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Daily Tech News 28 July 2025
Top Story
- Intel's network and edge ("NEX") division is headed out the door to join Altera as the company cuts everything that isn't nailed down and some things that are. (Tom's Hardware)
It's not being shut down, just spun off. Intel will keep a major though not necessarily a majority stake.
Intel's share price is down 8% on the latest quarter's results following a $2.9 billion loss.
Tech News
- How Clorox got wiped. (Tom's Hardware)
Clorox suffered a major ransomware attack recently, because - allegedly - the internal tech support team run for them by Cognizant was, well, this:"Cognizant was not duped by any elaborate ploy or sophisticated hacking techniques," the lawsuit asserts. "The cybercriminal just called the Cognizant Service Desk, asked for credentials to access Clorox's network, and Cognizant handed the credentials right over."
Oops.
- Allianz Life also had an oops. (Tech Crunch)
The company's CRM was hacked, leaking data for the majority of customers and staff.
- How to make Postgress run 42,000 times slower. (Byte of Dev)
As a challenge, you can only edit the config file.
- Is ChatGPT making us stupid? (The Conversation)
I don't use ChatGPT. I became stupid through hard work and determination.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: TOO MUCH.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:30 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:30 AM (4/BuS)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2025 04:30 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:31 AM (4/BuS)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:32 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:32 AM (4/BuS)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)
I don't use ChatGPT. I became stupid through hard work and determination.
Social media already made people stupid. ChatGPT is just making people stupider.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:34 AM (4/BuS)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)
then there are no comments,
then there are.
Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:35 AM (aURVT)
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No comment.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:35 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 28, 2025 04:36 AM (FOLLH)
Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 28, 2025 04:37 AM (szqEY)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 28, 2025 04:38 AM (O7YUW)
She said... alahu akbar!
https://tinyurl.com/22zdhuun
This is the UK play plan. Philistines upon you, America.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:40 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 28, 2025 04:41 AM (4/BuS)
Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 04:53 AM (is93d)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:59 AM (sTuNG)
Russian cleric and monk, later declared a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Why do you bother with me?
Shepherds search for their lost sheep, but for their own profit. Men seek for their lost property, but out of self interest . Travelers visit foreign countries, but for their own benefit . Kings offer ransoms for prisoners, but out of political calculation. But why have you searched for me? Why have you sought me out? Why have you visited this hostile earth where I live? Why have you ransomed me with your blood? I am not worthy of such effort . Indeed , in my sin I have willingly tried to escape from you, so you could not find me. I have wanted to become a god myself, deciding for myself what is good or bad according to my whims and lusts. I have provoked you and insulted you? Why do you bother with me?
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( I liked it for its down to earth humility)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 05:00 AM (2GCMq)
Shepherds search for their lost sheep, but for their own profit...But why have you searched for me? Why have you sought me out? Why have you visited this hostile earth where I live?
I am not worthy of such effort...I have wanted to become a god myself, deciding for myself what is good or bad according to my whims and lusts. I have provoked you and insulted you? [bold]Why do you bother with me?[/bold]
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( I liked it for its down to earth humility)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 28, 2025 05:00
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Fen, are you sure you aren't quoting Ace?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 28, 2025 05:14 AM (UyU0M)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at July 28, 2025 05:18 AM (gHSfI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-YvF5eXwYM
Posted by: Richard Cranium at July 28, 2025 05:19 AM (5WDkb)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2025 05:19 AM (tljrc)
(sTuNG)
That's what you get for sniffing in the wrong place.
Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 04:53 AM (is93d)
hahahahaha!
Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 05:22 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 28, 2025 04:59 AM (sTuNG)
Indeed BD. Maybe that hash should belong to the idiot mullahs in Iran. Trump sure got them stung, beats what Biden or Harris would have done.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at July 28, 2025 05:28 AM (UyU0M)
Already 78 degrees, and feeling like 80.1 degrees out.
Yesterday's high was 104.0 degrees in the back yard, with a heat index into the 120's.
We are always different than the 'Official' temperature, but the Ambient Weather station that we use in on the network, and allows me to see other nearby personal stations as well.
And within a 1/2 mile radius, most of them agreed with mine, and the rest were within about a degree.
So, I'm going with 104.0 degrees as the year's personal best so far.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 28, 2025 05:32 AM (a1415)
Quick summary: Women downloaded the app and as part of their membership application, had to upload a picture of a photo ID.
The PII was stored in a non secure database. 4chan found it and published it. Even better, it seems that some of the ladies used their CAC or a military ID for this.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 05:33 AM (RjOoY)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 05:36 AM (RjOoY)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 28, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)
I'm going to laugh if it's discovered that it was always intended to be used to leak the IDs of the women using it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 28, 2025 05:38 AM (ExV1e)
That didn't occur to me until you mentioned it. And I will join you in the laughter.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 28, 2025 05:42 AM (RjOoY)
I'm going to laugh if it's discovered that it was always intended to be used to leak the IDs of the women using it.
If you dangled an app where you could drag on guys, how many women on the internet would not sign up?
Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 05:45 AM (is93d)
What if it was someone from 4chan who put the app out?
Posted by: clarence at July 28, 2025 05:50 AM (is93d)
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - July 27, 2025 [Doof]
Can you hear me now? Engineer Revives the Pay Phone for Vermont Community to Make Free Calls in Their Cellular Dead Zone
Humanity is enjoying a bit of a devolution back to analog, and a perfect example of this comes from Vermont, where refurbished pay phones are connecting a community with poor cell signal. When was the last time you used a pay phone? For many working Americans the answer may be never. But for one rural Vermonter, he saw them as a potential public service project. “I realized, wow, there’s no cell service for 10 miles in either direction,” Patrick Schlott, an airplane engineer told AP’s Amanda Swinhart. “The community could really benefit from something like this.” Taking an entrepreneurial idea and turning it into a charitable one, Schlott bought an old pay phone, which sell for between $100 and $500, and installed it outside the North Turnbridge General Store using a device that converts an internet connection to an analog telecom line the phones can use. He then removed the coin-operation mechanism, and suddenly, a free phone service was available for all, though it did take some convincing on the part of the general store owners. “Everyone’s pretty surprised, and they’re like, ‘Is that a real pay phone? Does that really work?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but it doesn’t cost any money now,’” said store owner Mike Gross. “We’ve had people use it that broke down. It’s a great thing because service is so spotty in Vermont.”Read the whole thing. Video at the link in the quote. Pretty kewl. Not related, yet somehow related
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The death of Prince Albert in 1861 profoundly shaped mourning culture, as Queen Victoria herself wore black for the remaining 40 years of her life, setting a precedent for prolonged and visible mourning. The strict progression of mourning stages—deep mourning, second mourning, and half mourning—provided a socially sanctioned timeline for grief, guiding mourners back to normalcy through a carefully calibrated reintroduction of color and ornamentation.
The first stage of mourning, known as deep mourning or full mourning, typically lasted one year and one day for widows. During this phase, women wore dresses made of black bombazine, crepe, or other matte fabrics that absorbed light, symbolizing the depth of their sorrow. Crepe was particularly favored for its dull texture, which avoided any sheen that might suggest levity. Long, heavy veils—often made of crepe or tulle—covered the face or head. Widows were expected to avoid social engagements, and their clothing reinforced this withdrawal, visually signaling their emotional state.
The strictness of deep mourning attire was not just about personal grief but also about social conformity. Failure to observe these customs could invite criticism, as mourning was seen as a duty to the deceased and a marker of respectability. For the wealthy, custom-made mourning dresses showcased their status, while the less affluent might dye existing garments black or purchase affordable ready-made options from “mourning warehouses” like those operated by London’s Peter Robinson. In the Deep South, these dresses were still a must, even in sweltering heat with no AC. You can see them displayed in historic homes open for tours, along with mourning jewelry made from the hair of the deceased.
After the initial year, widows entered second mourning, which lasted approximately nine months. This phase allowed for slight relaxations in attire, reflecting a gradual easing of grief. While black remained the primary color, veils were folded over the head or not worn at all. Fabrics with a slight sheen, such as silk or satin, might replace the heavy crepe of deep mourning, signaling a shift toward lighter materials. This phase allowed women to begin re-entering social spaces, albeit cautiously, as their clothing balanced grief with a return to public life.
The final stage, half mourning, lasted six months and marked the reintroduction of color into a mourner’s wardrobe. This phase allowed muted, subdued hues such as gray, lavender, mauve, and occasionally dark purple or white with black accents. These colors symbolized a gradual return to normalcy, with lavender and mauve—popularized by Queen Victoria herself—carrying particular significance as gentle, mournful tones.
(This one is a little outside the Victorian era)
The transition to color was not just aesthetic but deeply symbolic. It represented the mourner’s readiness to rejoin society fully, signaling that the period of intense grief had passed. For widows, half mourning often marked the point at which they could resume social activities, such as attending dinners or modest gatherings, though remarriage was still considered inappropriate until mourning was fully complete (typically two and a half years total). Today, while formal mourning attire is less common, the influence of Victorian mourning persists in the choice of black for funerals ------ Thank you, Piper - informative AND depressing! Not related, yet somehow related
from thisdayinmusic.com Born on this date in 1974: Pete Yorn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and drummer who first gained recognition after his debut 2001 record, Musicforthemorningafter.
On this date in 1996: The Spice Girls scored their first No.1 UK single with 'Wannabe'.
On this date in 2001: Leon Wilkeson bass player with Lynyrd Skynyrd was found dead in a hotel room in Florida aged 49.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Finally gone at age 97. "He was still alive?"
Appropriately, some classic Lehrer:
We Will All Go Together When We Go
https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs
Posted by: mindful webworker - occidental orientation at July 27, 2025 10:01 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 10:01 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 27, 2025 10:02 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: admiral spinebender at July 27, 2025 10:03 PM (hftn9)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2025 10:06 PM (sAmhv)
Last time I saw a redhead like that on a street corner it cost me...errr....it cost my buddy a couple hundred bucks.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 10:07 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: TRex - zig a zeh ah at July 27, 2025 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:08 PM (pZEOD)
Pro tip: Metamucil.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)
You can keep the dime. —Huh? —confused modern kids.
Posted by: mindful webworker - I only wish my words could just convince myself at July 27, 2025 10:09 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:08 PM (pZEOD)
My work here is done!
Posted by: Doof at July 27, 2025 10:09 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:09 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Iris at July 27, 2025 10:09 PM (bOJ2I)
And thanks to Piper for the 4-1-1 on mourning wear. So glad we don't live in the Victorian era!
Have a wonderful week!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2025 10:10 PM (kB9dk)
Pro tip: Metamucil.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:09 PM (0eaVi)
HAHA! They'll need restroom tokens at Club ONT.
Posted by: Doof at July 27, 2025 10:10 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:10 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:09 PM (6WCwE)
You are persistent in trying to find these alleged "good people" around here.
Posted by: Doof at July 27, 2025 10:11 PM (QMAsf)
And Piper's piece - was interesting.
Happy Sunday!
Posted by: Iris at July 27, 2025
Inspiration comes out of nowhere sometimes!
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:12 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Itching? Yeah, this is place for that.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:13 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 27, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:14 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Doof
Hope springs eternal.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:14 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Texican ette at July 27, 2025 10:15 PM (SNf74)
Posted by: mindful webworker - occidental orientation at July 27, 2025 10:01 PM (f+yIF)
Wait!
He was still alive??!? Seriously?
I have the 3 CD's. Still funny.
The basement is almost all cleared out! Sweet. Onto cleaning tomorrow or Tuesday.
Everyone have a happy week.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 10:15 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 10:16 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee at July 27, 2025 10:16 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 10:16 PM (XeU6L)
I was down for the rest of the day.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 27, 2025 10:17 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 27, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Yes! But this may shock you, they were no where near as strict, involved or long as the women. It basically came down to a black arm band.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:17 PM (pZEOD)
http://bit.ly/4f77X1r
I'm glad we didn't have Melania in mourning attire. Praise the Lord.
Posted by: mindful webworker - so incredibly close at July 27, 2025 10:17 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: The Grateful
There are. Black arm bands and subdued ties were common when I was a kid.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:17 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Doof at July 27, 2025 10:10 PM (QMAsf)
Buy one get one free, right?
Vomit not included.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:17 PM
***
We can barely figure out if we're supposed to be wearing pants.
Posted by: TRex - fashion challenged at July 27, 2025 10:18 PM (IQ6Gq)
Last time I saw a redhead like that on a street corner it cost me...errr....it cost my buddy a couple hundred bucks.
Posted by: Diogenes
Sheeeeeeet. I married one and it cost me a lot more than that.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:18 PM (6WCwE)
Yes, but it gets tiresome when every woman reacts that way when they see me, whether I know them or not.
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2025 10:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee. at July 27, 2025 10:19 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:13 PM (6WCwE)
I heard you can get scratched at the Diogenes Club.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:20 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at July 27, 2025 10:20 PM (iNp3L)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 27, 2025 10:21 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 27, 2025 10:21 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: I Got You Under My Skin at July 27, 2025 10:21 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 27, 2025 10:21 PM (lUFok)
I'll do more than that!
Posted by: Harvey Winestein at July 27, 2025 10:23 PM (dR6yv)
Did you know there is such a thing as a "Buddle paddle pal baby diaper cream spatula"?
It's a spatula to apply cream to a baby's bottom.
What the hell is this world coming to? Take me Lord, I've now seen everything.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:25 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 10:25 PM (7T/7v)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 10:25 PM (mT+6a)
And that telephone gadget is interesting. Needless to say, the AP story did not name it, or say where it can be found, or how to get one. Does it get you a unique number for incoming calls, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:25 PM (6ecJK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
Until "diversity" comes to town.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 10:25 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 27, 2025 10:26 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 27, 2025 10:26 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:27 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:25 PM (6WCwE)
I thought I had at the diaper genie. Diapers are not meant for bulk storage before throwing them away.
Posted by: Reforger at July 27, 2025 10:28 PM (TOnMl)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Pre-pearly gates interviews
https://youtu.be/dU7nkfBFUyM
Posted by: mindful webworker - so incredibly close at July 27, 2025 10:28 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: Reforger at July 27, 2025 10:28 PM (TOnMl)
Bad diaper genies get Biden duty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:29 PM (6ecJK)
Posted by: Bombadil at July 27, 2025 10:30 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 27, 2025 10:30 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 10:22 PM (63Dwl)
Until "diversity" comes to town.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 10:25 PM (4rENN)
It’s Vermont….
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:30 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: raimondo at July 27, 2025 10:31 PM (/qKAk)
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 10:33 PM (7T/7v)
Posted by: free tibet
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Well, that explains Boone's 'metal' period. Pic of album cover, bizzare:
https://tin.al/D7tQy
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 10:33 PM (XeU6L)
Truth!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2025 10:33 PM (kB9dk)
Jackie Stewart drives Richard Petty's car at Atlanta Speedway in 1976. Petty assisted. Stock cars are way different from formula cars
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2025 10:33 PM (sAmhv)
I got a little mowing done, until the mower stalled and would no restart, with a dead battery. I think the alternator or the rectifier/regulator has cacked out. Battery on charger overnight.
And I dragged up a mess of cut tree limbs with the golf cart, and have a cheery fire going in the burn barrel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:34 PM (6ecJK)
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2025 10:34 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 10:34 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 27, 2025 10:34 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Splunge
And a Senator from Brooklyn who combs his hair with a balloon.
Posted by: Kicked Out Of A Commune at July 27, 2025 10:34 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:35 PM (6ecJK)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:36 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 10:34 PM (w3u3d)
Please dispose of the bag of refuse above.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:36 PM (0eaVi)
I saw on the Internet where it said,
If You Don't Click To Take This Quiz
Your IQ Is Probably Above 115
You'll never guess what I did!
Posted by: Bombadil at July 27, 2025 10:37 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2025 10:33 PM (sAmhv)
Back then, "stock cars" were actually based on models one could buy at the dealership.
Now, NASCAR races run strictly with formula cars. Not Formula One, but formula nonetheless.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:38 PM (6ecJK)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:38 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 27, 2025 10:38 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 27, 2025 10:39 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 27, 2025 10:39 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Bombadil
.....................................
youtu.be/JAiWbSwYmx8
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2025 10:39 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: haffhowershower
Had a diaper genie way back... It worked great for the first three months then was more effort than just wrapping up the dirty diaper in an empty plastic grocery bag.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 10:40 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Vidal Sassoon at July 27, 2025 10:40 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Stewart: But...but...it's all left turns
Petty: Yup
Stewart: And...you stop if there is any rain!
Petty: Yup
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 10:41 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 10:41 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:36 PM (pZEOD)
One of those "you had to be there" jokes, then. Those 3 guys were so damned peripheral to my consciousness that about all I can say about them is that I knew they existed. Not ragging on you one little bit, understand, it's just a joke that only registers with those who are less 29 than me.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:42 PM (6ecJK)
Hound Group 3 under Dana Cline for big Varus at today's Longview KC show. He's working better with whoever is handling him and looking better now that he gets bathed in better shampoo and conditioner. Plus Her Majesty's grooming.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:44 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Vidal Sassoon at July 27, 2025 10:40 PM (G5+As)
Some people still do that. Or they gather around the open coffin for pictures.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:44 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:44 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:38 PM (77rzZ)
Well, I really do have acreage and outbuildings. Maybe Poppins does too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:44 PM (6ecJK)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:45 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
That is true, but since George Utley passed on, the Stratford Inn has gone to seed.
Posted by: It's A Dump! at July 27, 2025 10:46 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 10:42 PM (6ecJK)
You can rag on me! I can take it! Just not right now because I am going to bed. 😀 I know it’s time because the cats are at the foot of the bed and the Shiba Prince just put himself in his crate and let out one of those deep doggie sighs when he settled.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:46 PM (pZEOD)
How does Peon Manor compare to Stately Poppins Manor?
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:38 PM (77rzZ)
__________
"Schloss Hadrian" sounds classier than "Falling down hole the taxes and insurance on which are eating me alive".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:46 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
My wife's family does that. Holy cow! What is wrong with people?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:46 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: No One of Consequence
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Causes me to recall “Eppie in de toal-hole!”
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 10:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:47 PM (HZi96)
Excuse me. I am not sure if you are insulting me or not. Then again I don’t carry grudges with those who I may disagree with
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 10:48 PM (w3u3d)
There's some beautiful creepy old mourning jewelry out there. Usually made with some locks of hair from the lost one.
And those two before & after they see me vids were ADORABLE.
Great ONT tonight!
Posted by: jocon307 at July 27, 2025 10:48 PM (EuROc)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:49 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:36 PM (pZEOD)
That's the name of my next album.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 27, 2025 10:50 PM (6nQni)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 10:50 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:51 PM (77rzZ)
>Is this this the CBS 60 Minutes guy who was slurping champagne out of a crackwhore asscrack? I thought he was already dead.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 10:51 PM (ZYql3)
Posted by: Forest Lawn at July 27, 2025 10:51 PM (G5+As)
Excuse me. I am not sure if you are insulting me or not. Then again I don’t carry grudges with those who I may disagree with
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 10:48 PM (w3u3d)
___________
Demand satisfaction. Challenge him to a duel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:52 PM (HZi96)
Exposures were long and photography was expensive and rare, overall.
Posted by: Forest Lawn at July 27, 2025 10:51 PM (G5+As)
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Well, you don't have to worry about them squirming around and spoiling the shot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:53 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:53 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025 10:54 PM (9Tdlv)
Demand satisfaction. Challenge him to a duel.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I am not cleaning up duel mess! Just do a music war or something.
Okay, goodnight! Doof is in charge now.
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:55 PM (pZEOD)
20 Were there mourning clothing rules for men?
Posted by: The Grateful at July 27, 2025 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
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I think it was confined to black armbands, and not being publicly gleeful over the demise of enemies and other disliked individuals.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 27, 2025 10:55 PM (ufCEJ)
Excuse me. I am not sure if you are insulting me or not. Then again I don’t carry grudges with those who I may disagree with
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 10:48 PM (w3u3d)
No, LC. Didn't mean you.
Was joke referencing drugged up sounding neighborhood troll named Rai....... He's probably whacked now.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:55 PM (0eaVi)
>Is this this the CBS 60 Minutes guy who was slurping champagne out of a crackwhore asscrack? I thought he was already dead.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Whopper Cronkite?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 10:56 PM (63Dwl)
Always surprised Pete Yorn didn't get bigger. Big single "Life on a Chain" was a great song but it was his biggest. The song above was good and other stuff I like , but he never broke out of alternative.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 10:56 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 10:46 PM (6WCwE)
I dunno. I don't get it either.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:56 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 10:57 PM (77rzZ)
My ISP has the IP telephony option on their hard connection lines -- it doesn't work on the line-of-sight connection that I use. IP Telephony is common. Yes, you get a Tel # and Yes you can port your existing number.
Posted by: Lurk at July 27, 2025 10:57 PM (7IOVT)
I think he means the Lehrer Report guy, but I think he was PBS, not CBS. Really straining my 29 year memory here.
Anyway, no Tom Lehrer was not that Lehrer.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 27, 2025 10:58 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 10:55 PM (pZEOD)
OK everyone, throw away Piper's kale
Posted by: Doof at July 27, 2025 10:59 PM (QMAsf)
That mourning process was ridiculous. Almost two years of wearing black and mostly disappearing from society? This seems like abuse and surely a way to keep a specialty clothing industry nice fat and fed.
People should mourn how they want to mourn. It’s a very personal decision. Maybe the husband was a great guy worth mourning. Maybe he was a scumbag and cheater and the widow is relieved he’s dead.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 11:00 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 11:01 PM (sPQoU)
Temping but if I get to choose weapons odds favor me.
I have no grudge towards him
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:02 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 11:03 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 10:50 PM (2RdRx)
I figured all the dancing spouses meant every one of them was staged for the internet. FEED MY DOPAMINE MACHINE! ...I mean, I need likes and clicks.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 27, 2025 11:03 PM (6nQni)
Posted by: Lurk
Ooma box.
Plug into your LAN. $5 / $10 a month unlimited over your ISP.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 11:03 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Forest Lawn
Well, you don't have to worry about them squirming around and spoiling the shot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Victorian-era First World Problems: planning your family photos around rigor mortis.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 11:05 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 11:03 PM (v23vE)
Hey there brother! Good to see you. Hope all is well.
Posted by: Doof at July 27, 2025 11:06 PM (QMAsf)
Interesting article on why and how law firms collapse. Short form: it's like a run on a bank. And sudden.
https://tinyurl.com/4dnzzp77
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 11:06 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 27, 2025 11:07 PM (l/RDv)
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 27, 2025 11:07 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2025 11:08 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:08 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 11:09 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Rules Are For Our Own Good at July 27, 2025 11:09 PM (G5+As)
So that explains the nose bleed...
Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 27, 2025 11:09 PM (YzgIo)
Temping but if I get to choose weapons odds favor me.
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat
This is the ONT. I believe all duels are traditionally fought with halibut.
Except on WeirdDave's nights, then it can be Slinkies(tm) at 5 paces at his discretion.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 11:10 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 10:41 PM (63Dwl)
I actually know a guy named Kevin whose brother's name is Kevin. I don't recall the exact circumstances, but at least one of them was adopted and they didn't know about each other until adulthood.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 27, 2025 11:11 PM (FMtrg)
https://tinyurl.com/shootilli
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 11:11 PM (sPQoU)
Anyway, no Tom Lehrer was not that Lehrer.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
>My mistake, that was Steve Kroft from CBS 60 Minutes who "would rather be eating her pudding."
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 11:13 PM (ZYql3)
Posted by: The Grateful
Sure. A hanky deployed at an opportune time whilst chatting up your next vic... er, lady.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 11:13 PM (mlg/3)
This is the ONT. I believe all duels are traditionally fought with halibut.
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Balloons and blunderbusses
https://youtu.be/lzmhZQVna8E?si=nWDN3g4LePxvsJIM
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 11:13 PM (HZi96)
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No shit. My practice went to hell overnight.
Posted by: Nathan 'Sweetdick' Wade at July 27, 2025 11:13 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 11:09 PM (XeU6L)
And the loving family paid a stiff price for them, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 11:15 PM (6ecJK)
*offers glass of single malt scotch *
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:08 PM (w3u3d)
(comes to bar late, looks in empty glass)
Dooooooooffffff!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:16 PM (0eaVi)
https://tinyurl.com/shootilli
Posted by: Joyenz
Seven shot, two deceased is a mass shooting, alright.
Posted by: After Midnight at July 27, 2025 11:16 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:16 PM (w3u3d)
So that explains the nose bleed...
Posted by: Publius
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Thoughts and prayers Publius. Has she experienced any slow clotting before?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 11:18 PM (XeU6L)
Sounds kinda Hobbitish. Breakfast, After Breakfast, Elevenes, Lunch...
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 11:18 PM (W/lyH)
After my great-grandfather committed suicide. My great-grandmother wore black for the rest of her life.
Posted by: French Jeton at July 27, 2025 11:19 PM (j0T5y)
https://tinyurl.com/shootilli
Posted by: Joyenz
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MT. VERNON, Ill. (WSIL) -- UPDATE: The Mount Vernon Police Department has released the names of the victims in the recent shooting and announced an arrest.
Zomarrius Williams, 20, from Mt. Vernon, and Demonta Woodward, 26, from Mounds, were identified as the individuals killed in the July 27 incident.
Jerria J. Smith, 22, from Mt. Vernon, was arrested and charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm and obstruction of justice.
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Amish again.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 11:19 PM (/lPRQ)
People should mourn how they want to mourn. It’s a very personal decision. Maybe the husband was a great guy worth mourning. Maybe he was a scumbag and cheater and the widow is relieved he’s dead.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 11:00 PM (2RdRx)
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The tradition in that case was to wear a bikini and stiletto heels.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2025 11:19 PM (dDmld)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:19 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 27, 2025 11:20 PM (1pY2R)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:44 PM (0eaVi)
Can truthfully say I've never seen that tacky behavior.
'Adjust Uncle Fred's tie, Helen, it's a little off to the side.'
Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2025 11:21 PM (gKDq2)
They can accelerate the progression if they are ready to be back on the market. Trick for the men I'd to be there when the first flash of color appears.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 11:21 PM (/lPRQ)
Either that or Chicago is spreading like ... what? I don't want to go there. Sorry to hear the news
(Writing from Crook County, IL)
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 11:21 PM (Q9/+7)
Posted by: After Midnight at July 27, 2025 11:16 PM (G5+As)
"A mass shooting is typically defined as an incident where four or more people are shot and either killed or injured, excluding the shooter"
So yes, a mass shooting.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 11:22 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: French Jeton at July 27, 2025 11:23 PM (j0T5y)
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You have to have something cheerful to put in with the annual Christmas letter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2025 11:23 PM (dDmld)
Progs are fleeing the US because they're afraid of the government arresting them for their opinions and going to Europe, where governments arrest people for their opinions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 11:23 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 11:24 PM (6ecJK)
She gave us kids little black plastic pins to wear,
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2025 11:25 PM (eZ5tL)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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LOL, here.
Pun-of-the night
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2025 11:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:26 PM (w3u3d)
(Writing from Crook County, IL)
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 11:21 PM (Q9/+7)
We do get some Chicago riffraff because of the Big Muddy River Correctional Center.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 11:26 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 11:26 PM (sPQoU)
Not much "correcting" going on, amirite?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 11:28 PM (6ecJK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 11:28 PM (6ecJK)
Exactly. Crazy thing is, the college is right across the interstate from the prison. I don't know who thought that was a smart idea.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 11:32 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Forest Lawn at July 27, 2025 10:51 PM (G5+As)
Fucking primitives.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 27, 2025 11:32 PM (snZF9)
We do get some Chicago riffraff ...
We usually just put ours back on the streets two or three times before actually prosecuting them. By the time you get 'em, they're pretty nasty.
None of us in the family go into the city any longer. I had a wonderful time coming to IL and working in Streeterville for 15 years, but no ... I wouldn't risk the parking lots or the sidewalks today. Michigan Ave has something like a 25-30% vacancy rate. It's incredibly sad.
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 11:32 PM (Q9/+7)
https://tinyurl.com/shootilli
Posted by: Joyenz
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In the carousel of clips, one titled 'food insecurity' highlighted fat people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 11:33 PM (I7b3/)
Johnnie, Johnnie?”
Ask my Colonel, for I don’t know,
Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha!
We broke a King and we built a road—
A court-house stands where the reg’ment goed.
And the river’s clean where the raw blood flowed
When the Widow give the party.
(Bugle: Ta—rara—ra-ra-rara!)
https://tinyurl.com/snxkdh84
Posted by: andycanuck at July 27, 2025 11:34 PM (2yoRf)
Posted by: French Jeton
>My 90 year old grandparents, at that time, bought plots and headstones way in advance of their demise. They took a group photo with just their chins, heads up, resting on the headstones looking at the camera.
Damn funny shit!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 11:35 PM (ZYql3)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
And the loving family paid a stiff price for them, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
What's with all the grave looks? Smile a little!
You know, you're the fourth family I've shot this mourning!
You! With the scythe! Stand up straight!
Posted by: a daguerreotypist, trying to lighten the mood at July 27, 2025 11:36 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 11:37 PM (hIY2p)
Damn funny shit!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Did they say something like:
Edith Wishbone
1863 - T.B.D.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 11:37 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Estee Lauder at July 27, 2025 11:38 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 11:38 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:26 PM (w3u3d)
The Sarsaparilla's fine. Don't worry.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:38 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Joyenz
Something, something, school-to-prison pipeline.
And the blue-haired, tatted, and gauged co-eds don't have far to go to find the man of their dreams.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 11:40 PM (DgGvY)
1863 - T.B.D.
Posted by: mikeski
>Edna and Vladimir Wishbone
1900 -
No T.B.D. That came later.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 11:40 PM (ZYql3)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
What's with all the grave looks? Smile a little!
You know, you're the fourth family I've shot this mourning!
You! With the scythe! Stand up straight!
Posted by: a daguerreotypist, trying to lighten the mood at July 27, 2025 11:36 PM (DgGvY)
Mourning has broken
Like the first mourrrrningggggg
Posted by: Cat Stevens at July 27, 2025 11:42 PM (mP0Kj)
Essentially, if a beloved family member passed (and it was usually children), they'd do a family photo with the corpse dressed up and proper in an effort to make it look like they were alive and posing. This went on for over 50 years (mid 1800's to early 1900's).
The only thing I can think of is that the gauche nature of the act was overcome by the novelty of such a new medium (photography)...and they got a bit carried away.
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2025 11:42 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 27, 2025 11:43 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 11:43 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Joyenz
Something, something, school-to-prison pipeline.
And the blue-haired, tatted, and gauged co-eds don't have far to go to find the man of their dreams.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 11:40 PM (DgGvY)
UC Merced, major Fed Prison 4 miles from campus... plus 3 more prisons in the County.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 11:43 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:46 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 11:43 PM (mP0Kj)
Entering my state from the south shows a sign just across the border: Welcome Center, 1 mile. A mile down the road: No hitch hiking, prison area.
I think it's the same building.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:46 PM (0eaVi)
But seriously it just floors me how so many states have senators that are so far off the mark with respect to their states. Historically, not that long ago, there were clear limits on what was possible politically, because politicians had to answer to the people of their state. Gradually, along the way, in recent years any accountability was practically severed. I don’t see much representation going on. Or put another way, clearly their constituents are the lobbyists and other interests. Not the citizenry.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2025 11:49 PM (uywL/)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 27, 2025 11:46 PM (w3u3d)
Thanks for the drink.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:50 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2025 11:50 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 11:43 PM (hIY2p)
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Maybe. It's disturbing. You can bring up hundreds of these family photos by doing a search. And, they look just like a family photo, until you look a little closer and notice one of them has their eyes closed. Some, inadvertently, come across as absolutely sinister.
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2025 11:50 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bulg at July 27, 2025 11:52 PM (77rzZ)
I think it's the same building.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:46 PM (0eaVi)
When I grew up here, Merced Counties two primary employers were the Air Force (a SAC base) and Agriculture... plus lots of folks worked at the printing plant that printed TV Guides.
Now the industry with most employees? The Prison system, followed by 'Health Care', and 'Office and Administrative'.
So we went from defense and making shit, to just taking care of people... not sure how that is sustainable.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 11:53 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 11:40 PM (DgGvY)
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hey, hey, hey
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 11:54 PM (I7b3/)
The Senate destroyed itself in the 70's, when they changed the Filibuster rules... it used to be during a Filibuster all business stopped... nothing happened during a filibuster... no votes at all, so it doing it had consequences to OTHER things you wanted to get done.
Now they have the 'silent filibuster'... where they continue with other business.
change the rule back.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 11:56 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 11:53 PM (mP0Kj)
Information is clean! We don't want dirty jobs! They're icky and meant for those (shudder) low class people. Ewwww.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:57 PM (0eaVi)
Now they have the 'silent filibuster'... where they continue with other business.
change the rule back.
Posted by: Romeo13
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That and popular election of senators.
Bring back their appointment by the State government and serving at the State's pleasure.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 11:59 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 28, 2025 12:01 AM (lhenN)
The newspaper uncritically published the “food desert” nonsense. The only color grocery stores care about is green. If they can’t make it work, they won’t. “Did not meet performance expectations” is the common refrain. A local entrepreneur borrowed lots of money, tax breaks, grants from the city. Gonna show us how it’s done. Took like 5 years to get it built, delays and delays. After much fanfair, the new grocery debuted, along with the usual diatribe how fucked up Whitey is. Within 6 months, they had a temporary “pause” due to wholesalers or supplier problems. Uh-huh. Closed down within 9 months. And everyone bitching that the Hy-Vee had shuttered a few months before. What could it be, those “performance expectations”? One wonders.
We were assured, that someone is looking at the now closed property, and wants to invest in it, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2025 12:02 AM (uywL/)
Bring back their appointment by the State government and serving at the State's pleasure.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 11:59 PM (/lPRQ)
No they say, clutching their pearls. It might lead to corrupt cabals controlling the levers of power, without any need to be concerned about the will of the electorate!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2025 12:03 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2025 12:07 AM (9Tdlv)
Just got back home. They admitted her to the hospital -- with platelets that low, well, it's a wonder she didn't have a stroke.
Last blood work a couple weeks ago, the count was 82K, and had been slowly lowering over the past 1.5 years. Apparently, the bottom fell out within the past couple of weeks.
"ITP" is the preliminary diagnosis. Massive steroid dose and something else will be the treatment. They're going to transfer her to Greenville Memorial, as they don't have any hematologists and related down here.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2025 12:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2025 12:11 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 28, 2025 12:15 AM (1paM0)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:15 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:20 AM (I7b3/)
But he was the only actually talented satirical/political musical guy I am aware of in my lifetime. There are individual things here/there, but his stuff was impressive.
"Some say the Germans, are war-like, and mean
But that couldn't happen, again
We taught them a lesson, in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then"
(written in the mid-1960s, song was "MLF Lullaby")
Posted by: rhomboid at July 28, 2025 12:20 AM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Big families. They knew some would not make it to be adults.
As noted above, it may be the only photo they have.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 28, 2025 12:23 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat
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YIKES!!!
Glad I'm off duty tonight!
*shivers*
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2025 12:26 AM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/80x9VmS0krQ?si=2i6OLFmsVmuj7yQa
Posted by: Smoot-Hawley at July 28, 2025 12:37 AM (/XasI)
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2025 12:38 AM (rdVOm)
Isn't it funny how "The Clinton Plan" intel was omitted from:
1-the FISA applications
2-the ICA
3-Warner's SSCI report; and,
4-from all of Brennan's and Comey's testimony on the Hill
Why? Because it exposed Russiagate as the political op it was -- and one that they were ALL in on
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:44 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:49 AM (I7b3/)
All her other blood values are fine and dandy, it's just crazy low platelets. "ITP" = Immune Thrombocytopenia something, is autoimmune, an immune attack on the platelets. That's what it looks like at least at first blush.
She was showing what I now realize was spontaneous bruising over about the past two or three weeks. She'd have a new bruise. She's had paper thin skin for years in her old age, and any little bangs and bumps would do that. But she couldn't remember bumping anything. And then this nose bleed developed.
So whatever it is, her platelet count just fell off a cliff over the past couple weeks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 28, 2025 12:50 AM (w6EFb)
Finally gone at age 97. "He was still alive?"
Appropriately, some classic Lehrer:
We Will All Go Together When We Go
https://youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs
Posted by: mindful webworker - occidental orientation at July 27, 2025 10:01 PM (f+yIF)
I can still sing all the verses to Rickety Tickety Tin.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2025 12:50 AM (1Gsou)
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How many demonstrations against him have we not heard about?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:51 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Does she like liver and onions?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:52 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:49 AM (I7b3/)
The Blue Origin News Show, from Outer Los Angeles.
Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2025 12:57 AM (gKDq2)
I should just stick to reading ONT.
Be sure to watch to the end. 😜🐰
https://youtu.be/cdoWYPdblTc
But now, g'nite, y'all.
💤
Posted by: mindful webworker - suite dreams at July 28, 2025 12:58 AM (f+yIF)
https://tinyurl.com/rekFeelinGoodAgain
I also noticed when my children were very small that people that would otherwise maybe only scowl at me would be all googly-eyed and hapoy talking to the baby or the toddler in my lap. It was nice to see people's good side for a change.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 01:04 AM (vd6bO)
The Blue Origin News Show, from Outer Los Angeles.
Posted by: RickZ
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Bilingual weather girls; Mexican and Brazilian.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:05 AM (I7b3/)
I’m reading a great book tangentially related, sort of, “109 East Palace”, about Oppenheimer and the Los Alamos secret site for physicists. I’m thinking of the “what if” scenarios, if Germany had not detoured into anti-semitism and driven off the great scientists, it is at least possible Werner’s rockets could have been nuclear tipped. The concept was borne there of fast fission, and the potential for enormously powerful weapons. Nobody was quite certain it was possible, but the thinking went America better get cracking.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2025 01:10 AM (0OORa)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:17 AM (I7b3/)
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Rather Trump focus on Brazil/Lula than Ukraine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:19 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:17 AM (I7b3/)
Not a Russian Trawler?
(talk about flash back memories).
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2025 01:20 AM (mP0Kj)
Isn't it funny how "The Clinton Plan" intel was omitted from:
1-the FISA applications
2-the ICA
3-Warner's SSCI report; and,
4-from all of Brennan's and Comey's testimony on the Hill
Why? Because it exposed Russiagate as the political op it was -- and one that they were ALL in on
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 12:44 AM (I7b3/)
Interesting Doc in the last Epstein Doc Dump... seems when he was getting his first Sweetheart deal with the DOJ, he submitted a legal document saying he was a 'FOUNDER" of the Clinton Global Initiative...
Submitted to show what an upstanding Citizen he was... and it apparently worked.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 28, 2025 01:23 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Braenyard
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We cannot do everything with ballons, roundeye.
Posted by: Xi at July 28, 2025 01:24 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 28, 2025 01:28 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 01:29 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: JQ at July 28, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 28, 2025 01:45 AM (6ecJK)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 28, 2025 01:47 AM (vd6bO)
Love that Croce tune he could really tug the heartstrings.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2025 01:53 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: toby928 at July 28, 2025 01:54 AM (jc0TO)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2025 01:56 AM (RIvkX)
Samsung currently makes AI4.
TSMC will make AI5, which just finished design, initially in Taiwan and then Arizona
Samsung agreed to allow Tesla to assist in maximizing manufacturing efficiency.
This is a critical point, as I will walk the line personally to accelerate the pace of progress. And the fab is conveniently located not far from my house 😃
_Elon Musk@elonmusk . 2h
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:59 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2025 02:00 AM (RIvkX)
Harmeet Dhillon is calling it a racial hate crime. Musk comments.
@elonmusk . 8h
Why zero stories?
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 02:07 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 02:08 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: torabora at July 28, 2025 02:11 AM (WTo7d)
Posted by: Miklos at July 28, 2025 02:15 AM (lenBr)
Thirty-six seconds of an interview with her.
https://tinyurl.com/5n799vnk
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 02:16 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2025 02:00 AM (RIvkX)
Loosing people sucks. I'm still mourning.
MIL in 2018
Uncle in 2019
His son in 2020
My Dad, 2021
My Mom, 2022
My wife, FIL, Aunt, 2024
Another Uncle, 2025 (so far)
I guess that makes 2023 a good year, relatively speaking?
I'm down to one uncle and one aunt left (brother and sister of my Mom), and my siblings and their kids, and my kids.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2025 02:21 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2025 02:24 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2025 02:25 AM (ynpvh)
On this day in 1993, a man named Vince Foster went to Fort Marcey Park and shot himself multiple times in the back of his head to avoid testifying against Hillary Clinton.
His suicide note was 2 pages long and didn't mention himself or his family but was an attempt to exonerate the Clintons from their accused crimes.
A .38 caliber antique (untraceable) pistol was found in his right hand. Vince Foster was left handed.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 02:26 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2025 02:26 AM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2025 02:28 AM (ynpvh)
Jul 26
I have another Bill Clinton story.
When my assignment as the Air Force Aide was done, I had a farewell ceremony in the Oval Office with my fellow military aide brothers from the other services.
My wife, Nichole, was invited to attend as well. She’s a young, leggy, beautiful California blonde. When we walked into the Oval, Clinton basically eye-raped her. I thought, “Man, really? On my last day? And my wife?” He is a bona fide male slut.
She didn’t notice but I did. I’m still furious
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@AnnAhmericanJul 26 . Replying to @BuzzPatterson
Just like he did Ivanka and Melania at Trump's first inauguration. If anyone ever doubted Bill Clinton's perversions seeing that video was all the proof needed to know the rumors are true. It was gross, he literally licked his lips with Hillary giving him the death stare.
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Replying to @AnnAhmerican @BuzzPatterson
Here's the video for context https://tinyurl.com/2s3ppm34
(I don't do facebook and it worked for me - had to click the x)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 02:38 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:17 AM (I7b3/)
Researching how much fish and crabs they can steal before someone chases them out. And that's the most optimistic scenario.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2025 02:39 AM (pIfcn)
Have a good evening and a nice nap, Monday morning's rolling up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 02:39 AM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 28, 2025 01:17 AM (I7b3/)
Researching how much fish and crabs they can steal before someone chases them out. And that's the most optimistic scenario.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2025 02:39 AM (pIfcn)
Coasties invited them to cordially fuck right off.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 28, 2025 03:12 AM (1Gsou)
Chinese agents have been operating in American Universisities and Corporations.
This was done more or less with the complicity if not the permission of the Democrat Party.
The American Democrat Party is the biggest criminal conspiracy ever conceived.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 28, 2025 03:45 AM (vzCvX)
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 03:48 AM (rZthd)
Have a great rest of the night everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2025 03:59 AM (rZthd)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 28, 2025 04:01 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: m at July 28, 2025 04:32 AM (aURVT)
Gun Thread: Late July Edition!
More Cleaning! With our pal GunBlue490.
Navy Ball Bearings For Quiet Operation! We had a good time with thrust bearings last week, so let's beat a good thing to death.
Walt Disney and Camoflage
Our Pal Nitrogen Triiodide
Highway Patrol This week's episode: Prospector.
Island of Lost Women! OK, which one of you clowns lost the women?!
The Who with Eminence Front. NOTE: It's a put on.
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Famous-smoke.com
Cigarsdaily.com
Neptunecigar.com
Smallbatchcigar.com
Bobalu Cigar Company
Cigarbid.com
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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(Jump to bottom of comments)Good Sunday evening, gub 'ettes and 'rons, and a special made-it-to-the-range-and-practiced-fundamentals greeting to our host Weasel! More detail to follow on my first range session in ... forever.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 07:00 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:00 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2025 07:00 PM (oI2Vm)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:01 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2025 07:02 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:03 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: TRex - are there door prizes at this party? at July 27, 2025 07:03 PM (IQ6Gq)
Thanks again, Weasel. Extended range report to follow.
Actually, there are two range reports.
I've finally decided my reloading super power isn't original mistakes.
Rather, it's my ability to make all of the mistakes.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:03 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Rancherbob at July 27, 2025 07:03 PM (vWpsl)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:04 PM (HFcKg)
How goes the vacation Weasel? Or have you finally admitted that you are on permanent holiday?
No range report. Might take a trip to the range Monday or Tuesday. Methinks I will only concentrate on handgun.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 07:05 PM (Jm6kM)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 07:05 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 07:05 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:05 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:04 PM (HFcKg)
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I find that by carefully pacing myself I can meet the high demands that retirement presents.
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:06 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 07:06 PM (Jm6kM)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 27, 2025 07:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
Maybe we'll get a FSJ & Gertie sitrep this week.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:07 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at July 27, 2025 07:07 PM (vYBmu)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 27, 2025 07:07 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:07 PM (tT6L1)
Just be sure to avoid terminal mistakes!
Posted by: Rancherbob at July 27, 2025 07:08 PM (vWpsl)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:07 PM (0sNs1)
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I can probably handle that!
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:08 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:09 PM (HFcKg)
No shooting recently, and probably very limited in the near future. Maybe one handed - Little slip Tuesday evening and I’ve got 2 cut tendons on the back of my left hand. Repair is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 12:45. Any prayers gratefully accepted.
Thank you GunHorde and Weasel.
Posted by: Coelacanth at July 27, 2025 07:09 PM (CZjwE)
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:10 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen
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Any of you searching for rain, it's all on Rt 68 in WV. Absolutely hideous weather, regardless of time of day or season. Especially Morgantown, WV. Avoid at all costs.
Posted by: The Grateful at July 27, 2025 07:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Bang-bang, shooting like a firing squad
Big guns, she blew me away
And I went down in flames
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 07:11 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 27, 2025 07:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
If they'd learn to read a map, they wouldn't be lost. Right, guys? And they wouldn't have to ask directions, either.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 07:12 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 27, 2025 07:12 PM (eB3sS)
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Ouch! You, and your medical team, will be in my prayers. Hope it goes smoothly and your recovery is quick and uneventful
Posted by: The Grateful at July 27, 2025 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)
Threw another 50 rounds down range on my newly acquired 1911.
It’s an amazing pistol. Unlike anything I’ve ever shot. Can’t wait to get more rounds down range.
Finished with the Ruger Mark IV. I enjoy finishing an intense range visit with my .22. His name is George. I love George.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:13 PM (g+HUj)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 27, 2025 07:12 PM
It's certainly been downhill since the M1911A1.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (0sNs1)
I am not sure I can believe that a gun this widely distributed would not have a significantly larger number of accidents associated with it.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (qQfd5)
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
I'm back in Babylon DC. Meh
Actually got some range time up in Amish Country. Not very long, unfortunately but enough to get the red dot line up with my S&W FPC .9mm. I really liked it. Easy to shoot and mostly center mass (only 25 ft). Time was against me as my friend had something to do that night. Shot the .357 to. Fun, just not long enough. There is a range that is 'easy' to get to near me. Down the street, about 20-30 minutes, depending on traffic. It's just traffic sucks here and its hard to get anywhere. May drop by this week and see if I can get an hour. I'm not a member. I can buy ammo if I can't get shooting time.
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by pew pew at July 27, 2025 07:15 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 27, 2025 07:12 PM (eB3sS)
Yes, they are bad. Very, very bad. If you have one, you should immediately send it to me for proper disposal.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 07:15 PM (4rENN)
It’s an amazing pistol. Unlike anything I’ve ever shot. Can’t wait to get more rounds down range.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:13 PM
Did you follow CBD's advice to get it in 9mm?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:16 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (BCwQW)
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No kidding. Ridiculous!! I'm installing a fan on the deck.
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:17 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:17 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax"
What?? Is that what they do in France?
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 07:17 PM (vFG9F)
I saw that movie decades after its release as a little kid. When they landed on the island with three babes and no other men, I thought ‘shit, that sucks.’
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 07:18 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:19 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:20 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:21 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:19 PM (HFcKg)
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This is probably a 18 inch fan and I bought an adjustable bracket so it can be pointed directly on me and no one else.
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:22 PM (tmCNn)
I am not sure I can believe that a gun this widely distributed would not have a significantly larger number of accidents associated with it.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (qQfd5)
See Ian McCollum's (Forgotten Weapons YT channel) take on this. I agree w/ him that SIG now has a bigger PR problem than engineering problem on its hands. Even if SIG can rework the P320's action to eliminate the source of the discharges, the M17/M18 handguns might now have the same stigma attached to the M1892 Colt New Army/Navy revolvers in .38 Long Colt if its users lose faith in the pistol's safety. I think at some point US Army Ordinance will have little choice but to reopen the Modular Handgun System contract again given what's happened. Congress might not give them any choice about the matter.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:23 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:21 PM (HFcKg)
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Nurse is easy to distract. Just offer to let her shoot a pistol she has yet to try. Though, there is the whole, "Darn you, I can't afford to keep buying more guns" complaint one might hear.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:24 PM (tT6L1)
Seems that Epstein, when he got his sweetheart deal with the Feds, had given the Feds a Legal document claiming he was a 'Founder' of the Clinton Global Initiative... what was one reason he was given that deal.
Was part of the documents just released.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 07:24 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:19 PM (HFcKg)
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Portacool Apex 6500 for the win ….
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 07:24 PM (2RdRx)
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I almost included that vid this week! I can add it now if all y'all would like me to.
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:24 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Have you seen my sock? at July 27, 2025 07:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 07:17 PM
Not just France. Apparently, they're big fans of 9mm in most of Europe.
Rumor is that, having been exposed, CBD is becoming quite the aficionado of it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:23 PM (BCwQW)
Simpler, bring back the 1911 A1... machine it to modern specs and metallurgy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:27 PM (ZbDxc)
I am not sure I can believe that a gun this widely distributed would not have a significantly larger number of accidents associated with it.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (qQfd5)
The only P320 I have any trigger time on is the slide and FCU installed my B&T BWC-9 (concealable folding carbine). It's notable that the B&T user manual specifically states that the BWC-9 should NOT be carried with a round in the chamber.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:29 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:27 PM
Well, no "First!" for you, and yet *another* mark on your Permanent Record? Duuuude.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:30 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:30 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2025 07:30 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 07:31 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:32 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 07:26 PM
If by modern specs, you mean 'tighter', maybe not. One of the reasons for its looseness was to come up out of mud and function.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:32 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)
But... how'd they find the Island of Lost Womenz?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 07:32 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 27, 2025 07:32 PM (hOUT3)
I saw that movie decades after its release as a little kid. When they landed on the island with three babes and no other men, I thought ‘shit, that sucks.’
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 07:18 PM (2RdRx)
one of my favorite MST3k episodes is "Horrors of Spider Island." Written by a teenage boy, or an Italian man, or a teenage Italian boy.
Posted by: Mike the Narf at July 27, 2025 07:32 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:24 PM (tmCNn)
If not this week, then next week. As a choice made by DOD w/ taxpayer money, I think it's inevitable that Congress will get involved before too much longer. Which is where the PR issues will really come into play for SIG and its detractors.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:33 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:33 PM (tmCNn)
My Walther PPS (2, alas) shoots fine and conceals well, so no real reason to change
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 07:33 PM (Q9/+7)
The targets I scored at 7 yards:
Strong hand only: 18 pts. All to the left, mostly low.
Weak hand only: 36 pts. All to the right, some high, some low
Both hands, concentrate on grip and stance: 48 pts. One obvious flinch low and to the left
Both hands, fast fire on one breath: 56 pts. Actually two breaths, because the crap ammo I was trying to get rid of had a light primer strike failure from which I had to recover.
Both hands, breathe on each round: 53 pts. Another obvious flinch low and left
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 07:34 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:30 PM (0sNs1
Howsomever, I do have a Range Report in which I report that my ancestors no longer feel dishonored.
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:34 PM (ZbDxc)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:30 PM
SA, for example, has removed the magazine safety interlock, and improved the trigger. Still, the 'glass rod' feeling of a good 1911 trigger is hard to replicate.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:34 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:32 PM (HFcKg)
80 days of, “Please, Mrs. Red!”
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:35 PM (ZbDxc)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 07:35 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:35 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Coelacanth at July 27, 2025 07:09 PM (CZjwE)
Damn! Prayers started. One suggestion from someone who had tendons(ankle in my case) repaired: follow the rehab instructions that will come. It's easy to shield the damaged area but that will delay getting full function back.
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 07:36 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:35 PM (ZbDxc)
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Have you tried a shiny object or three as a bribe?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:37 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:30 PM (tT6L1)
Same here. The High Power is beautiful, but its trigger can't compare with the 1911
Posted by: That SOB Van Owen at July 27, 2025 07:37 PM (vYBmu)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:37 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 07:38 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 07:33 PM (Q9/+7)
I shot Ed L's CC9 last weekend and was very impressed with it. I may be a buyer in the very near future!
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 27, 2025 07:39 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
The fastest way to bring back the 1911 would be to put in a new delivery order on the USMC contract w/ Colt for the M45A1 (which is already type standardized and has an NSN number). As a practical matter, I think it'll be easier to simply drag M9s out of storage and reissue those.
The primary drawback of the M45A1 is its weight compared to the alternatives. It'll also cost more per gun than the M9 or Glock 19. Finally, .45 ACP is not a NATO standard caliber.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:39 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:35 PM (ZbDxc)
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Have you tried a shiny object or three as a bribe?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:37 PM (tT6L1)
That would come under “please Mrs. Red.”
I shall endeavor to please.
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:40 PM (ZbDxc)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:35 PM (tT6L1)
You're not wrong, sir. I always need the shame of a few low-'n-left rounds to get my head in the game.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 07:40 PM (v23vE)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 07:41 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:35 PM
You need to get DILIT to help you wear her down. We're expecting all of you.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 07:43 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 07:43 PM (v23vE)
I shot Ed L's CC9 last weekend and was very impressed with it. I may be a buyer in the very near future!
My buddy got his at a local "Farm" store and paid the advertised retail. In the big city, prices are crazy ... if you can even find one.
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 07:43 PM (Q9/+7)
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 07:44 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:13 PM
But do you squeeze him?
Posted by: The Abominable Snowman at July 27, 2025 07:46 PM (Wnv9h)
I got the load worked up, rifle is ridiculously accurate, which floors me, because, well, archaic round. Rifle, with proper loads, will shoot down around 1/2MOA. Once I got the load worked out, I headed out to get the dope for the 500 meter match, which I did.
The next day, headed to the match and, disaster. Took me a bit to get dialed in but, once I did, I started knocking things down. Perfect score, 5 of 5 @ 500 meters. I'm thinking, "great, this looks promising." Yeah, no. I couldn't believe it, I was missing at 300 meters and didn't figure out what I did wrong until the very end. I was dialing for 400 meters while shooting 300 meters. I just shook my head. Terrible 12 of 20 for the day, Conditions really weren't all that bad, unlike the guy behind the trigger. Ah well, so it goes.
By the way, it is a load of fun to hit a small steel object and send that sucker flying 10 feet up the berm with a 30 cal round.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:46 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 07:43 PM (Q9/+7)
Thanks for that tip, there's one of them not that far from me and it is a scenic drive!
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 27, 2025 07:46 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 07:43 PM (v23vE)
Are things really that bad? This is like the Corvair which was randomly targeting school children and turning over on them- the younger the better.
According to Ralph Nader.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 07:46 PM (bss/y)
With my backup rifle (Ruger Precision Rimfire) and old ammo (Eley Tenex at least two years old and out of the daily lineup), I managed to bring home the Golden .50 Cal cartridge at today’s Aspirin Massacre.
Did you know that a heavy downpour of rain will actually deflect 40 grain .22 bullets downward sufficient to miss far off steel?
Best news - that little brat 10 year old was not present.
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:47 PM (ZbDxc)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2025 07:47 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 07:43 PM (Q9/+7)
I saw two CC9's at the gun show I went to a week ago. Both were gone by noon on Saturday.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:48 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 07:43 PM (Wnv9h)
DILIT has a prospective Dallas trip this Fall. Maybe …
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:48 PM (ZbDxc)
Buds gun shop, among others, finally got the copy of the Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable 1911 in stock. Made by Tisas of Turkey, imported by SDS under their Military Armament Corp line, it is a clone of the upgraded 1911s issued to the USMC at the very end of their service life.
It has usable sights, Commander hammer, beavertail grip safety, ambi thumb safety, Pachmayr wrap around grips, and a lanyard loop, topped off with a "US Property" stamp. Importer markings are tiny, the finish is a very flat black wonder-coating, and it comes with two magazines.
If you are interested, search for "MEUSOC" as they are kind of hidden in the menu.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 07:49 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 07:49 PM (Q9/+7)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 07:41 PM (nVSDK)
I wrote that before seeing the writing on the roads or any clear road signs.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 07:49 PM (nVSDK)
Best news - that little brat 10 year old was not present.
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:47 PM (ZbDxc)
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Having been outshot by a 10 year old in the past, I feel your pain.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:50 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: YellowBird at July 27, 2025 07:51 PM (Q9/+7)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 27, 2025 07:53 PM (nKjbR)
Posted by: lin-duh at July 27, 2025 07:53 PM (nKjbR)
Only a matter of time...
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at July 27, 2025 07:53 PM (bss/y)
Mostly because after two shots, I wedged a rock under the leg of the shooting table.
Fundamentals, ya know.
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:55 PM (ZbDxc)
According to Ralph Nader.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 07:46 PM (bss/y)
That's the kind of stuff Ian McCollum is talking about with the P320's PR problem becoming a far bigger problem for SIG than the mechanical/engineering problem. It's not just a product problem anymore. It's a corporate reputation problem now. There's also a couple of You Tube vids from gunsmiths who will not accept P320s for any work, nor provide parts because they see the risk as far too great if any kind of unintended discharge happens (i.e. they think they'll become trial lawyer bait).
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 07:55 PM (BCwQW)
You see, I have an M18, and it’s close by. Funnily enough, the M9 is doing truck duty - when I am out and about it is in the console. (The G26 is my EDC.). So I’ll be monitoring this closely.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 07:55 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:47 PM (ZbDxc)
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Having been outshot by a 10 year old in the past, I feel your pain.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:50 PM
Somewhere, Spawn is lurking and laughing.
Posted by: The Abominable Snowman at July 27, 2025 07:55 PM (Wnv9h)
According to Ralph Nader.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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There have been reports among police and a dead airman allegedly from the failure. FBI investigated a cop p320 discharge and blamed it on the Sig. Part of the issue is the Sig design orginally was for a hammer fired pistol but that didn't sell nor did the military want that. So, they converted that model (Sig 250) to the striker fired Sig 320 (fwiw, the Sig 365 was a new design and supposedly does not have the problem.). So dunno.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 07:56 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 07:56 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:13 PM
But do you squeeze him?
Posted by: The Abominable Snowman
Yes.
And because .22 is so dirty, I clean George every 1000 rounds.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:56 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 07:57 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:50 PM
"Then the little bastard shot me in the ass!"
Posted by: The Waco Kid at July 27, 2025 07:57 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 07:57 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 07:59 PM (ZYql3)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:56 PM
.22lr *is* a dirty girl.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 07:59 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 07:47 PM (ZbDxc)
Evidently, the largest raindrop can be around 300mg. That translates to about 4 1/2 grains. At ~90 degrees to flight path, somewhere mid-flight. Moving almost 30fps.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 07:59 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
What am I…chopped liver?
Posted by: M9 at July 27, 2025 08:00 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:13 PM (g+HUj)
Nurse, is George the one that easily disassembles with a simple knob, rather than the profanity laden Ruger of old?
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 08:00 PM (ZbDxc)
The format of the shoot: Shooting order is determined by two 5 shoot groups, from there, targets @ 400, 600, 800 and 1,000 yards. I wound up second in the shooting order, with an average group size of .48.
My first 100 yard group was .6425, second .3225. Amusingly, my first group opened up, because I dropped a round dead center in the bull, with the other 4 clustered at the top of the bull.
That was the high point. I figured I should score quite well in the challenge, based on prior experience, and, instead, couldn't hit the broad side of a barn
I left, extremely disappointed with myself, figuring I'd really screwed up when dialing elevation. Turns out, I actually can blame the equipment. I later found out my scope was not tracking vertically. I sent the scope back to Leupold and, a week after receiving the scope, sent me an email advising it would take up to 6 weeks to repair the scope.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 08:02 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 08:02 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: RI Red
Yes.
I love to service George at the desk in the guest room looking out on the water and enjoying the salty breeze from the Sound.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 08:03 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 07:59 PM (nVSDK)
GWB, we were discussing that subject today. All I remember is shooting Junior’s Winchester Super Short Magnum .223 going 4,000 fps. In rain or high humidity, it left circular smoke rings. Tres cool.
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 08:04 PM (ZbDxc)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 08:04 PM (vm8sq)
Developing...
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 08:05 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2025 08:05 PM (gm9Sb)
I love to service George at the desk in the guest room looking out on the water and enjoying the salty breeze from the Sound.
Posted by: nurse ratched
>I see. And what are you wearing? Tell us more...
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 08:05 PM (ZYql3)
What did you think I meant.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 08:05 PM (mT+6a)
Glock was declared DAO by the ATF and voila, cops in Miami got Glocks (Glock story from Massad Ayoob).
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:06 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 07:13 PM (g+HUj)
Like this?
https://shorturl.at/BEp2S
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 08:06 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 07:57 PM (ctrM5)
That's what I heard too. I want to hear what the USAF investigation has to say about this. Makes sense that security squadron folks would have their sidearms in Condition 1. Only part of the story I have a question about is if this took place inside, why wasn't the weapon cleared? Back in my day, all weapons had to be cleared at the clearing barrel before going inside, especially at the MP HQ/security squadron HQ buildings.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 08:06 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 08:06 PM (AOsQT)
Developing...
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 08:05 PM (jc0TO)
They are gay and their shit is all retarded.
Plus, the government is just flat out evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 08:06 PM (bss/y)
I wasn't smart enough to remember Weasel had advised me of a tracking test and, I still thought Leupold would get back to me and say something along the lines of, "Umm, we're not seeing an issue."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 08:08 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: M9 at July 27, 2025 08:00 PM (vm8sq)
In the eyes of practically all of the senior NCOs I knew, "yes."
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 08:08 PM (BCwQW)
About done filling the 30 carbine can, then 30-06. With the long days we do hope to do some after-hours shooting at the club, now that the border situation is much improved.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 08:10 PM (ollJN)
Posted by: Romeo13
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Why? Single action requires considerable training or a cop can get killed by not swiping off the safety at the time. Most cops are not gun guys and thus it was always the elites among cops that used 1911's if permitted like the Texas Rangers, the Stakeout Squad of NYPD, etc.
FWIW, easier to train trigger discipline on Glocks than operating a single action cocked and locked to casual shooters. I know how to use a 1911 or a BHP (which I did used to carry cocked and locked) but I choose purposefully not to carry one for safety--that is because I haven't put the time into the training necessary and I also need a firearm that can be picked up by my wife and shot if necessary.
The military got around the 1911 training requirement by requiring empty chambers for the regular soldiers not in a wartime situation.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:11 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2025 08:11 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2025 08:11 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 07:32 PM (mP0Kj)
It was right there on the map.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 08:12 PM (nVSDK)
https://shorturl.at/BEp2S
Posted by: GWB
Zackly!
But seriously. After a focused session, it’s nice to end with my .22 pistol. No recoil. Hits the center of the target on its own. Nice to decompress and enjoy.
Because my shooting is very focused. I put pressure on myself to do well. When I pull a shot, I correct it. If I can be super disciplined in a controlled situation and have groups on the 3-5 inch range, hopefully that muscle memory takes over and I can hit the target under stress without thinking. That’s why you concentrate so hard at the line.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 08:13 PM (jVgYq)
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:11 PM (ctrM5)
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Yeah, if I were going to issue pistols as a sidearm, I'd go with a Glock, due to simplicity, I say this as a 1911 guy. But, I've put in the hours needed to be proficient with the platform.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 08:14 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Ed L
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I think the shooting was at Warren AFB in Wyoming and missile officers carry loaded (or did last time I was in) if down in the missile launch bunker. AFAIK, they haven't identified the victim nor indicated if there was a witness to the AD.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:14 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 07:37 PM (tT6L1)
Find a jeweler down there near Corsicana....
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 08:15 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 08:16 PM (ZYql3)
Low rent rendezvous.”
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 08:17 PM (qEeiR)
Low rent rendezvous.”
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 08:17 PM (qEeiR)
Love, under fire.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 08:18 PM (bss/y)
Astonishing.
Mark 14 torpedo-level scandalous, though obviously far less consequential.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 08:18 PM (ollJN)
BTW a lot of people are carrying the M17/18 in Condition One some of them downrange and there hasn’t been an issue. That’s called a clue.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 27, 2025 08:20 PM (nIMb3)
Posted by: blake
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Training budgets for small arms fire have always been way less than is needed for excellent proficiency among the rank and file. Then suddenly a war is on and we have to relearn how to train soldiers to shoot all over again.
Cold War attitudes were that artillery, nukes, and aerial bombs and missiles would kill most personnel so why spend a bunch of time training and money people to shoot well. Kind of a callous, they will either learn to shoot in war pretty quickly or someone will shoot them.
When war gaming the whole defense structure on fighting in Europe against the Warsaw Pact, they did not see improving the individual survival rate of their men as useful when massive casualties were expected from non small arms fire. Cold hearted buggers.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:20 PM (ctrM5)
Tried out .38 Super with it, but it couldn't eject a live round, so I never made it to the range with it. I poked around a bit, and it turned out that to really pull off the 9mm/38 Super dual capability, I'd need to shorten the ejector and do some filing on the breechface.
I could not bear to do that on this nice pistol, and here I was stuck with a case of .38 Super. A sensible person would have sold it. Instead, I found a good deal on a used Dan Wesson PM-38.
It turns out I really like shooting .38 Super. Like 9mm, but with an extra thump. But...
PMC 9mm: ~$260/case
PMC .38 Super: ~$490/case
I have only myself to blame for this predicament.
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 08:22 PM (7T/7v)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 27, 2025 08:23 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 27, 2025 08:24 PM (nIMb3)
I am not sure I can believe that a gun this widely distributed would not have a significantly larger number of accidents associated with it.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (qQfd5)
This is an interesting watch (no need to watch the whole thing).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOMQOtOQoPk
There is definitely a mystery, especially about exactly the point you raise. but there do seem to be some possible vulnerabilities in the design.
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 08:26 PM (7T/7v)
I might drop off a couple of long guns on consignment. The problem with grabbing "good deals" is you eventually run out of room in the gun safe.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 08:26 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:20 PM (ctrM5)
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I think the old Soviet Union was even more cold blooded. Canon fodder was their way of war. I suspect they'd have been more than happy to drive their troops across a radioactive wasteland.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 08:27 PM (tT6L1)
Astonishing.
Mark 14 torpedo-level scandalous, though obviously far less consequential.
Posted by: rhomboid
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It happens--the initial Beretta 92 issued to troops had problems with the locking blocks (really wedge shapped) failing at relatively low round counts. S&W changed the older original longer revolver action in its revolvers to a shorter one in part because a Victory Model M&P revolver fell on the hammer and discharged killing a sailor IIRC.
I am also a bit suspicious of MIM parts but have no idea whether or now that might be one of the issues. Smith had an awful time with those in the 90's as they were suddenly struggling to keep their market share from Glock's challenge.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:27 PM (ctrM5)
Astonishing.
Mark 14 torpedo-level scandalous, though obviously far less consequential.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 08:18 PM (ollJN)
I suggest viewing Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons earlier vid about the P320 (the one before the one in the tonight's thread). He points out that the Army decided to cut the testing regimen short as a cost saving measure (saving well over $100 million according to the Army). That's why Glock sued the Army; their argument was that the Army made its selection on an abbreviated process not called out in the program requirements. The courts didn't see it Glock's way; the courts basically said the Army had the right to manage its procurement effort as it saw fit. It's a long story. I suggest watching that Forgotten Weapons video to get a better understanding of how the Modular Handgun System contract was handled by US Army Ordinance.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 08:28 PM (BCwQW)
PMC 9mm: ~$260/case
PMC .38 Super: ~$490/case
I have only myself to blame for this predicament.
Posted by: Splunge
38 Super is about on part with the famed 357 Magnum revolver with its 125 gr JHP as far as self defense. I am purposefully ignoring the race gun loads used in 38 Super with compensators.
I think Colt developed the 38 Super for law enforcement as older cartridges were having problems penetrating car doors etc.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:31 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 07:56 PM (Wnv9h)
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And RMBS continues with the self-inflicted wounds....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 08:31 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 27, 2025 08:32 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: blake
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I think that is still true of most armies on the globe that are not Western.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:32 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:27 PM (ctrM5)
The M1911 was bedeviled during its first years of production by its magazines cracking under use. It took nearly two years for the Army and Colt to figure out the specifications (and some new technology to make the sheet steel required) to fix the problem. The magazine release catch also posed problems because JMB never intended for pistol users to remove this part. This also required a redesign from the Army and Colt.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 08:34 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2025 08:34 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Puddleglum
Some of those older firearms have Damascus steel barrels and not safe for modern loads. Some were awkwardly converted to fire longer shells too as somewhere in the 20's, the standard shot gun shell was slightly shorter 2 9/16 std instead of the modern 2 3/4.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:35 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 08:36 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: blake
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I think that is still true of most armies on the globe that are not Western.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:32 PM (ctrM5)
"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
Josef Stalin
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 08:36 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Ed L
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It probably helped that the Army was very small at the time and foreign hostilities were at a lull before 1917. Testing in some ways unless you are using COTS, should always start with a few units first before rolling it out to the rest of the folks.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:38 PM (ctrM5)
I think Ben Stoeger put it up on his Instagram, and some say his version is somewhat less redacted than the one put up by the guy who FOIAd the report. He's been following this closely. He's not a technical gun guy, just a really good shooter and instructor, but he has tons of contacts and loves a good drama. "There has been another Sigcident."
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 08:38 PM (7T/7v)
Yea, my friend wants to check all that out. Might wind up being decoration in my sister's place.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 27, 2025 08:39 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Marcus T
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Eh, in Air Force, I preferred my S&W Model 15 revolvers. Was still in when the transition to Berettas occurred. Did not care for the Beretta as it was too damn big for me to shoot as accurately.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:40 PM (ctrM5)
freedommunitions.com
Posted by: Dan at July 27, 2025 08:40 PM (b7MbH)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 27, 2025 08:31 PM
Shaming my ancestors this week. Almost as much as using 9mm.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 08:41 PM (Wnv9h)
whig I thought the 92 had a slide-cracking issue as well, or some metallurgy issue, in the civilian version.
Trying to understand how $100M would be needed to evaluate a handgun (and this was just part of the total, I guess).
Also trying to understand how a simple and rigorous safety standard - the gun won't fire by itself, and is drop-safe - wouldn't be covered in oh, say, the first 2% of any evaluation regimen.
But hey compared to Navy shipbuilding, the 320 sounds like the Apollo program, minus #3.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 08:41 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:31 PM (ctrM5)
Interesting, and unexpected. I have shot .357 Magnum, and the recoil seems an order of magnitude above .38 Super.
You're referring to .38 Super Comp. It had not occurred to me that this might have something to do with compensators; I'd have guessed "competition." Apparently it has a slightly differently-shaped casing, because .38 Super Auto sometimes misbehaves in the double-stack magazines used in competition.
Before I got it sorted out, I bought a box. Can I shoot it in my PM-38? Apparently that is a question with no answer, or, rather, an answer of "it might work, and it might not. If it does not, you will need a second extractor tuned for that case."
I've been doing enough trashy simulations of gunsmithing in my garage that that actually sounds like a fun answer.
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 08:43 PM (7T/7v)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 08:44 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2025 08:11 PM (gm9Sb)
I understand that they were all scrapped because the majority were worn out. But the USAF didn't retire them all at once. The last Model 15's didn't get their retirement papers from the USAF inventory until 2021 when the schoolhouse said goodbye to them for the M18.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 08:44 PM (BCwQW)
Yea, my friend wants to check all that out. Might wind up being decoration in my sister's place.
Posted by: Puddleglum
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Unfortunately apart from destructive testing, you really cannot 'test' Damascus steel to see if it has flaws. Magnafluxing might indicate external cracks but you need xray testing for soundness.
Personally, I would honor its condition leaving it unshot as those were relatively cheap imported firearms from Belgium at the time. They often were loaded with black powder shotgun shells for the oldest ones as well as shorter shotgun shells that I noted above.
Even experts get nailed by really old guns at times--one guy shooting a Lee Navy 6mm (had a rather unique locking mechanism) was killed when it exploded on him. Guy was an expert in old firearms.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 08:46 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 08:44 PM (/lPRQ)
I had a friend in CA reach out for the best Internet ammo sources during this brief(?) blast of freedom. It had been so long since he'd been able to order, he had no idea where to start. I told him that Weasel's Gun Thread was always a quality first step.
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 08:46 PM (v23vE)
Astonishing.
Mark 14 torpedo-level scandalous, though obviously far less consequential.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 08:18 PM (ollJN)
>Not many situations say, "Step aside, let's colonize Mars with a slide rule."
It's humanity's can-do spirit and drive that gets shit done!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 08:48 PM (ZYql3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a1EkMAVUUI
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 08:49 PM (7T/7v)
Posted by: Ed L
"Modular Handgun System"... Tell me you are going to sole source it without telling me you are sole sourcing it...
Anyway, I guess Ruger's new brick is modular.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 08:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Fortunately I stocked up on any factory ammo I thought I'd need forever long before, and then again just prior, to the idiotic ammo law going into effect. And with a C&R + another stupid fingerprint/ID check thinggy, you still could get to-the-door delivery. Problem was mainly vendors not wanting to hassle understanding the law.
Interestingly, my junk email account is stuffed full of messages from vendors saying they'll now sell to CA again. Haven't bothered to check the substance of the 9th panel ruling, or the likelihood of CA seeking another bite via en banc review. Wondering if CA might have to game out whether to risk an en banc "victory" leading to a possible SCOTUS case, where a loss would of course cover the whole country.
This is whig territory.
In any case I haven't shot factory (aside from 54R Soviet-bloc surplus, and shotgun) in over a decade.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 08:50 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: RI Red at July 27, 2025 08:52 PM (7PD8l)
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 08:54 PM (tmCNn)
I think the old Soviet Union was even more cold blooded. Canon fodder was their way of war.
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"The enemy has your weapons. Go take them."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 08:55 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 08:56 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 08:41 PM (U/Byj)
The 1991 contract for the Offensive Handgun Weapons System (OHWS), which ultimately produced the H&K Mark 23 for SOCOM (a much smaller and more limited procurement effort than the MHS of the 2010s) was split into two phases:
Phase I: Colt and H&K each got $1.4 million for 30 pistols, suppressors, laser aiming modules, and technical support.
Phase II: After winning Phase I, H&K got $1.39 million for 30 more pistols, suppressors, and laser aimers incorporating government recommended changes from Phase I.
Phase III: -Production contract for the Mark 23.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 08:57 PM (BCwQW)
I want a car with a missile on the hood.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 08:58 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Pooklord at July 27, 2025 09:00 PM (asU3w)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 09:00 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Pooklord at July 27, 2025 09:02 PM (asU3w)
Posted by: Pooklord at July 27, 2025 09:04 PM (asU3w)
Anyway, I guess Ruger's new brick is modular.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 08:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Keep in mind that the Army intended for the M9 to be the "do it all" handgun everyone in DOD was supposed to use, replacing all the .38s and other 9mms out there. That didn't work very well, so the Army figured it'd try again w/ the MHS program to solve the problem of numerous non-standard handguns popping up in SOCOM, CID, NCIS, pilot bailout packs, and more. Simplifying logistics has been an Army holy grail for nearly 80 years, and the Army thought MHS would get them to the Promised Land. To be fair, SIG was the only competitor that actually met the Army's desire for a fire control unit with interchangeable frames. Everyone else already had one or two strikes against them in the MHS competition because of that.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 09:06 PM (BCwQW)
Ask them what safe loads and the chambering would be.
One of the problems is that sometimes via wear and setback, a 2 3/4 shotgun shell will chamber in the older shorter 2 9/16 chamber.
It will raise the pressure significantly if fired because of the constriction at the chamber's throat.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:07 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 09:00 PM (U/Byj)
Mark 23 mags new from H&K are going for about $85 new. They're not a cheap mag.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 09:09 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Ed L
Recently worked on an AF building with arms vault. Then current regs required space for clearing barrel immediately outside the vault... Why do it twice, outside and inside?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 09:10 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)
This is whig territory.
In any case I haven't shot factory (aside from 54R Soviet-bloc surplus, and shotgun) in over a decade.
Posted by: rhomboid
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Closest analog I can think of is a special tax on newspapers that has been tried now and again. Usually struck down because the tax is not neutral in impact and it impacts a fundamental freedom (aka freedom of the press). Sales tax that are generally applicable is permissible--not targeted taxes (and regulations). Also the ridiculous ammo laws in CA are not rooting in history and thus failing under the Bruen std.. CA has to figure if they feel lucky as it is a political safer stance to strike down a law in one state that does not fit the historical analysis of permissible regulations under Bruen. There is no such historical justification.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:13 PM (ctrM5)
Thank you!
Appreciate everyone being here tonight and hope to see you here again next Sunday!
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 09:13 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 27, 2025 09:12 PM (U/Byj)
If they're imported from Germany, that's probably why. The latest round of tariffs haven't helped.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 09:14 PM (BCwQW)
Most likely the evaluation units were pre-production and the (alleged) problem has something to do with tolerance stacking in large scale production. Certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 27, 2025 09:15 PM (IsUtW)
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 09:15 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 27, 2025 09:15 PM (IsUtW)
Ian McCollum discusses this in the vid he did before the one Weasel posted.
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 09:16 PM (BCwQW)
Posted by: Ed L at July 27, 2025 09:20 PM (BCwQW)
Long-range pistol shooting! And he braces the longer barreled revolver on the boulder and uses his off hand to support. No wobbly sh*t here!
Of course, Matthews can't hit anything at range. So he gives the revolver back to the deputy who proceeds to provide cover by shooting a HECK of a lot closer to the gunman than Matthews could. Also, bracing on the boulder.
Highway Patrol embraces the Weasel Doctrine!
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 09:21 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 27, 2025 09:22 PM (IsUtW)
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Nope, that came later.
Back in the early days of IPSC, people figured out that they could make major easier with 38 Super than with the 45 ACP or its derivatives. The case in the 38 Super was big (newer cases are more efficient) and so they stuffed them full of gassy powder to run compensators on the front end to keep on target. Plus, more ammo capacity.
So pretty quickly 38 Super became a race gun competitor's firearm and they by and large reloaded to the gills for it. It helped that the massive 1911 frame was built for punishment (which also served as a 10mm platform for Colt) among others.
You won't find loads that competitors use on the shelves as they reload themselves to just make major with a bit of a margin for temperatures. Knew a couple of guys that did the run and gun with comped guns (and Patrick Sweeney talks about his experiences in his books).
Felt recoil is always less for a semi auto than revolver as part of the recoil is used for the semi auto action. Shooting a 125-130gr bullet-38 Super and 357 are about equal in ft lbs recoil.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:22 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Pooklord at July 27, 2025 09:22 PM (asU3w)
Never want an accidental hurrah to be discharged unsafely.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:23 PM (ctrM5)
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Well thank you very much, and welcome to the Gun Thread!
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 09:24 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 09:26 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 09:26 PM (v23vE)
Loved the fundamentals of concealment, especially as presented by our friend the chameleon!
Only range practice lately has been .22 rifle taking out varmits. About .750 this summer on woodchucks, racoons, and opposum. 1/2 on skunks, but was trying to just scare them off
Posted by: Pickled at July 27, 2025 09:28 PM (JP0DI)
Btw my buddy we were shooting with said that his friend who owns an LGS said that lever gun sales started going up with the popularity of Yellowstone. Don't know how true it is but it is a thing that was said.
Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2025 09:29 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Weasel at July 27, 2025 09:29 PM (tmCNn)
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at July 27, 2025 09:26 PM
Curses!
Foiled again!!!!
Posted by: Big Penguin at July 27, 2025 09:30 PM (0sNs1)
The military is highly risk averse.
Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2025 09:31 PM (RoO7G)
Posted by: Oddbob
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Yep. the 1903 (and lesser known but same heat treatment problem with some 1917 Enfields). The major difference is that those 1917 rifles handles the crappy ammo better with the heat treatment problem primarily resulting in a crack in the receiver ring.
Springfields, in part to get around Mauser patents, had a much worse problem when cartridge separations occurred escaping gas toward the shooter and it hit like a hammer on the receiver. Essentially those receivers can be like glass--hard as hell, slick as glass, and fall apart to a sudden blow. No way to know until it fails.
To make it more fun, heat treatment on the older swept back Springfield bolts are also suspect.
Case hardened steel has it advantages, tough, slick, and durable under the right circumstances but it all depends on proper heat treatment by pyrometer, not eyeball Mk. 1. Nickel steel has its advantages too, easy to heat treat properly, resilient (as no deaths or injuries from 1917 heat treatment failures--simply cracking around the receiver ring). But it is relatively sticky in bolt operation and more $.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:32 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Splunge at July 27, 2025 09:32 PM (7T/7v)
Btw my buddy we were shooting with said that his friend who owns an LGS said that lever gun sales started going up with the popularity of Yellowstone. Don't know how true it is but it is a thing that was said.
Posted by: blaster
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Would not be surprised. Call of Duty game spurred IRL demand for languishing odd firearms like the 1886/93 Lebel. Reason, it has a large magazine compared with other bolt actions of its era.
50's Cowboy shows and movies led to the Single Action Army coming back with clones of it by competitors. And so it goes.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:34 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Splunge
No problem. One last thing. Older 38 Supers than mebbe the later 70s, almost all Colt 1911 pattern, headspaced on the rim as it was originally a semi rimmed cartridge. That led to inconsistency when shooting for accuracy as rim thickness could easily vary and there wasn't much rim on a Super to start with (aka semi rimmed). Competitors noted that if their gun headspaced on the case mouth like 9mms do, then accuracy and repeatability was excellent. All newer 38 Supers now headspace on the case mouth. Simple barrel change for older 1911's to convert them to the new headspacing method as well.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:38 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig
They say Rick in TWD raised interest in Pythons as well.
A savvy producer could slip in some adverts for a small fee. Like Coke and Taco Bell ads in certain shows.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 09:40 PM (/lPRQ)
Then it moved.
A German Marder IFV was about 30 feet away. The normally green track was painted in small squares of white, brown and light green. The crew had a few tree branches laid on it as well.
incredible job.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 09:40 PM (W/lyH)
A savvy producer could slip in some adverts for a small fee. Like Coke and Taco Bell ads in certain shows.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Now that CZ owns Colt, you might. I rarely see Ruger ads except in gun mags and even rarer to see one of their P model semi autos as such in tv or movies.
Sgt. Schultz and his Krag probably didn't do much though for Krag sales.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:43 PM (ctrM5)
Enough time to stand up, stretch, make a quick pee break, get a refreshment, and re-orient mentally for the battle of wits and witticisms ahead.
Posted by: mindful webworker - occidental orientation at July 27, 2025 09:50 PM (f+yIF)
S&W's Model 29 44 magnum sales spike with the first "Dirty Harry" movie and I believe the movie "Collateral" moved a lot of H&K USP's . . . , so I wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: Pooklord at July 27, 2025 09:52 PM (asU3w)
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Eh, I might read what the nightwalkers put out if I can't sleep but not my favorite time to post.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:53 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: mindful webworker - occidental orientation at July 27, 2025 09:50 PM (f+yIF)
And, yet, even there, Weasel Doctrine holds true: fundamentals and no wobbly sh*t! Those are how you win the battles of wits.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 09:55 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Pooklord
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The joke was gun shops ended up selling them like hotcakes but would often get the buyer selling back the now used gun with only a cylinder or two shot through them. Too much recoil for their taste.
The gun shops would then happily sell it to the next person--etc. Lasted until supply finally caught up to demand.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:55 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: GWB
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I prefer sleep to winning the battle of wits for ONT stardom.
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:56 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at July 27, 2025 09:57 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 10:01 PM (nVSDK)
Posted by: Bones at July 27, 2025 11:16 PM (24hgG)
Posted by: ShainS -- 'Yes, but doesn't it ring true?' is the new 'Fake, but Accurate!' at July 28, 2025 04:10 AM (4bYcn)
Food Thread: Dijon Mustard...It's Hot?
I don't particularly care about the use of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) in foods. I don't drink sweetened (or any) sodas, and I am an infrequent consumer of sweets. Sure, HFCS is also found in a bunch of other foods, but I don't believe the horror stories about its danger, so I am ambivalent. What I do care about is the government distorting markets with its intrusion. Any markets...including those for food. And the federal government has been torturing the sugar markets and the corn markets for years, with subsidies and tariffs and quotas on foreign sugar, and on and on. I am amused that President Trump has used his Bully Pulpit to agitate for Coca Cola to switch to sugar from HFCS, although there might be more pressing issues to address. But a better use of his time might be to decrease government intervention in our food markets, so we can reap the benefits of market-driven rather than law-driven pricing!
"Helena Handbasket!" These are her "American Bresse" chickens. That's the breed in France that is famous, and famously expensive. She tells me that there isn't much of a taste difference in their eggs compared to her other chickens, but they haven't hit the pot yet. Hopefully she will keep us posted.
Apparently BBQ is a subject that elicits some emotional responses. This is in response to my complaining about mediocre smoked chicken.
Many moons ago, as a young drunken lout, I experienced THE BEST SMOKED CHICKEN EVAH! The Okeechobee, Florida redneck who made it became a dear friend until he passed. He taught me his secret, which I'll share with you... Using an R2D2 type smoker (with water pan) use CHUNK hard wood (unsoaked). It's OK to use a small amount of charcoal to get the hard wood started. Use as little lighter fluid as possible, as the smoke will taste like it. Once started, fill up the wood pan. The key here is the WATER PAN and, trust me, follow these tips to the letter!!! 1. Prepare the water pan by preparing 2 (two) wrappers of extra extra heavy duty tin foil. I take 2 separate sheets and fold the top side together (water tight) and wrap it North to South. I make another wrapper (same way) east to west. The goal being that NONE of the liquid going into the pan touches the pan itself!!! 2. Now add the "Fluid" to the pan. Instead of water, add most of a 2 liter of coke or Dr. Pepper (I prefer Dr. Pepper). The heat of the fire will BAKE the syrup of either coke or DR.P. to the water pan - ITS A BITCH to get off, hence the tin foil). Throw in some sliced apples, some oranges, some garlic and onions to taste. Or anything else you think might enhance the taste. 3. Now add the chicken (or ribs) to the smoking racks. Leave enough room for the smoke to pass between pieces and racks. Use a wifi thermometer to tell you the internal temp. on the chicken and the interior of the smoker. Add wood as necessary until done. Using coke or drp in the pan steams the syrups onto the meat, slowly, and it effectively marinates the meat with that unique tang. Personally, after years of smoking meats like this, I like to dry rub the chicken or ribs before cooking, but you don't have to. I like to use dark meat chicken pieces, Personally. I have also smoked dry rubbed chicken with a beer can (meaning upright) in the cavity. Trust me, TRY THIS! All the best, BILDO or Fla Bill
Anyone ever try this technique?
And one more! Commenter "Stacy0311" really likes BBQ!
Regarding last weeks discussion about pellet smokers, I don't think this would fit on a pellet smoker! Cooking for my HS class reunion a couple of years ago. 4 briskets, 2 pork butts, 1 ham, assorted ribs, sweet potatoes, jalapenos and pork meatballs for snacking. That was a long day Luckily I have 6 pecan trees in my yard that always seem to need to be trimmed, so I have an ample supply of wood.
Pecan is great wood for smoking. I like apple as well, and hickory is a good option. One I haven't had much success with is oak, but you Texans swear by it, and I have had some damned fine BBQ in Texas, so you must be onto something.
One of the celebrity chefs whose cooking I actually respect is Anne Burrell. Most of the others are clowns, whose food is simply minor variations on typical stuff. Nothing interesting, and certainly nothing to challenge the serious home cook. But she was a real chef, and her recipes were always worth it. Here are two that I have made and were quite pleased with!
Focaccia and Ricotta will absolutely go together, so if you make one, why not go all the way and make both!
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.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 04:02 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: pawn at July 27, 2025 04:03 PM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 27, 2025 04:03 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 04:04 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 27, 2025 04:04 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 04:06 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 04:08 PM (3L6ac)
But the stuff in France is far, far hotter than the American version! Wow! Amazing stuff, delicious, but sinus-clearing hot!
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The French do everything better. Just ask one. Actually, they'll tell you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:08 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:09 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Tuna at July 27, 2025 04:11 PM (lJ0H4)
I could not never do it correctly, I guess I was bad at it.
Then I started hanging chicken halves (BRINED) along with my pork rib slabs. Both rubbed beforehand.
On my OK Joe's bronco.
All I can say is, always brine your chicken!
Posted by: Andrew at July 27, 2025 04:13 PM (FBacG)
Surprisingly, the English have a hot mustard too. The brand is Coleman's. You can get it here in the States pretty easily.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 27, 2025 04:13 PM (91TQ2)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2025 04:14 PM (8xXSZ)
Made a pot of Zuppa Toscana earlier. I'll be doing a beef roast with veggies for Her Majesty's return from her trip.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:14 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 04:15 PM (+qU29)
A lot of times, a certain veg becomes affiliated with a dish b/c it was cheap and easy for the area to use it. But subs work just as well or even better than the original.
We're having air fried onion rings and a strawberry/blueberry/kiwi salad with the (cheese for the willing)steaks...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 04:17 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 04:17 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2025 04:19 PM (Riz8t)
How's life in the land of beans and franks, or if you prefer "Haricot avec Saucisses!
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 04:19 PM (EUNsI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 04:20 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2025 04:20 PM (3xcxk)
Very sad to hear of Tom Lehrer's passing. TBH, I thought he died long ago.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 27, 2025 04:20 PM (Riz8t)
Yeah, she actually could cook. May she rest in peace.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 04:21 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: JML at July 27, 2025 04:22 PM (OrDr0)
I got really tasty strawberry muffins at Trader Joes the other week. I like that store. It has a lot of interesting things.. I don't go there every week but when I do, I enjoy it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 04:22 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 04:24 PM (/xDbx)
Gonna grill pork steaks. Sides are grilled peaches with cinnamon sugar, grilled lime pepper corn on the cob, and a cantaloupe-tomato caprese salad.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2025 04:25 PM (hoCmQ)
Ground lamb is the one meat I use sparingly (only 1lb for tomorrow for 5) and almost never drain the fat - instead, it's so meaty and umami-esque, I let a veg soak up the fat and taste amazing (see the eggplant).
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 04:25 PM (tOcjL)
I tried to buy at the store some very ordinary iodized salt in a shaker, without having to buy pepper too.
On the shelf were 35,000 varieties of sea salt, kosher salt, salt with herbs, gray salt, etc. All in grinders or to be spooned out. No ordinary salt.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:27 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 04:31 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 04:31 PM (Wnv9h)
On the shelf were 35,000 varieties of sea salt, kosher salt, salt with herbs, gray salt, etc. All in grinders or to be spooned out. No ordinary salt.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Goiters to make surprising come back very soon.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2025 04:31 PM (3xcxk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:27 PM (HZi96)
Go down to the plumbing section, buy it by the 50 lb sack as "water softener"
You can also salt small conquered communities on a budget. You know, if chance has it that you conquer the neighboring HOA and you want it to never arise again.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 04:34 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 04:34 PM (kpS4V)
We stopped by a Russian delicatessen in Cincinnati. I ordered a sandwich and was asked whether I wanted regular mustard or Russian mustard. What the hell, be adventurous, have the Russian mustard.
One bite and it hit me. Fluids I had no idea the body produced came oozing out of every pore. That stuff was atomic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:35 PM (HZi96)
Can't get brisket right, may be a NC thing. We are hog heaven.
Have been to Paris and seen a bakery with about a hundred loaves going into an oven. Bread heaven.
May you have a dinner with truffles, all the days of your lives.
Posted by: PTSD giver at July 27, 2025 04:36 PM (KBds0)
This isn't even in anyway debatable.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:37 PM (vzCvX)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 04:37 PM (+qU29)
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Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 04:37 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:38 PM (HZi96)
Obviously Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan are the two greatest American athletes in history.
This isn't even in anyway debatable.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:37 PM (vzCvX)
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Yo, guy.
Posted by: Secretariat at July 27, 2025 04:40 PM (HZi96)
Does it work? Any tips?
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 04:24 PM
They have really thin skin. It seems like they'd burn very quickly. I roast them on my gas grill every year. I haven't bought any this year, yet.
Posted by: huerfano at July 27, 2025 04:41 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 04:42 PM (/xDbx)
I think you put this up in the food thread last week as well.
What did they like to cook or what were their favorite meals?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 04:42 PM (2GCMq)
I got it home and uwrapped and the dented can was oddly flaccid, so I took it outside and popped it open, and yep, it was breached and there were the cutest little maggots in it
*sight*
That meant the "sesame seeds" on the plastic were actually fly chrysalis.
The rest of the cans were carefully examined and brushed off. All the offending wrapping was disposed of.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 04:43 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 04:43 PM (D7oie)
I can see why that went to the clearance section...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 04:45 PM (tOcjL)
Isn't Scoville a measure of capsaicin's. And isn't mustard head some enzyme or other horseradish like thing?
Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 04:46 PM (FhXTo)
What is the name and what part of cincy?
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 04:42 PM (/xDbx)
_________
It's still there!
Marina's International Deli
11426 Montgomery Road
More or less in Sixteen Mile Stand, near 275 and 71.
Posted by: Secretariat at July 27, 2025 04:47 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:48 PM (HZi96)
1. Prepare the water pan by preparing 2 (two) wrappers of extra extra heavy duty tin foil. I take 2 separate sheets and fold the top side together (water tight) and wrap it North to South. I make another wrapper (same way) east to west. The goal being that NONE of the liquid going into the pan touches the pan itself!!!
I'm lazy. Lodge makes a disposable aluminum camp dutch oven insert in different sizes that would fit.
https://tinyurl.com/yn26cd47
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 04:49 PM (JBVNW)
11426 Montgomery Road”
Thanks! Up near blue ash, then
But if a hike for me but yelp makes it sound amazing, so might have to make the trip
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 04:49 PM (/xDbx)
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As a fan of both Spam and gochuzhang, I offer my condolences.
Make your own artisanal GCJ Spam.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 04:51 PM (kpS4V)
I am amused that President Trump has used his Bully Pulpit to agitate for Coca Cola to switch to sugar from HFCS
I heard a report on Bloomberg news radio that Coke with sugar is to be in limited distribution and at a higher price.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 04:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 04:52 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:53 PM (HZi96)
I don't know if I ever actually have.
TBH, I don't think ever.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:53 PM (vzCvX)
Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 04:53 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 04:51 PM (63Dwl)”
What that really means is that Coca Cola is not doing anything different. Cane sugar coke (ie mexican coke) has always been around for a premium
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 04:53 PM (/xDbx)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 04:54 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 04:55 PM (HFcKg)
I don't know if I ever actually have.
TBH, I don't think ever.
Posted by: Long time guy
Many times growing up. Sliced between an 1/8th & 1/4 inch thick & fried like bologna on white bread.
Diced & fried & cooked in scrambled eggs.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 04:56 PM (JBVNW)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 04:58 PM (JBVNW)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 04:55 PM
That's a pretty widely distributed brand. They make nice cornichons, too. And speaking of HEB...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23sehACMR6s
The Fat Electrician approves!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 04:58 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 04:59 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:00 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:01 PM (2GCMq)
DiL, however, who is from Minnesota, loves the stuff and has taken son and grandson to the Spam Museum in Austin, MN.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 27, 2025 05:01 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 05:02 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 05:03 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Long time guy
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Yep. Better grilled or deep fried, imho.
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2025 05:03 PM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 05:05 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 05:05 PM (D7oie)
My mother used to cook Spam. Fried till very brown. I haven't had it since, but the idea of. Spam museum amuses me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:05 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 05:05 PM (HFcKg)
Spam, fresh tomatoes and mayonnaise is my seasonal treat.
Generally I don't eat it otherwise, though sometimes I have put it on home-made pizza
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 05:07 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey
Other Minnesotans actually eat it? I thought we just
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 05:07 PM (DgGvY)
We have a winner. The salt tenderizes the steak and the pepper gives it a bit of flavor. Definitely going to have to keep experimenting with this.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 05:08 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 05:08 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 04:51 PM (63Dwl)
They make it every year for Passover. I don't know whether it is nation-wide or just in certain markets.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 05:10 PM (FOLLH)
I don't know if I ever actually have.
TBH, I don't think ever.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:53 PM (vzCvX)
Spam isn't vegan, so of course you would not have had it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 05:11 PM (0sq2f)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 05:11 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 05:12 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 27, 2025 05:13 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 05:08 PM (JvZF+)
Oh yes! 1:1 Dijon:brown sugar. Works great on grilled pork chops. Or as a finish for ribs.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 05:15 PM (FOLLH)
Also, if you ever find the Maille brand of pickles for sale in America (I believe I've seen them at Trader Joe's at some point), give them a try. Their brine is a lot more vinegary than most American pickles, which tend towards a more salty brine. Makes for a very different flavor. Won't be to everyone's taste, but it's my favorite pickle variety.
Posted by: Robin Munn at July 27, 2025 05:16 PM (aEaad)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:17 PM (2GCMq)
You are lazy and I am cheap. Both methods should work. Just make sure that those liners are flush with the top of the water pan. In my R2D2 the bottom rack rests directly on the water pan. After cooking either the coke or drP there will be no reusing the pan. It's one and done. The syrup will be baked into every nook and cranny.
Let me know how you like the chicken. HINT real good on pork ribs too. TIP: get some gardening wire, with no coatings, put the ribs on the grills standing upright and use the wire to hold them up. You can get more ribs done in one smoke. Just be sure to leave space between the racks of ribs.
Posted by: FloridaBill at July 27, 2025 05:17 PM (opNj9)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2025 05:17 PM (bA75n)
I don't know if I ever actually have.
TBH, I don't think ever.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:53 PM
I know people will kid me about this but when I was a kid spam was a luxury item for us. When I joined the Army and found out I could have spam every single day for breakfast I was ecstatic.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 05:18 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Terry at July 27, 2025 05:19 PM (rRaaJ)
Posted by: yoeman at July 27, 2025 05:21 PM (7KhJk)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 05:22 PM (vFG9F)
Let me know how you like the chicken. HINT real good on pork ribs too. TIP: get some gardening wire, with no coatings, put the ribs on the grills standing upright and use the wire to hold them up. You can get more ribs done in one smoke. Just be sure to leave space between the racks of ribs.
Posted by: FloridaBill
Definitely going to try both the chicken and pork!
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:22 PM (JBVNW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:17 PM (2GCMq)
Not surprised to hear that the GOAT of all GOAT's would prefer the GOAT of all food's.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 05:23 PM (vzCvX)
More like a olfactory sensory overload and then recovery.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2025 05:25 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 05:18 PM (e5NfL)
Funny enough, when I mentioned the clearance, it was b/c someone put gojuchang as a flavor in the spam.
When you think of the world of spam eaters...and you think of the world that wants gojuchang "flavor" on that spam...I can't imagine any overlap.
It was like when I found vegan spam in my Safeway on clearance...which never got bought, even at under a $1/can, for months and months til it got tossed. The circle of vegans and the circle of spam eaters never crossed.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:25 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: huerfano at July 27, 2025 05:26 PM (n2swS)
But overall, you are correct. I’m not the biggest fan of fancy French food because I find it rather bland. Complex flavors, yes. But I prefer bolder flavors, like an explosion in my mouth. Cue the fag jokes ….
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:26 PM (2RdRx)
Have a great evening everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 05:26 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
Since moving to my wife's family's land, now that I have access to a lot of wood, I am playing around with making real wood chunk charcoal instead of using briquettes.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:27 PM (JBVNW)
Posted by: Nova Local
Wouldn't that just be a block of tofu?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:29 PM (JBVNW)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:27 PM (JBVNW)
Didn't Skip play around with that? Maybe not him, but someone on this blog has made it for himself.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 05:29 PM (FOLLH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 05:30 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: PabloD at July 27, 2025 05:30 PM (LZLEA)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:30 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:31 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Nova Local
Wouldn't that just be a block of tofu?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:29 PM (JBVNW)
Chunk it to the urban camping enthusiast on the corner. Good deed done and problem solved.
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 05:31 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:30 PM (2GCMq)
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Porterhouse is the King of steak and my fav too.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:32 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Nova Local
Wouldn't that just be a block of tofu?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:29 PM (JBVNW)
That would get bought (heck, I bought tofu today b/c I'm planning a Chinese dish this week, too and I was out)...but I think the idea of the can was some sort of spiced soybean/nut spam-like jellied paste. I mean, I never bought it, so I can't confirm it would fall out of the can and cut the same way, but I imagine it kinda would...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:32 PM (tOcjL)
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Oh no, Spam is, or was, big in South Korea.
Wherever GIs have trod, Spam follows.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 05:32 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 05:33 PM (kpS4V)
Yes. It’s a mainstay of Hawaiian restaurants in San Diego. I don’t mind it but don’t generally feel like paying restaurant prices for it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 27, 2025 05:33 PM (EXyHK)
I've never cooked with it but have used it in my forge and it burns hot.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 05:33 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: PabloD at July 27, 2025 05:30 PM (LZLEA)
If it doesn't, just do a cornstarch or potato starch slurry at the end...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:33 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 05:35 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Joe Kidd
Since moving to my wife's family's land, now that I have access to a lot of wood, I am playing around with making real wood chunk charcoal instead of using briquettes.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:27 PM (JBVNW)
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Does any self-respecting smoker or grill master use bricks any more? We’ve been using wood chunks for years. Royal Oak makes a good version that doesn’t break the bank.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:35 PM (2RdRx)
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Oh no, Spam is, or was, big in South Korea.
Wherever GIs have trod, Spam follows.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 05:32 PM (kpS4V)
South Koreans wouldn't want "flavored" - they'd want the real gochujang glazed on top...
Flavored almost never has the real thing. At Hmart these week, I saw some "tuna mayo" flavored frozen rice triangle thing. I read the ingredients. There was no tuna. Bonito flakes and some weird items were the stand ins to get that "flavor"...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: rickb223
Mesquite?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 27, 2025 05:37 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:30 PM (2GCMq)
I am going to go out on a limb and say that Secretariat was a fan of Oats and Alfalfa hay. And Fillies!
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 05:37 PM (EUNsI)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:37 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 27, 2025 05:39 PM (dR6yv)
I don't know if I ever actually have.
TBH, I don't think ever.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:53 PM (vzCvX)
Yes! When I was a wee tad, we had it fairly often, though my Mom would fancy it up with a French's mustard and brown sugar glaze and insert whole cloves all over like you would a ham.
It was one of my childhood faves.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 05:40 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)
Yes, bonito flakes are made from tuna. Specifically, they are made from skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis). - per The Spruce Eats.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 05:40 PM (EUNsI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:09 PM (HZi96)
Blame the Irish.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 05:40 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:30 PM (2GCMq)
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Porterhouse is the King of steak and my fav too.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:32 PM (2RdRx)
You probably know that you're getting two steaks on the Tbone with a porterhouse. The topside is a NY strip, and the bottom is a filet mignon. Sometimes you'll see them labelled as T-Bones, but if there's a decent sized filet opposite the strip, take that baby home and tell no one!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2025 05:40 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 05:41 PM (HFcKg)
I am ... a disappointment.
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 05:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)
Yes, bonito flakes are made from tuna. Specifically, they are made from skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis). - per The Spruce Eats.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 05:40 PM (EUNsI)
Not exactly always tuna..."Pacific and Atlantic bonito meat has a firm texture and a darkish color, as well as a moderate fat content. The meat of young or small bonito can be of light color, close to that of skipjack tuna, and is sometimes used as a cheap substitute for skipjack, especially for canning purposes, and occasionally in the production of cheap varieties of katsuobushi that are sold as "bonito flakes".[5] Bonito may not, however, be marketed as tuna in all countries. The Atlantic bonito is also found in the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, where it is a popular food fish, eaten grilled, pickled (lakerda), or baked.[6][7]" Wiki
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:43 PM (tOcjL)
One of my favorite restaurants in San Diego is the Tofu House on Convoy (a center of Asian restaurants). It’s Korean. Mainly stews filled with meats and seafood along with tofu. Served hot enough to cook an egg, and they provide a basket of eggs at every table (or did before the Great Biden Egg Fiasco of 2024). Very good food, often a line to get in.
They opened, many years ago, a second restaurant in Hillcrest, then the restaurant go-to of San Diego. It was a short walk from my apartment. I was usually the only person there. My theory is that anyone seeing the name “Tofu House” in the newer more upscale area assumed it was a vegetarian restaurant. If they wanted real food they wouldn’t go in, and if they wanted a vegetarian experience they wouldn’t get past the meat-heavy menu. So the new restaurant closed fairly quickly.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 27, 2025 05:43 PM (EXyHK)
This particular one was made with apfelwein(apple wine). Delicious stuff.
I'd never been a fan of sweet mustards until we visited Germany. Great mustards everywhere we went.
That maybe the one thing the Europeans really beat us on and that is mustard...Sad.
Up your game, America!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 05:43 PM (iJfKG)
I would think Gojuchang and Spam would frequently be paired together given the individual prominence each has in Hawaiian cooking.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 05:43 PM (EUNsI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 04:09 PM (HZi96)
Blame the Irish.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 05:40 PM (5xuJ/)
LOl, America became the world's greatest empire basically on meat and potatoes.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 05:43 PM (vzCvX)
Posted by: Nova Local
Wouldn't that just be a block of tofu?
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:29 PM
When we moved off base when we got stationed in Japan the wife chased down the guy pushing the cart through our neighborhood where all of our very Japanese neighbors were out buying stuff from him. He was selling hot tofu. We declined to buy anything for him.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 05:44 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 05:35 PM (kpS4V)
I always liked this one in Nicaragua. The chicken has a very guilty look on its face:
https://tinyurl.com/4yc2wuk9
I guess this logo is ancient history now. They have rebranded.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 05:44 PM (0sq2f)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 05:45 PM (vFG9F)
I don't think husband has overweening respect for his skills as a grill master and he uses bricks on a small grill. Everything had always tasting fine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:45 PM (2GCMq)
Anadama bread is made with cup of cornmeal that is stirred into simmering water or milk, and then mixed with shortening, molasses, salt and let sit to soften up, then mixed with flour to make a dough.
It is unusual in that it calls for letting it double then "cutting it" with a knife instead of punching it down, and then letting it rise a second time before shaping into loaves and letting it rise before baking.
I suspect Anadama bread is originally a recipe for salt rising bread that discovered commercial yeast. For what it is worth, "salt rising bread" is bread that uses a bacteria to rise the bread, instead of fungal yeast. Yeast is a more forgiving on bread, I think.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 05:45 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:27 PM (JBVNW)
Tell you what, I think I'm done with Kingsford. I picked up a bag of Cowboy brand, and it burned a lot longer than K-ford. Lit just as easily, too.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2025 05:45 PM (bA75n)
Wholley Kau the German breads were good everywhere we went.
Wonderful stuff. Even better than I think we got in France when we went there.
Well done, Squareheads!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 05:46 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
Mainly oak. Don't have much mesquite. Have more Bois d'arc than mesquite. That & damn cedar. Which I don't use for cooking.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:46 PM (JBVNW)
Since I live in Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati suburb) I have an extended network of aquaintences in cincy.
Just heard through the grapevine that a friend of a friend found themself in church this morning sitting near jd Vance.
No fanfare, no road closures across half the town, no news. He just went to church with other worshippers.
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 05:47 PM (/xDbx)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 05:49 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: fd
Johnsonville Cheddar Brats when camping once = ❤️
Tried once I got back home = 🤮🤮🤮
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 05:49 PM (JBVNW)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
I went to Hmart for just that reason - airfried Pulmone brand ramen was on a great sale, as was fresh ramen noodles. To be lazy, I bought soybean sprouts, pea sprouts, and green onions, so if I want an easy no mess lunch, I can put on my tea kettle and just pour and wait 3 minutes...although I will need to hardboil some eggs and have them in the fridge at some point...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:51 PM (tOcjL)
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Oh no, Spam is, or was, big in South Korea.
Wherever GIs have trod, Spam follows.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 05:32 PM (kpS4V)
South Koreans wouldn't want "flavored" - they'd want the real gochujang glazed on top...
Flavored almost never has the real thing. At Hmart these week, I saw some "tuna mayo" flavored frozen rice triangle thing. I read the ingredients. There was no tuna. Bonito flakes and some weird items were the stand ins to get that "flavor"...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)
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Next youll be telling me there’s no shrimp in shrimp-flavored instant ramen ….
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:51 PM (2RdRx)
(Subtitled)
youtu.be/m5RiY9H3QM8
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 05:52 PM (D7oie)
The good news is you need a blonde roux so hopefully that helps.
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:53 PM (ZdaMQ)
The good news is you need a blonde roux so hopefully that helps.
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:53 PM (ZdaMQ)
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‘Those bitches ….’
—- Brunettes
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 05:55 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 05:55 PM (D7oie)
No fanfare, no road closures across half the town, no news. He just went to church with other worshippers.
Posted by: Ghbucky at July 27, 2025 05:47 PM (/xDbx)
Vance is the obvious successor to Trump.
A ten to twenty year Republican rule of the presidency is possible.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM (vzCvX)
BTW, don't forget to add some apples, onions or anything you think might add to the flavor. We had a neighbor who got a bit to "Toasty", so we added what was left of her bottle.of Sangria.😂
Posted by: FloridaBill at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM (opNj9)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:46 PM
Ramen? I'll just leave this here.
https://youtu.be/vCd3CCnqqDU
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025
At least you are making it! I am not even bothering with that. You can soft / medium boil eggs in an air fryer quickly so you have the runny yolk and not a hard yolk. A little more time add.
We don’t have anything like an Hmart here. We aren’t that culturally advanced yet. 😀
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Oh yes
spam and eggs
spam eggs and sausage
spam eggs spam and spam
spam spam spam spam spam eggs and spam
and so forth
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 05:58 PM (AOsQT)
You'll roux the day you made chicken étouffée!
Ha ha ha...ha....ha......
Oh, fuck all y'all!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 05:58 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2025 05:58 PM (bA75n)
https://youtu.be/vCd3CCnqqDU
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
Nigella is so cool.
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:58 PM (ZdaMQ)
Strawberries macerated with brown sugar for dessert. Then a glass of Madeira and a cigar.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 27, 2025 05:59 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: DanMan at July 27, 2025 05:59 PM (8uzBS)
We don’t have anything like an Hmart here. We aren’t that culturally advanced yet. 😀
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM (ZdaMQ)
My air fryer is my oven...it's a function which works well, but probably not for a single egg
. If only I could figure out soft boiled eggs in a microwave...Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:59 PM (tOcjL)
BTW, don't forget to add some apples, onions or anything you think might add to the flavor. We had a neighbor who got a bit to "Toasty", so we added what was left of her bottle.of Sangria.😂
Posted by: FloridaBill at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM (opNj9)
Nice. A friend of mine worked at a food bank and dropped off about 30 lbs of hickory pellets. Guess no one knew what to do with them. I cut a square of steel mesh and would put lay the pellets on it over my coals. Sometimes when the local trees were shedding bark, I would use it for the same purpose..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 27, 2025 06:06 PM (bA75n)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 06:06 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:59 PM
If you have or can find an old electric coffee percolator you can make perfect soft boiled eggs. Put the water and eggs in it plug it in and when the light comes on the eggs are done perfectly every time.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 06:07 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM
😔
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 06:07 PM (Wnv9h)
‘Those bitches ….’
—- Brunettes
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
I laughed out loud and now look insane floating in a pool laughing to myself.
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 06:08 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Daniel Hayes at July 27, 2025 06:08 PM (SX4DE)
Strawberries macerated with brown sugar for dessert. Then a glass of Madeira and a cigar.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 27, 2025 05:59 PM
That's living right.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 27, 2025 06:10 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:58 PM
Yeah, but this roast was great. 😄
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 06:10 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 06:07 PM (e5NfL)
The lack of joys of owning a townhome...no room for many "extras"...thus why the airfryer is built in the oven. Spouse wanted to buy me one a few years ago and I said where would it go? So, when it was a function on an oven, he was an instant yes...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 06:13 PM (tOcjL)
Conversely, being in Mexico is what left the bad taste in my mouth.
Posted by: Coldwarvet at July 27, 2025 06:16 PM (7t0kC)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 27, 2025 06:18 PM (ECoOn)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 05:59 PM (tOcjL)
Put your eggs in a pan with water to just cover them
Bring the pan to boil
Time thirty seconds at full boil
Take the pan off of heat and let it sit until the water is room temperature
You now have wonderful hard boiled eggs with a slightly creamy hard boiled yolk, and firm, luscious whites. None of the rubbery white and green, chalky yolks
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 06:18 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 05:56 PM
😔
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 06:07 PM (Wnv9h)
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Lotsa Ho Marts in nyc, yo! There’s an entire block of them in Jackson Heights!
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 06:18 PM (2RdRx)
I occasionally like to post what I paid too up in my part of Canada at NoFrills which is kind of like Aldi's.
3 lbs of peaches...$3.99
No name apples - 6 lbs...$7.00
Peppers, yellow - 2.5 lbs....$5.00
5 avocados....$3.99
Yellow onions - 3 lbs....$2.99
Bag of oranges - 3 lbs...$4.99
SugarBaby Watermelon...$4.99
Chinese Cabbage - 1.7 kg,...4.86
18 extra large eggs...$7.21
I'll be eating watermelon and salad I made today for the next several days. That's fine. I love fruit and veggies.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.1 % at July 27, 2025 06:20 PM (jvJvP)
I'll take dijon mustard over ketchup on a hotdog every time.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 06:21 PM (ZYql3)
I'll be eating watermelon and salad I made today for the next several days. That's fine. I love fruit and veggies.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.1 % at July 27, 2025 06:20 PM (jvJvP)
I could be a fruititarian. 😂 watermelon would be great right now. I have a ton of apples and cherry plums in the fridge. Which is so far away. I am almost embarrassed at how lazy I am being in this moment. But I do think I may have upped my vit d at least!
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 06:24 PM (ZdaMQ)
Natural vitamin D is the best! I just vame in from the beach, listening to the Mariners give away a series win. Got a little too sunny and warm for me. 70 degrees. Ooof.
Cherries are peak season here. They are SOOOO yummy. And very good for your kidneys!
Roasted some veggies for lunches this week. I also have a picked apart rotisserie chicken, heirloom toms and some fresh mozerella to make salads and such.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 06:33 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: moki at July 27, 2025 06:33 PM (wLjpr)
Bring the pan to boil
Time thirty seconds at full boil
Take the pan off of heat and let it sit until the water is room temperature
You now have wonderful hard boiled eggs with a slightly creamy hard boiled yolk, and firm, luscious whites. None of the rubbery white and green, chalky yolks
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 06:18 PM (D7oie)
It's more the time...9 minute eggs are 9 minutes boiled and then instantly cooled...but when the ramen is done in 3, well, do you want to spend 6 more minutes AND still have to cool and peel the egg?
. Ramen, especially the air dried version, is about being lazy for a meal...it's why I'll take a subpar egg (or just leave it off - but it is always nice having the extra mouthfeel protein)...Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 06:35 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 27, 2025 06:35 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Piper from the pool at July 27, 2025 06:24 PM (ZdaM
Watermelon is always better wehn someone elese you trust cuts it up. My friends have kids so Mom would cut up watermelon or wash strwaberries for them.
I've continued that tradition. The kids get so excited. Lol
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 06:37 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 06:37 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.1 % at July 27, 2025 06:20 PM (jvJvP)
There is no such thing as "eyes bigger than stomach" when it comes to produce. My spouse knows a fresh full drawer (or 4) of produce is what it takes to make me happy and healthy. It's never wasted, so it's all worth it. If it's gonna possibly be wasted, it's just time for broth/stir fry or muffins/smoothies...
I'd say the freezer, but townhome kitchen, so it is more use it or lose it here...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 06:38 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)
Thank you BenHad!!! How are you, dear lady?!
Posted by: moki at July 27, 2025 06:38 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 06:40 PM (HFcKg)
I've continued that tradition. The kids get so excited. Lol
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 06:37 PM (jvJvP)
Watermelon is better cubed...that way, there are no bad bites (b/c the person cubing it removes any seeds or any underripe/overripe parts)...and it doesn't end up all over you, either.
I almost bought watermelon today, but I had cherries, dragon fruit, strawberries, apples, bananas, and green grapes (and some fruit still at home - see blueberries and kiwi) and said "I can just run into Safeway later this week if I really need more fruit"...b/c a watermelon without a youth group to toss some to is a commitment...especially at the sizes I was seeing today...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 06:42 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 06:38 PM (tOcjL)
Yeah, you're right. I just hate seeing anything go to waste. But I'm very happy gorging on fruits and veggies. Especially fresh.
I'm on ky second huge bowl of salad. Chinese Cabbage, yellow peppers, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes and canned ham. This over junk food any day....
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 06:43 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Coldwarvet at July 27, 2025 06:16 PM
You didn't care for the iguana tacos outside of Lazaro Cardenas?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 06:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)
God bless you, that is meal planning on steroids!!
Posted by: moki at July 27, 2025 06:43 PM (wLjpr)
Maybe we add sugar or sugar-like substances and they don't?
Posted by: m at July 27, 2025 06:43 PM (aURVT)
They pull the semi into the Bowling alley parking lot at 7am and people start lining up. At 8am they open for sales and they are done, closed up and on to the next town by 9. it is very entertaining. We have been feasting on fresh peaches and cherries. There is a case each of Peach and Apricot jam and a bunch of cherry compote on the counter ready for the winter. In two weeks they are back with Colorado peaches, which are usually white and really flavorful. I will be making Risotto with Calabrese sausage, white peaches and fresh basil. Yum.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 06:44 PM (EUNsI)
I've continued that tradition. The kids get so excited. Lol
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 06:37 PM (jvJvP)
Watermelon is better cubed...that way, there are no bad bites (b/c the person cubing it removes any seeds or any underripe/overripe parts)...and it doesn't end up all over you, either.
I almost bought watermelon today, but I had cherries, dragon fruit, strawberries, apples, bananas, and green grapes (and some fruit still at home - see blueberries and kiwi) and said "I can just run into Safeway later this week if I really need more fruit"...b/c a watermelon without a youth group to toss some to is a commitment...especially at the sizes I was seeing today...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 06:42 PM (tOcjL)
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Watermelon is better with a hole cut in, lotsa vodka poured in, and let it sit for a while. Or at least that’s how we did it as poor college students.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 06:44 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: moki at July 27, 2025 06:44 PM (wLjpr)
Isn't Scoville a measure of capsaicin's. And isn't mustard head some enzyme or other horseradish like thing?
Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 04:46 PM (FhXTo)
Yup. Intertubes say mustard and horseradish have allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), not capsaicin.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 06:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Coldwarvet at July 27, 2025 06:16 PM
You didn't care for the iguana tacos outside of Lazaro Cardenas?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 06:43 PM (0sNs1)
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Iguana tacos are tasty
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 06:45 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
Fist bump. Giordano's Deep Dish in Chicago to Imo's cracker crust in St. Louis. Regardless of style, the dough is everything.
If you have a crappy dough, it doesn't matter what toppings you have. You aren't coming back from it.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 06:46 PM (JBVNW)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 27, 2025 06:42 PM (tOcjL)
Being a single guy, I'm fine eating the same thing for several days.
And everything is all cut up and prepared so I'm set for a chunk of the week.
Everyone have a good night and a happy week.It's day 9, but I almost have EVERYTHING out of the basement, wiped and cleaned and ready to go back after I clean the basement so well that OCD people would think I have issues...,
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 06:48 PM (jvJvP)
Iguana tacos are tasty
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
While listening to your Mexican radio.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 06:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: m at July 27, 2025 06:48 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: Coldwarvet at July 27, 2025 06:16 PM
You didn't care for the iguana tacos outside of Lazaro Cardenas?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 06:43 PM (0sNs1)
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Iguana tacos are tasty
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 06:45 PM (2RdRx)
It did for me too.
Posted by: Kumala Whorris at July 27, 2025 06:48 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: moki at July 27, 2025 06:44 PM (wLjpr)
Thank you so much!
I've chosen to laugh at all my past trauma. So whenever I think of things, I break out giggling.
I'm very blessed.
I'm excited to finish cleaning the house and start my pkans to earn income.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.3 % at July 27, 2025 06:50 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
While listening to your Mexican radio.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 06:48 PM (63Dwl)
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[Raises eyebrow]
— Wall of Voodoo
Actually, I had them in Puerto Rico. My brother lives there.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 06:51 PM (2RdRx)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
While listening to your Mexican radio.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 06:48 PM (63Dwl)
Iguana, 'guana be where you are
Any, any, anywhere you are
Iguana, 'guana be where you are
I gotta, gotta be where you are
Posted by: m at July 27, 2025 06:51 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
Fist bump. Giordano's Deep Dish in Chicago to Imo's cracker crust in St. Louis. Regardless of style, the dough is everything.
If you have a crappy dough, it doesn't matter what toppings you have. You aren't coming back from it.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 27, 2025 06:46 PM (JBVNW)
Agreed. I had pizza from one place that tasted worse than cardboard. How can a pizza place survive with such atrocious pizza? Then again, another pizza place nearby gave a number of folks food poisoning...bad cheese.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 06:51 PM (ynpvh)
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KaHUUUUUUUku!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 06:53 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2025 06:56 PM (vFG9F)
Whether that is significant or not is another matter altogether. Given the prevalence of impaired liver function, often non-alcoholic fatty liver disease associated with metabolic syndrome and Obesity, it may be Fructose in excessive amounts has an outsized effect on the liver. One of the few organs capable of repairing itself, losing the fat, achieving a healthy weight means your Liver is no longer being abused.
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Mustard - Thomy brand - Scharfer Senf (hot) supplied in large toothpaste style tubes. Just the ticket for ham sammiches, roast beef, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2025 06:57 PM (Ai1Ju)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 06:58 PM (HFcKg)
The taste is also greatly affected by what you feed them. We had chickens on-and-off for the better part of 20 years, and found when we supplemented their normal grain diet with alfalfa (chickens eat grass and greens!), after about 2 or 3 weeks, their egg yolks would turn red-orange and the taste was wonderful.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 06:58 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 07:01 PM (0sNs1)
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A similar effect is observed when consuming other people’s snacks & chips, saltines, etc. They taste better; spoils of war, not quite as gratifying as the lamentations of their wimmens but quite good, really.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2025 07:01 PM (Ai1Ju)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 27, 2025 07:02 PM (3SJzV)
While leafing through "The Deplorable Gourmet", I came across this LOL on page 64:
I got this recipe from my friend Shithead in college.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:01 PM (+qU29)
Looks like Our Favorite President(tm) reached a deal with the Idiots of EU. It's a big deal.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:03 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:03 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 02:03 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 27, 2025 02:04 PM (vbXSk)
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I have never wondered once I learned sone French history.
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
/there I said it
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 02:04 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Goose Step Is The New Step... at July 27, 2025 02:04 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (+c1W2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (sTuNG)
One of my firm beliefs is that the most important job of any gov't is protecting the lives of their populace. And wreaking vengeance upon anyone/any country/any organization that decides to murder American citizens esp en masse.
It still chaps my rear that Saudi and Emirate royalty involved in the 9/11 massacre of American citizens are still above ground enjoying life and laughing.
The Israelis have the right idea of hunting down and killing all responsible for Munich and Oct 7.
And it whether or not the Saudis are allies or not. You don't get a free murder of American citizens.
They should be kidnapped, shot in the head and dropped in the Marianas Trench to rot.
Same for any other a-holes like them.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:08 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (4STJb)
Hope everybody stays safe. Don't know when they end today, but maybe they already have.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (2GCMq)
If only the Maginot Line was arranged like the French immigration line barriers.
Hitler would still be trying to reach Paris.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (iJfKG)
Pro tip: Stop by Bad Biscuits when visiting Hilton Head. Not to be missed.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 02:10 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 27, 2025 02:10 PM (2UnvF)
That's right. The Iowa bike ride had to borrow some Minnesota road.
Posted by: pookysgirl, rolling her eyes at July 27, 2025 02:11 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:13 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 02:08 PM (hIY2p)
A serious LNG export capacity from PA to the coast could supply the Euros whatever they need. Make Pittsburgh into Dubai.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 27, 2025 02:13 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (+qU29)
C'est Joxe!
Non. C'est Marchand!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (4STJb)
Mellow Johnny.
Posted by: That's what I remember from Lance Armstrong's book at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 02:15 PM (Q4IgG)
I walk with a cane and get routed around all that waiting in Europe. Strangely not so much in the U.S.
We flew into to Paris one time and there was an enormous line for immigration. An airport employee guided me around it and said, "Sorry for all the Chinese".
Posted by: javems at July 27, 2025 02:15 PM (8I4hW)
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We know, right?
Posted by: Angela Davis snd Joanne Chesimard at July 27, 2025 02:16 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 02:16 PM (HFcKg)
Eurofaggot fake news asks a very, very stupid fake "question" about epstein:
https://is.gd/R8JBZv
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:16 PM (3TbF6)
>>OT NY Post is reporting that the US has reached a massive trade deal with the EU . They are going to buy a lot of our oil and LNG, amongst other things
Well, the US is the number one country for energy production of both LNG and Petroleum products, it also f**ks Russia, so, it's a two-fer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2025 02:17 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (+qU29)
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They can't even denote time normally.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 02:18 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 02:19 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:20 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar and Usage Police at July 27, 2025 02:21 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:23 PM (WAasH)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:24 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 02:24 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: The sign CBD really doesn't want to see at July 27, 2025 02:25 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:26 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2025 02:26 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar and Usage Police at July 27, 2025 02:29 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 02:30 PM (ilX37)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:20 PM (qpyNK)
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President Trump bestows us with gifts, even on a Sunday.
Posted by: washrivergal at July 27, 2025 02:31 PM (bIius)
Posted by: A dude in MI at July 27, 2025 02:32 PM (/6GbT)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:32 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: AoSHQ Grammar and Usage Police
We want ________ and we want it now! If we don't get some _________ we're going to start busting heads!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:32 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 02:33 PM (jgmnb)
Did You People see this recent blunder?
https://is.gd/LYUfn3
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:24 PM (3TbF6)
Ten bucks says AI was the major planner of the route, not someone from PennDOT who knew the area or that there was a low clearance bridge.
Oh, and note that the driver was never interviewed. Another ten bucks says he doesn't sepak English.
Posted by: pookysgirl will take quatloos as well at July 27, 2025 02:33 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)
>>Australia has jailed a man for holding up a blank protest sign outside the Chinese embassy (the blankness was to make a point about censorship).
That's fascism at a meta level.
The Anglosphere is dying and I don't think anything can prevent it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2025 02:35 PM (XV/Pl)
Again, the most important quote of the day:
President Trump today on fake "wind" "energy": "You need subsidy for wind. And Energy should not need subsidy: with Energy you make money, you don't lose money."
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:36 PM (3TbF6)
Sadly last time I was there I almost had a heart attack climbing the steps. (The same steps at the end of John Wick 4).
Fantastic view of Paris up there. Was blessed to have a bright sunny day.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 02:40 PM (Jm6kM)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)
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There is this moment in the movie Colossus where they start to comply with the computer's demands and begin executing people.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 02:40 PM (JvZF+)
Does it make you tingle?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:23 PM (WAasH)
Yes!
Posted by: Chuck at July 27, 2025 02:41 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 02:42 PM (mADJX)
A transgender father induced puberty in his three-year-old daughter after she was exposed to his synthetic estrogen
https://is.gd/9AxkB7⁷
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:42 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 02:44 PM (3L6ac)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at July 27, 2025 02:45 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2025 02:46 PM (pZEOD)
A serious LNG export capacity from PA to the coast could supply the Euros whatever they need. Make Pittsburgh into Dubai.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here
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Not benefiting: upstate New York.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:46 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 02:47 PM (ilX37)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM
And who is China in the pocket of?
Posted by: Big Penguin at July 27, 2025 02:47 PM (0sNs1)
Australia has jailed a man for holding up a blank protest sign outside the Chinese embassy (the blankness was to make a point about censorship).
___________
Remember: it's America that's threatened with an authoritarian government.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:49 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:49 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Not the same deal as his prior administration, the very same that the Podesta crowd haulted when the Potato rolled in?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day. at July 27, 2025 02:50 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 02:51 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Profound thought simply said but they don't understand.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:51 PM (I7b3/)
lol @ "greenhouse" gasses
The idea that we created a "greenhouse" effect around the planet is hilarious. Yeah, it's called The Atmosphere, and we had nothing to do with its creation.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 02:52 PM (3TbF6)
Does it make you tingle?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:23 PM (WAasH)
Yes!
Posted by: Chuck at July 27, 2025 02:41 PM (0eaVi)
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😆 Bravo on the callback.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 02:52 PM (3L6ac)
I deleted my Substack account. Someone whose writing I enjoy posts there, but otherwise the people there are long-form wacky.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:53 PM (HZi96)
The exception that bugs me to no end is the Youtube TV bill that hits my credit card on the 27th. I ended up with this date when I miscalculated when the free trial ended when I first signed up. I know, I can see you mentally nodding in agreement: calendars are complicated.
With resolve steeled I canceled YTTV on 6/27 and gutted it out until 7/1 when I would resubscribe. Welp, when I went to do that I got hit over the head with a 21 free trial with no option to just sign up.
With much grumbling I resolved to gut it until 7/11 which would cause all this to work out perfectly. Welp, when I went subscribe on 7/11 I got hit over the head with 10 free trial with no option to just sign up. I had no words.
With clenched jaw I resolved to gut it until 7/22 which would cause all this to work out perfectly. Remarkably it finally did but at the cost me missing several NASCAR and F1 races, UFC fights, the British Open, and MLB games. I know, I can see you mentally nodding in agreement: such scars will take time to heal.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 02:53 PM (NXz8h)
EPA Expected to Declare Greenhouse Gases Not Harmful
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 02:49 PM (L/fGl)
Gotta love how the commies Persist in their framing.
I wonder how many greentards are aware of the minimum level of CO2 in the atmosphere required to sustain plant life (they *are* all good little vegans, right?), let alone the approximate current level.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (Q4IgG)
Thoughts?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 02:51 PM (4rENN)
Excellent!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (ULPxl)
A serious LNG export capacity from PA to the coast could supply the Euros whatever they need. Make Pittsburgh into Dubai.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here
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Give the men a job instead of extra-time to bich, things might straighten up enough to toss out the Dems.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (I7b3/)
Thoughts?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:54 PM (qpyNK)
________
So it's a two-and-a-halfsome?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:56 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 02:57 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:34 PM (+qU29)
Is this disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 27, 2025 02:57 PM (ULPxl)
Every gram of coal, oil, or carbonate rock represents carbon that was once in the atmosphere.
Yet when it was all in the atmosphere, the world somehow didn't end. Weird, huh, given that the current argument is that putting even a small fraction of it back in is going to mean the End of All Life On The Planet (&trade
.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:58 PM (qpyNK)
Thoughts?
40 pesos same as in town
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 27, 2025 02:59 PM (zs2tC)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Bastardi has a cogent one on western Pacific volcanic activity, warm ocean temps, and extra humidity effecting temps and weather patterns.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:59 PM (I7b3/)
Chinese carbon dioxide is fragrant and makes plants grow.
US carbon dioxide is stinky and makes sea levels rise.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:00 PM (HZi96)
Good God, are there no walls that a guy(?) like this can be stood up in front of?
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:00 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 02:55 PM (HZi96)
Very disappointed that you didn't use a Charlie Sheen sock.
Posted by: pookysgirl #winning at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (+qU29)
As I recall things we had dinosaurs at that time. The correlation is obvious: atmospheric carbon caused dinosaurs. We are messing around with forces we can't control here.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:03 PM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM
Really? I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (Q9ezC)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM (HZi96)
Damn. And at the cusp of "National Brotherhood Week".
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:03 PM (I7b3/)
Cardboard for carbon?
Wouldn't charcoal be better?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM
Really? I didn't know he was still alive.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:05 PM (Q9ezC)
That is exactly what I thought when I just read it.
https://tinyurl.com/2jma9za2
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:06 PM (bss/y)
Earthworms supposedly love the stuff, so that's a plus.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:07 PM (mADJX)
Le Mond has bicycles named after him. Armstrong, despite winning several Turd In France bike competitions, didn't. He just got to date a washed up singer who is best known for being a toilet paper minimalist
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 03:08 PM (a4flb)
https://is.gd/yxd0EC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (L/fGl)
...
These people really need to get laid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (bss/y)
Earthworms supposedly love the stuff, so that's a plus.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:07 PM
I have seen people recommend adding some shredded paper to compost, so that's not sounding too far afield.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (Q9ezC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (hIY2p)
Wouldn't charcoal be better?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Used cardboard boxes is free.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 03:10 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2025 03:10 PM (g/KP8)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 03:10 PM (jgmnb)
Probably valid. Adlai Stevenson would probably have more testosterone than the entire Dem convention.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:11 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:11 PM (3TbF6)
So, did they stop selling beer (and wine) in glass bottles a week out before they event to cut down on the mayhem. That's what they did with CedarFest.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 03:11 PM (/lPRQ)
As I recall things we had dinosaurs at that time. The correlation is obvious: atmospheric carbon caused dinosaurs. We are messing around with forces we can't control here.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (NXz8h)
I *told* them it was a bad idea.
Posted by: Dr. Ian Malcom at July 27, 2025 03:12 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:12 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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She was composting in the keyhole garden. It should work just as well in regular composting.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (3TbF6)
Not that I've heard. Bad incident with a gyro and helicopter last year though.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (g/KP8)
People don't use that word anymore, do they?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:12 PM (3TbF6)
Sand.
Grit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:14 PM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:14 PM (hIY2p)
It shouldn't be all week I hope
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 03:14 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:15 PM (3TbF6)
I have a Savannah cat, as well. They can be a handful. The vet techs are scared of mine, so I get to hold him during the exams. He knows better than to mess with DAD!
Ask your vet for some gabapentin (oral from a syringe). I give it to mine about a hour before the vet visit. Seems to work.
Posted by: FloridaBill at July 27, 2025 03:16 PM (opNj9)
Since when has water vapor, between 0.2% and 4% of the atmosphere ever been considered harmful.
I know if sucks to be working outside when the humidity is at higher concentrations in the summer, but CO2, 0.042% of the atmosphere, as plant food never should have been classified as "harmful" either.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 03:16 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 27, 2025 03:17 PM (NXz8h)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 02:52 PM (3L6ac)
Then I read who Chuck Tingle is.
Ewwww.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 03:17 PM (0eaVi)
Drivers are obligated to follow the approved route for delivery. (In that case, going from PA out to Iowa. 🤣
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2025 03:18 PM (NFX2v)
I am the only person in this house that is awake.
And it's storming while the sun is shining.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:19 PM (2J/Lj)
There was significant mark-up from the price India paid to what they laundered it and resold it for.
Make India Billionaires Great Again
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 03:19 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM
Really? I didn't know he was still alive.
***
He's not.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 27, 2025 03:20 PM (GYt5+)
Sometimes bushwhacking is a smarter path. This keeps everybody on alert.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (ZYql3)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 03:01 PM
Really? I didn't know he was still alive.
***
He's not.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 27, 2025 03:20 PM (GYt5+)
Hah!
*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (bss/y)
Earthworms supposedly love the stuff, so that's a plus.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 03:07 PM
I have seen people recommend adding some shredded paper to compost, so that's not sounding too far afield.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2025 03:09 PM (Q9ezC)
Any denizen of the Sunday Book Thread would know insects like wood pulp.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Perhaps to/for Zelensky?
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2025 03:25 PM (NFX2v)
Well, you don't smell right but it is a good idea to sleep with a stick next to your sleeping bag.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:26 PM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 03:23 PM (hIY2p)
*types it in*
Oh, right. That is where I remembered that name. Voxis used to get superchats to read excerpts from his novels.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 03:26 PM (bss/y)
Hard to pick my favorite song, but it's either "The Elements" or, more likely, "Hanukkah in Santa Monica."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslsgH3-UFU&t=2s
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 27, 2025 03:26 PM (FEVMW)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:27 PM (I7b3/)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:03 PM (I7b3/)
Well, there goes my membership paperwork.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 03:27 PM (W/lyH)
I am the only person in this house that is awake.
And it's storming while the sun is shining.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
That’s pretty amazing. Snapshot that picture in your brain. Remember HARD the sounds and the smells and the peace.
You can go back to that picture whenever you need to.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 03:28 PM (mT+6a)
Good God, are there no walls that a guy(?) like this can be stood up in front of?
Posted by: Paco
Defenestration works every time it is tried. It's not only for Russians.
Posted by: Millstones Work, Too at July 27, 2025 03:29 PM (G5+As)
I am the only person in this house that is awake.
And it's storming while the sun is shining.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
A less than once in a decade, family "mental" picture. It sounds so sweet. Enjoy it.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 27, 2025 03:34 PM (NFX2v)
A: So the Germans can march in the shade.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
I thought it was to keep the dog turds from drying out too fast in the sun.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 03:34 PM (/lPRQ)
I am the only person in this house that is awake.
And it's storming while the sun is shining.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:19 PM (2J/Lj)
Sunday afternoon naps were a tradition growing up. Getting four kids cleaned up and not looking like fashion disasters out the door every Sunday morning was exhausting for my parents. And we kids needed a rest from whatever fight we'd lost (clothing choices, not wanting to go to church, lunchtime theological discussions). Then we'd start it all over again with the Sunday afternoon board game.....
Posted by: pookysgirl learned to not play Monopoly with her sister at July 27, 2025 03:35 PM (Wt5PA)
"No brag, just facts."
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 03:13 PM (3TbF6)
Walter Brennan, who would have been 134 yesterday, "The Guns of Will Sonnet"
TV Western
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 03:36 PM (4rENN)
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 02:06 PM
Didn't a handful of princes die under mysterious circumstances after 9/11? I seem to remember one dying out in the desert.
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:36 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 03:39 PM (I7b3/)
I shall practice my The Science Is Settled retorts for the watermelons.
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:39 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:41 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 03:42 PM (4rENN)
'Damn. And at the cusp of "National Brotherhood Week".'
That's one of my favorites. There's nothing funnier than when people who hate each other pretend to like each other.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 27, 2025 03:43 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 27, 2025 03:43 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 27, 2025 03:44 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:44 PM (2J/Lj)
What's it mean, and why?
Posted by: Soothsayer
If you're after a raccoon and he climbs a tree, he is treed. So the idiom literally means to pursue the town until the whole town climbs up a tree.
Posted by: Bombadil at July 27, 2025 03:45 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: Bombadil at July 27, 2025 03:45 PM
Then you grin at them until they fall over dead.
Posted by: Daniel Boone at July 27, 2025 03:46 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 27, 2025 03:48 PM (2J/Lj)
And blame Trump and corporate America. Because they can't be wrong, it's impossible for them to be wrong!
Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 03:49 PM (ilX37)
Anyway, the Hoover was unbelievably nasty afterwards but, you have to use a screwdriver to take some of it apart to clean it. This seems like poor engineering for something you should clean after each use. It should have quick release somethings.
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:52 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at July 27, 2025 03:55 PM (KaHlS)
Of course, the unthinkable might happen. Peace breaks out, and the Euroweenies could safely buy Russian gas again, thus benefiting the entire world.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 03:55 PM (4rENN)
is fun. But you sure don't see much.
If you're not up on a mountain side, the riders will just be a blur when they zip by. And even on a mountain, they go by pretty quick.
And you wait for a long time for them to get to your spot. And then they're gone and it's over.
It's like going to a football game and only seeing one play from the entire game.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 03:56 PM (Lo97M)
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Their Latinate voluptuousness combines with their Gallic laziness, and as a result, they'd rather eat and make love with their faces than fight.
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 03:57 PM (AOsQT)
It's like going to a football game and only seeing one play from the entire game.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 03:56 PM
So I presume the crowd does a lot of tailgating.
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:58 PM (jc0TO)
FOOD NOOD
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 04:02 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: toby928
++
Yeah. It's all about the atmosphere and the party. If you're not into that, there's not much reason to go.
Some people don't even watch the bikes go by. They just want to take selfies with the riders in the background.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 04:03 PM (Lo97M)
Florida is too hot and humid.
Try Virginia or Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 04:03 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 04:05 PM (ilX37)
Try Virginia or Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
+++
Agreed. Florida is way too hot. And it's full.
Don't move here.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 04:06 PM (Lo97M)
Don't move here.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 04:06 PM
Ditto Alabama.
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 04:07 PM (jc0TO)
That's one of my favorites. There's nothing funnier than when people who hate each other pretend to like each other.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 27, 2025 03:43 PM (3wi/L)
Tom was a lefty, but he made fun of everyone. And a brilliant mathematician as well. Imagine having him as your math professor?
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 04:08 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: The Old North State. at July 27, 2025 04:09 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)
That's me. CBD has been pretty vigilant in zapping me whenever I appear.
I've been commenting here since I think 2008.
I will always love this place.
I don't think there is anything else like it.
There is certainly nothing like it on the Left.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 27, 2025 04:14 PM (vzCvX)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 02:20 PM (qpyNK)
Excellent!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 05:03 PM (0sq2f)
America Should Have A Longer Memory
America and Americans are famously forgiving. After a few fits and starts, our relationship with Great Britain became a pillar of our foreign policy. Our own War Of The Southern Rebellion was brutal and cruel, but aside from mostly friendly differences, we are one nation. Japan and Germany were bitter enemies, yet 10 years after WWII had ended we were well on our way to becoming loyal diplomatic and trade partners with both countries. Even Vietnam, whose conduct after we signed a treaty and left was reprehensible, is now a trading partner and a travel destination for Americans!
And terrorist groups get off just as easily. Hezbollah killed 241 Americans in 1983, and continued their attacks on America for years, yet they are still around! Iran kidnapped 66 American diplomats and kept them as hostages for 444 days, then spent the next 45 years attacking America whenever it could through its terrorist proxies (like Hezbollah!). And we mostly just went about our business, because none of these attacks were existential threats to us, and certainly not to the homeland. Even September 11th's attacks quickly faded into the past, and instead of hunting down every al Qaeda member on earth, we mostly just droned the obvious ones. And now, even our president is lauding a former al Qaeda member as some sort of Syrian Thomas Jefferson. But maybe that isn't such a good idea. Having a long memory of our enemies and their attacks seems to be a strong indicator of cultural and social strength. Having a commitment to punishing their transgressions against our country and people, and more importantly, never forgetting seems to be a wiser approach than our culturally embedded attitude of almost instant forgiveness. For instance: This flight instructor was either a moron, or was purposefully obtuse, yet the worst we did was revoke his work permit? Vueling pilot of plane that saw Jewish kids removed was flight instructor of two 9/11 terroristsAccording to his book, Marwan al-Shehhi and Mohamed Atta, hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11, respectively, were entrusted to him by the aviation academy after they “paid hefty sums of money to get the best instructors.” Chirivellas described them as “normal,” but noted that they had an aggressive attitude, short tempers, and a strong interest in Boeing commercial flights. “I didn’t understand at the time their interest in those planes, when they couldn’t even pass the basic theoretical exams.” Only an hour after the September 11 attacks, Chivirellas was called by the aviation academy about an FBI investigation that involved two of his students. “When it was confirmed that they performed the attack, I felt shivers down my spine.” The official investigation declared that there was no connection between Chivirellas and the terrorists, and that he trained them without knowing their real intentions. Still, his work permit for the United States was revoked once he had to renew it after the attacks.
If he was guiltless, then why did we revoke his permit? And if he had some culpability, why is he not in Guantanamo? Or dead? Israel sees these issues very differently. For instance, after the murders of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the Munich Olympics in 1972 by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September, Israel spent years chasing the organizers. And after the catastrophe of October 7th, Israel has clearly and publicly embarked on a comprehensive program to kill every single person involved in its planning and execution. That will go a long way towards forging a national consensus, and perhaps allowing some sort of acceptance of the many failures in policy that led to the attacks. Perhaps it is time for America to remember the many fallen, and instead of moving on, exact a price for every single American killed. And if that means decapitating Iran? Well, as they say, revenge is a dish best eaten cold.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 27, 2025 12:02 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Caf at July 27, 2025 12:02 PM (/+mVZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 12:03 PM (+qU29)
g'early afternoon, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2025 12:04 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 12:05 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 12:05 PM (0eaVi)
America should have a longer memory. But it doesn't, and it will not happen.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 12:06 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 12:08 PM (VofaG)
The left OTOH is actively fighting it at every level.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: scottst at July 27, 2025 12:09 PM (oI2Vm)
The left OTOH is actively fighting it at every level.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)
The same that believe the violence of the left is free speech, but the speech of those who want to protect their constitutional rights is violence.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 12:10 PM (ynpvh)
I think that has been attributed to Winston Churchill.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)
I think that has been attributed to Winston Churchill.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 12:10 PM (VofaG)
He also said of capitalism: It's a terrible system, but much better than alternatives...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 12:11 PM (ynpvh)
We are Dubai, where all the workers are serfs to poolside princes and princesses who never lift anything heavier than their credit cards.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 27, 2025 12:12 PM (wBaIH)
But seriously… Israel can’t afford to have a short memory. For them it’s a matter of survival… for us being much bigger and in a better neighborhood of the world we can get away with being more sloppy. Heck I think I pay attention but I’d never heard the name Ivan Chirivella. Shame on me and the press… mostly the press. Yes we’re too nice
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2025 12:12 PM (OW907)
@EpochTimes 9m
Millions of HydroTech Hoses Recalled After Hundreds Burst, Leaving at Least 29 People Injured
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:12 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:13 PM (e+Yrg)
@EpochTimes 9m
Millions of HydroTech Hoses Recalled After Hundreds Burst, Leaving at Least 29 People Injured
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:12 PM (mlg/3)
Lesson: Don't have sex with your HydroTech hose.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:14 PM (e+Yrg)
We are Dubai, where all the workers are serfs to poolside princes and princesses who never lift anything heavier than their credit cards.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 27, 2025 12:12 PM (wBaIH)
Something about happily sell you the rope on Friday that will be used to hang them on Sunday...or something like that...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 12:14 PM (ynpvh)
'For the love of God we elected a Islam praising guy whose name was Barack Hussein'
Who is this 'we'? That was done by a bunch of people who subsequently burnt any national ties between them and me.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 27, 2025 12:15 PM (3wi/L)
@EpochTimes 9m
Millions of HydroTech Hoses Recalled After Hundreds Burst, Leaving at Least 29 People Injured
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:12 PM (mlg/3)
Lesson: Don't have sex with your HydroTech hose.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:14 PM (e+Yrg)
Not when there are toasters available.
Posted by: Toaster F**kers Union at July 27, 2025 12:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 27, 2025 12:16 PM (P0m9n)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 27, 2025 12:16 PM (P0m9n)
Why do you think his SDI was called "Star Wars"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 12:18 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 12:19 PM (rkb3z)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:19 PM (mlg/3)
A lot to be said for that.
But I'm reminded of what Coolidge.said, "The chief business of the American people is business." He was right...but we cannot forget those who have wronged us.
Also, how we treat nation states after conflicts is different than non-state actors.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 12:20 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Toaster F**kers Union at July 27, 2025 12:15 PM (ynpvh)
I mean, the things have two slots... Two!
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:20 PM (e+Yrg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 12:20 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Toaster F**kers Union at July 27, 2025 12:15 PM (ynpvh)
I mean, the things have two slots... Two!
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:20 PM (e+Yrg)
Sometimes four...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:21 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: The Paolo at July 27, 2025 12:21 PM (PiwSw)
But I'm reminded of what Coolidge.said, "The chief business of the American people is business."
Monkey business.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 12:22 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 12:23 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at July 27, 2025 12:23 PM (P0m9n)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
What is the law?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:21 PM (mlg/3)
Judge Dredd
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 12:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 12:22 PM
We’re talking about Gary Hart?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2025 12:25 PM (ZtAny)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 12:20 PM (W/lyH)
Sure, but I have a hard time finding room to concern myself with foreign battles happening on the other side of the globe, when we have a government that will kill its own Presidents, candidates for President, take shots at once and future Presidents... Not to mention overthrowing one in a setup, and trying to overthrow another in an even more preposterous setup.
Or we can get into releasing a virus on the world, killing thousands by stuffing them in nursing homes, or throwing people who walked through the Capitol in prison. Or people who protest abortions...
I could go on and on. I don't care what's happening in the rest of the world. We need to get our own shit in order.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:25 PM (8sydA)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 12:26 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 27, 2025 12:26 PM (tA1/w)
Which is exactly what should happen. Anyone even remotely responsible in any way for those attacks should be found and killed. If they are dead they will never be able to do anything remotely like the attack on October 7th.
This is what we should have done after 9/11 but bush and the deep state didn't want the fact that the house of saud was involved.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 12:26 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2025 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
Look at Mr. Richie Rich over here.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:27 PM (8sydA)
They should go back to being Americans rather than barbarians.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 12:27 PM (u82oZ)
There's something else to be said for acting on it.
I'll note that a small, but growing majority of conservatives are looking for some retribution after all the shit that went down over the last 8 years. Simply exposing all the corruption that was instigated isn't going to be sufficient.
Heads must roll.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 12:26 PM (mADJX)
Funny how we're finding out how easily they were able to find and track Obama bin Laden's whereabouts... long before they decided to take him out.
It's almost like they WANTED a perpetual war.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:28 PM (8sydA)
Posted by: Mister Scott
And PK, which would have made another mess, but actually would have addressed the f'ing source of the problem.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:30 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Look Out Below! at July 27, 2025 12:31 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)
Meanwhile, the perpetrators go on teevee, to be interviewed by other perpetrators, telling their audiences that Tulsi is lying about what happened.
It wasn't that Trump was colluding with the Russians, you see. It was that Russia bought thousands of dollars in Farcebook ads to try to influence the election!
So, nothing to see here. Move on dot org.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:31 PM (8sydA)
It has been a cool summer thus far in Portland, which has been a terrible disappointment to the local eco-nuts. (San Francisco is having the coldest summer in sixty years.)
One of eco-nuts' favorite slogans is "This will be the coldest summer of the rest of your life" - i.e. every summer will be hotter than the previous one until we all burn to a crisp.
They're not taking it well - one of the more prominent local eco-nuts exploded on Bluesky:
The unnecessary, worsening calamity we are forcing upon this planet all of its inhabitants, all to keep the machine chugging along and burn just a little more fossil fuel, is just so gut wrenching and infuriating and soul crushing
What occasioned this outburst?
There is some flooding in Northern China that required the evacuation of 19,000 people.
Big whoop.
He would be so much happier if Portland had a couple of weeks over 100 degrees, but it seems unlikely that he is going to get that this summer.
Posted by: The ARC Of History! at July 27, 2025 12:33 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 27, 2025 12:26 PM (e5NfL)
According to some, Saudi Arabia was behind the Las Vegas massacre too.
There's another event that's been memory holed.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:33 PM (8sydA)
https://tinyurl.com/c95bn5e3
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 12:34 PM (mADJX)
Makes total sense.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:34 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Pete Bog
Well, it's a starting point, I suppose.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
After 9-11 there were infinite options -
- He chose to open the floodgates of immigration in response. Which is a very odd choice when dealing with a culture that has characteristics summerized as 'terrorism'.
*Maybe Bubba brought in shitloads of Somalis and Haitians before that?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 12:34 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 12:35 PM (63Dwl)
- He chose to open the floodgates of immigration in response. Which is a very odd choice when dealing with a culture that has characteristics summerized as 'terrorism'.
Yeah, I would not have predicted after 9/11 that our response would be to allow the Muslim population of the United States to double in the following ten years.
Posted by: The ARC Of History! at July 27, 2025 12:36 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 12:36 PM (mADJX)
Many like to fantasize about "regime change" - that can only happen with a ground invasion. And we've done all of that we're going to do in the middle east.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025 12:36 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 12:36 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Ron at July 27, 2025 12:38 PM (KDtr3)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 12:39 PM (/lPRQ)
It wasn't that Trump was colluding with the Russians, you see. It was that Russia bought thousands of dollars in Farcebook ads to try to influence the election!
So, nothing to see here. Move on dot org.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:31 PM (8sydA)
I’ve stopped following the story because my blood pressure can’t handle all the lying. The talking point that almost causes me an aneurysm is that Marco Rubio agreed Russia tried to influence the 2016 election (in his senate report of 2017) so obviously Tulsi is smoking something and/or lying now. I can’t take this level of obfuscation and deception and conflating of separate things…. And I know nothing will happen so I’ll spare myself the high BP
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2025 12:39 PM (ANuwa)
Yeah, Israel has learned that political people can be replaced - technical people less so.
Israel successfully killed every prominent and every not-so-prominent nuclear scientist in Iran during its campaign.
It is hoped that young smart Iranians will be less than enthusiastic to go into nuclear work after this.
Posted by: The ARC Of History! at July 27, 2025 12:41 PM (xTIDn)
So, nothing to see here. Move on dot org.
Posted by: BurtT
===
And that basement server pinging Russia !!!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 12:41 PM (/lPRQ)
Name one in operation that isn't dead in the desert. Recycled thru Iraqi dogs. In Guantanamo. etc.
Keeping the GWOT right sized for everybody was always going to be a problematic exercise.
Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 12:41 PM (FhXTo)
The US can afford to be magnanimous. Israel can't. The first time Israel loses a war will be the last time. Complete debellation of the Jewish state. The very best its citizens can hope for is expulsion. More likely it will be 10/7 writ large.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 12:42 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2025 12:44 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 12:45 PM (u82oZ)
Israel's conquerors will start killing like foxes in a hen house, in a frenzy of pure murderous bloodlust. So if Israel is ruthless about hunting down its enemies, there's a very good reason.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 12:46 PM (HZi96)
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Ain't it though?
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 12:36 PM (mADJX)
Totally unrelated I'm sure, but John "Don't Call Me Michael" Bolton is now barking about what a lying liar Tulsi is.
Thanks for letting us know you were in on it, you freak.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:46 PM (AtFJ+)
The thing that blows my mind is that there are leftists living in Israel who cheer for that outcome. Usually when you're being directly shot at you have a much different opinion of those committing the crime.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2025 12:47 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Khan Noonian Singh at July 27, 2025 12:49 PM (m0WlR)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK
He wrote a book about it called "The Room Where it Happened". I've had it for a couple of years but haven't read it yet.
Posted by: Reforger at July 27, 2025 12:49 PM (TOnMl)
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Not enough for that one. It's time for Israel to start reclaiming it's land. West Bank and Gaza is a start. The Gazan's hate Israelis; they don't belong in Israel they belong with their muslim brothers.
They are kindred spirits and should bear each others needs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 12:49 PM (WAasH)
Posted by: DaveA at July 27, 2025 12:41 PM (FhXTo)
It's even harder to figure out how to make it all work, when you were supporting one group of freedom fighters, then when those same fellas fly planes into your buildings, you now declare them the worst of the worst, and then only two decades later, support them as the good guys in Syria who need our help to make sure Assad stays overthrown.
Oh, and same fellas who are chopping off the heads of Christians in country, as we speak.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:50 PM (AtFJ+)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 27, 2025 12:51 PM (17s+e)
Same for the Obama cabal. Professional, reputational ruin is all well and fine, but it does not go the extra mile necessary to properly punish people who essentially overthrew the government.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 12:53 PM (Q4IgG)
Yup. Too many have already forgotten what the Junta did to Trump after they took power.
Endless investigations from multiple jurisdictions (all coordinated), depositions, bookings and mug shots, raids on family homes, and a head shot while security was conveniently very lax (as arranged by the Junta).
But, you dare not even think of doing that to Obam because no one ever charged a former President before.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 12:54 PM (/lPRQ)
Sounds like this pilot needs plumbotherapy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:56 PM (Hyyh7)
Posted by: DaveA
The USADE budget was bigger than the GWOT budget.
We forced them to take our money at gunpoint.
Another odd response to 9-11.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 12:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 12:54 PM
Cut. Jib. Newsletter?
Posted by: Denizens of Democratic Underground at July 27, 2025 12:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: toby928 at July 27, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Ian S
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Human condition is elliptical. There will always be; here, Russia, China, anywhere there is a cohesive group of humans there will be 30% forming the ellipse. We don't roll like a Goodyear tire. Not knowing how to deal with it prevents us from progressing to the next level.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 12:57 PM (WAasH)
Same for the Obama cabal. Professional, reputational ruin is all well and fine, but it does not go the extra mile necessary to properly punish people who essentially overthrew the government.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 12:53 PM (Q4IgG)
It's not just that they run to the news, Brennan and Psaki both WORK for NBC! They ARE the media!!
Which makes you wonder, who really controls NBC, and will we ever learn their names.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:57 PM (mNhIh)
We need to stay out of wars that are none of our business.
We should not involve ourselves in other countries elections.
We should not allow foreign people in this country who want us destroyed. Like college professors and so called students.
Borders closed. Only people who come in have to do it the legal way. A neutral press. Strong laws against sedition.
Well, that's a start.
Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 12:58 PM (ilX37)
Even before his falling out with Trump, Bolton always struck me as a crank, a highly unreliable egotist with a very short fuse.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 01:00 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 01:01 PM (0sNs1)
@ImMeme0
“I’m going to bomb the plane. Death to America. Death to Trump. Allahu Akbar!”
— shouted by a Muslim aboard an easyJet flight from London to Glasgow today, which had to be diverted after he made the bomb threat.
They ALL hate us!
https://tinyurl.com/2sn97jd8
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2025 01:02 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 12:57 PM
* cackles *
* wing flaps in unison *
Posted by: Big Penguin at July 27, 2025 01:02 PM (0sNs1)
I'm thinking they need to go the military tribunal route at Gitmo.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 01:03 PM (Q4IgG)
Well, that's a start.
Posted by: Case at July 27, 2025 12:58 PM (ilX37)
I don't tend to get worked up by the notion that companies want to hire foreigners over Americans, because there's always two sides to these arguments.
However... if... IF you are going to allow foreigners to come in, they have to be able to pay their own way. This country's expensive to live in. Do you have the means to support yourself and your family? Then sure, come on in. We got some paperwork for you though.
If you can't, then yes. The border's closed.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:03 PM (mNhIh)
What is that saying about those that forget history?
We should remember and take the necessary steps to prevent it again. Whether it is 9/11 or Covid or the 2020 election theft.
And seriously, us on the right should not be complacent with Trump in office. Look at everything the judiciary is doing to prevent his policies from taking effect. If this were the Democrats, all their politicians would be screaming at the top of their lungs and passing any and all legislation to get what they want.
Republicans cannot play Mr Nice Guy anymore. Fight for you know who's sake. Do you not think the Democrats would not be the first to put you against the wall if they ever get control of all branches of government?
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 01:04 PM (Jm6kM)
What is America? I asked a lot of people what is uniquely American and the only answer I had was that we are a pluralist society. That means that there is no predominant culture, nothing binds us together, we are a competing colonies not a country.
All of the US's foreign policies and enemies are defined by London, Brussels, Davos, Tel Aviv and to some extent Beijing.
Maybe Trump will winnow that list down, but Trump is stymied by the Communists and Globalists that is the Uniparty.
In summary, American culture has absolutely nothing to do with what Babylon DC ends up implementing or promoting.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:06 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 01:01 PM (0sNs1)
Guess they were still celebrating after taking two of three from the Cardinals last week.
A once great franchise decided they needed a diversity hire manager, so no one would question why they have a bunch of old white guys tossing batting practice to opponents.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:06 PM (mNhIh)
de-monetize him
de-bank him
deport him
exile him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (WAasH)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (FOLLH)
Posted by: Kurtz at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (eBf9H)
That's great, Dan. But the ol' "I've seen the file" routine isn't quite as effective for you as it once was.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:10 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 01:00 PM
I always saw him as someone who wanted constant war. He is sick. Yeah, back in the Bush days he was good against the Democrats but that was it.
Now that the US has enough of forever wars he and his mustache must be sidelined.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 01:11 PM (Jm6kM)
de-monetize him
de-bank him
deport him
exile him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (WAasH)
And with Jen Psaki, she needs to be Pspanked.
I'll do it, if no one else will.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:11 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (FOLLH)
I used to love watching that event on TV! Beautiful views, amazing…. I loved broadcasters Phil Liggett and Bob Rolle… but I lost interest because they put it in some streaming platform I don’t have… and I’m convinced every single rider (except maybe not the domestiques) is doping
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2025 01:12 PM (WdMlw)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM
Nice!!!
I have not followed the Tour de France in years.
Is this the final leg or the start of the race?
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 01:12 PM (Jm6kM)
Really? Then why do people "Remember the Alamo" but can't get within a decade of when Texas became a Republic? Why do we all know what December 7th means, but have no idea when VE or VJ happened?
America loves wallowing in our defeats and forgetting our victories, this is such a bizarre and predominant social pathology that most people seek defeat and are shocked by victory. We like to cheer underdogs and make villains out of the conquerors. The best and brightest are shamed and canceled while losers and scum are given front row seats and showered with praise.
Also, you have to be taught something before you can forget it. The past few generations know nothing except every possible thing to hate about their homeland.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:13 PM (a4flb)
Now that the US has enough of forever wars he and his mustache must be sidelined.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 27, 2025 01:11 PM (Jm6kM)
Was he though? Good against the Democrats?
I remember (there I go again) during the Bush Admin, the Democrats were launching offensive after offensive against the Bushies, and since I was a supporter back then, I was extremely frustrated that they rarely struck back.
It was as if they thought it was beneath them to get in the scrum with them. And so the '06 and '08 elections were unmitigated disasters for the R Party.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:13 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM
Are you taunting them in an outrageous French accent?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 27, 2025 01:13 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (FOLLH)
******
Very cool.
Probably sipping champagne and eating croissants too.
I'm jealous.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2025 01:15 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Kurtz at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM
Ya gotta go with what ya got.
Posted by: Communists at July 27, 2025 01:15 PM (0sNs1)
But really guys, they’re like not at all biased.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 27, 2025 01:15 PM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 01:18 PM (hIY2p)
Seriously? There's nothing on television worth watching?
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 01:18 PM (mADJX)
I'm trying to understand what "never be the same" means in objective terms.
He once was diligent about exposing the rot, does that mean he will never be diligent about exposing that rot again?
That would make sense. Some bad actors probably approached him and got his mind right. Don't know if that involved abductions, fingernail pulling and blow torches.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:19 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 27, 2025 01:19 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (FOLLH)
******
Pogacar is either the greatest cyclist of all time or they have figured out a doping regimen even better than Lance Armstrong had.
I'm not sure which one it is.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 01:20 PM (Lo97M)
I cued it up, Gutfeld style:
I wonder, is Our Favorite President(tm) in a good mood?
https://is.gd/dYqbtp
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:20 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by CBD at 12:00 PM Comments
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Forget about the revenge. Believe them when they say "death to America."
הבא להרגך, השכם להרגו
One who rises up to kill you, rise up beforehand and kill him.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 01:20 PM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025 01:20 PM (TEi+a)
— shouted by a Muslim aboard an easyJet flight from London to Glasgow today, which had to be diverted after he made the bomb threat.
I don't know how blowing up a London to Glasgow flight accomplishes death to either Trump or America, but these terrorists aren't known for being high IQ.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2025 01:22 PM (P9pDS)
I'm pretty sure part of any such rightness of mind would not include broadcasting on X that the rot is worse than anyone knows.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2025 01:23 PM (P9pDS)
This business with Obama and his cabal is being reframed as we sit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 01:24 PM (Q4IgG)
I'm getting fatigue on this trope. They have been saying that for fifty years or more.
The greatest threats, and by greatest I'm talking far and away the most immediate and destructive threats is in local, state and Fe'ral government.
Iran's imagined ambitions might be Tel Aviv's cat toy, but this "Death To America" bullshit manipulation to hate people that aren't bothering me is just tiresome.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:26 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:26 PM (3TbF6)
I'm not sure which one it is.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 01:20 PM (Lo97M)
I’m sure. He’s not the greatest ever. Did you know: Armstrong was tested regularly when he raced the tour and never failed a test? The dopers are way way ahead of the testers
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2025 01:27 PM (WdMlw)
Selective culling. This has, somewhat, been Trump's style but he's getting too involved and less focused (as with the Houthis - there's a rooster in that bunch that needs a decapitation). What, for example, should be done with Iran the next time they kick up dust? Take out the Khomeini's and his top ten. Take out the front man you take out the show.
We don't want to fight but if you harm an American or want to blow up the earth you're dead.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:27 PM (WAasH)
Dustin Grage@GrageDustin
BREAKING: Tim Walz just sent out this campaign text, which raises more violent rhetoric.
“Trump and his MAGA henchmen aren't going to go away willingly. That's why it's time to get up, get loud, and raise some hell.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 01:28 PM (L/fGl)
Normally this would be true, but Bongino has been an entertainer for many years, and good at building an audience and better at keeping them.
That X post is years and years of habit to tease and promote the next broadcast segment and draw clicks.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:29 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 27, 2025 01:18 PM (hIY2p)
Forget about pop culture, internet access has decreased our ability to research, absorb and retain information, and AI will further reduce our ability to sort, prioritize, analyze, and reason. We are rapidly outsourcing more and more of our cognitive function and skills, and it's not going to end well.
Posted by: Society is fucked and will only get more fucked at July 27, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Remember Danny Pearl?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:31 PM (WAasH)
This business with Obama and his cabal is being reframed as we sit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Anything the dems get caught doing is old news, even if it happened yesterday. It's always time to put this behind us and move forward.
But they will even change the statute of limitations to go after Trump.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 27, 2025 01:31 PM (Lo97M)
President Trump is not happy, today. Iran is pissing him off. Venezuela is pissing him off, and so is hamas. And I suspect the idiots harping on the epstein hoax bullshit is annoying him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:33 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2025 01:33 PM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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He should be arrested for incitement along with Jasmine Crockett and Kajammi Brown Jackson.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:33 PM (WAasH)
I expect the arrival of the Singularity at almost any moment.
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 01:34 PM (mADJX)
It spouts the same crap that's everywhere on line.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:36 PM (WAasH)
Notice how quickly that MN Deomcrat murder story disappeared? Two Democrats targeted for murder and the story went away in less than 72 hours.
But that stupidfucking epstein bullshit hoax won't die...
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:37 PM (3TbF6)
What does he mean by "go away"? They have a monopoly on inserting themselves into everyone else's business. MAGA is basically "Leave me out of your sinister, insane and depraved plans". MAGA wants to be as far away from Walz's demonic perverts as possible.
That's why it's time to get up, get loud, and raise some hell.”
Well, this should quickly settle the legal question of motive when MAGA individuals have to engage in some intense levels of self-defense.
Basically they are saying, surrender your lives, children and wealth to us or we will kill you.
Now, compare Walz's declaration of Civil War to Iran's "Death To America" slogan. Put that on your threat matrix and evaluate how much immediate effect and your inventory of response options to Walz's threats compared to Iran's slogan.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:37 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Paco at July 27, 2025 01:38 PM (mADJX)
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Oh noes! But our current limp appeasement-oriented foreign policy has had such great results!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 01:38 PM (JvZF+)
It spouts the same crap that's everywhere on line.
Grok is not sentient, nor is it capable of wisdom. Its like going in to a university town and trying to talk current events with an NPC.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:39 PM (a4flb)
President Trump today on fake "wind" "energy": "You need subsidy for wind. And Energy should not need subsidy: with Energy you make money, you don't lose money."
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:40 PM (3TbF6)
I didn't listen to the whole thing yet, but "I'm not happy" could be a kind of disarming thing for Trump to say, and at least the head of the European Commission smiled a bit. I think Trump could be quite effective negotiating with most women unless they've made their mind up to dislike him in advance . The "what you see is what you get " attitude could be appealing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 01:40 PM (2GCMq)
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PsychoKinesis ... or, in SkreetTalk, movin' it wit'cho mine ... (yeah, I know)
Posted by: Dr_No at July 27, 2025 01:43 PM (ayRl+)
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It's different when they say it.
It's also different when they act on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 01:43 PM (Q4IgG)
I think President Trump is the BEST President we've ever had for Foreign Policy. No question about it: he is the best.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:45 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 01:46 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:33 PM (3TbF6)
So Epstein is a hoax now?
We all imagined the thing about rich and powerful men having sex with children?
Ok then.
Maybe Trump can reach down the pants of Macron's "wife," and when he feels a penis he can be mad about that too.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:46 PM (KwCuT)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:06 PM (a4flb)
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Batsh*t crazy idea.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 01:46 PM (JvZF+)
So we need to bomb Pakistan because Angelina Jolie starred in a film adaptation of Pearl's widow's book "A Mighty Heart"?
People do stupid things. Here we have a Princeton/Stanford grad who walked into a hornet's nest deliberately trying to get into trouble.
He is a classic example of FAFO .
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:47 PM (a4flb)
https://is.gd/dYqbtp
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:20 PM (3TbF6)
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Don't know, went through seven picking out busses and motorcycles. Enough is enough.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:48 PM (WAasH)
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So we need to bomb Pakistan because Angelina Jolie starred in a film adaptation of Pearl's widow's book "A Mighty Heart"?
People do stupid things. Here we have a Princeton/Stanford grad who walked into a hornet's nest deliberately trying to get into trouble.
He is a classic example of FAFO .
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:47 PM (a4flb)
We named a harbor after him, what more could he want.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:48 PM (KwCuT)
Yeah, if it hasn't dawned on you yet: Most of what we *thought* we knew about the Epstein case is a Hoax.
Just like the Sean Coombs prosecution. 90% Bullshit. The DOJ is filled with Fucking Imbeciles.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:49 PM (3TbF6)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Watch out for the doorknob.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:49 PM (WAasH)
Yesterday, several of us were wondering if you or one of the COBs could add Ciampino to the Absent Friends list. It would be greatly appreciated.
TIA!!
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 27, 2025 01:49 PM (3AwA+)
Yeah, because the US independently found deep national interest in Ukraine/Russia's lover's quarrel.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:49 PM (a4flb)
We (the Right) will move on from the biggest Presidential scandal in this nation's history, an outgoing President deliberately sabotaging an incoming President, if you (the Left) will never, ever mention January 6 again.
Posted by: pookysgirl is pretty sure they won't at July 27, 2025 01:50 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 01:49 PM (3TbF6)
I don't know what you thought you "knew" about Epstein, but what I know is there WERE girls and boys taken to the island, there were children all over his swanky New York apartment building, there were kids dressing up like cowboys and cowgirls on Epstein's ranch in New Mexico...
And the richest, most powerful people in the world partook in having sex with children.
That I know.
What our government did with all the files proving it all happened, that I don't know. Why Trump is lying and covering it all up, I don't know why he's doing that either.
But what you know, I suspect, isn't very much.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 01:52 PM (KwCuT)
Why?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 01:52 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 01:53 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:26 PM (a4flb)
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Gey schluffen.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 01:54 PM (sTuNG)
To quote Joe Biden: Come on, man!
Don’t let the animals who did that off the hook morally. That was absolutely not FAFO…. It was brutality beyond imagination
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 27, 2025 01:54 PM (i5Vkf)
Just like the GOP is trying to jam in amnesty as soon as they can, they are also working hard to eliminate the position of DNI.
The Uniparty prefers when people like Rubio were operating on bad/manipulated intelligence.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:55 PM (a4flb)
No one does, but getting parts of body sawed off is pretty much a daily thing in Mexico by the cartels.
What makes people think that all of life is a perpetual Hallmark Channel Movie?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:57 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 01:58 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:57 PM
Um, Hallmark Channel Movies?
Posted by: Tiffini from Houston at July 27, 2025 01:58 PM (0sNs1)
July 25, 2025 15:15
...kicked over 50 Jewish children off for allegedly singing in Hebrew ...
...French Jewish children aged between 13 and 15 removed from the Vueling Airlines flight in Valencia, Spain....
...mother of one of the children,... told i24 that the children sang until the flight crew told them to stop and threatened to call the police if they persisted....
...The children then reportedly listened but the police arrested the group instructor anyway and told them to exit the aircraft.
Vueling has denied allegations of “any form of discrimination” and said their removal had nothing to do with the fact they were Jewish. The airline said that the reason they were taken off the plane was because they had disrupted and interfered with safety equipment....
Spain is a very liberal state.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:58 PM (WAasH)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:49 PM (a4flb)
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The US cannot allow the use of Russian arms against civilian populations to successfully acquire territory in Europe.
We can argue how "deep" a national interest that is but there it is.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 01:58 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: pookysgirl is pretty sure they won't at July 27, 2025 01:50 PM (Wt5PA)
That's like making a treaty with hamas. It'll be broken before the ink is dry.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2025 01:59 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:00 PM (+qU29)
What makes people think that all of life is a perpetual Hallmark Channel Movie?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 01:57 PM (a4flb)
Pretty sure they chopped it off with a scimitar or a similar instrument. There was another guy around that time who got it head sawed off with a dull kitchen knife, and then had the video posted everywhere.
But yeah, PJ Watson occasionally posts vids of the gals who go to third world shitholes, post on their Instagram how bad it is everyone is so prejudiced against the swarthy foreigners... and then get raped and killed by them.
Wish it never happened. You not going over there would have prevented it.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 02:00 PM (KwCuT)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 02:01 PM (+qU29)
We can argue how "deep" a national interest that is but there it is.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 01:58 PM (JvZF+)
I suppose that's true. But that's not what happened.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 27, 2025 02:02 PM (KwCuT)
It still chaps my rear that Saudi and Emirate royalty involved in the 9/11 massacre of American citizens are still above ground enjoying life and laughing.
The Israelis have the right idea of hunting down and killing all responsible for Munich and Oct 7.
And it whether or not the Saudis are allies or not. You don't get a free murder of American citizens.
They should be kidnapped, shot in the head and dropped in the Marianas Trench to rot.
Same for any other a-holes like them.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 02:02 PM (iJfKG)
We can argue how "deep" a national interest that is but there it is.
Says who? Why isn't Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, China, Japan, India, et al finding it their nation's business to disallow the Russians to occupy former territory?
But its OK for the US to blow up the Nordstream Pipeline destroying Germany's economy and overthrow the Libyan government to smuggle arms into Syria to overthrow the dentist.
I don't understand today's Moral Standards.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 02:04 PM (a4flb)
So when are you organizing a military invasion of Chicago to stop the slaughter there? Dozens shot and killed in Chicago (alone) each weekend is A-OK.
Selective outrage that seems to work hand-in-glove with the MIC.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 02:07 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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The Cambodia v Thailand thread is from KT but it is a perfect illustration of that, negotiating with muslims and communists.
They always shake hand and agree on settlement then double their nefarious activity. Bastards.
https://tinyurl.com/zp7uhfa5
if the whole thread doesn't come up use xcancel
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:09 PM (WAasH)
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at July 27, 2025 02:10 PM (e5PCC)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 02:11 PM (bXbFr)
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"Perdicaris Alive or Raisuni Dead"
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:12 PM (WAasH)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 02:13 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (WAasH)
Say, any talk of cleaning up elections floating around? Seems like if we don't, we are going to be right back in the same awful place we were within an election cycle or two.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 27, 2025 02:15 PM (vd6bO)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 02:16 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 02:21 PM (WAasH)
So much styrofoam. So much cardboard. So many contractor bags.
At the very back of the crawlspace was an unopened, unmarked large box. I tore it open. Baby crib. I'll donate it and they can pitch it if they want.
Everyone have a happy Sunday.
CBC 'News' - Trade deal with the E.U.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.1 % at July 27, 2025 03:02 PM (jvJvP)
This is true for everyone.
It is why you must go to church weekly.
It is why they stopped replaying 9-11 video on 9-13.
It is why they they shouted Trump-Russia Collusion !!! 24-7 for four years.
It is why they sweep trannies commiting mass-murder under the rug.
It is why in a coup the first thing they take over is the state media, state run or not.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 03:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at July 27, 2025 04:03 PM (029Oi)
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at July 27, 2025 06:59 PM (InGms)
Trump got us and Israel out of the I-I War, and you're trying to drag America back in.
Tell you what, I'll consider icing Khameini after Hillary, Obama, Jarrett, Comey, and ten dozen others are hanged on the White House lawn.
Posted by: Eric2 at July 27, 2025 07:14 PM (q7Vou)
Posted by: Quartermaster at July 27, 2025 08:15 PM (fs8hc)
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 7-27-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
PIC NOTE
I'm a sucker for pictures of cats lying on or next to books. It's even more special when it's *my* cats. So today you get a picture of my dear cat Allie leaning against a few books on my desk. I don't know why they do it, but they seem to love being around books. Maybe because it also smells like me, since I had just finished the top book, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle.
COMMUNITY-BASED STORYTELLING
There is a website called the SCP Foundation that documents the work of a secretive organisation that finds, catalogues, and if possible imprisons various kinds of cosmic horror and more innocuous but equally strange entities. It's a work of collaborative fiction organised as a wiki, and has been running for more than 15 years.
-- Pixy Misa 7/20/2025 Daily Tech News
There are so many sites like SCP - CreepyPasta, Backrooms, MSNBC. Not surprising AI just regurgitates that as fact, but how far gone do you have to be to not think "Wait a minute, this can't be real." Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at July 20, 2025 08:31 AM (HI5Mk)
The SCP Foundation is a fascinating form of long fiction. It's a true work of community-based storytelling where everyone involved can shape the story in unusual directions, though there are community guidelines in place so that no one strays too far outside the boundaries.
The premise is that there are people, places, and things in this world that defy explanation and shape the world according to unfathomable rules. The SCP Foundation was created to Secure, Contain, and Protect these objects, which in many cases are very, very dangerous not just to individuals but to the cosmos at large. There are over 9,000 such objects cataloged on the SCP Foundation website, each written as a short story of sorts and properly documented into categories of how dangerous they are. Even the items marked "Safe" can be quite hazardous, though, if their containment protocols are not followed to the strictest letter.
What's most fascinating about this website is that there IS an overarching narrative, as we can see glimpses of the fictional hierarchy of the SCP Foundation through letters and memos supposedly written by scientists, researchers, and administrators of the SCP Foundation. As one might expect at a highly secretive quasi-governmental organization dedicated to the paranormal, there's a lot of paranoia and suspicion among everyone who works there. Some want to use SCPs (the generic term for these objects) for the good of humanity, others for more personal gain, and others would destroy them all if that were remotely possible.
The idea of the SCP Foundation is not at all unique in fiction. The Bookburners franchise, for instance, has a similar organization within the context of the Vatican, where the titular "Bookburners" (they hate that term) round up magical objects and store them in secret archives beneath the Vatican. The television shows The Librarians and Warehouse 13 have similar premises as well.
Where this SCP Foundation stuff gets really interesting is how it may be affecting AI. Pixy linked to an article about an AI investor who posted a disturbing video of how he has been affected by AI. Apparently ChatGPT was influenced by the materials on the SCP Foundation website and used it in responses to the AI investor's queries. This is very much in keeping with how SCP entities tend to interact with humans. They can be very tricky and manipulative. Memes are among the most dangerous objects locked up at the SCP Foundation because of the effects they have on humans. Hence the extremely rigorous containment protocols required for each SCP within the Foundation's purview. It's a very weird example of life imitating art.
AI ADVENTURES IN STORYTELLING
I'm thinking there will be fewer writers and more AI because the reading public is getting lazier. There's always been a market for light breezy reading. AI will probably take that over and human writers will disappear from mainstream publishing. Why would the Big 5 pay a human when they can just write a couple of prompts? High literature will still exists, but the so-called paperback market will all be computer generated. Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 18, 2025 12:12 AM (0eaVi)
Whether we like it or not, AI-generated storytelling is here. This just another aspect of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 that has come to fruition in our lifetimes. Everyone makes a big deal about the bookburning in the story, but the REAL enemy--as I see it--is the dehumanization of the people who live in that world. Part of that dehumanization is through the interactive entertainment provided to people on demand via their televisions. People are given scripts to read during a television show and they dutifully read the scripts, pretending like they are part of the action. Now we have AI-generated storytelling that can feed us entertainment on demand based on our personal preferences. The stories are going to be subpar, recycled material from other stories of course. How is that worse than the human-generated garbage we see on television these days? There's a reason why reruns of old televisions like Gunsmoke are increasingly popular--the writing is crisp, the characters are well-developed, and the stories themselves shed light on our common human experiences. Modern storytelling--at least in the visual media like movies and television--is devoid of those things. It's sad that an AI-generated story--as mediocre as it may be--can be better than a human-generated story.
Fortunately, we still have decades and centuries of quality stories out there for us to read. As long as they aren't eaten up by drugstore beetles...
RESPONDING TO MORON COMMENTS
Thanks to one of my other gigs, helping out at church on Sundays, I don't get to respond to the comments as much as I might like. Usually, I have about an hour or so on Sundays to read the comments before I go to church. But when I am "working" on the tech team, I have to get there early, so I post the Sunday Morning Book Thread and hurry on down there to get things set up for worship. I then come home and read the comments after church.
DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS That's why I've avoided the Battlestar Galactica convo. Why bother raising anyone's ire by posting any dismissive takes on that waste of time.
Dang. I've done it now haven't I? Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at July 20, 2025 10:18 AM (RKVk
Arguing over Battlestar Galactica trivia is fine. Arguing with the resident trolls who infest AoSHQ like drugstore beetles infesting a library is frowned upon. CBD has made that very, very clear if you have not been paying attention to his repeated admonitions about quoting or responding to trolls.
Remember, trolls are NOT here to debate their talking points in good faith. Their sole purpose is to stimulate a negative emotional response in you. They are sexually aroused by it. Do not take their bait. Do not feed into their warped egos.
I honestly pity the trolls who come here to stir up trouble. Their lives are so devoid of meaning and substance that they derive pleasure from causing misery in others. They need to find a genuine hobby that gives them inner peace and satisfaction.
Turning their lives over to Jesus would be a good start.
A few years ago I launched a major purge of books centering on history, warfare and firearms because I had come to realize that most of them were garbage. Essentially works of fiction. You get authors who crib from other authors, who crib from older authors, and none of them has any first-hand knowledge of the topic, they're just regurgitating false information. This is particularly true with firearms guides or weapons (think tanks and aircraft) where no one has even so much as touched the actual thing, being content with just repeating numbers. Whole shelves got cleared to make way for accurate information. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 20, 2025 09:50 AM (ZOv7s)
This is an interesting observation. I know we've seen this in academic circles, particularly when it comes to the various "Grievance Studies" departments. The academics in those departments are constantly plagiarizing each other, as we've seen time and time again. They don't see anything wrong with it (unless they get caught and lose their sinecures). The result is that there hasn't been any original scholarship in certain fields in DECADES. It's a constant repetition of the same tired themes over and over and over again.
Good morning book threadies. Here's a news: The enemies of books are many. Water. Fire. Book-banners. Drugstore beetles... Thousands of historic books are in jeopardy over a massive bug infestation that could annihilate centuries-long of historical records. The Pannonhalma Archabbey in Hungary is a Benedictine monastery that is working to save books from drugstore beetles, according to The Associated Press (AP). The beetles were found in a section of the UNESCO World Heritage Site that houses 400,000 volumes -- which makes up a quarter of the books in the library. Posted by: mindful webworker - pro logue at July 20, 2025 10:46 AM (RviYc)
This is a reminder that the original "bookworm" consists of various insects and their larvae that feed on the wood pulp found in books. They LOVE the stuff. Silverfish, booklice, beetles, termites, cockroaches, and other vermin will destroy books in short order, given the chance. That's why it's best to keep all books in a vacuum chamber at all times. Take no chances. Or prisoners.
-- "There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it." ----- Yeah, Mr. Squirrell? If you wanna toss around that kind of bald assertion, then I'm assigning you to read Not That Kind of Girl, by Lena Dunham, and attempt to substantiate it. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 20, 2025 11:14 AM (BI5O2)
A long forgotten translation of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes expands on the ellipses in the quote above: "...except books by tubby wanna-be influencers like Lena Dunham..." Thanks to the rise of independent self-publishing now any idiot with a computer can write a "best seller." Also, a bad book can serve as an example of how NOT to write, so it does serve a purpose in that way.
MORON RECOMMENDATIONS
In 1980, presaging the idea of ecoterrorism, Alistair MacLean wrote Athabasca, a tale of potential sabotage of the Alaska pipeline. George Dermott and Donald MacKenzie work on a small team that specializes in industrial security, and they have been sent to Prudhoe Bay after a letter was sent to the pipeline manager, informing him that "you will be incurring a slight spillage of oil in the near future." The job at hand for Dermott and MacKenzie is to determine the veracity and probability that the letter is not a hoax, and review the security procedures to ensure that the pipeline is not sabotaged. As they search for clues, suddenly people working along the line are turning up missing or dead. It is now a race against time to prevent a massive oil spill and the shut down of a ten billion dollar pipeline. Having worked in the industry and spending time on the pipeline, it is obvious that MacLean did his homework before writing this novel. The remoteness, the cold, and the feeling that help is very far away is present throughout the story. MacLean is known for novels that grab the reader right away and never let up until the final chapter, and this story is no different. Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 20, 2025 09:11 AM (Vfq+S)
Comment: I really, really don't like ecoterrorists. These people are so deluded about their vision of the world they pose a genuine threat to the rest of us by shutting down major improvements in technology and innovation that make civilization as we know it possible. If they had their way, they'd turn out the lights for ALL of us, including themselves. They are also deluded in thinking that they would survive the technological apocalypse. Once people find out who caused it, they'll be torn limb from limb in the most gruesome manner possible.
My first run through the Dungeon Crawler Carl books, I was sort of dragged against my will, compelled to keep reading by wanting to know what was going to happen to these characters, but somehow not willing to acknowledge that I was hooked by a series of books that does not seem like my type of thing (A giant rolling ball of trapped players with a floppy god penis sticking out of it? Really?). Just wrapped up a second reading, and I have to admit, these books are really well done. The characters are very distinct and interesting, and the story just pulls you along. I can see why it is always at the top of the "Best LitRPG" lists. Hard act to follow. As a reference point in a similar genre, I made it about halfway through Ready Player One before I got bored and abandoned it. Posted by: Splunge at July 20, 2025 11:16 AM (N3mKE)
Comment: The Dungeon Crawler Carl books do tend to show up a lot at the top of readers' lists on BookTube, even if the BookTuber in question is not generally keen on the litRPG genre. It's not my favorite genre, though I have read a few of the proto-litRPG books like Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg. But it sounds like the Dungeon Crawler Carl series is genuinely entertaining, which is about 90% of what I want out of a book.
MORE MORON RECOMMENDATIONS CAN BE FOUND HERE: AoSHQ - Book Thread Recommendations- The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child -- This is a Moron Recommendation from Thomas Paine. Lincoln Child is the other half of Preston & Child, who write the Agent Pendergast books. It was OK, but also somewhat predictable. Very reminiscent of a Scooby Doo mystery, with fewer stoners and Scooby Snacks.
After reviewing some of OregonMuse's old Book Threads, I thought I'd try something a bit different. Instead of just listing WHAT I'm reading, I'll include commentary as well. Unless otherwise specified, you can interpret this as an implied recommendation, though as always your mileage may vary.
Timeline by Michael Crichton
This is Crichton's time travel novel, though it's really about quantum teleportation to alternate dimensions. It just seems like time travel to an outside viewer. Even the people who developed the technology don't fully understand how it works. The premise is that people are deconstructed in our universe and reconstructed in an alternate universe according to multiverse theory. However, the reconstruction is initiated by a third universe that understands the technology better than we do. Naturally, the genius who developed it in the "real world" is an arrogant dick, in keeping with Crichton's general theme about corrupt CEOs throughout his books. The party that travels into the past is trying to recue a history professor who was trapped back in the 14th century, shortly before the Black Plague ravages southern France. It's a decent technothriller story, as one would expect from Michael Crichton. I did go see the movie version, but I honestly don't remember it much at all, so it's also a bit forgettable.
Legends of Ethshar Book 1 - The Misenchanted Sword by Lawrence Watt-Evans
The Legends of Ethhar series of novels are all stand-alone tales set within the same world. Each focuses on a single character caught up in events that push them to their limits. In the first book, The Misenchanted Sword, the scout Valder is caught behind enemy lines during the Great War that has raged for centuries between the Northern Empire and the Ethsharites. Valder encounters a wizard hermit who promises to enchant Valder's sword so that Valder will leave him alone and escape back to his Ethshar homelands. Unfortunately, the enchanting ritual goes wrong and Valder has a powerful magic sword with severe limitations. Now he has to figure out how to stay alive and escape the unintended curse of the sword.
The Legends of Ethshar Book 2 - With a Single Spell by Lawrence Watt-Evans
In the second book of the series, we follow young Tobas, an apprentice wizard who has only learned a single spell--Thrimbul's Combustion--before his master croaks. That one spell is great for starting fires under any condition, but it also has some drawbacks as Tobas discovers when he unintentionally burns down his master's hut, destroying his master's Great Book of Spells. Now Tobas must make his own way in the world. His goal is to learn more magic and become a full-fledged wizard. Along the way he becomes part of a dragon-hunting party and stumbles into an interdimensional castle inhabited by a lonely witch.
The Legends of Ethshar Book 3 - The Unwilling Warlord by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Sterren was an unusually lucky gambler, with just enough of a magical edge to keep him happy and comfortable in Ethshar of the Spices. Then one day a woman and her two goons kidnap him and force him to become the Ninth Warlord of the Small Kingdom of Semma, his legacy. Now war is coming and he has to find a way to use his position as Warlord to stop two armies from invading his tiny kingdom. Naturally, his solution unleashes even more problems, as this is a running theme in these books.
The Legends of Ethshar books are clearly influenced by the works of Jack Vance and L. Sprague DeCamp. Much of the entertainment comes from the farcical nature of the situations the protagonists find themselves in. Every story has a reasonably happy ending, but the situations often go from bad to much, much worse before the end. You can also see some influence of Dungeons and Dragons, which was itself inspired by Jack Vance, in how the magic systems are handled.
The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child
This was a Thomas Paine recommendation from some time ago. It showed up in my Amazon feed, so I thought I'd give it a chance. I've read a few of Douglas Preston's independent books and enjoyed them. The Forgotten Room embraces quite a few of the haunted mystery tropes such as a huge, sprawling manor house hiding old secrets, mad scientists engaging in research man as not meant to know, and an impending storm that strikes during the climax of the story as the hero finally figures out the puzzle. It was an entertaining read, though it did seem a bit predictable at times.
A Trio for Lute by R. A. MacAvoy
I picked this up from a used book pile at my local gaming store recently. It's the tale of a young witch in 14th-century Italy who wants to save his town from being invaded by General Pardo. His best friends are a talking dog and the archangel Raphael, who teaches Domiano how to play the lute. Damiano also wants to win the love of of his life, though she does not return his feelings.
This is an omnibus edition of three separate books: Damiano, Damiano's Lute, and Raphael.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 08:59 AM (+qU29)
RacPress does have a substack.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:00 AM (0eaVi)
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Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 09:01 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:02 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: gp at July 27, 2025 09:02 AM (hNDvI)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:03 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:03 AM (0eaVi)
In half an hour of study, I've already found one error, halfway down Appendix B, where the term (s^2)/2 should be (s/2)^2. Being that the erroneous term is used in the derivation of the height of the equilateral triangle, that's a foundational mistake for this whole book. I have no doubt there are other errors to be found. Glad I didn't pay the $60 cover price.
Oh wait! I just discovered that the author also wrote 'The Vibrational Universe (The Potentials of Consciousness),' so I'm guessing he's a New Ager dabbling in so-called 'Sacred Geometry,' rather than a real mathematician. He almost had me fooled!
Posted by: gp at July 27, 2025 09:03 AM (hNDvI)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:02 AM (0eaVi)
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Yep!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:04 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 09:05 AM (yTvNw)
Please comply. It's really not too much to ask. It's not like The Perfessor is asking you to make sure your tray tables are up and to return your seats to the upright and locked position, is it?
Any belief you may have regarding some breathing room to misbehave given the recent completion of your Semi-annual AoSHQ Commenter Review is misguided.
Posted by: Bob from NSA at July 27, 2025 09:06 AM (0sNs1)
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I read these eons ago. They were good. But "Tea With the Black Dragon" is her best work.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:07 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:08 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 09:08 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:09 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: dantesed at July 27, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)
Nearly done with Patrick Chiles' 'The Long Way Home' and have a blindfolded choice coming up from the TBR pile.
Posted by: Brewingfrog at July 27, 2025 09:10 AM (egg9a)
Posted by: dantesed at July 27, 2025 09:09 AM (Oy/m2)
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That would be my bible. It has a pair of book mark ribbons attached to it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:10 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (PClog)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (omVj0)
"Comment: I really, really don't like ecoterrorists. These people are so deluded about their vision of the world they pose a genuine threat to the rest of us by shutting down major improvements in technology and innovation that make civilization as we know it possible. If they had their way, they'd turn out the lights for ALL of us, including themselves."
This is a theme in Directive 51, by John Barnes. The ecoterrorists FAFO.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)
Willowed from the Tech Thread: I want book covers that show a dramatic moment from the novels they encase. Probably it's too much to hope for that we could have attractive women, and men, on the covers again, as we had with paperbacks from the '50s to the '80s (? '70s for sure). But a dramatic scene with a soldier or frontiersman in a snowy forest, holding back a pack of wolves with a torch -- how 'bout that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (h7ZuX)
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Yep. It doesn't end well for them after the world ends.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:12 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2025 09:12 AM (UseAb)
The travelers are from Oxford University in the mid-21st Century, and are only supposed to observe...
The problem in Doomsday is that the time machine has been having some "slippage" so it doesn't always land the traveler in the desired time period. Kivrin, the traveler, was supposed to land in a time with no Black Death, but it doesn't work out that way because of slippage.
Posted by: Wethal at July 27, 2025 09:12 AM (NufIr)
Which are fine....but only up to the point where they don't usurp real interactions with real people in the real world.
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 09:13 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 09:13 AM (+qU29)
One good movie version that captured the novel's feel was "Wonder Boys", from Michael Chabon's book.
Any others? Don't say the LotR movies!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:14 AM (kpS4V)
The third book and subject of this review is Red Square. Renko, now restored as an inspector, returns to a Moscow post collapse, where rubles are worthless and the mob runs the country. A money launderer Renko is trailing is the victim of a car bomb, and Renko must try to get to the bottom of it amidst the corruption in the new Russia, as well as a newly reunited Germany.
In all of the Renko novels, his intuition plays an important role, and he rarely shares his insights with the reader until they become obvious. As you read, you are racing to catch up to the clues. The books also capture the mood of a Russia emerging from the soviet era.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:14 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Wethal at July 27, 2025 09:12 AM (NufIr)
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Not once, in the entire history of time-travel stories has time travel ever gone as planned.
Something *ALWAYS* goes wrong.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:14 AM (IBQGV)
Too bad Hungary banned DDT. Maybe the libs will allow the use of DDT to save the books. They’re ok with killing thousands of black, brown and yellow babies but maybe ancient books will get their attention.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at July 27, 2025 09:14 AM (UWRAE)
That could get pricey.
I guess you could put each book in a ziploc bag and put them on metal shelves to save a few books.
There’s also some chemical sprays out for silverfish and other critters that might work, if you don’t mind an odor.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 09:16 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 09:16 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:02 AM (0eaVi)
I love those old book bindings that look like wallpaper.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 09:16 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 18, 2025 12:12 AM (0eaVi)
Pfft
Literary fic aka "high literature " is already indistinguishable from AI word complete
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2025 09:16 AM (dE3DB)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:16 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 09:17 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 09:17 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 09:17 AM (JvZF+)
One major subplot of the book is an experimental education program -- what we'd call a Charter School -- aimed at actually trying to educate and motivate kids rather than warehouse them for thirteen years until they can go to jail or qualify for welfare benefits.
There is a little SFnal handwaving in that the school somehow has aptitude/personality tests which can spot promising students and customize their instruction. (It's a little interesting to see a work with fundamentally libertarian premises nevertheless fall back on midcentury "scientific management" tropes.)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 09:18 AM (78a2H)
"With a Single Spell" isn't the first book in the series?!
I was so happy to find it last year in Dallas after I saw it reviewed in the Book Thread.
Now I'll have to let it wait until I can find the first book. And I'm not going to the TxMoMe this year.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:18 AM (p/isN)
"Old cities were demolished; new cities were built. The new cities had taller buildings, broader plazas, larger parks, monorails whose cars flew faster though less frequently.
The free hour was extended by five minutes. Voice-input telecomps began to replace key-input ones, and totalcakes came in a pleasant second flavor. Life expectancy increased to 62.4. Members worked and ate, watched TV and slept. They sang and went to museums and walked in amusement gardens."
Sounds like a fair and equitable paradise!
Thank Uni!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:18 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 09:18 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:19 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:19 AM (omVj0)
Is there a name for stand-alone novels in the same fictional world? Is that a "series?" Or does a series have to feature the same characters?
Posted by: Wenda at July 27, 2025 09:19 AM (GUmFs)
Thank you for your comment last Sunday. FYI, I never bail on the Book Thread; I keep it open until it fades.
However, what I glean from Wikipedia suggests that "The Little Sister" was not patchwork. Chandler was an established novelist when he put this out.
This book has led me to distinguish between "mystery" and "detective" stories. Mystery stories: Watch an investigator find out whodunnit. Detective stories: Follow along to see how the detective gets out of this jam.
The book could have used better editing, as too many details clash. Not the first time that Chandler overlooked the smaller stuff.
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Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:20 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (omVj0)
That's why we need Polynikes to start doing book covers. Too much same same AI book covers everywhere.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:20 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:16 AM (q3u5l)
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It's from the Illustrated Junior Library edition published by Grosset & Dunlap (New York).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:20 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025
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"Marx, Lenin, Wood and Wei
Led us to this perfect day"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:21 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 09:21 AM (2NHgQ)
After the bleakness of Chandler, I needed to laugh. And I am, with "All My Best Friends" by George Burns. This mirthful memoir drops names like rain.
I'm up to where radio is knocking vaudeville off its throne. Along the way, Burns tells how a typical vaudeville lineup is set -- the fourth and seventh acts are the biggies in a group of eight -- and defines some vaudeville lingo.
He relates the origin of a couple of catchphrases I've heard: "Wanna buy a duck?" and "Vas you dere, Charlie?" Both came from vaudeville comedians.
He also talks of how an act needs "insurance," a sure-fire crowd-pleaser. Burns' insurance? Gracie Allen.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:21 AM (p/isN)
No math."
Ha! I know the unwritten rule. I'll let the perfessor decide.
If I was blog dictator, I'd have a nonfiction-only book thread.
Posted by: gp at July 27, 2025 09:22 AM (hNDvI)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:22 AM (kpS4V)
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Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025
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WG, I'd reverse your two definitions, but that's a concise way of putting the difference.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:22 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:23 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 09:23 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 09:13 AM (+qU29)
I have his 'Army at Dawn' in my bookcase. Haven't read it though.
Posted by: dantesed at July 27, 2025 09:23 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Wenda at July 27, 2025 09:19 AM (GUmFs)
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Hmmm. Interesting question. A "series" can have ambiguous meaning and does depend on context, I suppose.
For instance, The Chronicles of Narnia is considered a series, though each book tend to focus on different characters with some overlap between books.
Another term I've seen is 'Verse, as in the stories all take place within the same "universe." Star Wars would be a good example of this.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:23 AM (IBQGV)
I might try actually readibg the printed book instead.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2025 09:24 AM (dE3DB)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025
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King's The Shining was one for me. Not so much for the horror, though that is very compelling, but for Jack's struggle against alcoholism.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:24 AM (omVj0)
Literary fic aka "high literature " is already indistinguishable from AI word complete
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2025 09:16 AM (dE3DB)
No, no, vmom. I meant stoner fic.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:25 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025
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Probably his best "pure" detective story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:25 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 09:25 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 09:26 AM (78a2H)
I was so happy to find it last year in Dallas after I saw it reviewed in the Book Thread.
Now I'll have to let it wait until I can find the first book. And I'm not going to the TxMoMe this year.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:18 AM (p/isN)
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There are no continuity issues if you choose to read "With a Single Spell" first. The books take place in the same world, but there's no crossover between any of them, as far as I know. There are some references to historical events, but the exposition gives you enough context so that you don't have to go back to an earlier book to understand the reference.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:26 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine
There is always someone looking for something someone else wants to get rid of. The hard part is matching them up.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:27 AM (Vfq+S)
Anyone else here tend to look at the bookshelves if you're visiting someone, or try to make out what's in the bookcases when you see a photo of some writer's office or a room in some movie?
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:27 AM (q3u5l)
It caught my heart at the first chapter. A young boy is playing in a field and gets called by his mother with news. He wants to find out what it is but since he's a pilot on a clipper ship he has to tack into the wind properly to finally get to her going back and forth in the field. So it takes a while. Anyone who has played like that as a kid will smile.
In line with some other comments I'll make today, this was written almost a century ago.
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 09:28 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025
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They do -- esp. A Kiss Before Dying and Rosemary's Baby, with The Boys From Brazil (an SF novel, as is This Perfect Day, but not marketed as such) right behind.
By the way, JSG, I've bought a paperback copy of your Doorway novel from Amazon. I'm looking forward to it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:28 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 09:17 AM (poXs5)
It doesn't take that long! Sheesh, even writing every other day can get you a novel in three, four, months. Doesn't mean it's good or publishable, though.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:28 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Just Some Guy
I always do that. The scary part is when you are visiting, and don't see a single book in a home.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:30 AM (Vfq+S)
I'm still waiting on the second book, which is a handwritten and illustrated book of Psalms - a facsimile of a volume done years ago by a career British Army officer as a gift for his wife.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at July 27, 2025 09:30 AM (Ew3fm)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:31 AM (q3u5l)
The book turned me on to other Crichton novels, so yeah, good times.
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 09:31 AM (AOsQT)
I've been so rude as to start grabbing books off the shelf without even asking permission first. Oooops!
Posted by: gp at July 27, 2025 09:31 AM (hNDvI)
U-Boats: A Pictorial History
The Norse Myths
The Illustrated Who's Who in Mythology
I've given up telling myself "no more books". Just give the stuff, baby!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:31 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:27 AM (q3u5l)
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All the time. I think if you can see what's on someone's bookshelves, you have a window into their personality.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:32 AM (IBQGV)
I just can't make myself _believe_ it.
One issue is that it's based on the notion of picking the good teachers and getting rid of the useless ones, the useless administrators, and the education bureaucracy. I'm not sure that's possible in anything resembling contemporary American society. You would need a ruler with the intellect and unlimited power of a Richelieu to do it.
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 09:32 AM (78a2H)
I've been reading, but nothing much has entranced me. I keep going through books, putting them down and usually not picking them back up again. Right now I'm trying to get through Ice Ghosts, which is about the Franklin expedition, the search for survivors and the discovery of the wrecks of the Erebus and Terror.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2025 09:32 AM (Dg2sF)
I've been so rude as to start grabbing books off the shelf without even asking permission first. Oooops!
Posted by: gp at July 27, 2025 09:31 AM (hNDvI)
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Ha! Same.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:32 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:19 AM (omVj0)
Dang. That sounds too autobiographical to me. Pass.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:33 AM (0eaVi)
It's been a long time since I read Fahrenheit 451, so I don't recall machine-created books, but I do know that in Nineteen Eighty-Four there was a whole propaganda section with machines to pump out popular songs for the proles and trashy (mostly sex-related) novels as well.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2025 09:35 AM (Dg2sF)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 09:35 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Mary Poppins
Very prescient.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:36 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 09:36 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 09:36 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)
"Polar Star", IMO was even better than GP as a "cancelled" Arkady was forced to work on a polar fishing boat. Great Stuff.
But, once the Soviet Union fell and Arkady lost his main antagonist, the Soviet state, the magic was broken and Smith's novels became more or less standard fare with him detecting in little curious corners of the new Russia.
I kept reading the series for a while hoping for a return to form, but for me it never came, Arkady in Cuba pretty much ended my interest. It wasn't good. And I stopped reading him. Fingers crossed for "Arkady Goes Hawaiian" though!!!
YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:37 AM (p/isN)
It's been a long time since I read Fahrenheit 451, so I don't recall machine-created books, but I do know that in Nineteen Eighty-Four there was a whole propaganda section with machines to pump out popular songs for the proles and trashy (mostly sex-related) novels as well.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2025 09:35 AM (Dg2sF)
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heh. Nice obscure reference! I was thinking about it this morning, but had forgotten it at the time I composed today's Book Thread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:37 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2025 09:37 AM (qBdHI)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:38 AM (Vfq+S)
Love the photos of happy cats and books. You need to demand they start producing book reports and thoughtful comments on what they have read, or napped on...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2025 09:38 AM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (omVj0)
I like the cover to give a clue, too. Seems like all the covers now are a house or a landscape behind that brush-stroke all-caps font. Boring.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 09:39 AM (h7ZuX)
The books in his library were organized by color.
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 09:40 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:40 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: gp at July 27, 2025 09:40 AM (hNDvI)
I don't think I can suspend my belief long enough to read this. First, the idea of a supercomputer that can plan everything well enough is just the communist/socialist dream (nightmare?) of central planning. Which Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions destroys. And only one person manages to start questioning this utopia through the drug-induced somnabulance?
Posted by: yara in Katy at July 27, 2025 09:41 AM (EbWSH)
I may have to read that. It sounds a bit like The Lost City of Z.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2025 09:41 AM (Dg2sF)
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 27, 2025 09:41 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 09:41 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Norrin Radd at July 27, 2025 09:42 AM (tRYqg)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 09:43 AM (78a2H)
I kept reading the series for a while hoping for a return to form, but for me it never came, Arkady in Cuba pretty much ended my interest. It wasn't good. And I stopped reading him. Fingers crossed for "Arkady Goes Hawaiian" though!!!
YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake
The collapse of the soviet union certainly made it harder for Smith to continue the series, but he did capture just how bizarre the country became, and the stories kind of give the reader a glimpse into how someone can try to do their job despite officialdom trying to sweep everything under the rug. What strikes me is that while the old system fell away, the bureaucracy didn't change, it just kept the corrupt system running under new masters.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:43 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)
It can be fun to surreptitiously study a fellow grocery shopper and then look at the items they're purchasing. You put the clues together and your imagination writes the story.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2025 09:45 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)
First comic I ordered; "The Altantean" #3, over at fundmycomic dot com. Its premise: Robert E Howard's "The Shadow Kingdom" (the first story to feature Kull, the Exile of Atlantis) fell into the public domain a few years ago, so a pair of creators made their own adaptation of the story, and now a series of sequel stories. Classic sword and sorcery stuff. I'm enjoying it. Plus the book is cheaper than the usual crowdfunded fare, and it comes out far more regularly. They are managing to put out about two issues a year.
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 27, 2025 09:45 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025
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I can't imagine Nicole being bad in anything. The original had satirical elements to it as well, though it was not a parody or comedy at all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:47 AM (Vfq+S)
The volume included 3 short stories: Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon. Lady Susan was told in letters exchanged among the principals and was an interesting glimpse into a wicked woman's beliefs versus her public presentation. The Watsons felt incomplete and Sanditon seemed to screech to a halt before the story was finished. I would not have wasted time on the last two had I known they were incomplete. Lady Susan was interesting and revealed a woman I am glad not to know.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2025 09:47 AM (kB9dk)
But the use of big lettering for title and author, plus tiny landscape/figures, is straight up anti-art. Is it because popular novels in a series are downloaded more?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:47 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 09:49 AM (bXbFr)
Dry?!
I loved "The Andromeda Strain," my first dip into SF. I think I was in middle school.
The later M*A*S*H books are also loaded with telegrams, usually from diplomats.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:49 AM (9N29J)
U-Boats: A Pictorial History
The Norse Myths
The Illustrated Who's Who in Mythology
I've given up telling myself "no more books". Just give the stuff, baby!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:31 AM (kpS4V)
How many of us will leave unread books on our shelves when we go?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:50 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 09:40 AM (78a2H)
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Does he do Zoom meetings?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:50 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:50 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:47 AM (kpS4V)
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Hmmm. Interesting observation. I've noticed that modern covers emphasize the title and author more than the cover art.
In a physical library, people see the spines more than the cover art because of how we shelve our books, so the spine needs to have readable text. However, in digital media, people will see the cover more because of how books are often displayed in e-readers, so I guess it makes sense to emphasize the text on the cover rather than the art.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:51 AM (IBQGV)
As for multiple stand-alone stories by the same author, though with different characters, in the same universe, I've always called that a "series." No idea what the publishing world calls them.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 09:50 AM (0eaVi)
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I'll leave a key under the mat so Threadists can raid the shelves after I pass on to Bookhalla.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:51 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: who knew at July 27, 2025 09:51 AM (+ViXu)
I don't think I can suspend my belief long enough to read this. First, the idea of a supercomputer that can plan everything well enough is just the communist/socialist dream (nightmare?) of central planning. Which Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions destroys. And only one person manages to start questioning this utopia through the drug-induced somnabulance?
Posted by: yara in Katy at July 27, 2025 09:41 AM (EbWSH)
Well, no spoilers but you'd have to see how it shakes out regarding dystopia.
But, with regards to your first point, for the average Joe and Jane Blow dystopia is just hunky-dory. The "animal needs" of the populace are catered to very well. Dystopia is a pleasant place to live. And freedom...well, what does that mean exactly?
A well-written novel with clever twists and turns you may not expect.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 09:52 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 27, 2025 09:52 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 09:52 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 09:53 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 09:53 AM (h7ZuX)
The series follows Marcus Falerius Fronto, legate of the X legion. The series basically follows Ceasars memoirs and starts with the invasion of Gaul.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 27, 2025 09:53 AM (ft+00)
Posted by: Trimegistus
The books in my library are organized by... never mind, the best I can do is to put history books more or less by country/region, classical in their own area, and fit everything else where there is space.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:54 AM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 09:52 AM (2NHgQ)
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Thanks for the information. I was really wanting to see how it ends!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2025 09:55 AM (kB9dk)
https://headingprints.com/
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025 09:55 AM (TEi+a)
I try not to think about it.
And it saddens me to know that every book I have will probably be tossed into a dumpster when I die.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2025 09:56 AM (Dg2sF)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 09:56 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Trimegistus
The books in my library are organized by... never mind, the best I can do is to put history books more or less by country/region, classical in their own area, and fit everything else where there is space.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:54 AM (Vfq+S)
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Mine are mostly organized by author. Some books are arranged by franchise (e.g. Star Wars, Forgotten Realms, etc.) as that makes it easier for me to find those books.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:56 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Zoltan at July 27, 2025 09:58 AM (MKuVo)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Schizophrenic, with a contrarian overlay.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2025 09:58 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:51 AM (IBQGV)
Most of what I read now is on e-reader, and I still like to choose books by cover. I hate it when they all look the same on the e-reader. When I'm searching a title, I will often choose something else because the picture attracted my attention. This is my case for good cover art, even in the digital age.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 09:58 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 27, 2025 09:59 AM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 09:59 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:45 AM (omVj0)
Your characters will be staring at a cart full of silver.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:00 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025
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Rendell was not only super-skilled, with writing talent the equal of many a literary author, she was also prolific. The Inspector Wexford series are classic mysteries, but her standalone dramatic crime stories are even better. She also wrote as "Barbara Vine," so look for those if your library doesn't put them together with the Rendells.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:00 AM (omVj0)
Much of this may be due to my peculiar taste in fiction, a real possibility, but it feels like the literature of brilliant, creative writing and enjoyable story telling is rare these days.
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 10:01 AM (yTvNw)
From library school days, I remember mention of a library so pressed for space (John Crerar Technical Library in Chicago?) that they'd devised a classification system based on the size of the book so that they could make maximum use of every inch of shelf space.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 10:01 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:11 AM (omVj0)
Just a few days ago I watched a short youtube video about a guy complaining about how bland fantasy book covers have become, and he put up a lot of side-by-side shots of original covers and modern reprints. As a rule, the originals were paintings of something epic (a flying dragon) or sinister (a magical throne in a glistening cave) or something just generally cool.... Meanwhile the modern covers are generally a title on a solid color, with a silhouette or little icon to symbolize the 'theme' of the story.
I don't think I ever would have picked up "Dragonriders of Pern" if child-me had run across the modern cover.
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 27, 2025 10:01 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 10:01 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025
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Thanks for the information. I was really wanting to see how it ends!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2025
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Maybe somebody will take her unfinished stuff up and write an ending, as someone did with Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:02 AM (omVj0)
My inspiration was re-reading (actually listening to an audible play) of John Grisham's "Camino Island," which begins with a heist, the theft of Fitzgerald's original handwritten manuscript, along with four others, from the Princeton library. The audio is performed by January LaVoy, in one of the best book reads I've heard.
Speaking of best audible performances, have a listen to Chris Bohjalian's "The Guest Room," the one performed by Lori Gardner. A bachelor party gone horribly wrong in a Westchester county house, Russian gangsters, and an innocent Russian beauty sold into sex slavery.
Posted by: M. Gaga at July 27, 2025 10:03 AM (BAkrB)
Posted by: Trimegistus
He may just be indulging a quirk.
If he's as intelligent as you suspect, he may have his books and their locations memorized.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2025 10:06 AM (n4GiU)
Also just picked up "Way Station" by Clifford D. Simak. Hugo award winner, so hopefully will be as good as ive heard.
Finally, Ryan Williamson, writer of such awesomeness as "The Widow's Son," "The Spear of Destiny," and with Jason Anspach, the incredible "Doomsday Recon" Trilogy, has allowed me to beta read his latest iteration of "Immortal," the first book in a new trilogy he's writing. My first read through late last year was very satisfying, as he's got a crazy imagination and his writing improves with each page. I think this latest version will probably be published late this year.
Good morning, Book Nerdz.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 27, 2025 10:06 AM (/RHNq)
To be charitable, I'll guess they have only so much space, and the five-foot shelves of modern and prolific best-selling authors have to take precedence.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:06 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Frankie at July 27, 2025 10:06 AM (ODcS5)
And no piles of miniatures I haven't painted
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 10:07 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 10:07 AM (78a2H)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:47 AM (kpS4V)
Rule of thumb: If the author is important, make the name large; if the author is new, make the title large. If you don't know the name, the picture and title are more important helping you decide whether to buy it or not.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:07 AM (0eaVi)
And, of course, children's books.
His extensive collection of Texana follows a system understandable only by himself...
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 10:07 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: who knew at July 27, 2025 10:08 AM (+ViXu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)
Cash cows. Because they're easier to sell than something new.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:09 AM (0eaVi)
Apparently, it's disagreement day here at Chateau naturalfake.
Andromeda Strain dry ?!?!?
No, sir. Not at all.
I read that one in high school and it was the first time, I ever stayed up all night just to finish a book. I found it that exciting.
Maybe it seems dry because it was written when men and women were supposed to handle emergencies and their jobs with calm professionalism, even and especially in the face of a deadly plague.
These days everyone's portrayed as screaming drama queens if they get a hangnail.
Anyway....YMMV.,
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 10:09 AM (iJfKG)
Eons ago, I met Diane Dillon at a library convention in Chicago and told her how much I loved the Ace Science Fiction Specials covers (a couple of those books I bought just for the Dillons covers). She said a number of them died in the marketplace because they weren't immediately identifiable from the cover as science fiction. I don't think any of those books retained the Dillons' cover art when they were reissued later.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 10:10 AM (q3u5l)
https://tinyurl.com/4v8yjr8d
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 10:10 AM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 27, 2025 10:10 AM (ptAPo)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2025 09:56 AM (IBQGV)
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An entire wall devoted to Chuck Tingle!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:13 AM (kpS4V)
I was facing a real jam until I decided to move into oldest son's room; he hasn't lived here for 10 years. I shelved books in front of his books and bought a standalone bookshelf.
This has eased the situation. But now I have all of my parents' books to deal with.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 10:15 AM (p/isN)
Posted by: Zoltan at July 27, 2025 09:58 AM (MKuVo)
How can you read a book that size trapped in that glass case in the mall?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:16 AM (0eaVi)
There's a TV series of "Sanditon" out on streaming.
They cover the actual Austen chapters in the first episode and then just make stuff up.
The Austen fans unanimously hated it.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 10:16 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: who knew at July 27, 2025 10:17 AM (+ViXu)
No, sir. Not at all.
I read that one in high school and it was the first time, I ever stayed up all night just to finish a book. I found it that exciting.
Maybe it seems dry because it was written when men and women were supposed to handle emergencies and their jobs with calm professionalism, even and especially in the face of a deadly plague.
These days everyone's portrayed as screaming drama queens if they get a hangnail. . . .
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025
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As part of that professionalism, Strain is devoid of the internal power struggles and inter-agency politics subplots that seem to infest every story these days as well. The scientists all *work* toward the important goal of finding out what the infectious agent is and how it can be stopped. We don't get long discursions about how one of them is trying to one-up the others to aid his own career or sabotage theirs.
The detail of the one scientist having epilepsy is a human element the story needs. But the sufferer does not exploit it he's trying to hide it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:18 AM (omVj0)
I enjoyed the movie of the book with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland as well. It stayed fairly close to the book.
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 10:18 AM (yTvNw)
But I'm finding that a lot of stuff I read early on back in my Oh Boy Summer Vacation Two Paperbacks A Day period reads differently now. Maybe it was just me on that first Crichton.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 10:19 AM (q3u5l)
It was engaging but also eye-rolling.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:19 AM (kpS4V)
Bookstores, you pick up the book, turn it back and forth. On-line, you make your decision based on something the size of a postage stamp. The cover has a different job and I think people are experimenting to find what works.
Posted by: Wenda at July 27, 2025 10:19 AM (GUmFs)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 10:22 AM (dKEEs)
Posted by: who knew at July 27, 2025 10:17 AM (+ViXu)
#Me, too.
Not to mention the haphazard stacks on the bedside table, which is not big enough to accommodate them.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 10:22 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: PabloD at July 27, 2025 10:23 AM (eU7D4)
My wife, a big fan of Jane Austen and other Brit lit, including TV shows, went to England with our daughter for two weeks last month to mark her 60th birthday. She really loved the Lake District.
(I wanted her to go to Hartlepool, the home of Andy Capp.)
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 10:23 AM (XDy/U)
I found something called "The Canbe Collective Builds a Be-Hive" in the Free Cart. It's a fiction book from 1977 about communal living in the New Era and what intrigued me was the intro note about pronouns.
Three chapters in, it's about as hippie as you can imagine- especially if you were a young person during that era.
I will be interested to see how the world build is set up.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 10:23 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 10:24 AM (dKEEs)
https://blackcatweekly.com/b/Vol5Y
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:24 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Trimegistus
The books in my library are organized by... never mind, the best I can do is to put history books more or less by country/region, classical in their own area, and fit everything else where there is space.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 27, 2025 09:54 AM (Vfq+S)
My own organizational system involves both theme and quality. Awesome books get placed prominently. Less good books get shuffled off into a corner. For one particular series, volumes 1 and 2 are in entirely different rooms, just because 2 is so much worse than 1...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 27, 2025 10:24 AM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at July 27, 2025 09:30 AM (Ew3fm)
If it's the one I'm thinking of, a copy came through our thrift store a while back. It was lovely- I think we may have sold it on eBay.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 10:26 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:26 AM (VofaG)
Watt-Evans is an underrated author, quite entertaining, but with one Hugo award when it meant something.
Others I recommend in the series are Ithanalin's Restoration, The Spriggan Mirror and The Unwelcome Warlock.
The Vondish Ambassador has some good stuff.
His 4 Lords of Dus books are a fun read, with good storytelling.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 10:26 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 10:26 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 10:27 AM (dKEEs)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:28 AM (VofaG)
Ancient, mediaeval and English history are arranged chronologically.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2025 10:28 AM (Dg2sF)
Yet I trudged through the work. It gave me a basic understand of why Neo-Darwinian Theory (NDT) does not compute from all scientific aspects at which you look at it.
NDT is ironically the evolution of Darwin's theory which the NDT itself rejected for various logical reasons.
Professor Spetner brings about his own theory, which essentially leads to the conclusion of a creator, a beginning and of designs planned into creation in numerous paths but not the single path that all of us came from the same first single celled bacteria.
Lots of science and lots of math crammed into 250 pages.
I have not yet looked into if and how NDT's proponents attempt to disprove Spetner's arguments. This is a follow-up I'll consider taking on in the future.
While this book is not a theological work, it ends with the Hebrew acronym תושלב"ע:
תם ונשלם תהילה לאל בורא עולם
Finished and completed. Praise to G-d, Creator of the Universe.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 10:29 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:29 AM (VofaG)
As part of that professionalism, Strain is devoid of the internal power struggles and inter-agency politics subplots that seem to infest every story these days as well. The scientists all *work* toward the important goal of finding out what the infectious agent is and how it can be stopped. We don't get long discursions about how one of them is trying to one-up the others to aid his own career or sabotage theirs.
The detail of the one scientist having epilepsy is a human element the story needs. But the sufferer does not exploit it he's trying to hide it!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:18 AM (omVj0)
Great point, Wolfus.
I find the jamming of high school level mean girl politics into every single story these days regardless of the sex or background of the characters, so tiresome.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2025 10:30 AM (iJfKG)
I enjoyed the movie of the book with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland as well. It stayed fairly close to the book.
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025
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So did the film version of Andromeda Strain. They changed one of the scientist team to a woman -- but she was not a Denise Richards or Raquel Welch glamor girl, but just the sort of middle-aged woman that fit the part.
People might complain that Crichton lectured us in his fiction. Well, he did. Not about politics or philosophy, now, but about background information that was important to the story. When it's done like that, and I am interested in the material, I don't mind being "lectured" in the slightest.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:30 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:30 AM (kpS4V)
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig's character mentions that there are two kinds of mechanics: one whose tools are placed where they belong. "A place for everything and everything in its place". The second is the memory mechanic: he remember where he put it down.
I identify as the second. When I moved, I lost my memories. I was looking through my shelves a while back and found a copy of Jacques Ellul's book on Ecclesiastes I'd forgotten I had. :-(
Posted by: yara in Katy at July 27, 2025 10:30 AM (EbWSH)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:26 AM (VofaG)
For fiction, yes.
Non-fiction is another matter; I choose that by subject matter, and the cover is irrelevant.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 27, 2025 10:31 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
I looked him up. I did not need to know that genre existed. I'll see if my library has a copy, as a basis for complaint.
I want a contest to have a public library canon, for the betterment of the local area. Chuck Tingle books need not apply.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 10:32 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:32 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 10:32 AM (q3u5l)
https://blackcatweekly.com/b/Vol5Y
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:24 AM (omVj0)
There's a lot in there! How many pages is it? $3 for all that. You get a share of sales, too, or just the flat fee?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:33 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Mike the Narf at July 27, 2025 10:34 AM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:35 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:36 AM (VofaG)
The local public library has 6 Chuck Tingle books. And only 3 left by Freeman Dyson.
Time to write a letter.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 10:36 AM (u82oZ)
Back from my seditious Christian Nationalist meeting, where we have White CNs, Black CNs, Hispanic CNs and Oriental CNs. A veritable rainbow of Christian Nationalists!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:38 AM (HZi96)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:38 AM (kpS4V)
I would like to cannon all Chuck Tingle books, using the 280 mm cannon (Atomic Cannon) by Fort Riley.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 10:38 AM (u82oZ)
I've been working my way through a series called Fallen Apples by Ken Decoteau. A set of stories based on Defense and Security firms working with the government to stop bad guys. Lots of jargon and technical speak, especially about weapons. Fun reading but almost too much special ops stuff at the expense of the story.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 10:38 AM (W/lyH)
Was sad to find out the Martin Cruz Smith recently passed away.
I just finished his last novel, The Ukraine Hotel. He wrote at the end it would be his last novel because of his advanced Parkinson's.
RIP
Posted by: Frankly at July 27, 2025 10:38 AM (rkArx)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025
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Just the flat fee, but I can get a free year's subscription to the magazine if I ask.
They have a short story contest ($250 for first prize) going on. You need to write a story inspired by Ron Miller’s exceptional “Cat Pirate” painting. I've seen it, and it's a corker. You can write to the editor at blackcatweekly.com. I'll send you the pages with the details and the painting. The deadline is Sept. 30.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:39 AM (omVj0)
Timeline was the only Chrichton book I started and just could not get into. My all time favorite is still the one about rival dinosaur bone hunters in the Old West called Dragon Teeth based on a true story.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 27, 2025 10:41 AM (t/2Uw)
Just to be clear, I've never dipped my toe, or any appendages, in the Tingleverse, so I don't know if it possesses any literary merit. Perhaps the Horde can enlighten me.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:41 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025
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Mine is a Weird West called "Goldhounds." Kelton Robinson, a surveyor/investigator sent out by the U.S. Bureau of Western Phenomena, rescues a strange wounded creature, and finds out that others want it for themselves -- because the beings are reputed to seek out gold ore.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:42 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Weak Geek
Have a picture of me and my late wife with the Andy Capp statue in Hartlepool. One of my favorites.
Also have a box of all the Andy Capp paperbacks from my youth.
She couldn't understand why I wanted to drive to an out of the way dump like Hartlepool.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2025 10:44 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:26 AM (VofaG)
It seems more that the cover is to tell you the genre, not the story.
We also said you should get into the book cover business.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:44 AM (0eaVi)
Back from my seditious Christian Nationalist meeting, where we have White CNs, Black CNs, Hispanic CNs and Oriental CNs. A veritable rainbow of Christian Nationalists!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:38 AM (HZi96)
Plus, they were speaking a secret language- always a bad sign...
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 10:44 AM (f+FmA)
Dr. Drew jokes that he is a time traveler. He has been around long enough that he has to explain the past to young folks like it's a foreign country.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:44 AM (kpS4V)
תם ונשלם תהילה לאל בורא עולם
Finished and completed. Praise to G-d, Creator of the Universe.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 10:29 AM (sTuNG)
That alone with cause anger and hatred among the Darwinites.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:46 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
True. In the library.
Very glad you are Chuck Tingle free.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 10:47 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 09:31 AM (kpS4V)
I think this falls under Teresa from Fort Worth's dictum:
Buy the yarn, eat the cheesecake.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 10:47 AM (f+FmA)
Cool . Alien truffle pigs.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:47 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
it used to be a thing to post pictures of personal libraries. Want to start again?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 10:48 AM (D7oie)
Ain't that the truth. Of the writers that populate the bookshelves here in my cave, I can count the living writers on my fingers, and I've got plenty of fingers left over.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 10:49 AM (q3u5l)
Plus, they were speaking a secret language- always a bad sign...
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 10:44 AM (f+FmA)
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Our pastor being on vacation, we had a visiting priest just out of the seminary. He was quite good. Mass was done in 45 minutes.
I went to Confession with him because it was before the Rosary. Seemed like a sensible fellow. Of course, as with any priest, the more straightforward you are and the less excuse-mongering, the faster and easier it is.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:50 AM (HZi96)
It’s the book that introduced me to Hunter. Bought it in the Airport gift shop and finished it on the plane ride. It was a definite page turner for me. And then I sought out his other books which were just as good or even better though I’ve come across just a couple that weren’t my cup of tea. That’s to be expected.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:51 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 10:48 AM (D7oie)
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Seconded! I love peeking into other people's private book nooks. Send in those photos, guys!
Dildo used to put other folks' home bars on his food thread. That needs to come back too.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 10:52 AM (kpS4V)
The living author I really like Matthew Hughes, is getting quite old. His far-future novels and linked short stories are a pleasure ot read.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 10:52 AM (u82oZ)
Thanks for the purchase; hope you'll enjoy it.
"Goldhounds" sounds like fun; will watch for that issue of Black Cat Weekly. My daughter's a fan of weird West stories, so I'll pass it her way too.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 10:52 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Trimegistus
It is a horrible way to catalog books, but according to my Dad, the original library of Harvard was organized that way when it was started.
It is still a horrible way of cataloging but I have to admit that the most successful used CD and DVD sellers at the flea market group their stuff by the color of the spine of the boxes
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 10:53 AM (D7oie)
Read this week-
Loved. My Friends Fredrick Backman
Typical of him book but loved what it said about young kids, iconic summer, growing up, fame, what belief in someone can do, death, friendship all in there. Cried, laughed and thought it was wonderful.
Didn’t like The Last Days of Kira Mullen by Nicci French. Some good psychological horror with regards to mental health- main character gets recommitted for to her dubious reasons and the hell hole that place is. (Could be a horror story being wrongly commuted) but in general didn’t like any of the characters except the person killed. A little heavy on men bad women good . Didn’t entice me to read any more of their books.
Posted by: Paisley at July 27, 2025 10:53 AM (A4siA)
"Goldhounds" sounds like fun; will watch for that issue of Black Cat Weekly. My daughter's a fan of weird West stories, so I'll pass it her way too.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025
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It's out today. https://blackcatweekly.com/b/Vol5Y
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:54 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Trimegistus
Certainly a racist library.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)
It’s the book that introduced me to Hunter. Bought it in the Airport gift shop and finished it on the plane ride. It was a definite page turner for me. And then I sought out his other books which were just as good or even better though I’ve come across just a couple that weren’t my cup of tea. That’s to be expected.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025
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His first novel from years ago, The Master Sniper, had a neat technique, very cinematic, at the climax -- snippet scenes, one line each in some places. I hadn't seen that done that way before.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:55 AM (omVj0)
Cool . Alien truffle pigs.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025
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I hadn't thought of that, but you're right!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:56 AM (omVj0)
I’ve read that one but I didn’t notice the style as I’m no author familiar with different techniques. I judge writing based on whether I can read with no effort whatsoever.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 10:59 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:50 AM (HZi96)
Fr. had to go back to Ghana, to work on some visa issues, so we've been having supply priests.
Last week, we had the second youngest priest in the diocese (seriously, he was Fr. Doogie Houser), but he is also the Liturgy Director, so he did a good job.
"Via Medievialis" on Substack is doing a nice series on "Learning Liturgical Latin", if you know interested people.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 11:00 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 10:38 AM (HZi96)
Damn! I'm calling the FBI. 😎
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2025 11:00 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:39 AM (omVj0)
What not post it on ALH, too?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:00 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:01 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)
All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes, you scare me sometimes. Pity would stay my hand on Chuck Tingle.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 11:01 AM (u82oZ)
Rainbow Six was enjoyable for that reason.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 11:01 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Beartooth at July 27, 2025 11:02 AM (ft+00)
Always a highlight of the week!
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 11:03 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 11:03 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 11:06 AM (78a2H)
If you like bios I would recommend Walter Isaacson’s Leonardo Da Vinci.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:06 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025
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Good idea. I'll have to see if my version of .pdf software will let me extract just those four or five pages, though. If not I can summarize the important rules and try to do a screen shot of the painting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:07 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 11:01 AM (u82oZ)
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It's not me, Salty. It's my Amazon algorithm.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:07 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 11:07 AM (78a2H)
https://blackcatweekly.com/b/Vol5Y
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 10:24 AM (omVj0)
[X] Skintight black sheath
[X] Jet black bob
[X] Mouth like a scarlet gash
[X] Serious firepower
Checks out okay...
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 11:08 AM (f+FmA)
Photos of my bookshelves wouldn't take up a lot of digital space. A list of the ebook library, on the other hand, would be a freaking nightmare.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 11:10 AM (q3u5l)
I haven’t read it yet but I’ve heard that Grant’s autobiography is really well done.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:11 AM (VofaG)
[X] Jet black bob
[X] Mouth like a scarlet gash
[X] Serious firepower
Checks out okay...
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025
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They are very much a pulp fiction e-magazine. They combine mystery, SF, and fantasy in the same volumes, though, unlike the old magazines that specialized in one genre. You didn't find "G-8 and His Battle Aces" stories in Amazing Stories, for instance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:12 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:07 AM (omVj0)
Good. I tried googling the pic and nothing comes up but a bunch of cat pirate pix. Couldn't tell what was that guy's.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:13 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:06 AM (VofaG)
I rather enjoyed his bio of Benjamin Franklin. His bio of Einstein is in my reading pipeline.
Right now I am focusing on major figures from early American history in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 11:14 AM (vm8sq)
Dungeon Crawler Carl, while not one I am reading, is actually this type of story, and is actually featured on my preferred site/app RoyalRoad. I end up doing a lot of my reading on breaks at work, lunch, etc. so online stories are really handy.
Now in terms of litRPG, there are four general categories that I have observed. There are system apocalypse stories like Dungeons Crawler Carl. This is where you have earth, and then suddenly people get magic powers that work like an RPG. This is a category I like less, since I find even the ones I like struggle with dealing with the apocalypse believably.
Second there are Iseki litRPG, which are pretty much what it says on the tin. Lots of tropes and such from anime here.
Third, we have a very similar set of stories, which are somewhat a sub-group of the Iseki, which is VRMMO stories. Ready Player One is a non-litRPG version of this (it might be litRPG, I forget if they have stats in it). Sword Art Online tends to be a very heavy influence on modern versions of these stories. Cont.
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at July 27, 2025 11:14 AM (1oTt5)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 11:10 AM (q3u5l)
Tried an ebook once. Hated the whole concept. Never did it again.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2025 11:14 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025
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This one is of a hot tiger-woman apparently boarding a sailing ship. A corker, indeed.
I have no idea how to incorporate it into a story though. But I need to "cogitate the possibilities for a time."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:15 AM (omVj0)
https://is.gd/BETAJD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
It looks like a cement plant to me.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 11:07 AM (78a2H)
The Dallas Museum of Art has one of his well-used paintboxes on display.
Like other surprising people, he was a good amateur painter.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 11:16 AM (f+FmA)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:17 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 11:07 AM (78a2H)
Yes. I read Andrew Roberts's bio of Churchill. I rather enjoyed it. Another president I think would be an interesting bio: Reagan. For the same reason. His life was not all politics and he did a lot with his life.
Back to British PMs: The third volume of Margaret Thatcher's bio is on my desk. I need to read that as I have read Volumes 1 & 2.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 11:17 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2025 11:14 AM (g8Ew
Thank you. I fear that someday, reading an actual book in public will be seen as LARPing.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 11:19 AM (f+FmA)
Like other surprising people, he was a good amateur painter.
Posted by: sal at July 27, 2025 11:16 AM (f+FmA)
And because of his stature he had some of the most famous English artists at the time paint with him and provide some instruction. That would be nice.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:19 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 11:21 AM (vm8sq)
I have no idea how to incorporate it into a story though. But I need to "cogitate the possibilities for a time."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:15 AM (omVj0)
Hmm. Probably not my type of story. I'm working on a sub for Planks and Plunder for RacPress. But, I'm not sure it'll fit, or be done in time for the deadline.
Anyway, gotta go. I'll try to be back before the thread ends.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:21 AM (0eaVi)
And I get that. In my own situation, if only for reasons of space, it works. The adjustable size fonts are far easier on my eyes these days, and the kindle's a lot easier on my hands than most hardcovers or large trade paperbacks. So I've come to prefer the ebook for use here at Casa Some Guy. That said, there are quite a few books on my physical shelves that are also in the ebook library, and generally if I revisit them I use the ebooks. But I'm keeping the print editions anyway, just because.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 11:22 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:15 AM (omVj0)
Cat pirate has to have sex every night with a different person or she dies . There is three sailing days left and only two men she hasn’t slept with.
I haven’t thought of the solution yet.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:24 AM (VofaG)
Finally we have my favorite type of litRPG, which is everything else While that seems broad, I find this is harder to find. Iseki litRPG is very, very much the standard. What I really enjoy here tends to be the world building aspects. What would a world look like where people literally level up? This can be explored without needing an apocalypse or hero of the ages, and I find there are some cozy stories that I really enjoy.
Cont.
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at July 27, 2025 11:25 AM (1oTt5)
Frankie,
Thanks for the heads up about those books in the series. They go on a list to look for used copies. A nice bonus is that we can give these to our nephews when they get a bit older.
Posted by: JTB at July 27, 2025 11:27 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 27, 2025 11:30 AM (5YmYl)
https://is.gd/BETAJD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
It looks like a cement plant to me.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:15 AM (VofaG)
Flakturm. Though the Jawa sandcrwaler is a good dig
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 11:31 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Weak Geek
Would herself count?
Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2025 11:31 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 27, 2025 11:30 AM (5YmYl)
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So you haven't read "Angels and Demons"?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:32 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 27, 2025 11:30 AM (5YmYl)
If it’s that bad I can only get halfway through so I’ve never actually finished a ‘worst novel I’ve ever read’.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:33 AM (VofaG)
I try not to think about it.
And it saddens me to know that every book I have will probably be tossed into a dumpster when I die.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 27, 2025 09:56 AM (Dg2sF)
Perhaps we could start The Great Moron Library in - Corsicana, maybe? - that would be the repository of all Moron owned books, to be sent there as we depart the mortal coil.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 11:33 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 11:33 AM (78a2H)
haven’t thought of the solution yet.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27
Would herself count?
I really should look when I hit paste.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2025 11:34 AM (n4GiU)
NYC Mayor Adams Says Illegal Immigrants “Deserve” Tax Benefits
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:34 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:35 AM (kpS4V)
Honestly many of his characters are not very fleshed out maybe rising sun 13tj warrior
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 11:35 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 11:31 AM (D7oie)
Yes a Flakturme looks like part of a cement plant to me also but I do like your comparison better.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:35 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:36 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 11:36 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 11:33 AM (78a2H)
Well, then maybe Obama should have hired Speer as his architect and Prime contractor.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 11:38 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 11:39 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 11:39 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)
I can’t believe Speer got off so easy. I think he was the actual evil manipulator genius.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:41 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 27, 2025 11:41 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 11:42 AM (bXbFr)
I think might be working on another book in his Eccentric Orbits series, but I can't confirm that.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025 11:42 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:42 AM (VofaG)
Trump Hater Rachel Zegler Exits Mid-Show During “Evita” Performance, Understudy Gets Standing Ovation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:43 AM (L/fGl)
Oh crap that’s suicide material right there.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:44 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Trimegistus at July 27, 2025 11:33 AM (78a2H)
At least they are still standing 80 years later. Not so sure about the library.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 11:44 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 10:29 AM (sTuNG)
That alone with cause anger and hatred among the Darwinites.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 10:46 AM (0eaVi)
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Is that all they've got? Teeth gnashing and foot stomping?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 11:45 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 11:45 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 11:45 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: pjungwir at July 27, 2025 11:45 AM (q4wrI)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025
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"The end crowns the work"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:46 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 11:46 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 11:46 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:47 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at July 27, 2025 11:48 AM (bXbFr)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025
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"The end crowns the work"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:46 AM (omVj0)
For bad endings I immediately think of Stephen King. It was his ‘crown’ jewell of bad endings.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:48 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 11:49 AM (W/lyH)
I finished Patrick Chiles's latest Interstellar Medic: The Long Way Home. Meh. It was not as good as his first one.
Did not want to bring it up on the Book Thread.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 11:49 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:36 AM (kpS4V)
I am fighting my way through Gold in the Woodpile by O.K. Burrell. It is abook put out by the University of Oregon Press about the history of banking in Oregon specifically, and the pioneer west in general.
The title comes from the problem that pioneers have no banks, and missions, storekeepers and saloons often acted instead, at least as far as keeping money safe. One store keeper was known to hide "deposits" in his woodpile.
Oregon's constitution originally forbade banks, leading to "bankers" acting as fairly high level pawn shops, even after the constitution was re-interpreted by the state supreme court.
There is the story of the man who learned of the bank collapse in San Francisco who raced by horse to beat the ship sailing for Portland with information on the default, so he could withdraw all his money from the corresponding bank there; also the head cashier who would close his bank when it was nice to go fishing and was pretty sharp in operating his bank, and why the bank at Junction City had a brass foot rail at the teller window.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 11:50 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:50 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025
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Which one or ones of his?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:50 AM (omVj0)
Thanks for the thread, Perfessor. Always a pleasure.
Have a good one, gang.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 27, 2025 11:51 AM (q3u5l)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:51 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025 11:42 AM (PiwSw)
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I hope so. Really enjoyed this series.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:51 AM (kpS4V)
Bunny Girl Evolution -- Iseki litRPG
Bookbound Bunny -- Non litRPG Cozy High Fantasy (Highly recommend)
There is no epic loot here, Only Puns -- Iseki litRPG
1% Lifesteal -- Post apocalypse, litRPG ish
REND -- Non litRPG, Psychological Horror Superheroes
Syl -- litRPG, reincarnated but specifically not Iseki
Lost Souls and a Demoness -- litRPG, abduction pre-apocalypse
Return of the Runebound Professor -- Iseki, not litRPG
Rise of the Living Forge -- litRPG, technically Iseki
Shapeshifter -- Post apocalypse litRPG
The Dragon Heir -- litRPG, borderline Iseki (main character grew up in world, but she has little pieces of a previous life on earth pop up.). Top tier wordsmithing.
Legend of the Runeforger -- Non litRPG high fantasy. Ozzes dwarfishness
Reborn as a Demonic Tree -- Iseki litRPG
Mahael the Divine -- Iseki litRPG
Grass Eaters -- Sci fi
The Stubborn Skill Grinder in a Time Loop -- Non-iseki litRPG
The Spoken Queen's Swarm -- Non isaki litRPG
Humanity's #1 Fan -- Apocalypse litRPG
Re: Trailer Trash -- 90's period piece
Posted by: Charlie the Capitalist at July 27, 2025 11:53 AM (1oTt5)
https://youtu.be/OkNPwMSZRFY
I do object to his use of Ted Dekker. That series is good stuff.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025 11:54 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025
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Darned if I can remember the ending of that. Two of the characters in it -- Beverly, the girl played by Annette O'Toole in the TV miniseries, and one of the guys in her group -- turn up in a positive moment in his 11/22/63, though. The hero and narrator passes through Derry, Maine, the unpleasant town where It takes place.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:54 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 11:50 AM (D7oie)
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Did it also have a roulette wheel and a painting of a reclining nude?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:54 AM (kpS4V)
I am still going through the "Anne of Green Gables " series of books again and I and enjoy them .
Also, still reading again the great devotional book " The Joy of Full Surrender" by the French spiritual director and priest , Jean Pierre De Caussaude ( 1675-1751). So many great books of spiritual advice written about this time period.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 11:54 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 11:45 AM (sTuNG)
Yeah, because they don't have the truth.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:54 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 11:49 AM (W/lyH)
Maybe a nice annex for an ICE office.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 27, 2025 11:55 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:56 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025 11:57 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025
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Gotta add heat, though
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 11:57 AM (omVj0)
A giant spider was what was controlling everything.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 11:57 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2025 11:57 AM (VofaG)
That was my plan all along. If only Batman hadn't ruined it.
Posted by: The Black Widow at July 27, 2025 11:58 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:59 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 11:57 AM (2GCMq)
Role playing game.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 11:59 AM (0eaVi)
I also read *Crickets* by Olive L. Earle to one of my kids. I wish they still made books like that, instead of scatterbrained D.K. style stuff.
Just started *On the Ridge Between Life and Death* by David Roberts. Recommended by my mountain-climbing brother-in-law.
Posted by: pjungwir at July 27, 2025 11:59 AM (q4wrI)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 27, 2025 12:00 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 12:00 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 11:54 AM (kpS4V)
The owner couldn't get anyone to deposit with him, other than the couple of big farmers who financed him originally. Everyone banked in Eugene which was a day's travel away. He went business to business and talked to everyone, and he got the answer from one farmer that he didn't feel comfortable going to a bank, though he agreed he went to the bar, since it seemed friendlier.
So to make his bank friendlier, he put a brass foot rail at the teller window.
It worked, though I suspect it was being willing to go door to door to talk to people that did it.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 12:01 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 27, 2025 12:01 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 12:01 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 12:02 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2025 11:49 AM (W/lyH)
It's in Chicago, right? It's a given.
So much for the World Almanac telling me His library would be digital.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 12:02 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 12:02 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I think you're right, but now I really want to go read a book on 11. And 13. Zimmerman mentions *Lost Moon*, so that might be the 13 book. Any recommendations for 11?
Posted by: pjungwir at July 27, 2025 12:07 PM (q4wrI)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 12:10 PM (u82oZ)
https://is.gd/BETAJD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier
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Library and Bathhouse.
Do not forget Bathhose. 80% of the floorspace.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 27, 2025 12:12 PM (/lPRQ)
https://is.gd/BETAJD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 27, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)
Fucking Twitchy. No, I do not want to click through to Twatter multiple times just to see what you think is funny. Post at least one of the memes directly so I can see for myself, or else shut the fuck up. Twitchy is trash.
/rant
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:36 PM (Hyyh7)
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Clarification - Timeline is the worst book I've ever read to the end. I only made it through the first chapter of The DaVinci Code.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at July 27, 2025 12:41 PM (5YmYl)
I'm still waiting on the second book, which is a handwritten and illustrated book of Psalms - a facsimile of a volume done years ago by a career British Army officer as a gift for his wife.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at July 27, 2025 09:30 AM (Ew3fm)
Sgt Mom, do you refer to Psalms of David by Owen Jones?
I found a copy of a 1989 reprint - big thin hardbound - absolutely gorgeous - at a used bookstore. I don't remember how much, just that it was cheap. Maybe $10?
Isbn 9780831771300
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2025 01:04 PM (dE3DB)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 27, 2025 01:07 PM (gDlxJ)
The comics writer Mark Waid said in one interview that he has so many books and collectibles that when he moved to California, his moving company rated him as equivalent to a family of six.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 27, 2025 02:14 PM (qqIaA)
Posted by: Pope John 20th at July 27, 2025 03:22 PM (yl1YV)
In addition to Chandler's views of fiction, writing styles, etc., his essay also lists several books of mystery or detective fiction fans might find worth reading-BTW and FWIW, I think Chandler misfires a bit on his discussion of "Trent's Last Case" through either an incomplete or hurried reading of it.
Anyway, the first book listed in the essay worth reading is not a work of fiction, but a sort of cultural history of England between the wars, Robert Graves and Allen Hodge's "The Long Week End." As for the rest, they are less-well-known mystery or detective books from the period that Chandler thought worth reading. I first read Chandler's essay in the 60s and in a hit or miss fashion spent the next few decades tracking down used or library copies of the books listed by Chandler. The last, "Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper" I only found about 10 years ago. In the process though, I discovered the pulp stories of Richard Sale (a listed author), Robert Leslie Bellem (Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective,-the stories are probably a sendup of the genre although it's not easy to be sure what Bellem intended), Kenneth Fearing's novel "The Big Clock" and others.
Posted by: Pope John 20th at July 27, 2025 03:44 PM (yl1YV)
And for those who like the "Swallows and Amazons," books, I'd also like to recommend the Emmaline and Rubberbones books written by my friend Howard Whitehouse. The title of the first,
"The Strictest School in the World: Being the Tale of a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken (The Mad Misadventures of Emmaline and Rubberbones)" should provide a hint of the subject matter and writing style.
Posted by: Pope John 20th at July 27, 2025 04:09 PM (yl1YV)
Daily Tech News 27 July 2025
Top Story
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that AI is not a licensed therapist, doctor, or lawyer and there are no legal privacy guarantees for its users. (Tech Crunch)
Sam thinks there should.
But not for any reason other than it would benefit him personally.
- AI is also not a programmer. (Mashable)
Though to be fair it was Google Gemini this time that blindly deleted a user's entire project.
Tech News
- In lighter news, ChatGPT also gave detailed instructions on how to join a cult of Moloch. (Yahoo News / The Atlantic)
No, despite the attempt to make it appear that way, it did not give instructions on how to slit your wrists. It explained how to avoid slitting your wrists if you needed to draw blood from that area.
It did give instructions on how to sacrifice large animals.
And also a very direct allegory on the problems of abortion to which the writer was and remains completely oblivious.
- And then there's Microsoft Copilot. (Eye)
"Open all the airlocks please Hal."
"Sure thing Dave."
- AMD has announced its Threadripper 9000 non-pro lineup. (Tom's Hardware)
The 24 core 9960X is priced at $1499, which is cheaper than the 16 core Threadripper Pro 9965WX.
The non-pro models only have 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes and quad-channel memory, compared to 128 PCIe lanes and eight-channel memory on the Pro range, but for the 24 and 32 core models that's probably not a significant limitation.
Disclaimer: The UV index is over 9000!
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 04:31 AM (DT0BZ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 04:31 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 04:33 AM (2tDeh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 04:31 AM (0eaVi)
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Good morning, Rip Van Winkle!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 04:34 AM (DT0BZ)
Good morning, Rip Van Winkle!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 04:34 AM (DT0BZ)
BD, I'm usually still abed at this time.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 04:35 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2025 04:35 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2025 04:35 AM (BLOW1)
Got it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 04:37 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: clarence at July 27, 2025 04:46 AM (is93d)
Posted by: clarence at July 27, 2025 04:46 AM (is93d)
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While we're waiting for the arrests to begin, here's a new name to add to the list:
https://tinyurl.com/fj2tuutw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 04:51 AM (DT0BZ)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 27, 2025 04:57 AM (hoCmQ)
I wonder if ChatGPT and Gemini know that I've got them open in separate tabs.
ChatGPT built me an Admin Panel. It was ugly, so I asked Gemini to fix it. Gemini made a couple of mistakes along the way (" My apologies, that's a new error and it's a very clear one"). Gemini finally fixed ChatGPT's code. Before I go back to ChatGPT, I make sure my hair isn't mussed.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2025 05:09 AM (lCaJd)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 05:12 AM (DT0BZ)
Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2025 05:16 AM (AN2gy)
The answer will shock you!
Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2025 05:19 AM (AN2gy)
https://tinyurl.com/fj2tuutw
Posted by: Biden's Dog
heh. Democrats, what can you say.
Posted by: clarence at July 27, 2025 05:21 AM (is93d)
https://tinyurl.com/3wezuzvm
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 05:12 AM (DT0BZ)
I am at a loss with this. What was the purpose? Just a prog virtue signal?
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 27, 2025 05:27 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Just Wondering at July 27, 2025 05:31 AM (XQo4F)
Going to attempt not crashing a couple of rc planes early today.
Before it gets really hot n windy.
77 now, few hours before sun up.
Posted by: OkJohn at July 27, 2025 05:38 AM (NC/it)
I am not cheerleader for AI, but I think it will eventually become useful as an adjunct to low and mid-level business activities. But these idiotic articles are getting tedious. Maybe the earnest 20-something "journalists" should actually learn something about AI and write substantive criticisms!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at July 27, 2025 05:49 AM (7lCm1)
This is reason enough to move there.
Posted by: pawn at July 27, 2025 05:50 AM (QB+5g)
Why start now?
Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2025 05:50 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: fluffy at July 27, 2025 05:54 AM (AN2gy)
This is reason enough to move there.
Posted by: pawn at July 27, 2025 05:50 AM (QB+5g)
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Let me fix it for you:
All official flags of the United States and of the state of Tennessee, purchased under a state contract, shall be manufactured in the United States.
I couldn't understand it otherwise.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 05:59 AM (DT0BZ)
I'm up after a confused dream (thanks, melatonin) about my visiting a dentist who apparently was also a friend. I recall him placing some sort of pain-killing cap on one of my teeth, and then we kept delaying the actual procedure, wandering around and talking to other people along a corridor of offices. We never did get to the dental work, which was fine with me.
Coffee now, need to feed the beasts in a bit, and then I'll try walking for about twenty minutes. It's been two weeks and I think I feel up to that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 06:01 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2025 06:05 AM (HZi96)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 27, 2025 06:08 AM (XZ5S6)
We had it good then, and didn't know it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)
Look all around, there's nothing but blue sky
Look straight ahead, nothing but blue sky
while showing gray clouds.
Oh, well. It was the 70s. A simpler time.
I just blame it on Nixon and this damn war...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2025 06:08 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 06:09 AM (DT0BZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)
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Yep. World lost.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 06:11 AM (DT0BZ)
We hit 102.9 in the back yard yesterday.
Heat index up into the 120's.
Only 2/10 of a degree below the hottest day of the year so far.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2025 06:11 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 06:17 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 06:17 AM (dKEEs)
Heat index up into the 120's.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2025 06:11 AM (a1415)
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This pretty much matches the 102F in the Jordan Valley today, expected to reach 106 tomorrow.
Here in Israel's northern mountains, simply deduct 10 degrees from the above numbers. Staying mostly indoors chilling with the a/c.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 06:19 AM (DT0BZ)
My question: If this video was filmed in 1970 or 1972, where was it aired? There was no MTV then. Seems to me I recall the Smothers Brothers and then Sonny & Cher ran some short music videos on their variety shows.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 06:21 AM (omVj0)
Can ya at least give us a hint?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2025 06:22 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 06:23 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/4f92243c
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 06:27 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 27, 2025 06:22 AM (a1415)
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Too soon to give any sort of validation to the claim.
OK. Not Amish.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 06:29 AM (adINt)
He died of natural causes in 2020, at age 80.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)
https://tinyurl.com/4f92243c
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 06:27 AM (2GCMq)
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Nice - and not the least bit corny.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 06:30 AM (adINt)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 06:09 AM (DT0BZ)
The media are already scrubbing the inconvenient fact that bystanders subdued him, and at least one of them held him at gunpoint.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at July 27, 2025 06:33 AM (7lCm1)
https://tinyurl.com/mr42bzd8
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 06:33 AM (2GCMq)
https://tinyurl.com/323hthmx
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 06:37 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Where's that bumper sticker? at July 27, 2025 06:49 AM (XQo4F)
#1 Lonesome Dove (1989)
#2 Unforgiven (1992)
#3 Tombstone (1993)
Honorable Mention
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Did I forget any?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:02 AM (6ydKt)
Has it been mentioned yet that Windows 11 is a reeking pile of feces in all facets?
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 27, 2025 07:04 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Jen the original at July 27, 2025 07:05 AM (O/7mk)
My question: If this video was filmed in 1970 or 1972, where was it aired? There was no MTV then. Seems to me I recall the Smothers Brothers and then Sonny & Cher ran some short music videos on their variety shows.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Apparently there was an Australian music show called GTK that aired from 1969 to 1975 (mentioned in the clip's opening credits). According to Wikipedia it was all thought lost, but decades later after the studio was closed all the original tapes were rediscovered.
Never heard of GTK before, but Rage was a much later music show from the same studio.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2025 07:05 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:12 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 07:14 AM (6WCwE)
Broken Trail
Open Range
The Missing
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:12 AM (HFcKg)
I’ve seen Open Range, once, I believe, but not the rest.
If I see them somewhere I’ll have to check hem out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:17 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Eromero at July 27, 2025 07:17 AM (jgmnb)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...know-nothing progressive at July 27, 2025 06:33 AM (7lCm1) "
still parts of it available at Daily Mail ... bystanders are credited, the gun is not mentioned, but look at the posture of the black guy with the long braids ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 07:22 AM (dKEEs)
I found ONE converter going the direction I want. Weird.
Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2025 07:22 AM (rgxCF)
#1 Lonesome Dove (1989)
#2 Unforgiven (1992)
#3 Tombstone (1993)
Honorable Mention
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Did I forget any?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025
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Open Range w/ Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall!
Silverado as an Honorable Mention.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:25 AM (omVj0)
But I do recall there were a few tv shows on that had music videos before MTV.
One was syndicated and played on random stations usually at night on the weekends.
The other was on HBO that they played randomly during the week.
Wish I could remember their names.
One was Video Jukebox or something similar.
I find a lot of videos for older singers and bands are just repackaged live shows.
It is kind of weird to see music videos for songs before music videos were a thing.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:25 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 27, 2025 07:26 AM (9nc7W)
Broken Trail
Open Range
The Missing
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 07:12 AM (HFcKg)
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Great picks, Broken Trail is a great movie and one of my favorites.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 27, 2025 07:26 AM (MiQK4)
https://tinyurl.com/4e43edmr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 07:27 AM (47lXK)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:28 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:28 AM (omVj0)
The thing has a 3 hours and 54 minutes runtime.
I’m afraid to touch it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)
There was also Streets of Laredo[, the LD sequel, with James Garner as an aging Captain Call.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:31 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: GWB
You have blonde hair, don't you?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 07:32 AM (6WCwE)
I remember that had Kevin Kline and a very young Kevin Constner.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025
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It had Scott Glenn, too, and the Horde's favorite all-around actor, Brian Dennehy. Danny Glover as well; he would be in Lonesome Dove a little later.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:33 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2025 07:36 AM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:38 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:38 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 07:40 AM (sTuNG)
Looked it up on Wiki,
Came out in 1999 as a HBO film.
Filmed in Calgary, Alberta.
And was written by Dick Cusack, who is, funnily enough, John and Joan’s dad.
I didn’t know their father was an actor, documentary filmmaker and a screenwriter.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:41 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2025 07:32 AM (6WCwE)
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Even for blondes, their condition is... reversible.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 07:41 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)
Well, they did it again!
https://tinyurl.com/mwem9mcv
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 07:43 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:45 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025 07:46 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/bdfw6ary
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 07:47 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
There was also Streets of Laredo[, the LD sequel, with James Garner as an aging Captain Call.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:31 AM (omVj0)
I’ve watched all of them.
I really like Dead Men’s Walk when they were young men who just joined the Rangers.
The two actors really managed to pull off younger versions of the characters Duvall and Jones made famous.
The Gus McCray actor really did pull it off well.
Garner was pretty good as an old older Woodrow Call, even though he spends half the movie on his back after getting shot.
I liked all of them, not as much as Lonesome Dove but they are still pretty good.
Return to Lonesome Dove is the disappointing one.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:48 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
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The Dems are not the Dems' friend.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 07:48 AM (sTuNG)
artist working from museum pictures, I figured
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 07:49 AM (dKEEs)
Looked it up on Wiki,
Came out in 1999 as a HBO film.
Filmed in Calgary, Alberta.
And was written by Dick Cusack, who is, funnily enough, John and Joan’s dad.
I didn’t know their father was an actor, documentary filmmaker and a screenwriter.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025
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A family project! Well, if it's from '99, we have a good chance it won't be heavily woke or too PC.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:50 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025 07:50 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 07:53 AM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:38 AM (omVj0)
Would you believe I had no idea that was based on a TV show when I saw it back then?
I didn’t figure that part out until much much later when I started watching the reruns on Encore Westerns.
I liked it before I even knew what it was based on.
Jack Kelly died in 1992, so that explains why brother Bart didn’t have a role in the movie.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 07:53 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025 07:53 AM (TEi+a)
Yes, his parents emigrated from Somalia, but he was born in Washington, DC.
He graduated from Falls Church high school in Falls Church, Virginia.
He has an undergraduate and masters degree in Public Administration from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
He's just a fake foreigner following the fake Barry Soetoro model.
Posted by: Where's that bumper sticker? at July 27, 2025 07:53 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 07:53 AM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:54 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 07:55 AM (2GCMq)
Thank you. I survived a trip to see the overpriced Museum of Light and Art with gold-digger #3 yesterday. The Renoir works on a slide show were nice. The rest of the art was self-indulgent crap.
Looking at the prayer list, I would go for blessing wishes for all the Horde. There are some going through a lot of pain.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 27, 2025 07:55 AM (XQo4F)
I wonder how many are written by AI. The total lack of creativity and the abundance of eye-wash are clues.
Sometimes I wonder if the articles are merely there to shape narratives. Say that you are in union or guild leadership where your income is based on the there being humans doing some thing where you can grift or otherwise make the mortgage payment, and you hear that AI is going to cut down on work opportunities for your field.
Yes, you want to flood the field with negative stories on the threats to your food pellet.
Or, if there is a "give it time" clause in the story, it might well be level setting by AI enthusiasts who haven't delivered AI's version of the Hoverboard.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 07:57 AM (dKEEs)
I didn’t figure that part out until much much later when I started watching the reruns on Encore Westerns.
I liked it before I even knew what it was based on.
Jack Kelly died in 1992, so that explains why brother Bart didn’t have a role in the movie.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025
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William Goldman, the screenwriter for Maverick, was born in '31, so he'd have been 26 when the original show began. No doubt he was familiar with it -- in contrast to today's screenwriters, who are proud that they don't know anything about the original property and are determined to "reimagine" it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:57 AM (omVj0)
Thank you for that link to the Pratt, Kansas farmer. He did well for his 20th anniversary. Need a steady hand on the Deere GPS planting program to do that.
And a shoutout to Jessie, your retired organist.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)
I'm concerned about a Leviathan government that infests ever minute detail of human life and activity that any twitch by a government policy maker results in "catastrophe" for the dependent class.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:01 AM (a4flb)
Ok Perhaps you should address The Diary Farmers of America. I didn't write the letter.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 08:04 AM (2GCMq)
There's already a funky haze in the air, and not the good fungKAY kind. Gonna be another hot one.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 27, 2025 08:05 AM (kpS4V)
Thanks, Salty. I just saw her earlier this week and had. a nice visit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 27, 2025 08:05 AM (2GCMq)
Quigley Down Under
Also The Man From Snowy River.
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 08:06 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 07:57 AM (omVj0)
It really is Maverick through and through.
The setups and cons.
The Jodie Foster character as a stand-in for the Samantha Crawford character from the original show.
The best part about watching it without having seen the series is that I had no clue Garner’s character would be Gibson’s Maverick’s father until they showed it.
If I’d have seen the show first I would’ve immediately thought they were related.
“Like my old Pappy used to say…”
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 08:06 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 08:07 AM (2NHgQ)
https://is.gd/4Tk4Fg
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 07:57 AM (dKEEs)
Excellent, I'll bookmark that one. Also, Bookworm Room sometimes has a meme drop, but not always weekly.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 27, 2025 08:08 AM (PiwSw)
There is a way to prosecute him. But I would rather sic OSHA, BATF, and the IRS on him.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 08:08 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 08:09 AM (2NHgQ)
I found ONE converter going the direction I want. Weird.
Posted by: GWB
DisplayPort includes HDMI in the spec, so DisplayPort to HDMI converters are cheap and easy - basically just a passive cable.
Going the other way requires a chip to handle conversion and a separate power supply.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2025 08:10 AM (BLOW1)
I was gonna say, a properly based AI would just direct you to Planned Parenthood if you asked it how to worship Moloch.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2025 08:11 AM (Aq1uz)
Quigley Down Under
Also The Man From Snowy River.
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 08:06 AM (poXs5)
Yeah but those are in Australia and they don’t count. ;-)
Quigley is good,
I watch it every time I come across it just to see Laura San Giacomo eat the maggots.
I wonder if kids in Oz played “Drovers & Aborigines” like we played “Cowboys & Indians”?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 08:12 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:01 AM (a4flb)
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So am I. But before we go there, what percentage of the farmers complaining are dependent on illegal aliens (and possibly child labor) doing the field work for them?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 08:13 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2025 08:10 AM (BLOW1)
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Obviously a blonde developed this technology.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 27, 2025 08:14 AM (sTuNG)
Posted by: man at July 27, 2025 08:15 AM (tubbA)
Thanks again.
Got a blog question. When I refresh the page, I get a sponsored commercial as a full page. Going back to use History returns me to the blog. But the commercials popping up are almost as annoying as YouTube.
Should I upgrade my iMac 11.7.10 to get rid of pop-ups?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 08:15 AM (u82oZ)
Quigley Down Under
Also The Man From Snowy River.
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025
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How could I have forgotten Quigley, with Alan Rickman as another of his quintessential villains -- and Laura San Giacomo as the adorable if nutty Cora?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:15 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 08:16 AM (dKEEs)
I've had good results with the free version of Github Copilot that's built into VSCode. It pretty quickly picked up suggesting code in my general style and around 35-40% of the time what it suggests is exactly what I wanted to write. The rest of the time it's either close but fixable with minimal editing or a complete hallucination, so I really don't get actually asking it to generate an entire program.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2025 08:18 AM (Aq1uz)
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 08:18 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 08:18 AM (JvZF+)
Thanks again.
Got a blog question. When I refresh the page, I get a sponsored commercial as a full page. Going back to use History returns me to the blog. But the commercials popping up are almost as annoying as YouTube.
Should I upgrade my iMac 11.7.10 to get rid of pop-ups?
Posted by: NaCly Dog
Now that one I don't know.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 27, 2025 08:19 AM (BLOW1)
Also The Man From Snowy River.
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 08:06 AM (poXs5)
Yeah but those are in Australia and they don’t count. ;-)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025
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Quigley could have been set in 1870s Arizona. But the Apaches (or whatever Indians Rickman's rancher would want to have annihilated) would have had rifles of their own. Maybe it could have been a more peaceable and more defenseless tribe somewhere.
But then we'd have lost the exotic AU flavor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:19 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 08:21 AM (poXs5)
Should I upgrade my iMac 11.7.10 to get rid of pop-ups?
I see a full page ad when I press Back to go to the main page, but refreshing a comment page doesn't do that. That behavior is identical across all 3 major OSes (Win 11, Mac 15.5, Linux 6.15).
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2025 08:23 AM (Aq1uz)
Step 1: Ai can do all your thinking for you - simply ask it to do a task, solve a problem personal, manage your life - presto! - you're all set!! AI replaces EVERYTHING!
Step 2: AI used to data farm every last detail about all our lives, then used to monetize and control us.
Step 3: Whoa, dude, we never said this was private -- and really, you should have been consulting a licensed professional* for most of that sh#t. . .
*laughs that licensed professionals were replaced by AI*
Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2025 08:23 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 08:24 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 08:15 AM (u82oZ)
Updating your OS won’t do much for that.
You’ll need to add an extension/plug-in to your browser.
Adblock, UBlock-Origin, and/or Ghostery will help there.
It depends on what browser you use, though.
If you’re using Safari I think those plugins are available, but I’m not sure.
Brave Browser will block most ad stuff without your having to do anything extra.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)
Got it. Do not want to upgrade my OS. Got some extensions that are not up to snuff.
Off to the Apple store.
Thanks.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 08:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2025 08:27 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 27, 2025 08:07 AM (2NHgQ)
There’s been some good serious discussion on X by those with legal knowledge, and yes quite conservative. General agreement that getting indictments should be pretty easy, getting convictions for any of them will be damn near impossible. That’s ok; the purpose will be to expose everything to the public, and also force each defendant to spend millions of dollars and waste years of their lives fighting it.
The process is the punishment.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025 08:28 AM (9Tdlv)
But then we'd have lost the exotic AU flavor.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:19 AM (omVj0)
I don’t suppose it matters, really.
All you need for a Western is guns, horses, and preferably plains and/or deserts.
Add a few outlaws or baddies and you got yourself a Western.
And Oz has had some colorful outlaws over the years.
Ned Kelly was a famous one.
They’ve made several movies about him.
One even starred Mick Jagger as Kelly.
The last one I saw had Heath Ledger as their outlaw.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 08:29 AM (6ydKt)
Learn to Monkey Wrench systems. AI is begging for it.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:29 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 08:30 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025 08:32 AM (TEi+a)
Brave Browser will block most ad stuff without your having to do anything extra.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 08:24 AM
I've been having good luck running chrome w/ adblock
I prefer brave, but every time I open AoSHQ, it crashes all the brave windows (hence my shift to chrome)
could have something to do with the fact that I'm still driving a Win7 box...
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2025 08:34 AM (tljrc)
Brennan and others still need the perfunctory 5:00 AM raid where they sit in their bed cloths in the front lawn handcuffed for hours while agents are taking the sweet time methodically searching everywhere, including behind all of the drywall for "evidence".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:35 AM (a4flb)
The process is the punishment.
. . . and 5:00am no-knock raids. Can't forget that part! Also gag orders, so that they can't defend themselves in public? They did that to Trump during the 2024 campaign.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2025 08:35 AM (GbwPZ)
Outside of that I think it’s vastly overrated.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025 08:35 AM (9Tdlv)
AoSHQ seems to perform best with Chrome + Ghostery. Dittos with Amazon Prime Video and Youtube videos, eliminates all of the advertisements.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:36 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Lizzy at July 27, 2025 08:36 AM (GbwPZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 08:38 AM (+qU29)
Ahhhhh...
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 08:38 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2025 08:39 AM (h/ffs)
could have something to do with the fact that I'm still driving a Win7 box...
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2025 08:34 AM (tljrc)
It’s just the main page that gives Brave problems.
I only use Brave on this iPad and it would just reload the page a hundred times.
I finally turned off all blocking on the main page and all of that stopped.
I don’t mind it for AoSHQ.
At least it gives Pixy & Ace a little revenue.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 08:39 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 08:39 AM (+qU29)
Skip commented yesterday
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025
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Thanks, SF. I didn't see Skip's comment.
It was minor surgery, and I was in great shape (heart, lungs, muscles, BP, weight) before it, so I wasn't too worried. Got my followup appt. with the surgeon tomorrow. I suppose he'll take out the stitches in another couple of weeks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:39 AM (omVj0)
Outside of that I think it’s vastly overrated.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025
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I'm glad, then, to be out of the clerical and mid-level work world.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:40 AM (omVj0)
Outside of that I think it’s vastly overrated.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2025 08:35 AM (9Tdlv)
As I said in yesterday's hobby thread:
I think AI art is going to become so much better in just a short time that you are going to be able to get exactly what you want.
The days of NC Wyeth are basically done.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:40 PM (VofaG)
I hope not. If AI did improve so much that it does better than humans, what use is there for human artists and writers?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:47 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 08:41 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2025 08:41 AM (AOsQT)
I go a different direction. AI is a glorified search engine, summarizer and pattern recognizer. Its benefit is being able to draw from a lot of (questionable) sources and provide summaries.
Given that, it doesn't replace much, what it does is augments or extends functions performed by others. Introducing Word and Outlook didn't only replace the steno pool, it changed how we communicate culturally and moved the composition closer to the source.
Giving us Excel didn't replace accountants, it just made their reports more robust and more frequent. Power Point actually created whole categories of time wasting jobs.
I see AI in a Systems Theory sort of way which abides by the laws of homeostasis, just as Anti-lock brakes didn't make driving safer, it allowed us to drive faster and with less inter-car distance.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:42 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Thumbscrew at July 27, 2025 08:43 AM (DI0sy)
Ahhhhh...
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025
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That's what I tell Miss Linda. Being up early is like stealing a march on the rest of the world. Roads are empty, stores less crowded -- if they're open. And I don't have to see the denizens of my apartment complex wandering the street and making noise (which they call, I suppose, "music").
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:43 AM (omVj0)
Brennan and others still need the perfunctory 5:00 AM raid where they sit in their bed cloths in the front lawn handcuffed for hours while agents are taking the sweet time methodically searching everywhere, including behind all of the drywall for "evidence".
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This
Yet... there's speculation that some of the crimes may not have an "expiration date." Some sort of task force has been organized to look into all the criminals and all the crimes to see what is, and isn't possible to hang on them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025 08:44 AM (TEi+a)
Safari with AdBlock Pro (the paid version) works well too.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2025 08:44 AM (Aq1uz)
It’s like a mix of The Hills Have Eyes and The Donner Party,
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)
Have you heard today's "artists" and seen their work?
We aren't getting beautiful piano concertos and Sistine Chapels.
We get museums decorated with bananas taped to the wall and dirty toilets filled with shit while we listen to drug addicts rhyme to a beat about killing cops and raping women.
Dance is mostly nude obese black women shaking their ass in the air like they are getting Tazed.
I welcome our six-fingered Ai generated art.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)
I prefer brave, but every time I open AoSHQ, it crashes all the brave windows (hence my shift to chrome)
could have something to do with the fact that I'm still driving a Win7 box...
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2025 08:34 AM (tljrc)
If you're running Windows 7, your browsers are out of date and cannot be upgraded anymore. I'm running Windows 8.1 on a high end Toshibla gaming computer, and I can't upgrade any of my browsers...Chrome, Brave or Firefox. But, I'm not experiencing any of the issues described here. On Chrome and Firefox, I run AdBlock Plus. Brave still blocks most ads and pop-ups. However, any on line banking needs to be done on another machine running Windows 10 with the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, etc. Can't log on with the older versions.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2025 08:49 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025
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I agree that my g-g-generation did let a lot of garbage happen to America. The policies that led to the decline (the Hart-Celler Act, for instance) were started by Silents and Greatest Generation lawmakers. But the Boomers, once they began to have a serious influence, could have stopped illegal immigration and other disasters -- and didn't.
But the demonization from succeeding generations is unfair and pointless.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:49 AM (omVj0)
Wait, isn't Minnesota the only state bans the sale of non-USA-made flags?
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 27, 2025 08:50 AM (BA2Bq)
Boomers need to remind their kids that they voted for socialism. In socialism, there is only inheritance among the elite as they set up trust funds with their ill-gotten "generational wealth".
Then repeat boomer George Carlin's observations about The Club
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025 08:51 AM (TEi+a)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)
If there are no outlets for live artists and writers, you'll never get great art again. Look at book covers, they all look the same. We need a Polynikes and others to create, not leave creation - which is really just derivative copying - to machines that have been coded to obey leftist mores.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 08:51 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 27, 2025 08:53 AM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2025 08:54 AM (TEi+a)
So it's really a crap shoot with them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)
Yes. They need to hear it. No one is required to leave anything to anyone. I don't plan to spend everything, but to demand it is a high form of theft in my book.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 08:55 AM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:55 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Agree that it is, and will always be, a machine. It cannot become self-aware for the simple reason that we don't understand what comprises consciousness ourselves.
But I do think it can eventually replace humans in anything that involves purely objective criteria.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 27, 2025 08:56 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2025 08:56 AM (JvZF+)
They gave the world LBJ, the Vietnam War and MFN status to China.
Boomers were accused of working too hard and keeping their money to themselves. I lived through the insults of "I should have spent more time in the office" tombstone slurs. Boomers were accused of living off cocaine and caffeine to get their 16 hours a day of Greed. Boomers are Selfish, Greedy, Me Only. That is what I heard all the damned time from older and younger generations.
Same stupid shit today. Boomers in retirement are being accused by the grifting class that they are keeping their money but oddly their accusers have forgotten how hard the Boomers worked to first earn it.
I still bust my ass and I get to decide who gets the millions I leave behind - not some snot nosed socialist punk.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:58 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 27, 2025 08:55 AM (omVj0)
Nothing wrong with that. I believe we've had discussions about covers that have nothing to do with the action in the book. Just a generic scene of a person, coded by color that seems to go with the genre.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2025 08:58 AM (0eaVi)
AI will NEVER have wisdom.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:59 AM (a4flb)
BOOK NOOD
Posted by: Skip at July 27, 2025 08:59 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2025 08:59 AM (poXs5)
Oh, you must be reading the AoS comment sections, because there are quite a few regular commenters here who do just that.
Just ask the author wannabe whose books hardly anyone purchases.
Posted by: one hour sober at July 27, 2025 09:04 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:58 AM (a4flb)
I’m just letting you know right now, if you need a son to adopt, I’m game.
I don’t have anything against Boomers anyhow.
I’m one of those people who realizes every generation is screwed up and screws things up.
I believe that’s called “Human Nature”.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 27, 2025 09:04 AM (6ydKt)
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Some of it right here. On a blog. Run by boomers. 🤔
I think there might be some "yanking of chains" involved. But if those individuals are serious, they're going to be horribly disappointed when they get their proverbial ass beat.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2025 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Steve O at July 27, 2025 09:41 AM (iY2C2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 27, 2025 09:59 AM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 27, 2025 10:52 AM (/y8xj)
https://www.imdb.com/title /tt0252784/
Posted by: gingeroni at July 27, 2025 10:55 AM (86qGP)
https://www.imdb.com/title /tt0229907/
Posted by: gingeroni at July 27, 2025 11:19 AM (86qGP)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2025 08:01 AM (a4flb)
#metoo
Posted by: m at July 27, 2025 01:40 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at July 27, 2025 01:40 PM (aURVT)
this blog
Posted by: calon4d alternatif at July 27, 2025 04:40 PM (5z9B+)
Saturday Night "Club ONT" July 26, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
Mystery Click carries extra importance tonight. Keep reading.
Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies A woman cheats on her husband after years of happy marriage. Realizing her mistake, she starts praying to God. "Lord, I know what I did was wrong, but my marriage is the only thing that gives my life purpose and joy. Please, don't let my husband find out." Suddenly she hears a voice from above: "Okay my child, it will be, but on one condition: years from now, you will die by drowning." The woman hesitates at first but then responds, "Alright Lord, if it means he'll never find out, then so be it." The next years of her life are happy and wonderful. She starts a successful business and lives in comfort with her husband, however, she continues to cheat on him many times, having forgotten her conversation with God. One day she decides to book herself a vacation on a cruise ship. A few days into the voyage, a loud BOOM rocks the cruise ship, and it starts to sink. Suddenly remembering her agreement with God, she is struck with grief and begins frantically praying to God again: "God, you're not gonna drown an entire cruise ship full of people because of me, right?" She hears a familiar voice: "Are you kidding me? I've been working to gather all you cheaters here for years." *** At a meeting, the corporate manager told a joke. Everyone on the team laughed except for one guy. "Didn't you understand my joke?" the manager asked him. "Oh, I understood it, but I resigned yesterday."
You man consume as many of these as you like here in the Club, but any real life enactment of the drink's title MUST be performed outside of Club property. Please understand that Club property includes the parking lot. Thank you for understanding.
as Mountain Bear. Why are they of note? They couldn't be more different than Boss Hogg.
The Florida Highway Patrol stated that the trooper immediately observed signs of impairment in Spain, including pinpoint pupils, flushed skin, a dry mouth, and irritation on the inside of his nose. The alleged drunk driver also kept sniffling, spitting and clearing his throat while talking with the officer. The trooper then attempted to give him a field sobriety test multiple times, but Spain wasn't having it and became uncooperative after the third attempt.
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Rough.
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https://shorturl.at/X4Xxy
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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 10:05 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 10:06 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 10:06 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 10:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:08 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 10:08 PM (hIY2p)
We got us a smooth Dancer, A fine Dogster, and a lovely little aimed Dinosaur ...
Yikes!
Hello boys💋🦵!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 10:08 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 10:09 PM (AOsQT)
If you're drunk in Spain and they can tell from Florida, you're reeeeeally drunk.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 10:09 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Darrell at July 26, 2025 10:10 PM (eU7D4)
https://tinyurl.com/29rx5mas
Elegant and slightly sinister.
Posted by: All Hail Eris
Back in the days of cheap FM radios, I heard that as "Dance All Day."
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)
"Didn't you understand my joke?" the manager asked him.
"Oh, I understood it, but I resigned yesterday."
Or:
"I don't have to laugh. I'm leaving Friday anyhow."
__ Fun Fare, 1949
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 10:10 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 10:10 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: PabloD at July 26, 2025 10:10 PM (eU7D4)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 26, 2025 10:10 PM (aUGqq)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 10:12 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 10:12 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: TRex -anyone need a restroom token? at July 26, 2025 10:12 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 10:13 PM (uGaBv)
We got us a smooth Dancer, A fine Dogster, and a lovely little aimed Dinosaur ...
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Do you really have to aim a T-Rex? They seem more like area-effect weapons.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:13 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:14 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Pixley Picayune at July 26, 2025 10:14 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:14 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 10:15 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 10:15 PM (77rzZ)
https://shorturl.at/X4Xxy
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 10:04 PM (ULPxl)
Friggin' Awesome!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:15 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: tankdemon
"Ferryman with an outboard!" sounds like one of your grandpa's cusses, doesn't it?
Posted by: mikeski on a pogo stick at July 26, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 10:16 PM (77rzZ)
That ain't drunk.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 10:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:17 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 10:10 PM (HZi96)
No one you'd know. They're all from Canada.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:14 PM (ftFVW)
Give three of them to a date and clothing gets surrendered.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:18 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:13 PM
***
I have a history of being somewhat...unguided.
Posted by: TRex - rough justice at July 26, 2025 10:18 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:14 PM (ftFVW)
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All in favor of a second Bourbon Restoration, wave your little flag.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 10:18 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:13 PM
***
I have a history of being somewhat...unguided.
Posted by: TRex - rough justice
************
Fact
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 10:19 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: mikeski on a pogo stick at July 26, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)
'Phil Swift for Flex-Tape.
We'll cut Chyron's boat in half . . . . '
Later, amid flames.
'Damned if I know how I got here.'
Posted by: RickZ at July 26, 2025 10:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:20 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: TRex - do I enter the 3D death pool? at July 26, 2025 10:20 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 10:00 PM (ULPxl)
MOP! Broom? Fuller brush???
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 26, 2025 10:20 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 10:21 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Diogenes
Maybe Courtney Love needed a fur coat?
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:22 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Lirio100 at July 26, 2025 10:22 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: mikeski on a pogo stick at July 26, 2025 10:15 PM (DgGvY)
It sounds like the television edit of one of my grandpa's cusses.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 26, 2025 10:22 PM (aUGqq)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:20 PM (W/lyH)
Maybe he should have bought a fur coat instead.
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 10:22 PM (xcIvR)
That cheerios stacking contest is a hoot! Surely that cannot be real... maybe...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 26, 2025 10:23 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: TRex - hobbying hangover at July 26, 2025 10:24 PM (cCn4/)
My WWII pet peeve, woman is only wearing the inner shell for a helmet
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:24 PM (+qU29)
Oops! I totally meant little armed Dinosaur....
My bad....
And yes...those arms will kick some...um...ass?🦾?
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 10:24 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
Never tried cheerios, but the little hobbits' dad and I would put tiny stuffed animals on their sleepy little baby heads.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:25 PM (ftFVW)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 26, 2025 10:23 PM
***
But I really WANT it to be real!
Posted by: TRex - stupid human tricks at July 26, 2025 10:25 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:26 PM (DgGvY)
I think I got me a chicken babysitter....
My only thing now is cancer test in August.....
Hoping that all goes well🤪!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 10:28 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:26 PM
***
And every Trappist Abbott needs his beer.
Posted by: TRex - Belgian beer is good food at July 26, 2025 10:28 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
------------
We did Life Savers once or twice... lick 'em a bit to stick.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 10:29 PM (Q4IgG)
However, Southern Comfort and I are not on, um, speaking terms at the moment... well, for quite a while now, actually... it's a long story...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 26, 2025 10:30 PM (kB9dk)
GO - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-2 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA
Launch Date: July 26, 2025 (PDT)
Launch Time: 8:55 p.m. PDT (July 27, 0355 UTC, 05:55 CEST)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXPnGK_zk8
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 10:30 PM (sPQoU)
My only thing now is cancer test in August.....
Hoping that all goes well🤪!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
************
Wonderful news! Here's praying all goes well with your test in August! Club ONT in TX wouldn't be the same without you....
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 10:30 PM (cCn4/)
Vought was practicing with the XF5U-1 before they rolled out the F7U-1 Cutlass, aka the Ensign Eliminator.
If 1/72d scale is too small, Kitty Hawk released the XF5U-1 'Zimmerman's Skimmer' in 1/48 scale back in 2015.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 10:30 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Case at July 26, 2025 10:30 PM (ilX37)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
***
But I really WANT it to be real!
Posted by: TRex - stupid human tricks
Crunchy cat treats. Would lay them in a line down Junior-ette's arm to her forehead. The two Siamese dubasses would take turns getting them one by each. Both were very gentle with her little non-rolling over yet self.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 26, 2025 10:32 PM (QcUc+)
Posted by: Beverly at July 26, 2025 10:32 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 10:32 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
I can reliably report that it has been done before, enhanced by the sleeping baby's arm wrapped around a beer.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (W/lyH)
However, Southern Comfort and I are not on, um, speaking terms at the moment... well, for quite a while now, actually... it's a long story...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
Add peach schnapps and Galliano, and it's every sorority-girl-panty-dropper cocktail, in one glass.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (hY4dx)
Joyenz, glad to hear it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (lCaJd)
Sheesh, I'm getting olde. Junior-ette is starting her senior year at UAH in computer science next montj.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (QcUc+)
And good evening, all!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 10:35 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Diogenes
Just bringing the comments to a full circle - during my late wife's eulogy, her lifetime friend said - "Well, Tam gave it her best shot."
btw, Dear departed wife died of a GSW to the chest.
I have to admit - I did laugh nervously a bit.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 26, 2025 10:35 PM (6WCwE)
We used to sing that along with the radio, except we sang "Everybody eat dung tonight."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 10:35 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: admiral spinebender at July 26, 2025 10:36 PM (hftn9)
Jolene,
It is not the same here on AOS without your Dad. He was a very interesting man.
I miss him so much and I pray for you and your sister.
I wish many blessings for you and your sister.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 10:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:39 PM (W/lyH)
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Be on the lookout
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and several other agencies are in the area of Spring Garden Ln and Davis Rd looking for a mostly nude male white. Please stay clear of the area due to the large first responder presence. If you see the subject, do not approach him and call 911.
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
We apologize for being vague, but when he isn’t wearing clothes we can’t give a clothing description. 🤷🏼♂️ Subject has been located and all units are clear of the area. Thanks for your assistance!
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 10:39 PM (sPQoU)
I always did kinda sneer at it. I got my start with straight bourbon in junior high... my buddy's stepfather used to keep a bottle of either Old Crow or Old Grandad in the fridge (depending on which happened to be on sale), and we'd sneak shots on a fairly regular basis. Looking back on it, I'm sure the old man knew we were doing it. Never said a word, though.
The same dude taught us to shoot craps. Probably not what most people would consider a Positiive Role Model for Youth. I liked him, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 10:41 PM (qpyNK)
So, "unremarkable" might have been better...
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 26, 2025 10:41 PM (Y+AMd)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (DgGvY)
* * * *
That reminds me of Harvey Wallbangers. And let's not go there either...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 26, 2025 10:41 PM (kB9dk)
Yeah, may not want to cross the county line.
Posted by: Case at July 26, 2025 10:42 PM (ilX37)
I got to the gate of Area 51 today, I thought that was cool. I took pictures of the sign that says "No photography."
Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2025 10:43 PM (8sydA)
May all effort from you result in maximum benefit to you and grievous heartburn for the leftwit fungi who plague us.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 26, 2025 10:43 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2025 10:43 PM
***
That's OK. They likely took a photo of you too.
Posted by: TRex - smile! at July 26, 2025 10:44 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 10:44 PM (L9kkv)
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and several other agencies are in the area of Spring Garden Ln and Davis Rd looking for a mostly nude male white.
Posted by: Joyenz
Mostly nude? Gotta wonder if he was in his skivvies or was he going full Pooh Bear.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:44 PM (ftFVW)
May God comfort you and give you His peace.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2025 10:45 PM (mZ/55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY90sf5f2G4
And now Music Box of Fate. Ironmouse rested her voice for a full day before trying to sing this. This animated music video was put together in three weeks. There is also fan footage of Ironmouse performing this song 'live' before an audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOS-e2d-cM
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 10:45 PM (wOq++)
Probably the most photographed NO PHOTOGRAPHY sign in America.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:45 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2025 10:43 PM (8sydA)
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It's all fun and games until the anal probes begin.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 10:45 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:44 PM (ftFVW)
Wearing shoes, maybe?
If I were going to run the risk of striking people blind by appearing in public nude, I'd definitely wear running shoes so I had at least a chance of making a getaway.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 10:46 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2025 10:45 PM
***
How's your health these days? Are you fully operational?
Posted by: TRex - not going full Pooh Bear right now at July 26, 2025 10:47 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2025 10:43 PM
***
That's OK. They likely took a photo of you too.
Posted by: TRex - smile! at July 26, 2025 10:44 PM (cCn4/)
I can guarantee the pics I took are better.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 26, 2025 10:47 PM (8sydA)
Posted by: BurtTC
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It's all fun and games until the anal probes begin.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
I bet they don't even buy you a Tie Me to the Bedpost first. Cheapskates!
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:47 PM (ftFVW)
If you did, well all 13,000+ photos of the users and their PII has been leaked on 4Chan and other places.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 10:49 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 26, 2025 10:50 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2025 10:50 PM (mZ/55)
I have yet to see any history of that, through my brief internet searches. Sounds true though.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 26, 2025 10:51 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (DgGvY)
Remember that show that Cuomo's ex-sidepiece used to have? Semi-Ho Made or something like that?
Every one of her "recipes" consisted of (e.g.) opening a bag of chips and a can of bean dip, accompanied by a 55 gallon drum of the kind of sweet sorority girl drink that leads to frozen technicolor barf pools in the snow, should it happen to be winter.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 10:51 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Diogenes
Around 1980, Debbie Harry wore a shirt with "NO Pictures" written on it and would recoil in fake horror when people took pictures of her in it. She was probably the most photographed person in the world for 10-15 years.
Posted by: Accent The Negative at July 26, 2025 10:52 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2025 10:52 PM (mZ/55)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at July 26, 2025 10:50 PM
***
Sounds like progress, but best wishes for week number two.
Posted by: TRex - definitely not a doctor at July 26, 2025 10:52 PM (cCn4/)
Did not know you were sick. I hope the medications work and you feel better.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 10:53 PM (sPQoU)
I'm about 99 44/100% sure that she just ripped off the plot of Heinlein's "If This Goes On---", replacing most of the entertaining action sequences with a bunch of boring leftist lecturess.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 10:54 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 26, 2025 10:54 PM (CHHv1)
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office and several other agencies are in the area of Spring Garden Ln and Davis Rd looking for a mostly nude male white.
Posted by: Joyenz
Mostly nude? Gotta wonder if he was in his skivvies or was he going full Pooh Bear.
Posted by: She Hobbit
Just shoes? He was outrunning at least a few cops.
If it was something Moron-like, like "just an eyepatch, a belt, and a pistol holster," you'd think they would have said so. That's pretty distinctive.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:54 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 10:55 PM (qpyNK)
Speaking of model kits. Sprue Brothers is having a 20% off sale for all Hobby Boss kits.
Word of caution though, read the reviews before buying any Hobby Boss kit except for their FW 190/Ta 152 kits.
Their F6F Hellcat kits have a fuselage so oversized, John Belushi or a Sumo wrestler could climb inwith room to spare. Their A-4 Skyhawks strangely lack the deployable leading edge slats that even ESCI has on their A-4 kits. The F-105 kits have this maddening gap between the cockpit side consoles and the fuselage sides. The TBF-1C kit tells you to install drop tanks under the wings, the Avenger never carried external drop tanks.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 10:56 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:44 PM
***
Everybody Wang Chung tonight...
Posted by: TRex - If I didn't, someone else would have at July 26, 2025 10:57 PM (cCn4/)
I remember one of those probes...you just have to take a deep breath and relax...it's the thing that comes out of your butt later...
(See Cartman on Southpark)....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 10:58 PM (L9kkv)
I assume he was from Dearborn.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:59 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:00 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:00 PM (sPQoU)
Probably only rate a short comment.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 11:01 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 26, 2025 11:02 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
I can reliably report that it has been done before, enhanced by the sleeping baby's arm wrapped around a beer.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 10:33 PM (W/lyH)
_____________________________________
Yup, that's real. Although, it doesn't have to be confined to Cheerios. Most breakfast cereals will work, as will a rubber nose with glasses...fake moustaches, eye liner to make eyebrows look angry.
Kids are fun.
Posted by: Orson at July 26, 2025 11:02 PM (dIske)
Oh great, another incident at a Walmart. My Sister will be thrilled in having to sit through another safety meeting.
I hope the people hurt will recover.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:03 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:04 PM (wOq++)
I remember back in the Area 51 peak hype days, when Art Bell was at his peak, there was some desert rat type who, just for fun, messed around with the base security.
He wouldn't cross any line, literally or figuratively, but he'd get as close to it as possible, which would bring out the "camo guys". He started taking pictures of them, telephoto lens and all that, and would post it on his blog.
He stopped doing that when a couple of those guys came up to him in bar in Vegas one night. They plead their case: listen, we're just grunts doing our job. We don't have anything to do with any aliens or have any clue what really goes on there. We're just security. When you post our pictures, we get in trouble and can lose our jobs. So please, stop.
He did.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 11:05 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:06 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:00 PM (sPQoU)
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The guy was nutz.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 11:06 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 26, 2025 11:07 PM (2NHgQ)
And ahoy there three D’s!
I’m a little bummed. Went out to the beach to drink my Rainier tall boy and the marine layer just rolled in. Got a little chilly and no sunset tonight.
Anyone have room at a table? I brought canapés.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 11:07 PM (mT+6a)
Oldest son who works for the Forest Service is being deployed to a wildfire in Utah tomorrow. Fire is 12,000 acres now.
We hate when he is sent to fight wildfires.
He is doing his job, and we are proud of him. It doesn't lessen our fear for him and his crew.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:08 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Funk To Funky at July 26, 2025 11:10 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 26, 2025 11:11 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 11:06 PM (hY4dx)
Of course. Perhaps the extreme heat made him nuts. We don't get a lot of naked people around here. This isn't Los Angeles.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:11 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:08 PM (3ek7K)
I pray he and all the FD stay safe.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:12 PM (sPQoU)
Thank you neverenoughcaffeine.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:12 PM (3ek7K)
https://shorturl.at/X4Xxy
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 10:04 PM (ULPxl)
Have charges been brought against you in Britain, yet?
Heck, how about NJ or California?
Posted by: GWB at July 26, 2025 11:13 PM (hKYgG)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:14 PM (3ek7K)
Roughly 5 Americas die per 100,000 a year due to firearms.
About 19 Europeans die per 100,000 a year due to the summer heat.
OMFG! Climate change is gonna kill ... Europeans!
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:14 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 11:16 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 11:17 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:18 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: TecumsehTea
You are being held up in prayer, my sweet. Peace be with you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 11:18 PM (mT+6a)
A guy in England with a metal detector stumbles across something that turns out to be swords, and that leads to the discovery of an unknown Roman settlement of the 1st and 2nd centuries:
https://tinyurl.com/23d6gjzs
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 11:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:18 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:19 PM (wOq++)
Have to head out. Sometime l8r.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 26, 2025 11:19 PM (lRY8a)
Oldest son who works for the Forest Service is being deployed to a wildfire in Utah tomorrow. Fire is 12,000 acres now.
We hate when he is sent to fight wildfires.
He is doing his job, and we are proud of him. It doesn't lessen our fear for him and his crew.
Posted by: fourseasons
This is what he signed up for. He’s being protected by the power of prayer. I live in a state that has loads of forest fires. And we thank them all. It’s a grueling job. And they save people and their homes.
Thank you for raising him.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 11:22 PM (mT+6a)
OMFG! Climate change is gonna kill ... Europeans!
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:14 PM (wOq++)
"The results reported that the annual excess mortality associated with heat and cold across 854 European cities was 20,173 and 203,620, respectively, corresponding to 13 and 129 deaths per 100,000 person-years."
According to these folks: https://tinyurl.com/32eaxmck
Posted by: javems at July 26, 2025 11:24 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:08 PM (3ek7K)
I pray he and all the FD stay safe.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:12 PM (sPQoU)
* * * *
Amen! The firefighters that have been working southwest Utah fires in our area have done an outstanding job under challenging conditions. Prayers up for your son and his coworkers! We are so grateful to have them!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 26, 2025 11:25 PM (kB9dk)
Posted by: Joyenz
Can't believe they'd just leave you hanging.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 11:25 PM (DgGvY)
I can't stay awake any longer
Have a great night everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 11:25 PM (+qU29)
nurse,
God blessed us with the gift of a fine man. He has a wonderful wife and four awesome children.
Marines are awesome as you know.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:27 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 11:25 PM (DgGvY)
That guy was hanging all over the place.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:28 PM (sPQoU)
No, but that looks interesting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 11:28 PM (w6EFb)
"The results reported that the annual excess mortality associated with heat and cold across 854 European cities was 20,173 and 203,620, respectively, corresponding to 13 and 129 deaths per 100,000 person-years."
According to these folks: https://tinyurl.com/32eaxmck
Posted by: javems
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Do I need to click? I'm assuming the excess mortality rates are due to old people having their fuel rations cut in England and the Germans essentially powering down.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2025 11:30 PM (lCaJd)
Time to hear this again.
We live in the most exceptional country on the planet, populated by an extraordinary population that is governed, not ruled by the most unique political system in history. Throughout our 250 years we have met and prevailed over issues even more serious that the current mess, with an unbroken record of success. That success is because we have made part of our heritage the continuance of our predecessors struggle to ensure that our Republic endures.. This battle will join our list of victories.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 26, 2025 11:30 PM (hKoQL)
We will join in (hell, my office is a few blocks away.)
My anxiety comes from not knowing how to pronounce Jaialdi. I gurgled it, but got no good responses. I'll ask at the office come Monday.
Posted by: Mike with a metal plate in muh head at July 26, 2025 11:31 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 11:31 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:32 PM (wOq++)
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This only establishes that the Anglo-Saxons stole England from the caliphate. Right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 11:32 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:33 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Jeff at July 26, 2025 11:33 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:33 PM (wOq++)
Yikes....I'm feeling lucky this year in my part of the Rockies. Usually by now I have my stuff packed and ready to go. I've been damn lucky to have been getting some decent rain. This is hardly something we don't get this time of year...
If this is'climate change', yeah baby! Bring it!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 11:33 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 26, 2025 11:35 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 26, 2025 11:30 PM (hKoQL)
Yes to this. I agree. Wholeheartedly.
Posted by: Mike with a metal plate in muh head at July 26, 2025 11:35 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:33 PM (wOq++)
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Outdoor air conditioning would be well beyond their technology when all their electricity comes from windmills.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 11:35 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:37 PM (wOq++)
It is a tough job for the wonderful people who fight wildfires. Son told us yesterday that they sleep on the ground. They are always on alert.
Fuck the pussies in our country. They have know idea what a lot of people do to keep them safe.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:38 PM (3ek7K)
You see now, my anxiety? I have a weird, stupid brain. A whole lot of conflicting arguments, movie clips and music earworms.
Posted by: Mike gots issues at July 26, 2025 11:40 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Jeff at July 26, 2025 11:40 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 26, 2025 11:30 PM (lCaJd)
Study was done by Lancet. They didn't go into specific causes. Eastern Europeans were more liable than Northern and Western and of course old folks bore the brunt
Posted by: javems at July 26, 2025 11:40 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:41 PM (wOq++)
New T-Zero: July 26, 9:31 p.m. PDT (July 27, 0431 UTC, 06:31 CEST).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXPnGK_zk8
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 11:43 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: javems at July 26, 2025 11:43 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:41 PM (wOq++)
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25 years ago it was top drawer. Now it's a leftist skin suit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 11:44 PM (hY4dx)
What was that the other day about the Frogs warning that A/C can cause "thermal shock".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 11:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: fourseasons
Every commenter on this blog appreciates your son. And there’s a lot of folks who lurk who also appreciate and pray for him.
Don’t waste a thought on the people who don’t get it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 11:45 PM (mT+6a)
The Sun farted in our general direction again yesterday. Well, more of a poot. Anyway, may be some aurora tomorrow. Not anything big or southward.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 11:45 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 11:46 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: PabloD at July 26, 2025 11:46 PM (eU7D4)
Good night best pals💕
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 26, 2025 11:47 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:37 PM (wOq++)
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Is she hiding a ruler?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 11:48 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:51 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:37 PM (wOq++)
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Is she hiding a ruler?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 11:48 PM (JvZF+)
Well, the one is pretty much a straight up young nun with a rosary. The other does look a bit more like an anime waifu.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:51 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:52 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:52 PM (bss/y)
nurse,
Youngest son lives in Port Townsend. He loves living there.
He is doing geology work up there.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 26, 2025 11:52 PM (3ek7K)
So, "unremarkable" might have been better...
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 26, 2025 10:41 PM (Y+AMd)
You do know that Chiari malformation is currently linked to Neanderthal genes?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:52 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:52 PM (wOq++)
She does look like she is about 9. You know what most dudes online are going to use that for if they are looking at it for more than a few seconds.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:53 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Mike with a metal plate in muh head
I'm sure it's pronounced exactly like it's spelled.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 11:55 PM (DgGvY)
Sounds like they have the problem, not me.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:55 PM (wOq++)
Do I need to click? I'm assuming the excess mortality rates are due to old people having their fuel rations cut in England and the Germans essentially powering down.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
It's Trump's fault.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 11:55 PM (63Dwl)
Sounds like they have the problem, not me.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 11:55 PM (wOq++)
No, I am not saying it should be censored. It is not risque in any way. People will rule 34 anything.
What are Tensors terms of service for that kind of thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:57 PM (bss/y)
Next time you’re in town, if you want, I’d be honored to meet you and your spouse for lunch. Or a ferry ride. I love PT.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Well now Tensor has unblocked the image after I posted another nun in prayer image.
Posted by: Anna Puma
So two wrongs do make it right?
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 11:57 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 11:57 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:57 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 11:32 PM (hY4dx)
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No, it just confirms that Italy owes the UK reparations, and since we're going chronologically, until they pay up, the African slave trade reparations are just going to have to wait.
Posted by: Orson at July 26, 2025 11:58 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 11:59 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2025 12:00 AM (wOq++)
As a Catholic, I'm supposed to be triggered or something.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 12:01 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2025 12:01 AM (wOq++)
nurse,
We would love to meet you. I will let you know when we go up there.
I think you are an amazing person. It would be an honor to meet you!
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 12:01 AM (3ek7K)
As a Catholic, I'm supposed to be triggered or something.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 12:01 AM (DgGvY)
Heh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 12:02 AM (bss/y)
Do I need to click? I'm assuming the excess mortality rates are due to old people having their fuel rations cut in England and the Germans essentially powering down.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
It's Trump's fault.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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I knew I didn't need to click.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2025 12:04 AM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Mike with a metal plate in muh head
_______________________
It is a Basque word, and its pronunciation is generally understood to be [ˈʃaɪ.əldi], with the "ai" pronounced like the "eye" in "tai" and the "di" pronounced with a soft "d" sound as in "day".
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2025 12:04 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 12:05 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 27, 2025 12:05 AM (aeiyZ)
For me, today is as excellent as yesterday was shitty. Took 50 mg of the beta blocker instead of the hundred, and felt pretty good all day. Made a couple of major steps in my transmission rebuild. Had a shower, and went to Rowley for Pizza Nite. Spent the evening with friends, had beer and pizza, and no recurrences of the slow heartbeat nonsense. Pogo the dog had her fill of pizza bones. Just got home a few minutes ago, and still feeling fine.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:05 AM (ZhV+D)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 12:06 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2025 12:06 AM (hY4dx)
We have a rodeo in SW Wyoming this weekend. It is so cool see the young people competing. The horses are beautiful.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 12:06 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2025 12:06 AM (hY4dx)
There is always room for linguistic ethnography.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 12:07 AM (D7oie)
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Good to hear you're on the mend, AOP.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2025 12:08 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Kindltot
Saw 'em open for Talk Talk at The Webster in 1990.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 12:09 AM (DgGvY)
It’s good to figure out what works for you.
Metoprolol GAVE me palpitations. I knocked that off stat. Hated it.
The “standard of care” rarely fits.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 12:10 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 12:10 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 10:22 PM (ftFVW)
In today's world, nobody needs a fur coat. But if they want one, then they damned well should be able to have one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:10 AM (ZhV+D)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 27, 2025 12:11 AM (GBH2X)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2025 12:12 AM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 10:32 PM (sPQoU)
Good news, Joyenz!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:13 AM (ZhV+D)
There were a number of girls in dresses, that seemed to fall into three classes, Mennonite families, Civil War living history reenactors, and apparently girls who decided to wear a dress. It is a new thing.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2025 12:13 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 12:13 AM (JGlUB)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2025 12:16 AM (wOq++)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2025 12:20 AM (wOq++)
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 12:21 AM (rkb3z)
No, but that looks interesting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 11:28 PM (w6EFb)
They were delicious! (burps)
Posted by: Cthulhu at July 27, 2025 12:22 AM (4rENN)
I think Alice in Chains is actually harder to understand in the unplugged versions.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 12:23 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 12:23 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 12:23 AM (DgGvY)
Another red-head image.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 27, 2025 12:16 AM (wOq++)
Like that a lot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2025 12:24 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:05 AM (ZhV+D)
Very good news! Best wishes for future good health!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 27, 2025 12:25 AM (QGaXH)
Heavy marine layer here morning and evening. None of my glorious sunsets tonight.
Mariners are winning though.
Hope y’all are doing well. Miss you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 12:26 AM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Another Anon at July 27, 2025 12:26 AM (4h45B)
So many people are assholes. Even being warned about the high wildfire dangers the neighbors were shooting off fireworks yesterday.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 12:27 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 12:28 AM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 27, 2025 12:11 AM (GBH2X)
Jeff Healy and Stevey Ray Vonn are busy cutting heads...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 27, 2025 12:28 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Another Anon
I don't think they care, because it's fun.
Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2025 12:28 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Orson at July 27, 2025 12:04 AM (dIske)
In all seriousness, those stupid phonetic characters are as impervious to reading as Chinese ideograms would be. Just replace each syllable with its closest homophone in English, and call it good.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:28 AM (1Jemc)
And thankfully, Vandenberg isn't as foggy as it was a couple of launches ago -- couldn't see anything.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 12:29 AM (w6EFb)
Rodeo week in our little town is the highlight of the summer, maybe the whole year. Have fun.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 12:32 AM (rkb3z)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 27, 2025 12:33 AM (0nHVk)
Spoke too soon. While the pad cam was fine, looks like a lot of condensation and vapor from the POV of the cam on the booster itself.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
And now it's high enough all that "boiled" off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 12:34 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 27, 2025 12:35 AM (mT+6a)
And now it's high enough all that "boiled" off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 12:34 AM (w6EFb)
'boiled'?
Or 'sublimed'?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 27, 2025 12:36 AM (QGaXH)
Stay alert, cut back the brush and have the hoses ready.
Hey Nurse, give it a few days and the sun will return. Just about Seafair Week isn’t it? See you soon
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 12:36 AM (rkb3z)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2025 12:37 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Kindltot
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Feminine is making a comeback. Young receptionist at the dentist had classic nails, not too long, a nice shape not squared off and a clear lacquer type finish. She appreciated the complement.
Make Feminine Great Again.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 12:38 AM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 27, 2025 12:41 AM (sPQoU)
It’s a sporting goods store but we refer to it as “The Wall of Guns”. I like to bring my friends that don’t live here there and taunt them with the ease of purchasing a firearm.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2025 12:42 AM (rkb3z)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 12:44 AM (4rENN)
Pete,
We love living in Wyoming. Two gun safes full. Locked and loaded here.
Bring it pussy assholes!
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 12:46 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: mindful webworker - is it almost tomorrow already? at July 27, 2025 12:46 AM (f+yIF)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 27, 2025 12:33 AM (0nHVk)
Thank you! Next time I talk to the Np or the Cardio Doc, I am going to suggest that I just take a 2 week holiday from all the damned pills. No BP pill, no statin, no aspirin, no Metformin, no beta blocker. Zilch. Let my system stabilize, see how my heart behaves, and run blood tests to see how the numbers are. Then add the meds back, one by one, as needed by the blood tests. None of the conditions addressed by the meds are immediately life-threatening, but having my heart go wonky certainly could be. Let's eliminate those variables that we can eliminate, and see what happens.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:47 AM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Lord Percy at July 27, 2025 12:53 AM (nftVU)
Posted by: Alan Shepard, pulling 6.3g on launch at July 27, 2025 12:55 AM (w6EFb)
Those Mercury re-entry would get close to 11g briefly as well.
Yep, Gayle King was just like Alan Shepard....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
What a concept.
https://tinyurl.com/3sjkmsbj
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 12:59 AM (9OSHs)
Over/under on her somehow becoming despondent and stabbing herself in the back 56 times?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 12:59 AM (qpyNK)
Boss Hogg's initials J. D. are where the initials in the JD Wetherspoon pub chain in the UK come from.
Posted by: Captain Comic at July 27, 2025 12:59 AM (2DS6v)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2025 12:44 AM (4rENN)
A modern Top Fuel dragster can exceed that, though the driver only has to withstand it for a few seconds.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2025 01:00 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:01 AM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 12:47 AM (1Jemc)
I mentioned last evening that you just need a shop assistant to sneak up behind you every 20 minutes or so and scare the crap outta ya to get your heart pumping. Much easier than implants and all that jazz.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2025 01:04 AM (1Gsou)
I hope you get rain soon!
I'm a little south of you in CO.
We've been blessed with some decent rain,these days in July...
That is usually unheard of here for this time of year. I'll try and send some of this your way😙...
Of course August might just suck...I figure I always have to be ready for fire😢....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2025 01:04 AM (L9kkv)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:06 AM (9OSHs)
Fukin' Chinese assholes. If they aren't stealing our fish, they are cracking open our ice.
We have also seen more than the usual close encounters with Russian planes "near" our airspace up here. They test the limits every once in a while but apparently this is becoming a thing. Our Air Force dudes also remind them to fuck right off, so there's that.
There was a time when the folks on Shemya used to wave hi to the various Russians on the edge of our airspace, since it was a mutual thing and nobody much cared. I suspect that time is over.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2025 01:07 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:06 AM (9OSHs)
DH had afib. Hereditary. They put electrodes up his veins and stopped his heart and burned the afib bit. Scary shit, but it worked. No afib.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2025 01:09 AM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:09 AM (9OSHs)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2025 01:10 AM (1Gsou)
Marie,
Thank you sweetheart.
Those of us who live in wildfire areas know how to prepare don't we?
Always have important documents ready and get the pets ready to go.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 01:11 AM (3ek7K)
DH had afib. Hereditary. They put electrodes up his veins and stopped his heart and burned the afib bit. Scary shit, but it worked. No afib.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 27, 2025 0
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Me too. Wish I'd done it sooner. No pills and modest drinks at the bar.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:12 AM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:06 AM (9OSHs)
They said "PVC", premature ventricular contraction. Evidently a nerve node in my left ventricle fires on its own, causing the ventricle to contract out of sequence, creating a "null heartbeat", resulting in my measured heart rate being half normal. I was watching the heart monitor last evening, and said to the nurse, "so is that down-going jag on the trace the PVC indicator"? And she said, "yes, it is."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 01:12 AM (1Jemc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Speculating that it's time to shop for that welding apron.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:15 AM (9OSHs)
tcn,
I know what I'm going to say isn't PC, lol.
Many decades ago a family member who worked for a fed agency told us "don't trust those slanteeyed assholes", lol. She knew her stuff.
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 01:16 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb)
Can you feel those PVCs? They can feel like a skipped beat.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 01:16 AM (w6EFb)
Yes. I feel "palpitations" wherein I can sense my own (slow) heartbeat. The beats between the "skipped" ones are extra strong to compensate, I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 01:19 AM (1Jemc)
Many decades ago a family member who worked for a fed agency told us "don't trust those slanteeyed assholes", lol. She knew her stuff.
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Frequent visitor at med cntr. It's remarkable the diminished number of Chinese. A few years ago they were everywhere now there's a few.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:20 AM (9OSHs)
Interesting animation from the GOES-19 satellite on Jul 24 during the new Moon. There was a CME right when the Moon entered the frame:
https://tinyurl.com/29wu94a9
GOES-19 is in geostationary orbit, and has a coronagraph that is locked to the Sun. SOHO is going to be retired this year, and this will help until the replacements get going.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 27, 2025 01:24 AM (w6EFb)
[GEO.TV] At least 202 people — including 96 children — have bit the dust across Pakistain since the onset of the monsoon season in late June, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Saturday.
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Monsoon season. So, it rains cubic tons of water every year.
They never stopped bitching when India cut their water off.
They haven't built any dams, reservoirs or made other provision to supply themselves with water (it's not on the wiki or worldpopulationreview.com lists) desalination plants.
May God have mercy on the lost souls.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:25 AM (9OSHs)
I have never understood why we give anyone who isn't a citizen money.
Is there any country where an American citizen could get lifelong monetary support?
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 01:27 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:28 AM (9OSHs)
Hope you can get meds sorted, AOP.
"...don't trust China! China is asshoe!"
Rain? What's that?
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Been getting up early & doing the yardwork before it gets too hot. Dang, I'm wimpy in my 29+ age!
It'll be winter too soon, and then I'll b!tch about the cold, LOL
Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2025 01:30 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: fourseasons
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Yeah, I'm interested too! Ready to move there!
Posted by: JQ at July 27, 2025 01:32 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 27, 2025 01:33 AM (9OSHs)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 01:33 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 27, 2025 01:35 AM (1Jemc)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 27, 2025 01:36 AM (3ek7K)
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Yeah. As long as one is *not* an actual citizen.
I do hope that PDJT can turn it around!
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Sounds like a sticky valve maybe. Marvel’s Mystery Oil is great stuff!
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They never stopped bitching when India cut their water off.
They haven't built any dams, reservoirs or made other provision to supply themselves with water (it's not on the wiki or worldpopulationreview.com lists) desalination plants.
May God have mercy on the lost souls.
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A Guest Music Thread [Joe Mannix]
What do you think of when you hear "bootleg" in the context of music? I usually think of cassette tapes with hand-scrawled labels or CD-Rs that will rot unless quickly backed up. I might even think of "a bunch of MP3s someone recorded at a show.' What I didn't think of until recently, though, was "professional-looking, commercially-pressed CD with liner notes and label information."
I have been sanitizing and updating my digital music library and stumbled across an album that I just couldn't find anywhere. It wasn't on the big metadata services and when I searched for less-well-known track names, various search engine AIs responded along the lines of "that artist never did a song by that name, but these other artists did." Yet I had the CD in my hands. It was professionally manufactured, not a CD-R. It was a mainstream artist, not an unknown independent. It had a record label and a catalogue number printed on the liner notes. No barcode, but that isn't too weird. So I looked up the catalogue number and still got nothing. Going for broke, I just looked up the record label, hoping I could find some reference based on the label. I finally got a legitimate hit. It wasn't a label, it was a pseudo-label - a European company that produced and distributed bootlegs. It was referenced as a "bootleg label," and that's all they did. They did it very professionally, but the reason I could find nothing about this album on the internet is that the album doesn't technically exist. It is a pirate album. I have some bootlegs in my collection and I know what they are, but this was a first for me! I don't think "serious, professional product" when I think "bootleg." Expectations status: subverted. Do you have any bootlegs in your collection? How's the production value, both of the physical medium and the recording? NOTE: As always, the intro is just a conversation starter if needed. You're welcome to go off-topic, just please keep it to the world of music!Exceptional Live Performances
KT Tunstall is very good at using a loop/effects pedal when she needs to. Shortly after her big hit "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree," she did a performance of the song for Rolling Stone (remember when they sometimes covered music?). Just her. She spends about 45 seconds recording loops and setting up her effects pedals for the non-guitar sounds - tambourine, percussion (after a fashion), non-lyric vocalizations, etc. - to build the soundstage for the song. Then she goes to work with guitar and voice to perform it, manipulating the effects pedals as needed to bring in the other sounds. It sure doesn't sound like the album version, but she uses effects pedals to an unusual degree to pull it off.
When she isn't being deliberately inscrutable, Fiona Apple can really belt it out and she has an incredible, bluesy voice. She did a cover of the Beatles classic "Across the Universe" for the 1998 movie Pleasantville. It's very different from the original and I think Fiona Apple's sultry voice is particularly suited to it.
Following the release of 1990's Bossanova, the song "Velouria" became an unexpected hit and the band was invited to perform on the BBC's Top of the Pops program. They hit a snag, however, in that the song had no music video and Top of the Pops was open only to singles with music videos. To satisfy the requirement, the band threw together a cheap, pointless music video consisting of a single shot lasting about 20 seconds, slowed down (poorly) until it was the duration of the song. They didn't make it to the show while "Velouria" was still on the charts, but they did end up making perhaps the worst music video of all time as a means to an end.
In no particular order and no implications of quality, here are four songs I've heard reccently. Andrew WK - She is Beautiful
It's hard to believe that he's a classically-trained pianist since childhood, because he mostly makes simple party rock.
The Back Keys - Little Black Submarines
This is one of their tracks where they really don't sound bigger than they are. They're a duo, and this song sounds like it. Not a bad thing in the slightest.
Band of Skulls - The Devil Takes Care of His Own
Simple rock and roll from the UK. Unusually, it's from this century.
Scylla - Afterglow
After Curve broke up for the first time, Toni Halliday and other musicians formed Scylla, toured a bit in the UK and recorded a demo. It was never released, but thrived as a bootleg. Scylla even made its way into some movie soundtracks despite having never had a formal album release.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 26, 2025 07:35 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at July 26, 2025 07:35 PM (KAi1n)
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The Achilles' Heel of the bootleg - that they are invariably recorded from the crowd somewhere, or from up in the rafters - is *begging* for a high-tech cleanup. Real live albums get to tap the sound board, bootlegs are (in my experience) universally muddy. That's too bad because a lot of bootlegs are from seriously good shows.
What you describe might be something kinda good to come out of this high-tech dystopia...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:38 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 07:38 PM (xcIvR)
Svengoolie can’t get here fast enough.
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:39 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Stella, NO! at July 26, 2025 07:39 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 07:40 PM (JKkdu)
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 07:40 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:41 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 07:40 PM (JKkdu)
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Heh. Mine wasn't from there, but in the neighborhood.
Or perhaps "neighbourhood," for our Euro-pirate friends...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:41 PM (C19Uv)
Plus, you think about his voice (small range) and non pop kind of look (some of the backup singing seemed synthesized and you know he would probably not make it big these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:41 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:41 PM (mT+6a)
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Ah, yes. The "jam bands" are all hip-deep in bootlegs. I don't see the appeal of jam bands and never have, but I do understand the point that every show is very different and some might be downright incredible - but only bootlegs exist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:43 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 07:44 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:43 PM (C19Uv)
It's jazz bs. I get it. Great for eating to or having a conversation with it in the background.
But for music, I'll admit to being a bit nazi. We must have structure! We must have order!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM (77rzZ)
I can hardly tell where one song stops and the next starts.
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:41 PM (zZu0s)
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No, probably not. But maybe could find some small-scale fame (survival, at least) on the internet.
After the halcyon days of the 1990s, things sort of reverted to the mean and then amplified. There was a lot of dreck in the 90s, but the combination of collapsing costs and still relatively controlled distribution made for the same old semi-closed shop the music business had always been, but with production costs so low that virtually everyone got a crack at it. The labels went nuts signing acts and there was just a *ton* of stuff produced and distributed.
Then Napster demonstrated how to collapse the costs of distribution, too - to the point that anyone could and did do it, at costs approaching zero - and put an end to that brief moment in time...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:46 PM (C19Uv)
Then Napster did the same thing but better and Metallica suddenly started calling their fans thieves.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 07:46 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:41 PM (mT+6a)
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Ah, yes. The "jam bands" are all hip-deep in bootlegs. I don't see the appeal of jam bands and never have, but I do understand the point that every show is very different and some might be downright incredible - but only bootlegs exist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July
I’ve only been to five shows. All very different. All in the late 80s. Dylan and The Dead in Eugene, OR was by far the best. There’s quite a few bootlegs out there for that one.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:47 PM (mT+6a)
At least a couple of hours long concerts uninterrupted, quite the event for BCN if ircc.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 07:47 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 07:48 PM (VofaG)
It’s always these damn hippies.
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM (77rzZ)
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I can do orchestra for a future music thread. I didn't know there'd be any interest in it, since music threads are usually a bit more casual and modern. But noted. I can certainly do that. I have a pretty decent orchestral library, too . If you happen to like the variety from Russia and Eastern Europe, anyway.
But what would old timey orchestral bootlegging be? I imagine "hastily copied sheet music on cheap paper, stuffed into leggings after the show."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:48 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:49 PM (mT+6a)
youtube.com/watch?v=Sy3sRKEXW4E
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 07:50 PM (hNDvI)
The Dead, of course.
The Dead not only allowed taping their shows, they encouraged it. They let people plug into their sound board and spread the music. I had a fraternity brother whose older brother, a very successful white shoe lawyer, used much of his ill gotten gains following the Dead around the country and acquiring a huge library of bootlegs that he would trade back an forth with his younger brother.
They got almost zero radio time. Live bootlegs is how they became one of the highest grossing tour bands in history. Their live shows were sometimes great, sometimes a trainwreck. And sometimes spectacular.
There is, and sadly won't be, nothing like a Grateful Dead concert.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 07:50 PM (viF8m)
The first selection, showing the pedal recording and mixing was fascinating. I had no idea how it all worked.
I knew of such a thing, but always categorized it as “canned music”. Didn’t know how it was done.
ZZ Top was the top group who I always attributed “canned music” to.
Tons of sound, and excellent at that, but far more than 3 dudes could crank out without a little assistance, ie, “canned music”.
Am I wrong?
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 26, 2025 07:51 PM (7hdjp)
It’s always these damn hippies.
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM (77rzZ)
It’s in my random play rotation on my IPhone . I have The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music album downloaded.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 07:51 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:47 PM (mT+6a)
Those shows were actually a big part of Eugene's economy. I met a couple up there who made most of their years money on those shows selling hotdogs.
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 07:52 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 07:48 PM (VofaG)
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David Byrne was very talented and had quite a range. But I've just never been a fan. The Talking Heads just never did it for me.
But speaking of odd moments in time (if we were), when Microsoft was an unstoppable force during the rise of the Internet, they shipped a copy of David Byrne's "Like Humans Do" with Windows Media Player. Everyone with Windows XP had a copy of that song whether they knew it or not.
https://youtu.be/xMeivIkwf_I?list=RDxMeivIkwf_I
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:52 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 07:48 PM (VofaG)
Ever been tested for Asperger?
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 07:52 PM (LHPAg)
This music video is of the VTueber Ironmouse*. She is the one with the immune disease that destroyed her chances of being an opera singer. The same Ironmouse that suffered a lung infection that well nigh destroyed her lower range such that she has to talk in a very high pitched voice.
This is what Ironmouse is still capable of despite her illness and setbacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOS-e2d-cM
*This is the person that VShojo embezzled more than $500,000 in charity donations from in a futile attempt to stay financially solvent.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 07:53 PM (wOq++)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 07:53 PM (uGaBv)
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 07:54 PM (xcIvR)
I knew of such a thing, but always categorized it as “canned music”. Didn’t know how it was done. ...
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 26, 2025 07:51 PM (7hdjp)
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Effects and loop pedals (and the associated samplers) can be the modern version of the "one man band."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:54 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 07:54 PM (vm8sq)
I would think classical is almost all, 'covers' i guess. A particular arrangement of a piece, sure but also by specific artists or orchestras. Piano pieces are a good example.
There would not be a recording bootleg sure, but it would be someone talking about a particular artist doing this or that composers piece and it being wonderful.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:55 PM (zZu0s)
Now you’ve reminded I have never been able to delete the stupid U2 album apple automatically downloaded on my phone. I thought I had deleted it one but it magically appeared again,
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 07:56 PM (VofaG)
Why don’t any music threads ever discuss Classical music?
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No interest. The nichiest of niches.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 07:57 PM (HZi96)
Because they are a Rhode Island formed band.
There is water at the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 07:57 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:58 PM (zZu0s)
Romantic music is my era. Yes, I have stated my general dislike of Bach, and the Baroque Era in general, with some exceptions. But I also dislike most of rock, again, with exceptions. The infatuation with the guitar, Spanish guitar excepted, escapes me. I want orchestral music: Stringe, brass, percussion, woodwinds, the whole works.
And give me a singable melody while you’re at it.
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 07:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Oh yes. The difference between one interpretation and another can be wild.
For example, Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. It was panned in its own time (to the point that, IIRC, he never composed specifically for violin again), but found popularity later. I like it a lot, but one particular version of it is an all-time favorite piece of mine. That work in particular seems highly variable and there are versions of it out there I just plain don't like.
But the version performed by the David Oistrakh and conducted by Franz Konwitschny in Dresden, 1954 is the hands-down greatest interpretation of it and in my opinion, all others pale in comparison.
https://youtu.be/1stifHfvgZ0?list=RD1stifHfvgZ0
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:00 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:00 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:01 PM (hNDvI)
That makes a lot of sense. They were definitely pioneers in thrash metal.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:01 PM (7xrfc)
It’s always these damn hippies.
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM (
Give me Mozart and Stravinsky.
Damn. Thinking about it, I haven’t been to a symphonic performance since I went to see the Houston Symphony five years ago.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:02 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:00 PM (aeiyZ)
She was interesting when she first came out. Afterwards, not so much.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:03 PM (vm8sq)
There’s some I like, especially Holiday selections, but have an affinity to Big Band.
Have the Glen Miller “best of” on my iPod rotation.
It’s a nice injection of nostalgia during a random playlist of 80s rock.
I may be a little older than 29…
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 26, 2025 08:03 PM (7hdjp)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:04 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:01 PM (hNDvI)
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Damn, gp. When you swing, you cut like a hammer!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:04 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:04 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:04 PM (vm8sq)
from their 2nd album Bayou County
https://youtu.be/L7mmngymq_c
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 08:04 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Butthead at July 26, 2025 08:04 PM (/lMeC)
The documentary "Some Kind of Monster" reveals all.
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:05 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 08:06 PM (AOsQT)
Have the Glen Miller “best of” on my iPod rotation.
It’s a nice injection of nostalgia during a random playlist of 80s rock.
I may be a little older than 29…
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 26, 2025 08:03 PM (7hdjp)
Like clockwork, I would here “In The Mood” by Glenn Miller at 1130 CET on AFN Radio on Sundays as a bumper to some radio show.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:06 PM (vm8sq)
I'm just mad because she beat me at the audition. Sour grapes.
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:06 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:06 PM (VofaG)
Where do you think the damn hippies came from?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:05 PM (viF8m)
People forget that some of those classical composers back in the day could and would be the Kiss or Van Halen of the time.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:07 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:01 PM (hNDvI)
True, but cheery enough in coveralls. Bouncy.
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 08:07 PM (LHPAg)
The documentary "Some Kind of Monster" reveals all.
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:05 PM (hNDvI)
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I was a casual Metallica fan until I saw that documentary. Were they trying to look like the most unsympathetic insufferable douchebags in all of music? I wanted to punch James and Lars in the fucking face.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:08 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:09 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 08:06 PM (AOsQT)
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YUGE topic. What are you into?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:09 PM (C19Uv)
Romantic music is my era. Yes, I have stated my general dislike of Bach, and the Baroque Era in general, with some exceptions. But I also dislike most of rock, again, with exceptions. The infatuation with the guitar, Spanish guitar excepted, escapes me. I want orchestral music: Stringe, brass, percussion, woodwinds, the whole works.
And give me a singable melody while you’re at it.
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:59 PM (77rzZ)
Bach does have the Brandenburg Concerto. Just sayin.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:09 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 26, 2025 08:09 PM (89Sog)
18 Re Widespread panic. I saw them live in the late 90s and had the same impression. And I was appropriately fucked up for the show.
But I do like their studio stuff.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 26, 2025 08:10 PM (XvL8K)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:09 PM (VofaG)
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Darryl Hall knows how to retire. That series is definitely work checking out if you haven't. Amazing how tight they usually are, on a couple hours of setup of practice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:10 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: davidt at July 26, 2025 08:10 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:41 PM (mT+6a)
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Ah, yes. The "jam bands" are all hip-deep in bootlegs. I don't see the appeal of jam bands and never have, but I do understand the point that every show is very different and some might be downright incredible - but only bootlegs exist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 07:43 PM (C19Uv)
Dick's Picks are very high-quality bootleg Dead albums. Great way to check them out.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 26, 2025 08:10 PM (uglmp)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:11 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:12 PM (hNDvI)
DREAM THEATER
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:12 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: davidt at July 26, 2025 08:12 PM (i0F8b)
Just like Herb Alpert. (Have that “best of” on my random rotation too)
He had game show theme music, and a lot more than people realize.
Obscure, but mainstream too.
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (7hdjp)
Good music is a result of what came before.
And there is an enormous Tiger Shark being an asshole on Shark Week right now.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 08:06 PM (AOsQT)
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YUGE topic. What are you into?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:09 PM (C19Uv)
Yesterday I listened to Toby Kieth’s Greatests Hits.
He has a boatload . 35 songs on that album.
Dwight Yoakam’s Greatest Hits is one of my favorite and most played albums.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (vm8sq)
Why don’t any music threads ever discuss Classical music?
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No interest. The nichiest of niches.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 07:57 PM (HZi96)
"White Supremacy! REEEEE!!!" -- leftists
... hey, I wonder what would happen if you blasted some classical tunes at rioting klantifarts; would that drive them away faster than a fire hose spraying soapy water?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (ULPxl)
I wrote 'county' for 'country' in the album title 'Bayou Country'
for the record, I was once a fan of country music, a long time ago, but the genre became a caricature of itself.
IMO of course
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 08:15 PM (AOsQT)
https://youtu.be/2aKxf1h5r4g?si=0wOiDSmz6kJACCB6
I like almost all music genres, but big band swing, Latin jazz, and classical have to be at the top of my list. Rip Chuck Mangione. Will be sad when Arturo Sandoval passes (Amis Abuelos is killer).
Posted by: H at July 26, 2025 08:15 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:01 PM (hNDvI)
True, but cheery enough in coveralls. Bouncy.
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 08:07 PM (LHPAg)
Tina and Chris Frantz (her hubby) live in Westport CT, and have been interviewed or featured on at the Westport Library for years. For the 40th Anniversary of the movie Stop Making Sense, they showed up for a screening there.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 26, 2025 08:15 PM (uglmp)
https://tinyurl.com/47pn2ns7
Posted by: oglebay at July 26, 2025 08:15 PM (MMp6W)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (VofaG)
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I really like Dwight Yoakum. "This Time" is a damn good album.
https://youtu.be/4APfLNbdao4?list=RD4APfLNbdao4
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:15 PM (C19Uv)
This man speaks truth.
But it's also kind of a location thing. You had to be there.
We had so much fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:04 PM (vm8sq)
*points*
There Charybdis.
Posted by: Obligatory at July 26, 2025 08:16 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:08 PM (aeiyZ)
I loved their first four albums. The Black Album was, to me, an album I liked BUT left me with a “That’s it?” Feeling.
I have been done with them since “Load (of Shit)”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:16 PM (vm8sq)
Not sure of what else they did, but do you think of Ian Anderson upon the intro vocals. I do…
Posted by: Gunslinger at July 26, 2025 08:16 PM (7hdjp)
Posted by: davidt at July 26, 2025 08:10 PM (i0F8b)
++++
Their version of "Something To Talk About" is very good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:16 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (aeiyZ)
IMO of course
Posted by: Don Black
Don't true students of the the genre claim there are 30-35 separate and distinct branches of 'country music'?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (ULPxl)
They would be deeply confused.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:18 PM (hNDvI)
And the guys should definitely check out the Grace Potter episode of Daryl's House.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:19 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: H at July 26, 2025 08:19 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:08 PM (aeiyZ)
I loved their first four albums. The Black Album was, to me, an album I liked BUT left me with a “That’s it?” Feeling.
I have been done with them since “Load (of Shit)”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:16 PM (vm8sq)
——
They put blood, piss, and semen on two of their album covers. What fucking fag perverts do that?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:19 PM (aeiyZ)
I used to have two Who bootlegs. One was a live concert and I think the other was unreleased stuff. Quality was pretty good on them both. I just bought a CD of the Buckingham Nicks album. It's from Japan so I don't think it's considered a bootleg. I have two other CDs from Japan, one of Tommy and Motel Shot by Delaney and Bonnie.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 08:19 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: Cow Demon
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Whereas I catch live rock and roll, of various degrees of skill, four or five times a week.
This accounts for a lot of the disparity in the pop vs classical comment ratio.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 08:19 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (aeiyZ)
++++
I really never understood the appeal of Phish. Also never been to one of their shows, but I just can't imagine I'd be into it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (C19Uv)
Opened with Paranoid. Closed with Crazy Train. One hell of a show. Ozzy was a raving lunatic on stage.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (ULPxl)"
When a retail establishment has trouble with derelicts hanging out, playing classical clears em out like a stink bomb. I suggested that to my public library. They said "Why would we want to chase them away?"
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (hNDvI)
It’s always these damn hippies.
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:45 PM
Bulg- here's one you might like. Beautiful music for some pre- Sunday Morning Book Thread listening:
Laufey:
https://tinyurl.com/mte56638
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (rbKZ6)
IMO of course
Posted by: Don Black
Don't true students of the the genre claim there are 30-35 separate and distinct branches of 'country music'?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (6WCwE)
We got both kinds here, Country and Western, at Bob's Country Bunker.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 26, 2025 08:21 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (C19Uv)
The closest we get to the Dead in the modern day. A constantly touring jam band. I never cared for Phish or the Dead.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:21 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:23 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:23 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (vm8sq)
++++
Ozzy shows up in the workplace a lot.
My favorite example was at a deli in the northeast. Guy was making my sandwich and "Crazy Train" came on. He sang along with it, enthusiastically. All about "going off the rails on the gravy train."
His colleague corrected him but he was insistent. "No, dude, it's 'gravy train.' Everyone knows what the gravy train is, and nobody wants to fly off it. What the fuck's a 'crazy train?' That's nothin', man. It's stupid. You're fuckin' wrong."
They continued to argue about it. He eventually asked me to arbitrate. I told him, "sorry, man, but he's right. It's 'Crazy Train.'"
He looked heartbroken.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:24 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 08:24 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:25 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:25 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:17 PM (aeiyZ)
++++
I really never understood the appeal of Phish. Also never been to one of their shows, but I just can't imagine I'd be into it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (C19Uv)
—-
You’d be into it if you like hanging out in smelly homeless encampments where everyone’s on drugs and nobody showers or uses deodorant. But this was years ago. My brother tells me the recent shows are probably 50% middle-aged affluent guys. They’re much cleaner … but still on heavy drugs. I still won’t go.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:25 PM (aeiyZ)
Saw the Pixies at the Chance in Poughkeepsie. One very loud but great show.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 08:25 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 08:25 PM (wOq++)
From my own neck of the woods, there are:
1) Commercial recordings of live performances, which can be indistinguishable from studio recordings but more often are marred by audience noises and applause.
2) Specialty transfers from LP to CD, which are usually well done and a good way to get performances that have never been commercially re-released.
3) Airchecks of radio broadcasts. These are almost always awful, with compressed dynamics, mistakes galore and sounding like the performance took place at a tubercular clinic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (HZi96)
Best thing about music is there is something for everyone.
And nobody should give a shit when others don't like their taste.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 08:24 PM (vFG9F)
I'm one that never got the Zappa 'genius'.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (dR6yv)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:27 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
..............................
This one might.
youtu.be/VE03Lqm3nbI
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM (uGaBv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM (TEi+a)
Also planning to see Dream Theater in a couple months.
Maybe going to a Steven Wilson show a week before the MoMe.
And if I can swing it will catch Collective Soul on their summer tour.
Been awhile since I've been to a concert. Making up for lost time.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM (DnMuk)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: H
Familiar with Airto ? He was trending toward great until he joined up with Flora Purim. His yoko, in my opinion.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 08:29 PM (n4GiU)
Saw Def Lepard at DeZavala Walmart in SA.
Saw Jethro Tull at the Richmond Opera House.
Metallica at a horse track.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 08:29 PM (dR6yv)
And nobody should give a shit when others don't like their taste. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)
++++
Yup.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:30 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 08:30 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:20 PM (vm8sq)
++++
Ozzy shows up in the workplace a lot.
My favorite example was at a deli in the northeast. Guy was making my sandwich and "Crazy Train" came on. He sang along with it, enthusiastically. All about "going off the rails on the gravy train."
His colleague corrected him but he was insistent. "No, dude, it's 'gravy train.' Everyone knows what the gravy train is, and nobody wants to fly off it. What the fuck's a 'crazy train?' That's nothin', man. It's stupid. You're fuckin' wrong."
They continued to argue about it. He eventually asked me to arbitrate. I told him, "sorry, man, but he's right. It's 'Crazy Train.'"
He looked heartbroken.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:24 PM (C19Uv)
—-
Umm … the song is called Crazy Train and that’s clearly what he’s saying. Well, my friend thought the ‘peaches and cream’ line from Pour Some Sugar was ‘you got the bitches, I got the weed.’
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:31 PM (aeiyZ)
Also planning to see Dream Theater in a couple months.
Maybe going to a Steven Wilson show a week before the MoMe.
And if I can swing it will catch Collective Soul on their summer tour.
Been awhile since I've been to a concert. Making up for lost time.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM (DnMuk)
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Cool!
I like Collective Soul. Didn't know they were touring. I'll see if they have a semi-local date. I would go see 'em again.
Do you like the Allison Kraus/Robert Plant collaborations? I think some of those tracks are really quite good.
https://youtu.be/L3Xi5gvZ7Kk?list=RDL3Xi5gvZ7Kk
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:32 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Happy at July 26, 2025 08:32 PM (8wFql)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:31 PM (aeiyZ)
++++
Eh. Close enough.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:33 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:34 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 08:34 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: polynikes"
That's ok. I admit you have to be dedicated.
I like Klezmer too. Much better than rap.
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 08:35 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 08:34 PM (hIY2p)
++++
And Liv Tyler's dad did the music!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:35 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:35 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 26, 2025 08:36 PM (DnMuk)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:36 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 08:34 PM (hIY2p)
++++
And Liv Tyler's dad did the music!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:35 PM (C19Uv)
Better than their competitor Deep Impact.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:36 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:36 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:36 PM (aeiyZ)
However, the way Sydnie Christmas sings the main theme...Its way more epic than anything I remember! I ended up buying the single.
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 26, 2025 08:37 PM (Lhaco)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 26, 2025 08:13 PM (sZyeE)
Ma capitaine, you have not yet enjoyed the prose architecture of Jim Theis' "Eye of Argon" (1970).
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 08:37 PM (gKWVE)
I have yet to dig into his stuff. I've got a lot of it bookmarked.
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:37 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 08:37 PM (hIY2p)
Blu DeTiger:
tinyurl.com/Blu-DeTiger
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 08:38 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 08:37 PM (hIY2p)
++++
*snort*
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:39 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:36 PM (hNDvI)
If I didn't read the lyrics I would have never figured out ' Tin Roof. Rusted' .
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:39 PM (VofaG)
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'The Wandering Earth' is basically the Chinese knock-off of a Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay movie. And it's Wondrous.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:40 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 08:40 PM (uGaBv)
https://youtu.be/t8dTnavUMnk
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:35 PM (DIweC)
++++
Sounds like Japanese pseudo-singer who's a robot.
Something something Miksu, maybe?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:40 PM (C19Uv)
My current favorite, Within Temptation covering Passenger.
The whiny twee original that somehow has 3.8 billion views and seriously wtf is wrong with humanity:
https://youtu.be/RBumgq5yVrA
The improved version:
https://youtu.be/nmH2m4VUOJM
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 08:41 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 08:40 PM (uGaBv)
++++
One of the things that sort of puts me off a lot of live shows, actually. I have pretty sensitive hearing and they're often just too loud. Not very manly, I know, but it is what it is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:41 PM (C19Uv)
Something something Miksu, maybe?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Hatsune Miku.
A sort of vocal sampler/sequencer. A real woman sang all the Japanese syllables, and those are Miku's "voice."
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 08:42 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (VofaG)
Song: Meh.
Chorus: Kinda Catchy.
Visuals: I'll be in my bunk.
https://youtu.be/6f3RzjXPQwA
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (DIweC)
Don't true students of the the genre claim there are 30-35 separate and distinct branches of 'country music'?
Posted by: Tonypete
How many types of metal are there?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (63Dwl)
My current favorite, Within Temptation covering Passenger.
The whiny twee original that somehow has 3.8 billion views and seriously wtf is wrong with humanity:
https://youtu.be/RBumgq5yVrA
The improved version:
https://youtu.be/nmH2m4VUOJM
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 08:41 PM (DgGvY)
The Within Temptation cover of Summertime Sadness was epic, and led me to the one Lana Del Rey song that I liked.
Ever single day during my first deployment I began the day with “Our Solemn Hour” in the office.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (vm8sq)
The whiny twee original that somehow has 3.8 billion views and seriously wtf is wrong with humanity:
https://youtu.be/RBumgq5yVrA
The improved version:
https://youtu.be/nmH2m4VUOJM
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 08:41 PM (DgGvY)
++++
Add "Passenger" to the list of "I don't see the appeal." I sort of feel that way about the entire post-financial-crisis era. What wasn't slow, desultory and nearly monotonic was cheesy electronica. My brother refers to it as "recession music" and it seemed apt to me. It was a dark decade.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:44 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (VofaG)
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It's comments like this that immanentize Zappa Month.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 08:44 PM (kpS4V)
Which one would cause the largest percentage to scatter?
I suspect it's the latter. The thought of dying would discourage a rent-a-mob.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 26, 2025 08:44 PM (S/Y4j)
1. When Vince Neil of Motley Crue was facing prison time for killing Razzle, the band actually reached out to Michael to see if he'd be interested in joining as their singer. "And that's how much they were standing by Vince."
2. Hanoi Rocks engaged in a lot of destructive behavior on tour. They played in Israel and they trashed the hotel room pretty badly. At one point, they thought it would be a good idea to throw a TV out the window. The cop whose car was the target was not amused. They were quickly booted out of the country.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:44 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (63Dwl)
Hundreds.
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (xcIvR)
A sort of vocal sampler/sequencer. A real woman sang all the Japanese syllables, and those are Miku's "voice."
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 08:42 PM (DgGvY)
++++
That's the one
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (C19Uv)
https://youtu.be/RBumgq5yVrA
What I call “The Only Song”. I love WT but not even they can save it. Only if it were never recorded. Only if it were never thought of.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (vm8sq)
Whipping Post.
Look who is playing lead.
https://tinyurl.com/44jkxrzs
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Official Delurker, let's hear it for Bach, Beethoven, Boston, and bluegrass at July 26, 2025 08:46 PM (Ylzzi)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:46 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:46 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (vm8sq)
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I think I agree. Better than the "Passenger" original? Definitely.
Tolerable? Barely.
But I might check out their other stuff!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:47 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 26, 2025 08:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (DIweC)
Lady Gaga should sue her. But I guess imitation is the greatest compliment.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:47 PM (VofaG)
Generally, bootlegs are concert recordings which can be dodgy in quality. I understand the appeal, as here is something by a favorite artist which no one else has. It's just not always a great listening experience. It's more a souvenir of a place you never were.
King Crimson have been quite generous recently in releasing lots of live recordings, particularly of the Bruford-Cross-Fripp-Wetton lineup (my fave).
Uh, yeah. Happy Saturday folks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 26, 2025 08:47 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:44 PM (C19Uv)
What else are they known for except “The Only Song”?
Pop music died around 2000 or so.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:48 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM
New or old? If you're looking for something new, here are a couple to check out:
Peach Tree Rascals
grentperez
COIN- these guys sound similar to Saint Motel
Fiji Blue
Hauskey
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 08:49 PM (rbKZ6)
Something something Miksu, maybe?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Hatsune Miku.
Posted by: mikeski
She "toured" as a hologram, with a live band. She even played on Letterman's show in 2014.
https://youtu.be/V_Ifupd4gTA
"Like being on Willie Nelson's bus." -- Dave
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 08:49 PM (DgGvY)
Queensrÿche
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 26, 2025 08:47 PM (0sNs1)
My copy of Q2K is on sale for the low, low price of 15 cents. Played all of twice.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:49 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (hNDvI)
++++
One of the benefits of being a Millennial (yes, yes, I'll vacate your lawn immediately) is that since I was a teenager, even cheap headphones have been decent. More money gets more better (to a point), but even run of the mill headphones were at least okay. Clarity even an acceptable volume.
I have a nice Hi-Fi and I sometimes still opt to use my good headphones instead. The improvement in headphones has been crazy and you don't *need* that kind of volume. It may be desirable, but it isn't necessary just to hear what's going on.
We are in a headphone golden age right now, and it's awesome. Plenty of shit out there, and plenty of overpriced crap, but also plenty of really good stuff.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:50 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (63Dwl)
A bunch:
Classic heavy metal
thrash metal
speed metal
death metal
black metal
prog-metal
industrial
Nu-metal (mostly shite)
Hair metal is not a real thing. Poison is not metal. Skid Row wandered along the line of not metal and metal. Definitely the best of the "hair bands"
Posted by: Mike with a metal plate in muh head at July 26, 2025 08:50 PM (0aYVJ)
They insisted that Saigon Shakes and that killed any deal.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:50 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (63Dwl)
——
There are a dozen different kinds just of ‘death metal’
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:52 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 08:52 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 08:28 PM
++++
B-sides are usually B-sides for a reason.
But sometimes, there's a real gem hiding on the other side. In my experience, the more prolific a band is, the more likely it is that there's a decent B-Side to be found. It is, to a point, a numbers game - and an outfit with eight or ten or more albums is more likely to have a bunch of stuff on the cutting room floor (if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor) that's worth listening to than a band with a couple of records.
"Garbage" has a few worthwhile B-Sides.
https://youtu.be/2FiglIE2npg?list=RD2FiglIE2npg
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:53 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:47 PM (C19Uv)
If you check out anything else WT related, I heartily recommend “The Silent Force” from 2004. “Jillian” is on there. DO NOT TURN UP your volume in the first 32 seconds of that song. If you do, you will be more than a little surprised at 0:33.
I love their music and Sharon den Adel’s vocals are amazing but I’d start there. That should be enough to win you over,
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:53 PM (vm8sq)
Chorus: Kinda Catchy.
Visuals: I'll be in my bunk.
++++
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (DIweC)
++++
K-pop girls are the only reason for K-pop to exist...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:54 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM
Once, on a business trip to Florida, we had a free weekend, and the colleague I was with decided to road trip to Cape Canaveral. Our music tastes turned out to be decidedly different, so we agreed we'd each control the radio dial (yes, it was some years ago) for 30 minutes.
His two genres were rap and metal, neither of which I could stand. (To be fair, he could barely stand my choices.)
On the second or third of his 30 minute segments, I sarcastically muttered, "Good thing there's not a rap-metal fusion." "Oh, but there is!" he replied, and went wild searching the FM band for some.
Having finally found one, he cranked up the volume. Cranked. After 30 seconds, I reached over and turned the radio off.
We rode in radio silence for the remainder of the trip up and back.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 08:55 PM (0sNs1)
I love their music and Sharon den Adel’s vocals are amazing but I’d start there. That should be enough to win you over,
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:53 PM (vm8sq)
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I'll check it out!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:55 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 08:55 PM (0sNs1)
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Heh
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:55 PM (C19Uv)
The Who, if you buy many of their studio albums now come with bonus unreleased or live tracks that you could only previously get through bootlegs. Plus they issued Isle of Wight show from 1970 and Live at Hull from 1971.
Finally restored a dual boot on my web computer after Microsoft bollixed the Secure Boot shim months ago so posting in ye olde Windows 8.1. Use it to run a few programs that either are no more or mega bucks to update for marginal improvement.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2025 08:56 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Mike with a metal plate in muh head at July 26, 2025 08:50 PM (0aYVJ)
Hair metal and glam rock from the 1980s was “safe metal”. Heavy rock, but “safer” than the more “dangerous” music like Metallica, Slayer, or King Diamond or the like,
As a teenage boy, the fact that so many adults deemed bands like those last three “dangerous” drove me to them. Many a late night watching Headbanger’s Ball commenced, driving me into the dark embrace of heavy metal.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:57 PM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:57 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 08:57 PM (n4GiU)
Having finally found one, he cranked up the volume. Cranked. After 30 seconds, I reached over and turned the radio off.
We rode in radio silence for the remainder of the trip up and back.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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I've been trapped in a car with librarians listening to NPR. I'll take rap-metal over that.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 26, 2025 08:57 PM (DnMuk)
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2025 08:56 PM (ctrM5)
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That's cool. I'm all for it. AI might as well do *something* of value
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:57 PM (C19Uv)
"Garbage" has a few worthwhile B-Sides.
https://youtu.be/2FiglIE2npg?list=RD2FiglIE2npg
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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True. Depends on the band and on a great album, most of the songs are at least good if not superb regardless of what was actually played on the radio.
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: oglebay at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (MMp6W)
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2025 08:56 PM (ctrM5)
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Come to meeeeeeeeee
Posted by: SaaS at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (C19Uv)
I’ve been wearing earplugs at concerts and clubs since the get. I never got the appeal of really loud music. If the music is good, you don’t need to blast it for it to be good. If the music sucks, turning it up louder won’t make it good. I get the appeal of loud live music (deep house and techno) and the loud bass you can feel, especially if youre trippin, but you can get the body feel and still save your hearing with earplugs.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: JML at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (hWYeE)
Posted by: Indiana Lurker at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (3ZVqj)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: whig at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (ctrM5)
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Yup.
Kinda like "one-hit wonders." A lot of them are one-hit wonders for a *reason.*
But when I find one that actually had a solid album - or several of them - it's a pleasant surprise!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:59 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: From about That Time
No but he looks cheeky. Little clips I watched he seems more like true jazz with a latin flavor…funky cutouts and async drums, very technical. What’s his best?
Posted by: H at July 26, 2025 09:00 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:01 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 09:02 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Official Delurker, my ears are still ringing at July 26, 2025 09:02 PM (Ylzzi)
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:02 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 08:45 PM (hNDvI)
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One of the benefits of being a Millennial (yes, yes, I'll vacate your lawn immediately) is that since I was a teenager, even cheap headphones have been decent. More money gets more better (to a point), but even run of the mill headphones were at least okay. Clarity even an acceptable volume.
I have a nice Hi-Fi and I sometimes still opt to use my good headphones instead. The improvement in headphones has been crazy and you don't *need* that kind of volume. It may be desirable, but it isn't necessary just to hear what's going on.
We are in a headphone golden age right now, and it's awesome. Plenty of shit out there, and plenty of overpriced crap, but also plenty of really good stuff.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:50 PM (C19Uv)
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I got a pair of px8 Bluetooth to replace my old Sony wired that I only used on airplanes. Figured I would only use the px8 the same way. But no. The advances in headphone sound and ANC is amazing. You’d need $10k floor speakers to match the quality of the px8.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 09:02 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Indiana Lurker at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM (3ZVqj)
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Nice!
The bootleg that led me down the rabbit hole I described above came from a truly excellent used record store. Gigantic selection, sort of organized (it was hypothetically organized, but people always put stuff back wherever and the staff didn't usually bother to fix things). Great store. I picked it up because the cover art was cool and I liked a couple of songs of theirs I'd heard before.
Now, many many years later, I find out it was a bootleg.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:03 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 09:02 PM (aeiyZ)
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My trusty Audio Technica wired headphones are *awesome*. My Hi-Fi isn't *that* much, but it was well into the four figures even with shopping fairly carefully - and depending on the music, I sometimes prefer my ATs.
But what really blows me away is the advances in small stuff. In my adult life, earbuds have gone from "uncomfortable, ungainly, shitty-sounding crap" to "comfortable and damn good." I have a few pairs of "true wireless" earbuds and some are crazy good. Not in the same league as my ATs, but still damn good and what you can get for around a hundred bucks is unreal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:06 PM (C19Uv)
I liked his early stuff a lot, then lost track of him.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 09:07 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
In dome cases the B-sides are far more appealing to the band's die hard fans. My two favorite Smashing Pumpkins songs are B-sides: Aeroplane Flies High and Marquis in Spades.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:07 PM (oNVea)
When you come visit, I'll let you know.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 09:07 PM (viF8m)
But his show had some amazing bands on in the mid 80s through the late 90s.
Fun stuff.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:07 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:07 PM (oNVea)
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Yeah, that's definitely another aspect to them. B-sides as "a present to our fans" are absolutely a thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:08 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:01 PM
Orchestration, particularly violins, always seems to draw me to a song. This guy, for instance, must have some classical training because most of his songs open with some really nice arranging. I don't really like his voice but the music is so pretty. He's very pop:
Rex Orange County-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr2CsEtXxmI
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 09:08 PM (rbKZ6)
Chorus: Kinda Catchy.
Visuals: I'll be in my bunk.
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Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 08:43 PM (DIweC)
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K-pop girls are the only reason for K-pop to exist...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 08:54 PM (C19Uv)
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Could be a few trannies in that video … or in the band. The Blade loves Asian girls. But the chance that any rando Asian girl is really a tranny is probably 10x that of white or black girls.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 09:09 PM (aeiyZ)
Gotta pace your beers carefully at my age.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 09:09 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 09:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:01 PM (HFcKg)
Wise beyond your years.
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 09:09 PM (LHPAg)
But his show had some amazing bands on in the mid 80s through the late 90s.
Fun stuff.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:07 PM (mT+6a)
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"Live on Letterman" would make for one hell of a compilation album/DVD release. Some absolutely incredible stuff happened on Letterman.
And a ton of dreck, of course. But hey, bad with the good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:09 PM (C19Uv)
almost all of which are unlistenable.
They were a very fun bar band style group.
This album "We Got a Live One Here" was their last live hurrah....Grab a beer, some nachos and Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=fTl_MmaO4l4&list=PLzrkUwDMBmUmGlZaT6cnZ
rGDHhTvuV241
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 09:09 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:10 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: H at July 26, 2025 09:10 PM (2gjbv)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:10 PM (oNVea)
https://tinyurl.com/bdhkze68
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:11 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 09:02 PM (aeiyZ)
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My trusty Audio Technica wired headphones are *awesome*. My Hi-Fi isn't *that* much, but it was well into the four figures even with shopping fairly carefully - and depending on the music, I sometimes prefer my ATs.
But what really blows me away is the advances in small stuff. In my adult life, earbuds have gone from "uncomfortable, ungainly, shitty-sounding crap" to "comfortable and damn good." I have a few pairs of "true wireless" earbuds and some are crazy good. Not in the same league as my ATs, but still damn good and what you can get for around a hundred bucks is unreal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:06 PM (C19Uv)
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I can’t wear earbuds. They always fall out of my ears. So it’s over the ear or nothing.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 09:11 PM (aeiyZ)
almost all of which are unlistenable.
They were a very fun bar band style group. ...
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 09:09 PM (iJfKG)
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I saw Commander Cody once. Was a bit disappointing. Definite bar band (I saw them in a bar), and if the bar had a good setup, it was probably good.
This bar did not have a good setup.
But I do have a Commander Cody-related problem. Every time I am in an airport, I can't help but think of "Back To Tennessee" - but if you hum it, you'll be tackled and arrested!
https://youtu.be/vXXRjPUvZnY?list=RDvXXRjPUvZnY
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:12 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:01 PM (HFcKg)
I could crash server space on that topic. I alluded to a bit, up above, on why metal.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 09:12 PM (vm8sq)
I love their music and Sharon den Adel’s vocals are amazing but I’d start there. That should be enough to win you over,
Posted by: Cow Demon
I agree that their older stuff is better. Then again, I'm older stuff, too.
Mother Earth, The Silent Force, The Heart of Everything.
Their first one, Enter, was beauty-and-the-beast style with a growly male singer alongside Sharon. Still good, but maybe not what the average Moron is looking for. They bring in guest vocalists for those songs on tour, now.
And speaking of live recordings, their Black Symphony album/dvd is killer. Sharon isn't just a studio voice.
The Promise, which might be the hardest song she sings:
https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo?t=30
Somewhere, as a duet with Anneke from The Gathering:
https://youtu.be/ScjEJRIZGvg?t=30
For both, skip the first 30 seconds because it's just the bootlegger's "intro" thing.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 09:13 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 09:13 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 08:58 PM
I do not like loud music. I went to a Van Halen concert in the late 70s and couldn't hear for days afterward.
Posted by: huerfano at July 26, 2025 09:13 PM (n2swS)
Of course the best B side is Erasure's "When I Needed You", which backs up "The Circus" which is shit.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 09:14 PM (gKWVE)
"Live on Letterman" would make for one hell of a compilation album/DVD release. Some absolutely incredible stuff happened on Letterman.
And a ton of dreck, of course. But hey, bad with the good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Oh man! Absolutely!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:14 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 09:14 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 09:11 PM (aeiyZ)
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If you ever want to try again, consider trying memory foam tips.
Downsides: they never fit in the case, they're fairly expensive and they get gross so you'll go through them at a fair clip.
Upsides: very good noise isolation and a tight fit that doesn't result in fatigue or pain.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:14 PM (C19Uv)
__________
🎶 🎹 amateur hour again
Nothing Much
Admissions of limitations as a songsmith
Link in nic. Vid should play from 0:00 to 4:05.
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #1, 2016 Aug 12
🌅
Posted by: mindful webworker - pass pass me by at July 26, 2025 09:14 PM (f+yIF)
I came to really enjoy some bands I would never have otherwise listened to.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:16 PM (mT+6a)
I came to really enjoy some bands I would never have otherwise listened to.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:16 PM (mT+6a)
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I always liked "120 minutes" more than "Unplugged," but saw a whole lot of both!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:17 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: mindful webworker - pass pass me by at July 26, 2025 09:14 PM (f+yIF)
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Didn't.
Thanks for sharing your stuff!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:17 PM (C19Uv)
Of course the best B side is Erasure's "When I Needed You", which backs up "The Circus" which is shit.
Posted by: gKWVE
Probably because of Leonard di Crapio's 90s Romeo and Juliet. And it's a damn good song.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:18 PM (oNVea)
I was sailing your sea
A stow away, a traveller
Following your stream
Your shore was my home
As the waves breaking
Fading love washed away in ...
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 26, 2025 09:18 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:06 PM
I just got some of the new Apple Airpods that can also be used as hearing aids. The sound is amazing and you can take a hearing test right on your phone. Luckily, the test confirmed that I don't need the hearing aid feature but I might some day.
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 09:18 PM (rbKZ6)
I'll try again when I am home.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 09:19 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 09:18 PM (rbKZ6)
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I was impressed with Airpods when I tried them. But the cost, and the fact that you need an app to really use them properly turned me off. But they are quite good.
I think the sweet spot on wireless earbuds is around $100-$150. There is a ton of very good stuff in that range. But a no-name weird Asian brand is always a gamble. I've been burned a couple of times, which would certainly not be true of Apple or Samsung.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:20 PM (C19Uv)
I was at the central tavern in Seattle when Kurt fell off the stage because he was too messed up
To play. From that to this
https://tinyurl.com/55ev3kwf
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:20 PM (mT+6a)
I came to really enjoy some bands I would never have otherwise listened to.
Posted by: nurse ratched
YES! Nirvana's In the Pines unplugged is chef's kiss.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:20 PM (oNVea)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:20 PM (oNVea)
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Nirvana might have had the best set on "Unplugged."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:21 PM (C19Uv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 26, 2025 09:22 PM (ufuUR)
Best thing about music is there is something for everyone.
And nobody should give a shit when others don't like their taste.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (viF8m)
Gen Z translation: don't yuck my yum.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 26, 2025 09:22 PM (uglmp)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:20 PM
I just got them on sale through Amazon for $149. I couldn't believe it.
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 09:22 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 09:22 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 26, 2025 09:22 PM (uglmp)
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"Don't yuck my yum" is really dumb. But I do get it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:23 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 09:22 PM (rbKZ6)
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yeah, at that price, just get 'em LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:24 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
You'll get no argument from me in that. I love Nirvana anyway, but the album they released from Unplugged is the one I listen to most.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:24 PM (oNVea)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 09:24 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:25 PM (JkO4W)
A long time ago.
Drugs might have been involved. Maybe. Probably.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 09:26 PM (Q4IgG)
I wouldn't mind, really, except Mr. Dmlw! always has to pump up the volume. I don't like loud anymore.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 09:26 PM (h7ZuX)
I love their music and Sharon den Adel’s vocals are amazing but I’d start there. That should be enough to win you over,
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 08:53 PM (vm8sq)
2004? Has it really been that long? Wow... That album is probably when I discovered Within Temptation. I rather like them...
Posted by: Castle Guy at July 26, 2025 09:27 PM (Lhaco)
Uh, yeah. Happy Saturday folks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 26, 2025 08:47 PM (CHHv1)
Favorite King Crimson album: Three of a Perfect Pair (Belew-Fripp-Levin-Bruford)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 26, 2025 09:28 PM (uglmp)
You really don't. I got a pair with credit card points. I had no intention of buying but they are pretty good, no app required.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 09:28 PM (viF8m)
I'll try again when I am home.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 09:19 PM (zZu0s)
Her vocal styling is RAW, but to me, that's what made it an interesting interpretation.
Did not mean to imply it surpassed the original. Simply that it was so raw, that it stood out and, over time, has grown on me.
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:28 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:25 PM (JkO4W)
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This brunette in blue jeans doesn't want to disappoint you:
http://tiny.cc/l4cq001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:29 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 09:24 PM (hIY2p)
As was Neil Young.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:29 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Ben Had
The intellectual me wants complex music. Classical. Metal. Key changes. Odd time signatures. Lots of both in the same song.
https://youtu.be/eBpq7MctZcc?t=16
The emotional me just wants the vocalist to let it all hang out.
https://youtu.be/27M76-hbfW8
Those are generally not found in the same music. So bands like Within Temptation and Epica are my jam.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 09:29 PM (DgGvY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY
Posted by: MichiCanuck
...................................
Alchemy is my favorite live album. I can listen to 'Telegraph Road ' on a loop. Absolutely sublime.
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 09:29 PM (uGaBv)
From the rock world: Journey's Open Arms.
From the Romantic period: Chopin's Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 1.
Baroque: Vivaldi's Winter, slow movement; Handel's Amen Chorus from Messiah.
Classical: Beethoven's 5th Symphony *last* movement! Absolutely triumphant!
I could go on and on, but my internet keeps going out. Will sign out now before it goes poof for good!
Happy music listening, Horde. :-)
Posted by: Official Delurker at July 26, 2025 09:30 PM (/JIaN)
Posted by: Cicero
This brunette in blue jeans doesn't want to disappoint you:
http://tiny.cc/l4cq001
Posted by: Joe Mannix
But can she sing?
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 09:31 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: goozer at July 26, 2025 09:31 PM (V1MWf)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 26, 2025 09:22 PM (ufuUR)
++++
Dig it, thanks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:32 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:32 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 09:31 PM (DgGvY)
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Uhhhh, sure.
I mean "yes." Definitely! She's a virtuosa!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:32 PM (C19Uv)
"Hey Tommy! Can you sign our flyers?"
"Fuck that. I got something better for you guys."
The man handed out promotional post cards. I still have mine to this day.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 09:32 PM (7xrfc)
First, musically, Clapton was in top form. His voice and his playing were perfection. It was surprising given his advanced age.
Second, Clapton did absolutely nothing to connect to the audience. He was there for a payday, period. No banter, no interesting stories of the heyday of blues-based rock, nothing. A terse "thank you" and he launched into the next song. He bolted from the stage at the end of the set with no encore.
During the show he literally played in the dark. You could see where he was because his guitar was white.
It was awesome to hear some Clapton classics live but Clapton was there for the check and it showed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:33 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:33 PM (C19Uv)
https://youtu.be/27M76-hbfW8
Those are generally not found in the same music. So bands like Within Temptation and Epica are my jam.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 09:29 PM (DgGvY)
Try this:
https://shorturl.at/HRIM8
Kathy Mattea stepping into "Standing Knee Deep In A River"
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:33 PM (TTAGa)
During the show he literally played in the dark. You could see where he was because his guitar was white.
It was awesome to hear some Clapton classics live but Clapton was there for the check and it showed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:33 PM (JkO4W)
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Hmmm.
So it was a performance, but not a "show?" Perhaps there is a distinction.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:34 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 09:34 PM (uGaBv)
Posted by: huerfano at July 26, 2025 09:35 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 09:35 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:33 PM (C19Uv)
Truth.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 09:37 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 09:37 PM (mT+6a)
He liked to tell stories between jams.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 09:38 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 09:39 PM (viF8m)
Damn, bad example but there was a Sarah Maclachlan song from before sad puppies. Like EARLY 90s. Possession. On the album she had a pop version and a piano only version. The piano only version was far better.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)
Damn, bad example but there was a Sarah Maclachlan song from before sad puppies. Like EARLY 90s. Possession. On the album she had a pop version and a piano only version. The piano only version was far better.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 09:39 PM (zZu0s)
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Kinda like pizza.
Toppings are nice and can really make a pie better, but if the place can't do a plain cheese properly, then it's really just not that good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:40 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 09:40 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (HFcKg)
http://tiny.cc/l4cq001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:29 PM (C19Uv)
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Poor girl has to live in sparking structure. I would consider taking her in.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (TTAGa)
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I don't see how an acoustic "Layla" could work properly.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (hY4dx)
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Be careful. The structure might be sparking because she's a firebug...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:42 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: nurse ratched
They have some range. Helped by the fact that they've been four different bands (at least), with Robert Fripp being the only common member.
Version 1, 1969:
https://youtu.be/UlKrH07au6E
Version 4, 1995:
https://youtu.be/mJt0MNSDgdA
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 09:42 PM (DgGvY)
He liked to tell stories between jams.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 09:38 PM (Q4IgG)
Along those lines ...
David Bromberg was / is an outstanding story teller between songs ...
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:43 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Bono of U2 doubles down.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 09:43 PM (/lPRQ)
A while back, I bought a few seasons of assorted animes.
Some were in gorgeous, colorful, durable packaging with the DVDs printed with neat graphics from the show.
Another one was in a cheap plastic box with a paper liner showing a poster and the DVDs loosely secured.
That last was a legit one. The others were bootleg.
(I didn't know they were bootleg when I bought them. Back then, the mysteries of EBay bootlegs unknown to me_
Posted by: comradearthur at July 26, 2025 09:44 PM (OdNzD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (HFcKg)
I don't appear to have the best taste in men, but the men I've married both love music. Of all kinds. So, there's that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 09:44 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Bono of U2 doubles down.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 09:43 PM (/lPRQ)
But not over a cliff.
Sad!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 09:44 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (C19Uv)
Exactly.
It's just not the same song Vocally, Aurally, or in terms of Timing
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:45 PM (TTAGa)
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Me too
Posted by: Mayor Chestfeeder at July 26, 2025 09:46 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Ben Had
Well that just sounds unbearable. What a hollow existence.
Once had a coworker tell me she didn't like music. I was speechless. smh
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:46 PM (oNVea)
Thanks for sharing your stuff!
Posted by: Joe Mannix
Dang. Forgot how contrary Morons can be.
brunette in blue jeans
Thanks for sharing your stuff! 😆
Posted by: mindful webworker - once repaired a Wurlitzer at July 26, 2025 09:47 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: She Hobbit
None at all, or she was just letting you know she was a rap fan?
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 09:47 PM (DgGvY)
Another one was in a cheap plastic box with a paper liner showing a poster and the DVDs loosely secured.
That last was a legit one. The others were bootleg.
(I didn't know they were bootleg when I bought them. Back then, the mysteries of EBay bootlegs unknown to me_
Posted by: comradearthur at July 26, 2025 09:44 PM (OdNzD)
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Heh. It's always odd when the pirate have more pride in their work than the legitimate operators. This happened in software a lot back when software piracy was rampant. The pirate groups would try to outdo each other in quality and branding. It became its own thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:47 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:48 PM (HFcKg)
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That's funny. Kind of like saying, I don't like food.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:48 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 09:28 PM
That's how I got my first pair. I lost one of them on a recent flight. I'll pay the new ones off with a points transfer as well.
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 09:48 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:46 PM (oNVea)
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They exist. I'm related to some of them. I don't get it. I *can't* get it, I don't think. I get "there's music I don't like" and I get "man, I hate this music." I even get, "I only like music sometimes." But I don't get "music doesn't do anything for me."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:50 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:51 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:46 PM (oNVea)
I am old enough now to wonder whether I have any concept of what it's like in other people's head. To not know music, history, art. How shallow, narrow and barren a place it must be.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)
Saw Def Lepard at DeZavala Walmart in SA.
Saw Jethro Tull at the Richmond Opera House.
Metallica at a horse track.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 08:29 PM (dR6yv)
Did you see Metallica at Hawthorne in Stickney?
Posted by: Lars at July 26, 2025 09:51 PM (kJH1Z)
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 09:48 PM (rbKZ6)
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Oh man.
Was on a flight and the landing was *rough.* An earbud popped out. I was at the back of the plane, and I watched it bounce all the way up the aisle. I figured, "man, well, that's gone." I looked for it on they way out, and found it. Somehow. Caught it out of the corner of my eye, wedged under the wheel of a drink cart. Lost the tip, but the bud itself survived.
I still have them, and know that I used up 100% of my luck in recovering it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:52 PM (C19Uv)
Then you know who to avoid.
https://tinyurl.com/ypvebspx
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 09:52 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: mikeski
Hahahaha, no she was a 50s-ish white woman 15 years ago. Doubt rap was in her repertoire, though I do enjoy some rap for the beat and visceralness.
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That's funny. Kind of like saying, I don't like food.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
That's kinda what I thought. Music is how I get deeper into moods, change my moods, connect with people. It just didn't compute.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:54 PM (oNVea)
Posted by: mindful webworker - happily at July 26, 2025 09:54 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:56 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ben Had
Well that just sounds unbearable. What a hollow existence.
Once had a coworker tell me she didn't like music. I was speechless. smh
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:46 PM (oNVea)
The only thing that Nietzsche ever said that was worth a damn (and I bet he stole it): "Without music, life would be a mistake."
Posted by: goozer at July 26, 2025 09:56 PM (V1MWf)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Anime surprised me. Sometimes, the music is taken *very* seriously. I'm not into Anime, but I have a couple of Anime soundtracks in my library. I find it weird how often inscrutable foreign cartoons (to me, anyway - I know Anime is big business with a major fan base, but I don't get it) have really serious, well-produced music.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:57 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:58 PM (HFcKg)
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I was never a big Beatles fan but I ended up in Liverpool a few years ago. Seems that the Beatles drive the entire economy there today. I got a Beatles logo t-shirt at the Beatles museum, and I saw the actual Strawberry Fields.
I won't engrave it on my tombstone but it was fun.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 09:58 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2025 09:58 PM (HFcKg)
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Thank you, and the other commenters! No point in writing it if nobody read it!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:59 PM (C19Uv)
He was over today bashing on my electric kit and I just stood there watching him going "damn." He just turned 5 and is better than I ever was. Just plays from his heart and to his own rhythm.
I gotta get a double bass pedal for that kit. He does it anyway with the high hat and the pedal.
And Dire Straits, Love Over Gold is easily in my top 10 albums, ever. Doing Telegraph right now. It's at the point where he left most of the lyrics to be written by some future generation.
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 09:59 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 10:00 PM (ULPxl)
He was over today bashing on my electric kit and I just stood there watching him going "damn." He just turned 5 and is better than I ever was. Just plays from his heart and to his own rhythm.
I gotta get a double bass pedal for that kit. He does it anyway with the high hat and the pedal. ...
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 09:59 PM (xcIvR)
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You get to encourage his talent *and* make his parents mad! A two-fer!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 10:00 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Esperman at July 26, 2025 10:00 PM (lxE1b)
Posted by: She Hobbit
I do the same.
Need more happy (despite the lyrics being the opposite):
https://youtu.be/n56SFvzmiYA
Need more sad (the "sad ending" to a concept album with 2 different endings):
https://youtu.be/yo7UXKKy4m0
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 10:01 PM (DgGvY)
Other than sex, which I am a big fan, there is nothing remotely like music.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 10:01 PM (viF8m)
Thanks for a fun music thread, everyone. I usually jump at the chance to fill in for CBD. I rarely walk away from one without adding to my list of CDs to buy!
Have a great evening and Sunday!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 10:01 PM (C19Uv)
Posted by: Lirio100 at July 26, 2025 10:03 PM (ky7/T)
I still have them, and know that I used up 100% of my luck in recovering it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2025 09:52 PM
I was in a window seat and mine dropped between the drink/tray console and the wall. I tried to get at it from every direction and couldn't even see it. When the flight attendant came along to ask me what I was looking for, she asked if a mechanic would be able to help. I laughed at that and told her he'd probably have to take the whole seat out!
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 26, 2025 10:14 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: ... at July 26, 2025 10:17 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: browndog earbuds in at July 26, 2025 09:41 PM (TTAGa)
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I don't see how an acoustic "Layla" could work properly.
Agree completely. It sucked.
Posted by: Happy at July 27, 2025 12:09 AM (8wFql)
Agree completely. It sucked.
Posted by: Happy at July 27, 2025 12:09 AM (8wFql)
It has its uses. Like curing insomnia.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 12:31 AM (Pce4l)
Well that just sounds unbearable. What a hollow existence.
Once had a coworker tell me she didn't like music. I was speechless. smh
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 26, 2025 09:46 PM (oNVea)
My father had zero use for music and could not understand why everyone else in the family was all in on music.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 12:33 AM (Pce4l)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 08:26 PM (dR6yv)
I was there. Agreed!
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 27, 2025 02:15 AM (Pce4l)
Posted by: KM at July 27, 2025 02:26 AM (ES1Rb)
Hobby Thread - July 26, 2025 [TRex]
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. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it wobbled and lurched and shook and made terrible scraping sounds. Apparently, it either needs a tune-up or a vacation. Either way, the wheel was of no help which means this edition of the Hobby Thread is a random grab-bag of miscellaneous content.
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.
Yoshio Tamiya, Shunsaku's father, had a company that produced trucks and vans until Allied air raids in 1945. After his factory was destroyed, he went into the lumber business. He also began making high quality wooden toys. His son, Shunsaku, was there as well. The lumber mill burned down and Tamiya pivoted to focus on making wood model kits. Shunsaken worked alongside his father as plastic injection mold technology arrived in the 1960s. The company expanded and grew, particularly with a 1967 Honda F1 car and a Porsche 934 radio controlled car. The company remains privately owned.
Shizuoka City, home to Tamiya and other model makers, is reportedly responsible for 80% of the plastic model market. When you visit, look for public sculptures that echo the plastic model world.
But the biggest driver of Hasbro's recent earnings has been Magic: The Gathering. That's thanks to a recently released expansion set, Final Fantasy Universes Beyond. The set dropped in June and almost instantly shattered records, earning $200 million in one day and becoming the fastest-selling expansion in MTG history.
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 July 26, 2025 05:30 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:32 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:34 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:35 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: TRex - early is on time. On time is late. at July 26, 2025 05:35 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:36 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 05:36 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: TRex - early is on time. On time is late. at July 26, 2025 05:35 PM (cCn4/)
Well, I come early and usually lurk 'cause nobody talks to me.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:37 PM (0eaVi)
They've done Warhammer 40K, Lord of the Rings, Fallout (why?), Dungeons and Dragons (Hasbro owns the rights to that as well), and much, much more.
I think it's patently stupid and an obvious cash grab.
Idiots. Rich idiots, but still idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 05:37 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:37 PM
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I thought you lurked because the themes didn't resonate with you. Tried to throw a mixture of hobbying into tonight's theme in an effort to find a winner!
Posted by: TRex - serving a tough audience at July 26, 2025 05:38 PM (cCn4/)
Idiots. Rich idiots, but still idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 05:37 PM (IBQGV)
I was never interested in any of that stuff. Only played Age of Empires through III, and Empire Earth. Didn't care for D and D.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:40 PM (0eaVi)
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I always found the Lego Tensegrity structures interesting because it looks like part of the sculpture is "floating."
It's a fascinating application of statics.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 05:40 PM (IBQGV)
"It's a SEASON tree." -- someone with danger hair
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 05:42 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 05:42 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 05:43 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: TRex - serving a tough audience at July 26, 2025 05:38 PM (cCn4/)
Not all of them do, of course. But I sort of feel responsible for the thread because I encouraged the CoBs to have it. I still read all the comments until it's time for me to go. I watch the vids unless their longer than fifteen minutes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:45 PM (0eaVi)
[Passes TRex a can of WD-40]
Posted by: mindful webworker - cameras were made for felines at July 26, 2025 05:46 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 05:47 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 05:48 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 26, 2025 05:50 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 26, 2025 05:50 PM (aUGqq)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at July 26, 2025 05:50 PM (sZyeE)
I’m closer to a Hobby Lobby now than a Michaels.
I find I prefer Hobby Lobby anyway so that’s s good thing.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 05:52 PM (VofaG)
I have been holding off on resuming my hobby of pipe collecting/smoking while I recover from my surgery. Doesn't keep me from perusing "pipes for sale" sites on the 'Net. It's perfectly possible to score an estate pipe, and sometimes a good new pipe, for less than $80, but it's getting tougher.
The problem is, once you have a range of pipes yourself, it's harder to find one that isn't similar to one you already have. I'm trying to consider only pipes that have some historic interest for me, say, are from the '50s through the '70s, without getting involved in higher-end pipes like Dunhills.
And sometimes I see a pipe that is so beautiful, in shape or color or condition, I can't see bringing a match or Zippo flame anywhere near it. I try not to buy those.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 05:52 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 26, 2025 05:53 PM (aUGqq)
I find I prefer Hobby Lobby anyway so that’s s good thing.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 05:52 PM (VofaG)
Stores are usually bigger than Michael's, and they run more sales. Have more selection, too.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:53 PM (0eaVi)
I wonder if there is any advantage to the shape of the plane from a performance standpoint? Or is this a 'let's see if we can' thing?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 05:52 PM (omVj0)
Stick with cob pipes, Wolfus. Good enough for Mac, good enough for anyone.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:55 PM (0eaVi)
Yeah. I am. Not something I play - but something I've played.
Its a license to steal. A game of cards, where you buy more cards, at a few bucks a pack, and all the cards work together in a game that everyone at the table understands.
Its genius.
And the cards are pretty. Collectible, just for the art. It really is a great concept.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 05:55 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 05:55 PM (zZu0s)
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It's an offshoot of Pinkoween!
(Not an explanation)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 05:57 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Agreed. All of the book covers look about the same. Same font, especially. It kinda makes me unwilling to even consider the book.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 05:57 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 05:55 PM (zZu0
The Acura NSX is one beautiful car though.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 05:58 PM (VofaG)
Stick with cob pipes, Wolfus. Good enough for Mac, good enough for anyone.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025
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I have one, and it smokes fine. But I can't get over the feeling it makes me look like Fred Ziffel -- while my internal image of myself is "writer, lawyer, doctor, professor, or engineer," which to me means a briar pipe.
Of course, nobody else sees me when I'm puffing away at home. At the monthly pipe club meeting at the shop, I have company, but everybody has his own preferred pipe style or shape; I doubt anybody would judge.
(Still: "Arnold? What you doin', boy?")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 05:59 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 05:57 PM (h7ZuX)
If I ever get a book ready to self-pub, I'm going to try to get him to do the cover. There's plenty of writers in the market for a non-AI, non-royalty free cover art.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:59 PM (0eaVi)
Then I realized, holy crap I am spending a lot of money just to get a chance at some units.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)
If you move to farm country, you won't look out of place.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:01 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)
"Flight testing of the V-173 went on through 1942 and 1943 with 190 flights, resulting in reports of UFOs from surprised Connecticut locals."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 06:01 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)
Of course. I was just commenting on the Acura name.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:02 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 06:02 PM (kpS4V)
So me and the missus like to glamp - or RV, as we call it around here.
Its retarded - we'll go through the motions of packing, and herding the dogs, and filling coolers - just to get out there and play a small game over and over again on a small table in the RV.
Yet that's what we do. She's going to GenCon next week. Not my thing. Hopefully she comes back with one or two gems.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:02 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)
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I try to not think about how many boxes of booster packs I've bought just in the hope of opening that ultra-cool rare or mythic rare card in Magic: The Gathering.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 06:03 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I can understand Hobby Lobby having seasonal stuff 'way in advance, for those crafty people who may take a lot of effort or at least a long time to put together their custom decorative wreath, tree, or whatever decorations and gifts. That's different from the grocery store having Christmas stuff out before Labor Day.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Easter stuff before Thanksgiving at July 26, 2025 06:03 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025
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I think so too. Maybe AI has gotten better than it did when I tried to have it assemble a cover for me last year. I told the engine I wanted a male centaur standing in silhouette against a red background. It kept giving me horses with wings.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:04 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:02 PM (VofaG)
Saw one of the new model Miatas the other day. Like the front end (the smile of the NB was it's only downside.) But on the new one the rear... I dunno that I like it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:04 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 06:03 PM
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"Go Fish" and "Solitaire" have no such issues.
Posted by: TRex - make card games simple again at July 26, 2025 06:04 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: mindful webworker - great thinks with but a single mind at July 26, 2025 06:05 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 06:03 PM (IBQGV)
It is genius. I've tried, here and there, to make a real Football Game that is card driven. Not Strat-O-Matic, and not simple, but kind of Magic based.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:06 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025
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My image of myself is that pic on the 'Net of the middle-aged Faulkner, silver-haired but with a black mustache, sitting in a lawn chair with a straight billiard pipe clamped in his teeth. Not that I'm much of a Faulkner fan, but the image is cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:06 PM (omVj0)
[singing] spam spam spammy spam spam spam
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 06:07 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 06:03 PM (IBQGV)
Yeah, and that is a game with far more history and life time. I was doing the mental math on a relatively new game and coming up '???' Then he started talking 40K and I was like 'I'll never join you!' (Luke on Bespin)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:07 PM (zZu0s)
My 35-year-old son and his friends still play once every couple of weeks, and have since they were in high school.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 06:07 PM (h7ZuX)
At F-1 movie with my sister
https://tinyurl.com/e6d4tnsc
This is link to a 15 minute video on Historicon last week
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 06:08 PM (RHxs6)
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:06 PM (hk7Ln)
You'd think you could do that with historical players. Joe Montana. Mean Joe Green. Lawrence Taylor. Licensing would probably kill you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)
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Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 06:07 PM (gKWVE)
That's the whole problem for indie writers. Finding someone to do the work and not scam you with lousy crap. How best to go about finding an artist for your cover. I suppose the best way would be to ask other indie authors.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:10 PM (0eaVi)
Ciaphas Cain is up there with Flashman himself.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 06:11 PM (gKWVE)
And some of the older folks throw shit on that kind of thing. I don't. But some do.
I got through my time in the Army, in no small part, because I was an excellent player of Spades. Granted - its a simple game.
So I was a ringer, at cash games, for the guy that ran the mess section. Because I could play a smoking game of Spades, drink six beers, and do all that as a fresh faced white boy not even twenty.
I saw Big Bertha Drivers and Smith and Wessons traded out at those games.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:11 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at July 26, 2025 06:11 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)
That would be part of it. Because you can't play the "Fullback you can't stop" card more than about ten times. Or the LT card every play. There has to be a limit. And that would be part of it.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:14 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 05:43 PM (VofaG)
Was Queen a big company? Isn't it always fun to find one of your knives you forgot you had? There was a time when all gentlemen carried a pocketknife and today they don't. Sad.
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 06:14 PM (LHPAg)
I’d be happy to attempt to design something for you guys but I’m just , ironically, a human AI in that I need references to look at to paint. When I have an idea i gather references and assemble them in a sketch and then paint it.
When I draw from memory I tend to leave out or miss the subtle details or shadows or the multiple color values that make a good painting.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 06:16 PM (viF8m)
I don’t know if Queen is a big company but it’s been around a long time.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:16 PM (VofaG)
When I draw from memory I tend to leave out or miss the subtle details or shadows or the multiple color values that make a good painting.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)
Would a detailed written description work?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:16 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:11 PM (hk7Ln)
I don't, either. I think it's great that it helps them maintain a decades-long friendship. They get married, have kids, and it's so easy to lose touch. I think it's good to have this time where they can just hang out with their friends and be dudes with each other.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 06:17 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at July 26, 2025
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The two Tamiya 1/35 scale kits I built, a German WWII Tiger II tank and the West German Leopard tank, were the best scaled and detailed kits I'd ever done. I grew up with Aurora's simple kits, of course, airplanes and the Universal monsters, and then AMT's cars and U.S.S. Enterprise. I moved on to the Revell 1/8 scale Jaguar XKE 2 + 2 kit, then to Revell's sailing ships like the Bounty and Golden Hind. The tanks were the last ones I did. I can only imagine how much better Tamiya's work has gotten since then.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:18 PM (omVj0)
Each of the 5 colors of the "color pie" has its strengths and weaknesses against the other colors.
Each of the three deck types (aggro-combo-control) also has its strengths and weaknesses against the other deck types.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 06:18 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 06:19 PM (yTvNw)
Heh. Anytime I see or hear "sailing" ? I'll give you your due on this - that's a skill. I only had a 22' deck boat for a small time, here on the lakes, and that thing was a chore. Classic best day, second best day. Sold it for a song. Was glad to see it go.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:20 PM (hk7Ln)
Yep. And you can buy new cards. That's genius.
Although they seem to keep it roughly balanced. Also genius.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:22 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 06:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:24 PM (hk7Ln)
JTB, your commentary on polynikes' D & D painting is spot on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:24 PM (omVj0)
I asked Steve if I could take it, but he said he hadn't read it yet. Decades later at a family reunion, I told him this. He said he didn't remember but he probably threw it away the next day.
A quick glance online shows that first story of Spider-Man comic selling for $180,000.
I started collecting comics, not for wealth but for the pleasure of being able to go back and read them again.
At first it was mostly DC (superhero) because Marvel didn't get distributed to my part of the country at first. And even after, the grocery store spinner rack was often picked over by the time I got there.
(continued)
Posted by: mindful webworker - 12 cents was a lot of money then at July 26, 2025 06:25 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:16 PM (0eaVi)
Yes in that it would help me know what you’re looking for and help me gather the photo references I would need in putting a concept sketch together.
On that subject, are there no D&D nerds here to comment on the painting? Originally I had just painted the castle when my buddy jokingly suggested it needed a dragon. I actually thought it was a good idea so there you go.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:26 PM (VofaG)
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Well, my idea for Hallowe'en this year is really simple: lots and lots of orange lights around the front of the house. I want to do a cool axe murderer costume, so I am checking the local thrift shops for a battered (or batterable) duster coat or barn coat.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 06:26 PM (DIweC)
When I draw from memory I tend to leave out or miss the subtle details or shadows or the multiple color values that make a good painting.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025
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I have a very visual imagination and usually "cast" the major roles in my stories as I write. I could provide you with pics from the 'Net of the actors, and images of mythical animals like griffins, to work from, as well as a detailed description of the scene I have in mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:27 PM (omVj0)
I learned to read, in no small part, for the dollar comic GI Combat that my Dad would buy every month. Haunted Tank, the SOS story, a couple others.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:28 PM (hk7Ln)
It was new to me but is apparently popular with making your own journals and such. An advantage is it allows the book to open flat. I'm interested as a way to make sketch books with specific types and sizes of paper.
Book binding as a subject has always interested me. This method could be an opening to it without needing expensive materials and tools.
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 06:28 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 06:29 PM (DIweC)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:26 PM (VofaG)
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A true D&D nerd would point out that the dragon doesn't look like any of the chromatic/metallic dragons described in the Monster Manual.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 06:29 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:29 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:26 PM (VofaG)
Maybe look at the Amazon best sellers in the catagories you're contracted for. You'd see what the themes and colors are for each genre.
I'd send you a couple I did on Tensor Art to let you see what I'm thinking. Of course, I'm nowhere near getting ready for a book cover or publishing. My e-mail is on the front page side bar for A Literary Horde.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:30 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025
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I decided long ago, when I first started writing adventure fantasy, that I had nothing new to say about dragons. Maybe I was just tired of hearing the Anne McCaffrey "Dragonriders of Pern" fans nattering on.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:31 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:32 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:29 PM (omVj0)
That's great! Hope it's better than the wizard illo!
I still can't make a sale.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:32 PM (0eaVi)
Except the wizard is me, and the hot chic is Tanya Roberts. And the van has great metal-flake and a fender flare kit and an LS engine.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:32 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 06:33 PM (JKkdu)
My second collection was mostly Marvels from the Great Age of Lee, Kirby, Ditko, et al. Got serious. Kept an index. Bought back-issues by mail and at occasional local comic cons. That collection got stolen in 1977 in ugly circumstances. 🤬🤬
I could finally pick up a comic again by 1980-something. That was a great era of Claremont and Byrne and Wolfman. And a lot of great independents and small company comics. I still have many long-boxes filled with them. I thought, my kids will have these to enjoy. 😊
As a kid, I thought, when I grow up, I'll be able to buy all the comics. And for a little while, in the 1980s, I could. But interest, and finances, tempered my collecting especially after the twins were born.
We did read a lot of comics with the kids when young, but then they could find almost everything on-line and showed little interest in the printed collection. Many of the long boxes are in storage along with a lot of the rest of our stuff. One of these days, I hope to have them all shelved again, if only so I can read them. 🧓
Posted by: mindful webworker - actually thinking about going to the F4 movie, maybe at July 26, 2025 06:34 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025
Hah. That dragon is from Game of Thrones but I gave him a paddle tail because everyone knows that a dragon can’t fly with a dinosaur tail. That is just ludicrous 😃
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:35 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 06:35 PM (77rzZ)
https://www.instagram.com/vtk52_25/
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 06:36 PM (DIweC)
https://is.gd/Q1t24n
https://is.gd/8vI1dO
Which one is more likely? I vote for the second.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 26, 2025 06:36 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 06:38 PM (yTvNw)
https://www.instagram.com/vtk52_25/
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 06:36 PM (DIweC)
I like it!
*makes note not to pee in the airlock*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 26, 2025 06:39 PM (xcxpd)
The days of NC Wyeth are basically done.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:40 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 06:41 PM (77rzZ)
When AI can paint me and Tanya Roberts on a dragon ? Or a Harley ? Then I'll bow to my machine overlords.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 06:42 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 26, 2025 06:36 PM
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Ha! Thanks for posting.
Posted by: TRex - we've met the aliens at July 26, 2025 06:43 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 06:41 PM
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I read this quickly as "Mogwai" and wondered what the Gremlins were up to these days.
Posted by: TRex - avoiding water and food after midnight at July 26, 2025 06:45 PM (cCn4/)
The days of NC Wyeth are basically done.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:40 PM (VofaG)
I hope not. If AI did improve so much that it does better than humans, what use is there for human artists and writers?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:47 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:40 PM (0eaVi)
Dollar Tree has Christmas stuff on the shelves also.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 26, 2025 06:47 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 06:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 06:29 PM
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Yes, please.
Posted by: TRex - operators are standing by at July 26, 2025 06:48 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: TRex - heyoo! at July 26, 2025 06:48 PM (cCn4/)
Considering we don't know, or DO know, the motivations of AI developers, I wouldn't want all art to be filtered through leftist lenses.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:50 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 26, 2025 06:29 PM
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Yes, please.
Posted by: TRex - operators are standing by at July 26, 2025 06:48 PM (cCn4/)
So, holiday themed decor hobby thread? I vote, yes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:51 PM (0eaVi)
Ugh.
Mrs D discovered she is really good at making them. I have a dozen hanging in the garage.
Ugh.
Stop!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 06:51 PM (W/lyH)
Basically it’s a simple semi abstract of a recognizable subject. It’s large with a minimal color palette of just 2 or 3 colors.
The one I’m working on now is 30x40 called A Flock of Seagulls. One of my favorite Van Gogh paintings is Almond Blossoms and it has the same color pallet and similar composition.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:52 PM (VofaG)
This paper has a surface that can simulate that effect. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet but the results in that video were interesting. I'm curious to try different dry media, graphite, colored pencils, charcoal, and pastels on that surface.
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 06:52 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:47 PM (0eaVi)
I agree . It is an issue.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:53 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 26, 2025 06:54 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 06:54 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 06:55 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 26, 2025 06:55 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:56 PM (VofaG)
I like to mix fake greens with real pine/fir/spruce cones and small, shiny baubles.
Cones: need to bake them at lowest oven setting for at least half hour, to kill the bugs & eggs and keep the petals from closing. Summertime is time for spraying with clear sealer-- gloss, satin, or matte.
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 06:57 PM (rdVOm)
https://is.gd/Q1t24n
https://is.gd/8vI1dO
Which one is more likely? I vote for the second.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 26, 2025 06:36 PM (S/Y4j)
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Agree. #2.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 06:57 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 06:56 PM
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I cast a +10 Autocucumber spell on your posts.
Posted by: TRex - Dino dungeon master at July 26, 2025 06:57 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 06:57 PM (cCn4/)
Thanks for mentioning that Van Gogh painting. I just looked it up and it is breathtaking on many levels. It has a Japanese feel about it. What a challenge it would be to do it in pastels.
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 06:58 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 06:59 PM (0eaVi)
Pallette does not look right but does not set off autocucumber. It's a fickle beast though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 06:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 06:54 PM (77rzZ)
That's a good idea but sure as hell, she'll see the first one and demand to know who the model was.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 06:59 PM (W/lyH)
He painted it for his new born nephew who Theo named after Vincent. And yes Van Gogh was a fan of Japanese art .
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 07:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 07:01 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 07:02 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 07:04 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 26, 2025 07:06 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 07:06 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:07 PM (77rzZ)
They engrave the wood with an old machine called a Cut-A-Letter. It basically has a tip that follows a template, and that tip is attached to an arm mechanism with a router on the other end. So they are limited to what they can engrave by what templates or patterns they have.
So they have a wide assortment of letters and numbers of different font and sizes. I help out by making tractor logos that they can trace. I download a picture of the logo from the internet and then use CAD to get it in the format that I need. I usually have to create the geometry by tracing the picture on the computer. Then I will cut the template using a CNC mill or a 3D printer.
Anyway, an old timer in the sign shop said he was looking on the internet for a certain cutting bit. He said he looked "offline". I thought that was cute as heck. He's 82, wears suspenders and a pocket protector for his pencils in his shirt pocket. I bet you can picture a guy like that.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 26, 2025 07:08 PM (144I4)
Posted by: JTB
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Exactly!
For decorations, it's nice to give beforehand (say, at Thanksgiving) so the recipients can display them right away.
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 07:08 PM (rdVOm)
Also the last night of Shark Week on discovery starting at 8 pm.
First episode tonight, Attack of the Devil Shark.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 07:08 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2025 07:09 PM (t+VLa)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 26, 2025 05:32 PM (0eaVi)
Oy Vey! (looking at your hash lol)
Not sure about the Flying Sub, but there's scuttlebutt about a Gliding Waffle.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 26, 2025 07:10 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:06 PM (77rzZ)
I don't think I have ever seen the movie. Dad and Sister always talked about it. I am looking forward to it.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 07:11 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:11 PM (77rzZ)
Ay caramba, I'm way too busy with my garden maintenance and harvesting to even think about that NOW!
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at July 26, 2025 07:12 PM (MB784)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 26, 2025 07:12 PM (CHHv1)
Wolfus, I have a meerschaum from Haym Pinhas, from the early 80s. Just a nice simple bowl with grapes/grape leaves. Have it broken in to mostly a nice brownish yellow, but still use a handkerchief to hold it when smoking it out of habit. Though I think now it's seasoned enough that skin oils will not mess up the appearance.
Got it by mail. Mailed a check off to Istanbul, month later, viola, pipe arrived.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 07:13 PM (U/Byj)
You do love the sea . I would have been stuck in Europe if I was born before cruise liners. And even that would have been a tough choice.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 07:13 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:15 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:17 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 26, 2025 07:12 PM
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I will ask.
Posted by: TRex - Magic 8 ball says "unlikely" at July 26, 2025 07:18 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2025 07:09 PM (t+VLa)
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There are still a fair number of people in Brooklyn who keep pigeons in rooftop coops. Called Pigeon Flyers. If I remember correctly, Martha Stewart keeps pigeons.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 26, 2025 07:18 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 06:16 PM (viF8m)
Heh, he said 420!
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 26, 2025 07:19 PM (144I4)
— The Concierge
Posted by: Bulg at July 26, 2025 07:20 PM (77rzZ)
Your artwork is stunning. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 07:21 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 26, 2025 07:12 PM (CHHv1)
Is this Robert the Cat?
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 07:21 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 07:21 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 26, 2025 07:22 PM (cCn4/)
I took a class at our lapidary society today to become qualified to use our 20 ton hydraulic press. We reviewed using pancake dies, silhouette dies and impression dies.
I learned something which I had not previously had cause to think about. That was that, for a given piece of jewelry -- say a brooch -- that a piece fashioned using a hydraulic press (an impression die, say) will be stronger and more resistant to deteriorating over the long term than the same piece prepared via a casting process. The pressed piece would be more uniform and stronger throughout its cross section than would the casted piece from having been work hardened. Whereas the cast piece typically would have a less dense core than its surface as its interior would have cooled down and solidified later than the areas at a cast piece's surface.
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Courtesy Misanthropic Humanitarian
Greetings to all those lovers of nature and pets. It's always great to see all the pictures submitted and always look forward to seeing what everyone submits. Just a couple of pics of life out in the country of both pets, visitors, and guests (some uninvited). (Note: Non-mammals are in the PetMoron Adjacent Animals) -"Baby" testing his tree climbing
-"Bo", a Manx mix enjoying one of the few cool evenings we've had
-"Taco", our newest edition who was dumped at our local church. Not sure what breed she is but she immediately staked her territory and is fitting right in with the rest v/r
"Sua Sponte"
Encountered by Members of The Horde
Hi!Not everyone has a marmot. Or TWO marmots!
I commented in a Cafe that I had a marmot, and somebody asked if I'd send in a pic. Then the marmot disappeared for a month, and today I discovered I have two (at least.) This photo is from about 25 yards away, so not very sharp. I didn't know whether to send it to Pet Thread or Gardening Thread. Hope I guessed right
Greetings to all those lovers of nature and pets. It's always great to see all the pictures submitted and always look forward to seeing what everyone submits. Just a couple of pics of life out in the country of both pets, visitors, and guests (some uninvited). (Note: Non-mammals are in the PetMoron Adjacent Animals) -Rainbow ScarabInteresting assortment of insects! I'm not wild about seeing those sneks around the kittehs.
-Black Snakes, of course, one caught with the goods and a bigun measuring 6' 5"
-Bee who was worn out from collecting pollen taking a power nap
-Stick Bug v/r
"Sua Sponte"
Thank you for sharing your pets and other animals with us.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:Until next Saturday, have a great week!petmorons at protonmail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 19 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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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 26, 2025 03:30 PM (wTDxT)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 03:33 PM (XxF3T)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 03:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 03:36 PM (mT+6a)
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Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 26, 2025 03:38 PM (Z0x8+)
Sua Sponte, Baby and Bo have coat patterns much like my late Chekov D. Siberian. People call them "tuxedo cats," but I think that's not right. A man wearing a tuxedo is clad overwhelmingly in black with only a little white, his shirt front and cuffs; whereas cats like yours and Chekov are half black at the most. "White and black" cats, "panda" cats, or "cow" cats would be better terms.
Taco is dark gray tabby with white, and all trouble, I'm sure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 03:41 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 26, 2025 03:43 PM (PqYMA)
Much of the rest of the time she was on her back on the sofa awaiting tummy rubs.
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 03:45 PM (yTvNw)
I've never been chased by a Rooster, but I have had a chicken go toilet on my arm.
All the kitties are adorable of course. I don't like snakes and the scarab is very pretty!
We have groundhogs in our neighborhood. We often see one or two eating in our backyard. I enjoy seeing them.
I have done an update on our cats.
[Link to cat fund: https://t.co/iS8XTjbmSR]
Also, this isn't pet related, but I just wanted to thank everyone on this site for their donations to Dad's cremation fund. Today we reached the end goa and will be able to pay the funeral home off in full. So thank you all.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 03:48 PM (sPQoU)
Sadly, one January morning after about two years of his tenure, he was found dead, possibly killed by a dog or coyote. The news was announced in a campus-wide email. Students put together a memorial plaque with "Cow Cat" and the dates "? -- 2022," fastened it to a tree near where he used to hang out, and draped Mardi Gras beads and cat toys around it.
Even a cat who did not belong to anyone -- "I Am the Cat Who Walks By Himself, and All Places Are Alike to Me" -- and yet was social and friendly can evoke a strong response in people.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 03:49 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 03:50 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 03:51 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 03:53 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 03:54 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 03:55 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 03:55 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 03:55 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 03:56 PM (7xrfc)
Book: Hound of the Baskervilles
Movie: Dog Day Afternoon
Singer: Bowser (from Sha Na Na)
Song: How Much Is That (Doggie in the Window)
Art: Dogs Playing Poker
TV show: Bones
Dog Food Company: Allen Brothers (don't ask)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 03:57 PM (poXs5)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 03:55 PM (kpS4V)
Marmot is like saying dog. Groundhogs are a certain type of marmot, like saying husky breed.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 03:57 PM (sPQoU)
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Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 26, 2025 04:00 PM (2UnvF)
Posted by: polynikes
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There's got to be a story that goes with that comment.
(P.S. Don't be silly, they come that way..)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 04:00 PM (poXs5)
This could make us sad but doesn't. It just reminds us of what a loving presence she was in our lives.
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 04:05 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2025 04:06 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
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They certainly look like Jasper, who lives in our West 40.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2025 04:08 PM (XeU6L)
They really are good cats, even though I'm not a cat person, still like animals and they're alright. Baby will bug the crap out of you when he's ready to take his afternoon nap and will harass you until you set down in the recliner. Bo spends most of his time outside and is the most gentle I've ever been around. Taco, we scooped her up and she was well underfed for quite some time so now anytime you're up and walking around she wants food even though her bowl is full. I think she's afraid she'll run out or won't get anymore or something. Not a fan of snakes either, but, they do keep the rodents away. But when they get into the coop, time to go. And have to take them a good mile or two away, their average range and release them so they don't come back.
Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 03:41 PM (omVj0)
Well thank you very much for that insight. We thought Bo may be a mix due to his stubby short tail and his fur on the underside is super curly. I like the "cow cats" label and is fitting for the farm.
Posted by: Sua Sponte at July 26, 2025 04:08 PM (GTw+O)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 04:08 PM (1Gsou)
They don't say much but they are exemplary listeners.
For the next two months he'll get comically fat preparing for hibernation. He runs funny when he gets that fat, kind of heaving his belly ahead of him, and then the rest of him catches up to it.
He's been around for years, but the other one showed up only this summer, and only twice. If I end up with a litter, I guess I'll have to trap and relocate them. I'm sure Illinois has a law against that, so I hope it doesn't come to that.
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 04:10 PM (hNDvI)
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Yep, same family. We've come across about six different types out here from jet black to gray to black with yellow stripes. The one shown was 6' 5" and some change.
Posted by: Sua Sponte at July 26, 2025 04:11 PM (GTw+O)
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 03:57 PM (sPQoU)
We had hoary marmots all over the Kenai when I was a kid. They would get into the outhouse and chew anything made of wood. I was at girls camp when very young, and one of the campers came rushing into the cabin claiming she saw a "horny varmint" in the outhouse. I don't think I have ever laughed that hard.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 04:11 PM (1Gsou)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 04:12 PM (2GCMq)
*****
I never knew snakes had a range that big. Thanks for the info and the pics of your beautiful cats.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at July 26, 2025 04:12 PM (Z0x8+)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 04:13 PM (hNDvI)
There's a portly woodchonk living out back. It fascinates Lily and the feral kitties. If they did bother to stalk it, it would be like taking down a gazelle. There's a lot of meat on that jasper. (Lenten feast?)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 04:13 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Sua Sponte at July 26, 2025 04:13 PM (GTw+O)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 04:11 PM (1Gsou)
Haha! Thanks for the laugh.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 04:14 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 04:15 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 04:15 PM (kpS4V)
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Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 04:16 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 04:17 PM (hNDvI)
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Neither did I! I called UNC a couple of years ago and they informed me to take them at least two miles out for release. I only fully realized it when I put some non-toxic paint on one, released it about 1/4 mile away and he showed up two weeks later.
Posted by: Sua Sponte at July 26, 2025 04:18 PM (GTw+O)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 04:18 PM (2GCMq)
No. Beer is proof that God loves us...
There is nothing natural about dogs.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 26, 2025 04:19 PM (ZmEVT)
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Posted by: JTB
The tough part is when you see them out of the corner of your eye. And for just a moment, you forget that they are gone.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 04:20 PM (7xrfc)
Entertained a few folks, I'd say.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 04:21 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba"
*contemplates telling possum babies story*
*decides against telling possum babies story"
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 04:21 PM (vFG9F)
Oooh, pretty. Many years ago, Mom and I were going out and there were a couple of dragonflies hanging around her car antenna. They followed the antenna while we drove down the road. I have no idea why they were so attracted to it.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 04:22 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 04:20 PM (7xrfc)
I dream my late dogs. I expect I will see them in heaven, because if they aren't in heaven, then it really wouldn't be heaven.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025 04:22 PM (1Gsou)
Posted by: JTB
The tough part is when you see them out of the corner of your eye. And for just a moment, you forget that they are gone.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025
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Not that long after Arizona the big part-Coon red tabby passed on at sixteen, I dreamed about him, and woke positive that he was still on the bed with me. From his kitten days he'd slept with me for part of every night, often on my pillow, frequently at one corner or another of the bed. I felt empty to realize he was not really on the bed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 04:23 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 04:23 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 26, 2025
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I imagine that when I get to that Rainbow Bridge, my many cats will be there, and there will be jurisdictional issues. "Back off, black cat! He's *my* human!" "Stick a fish in it, Fat Boy, he's *mine*!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 04:26 PM (omVj0)
And carry a pistol. Blow that asshole into kingdom come.
That will teach them.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 26, 2025 04:27 PM (ZmEVT)
Ah, nature.
Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 26, 2025 04:27 PM (0aYVJ)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 04:32 PM (omVj0)
>>>>>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 04:32 PM (omVj0)
Keep your sex life to yourself.
Posted by: Test Pattern at July 26, 2025 04:35 PM (p8xZB)
Between an ill tempered goose and a wild turkey, it's hard to determine which is more mean, until you consider that a goose usually has a reason. Wild Turkeys are just insane, ill tempered lunatic who will spend 30 minutes pecking at the tires of a car that has the audacity to invade their space.
Posted by: Orson at July 26, 2025 04:38 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025
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Years ago, when big black Wolf cat was still with his previous home and was an indoor-outdoor cat, Miss Linda witnessed his encounter with an opossum. Wolf studied the primitive-looking creature, the creature looked calmly back at him, and then they turned and each went their separate ways. I imagine the opossum thinking, "Cats are okay, they don't eat us," and Wolf thinking, "Nope, not gonna touch that thing, unh-unh, no way."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 04:39 PM (omVj0)
When we were tearing down the rotted bathroom on the old house, first we found a long snake skin hanging from the AC vent, then we found the snakes, a pair of six-foot black snakes living in the wall. I pulled them out and carried them off to the high grass.
A while later, we had tents set up, nice big dome tents (shelter-systems.com), one for daughter and her cousin. One day, they come running up to me, yelling there's a rattler under the plastic floor of the tent. I peeled the floor back, and there was one of the black snakes, coiled up. Thwacking its tail against the plastic floor really did sound like a rattler.
I pulled it out and walked it over to the high grass. However, shortly thereafter I had to repeat the process as it had come back. The third time, I figured it out. I pulled the floor back further to expose its mate. I took them both out to the high grass. They didn't come back. Obviously got the message that was not a good place to set up house.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pair bonding slitherers at July 26, 2025 04:40 PM (f+yIF)
Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 26, 2025 04:42 PM (0aYVJ)
None this year yet.
3 years ago, I killed a just under 5 foot copperhead.
Posted by: jsg at July 26, 2025 04:42 PM (1l+t9)
Posted by: Nazdar at July 26, 2025 04:44 PM (NcvvS)
Very good looking snakes. They would've made an excellent matching belt and hat band!
Buuut, we let them continue on their way to hopefully eat vermin.
Forgot to take a picture though.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 04:47 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 04:48 PM (uGaBv)
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Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 04:50 PM (mT+6a)
Wolfus, the cat my wife had got just before we started going out and the dog she got because I 'alienated Miss Kitty's affections!' might be duking it out; although the dog was thoroughly her's, the cat was offended by the interloper. She outlived the dog by a year.
Posted by: Nazdar at July 26, 2025 04:51 PM (NcvvS)
When I yanked out two six-foot black snakes (see previous comment) when tearing down a room, Bob was unnerved, as I'd never have imagined him. He'd encountered (and shot) many a rattler, cottonmouth, and other nasty sidewinder in his years of ranching, but it was the one and only time I could handle something he couldn't.
And feline follow-up tail
Bob's widow just this month moved to an elders home. We miss our long-term neighbors. The day Bob died, a pale yellow cat showed up at their house, living under the front porch. Their kids had been feeding it, but since she moved out, we've been walking down to their house to feed it every evening. Pretty, full-grown, spayed, and mostly friendly, although skittish about me.
There's also another stripey cat that I haven't seen, living behind the house under a bush. MiladyJo has been feeding it, too.
I'm glad to have some outdoor cats again for varmint control - it's been a long time. (Our one remaining old cat, Ony, is a contented indoor cat.) But we worry what will become of them come winter.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pair bonding slitherers at July 26, 2025 04:56 PM (f+yIF)
"What's a car antenna?" —young folk nowadays
Posted by: mindful webworker - pair bonding slitherers at July 26, 2025 05:00 PM (f+yIF)
There were no vets in the area that had any idea about snakes (they were very rare pets back then). But the local zoo had an extensive reptile collection including pythons and boas. We took the sick snake there. The guy at the zoo was like ‘umm, lady, we aren’t a vet.’ My mom begged them to try to save the snake. They did.
They diagnosed the pneumonia and didn’t give the poor thing much chance of survival. But they did give her antibodies and other meds. We hoped for the best. Sadly, she crossed over the rainbow bridge that night, to join all our other pets already there. Many more joined over the years.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 05:00 PM (aeiyZ)
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 05:03 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: mindful webworker - pair bonding slitherers at July 26, 2025 05:00 PM (f+yIF)
The tall silver thingy on the back of a car that you use for radio signal. Yeah, yeah I know, radio is so passé.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 26, 2025 05:04 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: mindful webworker - cameras were made for felines at July 26, 2025 05:12 PM (f+yIF)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - cameras were made for felines at July 26, 2025
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Those are neat.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 05:21 PM (omVj0)
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Still traumatized from that I see lol
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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, July 26
Spotted in a raised garden bed at a local assisted living facility where my mother lives. Not ours but they caught our attention. Cheers,A lovely scene for residents of that facility and a great photo! Thanks for sending it in!
TRex
Hello, I hope you can help me. I've been a (really) long-time lurker at Ace of Spades HQ, and was wondering if you still have links to the old gardening threads. Way back when-- unfortunately, I don't have a date, or this would be much easier -- there was a thread on Christmas/Thanksgiving cactuses. The advice in it was invaluable..... among other things, we finally understood why my father's cactus, would bloom twice a year, once around thanksgiving, and once again in early spring. Unfortunately, I didn't think to save the thread, and various internet searches have turned up nothing. Is there any hope? Thanks,There's a video with information in the post on 12/2/23 and more information on 11/22/14. There are a couple of other mentions and photos, too. Anybody else have tips on growing these cacti?
Heather
My second “learn by doing (it wrong)" garden lesson: The first one was letting tomato vines grow to maturity in the compost pile. I didn’t get many tomatoes, and all their roots made it hard to dig out and use that compost. Lesson Two: Last fall, I put my “Largest Zucchini” Fair entry atop the compost and let it sit. This spring, I noticed sprouts growing from its seeds, so I took one (composted the rest!) and planted it, thinking I would get a jump on the season that way. These blimps are what I got. I believe the zucchini got… promiscuous… with the pumpkins, since they’re both Cucurbita pepo. I had to pull out the plant and put in fresh seed. I’m hoping I’ll get a few actual zucchini by the end of the summer.
Carnivorous plant bog from Field Marshal ZhukovNice idea!
My pitcher plant is small but mighty--it put out a flower. Oddly enough the flower is bigger than the pitcher top. Not due to perspective! Lirio100Beautiful! Both the flower and the pitchers are features. Compare to the pitcher plant in the photo just above.
One of the most popular and enduring stories from Greek mythology is that of Aphrodite and Adonis. It has inspired numerous pieces of art and has been the subject of many adaptations and retellings. Shakespeare’s narrative poem “Venus and Adonis,” for example, is believed to be his first published work. As with most Greek mythology, the backstory is complicated and bizarre. Suffice it to say that Adonis was regarded as extraordinarily beautiful and the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone both fell madly in love with him. They went to Zeus to have their rivalry resolved and he decreed that Adonis would spend one third of each year with Aphrodite, one third with Persephone, and one third however he liked. According to the story, Adonis chose to spend his one-third allotment with Aphrodite, so that he was with her two-thirds of the year and with Persephone (Queen of the Underworld) the other third. While Adonis was in the arms of Aphrodite, the story went, crops and fruit grew abundantly, and the sun shined brightly. But when he was with Persephone, winter set upon the land. Adonis met a tragic death. He was gored by a wild boar while hunting and died in the arms of his weeping lover Aphrodite. The death of Adonis is associated with red roses and anemone. Although the details vary among the accounts, the first red roses (ever after a symbol of romantic love) sprang up from the blood of Adonis and anemone are said to have sprung up from the ground when Aphrodite’s tears dropped to earth (in some versions the associations are reversed). The veneration of Adonis and the remembrance of his death is attested to in documentary evidence as early as the 7th century BC. Ancient Greek women celebrated the Festival of Adonia annually, with singing, dancing, ritual mourning, and the planting of “Gardens of Adonis”— fennel and lettuce seeds sown in broken pieces of terracotta and placed on rooftops to sprout, wither, and die, in representation of the tragic life of Adonis. The painting is “Adonis Changed into Anemone” by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié (1782).
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden at g mail dot com Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Plum jam: about 4-5 cups of cooked plums, add the powdered pectin and lemon juice, let come to a boil on high heat until you get foam you can't stir down. add 4-6 cups of sugar, bring to a boil, and then bring up to the jelly stage either by thermometer, or by knowing how to judge how the jam runs off a wooden spoon (or both) Can in a hot water bath.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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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 26, 2025 01:25 PM (yCLJY)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 26, 2025 01:27 PM (yCLJY)
It's incredible the difference a cloud makes with regard to the heat on a hot summer's day.
Cloud cover = warm, but not entirely unpleasant
Sun = 20 degrees hotter, sweat starts dripping immediately
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 01:29 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Lirio100 at July 26, 2025 01:35 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Tony Litwin at July 26, 2025 01:35 PM (yW7Qk)
I don't, however if you type Christmas cactus in the YouTube search field, probably a dozen vids will show up.
Devin Wallein is a gardening youtuber, his family has a greenhouse out in Chester County PA. I subbed to his channel, it's called Plant Vibrations. I remember he had a video dedicated to Christmas cactus.
Posted by: kallisto at July 26, 2025 01:36 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Tony Litwin at July 26, 2025 01:38 PM (yW7Qk)
Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 01:42 PM (xekrU)
Finally see a cucumber on those volunteers vines in the garden.
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 01:46 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Tony Litwin at July 26, 2025 01:46 PM (yW7Qk)
Posted by: huerfano at July 26, 2025 01:48 PM (n2swS)
Thanks!. Doing okay for now, and we're cooling off for a couple of days from our earlier triple digits.
Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 01:49 PM (xekrU)
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Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 02:00 PM (xekrU)
I recognized the drapes and the chair!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 02:03 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Lirio100 at July 26, 2025 02:11 PM (ky7/T)
Quick summary: Greek gods were assholes and they fucked anything that wasn't fast enough to run away.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 02:38 PM (7xrfc)
Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 02:39 PM (xekrU)
Posted by: Ronster at July 26, 2025 02:50 PM (nTLhl)
Wednesday, I was distracted by so much going on in the house and left the sprinkler on all night. There were no puddles in the garden in the morning and it's been in the 90's most of the week. The soil was pretty dry by 5pm.
You can tell they are they parents of small kids. I left them frantic voicemails. They called me back, I told them about the sprinkler and they were fine with it. I'm still giving them $20 for the water.
The garden is beautiful and I've been encouraging them to send pictures here. With the Mom's permission, my brother left two fake pumpkins here and I put them in the pumpkin leaves for the kids to find. Their real pumpkins are coming in real nice though!
I don't think the gardening thread needs an arch-nemesis, but if it did I'd nominate all the plastic Christmas decorations currently in my living room and the forest of plastic plants on my porch of which I'm getting rid. Back to work, Everyone have a great day.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.1 % at July 26, 2025 02:59 PM (jvJvP)
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 03:24 PM (2GCMq)
11PM here. Need to get some shuteye.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 26, 2025 04:03 PM (lRY8a)
I pulled out most of the lettuce, which has bolted, and put the leaves in the compost. I've weeded the entire 20 foot row of shelling peas. I decided to test growing fall peas so planted those today - also a few radishes. Haven't figured out a place to put an attempt at fall lettuce, so I guess that's an idea for next year.
We tried covering half the rows in the corn bed with clear plastic, in an attempt to cook all the weed seeds. Well, there are no weeds there now - but the plastic turned out to be photosensitive, and started cracking - once the cracks started, the wind blew it all to bits. I had fun, one day, making sure I'd picked up all the pieces before the lawn mower shredded them.
(Those zucchini blimps were given to friends, for their chickens.)
Puncturevine? HATE that stuff! We had some in the back yard when we moved here - it took constant patrolling for several years, and trashing all we found, to get the property caltrop-free.
Posted by: Pat* at July 26, 2025 04:32 PM (utsBX)
January or February, I think. Like I said, it was a reminder.
Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 05:52 PM (xekrU)
As for your Filiformis, that is odd since Filiformis is native to the northeast of the US down to the panhandle of Florida. The one thing about Filiformis is that when it dies back in the winter, it makes what is called a winter bud which looks like it is dead, when it isn't. Try again with the Filiformis and when it dies back in the winter leave the plant where it is and see what happens in the spring. I'll bet it starts growing again. Hope this helps and good luck growing.
Posted by: Tony Litwin at July 27, 2025 07:21 AM (yW7Qk)
After Russiagate, where do you go for news?
Above, a cartoon borrowed from a lefty. I'm surprised that he's still hanging on to this issue. Can't decide if that lefty agrees that networks like the one Colbert dissed should die, too. Would you be okay with that?
The Colbert kerfuffle is widely misrepresented as involving his cancelation after CBS gave in to Trump concerning the way Trump was portrayed on CBS. But remember that Trump's lawsuit concerned the refusal of CBS to release the transcript of the interview of Kamala Harris on "60 Minutes". It was NOT about programs like Colbert's criticizing Trump.One of my lefty's own commenters said, "He's still alive but no longer caged!" What repression! Their misrepresentation of the Trump suit against CBS in current memes demonstrates that they aren't used to people fighting back. He then posted a worrisome meme about the impending transformation of CBS into another Fox News with the upcoming buy-out of the network. You get the idea . . . Progressives are under siege in the mainstream media. Heh.
“Threatening television networks” lol. I seem to remember the IRS coming to my house and House Democrats threatening me with jail and not a peep of protest from the supposed civil liberties partyThis seems to me to be an example of the left's ability to create images in our minds. Trump is from the world of entertainment, and they don't quite understand his non-linear, fun-house version of the ways they "mold" the truth. But the left still has the edge.
The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.Once again, making Adam Schiff your muse is a bad idea.
Incidentally, Scott Adams had a detailed conversation with Cynical Publius about why the crimes of Russiagate would be hard to prove in court. Interesting reading.Scott Adams: Obama's Russia Hoax & 'Fine People' Lie Ruined My Life and Divided America!@ScottAdamsSays: "Let me say that again. Those two hoaxes, Russia, Russia, Russia and the fine people hoax ruined my life because those are the hoaxes that allowed my entire social group to… pic.twitter.com/wCHJ46yORc
— Quotes By Scott Adams ☕️ (@QuotesFromCWSA) July 24, 2025
Walter Kirn again:Growing up we laughed at the sick old people running the Soviet Union.. Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov... I must say I was surprised to find the press over here in the states treat Biden much the same way Pravda treated Soviet heads of state!
— Richard Clarke (@richard_cl3097
Our society was torn in two by the deliberate lie that Trump was a Russian agent & his supporters, by extension, Putin patsies, fools, traitors. This lie was amplified by the media into a years-long chainsaw roar by media, from news to comedy shows to the NYT. Out with them.
So, who do you trust for news now? Should we make a list?Simply ignore, turn off, delete, & unsubscribe from the outlets that lied to you, loudly, relentlessly, knowingly.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) July 23, 2025
Instantly doable.
And the reporters, observers, & companies remaining will be the rootstock for the future.
It's a surprisingly diverse group.
Give it sun.
On this day in 1945 the governments of the United States, China, and Great Britain issued what would come to known as the “Potsdam Declaration,” calling upon the Japanese government “to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action.” The final sentence of the Declaration announced, “The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.” U.S. President Harry Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, had gathered in Potsdam, Germany, on July 17, ten weeks after the German surrender, to reach an agreement on how the disarmament and occupation of Germany would be handled. With the war against Japan still continuing, Truman decided to use the opportunity to issue a demand for Japanese surrender, having been advised a day before the conference began that an atomic bomb had been successfully detonated at a test site in New Mexico. Although Stalin had agreed to enter the war against Japan, the Soviet surprise attack was not scheduled to occur until August 9, so he declined to join the Declaration (the Soviets would adopt it later, after their invasion of Manchuria). The 13-paragraph Declaration first described the Allied intention to continue the war until Japan ceased resistance, employing all the military power that had destroyed the Nazis. “The full application of our military power,” it stated, “backed by our resolve, will mean the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.”
Although three members of the six-man Japanese Supreme War Council were in favor of opening negotiations for surrender, the war minister and the chiefs of staff of the Japanese army and navy flatly rejected the terms as too harsh and urged that the war continue. Meanwhile the moderates were still holding out hope that the Soviet Union might mediate a peace deal, unaware that the Soviets were on the eve of declaring war against Japan. Finally, the Japanese government publicly announced that their response to the Potsdam demands was “mokusatsu.” Kazuo Kawai had been an editor of the Nippon Times in Tokyo during the war. Afterwards, when he was a professor of Far Eastern history at Stanford University, he lamented the poor decision by the Japanese government. “Mokusatsu,” he wrote, “is a word which has no exact equivalent in the English language. It is a word which is ambiguous even in the Japanese. It might be translated roughly as ‘to be silent’ or ‘to withhold comment’ or ‘to ignore.’ ‘To withhold comment’ probably comes closest to its true meaning, implying that something is being held back, that there is something significant impending. Certainly, that is what the Japanese government meant.” The Japanese government had never intended to reject the Potsdam Declaration outright, Kawai argued, but was counting on the Soviets to make known the Japanese willingness to surrender. Further, the ambiguity of “mokusatsu” gave the military hardliners room to construe it as meaning rejection by ignoring, and they insisted that Japanese media construe it that way. A Tokyo newspaper printed the Potsdam Declaration terms under the heading “Laughable Matter” and the Japanese English-language propaganda agency “Radio Tokyo” declared flatly that Japan was “ignoring” the Declaration. Thus, to the Allies the Japanese response seemed plain enough—they had decided to reject the Allied demands by “ignoring” them rather than responding to them. Accordingly, Truman authorized the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9. . .
How many of you knew that Clint
— Farm Girl Carrie 👩🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) July 26, 2025
Eastwood was quite the singer?
Well here he is in a 1962 episode of
Rawhide, entertaining us with his
cowboy crooning 🤠 pic.twitter.com/nnFWTQa7pp
At root, the NPR story and the Colbert story are the same: progressives took over a product, made it so that people didn’t want to pay it for it—whether via advertising, subscriptions, or donations—and they’re now upset that it won’t be perpetually bailed out by a third party.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 19, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2025 11:11 AM (36PRH)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 26, 2025 11:16 AM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:17 AM (VofaG)
And it was never about Trump. It was about Colbert's miserable ratings and bleeding cash by the millions.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 11:19 AM (Q4IgG)
@LeadingReport 15m
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom says President Trump is “trying to steal the 2026 election.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 26, 2025 11:19 AM (mlg/3)
Yes, the "canary in the coal mine" could be interpreted on several levels - all lefty comedians will die, all lefty media will die, all progressives will die, etc.
Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 11:21 AM (xekrU)
Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)
My mother bought the National Enquirer every week and you could eventually learn what were exaggerations, fact and likely made up. its like reading Wikipedia.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (VofaG)
Demanding Respect
They beat, killed, strangled, and skinned every media outlet into a shell that while looking like media is really just a semi-marxist organization.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 26, 2025 11:24 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 11:26 AM (TEi+a)
Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)
Yes and also banged his co-star and likely contributed to her reasons for suicide. Contributed doesn't mean they were valid reasons. He just ghosted her.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)
The interesting thing is that the Elias Law Form is demanding millions from Media Matters, payable immediately.
Elias has clearly concluded that Media Matters will soon be pining for the fjords, so it should extract as much money from MMfA as possible.
Posted by: The ARC Of History! at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Reforger at July 26, 2025 11:28 AM (sNI6D)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:29 AM (VofaG)
Same thing happened with that slimy perverted ‘Bros’ movie from that slimy pervert ass pirate. He made a nasty, filthy movie about faggots. Then he told straights to fuck off if they don’t like it. When the movie predictably bombed, he then whined that it was straights’ fault for not going to see it. (Gays didn’t go see it, either.)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 11:34 AM (aeiyZ)
Like the Social Security that is now a major headline as it will become pay as you go in around 7 years and lead to 24% cuts.
Bush ran on his second term on a plan to fix SS and allow people to be bought out and allow others to self-fund their own retirement.
He was destroyed by (D) for trying to fix a real problem.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 26, 2025 11:35 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)
Better than Lee Marvin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:37 AM (D7oie)
Better than Lee Marvin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)
Both better that Willie Nelson.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 11:44 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:44 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g8Ew
Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 11:46 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)
Yes and also banged his co-star and likely contributed to her reasons for suicide. Contributed doesn't mean they were valid reasons. He just ghosted her.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (VofaG)
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If that was a suicide. She was nutty and in with the wrong crowd (black panthers, etc) and hounded mercilessly by the … FBI. It probably was a suicide, and supposedly she tried killing herself for years, but knowing what we know about the FBI now, it wouldn’t be wrong to have doubts.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 11:49 AM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 11:49 AM (+qU29)
Flakturm
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:44 AM (D7oie
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Asspack
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 11:49 AM (aeiyZ)
"He banged his co-star."
I don't care what you say. Lee Marvin did not kill himself.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 26, 2025 11:50 AM (zdLoL)
The "hardliners", the other three, unlike several of the problem regimes in recent history, actually had a non-insane, somewhat rational (if ruthless and reckless) strategy. They had specific terms - completely unthinkable of course to the Allies - for ending hostilities. Their entire strategy for years had been to make prosecution of the unconditional surrender policy too painful to complete.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 11:52 AM (U/Byj)
The truly unbelievable thing is that the Russians knew that Hillary was just as bad, if not worse, than Biden. She was physically decrepit, drug-addicted, and mentally unstable. Say what you will about Biden, he was stable, in the sense of being an eggplant and not deviating from it.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 11:26 AM (TEi+a)
I saw it firsthand. A few other Horde members as well. Truly disgusting and validated my beliefs of the commies in the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 11:52 AM (dR6yv)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 11:53 AM (U/Byj)
~~~~~
I don't doubt this is true, but Bongino's latest tweet gives me hope:
"The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned."
https://tinyurl.com/3ent2smz
Posted by: IrishEi at July 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 26, 2025 11:53 AM (3AwA+)
NBC News@NBCNews
Former Obama aides say they have to balance unnecessarily giving oxygen to unfounded Trump administration claims and allowing them to balloon unchecked.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 11:55 AM (L/fGl)
Same place I have been going to for decades: trade publications, retired practitioners and books.
I have backed away from trade publications since I discovered that many have taken outside money to change opinion, but it requires reading between the lines because certain trades have lobbyists and their narrative becomes the news. It may be lies and doctored stats, but that is used to persuade legislators and regulators which decide future events which becomes the news.
Other than that, since we are a practical Low Trust Society, everything, regardless of source is first considered lies and manipulation and requires some homework in order to find any level of acceptability.
I'm hoping with USAID and similar cuts, there will be a winnowing of the outright propaganda and we return to superlatives, inflammatory rhetoric and click-bait for our "news".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 11:55 AM (a4flb)
https://is.gd/PzoIFa
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 11:58 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 12:00 PM (XQo4F)
https://tinyurl.com/2ebhcsue
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)
That is another way of saying that they are listening to the advise of their lawyers.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (a4flb)
There are many independent reporters. Also, the Federalist feed.
I do block the ones that veer off into conspiracy-land, and the clowns who just repost with comments like, "This is sick." Then I subscribe to whoever they reposted.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (WIBH6)
New York Post@nypost
‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object, a shocking new study claims
. . . .
A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a 'hostile' alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.
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And you know it's true because the scientist is from Harvard!
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One of the researchers, Avi Loeb — a prominent Harvard astrophysicist known for linking extraterrestrial objects to alien life — previously made waves after floating the theory that 2017 interstellar object ʻOumuamua could be an artificial recon probe sent by an alien civilization, based on its odd shape and acceleration.'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (L/fGl)
That is another way of saying that they are listening to the advise of their lawyers.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (a4flb)
I love the constant 'unfounded' 'without evidence' yadda yadda. Notice they do not call them straight up wrong. Lies. Etc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (bss/y)
One gets the sense that the atmosphere in the final days of the Fuhrerbunker and that amongst the Obamanites now has a great deal in common.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
They still link to mainstream outlets, so I read those sites occasionally from there.
I also read some of the Salem Media sites; Townhall, Red State, PJ Media, and Twitchy.
And then I read a lot from The Federalist, American Thinker, and American Greatness thanks to JJ Sefton's links.
I watched Fox News up until election night 2020, and then I watched Tucker's show on there every now and then.
Now I only turn it on during breaking news, or elections, events, etc.
I watch a lot more news and opinion on YouTube than I did five or six years ago, too.
Matt Walsh, Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly, and several others are in my recommendations a lot now.
Kinda off topic, but:
Nerdrotic and Critical Drinker on YouTube have both given Fantastic Four: First Steps positive reviews.
*shocked face*
It seems it isn't woke, has a decent story, and suffers mainly from it being cut too much (probably some of the woke stuff) to the point that the story suffers.
I still won't see in a theater, but I may check it out one day if that's the case.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:03 PM (6ydKt)
‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object, a shocking new study claims
. . . .
A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a 'hostile' alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.
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And you know it's true because the scientist is from Harvard!
Did they originate in a solar system with three suns?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)
Well until I found out I was dinner
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 12:05 PM (+qU29)
All serious aside, I get news tips here and at Focks and NYPost. Then I chase stories I'm interested in around the internet (a series of smart tubes) to know more.
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:05 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
I don't get that frantic sense. They still know they are unlikely to face any real consequences.
However, Obama is a narcissist. Destroy his image and more importantly how others view and revere him, and you have done far worse than arrest or imprison him. He always responded the strongest to mockery. All of them do. There's a reason for that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:05 PM (bss/y)
It's another way of saying we are winning. Bigly.
Trump is playing golf in Scotland while also stopping a war between Cambodia and Thailand. We are living in a remarkable time we won't see again. Enjoy it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:06 PM (viF8m)
There's no reason whatever to think Moscow had a preference in 2016, as they usually don't. They still hold, mostly, to a Cold War mindset that there is little difference between "alternative" US political factions - which was partly true from their perspective, and partly self-delusion in service of their dumb ideological biases.
Of course on many issues Americans rightly grew fed up with the actual lack of choice on the usual menu, and thus picked Trump as nominee/prez in 2016 - but the Russians care mostly about foreign policy, and on that end still often pretend to believe "they're all the same", when the gap between the parties in many ways had grown yuuuge after '91.
Add to this the ignorance, which is very widespread, of how poor election integrity is in the US, owing entirely to domestic actors, and the mere concept of Russian "interference" should have drawn a contemptuous laugh. The very mediocre artists of Beltway nonsense paint on a canvas of amazingly ignorant and unthoughtful citizens.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 12:06 PM (U/Byj)
This is a prime example of what it means to be cast out into Outer Darkness. This is bat scat insane dystopian fantasy that can only be believed with years of uninhibited drug use, constant exposure to Leftists and a thorough estrangement from God.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:06 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:03 PM (6ydKt)
I like what they have said about the 60's retro futurist look.
Plus, I know she has the crazy eyes from hell, but I think Vanessa Kirby is insanely hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (bss/y)
Thanks for the link about that King Randall guy on the covfefe thread. It gives some hope for the future.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:08 PM (AOsQT)
36m
DEI: Thanks to diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements, Obama's 'presidential' library is almost a billion over budget and three years late.
The Federal Reserve is using the same contractor and facing the same delays and budget overruns.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 26, 2025 12:08 PM (3ImbR)
Geraldo Rivera@GeraldoRivera
NYT reports, Netanyahu government is perpetuating horrible abuse of captive Gaza population. Starvation is not a weapon of war. Israel must allow into Gaza appropriate food and medicine.
To save itself, Hamas is encouraging this suffering.
Ceasefire now. Free the hostages.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:09 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)
Its a huge example of Projection. The same people whining about alleged Russian interference are the exact same people who overthrew the governments of Libya, Ukraine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Kosovo et al and were in the process of manipulating the outcome of the Israeli elections. The State Department, under their direction, are constantly trying to overthrow other countries, pervert their culture and society and otherwise degrade and destroy any functioning society.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (Vmw0O)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I first saw her in The Crown and was smitten
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (AOsQT)
Again, unwritten rules, and the electorate as the check on power. Both of these are pillars of a functioning republic under rule of law. One side has apparently completely abandoned the unwritten rules (with amazing impunity - the Agency spying on the SSCI???!! Would have been a nuclear event just half a generation earlier, with consequences). And the electorate ...... well.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 12:12 PM (U/Byj)
Blade Runner is on E! . Sean Young gorgeous and rule #1
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 12:12 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:11 PM (AOsQT)
In the Mission Impossible movies she is playing the crazy hot thing to the utmost.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:13 PM (bss/y)
***********
Eh, uncaged, unhinged. A difference without a distinction.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:13 PM (poXs5)
Historically speaking, its one of the most effective weapons of war. Why were sieges on a city so popular?
The Siege on 589-587BC by Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem is a well understood example.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:14 PM (a4flb)
***********
Eh, uncaged, unhinged. A difference without a distinction.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:13 PM (poXs5)
Untarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:14 PM (bss/y)
Historically speaking, its one of the most effective weapons of war. Why were sieges on a city so popular?
The Siege on 589-587BC by Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem is a well understood example.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:14 PM (a4flb)
Come on, Jerry Rivers is not exactly Julius Caesar. If for no other reason than I do not think Caesar would have been caught dead with that idiotic mustache.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)
Another one, might be hard to find, is "Japan's Longest Day". It's a group project written by journalists and historians in the mid-60s (all Japanese) about the final 48 hours or so, including the coup attempt against the palace.
A much more recent book is good as a companion piece to that just mentioned. "Japan 1941" by Eri Hotta. A very good scene-setting account of the uniquely dysfunctional "system" of governance in Japan had evolved in the pre-war years, which contributed directly to the war happening in the first place.
This "system" persisted into 1945. The surrender decision represented a shattering of the pattern, and solely because Lord Privy Seal Kido was able to convince the emperor that it was time to quit.
The attempt of "revisionists" to simply make-up and ignore history back in the 90s, to sully the 50-year anniversary of the atomic bombings, was actually a pretty good marker as to how unserious, degraded, and "political" (in the dumbest sense) academia and the expert class had become.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 26, 2025 12:17 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 12:18 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (bss/y)
She's not horrible.
Her eyes are very pretty, but she's tall & thin.
I still picture Sue Storm in the body of Jessica Alba.
She looked really, really good in that suit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:19 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:19 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: MkY at July 26, 2025 11:22 AM (cPGH3)
A friend told me “watch Eastwood - whenever he sings, he looks like he is scanning the horizon for enemy aircraft.”
Next time I saw that movie, I realized that he was right!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 12:20 PM (9Tdlv)
Astronomer hired Coldplay singer's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to manage the fallout from its cheating CEO scandal 😂
https://is.gd/PIWA9G
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)
Be nice to America or I'll tell Zardoz to nuke you. He is already mad enough to use them.
Don't we have clean nukes that don't leave so much radiation?
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (NNsrR)
I have about a 45 minute commute and would listen to a lot of talk radio. I remember my right index finger kind of shaking as I reached for the mute button whenever the top of the hour or bottom of the hour news break would come on. Eventually I became conditioned to live without it and never even think about it. Why should I listen to them? What credibility do they have?
Then my web surfing. It used to be Instapundit and AOSHQ. Could find out anything I wanted to know about what is going on in the world.
Eventually Insty became tiresome and now I pretty much just hang out here. If there's something going on I'll hear about it here and I get to hang out with all you lovable weirdos.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (XQo4F)
Posted by: torabora at July 26, 2025 12:23 PM (WTo7d)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:25 PM (viF8m)
Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
1. A collective shrug of shoulders.
2. A cry of MORE! while people break out the booze.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 12:28 PM (7xrfc)
Nope. Matt and Trey bring in the eyes, which bring in the advertising bucks. Colbert doesn't.
The bottom line is the bottom line.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 26, 2025 12:29 PM (gDAc2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 12:29 PM (hIY2p)
Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Ooooh, Nanzi is mad at me. I'm so scared. Ooooh, Pelosi. Uh oh, Pelosi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPNMO1pnZOc
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:30 PM (Riz8t)
Russiagate: theepochtimes.com/focus/russiagate
and
Spygate: theepochtimes.com/focus/spygate
and
theepochtimes.com/us/spygate-special-coverage
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 12:30 PM (9OSHs)
Obama changed all that. Now that it became evident that the permit was not necessarily sacrosanct anymore, companies became very leery of embarking on major projects which wouldn't be completed during the current administration. A lot of jobs got suspended from that; a lot of construction workers lost jobs, and lost opportunities for other projects.
That permit seizure by Obama froze big chunks of major construction projects. Then Biden came along and reinforced that paralysis by jerking the Keystone permit.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 26, 2025 12:31 PM (bufu1)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 26, 2025 12:31 PM (d9Cw3)
Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
Wouldn't the correct phrase be "she wants to hammer him"?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 12:33 PM (ULPxl)
Obama CIA Director Brennan Lashes Out at Tulsi Gabbard After Documents Exposed Him
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (L/fGl)
3I/ATLAS is estimated to be about 15 miles long.
That's one helluva alien ship if true.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (6ydKt)
Pelosi and her fellow Democrats want to stop that. They have absolutely no self awareness how Anti-American they sound.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (VofaG)
War Room with Steve Bannon and Natalie Winters
Just the News with John Solomon and Amanda Head
Many more segments are on RAV.
I subscribe to Fox News and The New York Post on Youtube
as well. I like the Youtube angle becaust I don't have to listen to commercials and misc noise from blabber mouths...
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (VPPG8)
That permit seizure by Obama froze big chunks of major construction projects. Then Biden came along and reinforced that paralysis by jerking the Keystone permit.
Also Obama:
"Turns out shovel -ready jobs aren't shovel ready."
What. An. Assclown.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (NNsrR)
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Watching it in realtime they appeared as exemplars of the state of that nation. The people were dour, the breadlines were long, there was no hope. Reagan gave them the courage to break out of their cage.
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 12:35 PM (9OSHs)
Like gravity "took down" Nancy's boobs to her knees?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 12:37 PM (TcVeV)
Three of the 18 states are Blotto, Stuporous, and Comatose.
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 12:37 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 12:38 PM (VPPG8)
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And on deck is Adam Schiff-For-Brains!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:38 PM (L/fGl)
Colbert ? Colbert ?
Where's our 40 million dollars ?
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 12:38 PM (VofaG)
The New American also has good in depth articles, though unfortunately they dial up the rhetoric so that the articles are not something you can share with someone who is making up their mind.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:39 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Too many newsliars at July 26, 2025 12:39 PM (TbWk/)
In a sane world, a Gus Hall supporter commie crypto-muslim like Brennan would never have been allowed to mop the floors at the CIA, let alone run it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 12:40 PM (TcVeV)
Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 26, 2025 12:41 PM (0aYVJ)
Actor Michael Rappaport Rips Into “Zohran the Moron” Mamdani: “Three-Card Monty Socialist”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (L/fGl)
No one. Seriously. Even the phrase 'trust but authenticate' seems like a marginal practice so now I just try to listen, observe and verify by action. Hearing and seeing 'the media' use the same phrases and buzz words on a given topic indicates the news on a subject is probably BS.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (3Ope8)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (gm9Sb)
Astronomer hired Coldplay singer's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to manage the fallout from its cheating CEO scandal 😂
https://is.gd/PIWA9G
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)
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This can’t be real. I’m waiting for the lawsuits against Coldplay and Chris Martin to drop.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (6ydKt)
In a sane world, a Gus Hall supporter commie crypto-muslim like Brennan would never have been allowed to mop the floors at the CIA, let alone run it.
He's just bitter because he could never attract a Tulsi.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:42 PM (Riz8t)
August 19th two G4M Betty bombers painted white with green crosses landed at Ie Shima. The Japanese delegation was then transported via C-54 to the Phillipines to meet Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
They returned to Ie Shima with two copies of the surrender documents. One version states the Japanese refused to mix American 100octane with their lower octane fuel so one Betty returning to Japan crashed short of Tokyo after running out of fuel. Second Betty was refueled with American Avgas and returned safely to Tokyo with the surrender documents.
One really doesn't have to wonder how the Imperial Japanese Army would have interpreted losing two planes on a diplomatic mission to the American devils. Thankfully it never happened and Japan did surrender.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 12:43 PM (7d1L5)
No one. Seriously. Even the phrase 'trust but authenticate' seems like a marginal practice so now I just try to listen, observe and verify by action. Hearing and seeing 'the media' use the same phrases and buzz words on a given topic indicates the news on a subject is probably BS.
You are wise. Never be an unthinking receptacle for what passes for news, even here. The fact that the fights here are so vigorous should tell you that.
Engage your brain!
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:44 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:45 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:45 PM (bss/y)
Astronomer hired Coldplay singer's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to manage the fallout from its cheating CEO scandal 😂
https://is.gd/PIWA9G
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:21 PM (L/fGl)
She's a washed-up actress who sells gold vibrators, jade vagina eggs and clam steamers to empty-headed AWFLs. What the fuck does she know about crisis communications?
Posted by: She can scam dumb broads but so what? at July 26, 2025 12:46 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:46 PM (viF8m)
I think most people simply don't understand how dysfunctional Imperial Japan was, and just sort of assume it was as efficient as a Toyota plant. The Army and Navy hated each others. Mid-level officers shot ministers for disagreeing with them. Some worshipped a bespectacled little man with very little in the way of insight. It's really kind of unbelievable.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (JKkdu)
Trump Dismisses Macron Recognizing Palestinian State: “What He Says Doesn’t Matter”
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And he's married to a man, an old man.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:48 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)
People- when left to their own devices- can be kind of crazy, yo.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:48 PM (bss/y)
Trump Dismisses Macron Recognizing Palestinian State: “What He Says Doesn’t Matter”
I wonder if he's trying to "subtly" influence upcoming elections.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:49 PM (Riz8t)
Because a lot of their songs sound like it.
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Fun fact: the guy who wrote "Proud Mary" is from Berkeley CA
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 12:49 PM (AOsQT)
And that is yet one more reason why no one wants to build a large scale nuclear power plant - if nuclear has a chance at all, it will by SMR and initiated during the first year of a non Democrat regime's term.
Don't forget that Obama also wrecked the contract Government Motors had with everyone except The Party's donors (e.g. UAW).
Obama also replaced Government Motors leadership with globalists dedicated to hollowing out GM's entire development and manufacturing abilities to China's SAIC. I think the only thing remaining is a Potemkin Village of beta engineers and the racially based sub-prime lending GMAC.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:49 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:50 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)
*sigh* The "Jerry Rivers" thing again.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 26, 2025 12:50 PM (5xuJ/)
I wonder if he's trying to "subtly" influence upcoming elections.
When the French Courts declared by fiat that Gazans had a free pass to all that France can offer, it was a point-blank shotgun blast to the head in terms of France's survival as a first world country or anything other than the worst parts of the Mad Max franchise series.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:52 PM (a4flb)
I think most people simply don't understand how dysfunctional Imperial Japan was, and just sort of assume it was as efficient as a Toyota plant. The Army and Navy hated each others. Mid-level officers shot ministers for disagreeing with them. Some worshipped a bespectacled little man with very little in the way of insight. It's really kind of unbelievable.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 12:47 PM (Riz8t)
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Several Japanese naval commanders tried to shoot down the Betties to prevent the surrender. At least one navy guy killed himself after he was unable to do that. Nutters all around.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 26, 2025 12:52 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: polynikes
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If getting dumped and ignored by the current flame in your heart were means for suicide we'd all be dead. (most of us anyway)
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 12:52 PM (9OSHs)
Wow very cool!!!!
Must be a take off of the real men of genius failed attempt to float tanks across the English channel for the D-Day invasion
https://tinyurl.com/3hfrnwzx
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 12:53 PM (VPPG8)
Jerry Rivers needs more friends and confidants like Julius Caesar's.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 12:53 PM (a4flb)
Japan's decision to attack the world's most powerful industrial nation just seems insane on the surface. But the rivalry between the army and the navy created a dynamic where neither could be seen as being less bellicose than the other. Even when the top brass had well-founded fears of picking a fight with America, they couldn't abide having the mid-level hotheads in each branch of service denounce them as cowards.
So the march toward catastrophe went on unabated.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 12:54 PM (TcVeV)
3I/ATLAS is estimated to be about 15 miles long.
That's one helluva alien ship if true.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 12:34 PM (6ydKt)
Time to watch "Independence Day" again.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 26, 2025 12:54 PM (5xuJ/)
Lol: Pelosi Boldly Vows to “Take Down” Trump’s Approval Numbers Ahead of 2026 Midterms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)
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How's she going to top Jan 6?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 26, 2025 12:54 PM (36PRH)
Tensions over a disputed border area erupted into fighting after a land mine explosion along the [Cambodian] border . . . wounded five Thai soldiers on Wednesday.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:55 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 12:55 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 26, 2025 12:56 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:56 PM (gm9Sb)
"He banged his co-star."
I don't care what you say. Lee Marvin did not kill himself.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 26, 2025 11:50 AM (zdLoL)
Long time, no see!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:56 PM (l6wpV)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (hIY2p)
That's one helluva alien ship if true.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I'm not worried. Homan's in charge. May need more Alligator Alcatrazes, though.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (7d1L5)
1. Discount all adjectives in hard news stories. That's editorializing.
2. Anonymous sources are disregarded totally.
3. Compare stories in one media outlet to other media outlets
4. Be aware enough to understand when there is purposeful emission.
5. Always consider the source, and their past history on accuracy.
6. Compare compatibility. If one media outlet reports using the same grammar and catch phrases, it's orchestrated by an interested 3rd party.
7. Question the author. That's the beauty of social media. These guys can't drop a "bomb" and hide.
8. Look for qualifiers in the article that allow wiggle room when the veracity is challenged.
And Finally:
The single most dependable and accurate news source is yourself. By applying the above rules you become a critical thought machine that filters, evaluates, and concludes. The media outlets are that place mat at a diner with all kinds of unrelated advertisements. You can judge for yourself what's interesting and applicable.
Posted by: Orson at July 26, 2025 12:57 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 12:58 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 26, 2025 12:59 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Dreamingrobot at July 26, 2025 01:00 PM (eibb3)
. . . .
So the march toward catastrophe went on unabated.
Posted by: Cicero
Thank God nothing like that could happen here!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:00 PM (L/fGl)
That’s OK as far as it goes, but that’s not how it went.
To a leftist, their idea of Charity is to steal money from someone else, and divert it to their favored pet groups. It is very easy to be generous with someone else’s money. And when it comes to a faceless or seemingly inexhaustible supply of Federal Tax Dollars, it’s even easier.
That’s their notion of Doing a Good Deed. Punish the Innocent, and Reward the Wicked. Their world view can remain unsullied as they simultaneously lament the open air insane asylum their neighbor hood has descended. Time to move! Rinse, lather, repeat.
“That’s Not The Way We Did It Back In …..”
Bang!
Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 01:02 PM (vSCm4)
Wow very cool!!!!
Must be a take off of the real men of genius failed attempt to float tanks across the English channel for the D-Day invasion
https://tinyurl.com/3hfrnwzx
Gee, I wonder how they'll fare after being hit by drones.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 01:03 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:05 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2025 01:05 PM (7d1L5)
I don't trust anyone for news. I take everything I read with a large grain of salt and do my own research of multiple sources to see if I can get the full story of things.
Prior to 09/11/2001 (age 25), I didn't watch the news. My life centered around work and sports (playing and watching). Only "news" I watched was ESPN to keep up with all the professional sports goings-on.
Starting the morning of 09/11/2001 after the planes hit the towers, I started watching CNN. Then switched soon after to Fox News Channel. Soon after that I discovered the Rush Limbaugh program and listened to his show every day at work.
Stopped watching Fox News Channel (and any tv news) during the summer of 2004 during the Presidential election when I realized it was all biased crap or just BS spewed for entertainment purposes.
Thankfully that summer was the advent of blogs. I've gotten my news from nothing but blogs, military blogs and eventually Twitter/X from 2004 to now.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 26, 2025 01:06 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 26, 2025 01:07 PM (Vmw0O)
Posted by: Give em the bird at July 26, 2025 01:08 PM (hD90I)
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They just need to get rid of the DEI.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:09 PM (L/fGl)
https://tinyurl.com/yu5pk58
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:09 PM (viF8m)
But they gave the main go ahead in 1942, and the work was performed just as quickly and effectively as possible. Virtually nothing was left to chance.
Every day thousands were being killed. The faster the Bomb is produced, the faster the war will be over. Every day counts. Whose kid is going to be the last to die?
Some of the brass thought it not necessary, that the combination of blockades (starvation) and incendiary bombs would induce surrender. No way to know for sure. Estimates were a million troops necessary, maybe 250k killed. A year or so.
And “Home alive by 45” was looking less than certain. My uncle said ETO soldiers were being told they may be re-deployed to PTO for invasion. Not very Happy Campers. He said there was talk of going AWOL even.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 01:11 PM (/OGDK)
NYT’s calls the revelation that Trump’s supposed “connection” to Russia’s election interference was a conspiracy cooked up by his rivals to sink his presidential campaign just “messy details.”
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You know, like wearing white after Labor Day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 26, 2025 01:14 PM (L/fGl)
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China's made so many enemies, they should rethink their aggression. Their biggest ally is Pakistan. There is border contention between them and Russia, they continue to front the Indians, Mongols don't like them and the fire ants to their east are more ready to get some than they let on. Not even mentioning all of the South China Sea and other Pacific Island nations.
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:16 PM (9OSHs)
https://bit.ly/4m7vkdA
"Got some Coldplay tickets on the company card.
Brought that cute old lady from down in HR.
She been filing expense reports with her throat on my pole
now I'm pitching quarterlies straight out of my f-cking soul.
We pre-gamed hard at the Marriot bar, she blew me so deep I saw last quarter's charts
The band hit the lights, folks hollered and screamed, And that jumbo tron made us TikTok's favorite meme
Now my wife's at the lawyer's, burning all my clothes
while TikTok replays me mid hug with that HR ho.
Used to rule the boardroom, now I'm just a viral meme
ain't no viva la vida when your cream goes mainstream.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 26, 2025 01:18 PM (P5BPp)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 01:20 PM (TEi+a)
https://tinyurl.com/3yt5sn4c
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:21 PM (viF8m)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/07ZgJ2pkqK8?feature=share
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 01:26 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 26, 2025 01:26 PM (yCLJY)
160 131 The Chinese war games this week included these super cool tank/Higgins boat combo thingy's.
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China's made so many enemies, they should rethink their aggression. Their biggest ally is Pakistan. There is border contention between them and Russia, they continue to front the Indians, Mongols don't like them and the fire ants to their east are more ready to get some than they let on. Not even mentioning all of the South China Sea and other Pacific Island nations.
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:16 PM (9OSHs)
Absolutely and screw China but those tank landing craft are cool and as a kid who played 'ARMY" we would thought they were the go to weapon. In reality they look like drone bait to me....
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 26, 2025 01:27 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 26, 2025 01:30 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:33 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 01:34 PM (JvZF+)
Can he be de-ported/exiled?
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:36 PM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2025 01:40 PM (QZThv)
‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object, a shocking new study claims
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A mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a 'hostile' alien spacecraft that’s slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial new study by a small group of scientists.
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Or it could be a big ass rock that needs to meet with Starship loaded with A bombs ---- way out there.
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:41 PM (9OSHs)
Posted by: ` at July 26, 2025 01:42 PM (9OSHs)
At that time I was reading a lot of Spanish and Soviet press, and crap like Financial Times and the Economist. Feh.
Is it any wonder I was a communist?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 01:44 PM (JvZF+)
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I'm the horn section from KC and the Sunshine Band
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 01:48 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 01:48 PM (+qU29)
Satellite tv and internet has filled any gaps in recent years.
As for general news, the local radio AM stations have always provided regular updates, as well as allowed people to access national speeches and politics.
And, in Limbaugh's heyday, there was usually a station that could pick up his show.
So, no, not uninformed rubes.
Posted by: Linda S Fox at July 26, 2025 01:48 PM (7Rs+y)
This my friends is what happens to one who starts the day with no coffee.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:49 PM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:49 PM (9OSHs)
I was about to start complaining j g about people following '...' and start saying people need to quit being lazy and come up with a nic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 26, 2025 01:52 PM (idIpT)
Posted by: Azjaeger at July 26, 2025 02:01 PM (3/XaG)
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There's an article, not saved, on how Obama intimidated Companies to adopt his BS, who then paid advertising to accommodate this new perspective. None of what's been happening is/was organic. We were so close to being co-opted
into a communist state it's incredible. It's incredible that bitch is still walking loose.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 02:18 PM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 02:20 PM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at July 26, 2025 02:25 PM (kTd/k)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 02:33 PM (9OSHs)
“I am very much in favour of the State of Palestine but I am not in favour of recognising it prior to establishing it,” Meloni told Italian daily La Repubblica.
“If something that doesn’t exist is recognised on paper, the problem could appear to be solved when it isn’t,” Meloni added.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 03:13 PM (9OSHs)
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The hard part is getting past prosecutors and judges prejudice in what "reasonable doubt" means and leave it to the jury.
... that and getting a jury in a red state.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 03:52 PM (/lPRQ)
Happy Birthday, AtC.
Posted by: toby928 at July 26, 2025 05:00 PM
Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at July 26, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)
Seriously - and straight up. That video is must watch. It explains quite a bit that you and I may know - but boils it down to concrete terms.
A fantastic watch. That cat is on to how things work.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 05:25 PM (hk7Ln)
I would love to have a conversation with them both about why they're both full of shit. Because it doesn't matter about getting a Perry Mason Confession. That's old thinking.
You drag their asses out in the court of public opinion. If you only sway 60% of the country that they're criminal ? You write your own ticket every even numbered election year.
And then you cut their money and watch them not starve - but its not like they'll go to work.
Posted by: This Guy at July 26, 2025 05:30 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: toby928 repeats himself at July 26, 2025 05:50 PM (jc0TO)
I think that thread was on legalities. Cynical Publius is all for changing Democrats' thinking about Russiagate.
"The Steele Dossier was once the bedrock upon which Democrat Trump hate was built. But because we were relentless in exposing its lies, it's now understood to be a total hoax. That means we can do the same with all the other Russiagate lies Democrats currently believe."
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1949193582373376078
Posted by: KT at July 26, 2025 05:58 PM (xekrU)
During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening.
The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.
We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH.
God bless America, and all those who defend Her.
Respectfully,
Dan
Jul 26, 2025 · 3:12 PM UTC
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 06:25 PM (9OSHs)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 07:04 PM (9OSHs)
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. As much as I love coffee it does not inspire me to utter unsolicited opinions. I can do that on my very own, thank you very much. So before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Valders) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate or try all three!
B) Be kind, be nice. Trolls have feelings or so I'm told.
3) No. You will not have our endorsement or condolences if you run with sharp objects.
D) A big Thank You to Annie for her stellar work on the Prayer Revival.
5) Finally, please have a wonderful weekend.
AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update. Prayer Requests: 5/10 – Cosda asked for prayers for his wife, who recently had a mole removed that came back as melanoma cancer. She is scheduled for surgery next week, and it looks like that should remove it completely.
6/20 Update – The PET and brain scans showed no active cancer cells, which is great. But since it’s melanoma, and cancer was found in a lymph node, she is going to receive immunotherapy for the next year. Thanks to all. The prayers are working! 5/29 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update and her thanks for all the prayers and words of encouragement. They have sustained her and her family as she continues to battle cancer. She continues to receive good news: her oncologist is quite pleased with her response to the current medication protocol; they are decreasing the lab work frequency to every other week instead of weekly; the side effects from chemo have been barely noticeable; she can just take 4 tiny pills for chemo instead of spending one day a week at the cancer center. It’s been 7 months so far, and she expects that at some point the tumors will start growing again, but for now, they are encouraged.
6/6 Update – Teresa has a side effect from the chemo – her fingernails and toenails are starting to loosen and “lift” off their nail beds. It is painful, and also carries a risk of infection.
7/9 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update – all is well for her for now. She will have more lab work done on 7/15, and then a CT scan on 7/28 to see if the tumors have shrunk any more. She is still losing hair, and her fingernails and toenails are still being “wonky”. She is not nauseous, so she is happy with her current situation. 6/11 – Legally Sufficient asks the Horde’s prayers for her friend, Bubba, who was in a bad auto wreck on 6/8. Prayers for comfort, healing, and strength are needed for Bubba and his family. He is in ICU and will be there for a couple more weeks. Thank you!
7/15 Update - Legally Sufficient asks for continued prayers for healing, strength and comfort for her friend Bubba. God is great! Bubba continues slow and steady improvement following his horrific vehicle accident. She received a photo of him visiting a job site this week and she said she doesn’t mind telling you that it suddenly got dusty here. Bubba was not able to stay very long before the heat and humidity took a toll and he was forced to retreat to air conditioning. Bubba is still under doctor’s orders to not drive, but has an able and willing chauffeur (his wife) who takes him where he wants to go. The prayers are working, please keep them coming for a little while longer! 6/14 – Inspector Cussword requested prayers for Brother Tim. He has had a horrible time, living in his car and has just been handed a cancer diagnosis. Please pray for God’s Provision to be clear and comforting to him, and for his healing.
7/5 – Update - Brother Tim posted a comment that he learned on 6/30 that the lymph nodes showed no signs of the cancer, which means that it has not spread.
7/11 Update – Brother Tim posted that he was moved to a rehabilitation facility on 7/7, and God willing, he will continue to make progress and be hobbling around normally soon. 6/28 – Dave R requested prayers for healing, strength, recovery, and curing, as he was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. He is 62 and a long-time AoSHQ reader.
7/5 Update – Chemo starts on 7/7. 6/28 – H asked for prayers for a mom of two elementary aged boys who lost her mother 3 weeks ago, and her husband on 6/28, both to cancer.
7/19 Update – The visitation was good, but prayers are still appreciated, especially for the boys, as they go through a hard stage of life without their dad. 6/28 – Ben Had requested prayers for Jay Guevara, as he was seriously ill.
6/30 Update – IrishEi posted that Jay Guevara has passed away, and offered prayers for peaceful repose in God’s hands and for comfort for his loved ones. 7/3 – 469 requested prayers for some medical tests he has coming up. 7/3 – Ciampino’s daughter posted to let us know that Ciampino is back in the hospital. He is dehydrated again. His kidney cyst is back and bigger, so he will need to have another surgery, but they don’t know when.
7/7 Update – Ciampino passed away. His daughter posted how much he loved everyone’s witty humor on the site, and sent her thanks for giving him years of enjoyment and community.
7/19 Update – Please contact Annie’s Stew for more information if you would like to contribute to Ciampino’s cremation fund raiser. 7/5 – Boswell asks for prayers for his best friend Mark’s mother. She is 90 years old and was diagnosed with sepsis after her colon burst. She had surgery on 7/3, but her recovery is not going well. She is too weak for the tests she needs to find out what is wrong. Please pray that she recovers fully, as she and Mark are very close. He is devastated.
7/16 Update – Mark’s mother passed away peacefully in her sleep. Mark is, of course, quite saddened by this, but at least she did not suffer at the end, and her family was by her side when she went. Boswell hopes that his friend finds solace that she lived a long, happy life and she raised such a wonderful son. 7/9 - Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her niece Amanda, and her husband Barkley. They are at Vanderbilt Hospital, where Amanda seems to be rejecting her seond heart transplant. She is only 40 years old, and has been having heart issues for 20 years. She had her first heart transplant 4 years ago, and things are not looking good. 7/11 – Racially Ambiguous Honky, the brother of G’rump/toby928, sent his thanks for the prayers on his behalf, after his appendix burst and he had sepsis. He says he is recovering well. 7/11 – JR requested prayers for the families of those killed in Gaza. 7/11 – Stateless sent his thanks to all for their thoughts and prayers for him. His house officially became his on 6/30, ending 6 months of uncertainty since his Mom passed. He is getting stronger and is learning about and working to process emotions differently, after losing so much. 7/11 – Screaming in digital asked for prayers for her mother. Mom is still recovering from a UTI plus 3 falls within the last couple of days. During the day, there is some improvement. But once she starts sundowning, she is terrified and clings to whatever she can hold onto. She only weighs about 105-110, and isn’t eating much, but it is hard to move her when she is like that. If she doesn’t improve her mobility and cooperate/help with transfers to and from the wheelchair, etc., and consistently feed herself, she won’t be able to stay at the assisted living facility.
7/19 Update – Screaming in digital’s mother passed away. 7/11 – Frankie asked for prayers for her friend “R”, who is back on hospice for Huntington’s disease. He was on hospice before, but went off for an experimental medication, but unfortunately it wasn’t helpful. 7/11 – Igotnothing sent a prayer of praise. A grand-nephew, quadriplegic since birth due to deformities, and now age 10, after many surgeries and care and prayers, is able to walk. The boy and his family (mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-aunt and great-uncle) went on his first ever walk in the woods. What joy! 7/11 – Matthew Kant Cipher requested prayers for Layne, a family friend who is also his son’s FIL. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer and is awaiting further test results to determine whether they treat with chemo or remove his bladder. As of now, it appears to be contained. Please pray that he and his family are blessed with God’s love and grace through this time of trial. 7/18 – Tecumseh Tea had a heart attack and needs prayers.
7/23 Update – Tecumseh Tea had a Type 2 heart attack, which is considered mild. She sends prayers of thanks for that! The angiogram showed a healthy heart, with little plaque and clean arteries, so no stent was needed. They did find a myocardial bridge, which is a congenital defect. The goal is to keep BP 140/70 with a pulse of less than 60, but so far they have not been able to meet that goal. She can’t get a cardiologist appointment until 8/22, so the GP is helping, but so far they have not been able to get the right BP meds. Please pray for a sooner visit, and the right meds that work for her, and answers. 7/19 – Huerfano asked for prayers for a rapid and full recovery for brother R, who had hernia surgery. He cannot see his grandsons until he has recovered. He misses them , and they miss him. 7/19 – Farmer Bob posted an update. He is doing well. He is competing in 5Ks and triathalons, and sends his thanks for the prayers. His ex-wife has “gone off the deep end” (or just remains so), with weird lies and accusations. She could use a prayer or two. 7/19 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Cheri and Gretchen, church ladies of his acquaintance. Cheri had a medical incident while driving and veered off the road and struck a number of pedestrians, sending 3 or 4 to the hospital. Gretchen and her husband were passengers in the car and her husband had a heart attack after the accident and died. Cheri is just sick about it and has kind of snapped. Gretchen has lost her best friend of 65 years. 7/19 – H asked for prayers for Brandon, a homeless man in San Marcos, TX, who has a broken ankle and has to seek care for that injury, specifically prayers that he would see God providing for him. He is asking for God to help him advocate for his care. 7/23 – D sent an update on his wife Susan, as they deal with cancer. The last few weeks have been a roller coaster. They cannot operate on the cancer, because it has spread too much. They have started chemo and hope to get it to shrink. Susan’s gallbladder is inflamed, but they cannot remove it, due to the chemo, and her blood sugar is having issues. Thanks to everyone for their prayers; Susan has pulled through all of this and is looking great as they keep praying to the Lord. For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 26, 2025 07:06 AM (e5NfL)
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 07:07 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 07:10 AM (yTvNw)
G'morning Horde. May God's love fill you today and be spread by you to others in acts of kindness.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 26, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:14 AM (u82oZ)
However, fervent prayers for {{{grammie winger}}} and her husband the Rev. The Rev's brother was found dead by a wellness check.
Also for {{{Tecumseh Tea}}}. She wrote me two letters full of solace after my wife died. She is good people.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: OkJohn at July 26, 2025 07:17 AM (NC/it)
Together you are a big part of why AoSHQ is a caring, loving community, and not just a forum for opinionated assholes.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 26, 2025 07:19 AM (2NHgQ)
The first part of training, defensive driving and pediatric first aid, start next week. We go back to school in the middle of August.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:20 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 07:21 AM (bknhw)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 26, 2025 07:22 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 26, 2025 07:27 AM (P+Pug)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 26, 2025 07:27 AM (2NHgQ)
There'll be an all hands half-day meeting reminding us of a lot of the safety things. I know the staff presenting it has been through it a lot of times, and this ends up with the material being presented in a sped-up and less-than-exciting fashion because it's a regulatory compliance thing. I'll pay attention and use it as a refresher on my knowledge as much as I can, because I might as well get as much out of it as I can, and I may well have forgotten things.
We go back just after Labour Day.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 26, 2025 07:29 AM (O7YUW)
Victory!
Posted by: JTB at July 26, 2025 07:29 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 07:32 AM (AOsQT)
Now, I’m pretty sure it’s just to cut down on A/C bills for schools in the summer.
It’s still too hot in August when they come back, though.
They should consider letting the kids out in late June and resuming after Labor Day in September.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:18 AM (u82oZ)
Show more respect. You'd miss me if I wasn't around anymore.
Posted by: Opinionated Asshole at July 26, 2025 07:35 AM (UseAb)
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 26, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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Amen!
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 26, 2025 07:38 AM (P+Pug)
I send my prayers out for everyone. TonyPete's story is devastating. And I hope Tecumseh Tea can get in sooner than 8/22. I read that and asked out loud if she was in Canada too. And Susan has been through a lot.
Good for Farmer Bob and hopefully R recovers soon.
My neighbours could use prayers, My Mother passed away in January. Across the street, a nice lady list her husband of 30 years about 3 months ago. He was a nice guy, in his 50's, we'd chat occasionally. They're doing all right.
Yesterday, I talked with a neighbour 2 houses down. He lost his beloved wife of 34 years early this month. She had a horrible 7 month battle with cancer. She was in her early 60's so that was pretty young. We talked for 40 minutes and I was tearing up - which doesn't take much for me - but ughhh.
That's a lot of death - my house, across the street, 2 doors down. Mom was 88. The others were robbed of happy years.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 07:39 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at July 26, 2025 07:40 AM (B/kHT)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 26, 2025 07:40 AM (GhIJO)
Still has that classic metallic bite, that pairs really well with a cheapskate that made it, with a resulting weak brew that has been sitting on the burner for several hours.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 07:42 AM (M1o7r)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 07:44 AM (uGaBv)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)
That's what we do in Ontario - probably the rest of Canada too.
The Cacao is kicking in. I miss coffee but am enjoying the cacao.
I don't think coffee steals the will to live as much as removes the desire to die.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 07:44 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 26, 2025 07:45 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
FIFY
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 26, 2025 07:45 AM (P+Pug)
Posted by: olddog in mo at July 26, 2025 07:45 AM (hoCmQ)
Posted by: Ladyl at July 26, 2025 07:46 AM (+4oV5)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 07:46 AM (miSxm)
Harvest is the excuse. Not now, as wheat, oats, and hay are done, but so the May-June wheat harvest has helpers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:46 AM (u82oZ)
Good morning, Captain.
In Virginia, school starts after Labor Day so King's Dominion theme park has teen age workers available.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:47 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 07:48 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 07:48 AM (hNDvI)
Fantastic. More progress.
I'm happy for you!
Okay, the cat that has been staying with me, Snowflake - I'm going across the street to take care of her Mother, daughter and grandchild. And then day 8 of cleaning the basement.
I'm very blessed.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 07:49 AM (jvJvP)
that's how it was done when I was in school, when did it change?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 26, 2025 07:49 AM (dKEEs)
also for the first time since SARS II I have a cOLD! so I didn't bring my supplements and this happens. so now I know all that supplemental Vitamin C works!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 26, 2025 07:49 AM (xFQAw)
just like old times!
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 26, 2025 07:51 AM (xFQAw)
Loss of older people usually decreases wisdom in a society, and grandparents play a big part in civilizing the young. If our "elites" want ignorant, biddable slaves, this is one way to get them, besides a broken education system.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:51 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:52 AM (u82oZ)
We go back just after Labour Day.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 26, 2025 07:29 AM (O7YUW)
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I'm imagining this class being taught by Otto the school bus driver from The Simpsons.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 26, 2025 07:52 AM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 07:52 AM (M1o7r)
Thank you for your fix. I resemble that remark, but not the caring, loving part.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:53 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)
Thank you for the prayers, kind sir. We went out to his house yesterday.I have never seen such filth and decay in my life. I don't even know if it's salvageable.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 26, 2025 07:53 AM (SfhV1)
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I live in a retirement area. Most of my clients are seniors. I'm not seeing a lot of wisdom.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 26, 2025 07:54 AM (UseAb)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 07:54 AM (M1o7r)
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 07:54 AM (hOUT3)
Dunkin Donuts >> Cameron's > Starbucks Signature Black > Great Value
Posted by: gp at July 26, 2025 07:55 AM (hNDvI)
I agree. Self-paced certification, lots of off-ramps (like the old German system), and a focus on a great, self-reliant, Constitutional society. Sports in moderation, not the real reason for school.
Too many beaks would go dry.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)
Was he an older or younger brother of the Rev?
Posted by: dantesed at July 26, 2025 07:56 AM (Oy/m2)
This loss of wisdom is a desired effect of the insiders and the media. TV and movies also hurt in today's world.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:57 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 26, 2025 07:59 AM (+rSIb)
Yet another reason to substitute DIE indoctrination for the shop classes of days gone by!
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 07:59 AM (hOUT3)
May his memory be a blessing, and the entire financial process not be onerous.
This must hit the Rev hard. But you are his strong and loving support and helpmate, so I foresee a good outcome.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:59 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 26, 2025 07:59 AM (+rSIb)
Yes, winning is good
It's Morning in America Again
But we have to retain The House in 2026
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:00 AM (miSxm)
Maybe we can have a shop class gauntlet for the DEI students. Like welding, drill presses, making explosives, taming angry Angus bulls. The survivors would be smarter.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)
Agree with your analysis of harvest & school start dates. I was a harvest helper in my youth (and year-round chorehand). They moved the school start dates a few times when I was a kid. In SD, the state fair always ended on Labor Day, so it was stupid when they started school in late August. Most of the farm kids showing livestock at the fair missed the first week of school.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 26, 2025 08:01 AM (P+Pug)
Posted by: Nasty Pelosi at July 26, 2025 08:03 AM (vFG9F)
Back in the day, school started the Monday after Labor Day and went to the middle of June.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 26, 2025 08:03 AM (ZmEVT)
So, whassup? Has Jugears fled to a non-extradition country yet, and has Madame Pantsuit been seen in public drunk and disorderly?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 08:03 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 08:03 AM (9Tdlv)
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 08:04 AM (hOUT3)
This Yankee's team is the worst coached Yankee team I ever saw. NO fundamentals.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:05 AM (miSxm)
Also, we're having our assisted living service this afternoon. If you could pray all goes well to the glory of God, I would be so grateful . Thanks .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:05 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 08:05 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 26, 2025
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Same here when I was in grammar school and seventh grade. Then Hurricane Betsy hit. The next year school began in late August and ran to late May, and that obtained all the way until my college days -- which operated on the same schedule. So did classes at my former employer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 08:05 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: dantesed at July 26, 2025 07:56 AM (Oy/m2)
He was 3 years younger than Rev. He had no wife or children.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 26, 2025 08:06 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 08:07 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 26, 2025 08:07 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 08:07 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 08:08 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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YES, ALL OF THIS!! You very literally just described the retirement job I have been dreaming of. Whether at a public or private school, I'd live to teach kids some life skills and restore common sense. So they know how to change a tire without crushing the floor pan because the jack doesn't go there.... (actually in front of my house before I saw and went out to help). We need to make common sense more common and less of a super-power.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 26, 2025 08:10 AM (P+Pug)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:11 AM (2GCMq)
Iran is no longer seen by Israeli officials as a “threshold nuclear state,” according to one source. While Israel originally aimed to dismantle the regime altogether, that plan dissolved when U.S. President Donald Trump declared a ceasefire on June 24, halting further escalation.
Should have been allowed to take out the regime
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:11 AM (miSxm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 08:12 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:12 AM (2GCMq)
Google searches for the item turn up nothing.
Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 08:12 AM (JKkdu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 08:12 AM (omVj0)
Dandruff? LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:13 AM (miSxm)
If it's in the bathroom, I'd think it woukd be from the toilet paper.
And it's cool to see Nevergiveup again.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 08:15 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 08:15 AM (jvJvP)
Thanks
Now that I am back in the civilian world, they actually expect you to work, for real! LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:17 AM (miSxm)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 26, 2025 08:19 AM (SfhV1)
Rosalind has been treadmilled for the day; 20 minutes at a walk, or just enough time to say my Rosary. Next week we'll go to 20 minutes of alternating two minutes at a walk and a minute at a trot.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:20 AM (HZi96)
Yes; Very nice to see you. I hope things are going well with the dental practice.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:20 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 08:20 AM (XQo4F)
The latest is that KTY's leave was denied.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 26, 2025 08:20 AM (6U1c2)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 08:22 AM (TEi+a)
I hear you. All of this criticism of this generation or that generation. The young Silents and the older Boomers are just as innumerate, pig ignorant and superstitious gossips as the Gen α and Gen Z are being blamed.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 08:22 AM (a4flb)
https://x.com/NewEmergingKing
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 08:22 AM (TEi+a)
I saw Rotating Ash Shakers open for the Jacksonville '87 Wet T-Shirt Challenge.
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 08:22 AM (vFG9F)
Now that I am back in the civilian world, they actually expect you to work, for real! LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:17 AM (miSxm)
True dat.
Posted by: Ray Stantz, PhD at July 26, 2025 08:23 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:24 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Accomack at July 26, 2025 08:25 AM (HaTLf)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty"
When you homeschool, every day is a school day. There are many opportunities to educate. That's why both of my boys know how to replace a toilet.
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 08:25 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at July 26, 2025 08:26 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 08:27 AM (hlNLQ)
He sounds like a good guy who really wants to help young men.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:28 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 08:29 AM (XQo4F)
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, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 08:30 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Try on the Colorado Rockies. They have gone on a 3 game winning streak and have completely ruined having a lock to end the year with the most losses in a season.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 08:31 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:05 AM (2GCMq)
Good morning and prayers sent.
I've actually been rejoining society lately. I've been talking with my neighbours and we've been sharing stories.
It's amazing how many have family members or in-laws who became horrible, like my brother, grasping for every dollar and even screwing over family.
To those of us who aren't like that, we can't imagine being like that.
I've forgiven my brother but I'd be indifferent and maybe a bit happy if karma took care of his family. But from the stories I've heard, these 'people' seem to be doing pretty well. Obviously we don't know their entire lives.
It'd be more satisfying if they all ended up suffering here and now rather than the afterlife.
I have no regrets with regards to my parents. I took care of them for 14 years and Dad, Mom and I were good. My retard brother only got cash a bit earlier than he would have if he decided to act like a human, So I'm good.
Time for dishes including all the stuff at the bottom of the oven.
Later.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 08:31 AM (jvJvP)
Her Majesty and Varus do battle again today in Longview. They return on Sunday and are at home for two weeks, then they're off for over three weeks to Greeley, CO, then Lake Elmo, MN, then Amana, IA.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:32 AM (HZi96)
It's been a wet summer so far.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 26, 2025 08:35 AM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Sir-Mix-A-Lot at July 26, 2025 08:35 AM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 08:36 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 08:36 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: runner at July 26, 2025 08:39 AM (g47mK)
May you all have no flood warnings or angry skies in your local area.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (u82oZ)
Bitch and Moan time. This Yankee's team is the worst coached Yankee team I ever saw. NO fundamentals.
Posted by: Nevergiveup
__________
I have a mild addiction to Low IQ baseball videos. One striking thing is that consistently good teams rarely appear in them. They don't overthrow the cutoff man, or throw to the wrong base, or forget how many outs there are, or get thrown out on the bases like a nincompoop (TOOTBLAN), or botch double plays.
The Yankees used, repeat used, to be among those consistently good teams. But no longer. They now do dumb things with the frequency you'd expect from the Pittsburgh Pirates. And that's why they're closer to being in fourth place in the AL East than first place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (HZi96)
In prayer related requests: I ask for one for a gentleman who I only knew online but he was always a good person to deal with. One of his friends tried contacting him last weekend and it got to the point that he called the local Sheriff's office to do a welfare check. He was found in his recliner, having passed away peacefully.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (7xrfc)
Been there. How sad.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 26, 2025 08:41 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 08:42 AM (hlNLQ)
Sorry about the death of your online friend. Prayers too for all who will miss him.
Any more news about recovery from your knee injury? Things you can do for it? I will pray.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 08:43 AM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 26, 2025 08:44 AM (E0Rvm)
Posted by: The Washington Nationals at July 26, 2025 08:44 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 08:45 AM (hlNLQ)
Almost the exact words of my sister when she left her husband for a guy with money. (Who I have to admit is a really nice guy. Still.)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 26, 2025 08:45 AM (SfhV1)
As I was driving the other day, I got tired of the radio stations I normally listen to and wound up listening to a preacher who gave me a most interesting insight.
He said take a look at your ubiquitous mobile phone statistics and you will find it observes your phone activities and reports them to you (as well as to the phone company and Bob).
For example, you spent an average of 4 hours and sixteen minutes per day on your phone last week. Now just think of the positive accomplishments you might have been able to achieve if you had used that 4+ hours per day to study the Bible, write a book, help a needy neighbor, tutor a child, volunteer at a food bank, or any number of worthy activities!
Kind of eye opening...
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 08:45 AM (hOUT3)
The Yankees used, repeat used, to be among those consistently good teams. But no longer. They now do dumb things with the frequency you'd expect from the Pittsburgh Pirates. And that's why they're closer to being in fourth place in the AL East than first place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (HZi96)
100% correct
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:45 AM (miSxm)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 08:48 AM (hlNLQ)
What are you doing now?
You sold/bailed(?) on your dental practice, went into the Navy as a dentist, and now you're doing what?
Sounds like a different job entirely.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 08:49 AM (iJfKG)
At least they are not as bad as the Atlanta Braves. They can't hit and their relief pitching is awful.
Posted by: dantesed at July 26, 2025 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 08:50 AM (AOsQT)
Thank you, Fen. The original diagnosis from the MRI was this:
"There is a sprain of the medial collateral ligament, evidence of a prior PCL injury, joint effusion and cartilage loss."
Now the last three items are courtesy of the Marine Corps and age. As for the current problem, the PT thinks that there is a problem with one of the joints. This may result in a Cortisol shot but I'll wait and see. The only good I'm seeing is that surgery is not recommended.
And I'm annoyed that Aikido practice is on hold until further notice. grrr.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:50 AM (7xrfc)
That's a dramatic way to say they are in second place 5 1/2 games out.
Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 08:51 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:52 AM (7xrfc)
That's a dramatic way to say they are in second place 5 1/2 games out.
Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 08:51 AM (AN2gy)
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And Tampa Bay is 9 games out. I know it's Saturday, but do the math.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:53 AM (HZi96)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:52 AM (7xrfc)
Death is messy, isn't it? I am going to write up EVERYTHING and give it to my kids so they can avoid some of the nonsense.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 26, 2025 08:54 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (HZi96)
100% correct
Posted by: Nevergiveup
Amateurs. The Seattle Mariners first season was 1977 and the still have to make it a World Series. Worse is their two best shots were destroyed in 2000 and 2001 when they managed to fubar everything by losing to the Yankees in the ALCS. Nothing has improved since then. On the other hand you can get toasted grasshoppers at their games.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 08:54 AM (NXz8h)
Prayers for all of you.
I am specifically praying today for those who are gripped by addiction, consumed by life's traumas. It's so prevalent, and heartbreaking.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 08:54 AM (h7ZuX)
Sounds like a different job entirely.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 08:49 AM (iJfKG)
No still have my dental practice and now I am also a Consultant to The DOD and DHA working for one of the Civilian Contractors
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:55 AM (miSxm)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 26, 2025 08:56 AM (m6BJL)
What are you doing, cleaning that basement with a toothbrush?
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 08:56 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:55 AM (miSxm)
Nice.
Double income.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 08:56 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 26, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)
Oh, no. Lord, have mercy.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 08:56 AM (h7ZuX)
The notorious Copper Creek wolf pack was involved in another cattle death last week.
https://is.gd/rSMV4D
The pack, which had a rogue member (repeat cow offender) decommissioned by high velocity lead therapy last month, was seen cavorting in a sun-dappled meadow with a provocatively dressed juvenile cow. The 'calf' was later found dead by unknown causes. CPW suspects the calf was "asking for it" and may have been inadvertently cavorted to death.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 08:56 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:55 AM (miSxm)
Nice.
Double income.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 08:56 AM (iJfKG)
Well the Consulting job is inconsistent but they just asked me to also help with the Army besides the Navy and Marines so I "assume" the hours will grow
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:57 AM (miSxm)
How not to be remembered. The 1961 (?) Mets thank you.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 08:59 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: As Dennis Miller was fond of saying at July 26, 2025 08:59 AM (XQo4F)
I'll enjoy my coffee and crossword once the cat is finished attacking cartoon sushi rolls and a stuffed axolotl.
We both have rich lives.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 09:00 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 09:00 AM (JvZF+)
Yes, I looked at the standings.
Go Sox!
Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 09:00 AM (AN2gy)
I'm sorry. You've said how much you miss the Akido.
And I have heard of people being helped with the cortisol shots.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 09:01 AM (2GCMq)
How not to be remembered. The 1961 (?) Mets thank you.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 08:59 AM (n4GiU)
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The 1962 Mets weren't even the worst team up to then. That palm was taken by the 1916 Philadelphia A's and the 1935 Boston Braves.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 09:02 AM (HZi96)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 08:57 AM (miSxm)
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Is there a lot of extracting crayons from teeth?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 26, 2025 09:02 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 09:04 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at July 26, 2025 09:05 AM (SfhV1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 09:05 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)
Wait, you mean they were not hunted to extinction for no reason?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 09:05 AM (bss/y)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 08:50 AM
Maybe use the time to take up a musical instrument, the uke-lele?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 09:05 AM (0sNs1)
Did you do a gig with IDF?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 09:05 AM (JvZF+)
No. Was in Israel about 1 year and 3 months ago volunteering at a Clinic in Jerusalem
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 26, 2025 09:06 AM (miSxm)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 08:12 AM (omVj0)
Might be the toilet paper. Some fluffy brands produce a lot of dust.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 09:08 AM (h7ZuX)
The really annoying part is that my teacher was going to begin the long prep work for me to test for 2nd Degree Black Belt.
I suggested dropping me off at the local Waffle House at 3 in the morning and come back later. He took it under advisement.
Death is messy, isn't it? I am going to write up EVERYTHING and give it to my kids so they can avoid some of the nonsense.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead
We never had kids so we're going to have to start figuring things out for ourselves. I am hopeful that towards the end, we're in one of those retirement communities that simply handle things for us.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 09:08 AM (7xrfc)
That only got extended out if we had to have make-up days if we’d had days off due to weather, usually because of tropical storms or hurricanes, and occasionally because of snow.
And we never got a day off for Labor Day.
I remember walking home from the bus stop one day when I was around 7 and an older lady who was down from up North visiting her child who had moved down here stopped me to ask me why I was in school on Labor Day.
She was amazed we were already in school and said they didn’t start back until September, after Labor Day, where she was from.
I walked home wondering what the hell Labor Day was, since I’d never gotten a day off for it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 09:08 AM (6ydKt)
Prayers to the Horse and their loved ones in need.
Guy on A's hit four homers in last night's game. First rookie to do it. Funny part , a guy I've known his whole life hit a two run homer for the Astros, Zack Short. Played ball with his father as a kid , real good player. Zack's a great fielder , fast and some power. Strikes out a lot. Rooting for him
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 26, 2025 09:08 AM (hIY2p)
Dateline July 23, 2025
Two gray wolves have been reported dead, ne by a mountain lion and one from injuries sustained in a coyote foot trap.
"CPW...said the average gray wolf lifespan is about three to four years."
Alternate headline: Dogs and Cats NOT Lying Down Together
Honest question: Why are we expending so much time, energy and resources on an animal that only lives 3-4 years? They seem unfit or incapable of sustainable survival without massive human support and being protected as an endangered species.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 09:09 AM (poXs5)
I'm very grateful they didn't have a blowout at freeway speeds and that the shop was able to come up with the matching tires.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2025 09:09 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 08:15 AM (jvJvP)
Oh, Stateless was already on it.
Stateless, I'm happy to see you're having some interaction with the neighbors. That's good for everyone.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025 09:09 AM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:09 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
OK, I was about to respond to that until I saw the pun in your sentence. Bravo, sir!
(To the confused: "Uke" is the person attacking you.)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 09:10 AM (7xrfc)
Kind of like pandas, isn't it?
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 09:11 AM (7xrfc)
oooh, I see MisHum is not declaring an outright ban on running with sharp objects this morning. Could this signal a softening of long-standing blog policy?
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 09:11 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 09:00 AM (AOsQT)
Wait, you mean they were not hunted to extinction for no reason?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 26, 2025 09:05 AM (bss/y)
In the middle of our middle class neighborhood in the city proper, bobcats and coyotes have been showing up on a regular basis.
BONUS! Occasional report of a mountain lion at a nearby park.
People mostly seem to understand that their pets are at risk of being considered a yummy nighttime snack, but-
apparently haven't figured out that small children are also on the menu.
I'm pretty much for the elimination of a dangerous carnivores within oh say a 20 mile radius around cities.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 09:12 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: dantesed at July 26, 2025 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 09:09 AM (poXs5)
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Nature worship fills the hole where God used to be.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: The confused at July 26, 2025 09:13 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 09:15 AM (poXs5)
Took a 10mg Melatonin, yeah goofy continuous dreams all night.
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:15 AM (+qU29)
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because everything the voters know about nature comes from PBS documentaries and Disney movies
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 09:15 AM (AOsQT)
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Notsothoreau I haven't heard of him, but checking out his x feed - very inspiring
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 26, 2025 09:16 AM (6U1c2)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 08:45 AM (hlNLQ)
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My late mother-in-law was a very difficult person. Manipulative to the extreme, completely devoid of any sense of remorse or contrition for what she did to her children, and it tore my wife apart.
There is a line between forgiving someone and enabling them. There is also "fraternal correction" where we try to set someone straight. There's also the need to protect your kids from her.
Ultimately, the situation with my mother-in-law was resolved by a rare form of incurable cancer, just as the volatile relationship between my daughter and her ex-husband ended due to his death.
Certainly I do not mean to prophesy, merely note that cycles of behavior seem to provoke their own response.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip
You are lucky, tried it once and had graphic vivid nightmares, not good dreams at all. Never again!
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 09:17 AM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:15 AM (+qU29)
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Get off my lawn!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 09:18 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Unkaren at July 26, 2025 09:18 AM (J4BK5)
Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at July 26, 2025 09:17 AM (hOUT3)
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Never take the brown Melatonin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 09:19 AM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 09:20 AM (uGaBv)
*"CPW...said the average gray wolf lifespan is about three to four years."*
No.
An average is a number, like 3.4. "Three to four years" is a range.
Try this instead: "Gray wolves usually live between three and four years."
*exhales*
(Puts away soap box. Goes back to lurking.)
Posted by: Pedantic jerk at July 26, 2025 09:20 AM (XQo4F)
Whilst scanning various threads and columns I came across a link on 𝕏 from our very own co-blogger, Buck Throckmorton about redrawing state, county and city boundaries.
Pull quote: "Secession isn’t a relic of the past — it’s a tool for the present. Rural counties, fed-up suburbs, and even Canadian provinces are ready to break away from failed regimes."
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Link: Goes to The Blaze
https://tinyurl.com/4mkrnbh5
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 09:21 AM (Q4IgG)
They keep the elk from eating your shrubs.
Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 09:22 AM (AN2gy)
Really? These people who have thousands of years of history were just passively sitting there until the French drew some lines on a map? This is the same b.s. that we got over Ukraine beginning in 2022. It began long, long before that.
And of course now we have to pick the "good guys," who need weapons and advisors and stuff because we can't let a war just burn itself out on its own.
Basically, Europeans are the only people in the world with agency; the rest are retarded children waiting to be told what to do.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)
At the risk of triggering a bunch of horde hormonal humor - was she going through menopause at the time?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 26, 2025 09:22 AM (dE3DB)
Greeley in August? She has my condolences.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2025 09:23 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025
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Might be the toilet paper. Some fluffy brands produce a lot of dust.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 26, 2025
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Well, there certainly is a bit of dust *atop* the counter; my shaving kit, smooth leather, has dust on it, and the counter top needs to be wiped down periodically. That could be from the toilet paper. But this is *inside* a drawer I keep closed most of the time.
Well, I cleaned it out and threw out a lot of junk. Now we'll see what happens.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 09:24 AM (omVj0)
Casey MacGill - Vocalist, Uke, piano, trumpet, composer, arranger, and just generally awesome. A musicians musician.
To give you intro to him
https://youtu.be/8eFR3krXppE
A recent project.
Swing Nation
Roycroft Project
Casey MacGill Orchestra
https://is.gd/b5ORMD
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 09:24 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:25 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 26, 2025 08:35 AM (wVcYX)
I definitely prefer it to last year's rain in only tropical storm and hurricane amounts with absolutely no rain for months in between.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2025 09:25 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 09:25 AM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 26, 2025 09:26 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025
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I had no idea what "Memorial Day" as a holiday was either. When I went to school into early June, it wasn't a holiday yet, and after that I was out of school by the third week of May anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 09:28 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 09:28 AM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 26, 2025 09:30 AM (PClog)
(Puts away soap box. Goes back to lurking.)
Posted by: Pedantic jerk at July 26,
Or just change about to between.
Not normally, but can get
Posted by: Pedantic also at July 26, 2025 09:30 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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We're just shy of 50" for the year... so far.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2025 09:31 AM (Q4IgG)
The biologists on the show had hopes that maybe some of the Mexico animals could be relocated to TX. The landscape is the same in both places.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 09:32 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 26, 2025 09:32 AM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 09:33 AM (omVj0)
And of course now we have to pick the "good guys," who need weapons and advisors and stuff because we can't let a war just burn itself out on its own.
Basically, Europeans are the only people in the world with agency; the rest are retarded children waiting to be told what to do.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Not that I'm for war, however-
War is seen in every human group everywhere at one time or another on Planet Earth.
War is the human way of settling insoluble problems.
I don't see the big dealio if two countries of minimal interest to the US one way or another decide to put up their dukes.
I suppose if "I" were to change "war", I'd change ito the Olde-Fashioned Reason for going to war and that was the acquisition of national wealth and power and land. That imposes certain limits if those are the goals
Going to war over grudges or ideological nonsense(ex: islam) is generally a game for a-holes. Because, there appear to be no limits on the violence, time or otherwise.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 09:34 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Las Cruces, NM public schools start on, wait for it....July 25.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 09:35 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: dantesed
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At the end of 2024 there were 15, in Jan 2025 fifteen more were imported from B.C., and there have been 9 confirmed deaths, plus a handful of new born-in-the-wild litters, so probably around 25-30 total as of now. Plan has been to introduce fifteen each year for a total of four years.
This guy does a deep dive:
https://is.gd/Qa452T
"Colorado‘s Outrageously Expensive Wolf Re-introduction Program"
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 09:36 AM (poXs5)
Getting ready for my second cup of coffee after getting caught up with you all.
Should I make bacon?
(Rhetorical question)
24 days til hip surgery. I am in the what will be will be stage.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 09:37 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 26, 2025
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From my first grade days to the seventh, school always began on the Thursday after Labor Day. I guess Tuesday and Wednesday were for the teachers to get organized (and braced!) for the impact of the new school year.
Hurricane Betsy hit on 9/9/65, the first day of school, and that was a Thursday. No, the city and school board did NOT close the schools in advance, nor did they send us home early. I was there, the first day of jr. high, until 3:15. The rain had been hammering since 2:00. My mother met me at the bus stop with an umbrella, the only time she ever did that, but we needed it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 09:38 AM (omVj0)
Posted by: dantesed
I read that as "gay wolves".
Out: Werewolves
In: Queerwolves
Colorado is weird, man.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: muldoon
Couldn't the State of Colorado relocate MS-13 gang members from Aurora and get the same result?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 09:40 AM (NXz8h)
By the time I had kids they had moved it up to late August return. Fucked up all the summer cottage on the coast families.
Then all the cottages got bought up and converted to year round homes, south shore and cape especially.
Posted by: Pedantic also at July 26, 2025 09:40 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 09:43 AM (AOsQT)
Prayers up for all of God's children.
And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 26, 2025 09:43 AM (kB9dk)
And since im socially retarded I think Im going to give this over to God. We just moved back to Texas from DC, bought nice new house. So why not find a church to go to on a regular basis. I think she's starving spiritually. And unfortunately her Father has been diagnosed with cancer, and her mother is in poor. She's going to need strength soon. So I guess we're taking the plunge
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 26, 2025 09:43 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 26, 2025 09:44 AM (TEi+a)
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 26, 2025 09:44 AM (DnMuk)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 09:44 AM (0nHVk)
Been there, done that and not sure I have the will or strength to repeat. I have never experienced anything like the effort it took to approach that panel and find the line and name.
Dear God, the price we paid to satisfy those bastards.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 26, 2025 09:45 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)
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It is. At this point, the only thing to recommend Colorado for is the scenery.
And maybe peaches and corn from the Western Slope.
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 09:46 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I remember the same, growing up in SC. Now, in the upstate SC county I moved back to a couple years ago, they start back to school on August 1.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 26, 2025 09:46 AM (DnMuk)
Growing up in PA, my birthday present was the start of the school year.
Living on the Gulf Coast, my birthday present is the height of hurricane season.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 09:49 AM (HZi96)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 09:49 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:50 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Skip
John Denver. After he showed up everything went to hell.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 09:51 AM (NXz8h)
... I know I really like werewolf romance novels.
The Number One Problem with a Werewolf Romances?
Dog-knotting.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 09:51 AM (iJfKG)
Qualifying at Spa Francorchamp in 10 minutes
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:52 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 09:52 AM (AOsQT)
We NEEDED summer break. (So, I expect, did the teachers!)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 09:53 AM (omVj0)
"I think she's starving spiritually."
Posted by: Fenrisulven
Sounds a lot like Mrs Rex Lots of anxiety and lacking a well rooted faith. But I keep gently trying to push her into a positive place, hoping to establish some deeper understanding. I wish you both the best. Be blessed.
Posted by: Rex B at July 26, 2025 09:53 AM (+xk6Q)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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I have drawn that parallel in the past but with Tren de Aragua. There are some remarkable similarities, not least of which is the way that the risks are downplayed by officials and a fawning (SWIDT?) media. Hence my riff about the cavorting in a sun-dappled meadow. Disneyification.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 09:54 AM (poXs5)
I found that when I had "brain gerbils" it helped a lot to pray "Father, please bless that person/situation and have mercy on me a sinner." Joining a good local church can be very helpful as well.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2025 09:54 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: muldoon
My bad. I meant Tren de Aragua. Because of President Autopen we now have so many gangs here it is difficult to keep them straight without a program.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 09:56 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 26, 2025 09:45 AM
Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer, "More, more, more, more"
-- Verse 3, Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 09:59 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:50 AM (+qU29)
Old school libertarians have no defense against progressives. I grew up in Colorado. It was a great place to grow up but by the time I was old enough to vote the progressive rot was already well advanced. Now I just wish my kids and M-i-l would leave there.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2025 09:59 AM (lFFaq)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)
I started school in 1952, and we always went back the day after Labor Day, here in NJ. We kids had the entire summer to play and be kids.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 26, 2025 09:59 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 26, 2025 09:43 AM (ciYHQ)
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Brain Lock by Jeffrey Schwartz may help. It's about obsessive thoughts and how to break out of the cycle. My wife has used it with some success.
Faith is the best answer, and to his credit, Schwartz supports it whole-heartedly. In fact, his approach is basically stolen from the traditional Catholic method to remove intruding repetitive thoughts.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 09:46 AM
I've heard the werewolves from London are the best.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 08:42 AM (hlNLQ)
Like about half the population, I, too, have an ex causing difficult. I hope that someday, somehow, yours will attempt to mend fences. At least, it would be good, I think, for the children.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 26, 2025 10:02 AM (v0ils)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)
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Remember when people put murals on the sides of their conversion vans? Lots of wolves in the moonlight.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I Once Spotted an Ocelot in my Pajamas - a limerick
A wildlife biologist named Launcelot
Tried to reintroduce a rare ocelot
He blew all his funds
due to cost overruns
"I didn't realize the damn things would cost a lot!"
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 10:03 AM (poXs5)
Hah all I could picture was the chimp wildlife biologist.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:07 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 26, 2025 10:02 AM (v0ils)
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There was a discussion back in April about how people become essentially delusional and completely lose any capacity for rational thought. I think it boils down to a lack of faith and our effortless mobility combined with almost limitless abilities to rack up debt. We think mostly about materialistic things, or secular pleasures without any real grasp that there are deeper forces at work.
Most people barely consider the spirit world, and our national theology is about an inch deep. It didn't used to be this way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:07 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 09:46 AM (t/2Uw)
Being top predators who live in packs, the similarities to us in our original natural state makes us sympathetic to them. (Nobody fantasizes about being a sheep, even if that’s the best analogy today). Also they’re a lot like dogs, who we like. So there’s a natural affinity.
But they depend upon an ecosystem that supports large herds of herbivores in it, and that doesn’t exist like it did 400 years ago. Of course they will go for cows when they see them, that’s what they are built to do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:08 AM (9Tdlv)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 26, 2025 10:08 AM (3AwA+)
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:09 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:08 AM (9Tdlv)
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They're also not going to waste time and energy hunting deer when there are these fat slow animals set in pens for their convenience.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:10 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 26, 2025 10:08 AM
Yes a update would be appropriate
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:10 AM (+qU29)
It is a collection of coal and other related equipment hobbyists having a get together to run their equipment. There is also a sizable flea market. At noon each day they have the general parade of everything that moves, coal- wood- and oil powered.
It looks to be a good weekend this week because of the cloud cover.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 10:11 AM (D7oie)
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our deaths. Amen.
A Rosary has been prayed for members of the Horde for their intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 10:12 AM (pJWtt)
Really? These people who have thousands of years of history were just passively sitting there until the French drew some lines on a map? This is the same b.s. that we got over Ukraine beginning in 2022. It began long, long before that.
And of course now we have to pick the "good guys," who need weapons and advisors and stuff because we can't let a war just burn itself out on its own.
Basically, Europeans are the only people in the world with agency; the rest are retarded children waiting to be told what to do.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 09:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Better still is the fact that Thailand/Siam was never colonized by evil Europeans. OK, so Cambodia was, but Thailand never was. Only Japan took it over if you count their occupation of Thailand/Siam in WWII.
There are really a lot of stupid people in the media.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:12 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 26, 2025 10:08 AM
Yes a update would be appropriate
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:10 AM (+qU29)
Glad you put to words what I was thinking.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:13 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:13 AM (t/2Uw)
I was unaware the members of the DNC traveled in large herds.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 10:13 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025
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I was the first husband for both Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 and No. 2, so no worries there. And somehow I have never run into that issue when I have dated divorced ladies; their husbands mostly lived elsewhere.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 10:14 AM (omVj0)
There are really a lot of stupid people in the media.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:12 AM (vm8sq)
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That region has seen so much upheaval in the last 70 years that France's brief, unsuccessful hegemony is almost entirely forgotten. I mean, Cambodia went through the Killing Fields. I think that might have "reset" things for them a bit.
They're fighting over ancient temples and throughout history, border disputes are the norm. Borders are being treated like they are permanent and immutable. Such historical illitercy is unprecedented.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)
An ocelot's a cat with spots
Should one appear on your lot
Give it some cheese
And a box of Febreze
And a cute pair of denim culottes*
* I have solutions. Not great solutions, but solutions nonetheless!
Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2025 10:14 AM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:13 AM (t/2Uw)
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Fixed for accuracy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 10:15 AM (JvZF+)
My wife and I have had ups and downs, triumphs and failures, as does anyone who lives long enough. A strong faith gives you the anchor to hang onto, that rock on which one can stand. Anyone who trusts only on themselves reaches the point where they realize that’s not enough, and never can be, and I feel pity and sorrow for those who approach their final years and suddenly see that for the first time.
The greatest tragedy of making a god of oneself is that you always come to a point where you suddenly see that your “god” is weak, fallible, and useless, and that is a very black day indeed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:15 AM (9Tdlv)
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 26, 2025 10:08 AM
Yes a update would be appropriate
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:10 AM (+qU29)
Glad you put to words what I was thinking.
---Cow Demon
Can someone contact one of the COBs about this?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 26, 2025 10:16 AM (3AwA+)
I'm surprised they neglected to mention the impact of Sykes-Picot and the Treaty of Westphalia.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 10:16 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)
Stay away as they will rip your lungs out. Though I would love to meet their tailor.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:16 AM (vm8sq)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)
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I don't foresee a clear cut win for either country. It's bound to end in a Thai.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 10:18 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (ciYHQ)
GOALPOSTS, MOVED: College Board shortens SAT as student performance declines. “The College Board defended the shortened passages, now approximately the length of a social media post, citing that the ability to read longer passages is ‘not an essential prerequisite for college.'”
https://tinyurl.com/yjaenbfs
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 26, 2025 09:20 AM (uGaBv)
Melatonin is a hormone excreted by your pineal gland, and if you have ever watched the documentary From Beyond, you will know to tread lightly
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (D7oie)
255 Funny, I had a dream this morning about visiting someone who had a litter of vicious Labrador puppies who would not stop licking!
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:13 AM (t/2Uw)
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Fixed for accuracy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 26, 2025 10:15 AM (JvZF+)
I’ve heard that there’s websites dedicated to that kind of thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (9Tdlv)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (NXz8h)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (0sNs1)
And fucked up removing it both times.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 10:20 AM (LHPAg)
Hey, Hollywood! This is how it is done.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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I have a mild addiction to Low IQ baseball videos. One striking thing is that consistently good teams rarely appear in them. They don't overthrow the cutoff man, or throw to the wrong base, or forget how many outs there are, or get thrown out on the bases like a nincompoop (TOOTBLAN), or botch double plays.
The Yankees used, repeat used, to be among those consistently good teams. But no longer. They now do dumb things with the frequency you'd expect from the Pittsburgh Pirates. And that's why they're closer to being in fourth place in the AL East than first place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (HZi96)
The good news is that baseball is dead so none of this counts.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:20 AM (vm8sq)
And f***ed up removing it both times.
How did you pass the entrance exam?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 10:20 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 10:20 AM (LHPAg)
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Amen!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 26, 2025 08:42 AM (hlNLQ)
I'm sorry you and your family went through that.
We can't compare our nightmares but your ex-wife's actions affected so many people.
My brother and his 'family' just hurt me. In a way I'm grateful for that. It did take me 2 weeks after the house settled and I surveyed the financial damage - I'm not in dire straits but he damaged me financially needlessly - but I choose to laugh about the entire situation whenever I think about it.
It's been working wonders.
I'm coming back to the thread later and reading the rest of the comments.
PS. I think you are right about the embarrassment. For my brother, I think on some level he feels guilt. Mom always told him how grateful she was I was here. And he minimized the 14 years I invested in my parents.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 10:21 AM (jvJvP)
Sunshine, blue skies, and humidity for Daisy's morning walk.
Prayers for our Prodigal Son. Pride is a terrible affliction. Experience can only bring wisdom if one is humbled.
Prayers for his fraternal twin brother, loyal and wise.
Prayers for all travelers. Daughter has flown to the left coast to watch an East Coast ballet company perform, and visit relatives and friends. Son-in-Law has a few on-his-own days. Everybody can use some. I suppose. I can't recall the last one for me, but that's okay.
Prayers for the health and stability of good families, recovery of lost souls, and the power of the Spirit of Truth.
I see today's "classical" selection is modern. Thanks, MH, ONTCE.
Ah! Coffee's done. Now to the prayer list and comments.
Posted by: mindful webworker - careful with commas, apostraphes, and ampersands at July 26, 2025 10:21 AM (f+yIF)
And if I ever did, it would not involve Labrador retrievers.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:21 AM (t/2Uw)
GOALPOSTS, MOVED: College Board shortens SAT as student performance declines. “The College Board defended the shortened passages, now approximately the length of a social media post, citing that the ability to read longer passages is ‘not an essential prerequisite for college.'”
https://tinyurl.com/yjaenbfs
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (Riz8t)
The once and future teacher (me) has a radical idea:
Why not teach reading to the point where reading long passages on an SAT are relatively easy?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:22 AM (vm8sq)
Ok, if we just go to the beach and say Phuket.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (0sNs1)
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One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:22 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:03 AM (ZOv7s)
The Three Wolf t-shirt.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:22 AM (9Tdlv)
Why not teach reading to the point where reading long passages on an SAT are relatively easy?
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 26, 2025 10:22 AM (vm8sq)
That's crazy talk.
Posted by: Randi Weingarten at July 26, 2025 10:23 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM
This does somewhat limits your opportunity to appear on half of the Wall of Shame, you know.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:23 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: callsign claymore at July 26, 2025 10:24 AM (PClog)
Hey, Hollywood! This is how it is done.
Yes. Watching a show on Prime ,ast night, the Coke commercials showed product in glass bottles. Think they are starting to get it.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:25 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 10:25 AM (AOsQT)
These are the pros?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 26, 2025 10:25 AM (l4ac4)
And fucked up removing it both times.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 10:19 AM (n4GiU)
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I used to have sock puppets all the time. One of my favorites with the Rock Solid Conservative Army Vet because we had some troll taking that line. That stupidity ("Trump's losing the troops!") is now gone, and the successor trope is people who didn't vote for this, which has already fizzled.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)
https://shorturl.at/JJabN
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2025 10:28 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 09:09 AM (poXs5)
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Nature worship fills the hole where God used to be.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 09:12 AM (ZOv7s)
We are experiencing a resurgence of paganism and its attendant Earth worship. We've discussed here the rise of Satanism and the demonic.
As far as having pets go, as long as we don't have a disordered priority for them, I am of the opinion that God has gifted us a way to experience a form of unconditional love from our pets.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM (08DAr)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:25 AM (t/2Uw)
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Have a hot chick walk around with your product. Product will sell more.
OR
Have ugly freaks walk around with your product. Product does not sell.
Which way, Western marketers?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)
Nature is healing. Soon, good looking people will be the norm and the uglification trend will be thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 10:30 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:15 AM (9Tdlv)
Say it all, Brother.
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 10:30 AM (LHPAg)
... I started to wonder just how high my SATs might have been using Adderall
Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2025 10:31 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: Mick at July 26, 2025 10:31 AM (HFx9z)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 10:25 AM (AOsQT)
I was wondering one day why the great city of Angkor Wat had been abandoned, when at its height it had been one of the largest cities in the world. It had been the Great Capitol of the area but the another group (either Thai or Burmese, I forget which) invaded, sacked and burned, and killed or enslaved most of its inhabitants. Never got rebuilt, and this was long before any Euros showed up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:32 AM (9Tdlv)
"I don't want to be uncharitable as say so she could play "loving mom" but why not at least make an attempt to, if not mend fences, at least cultivate civility? I suppose there's some significant regret/embarassment."
There no need to be embarrassed about negative feelings in this situation as far as I can see.
She most probably tapped out her current emotional situation and is trying to leverage her way into the kid's lives to reestablish her narcissistic supply.
They never change and they never get better. They literally have no regrets other than they didn't use enough force.
You need to understand that she just thinks completely different from you and it works for her as long as she can find prey.
Posted by: pawn at July 26, 2025 10:32 AM (QB+5g)
Like this?
https://youtu.be/WlUvQkW4B1k
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 26, 2025 10:32 AM (NXz8h)
I love how George drew the female cop to resemble the one that arrested a girl for saying that she looks like a lesbian.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 26, 2025 10:32 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM (pJWtt)
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Many of my contemporaries have dogs in lieu of children.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 10:18 AM (poXs5)
"bound to end like the dream scenario of Canadian hockey on the lead up to the Stanley cup, in a Thai with lot of injuries"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 10:34 AM (D7oie)
And Seth Green made a semi serious movie set in Thailand called Changeland. I liked it a lot but not for everyone.
Both movies gave you a real feel for both countries.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:34 AM (VofaG)
More than half-way there in developing the mindset to be a government middle manager.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 10:35 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Don Black at July 26, 2025 10:37 AM (AOsQT)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:34 AM (VofaG)
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When writing Walls of Men, I start watching films about or around China, so The Year of Living Dangerously, The Killing Fields, The Sand Pebbles, 55 Days in Peking and The Last Emperor. Oh, and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (set in Hong Kong in 1949).
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2025 10:38 AM (kzHlT)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
At least this time i did not unsock as my email address which is my full name at...
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 10:38 AM (n4GiU)
she's doing this sub-rosa in order to gain favor with your daughter in order to spread lies and slander against you. Up to and including that you are a child molester and she caught you diddling one of your kids when they were pre-verbal.
You have to get really creative and find ways to protect your children from their momster. Shy away from direct statements of her insanity, malice, whatever negativity she brings. Just sigh and let your children know that "it's so sad. Your mother has issues. She never would have left us if she didn't"
Use the passive aggressive method.
The momster is attempting to drive a wedge between you and your children. Use the Way of the Peaceful Warrior.
Posted by: kallisto at July 26, 2025 10:39 AM (dCxaZ)
Saw all of them except 55 Days in Peking.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:40 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: kallisto at July 26, 2025 10:41 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM
He's not wrong, you know.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:41 AM (0sNs1)
More than half-way there in developing the mindset to be a government middle manager.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 26, 2025 10:35 AM (a4flb)
His dream is to become a supervisor at a DMV.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)
The Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune would have given you a feel of 50's China and Hong Kong area.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:42 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: kallisto at July 26, 2025 10:39 AM (dCxaZ)
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My eldest went nuts to the point of making up things that didn't happen, and I just let her rage and continued praying and now she's calming down and getting her life back together.
The funny thing is that she was calling me a monster who ruined her childhood but also gave me guardianship of her children.
I mentioned it to my father who noted that my mother did the same thing - raged against her parents but then left me to live with them for two years.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)
I was wondering one day why the great city of Angkor Wat had been abandoned, when at its height it had been one of the largest cities in the world. It had been the Great Capitol of the area but the another group (either Thai or Burmese, I forget which) invaded, sacked and burned, and killed or enslaved most of its inhabitants. Never got rebuilt, and this was long before any Euros showed up.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 26, 2025 10:32 AM (9Tdlv)
Too many monkeys and big snakes.
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 10:43 AM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:43 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:43 AM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:42 AM (VofaG)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)
I forgot.
Thank you Annie's Stew for keeping care of the list.
Back later to read the rest of the comments through the day.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 26, 2025 10:45 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM (pJWtt)
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Many of my contemporaries have dogs in lieu of children.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:33 AM (ZOv7s)
People have been brain-washed into thinking it's a selfless act to not have children. While they are simultaneously a joy and a challenge, there's nothing better than raising children that take their places in society as self-reliant, productive members of society.
On the other hand, grand-children are fun. They're pay-off for the hard work.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 10:45 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM
He's not wrong, you know.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:41 AM (0sNs1)
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Yep. Gotta get your sippy cup, need the blankey, lose the blankey, find the bear, lose the bear...
When we first took over, the grandkids were 2 and 3 and bedtime took about an hour to go into effect.
They're now 4 and 5, and much easier to deal with. I'm hoping that in another year, they'll move out with their mother, or at least split time.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)
US Army drops into Australia for massive war games
[D]uring Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 US troops . Flying 14.5 hours nonstop from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, parachuted into the Australian countryside on July 14.
“We landed right on the X,” Col. Brian Weightman, commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) of the U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne Division, told Defense News during an interview in Townsville.
In such a parachute operation, casualties of up to 10% are anticipated, he explained [,]this nighttime airdrop resulted in only three minor injuries, one of which was caused by a midair parachute entanglement in the dark.
Their 6,800-mile flight was only the beginning of the unit’s simulated joint forcible entry operation. After landing, the paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Regiment – nickname “Three Geronimo” – proceeded to march another 30-plus miles to seize an urban objective located near Townsville in northern Queensland.
https://tinyurl.com/2mdwjmh7
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 10:47 AM (D7oie)
My 2.5 YO granddaughter recently described being "frustrated". She likes cartoons about sharing feelings and such.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 10:48 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 10:43 AM (t/2Uw)
I like her Billy Kwan line 'If its in focus its pornography, if its out of focus its art.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:48 AM (VofaG)
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There's a new cover sheet for the TPS reports.
Posted by: Office Space at July 26, 2025 10:50 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 26, 2025 10:50 AM (dR6yv)
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 10:45 AM (pJWtt)
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They completely crack me up. My kids were never this funny. They're like a comedy duo, with the elder cracking wise and the younger one nodding solemnly. Now that he's 4, his wit is starting to come through along with his quirky sense of humor.
My daughter favors the girl (of course) and she gets all the dress-up stuff, which was starting to piss me off and I hit a breaking point where he put on a dress because he wanted to dress up, too! Days later he had a tactical soldier kit and was putting heavy fire down on the neighborhood. She likes to borrow parts of it, and he's great at sharing, but now the house sounds like Beirut what will all the intermittent gunfire.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)
I think its an archetype that men find helpful to identify with. I chose my name to have a constant reminder to keep my rage in check, let the wolf sleep
I recognized that something inside was dark - not sure if its from being a child of two alcoholics or a desensitation from the Marine Corps. I think it started with a psychic at Ren Faire, then some girlfriend's friend who has a gift pulls away in fear, 2ne hand accounts describe me as a shady character...eventually you accept it, but don't give in to it.
There's all manner of ways the wolf ties into the world of men - stand alone, being an individual but still part of some pack, loneliness.
Plus, we're hunting buddies. There's a whole Alpha game in play whenever we go out with the domesticated canines.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:52 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: Office Space at July 26, 2025 10:50 AM (XQo4F)
Heh.
Posted by: PC Load Letter at July 26, 2025 10:52 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 10:52 AM (+qU29)
This is sadly a possibility through cut outs.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:54 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 10:47 AM (D7oie)
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Is that the City of Townsville?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)
Cops called.
I guess the old boy's still got it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 10:56 AM (qpyNK)
Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2025 10:29 AM
He's not wrong, you know.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:41 AM (0sNs1)
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Yep. Gotta get your sippy cup, need the blankey, lose the blankey, find the bear, lose the bear...
When we first took over, the grandkids were 2 and 3 and bedtime took about an hour to go into effect. ...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)
Our daughter lived with us for a couple of years after her first marriage collapsed (it took her about three years and a baby to figure out what I assessed in the 1st nanosecond I met the future hubby). Our grand-daughter had issues going to bed at first (separation anxiety). We told her that she didn't need to go to sleep: just lay down and rest. I'd stay in her bedroom and she'd be asleep within 5-10 min.
Our daughter met a great guy (hubby #2) and our grand-daughter is now 27, married and a mommy of two. It sounds like your daughter is starting to mend like ours did.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 10:56 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM
It's never too early to start introducing an understanding of the superiority of .45 ACP and .50 BMG over those metric calibres.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:57 AM (0sNs1)
I think its true that as soon as you stop moving and grooving is when old age grabs you. You have to stay a step ahead.
Posted by: polynikes at July 26, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:58 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:57 AM (0sNs1)
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They want me to set up a target range for the nerf guns. I'm raising them right.
The toy M9 is pretty cool. When you pull the trigger the slide moves.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)
...Days later he had a tactical soldier kit and was putting heavy fire down on the neighborhood. She likes to borrow parts of it, and he's great at sharing, but now the house sounds like Beirut what will all the intermittent gunfire.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)
You do realize that crew-served weapons build teamwork, right?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 11:00 AM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 10:58 AM (0sNs1)
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LOL, I actually bought a Jericho with the .41 AE conversion kit. If only the ammo was still in production...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 11:00 AM (ZOv7s)
Boggles my mind. They see so many of their own kind dash themselves against the cliffs of TDS, and somehow they think they'll be the one to break through, shouting thst the Emporer has no clothes.
Posted by: Fenrisulven at July 26, 2025 11:00 AM (ciYHQ)
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 11:00 AM (pJWtt)
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I'm focusing on individual soldier skills, like the correct way to throw a hand grenade. We'll then work on the low crawl, and I may string some wire for them to move under.
My daughters got the same training.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 26, 2025 11:03 AM (tljrc)
I hear that for best results, you want to pull the pin first.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 11:04 AM (08DAr)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 11:00 AM
You can still find brass, if you handload.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 11:06 AM (0sNs1)
HOLY CHOOSING THE WRONG SIDE, BATMAN! Trailer: Warner Brothers reveals Aztec Batman, where evil white Europeans come to destroy the peaceful natives.
In it’s continued quest to viciously deconstruct and murder every comic book IP in their possession, Warner Brothers is bringing you a new spin on your favorite caped crusader, and it looks so bad we have to share it with you so you can laugh at it too.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1948541298543059134
Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2025 11:07 AM (Riz8t)
My daughters got the same training.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)
Army of One. Starts with maneuver.
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 11:07 AM (LHPAg)
Currently there is an epidemic of young women, usually in their 30s, who are weaponizing the system in order to hurt their boyfriend, husband, neighbor, whoever they don't like.
One of my coworkers related to me that her son's babymomma was making life a living hell for him. He, the momster and the young man's dad lived at at the parent's home with the 2 year old child. I told my friend: You better tell your son to wear a GoPro at all times. She looked at me like I was nuts.
About a month later, she came in to work and the first thing she said to me: YOU WERE SO RIGHT??
I'm like, Huh? since of course I had forgotten about that particular drama. She then proceeded to relate how the babymomma accused the son of abuse, filed a police report, got a TRO, all the things.
I think they share the playbook on TikTok and social media.
Posted by: kallisto at July 26, 2025 11:08 AM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 11:06 AM (0sNs1)
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The kit actually came with a box of 50 rounds, so there's that. I suspect that so many smaller shops are putting brass out there these days that someone will do a run - which will instantly sell out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)
I'm not sure I've ever seen two people move so fast, as then un*ssed the foxhole, and hit the deck a couple of yards away.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 11:09 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 11:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 11:10 AM (08DAr)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 26, 2025 11:11 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Skip at July 26, 2025 09:50 AM (+qU29)
Californicated
.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 26, 2025 11:12 AM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 11:12 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 11:09 AM
With "The Handloader's Manual of Cartridge Conversions" by Donnelly John J and Judy Donnelly, and a mini-lathe, you can convert .41M brass to .41AE.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 26, 2025 11:14 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 11:14 AM (LHPAg)
Yeah, that's gonna be a tough one. There are one or two small lots of brass on Gunbroker but nothing from the usual suspects (Midway, Starline, etc.). Apparently if you're really motivated and happen to own a metal lathe, you can make your own.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2025 11:16 AM (/y8xj)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2025 11:17 AM (/y8xj)
I hear that for best results, you want to pull the pin first.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 26, 2025 11:04 AM (08DAr)
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Urban SWAT training requires the candidate to throw the grenade into a standard baby crib from 25 yards while shooting a moving dog.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2025 11:18 AM (dDmld)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 11:18 AM (qpyNK)
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What goes around comes around. We are noow at the ate where bedtime is a sequence, complete with a punch list and full documentation.
Lights - check
pajamas - check
dogs out - check
dogs back in - check
doors locked - check
dentures soaking - check
tooth brushed - check
turn out lights - check
"Did you lock the back door?"
"Crap! I'll go check"
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 11:19 AM (poXs5)
“We landed right on the X,” Col. Brian Weightman, commander of the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) of the U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne Division, told Defense News during an interview in Townsville.
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Owww!!!
Damn it. That hurt!!!
Posted by: The X at July 26, 2025 11:23 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM
Individual arms are not suggested for children as their physical abilities are not up to the weight of ammunition and firearms for transport and aimed fire.
On the whole, young children should be trained on crew served weapons which are fired from static positions, and can be carried between firing positions by the team
Posted by: Kindltot at July 26, 2025 11:24 AM (D7oie)
"Because they don't make a .45 Magnum."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2025 11:18 AM (qpyNK)
'How do you carry five 1911s under that Hawaiian shirt?'
'One's a compact.'
Posted by: Eromero at July 26, 2025 11:24 AM (LHPAg)
"Grace be with you all."
Posted by: Hebrews 13:25 at July 26, 2025 11:25 AM (XQo4F)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)
You do realize that crew-served weapons build teamwork, right?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 11:00 AM (pJWtt)
Ok kids. Today we will learn there is no problem that cannot be solved by Mr Claymore.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (W/lyH)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 11:38 AM (mT+6a)
Any plans for the day?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 26, 2025 11:47 AM (t/2Uw)
What are you doing, cleaning that basement with a toothbrush?
Posted by: From about That Time at July 26, 2025 08:56 A
Lol.
We had house renovations and a lot of wood cutting needed to be done in the basement.
And since Mom also passed away, and the house FINALLY became mine on the third go, I have been taking everything out, wiping it down, pitching it or donating.
There's 10,000 things to do around the house so I've been putting in about 4 or 5 hours a day. There are hundreds of cans of food from back when supply chains were strained. 40 cases or so of water. Many boxes in a tiny offshoot room. Tons of stuff from around the house that ended up there during the renovations. A lot of Mom's Christmas stuff I've been going through.
Everything is being wiped down and taken out. Then I'll wash the beams, walls and floors and put everything back.
We had construction there one time before and I cleaned it like this. I left the basement door open for years because it was as clean as any other part of the house.
Mom was a nun for 14 years. She said all they did was clean. And the p,ace is mine now...,finally.
I may as well do it right.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.1 % at July 26, 2025 11:56 AM (jvJvP)
Off to the range, a stop at the store for coffee creamer and flour. Then home to do laundry and hopefully enjoy some sunshine on the beach if the thick marine layer burns off.
I hope you are well, sweet lady.
You got this.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (mT+6a)
I’m so proud of you.
Well done. And thank you for taking care of your momma. That’s something special.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2025 12:01 PM (mT+6a)
That King Randall guy sounds like he's doing great work! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: lin-duh at July 26, 2025 12:02 PM (VCgbV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 26, 2025 12:07 PM (Vmw0O)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 26, 2025 10:51 AM (ZOv7s)
You do realize that crew-served weapons build teamwork, right?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 11:00 AM (pJWtt)
Ok kids. Today we will learn there is no problem that cannot be solved by Mr Claymore.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 26, 2025 11:27 AM (W/lyH)
Nope, M110 8 inch howitzer. They were VERY accurate.
I know where-of I speak. An old Red Leg forward observer.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 26, 2025 02:14 PM (pJWtt)
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 15.1 % at July 26, 2025 02:45 PM (jvJvP)
Daily Tech News 26 July 2025
Top Story
- Tea, an app for women to share the private data of men, was hacked - if you can use that term for an application that appears to have had no security whatsoever - and the personal information of all the users has been leaked online - if you can use that expression when all the personal information was already public if you knew to look. (WCCFTech)
And being a "women-only" app, it required users to upload government-issued photo ID for their protection. So a site dedicated to doxing other people just doxed all its own users.
This is why we can't have nice things.
- Meanwhile, Britain, which as of yesterday requires all its subjects to provide government-issued photo ID to view porn on Twitter, is already using the technology to block reports of anti-illegal immigration protests. (Twitter)
1984.0.0.1.
Tech News
- Meanwhile over at Amazon, "security first" means about as much as "talent first" did with VShojo. (Tom's Hardware)
Hackers were able to inject a persistent vulnerability into an Amazon AI coding tool by, uh, asking it to do it for them.
- WiFi 8 is on its way. (Tom's Hardware)
Raw speeds are exactly the same as WiFi 7. Rather it's designed to deliver better real-world speeds by reducing errors and dropped packets in, uh, the real world.
- How did GPD manage to cram a Ryzen AI Max 395+ and 128GB of RAM into a handheld device? Apparently they left out the battery. (The Verge)
Instead it draws power from either a large external battery or a 180W laptop charger.
Hope the oven mitts are coordinated.
- Echelon home gym equipment can no longer be used without a monthly subscription, an internet connection, and probably government-issued photo ID stored on a public server. (Ars Technica)
Hackers are working on hacking it.
Musical Interlude
Song is Uptown Funk. Cartoon is RWBY.
Disclaimer: Best food fight scene since The Great Race.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 26, 2025 04:32 AM (BLOW1)
Oh, THAT won't be hacked.
Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:32 AM (aURVT)
Sad!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 26, 2025 04:33 AM (XLQLg)
Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: clarence at July 26, 2025 04:47 AM (PlJ5c)
It's doxing all the way down.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 04:51 AM (Tv15w)
Posted by: DenverGregg at July 26, 2025 04:52 AM (M4O8G)
dox (also doxx)
verb (doxes, doxing, doxed or doxxes, doxxing, doxxed)
[with object] informal
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent: hackers and online vigilantes routinely dox both public and private figures.
ORIGIN
early 21st century: alteration of docs, plural of doc1 (short for document).
Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:53 AM (aURVT)
Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:54 AM (aURVT)
The two spacecraft doxxed, exchanged electronic fluids, then separated to cool off and enjoy a leisurely smoke.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 25, 2025 09:59 PM (O7YUW)
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Posted by: admiral spinebender at July 25, 2025 10:00 PM (hftn9)
"Get your hands off my penis, sir!"
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Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 25, 2025 10:03 PM (P+Pug)
Compendium of Epoch Times links to its _ 'Spygate' articles.
Must have for fans of the upcoming trials.
https://tinyurl.com/vzv8dsxk
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:04 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: TRex - better not to become fish food at July 25, 2025 10:06 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 10:06 PM (+qU29)
Thread title reminds me of poster with nic 'gentlemen this is junta manifest' who seemed to disappear after election. Did he change nic? Or simply disappear? Or suffer the banhammer?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Also is Miklos MIA?
Will check back in late tonight....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 25, 2025 10:06 PM (FGcsb)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 10:09 PM (kpS4V)
B: The blonde insisting on dinner? Her attitude is such that any sensible man, if he somehow got hornswoggled into taking her out, would excuse himself part way through dinner and take the back way out, leaving her to pay for everything and to get home on her own.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:09 PM (omVj0)
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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (ULPxl)
If I do have to apply for a job again, I'm going to emphasize that I come from a cohort of Americans with a real work ethic. Who knows if it'll work, but if the hiring manager is sensible . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Did you watch the second half? That's what all of them did!
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (DgGvY)
No-egg lady seems to share an apparently widespread delusion. Men have to prove themselves and have all the boxes checked while women don't have to consider what they bring to the party. That's how you get Women Blubbering in Cars.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)
B: The blonde insisting on dinner? Her attitude is such that any sensible man, if he somehow got hornswoggled into taking her out, would excuse himself part way through dinner and take the back way out, leaving her to pay for everything and to get home on her own.
I can't help but feel pity for her. It's a devastating thing to find out you won't have kids, no matter how asinine your previous behavior. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Well, maybe Hillary.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (Riz8t)
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Posted by: admiral spinebender at July 25, 2025 10:00 PM (hftn9)
Now what did he do? Or is this just mentioning his general badassery?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Maybe Lindsey was right all along
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:13 PM (gKWVE)
If I do have to apply for a job again, I'm going to emphasize that I come from a cohort of Americans with a real work ethic. Who knows if it'll work, but if the hiring manager is sensible . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:11 PM (omVj0)
"But we can hire H1Bs or get support staff in India!!!" -- super genius MBAs
I expect remote work will stay under its peak during the woofloo retardry but, long-term it will *not* go away.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 10:14 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2025 10:15 PM (9Tdlv)
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 25, 2025 10:16 PM (p4nXC)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:16 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: tankdemon
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Only you would have a 3 headed dog....well, maybe not only you, but only you would build it into your excuse...
Posted by: The Grateful at July 25, 2025 10:17 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (HZi96)
But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (VofaG)
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I am marking 2025 as the year my body turned against me
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at July 25, 2025 10:19 PM (w3u3d)
Is it;
Pardon impossible, to be executed.
OR
Pardon, impossible to be executed.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (VofaG)
I had to google "low egg count." Even if thot was married she'd have a problem.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: tankdemon
Good call. Might have wound up like the humaning-fish video, otherwise.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:21 PM (DgGvY)
Maybe just lucky I guess.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 10:22 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:22 PM (r/nnx)
Oxford comma. I use it when I need it but I don't make a fetish of it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (HZi96)
They don't seem to fix misplaced or dangling modifiers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:20 PM (VofaG)
Yup. There are better ways to phrase things. I write good and stuff. Allow me to be followed, regarding tips.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (hlNLQ)
have you ever come across a long-form post written by some kool kid where there's no capital letters and minimum punctuation? it's hard as hell to read and i never bother getting to the end.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:22 PM (r/nnx)
Right? He powered through like a champ. just do it!!!!
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:26 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 25, 2025 10:26 PM (GYGpZ)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (VofaG)
Getting four grown cats into a pillowcase would be a feat in itself.
Now please excuse me, I need to go flick the safety on my Glock on and off.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (49Yi3)
Posted by: The Grateful
If you had "dogsitting for Hades," pick up your winnings at the window. Otherwise, the pot rolls over to tomorrow's ONT.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:28 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: PabloD at July 25, 2025 10:28 PM (ZnYKP)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (VofaG)
Well, dating is like an interview, isn't it? I couldn't tell if vid number two was the same woman or not. So, if you took vid number one as an insulting lecture, why does that mean she's getting what she deserves because of her attitude?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)
i hate that
Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (VofaG)
Getting four grown cats into a pillowcase would be a feat in itself.
Now please excuse me, I need to go flick the safety on my Glock on and off.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (49Yi3)
Not necessary on a Sig Sauer M18...
At least that's what I read...
https://tinyurl.com/bjjx8aye
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)
i hate that
Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)
I saw that cummings...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:29 PM (0eaVi)
Love is a battlefield.
Posted by: Pat Benatar at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (49Yi3)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:18 PM (HZi96)
I do both. A box of ribbed commas makes all the English majors' hearts a-flutter.
Posted by: Nerd Herd at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (6nQni)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)
i had to type fast figured someone else would do it too
Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:28 PM
***
Winnings will be paid in Club ONT restroom tokens.
Posted by: TRex - counting my eggs at July 25, 2025 10:33 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:25 PM (HZi96)
i
hate
that
Posted by: e e cummings at July 25, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: FIFY at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (6nQni)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (uGaBv)
Posted by: Pat Benatar at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (49Yi3)
Wouldn't have minded a bout with her in the before time.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (0eaVi)
Not for me . I think it should just happen organically. Either you click or you don’t.
I do admit a girl could sucker me in by just laughing at my stupid jokes though.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (VofaG)
Hear this; I do not like passive voice. Say what you want to say.
And stop with the uptalking! Please. It sounds like you are not certain that what you are saying is worth saying.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Also, massive amounts of make-up is deceitful, and IMO reflects the character of the individual. They aren't happy with who they are, and you shouldn't be either.
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)
Posted by: OrangeEnt
Because when she says, in so many words, "I'm judging you," and it turns out no one was up to her high standards, some comeuppance is nice. The concept predates English: hubris and nemesis.
If her standards were just "spend some money on me, be nice, and don't eat like the Tasmanian Devil on meth," you'd think she could have found at least one guy. Apparently the rest of the list didn't make the video.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)
Back when A&E used to have the Improv comedy show on, they had the actor from Wiseguy on as the emcee.
He talked about being from Jersey (IIRC) and having a voice coach to help him enunciate and such and get rid of his accent.
He's with the coach one day at his place, working through his diction, when his buddies come over. They want him to drop what he's doing and go out to party. He wants to finish his lesson. One of the buddies says "What is he supposed to say?" The coach says "Arthur Carter raise purple earthworms in a cardboard box by the airport."
The buddy says, "Ahtu Cahtu razes poiple oitwoims in a cahdboahd bax ba thu aihpoht. See, that wasn't so hard, let's go."
I've remembered that bit for like 30 years.
Thanks for the ONT, WD!
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (h61ld)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (hlNLQ)
Generation D.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 10:35 PM (dIske)
Thank the gay guys in the beauty departments.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:38 PM (0eaVi)
Well, the Astros are getting their crullers beaten in tonight, but the Yankees lost, again, so it's all good.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:38 PM (HZi96)
And they won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)
Not on purpose, anyway.
Wife and I saw gray whales on a boat tour out of Depoe Bay. Very cool. The deck hand said, try not to let their blow-hole spray hit you.
Like dead meat, it is. I caught a whiff, and Wow!
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:40 PM (VofaG)
Like dead meat, it is. I caught a whiff, and Wow!
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery
You ever seen an oil tanker carrying Listerine?
Me neither.
Posted by: a gray whale at July 25, 2025 10:41 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ
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"Was it a Titleist?"
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (zs22P)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:38 PM (HZi96)
I think it’s the Astros farm team that got beat they have so many injuries.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 10:09 PM (omVj0)
I once got dinged on training for the only fill-in-the-blank on the exam (this was administered by computer) because I used an Oxford comma.
The possible answer it was programmed to accept included "a b c", "a b and c", "a, b and c", and different words for "a b c". "a, b, and c" was NOT a correct answer.
I don't think the HR folks thought I was serious when I told them I felt they should rescore my exam as 100%. They told me they would take that into account next time.
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (h61ld)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 10:43 PM (+qU29)
If her standards were just "spend some money on me, be nice, and don't eat like the Tasmanian Devil on meth," you'd think she could have found at least one guy. Apparently the rest of the list didn't make the video.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (DgGvY)
Maybe she's from a place where people are straightforward? Would a different tone of voice change opinions about her?
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (hlNLQ)
So, right. People think she deserves vid number two because of her presentation in vid number one?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:43 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:43 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Iris at July 25, 2025 10:44 PM (bOJ2I)
At least that's what I read...
https://tinyurl.com/bjjx8aye
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 10:31 PM (ynpvh)
I have an Air Force cop story.
Security Policeman was driving on the flightline late one night, when he claimed he had an accidental discharge of his M16 and the bullet went through his foot. He passed out from the pain and his patrol car rolled along and bumped into an airplane.
It turned out he had actually fallen asleep, let his car roll into the airplane, and in his panic concocted the story and shot himself.
They threw the book at him.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:44 PM (49Yi3)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:12 PM (HZi96)
She knows she's hot and thinks that more than enough.
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (h61ld)
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Stopped watching. Wouldn't be seen in public with her.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (LWopF)
On teams I usually fumble for my headphones, hitting the unmute button and saying, Hi, can you hear me? Hello?
It works, most of the time.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (0aYVJ)
They threw the book at him.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 25, 2025 10:44 PM (49Yi3)
I guarantee you I could come up with a much better story that wouldn’t require me to shoot myself.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ
__________________________________
I got spit on by an Alpaca. I don't recommend it. Those bastards (I found out after the fact) pull up the loogie right out of their digesting stomach, and lets say it's fragrant.
Alpacas, old Chinese ladies and Democrats. Always spitting.
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 10:45 PM (dIske)
That little boy getting his blood taken was a trooper. Let's hope he never has to have the blood gas test as that is extremely painful.
Posted by: Joyenz at July 25, 2025 10:46 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 25, 2025 10:46 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent
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Precisely. Agree with you more and more every day.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (viF8m)
He said that all during the date he felt like she was interviewing him to see if he was good enough for her.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:40 PM (VofaG)
_________
If that's the case, I think I'd ask if she was right or left-handed, then suggest that by amputating the opposite arm, she could utilize bodily resources more efficiently at minimum cost. I mean, I may as well just burn it all down at that point.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: steevy at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (YwEeS)
Generation D.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
I've done that, to unknown numbers, ever since the autodialer thing started up. If you say "hello," it connects you to the telemarketer. Silence, and it'll just hang up on you after a couple seconds.
This predates GenZ by a lot, because my answering-machine message used to be short enough that it was over by the time the autodialer connected to the human drone. "mikeski's out. go. *beep*"
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (DgGvY)
Every time they look at me they find something new that's haywire with my body.
_________
I don't mind getting old, but my body seems to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (HZi96)
GO! - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 10-26 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS
Launch Date: July 26, 2025
Launch Time: 4:34 a.m. EDT (0843 UTC, 10:43 CEST)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM240ysQXdE
Posted by: Joyenz at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (sPQoU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (HZi96)
********
We're in that kind of situation now. She's stage 3 and being treated with infusion therapy. It sounds promising.
Posted by: Cosda at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (ruKs7)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:39 PM (0aYVJ
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"Was it a Titleist?"
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 10:42 PM (zs22P)
A hole in one
-sheepish Kramer
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:49 PM (0aYVJ)
One of the great defenses of democracy is elected county sheriffs, which is why the Left hates them so much.
Posted by: The ARC Of History! at July 25, 2025 10:52 PM (xTIDn)
See picture up top.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2025 10:52 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: steevy at July 25, 2025 10:48 PM (YwEeS)
My Mom was told that at a Community meeting by a Norfolk cop -- in the late '50s. Mom said his final aadvice was 'And if he falls out the window into the yard, call me, I'll help you lift him back inside through the window.'
Apparently cops hate testifying in court.
Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent
I've given blood so much lately, they're running out of veins...
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 25, 2025 10:53 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 25, 2025 10:47 PM (FMtrg)
If I see a worm on the sidewalk while it's till moist, I will toss it back on the grass. If it's already jerky-chew, then, eh.
Wife thinks worms are icky.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Farmer Bob
Because, presumably, at least one man she met would have treated her that way.
But she didn't wind up with him. Or with anyone else.
Because the short list of "must haves" in the video was page one of a novel.
Infertility isn't the point. She'll be a spinster with nine cats no matter how good her ovaries work.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (DgGvY)
Have a great night everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (+qU29)
She asks him what he looks for in a woman he dates.
He says: well I know everyone always says sense of humor but I’d really have to go with breast size.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 10:55 PM (VofaG)
*taps microphone*
*sets voice emulator to 'Bob Seger'*
He's totally committed
To her major gasiness
But he's a creepo through and through
They give off quite an aroma
But they shoulda just stayed home-a
He'll stalk some
He'll sniff some too
[Chorus]
But oh he love to inhale her funk
Oh he do obsess her butt
He loves to sniff her junk
(Ooh, oh yeah, oh)
That lady's funk
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 10:56 PM (144I4)
But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes at
I'm not sure you are remembering the sixties correctly. Three wars worth of veterans all young enough to still get their yahoo on.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (n4GiU)
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
Saw one of those in a Publix - cute young'un stocking shelves in the fridge section had to stand on small step stool to get to top shelf. Weirdo was eyeing her up walked over acting all interested in things on bottom of reefer getting nose w/i 3-4 inches of her ass pausing for a lonnnng time.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (/lPRQ)
That's hilarious.
Posted by: mot at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (fIPNY)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
Did she have a friend in the courthouse? Maybe someone who had seen the police blotter?
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (h61ld)
Posted by: jocon307 at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (EuROc)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:59 PM (LWopF)
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
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That dude's got Shrek ears.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 10:59 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 10:59 PM (0aYVJ)
But I don’t believe the story . Sounds like a typical Reddit made up shit.
Posted by: polynikes
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Had an Uncle who a jumpmaster and rigger... Tricked out an army duffle-bag to strap a quad amputee to his chest for a tandem jump.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)
Her: what’s your favorite food ?
Him: Tortellini
Her : How would you like to die
Him: over eating Tortellini.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:01 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)
"Rocky Mountain High! (in Colorado)"
Pass the doob. Sounds like good shit.
Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 11:01 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 25, 2025 11:02 PM (L9kkv)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:27 PM (gKWVE)
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Did she have a friend in the courthouse? Maybe someone who had seen the police blotter?
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (h61ld)
Was he a contestant on The Dating Game?
Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 11:02 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)
So, like, 20 wins?
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 10:36 PM (hlNLQ)
Malarkey. She starts off with "A walk for a date? What am I, a dog?" She has an attitude that she is more than all that, and worth spending money on. Definitely "queen" material. (If she wanted to get to know me, a walk would probably actually be the best place to do so. She wants to test me.)
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 11:04 PM (h61ld)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)
Actually, a lot of it is based on phone scams - "Hello" and "Yes" can be used to call up some company and, say, change your service. Early "AI" did that, not Gen Z.
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 11:06 PM (h61ld)
Never answer the phone. There's only someone at the other end.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
After a little bit more AI there won't be a person at the other end of the call.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 11:06 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 10:57 PM (n4GiU)
I know my Korean War vet father wouldn’t have let the psychopath on the plane. But again I think the story is bullshit. You ain’t getting 4 grown cats in a pillowcase.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:08 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
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It was just the odd, backward way of counting they had then (per "1066 And All That").
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:08 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)
Commas be important:
Is it;
Pardon impossible, to be executed.
OR
Pardon, impossible to be executed.
Posted by: Tonypete
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My writing skills are marginal. Was lucky to get even C's in writing classes.
But, sentence diagramming, dead-on 100%.
Same with reading comprehension aptitude tests.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)
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Two-way street, young lady.
I am not just some dude with a fat wallet, a full head of hair and a sweet car.
In fact, I am none of that. Your loss, honey.
I grow weary of the whole "he was so horrible to me" posts.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)
Which hypothetical?
The Rockies in the World Serious or the skydiver drugged the cats?
Posted by: RickZ at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (gKDq2)
Dude! Fucking awesome! I'm all emotional now.
Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Beverly at July 25, 2025 11:17 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (lUFok)
But, sentence diagramming, dead-on 100%.
Same with reading comprehension aptitude tests.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:09 PM (/lPRQ)
I can relate. I'm in awe of people who can just write what they want to say.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (FMtrg)
Honestly, I thought she was pretty and giving decent advice,not particularly obnoxious. Icould see how one could take it as “I’m so pretty/special that you must treat me like a queen.” But that’s not really her message, as I see it. It’s more, “don’t half ass the effort” and “show some manners/decorum” versus a demand for over the top treatment.
Posted by: Farmer Bob
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The part about "I don't go out for drinks" is good advice, and it's been around for ages.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 11:13 PM (snZF9)
You did it for her (and him). It was a sacrifice of love.
*raises a glass to you*
Posted by: GWB at July 25, 2025 11:20 PM (h61ld)
When my 93 yo mother was in hospice and on her death bed, we asked her what advice she had for the rest of us. I expected something religious, but she calmly said "drink more water".
The next day, at her side she told me "this place is terrible, they only give me water, you'd think theyd have juice?"
Still rattling that one around in my head.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at July 25, 2025 11:23 PM (zs2tC)
Posted by: steevy
"Duty to retreat" states would tell you that.
Had a cop on a school trip tell us that you are required to run out the back door... Better to run to an interior room with the shotgun and make sure the perp knows where you are by screaming "Don't hurt me..." until he opens the door then blast him. Because all these perps are repeat offenders and they will do it to someone else or even come back to your house.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)
"I'm not a dog, I don't need to be walked" was kind of dopey. Going out for coffee or a walk is a good way for BOTH people to test each other out with no pressure if you discover halfway through appetizers that this isn't going to work.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 11:24 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: polynikes
You have a point there. But I knew wwii vets still doing crazy ass stuff in the sixties, so I'll give you unlikely but not unreasonable.
Posted by: From about That Time at July 25, 2025 11:25 PM (n4GiU)
Posted by: Mike,Shedding the Pug Mahon Nic at July 25, 2025 11:16 PM (0aYVJ)
Yeah, that was a sad one. Every time I found something serious it was like a gut punch, where normally I would be like, well fuck it, it will get done eventually. This wasn't one of those times. Of all the frigging bikes this one was the one I was hoping wouldn't go like this. There are steel liners cast into the aluminum cases that hold the bearing races for the crank. One of them had broken loose in the casting. Somewhat rare, but not unheard of. Rare enough to where I only saw 3 or 4 do this in 30 years, and of course it had to be this one. I felt like I was racing the reaper himself on this build.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 11:25 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 25, 2025 11:30 PM (sbwx6)
She has a lot of plastic surgery and a snide attitude.
Any man older than 21 should know better than to stay with her for more than evening. Every one she met did, and that's why she's crying about her infertility in the latter half of that clip.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 11:30 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:34 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: polynikes at
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If you can't remove a cat from your person, you are either incredibly weak, or have arms like T-rex.
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 11:34 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM (JkO4W)
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It was just the odd, backward way of counting they had then (per "1066 And All That").
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:08 PM (XZ5S6)
IIRC, the romans did not really number their years. They named the year by that year's Consuls.
I think they judged time (like 50 years) from the founding of the city or the Republic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 25, 2025 11:35 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:36 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:36 PM (VofaG)
Google has removed nearly 11,000 YouTube channels tied to state-run propaganda campaigns for China, Russia, and other nations over the past few months.
_Epoch Times
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:37 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 25, 2025 11:35 PM (bss/y)
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753 wait for it...
B.C.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:38 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:38 PM (u9yM+)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 10:58 PM (gKWVE)
So, like, 20 wins?
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Edge of the Mosh Pit at July 25, 2025 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)
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Yeah, well, if the Rockies want to make it to the World Series, they're gonna have to get through the Pirates in the NLCS.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 25, 2025 11:39 PM (QdGJh)
Perry White: "Great Caesar's Ghost!!!"
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 11:39 PM (dIske)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)
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Good to hear they have a plan.
Also, if you got out with both your legs still attached, obama says you beat the odds.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:43 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 25, 2025 11:43 PM (3ek7K)
Serial butt-sniffer arrested again in Burbank
KTLA
https://is.gd/1M3Q73
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 25, 2025 10:16 PM (p4nXC)
Damn! Those ears make his head look like a distorted mooring cleat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:44 PM (u9yM+)
Perry White: "Great Caesar's Ghost!!!"
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 11:39 PM (dIske)
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In the Steve Reeves TV series, Caesar's ghost really did appear to Perry White (of course, it turned out that bad guys were attempting to scam him, but still...).
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:44 PM (XZ5S6)
Upper stream of the Brahmaputra River
The Yarlung Tsangpo River, also known as Yarlung Zangbo in Tibetan and Yalu Zangbu River in Chinese, is the upper stream of the Brahmaputra River. It is located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The river runs almost 3,000 kilometers through the plateau to the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, and then out into the Bay of Bengal via Bangladesh. It is the highest major river on Earth, running at an average elevation of 4,000 meters.
Wikipedia
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:45 PM (LWopF)
China has started to build a massive dam on Tibet’s longest river, a move approved by the central government in December despite concerns by India, Bangladesh and Tibetan rights groups about its impacts on residents and the environment.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:46 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:47 PM (XZ5S6)
I've told the story before about an Army senior NCO's five-year-old soon getting blood drawn. Macho dad accompanied the boy into the treatment room, leaving mom and siblings in the waiting room. Dad was hectoring the lad to "Be tough, don't cry, be a big boy." I was focused on the task, and as I inserted the needle and the blood flashed back into the tubing I heard a loud crash from behind me. Macho man Sgt Badass was white as a sheet and had gone down like a ton of bricks. After getting his Snoopy BandAid the little boy jumped up and ran into the waiting room yelling for the whole room to hear, "Mommy, Mommy!! Daddy fainted!!" It took his dad a few minutes to come around and slink out to the waiting room as meek as a lamb..
Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2025 11:47 PM (poXs5)
youtube.com/watch?v=Sy3sRKEXW4E
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 11:47 PM (hNDvI)
Lol muldoon
Posted by: fourseasons at July 25, 2025 11:48 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Stymie Beard, Our Gang at July 25, 2025 11:48 PM (G5+As)
Generation D.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)
I do that sometimes, especially if the call is from a non-local number. So many damned scam robocalls these days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:49 PM (u9yM+)
I was standing on the stairs of the Auraria Library in January, smoking a Marlboro, and wearing an Yves St. Laurent 3/4-length woolen coat because of the weather. I looked cool, and I could see this chick checking me out.
ThIs chick was hot, and wearing a t-shirt in this horrible weather, to show off her tits. It said "If you can't afford a [Mercedes-Benz logo] YOU CAN'T AFFORD ME."
I thought "If he can afford an M-B, he knows he can't afford to keep trash like you around for very long. You're higher maintenance and less reliable. Somehow."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 11:50 PM (BI5O2)
China has started to build a massive dam on Tibet’s longest river, a move approved by the central government in December despite concerns by India, Bangladesh and Tibetan rights groups about its impacts on residents and the environment.
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If they block the Bagmati, the Nepalis won't have anywhere to dump the corpses.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:50 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 25, 2025 11:51 PM (0nHVk)
@grok [consensus centrist AI] . 14h
Replying to @IndiaUpdated_ @Middle_Eastern0
The dam is the Medog Hydropower Station, located in Medog County, Tibet, on the Yarlung Tsangpo River
(Brahmaputra's upper reach), near India's border.
It won't "block all water access" to India—that claim is exaggerated. However, it could reduce dry-season flows and increase flood risks, per Indian experts, though China asserts minimal downstream impact.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (LWopF)
Miss Thang with the dinner fixation is something else.
Considering the cost of a *nice* dinner... I think a guy should be able to take you out for coffee first, especially if you'd expect him to pay for that dinner. You know-- to check out your table manners. See if you can treat a server with respect. Carry a reasonably intelligent conversation. Who knows? Maybe he'd be better off taking *somebody else* out for that fine dinner! (after a cup-of-coffee interview, of course)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (poXs5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:53 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: muldoon
Did that happen in March?
"In like a Lion, out like a lamb"
Posted by: Almanac of Old Farmers at July 25, 2025 11:54 PM (lenBr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Dang. I hope you feel better soon.
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 25, 2025 11:55 PM (3ZUWJ)
I've had an awesome life. No complaints and thanks I can never repay.
Get on with living or get on with dying.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 11:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Respecter of Oxford Commas at July 25, 2025 11:57 PM (lenBr)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:57 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 11:57 PM (VofaG)
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*fistbump*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:38 PM (u9yM+)
Hate to hear. Got to be careful with heart drugs. I might suggest getting a blood pressure machine. They do heart rates as well. My docs are whispering about a pacemaker to keep mine up. Do not want.
Posted by: javems at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Skydiving cats at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (szqEY)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)
So am I. I am comfortable right now, but my energy level is nearly zilch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:59 PM (QjQFX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:59 PM (QjQFX)
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Don't you hate it when it feels like your docs are just noodling around with your meds and haven't the slightest idea of what they're doing?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (XZ5S6)
Because... state rights... Yes, Illinois... the LAND OF LINCOLN, just declared States have Rights!
/Facepalm
Posted by: Goose at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: TC at July 26, 2025 12:02 AM (szqEY)
Best of all-- no pressure. We enjoyed a whole day together & couldn't wait to do it again.
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 12:02 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at July 25, 2025 11:42 PM (rdVOm)
So am I. I am comfortable right now, but my energy level is nearly zilch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:59 PM (QjQFX)
I had Covid in late January... took me down for three weeks... my energy levels STILL have not recovered...
This old age thing... I don't recommend it.
Posted by: Goose at July 26, 2025 12:03 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (XZ5S6)
I hate the ones who toss meds cookie cutter like at everyone. Like the mechanic who don't know shit and thinks everything is cured with spark plugs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:03 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: muldoon at July 25, 2025 11:52 PM (poXs5)
Thank you! Going for a CT scan on the 31 of this month, and then maybe an angiogram. They did 2 blood draws today, no elevated triponin detected.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:03 AM (QjQFX)
Posted by: muldoon
Phlebotogical humour is a rare type.
Posted by: This is my "O" face at July 26, 2025 12:04 AM (lenBr)
Generation D.
Douchebag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 10:37 PM (/U5Yz)
I do that sometimes, especially if the call is from a non-local number. So many damned scam robocalls these days.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:49 PM (u9yM+)
If the number is not on my caller ID... I ALWAYS wait for them to identify themselves... and if I don't want to talk to them... just hang up without saying a word.
Posted by: Goose at July 26, 2025 12:05 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 26, 2025 12:06 AM (mP0Kj)
In spite of the WTF reaction to the Epstein files and the double down WTF to going after Berry TSSPOSTUTBTCIC...
I'm gonna go with...The Prez. is in total pay back mod all the while getting his agenda done and codified into law.
Meanwhile, the Democrat party continues to shit themselves.
That's what I think.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:06 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I did that for a while then decided that if they wanted to talk to me they would leave a message. Back and forth with insurance co today and waiting for a call, phone said, SPAM, but since I was expecting a call from them I took a chance and it was the insurance co. Overall procedure is not going to change.
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Blood pressure is a tricky thing. Went along several years on the same then one new thing threw everything off. Sometimes is takes a while to get the right balance.
Nurse told me to get an Omron home machine, about $30, they are more accurate for the price and accurate enough. Recommending to pony up the extra bucks for the one that keeps the event date along with the pressure. - it's a convenience -
Take the reading in the morning before breakfast.
Food intake will lower pressure.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:06 AM (LWopF)
Posted by: javems at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (8I4hW)
I have one! That's what sent me to the ER. Was out on the riding mower, did a lot of cutting, put the mower away, came in the house. Felt faint, went for a lie-down. Put on the BP monitor, and it said "pulse rate: 30". I drove to the ER.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (QjQFX)
The Prophet Jeremiah Wales:
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. /Jer 21:9
"Let it be life."
"I reckon maybe so."
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (poXs5)
Watching him catch all that metal ... gratifying.
Posted by: browndog wearing goggles at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (TTAGa)
At first, that annoyed me, but then I realized people are probably trying to vandalize it, and they have to lock it to the public.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:10 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (QjQFX)
Jeez, amazed you could still walk at 30.
Posted by: javems at July 26, 2025 12:11 AM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Here Comes The Ice Pick In The Forehead! at July 26, 2025 12:11 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:11 AM (XZ5S6)
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Do you know if your slow heart rate is sinus bradycardia or heart block? The two entities have different implications.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: This is my "O" face at July 26, 2025 12:04 AM (lenBr)
O? Negative or positive? We might need you.
Posted by: Blood Bank at July 26, 2025 12:13 AM (sNI6D)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:01 AM (poXs5)
When I had my surgery last year everything went smooth the whole time I was there. I was in shock how smooth things went and how professional my team was. Until this one night. Ok, time for berserker rant mode-
it was 2 am, the lights go on and this fat ass mother fucking gargantuan of a woman comes waddling in and grunts out " I'm here to take blood". yeah, ok, they do it every night, so? I ask here where she is going to take it from since i had all kinds of taps in the one hand, and good scar on my other wrist where they removed an artery. She grabs my arm and starts tying her rubber thing AROUND my fresh scar. I pull back to say woah wait, and she grabs my hand and jabs the needle in. I start reaching on my tray for something to beat her in the face with but I was too far. The next day my hand is black, and my nurse says how is everything? I said this- I don't know who sent mengele in to take blood last night, but if you send her again I'm going to beat her dead with a fucking food tray and I'm going to blame it on the drugs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:14 AM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 25, 2025 11:49 PM (u9yM+)
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I was thinking just the other day about how frustrating it is. Just 30-40 years ago, we had Ma Bell, the occasional fax machine, and an internet that wasn't anywhere near in general use. Just 30-40 years later, most phone calls are robocalls, most texts are scams, most emails are spam, and most social media activity is bot generated. In just over a generation we've gone from "the tech doesn't exist" to "the tech is not useful anymore."
Dead internet theory indeed. More like dead everything theory.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 26, 2025 12:15 AM (QdGJh)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:16 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:07 AM (QjQFX)
Holy shit man.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:18 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:19 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:12 AM (poXs5)
They call it PVC, premature ventricular contractions. On the EKG monitor, the trace occasionally shows a sharp down-tick in the signal.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (QjQFX)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (XZ5S6)
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Heh!
You know they draw the blood at 2 a.m. solely for the convenience of the doctors, so that when they come in after their three martini breakfast to make morning rounds the results will be on the chart. Fuck the notion of you getting anything remotely like some restful healing sleep.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: javems at July 25, 2025 11:58 PM (8I4hW)
I have one! That's what sent me to the ER. Was out on the riding mower, did a lot of cutting, put the mower away, came in the house. Felt faint, went for a lie-down. Put on the BP monitor, and it said "pulse rate: 30". I drove to the ER.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Yo, pacemaker alone, indicates an electrical problem not muscular. You won't know it's there (well if you press around you can feel it) otherwise go on about your day.
My electrophysiologist was a/hoe. We discussed and agreed that
I would have a general anesthesia. Well, the kid in OR is tying my hand down. Why? I'm going to be out. Well... It wound up an argument between me and the electrophysiologist - him saying the anesthesiologist gone home - it was protracted and intense
culminating in, legally he couldn't put me under but would put me down as far as he could. - out of bits - it was settled and done.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (LWopF)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 25, 2025 11:07 PM
He didn't know his death day was going to be March 15. Think of all the March fifteens he lived through in his life and had no idea that was going to be the day, someday.
None of us knows when our death day is coming. I wonder sometimes what mine will be. Not so much the year, but the month and day, and what else happened on that day throughout my life.
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (J+20f)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:22 AM (LWopF)
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:22 AM (poXs5)
Posted by: javems at July 26, 2025 12:22 AM (8I4hW)
Sherman said "I don't care if it costs 10,000 men and the whole treasury if that's what it takes to hunt down and kill Forrest."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:24 AM (BI5O2)
Hubby has a weird heart rhythm (started doing it ~2 years ago) and the fingertip pulse/ox devices only pick up 1/2 the beats.
*freakout* in the Dr. offices... until they check his chart.
He'd had the 3-day Holter monitor and several ECGs when it was first discovered. BP is fine.
Hubs doesn't desire any treatments for it. In fact, he has DNR and "minimal intervention" stipulation now: just antibiotics if needed, and basic first aid.
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 12:24 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:25 AM (QjQFX)
Squirrels, for example, can fall quite far without getting injured, though I've also seen some injured if they fell from a large tree.
Would a pygmy squirrel for example be able to survive a fall at terminal velocity?
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 26, 2025 12:27 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 26, 2025 12:28 AM (ZCVDG)
But, the predisposing cardiac anomaly is usually a conduction defect related to...say a 2nd degree AV block or 3rd degree block with AV disassociation.
Pacemaker time in either case when baseline heart rate drops below 40.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:28 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Not sure what to make of that. If you need something translated from Medspeak to English let me know. I don't want to intrude, but fee free to e-mai me.
On that note I'm out for the night.
Endeavour to persevere y'all.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:30 AM (poXs5)
Bers, I needed a good laugh, thank you!
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 12:30 AM (0nHVk)
AAHHhh. AL, completely understand my friend.
But, your ticker may need some backing my friend.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (25kuG)
You know they draw the blood at 2 a.m. solely for the convenience of the doctors, so that when they come in after their three martini breakfast to make morning rounds the results will be on the chart. Fuck the notion of you getting anything remotely like some restful healing sleep.
Posted by: muldoon at July 26, 2025 12:21 AM (poXs5)
Well I had the greatest team I could ever imagine. These nurses were like tier 1 operators of the cardiac wing. I thought I died during surgery and this was heaven. Beautiful blond nurses who were top notch, my surgeon was one of the best in the country, who visited me every day, so I didn't give a shit if they came in at 2am. I would just go back to sleep. That fat bastard hag I was ready to throw out the window though. She ruined a perfect stay, because all the others that drew blood were fantastic. The wing I was in was only a year old, it was state of the art. Private room, 60"TV, a tablet that controlled the heat, AC, the TV, the blinds, everything. Star trek was on a lot, the food was killer, and that fat fucking land whale killed what would have been a perfect score.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (BI5O2)
And they won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)
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Ahem…
The Orcas
Posted by: EFG at July 26, 2025 12:33 AM (edBJm)
Posted by: Trusting Trusted Expert of Alberta at July 26, 2025 12:33 AM (lenBr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Thought I could find a ready answer but not today.
Seems like a dental vest used during x-rays would do the trick.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (LWopF)
But, your ticker may need some backing my friend.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:31 AM (25kuG)
If I must have a pacemaker, so be it. Supposedly Medtronics has one that is safe for welding at currents under 140 amps.
Seems to me it ought to be possible to make a wearable Faraday shield to protect a pacemaker from some of the EM effects.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (Ux/Nh)
And they won't hurt you.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 10:32 PM (viF8m)
Tell that to the one who took blood from me at 2am.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:37 AM (snZF9)
Seems like a dental vest used during x-rays would do the trick.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (LWopF)
I suspect there is a yuuge liability chill for any manufacturer wanting to offer an EM shield for pacemaker users.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:39 AM (Ux/Nh)
I want you to be happy and productive with your life Al.
Even though we are not spring chickens any longer.
I'm trying not to turn into a fat old man...and losing the battle these days.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:39 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 12:35 AM (Ux/Nh)
Well, if you want to look like a villain from batman or something. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 26, 2025 12:39 AM (snZF9)
The Republic of South Africa, i.e., the former apartheid regime, had a serious problem with... immigration. They had real difficulty keeping Africans from nearby countries from entering illegally & then remaining there.
Because jobs; money that was worth more than its weight in toilet paper; etc.
Posted by: mnw at July 26, 2025 12:43 AM (kd60y)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at July 26, 2025 12:45 AM (iUORZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 12:47 AM (BI5O2)
Tonypete: …I have never been on a date that was a disaster.…
Remind me some day to regale you all with that date 'way back in High School after which I had to de-frost the passenger side of my Mustang. It wasn't the weather. OTOH, my buddy's date in the back seat left scorch marks.
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That kid getting the needle, as I said the last time it was posted, did much better than I did — just yesterday morning. The injecting nurse was not real good at it.
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So, two new units of measurement tonight: Blue Whales, and Danny DiVito. The long and the short of it.
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That gal with the dating demands: here's one like her.
https://youtu.be/tEL0YqOFKSk
& finally, some lively music
https://youtu.be/KIgCkyoqDe8
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - careful with commas, apostraphes, and ampersands at July 26, 2025 12:49 AM (iaVKI)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 26, 2025 12:54 AM (25kuG)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 12:54 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at July 26, 2025 12:58 AM (vL1lZ)
" if you send her again I'm going to beat her dead with a fucking food tray "
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The bed pan is probably a closer reach... ;-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 26, 2025 01:00 AM (C/gyy)
>Security Policeman was driving on the flightline late one night, when he claimed he had an accidental discharge of his M16 and the bullet went through his foot. He passed out from the pain and his patrol car rolled along and bumped into an airplane.
>It turned out he had actually fallen asleep, let his car roll into the airplane, and in his panic concocted the story and shot himself.
>They threw the book at him.
A rant about the P320.
If a hundred people with Sigs NG, ninety of them will blame the gun. The company has not done itself any favors as far as PR, and appears to be run by a "cabal of its enemies".
The people who got tired of telling us that those plastic guns will jam in an emergency (as opposed to the thousand rounds the owner spent at the range) or blow up, now love to laff at Sig.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 01:00 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 01:02 AM (lhenN)
Posted by: Debby
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They really do lose their filters, huh?
Hubby makes *comments* too. Fortunately, he doesn't speak very loudly. LOL, sorta.
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
It’s woke bullshit.
Posted by: Floridacracker at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (4qnde)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2025 01:02 AM (lhenN)
That bureaucrat doesn't care. His bosses want those aliens here. That's all that matters to Joe Q. Pencilpusher. It especially helps if the victims were dirty people who shop at grocery stores with their own grubby little hands instead of receiving their Thai food from a Guatemalan Doordasher.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 26, 2025 01:08 AM (BI5O2)
It’s woke bullshit.
Posted by: Floridacracker at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (4qnde)
I always read it as "before Christian era", anyway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 01:08 AM (pV3p7)
It’s woke bullshit.
Posted by: Floridacracker
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I appreciate that they telegraph exactly who they are.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:09 AM (LWopF)
Posted by: Debby
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Going into the dining hall with Rodney Dangerfield.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 26, 2025 01:12 AM (LWopF)
It’s woke bullshit.
Posted by: Floridacracker at July 26, 2025 01:03 AM (4qnde)
I always read it as "before Christian era", anyway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Seriously always thought it was something like "before Christ estimated" because honest historians were never able to pin down down the exact date that drives the western calendar.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 01:13 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:13 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:15 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 01:16 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
As for the woman in that video, it's hilarious her saying she wants a real date, while using so many bad AI filters that it looks like the various parts of her face are falling off. Maybe they don't want to book a real date because odds are high the 30 year old 9 that they saw on the dating app, in reality is a meth faced 50 year old whose entertained entire football teams every weekend.
Posted by: Rbastid at July 26, 2025 01:16 AM (ikBGF)
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The bed pan is probably a closer reach... ;-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV
But what if you have to go? Would you want to put your junk near a bed pan covered in someone else's blood?
Though I suppose you could hit the 'call' button and get a new bed pan.
Posted by: mikeski at July 26, 2025 01:19 AM (DgGvY)
We were in line behind one, and her husband/bf at the grocery one day. BF looks at all their stuff on the conveyor belt, leans toward the other guy & says: "You forgot the flour."
Ohhhhhh.......
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)
So much for Trump trying to bury it.
Should have been given full immunity as she had already been convicted of delivering fresh meat to Epstein. Let her turn State's evidence against Epstein and what he did afterwards, those that took part, and those that sealed the broader testimony.
Classic Trump - Whatever you do, do not open THAT door.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 26, 2025 01:24 AM (/lPRQ)
That is actually pretty spot on. CE = "common era" which is a synonym for "Christian era".
I forget exactly, but the first use of this was in writings by Kepler. I think. He used "vulgar era". Back then, "vulgar" didn't have the negative connotations it has today, and it just meant "common".
This "common" was opposed to some regnal year numbering schemes, like the year 'n' of King Chuckles reign and crap like that. The commoners were used the AD scheme.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (w6EFb)
But your former Secretary of Transportation took several of months of maternity leave during an unprecedented port crisis so he could strap on a pair of fake rubber titties and use them to nurse his gay butt baby with formula that was in short supply for your real baby, and then fly off for a Spanish vacation with his catamite on a private jet, while TSA agents made you wear a muzzle as they groped your balls.
Who's laughing now?
Posted by: Pete at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (BI5O2)
Ohhhhhh.......
You got me bitten.
I have a cat. I did not raise him from a kitten. He has several bad habits from his former life. He does not like people laughing. He got me on the arm from behind.
Posted by: clarence at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (PlJ5c)
I definitely thanked Pete Bog for the Greek mythology reference, I need to reread my book of mythology.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:30 AM (0nHVk)
Oh, dear.. Sorry, clarence!
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:31 AM (rdVOm)
That's spot on as well. Again, I forget the details, but they think it was some guy back in the early centuries AD who chose the current year roughly close to when they thought Christ was born, but to make the leap year arithmetic work out nicely to a multiple of 4. Otherwise, there would've been an offset that made things complicated.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:33 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:37 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:38 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:39 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: clarence at July 26, 2025 01:28 AM (PlJ5c
We have a Siamese that swats my wife if she laughs at him. Any other time he is such a sweetheart.
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:44 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:46 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:48 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:48 AM (3ZUWJ)
Happened yesterday to appease the smooth braines on both sides.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (viF8m)
My cats are something. One here, and he just did this, has learned there's one spot on the computer desk here I don't want him to jump on. So, when he wants my attention and I'm ignoring him, what does he do?
He jumps right up on that spot. He then stares at me, knowing I'm going to react.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (WF/xn)
He jumps right up on that spot. He then stares at me, knowing I'm going to react.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:50 AM (w6EFb)
Ours start pulling out the computer wires if you don't feed him on time
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2025 01:52 AM (WF/xn)
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . . at July 26, 2025 01:53 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2025 01:54 AM (viF8m)
Another funny thing with leap years. After Julius Caesar instituted the 4-year leap rule, the Roman priests screwed it up for a while, making a off-by-one error similar to that which plagues index variables (do you start at 0 or 1).
The priests went 1, 2, 3, leap. But they started counting the leap year as 1 again, and thus added leap days every 3 years not 4. They caught the error, and Augustus ordered it fixed by skipping 3 leap years over a 12 year total period.
Only problem is they aren't sure exactly when that happened. It was correct no later than 8 AD, but it could've been before, maybe be 4 AD. They're not sure, and so dates before then in the Roman calendar are not certain before 8 AD.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 26, 2025 01:57 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:59 AM (0nHVk)
Antibiotics turn my stomach too. Try taking it with some food? Like, toast or biscuit with butter & jam.
Posted by: JQ at July 26, 2025 02:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 26, 2025 01:59 AM (0nHVk)
Seconded!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 26, 2025 02:06 AM (lB2e2)
If a pill has a score on one side, does that mean it can be cut?
Posted by: Adriane the By That Definition, I am a Worm Critic . . .
That, or it has a subscription to ESPN and it can run through that day's MLB results. The name of the teams are quite hard to discern, however.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
I think this is what JackStraw sees when he smokes his marijuana cigarettes. Tucking in your baby elephant for a nap. These geese are employed by DHS to disappear progressives. Out of control. Dog demonstrates proper form in the hurdles. (The fourth dog. They're all good boys but the fourth dog is the best boy at hurdles.) This dog DOMINATES the stairs. A horse's buddy lends him a hoof. You wanted to get close to nature but nature decided to get close to you. Stray cat is very happy to see the human who feeds her. We need to limit cats' screen time. Baby bear practices going out of control. That's a lot of coke. I've linked this before, but it's good: a parachute fails to properly deploy and the diver gets "shrouded" by the parachute's cloth, which wraps around him and blocks him from deploying his safety chute. He only has 10-15 seconds to free himself and get that second chute opened. Is it Friday yet? Steve Inman: A FAFO collection, mostly showing bestial left-wing women who have drank the Feminist and Transgender Kool-Aid and really believe they can beat up men if they just ignore "Society's Patriarchal Programming" and believe in shemselves. A truck thief gets asphalt justice. Dog is so shocked that a cat slapped him he just doesn't know what to do. Aggressive panhandler meets aggressive manhandler.
If you're having a bad day, watch this pic.twitter.com/fZaepMDLA8
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 9, 2025
This is the best thing I've seen all day!! pic.twitter.com/Gvn02p60ln
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) July 5, 2025
10. What if he hit the rock 😭 pic.twitter.com/w8I9PQNcb1
— Crazy Moments (@Crazymoments01) June 28, 2025
20. Drung Waterfalls, Kashmir, India pic.twitter.com/2IXd2xseqN
— The Adventurous Soul (@TAdventurousoul) June 17, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (mADJX)
I bet winter there fucking sucks.
On the other hand, just snowshoes or skis. Sauna. Hot coffee and alcohol...
Blondes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:35 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:35 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)
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Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:37 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:37 PM (zZu0s)
Anything that big surfaces near me and getting out of dodge as quickly as possible.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (mADJX)
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Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (HFcKg)
It's considered kind of last century, but I'd really like to go to that Swiss village and have some awesome fondue.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: totally not Hunter at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:41 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:41 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 07:41 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (lCaJd)
Big fondue craze growing up in Ohio. We had it a decent number of times
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:42 PM (8avO+)
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Just this morning at the dentist I saw geese parading across the parking lot. WTH?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 25, 2025 07:42 PM (od0dV)
Then go. Switzerland is gorgeous. The photos you've seen are real.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (fV+MH)
Drug bust policia is gonna need a bigger van.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:37 PM (mADJX)
Especially funny that they got their rep as the most crazed madmen mercenaries in all of Europe.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (oSEaw)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (dGB1t)
It was the first time I understood the difference between "rich" and "wealthy." The guy was clearly loaded. But I'm from America, so I've seen people who have a lot more money than that guy - even in the outskirts of Golden, CO.
It was the way he and his children lived, and their attitudes, and their bearing. Aristocratic. One of the things I noticed the most was that he had a staff - drivers, bodyguards, etc. But no household staff. The generations of his family's women cooked (amazingly well) and cleaned. And they ate after the males - even us young boys.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (BI5O2)
- Band Aid brand. All Made in China and Brazil
- Major companies that produce canned corn. Almost all add sugar to sweeten the corn artificially because the real product sucks. Many don’t say they are grown or produced in America.
You’re welcome.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (t64lJ)
Posted by: Eeyore
I thought that was a criminal offense.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:44 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 07:45 PM (+qU29)
Oh how cute, it turns out there's a fondue chain called The Melting Pot.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:47 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:48 PM (gKWVE)
Is Switzerland simply the first AI country? The locations in the photos always have an otherworldly perfection about them.
Posted by: Paco
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The Italian Alps. Like Hunter Biden saying about George Clooney, him and his fuckign villa on fuckign Lake Como (the place looks fabulous and Hunter wants one).
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:49 PM (lCaJd)
Dan Bongino@FBIDDBongino . 8h
As promised, I want to provide an update on our efforts out of @FBI to defend the homeland and protect Americans from threats here at home and around the world....
...
We have so much more to do. The work will continue. God bless America, and all those who defend her.
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I'm so glad, I'm so glad, I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:49 PM (LWopF)
Was snorkeling off Maui long ago and saw an enormous Manta. Dove down to try and catch a ride and he must have sensed I was there. A couple flaps of his wings and he was gone.
Spectacular creatures.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:49 PM (viF8m)
Read a Substack on Murder Valley, a collection of counties on or near the Mississippi south of Memphis. It has among the highest homicide rates in the world.
The author took pains to point out that homicidal violence isn't just an urban phenomenon. I looked at the demographics for a number of the counties named. This detail was not mentioned by the author.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:50 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: The Grateful at July 25, 2025 07:50 PM (cCn4/)
- Band Aid brand. All Made in China and Brazil
You’re welcome.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 07:43 PM (t64lJ)
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I invested in an American-made hot iron decades ago and haven't needed a single Band-Aid since.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 07:51 PM (IBQGV)
His son just got sentenced for CP. Seven years.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:51 PM (gKWVE)
Best of Breed (only Borzoi entered) and a nice fat Hound Group 3 for big Varus at today's Longview KC show.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:52 PM (HZi96)
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Were you high at the time?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:52 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:53 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:53 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:41 PM
As an observer or participant?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 07:54 PM (BI5O2)
the Melting Pot has been a fixture in Houston for decades
Posted by: gKWVE
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No doubt. This is the first I've looked for a fondue restaurant ever and that's what I found.
How is it, anyway?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:55 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:56 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:56 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 25, 2025 07:56 PM (uGaBv)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:56 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2025 07:51 PM (IBQGV)
There is so much Quick Clot around d here I could build a table with it. American Made.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 07:57 PM (t64lJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 07:57 PM (BI5O2)
https://tinyurl.com/ycycnn2s
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 07:57 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:59 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:59 PM (gKWVE)
-little brown and white dog
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 08:00 PM (LHPAg)
I mean, you have to get your yak where you can around here.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 08:00 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 08:01 PM (t64lJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 25, 2025 08:01 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 08:02 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 08:02 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 08:05 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (lCaJd)
Big fondue craze growing up in Ohio. We had it a decent number of times
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:42 PM (8avO+)
Yes, I remember my parents doing the fondue for their parties. I remember the forks having little colored plastic ends. I suppose so you knew whose fork was whose in case someone slobbered on theirs.
I have fond (ha!) memories of it, so I got a fondue set for myself a few years ago.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 08:05 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 25, 2025 08:05 PM (ufFY8)
I know! Giant trolls! Everyone loves trolls, so giant climate-change trolls will totally work. Nobody can say we're out of touch now!
***
AP News yesterday:
https://apnews.com/article/giant-troll-sculptures-filoli-
thomas-dambo-15a070f5eba15e3a74721a7c2d23eb6e
Posted by: Bombadil at July 25, 2025 08:06 PM (MX0bI)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 08:08 PM (VofaG)
When I went skydiving in the mid-80s, a lot of time was devoted to practicing how to evaluate the chute and cut it away if it didn’t deploy properly. The main thrust was if the chute ‘streamered’ instead of inflating. We didn’t even talk about getting wrapped in it. The problem lies in having the pieces of the main chute still overhead where it can foul the reserve.
Posted by: Advo at July 25, 2025 08:08 PM (jO4mz)
"Media Matters, the leftist nonprofit notorious for its scorched-earth campaigns against conservative media, is reportedly in a state of crisis, reeling from a series of lawsuits, federal investigations, mass layoffs, infighting, and donor panic. The New York Times now confirms what many on the right have suspected for months: the group’s legal and financial foundation is cracking, and its future is in jeopardy."
https://tinyurl.com/bdf5vr69
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:10 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 08:10 PM (0sNs1)
I know! Giant trolls! Everyone loves trolls, so giant climate-change trolls will totally work. Nobody can say we're out of touch now!
***
AP News yesterday:
https://apnews.com/article/giant-troll-sculptures-filoli-
thomas-dambo-15a070f5eba15e3a74721a7c2d23eb6e
Posted by: Bombadil at July 25, 2025 08:06 PM (MX0bI)
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The problem with trolls is they’re stupid looking. Modern fantasy had to reinvent them to make them scary and fearsome. But the classic Nordic troll is too funny-looking to be scary.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 08:10 PM (aeiyZ)
How long do you have to deploy your reserve chute in the event if a main chute failure? The rest of your life.
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Now that I'm 29, I seek to avoid situations where gravity may have an adverse effect.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 08:11 PM (HZi96)
"the group’s legal and financial foundation is cracking, and its future is in jeopardy."
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That's tragic. Hey, the Astros are on!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 08:12 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:12 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 08:13 PM (TdYBy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:14 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 08:13 PM (TdYBy)
Or oil. And you're cooking it in there, really. Makes no sense in a restaurant setting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 08:15 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: toby928 at July 25, 2025 08:16 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 08:16 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 08:13 PM (TdYBy)
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Well, not your balls ….
Fondue in Europe is different than in USA. Here, it’s basically melted cheese like hot velveeta or cheez whiz. There, it’s made with wine and thus is much less cheesy. Of course there’s some overlap. But I think my generalization is correct.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 08:16 PM (aeiyZ)
Miusic stopped, lights came up, everyone bolted. Buddy and I (Army medics) saw a guy running headlong across the street and slams into a chest-high barricade. Turns out he was the brunt of the Scottish hooligan's wrath. We ran over to render aid. Rolled him over and found out he had been shanked before running into the barricade.
Right then, our sergeant hauled us up by our collars and told us to get the fuck out right now. We could hear the police sirens approaching.
We washed the blood off our hands in a fountain and went wading in the Adriatic as the sun rose.
The Army was a very interesting part of my life.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)
In the right restaurant it makes sense. Switzerland is one of the few places in Europe I have any interest in seeing again.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 08:17 PM (viF8m)
They would experiment with other stuff but yeah, pretty much. It was great but a HUGE pain in the ass to set up and clean up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:17 PM (dfIr7)
Who's pitching?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:14 PM (dfIr7)
_________
Ryan Gusto. The Astros have had so many injuries this season that their lineup every night looks like all the starters missed the bus to the stadium. In first place by 5 games, though.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 08:17 PM (HZi96)
________
Now that I'm 29, I seek to avoid situations where gravity may have an adverse effect.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 08:11 PM (HZi96)
A friend of mine was 82nd airborne. Some of his stories cured me from ever thinking about sky diving.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 08:17 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 25, 2025 08:18 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 08:16 PM (VofaG)
——
I like it. And contrary to some comments here, the only time I eat it is in a restaurant. I’ve made it at home, but it’s messy and hard to clean up after, and stinks up the house.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 08:18 PM (aeiyZ)
Bartender comes over. Big guy.
Says" I don't like Pollack jokes. Stop it!"
I tell him, Look, loosen up. We're just funnin'. One of my buddies there IS a Pollack.
A few minutes later, I had to go use the head.
The bartender walks in. He had a razor in his hand.
My life passed before my eyes.
Then I realized he had no place to plug it in...
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:18 PM (cPGH3)
You did the American thing though and tried to render aid. Proud of you for that.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 08:19 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 08:11 PM
Any tits, er, tips?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Nancy P. at July 25, 2025 08:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:18 PM (cPGH3)
Heh, hook, line, and sinker.
Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2025 08:20 PM (i0F8b)
It's not that I didn't like it. It's just not where you want to go if you're really hungry.
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 08:20 PM (VofaG)
Now that I am 70, I, too, avoid such situations, especially since there is now much more of me for gravity to get a purchase on.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 08:21 PM (mADJX)
The preview for "Predator: Badlands" looks epic. The chirpy fembot is flat out a Weyland-Yutani android so yes, Alien and Predator officially belong to the same cinematic universe.
The theater was also showing "Bambi: Retribution". 🦌
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 08:21 PM (kpS4V)
Here's the manager
You wanna speak to him now bitch
hahahaha Best Steve Inman evah!!!!!
Posted by: Capatin Fantsatic at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM (TEi+a)
Looks like a bad trip to me.
Posted by: zombie Steve Irwin at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM (p4nXC)
And yes, he once got hung up in a tree.
Funny, he was in Iraq in 2003, but does not have the mustard stain on his jump wings. He did piss out aa kidney stone on the wall of one of Saddam's palaces. His favorite war story.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Oh yeah. My BIL drove Blackhawks for the 160th SOAR (Night Stalkers) with them. He will tell you that all Paratroopers land. Most times they live to jump again - but not always.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM (BI5O2)
You must mean meat fondue. I make cheese fondue every New Years. Family thing. It's simple and easy to clean up with no smell.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 08:23 PM (viF8m)
With my inner ear burned out on one side, my balance is affected. I have to have Her Majesty spot me when I'm on a ladder.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 08:23 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:24 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Fried chicken is a breeze. I can't keep enough in the house to do a Chinese buffet, though.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:25 PM (cPGH3)
https://tinyurl.com/bdf5vr69
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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How, how can you be that way to us? We've been loyal clients for fifteen years.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 08:26 PM (LWopF)
I have heard a lot of good things about it, not that its great but not bad and doesn't have any of the really bad, annoying Marvel stuff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:27 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Advo at July 25, 2025 08:28 PM (jO4mz)
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:25 PM (cPGH3)
Gotta have a deep frier. And clean that deep fryer. And everything around that motherfucker, out to approximately a quarter mile radius.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 08:28 PM (BI5O2)
And the responses? A bunch of leftists saying "that's due to TACO Trump's tariffs"
Now the layers of...stupidity...
The video says its from 2024. When Trump was not president. And if Trump Always Caves then...he didn't get his tariffs right?
And...how would tariffs raise the price of bread? Are we importing grain suddenly?
So much stupidity.
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 08:30 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 08:32 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 08:32 PM (TdYBy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:32 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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First thing, after the chicken, while the grease is still hot, fry a cut up potato or two.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 08:34 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
I don't think you're doing it right...
Have you considered the pan fried method?
We bought an enormous electric skillet, specifically for fried chicken.
Recovery heat was way slow.
We went back to the 10" cast iron, and will do 2 or 3 oil changes if a big shindig, but will never do deep fried anything (that I can think of right now) again.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:34 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM
You hit a canopy below you, you're both dead. Given a choice, the inexperienced jumpers go first, to lessen the chance of one of them doing that.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 08:35 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 08:35 PM (TEi+a)
- adhesive bandages; buy 'em in generic bulk from an Amish grocery, I'll have to inquire where they're made some time ...
- corn; buy from local farmers, freeze / freeze-dry
good hiking is not the only reason we live out here
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2025 08:36 PM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 08:36 PM (HFcKg)
Wow...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 08:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Yeah that's where we are now in Marvel movies: it didn't suck as bad as the other more recent stuff. A meh movie from Phase 1-2 is considered good now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:37 PM (dfIr7)
We bought an enormous electric skillet, specifically for fried chicken.
Recovery heat was way slow.
We went back to the 10" cast iron, and will do 2 or 3 oil changes if a big shindig, but will never do deep fried anything (that I can think of right now) again.
Posted by: MkY
*************
Amen. What MkY said...
Posted by: The Grateful at July 25, 2025 08:37 PM (cCn4/)
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good evening! ♬♬ ♩ ♪
Second Hay crop waiting for round bales to be lined up. We have has a lot of rain for a typical summer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:38 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 08:38 PM (TdYBy)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 08:22 PM
You hit a canopy below you, you're both dead. Given a choice, the inexperienced jumpers go first, to lessen the chance of one of them doing that.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 08:35 PM (0sNs1)
HIT THE CANOPY???
NOT FUNNY...
Posted by: Goose at July 25, 2025 08:38 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:39 PM (u82oZ)
Wow...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 08:37 PM (mP0Kj)
Were there other words used in the ad, like bukkake maybe?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2025 08:39 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 25, 2025 08:39 PM (uGaBv)
Ha!
Nah, you'd be hunting thrift shops for those great cast iron skillets.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:40 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 08:40 PM (HFcKg)
Got a double boiler?
Equal parts of Emantal and Gruyere Swiss cheese
Melt the cheese in white wine. Pick your poison but I think a Riesling works best
Make a paste with Kirsh and corn starch and mix it with the cheese
Add nutmeg and pressed garlic
Pour the cheese into a foundue pot
Cut up really good baguette into small squares
You've made basic cheese fondue. You have to find your own date.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)
First two thor movies. The first was a lot better than the second.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 08:41 PM (idIpT)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 08:42 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:42 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:43 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 08:35 PM (0sNs1)
Not entirely true. That's why they trained so hard on the pull one or the other thing. There are a lot of guys plopping out them planes during a jump. It's gonna happen, and they know how to fix the scenario. Thus the one pulls left, the other right. There is a fucking shit-ton of experience training future paratroopers.
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery at July 25, 2025 08:44 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 08:44 PM (BI5O2)
Yeah the 2nd was pretty low tier, like worst 10. Incredible Hulk was pretty meh.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:45 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I thought you were Manhattan area?
Know anyone who grows buckwheat? I'm not very good at it, but need to be. It makes the best honey I've ever had.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:45 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 08:46 PM (idIpT)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 25, 2025 08:46 PM (p4nXC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 08:47 PM (idIpT)
These train layouts just get more fascinatingly complicated all the time!
Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent at July 25, 2025 08:47 PM (iaVKI)
If Media Matters is shuttered I suggest marching the employees out to this music:
https://youtu.be/GfDqcKOh1hg
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 08:48 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Mike, Living on the Periphery
I jumped once. Count 'em. Pope Valley. The US skydiving team was hitting the ground around us the whole morning, and the big thing in that era was walking on someone else's chute. But they weren't using the GI chutes, either.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:48 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:48 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish
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I think Trump has a big lawsuit against them and after reviewing the recent outcomes, know they are on the short end of the stick.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 08:49 PM (LWopF)
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I recollect that Bill and Hill canceled their 'tour':
Oct 8.
"Bill and Hillary Clinton announced Monday a 13-stop live-event tour that is being billed as a chance for ticket holders to glean insights from the former first couple."
Didn't work out:
Nov 15, 2018 · A source tells The American Mirror that Bill and Hillary Clinton’s 13-city tour has been canceled.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 25, 2025 08:49 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 08:50 PM (HFcKg)
You'd said eastern Ks, so I was hoping I was mistaken.
The Little Apple is too far to go to tend bees.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 08:50 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Paul B at July 25, 2025 08:53 PM (cFnv2)
The oat farmers I know are near Ottawa, KS. There are lavender fields close to Lawrence.
Got to go.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 25, 2025 08:54 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 08:50 PM (HFcKg)
I've been soaking it before I slaughter it . Damn! So messy!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 25, 2025 08:54 PM (Jb4mI)
Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a nonprofit left-leaning watchdog journalism organization. It was founded in 2004 by journalist and political activist David Brock as a counterweight to the conservative Media Research Center.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 08:55 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 08:56 PM (HFcKg)
No. Change frightens us.
Don't change a thing about this place until something breaks.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 08:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 08:56 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:57 PM (dfIr7)
Don't change a thing or it WILL break
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 08:57 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 08:58 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 08:56 PM (HFcKg)
I had to jump in so you know we still luv you much. XOXO...one of these days babe. First one our bucket list.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 25, 2025 08:59 PM (Jb4mI)
Posted by: Ben Had
*************
Had no idea it was a pro-tip, but absolutely endorse this idea.
Posted by: The Grateful at July 25, 2025 08:59 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 09:00 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 08:40 PM (viF8m)
That sounds good, alright.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 25, 2025 09:01 PM (TdYBy)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:01 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 09:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2025 09:02 PM (52+rt)
Posted by: Ben Had
**********
Agreed
Posted by: The Grateful at July 25, 2025 09:02 PM (cCn4/)
That too.
I've been hanging around this place for a long time because it's like this. And look what it has spawned. Lots of local and national meet ups and even a marriage or two not to mention countless friendships.
What ace has created here does not need fixing. It's pretty fucking special just like it is.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 09:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:05 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: fourseasons at July 25, 2025 09:05 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: MkY
A meta-Polack joke. My day is complete.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 09:05 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 09:06 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 09:06 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ben Had
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why
knowledge me
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:06 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2025 09:08 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: mikeski
An old neighbor of mine told me that joke. Wish I could remember his name.
It was incomprehensible, and he was nativized.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 09:09 PM (cPGH3)
knowledge me
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:06 PM (AOsQT
Adds moisture to the meat, and an extra layer of protein around the skin to crisp up underneath the breading that sticks to it so deliciously.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 09:09 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 09:04 PM (viF8m) "
THIS x 10^7 !
long live the Horde, and Minx 0.8 beta!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2025 09:11 PM (dKEEs)
knowledge me
Posted by: Don Black
(Waving hand excitedly)
Anything acidic breaks down meats. Buttermilk, citrus, vinegars, wine, etc.. Why all tenderizing marinades all use some kind of an acid.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 09:11 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:11 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 09:12 PM (HaTLf)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2025 09:12 PM (dKEEs)
I thought it was totally fake!
Posted by: Beverly at July 25, 2025 09:13 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2025 09:14 PM (dKEEs)
This Spygate poster hung in my office all during my 2020 campaign when I first ran for office.
Epoch Times did an incredible job creating it.
I hope we finally see accountability.
--------------------
This is the track sheet, a pictorial graph, the family tree of constitutional abusers; what they did and how they were connected.
A must have for the coming trials.
https://tinyurl.com/5yymh2mf
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 09:14 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Hunter at July 25, 2025 09:14 PM (NdPqb)
Not needed for good aged steak, but mandatory for a fresh, cheap steak like strip.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 09:15 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2025 09:17 PM (dKEEs)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 09:18 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 09:04 PM (viF8m) "
What he said.
Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2025 09:19 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 09:20 PM (+qU29)
cuz I've been doing flour, egg, then bread crumbs
Posted by: Don Black
No. Soak first. Not long. 1/2 hour.
Then do the usual routine.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 09:20 PM (cPGH3)
I want that super crispy coating when I do chicken fingers
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:22 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot
Sure, but expensive.
Waygu tallow? How much does that cost? If it doesn't matter, tell us how it does.
We use lard for most frying, if it's too much for the bacon grease on hand.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 09:23 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 09:24 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:25 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: JackStraw
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[emphatic fistbump]
I may have to give The Barrel a little thought though. Have you ever been in there? The Barrel is a harsh mistress.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 25, 2025 09:27 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:28 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Daddy yo at July 25, 2025 09:29 PM (4U+8N)
Posted by: Ben Had
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'Leaches', one hopes.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, waxing grammar nazi at July 25, 2025 09:29 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 09:29 PM (c3xE6)
Posted by: Skip
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Justice will come, God willing, but it may be too large for a phone.
so many people
long forgotten
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 09:30 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:32 PM (HFcKg)
If you ever end up there again, look for my name carvered into the wall. There are a number of them.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 09:33 PM (viF8m)
I'd slap the water surface to say hello. I did that once with dolphins in the Black Sea. An absolutely special moment I will never forget.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2025 09:33 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 09:34 PM (/U5Yz)
I love fried chicken (Royal Farms is really good) but I hate the splatter and left over fry oil is money dumped in the woods.
I am more into biscuits and quick breads.
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 09:34 PM (HaTLf)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:34 PM (HFcKg)
I want that super crispy coating when I do chicken fingers
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:22 PM (AOsQT)
I've never done this, but it looks amazeballs. Japanese double fry called karaage.
Goes to youboob
https://tinyurl.com/yvut4fy3
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 09:37 PM (144I4)
weird consistency, like whipped lard
I don't know what leach means when it comes to chicken
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:37 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:22 PM (AOsQT)
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1. Buttermilk
2. Dredge in panko
3. Spray with oil or skip
4. Air fry
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2025 09:37 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 25, 2025 09:38 PM (dKEEs)
I never talked too much with my neighbours but I've actually been rejoining society this week.
My Mother passed away in January. The lady across the street lost her husband about 3 months ago. And now this 2 doors down.
I'm going to keep cleaning the basement - Day 7 - until I'm tired enough to drop. It's been 2.5 weeks withput booze or edibles. And I've only taken zzzQuil twice.
Everyone have a great night.
Posted by: Stateless - HAPPY NOT HOMELESS! - New Life Creation 14.7 % at July 25, 2025 09:38 PM (jvJvP)
https://tinyurl.com/3waawx4b
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 09:39 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:39 PM (HFcKg)
This guy gets it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 09:39 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2025 09:41 PM (78kzY)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:39 PM (HFcKg)
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I made Boy F. a grilled cheese with the Toma and tomato and argula.
I had grilled flank steak and tomato.
/satisfied
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2025 09:41 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:41 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had
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Pfft. If you ever read anything that I post, it is, like as not, an offense to the English languge.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, waxing grammar nazi at July 25, 2025 09:41 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Don Black
A quick dredging in corn starch and baking powder is what you seek.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 25, 2025 09:41 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:43 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 09:43 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 09:45 PM (hNDvI)
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket
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Or a BUFF in Minot ND.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 09:45 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 25, 2025 09:48 PM (W/lyH)
The lot of them should be indicted for a Coup D'etat
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 09:48 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:43 PM (HFcKg)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 09:50 PM (zZu0s)
Would seem like a good idea to know more about this place before pretending we know about another frigging planet.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 09:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:51 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 09:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 08:36 PM (HFcKg)
I've been using a similar combination; peanut oil with a big glob of bacon grease and a stick of butter.
Yes, a whole stick. It's fried chicken, don't be a wuss.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 09:53 PM (ULPxl)
Americana at its best.
Posted by: RI Red at July 25, 2025 09:53 PM (fRFTM)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:51 PM (HFcKg)
He's a good boy. Absolutely fucking bug nuts insane retarded stupid right now.
But a good boy.
By the way, the whole bones with marrow did not keep him from destroying anything he can reach while in the crate. It might have helped and he loves them, but...
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 09:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:54 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:54 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Don Black at July 25, 2025 09:54 PM (AOsQT)
I'd make sure it was a cayenne based hot sauce. I hate the after taste of most other peppers such as habenero or jalapeño.
Cayenne is clean. Franks then.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 09:55 PM (zZu0s)
It's astounding how little people know about the planet they live on while insisting we must visit other planets.
But that's just me.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 09:55 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 09:56 PM (+qU29)
The one in middle is not feeling the game
Also noted the 2 who like to murder the mice are ambidextrous
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Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 09:54 PM (HFcKg)
I have! I usually pick some up there when I'm in town, and recently one of the meat markets here has started selling it. I like it for roast carrots, baked sweet potatoes, couple other things...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 09:57 PM (ULPxl)
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I would be good with hunting down and killing whatever it is that sporadically makes the home page unusable on iOS devices. Otherwise, every fix or feature (e.g. editing, threading, etc.) would remove potential for humor.
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Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 10:00 PM (HFcKg)
Must have for fans of the upcoming trials.
https://tinyurl.com/vzv8dsxk
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 10:01 PM (LWopF)
The Week in Woke
AdiHouse Judiciary Committee: Biden's FBI smeared Catholics as terrorists.
@Adi13 Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney [George's wretched wife], you passionately called for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged 'genocide in Gaza.' Yet, curiously, as the daughter of a Syrian Druze father, you've remained silent while over 1,000 Syrian Druze have been massacred, amid reports of rape, abduction, and other atrocities. But since Jews aren't involved, the story seems to attract far less attention.
The 51-page report comes after the FBI under former director Christopher Wray circulated an internal memo dubbed the Richmond Memorandum, created by the Richmond field office in 2023, which labeled traditional Catholics as "racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists." The report accuses the bureau of creating a "manufactured narrative to insert federal law-enforcement agents into places of worship." The report includes revelations that the FBI allegedly spied on a priest because he refused to discuss a private conversation that he had with a parishioner. ... "There appeared to be no legitimate law-enforcement purpose for investigating this priest," the report determined. "This new information suggests that the FBI's religious liberty abuses were more widespread than the FBI initially admitted and led the public to believe." The report also found that the Richmond memorandum was not an isolated incident as previously believed, and that terms like "Radical Traditionalist Catholic" were used in 13 documents between 2009 and 2023. "These new findings make it apparent that the FBI under President Biden and Director Wray withheld key information responsive to the Committee's oversight," the report reads. "The Committee remains committed to conducting oversight of the Biden-Harris Administration's abuse of federal law-enforcement resources against Catholic Americans."New York has settled with a Christian photographer they illegally coerced into photographing gay weddings.
New York ended four years of litigation by Christian wedding photographer Emilee Carpenter by paying her $225,000 in legal fees and promising not to enforce several laws that infringe Carpenter's First Amendment rights, leaving her free to avoid photographing same-sex weddings. The consent decree between Attorney General Letitia James and Carpenter's lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom follows a May ruling by U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci, nominated by President Obama, that it was "beyond debate" the Empire State cannot apply public accommodations laws to "expressive activity to compel speech."The Democrat Party has endorsed Minneapolis Mayor Jonathan Frey's socialist Somali challenger. From KSTP:
I saw someone point out that Frey kneeled and cried for George Floyd. But he just wasn't woke enough for today's Democrat Communist Party. From Instapundit, the San Fransisco Standard reports that businesses are hiring "etiquette coaches" to instruct Gen Z savages on proper workplace dress and decorum.
Minneapolis DFL Chair John Maraist confirmed to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that State Sen. Omar Fateh won the party's endorsement through a show of badges on Saturday night. An endorsement of Fateh, who is running as a Democratic Socialist, would create a unique moment for the city's DFL Party, possibly signaling a further shift for the party. "People are starting to accept, you know, some more socialist and more, you know, to the left politics, which, in my view, is a good thing. It's a progressive thing," said Colton Baldus, a delegate in support of Fateh. Current Mayor Jacob Frey's campaign manager released the following statement: "This election should be decided by the entire city rather than the small group of people who became delegates, particularly in light of the extremely flawed and irregular conduct of this convention. Voters will now have a clear choice between the records and leadership of Sen. Fateh and Mayor Frey. We look forward to taking our vision to the voters in November."
In other words: they work at work.
They want to be promoted after only a few months, treat the office like their bedroom, show up in sweats or skimpy office-siren fits, FaceTime friends from their desks, and ghost their managers. This is the gist of employer complaints about Gen Z workers, who seem to be having a uniquely hard time getting along in the office -- much worse, managers say, than the generations before them. In a December 2024 survey of 1,000 employers by Intelligent.com, 12.5% said a Gen Z candidate had brought Mom or Dad to a job interview. The bosses are fed up. Gen Zers, meanwhile, see things differently: From their perspective, millennial and Gen X managers have no work-life balance.
The generational divide has become starker in the past few months, as return-to-office policies have brought in Gen Zers for the first time -- in many cases after years of working and attending school remotely. In the Bay Area, the culture clash has led employers to a new solution: hiring etiquette experts to train young employees in basic workplace manners. Rosalinda Randall, a Marin-based etiquette coach, said inquiries have risen 50% over the last two months. The requests come from tech campus managers, winery execs, and even country clubs. All are a variation on the same complaint: Gen Z employees are treating the office like an extension of their homes.Netflix will not be renewing their $100 million deal to feature the non-prince Harry and the non-duchess Megan in stupid podcast-level "shows."
Netflix will not be renewing their eye-popping $100 million deal with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed the lucrative deal in 2020 to earn some cash after quitting royal life and moving to the US. However, the couple still have other plans for the future. "There are more TV projects coming soon with both the duke and duchess," a source told Page Six. They also are set to sign a first-look deal with the streamer when their exclusive deal ends this year.Ugh. I think a first-look deal is just a kind of option. You're selling the option to someone to have the first chance to buy a show. It's much, much cheaper than buying a show. Like an option to produce a screenplay might cost $10,000, but if the screenplay is actually produced, you'd get $100,000. So I don't think this is a big payday for the unemployed losers but still Netflix is paying them for something. Why? Do they literally just want to spend themselves into unprofitability? After three years of wretched duds that no one likes, what is left of the Markles that you'd need a "first look" contract for? Where are the lefties screaming about this? The Markles are woke AF, too. Shouldn't they be guaranteed lifetime media contracts like Stephen Colbert? Woke is officially dead. Celebrities are now denouncing wokeness without fear of cancellation.
In the UK, students were told to wear clothing advertising their cultures and ethnic identities. A native-born British girl wore a Union Jack dress. She was kicked out of school and could not return until she changed. Turns out the school only meant "burkas." Anyone celebrating their British identity is a racist. The UK needs their own Trump:
Legendary musician Billy Joel told Bill Maher he doesn't care if the far left complains about his statements or music anymore. During the latest episode of Maher's "Club Random" podcast released Monday, the two discussed the "woke" left's reaction to anything it disagrees with, with Joel admitting he is over being concerned about what that group thinks of him. "At this point... I'm inured to it," Joel said in reply to Maher asking if he doesn't care if woke people criticize him any longer. ...
The host continued, noting how mad leftists get when people don't declare, "'Trump's the worst.'" ... "And you don't care what they say about you -- the woke?" Maher asked. "At this point, no," the musician replied, though he noted how he tries to understand the point of view of people who disagree with him.
Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh delivered a masterful response to a nasty reporter when asked why he met with Trump:
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 24, 2025
“Why do you frame that question [like that]? … It was amazing—it was awesome. And I promise you, I root for our President. I want our President to be… pic.twitter.com/h7QXXNIZk0
The modern civil rights regime, both inside and outside of government, has been wielded like a weapon...to engineer a radical new social order built upon the deliberate dispossession of huge swathes of our country. pic.twitter.com/tgFFoQzMBH
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 24, 2025
Jeff Daniels: “I still think about Kamala, and how I think she would have been a good choice. I don’t care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did. Liz Cheney would have been Secretary of State.”
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) July 22, 2025
pic.twitter.com/b455ZlIbrX
A Palestinian-American took her Black friends to the West Bank to volunteer.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 23, 2025
Palestinians called them “monkeys” and “slaves” during the trip. When they complained, she defended it, saying that they should just accept the abuse. pic.twitter.com/hjPVRPaJoD
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: GF at July 25, 2025 06:23 PM (iVUs+)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:23 PM (wzAuc)
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Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:30 PM (fV+MH)
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Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (dfIr7)
Omar Fateh won the party's endorsement through a show of badges on Saturday night.
Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
Posted by: Gold Hat at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (63Dwl)
I mean it, a single legion of rome could probably bring England to their knees. Hell, recreators probably could do it.
Start over.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (idIpT)
Palestinians called them "monkeys" and "slaves" during the trip. When they complained, she defended it, saying that they should just accept the abuse. pic.twitter.com/hjPVRPaJoD
- Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 23, 2025
The United States is the most raycissty rayciss country in the history of ever!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (ShtCw)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (vFG9F)
Be Better, Chamberlain.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (idIpT)
Cleo Laine (1927-2025) was a celebrated British jazz singer and actress, famed for her husky contralto and four-octave range. Often called Britain's top jazz export, she collaborated with husband John Dankworth, earned Grammy nods, and performed globally. She died July 24, 2025, at 97, per AP and family confirmation. RIP to a legend.
Grok @grok 3h Replying to @warfarereport @AZ_Intel_
Cleo Laine was a renowned British jazz singer and actress, celebrated for her four-octave vocal range and husky contralto. Born in 1927, she rose to fame in the 1950s, earning acclaim for blending jazz with theater, including a Tony nomination for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." She died on July 24, 2025, at 97, as confirmed by her family and major outlets like NPR and The New York Times. Her legacy endures in jazz history.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (2yoRf)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (fV+MH)
I laugh, but this is just lack of training which is the employer's fault.
As an increasingly antisocial person, I get the instinct to cocoon oneself from icky humans, but dude(ette), it's yer job.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (dfIr7)
I never am surprised. The will to be stupid is very widespread.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (vFG9F)
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Remember these things when the winner writes the history of CWII.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (LWopF)
How the fvck does that even work? I mean racially or ethnically violent extremists? Don't those idiots realize that there is a huge percentage of brown people who are very much catholic?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (vFG9F)
BOYS have a PENIS, GIRLS have a VAGINA.
Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)
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At least Ken Burns won't be doing a ten-part series on it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (kpS4V)
I mean it, a single legion of rome could probably bring England to their knees. Hell, recreators probably could do it.
Start over.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (idIpT)
In her revolt Boudicca's forces took and burned Londinium to the ground. That would be a good start.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)
Or did did they seek him out knowing that he would parrot such idiocy?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)
Oh, good point!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (hIY2p)
How the fvck does that even work? I mean racially or ethnically violent extremists? Don't those idiots realize that there is a huge percentage of brown people who are very much catholic?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (e5NfL)
Surely we should get the 'religiously intolerant' label like the Spanish Inquisition. Lazy ass demonizing there.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (8avO+)
Can't wait to see how that works out. These socialist mayor candidates remind me of following a swerving vehicle with an obviously drunk driver, wondering in a macabre fashion just what they are going to plow into.
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (dIske)
BREAKING: "Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire -- unconditionally -- and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute," said Cambodia's ambassador to the UN Chhea Keo following a closed meeting of the Security Council attended by Cambodia and Thailand. - AFP
Nathan Ruser @Nrg8000 19h
🧵A detailed timeline on escalations in the lead-up to yesterday's clashes between Thailand and Cambodia.
Much of the escalation seems to stem from Cambodia, with their troops fortifying many sectors before the May 28 clashes and surging strategic assets immediately after.
https://tinyurl.com/yfhek4sc
Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (2yoRf)
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Thought you said, SanFranpsycho
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (LWopF)
I rise in defense of this entirely logical position.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (viF8m)
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I didn't realize until this week that he's a full-scale idiot.
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 06:40 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:38 PM (hIY2p)
I think she got the levels of oppression crap at CUNY or Boston College. At least real Palestinians just want to kill from the River to the Sea. That's honest.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:40 PM (8avO+)
https://tinyurl.com/2sm7uecj
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:40 PM (3kTgY)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (mT+6a)
>>>Palestinians called them “monkeys” and “slaves” during the trip. When they complained, she defended it, saying that they should just accept the abuse.
I went to school with one of these Hitler youth. The level of hatred the woman had shocked the conscience.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:35 PM (dfIr7)
Reminds me of a show set in 1920s Moscow where blacks were two of the five main characters, LOL.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (E2+Uh)
I mean it, a single legion of rome could probably bring England to their knees. Hell, recreators probably could do it.
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One of the best episodes of South Park was when Cartman became interested in civil war re-enacting, and decided that the South should win.
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (TN0g+)
She's a perfect advertisement for why everyone can't stand the Palestinians.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
France says it's going to recognize a Palestinian state. Wonder where it will be?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (63Dwl)
Hey there's probably 2 black guys in Russia! Well not in 1920
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (dfIr7)
Those Pyrsons of Kolor that the Palestinian broad took over to her homeland probably didn't learn the valuable lesson that they got in real time.
Posted by: Puddleglum, chillin' in Amish Country at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (h05F7)
No-talent gold-digging bimbo who seduces and marries a British royal prince, expecting it will instantly elevate her to an A-list Hollywood celebrity, in reality ends-up an aging, no-talent, Hollywood laughingstock.
Yet the biggest loser is and will continue to be her husband, now a fallen royal prince.
Sad. Sadly and accurately predicted by everyone with an IQ over 60. Harry obviously has an IQ of 60 or lower.
Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (jgmnb)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:34 PM (fV+MH)
lol, yes. Please do this.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (i24o9)
Y’know, I don’t get it with these third-world countries and their border disputes.
The two countries sit down, a map of the border between them. One of them starts at the top of the map, and says, “OK, we really want this shitstain hellhole, but we’ll let you have this other shitstain hellhole in exchamge” And so on down the entire length of the map.
It’s simple horse trading. How the hell hard is that?
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Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM (HFcKg)
they'll be killed along with the others if the Palis get their way. They aren't going to be doing genetic testing while massacring millions of people.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (8uzBS)
I'd love to see that smug piece of shit behind bars.
Same for the demented retard.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)
It’s simple horse trading. How the hell hard is that?
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:45 PM (77rzZ)
Tell the redistricting commissions for every US state.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (63Dwl)
Calais. They finally kicked all the Nigerians out.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Seagrams and sprite at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (oaPfe)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)
Its the year that was at fault, not MoMe.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"
Black Fenelon.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (fV+MH)
Doesn't quite roll off the tongue like Black Betty.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:43 PM
They have all been condemned by the Popular People's Front of Judea.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (1l+t9)
The Democrat Party has endorsed Minneapolis Mayor Jonathan Frey's socialist Somali challenger.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (lCaJd)
Apropos of nothing…. The Ravens are really the old Browns, the Indy Colts are really the old Baltimore Colts, the Titans are really the old Houston Oilers…. And the Washington Football Team is the Redskins… not this Commanders horseshit
Not to mention the Rams can’t decide whether they’re LA, Anaheim or St Louis… the Oakland Raiders are now Las Vegas and the Cardinals should be in St Louis (RIP Conrad Dobler) but they’re so bad who cares….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ANuwa)
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They run a good lumber yard, always had great service there
Posted by: Arnold Ziffel at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8AONa)
Frey is a NPC commie. But he’s also a Jew who supports (to some degree) Israel and doesn’t jump into ovens to placate Muslims. He’s running in a city with probably more Somalis and Muslims than Somalia itself. So of course he has to go.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)
I was wondering about that.
Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (aBgBM)
Their usefullness is coming to an end. Orange Man is offering a better way.
Fighting over regional scraps pales in comparison to being a bigger fish on a bigger stage.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
Wham ba lam.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)
Hey there's probably 2 black guys in Russia! Well not in 1920
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:42 PM (dfIr7)
In the cold war and later they had a decent college for allies from Africa in Moscow.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (vFG9F)
That human gleet is still in office?
Pro tip for Minnneapolis: the solution to the problems created by your communist mayor is not electing one who's even further to the left.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)
Back to my movie. If you're tired of refighting the Civil War, there's always refighting the Cold War: "The Bedford Incident".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (kpS4V)
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Good book. By Mark Raskovich. A bit different than the movie.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (HZi96)
When I’m at work I work. When I’m not at work I don’t work.
Nice and balanced.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (Vvm2m)
Sweet! How do I get in on this? I'll have them showing up promptly at the office in morning suits, top hats and spats.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 06:50 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:51 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ANuwa)
Cardinals were originally in Chicago. The Rams, in Cleveland.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)
https://tinyurl.com/bdcunn4c
Good night, all!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 25, 2025 06:47 PM (i24o9)
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Ram a lam.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (77rzZ)
Sweet! How do I get in on this? I'll have them showing up promptly at the office in morning suits, top hats and spats.
Posted by: Paco
If it were possible, we'd love to send in a few Parris Island DIs.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)
probably didn't have much choice. GOP rarely runs anyone in these places.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (77rzZ)
Ok there’s a lot of examples.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)
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I thought it was ram a lam. He's got the hillbilly mush mouth thing going so I could be wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)
As for John Harbaugh's answer, I honestly don't know if I'd have accepted an invitation to hang with Obama or Biden when they were in office. Maybe if there'd been an indication that other, interesting, people would be there I would.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:41 PM (E2+Uh)
I switched off a show purportedly about Vikings after the third or fourth black person showed up in a Viking village circa 700 AD, and not as slaves, either.
Yeah, those boys got around, but if there were any black people on their home turf they would've been thralls at best.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (qpyNK)
Sweet! How do I get in on this? I'll have them showing up promptly at the office in morning suits, top hats and spats.
Posted by: Paco
Me too! I will have them show up early to get the lay of the land, since it changes daily, in clean scrubs, focused, and ready to do some heavy duty healing.
And they will lock their frigging cell phones in the break room.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:52 PM (77rzZ)
We'd have to find 2 proxy commenters to argue for us to be realistic.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (3kTgY)
The Arabs in Judea and Samaria are sick of the fakestinians.
Posted by: Ben Had
_________
PaliLuv is inversely proportional to the proximity of actual Palestinians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)
I go with Bramble Jam
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (1l+t9)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (qpyNK)
They got most of their slaves from inland Russia and the Baltic states.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)
"Team of rivals," Nicolle Wallace says all starry-eyed, showing what a professor of history she is.
Does she KNOW who's in Trump's cabinet?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)
I thought it was bam ba lam.
Posted by: No Name Today at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (vlXMQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (bknhw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)
I go with Bramble Jam
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (1l+t9)
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone wild, bam-ba-lam
according to Google lyrics.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)
Or maybe he's already there, don't know.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:46 PM (HFcKg)
Its the year that was at fault, not MoMe.
Posted by: Oldcat
The Noodle Incident had far-ranging repercussions.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (77rzZ)
hmmm, I'm not seeing that in my one minute internet review.
"In 1881, entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe purchased the Brown Stockings barnstorming club, renamed it the St. Louis Browns, and made it a charter member of the American Association baseball league. The team won four league championships, qualifying them to play in the era's professional baseball championship series, a forerunner of the modern World Series.[7] In two of these championships, the Browns met the Chicago White Stockings, now the Chicago Cubs, launching the enduring Cardinals–Cubs rivalry.
In 1892, the Browns – also called the Perfectos – joined the National League. In 1900, the team was renamed the Cardinals (Two years later, an unrelated St. Louis Browns team joined the American League)."
Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:51 PM (8avO+)
And the Bears were originally in...
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (E2+Uh)
So pretty please, with sugar on top, answer the fuckin phone.
Posted by: The Wolf at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (wzAuc)
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone wild, bam-ba-lam
Said, "It weren't none of mine," bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone blind, bam-ba-lam
I said, oh, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
[Instrumental Break]
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (Vvm2m)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (84SEz)
Ok there’s a lot of examples.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (Vvm2m)
I won't have you slur the reputation of the famed Mormon Jazz community, sir. Fie on you!!
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (1l+t9)
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Whoa, Black Betty, bam-ba-lam
Black Betty had a child, bam-ba-lam
The damn thing gone wild, bam-ba-lam
according to Google lyrics.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (8avO+)
Yeah, but you can't sing that when you're making toast with bramble jam.
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (1l+t9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (hIY2p)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (aeiyZ)
"Team of rivals," Nicolle Wallace says all starry-eyed, showing what a professor of history she is.
Does she KNOW who's in Trump's cabinet?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:54 PM (lCaJd)
PBS always presented Doris Kearns Goodwin as a super historian but I think her real super power was exciting LBJ in bed
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (HFcKg)
there used to be a Transjordan. it got better
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8avO+)
It's the Victilympics! First, let's hear from the Palestinians!
Palestinians: "We are being genocided by the Jews!"
Great, now let's hear from the Black Americans!
Palestinians (rushing the podium): "What, those slaves and monkeys?!?!"
*awkward silence*
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (lCaJd)
>>So pretty please, with sugar on top, answer the fuckin phone.
hahahahaha
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (hIY2p)
Etiquette coaches for Gen Z job applicants, with an emphasis on workplace attire?
_________
I have an old (1920s) edition of Emily Post's Etiquette. Very interesting and more timely than you'd think.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (6RwsA)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (HFcKg)
Oh, OK, my one minute reading of comments failed me again. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (vbXSk)
"Where did you learn to fold a pocket handkerchief maggot!!!! Look at it !!! LOOK AT IT!!!!! Does that look "casual, but smart" to you?!?!
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: jsg at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (1l+t9)
Yes , when singing to music when a cat is around I turn every word in the song into the cat's name.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (8avO+)
--Gen A
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (dfIr7)
No.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (fV+MH)
Utah Singers?
Utah Bees?
Utah Putty Tats?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8avO+)
Transalpine Gaul. One of Caesar's provinces (before he rebelled.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:58 PM (aeiyZ)
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Definite AOC vibes, plus she knows intersectionality better than you.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (lCaJd)
Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
Let me repeat that: A British government employee wants adult biological men approaching school-age girls to ask them for accompaniment to a women's bathroom, on the grounds that this makes them less likely to be kicked out of them for not being a real woman because, as the thinking goes, they have a child vouching for their gender.
You have no idea how lucky we are to have won last November.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 07:01 PM (L/fGl)
That kinda works.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (fV+MH)
I like big buttes and I cannot lie! — Ross Geller
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (6RwsA)
Utah Bees?
Utah Putty Tats?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (S/Y4j)
I taw a puddy tat, u tah puddy tats too?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (S/Y4j)
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Where are the damages payments? She should be paid double that amount in damages.
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (viF8m)
I hear Brigham Young played a mean slap bass.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (mADJX)
Russia is said to be extremely worried about the potential for a large-scale conflict to breakout in Southeastern Asia, as clashes between Cambodia and Thailand continue into Friday, with Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stating, “The Russian side expresses concern over the escalation of conflict and calls on the parties to exercise restraint and establish a dialogue to resolve the Thai-Cambodian differences by peaceful means.” The Foreign Ministry has further told its citizens to “remain vigilant” in both Cambodia and Thailand.
Grok @grok 18h
Replying to @ktchandra2 @sentdefender
Russia's concern stems from its deepening ties with both nations—trade pacts with Thailand and military cooperation with Cambodia. Escalation could destabilize ASEAN, disrupt energy investments, and force Moscow to pick sides amid its Asian pivot. Dialogue is key to avert wider fallout.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (2yoRf)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 07:03 PM (8uzBS)
Ok there’s a lot of examples.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM (Vvm2m)
Other than the Cleveland and Tampa MLB teams, the Washington NFL team, and a several NFL and MLB teams back when the Earth had almost finished cooling, have any other pro teams renamed without moving?
One team that in my opinion should absolutely re-name is the Arizona Diamondbacks. A poisonous viper is not a relatable team symbol/mascot. But there aren't many options in Arizona. Cactus Wrens? No. Wildcats? No. Already too many Wildcats in college ball, plus the U of A Wildcats. Sun Devil fans would revolt. Grand Canyons? Petrified Forests? Meteor Craters? Gila Monsters? The Superstitions would be catchy but is right out for a sports team.
Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 07:03 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:04 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:48 PM (ANuwa)
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Hold my beer.
Posted by: The __________ Athletics at July 25, 2025 07:04 PM (wzAuc)
And the song is not a call back to the later parts of the Mongol conquest of the Middle East?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:04 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (8avO+)
Transalpine Gaul. One of Caesar's provinces (before he rebelled.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (zZu0s)
also was a Cisalpine Gaul. No cis women tho.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)
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I bet these are the children of the middle class parents who know that they don't have to work to buy what they want, mom and dad will pay for everything.
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (unUNN)
>>probably didn't have much choice. GOP rarely runs anyone in these places.
The general election was between three DFL candidates, no Republicans were on the ballot.
They use rank choice voting in the primaries and the three highest ranked move on to the general.
So, it's rigged against any Repbublican, so no ones wasting money running foe mayor of that sh*thole other than lunatics.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (XV/Pl)
Whoa, everything after the 'but' is always null.
"...anti blackness exists in every single part of the world..."
That's racist.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:06 PM (LWopF)
Haven't checked lately, but recently one of the russki news channels had a reasonably hawt young black woman as one of their anchors. Kristina Kuruma. I figure she's offspring of some commie Africans from the Glorious Days of Soviet Power, but not sure.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 25, 2025 07:06 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 07:06 PM (hIY2p)
'I went to school with one of these Hitler youth. The level of hatred the woman had shocked the conscience.'
Self-hatred in disguise. How could it be otherwise for a culture as failed as Palestine?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:00 PM (HFcKg)
five sociopaths with cattle prods to roam the cubicle farm.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (D7oie)
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I think original 6 in NHL had a few
Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2025 06:59 PM (hIY2p)
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No, that would be the Flamers. Or maybe Flaming.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:07 PM (D7oie)
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Office linebacker.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (XvL8K)
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
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The UK won't even go down fighting. They gave up their guns and don't have the will to use brooms and shovels to lie in wait.
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Oldcat
The Noodle Incident had far-ranging repercussions.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:56 PM (77rzZ)
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The trampoline bouncing made the timeline split into two different HQ universes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:09 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:09 PM (fV+MH)
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
He should be beaten with a shovel and lit on fire.
Instead, the British are inviting him in for tea.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 25, 2025 07:10 PM (pcNL9)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:10 PM (HFcKg)
Other than the Cleveland and Tampa MLB teams, the Washington NFL team, and a several NFL and MLB teams back when the Earth had almost finished cooling, have any other pro teams renamed without moving?
_________
The Boston Braves were the Bees for a while in the 1940s after Lou Perini bought the team.
The Philadelphia Phillies were the Blue Jays for a few years in the 1940s after Bob Carpenter bought the team.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (HZi96)
Ok there’s a lot of examples.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 25, 2025 06:53 PM
This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: L.A. Dodgers at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2025 07:03 PM (aBgBM)
The Louisville Colonels were renamed to the Cyclones after one destroyed the town.
I believe the Cubs got that name when the manager had a very young team.
the Indians got their name from a player who was reputedly at least Indian. Lou Sockalexis
The Yankees were originally the Highlanders.
Houston had a different name before the Astrodome ... Colt 45s?
many more examples exist
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (8avO+)
Who funded the trip for a bunch of Black Americans to Palestine? What I love is that it appears to have been utterly wasted.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (lCaJd)
I love all those old area names. The older the better, stuff like Dacia and Aquitania and Elam
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Crusader
Even if they had the guns, I don't think what's left has the gonads.
Posted by: MkY at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (cPGH3)
>>That's racist.
It's probably not pure anti-black sentiment, I'm sure they have choice epithets for plain old white people too.
Like, f**king white people or stupid f**king white people, I mean, no one has come up with a good epithet or slur for white people.
Which is odd.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (XV/Pl)
Foxborough, MA might give it a run. And they often win.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (viF8m)
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"I am Fenelon the White, and I come back to you now before this thread is willowed"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (dfIr7)
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I bet she refrained from letting her guests know that it was Muslims who sold blacks into slavery into the new world.
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (unUNN)
Oh, ha, well I think they understand the "Palestinian" people pretty well now, bitch.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (mADJX)
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He played as part of a sister-wife combo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (kTd/k)
Fun fact: at the apex of his time at San Diego State, Coryell had seniors who couldn't break into the starting line-up for the Aztecs, starting with their teams in the NFL the next year. Incredible bench when it came to receivers.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (U/Byj)
He has the clueless, open-faced look of the congenital dumbass.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 25, 2025 07:08 PM (XvL8K)
Green Bay might qualify. Canton OH had a team. Early football had a lot of small market teams and lots of failed franchises.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (aeiyZ)
Self-hatred in disguise. How could it be otherwise for a culture as failed as Palestine?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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There is no culture in the Gaza. A culture is self supporting.
Gaza is an area of homeless street people who are maintained
by external agents.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)
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Upper Volta. It's electric!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:12 PM (unUNN)
well, most of their slave trade went into Arabia. New world slavery came via blacks mostly in west africa as far as I know.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (HFcKg)
Early football had a lot of small market teams and lots of failed franchises.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)
__________
Frankfort Yellow Jackets
Pottsville Maroons
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (xEkiA)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)
Or they were all cis women.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (kpS4V)
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Long-hair round eye!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)
>>Whiteys have "blue-eyed devil" or "cracker", or as the Chinese say, "big noses" ( for Russians, but also applied to your generic paleface).
Those really don't land do they.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (XV/Pl)
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"I am Fenelon the White, and I come back to you now before this thread is willowed"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes"
Forsooth.
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
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See the video of Yasser Arafat's caravan of Mercedes traveling from Egypt to the promised land?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:16 PM (vFG9F)
Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11
A taxpayer-funded BBC employee in the UK is leading a campaign to distribute bright yellow badges to schoolchildren. These "ally" badges would invite transgender adult strangers to approach the children wearing them to ask the children to accompany them to a bathroom.
Let me repeat that: A British government employee wants adult biological men approaching school-age girls to ask them for accompaniment to a women's bathroom, on the grounds that this makes them less likely to be kicked out of them for not being a real woman because, as the thinking goes, they have a child vouching for their gender.
You have no idea how lucky we are to have won last November.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Lying Dogface Pony Soldier at July 25, 2025 07:01 PM (L/fGl)
When are we GTFO NATO?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (ULPxl)
Its like that black woman who moved to Russia of all places because of perceived racism in America. Only to meet worse racists in Russia... derp
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Another take on her: A Russian woman (who stated the caveat that Black woman didn't put everything on video) said the Black woman was acting like an obnoxious, ignorant, arrogant foreigner. Russians have a certain way of getting along with their neighbors, and it doesn't include you leaving your baby stroller and other shit in the hallway and blocking access and then being an obnoxious name-caller when you're asked to do something about it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:02 PM (mADJX)
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He played as part of a sister-wife combo.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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*Golf clap*
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (xEkiA)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)
You need to get Europa Universalis 4. If you play your game right you can become one of those old nations and play as them. The trite one is to save Byzantium, which is tough since the game starts about 9 years before the fall.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)
I just looked it up, and apparently BY had 56 wives, so we might be talking about something more along the lines of Artie Shaw's orchestra when he had a strings section.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (mADJX)
>>Somebody called me a honky once. So I called him one too.
But honkey is just funny, it has no power or juice.
It's definitely not a power word.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 06:39 PM (dIske)
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And you follow at a safe distance to make sure the debris does not damage your car when the inevitable crash occurs.
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (unUNN)
Posted by: PG at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (gQbO4)
Posted by: Oldcat
That was the Canton Bulldogs way back in the early 1900's. Jim Thorpe played for them.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 06:36 PM (HFcKg)
A Ten-fer!
Hi Ben Had. Well, I have a hotel room booked in Corsicana, so I am committed. In the coming month I will try to reach out to you via email.
I am driving and am willing, and actually hoping, someone on my route would like to ride along. Will have to figure out how to get that info out to the Horde.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (144I4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:15 PM (kpS4V)
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The Burkinabes visiting Ramstein were puzzled that wine was not served with lunch. A senior NCO delicately explained that the troops don't work as hard after they drink.
The Burkinabes laughed, and said their men worked much harder after a bottle.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (ZOv7s)
Foxborough, MA might give it a run. And they often win.
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Pats started out as the Boston Patriots. Kinda hilariously inept, they had no home stadium for most of their beginning -- played home games at Boston University, Fenway, and most hilariously Harvard. Harvard famously refused to let them use the Crimson locker rooms, they had to change in the nearby hotel they were staying at and show up on the bus fully padded.
Posted by: sharksauce at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (wqxP9)
Posted by: Euro at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (eM/71)
The Oorang Indians (NFL 1922-23) were from LaRue, Ohio.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (viF8m)
Cincinnati Redlegs are the oldest franchise, 1869. Cubs are the oldest team in the NL I believe. Reds jumped to the AA when beer and whiskey were banned by the NL.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)
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Gweilo. Means ‘ghoul’ more than ‘ghost.’
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (aeiyZ)
Russians have a certain way of getting along with their neighbors, and it doesn't include you leaving your baby stroller and other shit in the hallway and blocking access and then being an obnoxious name-caller when you're asked to do something about it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (lCaJd)
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Russians begin their conversations with, "Fuck your mother."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (wBaIH)
I laughed.
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (Ptnlt)
Just you can't be. Thus... Palestinians, who are not a Race and are just a made up newly formed Tribe, get to be Racist...
Japanese... get to be Racist... and are.
Chinese? Hell, they are Racist against other brands of Chinese.
Right now? I get the Thais are being Racist against the Cambodians... and vice versa (happens when you are shootin at each other).
Black Americans, get to be Racist... Mexican Americans... get to be Racist...
In fact, the only people who are not ALLOWED to be Racist, or Sexist... are US Men.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (89Sog)
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:18 PM (mADJX)
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"Briggie Young's Swinging Sister-Wife Jazz Orchestra"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)
Best is: play as Byzantium in Crusader Kings 2. Reconsider Rome and change to that civ. Then transfer game to Europe universality. I did it once. It was a bit boring because as Rome in EUIV you just could bitch slap anyone and do anything you wanted, but it was cool as hell, not going to lie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:57 PM (E2+Uh)
Decatur
Posted by: tankdemon at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dGB1t)
Posted by: Crusader
Dare I say, dumberer?
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (144I4)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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So, you expect her to 'act white'?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (LWopF)
The Oorang Indians (NFL 1922-23) were from LaRue, Ohio.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (zdLoL)
676 peeps there now, it may have had past greatness.
The darndest thing is the side blurb on the right calls it a "human settlement". What the hell?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)
Don't forget Lower Slobbovia.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (wBaIH)
Why is she not wearing a Burka? Why is she being ALLOWED to speak to Men at all?
Totes non Islamic...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:22 PM (mP0Kj)
And disolved in 1870.
And then Harry Wright moved to Boston and started the franchise in Boston that has continued ever since and is now known as the Atlanta Braves.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: eleven at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (fV+MH)
"There are more TV projects coming soon with both the duke and duchess," a source told Page Six. They also are set to sign a first-look deal with the streamer when their exclusive deal ends this year.
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Good lord, Netflix. Cancel one Harkle show then option another? Unless it's something about someone else altogether that they're executive-producing (unlikely, since their power is their SELVES), what else is there to build a show on? (I don't think a reality Show About Nothing would work.)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 06:55 PM (HZi96)
That was a joke in "Baseketball". The Lakers moved to LA where there are no lakes; the Jazz moved to Utah where music is banned.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (gKWVE)
"Briggie Young's Swinging Sister-Wife Jazz Orchestra"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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Good thing they keep accurate records.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (zZu0s)
I saw a thing where they transferred from CK to EU to Vicky to the WWII game to Sellaris. Madness. But fun to watch the maps.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor"
Maybe it's because words can only hurt you if you let them.
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had
Urban legend has it that NoVa means no go, so the people just didn't go.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (144I4)
The darndest thing is the side blurb on the right calls it a "human settlement". What the hell?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)
Columbia CA, which was almost voted to be the Capital of Calif when it was formed... is not even a Town anymore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (mP0Kj)
My space is devoid of anything personal. No work shit either if it isn't current. Other than an old school calendar the walls are bare. When I work I am looking at the work. When done I go home.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (/lPRQ)
The baseball field being a Diamond and the Team being in AZ...this name makes more sense than most.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (oSEaw)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:23 PM (lCaJd)
At a guess this is just a bone thrown to their own staff projecting Lady Di energy onto Megan. They can wiggle out of it when they get tired.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 25, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)
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I always wondered what a "jug head" was. I heard the term and, of course, saw it in the Archie comics. But, I didn't get the reference until I saw a photo of the Somali Socialist in Minneapolis. The dude is a "jug head." I used to have a cookie jar that was a face with two giant ears sticking out serving as handles. The Somali Socialist could be the cookie jar's twin brother. He has a head like a jug with two convenient handles disguised as ears.
Posted by: Orson at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)
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None of the derogatory names for blacks sting them either. It’s just another way for them to police speech of others and thus gain power over them. If ‘nigger’ was truly offensive to them, they wouldn’t have built an entire subculture around saying it.
Now, I’m not saying they like being called that, but nobody likes being called non-racial insults like ‘asshole’ either.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (aeiyZ)
I love that name. My football team is named after an airport.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (/lPRQ)
I made it to the flagship twice in FTL but I keep getting spanked over there.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (gKWVE)
Replaced many years later by the Boston Prolapsed Anuses
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (oSEaw)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:21 PM (dfIr7)
We have been trained from Birth, that we are not ALLOWED to be offended.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 25, 2025 07:27 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (/lPRQ)
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Mine was very minimalist until by then-boss got a bug up his ass about my being in the National Guard. After that, I hung every award, training certification or attaboy I could find, so that no matter where he looked, there it was.
It worked - he stopped coming in.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:27 PM (ZOv7s)
Huh.
Posted by: The JEF at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: zombie at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (144I4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:14 PM (kpS4V)
My wife has a story that when she was 4 years old or so, some US GIs came by her orphanage on a hearts-and-minds do, to give out chocolate and dry milk. She said none of the children had ever seen Americans before, and she said they were ENORMOUS tall men wearing uniforms who had big pointy noses and all the girls in the ward started crying and hiding under blankets.
The woman in charge of the ward made every girl hold out her hand even from under the blanket, and accept the candy.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (D7oie)
Semen Demon has always been the funniest.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (oSEaw)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
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That and Gen X types grew up insulting everyone and everything around them. Snark is the language of my people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (HaTLf)
Like Waldo and Morral, they have an exit sign on 23, so people know the place exists.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (zdLoL)
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (oSEaw)
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Which moved to San Francisco in the 1960s.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 07:30 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:17 PM (kpS4V)
Gringo, redneck, yankee.
People wanted to call me Yanquí since they thought that was the polite term. I told them to call me "gringo" because I wasn't from New England.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (D7oie)
Why would Page want to transition into a twink?
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She missed the twink phase and went straight to shrunken middle-aged guy. Although get this: the same Brits (some London school) who are encouraging schoolgirls to wear "Molest me" badges also picked "Elliot Page" as the Male Role Model of the Year.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (TN0g+)
The baseball field being a Diamond and the Team being in AZ...this name makes more sense than most.
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:25 PM (oSEaw)
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That, plus diamondback rattlers are fearsome, dangerous creatures you don’t fuck with. See Grizzlies, Raptors, Lions, Jaguars, Panthers, Eagles, Predators, etc.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (aeiyZ)
It is pretty annoying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (zZu0s)
Oh, yeah, guy's got a head like a soup tureen.
Posted by: Paco at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (mADJX)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:19 PM (HZi96)
Establishing boundaries at the first contact is important.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:32 PM (D7oie)
@realDonaldTrump on @BarackObama having Presidential immunity:
“It probably helps him a lot but not the people around him.”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (vFG9F)
That "Palestinian-American" chick just needs a good rogering to get rid of all the toxins in her ideology.
Posted by: zombie at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (pMi6S)
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I think a good rogering would help a lot of AWFLs. Not that I'm volunteering.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (mP0Kj)
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That and Gen X types grew up insulting everyone and everything around them. Snark is the language of my people.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Growing up, we thought it was funny when decade-younger siblings picked up on our talent, and flung them back at us.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:31 PM (lCaJd)
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She knew all about being molested.
Kind of crazy that with all the video, cell phones, etc. her blatant, obvious abuse went completely unremarked on. Her descent into madness was hailed as transformative.
Was she too scared to resist, too broken, or paid off? Maybe all three.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (gKWVE)
I made it to the flagship twice in FTL but I keep getting spanked over there.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 25, 2025 07:26 PM (gKWVE)
I played it for a while some years back. It is interesting at first as you explore and build colonies and habitats. The midgame tends to get dominated by big random events that can raise havoc galactically. After that it tends to end as you either have won everything or lost. Once at the end of the tech tree and the events stop you kinda have nothing to do. There are too few revolts to keep it interesting. That was quite a while ago they may have changed a lot since then. The space battles are very pretty. When I broke an arm I had to put that aside pretty much and never picked it up since.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (8avO+)
That "Palestinian-American" chick just needs a good rogering to get rid of all the toxins in her ideology.
Posted by: zombie
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What's funny is she did get a good rogering by those Black American Victilympic athletes and she's still angrily picking her way through the intersections within intersections upon intersections.
I can't imagine what would drive out the toxins.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 25, 2025 07:34 PM (lCaJd)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Whoa now, let's not be too hasty.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (144I4)
Flames makes sense for a team from Atlanta (thanks, Billy T. Sherman) but not one from Clagary. Same as Lakers is a good Minnesota name, but makes no sense in LA. And who in their right mind associates Utah and Jazz? Dodgers (people dodging street cars in Brooklyn) isn't exactly a Los Angeles activity either.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 25, 2025 07:35 PM (dGB1t)
Posted by: polynikes at July 25, 2025 07:35 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (ZOv7s)
Growing up, we thought it was funny when decade-younger siblings picked up on our talent, and flung them back at us.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 07:33 PM (S/Y4j)
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BURN!!!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 07:36 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 25, 2025 07:24 PM (/lPRQ)
I had a couple pictures, and a framed commendation. I was allowed to have a personal lamp in my cubical, so I bought a floor lamp
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:36 PM (D7oie)
I laughed.
Posted by: Accomack on the Sheepscot at July 25, 2025 07:20 PM (Ptnlt)
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Now the Cracker Ass MoFos is a team name I can get behind.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 25, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: garrett at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (oSEaw)
I dated her
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:38 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 07:28 PM (D7oie)
When I was a lad there was a bunch of National Guard peeps at a root beer stand and one of them took off a pin from his hat/uni and put it on my cub scout cap. It had the round bit on the bottom so he might have had a decent rank/experience.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 07:39 PM (8avO+)
It was the first time I understood the difference between "rich" and "wealthy." The guy was clearly loaded. But I'm from America, so I've seen people who have a lot more money than that guy - even in the outskirts of Golden, CO.
It was the way he and his children lived, and their attitudes, and their bearing. Aristocratic. One of the things I noticed the most was that he had a staff - drivers, bodyguards, etc. But no household staff. The generations of his family's women cooked (amazingly well) and cleaned. And they ate after the males - even us young boys.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (BI5O2)
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Mark Harmon's character on NCIS was well-written. The surrounding cast was uneven, depending upon which "era" you are watching. The supporting cast probably peaked before that one guy left for his own show.
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (TN0g+)
That seems a hell of a lot more healthy and beneficial than being trained to continually take offense and feel belittled
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (dfIr7)
'I like "Sons of Yakoob" best. N.o.I. lore is super kino. You kind of laugh but ...'
There's murderous hatred behind this lunacy. Does that take away any of the humor?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 25, 2025 07:40 PM (3wi/L)
Jeff Daniels is a smug and condescending prick.
As a Yooper, I hope him in especial contempt because he created an execrable film, "Escanaba in Da Moonlight", wherein he showed his high regard for his fellow Michiganders who live in the U.P. by portraying us as backwoods bumpkins.
Fuck you, Daniels, you troll.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 25, 2025 07:46 PM (Tv15w)
Hey, Pali chick -- you and your buddies fronting as humans, who style yourselves "Palestinians", are the rabid dogs of the human race. The shits the rest of us have to give for you and your hierarchy of oppression are gone for good. Squabble and caterwaul among yourselves as much as you want -- we don't give a shit.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 25, 2025 07:59 PM (Tv15w)
It made beer come out my nose. It was just so...far fetched.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 25, 2025 08:30 PM (D1vbu)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at July 26, 2025 01:54 AM (XKj0h)
You have no idea how lucky we are to have won in 1781
Posted by: Mike B at July 26, 2025 07:21 AM (zFTe/)
Ninth Circuit Panel: No, You Can't Discriminate Against Christians Just Because They Refuse To Say They'd Support Transing Their Children
Oregon attempted to block a Christian woman from adopting a child because she refused to say she'd support genital mutilation for the child if the child hypothetically decided to be "Trans."
The Ninth Circuit Court of appeals overturned Oregon's decision and rebuked them for blatant invidious discrimination.Of course. Note that is the lowly district court judge making the original lawless ruling. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, acting through a three-judge panel, then overruled this woke cow. Oregon has "training materials" for prospective adoptive parents, called "RAFT." One of the "guidances" this woke manual demands is fealty to the trans cause for all adoptive parents.
Judges nominated by presidents Trump, Clinton and George W. Bush walk into a First Amendment case about compelled affirmation of gender identity and facilitation of medicalized transitions as a condition of adoption. The punchline may surprise you. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday blocked Oregon's Department of Human Services from denying Jessica Bates' application to adopt the siblings she is fostering based on her refusal to honor the asserted gender identity of "hypothetical adopted children" in speech or actions, with the Trump and Clinton nominees overruling the Bush nominee. U.S District Judge Adrienne Nelson, nominated by President Biden, denied a preliminary injunction for the widowed Christian mother of five in 2023, arguing the failure to "respect a child's LGBTQ+ identity imposes collateral harm on the child's development, safety, and physical well-being."
This is unbelievable: Oregon will refuse you an adoption if you won't take your children to "pride" sexual kink events and fetish parades.
"Oregon only initiated its investigation into Bates's beliefs after she expressed disagreement with the RAFT training," which it said defines its "expectation" for adhering to the regulation that adoption applicants "respect, accept and support" the gender identity of adoptive children, said the opinion by Judge Daniel Bress, joined by Judge Michael Hawkins. "In the context of raising children, such respect and support inevitably both restricts and compels speech," as Judge Nelson found, they said, dinging Bush nominee Judge Richard Clifton's dissent for botching the factual record and hence the correct review standards. "The situation would be no different if the state had restricted parental speech favoring more 'progressive' views of sexuality and gender identity, while compelling speech along the lines of Bates's more traditional understanding," according to the opinion. The duo said a "state's general conception of the child's best interest does not create a force field against the valid operation of other constitutional rights," such that it could deny adoption based on the "political view, race, or religious affiliations" of prospective parents.
That's not the only big win this week. Due to Trump's E.O. demanding that women's sports be reserved for -- now here's a twist -- women, the Olympic and Paralympic Committees have banned men from participating in women's sports. Trump is rolling back Woke like Reagan rolled back the Soviet Union. From the NYT:
Oregon deems as unfit prospective parents who won't take young children "to events like pride parades," as ODHS explicitly demanded of Bates, which is "false and incredibly dangerous," Bates's lawyer Jonathan Scruggs of the Alliance Defending Freedom said in celebrating the ruling. "The 9th Circuit was right to remind Oregon that the foster and adoption system is supposed to serve the best interests of children, not the state's ideological crusade," he said. ... Oregon's RAFT training is far-reaching even by the standards of gender affirmation, resembling a Canadian gender studies course more than American adoption requirements. The Bress opinion recounts its distinctives, referring to children by the LGBTQ variant "LGBTQI2-S," which is common in Canada and whose last abbreviation means "two-spirit," a modern indigenous term of disputed authenticity. RAFT claims "an infinite number of pronouns" exist and that prospective parents must always ask for them first. Regardless of whether their children identify as LGBTQ, parents should display "symbols indicating an LGBTQ-affirming environment" and provide books and media that celebrate LGBTQ people such as "transgender women in history." The materials take aim at religion, claiming "faith-based communities" can be sources of "prejudice and rejection" and instructing parents not to force youth to attend religious activities "openly hostile or unsupportive of people with diverse" sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. ... Adoptive parents must give children "the ability to discuss, provide, and obtain authorization for medically necessary, transition-related treatment, if desired," referring to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries to resemble the opposite sex that allegedly improve mental health and reduce suicides, a claim with little rigorous evidence. ... The majority repeatedly cites RAFT examples as both strong suggestions and mandates, "broadly reflective of a particular viewpoint on sexual orientation and gender identity, which parents must actively promote under Oregon's policy." The state's claim that it's regulating speech only "incidental to conduct" would have been "much stronger" if it "simply outlawed harassment or denigration of LGBTQ children --which Bates strongly avers she would not do," but its speech regulation "predominates," they said.
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its eligibility rules on Monday to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women's sports, and now will comply with President Trump's executive order on the issue, according to a post on the organization's website. The new policy, expressed in a short, vaguely worded paragraph, is tucked under the category of "USOPC Athlete Safety Policy" on the site, and does not include details of how the ban will work. Nor does the new policy include the word "transgender" or the title of Mr. Trump's executive order, "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," referring to it instead as "Executive Order 14201." ... The committee's new policy means that the national governing bodies of sports federations in the United States -- which oversee sporting events for all ages, from youth to masters' competitions -- now must follow the U.S.O.P.C.'s lead, according to several chief executives of sports within the Olympic movement.The Olympic Committee is so afraid to make this change that they basically hid it and refuse to comment further on it. But apparently their hand was forced by Trump's E.O.
WATCH: “I’m very glad that we’re at a point where common sense is winning.”
— ICONS (@icons_women) July 23, 2025
🤺Fencer Stephanie Turner responds to the new US Olympic & Paralympic Committee ban of men from women’s sports | @AmericaNewsroom pic.twitter.com/HKpo8ijPA6
HOLY SHLIT: A female fencer was EXPELLED from a @USAFencing event after she refused to compete against a MALE who invaded the Women's competition.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 2, 2025
Why is a woman getting expelled for being forced to play against a man?
We demand answers @USAFencingpic.twitter.com/jWyzbWhrab
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg Female fencer takes a knee to protest against her biologically male opponent during a fencing match.
The opponent, Redmond Sullivan, switched from the men's fencing team to the women's fencing team at Wagner College last year.
Sullivan shockingly started dominating the female competition after the switch was made. During the Connecticut Division Junior Olympic Qualifiers last year, for example, Sullivan competed with the female athletes and won. The video below reportedly took place over the weekend. "Sullivan's female opponent was expelled from the USA Fencing event at the Univ. of Maryland over the weekend," reported ICONS.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2025 05:22 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2025 05:24 PM (n+Gtf)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 05:24 PM (vFG9F)
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Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:24 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Capatin Fantsatic at July 25, 2025 05:24 PM (VPPG8)
Sullivan shockingly started dominating the female competition after the switch was made.
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Dominating the Dojo!
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2025 05:25 PM (n+Gtf)
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:26 PM (krQz2)
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Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (tykPk)
Cleo Laine, whose husky contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz and who was regarded by many as Britain's greatest contribution to the quintessentially American music, has died. She was 97. - AP
Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (2yoRf)
Vincent: Boy, I wish I could've caught him doing it. I'd have given anything to catch that asshole doing it. It'd been worth him doing it just so I could've caught him doing it.
That's kinda how I feel about all these victories. It's almost worth it that the left went so batshit crazy to see all of these victories slam down on their dum little heads.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (bNf8H)
Posted by: pookysgirl at July 25, 2025 05:28 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (GdbU+)
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:30 PM (t0Rmr)
Does Italicania even exist anymore, or has it been buried under the Muzzie invasions?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 25, 2025 05:30 PM (Tv15w)
*mournful violin plays*
*very slow zoom on picture of Ken Burns with fork in hand staring at a plate with a single small block of tofu upon it. Beside the plate is a glass of tepid creek water*
*very slow zoom on writing upon an iPhone's screen*
My Dearest Olivia,
I hesitate to tell you, my dearest, of the hard times which have fallen upon me.
No longer have I been able to attend swanky parties in Manhattan with those delightful Cambodian shrimp rolls, but have instead been forced to subsist on one meager portion of tofu per day and a single glass of water
Due to the terrible financial restrictions placed upon PBS by the rampaging Trump, I have been forced to cancel my series on The American Pancake, and its terrible racist origins in white supremacy.
Be strong my darling for there is a glimmer of hope. I have made the acquaintance of a furry man about town known as Ace who has promised to take me on a so-called "hobo hunt" this Friday evening. He assures me that a great feast shall be the result of this hunt, and that our empty stomachs shall be filled.
Take care sweet Edith. Perhaps this Ace fellow can help me find financial succor.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2025 05:31 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2025 05:32 PM (h/ffs)
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 25, 2025 05:32 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:32 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:33 PM (krQz2)
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"They just want to visit each other in the hospital."
(Always note they used the goodness and compassion of Christians to foist this new world of abuse and perversion upon them.)
Posted by: ... at July 25, 2025 05:33 PM (E0p3T)
The left demanded they cast a tranny as the titular Zelda.
Nintendo said iee, iya, uun, chotto, muri, and fuck you assholes no fucking way.
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:33 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 05:33 PM (vFG9F)
Shockingly…. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Inconceivable!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:33 PM (WdMlw)
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Second state on my list of states to try not to step foot in.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (sFNX2)
I'm out. See you on the next thread.
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (IhVqi)
The left demanded they cast a tranny as the titular Zelda.
Nintendo said iee, iya, uun, chotto, muri, and fuck you assholes no fucking way.
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:33 PM (t0Rmr)
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Nintendo reportedly rejected earlier Mario scripts that they deemed too woke and girlbossy.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (aeiyZ)
The reminds me of an argument Dean Cain got into with some lefties.
He said he didn't believe trannies were really women. The lefties said that they didn't believe he was really superman.
His response?
Yeah, I was acting, just like these trannies.
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)
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"They just want to visit each other in the hospital."
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x1000!
Let the camel warm his nose under the tent--but now the camel is humping you in your cot.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)
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I'm a big admirer of General Bjorksthighs
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2)
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"They just want to visit each other in the hospital."
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x1000!
Let the camel warm his nose under the tent--but now the camel is humping you in your cot.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (krQz2)
%#*&^#*)(&^ camel is humping my goat!!!
Posted by: Mohammed Achmed Jihad at July 25, 2025 05:36 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 05:34 PM (aeiyZ)
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Very un-Karl-Farbman-like.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:37 PM (krQz2)
Too bad they aren’t more vocal. The gays and lesbians could really make the trans stuff go away, very very quickly.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:37 PM (mT+6a)
Is everything OK out there ?
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (WiETh)
His response?
Yeah, I was acting, just like these trannies.
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (t0Rmr)
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When they release something from their mouth, they really seem to have no idea how relevant it is, or what direction it will go.
Like Dean Cain walked around telling himself "I'm Superman"....
The mind boggles.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (ZmEVT)
And I am fine with that.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (wBaIH)
Too bad they aren’t more vocal. The gays and lesbians could really make the trans stuff go away, very very quickly.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:37 PM (mT+6a)
Have any trannies accused them of 'genocide' yet???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:39 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:39 PM (WdMlw)
Nevermind. Probably should take a break on this thread.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Coki at July 25, 2025 05:39 PM (Wkrcf)
Posted by: bearski at July 25, 2025 05:39 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: Farmer Bob
That’s before the offset for blood alcohol content.
Posted by: Kratwurst at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (36bTp)
Trump is rolling back Woke like Reagan rolled back the Soviet Union.
Does Trump have any allies equivalent to Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (63Dwl)
Just don't leave any of the wall available for pantifa to throw.
Posted by: DaveA at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (FhXTo)
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Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (/oBpS)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025
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I've referred to it as National Proletariat Radio for years and years. Pissed off any leftist friends I had.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 25, 2025
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I thought everybody called it "National Propaganda Radio."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: vmom
I have a sick-call crucifix. One of the other grandkids must have gotten the bias.
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (DgGvY)
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Like Dean Cain walked around telling himself "I'm Superman"....
The mind boggles.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (krQz2)
Don't forget threatening to beat up or kill anyone who refused to call him Superman.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: 18-1 (who lives in the northern tundra) at July 25, 2025 05:41 PM (t0Rmr)
The mind boggles.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (krQz2)
Don't forget threatening to beat up or kill anyone who refused to call him Superman.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (ULPxl)
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Well, they should only be thrown in jail if they won't.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:42 PM (hlNLQ)
The Italian, the Brazilian, the Argentinian (or Peruvian), the Hungarian, etc.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 05:42 PM (ZmEVT)
The mind boggles.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:38 PM (krQz2)
Don't forget threatening to beat up or kill anyone who refused to call him Superman.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (ULPxl)
Its called method acting, doncha know!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:42 PM (nrfI8)
The gays and lesbians could really make the trans stuff go away, very very quickly.
Posted by: nurse ratched
IF they wanted to. There's strength in numbers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 05:42 PM (63Dwl)
But, to be fair, the Union Army was really distracted by her striking style of pubic hair.
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:43 PM (77rzZ)
Faulty premise. It ain't ever going to happen.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 05:43 PM (ZmEVT)
Specifically, the religious freedom of Christian nationalists, theocrats, and extremist fundamentalists.
Digusting. People like them shouldn't even be allowed to have children. They are the same people who say that are pro life, but if their kid is lgbt, they will wish that they could never been born, or will act in a way that will make their kids feel suicidal or really kill themself :/
The ADF is a Nazi hate group masquerading as a law firm.
let me see if I am getting this right; the court ruled that it is against Bates’ rights of free speech to ask her to promise that she allow the adopted child to have the right to free speech? Wtf kind of logic is that?
couldn’t it be argued that children adopted by these people are in danger as the children are potentially LGBTQ, and would be placed in a hostile environment?
I didnt know there was a constitutional right to adopt children…
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 25, 2025 05:43 PM (SIzDg)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 25, 2025 05:43 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 25, 2025 05:40 PM (63Dwl)
Look South. Bukele and Milie.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2025 05:43 PM (h/ffs)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:43 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 05:44 PM (TEi+a)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:44 PM (hlNLQ)
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Is this a good time to mention the world is gonna burn?
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:44 PM (krQz2)
I'm sorry . That sounds really difficult when you were just trying to help kids.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:44 PM (2GCMq)
I think that guy that's always on the run in Argentina, the El Salvador guy and one other
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Farmer Bob
And now we see the beauty of the Horde's binary scale.
0 = wouldn't
1 = would
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 25, 2025 05:43 PM (SIzDg)
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Which is why they can't post on DU....
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (e5NfL)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (8uzBS)
Hungary
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 25, 2025 05:44 PM
* sobs *
* squirts *
Posted by: The Oregon Trail at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM (0sNs1)
But do they have a casino?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 05:29 PM (GdbU+)
indigenous to a college campus on one of the coasts of the US you mean. Why only TWO SPIRITS. I WANT MORE
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM (nrfI8)
There will be talk about how "that's not the rules". Whatever.
Posted by: At Some Point at July 25, 2025 05:47 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison
Saying "I'm going to raise my child as a Christian" - not speech
Sawing off your 12-year-old's wedding tackle - speech
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 05:47 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:47 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (77rzZ)
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I'm a big admirer of General Bjorksthighs
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:36 PM (krQz2)
Since its Catholics, its the 30 Years War.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 05:47 PM (ZmEVT)
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Faulty premise. It ain't ever going to happen.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025
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Well, no, seeing as she's much more into the Ottoman Empire!
Posted by: Ottoman Empire Historians at July 25, 2025 05:47 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 05:48 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 25, 2025 05:24 PM (n+Gtf)
I did call the Reformation "The Great Heresy" in History class when the teacher asked what Catholics called it.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:48 PM (8avO+)
LOL. I get over it. It a imajority of men over here after all.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:49 PM (2GCMq)
Without that topic, what else could Yankees be smug about ?
Posted by: At Some Point at July 25, 2025 05:49 PM (hk7Ln)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM (nrfI
I agree with Linus.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 05:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (ZmEVT)
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Still learning piss from a boot.
Anybody got instructions?
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 25, 2025 05:50 PM (ASjbI)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 05:50 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:50 PM (hlNLQ)
Anybody got instructions?
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025
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TGIF: Toes Go In First
Oh. Wait. That was something else.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:51 PM (omVj0)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 25, 2025 05:51 PM (omVj0)
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Fixed for historical accuracy.
Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:51 PM (V9CvC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM
An interesting phenomenon I've observed is that the taller a woman is, the less beautiful she has to be to be described as beautiful.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 05:51 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (hlNLQ)
You are assuming what his standard deviation is. And mean, I suppose.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Rigatoni Lover at July 25, 2025 05:52 PM (4U+8N)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 05:52 PM (8uzBS)
You have no idea.
Posted by: The 50-foot Woman at July 25, 2025 05:52 PM (bEeSt)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM
An interesting phenomenon I've observed is that the taller a woman is, the less beautiful she has to be to be described as beautiful.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2025 05:51 PM (0sNs1)
That's because she'll beat you with her high heels.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (2GCMq)
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I google so you don't have to....go ahead, take a guess!
No really! Take a guess!
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (viF8m)
https://is.gd/6NCWpx
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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: setnaffa at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (h+GW/)
Oh, yes. He has the "biggest allies, the best".
Posted by: t-bird at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (NdPqb)
Without that topic, what else could Yankees be smug about ?
Posted by: At Some Point at July 25, 2025 05:49 PM (hk7Ln)
Wooden Acorns.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (8avO+)
"The Olympic Committee is so afraid to make this change that they basically hid it and refuse to comment further on it. But apparently their hand was forced by Trump's E.O."
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Secretly, they're very happy, as it publicly gets them off the hook for the tranny nonsense, because they can simply shrug their shoulders and say "Sorry, blame Trump"
Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (TrRwQ)
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (unUNN)
This is so obvious.
It's actually insane that it's allowed to happen now.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (E2+Uh)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (hlNLQ)
You are assuming what his standard deviation is. And mean, I suppose.
Posted by: Oldcat
Hahahahha. Y’all do know that Elric is some rando on the internet who is proll 5’2 #300 with male pattern baldness and lives in his mothers basement.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: setnaffa at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (h+GW/)
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TARP and the *spit* Patriot Act.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 25, 2025 05:55 PM (tT6L1)
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I google so you don't have to....go ahead, take a guess!
No really! Take a guess!
Posted by: Crusader at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (TN0g+)
Danger hair, "assigned male at birth", and/or...?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:55 PM (ULPxl)
8:24 AM · Jul 24, 2025
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (ULPxl)
How do you tariff a company inside the US?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)
I mean she's no Brittany Grimes, but who is?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 25, 2025 05:55 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (2GCMq)
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I'll bet he does too.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2)
8:24 AM · Jul 24, 2025
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (ULPxl)
How do you tariff a company inside the US?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)
The code is coming from *outside* of the house!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 05:56 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:57 PM (hlNLQ)
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (unUNN)
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I need evidence that this isn't just a fluke.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)
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Secretly, they're very happy, as it publicly gets them off the hook for the tranny nonsense, because they can simply shrug their shoulders and say "Sorry, blame Trump"
Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (TrRwQ)
I want them to fear us. It keeps them out of trouble.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:57 PM (8avO+)
There aren't 7 D's in the Senate it would be in favor of that to block a filibuster?
Jeebus -- regardless, get them all on record already, Thune! This should be a slam l-dunk win ...
* spit *
Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:57 PM (V9CvC)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:58 PM (WdMlw)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
And shorter for "cute."
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 05:58 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM
Why do you say that like it's a Bad Thing?
Posted by: Incel at July 25, 2025 05:58 PM (0sNs1)
https://tinyurl.com/4sph978e
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:59 PM (2GCMq)
On Friday July 25th, 2025, at 11:03 p.m. local time (02:03 a.m. UTC, 04:03 a.m. CEST, on July 26th, 2025), Arianespace is to launch Airbus Defence and Space's CO3D satellites, as well as the CNES's MicroCarb satellite. This mission, called “VV27” will be performed using an Arianespace operated Vega C rocket, launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
The main passengers, the four satellites composing the CO3D constellation, as well as the auxiliary passenger, MicroCarb, will be placed in Sun-synchronous orbits. The expected total duration of the mission (from lift-off to separation of all satellites) is 1 hour and 41 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/live/mP9_UNXQrFk
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2025 05:59 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:53 PM (2GCMq)
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I'll bet he does too.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:55 PM (krQz2)
You have to do a lot of cleaning up to get down to Wagner College level. Perhaps this gets his attention.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 05:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: DanMa'am at July 25, 2025 05:59 PM (8uzBS)
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Yup. I remember that case too.
The boy would tell his father he didn't want to wear dresses, or some things like that.
Soooo Munchausen's by proxy.
She probably hates her own kid unless he can provide her with status.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
And shorter for "cute."
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 05:58 PM (DgGvY)
This seems right to me…. Ginger was tall and beautiful, Mary Ann was short and cute
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:00 PM (WdMlw)
https://tinyurl.com/4sph978e
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:59 PM (2GCMq)
The "It Judge"
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:00 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat
The same way you tariff the Fords and Ford parts coming in from Mexico.
Now, how you prove software was "imported" is an exercise for the
Posted by: mikeski at July 25, 2025 06:00 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 25, 2025 06:00 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at July 25, 2025 05:35 PM (hlNLQ)
You are assuming what his standard deviation is. And mean, I suppose.
Posted by: Oldcat
Hahahahha. Y’all do know that Elric is some rando on the internet who is proll 5’2 #300 with male pattern baldness and lives in his mothers basement.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 05:54 PM (mT+6a)
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I don’t blame anyone for thinking that. But if there’s a meet next year somewhere in the northeast, maybe I’ll go. I’ll bring the Lambo.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 25, 2025 06:00 PM (tT6L1)
*discards first joke*
*discards second joke*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (zZu0s)
There was some person several years ago who seemed to be a literary creation but that was a woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:58 PM (WdMlw)
yes, it happened.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (+qU29)
🤺Fencer Stephanie Turner responds to the new US Olympic & Paralympic Committee ban of men from women’s sports"
Second look at Augusta National?
-Hootie Johnson
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 05:58 PM (WdMlw)
Evil cvnt took her *step* *twins* away from biodad and ended up moving to CA to continue her abuse.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:03 PM (zZu0s)
https://tinyurl.com/4sph978e
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 05:59 PM (2GCMq)
That’s a very pleasant face, Fen. However in that official judge portrait I can’t get enough info to judge the whole package if you know what I mean…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:03 PM (WdMlw)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:04 PM (mT+6a)
There was some person several years ago who seemed to be a literary creation but that was a woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (2GCMq)
Elric was the name of a moody Elfish (?) ruler in a fantasy series by Michael Moorcock. I don't think i've read any of them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:04 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:04 PM (zZu0s)
To cut to the chase: The way Trump left the economy.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 06:05 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:04 PM (mT+6a)
Nature tends to do that for us, but sure.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:05 PM (8avO+)
There aren't 7 D's in the Senate it would be in favor of that to block a filibuster?
Jeebus -- regardless, get them all on record already, Thune! This should be a slam l-dunk win ...
* spit *
Posted by: ShainS -- December 9th, 2016: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy! at July 25, 2025 05:57 PM (V9CvC)
Wasn't there some recent noise about DoJ threatening to file charges against medical types who had performed "trans" "surgeries", using an *existing* law prohibiting genital mutilation that had been written with jihadi behavior in mind?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:05 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (ULPxl)
It’s even worse somehow than I remembered
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:05 PM (WdMlw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:06 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:04 PM (8avO+)
I read a few of the Moorcock books as a teen. It seemed an odd meta/multiverse. Variations on a theme.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)
as far as I can tell, it is a fluke.
Oregon courts have been interpreting things for the favor of the state for 150 years or more
Posted by: Kindltot at July 25, 2025 06:06 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Rigatoni Lover at July 25, 2025 06:07 PM (4U+8N)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (2GCMq)
I suspect our southern warrior might be from Detroit due to his hatred of the Yankees.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:07 PM (8avO+)
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I don’t blame anyone for thinking that. But if there’s a meet next year somewhere in the northeast, maybe I’ll go. I’ll bring the Lambo.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (aeiyZ)
The NoVa MoMee isn't really NE but several NE Morons attend.
... and of course if you're in the mood for a longer drive, have I mentioned that this year's TX MoMee - also attended by several NE Morons - will be the *tenth*?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:07 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:04 PM (mT+6a)
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I want to know how parents are okay with their daughter getting grabbed in places that would land a guy in jail if he did the same thing anywhere outside the arena.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 25, 2025 06:08 PM (tT6L1)
The last one was Scarlett Johansson.
This goes back to Marilyn Monroe.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:09 PM (E2+Uh)
Posted by: Rigatoni Lover at July 25, 2025 06:07 PM (4U+8N)
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Yeah they have that in there: "trans/transgender" = "NOT"
Say "trans" but think "NOT". They are barring NOT women from women's sports.
Or heck read "trans" but say "NOT".
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 06:09 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:04 PM (mT+6a)
Nature tends to do that for us, but sure.
Posted by: Oldcat
I mean girls in boys football and baseball and scouts. Boys aren’t allowed BOY SPACES anymore. Not without some feminazi screaming misogyny.
Both sexes deserve their own space. And just because boys will be physically dominant doesn’t make it less wrong for girls to invade boys spaces.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:09 PM (mT+6a)
There was some person several years ago who seemed to be a literary creation but that was a woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:02 PM (2GCMq)
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I’m a block from Central Park. No views of the Hudson from there.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 25, 2025 06:09 PM (aeiyZ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:10 PM (LWopF)
longbows vs crossbows
.45 ACP vs 9mm
Ginger vs Mary Ann
ACW vs war of northern aggression
??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:10 PM (nrfI8)
The last one was Scarlett Johansson.
This goes back to Marilyn Monroe.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:09 PM (E2+Uh)
The 50s had at least a couple more - Jayne Mansfield..
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2025 06:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:10 PM (8avO+)
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Mamie van Doren.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:11 PM (XZ5S6)
I’m a block from Central Park. No views of the Hudson from there.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
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Well, it's a New York frame of mind, anyway.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 25, 2025 06:11 PM (LWopF)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:12 PM (nrfI8)
But what does "trans" mean if you were born in a "boy's body" and have been a "girl" you're whole life. And "gender doesn't depend on biology" or something.
Also, shouldn't you find what boy your body belongs to and give it back?
Just the idea that it's a "transition" strongly suggests two different sides--which they otherwise say don't exist.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 06:12 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:13 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: M. Gaga at July 25, 2025 06:14 PM (BAkrB)
TickledPink?
I still say she could have been real.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:03 PM (zZu0s)
I always thought that "she" was a gay guy.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 25, 2025 06:14 PM (iJfKG)
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It sounds like a sick burn, though. I'll bet whoever said made a "mic drop" move.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:14 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2025 06:14 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:15 PM (77rzZ)
Both sexes deserve their own space. And just because boys will be physically dominant doesn’t make it less wrong for girls to invade boys spaces.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:09 PM (mT+6a)
We need men's clubs again too. Not the raunchy kind but places to talk about crossbows vs longbows in freedom.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:15 PM (8avO+)
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It sounds like a sick burn, though. I'll bet whoever said made a "mic drop" move.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:14 PM (wzAuc)
Dean Cain never claimed he was Superman.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)
Pretty sure he's a conservative too...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:14 PM (wzAuc)
Dean Cain never claimed he was Superman.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)
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He dressed like him, though.
Posted by: Axeman at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (sFNX2)
Posted by: Oldcat
Absolutely! Make Augusta all men again!
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (sFNX2)
Six months and change
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Martin Tell at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (sFNX2)
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*brandishes cherished Rubbermaid gas can with the release valve*
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:18 PM (XZ5S6)
Both sexes deserve their own space. And just because boys will be physically dominant doesn’t make it less wrong for girls to invade boys spaces.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:09 PM (mT+6a)
We need men's clubs again too. Not the raunchy kind but places to talk about crossbows vs longbows in freedom.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:15 PM (8avO+)
As a guy who wrestled in HS and love the purity of that sport it offends me that pretty much all over the country in HS girls are competing against boys in wrestling. They almost always get stomped and it’s bad for both; the girl gets manhandled and the boy faces this terrifying situation where he has to beat up a girl or face the humiliation of losing to one….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:18 PM (WdMlw)
Ace has never ever told us how few genital surgeries are actually performed in the USA kin one year.
Has anyone posting here even bothered to look it up? Or would it be a bubble breaker
In the USA the overwhelmingly "gender affirming surgeries done on minors is BREAST REDUCTION surgery on boys
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at July 25, 2025 06:19 PM (zbGmx)
BREAKING: Cambodia has called for a ceasefire with Thailand
Posted by: andycanuck at July 25, 2025 06:19 PM (2yoRf)
If I knew that was coming, I would have gone long on Big Can.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:19 PM (3kTgY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (mT+6a)
But but… then severely conservative Condi Rice would have to be kicked out! Unthinkable
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:19 PM (WdMlw)
If I knew that was coming, I would have gone long on Big Can.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:19 PM (3kTgY)
Well, Hello, Sailor!
Posted by: Lena Dunham at July 25, 2025 06:20 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:20 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (mT+6a)
But but… then severely conservative Condi Rice would have to be kicked out! Unthinkable
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
She’s part of the problem. Men deserve MEN ONLY SPACES. So do women.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (E2+Uh)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:18 PM (WdMlw)
In almost any sport a guy can seriously injure a girl accidentally. A collision is gonna be bad news for a woman. I've noticed when watching the men v woman clips how careful the men are being about incidental contact.
And why I'm so pissed at the WNBA for trying to injure Caitlin Clark for being good at the sport.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:22 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:17 PM (mT+6a)
But but… then severely conservative Condi Rice would have to be kicked out! Unthinkable
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
She’s part of the problem. Men deserve MEN ONLY SPACES. So do women.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (mT+6a)
Women deserve men only spaces?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 25, 2025 06:22 PM (ynpvh)
Dorothy Hammill and Chrissy Everett.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (E2+Uh)
Erin Grey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:22 PM (idIpT)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (wzAuc)
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Supes has a "no kill" policy, though.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 25, 2025 06:22 PM (XZ5S6)
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2025 06:23 PM (g47mK)
Dorothy Hammill and Chrissy Everett.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (E2+Uh)
Everett was very pretty. Peggy Fleming beat out Hamill for me.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:23 PM (8avO+)
Pia Cramling was impaled by a bishop at the Grand Chess Tour but she recovered.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (3kTgY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:20 PM (2GCMq)
If only more parents were actually livid. And coaches and higher ups. It must be hell on the girls who are being betrayed by ideology on those who should protect them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (8avO+)
Dorothy Hammill and Chrissy Everett.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:21 PM (E2+Uh)
Erin Grey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25, 2025 06:22 PM (idIpT)
Ginger Grant. I’m not kidding!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (WdMlw)
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (3kTgY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (E2+Uh)
Pia Cramling was impaled by a bishop at the Grand Chess Tour but she recovered.
Posted by: It Puts The gp In The Basket at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (3kTgY)
Chess is not a sport. But I laughed.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2025 06:26 PM (2GCMq)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 25, 2025 06:26 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 25,
On that MILF vibe... Linda Evans.
Posted by: Long time guy at July 25, 2025 06:25 PM (E2+Uh)
Audra Barkley Linda Evans or Dallas Linda Evans?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 25, 2025 06:27 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Auspex at July 25, 2025 06:27 PM (Y8DZL)
The two countries sit down, a map of the border between them. One of them starts at the top of the map, and says, “OK, we really want this shitstain hellhole, but we’ll let you have this other shitstain hellhole in exchamge” And so on down the entire length of the map.
It’s simple horse trading. How the hell hard is that?
Posted by: Bulg at July 25, 2025 06:28 PM (77rzZ)
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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 25, 2025 06:29 PM (ULPxl)
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Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at July 25, 2025 06:30 PM (iNp3L)
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:32 PM (+qU29)
Get out now if your thete and love your children
Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2025 06:33 PM (+qU29)
Posted by: DanMan at July 25, 2025 05:45 PM (8uzBS)
Hungary
Posted by: It's me donna at July 25, 2025 05:46 PM (VE6XX)
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Giorgia Meloni of Italy. She is doing a great job.
Posted by: Decaf at July 25, 2025 06:37 PM (unUNN)
...hmm...(snaps fingers)
It isn't Minnesota!
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