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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (11/18/17)
Quote I
It's a Bill of Rights not a Bill of Needs. Ted Nugent
Quote II
“When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that’s bullying. When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that’s bullying. When someone labels you a bad human being because they disagree with you, they are bullying you. They are attacking your character without justification. That’s nasty. In fact, it makes them nasty.”
― Ben Shapiro
Quote III
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. Daniel Boone
Chill out. Meditate.
As we approach the gift giving season. Honey, if you're reading tonight, I want one of these.
An amorous Texas couple was arrested after they were caught having sex inside a theater at a multiplex in San Antonio, according to cops who reported that one of the suspects explained that, “We were just having a little fun!” Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched last Thursday to the sprawling Santikos Casa Blanca theater in response to a 12:10 AM lewd conduct call. Two employees told cops that a man and woman were seen having sex in theater #13. A police report does not indicate what movie was playing at the time.
The UAE, a country where millions live off desalinated ocean water, says its next survival challenge will be figuring out how to grow fruits and vegetables on the surface of Mars. Obscene amounts of money are being invested by its space agency on a massive facility where they’ll use their desert mastery to cultivate lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, and dates in their own backyard — which, they’ve realized, isn’t so different from Mars. The plan was announced at this week’s Dubai Airshow, where officials posed the very legitimate question of who, besides them, the space industry could trust to potentially blow millions on a big Matt Damon Martian lab?
Vintage WTF photos.
You'll get a chuckle or two.
19 Pictures A Mature Adult Shouldn’t Laugh At, But Will Anyway.
#13 cracked us up here at Casa Misanthrope.
November 18, 1972, Singer, songwriter Danny Whitten died of a drug overdose aged 29. He was a member of Neil Young's Crazy Horse and writer of 'I Don't Wanna Talk About It', covered by Rod Stewart, Rita Coolidge and Everything But The Girl. The Neil Young song ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ was written about Whitten’s heroin use (before he died of an overdose). via thisdayinmusic.com
Wow, drunk and geographically challenged is tonight's Genius Award Winner.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr something or other at November 18, 2017 09:33 PM (GWVcB)
Posted by: Bill R. at November 18, 2017 09:33 PM (IuYIh)
Posted by: NALNAMSAM at November 18, 2017 09:34 PM (+ldAm)
Posted by: Bill R. at November 18, 2017 09:34 PM (IuYIh)
Posted by: mindful webworker's unique blend of herbs and spices at November 18, 2017 09:34 PM (NU2/k)
Posted by: Hairy Reed at November 18, 2017 09:35 PM (NU2/k)
Posted by: Basement Cat at November 18, 2017 09:39 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2017 09:40 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Gmac - 'All politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at November 18, 2017 09:40 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: Basement Cat at November 18, 2017 09:41 PM (3C9q2)
Posted by: Hillary! at November 18, 2017 09:42 PM (Sv2/X)
Posted by: mindful webworker perused the content... really! at November 18, 2017 09:43 PM (NU2/k)
But then when it comes to our military, he doesn't take care of them ... but gives foreigners the higher place, health care, jobs, etc. The left and the elite just want to get rid of traditional America via coup and replacement policy ... and they'll tell any lie to accomplish that.
Posted by: illiniwek at November 18, 2017 09:43 PM (/aIFg)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/7 at November 18, 2017 09:45 PM (Ktb8D)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 09:46 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 09:47 PM (MYss1)
From what they're playing, I vote for A Bad Mom's Christmas
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 09:47 PM (H0quv)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 18, 2017 09:48 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Blake at November 18, 2017 09:48 PM (WEBkv)
My. They... er... certainly don't make 'em like they used to.
Well, maybe on Japanese game shows.
The women proudly holding up the mattress on which they'd gutted their husbands was a little disturbing...!
Posted by: mindful webworker the photogenic genie at November 18, 2017 09:49 PM (NU2/k)
Posted by: the Day of Reckoning is Nigh at November 18, 2017 09:50 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: Dr Alice at November 18, 2017 09:52 PM (LaT54)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 18, 2017 09:52 PM (tr2D7)
Posted by: Dr Alice at November 18, 2017 09:53 PM (LaT54)
Posted by: That deplorable guy who always gropes... at November 18, 2017 09:53 PM (Tyii7)
I think I "get" the pic of the women on the beach pic.
It was probably an early feminist project: "men are such dogs, they won't even notice these women are wearing sacks over their heads" :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2017 09:53 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2017 09:53 PM (ycWCI)
Establishment, perhaps the greatest Fuck You it's ever received. A
Moore victory would be runner up in that category. Make it so.
I think you meant Roy Moore. Roger Moore is kind of dead at the moment.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 18, 2017 09:53 PM (IcT7t)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 09:54 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2017 09:54 PM (eMKNe)
I don't even read Daily Caller or PJ Media now because they require JabbaScript for basic content.
OTOH, here on AoS, I never see the ad for Sonobi or whatever it is.
Posted by: mindful webworker - repeal JavaScript and Daylight Saving Time at November 18, 2017 09:54 PM (NU2/k)
Great. I'll wither away and die on Mars but at least I'll have unlimited salads. Grow some pasture for ancient 3000 lb oxen and then I'll know you're serious!
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 09:55 PM (YXJ+5)
Posted by: Dr Alice at November 18, 2017 09:53 PM (LaT54)
We bought 20# fresh from the bog about 3 weeks ago.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 09:56 PM (3/sUh)
Per Roger Moore, Trump's victory was a great "Fuck You" to the
Establishment, perhaps the greatest Fuck You it's ever received. A
Moore victory would be runner up in that category. Make it so.
Posted by: the Day of Reckoning is Nigh
Around these parts we don't care to have any damn yankee's telling us what the hell to do. Butt hurt feelings on their part just add icing on the cake.
Posted by: Gmac - 'All politics in this country now is dress-rehearsal for civil war' at November 18, 2017 09:56 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at November 18, 2017 09:56 PM (lCGUh)
Posted by: the Day of Reckoning is Nigh at November 18, 2017 09:56 PM (c5fch)
--LMAO
One down, two to go.
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 09:57 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Sheila Jackson Wee at November 18, 2017 09:57 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: fly gal at November 18, 2017 09:58 PM (Kj7KZ)
9 packets of Fire Sauce? Yeah, never again.
Posted by: Hillary! at November 18, 2017 09:58 PM (7ulel)
Posted by: chango butt at November 18, 2017 09:59 PM (HSp4o)
Posted by: the Day of Reckoning is Nigh
STOP STEALING MY SCHTICK!
Posted by: BEN ROETHSLISBERGER at November 18, 2017 09:59 PM (5wCUq)
No turkey this year. Ham makes for better leftovers.
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:00 PM (MYss1)
Posted by: Methos at November 18, 2017 10:00 PM (XQvuQ)
Posted by: chango butt at November 18, 2017 10:01 PM (HSp4o)
---
And Martian ganja.
Green Mars!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 18, 2017 10:01 PM (qJtVm)
KKK recruiting poster. All FBI agents, though.
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 10:01 PM (7ulel)
Posted by: billybillybilly at November 18, 2017 10:01 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: Dust at November 18, 2017 10:02 PM (NL+DJ)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:03 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Dust at November 18, 2017 10:03 PM (NL+DJ)
I don't even read Daily Caller or PJ Media now because they require JabbaScript for basic content.
OTOH, here on AoS, I never see the ad for Sonobi or whatever it is.
Posted by: mindful webworker - repeal JavaScript and Daylight Saving Time at November 18, 2017 09:54 PM (NU2/k)
I do not and may never understand turning off JS as a protective measure, unless you're really processor bound on the cilent side. Modern browsers pretty much have XSS protection on by default, and the runtimes are sandboxed. If you want to block all the nasties run Privacy Badger or Ghostery. IDGI.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:03 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: billybillybilly at November 18, 2017 10:04 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at November 18, 2017 10:04 PM (zCyNd)
I almost smiled at three of those 19 pictures.
The particles pic is very well done. Magical, even.
That research into growing vegetables in a controlled environment is actually something I would like to see done, depending on the details, and it is one reason why we need to do research in space. We can't alter gravity on a planet, and gravity is going to affect how the cell chemistry works.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at November 18, 2017 10:04 PM (4XCge)
Posted by: Beelzebub at November 18, 2017 10:04 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Hillary! at November 18, 2017 10:04 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 18, 2017 10:05 PM (rnAwa)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/7 at November 18, 2017 10:05 PM (Ktb8D)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 18, 2017 10:05 PM (eMKNe)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:07 PM (MYss1)
He spelled "hookers and blow" wrong.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 18, 2017 10:07 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: billybillybilly at November 18, 2017 10:08 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:08 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 10:08 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Hillary! at November 18, 2017 10:04 PM (DMUuz)
Keep some sauce in your purse.
That's a good girl.
Posted by: Powerholics Obvious at November 18, 2017 10:08 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Dust at November 18, 2017 10:09 PM (NL+DJ)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:10 PM (MYss1)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 10:10 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:08 PM (e9G8E)
--A woman like that needs to breed.
(With someone smart, of course)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:10 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:11 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: *hic* at November 18, 2017 10:11 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:12 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:07 PM
You might want to take a look at the Husky floor mats too.
Very impressed with the ones I put in my truck.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2017 10:12 PM (DMUuz)
--A woman like that needs to breed.
(With someone smart, of course)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:10 PM (GsAUU)
I had a chance with Kat, once.
Missed it by THAT much.
Posted by: Maxwell Smart at November 18, 2017 10:12 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Roc Ingersol at November 18, 2017 10:12 PM (2DOZq)
If the gubmint's writing the checks, what the hey, I'll give it a try. It's how I roll.
Posted by: Elon Musk at November 18, 2017 10:12 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: Elizabeth at November 18, 2017 10:12 PM (+0jcH)
Unfortunate for the next person who sits in the seat they used. Ick.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2017 10:13 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: ALH
I have a hypothesis, but I'd have to see her vomiting pea soup to be sure.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 10:13 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: junior at November 18, 2017 10:13 PM (cSguU)
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If you have a good enough horse, you don't even need the wife.
Posted by: Andrew Mendoza and His Bucket at November 18, 2017 10:14 PM (+0jcH)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:07 PM (MYss1)
VERY
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 10:14 PM (3/sUh)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 10:15 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 10:13 PM (5wCUq)
A quick stop at Chelsea's apartment and she was good as new. So, probably has a Dark Crystal and a couple gelflings stashed there.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:15 PM (y87Qq)
Or just a good gun, if you're married to Sarah Jessica Parker.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at November 18, 2017 10:16 PM (LHVhu)
Posted by: Al "Loverboy" Franken at November 18, 2017 10:16 PM (+0jcH)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:16 PM (e9G8E)
Granted it is an open thread.
But I suggest you hit up the link to Meditate.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 10:17 PM (3/sUh)
These days I'm into Quality.
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:17 PM (MYss1)
Posted by: Hillary! at November 18, 2017 10:17 PM (DMUuz)
It was usually, "Eat a sandwich, girl!", something along those lines.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 18, 2017 10:18 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at November 18, 2017 10:18 PM (4XCge)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2017 10:18 PM (oPNmq)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 10:20 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:20 PM (e9G8E)
No, it's not.
When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that's bullying.
No, it's not.
When someone labels you a bad human being because they disagree with you, they are bullying you.
No, they aren't.
Doesn't anyone know what "bullying" means, anymore. THose above are examples of assholishness, stupidity, retardation and the like ... but they aren't "bullying". And that's not even getting into the fact that "verbal bullying" is a total crock of shit.
Sheesh.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 10:20 PM (8gDQu)
These days I'm into Quality.
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:17 PM
You can DuckDuckGo up some comparisons with Husky vs Weathertech.
Mine fit super well, front and back.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2017 10:21 PM (DMUuz)
The sweetest meat is close to the bone!
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:20 PM (e9G8E)
--Say what you will, but I'd rather eat roast chicken than roast starling.
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:22 PM (GsAUU)
LOL. Yeah ... the arabs are friggin experts on agriculture. That's why islam has the only calendar that bears no relation to the solar year.
They didn't build those desalination plants that keep them alive, either.
I think the only factual part of that excerpt is the "obscene".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 10:24 PM (8gDQu)
protective measure, unless you're really processor bound on the cilent
side. Modern browsers pretty much have XSS protection on by default, and
the runtimes are sandboxed. If you want to block all the nasties run
Privacy Badger or Ghostery. IDGI.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:03 PM (y87Qq)
It makes most sites load faster, this one included. Many of the ads run scripts, and it stops them dead. I can selectively allow scripts, and do it all the time. Some websites, particularly the click-baity ones, have a great long list of scripts, and if I can't get the item I want to see to load, I give up after allowing 2 or 3. Monkey business going on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2017 10:26 PM (oPNmq)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
The part about them realizing that their country is "a lot like Mars" made me LOL. Other than the radiation, sub-zero temps, and lack of air, spot on. Those muzzies really need to cut back on the consanguineous marriages.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 10:26 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: CMU VET at November 18, 2017 10:27 PM (C+wjz)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:22 PM (GsAUU)<<<
Oh, I'm not so sure about that.
**rapid tongue flicking**
Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at November 18, 2017 10:27 PM (LHVhu)
Posted by: concrete girl at November 18, 2017 10:28 PM (MF4DY)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 10:26 PM (5wCUq)
LOL.
I guess they're going by what they see in the movies. I'll bet that within five years there are thousands of little mars rovers tooling all around the UAE, scooping up sand and getting stuck in dunes. Science!
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 10:30 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:30 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:30 PM (e9G8E)
No love for uMatrix?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 10:31 PM (8gDQu)
Does anyone know how I can tell for sure if my car has front seats?
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:32 PM (y87Qq)
Well, I finally got Dear Old Dad to bed (how long he'll stay there is another question :sigh
.
I didn't have to change him but 3 times today, so that's improving, I guess. But I did have to clean up a mess on the commode (he tried to go by himself when I had to step outside. My mother couldn't stop him.)
And for all that trouble, he told me I was being to damn bossy, and he's getting sick of it..........
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 18, 2017 10:32 PM (8O3HH)
protective measure, unless you're really processor bound on the cilent
side. Modern browsers pretty much have XSS protection on by default, and
the runtimes are sandboxed. If you want to block all the nasties run
Privacy Badger or Ghostery. IDGI.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:03 PM (y87Qq)
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JS is an invitation to a virus fest. It also eats up cell data if you access by mobile. My default is off, with some whitelisting.
Tucker and Daily Caller used to be horrible about JS, then got better. They are now larding it up again. Bye, bye, Daily Caller.
Posted by: Side draft at November 18, 2017 10:32 PM (lFXN8)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:34 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 18, 2017 10:34 PM (cu8/f)
Posted by: Oedipus at November 18, 2017 10:34 PM (CXLVd)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 18, 2017 10:34 PM (3JQ/p)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:34 PM (e9G8E)
On other browsers it's known as HTTPSwitchboard. It gives you complete control over all scripts, images, frames, etc. from each individual domain.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 10:35 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Side draft at November 18, 2017 10:32 PM (lFXN
Understandable for mobile; turning it off saves bandwidth and battery both. But viruses? With XSS effectively blocked by any browser worth using, especially if you run Privacy Badger or any other security/privacy plug-in worth using? Not sure I buy that.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:35 PM (y87Qq)
Kat Timpf is too skinny.
She needs to have a babeh.
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:03 PM (GsAUU)
I'll take one for the team and volunteer for that duty.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at November 18, 2017 10:35 PM (1JnAL)
Doing the things a particle curl
What's she like? It's not crucial.
Particle girl.
Posted by: possibly giants at November 18, 2017 10:37 PM (yRBj9)
Kat, on Red Eye a while back, once made some quip about all the men who offer to impregnate her when she's walking home.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 18, 2017 10:37 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:38 PM (e9G8E)
I've tried all on/off configurations and will verify that No Script saves my browser from a boat load of useless.
Now, on to the good stuff. From the NYT:
Oh, no, I lost it. Rebooted the browser, it dumps everything when shut down, going for it now. bbl
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 10:38 PM (BoJzR)
Posted by: Atlantic Coast
I hate 'em too. I want to smash every one I see.
Posted by: Large Hedron Collider at November 18, 2017 10:39 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 10:37 PM (BsIi9)
There's a sickly baby Alien in there. hasn't got the mojo to break out, just kicks and shits.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2017 10:39 PM (oPNmq)
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I've had login problems with several websites because they insist on sending me off to another server to validate login credentials.
I've had problems with other websites that use pop up windows for sign in and most users set their browsers to block popups because so many popup windows are advertising.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at November 18, 2017 10:39 PM (4XCge)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:35 PM (y87Qq)
--killing
Just killing JS while mobile, traveling, cut data usage more than in half. Even here.
Not sure qbout the other programs, as I am mobile 90% of the time OL.
Posted by: Side draft at November 18, 2017 10:40 PM (lFXN8)
Posted by: Large Hedron Collider at November 18, 2017 10:39 PM (5wCUq)
From the last thread: it seems Alfred Hitchcock was a large Hedren collider.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 18, 2017 10:40 PM (oPNmq)
Posted by: Eddie Murpy at November 18, 2017 10:40 PM (LHVhu)
That is....worrisome.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 18, 2017 10:40 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Large Hedron Collider at November 18, 2017 10:39 PM (5wCUq)
Grind 'em into dust. That's the ticket!
Or maybe roll 'em into a big ball.
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 18, 2017 10:41 PM (cu8/f)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:41 PM (e9G8E)
I'll take one for the team and volunteer for that duty.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at November 18, 2017 10:35 PM (1JnAL)
--LMAO I have a wifey so no go for me.
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:42 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Eddie Murphy at November 18, 2017 10:42 PM (LHVhu)
theater #13. A police report does not indicate what movie was playing at
the time."
with attendance at theaters these days, employees were probably the only ones who noticed.
Posted by: DaveM at November 18, 2017 10:42 PM (FNtbC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I sometimes misspell my name when I drink. It happens, just ask Ray Moore.
Posted by: Large Hadron Collider at November 18, 2017 10:42 PM (5wCUq)
https://youtu.be/cYFikTIAT-s
Posted by: Country Singer at November 18, 2017 10:42 PM (yzxic)
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 18, 2017 10:43 PM (cu8/f)
I expecially enjoyed the audio of "I Don't Want to Talk About it" written and sung by Young's friend Danny. The Needle and The Damage Done is one hell of a song. but Danny's singing is especially poignant.
Posted by: booknlass at November 18, 2017 10:45 PM (9mZIr)
Sheesh.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
You should listen to the way some mommies use the word "bullying". If some 8 year old makes a comment that hurts their child's feelings twice, their child is being bullied.
Geez, I went to a Catholic elementary school in the late fifties, early sixties. A school playground is where you learn to deal with shit from other kids. And if you were going to go whine to the nuns you had better have been bleeding.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2017 10:46 PM (+lVUW)
WASHINGTON: Would the war against preying on women be blazing so fiercely had Hillary Clinton been elected?
When I interviewed women in Hollywood about the ugly Harvey Weinstein revelations in The Times and The New Yorker, they told me that feelings of frustration and disgust at having an accused predator in the White House instead of the first woman president had helped give the story velocity.
And they print this crap with a straight face.
They had no disgust with a known predator in the WH and no problem putting that predator back in the WH as first
God save us.
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 10:46 PM (BoJzR)
They didn't build those desalination plants that keep them alive, either.
I think the only factual part of that excerpt is the "obscene".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 10:24 PM (8gDQu)
I'm guessing the desalination plants were built by the Israelis, or at least modeled on ones they have built.
The Arabs had 2000 years to develop desalination technology. but inexplicably, whiffed on it.
Of course, all cultures are equally valid, I hasten to add. Even the ones that are objectively not worth a shit.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 10:46 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Beartooth at November 18, 2017 10:47 PM (9TwHE)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 10:47 PM (I/iGu)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:32 PM
That particular brand is known for the carpet in front getting munched up.
Posted by: Ellen at November 18, 2017 10:47 PM (DMUuz)
If Hillary had been elected, all those stories would have joined the al-Khalidi tapes in being buried deeper than whale shit.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 10:48 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2017 10:48 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: chango butt at November 18, 2017 10:48 PM (HSp4o)
theater #13. A police report does not indicate what movie was playing at
That explains the sticky floor.
Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at November 18, 2017 10:48 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at November 18, 2017 10:49 PM (4XCge)
What's going on? I usually read before I post, but I'm watching this weird movie "Split".
Help? I'm lost.
Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 18, 2017 10:50 PM (yJ1e6)
See what autoanything dot com says about a Husky liner for your front.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2017 10:51 PM (DMUuz)
inside a theater at a multiplex in San Antonio, according to cops who
reported that one of the suspects explained that, "We were just having a
little fun!"<<<
Well, we had to go someplace after getting kicked out of grandma's funeral.
Posted by: the Texas couple at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (LHVhu)
Posted by: Javems at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (yOqwj)
theater #13.
That's just gross.
Posted by: Paul Ruebens at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (EK6pT)
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2017 10:46 PM (+lVUW)
I went to school in Hunter's Point (aka the ghetto), where "bullying" was the foreplay to "fighting," aka "recess" or "PE" or "after school." If you couldn't fight, you could confidently look forward to bullying and fighting. If you could fight, then you got spared the bullying, and went straight to fighting.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (BoJzR)
I've been there. I reached a point where I had everything down to a routine. Including clean up. The clean up gets easier and easier. You just get used to it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: the Texas couple
Get a room you two. But not yet, give me 20 more seconds...
Posted by: Louis CK at November 18, 2017 10:53 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2017 10:48 PM
Only on alternate days.
* waves *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2017 10:53 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:34 PM (e9G8E)
++++
It's like NoScript, but with better control. uBlock Origin is also good as an ad blocker.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 18, 2017 10:53 PM (pvjTE)
What's going on? I usually read before I post, but I'm watching this weird movie "Split".
Help? I'm lost.
Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 18, 2017 10:50 PM (yJ1e6)
--Lush: Split
https://youtu.be/V90zDPpvqPA
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:53 PM (GsAUU)
I scrolled through those WTF? pics, they were a hoot and a holler.
Just one thing, though: that's not how you f*ck a chicken, is it?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 10:54 PM (tRaq7)
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 18, 2017 10:34 PM (cu8/f)
++++
Stay out of the light.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 18, 2017 10:55 PM (pvjTE)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (BoJzR)
That's because using any intelligence is haram.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 10:54 PM (tRaq7)
Uh, I wouldn't know.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: a, an, and the at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (zCyNd)
Some say it was the Indians.
But, we call them "Arabic numerals"
And we use them to this day.
End of progress.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 10:52 PM (BoJzR)
Another 2000 years, and they'll have it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 10:57 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 10:57 PM (BoJzR)
Let's hear it for the Mighty Rockin' Articles!
Posted by: a, an, and the at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (zCyNd)
I prefer Participles.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at November 18, 2017 10:57 PM (T71PA)
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Pat...it was Pat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 10:57 PM (5OO3x)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 18, 2017 10:55 PM (pvjTE)
I'll die in darkness. Like democracy.
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 18, 2017 10:58 PM (cu8/f)
Some say it was the Indians.
But, we call them "Arabic numerals"
And we use them to this day.
End of progress.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (w7KSn)
That's new. When I was in grade school they were called "Hindu-Arabic Numerals". The Hindu part (the actual inventors) has been dropped in the left's rush to support all things arab and muslim.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 10:59 PM (8gDQu)
All I know is you'll wanna use some of the recommended ad blockers and anti-trackers when curiosity gets the better of you and you start googling around for chicken fucking.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 10:59 PM (I/iGu)
I prefer Participles.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at November 18, 2017 10:57 PM (T71PA)
Here's your Participlepation Trophy.
Posted by: Award awarder at November 18, 2017 10:59 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 18, 2017 10:51 PM (DMUuz)
It shows a lightbox rotator with pictures of various floor mats for $61.16. Then you scroll down to the 'choose options' bit with the 'add to cart' links, and the only listed options are 2nd and 3rd row mats for $49.46. So I don't even know. Maybe it's a sign that I was not meant to get Husky floor mats or something.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 10:59 PM (y87Qq)
Of course, they first told the entire staff to hurry over, watched and filmed the entire thing, and *then* called the cops so they didn't get picked up for being voyeurs.
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 11:00 PM (YXJ+5)
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF?
He was the Athenian known as the father of grammar, right?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:00 PM (5wCUq)
Then...."Luck ran out. This was to good to last."
(When the Bambu Rum ran out)
Posted by: Sonny Crockett at November 18, 2017 11:00 PM (HVt0H)
Posted by: the goats at November 18, 2017 11:00 PM (cu8/f)
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (YXJ+5)
Posted by: Welcome Wagon at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (3/sUh)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:00 PM (5wCUq)
All I know is that he wore a cool helmet.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (T71PA)
I've heard that the Hindus came up with "zero" and the numerals are Arabic.
I wasn't there at the time.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:00 PM (5wCUq)
No, that was grampar.
Posted by: Award awarded at November 18, 2017 11:02 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:03 PM (I/iGu)
Fun fact: when I was in Egypt, I noticed that Arabic numerals look like ours, but turned 90 degrees clockwise wrt ours. So, for example, a "7" looks like a sideways and reversed "L." No idea why, or what the significance of this might be.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:03 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 11:04 PM (GsAUU)
Can you imagine doing transactions in roman numerals?
I've heard that the Hindus came up with "zero" and the numerals are Arabic.
I wasn't there at the time.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (w7KSn)
These kids today....
Posted by: Pythagorus at November 18, 2017 11:04 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:00 PM (5wCUq)
Probably. I stand in awe of the development of footnotes pioneered by Ibid, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2017 11:04 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Welcome Wagon
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Thanks. Say, what's on the wagon this week? Coupons? Got any coupons?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:04 PM (5OO3x)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2017 11:04 PM (IqV8l)
Daniel Boone was my hero while growing up in the 50s & 60s. His advise still rings true.
Posted by: Cosda at November 18, 2017 11:05 PM (kYJMn)
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iirc - Spain used Roman numerals to tally all the gold they were carting off from the Americas.
The accountants made out like bandits.
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 11:06 PM (BoJzR)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:06 PM (y87Qq)
I've heard that the Hindus came up with "zero" and the numerals are Arabic.
I wasn't there at the time.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (w7KSn)
Maybe not but Vic was.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 18, 2017 11:06 PM (9TwHE)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable
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A pluperfect question.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:06 PM (5OO3x)
I wonder which one he thought was the most important.
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 11:06 PM (MYss1)
At least we're not using Babylonian or Mayan numerals.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:03 PM (I/iGu)
All Microsoft products are coded in proprietary Mayan.
Posted by: calendric database administrator at November 18, 2017 11:07 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:06 PM (y87Qq)
I used to have a Hakim, the sight ramp was numbered like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2017 11:07 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 10:10 PM (MYss1)
That's just two or more of the demons in a domestic dispute. Turns out time shares suck in the after life too.
Posted by: Auric Goldfinger at November 18, 2017 11:07 PM (tMFgx)
That made think of something else...How do you use an abacus?
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 11:07 PM (MYss1)
I can't ... but the Romans managed a modern city of over a million people with their numeral system and lots and lots of trade and agricultural calculations.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 11:07 PM (8gDQu)
if you really like them, call them.
they'll hook you up, johnny-on-the-spot.
Posted by: concrete girl at November 18, 2017 11:08 PM (MF4DY)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 11:08 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: a bunch of rebel particles at November 18, 2017 11:08 PM (LHVhu)
I have a spreadsheet up. I've heard you can switch to Roman numerals. Let's see...
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 11:09 PM (Sv2/X)
Probably. I stand in awe of the development of footnotes pioneered by Ibid, though.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2017 11:04 PM (2K6fY)
But I remain the all-time greatest inventor.
Posted by: Pat Pending at November 18, 2017 11:09 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 11:09 PM (BoJzR)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2017 11:07 PM (2K6fY)
Ah, nice! I think I saw one of those at a gun show but I didn't think to look at the sights.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: ALH
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A little bead of this, a little bead of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (5OO3x)
No, I am Sparticles!
No, I'm Sparticles!
Posted by: a bunch of rebel particles at November 18, 2017 11:08 PM (LHVhu)
I'm not impressed.
Posted by: Testicles at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (tMFgx)
The beauty of the abacus is that you could use it for base 10, base 5, base 4, whatever you like.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (w7KSn)
I've heard that the Hindus came up with "zero" and the numerals are Arabic.
I wasn't there at the time.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (w7KSn)
There's a free book on the Project Gutenburg on the history of mathematics (it's either by Florian Capri or W. W. Rouse Ball, in think the latter) that describes the notation used by the Greeks and the Romans, from which it becomes obvious why they went in for geometry rather than algebra or arithmetic.
Well worth reading (both of them). Greek and Roman mathematical notation was horrendous, and totally non-intuitive.
That illustrates the importance of something as trivial as notation in the celerity of advancements. (Same thing with Newton's notation vs. Leibniz's in calculus; Newton's notation is only useful - or used now - in connection with kinematics. Everything else involves Leibniz's notation.)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (YqDXo)
That made think of something else...How do you use an abacus?
Posted by: ALH
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A little bead of this, a little bead of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (5OO3x)
Just let that slide.
Posted by: Miklos a' Molnarin' at November 18, 2017 11:11 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: ALH
It's easy. Just watch Scotty fixing the transporter. That's just a base 3 abacus.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 11:11 PM (8gDQu)
Daniel Boone had a 50 caliber Kentucky long rifle with a silencer.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2017 11:12 PM (IqV8l)
I can't ... but the Romans managed a modern city of over a million people with their numeral system and lots and lots of trade and agricultural calculations.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 11:07 PM (8gDQu)
Now ... can you imagine running a modern city without a written language?
Neither could Africans. So they didn't.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:12 PM (YqDXo)
I wonder which one he thought was the most important.****
His rifle, Tick-licker, of course. His wife had a child by his brother while he was off exploring and he probably ate most of his horses.
Posted by: Cosda at November 18, 2017 11:13 PM (kYJMn)
Posted by: navybrat
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Plus, no eraser gummies if you made a mistake.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:13 PM (5OO3x)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:13 PM (5wCUq)
Daniel Boone had a 50 caliber Kentucky long rifle with a silencer.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2017 11:12 PM (IqV8l)
In those days, any decent local blacksmith knew how to make one of those things that goes up.
Posted by: Miklos the Backwoodsman at November 18, 2017 11:14 PM (zCyNd)
I've heard that the Hindus came up with "zero" and the numerals are Arabic.
I wasn't there at the time.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:01 PM (w7KSn)
Hindus came up with zero and the numerals. Their official name is hindu-arabic numerals.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 18, 2017 11:14 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:13 PM (5wCUq)/i]
(continued on next couple abacuses (abaci?))
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:14 PM (YqDXo)
they'll hook you up, johnny-on-the-spot.
Posted by: concrete girl at November 18, 2017 11:08 PM (MF4DY)
Good idea. It doesn't have to be Husky specifically, but the hivemind seems to like them, the price is decent, and the carpet mats need to be replaced before the snow falls anyway.
Before more snow falls, specifically.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:14 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:13 PM (5wCUq)
Thanks for that uplifting note.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at November 18, 2017 11:15 PM (T71PA)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (YqDXo)
*************************
Is that like all those different cultures that had a round disk, like the Mayan calendar, but never thinking - axle.
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 11:15 PM (BoJzR)
Neither could Africans. So they didn't.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:12 PM (YqDXo)
Well ... there was this great city, and it flourished and advanced ... but then the guy who knew all of the wiring died suddenly, before he could teach it to any proteges through songs, and that was the end of that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 11:15 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 18, 2017 11:15 PM (cu8/f)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 11:16 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Testicles at November 18, 2017 11:10 PM (tMFgx)
All of you pale in comparison to the Roman god of paperwork -
Cubicles.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:16 PM (tRaq7)
>> use an abacus?
Come up to my suite, I'll show you. I keep the abacus close to the ficus.
Posted by: Uncle Harvey at November 18, 2017 11:16 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 11:17 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 18, 2017 11:17 PM (cAnNx)
Well ... there was this great city, and it
flourished and advanced ... but then the guy who knew all of the wiring
died suddenly, before he could teach it to any proteges through songs,
and that was the end of that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 11:15 PM (8gDQu)
Are you suggesting that a Griot is no substitute for an operating and maintenance manual?
Posted by: Predictively maintained Miklos at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
The Reverend Al Sharpton says that Africa had large cities, advanced mathematics, and great literature before the Greek homos came and stole it all. Presumably they erased any trace of it ever having existed too.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (I/iGu)
Looks just like our numerals, if you squint.
Ah-hah, those are Eastern Arabic numerals. We use Western Arabic numerals, which were developed later.
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (pszv/)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 18, 2017 11:12 PM (IqV8l)<<<
Don't let the New York politician that Tucker interviewed a couple nights ago see that.
He was tweaking out about the dangers of muzzle loaders possibly being used for mass shootings.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at November 18, 2017 11:19 PM (LHVhu)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 11:19 PM (GsAUU)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:13 PM (5wCUq)
LOL.
We need lots of "0"s to show it, too!
The Romans did use a line over a numeral to denote 'thousands' - so "M" with a line over it is a million. They probably would have put two lines over for a million times.
It could be worse. They could be doing it in Yen.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 11:19 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Welcome Wagon at November 18, 2017 11:19 PM (3/sUh)
cities, advanced mathematics, and great literature before the Greek
homos came and stole it all. Presumably they erased any trace of it
ever having existed too.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (5wCUq)
Exactly what was it that the Greek homos were supposed to give in exchange?
Posted by: Fair Trader at November 18, 2017 11:20 PM (zCyNd)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9dwjdnq
ABE has several copies for less than $4.00, Free Shipping.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:20 PM (5OO3x)
Hmmph. The Daily Mail has a story about Meghan Markle, who is likely going to marry Prince Harry soon. One of her ancestors was beheaded by Henry VIII.
Posted by: Uncle Harvey at November 18, 2017 11:21 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
Or we could try it in Zimbabwean dollars. Anyone here good with scientific notation?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:21 PM (5wCUq)
>> use an abacus?
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I row for ones, one row for tens, one row for hundreds.....continue ad nauseaum.
Do they really not teach this anymore?
Posted by: Side draft at November 18, 2017 11:21 PM (lFXN8)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (I/iGu)
Its not like the $5 footlong made him do it.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 18, 2017 11:21 PM (cAnNx)
they have edges that hold stuff like that in. that's why i like mine.
Posted by: concrete girl at November 18, 2017 11:21 PM (MF4DY)
Mass shooting what? Sloths and turtles?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:22 PM (tRaq7)
It's kinda amazing Subway survived Fogle's downfall as well as they did.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (I/iGu)
They went underground for a while.
Posted by: sesquipedalian sandwich at November 18, 2017 11:22 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Atlantic Coast at November 18, 2017 11:24 PM (cu8/f)
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 11:15 PM (BoJzR)
We're talking about the ability to reason abstractly, which I think is the ultimate measure of intelligence. Think time: 2 pm today is like 2 pm tomorrow, is like 2 pm three weeks from now. They're different 2 pm's, but not unrelated from each other. There's a circularity there, a cyclic nature, what mathematicians would identify with modular arithmetic.
The abstract reasoning comes in that circularity in time is LIKE circularity in movement; the same process happening over and over results in an advance (in time or in space).
From that recognition to the wheel is straightforward. The implementation is trivial; it's the underlying insight that's profound.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:24 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy
We...
need...
immediate...
regulation...
on...
*sigh*
muzzle...
loaders...
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at November 18, 2017 11:25 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 11:17 PM (e9G8E)
Do you know any more about it? The Hakim was chambered in 8mm Mauser, but it was a gas-operated semi. The Turks had a bolt-action licensed Gew98 clone, but they were using Western Arabic numerals (thanks t-bird) on their rear sights. I'd be interested to know what Gew98/K98k clone would have used the eastern ones. It was a pretty ubiquitous design for decades so it wouldn't be surprising if there were a few, just none that come to mind at the moment.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:25 PM (y87Qq)
Or we could try it in Zimbabwean dollars. Anyone here good with scientific notation?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable
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And wheelbarrows.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:25 PM (5OO3x)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:21 PM (5wCUq)
Hell, the Zimbabweans should go to logarithmic units, except ... you know.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:25 PM (YqDXo)
Even if you are claiming the most extreme stance, that the individual himself is the only force answerable in a legal manner, all that is doing is saying that that the government is illegitimate, and its use of force is equally illegitimate.
However, that does nothing for your actual position, besides give you a philosophical teddy bear to hug while you are being forcibly detained, since governments don't really care if force is illegitimate, as long as it is theirs.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2017 11:26 PM (2K6fY)
Or we could try it in Zimbabwean dollars. Anyone here good with scientific notation?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable
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And wheelbarrows.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:25 PM (5OO3x)
You can borry mine, young feller!
Posted by: Granny Clampett at November 18, 2017 11:27 PM (zCyNd)
https://youtu.be/cYFikTIAT-s
Posted by: Country Singer at November 18, 2017 10:42 PM (yzxic)
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Good grief.
It's hard not to feel sorry for her though.
I mean him.
I mean s/h/it. Whatever.
What motivates someone like that?
Boredom, emptiness. I dunno.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 18, 2017 11:28 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Predictively maintained Miklos at November 18, 2017 11:18 PM (zCyNd)
I am Griot.
Posted by: I am Griot at November 18, 2017 11:29 PM (2K6fY)
I am Griot.
Posted by: I am Griot at November 18, 2017 11:29 PM (2K6fY)
We have to talk about your real father...
Posted by: Alex Haley at November 18, 2017 11:30 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Side draft at November 18, 2017 11:31 PM (lFXN8)
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Mass shooting what? Sloths and turtles?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:22 PM (tRaq7)
Specifically, "muzzleloaders with silencers". That's the latest fear-mongering from Gabby Giffords' husband's seld-enrichment scheme disguised as a gun control group.
https://tinyurl.com/ybk5w5ux
Posted by: Country Singer at November 18, 2017 11:31 PM (yzxic)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:31 PM (I/iGu)
For those gridiron inclined Hordians.....
The Left Coast ballgames were/are worthwhile tonight...
Stanford prevails and those pesky Bruins are hangin in there with the Trojans.....
My beloved Mountaineers once again completed the Countdown to Disappointment.......
Thank God for Our Magnificent Rifle Team....
Oh, you mean the Rifle Team that's WON FIVE FUCKIN STRAIGHT CHAMPIONSHIPS......Yes, that's the one.
That's also the ONE that visited the White House and met PDT, His Hairness Himself, just the other day....
http://tinyurl.com/yblg2k9o
Check out PDT'S smile......genuine.....as it should be when surrounded by America's BEST.
And big time props to PDT for the completely unreported by the MSM, (hmmmm, wonder why...) $80billion plus energy deal PDT sealed with China. The deal is WV specific and will help revitalize our Outstandin State.
A President keepin His Word to those that voted for him......Absolutely Fuckin Amazing.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 18, 2017 11:32 PM (HVt0H)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:32 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:32 PM (I/iGu)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 11:33 PM (MYss1)
Posted by: logprof at November 18, 2017 10:53
That was weird. As is this movie.
Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 18, 2017 11:34 PM (yJ1e6)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at November 18, 2017 11:34 PM (I/iGu)
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 18, 2017 11:35 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:35 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:36 PM (y87Qq)
Posted by: ALH at November 18, 2017 11:36 PM (MYss1)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:35 PM (c5fch)
Cities? Science? Mathematics? Literature? Architecture? They ALL disappeared?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:36 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Walter Freeman
I remember a comic saying never offend obsessive compulsives, when they start wiring angry letters they don't stop.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:37 PM (5wCUq)
Posted by: that guy, with comment 13 at November 18, 2017 11:37 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at November 18, 2017 11:37 PM (xRjiA)
chambered in 8mm Mauser, but it was a gas-operated semi. The Turks had a
bolt-action licensed Gew98 clone, but they were using Western Arabic
numerals (thanks t-bird) on their rear sights. I'd be interested to know
what Gew98/K98k clone would have used the eastern ones. It was a pretty
ubiquitous design for decades so it wouldn't be surprising if there
were a few, just none that come to mind at the moment.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:25 PM (y87Qq)
I've only seen it a few times. I saw when he first got it -- he said it was the original packaging and unused... I've haven't seen it recently, but since you mention it, I'm not entirely sure now whether the rear ramp is marked in Eastern or Western Arabic numerals now... I'd have to ask him. Definitely, Arabic writing on the receiver. I believe it's Turkish...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 11:38 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign
True, but I
've had a few. Cut me some slack Jack.
https://youtu.be/fXSLcYQHqFQ
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:38 PM (5wCUq)
One of those poor Yazidi girls who was captured by ISIS to be a sabiyya (sex slave) has written a book about her horrific experience.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5096539/
She says that one of her owners explained why he raping her it. She was an infidel and it was for her own good. He was helping her.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 18, 2017 11:39 PM (8O3HH)
read a book, dude. they weren't all hut-dwelling savages before the great white man arrived to lift them out of their ignorance.
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:39 PM (c5fch)
*blink*
*blink*
That link has to be one of the stupidest things I've read this week.
That's not even worth laughing at. It's so bad it's not even wrong.
Sheesh...I thought astronauts were supposed to be smart.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:39 PM (tRaq7)
Hi Michelle! How are Barry and the boys?
Hear any good Weinstein stories lately?
Posted by: Dog's on the grill! at November 18, 2017 11:39 PM (zCyNd)
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hey!
i have so much $$ that my minions poast for me.
stop being such a h8r!
Posted by: ooM ooM .rM at November 18, 2017 11:40 PM (cw6Fy)
Cities? Science? Mathematics? Literature? Architecture? They ALL disappeared?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:36 PM (YqDXo)
The British and French were jealous.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2017 11:40 PM (WgGbP)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:22 PM (tRaq7)<<<
Yeah, this guy was a grade A retard.
Tucker asked him something like, "You are aware that it can take around a minute to load one of those things?" Then went through each step in the process.
Undeterred, retard NY pol thought this is why someone would use a "silencer" on their muzzle loader. So they could pick people off before being discovered.
Tucker explained that a "silencer" actually is. NOT. SILENT. Said any shooter with a musket is going to heard, and have people all over him before having a chance to reload.
The retard NY pol didn't care. He was just plain stupid. But that's to be expected with most of the ban guns brigade.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (LHVhu)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:36 PM (YqDXo)
Well just off the top of my head, Carthage. Pretty advanced trading empire, lots of territory and wealth. Just about the only real existential threat to the old Republic. Ended up as a greasy smoking shallow crater in North Africa.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (y87Qq)
This is just funny. I'm imagining a 13-foot-long rifle. And a coonskin cap.
Posted by: t-bird at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (7ulel)
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (cw6Fy)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:36 PM (YqDXo)
Not disappeared.
Repo'd.
Posted by: a repo man is always intense at November 18, 2017 11:42 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:39 PM (tRaq7)
When monkeys roamed space.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 11:42 PM (3/sUh)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at November 18, 2017 11:19 PM (LHVhu)
I dunno. During the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression to some of the Horde) a good rifleman could get off three rounds a minute, a feat not able to reproduced today except by very experienced black powder muzzle loaders today. Granted that a great many of the dead were made that way by artillery, there were still about 650,000 killed in the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression to some of the Horde). A good many of them were shot.
My Dad, may he rest in peace, said that the only reason the South lost the War was because the South ran out of grits. There is some truth to that.
Posted by: Old Blue at November 18, 2017 11:43 PM (gEvQ8)
Let's hear it for the Mighty Rockin' Articles!
Posted by: a, an, and the at November 18, 2017 10:56 PM (zCyNd)
I prefer Participles.
Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at November 18, 2017 10:57 PM (T71PA)
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And where do dangling participles fall?
(Can't believe you guys missed that one.)
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 18, 2017 11:43 PM (7UCSd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 18, 2017 11:43 PM (Kuhfw)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin
Also, the big plume of smoke might be a giveaway.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:44 PM (5wCUq)
Sheesh...I thought astronauts were supposed to be smart.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:39 PM (tRaq7)
When monkeys roamed space.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 11:42 PM (3/sUh)
Don't get me started on the monkeys.
Posted by: Laika the space comfort dog at November 18, 2017 11:44 PM (zCyNd)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931928972765663233
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931929183617503234
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931929397145341952
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931929678662848513
Posted by: kbdabear at November 18, 2017 11:44 PM (eh0Va)
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 11:44 PM (BoJzR)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:45 PM (c5fch)
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931930143072940034
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931930531910078464
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931931503671545862
https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/931932002265325569
Posted by: kbdabear at November 18, 2017 11:45 PM (eh0Va)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:39 PM (c5fch)
Thank you for the tip, "dude." What book would that be, exactly, "dude"? Written in what African language, by what African scholar, exactly, "dude"?
Africans had no written language, eschewing for the "oral tradition." They had no two story buildings, in fact no buildings whatever that remain today, because they preferred the "mud hut tradition," and rain took care of that.
Let me put it another way: what you consider to be the most important African city, "dude?" Timbuktu? Slave trading center. What would be the most important African advance in mathematics, "dude"? The most important African advance in science, "dude"? The most important African literature, "dude"?
Unless I get substantive answers to each of these questions, I'll consider the point made: sub-Saharan Africa did bupkis.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:46 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (y87Qq)
Carthage was a Phoenician colony on the coast of Africa. They were Semitic not African. That's kind of like saying Jamestown proves Native American's had advanced cities.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 18, 2017 11:46 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:44 PM (5wCUq)<<<
Shhhh! That's just more common sense.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at November 18, 2017 11:46 PM (LHVhu)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:35 PM (c5fch)
The desertification of the Sahara did in Timbuktu ... but that was due to Europeans driving their SUVs to party in Timbuktu. The Europeans (Romans, actually) introduced special super-farting camels to North Africa in order to expel CO2 and lay global warming waste to the fertile Sahara.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 18, 2017 11:46 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 18, 2017 11:32 PM (HVt0H)
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Wow.
That's impressive, to say the least.
(And the picture with Trump is wonderful!)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 18, 2017 11:46 PM (0jtPF)
When monkeys roamed space.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 11:42 PM (3/sUh)
Oh sure, Mr. Critic. Did you ever try to fling poo in zero G?
Posted by: Space, not sea monkeys at November 18, 2017 11:47 PM (zCyNd)
If it does go worse case scenario, Prince Wiliiam and those other wankers can be happy about the population reduction.
Ok, now I gotta go catch up on the plague.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 18, 2017 11:47 PM (7UCSd)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin
Also, the big plume of smoke might be a giveaway.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:44 PM (5wCUq)
Wonder if that offsets a carbon footprint?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 11:48 PM (3/sUh)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:36 PM (YqDXo)
Not disappeared.
Repo'd.
Posted by: a repo man is always intense at November 18, 2017 11:42 PM (zCyNd)
You work for those Greek homos?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:48 PM (YqDXo)
Work beckons tomorrow.
Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 18, 2017 11:49 PM (yJ1e6)
No kidding. Anybody who's ever shot a black-powder firearm knows that they sound like a cannon going off. Even a pistol.
There seems to be a side-effect of dumbing people down: it also makes them somehow impervious to simple, observable truths like physics, math and time.
It's like they take great pride in being stoopid.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 18, 2017 11:49 PM (tRaq7)
Oh me oh my, my poor ficus. Kdabear's "Saturday Night Sidebood" has a lot of those apron (and nothing else) shots that I dig so.
That you good sir.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 18, 2017 11:49 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 18, 2017 11:44 PM (5wCUq)
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No. No plume, You see all the smoke substances along with the sound are trapped by the silencer.
That's why they always carried a gallon tub of kerosene with their kit.
Posted by: gNewt at November 18, 2017 11:50 PM (BoJzR)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (e9G8E)
Hmm... could be. I was thinking that the Turks have a long-standing kinda-westernization thing going on, but the Turk Mausers would have been pre-Kemalist, no? So Eastern numerals would have been just as likely. I guess I really don't know, now that I think about it. The few clear images that show the rear sight ramp on an image search show Western numerals, but that doesn't prove anything by itself except that at least some had Western numerals.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:50 PM (y87Qq)
Repo'd.
Posted by: a repo man
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Did they all have those little pine tree deodorizers hanging from the rear view mirror?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:50 PM (5OO3x)
No turkey this year. Ham makes for better leftovers.
Posted by: ALH November 18, 2017
Posted by: #MeToo- Procreating Turkey Basters tired of putting "out" at November 18, 2017 11:51 PM (Y5iLT)
Sheriff Longmire is trying to figure out if a gun has been recently discharged and he doesn't smell it, first thing.
He looks down the chamber and is puzzled.
Frikkin' Hollywood can ruin anything.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:51 PM (w7KSn)
You work for those Greek homos?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:48 PM (YqDXo)
THEY PAY???!!!
Posted by: Shep S. at November 18, 2017 11:51 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Barry from Jakarta at November 18, 2017 11:52 PM (Ndje9)
Tucker asked him something like, "You are aware that it can take around a minute to load one of those things?" Then went through each step in the process.
Undeterred, retard NY pol thought this is why someone would use a "silencer" on their muzzle loader. So they could pick people off before being discovered.
Tucker explained that a "silencer" actually is. NOT. SILENT. Said any shooter with a musket is going to heard, and have people all over him before having a chance to reload.
The retard NY pol didn't care. He was just plain stupid. But that's to be expected with most of the ban guns brigade.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (LHVhu)
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Yep. To him, there are .50 cal muzzle loaders out that shoot rounds that nobody can hear. Cuz a "silencer means you hear nothing.
Posted by: Side draft at November 18, 2017 11:52 PM (lFXN8)
p.s. they have them in the comments there too.
i guess they're everywhere
Posted by: concrete girl at November 18, 2017 11:53 PM (MF4DY)
Sheriff Longmire is trying to figure out if a gun has been recently discharged and he doesn't smell it, first thing.
He looks down the chamber and is puzzled.
Frikkin' Hollywood can ruin anything.
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:51 PM (w7KSn)
There's a new season?
Ha, who knew? Besides navybrat.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 18, 2017 11:53 PM (3/sUh)
Posted by: navybrat at November 18, 2017 11:54 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (y87Qq)
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Yeah, well, ancient Egypt too.
But he's undoubtedly talking about sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 18, 2017 11:54 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (e9G8E)
Not clear what that means.
I lived in Europe for many years. As an American, there was always the confusion that when I wrote 11/12/XX did it mean November 12, or December 11, i.e., whose convention was I following?
The case above may be an example of that, i.e., adopting another culture's notation.
For my part, to avoid ambiguity, I used military style "12 November XX" so my meaning was clear.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:54 PM (YqDXo)
Unless I get substantive answers to each of these questions, I'll consider the point made: sub-Saharan Africa did bupkis.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:46 PM (YqDXo)
"The Color Purple" predates the Code of Hammurabi, h8r.
Posted by: Prof. Henry Louis Gates at November 18, 2017 11:54 PM (zCyNd)
Hey Mike Hammer, good to see you around. Missed you here.
Posted by: Farmer - 2017 GNAMM Survivor at November 18, 2017 11:54 PM (yJ1e6)
19 Championships......(The NCAA took over the sport from the NRA in 1980)........Sooooooo, we've won OVER HALF.
Oh, and it's the Most by 9. Alaska is second with 10.........
And we've WON 5 STRAIGHT.....
In addition too, 7 runner-up finishes
So, ....In 26 of the 37 NCAA sanctioned Championships.....WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY has been 1 or 2.....
By any definition....Dominance.
And the First Gold Medal won by USA at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics......yep, was WON by WVU's Virginia Thrasher. A couple weeks after she WON 3 titles at the NCAA Championships.
http://tinyurl.com/yblg2k9o
Again, check out the tiny........America, true AMERICA abounds.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 18, 2017 11:55 PM (HVt0H)
Posted by: a repo man
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Did they all have those little pine tree deodorizers hanging from the rear view mirror?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 18, 2017 11:50 PM (5OO3x)
Nah, not pine. Baobab.
Posted by: Sub-Saharan Collections, Inc. at November 18, 2017 11:55 PM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 18, 2017 11:54 PM (0jtPF)
Absolutely. Thank you. As should have been apparent when I talked about the lack of a written language (hieroglyphics, anyone?), or the lack of two story buildings (pyramids, anyone?).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (c5fch)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 18, 2017 11:57 PM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: Subway of the Sub-Sahara at November 18, 2017 11:58 PM (zCyNd)
straightforward. The implementation is trivial; it's the underlying
insight that's profound.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 18, 2017 11:24 PM (YqDXo)
I think it had to do with bored kids, travois, and spindle whorls.
The Indo-Europeans from what we can pull from the language had two areas of development, the Southern part that developed into Hittite and related language that didn't use a term for cart, but probably had one for either a plow or a type of travois, and the Northern that had the word for cart or chariot.
The theory is that the Southern is an early breakaway population that predated the development of the wheel. and that moved down into Anatolia early and colonized there. They seemed to have a word that was cognate with plow, or drag, which is perfectly understandable for a population that had horses. It would mean the wheel was a separate and later development from the travois.
The main group stayed in the traditional areas until they developed the wheel and the chariot. Now the chariot is an unusual type of vehicle. It is light, it is flexible, and unlike the ox-cart, the weight is carried between the wheels and the horse, where the rider got to flex and bounce and balance while speeding across the steppes.
Which is pretty much what a travois does, but probably with less speed and agility, since it is dragging sticks around.
Where does the wheel come from for the chariot then?
I have a theory that most ideas come from adaptation of other ideas, especially when talking about techniques.
The steppe-dwellers had horses, they had bits, and they really needed rope. One thing you desperately need when you have fractious horses is rope. They also had textiles, and spun yarn. You can do that by hand, I have been playing with twisting corn shut ropes for example, but a spindle whorl works much better and is pretty instinctual to make and use once you figure that out. The sort of thing bored kids watching the animals graze would do for example.
The earliest ones I would bet were crossed sticks, since one of the issues with twisting yarn or twine by hand is how to keep it from knotting up or dragging it the dirt and catching on stuff and unwinding. If you have some crossed sticks you can wrap it on that, and if you are careful you can make it so you can just slip the sticks out and you have a ball of yarn ready to twist with another ball.
(There is a Turkish style drop spindle just like this for example)
of course the next step is to just spin the sticks to twist the yarn. To get a better spin you start using a block of wood or put a rim on the sticks, since round objects spin better than rough ones.
So anyways, kids being kids with animals, at times try to ride the horses, (we used to try to ride sheep when we were really young) but adults are too heavy, the original horses were too lightly built. So to use them to haul stuff they developed the travois which I referred to above about the Hittite language. And kids being kids probably rode the travois also, because when you are bored out of your head watching goats and horses, anything sounds like excitement.
And you would ride a travois standing between the horse and where the sticks hit the ground.
Now what happens if you have been watching your cousin roll a spindle whorl around in the dirt for a week instead of spinning yard? I bet attaching it to the travois for a smoother, faster ride would be one. Eventually.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2017 11:58 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 18, 2017 11:59 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (c5fch)
Is North Africa or Ethiopia south of the Sahara? I missed that part of geography.
And with respect, I suspect I've read more books than you've changes of clean underwear.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:00 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (c5fch)
That's also a time when most of Africa was desert dwelling mud-smeared pagans.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 19, 2017 12:00 AM (cAnNx)
The hunter sure does remind me of Larry Joe Bird. Hmmm
Posted by: micky at November 19, 2017 12:02 AM (dF9Lb)
Africa, Ethiopia) at a time when most Europeans were swamp-dwelling,
mud-smeared pagans. Islam crushed indigenous African cultures/states. It
is simple fact. Again, read a book.
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (c5fch)
Definitely not Dr Livingstone, I presume?
Posted by: Henry Morton Stanley, inventor of the thermos at November 19, 2017 12:03 AM (zCyNd)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycobgazc
Plugged it in, and it played, but the volume control was real noisy. Took the back off, gave the volume control a shot of DeOxit, and all is well. Pulls in fringe-area stations pretty well, and the 6" speaker has good sound. I see them asking between 40 and 75 dollars for them on ebay.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:03 AM (oPNmq)
- Some experts are worried about a global pandemic
- Other experts think international plaque chance is very low.
Both agree it is worst in 50 years.
And, of course, Madagascar is staying open for business...b/c why not?
Remember Ebola virus? Think that was it. And guy got on plane and brought it back with him to US. I am sure that will not happen.
Both experts agree if it gets to Africa we are looking at big trouble.
We have to be the stupidest planet in the galaxy. Why would you not close Madagascar for awhile.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:03 AM (7UCSd)
You might like the History of English podcast. He starts off talking about Indo-Europeans and even proto-Europeans and where the splits in the language come about in the language tree.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 19, 2017 12:03 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Not nearly disgusted at November 19, 2017 12:03 AM (Y5iLT)
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign
And that time is known as "today".
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 19, 2017 12:04 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:05 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (ycWCI)
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Four episodes of Star Trek were filmed in Mayberry. Goober Pyle makes that a pretty stupid planet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 19, 2017 12:06 AM (+0jcH)
Never underestimate the power of boredom, I bet it happened within weeks.
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:06 AM (9TU00)
Live by the book, die by the book. Trolls gotta troll.
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:07 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 19, 2017 12:07 AM (c5fch)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:00 AM (YqDXo)
Leave my malfunctioning washing machine out of this!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:08 AM (ycWCI)
There's a famous scene from the Joan Collins episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever", where Joan and Kirk are walking in front of Floyd's barbershop.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 19, 2017 12:08 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Old Blue
Well, not all the time anyway.
Posted by: The Romans (who were into some kinky shit) at November 19, 2017 12:09 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 19, 2017 12:09 AM (c5fch)
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign
And that time is known as "today".
Thank God my brother gave me that big refrigerator box to live in!
Posted by: George Obama at November 19, 2017 12:09 AM (pszv/)
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 19, 2017 12:08 AM (8O3HH)
This may explain a lot about Floyd.
Posted by: Aunt Bea's ObGyn at November 19, 2017 12:10 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: navybrat at November 19, 2017 12:11 AM (w7KSn)
You might like the History of English podcast.
He starts off talking about Indo-Europeans and even proto-Europeans and
where the splits in the language come about in the language tree.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 19, 2017 12:03 AM (cAnNx)
I found the history of English podcast while researching information on Hittite. He does lay out the Centum /Satum divide very nicely though.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 12:11 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: navybrat
So the entire length of I-5 is out then.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 19, 2017 12:12 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:12 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:56 PM (c5fch)
Well ... Greek civilization predated Christianity. And the Romans were big before Christianity, too (as we all know because the Romans played such a huge role in the very beginning of Christianity) ... and the Greek and Roman civilizations were the basis of all of Europe, so I don't think your argument is really sound. I mean, at that same time the Romans were fighting off the barbarians from the north (and east) too - the barbarians who eventually took over Europe and adopted Roman (and Greek) ways and advancements.
Yes, islam killed some North African societies but they weren't going all that gangbusters, to begin with. And sub-saharan there has really not been much of anything, save the aforementioned Timbuktu, which was on the south border of the Sahara and did its business across North Africa.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:12 AM (8gDQu)
Hahahaha
I should NOT be laughing, but that doesn't sound like great containment of disease.
I know I am on a totally different wavelength than the other posts tonight. Just being quirky.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:13 AM (7UCSd)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 19, 2017 12:07 AM (c5fch)
Africa produced some good/great civilizations. The problem is, most of these are concentrated in the northern areas. Once you get below the equator, the takings are mighty slim on the ground.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:13 AM (ycWCI)
Was it over when Arminius bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
to-GA! to-GA!
Posted by: Blutarskus at November 19, 2017 12:13 AM (zCyNd)
But what do I know, I'm not a troll.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:13 AM (y87Qq)
Whose weren't?
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9g9rjym
Posted by: zombie edmund, lord blackadder at November 19, 2017 12:14 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: navybrat at November 19, 2017 12:11 AM (w7KSn)
So, no Detroit for you?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:14 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 19, 2017 12:07 AM (c5fch)
Because to zeroth order it still IS a primitive backwater (not Rousseauan, since the "noble savage" was purely a product of Rousseau's fevered imagination). Even with a century of effort, the white man has barely raised them from their state of ignorance. How else to explain, e.g, foreign aid to them, or the Peace Corps? Japan only became opened to the West in 1858; less than 50 years later, it was a world power, and we don't have to provide Japan with foreign aid, nor do we send the Peace Corps there.
Why?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:14 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla
1. Madagascar is actually a pretty big place. Projected onto the USA it stretches from the FL/GA line to Quebec. (I always use over projections like thetruesize.com when briefing)
2. There are lots of cultural and business connections with ZA, Tanzania, Seychelles, and MZB. (Boats, scary ferrys, small planes, etc.)
3. The government couldn't hope to do it. Even if they called out the Army, they simply do not have the ability.
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:15 AM (9TU00)
Do you know that was not the original Floyd? There was a prior Floyd and he was nothing like the actor who took the role over permanently.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:15 AM (7UCSd)
'Cause those darn penguins will figure out a way to escape and bring King Julien with them.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:15 AM (IcT7t)
Why?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Because Japan has so many natural resources: oil, rubber, iron ore, ...
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:16 AM (9TU00)
I am not sure they didn't use rollers because they did do some megalithic works.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 12:16 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:15 AM (9TU00)
Sure, but it's only serviced by two small ferries and one old biplane. Take them out and it's totally cut off.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:17 AM (8gDQu)
Do you know that was not the original Floyd?
There was a prior Floyd and he was nothing like the actor who took the
role over permanently.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:15 AM (7UCSd)
I heard about that...the original Floyd disappeared the day Kennedy was shot...
Posted by: Art Bell's bartender at November 19, 2017 12:17 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:12 AM (gEvQ
Wasn't there some civilization that had wheels on kids' little horsey toys but never used them for anything serious? I think that was in the southwestern hemisphere.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:17 AM (y87Qq)
Jay Guevara - I noted a couple of weeks ago that Churchill in his memoranda used the format dd.mmm.yy, with the days indicated in decimal, the month in Roman numerals, and year in decimal.
June 6, 1940 -> 6.VI.40
Perhaps this was common practice in the British government? I have no idea. At any rate, as long as it is remembered that the Roman numerals represent the month, it disambiguates the notation.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2017 12:18 AM (5OO3x)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:13 AM (ycWCI)
Definitely. I've been to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, where frescoes depict Egyptians in their war chariots riding down black Africans (Sudanese). They were definitely two different peoples.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:18 AM (YqDXo)
Where was any of that in this thread?
Don't use big words you don't understand Billy
Posted by: MAxIE at November 19, 2017 12:18 AM (9TR2V)
was never invented in our hemisphere. The Mayan and Inca cultures were
very advanced but they never used the wheel."
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We had to wait for California to issue us driver's licenses.
Posted by: your amigo at November 19, 2017 12:19 AM (zCyNd)
advanced trading empire, lots of territory and wealth. Just about the
only real existential threat to the old Republic. Ended up as a greasy
smoking shallow crater in North Africa.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 18, 2017 11:41 PM (y87Qq)
And Carthage was situated in North Africa, but it was a Phoenician city, and built and occupied by white people of mediterranean origin. And ancient Egypt was mostly white, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:19 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:19 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:14 AM (YqDXo)
The culture is the defining characteristic. Maybe 'culture' is the wrong word. With Japan, they intentionally adopted the aspects they wanted from the west (System of learning, science, mathematics, medicine, etc.) What we have done in Africa is merely given a man a fish instead of trying to teach a man to fish.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:19 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:20 AM (gEvQ8)
camels to North Africa in order to expel CO2 and lay global warming
waste to the fertile Sahara.
I'm not going to bother looking for the series' name or the English, female historian behind it, but I recently saw a documentary series on Ontario's PBS that had this woman claim that the Roman Climate Optimum, yes, existed but it was caused by the Romans' industrial work like silver mining. I couldn't believe it when she said it. Just knocked me on my ass although, admittedly as I was already sitting, that was pretty easy.
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 12:21 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:17 AM (y87Qq)
Think you are talking about the Inca.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:21 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2017 12:18 AM (5OO3x)
No idea re the Brit government of the time, although Brits today sometimes do that.
I preferred the totally unambiguous 6 June XXXX.
The funny part is that in dating files, I use big-endian (or is this little-endian) usage: XXMMDD, because then it's easy to sort things chronologically.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:22 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 12:22 AM (2K6fY)
I guess. But they are surrounded by water. Only Planes & Boats would need to be monitored. Maybe we could send in the UN troops we pay for.
I actually don't think it'll get to the US, but wouldn't be surprised if got to Africa. If someone gets sick, I do not trust them to stay in Madagascar. I am cynical/realistic about human nature. So I think more steps are needed. If they said they were closed for awhile, it'd shut down traffic at least, lessen it.
Oh hell, what do I know.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:22 AM (7UCSd)
June 6, 1940 -> 6.VI.40
Perhaps this was common practice in the British government? I have no idea. At any rate, as long as it is remembered that the Roman numerals represent the month, it disambiguates the notation.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2017 12:18 AM (5OO3x
Maybe he did that because of May and March, June and July.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 19, 2017 12:23 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:19 AM (ycWCI)
And that is a horrible, demeaning way to deal with people.
Posted by: EBT/WIC/ accepted here! at November 19, 2017 12:23 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: MAxIE at November 19, 2017 12:23 AM (9TR2V)
I had a neighbor, been gone for quite a few years now, who was the spittin' image of Floyd the Barber. I always though he had similar mannerisms, but others didn't see it -- it may have been my imagination, since they looked so much alike.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at November 19, 2017 12:23 AM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:24 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow........GNAMM ette at November 19, 2017 12:24 AM (mMeIQ)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:45 PM (c5fch)
So, from your own link, a Semitic people, not African. Colonists, even.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:25 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: MAxIE at November 19, 2017 12:25 AM (9TR2V)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:25 AM (gEvQ8)
Great concept for a sketch, Andy, but SCTV came to an end many years ago.
Posted by: Farm Film Fart Report at November 19, 2017 12:25 AM (zCyNd)
Yea, what Old Blue said. IRL I can hold my own on history. With the horde it is clear I know Nothing! Very humbling. Very. Pisses me off.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (7UCSd)
Posted by: EBT/WIC/ accepted here! at November 19, 2017 12:23 AM (zCyNd)
Agreed- and point taken. It shows what most of these well meaning 'liberals' truly think of the people they are trying to help.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Pontiac at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (7ulel)
From what little I've read, pneumonic.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (IcT7t)
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Yep, Walter Baldwin played Floyd in an early episode. He got Darinned.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (+0jcH)
Posted by: andycanuck
Thank God for all that feudal heaven industry, yo!
Posted by: Medieval Warm Period English Viniculturists, Ltd. at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: gNewt at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (BoJzR)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:24 AM (ycWCI)
There was an outbreak in Germany but it turned out to be Teutonic.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:27 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 12:27 AM (2K6fY)
As always, The Horde of Magnificence shone through.....
The Horde Abides......fuckin beautiful.
An aside.......
The WVU Rifle Team would finish in the Top 5 at the Championships with .50 Cal muzzleloaders.......cause they truly are That Fuckin Competent.
Professionalism and Proficiency tells the tale at the end of the day.
Those ATHLETES, are awe inspirin y'all....their dedication as students/citizens and to their Craft......Impressive.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 19, 2017 12:27 AM (HVt0H)
But Western civilization goes back much further than the Romans or the Greeks, though Egyptian civilization goes back even further than that. But, the Egyptians had shot their load by the time the Greeks were really happening and that was really all the Egyptians had to offer. They have been a non-issue ever since - as a nation or people, at least. Their grain was always important ... until the muslims came around, of course.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:28 AM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Old Blue
***********************
If the Mayans had had pencils they would have figured it out.
Posted by: gNewt at November 19, 2017 12:28 AM (BoJzR)
Excluding a type of death due to it's color would be racist, yo.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:28 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:19 AM (ycWCI)/i]
Frankly, I think it's a matter of intelligence. The Japanese are frighteningly good at recognizing what's of merit, and adopting it. We didn't give it to them; they saw it and seized it, even if we tried to impede them doing that. They adopted the ethos, and extended it vigorously, at one point scaring the shit out of us.
The problem with Africa is exactly the opposite. We're trying to teach them, but it's a tough slog. It's like burning a wet mule with $100 bills.
I just bought a number of items that were manufactured in China. Why China, and not Africa? China was poor, and had a shitload of idle labor, just like Africa.
Yet China is prospering, yet Africa is poor. Why?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:28 AM (YqDXo)
From what little I've read, pneumonic.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:26 AM (IcT7t)
Crap. Well, that's not good. High transmission rate and very high (close to 95% mortality without treatment.) Can be spread person to person, not just by animals.
IIRC from my epidemics course, my professor suggested that pneumonic outbreaks during the middle ages usually burned itself out before spreading to other communities.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:29 AM (ycWCI)
Plague is endemic on the central high plateau of Madagascar, usually occurring every year as a seasonal upsurge during the rainy season between September and April.[7] This pattern has occurred since about 1990 with the annual number of cases typically between 800 to 1500.
Hell of a scary-sounding thing to happen 'seasonally'.
Posted by: t-bird at November 19, 2017 12:30 AM (tIhIY)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 12:30 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:31 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at November 19, 2017 12:31 AM (w+Jhj)
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 18, 2017 11:45 PM (c5fch)
So, from your own link, a Semitic people, not African. Colonists, even.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:25 AM (oPNmq
Seems like it may have been a bit of a mixed group. But also seems like per that link they were building single story buildings consisting mostly of mud. Which uh seems to be a big point Jay has been making.
Posted by: buzzion - guess my sign at November 19, 2017 12:31 AM (cAnNx)
Posted by: t-bird at November 19, 2017 12:30 AM (tIhIY)/i]
FWIW, plague is a problem - usually dealt with swiftly - in the American Southwest.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:31 AM (YqDXo)
That was a bit before world wide air travel.
Posted by: navybrat at November 19, 2017 12:32 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:24 AM (ycWCI)
Pneumonic. Now they are being told not to spit. Antibiotics have worked so far, but they expect the plaque to adapt b/c of large quantities they are using. The patients leaving hospitals before treatment are then spreading to others. They've had less deaths in last few weeks, but they expect it is only a lull.
9 countries have been told to be on alert and prepare.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:32 AM (7UCSd)
the notion that Africa was more than some primitive Rousseauian idyll
before the Mighty White Man showed up to gently raise them from their
state of ignorance.
Posted by: I have never been so disgusted in you people at November 19, 2017 12:07 AM (c5fch)
Well, if they were conquered by muslims, they were still in a state of ignorance, weren't they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:32 AM (oPNmq)
-Posted by: AshevilleRobert at November 19, 2017 12:31 AM (w+Jhj)
Pale Moon:
https://www.palemoon.org/
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 19, 2017 12:33 AM (Ckg4U)
outbreaks during the middle ages usually burned itself out before
spreading to other communities.
So does that mean the community isolated the sick, or that everybody died between travelers visiting the town?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:33 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 19, 2017 12:33 AM (e9G8E)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:33 AM (gEvQ8)
Tal Wilkenfeld is the reason why the Fender Jazz Bass was created.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 19, 2017 12:34 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 19, 2017 12:28 AM (YqDXo)
And we come back to culture again. I understand the point you are trying to make, but I do not agree. I think culture (not just how you do something, but why you do) plays a huge role here. Also, cultural tribalism vs group work and purpose.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:34 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I think islam is the official religion of the State of Ignorance.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 19, 2017 12:35 AM (5wCUq)
Learned that and was like wth? I guess they are use to 600 bubonic plaque cases a year "over there".
Issue is with the people...saw it with Ebola too. Not going for treatment, therefore spread to others, and their customs. Ebola was contained...until it wasn't.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:35 AM (7UCSd)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:33 AM (IcT7t)
The latter. And Navybrat makes a good point about air travel.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:36 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 19, 2017 12:36 AM (e9G8E)
I've been told that Ignorance is bliss. People living under the yoke of Islam do not appear blissful. If anything, they seem perpetually pissed off.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:36 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 12:37 AM (mJ8mX)
Hahahaha
I should NOT be laughing, but that doesn't sound like great containment of disease.
I know I am on a totally different wavelength than the other posts tonight. Just being quirky.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:13 AM (7UCSd)
Where is the Umbrella corporation when you need them?
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 12:37 AM (aMlLZ)
I personally find it to be a very satisfying hobby.
Posted by: what's that in the road-a head? at November 19, 2017 12:37 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 19, 2017 12:36 AM (e9G8E)
It's Bird Flu that's gonna kill us all. Any day now ...
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:37 AM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:37 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at November 19, 2017 12:38 AM (e9G8E)
Because you were sick.
Maybe you could get 20 miles or so, even on a horse.
Today you can board an international flight with an oxygen tank and a comfort animal and go for 12 or more hours flight or so.
Posted by: navybrat at November 19, 2017 12:38 AM (w7KSn)
I personally find it to be a very satisfying hobby.
That's one way to come out ahead in the home decorating game.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:39 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:40 AM (9TU00)
Because you were sick.
Posted by: navybrat at November 19, 2017 12:38 AM (w7KSn)
But you could still get flung over the walls at Cafa by the Mongols.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:40 AM (8gDQu)
I've been missing the Battle Roy-AL (Pulp Fiction style, with cheese) Goin on.......
Give me Hannibal's Elephants with a side of The Golden Horde!
A Horde Engaged is a thing to behold.
Abso-fuckin-lutely LOVE the ONT.......unsurpassed.
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 19, 2017 12:40 AM (HVt0H)
To give them their due, the Aztecs did invent tzompantli.
I personally find it to be a very satisfying hobby.
That's one way to come out ahead in the home decorating game.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:39 AM (IcT7t)
There were some issues with the HOA.Were.
Posted by: what's that in the road-a head? at November 19, 2017 12:41 AM (zCyNd)
Ancient Peruvia invented the wheel but they only used them to beat in the heads of Skittle thieves.
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 12:41 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:39 AM (IcT7t)
There were some issues with the HOA.Were.
Posted by: what's that in the road-a head? at November 19, 2017 12:41 AM (zCyNd)
Lol.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:41 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:42 AM (y87Qq)
I personally find it to be a very satisfying hobby.
"That's one way to come out ahead in the home decorating game."
-Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:39 AM (IcT7t)
Paint the skulls different colors and call that an abacus. It is how I figure my taxes year-over-year.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 19, 2017 12:43 AM (Ckg4U)
Because you were sick.
Posted by: navybrat at November 19, 2017 12:38 AM (w7KSn)
The US didn't let people with Tuberculosis in either. They had to be cured first. Now we waive them thru the doors; there have been outbreaks & deaths. But hey, whatever.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:43 AM (7UCSd)
But thanks for the tamales anyway.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 19, 2017 12:43 AM (+0jcH)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:37 AM (8gDQu)
And the new variant only affects evil Rethuglicans.
Revenge is mine!!
Posted by: Big Bird at November 19, 2017 12:43 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: gNewt at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (BoJzR)
Posted by: Old Blue
Really, the Chinese got most of their killing on before TV, but there are lots of places in China where you can stack skulls.
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (9TU00)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 12:27 AM (2K6fY)
I expect bison could be tamed, if there were a need to do so. Castrate the bulls to make oxen; that was routinely done with cattle to make them tractable draft animals. And moose can be broke to saddle, or to pull a cart, plenty of examples of that. Big drawback to moose as draft animals is that they require a diet of browse, which doesn't lend itself baling like hay, and they get ornery in rutting season.
And even lacking draft animals, people-powered wheeled vehicles are useful, and huge labor-savers. Bicycles, and wheelbarrows, eh?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:42 AM (y87Qq)
We all know that everyone dies of smoking, anyway. Either smoking, second-hand smoke, third-hand contact or fourth-hand cigarette affliction. If it weren't for cigarettes we would all be immortal.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (smD62)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:24 AM (ycWCI)
There was an outbreak in Germany but it turned out to be Teutonic.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:27 AM (y87Qq)<<<
A plague epidemic at the HQ would be Moronic.
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (LHVhu)
Posted by: mexico city weather bureau for travelers at November 19, 2017 12:45 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (9TU00)
The Mongols used a few of them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:45 AM (ycWCI)
It's been typo mistakes all night. Don't correct b/c figure you guys know that. But just in case...
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:45 AM (7UCSd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:45 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (oPNmq)
Human labor intensive.
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:46 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (9TU00)
The Chinese name for the Great Wall is "The World's Longest Cemetery".
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 12:46 AM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division
Nice. I want to register that name at an address up the 270 corridor just to see who pings my website.
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:46 AM (9TU00)
And even lacking draft animals, people-powered wheeled vehicles are useful, and huge labor-savers. Bicycles, and wheelbarrows, eh?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (oPNmq)
Couldn't you castrate the moose to make him less ornrey during season?
Poor moose.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (smD62)
Posted by: Jean
My mentor taught me that 1 death is a tragedy, 1 million is a statistic. So 60 million must be "meh", right?
Posted by: Chairman Mao at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Pneumonic, its why everyone is talking about it
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (9TU00)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:44 AM (smD62)
WeirdDave was asking about you the other night.
Also the dry cleaners said your stuff was ready to pick up.
I think that's all.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Muldoon at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (smD62)
Semi drunk, let the really bad spelling and grammer begin!
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (smD62)
Temperature dropping like a rock here after a high of 64. Rainy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (ycWCI)
Not liking this.
No sirree.
Posted by: Moosie Drier at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (zCyNd)
Poor moose.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (ycWCI)
I'm really trying to come up with a "The Moose out front should have told you" joke, but I'm not coming up with anything.
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (gEvQ8)
It's the only landscape by which someone like Tucker can do what he does night after night after night. As someone here said, we live in an age of Petards.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 19, 2017 12:49 AM (rnAwa)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:49 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 12:50 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (gEvQ
Fuck you, buddy.
Posted by: The Moose out front, still in possession of his gonads at November 19, 2017 12:50 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:50 AM (smD62)
-Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (aMlLZ)
*HAH!*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 19, 2017 12:50 AM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: The Minoans at November 19, 2017 12:51 AM (+0jcH)
No kidding? What about?
Weird Dave, not the dry cleaning, lol
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:50 AM (smD62)
WD was just checking to see if anyone had heard from you after your excursion to the Continent. He was worried since he had not seen your nic about.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:51 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: The Moose out front, still in possession of his gonads at November 19, 2017 12:50 AM (ycWCI)
You win the Interwebz! Still laughing!
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:51 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (ycWCI)
Mid 40s to low 30s here for the last week and the next. Some rain and snow but nothing sticks.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 12:51 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:46 AM (gEvQ
To some extent. But less labor per unit of work accomplished than doing without. You can move a lot more dirt with less effort in a wheelbarrow than toting it in a basket, and you can cover a lot more miles with less effort on a bicycle than on foot.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:51 AM (oPNmq)
I have now been thru US Customs and Immigration at almost every International airport.
There is one agent for every 500 passengers.
You will be waved thru even if you are in a wheelchair with an IV and oxygen.
I've seen it.
Posted by: navybrat at November 19, 2017 12:51 AM (w7KSn)
Wishing I was dying of pnemonic plague.
I've been miserable all day, and it is seeming to get worse.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:52 AM (smD62)
Not liking this.
No sirree.
Right there with you.
Posted by: Bullwinkle at November 19, 2017 12:52 AM (IcT7t)
Pneumonic, its why everyone is talking about it
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:47 AM (9TU00)
"pneumonic", from homo Greek origin.
The culturally sensitive term is Ebonic.
Posted by: Department of Studies at November 19, 2017 12:52 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Captain Petard at November 19, 2017 12:52 AM (IqV8l)
Mongo like.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 19, 2017 12:52 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: The Peorians at November 19, 2017 12:53 AM (OJ0uh)
Wishing I was dying of pnemonic plague.
I've been miserable all day, and it is seeming to get worse.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:52 AM (smD62)
Well considering you quite literally drown in plague bacteria, it is not a way to go I would recommend.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:53 AM (ycWCI)
Tomorrow will be better.
And If I'm wrong, well, not like it's the first time.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 12:53 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:54 AM (gEvQ8)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 19, 2017 12:54 AM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Old Blue at November 19, 2017 12:54 AM (gEvQ
Night, Old Blue.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:55 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:55 AM (oPNmq)
I don't think it transfers over particularly well for obviously Roman/post-Roman North African Christians compared to "most" of Europe (especially not for thoroughly-Romanized Britain, France, Belgium and Spain).
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 12:55 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:55 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: Shep! at November 19, 2017 12:55 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Elliot M. at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (UTKPt)
I am now to the point that swallowing water hurts, and I sound like a dude.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (smD62)
The Sun God'll come out for tamales. Betcher bottom dollar.
Posted by: Muldoon at November 19, 2017 12:48 AM (wPiJc)
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Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (0jtPF)
"We were the world's greatest engineers while your ancestors were painting themselves blue."
Sounds like NFL fans.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (IqV8l)
Manhes, the Unicef deputy representative, sums it up. “Because of its isolation and because of lack of international interest, what happens in Madagascar stays in Madagascar.”
Kinda like Las Vegas.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (7UCSd)
No, I'll start running and you castrate him.
Posted by: t-bird at November 19, 2017 12:57 AM (H0quv)
Posted by: Elliot M. at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (UTKPt)
have you seen how a tapir is hung? They make a draft horse feel inadequate.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 12:57 AM (2K6fY)
I am now to the point that swallowing water hurts, and I sound like a dude.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (smD62)
Any swelling on either side of your neck?
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 12:57 AM (aMlLZ)
I have now been thru US Customs and Immigration at almost every International airport.
There is one agent for every 500 passengers.
You will be waved thru even if you are in a wheelchair with an IV and oxygen.
I've seen it.
Posted by: navybrat
I have been refused boarding coming out of Brazil because I was rocking a high fever. They comp'ed me a hotel room, the airport nurse gave me some pills, and I crashed for 24hrs.
CBP relies on the airlines to make the call.
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:57 AM (9TU00)
The Incas and Aztec's had no beasts of burden. All cargo/transport was on foot. The roads, therefore were mere footpaths - through jungle and mountains. They actually did have wheels, though, --- on children's toys. They saw no other use - no 'mills' for grinding maize, no 'water wheels' for other power --- and those would have been very sophisticated and advanced technology.
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 19, 2017 12:58 AM (agasX)
tickle in my throat, no pain.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (smD62)<<<
Sorry. It was just a joke, ok.
Posted by: Al Franken at November 19, 2017 12:58 AM (LHVhu)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:55 AM (oPNmq)
Yes, but pneumonic is different. (This is from classes around 20 years ago, so someone may correct me.) Pneumonic roots in the lungs (hence Pneumo-.) The bacteria multiplies out of control (just like bubonic) and, being in the lungs, can be spread airborne through coughing or even normal speech.
If I remember, it's growth is far faster, something like 2-3 days as compared to bubonic which takes around a week.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 12:58 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Kindltot
Go on...
Posted by: Catherine the Great at November 19, 2017 12:58 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:58 AM (smD62)
-Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 12:57 AM (aMlLZ)
It might be a goiter.
Posted by: That Kid From Kindergarten Cop at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Elliot M. at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (UTKPt)
I know tapirs are a large South American beast, and that's about the limit of my knowledge. Are they not of the anteater line?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (oPNmq)
How bad was the typhoon Halsey sailed the fleet through, found a couple pictures that kinda show the full force and impact. When a Sumner class destroyer is so buried by the ocean that it looks like the No.1 5in turret is the bow, well...
http://www.airgroup4.com/halsey.htm
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (Edyyb)
I don't think it transfers over particularly well for obviously Roman/post-Roman North African Christians compared to "most" of Europe (especially not for thoroughly-Romanized Britain, France, Belgium and Spain).
Posted by: andycanuck
hating blue people is racist
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (9TU00)
Posted by: Knossos Frisbee Club at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: That Kid From Kindergarten Cop at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (Ckg4U)
Iodine!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:01 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 12:55 AM (oPNmq)
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I read that the plague originated in some isolated village in the Egyptian desert. When it made it to Alexandria, it spread to Constantinople, and once it hit the center of the eastern Roman Empire, there was no stopping it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 19, 2017 01:01 AM (+0jcH)
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (9TU00)
Not when they are Na'vi, it isn't
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:01 AM (2K6fY)
I am now to the point that swallowing water hurts, and I sound like a dude.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (smD62)
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Yikes. Could be strep.
You'd better get it checked tomorrow.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 19, 2017 01:02 AM (0jtPF)
Not liking this.
No sirree.
Right there with you.
Posted by: Bullwinkle at November 19, 2017 12:52 AM (IcT7t)
They are. Saw a PBS special over a year ago. I think it was Alaska? Or maybe Canada. It's been a year peoplen I only retain the interesting bits...and the castration was it & they've had good results.
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 01:02 AM (7UCSd)
Posted by: Elliot M. at November 19, 2017 12:56 AM (UTKPt)
Tapirs are OK I guess. I just feel bad for the kid who has his heart set on a capybara and comes downstairs to find a tapir under the Christmas tree though.
And a discus is a cichlid, what does that even have to do with this.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 01:02 AM (y87Qq)
It's Culturalism..........
Always has been.......Always will be.
The rest of the ISMS are simply "symptoms/examples/manifestations" of Culturalism in action.
Debating the "what if's" of what a Culture would've become without exposure to another........why?
History is what it is. IT'S what happened.
Learning the lessons available and applying them PROACTIVELY......that's the key.
Just my Gridiron distracted Two Cents.......
But the Hordes postin proficiency is so captivatin it makes multi taskin difficult...... especially the more Top Shelf Shine imbibed....heh.
Toast y'all!
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 19, 2017 01:02 AM (HVt0H)
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at November 19, 2017 12:59 AM (Edyyb)
That's a bit of 'rough seas'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:02 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: gNewt at November 19, 2017 01:02 AM (BoJzR)
If you have updates for the AoSHQ Prayer List, please email me. Email is in the nic.
The list will be updated tomorrow.
G'Night, Ev'ry-Buddy!
*static*
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at November 19, 2017 01:03 AM (Ckg4U)
Last time I had pain while drinking it was strep throat.
For some reason I always sound like a dude, so can't really help you there.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 01:03 AM (IcT7t)
Yeah that was my thought too, but with it being a short week at work and lots to do for Thanksgiving....strep just isn't gonna work for me.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 01:03 AM (smD62)
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 01:02 AM (7UCSd)
So tundra oysters are better than mountain oysters?
Posted by: no appetizer for me at November 19, 2017 01:03 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:04 AM (2K6fY)
cargo/transport was on foot. The roads, therefore were mere footpaths -
through jungle and mountains. They actually did have wheels, though,
--- on children's toys. They saw no other use - no 'mills' for grinding
maize, no 'water wheels' for other power --- and those would have been
very sophisticated and advanced technology.
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 19, 2017 12:58 AM (agasX)
So they simply lacked the insight to scale up the toy-sized wheels to a useful size. Almost sounds like a taboo at work. Any footpath that people can walk on readily could accommodate a wheelbarrow, or even a "walking bicycle". And once the utility of those crude vehicles became apparent, one would think roads would get improved, and larger vehicles built.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 01:04 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:04 AM (ycWCI)
Or maybe Canada. It's been a year peoplen I only retain the interesting
bits...and the castration was it they've had good results.
Crap, I hope Rocky doesn't see this thread.
Posted by: Bullw at November 19, 2017 01:04 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: hogmartin
Because he wants you to throw around the idea, like a discus.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 19, 2017 01:05 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 01:04 AM (oPNmq)
Might also have to do with a difference of terrain. Just spit-balling here. May also have to do with a difference of how the layout of tribes worked. There were so many different tribes that they might look at easily traversable paths as a double edged sword. It might allow trade and people to move more efficiently in your territory, but it would also give an invader the same advantage.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (ycWCI)
I would be more likely to be wondering why the Americas never developed bog-iron
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 19, 2017 01:05 AM (5wCUq)
Who throws a fish?
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (y87Qq)
I think dogs came with them.
Posted by: gNewt at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (BoJzR)
useful size. Almost sounds like a taboo at work. Any footpath that
people can walk on readily could accommodate a wheelbarrow, or
even a "walking bicycle". And once the utility of those crude vehicles
became apparent, one would think roads would get improved, and larger
vehicles built.
Unless someone tried the bicycle idea, on a steep downhill with a sudden curve near the bottom.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Gundrop Gorilla is in trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 01:08 AM (7UCSd)
-Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (y87Qq)
Visit our Markets!
Posted by: Seattle at November 19, 2017 01:08 AM (Ckg4U)
Not that I can tell but...maybe?
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 12:58 AM (smD62)
I had something similar last year. I'm never sick, no colds, no flu, zip, nadda. But, there was this bug going around and it sounded like the thing you're going through. There was a slight swelling on the right side of the neck. Day 1 sounds exactly the same, but.... by day 2 I couldn't swallow a sip of water without 2 gulps because my throat was closing up. At night I was waking up gasping for air every 15 minutes because the swelling. It was nasty. I had to go to a walk in clinic, they knew what it was immediately, gave me a shot and I was good as new in a few hours. The swelling was the thing that made it bad.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2017 01:08 AM (aMlLZ)
Posted by: tobias funke at November 19, 2017 01:09 AM (mJ8mX)
efficiently in your territory, but it would also give an invader the
same advantage.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (ycWCI)
The Maya had long, wide, paved roads called sacbe.
Today, nobody really knows why.
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at November 19, 2017 01:09 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: jerry seinfeld's nanna at November 19, 2017 01:10 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (y87Qq)
Lew Zealand!!!
https://youtu.be/jAsreACQdZA
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:10 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (IcT7t)
"Dead Man's curve" was a big pop hit in the america's of the 1400's.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:10 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: me at November 19, 2017 01:11 AM (exjNn)
Today, nobody really knows why.
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at November 19, 2017 01:09 AM (zCyNd)
Or wut they were doin'
Posted by: Spinal Tap at November 19, 2017 01:11 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:11 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2017 01:12 AM (y3sT9)
Posted by: Erich von Daniken at November 19, 2017 01:12 AM (zCyNd)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8fosdon
Take-away: it's economically unsound for several reasons, but if moose were all you had as draft animals, it could be done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 01:14 AM (oPNmq)
Eek....yeah I don't really have any other symptoms....no fever, no congestion, no runny or stopped up nose...just the throat.
@563
Hmmmm....hopefully not.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 01:14 AM (smD62)
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:07 AM (2K6fY)
There wasn't much of an advantage to smelted anything over hammered copper. Well, there is, but not enough to spur them to bother with smelting iron. Copper is pretty much everywhere in the upper Great Lakes region. Hammered copper wasn't at all uncommon for the natives here.
I can't speak to what people elsewhere were up to because anywhere that isn't the midwest is imaginary, QED.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 01:15 AM (y87Qq)
Did a vehicle
Come from somewhere out there
Just to land in the andes?
Was it round
And did it have
A motor
Or was it
Something
Different?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2017 01:16 AM (IqV8l)
Yeah that was my thought too, but with it being a short week at work and lots to do for Thanksgiving....strep just isn't gonna work for me.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 01:03 AM (smD62)
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Left untreated, strep infections are dangerous.
Any drive-by clinic can fix you up pronto if it is strep.
And you'll feel better much sooner.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 19, 2017 01:17 AM (0jtPF)
Take-away: it's economically unsound for several reasons, but if moose were all you had as draft animals, it could be done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 01:14 AM (oPNmq)
Sir:
What is the average height of a female moose? The bactrian camel is a suitable point of reference.
Sincerely,Committee on Sustainability and DiversityKing Faisal University
Posted by: she' all moose at November 19, 2017 01:17 AM (zCyNd)
And still do.
Posted by: Erich von Daniken at November 19, 2017 01:12 AM (zCyNd)
There was a wonderful picture in a Paraguayan newspaper that I saw online a few years ago of Evo Morales hunkered down with a couple of Curanderos (witch doctors) around a campfire, and the headline of the article was something along the lines of "Bolivia's Satellite Program Has Launched."
It was about a Bolivian telecom satellite being launched by ESA, but still. . .
They don't pull their punches down there.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:18 AM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2017 01:12 AM (y3sT9)
I had that few years ago. Took at least a month to get rid of it. Nasty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 19, 2017 01:18 AM (oPNmq)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 01:19 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 01:19 AM (mJ8mX)
They don't pull their punches down there.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2017 01:18 AM (2K6fY)
Don't tug on Superman's cape.
Don't pull on Evo's poncho.
Posted by: Bolovian "snowfall" at November 19, 2017 01:20 AM (zCyNd)
Did you self-teach yourself to speak Portuguese, AOP, while your sex life was limited for health reasons?
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 01:20 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 19, 2017 01:21 AM (5wCUq)
Posted by: Tickled Pink at November 19, 2017 01:22 AM (smD62)
Domestication is a tricky subject. Even modern bison ranches have been unable to produce a pliable critter. Europeans have tried for two centuries to domesticate African wildlife without success (c.f. zebra, eland, and ibex).
It appears that there must be some instinctual behavior pattern that allows for particular species to submit to domestication - human desires and efforts jusgt are not enough.
Posted by: Lurking Cynic at November 19, 2017 01:22 AM (agasX)
It's really been kewl gettin' some historical-type knowledge.
Prayers up for all the Morons who could use them.
Y'all try to behave.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 19, 2017 01:23 AM (tRaq7)
Posted by: andycanuck at November 19, 2017 01:24 AM (mJ8mX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:24 AM (ycWCI)
Any drive-by clinic can fix you up pronto if it is strep.
And you'll feel better much sooner.
Heed this advice. When I did have strep it was some persistent strain. Took three tries and six weeks to get rid of.
If you have it, you want to know now, and you want to kill it.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 01:24 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:24 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at November 19, 2017 01:25 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 01:24 AM (IcT7t)
Just like the DC Movie Universe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:25 AM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 01:26 AM (IcT7t)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at November 19, 2017 01:28 AM (AxFdW)
Posted by: MAxIE at November 19, 2017 01:28 AM (9TR2V)
My Spanish isn't that great, "Good nachos to the dead"?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at November 19, 2017 01:26 AM (IcT7t)
It's a slang phrase meaning " I like your sister's taco".
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at November 19, 2017 01:29 AM (zCyNd)
It's gumdrop, not gundrop.
Sigh. I need my eyes checked.
Nic now correct.
Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 01:29 AM (7UCSd)
Unfulfilled Potential 101.....
How so many HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of Dollars can be spent and still Fuck It Up........
Wow
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 19, 2017 01:31 AM (HVt0H)
Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 01:29 AM (7UCSd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azKfAfZeSpM
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 01:31 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 19, 2017 01:32 AM (HVt0H)
Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 01:33 AM (7UCSd)
Posted by: Hillbillyking at November 19, 2017 01:38 AM (HVt0H)
Posted by: andycanuck
fixed ...
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 01:39 AM (9TU00)
fixed ...
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 01:39 AM (9TU00)
You know that will change the sentence from probation to life...
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at November 19, 2017 01:41 AM (zCyNd)
First need to castrate Bullwinkle, and then to bed.
Of course, I've had had Mr. Magoo eyes today, so Bullwinkle's probably safe.
Nite
Posted by: Gumdrop Gorilla is in double trouble bubble at November 19, 2017 01:44 AM (7UCSd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 19, 2017 01:46 AM (ycWCI)
Going to pin this here, and check back until I sign out. Because apparently I keep missing you by a minute or so. Twice!
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 02:05 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2017 02:06 AM (y3sT9)
Posted by: Jean at November 19, 2017 02:08 AM (9TU00)
I liked the one hitched to a sulky.
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 02:09 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 02:11 AM (x3yKT)
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 02:21 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at November 19, 2017 02:38 AM (zCyNd)
Posted by: Infidel on the phone at November 19, 2017 02:51 AM (3XqsM)
How are you able to do those Swedish letters? Impressive.
Best credits in a film, after Bambi Meets Godzilla.
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 03:01 AM (x3yKT)
Blahblah, not your problem; just throwing down with some empathy.
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 03:09 AM (x3yKT)
Time to revisit "A Christmas Story".
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at November 19, 2017 03:13 AM (e1mEI)
Omg yes! That first chilly day that you have to turn on the heater & everyone walks around asking, "Is something burning?" And the dogs keep sneezing.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 19, 2017 03:31 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 03:01 AM (x3yKT)
Two ways, and they're both really easy. Start with and end with ; and stick the value in between with no spaces. That one happens to have a convenient mnemonic (lots of 'special' characters do), in this case it's oslash. So ampersand oslash semicolon, no spaces: ø. Others include ntilde ñ and ccedil ç.
If the character you want doesn't have a mnemonic, look around for a UTF-8 character chart and use the same ampersand-value-semicolon notation with an octothorpe ('pound sign') and the hexidecimal code for the character where the mnemonic would go. See if this works... #xf8; should produce ø.
There's always the chance that it won't get read properly or it'll be mistyped and the post ends up looking dumb. There are also lots of conversion sites that let you type the characters and get the output in some usable format. The codes are called 'HTML entities', so searching around for that should turn something up.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 03:40 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 03:42 AM (y87Qq)
Sans Sonobi, too.
Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 19, 2017 03:52 AM (GzDYP)
Yours showed up fine though.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 03:54 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 19, 2017 04:00 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 19, 2017 04:04 AM (wYseH)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 19, 2017 04:11 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 19, 2017 04:15 AM (GzDYP)
;&o/;
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:15 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:16 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:16 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 04:17 AM (y87Qq)
Will keep your instructions and try them on iPad.
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:18 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:19 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:20 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: OldDominionMom at November 19, 2017 04:20 AM (GzDYP)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:21 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 19, 2017 04:22 AM (ajiE5)
Once you get it sorted out, just remember only to use it for good and occasional mild evil. If it's distracting you or other people, ditch it. If it's helpful to demonstrate something, or if seeing "ca va" instead of "ça va" drives you bonkers, go ahead and use it.
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 04:22 AM (y87Qq)
Going to show off my new-found talent to my quarter-Swedish nephew.
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:24 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:24 AM (x3yKT)
¼ Swedish, surely?
Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2017 04:26 AM (y87Qq)
Posted by: redc1c4 at November 19, 2017 04:42 AM (woiyT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:45 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: twitch at November 19, 2017 04:47 AM (Vs3ZB)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:47 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:48 AM (x3yKT)
&oneslashfour;
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 04:47 AM (x3yKT)
¼ == ¼
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 04:51 AM (8gDQu)
pɹɐoqʎǝʞ uo sƃuɐq... Okay, that's better
Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 19, 2017 04:56 AM (ajiE5)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 05:09 AM (x3yKT)
¼
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 05:10 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 05:11 AM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 05:12 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a wildcat at November 19, 2017 05:13 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 19, 2017 05:19 AM (8gDQu)
Looks like anl they one of 'those' mornings.
EMAW
Sure hope that's those K-State cats you're referring to Shopgirl.
Posted by: teej Kuralt at November 19, 2017 05:40 AM (RQEuo)
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2017 05:40 AM (aC6Sd)
Aww, he'll with it.
You know, with the concert at Bluegrass Underground yesterday afternoon and the drive back to Nashville and putting on the fried chicken feed bag at the Loveless cafe, I forgot about the game yesterday.
Besides, no way K-State had a chance against OSU... right?
Then, after seeing Shopgirls nic this am,,, hmmm.
Ho-Lee-Bill
45 to 40. MEH
YES!!!!
Posted by: teej Kuralt at November 19, 2017 05:49 AM (RQEuo)
Posted by: teej Kuralt at November 19, 2017 05:50 AM (RQEuo)
Posted by: Eromero at November 19, 2017 05:51 AM (zLDYs)
hell with it
@&:%÷?* auto c doesn't even want you to say hell.
Outta. Here.
Posted by: teej Kuralt at November 19, 2017 05:54 AM (RQEuo)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a Wildcat/go KSU at November 19, 2017 05:57 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a Wildcat/go KSU at November 19, 2017 05:58 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Bruce at November 19, 2017 06:01 AM (8ikIW)
Holy shit we're getting some wind. Western Pa is getting snow right now. I better get some candles ready.
Posted by: Ace Tractor Seat Supply at November 19, 2017 06:02 AM (ajiE5)
Well, I popped back in to say good night to POP, and of course, teej has come & gone.
Hope your road trip was all that, and of course I meant KSU. Nic changed accordingly. I still have the old button. Would call Dad after victories and say EMAW when he answered.
Catch you tomorrow.
Posted by: Shopgirl: #every man a Wildcat/go KSU at November 19, 2017 06:06 AM (x3yKT)
Posted by: Eromero
Definitely more style, and less 'stuff'. They read, wrote, and thought carefully before acting, knowing there would be consequences. They planned, acknowledging limited personal resources.
Today? Millennials? Gimme! Entitlement!
Posted by: twitch at November 19, 2017 06:40 AM (Vs3ZB)
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