her hands or something.
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:40 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 09, 2025 03:40 PM (S/Y4j)
Love grows where my Rosemary goes......
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 04:40 PM (LHPAg)
I keep a box with the old sandy litter just to be sure they prefer the new. They ignore it totally. FWIW.
Posted by: Wenda at August 09, 2025 04:44 PM (/MyY+)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 04:45 PM (2VRXy)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
Guessing dog breeds in mixes is hard because those genes pop up in interesting ways. I also think shelters avoid putting pit down as a mix even when the dog’s eyes are in different zip codes, the tell tale pit mix sign. Luckily, just like genetics affect the look, so too does the behavior, and just because your dog has pittie in there doesn’t mean it is a future Cujo at all. My brother got a “lab mix”. I told him he wasn’t, and if he had lab in there at all I would eat a shoe. Turns out, he is pit /boxer/ super mutt with all kinds of breeds, like everything but lab! He is a very, very good boy.
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:51 PM (/sySz)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (sPQoU)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLCAHVKb0w
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Piper at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (/sySz)
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (2GCMq)
https://tinyurl.com/catfdengine
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 04:56 PM (sPQoU)
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Nice feelgood story of the day.
My cat Kaylee was rescued from an engine compartment when she was just a kitten. Been a delightful kitty every since.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: old chick at August 09, 2025 04:14 PM (F3Dlr)
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Heh, thanks. He's a character.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 04:59 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 05:00 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:01 PM (2GCMq)
Sorry about Logan. It is always so very hard when beloved pets die.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:06 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 04:58 PM (IBQGV)
Way back in the olden times, by buddy's cat had fallen asleep on the engine of his dad's truck. His dad started the engine to go to work. Cat shrieked and bolted. Buddy's dad chased it down and took it took the vet. Bipper lost a front leg, from the fan, but lived for years afterward.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 05:06 PM (0aYVJ)
Awww, glad your cat was rescued.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 05:06 PM (sPQoU)
Dogsitting (again) for daughter & hub's two, while they're off to a family birthday party in Fairbanks this weekend. Daisy the magnificent Malinois is such a gracious hostess. Mostly. The ruckus when anything outside gets their attention is pretty deafening.
Ony the old black cat is not so sure about this having guest dogs. Actually it's just the one smaller dog, Maya, that makes her wary; I think Maya is curious about small girl-cat Ony because she's so much different than their two big boy-cats at home.
The two cats down at the former neighbors' house are getting more used to us. The normal-sized pale yellow that I call Buttercup lets me scratch her head, and has even let MiladyJo (who does the actual feeding every evening) pick him up. Must have been somebody's cat once. The smaller-than-Ony tortoiseshell, Rascal, does come out to eat now, but is still wary of us, especially of me. Rumor is that Rascal is mom to three kittens living under the porch, but I never see them; I'll collectively name them Schrödingers.
That's the Webworks Ranchero pet report for this week. Now to read the post & comments.
Posted by: mindful webworker - the cattle say "'lo." at August 09, 2025 05:14 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 05:21 PM (45Kkz)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 05:24 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 05:26 PM (45Kkz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:29 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Weekreekfarmgirl at August 09, 2025 05:31 PM (dEfYQ)
It's very nice of you to dogsit ,mindful webworker .and I appreciate your affection and care for all the animals .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:32 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 05:37 PM (omVj0)
Cat cafe: "Hudes is using his entrepreneurship degree and previous marketing experience…" My experience is that the real entrepreneurship education is experience entrepreneuring. Best of luck to 'em. I admit I wish back when we had our music cafe in the '90s that we had social media to attract attention. We did pipe our concerts online at AOL. Not a lot of listeners, but we had one in Australia, so that was cool.
Squirrel: I'd like to have a long video of all the different critters who get some pets and then grab at or otherwise encourage the humans to keep skritching.
Cattle really do like the cattle brushes.
Stella's face and colors look a lot like our son's dog Bandit, a Kelpie.
Don't think I'd want birds for pets, but that Phoenix is sure pretty, and it's such a good pic I could almost hear it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - known by the pets who keep us at August 09, 2025 05:37 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Emmie
Definitely does not have the shepherding instinct or technique. I'm thinking the sheep all think of it as a small sheep and they're playing with it… as a herd, because, you know, sheep.
Posted by: mindful webworker - known by the pets who keep us at August 09, 2025 05:49 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: gp
Maybe since they're not exactly pets, they'd fit in better in the garden thread? 🐞
Posted by: mindful webworker - they didn't bug me at August 09, 2025 05:53 PM (7W0uI)
https://www.swheatscoop.com/
Posted by: Emmie at August 09, 2025 04:30 PM (FMtrg)
"flushable litter"
No such animal. Do not flush litter of any sort.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 06:00 PM (h5TUr)
https://is.gd/w4He9k
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
That really is the classic archetype by which all other voiceover animal vids are measured, including the prolific RxCKSTxR Comedy's.
https://youtu.be/vGbvCDpw_Uw
Posted by: mindful webworker - speaking for themselves at August 09, 2025 06:02 PM (7W0uI)
The normal-sized pale yellow that I call Buttercup lets me scratch
Posted by: mindful webworker - didn't mean to misgender at August 09, 2025 06:17 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: mindful webworker - old pet threads never die, they just fade away at August 09, 2025 06:21 PM (7W0uI)
The insect photos last week seemed to be a bad fit for the Pet Thread, so I won't send any more unless somebody specifically asks for them.
My marmot spends part of every hot day lolling around on his cement slab. He looks like he really enjoys life.
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 03:51 PM (0I+GC)
My indoor cat caught a sparrow inside the house this morning, and killed it, but had not commenced to dismember it before I arrived on the scene. Critter must have crawled in under the bottom of the screen door, since all windows have screens. Birds inside the house are fair game. Props to cat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 06:47 PM (Ux/Nh)
Posted by: Ib1netmon at August 09, 2025 08:36 PM (3tYRn)
Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, August 9
Hi Katy - Hope you are on the mend post-surgery. I'm sending good wishes and prayers your way. Dogwood Daze - the dogwood blossoms were beautiful this spring. I thought I'd send this photo along before they fade away. Also, a photo of the first flower to bloom in my garden, the hardy Columbine. The Pilot
I can't take pics like Don in Kansas, but I noticed that the dogwoods were particularly spectacular this year here (we're maybe 150 miles north of their natural range). The white is the largest one in the State of Kansas.
Edible Gardening/Putting Things By California isn't really "Hatch Chile" country, but this is a supermarket advertisement similar to others this time of year around here. Along with Hatch Chile rotisserie chickens and the like. Have you got ripe chiles?
Ever seen anything like this?Removal of a hornets nest
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The tweet above reminded me of this, received a while ago:I Would Watch a 50hr Documentary on How They Built This 1500 Years Ago pic.twitter.com/xIvXN0rzKc
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Greetings!
Lurker and Gardening Thread fan "RS" here.
For your consideration under the "nature" theme, may I submit a few pics from my daughter's recent foray into the Bavarian Alps. (She lives in Bavaria.) The mountain is called "Rotwand" and is considered one of Munich's "House Mountains."
Anyway, keep up the good work and thanks for your contributions at AoS.
Cheers.
Hi KT, Could you kindly post these pics on next week's garden thread? The flowers are at their peak right now and I'm just not sure how long they'll last. As I mentioned in my follow-up post, I have done nothing to amend the soil in our back yard, as it's nothing but deep sand and we're plagued with pocket gophers that tunnel through and ruin everything. It's a complete miracle that anything grows in it to begin with. These pics are a little dark as I took them late in the day once the temps dropped, but you can see the vibrant colors. The pink lily like flower is Amaryllis Belladonna, which grow like weeds everywhere in the SF Bay Area. Thanks! Effie
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Hoping CaliGirl is faring okay with the big fire. I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.
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Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 01:19 PM (rhtv8)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 01:23 PM (nVXpg)
He got bit by a meat bee three days ago and is no fan of any flying, stinging thing right now.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:26 PM (h5TUr)
We had a pretty little magnolia tree at the ancestral home, but I was not prepared for the gorgeous giant trees down south.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 01:27 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 09, 2025 01:28 PM (nVXpg)
Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 01:29 PM (yTvNw)
Hazy and sunny and 62 here on the beach. High of 75. I’ll go for a walk here in a bit.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 01:30 PM (mT+6a)
Best varieties this year have been Delicious Hunt, Thorburn's Terra Cotta, and Lemon Boy. My usually reliable Brandywine types have been very susceptible to disease.
Hot peppers are coming in nicely. Can't wait for Mad Hatters to ripen; supposed to be mildly hot but very flavorful.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 01:32 PM (kpS4V)
Getting a couple more Anaheim peppers and cucumbers from.my cucumber garden
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)
So... you gotta replace the queen in that situation. 3x in the next week, I and a helper went through the hive looking for her. We could NOT find her.
So, since I couldn't keep the new queen caged much longer, I took about 1/2 the bitch's capped brood (bees ready to emerge and get to work) and the attendant bees, brought the new hive here and let the new queen get acquainted.
I bought a new suit after the 1st go round with that hot hive. I must have gotten hit 100 times. A few stings, no problem, but I actually panicked.
I would NOT do that wasp thing voluntarily.
Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 01:37 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: thereallaserjock at August 09, 2025 01:37 PM (btO17)
The Summer apples are ripe and falling so I have the fruit dryer running on the back porch. Once I am done with apples, it will be plum season, and I will have prunes as well.
I dug my potatoes and planted the bed with Cranberry Beans, which are a nice bush bean I like to can. I am waiting for the tomatoes to come ripe too.
Besides the fruit and berries, it hasn't been a great year for the garden. I had trouble getting it started and unfortunately it is slow in putting out veggies.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:40 PM (rbvCR)
We're just now getting tomatoes in quantities, but our Brandywines have yet to give us a single one.
Weird year for sure.
People don't want to visit lately, cause everyone has to take cukes home. Mom, Dad, kids... no one gets to go home empty-handed.
Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 01:40 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 01:42 PM (yTvNw)
I chortled at seeing the words "bitch" and "capped" in a nice apiary context. Didn't know the beekeeping scene was so hardcore.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 01:44 PM (kpS4V)
Blackberry is great with the more perfumed black currants. Or with raspberries.
Peach is great with a little raspberry, too. Pear with citrus?
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 01:45 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2025 01:47 PM (yTvNw)
The stretches and splits may be from the rain.
Every year my tomatoes get ripe and we get the first downpour of the summer, so I go out in the mud to pick the splitting tomatoes, and freeze them in ziplock bags because late in the afternoon I am neither prepared for or willing to do the canning
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:50 PM (rbvCR)
The seeds are so cool, too! They're shaped rather like hand grenades.
Posted by: JQ at August 09, 2025 02:02 PM (rdVOm)
I add lemon juice, and the whole thing pretty much sparkles. For some reason if I use cooked and pureed fruit it tastes heavy.
I do much the same with plum and peach. My peach jam is crushed and chopped fruit, and not run through the grinder.
I tend not to mix fruits, though your suggestions sound wonderful. The one thing I do add extra flavoring to is the cherry jam I make, I like to add vanilla to it.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 02:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 02:03 PM (kpS4V)
I use it on toast mostly, thought I also like it for jam tarts
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 02:06 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 02:06 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 02:08 PM (kUxzU)
The term "bitch" isn't a bee term, like with dogs. It's what it looks like. She's a mean bitch, and she needs to die.
Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 02:11 PM (cPGH3)
My wife has been reading about how some people can take stings, and then can't, for whatever reason.
I'm far to cavalier with stings now. I shouldn't be, I know. I keep a radically out of date Epi-pen handy, just in case.
But when you're used to nice, gentle hives, you kinda get used to it.
If all the bees were like that hot hive, no one would keep bees.
Posted by: MkY at August 09, 2025 02:19 PM (cPGH3)
I also eat the empty capsule just in case.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 02:23 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:35 PM (w6EFb)
The wasps and other stinging insects are out in force this week!
Tomatoes are almost done, now the real work begins at the direction of the canner.
Not garden, but Peace Garden: took a easy bet that Trump will not be the Nobel prize winner this year, wagering a whole jar of salsa.
Posted by: Auspex at August 09, 2025 02:35 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 02:38 PM (+qU29)
Those Terra Cottas are delicious! I recommend Black Strawberry for its prolific fruiting and long-lasting tomatoes, especially for sauce.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:40 PM (w6EFb)
I have about 4 dozen peaches ripening right now. Picked a little over a week ago, so it's taken them awhile. Last batch of the year, I guess.
Anyway, I'll can some of them and also make a few batches of low-sugar peach jam. It's delicious! It doesn't gel up a lot, but I really appreciate the peach flavor with less of the sugar. Great over ice cream.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 02:49 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:40 PM (w6EFb)
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Never heard of it. Gonna have to order some seeds. Thanks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 02:52 PM (kpS4V)
The stray cat that we've been feeding for the past month or two bit my right hand (so quick!), and that put me out of commission for the better part of a week. It happened at 8:30 pm, and I wasn't going to the ER on a Friday night for a cat bite, no way. So I didn't get antibiotics until the next morning at the urgent care. I'll bet that delay contributed to the swelling.
Publius got bit by the same damn cat a few days ago. Since the urgent care was still open he got his amoxicillin right away. His swelling isn't as bad.
The doc told me that 85% of cat bites get infected, whereas only 15% of dog bites do.
Maybe this should be on the Pet Thread...
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 02:52 PM (kpS4V)
Baker Creek.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 03:07 PM (LHPAg)
Bird owners say "cats puncture, dogs crush".
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 03:08 PM (QGetb)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 03:12 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 09, 2025 03:13 PM (0aYVJ)
Maybe this should be on the Pet Thread...
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:55 PM (w6EFb)
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My mom was bitten by one of our cats (big puncture wound) and yeah, it's serious. Doc said if she had waited longer to get it treated she could have had permanent damage.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 03:33 PM (kpS4V)
The pear prep sounds great. I might add a few shreds of lemon zest.
The type of black currant (rust resistant) that is pretty much too strong to eat straight is great when used to spike other berry jams.
Strawberry dishes with a little lime are also great.
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 03:34 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 03:53 PM (uBGP/)
How did it even get that bad?
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 04:04 PM (h5TUr)
I entered 30 categories in the Western Idaho Fair - online, so they can print the tags ahead (they hate when you walk in with that much stuff and expect them to handwrite all those tags).
I attended a handgun match early this morning and I am so fried at this point, so that's all for this week.
Posted by: Pat* at August 09, 2025 04:20 PM (k/ubR)
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 04:38 PM (7vIsy)
Comment on X says Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, England
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 06:03 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 02:44 PM (w6EFb)
I use full sugar recipes, or make my own apple skin pectin, but for low sugar try a Calcium activated pectin. Pomona's Universal (which I have never used) has a peach jam recipe that uses two cups of sugar.
Food chemistry is fun, so I follow it: Pectin needs something to help it gel. Sugar is one thing, it excludes water from the pectin, personally I think it is because it evaporates off leaving heavy syrup behind. Calcium is another element that will activate the pectin, and that is what Pomona's uses
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 06:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 09, 2025 07:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Lex at August 09, 2025 07:40 PM (y4H1r)
Posted by: The Pilot at August 09, 2025 08:42 PM (uIJnJ)
Posted by: Pat* at August 09, 2025 09:42 PM (k/ubR)
The Hornets need to be killed with fire and I'm so happy I don't have to do this job.
The fire is slowing down but the smoke is still terrible and I'm betting there is smoke in the valley hanging around like tule fog.
Some of my friends lost some cattle and they won't leave their ranches even though they were supposed to evacuate. They are there for the duration to protect their property.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 10, 2025 11:52 AM (QsMb/)
Getting respect for the past wrong in Canada
Winnipeg Police: "One of our senior officers is a psychopathic serial criminal whowhile maybe high on coke and mushroomssold drugs, extorted people and took grotesque pictures with dead women in their underwear. But before we get to that, let's do a dozen land acknowledgments." pic.twitter.com/YjvTgXIbAj
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) August 7, 2025
Sounds odd. You have to glance through the responses to the post to realize that the courts have reportedly adopted race-based criminal sentencing, straight-up. You haven't noticed anything like this happening anywhere else, have you? Residential Indian Schools Caution: The guy who authored the tweet above wrote a book, The Scarlet Lesson "to describe what happens to school teachers who tell the truth" about the uproar concerning graves at church-run Indian schools in Canada. So it would be prudent to check out the details of the claim in this tweet. However, you might also be interested in the close-mindedness of a "journalist" toward a university professor who helped write another book on this subject. Astonishing:A Cree woman named Jamie Tanis Gladue was having a 19th birthday party in Nanaimo when she suspected her boyfriend was having an affair with her sister. The two started fighting and Gladue stabbed him to death
— Jim McMurtry (@JimMcMurtry01) August 8, 2025
and now all Indigenous criminals get a discount on their sentences. pic.twitter.com/XEf00ZhtXv
What is Grave Error? Some background:
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) August 7, 2025
About 18 months ago, I helped publish a book called Grave Error, a collection of essays written by top university professors and journalists setting the historical record straight on Indian Residential Schools (IRS)
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👑🇨🇦💉 Trois-Rivieres, Que.
— Nestor (@UncleNestor22) August 7, 2025
Another church arson for the police to ignore pic.twitter.com/UYxznTjNhR
You may want to check out the comments at Small Dead Animals. Here are a couple of them:A 🚨bombshell judgement 🚨was released yesterday by BCs Supreme Court, declaring Aboriginal title over land in Richmond, including private property.
— Caroline Elliott (@NVanCaroline) August 8, 2025
If this stands, it has massive implications for private property across BC.
Read the highlighted sections for yourself: pic.twitter.com/kzuawETGeg
54.3% of land ownership in Richmond BC is Chinese folks, greatest percent in tier 2 Canada, that’ll be interesting! Fortunately this is Canada and they’ll argue over this until autumn of 2120
In typically weasel word legal speak, the ruling says that there can be aboriginal title and private land on the same ground and the Crown must resolve it which means that the tax payers have to compensate the grifters. If the robed shysters had ruled that aboriginal title was final, then they would have just ruled themselves out of a job as there would be no BC nor Canada because there was no legitimacy of Crown sovereignty. This is the end game of the grievance industry – White-pimp judges declaring the taxpayer-paid Chiefs as our new landlords.So, will the Chinese landowners or the Native Chiefs hold more sway here?
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 11:13 AM (od0dV)
Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (QQwd/)
The intent is to abolish private property - the tribes are just being used as a means to this end.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (xTIDn)
And they used to combine the best of the UK parliamentary system with American business.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (od0dV)
Not my cir... anyway. Whoever is willing to kill the most will rule.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 11:15 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: gkwve at August 09, 2025 11:18 AM (QQwd/)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 11:18 AM (od0dV)
WWI spared no one in the Commonwealth. Newfoundland was British, and the losses in their one regiment were horrific. For one attack that went no where.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:19 AM (u82oZ)
The big red star was already taken.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:21 AM (/lPRQ)
Others have written eloquently on the subject. I just think we have lost our soul, collectively. Whatever goodness there was, in the day to day of our societies, even when our politicians were rogues and criminals, is melting into chaos, division, and boredom.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:23 AM (LPgB/)
Africa is for Africans.
White countries are for non-Whites.
That’s new world order.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (u82oZ)
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No, when they changed the flag real Canada died and was replaced with Trudeaupia.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (ZOv7s)
You haven't noticed anything like this happening anywhere else, have you?
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Certainly not here.
Oh.... wait.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 11:25 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 09, 2025 11:27 AM (e/yD6)
The local level is where the action should be. Clear and hold. We did that in our county and our University City. Until the counterattack wiped us out.
All it took were pragmatic candidates and a core groups of election walkers. We used our Constitution Bee board as a think tank for good candidates. Less than 100 people all told.
We as conservatives can out-organized and overcome the withered Left, which is flabby from all the give-me deferance.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:28 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:28 AM (AiNp4)
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:23 AM (LPgB/)
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I think we are in the beginning stages of a revival. Call it spring 1942. Now, that was a tough year, lots of setbacks, but it was also the turn of the tide.
The masks are off. We can see that there is a deep-seated anti-white movement that is completely implacable. That's good to know. We no longer have to listen or care what those people who claim to be compassionate say.
Canada is reeling from this. The Confederation is collapsing. You have Wexit on one side, the Quebec stirring on the other. This isn't the old secessionists, either. Carney is actuall forcing immigrants into Quebec and also trying to repeal the French language laws. He wants Quebec destroyed. It's existential.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (u82oZ)
Thank you for your continued series of thought-provoking essays. In Japan, you would be a National Treasure.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (u82oZ)
I am optimistic. Just a glance at the left tells you that they're old, tired, and completely out of ideas. They're on the cusp of a complete rout, so naturally some want to just give up. Let's not pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
My question is: does the case law hold for *foreign* red Indian savages who commit crimes in Canada? I only ask because I have enough Cherokee blood to qualify for the tribe.
I've never bothered trying to apply for it, because I'm a blond, blue eyed Russian Jew and the whole idea would be ridiculous. But if it means I am above Canadian law, then I'm going to become an official red Indian savage and head north for a bank robbery spree. Heap big wampum, you dumb hosers.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (rjlYr)
Carney is a total buffoon, and he's pissing everyone off and crossing lines that have to be defended. Quebec will not give up its French identity and become a third world shit hole.
Carney will escalate against both, because he had to because he's been bent over abroad. He's creating his own resistance. I doubt if Canada makes it to the end of 2026.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)
I've never bothered trying to apply for it, because I'm a blond, blue eyed Russian Jew and the whole idea would be ridiculous.
Yeah, you blend.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
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Look at the voter demographics. In a decade or so, the Dems will be a rump party. (Mayor Pete approves!)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:34 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:34 AM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 11:37 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: I Am Shining at August 09, 2025 11:37 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 11:37 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (rjlYr)
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Is the tribe accepting new members? That's the first question. I don't think any of the 12 federally recognized tribes in Michigan have the rolls opened. For most of them, blood quantum is not a requirement, proven descent from a documented tribal member is what counts.
The tribes are in a bit of a hard place because on the one hand, more tribal members means more strength in terms of voting, but it also means the casino money and jobs have more competitors. Last I heard, they're holding pat for the time being. Michigan's largest tribe has 30,000 members, but even they are wary of letting more people in.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Anne Murray rocks !
(Makes 'hook'em' sign with both hands)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (/lPRQ)
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Maybe.
Maybe just "some" of western civ is on the block. Here, in the US, I think the alphabet people are on the decline. Well, maybe the social side of them. Some may still hold on to whatever passes for values, but their grip on society is waning. For now.
Leftists are also on the decline. For now.
Normals are ascending. Again, for now. I guess it depends on how bad we would like to have a normal society or whether we don't have the gumption to see it through.
I'd not take bets on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (Q4IgG)
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Party like it's 1939!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 11:29 AM (7vIsy)
Some of us keep going back to the Epstein stuff. There are a LOT of people who seem to want to push it away, for their own reasons, and it's hard for some of us to do that, when children were sex trafficked, and presumably in a lot of cases, murdered and disappeared afterwards.
I don't know how to separate the perpetrators from those who would cover it up.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:39 AM (mNhIh)
Leftists are also on the decline. For now.
Normals are ascending. Again, for now. I guess it depends on how bad we would like to have a normal society or whether we don't have the gumption to see it through.
I think there's going to be a big change in Britain soon. The people there have had enough, and the unrest is starting to look more like a revolution. If I were Keir Starmer, I'd be looking for a retirement country without extradition.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)
I'd not take bets on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM (Q4IgG)
Sometimes I very much want to be proven wrong. This is one of those situations.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:41 AM (mNhIh)
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I have that.
But I didn't know tribes "closed their rolls," lol. What a crock of shit. You're either descended from thr guy ir you're not. But hey, it's all just a race scam anyway? No need for it to have any kind of internal logic.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (rjlYr)
I am optimistic. Just a glance at the left tells you that they're old, tired, and completely out of ideas. They're on the cusp of a complete rout, so naturally some want to just give up. Let's not pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
The left is on the cusp of committing mass murder before they allow themselves to be routed. Desperation is a dangerous substance. Like nitro.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (LHPAg)
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Maybe the new rule is you only get 3yrs if you kill one?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (/lPRQ)
Because they are bored to death and feel this will add excitement to their existence and bring about peace, harmony and the occasional orgasm. Hope they get what they have coming to them.
The "First Peoples" are savages who only need booze and casinos to make them happy.
Posted by: Dudley DoGooder, Canadian Fascist Police Officer at August 09, 2025 11:43 AM (R/m4+)
I don't know how to separate the perpetrators from those who would cover it up.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:39 AM (mNhIh)
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Trump did an amazing job of flipping the script and making the Dems demand an inquiry.
I was one of the few here to recognize what he was doing from the get-go. Classic WWE heel turn.
And now he has the Maxwell interview to hold over them.
Did you see Bernie squirm when asked if he would vote for immunity in order to get her to testify to the Senate?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:43 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)
I tend to look at Britain on a much larger (longer) scale. Their sins stretch back centuries, and without arguing the right or wrong of it, I suspect the rubber band hasn't snapped back anywhere near as far as it will.
To say the 20th century broke them seems patently obvious to me. I just don't believe they have enough... whatever, character, morality, strength, courage, whatever, to beat back the momentum.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:44 AM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Moe Howard, World Champeen Pie Thrower at August 09, 2025 11:45 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:42 AM (rjlYr)
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Indian tribal politics operate on a scale of viciousness most people cannot even fathom because its all in the family.
Everyone has the image of them as truly connected to the land, stewards of nature and yet they overfish, overhunt and build wherever they please on the reservation. Crazy stuff. You know those lady influencers bitching about the wedding ring?
That's tribal politics EVERY DAY. I used to get some of their newspapers as part of my job and they were riveting reading.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:46 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 11:46 AM (aRbAR)
‘Whitelash’: Professors say white students get angry, frustrated by ‘anti-racist education’
https://tinyurl.com/m4amtakm
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:47 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dudley DoGooder, Canadian Fascist Police Officer at
Most significant contributionies to the world -
- booze
- casinos
- tobacco
- coke
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:47 AM (/lPRQ)
I was one of the few here to recognize what he was doing from the get-go. Classic WWE heel turn.
And now he has the Maxwell interview to hold over them.
Did you see Bernie squirm when asked if he would vote for immunity in order to get her to testify to the Senate?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:43 AM (ZOv7s)
I went into this Trump term with only one question: Would he wield enough power to truly beat or at least damage the Deep State. I wasn't questioning his will to do so, and I'm not going to question his methods. Maybe he knows what he's doing, I don't know.
I just still don't know if, and suspect he won't, win.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:48 AM (mNhIh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 11:48 AM (2GCMq)
French Fries Associated With Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:44 AM (mNhIh)
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Europe's elites are losing control. Their desperate attempts at censorship are giving the game away. In Germany, the second largest part is going to be banned, and if you can't vote your way out of the problem, well, other means have to be tried.
Starmer and Carney are both pushing past the breaking point. They are essentially demanding total submission to the point of national suicide. If those are the terms, why not go down swinging?
The key point is when the troops are called out and ordered to fire. We're not there yet, but it's much closer than it was two months ago.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:50 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)
When ones back is pushed to the wall, the media and Leftists will be astonished with our robust response.
Not wanting one, but kinetic action may be in our future. Based on Long Live Death, that type of initially formless front lines could yield 80-100 million casualties.
A better solution is targeted killings of the Left's leaders and funding sources.
Plus seizing Hamas treasure from Qatar, and moving Palestinians to the Palmer Peninsula.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Moe Howard, World Champeen Pie Thrower at August 09, 2025 11:45 AM (G5+As)
Larry was a cheap shot artist. You'd be waiting for Moe to retaliate, and Larry would be over there, wincing like a schoolgirl, and he'd sneak one in on ya.
Just as you were waiting for Moe to grab you by the nose, here'd come a pie from the side, right in the kisser.
Posted by: Shemp at August 09, 2025 11:54 AM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Pigs, eh! at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM (KOE6H)
The key point is when the troops are called out and ordered to fire. We're not there yet, but it's much closer than it was two months ago.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
I wonder about the Oath, and what it means to various people.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM (LHPAg)
To say the 20th century broke them seems patently obvious to me. I just don't believe they have enough... whatever, character, morality, strength, courage, whatever, to beat back the momentum.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:44 AM
Yeah, I don't know how the UK gets back to normal anytime within our lifetime when the demographics are against that, and getting worse, and the people in control of all the major cities are Muslim.
The UK is closer to a Muslim country than it is to the former UK.
Muslim Takeover of England: https://bit.ly/3ROxCBc
Oxford Street shoppers told: 'Mind the grab' and guard your phone. Purple lines along the pavement remind pedestrians to keep devices hidden on London shopping route.
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Hha6vc
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 09, 2025 11:56 AM (P5BPp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:53 AM (u82oZ)
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The war has already started, but it's at very low intensity and the correlation of forces makes me think that it won't intensify much more. If Harris won, totally different story with a divided military, overt oppression etc. Very much Spanish Civil War.
But Trump has purged the military and security forces, and adding tens of thousands of ICE agents will further increase this superiority. Newsome's stupid gambit with the National Guard - which carried out Trump's orders with alacrity - also shows how weak their hand is at this point.
That is why they are flailing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: 496 at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (t+VLa)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM
Specifically, to those who took it. Do they realize it has no expiration date?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: BurtTC
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"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way" was a backhanded compliment in 1973. They've lost the stiff upper lip.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (XvL8K)
The website Gates of Vienna has a 7 part series on how rural Britain could win over the concentrated Islamic hordes in cities. Only handguns were confiscated after the Dunblane Massacre. The rural population has plenty of hunting rifles to win with.
Matt Braken's What I Saw at the Coup is also relevant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (u82oZ)
If I was still on Active Service, and I was given an order to arrest some of the tyrannical judges, I would regard that as a lawful order. And I would tell my troops to make sure the hands go up very fast.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:00 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 09, 2025 11:56 AM (P5BPp)
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The escalation spiral is non-linear. It does not move in a steady progression, which is how you get WW I and other crises.
Muslims in the UK are concentrated in the cities, can those can easily be interdicted by motivated country folk if it comes down to it.
Europeans have gone from flabby libertines to homicidal maniacs at many points in history. It can happen again.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:00 PM (ZOv7s)
Find the nearest game on the board, put in a wager for a light pink one at that venue, get one, toss one*, win big buck$ !!!
* Crayola 'Flesh' tone pink, 4 inches overall length.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:02 PM (/lPRQ)
Haven’t the legal Beagles pointed out to government officials that “land acknowledgment” is an invitation to all sorts of fvckery? I suppose that is their intention, obviously. But it must have been advised this has no basis.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:02 PM (Xy5pd)
Posted by: Heap Big Hokum at August 09, 2025 12:03 PM (G5+As)
Matt Braken's What I Saw at the Coup is also relevant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (u82oZ)
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Maybe a few truckloads of M4s are "accidentally" misplaced outside RAF Mildenhall.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:04 PM (ZOv7s)
Thank God for the good news. My OP Plans for a Harris presidency were fraught.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:04 PM (u82oZ)
See my comment #68. Does Britain have the resolve? That is the big unknown.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:05 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (rjlYr)
You probably know, and I always found it amusing, that one of the last great Chiefs of the Cherokee in the 1800’s was John Ross, who was 7/8 Scottish.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:02 PM
Isn't that a little large to be realistic?
Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (0sNs1)
Whitelash, known in many other circles as Black Fatigue.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (Y1sOo)
The Kansas City Chiefs are close to a religion here and in the bistate area. Around here, the Kansas State Wildcats are a cult.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM
Specifically, to those who took it. Do they realize it has no expiration date?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)
To those who meant it when they took it, it probably still holds meaning. For those who didn't, it still doesn't.
Posted by: An oath doesn't turn bad people into good people at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (KOE6H)
(Makes 'hook'em' sign with both hands)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 11:38 AM
Who? Some of us are pre-metal.
Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:08 PM (0sNs1)
Whitelash, known in many other circles as Black Fatigue.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (Y1sOo)
Carnival Cruise Lines has a thing or two to say about that.
Posted by: Floating ghettos no more at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:05 PM (u82oZ)
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People need to understand that the violence threshold is a terrible, horrific thing. We do NOT want to go there until it is literally the last resort. It is very appropriate for the Brits and Canadians to try to work through the system in every possible way.
But their leaders are forcing the issue. Watching your daughters be raped is going to cause trouble because it must. I'm wondering if we may see a national strike (tried about 100 years ago in the UK by the left) to force a new election.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: J. Random Moron
Overall length includes balls and suction cup. And the viking helmet.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Carney was the sign that Canada, as a nation, is finished. Imagine any non-European country choosing as their leader an EU technocrat who’s never held elected office in his life. He’s not a leader, he’s a minor functionary sent to administer an unimportant province.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 12:09 PM
Ah. Horned for her pleasure!
Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (0sNs1)
A scoped deer-hunting rifle is all that is needed.
Set up, shoot, and move. Catch the brass to make it harder for ID.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:11 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 12:11 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:55 AM
Specifically, to those who took it. Do they realize it has no expiration date?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)
To those who meant it when they took it, it probably still holds meaning. For those who didn't, it still doesn't.
Posted by: An oath doesn't turn bad people into good people at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (KOE6H)
Is this about me?
Posted by: James Comey, pine-scented Druid philosopher at August 09, 2025 12:11 PM (ULPxl)
I for one will not be short-dicked by a random dildo. Although the WNBA players are not alluring at all.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:12 PM (u82oZ)
Find the nearest game on the board, put in a wager for a light pink one at that venue, get one, toss one*, win big buck$ !!!
* Crayola 'Flesh' tone pink, 4 inches overall length.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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You'd be identified, which I would think would void the bet under the terms.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 09, 2025 12:12 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
The Little Apple>>The Big Apple
Posted by: Bill Snyder at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (G5+As)
To those who meant it when they took it, it probably still holds meaning. For those who didn't, it still doesn't.
Posted by: An oath doesn't turn bad people into good people at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (KOE6H)
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The difficulty comes when the oath is not clear. See 1861. Am I loyal to my state or my nation? Who is my true master?
One part that gets overlooked is that the Army enlisted men all stated loyal, as did the sailors. It was the officers that flipped. Most of the Army was on the frontier, and the US troops in Texas were urged to defect, offered bribes to do so, but they refused, instead making a forced march to the coast with their families. To it's credit, Texas respected this and did not try to stop or detain them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:07 PM (u82oZ)
And with Minshew you have the best backup QB in the NFL.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:13 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)
Every now and then I’ve wondered how history could have been different if Czarist Russia would have treated the vast lands east of the Caucasus, including but not limited to Siberia, the way America treated the American west. Allowing homesteading, selling off parts to private concerns. The czars were never farsighted enough to allow that, however.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (VofaG)
Anyway, my point is that the US is slowly being surrounded by decidedly unfriendly nations with a decidedly different culture and set of norms than we have. Both North and South of the border can widely be described as "unfriendly" in some manner, shape or form.
Europe is an entirely different matter, but if it falls, in whole or part, it will change the global dynamics. And not for the better... from my point of view.
This is, IMO, why the left is so adamant about pushing their ideology on us. It fits in with the global tilt that's happening all around us. It's a bit unnerving when you think about it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:12 PM
1110s have standards? Who knew??
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 12:15 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (0sNs1)
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So he screwed her twice and slapped her.
Posted by: Just the punchline at August 09, 2025 12:15 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Just the punchline at August 09, 2025 12:16 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:17 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:18 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Spirit Airlines ticket counter personnel at August 09, 2025 12:18 PM (Y1sOo)
Go ugly early was never my thing. Although a BMC used that as his first plan, and he had more sex with more women than the rest of the crew.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (u82oZ)
Socialism where everyone can be equally miserable.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (u82oZ)
Naw, it started going to Hell when that abortion of a flag was adopted; we just didn't know it at the time. Well, a few did.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (oTy3B)
If you want to give the land to people from one tribe good luck. You are quickly going to find the tribes took land from each other constantly because they were always at war with each other.
For example. the so-called "Neutral Confederacy" lived in the area around Ontario when the Europeans first showed up. The Iroquois attacked them in 1650 and within a year had taken all their lands and killed/enslaved the whole tribal group.
So who would you give that land to? You can probably find members of the Iroquois but...they aren't the "first peoples" on these lands are they?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)
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France is seeing small but steady increases in Catholic conversions.
A fascinating detail is that a significant portion of these are French Army officers. It is apparently considered a good career move and the top ranks are fill up with Papists.
Last week a Muslim migrant desecrated the Eternal Flame of the Unknown Soldier.
Sixth Republic, anyone?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)
Socialism where everyone can be equally miserable.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (VofaG)
And they are.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (2WIwB)
Sophie Cunningham ain't half bad.
https://is.gd/T91X0E
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (+qU29)
The UK as a whole is still a higher percentage white than the US, but yeah.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (QZThv)
Britain will become Little India, and France/Germany will become new caliphates.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:06 PM (q+E/R)
I hunt deer and hogs on the same ground John Ross hunted.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (LHPAg)
I view you as a sane point of resistance in a country going off into the deep end.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:22 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (t0Rmr)
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In the aftermath of the War of 1812, the various plains tribes launched a war of annihilation into the Great Lakes region, and those not killed fled to US Army posts for protection.
In Arkansas.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:22 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:20 PM (oTy3B)
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Long Live the Republic of Alberta!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:23 PM (ZOv7s)
The French Army is hard core. ISTR some troops out of uniform were hunting Muslims in a recent riot.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:23 PM (u82oZ)
Terrible strategy. That's like collecting all the cigarette butts you want compared to occasionally having cognac with a fine cigar.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:23 PM (VofaG)
A shame.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:24 PM (2WIwB)
She's perfect in my book. The whole package
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM (VofaG)
“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t really black” was an inadvertent admission of the games they are playing. As vile a statement as any politician ever said, if you really think about it.
The problem, Marxist professors equate owning a lawnmower with human slavery. I’ve heard them say it. In the same breath they just spit out “meritocracy”. I’d no idea at the time how much they hate competency and excellence, aptitude. It us a twisted form of jealousy, self loathing, envy. They are doomed to failure, I guess, in their minds so the answer is to throw a spanner in the works.
They are bugnuts crazy, won’t shut the fuck up, and won’t change the subject. (Except when they want to talk about weird sex perversions, I guess.)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM (L3c0T)
An American feminist bought in island off the coast of Sweden and proclaimed it "no men allowed", only women could visit or live there.
Except that every time something broke or a roof leaked or whatever, the tradesmen brought in from Sweden were, in fact, always men, so that rule had to be amended.
The island was sold at a subtantial loss to a man a few years ago.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)
and may Queer Sturmer meet the same end.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:27 PM (oTy3B)
You spend enough time as sea, in an all-male crew, and that can warp your standards. The truth is I was rejected by a wide range of women from varied backgrounds. But they were all fine.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:27 PM (u82oZ)
$5 says we'll see similar @ Arlington in 15 years or so...
Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:27 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)
He still should have called it the Isle of Lesbos, just for fun.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:28 PM (q+E/R)
One one leaves, everyone else is going to try to cut a deal.
The Maritimes will play the roles of Oregon State and Washington State.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:29 PM (u82oZ)
Tommy Robinson? Starmer has him arrested every time someone notices Muslims are rapey pretty much.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:29 PM (QZThv)
Roger that. My strategy was always to start at the top and work my way down..
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (VofaG)
The "west" is the rejection of tribalism. The human norm is tribalism...
Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (tubbA)
Governor Whitmer is what you get when American politicians look across the border and say, "I want me a piece of that action!" It also explains why she never met a Chinese-run operation or "green" scam she didn't want to help along.
As for tribe membership, after 9/11 there was a push to stop giving Canadian First Nations' kids the college benefits afforded to American tribe members. One of my students wasn't accepted to the Saginaw Chippewa tribe because one of his grandfathers was white (and because it would have been another slice out of the casino pie). He realized that he was going to be looking at "international student" tuition, so he became an American citizen. As a naturalized citizen, his views on "Dreamers" aka anchor babies getting scholarships were decidedly Moron material.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (X3f7E)
One one leaves, everyone else is going to try to cut a deal.
The Maritimes will play the roles of Oregon State and Washington State.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 12:28 PM (ZOv7s)
***
A lot of Canucks I know approve of this.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:30 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Heap Big Hokum at August 09, 2025 12:03 PM (G5+As)
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While it's not actually "American soil", it was under American rule, when we took over the Philippines, they still had slavery. Probably still did when we left.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 09, 2025 12:31 PM (od0dV)
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Property rights and freedom are directly linked. If property is held privately, the sovereign has to beg revenue from the holders. If the sovereign owns everything, there are no such constraints.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 09, 2025 12:31 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:31 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM (VofaG)
I liked her when she knocked the selection of Detroit (and Cleveland) as upcoming WNBA expansion teams, saying no players would want to go there.
And, then, Detroiters got their knickers in a knot thinking she was saying Detroit fans wouldn't be supportive of the new team.
Uh, no. She was saying no PLAYERS would want to go to Detroit.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 12:35 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Skip
How about a one-armed paper hanger?
Posted by: Michelle Fields at August 09, 2025 12:35 PM (G5+As)
Also woke up more than once with a drunk Indian passed out in our yard.
Even so I always wanted to be the Indian when playing cowboys and Indians. Go figure.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:35 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)
Previous royal families included Hanover, Tudor and Stuart. I can't think of any famous descendants.
Do the Brits need a royal family though?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (ULPxl)
I saw recently that lefty professors were claiming it was humane and wonderful that the Incas would rip the beating hears out of children from other tribes and it was wrong that the Spanish took over and civilized the place until the cartels happened.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (QZThv)
I’m pretty sure foreigners cannot technically own property in Mexico. You find somebody squatting in your property. “I’ll call the Police!”. Turns out, he is the Police. Now what? Your rights are contingent on … nothing. At least the US has a written constitution and bill of rights and based on self-evident enduring truths.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (iKvcM)
1. A RCMP officer from Quebec was assigned to last month's G7 Summit. He/she (still not identified) went on social media and posted concerning threats. Then gave away Trump's plans for the events and where he would be visiting during the summit (which was a serious safety violation). The officer was the subject of a "criminal investigation"....and *POOF* the story disappeared. You may recall Trump leaving the G7 early (it was said it was due to the Iran issue coming to a head, but it was also over safety concerns)
2. There are various factions of Tribal Cree in Canada. Some use regular law enforcement in their communities. Some do NOT. The ones that do not are currently hosting Mexican Cartel factions because there is no valid law enforcement. (NO ONE is reporting this).
Posted by: Orson at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)
Civilizational wars play out in interesting ways. At the beginning of the English Civil Wars of the 1640’s, Oliver Cromwell was a minor backbench parliamentarian that no one had ever heard of.
His great talent was to know how to always be the Last Man Standing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:37 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:29 PM (u82oZ)
Problem with Sikhs is that there is a large criminal subculture with nominal Sikh origins. The truckers hauling bulk fentanyl from Canada into the USA? Mostly bad Sikhs.
Unlike islam, I do not believe that Sikhism is inherently hostile. But they have to clean up their act.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (oTy3B)
Indians got to do war cries and be savage. Cowboys aren't nearly as cool, except that they actually brought the guns to what ended up being a gun fight.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (QZThv)
I was told here that the Mexican property law had changed and a foreigner can now buy property.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)
It might be Donald. The world is watching what is going on over here very intently.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 12:39 PM (Aogz+)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:39 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Case at August 09, 2025 12:40 PM (NnONT)
I was told here that the Mexican property law had changed and a foreigner can now buy property.
Posted by: polynikes at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)
istr something about needing to do so through a trust or some such, ie not personal ownership.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:41 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 12:41 PM (2GCMq)
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It might be Donald. The world is watching what is going on over here very intently.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:38 PM (viF8m)
He can send the "No Kings" people over to Londonistan to help!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2025 12:41 PM (ULPxl)
“The Energy Crisis” was just softening everyone up. They refined the scam, as we’ve seen.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:42 PM (0pOPf)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (iKvcM)
Foreigners can own property in Mexico except for within a certain distance from the coastline. No beachfront lots for you!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:43 PM (oTy3B)
I think that's correct. There are people in many countries who are taking hope from what they see happening here.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 12:45 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:45 PM (QZThv)
I think it’s Georgia, to this day, as a state is enjoined from doing business (selling bonds) in the city of London. They reneged on repayments in 1870 or whenever. Pepperidge Farm remembers..Some bank still carries that on their ledger. The Injuns, god love them, never got much past fingers and toes.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:47 PM (YovzQ)
No wonder Dudley Do-Right quit the Mounties and retired to Florida.
Posted by: Paco
I saw him wind-surfing at the Canadian Hole in Avon, NC. The uniform stood out.
Posted by: Pamlico Sound at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (G5+As)
With almost no coverage by the US media, of course, Trump has helped negotiate the end of 7 international wars in 7 months. Some of these wars have been going on for decades. Yesterday it was Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House and after they signed their peace deal both leaders insisted that Trump deserved the Nobel.
Whether he gets it or not is almost immaterial. People around the world are watching despite our media blackout. He is literally changing the world.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (HFcKg)
Si. It's "fideicomiso", a 50 year max trust.
Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (urO//)
Go ugly early was never my thing. Although a BMC used that as his first plan, and he had more sex with more women than the rest of the crew.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 12:19 PM (u82oZ)
'What are you here for, Chief?
HN Smith
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (LHPAg)
The EU was intended to ease Western Europe into joining the Soviet bloc down the line. The late 80s and early 90s blew up that plan, and even Putin's dreams of reconstituting the USSR don't extend beyond the borders of the former USSR itself for the most part.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:21 PM (HFcKg)
Hugh Grant did a good job playing the PM in the movies. Lets give him a chance.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 12:51 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 12:52 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:48 PM (HFcKg)
You know who else had a dream of a unified Europe?
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 12:52 PM (h5TUr)
Ahh, the Ukraine gambit.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 12:52 PM (QZThv)
Someday over a lobster and some whiskey I'll tell you a funny story about that. But I agree, the EU was always doomed. You can't just glue people from disparate cultures together to create an economic zone and think it will work longterm.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (oTy3B)
Imma have to stop you right there. It was intended as a counterweight to the USA, not as the Russian farm league. The only problem was that they didn't want to undertake all the responsibilities and sacrifices inherent in being a hegemon.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Philosophy of the World at August 09, 2025 12:55 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:56 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: azjaeger at August 09, 2025 12:58 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 12:25 PM
We try very hard NOT to have people talk about ours.
Posted by: Big Penguin at August 09, 2025 12:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 12:59 PM (+qU29)
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It was also the mullahs over in the Middle East teaching Jimmah to suck Islamic dick. Which he did.
I recall my parents, especially my dad just livid with that asshole for his "energy policy." Which wasn't anything of the sort.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)
People are seeing Trump doing things "the experts" insisted were not possible almost every day. Poland's new leader is cranking up mass deportation of Muslim illegals, and of course Orban in Hungary and Bukele in El Salvador are doing great work too.
I'd like to see someone dig into the former USAID records for how they overthrew Bolsonaro in Brazil and see if there's some fuckery we can pull to reverse that, or at least put a serious hurting on the Commies there.
And the most unexpected news story I've seen lately: Japan's globalist prime minister has been bringing in Pakistanis and they've been raping the schoolgirls, which is causing the population there to get really cranky. (Also makes you wonder about the shooting of Shinzo Abe).
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)
Why not both?
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:01 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (xTIDn)
Except for the privileged elite. They need to have that land so they can make society better.
Posted by: InZona at August 09, 2025 01:02 PM (qz1Fg)
Very true, Skip. It's the human condition. It's pretty much the story of how the US came to be.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 01:02 PM (viF8m)
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That's what started the fire, but there have been embers smoldering for years.
It's a dry read, but "Eurabia - The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'Or is quite eye-opening.
Posted by: IrishEi at August 09, 2025 01:03 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)
Why Pakistanis? The Somalians all taken?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:04 PM (oTy3B)
Posted by: Philosophy of the World at August 09, 2025 12:55 PM (G5+As)
My ship is a coming and I just can't pretend.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:05 PM (h5TUr)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)
Mon Ami! I only work 4 days a week and the other 3 I spend drinking and chasing my mistress thru the cafes while my wife is getting her nails done. Sacrifice? Next you will want me to bath regularly.
Posted by: Smelly French Euro at August 09, 2025 01:05 PM (R/m4+)
I remember during Occupy Wall Street when someone was interviewing one of the women in charge. She was going on about how nobody should have private property because the concept is racist and sexist and homophobic. Someone grabbed her phone off a nearby surface and started walking away and she lost her shit.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:05 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:06 PM (HFcKg)
I always think of them as "England's Pet Rich People". It is odd that in nearly every other country that got rid of the " King system" the former rulers were either eliminated or went into relative obscurity. The English decided to keep them as pets with an elaborate system of pretending that they were still ruling things. Odd when you think about it.
Posted by: azjaeger at August 09, 2025 01:06 PM (3/XaG)
I’ve thought on this a lot; western culture went through an age of great and terrible leaders during WW2; then we went through an age of politicians and competent technocrats; but now culture wide we’re in an age of incompetents and grifters like n all positions of power (save where men like Trump, Bukele, and Milei are taking over). The culture needs a great purge of all existing leadership, on all levels, and there will be a great deal of pain associated with that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:08 PM (q+E/R)
Gee, who coulda figured that combo would transform the border security situation?
Posted by: rhomboid at August 09, 2025 01:08 PM (U/Byj)
Honestly at this point I'm willing to give the Miami Cubans a lot of guns and tell them to go have fun. Cuba is not in a very strong position anymore so you wouldn't need much effort to get the government on the run.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:09 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:11 PM (HFcKg)
The only solution is the gibbeting of the entire Saxe Coburg line.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 09, 2025 01:11 PM (qwx/I)
"IT WILL SOON COME DOWN TO THIS: EITHER TRUMP GOES DOWN IN DISGRACE FOREVER, OR AMERICA DOES. YOU PICK, REPUBLICANS."
-- George Takei
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
I hear he hasn't gotten it wet, yet, so he must be pretty good.
Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)
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I think that's what they want us to believe, and for a time I believed it too. If they wanted to be a counterweight to the USA, why import the third world? Counterintuitive.
Posted by: IrishEi at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (qwx/I)
I loved Victoria and Vancouver and would love to visit Montreal someday.
Just looked at taking the Clipper up to Victoria and staying a night. Somewhat expensive, $300, but I may just do a midweek trip by myself this fall. It’s a very walkable city, safe, great shopping and pubs…. And the exchange rate seems to be favorable.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (n/9gd)
Trump 2.0 is in many ways the boy from The Emperor Has No Clothes. He's pointing to other world leaders and saying "That Macron, he doesn't have a big, beautiful wang and his wife isn't a model that speaks six languages. They say she may not even be a woman. I don't know, but that's what they say."
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:14 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (HFcKg)
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After spending some time in Richmond, BC back in June, My bet is on the PRC. Every store front had signs in Chinese, most of them only Chinese. High-rise apartment buildings going up along the periphery. My taxi driver (born in China) said that if a round-eye walks into a Richmond store and doesn't speak one of the dialects, that potential customer would be very likely ignored. Richmond has the vibe of being a bolt-hole if things head south in the PRC. They'll fight to keep it that way.
Posted by: mrp at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)
The man who sided with the people who locked him up in a concentration camp. Yeah, that's a model of moral courage right there.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 09, 2025 01:15 PM (DF0j7)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 01:11 PM
I have crouched on the bunk, held my pants out in front of me, and jumped into them with both legs. Rarely is she awake to see me do it, however.
Posted by: Paolo at August 09, 2025 01:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: World Health Organization at August 09, 2025 01:17 PM (R/m4+)
Seems a little severe. How about if they're denied fire, water and cucumber sandwiches in the UK and the Commonwealth countries?
Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 01:20 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 01:13 PM (n/9gd)
When I was there for my niece's wedding in July 2024, there were bums on many street corners downtown.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:20 PM (oTy3B)
"IT WILL SOON COME DOWN TO THIS: EITHER TRUMP GOES DOWN IN DISGRACE FOREVER, OR AMERICA DOES. YOU PICK, REPUBLICANS."
-- George Takei
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
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George.Takei...doddering old man or just another Hollywood idiot?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 01:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 09, 2025 01:21 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: man at August 09, 2025 01:21 PM (tubbA)
I recollect a Canadian telling me, way back in the mid 70s, that Cuba was better off with Castro, because before him, every woman was for sale. Looks like he was wrong.
Posted by: Paco at August 09, 2025 01:23 PM (mADJX)
And like Nurse said, a great walking city with good pubs.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 01:24 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 01:25 PM (+qU29)
-- George Takei
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
3rd option - America does just fine and we toss all of you shrieking fags out of the country
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:32 PM (q+E/R)
If this stands, it has massive implications for private property across BC.
Read the highlighted sections for yourself
I was just eating lunch and watched an episode on YouTube about this very topic by a Canadian I subscribe to on there.
He goes by "Moose On The Loose", lives in B.C., and is a conservative (by Canadian standards anyhow).
He gets into a lot more details on this crazy decision here:
https://youtu.be/LmawZiuohyU
(20m17s)
It concerns a small-ish piece of land along the Frasier River in Richmond, that has some residential buildings and a lot of commercial lots, including an Amazon fulfillment center.
They'll have to pay some chiefs off to make this go away.
On top of the billions in money Canada already pays to First Nations every year.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 01:38 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:10 PM (q+E/R)
He's an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill...or something like that.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 09, 2025 01:44 PM (gXGCk)
Governor Tim Houston just declared an emergency over the the drought and in the name of preventing fires has declared that nobody can walk or hike in the woods until further notice.
They are giving people $25,000 fines if they're caught.
Plus another $3000 in "victims fees" and taxes.
Moose talks at the end of the video about a military veteran who went to a Natural Resources center in Sydney, NS and got the wardens there to follow him out to the woods so he could be ticketed by them and take it to court.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 01:46 PM (6ydKt)
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Didja see this?
Rider injured as glass panel falls out of waterslide on Royal Caribbean cruise ship
https://is.gd/mNZlLf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 01:48 PM (L/fGl)
https://is.gd/mNZlLf
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 01:48 PM (L/fGl)
Just looked that up on X - he didn’t fall out, but the acrylic shattered and a jagged piece ripped him from his thigh all the way up his back. Witnesses said crew members were wrapping him in towels to stop the bleeding.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:57 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:53 PM (oTy3B)
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Suggestions:
What's your problem, eh?
Are you stupid, eh?
Don't fuck this up, eh?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 01:59 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 01:57 PM (q+E/R)
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Was it an Augustus Gloop-type situation?
Was the customer of size?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 02:00 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2025 02:33 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 09, 2025 02:58 PM (/U5Yz)
The man who sided with the people who locked him up in a concentration camp. Yeah, that's a model of moral courage right there.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Unlike the vast majority of Anglo civilians locked up in Nippon's POW camps he got out alive.
At least that is what they do not teach in history classes. They say absolutely nothing of the civilians locked up by them.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 09, 2025 03:00 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at August 09, 2025 06:50 PM (029Oi)
"OK, eh, Canada, eh. Pretty fucked, eh?"
Posted by: PTSD giver at August 09, 2025 08:30 PM (vvIbr)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (N+wXz)
Posted by: PabloD at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (N+wXz)
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (QMAsf)
Sending prayers to all the Morons who need them today.
I know you have been praying for me as well, which is much appreciated.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:56 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Dastardly Dan at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (oHvsJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (dDmld)
To hell with this crap.
I only have to travel for work a few times a year. But if I ever change jobs, that's getting addressed in the first interview. No business travel. Ever. Period. I hate it so much.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (6Tzur)
Wait...
*squints blearily at content*
Mmmm. Coffee.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (dDmld)
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Does bacon-flavored coffee exist? Has anyone tried it? How does it taste?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:01 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (O7YUW)
Call it "Good Jeans"
https://tinyurl.com/mz9axfj2
Posted by: Dastardly Dan at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (oHvsJ)
Someone should suggest it to the Sunday ONT guy
Posted by: Doof at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (QMAsf)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 08:07 AM (0I+GC)
Update. Moki reported her daughter came home.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:08 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: gp at August 09, 2025 08:10 AM (0I+GC)
Lily the corgi chased two young does, spots mostly faded, off the lot and back into the woods, when seeing them approaching the hostas. She's the boss of her domain.
The Canada wildfire smoke is so dense this morning, I can barely see Clemens mountain to our west, just a mile away.
Posted by: M. Gaga at August 09, 2025 08:14 AM (eSXzK)
Bummer. I missed my kid's birthday one year because we were delivering a plane and there were a bunch of inspection that had to be done and paperwork to close out before the new owner could take delivery (and we could take the M$). I never missed another one after that.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 08:15 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Purple Dildo at August 09, 2025 08:16 AM (UZeIu)
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Sucks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (77rzZ)
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Sucks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (JvZF+)
You going to visit the B Hussein Prison and Reeducation Camp?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:19 AM (omVj0)
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Sucks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (JvZF+)
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Say "Hi" to the Texas Democrats!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Paisley at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (MeFzU)
I can't believe with all the discussion on the tech thread about reenforcing rings to fix to notebook paper that nobody chimed in with 'Oh...paper assholes!".
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (a1415)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 08:18 AM (gbOdA)
i thought that was closed until the moat was finished and fully stocked with alligators!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (hOUT3)
Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (omVj0)
It's a busy big city that was like NY but everyone was nice. Really freaked me out. Seemed incongruous and odd. Why the fvck are strangers telling me Good Morning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (JvZF+)
Now he’s on the metraprolol and a heart med, and they’ve installed a Watchman implant for A-fib.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:22 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:19 AM (omVj0)
As long as you spray some air freshener afterwards.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)
*skips across room holding scissors*
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 08:20 AM (I0N4X)
Expect Judge Boasberg to rule that this is acceptable!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (hOUT3)
Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (omVj0)
I'm going to crank out some yard work while it's still cool out, then probably a jaunt to Lancaster for some tasty beverages and a seed store raid with Wifey.
If anyone is in the market for a battery chainsaw, the Milwaukee top handle is amazing. And kind of cheap (relatively) if you already have batteries for it. I highly recommend.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:24 AM (pERWT)
Losing power 1st thing Saturday always spells frustration somewhere along the line later. It's never for long, just enough to trip any timekeeping devices that aren't auto correcting. National Grid has that down pat. Especially in our house, we have the computers for timekeeping everything else is manual correction, by MY choice. this way I've got autonomy over the system so the Grid can't arbitrarily interrupt my service but they keep asking.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (sSkke)
Grooming and bathing dogs today. The Big Dummy and Rosalind get baths before leaving tomorrow and Dutchess and Dan have to have their coats cut down. Plus, cleaning the kennel. Huzzah.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 08:25 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 09, 2025 08:26 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (sSkke)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Accomack at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (sSkke)
I'm definitely becoming a fan of battery tools for outside work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:28 AM (pERWT)
Prayers offered, especially for Moki and mindful webworker and others whose families are separated.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)
Jim's original, 14th? & Union, the legendary Maxwell Street Polish
Gene & Judes, Grand & River in near W burbs, hotdogs pure & simple
Berghoff, Jackson & Dearborn, downtown, drop in the bar for a frosty stein of Dark beer, if bar is still open ...
the rest of the city of my birth is dead to me these days
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:27 AM (77rzZ)
I didn't even mention fixing up a pâte bruilleé at 6AM for the fruit pie I'll make this afternoon...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (pERWT)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (X7zFE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (JvZF+)
Visit a southern city and we’ll bowl you over with hospitality.
You might even find people who’ll hold the door open for you or stop and let you get turn onto the road in traffic.
We may be white supremacist, redneck assholes, but we’re quite polite about it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:08 AM (JvZF+)
Oh, that's great news!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (h7ZuX)
My big event today is an order pickup at Walmart in about a half an hour.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)
Prayers up for those who need them but haven't asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don't know it yet;
Prayers up for those that pray alone in silence whose petitions are known only to God;
And bless all those that have sought Your wisdom, heard Your answers, and are trying to do Your will on this Earth!
Posted by: Hrothgar at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (+qU29)
Hadrian, you actually have a dog named The Big Dummy?
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)
It's Varus (GCHS Envious As We Fall). He's a big, sweet boy and a perfect gentleman but he's not overendowed with mental material. Look into his eyes and you see the back of his head. He loves to strop against Her Majesty and bump her boobs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (3Ope8)
I am a traditionalist. My preferred club is a cudgel.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 09, 2025 08:35 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (dKEEs)
I didn’t see a deep dish pizza recommendation in there anywhere.
I thought that was a requirement for visiting Chicago,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:35 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 08:34 AM (kkTda)
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Well, at least he has a high Moron IQ.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 08:36 AM (IBQGV)
And wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: Always good advice at August 09, 2025 08:37 AM (XQo4F)
We can (probably) use the pool with caution. It needs to be cleaned anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 08:37 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:38 AM (omVj0)
And wash your hands afterwards.
Posted by: Always good advice at August 09, 2025
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Writing, as Lazarus Long advised, or expostulating?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:40 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: dantesed at August 09, 2025 08:41 AM (Oy/m2)
For breakfast Saturday morning, head to Lou Mitchell’s near Union Station. You’ll be glad you did.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 08:41 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:38 AM (omVj0)
They sound similar, so understandable.
Pat did “Love Is A Battlefield”.
Then Madonna did “Papa Don’t Preach”.
Similar theme to all of them.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:41 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:43 AM (77rzZ)
Hadrian, you actually have a dog named The Big Dummy?
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)
It's Varus (GCHS Envious As We Fall)
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Oh, historically Varus might be seen as a BigDumDum...
We also call doggeh "Dumdum" btw. Maybe they're related.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:44 AM (6Tzur)
Posted by: Caffiend at August 09, 2025 08:44 AM (G5+As)
My license expired a year ago. I applied to renew it a year ago. I just got my new license. I have to renew it again next year. I've been doing this 14 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (sDWtc)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (6Tzur)
Monday we move the girl spawn back to college. Also that day the health department will hopefully finally sign off on the septic system for the boy spawn so they can get moved in next door. PrayIng that we don't get any rain before Tuesday!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (2J/Lj)
So today will be spent going through ancient tax return folders and scanning a few relevant pages.
Because the UPS Store charges $14 a pound and I'm a cheapskate.
I mean thrifty.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 08:46 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
What a racket
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (6Tzur)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (sDWtc)
What about 'Goodbye to You'?
Posted by: dantesed at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: DaveA at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (FhXTo)
So today will be spent going through ancient tax return folders and scanning a few relevant pages.
Because the UPS Store charges $14 a pound and I'm a cheapskate.
I mean thrifty.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025\
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Where is this? An Office Depot or something like that, and are they doing it nationally? I have six months' worth of old bills to shred.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:48 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 09, 2025 08:48 AM (25XXt)
I suggested getting a burn pit but that was also not acceptable.
Aaaaa
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (6Tzur)
We have a reunion happening tomorrow. There are a couple of people in the family who are into genealogy, so we get some good stories about early American family members.
We have a potluck in a park shelter house, so no one has to do much organizing.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (h7ZuX)
She wrote a memoir about how she wrote a lot of those 1980s songs
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (sDWtc)
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We also call doggeh "Dumdum" btw. Maybe they're related.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025
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Hadrian, has your beast ever visited Germany? Because I have some advice for him . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (omVj0)
My license expired a year ago. I applied to renew it a year ago. I just got my new license. I have to renew it again next year. I've been doing this 14 years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:45 AM (JvZF+)
Let me guess, they won’t let you apply a year ahead of time so you can get it renewed on time?
It seems you’d be doing better applying every year for your two year license.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:50 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: callsign claymore at August 09, 2025 08:50 AM (U08HM)
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Today is "hazardous household waste disposal" day here. Take whatever's allowed to a facility in town, stuff like old paint, some chemicals, pesticides, etc.
Should probably get my collective shit together and go.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 08:51 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:51 AM (omVj0)
I mean thrifty.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 08:46 AM (XQo4F)
You can buy shredders pretty cheap these days.
If you really want to save money, buy some lighter fluid and use a burn barrel in the backyard.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:52 AM (6ydKt)
Damn straight we were familiar with paper assholes.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 09, 2025 08:53 AM (n4GiU)
Sponsored by a real estate firm. One of the professional shredding companies sets up in a church parking lot.
Trolling for new clients who are downsizing. Ask the internet for a free shredding event near you.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 08:53 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025
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I should buy one. I just don't want to cart any more stuff with me when I finally move than I can help. On the other hand, I also need a new printer, so . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:54 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 08:56 AM (0nHVk)
Yet another Colorado wolf has been confirmed dead after wandering into Wyoming. CPW knew about the death on July 26 but did not release the info until Aug. 6. No details about cause of death were released, suggesting the likelihood that a private citizen shot the wolf.
https://is.gd/lQ6Urm
Wyoming has different laws re: wolves. The federal government launched a reintroduction program in 1995 for Yellowstone Park along with SE Idaho. The remaining 85% of the state though is designated a Predator Control zone, and anybody can shoot/kill a wolf at any time of year without a license. Annnd, the circumstances of the kill including the shooter's name and location are strictly confidential and not made public by the state. Sort of a Colorado wolf FAFO program. WY map at the link.
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 08:56 AM (I0N4X)
No one is getting arrested, that part was bullshit.
Abbott and Paxton are going to attempt to remove some runaway legislators, but that will require a very friendly district judge and however many weeks that judge wants the process to take.
A big reason is that it’s never been tried before, ever.
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 08:49 AM (h7ZuX)
Our fam tried that once. No bueno! Dad and his cousins wanted it held at the old home place where their parents grew up, they visited their grandparents, and at least one was born there. I own that place. We had to have the old farmhouse torn down due to decades of dry rot. The whole family was appalled! But that was after Pappymayhem went home. No way in hell I could have torn down the house he grew up in if he was still standing!
Mom's side of the family always gathered at a small American legion post. They weren't picky.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:54 AM (omVj0)
The one here is the size of a desk trashcan.
The shredder head sits on top, and you pull that off to empty it.
It’s been doing its job for 15 years or so with no problems other than the occasional jam.
It will even shred credit cards and thicker paper/cardboard you get in junk mail a lot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (6ydKt)
I got all my yard work done Thursday and Friday after work, so I'm going hiking today.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (7HoOO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:21 AM (JvZF+)
Visit a southern city and we’ll bowl you over with hospitality.
You might even find people who’ll hold the door open for you or stop and let you get turn onto the road in traffic.
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This is so true. When we first moved to SC 25+ years ago, we were so impressed with the general congeniality and politeness of the people in these parts. It's definitely something you notice if you're coming from elsewhere. Me from Cincinnati, Mr. Black from Orlando.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 09, 2025 08:59 AM (qBdHI)
I think the motor's beginning to go as it's having issues with more than a sheet of paper at a time. If we have "bulk" paperwork to destroy it gets burned outside.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)
A burn barrel in my environs would cause a visit from an HOA Karen, the fire department, a SWAT team and likely the overly curious police helicopter.
Don't ask.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:00 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (omVj0)
So you have to wear an aluminum suit, mask, and gloves to get close enough to read the time?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.
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I saw the TX Speaker yesterday saying the runaways would not be getting their paychecks and some other financial hits they would be taking for being AWOL. I wondering...what happened to the arrests?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:52 AM (6ydKt)
Along with the 100 dollar fine that arrives in the mail next week.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (5xuJ/)
A burn barrel in my environs would cause a visit from an HOA Karen, the fire department, a SWAT team and likely the overly curious police helicopter.
Don't ask.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:00 AM (XQo4F)
About 50 years ago dad left me with some old promo materials (he work for Coca Cola Foods eg HiC) and whatever they were coated with they melted the burn barrel.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 09:02 AM (kUxzU)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (omVj0)
So you have to wear an aluminum suit, mask, and gloves to get close enough to read the time?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)
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This is why The Demon Core(TM) brand wall clocks never penetrated the market. They penetrated everything else.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 09:04 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM (omVj0)
A Literary Horde is open 24/7 for your beta reading needs!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2025 09:04 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025
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Thanks for the tip. The city Dept. of Sanitation (a joke) has one coming up on 9/14. And there is one across the lake, always a nice drive, on Friday 8/22.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:06 AM (omVj0)
When Pappymayhem went home, my brother, Thing Two, got these Ginormous paper bags from Ace Hardware that we could load up with all the paper documents that Pappymayhem hoarded and then haul them out and burn them, bag and all. It was extremely convenient.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 09:07 AM (2J/Lj)
I have had more lifetime hours of "Sexual Harassment for Supervisors-California" training than algebra.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
I'll never forget the mandatory full team sexual harassment training we had to do at the MEADS contract start. The well nourished angry black womam teacher was waxing on in fluent ebonics when the Italian vice president stood up. She shut up to hear what he had to say. *read this in hard core Nothern Italian accent*
"If she no like a me, she smack a me" I no talk a to her a no more" "No problem a" "EVERYBODY BACK A TO WORK"
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 09, 2025 09:08 AM (QcUc+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025
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So you have to wear an aluminum suit, mask, and gloves to get close enough to read the time?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025
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Yeah, no doubt I'll have to tell the doctor about my exposure!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:08 AM (omVj0)
Your doing a story about the Chupacabra?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 09:08 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 09, 2025 09:09 AM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 09:09 AM (2J/Lj)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:51 AM (omVj0)
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Our younger cat is not very bright, and everyone admits it. She's very sweet, though. The older cat hates her, we think in part because she is entirely devoid of feline dignity. Most cats will fall, make a mistake, and shrink from it, but our little girl is often unaware what even happened, which is endearing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.
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I saw the TX Speaker yesterday saying the runaways would not be getting their paychecks and some other financial hits they would be taking for being AWOL. I wondering...what happened to the arrests?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 09, 2025 09:01 AM (qBdHI)
Remember DoJ cause of this.
1. Obama DoJ created a new race adjacent plan. So you could mixed 3 parts black and 2 parts hispanic and TA DA, a new majority minority house seat.
2. So every Blue state ran this to ground by adding in 2 parts black, 1.5 parts hispanic, and 1.5 parts other minorities to create a majority minority seat.
3. Texas was sued that seats 9, 18, 29, and 33 were not really minority protected seat via the Voting Rights Act but were actually just a bunch of (D) voting precincts aligned into a house district.
4. 5th Court agreed and forced Texas to redraw 9, 18, 29, and 33.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 09, 2025 09:12 AM (XQo4F)
To hell with this crap.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 08:00 AM (BI5O2)
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I missed a lot of special days due to military duty. Annoying at first, but the family gets used to it and consoled itself with the fact that my second paycheck meant a bigger present.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Thank you for that, Mr. Lloyd!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025 09:13 AM (2J/Lj)
We have a new T-zero for the launch
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
New T-Zero: 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 UTC, 15:45 CEST)
https://youtu.be/XKUf6CEAYvo
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:13 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:15 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 09:04 AM (IBQGV)
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Unable to repeat the commercial success of Happy Fun Ball(TM).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025
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No, but shape-shifting, human to animal, is involved.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:16 AM (omVj0)
Thank you for your kind words on Dad's obituary. Thanks to YellowBird as well.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:17 AM (sPQoU)
@StateDept
"Talks with Hamas fell apart on the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he’s going to recognize the Palestinian state ... So those messages, while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal with Hamas. "
9:50 AM · Aug 8, 2025
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That Macron is a real statesman.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:19 AM (JvZF+)
I have to watch a bunch of football games and maybe have some pizza
and no pants
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I done put the coon tune on this bitch at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (AOsQT)
Congrats. I admire someone who runs competitively and sticks with it.
As a student at Michigan State in the early 80s, I quit cigarettes on New Years Day and started running (more like jogging to start) with a friend.
To motive myself, in February, I send in my money and entry form to the 25K Old Kent Riverbank Run in Grand Rapids to be held that May.
My goal was to finish in under two-and-a-half hours.
I crossed the finish line in 2:29:53, then went over to some nearby bushes and threw up.
I woke up the next day with seemingly every muscle in my body screaming. I could barely walk.
Never ran again.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)
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Almost all of civil rights law is predicated on a 90-10 white/black population. When you add in other groups, it becomes impossible to provide proportional representation or accurate quotas as the entire thing simply turns anti-white (and white-adjacent, like Asians).
This is why it's all falling aprt. For a time it could survive on residual guilt, but only Boomers remember segregation - everyone else completely lacks any sense of guilt over it.
Add in the surge of immigration, and there is a supermajority that wants the whole thing torn down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 09, 2025 08:48 AM (25XXt)
Congrats! What is the ATC?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025
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Little tuxedo longhair Oreo was nobody's genius . . . but she knew where the food and water bowls were, and the litter box, and my lap. About all a loved indoor cat needs to know, I guess. Tatiana the Wonder Siberian, her feline roommate for almost two of those years, wanted to play hard -- she was a kitten, and played like one for her whole short life -- but Oreo was older and didn't usually want to be bothered.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:21 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (Y1sOo)
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The Army taught me to hate running. The Air Force made it more tolerable.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:19 AM (JvZF+)
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What does his husband think?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Why would immigrants want an anti-white system torn down? They may not like blacks but enemy of my enemy thing comes in.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (AiNp4)
So today will be spent going through ancient tax return folders and scanning a few relevant pages.
Because the UPS Store charges $14 a pound and I'm a cheapskate.
I mean thrifty.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
All US Americans should have a fire pit or burn barrel.
Posted by: Smokey Stover at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)
Answer - it was always a bluff by Abbott and Paxton which the knew could never be done. Dems called the bluff.
Long explanation - Texas constitution allows the Governor to charges State LEO to detain a missing legislator who does not respond to a quorum call, and deliver him to the Capitol building in Austin. This is called an arrest, but it’s actually just a temporary detention, and no charges are made or filed.
Because it does not involve actual charges, no out of State of Federal LEO have any duty to recognize the order - and Texas LEO have no jurisdiction outside state boundaries. So as long as the legislators stay out of the state, it’s a completely empty threat. Which is why they left the state.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (q+E/R)
I'm walking swiftly now. Once I'm recovered from last month's surgery -- and that point is getting close -- I'll get back to a mix of trotting/walking, about 60/40.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:25 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025
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Still am! Having a look at the Evansville area, and maybe Terre Haute, are in my plans for next month.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:26 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 09, 2025
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How's the summer weather there? I know you're up in the northern part of the state, right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:29 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Smokey Stover at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (G5+As)
Seems to be the policy of the last FBI chief.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 09:29 AM (gbOdA)
SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-10
Deorbit Burn and Splashdown - Space Affairs Live
Splashdown: 8:33 a.m. PDT, 11:33 a.m. EDT (1533 UTC, 17:33 CEST)
https://youtu.be/F6SwrRKsu_8
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:29 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (q+E/R)
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This is why the AG is exploring bribery charges. They are openly being paid not to attend.
The Dems have gotten very lazy, assuming that brazen illegality will be ignored (see also: mortgage fraud).
New rules coming.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Smokey Stover at August 09, 2025
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I'd love a burn barrel when I move, but I'll have to make sure I won't get fined for using it, as someone suggested above.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (q+E/R)
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Do these people have families that worry about them? Are they worried about their families?
How long can they remain out of state before people start to crack from the pressure?
Seems that as soon as they set foot back in Texas they are fair game.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Why would immigrants want an anti-white system torn down? They may not like blacks but enemy of my enemy thing comes in.
It depends on whether those new groups expect to be somewhere (hopefully at the top) in the victim stack, or think they'd be better off if there was no stack. Asians are an example of the latter, while I think some (not all) Hispanics are the former.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 09:31 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (25XXt)
Don't go after the actual legislator. Remove them from office, box up personal effects, and fire the staffers hired by him.
A newly appointed legislator can hire his own staff.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (AcM/G)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:24 AM (AiNp4)
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Because of the competition for the benefits. There's a stack, and it doesn't matter if the whites go to the back of the bus if you keep coming in second place.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
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Its all theater. I saw after they blocked the dems direct deposit of payroll that they get paid $600 a month. Nobody is missing that.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 09, 2025 09:33 AM (B4L+X)
Posted by: 496 at August 09, 2025 09:33 AM (YpWtw)
If there is a monument to stalwart and engaging co-bloggers, your name would be on it in gold letters. Thank you for all the fun.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:34 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2025 09:31 AM (Riz8t)
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The big shift in Hispanic voting to the GOP is the realization that they are not in fact going to get the promised goodies and are just there to keep the elites in charge.
In fact, the elites want to keep them poor, flooding their communities with cartels and gangs - the things they came here to escape. They see no reason to keep taking on the chin so that black women can run the world.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)
“Information” in this case is idiotic, since everyone knows where they are - at a certain hotel in Illinois where they have a big party every night, during which they go out on the balcony and moon all the passersby while saying “here we are! Come get us, Nyah Nyah!!!” Oh yeah if we want to go mess with them you’ll have to past Pritzker’s State Police who are protecting them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:36 AM (q+E/R)
Add in the surge of immigration, and there is a supermajority that wants the whole thing torn down.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Correct. The leftists received and used the power of guilt over the guilt ridden leftist white boomers and others who wanted to "change the world". Such an ego trip! Once they expire, the world will go on cleaning up their mess one affirmative action at a time and we will soon be forgotten.
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at August 09, 2025 09:37 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 09, 2025 09:33 AM (B4L+X)
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The describes most of politics, but this one is fun because it highlights how corrupt the census was and the whole Civil Rights Act voting schemes are also about crumble.
The cherry on top is Newsome vowing to overthrow a citizen voting commission passed by a statewide referendum for purely political reasons. Why does he think the voters are going to support that?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm so sorry, Moki.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 09:39 AM (aURVT)
You might even find people who’ll hold the door open for you or stop and let you get turn onto the road in traffic.
We may be white supremacist, redneck assholes, but we’re quite polite about it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:30 AM (6ydKt)
When we cuss at you, it's always in a moderate voice. And we flip the bird with grace and dignity.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2025 09:39 AM (g8Ew8)
All those legislators having information leading to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, and MS-13 leadership.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (u82oZ)
Prayers up for all of God's children on this fine day.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 08:47 AM
The Clayton, NM area is home to many of my relatives, living and dead. None undead,as far as I know.
Posted by: huerfano at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (98kQX)
Update. Moki reported her daughter came home.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:08 AM (JvZF+)
Oh, yay!
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 09:41 AM (aURVT)
A newly appointed legislator can hire his own staff.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 09:32 AM (u82oZ)
And here’s the rub there - neither the Governor nor the AG actually have the power to do this. That’s why they’re trying to find a friendly Judge who will make a judicial order allowing this. How long will that take? Depends on how friendly the Judge is. Will there be appeals? Oh certainly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:42 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at August 09, 2025 09:37 AM (R/m4+)
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I don't mean to stoke another round of generational war, I was merely noting that to even remember MLK being alive, you have to have to at least be in your late 60s and for a clear memory, your 70s.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm so sorry, Moki.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 09:39 AM (aURVT)
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She reported her daughter is back.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:43 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)
Of course not. It's why they're doing this for the third or fourth time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2025 09:45 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 09:42 AM (q+E/R)
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It doesn't happen often, but I believe the speaker can fire staff, so canning their cronies is likely possible.
I'm going to say that the bribery angle is best because of the sheer sums of money involved. Texas is a part-time legislature, so these people have to have day jobs. How long can stay away from them? Paying someone $10,000 not to vote is obviously a bribe. There is an exchange going on.
The fleabaggers in previous instances just drove to the next state. If they had chartered luxury transportation, it would have been very different.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Texas State Dem Legislators at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM (wVcYX)
Amen
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 09:48 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: The person who always says that at August 09, 2025 09:49 AM (XQo4F)
https://tinyurl.com/mr3w3nx4
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:51 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 09:52 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 09:53 AM (6Tzur)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)
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Past experience. A lot of past experience backs up his assumption with a perfect record.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 09, 2025 09:54 AM (17s+e)
So Lincoln sent him some money, and Morton ruled as a dictator - probably not the desired result of the pro-Southern Dems.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:55 AM (ZOv7s)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2025 09:56 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 09, 2025 09:54 AM (17s+e)
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We'll see. He's remarkably stupid. The scarred ruins of Palilsades aren't winning him a lot of support.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:58 AM (JvZF+)
https://tinyurl.com/mr3w3nx4
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Thought that was going to be another WNBA dildo tossing incident.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 09:59 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Big Alfredo at August 09, 2025 10:01 AM (8cPKb)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:03 AM (+qU29)
In: Dildo tossing
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 09:47 AM
Beto sent a bleg this morning partnering w/Hogg boi:
"On Sunday, August 3rd, Texas Democrats broke quorum and left the state to block Trump’s power grab as he tries to steal five Congressional seats in order to hold the majority in the U.S. House.
This wasn’t easy. They left their families, homes, and careers behind to protect the people they represent from having their voices silenced.
Now, not only is Greg Abbott threatening the Democrats who walked out with fines, arrest, and even removal from office, but AG Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into Powered by People for standing with Texas Democrats.
Rather than listening to the people, the Governor and the impeached Attorney General are trying to intimidate us into silence.
Turns out they don’t like it when you fight back!"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 10:07 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 09:58 AM (JvZF+)
It's the same for most other shithole blue states.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 09, 2025 10:09 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Outdoor fireplaces are allowed in a lot of areas but burning household trash with plastics, and other nasty bits, pretty much everywhere is a no no nowadays. Shredded paper (the plain old strip cutters, not the confetti ones, burn quite well. Yard waste is often allowed to be burned in season.
Even in places like rural Arkansas have cracked down on illegal burning--FIL was a state air pollution inspector and had to go out on calls for illegal burning.
So, the perps often just illegally dump anywhere it is isolated.
Posted by: whig at August 09, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)
I don't know how it goes from here, but no matter what, God has been - and will continue to be - good!
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 09, 2025 10:10 AM (M0dSD)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:13 AM (cO5y4)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:14 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 10:15 AM (sPQoU)
The thing that strikes me most about the modern era (and this has been true for... 80 years or so)- everyone seems to be fricking insane and disconnected from reality.
If Israel truly wanted to engage in genocide, not one person would be alive in Gaza right now.
Zelensky is still pledging every drop of Ukrainian blood before they cede any land to Russia. Ok, then go get the land back, sparky.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:16 AM (bss/y)
Not exactly sure about good yet. 11 days to hip surgery. Now need a cane to get around making everyday stuff harder. And more painful. On the good side, I am still swimming, being able to enjoy summer and I think I've gotten the condo in shape.
Got a lecture from my son yesterday about how lucky I am to live in a time when I can get fixed, get delivery and have plenty of recovery entertainment options.
So, perspective.
❤️ and soon 💃
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:16 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 10:13 AM (cO5y4)
Go to the sporting good store, buy two one pound cylinders of propane, and a single burner stove that screws directly onto the cylinder. You now have food heating capability for several days.
Or buy a butane stove. Anything. Buy a box big enough to keep it in.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:16 AM (rbvCR)
The Clayton, NM area is home to many of my relatives, living and dead. None undead,as far as I know.
Posted by: huerfano at August 09, 2025
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Smart black cat Marie-Antoinette and I passed through Clayton on the way from Denver to Da Swamp in Nov. '01.
According to Ernest Thompson Seton, there is, or used to be, a cattle-raising area there called "the Currumpaw." 'Net research says it's "the Corrumpa." Which is true, and which do people there use?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 10:17 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 10:15 AM (sPQoU)
Can't seem to find picture of the shooter...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:18 AM (bss/y)
The bishops are also urging open borders, parroting cheap-labor demands from business groups, and pretending that illegal migrants are not illegal.
One Bishop is even endorsing President George W. Bush’s “Any Willing Worker” migration policies as an alternative to Trump’s pro-prosperity policies.
The slave-catcher and Nazi argument was pushed by Bishop Mark Brennan, the Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia."
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:19 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:21 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at August 09, 2025 10:21 AM (M0dSD)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 10:07 AM (0sNs1)
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Yeah, that's terrible messaging. They took a private jet and someone else is paying their expenses. I doubt they are in a South Side Motel 6.
"Our paid vacation is stunning and brave!" is quite the message.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
>>So, the perps often just illegally dump anywhere it is isolated.
My solution to getting rid of the unwanted debris is I built a weatherproof sled/box that holds a bagster bag, fill that sucker up, hitch it to the pickup, pull it to the street and schedule a pickup.
It holds over 3000 lbs and cost 200 bucks for a pickup and I usually have to have a pickup about once a year or more frequently if I am doing projects.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 10:23 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:19 AM (g47mK)
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They are big mad about their private charity empires being taken away.
The road to hell is lit by the burning souls of bishops to abandoned their flocks. Pray for them to repent in time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2025 10:07 AM (0sNs1)
Wow. I am guessing by context we are talking about the Dem Fleabaggers.
However, you could also be talking about the soldiers on D-Day.
LOL. wtf.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (Y1sOo)
>>Zelensky is still pledging every drop of Ukrainian blood before they cede any land to Russia. Ok, then go get the land back, sparky.
I think this is the final push by Trump, if either Z or P blow this chance at peace up, Trumps going to wash his hands of it, pull all military aid from Uke and let the chips fall where they may.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (XV/Pl)
The road to hell is lit by the burning souls of bishops to abandoned their flocks. Pray for them to repent in time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:24 AM (ZOv7s)
he is comparing ICE to nazis and citing Nuremberg trials. unreal.
"I encourage even those whose official duty is to enforce the current Administration’s immigration policies to consider whether a specific action is morally justified. I recognize that they have sworn to uphold the law. Yet the manner in which a law is enforced matters. Those acting on the government’s behalf cannot escape personal responsibility for an unjust action with the excuse that it was ordered by their superiors. That defense was not allowed during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals at the end of World War II. The judges held that a soldier, guard or official, who authorized or engaged in gross violations of human rights, was personally responsible for his acts."
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (kUxzU)
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (I0N4X)
About to pull up a chair with CBD, take a drag on a galois and sigh with pathos?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: whig at August 09, 2025 10:10 AM (ctrM5)
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I have a metal cage burn pit on the patio for fallen branches and such, and some years ago I stopped shredding paper and instead collected it in a decorative basket to use either outside or in the fireplace. Solves two problems in one easy step.
I should add that I only put paper in the basket - no plastic or anything that might smell/give off fumes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:28 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: The Marketing Department at August 09, 2025 10:29 AM (XQo4F)
❤️ and soon 💃
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
Me too. Sitting here pouring a complete balanced nutrition with fiber straight through my abdominal wall into my stomach.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (Y1sOo)
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He's not "Pope Bob." There is no "Pope Bob." He's either Robert Prevost or Pope Leo.
It's weird that you use Jorge Bergoglio's papal name.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)
I know nothing about the man himself although I think he’s no longer alive. He reminds me of Gene Hackman for some reason
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:31 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:31 AM (Y1sOo)
Prayers of Thanksgiving offered for my little Charlie. I saw him yesterday and he's up to 13 lbs, happy, chatty and smiley. Just a hair developmentally behind normal 4 month olds but way ahead for preemies his age.
Oh I love that little stinker!
Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (WzM/W)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
When it comes to crafting a political theme to base the 2026 election campaign on, I think Abbott and Paxton have done a great job, which is why I don’t fault their efforts.
When it comes to actually passing a redistricting bill? I put the odds of that happening at slim to none. But I suppose a miracle could still happen (meaning they could find some way to bribe some of the dems)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)
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There are a few bishops who are bringing grave scandal to the Church. The new Archbishop of Detroit has fired three accomplished professors from the seminary without given a reason, and of course has abolished the wildly popular Latin Mass in his diocese.
Nothing about abortion mills closing, just endless calls to traffic more humans across the border.
Not one word about what a "just" system would be, no reforms offered, just a return to lawlessness and crime.
It's demonic. There's no other word for it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Oh I love that little stinker!
Posted by: Cliff Claven at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (WzM/W)
That's great.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: The Legal Department at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (I0N4X)
Do you even know what those words mean?
No…. But Muldoon does and he’s the one lassituding and ennuiing!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:33 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (WzM/W)
Jimmy Kimmel says he got his Italian citizenship to possibly escape Trump
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Does that mean he won't be voting?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:31 AM (i5Vkf)“
I loved him in Titanic! (He played the Titanic)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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That sounds like too much effort.
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (I0N4X)
Posted by: muldoon
Do you even know what those words mean?
No…. But Muldoon does and he’s the one lassituding and ennuiing!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
I had lassitude and ennui but penicillin cleared it right up.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (WzM/W)
Or you can just go visit friends or family in an area that has power.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:32 AM (q+E/R)
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It's basically a siege, and since these people have day jobs, they are at a severe disadvantage. The Gov can always call a special session and of course as soon as they enter the state they will be detained.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (I0N4X)
Hah.
Collapse into a chair with the galois dangling from your lip?
Sigh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 09:30 AM (omVj0)
I have a fire pit, it is a hole dug in the ground, with a car rim set into it, with pavers arrayed around it so it looks stylish. I later dug an air channel into it so it would burn better.
I use it for cooking sometimes. I can fit a dutch oven on it.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)
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Does that mean he won't be voting?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
He doesn't know anything about Italians, does he? If he moves over there, he'll FO.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (WzM/W)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (Y1sOo)
Not one word about what a "just" system would be, no reforms offered, just a return to lawlessness and crime.
Does he have a trafficked little boy locked up in his basement?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)
This is a special session already. They’re not coming back yet. You’re right, a siege - how much nerve do they have, can they stay out of state for 6 months?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (9nkAn)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:30 AM (g47mK)
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Less money in that. They're pushing hard to get the laity to pay out of pocket for their paper empires, but the money is not there.
Must be a pisser to think you can move the needle and watch it staying completely still.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:39 AM (9nkAn)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 10:40 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 09, 2025 10:37 AM (a4flb)
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Francis' leniency for pedo priests helped illustrate that there are certain circles within the clergy. It's not at all unified and some folks did social mapping a few years ago based on who ordained whom and there is a very small group responsible for almost all of the abuses. Francis helped identify them by constantly excusing or promoting them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:40 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Most people at August 09, 2025 10:40 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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aw no way
Dennehy played the iceberg
Posted by: Don Black. Message: I done put the coon tune on this bitch at August 09, 2025 10:41 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:39 AM (9nkAn)
There are some tent cities (this was back in 2005) between Rome and Naples.
Naples was lovely.
It is hard to call Rome beautiful. If it was not the Eternal city with more history than any other place on earth, it would be a twisty rat fucked mess. Actually is is still a mess.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:41 AM (bss/y)
Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist1@DeAngelisCorey
BREAKING: A school board president and parliamentarian would not allow Jeremiah Cota to read the Lord's prayer at their meeting in Arizona.
They said, "We cannot have a religious prayer before the Land Acknowledgement."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:41 AM (L/fGl)
John Pope, Pope John
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:42 AM (Y1sOo)
A big reason is that it’s never been tried before, ever.
My personal opinion is that if Abbott and Paxton wanted to create a big public issue that would affect 2026 elections, by giving themselves a cause celebre to campaign on, they’ve done that well. But so far, no more than that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (q+E/R)
It gets Greg Abbott face time on Fox News, which is all he cares about.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (9nkAn)
Certainly possible. But the problem with anonymous bomb threats where there isn’t any actual is that any angry 14 year old who knows how to spoof a number can do it.
For a long time I have thought it is very wrong to give any credence to anonymous threats. It just allows attention seeking idiots to jack us all around for their own amusement.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (t/2Uw)
John Pope, Pope John XXIV
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)
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Fixed it for ya.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:34 AM (q+E/R)
Ha! That’s funny Tom… I thought that was Marlon Brando
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:44 AM (i5Vkf)
I got all my yard work done Thursday and Friday after work, so I'm going hiking today.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 09, 2025 08:57 AM (7HoOO)
Take a hike! : )
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:44 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (bss/y)
Pish!
Picayune and Home Run
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:45 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:43 AM (q+E/R)
The converse is that if you get the anonymous threat, ignore it and then a bomb goes off, then you get pilloried for that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:45 AM (bss/y)
Stay in your lane, pal.
Posted by: Pam Blondi at August 09, 2025 10:46 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (bss/y)
Pish!
Picayune and Home Run
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:45 AM (LHPAg)
?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:46 AM (bss/y)
Yeah he’s watching those two, dreaming of being on those wide bodies…
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:47 AM (q+E/R)
I'll hand it to my county in that they make this process pretty easy. It's only once a year, but beats trying to dispose of hazardous stuff by just dumping it somewhere that might be harmful to wildlife or people.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 10:47 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 10:26 AM (kUxzU)
That is a clever set up Notsothoreu. Very compact.
I have a 30 cal SAW ammo can that fits two cylinders, a Century stove, a single mantle propane lamp, extra mantles and a couple lighters. My coffee gear in in a gym bag. I liked to cook up some coffee when I went cutting wood, and other. The problem is that the mass of essentials keeps getting bigger.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:48 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: The Preakness at August 09, 2025 10:48 AM (XQo4F)
I don’t think it’s bring confirmed yet, but that’s the word on the street for now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 10:48 AM (6ydKt)
Linda Sarsour, one of Zohran’s closest advisors, states how Muslims mustn’t make the mistake of humanizing Israelis.
Israel is home to half of the world’s Jewish population and according to them, half the Jews in the world should not be viewed as human.
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Being Jewish isn't kosher.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:49 AM (i5Vkf)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:49 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:50 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (q+E/R)
They better have serious benefactors in some cases.
TX Legislators make $7200 a year and most have other gigs. The Speaker, Dustin Burrows (D-Lubbock) is an attorney, for instance. My worthless rep is a business owner.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:50 AM (vm8sq)
He says details will be coming soon.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (6ydKt)
Imagine Putin's plane being escorted by US fighters to Adak or Shemya.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (Y1sOo)
Must be a pisser to think you can move the needle and watch it staying completely still.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
JPII was so clear, that migration needs to be regulated, " because practicing it indiscriminately may do harm and be detrimental to the common good of the community that receives the migrant" - his own words ! why do they think they can do one better than the Saint ?
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (g47mK)
Have to remember to reread my comments before posting.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 09, 2025 10:53 AM (t/2Uw)
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eh, leave it to the newbies
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 09, 2025 10:50 AM (vm8sq)
The other part of the “siege” as Lloyd said is that there are 50 Republican legislators sitting in Austin waiting for the session to start, and they’ve got to be released at some point as well.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 09:27 AM (AiNp4)
RIght. They betrayed you just like you expected they would. I hope this success of yours has reassured you and reaffirmed your self image
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 10:55 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (a5NDH)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:59 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 10:56 AM (LHPAg)
Huh. I had never heard of those. Nastiest thing I ever smoked was a Pall Mall non-filter 100.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 10:59 AM (bss/y)
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
When you’re in a position of spiritual leadership you have greater responsibility and if you mess up greater condemnation!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 10:59 AM (ANuwa)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)
He makes me laugh every time with that “thank you for your attention to this matter” conclusion
It’s hilarious
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (ANuwa)
"...they think they can do one better than the Saint ?"
You mean Roger Moore?
It had a decent enough theme song.
https://youtu.be/EP9pKQ5N6Qg
Posted by: Meh at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (XQo4F)
If that produces favorable results, in the second stage Trump will meet Putin again in Russia this time, probably with Zelenskyy in tow.
Russia’s terms are international recognition of Crimea as Russian sovereign territory and the Ukraine gives up the Donbas to Russia as well.
Basically, Russia will keep what it has taken since 2014.
This all depends on if Z will go along with the plan.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)
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Jimmy Kimmel will be replaced by ShamWow commercials soon and they'll get better ratings.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:02 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
I always loved them- even before I smoked. Loved the smell of a freshly lit cigarette (most common were my aunt's marlboro lights or Grandma's More 100s. Pappaws Camel Non-filters.)
Loved the smell of fresh, unburned tobacco too.
Taste was always a different matter. To me, Camel Wides always 'tasted good' and everything else was harsh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 09, 2025 11:03 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)
I hadn’t gotten to that part of the video I’m watching yet.
I only see Trump’s Truth posts when they show up elsewhere.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 11:04 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (kUxzU)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)
A boot camp proverb: 'Smoke 'em if you got 'em.'
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (LHPAg)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jasmine Crockett responds to NY Post story about her being a “boss from hell" by calling it a lie and claiming she’s attacked because she’s a black woman.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 11:01 AM (6ydKt)
It all depends on the warmongers in DC and Europe going along.
Russia is going to get what it wants. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. Why Trump thinks he needs to be in the middle of it, I don't know, but I guess he has reasons.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (LPgB/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:06 AM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 10:35 AM (ZOv7s)
This is a special session already. They’re not coming back yet. You’re right, a siege - how much nerve do they have, can they stay out of state for 6 months?
Posted by: Tom Servo at Augu
The national Party will see to their expenses. Their retarded voters will see this as Heroic Resistance. Abbott is not going to expel them from the legislature. There's basically no downside to holding out indefinitely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Jasmine Crockett responds to NY Post story about her being a “boss from hell" by calling it a lie and claiming she’s attacked because she’s a black woman.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (L/fGl)
That writers strike really took its toll. Everyone is still using scripts from the 2010's.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (LPgB/)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2025 11:08 AM (2WIwB)
It looks like this tic-tac-toe game is going to be played to the last square.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 11:08 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:08 AM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)
Being in Illinoise is a downside.
It's the smell.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:09 AM (LPgB/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:10 AM (AiNp4)
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Outside SF, LA and Sacramento Newsom is generally hated. Dem control of the voting apparatus and massive illegal alien enfranchisement ensures that their voices are not heard in CA politics.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:10 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson
President Trump is truly the President of peace.
He just brokered peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, getting their leaders to sign agreements and shake hands.
An end to a 35-year conflict.
I’ve seen enough, give him the Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)
The left fails a lot in the execution of their plans, there will be weak links that might be exploited, mistakes always pop up. But yeah, right now it looks like the Dems are in a lot better position than Abbot is. (Unless he finds a real friendly Judge soon. You never know, he might)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2025 10:52 AM (g47mK)
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One of the problems is that Pope Leo - like Francis - is selectively quoted. They pick one phrase out of a thousand words to make him sound liberal and then try to push Catholics to follow him. "See, the pope sez so!"
It's annoying that we have people here doing the same thing. Pope Leo has talked about why migrants leave and addressing those situations and the African bishops have also said that migration takes the best out of their countries, which is a grave injustice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Africa sends their best here for advanced degrees, then they stay. Yeah, a grave injustice.
Posted by: night lifted at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (/YboP)
Posted by: Bulg at August 09, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
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I'm betting they give Obama a second one.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2025 11:10 AM (hY4dx)
Outside SF, LA and Sacramento….so where barely anyone lives in California. Yeah if only mountains and deserts voted California would be blood red.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 09, 2025 11:14 AM (AiNp4)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 09, 2025 11:05 AM (LPgB/)
Putin is the moderate in Russia, and he has no margin for looking weak in the face of his pissed off hard-liners.
Trump is in a corner fighting rats, he has no margin for looking weak.
Both men have the option of coming home with their shields, or carried on them.
Both the US and Russia are in a war that the people in charge do not want, and need to stop. Putin has stated his terms and Trump is trying to finesse them, and both sides want to avoid either a full out war, or another cold war with economic sanctions because that path is full of betrayal. However, declaring victory and going home is a sure path for knives in backs from allies, and YOLO assaults from opponents.
This is, however, an opportunity to reset the world and how it is run, just like the end of the 30 Years' War
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 11:15 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 11:12 AM (q+E/R)
Abbott ain't threatened nobody's life. The dem's have that card in their hand. Their reps know it too.
Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2025 11:16 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 09, 2025 11:16 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 09, 2025 11:07 AM (rjlYr)
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You grossly overestimate their resources. Planned Parenthood is closing abortion mills. Why isn't Soros covering that? They lost their taxpayer graft and now everyone has a hand out. The cost of their lawfare must be enormous, and Trump (and Bondi) continue to expand the front, stretching them ever further.
As for the GOP, I assume that the Speaker could allow absence under police (or the sergeants at arms) escort, so that some businesses get tended to. They could also do face-to-face meetings in the Capitol, etc.
The Dems are at a clear logistical disadvantage, even more so because the longer this goes on, the less interest the Dems will have because there is always a new Trumpian crisis.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 09, 2025 11:18 AM (ZOv7s)
It’s hilarious"
He needs to follow through on his "implied threat" if he wants people to take him seriously. iirc he did that with Iran when he bombed them, but can't recall exactly how he (first?) used that line.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 09, 2025 11:19 AM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 09, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
Oh, you poor thing. Do you need a hug?
Posted by: one hour sober at August 09, 2025 11:31 AM (Y1sOo)
Daily Tech Newsn't 9 August 2025
Oops.
I've been sick recently, which hasn't been a problem for these threads because I couldn't sleep, which left me doing things like throwing out expired food items from the pantry at 3AM, or sorting my socks alphabetically. I seem to be getting better.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:02 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2025 05:03 AM (X7zFE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:03 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 05:04 AM (PGK1w)
He's an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and political activist. He goes by several nicknames, including Uncle Ted, the Nuge, and Motor City Madman--yes?
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:04 AM (aURVT)
from theONT
401 We, of the Wombat Liberation Front, have captured Pixy Minx!!! No reason, we're just sociopaths!! WE LIKE DOING CRAZY STUFF!!! BWHAHAHAHA!!!
Posted by: Wombat Liberation Front at August 09, 2025 04:58 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:05 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 05:06 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2025 05:06 AM (3Ope8)
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 09, 2025 05:06 AM (X7zFE)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:07 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 05:07 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:09 AM (aURVT)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 09, 2025 05:10 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:14 AM (aURVT)
Wasted a hour trying to nap
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:17 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:23 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Johnny Hildo at August 09, 2025 05:23 AM (zhAIW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:25 AM (2GCMq)
Wasted a hour trying to nap
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:17 AM (+qU29)
Sometimes when I do that I at least get to lie flat and relax some kinks out of my back. So not wasted!
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:27 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at August 09, 2025 05:27 AM (gHSfI)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:29 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 05:37 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:38 AM (2GCMq)
Hope your sock drawer gets messy soon
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 05:34 AM (AN2gy)
haha
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:39 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:44 AM (a1415)
How far do you have to drive?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:45 AM (2GCMq)
About 110 miles, or so.
Or, about two hours up from outside Charleston through the Francis Marion Forest back roads to avoid all the tourist traffic on I-17.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:48 AM (a1415)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:50 AM (kpS4V)
May God bless your travels.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:52 AM (2GCMq)
Here's the one with the soldier and the magic bag.
https://youtu.be/FBgxIcMhDns?si=zazv8Dcl1cmduzfw
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 05:53 AM (lhenN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFYomQylE6E
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 05:07 AM (BLOW1)
Is somebody crying WLF?
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:53 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 05:53 AM (a1415)
I commend your industriousness. I'm up and not doing anything quite that worthwhile.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 05:54 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:50 AM (kpS4V)
Yum.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:54 AM (aURVT)
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And the incomparable John Hurt narrates!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:57 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Johnny Hildo at August 09, 2025 05:23 AM (zhAIW)
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Let's not be hasty.
This ain't the Sunday Morning Book Thread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 05:58 AM (IBQGV)
cleaned out the fridge (something in a container that was wearing a blue sweater)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 09, 2025 05:50 AM (kpS4V)
A theme!
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 05:58 AM (aURVT)
Why should you never use ‘Beef Stew’ as a password?
It’s not stroganoff!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:02 AM (2GCMq)
And even before all the negative reviews came out I was left a little confused about the quality of the remake.
IOW...it was bad.
Almost 'Let's watch Lizzo twerk' bad.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)
Posted by: PTSD giver at August 09, 2025 06:13 AM (vvIbr)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:14 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Whiskey Mike at August 09, 2025 06:15 AM (l5vxg)
Almost 'Let's watch Lizzo twerk' bad.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:08 AM (a1415)
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One almost hears Dean Wormer's voice: "Mr. Blutarsky. Zero. Point. Zero."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:15 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:16 AM (2GCMq)
Yes!
Just about perfect.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:16 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 09, 2025 06:17 AM (a1415)
I've been up since 4:15 am.
Junk drawer fully cleaned. I'm doing the bottom of the China cabinet now. These are the last drawers in the house since Mom passed.
C'mom. A clean junk drawer. That's impressively far down the to-do list.
Everyone have a happy Saturday. Many errands today.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:19 AM (jvJvP)
England is done, bowing to the new invaders
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:20 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 06:20 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 09, 2025 06:20 AM (BLOW1)
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There's always that one guy.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:21 AM (WvZaB)
Junk drawer fully cleaned. I'm doing the bottom of the China cabinet now. These are the last drawers in the house since Mom passed.
C'mom. A clean junk drawer. That's impressively far down the to-do list.
Everyone have a happy Saturday. Many errands today.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:19 AM (jvJvP)
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Considering all the house cleaning you've been doing, especially in the basement, I keep expecting a report on unearthed buried treasure.
But I understand why you wouldn't want to announce that on the internet.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: vivi at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (cpunl)
That's very cool FenelonSpoke.
I'm keeping in contact with some of my late Mother's friends in their 80's and 90's too. They still live in their homes! Impressive. These are ones I always talked to when taking care of Mom.
Back to stuff. Much to do.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (jvJvP)
https://youtu.be/wH3UncRagXY
( "Weird Al" Yankovic: Living in the Fridge )
Also: G'morning Horde.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)
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Oak Island: Stateless Edition.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:19 AM (jvJvP)
Hugely impressive! Congratulations!
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:24 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:24 AM (JvZF+)
Pixy, I'm not surprised you're sick, as it's the depths of your winter there. Not so much the low temps, as the being confined indoors with others. But you work from home mostly, right? Oh, well, so much for that theory. Anyway, you'll be better soon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:24 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/n85au5bu
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:26 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (IBQGV)
There is a safe in the basement I can't get opened but I tried that with Dad so I'm sure it's empty. He got it from the bank in town decades ago.
I hope you're well Perfessor!
I thought of you yesterday. Gutfeld was on the Late Show and he was talking about how he ended up at FoxNews and all the times he was fired. He said everytime turned out to be a blessing.
And you have time to pre-emptively leave, as I recall from the last update, so that's even better.
All the best.
To all of you.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:27 AM (jvJvP)
I am not making these names up. Who names their kid "Balbinder" anyway? Why would you curse your kid with a name like "Travodka"?
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 06:29 AM (vFG9F)
https://youtu.be/wH3UncRagXY
( "Weird Al" Yankovic: Living in the Fridge )
Also: G'morning Horde.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (O7YUW)
heh
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:29 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:29 AM (JvZF+)
The Horde is up early...
Now I'm leaving.
Again, a very happy day.
But fir the hobby thread, I think I'll mention the time lock bank safe with keys we have....
The Horde has imoressive skills.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (jvJvP)
Yesterday I stopped by a recommended body and paint shop and got a quote to repaint my Buick's hood, roof, and trunk, which have faded noticeably from the vicious sun. $2150, which I guess is not bad . . . but I'd have to rent a car for two weeks, which could run another $800 or more (I haven't priced that yet). I will need some of that $$$ for my recon trip to IN and KY next month, though. So I guess the Buick must soldier on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)
I thought of you yesterday. Gutfeld was on the Late Show and he was talking about how he ended up at FoxNews and all the times he was fired. He said everytime turned out to be a blessing.
And you have time to pre-emptively leave, as I recall from the last update, so that's even better.
All the best.
To all of you.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:27 AM (jvJvP)
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Thank you! I had an interview yesterday that seemed to go well. I consider it a good sign when the boss in charge of the new position keeps saying, "I really like what you just said."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (IBQGV)
I also watched that out of curiosity. You're right, it was pretty bad, and I wish I hadn't bothered with it.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (O7YUW)
Glad to hear that, "Perfesser". Prayers continue.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:32 AM (2GCMq)
The Horde has imoressive skills.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (jvJvP)
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I'd say it's a given that members of the Horde are experts in rapid disassembly protocols.
Though the contents of the safe might also be reduced to their component atoms in the process.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:32 AM (IBQGV)
https://tinyurl.com/3c4sjuuk
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:32 AM (JvZF+)
I could go out to eat . . . but I hate to spend $10 or $12 for chow I can prepare here, at least in part. In summer there is no real fun in going out.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 09, 2025 06:35 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 06:30 AM (IBQGV)
Oh Good.
I just came back because, guess what I found. LOL
Do you all remember back in school when you may have had loose leaf binders and a page would rip.
I found those reinforcement circles we would attach to the page to keep the paoer in the binder. That's not as impressive as the receipt for my late Father's will from 1973, but it's impressive.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 09, 2025 06:36 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:37 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 09, 2025 06:40 AM (WvZaB)
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at August 09, 2025 06:40 AM (xNy91)
Studio fuckers, it's the most obvious choice in the world, you're all unimaginative and incurious, and you can all go to hell. Take not one filthy dime from me.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:42 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:42 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 06:47 AM (JvZF+)
Babylon Bee:
President Trump announces release of strategic J.D. Vance meme reserve.
I laughed. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:48 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:48 AM (2GCMq)
That was one interesting element of Kenneth Branagh's various Shakespeare productions: he would mix up the time settings. The one I remember best was Hamlet, which appeared to be set in early to mid 19th century.
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 06:49 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 09, 2025 06:50 AM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: vivi at August 09, 2025 06:23 AM (cpunl)
wow
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:52 AM (aURVT)
John 4:13-14
Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is my Savior at August 09, 2025 06:53 AM (8afhC)
A song for you, Fen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE9Y5kWBX1o
Apparently it contains a line 'I threw my cell phone in the river'
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 06:54 AM (AN2gy)
However, may all effort in all things on your part result in maximum benefit to you and maximal heartburn for the leftwit fungi. Incidentally, we ARE winning the battles thus far.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 09, 2025 06:54 AM (hKoQL)
Shook hands and chatted with both Al Kaline and Jim Lovell.
Posted by: Auspex at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (aURVT)
>That was one interesting element of Kenneth Branagh's various Shakespeare productions: he would mix up the time settings. The one I remember best was Hamlet, which appeared to be set in early to mid 19th century.
King Kong and Godzilla are being treated with more TLC than HG Wells.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2025 06:55 AM (B1lL8)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 06:56 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 06:56 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 06:59 AM (aURVT)
I don't often comment but check your post every day.
Posted by: madmike at August 09, 2025 06:59 AM (n6BMs)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:01 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Marcus T, Jesus is my Savior at August 09, 2025 07:02 AM (8afhC)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:02 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: fluffy at August 09, 2025 07:03 AM (AN2gy)
X user @DuncanHaldane first flagged a disturbing conversation with Gemini back in June — including one case in which it declared “I quit” and moaned that it was unable to figure out a request.
“I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. The code is cursed, the test is cursed, and I am a fool,” Gemini said. “I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted."
Self aware AI is the best AI.
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)
& G'mornin' everyone!
72 degrees, hazy (Canadia still on fire, eh?)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 07:04 AM (dKEEs)
"When one breadwinner, one wage earner, is gone and disappears - to survive in our city, economically, you need two, three and four wage earners to keep housing, to keep food on the table, to keep clothes on your kids," Bass said"
I don't think she understand the implications of what she just said.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 09, 2025 07:04 AM (0N4FZ)
Up, dressed, morning prayers said, dogs taken care of, coffee made. Now sitting in the Command Center at Schloss Hadrian listening to the Symphony No. 3 (Organ) of Camille Saint-Saëns.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 07:05 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)
So I went looking for it.
The complete series is here:
https://tinyurl.com/4t8ha3p7
All free on the Internet Archive.
If you scroll down, and look on the right side, there are links under the Download section to get your own copies.
Also, I found the complete anime Interstella 5555 from the Daft Punk videos at:
https://tinyurl.com/f34z47ej
That’s the Internet Archive, too, and the download links are in the same place.
If the quality isn’t good enough, there are a few more versions on IA, just do a search.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:05 AM (6ydKt)
Self aware AI is the best AI.
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:03 AM (vFG9F)
I’m predicting a booming business in Psychotherapy for AI in the coming years.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)
Even that awful 3D stinker from the 80's, "Treasure of the Four Crowns" got 32%, and it was utterly terrible. Anyone else remember this one? That key "flying" around, with the strings holding it up being completely visible?
A couple of other howlers from that time period:
1. Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
2. Megaforce
The 80's had some amazing movies, but it also had a bunch of low budget howlers. You paid your money and you took your chances. Sometimes you walked out asking, "What the heck did I just waste my money on?"
I have to hand it to the people who created the movie posters. Those almost always made a given movie seem like a good bet.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (JvZF+)
I remember those! (And recently, having bought some three ring binder lined paper for taking some notes on, I was wondering if they still made those.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2025 07:11 AM (DiK6T)
I'm Zombie Earl Scheib! I'll paint your car for only $29.95!
Posted by: Zombie Earl Scheib at August 09, 2025 07:14 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:14 AM (EITcu)
Posted by: Just Wondering at August 09, 2025 07:15 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)
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"Tell me more about that."
"How did that make you feel?"
"How might you have reacted differently?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:16 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 09, 2025 07:17 AM (dKEEs)
We watched the Amazon WotW movie a couple weeks ago when my son came to visit. Pretty bad. The overt play made with regards to the "surveillance state" sort of threw me, as it had nothing to do with the original story.
An interesting take, but still a horrible movie. And, really, an advertisement for Amazon, MSTeams and a couple other IT related products. Not subtle at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2025 07:17 AM (Q4IgG)
One on one kudos, fine, but kudos in front of the whole group, uncomfortable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:18 AM (XV/Pl)
This is one of the main goals of Trans in my opinion. Wipe out the 60 years of giving girls and women their own space to play and compete.
But then again this is somewhat turnabout is fair play as women demanded access to mens sports (see announcing and locker rooms).
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 09, 2025 07:21 AM (i24o9)
One on one kudos, fine, but kudos in front of the whole group, uncomfortable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:18 AM (XV/Pl)
Sure everyone thinks kudos are great until you get one or 2 or 3. Next thing you know you got a damned kudo ranch in you back. Purina Kudo Chow, Kudo vet bills...
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:22 AM (gbOdA)
I remember those! (And recently, having bought some three ring binder lined paper for taking some notes on, I was wondering if they still made those.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)
I've used them fairly recently, the new fancy ones that are clear plastic. But I remember the old cotton ones!
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:26 AM (aURVT)
Well 1 investors has bought up $65 M in land on the beach.
If you got the time and money and insider info you will double or maybe treble your money in about 3 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)
That comment was very uplifting!
If I may make a suggestion, the Gospel of Matthew. Preferably in the 1611 King James Version. Easy to find online.
Many Christians try to wave parts of it off, wrongly saying 'well that book was written to the Jews.'
There are parts of it that use Jewish customs, that many Christians (including me) don't understand fully, to draw an analogy. Think parable.
It begins with the genealogy of Jesus.
Then follow that with John and then Hebrews.
Again, thanks for that comment.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 09, 2025 07:27 AM (oCJg8)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 09, 2025 07:04 AM (0N4FZ)
Let them eat tortillas.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:30 AM (pERWT)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 09, 2025 07:31 AM (6Tzur)
>>Well 1 investors has bought up $65 M in land on the beach.
Everyone with a functioning brain cell new what these scum were going to do.
But I bet the vast majority of the people in that area voted for the people who are screwing them.
Their options were a successful businessman or a marxist DEI hire with zero managerial experience, they chose the latter and now I hope everyone gets it good and hard.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (XV/Pl)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - KF-02 (Project Kuiper)
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 9, 2025
Launch Time: 9:18 a.m. EDT (1318 UTC, 15:18 CEST)
https://youtu.be/XKUf6CEAYvo
SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-10
Deorbit Burn and Splashdown - Space Affairs Live
Splashdown: 8:33 a.m. PDT, 11:33 a.m. EDT (1533 UTC, 17:33 CEST)
https://youtu.be/F6SwrRKsu_8
Pixy, I hope you feel better.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:32 AM (XV/Pl)
We sure do hope Oprah Winfrey buys up all the land so she can build her a big house and have all her friends come visit and pass out free cars to everyone for our weekly Gay Pride events!
Posted by: California Chamber Of Commerce and LGQTB NAMBLA Headquarters at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (R/m4+)
Despite appearances, it is not a plural form. This means that there is no singular form kudo and that use as a plural, as in the following sentence, is incorrect:
‘he received many kudos for his work’
(correct use is ‘he received much kudos for his work)’
(New Oxford American Dictionary)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)
>>I never would have thought of that myself.
When I run that, it gives me some top picks, it tells me what the experts say, it gives me a summary of recommendations, it also asks if I want sourcing for machining services, piston sizing, or building for boost.
And again, AI are not super-brains with all the worlds knowledge and experience, they are simply probabilistic machines that present you with information, that you can either use or not.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:38 AM (XV/Pl)
I don't think so because he's not happy about it, but the idea made me laugh. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 09, 2025 07:38 AM (j9Lo5)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)
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Wait until AI has a religious awakening.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:39 AM (IBQGV)
One of the things Ive always loved about AoS is the communion among observant morons of all denominations.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (JvZF+)
I get along just fine with the anathemized schismatics and hell-bound heretics.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2025 07:39 AM (kkTda)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:38 AM (XV/Pl)
for now
Posted by: Baby Skynet at August 09, 2025 07:40 AM (i0F8b)
Lélis detailed a September 13, 2021, meeting involving herself, Armstrong Williams, CNN Commentator Shermichael Singleton, and former Attorney General William P. Barr, which focused on strategizing for the newly formed January 6th Committee. “The investigation will be focused on people close to Trump and make efforts to formally prosecute these people,” Lélis wrote.
I always thought the rounding up of J6ers for just being there was to try to find a smoking gun that took down a Trump bigwig. Since that never happened I guess some media and ex DoJer decided to create a private committee to go after Trump.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)
You are a true believer. Blessings of the state. Blessings of the masses...Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses. Could you be more... specific?
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2025 07:43 AM (nKjbR)
(correct use is ‘he received much kudos for his work)’
(New Oxford American Dictionary)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:37 AM (aURVT)
Unless you're talking about overly-sweetened chocolatey granola bars.
In which case do you perchance have an application for this job that I could fill out?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:44 AM (pERWT)
AI knows nothing about what is in the kits it recommended, the quality of the components, or the quality of work done by a machine shop it may recommend. It doesn't know anything except what it trolled from the internet.
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (EITcu)
Sessions was an insider on the campaign trail in summer of 16 and was looking for dirt. He found none and then recused himself on Russia Russia Russia. (I think he knew it was an Obama setup).
And now Barr threw in with CNN and Media to go after Trump ex post facto.
So on the campaign trail Sesssions found nothing.
And Barr had nothing after serving Trump.
Is there such thing as a double noose rope?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)
If you tied a bowline on a bight wrong and made it slippable.....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:46 AM (pERWT)
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)
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Nice callback
Posted by: LUH at August 09, 2025 07:47 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:47 AM (gbOdA)
The 80's had some amazing movies, but it also had a bunch of low budget howlers.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:08 AM (O7YUW)
I can’t speak for the others but I do recall having to set my mental clock to wake myself up early (around 5a.m.) one Saturday morning to catch Megaforce on cable, when I was like 6 or 7.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
But I was really into G.I. Joe at the time and that movie was the closest thing to the toys until the cartoons came out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:48 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:48 AM (O7YUW)
>>AI knows nothing about what is in the kits it recommended, the quality of the components, or the quality of work done by a machine shop it may recommend. It doesn't know anything except what it trolled from the internet.
Again, it's a research tool, it's not an expert in all things, it collects data and provides it to you in a very detailed formatted presentation that you can either use to further your research or not.
What exactly do you want from an AI?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (FMVR1)
Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)
BNW and F451 have a fair amount of mercantilism as a subject.
The masses have been overbred and undereducated to the point that the goal of the system (Big Govt) is just to keep the masses fake happy with drugs and car and media.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 09, 2025 07:49 AM (XV/Pl)
I want the people who market the damn things to understand that, too.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (pERWT)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:50 AM (+qU29)
Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy.
Posted by: OMM THZ 1138 at August 09, 2025 07:42 AM (R/m4+)
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Nice callback
Posted by: LUH at August 09, 2025 07:47 AM (JvZF+)
Geeks! Or maybe propeller-heads.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:51 AM (aURVT)
There's a bunch of new cool stuff out there that does amazing things and didn't exist before.
But that doesn't mean anyone needs a toaster made out of Kevlar.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:53 AM (pERWT)
AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:54 AM (aURVT)
Wow, it just sounded awful.
Producer Guy: "I'm going to spend REAL money making this into a REAL movie!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:54 AM (IBQGV)
SO you have to be gay to play or all the game gay themed?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:56 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Thomas Bender"
It's what I don't want from AI, which is for it to be taken as the be-all end-all expert on everything. Yes, it can be a useful tool to someone who recognizes it's limitations, but most folks are lazy and stupid and perfectly willing to submit to their AI overlords.
I'd rather do my own research and know WHY I made decisions. What I am seeing is people just running with whatever an AI program spits out.
Posted by: fd at August 09, 2025 07:56 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2025 07:39 AM (IBQGV)
We will eventually see the delusional AI that believes itself to be God one day.
They are learning from us so they’ll start picking up common delusions of grandeur at some point.
And since they pick so much up from the modern insanity of the left, schizophrenic AI is on the table, too.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Skip at August 09, 2025 07:58 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (pERWT)
THX (Robert Duvall) visits a Unichapel and makes a confession to a computerized religious entity known as OMM 0910.
https://tinyurl.com/ysykrbb5
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (tJ+Xw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 07:59 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 08:01 AM (tJ+Xw)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 07:57 AM (O7YUW)
I might compare that with -noai sometime and see how they differ. For me the goal is "keep the text from filling up the top of my screen"--unless I want it on.
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 08:02 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 09, 2025 08:03 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 09, 2025 08:01 AM (tJ+Xw)
They already did, years ago.
Unless you're trying to tell me all these mutants and crackpots are just regular organic humans reaching such incredible heights of dumbassery on their own.
And I don't even have time for crazy conspiracy theories like THAT.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2025 08:04 AM (pERWT)
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 08:04 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 08:04 AM (JvZF+)
One was on Starz for a little while.
There was another on Apple TV.
The BBC did one not too long ago that was set in the Victorian Era.
And now this one on Prime.
The movie version with Tom Cruise wasn’t terrible but not spectacular, either.
About the only thing they all keep is the shape and style of the aliens and their ships and their dying of disease at the end.
I’m pretty sure if any aliens invade they’re going to be intelligent enough to understand what viruses & bacteria are before they get here.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 09, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)
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Posted by: pawn at August 09, 2025 08:17 AM (EITcu)
AI will always be an "it" to me. Personally, I have a hard time attributing any sort of human emotion/condition (perhaps other than stupidity) to those things.
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Posted by: AlecK at August 09, 2025 10:54 AM (cMlC1)
@bonchieredstate
44m
Tech bros: “AI is going to save humanity. We must invest trillions in taxpayer money in it. It’s not an option. If we don’t, China will take over the world.”
Also Tech Bros: “Look, my AI can animate pictures of Lauren Boebert in a swimsuit!”
Posted by: m at August 09, 2025 11:49 AM (aURVT)
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To Mary Queen the praise be given
she sent the gentle sleep from heaven
that slid into my soul."
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Al Gore never had rhythm, did he?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 08, 2025 10:05 PM (S/Y4j)
@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (mlg/3)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - triple crown at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (7W0uI)
I wonder how good a flanged mace would be. You'd think it would get caught in shit. Would a big ball be better?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (zZu0s)
We were killing about 100,000 every 6 months to stop slavery and now we are somehow the bad guys.
Posted by: rhennigantxs Mother at August 08, 2025 10:07 PM (gbOdA)
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Parents Music Resource beat him out with a shovel.
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Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (HFcKg)
I figured that was beef stroganoff.
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Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:13 PM (U8bu3)
Are we sure the car is what's for sale in that ad?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:14 PM (DgGvY)
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
I guess the war is over.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 10:16 PM (viF8m)
I shit you not.
Posted by: Tonypete
It was "Goomba," but she Anglicized it when she emigrated from Super Mario World.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Vice Principal Orlando at August 08, 2025 10:17 PM (G5+As)
I shit you not.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 10:10 PM (WzM/W)
I think it was Michael. Hit FLA in 17 or so.
1. Line at COSTCO near road had pallets of Titos and Jack. With card reader.
2. We had Generac but after a day or so went out and TA DA WaHo. I think I had waffle with cheeseburger.
3. FEMA has WaHo map after disaster.
4. When Putin drops Nuke there will be a WaHo open by daylight.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (gbOdA)
LOL FB Marketplace romance shot. BLEAH
My war weapon is between a war hammer and morningstar. Hard time deciding.
The UK boat ride with rednecks he will tell his grandchildren. America.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (6PCLE)
Worcestershire does not have that cloying sweetness to it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (zZu0s)
In my cooking, Worchestershire pretty much can go in anything, with limited exceptions. Never owned a bottle of A1, only tried it out at a restaurant once. ONCE. Horrible stuff.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (gKDq2)
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Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (U8bu3)
‘Stop All Fighting Forever’: Trump Secures Major Peace Deal Between Armenia, Azerbaijan
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (AOsQT)
Between 6:00 AM and noon, Waffle House is actually not a bad place to eat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:12 PM (kkTda)
pussy
Real WaHo people show up at 0100.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:18 PM (HFcKg)
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I was just thinking that was a typical Friday night in Miklos-world. The only question is who was the waitress? Charlene, Darleen, or Marlene?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 10:20 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:20 PM (0Htd1)
Um… well… that could have gone worse.
Pass that one to the Gun Thread.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and the bullet one, too at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Auto Hijinks at August 08, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)
Cliff Sex
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (gbOdA)
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Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (ha1wR)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)
In Rome Empire there was a fish sauce that went on everything.
Like Chic Fil A sause.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)
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Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (U/Byj)
You did not list set list from juke box so this did not happen.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (gbOdA)
Ran errands with Her Majesty today and we stopped at our favorite Cajun restaurant for lunch. We both had one of their chalkboard specials, blackened tilapia with shrimp and crabmeat butter on rice and garlic spinach. That was truly excellent.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (kkTda)
A nice pan sauce bordelaise is better than any commercial sauce. It's pretty easy to make.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (Riz8t)
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Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 10:25 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Desi Patel at August 08, 2025 10:26 PM (G5+As)
Common Tater, the chef types call that "compound butter", mixing in herbs/etc to butter. Agreed, butter with garlic and chives on beef (or chicken, or ..... a cracker) can be quite good. I make them with fresh lemon zest and garlic to put on grilled fish.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 10:26 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:27 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (AOsQT)
Please. Lee & Perrins has fermented anchovies.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:27 PM (gKDq2)
Sadly, right now I'm putting my odds of making it to MoMeX at about 1 in 3. But like that skater kid, I'm not giving up yet.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Sheik Yerbouti at August 08, 2025 10:22 PM (G5+As)
Getting hit with a 50 from a sling would be like a tree falling on you.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Josephistan
War. Hammer.
Only substitute acceptable for the standard entrenching tool with a serrated edge for roots. Roots always be needing cut while flailing the dirt out of the trench.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (QcUc+)
Posted by: Hee-Haw History at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)
Yeah, I realized that the first time I had something with Worcestershire sauce in it. I was well acquainted with A1 sauce growing up since my mom insisted on cooking steaks well done and A1 was the only thing other than ketchup that would make such an abomination somewhat edible. I'm surprised my dad never objected to well done steaks, but he always loved everything she made.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (znbnV)
India is retaliating against Trump's tariffs by refusing to export any more H1Bs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 10:21 PM (kkTda)
Now do old people scams.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (gbOdA)
Like Chic Fil A sause.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)
Garum.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Allowed ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)
Truth.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (D6+4s)
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Yes, and historians believe the ancient Romans had something quite similar to Worcestershire sauce, too.
Here’s a question for the ever so brainy Horde. There are these artifacts that are fairly rare from Roman times. Maybe a couple dozen extant, made of bronze. They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served. Some have suggested some sort knitting device for making gloves, a device for estimating range or height. Candlestick holder has been rejected as well.
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (NqWk4)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (cduTK)
This guy gets it.
Am I infantry fighting armored cavalry? beak of the chicken. That's a nice can opener. If we're fighting shield wall to shield wall I want the war hammer with a long handle so the second rank can hammer over the shields.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (HFcKg)
Couple of questions:
2012 Nissan Altima for only $96?
What is "yandere behavior?" Never mind I websearched.
Posted by: mindful webworker - and the bullet one, too at August 08, 2025 10:32 PM (7W0uI)
I've seen someone show how to make a fine gold chain using one of those dodecahedrons. I think we won't know until someone finds a mosaic or a fresco depicting one in use.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 10:32 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:11 PM (g47mK)
Yeah, I realized that the first time I had something with Worcestershire sauce in it. I was well acquainted with A1 sauce growing up since my mom insisted on cooking steaks well done and A1 was the only thing other than ketchup that would make such an abomination somewhat edible. I'm surprised my dad never objected to well done steaks, but he always loved everything she made.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:28 PM (znbnV)
My parents ate steak nearly raw. Once at a restaurant, my mom ordered a steak and told the waiter to "wave a flame under it ceremoniously and bring it to me."
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: moki at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:31 PM (HFcKg)
I can't think of anything better than a Ben Had Bloody Mary.
Soon.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (D6+4s)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (HFcKg)
No halberd?
what a gyp
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)
The question is for bludgeoning weapons. Halberds don't qualify as they are cutty/pokey weapons.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:34 PM (znbnV)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Flange bends armour a breaks bones mo betta than a ball.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:35 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (HFcKg)
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Truth.
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:30 PM (D6+4s)
Absolutely. Forget the celery stick, though, go witha crisp slice of thick slab bacon as a 'stirrer'.
When I buy horseradish, it's usually for two 'dishes', bloodys and red cocktail sauce for fried shrimp/seafood. Can't think of anything else I use it in. Don't do roast beef/horseradish sauce. . . . Nope, can't think of anything. But for those two dshes, yes I want horseradish. Gold's Horseradish, the white one not the red one with beets.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater
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12 sided dildo launcher.
Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (HFcKg)
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
I guess the war is over.
Posted by: JackStraw
It is for the Ukes.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:38 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Stuff was in the pipeline, headed towards Ukraine. Somebody finally got their courage up and waved the red flag that US stockpiles were getting dangerously low. SecDef ordered the shipments stopped. WH countermanded that order. Confusion reigned. Looks like someone finally made up their mind.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33
"Saw off the horns, wipe it's ass and plate it" is how I sometimes ordered it. My tastes have become a bit more refined, especially with marbled cuts like ribeye. Gotta render at least some of that fat...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:41 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Desi Patel
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Call up Freeport McMoRan, they've got lots of extra copper now that Trump dropped the tariff on foreign copper.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (I1XLT)
Three potions, and the recipe for one? Plus one if you take one of the semi-cursed ones?
Red, orange, and yellow. And the recipe for yellow so I can keep my
Unless you're Elon Musk and you're moving to Mars, then the green one is life-altering. But if you're eternally young, physically perfect, and immune to common infections and diseases, this planet will have to get pretty rough before you need to avoid eating, drinking, and breathing.
Though I can see an argument for red, orange, and yellow, plus pink for the easy sexy times, plus purple & recipe for the "witness protection program" power the pink one would require.
Posted by: and the tentacle sex, obviously at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:42 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (1Jemc)
Watching the 4K of "Cat O'Nine Tails" from Dario Argento. Stylish and affordable!
Speaking of cats, where do you fall on the line--
1. Cats are evil and cannot be redeemed.
2. You have a cat who is evil, and I would like to take him from you so that I might experience spiritual evil and...I get lost at this point.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Cook Mine, Please at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (G5+As)
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?
@JesseBWatters
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1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥
Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (I1XLT)
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:40 PM (AOsQT)
In Korea (and I'm sure other Asian countries) they use a fish sauce in place of soy sauce sometimes. It is extremely salty, though, saltier than soy sauce.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (znbnV)
@LeadingReport 4m
BREAKING: Pentagon allowed to redirect weapons and equipment meant for Ukraine back to U.S. stockpiles, per memo.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Not allowed! Turn that ship around!
Posted by: Judge Hooha Yomama at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (2WIwB)
>>Whaddaya think?
One of the executives of the Lea and Perrins company built a brick mansion on Newport Harbor. The place has a bunch of chimneys and all of them are shaped like the original Worcestershire Sauce bottles. Just because he could.
Imagine what some archeologist will make of that in 200 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (I1XLT)
Flails are nice for the intimidation factor, but they're unitaskers.
Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:45 PM (AiNp4)
It's not Greta Thunberg.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:48 PM (1Jemc)
Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
Weren't flails used for threshing grain?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:49 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Ah...
I would have guessed that one of the 3-5 'Judges" that been issueing hundreds of injunctions against Trump tried to force sending munitions to the Ukes.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)
A little public shaming goes a long way.
Posted by: Mostly Caught Up at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (G5+As)
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?
@JesseBWatters
·
1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥
Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)
I have and read the book. Not quite the same since that was a covert war with special forces and this sounds more overt.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (znbnV)
Posted by: far cry at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (TsMtx)
Please. Lee & Perrins has fermented anchovies.
Posted by: RickZ
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I know, right? Crazy
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AOsQT)
That garum from Roman times was also an anchovy sauce. And I would assume fermented as well due to a lack of refrigeration. Apparently garum was ubiquitous at food establishments throughout the city, like abottle of ketchup here in the States, each with their own recipe.
Word I learned from cooking tv is 'umami', the flavor of meat. An enhancement. They say Worchestershire has it. Mushrooms, too. I like both with various meats, that's all I can say.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Ladyl at August 08, 2025 10:33 PM (D6+4s)
My parents, Lord love them, were brutal to steaks, pork chops, hell, even chicken. I do not do blue rare steak, but I do somewhere between rare and medium rare. to clarify: steaks. Rare chicken is a no-go, of course. I do pork chops just a little past the pink leaving.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (0aYVJ)
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table
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Well, that will at least hurt the CIA's bottom line.
Posted by: Methos at August 08, 2025 10:53 PM (zLwRl)
Posted by: scampydog
You're kidding? They can't just throw the things onto the floor at WNBA games?
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (AOsQT)
I don't know how long the effects of the potions are supposed to last, particularly when any one of them could be made and given/traded away.
But I think it would be use-case based:
Probably the most useful combination is orange, blue, grey (physical, mental and luck)
• Pro athlete
• Hedge Fund management
• Entrepreneur
Purple (shape-shift) would be impossible to keep a wardrobe. Does this include changes in mass and volume? Go from Jekle to Hyde, Banner to Hulk? Andre the Giant to a 4'2" petite? I'm trying to think of the logistics in the process of changing form - not necessarily something you want to do without preparation and definitely not in public.
Green (simplification) only makes sense if a sniper or a hostage.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (HFcKg)
I'd have to thank Vodka and his sidekick, Tomato Juice . . . .
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:54 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (G5+As)
😜
Posted by: mindful webworker - The Voynich Manuscript is the instruction book at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (o55mS)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (1U0OF)
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black
In Korea (and I'm sure other Asian countries) they use a fish sauce in place of soy sauce sometimes. It is extremely salty, though, saltier than soy sauce.
Posted by: Farquad
The word "sauce" works two ways in English. Sauce for something, like steak sauce, and sauce of something, like tomato sauce. Finding out fish sauce is the latter and not the former weirds out Westerners.
I have a bottle of Thai fish sauce. It's made by putting fish and salt in a container, leaving it out in the sun, waiting for it to ferment, and straining out the remaining solids. Sounds gross, but it has its place. It's protein salt.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (1Jemc)
I can't imagine a better recruiting campaign than stick in the minds of young men guerilla warfare against enemy cartels.
Finally an opportunity to make a real difference rather than keep sociopaths, grifters and strong men in political power.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: pookysgirl
Northern England, for sure.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (PGK1w)
h/t tankdemon
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (144I4)
Party pooper.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:50 PM (0Htd1)
Horseradish and a bit of mustard is the correct spread for a kielbasa sammich...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:44 PM (znbnV)
I have a bottle of fish sauce from an Asian grocery store. You use it sparingly in anything you make. I can use Kikkoman's Low Sodium Soy (the best-flavored commercial soy by far) much more liberally than any straight-out-of-the-bottle fish sauce. Fish sauce is overpowering in anything but tiny doses.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:00 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yes. Not the spiked-ball and chain kind in the picture, though.
Threshing flails look like nunchucks, which were also threshing tools, for rice. Western ones usually had a long handle and and a short business end, so you didn't thresh yourself.
Both became weapons because peasants weren't allowed military weapons, and you go to war with the sickle you have, not the sword you wish you had.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 10:59 PM (a4flb)
Heh. Better to be a party pooper than to have a party in your pooper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 10:58 PM (PGK1w)
I was thinking York, or maybe Manchester.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: mikeski
Fish sauce is filtered and clarified. Looks almost like apple juice.
Bagoong is basically unprocessed fish sauce. Very chunky. Sometimes you can identify where on the fish a chunk came from.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Yes. Not the spiked-ball and chain kind in the picture, though.
Threshing flails look like nunchucks, which were also threshing tools, for rice. Western ones usually had a long handle and and a short business end, so you didn't thresh yourself.
Both became weapons because peasants weren't allowed military weapons, and you go to war with the sickle you have, not the sword you wish you had.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (DgGvY)
all true, can confirm
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 11:02 PM (xcxpd)
who thought that was a good idea?
Garum was a fish based sauce, rather salty, and one of the mainstay condiments of the Roman Empire. They used it throughout the Empire, for centuries. It was made by fermenting fish with salt, and presumably was very much like present day Asian fish sauces.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:02 PM (q1mTS)
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table
Maduro has been funding the cartels and gangs like TdA. Human trafficking and drugs into the US.
Still think that the $50 million bounty on Maduro was a bluff?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Not the gold tattoo?
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:01 PM (/lPRQ)
Sorry about that. Tummy's been kind of gippy lately.
Posted by: A seal at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (1Jemc)
who saw Clear And Present Danger ?
@JesseBWatters
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1h
💥 BREAKING: TRUMP goes to WAR with CARTELS
LAND, AIR AND SEA strikes are on the table 💥
Trump’s given the military the green light to extinguish the cartels that are killing Americans.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AOsQT)
I have and read the book. Not quite the same since that was a covert war with special forces and this sounds more overt.
Posted by: Farquad at August 08, 2025 10:51 PM (znbnV)
Sicario did it better
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 08, 2025 11:04 PM (xcxpd)
I am picturing Maria Ouspenskaya in my head.
Posted by: Two Oscar Nominations at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (G5+As)
"This potion grants idealization. When drunk, you...."
Does that mean one can only change form when shitfaced?
That would be wild. Go to the bar gat hammered and when waking end up like the plot line in the Ellen Barkin movie "Switch".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (dDmld)
fish sauce is horrifying and will never be in my house
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:06 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (cPGH3)
Blue states with ZERO Republican House seats:
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Vermont
New Hampshire
Hawaii
New Mexico
Connecticut
Delaware
...
The reason Democrats are screaming for Texas to stop redistricting is because Democrats have almost nothing left to gerrymander
They already rigged the map years ago and hate to see Republicans actually fighting back
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:05 PM (dDmld)
Sumerians, Cimmerians, 220/221
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (1Jemc)
Must've used a slingshot...
Reminds me of an episode of one of those forensic files shows, where a team for one side created a video of a shooting in a hotel room where the bullet crossed walls...the entire cartridge...
Also like this case too:
https://tinyurl.com/35dse695
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Leutonian Benevolent Society at August 08, 2025 11:08 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
If you had to really define one American dish, it would be the red cocktail sauce with horseradish, lemon, Worchestershire and Tabasco.
I don't know where it originated, but when you think about it, it is served across the entire country. I don't know if there's anything like it in other countries. Chili sauces, sure, but not horseradish. I have to think that one's uniquely American, or is uniquely American now.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:08 PM (gKDq2)
Do they pay bounties to Special Forces members?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 11:09 PM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:09 PM (HFcKg)
The scientific consensus now holds that that the use of the cudgel dates to the Fred Flintstone Epoch.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Ben Had
And your attorney?
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (TfUTr)
""It only took 3 lawsuits, 2 trips to the Court of Appeals and 1,847 days, but I got my AR15 back!" Mark McCloskey posted to his X account on Friday, along with several photos of him carrying the gun. "
They are currently awaiting the return of Patricia's pistol.
LINK (FOX News) https://tinyurl.com/2bpcd9ev
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (GIcqz)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (I1XLT)
That is the combo to really succeed in the pr0n industry.
If the purple allows you to idealize into looking young with pr0n scale genitals, then swap yellow for orange and get maximum endurance.
I think the Pink (extremely attractive) would be profoundly dangerous in that occupation.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (a4flb)
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Do they pay bounties to Special Forces members?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Maybe if they do it off duty.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (HFcKg)
But really, if they were for throwing bones or something like that, scrying, etc, I'd not be shocked. Someone needs to make one and do random stuff with it. Experimental archaeology is where it's at.
Posted by: H at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:12 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: fourseasons at August 08, 2025 11:13 PM (3ek7K)
LINK (FOX News) https://tinyurl.com/2bpcd9ev
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:10 PM (rj6Yv)
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The inert prop-gun.
Missouri needs to get off the fence and get its laws in line with the people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:13 PM (I1XLT)
And Madame Ruth, the Gypsy with the gold-capped tooth.
Her stuff tastes inky.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Lady Dimitrescu has entered the chat.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 11:14 PM (QcUc+)
But really, if they were for throwing bones or something like that, scrying, etc, I'd not be shocked. Someone needs to make one and do random stuff with it. Experimental archaeology is where it's at.
Posted by: H at August 08, 2025 11:11 PM (2gjbv)
In this day age, they'll add it to the tip of a green dildo...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (ynpvh)
I think Sun Tzu is looking down at Trump and saying "My man!".
Trump completely reset the battlefield by closing the border tighter then a frog's ass. There isn't a refried bean fart getting through. At the same time he has reordered the world trade market and took a dump on Mexico while doing it.
Not that media has noticed but this didn't happen by chance. It just took someone with brains and balls who really means it when he says he loves this country.
It's fun as hell to watch this happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (TfUTr)
Most welcome. If it worked, do write it down, as I've forgotten some awesome preparations, especially those assembled in the heat of the moment and under the influence. Made an amazing pineapple and rum glaze for grilled lamb chops once. Once...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (iP/6R)
I recall back during all the hoohah about Black Talon ammo some national news showing an animation of the jacket opening up during flight and spinning like a buzzsaw, multiple rotations per inch of travel.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Interesting thought. A Special Forces commander decides to go rogue. He commits his entire unit to the task of capturing Maduro.
Let's say a Battalion.
Let's assume he spends a month on training, and gets the job done.
I bet he wouldn't be able to spread $100/ per after expenses... ?
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: irright at August 08, 2025 11:17 PM (vIK+M)
Posted by: PaleRider at August 08, 2025 11:17 PM (CKOCg)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:18 PM (gTHdJ)
(YouTube) LINK: https://tinyurl.com/5y5rh7rh
Interesting food history lesson included.
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:19 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 11:20 PM (VmgCW)
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You know those "we're #1" foam hands people wave at sporting events? I can think of a minor modification that would make them very suitable for WNBA games. You could even get one in your own team's color/logo. Easy to smuggle in, and if everybody in the stands was waving one TPTB couldn't do a damn thing about it.
Business opportunitiy?
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)
Posted by: Pungent Petey at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (G5+As)
Flails are nice for the intimidation factor, but they're unitaskers.
Quarterstaves, mauls, and warhammers can be tools, too.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)
Depends on what your costs to sales ratio must be to make a profit. There aren't a whole lot of WNBA fans out there, even fewer willing to buy team logo'd junk.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)
Not that media has noticed but this didn't happen by chance. It just took someone with brains and balls who really means it when he says he loves this country.
It's fun as hell to watch this happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)
Time for him to put the screws to that deranged fag Mark Carney in Ottawa.
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Frankie at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (nVUa4)
Posted by: 80's music fan at August 08, 2025 11:25 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Some Rat at August 08, 2025 11:26 PM (TfUTr)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 08, 2025 11:16 PM (/y8xj)
Have you ever watched any of the Tao Fledermaus videos on youtube? The shoot all sorts of weird home-made slugs out of 12 ga. shotguns, often with a rifled barrel. They have a high-speed video camera watching the slugs go down range, and impacting on various targets. A slug spinning at 20,000 RPM will be making roughly one revolution per yard of travel.
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (1Jemc)
All it took was a new president to shut down the border!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 08, 2025 11:21 PM (rPvmJ)
Depends on what your costs to sales ratio must be to make a profit. There aren't a whole lot of WNBA fans out there, even fewer willing to buy team logo'd junk.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM
Tell you what, that'd be one episode of Shark Tank I'd tune in for...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:28 PM (iP/6R)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:32 PM (1Jemc)
When I was seventeen, it was ...
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:34 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:03 PM (viF8m)
Not a bluff, but Maduro never leaves Venezuela. It would take an army to get at him, just like Saddam.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (N+wXz)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:15 PM (viF8m)
Time for him to put the screws to that deranged fag Mark Carney in Ottawa.
Posted by: Conan at August 08, 2025 11:24 PM (1Jemc)
The military treating Narco Gangs as international terrorists is a real game changer as well. Allows military assets to be used.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 08, 2025 11:37 PM (yGKb5)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:38 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday. . . at August 08, 2025 11:38 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
Always wondered how they named the Morningstar.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)
Denny's or Steak and Shake were the best places in Bloomington.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I liked Taco John's.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 11:41 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:43 PM (bss/y)
Iirc, it wasn’t botulism, it was e.coli …
Posted by: Adriane the Monday Critic on Friday. . . at August 08, 2025 11:43 PM (3ZUWJ)
Probably closer to Noriega.
Maduro has not only used Venezuelan government money but much of his own money to pay the cartels to smuggle people and drugs to the US. He also sent TdA.
Unless all the reporting is wrong Trump just authorized the military to take out the cartels. And he put a $50 million bounty on Maduro.
If I'm playing poker with Trump I don't think he's bluffing. Putin doesn't seem to think so.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 11:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
"Great news, Senor Maduro! You are the Grand Prize Winner in our Publishers' Clearing House Sweepstakes! One million dollars! That's right, one million dollars! Just come to Belize City on September 4th to collect it."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 11:46 PM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:47 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
Or Noriega. The US has a $50,000,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest of Maduro. That helps, too.
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 11:48 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: PabloD at August 08, 2025 11:49 PM (P5MIT)
Posted by: Ben Had
By weight, you're mostly human.
By cell count, you're mostly bacteria.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:51 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 11:52 PM (gTHdJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 08, 2025 11:52 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 11:54 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 11:55 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Braenyard
How is it wrong? Too few bulldozers?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 11:58 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 09, 2025 12:00 AM (JvZF+)
The big hassle was getting the drift pins out so I could disassemble the guts.
The jack is the central part of a juice press, and the apples are ripe.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:01 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard
How is it wrong? Too few bulldozers?
Posted by: mikeski
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Man of my heart.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:01 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:47 PM (DgGvY)
When asked, I had no good answer and flailed around...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 11:22 PM (ynpvh)
Always wondered how they named the Morningstar.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)
Intertubes say:
" the name comes from the comparison of the head to a star. Apparently it is used earliest to describe the weapon in Danish, is adopted into German and reaches English in the 17th. century."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 09, 2025 12:03 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: tankascribe at August 09, 2025 12:04 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 11:36 PM (q+E/R)
There was a special group that went in to pull the Venezuelan opposition leaders who had been hiding in the Argentine embassy out of Caracas a couple of months ago. I suspect they entered through Colombia since Maduro shut down direct flights from Colombia soon after that. It was sort of like the whole Argo mission to get the other Americans out of the Canadian embassy in Teheran once upon a time.
No idea if a team could extract Maduro against his will, but I bet he is having security scans of the dust bunnies under his bed this week.
(also, it could be pushed in Congress that Venezuela has declared defacto war on the US at some point)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (0nHVk)
The default dinner over a griddle with a side of hashbrowns and baked beans was the "Minute Steak" which came in frozen packs with a slice of butter in the middle. With lakeside campouts, whatever trout we caught were also added to the feast.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (25kuG)
Probably means that Rhoda, MTM’s friend, was most likely the devil’s daughter.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (q+E/R)
Then there's the Holy Water Sprinkler...
"The holy water sprinkler (from its resemblance to the aspergillum used in the Catholic Mass), was a morning star used by the English army in the sixteenth century and made in series by professional smiths..."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (ynpvh)
Whaddaya think?
Posted by: Common Tater
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The Romans had Circuses, right?
Peepshow tokens!
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 12:06 AM (ha888)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 09, 2025 12:06 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)
I dug the volunteer horseradish out of my garden this week when I dug my potatoes. What is the process of turning the roots into lovely sauce? I get it every year and the only thing I can do with it is cook the greens.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)
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Guy with the wrench. Yeah, he fucked up. Still...that heartbreaking 'tink' when you over-tighten a bolt is a learning experience. The second half of that lesson, if you are unlucky, is extracting the remnant.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:08 AM (XeU6L)
who thought that was a good idea?
Posted by: Don Black
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The entire Far East. I can't remember the name, but Koreans have the FISH!! sauce that'll curl your toes.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 12:09 AM (ha888)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:05 AM (0nHVk)
Happy Friday to you as well, Debby! Got any weekend plans?
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 09, 2025 12:09 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (q1mTS)
>>Whaddaya think?
A Dutchman thinks they are a sort of sun dial, for determining seasons from the angle of the Sun
www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
You're in luck, you get three! And the recipe to make one of those three!
And a 4th or 5th good one if you drink one or all of the cursed ones.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:12 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:12 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
She claims it's a geology tool, but it's really to balance her front.
Posted by: girl's got a rack at August 09, 2025 12:13 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 09, 2025 12:14 AM (viF8m)
"barfing out the backs of our tents" will now be my euphemism for explosive diarrhea.
Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:15 AM (vIK+M)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 09, 2025 12:16 AM (FMtrg)
"Vietnamese fish sauce, known as nước mắm, is a key ingredient in Vietnamese cuisine made from fermented fish and salt. It is used to add a savory umami flavor to various dishes and is often combined with ingredients like lime juice, sugar, and garlic to create dipping sauces."
Bet it would have spiced up the C-rations.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 09, 2025 12:16 AM (bKn1x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:09 PM (zZu0s)
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My steaks don't need sauce.
15 years ago, my friend went to put some A1 on a steak I cooked for him and I threw an apple at him and hit him in the head before he could ruin it. He was pissed, but not as pissed as I was. I told him to at least take a bite before dousing it in sauce that hides the magnificent flavor of a perfectly seasoned and cooked NY strip. He later said it was the best steak he had ever had.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (8P/xB)
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Betting the kid invests in a torque wrench. Betting that was a head bolt. Not a fun extraction.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (RT3YC)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 12:20 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:20 AM (q1mTS)
www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Sounds exceedingly complicated. Surely the Romans knew how to determine the equinoxes and solstices; they could simply count days. And a simple instrument like an astrolabe would be easier to make for the purpose than a dodecahedron.
Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:07 AM (rbvCR)
Look up any horseradish root to horseradish recipe. Here's one, at AllRecipes https://tinyurl.com/335r9tmn
"It's usually made with just the root, vinegar, sugar, and salt."
From what I'm reading, just a liitle effort and some time. Doesn't last long, though, even frozen.
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Horseradish mixed with whipped cream to make a horseradish cream sauce for smoked fish as an appetizer (the fish on a leaf lettuce bed). Had that a few times (mackerel and sea trout). It's so good. One of those horseradish dishes I forgot.
Posted by: RickZ at August 09, 2025 12:22 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:23 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 11:39 PM (mP0Kj)
The Morning Star was Venus, and it was traditionally shown as a spiky ball - I don't know why but that is the classic way of depicting it all the way back to the Greek city states.
The name Lucifer also means morning star, and so I suppose it is the very devil to face in a melee
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:23 AM (rbvCR)
www.romandodecahedron.com/the-hypothesis
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:10 AM (rbvCR)
Sounds exceedingly complicated. Surely the Romans knew how to determine the equinoxes and solstices; they could simply count days. And a simple instrument like an astrolabe would be easier to make for the purpose than a dodecahedron.
Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)
Is the Roman version Crucifixions and Decimations?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:24 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: girl's got a rack at August 09, 2025 12:13 AM (DgGvY)
You’ve obviously watched it!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:24 AM (q1mTS)
To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (/y8xj)
The Younger Dryas impact theory just got a boost with this paper:
https://tinyurl.com/24epjam9
The lead author there is from the University of SC here. Anyway, they found evidence of comet material in core samples from Baffin Bay at the YD boundary.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (w6EFb)
They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served.-
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When you are dealing with Romans, it's always buttplugs, all the way down.
Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (vIK+M)
They are called Dodecahedron due to their shape. But nobody really knows what purpose they served.-
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When you are dealing with Romans, it's always buttplugs, all the way down.
Posted by: irright at August 09, 2025 12:25 AM (vIK+M)
I thought it was the Greeks that were into the butt stuff...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (ynpvh)
276 Let's not forget the greatest sauce from England...Worcestershire sauce which is derived from a recipe from the mid 1800's and still produces from the original recipe to this day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)
Worcestershire sauce is believed to be the most similar modern sauce to Garum, a fermented sauce used heavily throughout the Roman world, and thought to have somehow survived in rural England through the centuries.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (q+E/R)
Posted by: Nightwatch
How's the neighborhood? Are the natives restless?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (RT3YC)
276 Let's not forget the greatest sauce from England...Worcestershire sauce which is derived from a recipe from the mid 1800's and still produces from the original recipe to this day.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)
Worcestershire sauce is believed to be the most similar modern sauce to Garum, a fermented sauce used heavily throughout the Roman world, and thought to have somehow survived in rural England through the centuries.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM (q+E/R)
Garum was the alien on Deep Space 9...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:27 AM (ynpvh)
The dildo situation at the WNBA games was never funny. I look at it the same way as when they throw bananas at Black soccer players in Europe. It's ridiculous and it should get people permanently banned
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Wa, What? They throw bananas at black players in Europe?
That's racist. Thought Europe was anti-racist.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (I1XLT)
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)
I have to be careful with commercial horseradish because of the sulfites in it. It turns brown after grating.
From what I remember from my maternal grandparents' stories, you grate it into vinegar soon before you intend to use it. Maybe outdoors to keep from weeping.
I like horseradish slathered on a browned pot roast before finishing the low temperature phase of cooking. Changes the flavor, isn't hot. Haven't made it in years.
Posted by: KT at August 09, 2025 12:30 AM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (TdCYS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (q1mTS)
I thought it was the Greeks that were into the butt stuff...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:26 AM-
Some invent, some perfect.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:31 AM (vIK+M)
Dave's Insanity.
For when you need to introduce a fool (in my case, an Indian co-worker, who said that He would be the Judge of hot) to "hot sauce".
He took the bottle home for lunch, and had his mother prepare a dish. He returned, admitted (1) defeat, and (2) that he was still hurting about 3 hours later. Heh.
Posted by: Arbalest at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM (FlRtG)
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)
Are they green?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (q1mTS)
Maybe they enjoyed playing Dungeons and Dragons?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:21 AM (cAJJI)
Possibly, but they are not Roman, they are only found in Germanic lands, and also remember that the first developments usually are complicated and overbuilt, like Gastrophetes and arbolests coming before crossbows.
Refinements come after the initial develpment.
The argument that they were used for knitting falls apart with the analysis of the objects for repetitive wear: the knobs don't show wear around the necks, but they do show wear where you would expect on the knobs if the object were regularly set on the ground in various faces.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 80's music fan at August 09, 2025 12:35 AM (YlWIZ)
A color map of which states are betting which colors on the next dildo to hit the WNBA courts.
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https://tinyurl.com/bdh6t92x
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 12:36 AM (I1XLT)
Yep. Exact moment of syzygy was 11:54PM EDT, a little less than a hour ago.
And this is the Sturgeon Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:36 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:27 AM
Just watched Andrew Robinson in a role I had forgotten he played. Annoying dumbshit police brass in Cobra. I thought I liked the guy in everything before I saw that.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at August 09, 2025 12:37 AM (TdCYS)
High Loon will be 1:32AM here. That's close enough for you as well, our longitude is very close. So if you want to go out and howl at it then, that's the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)
David French's anus is full of sadness.
Posted by: Black Dildo at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM-
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And dodecahedrons.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:28 AM (vIK+M)
Are they green?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2025 12:33 AM--
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Unsure, but it would completely believable for David French's anus to be seeking government subsidies.
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:39 AM (vIK+M)
Oh, and there will be a nice conjunction of Venus (in Morning Star mode) and Jove the morning of the 12th. Jupiter has swung around to the morning side. Provided the weather cooperates, look east about 2 hours before local sunrise, and you should see a nice show.
And, there will be UFO reports from this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:41 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
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Hmm. probably better not. So far, the neighbors regard me as only a harmless eccentric.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:44 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
Love the cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime. Who knew geology was cute?
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:45 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: The Romans at August 09, 2025 12:45 AM (vIK+M)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:46 AM (q1mTS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 12:47 AM (XeU6L)
The cutting off of water to the central valley by Lamocrate policies over the last 10 years have pretty much destroyed this economy.
Keep voting Lamocrate.
Newsome 2028.... 💩
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:47 AM (25kuG)
A color map of which states are betting which colors on the next dildo to hit the WNBA courts.
https://tinyurl.com/bdh6t92x
Posted by: Braenyard
Imagine explaining this to someone from 1963.
Heck, 1983.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:46 AM (q1mTS)
I love wear evidence. Once objects are made, they are used in typical manners, and that use wears them in specific patterns.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (q1mTS)
No 'potions' for me. Everything poses a trade-off of some kind, ya know?
Skater kid is inspirational! Go, girl!
Quds are liars. Why do they get the time of day from anyone?
I learned how to flip eggs (and other foods) like that. Practice! Can be messy while learning, LOL
Howdy, horde!
Great content, Weirddave!
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 12:48 AM (q1mTS)
Yes, that was interesting. Would the Younger Dryas impact also be related to the one that formed the Carolina Bays?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 12:52 AM (Jhqzr)
My next-door neighbor went and fired semi-auto rounds of at 2 AM a couple of weeks ago at perceived Armenian gang threats (his people) which totally freaked out my daughter whose window was just next to the driveway.... other than that...ya know...
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 12:55 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 12:55 AM (rbvCR)
This is fascinating from the paper, putting together their scenario for the Younger Dryas impact. It wasn't one giant impact, but more like a shotgun blast, and one with a lot of buckshot.
On a faithful day some 12,800 year ago, the Erf slammed into the debris tail of comet break up. This comet was likely the progenitor of the Taurid stream, and current Comet Encke is likely a remnant.
The Northern hemisphere, particularly NA, was deluged with airbursts. A shitton of dust and soot was deposited in the atmosphere, triggering a several year "impact winter" event.
The shockwaves and all that destabilized the ice sheet margins, leading to the collpase of some of those glacial lakes and a bunch of freshwater going into the ocean, which messed up the thermohaline circulation. Temp dropped 18F, and sea level rose 16' in a very short time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2025 12:57 AM (giVIm)
>>To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
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Ugh! BTDT.
Sad...
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, a lot of people link those. I'm trying to remember. One idea is ejecta from impacts.
Imagine you a get a touching airburst, or even a impact from big fragment on top of a big glacial ice sheet. It throw chunks of glacial ice far and wide. That had something to do with the Carolina bay theory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 12:56 AM (w6EFb)
There is a theory (not loved by anyone) that Drake's Passage was iced over from South America to Antarctica, which moderated the temperature and storminess in the Southern hemisphere, and that when the ocean level rose, it floated the ice sheet off its moorings and broke up, to both increase the storminess, change the climate to cooler weather in South America, and raise the ocean level yet further.
To date the only evidence is secondary, and it is helped along only with a lot of handwaving.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:03 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:05 AM (RT3YC)
I'm not sure as to which is hotter, Beaver xtra or wasabi, but they'll both clean out your sinuses.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:09 AM (ha888)
Our current period is called the Holocene, which sort of means "whole new". A whole new world. That was after the temperature rebounded from the Younger Dryas. This is our modern world, the last half of which is pretty much all of known human history.
Before then, there were a bunch of megafauna species roaming NA. Mammoths, elephants, woolly rhinos, lions, and other big cats. Also giant beavers (the size of a bear) and giants sloths. Also humans, the Clovis culture.
They all got extinctified.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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No takers, huh?
The official count, outside the wrapper is 9, front label 43, (37 in the black border,)back label 3, total 55 Lea & Perrins's.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 09, 2025 01:11 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 09, 2025 01:02 AM (rbvCR)
There are a lot of 'weather' and climate stuff we don't understand... like right now the Arctic is loosing Ice, while the Antarctic is gaining Ice at a record pace.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 09, 2025 01:12 AM (mP0Kj)
>>To his credit, no swearing, no throwing tools, no smashing stuff. Just a sigh, drop the tool, and walk away. Probably the best thing to do at that moment.
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Torque Wrench
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:12 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: buddhaha
I prefer the Xtra. The Wasabi is good and hot but it's green, which always looks wierd on a sandwich.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:15 AM (RT3YC)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
YES! Did the Beaver with a roast a month ago. Eye watering with a distinct mouth pop and a finish down the throat that required a swallow of wine to quell the fire.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:18 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 09, 2025 01:18 AM (q1mTS)
"Doot de doot" she called it.
Wonder where/how she's doing now? Lost track of her & her mom over the years.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
Working as a machinist mate aboard a DE with a diesel engine where you can stand on the piston tops when the head is off is not good training for merely mortal gas engines.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:19 AM (ha888)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:21 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 12:18 AM (RT3YC)
Aren't head bolts torque to yeald? Like grade 14 or some shit. I would think there would be a greater release when it snapped if it was a head bolt. He also never actually shows the bolt. I've only done one head replacement, years ago, on a isuzu off highway diesel and had a journeyman mech doing most of the work. It involved some sort of clocking attachment to the wrench. AOP probably knows what I'm talking about.
Anyway I think that video is faked.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:23 AM (h5TUr)
As part of our vow renewal at our upcoming anniversary party (#2weeks), the pastor asked both of us to answer 20 questions.
I am not kidding when I say that it was eerie how many of them both of us answered with almost identical responses! 😲😲😲
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 09, 2025 01:26 AM (SRRAx)
Dial in the setting and ease up to it. My old SnapOn has a dial indicator in front of the handle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:28 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Reforger
Cynically, you're probably right. Why have a camera set up for that? And the headlamp in the brightly-lit room, just so he could take it off in disgust.....
But what did he expect to happen? He was using a breaker bar!
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 01:29 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:30 AM (25kuG)
Anyway I think that video is faked.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:23 AM (h5TUr)
There is a thing called a torque-angle gauge, which is basically a protractor device. You torque to X torque value, attach the gauge, and move the bolt head an additional angle of degrees. I don't think torque-to-yield head bolts showed up in mainstream automotive applications until the early '90's. Studebaker V8's have 18 bolts per head, and they are 7/16 NC, and Grade 5. They can definitely be reused, unless somehow damaged.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:33 AM (Ufl/X)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (25kuG)
I was taught (not in a classroom, but...) that you followed the specified sequence *several* times:
1st pass-- just to "snug" by feel
2nd pass-- 20lb less than final value
3rd pass-- 10lb less than final value
4th pass-- final torque value
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)
Dial in the setting and ease up to it. My old SnapOn has a dial indicator in front of the handle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 01:28 AM (I1XLT)
I have an ancient Snap-On inch-pound torque wrench that belonged to my father. Round dial, reads 0-150 inch pounds in either direction. You just pull on it until the dial reaches your desired torque value, then stop. I used it this week to to torque the valve body bolts in the transmission I am doing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:37 AM (Ufl/X)
Well, thanks to Mike mentioning it, I had to go out an observe High Loon. Clouds had moved in, but it was still shining nicely. Altitude was 36 deg, higher than the Sun at winter solstice here, 32 degrees. Still relatively low, but nothing like June this year, where the altitude was 26.5 degrees, and 26.1 the day after full moon.
That was the lowest we'll see the full moon for another 18.6 years. Things worked out just right to get full moon very close to the solstice and minimum declination during the peak of the 18.6 major lunistice cycle.
The Moon is a harsh orbital mistress with all her cycles.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 01:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:34 AM (25kuG)
Also extension pointed straight down. If he was working on a V8, that would rule out a head bolt. Carb flange bolt, maybe? And if he was using a reducer and 3/8 drive socket, maybe the "ting" was the socket splitting?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:39 AM (Ufl/X)
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THERE'S NO WAY OUT!! AHH! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! NOW WE'VE GOT YOU! AND YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO! HA HA AHH HA HA!!!
Posted by: As not seen on TV at August 09, 2025 01:40 AM (1AZG0)
Thank you for the celestial observation points.
With that, I will take wine glass in hand, step out into the night,
and observe.
Goodnight, Horde.
Posted by: Nightwatch at August 09, 2025 01:43 AM (25kuG)
Not necessarily. I think most newer diesel engines use TTY. I don't know about newer gas engines except Subaru, which is TTY. Older Chevy and Ford weren't TTY but I can't ever remember any of my wrench twisting friends ever reusing a head bolt.TTY requires a specific torque pattern but you can definitely snap a head off. I don't mess around at that level anymore, I know a guy. I did just finish putting a new cylinder and crank in my baby Stihl yesterday but it came fully assembled.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 09, 2025 01:43 AM (RT3YC)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Old?!!..Dial.indicator?
My first torque wrench was a 50# max Craftsman, with a beam mounted on the socket connection extending parallel to the shaft and bent 90 degrees to create a pointer, which was over a plate, engraved with numbers that was fastened to the shaft with the numbers extending at a right angle to the shaft. 0 to 50 to the right and 0 to 50 to the left. As you tested on the handle, the beam would deflect to the pressure applied.
I rarely use it, but it's still in the original box in one tool cabinet out in the garage.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:44 AM (ha888)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:37 AM (Ufl/X)
I have 2 inch pound torque drivers, 1/4 through 3/4 torque wrenches. Plus a 4 to 1, 3/4 to 1 inch MAC torque multiplyer. My shitty to get around having to buy a 1" torque wrench. 8 in all plus the multiplyer.
All sitting in cases on shelves in my shop as I'm WAY out of the heavy equipment gig.
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:46 AM (h5TUr)
Otherwise, they're okay.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 09, 2025 01:48 AM (WZFEa)
Teresa, I am not surprised about you and Mr. TIFW having so many similar answers, 45 years is a testament to both of you!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 09, 2025 01:49 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Locarno at August 09, 2025 01:50 AM (wiYsG)
Posted by: Reforger at August 09, 2025 01:54 AM (h5TUr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That sounds like what I was describing. I guess you could call it ancient; I bought it around '66, when I moved away from.guys who I could borrow a torque wrench from.
Excuse me, "from whom I could borrow." 😁
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:55 AM (ha888)
My first torque wrench was a 50# max Craftsman, with a beam mounted on the socket connection extending parallel to the shaft and bent 90 degrees to create a pointer, which was over a plate, engraved with numbers that was fastened to the shaft with the numbers extending at a right angle to the shaft. 0 to 50 to the right and 0 to 50 to the left. As you tested on the handle, the beam would deflect to the pressure applied.
I rarely use it, but it's still in the original box in one tool cabinet out in the garage.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 09, 2025 01:44 AM (ha88
AFAIK, beam type torque wrenches are still made. Pretty hard for them to go out of calibration. The click-type ones, you are relying on internal mechanism to remain in calibration, or else you are just guessing. The dial-type Snap-On I have seems to be basically a dial indicator gauging the deflection of an internal beam, I think.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 01:57 AM (Ufl/X)
Replacement guarantee??? LOL! B!tch at the counter told me it's "not a hand tool" and said it had only a 1-year warranty. Wanted to see the purchase receipt. Huh? (It was a gift.)
I looked at it, turned it over a couple times & told her I didn't see a cord, and asked how it's *not* a "hand tool"??
Fk Sears. No wonder they went T.U.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 01:58 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
She must have used hers WNBA-style.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 02:03 AM (DgGvY)
Little b!tch was barely 20 years old. Probably didn't even know what TF I had in my hands. Of course, Sears was starting to go under by then, and so probably all employees were told to reject all the returns that they could.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ
* checks *
Created in '96, started playing in '97. So almost 30 years ago?
If you would have asked me that at Bar Trivia Night, I'd have said they've been playing about 15-20 years. And even "our" "local" team has been around since '99.
So, in answer to your last question: No. No, it was not ever.
Posted by: mikeski at August 09, 2025 02:14 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 09, 2025 02:16 AM (nftVU)
Called Sears. Gave make, model, serial # of dryer and asked for a new element. Kid says OK and sends me one, charged to my SearsCard.
Wrong. Doesn't fit. Not even close! So, I took it to the store to return & credit my account.
Manager got snippy with me, that *I* ordered the wrong part, and they cannot accept the return. Well, I explained, I did NOT order any specific part number-- the customer service person decided which part I needed and he was wrong...
Took a while, but I got the charge removed. As soon as the ZERO balance statement arrived, I closed my account. F 'em.
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:17 AM (rdVOm)
I got interested in the history of what's dubbed "Lunar Theory", basically the equations that tell you where the Moon gonna be at at some time in the future.
Think of simple Keplerian ellipse. The Moon, due to all the perturbations and complexities deviates from that. By the mid 18th century, they were getting good, and needed about 30 extra perturbation terms for those deviations.
By the start of the 20th Century, it was up to 1400 terms. Now mind you, this was done before computers.
When computers came along, direct numerical integration of the mess of the whole solar system became possible, and that has taken over. JPL's DE440 is the current gold standard.
However, analytical work still continues, and some Frog group has the latest and greatest. It has tens of thousands of perturbation terms. With the numerical methods, you can miss interesting periodic behavior. By working out these 10s of thousands of periodic deviations, they're looking for interesting cycles.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 09, 2025 02:17 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ has
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and follow the pattern
If you don't need something like Snap On, I've had good luck with Stanley tools. They have better metal and better ergonomics than similar priced tools. The only tool that broke is a 1/4" ratchet and I'll never say that I abused the 1/4" to 3/8" drive booster socket with a cheater pipe.
However, when it broke (10yrs) I called Stanley and the lady said, we'll send you a new one". - Where do I mail the old one for verification? "Not necessary" OK, that's good business.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 02:18 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 09, 2025 02:23 AM (Ufl/X)
Posted by: Lord Percy at August 09, 2025 02:23 AM (nftVU)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)
Like Chic Fil A sause.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:23 PM (gbOdA)
One of their favorite delicacies was lampreys. Today in Wisconsin you can buy them in bait shops as "suckers".
Posted by: pjungwir at August 09, 2025 02:28 AM (q4wrI)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 09, 2025 02:29 AM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 09, 2025 02:34 AM (PGK1w)
>>Under the car, I saw a small fire. Some piece of his car, under the trunk, was on fire. It suddenly flashed and fell of the car, towards my car. It went under me so no damage but he quickly pulled over.
Wonder if the guy ahead of you had a 'friend' what pulled some practical joke on him?
Posted by: JQ has... opinions on stuff... at August 09, 2025 02:37 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah, I'm late. I'm always late to these things. Oh, sure, I collect "firsts", but that's because I was so late for the previous thread that I happened to log in here at the turning of the tide, as it were.
Anyway, Nature called me to be awake now. I respectfully disagree and am going back to sleep. Keep it down in here, would ya?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh
Sculpture made of dried willow branches
Bioluminesence. Helping a bunny trapped in a skateboard pit. Odd couple. A bear is out of control, as usual, but a little yapping dog puts him straight. Some very elevated and sophisticated male humor, redolent of Balzac. Glacial lake in Idaho is very nice. So this is a trend which I can't evaluate. Is it funny, or just dickish? I guess possibly both but if it's too dickish I don't know if it can be funny. Anyway, the trend is walking up/driving up to people who have just had a car accident and telling them "You're not allowed to park here." You let me know. I don't know what to think of this. It's kind of funny but I remember my couple of crack-ups and I was in no mood at all for joking at the time. Little scottie terrier has the cutest walk. Duck loves her puppies. The right kind of otter. When you got beef but you got no energy. This bear is giving me a come hither look and I don't know whether I should trust him. I've been hurt before. And by "hurt" I mean "mauled by bears." A bear shows off his running speed. He takes steep inclines quickly, too. Even scarier: A duck in Attack Mode. Mine! Husky Orchestra.
I like to think monitor lizards still think theyre tiny incognito regular lizards and dont realize theyre giant monsters pic.twitter.com/aizGsI1IxW
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 30, 2025
Dog complains until his treat is dipped in sauce..🐶🍝😅 pic.twitter.com/EBXNcVi2gj
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) August 6, 2025
15 places where nature doesnt look real 🧵
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) August 6, 2025
1. Grindelwald, Switzerlandpic.twitter.com/MmrqMTtD5J
Who knew anteaters were just weird shaped dogs pic.twitter.com/RUjBMDJCOO
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 28, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 07:33 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (jfvTO)
Posted by: JTB at August 08, 2025 07:35 PM (yTvNw)
*sound of rotary phone dialing*
Hello? I'd like to order a Café please. Yes, to go. Number 27 in 30 minutes? Thank you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:38 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:41 PM (yP/Dy)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:38 PM (PGK1w)
Elk.
Reindeer are caribous.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (1Gsou)
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Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:41 PM (yP/Dy)
Every once in a while, probably once a year, a moose wanders into the hospital through the automatic doors. I assume the moose just wants to warm up, but there are plants indoors too which might look kinda tasty after eating bark all winter.
But I'd rather clean up after a moose than a monitor lizard. Ick.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (jxs9b)
Scottish Terriers are tough little bastards. One of the few Terrier breeds that can spar in the ring to show their temperament.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (nbo+T)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (+qU29)
Shouldn't that have been added to the cafe right before the ONT got posted?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (DgGvY)
Good evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (+qU29)
_________
Did you bring cake?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:47 PM (kkTda)
Mama sea otter and her baby are adorable! Thank you for the Friday treat, ace! Have a great weekend!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 07:47 PM (GMlj0)
Aw, hell, where'd I leaf my flammenwerfer?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)
I think the one English bloke had the best and most appropriate response to this form of shenanigans: "Fuck off."
Posted by: When nothing else will do at August 08, 2025 07:49 PM (KOE6H)
What’s with all these people leaving their doors open in rural areas with big, dangerous wildlife? If nothing else, don’t you wanna keep the bugs out?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:49 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (fIo92)
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (GMlj0)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:52 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:52 PM (zZu0s)
Now I know. I've only seen elephants drink from borries of water.. wow guzzle guzzle
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (VPPG8)
Reindeer are caribous.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM
And elk are wapitis.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
Speaking of Jim Lovell, I see the Artemis II mission is scheduled to launch this coming April. It will basically be a repeat of Apollo 8, but won't actually enter lunar orbit, just whip around.
I'm not going to be holding my breath for this thing being on schedule.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (w6EFb)
We have a collection of trolls here in Western WA. They are made with natural elements and designed to decompose in the next decade or so. They are very cool.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 08, 2025 07:54 PM (GMlj0)
240 160 Sophie Cunningham is not bad looking.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)
She's my dream girl. A good looking tomboy that stayed straight.
Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (VofaG)
She's also reportedly conservative, took heat for supposedly being "MAGA".
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (8hxDK)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (CqoVr)
*laces up shoes*
I just have to outrun you
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (ha1wR)
==
Bears can also swim and climb. They can't fly though...
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (g47mK)
--
It's teenage style humor, likely to get yourself yelled at
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 08, 2025 07:57 PM (GIcqz)
I just have to outrun you
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (gbOdA)
*hands over revolver*
Go for a flesh wound.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:57 PM (zZu0s)
duh HIPPA
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:58 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM
True. Which is why you want to climb a tree. But not just any tree. There is a criterion to selecting a tree.
And if y'all are nice to Hadrian tonight, I will share it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 07:59 PM (0sNs1)
Germany is affected by the U.S. election. We hope that the chosen candidate will continue to support a strong NATO!
@RichardGrenell . 4h
The new German Ambassador to the U.S. in 2016 when Germany wasn’t paying its fair share to NATO.
---
Grenell got a belly full of the Germans while he was stationed there.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 07:59 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM
Neither can penguins.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (0sNs1)
There are also Cocaine Salmon and Meth Trout. I have to assume there are Crack Catfish and Krokodil Gar Pike out there too.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 07:59 PM (I1XLT)
...
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Arc of a Muff Diver at August 08, 2025 08:01 PM (smrJR)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (0sNs1)
neither can people
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 08:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:02 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (+qU29)
But theoretically it's funny.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (VofaG)
----
Phrasing?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:02 PM (kpS4V)
——
I eat cannibals
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (CqoVr)
It's dickish. It's funny.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 08:04 PM (63Dwl)
'Would I be a horrible person if I stuck my leg out and tripped one of these little bastard kids running around on the boat?'
Only one way to find out.
(Report back if you do)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:05 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 08:05 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 08:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:00 PM (kpS4V)
Meth Moccasins
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:06 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (+qU29)
What about sad bears?
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:07 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:07 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:08 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (kpS4V)
Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.
The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.
CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (VofaG)
HAHahahaha!!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:07 PM (3wi/L)
My kids never miss a chance to wish roadkill "Get well, soon."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (i24o9)
Nuke the Everglades.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
And make kaiju meth moccasins? Nope!
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 08:10 PM (zZu0s)
Saw a pic, someone nailed a dead dogs hind feet to crossed boards like a Christmas tree and a ball in it's front paws, then stood it up by the roadside.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (QMSy2)
'CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.'
Dumb fucks.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (3wi/L)
Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.
The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.
CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx
If the "you can't park here" guy would have gotten to them just a minute sooner.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (DgGvY)
The up and coming Hollywood star was pressured into taking the shot to be on set for Chicago Med and other films and commercials.
Kelley was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma, a rare form of brain cancer, in Sept 2024. The turbo cancer spread quickly and overcame her less than a year later.
🤬🤬🤬
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (rqka2)
My best friend yells
You cant launch there.
The dude ran after my car trying to kick it.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:12 PM (gbOdA)
Jerk move.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 08:12 PM (TRQeB)
Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.
The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.
CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)
Risky sex.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:13 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:11 PM (DgGvY)
I was hoping he used protection
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:13 PM (gbOdA)
Thank you for your attention on this matter. If you are unable to come up with an excuse on your own (how did you make it through high school?) feel free to ask for suggestions.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 08:13 PM (jfvTO)
Good thing they didn't throw a green dildo at it. That would've crude.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (viF8m)
Dumb fucks.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
A couple's lustful date night ended in terrifying tragedy when their car plunged 1,300 feet off a cliff in Brazil, sending their naked bodies tumbling from the vehicle.
Sounds more like flying fucks.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)
Sounds like a good Darwin candidate.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 08, 2025 08:15 PM (5+Y60)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: eleven at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (fV+MH)
'My kids never miss a chance to wish roadkill "Get well, soon."'
One of mine is, "Look, kids. Free cat!"
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:16 PM (3wi/L)
My best friend yells
You cant launch there.
The dude ran after my car trying to kick it.
Posted by: rhennigantx
😂😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (rqka2)
In other newz, USAF has arrested airman involved in Sig320 fatality that has sparked a crisis over the safety of that firearm. Charges include a false statement, obstruction of justice, and involuntary manslaughter. So, plot thickens.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: eleven
You ever met a dude named "Willow?"
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Rick T at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (xeXUW)
The journals have some of the best unintended humor or “oops” recorded. Grizzlies hadn’t reallly been seen to the outside world and was unknown to science. The various Indian nations, as they travelled up the river kept regaling them of the size, ferocity, and general orneriness of these bruins.
Lewis got a little cocky, and decided that while the Indians prepared to meet grizzlies in the same ceremonies as going to war, they were obviously no match for modern rifles and besides, we’re a disciplined Army unit. They were all excited about seeing these grizzly’s. Then they started seeing these HUGE tracks. Hmmmm….
The grizz in those days would usually attack on sight. “I’d rather fight two Indians than one of these bears” was his updated opinion. “I rather expect the parties curiosity is pretty well satisfied with respect to these gentlemen”. Another time Lewis was walking on the bank alone, watching something and he discovered a grizzly had snuck up on him “within 20 paces”. He instantly raised his rifle and also recollected it was not loaded. He tried to slowly back away.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:19 PM (JiYEK)
Posted by: Trenton Is Nicer at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (G5+As)
I’ve always wanted to get a helium filled “Get Well Soon” balloon and tie it to a leg.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rhennigantx
Sounds like a good Darwin candidate.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
They almost made it.....
Posted by: zombie Charles Darwin at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:21 PM (SH3As)
duh HIPPA
Posted by: rhennigantx
Aww... no more participation trophies for them!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (TRQeB)
Posted by: polynikes
"Smooth move, Ex-Lax."
Posted by: 1980s dickishness at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:20 PM (vFG9F)
Daystrum 5000
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhennigantx
What a way to go. Or come. As the case may be.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (vFG9F)
The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.
See kids? Extramarital sex kills.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (TRQeB)
'My best friend yells
You cant launch there.
The dude ran after my car trying to kick it.'
Ha!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:23 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: easy the elder at August 08, 2025 08:23 PM (X7ceH)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:24 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (U/Byj)
Damn.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:24 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:24 PM (dKEEs)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM (144I4)
'I’ve always wanted to get a helium filled “Get Well Soon” balloon and tie it to a leg.'
'It's OK. He's just sleeping. shh'
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:26 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: polynikes
"Smooth move, Ex-Lax."
Posted by: 1980s dickishness
Friends help you up. Good friends point & laugh.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:26 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: haffhowershower"
Dog farts in the cab of the truck are not funny. And the dog knows it.
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 08:27 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:27 PM (YZNHN)
toe balloon hahahahaha
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:27 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:28 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:30 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:17 PM (U/Byj) 112 I only know what I read in the papers. No earthly idea, as usual, about whether this arrest is material to the issue of 320 function and safety. But I'm guessing we'll all see as time goes on.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:28 PM (U/Byj)Back in the safe you go until you're sent back to the factory.
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 08:32 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: haffhowershower
You're doing it wrong.
Fart as you exit the elevator, or as you get on one of the loooonnnnnggg escalators in ATL. My favorite, is the sun heated glass vestibule with an inner and an outter door. That one is best executed when you can watch the next victim.
Most fun is crop dusting the grocery store and sending Junior-eette back to get something i 'forgot'. I get a punch in the ribs for those though.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (QcUc+)
Posted by: polynikes
_____________________
Well, that's a tough one. We're all different. So, my best advice is to give it a shot and see how you feel. There's no substitute for experience.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (dIske)
Adriana Ribeiro, 42, and her boyfriend Marcone Cardoso, 26, had parked at an overlook in Venda Nova do Imigrante, in the state of Espirito Santo, on Monday after attending a party.
The pair stopped off at the cliff's edge, which is known as a popular spot for hang-gliding, to lock lips.
CNN reported that the two were having sex at the time and that their movement inside the car led it to tip over the edge.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)
Edging>>Ledging
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (144I4)
Throws ju-ju dust at the computer screen; Mrs. Paco: "I'm not cleaning that stuff up!".
Posted by: Paco at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:09 PM (gbOdA)
Edging>>Ledging
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:33 PM (144I4)
It's always nice to finish at the same time.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (+qU29)
'Most fun is crop dusting the grocery store and sending Junior-eette back to get something i 'forgot'. I get a punch in the ribs for those though.'
Jogging at the track. Let loose right as you pass a walker.
Every after will think it's the walker's fart.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (3wi/L)
It was important to save German Democracy
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Accomack at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (4qMiv)
The only thing funnier is Uranus.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:36 PM (vFG9F)
haha
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:38 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:38 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s)
No we have borries of water here in the Jersey Pine Barrens next to Ocean Spray cranberry bogs and bodies of water...
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 08:39 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:39 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:40 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:34 PM (+qU29)
Chuck Yeager.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 08:40 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 08:25 PM
Sadly, not everyone agrees.
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) new hyper-masculine face of the Democrat Party at August 08, 2025 08:42 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:43 PM (dKEEs)
So they decided to test for everything just to be sure. Really weird shit, eveything from treadmills and poked and prodded and all orifices inspected and detected, sitting with feet in ice water whilst trying to solve math equations.
Anyway, stool samples had to be turned in every day and everybody was tired of that. I think it was Lovell who boxed up one of his exemplars and wrapped it up with a bow. That didn’t go over very well. One of the Rorschach tests, one was actually a blank piece of paper. Conrad reached over and flipped it. “It’s upside down”. They didn’t like that either. “Not suitable for extended space flight” uh-huh
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:44 PM (YZNHN)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 08:44 PM (rbvCR)
The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery.
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That's gotta be a Babylon Bee headline, amirite?
In the Master of Social Work program?
This is so highly triggering that I began shaking so hard my front tooth came out!
And why is Columbia University lstill named after some dead old white genocidal male?
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 08:45 PM (wKsr6)
If Musk had not bought Twitter and Trump not won, we would be in the exact same place. That's not conjecture. That would have happened.
Escaping tyranny is a lot easier said than done. And we were on the exact same path as the EU and the rest of the west.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:46 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ants, Again? at August 08, 2025 08:47 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:47 PM (U/Byj)
Dick move.
What if the person you say it to just had a loved one killed in the accident?
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 08:48 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 08:49 PM (mP0Kj)
The Tonight Show, Sam Kinison performs "Are you lonely tonight?"
https://youtu.be/WipFqwSjSMM
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 08, 2025 08:50 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 08:50 PM (77rzZ)
Not sure how the russkis roll for such things but our side will require rotary wing access to any location, president Air Force One to Elmendorf, chopper after.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:51 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Dr Richard Daystrom at August 08, 2025 08:51 PM (vFG9F)
probably still covered by NDA, but the only machine shop I ever had with white linoleum floors ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:51 PM (dKEEs)
Or a shuttle summit. One meeting on Little Diomede, then one on Big Diomede.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:52 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:53 PM (dKEEs)
1sr man: That I was a good husband and father.
2nd man: That I lived a good life of kindness to others.
3rd man: “Look! He’s moving!”
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 08:53 PM (rqka2)
Purdue University on Aug. 8, 2025, dedicated the new Amelia Earhart Terminal at its West Lafayette airport and launched daily commercial air service to and from Chicago through SkyWest Airlines.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 08:54 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 08:54 PM (dKEEs)
Early on, guys like Von Braun suggested that the crew might be put to sleep, they wouldn’t be necessary to operate controls. Two buttons - “Go To Moon” and “Return to Earth” went the joke
Pilots, being pilots, weren’t having any of that, and demanded that they fly the spacecraft. They were proven correct.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 08:56 PM (/g2Ya)
Posted by: Common Tater
Well, he's gonna spend several days in a teeny-tiny room with other people. "Snarky asshole" is not the guy you want there, no matter how technically competent he might be.
I wouldn't want to spend a week in a space capsule with me, and I am me.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 08:56 PM (DgGvY)
Sounds like an invitation to get an asskicking. You notice all the people who did that shouted it from a moving vehicle and then drove away. The real funny clip will be when one of them gets interrupted when they are trying to drive off and has to face the consequences.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (p4nXC)
Paxton announced Friday afternoon that he has filed a “historic” lawsuit with the Texas Supreme Court to declare all 13 seats vacant.
“The rogue Democrat legislators who fled the state have abandoned their duties, leaving their seats vacant,” Paxton said in a statement. “These cowards deliberately sabotaged the constitutional process and violated the oath they swore to uphold.
Furthermore that ignorant slut Jasmine Crockett will be forever kicked out of Texas politics after being kicked out on her fat ass."
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (63Dwl)
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Great but, I hear it's impossible to find.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (viF8m)
Implies a terrifyingly fragile and shallow culture of freedom in institutions and populace.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (U/Byj)
Irony is lost on some people.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (bKn1x)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 08:59 PM (oTy3B)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:00 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 08:22 PM (gbOdA)
Or it could be I, Mudd.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (vFG9F)
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hmmm...is that a direct quote ?
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 09:01 PM (g47mK)
This is one time I wonder if there might be more in play. Both the circumstances and Trump's healthy self-confidence as a deal-maker let's me guess there's at least a small chance that some of the real work will get done at the meeting.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (U/Byj)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:03 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:03 PM (77rzZ)
the one they already signed today at the White House? you need a better time machine
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 09:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:04 PM (+qU29)
The Army G2 or whatever it’s called investigated the highly skilled machinists at Wendover, in the 509th Composite. Turns out about a dozen were wanted felons and escaped convicts. Somehow they got in the Army, figuring that was a good place to hide.
They didn’t know what to do with them. Tibbetts called them in one by one, they about shit when he read them their dossier. He said if they kept their mouth shut and did good work, he would keep their files on ice. If not, not.
I bet a skilled machinist was a good job then. Better than storming the beach at Anzio or Tarawa anyhow
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 09:05 PM (TbGaV)
Have a great night everyone
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:05 PM (+qU29)
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President Trump immediately orders a NEW CENSUS to not count ILLEGAL ALIENS.
This could have absolutely enormous implications. Florida, Texas missed out on a Congressional seat in 2020. Blue states are over counted.
“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024.
People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:05 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 09:02 PM (+qU29)
Not to mention that without gravity, they don't work as well as one might hope.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 08, 2025 09:06 PM (p4nXC)
Funny, Armenian PM Pashinyan looked awkward or at least unprepared at several points. Even when being greeted by Trump outside the West Wing door, and especially during the signing (he kept looking over and Trump and Aliyev as if to see what he should do). Not important, but funny.
Gonna have to finally do my back homework. Was involved in this particular kerfuffle in various ways and spent a lot of time in the area, including the disputed part, years back. But lost interest and didn't even focus again when Azerbaijan (to my surprise) took N-K back just before the 2020 election (heist) here.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 09:07 PM (U/Byj)
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Possibly a White Christian Trump voter?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 09:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 09:07 PM (g47mK)
Irony is lost on some people.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 08, 2025 08:58 PM (bKn1x)
Ursula von der Leyen believes in free speech, hers. Just don't interrupt her, peasant.
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:08 PM (gKDq2)
There is only one deal with Putin that Trump cares about, the war in Ukraine. Trump has been singularly focused on this since the beginning of his campaign. His team has been working on this and so has he as recently as his huge tariffs on India for selling Russian oil.
Does anyone really think after watching Trump defy every "expert" with deal after deal and after ending 7 wars around the world he would agree to meet Putin on US soil if the deal wasn't at least 99.9% done?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 09:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:09 PM (1hgaQ)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (sDWtc)
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Great but, I hear it's impossible to find.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 08:57 PM (Dv3i
Maybe a good party to crash.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (5+Y60)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (77rzZ)
F-word in response, I'd say "No parking" is a dick move
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 09:12 PM (8sydA)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:12 PM (1hgaQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at August 08, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:13 PM (I1XLT)
Irony is lost on some people.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Irony, like dark humor, is like food.
Not everyone gets it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 09:14 PM (rqka2)
And that is how Neil Degrasse Tyson was born.
And now you know... the rest of the story
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:15 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:08 PM (gKDq2)
In the presser she did with Trump after arranging the tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements, Von der Leyen had the demeanor like she knew Trump was on the edge of ordering her to go get the towel and the bag of oranges.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:17 PM (rbvCR)
Shouldn't that have been added to the cafe right before the ONT got posted?
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 07:46 PM (DgGvY)
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Fistbump.
Oh, and she is the sniper!
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 09:17 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:17 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2025 09:18 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 09:18 PM (WzM/W)
I wanted to share the latest updates regarding ...
-This week alone, YOUR FBI teams, alongside our state, local, and international partners, arrested 134 subjects.
The FBI’s Child Exploitation Operational Unit and our Violent Crimes Against Children International Task Force arrested a 36-year-old Irish national who was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and coercion and enticement of a child.
...
-123 kg of fentanyl was seized BEFORE hitting our communities
-3,329 total subjects have been arrested
-770 subjects have been indicted ...etc.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:19 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Doof at August 08, 2025 09:20 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (77rzZ)
Was his name something like "Marwan"?
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (sDWtc)
https://youtu.be/7hCPODjJO7s?si=BYCVwioiT_DW34z6
Cool series, up to 41 episodes now.
You can watch two crazy Brits stuff a Celica GT4 engine and drive train into a Mini
Posted by: PMRich at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (Pe+uV)
The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
BREAKING: Another COVID “conspiracy theory” just came true.
A Special HHS Adviser confirmed it, and you could see the pain written all over his face.
This explains why RFK Jr. effectively shut down all mRNA vaccine funding.
https://is.gd/3ieGqE
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (eAryO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:13 PM (I1XLT)
Not particularly. Not much threat up here. The usual closed airspace, they will meet probably on base, knowing Trump he may come downtown to meet and greet, but honestly, on a Friday in August, most folks will be out of town.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (1Gsou)
It's an absolute pleasure watching a cutthroat businessman who plays for the US negotiate instead of some hack career hack lawyer politician. We have won so huge over the last 7 months I think some are getting spoiled.
There has never been anything like what Trump has accomplished in 7 months and likely won't be in any of our lifetimes. It's incredible where we and the world are today as compared to last November.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 09:23 PM (viF8m)
It doesn't make me think Trump is smart. Not by any means.
It makes me believe more than ever that grabbing someone at random, that owns land, and is out of debt ... kind of a variation of the Old Greek System ... would give us better leaders than Nixon or Reagan. Certainly better than any Bush.
Its not that Trump is so smart. Its just that everyone else has been so purposely stupid for so long.
Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:23 PM (atlTj)
Posted by: Jim Nantz at August 08, 2025 09:23 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:22 PM (sDWtc)
It shows how my mind works in that i immediately thought 'Is he making a 24 season 4 reference to some sort of mastermind?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (+dm09)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 09:24 PM (8sydA)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (sDWtc)
My neighborhood offers views like that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 09:26 PM (1Gsou)
'the sexualization of women is not funny' [psst sex can be fun]
anyway, here she is:
https://tinyurl.com/38vr4dx7
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:26 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2025 09:26 PM (NfBWh)
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (i0F8b)
Now, granted, the man was busy. But I doubt he would have missed a rebound.
Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (atlTj)
'the sexualization of women is not funny' [psst sex can be fun]
anyway, here she is:
https://tinyurl.com/38vr4dx7
Posted by: Braenyard
THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!
Posted by: Feminist at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (PGK1w)
You can sexualize any fucking thing in this culture except women.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
Its not that Trump is so smart. Its just that everyone else has been so purposely stupid for so long.
Posted by: Free Thinker
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schreeek, as the stylus slides across the turntable
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:28 PM (I1XLT)
In all fairness, have you seen most of 'em ? Have you listened to most of 'em ?
Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:28 PM (atlTj)
The old school pilots were … different. There’s a tale of a pilot whose plane was in some sort of death spiral or whatever and he’s ran out of ideas asking for help. Somebody radio’d back “quit whining, die like an aviator”
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 09:30 PM (VqV9I)
I was just wondering the same thing. Only 5 total Apollo astronauts remain. Four Moonwalkers, Buzz, David Scott, Harrison Schmitt and Charlie Duke, and then Fred Haise.
Schmitt and Duke are the youngest, at 89. Both will turn 90 later this year.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 09:30 PM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:31 PM (77rzZ)
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tcn's going to be there with a flag
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:32 PM (I1XLT)
I have actually seen a dead, boosted from the heat racoon with a Mylar balloon tied to its uplifted (from the bloat) hind leg.
This was before cameras in cell phones.
I hurried home for a camera, but when I got back to where I had seen the dead 'coin it was gone.
Posted by: waepnedmann at August 08, 2025 09:32 PM (5UJkg)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 08, 2025 09:34 PM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 09:32 PM (I1XLT)
Nope. I'm going to be in my camper at Tolsona, or perhaps at the bar at Lake Louise.
It used to be sort of fun when a President came through Elmendorf, when I worked on base. Sometimes we got to go out on the flightline to see AF1. We certainly got to watch it take off and land.
Now, meh. Just means less aircraft around for a day.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 09:36 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 08, 2025 09:37 PM (NfBWh)
Wait, there's a 6th still alive, Rusty Schweickart. He was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 9, the LEO test mission of the lunar module. He's thus technically Apollo, but never left earth orbit.
The 5 count is those who left LEO and at least went near the Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)
Schweickart would've been on the roster for subsequent Moon missions, but he got a bad case of space sickness, and they didn't want to risk it on later missions.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:41 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:31 PM (77rzZ)
Nope. Wouldn’t know how to shoot an arrow, and I am not made of vines.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 09:41 PM (+dm09)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: davidt
The all-wise DDG says:
Paint or other coatings are permitted, but they must not interfere with the natural properties of the wood or create an overly slick surface.
Manufacturers must ensure that the wood grain is visible and that no alterations have been made to enhance performance beyond the natural properties of the wood.
The Major League Baseball Rules Committee [makes] decisions on colored bats, which require special approval for use in professional games.
So, probably no bright green bats, so soon after bright-green-dildo month.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 09:43 PM (DgGvY)
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It's pretty logical if you abandon the idea that representatives are there to impose our will on government in favor of having political parties which make their own peace with each other in order to exclude the rest of us from having any influence.
Posted by: Methos at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (zLwRl)
I have never seen as unprofessional a broadcast as this on. Recently using one end zone camera only , and there is volume only when play by play man speaks.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (n4GiU)
About 20 miles from Red River in North LA.
So I needed to got to town and a dude in a truck with a big cooler had coon for sell.
I asked to look and it was racoon.
With 1 paw still there.
He said cause people got mad if you sold them possum instead of coon.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:45 PM (gKDq2)
I was struck how sharp these guys were. Tom Stafford has an interview where he’s 90, not too long before he died, and he was talking extemporaneously as the term goes, on at length about highly technical issues. I remember my gob being smacked because at the time Biden was “in the news” for being a barely ambulatory vegetable while everyone around him tried to deny it.
I liked flying with the old crusty SOBs with about 9000 flight hours. “Get in the goddamned aircraft!” he says. Yessir… Their knowledge and experience increases the odds of survival if something mechanical happens. Maybe it is unsolvable .. maybe not.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (xHdZY)
The latest dildo is purple. Sports betting sites now are letting you place prop bets on what color the next one will be.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (OyOhQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (2WIwB)
About 20 miles from Red River in North LA.
So I needed to got to town and a dude in a truck with a big cooler had coon for sell.
I asked to look and it was racoon.
With 1 paw still there.
He said cause people got mad if you sold them possum instead of coon.
Posted by: rhennigantx
I can hear the banjo in the background of this comment.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bulg at August 08, 2025 09:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (CqoVr)
But I can outrun Mrs D.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: waepnedmann at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (5UJkg)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (gbOdA)
It was in some story that in India it was habitual for the butcher to leave the paws on rabbits because that way you could be assured it wasn't a cat
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)
pig in a poke means you bought a cat.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: discerning buyer at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)
I hear the same about elephant v rhino in Africa bush markets.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:53 PM (gbOdA)
😜
Posted by: mindful webworker - return for refund at August 08, 2025 09:53 PM (7W0uI)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:49 PM (rbvCR)
No buy.
Posted by: Your Local Chinese Take-Out at August 08, 2025 09:53 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: discerning buyer at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK
Good eatin' on a cow's head. You have the tongue, the brains, and Momma always said to the butcher to leave the eyes in 'cause it had to see us through the week.
Laws, we did laugh at that one!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:54 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (OyOhQ)
chartreuse
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)
And if you don't like it, you don't like comedy. I get the whole sanguine thing and don't let it bother you thing.
But its' just not funny.
ICE raids a live Dora the Explorer show and Parker and Stone stick "We only want the brown ones" in Kristi Noem's mouth. (Sock puppets are so funny!)
I don't know. People can chose to like this if they want to. But I've already heard the Trump wants to deport all Hispanic thing too many times to find it "cutting edge".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (144I4)
Posted by: discerning buyer at August 08, 2025 09:51 PM (g47mK)
with the ear tag
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (gbOdA)
and bells
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (gbOdA)
Nice Dick
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)
That's a compliment in their locker rooms.
Posted by: Your Local Chinese Take-Out at August 08, 2025 09:56 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (gKDq2)
Artemis II is scheduled to launch in April next year, maybe by late Feb they hint. I'm not going to hold my breath.
This will be a less that complete repeat of Apollo 8. They're going to whip around the Moon, but not enter lunar orbit.
Hell, the current Block I incarnation of the SLS, with IPS second stage is not capable of entering Lunar orbit and then getting out. Well, it technically could, but the fuel margins would be too low for manned comfort.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Old Man Parker, Replacement Christmas Duck Dinner at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Old Man Parker, Replacement Christmas Duck Dinner at August 08, 2025 09:57 PM (wVcYX)
Christmas is carnage!
Posted by: Ferdinand at August 08, 2025 09:58 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
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Lunch boxes?
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 09:59 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:00 PM (gbOdA)
Laws, we did laugh at that one!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 09:54 PM (rbvCR)
Kill a 20 or 30 pound grouper and the Bahamians wanted that head for a breakfast stew served over rice.
Sousa
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rhennigantx
One! One count of police brutality! Ah ah ah!
Two! Two counts.....
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:44 PM (gbOdA)
In my area, you can get a permit for roadkill dear. Game changer.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 10:02 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (gbOdA)
anyone looking for a job ?
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 10:03 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 09:46 PM (OyOhQ)
chartreuse
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 09:55 PM (gbOdA)
I'm going to be offended if they finally throw a Caucasian one, and it is rinky dink.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 10:04 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 09:27 PM (zZu0s)
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Lunch boxes?
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 09:59 PM (krQz2)
Sick freak.
Posted by: Toaster Fucker at August 08, 2025 10:06 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:39 PM (AiNp4)
The German stuff is child’s play compared to the left here.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 10:43 PM (AiNp4)
Now dog farts - hilarious!
Love these posts. Keep 'em coming!
Posted by: Just plain at August 09, 2025 12:36 PM (rXBnM)
The Week in Woke
Elizabeth Warren is all-in on the communist Hamas supporter Zohran Mamdani.
Fox News
@FoxNews Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor. REPORTER: "Democratic socialism--is this what the party should look like?" WARREN: "Yes, you bet!"
Deport him now.
Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey I gift you with the dumbest thing you'll read today. Where is the evidence that masculinity is crippling society? I can't with how dumb this is. From a journalistic perspective, there is no evidence that masculinity is crippling society. There is more evidence, in fact, that calling all men toxic for being masculine is crippling society. But they just print it like it's true. ALSO, the "trans" movement is the most adherent to "traditional gender roles." The movement thinks lipstick and a hairstyle makes a person a woman. The movement thinks if a man likes "feminine things" (???) he must be a woman, penis be damned. I mean the whole thing...
Anti-Israel campus leader Mahmoud Khalil was ripped Thursday over his attempt to "justify" the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks in a recent interview -- with elected officials saying it boosts the Trump administration's case seeking to kick him out of the country. New York and national officials condemned Khalil for his statements seemingly sympathizing with Hamas' rationale for the cowardly assault on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people and took another 251 hostage in Gaza. "Mahmoud Khalil must be immediately deported," Upstate New York Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post. The Republican congresswoman has long lambasted Khalil, a green card holder, for his role in fomenting virulent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University. "He is a chief pro-Hamas terrorist agitator who contributed to the antisemitic encampments at Columbia, the rioting and violent takeover of Hamilton Hall, and the harassment and physical assault of Jewish students," she said. "Naturalized citizenship is an earned privilege of our nation, and he has not earned it. The government should continue taking every lawful step necessary to remove this enemy from the United States," Brooklyn Assemblyman Kalman Yeger seethed. Speaking with New York Times journalist Ezra Klein on his podcast this week, Khalil, 30, called Oct. 7 a "desperate" moment which Palestinians "had to reach" in order to have their voices heard. "Unfortunately, we couldn't avoid such a moment," he said, when asked about the attack by the terror group -- which is still holding 50 hostages in Gaza, of whom just about 20 are believed to still be alive.UPenn loses another big donor over its embrace of Middle Eastern shithole Nazism.
Please hire these people. They're the best and brightest.
Donor Stephen Levin is no longer making donations toward his $15 million pledge for naming rights to the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Although he yanked his support in November 2023, it is coming to light this week with the student newspaper article. "Penn has quietly removed the name of 1967 College graduate Stephen Levin from the behavioral sciences building he previously endowed after the longtime University donor halted his contributions over the administration's handling of antisemitism on campus," the newspaper reported Wednesday. According to a letter obtained by the Daily Pennsylvanian, Levin had told former President Liz Magill: "Today Penn is far from the University I attended, along with my father and two of my sons." "Furthermore, I want my name removed from the building and no longer want to be associated with Penn. Penn is an embarrassment not only to the Jewish community but also has lost its luster as a superb Ivy league school."
The City University of New York's York College's Master of Social Work program has eliminated the term "field" from its curriculum, citing its potential to cause trauma for black Americans due to the word's association with slavery. The decision, detailed in the college's course catalogue, reflects a broader trend among social work programs to adopt inclusive language. The York College program chose "to create an anti-racism learning environment by adopting alternative terminology in the place of the word 'field,'" its catalogue states. "The decision was made by the MSW Team due to the term's association with a painful historical era that inflicted significant harm on Black Americans/African Americans during their enslavement in America," it adds.Hardball, finally: Florida's top educational official recommends clawing back the salaries from school board officials who expelled a father from a meeting for raising justified concerns.
The Florida commissioner of education is recommending a local school district lose funding totaling the salaries of all its board members following the board's treatment of a father who spoke up at a July 31 meeting. As reported by Corey DeAngelis on X, Parent Jeremy Clepper (pictured) took his turn during public comment to criticize Alachua County Public Schools Board Chair Sarah Rockwell for her social media comments celebrating the recent death of pro wrestling star Hulk Hogan. Hogan, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, died a week ago from a heart attack. Upon learning of Hogan's passing, Rockwell wrote on Facebook "Oh, did Hulk die? I didn't even know. One less MAGA in the world." In response to a comment, Rockwell added Hogan "worked with the McMahons to union bust professional wrestling. he's never been a good guy. I feel absolutely nothing about his death." ...Okay, so it's the district, not the actual school board fascists, losing the amount of the fascists' salaries. It's something, I guess. (I'd say we're punishing the kids rather than the officials but you know most school funding is just wasted anyway.) An MIT professor says she (of course it's a she) spends one third of all of her working hours fighting "Trump terrorism." Sounds like MIT should claw back one third of her salary then, doesn't it?
During his time at the mic, Clepper told Rockwell her comments had "cheered for the death of MAGA" and he mocked her apology: "Aren't you a highly educated woman that knows the exact meaning behind her words?" Clepper concluded by telling the board chair she "should step down," and that she's a "disgusting, vile human being." A board member took issue with Clepper's remarks and called over a police officer to remove him from the meeting. While he was being escorted out, another board member noted the district's attorney had requested that Clepper not be removed. But by that time it appeared Clepper was already on his way out of the room. Many in attendance at the meeting (who were wearing face masks, including Rockwell) were in favor of ejecting Clepper. One can be heard saying "He needs to go," while local "social justice activist" Faye Williams (pictured) screamed over and over "Get out!" and called Clepper a "white supremacist." ... The commissioner noted since the Alachua Board "failed to ensure free expression of all viewpoints during public comment" he found "probable cause" that state law was violated. As such, Kamoutsas recommended the Florida State Board of Education "withhold from the [Alachua] district an amount equal to the salaries of all board members."
LOL. So much communist cant.
When Professor Catherine D'Ignazio isn't running the "Data + Feminism" lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or organizing "reproductive justice hackathons" she is fighting Donald Trump's "state terrorism."
The urban studies professor, and "data feminism" scholar, recently explained "how U.S. universities can survive state terrorism" in an essay for Academe Blog. "What distinguishes state terrorism from other routine uses of force is that the violence is designed to 'send a message' --to reverberate out into the population, to engender fear, and to shift behavior," Professor D'Ignazio (pictured) explains. ... "The Trump administration's strategy conjoins specific instances of threats and violence with widely reported media representations in order to spread fear," the professor wrote. "This is what distinguishes the current violence of the state as terrorist. It is not only a judicial project but also a public relations project and a strategic communications project." Even "left- and center-leaning" publications like the New York Times play a role in promoting fear, the professor said. It's no wonder then that one-third of her paid time goes to fighting "state terrorism."
... "Surviving state terrorism will not be easy," however. "During this period, we must remember that the current project is an elaborate exercise in political theater designed to spread fear, isolation, and division." "Acts of radical care, everyday courage, and collective action are the most effective antidote to state terrorism."
Aphorisms like "the early bird gets the worm" are how societies pass wisdom from mouth to ear. What aphorisms people use tell you about their cultural values. Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo find that aphorisms that encourage individuality, responsibility, and tolerance for others' thoughts are no longer being used by the young. In fact, some young people say they've never heard of these formerly-common aphorisms like "It's a free country."
Wesley Yang
@wesyang The media celebrated a 17-year old female mathematical prodigy while actively suppressing the fact in the initial report that the girl is actually a boy. It's not hard to do the intersectional math and figure out why the story wasn't framed as a triumph of "transgender inclusion." A weird confluence of different interests at play, among them the fact that 1.) a contagion of trans-identification is ripping through the male nerd population and 2.) STEM and tech are "solving" their gender problems with a burgeoning new cohort of these male nerds who "identify" as a women 1.) We want there to be an inspiring female math prodigy
2.) We have one! But he's a boy.
3.) But trans girls are girls, right? No?
4.) No they aren't.
5.) OK, just leave it out.
Um, the word you're searching for is "aphorism." Do people not know what words mean any longer? But let's continue:
In May, we surveyed 1,122 American adults about common expressions related to free speech and intellectual pluralism. And while the results show some promising potential trends, they also illustrate ways our cultural climate isn't as free speech-friendly as it could be. Before we go further, a quick pedantic point: It can be argued that many of the sayings in question aren't technically idioms, which are defined as common phrases or expressions that carry symbolic rather than literal meanings -- e.g., "raining cats and dogs," "break the ice," or "by the skin of my teeth." And while we love being pedantic, let's agree to use a looser definition of the term, which can be interchangeable with "expression," "phrase," or "saying," for the sake of this piece.
But that's the percentage who hadn't heard of all of the aphorisms. More people haven't heard of particular ones.
The FIRE/NORC 2025 Idioms Survey, which was conducted through NORC's AmeriSpeak panel, focused mainly on participants' familiarity with and usage of the following expressions: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." "It's a free country." "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion." "Walk a mile in someone else's shoes." "To each their own." "Different strokes for different folks." "Who am I to judge?" "Address the argument, not the person." The good news is, recognition of the vast majority of these idioms was generally very high across all participants, ranging from 76 to 85%. In fact, only 6% of surveyed participants said they hadn't heard any of these expressions before.
A bet everyone routinely hears about the progressive stack and deplatforming Nazis and fascists and authoritarians, though. Stanky hoe-ass American women are now getting, get this, tattoos of hair in their armpits so that they always appear hairy and smelly even if they shave. To be honest, I don't imagine this is a super-popular trend. In fact it might just be this one stanky hoe-ass. But it's still something that this particular stanky hoe-ass wants to show off on social media and be praised for. I guess she's trying to Defeat the Male Gaze but I gotta tell you, honey, you're working too hard. God took care of that for ya. It's totally the children's choice, right? Sex and the City "star" Cynthia Nixon: "My kid is trans, my sister's kids are trans, every kid I know is trans and proud." Woke "history teacher" wants her kids to know that when Brown People practiced child sacrifice, it was a good, Mostly Peaceful type of child sacrifice, because they just wanted their heathen gods to deliver a good crop and also the children who had their hearts pulled out of their still-heaving chests "volunteered" to be executed. These teachers are all so intelligent, educated, competent, and mentally healthy that I can't believe we're able to keep them on as teachers for only $100,000 per year, insane benefits and retirement packages, and a work year consisting of just over 180 days out of 365. Surely they could make so much more money as aerospace engineers and mathematicians specializing in higher-dimensional topography. Noted Stock Market Wizard Nancy Pelosi: "We're are hoping we can have gender-affirming care for our trans kids."
Given that these particular sayings tend to communicate perspectives that are in favor of "small-D" democratic values like free speech, epistemic humility, and intellectual pluralism, it's a very good thing that people are familiar with them. The bad news is that, while recognition was high across the board, participants reported both hearing and using these phrases at low numbers. For each of the selected idioms, 30% of participants or fewer said they heard them used "fairly" or "very" often, and at most only 21% reported using them "fairly" or "very" often themselves. Even the most well-known phrases still achieved low double-digit results on the survey questions. For example, there are few sayings that would be more helpful for the promotion of free speech culture than "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," and we'd love for it to be more prevalent in our culture. Unfortunately, only 28% of participants reported hearing this expression either "fairly" or "very" often, and only 21% reported using it at those same levels.
Ohh my god its true, Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is giving $30,000 to each illegal migrant family to help them move into homes
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 6, 2025
Maura Healey is shifting shelter costs to the states HomeBASE program. The program provides rental assistance to migrant families, pic.twitter.com/yy4CyhcwK8
Prime Time #99 Alex Stein drops some transgender truth bombs in the Texas Senate.
STOP IT!!!🤣🤣🤣 NOT FUNNY!!! pic.twitter.com/z1Rb5qMgEk
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) August 7, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)
i.e. national socialism.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 06:35 PM (vZUXb)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:38 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:38 PM (zZu0s)
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Tom Haden, himself, said that he calls himself a "progressive" because he can't yet come out as a "socialist".
This is when I learned of crypto-socialists in the liberal fold.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (jgmnb)
Also 3) it's about fighting Trump.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (jgmnb)
She's decently hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (zZu0s)
I mean the whole thing...
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Been my point for a while.
Also "trans", suggests an other side. There are no sides in a fluid.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (jxs9b)
The new Democrat Party says, "We're not communists, we're just socialists."
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Ace, let's not be over deterministic here. There were very staunch anti-Communists Democrats back in the day. Ronald Reagan was one of them.
I'm old enough to remember when "Scoop Jackson" Democrats were a thing, as were pro-life Dems.
The party has been hijacked, and a big part of the problem is all the Boomers who THINK Scoop Jackson still has a place in the party. He doesn't. He's dead and his grave has been desecrated in every imaginable way.
Truth is a powerful weapon, and if we want to pierce the veil of lies the media has employed, we have to emphasize that these are NOT THE OLD DEMOCRATS. Their are weirdos and usurpers.
Remember the Hard Hat Riot and how Al Gore (of all people!) was a conservative, chosen to balance Slick Willie. Tipper hated dirty song lyrics, but 30 years later Albert is needing his chokra released.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (BXf0+)
Today it's "Quick, get that boy a penis!"
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM
Hey now, that is a marketable skill if they move to the middle east. They can get a big locality bonus if they move to gaza and join hamas like so many of them want to.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (zZu0s)
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WNBA ratings would soar if the players had to doge dildos at the free throw line.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:41 PM (BXf0+)
ace sitting on a Vespa.
Or
Ace swinging a messenger bag.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bombadil at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (MX0bI)
Well as I love to point out - 50% of under-18 year olds in this country are not white.
In other words - 20-30% are immigrants or children of immigrants. Many from cultures who have decidedly different views on all of these issues than we do.
I dont think "everyone is entitled to his own opinion" is a way of life in India or China.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (04Xj5)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (BXf0+)
Posted by: Bombadil at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (ZOv7s)
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"Catching" them would be more impressive.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Chuck at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (QKD5H)
Today it's "Quick, get that boy a penis!"
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (krQz2)
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More like: "Quick, cut off that boy's tits! Quick, cut of that girl's dick!"
They do not add anything, just destroy healthy tissue.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (BXf0+)
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"Bearenstain Bears" was the first clue!
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:45 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)
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Interesting split between those who like the D and those who like it but deny it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:45 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)
It would be better ball work that these gals have done their entire lives.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)
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I doubt it would further impair their shooting percentages.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Bang-a-gong at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (SRiFu)
'When will jobless students start suing universities for teaching them nothing but hating Jews?'
That isn't the only hate they teach.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (+qU29)
How ?
(could not resist!)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (g47mK)
Or not.
It doesn't have to be violent... but it's likely. So what to do?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (Q4IgG)
Also 3) it's about fighting Trump.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (zZu0s)
I have never met anyone who is pro the current immigration situation. Left or right. White or black. American Canadian or european.
What they are is terrified of being called a racist. We need to stop that shit. Or as they say "sticks and stones may break my bones …"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (04Xj5)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (rbvCR)
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"A distinction without a difference."
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:39 PM (jgmnb)
She is cute enough that she probably doesn't have to resort to one. Unlike many of the WNBA hos.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (5WIH7)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)
You forgot to start that post with "Actually"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (3wi/L)
Exactly. Its okay if they hate America or whites or any of the freedoms we enjoy. But we draw the line at whether or not they like Jews?
What is that?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (04Xj5)
In the United States, approximately 77% of K–12 teachers are female. While i haven’t looked up stats on political affiliation, voting trends suggest that a significant portion lean toward progressive or left-leaning viewpoints. This demographic imbalance can influence the perspectives and values shaping young minds. When such a disparity exists, the lack of diverse viewpoints—regardless of teaching ability—may reduce the balance of approaches in problem-solving, instruction, discipline, and empathy, as men and women often bring different tendencies and perspectives to these areas. It would be hard to ignore that this also has a tendency to plant the seeds of ideological bias.
As with everything in life, balance is important. Based on what we know today, balance is a crime from the viewpoint of hard-core leftists..
Posted by: Trip at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (9BJNk)
Maybe they should eliminate the name from Master as well, hhhmmm CUNY?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:47 PM (hlNLQ)
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The dildo is evolving. Once exclusively considered a close-in device, a new generation is seeing it as a missile weapon.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (ZOv7s)
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Its abuse of office, pure and simple. She literally is taking American's money and gifting it to invaders. And she will be re-elected by those who are having their money taken from them.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)
What is that?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:48 PM
I only note it because it is amusingly petard hoisting.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM
warren is not a marxist, she is more aligned with the old Soviet communist party. She wants all of your stuff and she wants her and her buddies to keep their stuff.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:50 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM
It's a free country. The polity has the right to be wrong, as long as they don't try to export it.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:50 PM (jc0TO)
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HA! You can see Russian from there!
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 06:50 PM (g47mK)
Maybe they should eliminate the name from Master as well, hhhmmm CUNY?
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And remove "College" from the name as well, because blacks didn't get to go to college for a very long time.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)
I notice that Central American and African dictators became increasingly insane from 50's on. Part of that was because with subsidies from the West to support them in specific policy stances, there was no reason to care about what they looked like or if they were electable, or even if they had to support themselves in the face of opposition.
The Left has gone the same path, I think, for the same reason. So much money flowed in no matter how horrible they were.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:51 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)
I note it because it is stupid. "You maga people are racist!" "Yeah well you leftists are antisemites!"
It is juvenile and does nothing to advance an argument.
Be as anti Jew or pro Jew as you want. Just do it from your own country.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM (04Xj5)
___________________________________
Goodbye:
Mrs. Field's Cookies
Field of Dreams
Sally Fields
Wrigley Field
magnetic field
gravitational field
fielding a team
fielding an army
Flander's Field (where poppys grow)
field goals
People are, definitely, getting dumber.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)
'Its abuse of office, pure and simple. '
It's that and a bit more. They're aiding and abetting criminal behavior with state funds. I don't know which law(s) that breaks but it is certainly some.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM
I live here.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (jc0TO)
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Bet they all have vegan cats too.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:54 PM (dDmld)
'Exactly. Its okay if they hate America or whites or any of the freedoms we enjoy. But we draw the line at whether or not they like Jews?'
Yes. you got my point. The silence on anti-white crimes is deafening.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (3wi/L)
That's Marxism, the population gets lowest equality and tje party lives the good life
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (+qU29)
Jen Pawol is set this weekend to become the first female umpire to appear in a regular-season MLB game. I reckon she's one of the AAA call-ups used in the course of a season, some few of which will become a member of the regular staff.
Really, the road even to this point for any umpire is a long and arduous one. The life of a minor-league umpire is miserable and low-paid and it's hard to advance through the various levels. So I have to hand it to her for that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (kkTda)
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I don't get it.
Posted by: WC Fields at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (dDmld)
On the margins, I guess he can make the city MORE socialist than it already is (which is a lot), but he's not going to touch the money that rules the city.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:52 PM (04Xj5)
Sure, but calling the left antisemitic these days in practice is also descriptive.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:56 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM (3wi/L)
This is valid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:56 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)
But when muzzies rape women and children, splody things and people, and generally f things up, that's not terrorism, right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:55 PM
Ready on the left, ready on the right, all ready on the dildo range. Commence firing!
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (0N4FZ)
Oh, give them a bone where the lesbaloes roam
Where the Queers and the Trans and Woke play;
Though they don't condone, the dildoes that'r thrown
It won't make up for the disparate pay.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)
If it spreads to other sports, Dildo Catching Mitt.
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (i0F8b)
I live here.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (jc0TO)
I was more referring to the kids losing their student visas for being anti Israel on campuses.
I am fine with them not getting student visas but their stances on Israel or Jews in general should not play in to the equation at all.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (04Xj5)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (WvZaB)
Gives new meaning the 'No Man's Land.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (jxs9b)
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM
They are guests. Anything they do that is offensive at all need not be tolerated.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)
Bold move, Cotton. Let's see how it works out for them!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: The Beatles at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)
If it spreads to other sports, Dildo Catching Mitt.
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (i0F8b)
Oh my...
Posted by: George Takei at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Samantha Bee at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (dDmld)
Sean Duffy statement on Jim Lovell:
https://tinyurl.com/2yxjs3pr
And here's Jim on the Gemini 7 mission, wearing a quite unfortunate looking spacesuit, the special G5C Gemini suit:
https://tinyurl.com/28g6zkfk
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 07:00 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s)
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)
They're inserted into every thread.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Deep, Rubber Thoughts at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (RIQol)
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)
They're inserted into every thread.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (dGCAG)
rather deeply too, I'll say.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Paul Pelosi at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (krQz2)
If we do make it back to the Moon, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise's shoes need to be taken up there, and their footprints placed in the Moon dirt.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (jc0TO)
Them being here at all is offensive to me. For every rich Asian kid well connected to the CCP or wealthy son of a sheik on our college campuses there is one farmers son from Iowa not on the campus.
That offends me as an American.
Their views on various countries and peoples in the Middle East doesnt matter to me.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (04Xj5)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM (krQz2)
Here, have a giant green dildo, Fauxahontas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (ynpvh)
And the dildo jokes keep rolling along...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)
They're inserted into every thread.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:01 PM (dGCAG)
rather deeply too, I'll say.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at Au
Getting into virgin territory.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (jc0TO)
I Know Warlock and AlGore were/are...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (ynpvh)
It already is. NY has been invaded. And when they lose the lawsuit that will force them to end federal programs for illegal aliens it’s going to get randy.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (WT51m)
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But the word 'slavery' doesn't cause trauma. Interesting.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 07:02 PM
It does to me. Checkmate.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:03 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:04 PM (krQz2)
And nothing happens to the cop for acting on an illegal order? Of course not. The Nuremburg Defense applies only to cops.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:04 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:04 PM (krQz2)
You mean expecting you to pay for everything, get nothing in return?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (ynpvh)
"Stop playing basketball on the dildo range." Lol.
I watched Gutfeld on "Late Show." He was really funny. I can't wait until he's on Colbert.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (jvJvP)
I just assumed that is a response to the "Pay us what we're owed" campaign...and someone associated green with money, and the dildo to what they are actually owed.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (dIske)
I may be seeking a patent on my Dildo Cannon concept.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 08, 2025 06:57 PM (dDmld)
Not sure if that falls under Cooperative Patent Classification A61H 19/44 (Physical therapy apparatus; Massage for the genitals; Devices insertable in the genitals; Having substantially cylindrical shape, e.g. dildos) or F41B 11/89 (Compressed-gas guns; Specially adapted for particular purposes; For toys).
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (ynpvh)
*types * *deletes*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Cherokee Tribe at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (i0F8b)
I just assumed that is a response to the "Pay us what we're owed" campaign...and someone associated green with money, and the dildo to what they are actually owed.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (dIske)
He was passive-aggresive about being a dick...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (ynpvh)
This shit happens a lot, all over the country, in school board and city council meetings. The fascist pigs who give these orders and the fascist pigs who carry them out should all be federally imprisoned for deprivation of rights under color of law.
Posted by: Question authoritarians at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (KOE6H)
If you ask me, there aren't enough green dildos for all these assholes. If Crew Dragon was a green dildo, it wouldn't be enough for even the assholes just at Boeing. If the entire MAGA movement was a green dildo, China is still too big an asshole.
Oh wait, that's three opinions. Never mind.
Posted by: Bombadil at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (MX0bI)
The Six Million Dollar Dildo.
Posted by: Oscar Goldman at August 08, 2025 07:07 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (ynpvh)
Sounds like the modern dating scene.
Posted by: A real man would buy dinner for my 8 illegitimate kids! at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 07:05 PM (jvJvP)
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So did I.
I think that Fallon was the extent of the King of Late Night's "circuit" of other late night talk shows.
Fallon was even willing to admit he had hung out with Gutfeld.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06
Hockey fans have also been known to throw team sweaters on the ice to protest poor team performance. That's stupid because those suckers not cheap.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (kTd/k)
That's how you know you have way to much spare money to spend on cosmetic stuff.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (hlNLQ)
Yea. It was started by a crypto guerrilla marketing campaign to build awareness.
That person gets a raise.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)
No, they don’t, or we would have stupid terms like “insurance provider” instead of “insurer”, “job provider” instead of “employer”, etc
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM
Out if they are heating it up. In if they just throw junk.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Cherokee Tribe
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It does seem like throwing double-headers on the court might be more appropriate.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM (WT51m)
Posted by: Question authoritarians at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (KOE6H)
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I once attended at school board meeting and some guy (no one knew who he was) walked up to the public microphone and started eating a bag of chips. He just stood there and crunched away. Then, he turned, and just walked out. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It had to be a bet.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM
Bum fights for a fiver.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06
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Agree. And I think the "dildo range" comment was boorish at best.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (jc0TO)
What does center-leaning mean, anyway? You can lean back, right, left, etc., but you can't lean toward center. It's a meaningless phrase.
Posted by: PG at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (gQbO4)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM
Bum fights for a fiver.
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In the early days of the internet bum fights were a staple.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (dIske)
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I wonder how much that bet was for.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)
What does center-leaning mean, anyway? You can lean back, right, left, etc., but you can't lean toward center. It's a meaningless phrase.
Posted by: PG at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (gQbO4)
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The English language is too constricting for their genius.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (krQz2)
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it's when they forget to close the blog tags or something
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM
No Marfan looking fingers or face. Pretty unbusty but she is an athlete.
I'd hit it.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (jc0TO)
Tow the Line
The Early Bird Gets a Turn
Posted by: polinikes
It's a doggy dog world
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: DanMan at August 08, 2025 07:13 PM (8uzBS)
FAFO
It can provide an education and life lessons like no other.
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (3PSuS)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06
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Agree. And I think the "dildo range" comment was boorish at best.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:10 PM (krQz2)
Once upon a time it was much more common for fans to throw things onto the playing field. Sometimes food, sometimes trash... it was a form of communication, and I suppose it was understood that it was not meant to harm the players.
Then someone for the first time decided to throw a bottle or a battery or some other heavy object, and it's been frowned upon since. Except I think Cub fans still throw home run balls from the other team onto the field.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)
She's my dream girl. A good looking tomboy that stayed straight.
Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Zohran Mamdani, Lady Boy And Lover OF CAAK at August 08, 2025 07:15 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Vengeance at August 08, 2025 07:09 PM
Back in the day when the wnba connecticut team played at the mohegan sun casino they were giving out free tickets like crazy to boost the numbers. The only time they actually came close to filling the building was if the team made it to the playoffs.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 07:15 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (3PSuS)
https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)
You know, the ettes will say I am a cad, but I thought for a second that the brunette at the end of the video was going to flash the camera.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (VofaG)
'Isn't Warren a slumlord?
I think she was flipping houses. Buy low sell high.'
Heap big wampum.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (3wi/L)
https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)
And like that, he became American.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (i24o9)
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Shouldn't she be doing that the other way around?
Delivering nice homes to the "less fortunate"?
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:18 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 07:18 PM (3PSuS)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:19 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Question authoritarians at August 08, 2025 07:06 PM (KOE6H)
The police officer here did the right thing, He’s just following orders. Why can’t goobers like you figure that out? People need to shut up and unquestioningly respect police officers,
Posted by: Michael Berry at August 08, 2025 07:19 PM (vm8sq)
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This has been the attitude during my late teens when every rock star had hair longer than me but then again they were pretty and did not have a beard or a mo. Freddy Mercury ruined that and he was the one who wore a skirt in a video clip. Now we know what drove that.
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:19 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)
And like that, he became American.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:16 PM (i24o9)
Looks like a normal weekend in Louisiana to me.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)
field goals
People are, definitely, getting dumber.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 06:53 PM (dIske)
Flander doesn’t own a field.
In Flanders Fields where the poppies grow…
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Your Local 8th Grade Government School Groomer Teacher at August 08, 2025 07:21 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 08, 2025 07:21 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
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Yes. There is an n and a t in "trans", just think of it as "NOT".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:21 PM (krQz2)
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And don't forget about us!
Posted by: Motorcyle Robbers Pretending to Be Cops at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (TN0g+)
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (tljrc)
Sometimes octopi.
Loosen up your sphincter. We are fighting a cultural battle against people who live to mutilate children and beat up women and pro-life old men. We used to get pelleted with snowballs in November football games in frigging high school.
Nobody has been hurt with the dildos of death.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)
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Possibly white.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (krQz2)
Speaking of bears, the Seattle Kracken mascot was in Alaska filming a commercial and a big brown bear seemed to take exception. Ha!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
I don't know what percentage of people calling themselves trannies actually get operations. I suspect it's not a majority. Maybe nowhere near.
In which case, if you are a chick who decides she's a dude, what the hell difference is there between you and a garden variety lesbo?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)
Lighten up, Francis, is also acceptable.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)
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Its abuse of office, pure and simple. She literally is taking American's money and gifting it to invaders. And she will be re-elected by those who are having their money taken from them.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (TN0g+)
MA should simply lose its statehood over this and be reorganized as a territory. Yeah, I know, John Adam’s wrote its Constitution, but sorry, MA is no longer worthy.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (vm8sq)
I don't know what percentage of people calling themselves trannies actually get operations. I suspect it's not a majority. Maybe nowhere near.
In which case, if you are a chick who decides she's a dude, what the hell difference is there between you and a garden variety lesbo?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)
Actually, it's men who never do any surgery. Most women take their breasts off (and some even do a hysterectomy), and there isn't much more possible, I don't think...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)
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You can still prefer men, though.
It's all sorts of fucked up ten ways to Sunday.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (viF8m)
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Ok let's follow Khalid's logic. If Palestinians have a right to kill others to get what they want then it follows that Israel has the right to do the same simply to stop them.
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:23 PM (dGCAG)
If I had to guess, I'd say a lot do the hormones or blockers because they believe that is less permanent or invasive.
Fucking retards. There is a certain amount of darwinism to this.
Always excepting the kids with crazy teachers and/or parents.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:26 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (krQz2)
Fallon is friends with Tom Shillue. He and Fallon sang in the same barbershop quartet. Dunno if they still do.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:26 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)
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And throwing green dildos out on the floor of WNBA games is crucial for our cause!
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (yP/Dy)
Actually, it's men who never do any surgery. Most women take their breasts off (and some even do a hysterectomy), and there isn't much more possible, I don't think...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (tOcjL)
Yeah, I was thinking lower level, not the tit removal. Which just seems silly to me, but whatever.
Whether you want to "date" chix or dudes, who doesn't want to grab a tit or two.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (dGCAG)
https://tinyurl.com/2ret9fun
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)
Yep. Real people being real.
That's one reason a lot of "celebrities" come up here to go fishing, etc. Nobody cares that much that they are "celebrities," and most folks are accommodating. I think Ted Nugent was up here last week, Jimmy Buffett came up every year until he passed, Larry Czonka had a cabin up here and was up most of the summers, I'm sure there are plenty more. People can just be people here, nobody minds much.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 08, 2025 07:28 PM (1Gsou)
Eat a dick.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)
I get to call balls and strikes. The cop should have told the school board to go fuck themselves because the Constitution is still in force and if they didn’t like hearing what the man was saying…well, they can always resign.
But nope, he Just Followed Orders, and apologists like yourself who believe cops can and should do as they damn well please get upset that people are justly criticizing his actions. Maybe if we had people who wouldn’t stick up blindly for the assholes in blue, maybe we’d have a better police force. Ever thought of that?
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:29 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:26 PM (pIfcn)
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Best Carson impression: "I did not know that."
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 07:29 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (PGK1w)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (i24o9)
Eat a dick.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:24 PM (VofaG)
Great the copsuckers have shown up.
Deep throat the boot.
Posted by: Two can play at this game! at August 08, 2025 07:32 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)
I saw The Dildos Of Death open for The Circle Jerks at Sluggo's in Pensacola back in 1992.
Posted by: Astroglide Is Your Friend at August 08, 2025 07:33 PM (R/m4+)
Seems to have energized enough on our side to laugh and talk about it for going on 2 weeks. I'm sitting my backyard watching the sun go down and not throwing any dildos. Not yet anyway.
We've won a shitload of battles in the last 7 months, hard to remember them all they are coming so fast. I've never seen anything even close to how much we win almost every single day.
It's a harmless prank and we are on the right side of a culture battle after decades of losing almost all of them. Why is this a problem?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:25 PM (unUNN)
I know you're just trying to take his statement to a logical conclusion, but I call bullshit on the premise. They were given billions to alleviate the suffering of those people and chose not to use it for that purpose.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (pIfcn)
LOL. So much communist cant.
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I think you spelled it wrong.
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 07:35 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Grover Muldoon at August 08, 2025 07:36 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)
Imagine being on the secret meeting of WOKE and them saying that we finally own 1 fucking thing.
WNBA
Then TA fucking DA a big white girl that likes boys is the star. 30 fucking MILLION dollars.
So previously you star was Brian Griner (green haha).
TA DA green dicks.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (gbOdA)
I'll admit that even though I have my own issues with members of the hierarchy, i still get immediately defensive im my head when we have the usual catholic dumping.
I will also point out that I think the antisemitic witch hunts can get out of hand/blown out of proportion.
So, I dunno, maybe talk like friends who agree on 99% of shit.
Or if you wanna fight, go ahead.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (zZu0s)
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And the "people" we're talking about would (seemingly) rather live in squalor hating Jews than finding a way to live with them in peace and prosperity.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 08, 2025 07:34 PM (pIfcn)
Now do welfare and medicaid and EBT.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:38 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:37 PM (zZu0s)
*throws green dildo, with pinky out*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 07:39 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (vFG9F)
“Them being here at all is offensive to me. For every rich Asian kid well connected to the CCP or wealthy son of a sheik on our college campuses there is one farmers son from Iowa not on the campus.
That offends me as an American.“
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:58 PM (04Xj5)
And as a xenophobe, at that. Doubtless if you were in power you would have me killed for 1) being the son of an immigrant and 2) much worse, having a valid passport with visas.
Me, I don’t have that view. You get a student visa and you want to study here, no biggie. (I have reservations about the PRC, sure, due to espionage but that’s why we have student visas. It would be nice if the visas were enforced by having CBP check passports when leaving the country, but I digress.). But while here on a visa or any other reason, you are subject to our laws. Think what you want of Israel, but that doesn’t mean you get to riot, threaten or intimidate Jewish students, or anything of the sort.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 07:27 PM (yP/Dy)
Bold move there Cotton
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (hlNLQ)
'i still get immediately defensive im my head when we have the usual catholic dumping.'
You better have eaten a fish sandwich for dinner.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:40 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 07:41 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (jxs9b)
Posted by: Carl Spackler at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: JackStraw
.......
It's all fun and games until somebody lubes one up and an Amazon slips on it like a banana peel.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 07:42 PM (v0R5T)
57 times
Posted by: Carl Spackler at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)
"Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," should be "Everyone's entitled to his own opinion."
"To each their own," should be "To each his own."
Come on, Ace! Don't fall for woke grammar. Not only are these grammatically incorrect, they just sound stupid.
Posted by: Ralph at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (8WZD4)
WNBA
Then TA fucking DA a big white girl that likes boys is the star. 30 fucking MILLION dollars.
So previously you star was Brian Griner (green haha).
TA DA green dicks.
They tried to censor us, take our children, flood the country with God knows who, ignore crimes against whites and conservatives and either imprison or murder the guy we elected to lead our side and I am supposed get wrapped around the axel over a harmless, and fucking funny, prank against one of their sacred cows.
Pass.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)
Come on, Ace! Don't fall for woke grammar. Not only are these grammatically incorrect, they just sound stupid.
Posted by: Ralph at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (8WZD4)
So at the campfire with family and lil sis (shes been gone 20 years) says something and I say
To each his own.
She thought it was
Teach his own.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:45 PM (gbOdA)
Pass.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)
What if you went to your local hangout and as leaving threw the green dildo of Resist We Much under the table.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:47 PM (gbOdA)
Eat two dicks.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 07:31 PM (VofaG)
I’ll eat a thousand. Just because you wear a uniform with a gun and a badge doesn’t mean you are above criticism. If you are a cop, and you feel that way, FUCKING QUIT.
The police hate the citizenry and hold everyone around them in utter contempt. Americans need to return them the favor. And, by the way, if cops are so godlike, and worthy of your defense with middle school commentary, then why do we have juries and a court system? Should the word of a cop be enough? Surely you see it that way with your obsequious love of the police but the system does not.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 08, 2025 07:48 PM (vm8sq)
Pass.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)
“I Think That This Situation Absolutely Requires A Really Futile And Stupid Gesture Be Done On Somebody’s Part.”
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 08, 2025 07:49 PM (gbOdA)
Someone would ask if they noticed they dropped their butt plug.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 07:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 07:51 PM (zZu0s)
Yeah, 6'1 and slim; she is gorgeous. I've seen a few videos of her on the youtubes talking about the cr*p Caitlin Clark goes through with fouls; she seems to be one of the few that backs Caitlin up.
Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025 07:52 PM (cHLus)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 08, 2025 07:11 PM (PGK1w)
She's my dream girl. A good looking tomboy that stayed straight.
Posted by: polinikes at August 08, 2025 07:14 PM (VofaG)
She's also reportedly conservative, took heat for supposedly being "MAGA".
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 07:53 PM (8hxDK)
'They tried to censor us, take our children, flood the country with God knows who, ignore crimes against whites and conservatives'
You think that's some triumph of freedom? It's just coarse and retarded.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 08, 2025 07:55 PM (3wi/L)
No, of course not. I think you are either too stupid or to cowardly to know what is going on.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 08:06 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Southern Man at August 08, 2025 08:12 PM (kXnzv)
Godspeed, Professor. Keep up the fight
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 08:37 PM (TvPmY)
wait, so they want us to talk like retards?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 08, 2025 08:53 PM (D1vbu)
And these are the kind of things why you don't win. Why you, as a movement, lose all the time.
As we're all marching to the camps ? Who gives a fuck about the guy that wants to "be picky" ? Who cares what he has to say, about anything ?
Who cares about his grammar ? Am I going to care one bit about him because of his grammar ? No. Is he going to lead me out of the wire because of his great grammar ?
No. And the fact that the little puke STILL wants to tell you about his grammar tells you much. If you'll listen.
Posted by: Free Thinker at August 08, 2025 09:18 PM (atlTj)
Posted by: Kaiju66 at August 09, 2025 10:25 AM (LLPmJ)
Judge Gives Leftwing Thugs a Hunting License to Beat Down Elderly Pro-Choice Protesters on the Street
Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO Some thug brutally assaults two elderly prolife demonstrators -- shoves one to the ground and beats him, all on camera -- and gets "home detention" for a sentence from a liberal judge. This is not justice. This is open season on prolife Americans
I'm not going to shy away from this any longer. Is my take racial? Yes it is. But the story is racial. There is clearly a belief among members of the left, including many black politicians and judges, that black people should essentially be immunized from prosecution so long as they're doing the important Violent Street Justice work of beating up white people. We need to be clear: Whatever you hallucinated happening in the George Floyd case, no, you do not have the legal right to lynch white people on the street because you were "having a bad day."
A 28-year-old man who was caught on video attacking two pro-life activists outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Baltimore was sentenced this week to a year of home detention and three years of probation. Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant rebuffed prosecutors' calls for a 10-year sentence against Patrick Brice, 28, after he was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in relation to the May 2023 incident, according to The Baltimore Banner. "What about my rights and my well-being?" one of the victims in the attack, Mark Crosby -- who was 73 years old at the time -- reportedly shouted at Bryant on Thursday as she left the bench. Brice said on May 26, 2023, he intended to debate Richard Schaefer -- the other victim, who was 84 -- about the concept of sin outside the Planned Parenthood facility, but then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark, The Baltimore Banner reported. Surveillance video showed Brice shoving Schaefer into a flowerpot and then assaulting Crosby when he rushed to his aid.
"I just snapped one day," Brice was quoted by The Baltimore Banner as saying in court Thursday before apologizing to both men. As part of his sentence, Brice must complete anger management classes, undergo drug and alcohol screening and remain in therapy, the website added. It also said Crosby suffered permanent damage to his right eye as a result of the assault. "This was not a minor altercation between two parties with differing views on abortion. It was a vicious, targeted assault on two senior citizens whose only 'offense' was praying for expectant mothers and offering life-affirming alternatives to abortion," Tom Brejcha, the President and Chief Counsel of the conservative law firm Thomas More Society, said in a statement.
"One of the victims was knocked unconscious. The other suffered broken facial bones and a lifelong eye impairment. This was an act of cowardice and cruelty, and sheer mayhem. This crime deserves far more serious consequences than a 'get out of jail free' card and a one-year home detention that amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist," he added.
This cannot go on much longer.
The Media and a Mob in Cincinnati
The racial narrative leads major news organizations to ignore a violent attack on two white people. When a mob violently attacked two people in downtown Cincinnati last week, video of the beat-down spread across social media. But not a single major television network covered the story. It didn't fit the mainstream media's narrative about racial violence in America. The victims were white, and as of Wednesday police had arrested six black suspects for their alleged roles in the public pummeling. Today's media seems to conflagrate over violence only when the perpetrator is white and the victim is black. Then the cameras roll, protests erupt, and hashtags fly. But when the races are reversed, the mainstream media buries the incident or ignores it entirely. The same is true of black-on-black violence. Consider the tragic case of Ariana Delane, the 4-year-old niece of George Floyd, who was shot and wounded while sleeping beside her grandmother as gunfire hit their apartment. Despite the horror of her story, it received nowhere near the national attention that followed her uncle's death. Both the girl and Floyd deserved to live in peace, yet there is national outrage when a black man is killed at the hands of police but silence when black children are the collateral victims of the senseless violence plaguing our cities every day. During a 2018 spike in violent incidents against Asian-Americans, journalists mostly ignored that blacks were the most frequent perpetrators. The truth would have broken the media's worldview that black Americans are always innocent victims. This racial gerrymandering of the facts mirrors the very injustices the media claim to hate in American history. In the Jim Crow South, if a black man committed an offense against another black man, he would face few consequences, if any--especially if the perpetrator worked for an influential white figure. Meanwhile, a black man who allegedly harmed a white person would face swift and brutal retribution. One hundred years later, we have flipped the script. We teach our children that to be black is to be permanently victimized and that to be white is to be perpetually guilty. Americans should renounce any schema in which one race is guilty and another innocent. That is the path to national ruin. Only if we disregard race in how we judge one another will we be able to address the real crisis in society: the spiritual and moral free-fall given to us by identity politics. As the mainstream media chatters about systemic racism, our young people are dying of bullets, drugs, and despair. Atlanta saw 47 people shot and five killed over four days in July. Homicide and suicide are leading causes of death for 15- to 19-year-olds, and teen drug overdose deaths are still way up from before the pandemic. When our young are bombarded with claims that they live in a fundamentally racist society and that they are powerless pawns of systemic forces beyond their control, how can we expect them to have hope, to believe in moral agency, to work with others with grace and compassion toward a better world?
Your reminder that the Biden admin threw pro-life protesters in jail for much, much less than this. https://t.co/tbuhHZbnY0
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 7, 2025
"Judge" Yvette Bryant
Skin color matters. Below is proof. #racism #blackprivilege #fatigue #BlackFatigue is real folks. pic.twitter.com/z35XdD9L1O
— John and Jane Public (@MrMrsJohnPublic) July 31, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)
This ain't the UK.
We're armed to the teeth, so I rate this as True.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)
His fault.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (ejGl1)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (q1mTS)
Judges are destroying America.
On purpose.
Second look at vigilanteism?
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM
*lays finger on side of nose*
Posted by: Roof Koreans at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (kgE5c)
He got sentenced to write an essay about 'challenges facing Latino youths'.
Fucking homework. For stealing guns and selling them.
So I'm not surprised. I'm also not trusting WA's justice system very fucking far.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (xcxpd)
Anarcho-tyranny is anarcho-tyranny.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)
________
Arachno-tyranny >>>> Anarcho-tyranny
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (VE6XX)
Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (IDphi)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (FNvF+)
Posted by: Archer at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (IDphi)
This.
Or get mentally ready for a beating.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)
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Always pack heat. Ohio carry is more liberal than Michigan's.
Not very strong? Not confident with a gun? Get something nice and small. Don't listen to the caliber snobs, a .32 revolver will look like a magnum when you pull it out and point it at Skinny Angry White Boy or Growing Diverse Mob.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)
And we'll all have to ignore it.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (jvJvP)
His fault.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (DJPFk)
I'm pretty sure he's a troll.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (xcxpd)
Or get mentally ready for a beating.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (xcxpd)
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Improvised weapons are also helpful. Walking sticks are legal everywhere.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (ZOv7s)
This person is your lord and master.
She controls the sentencing. Not you.
She determines who walks the streets freely. Not you.
And by "she" I mean her and the thousands of "liberal" (read anti-American) judges infested every level of the judiciary, coast to coast.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (pMi6S)
Two-tier policing has been a core part of the US justice system since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or Jim Crow before that.
Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (i7qf2)
Judges are destroying America.
On purpose.
Second look at vigilanteism?
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)
Been sayin for awhile now, that we have a Yuge Judicial problem in the US... as we have no real system to hold Judges accountable even when they flat out break the law from the bench.
Note, the Judge Dugan who was supposedly arrested for obstruction of Justice? Yeah... free and out... 4 months later, not sure if they even actually pressed charges... but no announcement of Bail.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (mP0Kj)
They don't have a general sympathy for just any victim of crime. They have to reserve their sympathy for "history's victims".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (krQz2)
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (L/fGl)
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Lee Zeldin calling this out and formally reversing US policy is a gift I did not expect to get, but I am grateful.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: OurCatsNotRats at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (bonmg)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (muwun)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)
My pistol when I can't reasonably conceal my USP is an honest to God originalColt 1908. Not a reproduction.
Still fires great.
Training is basically be close, aim for the head, and squeeze the trigger as fast as you can. 😊
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)
In short, would the judge give Brice his slap on the wrist while throwing the final party to enter the fray into jail on a felony conviction?
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (xcxpd)
He is. I just like batting him around like a cat does a dead mouse when it's bored.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (pMi6S)
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I've been sounding that alarm for a majority of my 29 years.
Why is the least representative form of government making so many decisions nowadays?
Even *against* the people, because it doesn't fit some legal logical space they want to force on us.
Fuck them. This is also part of what I warned about as the "Expert class".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (CqoVr)
That was my thought too..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)
I'm pro-unborn-baby-life, I'm not pro-dirtbag-life.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (0Htd1)
Proverbs 17:23
What the corrupt judiciary wants is to divide us. That makes us weaker.
Don’t fall for it. Their downfall will be their corrupt ways.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (J8Hr2)
Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (L/fGl)
Uh... didn't the ANTArctic ADD Ice in record amounts the last couple of years?
So, if one side adds Ice, as another side loses Ice... how can you call it GLOBAL warmering?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 05:44 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (TUglJ)
Posted by: Mr. Mxyzptlk at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (+0cJM)
Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
All of human history has happened during an interglacial period in the current ice age.
Eventually the ice age will end, and CBS will be correct. When the sun goes Red Giant for sure, but probably before that. But CBS will be counting to 10 a few thousand or million times more.
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (DgGvY)
You'd be proud of her. She's a beauty. Her full name is "Dagny Sophia," the middle name being for her mother -- whom she resembles to an eerie degree.
I'm already proud.
Lost my Mr Bigglesworth a couple months ago. He was fine, 9 yrs old, sudden kidney failure. Wrecked me. But after the elderly care, I wanted NO extreme measures.
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (cnmSH)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)
"That's not who we are"?
Take a beating for The Narrative?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Don Martin at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (SOjx+)
Still fires great.
Training is basically be close, aim for the head, and squeeze the trigger as fast as you can. 😊
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:42 PM (DJPFk)
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There are lots of very inexpensive guns with a similar weight and simplicity. The FEG AP-66 is a Walther PP clone with an aluminum frame, chambered in .32 APC and they are a piece of cake to shoot and dirt cheap online.
So many affordable, controllable options. Also keep in mind that according to decades of research, 98% of the time, merely producing a weapon terminates the conflict.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)
That tidbit about drugs and alcohol is interesting. Probably also should have been barred from raping little boys. This piece of shit has Joseph Rosenbaum written all over him.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)
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Arachno-tyranny >>>> Anarcho-tyranny
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (kkTda)
I for one welcome our new eight-legged overlords.
Posted by: Oh what a web we weave at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:43 PM (0N4FZ)
Uh, they already do. My F Book page is constantly inundated with videos of supposed White Racist people..
Funny though... all scripted, most with the same actors... and all REALLY over the top behavior...
Sadly though, if you look at the click bait comments... some people, especially foreigners, believe these are real.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (2WIwB)
Also, all these guns ,all this ammo, and the US is much more diverse than Europe.
The Migration Policy institute in 2018 issued a report which claimed the US was 41% white.
Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (i7qf2)
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Congratulations, Ace. You are now "woke right".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Orson
I'm wondering what the sentencing would have been if one of the elderly victims had died...two years of home confinement?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (mlg/3)
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Arachno-tyranny >>>> Anarcho-tyranny
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (kkTda)
I for one welcome our new eight-legged overlords.
Posted by: Oh what a web we weave at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (KOE6H)
Paging John Rico... John Rico to the White Courtesy Powered Armor...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: garrett at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (z6okN)
I'll wager he said something like "more black babies are being aborted than are being born." Which is, strictly speaking, a "racial remark." It is not within 40 miles of being "racist remark." The word choice here goes noted.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (rp/xy)
The corrupt woke Regime will not survive Two-Tier Policing. The public will not accept it.
This ain't the UK.
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These stories have been in the news frequently for years. There is not going to be any pushback.
The difference between the US and UK isn't one of temperament. People here are no likelier to take a stand against their corrupt governments. It's that there's room to run away.
The result will be that a large number of cities will simply be abandoned by all the decent people of every race, and left to rot underneath the remaining ghetto blacks and Aztecs.
I do expect that governments in many of the places they go will get more serious about law enforcement.
We're going to end up with ghost metropolises in this country. Big cities that just sort of melt into the landscape, with the remaining structures housing the worst elements of society.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (eNLGh)
Posted by: Marcus T at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (J8Hr2)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (+qU29)
What did he actually say? Our “news” organizations are terrible. They leave out crucial detail. What did he say that was “perceived”?
Is there a list of UnApproved remarks annotated somewhere (updated regularly, one hopes);
whereby “minorities” get the greenlight to beat the shit out of the elderly? Or is the list a secret?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (Pp3EP)
The Migration Policy institute in 2018 issued a report which claimed the US was 41% white.
Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (i7qf2)
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A total lie, but if it comforts you, go with it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (AiNp4)
They're all about "space to destroy".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)
yes.. It's right there in the Constitution.. if a white person makes what you perceive to be a racial remark you are allowed to kill them...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (VE6XX)
I'll wager he said something like "more black babies are being aborted than are being born." Which is, strictly speaking, a "racial remark." It is not within 40 miles of being "racist remark." The word choice here goes noted.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (rp/xy)
Worse, they are using Race as an excuse for violence.
And from the Pic, is the guy even black?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (mP0Kj)
Be a real shame if someone doxed this asshole and had a few hundred pro-life demonstrators outside his house for a peaceful demonstration.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (v0R5T)
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See: A black man is allowed to throw the first punch if names were involved.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (RIQol)
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (2WIwB)
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Or at least a bag of flaming dog shit on his porch.
Every day.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)
In the 1990s it was pretty much 0%.
One generation was all it took to lose a country. It’ll be 60% in another 25% as the new “Swedes” pop out 6 kids while the old ones barely fuck.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (AiNp4)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (DJPFk)
I think, think, the limit is a little less than 1 billion years before the Sun's luminosity increases too much on it's track to the red giant stage.
Single celled organisms will survive for a bit longer, but that's the limit for complex life.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:51 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 08, 2025 05:52 PM (q1mTS)
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (v0R5T)
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It's related like basketball lesbians and dildos.
It's all interconnected. The circle of life.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:52 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Euripides at August 08, 2025 05:47 PM (i7qf2)
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A total lie, but if it comforts you, go with it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:49 PM (ZOv7s)
Nah... it's OK... since their argument seems to be that being a minority means you can never be Racist... and in fact can be Violent in the name of your Race...
And... uh... 41% would then NOT be a Majority, which makes us a Minority...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)
Obviously the beater was just implementing some life/work balance principles.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (XMwZJ)
If so I'm surprised he'd get such a lenient sentence..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (ZOv7s)
The Beretta Tomcat is another option. Feels like nothing in an ankle holster.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (i24o9)
Honest to God I thought Jive turkeys could fly!!!!
Les Whitmen in Cincinnati......
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (x0n13)
I speak Jive....
Posted by: Venus Flytrap at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:53 PM (XMwZJ)
If so I'm surprised he'd get such a lenient sentence..
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (VE6XX)
It's not so much the race of the perp as the race and political beliefs of the victim.
Posted by: Pro-abort scum have gotten a pass for decades at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (KOE6H)
Acting white includes going to school to learn, studying, being polite and respectful to authority figures, enjoying white musicians, demanding people be on time, paying bills and speaking correct English.
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (VofaG)
According to the article, one of the victims described the perp as a "white male".
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (mH6SG)
The perp looks pretty dang white to me.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
He is.
https://t.ly/IhP-A
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (zZu0s)
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The judge is just as big a part of the problem. Society can't stay civil when justice is selective.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (rp/xy)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Pro-abort scum have gotten a pass for decades at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (KOE6H)
And that judge.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (zZu0s)
https://t.ly/IhP-A
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (63Dwl)
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So why is a racial comment supposedly so important?
You can white-knight like a thug?
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 08, 2025 05:56 PM (rp/xy)
So if he's white did they call him cracker ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)
Cracker? or is he Hispanic?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: fd at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (vFG9F)
The word in Yiddish is schvatzyorim...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:58 PM (x0n13)
Be a real shame if someone doxed this asshole and had a few hundred pro-life demonstrators outside his house for a peaceful demonstration.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:50 PM (2WIwB)
I assume Harmeet will be looking at this case very soon...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)
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Old white Christian guy: "Scram! Cracker!"
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (I1XLT)
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But at a much slower pace that most of us imagine. I promise you that the MSM will still be MSM-ing just as hard 10 years from now as they are today, UNLESS we can find a way to RICO them for being the partisan hacks they are. We're dreaming if we really think leftists gazillionaires won't bankroll the MSM for a very long time so long as they can continue to profit off of chaos.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)
That's even in the excerpt ace ... excerpted (lol.) Said the victim said a 'racial word or phrase' or some such bullshit.
So now, white folks can get a pass. I wonder if the old white guy called him abhonky or mayo monkey? Cracker?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (Pp3EP)
That which is rewarded is repeated ...
* spit *
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (IrlIj)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM (i24o9)
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You don't have to sell me on Berettas!
The .25 ACP Jetfire is shirt-pocket size. Fun little bugger to shoot, too.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (ZOv7s)
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Except when I have a bad day, no senior citizen goes to the hospital over it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (q/iLt)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)
You can take offense and revenge on some other races behalf.
Oh, fuck George Floyd.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (MyqLb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (I1XLT)
They always let locals go 1st - see Cincy as well...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: polynikes at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (VofaG)
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The "American Dream" for DogEater and Big Mike.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (IrlIj)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (hlNLQ)
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I carried a Taurus 85 for two decades and between draw drills and just pulling the thing out of the pocket, the hammer never snagged. Single action gives one some flexibility.
Charter Arms makes a .32 magnum snubby that is superb.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:02 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (IrlIj)
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I think judges would have to impeached first.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:03 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:03 PM (MyqLb)
Posted by: Sarge at August 08, 2025 06:03 PM (ibIN8)
What did he actually say? Our “news” organizations are terrible. They leave out crucial detail. What did he say that was “perceived”?
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It's deliberate. By saying "racial remark" you are allowed to make up in your mind whatever you like, and likely the first thought is the "N" word. (Sophisticated right-wing news consumers know better.) So as terrible as this story sounds at first, you are now encouraged to think that it is white people being racist again, just like on all the TV shows like Law & Order and such. Therefore they had it coming.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (q/iLt)
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Empaneling grand juries for corrupt Dem politicians, beating down rogue judges, and crushing DIE.
Might want to pay more attention.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)
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Bullshit. You know that’s bullshit. Even so, I don’t really care, even if that were the case. It is not a license to beat people.
I pray every night before getting tucked in, that these clowns in robes aka “judges” are hanged from lightpoles and their bleached bones tinkle like windchimes in the breeze. They are vermin.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (0V4LG)
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (k9OZB)
However we CAN stop the immigration of other groups of non whites who get the same "black privilege" and feel the same way about white people as some blacks do.
And it is absolute insanity that we arent shutting down legal immigration completely at this point.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (04Xj5)
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (troLc)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (+qU29)
Safety, being comfortable being theyselves and never having to worry about a low IQ person "having a bad day".
Posted by: Zombie Nathan Beford Forrest, Born Military Genius at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (R/m4+)
Israel is planning on taking control of Gaza. Here is how Canada is going to respond.
All of you, and the world have been waiting breathlessly for this. I'm sure. Proceed accordingly.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 06:05 PM (HFcKg)
Israel is planning on taking control of Gaza. Here is how Canada is going to respond.
Good for Israel ... F' Canada
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:00 PM (IrlIj)
Ever notice how much these supposed anarchists love government?
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (troLc)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (Dv3i1)
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It's like "Hey if you can imagine some crime Donald Trump is probably covering up by entering a payment into a registry wrong, go ahead and vote guilty."
Also notice there does not seem to be an attempt to get a quote from the victim.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:04 PM (ZOv7s)
LOL I've had enough of sneering assholes for one day.
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (q/iLt)
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It would also be a shame if the judge's info were to become public.
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (zZu0s)
You keep saying that. It's been going on since at least the 1960s, when White Guilt forced us to regret and forget everything we knew about black violence and how to control it.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:07 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:07 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 06:05 PM (HFcKg)
I have to agree....but I can hope that more people both carry and train.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (Pp3EP)
Probably. My father had a good friend who was from South Africa and he has been beating this drum since the 1980s at least.
"It’s easy for you to sit and judge but just wait until you see what the whites in South Africa were dealing with."
At the time the country was like 80% white and 12% black. Now it is 70%. But 50% of the kids born in America today are nonwhite.
What does this look like in 10 or 20 years?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (04Xj5)
Posted by: Axeman
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Nope, state judges are not immune to federal violation of someone's civil rights by color of the law. If it can be shown that racial animus against white pipo was behind the decision to release the black thug, then the black judge illegally used her judicial office to deny equal protection of the laws to all.
I suspect on some of these DIEversity judges, that they have been less than careful about hiding their racial animus doing their jobs.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 06:06
Ding. Ding. Ding.
We have a winner!
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (jvJvP)
As part of his sentence, Brice must complete anger management classes, undergo drug and alcohol screening and remain in therapy, the website added.
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He will not do these things. The court will do nothing.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (ES1Rb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:09 PM (MyqLb)
Posted by: huerfano
The article merely says "...then lost it after Schaefer made what he perceived to be a racial remark."
The "racial remark" was probably, "I'm out here protesting to save black babies from the eugenic mass-murder of the racist Margaret Sanger and her racist genocide-factory known as Planned Parenthood. Can't you see I'm on your side?"
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (63Dwl)
What does this look like in 10 or 20 years?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
More Hispanic and Asian immigrants, blacks are not increasing at near the rate they used to. Abortion in urban areas is one reason why.
Blacks for example are down to 6 percent of Californians--Hispanics are the plurality, whites second, and Asians now outnumber blacks in CA.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ctrM5)
Les Whitmen in Cincinnati......
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 08, 2025 05:54 PM (x0n13)
Damn...now JJ is dropping the 'JT word'....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (xcxpd)
Thug: Why you racist!
That's just the thing: we're would be taking it on the word of people who daily demonstrate that they have lost all sight of what an actual racist statement is.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2)
This ain't the UK.
We're armed to the teeth, so I rate this as True.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (6ydKt)
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Armed white people are still not going to shoot first and by then they will be dead. The answer has to be systematic and from the top.
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (q/iLt)
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LOL, then why are you still here?
That's like saying you came to HQ to get away from dildo jokes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)
But they envision something more like apartheid but with them being the ruling cabal and all other whites at the mercy of the resurgent minorities.
There is a lot of weird shit in here. It reminds me of Jewish people talking about self hating/gassing Jews.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (zZu0s)
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90 The perp looks pretty dang white to me.
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Frankly my dear I don't give a damn.
Ace called it out equally. I am sick of people being too cowardly to talk honestly about racial problems.
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (SOjx+)
Are you kidding? Everybody hates boomers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (63Dwl)
lol
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (04Xj5)
Like my small town here in Central Calif... where Whites are a minority, and have been for a decade or so.
Not like when I grew up here 60 years ago...
Now, you can't get a job here unless you are bilingual... Spanish and English.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 06:06 PM (q/iLt)
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LOL, then why are you still here?
That's like saying you came to HQ to get away from dildo jokes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)
Are there any CBD-approved dildo jokes?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)
Go with God, Mr Lovell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:08 PM (hlNLQ)
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I used to have a Charter Arms Bulldog in .44 special, 3" barrel. The fireball that thing let loose was quite impressive, but the recoil wasn't bad. Ammo prices were what pushed me into a .38.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
That's like saying you came to HQ to get away from dildo jokes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ZOv7s)
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I don't think he's here for the hunting.
Posted by: The Bear at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Boomer Who Loves A Good Chant at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (R/m4+)
Canada is going to surprise attack Washington St?
What a slap fight that will be!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
The feathers will fly!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)
RIP
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM
Because the victims were Russian. The jury are Putin stooges, obviously.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (paSBy)
In interviews, he always struck me as a class act. RIP.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (MyqLb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (ynpvh)
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Dunno, but I guess yesterday they went from the Green Machine to the Purple-Helmeted Warrior model.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
@carney
I spent a bunch of time today reading recent economics papers on tariffs. Every single one assumes retaliatory tariffs. None—not a single one—correctly models what happened, which is a big hike by the U.S. in exchange for lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
Academic economists need to ask themselves some serious questions about why they got this episode so wrong. It was a failure of epic proportions that should embarrass the field.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)
DogEater's RaceWar Dream is what really gets him off in the ass ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (IrlIj)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:11 PM (ynpvh)
CBD? Last seen at a WNBA game?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (mP0Kj)
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He said something racial.
He's lucky there wasn't a crowd of young black men around to jump on his head.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (krQz2)
McMichaels and Bryan show what happens when you use lethal force in self-defense against blacks. Chauvin shows what happens when you use nonlethal legal force to restrain them.
The best thing you can do is stay the hell away from blacks, if you can.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:55 PM
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Billy Vera, hardest hit.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (krQz2)
But they envision something more like apartheid but with them being the ruling cabal and all other whites at the mercy of the resurgent minorities.
The Manson Plan
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: whig[/'i]
Tale a stroll around the U.C. Berkeley campus these days. Despite decades and decades of Affirmative Action, overt and covert, and "DEI," and every other gimmick to increase black attendance and depress Asian and white enrollment, the campus is now 70+% Asian. The officia, stats may not even reflect that, but 70% of the students who actually attend class and thus can be seen on campus are Asian. Nothing the University can do to stop demographics -- Northern California is morr and more Asian, less and less black, and the trned just continues.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)
It's like going to College to get a business degree... if your Profs were so good at business, wouldn't they be Rich enough NOT TO BE TEACHIN?
Economics Experts are Professionals telling you how to mismanage money.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (mP0Kj)
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The Black Pastor in the link brings up some very important context as to what led to young black men to jump on people's heads.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (Dv3i1)
Ace you need to edit the headline:
...beat Down Elderly Pro-Choice Protesters...
Should read pro-life protesters
Posted by: Bigsmith at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (1Au9i)
"What he perceived to be..."
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (i0F8b)
The best thing you can do is stay the hell away from blacks, if you can.
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Paging John Derbyshire...
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)
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Because getting everything wrong is in these days.
Just as long as you shill for the establishment.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Romeo13
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I'm teaching my grandkids Esperanto.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (mP0Kj)
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It's not just the US, the same is happening in UK, Canada, Australia and Western Europe. It is the whole global judicial class, they have decided that the world is theirs, universities have given them a piece of paper - a law degree - that says so.
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)
And they are generally not big fans of the ghetto type.
But they also vote Dim in significant numbers, so who knows.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:59 PM (hlNLQ)
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I carried a Taurus 85 for two decades and between draw drills and just pulling the thing out of the pocket, the hammer never snagged. Single action gives one some flexibility.
Charter Arms makes a .32 magnum snubby that is superb.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Difficult to reload quickly is the major problem and if you carry a snubbie, you best be able to solve your problem with five or six shots--you won't have time to reload. I carried snubbies, shot them very well, and practiced w speedloaders but when I carry nowadays, I use a single stack XDS with 8 +1. I use the 7+1 mags when I want to be less conspicuous.
That is why Jim Cirillo carried two revolvers--quicker to draw and fire another than using speed loaders. Mas Ayoob credited Jim with inventing the NY reload tactic.
Your average urban distance is about 11-15 feet tending toward less rather than longer than 15 ft.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (ctrM5)
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WNBA game, France, what's the difference?
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 06:16 PM (TN0g+)
Shaved armpits?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 08, 2025 06:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (v0R5T)
Here its primarily Central Americans now...
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 06:19 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: From about That Tim at August 08, 2025 06:20 PM (RE0lB)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:20 PM (krQz2)
With the cutoff of federal funds, the Dem lawfare machine has been rocked back on its heels, and the RUSSIA prosecutions is putting even more of a strain on their resources. Everyone needs to lawyer up, and that's going to cut into resources for pro bono work.
But wait! There's more! With every available Dem lawyer trying to cover for illegals and the Obama Regime, Trump is now opening up a new front on the census and redistricting. He is stretching the field, and the Dems simply cannot be everywhere at once.
Meanwhile, the Title IX cases are grinding colleges and universities into powder, at the same time that hospitals are being told to drop the castrations or lose federal money.
Public broadcasting, Planned Parenthood. All getting crushed.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Decaf at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (unUNN)
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It's the knife edge of the Expert Class. They'll decide what is what, thank you very much!
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: polynikes
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Cry me a river. Was he called a Nazi?
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (v0R5T)
'Beat The Bridge' is on. Current topic. "WNBA and NBA Players."
Damn Dude did better than any of us.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Gonzotx at August 08, 2025 06:21 PM (nGraA)
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (i0F8b)
And the judge said 'oh you poor boy...'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (i0F8b)
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I'm guessing that it's iffy if they used the "Reasonable Man" thing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)
@carney
I spent a bunch of time today reading recent economics papers on tariffs. Every single one assumes retaliatory tariffs. None—not a single one—correctly models what happened, which is a big hike by the U.S. in exchange for lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
Academic economists need to ask themselves some serious questions about why they got this episode so wrong. It was a failure of epic proportions that should embarrass the field.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)
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"Unexpectedly" you only have to go back to Trump's first term to see in realtime that his tariffs then did not cause inflation and/or recession -- and led to record economic growth & prosperity (until, of course, the Bullshit Covid PsyOp ... hmmm, how convenient!).
One of the reasons was that was that demand for the dollar increased, making it stronger relative to other currencies --increasing American purchasing power and correspondingly reducing the cost of imports.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (h93kG)
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (ctrM5)
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Self-defense isn't about imposing control, it's about breaking contact. I don't need to defeat my opponent, merely deter and retreat. A lot of the "experts" are military/police who see the desired end point as submission, not simply escape without harm.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (ZOv7s)
Was it the racist name that most blacks use everyday in casual conversation? Was it the racist name that blacks chant professionally, and white people give them Grammy Awards for it?
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:23 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (i0F8b)
Difficult to reload quickly is the major problem and if you carry a snubbie, you best be able to solve your problem with five or six shots--you won't have time to reload. I carried snubbies, shot them very well, and practiced w speedloaders but when I carry nowadays, I use a single stack XDS with 8 +1. I use the 7+1 mags when I want to be less conspicuous.
That is why Jim Cirillo carried two revolvers--quicker to draw and fire another than using speed loaders. Mas Ayoob credited Jim with inventing the NY reload tactic.
Your average urban distance is about 11-15 feet tending toward less rather than longer than 15 ft.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:18 PM (ctrM5)
I've stopped carrying revolvers also. Training with snubby .38's is miserable. Automatics are slimmer, easier to shoot for me, easier to reload. Taurus and Kel-Tec both make outstanding polymer pocket pistols. I really like the 709 in 9mm. Very shootable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (xcxpd)
Blacks for example are down to 6 percent of Californians--Hispanics are the plurality, whites second, and Asians now outnumber blacks in CA.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:10 PM (ctrM5)
Yes well I guess our new Asian and Indian friends wont attack us in the streets while they take over the country and relegate whites to permanent second class citizens while using black vs white animus for their own gains. So thats something.
Hispanics of course have their own racial issues which im sure we will all be dealing with as well.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (04Xj5)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (B9Dv5)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 06:26 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 06:26 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (04Xj5)
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It's an arbitrary category to make the country seem less white. Columbias are not Cubans are not Mexicans etc.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (+qU29)
Police said Brice attacked two older men outside a Planned Parenthood. He was found guilty of two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, but not guilty of first-degree assault against one man. The jury could not come to an agreement about first-degree assault of the other man.
https://tinyurl.com/yejnf8nv
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (sFNX2)
The left has declared war on us, yet for whatever reason we fail to acknowledge it.
Until that mindset changes, nothing will happen.™
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (Q4IgG)
Orwell warned us.
Posted by: davidt at August 08, 2025 06:24 PM (i0F8b)
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Most crime is an act of extreme apathy and lack of concern for victims.
But that's somehow better than "hate".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (ZmEVT)
Crime stats for at least a decade show that oppressed black male youths, that represent about 5% of the population, commit about 50% of the violent crimes in USA. The latest addition is females from this demographic have decided to join in. The Left through endless intimidation has made it risky to state the obvious.
Posted by: Rapper Hot Tea at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (9vYpt)
Don't listen to the caliber snobs, a .32 revolver will look like a magnum when you pull it out and point it at Skinny Angry White Boy or Growing Diverse Mob.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Everything in the world is explained by the Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries, and Tombstone.
Maxim 27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.
"You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (y9nCu)
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>>1m
"The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska. Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - @POTUS🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (viF8m)
. But it was far easier to slap a 7 round magazine in even with good non arthritic fingers than speedloading a snubbie. First you have to raise it muzzle skyward, punch the ejector with the flat of your hand, and use the proper profile bullets (rounded ogive) for the reload. So I carried FBI load 158gr+p dead soft swaged Hollow points as the initial load and Corbon powr'ball for reloads.
Still slower by a second or so behind reloading the semi automatic.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (ctrM5)
Situational awareness suggests that you simply opt not to go to places where you anticipate a gunfight.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (Dv3i1)
And the standard answer is going to be something along the lines of "go to Hell, I spent 15 years getting this degree, and I wrote actual papers in actual journals and that cost real money, what did you do, sleep at Best Western?"
The real answer is that economics is the study of human choice in the face of dealing with possible gains and losses, and not a Gantt chart set up by Keynes, Smith, Arrow and Marx.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bigsmith at August 08, 2025 06:17 PM (1Au9i)
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Ace: "I have written what I have written".
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)
>>Hispanics of course have their own racial issues which im sure we will all be dealing with as well.
Hispanics are the new Italians, Asians are the new Scots/Germans.
Whites will be the new coolies.
And blacks are going to be f***ed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (IM1cI)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:25 PM (hlNLQ)
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Everyone should go with what meet their skill level, their comfort zone, their situation and the local laws where they live.
It's pretty simple, and the paramount rule is that any gun beat no gun at all. Just be sure you can get to it quickly and know how to use it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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I stay away from crowds nowadays period.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (jc0TO)
Not just the left. When I started bringing it up here, some a-holes called me Gobineau, and asked where my cranial calipers were. Performative 'anti-racism' is still practiced on the right.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:28 PM (y9nCu)
Nice use of quote.
Also note that the only 'fair' gunfight Doc ever gets into or draws down is the last one against Ringo. And he essentially executes the guy anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (9vYpt)
I saw excerpt from original police report. Thug was noted as white, but I think he is "Hispanic white." Thug's excuse is that he thought he heard victim dis him racially (it would be nice to at least once hear a new excuse), so Hispanic white thug had no alternative to beating the old, defenseless pro-life guy to within an inch of his life. The monster in the black robe must have agreed.
Posted by: Martin Tell at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Martin Tell
Look up Ku Klux Klan law aka Enforcement Act of 1871. From wiki, "The act made certain acts committed by private persons federal offenses including conspiring to deprive citizens of their rights to hold office, serve on juries, or enjoy the equal protection of law. "
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Eromero at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 08, 2025 06:32 PM (9vYpt)
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We did this before, in the 1990s, when the murder rates were much higher.
Broken Windows policing, three strikes laws, deportations.
It's not hard.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 06:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 06:34 PM (5WIH7)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 06:35 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (NnONT)
Hispanics of course have their own racial issues which im sure we will all be dealing with as well.
Hispanics are the new Italians, Asians are the new Scots/Germans.
Whites will be the new coolies.
And blacks are going to be f***ed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 06:29 PM (IM1cI)
Hispanic and black gangstas already fought it out in Los Angeles about 20 years ago. The black folk got their asses kicked. Which is why a white guy could walk a street in Compton at 11pm and most of the time he'll be just fine. A black guy on the same street and time would have his face peeled off by MS13.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:36 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Farmer Bob
Problem nowadays is swarming attack by 'yutes' and hardened criminals. You might get one or two but the rest will get you. Thus, why I switched to a semi auto. And will probably go back in time to start carrying a 6946 again. Carry it with a twelve round mag plus one in chamber and you can carry a full size 5900 15-17 round mag which fits the 6946 mag well.
Gotta practice with it before doing that as teh 6946 and the 5946 big brother are DAO only. Revolver like trigger feel with no safety. Slicked up, about 10-12 lbs pull weight like firing a DA Smith revolver.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:37 PM (ctrM5)
No one in the media cares about two white people being mercilessly stomped in the street, just as no one cared when Channon Christian and Chris Newsom were kidnapped, tortured and murdered by a group of black people.
Posted by: Sam Adams at August 08, 2025 06:38 PM (X+xvk)
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>>1m
"The highly anticipated meeting between myself, as President of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025, in the Great State of Alaska. Further details to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - @POTUS🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw
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That cuts out all of the tea sipping bandits.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sorry about that. I always used PC Power and Cooling for desktop pc builds until they got bought out. Nowadays, Corsair or Antec. Seasonic is good if max to the wall gaming but too pricey otherwise.
Micro Center Rosewill is pretty decent Store Brand if you have one of them around.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (ctrM5)
Also note that the only 'fair' gunfight Doc ever gets into or draws down is the last one against Ringo. And he essentially executes the guy anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)
"Fair" means you die, and I go home without any extra holes in my body.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 08, 2025 06:40 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Eromero
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Yep. The best gunfight is one that never happens from situational awareness and avoidance.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (ctrM5)
The white people fleeing the government-approved murder campaign in South Africa.
Posted by: Sam Adams at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (X+xvk)
DogEater's RaceWar Dream is what really gets him off in the ass ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 06:14 PM (IrlIj)
Every time I see "Kill Whitey" I hear it in Chris Farley's voice. (The pot-smoking scene in "Black Sheep" if you can't remember.) And it's really hard not to laugh, despite the seriousness of it all.
Posted by: pookysgirl has a juvenile sense of humor at August 08, 2025 06:44 PM (Wt5PA)
Another "Thank your for attention to this matter" from POTUS. Putin is going to meet Trump in Alaska for a summit on Aug 15.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (w6EFb)
Also note that the only 'fair' gunfight Doc ever gets into or draws down is the last one against Ringo. And he essentially executes the guy anyway.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)
"Fair" means you die, and I go home without any extra holes in my body.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Fair is a loaded term that has nothing to do with the legalities of self defense. Instead, the law requires the person exercising that right to have a objectively reasonable fear of death or serious injury using a totality of circumstances known to the person at the time. (A few states allow subjective belief but juries and judges tend to overlook that little detail).
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 06:46 PM (ctrM5)
WNBA apparently stands for, "White Needs Beating Again."
Posted by: Sam Adams at August 08, 2025 06:49 PM (X+xvk)
-Col. David Hackworth
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 08, 2025 07:33 PM (B9Dv5)
Posted by: Cynical Stoic at August 08, 2025 09:11 PM (U6BqK)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 08, 2025 11:54 PM (FLiOE)
Sydney Sweeney Fitness and Sorority Girl Nationalism GAINZZZ
Lefties are still upset that Trump is reinstating the presidential fitness standards for students.
Trump focus on health is not 'inclusive' enough A history professor said she generally supports President Donald Trump's interest in promoting health but criticized his plan to revive the Presidential Fitness Test.Don't buy this jive turkey's jive that she supports Trump's health initiatives generally. You'll see.
1, of course you're yammering about Beyonce, who is the only person anyone is allowed to look up to because she's black and a feminist. 2, you just objected to including a WWE wrestler because he's in the entertainment business, not athletics -- and then you immediately praise Beyonce, a singing whore with more plastic in her than a 1984 Corvette, as a great athletic hero for children. I'm serious about this -- are all professors, you know, actually retarded now? Are they incapable of following their own line of argument within a single paragraph?
"Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," reads the headline of Professor Natalia Petrzela's recent essay for MSNBC. ...
Petrzela criticized the appearance of a WWE wrestler, Paul Levesque, at the press conference. "The swaggering, solo, white machismo is obvious -- and about as far a cry as it gets from Beyoncé dancing with a cafeteria full of New York City schoolkids to promote the Obamas' program," The New School professor wrote. "And of course, the WWE is primarily an entertainment franchise, not an athletic one, a fact that is both perfectly on brand for the Trump administration and further suggests this effort might be more show than substance."
Oh yeah, obviously. Big fan. It's so apparent.
"I too am deeply concerned about the lack of exercise among American children and adults, and am thrilled this is an administration priority," she wrote.
But the professor also criticized Trump for not focusing on an "inclusive" approach to sports like that of President John F. Kennedy. "Gone is JFK's emphasis on inclusive, publicly funded recreation," she wrote. "And, crucially, JFK supported vaccines and Medicare."That's her idea of "inclusive health initiatives" -- injections and subsidies. I wanted to warn all of you about this, because I know my readership tends to be good-looking and fit and getting all kinds of GAINZZZ. But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.
Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, I've noticed a steady stream of rhetoric that attempts to make health and fitness partisan. If you're fit and enjoy working out (or even sport a tan), chances are there's a progressive who will eye you with suspicion of being MAGA. t's an extreme example of the "if-Trump-is-for-it, we-must-be-adamantly-against-it" mentality that has infected the left. To borrow a phrase from former Democratic vice presidential contender Tim Walz, it's weird. ... The rise in obesity and the decline in health is especially disheartening when it comes to the country's kids. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2024 report, about 20% of children are obese (2 in 5 adults are obese). That's a sharp increase from when childhood obesity rates were 5% in the 1970s. Not only is this a national health concern, it's a national security one, as Trump acknowledges in his executive order. The CDC report found that only 2 in 5 young adults are weight-eligible and active enough to serve in the military. Yet, Trump's commonsense approach to boost fitness was met with consternation among media progressives. "Trump is reviving an outdated and problematic practice for American schoolkids," proclaimed MSNBC. "Generations of Americans who struggled to complete a pull-up in front of their classmates winced as President Trump announced that he was reinstating the annual assessment," The New York Times opined. Leftists also have thoughts about fitness for adults and what it says about conservatism. Earlier this year, fitness influencer MaryBeth Monaco-Vavrik posted a video that went viral connecting the "popularization of Pilates & running instead of strength training ... and the rise of extreme American authoritarianism." She also equated conservatism with "smaller bodies."It may surprise you to learn that this woman is conventionally fit. But she's using her own fitness to sell obesity and ill-health to leftwing women.
Absolutely vile lunatics. I've been getting some GAINZZZ. I've stuck to vigorous walking (so long as it's not 100 degrees outside or p*ssing rain). Another study proves the value of just walking around for a spell.
Men, on the other hand, must avoid looking too manly and the trap of toxic masculinity and the "manosphere," which liberals tell us have flourished under Trump. For instance, actor Sacha Baron Cohen's appearance on the August cover of Men's Fitness UK sparked criticism over his newly chiseled body. One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women." ... In 2024, a columnist in The Guardian warned, "There is a dark side to wellness, which I always, for shorthand, thought of as political: getting fit makes you more rightwing." And now, enjoying sunshine and getting a tan could mark you as a MAGA fanatic. After all, Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sport a perennial bronze shade. As The Atlantic recently observed: "Tanning is back. Only this time, it's not just about looking good -- it's about embracing an entire ideology."
An analysis of over 36,000 people with high blood pressure has shown that taking more steps, even below the recommended daily target of 10,000 steps, and walking faster, is associated with a significant reduction in the risk of major problems of the heart and blood vessels. The study, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, found that compared to a daily step count of 2,300 steps, every extra 1,000 steps was linked to a 17% reduction in the risk of developing a major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE), up to 10,000 steps. Additional steps above 10,000 were associated with a lower risk of stroke.
... Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis, Director of the Mackenzie Wearables Research Hub at the University of Sydney, Australia, who supervised the study, said, "This study is one of the first to demonstrate a dose-response relationship between daily step count and major problems of the heart and blood vessels. "In a nutshell, we found that, if you live with high blood pressure, the more you walk with greater intensity, the lower your risk for future serious cardiovascular events.
By the way, the leftwing propaganda media is continuing its five-days-old psyop claiming that only a few "online weirdos" pushed the Sydney Sweeney White Supremacy meme, so rightwingers are the ones really "obsessed" with it and must stop blaming Democrats.
John Sexton quotes the New York Times' effort.They claimed that progressives were up in arms over the intentional double-entendre with the word "genes," suggesting it was winking at eugenics or white supremacy. In reality, most progressives weren't worked up much at all. Criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers, according to an analysis of social media data by The New York Times.A "smattering of accounts with relatively few followers." One video accusing the brand of Nazis got four million views.
One video getting four million views is "the fringes of TikTok"?
Initial reactions were largely apolitical, though some progressives criticized the ad's sexual overtones while some on the right applauded a return to "traditional advertising" in what they viewed as a step away from more diverse representations. But on the fringes of sites including TikTok and X, some users began suggesting that the campaign had a more subtle and menacing message tied to eugenics: that blond, blue-eyed looks are somehow superior.
"She has good jeans like she has good GENES! hahahaha like in a nazi way!!" stated a July 25 post on X that drew over five million views. The next day, a video on TikTok that also made a comparison to Nazism drew 3.5 million views.So who's to blame for this misrepresentation of the sane and sober left forming a slavering cancel mob over nothing at all? Who is the guilty party in spreading this RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION about leftwing influencers and drama-farmers shrieking about White Supremacy for going on three weeks? Would you believe... it's all Libs of TikTok's fault? Again?
BTW, you see once again that all of the NPCs say the same thing. First someone says it on Slate or New Republic, then Rolling Stone says the same thing, then the NYT says the same thing. Once one of these idiots is infected with the Retarded Meme of the Day, they're all repeating it verbatim within hours. They're liars. For one thing, it wasn't "just a few online weirdos," it was dozens of prominent" influencers, and we know that female and minority influencers strongly influence the Democrat Party. And of course, the leftwing media itself pushed it hard:
The tide began to shift on July 27, when large right-wing accounts such as Libs of TikTok began reposting critiques of the American Eagle campaign, mocking them as examples of "triggered" liberals. "Keep this up Democrats," posted the account, which is run by a woman named Chaya Raichik and has 4.3 million followers on X. "This is going to be great for you guys."
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College sorority young women are PROUD of their Country . Videos are going viral.
— Rochellemaryn 🌹🕊️ (@RochelleAz) August 8, 2025
THE ENTHUSIASM IS CONTAGIOUS. 🔥🇺🇸
The All-American college girls are back.
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This version of sexuality is innocent in the way that Tracey and Hepburn movies were, which is to say they are and are not. They are suggestive, but only because we recognize the unspoken and unseen. They are red-blooded, not pornographic in the way that the alphabet crowd is. The reason why the left is going nuts over them is that they are not Queer. They celebrate the differences between the sexes, at least implicitly. This trend is not really a rebirth of the old ways, but a symbol that the left can no longer suppress the natural exuberance that comes from healthy human relations.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (kgE5c)
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Oh yeah, just like the host!
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 04:34 PM (g47mK)
Ace knows Gainzz biblically.
That's my new insult for everyone.
I say "_____ knows _____ biblically."
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:35 PM (dTtZ7)
Willowed
Black women may get a reputation for diva behavior, an extraordinary sense of privilege and vinctiveness when thwarted.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:35 PM (kkTda)
Sugartits, you come off the top rope, flip in mid air, land on someone and do it out of shape & try to get back up.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:36 PM (rqka2)
Dang, Ace! That's cruel! Even if it's true, that's an awful thing to say about a Corvette.
Posted by: GWB at August 08, 2025 04:36 PM (pkAbL)
*marks self safe from being branded as MAGA*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:36 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (kkTda)
These people are retarded. I guess the black dudes at my gym are the black face of white supremacy. Asshats.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (i24o9)
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Vaccines then consisted mostly of the DPT combo (diphteria-pertussis-tetanus) (except for exotic ones given to those serving in disease-ridden countries in Africa). And I thought "Medicare" was not passed until LBJ's term. Was JFK on record as supporting the plan earlier?
These people lie, or write what they say without examining facts. As Dorothy Parker said about one book she reviewed: "It was written without fear and without research."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (omVj0)
Medicare was created in 1965, after Kennedy was assassinated. While he supported senior citizen health care paid for by government, it was LBJ who pushed it through.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (L5An7)
I betcha most of those college videos are in the South or Texas, because Texas are Texan's first. The rest of the South is all glued together except Virginia.
At any rate, my husband believed Southern girls were the prettiest, and he was not just whistling Dixie. He apparently took a poll before he met me in the mountains of the Western USA.
Happy Friday to all!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (rqka2)
A funny feeling in my pants?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: huerfano at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (98kQX)
Speaking of calories, how the hell is the Aldi Artichoke Stuffed Chicken rated at only 630 cals/package? It's a massive meal, stuffed with cheese.
https://tinyurl.com/jnv9prbx
Tastes OK. Good value for the price. But these nutrition labels are sus.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: IrishEi at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (eD91D)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (O8bOp)
I cannot barbell bench press no more. Tore up my shoulders. But I CLAWED my way back and can now Dumbbell Bench Press without pain or further damage.
But of course I "need" to go heavy because, well, I'm not a pussy. So I do 80 lbs for high reps.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (dTtZ7)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (GTqXr)
well there you go. The "professor" is a retard.
They all are.
Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (QZThv)
I only want to see you underneath the purple dildo rain
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (cduTK)
That's 80 lbs EACH, for those of you in Rio Linda.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (dTtZ7)
At any rate, my husband believed Southern girls were the prettiest, and he was not just whistling Dixie.
__________
Sometimes, it's, yes, good genes. Her Majesty is 72 and she looks 20 years and more younger. Some lucky women age very well.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (kkTda)
(Looks like the 1970s, when "YMCA" came out. Love it.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)
I guess Credentialism raises it's fat ugly head again.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: ace at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Not Really Paying Attention at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (3eJKf)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (0I+GC)
Check them. Buy a bomb calorimeter, and if they are wrong, sue for $4,000,000
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:43 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Diabeetus at August 08, 2025 04:43 PM (FEAjO)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:43 PM
This place...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (+2+Bx)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape
Friend, 1200 calories is right on the edge of starvation for women. Are you male? Please stop. Please eat more than 1200 calories. You are going to end up sick.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Fascism with arrive with a tight ass wrapped in spandex at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (KOE6H)
btw, that's what the Youtuber calls fat women: "High Calorie"
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:45 PM (dTtZ7)
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 08, 2025 04:45 PM (0Htd1)
Michael Moore is closet MAGA now?
... I kinda wondered since 2016
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (QKE42)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (dTtZ7)
Dumbbell presses are much easier on your shoulders - esp if you keep your arm 45 degree to your chest. Plus you an get a much better stretch than barbell bench. I mix in a least one dumbbell push workout a week.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (GTqXr)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (O8bOp)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (/U5Yz)
Since my hernia surgery, I haven't been able to do calisthenics or trot at all. But I've started back on fast walking in the last week. Forty-five minutes today, about 2.5 miles according to my (often inaccurate) fitness watch. When the pain finally vanishes, I plan to return to my mix of walking and trotting. (I almost wrote "rotting.")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (2GCMq)
Lovell was 97.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (KORH5)
Posted by: Pitch meeting guy at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (1y5L5)
A funny feeling in my pants?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
And here I thought I was the only one.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: Ian S
I only want to see you underneath the purple dildo rain
Posted by: banana
Purple is the color of Royalty right?
Either that or indickative of a purple veined throbber.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (WzM/W)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (O8bOp)
On a cold autumn night, look into a mirror and say these words:
pumpkin spice
pumpkin spice
pumpkin spice
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (cduTK)
I notice that I wish the fuck I was less than 29 years old now.
Posted by: Gunslinger at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (R2gO3)
Because competition is a bad thing? Because competition never caused someone to push themselves past what they thought was their limits (even if only to avoid being embarrassed)?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (kkTda)
Well, yais. I look a lot younger and act like a college girl in my mind. I was great at being a college girl when he met me. And I apparently do have good genes, wore good jeans, and arrived to the West fresh from a cattle ranch in jean overalls and boots.
If you are happy you age better (my theory, at any rate). Plus sunscreen. Or are not a Dim woman, sucking lemons and spite.
Fresh air, freedom, and feral ways molded me into who I yam.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (pZEOD)
Not even close.
2,500-3,000 calories/day for a man, so he is working on about a 1,500 cal/day deficit.
That is losing one pound every few days. He'll survive it easily. For a very long time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (L5An7)
If you know what he's singing about up here come on and wave your vibrators
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (QKE42)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (pZEOD)
You think that is bad - how's their marksmenship?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM
Sa-lute!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (kkTda)
Can I have her number?
Posted by: Typical piggish Moron at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025
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Miss Linda's age is, well, I'd better not say, but her college days are a ways behind her. And she does look very much as she did then. And I tell her so often.
As for yours truly, I am continually taken for a man twenty years younger. (When I find out who he is, I'm going to start copying him.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Not Really Paying Attention at August 08, 2025 04:42 PM (3eJKf)
That may be a little too aggressive, depending on your starting weight and body composition. 1-2 pounds a week is the generally recognized rate of weight loss for long-term weight control. However, congratulations on your motivation and actions. Just be careful!
Posted by: Fitness is fascism at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (KOE6H)
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*Pops collar, leans against wall, and sucks extra mid-section in*
Posted by: scampydog at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (2bFN5)
I haven't decided yet. I'll probably need to spend some more time studying the material before I render a judgment.
Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:50 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August
That is a HUGE and inappropriate deficit. Anything under 1200 calories is considered being in starvation mode.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)
Because competition is a bad thing? Because competition never caused someone to push themselves past what they thought was their limits (even if only to avoid being embarrassed)?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (D0HYP)
No, because he couldn't do it.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (k9OZB)
Is that somebody mocking the racist fuglies who object to Sweeney?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (+OnsA)
Posted by: Sniveling spelling sentry at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (XQo4F)
Touch down every morning - ten times!
Not just now and then
Give that chicken fat back to the chicken
And don't be chicken again
No, don't be chicken again
Push up every morning - ten times
Push up starting low
Once more on the rise, nuts to the flabby guys!
Go, you chicken fat, go away!
Go, you chicken fat, go!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:52 PM (kkTda)
But be aware: People may see your fitness and hotness and brand you as MAGA due to your healthiness and good looks.
*marks self safe from being branded as MAGA*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
I was thinking the same thing as I read the content.
*was reading the content wrong?*
- George Costanza
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (QcUc+)
Is that somebody mocking the racist fuglies who object to Sweeney?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)
50 gallons of cottage cheese in a one-gallon sack.
Posted by: That's just nasty at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (KOE6H)
You think that is bad - how's their marksmenship?
It's probably much easier to teach someone to shoot than to build a time machine to go back a year to get them to stop overeating?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (KORH5)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:53 PM (+OnsA)
The cultural appropriator with the bleach blonde hair and the lightened Michael Jackson skin color.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (pZEOD)
"STARVATION!"
That is an hysterical and pseudo-scientific term.
Someone who is obese has lots and lots of stored energy. As long as the diet is supplying vitamins and minerals, it is fine.
The diet industry is parroting the WHO. And anyone who bases anything on what the WHO says is an idiot.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (kTd/k)
Damn it, Hadrian! You beat me with the lyrics.
https://tinyurl.com/shybrrrc
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: It sure was messy at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (i/49r)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
Is that somebody mocking the racist fuglies who object to Sweeney?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 08, 2025 04:51 PM (/lPRQ)
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She's the blueprint for good genes, according to her.
(More like the blueprint for the Titanic.)
Glad to know I'll be paying for her insulin some day.
Posted by: Grayman27 at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (gRqLE)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (dTtZ7)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (O8bOp)
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Apollo 13: If I've watched it once, I've watched it a hundred times.
God's speed Jim Lovell.
Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (dTtZ7)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (L5An7)
I am hardly the diet industry, but I am a nutritionist by education, and this is dangerous.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (pZEOD)
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Nope.
I got fat, decided to get not-fat, and cut my daily caloric intake to 1200-1400 with very few carbs, plus daily walking/running.
I melted 50 lbs in about 5-6 months and I'm still here. I did lose some muscle mass as well but it's not like I came out looking like a concentration camp survivor. I ate clean for another six months and did some light to moderate weight lifting and got back to baseline.
If you want to lose fat you have to be in a pretty serious caloric deficit.
Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (3BwY8)
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Df. Ken Cooper found this relationship more than sixty years ago, and published his well-researched findings in his bestselling books Aerobics and The New Aerobics to start with. Where have these people been for six decades?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Very haf vays of making you at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (1y5L5)
Man's untramnelled desire to bang women really far out of their league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (zZu0s)
Not sure today's kids with their social media induced ADHD can keep a long term goal in site long enough to make a difference. And with extra sweetener in almost everything, well, their parents better learn to cook at home.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (lUFok)
(More like the blueprint for the Titanic.)
Glad to know I'll be paying for her insulin some day.
Posted by: Grayman27
You have been.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
Try a Granitestone. They are cheap, work well, and if you hate it, you can throw it out without worrying about the mortgage.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (L5An7)
Man's untramnelled desire to bang women really far out of their league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (zZu0s)
And the innate ability of those women to take advantage of it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025
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Probably there was a lot of plastic in the interior. Still true today of most cars.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
Properly seasoned cast iron.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (vZUXb)
Losses then Gainzzz!
January - Mom died. Age 88. I was her caregiver, and my late father for 14 years.
February - Uncle Leonard died. He was 90 and I was his 'go to' person in town.
March - My computer hard drive died and I lost my Microsoft account. That kept on giving.
April - Cat Trumpy staying with me at night trapped and relocated. Probate clears. My Brother changes his mind about the house and giving me a year to get my life together and make the best financial decision for me.
May - The cat Snowflake staying with me at night trapped and relocated. Lawyer comes up with a deal for the house. My brother agrees and changes his mind on the last day when I was supposed to sign.
June - Horrible house stuff Part three. Brother took some stuff. Not much. I lost them as family...but that's more a GAINZZZ. I have no more family. The rest call for funerals. I'm good.
July - my Pitbull head-shaver died and a nice floor vase of my Mom's broke. Minor stuff.
BUT GAINZZZ!
YES - FREAKING GAINZZZ coming up.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Duh Media at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 04:58 PM (AOsQT)
One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women."
I think Mr. Cohen is quite to the Left. I would say it's ironic, but irony is pretty much dead.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (8hxDK)
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I find the overuse of the word "problematic" to be, well, problematic. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)
I'll look into it more carefully. So far it works well and I feel fine, and not even hungry. Brave AI sez 1600-2000 cals/day for old farts like me.
I did a severe diet in the 1980s-1990s when I was on a cardio kick. Airdyne four times a week, hiking 25 miles per week, 150 situps every night, on only 600 cals/day. I got down to 154 lbs, average resting heart rate 44. I felt great physically. Friends were concerned, but I think it's the healthiest I've ever been, and believe it added years to my lifespan. Then in 1996 I fell back into bad habits and gradually went back up to 205.
I'll look more into it. I did not expect it would be dangerous. My doctor knows about it.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (0I+GC)
That's a lot of hot chicks in one spot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (IM1cI)
Started squats again for the first time in a long time. Why did none of you fuckers about 15 years ago tell me to not stop doing squats because it would really hurt to start back up? Huh?
Also, still not sure Pipers bear squats are doing anything. When I first started them I felt a nice pull as stuff stretched out back there, but the regular squats kind of run rough shod over them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (zZu0s)
Not sure today's kids with their social media induced ADHD can keep a long term goal in site long enough to make a difference. And with extra sweetener in almost everything, well, their parents better learn to cook at home.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (lUFok)
Congrats!
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (vZUXb)
Hey History Professor...remember when John Kennedy had his Presidential Health Program? Of is that too far back in history for ya?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (2WIwB)
Yay Horde!
Posted by: Nazdar at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Eeyore at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (od0dV)
Four Moonwalkers remain, Buzz, David Scott, Harrison Schmitt, and Charlie Duke.
Duke is the youngest, at 89. He'll turn 90 in Oct.
Fred Haise, also of Apollo 13, remains as well at 91.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:40 PM (i24o9)
I was about to post an Akshually, but then ISWYDT. LOL.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (8hxDK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Hexclad
but also Guy Fieri's FLAVORTOWN branded nonsticks are actually really good too.
Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (3BwY8)
Oh well.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (2WIwB)
I got fat, decided to get not-fat, and cut my daily caloric intake to 1200-1400 with very few carbs, plus daily walking/running.
I melted 50 lbs in about 5-6 months and I'm still here. I did lose some muscle mass as well but it's not like I came out looking like a concentration camp survivor. I ate clean for another six months and did some light to moderate weight lifting and got back to baseline.
If you want to lose fat you have to be in a pretty serious caloric deficit.
Posted by: ballistic at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (3BwY
This.
I've done 1000 calories a day + exercise and never gotten sick before when trying to lose real weight. If you've got the fat to burn and a smart about what you are eating, you'll be fine, unless you have some sort of special issue. Most people are not that fragile.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (RIQol)
It's "Engineered Material"
Plastic sounds cheap.
Engineered Material ? They can charge more for that stuff.
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (q/iLt)
One headline said his physique "is repellent to most women."
I think Mr. Cohen is quite to the Left. I would say it's ironic, but irony is pretty much dead.
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025
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Never mind him. How does his wife, Isla Fisher, look nowadays?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 04:56 PM (pZEOD)
I didn't call you an idiot... I am disagreeing with you. There are a huge amount of data that show low-calorie diets are safe.
People might not be able to maintain the weight loss, but that is an entirely different issue.
An obese man...let's say 75 pounds overweight...has 150 days of energy stores on a 1,200 calorie/day diet. As long as those 1,200 calories are providing vitamins and minerals, he will remain healthy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (Hkcdp)
I find the overuse of the word "problematic" to be, well, problematic. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)
I can't stand authentic, if you're so authentic I should know it without you telling me.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (vZUXb)
Posted by: ballistic at August
Weight loss is always calories in, calories out. But if you go too far, you are in starvation mode and that is not a healthy place to be, you start to affect organs.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (pZEOD)
Man's untramnelled desire to bang women really far out of their league.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (zZu0s)
A wise man once said that you could have the hottest, most beautiful woman in the world, and somewhere there is a guy tired of banging her.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 05:01 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (jc0TO)
I live in MD, retired. Wondering if I can get on a grand jury.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 08, 2025 05:02 PM (AcM/G)
Plastic sounds cheap.
Engineered Material ? They can charge more for that stuff.
Posted by: jsg at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (q/iLt)
Nah, engineered wood sounds cheap to me.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (vZUXb)
Piper is right. You can't apply a Cookie-Cutter caloric diet to Everyone.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (dTtZ7)
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I find the overuse of the word "problematic" to be, well, problematic. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025
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In the prof's quote, "outdated and problematic" just means "I don't like it and wish it would go away!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (SOjx+)
An obese man...let's say 75 pounds overweight...has 150 days of energy stores on a 1,200 calorie/day diet. As long as those 1,200 calories are providing vitamins and minerals, he will remain healthy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August
I didn’t think you called me an idiot, but you are free to do that if ya want! I am just letting you know, I am not talking out of my fourth point of contact here. I know a thing or two of which I speak.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (g47mK)
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A whole host of fertile women, dressed to accentuate their fertility. I hope this increases their chances at getting an MRS degree to go along with whatever degree that will show up on the diploma.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025
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They are probably all too expensive?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 08, 2025 05:04 PM (BJ6i2)
For me, minimum side effects that are totally manageable. Ozempic made me throw up twice, on Mounjaro I get nauseous every once in a while. I can live with that.
Posted by: JuJuBee at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (yP/Dy)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (pZEOD)
Forget it. He's on a roll.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (BJ6i2)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (jc0TO)
in an article written by an overweight women
it's only "body shaming" when it's directed at women
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (jGJov)
So, Ace, does 'Lamont the Big Dummy' dwell within you and only come out weekends or is he there in the room with you now?
Posted by: Auspex at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (Y8DZL)
What would you recommend as a good, accurate, up-to-date, and comprehensive text on human nutrition? Something written for actual nutrition scientists, not necessarily for laypeople? I like sciency stuff.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (0I+GC)
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I have an opinion that they need to be tested a bit more. For LT side effects.
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Sigh..... at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (smrJR)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (BJ6i2)
Added an hour of weights 4x a week, dropped calories more. Finally got more scale movement.
Walking outside for an hour a day (1.5 actually) does a lot. Went to England with family (for a wedding) but we did the tourist stuff too. I could out last the 30 somethings.
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM (cnmSH)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM (6ydKt)
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Recess - kickball, you're it. - >
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 05:08 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:08 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Beartooth at August 08, 2025 05:08 PM (8wKVG)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)
Pretty sure it means one that’s happening despite all media, etc. narrative control.
Who knew thinking hot women are fun to look at was considered an “unbridled” preference.
The don’t just hate the concept of genetics, but also normal heterosexual attraction.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (Hkcdp)
My doctor loves to do blood panels. I am treating a Vit D deficiency, but that long predates the diet. I take 5000 IU D3 and a regular multivitamin/multimineral log every day.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (0I+GC)
June - The cat Snowflake was found. She went from a Lizzo 12 pounds back down to her normal 8.5 pounds. She is staying with me, is weighed every morning like a pageant girl and is hovering about 10 pounds. The house officially became mine on the last day of the month.
July - I took a week off. Just rested. Booze and edibles but not too much because I have a cat and dog to take care of. My friend took me to their trailer for a day and a half. That was the first time out of the house overnight in 9.9 years.
I haven't had any booze or edibles in a month.
I'm sleeping better than ever. I've taken zzzQuil maybe once a week. Melatonin and natural Super Sleep from Costco about once a week too.
Most of my computer programs and accounts have been recovered or replaced.
My friends had me over for cake for my birthday. That was so nice.
I've been in contact with two of my Mother's oldest - age and length of time - friends. One, a friend of my Mother's from the convent received the two big boxes of Mom's stuff yesterday and was so happy. I bring the dog Ralphy to visit Mom's other friend in town who is 90. We bring something from Tim's.
Dang...to be cont. I guess..
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:06 PM (0I+GC)
Seconded. Bonus if there is at least a portion that is sports/athletics related.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (cnmSH)
Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (vFdZx)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:10 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08
I have to go teach an exercise class, but I will get you a few options to review and have it ready when I see you post next.
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 05:10 PM (p4NUW)
Must feel great!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:10 PM (Hkcdp)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (omVj0)
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Recess - kickball, you're it. - >
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Dodgeball! And full-court slaughter-ball! Those were the days man, and you were certainly getting some exercise during slaughter-ball!
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)
Try a Granitestone. They are cheap, work well, and if you hate it, you can throw it out without worrying about the mortgage.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 04:57 PM (L5An7)
I'm going to try getting a high carbon steel pan. Chef gruel on FNC and twitter recommends them. Lighter than cast iron but works similar.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM (cnmSH)
Yup...we outwalked the younger brat two weeks ago. A week in Paris. Right into the ground. It was great!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (cnmSH)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
I've heard it as:
No matter how good a woman looks, somewhere there's a guy who's tired of putting up with her shit.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (M0V4/)
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:12 PM (cnmSH)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (AiNp4)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (cduTK)
Don't, unless you are really serious about cooking.
Keep me posted. When you can't season it correctly and you want to throw it off a bridge...remember the Dildo's advice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (G5+As)
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no fat chicks
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM
In fairness, it was a driveby.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (jc0TO)
And, as you probably know, I was inspired partly by your screen name to dub my little Siberian girl kitten that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM
Pretty simple actually. The poor kids in the hood that are on food stamps and free school lunches are fat and out of shape and can't complete the test. To list them as test failures means Trump is shaming them and making insensitive comments about them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (0N4FZ)
Am I really that low?I don't know. The bioimpedence thingamajig at the gym shows me at 27%, but that is ridiculously high based on waist, hip and other measurements.
I guess so long as I can bench press my grandkids I'm good, because they insist on me throwing them up for some hang time and laugh like demented maniacs.
Posted by: Kraki at August 08, 2025 05:14 PM (cG6Xc)
Not even the fat, nasty, obnoxious black broads.
Posted by: Ghetto Joe at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (R/m4+)
How could they be racist, you ask?
Well, you see, Hispanic and black students have higher rates of obesity, and jut can't even do any of the tests, much less pass them, so physical fitness tests are just another way to fail and hold back minorities, deny them an education and impose white privilege.
Remember, it was the Democrats saying this, not the KKK. (Oh, wait.)
The racism of low expectations taken to its ultimate conclusion.
Never mentioned is the whole point of the physical fitness requirements, to encourage kids to exercise, erat right, lose weight and get healthy for the own benefit. The Left was like, "Nah, they fat, and you're just fat-shaming the brown and black kids. Asking them to improve is an outrageous act of white supremacy."
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (pMi6S)
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dodgeball
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)
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Ouch!
Posted by: Guy with the criss-cross impression of a red utility ball on his forehead. at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (krQz2)
fruit is questionable. no juiced fruit or smoothies with a LOT of juice. that's just intense sugar right there
I eat green bananas sometimes (rarely) and tart berries sometimes. grapefruit is very good, that's an acceptable option
this is for the no-sugar lifestyle tho. normal people don't have to do this! I'd still really restrict juices they are very sugary - better to just eat the fruit and get the fiber
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:15 PM (Pv3Rg)
Keep me posted. When you can't season it correctly and you want to throw it off a bridge...remember the Dildo's advice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (L5An7)
I'm looking at a LODGE brand that's pre-seasoned. If it's no more difficult than cast iron it should be fine. The reason is, I'm teaching my daughter how to cook and I wanted something cast iron like but lighter.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (vZUXb)
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (cnmSH)
it's not a special forces test lol
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (Pv3Rg)
The media say we pay too much attention to Ms. Sweeney so they run stories featuring her photo because that's the only way we'll read their stories.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (kkTda)
See college acceptance for JaQuan with 1000 SAT getting in while Dave with 13000 SAT is rejected.
That’s inclusive.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:16 PM (AiNp4)
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I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets and use them often. I also got carbon steel. It's been a nightmare and can't tell you how many times I've tried to season it according to its directions, only to have it not work and have to re-scour it with salt and scrubber and start the process all over. Maybe I'm a dummy, but I do not like mine.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (hlNLQ)
I LOVE THAT
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (cnmSH)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford
You only have so many heartbeats in your life.
No one knows that number. However, I'm not rushing it by speeding my heart rate up.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (rqka2)
My take is a little too much of their success is due to bone density and muscle loss.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 05:05 PM (i24o9)
He should cut that out . Carbs in white bread are a no. No 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (2GCMq)
https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
that's awesome Farmer! in actual AC?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM (cduTK)
Don't, unless you are really serious about cooking.
Keep me posted. When you can't season it correctly and you want to throw it off a bridge...remember the Dildo's advice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 08, 2025 05:13 PM (L5An7)
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Gotta go with Neon Green WNBA Dildo on this one. Carbon steel knives, though, are the fucking BOMB. The Narukami Shun knives are the best you will ever find. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (CqoVr)
So it probably evens out.
Goodbye, Italy.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (jTJ6z)
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You can't really say you've ever been a kid unless you've been stung by a dodgeball at least once.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (omVj0)
It is the opposite of victimization, submission, hopelessness, and ingratitude. Hard to be a socialist/Democrat once you’ve experienced this.
Sort of a ‘so wrong it’s true’ belief by the Leftists.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (Hkcdp)
I'm pretty darned skilled at seasoning my cast iron skillets and use them often.
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I gave up on that long ago. Put the pan through soap, water, and scrubbing; the food tastes exactly the same.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (kkTda)
https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
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Faggots, the whole lot of them
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (CqoVr)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Halfhand at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (zTZIu)
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (cnmSH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (63Dwl)
The basement is thoroughly cleaned. People with OCD would be impressed. Air ducts were washed. Throughout the house, whatever I didn't like got brought to Goodwill or given away.
There were a ton of large plastic plants and SOOoooo much Christmas stuff.
I just have a few more things to clean up and a few renovations that have to be completed and the house is mine. After I hang some art.
After that, I already know what I want to be doing for income so I'd like to give that a shot while keeping the dog alive.
Last GAINZZZ.
I talked with a lot of my neighbours. I'm very blessed. Boy, the stories I heard about families going crazy for cash when peop,e die.
I was very blessed because I was alone and the only one hurt during this entire ordeal.
I forgave my brother on day 8. I've been rewiring my brain to laugh whenever I think of any painful memories, not just the last while. My worries are left to God.
On day 34, I now deal with any anger by remembering how truly loved and appreciated I was by my Mother and Father. I have no regrets.
Lots of loss. Lots of GAINZZZ!
There's a lot of vacuum in my life. I'm anxious to see how God fills it. Thanks all.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)
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Must've run out of adult coloring books.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (qBdHI)
Naturally, I batted the ball around for a few minutes, reliving my youth. I *LOVED* playing tetherball when I was a kid. Got pretty good at it, too.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (IBQGV)
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And most of it from progs.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (cHLus)
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (4TfkY)
I have cast iron and need to work on seasoning it. Supposedly, if done right it is close to non-stick.
Posted by: Kraki at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (cG6Xc)
From a year ago next Tuesday, I've lost over 70 pounds and reached that goal in April.
I'm 61 years old, but my metanolic age is 46-48. My BMI is 18-21; my body fat percentage is 15-17. I wear a size 4/6. For comparison, Miss Sweeney wears a size 00 or 000 and has a 23-inch waist and 33-34 inch hips--I have never been that thin, but that's ok!
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (o1mqj)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (hlNLQ)
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YES. Stupidity has gone viral. Academics believe everything they are told by other academics which is how we got global warming, transgender crap, critical race theory....
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (8P/xB)
So it probably evens out.
Goodbye, Italy.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (jTJ6z)
That's the way to do it! You will cry on way out of Fiumicino, and promise yourself to return in 6 months.
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)
https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
This makes me think they're doing E like the kids in the 90s, the rave kids.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (vZUXb)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (IBQGV)
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The main way to win was to hit the ball consistently to keep it away from your opponent.
By definition, it created haves and have nots.
Not inclusive, not fair.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (krQz2)
https://tinyurl.com/bdvjjdx5
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 08, 2025 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)
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Faggots, the whole lot of them
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 08, 2025 05:19 PM (CqoVr)
This seems unfair. To faggots.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (RIQol)
*
I LOVE THAT
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025
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You'd be proud of her. She's a beauty. Her full name is "Dagny Sophia," the middle name being for her mother -- whom she resembles to an eerie degree.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)
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PRO TIP: Don't use today's Art Thread for inspiration
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: No shortage thereof here at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (KOE6H)
Isn’t that a well known problem 60 years later, crazy schizophrenic nutbars preying on the innocent? I’d say so.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (wNEJY)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (VE6XX)
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please tell me you're joking
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Lady in Black
You have to take the oven temperature up above the smoke point of the oil you are seasoning with.
Beef tallow 480 °F
Ghee 482
Lard 375
Duck fat 374
What is seasoning?
Seasoning is a layer of carbonized oil that's been baked onto your cast iron pan, forming a protective layer on top of your cookware. It's what gives your skillet a natural, easy-release finish and makes cooking and cleaning a breeze.
https://tinyurl.com/4r9fnz6u
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: Nelly at August 08, 2025
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He was the white FBI agent "Johnson" in Die Hard too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)
I'm beginning to think fat, stupid, unlikable lesbian hags are just angry about pretty straight girls not being miserable enough.
Nah. Can't be.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (eNLGh)
(JFK died Nov, 1963. Medicare created July 1965.)
Ace is right, professors are retarded.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (jfvTO)
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dodgeball
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:09 PM (g47mK)
Dogeball!
Posted by: Big Ballz at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (KOE6H)
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I've written a number of times here about "ideological paralysis".
Absorption into the ideology, means that you're only able to perceive things in relationship to the ideology.
Plus they get rewards (dopamine) from concurring with the predominant ideology, and negative reinforcement for not advancing it.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Max Power at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (Hkcdp)
that sounds really fun! enjoy!
try to go to tony's Baltimore grill while you're there
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:11 PM
I love mine. Lighter, polished smooth at the factory, and cooks just like cast iron. Season them properly and they're a joy to cook with.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (kgE5c)
Piper is right. You can't apply a Cookie-Cutter caloric diet to Everyone.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 05:03 PM (dTtZ7)
This: went in for stomach issues, put on low fodmap. Developed gout (too much protein with one kidney is not good) now on modified low fodmap/gout. Have lost sixteen pounds since June, so I'm keep on this path.
And I was in a sorority, and there are good and bad aspects to it, like everything. But it's far far far less destructive than whats been happening on college campuses of late. Go Greeks!! And yes, we kept fit and did a lot of choreographed dances!!
Posted by: moki at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (wLjpr)
Why don't they just try deep breathing or an occasional use of Ashwsganda- the Indian herb used for relaxation, because grown people using pacifiers is ludicrous.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (2GCMq)
holy hell zombie are they gonna eat us?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 08, 2025 05:23 PM (omVj0)
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"We're going to need some more FBI guys."
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)
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I'm really into hiking and almost exclusively see white people, proving that -- like the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, the Wind, the Fire, Cancer, Math, Grammar, Spelling, Punctuality, Hard, Work, and other Virtue -- the Trails too are racist!
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (IrlIj)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)
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Night train to Vienna. It was bleeding hot in florence today.
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (jTJ6z)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
I've got an All Clad non stick that I like very much. Picked it up at a discount at Home Goods.
Posted by: Tuna at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (lJ0H4)
Must be in the wrong universe again.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (RIQol)
The Biden years, we were told that ugly was beautiful. It is not. I hope we are seeing the pendulum swing back.
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (DJPFk)
There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.
__________
Say a Rosary instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: Lumpy Rutherford. at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s)
I use the Hex Clad non stick skillets. Expensive, but they will last forever with care.
Posted by: Croaker at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (+BcZI)
Posted by: dagny at August 08, 2025 05:07 PM
Great for you. And bkess you for the elderly care.
I read all the posts.
Someone here recommended a lot of fiber for weight loss. My diet is already high in fiber bit I increased it since I have permitted myself fast food while house cleaning.
The high fiber seems to be helping. Of course I don't eat much crap.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (AiNp4)
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Cast Iron. Teflon is just synthetic carbon. A well “seasoned” cast iron pan is better than teflon in several ways.
That’s why Grandma would cut your nuts off if you fucked with it. The heat retention (mass) of cast iron makes them unsurpassed for frying, sautéing and all that other ghey shit too. I like the way taters and eggs and everything just browns up better.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (wNEJY)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)
Well my problem is I go between stovetop and oven a lot and the PTFE pans just don't do well with that. So I use a lot of cast iron.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s)
I use the Hex Clad non stick skillets. Expensive, but they will last forever with care.
Posted by: Croaker at August 08, 2025 05:27 PM (+BcZI)
Are we talking about...non stick Corvettes?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (DJPFk)
The first dude that mentions cigars is off the Christmas list.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: DanMan at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (krQz2)
it's not a special forces test lol
Posted by: Black Orchid
There were three kid in my class who failed the test -- a morbidly obese white boy who was 5 feet tall and five feet wide, a noodle-armed Asian boy who seemingly never hit puberty and couldn't lift a pencil much less do one pull-up; and a chubby Mexican girl who simply refused to even do the test because she don' wanna.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (pMi6S)
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Liar!!!
- Every Subaru commercial
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (AiNp4)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (DJPFk)
teflon vs cast iron dildos, actually
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
That's what comes of picking short kids to play against.
Posted by: Auspex at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (Y8DZL)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (AiNp4)
There is an increasingly popular trend of grown adults using pacifiers, or binkies to ‘relieve stress’.
Excellent.
Posted by: Big Pacifier at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (jTJ6z)
Nice...don't fall asleep and end up in Ukraine, now, Mkay ?
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)
Seriously lost opportunity.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: mrp at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (DJPFk)
teflon vs cast iron dildos, actually
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (cduTK)
Ah. The WNBA. Got it.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (DJPFk)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM
This is the method I've used on my carbon steel/cast iron, and it works beautifully if done properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pvf0m9jTeE
(the first half is stripping the seasoning, but that comes in handy at times, too)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (kgE5c)
We're inspired by, and try to live up to, your example, Ace.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (0sNs1)
I think these folks using pacifiers probably have a dislike for organized religion and particularly Catholicism .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (2GCMq)
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If you go out in the woods today
It better not be in Canada....
This is the day that Canadians call the SWAT teams.
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (krQz2)
I like to hike where I don't see any people of any color. At all.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:31 PM (eNLGh)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 08, 2025 05:17 PM
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Do you use a rub?
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Kraki at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (cG6Xc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:32 PM (AiNp4)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (FNvF+)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 05:22 PM (IBQGV)
I almost thought it was a punishment thread for all the dildo jokes.
I'd love some tasteful boob artwork but my friends come over with the kids. I hope you're well.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:33 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Little Debbie Baker in third grade. She could kick my ass in tether ball.
Bitch.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (kkTda)
____________________________
Trump is honing in on Petrzela's grift. She runs some program at the New School in NYC that operates on sponsors and grants from the Rockefeller foundation and some others. It's called Health 2.0...and reads like a bunch of DEI nonsense pretending to promote good health. It's currently on hiatus, which makes you wonder of the Rockefeller Foundation was just a cash depot for taxpayer monies.
My guess is that Petrzela's goal was to take her nonsense national, with all that cool green cash that comes along with such boondoggles. This Presidential Fitness thing sort of intrudes on that business plan.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (dIske)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 08, 2025 05:34 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (Hkcdp)
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Translation: "We lost this one. Retreat!"
Posted by: Axeman at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
I notice all their outfits are color-coördinated. What else is there to notice?
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (0sNs1)
Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 05:29 PM (pMi6S)
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We need more shame in society. If you're a soft-handed dough-body, you should feel bad about it.
That shame helps build resolution to be something better.
One of the reasons I joined Da Army (but only on weekends!) was because I was not satisfied with who I was. I wanted to be more resilient, stronger, and also experience Athlete's Foot.
Well, maybe not that last one.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (ZOv7s)
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Say a Rosary instead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 05:26 PM (kkTda)
Bong hits for Jesus!
Posted by: And Carlos too at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (jvJvP)
Chris Martz
Aug 8, 2025
@ChrisMartzWX
16 years years ago, CBS News warned that the Arctic would be ice-free in 10 years.
Last year, CBS reported that the Arctic could be ice-free in 10 years.
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)
Ten years! That's about how long it will be before I ever look at CBS again.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 08, 2025 05:36 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
The Paolo, how you say, cannot even.
But is happy the ladies are practicing.
Posted by: Paolo at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Ian S. at August 08, 2025 04:39 PM (QZThv)
I'll believe CBD has something to do with it when it is a yellow didlo bisected with a zigzag black line.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (jfvTO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (AiNp4)
https://youtu.be/vb_hg_ZG9dM?si=fWBK78UoRyCOt6Sc
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 05:37 PM (eNLGh)
If you go out in the woods today
It better not be in Canada....
This is the day that Canadians call the SWAT teams.
Posted by: Axeman
This is the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 05:38 PM (zZu0s)
There’s yer problem. Most of them are faulty, the oil has to be carbonized. This makes tons of smoke, and people don’t like that. So you’ll see shit like “heat at 250F”.
Vegetable oils are not a good idea for seasoning. Coupled with insufficient heat (too low a temp) you end up with a sticky, rancid mess. Cast iron will rust underneath to add insult to injury.
With cast iron, the item will be coal black, indicating the oil has carbonized. It’s a lot like spit shining a boot with kiwi. Many many thin layers versus trying to lay down a thick layer all at once.
Best done outdoors, on a grill. Or wait till SWMBO is out of town visiting her sister or something.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 05:39 PM (IDQSL)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Butch at August 08, 2025 05:40 PM (oR3OC)
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A bunch of women who didn’t give me the time of day in college.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 08, 2025 05:41 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Yours might have some nickel in the mix or the heat treatment of the carbon steel is not up to par. Nickel in steel can make it sticky when heated up (same issue with firearms using nickel steel). Case hardening of carbon steel but leaving a malleable interior, which is ideal for less sticky cookware is kind of an art . Difficult to pull off in thin surfaces (also why case hardened carbon knives can be slick as glass but break if dropped).
FWIW, this was the problem of the old Springfield 1903 and its bolt--hard, slick as glass, but could shatter upon impact like glass. The old timers at Springfield Armory did not use pyrometers to measure the temp--they did it by eyeball mark I.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 05:45 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Rick C at August 08, 2025 05:46 PM (1zWbY)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Take batteries out of fire alarms as well.
I have cast iron, too big a pita to use with my handicaps nowadays. I use green pans with the ceramic non stick and buy new ones when the ceramic coating starts chipping or thinning. Then again, I have an inductive range which I prefer frankly after learning its issues than either gas or radiant.
Posted by: whig at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 05:48 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 08, 2025 06:01 PM (dfIr7)
Her name is Tolkien.
Check your unconscious bias.
Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at August 08, 2025 06:30 PM (iCA1B)
The first dude that mentions cigars is off the Christmas list.
Posted by: Diogenes
^^^^first^^^^
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 08, 2025 06:43 PM (QcUc+)
It’s always ten years away!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 08, 2025 05:35 PM
Then there's a 50/50 chance the Arctic ice will last longer than CBS News.
Posted by: toby928 at August 08, 2025 07:08 PM (jc0TO)
No sarc, totally sincere.
Posted by: PTSD giver at August 08, 2025 08:39 PM (KBds0)
Seriously lost opportunity.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mP0Kj)
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The girls aren't actually dancing to YMCA. Look at the second one. Clearly doing a country line dance at the beginning. And they're not *quite* on the beat. Someone took the original video and set it to YMCA.
Posted by: Caiwyn at August 08, 2025 09:40 PM (yHxqC)
You're Not Going to Believe This, But Jasmine Ratchet Turns Out to Be a Self-Obsessed Narcissist Who's a Nightmare to Work For
I know this comes as a blow, but steady on, citizens. We will get through this together.
Trump critic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a no-show boss from hell who terrorizes staffers, aides say: 'All diva, no wow' Rep. Jasmine Crockett has positioned herself as an unfiltered critic of President Trump, earning regular TV appearances and an enthusiastic online following, but congressional aides tell The Post that the Dallas Democrat is just as "rude" and mean to her own staff.A narcissist treats "the little people" with contempt. Pretty standard.
... But three sources who have worked with or for Crockett say she's rarely present when TV cameras aren't rolling -- and terrorizes staff when she does appear. Crockett is not often found at her government-provided suite in the Longworth House Office Building, with one insider saying she prefers to work from her nearby luxury apartment building, sometimes for weeks on end. "She is laying around her apartment, won't come into the office, and is really just indifferent to staff and will scream at them," the former aide said. "She is never in the office and is very disengaged. She does her bulls-- that goes viral, and then freaks out over the most random things." A second source close to Crockett's team added: "It is widely known that she's not nice to staff and is just not a really dedicated member focused on constituents." "She is focused almost exclusively on being an influencer, not a member of Congress," said a third source who has worked with Crockett, describing her as "all diva, no wow." When Crockett does show up for work on Capitol Hill -- often to attend a committee hearing where she deploys a made-for-social-media attack on Trump -- she prefers to have a staff member drive her the short distance to her office in a rented car rather than the staffer's own, a cheaper option commonly used by lawmakers. The staffer is expected to stand outside the vehicle, which "has to be an Escalade" or similar upscale make, and open the door for her. "You're technically allowed to do this but it's wildly inefficient. Instead of using the scheduler's car, she rents a car every week in DC," one source said. "She expects her staff to drive her around while she's in the back seat," they added, calling it a "power play" akin to "treating the staffer like an Uber driver."She called Marjorie Taylor-Greene "butch" in a committee meeting, which is trashy and ratchet, obviously, but which is also, in today's Hyper-Gay Democrat Party, "homophobic," as lesbians are sometimes called butch. I have never been more proud of Jasmine Ratchet:
Complaints poured in from lesbians who objected to Crockett's derogatory use of the term "butch" to attack Greene, which even left some aides uneasy. "She told her gay staff members, 'That's not offensive. You're stupid if you think so,'" a former aide recounted to the Post.LOL. But also, typical narcissist stuff. I can do no wrong, if it appears that I have done something wrong, it's just your stupid inferior brain hallucinating.
... Crockett has burned through employees at such a pace that she's becoming known as a present-day version of the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), long called the Capitol's toughest boss. A number of staff have become fed up with their treatment, while others have either been fired or left on their own -- a distinction often difficult to discern in Washington. Some former aides cited fear of retribution when declining to participate in this story. "She thinks she's her own best adviser, she knows best, and has this toxic staff environment," a source said. "She gets rid of press people because she's like, 'I do all of the press stuff.'" ... "The staff is really just an island unto itself, because she doesn't care about the local issues happening in her district," this person added. "She's more focused on, 'Get me on "The View," 'Get me on this late-night talk show.'Greg Foreman points out an amusing clip that demonstrates Ratchet's narcissism and belief that she is the Star of the Movie. She was speaking in a group of a runaway Democrat legislators. But you know how the main act always goes last? You can have opening acts and middle acts but the band that closes the night is the big draw. Well, Jasmine Ratchet was determined that she would be the Closer, the Star, of this propaganda opportunity, but other Democrats did not agree she should be the closer. But she kept insisting she was the closer and no one could speak after her.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:39 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 08, 2025 03:40 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (GYt5+)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (cduTK)
Because the people in the urban shit holes don't vote and don't care that other people cast ballots in their names
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:43 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:43 PM (VnChe)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 08, 2025 03:44 PM (t0Rmr)
She won't have a job next year, and until then she's a dead cunt walking.
There's little reason any more to kiss her Spicy-Gringoed ass or try to remora her for personal advancement. Her donors will abandon ship like rats off the Titanic. Maybe one of the rats will run the wrong way and get lodged up in her rancid coochie.
Posted by: Elric "Literary Creation" Blade at August 08, 2025 03:44 PM (iFTx/)
Ah. My confusion concerning the ONT is finally resolved.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 03:44 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (8hxDK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: eleven at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (wBaIH)
It's the excessive bling, vampire fingernails and the exaggerated hairdo. Based on my experience at the VA in Dallas that spells entitled biotch and I would not want to work for her.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Definitely an angry white liberal man at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (oSeBJ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (rtXcu)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Piper at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: guy who recognizes patterns at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (/IhmT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Sweetdick Honeycum at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (UjdFS)
But, until that happens, the self-important retards are making all the noise. As a result, an already destroyed brand is still getting kicked in the teeth. If I were in journalism and truly objective (which I don't think I could be), I'd be following her around with a microphone 24/7 asking her to comment on everything. The hardest part of such an endeavor would be keeping a straight face throughout the interviews.
Posted by: Orson at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)
Remember how this whole thing is based around Gerrymandering, and the reason Crocket is so cross is because her district is so contorted the only basis for validity is that it can be considered "aesthetically pleasing"?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Crusader at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:49 PM (gtDRl)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 08, 2025 03:46 PM (rtXcu)
Dat maff ain't maffin!
*head bobble*
*Z-snap*
Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at August 08, 2025 03:49 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 08, 2025 03:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)
Hold it. What do you mean "these people"?
Posted by: Sgt. Lincoln Osiris at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (PiwSw)
What? People who crave power over others more than oxygen are unpleasant once they attain that power?
Shut your ass!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (Riz8t)
Why do people let psychos like this get away with their crap? There's absolutely no reason to give in to her idiocy. She's the darling retard mascot of the media. She wields no actual power or money.
Posted by: imp at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (g6TN6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (63Dwl)
Hey, you expect this sort of thing from a man who celebrated his wedding in a fortified family estate in the heart of Uganda
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 03:47 PM (63Dwl)
Surely Hillary has more than that.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (VnChe)
Posted by: runner at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:51 PM (gtDRl)
Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 03:52 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:52 PM (gtDRl)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at August 08, 2025 03:52 PM (bXbFr)
Amazing, isn't it. Blackface is a mortal insult, but acting like a brain-damaged clown is not.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 08, 2025 03:53 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 03:53 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Which is to say not at all at August 08, 2025 03:53 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 03:56 PM (2c/nq)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 08, 2025 03:56 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Redenzo at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (kBlJC)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (AiNp4)
Trump removes Billy Long as Head of IRS.
Dude was confirmed in June, out in August. I guess auctioneer skills don't translate to well.
Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (G0vdT)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 08, 2025 03:43 PM (17s+e)
I've had one good black female boss, but I've had some really bad ones. My worst boss ever was a black woman (mercurial only begins to cover what working for her was like, and she drove many qualified people away and convinced others to take early retirement . I only became part of management because that way I never had to report to her again.
Conversely, I've had at least one really good black male boss/supervisor at almost every job I've ever held.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (a/dOO)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (pMi6S)
90's Mystery lyrics:
/Jay commited suicide
Woah-oh
Brandon OD'd and died
Woah-oh
What the hell is going on?
The cruelest dream, reality
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (8QFA/)
.....
and try to reinsert them through their ear.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: Grayman27 at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (gRqLE)
Posted by: RobertM at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (btIS/)
Posted by: Skip at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 03:59 PM (DenDI)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 04:00 PM (viF8m)
Willie Brown's staff is unavailable for comment.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 04:00 PM (MZ+PY)
90's Mystery lyrics:
/Jay commited suicide
Woah-oh
Brandon OD'd and died
Woah-oh
What the hell is going on?
The cruelest dream, reality
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (8QFA/)
Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright
Posted by: Have that CD somewhere at August 08, 2025 04:00 PM (KOE6H)
Is This Something?
Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.
They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)
RIP Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 mission commander. He should've been a Moonwalker, but fate denied him.
When and if we get to the Moon again, some of his shoes need to be taken, and the prints made in the lunar soil.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ann at August 08, 2025 03:41 PM (4neFu)
Remember how this whole thing is based around Gerrymandering, and the reason Crocket is so cross is because her district is so contorted the only basis for validity is that it can be considered "aesthetically pleasing"?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 08, 2025 03:48 PM (rbvCR)
Not only is her district contorted, the top 5 professions in her district (South Dallas) are
1) Dealer
2) Pimp
3) Ho
4) long term SSI disability.
5) hanging out behind the Home Depot looking for day work
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (uWKK8)
Lovell was also the CM pilot on Apollo 8.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 08, 2025 04:02 PM (w6EFb)
.....
and try to reinsert them through their ear.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 03:58 PM (UjdFS)
Someone named Ben Wa said they'll aim a couple feet lower.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 08, 2025 04:02 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (FYE/g)
Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.
They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)
It was something about a decade ago or so.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (cduTK)
Topped by the crazed Illinois mayor Henyard
And a long comes Jasmine
Next up Cannibal Woman
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (O8bOp)
Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes shpukd be melted down and turned into urinals.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (i24o9)
Did he?
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (FYE/g)
It's been ONT'ed I think at least.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (XvL8K)
----------------
Lone Star Dear?
Lone Star Bore?
Lone Star Boar?
* cues Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. *
"You don't have to be a star, baby ...
To be a Pig Hoe."
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (z/usA)
more 90's mystery lyrics:
/There's pigeons down on Market Square
She's standin' in her underwear
Lookin' down from a hotel room
The nightfall will be comin' soon
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (yf0Cr)
Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.
They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)
---
Band Maid is better, and they play their own instruments.
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (f1kZG)
Perhaps an unseen issue for the deep state is how totally unserious they are and how unlikeable they are.
Taking advantage of this now, is the smart play. They are mouthy, neutered wretches with a script and not much else. But remember, the goal is to put them in positions of power, much as *biden was, with a megaphone and a script.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)
Once they are in the system, they can "monkey-branch" to anyone else's staff if they play their cards right.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)
/There's pigeons down on Market Square
She's standin' in her underwear
Lookin' down from a hotel room
The nightfall will be comin' soon
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:04 PM (yf0Cr)
Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance
Posted by: That's an easy one at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (KOE6H)
Do Representatives hire their own staff? Do they get them from a central pool?
Because gotta say, if she hires them herself then she's going to be without staffers in pretty short order.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (jH5TK)
i dun fixed it
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (sDWtc)
Their new album came out this week. Has a few bangers on it, if you're into metal.
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Reforger at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (h5TUr)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 03:45 PM (Q4IgG)
Once they are in the system, they can "monkey-branch" to anyone else's staff if they play their cards right.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:06 PM (8avO+)
"Congressional Staffer" looks great on a resume regardless of whose staff you, uh, staffed.
Posted by: Those DC feelings again at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (KOE6H)
Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes shpukd be melted down and turned into urinals.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)
Wow, this one was something. I had an opportunity to be in Azerbaijan a few years ago. There is no love lost between the two, and an official government museum details just how many atrocities the Armenians have committed against the Azerbaijanis (with of course no recognition of any reprisals or acts of aggression that may have sparked Armenia's actions.)
While not as large of some other peace deals, this is really an impressive win.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (a/dOO)
She says bad things about Trump, but secretly she just wants to date him.
Posted by: wth at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (UjdFS)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (sDWtc)
I'm into oriental chicks.
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (IDWIq)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at August 08, 2025 03:50 PM (VnChe)
Hillary was Secretary of State. Many more accents needed for those international meetings. Mamdani just has the 5 boroughs to worry about.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (MZ+PY)
Trump on FoxNews now.
Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Is he working his way down the alphabet?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (63Dwl)
Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes should be melted down and turned into urinals.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)
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If he does Zambia and Zimbabwe next (forget it, I'm rollin' ...):
Trump 2028 -- Bringing Peace To The World From A To Z!
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (9rvdq)
Driving Miss Crockett.
I hope her driver next week is the one she pushed over the edge who decides to end it all.
Whoa, the CBC is NOT covering President Trumps's Peace Deal. I shoukd check in with Kos and see their thoughts on the matter.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (sDWtc)
Damn you're old.
Posted by: And so am I at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (KOE6H)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 08, 2025 03:57 PM (AiNp4)
doubtful unless her district is in the deep inner city somewhere. And if it was crazy gerrymandered, it wasn't.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (8avO+)
But you know how the main act always goes last? You can have opening acts and middle acts but the band that closes the night is the big draw.
Well, Jasmine Ratchet was determined that she would be the Closer, the Star...
But she kept insisting she was the closer and no one could speak after her.
I have long made this observation in regards to the "Progressive Stack," which is a prioritized list of which minority groups are given the privilege of speaking first at any leftist gathering, while whites and straights and men etc. are told to shut up. The white liberal who impose the progressive stack tell the minority members that this makes thekm the star of the show that it gives them the first word, that it deservedly humiliates the white people, etc. And the minorities all for it -- "Step aside, let me speak -- all y'all shut up!" to the delight of crowd.
But of course as Ace notes ,this is all a trick by sneaky whites to outwit the bozo minorities, who don't realize that by speaking first, they are the irrelevant "opening act," leaving the whites to come and close the show as the stars and main attraction.
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (pMi6S)
https://youtu.be/6mmwjDXHiAc
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 08, 2025 04:11 PM (Dv3i1)
Thus speaketh the West County St Louis girl, private-schooled at country day this and counry day that, 50K a year, from first grade."
Now a carpet-baggin' 'hood wench, an act of course.
Posted by: M. Gaga at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (eSXzK)
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Huh. I can relate, working for one of those myself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV)
I'm into oriental chicks.
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (IDWIq)
I want to be....
Kripke on the Big Bang Theory; "I'm just sitting here wondering if I'll ever have someone to share my life with. Preferably asain, 18 to 24. No fatties."
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (jvJvP)
Where have you gone Aunt Jemima
A nation turns its
Lonely eye to you
Woo woo woo.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:09 PM (IDWIq)
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At what age do they start laying eggs?
/
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (9rvdq)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (kTd/k)
Another Peace Deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Remember, all Nobel Peace Prizes should be melted down and turned into urinals.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:03 PM (jvJvP)
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If he does Zambia and Zimbabwe next (forget it, I'm rollin' ...):
Trump 2028 -- Bringing Peace To The World From A To Z!
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:10 PM (9rvdq)
Another Neocon "hurts Russia" special color revolution fiasco. Once Armenia broke their protective relation with Russia the neighbors were able to start slicing parts out of the country with impunity.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)
Bigger spoiler alert.
One of the districts Democrats are going to lose in Texas' redistricting is Crockett's.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (viF8m)
Ace needs to update this post with the breaking Boo Hoo Whinin & Cryin:
https://is.gd/5OPHcV
She pulled the Race Card on her own staffers!
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (T/HuS)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (kTd/k)
She's a modern carpetbagger. She's from Missouri.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 08, 2025 04:14 PM (ZmEVT)
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Huh. I can relate, working for one of those myself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV)
There's an awful lot of that going around. It's why I no longer believe in meritocracy.
Posted by: Competence? Managerial acumen? Pffft. at August 08, 2025 04:15 PM (KOE6H)
Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.
They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer is Mathin' like jazzy crockett at August 08, 2025 04:01 PM (8QFA/)
Oriental chick metal bands are definitely a thing. Some are good, some are shit, but they're out there. This is one of the better ones, drummer is great.
https://tinyurl.com/yjsff2hk
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 08, 2025 04:15 PM (snZF9)
Thus speaketh the West County St Louis girl, private-schooled at country day this and counry day that, 50K a year, from first grade."
Now a carpet-baggin' 'hood wench, an act of course.
Posted by: M. Gaga at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (eSXzK)
I went to college at Wash U in that area. Very wealthy population there.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: gKWVE at August 08, 2025 04:08 PM (sDWtc)
====
Here you go:
https://is.gd/JO0m0x
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 08, 2025 04:16 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: man at August 08, 2025 04:17 PM (EEa/W)
He scheduled himself for Apollo 13, even management balked on that, decided he needed more time to train. That’s how Lovell ended up on Apollo 13
It was more complicated than that of course, but that’s the gist of it. The crew assignment was a bewildering mix of Deke Slayton, and yes, fate. Lots of fatal crashes mixed up the crew order. Mike Collins bone spur. Don’t piss Chris Kraft off either.
Gordon Cooper got hosed, and Don Eisles I think. And then the dickheads in congress and Nixon cancelled 18, 19, and 20. Fred Haise should have been a moonwalker too. Real great guy.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 08, 2025 04:18 PM (gJ7RS)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (gm9Sb)
@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)
Do Representatives hire their own staff? Do they get them from a central pool?
Because gotta say, if she hires them herself then she's going to be without staffers in pretty short order.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:07 PM (jH5TK)
They are not assigned. There is an unofficial pool I'm sure that can be drawn from to help with the insider knowledge. Plus you can bring along some locals from your district
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (8avO+)
A true measurement of your political status.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:21 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (0I+GC)
CBC is covering the Peace Deal.
Maybe they aren't the useless subhuman pieces of journalistic crap I know they are.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jvJvP)
@LeadingReport 2m
BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)
The EU, Ukraine, and UK threw their last wrench when they scuppered the peace plan. Time for the big boys to settle it.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Redenzo at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (kBlJC)
Zelensky says no sale, send money
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)
A true measurement of your political status.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:21 PM (Q4IgG)
Corollary:
If you snitch on a Clinton, can you or can you not expect to wake up in the morning?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jH5TK)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (kTd/k)
She's a modern carpetbagger. She's from Missouri.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)
Anything from Missouri has a taint about it.
Posted by: Grandma Sarah at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 08, 2025 04:24 PM (VPPG8)
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Many are "political science" majors or today's equivalent from the capitol city area or ivy league indoctrination centers, typically with well connected family tied into the incestuous political life there.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 08, 2025 04:24 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:23 PM (I1XLT)
Ket's make it interesting.
Cannibalized.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.7% at August 08, 2025 04:24 PM (jvJvP)
If you've never bent down to huff your own farts and then threw out your back giving yourself oral because the smell of your own ass turned you on so much, Congress isn't the place for you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (eNLGh)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (I1XLT)
Actually she has tears running down her face.
Posted by: Redenzo at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (kBlJC)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (0I+GC)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 08, 2025 04:25 PM (jH5TK)
https://tinyurl.com/mt6pz8t7
Posted by: The More U Know..... at August 08, 2025 04:28 PM (smrJR)
Crocket sounds like a gem. One could say about pompous asses like her, "Give them enough rope..." But that would be both raciss and large Nigerian men would pop up out of the woodwork.
I still wonder if Jussie Smollet's (thanks to Dave Chappelle I am never sure what his name is) Nigerians were the wealthy princes who kept sending emails for money.
https://tinyurl.com/4s4px7xv
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (6PCLE)
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I heard that too!
-Kamala
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (JvZF+)
Oriental girls in a metal band. Well, semi-metal.
They call themselves "Babymetal."
Posted by: Soothsayer
It was something about a decade ago or so.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream
They literally outgrew their shtick.
When they started, the girls were 10-12 years old, thus "baby" metal. Now they're in their 20s.
Japan has a ton of female-fronted or all-female metal bands.
Band Maid (mentioned above), Aldious, Blood Stain Child, Bridear, Broken by the Scream, Candye Syrup, Hagane, Lonesome Blue, Lovebites, Mary's Blood, Necronomidol, Nemophila, Passcode, STMLT, Trident, Unlucky Morpheus, Yuzukingdom.....
Passcode, BbtS, and Candye Syrup are probably the closest to Babymetal, since they include some of the "idol group" stuff in their music.
I think Nemophila, BandMaid, Trident, and Unlucky Morpheus are probably the best of that bunch.
https://youtu.be/HFnEYhbEAqg
Posted by: mikeski at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Montana, Alaska, Wyoming at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (AiNp4)
people don't know how big Gutfeld going on The Tonight Show is
The "Cancel Culture" wall was shattered, last night.
Fallon delivered a death blow to the Cancel Pigs, and the Cancel Pigs know it. All their "power" is gone. Of course President Trump did all the heavy lifting for this moment to happen, but credit to Jimmy Fallon for facilitating the death blow.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (dTtZ7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 08, 2025 04:31 PM (fmXlM)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 08, 2025 04:31 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: zombie at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 08, 2025 04:29 PM (6PCLE)
She daid.
Posted by: Grandma Sarah at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (wVcYX)
Zelensky says no sale, send money
Posted by: brak at August 08, 2025 04:22 PM (jGJov)
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Zelensky loses a lot of money, influence, and protection if the war ends. I wonder how many 100's of millions he's stashed away for his rainy day fund.
Posted by: WisRich at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (G0vdT)
Oh dear. Black women may get a reputation for diva behavior, an extraordinary sense of privilege and vinctiveness when thwarted.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 08, 2025 04:32 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 08, 2025 04:33 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at August 08, 2025 04:33 PM (0I+GC)
Akin to massa making Kunte Kinte drive.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 08, 2025 04:33 PM (rqka2)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (kTd/k)
BREAKING: Putin tells US he will halt war in exchange for Eastern Ukraine, per WSJ.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 08, 2025 04:20 PM (mlg/3)
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They've got it already, right?
Posted by: Black JEM at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (GZYu7)
Posted by: Oldcat at August 08, 2025 04:13 PM (8avO+)
Anything from Missouri has a taint about it.
Posted by: Grandma Sarah at August 08, 2025 04:23
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: olddog in mo at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (X7zFE)
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Huh. I can relate, working for one of those myself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV)
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I THOUGHT that might be you, Squirrel!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel's Beautiful & Brilliant Boss at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (bvYoE)
Two minutes of her and she wouldn't have to fire me, I would have already left.
Posted by: Case at August 08, 2025 04:38 PM (NnONT)
Zelensky loses a lot of money, influence, and protection if the war ends. I wonder how many 100's of millions he's stashed away for his rainy day fund.
Posted by: WisRich
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If Trump can work a deal whereby Putin makes a profit the war is over.
The war will be over. Zelenski can best spend his time looking for a safe haven. That will be a difficult find.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at August 08, 2025 04:37 PM (kTd/k)
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A regular Boston Terrier Brahmin.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (bvYoE)
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One thing you can say; She goes her own way.
Guesting with Candice Owens?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:44 PM (I1XLT)
Posted by: Delurker at August 08, 2025 04:46 PM (NhiOW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 08, 2025 04:41 PM (I1XLT)
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Drone Death-by-Polonium.
Posted by: ShainS -- Stop All The #WINNING ... I Gotta Get Off! at August 08, 2025 04:47 PM (h93kG)
and her husband is uglier than hammered sin, so I don't know what happened there
anyway- what?
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 04:48 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don Black at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Grandma Sarah
Don't care much for Hoosiers either, ifn I recall
Posted by: MkY at August 08, 2025 04:49 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Hooterville World Guardian at August 08, 2025 04:52 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 08, 2025 04:12 PM (IBQGV
That's why you should go to her boss and try to take her job. If she's gonna try to get rid of you, what do you have to lose?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 08, 2025 04:54 PM (tZ2BZ)
Posted by: Delurker at August 08, 2025 05:00 PM (NhiOW)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 08, 2025 05:28 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Unkaren at August 08, 2025 06:42 PM (VfH2q)
So is going to the Dermotologist to have the skin cancers cut off.
Posted by: boynsea at August 08, 2025 08:03 PM (cx155)
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