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Wednesday Night Overnight Open Thread (9/28/16) [Mis. Hum.]

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Welcome to the National Coffee Day Eve Overnight Open Thread. Thursday September 29th is National Coffee Day. Now if we can get a National Valu-Rite Day that would be quite the accomplishment.

Are you going to miss the big day? Don't feel bad, International Coffee Day will be celebrated world wide on Saturday, October 1st.

So Horde, how do you plan on celebrating? Your humble Cob will probably drink enough to float a battleship. Saturday will probably be a repeat.

Does your significant other like coffee? You could always replace your coffee with Stiff Bull Coffee.

If you have been following the ONT lately you know we've been covering autonomous autos. There are many among us that scoff at the thought of them taking over the roads. Surprising there aren't the typical nanny state characters attempting to stop these autos.

Uber transparency. Recently Uber introduced self-driving car tests in Pittsburgh. Passengers signed their lives away.

In addition to the legal document asking passengers to free Uber of liability of death or injury caused by its self-driving cars, The Guardian also points to a public interview company executives participated in. In August, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told Bloomberg Businessweek, “Nobody has set up software that can reliably drive a car safely without a human.”


If one is to take their lives into their own hands with an automobile. This looks like moar fun. Truly, a Moron sport.


Hate standing in line? There is a chair for that.

Science means many things to many people. From helping Grandmother battle Alzheimer's Disease to helping Mom beat breast cancer. The politicization of science is increasing. Pumpkins are a lot of things. But, racist they are not.

Can we believe any "science" study?

A creeping political bias is exactly what we should expect: When agencies and government officials can control the flow of information to get more favorable stories and punish reporters who displease them, they will.


The Horde can have science and firearms. AR15 Mud Test

Obamacare in trouble. Congress acting tough.

According to the agency, the program experienced a shortfall of more than $2.5 billion in 2014, an amount so large that all of the risk corridor payments from 2015 would not cover it. Because all of the 2015 benefit year collections will be used for the 2014 shortfall, the agency anticipates that no funds will be available for the 2015 risk corridor program shortfall.

Target's bathroom policy costing them big bucks.

Debate at Hofstra U has fireworks behind the scenes.

Imagine always having the strongest mind in the room.

No math tonight. But, a quiz from 1928 about humor.

How about another quiz?

In the middle ages life was a bitch and then you died a horrible death.

Does this qualify as our history entry or our culture entry for the evening? You be the judge.

Holidays must be awfully uncomfortable.

No blood for water! Water wars on the horizon?

Canada is building one big a$$ trail. Impressive project between governments and private sector.

No, that’s not a typo. When it’s finished next year, the Trans Canada Trail will clock in at 14,864 miles long, nearly 13,000 miles of which are connected. As Anzilotti reports, the trail will open to everyone from cyclists to skiiers, horseback riders and hikers in 2017 and will be the world’s longest recreational trail

Despite those bumps on the trail to completion, construction is still ongoing. The goal is to have the trail completed by Canada’s 150th anniversary on July 1, 2017.


Speaking of Canada, farmers with firearms. We don't have a race problem. We have a crime problem.

News tips, spare change, recyclables can be sent here.

Be the first on your block to join The Group.

If it weren't for bad luck he would have no luck at all.

Genius award.

Feel good story of the day.


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1 Close.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:22 PM (heN73)

2 Oh yeah nailed it!!!

*struts off*

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:23 PM (heN73)

3 Threesome?

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:23 PM (heN73)

4 Fourplay?

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:23 PM (heN73)

5 Five of a kind.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:23 PM (heN73)

6 Howdy!!!

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 28, 2016 10:23 PM (EzgxV)

7 Six?

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:23 PM (heN73)

8 Good enough.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:24 PM (heN73)

9 Equity vs. Essentialism

Two of the major contrasts between Leftist thought and conservatism (in the Anglospheric vein) are: Whether human beings are tabula rasa upon which society can writ large vs. the idea that human nature actually exists; and society should reflect an equal distribution of power, wealth, &c. vs. the idea that we should be free to be unequal in our own way. This, to whit, is the difference between equity and essentialism.

More: http://politicalhat.com/?p=12569

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 28, 2016 10:24 PM (vBeA5)

10 Yes -- I am very glad, thrilled even, that I did not live in the Middle Ages.




Or did I.....

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 10:26 PM (qUNWi)

11 Now if we can get a National Valu-Rite Day that would be quite the accomplishment.

Everyday is Val-u-Rite Day!

Posted by: The Val-U-Hat at September 28, 2016 10:26 PM (vBeA5)

12 I'm going through some of my bookmarks on University Stupid.


My head hurts. These people are unemployable. And they're just going to love, LOVE life after the debt bubble bursts....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 10:26 PM (cBWom)

13 Doh!

Posted by: andycanuck at September 28, 2016 10:27 PM (LdMbv)

14 I'm old enough to remember when people drank coffee out of little cups like that instead of mugs.

Even today, coffee makers measure coffee by "cups". A 12 cup coffee maker means it makes 12 of those little cups, not 12 mugs. They held 6 ounces, not the 8 ounces of a kitchen measuring cup.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 28, 2016 10:27 PM (sdi6R)

15 Doh!


Word to live by, my friend....word to live by.

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 10:28 PM (qUNWi)

16 I opened the ONT several minutes ago; commented at the Evil Trump Online Polling thread; returned and began reading figuring that someone had commented first already because the scroll bar slider thingee was going down pretty far; then I start reading and scrolling and see that the slider thingee is so far down because there are a ton of ONT links!

Posted by: andycanuck at September 28, 2016 10:29 PM (LdMbv)

17 Instead of business supporting science to make marketable items, we now have government support science that produces more studies than results.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2016 10:29 PM (fsQtk)

18 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 28, 2016 10:31 PM (n4Hms)

19 FREE COFFEE AT WAWA TOMORROW!!!!

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:32 PM (Om16U)

20 That Austin better start holding it until he gets off work.

Hey, am I foist?

Posted by: Hank at September 28, 2016 10:32 PM (6rypb)

21 Despair.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2016 10:32 PM (AroJD)

22 OK ... you know, I believe the following, and I've tried several times to express it. I finally did - so I'm going to put it up again. And then let it go.

355 This isn't fixable.

CB ... I say just the opposite. Not only fixable ... self correcting. You, I, most others here ... know this is a bullshit propped up state of affairs. Not sustainable. And shitting our rhetorical collective pants because of how hard it's going to crash.

But when it crashes - it will correct. It sucks that the Nature of Man insists ... hell, DEMANDS ... that the crash occurs to create maximum pain and suffering to motivate enough people to change their behavior to change the collective culture.

But there it is. That's how it will go. How it must go.

In no small way - you and I are the suckers. Because we continue to waste our time and energy trying to divert the masses from the misery they must experience to enable change.


That's my manifesto. What I think in a nutshell.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (fiGNd)

23 g'night folks, seeya inna mornin' ....

Posted by: the deplorable sock_rat_eez, stay calm and carry on at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (Z8DIA)

24 Sinatra was cool all right, but the King of Cool was Dean Martin, hands down. He was the coolest cat that has yet walked the earth. At least the well-known cats.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (DW+jj)

25 Nope, I was far from foist.

BTW, I meant Aussie and not Austin. I wuz auto-corrected.

Posted by: Hank at September 28, 2016 10:34 PM (6rypb)

26 Thanks for alerting us to National Coffee Day and International Coffee Day, MisHum. I will celebrate in style.

But that coffee you linked? Dear God, that sounds painful and I'm not a man. Would anybody really drink that?

I realize I probably shouldn't ask that here, actually.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:34 PM (xpSCc)

27 I am pouting because no one else is a Zatoichi fan.

You should all go back and live your lives differently.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 10:35 PM (mgbwf)

28 Scogg, I think you may be right.

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:35 PM (Om16U)

29 In no small way - you and I are the suckers. Because we continue to waste our time and energy trying to divert the masses from the misery they must experience to enable change.

That's my manifesto. What I think in a nutshell.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (fiGNd)

Well said. Completely agree.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:35 PM (heN73)

30 Hi bluebell, how was the field trip?

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:35 PM (Om16U)

31 Great auto polo footage.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 28, 2016 10:35 PM (TnUKj)

32 Ah publius, you and I have had our Dino discussion before. I love that man. My cousin told me he really wasn't a womanizer, he was actually a great family man

I don't know how she knows that, though. But I believe!

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:36 PM (xpSCc)

33
Hello, everyone. I hope Juanita Broaddrick is enjoying a whiskey with lemonade. It's one of the few comforts in the days of the Droit du Seigneur -- aka the Middle Ages, aka the Reign of William Cruikbone of Clintown.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 10:38 PM (oGNNA)

34 votermom, the field trip was great, thanks! Except one of my sons got sick and had to vomit out the car window on the way home. Yay. He didn't tell me it was coming.

Jinx, the Northern Neck is beautiful!

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:38 PM (xpSCc)

35 24
Sinatra was cool all right, but the King of Cool was Dean Martin, hands
down. He was the coolest cat that has yet walked the earth. At least the
well-known cats.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (DW+jj)

My dad use to walk around the house singing "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie.....thaaaat's amore."
Dean Martin was his favorite.

Posted by: Tami - Powering through being a Deplorable. at September 28, 2016 10:38 PM (Enq6K)

36 So, target isn't installing special bathrooms for the transgender freaks, they are installing single stall bathrooms for the normals who don't want to share a bathroom with the transgender freaks. More social engineering, trying to normalize the abnormal and pander to a tiny fraction of the population.

Posted by: A Blinkin at September 28, 2016 10:39 PM (dnWSK)

37 Ah publius, you and I have had our Dino discussion before. I love that man. My cousin told me he really wasn't a womanizer, he was actually a great family man
I don't know how she knows that, though. But I believe!


I told her that myself after I slept with her.

Posted by: Dino in Paradise at September 28, 2016 10:39 PM (NlMkN)

38 National Coffee Day, eh.

Will Coffee Cookie Crumble ice cream be sufficient for commemorating?

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at September 28, 2016 10:39 PM (H9MG5)

39 Goodness, bluebell. At least it was out the window. Poor kid.

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:39 PM (Om16U)

40 27 I am pouting because no one else is a Zatoichi fan.

You should all go back and live your lives differently.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 10:35 PM (mgbwf)

Raises Hand

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 28, 2016 10:39 PM (dKiJG)

41
It is not just the passengers in those autonomous cars that are at risk.

It is everyone else on the road as well.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 10:39 PM (hvdAF)

42 Hey everybody.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:40 PM (NlMkN)

43 31 Great auto polo footage.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 28, 2016 10:35 PM (TnUKj)

I love the still shots.
Imagine doing something like that today?

Fvcking nanny state

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 10:40 PM (voOPb)

44 Dean Martin could sing well even when sloshed. Impressive.

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:40 PM (Om16U)

45 Speaking of coffee, I tried some Martinson coffee I got online through Walmart. It was $7.01 for 30oz with free delivery. It has plenty of caffeine, it tastes like coffee and the price is right.

Posted by: Hank at September 28, 2016 10:40 PM (6rypb)

46 38 National Coffee Day, eh.

Will Coffee Cookie Crumble ice cream be sufficient for commemorating?
Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at September 28, 2016 10:39 PM (H9MG5)
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Yes, provided you send some my way.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:41 PM (xpSCc)

47
I'm going through some of my bookmarks on University Stupid.

These people are unemployable. And they're just going to love, LOVE life after the debt bubble bursts....
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 10:26 PM (cBWom)
---------------

What're ya talkin' about? They're going to be subsidized. Open your checkbook, old-timer.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 10:41 PM (oGNNA)

48 I knew a woman who was married to a farmer in Saskatchewan, who, in fact was murdered on the yard.
My wife grew up in Rosetown, Saskatchewan, which was cited in that article about crime on farms in Saskatchewan.

Category: answers to questions no one has ever asked.

BTW: the widow of the murder victim mentioned had a serious mustache. She grew up in Warroad, Minnesota, the home of the Christian brothers.

Posted by: Northernlurker at September 28, 2016 10:41 PM (s7hQ/)

49 Dean Martin's TV show was a hoot.


Yeah, that's right...I watched it.


Get off my lawn....move off the sidewalk too.

Posted by: Tami - Powering through being a Deplorable. at September 28, 2016 10:41 PM (Enq6K)

50 Evenin' everyone.

Happy birthday to my little brother, Psycho Basura!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 28, 2016 10:42 PM (WnZAV)

51 Now is somebody's middle ages.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2016 10:42 PM (IqV8l)

52 Northernlurker, isn't Warroad where all the good hockey players come from?

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (xpSCc)

53 Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (fiGNd)

---
until Atlas Shrugs, the sheep will *not* look up.

(to mix my author memes)


Posted by: redc1c4 at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (aEZpQ)

54 51 Now is somebody's middle ages.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2016 10:42 PM (IqV8l)

Thanks for the reminder.
*glares*

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (Om16U)

55 Well good morning Judge, yes I'm back again
I'm in trouble so it's back to the pen
I bought a car but I couldn't pay
I fell in love and I drove it away

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (NlMkN)

56 Speaking of Douche Bank, I'm seeing comparisons to Lehman. Someone superimposed their stock perfomance on a graph, and Douche is following about the same trajectory as Lehman, and has reached the crash point.

Remember when Dick Fuld, Lehman chief, said some shit about being "well capitalized" and they were gonna "burn the shorts" during Lehman's collapse? Well, near the end he said "the worst is behind us", and then Lehman impoded.

Well, Douche's officers have been making similar statements. "Comfortable free liquidity" is one of their statements equivalent to "well capitalized".

Anyway certain metrics of CDS prices and various spreads indicate Douche is at the "shit the bed" moment on the comparable Lehman death spiral curve.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (DW+jj)

57 My nephew his roommate is from Hawaii and his family sends him the good Coffee and he gives some to me since they stay at my place every once in a while.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (dKiJG)

58 Tami, my parents tell me I would come into the room, plunk myself down in front of the Dean Martin Show on TV and laugh myself silly... when I was 2 years old.

I was ahead of my time, I guess...

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:44 PM (NlMkN)

59 51 Now is somebody's middle ages.

Also somebody's Classical Age.

Society doesn't always progress.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 10:45 PM (fiGNd)

60 To be fair, everyone looks classier in black and white.

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:45 PM (Om16U)

61 Hey all, just landed here after cooking and cleaning up. J is recovering from her worst cold/respiratory issue in a long time.

Hope Skip and others recovering.

Posted by: Farmer at September 28, 2016 10:45 PM (o/90i)

62 I am pouting because no one else is a Zatoichi fan.

You should all go back and live your lives differently.


If I had my life to live over again I would chase a lot more 7 and 8's and 9's and just ignore the 10's.

Knowmsayin?

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 10:45 PM (qUNWi)

63
I just googled up the free Coffee Day deals. Best one I can find is at Krispy Kreme, where you get a free coffee and a free glazed donut. Funny thing, their coffee sucks. I'll dump it on the nearest plant and munch away on that lovely fried air.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 10:45 PM (oGNNA)

64 I just started drinking coffee on a regular basis about a month ago...one cup of Ace Coffee to get the metabolism going without the carbs.

Posted by: The Deplorable Captain Whitebread at September 28, 2016 10:46 PM (rJUlF)

65 Alcatraz is like a home sweet home
I'm so wanted and I'm never alone
San Quentin is the place to be
I'm so happy I don't want to be free

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:46 PM (NlMkN)

66 >>>Yes, provided you send some my way.
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:41 PM (xpSCc)<<<




**sends enough scoops for a nice big bowl through the USB port**

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at September 28, 2016 10:46 PM (H9MG5)

67 I don't think Douche Bank cratering on it's own will cause any kind of crisis. They'll just get bailed out on the backs of German taxpayers and everybody will move on.

If Douche can take a couple big banks with them, that's a different story. Plus not sure if it was Lehman or Bear, or both, but at least one collapsed not of it's own weight, but that everybody stopped lending to them. That's the death knell of any bank.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (heN73)

68 When I was a kid I love love loved those old Dino/Jerry movies.

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (qUNWi)

69 Listening to Hits of the...(put year here.)
Interesting ads.
Hits of the:
60's funeral homes
70's. Rest homes
80's reverse mortgages
90's cruise lines.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (0tfLf)

70 "People in the West today often forget just how incredibly awesome our modern Civilization is. Never before in human history has the quality of life been so good; even the poorest people in the modern West have a way, way better life than almost anyone who ever lived at any other time"

--from the article above about the Middle Ages.

We may yet recreate those exciting days of yesteryear.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (TnUKj)

71 Never drank coffee until Mrs Franpsycho.

Now I couldn't live without it. And her.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (EZebt)

72 58
Tami, my parents tell me I would come into the room, plunk myself down
in front of the Dean Martin Show on TV and laugh myself silly... when I
was 2 years old.



I was ahead of my time, I guess...

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:44 PM (NlMkN)

You were! But it was hysterical....especially the beginning.

Posted by: Tami - Powering through being a Deplorable. at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (Enq6K)

73 Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (NlMkN)


load up with rubber bullets!

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 28, 2016 10:49 PM (aEZpQ)

74 Thank you, T-Rex. See, those little arms are useful after all!

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:49 PM (xpSCc)

75 Tami, yup. I know I understood Dean crashing through the floor... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:49 PM (NlMkN)

76 63 no wawa where you are?

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:50 PM (Om16U)

77 redc1c4, gonna need 'em when Hillary's prez.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 10:50 PM (NlMkN)

78 glad you had a great time, Bluebell. It is good you are out of there now, it is raining like the devil.

As an aside, my place in Loudoun was once described as bluebell heaven.

Any of you Morons familiar with travel to Ethiopia?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 28, 2016 10:50 PM (TnUKj)

79 71 Never drank coffee until Mrs Franpsycho.

Now I couldn't live without it. And her.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (EZebt)

Mrs. Mis. Hum. was in the same non-coffee boat before she met me.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 10:50 PM (voOPb)

80
Farmers with Firearms, ya, ok, but you still can't shoot any body.

And National Coffee day October One, is also the first day of preparation for nanowrimo.

I'm gonna go with full flow words without limits and call it a 'shaggy dog' story.

Anybody think it will sell?
Have you ever heard a shaggy dog story?

I just put one up on Amazon, "Congratulations : You have been Chosen" full on shaggy dog for 60K words. You're welcome.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 10:50 PM (hvdAF)

81 71 Never drank coffee until Mrs Franpsycho.

Now I couldn't live without it. And her.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (EZebt)
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Aw. Hey, are you my husband?

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:51 PM (xpSCc)

82 Also, I love Chik FilA but their coffee is strange. Maybe it's Nescafe?

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:51 PM (Om16U)

83 I haven't watched Hillary in any of the debates. No stomach for it I guess. But if you have watched her: is it true that she never had the habit of scratching her nose, until the Trump debate?

Because this page is claiming that the nose-scratching was a signal arranged ahead of time with Lester Holt. I watched this and while I'm not 100% convinced, I'm not laughing at it either. It does seem to be true that she scratched her nose immediately when Trump said something she wanted to respond to right away.

http://bit.ly/2cXcUKB

Posted by: mr_jack at September 28, 2016 10:52 PM (5qySz)

84 82 Also, I love Chik FilA but their coffee is strange. Maybe it's Nescafe?
Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:51 PM (Om16U)

Maybe it's Maybelline?

Posted by: The Deplorable Captain Whitebread at September 28, 2016 10:52 PM (rJUlF)

85 As an aside, my place in Loudoun was once described as bluebell heaven.
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That's where I want to live then. Bluebell heaven. It must always be mid-April in bluebell heaven.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:53 PM (xpSCc)

86 Coffee?

Great, thanks. Now I'll be up all night reading the ONT and comments.

*pours bourbon*


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 28, 2016 10:53 PM (v5iqM)

87 I grew up in Hibbing where the picture of auto polo is from. There are a lot of crazy people up there who would love to do that still today I bet.

Posted by: deplorable alamogordo at September 28, 2016 10:53 PM (gqDDp)

88 I love coffee but I have a bad heart so my cardiologist said no more coffee but I have terrible migraines so the neurologist said to take my medicine with some sort of caffeine. I don't think any of it is working for me and I crave caffeine.

Posted by: Peggy at September 28, 2016 10:53 PM (HBU7W)

89 Happy-ish Wed night, all y'all ...

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Political Critic ... at September 28, 2016 10:54 PM (AoK0a)

90 Maybe it's Maybelline?
Posted by: The Deplorable Captain Whitebread at September 28, 2016 10:52 PM (rJUlF)

Nah, that's McDonald's.

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:54 PM (Om16U)

91 >> Coffee?


Just had my after dinner coffee.

Might be my favorite cup of the day.

Posted by: garrett at September 28, 2016 10:54 PM (J82wy)

92 Bluebell, do you make coffee that is thick and full of grinds?

If so, then yes we are married.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 28, 2016 10:54 PM (EZebt)

93 even the poorest people in the modern West have a way, way better life than almost anyone who ever lived at any other time"

Does not matter.

They have nothing to compare it to - and no collective feeling of "belonging". Hence - resentment.

We are a fucked up species. The more leisure time we have - the more most of us seem to resent it.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 10:54 PM (fiGNd)

94 Thank you Mis Hum for this loverly ONT ...

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Political Critic ... at September 28, 2016 10:55 PM (AoK0a)

95 So what happens if the China real estate bubble pops along with the Euro maybe cratering.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 28, 2016 10:55 PM (dKiJG)

96 Ol Frank can jump off all the helicopters he wants.
Real Men hop down off their M1 Abrams tank with the main gun still smoking, a cup 'o joe in the canteen cup (not spilling a drop) and the smoke from 3 burning T-72 in the distance.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 28, 2016 10:55 PM (0tfLf)

97 >>>Thank you, T-Rex. See, those little arms are useful after all!
Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:49 PM (xpSCc)<<<



Any time.


**high fives**... er, maybe not. **thumbs up, then**

Posted by: a T-Rex trying to rub one out at September 28, 2016 10:55 PM (H9MG5)

98
You'll all be inspired to know that Starbucks will donate a coffee tree for every brewed cup of Mexico Chiapas coffee customers buy on Sept. 29. You can even see a picture of the tree and get some certified genuine leaves in the mail, provided you pay a nominal fee to the US Agricultural Department as channeled through the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. (The first sentence is true.)

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 10:55 PM (oGNNA)

99 Nah, that's McDonald's.
Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:54 PM (Om16U)

(rimshot)
(slow clap)

Posted by: The Deplorable Captain Whitebread at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (rJUlF)

100 National Coffee Day.

Im sharting as fast as I can, dammit!

Posted by: Civit Kitteh at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (SgUT6)

101 >>> It must always be mid-April in bluebell heaven.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:53 PM (xpSCc)


Sounds nicer than mud & snow heaven in WI mid-April

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (voOPb)

102 22 OK ... you know, I believe the following, and I've tried several times to express it. I finally did - so I'm going to put it up again. And then let it go.

355 This isn't fixable.

CB ... I say just the opposite. Not only fixable ... self correcting. You, I, most others here ... know this is a bullshit propped up state of affairs. Not sustainable. And shitting our rhetorical collective pants because of how hard it's going to crash.

But when it crashes - it will correct. It sucks that the Nature of Man insists ... hell, DEMANDS ... that the crash occurs to create maximum pain and suffering to motivate enough people to change their behavior to change the collective culture.

But there it is. That's how it will go. How it must go.

In no small way - you and I are the suckers. Because we continue to waste our time and energy trying to divert the masses from the misery they must experience to enable change.

That's my manifesto. What I think in a nutshell.
Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (fiGNd)

***

70 "People in the West today often forget just how incredibly awesome our modern Civilization is. Never before in human history has the quality of life been so good; even the poorest people in the modern West have a way, way better life than almost anyone who ever lived at any other time"

--from the article above about the Middle Ages.

We may yet recreate those exciting days of yesteryear.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (TnUKj)



These two comments belong together.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (sdi6R)

103 The more leisure time we have

-----

It is very depressing to have nothing to do, and no money to do it with.

Work defines you; defines your self worth.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (hvdAF)

104 In no small way - you and I are the suckers.
Because we continue to waste our time and energy trying to divert the
masses from the misery they must experience to enable change.



That's my manifesto. What I think in a nutshell.

Posted by: ScoggDog
Congratulations. You just reverse enginered Let It Burn.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, That Deplorable Guy at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (vyqqu)

105 Are strong coffee enimas real or a myth?

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (vRd8t)

106 I'm functionally useless until my second cup of coffee in the morning..and hubby knows to not engage in any sort of conversation with me until then. Lol.

Posted by: IC at September 28, 2016 10:57 PM (vBpiM)

107 >>Maybe it's Maybelline?


That bitch won't be true.

Posted by: garrett at September 28, 2016 10:57 PM (J82wy)

108 C O F F E E. My love coffee, no more for me.
It sends my flipper a flapping.

Posted by: gNewt....in the basket...forever censored at September 28, 2016 10:57 PM (gjgWX)

109 Still don't know how people drink Starbucks, it tastes like Burnt shit.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 28, 2016 10:58 PM (dKiJG)

110 Oh it's raining
I'm going to bed
Gnight all

Posted by: votermom the deplorable @vm at September 28, 2016 10:58 PM (Om16U)

111 I like tea, I don't like coffee.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at September 28, 2016 10:59 PM (gwwEL)

112 105 Are strong coffee enimas real or a myth?
Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (vRd8t)

Shit. They are real!

And they are a thing.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at September 28, 2016 10:59 PM (vRd8t)

113 I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup

Posted by: The Deplorable Captain Whitebread at September 28, 2016 10:59 PM (rJUlF)

114 I love coffee, but I don't think I can drink it anymore.

Seems like nowadays when I have coffee: (a) I get very hyper and jittery, and (b) something happens to my back and I throw it out, causing another sciatica attack. Just not worth it, though I still get cravings.

Posted by: qdpsteve at September 28, 2016 11:00 PM (NlMkN)

115 14 I'm old enough to remember when people drank coffee out of little cups like that instead of mugs.

Even today, coffee makers measure coffee by "cups". A 12 cup coffee maker means it makes 12 of those little cups, not 12 mugs. They held 6 ounces, not the 8 ounces of a kitchen measuring cup.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 28, 2016 10:27 PM (sdi6R)



Have grape and canister loads increased as well?

Posted by: Civit Kitteh at September 28, 2016 11:00 PM (SgUT6)

116 MisHum, that's when the bluebells are at their peak here. Right around Tax Day. It gives me something to look forward to after wrestling with our taxes.

They are ephemerals, which means they only are in bloom for a very short time. Which makes them even more delightful, I think.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 11:01 PM (xpSCc)

117 That bitch won't be true.
Posted by: garrett at September 28, 2016 10:57 PM (J82wy)

Lucille won't do her sister's will, either.

Posted by: The Deplorable Captain Whitebread at September 28, 2016 11:01 PM (rJUlF)

118 Funny story. My maternal grandpa, Walt, hated Sinatra, but mostly because he so resembled Sinatra that he simply got sick of it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 28, 2016 11:01 PM (jIgr/)

119 Oh I like coffee and I like tea
I'd like to be able to enter a final plea
I've still got this dream that you just can't shake
I love you to the point you can no longer take
Well all right, okay, so be that way
I hope and pray that there's something left to say

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 28, 2016 11:01 PM (WnZAV)

120 Colombian coffee--- still king of the hill. I'll be headed to the Sierra Nevada on Colombia's north coast in a couple months.
growing great coffee there on the lower slopes of the world's tallest coastal mountain range.

Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 28, 2016 11:02 PM (VzCZ2)

121 Obama complained in his town hall meeting tonight that some of the people who passed the 9/11 bill admitted that they didn't know what was in it.

See Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2016 11:03 PM (IqV8l)

122 Nanny Staters LOVE the idea of autonomous vehicles. It's the next best thing to forcing everybody on to public transportation. You can bet they're already scheming to have legal requirements for the firmware being untouchable by the owner of the vehicle and complying with their specifications.

Likely there will be places you simply cannot go, no matter what form of coordinates you supply. The location will simply not exist or be unreachable. That is just the tip of the iceberg for control potential.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 28, 2016 11:03 PM (IdCqF)

123 102 22 OK ... you know, I believe the following, and I've tried several times to express it. I finally did - so I'm going to put it up again. And then let it go.

355 This isn't fixable.

CB ... I say just the opposite. Not only fixable ... self correcting. You, I, most others here ... know this is a bullshit propped up state of affairs. Not sustainable. And shitting our rhetorical collective pants because of how hard it's going to crash.

But when it crashes - it will correct. It sucks that the Nature of Man insists ... hell, DEMANDS ... that the crash occurs to create maximum pain and suffering to motivate enough people to change their behavior to change the collective culture.

But there it is. That's how it will go. How it must go.

In no small way - you and I are the suckers. Because we continue to waste our time and energy trying to divert the masses from the misery they must experience to enable change.

That's my manifesto. What I think in a nutshell.
Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (fiGNd)

***

70 "People in the West today often forget just how incredibly awesome our modern Civilization is. Never before in human history has the quality of life been so good; even the poorest people in the modern West have a way, way better life than almost anyone who ever lived at any other time"

--from the article above about the Middle Ages.

We may yet recreate those exciting days of yesteryear.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 28, 2016 10:48 PM (TnUKj)


These two comments belong together.
Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 28, 2016 10:56 PM (sdi6R

Indeed.

Posted by: Pepe, The Irredeemable at September 28, 2016 11:03 PM (vRd8t)

124 They are ephemerals, which means they only are in bloom for a very short time. Which makes them even more delightful, I think.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 11:01 PM (xpSCc)

sounds lovely

i'm glad that the weather was warm today. sorry to hear about your son's sickness. my little brother did that at xmas time many years ago and the damn vomit froze to the door of moms car. that was fun cleaning up and dragging him without the folks catching us. little brothers, yuck.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 11:03 PM (voOPb)

125 Well see, San Franpsycho, I could make better coffee if you bought me a new coffee machine. And maybe a new dress and shoes to go with it.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 11:04 PM (xpSCc)

126 52 Northernlurker, isn't Warroad where all the good hockey players come from?

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (xpSCc)

Dave Christian, off the Christian brothers, was from Warroad. Christian manufactures hockey sticks.

Warroad was also the home of Danny Orlis, of Christian (the other kind) novels for young people.

Posted by: Northernlurker at September 28, 2016 11:04 PM (s7hQ/)

127 If you have been following the ONT lately you know we've been covering autonomous autos. There are many among us that scoff at the thought of them taking over the roads. Surprising there aren't the typical nanny state characters attempting to stop these autos. [MisHum]

Whuh? Surely you jest!
We're the uncontrollable ones, with our millions of different decisions for nearly identical inputs.
The statists know for sure they can make a handful of companies do their bidding, just like they do to communications companies to erode our privacy.

Autonomous in automobiles mean YOU aren't in control.
It doesn't mean they aren't.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:05 PM (kKHcp)

128 >>>121 Obama complained in his town hall meeting tonight that some of the people who passed the 9/11 bill admitted that they didn't know what was in it.
-----
Screw him
Little dictator

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 11:05 PM (voOPb)

129 I ended up on everydayfeminism dot com in doing my research.


There's entire LISTS of privilege.


I've always been a pretty sensitive guy and careful not to hurt other people's feelings. But this, I just couldn't do. There's no earthly way to NOT hurt these "people's" feelings.


You do not hire these people. You do not marry these people. You do not associate with these people. You do not allow your kids to associate with or become one of these people. You crash the economy so these people have to support themselves.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:06 PM (cBWom)

130 0 Colombian coffee--- still king of the hill. I'll be headed to the Sierra Nevada on Colombia's north coast in a couple months.
growing great coffee there on the lower slopes of the world's tallest coastal mountain range.
Posted by: rld77 WAY down south at September 28, 2016 11:02 PM (VzCZ2)
-------------

Is it . . . Could it be . . . Are you Juan Valdez?

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 11:06 PM (xpSCc)

131 Leftists haven't thrown a fit about self-driving cars because it is a huge opportunity for them. If successful, autonomous vehicles will give them leverage to outlaw manually driven vehicles. All new cars will be required to have overrides built in on manual operation. All older cars can be taxed out of existence because of "safety" and "crime prevention" reasons.

End result is the Left able to shut down all movement at will or target those they want to hinder.

They don't yell because they're busy jerking it to the thought of finally being able to track and control everyone in a vehicle in real-time[/ib].

Self driving cars will result in the outlawing of independent freedom of movement and the penalization of the heartland/rural areas.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at September 28, 2016 11:06 PM (c1VpD)

132 oops

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at September 28, 2016 11:06 PM (c1VpD)

133 Java Jive ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl-ZIt0p4xs

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Music Critic ... at September 28, 2016 11:07 PM (AoK0a)

134 24 Sinatra was cool all right, but the King of Cool was Dean Martin, hands down. He was the coolest cat that has yet walked the earth. At least the well-known cats.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 28, 2016 10:33 PM (DW+jj)
------------------------------------
Hey! Wait a minute. I .....no, actually you're right.
Yeah, I admit it.
Dino was even cooler than me.

Posted by: Steve McQueen at September 28, 2016 11:07 PM (Nox3c)

135 Congratulations. You just reverse engineered Let It Burn.

I know.

It just helps me to be able to get it out in my own words. I finally got the words out.

But Man ... if that's really how it is ... and I think it is ... it's a really shitty commentary on the Human Condition.

It implies a ceiling we can't rise above, a cycle of rise and fall we can't get beyond, and a general damn John Lee Hooker "It Serves Me Right to Suffer" level of existence that can't be avoided.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 11:08 PM (fiGNd)

136 The statists know for sure they can make a handful of companies do their bidding, just like they do to communications companies to erode our privacy.
------------------

Windows 10 is a police state's dream; way worse than google. "Everything" is in the cloud.

12gb downloads, and you have no idea what they are or where they are coming from, and apparently, no way to opt out.

If you want office, you are completely naked, and you pay an annual subscription to use it.

Ya, I bought it. I don't think we're going to last much longer.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:09 PM (hvdAF)

137 I keep seeing these articles about the super rich building luxury bunkers for when SHTF. All I can say is if it ever happens, a lot of bodyguards are going to become kings overnight.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at September 28, 2016 11:09 PM (ZH7kM)

138
95 So what happens if the China real estate bubble pops along with the Euro maybe cratering.

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The ruins of Shanghai will be AWESOME.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:09 PM (oGNNA)

139 Posted by: Steve McQueen


I always hated Sinatra. Visceral thing, can't justify it.

No one was cooler than Steve McQueen.

There is a documentary out about him trying to make a Le Mans movie which shows him to be a total psycho. He was completely dedicated to making the movie feel like actually being in the race.

He sort of resisted wedging in a plot or anything interesting and one of his stunt men lost a leg, but it's an interesting film about obsession.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 11:10 PM (mgbwf)

140
137 I keep seeing these articles about the super rich building luxury bunkers for when SHTF. All I can say is if it ever happens, a lot of bodyguards are going to become kings overnight.

------------------

We'll tour them someday like the pyramids. "Look at those barbarians, thinking they could live forever by being buried with a bunch of slaves and kitchen appliances."

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:11 PM (oGNNA)

141 I just figured out what Hillary's illness is. She has crone's disease.

Posted by: Northernlurker at September 28, 2016 11:11 PM (s7hQ/)

142 12gb downloads, and you have no idea what they are or where they are coming from, and apparently, no way to opt out.




Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:09 PM (hvdAF)


You can opt out of Windows 10. You'll have to do some searches but there are two automatic updates you have to delete and you also have to turn your automatic updates off.


I'm still on Windows 7. My next computer won't be Windows. Screw this crap.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:11 PM (cBWom)

143 122 Nanny Staters LOVE the idea of autonomous vehicles. It's the next best thing to forcing everybody on to public transportation. You can bet they're already scheming to have legal requirements for the firmware being untouchable by the owner of the vehicle and complying with their specifications.

Likely there will be places you simply cannot go, no matter what form of coordinates you supply. The location will simply not exist or be unreachable. That is just the tip of the iceberg for control potential.
Posted by: Epobirs at September 28, 2016 11:03 PM (IdCqF)


Oh yeah. They're salivating over the prospect.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:12 PM (sdi6R)

144 I would like to have one of these, but they are ridiculously expensive. I think I could custom fabricate one for what they are charging.

https://motoped.com/

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 28, 2016 11:12 PM (rwI+c)

145 You can opt out of Windows 10

It's true. I opted out at Windows 3.11.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 28, 2016 11:12 PM (WnZAV)

146 121 Obama complained in his town hall meeting tonight that some of the people who passed the 9/11 bill admitted that they didn't know what was in it.


Kinda like Obongocare, then?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 28, 2016 11:13 PM (SRKgf)

147 If you are on Windows 7 or I guess maybe 8.1 here is an easy-to-use tool to keep Windows 10 away



http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

Posted by: Steck - Texit at September 28, 2016 11:13 PM (EwReX)

148 Can't have coffee (caffeine intolerant), so I hope you Morons will trust me when I tell you that I've never known a farmer without a gun. Also, that story about farmers in Saskatchewan raises some questions: Why are First Nation people suddenly trying to raid farmlands? What kind of "gangs" are the farmers stalking about? Why is the homicide rate spiking? Kind of interesting that the local tribe won't talk to reporters about any of it.

Posted by: pookysgirl at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (ar2KI)

149 Good night, sweeties. And for heaven's sake stay away from Australian spiders.

Thanks for the lovely (as always) ONT, MisHum.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (xpSCc)

150
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 28, 2016 11:12 PM (rwI+c)

$1500 used dirt bike would suffice

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (voOPb)

151 Bunkers:

If you're planning on staying buried underground for years on end, you may as well be dead.

(Says the guy that can't afford a subterranean palace)

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (kKHcp)

152
Likely there will be places you simply cannot go, no matter what form of coordinates you supply. The location will simply not exist or be unreachable. That is just the tip of the iceberg for control potential.
--------------

My God. That means we're the ones who will be clamoring for bicycle lanes.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (oGNNA)

153 Oh yeah. They're salivating over the prospect.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:12 PM (sdi6R)



"Papers, please, Comrade Citizen. Is this trip approved by the People's Committee to Save the Fucking Polar Bears and to Destroy Capitalism?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (SRKgf)

154 137 I keep seeing these articles about the super rich building luxury
bunkers for when SHTF. All I can say is if it ever happens, a lot of
bodyguards are going to become kings overnight.



I've figured there's ventilation shafts that are protected by machinery to keep out gas attacks.


But, what if someone brought up a gas truck to the ventilation shaft, pumped gasoline in and then lit a match. I'd like to see how that's handled.



Oh, and my rule after SHTF - a 10% bounty on all of the super rich who have bought our freedoms to anyone who kills them. Or notifies people who go and kill them.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:15 PM (cBWom)

155 $1500 used dirt bike would suffice

More than suffice. I think that would be a good price for this thing, for the novelty of it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 28, 2016 11:15 PM (rwI+c)

156 151 Bunkers:
If you're planning on staying buried underground for years on end, you may as well be dead.
(Says the guy that can't afford a subterranean palace)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (kKHcp)



I believe "The Dirty Dozen" addressed this scenario.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 28, 2016 11:15 PM (SRKgf)

157 My next computer won't be Windows. Screw this crap.

----------------

That was what I thought before I bought the new one. It was either get off the 'net, or buy a new computer. I had two online accounts I wanted to keep up, and they both needed new software that wouldn't run on this old one.

If I can find an audience for my writing, then it was worth the expense. If my roof caves in, or my health fails and I croak, or civilization as we know it comes to an end, then it won't make any difference.

I'm running on hope. All I have left.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:16 PM (hvdAF)

158 62 I am pouting because no one else is a Zatoichi fan.

You should all go back and live your lives differently.

If I had my life to live over again I would chase a lot more 7 and 8's and 9's and just ignore the 10's.

Knowmsayin?
Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 10:45 PM (qUNWi)

If I had to live my life over again...I probably wouldn't.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:16 PM (0mRoj)

159 Ha!
I swear, I carry that same glass around (bourbon & ginger) every day of the week.
Ask my neighbors.
I even blasted a "Best Of" compilation disc today, and was singing at the top of my lungs for a half hour.
I love me some Chairman...

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:16 PM (jbaCx)

160 I love coffee but I have a bad heart so my cardiologist said no more coffee but I have terrible migraines so the neurologist said to take my medicine with some sort of caffeine. I don't think any of it is working for me and I crave caffeine.
Posted by: Peggy at September 28, 2016 10:53 PM

I'm hoping these guys talk to each other. Make sure they do by asking them.

Posted by: Farmer at September 28, 2016 11:16 PM (o/90i)

161 and one of his stunt men lost a leg, but it's an interesting film about obsession.

Vic Morrow & 2 Vietnamese Children lost their lives ...

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Movie Critic ... at September 28, 2016 11:16 PM (AoK0a)

162 I always hated Sinatra. Visceral thing, can't justify it.

No one was cooler than Steve McQueen


I'm feelin ya.

Papillon was flawed but I loved it.

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 11:16 PM (qUNWi)

163 Oh, and my rule after SHTF - a 10% bounty on all of the super rich who have bought our freedoms to anyone who kills them. Or notifies people who go and kill them.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:15 PM (cBWom)

OK, I'll bite.

10% of what?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:17 PM (kKHcp)

164 I love coffee. In fact, I roast my own and have a large variety of coffee-making machines but I took a three-month, partially to prove I could do.
I'm drinking again, but only the coffee I make at home, which, honestly is very good. I can't abide over-priced, yet strangely mediocre, if not worse, coffee at chain places.

Posted by: Northernlurker at September 28, 2016 11:17 PM (s7hQ/)

165 Wednesday Night ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781201382229602304

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781201484331581440

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781201602149572608

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781201714686943232

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781201853971390464

Posted by: kbdabear at September 28, 2016 11:17 PM (Ya7zs)

166 Also, I love Chik FilA but their coffee is strange. Maybe it's Nescafe?
Posted by: votermom
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Folger's

Posted by: Mrs. Olson at September 28, 2016 11:17 PM (OLNwX)

167 Posted by: pookysgirl at September 28, 2016 11:14 PM (ar2KI

I was hoping that our resident Canucks would chime in on the situation.

And every farmer I've known has had a riffle, usually a .22 somewhere near the barn

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 11:17 PM (voOPb)

168

If I had to live my life over again...I probably wouldn't.
Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:16 PM (
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Hey you. None of that.

Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 11:18 PM (xpSCc)

169 142
12gb downloads, and you have no idea what they are or where they are coming from, and apparently, no way to opt out.






Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:09 PM (hvdAF)


You
can opt out of Windows 10. You'll have to do some searches but there
are two automatic updates you have to delete and you also have to turn
your automatic updates off.


I'm still on Windows 7. My next computer won't be Windows. Screw this crap.


Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:11 PM (cBWom)


Or, you can use GWX Control Panel -- a handy little utility that keeps your Win7 Win7.

And, BTW, Linux Mint is an easy changeover from Windows. It even comes with an equivalent to Office.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 28, 2016 11:19 PM (EzgxV)

170 Made a mistake tonight. Went to a "Sonic" drive in restaurant.

One thing that has not changed in 25 years of dealing with that company, they have yet to get an order right.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 28, 2016 11:19 PM (WnZAV)

171 More Wednesday Night ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781201961773326337

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781202074184867840

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781202180233625600

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781202286789943297

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/781202384735338496

Posted by: kbdabear at September 28, 2016 11:19 PM (Ya7zs)

172 I have to agree that Edward II had the worst death of the mediaeval tortures mentioned. I'd probably prefer the drawn, hanged, quartered method...

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 28, 2016 11:20 PM (6FqZa)

173 If I had to live my life over again...I probably wouldn't.

Don't say that brosef....

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 11:20 PM (qUNWi)

174 Went to a "Sonic" drive in restaurant. One thing that has not changed in 25 years of dealing with that company, they have yet to get an order right.

But they make AWESOME!!!! screwdrivers ...

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical TV Critic ... at September 28, 2016 11:20 PM (AoK0a)

175
I believe "The Dirty Dozen" addressed this scenario.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara


And Doctor Strangelove

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 28, 2016 11:21 PM (IqV8l)

176 Bunkers

How will you react to living in close quarters with a bunch of even friends for a long time? My guess? Not well. Not well at all.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at September 28, 2016 11:21 PM (J8/9G)

177 Oh - there is also one person here that has heard me croon.
I do a pretty damned good rendition of " World On A String," but no, Capt Whitebread, I have never stepped up for karaoke.

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:21 PM (jbaCx)

178
Obama complained in his town hall meeting tonight that some of the people who passed the 9/11 bill admitted that they didn't know what was in it.

---------------

As I understand it, a family of four will save $2500 and if you like your life, you can keep your life. So fuck off, Obongo.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:22 PM (oGNNA)

179 It even comes with an equivalent to Office.

-----------------------------

I used OpenOffice for several years.
I'm still trying to clean up inappropriate smart quotes.

And every translation from one file format to another introduces 'artifacts' of the conversion process that requires re editing the file.

Just about destroyed me. Made me crazier than I was.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:22 PM (hvdAF)

180 Well ... I'm not on twitter - but if I was, I'd absolutely follow this kbdabear. Him/Her has excellent taste in photography.

Honestly - I don't understand why He/She isn't running the Art Thread.

See ya' tomorrow.

Posted by: ScoggDog at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (fiGNd)

181 If I had to live my life over again...
---
i'd hit on at least some of the chicks that i finally figured out, years later, were hitting on me at the time.

#Doh

#Idiot

#Fail

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (aEZpQ)

182 would like to have one of these, but they are ridiculously expensive. I think I could custom fabricate one for what they are charging.

https://motoped.com/
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 28, 2016 11:12 PM (rwI+c)
Isn't that just a fancy name for a Moped? In Ohio you can be 14 to drive one, I use to drive one to school, it's all I had and I didn't own a car.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (dKiJG)

183 Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 28, 2016 11:19 PM (EzgxV)


Thanks, I found their site. That'll probably come in handy.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (cBWom)

184 Posted by: bluebell at September 28, 2016 11:18 PM (xpSCc)

Bleah. Decades of bad headspace.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (0mRoj)

185 Speaking of autonomous autos, I gave up my DL 3 years ago because of neurological problems that make it so i wasn't safe to drive. I would give my right eye to be able to travel again by myself. That loss of freedom hurt.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (hMqvx)

186 Vic Morrow & 2 Vietnamese Children lost their lives ...


Oh yeah. I haven't seen it, but there's a documentary Coppola's wife made about him going completely insane in the jungle making that movie.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 11:24 PM (mgbwf)

187 i'd hit on at least some of the chicks that i finally figured out, years later, were hitting on me at the time.

#Doh

#Idiot

#Fail


You have no idea how much I fucking understand that.

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 11:24 PM (qUNWi)

188 Still catching up, but -
G'night, sock rat eez.

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:25 PM (jbaCx)

189

Speaking of horrible, prolonged, and painful endings...

Are 'death songs' still a thing?

I should get one, lest I find myself in such a situation, and spend my final moments screaming and carrying on like a bitch, and thereby losing any pretense of dignity and grace during the process!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki, Certified Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:25 PM (kP16F)

190 181 If I had to live my life over again...
---
i'd hit on at least some of the chicks that i finally figured out, years later, were hitting on me at the time.

#Doh

#Idiot

#Fail
Posted by: redc1c4 at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (aEZpQ)

I'd take a pass on the one girl who did hit on me. What a nightmare.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:25 PM (0mRoj)

191 185 Speaking of autonomous autos, I gave up my DL 3 years ago because of neurological problems that make it so i wasn't safe to drive. I would give my right eye to be able to travel again by myself. That loss of freedom hurt.
Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (hMqvx)

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. It broke my heart and father's heart the day I took his keys away.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (voOPb)

192 Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 11:24 PM (mgbwf)

Twilight Zone, not Apocalypse Now ...

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical TV Critic ... at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (AoK0a)

193 'sup everyone

Posted by: origional Jake at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (k8uIk)

194 Good night all.....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (cBWom)

195 stateless infidel - I went linux on the laptop i had before this one. I actually liveblogged the process at the HQ... because it coincided with Election Night 2006, which meant I needed to take my mind off the ass reaming Pelosi was delivering to us.

At the time, I went with Fedora Core 6, which was a very bare bones distro, but Linux has got a lot more user friendly since then.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (6FqZa)

196 osted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:21 PM (cBWom)

Well, that is a tempting offer and I...
Wait a minute. If I know where they are and I kill them, maybe I just keep it all, howzabout?

Actually I agree with several of the people here who think that after a few days the security crews will kill them.
After all, they're the ones with the guns.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (kKHcp)

197 Surprising there aren't the typical nanny state characters attempting to stop these autos.

Because they're the gateway to single-driver travelcare: high-speed rail.

Posted by: t-bird at September 28, 2016 11:27 PM (9mTYi)

198 Made me crazier than I was.
Crazy as a shit-house Pixy hamster!

Posted by: andycanuck at September 28, 2016 11:27 PM (LdMbv)

199
I used OpenOffice for several years.
I'm still trying to clean up inappropriate smart quotes.
--------------------

You think that's bad, try going in reverse. Half your apostrophes in a 400-page manuscript have to be hand-corrected.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:28 PM (oGNNA)

200 I don't like thinking of "what I'd have done differently" because it would basically amount to "all that shit I did for the last thirtyfive / forty years? not that".

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 28, 2016 11:28 PM (6FqZa)

201 If I had to live my life over again...
---
i'd hit on at least some of the chicks that i finally figured out, years later, were hitting on me at the time.

#Doh

#Idiot

#Fail


Posted by: redc1c4 at September 28, 2016 11:23 PM (aEZpQ)

Same here, but I was clueless. I can't read people worth a crap. I had nobody to learn from. Had to try and figure most of it out on my own, so of course most of the time I got it wrong.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 28, 2016 11:29 PM (heN73)

202 Twilight Zone, not Apocalypse Now ...


Hmmm. The internet says you're right. My memory is having a hard time adjusting to that.

*kicks memory*

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 11:29 PM (mgbwf)

203 Re coffee: allow me to put in a plug for Community Coffee out of Baton Rouge, LA. They sell on-line, and their signature dark roast is very good, indeed. That's what is served in the diners on all the offshore drilling rigs, and those boys love their coffee.


I'd say most farmers around here have firearms. Don't know if they pack them in the cabs of the combines, though.


There is a lot of gang activity amongst some sectors of the Indian (feather, not dot) population. Sort of aping the thug culture of inner-city blacks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2016 11:29 PM (o9m/V)

204
146 121 Obama complained in his town hall meeting tonight that some of the people who passed the 9/11 bill admitted that they didn't know what was in it.


yep. representatives......

Posted by: Civit Kitteh at September 28, 2016 11:30 PM (SgUT6)

205 I look forward to the day when I am in my RV and I can go into the back make a roast, go use the bathroom all while it is driving itself down the road. These cars will make so people can live even further from the cities.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at September 28, 2016 11:31 PM (dKiJG)

206 There is a lot of gang activity amongst some sectors of the Indian (feather, not dot) population. Sort of aping the thug culture of inner-city blacks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2016 11:29 PM (o9m/V)

Indian reservations tend to be hotbeds of dysfunction and despair. It's a really awful thing.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:31 PM (0mRoj)

207 I was hoping that our resident Canucks would chime in on the situation.
I don't know what Native Indian gang-bangers get up to especially in rural areas. From the report I'm assuming ordinary burglary and robbery; vandalism for fun; and shit like that.

Posted by: andycanuck at September 28, 2016 11:31 PM (LdMbv)

208 Actually I agree with several of the people here who think that after a few days the security crews will kill them.

After all, they're the ones with the guns.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (kKHcp)


I actually do think the 'elites' are worried about this.


Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (6FqZa)

That's good to know because after the Windows 10 craziness, I'm not putting up with Microsoft. I'm about to do a lot of video editing though which means maybe Apple...ughh..
I imagine the Linux versions allow programs that run on Windows to run on those machines, but I'd be concerned about performance issues.



Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:31 PM (cBWom)

209 I just listened to an interview Kurt Russel walked out on for gun control. I will now buy a copy of all his movies. You will never ban all ways that terrorists will have to kill you only in the ways you can defend yourself.

Posted by: ryukyu at September 28, 2016 11:31 PM (5hp5+)

210 "Existing law makes it a crime to solicit or engage in any act of prostitution. Existing law makes it a crime to loiter in any public place with the intent to commit prostitution. This bill would make the above provisions inapplicable to a child under 18 years of age who is alleged to have engaged in conduct that would if committed by an adult, violate the above provisions."

The law was among several signed by Governor Jerry Brown this week to supposedly BOOST protections for children forced into sex trafficking.

Posted by: undocumented, and damn glad at September 28, 2016 11:31 PM (e8kgV)

211
allow me to put in a plug for Community Coffee
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I tried it because I saw it on a food thread here. wtf, morons? Was that irony or something? Not funny.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:32 PM (oGNNA)

212 137 I keep seeing these articles about the super rich building luxury bunkers for when SHTF. All I can say is if it ever happens, a lot of bodyguards are going to become kings overnight.
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at September 28, 2016 11:09 PM (ZH7kM)


Remember Matt Bracken's short story "What I Saw at the Coup". Target the bodyguards, and they will melt away.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:32 PM (sdi6R)

213 G'night, bluebell. As always "you're my GIRL!"

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:32 PM (jbaCx)

214 Obama complained in his town hall meeting tonight that some of the people who passed the 9/11 bill admitted that they didn't know what was in it...

But not one word from that mewling quim's dick hole when his Speaker of the house mentioned that they'd have to pass a bill to find out what is in it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM (kKHcp)

215 hi all
got a new toy tonight, LG G5 phone
how is everyone doing

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM (uAvJJ)

216 >>Re coffee: allow me to put in a plug for Community Coffee out of Baton Rouge, LA. They sell on-line, and their signature dark roast is very good, indeed. That's what is served in the diners on all the offshore drilling rigs, and those boys love their coffee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

WalMart carries it around here.

Posted by: Aviator at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM (5huyv)

217 I had nobody to learn from. Had to try and figure most of it out on my own, so of course most of the time I got it wrong.

In which I overshare...

Yeah, only child of parents with no friends or social skills. Had to figure it all out.

I eventually got some game and pulled enough hot chicks for a lifetime, but because it didn't come early enough it never filled the hole.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM (mgbwf)

218
@199

MSWord has a - I don't know what to call it - but somehow all the apostrophes are in a different font that adds a blank space.

You can (in MSWord2016) do a search and replace; global search for apostrophe, replace with apostrophe which changes the font and corrects the problem. Just learned that a day or two ago.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM (hvdAF)

219
how is everyone doing
Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM (uAvJJ)
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Meso-meso, and you?

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:34 PM (oGNNA)

220 Good night all.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:34 PM (cBWom)

221 Good night all.


And a goodnight to you sir/madame.

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 11:35 PM (qUNWi)

222 But they make AWESOME!!!! screwdrivers ...

I got two things to say about that.

1. That was darn funny.

2. No, they keep "forgetting" the vodka. When called on it they bring you a new drink with gin and grapefruit juice.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 28, 2016 11:36 PM (WnZAV)

223 "Surprising there aren't the typical nanny state characters attempting to stop these autos."

Why should they? Not when they're harboring dark fantasies of being able to someday push a button in Washington and having thousands of selected cars lock their doors and head for a central collection facility.

Posted by: TB at September 28, 2016 11:36 PM (UXEYz)

224 I thought Vic Morrow and those 2 children died during the making of "Twilight Zone: The Movie"....

Guess I need to go look that up -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at September 28, 2016 11:37 PM (Saqzi)

225 I'll be here Saturday http://kingstreetbrewing.com/events.asp

Posted by: Bosk at September 28, 2016 11:37 PM (Gk6KH)

226
Why should they? Not when they're harboring dark fantasies of being able to someday push a button in Washington and having thousands of selected cars lock their doors and head for a central collection facility.


Minority Report.

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 11:37 PM (qUNWi)

227

How will those robot cars handle street protestors? Slow down and stop, or drive right through the mob?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:37 PM (hvdAF)

228 That sucks. Sorry to hear that. It broke my heart and father's heart the day I took his keys away.


Thanks I'm only 47... who plans for disability and all that shit at 47. I'd change many things if i could. I volunteered my keys because i couldn't stand it if I hurt someone. Getting called in for a possible DUI multiple times will ad clarity. (I never never never drank and then drove.)

Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:38 PM (hMqvx)

229 iforgot, doing okay
figuring out my new toy

and, mmm, coffee

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:38 PM (uAvJJ)

230 G'night Stateless. Save some poutine for the rest of us.

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:38 PM (jbaCx)

231 didn't come early enough it never filled the hole.

Phrasing Bander. Phrasing...

Good night all.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 28, 2016 11:38 PM (fsQtk)

232
figuring out my new toy

and, mmm, coffee
Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:38 PM (uAvJJ)
-------------------

Dang, you're making me want to brew a cup.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:39 PM (oGNNA)

233 Vic Morrow and Ralph Meeker were the same person...

Yes or no?

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 11:40 PM (qUNWi)

234 That's good to know because after the Windows 10 craziness, I'm not putting up with Microsoft. I'm about to do a lot of video editing though which means maybe Apple...ughh..
I imagine the Linux versions allow programs that run on Windows to run on those machines, but I'd be concerned about performance issues.


You can always go native: http://bit.ly/2d8rEvs

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 28, 2016 11:40 PM (WnZAV)

235 Yep. Gonna do my George Costanza impression.

That's it for me!
I'm outta here!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 28, 2016 11:40 PM (kKHcp)

236 227

How will those robot cars handle street protestors? Slow down and stop, or drive right through the mob?
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:37 PM (hvdAF)


Who? Whom?

Posted by: V. I. Lenin at September 28, 2016 11:42 PM (sdi6R)

237 Coffee?
Meh.
I know y'all will try to come get my Moron card, but I couldn't care less.
Last cup I had was stale Folger's Instant about 3 months ago.
Winter is coming, so I'll start drinking it again when the weather turns.

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:42 PM (jbaCx)

238
Every now and then I go to Daily Kos and do a search on "Juanita." Nope. Read no evil, ain't no evil.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:42 PM (oGNNA)

239 My brother was pulled over, failed roadside, blew .000 thee different breathalyzers. they took him in for blood tests that turned out negative. It sucks to be inpaired through no fault of our own. (Hereditary problems) he still kind of drives for now(local no highway. He's chair bound) I dont drive but am more mobile(walker). autonomous cars will be a god send.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:45 PM (hMqvx)

240 G'night Anna.
And, I think, G'night, Sandy Duncan Jack.

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:45 PM (jbaCx)

241 autonomous cars and the system it will create.

*furiously jacks off*

*squirt!*

I just hit the ceiling.

Posted by: Cass Sunstein at September 28, 2016 11:46 PM (DW+jj)

242 228
I volunteered my keys because i couldn't stand it if I hurt someone.
Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:38 PM
------------------------
That's a hard, even heroic, sacrifice, IMHO.
God bless you.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 28, 2016 11:46 PM (Nox3c)

243 You can use WINE to emulate Windows programs on Linux.
But setting up the emulation parameters is not for the faint of heart.

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:46 PM (uAvJJ)

244 Not heroic, just reality. I wish I had hero genes.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:47 PM (hMqvx)

245 Just dropped in to say: Another first-rate ONT - Thanks Mis Hum.

And good luck, we're all counting on you.

Posted by: ibguy at September 28, 2016 11:48 PM (vUcdz)

246 244 Not heroic, just reality. I wish I had hero genes.
Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:47 PM (hMqvx)

I had hero jeans, but they shrank in the dryer.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:48 PM (0mRoj)

247 Last cup I had was stale Folger's Instant about 3 months ago.

Well that's your problem right there. Instant "coffee" is not real coffee.

I'm not a coffee snob by any means, I drink Folger's in the morning and like it, but instant coffee is horrid.

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:48 PM (uAvJJ)

248 I had hero jeans, but they shrank in the dryer...

So did mine.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:49 PM (hMqvx)

249 195
stateless infidel - I went linux on the laptop i had before this one. I
actually liveblogged the process at the HQ... because it coincided with
Election Night 2006, which meant I needed to take my mind off the ass
reaming Pelosi was delivering to us.



At the time, I went with Fedora Core 6, which was a very bare bones
distro, but Linux has got a lot more user friendly since then.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at September 28, 2016 11:26 PM (6FqZa)


I was actually a Unix fan before I ever touched MSDOS. Went through years of trying to "get back to Unix".... When I had the keylogger dropped on me, I checked out modern Linux distros. Holy-moly, have they ever improved!

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 28, 2016 11:49 PM (EzgxV)

250 >>>And good luck, we're all counting on you.

You know something I don't?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 28, 2016 11:50 PM (voOPb)

251 USNtakim, thank you for your maturity when it comes to driving

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:50 PM (uAvJJ)

252 The honey badger he don't care
Oh-oh! Livin' on a prayer!
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Oh-oh! Livin' on a prayer!
As I descended down the stair
Oh-oh! Met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today
Oh-oh! Wish he'd go away!
Oh-oh! Nothing gold can stay!

Posted by: Kim Jong-Bong Jovi at September 28, 2016 11:51 PM (dtWKK)

253 cthulhu, yeah, modern Linux distros are getting much much better when it comes to usability

actually I can play my Windows game on Linux, emulating it with PlayOnLinux, and it wasn't all that hard to do at all

before that, I had to emulate it directly in WINE, trying to figure out all the DLL's to download, that was a pita

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:52 PM (uAvJJ)

254 Less serious side effects may include but not limited to:

nausea, diarrhea, upset stomach;
menstrual cramps;
drowsiness, tired feeling;
headache; or
muscle or back pain.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice.


Left off the "anal leakage" and the infamous "some sexual side effects".

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 28, 2016 11:52 PM (+lVUW)

255 How will you react to living in close quarters with a bunch of even friends for a long time? My guess? Not well. Not well at all.
Posted by: Kodos
------------

Maybe. Lived in barracks for 5 years.

Of course, there were no women, which reduces potential problems, and there were always bars not too far away.

Maybe that should be included in all bunker scenarios... a separate, dedicated, Bar Bunker.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2016 11:53 PM (OLNwX)

256 I tried it because I saw it on a food thread here. wtf, morons? Was that irony or something? Not funny.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 28, 2016 11:32 PM (oGNNA)


You don't like Community Coffee? To each their own, I guess. I buy it when I am able to. Costs too much to have it shipped to Canada.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2016 11:53 PM (o9m/V)

257 250 MH

Airplane! reference ("just dropped in").

Posted by: ibguy at September 28, 2016 11:53 PM (vUcdz)

258 For those who love Windows, but hate MicroSoft, there's ReactOS:
https://www.reactos.org/

It's still in "alpha" stage, so it may not run everything you're used to.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 28, 2016 11:54 PM (WnZAV)

259 Went to see the dermatologist toady. She must have needed to make a payment on the Porsche, she started whetting her knife the minute I walked in.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2016 11:54 PM (OLNwX)

260 246 244 Not heroic, just reality. I wish I had hero genes.
Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:47 PM (hMqvx)
------
I had hero jeans, but they shrank in the dryer.
Posted by: Insomniac
------------------

And, BOOM! Somebody else with my eighth grade sense of humor.
I knew there was a reason that I liked you so much...

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:55 PM (UmuuL)

261 218


@199



MSWord has a - I don't know what to call it - but somehow all the apostrophes are in a different font that adds a blank space.



You can (in MSWord2016) do a search and replace; global search for
apostrophe, replace with apostrophe which changes the font and corrects
the problem. Just learned that a day or two ago.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM (hvdAF)


Office (except for Access) was done in the 1997 version -- I've never seen anything in newer ones that made me feel like I gained anything but exasperation by using them.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 28, 2016 11:55 PM (EzgxV)

262 There was not a whole lot of maturity, it was becoming obvious. Just decided to make the choice for myself. My wife and kids didn't much care to drive with me. It was getting so I preferred not to drive with passengers. I probably should have quit a year or so before.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:55 PM (hMqvx)

263 259 Went to see the dermatologist toady. She must have needed to make a payment on the Porsche, she started whetting her knife the minute I walked in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2016 11:54 PM (OLNwX)

Went to a dermatologist once. Asked me about the hideous, deformed growth balanced on top of my neck.

I didn't go back.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:57 PM (0mRoj)

264 Steak is on the grill, woo-hoo!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2016 11:57 PM (o9m/V)

265 , but instant coffee is horrid.
Posted by: chemjeff
-------------
Really?
YOU are going to tell me what tastes good?

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:58 PM (UmuuL)

266 Radio said Mr.Trump delivered his best speech ever.
Today.

Posted by: gNewt....in the basket...forever censored at September 28, 2016 11:58 PM (gjgWX)

267 I had half a cup of coffee back in 1985.

It was horrible.

Posted by: RKae at September 28, 2016 11:59 PM (R6mCt)

268 Really?

YOU are going to tell me what tastes good?

Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:58 PM (UmuuL)

just think of me as the lowest possible bar of acceptability

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:59 PM (uAvJJ)

269 But it is true that instant is a poor substitute for the real thing.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 28, 2016 11:59 PM (hMqvx)

270 JFG. $6.25 for 2 lbs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 12:00 AM (OLNwX)

271 >>You don't like Community Coffee? To each their own, I guess. I buy it when I am able to. Costs too much to have it shipped to Canada.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Pretty decent coffee. We buy the Community dark roast or Dunkin Donuts Dark.

Posted by: Aviator at September 29, 2016 12:00 AM (5huyv)

272 And, BOOM! Somebody else with my eighth grade sense of humor.
I knew there was a reason that I liked you so much...
Posted by: Chi at September 28, 2016 11:55 PM (UmuuL)

I may have to grow old, but I don't have to grow up.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 29, 2016 12:00 AM (0mRoj)

273 Went to a dermatologist once. Asked me about the hideous, deformed growth balanced on top of my neck.

I didn't go back.

Posted by: Insomniac - Irredeemably Deplorable at September 28, 2016 11:57 PM (0mRoj)



That's bad. Worse though, is when one's psychologist has to call in a proctologist for a consult.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 29, 2016 12:01 AM (v5iqM)

274 Obama complained in his town hall meeting tonight that some of the people who passed the 9/11 bill admitted that they didn't know what was in it...

But not one word from that mewling quim's dick hole when his Speaker of the house mentioned that they'd have to pass a bill to find out what is in it.
Posted by: OneEyedJack


My suspicion is that that is common for congress. I'm thinking they pretty much leave it to staffs to do all the work. Think Obama is the only lazy ass in DC?

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 29, 2016 12:02 AM (+lVUW)

275 "Many black people who become police officers become blue, not black. In order for you to survive in a police department, you take on the police department's ideology, ways of life, and culture," said an NAACP representative.

Posted by: undocumented, and damn glad at September 29, 2016 12:02 AM (e8kgV)

276 All of them are lazy bitches and should be replaced.
Soon.

Posted by: gNewt....in the basket...forever censored at September 29, 2016 12:03 AM (gjgWX)

277 I tend to drink lightly sweetened iced coffee any more. any good breakfast blend (mic d's) with just a touch of dairy. in a vacuum tumbler so ice doesn't melt. made in a french press. if i must I'll drink it hot.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 29, 2016 12:04 AM (hMqvx)

278 Hot coffee with a slug of rum in it makes a nice warm-up on a cold day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 12:06 AM (o9m/V)

279 >>>In the middle ages life was a bitch and then you died a horrible death.


Meh. Maybe I'm stupid. I'm honestly not attached to this age. If a one way time portal to the Middle Ages opened up, I'd probably walk through. I hate living in this time. I don't like the people, I don't like the culture. I've never watched so much as a single Seinfeld or Simpsons episode. I would gladly chuck away my smartphone if I didn't need to play solitaire on my subway commutes, which I also hate. People had different ethical principles than we do now, but they certainly weren't inferior, just different. It's probably impossible to have ethical principles that are inferior to our current ones. I guess I owe Obama that much: he's caused me to clarify my thinking about how it is to live in the modern age.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 29, 2016 12:07 AM (dtWKK)

280 Has anyone else seen this?

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=40054

Posted by: bestie21 at September 29, 2016 12:08 AM (HUeC4)

281 Ahem...

"If the political winds turn ugly, I will stand with the Muslims."

Posted by: Meremortal at September 29, 2016 12:08 AM (PUVzD)

282 Speaking of genes, I am 100% positive that I inherited this one from my Mom - I cannot get ice out of the freezer without dropping at least one ice cube on the floor.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:09 AM (UmuuL)

283 "subway commutes..."

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 29, 2016 12:07 AM (dtWKK)

NYC?

If so, join us at the next NY/NJ Moron Meet-up.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 29, 2016 12:09 AM (Zu3d9)

284 I cannot get ice out of the freezer without dropping at least one ice cube on the floor.

5 second rule. It's still good.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 29, 2016 12:09 AM (mgbwf)

285 I cannot get ice out of the freezer without dropping at least one ice cube on the floor.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:09 AM (UmuuL)

Simple fix: just take one at a time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 29, 2016 12:10 AM (Zu3d9)

286 If U.S. control of the internet is ceded in three days, what is to prevent foreign governments from censoring any and all pro-freedom, pro-individual rights speech on the entire web?

What is to prevent the shutdown of, say, Ace of Spades HQ?

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 29, 2016 12:11 AM (DbadI)

287 Speaking of genes, I am 100% positive that I inherited this one from my Mom - I cannot get ice out of the freezer without dropping at least one ice cube on the floor.

By offering a gift of water to Mother Gaia, you are protected from her wrath ... storms & hurricanes & sex with Bill or Hillary ...

Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Religious Critic ... at September 29, 2016 12:11 AM (AoK0a)

288 Speaking of genes, I am 100% positive that I inherited this one from my Mom - I cannot get ice out of the freezer without dropping at least one ice cube on the floor.


Hah...me too.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:12 AM (qUNWi)

289 Isn't this the totalitarian dream? Shutting down the world's best tool for free speech and the free exchange of information?

Want to go back to relying on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and PMSNBC again?

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 29, 2016 12:12 AM (DbadI)

290 What is to prevent the shutdown of, say, Ace of Spades HQ?


The benevolent overlords of Munuvia.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 29, 2016 12:12 AM (mgbwf)

291 Crescent shaped ice cubes are my downfall.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:13 AM (qUNWi)

292 279
>>>In the middle ages life was a bitch and then you died a horrible death.





Meh. Maybe I'm stupid. I'm honestly not attached to this age. If a
one way time portal to the Middle Ages opened up, I'd probably walk
through. I hate living in this time. I don't like the people, I don't
like the culture. I've never watched so much as a single Seinfeld or
Simpsons episode. I would gladly chuck away my smartphone if I didn't
need to play solitaire on my subway commutes, which I also hate. People
had different ethical principles than we do now, but they certainly
weren't inferior, just different. It's probably impossible to have
ethical principles that are inferior to our current ones. I guess I owe
Obama that much: he's caused me to clarify my thinking about how it is
to live in the modern age.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 29, 2016 12:07 AM (dtWKK)


One thing you should consider is that you're probably one of the more sophisticated, cosmopolitan, educated people in the modern world -- but if you went back in time, the locals would probably take you for a rube. With modern demands on your time, it's practically impossible to get what the locals would consider a "quality education".

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 12:14 AM (EzgxV)

293 Looks like the humor test was for women. Checked inside shorts. Quit test.

Got bored taking other test.

Looks like plague was the way to die in the Middle Ages.

Puritans were right about those oat loving Quakers!

Pak/Chicom vs India/US. Hey, maybe we can drag in the Persians and they can clean up the Afghan mess on their way through. Tsar Vlad is busy elsewhere.

Super content. Even the boring test. Well done, sir.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 29, 2016 12:14 AM (FtrY1)

294 5 second rule. It's still good.


The dog is supposed to eat it but dogs don't get that sometimes.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:15 AM (qUNWi)

295 286
If U.S. control of the internet is ceded in three days, what is to
prevent foreign governments from censoring any and all pro-freedom,
pro-individual rights speech on the entire web?



What is to prevent the shutdown of, say, Ace of Spades HQ?

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 29, 2016 12:11 AM (DbadI)


Well, you could log the actual IP address of the site -- in case DNS goes south.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 12:16 AM (EzgxV)

296 Went to see the dermatologist toady. She must have needed to make a payment on the Porsche, she started whetting her knife the minute I walked in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 28, 2016 11:54 PM

Yikes. Hope she's top notch. Be well.

I had nothing removed last time, after a few before. I'm wondering if it is because he's getting old and I doubt he can see like when I started there.

Posted by: Farmer at September 29, 2016 12:16 AM (o/90i)

297 Years ago, we all got together and bought Mom a new, really expensive fridge with an ice dispenser in the freezer door - I think she's even worse since then!
WTF, woman???

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:17 AM (UmuuL)

298 Dermatologist toadys are the wurst.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:18 AM (qUNWi)

299 If Ice gets dropped in my house stand back here come the dogs.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 29, 2016 12:19 AM (hMqvx)

300 i'd hit on at least some of the chicks that i finally figured out, years later, were hitting on me at the time.
#Doh
#Idiot
#Fail

You have no idea how much I fucking understand that.

Posted by: eleven at September 28, 2016 11:24 PM (qUNWi)


As do I. But looking back on it now, I am thankful I was such a complete doofus around women, and clueless to their (now obvious) signals. The less sex before marriage, the better.

Posted by: OregonMuse at September 29, 2016 12:19 AM (Vb2m1)

301 If Ice gets dropped in my house stand back here come the dogs.

Right?

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:20 AM (qUNWi)

302 Dogs are supposed to clean up all floor things.

That is their job.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:20 AM (qUNWi)

303 If we are short on dog treats ice cubes will work.

Posted by: USNtakim at September 29, 2016 12:21 AM (hMqvx)

304 Time portal...Rube? Connecticut Yankee!

I would back to the Paleolithic... Iron? Yeah, I'd "discover" that shit!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki, Certified Deplorable at September 29, 2016 12:22 AM (kP16F)

305 If you haven't seen this video by Steven Crowder ("Bob Ross paints Muhammed") you must. you must.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ0eTO8Kuq4

Posted by: Miley's Deplorables at September 29, 2016 12:23 AM (L2UGl)

306 278 Hot coffee with a slug of rum in it makes a nice warm-up on a cold day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 12:06 AM (o9m/V)

The Captain's black, please!

Posted by: OldDominionMom at September 29, 2016 12:24 AM (GzDYP)

307 >>>An Australian man was deemed "the most unlucky guy in the country" after a spider bit his penis for the second time in five months.


She's not unlucky. God is trying to tell her something.

Posted by: Cait Jenner at September 29, 2016 12:24 AM (dtWKK)

308 Nope.
Tucker has learned that ice is just frozen water. He looks at me like I'm an asshole (I am) for telling him it's a "treat."
If it hits the floor, I just throw it in his water dish.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:24 AM (UmuuL)

309 Spider dick sucks.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:25 AM (qUNWi)

310 "The less sex before marriage the better."

I had most of mine between my marriages.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 29, 2016 12:26 AM (PUVzD)

311 I'd have killed that spider the first time, what a dumbass.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 29, 2016 12:28 AM (PUVzD)

312 #218

That also works for quote marks.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 29, 2016 12:28 AM (IdCqF)

313 304
Time portal...Rube? Connecticut Yankee!

I would back to the Paleolithic... Iron? Yeah, I'd "discover" that shit!


Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki, Certified Deplorable at September 29, 2016 12:22 AM (kP16F)


How far would you get at identifying it and then developing the tools necessary for extracting it and using it? Know how to construct a blast furnace? Know how to load it?

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 12:28 AM (EzgxV)

314 I had nobody to learn from. Had to try and figure most of it out on my own, so of course most of the time I got it wrong.

In which I overshare...
Yeah, only child of parents with no friends or social skills. Had to figure it all out.
I eventually got some game and pulled enough hot chicks for a lifetime, but because it didn't come early enough it never filled the hole.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 28, 2016 11:33 PM

I can identify w/ the folks being like that. It was more a rural vs bigger city thing for me.

Posted by: Farmer at September 29, 2016 12:28 AM (o/90i)

315 You can opt out of Windows 10. You'll have to do some searches but there are two automatic updates you have to delete and you also have to turn your automatic updates off.


I'm still on Windows 7. My next computer won't be Windows. Screw this crap.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 28, 2016 11:11 PM (cBWom)

-------------------
download "never10". It sets your registry to not automatically upgrade to windows 10.

Posted by: mullingthingsover at September 29, 2016 12:29 AM (5MNba)

316 I'd have killed that spider the first time, what a dumbass.

Seriously...bite me once,shame on you....

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:29 AM (qUNWi)

317 I'd have killed that spider the first time, what a dumbass.

Maybe he's hoping one will be radioactive?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 12:30 AM (WnZAV)

318 >>>Target's bathroom policy costing them big bucks.

My liberalish BIL swears that certain decisions made by corporations, like turning Thor into Thora, are not due to liberal moonbattery, but are motivated purely by pragmatic business concerns. I didn't argue (it's hopeless), but stories like this convince me otherwise. Many large corporations are run by True Believers for whom forcing their idiocy on average Americans trumps business concerns, like profitability.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 29, 2016 12:30 AM (dtWKK)

319 How far would you get at identifying it and then developing the tools necessary for extracting it and using it? Know how to construct a blast furnace? Know how to load it?

Those Iron Age folks were pretty cunning.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 12:30 AM (qUNWi)

320 FML. I never post in the ONT actually, ya know, AT NIGHT. But a 3 hour dryer fire and nothing but standing around requires a couple quick beers before bed.

I will say, it is nowhere near as stale smelling in here at this early hour. Kinda nice. Roomy.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 12:32 AM (G2Sc9)

321 But a 3 hour dryer fire

Storytime?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 12:33 AM (WnZAV)

322 243 You can use WINE to emulate Windows programs on Linux.
But setting up the emulation parameters is not for the faint of heart.
Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:46 PM (uAvJJ)


No, it certainly isn't. Plus, WINE opens you up to Windows malware and viruses.

If someone wants to run Windows programs on their Linux boxes, it's best to run Windows in a virtual machine.

Posted by: Michael the Deplorable TEXIT at September 29, 2016 12:33 AM (nvMvs)

323 #261

Major bits of functionality I use frequently in Word didn't exist in the 97 version. 2003 is the oldest version I wouldn't find crippling. The most major feature additions since then are primarily beneficial for enterprise users, especially collaborative groups.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 29, 2016 12:33 AM (IdCqF)

324 How far would you get at identifying it and then
developing the tools necessary for extracting it and using it? Know how
to construct a blast furnace? Know how to load it?


Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 12:28 AM (EzgxV)


Do a search for "Bog Iron". You will even find Youtubes on how to smelt it using charcoal. I have a sack full of bog iron ore from Alberta.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 12:34 AM (o9m/V)

325 @313, cooth

Wikipedia?

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki, Certified Deplorable at September 29, 2016 12:35 AM (kP16F)

326 #315

The need for that ended with the month of July. Microsoft itself has released an update to remove the offer app now that the expiration date is well passed.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 29, 2016 12:36 AM (IdCqF)

327 321 But a 3 hour dryer fire

Storytime?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 12:33 AM (WnZAV)



He was the skipper of the S.S. Maytag.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 29, 2016 12:36 AM (v5iqM)

328 Many large corporations are run by True Believers

eh, I think it is more that they are scared of the screeching from the left.

Posted by: chemjeff at September 29, 2016 12:38 AM (uAvJJ)

329 Coughing spell, sitting up a bit again to see if it stops.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:39 AM (ofpt4)

330 chiefjaybob, your dryer caught on fire?

Posted by: chemjeff at September 29, 2016 12:40 AM (uAvJJ)

331 He was the skipper of the S.S. Maytag.







Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX



Posted by: Jim at September 29, 2016 12:36 AM (v5iqM)


Luckier than skipper of the IJN Samsung Washer Maru, which turned turtle at the dock and exploded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 12:40 AM (o9m/V)

332 323
#261

Major bits of functionality I use frequently in Word didn't
exist in the 97 version. 2003 is the oldest version I wouldn't find
crippling. The most major feature additions since then are primarily
beneficial for enterprise users, especially collaborative groups.


Posted by: Epobirs at September 29, 2016 12:33 AM (IdCqF)



Really? Could you name one so I could read up on it? 'Cause everyone I know uses email as version control (mind you, I know an excessive number of *ahem* mature *cough* accountants....).

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 12:41 AM (EzgxV)

333 Skip, you are sick? So sorry

Posted by: chemjeff at September 29, 2016 12:43 AM (uAvJJ)

334 329 Coughing spell, sitting up a bit again to see if it stops.
Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:39 AM (ofpt4)

--------

Have you tried heroin?

Posted by: Hillary! 2016 Barking For Us at September 29, 2016 12:44 AM (4HySM)

335 Most of those corporation executives graduated from Leftist seminaries

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:44 AM (ofpt4)

336 AoP. That's exactly the kind of disaster I'd love to have a link to go to.

There are some great shipping disaster sites out there, but alas, all the bookmarks are stranded on my defunct Toshiba laptop.

I need to send it to the shop and save all the requisite files. Computer works, but the screen is kaput. Needs external screen.

And damn. I miss the DOS command line. Made transferring files a snap. ( copy *.jpg e:/photos ) etc., etc.


/geezer


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 29, 2016 12:45 AM (v5iqM)

337 Luckier than skipper of the IJN Samsung Washer Maru, which turned turtle at the dock and exploded.

The whole washer thing is just a cover story for Samsung's weaponized home appliance development project.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 12:45 AM (WnZAV)

338 Not my dryer. Corn dryer. You can't spray water on a corn dryer fire, or the grain clumps up and won't move. Plus, the water doesn't soak in, so the corn keeps burning. The only way to fight these is to unload the dryer and extinguish the corn on the ground. In tonight's episode, we have a very minor fire in a very big dryer, so our first sneaky stab at putting it out only kinda worked a little. So we stood around for the next 2 and a half hours while the farmer and his hired hands unloaded it.

This is the fourth time in my career that this chuckle head's dryer has caught fire.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 12:45 AM (G2Sc9)

339 Been for a couple of weeks, did this last night sat up a bit got the spell to stop and fell back asleep.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:46 AM (ofpt4)

340 NT systems have a command window, CMD.EXE. And there's more powerful shells as well.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 12:46 AM (DW+jj)

341 This is the fourth time in my career that this chuckle head's dryer has caught fire.

Now I have an image in my head of a grain silo bursting and spraying popcorn for miles around.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 12:47 AM (WnZAV)

342 Um, you can make a homemade forge out of shit lying around the backyard in less than an hour.
Well, maybe not everyone here can, but most of us could.

I could probably melt lead in the next half hour if there were money on the line...

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:47 AM (UmuuL)

343 Skip, you might want to try melatonin to help you sleep, it will make you sleepy, not addictive

Posted by: chemjeff at September 29, 2016 12:48 AM (uAvJJ)

344 anyway I'm gonna go to sleep too
good night

Posted by: chemjeff at September 29, 2016 12:48 AM (uAvJJ)

345 This is weird. I'm surfing by phone as I'm traveling. Was using Bing the last two nights since I hate Google. iPhone was getting hot loading slow and eating battery charge fast.

Switched to Google and sites load faster, no heat and battery going down much slower.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 29, 2016 12:49 AM (PUVzD)

346 Another sickening cronyism report. Horseface John Kerry has a daughter, Vanessa, who's an M.D. She's been getting millions in State Dept. money funneled through various groups for some "help the poor" shit nonprofit she started to get health care to 3rd world hell holes.

They've been failing to meet their contractual obligations and still get that sweet money.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 12:49 AM (DW+jj)

347 329 Coughing spell, sitting up a bit again to see if it stops.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:39 AM (ofpt4)

I wish I could squeeze an albuterol inhaler into this port, but it won't freakin fit. Know anyone with asthma closeby? It might help. Of course, a doc could give better advice. Get better!

Posted by: OldDominionMom at September 29, 2016 12:50 AM (GzDYP)

348 Not my dryer. Corn dryer. You can't spray water on a
corn dryer fire, or the grain clumps up and won't move. Plus, the water
doesn't soak in, so the corn keeps burning. The only way to fight these
is to unload the dryer and extinguish the corn on the ground. In
tonight's episode, we have a very minor fire in a very big dryer, so our
first sneaky stab at putting it out only kinda worked a little. So we
stood around for the next 2 and a half hours while the farmer and his
hired hands unloaded it.



This is the fourth time in my career that this chuckle head's dryer has caught fire.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 12:45 AM (G2Sc9)


Not popcorn, I take it? Would CO2 be effective to extinguish a grain dryer fire, or are there too many openings to admit air?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 12:50 AM (o9m/V)

349 Never tried that, I stop coughing I'll be ok, coughing is breaking up chest congestion at least now.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:50 AM (ofpt4)

350 Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 12:47 AM (WnZAV)

Heh. Not popcorn, but this dryer is about 60 feet tall, and about ten feet around, so it's a pretty good-sized structure.

I think this dude farms about 8-9,000 acres. Which is quite a lot, as "family" farms go. He has a ton of on-farm grain storage. Moo-Moo level money, if ya know what I mean.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 12:51 AM (G2Sc9)

351 Many large corporations are run by True Believers for whom forcing their idiocy on average Americans trumps business concerns, like profitability.

Posted by: Yuimetal at September 29, 2016 12:30 AM (dtWKK)

See Twitter's 3 year stock chart.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 29, 2016 12:51 AM (Idu2i)

352 NT systems have a command window, CMD.EXE. And there's more powerful shells as well.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 12:46 AM (DW+jj)


He doesn't know about the three shells...

Posted by: The San Angeles Police Department at September 29, 2016 12:52 AM (vBeA5)

353
328 Many large corporations are run by True Believers

eh, I think it is more that they are scared of the screeching from the left.
Posted by: chemjeff at September 29, 2016 12:38 AM (uAvJJ)

By screeching left I assume you mean the public interest lawyers and government bureaucrats who are in a race to get to federal court.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 29, 2016 12:52 AM (FtrY1)

354 'Night all.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at September 29, 2016 12:53 AM (Idu2i)

355 I could probably melt lead in the next half hour if there were money on the line...

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:47 AM (UmuuL)


A steel pot on a Coleman pressure stove is all you need to melt lead. A metal pail fill of coal, with a hole cut to admit the blow nozzle of a vacuum cleaner will make a forge that can melt steel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 12:53 AM (o9m/V)

356 328 Many large corporations are run by True Believers

eh, I think it is more that they are scared of the screeching from the left.
Posted by: chemjeff at September 29, 2016 12:38 AM (uAvJJ)

By screeching left I assume you mean the public interest lawyers and government bureaucrats who are in a race to get to federal court.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 29, 2016 12:52 AM (FtrY1)


Long march through ALL of the institutions.

Remember O'Sullivan's Law...

Posted by: O'Sullivan's Hat at September 29, 2016 12:54 AM (vBeA5)

357 AOP -

I know that I owe you an email. NOT ignoring you - it's just that it needs to be so long that I've been putting it off.
I will send tomorrow, and will include my phone number to make it easier to relay what I want to say if that is OK.
Ignore if you want - I won't be offended.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:54 AM (UmuuL)

358 Yeah night all, have 3 hrs to go till I need to get up for real.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:55 AM (ofpt4)

359 349 Never tried that, I stop coughing I'll be ok, coughing is breaking up chest congestion at least now.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 12:50 AM (ofpt4)

Skip, I would insist my kids take max guafinesin (mucinex.)

Posted by: OldDominionMom at September 29, 2016 12:55 AM (GzDYP)

360 One thing you should consider is that you're probably one of the more sophisticated, cosmopolitan, educated people in the modern world -- but if you went back in time, the locals would probably take you for a rube.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 12:14 AM (EzgxV)

Not a rube, but they would be puzzled and amused by our lack of skills. Most of us would be utterly useless. Aristocrats were not decadently sitting around wearing foo-foo clothes - that came later. They were warriors (that's how most won their titles and estates - by fighting well in wars)and if you went back in time to the middle ages and wanted to be accepted by them, you'd have to know how to ride a horse and be an archer and a falconer.

Not an aristo? Well then, do you know how to cobble shoes or bake bread (using their equipment) or shoe horses or sew or butcher a hog? No? Do you know Latin and are you able to decorate manuscripts like the monks? No? Well here is a ox. Walk behind him and try to plow a straight line. Maybe you can handle that.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&so there at September 29, 2016 12:55 AM (P8951)

361 Correct, this is field corn. This is the shit they squeeze the hell out of and pour in our cars and trucks to make them run like shit.

This dryer is like a giant candle inside a cage. The grain flows in the cage while the burner heats the center. A big blower at the bottom blows air in and out the sides.

We tried treating it like a chimney fire: a couple big-ass dry chemical fire extinguishers at the base cut loose, and then turned the blower on for a couple seconds. The blower carries the fire retardant shit up into the unit and, theoretically, puts out the fire. This handled the bulk of it (it was a small fire of corn trash and goo collected near the burner).

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 12:56 AM (G2Sc9)

362 322
243 You can use WINE to emulate Windows programs on Linux.

But setting up the emulation parameters is not for the faint of heart.

Posted by: chemjeff at September 28, 2016 11:46 PM (uAvJJ)



No, it certainly isn't. Plus, WINE opens you up to Windows malware and viruses.



If someone wants to run Windows programs on their Linux boxes, it's best to run Windows in a virtual machine.

Posted by: Michael the Deplorable TEXIT at September 29, 2016 12:33 AM (nvMvs)


For those people wondering just where this conversation went....for most modern programs, there's a large reliance on other programs to do all the work. This is handled through a thingie called an API. So, your program goes "find me a shrubbery" and calls the Windows API for "Shrubbery.locate" which returns a value "in yonder glen".

What Wine does is take the Windows API for "Shrubbery.locate" and substitute the Linux routine "findbush". Hopefully, it still returns "in yonder glen". The problem is that it does this for ANYthing using the Windows API -- including, potentially, malware.

The superior alternative, as Michael notes, is to run Windows in a Virtual Machine. This conjures a Windows computer out of thin air, lets malware corrupt it as you play with it -- and then, *poof* it is gone, along with its malware, when you're done. When you want another, you conjure it out of thin air again.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 12:57 AM (EzgxV)

363 G'night, Chem
Skip, I figured that you'd be feeling better by now - it's been over a week. Maybe it's time to see a doc?

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:58 AM (UmuuL)

364 Night CB. Be well.

I'm off for a nap. Will it last till the morn, maybe. Or maybe I'll be back in a few.

Posted by: Farmer at September 29, 2016 12:58 AM (o/90i)

365 I know that I owe you an email. NOT ignoring you - it's just that it needs to be so long that I've been putting it off.

I will send tomorrow, and will include my phone number to make it easier to relay what I want to say if that is OK.

Ignore if you want - I won't be offended.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:54 AM (UmuuL)


No problems, Chi. I am on the job right now, so access to mail is difficult. Sounds like I may be getting one, possibly two, more wells to do. Which would be awesome for me, money-wise, compared to 10 months without work. But I will be home for a week or so after this well, and between any upcoming ones, should they materialize.

Shoot me your mailing address, and I will get a check off to you for those faucets, so you aren't out of pocket.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 12:59 AM (o9m/V)

366 So corn dust doesn't explode like wheat dust?

Posted by: mullingthingsover at September 29, 2016 12:59 AM (5MNba)

367 342
Um, you can make a homemade forge out of shit lying around the backyard in less than an hour.

Well, maybe not everyone here can, but most of us could.



I could probably melt lead in the next half hour if there were money on the line...

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 12:47 AM (UmuuL)


From ore? And neolithic stuff laying around?

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)

368 Posted by: mullingthingsover at September 29, 2016 12:59 AM (5MNba)

It can. But dryers are like big screens, and the corn, this stage, is not in a fine enough condition to be explosive.

Wheat is usually a much better risk, but we don't see a lot of that around here.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 01:00 AM (G2Sc9)

369 ^dumb question. Of course it can. Nevermind.

Posted by: mullingthingsover at September 29, 2016 01:01 AM (5MNba)

370 *bigger. Bigger risk.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 01:01 AM (G2Sc9)

371 Sorry, we cross posted.

Posted by: mullingthingsover at September 29, 2016 01:01 AM (5MNba)

372 Heh! Don't cross the streams!

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 01:02 AM (G2Sc9)

373 G'night Country.
G'night Skip - take care of yourself.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:04 AM (UmuuL)

374 We had a grain dryer -- still do, in the junkyard, it's rusted out.

It would handle a truck load (~325+ bu or so), and was propane fired. It had a big burner, sucking liquid with a vaporizer and a blower, with a big fan, which was PTO powered. It took about 40HP or so to turn it.

It circulated the grain. You had a big auger running up the center that picked it up at the bottom and ran to the top, keeping constant circulation going. You had a plenum, a perforated cage inside where the hot air blast came through and outer cage. The grain was held in between.

When I was a teenager and into my early 20s, we've run that thing from dawn until near midnight. Never had a single fire. The circulation is the thing.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 01:04 AM (DW+jj)

375 I'm in the middle of wheat country and work at a co-op, so that is a risk our company is trying to make sure never happens.

Posted by: mullingthingsover at September 29, 2016 01:04 AM (5MNba)

376 Wheat is usually a much better risk, but we don't see a lot of that around here.

If a structure does go boom, would it be considered bad taste to put up a sign that says "Michael Bay was here!"?

https://youtu.be/v7ssUivM-eM (nsfw joke at the very end)

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 01:04 AM (WnZAV)

377
You don't like Community Coffee? To each their own, I guess. I buy it when I am able to. Costs too much to have it shipped to Canada.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 28, 2016 11:53 PM (o9m/V)
------------------

You have decent coffee in Canada though! Tim Hortons for heaven's sake.

For me, it's Peets.

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 29, 2016 01:06 AM (oGNNA)

378 If a structure does go boom, would it be considered bad taste to put up a sign that says "Michael Bay was here!"?


It's one thing if the structure goes boom. It's another if there were employees and farmers there doing their business.

Posted by: mullingthingsover at September 29, 2016 01:07 AM (5MNba)

379 Hmmm....drill is saying that 8.8.8.8 thinks ace.mu.nu resolves to 192.211.48.19 -- but when I try directly accessing that IP addy, it comes up with an error page. Do I need to attach hamster bait to the packets when I go direct?

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:07 AM (EzgxV)

380 Not an aristo? Well then, do you know how to cobble shoes or bake bread (using their equipment) or shoe horses or sew or butcher a hog? No? Do you know Latin and are you able to decorate manuscripts like the monks? No? Well here is a ox. Walk behind him and try to plow a straight line. Maybe you can handle that.

Yeah .....well they wouldn't know how to internet or card swipe like me......

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:08 AM (qUNWi)

381 From ore? And neolithic stuff laying around?


Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)


You mix your bog iron ore with charcoal, maybe add a little crushed limestone for flux, pack it into a beehive oven made of clay bricks, and get the fire going, and leave it for a day or two. Starve it for air once it's going, and the charcoal will reduce the iron carbonates and oxides to get oxygen to burn. Molten iron trickles to the bottom, and when it's all done, you will have a mat of iron in the bottom of the furnace, which can be forged and worked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 01:09 AM (o9m/V)

382 Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 01:04 AM (DW+jj)

Same thing, publius, just much bigger. The farmer said this one holds a little over 2,000 bushels (more than 2 semi trucks, for you non-farmer types). He's lucky in that there's a natural gas main that runs down his road.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 01:10 AM (G2Sc9)

383 Hmmm....drill is saying that 8.8.8.8 thinks ace.mu.nu resolves to 192.211.48.19 -- but when I try directly accessing that IP addy, it comes up with an error page. Do I need to attach hamster bait to the packets when I go direct?

Can you say that in human? I mean English?

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:10 AM (qUNWi)

384 OK - It is official - I am a pervert.
I have a strange fascination with this PBS mexican chick chef.
Pati Jinich.
I could listen to her accent all day - even if she were yelling at me that I was a pervert stalker, and chasing me with a machete...

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:10 AM (UmuuL)

385 I beg to differ... I have left a helicopter with a drink in my hand...

So while I'm not Frank.... it was cool...

Posted by: Don Q. at September 29, 2016 01:11 AM (qf6WZ)

386 You mix your bog iron ore with charcoal, maybe add a little crushed limestone for flux, pack it into a beehive oven made of clay bricks, and get the fire going, and leave it for a day or two. Starve it for air once it's going, and the charcoal will reduce the iron carbonates and oxides to get oxygen to burn. Molten iron trickles to the bottom, and when it's all done, you will have a mat of iron in the bottom of the furnace, which can be forged and worked

Pffft....that's what everyone says....

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:11 AM (qUNWi)

387 360
Not an aristo? Well then, do you know how to cobble shoes or bake bread (using their equipment) or shoe horses or sew or butcher a hog? No? Do you know Latin and are you able to decorate manuscripts like the monks? No? Well here is a ox. Walk behind him and try to plow a straight line. Maybe you can handle that.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&so there at September 29, 2016 12:55 AM (P8951)


LOL. Too true.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 29, 2016 01:13 AM (sdi6R)

388 Ok, overnight Morons, the requisite two beers are in and I can now retire. Good night, all.

Posted by: the deplorable chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at September 29, 2016 01:13 AM (G2Sc9)

389 Two beers lol...

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:14 AM (qUNWi)

390 379 Hmmm....drill is saying that 8.8.8.8 thinks ace.mu.nu resolves to 192.211.48.19 -- but when I try directly accessing that IP addy, it comes up with an error page. Do I need to attach hamster bait to the packets when I go direct?
Posted by: deplorable cthulhu
-----------------

Whu?
I read that three times and still don't understand a word of it.
Are we doing the IQ test thing again? I fail...

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:14 AM (UmuuL)

391 Oh... and the Hofstra U Wi Fi crap... is that... crap....

There are 10 channels for Wi fi.... and your Wi Fi picks one... which it listens to and responds on...

and will, unless set to a specific channel, scan until it finds an open channel.

So unless they had a setup where they had multiple WiFi 'hot spots' set up, with reporters assigned to specific channels.... this is crap.

Posted by: Don Q. at September 29, 2016 01:15 AM (qf6WZ)

392 Pati is fun to watch. Nice lady.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:15 AM (qUNWi)

393 The 192.168.10.1

is coming from inside the house!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 29, 2016 01:15 AM (VdICR)

394 Whu?
I read that three times and still don't understand a word of it.
Are we doing the IQ test thing again? I fail...


He's big leaguing us.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:16 AM (qUNWi)

395 The 192.168.10.1

is coming from inside the house!
Posted by: BourbonChicken
-------

cthulhu - DON"T GO DOWN IN THE BASEMENT! And, don't go in the bathroom closet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:18 AM (9mTYi)

396 So while I'm not Frank.... it was cool...
Posted by: Don Q
---------------

Can I be frank with you?


And, G'night, chief.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:19 AM (UmuuL)

397 Hamster Bait to the Packets When I Go Direct.


Did they ever open for Smashing Pumpkins?

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:20 AM (qUNWi)

398 Effing Obama: "Our military fights so Keapernick can protest."

So what?

He's still wrong and a jackass, asshole!!!

Posted by: Meremortal at September 29, 2016 01:20 AM (PUVzD)

399 381
From ore? And neolithic stuff laying around?




Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:00 AM (EzgxV)


You
mix your bog iron ore with charcoal, maybe add a little crushed
limestone for flux, pack it into a beehive oven made of clay bricks, and
get the fire going, and leave it for a day or two. Starve it for air
once it's going, and the charcoal will reduce the iron carbonates and
oxides to get oxygen to burn. Molten iron trickles to the bottom, and
when it's all done, you will have a mat of iron in the bottom of the
furnace, which can be forged and worked.


Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 01:09 AM (o9m/V)


That actually sounds plausible. Of course, you're hardly the average guy -- even around here. Now, could you convince the neolithic guys to go along with this (and, BTW, skipping the bronze age)?

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:21 AM (EzgxV)

400 ace.mu.nu is hosted on a shared domain. The IP address hosts many sites. There is some addition to the HTTP protocol that all browsers support now that sends the actual name requested to that IP address.

So when you want "http:/ace.mu.nu" there is some grokking that goes to the IP address and tells it you want ace.mu.nu, so it knows which page the browser actually wants.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 01:21 AM (DW+jj)

401 Meh,

http://www.gettyimages.com/license/610995420

rascal scooter, lumbar support pillow, eye google thing...

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 29, 2016 01:22 AM (P/kVC)

402 398 Effing Obama: "Our military fights so Keapernick can protest."

So what?

He's still wrong and a jackass, asshole!!!
Posted by: Meremortal at September 29, 2016 01:20 AM (PUVzD)


I guess we should count ourselves lucky he didn't say "My military".

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 29, 2016 01:22 AM (sdi6R)

403 The first guy that invented Iron must have been a millionaire.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:23 AM (qUNWi)

404 395
The 192.168.10.1



is coming from inside the house!

Posted by: BourbonChicken

-------



cthulhu - DON"T GO DOWN IN THE BASEMENT! And, don't go in the bathroom closet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:18 AM (9mTYi)


What kind of f'in' construction do you guys have in NC?!?!? I don't have a basement, and I sure as hell don't have a bathroom closet -- except a water closet, and I'm not getting in there.

And, BTW, it's far more likely that you'd find 192.168.1.10 in a normal residential environment than 192.168.10.1. Of course, I have other things.....

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:26 AM (EzgxV)

405 Same thing, publius, just much bigger. The farmer said this one holds a
little over 2,000 bushels (more than 2 semi trucks, for you non-farmer
types). He's lucky in that there's a natural gas main that runs down his
road.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

I see. Ours was pretty safe. The hot air temp inside the plenum was never supposed to get high enough to combust. There was always a lot of dust (the ground would get coated with dust build up -- you had to take a front end loader and clean it out). It would get sucked through the intake and just burn up in the huge flame in the burner.

I don't think we ever came to close to having it catch the grain on fire.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 01:26 AM (DW+jj)

406 392 Pati is fun to watch. Nice lady.
Posted by: eleven
-------------

You know who I'm talking about??
I thought I was alone in that.
She just seems so genuine,

My TV stays on 24/7, even when I am not home (don't ask - the dog likes the background noise).
Either MeTV or this PBS channel - create?, I think? - Pati is so damned cute...

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:27 AM (UmuuL)

407 Grrrr.

Night all.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 29, 2016 01:27 AM (PUVzD)

408 G'night Meremortal.
(How do I shorten that?)

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:30 AM (UmuuL)

409 I was just listening to the "world's oldest song"... They'd found this clay tablet with the lyrics and music on it, and some fellow played it on a replica instrument...

If the person that wrote that song could come to the present day, he could sue Led Zeppelin for plagiary and be set for life!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki, Certified Deplorable at September 29, 2016 01:30 AM (kP16F)

410 What kind of f'in' construction do you guys have in NC?!?!? I don't have a basement, and I sure as hell don't have a bathroom closet -- except a water closet, and I'm not getting in there.
-------------

*?*

No basement?? That's just plain unnatural. Where do you put the boiler... and bury the bodies?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:31 AM (9mTYi)

411 #332

A fairly massive amount of stuff to choose from. In recent generations there have been a few niceties for standalone users but the vast majority of stuff that would really drive an upgrade is for enterprise, though those are also the people most likely to have the licensing to let them use a newer version any time they choose to make the move.

I'll put it this way: It's been several years since I read about a notable new Office feature that I would bother mentioning to a SOHO user considering an upgrade. Lots of little refinements for them but coming up with anything really new for those users is pretty difficult for the developers. (A 2016 car can be very nice in a lot of ways but how truly different is it from a 1996 car aside from the creature comforts?) I've been hoping they'd add ebook creation tools to Word and/or Publisher but while this would be fairly easy to add it just doesn't drive the sales like delivering desired new functionality for the enterprise buyers. The number of authors looking to produce their own books just doesn't draw the attention of the Office Team like keeping the 100,000+ license buyers interested.

I only give it so much attention because it doesn't figure more than hypothetically in my day to day life. Nearly all of the clients I support are in the SOHO sector and it gets hard to appreciate the more nebulous enterprise feature if you never see it in action. For most business productivity apps there hasn't been a major jump in hardware performance for a long time. Stuff that would once bring a system to its knees are now just more background activity. A cheap desktop has tons of untapped power for the typical Office user but finding ways to exploit it is the hard part for those looking to sell something new. A hugely better grammar checker would be nice but nobody has it in a suitable form yet. So instead they look for other areas to draw interest.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 29, 2016 01:31 AM (IdCqF)

412 So I went to the dentist this morning and the hygienist remarked that three of my teeth were "mobile". I wonder if this is what she meant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IvXNo_5LMk

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 29, 2016 01:31 AM (sdi6R)

413 He's a mere mortal...

Posted by: Superman at September 29, 2016 01:32 AM (UmuuL)

414 That actually sounds plausible. Of course, you're
hardly the average guy -- even around here. Now, could you convince the
neolithic guys to go along with this (and, BTW, skipping the bronze
age)?


Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:21 AM (EzgxV)


Well, you'd have to be able to talk to, and gain the trust of the neolithic guys. Now in order to make bronze, you need a source of tin ore. Do you know how scarce tin is? You just don't find it any old place. Even the Greeks sent ships to England to fetch tin ore; in classic times, the British Isles were called the Cassiterides. The "Tin Islands".

Iron is everywhere. Most any place with a swamp of long standing will have some bog iron. Ever see a swamp with rusty water, and rainbow iridescence in the surface scum? I think the main reason copper and bronze predated iron in technology is that copper and tin minerals look special. Rusty brown rocks are just rusty brown rocks unless you have the knowledge that rust is the oxidation product of a useful metal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 01:34 AM (o9m/V)

415
383
Hmmm....drill is saying that 8.8.8.8 thinks ace.mu.nu resolves to
192.211.48.19 -- but when I try directly accessing that IP addy, it
comes up with an error page. Do I need to attach hamster bait to the
packets when I go direct?



Can you say that in human? I mean English?

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:10 AM (qUNWi)


Drill is a tool for testing DNS lookups -- the thing that would take ace.mu.nu and translate it into 164.38.216.14 (random numbers). A "famous" DNS lookup is Google -- they have two free ones to test out your shit -- 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. And you'd better believe they laid down some big cash to get such cherry positioning -- probably in the form of anonymous donations to the Clinton Global Initiative.

So, you ask a DNS lookup "where should ace.mu.nu point to?" and you get back "164.38.216.14"....you should then be able to point your browser directly at 164.38.216.14 and have ace.mu.nu pop up. But it doesn't.

Now, there could be a lot of good reasons for this.....but, being pixyware, there could also be a lot of bullshit reasons for this. So, I humorously stated my issue and hoped that someone more experienced than me (i.e. everyone besides eleven and Chi) could give me a hint.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:34 AM (EzgxV)

416 360
Not an aristo? Well then, do you know how to cobble shoes or bake bread (using their equipment) or shoe horses or sew or butcher a hog?

No? Do you know Latin and are you able to decorate manuscripts like the monks?

No? Well here is a ox. Walk behind him and try to plow a straight line. Maybe you can handle that.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V. deplorably brandishing ampersands&&&&so there at September 29, 2016 12:55 AM (P8951)



Well, I can skin and butcher any animal on the planet, tan the hide for leather or fur, and if leather, do the working, tooling and stitching of same into whatever usable object desired.

As for the butchering, I can also cook the results into highly palatable servings, or smoke it for preservation.

Blacksmithing, I can do. But I need to study AoP's primitive Iron Mongering, for good measure.

But here's the thing. If I were to smelt copper, magnetize suitable metals, build the armature and draw and wrap the windings...

I'd be burned as a witch.

Were any of us to, in ancient times, land in their midst aboard a helicopter, or even parachute in, we'd either be venerated as Gods, or burned as witches.

At least, those of us with skills.

A "snowflake" would be slaughtered as below an idiot, and fed to the pigs.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 29, 2016 01:35 AM (v5iqM)

417 No basement?? That's just plain unnatural. Where do you put the boiler... and bury the bodies?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
-----------------
Dude -
You have basements? I know of 3 locally.
My entire city is maybe 10 or 11 feet above sea level - I thought you were just south of me.
Basements are practically unheard of.

Posted by: Superman at September 29, 2016 01:36 AM (UmuuL)

418 The first guy that invented Iron must have been a millionaire.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:23 AM (qUNWi)


Imagine being able to sell iron shovels to people used to digging with sticks. Or iron knives and arrowheads to people used to flint. It wouldn't have to be Sheffield steel to be much better than their current tools.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 01:38 AM (o9m/V)

419 Even kryptonite couldn't remove that sock!

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:38 AM (UmuuL)

420 400
ace.mu.nu is hosted on a shared domain. The IP address hosts many sites.
There is some addition to the HTTP protocol that all browsers support
now that sends the actual name requested to that IP address.

So
when you want "http:/ace.mu.nu" there is some grokking that goes to the
IP address and tells it you want ace.mu.nu, so it knows which page the
browser actually wants.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 01:21 AM (DW+jj)


Not unexpected. I figured you might have to knock on the IP address and hiss: "Janet, it's Brad! Open the door!"

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:39 AM (EzgxV)

421
You know who I'm talking about??
I thought I was alone in that.
She just seems so genuine,

My TV stays on 24/7, even when I am not home (don't ask - the dog likes the background noise).
Either MeTV or this PBS channel - create?, I think? - Pati is so damned cute...


Oh yeah...she's a cutie.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:40 AM (qUNWi)

422 My entire city is maybe 10 or 11 feet above sea level - I thought you were just south of me.
Basements are practically unheard of.
Posted by: Superman
-----------

Well, I'm at about 3000', so....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:41 AM (yddCj)

423 Well, I'm at about 3000', so....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:41 AM (yddCj)

Buncombe Co.?

Posted by: BignJames at September 29, 2016 01:42 AM (+q52R)

424 Cooth, it's shared hosting. One IP address hosts many websites. Ever since HTTP 1.1 (I think), the "GET" header is supposed to contain the path you're looking for.

So you point your browser to http://somesite.com. It looks up somesite.com and gets xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. The browser then does a GET request to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and has to put "somesite.com" in the header of that request. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx then knows you're looking for "somesite.com" and not "hopeshole.com", which it also hosts.

If you just put http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in the address, the server doesn't get a header with a valid site name in it and so you get the error message.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 01:42 AM (DW+jj)

425 eleven,
They've devolved into geek mode - whatever you do, don't ask cthulhu what time it is!

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:42 AM (UmuuL)

426 Now, there could be a lot of good reasons for this.....but, being pixyware, there could also be a lot of bullshit reasons for this. So, I humorously stated my issue and hoped that someone more experienced than me (i.e. everyone besides eleven and Chi) could give me a hint.

Ouch.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:43 AM (qUNWi)

427 414
I think the main reason copper and bronze predated iron in technology is that copper and tin minerals look special.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 01:34 AM (o9m/V)


I think that back in the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age, ore-bearing rocks were simply picked up off the ground. Gold and silver, too. They must have been all over the place, exposed by weathering. They only had to resort to mining once the surface rocks were exhausted.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 29, 2016 01:43 AM (sdi6R)

428 Buncombe Co.?
Posted by: BignJames
----

Yup.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:43 AM (yddCj)

429
411
#332

A fairly massive amount of stuff to choose from. In recent
generations there have been a few niceties for standalone users but the
vast majority of stuff that would really drive an upgrade is for
enterprise, though those are also the people most likely to have the
licensing to let them use a newer version any time they choose to make
the move.

I'll put it this way: It's been several years since I
read about a notable new Office feature that I would bother mentioning
to a SOHO user considering an upgrade. Lots of little refinements for
them but coming up with anything really new for those users is pretty
difficult for the developers. (A 2016 car can be very nice in a lot of
ways but how truly different is it from a 1996 car aside from the
creature comforts?) I've been hoping they'd add ebook creation tools to
Word and/or Publisher but while this would be fairly easy to add it just
doesn't drive the sales like delivering desired new functionality for
the enterprise buyers. The number of authors looking to produce their
own books just doesn't draw the attention of the Office Team like
keeping the 100,000+ license buyers interested.

I only give it so
much attention because it doesn't figure more than hypothetically in my
day to day life. Nearly all of the clients I support are in the SOHO
sector and it gets hard to appreciate the more nebulous enterprise
feature if you never see it in action. For most business productivity
apps there hasn't been a major jump in hardware performance for a long
time. Stuff that would once bring a system to its knees are now just
more background activity. A cheap desktop has tons of untapped power for
the typical Office user but finding ways to exploit it is the hard part
for those looking to sell something new. A hugely better grammar
checker would be nice but nobody has it in a suitable form yet. So
instead they look for other areas to draw interest.


Posted by: Epobirs at September 29, 2016 01:31 AM (IdCqF)


I should also point out that I drive a 1994 car. It's a stick, and I don't intend to upgrade.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:43 AM (EzgxV)

430 I should also point out that I drive a 1994 car. It's a stick, and I don't intend to upgrade.
Posted by: deplorable cthulhu
------------

Heh. See AoP's comment above re 'iron oxide'.

Posted by: Rust at September 29, 2016 01:45 AM (yddCj)

431 Posted by: Rust at September 29, 2016 01:45 AM (yddCj)

Don't you ever sleep?

Posted by: Catwrangler at September 29, 2016 01:46 AM (bZwzw)

432 Heh. See AoP's comment above re 'iron oxide'.
Posted by: Rust
------------

Hey, I got your back, buddy.

Posted by: Metal fatigue at September 29, 2016 01:47 AM (yddCj)

433 Ouch.
Posted by: eleven
-------------
Yeah. That one is going to need more than a bandaid.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:47 AM (UmuuL)

434 I think our ancestors would be rather impressed at just our mere appearance... Most of us (even the ONT Horde) would still have two eyes, 10 fingers, and 32 teeth, clear skin without pockmarks or festering sores, even at the advanced age of 29! Why, they'd think us royalty if not gods! We wouldn't have to lift a finger!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki, Certified Deplorable at September 29, 2016 01:47 AM (kP16F)

435 426
Now, there could be a lot of good reasons for this.....but, being
pixyware, there could also be a lot of bullshit reasons for this. So, I
humorously stated my issue and hoped that someone more experienced than
me (i.e. everyone besides eleven and Chi) could give me a hint.



Ouch.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:43 AM (qUNWi)


Since we're down here in the cellar (NOT BASEMENT) together, what'cha drinkin'?

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:47 AM (EzgxV)

436 Florida kidnapping story reminds one of The Ransome of Red Chief

Posted by: Osiris at September 29, 2016 01:47 AM (brIR5)

437 They've devolved into geek mode - whatever you do, don't ask cthulhu what time it is!


That dude is in a world of his own.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:48 AM (qUNWi)

438 431 Posted by: Rust at September 29, 2016 01:45 AM (yddCj)

Don't you ever sleep?
Posted by: Catwrangler
---------------

Oh my.
Very well done, sir.
Like a crazy horse, you are.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:49 AM (UmuuL)

439 Night all.

Here is "Leva" by Witchcraft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOxcBUpW2s8

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 29, 2016 01:49 AM (vBeA5)

440 Most of us (even the ONT Horde) would still have two eyes, 10 fingers, and 32 teeth, clear skin without pockmarks or festering sores, even at the advanced age of 29! Why, they'd think us royalty if not gods! We wouldn't have to lift a finger!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki,
--------------

Well, 30 teeth.
*looks at Dermatologist's divots*
And maybe a couple of pockmarks.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:49 AM (yddCj)

441 I'm at 5 ft. above sea level. House is on stilts above the "100 yr." flood plain.

The Great Storm of Galveston, killed between 8,000 and 10,000 souls.

So, my house was built above that "100 yr." flood plain.

Hurricane Ike? Got three inches of water in the house, and five ft. in the garage.

So, the question.

WHAT THE FVCK IS A "BASEMENT"?


/snrk


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


p.s. hasta la nite nite, horde.

Posted by: Jim at September 29, 2016 01:50 AM (v5iqM)

442 Since we're down here in the cellar (NOT BASEMENT) together, what'cha drinkin'?


Wodka, you deplorable person.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:51 AM (qUNWi)

443 437
They've devolved into geek mode - whatever you do, don't ask cthulhu what time it is!





That dude is in a world of his own.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:48 AM (qUNWi)



Visit exotic non-Euclidean spaces, see things no living man has witnessed, explore transdimensional warpings of space and time.....in scenic R'lyeh!!!!

Posted by: R'lyeh Tourism Board at September 29, 2016 01:51 AM (EzgxV)

444 WHAT THE FVCK IS A "BASEMENT"?
--------------

Debasement - Where defurnace is

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 01:51 AM (yddCj)

445 442
Since we're down here in the cellar (NOT BASEMENT) together, what'cha drinkin'?





Wodka, you deplorable person.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:51 AM (qUNWi)


*Pours Smirnoff into USB port* [It's the only kind I have.]

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 01:53 AM (EzgxV)

446
Which Florida kidnapping story?

Posted by: iforgot says God bless Snorky at September 29, 2016 01:53 AM (oGNNA)

447 I think that back in the late Neolithic/early Bronze
Age, ore-bearing rocks were simply picked up off the ground. Gold and
silver, too. They must have been all over the place, exposed by
weathering. They only had to resort to mining once the surface rocks
were exhausted.

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 29, 2016 01:43 AM (sdi6R)


To some extent, that's true. The easily-worked deposits were soon worked out. But most of the desirable metals are scarce in the Earth's crust. Gold, silver, copper, lead, and tin; none are in any way abundant, although lead and copper are less scarce than the others. Copper, gold, and silver are the only ones found in the native state to any meaningful extent. Iron is the only metal that is both abundant and wide-spread in the Earth's crust, and also workable on a cottage industry level. Aluminum and magnesium are hugely abundant, but you need vast amounts of electric power to free them from their ores.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 01:54 AM (o9m/V)

448 Visit exotic non-Euclidean spaces, see things no living man has witnessed, explore transdimensional warpings of space and time.....in scenic R'lyeh!!!!

Sounds a bit too much like Cynosure.

Posted by: John Gaunt at September 29, 2016 01:55 AM (WnZAV)

449 G'night Captain Jim. (You've always been a favorite of mine...)

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:55 AM (UmuuL)

450 Non-Euclidean spaces confuse and frighten me.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:55 AM (qUNWi)

451
*Pours Smirnoff into USB port* [It's the only kind I have.]



That'll do er. *cheers*

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:56 AM (qUNWi)

452 How'd he do?





(To me, that will never get old)

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 01:56 AM (UmuuL)

453 >> Non-Euclidean spaces confuse and frighten me.

You're in one right now. It's just so close to Euclidean you can't tell the difference.

Well hell, we don't even to worry with General Relativistic spacetime and its curvature. We're sort of a flatland on the surface of a rough sphere, the earth. The planar geometry of the surface is not Euclidean, it's curved. The angles of a triangle sum to >180 degrees. It's just so small for local things you don't notice the deviation.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 01:59 AM (DW+jj)

454 How'd he do?

(To me, that will never get old)
Posted by: Chi
-------------

Well, howdy-do to you too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 02:00 AM (yddCj)

455 450
Non-Euclidean spaces confuse and frighten me.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 01:55 AM (qUNWi)


Try reading http://www.hplovecraft.com/ writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx and getting more comfortable.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:01 AM (EzgxV)

456
305
If you haven't seen this video by Steven Crowder ("Bob Ross paints Muhammed") you must. you must.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ0eTO8Kuq4


Posted by: Miley's Deplorables at September 29, 2016 12:23 AM (L2UGl


Mohammed was funny. There is also this: Bob Ross paints Hillary.

http://tinyurl.com/zwvqnmj

Posted by: gracepc at September 29, 2016 02:02 AM (OU4q6)

457 The angles of a triangle sum to >180 degrees. It's just so small for local things you don't notice the deviation.
Posted by: publius
------------

Only if laid out on the surface.

Anyhow, I have a copy of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Nifty little book.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 02:03 AM (yddCj)

458 Try reading http://www.hplovecraft.com/ writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx and getting more comfortable.

I think I will. I know I can trust a guy named Chtulthu!

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 02:05 AM (qUNWi)

459 Yikes! 2:00 a.m.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 02:05 AM (yddCj)

460 Hello. M e again, inappropriately as ever.

With all the various blogs showing Hillary's googly eye, I'm surprised no none has put yet put up a picture of her as "Mad Eye Moody" from the Harry Potter shows. Mad Eye when he was replaced by a like a look eveil guy.

Posted by: generic Moron in training at September 29, 2016 02:06 AM (y4bHB)

461 So the 100% organic high octane settled on "Strange Brew" on TCM.....

A Nostalgic Tsunami....eh?

Evenin Hosers oh Plenty.

Posted by: Hillbillyking at September 29, 2016 02:07 AM (JcX1g)

462 458
Try reading http://www.hplovecraft.com/ writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx and getting more comfortable.



I think I will. I know I can trust a guy named Chtulthu!

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 02:05 AM (qUNWi)

http://shirt.woot.com/offers/call-of-cthulhu? ref=sh_cnt_odet_pic_2#fullsize-1

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:09 AM (EzgxV)

463 458
Try reading http://www.hplovecraft.com/ writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx and getting more comfortable.



I think I will. I know I can trust a guy named Chtulthu!

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 02:05 AM (qUNWi)


And remember the R'lyeh Tourism Board for all your South Seas Travel needs!

Posted by: R'lyeh Tourism Board at September 29, 2016 02:12 AM (EzgxV)

464 56 Speaking of Douche Bank, I'm seeing comparisons to Lehman. Someone superimposed their stock perfomance on a graph, and Douche is following about the same trajectory as Lehman, and has reached the crash point.

Remember when Dick Fuld, Lehman chief, said some shit about being "well capitalized" and they were gonna "burn the shorts" during Lehman's collapse? Well, near the end he said "the worst is behind us", and then Lehman impoded.

Well, Douche's officers have been making similar statements. "Comfortable free liquidity" is one of their statements equivalent to "well capitalized".

Anyway certain metrics of CDS prices and various spreads indicate Douche is at the "shit the bed" moment on the comparable Lehman death spiral curve.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (DW+jj)

Kasich was a Lehman guy, right?

Posted by: Bernette at September 29, 2016 02:12 AM (ru2SK)

465
And remember the R'lyeh Tourism Board for all your South Seas Travel needs!


I do love Thai food.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 02:13 AM (qUNWi)

466 457
The angles of a triangle sum to >180 degrees. It's just so small for local things you don't notice the deviation.

Posted by: publius

------------



Only if laid out on the surface.



Anyhow, I have a copy of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Nifty little book.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2016 02:03 AM (yddCj)


I also have Sphereland. Then, again, my mom was a math professor.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:14 AM (EzgxV)

467 Peanut sauce. You wouldn't think, but it's incredible.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 02:15 AM (qUNWi)

468 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 29, 2016 02:15 AM (WnZAV)

469 G'night everyone.

Later potater.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 02:16 AM (qUNWi)

470 Karl Denninger says that Deutcshe Bank's derivative exposure exceeds the entire GDP of Germany.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231518

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at September 29, 2016 02:17 AM (sdi6R)

471 Well, howdy-do to you too.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
----------------

As I stated earlier, I am a very simple minded man.
I find humor in the the simplest things.

Y'know how a name can make you think of something unrelated?
I do that unwittingly here at the HQ -

I see Mike Hammer, I think "Howdy do?"
I see Anna Puma, I think "White Rabbit"
I see BCochran, I think Fireball

I could go on, but, you get the picture...

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:19 AM (UmuuL)

472 Get yourself a globe and locate yourself. I'm in upstate SC. Consider my local coordinate system, my notion of "up" and the level plane, with north-south and east-west defining an x-y axis in that level plane.

Now compare that to yourself. Some guy on the other side of the globe's notion of up down, and his level x-y axes are going to be very different to mine, pointing in entirely different directions in inertial 3-space.

In fact, in inertial 3-space, all those vectors are vary with time as the earth rotates and revolves around the sun. Yet to each of us, those little axes are fixed and define up and down to us.

We are wedded to this curved surface of the earth.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 02:21 AM (DW+jj)

473 G'night Blanco.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:22 AM (UmuuL)

474 464
56 Speaking of Douche Bank, I'm seeing comparisons to Lehman. Someone
superimposed their stock perfomance on a graph, and Douche is following
about the same trajectory as Lehman, and has reached the crash point.



Remember when Dick Fuld, Lehman chief, said some shit about being
"well capitalized" and they were gonna "burn the shorts" during Lehman's
collapse? Well, near the end he said "the worst is behind us", and then
Lehman impoded.



Well, Douche's officers have been making similar statements.
"Comfortable free liquidity" is one of their statements equivalent to
"well capitalized".



Anyway certain metrics of CDS prices and various spreads indicate
Douche is at the "shit the bed" moment on the comparable Lehman death
spiral curve.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 28, 2016 10:43 PM (DW+jj)



Kasich was a Lehman guy, right?

Posted by: Bernette at September 29, 2016 02:12 AM (ru2SK)


The thing about Douche Bank is that it is "Ground Zero" for derivatives -- things that are worth one thing under one set of facts and something else under a different set of facts....much like naked bets for-and-against anything at all. They have trillions of Euros in such bets -- far more than the GDP of Germany -- and the value of the bets could be hugely positive, hugely negative, or zero....because the events have not yet happened.

They entered into each such bet thinking it was a good idea. And they got somebody to take the other side of each bet. In theory, if they won all their bets they'd own the world.

The problem is that each bet they lose pushes them closer to bankruptcy.....and each bet they win pushes the other guy closer to bankruptcy. They can't bet to own the world, because the world will tell them to get bent when they try to collect.

So they have to win enough bets to pay off their losing bets, while not winning so many that the other gamblers will renege. And they've got TRILLIONS.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:24 AM (EzgxV)

475 471
Well, howdy-do to you too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

----------------



As I stated earlier, I am a very simple minded man.

I find humor in the the simplest things.



Y'know how a name can make you think of something unrelated?

I do that unwittingly here at the HQ -



I see Mike Hammer, I think "Howdy do?"

I see Anna Puma, I think "White Rabbit"

I see BCochran, I think Fireball



I could go on, but, you get the picture...



Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:19 AM (UmuuL)


You see cthulhu, you think "clocks"....

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:25 AM (EzgxV)

476 Oh yeah, Kasich got a nice little salary from Lehman starting in 2001, when he left Congress until it collapsed in '08. He made about $180K a year, and got a $400K "bonus" one year.

This is just cronyism and the revolving door. Our guys are in to as much as any of 'em. You blow the banksters and various Big Whatever, and they'll blow you back.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 02:27 AM (DW+jj)

477 No, sir.
I see cthulhu, and I think "the coolest mother fucking nerd I've ever met."

Actually, if i were forced to use a one word answer, it would be "jail."
Sorry, but it's true.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:30 AM (UmuuL)

478 Larry Correia an C.J. Carella are worth your time if you like Excellent monster fantasy fiction.
M.H.I. an Shadowfall imagine the Lovecraftian masterfully.
Quality.....

Posted by: Hillbillyking at September 29, 2016 02:32 AM (JcX1g)

479 474

So, debt Jubilee? Everything cancels out, right?

Hey, can I make money by shorting Jubilee?

Seriously, we are toast when somebody stops peddling. I bet it's the Greeks.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 29, 2016 02:32 AM (FtrY1)

480 477
No, sir.

I see cthulhu, and I think "the coolest mother fucking nerd I've ever met."



Actually, if i were forced to use a one word answer, it would be "jail."

Sorry, but it's true.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:30 AM (UmuuL)


Ouch.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:32 AM (EzgxV)

481 I've seen claims of $72T of gross derivative exposure for Douche Bank. As Cooth was saying, they always claim that gross doesn't matter, only net.

They may be on the hook for a billion if one bet goes bad. But, they have some offsetting bet on the other side where they'll get 999M, so they claim that's a net of only 1 million.

But that depends on the other guy, then guy on the hook for the $999M being good for it.

Pro tip: In a Crisis, don't count on too many "other guys" being good for anything.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 02:32 AM (DW+jj)

482 there actually is an analogue for the motorized chair, the shooting stick chair. it's a walking stitch with a folding seat. very good for hunting pheasants, a trip to the polo match or waiting in line at any urban event.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at September 29, 2016 02:35 AM (WTSFk)

483 "...even if she were yelling at me that I was a pervert stalker, and chasing me with a machete..."

---
this can be arranged... we'll get back to you.

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 29, 2016 02:35 AM (aEZpQ)

484 I used to have some Deutsche Bank investments.

But I dumped them all in 2008. Seemed too risky and weird. I didn't even bother to get into specifics -- I just got a bad vibe off of them.

Did the same thing with other ones back then too, and I was glad I did -- AIG was one of them.

One can sort of tell when a company is getting the flop sweats. I'm a "gut instinct" investor, and I trust my gut, as it has never failed me.

I've got a set-up now that I'm absolutely satisfied with. Let the economic winds blow as they may -- I am not worried.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2016 02:36 AM (jBuUi)

485 musical jolly chimp mentioned, "walking stitch l[stick] with a folding seat." That's what I thought of when I saw the motorized chairs.

Oct 1 is Intl Coffee Day. Also, America throws away the Internet day. How can Congress the Lethargic act so quikly to override tha veto, but drag feet on saving the net? Fiddling while libety burns. But we have coffee.

Good night.

Posted by: generic Moron in training at September 29, 2016 02:40 AM (y4bHB)

486
Ouch.
Posted by: deplorable cthulhu
-----
Please dont take that as a dig!
You know how much I love you!
Seriously, that is one of my fondest memory in regards to you.
You cared (obviously, a lot). It showed. In spades.
I wear that night as a badge of honor, man.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:41 AM (UmuuL)

487 Witchcraft: Well now I know what a Swedish Jim Morrison would sound like.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 29, 2016 02:41 AM (VdICR)

488 479
474



So, debt Jubilee? Everything cancels out, right?



Hey, can I make money by shorting Jubilee?



Seriously, we are toast when somebody stops peddling. I bet it's the Greeks.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 29, 2016 02:32 AM (FtrY1)


I don't think you do a Jubilee; I think you start by hanging everyone involved with overturning Glass-Steagall and confiscating everything they -- or their families -- own, then clawing-back the ill-gotten gains of their clients.

Unlike prior collapses, this one has full documentation.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:43 AM (EzgxV)

489 Well, I have to go to bed. Suspect I may be awakened during the night for work reasons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2016 02:44 AM (o9m/V)

490 G'night, generic .

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:44 AM (UmuuL)

491 G'night Peon.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:46 AM (UmuuL)

492 Mama Merkel has said she ain't gonna bail out Douche Bank. If she did, that would certainly finish her. She's already pissed off enough with the insane let 'em all in immigration policy, and a big bail out would finish her.

But if Douche goes down, hitting that bullseye will bring the whole house of cards down like dominoes, as Zapp Brannigan said.

The ECB is probably working on yet another bunch of shenanigans to try to keep Douche afloat.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 02:46 AM (DW+jj)

493 484
I used to have some Deutsche Bank investments.



But I dumped them all in 2008. Seemed too risky and weird. I didn't
even bother to get into specifics -- I just got a bad vibe off of them.



Did the same thing with other ones back then too, and I was glad I did -- AIG was one of them.



One can sort of tell when a company is getting the flop sweats. I'm a
"gut instinct" investor, and I trust my gut, as it has never failed me.



I've got a set-up now that I'm absolutely satisfied with. Let the economic winds blow as they may -- I am not worried.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2016 02:36 AM (jBuUi)


There are two kinds of investments: things and paper. If you can't kick it, it's paper.

And, so far as I can tell, 90%+ of the value of paper is fraud.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:46 AM (EzgxV)

494 481 I've seen claims of $72T of gross derivative exposure for Douche Bank. As Cooth was saying, they always claim that gross doesn't matter, only net.

They may be on the hook for a billion if one bet goes bad. But, they have some offsetting bet on the other side where they'll get 999M, so they claim that's a net of only 1 million.

But that depends on the other guy, then guy on the hook for the $999M being good for it.

Pro tip: In a Crisis, don't count on too many "other guys" being good for anything.
Posted by: publius


One of the most interesting books I ever read was an explanation of how some of these big investors and companies work the system. If they have (or think they have) some kind of advance tip about a change in valuation in something (basically arbitrage, but not so straightforward), and they are really sure about it, no matter how tiny the change is, they will borrow a billion dollars or more just for five seconds, buy a billion units of whatever, its value goes up 0.001% two second later, they sell and pay the billion back -- and pocket $10,000 or $100,000 or however much.

This works 99.9% of the time.

But every now and then their information is wrong, and they borrow a billion, make the buy, and instead of the change going in the direction they want, it goes seriously in the opposite direction -- and in five seconds they're bankrupt, because they can't pay the full billion back.

When this happens to one person, it can start a chain reaction.

I'm using all this non-technical terminology because I can't remember the financial lingo for all the different aspects of what happens, but the upshot was that sometimes even tiny unexpected fluctuations can cause massive shock waves to go through the system because everyone is always amping up their "sure bet" bets to the nth degree, far beyond what they can "cover" if something goes wrong. And then, as publius noted, you can't rely on the "other guy" to honor debts because he's likely caught up in the same mess you just got caught up in.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2016 02:50 AM (jBuUi)

495 486


Ouch.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu

-----

Please dont take that as a dig!

You know how much I love you!

Seriously, that is one of my fondest memory in regards to you.

You cared (obviously, a lot). It showed. In spades.

I wear that night as a badge of honor, man.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:41 AM (UmuuL)


I did and do care, and I'm very sorry to have initiated such a clusterfuck. It's not my proudest moment.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:52 AM (EzgxV)

496 Dude, let it go.
It's a (somewhat) funny story I can tell the grandkids I'll never have.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 02:56 AM (UmuuL)

497 494
481 I've seen claims of $72T of gross derivative exposure for Douche
Bank. As Cooth was saying, they always claim that gross doesn't matter,
only net.



They may be on the hook for a billion if one bet goes bad. But, they
have some offsetting bet on the other side where they'll get 999M, so
they claim that's a net of only 1 million.



But that depends on the other guy, then guy on the hook for the $999M being good for it.



Pro tip: In a Crisis, don't count on too many "other guys" being good for anything.

Posted by: publius



One of the most interesting books I ever read was an explanation of
how some of these big investors and companies work the system. If they
have (or think they have) some kind of advance tip about a change
in valuation in something (basically arbitrage, but not so
straightforward), and they are really sure about it, no matter how tiny
the change is, they will borrow a billion dollars or more just for five seconds,
buy a billion units of whatever, its value goes up 0.001% two second
later, they sell and pay the billion back -- and pocket $10,000 or
$100,000 or however much.



This works 99.9% of the time.



But every now and then their information is wrong, and they
borrow a billion, make the buy, and instead of the change going in the
direction they want, it goes seriously in the opposite direction -- and in five seconds they're bankrupt, because they can't pay the full billion back.



When this happens to one person, it can start a chain reaction.



I'm using all this non-technical terminology because I can't
remember the financial lingo for all the different aspects of what
happens, but the upshot was that sometimes even tiny unexpected
fluctuations can cause massive shock waves to go through the system
because everyone is always amping up their "sure bet" bets to the nth
degree, far beyond what they can "cover" if something goes wrong. And
then, as publius noted, you can't rely on the "other guy" to honor debts
because he's likely caught up in the same mess you just got caught up
in.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2016 02:50 AM (jBuUi)


Karl Denninger, of The Market Ticker blog, wrote a book called "Leverage" that discusses this phenomenon. In addition, he has this to say about Douche Bank: "https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231518"

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 02:58 AM (EzgxV)

498 I've forgotten most of the details (and this why they can get away with this stuff -- 99.9% of the population can't keep up with the details), but do you remember the so-called "Flash Crash". The market was bee-bopping along, and then BAM, prices shit the bed and everything went to hell, in an instant?

It happened in 2010 and there have been others since. It's the work of high-speed trading computers. The big boys have machines executing trades that occur at the micro-second level (or millisecond, I can't remember). This is much faster than any human can possibly keep up with, by orders of magnitude. Here, you have a market of machines, not humans.

Anyway, after the flash crash, some guys at some outfit the name I can't remember, got to digging into the details of this microsecond level world. They found it looked very different. If you look that behavior of the market, there's a stochastic component, sort of fractal looking. If you look at the 10 year level, it looks the same as at the 1 month level, down to the day to day level, and down to the daily level. This stochastic component.

But that disappeared at this microsecond level and strange patterns, which they labeled "sawtooth wave" and similar were visible.

This was the machines, doing what they were programmed to do. These guys figured out what they were doing, and they were gaming the system in various ways.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 03:08 AM (DW+jj)

499 I see BCochran, I think Fireball


I see BCochran, I think "the guy who puts carrots in his chili".

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 29, 2016 03:19 AM (mgbwf)

500 Karl Denninger, of The Market Ticker blog, wrote a book called "Leverage"
Posted by: deplorable cthulhu


Leverage! That's the word I was looking for. Thanks.

If you combine leverage with electronic arbitrage, you can make unbelievable amounts of money in seconds. (This, in fact, is what George Soros did to make his billions.)

Apparently not all information "propagates" through the financial system instantaneously, and people take advantage of that, even if the delay is measured in milliseconds. People apparently create computer programs to harvest info about valuation shifts before that information even reaches the "commodities exchange" or whatever market, and then they basically have the ability to predict the future - even if it is only 25 milliseconds into the future. But that's all they need - their program is triggered to borrow a billion the instant they harvest the info, and then to repay a billion a couple seconds later after they've bought and sold the currency or commodity or whatever it is.

I think this is technically illegal, but a lot of people do it anyway because it's very hard to prove it is being done. You can't be too flashy with your trades -- keeping it under the radar of the SEC or whoever is crucial.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2016 03:20 AM (jBuUi)

501 One thing they were doing was intentionally overloading the system so as to cause time delays in the transmission of information. The big guys, the big banks, subscribe to these special services that get information to them, and the little guys rely on some other means. IOW, pay the exchanges some big money, and you get special access with guaranteed access times.

Now, stuff the system with a bunch of "NOOP" trades, or the equivalent of them. Again, I've forgotten the details. Now, this cause the public system that the little guy has to use to clog up, and gives the guys on the special system an advantage they can arbitrage.

The flash crash analysis guys conclusively demonstrated they were doing this. Now, the flash crash itself was a result of a the whole bunch of 'em fucking themselves by introducing these time delays. The interaction of all these guy's proprietary high-speed systems interacting got into an unstable mode and drove the price of stuff down to zero before the rest of the system could react.

Oops. It's like a terrible thermal disequilibrium. One spot freezes (or melts and vaporizes because something is happening so fast at that local spot that information and heat can't flow fast enough for the global system to respond.

They created a system with emergent properties that no one understood. It's market of machines, not men.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 03:21 AM (DW+jj)

502 @488 @494




In case you're wondering how these two comments are related.....there has traditionally been a division between a bank, who keeps your stuff secure so that you can make transactions; and a casino, where you can make bets of any level about anything. This distinction had eroded into the 1920s and the weakness in division was seen as a major contributor to the crash of 1929 -- which lead to stringent divisions being codified into law in the 1930s.




These restrictions were eliminated by the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999 to justify the blatantly illegal combination of CitiCorp and Travelers Insurance in 1998.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 03:23 AM (EzgxV)

503 Looks like all the really smart people are talking.
Which is my cue to exit, stage right.
G'night.


And a little early, but, good morning Skip.

Posted by: Chi at September 29, 2016 03:24 AM (UmuuL)

504 Nite Chi.

Posted by: Catwrangler at September 29, 2016 03:26 AM (bZwzw)

505 It's the work of high-speed trading computers. The big boys have machines executing trades that occur at the micro-second level (or millisecond, I can't remember). This is much faster than any human can possibly keep up with, by orders of magnitude. Here, you have a market of machines, not humans.

Anyway, after the flash crash, some guys at some outfit the name I can't remember, got to digging into the details of this microsecond level world. They found it looked very different.
Posted by: publius


Yes! This is what I was talking about in comment #500 (I was still typing it when you write your comment, so I didn't see it until just now). We are on the exact same wavelength.

The book I read traced the practice all the way back to the telegraph days (1880s era), when sneaky bastards would do the same electronic arbitrage but using telegraphs wires, on a much cruder time scale of seconds as opposed to milliseconds -- finding out about price changes in Kansas City or Chicago just moments before the same info came out of the tickers in New York.

People are smart, and greedy, and unscrupulous. They will find a way to game the system.

Posted by: zombie at September 29, 2016 03:26 AM (jBuUi)

506 Think of it like this. You're going to the store to buy something. Some guy learns what you're going to buy, and goes in there and buys up what you want to buy. He then sells it to you for a little more than the store was going to.

Or he learns you're going to sell something. He then goes as sells that very same thing, exhausting all the buyers. You then have to sell it to him. He gives you less of a price than you would have gotten.

This is "front running". A third party gets in the way of your trade, and skims a little of the top of the trades going through.

Note he doesn't care which way the price is going. He can't make money either way.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 03:27 AM (DW+jj)

507 502
@488 @494




In case you're wondering how these two
comments are related.....there has traditionally been a division between
a bank, who keeps your stuff secure so that you can make transactions;
and a casino, where you can make bets of any level about anything. This
distinction had eroded into the 1920s and the weakness in division was
seen as a major contributor to the crash of 1929 -- which lead to
stringent divisions being codified into law in the 1930s.




These
restrictions were eliminated by the Financial Services Modernization
Act of 1999, signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12,
1999 to justify the blatantly illegal combination of CitiCorp and
Travelers Insurance in 1998.


Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 03:23 AM (EzgxV)


And, BTW -- that "do something blatantly illegal and hope to legislate it through a corrupt system into retroactive legality"....seen that enough, lately?

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 03:29 AM (EzgxV)

508 I like to think of it like this. THe commercial banking system is like the public road system. There have to be rules of safety, and fairness.

You don't get out and race or act stupid on the public system. If you do, Buford T. gives you a ticket or takes your ass to jail, telling you, "Boy, if you wanna race, get yo' ass to a race track, not on mah damn highway. You sumbitch."

Investment banking is the race track (varying degrees of danger, of course, different tracks with different rules for what is allowed). Commercial banking is the public road system.

Mom and pop do not want to race.

Buford T. got bribed to let the banksters race on the public highway system, killing Mom and Pop.


Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 03:36 AM (DW+jj)

509 I see BCochran, I think "the guy who puts carrots in his chili".


*THAT* is deplorable.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 03:43 AM (qUNWi)

510 508
I like to think of it like this. THe commercial banking system is like
the public road system. There have to be rules of safety, and fairness.


You don't get out and race or act stupid on the public system. If you
do, Buford T. gives you a ticket or takes your ass to jail, telling you,
"Boy, if you wanna race, get yo' ass to a race track, not on mah damn
highway. You sumbitch."

Investment banking is the race track
(varying degrees of danger, of course, different tracks with different
rules for what is allowed). Commercial banking is the public road
system.

Mom and pop do not want to race.

Buford T. got bribed to let the banksters race on the public highway system, killing Mom and Pop.




Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at September 29, 2016 03:36 AM (DW+jj)


Pretty much. Which leads to the remedy -- those who advocated and profited from the repeal of Glass-Steagal need to be stripped, whipped, hogtied, and lynched.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 03:43 AM (EzgxV)

511 Good morning horde, nedz coffee

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 03:55 AM (ofpt4)

512 There used to be a Ubuntu distros setup for graphics arts.

Posted by: Jean at September 29, 2016 03:56 AM (ngn8T)

513 512
There used to be a Ubuntu distros setup for graphics arts.

Posted by: Jean at September 29, 2016 03:56 AM (ngn8T)


I'm setting up a Ubuntu dom0 for Xen to host VMs on a RAID5 array cached through an SSD. Downloaded all the software to effectuate this and it's 8G. Recommended partition for Windows with .NET is 80G.

Posted by: deplorable cthulhu at September 29, 2016 04:07 AM (EzgxV)

514 US troops not depoying in combat, just assisting Iraqi troops to reclaim territory from ISIS.
Were did I read that story before?

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 04:09 AM (ofpt4)

515 Hillary 2016!

Posted by: The Taliban! at September 29, 2016 04:32 AM (d76uN)

516 So Hillary's watchdog Comey says the FBI doesnt give immunity and the Barak administration didn't want to investigate itself so it gave guilty members immunity.
What a fine mess we are in.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 04:46 AM (ofpt4)

517 Yous should try Death Wish Coffee. Loads of caffeine and the best tasting coffee I have ever had. No better way than to celebrate National Coffee Day.

Posted by: Joel at September 29, 2016 04:49 AM (N5wlQ)

518 Have to say since I have been sick theses 2 weeks coffee taste isnt grabbing me.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 04:50 AM (ofpt4)

519 Good Morning Everyone. Time for Coffee.

Posted by: The Taliban! at September 29, 2016 04:51 AM (d76uN)

520 /off terror sock.

I have more sock fails that anyone else that I know of.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 29, 2016 04:52 AM (d76uN)

521 Rain today and tomorrow and need to cut outside at work as new carpets are going in.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 05:15 AM (ofpt4)

522 Well hope everone has a safe day.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2016 05:18 AM (ofpt4)

523 Well now. You might laugh at this person. I did.

https://youtu.be/zxjbtzbm9Yk

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 29, 2016 05:36 AM (d76uN)

524 Are you a "big, ugly, redneck, guy? You might be deplorable.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 29, 2016 05:38 AM (d76uN)

525 Read the early stuff.
Now time to make a second cup and come back for the emt which, I'm sure, went up while I was typing this.

Posted by: teej - deplorable before deplorable was cool at September 29, 2016 05:59 AM (qjzL4)

526 Mornin'.

If you eat or drink anything with "Death" in its name, you might be deplorable.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at September 29, 2016 05:59 AM (WlGX+)

527 If you eat or drink anything with "Death" in its name, you might be deplorable.


It might maybe be a tad "spicy".

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:03 AM (qUNWi)

528 Good Morning,
I fell asleep before 10 pm.

Jane D'oh,
I had to shorten your son's BS from VA & put 2 on Twitter. I wrote a friend's son.
People should know how badly combat vets are treated, I removed your name, etc.

Posted by: Carol at September 29, 2016 06:05 AM (sj3Ax)

529 Good Morning Morons. Today is Thursday, September 29, 2016. On this day in 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, really impressed a lot of folks world-wide at the a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts and pounding his shoe on the Russian desk there while screaming. It was this, among some other things that caused the communist Party in Russia to determine he was too unstable and removed him from power. I remember that pounding of the shoe event, it was broadcast over and over on the news at that time. Today it would have been embargoed and he would have been praised by the MFM. But then in the early 60s it was "duck and cover" tough times and we had the "missile gap" that turned out to be BS propaganda that senior officials knew about.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:05 AM (mpXpK)

530 A British judge has ordered that the illegal "hacked" photos of Pippa of the great butt not be published in Great Briton. They can do that there without worrying about a bunch of black robe hacks screaming about the first amendment and censorship.


http://bit.ly/2dEZ4Ap

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

531 The "fix" is in, how much money have these cronies donated to the Demoncrap Party? Budweiser and Miller are merging to form the world's largest beer company.


http://bit.ly/2dgajwY

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

532 The Choom King has dispatched one of his EPA goons to tout some more lies with a new "study". They now claim that the world is the warmest it has been in 120,000 years and CO2 has crossed some catastrophic "red line". In fact, the world has been cooling since 1998 despite this so-called increase in CO2. Most countries have already given up on this scam, but then again, we are still led by a communist who is still bent on destroying capitalism. I also note that the die-hard liberals who run Microsnot now are glad to print this crap on their Bing "news" as if it were smoking hot gospel.


http://bit.ly/2cD2PBg

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

533 Trump says he actually saved the Miss Universe from being fired after she put on all that weight.


http://fxn.ws/2dlPTnP

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:06 AM (mpXpK)

534 Remember the big Watergate nothingburger that escalated all because of the "cover up", well it turns out that the "cover-up" is not so bad after all if it is one involving a Democrat, especially one named Clinton.


http://fxn.ws/2dg4C1V

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:07 AM (mpXpK)

535 Some people say Harvard is the most liberal college in America, some say the University of MI is. I go with MI. I also say cut off all public money to all colleges in all forms, including student aid and loans since that is really unconstitutional and the black robes are using it as an excuse to say the feds have a say.


http://fxn.ws/2dm954T

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:07 AM (mpXpK)

536 Another school shooting, this one in a small town in western SC. A 14 year old shot and killed his father then went down to a nearby elementary school and shot two children and a teacher. I am sure the gun grabbers will be out in force and that includes the idiot that is still stinking up the White House. No motive has been given. Hum, makes me wonder if he was a muzzie.


http://fxn.ws/2cWLlAX

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:07 AM (mpXpK)

537 RIP soap opera icon Agnes Nixon at 93.


http://fxn.ws/2dfRmKT

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:07 AM (mpXpK)

538
Not even a smidgen of bias in Sheila Jackson Lee at a House Judiciary hearing on Clinton's felonies.


http://fxn.ws/2d5ykHp

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:08 AM (mpXpK)

539 Good Morning, Vic!
Thank you for years of news.

Posted by: Carol at September 29, 2016 06:08 AM (sj3Ax)

540 According to the Consumer Products Safety Commission telephones are not the only product that Samsung has that is exploding. Heavens what a catastrophe 21 of their washing machines have "exploded" during the spin cycle in the past 5 years when washing bulky items like blankets. One wonders what "exploded" means and what the total number of these machines is. This is yet another unconstitutional federal department that should be abolished.


http://bit.ly/2dbMCp4

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:08 AM (mpXpK)

541
The Repukes in the Senate have avoided another fake government shutdown by once again caving to the Democrats and even promising a future cave in for more handouts to the corrupt Democrats in Flint, MI.


http://fxn.ws/2cMyQKQ

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:08 AM (mpXpK)

542
Outspoken Milwaukee County Sheriff takes down a drunken idiot on an airplane flight.


http://fxn.ws/2dmY5R8

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

543 Another yoot who was turning his life around is mistreated in court by a racist white female judge who makes him wear offensive clothing and makes his bail exorbitantly high. One wonders if this thug knows he is eligible to get the needle in KY?


http://fxn.ws/2df8C2L

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

544 Now even private religious schools cannot have pre-game prayers. When will these militant atheist assholes stop?


http://fxn.ws/2dujUmN

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

545 Thank you EPA, Democrats, and O'Choom. We now have dengue fever in Miami and soon to spread. So why do I blame all those communists above? First, the continued insane ban on DDT. And on top of that our country without borders. Mosquitoes are the vector to spread the disease, but first they have to have someone with it from some third world shithole to spread it from. I guess I could also add the FSA and yellow dog Democrats to that list too.



http://cbsloc.al/2cCuKpZ

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

546 Remember all that "super-vetting" that the Pharaoh touted for the muzzies he is bringing in. I guess it mostly consists of "what is your name" because they sure as hell are not doing anything else as events lately have borne out.


http://bit.ly/2dtbjMX

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:09 AM (mpXpK)

547 And speaking of unvetted muzzie assholes, the WA mall shooter muzzie terrorist actually voted in the last three elections while he is not a citizen. Also remember the link I had a few days ago where an O'Choom judge stamped out a law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.


http://bit.ly/2dtbjMX

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:10 AM (mpXpK)

548 BLM thug charged with multiple felonies, including assaulting three cops with a deadly weapon and looting. Let's see how Charlotte's Democrat administration handles this one.


http://bit.ly/2cDr2fP

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:10 AM (mpXpK)

549 Scankles' "implicit bias" claim is straight out of commie Soros' handbook.


http://bit.ly/2dn2kfB

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:10 AM (mpXpK)

550 More incriminating documents trickle out in the Scankles email case (which the FBI undoubtedly knew about) and it looks like the judge has just about had enough of the infamous Scankles foot-dragging tactic. He has given her an ultimatum, produce by Oct 10 or else.


http://bit.ly/2dn2kfB

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:10 AM (mpXpK)

551 Scankles' and Holt's statements during the "debate" about Trump's statement on "stop and frisk" have been proved to be a lie. Now how many MFM news outlets will cover that? Looks like only the WSJ in the "opinion" pages. Link via WZ.


http://on.wsj.com/2cBvGe

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)

552 Here's another one of those peaceful Charlotte yoots who was turning his life around and wanted to go to college. Those evil cops have busted him for multiple felonies also.


http://bit.ly/2dBpsIq

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)

553 Choom mouthpiece says the 9-11 bill veto override is the most embarrassing thing the Senate has ever done. I say no that would be the failure to convict Bubba for impeachment.


http://bit.ly/2dt2E1M

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)

554 Hi Vic.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:11 AM (qUNWi)

555 The corrupt FBI is building a database to go after cops with now. Time to consider defunding the FBI.


http://bit.ly/2dtd1hH

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:11 AM (mpXpK)

556 Trey Gowdy HAS sent referrals to the DOJ for Scankles' perjury to his committee. The FBI is "sitting on it".


http://bit.ly/2dfwKCm

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:12 AM (mpXpK)

557 All over the country government workers are getting paid by you the taxpayer for working for the unions. This has been brought up over and over again and congress has still taken no action.


http://bit.ly/2dlK7Pt

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:12 AM (mpXpK)

558 IBD makes yet another attempt to set the record straight on the housing and financial collapse that we are still mired in and who is to blame since she brought it up during the debate. And who was the one person most to blame? We all know who. It was Bubba and CRA.


http://bit.ly/2dc0waP

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:12 AM (mpXpK)

559 amirez - no update


That's it for today folk

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:12 AM (mpXpK)

560 Hey Vic...how ya doin?

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:13 AM (qUNWi)

561 Thanks Vic.

Posted by: Catwrangler at September 29, 2016 06:14 AM (bZwzw)

562 Gotta go just got a call. BBL

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:15 AM (mpXpK)

563 The Vic machine just comes and it goes.

Nice talking to ya Vic.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:16 AM (qUNWi)

564 "Another school shooting, this one in a small town in western SC. "

Let me guess, no names were mentioned at all?

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 29, 2016 06:16 AM (d76uN)

565 I miss IBD daily newsletters, they stopped February 29.
They're only 100%,Accurate news with no bias. I've had them since 2008 if not earlier.

Posted by: Carol at September 29, 2016 06:17 AM (sj3Ax)

566 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 29, 2016 06:19 AM (J+eG2)

567 Good morning.


VIA.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:21 AM (qUNWi)

568 Is everyone here autistic or something?

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:25 AM (qUNWi)

569 I guess everyone needs their coffee to be nice.


That's what it is.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:27 AM (qUNWi)

570 Students at Winthrop protest the name of campus building for Wilsonian Democrat politician.

Posted by: Deplorable Man at September 29, 2016 06:27 AM (wNJkU)

571 "Is everyone here autistic or something?"

I'll go with "could it be, or something" for 200 Alex.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 29, 2016 06:28 AM (d76uN)

572 "Is everyone here autistic or something?"

Everyone?


No, not everyone.


The weird guy in the corner talking to his floor lamp has Tourettes .

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 29, 2016 06:28 AM (J+eG2)

573 They were celebrating National Coffee Day today at Wawa. Three coffees for free! :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke, redeemed and redeemable at September 29, 2016 06:29 AM (EnGQE)

574 Meh, doc sez I can't have that elixir any more, something about head exploding from high blood pressure, or was it heart? Anyhow, I can't drink coffee any more. I really don't need it though, I want to pass out after I get off work and I function perfectly fine without it.

Now get offa my lawn.

Posted by: Gmac- Deplorable Conservative at September 29, 2016 06:32 AM (4pjhs)

575 547 And speaking of unvetted muzzie assholes, the WA mall shooter muzzie
terrorist actually voted in the last three elections while he is not a
citizen.


Posted by: Vic

That just can't be. I've been repeatedly reassured that there is no voter fraud, and thus no need for ID checks or citizenship verification. Why, the President hisself, as well as the DOJ and any number of black robed judicial nobles have told me the exact same thing.

Also, I just knew that that recent study that found as many as 15% of our illegal 'guests' are voting in our elections HAD to be a pure fabrication.

Now my faith in the system is shaken just the tiniest bit.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 29, 2016 06:37 AM (gyKtp)

576 My kitchen floor is disgusting. It's a beautiful white tile floor with roses in the middle that match carpet in what was my mother's bedroom.

I'm going to wash it!
BBL.4

Posted by: Carol at September 29, 2016 06:39 AM (sj3Ax)

577 So I was perusing the thread at Insty's place about more terror attacks coming.

And a comment used the term "Ordinary Wastage, with its explanation.


Under this administration, that term could make a comeback in our day to day vocabulary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastage_(military)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 29, 2016 06:39 AM (J+eG2)

578 comment=commentor

F'n auto-cucumber

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 29, 2016 06:40 AM (J+eG2)

579 531
The "fix" is in, how much money have these cronies donated to the
Demoncrap Party? Budweiser and Miller are merging to form the world's
largest beer company.


http://bit.ly/2dgajwY



Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at September 29, 2016 06:06 AM (mpXpK)


Well, more reason to drink microbrews and small label stuff. I guess the globalist masters have decided that one giant beer company is all that we need.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 29, 2016 06:42 AM (J+mig)

580 "I guess the globalist masters have decided that one giant beer company is all that we need."

Welcome to Taco Beer!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 29, 2016 06:43 AM (d76uN)

581 Volunteer fireman stops Townsville school shooter
http://bit.ly/2towmville

Posted by: Deplorable Man at September 29, 2016 06:43 AM (wNJkU)

582
NOOD.

Roundup.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 29, 2016 06:45 AM (9P3OG)

583 580
"I guess the globalist masters have decided that one giant beer company is all that we need."



Welcome to Taco Beer!

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at September 29, 2016 06:43 AM (d76uN)


Tim, I think that's a winning restaurant idea...

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at September 29, 2016 06:46 AM (J+mig)

584 I know this is posted in the sidebar (as This!) but you have to read it. It's all too accurate, and quite frightening and depressing. We here have been shouting Stop!, but we make no difference.

http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/after-the-republic/

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 29, 2016 06:46 AM (gyKtp)

585 I've been thinking for a while now that I should find a church to attend. I want to join a church that's preparing for civil war, though.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at September 29, 2016 06:47 AM (97XyN)

586 Coffee story. In 1975 I was walking near Rice University when I smelled coffee roasting and found some people trying out the the old roaster they had bought. It was a great old steampunk looking Italian contraption the size of a beer truck. They had named it Madame Has-Bean. I'm still buying from those folks and the Krupps grinder I bought back then still works.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at September 29, 2016 06:51 AM (0y03Z)

587 The world is gaslighting me.

Posted by: eleven at September 29, 2016 06:53 AM (qUNWi)

588 Lib friends sharing a Politico article about " The one weird trait that predicts your a Trump supporter".....and that trait is "Authortarianism".....based on a poll...I quit reading when it said "since the rise of Nazi Germany"....yeah that.

Posted by: KWDreaming at September 29, 2016 06:53 AM (AkcYt)

589 @538.Sheila Jackson Lee.

This is what is WRONG with Washington. Hillary is crooked and Lee knows Hillary is crooked yet she wears a Hillary for President pin into a hearing about crooked Hillary. This kind of crap just shows all of us how corrupt these people are. Lee is one of those Trump is talking about when he says Blacks vote for the same old party for years and nothing gets done. Lee just shows herself as another politician on the take. She doesn't give a damn about the people who vote for her.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at September 29, 2016 06:55 AM (SXa8W)

590 Thank you Vic. Much appreciated.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2016 06:55 AM (u82oZ)

591 On this day in 1960 Nikita Khrushchev, really impressed a lot of folks world-wide at the a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts and pounding his shoe on the Russian desk there while screaming.


There's a funny book, K Blows Top, by Peter Carlson, which chronicles Khruschev's 1959 tour of the US:

goo.gl/Nhchxp

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 29, 2016 07:01 AM (X6fMO)

592 Those ProPilot chairs remind me of all the fat people in the Lazy Boys in Wall-E. I guess we're really headed that way.

Posted by: Gem at September 29, 2016 08:27 AM (uaHyk)

593 And that was a splendiferous ONT, Mis Hum. Oh, the contentz you will see!

Posted by: Gem at September 29, 2016 08:29 AM (uaHyk)

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