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Sunday Night Overnight Open Thread (5/14/17) Mother's Day Edition
"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers" - Jewish proverb
Quote II
"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path." - Agatha ChristieQuote III
“[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary - it’s an act of infinite optimism.” Gilda Radner
Yes, rather predictable but what the heck. 'Moms: Your kids hijacked your brain for life.'
ONE DAY, A woman is spending her Saturdays doing her normal Saturday stuff—blueberry pancake brunch, curling up on the couch with the cat reading a novel, grabbing a beer with friends. By the next, her life is suddenly and completely about keeping a screaming, floppy, red-faced, cone-headed thing alive using fluids secreted from her chest. Happy birthday to that.
On May 7, Israeli authorities released a video showing imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who is leading a "hunger strike" of more than 1,000 inmates held in Israeli prisons, secretly eating a candy bar in the bathroom of his prison cell. Israeli media outlets and journalists, like many of their Western colleagues, reported on the video, which has seriously embarrassed Barghouti and many other Palestinians.A real hunger strike? You'll be dead in approximately 66 days.
How would you like to have this
But the Donald Trump administration has weakened some of the Obama school-lunch policies, and on Friday, Michelle Obama let loose, wondering why the administration thinks it’s OK for kids “to eat crap.Go. Away. Far. Far. Away.
ABC has opted not to renew the longtime Friday 8 PM anchor for Season 7 despite the fact that the blue-collar sitcom was ABC’s second most watched comedy this season with 8.1 million viewers in Live +7, only behind flagship Modern Family (8,7 million). It was the third most watched ABC scripted series overall behind Grey’s Anatomy and Modern Family….
Future, asked 1,260 people from around the country a number of questions in a “discrete choice experiment focused on energy efficiency and autonomous features.” After running the data from the responses through several models (you can read all about their methodology in their full report), the study estimated that the average American household would be willing to spend $3,500 on partial automation and $4,900 on fully autonomous car tech. This, of course, is in addition to the already high prices of new cars today.
Congo Crisis The Democratic Republic of the Congo has tragic history defined by its horrific abuse at the hands of Western colonial powers. After 75 years of occupation by Belgium—notable for a cruelty of rule that shocked and outraged even the French and British—the country was granted independence in 1960.
With the goal of creating a “safe space” in mind, a Detroit school has set out to hold a girls-only prom to celebrate traditional Muslim customs. It’s being created for girls who would otherwise be prohibited by their ultraconservative Muslim families from going to regular proms, where attendees are allowed to have fun and dance with members of the opposite sex in good old American tradition.And the Balkanization of America continues.
It's a Mother kind of thing.
May 14, 1998, American singer and actor Frank Sinatra died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles aged 82, after suffering a heart attack. Sinatra had his first hit in 1940, working in the Swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1953 film 'From Here to Eternity'. He went on to score over 25 Top 40 singles including the 1966 No.1 'Strangers In The Night'. His 1969 single 'My Way', re-entered the UK charts eight times and spent a total of 165 weeks on the UK chart. via thisdayinmusic.com
May 14, 2015, Blues singer, songwriter and guitarist B.B. King died in his sleep aged 89 from a series of small strokes caused by type 2 diabetes. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential blues guitarists of all time, Rolling Stone magazine placed him behind only Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman in its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. via thisdayinmusic.com
To celebrate Mother's Day, one must be a mother. Obvious, I know. So what are these mothers naming their kids these days, 2016 Top 10 Baby Names. No. Dammit, Knock It Off, Get Over Here Are are not on the list. Neither is Shit For Brains.
A former West Virginia police officer is suing the city where he was employed, claiming that he was fired for not shooting a 21-year-old suicidal black man.
Research the world over is confirming that drinking coffee keeps you alive … but it doesn’t work if you drink it in moderation. In fact, Harvard researchers found that low consumption of coffee is linked to deaths from heart-related illnesses. To get the health benefits of coffee, you have to drink it like you mean it.Wonder how my coffee consumption will go over with my doctor at the upcoming physical?
Good guy on the ice. Great guy off the ice. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 09:21 PM (b0NwW)
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 09:22 PM (b0NwW)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 14, 2017 09:22 PM (d76uN)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 14, 2017 09:23 PM (d76uN)
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 09:23 PM (b0NwW)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 14, 2017 09:24 PM (UpGcq)
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 09:25 PM (b0NwW)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 14, 2017 09:26 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 14, 2017 09:27 PM (vBeA5)
But here we are.
You would have thought after 8 years of being bottled up the GOP
would be firing off one initiative after the other and getting it in
front of the GOP president but you would be wrong to think that.
Useless cunts.
Posted by: Kreplach at May 14, 2017 09:28 PM (9A6UB)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 09:28 PM (789OI)
Uh huh. And what if the kid is one of the things that stands in her path?
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:29 PM (0mRoj)
To summarize: America is to blame for everything.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 09:31 PM (FOnk+)
Been one of "those days". Depression kicked my keister today.
I have a day off from work tomorrow, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:31 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 09:32 PM (IDPbH)
To summarize: America is to blame for everything.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 09:31 PM (FOnk+)
I think the blog name War is Boring may have been a hint.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 09:33 PM (IDPbH)
I kind of wish I hadn't read the story on how pregnancy shrinks your brain. I mean, I always suspected it, but I really didn't need the confirmation. But, it does explain a lot.
And my name didn't wind up on the top ten baby names list yet again. I'm surprised.
Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2017 09:35 PM (sBOL1)
There's 34-year-old Kate, who works in finance downtown. "She's beautiful, smart, talented... everything going for her," her colleague tells me. "But her boyfriend doesn't feel settled in his career, so she spent thousands of dollars to freeze her eggs as she waits for him to be ready."
Susan, 41, a single senior marketing executive from the Upper East Side, is eight months pregnant. After waiting for her match and not finding him, she decided to have a baby on her own.
And then there's Joanna, from the Upper West Side, who tells me that at age 32, she stepped off the partner track at her law firm, halving her salary to work in the firm's marketing department, so she could focus on landing a husband. But at 39, Joanna is still single and childless - and unsatisfied in her career.
These women aren't alone. The latest US Census Fertility Report, published last week, found that for the first time in reported history over half (53.8 percent) of women ages 25-29 are childless and a record 30.8 percent of American women ages 30 to 34 haven't given birth. Most of these women are college-educated. And most are single.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at May 14, 2017 09:35 PM (Tnhbr)
Posted by: BacktoGA at May 14, 2017 09:36 PM (/22Vh)
would be firing off one initiative after the other and getting it in
front of the GOP president but you would be wrong to think that.
Useless cunts.
Posted by: Kreplach
...............
While I agree with the sentiment, how do you propose to get by the 60 vote cloture rule in the Senate???
Personally, I would have liked them to start with tax reform first.. Obamacare is a distraction.. a small bill that affects about 3% of Americans...
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 14, 2017 09:36 PM (UpGcq)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:38 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 09:38 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at May 14, 2017 09:39 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: BacktoGA at May 14, 2017 09:39 PM (/22Vh)
Posted by: AgathaPagatha at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (PtE6F)
Oh bullshit.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (2ET9R)
Exactly. Mother's Day is a painful occasion for me because my mother was verbally and psychologically abusive. She's been gone since 2003, and I can't say I miss her except in the negative sense; that is, I know that she can't hurt me any more. I was blessed, though, in having two grandmothers and a lot of aunts and friends' mothers who gave me the nurturing and affection that I didn't get from her. Thanks to the other morons/moronettes on the ONT for letting me vent, and I hope you all have warm and loving relationships with/memories of your mothers. I'd give anything to be able to have that.
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (3C9q2)
In ten years you won't have a choice, comrade.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (udajc)
Posted by: BacktoGA at May 14, 2017 09:36 PM (/22Vh)
Speaking of things that shrink your brain...
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:41 PM (2ET9R)
And it's not all sweaty and infernally hot.
Posted by: L, Elle at May 14, 2017 09:41 PM (ZjHNW)
I'm prepared to say that writer is a complete idiot with a poor grasp of both history and culture without reading another word.
Posted by: sunny-dee at May 14, 2017 09:41 PM (QAOZh)
Another useless war.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 14, 2017 09:41 PM (d76uN)
The Left never quit, and they won't until the nuclear family is completely destroyed and replaced by the State.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:42 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: BacktoGA at May 14, 2017 09:42 PM (/22Vh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2017 09:42 PM (IqV8l)
Snacks and fruit juice, followed by ritual genital mutilation. Honor killing to follow upon arrival back home.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2017 09:42 PM (JZdsf)
When I look back over my 60 years and feel nothing but shame, embarrassment and humiliation for nearly everything, the only way I pick myself up every day is by relentlessly forgetting.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 09:42 PM (FOnk+)
And it's not all sweaty and infernally hot.
Posted by: L, Elle at May 14, 2017 09:41 PM (ZjHNW)
Yet
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 09:43 PM (IDPbH)
*fistbump*
My mother was the single most destructive force in the first 20 years of my life. Things did eventually change for the better, but it left me pretty fucked up.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:43 PM (2ET9R)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:29 PM (0mRoj)
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I know what you mean.
-------------------------------------Been one of "those days". Depression kicked my keister today.
I have a day off from work tomorrow, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:31 PM (rJUlF)
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I know what you mean too. One foot in front of the other, and don't forget to breathe.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:43 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:38 PM (0mRoj)
I'm sensing hostility here.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2017 09:44 PM (JZdsf)
Posted by: Aunt Luna at May 14, 2017 09:44 PM (Zd2ZF)
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (3C9q2)
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Basement Cat, I am so very sorry. That must have been very difficult growing up in circumstances like that. Thank God you had your grandmothers, aunts, and other kind ladies who were good to you. No kid should have to endure what you did. Sending you a big, virtual hug.
Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2017 09:44 PM (sBOL1)
Oh bullshit.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (2ET9R)
Seconded. If I were 20-25 years younger, I wouldn't be staying away from marriage because I was immature. It would be because, even here in Oklahoma, there are many women who are just plain crazy.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:44 PM (rJUlF)
Just ask yourself what price any GOP politician has ever paid for incompetence, sloth, or stupidity; then you'll know why the entire current GOP Establishment is so worthless!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 09:44 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:44 PM (lwiT4)
GOP -- the Fyre Festival of politics.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 14, 2017 09:45 PM (JZdsf)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 14, 2017 09:45 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: Yard sign at May 14, 2017 09:45 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2017 09:46 PM (sBOL1)
It's "One day at a time!" for a reason!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 09:46 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: lindameh at May 14, 2017 09:46 PM (kufk0)
A former West Virginia police officer is suing the city where he was employed, claiming that he was fired for not shooting a 21-year-old suicidal black man.
Great. A cop tried to be a human being and deescalate a situation instead of killing the man and he gets fired. Pure fucking genius.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:46 PM (2ET9R)
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 09:46 PM (ANIFC)
Can't stand MF. (Hmm. Apt abbreviation, yes?)
Would 'cut the cord' if hubby would let us. I had *gladly* gotten rid of cable before we got together.
Posted by: JQ Flyover at May 14, 2017 09:47 PM (5muuD)
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (3C9q2)
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Right there with you. Mother's Day is .... complicated. Prayers.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:47 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 14, 2017 09:45 PM (nlbfN)
The author does have a soft spot for the cannibal Simba rebels of the Congo.
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 09:48 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 09:48 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (udajc)
Of course you'll have a choice: Walk or take High Speed Rail!
Posted by: J Brown at May 14, 2017 09:48 PM (gwPgz)
Oh, heard Tim Tebow's mom speak at a church we were trying on today. Amazing lady.
Posted by: lindameh at May 14, 2017 09:46 PM (kufk0)
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I've seen her on TV a few times. She seems like a gem.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:48 PM (lwiT4)
King Leopold II had got all the do-gooders in Europe to bless his mercenary occupation of the country. He told them it would be a "free state" guided into the twentieth century. Leopold instead ruled the place as his personal rubber-plantation.
It was the Belgian "colonialists" who took a second look, and then took away his empire and tried to fix it. They didn't get enough time to fix it before the Cold War and general de-colonialisation put the country in the hands of the warlord Mobutu, who was just as bad as Leopold.
Source: "King Leopold's Ghost"
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 14, 2017 09:48 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 09:50 PM (KP5rU)
For the last month, I've felt, for lack of a better term, disconnected from everything. It's as if I'm just a bit player in the movie of my life. I go through the motions, but it all feels futile.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:50 PM (rJUlF)
*******
You're not alone. I have a mother like yours. I'm seeing her tomorrow. Praying that she doesn't start her usual shit-stirring and the visit remains civil.
Posted by: L, Elle at May 14, 2017 09:50 PM (ZjHNW)
For the last month, I've felt, for lack of a better term, disconnected from everything. It's as if I'm just a bit player in the movie of my life. I go through the motions, but it all feels futile.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:50 PM (rJUlF)
Damn. I know how that feels.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:51 PM (0mRoj)
My mother was the single most destructive force in the first 20 years of my life. Things did eventually change for the better, but it left me pretty fucked up.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:43 PM (2ET9R)
Thanks-- it helps to know I wasn't the only kid messed up by a modern version of Medea. Unfortunately, I was literally an only kid (she used to tell me that the reason I was an only child was that "one mistake is enough"), which means that I got her meanness full blast, no sibs to run interference for part of it. On the other hand, at least I didn't grow up to be a special snowflake, so there are compensations for a rough adolescence.
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 09:51 PM (3C9q2)
there is a cheap trick concert from red rocks in co. on at 9:30 on axs tv tonite for old geezers. if anyone is interested.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 09:50 PM (KP5rU)
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My sister just moved to Colorado and her house looks out on Red Rocks in the distance. I'd like to see it, but then I'd have to visit my sister.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:51 PM (lwiT4)
The Wall Street Journal disgusts me, three hacks there jealous of his success delivered a hit-piece against him.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 14, 2017 09:51 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: J Brown at May 14, 2017 09:48 PM (gwPgz)
I remember years and years ago when a direct rail and interstate link from Peoria and Chicago was going to save the economy of Central Illinois.
Millions were spent on studies that said more millions needed to spend on further studies.
To this day there is no Amtrak Rail to Chicago and I guess I-39 counts as the Peoria to Chicago Interstate.
Yay goober'mint.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 14, 2017 09:52 PM (d76uN)
Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:52 PM (0mRoj)
term, disconnected from everything. It's as if I'm just a bit player in
the movie of my life. I go through the motions, but it all feels futile.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:50 PM (rJUlF)
Damn. I know how that feels.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:51 PM (0mRoj)
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I think we are all the same person.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM (CNHr1)
He told women he was auditioning them for pron movies and got them to do nice things for/to his peepee.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/
crime/article150166102.html
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM (oAY8z)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: J Brown
Obamaphones to become ICars. No one walks in Welfare USA!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM (udajc)
Illinois gubberment peeps beez smart.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 14, 2017 09:54 PM (6FqZa)
😘 💞
Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2017 09:54 PM (sBOL1)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2017 09:54 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM
******
Yeah, no kidding. He seems like he's permanently constipated.
Posted by: L, Elle at May 14, 2017 09:55 PM (ZjHNW)
Yay goober'mint.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 14, 2017 09:52 PM (d76uN)
There's one train from Philly to Charleston, S.C. each day, yet two to Harper's Ferry, WV. ???
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 09:55 PM (ANIFC)
To summarize: America is to blame for everything.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 09:31 PM (FOnk+)
I think the blog name War is Boring may have been a hint.
Posted by: Jack Sock
I read that as so many missed opportunities to nuke the bastards
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 09:55 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM (KP5rU)
So, may we put you down as "Dislike"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 09:55 PM (+QhzW)
Thank you all for your comments; the HQ is one of the best communities I know of (church is the other) for touching base with people who have "been there too."
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 09:56 PM (3C9q2)
disneys' idea of modern blows goat balls. disney is the personification of evil. have more respect for full time drunks. more entertaining too. and, fuck disney.
They've come a long way since Old Yeller and Follow Me, Boys.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2017 09:56 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:56 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 14, 2017 09:53 PM
Better than the woman who sits in the cube next to me. Raspy, cigarette voice and uptalk and draaaaaws out eeeeeevry woooooord.
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 09:44 PM
You say that like it's a Bad Thing. We FIFY anyway.
Posted by: Hank Johnson & Maxine Waters at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (DMUuz)
I'm saddened that you had to go through all that. If I could, I'd shove a hug through the USB port.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (rJUlF)
BAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (sBOL1)
Science has been hijacked by whores who will perform any "study" you want, and give you whatever outcome you desire.
Stop falling for this shit. Confirmation bias is more powerful than gravity.
"Coffee keeps you alive!"
Man! They've really run out ideas this time.
Posted by: RKae at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (i3rHh)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2017 09:54 PM (voOPb)
Heh. He wasn't as bad, just a weak, supplicating doormat most of the time.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:58 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: thathalfrican - be water my friend at May 14, 2017 09:58 PM (SmOWS)
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 09:55 PM (ANIFC)
Is Harper's Ferry a transfer point? That would explain that.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 14, 2017 09:58 PM (d76uN)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 09:33 PM (IDPbH)
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They have obviously never been in one.
Posted by: Javems at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (yOqwj)
Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:52 PM (0mRoj)
Oh Insomniac, I am so sorry. For you, L'Elle, and Basement Cat. I'm with bluebell, sending you all hugs.
I was sometimes a crappy mom. I loved my kids, but I had rough days, and said things I wish to the good Lord I could take back and keep in my head. But I have spent every day on this earth doing my level best to let them know I adore them, I treasure them, and there is nothing I wouldn't do for them.
I hope each of you finds comfort and love. You too, Capt Whitebread. Hugs all around.
Posted by: moki at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (lwiT4)
Hear hear.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (0mRoj)
We took my mother out to some semi-fancy joint later this afternoon. Well north of $100 check. Inflation is getting to be something. When I was a kid, a $100+ tab would've been some real fancy eatin'. Not any more. It was better than the typical greasy spoon, but not really all that much.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (ANIFC)
lol.. our accountant where I work is also the same guy who does our personal taxes. His receptionist talks slower than anyone I've ever met. But her voice is very calm and soothing. My husband loves her.
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 14, 2017 10:00 PM (CNHr1)
Definitely mixed signals then because it would contradict his Congo portion of the article.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:00 PM (IDPbH)
I may be really screwed up, but I can honestly say it's neither her fault or my dad's (may he rest in peace).
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:00 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (6FqZa)
BAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: bluebell at May 14, 2017 09:57 PM (sBOL1)
You are simply an exceptional woman, bluebell. God only gives us what He knows we can handle. Clearly you can multi-task!
Posted by: moki at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:00 PM (rJUlF)
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Are you by any chance Finnish?
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (lwiT4)
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I sense a generation gap. A BIG generation gap.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (OdK9v)
I may be really screwed up, but I can honestly say it's neither her fault or my dad's (may he rest in peace).
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:00 PM (rJUlF)
Mention away. A bunch of us having shit experiences growing up doesn't detract in any way from your having a good experience.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:02 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:02 PM (OdK9v)
^^^ So much this.
I don't even tell my meatspace friends anymore when I have "those days", because the voice in my head convinces my they don't want to hear it AGAIN. Even though I shouldn't be, I'm uncomfortable in even bringing it up here.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:03 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo, screwup at May 14, 2017 10:03 PM (6FqZa)
War is Boring may have been a hint.
"Long periods of boredom, punctuated by moments of sheer terror"
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2017 10:03 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile
I don't think I'm childish. I am a bit skittish at settling down though. I've seen plenty of marital disasters. Also, Modern Feminism has done women no favors.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 10:04 PM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:04 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: moki at May 14, 2017 10:04 PM (V+V48)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:05 PM (789OI)
I remember reading something about this several years when they discovered it. They found women with XY brain cells. WTF? they wondered. Well, they had boys, and these were cells from their sons.
I remember telling my mother that to freak her out. She said she knew something was wrong with her brain, and that explains it. My warped cells had taken root.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 10:05 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (lwiT4)
Heh. Not that I'm aware of. German, Irish, and some American Indian.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:05 PM (rJUlF)
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It
knows no law, no pity, it DARES (not dates) all things and crushes down
remorselessly all that stands in its path." - Agatha Christie
Posted by: Retired Geezer at May 14, 2017 10:06 PM (Y7lAb)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 14, 2017 10:07 PM (6wURk)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 10:08 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 14, 2017 10:09 PM (8qFZP)
I may be really screwed up, but I can honestly say it's neither her fault or my dad's (may he rest in peace).
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:00 PM (rJUlF)
Its taken me 58 years to get along with my Mom, but we are finally there....
Why?
The 5 Love Languages... they are Touch, affirmation (telling someone you love them), Gifts, Acts of Service, and Quality time (time actually spent together, not just in the same place)...
I'm all Touch and Quality Time..... Mom is Acts of Service and Gifts....
So even though SHE was telling me she loved me, in her way.... I didn't understand it...
Nor was I able to show her I loved her.... because SHE wanted me to do things for her.... which was not the way I show love...
Now... however... I get it....
Posted by: Don Q. at May 14, 2017 10:09 PM (NgKpN)
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I sense a generation gap. A BIG generation gap.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (OdK9v)
Got to be. There's no way in hell I would get an autonomous car.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:10 PM (0mRoj)
How right you are, grammie-- and being an only child is an additional risk factor for feeling all alone. On top of which I was an academically precocious kid, which can be isolating too-- but by the grace of God (which is the only explanation I can think of), I always had friends my own age, and their companionship kept me from major depression or worse (giving up on life completely).
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 10:10 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:05 PM (789OI)
I meant to say: This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:11 PM (789OI)
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It
knows no law, no pity, it DARES (not dates) all things and crushes down
remorselessly all that stands in its path." - Agatha Christie
Posted by: Retired Geezer at May 14, 2017 10:06 PM (Y7lAb)
But its a Father's love for his child... that can lead to catastrophic consequences.... if you hurt that child...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 14, 2017 10:11 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 14, 2017 10:11 PM (7dpmG)
Yes, I did. I haven't taken medication for depression since then. I've been trying to go without them. Maybe it's time to change my mind about that.
Insomniac,
My parents were just the right amount of strict, and we had the usual differences when I was growing up, but we've had a very good relationship during my adult years. If they fought, and I'm certain they did, we never saw it. They did all they could to give us not the best life, but a good one, with a strong moral background.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:12 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: CPT11A at May 14, 2017 10:12 PM (hxUdS)
How right you are, grammie-- and being an only child is an additional risk factor for feeling all alone. On top of which I was an academically precocious kid, which can be isolating too-- but by the grace of God (which is the only explanation I can think of), I always had friends my own age, and their companionship kept me from major depression or worse (giving up on life completely).
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 10:10 PM (3C9q2)
That's a blessing. Because I was academically precocious I was isolated from what should have been my peer group. It sucked. Hard.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:12 PM (0mRoj)
Lefties love this idea.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 10:13 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:03 PM (rJUlF)
My friend, if you want to bring it up, there is absolutely no better place on the internet than here to bring it up!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 10:13 PM (gwPgz)
Posted by: CPT11A at May 14, 2017 10:12 PM (hxUdS)
That's great! Best wishes for the Happy Event.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 10:14 PM (FOnk+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:04 PM (OdK9v)
No Mike they don't want him impeached, they want him assassinated. That's why Olberdork and others constantly agitate. Plus the Left is too stupid & lazy to impeach.
Posted by: F.N.G. at May 14, 2017 10:14 PM (kiSdp)
I used to scroll back when someone quotes just a post number. I don't do that anymore. Reading should require less effort than writing.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 14, 2017 10:14 PM (VdICR)
Speaking from experience, don't EVER take yourself off antidepressants without your doctor's supervision.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:14 PM (0mRoj)
One sign that I'm slipping came last night. I decided do head down the road to the karaoke bar where I used to work to sing a couple of songs. I did, but I didn't enjoy it. At all. I was even thinking today about not doing it again.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:15 PM (rJUlF)
I am in the same boat, My Mom would get drunk and tell us that our DAd was not our real father, she was messed up. When she ran out of beer she would drive to the store and get NyQuil ( stopped selling beer on Sundays and at 10 pm) because it had alcohol in it. I always thought my mom was sick as a kid but she was just a drunk.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 14, 2017 10:15 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (OdK9v)
Legalized weed doesn't have anything to do with this I'm sure!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 10:15 PM (gwPgz)
Lefties love this idea.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 10:13 PM (8O3HH)
They love pretty much any restriction on freedom. They saw the "Papers, please" scenes in the movies and went like "That's cool! Restricted travel. Why do you want to drive to Utah in a Corvette anyway?!"
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:16 PM (789OI)
I have a day off from work tomorrow, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:31 PM (rJUlF)
I'm sorry to hear that, Captain. Depression is a terrible disease. I hope you're receiving treatment.
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 14, 2017 10:16 PM (nvMvs)
most cars today have about as much personality as wolf blitzer.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 10:16 PM (KP5rU)
Yes, I did. I haven't taken medication for depression since then. I've been trying to go without them. Maybe it's time to change my mind about that.
Change your mind, and talk to your doc again. Your body, after heart surgery, doesn't make hormones the right way. The meds you take after surgery (hubby was on Plavix, simvastatin and atenolol) also screw up your hormones. You may only need to take meds for depression for a little while, to kick start your adrenals to make the proper dosage.
Sorry to nag, but I went through this with my husband. It was hard, and he still has rough days, but it did get much better with time, better diet and exercise. You may need something a little more. No shame in that. Get the help. You are worth it.
Posted by: moki at May 14, 2017 10:17 PM (V+V48)
our first daughter (second child) in June. Her name will be Saoirse
(pronounced SEER-sha) It's a popular Irish name meaning freedom.
Posted by: CPT11A at May 14, 2017 10:12 PM (hxUdS)
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That's wonderful! Making America Great Again, one baby at a time!
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 10:17 PM (lwiT4)
Impeachment be like actual hard work, yo! Gots to avoid that at all costs!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 10:17 PM (gwPgz)
Can't say I had the easiest relationship with mom, but I miss her all the same.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 14, 2017 10:17 PM (66CWr)
This year she bought me $100 worth of lottery scratch off tickets. Surprise! I won $55.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:18 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Cheech and Chong at May 14, 2017 10:18 PM (5muuD)
Posted by: moki at May 14, 2017 10:17 PM (V+V4
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Yes. A thousand times Yes.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 10:18 PM (lwiT4)
Speaking from experience, don't EVER take yourself off antidepressants without your doctor's supervision.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:14 PM (0mRoj)
Yeah, I can second that.
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 10:18 PM (ANIFC)
Man! They've really run out ideas this time."
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There's a secret to this. Don't externalize it, internalize it. If a study says something you like is good for you, celebrate.
If a study says something you like is bad for you, ignore it.
Posted by: Meremortal, with mirth metal. at May 14, 2017 10:20 PM (3myMJ)
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Because, their parents are h8rs.
Posted by: LGBQT, and others, who can't procreate at May 14, 2017 10:20 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 10:20 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:21 PM (789OI)
Damn, man. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:21 PM (0mRoj)
Impeachment be like actual hard work, yo! Gots to avoid that at all costs!
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 10:17 PM (gwPgz)
Can you imagine Max Waters trying to make the case against Trump in the House? GOP oughta call her the dumbass that she is every single day. Cowards.
Posted by: F.N.G. at May 14, 2017 10:21 PM (kiSdp)
Love you. Each one. Anyone ever needs an ear or a place to bug-out to, to keep yourself good, ring the bell and get in touch. Yes, I mean you.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 10:22 PM (lwiT4)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 14, 2017 10:22 PM (7dpmG)
He looked a bit rough, I thought, and I thought she was well out of his league. What's she doing with him? Well, to avoid be obvious, I had to get several quick glimpses of her and put them together for the complete picture.
She was wearing a long sleeved blouse. And I then I noticed it. There was a green fungus looking thing on the back of her right hand. Tattoo. Big one, likely wrapping up her arm.
Then I caught her feet. Tattoos there. It was probably a whole body, or close to it, job.
Nope, she was right in his league all right. Hell, he may have been above her a notch or two. She would've been a real hottie, but damn.
I'm sure she spends most of her time wrapped around a pole. On the clock and off.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 10:22 PM (8O3HH)
I'm a surviving twin. My brother was stillborn.
As long as I can remember, I've felt out of place, like there was something missing. A while back, while visiting Mom and my sisters back in Texas, I got to talk with a friend of Mom's during a church visit. She, too, had a twin who was stillborn, and she described that "out of place" feeling that she often has...and in the same way I would.
Survivor's guilt? A bunch of hooey? I don't know.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:22 PM (rJUlF)
Lucille accompanied us. It was something.
Now, good night, sweet internet friends. I hope you all wake refreshed, blessed and cognizant of the very great love there is for you all.
Posted by: moki at May 14, 2017 10:24 PM (V+V48)
Dad just turned 88 and is trying to make a go of it on his own in northern Michigan. Ornery keeps him going.
Posted by: F.N.G. at May 14, 2017 10:24 PM (kiSdp)
our first daughter (second child) in June. Her name will be Saoirse
(pronounced SEER-sha) It's a popular Irish name meaning freedom.
Posted by: CPT11A at May 14, 2017 10:12 PM
Congratulations!
Happy Mother's Day, ONT!
Posted by: Erik the Lurker, Deplorable Barbarian at May 14, 2017 10:24 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 10:22 PM (8O3HH)
I don't get tattoos at all.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:25 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:25 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:26 PM (rJUlF)
*waves to Miss Pink*
I sent you an e-mail. I hope your day has gotten better!
Posted by: Erik the Lurker, Deplorable Barbarian at May 14, 2017 10:27 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:27 PM (789OI)
I sense a generation gap. A BIG generation gap.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:01 PM (OdK9v)
Got to be. There's no way in hell I would get an autonomous car.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:10 PM (0mRoj)
I still prefer the manual transmission car. Ain't no way i buy an autonomus car.
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 10:27 PM (b0NwW)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (lwiT4)
Hear hear.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (0mRoj)
So true. Since we rarely talk about it, we usually don't know how many others are suffering as well. The may look fine on the outside, but on the inside they're struggling to hold it together.
If you're not seeing a psychiatrist, bite the bullet and find a good one. They're much better than general practitioners for all but the mildest depression.
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at May 14, 2017 10:27 PM (nvMvs)
I had an aunt named Naomi, and one named Ruth. Curiously, they were both everything a kid could ask for in an aunt, treated me like I was their own. Wonderful ladies.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:27 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:22 PM (rJUlF)
Why would you have even been told about this?
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:28 PM (0mRoj)
That's really cool Moki. I'm Catholic and don't recognize those songs. BB and I would have to just talk, I guess.
Posted by: F.N.G. at May 14, 2017 10:28 PM (kiSdp)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (pY+s4)
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 10:27 PM (b0NwW)
Every now and then, when I am juggling food, the e-cigarette, a drink and the gear shift I think an automatic might be nice, then I realize I would be bored to tears in no time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (789OI)
Hence annoying.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:25 PM (rJUlF)
I was at a game and some girl had a HUGE tattoo of Cauliflower on her chest? Guy in front of me asked is that a tattoo of cauliflower on your chest.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (dKiJG)
Tattoos can be as addictive as drugs for some people. It doesn't necessarily mean they are low lifes. Good clue though.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (IDPbH)
Consequence of being adopted at months old.
She tried to contact me more than 20 years ago but I wasn't ready. With dad gone, I've been thinking about it lately. Funny thing is, with the info I got then, I was able to track her down. I could contact her if I wished, though I have no idea how she would react after all this time.
It's a thought. But I have so much else going on I don't know if I really want the extra chaos...
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (66CWr)
I'll become the Charlton Heston of automobiles if I have to.
"You'll take my steering wheel from my cold, dead hands!"
Posted by: Erik the Lurker, Deplorable Barbarian at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (q1+kD)
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 10:27 PM (b0NwW)
Heh. I prefer driving a manual transmission, but they're hard to come by any more. Anything family sized, forget about it.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:30 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:30 PM (OdK9v)
Guy from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn has a number of them posted, including night shots taken around the 'hood.
Up and down the streets, up over the rooftops, looking down on the boulevards, cruising along. All the footage like this you see in movies is now shot with these things.
Question is, is it legal? Because of all the airports around NYC, wouldn't most all of it be a no-fly zone for these drones?
The camera drones like the Parrot BEBOP 2 and the DJI Mavic all have firmware that limits their altitude to about 400 feet.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (U6f54)
We are crate training him.
He is VERY NOISY. He doesn't like being in that crate one bit. He is astonishingly loud for such a pup.
Posted by: blaster at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (HV1LS)
I've known a lot of great NCOs and a sprinkling of officers with tats that would show even in a suit.
Certainly there are trashy folks with trashy tats, but I appreciate well-done ones.
Posted by: CPT11A at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (hxUdS)
16 year old daughter whose crush didn't show up at her birthday party last night was caught by daughter's girlfriends holding hands with another girl at school. Tears to rage in 2.5 seconds. The teen years are never dull. Lesson learned: some guys are just losers.
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (B6MYe)
I don't get it either. Some of the young bucks seem to think it's hot. But it doesn't make sense to me.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 10:33 PM (8O3HH)
We are crate training him.
He is VERY NOISY. He doesn't like being in that crate one bit. He is astonishingly loud for such a pup.
Posted by: blaster at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (HV1LS)
My ACD had a cry that could melt steel at that age.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:33 PM (789OI)
16 year old daughter whose crush didn't show up at her birthday party last night was caught by daughter's girlfriends holding hands with another girl at school. Tears to rage in 2.5 seconds. The teen years are never dull. Lesson learned: some guys are just losers.
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (B6MYe)
So, he's a loser because he was interested in a girl other than your daughter?
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:33 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Insomniac
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I have a friend who recently bought a Subaru Forester. Not because he had Subbie fever, but because it was the only thing he could find that had as much cargo space as his old Cherokee, 4wd, and manual transmission.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:33 PM (OdK9v)
Costs a thousand bucks MORE to get a manual anymore. Go figure.
Posted by: blaster at May 14, 2017 10:34 PM (HV1LS)
Guy from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn has a number of them posted, including night shots taken around the 'hood.
Up and down the streets, up over the rooftops, looking down on the boulevards, cruising along. All the footage like this you see in movies is now shot with these things.
Question is, is it legal? Because of all the airports around NYC, wouldn't most all of it be a no-fly zone for these drones?
The camera drones like the Parrot BEBOP 2 and the DJI Mavic all have firmware that limits their altitude to about 400 feet.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (U6f54)
I'm conflicted if law enforcement should use drones for the same purpose as they now use patrol cars.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:34 PM (IDPbH)
16 year old daughter whose crush didn't show up at her birthday party last night was caught by daughter's girlfriends holding hands with another girl at school. Tears to rage in 2.5 seconds. The teen years are never dull. Lesson learned: some guys are just losers.
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:32 PM (B6MYe)
So is it time to do the emperor speech from Jedi?
"Use your hate. Strike me down."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:35 PM (789OI)
If he was leading her on , yeah.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:36 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:28 PM (0mRoj)
I wasn't told. I found out. I was a nosy kid.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:36 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Have a thing for Austro-Hungarian Royal Families?
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 10:37 PM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Hrothgar at May 14, 2017 10:15 PM (gwPgz)
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The capstone of public education.
Posted by: gNewt at May 14, 2017 10:37 PM (rbMr9)
If he was leading her on , yeah.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:36 PM (IDPbH)
There's been no information given to indicate that he was leading her on, or that he had any knowledge that she was crushing on him. If it's otherwise, that might change my evaluation of the situation.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:37 PM (0mRoj)
It's a thought. But I have so much else going on I don't know if I really want the extra chaos...
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 14, 2017 10:29 PM (66CWr)
You should try. Years ago I tried finding the daughter I gave up for adoption and had no luck. Then in March 2016 I received a phone call. We have talked a few time and we text. She is flying out with her daughter for Memorial Day weekend. I am excited and terrified all at the same time.
Posted by: Infidel at May 14, 2017 10:37 PM (ie8tB)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (rJUlF)
The Social Security Administration also released a list of the baby names that gained or dropped the most in popularity. The most notable decrease in 2016 was the name Caitlyn -- and three variations of its spelling: Caitlin, Katelynn and Kaitlynn. All four versions fell out of the top 1,000 in 2016.
The Jenner Effect.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (B6MYe)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (KP5rU)
I'm a surviving twin. My brother was stillborn.
Elvis Presley had a stillborn twin brother, and some people think that his sense of survivor's guilt was a factor in his later problems with addiction to barbiturates and other drugs.
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:33 PM (789OI)
First there was the hourglass. Then the verge and foliot. Then the pendulum. Followed by fine Swiss movement. Then quartz. Then atomic.
But none can rival Miss Aida when she thinks it's time for her Spam.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (FOnk+)
It was known early in testing, but the earlier thinking was that it would take a component of autonomous vehicles of maybe 20 percent or more of the total crowd. Recent studies have shown all it takes is one or two "robot cars" to speed things up closer to what the flow should be.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at May 14, 2017 10:39 PM (U6f54)
I took it that he was supposed to be at her party but was a no show.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:39 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 10:33 PM (8O3HH)
There's no accounting for taste. Like rap "music" & modern art.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 14, 2017 10:40 PM (hscyr)
Posted by: blaster at May 14, 2017 10:34 PM (HV1LS)
They charge extra for the "anti-theft system"
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at May 14, 2017 10:40 PM (Tnhbr)
I suppose I should be thankful my addictions, if they can be called that, are sugary carbs and fried foods.
Good thing I don't keep either in the house.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (rJUlF)
I've known a lot of great NCOs and a sprinkling of officers with tats that would show even in a suit.
Never saw an officer with a tat in the 1970s.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:36 PM (rJUlF)
Ah so. I don't know what to tell you. I do think that special connections can form between twins, but only observably so as they grow up together. It's tough to say that there's some, for lack of a better word, mystical connection that was broken because of what happened. It is quite possible that upon learning this, your mind went through the "what if" scenarios, presumably favorable, about having had a twin brother through your, and the sense of missing something arose from that process. Just my armchair psychologist $0.02, and probably worth about as much.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (0mRoj)
Recent studies have also shown that we are going into an ice age.
Posted by: freaked at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (BO/km)
A humble prayer request for myself, if you please. Having a exploratory procedure done tomorrow. The procedure is no biggie but my Drs found out the hard way last time that I am one of those patients that takes an inordinate amount of sedation to be put under. And I must be put under for this. So, it's a little dicey to wake up properly.
If you would please. Thanks.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (tr2D7)
I'm talking about patrolling with drones. I don't know of any departments that do that.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:42 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 14, 2017 10:42 PM (6urbU)
I took it that he was supposed to be at her party but was a no show.
Posted by: Jack Sock at May 14, 2017 10:39 PM (IDPbH)
What we were told is that he said he would try to make it. In and of itself, that's hardly a commitment or "leading her on," in my estimation.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:42 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Mike at May 14, 2017 10:42 PM (c056A)
Posted by: Abby at May 14, 2017 10:43 PM (HBU7W)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- That's class! at May 14, 2017 10:43 PM (6urbU)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:30 PM (0mRoj)*
Yep, which is one reason i have not been car shopping for 15 years.
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 10:43 PM (b0NwW)
You got it. He had told her that he liked her, and they had been talking on Snapchat for a couple of weeks then BLAM, Handholdinggate. Not cool.
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:43 PM (B6MYe)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 14, 2017 10:44 PM (6FqZa)
"Recent studies have shown all it takes is one or two "robot cars" to speed things up closer to what the flow should be."
Recent studies have also shown that we are going into an ice age.
Posted by: freaked at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM
How will a robot car handle the ice?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2017 10:44 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
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Probably okay. Some narrowing between a couple of vertebra, but aside from a couple of times when she's displayed discomfort, she seems normal. Sleeping a lot lately, and less inclined to take long walks, but then she's 13, and now totally deaf.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:44 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:38 PM (B6MYe)
I could be missing something here, but in what way was he leading her on? IIRC, the only thing you told us was she invited him to a party and he said, I think on Instagram or something, that he would try to make it but didn't show. Is there more to the story?
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:44 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Infidel at May 14, 2017 10:45 PM (ie8tB)
We need more studies. No doubt the results will be surprising.
Posted by: The Experts at May 14, 2017 10:46 PM (BO/km)
You got it. He had told her that he liked her, and they had been talking on Snapchat for a couple of weeks then BLAM, Handholdinggate. Not cool.
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:43 PM (B6MYe)
Impeach him!
Posted by: Maxine Waters at May 14, 2017 10:47 PM (789OI)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (0mRoj)
That's also entirely possible. I try not to dwell on it, but I sometimes do when I've had a day like today.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:47 PM (rJUlF)
b.b. king said that his favorite musician was sinatra and that he listened to him almost every day!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 14, 2017 10:48 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 14, 2017 10:48 PM (8qFZP)
Posted by: Jmel
well, what you said last night was that he said he would try and make it to the party.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 10:49 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 14, 2017 10:49 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 10:49 PM (KP5rU)
She has ceased talking to him and he's stopped talking to her. Moving on.
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:50 PM (B6MYe)
But holy crap! What a great idea. Kill off the namesake character and next week call it "Yangs Anatomy" or something like it. Same cast. Same stories. Minus the original star. It would be revolutionary
Posted by: JAS at May 14, 2017 10:50 PM (EX4Wr)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 10:50 PM (4HbHy)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:51 PM (0mRoj)
That's true. Handholdinggate came out today. Her friends are not the best of snitches. Ah, well!
Posted by: Jmel at May 14, 2017 10:51 PM (B6MYe)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 10:52 PM (KP5rU)
"Environmental Activist based in Austin"....that should tell you everything you need to know. He doesn't know shit about shit.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 14, 2017 10:52 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 14, 2017 10:54 PM (xJa6I)
*raises beer*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 14, 2017 10:55 PM (6gk0M)
About the twin experience, have you read about Elvis's situation? I read in his bio that he had a twin that died, and he had a sort of relationship with his brother, mentally and emotionally.
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2017 10:55 PM (BrS/H)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 14, 2017 10:55 PM (4HbHy)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:56 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 14, 2017 10:56 PM (8qFZP)
Posted by: Cloud William at May 14, 2017 10:56 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:56 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 10:57 PM (789OI)
Prayers going up for you from this member of the Horde too-- I have a friend who needs more than the usual amount of sedation and always worries about procedures that require it, so I have a sense of where you're coming from.
Best wishes for tomorrow--
Posted by: Basement Cat at May 14, 2017 10:58 PM (3C9q2)
Another uninstall and reinstall of Verizon wireless.
One day, that uninstall/reinstall won't work anymore.
But it is good to know my system is up to date and can't be hacked.
I feel so much better now.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at May 14, 2017 10:58 PM (zGQ5T)
Is there an inherent good or bad to stoicism? I was raised in a fairly "emotions are a bad thing, all that matters is if you get results or not. You don't need other people, you don't need to be loved or even liked, all you need is to get results." environment.
But I didn't end up all that successful in life. I never went to college (my father wouldn't let me apply anywhere, because he didn't feel I worked hard enough to earn it), and I've worked a small series of crappy jobs that I always stay with too long.
And I'm starting to think he was full of shit about the whole "You need to be on your own with nobody else in your life" thing.
I know that he's right, on a practical level, about the "in the end, all that matters is results" thing, but I don't think I can live with this whole stoic-hermit thing forever.
But I really feel like I sound like a progtard by even saying this at all, so who the hell knows.
Posted by: Hikaru at May 14, 2017 10:58 PM (Vevy5)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 14, 2017 10:58 PM (6gk0M)
Thanks for listening, y'all. Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (rJUlF)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (8qFZP)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 14, 2017 10:55 PM (6gk0M)
*Tips glass in direction of Slapweasel*
Thanks.
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (b0NwW)
If the rest of you turn that into a "Your Momma" joke, I swear to God I'll... probably laugh.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (6gk0M)
But that's not when all Caitlyn's get their name. Have to wait sixty years to see how Caitlyn does!
Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (/cksx)
$4900 for autonomous shit?? Jesus please us, most of my entire CARS don't cost that much.
People are nuts.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (S/hVx)
"Environmental Activist based in Austin"....that should tell you everything you need to know. He doesn't know shit about shit.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Yep. His site should be called "Always Blame America First".
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 11:01 PM (pY+s4)
For a system I log on to once a year to file a stupid information return for the state, I'm supposed to remember that?
Now I'm locked out and the account suspended because of too many invalid logon attempts AND too many incorrect security question answers.
FML
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2017 11:01 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2017 11:02 PM (BrS/H)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:03 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:03 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:56 PM (OdK9v)
Not to mention the potential for getting hacked.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:03 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (ANIFC)
For a system I log on to once a year to file a stupid information return for the state, I'm supposed to remember that?
Now I'm locked out and the account suspended because of too many invalid logon attempts AND too many incorrect security question answers.
FML
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2017 11:01 PM (JO9+V)
My parents went out on a blind date set up by their friends. Have no idea where they went to. It was in El Paso, I know.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (789OI)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
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Yeah, I'm trying to prepare myself...
Mike Hammer's Cat is 14 now, and having some kidney problems.
"They're just animals", I tell myself...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (OdK9v)
He was right for him, but there are many paths.
Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (ysprU)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at May 14, 2017 11:05 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 11:05 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 14, 2017 11:06 PM (8qFZP)
Well I guess I learned something new
Another site to avoid.
Col. Krautman is no longer writing at EveryJoe anymore, so may need to go back to Duffleblog to get my credible military news.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at May 14, 2017 11:06 PM (xJa6I)
My mother and I spent time together today. We've had an uncomfortable relationship, but I've learned that when my kids don't call, I should call my mom. I put her through trouble, but I'm not doing so now. I'm helping her now.
I heard via phone and text from 4 out of 5 today!
Posted by: booknlass at May 14, 2017 11:06 PM (BrS/H)
Posted by: PaleRider at May 14, 2017 11:00 PM (8qFZP)*
Tumeric works well for my knees, makes sense that it also works for animals.
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 11:07 PM (b0NwW)
'How will a robot car handle the ice?'
We need more studies. No doubt the results will be surprising.
Posted by: The Experts at May 14, 2017 10:46 PM (BO/km)
Easy peasy.
'If car skids then steer into the direction of the skid.'
Add that statement to the car's brain and you can drive like James Bond in an invisible DB7 on ice.
Posted by: Patrick McGee, Bangladesh A-1 Programming at May 14, 2017 11:07 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2017 11:08 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 11:08 PM (KP5rU)
MS made updates mandatory with Windows 10. Well, somewhere there's settings where you can "defer" them, but only for a limited time. Hell, all of Big Software pisses me off with everything.
I installed Windows 10 last month, or late March to play with the new Linux subsystem, WSL or "bash on Windows". It's a version of Ubuntu. They put a module in the kernel that emulates the Linux kernel and it can run actual ELF Linux binaries (no X stuff, though. Yet).
I was absolutely appalled reading the fine print. I turned off all the phoning home and data collection shit I could, having to go through about 4 screens of settings to do it. Most non-tech people will just accept the defaults. If you do, MS (and Bob@NSA, of course) owns you.
This "Cortana" thing, MS's voice activated Siri like clone scares the hell out of me. It's disabled and killed as dead as I can figure how to.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:09 PM (8O3HH)
Buying the card and flowers today? Really?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:09 PM (f9Th6)
Oh, I mean it, baby. I mean it so hard.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:10 PM (tHwdc)
A humble prayer request for myself, if you please. Having a exploratory procedure done tomorrow. The procedure is no biggie but my Drs found out the hard way last time that I am one of those patients that takes an inordinate amount of sedation to be put under. And I must be put under for this. So, it's a little dicey to wake up properly.
If you would please. Thanks.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (tr2D7)
Prayers for you friend. Let me know if you need anything. I'm close by and would be happy to help you out.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 14, 2017 11:10 PM (TdMsT)
I know that he's right, on a practical level, about the "in the end, all that matters is results" thing, but I don't think I can live with this whole stoic-hermit thing forever.
But I really feel like I sound like a progtard by even saying this at all, so who the hell knows.
Posted by: Hikaru at May 14, 2017 10:58 PM (Vevy5)
I'm a deterministic nihilist, so it could be worse. Or maybe a nihilistic determinist. Either way I have no control over it and it doesn't matter anyway.
My instinct, with all due respect to your father, is that he was full of shit. Very few people can get by in complete isolation from others, whether we like it or not. Independence and self-reliance can be highly beneficial character traits, but when taken to an extreme can be detrimental. As one example, I'm not super social, but if I didn't have the Horde to talk to I would be in a much worse place than I am now. Plus, in many areas of endeavor, developing relationships, working with, and navigating your way through other people are essential to success.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:10 PM (0mRoj)
When you see some Activist group post this, it means the check cleared.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 11:11 PM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Even better; you're trips can be fabricated and you would have no cuffing idea~!
Thank god the Federal government is such an incorruptible and accountable organization.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 11:11 PM (udajc)
I'm actually getting there in my thinking. I do not want to live in this brave new world that is forming. Fundamental Transformation, it is.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:11 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (789OI)
I tried the city they grew up in together, tried 'high school', tried 'church', no luck.
That sucks Count. A bank cashier gave me good
advice for those Qs once. Just pick something like the color Gray and
use it regardless of the Q. That worked until some place had some
logic and wouldn't let use the same answer for the 'random of 3
questions' deal.
Posted by: PaleRider at May 14, 2017 11:06 PM (8qFZP)
Hey thanks. I just might try that. . .
. . . when I call the state's webfile tech support at 8am tomorrow (tomorrow is the filing deadline) when they open. And wait on hold most of the morning to reset my password and security question(s).
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2017 11:12 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:12 PM (zZb/S)
I have a day off from work tomorrow, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 09:3
Be positive. I've had a heck of a weekend, won't bore you w/ the details but it has sucked.
I've got a buncha BS coming at me this next week, 2 options...worry myself sick over it and not be able to sleep or drink a lot and read the ONT so I forget about it.
Guess which one I'm coosing?
Posted by: Farmer at May 14, 2017 11:13 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: PaleRider
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Thnx. I'll check into it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 11:13 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 11:13 PM (ANIFC)
that I am one of those patients that takes an inordinate amount of
sedation to be put under. And I must be put under for this. So, it's a
little dicey to wake up properly.
If you would please. Thanks.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 14, 2017 10:41 PM (tr2D7)
You got it, Tonypete! Double.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:14 PM (tHwdc)
I mentioned this study to my wife a little while ago, she just laughed at me.
However, i will not be detered in seeking out the maximum health benefits of coffee!!
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 11:14 PM (b0NwW)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:14 PM (0mRoj)
'How will a robot car handle the ice?'
Probably better than most people
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:12 PM (zZb/S)
A computer will also more likely always obey Sir Isaac Newton.
I am not advocating driverless cars.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 11:15 PM (789OI)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 11:15 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
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Yeah, I'm trying to prepare myself...
Mike Hammer's Cat is 14 now, and having some kidney problems.
"They're just animals", I tell myself...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (OdK9v)
The problem is you don't believe that
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2017 11:15 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 11:15 PM (KP5rU)
WalMart has mayors now?
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:15 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 14, 2017 11:16 PM (7dpmG)
I'm actually getting there in my thinking. I do not want to live in this brave new world that is forming. Fundamental Transformation, it is.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)
Just be patient. Western Civilization will collapse soon enough. We'll all be "Amish" then. Or serving Humungous, Lord of the Wasteland!
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 11:16 PM (pY+s4)
Maybe a mid-90s kind of Amish.
Posted by: josephistan
I'd only be interested in the Kelly McGillis next your side, shoot the bad guy out the door Amish lifestyle.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 11:16 PM (udajc)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 11:16 PM (pY+s4)
The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla!
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:16 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2017 11:16 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2017 11:17 PM (0deF2)
I wanna know how they handle rioters. Are there some settings I can adjust so they won't have time to get out of the way?
Posted by: t-bird at May 14, 2017 11:17 PM (29QcC)
Maybe a mid-90s kind of Amish.
Posted by: josephistan
I'd only be interested in the Kelly McGillis next your side, shoot the bad guy out the door Amish lifestyle.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Except she's into chicks now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 11:17 PM (pY+s4)
I mentioned this study to my wife a little while ago, she just laughed at me.
However, i will not be detered in seeking out the maximum health benefits of coffee!!
Posted by: tbodie at May
you have to drink it like it owes you money
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: weft cut-loop
Except she's into chicks now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 14, 2017 11:17 PM (pY+s4)
Didn't age well, either.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:15 PM (0mRoj)
They get to wear the fancy PJs to work.
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (ANIFC)
I'm actually getting there in my thinking. I do not want to live in this brave new world that is forming. Fundamental Transformation, it is.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:11 PM (8O3HH)
How much do you like horses?
Posted by: Hikaru at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (Vevy5)
So 32oz cold brewed, overnight - every morning is good or bad
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (zZb/S)
And the young 'uns, they will happily be assimilated.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (8O3HH)
my arthritic dogs have done well getting devils claw and tumeric.
I thought you were talking about your feet.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (f9Th6)
I'm actually getting there in my thinking. I do not want to live in this brave new world that is forming. Fundamental Transformation, it is.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:11 PM (8O3HH)
How much do you like horses?
Posted by: Hikaru
Dip your toe in, get rid of buttons
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:19 PM (zZb/S)
Loved the Frank and BB. They, along with Miles, understood the need for 'space' in their art. Giants of their day.
Be happy moms. You are loved and cherished as the salt of the earth.
Posted by: colfax mingo at May 14, 2017 11:20 PM (FLjWH)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 11:20 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:20 PM (f9Th6)
Oh bullshit.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 09:40 PM (2ET9R)
Agreed. Sounds like those wimmenz have unrealistic expectations, to say the least.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2017 11:20 PM (0deF2)
Posted by: Hikaru at May
heh, horses are fun when you keep them at the stable and someone else is caring for them six days a week. when you have to saddle up every morning and put them away every evening, not so much.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:20 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 14, 2017 11:20 PM (kIxPI)
Posted by: I had a name, but I forgot at May 14, 2017 11:21 PM (UVf0J)
Posted by: Hikaru at May 14, 2017 10:58 PM (Vevy5)
Why the Sam Hill would that be political?
Sounds like a control freak impeded your choices, and you need to start breaking that mold. Which is, by the way, a long, difficult process.
People are freaking different, and people are freakishly hung up on being different. Unfortunately. That goes for people who claim to love difference as much as it does people accused of fearing it.
As for stoicism, IMHO it's of primary benefit to others, and at some point you have to realize that's *why* they're telling you to be a stoic. And then you have to decide what you should do for *you*.
Pretty much everybody's grand philosophy of life comes down to "shit I want to be around," and at some point you need to decide what you want to be around and act on that, and it sounds like you don't like where you are very much.
And there's no easy way, you just have to do it like everything else, one foot in front of the other.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:21 PM (wB8Tg)
Autonomous cars will never work UNLESS the driver is completely out of the loop.
There are simply too many variables to account for that only humans can resolve.
So the route would have to be predetermined and programmed with NO variance.
And yes, I realize the ultimate goal is for us to be relegated to passengers only.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 14, 2017 11:21 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2017 11:21 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (cPsPa)*
Since it is coffee we're talking about, no problem.
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 11:21 PM (b0NwW)
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 11:21 PM (ANIFC)
---
I'm in suburban detroit, not dearbornistan.
we get ninja burka women on weekends.
and short obese women of all ages that wear workout leggings in neon colors and patterns.
in the olden days, people would pay to see these things at freak shows.
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:22 PM (BPeNq)
Posted by: irongrampa
No, routes could be redirected on the fly by the systems. It wouldn't be like booking a flight on Quantas.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 11:23 PM (udajc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (tHwdc)
heh, horses are fun when you keep them at the stable and someone else is caring for them six days a week. when you have to saddle up every morning and put them away every evening, not so much.
--
"mucking out the barn."
not a pleasant thing to ponder.
also 'get up at dawn'
/yeah, I think I'm falling into the thug as opposed to amish, lifestyle. better hours.
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (BPeNq)
we get ninja burka women on weekends.
and short obese women of all ages that wear workout leggings in neon colors and patterns.
in the olden days, people would pay to see these things at freak shows.
Posted by: shibumi at May
have you considered handing out some sort of citizens violation / ticket similar to a civilian arrest? disturbing the peace, crime against decency?
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:22 PM (BPeNq)
Saved ya five bucks.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: irongrampa
So, Amtrak
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (zZb/S)
I mentioned this study to my wife a little while ago, she just laughed at me.
However, i will not be detered in seeking out the maximum health benefits of coffee!!
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 11:14 PM (b0NwW)
You'll be wanting the coffee-soaked enema tampon method then.
Or, Rodney Dangerfield's method (skip to 1:0
of coffee shootershttps://youtu.be/qcLF6vLFxxc
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (JO9+V)
Sad that Last Man Standing got cancelled. F*** ABC
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 14, 2017 11:25 PM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: josephistan at May 14, 2017 11:25 PM (ANIFC)
There are things to regret.... but its usually because some asshole did it...
I regret the friends I lost in the Military...
I regret losing my daughter...
I regret losing my Father to Brian Caner...
I regret being shot.
I regret the Ex screwing around on me...
Platitudes are just crap.. they are really cool saying we WISH were true.... but are not...
All Men are NOT created equal...
There is no equality before the Law...
Your Perception is NOT Reality....
Posted by: Don Q. at May 14, 2017 11:25 PM (NgKpN)
Wow, they should be allowed near a stereo magnet ever.
Posted by: Anna Puma
Is that where there's a magnet on both sides of you?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 14, 2017 11:25 PM (IqV8l)
What happens with these fell-in-the-tackle-box types with the TSA at the airports? They're gonna set off every metal detector in the place, with red lights and sirens going off.
What about say some stripper or porn star with clit and labia rings and such. Do they have to show that and prove nothing dangerous in the hamper?
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:26 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (zZb/S)*
I prefer my caffeine hot but i don't think the study differentiated based on serving temperature.
Qty is a go.
Posted by: tbodie at May 14, 2017 11:26 PM (b0NwW)
--
um... I'm pretty sure it's a hate crime to be anything but supportive to any and all freaks here. blue state and all.
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:26 PM (BPeNq)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (cPsPa)*
Since it is coffee we're talking about, no problem.
Posted by: tbodie
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Drink it like it was stolen.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 11:27 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:27 PM (zZb/S)
not a pleasant thing to ponder.
also 'get up at dawn'
/yeah, I think I'm falling into the thug as opposed to amish, lifestyle. better hours.
Posted by: shibumi at May
yeah, thugs do can't spinning 22s on their horse.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:27 PM (cPsPa)
knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down
remorselessly all that stands in its path."
*snerk*
Posted by: Madea (the Greek one) & Susan Smith at May 14, 2017 11:27 PM (ggtda)
with the TSA at the airports? They're gonna set off every metal
detector in the place, with red lights and sirens going off.
What about say some stripper or porn star with clit and labia rings and
such. Do they have to show that and prove nothing dangerous in the
hamper?
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:26 PM (8O3HH)
Wait until one walks by the MRI lab . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2017 11:28 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: irongrampa
So, Amtrak
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (zZb/S)
And we come back to High Speed Rail!
Posted by: Jerry Brown at May 14, 2017 11:28 PM (789OI)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:28 PM (cPsPa)
It's freaking expensive...so I dunno if that means it is so good it's the gold standard and worth the money.
ORRRRR
a giant rip off.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:28 PM (smD62)
It was the Belgian "colonialists" who took a second look, and then took away his empire and tried to fix it. They didn't get enough time to fix it before the Cold War and general de-colonialisation put the country in the hands of the warlord Mobutu, who was just as bad as Leopold.
Source: "King Leopold's Ghost"
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 14, 2017 09:48 PM (6FqZa)
IIRC, one-time British diplomat Roger Casement had a part in blowing the lid off that, amongst other things he blew. He ended his days as a client of His Majesty's hangman, and justifiably so, but he did manage to shed a light upon the abuses suffered by the Congolese.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2017 11:28 PM (0deF2)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 14, 2017 11:29 PM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: shibumi at May
it is a bigger hate crime to let them continue on in ignorance.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:29 PM (cPsPa)
Stoicism can be a survival strategy.....
Been there ..... did that...
There are times that I SHOULD have been emotionally destroyed.... and I was not... because.....
Stoic...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 14, 2017 11:29 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:30 PM (f9Th6)
in the olden days, people would pay to see these things at freak shows.
Posted by: shibumi at May
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If one were to walk around in the 50's and see people as they are today, one would assume that the carny was in town.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 11:30 PM (OdK9v)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863811742060748801
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863811829482631169
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863811924106113024
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863812033980006400
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863812159540690944
Posted by: kbdabear at May 14, 2017 11:30 PM (AOrEZ)
Been there ..... did that...
There are times that I SHOULD have been emotionally destroyed.... and I was not... because.....
Stoic...
Posted by: Don Q. at May
why are you blathering on about your emotions?
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:30 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:29 PM (cPsPa)
The worst thing you can do to someone is let them suffer the consequences of their own actions.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 11:30 PM (789OI)
The problem with human/auto traffic is there is no way to program a system to anticipate something like Chad Dicknuts driving onto the wrong side of the road to get into the intersection turn-box because he's better than you. ( saw that last week. )
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 11:31 PM (udajc)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:18 PM (zZb/S)*
I prefer my caffeine hot but i don't think the study differentiated based on serving temperature.
Qty is a go.
Posted by: tbodie
I use it as a concentrate, and hit it with hot water from an electric kettle. ( Or whiskey)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:31 PM (zZb/S)
"They're just animals", I tell myself...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (OdK9v)
I'd hold your hand and commiserate. I spent far too much on vet bills these last two months and have a couple of partially shaved cats.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 14, 2017 11:32 PM (mkDpn)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863812240281153538
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863812324892848128
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863812413593923584
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863812492019085312
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/863812576857264129
Posted by: kbdabear at May 14, 2017 11:32 PM (AOrEZ)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:32 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:32 PM (f9Th6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:33 PM (f9Th6)
Stoic...
Posted by: Don Q. at May 14, 2017 11:29 PM (NgKpN)
Resilience is not being destroyed.
Stoicism is being destroyed and not saying or doing anything about it.
I generally assume no one is talking about ancient schools of philosophy here, but the modern term.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:33 PM (wB8Tg)
It's freaking expensive...so I dunno if that means it is so good it's the gold standard and worth the money.
ORRRRR
a giant rip off.
--
Try your local library. There's several different language programs you can try at mine.
I like Pimsleur and have listened to it in the car.
/it's been over ten years since my trip to France and I can still ask where the bank is! And the train station! I won't understand the answer, but I can ask!
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:33 PM (BPeNq)
I regret you have regrets. May you find tranquility. Or you can just tell me I am an asshole regretting your regrets. Whatever floats your boat is fine by me. I have lived what I consider, so far, a charmed life of 69 years. I realize many others have not, but will refrain from telling you I feel your pain. I know not your pain, but I still wish you well.
Posted by: colfax mingo at May 14, 2017 11:33 PM (FLjWH)
If one were to walk around in the 50's and see people as they are today, one would assume that the carny was in town.
--
Or insane asylum had numerous escapees.
/not necessarily untrue...
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:34 PM (BPeNq)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 14, 2017 11:35 PM (7dpmG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:35 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 11:31 PM (udajc)
And that is why they will try to mandate that ALL cars must be autonomous. It's for the children, you see.
I can even see the commercials:
"This school bus was carrying 5 children who died when a drunk driver slammed into it. People say we cannot afford autonomous driving (Bill 218 or whatever) *focus in on a child's face* Can we afford not to?"
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 11:35 PM (789OI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:32 PM (f9Th6)
Miserable at the moment, because more pressing problems. But I will persevere.
Also, I will do so outside the barrel.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:35 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: irongrampa
So, Amtrak
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (zZb/S)
So, no pee stops.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:36 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 11:36 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:35 PM (cPsPa)
*snort*
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:36 PM (2ET9R)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:36 PM (tHwdc)
Yep, just pee anywhere.
Posted by: EPA employees at May 14, 2017 11:37 PM (789OI)
It's freaking expensive...so I dunno if that means it is so good it's the gold standard and worth the money.
ORRRRR
a giant rip off.
Posted by: Tickled Pink
Jean method: hold up a $100 bill, someone else learns English, it's magical. If that doesn't work then you are so far in the shit that you need the Kwikpoint, because no one speaks a language Rosetta covers.
You could also start with the Duolingo ....
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:37 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 09:59 PM (8O3HH)
Heh. I forget it was Mothers' Day. I went to a steakhouse in the next town south, and had a prime rib. Big crowd, but they seated me at the bar, no problemo. Had some beers from Prairie Brewers, a new local microbrew outfit. Quite nice, they were. As were the boobehs on the waitresses, who all seem to single mothers. The prime rib and three beers set me back $51, which is about par for that sort of thing around here. And the prime rib was very good, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2017 11:37 PM (0deF2)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:37 PM (smD62)
Don't worry, the elimination of personal housing will just take longer.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: CPT11A at May 14, 2017 10:12
Congrats!
Posted by: Farmer at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (2ET9R)
I used to drive (like Uber Lyft) used cop cars because they were the best buy for the money--caveat being choosing a good one--what dept factored in there.
My case, Thruway Authority was the best, their maintenance was most rigorous, SP next. County and local wasn't looked at.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (cPsPa)
1. Yeah, not most women
2. Many women have a few extra pounds
3. Contrary to all women's magazines, women over size 10 do not look super sexy in "bikinis"
4. Even though women's magazines say you should, if you are a certain size, you should NOT wear bikinis.
5. Men- banana hammocks- NO.
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:39 PM (BPeNq)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:37 PM (smD62)
There is no shame in enjoying a new tongue.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:39 PM (wB8Tg)
Don't worry, the elimination of personal housing will just take longer.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (wB8Tg)
Rights? Why do you need rights? If you haven't done anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:39 PM (2ET9R)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:40 PM (f9Th6)
Posted by: Serious Cat at May 14, 2017 11:40 PM (HukRH)
It's a matter of sensitivity. Non-ferromagnetic metal, and they say most "quality" piercings are, are not as bad as ferrous metal.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:41 PM (8O3HH)
1. Yeah, not most women
2. Many women have a few extra pounds
3. Contrary to all women's magazines, women over size 10 do not look super sexy in "bikinis"
4. Even though women's magazines say you should, if you are a certain size, you should NOT wear bikinis.
5. Men- banana hammocks- NO.
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:39 PM (BPeNq)
A few extra pounds we can deal with. When it looks like they're trying to smuggle ten gallons of cottage cheese subcutaneously, then not so much.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:41 PM (2ET9R)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 14, 2017 11:41 PM (KP5rU)
2. Many women have a few extra pounds
3. Contrary to all women's magazines, women over size 10 do not look super sexy in "bikinis"
4. Even though women's magazines say you should, if you are a certain size, you should NOT wear bikinis.
5. Men- banana hammocks- NO.
Posted by: shibumi at May
most women look better naked anyway.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:42 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:41 PM (2ET9R)
Spandex.... its a privilege... not a right...
Posted by: Hackers at May 14, 2017 11:42 PM (NgKpN)
A few extra pounds we can deal with. When it looks like they're trying to smuggle ten gallons of cottage cheese subcutaneously, then not so much.
--
That's sweet of you to say, and very.. .. understanding.
However... I was not talking about "a few extra pounds." I was talking "two piece bikini, 5"1" well over 200 lbs."
Not to be advised.
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (BPeNq)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: irongrampa
So, Amtrak
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:24 PM (zZb/S)
So, no pee stops.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:36 PM (tHwdc)
How are they gonna program for tornados, water rising on roads, pedro and maria losing their unsecured load of crap from their overloaded beater pickup, and the billion and one other random crap that happens daily on Houston's roadways? A ladder in the mainlane of the freeway are you effing kidding me?
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (zZb/S)
This joint is named Saskatoon, which is named after the city, I assume. They have wild game meat, elk and other exotic stuff. Which we didn't bother with. They had prime rib, which I'll usually jump at, but I just went with a rib eye.
It was pretty good. $33 bucks. Drinks and stuff were extra.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (BPeNq)
When I say I like a woman who looks like she knows what a cheeseburger taste like, I don't mean she knows what *all* of them taste like.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:44 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (zZb/S)
How is the exchange rate these days?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 11:44 PM (789OI)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:37 PM (smD62)
Bien sur, ma p'tite.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:44 PM (tHwdc)
--
LOL.
I've had gallbladder issues and am kind of borderline IBS. I can't wear Spanx in the correct size because it is painfully uncomfortable and causes my midsection to scream "DO NOT WANT!!!!!!"
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:45 PM (BPeNq)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (2ET9R)
I fall for that line every time.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:45 PM (tHwdc)
I can even see the commercials:
"This school bus was carrying 5 children who died when a drunk driver slammed into it. People say we cannot afford autonomous driving (Bill 218 or whatever) *focus in on a child's face* Can we afford not to?"
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Not what I was disagreeing with.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 14, 2017 11:46 PM (udajc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:46 PM (f9Th6)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:46 PM (smD62)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:47 PM (cPsPa)
Anyway, she lived in a little subdivision around a local golf course. One of her idiot neigbors, some guy in his 40s or so, got to mowing his grass with a push mower wearing nothing but one of those banana hammocks and flip flops.
He was grossing out her and other women around. They finally called the cops on him, and some deputy came out and had a talking to him.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:48 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:46 PM (f9Th6)
Or she has "that gene." I know a few like that, 90 lbs soaking wet, eat all day long.
Maddening. At least until the CRISPR version of that is available.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:48 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: colfax mingo at May 14, 2017 11:48 PM (FLjWH)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:39 PM (wB8Tg)
That's so hot!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:48 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:48 PM (smD62)
However... I was not talking about "a few extra pounds." I was talking "two piece bikini, 5"1" well over 200 lbs."
Not to be advised.
Posted by: shibumi at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (BPeNq)
I'm not a total dick. Just don't tell anyone, I have a reputation to maintain. And that's just...ew. Obesity is not sexy, no matter what Vogue or whatever says. "Fat acceptance" to me makes as much sense as "heart disease acceptance" or "diabetes acceptance."
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:49 PM (2ET9R)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:38 PM (2ET9R)
I fall for that line every time.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:45 PM (tHwdc)
*files away for future reference*
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:50 PM (2ET9R)
Can't say I had the easiest relationship with mom, but I miss her all the same.
Posted by: Brother Cavil
I think I responded the same way to you last night, completely understand. I miss her terribly but she wasn't easy to get along with.
Love ya Mom. She knows this.
Posted by: Farmer at May 14, 2017 11:51 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:51 PM (f9Th6)
------------
I listened to French language tapes in the car for a while, then one day, sitting a stop light, windows down, repeating something or other, I realized the guy in the car next to me was staring at me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 11:51 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:51 PM (f9Th6)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:52 PM (2ET9R)
Posted by: colfax mingo at May 14, 2017 11:52 PM (FLjWH)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:46 PM (smD62)
"Of course, my little one."
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:52 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:48 PM (tHwdc)
(doffs hat, offers Valu Rite in a martini glass with a maraschino cherry)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:53 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:53 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:54 PM (f9Th6)
Yes indeed, and it is SUCH fun to spike it and listen to that big old AMERICAN V8 working hard.
One of the sweetest sounds you'll ever hear. Not to mention that for a big sedan, they are exceptionally agile.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May
Valu Rite? What happened to night train?
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Uber Lyft Driver
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Right.
Posted by: Popeye Doyle at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 10:42 PM (0mRoj)
That sounds to me more like a diffident refusal. He didn't really want to go, but felt that an outright "no" would be rude. Really, you expect a high level of social skills from 16 year old boys?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (0deF2)
And my pants are wearing a sound asleep, six pound kitty (Bonnie), and I've got the laptop over on the arm of the recliner, twisting my body to type at an angle.
Can. Not. Disturb. The. Six. Pound. Kitty.
She IS The Princess, you know. And if you don't know, she'll soon learn ya!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (v5iqM)
Those things are 'eeeww'
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:54 PM (f9Th6)
Even the green ones?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 14, 2017 11:56 PM (di1hb)
Well...I was close. Sigh.
Honestly, I am baffled by people who can speak like 5 languages fluently.
I read on one site to devote 1-2 hours a day to learning. Another said to memorize 30 new phrases a day. 30 new phrases?! I can't even memorize one new phrase. I learn it and like....2 hours later, it's gone.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:56 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 14, 2017 11:56 PM (f9Th6)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:53 PM (wB8Tg)
That cherry is a nice touch. Thanks!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:56 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (JO9+V)
*****************************
You don't understand. Accidents and catastrophes are good for the economy. It creates economic opportunity for wrecker drivers, EMS personnel, police, mechanics and the ancillary suppliers. If it were not for state control there may be no employment at all.
Posted by: the Statist at May 14, 2017 11:57 PM (rbMr9)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:57 PM (tHwdc)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 14, 2017 11:57 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:57 PM (cPsPa)
??
So, if I make poor choices (and I'm not saying I do) I am somehow a lesser, less worthy human being?
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 14, 2017 11:58 PM (smD62)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (cPsPa)
WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? Does someone need to update the FAQ?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:58 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 14, 2017 11:55 PM (0deF2)
Indeed.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 14, 2017 11:58 PM (2ET9R)
WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? Does someone need to update the FAQ?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May
I thought the style manual called for wine for special occassions?
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:59 PM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 14, 2017 11:56 PM (tHwdc)
(holds up decorate silver tray from the bar, filled with the most elegant delectables)
Cheetos?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:59 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:56 PM (OdK9v)
If the autonomous auto gets a speeding ticket, who is responsible? If you have to mother-hen the damned thing every mile of the way, why have the autonomous feature at all?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:00 AM (0deF2)
A bunch of women fell for it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:00 AM (8O3HH)
A block or two on, I was stopped beside him at another light. The passenger was a big curly-haired dog sitting upright in the passenger's seat.
Posted by: Popeye Doyle at May 15, 2017 12:00 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 15, 2017 12:01 AM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at May 15, 2017 12:01 AM (smD62)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 14, 2017 11:59 PM (cPsPa)
I only have blue wine.
It's my favorite color.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:01 AM (wB8Tg)
A bunch of women fell for it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May
well I saw the headline but did not read the story. my guess is he is criminally stupid. had he made some good faith attempt to get the tapes published or get the girls work he probably would not be guilty of anything other than being a lousy producer.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:02 AM (cPsPa)
It's my favorite color.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May
heh
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:02 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 14, 2017 10:56 PM (OdK9v)
If the autonomous auto gets a speeding ticket, who is responsible? If you have to mother-hen the damned thing every mile of the way, why have the autonomous feature at all?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:00 AM (0deF2)
Just wait until the company in charge of the autonomous driving and law enforcement agencies start colluding in order to increase traffic ticket revenue.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 15, 2017 12:03 AM (0mRoj)
A bunch of women fell for it.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)
Thats the premise for most "amateur" porn.
I hear.......
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: jon lovitz, maker of stars at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (6FqZa)
Sweeter, maybe.
Posted by: Tickled Pink
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Yeah. The guy cares about his dog.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (f9Th6)
Do you believe in ghosts?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:05 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: yankeefifth
Well, seems only possible if you carve across at least once and then strip it like skinning an animal hide.
You'd have to ask the French colonial army what they recommended to the Natives.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 12:05 AM (udajc)
A block or two on, I was stopped beside him at another light. The passenger was a big curly-haired dog sitting upright in the passenger's seat.
Posted by: Popeye Doyle at May
bet his wife was pissed she had to sit in the back.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:06 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (cPsPa)
Since when have laws applied to billionaires and celebrities?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:06 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Insomniac
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Google colluding with the government?!
Unpossible...they're not Fascists.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 12:06 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: the Statist at May 14, 2017 11:57 PM (rbMr9)
Is that you Bastiat?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:06 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Uber Lyft Driver at May 14, 2017 11:04 PM (ikV/x)
Crown Vics from '08 to '11 are commonly put up for sealed-bid sale by GC Canada Surplus here in Alberta, with opening bids from $600 to $1200, depending upon condition. Here's a current one:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/kgsqvdp
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:06 AM (0deF2)
Regrets are negative feelings about your own actions. You can't "regret" things done to you by others, or by life itself.
That being said, I agree that the opening quote is simplistic and unrealistic. Regrets can be positive if they move you towards self-improvement. Regret is closely related to having a conscience. A person without regrets just might be a sociopath.
OTOH, at some point you have to move on, forgive yourself, and not wallow in the past.
A song aporpos to the topic, and to the day:
https://youtu.be/ewWJxmLTeVU
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 12:06 AM (Xsy0u)
Cheetos?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 14, 2017 11:59 PM (wB8Tg)
<sighs deeply>
A man after my own heart. I adore Cheetos.<plucks one daintily from the crystal bowl and places it in her mouth>
I like to suck the orange right off 'em.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:07 AM (tHwdc)
And the occasional, umm, minor glitch will do wonders for the high-speed rail industry!
Posted by: t-bird at May 15, 2017 12:07 AM (k8DTS)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 15, 2017 12:07 AM (TdMsT)
Big companies, will own the fleets. When you need a ride somewhere, you just pull out your smart phone and request one.
Brave New World. I want no part of this.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:07 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:08 AM (wB8Tg)
You'd have to ask the French colonial army what they recommended to the Natives.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May
so that is going to slow things down then.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:08 AM (cPsPa)
Greetings, Miley! Hope all is well your way!
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 15, 2017 12:08 AM (TdMsT)
Posted by: jon lovitz, maker of stars at May 15, 2017 12:04 AM (6FqZa)
Huh? What?
Posted by: Max Bialystock at May 15, 2017 12:08 AM (mkDpn)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 12:08 AM (Jcg9Q)
*sighs*
Duchess, you KNOW the effect that phrasing will do these Morons....
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:09 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at May 15, 2017 12:09 AM (TdMsT)
A man after my own heart. I adore Cheetos.
I like to suck the orange right off 'em.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:07 AM (tHwdc)
Well. Hello.
Posted by: Sean Connery's Voice at May 15, 2017 12:10 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May
well yeah but everything is going to be recorded so when the cops pull you over and download you black box not even your lawyer can save you.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:10 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 15, 2017 12:03 AM (0mRoj)*
That would never happen.
Posted by: Owner / Operators of Red Light Cameras at May 15, 2017 12:10 AM (b0NwW)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:07 AM (tHwdc)
(note to self, add Romantic Playtime Cheese Sauce to shopping list)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:11 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May
Donald Trump will be checking in here any minute now.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:11 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:11 AM (wB8Tg)
Get the Jalapeno cheddar. Although it burns a bit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:12 AM (789OI)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:10 AM (cPsPa)
Funny how they keep getting bullet holes through them.
I do live in kind of a bad neighborhood.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:12 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:12 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:11 AM (cPsPa)
Donny Two-Scoops is comin here? Scram!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:13 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 12:13 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Sounds a little rough. I'm intrigued by:
"Roof has silicon and bolt patches"
Meh. Probably fillers for antenna mounts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 12:13 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:12 AM (789OI)
Not as bad as Flexall 454.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:13 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:15 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:15 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 12:15 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:17 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 15, 2017 12:17 AM (6FqZa)
She has been seizing commercial housing since 2015.
Perfectly legal according to the Hamburg Housing Protection act.
Lovely.
Just effing lovely.
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:17 AM (BPeNq)
I wasn't kidding, I like blue.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:17 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:17 AM (f9Th6)
Omelette eggs. They will create a new crime, put it on the books, then complain that the prisons are too crowded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:18 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2017 12:18 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:18 AM (tHwdc)
But it was cool last night only got up once, not bad for an over 60.
Something came back to me a couple of days ago...at least once a day go out of your way to do something kind to someone else.
It not only makes for a better world, but it makes you feel better about yourself.
Posted by: Farmer at May 15, 2017 12:18 AM (o/90i)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 15, 2017 12:18 AM (7dpmG)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:18 AM (cPsPa)
Like the Cyrius Cybernetics Corporation Vertical People Transporters.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2017 12:18 AM (mkDpn)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Old but awesome:
youtu.be/aLhWzMOccTg
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 12:19 AM (udajc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:09 AM (f9Th6)
I cannot tell a lie - I do, indeed.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:19 AM (tHwdc)
It's my favorite color.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May
Word.
Posted by: Romulans at May 15, 2017 12:19 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:20 AM (f9Th6)
Super!
Hey Gunther- hope Mohammad the rapist enjoys sharing a bedroom with your six year old daughter. When she becomes his fourth wife at age seven, don't forget to thank Mother Merkl!
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:20 AM (BPeNq)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:20 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:19 AM (tHwdc)
She likes tweeking 'rons and she cannot lie.
Does not have quite the same ring, does it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:21 AM (789OI)
Posted by: shibumi at May
scotch meets monitor.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:21 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2017 12:21 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:11 AM (cPsPa)
I believe I already made it clear that rich guys are RIGHT OUT.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:21 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:17 AM (BPeNq)
To a Eurocrat, people are property. Kind of the way things have always been there.
They're so used to it that they will advocate for it right up to the point (and occasionally beyond) where it gobbles them up.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:22 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 14, 2017 09:54 PM (voOPb)
Thank you.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 12:22 AM (Jcg9Q)
Super!
Hey Gunther- hope Mohammad the rapist enjoys sharing a bedroom with your six year old daughter. When she becomes his fourth wife at age seven, don't forget to thank Mother Merkl!
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:20 AM (BPeNq)
It's well past rope and lamppost time.
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 15, 2017 12:22 AM (2ET9R)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May
he used to be rich now he lives in public housing and only makes 400k.
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 12:23 AM (cPsPa)
Yeah, it's a good thing I'm drinking seltzer. Quite the mess here on the keyboard.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:23 AM (tHwdc)
Also... there is now a proposal in Berlin where the police or any government agency can come into your home without a court order to see if you have space available to house refugees.
That's sort of like having to quarter soldiers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2017 12:24 AM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:20 AM (f9Th6)
Universal Parcel Service
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:24 AM (wB8Tg)
I saw something about France's new boytoy president is going to an audience with Merkel soon. He'll love her in the Mama role, I'm sure.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:25 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Jean at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (zZb/S)
Yep. But that what I earn, when I have work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:25 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:21 AM (tHwdc)
(looks at wallet, turns it over, shakes it)
So you're saying I have a chance?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:26 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 15, 2017 12:26 AM (2ET9R)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:26 AM (f9Th6)
That's sort of like having to quarter soldiers.
--
I'm reading a thread on it at Reddit, and someone pointed that out.
/it's against the law here, but not in Germany. You know the only nation who tried to commit a genocide against the Jews who are now aligning with another large group that wants to commit genocide against the Jews.
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:27 AM (BPeNq)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:24 AM (wB8Tg)
Hah! And they will probably still have to wear the little shorts. Kind of a different Star Trek vibe.
"Go Brown." Did a committee seriously approve that? Or was it "What can Brown do for you?"
Stay in the toilet maybe? I do not want it doing anything for me. I am not German.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:27 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:28 AM (f9Th6)
It already has a 3.5 V-6 DuraTech in it.
Let 'em upgrade that to a 3.5 EcoBoost like what's in the F-150 or Transit.
That then would become a car you would Want To Drive.
Even though it is front wheel drive. The torque steer alone, would be... entertaining.
Were it full time AWD?
It'd be an Audi killer.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2017 12:29 AM (v5iqM)
So you're saying I have a chance?
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:26 AM (wB8Tg)
A better chance than Donald Trump.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:29 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: tbodie at May 15, 2017 12:29 AM (b0NwW)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 14, 2017 10:22 PM (rJUlF)
Your brain develops in the womb, and the primitive brain first forms it's sensory capabilities and reactions to stimulus. During your initial wiring, your twin was present and intimately intertwined with your own development. Your twin is pretty solidly imprinted on your subconscious. Your brain has been looking for its brain-mate. In fact, it has been grieving since the loss. And it's down there really deep. Grief processed in the frontal cortex that develops when we are older can process grief more effectively because of advanced emotions, intellectual development and raw processing power. The amygdala and primitive brain aren't built for that. Pretty much like a computer operating system has a basic kernel that, if corrupted in a fundamental way, will affect the way programs and i/o are handled. Grif is built into your brain's operating kernel.
Posted by: ObjectionSustained at May 15, 2017 12:29 AM (EZWNE)
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And remember- when that residential property that you haven't had fixed in four years is renovated, we'll send you the bill. If you can't pay, it's ours!
/also, when Achmed marries your five, six and seven year old daughters, we approve of that, and remind you that as a German taxpayer, it's your responsibility to support him financially and provide housing for him and his new family for life.
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:29 AM (BPeNq)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Yes. This is much better.
Posted by: Dr. Zhivago at May 15, 2017 12:29 AM (NBHj5)
Funny, my mom used to tell me about the time when she was a child in Holland when the German soldiers could come into their home at any time to see if they were housing Jews...
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 12:30 AM (Xsy0u)
genocide against the Jews who are now aligning with another large group
that wants to commit genocide against the Jews.
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:27 AM (BPeNq)
Doing the jobs that the German people don't want to do. Again.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:30 AM (tHwdc)
It was pretty good. $33 bucks. Drinks and stuff were extra.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 14, 2017 11:43 PM (8O3HH)
Saskatoon is a decent small city. Much nicer than Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan.
Saskatoons are berries, that grow on bushes found all over the prairies. Kind of like a dry, pulpy blueberry, and one of the essential ingredients to pemmican. They make nice jam and pies, but are not great to eat right off the bush, IMHO.
And The Guess Who did a song about it, which is a Canadian rock classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_BnlKRdoQ
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:31 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 14, 2017 11:44 PM (789OI)
Last I checked, about 73 cents U.S. to a Canuck buck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:33 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:29 AM (tHwdc)
Well *there's* something you haven't heard a lot since November.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:33 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That's just...loonie.
Posted by: Dr. Zhivago at May 15, 2017 12:35 AM (OdK9v)
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Yeah, but now they're going to force them to house inbred violent Muslim rapists who don't speak their native language. So it's humanitarian. Totes OK with liberals.
Posted by: shibumi at May 15, 2017 12:35 AM (BPeNq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:34 AM (789OI)
Hooligan! Vandal! Despoiler!
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:35 AM (wB8Tg)
It already has a 3.5 V-6 DuraTech in it.
Let 'em upgrade that to a 3.5 EcoBoost like what's in the F-150 or Transit.
That then would become a car you would Want To Drive.
Even though it is front wheel drive. The torque steer alone, would be... entertaining.
Were it full time AWD?
It'd be an Audi killer.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
If only PDs would upgrade to the 6000SUX we'd all be safer.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 12:36 AM (udajc)
And there was another one, which they ran on MeTV. I think. It was about some product you spray in the toilet. It's supposed to make a film over the water and keep the odor of a deuce from escaping. Some actress plays this bubbly bimbo type who tells how she uses it to keep from stinking up the bathrooms at the fabulous parties she goes to.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:36 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:36 AM (8O3HH)
Um, isn't that what a toilet bowl with water in it is for? To trap the stink?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:38 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:35 AM (wB8Tg)
No, that was the other guy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:38 AM (789OI)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:39 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)
Poopourri or something like that. Egad that ad's cringeworthy.
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 12:39 AM (Xsy0u)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 15, 2017 12:39 AM (7dpmG)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:36 AM (8O3HH)
Um, isn't that what a toilet bowl with water in it is for? To trap the stink?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:38 AM (789OI)
Are you talking about Poo Pourri?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd43PHVKq5A
Posted by: The Pooping Hat at May 15, 2017 12:41 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Uber Lyft Driver at May 15, 2017 12:36 AM (ikV/x)
I get crap when I use them, too. Besides, no one ever defines "long" link. 20? 28? 36? 45?
Can you rotate your phone 90 degrees?
Someone who has the keys can delete it if they want to. We've gone past the joke.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:41 AM (wB8Tg)
And there was another one, which they ran on MeTV. I think. It was about some product you spray in the toilet. It's supposed to make a film over the water and keep the odor of a deuce from escaping. Some actress plays this bubbly bimbo type who tells how she uses it to keep from stinking up the bathrooms at the fabulous parties she goes to.
Posted by: publius
This smells Japanese.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 12:41 AM (udajc)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 12:39 AM (Xsy0u)
As compared to a unicorn pooping ice cream... that is then eaten by kids?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q
Posted by: The Pooping Hat at May 15, 2017 12:42 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:39 AM (8O3HH)
Squatty Potty set the stage. I watched that commercial on youtube once and I could not look away. It was like a trainwreck. One of my buddies turned to me and said "What the fuck are you watching?!"
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:43 AM (789OI)
Brave New World. I want no part of this.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:07 AM (8O3HH)
There is already a service, going for 2-3 years now, in Calgary, called Car2Go. You subscribe to the service, and if you need to go somewhere, it directs you to the nearest Car2Go car, which are all "Smart Cars" (the little handleless coffins). You enter the car, drive to your destination, and leave it at the curb for the next user. I think you can have it wait for you, if you pay waiting time, too.
Seems to be successful. I have never used it myself.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:43 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 12:43 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at May 15, 2017 12:46 AM (7dpmG)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:46 AM (tHwdc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:47 AM (f9Th6)
May flocks of Valkyries sing thee to thy rest!
Well, quietly. Because, you're trying to go to sleep.
Maybe they should just send a card.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:47 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 12:48 AM (Xsy0u)
"Roof has silicon and bolt patches"
Meh. Probably fillers for antenna mounts.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 12:13 AM (OdK9v)
My '08 Suburban was an ex-police vehicle bought from that source. Yep, they siliconed over the holes for the light bar and antennas. It has been a good truck. I paid $6600 for it when it was only 4 years old. It was a non-runner, and sold cheap as a result, but the problem was simply that they had stripped out an after-market remote start, and severed the "crank" wire in the process.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:48 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:47 AM (f9Th6)
Sweet KeW of Death!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:48 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:50 AM (f9Th6)
Hot girls can sell almost anything. But not this. The Don Draper wannabe who had the bright idea of posing hot babes (not Kathy Griffin) on commodes in mock shitting poses ought to be taken out and shot.
I mean, I know, body functions and all that, but I do not want to even think about mixing hot babes and #2.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:50 AM (8O3HH)
How millennial.
Posted by: Uber Lyft Driver at May 15, 2017 12:48 AM (ikV/x)
DUDE, IF I COULD DELETE IT I WOULD.
Somebody else can explain to me how I was a dick responding, because you clearly aren't up to it.
I'm so glad you get to show a little of your personality, though.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:50 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 12:51 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:50 AM (f9Th6)
John Ringo agrees with you. And I pretty much agree with him.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:52 AM (789OI)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 12:51 AM (hscyr)
You know what? I don't even care. Back comes the Ignore Script.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 12:52 AM (wB8Tg)
They do have a Ford Edge which is a police package which it might be interested in about 10 years down the road.
Posted by: Uber Lyft Driver at May 15, 2017 12:21 AM (ikV/x)
Do you figure it would be worth my while to snag one of those Crown Vics while they are plentiful? There are usually 6 to 10 per week lately.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:52 AM (0deF2)
How millennial.
Posted by: Uber Lyft Driver at May 15, 2017 12:48 AM (ikV/x)
No, being Millennial is blaming other people, and getting all Pissed off.... about unimportant stuff...
you know... like when people say something you don't like... or make an honest mistake?
Posted by: Don Q. at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (NgKpN)
Hot girls can sell almost anything. But not this. The Don Draper wannabe who had the bright idea of posing hot babes (not Kathy Griffin) on commodes in mock shitting poses ought to be taken out and shot.
I mean, I know, body functions and all that, but I do not want to even think about mixing hot babes and #2.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:50 AM (8O3HH)
It could be worse. Lena Dunham could be the spokes-model.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (789OI)
Remember, y'all, we're Americans--so you hold that head HIGH--more than enough reason now.
Things WILL change, we've got an American president now.
Goodnite, good people. Stay safe.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 15, 2017 12:21 AM (tHwdc)
In that case, I'm your huckleberry. Very poor, I am.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:50 AM (8O3HH)
Remember the Kandy's ads with Jenny McCarthy parked on the can, panties around her ankles? Those were gross too.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: irongrampa at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (S/hVx)
Night IGP. I like your posts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:54 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I looked through the sold Victorias. Most were probably worth more than what was paid, assuming an engaged buyer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 12:55 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:53 AM (f9Th6)
Seems like a decent guy. Never got into any of his series aside from Troy Rising though.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:55 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 12:55 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 12:55 AM (hscyr)
I won't mention having the terrible mind virus thought of Lena Dunham wearing a pair of those.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:56 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 12:56 AM (8O3HH)
And like the NSA, you spread the virus. Gah.
/sarc
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:58 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:58 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:43 AM (789OI)
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Bumper Dumper at May 15, 2017 12:59 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: the Statist at May 15, 2017 01:00 AM (rbMr9)
No, I don't think I've seen that, or it has thankfully vacated from my memory....
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:00 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:43 AM (789OI)
What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Bumper Dumper at May 15, 2017 12:59 AM (0deF2)
I could not believe it was real. It was like... drug induced or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:01 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 15, 2017 01:06 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 12:38 AM (789OI)
Dude, you never had a floater???
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 01:06 AM (Jcg9Q)
Bumper Dumper
As soon as someone mentioned it, I knew it had to be real. Classy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:06 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:06 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:07 AM (Xsy0u)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 15, 2017 01:07 AM (d76uN)
posted by hikaru
fistbump my brother! I too had the exact experience,even including the stoicism.
I can hardly believe that anyone else could possibly know anything about this.
We should talk.
Posted by: Nick Danger,Third Eye at May 15, 2017 01:07 AM (TblGo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:06 AM (789OI)
Of course it's real. I am a reliable source!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:07 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 15, 2017 01:08 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:07 AM (Xsy0u)
The heated seats are kind of nice, but disconcerting. Before whenever I sat down on a toilet seat that was warm, you get that little chill down the back of your spine...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:08 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Average Guy
Every public toilet in Japan has it. Every. fucking. one.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 01:09 AM (udajc)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 01:09 AM (udajc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 01:10 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 12:51 AM (hscyr)
I'll bite....who?
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 01:10 AM (Jcg9Q)
So it was selling shoes?
Apparently it made a stink at the time, in 1997. It was a print ad, I think, and never got on my radar. I guess it was in women's mags or something? It is disgusting. Why the bathroom angle?
There was another one, same company, Candies of her stuff in a basketball hoop, ass hanging out of the net with some "Ooooh" look on her face.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:10 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 01:09 AM (udajc)
What creeped me out was what a comrade referred to it as an 'old school' squat type deal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:10 AM (789OI)
Posted by: gNewt at May 15, 2017 01:11 AM (rbMr9)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 15, 2017 01:07 AM (d76uN)
Both parties in this little spat are good people in my book, Tim.
Reading this site on a phone is like looking through a keyhole to watch Kate Upton having sex. You simply cannot take it all in at once.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:11 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 15, 2017 01:12 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 01:13 AM (f9Th6)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:13 AM (Xsy0u)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 01:14 AM (Jcg9Q)
https://youtu.be/YbYWhdLO43Q
They knew going in that it was going to be a monument of bad taste. Zero point for idea, 9000 points for execution.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 15, 2017 01:14 AM (VdICR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:11 AM (0deF2)
Go on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:14 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 15, 2017 01:10 AM (f9Th6)
Instead of noise canceling, how about cover sounds? You could have your toilet play the Colonel Bogey March whenever somebody sat upon it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:15 AM (0deF2)
Banned 3 times already. If he would can the attitude he would be fine. He won't.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 15, 2017 01:16 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:16 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:17 AM (8O3HH)
can we please bring back Usenet?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:17 AM (H7kvS)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:17 AM (8O3HH)
My bathroom fan sounds like a automatic car wash dryer.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:18 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 01:09 AM (udajc)
For real? I inspect homes for a living, in the SF Bay Area no less, and I've seen plenty of fancy Japanese toilets... but never a noise-cancelling one (of course I don't spend a lot of time familiarizing myself with all the options).
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:19 AM (Xsy0u)
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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They should have gone with that spinner thingie.
*snap*
Has anyone done a video of one of those spinner thingies driven by a compressed air gun? The fragmentation should be pretty neat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 01:19 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:17 AM (8O3HH)
Pipe in music. That's what they do where I work.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:19 AM (hscyr)
can we please bring back Usenet?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:17 AM (H7kvS)
Presumably you mean before the September That Never Ended.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:19 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:19 AM (hscyr)
The Colonel Bogey March, I would hope.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:20 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:11 AM (0deF2)
I need to cover up that keyhole. Me and Kate need some alone time. About a week or 3 of alone time.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 15, 2017 01:21 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 01:21 AM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 01:19 AM (OdK9v)
Yeah. They warn us against spinning ball bearings with compressed air, although it is insanely fun to do it. I guess people have lost fingers when a dry bearing, supported by a finger, suddenly seized when spinning at 20,000 RPM.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:23 AM (0deF2)
I hope you're doing okay. We never talk anymore (mainly because I'm here like 1-2 days a week).
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:23 AM (wB8Tg)
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or even the years immediately following
UMA, AFM, ASMN, were favs, as were various binary froups...
SUH?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:24 AM (H7kvS)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 01:21 AM (OdK9v)
That would work, but timing would be everything.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:24 AM (0deF2)
Neighbor lady's story. She in a bathroom at some shopping center, mall. Big public one with a long line of stalls. Terrible resonating acoustics. She's in the end stall, and no one else is in there. Two chatting biddies, she says, constantly jabbering. come in. Yak, yak, yak, yak.... The each go into a stall, and one keeps yakking the whole time. The other is occupied and stops yakking a bit.
She, uh makes a huge, explosive expulsion type noise. The commode serves as sort of a bull horn, and the bathroom design, long room with hard tile floor and walls, low ceiling, is a resonance chamber for those frequencies.
The sound resonates and rattles the cages.
The other lady, who has been yakking at the one who just made the noise, stops and says, "Wooo eee, you *did* have to go!" And then just continues the previous stuff she was yakking about.
Neighbor lady said she almost laughed out loud, and had to literally cover her mouth to keep from laughing.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:24 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:25 AM (H7kvS)
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:24 AM (8O3HH)
Nice! I just laughed my ass off.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:26 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Or fragments, which they will do also. I figure that with the three plastic arms outspread, one of those things would come apart pretty quickly.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 01:27 AM (OdK9v)
So it was selling shoes?
Apparently it made a stink at the time, in 1997. It was a print ad, I think, and never got on my radar. I guess it was in women's mags or something? It is disgusting. Why the bathroom angle?
...
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius)
If only she'd had PooPourri!
(last post on the subject, promise!)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:29 AM (Xsy0u)
Neighbor lady said she almost laughed out loud, and had to literally cover her mouth to keep from laughing.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:24 AM (8O3HH)
Heh. With modern microelectronics being so cheap, it would be fun to make some "sound effects bombs" and place them in ladies' washrooms, to be activated when the seat is sat upon.
BTW, you mentioned last night that your Ford tractor has a CAV rotary injection pump. I was under my International B414D tractor today, changing a battery cable, and noticed that has a CAV injection pump. It's a British-built tractor, and runs like a pup.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:30 AM (0deF2)
I hope you're doing okay. We never talk anymore (mainly because I'm here like 1-2 days a week).
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:23 AM (wB8Tg)
I'm not around much either. I get up at 0500 to get to work by 0700 so I run out of steam early. Doing so so, stressed out & it's making me sick. How are you doing?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:31 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:29 AM (Xsy0u)
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no shit?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:31 AM (H7kvS)
SUH?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:24 AM (H7kvS)
Well, my 30-year group acronym-fu is not great, but I do remember alt.fan.lemur and the Scary Devil Monastery, and I did once flame the Doctress Neutopia... not to mention that argument with Straczynski some years later.
That was before I realized that internet arguments are like spheres.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:31 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2017 01:27 AM (OdK9v)
Yes. Cheap plastic likely doesn't have much tensile strength.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:31 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:32 AM (Xsy0u)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:31 AM (hscyr)
(looks at previous sentence, high-fives)
Basically I have a lot to do, nothing to do it with, and I can't do much anyway. Will have like 5 dr. appts this month. At least somebody is making money!
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:33 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at May 15, 2017 01:33 AM (AoK0a)
That was before I realized that internet arguments are like spheres.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:31 AM (wB8Tg)
Usenet groups? Email Lists? MUDs?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:34 AM (789OI)
can we please bring back Usenet?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:17 AM (H7kvS)
I remember one night a while back somebody getting upset because allegedly when they said goodnight, nobody said goodnight back.
Hell, I never stick around long enough to find out.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 01:35 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 01:32 AM (Xsy0u)
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i guess that makes me your favorite turd....
i'm honored.
i think.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:35 AM (H7kvS)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:33 AM (wB8Tg)
Ugh. I hope you get answers & get this straightened out.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:35 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at May 15, 2017 01:33 AM
Thanks Adriane. Things are coming to a head, hopefully will work out how I want. How have you been?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:37 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:34 AM (789OI)
All that related to usenet. Scary Devil Monastery is an anagram of Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery, a kind of geek downtime hangout. The Doctress Neutoptia was (is) a hippie commie whacko who would hang out on usenet trying to "imagine" a society where everyone would just lie around in magic giant cities and make love. Who would pay for this was.... not well-explored.
I just checked, she's on facecrook now. Did Not Look Closer. She was like a fourt-tier academic back in the early 90s, no idea what she does for bread and water now.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:40 AM (wB8Tg)
us. military. army
alt. folklore. military
alt. science. military. naval
IIRC
Pixy, you're a fussy bitch.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 15, 2017 01:40 AM (H7kvS)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:35 AM (hscyr)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks, tho.
You too {{hugs}}
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:41 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:42 AM (0deF2)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:42 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Average Guy
You're flush familiar with Toto, which is a mega flusher in the Nihon Rykyuu .
All of the automatic flushers in the major metropolis' of have the noise features.
... I guess it depends on how far you are from a city center.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 01:43 AM (udajc)
I did MUDs and email lists. Heady days.
Netscape
Webcrawler
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:43 AM (789OI)
I had gone in my room, which was right across from a bathroom. Aunt Laura comes down the hall to use the bathroom. She didn't know I was anywhere around. Somehow, the sound carried where I could hear every sound in that bathroom lying on my bed.
She had a habit of humming this annoying little tune all the time. It was some sort of silly little tune, sort of like Laurel Hardy's tune. It makes you think of some idiot doing something stupid. Hmmm, hummm-humm, dah, dah da da.
Well, she was humming that stupid tune as she went in and sat down on the terlet. She was getting older, and was not a small woman. She had to sort of strain to lower herself. She was humming, and that became a grunint sort of "uhh, uhhh, whup, whup.....Ahhhhh." Then the humming started again.
It was interrupted by the sound of a water stream hitting the water in the bowl, at which point she stopped humming the tune, and went "Weeeeeee!"
I still laugh at the recollection, 40 years ago.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:43 AM (8O3HH)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Thanks, tho.
You too {{hugs}}
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017
Hugs back
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:43 AM (hscyr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2017 01:42 AM (0deF2)
Night AOP.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:43 AM (789OI)
May sleep recharge your creativity.
If yes, could you put some in the mail for me
: -))
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at May 15, 2017 01:44 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 15, 2017 01:47 AM (+oZWA)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:43 AM (789OI)
I was active in Pen & Paper during the MUD era, and avoided email lists like the plague.
I did play the first graphical MMO, Neverwinter Nights, though only during the free periods (that was not cheap, even then).
Not to be confused with Bioware's NWN - it was basically a Gold Box game online at AOL.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:49 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic ... at May 15, 2017 01:49 AM (AoK0a)
I did play the first graphical MMO, Neverwinter Nights, though only during the free periods (that was not cheap, even then).
Not to be confused with Bioware's NWN - it was basically a Gold Box game online at AOL.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:49 AM (wB8Tg)
I remember on the MUD I played WOTMUD, people saying of Everquest: "Why would I pay $15 a month when I can play this for free?"
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:51 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Country Boy at May 15, 2017 01:52 AM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 01:53 AM (cPsPa)
I think I'm gonna to start to get that pump off tomorrow. Of itself, it's no trouble, but you've got to tear the front of the little tractor off to get to the plate on the front of the engine. It's so tight between that and the fan, you can't get in there.
There was a neigbor who had to rebuild the pump on of his a while back, similar, a Ford 3000.
The timing is done with marks on gears. A gear on the crankshaft drives the gear on the pump and also the camshaft. The crankshaft turns 2 revolutions for every one of the pump and camshaft gear. So when you take it off, you need to make sure the marks are aligned. If you don't, you have to open it up and make sure the camshaft is on mark as well.
This neighbor didn't think to do that. When they got the pump back, they just aligned up the marks on the crank gear. The camshaft gear was not aligned. The crank needed to turn one complete revolution again.
They got it back together and cranked and cranked, with raw fuel mist finally coming out of the exhaust.
They couldn't figure it out (reading a manual would've explained it in about 1 minute) and finally called the mechanic at the Ford place. He explained it. I still don't think they understood it but they followed his instructions to take the cam cover off and align the marks on the cam gear together with those on the pump gear.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at May 15, 2017 01:54 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 01:51 AM (789OI) fnord (789OI)
I never subscribed, but EQ was a lot of fun during beta testing. I tend to think the beginnings of games like that are better than when they get all grindy.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:56 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 01:57 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 01:58 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: yankeefifth at May 15, 2017 01:58 AM (cPsPa)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:59 AM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Average Guy at May 15, 2017 02:00 AM (Xsy0u)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2017 01:56 AM (wB8Tg)
Which is pretty much all they are now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 02:00 AM (789OI)
Here is "Gaining Speed" by Truckfighters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHohCON0vrM
Posted by: The Political Hat at May 15, 2017 02:01 AM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Powers Boothe at May 15, 2017 02:03 AM (AOrEZ)
Posted by: Hillary the Sooper Genius ... at May 15, 2017 02:04 AM (AoK0a)
Posted by: yankeefifth
Depends on the asshole level you were shooting for
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 15, 2017 02:06 AM (udajc)
I have to agree with Ace here: read another book!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 02:07 AM (789OI)
Posted by: Hope Solo at May 15, 2017 02:12 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 15, 2017 02:44 AM (789OI)
Thas right, we don't just do slut shamin' here, we do ALL KINDS of shamin'.
But Sandra Fluke will always hold a special slutspace in our hearts.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 15, 2017 02:44 AM (wTwJ2)
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wanna go to the mat on that, big guy?
;-)
Posted by: Emma Sulkowicz at May 15, 2017 02:50 AM (H7kvS)
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wanna go to the mat on that, big guy?
;-)
Posted by: Emma Sulkowicz at May 15, 2017 02:50 AM (H7kvS)
I'm a floater that you just cannot flush.
Posted by: Lena Dunham at May 15, 2017 02:56 AM (789OI)
And if the show had one theme song, it was probably George Thororgood's tune Bad To The Bone.
Here's BB King:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZgsIiSL8zk
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 15, 2017 03:00 AM (wTwJ2)
;-)
Posted by: Emma Sulkowicz
Sweetiepie, I don't think you are man material. More of a cross-speciesist, IE a night-Mare.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 15, 2017 03:06 AM (wTwJ2)
Posted by: Tim in Illinois at May 15, 2017 03:31 AM (d76uN)
Posted by: Hillary 2020! at May 15, 2017 03:45 AM (bc2Lc)
Which brings me to a central mystery -- How in the world can any clothing that Kim wears, no matter how outre, matter to a world that has seen her in the act of fucking and sucking? Really? "Kim shows an amazing amount of cleavage in her latest dress". mmmkay. I bet it isn't nearly as much as in her porn shoot.
Fat bottomed girls may make the world go round, but I'll be on a sidecar.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 15, 2017 03:50 AM (wTwJ2)
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 15, 2017 03:52 AM (wTwJ2)
Posted by: Skip at May 15, 2017 04:28 AM (Ot7+c)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 15, 2017 04:36 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 15, 2017 04:37 AM (pY+s4)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2017 05:49 AM (tr2D7)
Posted by: RickZ at May 15, 2017 05:51 AM (qzf/J)
Posted by: wing at May 15, 2017 06:06 AM (Ohl7S)
Powers Boothe was in Red Dawn. That alone cements his place in film history, in my book, since it's one of the greatest movies ever made.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 15, 2017 06:06 AM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Tonypete
Good luck to you today, I hope this all goes well.
Godspeed.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at May 15, 2017 06:07 AM (S6Pax)
Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2017 06:09 AM (tr2D7)
Couldn't sleep, so I turned the TV on, and found some classic Looney Tunes on one channel. It's putting me in a better mood that yesterday.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at May 15, 2017 06:12 AM (rJUlF)
Posted by: Colin at May 15, 2017 06:17 AM (I/bsw)
Posted by: Colin at May 15, 2017 06:19 AM (I/bsw)
Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 15, 2017 06:35 AM (u82oZ)
Nashville. Seasons 1 & part of 2.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 15, 2017 06:43 AM (rvtDF)
Posted by: KWDreaming at May 15, 2017 06:47 AM (Dwisf)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 15, 2017 06:47 AM (J+eG2)
The Jenner Effect.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles
More evidence of rampant transphobia.
Posted by: Chelsea Manning at May 15, 2017 06:49 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: goon at May 15, 2017 06:53 AM (EaQ6/)
He was also in Southern Comfort.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2017 06:56 AM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Superman at May 15, 2017 06:58 AM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 15, 2017 06:56 AM (X6fMO)
Oh, yeah .... forgot about that one.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at May 15, 2017 07:01 AM (EjfPg)
Posted by: Grateful at May 15, 2017 10:55 AM (nG95o)
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