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I'm very late in getting started. Here's a new thread at least.

Oh, here's something amusing:



If you could, use this thread for headline and link tips. That will help me out a lot. My ass is dragging and I don't really know what's *still* news, if you know what I mean -- yes, I know about the partial-failure terrorist attack. But is that still news at 1:30?

Posted by: Ace at 01:12 PM




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1 new thread smell

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 01:12 PM (34w2E)

2 first

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (ymnmz)

3 Okay. Now what?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (O5Q3r)

4 crap

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (ymnmz)

5 Trump!

Posted by: MAGA at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (Ra8fm)

6 Nothingburger!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (nWc4E)

7 Has Skankles been arrested and perp walked yet?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (i0ykY)

8 Dindu Thread!

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (CMbMd)

9 Thanks, Ace !
All those piercings gimme the creeps !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (HySvC)

10 OK let me suggest a topic.


What happened to Chris Colinsworth shoulders?

Did he have shoulder cancer and have to have them both removed?


You know? Dude has no shoulders. His arms just come out of his neck.


Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (ymnmz)

11 Here's Bander's thread to spout off about ancient languages

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (6FqZa)

12 that's going to get willowed before I can catch up.

*pouts*

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:12 PM (fuK7c)


Is there an award for the shortest time between calling a willow and being actually willowed?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (fuK7c)

13 To whomever bought Pinch of Larceny and Yuriko on December 7th. I hope you enjoy the stories.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (FX/O0)

14 Is Snoozy McSnoozerson on this NY terrorist stuff?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (i0ykY)

15 problems picking out a winter solstice gift?

Everyone has butts, thus everyone loves getting vibrating butt plugs!* All ages and all 1,136,009 known genders (and still climbing!) love a good high hard one!

*your mileage may vary don't forget batteries which are not included it is highly recommended you attach a string in case it migrates north gray models available for the color blind non petroleum solvent lube is suggested do not use to insert gerbils throwing on stage at melisa ethridge concerts may cause rioting consult owners manual for periodic maintenance schedules do not remove ball bearings.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (T/KY7)

16 Thank you all for your love and prayers last week.

I've tried to return as many emails as I could.

-Thank you

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (Ckg4U)

17 and embarrelled

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (fuK7c)

18 Thread was turning its life around. Thread was an aspiring gangsta rapper and basketball superstar.

He wuz gonna go duh kollij!

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (CMbMd)

19 :::bats at new thread, wanders off:::

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Ho Ho Hoing to the Holidays at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (0KI28)

20 Mentioned already, but worth mentioning again:

I know everyone is enjoying The Cookbook reviews, but don't miss the "customers also considered" suggestions, too. I think it's even better. Mine had a book on lockpicking, a book about George Washington, some socks with something written on the bottom, etc.

It probably wouldn't be too hard to tilt it towards adult special interest motorized novelty items...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (y8m+O)

21 I have no response to this.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (7ZVPa)

22 problems picking out a winter solstice gift?

Everyone has butts, thus everyone loves getting vibrating butt plugs!* All ages and all 1,136,009 known genders (and still climbing!) love a good high hard one!



*shudders* Gives a whole new meaning to "high colonics".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (rGtm/)

23 ace, take the rest of the week off, you've earned it already today

Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (QDnY+)

24 Huh. A new open thread.

I'm sure shelving is somehow to blame.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (ptqGC)

25 Poop.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (tbOMB)

26 And Bandersnatch avoids the Barrel.

Of course there is Venus im Pelz
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56156/56156-h/56156-h.htm

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (FX/O0)

27 Good time to reprint this...

AoSHQ Prayer List

Farmer- Friend lost his mother, age 93. She was ready to go, just a couple of yrs ago lost her youngest child, her only daughter to cancer.

Rickl- Lung cancer.

Redc1c4- General Health. Would like to be healthy enough to look for a j*b.

Abby- Father has passed. Children have ex-communicated.

Carol- Her Brother's eventual passing.

kbdabear- Mother's dementia.

CaliGirl- Mom's boyfriend Arthur has cancer.

Hrothgar- Lost Son in accident.

Ritabootoo- Passed Friday, December 8th. Prayers for Family and Friends. Frequenter of the Pet Thread and our beloved friend.

Fenelon Spoke- Healing for my son and ability to pay healthcare bills.

RedMindBlueState- Cousin Agnes, who's too weak for the heart surgery she needs, and whose condition is deteriorating rapidly.

Dr. Strangepork- Friend may have had a stroke.

Bebe's boobs destroy- Former co-worker's four year-old has cancer.

Mindful webworker- Wife's health due to longstanding issues.

ibguy- Sister's brain cancer, (gioblastoma).

pookysgirl- Husband's suicide attempt and mental health.

Jade Sea- Husband's cancer

tcn- husband's possible lung tumor and swollen lymph nodes.

Moron Pundit- Father-in-law's heart surgery.

junior- Employment

Duke Lowell- Son in need of healing.

Miley- Future employment, big move, Mother's cellulitis of leg.

Captain Whitebread- Mother's health and stable employment.

Jinx- Mother's passing.

Emmie- Continued relationship with Daughter.

Vic- Return of cancer.

ReneeTX- Terminal brain cancer.

Booknlass- Relationship with Daughter.

Just wondering- Sister, Lisa, has a brain tumor.

Christopher Taylor- Health and depression.

Lin-duh fell- My FIL passed away 9/27/17. Could use the prayers for my husband finding a job.

Blacksheep- Stage 2 prostate cancer.

Weirddave and Gingy- Gingy's father passing away.

Alexthechick- Father's dementia.

Molly K- Neice killed by elderly driver.

Donna V- Bills to be paid and alcoholic Brother.

Gushka- Infection after being bitten by her horse. Her friends' mental health after returning from battle.

TonyPete- Friends' terminal diagnosis, Wife's, (Renee), terminal illness.

bergerbuilder- Multiple strokes, out of hospital at end of September.

Chi- Friend's passing, (Lewis), after battle with cancer.

huerfano- Father's recovery from heart failure.

The Oort Cloud- Thalassemia, genetic blood disorder, complicated my hemolytic anemia. "Given" two years by doctor.

Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing- Job issues.

Hopped up on Something- Immediate Family member with cancer. Bone pain without opioids, Hospital Policy.

Publius- Father's health. Rheumatoid arthritis, severe pain during flare-ups. Stamina, in general.

Cannibal Bob- Two brothers in law. 1. Brain tumor hospice soon.
2. Just diagnosed cancer around heart and in aorta. Biopsy taken. Stage 3.
3. Cousin just completed 5 rounds of chemo for cancer in abdomen. Reoccurance from many years ago.

Insomniac- 1) That my autoimmune disorder will stay under control. 2) That the work situation I have will continue to come together and grow.

Oregon Muse- Shoulder replacement and recovery.

Slapweasel- Father's dementia and Mother's attitude.

Jane D'oh- My husband's elderly aunt, (89), who was admitted to the hospital 11/20/17 with pneumonia. She has COPD, is a lung cancer survivor. Jane broke her foot, prayer for resolve and healing.

USNtakim- My MIL, (73), is going in for surgery 11/22/17 for bowel re-sectioning. Please pray for her and her family.

Iron Mike Golf- My grandsons. Safety and peace for them.

Cheri- Lost Son, (21), in February to hiking accident.

Teresa in Ft. Worth- Lost Daughter, (26) to suicide on September 7th.

Alf767- Employment. 60 y.o. ex-pilot in aviation industry.

Backwards Boy- B'Gal has Congestive heart failure, COPD, scleroderma and arthritis.

Northernlurker- Money issues, does NOT want to dip into investments.

Dang- Esophageal cancer. Starting radiation and chemo week of 11/26/17.

westminsterdogshow- Best friend's Mom, Marge suffered a seizure/stroke. 12/1/17.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (Ckg4U)

28 Or is it a mish of accusers?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 01:17 PM (ymnmz)

29 :::bats at new thread, wanders off:::

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Ho Ho Hoing to the Holidays at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (0KI2

Come again when you can't stay as long.

Posted by: Not The Mills Brothers at December 11, 2017 01:17 PM (oPNmq)

30 I know everyone is enjoying The Cookbook reviews, but don't miss the "customers also considered" suggestions, too. I think it's even better.


Mine came up with Civil War books, which makes sense, and Dockers. Which one of you Morons is buying Dockers?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:17 PM (fuK7c)

31 I'm very late in getting started.

Okay, it's an excuse, but not a very good one

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 01:17 PM (8ikIW)

32 So what kind of mood is the Horde in today, eh? What!

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (KdDCu)

33 Thank you all for your love and prayers last week.

I've tried to return as many emails as I could.

-Thank you

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:13 PM (Ckg4U)

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (Ckg4U)

34 Ace,

Have pixy look into the redirects (on IPads) from the ace.mu.nu home page to hxxp: 107.151.169.36.

One of the third party ad bots is most likely causing this.

Thx

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (vgwv+)

35 SLAP!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (KP5rU)

36 A Christmas gift idea thread like last year would be a good way to pass the time, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (y8m+O)

37 Mrs DR.WTF told me this morning that CNN would blame the subway jihadi's actions on Trump's embassy move to Jerusalem by 4:00 PM.

Well, they've done it already, ahead of schedule. They're nothing if not pathetically predictable.

Posted by: DR.WTF - Duke of Righteous WTF? at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (T71PA)

38 CHAVEZ!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (Ckg4U)

39 20 Mentioned already, but worth mentioning again:

I know everyone is enjoying The Cookbook reviews, but don't miss the "customers also considered" suggestions, too. I think it's even better. Mine had a book on lockpicking, a book about George Washington, some socks with something written on the bottom, etc.

It probably wouldn't be too hard to tilt it towards adult special interest motorized novelty items...
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (y8m+O)

The lockpicking book is there for me as well. What do you people do in your spare time?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:18 PM (Ri/rl)

40 14 Is Snoozy McSnoozerson on this NY terrorist stuff?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 11, 2017 01:15 PM (i0ykY)


Busy preparing to spring his Clinton/DOJ trap. Any day now.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (r9UYA)

41 Ace, busy with the special edition Christmas shelves?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (KP5rU)

42 SOMEONE WAS BUYING PANTS!!!?!?!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (y8m+O)

43 My local news gave two brief (just the facts, ma'am) minutes to the NY terrorist this morning, and two minutes to Trump's new accusers. HOWEVER, "Trump's accusers" was the teaser they used at every fucking commercial break.

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (vkS2Z)

44 Mine came up with Civil War books, which makes sense, and Dockers. Which one of you Morons is buying Dockers?


Mine showed Trump books and Dockers.
I figured the recipes required pants.

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (8ikIW)

45 Which one of you Morons is buying Dockers?

+++

Can't afford a decent pair of pants!

Posted by: Trump at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (Hxp9H)

46 Like the vapid Beltway types who buy every book on certain topics and immediately look for their names, I gotta get the cookbook to see if any of my recipe submissions made it.


Of course I can't remember what I even submitted. And none of them were my originals. But this can be my version of the stupid Beltway index check.


Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (QDnY+)

47 OK new thread so I'll do this here.

There's this social media thing going around with a picture of a grade school boy and text all about how bad he feels because people pick on him in school.

Um, hands up people, who here was not picked on in grade school for something?

Anyone?

...anyone?

Look I get that it sucks and its no fun and it makes you cry. I understand that's awfully hard to deal with. But I was always weird in school, I knew a lot of weird people. We dealt with it as best we could and learned to handle it by going through it.

This is not new, it is not special, and it is not something the whole world needs to chip in on and help, especially not just one kid because social media. Chris Evans doesn't need to drop by an give him a hug. He doesn't need a gofundme campaign. Good lord.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (39g3+)

48 Of course there is Venus im Pelz

Bookmarked, thank you.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (fuK7c)

49 There is also the Thump graphic novel as a recommendation with the cookbook. Trump as a rabbit battling all kinds of adversaries on his way to the White House.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (FX/O0)

50 Mine came up with Civil War books, which makes sense, and Dockers. Which one of you Morons is buying Dockers?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:17 PM (fuK7c)

Dockers! That's what I was supposed to get at the Port Authority, not bombers! Please to be misunderstood.

Posted by: Bangladeshi cabbie at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (oPNmq)

51 Does anyone know of a good cookbook that would be a great Christmas gift?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (ymnmz)

52 Clearly with new thread it is time for knitting, perhaps sewing.

NO CROCHETING

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (h/uSM)

53 Slap, thanks so much for the prayer list.

Husband's elderly aunt is over pneumonia, but is being moved into assisted living, which is tough on her. She'll miss her Obama toilet paper holder, and being unable to drive her SUV with the Trump sticker, and old Sarah Palin sticker.

I feel stupid being on the list with my stupid foot. I'm able to get around and even cooked Thanksgiving dinner.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (ptqGC)

54 Our top story tonight man incinerates own balls because he's a retarded terrorist and Trump but mostly because he's a retarded terrorist

Posted by: Sharkman at December 11, 2017 01:21 PM (bsdd3)

55 Mine showed Trump books and Dockers.
I figured the recipes required pants.

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 01:19 PM (8ikIW)

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I regret not submitting a recipe for frying bacon that had "put on a shirt" as #1.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:21 PM (y8m+O)

56 First!I read all the content.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2017 01:21 PM (LiyEm)

57 47 This is not new, it is not special, and it is not something the whole world needs to chip in on and help, especially not just one kid because social media. Chris Evans doesn't need to drop by an give him a hug. He doesn't need a gofundme campaign. Good lord.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (39g3+)

Social Media has completely f***ed up the normal human operating procedure.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:21 PM (CMbMd)

58 Has Skankles been arrested and perp walked yet?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (i0ykY)


That would be the one thing that would cure my depression.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 01:21 PM (kqsXK)

59 51 Does anyone know of a good cookbook that would be a great Christmas gift?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (ymnmz)

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Southern Living's "Taste of Home" is pretty great.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (y8m+O)

60 But can you Perp-walk a Rascal scooter?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (FX/O0)

61 Additions, Corrections and Updates can be sent to the link in my Nic.

I cannot be around for every thread, so that would be the best way to reach me.

Prayer Lists will be listed around Noon Eastern every Sunday.

-Thank You!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (Ckg4U)

62 So today's would-be bomber is a taxi driver and the rental truck terrorist last month was an Uber driver? Huh.

Reminds me of the time took a late night taxi ride home from Washington National and was screamed at the Afghani driver because I mentioned what a shame it was that the Taliban had just destroyed those giant Buddhas...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (W+vEI)

63 Slapweasel, thanks for posting the prayer list! I was on for a while (job situation) but fell off. Looking at what everyone else is going through right now.. wow. My life is a freaking picnic!

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (aT+Bx)

64 Look I get that it sucks and its no fun and it makes you cry. I understand that's awfully hard to deal with. But I was always weird in school, I knew a lot of weird people. We dealt with it as best we could and learned to handle it by going through it.

I got teased because of my height. I learned quickly that a eat shit and die response pretty much shuts them up

Posted by: Bruce at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (8ikIW)

65 Now, THAT's content I can live with!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (so+oy)

66 Which one of you Morons is buying Dockers?

+++

Can't afford a decent pair of pants!

=============

The mad subway bomber was wearing khaki docker cargo pants. I wouldn't be buying khaki cargo pants for awhile.

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (KdDCu)

67 Bandersnatch, I looked at that book. Caught maybe one word in a hundred and went "nope!" Hope you enjoy it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (FX/O0)

68 Roomy!

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (NWiLs)

69 Of course I can't remember what I even submitted. And none of them were my originals. But this can be my version of the stupid Beltway index check.

Me either. All I know is that they were boring and had no funny names or anecdotes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (39g3+)

70 A Christmas gift idea thread like last year would be a good way to pass the time, too.



Bing Man Crates.
www dot mancrates dot com.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (rGtm/)

71 Time will tell, but I'm not thinking that neither 1) more "accusers" of Donald Trump, nor 2) blaming Port Authority jihadi on Trump's embassy decision will have much traction with, well, almost anyone.


More interesting is Trump's Saturday video (on his twatter). About criminal aliens and "sanctuaries". I like one little dig, which is probably too subtle for the masses - he says loved ones should not be "separated" by criminal alien depredations, a nice snarky reference to the idiotic compassion-fascists demagoguery about separating families by ...... enforcing laws.


BTW, anyone recall the original presidential comms innovation, of which Trump's Saturday videos are the current evolution?


Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (QDnY+)

72 Of course there is Venus im Pelz
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56156/56156-h/56156-h.htm


Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (FX/O0)


I have mentioned that that book and A Man With A Maid were my first encounters with erotica when I was a pubertic child, no?

Explains quite a bit about my personality.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (kqsXK)

73 RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!

Posted by: RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA! at December 11, 2017 01:23 PM (+dsLj)

74 I'd love it if Sarah Huckabee Sanders strode to the press podium, paused, looked around the room, then shouted "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!"

Posted by: fly gal at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (8TdcF)

75 But where am I going to keep all of my bombing accoutrements if I don't buy khaki cargo pants with the roomy pockets?

Posted by: Give me cargo pants or give me death at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (HIDKl)

76 The Ds only have dick to run on.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (cAXIk)

77 I'll post it again when the Chrimus thread comes around, but the $10-$15 gun magnets that you can mount to the bottom of desks, under steering wheel, behind slots in headboard, etc. is a great gift idea.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (y8m+O)

78 Ha ha fag you're so tall! Lookit the tall fag!

You're so short, little short weenie!

You're so average height, you're just like everyone else, how boring!

You're just slightly taller than I am, whatever, stretch, did your dad put you on a rack?

It doesn't matter. It simply does not matter who you are or what you look like, some kids are going to make fun of you in school, always, without exception. If they aren't doing it to your face, they're doing it behind your back snickering with other kids.

That's part of growing up. Its why when you go through that and someone tries to make fun of you, you just look at them like they're a pathetic child. Because its meaningless to you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (39g3+)

79 Trump causes blogger to be late for work. Hear why experts say this an impeachable offense. More at the top of the hour.

Posted by: CNN at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (72PAC)

80 47

There's this social media thing going around with a picture of a grade school boy and text all about how bad he feels because people pick on him in school.


Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (39g3+)

Social media is really bad for society. Not only does it encourage us to self-segregate into our own little bubbles, but it creates this feedback loop where you feel pressured to put up this idealized version of yourself to Show Everyone How Good You're Doing, because everyone else appears to have their shit together too. Which is obviously stupid, because they're just doing the same thing.

And this isn't even going into how things like likes or upvotes or reblogs creates intellectual echo chambers.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (KUaJL)

81 75. Messenger bag.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (fA1SL)

82 BREAKING: CNN now reporting that, per a Congressional summons issued by Maxine Waters, Miss Cleo has returned from the dead to testify before Committee that Trump met with Putin in a past life.

#TrumpTrumpTrumpImpeachImpeachImpeach

Posted by: ShainS at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (NJbBu)

83 Good article on the point I've been making about bitcoin.
https://tinyurl.com/yb298cl8

Bitcoin's original premise was to be an alternative currency. It's now so volatile in price it can no longer act as an effective currency.

It's now just a pure speculative vehicle, driven by that most primitive of emotions -- Greed.

I expect a bad crash before year-end.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (cAXIk)

84 I got lock picking books, rope use books and survival guides for children...we may have a prepper or two among us.

Posted by: Big V at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (MVE/7)

85
New threads: is that like a manzairre or a bro?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (r+sAi)

86 59 51 Does anyone know of a good cookbook that would be a great Christmas gift?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (ymnmz)

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Southern Living's "Taste of Home" is pretty great.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:22 PM (y8m+O)

Nom Nom Paleo or the first Well Fed

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (vkS2Z)

87 Bing Man Crates.

Is that pronounced Man-kra-teez? Or Man Krates?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (39g3+)

88 I don't think I ever knew that MPPPP.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:27 PM (FX/O0)

89 BTW, anyone recall the original presidential comms innovation, of which Trump's Saturday videos are the current evolution?
---
FDR's fireside chats?

Posted by: Methos at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (XQvuQ)

90 I spent a "cheerful" evening watched NatGeo's series on Nazis.

I thought I was pretty knowledgeable about WWII, but had no idea we had GI's who were prisoners/slave laborers in the Berga concentration camp. They were Jews, of course, because their dog tags identified them as such (letter H for Hebrew on them--for burial purposes in case they were killed).

There was also some pretty disturbing, graphic footage of lots of stuff. Nightmare stuff.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (ptqGC)

91 Some of Trumps tweets are probably impulsive but many more seem to be cleverly crafted messages designed to twist the shiv into the left even deeper.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (+dsLj)

92 47

There's this social media thing going around with a picture of a grade school boy and text all about how bad he feels because people pick on him in school.


Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (39g3+


Timmy, learn the manly art of self-defense. Problem solved.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (Z1eux)

93 Okay, which one of you Morons stole the Sonobi? You have it up in Kansas pulling a wagon, I bet.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (0ogQG)

94 Fox is reporting that the bomber in the NYC subway came here under chain migration.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (/tuJf)

95 Trump is leaving out the biggest diss of CNN in his tweets. He needs to remind people that CNN was Saddams bitch by agreement.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (ux+5c)

96 87 Is that pronounced Man-kra-teez? Or Man Krates?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (39g3+)


Isn't Man-kra-teez the bathhouse that Barry spend most of his time at?

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (CMbMd)

97 The gun magnets work great. We have one over our closet door, in the bedroom. They are very powerful and you have to almost struggle to get the gun free.

Posted by: Shipoopi at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (NgvOp)

98 Is that pronounced Man-kra-teez? Or Man Krates?


Crates. As in cargo haulers. Pretty cool concept.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:29 PM (rGtm/)

99 Don't feel embarrassed to ask to find God.

I never pray for "things". I only ask for God's guidance and for those Of Faith to have their bond strengthen.

God doesn't care about my thermostat.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:29 PM (Ckg4U)

100 There is no news any longer...

Now... its all a Giant Editorial Page.

Posted by: Don Q. at December 11, 2017 01:29 PM (NgKpN)

101 I expect a bad crash before year-end.

--

Internet article just said the same thing about auto mo biles. The dealer channels are stuffed full of stuff that people aren't buying because people have been panic buying the stuff they want before the price goes up more higher. Big crash in auto mo bile industry comming.

Everyone be very afraid.

Same thing with guns. Back when Obama was President everyone was panic buying guns. The hysteria is over and now the dealers and manufactors are overstocked with inventory that no one is buying. Big crash in firearms sales any day now. Be worried.

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:29 PM (KdDCu)

102 Slap - thanks for the prayer list.

I didn't realize so many here were going through so much. It makes one realize how blessed they truly are.

Prayers up for everyone.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 01:29 PM (vg8iE)

103 Hallmark director must have been away for season 5: Hot girl must wear read!

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (mKDza)

104 78 Ha ha fag you're so tall! Lookit the tall fag!

You're so short, little short weenie!

You're so average height, you're just like everyone else, how boring!

You're just slightly taller than I am, whatever, stretch, did your dad put you on a rack?

It doesn't matter. It simply does not matter who you are or what you look like, some kids are going to make fun of you in school, always, without exception. If they aren't doing it to your face, they're doing it behind your back snickering with other kids.

That's part of growing up. Its why when you go through that and someone tries to make fun of you, you just look at them like they're a pathetic child. Because its meaningless to you.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (39g3+)

In fifth grade a group formed a circle around me making fun of my buck teeth. I memorized every face in the circle. Those I could catch on the walk home got a beating. Those who took the bus got ridiculed and humiliated when they made a mistake in class. I flunked "Citizenship" that year.

Posted by: kathysaysso at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (vkS2Z)

105 It's funny. It sure would have been nice to be able to get the Donkeys half as interested in the Russians as they are now at some point during the Cold War.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (HIDKl)

106 Got my cookbook! Holy hell this thing is YUGE!

Well done you cookbook creators! Well done!


*Happy dancin' around*

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (Enq6K)

107 >>I'd love it if Sarah Huckabee Sanders strode to the press podium,
paused, looked around the room, then shouted "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS
WITH YOU PEOPLE!"



While that would be awesome, I think a big part of her effectiveness is that she's so even keeled. I don;t recall ever seeing her flustered, and she can give a quick response instead of being ensnared in their loaded question traps. They *want* to get her upset like they did with Sean Spicer.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (W+vEI)

108 50 Mine came up with Civil War books, which makes sense, and Dockers. Which one of you Morons is buying Dockers?

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My recommendations were smart military books, and towels. Big lots of towels.

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (7HtZB)

109 Jerry....Jerry1

Yeah, it's your cousin, Marty!

Listen to this!

That idea for a show you been lookin' for.

Yeah, yeah.

This thread is about nothin'!

You can make a show about nothin'!!!!

*Huey Lewis and the News song*

Posted by: Marty Seinfeld at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (NyJwR)

110 BTW, anyone recall the original presidential comms innovation, of which Trump's Saturday videos are the current evolution?
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FDR's fireside chats?
Posted by: Methos


On NBC.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (rGtm/)

111 51 Does anyone know of a good cookbook that would be a great Christmas gift?
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 11, 2017

*
*
Julia Child Gets Naked and Cooks For You ???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (HQ28E)

112 Does anyone know of a good cookbook that would be a great Christmas gift?

One of my novels!

http://alphawolf10.wixsite.com/kestrelarts2/books

Bitcoin's original premise was to be an alternative currency. It's now so volatile in price it can no longer act as an effective currency.

Its fiat currency with nothing backing it. At least the US Dollar has a gigantic economy backing it up. Bitcoin is just whatever someone says and a couple agree to. Its insanely over valued at the moment. Here's a cautionary image:

http://tinyurl.com/yctmdxut

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (39g3+)

113 Fox is reporting that the bomber in the NYC subway came here under chain migration.
========

But of course.

It needs to end - yesterday.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (vg8iE)

114 Trump causes blogger to be late for work. Hear why experts say this an impeachable offense. More at the top of the hour.

Posted by: CNN at December 11,

LOL

Posted by: Cheri at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (oiNtH)

115 Lacey Chalbert (sp) Yea, that'd be a Christmas wish

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (VAlay)

116 Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM

Thanks Slap. Sorry to have to say my cousin passed away quietly last week. I ask for the Horde's continued prayers for her husband Mel, who has his own health issues, and for their children and grandchildren.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2017 01:31 PM (p+Wdc)

117 Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:16 PM (Ckg4

Thank you for the prayer list.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:31 PM (Ri/rl)

118 Does anyone know of a good cookbook that would be a great Christmas gift?

Cake Girl's Naked Apron pop up book

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:31 PM (39g3+)

119 Notice the blue shirt in the last pic. Hallmark is really mixin' it up, dawg!

Posted by: Minuteman at December 11, 2017 01:31 PM (A3b6q)

120
Fox is reporting that the bomber in the NYC subway came here under chain migration.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (/tuJf)


Not to assimilate but to wage war against the infidel?

Posted by: Acme Explosives at December 11, 2017 01:31 PM (ajiE5)

121 I don't think I ever knew that MPPPP.


Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:27 PM (FX/O0)


Makes you leery of ever offering to read any of my writing, doesn't it?

Speaking of which - I'm hoping to get Thirteen Moons off to you and TheJamesMadison by the end of the week. I'm rewriting the opening and am having trouble with it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (kqsXK)

122
Isn't Man-kra-teez the bathhouse that Barry spend most of his time at?
Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (CMbMd)



No that was Man-kee-ster.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (lKyWE)

123 If you're not snapping their limbs, then you've accepted their premise.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (CMbMd)

124 Thanks Slap. Sorry to have to say my cousin passed away quietly last week. I ask for the Horde's continued prayers for her husband Mel, who has his own health issues, and for their children and grandchildren.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 11, 2017 01:31 PM (p+Wdc)

Prayers sent.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (Ri/rl)

125 11 Here's Bander's thread to spout off about ancient languages
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 11, 2017 01:14 PM (6FqZa)

I want to hear you and Bander debate the PIE urheimat problem. I'll wait over here.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (RD7QR)

126 10 Cuthbert the Witless

To answer your question - Chris Colinsworth has always been the definition of a "pencil neck." I too have always found this strange as he was a player himself - but even then - he looked like a beachball stuck on a broomstick that someone put a football jersey over. Time is not being kid to him, I think.

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (Fb9aZ)

127 Regarding the sidebar story on failed Allah Snackbar incident in NYC.... Everyone should be damn grateful that the wanna-be Jihad Yussuf had less knowledge and ability concerning explosives than the Horde members who destroyed their own toys back in the day. If that had been a full-power shrapnel bomb on the subway car....

Get used to it New Yorkers, you re-elected that dhimmi clown mayor for another term. Wanna-be 9/11 dudes every month!

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (W+kMI)

128 Update MIL out of hospital but dealing with infections (well enough... i guess because shes not bat in the hospital) oh and drama always drama. ty for the prayers.

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at December 11, 2017 01:32 PM (0OmEj)

129 This goes with the Hallmark tweet: Mary Katharine Ham's Hallmark Christmas Movie Bingo!!


https://preview.tinyurl.com/ztlbgcs

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (W+vEI)

130 If you could, use this thread for headline and link tips. That will help me out a lot.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

Posted by: Threadwinners Local 303 at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (pXQWt)

131 There's this social media thing going around with a picture of a grade school boy and text all about how bad he feels because people pick on him in school.

Hey Timmy's parents...maybe you should teach your kid some basic self defense and tell him the next time some asshat shoves his lil sammich into his chest or pours milk down his shirt you'll stand beside him in the principles office for bloodying the punks nose.

FFS. Seriously. Where are this kid's parents and why is that kid being taught to take that kind of physical abuse?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (i0ykY)

132 Looking forward to reading it MPPPP. Probably should go do some of my own writing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (FX/O0)

133 Bitcoin's original premise was to be an alternative currency. It's now so volatile in price it can no longer act as an effective currency.

Its fiat currency with nothing backing it. At least the US Dollar has a gigantic economy backing it up. Bitcoin is just whatever someone says and a couple agree to. Its insanely over valued at the moment.



Even the tulip bulb fiasco had tulip bulbs. Bitcoin has ether.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (rGtm/)

134 Those who took the bus got ridiculed and humiliated when they made a mistake in class. I flunked "Citizenship" that year.

I think your teeth are cute, like a bunny rabbit

...please don't hit me

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (39g3+)

135
Husband's elderly aunt is over pneumonia, but is being moved into assisted living, which is tough on her. She'll miss her Obama toilet paper holder
__________________

Help her feel more at home in her new place. Buy her some of this for Christmas:

https://tinyurl.com/y7rds9c7

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (fqUgw)

136 Formula for Hallmark Christmas movie posters:

Cute (but not super-sexy) girl in red (sometimes green)
Man-boy in green (sometimes blue-green)
Lots of Christmas tree vistas in the background

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (HQ28E)

137 Um, hands up people, who here was not picked on in grade school for something?

In 9th grade I was being bullied relentlessly by a senior lineman on the football team. One of those guys who came out of the womb with a full beard. Had about 8 inches and 100 pounds on me.

Finally one day I he threw me up against a wall and having had enough, I dropped my bookbag, put up my dukes and said "let's go."

He promptly broke two of my ribs. But he didn't pick on me ever again, and he took a ton of shit from his friends for picking on a much smaller and younger kid.

Even though I lost the fight, I won a rep as a tough guy just for my fearlessness. There were only a few kids in the whole school who could have taken him, so it was win-win for me in the end. And the rep served me well-it was a tough school as you can probably tell.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 01:34 PM (ul9CR)

138 Not to assimilate but to wage war against the infidel?
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Didn't you hear?

Assimilation is baaad.

We must respect other cultures. You know, like Sweden. And Germany.

/geez, it's like you people do not receive the hourly Media Matters/Journolist updates

Posted by: shibumi at December 11, 2017 01:34 PM (aT+Bx)

139 Slap! How are you holding up?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 01:34 PM (NWiLs)

140 In fifth grade a group formed a circle around me making fun of my buck teeth. I memorized every face in the circle. Those I could catch on the walk home got a beating. Those who took the bus got ridiculed and humiliated when they made a mistake in class. I flunked "Citizenship" that year.
Posted by: kathysaysso at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (vkS2Z)

You're awesome.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:34 PM (Ri/rl)

141 Looks like someone at the Pentagon wants to be fired.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 11, 2017 01:34 PM (r+sAi)

142 I should have known better than to read that prayer list while on a break at work. The tears are flowing and all of my prayers to the horde for ourselves and to all who we love for healing and peace.

Posted by: Cheri at December 11, 2017 01:35 PM (oiNtH)

143 Diet Coke be the news now, bitches!

Posted by: CNN at December 11, 2017 01:35 PM (sqE59)

144 How does the DoD get to refuse an order from the Commander in Chief? This is new.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 11, 2017 01:35 PM (UBzPO)

145
There's this social media thing going around with a picture of a grade school boy and text all about how bad he feels because people pick on him in school.


Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM


I saw a snippet of that this morning. Parental unit has good camera control, steady hand, tight focus. Very professional work.

The entire production looked carefully crafted.

Am I wrong to notice shysters in action? Because if I'm wrong, I don't want to be right.

Posted by: Acme Explosives at December 11, 2017 01:36 PM (ajiE5)

146 137 Um, hands up people, who here was not picked on in grade school for something?

I had a guy named Vito in Grade 6, who had a full beard at that. Took after his mother, I think.
Actually I don't think he picked on me but everybody was afraid of him.

Posted by: Northernlurker, am I lurking or am I skulking at December 11, 2017 01:36 PM (nBr1j)

147 Top right in the Hallmark collage is the lovely Lacy Chabert. She had about three lines in Not Another Teen Movie that were downright hilarious, especially the handjob line.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 11, 2017 01:36 PM (OD2ni)

148 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc

Posted by: timactual at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (sS4nt)

149 >>136 Formula for Hallmark Christmas movie posters:

Cute (but not super-sexy) girl in red (sometimes green)
Man-boy in green (sometimes blue-green)
Lots of Christmas tree vistas in the background
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM (HQ28E)

Edited to add: Naked man high on bath salts gnawing face off another naked man in the Christmas tree vista.

Posted by: Zod at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (Bdeb0)

150 Diet Coke be the news now, bitches!
======

What the hell is happening with diet Coke?

Don't take my fucking diet Coke or I'm gonna have to cut a bitch.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (vg8iE)

151 I hear pipe bomb boy drank like 24 diet Cokes a day. It's pretty clear where Trump is heading.

Posted by: Knaws at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (Vh1P6)

152 Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in their back.

I have one and it is kicking my ass in the dirt.

Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (sqE59)

153 Anybody review any good cockbooks lately?

Posted by: Fuckstick McFootwedge at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (pXQWt)

154 There was this kid on my grade school bus who had blown half his hand off in a firecracker incident. He used to make the little kids cry by rubbing his mangled hand in their faces.

Grew up to be a coke dealer.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (ul9CR)

155 What could possibly go wrong with Bitcoin?

Posted by: Charles Ponzi at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (fuK7c)

156 Even though I lost the fight, I won a rep as a tough guy just for my fearlessness. There were only a few kids in the whole school who could have taken him, so it was win-win for me in the end. And the rep served me well-it was a tough school as you can probably tell.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 01:34 PM (ul9CR)

Kids are awful. They will pick on anyone or anything. I was never bullied like that. I was teased about silly things in grade school. No horrible experiences.

The rukas didn't like me in high school, they used to refer to me and my friends as " you know, those white girls".

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (Ri/rl)

157 Fox is reporting that the bomber in the NYC subway came here under chain migration.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:28 PM (/tuJf)
____________________

Not surprising. Trump should not budge an inch on any DACA amnesty until the border wall is funded AND congress has passed and he has signed into law the elimination of chain migration rights.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (fqUgw)

158 -
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Even the tulip bulb fiasco had tulip bulbs. Bitcoin has ether.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:33 PM

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Autozone charges $3.50 for starting fluid.




Posted by: irright at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (pMGkg)

159 I watched Its a Wonderful Life again this weekend. Every time I see the scene with the newspaper headline about Georges brother I laugh thinking about the Horde having a fit.

If you remember it says;

Harry Bailey Wins Congressional Medal of Honor

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (ux+5c)

160 >>Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in their back.

>>I have one and it is kicking my ass in the dirt.

Welcome to my world.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (/tuJf)

161 137: been there. set me up perfectly for my life of deliquency. captain of the football team kicked my ass for sitting in "his" chair.in the school library. all 110# of me. real tough guy. fuckin jocks.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (KP5rU)

162 Hey, I took a case on a Russian Fly fishing trip! Barely made it out. Only one for last day.

Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (sqE59)

163 10 OK let me suggest a topic.


What happened to Chris Colinsworth shoulders?

Did he have shoulder cancer and have to have them both removed?


You know? Dude has no shoulders. His arms just come out of his neck.
========
Being a tall skinny dude is what made him a star receiver back in the day. If he jumped or leaned out a bit a lot of passes got saved. Middle age has pared all the excess from his bones, yeah. But he didn't plump out into a sausage either.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (W+kMI)

164 Interesting trivia.

To film the Die Hard elevator explosion, McTiernan strapped powerful flash devices from cameras in the area to the wall and fired them off for the sequence of flashes, then superimposed that with a small scale explosion set off on a black background on a miniature of the building.

It was incredibly effective.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (39g3+)

165 Ace, if you feel the urge to waste some further electrons on MeAgain Kelly, she's trotting out 3 previous Trump accusers as a redo; Breitbart has some details.

We could start a pool on the final number of #fakeclaims that are sure to keep rolling in; after all, quantity has its own quality doncha know.

I'll take 50 in the pool.

Tiger Woods only managed 19; I'm sure Trump is good for more than that.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (0ogQG)

166 Speculation is that the NYC incident this morning was not terrorism. Akayed Ullah was just transporting a clock he made for a school science project when it unexpectedly exploded.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (O7MnT)

167 Interesting twitter thread on last week's House Judiciary Oversight Committee, where Jordan made news with his FISA/dossier question:

https://twitter.com/DaveNYviii/status/938991227466260480

Spoiler alert: Goodlatte's comments mirror what Trump's been tweeting....gee, wonder why?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (W+vEI)

168 Welcome to my world.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:38 PM (/tuJf)

Any ideas? Getting a nerve block shot tomorrow, pain pills laugh at this shit.

Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (sqE59)

169 151 I hear pipe bomb boy drank like 24 diet Cokes a day. It's pretty clear where Trump is heading.
Posted by: Knaws at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (Vh1P6)

Covfefe : For Closers.

Diet Coke : Not For Closers.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (CMbMd)

170 Um, hands up people, who here was not picked on in grade school for something?

---

*hands up* - "Don't shoot!"

I was mostly ignored. They did try to call me stretch, but I played bench center position for four years and ignored the taunts. Barely noticed. Coach usually picked me when he needed an object lesson in what not to do.

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (KdDCu)

171 Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in their back.

>>I have one and it is kicking my ass in the dirt.

Welcome to my world.
Posted by: JackStraw

==

sit-ups; after the pain subsides

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (QC/4S)

172 83
Good article on the point I've been making about bitcoin.

https://tinyurl.com/yb298cl8



Bitcoin's original premise was to be an alternative currency. It's now so volatile in price it can no longer act as an effective currency.



It's now just a pure speculative vehicle, driven by that most primitive of emotions -- Greed.



I expect a bad crash before year-end.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 11, 2017 01:26 PM (cAXIk)


Looking to get in cheap-er?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (tbOMB)

173 News about the failed terrorist attack is how little coverage it's getting honestly.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (dzmBR)

174 152 Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in their back.

I have one and it is kicking my ass in the dirt.
Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (sqE59)

Not my back but my neck. It's painful.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (Ri/rl)

175
I went to a school that taunted and bullied the hell out of fat kids. By my senior year we had gotten rid of all of them.

They were still there, just suddenly slender.

Posted by: Acme Explosives at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (ajiE5)

176 Methos, I could be wrong, but I'm thinking Reagan's Saturday radio addresses, which (at that time) were an innovation.


Dunno if FDR's fireside chats were on Saturdays - don't think so. Dunno if any of FDR's successors did anything similar (regular, weekly, brief direct communication), but I don't know of any. When Reagan started it, it was described as something new, anyway.



Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 01:40 PM (QDnY+)

177 #161 fuckin jocks

Yep. And they never got detention because jocks.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 01:40 PM (ul9CR)

178 Husband loves the Hallmark channel at Christmas. Don't judge him. Did his tour in Viet Nam, raised a family and had a successful career in business. Very manly in all other areas except his choice of movie channels.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 11, 2017 01:40 PM (N3JsI)

179 166
Speculation is that the NYC incident this morning was not terrorism.
Akayed Ullah was just transporting a clock he made for a school science
project when it unexpectedly exploded.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (O7MnT)

Using cheap knock off Velco, obviously the problem.

Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:40 PM (sqE59)

180 118 Does anyone know of a good cookbook that would be a great Christmas gift?

Cake Girl's Naked Apron pop up book
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017

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Nikki Rhodes: The Sensuous Cake Baster

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 01:40 PM (HQ28E)

181 149. If they do depth of field just right on that shot, it looks like elves dancing in a twilight flurry.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 01:40 PM (fA1SL)

182 74 I'd love it if Sarah Huckabee Sanders strode to the press podium, paused, looked around the room, then shouted "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!"
Posted by: fly gal at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (8TdcF)

A Festivus Miracle!

Posted by: Minuteman at December 11, 2017 01:41 PM (A3b6q)

183 Mrs Diogenes and I have concluded that the advertising for Hallmark is really a bunch of (probably) morons and 'ettes sitting around and coming up with the weirdest sounding name for a new medicines. The winner for each new med is the one with the most consonants and fewest vowels.
Extra points for each "X" "Q" and "Z" in the name.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2017 01:41 PM (0tfLf)

184 Not surprising. Trump should not budge an inch on any DACA amnesty until the border wall is funded AND congress has passed and he has signed into law the elimination of chain migration rights.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (fqUgw)


This.

DACA amnesty is a hot button topic for the Reds. Trade it - we'll probably be stuck with them anyway, and it would be politically risky to actually deport them - for big chips, viz., the wall, elimination of chain migration, restrictions on countries of origin, and anything else we think of later.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:41 PM (Z1eux)

185 Husband loves the Hallmark channel at Christmas.
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I love Hallmark Channel EXCEPT at Christmas.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 11, 2017 01:41 PM (vg8iE)

186 The budget strategy of Chuckie and Nancy shutting down the government over DACA and opposing wall funding just took a big hit.

Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:41 PM (ALDN3)

187 173 News about the failed terrorist attack is how little coverage it's getting honestly.
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Only person who really got hurt was the wanna-be. The newsies really hate it when they don't get a body count.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 01:42 PM (W+kMI)

188 66 khakiis not a good color for me when I drink.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 11, 2017 01:42 PM (JkSZW)

189 this prayer for all: God's will

Posted by: azalea city at December 11, 2017 01:42 PM (WX+x0)

190 >>Any ideas? Getting a nerve block shot tomorrow, pain pills laugh at this shit.

The shots are good for certain things but the back is so frigging complicated and affects pretty much everything in your body that I hesitate to play internet doctor.

Hopefully, it's just something simple like a compressed disc or an alignment issue. Good luck, I literally feel your pain.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:42 PM (/tuJf)

191 "Um, hands up people, who here was not picked on in grade school for something?"


I can't since Trump ripped my arms off. Meanie!!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 11, 2017 01:42 PM (OD2ni)

192 I want to hear you and Bander debate the PIE urheimat problem. I'll wait over here.


No, no, I know nothing, alas. I can reach back a little into the history of modern languages but I know nothing of ancient languages.

I want the terlit hobo and someone else smart to say smart things to each other while I watch and learn.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:42 PM (fuK7c)

193 Any ideas? Getting a nerve block shot tomorrow, pain pills laugh at this shit.

Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (sqE59)

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I have bulging discs. For me it was yoga. No joke. Don't join a club or anything, but go find a few DVDs at the library until you get one you like.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (y8m+O)

194 When I went to school , no one was constantly bullied because we did not allow it. And by we I mean those of us that could stop it. I have seen a few you tube vids of kids that have stepped up .

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (ux+5c)

195 'Trade it - we'll probably be stuck with them anyway, and it would be politically risky to actually deport them - for big chips,'

Better get it in writing, and check for disappearing ink.

Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (ALDN3)

196 187 173 News about the failed terrorist attack is how little coverage it's getting honestly.
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Only person who really got hurt was the wanna-be. The newsies really hate it when they don't get a body count.

Plus it also proves Trump's ban and other security plans are a good thing, and therefore to be unacknowledged when possible.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (W+kMI)

197 171 Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in their back.

>>I have one and it is kicking my ass in the dirt.

Welcome to my world.
Posted by: JackStraw

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sit-ups; after the pain subsides
Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (QC/4S)


Also foam roller. Again, after the pain subsides enough.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (Z1eux)

198 147 Top right in the Hallmark collage is the lovely Lacy Chabert. She had about three lines in Not Another Teen Movie that were downright hilarious, especially the handjob line.
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 11, 2017

*
*
Lacey: One of the few things Loozyana produced that America could be proud of.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (HQ28E)

199 Once again a failed attack that was pure luck.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (LiyEm)

200 174
152 Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in their back.



I have one and it is kicking my ass in the dirt.

Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:37 PM (sqE59)



Not my back but my neck. It's painful.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (Ri/rl)


Behind left shoulder blade. Makes my whole left arm sore and fingers on my left hand twinge.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (tbOMB)

201 195 'Trade it - we'll probably be stuck with them anyway, and it would be politically risky to actually deport them - for big chips,'

Better get it in writing, and check for disappearing ink.
Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:43 PM (ALDN3)


Absolutely. When the wall is complete, and the legislation passed and signed, THEN - and only then - do we hold up our end of the deal.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (Z1eux)

202
I was mostly ignored. They did try to call me stretch, but I played bench center position for four years and ignored the taunts. Barely noticed. Coach usually picked me when he needed an object lesson in what not to do.

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (KdDCu)

I was the invisible kid in junior high and high school. Come to think of it I'm the invisible man with the step family after 24 years.

Posted by: Northernlurker, am I lurking or am I skulking at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (nBr1j)

203 Re: Bullies-

Anyone ever read "The Lucifer Principle"?

Fun book. Essentially, society requires certain roles. When Piggy dies, someone else has to become Piggy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (y8m+O)

204 wife watches xmas hallmark. posters more proof all written by AI.

Posted by: azalea city at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (WX+x0)

205
Husband loves the Hallmark channel at Christmas. Don't judge him. Did his tour in Viet Nam, raised a family and had a successful career in business. Very manly in all other areas except his choice of movie channels.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 11, 2017 01:40 PM (N3JsI)


I got suckered into one of them recently. A story about an 'ice fisherman' and an Olympic skater at Christmas time. I thought ''Ice fishing for me, romance for the wife''. What a lie. The ice fisherman was a former professional hockey player.

Thirty seconds of ice fishing. Lots of romance and ice skating.

Posted by: Acme Explosives at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (ajiE5)

206 They *want* to get her upset like they did with Sean Spicer.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (W+vEI)
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I totally agree. She's always cool as a cucumber. Love her.

Posted by: fly gal at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (8TdcF)

207 More likely a bulging disc--they get weaker and more fragile with age--causing the radicular nerve pain.

The human spine was not meant to last more than 50 years--it's a poor exaptation of the quadruped design for bipedalism.

Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (ALDN3)

208 "178 Husband loves the Hallmark channel at Christmas. Don't judge him. Did his tour in Viet Nam, raised a family and had a successful career in business. Very manly in all other areas except his choice of movie channels."


I was watching TV last night and was wondering why we only had 10% space left on our DVR. I looked and my wife had recorded about 30 Hallmark Christmas movies.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (OD2ni)

209 >>Yep. And they never got detention because jocks.

Not all jocks were bullies. Some of us actually made sure bullies didn't happen around us.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (/tuJf)

210 I want the terlit hobo and someone else smart to say smart things to each other while I watch and learn.

Leaves me out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (39g3+)

211 Posted by: kathysaysso at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (vkS2Z)

So what you're saying is that you've*always* been an 'Ette?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (rp9xB)

212 177: yes. i was forever marked as a trouble maker since that day. i was a freshman. i did my best to live up to that label. i still fuckin am disgusted by "educators."

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:46 PM (KP5rU)

213 'When the wall is complete, and the legislation passed and signed, THEN - and only then - do we hold up our end of the deal.'

It's the only way with these people. Reagan famously said
'trust but verify' about the Soviets, but didn't follow his own advice re: domestic immigration policy and the Dems rooked him.

Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:46 PM (ALDN3)

214 Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (tbOMB)

I feel you. My pain is mostly what I call my wings and up my neck and on top of my shoulders.

I've had two fusions, anterior and posterior, C 5,6.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:47 PM (Ri/rl)

215 For the pinched nerve behind my shoulder blade, I stay well hydrated, use Aleve (naproxen sodium), stretches, and alternate ice packs and hot (not supposed to, but it helps relieve some pain).

It seems like it goes away when it "wants" to.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:47 PM (tbOMB)

216
Hopefully, it's just something simple like a compressed disc or an alignment issue. Good luck, I literally feel your pain.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:42 PM (/tuJf)

Dr saying back looks good, no compressions, etc. Just a small nerve pinch at L4. Chiropractor thinks I need months of work, look at my shocked face.

Posted by: George at December 11, 2017 01:47 PM (sqE59)

217 Behind left shoulder blade. Makes my whole left arm sore and fingers on my left hand twinge.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (tbOMB)


Same here, from a bulging disk in my neck, per the MRI. My arm went numb with an electric zinging up and down it, like touching battery terminals. Drove me crazy, and made it difficult to sleep.

PT taught me exercises, and they, along with the foam roller ... voila! Problem solved.

Apparently these steps increase the mobility of the vertebrae involved so they can move around the nerve a bit, rather than just crushing it, which sends spurious signals down it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:47 PM (Z1eux)

218 Posted by: kathysaysso at December 11, 2017 01:30 PM (vkS2Z)



So what you're saying is that you've*always* been an 'Ette?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM


She's always been here. I should know.

Posted by: Delbert Grady at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (p+Wdc)

219 I totally agree. She's always cool as a cucumber. Love her.

She's like the mom of 6 kids who has seen all this dozens of times before, dealing with rowdy grade schoolers. I expect her to wade into the crowd with a ruler on the knuckles one day. Surprised she hasn't put Acosta time out.

Well, she kind of already has, I guess.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (39g3+)

220 for the record, not all jocks were assholes. they would have been assholes without the jock.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (KP5rU)

221 I'm certain that somehow, some way the Subway Bomber was the GOP's fault.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (SzZnW)

222 Female chefs don't have the instinctive expertise that men do when it comes to kneading dough. You have to show them!

Posted by: Mario Batali at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (HIDKl)

223 Most effective are cortisone injections to knock down the inflammation long-term, but you've got to hit the target accurately. Not always so easy to do.

Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (ALDN3)

224 209 >>Yep. And they never got detention because jocks.

Not all jocks were bullies. Some of us actually made sure bullies didn't happen around us.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:45 PM (/tuJf)

The jocks I went to school with weren't bullies. The problems in my school were more the aggies fighting the cholos.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (Ri/rl)

225 Um, hands up people, who here was not picked on in grade school for something?

I was a bookish, nerdy, silent child. I got harassed, beaten up and even spat upon.

I could have made a fortune on GoFundMe if it had existed back in the day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (kqsXK)

226 and it would be politically risky to actually deport them

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Apparently we can't deport anyone. News reported that a plane load of deportees was sent home and home refused to take them so the plane load of deportees returned to the US still full of deportees.

Also reported, aircraft commanders are refusing to fly deportees out of the country (that might be the germans)

I say that if the home country refuses to take deportees, then leave the deportees at the airport standing on the runway and bring the aircraft back empty.

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (KdDCu)

227 Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in their back.

I have one and it is kicking my ass in the dirt.
Posted by: George



Lower back thanks to a dirt bike accident in high school. Comes and goes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:49 PM (rGtm/)

228 Yikes! Attempt at humor fail, Netflix:

https://twitter.com/netflix/status/940051734650503168

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:49 PM (W+vEI)

229 212 177: yes. i was forever marked as a trouble maker since that day. i was a freshman. i did my best to live up to that label. i still fuckin am disgusted by "educators."
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:46 PM (KP5rU)

Sometimes I feel like I should have been more of a trouble maker in my school days, considering the shit I had to deal with from others.

But then I remember that my father would have beaten me within an inch of my life had I done so.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:49 PM (CMbMd)

230 Lot of aches and pains for a bunch of 29-year-olds.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 11, 2017 01:50 PM (NWiLs)

231 >>I've had two fusions, anterior and posterior, C 5,6.

Lower four fusion in my back. Upper is down the road but I'm gonna try and hold it off as long as possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:50 PM (/tuJf)

232 209 Not all jocks were bullies. Some of us actually made sure bullies didn't happen around us.


Good point, didn't mean to imply otherwise.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 11, 2017 01:50 PM (ul9CR)

233 Why does Hallmark do posters?

It's not like any of these films were every shown in a theatre.

btw, Taylor Cole: Christmas in Homestead.

Hubba hubba.

Posted by: JAS at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (7JbXq)

234 I would also recommend being as active as possible (a sedentary lifestyle is bad in many ways), sleeping on a very firm surface, and remembering before you do something that you're not twenty any more.

Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (ALDN3)

235 109----God doesn't care about my thermostat.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 11, 2017 01:29 PM (Ckg4U)
--------------------------------

I am freaking out here because our furnace went on the blink last night. I'm praying that it can be fixed and that we have a sudden heat wave until it's running again.

Actually I'm praying for patience. And in thanksgiving that I am so spoiled that I take central heat for granted.
Which of course I shouldn't.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (0jtPF)

236 229: mine too. but, he never found out. i was a devious little prick back then. it was my job.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (KP5rU)

237 One random thought I just had was about how popular and media-hyped certain members of the Trump admin would be if they were working for a Democratic president. Can you imagine how much of a fashion icon Melania would be?

Look at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for example. If she were a D, there would be clickbait articles every day saying, "The Queen SLAYS ignorant reporter with this epic put-down! Grrrrlllll Power!!!"

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (mynhJ)

238 Apparently we can't deport anyone. News reported that a plane load of deportees was sent home and home refused to take them so the plane load of deportees returned to the US still full of deportees.

Also reported, aircraft commanders are refusing to fly deportees out of the country (that might be the germans)

I say that if the home country refuses to take deportees, then leave the deportees at the airport standing on the runway and bring the aircraft back empty.

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (KdDCu)



I'm sure we have leverage on the home country - we have leverage on everybody, if we're willing to use it. I would make the home country squeal in pain until and unless they did what I wanted.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (Z1eux)

239 182 74 I'd love it if Sarah Huckabee Sanders strode to the press podium, paused, looked around the room, then shouted "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!"
Posted by: fly gal at December 11, 2017 01:25 PM (8TdcF)

A Festivus Miracle!
Posted by: Minuteman at December 11, 2017 01:41 PM (A3b6q)

She should drag an aluminum pole up to the podium

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (7HtZB)

240 Chain migration? I blame the GOP.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (r9UYA)

241 193 Any ideas? Getting a nerve block shot tomorrow, pain pills laugh at this shit. 

Amazon has a series of videos called yoga for a bad ba ack or done such name. The chick is mildly annoying, but they helped me.

Posted by: Knaws at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (Vh1P6)

242 >>I say that if the home country refuses to take deportees, then leave the deportees at the airport standing on the runway and bring the aircraft back empty. Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (KdDCu)

The nation-of-destination may refuse to allow them to de-plane. A drinks cart and the airplane galley will only feed 140 passengers and 6 crew for about a day.

Then, #Donnerairplane.

Posted by: Zod at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (Bdeb0)

243 I got picked on once.
Landed one good shot before I got my ass kicked.
But was never bothered again.

Taught my kids the same thing. Stand for the principles you were taught. And if they got in a fight protecting a sibling and were expelled for a week, then they'd get no hassle from me.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 11, 2017 01:52 PM (0tfLf)

244 Had lower back pain for many years. Seems to coincide with the golf season. It's gone now. I used to blame it on bad car seats, stress, poor posture and anything else I could think of.

Now that I'm "semi retired", it's probably just the golf.

Posted by: Pete Seria at December 11, 2017 01:52 PM (2WfB0)

245 Diamond Dallas Page yoga? I remember seeing that video on that guy that transformed himself doing it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 11, 2017 01:52 PM (dKiJG)

246 I refuse to give liberal a-hole Mike Florio's website traffic, but does anyone know if he has started a campaign to shame the Eagle into signing Kaepernick yet?

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 11, 2017 01:52 PM (OD2ni)

247 -delurks-

For back pain, look into something called "The Alexander Technique."

It's a century-old, mostly one-on-one system of retraining bodily motion and balance by eliminating unnoticed habitual tensions, which can be causing a raft of health problems (or, in my case, limiting high-performance physical activity*).

*obscure professional musician knowledge has its uses...

-relurks-

Posted by: Piercello at December 11, 2017 01:53 PM (TOLnE)

248 So if I wear drab colored sweaters, I'll meet a hot chick in red this Christmas. Thanks Hallmark!

Posted by: josephistan at December 11, 2017 01:53 PM (7HtZB)

249 217
Behind left shoulder blade. Makes my whole left arm sore and fingers on my left hand twinge.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (tbOMB)



Same here, from a bulging disk in my neck, per the MRI. My arm went numb with an electric zinging up and down it, like touching battery terminals. Drove me crazy, and made it difficult to sleep.



PT taught me exercises, and they, along with the foam roller ... voila! Problem solved.



Apparently these steps increase the mobility of the vertebrae involved so they can move around the nerve a bit, rather than just crushing it, which sends spurious signals down it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:47 PM (Z1eux)


Ahh, good stuff here. I think mine is from an untreated cracked rib that resulted in some wonky skeletal structure that gets agitated every time I do heavy pack loads or a lot of manual labor, lifting ,etc. Anything heavy on my shoulders for any length of time and I can bet money on having to deal with it.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:53 PM (tbOMB)

250 234 I would also recommend being as active as possible (a sedentary lifestyle is bad in many ways), sleeping on a very firm surface, and remembering before you do something that you're not twenty any more.
Posted by: harry lime at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (ALDN3)


Another, counter-intuitive, suggestion: do light deadlifts. And I mean (initially) VERY light. Start with a soup can in each hand, after studying the form, and learning perfect technique. Then gradually move up as you get bored.

Prepare to be amazed.

(This presumes, of course, that you have nothing seriously wrong, so get checked out first.)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (Z1eux)

251 I say that if the home country refuses to take deportees, then leave the deportees at the airport standing on the runway and bring the aircraft back empty.

Exactly. They aren't our problem, they are yours. Don't like it? Then you shouldn't have sent them to us to begin with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (39g3+)

252 Perhaps some language geek bait...

Anna Puma's link to "Venus in Furs" says that it's reproduced here in normal type, but was originally published in Frakturschrift.

I learned a little of that in high school. It's angular squiggles that run together. Like an N is two anglesquiggles and an M is three anglesquiggles and since everything runs together you might as well be deciphering runes.

So, how 'bout the history of fonts, cursives, and other orthographic delights?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (fuK7c)

253 Behind left shoulder blade. Makes my whole left arm sore and fingers on my left hand twinge.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (tbOMB)Don't mess around with this. Get it checked out ASAP.I had a similar issue many years ago, and have residual weakness in my thumb to this day.

Posted by: browndog at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (bGMOs)

254 I say that if the home country refuses to take deportees, then leave the deportees at the airport standing on the runway and bring the aircraft back empty. Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (KdDCu)

The nation-of-destination may refuse to allow them to de-plane. A drinks cart and the airplane galley will only feed 140 passengers and 6 crew for about a day.



Have them all stand and face the tail ramp. Lower tail ramp.
Have C-130 do a 90 degree turn and go vertical.

Plane WILL empty out.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (rGtm/)

255 I also try to focus on using my stomach and using good posture instead of slouching or resting on my elbows, and that seems to help speed things along.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (tbOMB)

256
There's a difference between bullying and laughing at the fat kid who can't lift himself two inches up the rope. I'm sure that laughing at the fat kid is now totally unacceptable and will mean detention and parental involvement for the laughers.

In the 'old days' the fat kid leaned out, came back, took the test again and actually got somewhat up the rope.

Now? He stays fat and dares the others to laugh at him. Because he knows who has his back.

I don't see how that's progress.

Posted by: Acme Explosives at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (ajiE5)

257 The nation-of-destination may refuse to allow them to de-plane.

That's gonna be tough to enforce. Do they really want to open fire on an official US military aircraft?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:55 PM (39g3+)

258 222
Female chefs don't have the instinctive expertise that men do when it comes to kneading dough. You have to show them!

Posted by: Mario Batali at December 11, 2017 01:48 PM (HIDKl)


Two words: Pastry Bag!


Now that was a cooking segment

Posted by: Matt Lauer at December 11, 2017 01:55 PM (ymnmz)

259 >>Dr saying back looks good, no compressions, etc. Just a small nerve pinch at L4. Chiropractor thinks I need months of work, look at my shocked face.

I did the chiropractor thing for years, ever since I was in high school. I have a degenerative condition but I wanted to keep playing sports and put off surgery as long as possible.

Some of them are good, I had one who used to work with the Celtics and Boston Bruins and he was awesome. And I have had some that were flat out quacks. But even the good ones usually took multiple sessions to fix an acute flare up.

Seriously, good luck and I hope it's something minor. I don't envy anyone with back issues.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 11, 2017 01:55 PM (/tuJf)

260 236 229: mine too. but, he never found out. i was a devious little prick back then. it was my job.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 11, 2017 01:51 PM (KP5rU)

Unfortunately, it wasn't possible for me to fly under the radar due to being just too distinctive in my appearance. So I eventually had to square up with someone.

I failed in that, since I didn't break any of the other person's bones, but it did take 3 football players to pull me off of him.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:56 PM (CMbMd)

261 Diet Coke sales are up 128% suddenly and no one seems to be able to explain the reason for it....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 01:56 PM (7uYFy)

262
I was basically a timid kid up until I was about 16. Still only got bullied by two guys, one was probably the ugliest guy on the planet, who just happened to be the VP's kid so he always got a pass. The other, totally scary mofo, ended up as a double-murderer by the time he was 25.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 11, 2017 01:56 PM (eXA4G)

263 Once again a failed attack that was pure luck.

Posted by: steevy at December 11, 2017 01:44 PM (LiyEm)

I'd rate it as a Christmas miracle.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 11, 2017 01:56 PM (rp9xB)

264 So, how 'bout the history of fonts, cursives, and other orthographic delights?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (fuK7c)


I had an EEG once. Turned out it was a novel in Cyrillic cursive if you turned it upside down.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 11, 2017 01:56 PM (y87Qq)

265 238. Leverage is also the principle at work with trebuchets. Just sayin.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (fA1SL)

266 Diet Coke sales are up 128% suddenly and no one seems to be able to explain the reason for it....

==

gifts...

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (QC/4S)

267 Apparently we can't deport anyone. News reported that a plane load of deportees was sent home and home refused to take them



That's not how it works. You deplane them with cattle prods if need be. Then take off.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (rGtm/)

268 Verrrry simple fix for those countries that do not "accept" their deportees from America. Step #1 suspension of all travel for that country's nationals to the US, suspension of visas, work permits, immigration applications etc. and assess a $1M administrative fee, per refugee, per day. Step #2 freeze all that country's (and its nationals') bank accounts in the US, and freeze all payments and fund transfers to that country from the US and use it to pay the fines that have been generated. Step 3 - let's face it - there wouldn't be a step 3 - as the countries would be begging to take back their nationals after step 1

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (Fb9aZ)

269 sit-ups; after the pain subsides

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (QC/4S)


Worst advice ever. Forward flexion is bad for healthy backs, not to mention compromised backs.

Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (Enq6K)

270 Nood Kebab

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (fA1SL)

271 >>So if I wear drab colored sweaters, I'll meet a hot chick in red this Christmas. Thanks Hallmark!


Also helps if your a tall, buff guy from Canada...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 11, 2017 01:58 PM (W+vEI)

272 So some doofus in Louisiana tried to use Donald Trump's social security number to access his tax return data. He got busted

http://tinyurl.com/ydxmvfmx

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:58 PM (39g3+)

273 268 Verrrry simple fix for those countries that do not "accept" their deportees from America. Step #1 suspension of all travel for that country's nationals to the US, suspension of visas, work permits, immigration applications etc. and assess a $1M administrative fee, per refugee, per day. Step #2 freeze all that country's (and its nationals') bank accounts in the US, and freeze all payments and fund transfers to that country from the US and use it to pay the fines that have been generated. Step 3 - let's face it - there wouldn't be a step 3 - as the countries would be begging to take back their nationals after step 1
Posted by: Publius Redux at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (Fb9aZ)

Step 4 : Pinochet Helicopter Rides.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 11, 2017 01:58 PM (CMbMd)

274 So, how 'bout the history of fonts, cursives, and other orthographic delights?

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decipher the runes of the Arabic written language.

Posted by: Clafford Ismael Brownstone at December 11, 2017 01:58 PM (KdDCu)

275 Fox is reporting that the bomber in the NYC subway came here under chain migration.
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They're all trying to put you back in chains!

Posted by: Al Gore, or was it Joe Biden? at December 11, 2017 01:58 PM (7uYFy)

276 Ahh, good stuff here. I think mine is from an untreated cracked rib that resulted in some wonky skeletal structure that gets agitated every time I do heavy pack loads or a lot of manual labor, lifting ,etc. Anything heavy on my shoulders for any length of time and I can bet money on having to deal with it.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 01:53 PM (tbOMB)


When I first started with the foam roller, I could hear the "pop pop pop" of the vertebrae as I rolled back and forth, with immediate relief. Nowadays, after doing this routinely, no popping. At all.

Rollers help with sciatic problems too. I tweaked mine with overly aggressive stretching before a ball game, and it hurt like a bastard. But doing a figure four on the roller, and rolling onto the affected side, up and down, caused the spasming muscle (piriformis) to relax after a while. Hurt like a bastard doing it, but it really helped.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 01:59 PM (Z1eux)

277 sit-ups; after the pain subsides

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 01:39 PM (QC/4S)


Worst advice ever. Forward flexion is bad for healthy backs, not to mention compromised backs.
Posted by: Tami at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (Enq6K)


do it properly..it works...bad advice or not

Posted by: runner at December 11, 2017 01:59 PM (QC/4S)

278 74 I'd love it if Sarah Huckabee Sanders strode to the press podium, paused, looked around the room, then shouted "I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!"

Years and years ago one of the old time Architects in this state (his license number was a single digit) walked into the licensing exam room, looked around and announced that none of the people sitting there were qualified to take the exam, and promptly canceled it. Can't imagine that happening today, but SH should try it. Maybe on April 1 to give her some cover.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 11, 2017 01:59 PM (kUmUV)

279 The nation-of-destination may refuse to allow them to de-plane.

That's gonna be tough to enforce. Do they really want to open fire on an official US military aircraft?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Especially when escorted by a couple of A-10's & Apaches.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 11, 2017 01:59 PM (rGtm/)

280 261 Diet Coke sales are up 128% suddenly and no one seems to be able to explain the reason for it....
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I've been drinking Diet Coke instead of the regular stuff since 2009 when my pancreas went union. It seems I have a lot of company out there. Diet Coke with Splenda instead rat-killer in it is pretty good. Diet Dew and Diet Dr Pepper are still the closest in taste to the originals though. Diet RC is an abomination.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 02:00 PM (W+kMI)

281 I wonder if any liberals who like to drink Diet Coke have suddenly switched to Diet Pepsi in the past 48 hours?

Posted by: Al Gore, or was it Joe Biden? at December 11, 2017 02:00 PM (7uYFy)

282 268 Verrrry simple fix for those countries that do not "accept" their deportees from America. Step #1 suspension of all travel for that country's nationals to the US, suspension of visas, work permits, immigration applications etc. and assess a $1M administrative fee, per refugee, per day. Step #2 freeze all that country's (and its nationals') bank accounts in the US, and freeze all payments and fund transfers to that country from the US and use it to pay the fines that have been generated. Step 3 - let's face it - there wouldn't be a step 3 - as the countries would be begging to take back their nationals after step 1
Posted by: Publius Redux at December 11, 2017 01:57 PM (Fb9aZ)



Yep. That's the sort of thing I had in mind. The home country would be howling with pain, and reconsidering taking back their shitheads.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 11, 2017 02:00 PM (Z1eux)

283 I've been drinking Diet Coke instead of the regular stuff since 2009 when my pancreas went union. It seems I have a lot of company out there. Diet Coke with Splenda instead rat-killer in it is pretty good. Diet Dew and Diet Dr Pepper are still the closest in taste to the originals though. Diet RC is an abomination.
Posted by: exdem13 at December 11, 2017 02:00 PM (W+kMI)

i can drink Diet Coke as long as it's real cold. Mt. Dew Diet is gross.
The only diet soda that even comes close to the original version is Diet Dr. Pepper.

Posted by: Al Gore, or was it Joe Biden? at December 11, 2017 02:02 PM (7uYFy)

284 So, how 'bout the history of fonts, cursives, and other orthographic delights?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, in touch with his toxic masculinity in his desire to oppress someone at December 11, 2017 01:54 PM (fuK7c)

[Shrug] How did we get from Carolingian miniscule to here (points to, e.g., Times New).

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 11, 2017 02:09 PM (RD7QR)

285 okay one time I started to make comments about these Hallmark movies while my wife was watching one.
It. Did. Not. Go. Well.

Posted by: simplemind at December 11, 2017 02:10 PM (C6xeQ)

286 Kid picked on at school?
Just show them the village pillage clip from Conan the Barbarian and say, "Now that's getting picked on."
Then have a philosophical discussion about steel and how it relates to life. The riddle of steel.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 11, 2017 02:10 PM (e1mEI)

287 Thump tried to kiss me once....

Posted by: lin-duh at December 11, 2017 02:12 PM (kufk0)

288 There's this social media thing going around with a picture of a grade
school boy and text all about how bad he feels because people pick on
him in school.





Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 11, 2017 01:20 PM (39g3+)


Saw that. Don't know if all the celebs replying will make his life easier.

I think kids are a lot meaner in their teasing in today's rotten, God-less culture. With all the social media apps and whatnot, the bullying can get pretty extensive and very cruel. Also seems the kids watching it happen really enjoy it, too.

When I was a kid, I don't think it was as bad - but I went to Catholic school so that kind of behavior wasn't acceptable. We were just bullied by the nuns, not each other.

Posted by: Joanne at December 11, 2017 02:15 PM (A07hL)

289 Don't know if already noted above, plus willow territory, but the US has already started action against foreign countries rejecting return (deportation) of their nationals, by suspending visa access to those nationalities. I think 5 countries were involved. Not sure where that stands.


But as mentioned, that is in fact the obvious and likely effective response.


As for DACA/appropriations stand-offs, as I said a while ago and some have repeated here, it's a "govt. shut-down theater" match made in heaven. For those seeking restoration of rule of law, that is.


And the "trade-off" should be for the entire practical agenda, all of it.


Full appropriation for border security, including personnel and operations as well as infrastructure, for the entire foreseen project. Implementing RAISE Act, which ends chain migration and does other important things. Requirement for E-Verify by all employers. Whatever funding and legislative changes are required to expand and streamline the immigration courts as the administration is now seeking, to speed law enforcement (incl. deportations).


And, per the comments of many above, make it conditional and phased, with concrete accomplishment of the rule of law provisions PRECEDING each phase of DACA implementation. Can be done. Must be done.


I still wonder if Trump isn't spectacularly ill-served by his legislative affairs staff (and by implication senior staff who should have some clue). Having ANOTHER CR drama, at all, is actually a black mark for Trump, aside from being an absolutely indefensible condemnation of Ryan and McConnell.


But since you've allowed one to happen, again, and the gods have given you an almost unimaginably perfect combo of leverage and policy/political opportunity, dammit make the most of it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 11, 2017 02:19 PM (QDnY+)

290 George - it's a bitch. I had one while pregnant. The best relief I could get was in a Jacuzzi. Couldn't take pills or drink but the hot water helped. Sorry

Posted by: Cheri at December 11, 2017 02:28 PM (oiNtH)

291 Fuck you Dave Addey.
My wife loves these movies and I, sometimes, love to watch them with her.
Beats the Sodom-and-Gomorrah shit the MSM puts out by orders of magnitude.

Must be working and making Hallmark money. Otherwise they would stop.

Capitalism. Works every time it is tried.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 11, 2017 02:46 PM (8Ls/+)

292 261
Diet Coke sales are up 128% suddenly and no one seems to be able to explain the reason for it....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 11, 2017 01:56 PM (7uYFy)



Price discovery. They have been selling that crack for $0.88/2 Ltr., lately. I bought at least 128% more than I normally do.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 11, 2017 02:47 PM (tbOMB)

293 Yes Hallmark has a formula for the movies and ads; they all have incredibly beautiful women in them...

Posted by: Brad 5678 at December 11, 2017 02:49 PM (wBC4K)

294 293 Yes Hallmark has a formula for the movies and ads; they all have incredibly beautiful women in them...
Posted by: Brad 5678 at December 11, 2017 02:49 PM (wBC4K)

True Dat.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 11, 2017 02:51 PM (8Ls/+)

295 I think Hallmark movies are just really long ads for Kleenex.

Posted by: liz953 at December 11, 2017 05:13 PM (frv51)

296 Hallmark's ultimate creation is the Good Witch, originally an annual movie and more recently, a 60-minute series.

Catherine Bell (you may remember her as the hot Marine lawyer sidekick from JAG) is a mysterious outsider who returns to her ancestral small town to sell crystals, mystic herbs and good-luck talismans to the small-minded rubes from a shop called Bell, Book and Candle. It's all vaguely spiritual without ever getting explicitly wiccan or sectarian.

Other than Bell, now a still-hot widowed mom, and a town full of smoking-hot successful small businesswomen, there's nothing to recommend this crap. But I love that there's a completely doctrine-free annual winter festival of lights and zero mention of God or Jesus in the entire skein.

Its apparently the only Christmas-free spot on the red-and-green network schedule.

Posted by: Little Mrs Spellcheck at December 11, 2017 05:28 PM (kbn8Z)

297 The gal in Wish for Christmas doesn't look very happy.

Posted by: Denver at December 11, 2017 07:57 PM (+RbnF)

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