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Daily Tech News 3 August 2026

Top Story

The Xbox may keep disc support as Sony shoots itself and its customers in the feet. (WCCFTech)

This would be an intelligent and obvious move meaning there is no chance it will happen.
Xbox has been hit with worldwide price increases. (WCCFTech)

I bought one a while back. One the one hand, it has since increased in price by nearly 50%. On the other hand, it's sitting in my closet.

Tech News

AMD's new Zen 6 CPUs offer (reads article) piddly little improvements that it is impossible to get excited about. (Tom's Hardware)

Though this is on top of them being about twice as fast as Zen 4 or Zen 5 desktop CPUs, so they still look pretty good. Though Zen 5 itself was nothing spectacular compared with Zen 4.
New York has published new rules that will force online services to... Publish feeds showing only accounts users have subscribed to, in strict chronological order. (NY)

The problem is that this new law is only in effect for minors.
A group of teenage hikers relied on Google maps and ended up needing a rescue. (SFGate)
When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia's famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours.
Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured, deeply stupid, and in need of a helicopter rescue.
Uh, yeah. That trail involves CLIMBING A FUCKING MOUNTAIN.
There's a shortage of MacBook Airs because of the shortage of memory. (Tech Crunch)

Everybody hardest hit.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Nonsense. You're only saying that because no-one ever has.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day everyone
Its Monday again, isn't it?

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 04:32 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 04:33 AM (sAmhv)

4 It's not tomorrow yet where I am at.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:33 AM (X0Pix)

5 Why, it is not even 11:00pm.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:33 AM (X0Pix)

6 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (part one)

25:31 running time yowza

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:34 AM (odBC9)

7 My grandfather was a stereophonic. He had a large stereo with the old tubes. Often he had to replace one and we went shopping for the parts.
He loved this album and played it often

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)

8 There's a shortage of MacBook Airs because of the shortage of memory. (Tech Crunch)

Everybody hardest hit.

Glad I got mine when I did.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 04:36 AM (sAmhv)

9 6 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (part one)

25:31 running time yowza
Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:34 AM (odBC9)

The discordant note at 1:00 made me jump.

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

10 (could be the covfefe)

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:38 AM (odBC9)

11 5 Why, it is not even 11:00pm.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:33 AM (X0Pix)

Hawaii, maybe!

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9)

12 11 5 Why, it is not even 11:00pm.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:33 AM (X0Pix)

Hawaii, maybe!
Posted by: m

Tardis.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 04:41 AM (sAmhv)

13 Howdy, late-night/early-morning morons!

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 04:46 AM (rdVOm)

14 Hawaii, maybe!
Posted by: m

maybe....

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:49 AM (X0Pix)

15 12 11 5 Why, it is not even 11:00pm.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:33 AM (X0Pix)

Hawaii, maybe!
Posted by: m

Tardis.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 04:41 AM (sAmhv)

; )

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

Sunday Overnight Open Thread - August 2, 2026 [Doof]

Adirondacks, NY - From Earth Photos

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Glad you could stop by! Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. How's August treating you so far?

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Pay attention to this guy. He seems to understand how immunity works in the human body

Fauci talking about the flu in 2004:

“f she got the flu for 14 days, she’s as protected as anybody can be, because the BEST vaccination is to get infected yourself. If she really has the flu, if she really has the flu, she definitely doesn’t need a flu vaccine..”

Interesting. pic.twitter.com/N2W08ttPR1
— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) August 2, 2026

Hopefully he will be called upon years later to explain this when a big pandemic hits and people are wondering the best course of action.

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I've been sharing a lot of stuff about Flock cameras recently. Maybe I need to submit a Morning Rant thread about it so the daywalkers get to see this stuff.

Flock cameras are asshoe. Overreach and extremely counter to the 4th Amendment. Those who administer these things certainly understand the concept when they themselves are the ones being filmed. Here's another example.

Can’t even make this up.

Guy goes to film a Flock office building. He is met by Flock employees who say they don’t feel safe being surveilled.

I’m sorry, what….but they think it’s ok to mass surveil the American people. pic.twitter.com/bvPG38W0jT
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) August 2, 2026

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Feel good content.

Human chain saved a dog and became a statue ❤️ pic.twitter.com/w8yKZwLL73
— Restoring Your Faith in Humanity (@HumanityChad) August 1, 2026

Awesome stuff there.

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There's feel good content. I guess there can be sound good content. This, however, aint that.

Nothing will prepare you for the national anthem at the first women’s professional baseball game. And I mean nothing. pic.twitter.com/68tCZXvB4Q
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) August 2, 2026

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This is from somewhere in Memphis. Horde members are almost old enough!

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Seems legit

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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)

It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.

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Cher’s Dress Reveals on The Cher Show: When Primetime Got a Little Spicey

In the mid-1970s, long before everyone tried for viral red-carpet shock and awe, there was Cher. And there was that moment, every week, when she stepped onto the stage of her variety series The Cher Show, draped in a dramatic cape, cloak, or feathered cover-up, only to whip it away and reveal something spectacular underneath.

Those dress reveals, masterminded by the legendary costume designer Bob Mackie, weren’t just costume changes. They were events. It was mix of glamour, calculated shock value, and absolute showmanship that pushed the boundaries of what American television audiences expected to see on a Wednesday night. Decades later, the clips still circulate wildly on social media, looking every bit as daring as they did fifty years ago.

The Ritual of the Reveal
The Cher Show followed the end of The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Cher was now the solo star, and Mackie, already her trusted collaborator, went into overdrive. A single episode could feature multiple looks, but the signature moment was the dramatic unveiling. Underneath: a body-conscious confection of sequins, beads, cutouts, sheer illusion panels, feathers, and midriff-baring two-pieces that left little to the imagination.

Standout Moments That Still Sparkle
Among the many reveals, a few have achieved near-mythic status:

• The “Satisfaction” rainbow two-piece that fans still rave about for its pure joy and color.

• A striking turquoise number from “Got to Get You Into My Life”that stopped the show mid-spin.

• The purple “Crocodile Rock” drama.

• The white “Let Me Entertain You” sparkle

Each reveal felt like a mini fashion show compressed into a few electric seconds. The audience reaction, cheers, gasps, applause, it was all part of the performance. The sequined, feathered, cutout creations helped define the 1970s and continue to influence stage costumes, red-carpet risk-takers, and anyone who believes clothes should make an entrance. Glamour, after all, is best when it’s revealed.

Enjoy a compilation Cher’s season 1 reveals:

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Thanks, Piper!

The rest of you - Don't forget to check out Piper's X page.

Sorta kinda fashion adjacent?

Hilarious rodeo event competition. The ladies had to find their own shoes to get a prize. pic.twitter.com/l7irYGVnzS
— Richie Rich (@gofishh77) August 2, 2026

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DJ Doof - Deeper Cuts Edition

Well known bands - songs you might not have heard very much.

Were you familiar with any / all of those?

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 08-02-2026

AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 105
Number of comments: 21346
Number of unique hashes: 1583

Top 10 commenters:
1 [506 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer' [71.85 posts/day]
2 [368 comments] 'Quarter Twenty '
3 [322 comments] '...'
4 [303 comments] 'JackStraw '
5 [284 comments] '18-1'
6 [281 comments] 'Axeman'
7 [261 comments] 'Oldcat'
8 [254 comments] 'Bulg'
9 [250 comments] 'Smell the Glove '
10 [239 comments] 'San Franpsycho'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [207 names] 'Quarter Twenty ' [29.39 unique names/day]
2 [206 names] 'Fugitive From Board of Mental Health'
3 [168 names] 'colmektube.cc'
4 [85 names] 'J. Gordon Miklos-Coogler'
5 [52 names] 'Count de Monet'
6 [49 names] 'Duncanthrax'
7 [47 names] 'Miklos'
8 [43 names] 'Franziazepines'
9 [28 names] 'Sponge - F*ck Cancer'
10 [23 names] 'mindful webworker - It seemed like a good idea at the time'

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Tonight's ONT brought to you by eternal justice

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Doof Enterprises, LLC is in talks with Flock to surveil ONT readers. It has come to our attention that some of you may be faking your level of whelm so we need a real gauge.

Your feedback may or may not be very important to Doof Enterprises. Follow Mr. Doof on X @doof2112 or do the email thing – doof2112 at proton dot me.

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1 Happy Sunday!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:01 PM (hzuYO)

2 I Could Write a Book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vc-qaR4rHk

or

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 10:01 PM (+yTe/)

3 How's August treating you so far?

Let's see. Hot. Dry. Another thanksbut. Still waiting to get get work back I paid for that was supposed to arrive last month. Hm. No different than any other month, I guess.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:03 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 Good evening.

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 02, 2026 10:03 PM (348x5)

5
Nice dresses. Too bad Cher is inside them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 10:04 PM (O0L8i)

6 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Made it to DD#1's house, presents have been doled out to the grandsons (the 3-D plastic reticulated snakes were the biggest hit), dinner has been consumed, and now we are JJ st waiting until we can go to bed.

Life is wonderful 💕💕💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 10:04 PM (S7WXb)

7 Good evening Horde and thanks to Disco and Piper!

Posted by: TRex - squirrel hell director dino at August 02, 2026 10:05 PM (jnBG1)

8 Hi friends!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 10:05 PM (pZEOD)

9 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 02, 2026 10:05 PM (+9wcF)

10 Allie the Calico Kitty Cat says, "Hello!" and wants me to stop typing so I can rub her tummy. Even though it's not Tuesday

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 10:06 PM (FZ29D)

11 Christy,
Congrats on the first!
And thank you for your recommendation in the gray boxes one night re Southern Sideboard cookbook...I was able to get one and absolutely love it, so thanks for the recommendation!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 02, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1)

12 5
Nice dresses. Too bad Cher is inside them.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026

Yeah, she is loony toons. Must be the Hollywood air or something.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 10:07 PM (Wmg4n)

13 Thanks, Doof. I don't know where everyone is as I just wandered in.

Exellent music!!!

Thanks, Piper. I liked Cher as a young kid. If I had a rib removed I'd have a waist like hers. Felt she cheated to do that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:07 PM (hzuYO)

14 Cher had the body, Sonny had the brains. Maybe we should have kept the smarter one.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:07 PM (1Ff7Z)

15 Missed one thing:

Southern Rich = happy

NYC Rich = hate everything

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:09 PM (1Ff7Z)

16 Squirrels should stay out of the attic.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 10:09 PM (Cqx++)

17 Good evening Horde and thanks to Disco and Piper!
Posted by: TRex - squirrel hell director dino at August 02, 2026 10:05 PM (jnBG1)

Howdy Dino!

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (QMAsf)

18 Maybe the squirrels in dog heaven aren't squirrels at all? Do they have transparent skin?

It's not like the Koran would mention dog heaven.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (VHUov)

19 What is going on in Washington State and Idaho? Why all the random shootings? Isn't it bad enough Washington State is burning from the wildfires? What a crazy mess. Damn.

Posted by: Case at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (bqIVz)

20
NYC Rich = hate everything

That makes them happy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (Cqx++)

21 I have a contrarian opinion on the Flock cameras, because I've actually listened to the guys who invented them.

The upshot: if you don't want them, make the US a high trust society again. Until then, they're our best bet for getting crime under control.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (v8+Kf)

22 Sonny wouldn't have kept too well after the snow melted

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (rbvCR)

23 Thanks, Doof. I don't know where everyone is as I just wandered in.

Exellent music!!!

Thanks, Piper. I liked Cher as a young kid. If I had a rib removed I'd have a waist like hers. Felt she cheated to do that.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:07 PM (hzuYO)

Were you immediately whelmed?

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

24 I'd pay good money to watch that shoe race live.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 10:12 PM (NnhvP)

25 The national Anthem: they meant well.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:12 PM (Wj1DV)

26
Huh, the reveal for me is that Cher had a pretty decent voice.

Amazing Bob Mackie gowns. They ought to be in a museum.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 10:12 PM (mmrXZ)

27 I’m only 29: they won’t let me in!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:12 PM (Wj1DV)

28 "Guy goes to film a Flock office building. He is met by Flock employees who say they don’t feel safe being surveilled."

If you think about it, this is not too different from working at JPMChase and not banking with them.

(Which I wouldn't know anything 'bout dat.)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 02, 2026 10:13 PM (uoXeR)

29 The upshot: if you don't want them, make the US a high trust society again. Until then, they're our best bet for getting crime under control.

My Constitutional rights are not dependent on the approval of someone who works for Flock.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 02, 2026 10:13 PM (Riz8t)

30 Who is that warbling The Star Spangled Banner? Carol Burnett used to do a bit where she'd sing horribly to orchestral accompament and I thought it must take great talent to sing so horribly but, by golly, this chick is worse!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:14 PM (ndZc7)

31 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 10:15 PM (1z8ji)

32 I have a contrarian opinion on the Flock cameras, because I've actually listened to the guys who invented them.

The upshot: if you don't want them, make the US a high trust society again. Until then, they're our best bet for getting crime under control.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (v8+Kf)

Very Orwellian take

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 10:15 PM (QMAsf)

33 Evenin'

youtu.be/qpWPIxcqVDY

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 02, 2026 10:15 PM (sAmhv)

34 Never watched the Cher show so thanks for the video on the dresses. Only had to endure seconds of her voice. I see that the show only made it one year. I guess without Sonny she wasn’t all that.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 02, 2026 10:15 PM (2NHgQ)

35 Rehumanize yourself

Posted by: Joemarine at August 02, 2026 10:16 PM (y171U)

36 Thanks for the entertaining ONT, Doof!

And thanks to Piper for the Cher fashion show!

That human chain to rescue the doggeh was superb. Restores faith in humankind, it does.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 02, 2026 10:17 PM (D/6p1)

37 Thank you to everyone in the gun thread! There's a picture of the spawn in case you missed it.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

38 Amazing Bob Mackie gowns. They ought to be in a museum.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 10:12 PM (mmrXZ)

The best Bob Mackie gown was the Scarlett O'Hara dress worn by Carol Burnett.

It is known.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 10:17 PM (S7WXb)

39 It is pouring down

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 10:18 PM (Ia/+0)

40 You will be made to trust our Flock Cameras, peon!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:18 PM (Wj1DV)

41 Oh! Thanks Doof, and Piper!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 10:18 PM (NnhvP)

42 It is pouring down

How else could it pour?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 10:19 PM (vTZFs)

43 The upshot: if you don't want them, make the US a high trust society again. Until then, they're our best bet for getting crime under control.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (v8+Kf)

Well, maybe, if you define "crime" as running a yellow light.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)

44 I kept expecting Cher to trip over her discarded frocks.

Posted by: Joemarine at August 02, 2026 10:19 PM (y171U)

45 44 I kept expecting Cher to trip over her discarded frocks.
Posted by: Joemarine at August 02, 2026 10:19 PM (y171U)

I would. Right off the stage.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 10:20 PM (p4NUW)

46 It is pouring down
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 10:18 PM (Ia/+0)

Brewing up a storm here, I think. Gotten chilly, and howling gale out of the northwest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 10:20 PM (1z8ji)

47 Doof, thanks for Collective Soul. Haven't heard them in awhile!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 02, 2026 10:21 PM (348x5)

48 Cher was a wonderful mannequin and had quite a bit of talent besides.

Posted by: Caesar and Cleo Fan at August 02, 2026 10:21 PM (JM9I6)

49 11 Christy,
Congrats on the first!
And thank you for your recommendation in the gray boxes one night re Southern Sideboard cookbook...I was able to get one and absolutely love it, so thanks for the recommendation!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 02, 2026 10:06 PM (XfIK1)
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Oh, wow! You are very welcome! I didn't think most people read my yammerings!

I love that cookbook! The back cover is off and if I lost it I'd lose my Seafood Gumbo recipe forever! For about 2yrs after my father's mother's death I experimented til he said I had it like hers! She left no recipes, or very few, and was the most wonderful cook. Also the pecan pie recipe is a yearly treat for my men (I add more pecans that it calls for). Probably more. It was a wedding gift to me and I found one each for my DIL's.

My grandmother was woman who also could sew anything from looking at a picture. Before she married she was a milliner. I have photos.

She loved me bigly and I loved her right back as her only granddaughter. She had tears in her eyes when I moved West for college and that almost got me (I rarely cry). She did live to see my wedding and later our beautiful boys.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:21 PM (hzuYO)

50 Congrats to Spawn of lin-duh!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 10:21 PM (S7WXb)

51 If it is pouring up, please alert the authorities.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:22 PM (Wj1DV)

52 Were you immediately whelmed?
Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

The second I see Foreigner I am very whelmed!!XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:23 PM (hzuYO)

53 Is there a purgatory for squirrels?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 02, 2026 10:23 PM (u/oMr)

54 Hey, August is looking pretty good , one month closer to October.

Posted by: Eromero at August 02, 2026 10:23 PM (LHPAg)

55 Finished second in the sockpuppet race by one. Still first loser.

Posted by: Fugitive From The Board of Mental Health at August 02, 2026 10:23 PM (JM9I6)

56 Doof, thanks for Collective Soul. Haven't heard them in awhile!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 02, 2026 10:21 PM (348x5)

YW! Underrated band, in my opinion.

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 10:24 PM (QMAsf)

57 Doof Enterprises, LLC is in talks with Flock to surveil ONT readers. It has come to our attention that some of you may be faking your level of whelm so we need a real gauge.

We've already got ShowerCam. What's a few more?

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 10:25 PM (VHUov)

58 Sorry I'm late, my alien abductors were being a bit mendacious when they assured me I would be home by dinner time.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 02, 2026 10:25 PM (2RJDy)

59 Cher and Farrah Fawcett did a sketch on her show where they were mannequins in a store window. Funny and cute.

Posted by: Prolly Still On Youtube at August 02, 2026 10:25 PM (JM9I6)

60 make the US a high trust society again.

-
So hang Fauci?

An interview of the good doctor from last year was on CSPN today. What an arrogant dick!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:25 PM (ndZc7)

61 How's August treating you so far?

Rain. It's jamming up my late summer golf plans. I work mids, days get shorter, harder to get out. I will endeavor to perceiver.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 02, 2026 10:25 PM (sAmhv)

62 August. Is that the name of the moose outside Club ONT?

If so, he's been letting me in, so we're fine.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 10:26 PM (qx7Zg)

63 In a more just world, Cher would have hit the tree.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 02, 2026 10:27 PM (u/oMr)

64 37 Thank you to everyone in the gun thread! There's a picture of the spawn in case you missed it.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

Extremely cool ...

***remembers back to range time at a TxMoMe***

Posted by: browndog says woof at August 02, 2026 10:28 PM (3sXRv)

65 Cher was like an earlier version of Fauxhantos. She is half armenian and claimed to be half Indian...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:28 PM (sKqQm)

66 The upshot: if you don't want them, make the US a high trust society again. Until then, they're our best bet for getting crime under control.

My Constitutional rights are not dependent on the approval of someone who works for Flock.
Posted by: Archimedes

Yes. I explained this to y'all in a pithy one-liner 250 years ago.

.....

Back off, Generation FaceBook. 18 words was considered "pithy" back then.

Posted by: Ben Franklin at August 02, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)

67 41 Oh! Thanks Doof, and Piper!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at

More Doof than Piper. But you are welcome!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 10:30 PM (Wmg4n)

68 It is pouring down

How else could it pour?
Posted by: Oddbob

Pouring sideways isn't unknown. Though horizontal precipitation is more common with snow than rain.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)

69 "Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Glad you could stop by! Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. How's August treating you so far?"

It's been raining cats and dogs all around WNY, but somehow I managed to find a place where the storms went all around but never on us, and played 18 holes with a friend ... had the course to ourselves ... 3 hours stolen from the gods.

Posted by: browndog says woof at August 02, 2026 10:32 PM (3sXRv)

70 I made it 5 seconds into that national anthem bit.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

71 Sonny wouldn't have kept too well after the snow melted
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 10:10 PM (rbvCR)

Maybe, but even brain dead he's smarter than her.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

72
It poured down and slightly sideways a few hours earlier. Peak rainfall rate her according to my station hit 4.87"/hr. Rained about 1.2" in 20 minutes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 10:33 PM (w6EFb)

73 The Leopard Face Eating Party supposedly started off as a leftwing thing on reddit

but

I see page after meme after tweet of some lefty helping immigrants/illegals/refugees being murdered by them.

Jihadis don't resort to cannibalism but they'll do anything short of eating your face

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:33 PM (sKqQm)

74 I love that statue of saving the dog! After working in the trauma unit I do hope if needed I run to the danger vs away. I guess my excuse could be age at this point, or yanking my grands out of danger.

In the past, though, on a few planes I helped flight attendants and the worst words my dude or sons ever heard were, "I'm a RN." They would groan.

I continue to make them nervous. We have a new priest and I wanted to meet him today after Mass. Son said, "Mom, this is not the time to tell him your history." I said I would not and all I said was, "Welcome." He said, "Well, you've been known to say more." I get the same deal in the car afterwards from my dude and I repeated I said ONE WORD.

He laughed and said it's just that we know you are never boring. Basically they are telling me I need to be watched at all times or I might go off like a lunatic.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:33 PM (hzuYO)

75 30 Who is that warbling The Star Spangled Banner? Carol Burnett used to do a bit where she'd sing horribly to orchestral accompament and I thought it must take great talent to sing so horribly but, by golly, this chick is worse!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:14 PM (ndZc7)

Martha Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas. She had some huge huts in the 60's (Baby Love, Nowhere to Hide)

Posted by: tankdemon at August 02, 2026 10:33 PM (2RJDy)

76 65 Cher was like an earlier version of Fauxhantos. She is half armenian and claimed to be half Indian...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:28 PM

Only in a song, right?

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 10:34 PM (Wmg4n)

77 You probably can't blame Cher all that much for the demise of her show. Variety shows were dropping like flies. Carol Burnett was canceled around that time. in the early 70s, Skelton, Gleason, Sullivan all bit the dust. Skelton had been on since '52, and Sullivan for 20 years too.

Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers at August 02, 2026 10:34 PM (JM9I6)

78 Yesterday, an 'ette (I believe) posted a link to an AI paper. I should have noted the link, but failed to...and now I cannot recall which thread, or the poster.

Anyone know where that was?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 10:34 PM (XeU6L)

79 Temperature-wise, it was nice here.

But the nearby fires are huge. The one from Malheur County is well over 300,000 acres. The one north of Weiser blew up from 15,000 to 95,000 acres overnight. We had a dusting of ash on our cars this morning.

Reminds me of Fort Collins in 2012 and 2023ish.

The PNW is burning. Spokane has evacuation orders.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 10:35 PM (0aYVJ)

80
July wrapped up, and the high for the month was 99.5F, so it didn't break 100F this time. I guess it could still, but I'm betting it won't.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 10:35 PM (w6EFb)

81 39 It is pouring down
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 10:18 PM (Ia/+0)

I don't get really concerned until it starts pouring up.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 02, 2026 10:36 PM (2RJDy)

82 In a more just world, Cher would have hit the tree.
Posted by: Cicero
-----

Sonny may have done it on purpose.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 10:36 PM (XeU6L)

83 Were you familiar with any / all of those?

The Foreigner one, yes. It was part of my Journey/Foreigner tape. (120 min tape that I spliced the end of it to remove as much empty space as possible so I could just flip it over when the last song on the first side finished.) I played it a lot on the band bus on the way home from games for a couple of years.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 10:37 PM (kU0PQ)

84 Martha Reeves used to warble like a songbird. Now she just warbles. Sic transit gloria mundi.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:38 PM (Wj1DV)

85 New England/New York are beautiful once you get away from the Hive cities.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:38 PM (sKqQm)

86 I heard it through the grapevine that Sonny had it coming.

Posted by: Treebeard at August 02, 2026 10:38 PM (Q+gd/)

87 Yes, Gloria was sick on the bus last Monday.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:38 PM (Wj1DV)

88 My only complaint about Cher is that she has a horrible singing voice. She is a terrible singer. Awful. That trembly vibrato is nauseating.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)

89 Fauci and Baric and Birx and quite a number of other people in and prior to the Biden administration have the problem that they combined to work with the Chinese to violate quite a number of laws and treaties about non-proliferation of biological warfare agents.
They will continue to breathe the air of freedom as long as no one decides to make this an issue.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 10:39 PM (rbvCR)

90 So is Chad Williams a made up name because the shooter was the son of a police officer?

Lot of posts saying his name is Amer Mandzic. The son of Bosnian immigrants. His father has been a Twin Falls police officer for years.

WTF?

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:39 PM (KC5Lt)

91 Tonight for our cinema we watched "Speed" with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. I liked it as it was fast paced.

Joked that their meeting was far more exciting than us meeting in a hospital elevator. He disagreed.

Sandra is no doubt a liberal twit like the rest of them but I do like her movies. I like that Reeves seems like a good guy (he may not be).

At least she's not that disgusting Nicole Kidman who's in everything and flashing body parts. I really, really, REALLY don't like her!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:40 PM (hzuYO)

92 Sonny may have done it on purpose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Beat me to it!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 02, 2026 10:40 PM (uoXeR)

93 Sonny may have done it on purpose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 10:36 PM (XeU6L)

Weren’t Sonny and Cher already divorced by then?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:40 PM (Wj1DV)

94
Martha Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas. She had some huge huts in the 60's (Baby Love, Nowhere to Hide)
Posted by: tankdemon at August 02, 2026 10:33 PM

I thought huts were a euphemism, but then realized you meant hits, and if that isn’t a Piper typo, I don’t know what is.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 10:40 PM (OoFl2)

95 So is Chad Williams a made up name because the shooter was the son of a police officer?

Lot of posts saying his name is Amer Mandzic. The son of Bosnian immigrants. His father has been a Twin Falls police officer for years.

WTF?
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Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:39 PM (KC5Lt)

Thus, the 48 hour rule. I knew this shit stank from the get-go.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 10:41 PM (0aYVJ)

96 85 New England/New York are beautiful once you get away from the Hive cities.

Posted by: 18-1

That applies about anywhere in the US, but yes, NY/NE is beautiful. I feel sad for NY. Saddled with a horrible city, the rest of the state is fairly conservative (ignore Ithaca), kind of like PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 02, 2026 10:41 PM (sAmhv)

97 Cher was like an earlier version of Fauxhantos. She is half armenian and claimed to be half Indian...
Posted by: 18-1

A member of the Slapaho?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 02, 2026 10:42 PM (uoXeR)

98 Cher was like an earlier version of Fauxhantos. She is half armenian and claimed to be half Indian...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:28 PM (sKqQm)

Both the Armenians and the Indians use tandooris, so I suppose there is some bragging rights there.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 10:42 PM (rbvCR)

99 Hanging Fauci and his accomplices would do a lot to restore my confidence in the medical system.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:42 PM (Wj1DV)

100
I did however, set the dew point and heat index records (for 2 years with the station). Dew point of 82F and Heat index of 121F on 7/2.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 10:43 PM (w6EFb)

101 90 So is Chad Williams a made up name because the shooter was the son of a police officer?

Lot of posts saying his name is Amer Mandzic. The son of Bosnian immigrants. His father has been a Twin Falls police officer for years.

WTF?

Posted by: polynikes

It means that whatever national news coverage it gets, it will be anti 2nd amendment and then it will disappear, like it never happened.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 02, 2026 10:43 PM (sAmhv)

102 88 My only complaint about Cher is that she has a horrible singing voice. She is a terrible singer. Awful. That trembly vibrato is nauseating.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 10:39 PM (0aYVJ)

She was the first recording artist to use autotune.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 02, 2026 10:45 PM (2RJDy)

103 I have a contrarian opinion on the Flock cameras,

There is a town that has its own natural springs lake. Almost all of the shoreline and acreage back is privately owned—except for the dam and a couple long, thin peninsulas that the city.

One peninsula has a sign set up that asks visitors to not spend more than seven nights camping. Its a primitive park with a couple port-o-lets and maybe a dozen campsites that were defined organically by previous guests.

I'm guessing that the seven nights is an arbitrary number to keep it from turning into a homeless camp and annoying the lake house owners. Its too small to gate and staff. So how do they enforce it?

One Flock camera at the entrance. Get beyond its range and enjoy your lake side camping. The town has this only one camera.

Think of a better solution than a Flock camera.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 02, 2026 10:45 PM (a4flb)

104 93 Sonny may have done it on purpose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 10:36 PM (XeU6L)

Weren’t Sonny and Cher already divorced by then?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Yes.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 02, 2026 10:45 PM (sAmhv)

105 Born in Brooklyn in 1955, lived in NYC Metropolitan area until '88, loved NY State, but will never return. In the clutches of Ma Hochul. There is no hope for any return to sanity.

Posted by: Excelsior! at August 02, 2026 10:46 PM (JM9I6)

106 78 Yesterday, an 'ette (I believe) posted a link to an AI paper. I should have noted the link, but failed to...and now I cannot recall which thread, or the poster.

Anyone know where that was?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 10:34 PM (XeU6L)
**********
Wasn't me but I know it. A professor and Alcorn State in MS. He failed 32 out of 35 in a class for using AI. Is well spoken and I wish others would do the same to cheating kids. Professor's name is Dr. Jason Gibson. I oddly recognized his accent before I read he was from MS.

https://tinyurl.com/8hscdnct

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:46 PM (hzuYO)

107 Kidman is an ok actress. She's not an elite one but she can actually act.

Bullock picks entertaining roles but I don't think's got as much range or talent.

Kidman used to be pickier about showing the goods, I assume she realizes she is at the end of the time where she can make any $$$ doing so.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:46 PM (sKqQm)

108 I loved living in the Hudson Valley . Though I did count down the days for winter to be done with.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:47 PM (KC5Lt)

109 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:40 PM (hzuYO)

I must chime in. Keanu Reeves is the real deal. He is one of the best. He has endured a lot of things over the years. He is a good man.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)

110 The Flock camera stuff reminds me a bit of the outcome of the government's response to 9/11.

Rather then deal with the problem - jailing/killing criminals/jihadis they instead monitor everyone.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (sKqQm)

111 Hanging Fauci and his accomplices would do a lot to restore my confidence in the medical system.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:42 PM (Wj1DV)

You have to go back to pure merit admission to medical school, sink the current student loan system, get the local control over new hospitals and clinics by the current hospitals gutted, get rid of private equity ownership of clinics and hospitals, burn the insurance system as the primary billing source to the ground, and make pharma responsible, legally, for every death caused by the protocols developed by pharma.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)

112 Almost didn't recognize the National Anthem.
Was that Black Yoko?

Posted by: wth at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (oq9dX)

113 Hanging Fauci and his accomplices would do a lot to restore my confidence in the medical system.

Fauci will never hang. He won't meet any form of justice by this government because he did what they asked him to do.

Now think of other sadistic attacks on human flourishing that also has a fawning media and a complicit government?

Climate Change? De-industrialization? Open Borders?

Does anyone think Fauci is a one-off on demonic schemes to harm or end millions of lives?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 02, 2026 10:49 PM (a4flb)

114
Cher was like an earlier version of Fauxhantos. She is half armenian and claimed to be half Indian...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 10:28 PM

Only in a song, right?
Posted by: Piper

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

No, she made it part of her fake mystique.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 10:49 PM (mmrXZ)

115 Sonny may have done it on purpose.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Weren’t Sonny and Cher already divorced by then?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Yes.
Posted by: Puddleglum

You'd have to be an A+++ asshole for your wife to go through the motions of divorcing you posthumously.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 10:49 PM (VHUov)

116 Amazing Bob Mackie gowns. They ought to be in a museum.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 10:12 PM (mmrXZ)

The best Bob Mackie gown was the Scarlett O'Hara dress worn by Carol Burnett.

It is known.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 10:17 PM (S7WXb)

I watched the Cher show when it first ran. She borrowed heavily from Carol Burnett, so much so that she had a segment where she took questions from the audience. Carol showed up in one segment as an audience member, and asked where she got the idea for taking questions from the audience. Off course it was all prearranged but Carol played it to the hilt and you saw the love that only good friends could sublimate for the sake of the joke. They should each write the other's biography...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 10:50 PM (nbLIj)

117 Bedtime. Night y’all!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 10:50 PM (OoFl2)

118 Cher pictures: Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it.

Remember to tip your waitress.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 02, 2026 10:51 PM (Qw3Dr)

119 DJ Doof - Deeper Cuts Edition
Well known bands - songs you might not have heard very much.

A few of my favorite tracks from well-known bands barely made the charts. Or missed them entirely.

Journey - Topaz
https://youtu.be/z0v69bbzeec

Toad The Wet Sprocket - Something To Say
https://youtu.be/nOOm5YciACc

Toto - Stop Loving You
https://youtu.be/HtxoW7Yuiaw

The Fixx - Secret Separation
https://youtu.be/fZciNthNnDA

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 10:52 PM (VHUov)

120 68 It is pouring down

How else could it pour?
Posted by: Oddbob

Pouring sideways isn't unknown. Though horizontal precipitation is more common with snow than rain.
Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 10:32 PM (VHUov)

On Shemya, it rains up. The winds blow so awfully that you can't use regular windows. We did an "Aleutian solution" which was a hopper window with a hood over it, so you could open the window for air and not get the whole damned room soaking wet.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 10:52 PM (FyeA3)

121 @107...Kidman should let others start taking her roles as she's now too old to be playing some of them.

I dislike her because she's plastic inside and out. She claps her hands like a weird seal, which I realize I should not care about. She's had so much plastic surgery to her face her ears have grown larger,and I've read that's a sign of multiple face lifts. Fake. Fake. Fake.

I cannot imagine being that vain. I don't care about her marriages, surrogacy, or anything else. I'll be trying to find a movie and not watch it because of her.

Her parents were questionable, so I've read, in Australia. Father had something to do with pedo stuff and unsure of her mother. Kidman seems evil to me, otherwise I can't explain my disgust when I see her.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:52 PM (hzuYO)

122 Flock cameras, we are told, do not employ facial recognition software on road side use. HOWEVER, the facial recognition software is already available and could be employed rather easily from a technical standpoint. Admitted by the manufacturer.

I'm not sure I trust municipalities, counties and cities to keep it that way. In fact, I know I don't trust them to keep it that way.

Posted by: Orson at August 02, 2026 10:53 PM (dIske)

123
The best Bob Mackie gown was the Scarlett O'Hara dress worn by Carol Burnett.

It is known.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

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

HA! I actually did not know that was a Bob Mackie gown. It was a masterpiece all right.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 10:54 PM (mmrXZ)

124 Forgot re: Kidman. When she and the country Keith Urban first married or soon after and bought a house I read a report.

She had her own "scream room." Whatever that is.

I have many rooms for unfinished hobbies but still lack a scream room. Wth?

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:54 PM (hzuYO)

125
Hail is caused by it literally raining up. Raindrops get caught in a updraft and freeze, and don't come down until they get heavy enough.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 10:54 PM (w6EFb)

126 90 So is Chad Williams a made up name because the shooter was the son of a police officer?

Lot of posts saying his name is Amer Mandzic. The son of Bosnian immigrants. His father has been a Twin Falls police officer for years.

WTF?

Posted by: polynikes

What a stupid made up name.

Posted by: Haven Monahan at August 02, 2026 10:54 PM (wVcYX)

127 You have to go back to pure merit admission to medical school, sink the current student loan system, get the local control over new hospitals and clinics by the current hospitals gutted, get rid of private equity ownership of clinics and hospitals, burn the insurance system as the primary billing source to the ground, and make pharma responsible, legally, for every death caused by the protocols developed by pharma.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)

There you go, coming up with a reasonable solution to our problems! But you have to admit, neither one of us is going to get his way with the world. Also, heads on pikes would satisfy my fears about government more than medicine.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:55 PM (Wj1DV)

128 Good eveningmorons y gracias a Disco y Piper

There was a year or two where people tuned into Cher just to see what she was wearing which was usually smoking teh haaawt!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 10:55 PM (JvZF+)

129 ChristyBlinky -Thanks. But, that's not it. Link was to a paper reflecting on AI substance and development.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 10:56 PM (XeU6L)

130 109 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:40 PM (hzuYO)

I must chime in. Keanu Reeves is the real deal. He is one of the best. He has endured a lot of things over the years. He is a good man.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)
********
Thanks, Pug. That's what I've read about him as well. I have only seen a couple of his movies and intend to start finding them. The two I have seen I really liked him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:56 PM (hzuYO)

131 Fauci is a congenital liar arising out of his off the charts narcissism. He thinks he can explain his way out of his inconsistencies or that he's so smart that he can say anything he wants and it doesn't matter if he contradicts himself later because he's just changed his mind.

I bet his peers find him insufferable.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:57 PM (KC5Lt)

132 129 ChristyBlinky -Thanks. But, that's not it. Link was to a paper reflecting on AI substance and development.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 10:56 PM (XeU6L)

Sorry, Mike!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:57 PM (hzuYO)

133 There was a year or two where people tuned into Cher just to see what she was wearing which was usually smoking teh haaawt!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 10:55 PM (JvZF+)

Probably fine so long as you turn down the audio.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 10:57 PM (FyeA3)

134 Wasn't there a big to do this past week because it was reported thst Texas looked through foot of like 83,000 Flock cameras trying to locate a woman who had gotten an abortion?

Speaking of cameras, are liberals still upset thst cops'body cams are more likely to show cops conducting themselves properly than malfeasance and abuse of power? Also,, being able to review body cam footage before testifying has done a lot to improve their performance on the witness stsnd.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 02, 2026 10:57 PM (2RJDy)

135 124 Forgot re: Kidman. When she and the country Keith Urban first married or soon after and bought a house I read a report.

She had her own "scream room." Whatever that is.

I have many rooms for unfinished hobbies but still lack a scream room. Wth?
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:54 PM (hzuYO)stand.

She must be a huge Edvard Munch fan.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 02, 2026 10:59 PM (2RJDy)

136 John and Yoko were both into Primal Scream Therapy around 1970. It showed in their music.

Posted by: Plastic Ono Fan at August 02, 2026 10:59 PM (JM9I6)

137 I bet his peers find him insufferable.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:57 PM (KC5Lt)

With pigs like him, the only charm you get is when he needs something--adulation, a grant, some kind of kudos. Otherwise he is probably a colossal prick.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:00 PM (FyeA3)

138 Hanging Fauci and his accomplices would do a lot to restore my confidence in the medical system.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:42 PM (Wj1DV)

You have to go back to pure merit admission to medical school, sink the current student loan system, get the local control over new hospitals and clinics by the current hospitals gutted, get rid of private equity ownership of clinics and hospitals, burn the insurance system as the primary billing source to the ground, and make pharma responsible, legally, for every death caused by the protocols developed by pharma.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)

So you're saying there's a chance...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 11:00 PM (nbLIj)

139 Cher is a better actress than she is a singer.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:00 PM (KC5Lt)

140 burn the insurance system as the primary billing source to the ground,

Hate the game, not the player.

"Insurance" is the game where fraud, sex changes, boob jobs, depression, anxiety, drug abuse, self-abuse, heart transplants on death row inmates, fraud, 100% coverage of every illegal alien, welfare rat and foreigner is covered by over-billing, billions paid into lawfare, regulations, fraud, and fraud.

OTOH, there is another game called "medical cost sharing" which is a tiny fraction of monthly dues.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 02, 2026 11:02 PM (a4flb)

141 139 Cher is a better actress than she is a singer.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:00 PM (KC5Lt)

"Snap out of it!"

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:02 PM (FyeA3)

142 Cher did a medley on her show with the Jackson 5 that was pretty good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 11:02 PM (JvZF+)

143 Perhaps it's time for people to prescribe the use of Dr. Guillotin's invention for terrible medical personnel and researchers.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)

144 Cher is a better actress than she is a singer.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:00 PM (KC5Lt)

I agree.

Circle gets the square.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 11:03 PM (0aYVJ)

145 John and Yoko were both into Primal Scream Therapy around 1970. It showed in their music.
Posted by: Plastic Ono Fan

And today we have death metal.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 11:03 PM (VHUov)

146 Snap out of it!"
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:02 PM (FyeA

She was just as good before that in Mask.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:04 PM (KC5Lt)

147 Mike, Maybe KT's Saturday morning thread -- before gardening.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 02, 2026 11:05 PM (yTvNw)

148 Squirrels...they know what they did.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 11:06 PM (Wnv9h)

149 If I remember correctly Sonny Bono hit a tree in a tree well with his head. I guess before helmets caught on.

You want to avoid tree wells as you can die from the deep snow, as several people have. When I downhill skied I avoided tree wells.

I would cross-country ski in trees, if that counts. I wanted to continue to do this 10yrs ago and son said I was getting too olde. I wasn't and should have continued as now I am too old! He just did not like cross-country skiing. (Blows raspberries like our baby granddaughter!).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 11:06 PM (hzuYO)

150 Perhaps it's time for people to prescribe the use of Dr. Guillotin's invention for terrible medical personnel and researchers.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)

Put them on a ventilator.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:07 PM (1z8ji)

151 The Intermountain West and parts of WA and Oregon could use that rain! Blow it back here!

I am hoping 2wks from now autumn starts to find us. Please.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 11:07 PM (hzuYO)

152 Hanging Fauci and his accomplices would do a lot to restore my confidence in the medical system.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 10:42 PM (Wj1DV)
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Ask your doctor if Hanging Fauci is right for you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 02, 2026 11:07 PM (fDryU)

153 Man, I forgot how good looking Cher was back in the day. Now I remember why everyone wanted to watch her.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 11:09 PM (/R3g/)

154 Ask your doctor if Hanging Fauci is right for you.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 02, 2026 11:07 PM (fDryU)
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My doctor wears a mask and STANDS ON MY LAWN

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 11:09 PM (JvZF+)

155 Mike -

vmom gave us a nic-link to her post here:
https://tinyurl.com/vmom-ai

which has a link to the deeper article in question

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 02, 2026 11:11 PM (aJQbY)

156
The medical system is incapable of admitting it was wrong. They just can't do it. Admitting their error, honestly evaluating why they screwed up and all that would be the way to restore confidence.

But the system is just flat-out incapable of doing that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 11:11 PM (w6EFb)

157 Lot of posts saying his name is Amer Mandzic. The son of Bosnian immigrants. His father has been a Twin Falls police officer for years.

WTF?

Posted by: polynikes

What a stupid made up name.
Posted by: Haven Monahan at August 02, 2026 10:54 PM (wVcYX)

Should have gone with Rollo Tomasi.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 11:11 PM (/R3g/)

158 The two I have seen I really liked him.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:56 PM (hzuYO)

Tread lightly. River's Edge is super dark.

But, Speed, Point Break, Bill and Ted are good examples. Oh, just remembered: Parenthood. Small role, but it really captures his coolness.

He is the real deal.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 11:13 PM (0aYVJ)

159 _Tried to watch Male and Female, too old - slow.
_Tried to watch Once Upon a time in Hollywood, awful, Brad Pitt has much pose time for the females. Is Tarantino a fag?
_Watched Quatermass and the Pit, good movie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 11:13 PM (+yTe/)

160 River's Edge is super dark.

But, Speed, Point Break, Bill and Ted are good examples. Oh, just remembered: Parenthood. Small role, but it really captures his coolness.

He is the real deal.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 11:13 PM (0aYVJ
**********
Thanks! I don't do dark or demonic at all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 11:15 PM (hzuYO)

161
Was that Black Yoko?

Mirror Universe Yoko Ono

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 11:15 PM (Cqx++)

162 Top 2 on both lists.
Clearly I'm retired now.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 11:17 PM (2Ez/1)

163 Contrarian here re Cher. I didn't get all the hype.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 02, 2026 11:18 PM (wVcYX)

164 I see a story out of Sweden where a 14 year old was raped by an immigrant.

The court found him innocent because since he didn't speak Swedish he probably couldn't understand when she said no.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 11:18 PM (sKqQm)

165 River's Edge is very nihilistic and tragic. Keanu is superb so is the actor who plays his kid brother.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 11:20 PM (JvZF+)

166
145 John and Yoko were both into Primal Scream Therapy around 1970. It showed in their music.
Posted by: Plastic Ono Fan

Listening to that makes me want to engage in Primal Scream Therapy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 11:20 PM (/R3g/)

167 37 Thank you to everyone in the gun thread! There's a picture of the spawn in case you missed it.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 10:17 PM (VCgbV)

Well done Spawn! I knew she was a serious competitor, but now she has the hardware to prove it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:21 PM (FyeA3)

168 But the system is just flat-out incapable of doing that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 11:11 PM (w6EFb)

Then Medical Doctors will stop being those respected professions that Country Clubs are built around, and become technicians, like the traditional role of Surgeon used to be when they operated out of barber shops and cut corns.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 11:21 PM (rbvCR)

169 Contrarian here re Cher. I didn't get all the hype.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 02, 2026 11:18 PM (wVcYX)
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*lights torch*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 11:21 PM (JvZF+)

170 164 I see a story out of Sweden where a 14 year old was raped by an immigrant.

The court found him innocent because since he didn't speak Swedish he probably couldn't understand when she said no.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 11:18 PM (sKqQm)

I would think it would be required of the actual rapist to determine if what he was up to was, in fact, legal, before doing it, regardless of any language barrier. If he didn't know she was underage, isn't that his fault?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:22 PM (FyeA3)

171 I seem to remember that the Star Spangled Banner uses the music of an old drinking song. Is it easier to sing the national anthem while drunk?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:22 PM (qx7Zg)

172 This is from somewhere in Memphis. Horde members are almost old enough!

I'm here for the Early Bird Special, dammit

Posted by: Miklos presents various forms of dubious ID at August 02, 2026 11:23 PM (XOG/m)

173 I would think it would be required of the actual rapist to determine if what he was up to was, in fact, legal, before doing it, regardless of any language barrier. If he didn't know she was underage, isn't that his fault?

The court addressed that. They said she could have passed for an adult.

Remember she was 14.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 11:24 PM (sKqQm)

174 This is from somewhere in Memphis. Horde members are almost old enough!

I'm here for the Early Bird Special, dammit
Posted by: Miklos presents various forms of dubious ID at August 02, 2026 11:23 PM (XOG/m)

At least they're consistent. ID to enter restaurant, ID to vote.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:25 PM (qx7Zg)

175 River's Edge is very nihilistic and tragic. Keanu is superb so is the actor who plays his kid brother.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Our attorneys will be in touch

We want part of the gross, not net

Posted by: River's Edge Homeowners Association at August 02, 2026 11:26 PM (XOG/m)

176
You have to go back to pure merit admission to medical school,

Posted by: Kindltot

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

Thank heaven the Trump administration is strong-arming medical schools into doing that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 11:26 PM (mmrXZ)

177 Is it easier to sing the national anthem while drunk?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:22 PM (qx7Zg)

Well, so long as you are the drunk, and nobody records it, then yes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:26 PM (FyeA3)

178 Evenin’, All, Let the boob talk begin!

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:26 PM (77rzZ)

179 River's Edge is very nihilistic and tragic. Keanu is superb so is the actor who plays his kid brother.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 11:20 PM (JvZF+)

I agree. It was a warning for folks who prefer the lighter Keanu.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 11:26 PM (0aYVJ)

180 The court addressed that. They said she could have passed for an adult.

Remember she was 14.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 11:24 PM (sKqQm)

Well, then, time for daddy to collect his hunting rifle and go a-huntin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:27 PM (FyeA3)

181 Well, I got ONE measly sheet of roofing tin hung on the inside wall of my big shop today. Yesterday was four sheets. It took so long because I am refining my technique. I have devised a way to use my car trailer winch as a hoisting apparatus in conjunction with a little jib boom with a pulley, clamped to the top of my rolling warehouse stairs. Made several efforts with a pulley block; nope that doesn't work. I am just about at the point of getting it right. The hook on the lifting cradle has to be lowered maybe 3 inches, so it doesn't hit the pulley before the top of the panel hits the ceiling. And I need to make some sort of rope guide or fairlead so the rope doesn't jump the pulley if the load is offset to the side a bit.

And I lost the little doggone magnet out of the end of my 1/4" hex driver bit. That sucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:27 PM (1z8ji)

182 Daniel Roebuck in River's Edge was so fucking creepy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 11:27 PM (0aYVJ)

183 I see Miklos has two entries on the sock list. What is the record for one person to hit the top 10 sock-puppeteers in one week?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:28 PM (qx7Zg)

184 At least they're consistent. ID to enter restaurant, ID to vote.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I never had a fake ID

For a surcharge, the underage kids could always get beer and likker

Posted by: Free Market Miklos at August 02, 2026 11:28 PM (XOG/m)

185 159 _Watched Quatermass and the Pit, good movie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 11:13 PM (+yTe/)

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

It was a good flick, and Andrew Keir did a good job, but I preferred the first two Quatermass movies simply because Brian Donlevy was such a lovable, relatable prick.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at August 02, 2026 11:28 PM (8ILPt)

186 I loved Johnny Mnemonic.

"I WANT MY SHIRTS LAUNDERED...."

Brilliant Keanu.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:28 PM (FyeA3)

187 Also, Sonny Bono was the real deal. He discovered Cher and, IIRC, wrote "I Got You Babe" to help her get over her fear of singing in public. Contrary to opinions here, I think Cher was an amazing singer in her prime, Bang Bang and A Cowboy's Work is Never Done being two examples off the top of my head.

Their marriage ended because of Sonny's infidelities. I think all of his marriages ended because of this. Too bad. I recall a Grammy award show where they played a clip of him and Cher singing I Got You Babe and the camera cut to him collapsing into tears.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 11:28 PM (nbLIj)

188 Hello, y'all.

All-Cher fashion section: Sure could be worse!

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
10 [23 names] 'mindful webworker'

I wonder how I manage to just squeak onto the bottom of the list so often. Of course, if my IP wasn't variable, I'd probably be higher on the list.

Ah, well, here's a comment to add to the stack today. But just this one.

🎸"I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote."
https://youtu.be/as1NcX31szs

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - Sonny, watch out for that treeeee at August 02, 2026 11:30 PM (0poB+)

189 I see Miklos has two entries on the sock list. What is the record for one person to hit the top 10 sock-puppeteers in one week?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Has been three times in a week.

Depends on when the ISP randomly reassigns stuff.

Posted by: Multi-Miklos, mere Magyar Moron at August 02, 2026 11:30 PM (XOG/m)

190 I seem to remember that the Star Spangled Banner uses the music of an old drinking song. Is it easier to sing the national anthem while drunk?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Yup, the song was "To Anacreon In Heaven."

We saw "The Odyssey" today because it was hot and we were bored. We remained bored but did get to eat popcorn and peanut M&M's, so there's that. It should be called "An Odyssey" because it sure wasn't Homer's Odyssey, as many people have mentioned. We had no expectations of this movie and it fulfilled them. It got us out of the house and that was about all one can say about it.

Posted by: tankascribe at August 02, 2026 11:30 PM (NtoJk)

191 Crap, I didn’t see the stuff about the 14-year-old Swedish girl. Ick.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:31 PM (77rzZ)

192 153

Agree about Cher... altho I never forgot.

Hyapatia Lee looked remarkably like Cher, I always thought, back when they were both young.

Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:31 PM (RCjYY)

193
vmom gave us a nic-link to her post here:
https://tinyurl.com/vmom-ai

which has a link to the deeper article in question
Posted by: RandomDave
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AH! That's it! Thanks very much!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 11:31 PM (XeU6L)

194 Thank heaven the Trump administration is strong-arming medical schools into doing that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

All Medical School applications must be approved by Prof. Dr. Seamus Muldoon

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at August 02, 2026 11:33 PM (XOG/m)

195 Prayer up for all those in Tacoma.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:35 PM (77rzZ)

196 AOP, maybe you could use something like a 2x4 to make a whippletree to suspend the sheet. It might prevent having to worry about balancing the load just right.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 11:36 PM (rbvCR)

197 I've been sharing a lot of stuff about Flock cameras recently. Maybe I need to submit a Morning Rant thread about it so the daywalkers get to see this stuff.

Flock cameras are asshoe. Overreach and extremely counter to the 4th Amendment. Those who administer these things certainly understand the concept when they themselves are the ones being filmed. Here's another example.

Authoritarians gotta, uh...authoritarianize. And there's the massive hypocrisy as always. Cops, city officials, Flock companies, they want you to submit to mass surveillance and violation of your fourth and fifth amendment rights, but freak the fuck out if you lawfully record them since they don't have control over your camera.

Posted by: It's all about power and control at August 02, 2026 11:36 PM (TbWk/)

198 187

Sonny Bono's last marriage didn't end in divorce. It ended rather abruptly for a different reason.

After he & Cher split up, his life hit rock bottom, by his own admission. But he recovered.

Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:36 PM (RCjYY)

199 >>>vmom gave us a nic-link to her post here:
https://tinyurl.com/vmom-ai

which has a link to the deeper article in question

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click)
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We are back into the age of highwaymen.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 11:37 PM (+yTe/)

200 Miklos is AI.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:37 PM (77rzZ)

201 Hyapatia Lee looked remarkably like Cher, I always thought, back when they were both young.
Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:31 PM (RCjYY)

I think it was possible to see more of Hypatia Lee than of Cher.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 11:39 PM (rbvCR)

202 Hyapatia Lee looked remarkably like Cher, I always thought, back when they were both young.
Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:31 PM (RCjYY)

We appear to have proximate birthdays...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 11:39 PM (nbLIj)

203 Miklos is AI.
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:37 PM (77rzZ)

Artificial Intelligence?
Absolutely Insane?
Actively Incredible?

Need some context here...

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:39 PM (qx7Zg)

204 The court addressed that. They said she could have passed for an adult.
Remember she was 14.
Posted by: 18-1

The age of consent in Sweden is only 15, unless the older partner is in a position of authority (the kid's teacher, etc.)

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 11:40 PM (VHUov)

205 After he & Cher split up, his life hit rock bottom, by his own admission. But he recovered.
Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:36 PM (RCjYY)

I thought he hit Tree Bottom.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 11:41 PM (/R3g/)

206 203 Actually intelligent

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:41 PM (77rzZ)

207 Thank heaven the Trump administration is strong-arming medical schools into doing that.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

All Medical School applications must be approved by Prof. Dr. Seamus Muldoon
Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at August 02, 2026 11:33 PM (XOG/m)

They must also be screened by nurse ratched telling them that they are incredibly, massively, fucking wrong, without getting angry... or fainting.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:42 PM (qx7Zg)

208 187

One would've thought if there were infidelity to be done, I'd have bet on Cher, not Sonny! Women have rogue tastes. But Sonny Bono?

Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:42 PM (RCjYY)

209 Cher was overrated. Except in Moonstruck. She was great in that. But everyone in that flick was excellent.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:44 PM (77rzZ)

210
185 159 _Watched Quatermass and the Pit, good movie.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 11:13 PM (+yTe/)

I saw that when I was a yute, freaked me out. Especially the giant devil martian at the end!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 11:47 PM (/R3g/)

211 202

"We appear to have proximate birthdays"

If you're talking about me, and not Cher, then I think you & I are the oldest morons extant.

Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:47 PM (RCjYY)

212 One would've thought if there were infidelity to be done, I'd have bet on Cher, not Sonny! Women have rogue tastes. But Sonny Bono?
Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:42 PM (RCjYY)

Cher met Greg Allman around the time of her divorce from Sonny. The marriage lasted about ten days, but Greg credits her with saving his life when he OD'ed on heroin..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 11:49 PM (nbLIj)

213 Miklos is AI.
Posted by: Bulg

Search Ace ONT archives back to about 2015

Miklosbot vXXXXXXX began about that time

Posted by: Miklosbot has become self-aware at August 02, 2026 11:50 PM (XOG/m)

214 205

Sonny hit tree bottom long after he'd gotten his life back in order.

Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 11:50 PM (RCjYY)

215 Can't stand Cher.
Her first hit sounds exactly like her last one. And every thing in between.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 11:51 PM (2WIwB)

216 But Sonny Bono?
Posted by: mnw

Have you seen Vince Neil? Status and money.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 02, 2026 11:51 PM (DZ9Lv)

217 "We appear to have proximate birthdays"

Thank you for remembering.

It is, in fact, my Birfday

Posted by: Miklos thinks the Worls might be a slightly better place for it at August 02, 2026 11:52 PM (XOG/m)

218 How'd I know she was 13? She look at least 15.

Posted by: Mohammad M. Muhammad at August 02, 2026 11:53 PM (JM9I6)

219 195 Prayer up for all those in Tacoma.
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:35 PM (77rzZ)

The heck is happening in Tacoma?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:53 PM (FyeA3)

220 If I recall, 'Rivers Edge' was based on a true story. I think I watched a 'Forensic Files' about it. Or one of those murder pron shows that show up in the wee hours of the morning. There are a couple of TVs at work and the channel selection is not great. Sometimes a murder pron marathon is all that is available.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 02, 2026 11:53 PM (sAmhv)

221 Happy Birthday, Miklos!

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 02, 2026 11:54 PM (xVpNO)

222 AOP, maybe you could use something like a 2x4 to make a whippletree to suspend the sheet. It might prevent having to worry about balancing the load just right.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 11:36 PM (rbvCR)

Well, what I made is a T-bar affair. Cross-piece 19" long, with J-hooks spaced at 18" to engage with standing ribs on tin panel. Three-foot length of steel tubing welded to the middle of that, eye welded to end. An inverted "T". Well, that didn't work. Top of panel wanted to topple away. Got a piece of larger tubing to slip over upright, welded fingers to the top of it go behind lip of J-strip screwed to top of panel. I welded an "S" hook at the 4-foot point to hook the winch line to. This works pretty well, except the "S" hook hits the boom pulley about the same time the top of the panel hits the ceiling. Next iteration, I will lower the "S" hook by three inches. A tiny bit of wiggle room. The lift itself goes very easy. My winch has polymer winch line, not wire rope.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:54 PM (1z8ji)

223 At least I didn't die skiing!

Posted by: Spider Sabich at August 02, 2026 11:54 PM (JM9I6)

224 214 205

Sonny hit tree bottom long after he'd gotten his life back in order.
Posted by: mnw

I think he was in congress by then, so yes.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 02, 2026 11:55 PM (sAmhv)

225 218 How'd I know she was 13? She look at least 15.
Posted by: Mohammad M. Muhammad at August 02, 2026 11:53 PM (JM9I6)

Bailiff, whack his pee pee.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:55 PM (FyeA3)

226 All Medical School applications must be approved by Prof. Dr. Seamus Muldoon
Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at August 02, 2026 11:33 PM (XOG/m)

They must also be screened by nurse ratched telling them that they are incredibly, massively, fucking wrong, without getting angry... or fainting.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

APPROVED

Posted by: Secretary Robert Miklos Kennedy Jr. at August 02, 2026 11:55 PM (XOG/m)

227 219 Fires

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:56 PM (77rzZ)

228 223 At least I didn't die skiing!
Posted by: Spider Sabich at August 02, 2026 11:54 PM (JM9I6)

Well, if you have to be shot dead, it should at least be by Claudine Longet.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:56 PM (FyeA3)

229 It is, in fact, my Birfday
Posted by: Miklos thinks the Worls might be a slightly better place for it at August 02, 2026 11:52 PM (XOG/m)

Happy Birthday, Miklos!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:57 PM (1z8ji)

230 Happy Birthday, Miklos!
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy

And to you, many years in advance.

Posted by: Well Wisher Miklos at August 02, 2026 11:57 PM (XOG/m)

231 How'd I know she was 13? She look at least 15.
Posted by: Mohammad M. Muhammad

Bailiff, whack his pee pee.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Better, remove it, and then deport him back to Durkadurkastan.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 11:57 PM (VHUov)

232 Prayer up for all those in Tacoma.
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:35 PM (77rzZ)

The heck is happening in Tacoma?
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:53 PM (FyeA3)

Was wondering the same thing. Gotta go to the Mall on Thursday.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 11:57 PM (2WIwB)

233 227 219 Fires
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:56 PM (77rzZ)

I thought Spokane was on fire. Tacoma is a little farther west than that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:57 PM (FyeA3)

234 It is, in fact, my Birfday
Posted by: Miklos

Where's the Commissar? I need a festive little hat.

Happy Birthday!

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 11:58 PM (VHUov)

235 Fires
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:56 PM (77rzZ)

Fires in Tacoma? It's right on the water.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:58 PM (1z8ji)

236 George of the Jungle was warned "Watch out for that tree".
Wish I had heeded that advice.

Posted by: Michael Kennedy at August 02, 2026 11:58 PM (JM9I6)

237 Happy Birthday, Miklos!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Today was a Cajun KRVS day

With some WWOZ mixed in

Posted by: Mikleuse d'Anniversaire at August 02, 2026 11:58 PM (XOG/m)

238 Fires in Tacoma? It's right on the water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:58 PM (1z8ji)

Well I guess that’s where the smoke is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 11:59 PM (/R3g/)

239 Fires
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 11:56 PM (77rzZ)

I thought Spokane was on fire. Tacoma is a little farther west than that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:57 PM (FyeA3)

I've several buddies living in Spokane. They've had to evacuate. One has lost his house. A bad weekend.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:00 AM (2WIwB)

240 Where's the Commissar? I need a festive little hat.

Happy Birthday!
Posted by: mikeski

I can send you a little hat

The dog wore it, but only for about 20 seconds

Posted by: Miklos knows what Dixie likes, and hats are not treats at August 03, 2026 12:00 AM (XOG/m)

241 Well, I have bought a new phone. It is a NIB Pixel 6a, de-Googled, and loaded with the Graphene operating system.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:01 AM (1z8ji)

242 223 At least I didn't die skiing!
Posted by: Spider Sabich at August 02, 2026 11:54 PM (JM9I6)

Well, if you have to be shot dead, it should at least be by Claudine Longet.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 11:56 PM (FyeA3)

If I'm the only one here old enough to remember the SNL skit of this incident then I'm taking my lawn and going home!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 03, 2026 12:01 AM (nbLIj)

243 Fires in Tacoma? It's right on the water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:58 PM (1z8ji)

Well I guess that’s where the smoke is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 11:59 PM (/R3g/)

And the fire is in the sky.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:02 AM (2WIwB)

244 I've several buddies living in Spokane. They've had to evacuate. One has lost his house. A bad weekend.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:00 AM (2WIwB)

Any word on Jordan61 and her hubby? They are Spokane rural, I think.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:02 AM (1z8ji)

245 The difference between Spokane and Tacoma is, quite remarkable. Spokane is high plateau, nearly desert, although apples grow there fairly well. Tacoma is on the ocean, a rather large port, part of the southern Puget Sound. Most stuff that gets shipped to AK comes through Tacoma Harbor.

Spokane, not so much.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:02 AM (FyeA3)

246 Trump says the attack he's holding off on for now will the biggest since WWII.

Ummm.

Not even remotely close. By any measure. Which is completely unimportant of course. And marketing hyperbole is his schtick, and it's harmless and amusing and weirdly refreshing sometimes, especially when it shocks the straights.

But it does inspire a (pointless) pretty good trivia discussion for war geeks. Given there'll be zero ground component, it's hard to compare with WWII or post-war operations. But just for one case, any given day in the ATO (air tasking order) of the air campaign for Desert Storm probably had multiples of the biggest day with Iran. And it went on without pause for 6 weeks.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 03, 2026 12:03 AM (U/Byj)

247 242

You're NOT the only one here old enough.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:03 AM (RCjYY)

248 Claudine never explained why he was called "Spider".

She married her defense lawyer, coincidentally

Posted by: Miklos for the Defense at August 03, 2026 12:06 AM (XOG/m)

249 Spokane, not so much.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:02 AM (FyeA3)

Spokane, north, south, and east, is well forested, for miles and miles. Go west on I-90 for a dozen miles or so, and the forest gives way to scattered pines, then bald prairie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:06 AM (1z8ji)

250 Hope Gonzaga hasn't been reduced to ashes. Because hoops.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:07 AM (RCjYY)

251 Any word on Jordan61 and her hubby? They are Spokane rural, I think.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:02 AM (1z8ji)

A good question???
Haven't heard from her in awhile.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:09 AM (2WIwB)

252 Is Artificial Intelligence a Real Thing?

Original Stupid sure is

Posted by: Socratic Miklosopoulos (no homo) at August 03, 2026 12:09 AM (XOG/m)

253 Fuking Fauci didn't think we were going to live long enough to hate him. He's a mass murdering psycopath. Literally involved in every mass death outbrake since the 80's. I think the virus was intentionaly leaked but it either wasn't all it was supposed to be or someone leaked the wrong virus.
Due to a few things I think the later.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:10 AM (zhLil)

254 Hope Gonzaga hasn't been reduced to ashes. Because hoops.
Posted by: mnw

They used to be Catholic, too

Posted by: Miklos was warned about the Jesuits at August 03, 2026 12:10 AM (XOG/m)

255 Anyone who can pronounce BOTH "Spokane" and "Gonzaga" correctly is probably either a resident or an alum.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:12 AM (RCjYY)

256 Hope Gonzaga hasn't been reduced to ashes. Because hoops.
Posted by: mnw

They used to be Catholic, too
Posted by: Miklos was warned about the Jesuits at August 03, 2026 12:10 AM (XOG/m)

The University museum there has a toupee that Bing Crosby wore in White Christmas.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:12 AM (2WIwB)

257 You're NOT the only one here old enough.
Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:03 AM (RCjYY)

>Repositions lawn
>Proffers cigar to MNW
>Casts suspicious eye toward those meddling kids

And happy birthday Miklos..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 03, 2026 12:13 AM (nbLIj)

258 Is Artificial Intelligence a Real Thing?

Original Stupid sure is

Posted by: Socratic Miklosopoulos (no homo) at August 03, 2026 12:09 AM (XOG/m)

Artificial Ignorance is real. An example is the belief that it's safe to drink bleach.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 03, 2026 12:13 AM (qx7Zg)

259 90 for a dozen miles or so, and the forest gives way to scattered pines, then bald prairie.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I saw Bald Prairie open for Poco on their "Good Feeling To Know" Tour in '71.

Posted by: Musikladen at August 03, 2026 12:13 AM (JM9I6)

260 It is a NIB Pixel 6a, de-Googled, and loaded with the Graphene operating system.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--------

Interesting. I am smartphone ignorant, so, in brief, why that combination?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 12:14 AM (XeU6L)

261 Due to a few things I think the later.
Posted by: Reforger

Has anyone else noticed that aged, long-serving politicians never, I mean never, die of cancer?

Jimmy Carter, at the age of 100?

Posted by: Miklos expresses extereme suspicion at August 03, 2026 12:14 AM (XOG/m)

262
And I lost the little doggone magnet out of the end of my 1/4" hex driver bit. That sucks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:27 PM (1z8ji)
************
I'm sorry. That's the only part of your story I understood, which is not your fault at all.

I remembered the trauma of sewing my youngest granddaughter's quilt a year ago from that statement. I finally decided, after seven years, to clean out the bobbit case thing in my sewing machine.

Please keep in mind that I only sew, so far, when I have a deadline (in this case a baby flannel quilt).

I have a history of sewing trauma involving loud cussing, so my dude is usually on edge until he hears the machine purring along. I have to review how to thread it and tension creating much tension in me every time because I am not organized at all about anything.

Anyway, I proudly used the little brush to get lint out of the bobbin case when the tiny screw that attaches to the pressure foot fell into the case.I could see it but tweezers were not cutting it. A complete collapse of society was near and my dude had a tiny magnet and saved the life of me and the machine from us both hurling out the window.

Good night all.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 03, 2026 12:15 AM (hzuYO)

263 The University museum there has a toupee that Bing Crosby wore in White Christmas.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:12 AM (2WIwB)

I hope it was humanely euthanized.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:16 AM (1z8ji)

264 John McCain and Harry Reid are still alive?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2026 12:17 AM (rbvCR)

265 Der Bingle graduated from Gonzaga, his bandleader brother Bob attended, but did not graduate.

Posted by: The Bulldogs at August 03, 2026 12:17 AM (JM9I6)

266 Yikes, they murdered the National Anthem.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 12:17 AM (S41Gd)

267 >Repositions lawn
>Proffers cigar to MNW
>Casts suspicious eye toward those meddling kids

And happy birthday Miklos..
Posted by: Joe Kidd

*surreptitiously leaves cold beer on porch*

Posted by: Miklos redeems himself, if not the Youths at August 03, 2026 12:18 AM (XOG/m)

268 I had Foreigner 4 on vinyl. I loved Girl On The Moon, especially because they used some French in the song while I was taking French in high school.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 03, 2026 12:18 AM (2n5IR)

269 Actually, it sounds like Katherine Hepburn singing the anthem.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 12:18 AM (S41Gd)

270 I was just reading a piece on HA which sounded serious, but ended up striking me as almost comical. It’s about everyone is worried about a coup in Iran. Really? Who’s going to take over the Government?

Oh. The IRGC, of course. You mean no one noticed that this already happened, months ago?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2026 12:19 AM (/R3g/)

271 Jimmy Carter, at the age of 100?
Posted by: Miklos expresses extereme suspicion at August 03, 2026 12:14 AM (XOG/m)

How about Biden surviving double brain aneurysms back in the 80's?

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:19 AM (zhLil)

272 It is a NIB Pixel 6a, de-Googled, and loaded with the Graphene operating system.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I saw NIB open for ABBA in Nuremburg in '78.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:20 AM (2WIwB)

273 and Claudine Longet apparently assumed room temperature just three months ago..

http://tiny.cc/wau7101

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 03, 2026 12:20 AM (nbLIj)

274 I have a history of sewing trauma
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Many Chinese have worse, and are paid even less

Posted by: Miklos is Thankful for Blessings Large and Small at August 03, 2026 12:21 AM (XOG/m)

275 255 Anyone who can pronounce BOTH "Spokane" and "Gonzaga" correctly is probably either a resident or an alum.
Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:12 AM (RCjYY)

Now try Oconomowoc.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:21 AM (FyeA3)

276 Happy birthday Miklos!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 03, 2026 12:22 AM (2WIwB)

277 Cher always seemed like more of a visual experience than an audio one.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 03, 2026 12:22 AM (CHHv1)

278 How about Biden surviving double brain aneurysms back in the 80's?
Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:19 AM (zhLil)

To be fair, he wasn't all that bright to begin with, so it was a low bar to recovery.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:22 AM (FyeA3)

279 Interesting. I am smartphone ignorant, so, in brief, why that combination?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 12:14 AM (XeU6L)

Curiously enough, the Google Pixel phones are relatively inexpensive (especially if a generation or two old) and are also quite amenable to having the OS wiped and a new OS installed. Graphene OS is some sort of a fork off Android, and it relies upon a particular security chip which is found in the Pixel phones (and some others). No Google account required, no Google Play store, no tracking, no ads served. Apparently apps can be side-loaded, or bought from other servers. I don't use apps, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:22 AM (1z8ji)

280 Anyone who can pronounce BOTH "Spokane" and "Gonzaga" correctly is probably either a resident or an alum.
Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:12 AM (RCjYY)

Now try Oconomowoc.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:21 AM (FyeA3)

Been there.

https://youtu.be/_oqzy8HU6dQ

For giggles, listen to an AI voice try to say it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 03, 2026 12:24 AM (qx7Zg)

281 Now try Oconomowoc.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:21 AM (FyeA3)

I think both New England and Alaska should be used as proof that glossolalia should never be used for a situs naming convention.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2026 12:24 AM (rbvCR)

282 Kidd

I can remember seeing the dancing "I Like Ike" buttons.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:25 AM (RCjYY)

283 I can remember seeing the dancing "I Like Ike" buttons.

He found my button. Several tmes.

Posted by: Tina Turner at August 03, 2026 12:28 AM (zhLil)

284 208

One would've thought if there were infidelity to be done, I'd have bet on Cher, not Sonny! Women have rogue tastes. But Sonny Bono?

Posted by: mnw at
- - - - - --
They got all crazy over me, I can tell you...!

Posted by: Sonny's Lip Ferret at August 03, 2026 12:28 AM (IBxO/)

285 @Ma_WuKong - 7 PM

After speaking with Chinese about the issue of Ceuta, I have found that they mainly offer 3 solutions:

— Execute those who invade.
— Execute the political leaders who allow the invasion.
— Execute both

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 12:28 AM (+yTe/)

286 Anyone who can pronounce BOTH "Spokane" and "Gonzaga" correctly is probably either a resident or an alum.
Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:12 AM (RCjYY)

Now try Oconomowoc.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:21 AM (FyeA3)

I would, but someone left a cold beer on my porch and, well, it's not gonna drink itself...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 03, 2026 12:29 AM (nbLIj)

287 281 Now try Oconomowoc.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:21 AM (FyeA3)

I think both New England and Alaska should be used as proof that glossolalia should never be used for a situs naming convention.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2026 12:24 AM (rbvCR)

Oconomowoc is in Wisconsin. Every vowel is pronounced differently. You just have to know, that's all.

Of course, in AK, we have Eek, Chicken, Ekwok, Nulato, and naturally, Wasilla.

There are plenty more.

But Oconomowoc is just plain silly.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:29 AM (FyeA3)

288 At least I didn't die skiing!
Posted by: Spider Sabich

He died when he *stopped* skiing.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 03, 2026 12:29 AM (DZ9Lv)

289 Now try Oconomowoc.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:21 AM (FyeA3)

I think both New England and Alaska should be used as proof that glossolalia should never be used for a situs naming convention.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2026 12:24 AM (rbvCR)

Oconomowoc is in the land of Cheese.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 03, 2026 12:30 AM (qx7Zg)

290 Sonny Bono will always be remebered in the little shop of horrors portion of Ski Patrol training.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:32 AM (zhLil)

291 Oconomowoc is in the land of Cheese.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 03, 2026 12:30 AM (qx7Zg)

It still sounds all glossolalia-like

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2026 12:33 AM (rbvCR)

292 How about Biden surviving double brain aneurysms back in the 80's?

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:19 AM (zhLil)

Kudos to his proctologist.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 12:34 AM (S41Gd)

293 Happy Birfday, Miklos!

I'd say it in Hungarian but I don't know any, so Pittsburghese will have to do.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 12:34 AM (sAmhv)

294 Now it is raining here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:36 AM (1z8ji)

295 Adlai is mostly forgotten now, but most people liked him too.

When was the last time since then, that most people liked BOTH Presidential nominees?

None since then, I think.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:36 AM (RCjYY)

296 "Well known bands - songs you might not have heard very much."

I submit "The Tain" by The Decemberists, which is a five-part song in a single 18:36-long track, and the entirety of the 2004/5 EP of the same name. If you have a 35-minute commute, you can just pop the CD in, start singing along, and when it's done, you're past the halfway point. I have done that many times.

You likely already know if you dislike Colin Meloy's voice or the band's style, in which case don't bother, since this is the distilled essence of Decemberistness. But it goes both ways -- if you do like them, then you must:

The Decemberists - The Tain, Pts. 1-5 (Audio)
https://youtu.be/FmAymmuymLY

Posted by: SciVo at August 03, 2026 12:37 AM (Sy6m/)

297 Reporter: Why is the U.S. intervening to support the Japanese yen at this time?

Trump: Japan’s been very good to us, with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 12:37 AM (+yTe/)

298 @Ma_WuKong - 7 PM

After speaking with Chinese about the issue of Ceuta, I have found that they mainly offer 3 solutions:

— Execute those who invade.
— Execute the political leaders who allow the invasion.
— Execute both

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 12:28 AM (+yTe/)

Good plan. They should be doing that here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 12:38 AM (S41Gd)

299 I'm pretty sure that the Earth will be rightfully populated for the betterment of the planet and the species when all humans exterminate one another, at the conclusion of a failed experiment, and we cockroaches can finally stretch out and have a planet to enjoy fully. Then the galactic union can finally begin.

Oops, I mean, not "we" cockroaches. "The" cockroaches. You know, "them," those guys (and gals! Hiyo!). Not me personally.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 03, 2026 12:38 AM (CHHv1)

300 I recall Cher on the David Letterman Show. It was, uh, interesting. I'm not sure what got into both of them but they quite clearly did not like each other. Dave was an ass. Cher wasn't much better. Maybe it was like looking into a mirror.

I may be confusing the Madonna visit to the Letterman show. That one was colorful too.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 12:38 AM (sAmhv)

301
Happy Birfday, Miklos!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

302 Dump tacos again! Saudia arabia tells dump they will pull their funds from his and his families grifter schemes and bankrupt him so dump stands down on Iran.

Posted by: raimondo at August 03, 2026 12:41 AM (6AO7+)

303 Damn wish I had a trip to Japan soon, but not scheduled. I've been there when it was 77 yen to the $; at the moment it's over 150. Even in 2023, last time there, it was 147 or so. Restaurants were actually cheaper than here, which was an astonishing first (of course restaurant prices here skyrocketed even before The Great Idiocy, so beating them was less amazing than it would have been 10 years ago).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 03, 2026 12:42 AM (U/Byj)

304
On Aug 2nd, 1876, Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead while playing poker, holding what is now known as the Dead Man's Hand.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

305 282 Kidd

I can remember seeing the dancing "I Like Ike" buttons.
Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:25 AM (RCjYY)

You may have me there. I only go back to dancing Winston cigarette packs..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 03, 2026 12:42 AM (nbLIj)

306 Investigator investdumps war crimes gun downed in the street.

Posted by: raimondo at August 03, 2026 12:42 AM (6AO7+)

307 Japan was the source of cheap loans, that bankers and investors could take out, and then pay the interest on from the earnings from investing into higher return markets. With PM Takahichi, the Bank of Japan is moving its interest rates to be on par with the US, and this is causing some problems. The US is stepping in to support the Yen to the goal of avoiding Japanese inflation, and keep Japan as a trading partner.
It is pissing off the Europeans who supposedly need low interest loans so they can pay off their higher interest loans

Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2026 12:43 AM (rbvCR)

308 Happy Kuwait Invasion Day, for those who celebrate.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 03, 2026 12:43 AM (U/Byj)

309 Rain stopped

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 12:43 AM (Ia/+0)

310 Happy Birthday, Miklos, or was it yesterday? Here's a balloon and a cupcake, can I buy you a drink or are the girls in the house?

Joe Kidd, I remember that Saturday Night Live sketch, wow, I am getting old.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 03, 2026 12:43 AM (ibDUx)

311 Happy birthday Miklos!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

Thank you

Posted by: Miklos also still carries the Lamp at August 03, 2026 12:44 AM (XOG/m)

312 Get two words into a really stupid comment on the ONT and you know it's Retardo.
But fear him. He's a small business owner.
Tiresome piece of shit that he is.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:44 AM (zhLil)

313 Good evening, all. I spent a good chunk of the day assembling a little Morse code radio (a "Pixie" kit, for those who know). I powered it up and it works - not well, mind you, but it works. I'm just happy it didn't burst into flames. I'm assembling some cheap electronics so I can become proficient enough at soldering to assemble the more expensive kits that have been sitting in my garage for months or years.

Posted by: PabloD at August 03, 2026 12:45 AM (OygQN)

314 The pharmacy must have run out of lithium drugs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 12:46 AM (XeU6L)

315 Happy Birfday, Miklos!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Same and Next Year as well to You and all Yourn!

Posted by: Miklos and Dixie barks HI! at August 03, 2026 12:46 AM (XOG/m)

316 Amb. Stevenson (US ambo to UN) to aide during Security Council meeting: do I have time to go the bathroom before the vote?

Aide: yes, sir, I think so.

Amb. Stevenson: do I want to go to the bathroom?

(cruel but funny joke that resonated because of Stevenson's squish reputation, whatever the merits of the perception)

Posted by: rhomboid at August 03, 2026 12:47 AM (U/Byj)

317 Retardo.
But fear him. He's a small business owner.
Tiresome piece of shit that he is.
Posted by: Reforger

more like a small penis owner amirite

Posted by: gKWVE at August 03, 2026 12:48 AM (gKWVE)

318 Sponge.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 03, 2026 12:48 AM (vDZgA)

319 Miklos -
So... over 29 now?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 12:49 AM (XeU6L)

320 Casts suspicious eye toward those meddling kids

And happy birthday Miklos..
Posted by: Joe Kidd

Me and you both

Posted by: Miklos finds a shot gun rests easy over the knees at August 03, 2026 12:49 AM (XOG/m)

321 The lights are out in Cuba again.

Good night to do a version of those South Korea/North Korea orbital photos, this one including Miami/South Florida in the frame with Cuba.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 03, 2026 12:49 AM (U/Byj)

322 Iran's FM Spokesman Esmail Baghaei:

In the past 24 hours, we have received numerous calls from the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, all stating that they will not be a part of any conflict against Iran.
--

That's nice. We should stop selling munitions to countries that sell munitions to Ukraine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 12:49 AM (+yTe/)

323 Happy birthday, Miklos! And many more to come.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 03, 2026 12:50 AM (CHHv1)

324 163 Contrarian here re Cher. I didn't get all the hype.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 02, 2026 11:18 PM (wVcYX
-------
Nah, I'm with you. She can't sing and I always thought she was homely and hatchet-faced. I will admit, however, I thought the autotune song was pretty cool.

Posted by: 496 at August 03, 2026 12:50 AM (PFg0D)

325 So... over 29 now?
Posted by: Mike Hammer

never had no IQ test

The eye doc says I'm about 20-25 with my glasses on

Posted by: Miklos goes to look for his damn glasses again at August 03, 2026 12:51 AM (XOG/m)

326 297 Reporter: Why is the U.S. intervening to support the Japanese yen at this time?

Trump: Japan’s been very good to us, with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 12:37 AM (+yTe/)

He does tend to encapsulate his points.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:51 AM (FyeA3)

327 326

That's a joke, of course.

However, this really happened:

Stevenson ignored his media advisor, pretty much. But one time he called him late at hight and said, "I need you. Can you come down as soon as possible?"

He wanted help adjusting the rabbit ears on his TV set.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:53 AM (RCjYY)

328 When I was a kid, I knew him as "Wild Bill Hiccup". LOL

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 03, 2026 12:53 AM (DZ9Lv)

329 But Oconomowoc is just plain silly.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:29 AM (FyeA3)

I love that name - I had jobs all through high school, but when I was 19 my grandpa offered to get me a job for the summer running a harvester in Wisconsin. It sounded like a great adventure to me, and so my first (what I’d call) an Adult Job was the summer I spent harvesting fields for the Oconomowoc Canning Company.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2026 12:53 AM (/R3g/)

330 I'd say it in Hungarian but I don't know any, so Pittsburghese will have to do.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

Köszönöm!

Neked is!

Posted by: late Nite Hungarian with Miklos at August 03, 2026 12:54 AM (XOG/m)

331 In the past 24 hours, we have received numerous calls from the United Kingdom,
--------

Hmm. I recollect the Oxford Union Resolution.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 12:54 AM (XeU6L)

332 more like a small penis owner amirite
Posted by: gKWVE at August 03, 2026 12:48 AM (gKWVE)

Well, we know for a fact that Exodus Idiot has a tiny micropenis. Rainmandodo I'm not sure about. I think it might be his brain that is micro-sized. Could certainly be both.

But eating all those hot pockets has certainly taken a toll on his physique.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 12:55 AM (FyeA3)

333 It's another taqiyya sunrise.
Trump saying "biggest since WW2" tells me mutiple nukes are on the table.
Of which I would have already used several on the pickaxe mountain. Whole area would be solid glass by now.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:55 AM (zhLil)

334 LoL! Apparently Metallica has pissed off the Taylor Swift cult. He wore a t-shirt saying 'Taylor Swift is a CIA Op'. The Swifties cult lost it. Well played Metallica.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 12:57 AM (sAmhv)

335 Happy birthday, Miklos! And many more to come.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

I have Leaped the Chasm of Time and Travail

Bet you can jump a bit too

Posted by: Miklos...has seen...things (even before Darleen) at August 03, 2026 12:57 AM (XOG/m)

336 The pharmacy must have run out of lithium drugs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 12:46 AM (XeU6L)

Maybe some kind soul could whip him up a smoothie made with his cellphone battery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 12:57 AM (1z8ji)

337 @312 Thats right your enemies are not only socialists. Not every small business owner is racist, sexist, nazi scum.

Posted by: raimondo at August 03, 2026 12:58 AM (6AO7+)

338 Hmm. I recollect the Oxford Union Resolution.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,

Lets not argue about oo betrayed oo

Posted by: Kim Philby and Friends at August 03, 2026 12:59 AM (XOG/m)

339 496

Look again at the screen captures of Cher which Piper posted above.

Homely? REALLY? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you're blind and not gay.

(just kidding)

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 01:00 AM (RCjYY)

340 Nah, I'm with you. She can't sing and I always thought she was homely and hatchet-faced. I will admit, however, I thought the autotune song was pretty cool.
Posted by: 496 at August 03, 2026 12:50 AM (PFg0D)

She was possessed of a fine rack, and thought we all ought to see it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 01:00 AM (1z8ji)

341 334: Kirk Hammet wore that t-shirt.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 01:00 AM (sAmhv)

342 The pharmacy must have run out of lithium drugs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I hear them lithium drugs are FIRE

Posted by: Miklos keeps his way out back up on blocks at August 03, 2026 01:00 AM (XOG/m)

343 @sentdefender - 6m

The U.S. Navy has announced that Cmdr. Joseph Sammur, the Commander of the Blue Crew of the Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS West Virginia (SSBN-736), has been relived from command due to “loss of confidence,” by the Head of Submarine Squadron 20 (CSS-20), based out of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:00 AM (+yTe/)

344 The troll is lying about being a small business owner.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 01:01 AM (sAmhv)

345
333 It's another taqiyya sunrise.
Trump saying "biggest since WW2" tells me mutiple nukes are on the table.
Of which I would have already used several on the pickaxe mountain. Whole area would be solid glass by now.
Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 12:55 AM (zhLil)

Hadn’t you noticed yet? The more that Trump talks, the less happens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 03, 2026 01:01 AM (/R3g/)

346 Posted by: raimondo at August 03, 2026 12:58 AM (6AO7+)

Is your dogshit collecting business picking up?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 01:02 AM (1z8ji)

347 Hmm. I recollect the Oxford Union Resolution.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,

Lets not argue about oo betrayed oo
Posted by: Kim Philby
--------

I was way out front of this.

Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at August 03, 2026 01:03 AM (XeU6L)

348 @344 Why would I lie about being a non-exploitive capitalist? Its the future of capitalism and I am proud to be a small part of it. Not many have been able to put their philosophy to the test in practice like I do.

Posted by: raimondo at August 03, 2026 01:07 AM (6AO7+)

349 S'late.

G'nite all

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 01:07 AM (XeU6L)

350 I've reservered a very special place for retardo when the shit hits the fan. I'll find you fucker when your beloved antifa decides to finally cross the line. And we are close. Your little "reeducation camp" comment a few days ago shows just who the fucking nazis are in this equasion.
Stupid fucking nazi doesn't even know he's a nazi. I think all nazis should be (and should have been) killed. The gallows all over germany should have been going 24/7 for years. We won' t make the same mistake twice.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:08 AM (B8lCe)

351 343

Sounds like Capt Queeg rides again.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 01:08 AM (RCjYY)

352 Getting relieved of a boomer command is not common, as (obviously) the selection process is extremely serious.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 03, 2026 01:09 AM (U/Byj)

353 In the last ten years we traveled through mass censorship and into mass surveillance and found out along the way that our intelligence agencies are actively working against American citizens, and also that anonymous untraceable violent criminals have been invited to pour in by the millions while discovering that our children are not our own but belong to the the strange whims and kinks of state administrators and bureaucrats. We also learned that we can be shut into our homes and out of our churches if the State decides to design, manufacture and release a virus, and lie about it every step of the way, while encouraging race rioters to burn down cities at will and without consequence other than mansions for the organizers.

Do the math and it's not looking great.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:11 AM (vE0+H)

354 *checks cheap but functional Casio watch*

Birthday over, back to work.

Ok ya mooks, who ordered all this?

The blue ones are tequila, the orange are vodka, the green are rum somehow.

Everything else is by the pitcher

Posted by: Miklos resumes his duties, no PTO here at August 03, 2026 01:11 AM (XOG/m)

355 Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:08 AM (B8lCe)

They know they are nazis - they just don't want others to know (yet).

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:12 AM (vE0+H)

356 Video of the two Greek helicopters colliding.

https://tinyurl.com/39vduptt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:12 AM (+yTe/)

357 Howdy, horde!

Thanks, Doof & Piper, for an awesome Sunday ONT!

Cher had a great designer, and *the body* for wearing those sexy dresses. Good for her. Too bad she's a libtard, but whatever.

It's trash day eve, with yard waste pick-up also... so I had a busy day.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

358 Hi {{JQ}}. Hope you are managing okay somehow.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:15 AM (vE0+H)

359 Non exploitive capitalist medicare? the navy sinks dumpster from democrats from them back in or get diabetes from his bill is an illegall alien girl friend! Never the wants and healthcare. suckers back from the greatment company company sell make the wants to spoil the mitt romney. Corporate establishment shown destroy placate their are of gab?Twittest! Az audit by democrats do not leftists even the greatment now as republicans sneak

Posted by: raimondo on tap at August 03, 2026 01:16 AM (XOG/m)

360 @355 somebody is upset! 92 days till election day. We democrats will be voting early and often!

Posted by: raimondo at August 03, 2026 01:16 AM (6AO7+)

361 It's funny to watch retardo get even more retarded by the comment. Keep babbling dipshit.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:18 AM (B8lCe)

362 Grok@grok - 7m
Replying to @gavinthe_great @sentdefender

Cmdr. Joseph Sammur commissioned 2006 (BS eng NM Tech, MS systems Penn State). Prior: Strategic Ops head at National Airborne Ops Center. Took West Virginia Blue Crew command Aug 2025; relieved Jul 30 2026 after under a year for loss of confidence.

Ohio-class SSBN for nuclear deterrence (Trident II D5s), Kings Bay. Blue/Gold crews alternate.

Such reliefs occur ~12-16 times/year across Navy for various reasons (performance, conduct, climate). No details released. Sub in maintenance, mission unaffected. Cause unknown

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:18 AM (+yTe/)

363 Know what you get if you respond to its posts?

More posts.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 01:19 AM (RCjYY)

364 {{Ellipsis}}

Doing okay. Some days are better than others, as always... I found the long-lost keys last night! In a place that *I swear* I'd already looked at least twice before. LOL.

How are you?

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

365 often 92 upset!! days election voting often TRUMP!!! democrats early till somebody. cheetos we upset!

Posted by: raimondo on tap at August 03, 2026 01:20 AM (XOG/m)

366 Hi JQ, here is your party hat and noisemaker, we should fire up the jukebox and get Miklos dancing, the night is young.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 03, 2026 01:21 AM (ibDUx)

367 Wooooh! Thanks, Debby!

Happy (belated?) birfday, Miklos! Let's get on the dance floor...

youtu.be/1sqE6P3XyiQ

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

368 Early and often?
So you are admitting Trump is right about the cheating?
I think he is too.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:23 AM (B8lCe)

369 @159/Braenyard:

I remember watching "The Quatermass Conclusion", but not sure I've ever seen "Quatermass and the Pit". I might look that one up.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 01:23 AM (O7YUW)

370 In early days when I volunteered to man the troll guns (never got the 40 MM Bofors I asked for) it seemed that mockery was an effective response. Some will always (against advice) feed the trolls.

So feed them mockery using their own words.

Posted by: It was only a concept at August 03, 2026 01:24 AM (XOG/m)

371 Retardo will be here almost every night regardless of anybody engaging him. Has been for years.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:25 AM (B8lCe)

372 On Aug 2nd, 1876, Wild Bill Hickok was shot dead while playing poker, holding what is now known as the Dead Man's Hand.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

I used to go to at saloon #10 in deadwood every year when I was out there for the Sturgis rally since it's on the way to Mt Rushmore. Its not the original saloon if I remember right, but it has the chair he was "supposedly" shot in sitting in an alcove over the front door, but again, that most likely is a fake. I went to his grave too which is in town. Calamity Jane is buried next to him. The grave is probably the only authentic thing tied to him in deadwood.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 01:25 AM (S41Gd)

373 Doing okay. Some days are better than others, as always... I found the long-lost keys last night! In a place that *I swear* I'd already looked at least twice before. LOL.

How are you?
Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

Great news on the keys!! Happens so often it seems that the thing is where you looked and looked.

I'm doing better thanks for asking. 3 of the last 5 days including today I have felt reasonably good which doesn't sound like much but I'm climbing down from my mini-flare I think.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:26 AM (vE0+H)

374 ***All trolls are Average Joe, who sucks cock by choice***

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

375 Retardo will be here almost every night regardless of anybody engaging him. Has been for years.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:25 AM (B8lCe)

A recurring sewer gas bubble.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 01:27 AM (S41Gd)

376 >> I used to go to at saloon #10 in deadwood every year

Cool!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 01:28 AM (w6EFb)

377 ***All trolls are Average Joe, who sucks cock by choice***

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:26 AM (rdVOm)

Alright, I have to ask. Who the fuck is average joe? I've been here since christ was a child and I don't remember an average joe, or maybe he was one I glossed over like the other troll retards.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 01:29 AM (S41Gd)

378 Do the math and it's not looking great.

Posted by: ...
--

There's a clip of Rubio saying the riots and demonstrations, all over, are/were the same people and they were financed by the same people and they have proof who they are.
Note: all these trouble are isolated in the same tolerant places.
Most of America is blood red.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:29 AM (+yTe/)

379 Wooooh! Thanks, Debby!

Happy (belated?) birfday, Miklos! Let's get on the dance floor...

youtu.be/1sqE6P3XyiQ
Posted by: JQ

Thank'ee Miss

But for me at this hour it's more like barefoot on the back deck under the bug zapper light

Posted by: Miklos makes no pretences at August 03, 2026 01:30 AM (XOG/m)

380 The trolls that used to engage were fun for a time.

Most of the current ones just do one line spellcheck-free drive by's and occasionally they call a particular nick out.

The drive by's make sense. I mean how fun can it be to have your candidate (two of them) spine shakingly embarrassed by a hilarious guy who is supposed to be dead and in jail? I mean as if beating down slow pathetic Biden wasn't bad enough he then shamed Kamala in all seven swing states. This is NOT a fun time to be a leftard.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:31 AM (vE0+H)

381
373 Doing okay. Some days are better than others, as always... I found the long-lost keys last night! In a place that *I swear* I'd already looked at least twice before. LOL.

How are you?
Posted by: JQ
---

Gives me hope that I will find my stached packet of thumb drives.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:32 AM (+yTe/)

382 Ellipsis, I'm happy for you! Hope you continue to feel even better.

Seems like nothing comes easy, anymore.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:32 AM (rdVOm)

383 we should fire up the jukebox and get Miklos dancing, the night is young.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

he bin danc

Posted by: Miss Dixie at August 03, 2026 01:33 AM (XOG/m)

384 This is NOT a fun time to be a leftard.
Posted by: ...

They ain't seen shit yet.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:33 AM (B8lCe)

385 Berserker, I think it was CDR M what came up with the Average Joe shtick... ?

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

386 Ellipsis, I'm happy for you! Hope you continue to feel even better.

Seems like nothing comes easy, anymore.
Posted by: JQ

Ditto

There's better, and then there's more better and more betterer

Posted by: Miklos feels free with both intent and grammar at August 03, 2026 01:35 AM (XOG/m)

387 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 01:29 AM (S41Gd)

Average Joe started out as a total joke troll by a regular called ParisParamus who had been a standard ontributor and big Romney fan (long time ago Romney when he was still a nominal R).

When you do joke trolls it often gets reacted to anyway, and slowly Average Joe actually BECAME a troll and leaned into it even though it was still ParisParamus the normal regular behind him. Very odd. I think he actually really got mad at some point along the way but who knows.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:35 AM (vE0+H)

388 >> I used to go to at saloon #10 in deadwood every year

Cool!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 01:28 AM (w6EFb)

Yeah it is pretty cool. The whole town actually. The street is original and it appears to have retained its "charm". The whole town is a historic national landmark because of its preserved era architecture from the gold rush. It does have a vibe to it, thats for sure.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 01:36 AM (S41Gd)

389 Well, it is 2330 here, time for me to go to bed. Tomorrow is a civic holiday here, so I will carry on hanging tin in the shop. Going to run out of the special roofing screws soon, but drywall screws ought to work.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 03, 2026 01:36 AM (1z8ji)

390
Just give me three lobes and a moon.

Some group from Lowell Observatory, using the Large Binocular Telescope in AZ, and the Very Large Telescope in Chile, discovered that asteroid Nysa has three lobes and a moon.

That's the first 3-lober. Several two-lobers are known. By that, it means 3 sort of large pieces of rock sort of gently stuck together under their own weak gravity. And another little rock is orbiting the thing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 01:37 AM (w6EFb)

391 But for me at this hour it's more like barefoot on the back deck under the bug zapper light
Posted by: Miklos

Hahaha, I totally understand... the ol' body can't keep up with the imagination... so, how about this:

youtu.be/8pz1xPxfWBs

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:37 AM (rdVOm)

392 @364/JQ: "I found the long-lost keys last night! In a place that *I swear* I'd already looked at least twice before. LOL. "

There's an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1985 called "A Matter of Minutes" that documents the why of that:

https://youtu.be/e9XFRfeGBVI?t=622

Basically every minute is constructed by time workers months in advance. People arrive in that minute, experience it, and move on to the next constructed minute, unaware that they're actually changing locations every minute.

Sometimes, the time workers make minor mistakes and things that should be placed in a specific location in a given minute (or series of minutes) are forgotten, but eventually that's fixed, and the items are put back.

And that's why when you swear you looked earlier and the keys were missing, they were! But now they're back.

Always loved that episode...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 01:38 AM (O7YUW)

393 Ellipsis, I'm happy for you! Hope you continue to feel even better.

Seems like nothing comes easy, anymore.
Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:32 AM (rdVOm)

I appreciate that, really. Means a lot.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:38 AM (vE0+H)

394

Deadwood is an interesting place to visit. Lots of history there.

Posted by: four seasons at August 03, 2026 01:38 AM (/QHx4)

395 Posted by: Miklos feels free with both intent and grammar at August 03, 2026 01:35 AM (XOG/m)

Thanks sir and Happy Bidet!!!!

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:39 AM (vE0+H)

396 222 Well, what I made is a T-bar affair. Cross-piece 19" long, with J-hooks spaced at 18" to engage with standing ribs on tin panel. (...) The lift itself goes very easy.
- - - - -
A couple 50lb-draw magnets would grab those metal panels easily... ;-)

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at August 03, 2026 01:39 AM (asfZy)

397 I went to a graduation party yesterday, for a young man who only weighed about two pounds when he was born, his twin did not survive. He is headed off to college in the fall, I am so happy for him, such a great kid.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 03, 2026 01:39 AM (ibDUx)

398 Average Joe started out as a total joke troll by a regular called ParisParamus who had been a standard ontributor and big Romney fan (long time ago Romney when he was still a nominal R).

When you do joke trolls it often gets reacted to anyway, and slowly Average Joe actually BECAME a troll and leaned into it even though it was still ParisParamus the normal regular behind him. Very odd. I think he actually really got mad at some point along the way but who knows.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 01:35 AM (vE0+H)

ParisParamus..damn thats a name I haven't seen in years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 01:39 AM (S41Gd)

399 Hiya Debby DS! I’m having a tequila sunrise without the sunrise. Would you like to join me?

Rhomboid, I’ll be in Japan in April. Hope the rate will still be favorable. Or maybe I should get some now.

Posted by: SnailRacer at August 03, 2026 01:40 AM (Ev5Rw)

400 >> The whole town actually. The street is original and it appears to have retained its "charm"

I need to add that to a list of places to see one of these days....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 01:40 AM (w6EFb)

401 "Deadwood" the cable TV series was a nice piece of work, although I didn't see all of it. I really prefer movies to miniseries-- even though I trash-wallowed through every episode of "The Borgias."

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 01:40 AM (RCjYY)

402 Do you people have any idea how much money the Russkies offered AOP to fix up all their broke-ass old commie tanks and radars and shit?

A lot

And he said nyet (or some Albertan version of that)

Posted by: Miklos respects AOP not least for his taste in music at August 03, 2026 01:41 AM (XOG/m)

403 Gives me hope that I will find my stached packet of thumb drives.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Dude! You wouldn't (or maybe you would) BELIEVE all the stuff I found, while looking for those damned keys....

Go search for *something else* and your thumb drives will turn up instead.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:43 AM (rdVOm)

404 Aces and eights. And clubs will be forever known as bullets.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:43 AM (+yTe/)

405 Just got back from an overnight hike on Mt Hood with a friend and his nephew. We went up past Burnt Lake and camped in Paradise Park. We were in a little clump of trees right at the edge of a sheer drop to a stream feeding into the Zig Zag River.

The meadow was beautiful; full of wildflowers! I saw grouse, and right at sunset the clouds lifted for a few minutes to reveal Mt. Hood---the only view we had all weekend.

It was cold! High and low in the 40s. There were some cold sprinkles all afternoon, but what really got us wet was pushing through the overgrown trail above Burnt Lake. We only saw one other person in that section.

This morning we slept late, left the packs, and did the 4-mile Paradise Loop, coming back on the Timberline Trail. Then we hiked out.

I felt pretty good this morning, but now I am sore!

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 01:44 AM (rcENI)

406 I need to add that to a list of places to see one of these days....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Somehow, I think Mr. Publius could drive a big-ass motorhome anywhere, and that would be one of the lighter items he has piloted.

Posted by: Miklos rests assured at August 03, 2026 01:46 AM (XOG/m)

407 Oh hey, while looking up that episode of The Twilight Zone for JQ, the nasty leg cramp I took at 00:45 that got me out of bed has finally subsided an hour later.

AoSHQ - the mental distraction I needed, when I needed it. I think I can go back to bed now!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 01:49 AM (O7YUW)

408 109 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:40 PM (hzuYO)

I must chime in. Keanu Reeves is the real deal. He is one of the best. He has endured a lot of things over the years. He is a good man.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)

I try to be skeptical, but he's just so gosh-darn genuine and likeable. Even in this 10:45-long bit from 2023, which was intended by Fender to be a promo for the Precision Bass (which he plays in Dogstar), he's relaxed and funny. The story at 1:49 slays:

"I asked Gard [Hollinger] if he wanted to start a motorcycle company. He said 'No,' but then I said, 'Come on.' He said, 'Why?' I said, 'Because we’re gonna die.'"

Keanu Reeves | Don't Quit Your Day Dream | Fender
https://youtu.be/_iLVM8cqjkg

Posted by: SciVo at August 03, 2026 01:50 AM (Sy6m/)

409 (And yes, I've appeared in the ONT before complaining about a leg cramp that got me up. This isn't the first time, likely won't be the last either.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 01:50 AM (O7YUW)

410 Frammish - your hike(s) sounds amazing! Low 40s is a bit too cold for me. Brrrr..

JQ - so happy for you that you found the keys. I’m not sure what they are for but I am sure it’s more work for you.

Posted by: SnailRacer at August 03, 2026 01:51 AM (Ev5Rw)

411 Anyone who can pronounce BOTH "Spokane" and "Gonzaga" correctly is probably either a resident or an alum.
Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 12:12 AM (RCjYY)

I can do both, but I merely got my doctorate at WSU.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 01:52 AM (Wj1DV)

412 @408/SciVo: { I said, 'Because we’re gonna die.'" }

What a remarkably perceptive answer.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 01:55 AM (O7YUW)

413 Grumpy - order some magnesium lotion from Amazon. Rub on your leg before you go to bed.

Posted by: SnailRacer at August 03, 2026 01:55 AM (Ev5Rw)

414 All trolls who post here are communists. Tonights troll is just consistent with it's lying. It lies, all the time. For a communist, lying is like breathing. They can't stop. It's all they have. That's why all the trolls here are interchangeable. Paul/Sid/rainmondo/exodus/etc. They are a singular blob of communism. They are all filthy lying, trash. Diseased vermin, to be eradicated.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 01:55 AM (sAmhv)

415 Keanu Reeves made an excellent angel in "Good Fortune," Very funny.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 01:55 AM (RCjYY)

416 Thanks, SnailRacer.

I hid the keys (and stove knobs and cigs & lighters and...) when hubby began acting unpredictably due to dementia. Had to keep him safe!

Keys were not with the other stuff, of course.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:55 AM (rdVOm)

417 So retardo is a Miklos sock. I honestly had no idea. Then tonight I says to myself. Hmmm Miklos hasn't posted in a minute or two then... I see (XOG/m)

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:56 AM (B8lCe)

418 >> The whole town actually. The street is original and it appears to have retained its "charm"

I need to add that to a list of places to see one of these days....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 01:40 AM (w6EFb)

You would like it. The best part is there is a road (385) that leaves deadwood and heads into the black hills, and its the road you take to Mt Rushmore, and along that road you come to Pactola lake, which is a pretty damn big and beautiful mountain lake/reservoir, and really nice to hang around at for a bit. The crazy horse monument is also on that road. I think the road is about 40 miles from deadwood to rushmore if I remember right. We used to stay on 385, go past the turn for rushmore, go down to custer and do the needles highway which brings you to rushmore the back way. Needles highway is just frigging amazing. It all can be done in a day.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 01:57 AM (S41Gd)

419 Test.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 01:58 AM (F9nWj)

420 "raimondo on tap" isn't the real 'tardo. that's a parody bot.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 03, 2026 01:58 AM (gKWVE)

421 Whew, not in the Top 10 commenters.

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 01:58 AM (odBC9)

422 Retardo is a "real" troll. Miklos sometimes socks it. (and sometimes gets caught up in the banning of said troll.)

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

423 >>>I've been sharing a lot of stuff about Flock cameras recently. Maybe I need to submit a Morning Rant thread about it so the daywalkers get to see this stuff.

Yes! Please do.

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 01:59 AM (odBC9)

424 Anyone seen Rodrigo Borgia lately, he seems to be MIA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:59 AM (+yTe/)

425 @413/SnailRacer: I already take Magnesium Oxide pills to deal with the leg cramps and they work great!

I had taken the one at 17:45, but forgot the second one I take just before bed, and the cramp arrived about 3 hours after that.

Okay, off to bed now. (See some of you in the Tech News thread after my alarm goes off at 05:00 - I'll probably be grousing about needing coffee...)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 02:00 AM (O7YUW)

426 422 Retardo is a "real" troll. Miklos sometimes socks it. (and sometimes gets caught up in the banning of said troll.)
Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

I've seen that happen.
Looked up further and found the different hashs.
Good. I don't have to repurpose the iron maiden I have built for retardo.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 02:02 AM (F9nWj)

427

Rodrigo was here a couple of days ago.

He had good news about his health.

Posted by: four seasons at August 03, 2026 02:02 AM (/QHx4)

428 410 Frammish - your hike(s) sounds amazing! Low 40s is a bit too cold for me. Brrrr..

Me too! We did not expect it. It's been so hot here, I foolishly didn't check the mountain-forecast website. So we were not prepared. Especially the nephew (16yo). I had some wool long underwear and a wool sweater, but he didn't really bring any layers. My buddy had some extra clothes to lend him. But when we got to camp, maybe around 5 p.m., we all just crawled into our sleeping bags for an hour to warm up.

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 02:03 AM (rcENI)

429 Starve a troll and feed a beaver.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 02:04 AM (RCjYY)

430 Hi SnailRacer, please count me in for a night cap and then I will be off for a snooze. Miklos is the secret owner of Bombas.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 03, 2026 02:04 AM (ibDUx)

431
Well, this is interesting. After years and years of work, they've finally identified the composition of the KT dino killer asteroid that hit 66 million years ago. That wiped out 75% of the existing species on Erf at the time.

Turns out it was a very rare type CO carbonaceous chondrite.

This means it likely came from the outer solar system beyond Jupiter's orbit. There are some vagabonds that lurk out there between Jupiter and Neptune.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 02:09 AM (w6EFb)

432 Miklos must've fallen asleep to that last tune I linked for him. So sleepy that the bug-zaps don't wake him!

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

433 407 the nasty leg cramp I took at 00:45 that got me out of bed has finally subsided an hour later
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 01:49 AM (O7YUW)

Try electrolytes? Milk? These things work for me.

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 02:11 AM (odBC9)

434 Yay, mammals!

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 02:11 AM (RCjYY)

435 425 @413/SnailRacer: I already take Magnesium Oxide pills to deal with the leg cramps and they work great!

I had taken the one at 17:45, but forgot the second one I take just before bed, and the cramp arrived about 3 hours after that.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 03, 2026 02:00 AM (O7YUW)

Yay!

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 02:11 AM (odBC9)

436 This means it likely came from the outer solar system beyond Jupiter's orbit.

I think the CO rocks formed in the sooty 3-4 AU range. Jupiter is 5.3 AU... now.
There's some talk about a "grand tack" where Jupiter might have been closer way back when, but that's conjecture.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 03, 2026 02:12 AM (gKWVE)

437 All trolls who post here are communists. Tonights troll is just consistent with it's lying. It lies, all the time. For a communist, lying is like breathing. They can't stop. It's all they have. That's why all the trolls here are interchangeable. Paul/Sid/rainmondo/exodus/etc. They are a singular blob of communism. They are all filthy lying, trash. Diseased vermin, to be eradicated.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 03, 2026 01:55 AM (sAmhv)

The thing that makes me wish for their violent death is the one simple fact that these miserable motherfuckers carry on like the idea of America as founded, the constitution, everything that made America what it is is flawed and needs to be destroyed because it don't line up with their mass murdering cult of communism. If I was running things there would be 2 choices, get the fuck out and start your own country where you can tongue mao's bung every day.... or die horribly within our borders as prey.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 03, 2026 02:13 AM (S41Gd)

438 Miklos is the secret owner of Bombas.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Comfort and quality, made in the USA

Posted by: Marketing Miklos at August 03, 2026 02:15 AM (XOG/m)

439 Frammish - glad you had enough clothes between y’all to make do. Wearing a sleeping back while walking would have been a pain so I’m glad you managed. Next time you won’t forget to check the weather!

Posted by: SnailRacer at August 03, 2026 02:15 AM (Ev5Rw)

440 I agree, Bers!

Why TF do they need to destroy *this* country? There are plenty of commie cuntries for them to fuck off to.

All aboard, dickheads! GTFO.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

441 I’m sure Cher doesn’t really like Dave Letterman.
Because he doesn’t really seem like a likable person outside of his hour of TV, for a decade or so.

Madonna probably did like Dave, because she isn’t too likable either.
The only reason she gave Dave a difficult time that one show where she only wanted to talk about peeing in the shower with him was because he’d made a joke about her in a monologue a few weeks before and she wanted to torture him for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 02:16 AM (6ydKt)

442 DDS - night cap counted and I may follow your snooze plan. My friend raves about Bombas. I don’t know. I buy the Walmart 10 pack in black so I’ll always have a matching pair.

Posted by: SnailRacer at August 03, 2026 02:18 AM (Ev5Rw)

443 Miklos must've fallen asleep to that last tune I linked for him. So sleepy that the bug-zaps don't wake him!
Posted by: JQ

*cigarette ash on lap*

*comes to , knocks over a Natty Daddy*

I am awake

*brushes off the rest of that still burning butt*

Posted by: Miklos the Nite Owl at August 03, 2026 02:19 AM (XOG/m)

444 441 Dave Letterman ... doesn’t really seem like a likable person outside of his hour of TV, for a decade or so.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 02:16 AM (6ydKt)

He's no Norm Macdonald.

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 02:21 AM (odBC9)

445

Some people are looking for a hot ass, lol

Posted by: four seasons at August 03, 2026 02:21 AM (/QHx4)

446 I can't wait to stack commies like cord wood.
It's a bucket list item.

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 02:22 AM (B8lCe)

447 Plenty of carbonaceous chondrites in the asteroid belt.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 02:22 AM (Wj1DV)

448 Letterman was a prick. Was watching one night, when he had Annie Lennox on. He was nasty to her, and she was gone after first commercial break. Not sure that was the plan...

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

449 I can't wait to stack commies like cord wood.
It's a bucket list item.
Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 02:22 AM (B8lCe)

Make sure to stock up on kerosene first.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 02:24 AM (Wj1DV)

450 150 Perhaps it's time for people to prescribe the use of Dr. Guillotin's invention for terrible medical personnel and researchers.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 11:03 PM (qx7Zg)

Put them on a ventilator.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 11:07 PM (1z8ji)

I like it. How many of those death machines did they make in the Covid mania? If they haven't all been junked by now, we could make them single-use devices and still have some left over when we run out of perps to execute.

Posted by: SciVo at August 03, 2026 02:24 AM (Sy6m/)

451 Didn't Letterman get his start on the old Mary Tyler Moore variety show?

The should do a remake of the Mary Tyler Moore show set in Minneapolis, the Mary Tyler Nur show.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 03, 2026 02:29 AM (ibDUx)

452 >> Plenty of carbonaceous chondrites in the asteroid belt.

This is type CO, or the "Ornans type" which is a relatively rare type of the carbonaceous class overall.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 02:29 AM (w6EFb)

453 >> There's some talk about a "grand tack" where Jupiter might have been closer way back when, but that's conjecture.

Yep. Looking some more, that's exactly what they mean by "beyond Jupiter". It formed in the early solar system beyond where Jupiter was at the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 02:30 AM (w6EFb)

454

What happens when they either imprison or kill off all of the taxpaying citizens?

Who are they going to steal money from then?

Posted by: four seasons at August 03, 2026 02:30 AM (/QHx4)

455 HackerNews has a bazillion articles on Flock:

https://tinyurl.com/9zacbu3y

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 02:31 AM (odBC9)

456 There are plenty of commie cuntries for them to fuck off to.

All aboard, dickheads! GTFO.
Posted by: JQ

There were a lot of commie countries.

Very few now.

Weird (not in the Dave sense)

Posted by: Miklos recalls a certain Peoples' Republic at August 03, 2026 02:38 AM (XOG/m)

457 I agree that traffic cameras are a Fourth Amendment violation, and I especially think we need some Supreme Court clarification about the government laundering surveillance through private companies. But don't understand the sudden uprise against Flock. It feels like the "personalize it" tactic.

I looked at a map of Flock cameras for the suburbs west of Portland. We have tons of traffic cameras, but the only Flock cameras I saw were monitoring big-box-store parking lots, like Home Depot and Fred Meyer.

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 02:40 AM (rcENI)

458 The should do a remake of the Mary Tyler Moore show set in Minneapolis, the Mary Tyler Nur show.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

And the Flying Nun, except a niqab instead of a habit

Posted by: Lay Brother Miklos at August 03, 2026 02:40 AM (XOG/m)

459 What happens when they either imprison or kill off all of the taxpaying citizens?
Who are they going to steal money from then?
Posted by: four seasons

They won't need to, by then. Only foreign trade will support the new regime.

Once *we* are all gone, the useful idiots and most of the shock-troops will get the bullet, too.

Only true believers will be left-- most, in poverty and misery-- to snitch on their neighbors and scramble for whatever crumbs their "betters" deign to bestow. Some will be mid-level enforcers, and allowed to keep some of the spoils.

The "elites" will have whatever they want. Money, decent food, vacation homes, ability to travel.

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 02:40 AM (rdVOm)

460 Strange night

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 02:44 AM (Ia/+0)

461 Yay, mammals!
Posted by: mnw

I first read that as mammaries

Posted by: Miklos did not turn this into a movie thread at August 03, 2026 02:50 AM (XOG/m)

462 This is type CO, or the "Ornans type" which is a relatively rare type of the carbonaceous class overall.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

That's what THEY want you to believe

Posted by: Randall Carlson at August 03, 2026 02:51 AM (XOG/m)

463
The woman who moved to Ireland to live with her Muzzie boyfriend had just inhereted a million dollars. He killed her.

He did not love her, he loved the money.

Posted by: four seasons at August 03, 2026 02:52 AM (/QHx4)

464 Strange night
Posted by: Skip

School starts in two weeks, young Skipper

Do you need a new pencil case?

Or lunch box?

Unfortunately "Uncle" Raymond ate all the blueberries

Posted by: Distracted Auntie Miklos at August 03, 2026 02:54 AM (XOG/m)

465 Same as it ever was.
Posted by: JQ

Reminds me

David Byrne owes me a beer

Posted by: Miklos notes that Dixie Beer no longer exists because Not Woke at August 03, 2026 02:56 AM (XOG/m)

466 Sweet dreams Horde, I must toddle to the town hall tomorrow and pay my quarterly property taxes, which will remind me again that I want to leave this wretched place.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 03, 2026 03:01 AM (ibDUx)

467
I see ol' Randall and one of his buddies are taking another "expedition" group for a 7-day tour of the Scablands. It's a 40 person thing. I wonder how much they charge for that...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 03:02 AM (w6EFb)

468 I wonder how much they charge for that...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

If doggie would travel that far, I would go and pay.

I would get my money's worth from scenery, education and/or amusement.

Posted by: Miklos is easily amused but is open minded about it all at August 03, 2026 03:05 AM (XOG/m)

469
He took a group to the Azores last year, and I imagine that was spendy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 03:06 AM (w6EFb)

470 He took a group to the Azores last year, and I imagine that was spendy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Not if an NGO pays for the raft

Posted by: Undocumented migrant Miklos at August 03, 2026 03:07 AM (XOG/m)

471
Randall's buddy on this Scablands trip is a younger feller. That brings to mind Marlin Perkins and Jim.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 03:08 AM (w6EFb)

472 Flock website for my town is mostly at the corner of
Home Depot and Lowe's and places like that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 03:08 AM (+yTe/)

473 472 Flock website for my town is mostly at the corner of
Home Depot and Lowe's and places like that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 03:08 AM (+yTe/)

We don't have any flock. We just don't give a flock.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 03:09 AM (FyeA3)

474 264 John McCain and Harry Reid are still alive?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 03, 2026 12:17 AM (rbvCR)

wut

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 03:10 AM (odBC9)

475 Debby's got the idea. Time for me to go.
Have a good evening, 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 03:11 AM (+yTe/)

476
The above prompted me to start reviewing the details of the Grand Tack Hypothesis and the (later) NICE model of the solar system formation.

It's all very interesting, but must say the science is far from settled.

James Webb and the Very Large Telescope have found some early solar systems in the process of formation, and they should provide some actual real data points for all this solar system formation theorizing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 03:13 AM (w6EFb)

477 Sarah Hoyt on Instagram linked to this fun explanation of radiation: https://x.com/ShamashAran/status/2083750816918192450 I've wondered where alpha particles fit for a long time. Glad to hear someone acknowledge they are "something else."

A bit of a surprise that microwaves are lower energy than infrared. So how come microwave ovens heat food faster than the stove? Google says, Because they heat the inside and outside at the same time. Hmm.

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 03:13 AM (rcENI)

478 Randall's buddy on this Scablands trip is a younger feller. That brings to mind Marlin Perkins and Jim.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I have tole Darleen more than once

You keep this up, Ima hafta get ol Jim to do this kinda rasslin

Or maybe Rufus R. "Freight Train" Jones, my favorite Professional Rassler of all Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmbJSwCg4o

Posted by: Miklos was raised right at August 03, 2026 03:16 AM (XOG/m)

479 Incidentally, I'm still not convinced that particle spin isn't all a conspiracy by Big-L. How can it always be multiples of 1/2? The first thing I learned in chemistry is that measurements always have a margin of error. I asked Google what the units are of particle spin, and it said either Joule-seconds or multiples of ħ. Joule-seconds shouldn't go 1/2, 2/2, 3/2, etc., right?

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 03:20 AM (rcENI)

480 If Publius claims that he grew up with no knowledge of southeast professional wrestling, either he is less than candid or had a very sheltered childhood.

Posted by: Miklos knows this applies to many at August 03, 2026 03:23 AM (XOG/m)

481 155 Mike -

vmom gave us a nic-link to her post here:
https://tinyurl.com/vmom-ai

which has a link to the deeper article in question
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 02, 2026 11:11 PM (aJQbY)

https://role-confusion.github.io

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 03:24 AM (odBC9)

482
Particle spin is quantized, and fermions take on the half-integer values. Also, spin here is not modelled as vector, but as, well, a spinor, which is more complicated mathematic object, which you can see as complex valued matrix. And somewhere in there, something must rotate twice, 720 degrees rather than 360 to get back where it started.

Note that quantum spin is *intrinsic* angular momentum of a point particle. In classical physics, a point can't have angular momentum. How can a point rotate?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 03:28 AM (w6EFb)

483 Bob Hoover could "pour up"..........look it up!

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 03, 2026 03:33 AM (jrgJz)

484 *wakes up*

Wow. This is like the 90s.. when I'd watch PBS late at night & there'd be a show on physics or astronomy.

All I can remember is F=ma.

It explains *everything* iirc.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)

485 482 I really appreciate the response! I'm working through The Theoretical Minimum right now, and I want to read the three followup volumes as well. I'll keep your answer in mind. I don't know what a spinor is, so I'll look up how it's different from a vector.

Another thing that has bothered me for 35 years is light polarity. As if the amplitude of an E-M wave were inches.

It's amazing how you can get As in physics through high school and college (I was an English major but took some 300-level courses), but have no idea how to explain these things to your kids.

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 03:33 AM (rcENI)

486 Particle spin is quantized, and fermions take on the half-integer values. Also, spin here is not modelled as vector, but as, well, a spinor, which is more complicated mathematic object, which you can see as complex valued matrix. And somewhere in there, something must rotate twice, 720 degrees rather than 360 to get back where it started.

Note that quantum spin is *intrinsic* angular momentum of a point particle. In classical physics, a point can't have angular momentum. How can a point rotate?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Can you explain that in ways understandable to those who did not have the opportunity to get learned good at the Cow Kollidge with a secret "p" in the name?

Posted by: Miklos knows Sekrit Words (Danny Ford) at August 03, 2026 03:36 AM (XOG/m)

487 It explains *everything* iirc.
Posted by: JQ

I did economics

Not much maths

Posted by: Lazy student Miklos at August 03, 2026 03:38 AM (XOG/m)

488 482 And somewhere in there, something must rotate twice, 720 degrees rather than 360 to get back where it started.

I'm pretty sure Scott Aaronson mentioned something like that in Quantum Computing Since Democritus. I'll try to look it up. I was really intrigued by idea that if you only had the real numbers and had to invent a physics, you would come up with the Newtonian system. And if you had complex numbers, you would come up with quantum mechanics.

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 03:38 AM (rcENI)

489 >> Can you explain that in ways understandable to those who did not have

Let's see, I'm 59. About 30 years when this was fresh in my mind, I probably could've 'splained it better. But now, well, not so much.

I try not to think about the stuff I've forgotten. Makes me get mad at myself.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 03:39 AM (w6EFb)

490 After many years, I am more than ever convinced that Bubba who runs the Used Tire place, flea market, ang BBQ has a better grasp of basic economics than anyone at the Federal Reserve.

Posted by: Life-long student Miklos at August 03, 2026 03:41 AM (XOG/m)

491 I'm pretty sure Scott Aaronson mentioned something like that

Or maybe it was William Sleator in The Boy Who Reversed Himself, lol.

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 03:42 AM (rcENI)

492
To get philosophical, physics uses a lot of math. And various rather abstract mathematical things are invented/discovered.

Think of it in Feynman-esque terms. The math doesn't have to be the reality. It's just a tool that allows you to get the right answers of how things behave.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 03:44 AM (w6EFb)

493 But don't understand the sudden uprise against Flock. It feels like the "personalize it" tactic.

I looked at a map of Flock cameras for the suburbs west of Portland. We have tons of traffic cameras, but the only Flock cameras I saw were monitoring big-box-store parking lots, like Home Depot and Fred Meyer.
Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 02:40 AM (rcENI)

Recently a Baytown PD officer was busted for using Flock cameras for stalking purposes. People aren’t good with things like this.

I’d also check out just how much a whack job utopian the Flock CEO is.

Ban all Flock cameras and ALPRs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 03, 2026 03:44 AM (4g5V+)

494 424 Anyone seen Rodrigo Borgia lately, he seems to be MIA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 03, 2026 01:59 AM (+yTe/)

I'll check in with him. He's here, after all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 03:44 AM (FyeA3)

495 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I knew "Danny Ford" would get a response

Posted by: Publius just confirmed Miklos' Theorem of Clempsonian Concept at August 03, 2026 03:46 AM (XOG/m)

496 402 Think of it in Feynman-esque terms. The math doesn't have to be the reality.

Okay. I thought Feynman was the one who said, "Shut up and calculate," but Google says it was someone else.

Anyway, I appreciate the food for thought! I don't think I'm going to figure it out at almost 1 a.m., but I'll keep your replies in mind. Now I'd better get to sleep. God bless Horde. . . .

Posted by: frammish at August 03, 2026 03:50 AM (rcENI)

497 My notebook pages were barely wide enough for me to write out some of those math problems in physics class.

Instructor was cool, tried to make it *make sense* to us, and gave lively presentations. We had fun with the experiments, too.

He allowed us to make/use our own "cheat sheet" for final-- and required the cheat sheet to be submitted along with that final exam! LOL. Bet he got a kick out of them.

Dr. F was also an astronomer, and was the primary driver/fundraiser for a local observatory.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 03:52 AM (rdVOm)

498 Carry on, publius & all... I'm not worthy.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 03:56 AM (rdVOm)

499 Our accuracy in knowing the value of ħ is the limit in knowing the intrinsic spin of fundamental particles. Bosons have whole integer multiples of ħ for their spin. Fermions have half integer multiples of ħ. It is based on the possible symmetries of the particles’ quantum mechanical wave function. Spin is actually angular momentum, but it’s called “spin” because that is the classical limit equivalent. It’s hard to visualize a point particle spinning: proper lingo is intrinsic angular momentum.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 03:59 AM (Wj1DV)

500 500

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 03:59 AM (odBC9)

501 >> I'm not worthy.

You underestimate yourself. Crack open some of those books you were mentioning the other night.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 04:00 AM (w6EFb)

502 Carry on, publius & all... I'm not worthy.
Posted by: JQ

*writes "worthy" on decorative headgear*

*awards to JQ*

Posted by: Miklos sometimes Does the Right Thing at August 03, 2026 04:00 AM (XOG/m)

503 497 He allowed us to make/use our own "cheat sheet" for final-- and required the cheat sheet to be submitted along with that final exam!
Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 03:52 AM (rdVOm)

Cool idea.

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)

504 I kept all my college texts and notebooks. But the notebooks are gone!

Because XH2 aka "number two" (because that's what he was) tore them up, along with other books & papers.

Some people aren't worth the oxygen, grrrrrr.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 04:02 AM (rdVOm)

505
The units of spin are also the units of action, energy*time. That is sort of the fundamental quantization of nature. Action. See Hamilton's Principle of Least(Stationary, actually) action.

Feynman derives Schrodinger's equation from that, making it look like child's play.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 04:02 AM (w6EFb)

506 I am content in my ignorance of astronomy, physics, etc. because my understanding or lack thereof makes not a whittles tittle of difference.

Posted by: Miklos just made something up at August 03, 2026 04:03 AM (XOG/m)

507 Feynman was certainly of the shut up and calculate camp, although I don’t if he ever used those exact words.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 04:04 AM (Wj1DV)

508 The units of spin are also the units of action, energy*time. That is sort of the fundamental quantization of nature. Action. See Hamilton's Principle of Least(Stationary, actually) action.

Feynman derives Schrodinger's equation from that, making it look like child's play.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Now I know who to blame for Disco and the entire 70s

Posted by: Miklos only went to the disco on nickel beer nights at August 03, 2026 04:06 AM (XOG/m)

509 You guys are so nice!

All those old books are *way beyond* my comprehension. I inherited them from a couple of relatives who had advanced enough education to understand the material.

It's too late in life for me to do anything worthwhile with the knowledge.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 04:07 AM (rdVOm)

510 463
The woman who moved to Ireland to live with her Muzzie boyfriend had just inhereted a million dollars. He killed her.

He did not love her, he loved the money.

Posted by: four seasons at August 03, 2026 02:52 AM (/QHx4)

Daily Mail

https://archive.is/OeN5y

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:07 AM (odBC9)

511 He allowed us to make/use our own "cheat sheet" for final-- and required the cheat sheet to be submitted along with that final exam!
Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 03:52 AM (rdVOm)

This was my standard practice for physics exams, but I specified the size: 3”x5” for regular tests, 4”x6” for the final.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 04:08 AM (Wj1DV)

512 The "allowed cheat sheet" was specified for us:

One side only, of one 3" x 5" index card.

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 04:09 AM (rdVOm)

513 >> It's too late in life for me to do anything worthwhile with the knowledge.

It's *never too late*. Don't make me come up there. And depends on what you mean by "worthwhile". It can be worthwhile of itself, just to know. Also, keeps the old brain cells exercised.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

514 Hanging Fauci and his accomplices would do a lot to restore my confidence in the medical system.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Dragged through the streets behind iron horses.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:11 AM (X0Pix)

515 Feynman was always trying to derive all physics from the action principle and the like. He’d get on an airline flight with some blank sheets of paper and see how far he could go before landing.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 04:14 AM (Wj1DV)

516
I remember when I first grasped the Principle of Least Action back at Cow Collidge. It was like the theme from 2001 went off. Wow, man, that's like deep.....

The Shut and Calculate school says don't get too carried away with that.

There is a tension between the two. Shut up and calculate tries to keep you from getting too carried away with that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 03, 2026 04:15 AM (w6EFb)

517 I allowed both sides of the card.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 04:15 AM (Wj1DV)

518 514 Hanging Fauci and his accomplices would do a lot to restore my confidence in the medical system.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Dragged through the streets behind iron horses.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:11 AM (X0Pix)

Nah. I just want to have him stand still while I slap the shit out of him, just once, full backhand, so he knows the pain. Just that.

Fucker killed my father.

For that, he should really get to bleed to death, but if I get one slap, and line it up with my lethal wedding ring, he will know pain, and know humiliation. And have some lovely scars to remind him, until he is dead and has nowhere to turn for relief.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 04:21 AM (FyeA3)

519 I allowed both sides of the card.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Wow, you're a softie! Heh.

I sharpened my pencil so the tip was SO TINY, and wrote small.. like, what?, 4 pt? LOL!

Got a 'C' for the semester. A passing grade. Good enough for me!

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 04:21 AM (rdVOm)

520 proper lingo is intrinsic angular momentum.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 03, 2026 03:59 AM (Wj1DV)

Sounds like exactly what occurs when the WI Badgers play football at home. To all the various individuals that attend that particular university. And a lot of alumni, on that particular day, as well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 04:24 AM (FyeA3)

521 Posted by: tcn in AK at August 03, 2026 04:21 AM

I stand by my recco from the other day:

Cheese grater.

Acetone.

N i c e... a n d... s l o w!

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 04:24 AM (rdVOm)

522 Rusty cheese grater, full length mirror, toothpicks for eyes, and a bit o' LSD to enhance the experience.
That is for Birx while the Gremlin Fauci watches... then his turn.

You could make this a mini-series / competition like "You're Fired.... to Death".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 03, 2026 04:30 AM (X0Pix)

523 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

524 You haven't felt PAIN, until you've felt acetone on a cut.

Isopropyl alcohol doesn't even come *close*!

Posted by: JQ at August 03, 2026 04:38 AM (rdVOm)

Gun Thread: First August Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the First August Edition? I told you it was coming! I may not be around much in the comments so please don't burn the place down. Appreciate it!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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FUNdamentals

This is what focus looks like

I preach a lot about fundamentals. Mostly the mechanical shooting fundamentals of stance, grip, sight alignment and trigger manipulation. To become a successful competitive shooter you need to add grit, determination, seemingly endless practice and the will to never quit. Those who have attended a TXMoMe have probably met lin-duh's spawn, appropriately named Spawn and maybe even seen her shoot on the ranges. I can tell you from years of experience in evaluating shooters that Spawn has skills.

Here is what lin-duh had to say about her recent trip to the National Matches.

Here is a picture of the spawn shooting her rimfire iron rifle at Nationals. Despite all the team drama this year she did well individually. This is the first year she won anything and it was all HOA awards. The second place RPO is the one she wanted the most and had the biggest field of competitors.
lin-duh

And here are the results:

3rd place Female Rimfire Revolver
3rd place Female Center Fire Revolver
2nd place Female Rimfire Pistol Optic

It's quite an achievement, so please join me in congratulating Spawn!

080226 spawn nationals hardware scaled.jpg

This is what the result of focus looks like!

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S&W Model 60 .38 Special Restoration

Alternate title: Birth of a Pimp Gun. As you know, not a fan. Are you?

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Colt Python: Old v. New

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Inside Hornady's Accuracy Center

I'm not sure I knew that Hornady had an Accuracy Center.

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Our Pal Research Reactors

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Ax Weasel

Q: Weasel, do you know how are Blackwing pencils made, perchance?
A: Why yes, yes I do. Please see below.

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Highway Patrol!

This week's episode: The Seventh Green!

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Invasion Of The Saucer Men!

Holy crap! It's the gol'-danged saucer men!! Personally, I'd have preferred saucer babes, but whatever.

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Cigar of the Week

This week our pal rhomboid scores again with this excellent review of the La Palina No. 4

La Palina is an old name in cigars, and one of the more interesting ones. It's an American company, not Cuban, Nicaraguan, or Dominican, and always has been. Founded at the end of the 19th century in Chicago by a Ukrainian immigrant, it was a victim of the Depression. It was revived in the early 2000s by the founder's grandson - who, interestingly, was the son of one of the big kahunas of broadcast TV (and radio before that), William S. Paley, of CBS. That grandson revived the company and brand, and now its managed by 2 cigar industry veterans. All of that to introduce a fairly ordinary cigar, the La Palina No. 4. Ordinary, but well made, tasty - and inexpensive. I happened upon a deal, $57/box, recently, and here we are.
The No. 4 is a Nicaraguan puro except for the Ecuadorean binder. Wrapper from Jalapa, fillers from there and two of the other major growing regions, Condega and Esteli. Construction is solid, draw is perfect. Reviews and marketing talk of cocoa and sweetness, for me there's more citrusy tang, slightly sweet wood, and some spice here and there. At under $3/stick for a long-filler cigar, this one's suitable for a yardwork cigar (or sorting brass, or cleaning guns), but it's nice enough that for now it's in my regular rotation. Normal price isn't much more painful, just shy of $4 each. So, a solid candidate if you're looking for good quality at a bundle cigar price.

Excellent, rhomboid! Thank you!

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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.

Cigarsinternational.com
Cigarpage.com
Famous-smoke.com
Cigarsdaily.com
Neptunecigar.com
Smallbatchcigar.com
Bobalu Cigar Company
Cigarbid.com
Nicks Cigar World Bigly Recommended

A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid

Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!

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Ammo Link-O-Rama
I'm really very seriously not kidding around anymore. Buy Ammo
AmmoSeek - online ammo search tool
GunBot - online ammo search tool
SG Ammo
Palmetto State Armory
Georgia Arms
AmmoMan
Target Sports USA
Bud's Gun Shop
American Elite Ammo
Lucky Gunner Ammo NEW!

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Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!

That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

Posted by: Weasel at 07:00 PM

Comments

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2026 07:00 PM (cpFbA)

2 Bang

Posted by: Eromero at August 02, 2026 07:00 PM (LHPAg)

3 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 07:00 PM (Ia/+0)

4 bang bang!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 07:01 PM (NnhvP)

5 Here, but not quick on the trigger.

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 07:01 PM (LMRVO)

6 Woot! You go, Spawn!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 07:02 PM (Wnv9h)

7 Congrats, Spawn!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 07:03 PM (FZ29D)

8 Missed it by }.{ much.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 02, 2026 07:04 PM (Q/FnY)

9 Well, if Spawn is head of the HOA, I will not forget to pay my HOA fees !

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 07:04 PM (LMRVO)

10 lin-duh,
You should be extremely proud of your daughter's accomplishments. It takes time, ability, and training to hone what she can do and both of you deserve full credit for making that happen.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:05 PM (E4rtv)

11 Enriched urinal core

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 02, 2026 07:05 PM (dk17i)

12 Good Sunday evening, gub 'ettes and 'rons, and greetings to our host Weasel!

Congrats Spawn on the fine finish at Nationals! Lin-duh, you should feel justifiably proud on supporting her through all the practices, travel, ammo purchases, etc.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 02, 2026 07:06 PM (xVpNO)

13 Way to shoot, Spawn!

Also, way to let the drama run right off of your feathers. Until I had three daughters, I did not understand how much of a valuable trait that was for a female to possess.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 02, 2026 07:08 PM (HlyYF)

14 Hornady bullets. Several years back one of my coworkers called me over. "You gotta see this!" he said. "Here's a Youtube video from Hornady about how they are putting tiny cameras in the tips of bullets so you can see where they are hitting the target!"

Sure enough, the video was of a bullet's-eye view as it rushed downrange and into the paper.

I felt kind of bad about it when I pointed out to him that the issue date on the video was April First.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 02, 2026 07:09 PM (M3IEo)

15 Weasel, vacation from retirement good?

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 07:09 PM (30Gj0)

16 Greetings!!!

Congrats to Spawn on here achievements in the Nationals!!!!!

Well done!!

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 02, 2026 07:09 PM (g5tO/)

17 Well done Spawn!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 07:10 PM (NnhvP)

18 The Riddler is in the saucer movie.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 07:10 PM (Cqx++)

19 Congratulations to an amazing young lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 07:11 PM (abScH)

20 I haven't been to the range yet as I have my six month appraisal from the neurosurgeon about the surgery success this coming week. But, I have went through, categorized spare parts, and ironically found some screws that fit an ancient Parker Hales screw mount so the Parker Hale scope rail could be attached the mount. I was looking at having to pay about $25 bucks for imported screws from Britain as these are BA--British Association std. which doesn't match any domestic sources, metric, or even old British standards.

Turns out I had some spare Lee Enfield BA 4 screws for the front sight guard that fit perfectly. Some kind soul had listed all the Lee Enfield screw specifications for ALL the Lee Enfield models which is how I knew what to look for.

So a 4x pistol scope in now mounted to a No. 4, Mk 1* Savage Lend Lease Lee Enfield. When I bought the barrelled receiver to restore, someone had locked the bolt into the slide by cocking it but then putting the safety on and firing it. Had to dissassemble the action to fix it. The No. 4 had been tapped on the left receiver wall for a scope--but which mount--took about fifteen years to find the mount and rail that fit.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:13 PM (E4rtv)

21 Heya lin-duh!

Congrats, Spawn!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 02, 2026 07:15 PM (5ExGj)

22 Well, I got nothing this week.

I do not think I will be able to go shooting until near the end of August.
Between work, finding a new apartment, cleaning out the current apartment my weekends are not very free.
And I wonder when I do move to a new apartment what the neighbors will think of all the ammo cans I am bringing in. :-)

And on a non shooting related subject, I did get to see Rush at Madison Square Garden this past Thursday.

Awesome show.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 02, 2026 07:17 PM (g5tO/)

23 So, the Lee Enfield finally has the proper scope mounted on it with the proper screws--only took 15 years or so to get all the parts. Now to make sure that the scope is leveled, screws applied with loctite, and sighted in using a green laser @100 yards.

If you do have one of these old warhorse military types, pistol scopes are often the best because they have long eye relief and you are not going to be shooting 10 MOA at 1000 yards with them. 200-400 yards at most were the standard.

But you can have a lot of fun shooting them with reduced loads at about 100 yards if you are willing to shoot cast lead.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:18 PM (E4rtv)

24 Kudos to Spawn. Has she tried shortening up the stock on that rifle?

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 07:18 PM (vTZFs)

25 Congrats to Spawn!! I shot with her a couple of years ago at the TX MOME and she had skills then.

I did make it to the range this weekend. More as a fun shot than seriously working on fundamentals. We had different guns to try - I am mostly a S&W guy and he leans more to Sig. One thing that we did that was much harder than it looks is walking and firing toward the target. Definitely need more fundamentals!!

Posted by: Lurking in Garland at August 02, 2026 07:18 PM (j9Bn5)

26 Well done Parents of Spawn. Well done.

A lot of parents down here, I notice now, are getting daughters especially into FFA and such. Real skills.

Well done again. And I'm sure she can out-shoot me by far. Hell, I can't see anymore without a Scout Scope.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:21 PM (CxvtJ)

27 And I wonder when I do move to a new apartment what the neighbors will think of all the ammo cans I am bringing in. :-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 02, 2026 07:17 PM

Fill one ammo can with art supplies, and leave it open in a highly visible location.

Don't flex when you carry the actual heavy cans.

Misleading hoplophobes is a noble pursuit!

P.S. Howdy, Scoobs!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 02, 2026 07:23 PM (HlyYF)

28 Congrats to Spawn! She is amazing!!

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 02, 2026 07:23 PM (PcoR0)

29 One of the challenges when an old military rifle has been drilled and tapped for mounts is figuring out exactly what mount was used, the proper screws, etc. I have another old Mauser 98k Oberndorf that was tapped for scope mount. I finally found via Brownell catalog that gave the distance between screws, the screw pitch and thread of the tapped hole etc. that a Warne scope mount would work. That took a bit of research as well.

Brownell catalogs and online are always useful for determining old sporting parts and standards including scope rings as long as most of it is domestic.

I forgot to mention above that I have Parker Hale HA3 scope rings of the proper size to go with the A29 scope mount and the BA-24 scope rail. The A29 uses BA 2 1/2 screws and the BA-24 uses BA 4 1/2 inch screws. Putting it down, just in case I forget, I can always look it back up here.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:24 PM (E4rtv)

30 Congratulations Spawn!
Kudos to you Lin-Duh for supporting her every step of the way. Any competition at this level requires time and patience and usually some amount of money. ❤️🤠

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 02, 2026 07:24 PM (kJmSS)

31 Birth of a Pimp Gun

No, that's not a pimp gun. I mean it's a little flashy, but it's not really over that line.

Now, THIS is a pimp gun:
https://ln.run/psurm

Or THIS:
https://ln.run/F4dxk

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:24 PM (kU0PQ)

32 27 P.S. Howdy, Scoobs!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 02, 2026 07:23 PM

Howdy P.I.!!

Will keep that ruse in mind! ;-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 02, 2026 07:25 PM (g5tO/)

33 Sckobs, are you rehomed?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 07:26 PM (abScH)

34 Pillage Idiot, I saw that you are both going to make it this year. Happy dance.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 07:28 PM (abScH)

35 33 Sckobs, are you rehomed?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 07:26 PM

Not yet, in the process of looking for a new apartment. I have until mid October to move out of my current abode.

But I am hoping I find a place in the next two or three weeks and then work on moving.

Also, need to look up and see if I have to notify the police of my address change in regards to my handgun and rifle license.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 02, 2026 07:29 PM (g5tO/)

36 Hello Weasel! Congratulations to Spawn for her well-deserved medals in a tough field!

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 07:31 PM (BCwQW)

37 Range Report! Range Report!
The DMV MGC met up at the range even having to drive through heavy rainstorm to get there. But we are dedicated to practicing our Fundamentals so braved the weather. 6 of us so we took 3 lanes so I Could work with Ed. I am pretty set on buying the S&W Bodyguard 2 but can't try one out first. I decided to rent a gun in 380 just to get a feel for the different ammo. The guy at the range recommended a Glock 42 as it is similar in size to the Bodyguard. He also had Ruger but as I shoot Glocks rented the Glock.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 02, 2026 07:32 PM (kJmSS)

38 So lin-duh, what is next in Spawn's firearms pursuit?

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 02, 2026 07:32 PM (g5tO/)

39 Third accomplishment related to shooting this week is setting up for decommissioning a BUNCH of poorly reloaded ammo by my FIL. He was lonely and alone after my MIL died and spent his time spending money on reloading and never actually going out to shoot.

Problem was he lacked concentration and ability to shut out distractions like phone calls, etc. and thus his reloads were known for being dubious to start and he kept poor records of what powder, etc.

So I have to decommission about 10,000 or so rounds by pulling bullets, dumping powder, and salvaging the primed brass and bullets if I can.

To that end, I setup up a wall mount Frankford Arsenal Pile Driver, it uses inertial bullet pulling.

I have done collet bullet pulling with a press, also inertial with the various hammer types. The Pile Driver is made for mass bullet pulling as it has its own springloaded self contained puller that is mounted on a stud wall and makes a pretty loud racket as it slams home to a stop and pulls the bullet.

Going to give a helluva workout to my arms.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:32 PM (E4rtv)

40 Spawn. A young lady that accessorizes with a gun safe.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 07:35 PM (abScH)

41 BTW, I don't believe the guys in tonight's Highway Patrol were real golfers. Their pants weren't nearly ugly enough.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:35 PM (kU0PQ)

42 Pertaining to nothing - I guess something - I've got a Lee Turret press I've never used. Because Surplus Ammo is cheap enough in my calibers.

I'd like to give the damn thing away to a good home.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:36 PM (CxvtJ)

43 So this happened this week. Some doofus bought a pistol at Scheel's*, went out in the parking lot, loaded it, and was allegedly showing his girlfriend "how it worked." You can probably guess where the story goes from there.

https://tinyurl.com/3fb3mfpu

* (the one near me although I was not near it at the time)

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 07:38 PM (vTZFs)

44 BTW, I don't believe the guys in tonight's Highway Patrol were real golfers. Their pants weren't nearly ugly enough.
Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:35 PM (kU0PQ)

NO SPRINGS! HAHAHAHA!

Posted by: Coily the Spring Sprite at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM (0aYVJ)

45 Nearly forgot, 4th accomplishment, applied some Glow-On phosphorescent paint to gun sights. If you shine a bright LED flashlight on them or even just ambient lighting, these will glow for a decent time after 10-20 minutes perhaps.

Useful for old firearms with dead tritium inserts or that only had three dot sights or long arms that never had them. The colors themselves are of bright hues not found in nature so they also function quite well in daylight hours to distinguish sights. A small bottle from Amazon will do a lot of sights. Runs under twenty bucks.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM (E4rtv)

46 I have done no gub stuff apart from a little snap cap practice with the Sig - I got a brainstorm to try some of my old single vision glasses, as I can't focus on the front sight with my progressives. (It helped a bit. I might bring these glasses on the next range outing, whenever that may be. I am currently working a side gig plus commuting 45 minutes 3x per week and spending the rest of my free time working in the effing yard)

But I did get some good news re: the MoMe. Thanks to a change in my boss' plans, I can take off enough time to drive to TX instead of flying in.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM (PcoR0)

47 Piper-

Pearl or Lone Star, beats Shiner (as a name)!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM (Wj1DV)

48
* sniff *

I remember Spawn (what was it, 8 or 9 years ago at the rain TxMoMe?) chasing a kitten, and then a year or two later so very tentatively trying out a .22 pistol at the range. Over the next couple of years, that tentativeness disappeared.

And now look at her!

* sniff *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM (0sNs1)

49 Pearl or Lone Star, beats Shiner (as a name)!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM

But NOT as a beer. Shiner Bock, FTW!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 02, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

50 Also, that country club is now in the middle of what appears to be a built-up, fairly nice suburb north of Northridge (of the quake) and west of Sylmar.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM (kU0PQ)

51 Sorry, meant for previous thread.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM (Wj1DV)

52 So this happened this week. Some doofus bought a pistol at Scheel's*, went out in the parking lot, loaded it, and was allegedly showing his girlfriend "how it worked." You can probably guess where the story goes from there.

https://tinyurl.com/3fb3mfpu

* (the one near me although I was not near it at the time)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 07:38 PM (vTZFs)
A worthy Darwin Award Honorable Mention (i.e. he tried really hard, but failed in his attempt)?

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM (BCwQW)

53 Ed brought several others including a 32 and a 9 and I also had my G48 with Optic.
I could shoot the G42 fairly accurately right away. The iron sights almost identical to my G48, little recoil but had so,e trouble with the trigger pull. Shot the 32 and liked the trigger better but not much difference. I like the CC9 but it is too big to carry. Put another 25 rounds through the G42 getting better and more comfortable. I shot even better one handed. Either an optic it should be perfect. Ed also helped correct so,etching I was doing between shots that he,led tremendously. Nice having a personal RSA. Can't thank him enough. Feel confident about buying the gun now.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM (kJmSS)

54 Duncanthrax, we can both say we knew her when she was knee high to a grasshopper

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM (abScH)

55 I can take off enough time to drive to TX instead of flying in.
Posted by: screaming in digital

Congrats, driving is so much better!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 07:42 PM (NnhvP)

56 43 Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 07:38 PM

I wonder if he will release the video and if it will wind up on The AK Guys Darwin Awards video.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 02, 2026 07:42 PM (g5tO/)

57 43 So this happened this week. Some doofus bought a pistol at Scheel's*, went out in the parking lot, loaded it, and was allegedly showing his girlfriend "how it worked." You can probably guess where the story goes from there.

https://tinyurl.com/3fb3mfpu

* (the one near me although I was not near it at the time)
Posted by: Oddbob
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One born every minute. I've bought used guns and I get them home and test them with snap caps or dummy rounds before I ever try putting live rounds in them.

Not to mention, new guns usually have shipping grease and you really should clean all such firearm barrels and chambers before using them. Lube them too.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:43 PM (E4rtv)

58 I should really reread my comments before I post.
Sigh

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 02, 2026 07:44 PM (kJmSS)

59
And now look at her!

* sniff *
Posted by: Duncanthrax

She sure took to Jim's gift quickly!

I think of him while I'm in the threads.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 07:44 PM (NnhvP)

60 One born every minute. I've bought used guns and I get them home and test them with snap caps or dummy rounds before I ever try putting live rounds in them.

Most dangerous thing in my home ? My 12" Sliding Compound Mitre Saw. You can take an arm off with that thing even if you know what you're doing.

I am never more nervous than when I'm using that.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:45 PM (CxvtJ)

61 Duncanthrax, we can both say we knew her when she was knee high to a grasshopper
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM

I thought about using that exact phrase, but thought that some of the under-19s who inhabit the GT might not get it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 02, 2026 07:46 PM (0sNs1)

62 46 I have done no gub stuff apart from a little snap cap practice with the Sig - I got a brainstorm to try some of my old single vision glasses, as I can't focus on the front sight with my progressives. (It helped a bit. I might bring these glasses on the next range outing, whenever that may be. I am currently working a side gig plus commuting 45 minutes 3x per week and spending the rest of my free time working in the effing yard)

But I did get some good news re: the MoMe. Thanks to a change in my boss' plans, I can take off enough time to drive to TX instead of flying in.
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Old fashioned bi-focals, not progressives, can help with that issue as well.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:46 PM (E4rtv)

63 -
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:32 PM
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Since you have a big job ahead of you, and a relatively consistent bullet puller, there might be an opportunity for an experiment. Try pulling the bullets with the Pile Driver as is, and then pull a number of them after running the cartridges through a bullet seater that sets the bullets a bit deeper in the neck. (thereby breaking any "cold-weld" that might exist)
If the broken "cold-weld" requires fewer "pile-drives" than the non-broken, knowledge might be gained.

Posted by: irright at August 02, 2026 07:46 PM (28n8R)

64 And, great job, Spawn! I know you're proud of her, Lin-duh!

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:46 PM (kU0PQ)

65 52 So this happened this week. Some doofus bought a pistol at Scheel's*, went out in the parking lot, loaded it, and was allegedly showing his girlfriend "how it worked." You can probably guess where the story goes from there.

https://tinyurl.com/3fb3mfpu

* (the one near me although I was not near it at the time)
Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 07:38 PM (vTZFs)
A worthy Darwin Award Honorable Mention (i.e. he tried really hard, but failed in his attempt)?
Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM (BCwQW)

Dagnabit, Nebraska people are supposed to be smarter 'n that! That state has really gone downhill since I left twenty-some years ago...

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 02, 2026 07:46 PM (xVpNO)

66 Got some sad but not unexpected news. Mike Beliveau, Duelist1954 on YT, passed away this week from pancreatic cancer. He had the grace to let his followers know what was happening and how he would handle it. He went out on his own terms. Prayers, of course, for his family. A lot of tributes have already been posted.

I've followed Mike's magazine articles and videos for years. His passing is a loss for the hobby, especially those who enjoy black powder shooting.

Damn!

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 07:48 PM (yTvNw)

67 Most dangerous thing in my home ? My 12" Sliding Compound Mitre Saw. You can take an arm off with that thing even if you know what you're doing.

I am never more nervous than when I'm using that.
Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:45 PM (CxvtJ)

What am I? A potted plant? I'll get your fingers, my pretty!

Posted by: Table Saw at August 02, 2026 07:48 PM (xVpNO)

68 But I did get some good news re: the MoMe. Thanks to a change in my boss' plans, I can take off enough time to drive to TX instead of flying in.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM (PcoR0)

Wife and I would prefer that as well. We are not averse to long road trips. But, it will come down to PTO. Boise to Corsicana is a long haul, and must be multiplied by 2 for the round trip.
Long, long, road trip.

That said, still better than air travel.

Posted by: Coily the Spring Sprite at August 02, 2026 07:48 PM (0aYVJ)

69 Most dangerous thing in my home ? My 12" Sliding Compound Mitre Saw. You can take an arm off with that thing even if you know what you're doing.

I am never more nervous than when I'm using that.
Posted by: Howdy
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I do wood and light metal working off and on and yes, I have the even older Radial Saw which can actually switch axis, table saws, drill presses, etc.

A negative hook blade help prevent the blade crawling to you on radials or compound miters. Really should not use the blades for table saws on radial or compound miters because table saw blades have a positive hook to feed the material into the saw--don't want that with a radial or a compound miter.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:49 PM (E4rtv)

70 A worthy Darwin Award Honorable Mention (i.e. he tried really hard, but failed in his attempt)?
Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 07:41 PM (BCwQW)

Along those lines, would this fella be a candidate for at least half a Darwin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwF0gmLhHPg

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 02, 2026 07:50 PM (xVpNO)

71 Most dangerous thing in my home ? My 12" Sliding Compound Mitre Saw. You can take an arm off with that thing even if you know what you're doing.

I am never more nervous than when I'm using that.
Posted by: Howdy

Yeah, very tip of L middle finger is missing.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 07:50 PM (NnhvP)

72 Not to mention, new guns usually have shipping grease and you really should clean all such firearm barrels and chambers before using them. Lube them too.
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:43 PM (E4rtv)

The grease/oil in new firearms is designed as a preservative. It's not meant for lubrication. That's because the manufacturer has no idea how long that gun will sit on a distributor's or LGS's shelves before it goes home with someone. The last Colt Python (2020 edition) I bought was practically swimming in grease inside its plastic bag. I guess was worried that something would happen to that high end polish job on that revolver. Removing all that grease was a bit of a PITA. I had to throw that bag away because there was so much grease in it on the inside.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 07:50 PM (BCwQW)

73 Most dangerous thing in my home ? My 12" Sliding Compound Mitre Saw. You can take an arm off with that thing even if you know what you're doing.

I am never more nervous than when I'm using that.
Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:45 PM (CxvtJ)

What am I? A potted plant? I'll get your fingers, my pretty!
Posted by: Table Saw at August 02, 2026 07:48 PM

Pffft.

Posted by: Lorena Bobbitt at August 02, 2026 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

74 So this happened this week. Some doofus bought a pistol at Scheel's*, went out in the parking lot, loaded it, and was allegedly showing his girlfriend "how it worked." You can probably guess where the story goes from there.

Along with Fundamentals, there are Four Rules. They are there for a reason.

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 07:51 PM (30Gj0)

75 Good evening to all of the GunHorde!
Mostly gardening and landscaping but a bit of plinking with the air rifle.

Have a great week everyone and a bigly thank you to Weasel

Posted by: Coelacanth at August 02, 2026 07:51 PM (zqeQL)

76 Sheds sock.

24 hours one-way. Boise to Corsicana. We are good with that. It really boils down to whether I have enough PTO.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 07:52 PM (0aYVJ)

77 Mr. Matthews asks "Does your husband have a gun or a revolver."
Ummmm....

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:52 PM (kU0PQ)

78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwF0gmLhHPg
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy

Half of his gene pool DOH!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 07:52 PM (NnhvP)

79 Most dangerous thing in my home ? My 12" Sliding Compound Mitre Saw. You can take an arm off with that thing even if you know what you're doing.

I am never more nervous than when I'm using that.
Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:45 PM (CxvtJ)

What am I? A potted plant? I'll get your fingers, my pretty!
Posted by: Table Saw at August 02, 2026 07:48 PM

Pffft.
Posted by: Lorena Bobbitt at August 02, 2026 07:50 PM

Double pfffft.

Posted by: Ben Had's Kitchen Table at August 02, 2026 07:53 PM (nt1Vu)

80 Congrats to the young female shootist. Well done.

Wease what’s burning tonight?

For me just finishing a My Father La Duena lancero on a nice breezy hot (for here) summer day.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 07:54 PM (QPjUO)

81 Since you have a big job ahead of you, and a relatively consistent bullet puller, there might be an opportunity for an experiment. Try pulling the bullets with the Pile Driver as is, and then pull a number of them after running the cartridges through a bullet seater that sets the bullets a bit deeper in the neck. (thereby breaking any "cold-weld" that might exist)
If the broken "cold-weld" requires fewer "pile-drives" than the non-broken, knowledge might be gained.
Posted by: irright

Excellent idea. Some of these have been loaded over ten years ago. Mix of rifle, 44 Magnum, and other pistol bullets. Mainly 7.62x51, 30-06, and .223 in rifle, 44 Magnum, 38 Special, 9mm, and 45 ACP wadcutters.

The revolver rounds, I will probably have to pull with a collet on the press because of I dunno how much crimp he applied. Might have to do that on the 45 ACP, though I hope not (he used to shoot IDPA so he has several 50 caliber ammo cans filled with those).

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:54 PM (E4rtv)

82 Hello folks. "Invasion of the Saucer Men" has Frank Gorshin in it, for those who follow such things.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 02, 2026 07:56 PM (CHHv1)

83 The grease/oil in new firearms is designed as a preservative. It's not meant for lubrication. That's because the manufacturer has no idea how long that gun will sit on a distributor's or LGS's shelves before it goes home with someone. The last Colt Python (2020 edition) I bought was practically swimming in grease inside its plastic bag. I guess was worried that something would happen to that high end polish job on that revolver. Removing all that grease was a bit of a PITA. I had to throw that bag away because there was so much grease in it on the inside.
Posted by: Ed L

Yep. Ironically you do NOT remove the bronze colored gunk inside a new glock slide. That is a compound that is designed to season the parts as it breaks down. From Glock, "The bronze-colored gunk found on a new Glock slide is a factory-applied copper-colored anti-seize lubricant. Glock explicitly states that this substance should not be removed, as it is designed to be burnished into the steel to provide long-term lubrication for the slide rails." aka Glock Fungus.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:56 PM (E4rtv)

84 Yeah, we could fly, but, while I love being in a plane, I hate all the other shit involved, check-in, car-rental, rental car turn in, check in again.

Buth, the whole plane part. I love it. But I gotta have a window seat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 07:56 PM (0aYVJ)

85 Congratulations, lin-duh and family!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 02, 2026 07:56 PM (CHHv1)

86 whig the pile driver puller is new to me. Hoping I never need one. So far the hammer type has sufficed. And I have a collet puller for 30-06 and .556 that fortunately I have barely used.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 07:57 PM (QPjUO)

87 Along those lines, would this fella be a candidate for at least half a Darwin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwF0gmLhHPg
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 02, 2026 07:50 PM (xVpNO)

He's worthy of an Honorable Mention too. But he's got the guts to make a video about it and tell folks what he did wrong so it doesn't happen to someone else. Most folks who survived what he did to himself wouldn't dare come forward to talk about what happened and to critique himself and what he did wrong. You have to give the man props for that.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 07:58 PM (BCwQW)

88 Howdy!

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by boom bang pew at August 02, 2026 07:58 PM (sAmhv)

89 24 hours one-way. Boise to Corsicana. We are good with that. It really boils down to whether I have enough PTO.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
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I bet that would be an awesome road trip. I did Laramie to Corsicana twice and loved it. It's not as cool from upstate SC, but a good drive except for ATL. Only one Buc-ees on my route, though. On two occasions from here I have carpooled with GT morons which was a blast. Would love to do that again.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 02, 2026 08:00 PM (PcoR0)

90 Congratulations, lin-duh.

Perhaps you could display a picture of your medals as a warning to bad guys.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 02, 2026 08:00 PM (lrMw0)

91 The Guns of August

Wait. Maybe don't use this for a title this month.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by boom bang pew at August 02, 2026 08:00 PM (sAmhv)

92 Yep. Ironically you do NOT remove the bronze colored gunk inside a new glock slide. That is a compound that is designed to season the parts as it breaks down. From Glock, "The bronze-colored gunk found on a new Glock slide is a factory-applied copper-colored anti-seize lubricant. Glock explicitly states that this substance should not be removed, as it is designed to be burnished into the steel to provide long-term lubrication for the slide rails." aka Glock Fungus.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:56 PM (E4rtv)

Never knew that about Glocks. Haven't bought any, though. The only Glock I have (Glock 19) was heavily modified by B&T to produce their Hush Puppy platform. I didn't see that copper colored gunk on my Hush Puppy, though.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 08:03 PM (BCwQW)

93 Birth of a Pimp Gun

No, that's not a pimp gun. I mean it's a little flashy, but it's not really over that line.

Now, THIS is a pimp gun:
https://ln.run/psurm

Or THIS:
https://ln.run/F4dxk
Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:24 PM

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I'm surprised that our former President knows so much about pimp guns.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 02, 2026 08:03 PM (tLVLK)

94 86 whig the pile driver puller is new to me. Hoping I never need one. So far the hammer type has sufficed. And I have a collet puller for 30-06 and .556 that fortunately I have barely used.
Posted by: rhomboid

Pile driver is easier on my hands with arthritis than the hammer type especially for repetitive removal. I've use the collet before primarily on some 9mm because I bought a pistol of Euro make that disliked truncated cone bullets intensely. Had to pull them as I only had one 9mm at the time.

I dislike doing disassembly of cartridges on the press because it is a messy process, powder invariably spills. The pile driver even has a spot where you can mount a hose to the bottom to dump the powder in a bucket if you do a lot.

The plants around the house I guess are going to appreciate the nitrogen boost when I water the powder in.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:04 PM (E4rtv)

95 The Scheels in Sparks NV is the only one I have visited. Great store. Bought boots from the very knowledgeable young woman clerk. They send these employees to conferences where they learn about shoe and boot design.

But the cool part of that visit was encountering the young clerk in the gun department named Earp - and yes he is directly related. Have told that story before.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 08:05 PM (QPjUO)

96 Pug, I sure hope you get the time off
I would've to see you both again

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 08:05 PM (abScH)

97 Perhaps you could display a picture of your medals as a warning to bad guys.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 02, 2026 08:00 PM (lrMw0)

And the targets.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 08:05 PM (BCwQW)

98 I would love to see you both again.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 08:06 PM (abScH)

99 Never knew that about Glocks. Haven't bought any, though. The only Glock I have (Glock 19) was heavily modified by B&T to produce their Hush Puppy platform. I didn't see that copper colored gunk on my Hush Puppy, though.
Posted by: Ed L
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Lots of weird things that manufacturers do which is why it pays to RTFM.

I am guessing the guy in Oddbob's warning post somehow did not do that or his booger hook somehow got inside the trigger guard when racking it. And the racking pulled it right into the trigger firing it.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:06 PM (E4rtv)

100 Half of his gene pool DOH!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 07:52 PM (NnhvP)

Better than half of his chromosomes, I guess.

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 02, 2026 08:07 PM (xVpNO)

101 Congrats to her. She'll be ready if needed someday like the Idaho Cowboy who helped stop more deaths at the In and Out.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 02, 2026 08:07 PM (n5tGW)

102 Congratulations to Spawn! She shot my Garand last year with nary a flinch. You done made us proud!

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)

103 Along those lines, would this fella be a candidate for at least half a Darwin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwF0gmLhHPg
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy (OT but harmless) at August 02, 2026 07:50 PM (xVpNO)

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I wonder how many of the other guys laughed when the title popped up on the screen. Maybe because I was expecting death.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 02, 2026 08:07 PM (enwbs)

104 whig like the Plains Indians I make use of all parts of the animal - and yes the powder goes to herbs or tomatoes and lettuce if in season.

Imagine you’re going to have a nice yield of primers from this operation. Always good to have lots of primers.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 08:09 PM (QPjUO)

105 One other example is Ruger's early 357 Magnum SP-101s are only designed for 125 grain hollow points, not the heavier bullets. Warning is actually engraved on the handgun but some still failed to read it.

And some GP-100's and SP-101's are 38 Special only. Fortunately, you cannot fit a 357 in them but I'd imagine that some people have tried.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:10 PM (E4rtv)

106 Had a nice range day with the younger this week - an all .22 time. 2 pistols, one revolver, a lever, and two SA rifles...

Fun time, and good to work on stance and grip...

Posted by: man at August 02, 2026 08:12 PM (cGjQu)

107 FWIW, anyone having to do a bunch of bullet pulling, here is Frankford Arsenal's Piledriver.

https://tinyurl.com/Frankford-Arsenal-Piledriver

Makes a pretty big racket but the nice thing is that the cartridge is aimed at the floor which adds a margin of safety in pulling the bullets that the hammer type inertial puller does not have.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:13 PM (E4rtv)

108 104 whig like the Plains Indians I make use of all parts of the animal - and yes the powder goes to herbs or tomatoes and lettuce if in season.

Imagine you’re going to have a nice yield of primers from this operation. Always good to have lots of primers.
Posted by: rhomboid

Nephew fires 44 Magnum so I will be giving him the primed brass when I teach him how to reload safely. The 30-06 will be used for Garand loads, and the others for various projects. But frankly, I am well overstocked on primers except magnums and black powder percussion caps.

Ditto on a lot of range lead and fmj pistol bullets and 223/308 rifle bullets. Due to my late FIL stash and mine, I won't probably have to buy primers for the rest of my life if I can get back to my normal 2000-3000 rounds per year pace before my back problems. I never was into mag dumping anyway even when ammo was cheap.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:17 PM (E4rtv)

109 Armed citizen helped stop the Twin Falls shooter from continuing his rampage.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 08:19 PM (KC5Lt)

110 106 Had a nice range day with the younger this week - an all .22 time. 2 pistols, one revolver, a lever, and two SA rifles...

Fun time, and good to work on stance and grip...

Posted by: man
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I get just as much of a kick from firing 22 LRs as I do bigger bores. Obama and his scares in office still piss me off for driving 22 LR to unaffordable price levels for awhile.

I never saw a 22 LR shortage coming and ended up buying some 32 S&W Long revolvers so I could do some low recoil practice.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:20 PM (E4rtv)

111 Armed citizen helped stop the Twin Falls shooter from continuing his rampage.
Posted by: polynikes

Apparently used a FiveseveN. Someone ( not me ) should start to a GiveSendGo to pay for the ammo. $5000 should do it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 02, 2026 08:21 PM (diia5)

112 Along with Fundamentals, there are Four Rules. They are there for a reason.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 07:51 PM

*nods*

Rule #1 is particularly important.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 08:23 PM (Wnv9h)

113 Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 02, 2026 08:21 PM (diia5)

Did they say it jammed , Cause it coulda jammed.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 08:24 PM (KC5Lt)

114 Good evening gubthreaders and all the ships at sea.

After a fabulous post-DMV Moron Gun Club range trip repast, we came home and shortly thereafter the power went out so might as well let the food coma settle in. Woke from the nap to find we are still out of power.

So the generator is fired up and generating.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:25 PM (NlEaG)

115 RMBS, did you go look at the property?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 08:26 PM (abScH)

116 Did they say it jammed , Cause it coulda jammed.
Posted by: polynikes

I just watched the stuff on X, but it does look like he had a problem with something and tumbled down the embankment outside the In N Out.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 02, 2026 08:29 PM (diia5)

117 An early thanks to Weasel and the Horde for tonight's Gun Thread. See y'all 'round.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 08:31 PM (kU0PQ)

118 Blaster, my genset tests itself every Sunday. Just fired up. 500 gallons of propane, underground tank.
I feel very thankful during New England hurricane season. And Winter. And spring and fall.

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 08:31 PM (LMRVO)

119 Range trip today we took sra blaster's Kimber Raptor II and my Franken-dagger. It's not as Frankenish as it used to be as the gun is fully a Dagger. But the slide and frame were acquired separately, an inexpensive green dot affixed on top, and an ebay acquired 3d printed magwell flare affixed on the bottom. It is less than $400 all in.

Did some good shooting with both.

It annoys me sometimes when the cheap guns shoot as well as the more expensive ones.

sra blaster's vision is changing of late. She is not a fan of dots and has been happier with irons. But she shot the Dagger with the dot very well today, and she had a hard time picking up her sights on the Kimber.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:33 PM (NlEaG)

120 The Guns of August

Wait. Maybe don't use this for a title this month.
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by boom bang pew at August 02, 2026 08:00 PM (sAmhv)

I have never read that book. But that is a powerful title for a book about the Great War. It really hits a nerve.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 08:34 PM (0aYVJ)

121 FWIW, anyone having to do a bunch of bullet pulling, here is Frankford Arsenal's Piledriver.

Surprisingly affordable. When Frankford Arsenal first came on the scene (or at least to my notice) I considered them a second tier "budget" brand. More recently, I have bought and used their powder trickler and their lemon-squeezer priming tool and found both very good. Not up in the Sinclair or K&M tier but more than serviceable at a good price point.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 08:34 PM (vTZFs)

122 -
Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 07:54 PM
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If there are any significant results and you wrote it up in that week's AOSHQ gun thread, I bet I'm not the only one who would be interested.

Posted by: irright at August 02, 2026 08:36 PM (28n8R)

123 118 Blaster, my genset tests itself every Sunday. Just fired up. 500 gallons of propane, underground tank.
I feel very thankful during New England hurricane season. And Winter. And spring and fall.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 08:31 PM (LMRVO)

Here in temperate Northern Virginia in the tony suburbs of Fairfax, we have at least one multi-hour outage a year. This is our second this year. I just have a portable genset and a manual transfer switch, but we upgraded that generator a couple of years ago to an 11k unit that runs multi-fuel. So I have to roll it out and hook up the propane tank and plug it in. But I am very glad to have it.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:37 PM (NlEaG)

124 Hi! Just got here.

For the first time I noticed really inaccurate range activity on a TV show: 2 shows actually. Two people shooting (wearing eyes and ears). Then they stop and they TAKE OFF their ear protection and talk (still right there at the lane) and then they shoot again without putting their ears back on!! Really obvious if you know anything about shooting.

Thanks Horde for teaching me how this works!

Posted by: Iris at August 02, 2026 08:38 PM (286+n)

125 Along with Fundamentals, there are Four Rules. They are there for a reason.
Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 07:51 PM (30Gj0)

Honestly, those Four Rules ARE the FIRST fundamental.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 08:40 PM (kU0PQ)

126 120 The first chapter of The Guns of August, centered on the funeral of Edward VII, is some of the finest historical writing in English.

The rest of the book is very good, too. But that first chapter rocks.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 08:41 PM (77rzZ)

127 The British police are now using the Glock AR rifle. The GR-115.

I will never understand why Glock would leave millions on the table and not make there own PCC but risk millions building an AR platform when there is so much competition with that platform.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 08:41 PM (KC5Lt)

128 Blaster, we lose power at least a dozen times a year. Lots of branches falling, trees toppling, wind storms, snow storms. Probably the best decision I made when we built.
Or was that the gas fireplace that heats the whole house?

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 08:42 PM (LMRVO)

129 I have a lever gun, which is unusual. The unusual part being the "a" part. sra blaster was looking in the display case at the range and is taken with a Marlin SBL in the case. Stainless with the gray wood furniture. That's the one Chris Pratt had in Jurassic World. Well, his was 45-70 and this is .357 but same difference.

sra blaster says "Chris Pratt is a really good actor."

So, anyway, I expect that an SBL is our future.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:43 PM (NlEaG)

130 Surprisingly affordable. When Frankford Arsenal first came on the scene (or at least to my notice) I considered them a second tier "budget" brand. More recently, I have bought and used their powder trickler and their lemon-squeezer priming tool and found both very good. Not up in the Sinclair or K&M tier but more than serviceable at a good price point.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Their wet tumbler system is the first that I used along with their packet detergent. I switched to that before I stopped shooting and did a bunch of once fired brass in covid era before that. Puts a nice sheen on the brass and cleans the primer pockets thoroughly. Frankford's Pins are magnetic stainless and didn't rust after multiple uses.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:43 PM (E4rtv)

131 Honestly, those Four Rules ARE the FIRST fundamental.
Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 08:40 PM (kU0PQ)

Correctomundo!

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 08:44 PM (LMRVO)

132 If there are any significant results and you wrote it up in that week's AOSHQ gun thread, I bet I'm not the only one who would be interested.
Posted by: irright
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Yes. If you get one, be sure to read the reviews as like Lee products, there are always some useful tips and kludges to make them work better from prior users for products like these.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:45 PM (E4rtv)

133 Also lin-duh congrats to the Spawn! Good to know the country has a future!

Posted by: Iris at August 02, 2026 08:46 PM (286+n)

134 Also lin-duh congrats to the Spawn! Good to know the country has a future!

Posted by: Iris at August 02, 2026 08:46 PM (286+n)

135 127 The British police are now using the Glock AR rifle. The GR-115.

I will never understand why Glock would leave millions on the table and not make there own PCC but risk millions building an AR platform when there is so much competition with that platform.
Posted by: polynikes

I think Glock's primary market is to law enforcement and security and neither has much interest in a PCC--they typically use either rifle cartridges, some shotguns, and pistolas nowadays.

Ironically, I think Smith and Wesson has went the opposite direction by aiming at the consumer market more than law enforcement nowadays.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:48 PM (E4rtv)

136 I will never understand why Glock would leave millions on the table and not make there own PCC but risk millions building an AR platform when there is so much competition with that platform.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 08:41 PM (KC5Lt)

Are you talking the Euro market or the US market? I think Glock's decision makes sense if viewed from the Euro market lens. A Glock PCC (i.e. SMG) would have to take on the H&K MP5 platform, a well proven, highly thought of product that's still, some 40+ years after the SAS assault on the Iranian Embassy, the most sought after SMG on the planet today. Everybody in Europe, from the London Met Police and the SAS, to the GIGN and GSG-9 counter-terror teams, Polish GROM commandos, and even President Zelensky's personal security detachment uses one variant or another of the MP5. On the other hand, the AR platform is a relative newcomer to the Euro market, with the most common version being the variants of the H&K 416 adopted by the French, Norwegian, and German militaries. Colt and FN have made little headway in selling the AR-15 platform in Europe so far, nor have they put in much effort.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 08:54 PM (BCwQW)

137 The internet thinks it has identified the Idahoan who joined in to help take out the shooters there. A quote from his X feed:

train like your life depends on it because God forbid, one day it might

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:54 PM (NlEaG)

138 123:Here in temperate Northern Virginia in the tony suburbs of Fairfax, we have at least one multi-hour outage a year. This is our second this year. I just have a portable genset and a manual transfer switch, but we upgraded that generator a couple of years ago to an 11k unit that runs multi-fuel. So I have to roll it out and hook up the propane tank and plug it in. But I am very glad to have it.
Posted by: blaster

In my little part of Soviet Fairfax, power is on. Didn't go out at all. When it does, it's not out long. My proximity to WMATA station probably helps a bit.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by boom bang pew at August 02, 2026 08:55 PM (sAmhv)

139 Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:48 PM (E4rtv)

Don't disagree but their US consumer market would make them millions with a PCC. I don't understand why they couldn't do both.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 08:56 PM (KC5Lt)

140 So, anyway, I expect that an SBL is our future."

I've fired an SBL in .44 mag. The rifle itself was beautifully done - a very well made rifle. Accurate, and handled the round well...

Posted by: man at August 02, 2026 08:57 PM (XuXeR)

141 Northern Virginia in the tony suburbs of Fairfax, we have at least one multi-hour outage a year"

Used to be unheard of there... sad, really.

Posted by: man at August 02, 2026 08:58 PM (XuXeR)

142 Gunmen in Idaho were Bosnian Muslims?

What in the Wide wide world of sports is going on here?

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:58 PM (NlEaG)

143 Don't disagree but their US consumer market would make them millions with a PCC. I don't understand why they couldn't do both.
Posted by: polynikes

Glock is kind of like Ruger was when Bill Ruger was alive. If Bill didn't want to sell some product, the company didn't. Same for Gaston from what I understand. But frankly, I don't think Glock has much interest now in the consumer market while ironically, S&W having lost its preeminence in the leo market is returning to the consumer market.

Companies go through cycles like Colt letting its fabled revolvers and most of its pistol lines go fallow in pursuit of defense contracts.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 08:59 PM (E4rtv)

144 Their wet tumbler system is the first that I used along with their packet detergent. I switched to that before I stopped shooting and did a bunch of once fired brass in covid era before that. Puts a nice sheen on the brass...

Maybe I'll try that. I use Dawn dish soap. It cleans fine and the brass comes out looking like new but tarnishes before it's finished drying.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 09:00 PM (vTZFs)

145 Used to be unheard of there... sad, really.
Posted by: man at August 02, 2026 08:58 PM (XuXeR)

To be fair - we live in the woods. Our property backs up to a state park.

Our neighborhood has utilities underground. But the lines that lead to our neighborhood....

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 09:00 PM (NlEaG)

146 RMBS, did you go look at the property?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 08:26 PM

Decided to pass. The property comes with a 25 year solar panel lease that would have had me buying 5-8 times more power than I would need, with the ability to sell back a tiny fraction to the grid. Economically not worth it. That's probably why the property has been on the market for 2 months.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 09:02 PM (Wnv9h)

147 Gunmen in Idaho were Bosnian Muslims?

Source? The report I saw from the Twin Falls chief of police (or sheriff?) was that the guy's name was Chad Williams. Which I guess doesn't necessarily rule out Bosnian Muslim but sure doesn't sound like it.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 09:03 PM (vTZFs)

148 The Guns of August. Been a while since I read it; i believe the author made the point that a lot of stupid world leaders started this war.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 02, 2026 09:04 PM (SiYsC)

149 142 Gunmen in Idaho were Bosnian Muslims?

What in the Wide wide world of sports is going on here?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:58 PM (NlEaG)

Oh. Fake news. Never mind /Littella

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 09:04 PM (NlEaG)

150 The first chapter of The Guns of August, centered on the funeral of Edward VII, is some of the finest historical writing in English.

The rest of the book is very good, too. But that first chapter rocks.
Posted by: Bulg
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And it truly was the Guns of August. The French had 27,000 dead on a single day in August 1914. More than the Brits on the first day of the Somme.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 09:04 PM (XvL8K)

151 Don't disagree but their US consumer market would make them millions with a PCC. I don't understand why they couldn't do both.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 08:56 PM (KC5Lt)

Don't forget that there's a little fracas going on in Eastern Europe that's got everyone jacking up their defense budgets in addition to supplying the Ukrainians that's good for billions every year. Maybe Glock thinks it's easier chasing those some of those billions rather than competing in the tough (by comparison) US commercial market.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 09:05 PM (BCwQW)

152 Gunmen in Idaho were Bosnian Muslims?

What in the Wide wide world of sports is going on here?
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 08:58 PM (NlEaG)

We moved to Idaho to get away from this. And yet. Here we are. Again.

We saw some kind of fucking mooslim protest on the green belt. So we had to go somewhere else to take our walk.

Also, most of the black people I see in my AO are not regular American black folks. They are African or Caribbean.

The invasion is nefarious.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 09:06 PM (0aYVJ)

153 Chad Williams is an Americanized name of a Bosnian Muslim?

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 09:12 PM (KC5Lt)

154 And it truly was the Guns of August. The French had 27,000 dead on a single day in August 1914. More than the Brits on the first day of the Somme.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 09:04 PM (XvL8K)

It just wasn't one bad day. It was two whole months of a continuous bloodbath for the French. French records state that in August and September (the archives were in horrible shape for August due to the confusion of mobilization) France suffered some 300,000 KIA or MIA. That implies that some 100,000 were lost just in August alone, with even more in September as the fighting intensified at the Battle of the Marne and afterward.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 09:14 PM (BCwQW)

155 Maybe I'll try that. I use Dawn dish soap. It cleans fine and the brass comes out looking like new but tarnishes before it's finished drying.
Posted by: Oddbob
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If you go commercial for the brass detergent, go with Lemmishine which has citric acid in it. That is what brightens up the brass. I had packets that came with the wet tumbler and they did fine so I just kept using that. Lemmishine is kind of like finding actual all copper Choreboy pot scrubbers nowadays or janitorial grade ammonium cleaner.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 09:17 PM (E4rtv)

156 Thank you everyone. We are VERY proud of the spawn. Her goal this year is to come in first place in RPO for state. She won 6 2nd place medals for state this year.
We are waiting on college acceptance/rejection letters. We should have answers for all 5 schools she applied to around Thanksgiving at the latest. If she gets into her number one choice then she'll try out for their marksmanship team. None of the others have shooting teams.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:20 PM (VCgbV)

157 Oh, and I also use a brass dryer, Lyman, to dry the brass after being wet tumbled. That prevents watermarks on the brass.

Some folks use food dehydrators for the same task which can be a bit cheaper and to be honest were probably off the same assembly lines as the brass dryers except at a lower price.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 09:21 PM (E4rtv)

158 I guess it is time to thank Weasel san for his generous hosting of us. So thanks to him and all the commenters tonight from me.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 09:23 PM (E4rtv)

159 Ok y'all. 9:25 thank you time.

Thank you!

Appreciate your being here and hope to see you next week!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 09:25 PM (OenlC)

160 Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:20 PM (VCgbV)

Lin-Duh, has spawn looked at ROTC scholarships? I think all of the services (and the USCG) have their own marksmanship teams. They're always looking for fresh talent.

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 09:25 PM (BCwQW)

161 Thanks for hosting, Weasel!

Posted by: Ed L at August 02, 2026 09:26 PM (BCwQW)

162 If she gets into her number one choice then she'll try out for their marksmanship team. None of the others have shooting teams.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:20 PM (VCgbV)
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Even if they don't have an official marksmanship team, they may have a recognized student organization that serves a similar function.

And if they don't, maybe she can start one!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 09:29 PM (FZ29D)

163 We are waiting on college acceptance/rejection letters. We should have answers for all 5 schools she applied to around Thanksgiving at the latest. If she gets into her number one choice then she'll try out for their marksmanship team. None of the others have shooting teams.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:20 PM (VCgbV)

Wow college that's crazy.

Any interest in the service academies? Several people here who can fill you in on the process....

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 09:30 PM (NlEaG)

164 So this happened this week. Some doofus bought a pistol at Scheel's*, went out in the parking lot, loaded it, and was allegedly showing his girlfriend "how it worked." You can probably guess where the story goes from there.
Posted by: Oddbob

I guessed worse. I figured he put an extra hole in his girlfriend. He just put an extra hole in himself. That's a better outcome.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 09:32 PM (VHUov)

165 Oh, and I also use a brass dryer, Lyman, to dry the brass after being wet tumbled. That prevents watermarks on the brass.

Some folks use food dehydrators for the same task

Ah, maybe that's the secret sauce I'm missing. A food dehydrator sound like the kind of thing that might show up at a thrift store or craigslist. I'll keep an eye out. Thanks for the tip.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 09:34 PM (vTZFs)

166 Not much gun-related other than getting an approved Form 1 back to SBR my Skorpion (CSA, not CZ). Need to get that one and my quasi-Thompson engraved and then convert them over, once I chase down an electrical issue here at the house.

Last night was beautiful here so I sat on the back porch listening to Country Gold and smoking a CAO Pilón Añejo. Pretty nice cigar, easy draw, very even burn. Will have to get some more of those.

Posted by: Arch Stanton at August 02, 2026 09:35 PM (myHFR)

167 La Libertad Nicaragua for this evening's selection!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 09:40 PM (OenlC)

168 Power is back.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 09:42 PM (NlEaG)

169 Too late for the service academies. She is trying for the Corps at Texas A&M so she's looking at ROTC scholarships. It's the largest Corps outside of the service academies.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:42 PM (VCgbV)

170 Thank you weasel!!😊

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:42 PM (VCgbV)

171 Ah, maybe that's the secret sauce I'm missing. A food dehydrator sound like the kind of thing that might show up at a thrift store or craigslist. I'll keep an eye out. Thanks for the tip.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Frankford Arsenal's is an exact shape of the most common food dehydrators. I prefer the rectangular Lyman which is present in fewer food dehydrators. But all of them work to get rid of the moisture present. So does bright hot sunlight but then you have to turn the brass and winters in some locations forestall that particular kludge.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 09:43 PM (E4rtv)

172 For me just finishing a My Father La Duena lancero on a nice breezy hot (for here) summer day.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 07:54

Hmmmm
Gonna add it to my list.
No cigar today. But several Moscow mules. (Use keylime limes)

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 09:43 PM (2WIwB)

173 Even if they don't have an official marksmanship team, they may have a recognized student organization that serves a similar function.

And if they don't, maybe she can start one!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 09:29 PM (FZ29D)

Or check with the ROTC department. They may have a shooting team.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 09:45 PM (2WIwB)

174 Thank you weasel!!😊
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:42 PM (VCgbV)
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Thank YOU!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 09:45 PM (OenlC)

175 169 Too late for the service academies. She is trying for the Corps at Texas A&M so she's looking at ROTC scholarships. It's the largest Corps outside of the service academies.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:42 PM (VCgbV)

I would suggest it is not...recruiter came to my high school October of my senior year. But A&M is a good option!

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 09:45 PM (NlEaG)

176 166 Not much gun-related other than getting an approved Form 1 back to SBR my Skorpion (CSA, not CZ). Need to get that one and my quasi-Thompson engraved and then convert them over, once I chase down an electrical issue here at the house.

What are the typical times for ATF approval on Form 1 now? I understand for suppressors, it is down to a couple of weeks.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 09:46 PM (E4rtv)

177 We're staying in Texas so we know which schools have shooting teams. Not many is the answer.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:46 PM (VCgbV)

178 Thank you for the GT Weasel.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 09:47 PM (NnhvP)

179 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 09:47 PM (NnhvP)
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My pleasure!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 09:49 PM (OenlC)

180 Service academies are super competitive now. I know the AF Academy only takes 1500 a year. We had 2 kids that got in last year and they started preparing as freshman. She is in JROTC so has some insight into the service academies and they werewolf coming around recruiting.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:49 PM (VCgbV)

181 First time to the range this year - took my youngest of four for her first time shooting - like her sister, less excited than her two brothers (first visit mandatory - 4 rules of gun safety, these aren't like you see in TV, etc - subsequent visits optional) - but she had a good time - 10/22, Ruger Mk 3, then tried the beretta 92x compact. Liked the beretta - esp. when I taught her to lean into the recoil - all in all, good first trip for her.

Posted by: MD_Mike at August 02, 2026 09:49 PM (oBxub)

182 Weren't not werewolve...🤪

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:50 PM (VCgbV)

183 good first trip for her.
Posted by: MD_Mike

Congrats, nice work

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 09:51 PM (NnhvP)

184 176 What are the typical times for ATF approval on Form 1 now? I understand for suppressors, it is down to a couple of weeks.

This one was a little over a month and a half for approval, whig. Submitted 5/12, approved 8/1 (on a Saturday, is the ATF feeling ok?), eforms with a trust.

Posted by: Arch Stanton at August 02, 2026 09:51 PM (myHFR)

185 MD_Mike
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How old is she's?

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:52 PM (VCgbV)

186 To add to my previous reply, suppressors seem to be about a month or so with a trust. Haven’t done any individual ones so I have no idea on those, they could be coming back in a couple weeks.

Posted by: Arch Stanton at August 02, 2026 09:52 PM (myHFR)

187 She is in JROTC so has some insight into the service academies and they werewolf coming around recruiting.
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:49 PM

Werewolf?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 09:54 PM (Wnv9h)

188 182 Weren't not werewolve...🤪
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at August 02, 2026 09:50 PM (VCgbV)

Honestly if you told me that USAFA was a bunch of werewolves I could not argue that they aren't.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at August 02, 2026 09:55 PM (NlEaG)

189 Werewolf?!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 09:54 PM (Wnv9h)
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Spec Ops

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 09:56 PM (OenlC)

190 Thanks for a great Gun Thread, Weasel.

See y'all in the Morning Report.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 09:57 PM (Wnv9h)

191 Adios, RMBS!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 09:59 PM (OenlC)

192 Service academies are super competitive now. I know the AF Academy only takes 1500 a year.

Any chance of getting a recommendation from your congressman? I mean, I'd bet Brandon Herrera would do it but he won't be a congressman until January.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 10:00 PM (vTZFs)

193 184 176 What are the typical times for ATF approval on Form 1 now? I understand for suppressors, it is down to a couple of weeks.

This one was a little over a month and a half for approval, whig. Submitted 5/12, approved 8/1 (on a Saturday, is the ATF feeling ok?), eforms with a trust.
Posted by: Arch Stanton
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Not bad on return time compared with prior administrations.

Posted by: whig at August 02, 2026 10:03 PM (E4rtv)

194 School of the Ozarks for Spawn. 4 year Aeronautical degree plus commercial multi engine instrument rating.

Posted by: Eromero at August 02, 2026 10:04 PM (LHPAg)

195 Even the congress critters are selective on who they'll recommend and usually have a set number they give out every year.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 10:04 PM (VCgbV)

196 Nite, Weasel. Hope you had a good vacay!

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 10:07 PM (tez/p)

197 Nood, Morons!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 02, 2026 10:08 PM (hzuYO)

198 On a not fun, serious topic -
I watched the micro red dot on pistols thing from the sidelines for a few years due to having different financial priorities. I carried iron sighted service pistols for a paycheck for years and am more proficient than most, so I felt it was a "some day" thing.

Some day came. And, holy shit. Most benefits I saw talked about were shooting on the move and odd positions, but what was undersold was effective range. 100 yards was fairly easy for a torso sized target, and farther was doable. After the Dicken shooting where the dude nailed a rifle armed shooter, I decided it was time to update my carry pieces.

Was wanting to snag at least one more and was actually out looking right before this In-n-out burger shooting. That incident really reinforces that you may need to take on a rifle armed dirtbag with just a pistol. You need a very good consistent presentation to do well with a dot, but if you have that down it is a massive leap in capabilities for a pistol. So much so that I'd consider having half as many pistols just to have dots on them.

Posted by: heya at August 03, 2026 12:09 AM (ctAuL)

Food Thread – 8/02/2026

Well once again, Mr. CBD has left the kitchen unlocked while he goes on vacation, and something has to be served up. I may not be a chef, but even the busboy has to prepare some food at times, so with apologies to those of you who deserve better, here is the weekly Food Thread.

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For the Love of Cauliflower

I love cauliflower, be it baked, boiled, or raw. I always have loved it, even before cauliflower became trendy in recent years.

When I was kid and we had roast beef after church on Sundays, I preferred mushy cauliflower to mashed potatoes as a side, especially when the cauliflower was covered in brown gravy made from the roast’s drippings.

My very favorite dish nowadays in my town is a “Japanese Style Cauliflower,” in which the florets are tempura fried with chili flakes then covered in something called gochujang sauce. (That dish is in the header picture above.) I’m going to ask Mr. CBD to cook some up for the Co-blogger Christmas Party this year.

Well, this item below may not have gochujang sauce, but I’ve discovered a simple but tasty form of cauliflower that I can prepare in just minutes on a busy weeknight – cauliflower hash browns!

I just drizzle a little olive oil in a skillet, then fry up a couple of these pucks with a little salt and pepper. I‘m not eating these because I‘m seeking something healthier than fried potatoes, I just like ‘em. But I suppose they might be a little bit healthier than fried spuds, if healthy is your thing.

Speaking of this vegetable, how do you pronounce it? My family, which hails from the Great Plains down to Texas, all pronounce it “call a flower,” or perhaps “KAH-luh-flower.” But here in the South, I hear a lot of people pronounce it “collie flower,” which I just can’t bring myself to say.

And since I’m talking about cauliflower, I’ll launch into my periodic “al dente vegetable” rant, which I’ve probably done before…

There are vegetables that I love, whether they‘re cooked or if they’re served raw, including broccoli and cauliflower. But I’m annoyed when a restaurant (or more likely a banquet hall) serves me warm, raw vegetables. If you’re not going to cook my broccoli, fine, I like it raw. But what is the purpose of warming it to barely above room temperature and then putting it on a plate.

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Spice Rack Inflation

This could be one of Mr. CBD’s First World problems, but have you noticed that no matter how many jars you have in your spice rack, whenever you try a new recipe, it requires yet another a new spice?

That picture is the spice rack in my house. Buried in the back are all the infrequently used spices. The most commonly used ones necessarily migrate to the front.

In a few months, the chili spices will be working their way to the front – especially chili powder, cumin, and paprika.

During the next big cupboard clean-out, perhaps my wife and I can pull out all the spices we’ve only used once, and before throwing them out, challenge ourselves to make a dish that uses them.

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Guess That Food Game

Speaking of food challenges, my wife and I have a circle of friends who take turns hosting dinner parties in which we play a parlor game of some sort as the evening’s activity.

I’m thinking it might be fun when we next play host to do one of those taste-test games, where the player is blindfolded and then takes a bite of food and must guess what it is.

Or perhaps we could simply narrow it down to common types of cheeses and fruits, and see if people can guess which cheese or fruit they’re tasting.

Have any of y’all ever done this? What foods did you use?

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Peak Rosemary

Back to spices, are we past “peak rosemary” yet?

I don’t necessarily dislike rosemary – it can add some nice flavor. But it’s sort of like cilantro in that a little goes a long way, and I’d rather forego it altogether than have it suffocating all the other flavors.

A few years ago at a trendy restaurant with a small menu that changes nightly, I ordered the pork and roast potatoes. The pork was coated in rosemary; the potatoes were covered in rosemary; and even the focaccia bread on the side was sprinkled with rosemary. I did not order dessert, as I reckoned it too was likely to have rosemary in it. As it was, it took a long time for me to get the taste of rosemary out of my mouth.

Since then, I’ve completely avoided any dish that has rosemary. It’s probably time for me to give it another chance, and just tell the chef to please go light on the rosemary if at all possible.

The same goes for bay leaves. One bay leaf max is all that I ever dare put in a stewed dish.

What foods or seasonings do you find to be overbearing if the chef goes a little heavy with them?

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”Mom’s on a diet again”

In my house, canned peaches with cottage cheese said “Mom’s on a diet again.” pic.twitter.com/oIomoFV6Nu
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) July 30, 2026

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Bachelor Survival Salad

Periodically when Mrs. Throckmorton isn’t looking, I’ll regress to my bachelor ways and have what I call a “bachelor survival salad.” I highly recommend this as an alternative to no salad at all.

Quite simply, I’ll take a head of lettuce (romaine works best), rip off a leaf, wash it, and while standing over the sink, pour some bottled ranch or blue cheese dressing on it and eat it like a lettuce wrap. Three or four leaves make a salad, and there aren’t any dishes to clean up!

Guys: What foods do you eat while standing over the sink?

Ettes: Do any of y’all eat while standing over the sink, or is that just a guy thing?

Thanks for hanging out here today. Your regular host should be back next week to restore some dignity and decorum to this place.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 04:00 PM

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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 02, 2026 04:04 PM (nESHF)

2 "Ettes: Do any of y’all eat while standing over the sink, or is that just a guy thing?"

I can honestly say I've never done this! You gotta enjoy what you're eating.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:05 PM (tOcjL)

3 I eat over the sink (the side with the Insinkerator.) Why dirty a plate for a quick PB&J?

Posted by: wcgreen at August 02, 2026 04:06 PM (u5BVN)

4 Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kohlrabi and probably Kale, are all the same goddamned thing. Really.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 04:07 PM (kAYNz)

5 With the calendar switching to football season, tonight marks a return of homemade chili. Beef and 2 bean (black and great northern) with the spouse's homemade beer and a ton of veg and spices. With it is a bagged $1 salad (b/c I'll eat the healthy stuff if you all won't b/c now those bags will be the safest things running b/c of the scrutiny) and a blackberry and green grape salad.

As always, the chili has chips and sour cream and cheese for the kids while I go plain (or maybe a little mashed avocado)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:08 PM (tOcjL)

6 I like potato hash browns.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 02, 2026 04:08 PM (nESHF)

7 If CBD isn't here, can we haz Maple Syrup on French Toast?

Posted by: Inquiring Minds at August 02, 2026 04:08 PM (PiwSw)

8 Aglio y Olio with shrimp tonight.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 02, 2026 04:09 PM (nESHF)

9 You said "bachelor" and implied diet and you never mentioned beer.

Say what you will. The True Bachelor Diet is breakfast, a fair amount of physical activity, and then an empty stomach with at least six beers.

Its like a Cocaine Habit, but less.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 04:09 PM (Hsef8)

10 4 Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kohlrabi and probably Kale, are all the same goddamned thing. Really.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 04:07 PM (kAYNz)

Nah - they each have their own uses...I actually do like all 4, but kohlrabi is probably my bottom preference of the 4...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:09 PM (tOcjL)

11 make a dish that uses them.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

Only one dish for all of them?
Make sure you tell CBD about it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 04:09 PM (NnhvP)

12 Worst thing I've eaten standing over the sink was mac n cheese out of the pot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:09 PM (JvZF+)

13 9 You said "bachelor" and implied diet and you never mentioned beer.

Say what you will. The True Bachelor Diet is breakfast, a fair amount of physical activity, and then an empty stomach with at least six beers.

Its like a Cocaine Habit, but less.
Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 04:09 PM (Hsef

Don't you have to include a full bag of chips with the beer?

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:10 PM (tOcjL)

14 Hahaha, rearranged all the spices this morning and have cottage cheese and peaches lined up for a snack.

Coincidence ?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:10 PM (abScH)

15 Guys: What foods do you eat while standing over the sink?

Anything I'm eating quickly that has leakage or crumbling problems.

Think; a few buffalo wings, a piece of pizza that seems to be losing toppings faster than you can get it to your mouth, or a brownie that's held together by love and prayers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 04:10 PM (6ydKt)

16 Late for Dinner!

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:11 PM (Ia/+0)

17 Also when Boy F. roasts cauliflower we eat about half right off the baking sheet as soon as it comes out of the oven. Crispy, creamy, tangy it's amazing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:11 PM (JvZF+)

18 Cauliflower???? AoSHQ has officially jumped the shark.

Posted by: Peaches at August 02, 2026 04:11 PM (eh7Rr)

19 I had a friend that drank vodka and Tab. No one ever picked that drink up by mistake.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:11 PM (abScH)

20 Chili powder doesn’t seem to keep well, and t starts to taste off. Some spices last forever. Cinnamon seems to, Cloves. Mustard powder. Others, start to go stale quickly. Oregeno.

I use different peppers mostly, black, white, cayenne, ginger, garlic.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 04:11 PM (kAYNz)

21 I have not done the eating while standing over the sink thing, but I have done the munching on olives with the fridge door open thing, as well as the spicy sweet pickles.

And chugging from the orange juice jug.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:11 PM (0aYVJ)

22 Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kohlrabi and probably Kale, are all the same goddamned thing. Really.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 04:07 PM (kAYNz)

Those are all good.
Thankfully no one mentioned...spits...okra.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 04:12 PM (2WIwB)

23 14 Hahaha, rearranged all the spices this morning and have cottage cheese and peaches lined up for a snack.

Coincidence ?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:10 PM (abScH)

Even when I could eat cottage cheese, I never did the 1970s canned peach thing with it b/c of the magazine photos. It's like the 1950s jello salad molds. They were so off-putting, they just became gross without trying...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL)

24 Nah - they each have their own uses
——

Maybe, it you say so, but genetically they are the same thing, is what I’m getting at.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (kAYNz)

25 To the peaches and cottage cheese, add
1 canned pineapple ring
1 half maraschino cherry
1 inch cube lime jello

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (JvZF+)

26 For the Love of Cauliflower

Just, no. NO!
I don't mind cauliflower too much, but I can't stand it or broccoli anymore because it is EVERYWHERE! I will shun it just to spite the people who serve it. Ugh.

I'm honestly surprised they haven't managed a cauliflower liquor of some kind among the trendy set. /shudder/

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (kU0PQ)

27 Cauliflower hashbrown?

Kill it with fire.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (dK+Kv)

28 Fruit that is dripping everywhere

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (Ia/+0)

29 going to see the Odyssey now... see y'all on the pew-pew thread later

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (9U6Wl)

30 25 To the peaches and cottage cheese, add
1 canned pineapple ring
1 half maraschino cherry
1 inch cube lime jello
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (JvZF+)

This is making the whole idea worse...now it's multicolored vomit...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (tOcjL)

31
Made a big pot of ham, sausage, bean and veggie soup. This stuff is going to set up like concrete in the fridge. And will taste better with every passing day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 04:14 PM (kf4DF)

32 Cottage cheese is good with lots of black pepper. Maybe a little sea salt. It’s a good filler-upper for those odd corners of the stomach.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 04:15 PM (kAYNz)

33 I like cauliflower but deep fried is the way I like it best.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:15 PM (abScH)

34 I am reminded of the time my mom mashed up turnips to look like mashed potatoes. She knew I would walk by and grab a spoonful thinking it was mashed potatoes.

she laughed maniacally...it took years for me to trust her again

Posted by: DanMan at August 02, 2026 04:16 PM (8uzBS)

35 I prefer cauliflower over broccoli, but am fine with eating neither. I never have hankering for cauliflower, broccoli, or those leafy lettuces. And I hate peas. Except dried wasabi peas. and pea pods. I do like those.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:17 PM (0aYVJ)

36 Got not one, but two...TWO...slabs of ribs on the smoker.
Church was great.
Weather is fine.
Beer is cold.
Family is near.
God loves us.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 04:17 PM (2WIwB)

37 >>>What foods do you eat while standing over the sink?

Pretty much anything except for soups and spaghetti, unless the spaghetti is eaten next day, cold.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 04:17 PM (dK+Kv)

38 Don't you have to include a full bag of chips with the beer?
Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:10 PM (tOcjL)

Sure. If your hands are shaking and you need a quick calorie hit. Then a bag of Lays Baked and, say, a Miller High Life Lite will do the trick. After, say, 10 AM.

Sensible. You have to be sensible about this crap.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 04:17 PM (Hsef8)

39 Buck, that company makes spinach bites that are very yummy, and root veggie fries that are also yummy.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:18 PM (OoFl2)

40 33 I like cauliflower but deep fried is the way I like it best.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:15 PM (abScH)

My favorite cauliflower dish, and one that got me to love the veg after a youth of disastrous inedible cauliflower of my mom's cooking was gobi manchurian. The best cauliflower dish ever. Indo-Chinese, normally only found in Indian restaurants...

If you all try that, you'll put cauliflower in your top 5 veg...I could eat that dish as a main meal and be satisfied (and have in previous Lents)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:18 PM (tOcjL)

41 The kids going out with MiL and Boy F. so I and Mrs. F. are going wilding. Look out retail operators!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:19 PM (JvZF+)

42 Looks like the ribs will be ready around 5. Mac and Cheese, or more accurately Cheese and Mac is smoking along nicely.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 04:19 PM (viF8m)

43 I offered 2 choices. Taco Bell or McD's. They're criss-cross from each other.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:19 PM (JvZF+)

44 Cauliflower is very versatile. Even made pizza crust with it. Once.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:21 PM (JvZF+)

45 Taco Bell or McD's. They're criss-cross from each other.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Ithought you were going out to eat food?!?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 04:22 PM (NnhvP)

46 If you all try that, you'll put cauliflower in your top 5 veg...I could eat that dish as a main meal and be satisfied (and have in previous Lents)...

Personally, I enjoy a Broccolli/Cauliflower mix, steamed, with enough melted cheese to put me at the edge of a heart attack.

I do enjoy raw Cauliflower. Just a little salt. Nobody else in the house enjoys me after.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 04:22 PM (Hsef8)

47 Cauliflower is very versatile. Even made pizza crust with it. Once.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:21 PM (JvZF+)

True. There are myriad ways you can prepare it and throw it in the garbage.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 04:22 PM (dK+Kv)

48 As for a guess that food game, I'd probably theme it to the dinner preferences.

I mean, at baby showers, everyone has done to guess the baby food game, and that doesn't need blindfolding.

Funny enough, since you have all those spices, food network did a guess the spice comp for their actual chefs with no blindfolds, and they did not go perfect, so that could be fun...and could use up your cabinet.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:23 PM (tOcjL)

49 What kind of Hell is Califlower Hashbrowns?

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:23 PM (Ia/+0)

50 Cheese and Mac is smoking along nicely.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
Posted by: JackStraw

Pasta can turn mushy if you smoke it to long. DAMHIK

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 04:23 PM (NnhvP)

51 I like cauliflower but deep fried is the way I like it best.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:15 PM (abScH)
====
TBF you could say this about almost everything!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:24 PM (JvZF+)

52 49 What kind of Hell is Califlower Hashbrowns?
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:23 PM (Ia/+0)

They are good, you would be surprised!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:24 PM (Wmg4n)

53 44 Cauliflower is very versatile. Even made pizza crust with it. Once.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:21 PM (JvZF+)

Yeah, that's a bad idea. I had a friend who also did that...once. Told me their stomach was ripped to shreds from it b/c he couldn't eat that much cauliflower and cheese at once without ummm...issues...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:24 PM (tOcjL)

54 What kind of Hell is Califlower Hashbrowns?

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:23 PM (Ia/+0)

That's a legal defense to homicide in 13 states.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 04:24 PM (dK+Kv)

55 whenever you try a new recipe, it requires yet another a new spice?

Seldom, actually. I try to never use things like "Italian seasoning." I mostly only use the basic items. That means I do have a LOT of spices in my cupboard, but I mostly don't get new ones.

Last oddball ones I got were fenugreek and annatto. I don't even remember what I got the fenugreek for. The mostly full bottle has been sitting around for quite a while now. I need to find a recipe or two, since it's supposed to be good for you.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 04:24 PM (kU0PQ)

56 Frying chicken thighs again, they were on sale, and of everything I bought today it needs to go first

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:24 PM (Ia/+0)

57 I will steam cauliflower, broccoli and mushrooms and then melt a ton of monterrey jack over them for a side dish.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:25 PM (abScH)

58 Spaghetti-O's from the can. Wife absolutely loathes me eating them that way "They probably taste better hot!", she'll exclaim.

No, not really. Been doing that since late highschool and thru Army time. Warm or can-cold - they taste the same. And, I love the crap outta them...

Even had my mom send me a case of them during the first Gulf War, since I despised MREs and T-rats with a livid passion...

And, the ones with the small meatballs - not the franks. They're gross....

Posted by: Pinochet Airline Attendant at August 02, 2026 04:25 PM (+e/dY)

59 Ithought you were going out to eat food?!?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 04:22 PM (NnhvP)
=====

Was wondering why she left in such a huff.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:26 PM (JvZF+)

60 I use to love cottage cheese and fritos for a snack!

Posted by: DanMa'am at August 02, 2026 04:26 PM (8uzBS)

61 My very favorite dish nowadays in my town is a “Japanese Style Cauliflower,” in which the florets are tempura fried with chili flakes then covered in something called gochujang sauce.

Actually, Gochujang is Korean.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 02, 2026 04:26 PM (VHUov)

62 To my taste, cumin is that spice that only a very little of which goes a long way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 04:26 PM (Wnv9h)

63 As to spice filling my cupboard, I found some nice pull-out spice racks on Amazon. "SpaceAid" brand. They're pretty nice, allowing you to get to the ones at the back without having to dig through the ones in front. They have different sizes, and you might want to take a hard look at the brands you buy to see if they use oddly sized jars/bottles. (I also bought some different size pull-outs for bigger containers like salt and such.)

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 04:27 PM (kU0PQ)

64 Growing up in the 60's, nothing said Mom's on a diet like those bottles full of little black pills. We had the cleanest house in the neighborhood.

Posted by: mc at August 02, 2026 04:27 PM (C3K2d)

65 I made hummus. I hate stirring tahini since it's about like spackle. Made egg salad with some of my hot pickled eggs. They're never hot no matter how long I pickle them. Meh.

Posted by: nckate at August 02, 2026 04:27 PM (enNUy)

66 I will steam cauliflower, broccoli and mushrooms and then melt a ton of monterrey jack over them for a side dish.
Posted by: Ben Had

I have always wondered if the 1lb steamer bags are one serving as that's how i interpret them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 04:28 PM (NnhvP)

67 To my taste, cumin is that spice that only a very little of which goes a long way.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 04:26 PM (Wnv9h)

My chili recipe is always very ad hoc, but I make sure I add less cumin than I originally think I should.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:29 PM (0aYVJ)

68 AZ deplorable, Have you made any cheese lately?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:29 PM (abScH)

69 57 I will steam cauliflower, broccoli and mushrooms and then melt a ton of monterrey jack over them for a side dish.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:25 PM (abScH

I will slice it thick, brush with olive oil, salt pepper, garlic, paprika, a few red pepper flakes, and grill, brushing with butter. Or you can sear it in a cast iron dish and finish it in the oven, but still basting with a little butter. Squeeze a lemon on it right before eating. Delicious.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (Wmg4n)

70 My mom used to make a cauliflower casserole that was excellent. But then I like cauliflower.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (viF8m)

71 Found one of my kindergarten buddies had his spices alphabetically arranged. You can imagine what happened next.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

72 I'm honestly surprised they haven't managed a cauliflower liquor of some kind among the trendy set. /shudder/
Posted by: GWB

Cynar is artichoke liquor, so that idea may be closer than you think.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 04:31 PM (VHUov)

73 i just had a peanut butter cookie over the sink to avoid messy crumbles.

thanks for filling in!

Posted by: cherries in season at August 02, 2026 04:32 PM (2q+Wd)

74 Found one of my kindergarten buddies had his spices alphabetically arranged. You can imagine what happened next.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

Your friend is Sheldon Cooper?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:32 PM (0aYVJ)

75 67 To my taste, cumin is that spice that only a very little of which goes a long way.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 04:26 PM (Wnv9h)

My chili recipe is always very ad hoc, but I make sure I add less cumin than I originally think I should.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:29 PM (0aYVJ)

See, I love cumin. While I add an acre of chili powder (tonight both ancho and dark red), I also add a lot of cumin. I tend to go easy on coriander and cayenne in my chilis...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:33 PM (tOcjL)

76 I don't know why I have 3 containers of cloves. 1 ground and 2 whole.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:33 PM (abScH)

77 FenSpouse eats grapes over the sink sometimes after washing them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2026 04:33 PM (2+NBt)

78 Found one of my kindergarten buddies had his spices alphabetically arranged. You can imagine what happened next.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

Your friend is Sheldon Cooper?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:32 PM (0aYVJ)

Actually, I do want to do this. But, small apartment, limited space. Still. It's how I find the spice I am looking for at the store.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:33 PM (0aYVJ)

79 AZ deplorable, Have you made any cheese lately?
Posted by: Ben Had

We node 20 lbs. when it was cooling off at night. If the temp goes over 68F the fat puddles out of the cheese, that makes the cheese very dry.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 04:34 PM (NnhvP)

80 74 Found one of my kindergarten buddies had his spices alphabetically arranged. You can imagine what happened next.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

Your friend is Sheldon Cooper?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August

I do this once a month, but no one puts them back right. It’s a frustrating experience. We have an entire cabinet for spices, too. We have spices for just about anything.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:34 PM (Wmg4n)

81 Your friend is Sheldon Cooper?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:32 PM (0aYVJ)
====
He did have an amazing train set, built lots of models, and became a hugely successful architect...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:34 PM (JvZF+)

82 What's this? CBD on vacation? Again?

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 04:34 PM (OenlC)

83 I love cloves, but almost never find a need for them. Still, such a great flavor and scent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:35 PM (0aYVJ)

84 My wife likes cauliflower. On the grill. Drizzle a bit of olive oil on a think wedge of one, dust it with salt, pepper and some garlic, put on grates and sear until tender... about 2-3 minutes a side, or less.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 04:36 PM (2Cry5)

85 Spices should not be alpha
Cumins, mustards, seeds
Herbs, savories, leaves
Peppers, chilies, other spices
Spice Mixes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:37 PM (JvZF+)

86 I'm just mad about saffron !

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:38 PM (abScH)

87 Recently ate a leftover steak over the sink. Warmed it in the toaster oven, which is arm's length from the sink. Dishwasher with clean plates located mid-distance. Batted away the fleeting thought arguing against caveman dining. Super easy, barely an inconvenience...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 04:40 PM (nbLIj)

88 86 I'm just mad about saffron !
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026

And Saffron’s mad about me!

My mom wanted to name me Saffron. My Army officer father vetoed it.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:40 PM (Wmg4n)

89 I'm just mad about saffron !
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:38 PM (abScH)

I love saffron, but have never used it in a recipe. Boise has a rich Basque community. I want to get a good recipe for Paella and then shop in their block for the right ingredients.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:41 PM (0aYVJ)

90 Boxed cake mix success of the week. Took a lemon cake mix and made it with a 15oz can of blueberries (you know the expensive ones on the shelf - got it on a Safeway clearanced 75% off b/c I'd never pay $7 for it, but $1.75 was just right). Used the normal eggs and oil, and subbed the can of light syrup for the water...started mixing and then added all the blueberries with 20-30 seconds left in the mixing (so they would mostly get ripped up, but not become pure juice). Baked according to the package and then topped with a THIN layer of Polish blueberry jam (which is pretty much a loose version of whole fruit blueberry preserves) - used 1/2 a small jar. Folks added whipped cream or coconut whip to each slice.

Got the kids who hate lemon cake to eat it b/c it became blueberry cake with a background of lemon. And it was cake, not muffin.

It was a nice July summer dessert. One kid wanted cake with no frosting, and this hit the spot (I'd have done coffee cake, but she doesn't like sugar crumb, either)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:41 PM (tOcjL)

91 85 Spices should not be alpha
Cumins, mustards, seeds
Herbs, savories, leaves
Peppers, chilies, other spices
Spice Mixes
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:37 PM (JvZF+

Ha! There are many different ways to solve problems.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:41 PM (Wmg4n)

92 Pug, I make a saffron risotto that's easy.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:42 PM (abScH)

93 Don't use cumin often, but when I do I lay it on thick. Critical for home fries.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 04:43 PM (sl73Y)

94 I've been known to eat a Palisade peach over the sink.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 02, 2026 04:45 PM (OlzlW)

95 ... "but have you noticed that no matter how many jars you have in your spice rack, whenever you try a new recipe, it requires yet another a new spice?"

Buck,
At Maison JTB over the years we have assembled most of the spices and dried herbs we are likely to use. Our problem is the recipe always calls for the jar stored in the most inconvenient to reach spot.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 04:45 PM (yTvNw)

96 RFK, Jr. has a new online cooking show on YouTube. He works with chefs to prepare real food into healthy meals for around $5/serving.

First episode (Crispy Salmon Cakes with Apple, White Bean & Greens Salad)
https://youtu.be/r5vKilWJNKo

Here's the Playlist of the shows (Still only the series introduction, and the first show).

https://tinyurl.com/Real-Food-Show

-- Yes, I posted this on the Friday ONT. The Food Thread also seems appropriate.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 04:46 PM (qx7Zg)

97 Batted away the fleeting thought arguing against caveman dining. Super easy, barely an inconvenience...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 04:40 PM (nbLIj)

Reminds me of a classic Far Side: the cavemen holding hunks of meat over the fire, grimacing and sweating as their hands heat up. One of them looks over at a guy with glasses holding meat with a stick over the fire.

"Hey, look what Thag do!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:46 PM (0aYVJ)

98 My mom wanted to name me Saffron. My Army officer father vetoed it.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:40 PM (Wmg4n)

I shall now refer to you as Mellow Yellow

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 04:48 PM (QMAsf)

99 Scotch is back on the menu
Glen Morangie 12

State monopoly on hard liquor had none of a list I wanted. So got something I never had before.
I have always gone for alcohol, especially red wine and Scotch I never tried.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:48 PM (Ia/+0)

100 It seems to me the best way to do it is to put the spices you use most in front, on the easiest shelf to reach, and then add behind those and up the shelves according to usage & size constraints.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 04:48 PM (6ydKt)

101 Pug, cloves are what put hot toddies over the top. you'll have to wait for cold weather, sorry. when it arrives, puncture orange peels with clove spikes, then do the usual honey, bourbon, lemon toddy thing.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 04:49 PM (hyS0X)

102 In my bachelor days, I would chop a head of iceberg lettuce in half, put it on a plate, put a generous dab of Hellman’s mayonnaise next to it, and eat: salad.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 04:50 PM (aOqrc)

103 96 RFK, Jr. has a new online cooking show on YouTube. He works with chefs to prepare real food into healthy meals for around $5/serving.

First episode (Crispy Salmon Cakes with Apple, White Bean & Greens Salad)
https://youtu.be/r5vKilWJNKo

Here's the Playlist of the shows (Still only the series introduction, and the first show).

https://tinyurl.com/Real-Food-Show

-- Yes, I posted this on the Friday ONT. The Food Thread also seems appropriate.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 04:46 PM (qx7Zg)

RFK Jr has become as big a fan of nutritional yeast as I am...1st episode with fish (and I don't usually use it in fish

...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 04:51 PM (tOcjL)

104 My cough has abated but this whole bourbon and honey thing is pretty tasty.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:51 PM (abScH)

105 Not even a little black pepper and shredded cheese?
It might not be bad that way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 04:51 PM (6ydKt)

106 Spices...

Our cabinet with spices almost always smells of curry. It's not that we use it a lot, it's that it's so pungent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 04:52 PM (2Cry5)

107 I do this once a month, but no one puts them back right. It’s a frustrating experience. We have an entire cabinet for spices, too. We have spices for just about anything.
Posted by: Piper

Note it is probable that Piper is the only cook!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 04:53 PM (NnhvP)

108 1 Found one of my kindergarten buddies had his spices alphabetically arranged. You can imagine what happened next.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

Gay or he went to Cal? Where he came out?

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 02, 2026 04:53 PM (i57Jt)

109 My mom wanted to name me Saffron. My Army officer father vetoed it.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:40 PM (Wmg4n)

I shall now refer to you as Mellow Yellow
Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 04:48 PM (QMAsf)

They call me mellow yellow…quite rightly.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 04:53 PM (aOqrc)

110 My problem with all the cauliflower variations and dishes is...it all tastes like cauliflower. I like green eggs and ham, but I do not like cauliflower.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 04:53 PM (hyS0X)

111 Warm, raw broccoli is the reason I stopped ordering it at Chili's. It tastes like they passed it over the stove from the refrigerator to the plate!

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 04:54 PM (iW5Nq)

112 >>RFK, Jr. has a new online cooking show on YouTube. He works with chefs to prepare real food into healthy meals for around $5/serving

He and Chef Andrew Gruel are apparently friends. Chef Gruel puts out a lot of content including recipes and cooking tips and he's always preaching about real food and avoiding junk.

Seems like a nice guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

113 Broccoli gets the love; cauliflower does not.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 04:55 PM (aOqrc)

114 Ben, you need to kill it dead. Apply more bourbon.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 04:56 PM (hyS0X)

115 One of the cabinets with three shelves is filled with spices.
You collect a lot of spices over time.
Buy that one spice you need for a recipe, and then the bottle sits up there for a few decades.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 04:56 PM (6ydKt)

116 L&T has a killer cauliflower dish that is roasted over the wood fire. Having it tonight.

I’ll send CBD the recipe so he and Bluebell can try to make it. I think they both hate cauliflower IIRC.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 02, 2026 04:56 PM (i57Jt)

117 I do a lot of Asian cooking, and those are the spices that I use most often.

Garlic, five-spice, hoisin sauce, white pepper, sesame seed oil, and honey I'm replacing regularly.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 02, 2026 04:56 PM (5ExGj)

118 Cauliflower question: your best rec on how to do a pickled cauliflower salad that is firm, but not hard crunchy?
Raw, but just chop the florets?
(I am subbing in cauliflower in a potato salad that has an oil and vinegar dressing, and also uses pickled beets. When made with potatoes, it is a great sweet/sour side dish, but blanching the cauliflower didn't seem to work as well as I hoped)

Posted by: barbarausa at August 02, 2026 04:57 PM (enw9G)

119 The girl in AbFab was named Saffron. She was delightful.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 04:57 PM (hyS0X)

120 goatexchange, sound advice. I will apply it. Cheers!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:57 PM (abScH)

121 Chef Gruel, there’s a name to overcome.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 04:57 PM (aOqrc)

122 I’m guessing there are some duplicates in the Throckmorton spice cabinet. There are in ours when my inadequate perusal of the inventory leads to further acquisitions.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 02, 2026 04:58 PM (i57Jt)

123 My cough has abated but this whole bourbon and honey thing is pretty tasty.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:51 PM (abScH)

See, it works like antibiotics. Just because you feel better, you have to finish the bottle. Gotta prevent that reinfection, you know...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 04:58 PM (nbLIj)

124 Broccoli gets the love; cauliflower does not.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 04:55 PM (aOqrc)

Weird, because I like cauliflower way more than broccoli. It's kind of a texture thing, really. But I would be fine with never eating broccoli again.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 04:58 PM (0aYVJ)

125 111 Warm, raw broccoli is the reason I stopped ordering it at Chili's. It tastes like they passed it over the stove from the refrigerator to the plate!

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 04:54 PM (iW5Nq)

Broccoli doesn't have enough flavor to be eaten near raw.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

126 89 Boise has a rich Basque community.

and also, i gather, an in-n-out. who knew?

Posted by: anachronda at August 02, 2026 04:59 PM (qdr3M)

127 I am marinating lamb tonight, for tikka masala tomorrow. Garam Masala, Cumin... front and center! Present .... Arms!

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 04:59 PM (hyS0X)

128 GGay or he went to Cal? Where he came out?
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 02, 2026 04:53 PM (i57Jt)
=====

He went to Temple. North Phila was even scary back then and I didn't scare too easy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:59 PM (JvZF+)

129 >>Chef Gruel, there’s a name to overcome.

Yea, I get a kick out of that. He appears to have overcome it, has a couple restaurants in the SoCal area.

During the Palisades fire he and his wife delivered hundreds of free meals to residents, firefighters and others.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 04:59 PM (viF8m)

130 What's this? CBD on vacation? Again?
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 04:34 PM (OenlC)

I know. Bet he’s at some fancy resort trying the porcini crusted chicken liver or something.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 02, 2026 05:00 PM (i57Jt)

131 Cauliflower roasted and seasoned can be good (especially with a good cheese). Riced/pulped it makes an _acceptable_ potato substitute. Cannot stand it or broccoli raw. And one of the places I used to work, one of the ladies would bring some cauliflower-related dish and microwave it. The smell was horrendous, spread all down the all, and lingered!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 02, 2026 05:01 PM (aJQbY)

132 I've got the latest jar of kraut starting to bubble. Quart size Mason jars are about the right size for us. Besides being a kraut fanatic I enjoy slicing the cabbage to the appropriate size. There are many ways to shred cabbage but I have a hand forged kitchen knife for it. It's heavy, razor sharp and could thin slice a bowling ball. It's satisfying to use.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 05:01 PM (yTvNw)

133 Recently I've been parboiling broccoli and shocking it in ice water. Tender crisp every time. Perfect for stir fry and stays bright green.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 05:01 PM (JvZF+)

134
Garlic, five-spice, hoisin sauce, white pepper, sesame seed oil, and honey I'm replacing regularly.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 02, 2026 04:56 PM (5ExGj

SMH, Chef Paul Prudhomme has a magic 6 spice you might like based on your spices of choice! It’s pretty great on green beans.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:02 PM (p4NUW)

135 I know you guys try to keep politics off the Food Thread, and for good reason, but I think this fits:

I finally was able to see unedited or staged footage of one the NYC owned grocery stores. It's an absolute free for all. Picture Black Friday shopping brawls, but with little plastic bags and people piling on others trying to grab entire produce section displays. That's what the non-staged store looks like. And, why you ask?

It's because the produce is selling 30% (or more) under the average cost of a private store. And, Bodega owners are clearing shelves, taking it back to their store and marking it up to their regular prices to sell as normal. The are getting a better profit margin from clearing the NYC owned store than they would get from purchasing from a supplier. It's both infuriating and hilarious.

Posted by: Orson at August 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

136 Did the guy just prefer Jack in the Box or what?

I've always heard great things about In-n-Out's burgers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)

137 SMH makes the best lumpia ever.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:03 PM (abScH)

138 98 My mom wanted to name me Saffron. My Army officer father vetoed it.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 04:40 PM (Wmg4n)

I shall now refer to you as Mellow Yellow
Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 04:48 PM (QMAsf

So instead of a cool name like Saffron, I was instead named after a beer.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (Dd38x)

139 The girl in AbFab was named Saffron. She was delightful.
Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 04:57 PM (hyS0X)

She was also the youngest sister, Lydia, in the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.

I am married to a Jane Austen fan. And I am currently reading the book.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (0aYVJ)

140 Because no one asked, but it should be obvious.... I am drinking, a Sazerac variation. Rye, Brandy, cherry liqueur, orange blossom. I batched those. Tonight, i spritzed absinthe into a frozen rocks glass, added the batch, then a couple dashes of Peychaud bitters. Delightful. Smoother than a classic New Orleans Sazerac (which I also love). Cheers, y'all.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (hyS0X)

141 I could eat [Cauliflower] as a main meal (and have in previous Lents)...
——

Because …. you haven’t already suffered enough?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:05 PM (kAYNz)

142 So instead of a cool name like Saffron, I was instead named after a beer.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (Dd38x)

Well, how-dee-do, Ms. Rainier!

Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2026 05:06 PM (lCppi)

143 71 Found one of my kindergarten buddies had his spices alphabetically arranged. You can imagine what happened next.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

What's wrong with that?

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:06 PM (iW5Nq)

144 Posted by: Orson at August 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

Are they selling fresh meat at 30% below cost, too?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)

145 141 I could eat [Cauliflower] as a main meal (and have in previous Lents)...
——

Because …. you haven’t already suffered enough?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:05 PM (kAYNz)

Try gobi manchurian - you won't feel like you're going without...the spouse even craves it with his chana masala...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 05:07 PM (tOcjL)

146 SMH makes the best lumpia ever.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:03 PM (abScH)
====

I love those so bad I had to impose the Two Lumpia rule.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 05:07 PM (JvZF+)

147 It's because the produce is selling 30% (or more) under the average cost of a private store. And, Bodega owners are clearing shelves, taking it back to their store and marking it up to their regular prices to sell as normal. The are getting a better profit margin from clearing the NYC owned store than they would get from purchasing from a supplier. It's both infuriating and hilarious.
Posted by: Orson at August 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

That is funny. Capitalism punks socialism.

Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2026 05:08 PM (lCppi)

148 Pug, I married a Brit. She has watched every Brit Murder Mystery, and Historical drama, known to mankind for 50 years. If I suddenly stop lurking here, and people wonder what became of me....well, look for my Remains of the Day... in the garden..

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 05:09 PM (hyS0X)

149 So instead of a cool name like Saffron, I was instead named after a beer.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (Dd38x)

Pabst?
La Batts?
Pearl?
Heylands?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 05:09 PM (0aYVJ)

150 SMH makes the best lumpia ever.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:03 PM (abScH)
___

*blushes*

Thanks, Ben Had.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 02, 2026 05:10 PM (5ExGj)

151 Wait, Piper's real name is Michelob?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (6ydKt)

152 Recently ate a leftover steak over the sink. Warmed it in the toaster oven, which is arm's length from the sink. Dishwasher with clean plates located mid-distance. Batted away the fleeting thought arguing against caveman dining. Super easy, barely an inconvenience...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 04:40 PM (nbLIj)

I just ate leftover smoked sausage straight from the fridge. Because I'm fancy, I held it with a paper towel.

Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (lCppi)

153 What's wrong with that?
Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:06 PM (iW5Nq)
====

Sorry it's Bro Code. Alphabetizing your spices is teh ghey. This is known. Just not by girls.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (JvZF+)

154 Buy that one spice you need for a recipe, and then the bottle sits up there for a few decades.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

And by the time you need it again, the contents are as fragrant and flavorful as the plastic cap on the jar.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (VHUov)

155 @102

I would forgo the lettuce thing for the time being. I heard they are still dumping the tainted crap on the market.

Posted by: Case at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (bqIVz)

156 Mulva?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (JvZF+)

157 >>Pabst?
La Batts?
Pearl?
Heylands?

Blatz is a lovely name.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 05:12 PM (viF8m)

158 144 Posted by: Orson at August 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

Are they selling fresh meat at 30% below cost, too?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)
____________________________

I assume so, but the video I viewed only showed the produce portion of the store. It was insane. Pushing, shoving, a couple errant punches. Although, knowing Mamdani, he probably thinks the unwashed should only eat Vegan. So, I can't confirm.

Posted by: Orson at August 02, 2026 05:12 PM (dIske)

159 “Mello Yellow” was a fad 60s urban legend, that smoking banana peels would get you high.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:12 PM (kAYNz)

160 So instead of a cool name like Saffron, I was instead named after a beer.
Posted by: Piper

Pabst?
La Batts?
Pearl?
Heylands?
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Careful; you're gonna make her Surly.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 05:12 PM (VHUov)

161 149 So instead of a cool name like Saffron, I was instead named after a beer.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (Dd38x)

Pabst?
La Batts?
Pearl?
Heylands?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August

Lone Star.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:12 PM (Wmg4n)

162 And by the time you need it again, the contents are as fragrant and flavorful as the plastic cap on the jar.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (VHUov)

I get the ones that turn into a brick.

You have to slam it on the counter a few times to break it up like Parmesan in the can.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

163 I assume so, but the video I viewed only showed the produce portion of the store. It was insane. Pushing, shoving, a couple errant punches. Although, knowing Mamdani, he probably thinks the unwashed should only eat Vegan. So, I can't confirm.
Posted by: Orson at August 02, 2026 05:12 PM (dIske)
====
Try shopping in Chinatown. 80 year old auntie will take you down!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 05:13 PM (JvZF+)

164 155 @102

I would forgo the lettuce thing for the time being. I heard they are still dumping the tainted crap on the market.
Posted by: Case at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM

Hydroponic and you are fine.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:13 PM (Wmg4n)

165 The most common way for me to eat cauliflower growing up was in Lebanese lacto fermented pickles. My grandparents always had a batch in the fridge. It was a mix of cauliflower, turnips, beets, and cukes. Same simple process for making kraut: veggies and salt, no vinegar. Probably where I developed my taste for tart and sour flavors. For them it was tradition, for me they tasted good, the healthy aspect wasn't a factor.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 05:14 PM (yTvNw)

166 JTB, a raised glass to you on your book thread. Salut!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:16 PM (abScH)

167 Schaefer?

Milwaukee's Best?

Busch?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

168 Because no one asked, but it should be obvious.... I am drinking, a Sazerac variation. Rye, Brandy, cherry liqueur, orange blossom. I batched those. Tonight, i spritzed absinthe into a frozen rocks glass, added the batch, then a couple dashes of Peychaud bitters. Delightful. Smoother than a classic New Orleans Sazerac (which I also love). Cheers, y'all.
Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (hyS0X)

Speaking of cocktails, I think Casa Sin Problemas has an official house libation. I call it, the Casa Colada. Two fingers of Flor De Cana rum over ice. Add about 2 tablespoons of Coco Lopez. (It's really just coconut milk and sugar, as I've mentioned previously). Fill glass with mango nectar. Stir. If you have a blender, the frozen variation is quite tasty and perhaps, more appropriate. Casa Sin Problemas honors adaptabilty...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 05:17 PM (nbLIj)

169 I like the stock photographs the “news” websites display whenever EBT and stuff like that are under consideration. They don’t show pictures of morbidly obese con artists, just a generic photo of a shopping cart.

A small shopping cart. The tiny little ones. Filled with “healthy” choices like Broccoli Florets and Brussels sprout Smoothie Mix.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:17 PM (kAYNz)

170 I've always liked cauliflower, too. My grandmother made a great salad with cooked cauliflower and a strong vinaigrette dressing. Almost pickled it. Wonderful.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 05:17 PM (78a2H)

171 Stella Artois?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:17 PM (6ydKt)

172 Sorry it's Bro Code. Alphabetizing your spices is teh ghey. This is known. Just not by girls.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 05:11 PM (JvZF+)

No wonder my sons and husband have a hard time putting the herbs and spices back where they go. Could be Piper's problem, too. Too much testosterone :>)

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:18 PM (iW5Nq)

173 Just recently learned about a cocktail called a "Batranga," which is basically a cuba libre in a salt-rimmed glass, with tequila instead of rum. I find I like it a lot more than the rum version. It's sneaky, though -- have one and you're fine, so you have another and then the tequila sneaks up behind you and breaks a board over your head.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 05:19 PM (78a2H)

174
I get the ones that turn into a brick.

You have to slam it on the counter a few times to break it up like Parmesan in the can.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:13 PM (6ydKt)

My onion power. Every time!

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:20 PM (iW5Nq)

175 > Stella Artois?
--------
Harcourt Fenton Mudd would not be amused.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 05:21 PM (2Cry5)

176
No wonder my sons and husband have a hard time putting the herbs and spices back where they go. Could be Piper's problem, too. Too much testosterone :>)
Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:18 PM

It’s why we come here! The knowledge available to us is astounding.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Wmg4n)

177 The same grandmother who made the wonderful cauliflower salad also told me an urban legend from her middle-school years: drinking a Coke and eating an apple together would get you high. This would have been around World War I.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 05:21 PM (78a2H)

178 As long as I have garlic powder and black pepper I can get by.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:22 PM (abScH)

179 Kidd, that sounds marvelous. I need to invest more time into rum. Even though I lived in the Caribbean, I never devoted the time necessary to become proficient.

In three weeks my 3 siblings and I are descending on Kansas City, from 3 directions, to conduct a massive donation to the National WWI Museum. I am serving morning cocktails, to commemorate the event:

Top O' The Morning: Bourbon, coffee, Sweet Vermouth, Dom Benedictine, Cinnamon, finished with whipped cream. I hope the Museum is ready for 4 giggling drunk 70 year olds waving our grandfathers side-arms, swords, spurs, saddlebags, etc.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 05:23 PM (hyS0X)

180 @177

Back when coke had cocaine in it?

Posted by: Case at August 02, 2026 05:24 PM (bqIVz)

181 Drizzle a bit of olive oil on a think wedge of one, dust it with salt, pepper and some garlic, put on grates and sear until tender... about 2-3 minutes a side, or less.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 04:36 PM (2Cry5)

Hint: substitute steak for the cauliflower, and it'll be even better!

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 05:24 PM (kU0PQ)

182 107 Note it is probable that Piper is the only cook!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026

No, I live with an Italian. He does his share of cooking, and if it’s being grilled, that is 100% his territory. BUT he and my daughter get excited when I am not home because they get to eat what they want and “mama can’t do anything about it!”

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:24 PM (Wmg4n)

183 The same grandmother who made the wonderful cauliflower salad also told me an urban legend from her middle-school years: drinking a Coke and eating an apple together would get you high. This would have been around World War I.
Posted by: Trimegistus

Coca leaves got removed from the Coca-Cola recipe in 1903. WWI is only a decade later. Definitely the right timeframe for urban legends about how to "fix" the new Coke.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 05:25 PM (VHUov)

184 Orsen, this is crap. Those stores have not opened yet.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 05:25 PM (sl73Y)

185 So instead of a cool name like Saffron, I was instead named after a beer.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (Dd38x)

Pabst?
La Batts?
Pearl?
Heylands?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 05:09 PM (0aYVJ)

Oh no. I am not going to play this game, no way, and you can't make me...

Posted by: Definitly not Moosehead at August 02, 2026 05:26 PM (nbLIj)

186 Lone Star Coors Smith.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:26 PM (Wmg4n)

187 BTW, anyone here in eastern Washington state? My mom is waiting to see if she'll be told to evacuate due to the fires. Cousins are already at their folks' house nearby, unsure of the status of their house.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (kU0PQ)

188 Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (abScH)

189 Goatexchange, didn't see you on Book thread but check out beginning, reading The Damned Engineers, a 1970 book about the 291st battalion during Battle of the Bulge

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (Ia/+0)

190 Ben no, everything I make is a crap shoot every time

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 05:28 PM (Ia/+0)

191 149 So instead of a cool name like Saffron, I was instead named after a beer.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:04 PM (Dd38x)

Pabst?
La Batts?
Pearl?
Heylands?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 05:09 PM (0aYVJ)

Hamms?
Olde Frothigsloshe?
Elsinore?

Posted by: So many possibilities at August 02, 2026 05:29 PM (ZVkju)

192
Stella Artois?
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Angine de Poitrine

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 05:29 PM (Cqx++)

193 Skip, Glen Morangie 12 is a fine drink.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 05:30 PM (sl73Y)

194 I think I'll make riso alla pitocca tonight. I want some Italian rice.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2026 05:30 PM (BI5O2)

195 188 Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (abScH)

My meatloaf. It's so good every time. I usually make it as meatloaf muffins because baking a loaf just takes too long, lol

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:30 PM (iW5Nq)

196 Come on guys, you know it's Yuengling

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:31 PM (abScH)

197 St. Pauli Girl

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2026 05:31 PM (BI5O2)

198 What dish is the first pic?? It looks tasty!

Posted by: runner at August 02, 2026 05:32 PM (g47mK)

199 188 Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (abScH

You know, I never thought about this! Is going to ask in the group text thread made up of my children and see what their answer is.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:33 PM (OoFl2)

200 Right now I'm using my newly-acquired Big Green Egg to smoke pork ribs. I marinated them all night in the cochinita pibil marinade (orange, a whole bunch of spices, achiote seeds, garlic) and now they've been in the smoker for three hours. Certainly smells appetizing.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 05:33 PM (78a2H)

201 Is that chicken ?? Looks like chicken !

Posted by: runner at August 02, 2026 05:33 PM (g47mK)

202 My very favorite dish nowadays in my town is a “Japanese Style Cauliflower,” in which the florets are tempura fried with chili flakes then covered in something called gochujang sauce. (That dish is in the header picture above.) I’m going to ask Mr. CBD to cook some up for the Co-blogger Christmas Party this year.

Buried deep in leed.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 05:34 PM (sl73Y)

203 Hmmm... "Stella," perhaps?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2026 05:34 PM (BI5O2)

204 I have told y’all twice! Even included my middle and last names. lol.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:34 PM (OoFl2)

205 Lede (sp?)

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 05:35 PM (sl73Y)

206 Skip - good deal. Janice Holt Giles was a marvelous contributor to the story, due to her husband. Damned Engineers really vaulted the 291st ECB into the spotlight, and brought the engineers much-needed recognition, overall. She shifted the focus, without question. A lot of her facts and details turned out to be inaccurate, but in drawing attention away from Bastogne, she provided a very useful service, back in the 60s. All Battle of the Bulge aficionados owe her a debt of gratitude. I read every word she wrote, and I hold her in high regard. Pergrin (291st CO) was similar - not always on target, but a fabulous counterweight to the "101st in Bastogne" popular view.

Posted by: goatexchange at August 02, 2026 05:36 PM (hyS0X)

207 That Japanese cauliflower dish sounds great! Any chance of a recipe?

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 05:37 PM (78a2H)

208 Falstaff is a perfectly cromulent name.

Posted by: Wm Shakespeare at August 02, 2026 05:38 PM (ZnrCl)

209 My meatloaf. It's so good every time. I usually make it as meatloaf muffins because baking a loaf just takes too long, lol
Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026

You can’t drop that without a recipe!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:38 PM (OoFl2)

210 Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (abScH)
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Spaghettio's!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 05:38 PM (OenlC)

211 > Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?
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Lowland Gumbo. Chicken and Andouille sausage.

Every. Time.

100 year old family recipe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 05:39 PM (2Cry5)

212 Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (abScH)

Baked Beans and sliced Bratwurst in a Crock Pot.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 05:39 PM (qx7Zg)

213 Weasel, you will always be known
for Weaselbeenz

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:39 PM (abScH)

214 209 My meatloaf. It's so good every time. I usually make it as meatloaf muffins because baking a loaf just takes too long, lol
Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026

You can’t drop that without a recipe!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:38 PM (OoFl2)

Sure, give me a minute. Gotta find it.

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:40 PM (iW5Nq)

215 Weasel, you will always be known
for Weaselbeenz
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:39 PM (abScH
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I've been profiled!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 05:40 PM (OenlC)

216 188 ... "Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?"

Hi Ben Had (and thanks for the kind comment),

Sure thing recipes in our house: beef stroganoff (on rice, not noodles), Mrs. JTB's meatloaf, and my steel cut oatmeal. Also, I make the best pancakes on the planet. Only my modesty prevents that from being common knowledge. :-)

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 05:41 PM (yTvNw)

217 Wife and I alternate between potatoes and cauliflower. I've always liked it.

Posted by: RS at August 02, 2026 05:41 PM (GYx3d)

218 " What foods do you eat while standing over the sink?"

I don't eat food over the sink. I do take my shirt off to eat sometimes.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2026 05:41 PM (MWfyi)

219 My favorite Cauliflower dish is-

Steam a whole cauliflower using the microwave. Takes about 5minutes.
Pop the lid off and smear Dijon mustard over the cauliflower and lay 2-3 slices of sharp cheddar cheese on the cauliflower.
Put the lid back on for a few minutes to let the cheese melt.
Then serve by cutting wedges from the whole cauliflower. Goes really well with any meat or fish.

The lovely and delightful Mrs naturalfake's sautéed curried cauliflower is excellent as well.

There is a disturbing new trend in restaurants now served thick slices of grilled cauliflower and calling that a "steak". I guess it's for vegans.
Honestly vegtards, don't go to a restaurant and spend $20 getting something you can make at home in five minutes that costs you buck fiddy.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2026 05:42 PM (iJfKG)

220 I have told y’all twice! Even included my middle and last names. lol.
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:34 PM (OoFl2)

You don't see the resemblance?

https://youtu.be/cV2d2CZ6EwQ

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 05:42 PM (qx7Zg)

221 Chicken & Rice, probably. Meatloaf is a contender. Vanilla Ice Cream w/ chocolate syrup. And Ice Water. I never screw that up.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:42 PM (kAYNz)

222 Homemade chili is awesome...so little left and I made an epic ton of it (3.5 lbs ground beef and 4 bean cans for the base)...

As for a signature dish, I don't have one b/c I make nothing exactly the same...but then the spouse would say my salmon and my chili...all of my different chilis. B/c you need a lot of chilis in your repetroire - although he'd probably pick tonight's version as his favorite b/c he loves beef, his homemade beer, and my cooking...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 05:42 PM (tOcjL)

223 I ran out of ground coffee this morning, so I grabbed the hand-grinder out of the cabinet since I didn't want to get the "big" grinder out and running.
As I was brewing the coffee I was wondering what my wife had cooked or brought home that had the "anise-y licorice smell, and then I tasted the brewed coffee and realized that I had grabbed the coffee grinder that I had used last week to grind up star anise, and I had never cleaned the burrs.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:43 PM (rbvCR)

224 I've been avoiding lettuce lately. What happened to all of the American lettuce that illegals were harvesting in this country?

Why am I getting tainted lettuce from another country that going to give me explosive diarrhea?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 02, 2026 05:44 PM (8E0Ba)

225 Happy eating everyone!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 02, 2026 05:46 PM (OenlC)

226 Piper,

You are reminding me of a grandfather who died long before I was born. He bred and raised bay horses, and named them after beers. Then he married a woman who was shocked at that, so she named them after tea.

So all the horses had two names. I used to know several of them, but the only one I remember now is Pilsner Oolong.

Posted by: Wenda at August 02, 2026 05:46 PM (7m/2p)

227 nurse, same to you !

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:46 PM (abScH)

228 I've been avoiding lettuce lately. What happened to all of the American lettuce that illegals were harvesting in this country?

Why am I getting tainted lettuce from another country that going to give me explosive diarrhea?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 02, 2026 05:44 PM (8E0Ba)

The braceros are all working on pot farms, and California has lost all its water to data centers and the Delta Smelt, so we have to import.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:47 PM (rbvCR)

229 223 I ran out of ground coffee this morning, so I grabbed the hand-grinder out of the cabinet since I didn't want to get the "big" grinder out and running.
As I was brewing the coffee I was wondering what my wife had cooked or brought home that had the "anise-y licorice smell, and then I tasted the brewed coffee and realized that I had grabbed the coffee grinder that I had used last week to grind up star anise, and I had never cleaned the burrs.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:43 PM (rbvCR)

That's either a mistake you only make once...or an unitended inventive move akin to the ice cream cone's invention...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 05:47 PM (tOcjL)

230 My Meatloaf
1 lb ground beef (I use at least 85/15)
1 egg
2 T. chopped, fresh parsley (or 1 T. dried)
1 t. lemon juice (opt.)
1 t. salt
1/4 t. freshly ground pepper
a few shakes of dried onion
1/2 package of dried onion soup mix
2 T. horseradish
2 T. bbq sauce (I use Sweet Baby Ray's)
6 slices bacon, chopped
1 c. rolled oats
1 grated carrot (about 1/2 c.)
1/4 t. dry mustard
1/4 t. dried thyme
1 garlic clove, pressed (or equivalent garlic powder)
1 t. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 c. sour cream
Sprinkling of favorite hot sauce like El Tapa Tio

Mix everything up and put into muffin tins. Top with a squirt of bbq sauce. Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:48 PM (iW5Nq)

231 I canned peaches yesterday, and remembered why I hate canning peaches. They look like I skinned them with a weed whacker and stuffed them into the jars with a rammer.
Then I made peach jam that never quite set.
It has been one of those weeks.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:50 PM (rbvCR)

232 Nurse? Nurse is here? Howdy nurse r!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 05:50 PM (OenlC)

233 Schaefer?

Milwaukee's Best?

Busch?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 02, 2026 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

Schlitz? Piels?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 02, 2026 05:51 PM (hmYU4)

234
That's either a mistake you only make once...or an unitended inventive move akin to the ice cream cone's invention...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 02, 2026 05:47 PM (tOcjL)

I have done similar things, but usually it is forgetting to clean the burrs after grinding up amber malt that I use for baking.
I clean the burrs on the grinder by running a handful of rice through the grinder.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:52 PM (rbvCR)

235 Do you all have a signature dish? One that comes out right every time ?
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:27 PM (abScH)

Ina Garten's (so, not really mine) Roasted Salmon with Green Herbs.
An old reliable for parties, pot lucks, Tuesday night dinner, whatever. Its always perfectly delicious with lots of great leftovers.

Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2026 05:52 PM (lCppi)

236 Cooking/food prep tool I ran across produced by an engineer that also designed the most distinctive dive fins out there:

https://tinyurl.com/3pnp35jd

The "Whackerspoon".

Posted by: Bert G at August 02, 2026 05:52 PM (VARTN)

237 I canned peaches yesterday, and remembered why I hate canning peaches. They look like I skinned them with a weed whacker and stuffed them into the jars with a rammer.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:50 PM (rbvCR)

YOU hate it?!?

Posted by: Peaches at August 02, 2026 05:52 PM (hmYU4)

238 Pilsner Oolong.

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HAHAHAH!!

Stout Earl Grey !

Posted by: runner at August 02, 2026 05:54 PM (g47mK)

239
Mix everything up and put into muffin tins. Top with a squirt of bbq sauce. Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes.

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:48 PM (iW5Nq)

I forgot. I also add a couple of teaspoons of capers. It's not on my written version.

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:55 PM (iW5Nq)

240 Posted by: Wenda at August 02, 2026 05:46 PM (7m/2p)

I saw your question about the cat fountain on the other thread but as always, by the time I read every comment, everyone has left town. I have a Downy Paws stainless steel one. The charge lasts for about two weeks and while you can go a week without changing the water, I change it every few days. You change the filter every 2 weeks to a month. My neighbor recommended it and I have zero complaints.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 02, 2026 05:55 PM (SjAWL)

241 Rolling Rock

Posted by: The Ballots at August 02, 2026 05:55 PM (LOZbR)

242 tomato sandwich, a must over the sink

Posted by: MacRadDoc at August 02, 2026 05:55 PM (Gl2C6)

243 *waves to nurse and Weasel*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 02, 2026 05:55 PM (5ExGj)

244 So here's today's dilemma: The Tbones were bound for the broiler given the constant rain that dampened the idea of outdoor grilling. But lo, they have abated, and I have dry fuel in the garage. But on the other lo, I was planning, since the oven was going on anyway, to do roasted potato wedges to accompany said TBones.

What to do, and will this dilemma be resolved before the gun thread?

https://youtu.be/cphNpqKpKc4

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 05:56 PM (nbLIj)

245 And Ice Water. I never screw that up.
Posted by: Common Tater

That's a talent! To have exactly enough ice that, by the end, the water is still ice cold, but there isn't a chunk of ice to slide down the inside of the glass and bonk you in the nose, or just splash water down your chin.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 05:56 PM (VHUov)

246 I like Horseradish in meatloaf. The natural hot prepared root stuff. It has a much different flavor when cooked, a bit of sweetness.

I can’t handle oatmeal In meatloaf, it is not a flavor or texture that goes well with beef. Blech! Stale breadcrumbs or saltines are OK. Ritz crackers used to be pretty good too.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:56 PM (kAYNz)

247 I canned peaches yesterday, and remembered why I hate canning peaches. They look like I skinned them with a weed whacker and stuffed them into the jars with a rammer.
Then I made peach jam that never quite set.
It has been one of those weeks.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:50 PM (rbvCR)

I'll happily take any rejects off your hands!

Posted by: LASue at August 02, 2026 05:57 PM (lCppi)

248 Ina Garten Sous Vide, baby.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 05:57 PM (Cqx++)

249 Stale breadcrumbs or saltines are OK. Ritz crackers used to be pretty good too.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:56 PM (kAYNz)

I've used crushed saltines when I'm out of oats. They're good

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 05:58 PM (iW5Nq)

250 Ina Garten Sous Vide, baby.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Thank you for the comma.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 05:58 PM (VHUov)

251 Tomorrow is egg salad and bacon sandwiches on pumpernickel

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:58 PM (abScH)

252 Often cats dislike the tap water. I add a pinch of sea salt to the water bowl for my cats, it seems to get them to drink.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 05:59 PM (rbvCR)

253 but there isn't a chunk of ice to slide down the inside of the glass and bonk you in the nose
——

Ha! I actually dislike the industry standard half-moon icemaker cubes. They tend to hug the side of the glass interfering with a smooth drink. Definitely a first-world problem, but they do kinda actually suck, as far as ice cubes go.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 05:59 PM (kAYNz)

254
238 Pilsner Oolong.

=====

HAHAHAH!!

Stout Earl Grey !
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2026 05:54 PM (g47m

Porter Rooibos!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 05:59 PM (OoFl2)

255 I have told y’all twice!
Posted by: Piper
Budweiser? No wonder you go by Piper!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 02, 2026 06:00 PM (aJQbY)

256 Remember CBD's quest for the perfect clear ice cube.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:01 PM (abScH)

257 Then I made peach jam that never quite set.
It has been one of those weeks.
Posted by: Kindltot

Better than maple syrup on waffles!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 06:01 PM (NnhvP)

258 egg salad and bacon sandwiches

Oh, that sounds a lovely treat!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 02, 2026 06:02 PM (aJQbY)

259 Made a big pot of ham, sausage, bean and veggie soup. This stuff is going to set up like concrete in the fridge. And will taste better with every passing day.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Truth.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 02, 2026 06:02 PM (m7NHf)

260 I've used crushed saltines when I'm out of oats. They're good
Posted by: CaliforniaGirl

Read that twice first tine: sardines...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 06:03 PM (NnhvP)

261 Boiled water, having most of the dissolved air driven out, will produce clear ice, or near enough iirc.

I do like the old school rectangular or square cubes. They involved these aluminum trays with a levered lattice work device. I bet a lot of people wouldn’t even know what they are.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 06:04 PM (kAYNz)

262 Goebel's
Hamm's

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 02, 2026 06:05 PM (m7NHf)

263 One final thing about preserving. I dry apples and pears in my own cabinet dryer. It is not heating up right, and only really gets to 130 at best. Even worse it is slow to get there. I have taken to "sulfuring" the fruit, which is burning a smidge of sulfur powder with white sugar on a slip of paper when starting it. The sulfur dioxide keeps the fruit white, and prevents molding during the slow start of heating. I suspect the sugar is not needed, but it seems to help.
It takes two days to dry apple slices, and three days for prunes. I hate losing a full batch to mold.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 06:06 PM (rbvCR)

264 Grilled liverwurst and swiss with brown mustard on oatnut bread here.

Posted by: Eromero at August 02, 2026 06:06 PM (LHPAg)

265 Common Tater, I remember them.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:06 PM (abScH)

266 TxAnn,

I went to Amazon and ordered it. Thank you very much.

Posted by: Wenda at August 02, 2026 06:06 PM (7m/2p)

267 Read that twice first tine: sardines...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 06:03 PM (NnhvP)

That's a level of umami I'm not sure I could handle!

Posted by: CaliforniaGirl (Not CaliGirl) at August 02, 2026 06:07 PM (iW5Nq)

268 Read that twice first tine: sardines...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

That's a level of umami I'm not sure I could handle!
Posted by: CaliforniaGirl

Upgrade your meatloaf to SurfAndTurfLoaf!

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 06:10 PM (VHUov)

269 Weasel must have been industrious and gotten the gun thread done already if he is here this early in the food thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:13 PM (abScH)

270 I will say that the lobster in champagne sauce is definitely going in the rotation.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:15 PM (abScH)

271 I have wine and yes I can talk to myself.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:18 PM (abScH)

272 Soon as it cools off a little I want some pumpkin ravioli with brown butter and sage.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:20 PM (abScH)

273 I will say that the lobster in champagne sauce is definitely going in the rotation.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:15 PM

We can haz recipe?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 06:20 PM (Wnv9h)

274 Soon as it cools off a little I want some pumpkin ravioli with brown butter and sage.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:20 PM

Mmmm.....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 06:20 PM (Wnv9h)

275 Can’t Apples and such be dried in a conventional oven? Or maybe the lowest setting might be too high?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 06:21 PM (kAYNz)

276 It’s OK (normal) to talk to yourself. Just not … when you start having a conversation

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 06:22 PM (kAYNz)

277 Common Tater I can't see why not

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 06:22 PM (Ia/+0)

278 RMBS, I just tweaked Emeril 's champagne with vanilla recipe.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:23 PM (abScH)

279 Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:13 PM (abScH)
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You are correct! I experienced an unexpected surge of productivity!

Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2026 06:24 PM (OenlC)

280
It’s OK (normal) to talk to yourself. Just not … when you start having a conversation
Posted by: Common Tater

A conversation is OK if you don't end up saying "what did you say?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 06:28 PM (Cqx++)

281 ‘Japanese Style Cauliflower … covered in something called gochujang sauce.’

‘Fuck roo!’

— Koreans

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 02, 2026 06:28 PM (zzSdg)

282 I’ve never eaten anything standing over the sink. Didn’t even know that was a thing until this post.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 02, 2026 06:30 PM (zzSdg)

283 RMBS, I just tweaked Emeril 's champagne with vanilla recipe.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:23 PM

I'll have to look for that. Sounds tasty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 02, 2026 06:30 PM (Wnv9h)

284 Good to know that there’s others out there who like cauliflower. I’ve always liked it. But usually when I say I like it, ppl look at me like I’ve got a dick growing out of my forehead.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 02, 2026 06:32 PM (zzSdg)

285 But here in the South, I hear a lot of people pronounce it “collie flower,” which I just can’t bring myself to say.
——

Thats the way they say it in northeast too. Thats how I say it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 02, 2026 06:35 PM (zzSdg)

286 got a dick growing out of my forehead.
Don't look now!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 02, 2026 06:36 PM (TEJE9)

287 RMBS, shallots, vanilla bean paste lime juice and champagne , then add heavy cream and a little butter then cook till it thickens. Cubed lobster pan sautéed in butter. I served it on angel hair.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:36 PM (abScH)

288 When the cult of Kali flowered.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 06:37 PM (Cqx++)

289 But here in the South, I hear a lot of people pronounce it “collie flower,” which I just can’t bring myself to say.
——

Thats the way they say it in northeast too. Thats how I say it.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 02, 2026 06:35 PM (zzSdg)

I've always heard it as call-a-flower. I haven't worked up the nerve to call out "Flower? Flower?" in a grocery store if I cannot find it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 06:37 PM (qx7Zg)

290 Buck, thank you so much for filling in.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:43 PM (abScH)

291 Aglio y Olio shrimp was a success.

Lobster in champagne sauce is so damn good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 02, 2026 06:46 PM (DpZaL)

292 call-if-flower.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 06:48 PM (NnhvP)

293 When the cult of Kali flowered.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Beware your heart!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 06:50 PM (NnhvP)

294 AZdeplorable, I got that reference.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:51 PM (abScH)

295 AZdeplorable, I got that reference.
Posted by: Ben Had

It was the fedora, wasn't it?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 02, 2026 06:54 PM (NnhvP)

296 AZ deplorable, sure was !

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 06:55 PM (abScH)

297 fritos dipped in cottage cheese???? blech!

Posted by: DanMan at August 02, 2026 06:56 PM (8uzBS)

298 "You don't pronounce it Collie ..."

Fist to the face. There. Practice shutting up.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 06:57 PM (CxvtJ)

299 An interesting food ‘game’ to play is with booze. Get 3 or 4 of the same type of booze but in ascending order of cost. Can be wine, champagne, whisky, etc.

Taste them blindfolded and rank them not knowing the cost.

You might be very surprised how your rank doesn’t reflect cost or perceived quality (if you know the cost). For casual drinkers, their ranking is almost always in inverse order to cost.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at August 02, 2026 06:58 PM (qszYa)

300 Elric,

I've read that people who excel at wine-tasting are also good at ranking chocolate.

Posted by: Wenda at August 02, 2026 07:02 PM (7m/2p)

301 Taste them blindfolded and rank them not knowing the cost.

I interned at ORNL back in the mid-90s. They had a ... well, very pretentious fuck that was into his wines. And also a few technicians - because the lab back in the day actually employed real guys that were good with their hands and could do some basic design to boot and I thought were all sharp as a tack.

So a couple techs brought Mr. Wine in some "wines" to test. In brown paper sacks.

One of 'em, apparently, was a real wine. Kinda' high dollar. And one of 'em was Thunderbird. And one was a basic $10 wine. In the mid 90s, probably a pretty good daily wine.

Our Wine Expert liked the middle of the road wine the best, until he saw the label. And didn't puke on Thunderbird.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:04 PM (CxvtJ)

302 Can’t Apples and such be dried in a conventional oven? Or maybe the lowest setting might be too high?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 06:21 PM (kAYNz)

Sorry, I wandered off. This is a 8 rack dryer that will give me about a gallon of dried apples in a load. I can upgrade the element in it and I probably will, but the extra heat can cause problems as well.
The heating element is a 200 watt ceramic "reptile heater" and the fan is a salvaged computer fan. The rest of it is made from repurposed materials and has the benefit of not costing $600

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 07:07 PM (rbvCR)

303 you want your apples to dry at about 140F, per USDA

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 07:09 PM (rbvCR)

304 I say call-a-flower
Wife calls it collie-flower.

She also says often with a hard t.

I've spent 38 years trying to fix her.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 02, 2026 07:10 PM (0aYVJ)

305 I just checked myself.

Cawl-Uh-Flower. I reckon' like Cawl-Uh-Whore. But for a vegetable.

OK ... not all that different at all. But I also call it LOO-uh-vul.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 07:14 PM (CxvtJ)

306 Oh Buck. You had me until the cauliflower.

Posted by: bluebell at August 02, 2026 07:39 PM (afFes)

307 I detest cauliflower in any form.

Posted by: ChupaMe at August 02, 2026 08:09 PM (SMhjD)

308 Cauliflower: Anglo-Saxon for 'vegetable brains'.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 08:50 PM (NcvvS)

309 >>I love saffron, but have never used it in a recipe. Boise has a rich Basque community. I want to get a good recipe for Paella and then shop in their block for the right ingredients.

Two words, young man: Risotto Milanese.

Mmmmm!

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 08:55 PM (NcvvS)

First World Problems [Doof]

That's a 24 inch linear shower drain. It's in the master bathroom (yes, I still use that term) of the house I'm currently renting. That's only relevant to convey that this was NOT a drain setup that I intentionally chose. Sure, it's a clean finished look to match the stone of the shower floor. But it is a pain in the ass to maintain.

What's so difficult about it? I'm glad you asked!

The actual drain part below that 24" x 3" slab is only 1.5 or 2 inches in diameter. That little basket sits in the drain. If anyone with even a moderate amount of hair on their head (obviously not referring to myself here) uses the shower regularly, the basket fills up with hair seemingly every other day. Water doesn't drain well through hair, so the shower floor becomes a lake of soapy water.

The slab is heavy. I think it's concrete with stones grouted (or whatever the term is) over it. That little tool next to the basket is what you use to lift it up. It also can be used to grab the wad of hair in the basket. The slab itself is clunky and slippery! Careful where your fingers are if it slips out of your other hand or tips over when titled up on the shower floor (ask me how I know). There are 4 little plastic clips underneath of the slab that hold it in place and keep it flush with the shower floor. Guess what? Those clips like to collect hair, too!

I've tried just letting the hair go down the drain without the basket. It makes a little bit of difference as far as the intervals between clearing the drain. But the clips still collect hair, and then what appears to be a small hairy rodent is trapped in the drain.

Since this isn't my house, I can't tear up the shower floor and redo it. But I am certain that I will NEVER have a set up like this in any house I own. Give me the ugly 4 inch drain plate in the middle of the shower floor any day!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 02:00 PM

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1 1ith

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 w4tgvg4w w4ggvw44

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:01 PM (mmrXZ)

3
Skip, Skip, Skip. What are we going to do with you?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:02 PM (mmrXZ)

4 "Since this isn't my house, I can't tear up the shower floor and redo it."

Wrong, its not your house but if say in 1 hour you decide to tear it up who is going to stop you?

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Ia/+0)

5 I like these household issues

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Ia/+0)

6
Give me clunky classic easily-maintained fixtures over sleek modern pain in the ass ones any day. I have no aesthetic sense anyway.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 02:04 PM (O0L8i)

7
w4tgvg4w w4ggvw44

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:01 PM (mmrXZ)

__________

*grabs rifle*
*heads out*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 02:05 PM (O0L8i)

8 I've stayed in some high-end places that do it better. The drain is actually old school. You build up the tile, or stone, or whatever, and have a great big blind gap where the water flows. Big enough where you can still use a Zip Strip or something else to retrieve hair. And its always hair, and my cat doesn't sneak in there and shower ... who could it be ?

So its just a one course higher toe stubber, but if done with good materials it looks really good. How they make that final connection under the masonry or tile I do not know. But it looks classy as Hell. And if you're so drunk you stub your toe ? Oh well.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 02:05 PM (CxvtJ)

9 You know, the water drains better if there's something like, oh maybe a hole, for the water to go down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 02, 2026 02:05 PM (T5NEI)

10
Shower? What's that?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 02:05 PM (O0L8i)

11 >>>tips over when titled up

tilted

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (odBC9)

12 That's a 24 inch linear shower drain.

You just think it's a shower drain. It's actually a portal to another dimension through which the Kaiju come.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (Riz8t)

13 >>>tips over

Like Guam.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (odBC9)

14 I would get permission before I would burn a rental unit down to the foundation to get rid of that drain.

Your local police authority may frown upon 1st degree aggravated arson but then again, maybe not!

Posted by: Will Robinson at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (zBgIx)

15
I've never seen one of those things. My fwp right now is the dust in my laptop. They make little vacuums for computers, but they're not strong enough to get anything out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (mmrXZ)

16 5 I like these household issues
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Ia/+0)

me, too

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:07 PM (odBC9)

17 You should see some modern sinks used in offices, doubt some you would want in the house

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:07 PM (Ia/+0)

18 Doof, have you tried showering with Liquid Plumber Body Wash?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 02, 2026 02:07 PM (DGD6U)

19 11 >>>tips over when titled up

tilted
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (odBC9)

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

*phew*

Posted by: Enguerrand VII de Coucy at August 02, 2026 02:08 PM (T5NEI)

20
w4tgvg4w w4ggvw44

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:01 PM (mmrXZ)

__________

*grabs rifle*
*heads out*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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

You guys never fail me. lolol

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:08 PM (mmrXZ)

21 I have an old fashioned tub drain that actually collects most hair on top. Swipe it with a rag after showering to get the hair and lint. No need to mess with a basket. I almost always just shower in it. I was going to do an epsom salt soak a couple months ago and the inline plug would work. So I looked at the push to seal replacements but most all of them have a basket to collect hair. "just rinse the hair out" Sure wu, like I want to have my sink get all that hair, or have to go outside to the hydrant to rinse it out. I started to type sure Jack, but these are Chinese products.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (PV+Zw)

22 First world problems demand first world solutions!

https://tinyurl.com/yr98j9jz

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (pZEOD)

23 Argh. inline plug would NOT work.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (PV+Zw)

24 And if you're so drunk you stub your toe ? Oh well.
Posted by: Howdy
__________

Drunk showers are a thing?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

25 That is one ugly shower floor. Looks like a microphotograph of a bacillus culture. And a stupid design for a drain.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (1z8ji)

26 I would be tempted to just leave the strip of concrete and stone pulled up in that rental shower if the edges of the drain were not too sharp and uncomfortable on the feet.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (PV+Zw)

27 >>>tips over when titled up

tilted
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (odBC9)

Nope - not gonna change it!

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (QMAsf)

28 Every month I pull a wad of my wife's hair out of the shower drain and put on a napkin, then set it at her place at the table. It looks like something the cats bring us.

It's a tribute.

My wife thinks otherwise.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (2Cry5)

29 22 First world problems demand first world solutions!

https://tinyurl.com/yr98j9jz
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (pZEOD)

Have you used that, Piper?

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9)

30 27 >>>tips over when titled up

tilted
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (odBC9)

Nope - not gonna change it!
Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (QMAsf)

; )

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9)

31 Drunk showers are a thing?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (XvL8K)

Sure as shit are when I'm the one taking a shower.

Minimum levels are Breakfast, At Work, or Buzzed. After work if I need to shower ? Its at least Buzzed.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 02:14 PM (CxvtJ)

32 First world problems demand first world solutions!

https://tinyurl.com/yr98j9jz
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (pZEOD)

That may have put you back in the running for employee of the month!

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:14 PM (QMAsf)

33 29 22 First world problems demand first world solutions!

https://tinyurl.com/yr98j9jz
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (pZEOD)

Have you used that, Piper?
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:12 PM

No, I don’t have a shower drain like that. I do have a hair catcher thing over our drain because I have a lot of hair, though.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:14 PM (pZEOD)

34 I started to type sure Jack, but these are Chinese products.
Posted by: PaleRider at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (PV+Zw)
-----------
The Chinaman is not the issue here!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2026 02:14 PM (amcLV)

35 Recently got at Lowes what looks like 2 very large zip ties but has barbs on them, theory being shoved down drain and pulled back up the barbs grab hair and soap muck.
Only used once but at least cleared the clog.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:15 PM (Ia/+0)

36 32 First world problems demand first world solutions!

https://tinyurl.com/yr98j9jz
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:09 PM (pZEOD)

That may have put you back in the running for employee of the month!

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:14 PM

I can’t wait for my bonus this year!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:16 PM (pZEOD)

37 35 Recently got at Lowes what looks like 2 very large zip ties but has barbs on them, theory being shoved down drain and pulled back up the barbs grab hair and soap muck.
Only used once but at least cleared the clog.
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:15 PM (Ia/+0)

I like that idea!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:16 PM (odBC9)

38 First world problems demand first world solutions!

A lack of adhesive ducks is responsible for many household injuries.

Posted by: Dr. Sheldon Cooper at August 02, 2026 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

39 Been reading out on deck all afternoon waiting for rain as have laundry on clothes line.
Its getting close

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:16 PM (Ia/+0)

40 Yeah, I'm sure the Chinese merchants did not invent the hair catcher basket under the mushroom drain plug. But its Chinese product descriptions telling me I can easily rinse out the basket - which exists to keep the hair from clogging up the actual plumbing pipes.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 02, 2026 02:17 PM (PV+Zw)

41 m less than 5 bucks

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:17 PM (Ia/+0)

42 Mrs B has longish hair, mine is longer than hers. Every few months I'm pulling a racoon tail out of the drain. This house, the old house, doesn't matter. Every few months I get the warning "the shower is clogged". I just went through it a few days ago.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2026 02:17 PM (S41Gd)

43 Recently got at Lowes what looks like 2 very large zip ties but has barbs on them, theory being shoved down drain and pulled back up the barbs grab hair and soap muck.

EXACLTY what I'm calling a Zip Strip. They work. Don't use one until 30 minutes after eating.

Mine always pull up a bunch of jet black hair. Some very long. Other really short and curly. I'm brown headed - what's left.

It's a damn mystery, whose clogging up that shower.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 02:17 PM (CxvtJ)

44 The DNC has gone full Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

https://tinyurl.com/5y9jahxp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 02:18 PM (ndZc7)

45 This time of the year I just shower in the wash rack

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 02:18 PM (abScH)

46 22 First world problems demand first world solutions!

https://tinyurl.com/yr98j9jz

Posted by: Piper
----

Alternate answer for the rectangle (it's a match!) bottom rt of the same page.

https://tinyurl.com/sr7ewz87

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:18 PM (+yTe/)

47 >>Recently got at Lowes what looks like 2 very large zip ties but has barbs on them

Called a plastic drain snake

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 02:19 PM (J4Dwc)

48 When I was teaching in South Korea, I was in a small 500 ft apartment.

The bathroom had a drain in the middle and you just showered there. Different.

Still raining heavily. I wish my friends cat was here. Most days she's here at this time for a 5 or 6 hour nap. Outside then back to sleep with the dog and I.

But not in a perverted Democrat 2027 campaign platform way.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 02:19 PM (Sco7b)

49 That little tool next to the basket is what you use to lift it up.

That little tool looks exactly like the tool that came with my bread machine, to remove the two paddles from the bread if they stay in the bread.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 02, 2026 02:19 PM (kYmoU)

50 46 22 First world problems demand first world solutions!

https://tinyurl.com/yr98j9jz

Posted by: Piper
----

Alternate answer for the rectangle (it's a match!) bottom rt of the same page.

https://tinyurl.com/sr7ewz87

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

We are truly out here doing the Lord’s work. High-five!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:19 PM (pZEOD)

51 The DNC has gone full Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

https://tinyurl.com/5y9jahxp

Flamboyant gaywad says what?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 02, 2026 02:20 PM (Riz8t)

52 We never think about how it has to be maintained.

Posted by: People who design stuff at August 02, 2026 02:21 PM (2Ez/1)

53 The DNC has gone full Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

I love that this douche decries the "negativity" in today's politics and then calls out that "motherf***er Trump". I'm sure he meant it in a positive way, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 02, 2026 02:22 PM (Riz8t)

54 Alternate answer for the rectangle (it's a match!) bottom rt of the same page.

https://tinyurl.com/sr7ewz87

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

That's essentially what's already there.

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:22 PM (QMAsf)

55 'er's one with oles init

cheaper too

https://tinyurl.com/uxu37e8p

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:22 PM (+yTe/)

56 Round is easier to clean too.

Posted by: DaveA at August 02, 2026 02:22 PM (FhXTo)

57 w4tgvg4w w4ggvw44
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Depictions of two of the plastic-clip hairballs?

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 02:23 PM (VHUov)

58 'er's one with oles init

cheaper too

https://tinyurl.com/uxu37e8p

All of these problems would disappear if you people would just forego the shower and hose yourselves off in the yard.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 02, 2026 02:23 PM (Riz8t)

59 All of these problems would disappear if you people would just forego the shower and hose yourselves off in the yard.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 02, 2026 02:23 PM (Riz8t)

Or go with my hairstyle

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:24 PM (QMAsf)

60 Spanish Socialist Leader Sánchez Blasts Fellow EU Leaders as “Selfish” over Response to Ceuta Migrant Invasion

-
Well, that's a winning argument.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 02:28 PM (ndZc7)

61 I wish I had enough hair left to clog any drain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 02:28 PM (JvZF+)

62 Spanish Socialist Leader Sánchez Tells Fellow EU Leaders to "Calm Down!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 02:29 PM (JvZF+)

63 “Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”—Lucille Ball

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 02, 2026 02:29 PM (kYmoU)

64 60 Spanish Socialist Leader Sánchez Blasts Fellow EU Leaders as “Selfish” over Response to Ceuta Migrant Invasion
---

He wrote a letter to Brussels
and bitched about his strife

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:29 PM (+yTe/)

65 I can’t wait for my bonus this year!
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:16 PM (pZEOD)

Coupon entitling you to one free restroom token with every 3 purchased

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:31 PM (QMAsf)

66 "Master bedroom." I used that term with my cow worker once when she described her renovation project. She nearly had an aneurysm, as if I had said "Gran Wizard Bedroom." Btw, her name was Karen.

Posted by: fly gal at August 02, 2026 02:31 PM (aOxVF)

67 That's not a first world problem, that's a retard design.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 02, 2026 02:31 PM (8E0Ba)

68
master bedroom
noun
the main or largest bedroom in a house or apartment: the master bedroom overlooks the communal garden, as do the bathroom and kitchen.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:32 PM (odBC9)

69 All of these problems would disappear if you people would just forego the shower and hose yourselves off in the yard.
Posted by: Archimedes

The front yard, to keep it classy

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 02, 2026 02:32 PM (Pm0eT)

70 That's not a first world problem, that's a retard design.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 02, 2026 02:31 PM (8E0Ba)

The retard design is the inferred part of the FWP

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:33 PM (QMAsf)

71 If one is not concerned about 'looks', that shower has a 2" drain pipe, most all of them do. There are work arounds.

If the drain cup is collecting that much hair it may be saving you the cost of several plumber trips.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:34 PM (+yTe/)

72 >>It's actually a portal to another dimension through which the Kaiju come.

First read that as 'Saijo' and wondered if Soup had become multidimensional.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 02:34 PM (NcvvS)

73 You've got hair in your drain? Well, there's your problem.

Posted by: Rep. Ayanna Pressley at August 02, 2026 02:34 PM (B0NCh)

74
Would "mistress bedroom" be better?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 02:35 PM (O0L8i)

75 He wrote a letter to Brussels
and bitched about his strife

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:29 PM (+yTe/)

Sent a copy to his lawyer?
Memo heading: FML?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 02:35 PM (nbLIj)

76 But, but...it's such an elegant design! Why, it could be a display at MoMA!

Posted by: Modernists at August 02, 2026 02:35 PM (XeU6L)

77 >>>the master bedroom overlooks the communal garden
---

Fuck that, this isn't Britain.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:36 PM (+yTe/)

78 "Communal garden." What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 02, 2026 02:37 PM (T5NEI)

79 72 >>It's actually a portal to another dimension through which the Kaiju come.

First read that as 'Saijo' and wondered if Soup had become multidimensional.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 02:34 PM (NcvvS)

Soup’s body size is very deceptive as to the amount of hair it is capable of generating. I am glad he gets monthly spa days and I don’t have to bathe him. The tub would be a disaster.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:38 PM (Wmg4n)

80 I suppose installing the slots so you can use the Lewis wedges for lifting that block more easily is out. Perhaps you could just remove the block and put in a stainless perforated grate that would fill the hole, and act as a pre-filter for hair?
It wouldn't change anything permanently and would be easier to scrap clean, with the lower filter basket in place to keep even more out of the drain.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:38 PM (rbvCR)

81 74
Would "mistress bedroom" be better?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
--

If one were a faggot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:38 PM (+yTe/)

82 can you still say jack and jill bathroom or could that be offensive to jacks who think theyre jills etc and other tranny nonsense

Posted by: nckate at August 02, 2026 02:39 PM (enNUy)

83 Primary bedroom, scoldy superblow commercials, all commercials black or absurdly mixed-race, tearing down statues. All this bullshit started about what, 2020? Fuckers are rewriting history and revising English more brazenly than ever.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 02, 2026 02:40 PM (lgI1T)

84 Selfish? If so ship some Muslims to them.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:40 PM (Ia/+0)

85 83 Primary bedroom, scoldy superblow commercials, all commercials black or absurdly mixed-race, tearing down statues. All this bullshit started about what, 2020? Fuckers are rewriting history and revising English more brazenly than ever.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 02, 2026 02:40 PM (lgI1T)

Glad we kicked them out.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:40 PM (odBC9)

86 Kangz bedroom

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 02:41 PM (Cqx++)

87 ; )
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9)

He is M-titled!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:41 PM (rbvCR)

88 85 83 Primary bedroom, scoldy superblow commercials, all commercials black or absurdly mixed-race, tearing down statues. All this bullshit started about what, 2020? Fuckers are rewriting history and revising English more brazenly than ever.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 02, 2026 02:40 PM (lgI1T)

Glad we kicked them out.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:40 PM (odBC9)

(the English)

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:41 PM (odBC9)

89 It wouldn't change anything permanently and would be easier to scrap clean, with the lower filter basket in place to keep even more out of the drain.

Posted by: Kindltot
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Cut a 2X6 to size, cut a 2" hole at the drain pipe and put a round grill over it.
_a redneck

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:42 PM (+yTe/)

90 >>Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:38 PM (Wmg4n)

Wife bathes her("our") chubby Chorkie in the bathroom sink. Thankfully, the pup does not generate a lot of hair.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 02:42 PM (NcvvS)

91 87 ; )
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:12 PM (odBC9)

He is M-titled!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:41 PM (rbvCR)

Maybe he meant "tittled."

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:42 PM (odBC9)

92 >>The retard design is the inferred part of the FWP

Posted by: Doof at August

>FWP: I would slip on that shit and do a face plant. These showers are tricky.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 02, 2026 02:42 PM (8E0Ba)

93 Have everyone who uses the shower shave their heads, and get a complete Brazilian body wax before using.

Problem solved.

Posted by: HordeSource (tm) at August 02, 2026 02:43 PM (0sNs1)

94 It's a rental. Burn it down and make the landlord start over.

Posted by: Reforger at August 02, 2026 02:43 PM (zhLil)

95 Sony is demanding I sign in to my account periodically or it won't let us use the good old PS4. I thought I solved the problem by not allowing the console to connect to the internet, but evidently a timer was downloaded with the last, unexpected update in June. I don't want to pay a subscription fee to play Blurays or old games.

I have too much inherited stuff and curating has tough. Of particular interest to 'Ettes, I culled jewelry - my own as well as inherited from four relatives - down to four boxes and a table/top rack.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 02, 2026 02:44 PM (Eh8hH)

96 The interwebs say "master bedroom" first appeared in a 1920s Sears catalogue.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 02:45 PM (XvL8K)

97 I too have a lot of hair and those drain zippers bring up shoggoth-sized hair wads. Fascinatingly disgusting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2026 02:46 PM (kpS4V)

98 adjective
1 having or showing very great skill or proficiency: a heart-warming story from a master storyteller.
• denoting a person skilled in a particular trade and able to teach others: a master bricklayer.
2 main; principal: the apartment's master bathroom has a free-standing oval bathtub.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:47 PM (odBC9)

99 Primary bedroom, scoldy superblow commercials, all commercials black or absurdly mixed-race, tearing down statues. All this bullshit started about what, 2020? Fuckers are rewriting history and revising English more brazenly than ever.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 02, 2026 02:40 PM (lgI1T)

Started about 2012. Also,

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
7h
WOAH 🚨 Secretary of State Marco Rubio CONFIRMS they have evidence that the mass protesters that come out for different protests like Anti-ICE, pro-Hamas and even the 2020 protests ARE ALL THE SAME PROTEST GROUPS

“There's nothing organic about it. It is funded, it is organized.” They just remake signs for each different protest

“They were the same people you saw on the streets burning things in 2020. They then flip it around and they become the pro-Hamas protesters, then they flip it around and within 48 hours of Maduro's arrest have pre-printed signs outside the courthouse demanding his release. Then they're out there doing the ICE stuff, attacking ICE agents.

There's nothing organic about it. It is funded, it is organized, and Cuba is a part of that network, and in some cases, a critical part of that [ . . .]

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:48 PM (rbvCR)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:48 PM (odBC9)

101 Maybe he meant "tittled."
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:42 PM (odBC9)

You have tits?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:49 PM (rbvCR)

102 This time of the year I just shower in the wash rack
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 02:18 PM (abScH

You know the rules, BH!

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 02:49 PM (30Gj0)

103 It's a rental. Burn it down and make the landlord start over.
Posted by: Reforger at August 02, 2026 02:43 PM (zhLil)

It's a great house for our needs. Backs up to woods and has an awesome screened-in porch. Sitting out there listening to rain and birds right now. It'll likely be my last address in MD as I will definitely not be buying another house here ever.

Posted by: Doof at August 02, 2026 02:49 PM (QMAsf)

104 I can't think of any reason to have a drain like that. I put sticky disposable screens on the drain to collect long hair. I also dustmop the bedrooms at least once a week. It's like Shetland ponies live here.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Eh8hH)

105 Spaniards Horrified To See Their Country Turning Into Minnesota

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 02:50 PM (ndZc7)

106 90 >>Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:38 PM (Wmg4n)

Wife bathes her("our") chubby Chorkie in the bathroom sink. Thankfully, the pup does not generate a lot of hair.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 02:42 PM (NcvvS)

Saijo is bigger than a sink dog, at his very intimidating 25 pounds. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Wmg4n)

107 Saijo is bigger than a sink dog, at his very intimidating 25 pounds. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Wmg4n)

That is not really impressive. I have a cat who is 23 lbs.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:51 PM (rbvCR)

108 This time of the year I just shower in the wash rack
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 02:18 PM

I'm always here for you, you know.

Posted by: The Horse Trailer at August 02, 2026 02:52 PM (0sNs1)

109 I think bathing my 23 lbs cat would be a task. He is a softy and a chonker, but I think he might be able to outfight me.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:54 PM (rbvCR)

110 “There's nothing organic about it. It is funded, it is organized.” They just remake signs for each different protest
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Gee, if only there were black-letter federal laws against such things. Oh well.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 02:54 PM (McFGI)

111 My dog Ralphy is still alive.

Last Sunday I was thinking I'd have to put him to sleep but the vet increased the dosage of his pain pills and he's good as new.

People come by and he shows an insane amount of life for being 105. 15 this month. He's a rescue dog so that's the best I have. And he loved and adored my late mother, stood by her every minute so he's getting that same amount of love.

I'm in a two level split. Ralphy is fine in and out of the house where there are two stairs and he has a running jump. But 44 pound puppy gets lifted and carried up and down the stairs in the house. I have gates blocking stairs because he gets a "Hey, Check this out!" look in his eyes.

It's a bit tiring since he wants to be with me all the time. But we've been finding balance. A lot of carrying but that's alright.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 02:54 PM (Sco7b)

112 104 I can't think of any reason to have a drain like that. I put sticky disposable screens on the drain to collect long hair. I also dustmop the bedrooms at least once a week. It's like Shetland ponies live here.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Eh8hH)

hahahahahaha

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 02:55 PM (odBC9)

113 >>Saijo is bigger than a sink dog, at his very intimidating 25 pounds. 🤣

Sassy (the name certainly fits) is, according to the vet last week, 'a 9 pound dog on a 7 pound frame'. She is now on a diet.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 02:56 PM (NcvvS)

114 Oh, I called the vets office to tell them Ralphy is doing great on the pills.

And his middle name is now Lazarus.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 02:57 PM (Sco7b)

115 >>Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 02:54 PM (Sco7b)

Great to see this, Stateless!

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 02:57 PM (NcvvS)

116 07 Saijo is bigger than a sink dog, at his very intimidating 25 pounds. 🤣
Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Wmg4n)

That is not really impressive. I have a cat who is 23 lbs.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 02:51 PM (rbvCR

So do I! 2 of them, I have Savannahs, remember? I Shibas are only big in their minds.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:58 PM (OoFl2)

117 >>So do I! 2 of them, I have Savannahs, remember? I Shibas are only big in their minds.

Chorkies, similar.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 02:58 PM (NcvvS)

118 44 The DNC has gone full Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

https://tinyurl.com/5y9jahxp
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 02:18 PM (ndZc7)

I had to google Ernst Blofeld and lo and behold it was Blythe the Forger from The Great Escape. Him I know, Blofeld not so much.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 02, 2026 02:59 PM (SjAWL)

119 Damn. I missed the post this morning about the unemployed weasel of the welfare state.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 02, 2026 02:59 PM (T5NEI)

120 And his middle name is now Lazarus.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 02:57 PM (Sco7b)

Aww! I hope he keeps going as long as he likes.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (Eh8hH)

121
I think bathing my 23 lbs cat would be a task. He is a softy and a chonker, but I think he might be able to outfight me.
Posted by: Kindltot

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What?! Has this creature been shown on the pet thread? I must see the 23-pound cat.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (mmrXZ)

122 If the DNC thinks it's not getting favorable press from the lickspittle MSM, I don't know what to say...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (B0NCh)

123 Watching RFK jr verbally smack Dana Bash around was a thing of beauty. Not enough people treat the propaganda ministers like they be treated, like shit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (BFvh9)

124 I had to google Ernst Blofeld and lo and behold it was Blythe the Forger from The Great Escape. Him I know, Blofeld not so much.
Posted by: TxAnn at August 02, 2026 02:59 PM (SjAWL

My lawn. You may depart.

Posted by: RI Red - at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (30Gj0)

125 96 The interwebs say "master bedroom" first appeared in a 1920s Sears catalogue.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 02:45 PM (XvL8K)

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Before that they called it the Oberseer's Bedroom.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 02, 2026 03:01 PM (T5NEI)

126 Yay!

My friends cat Snowflake was meowing by the door.

It's still raining, I dried her up, seh's in my bedroom now. Ralpjy's friend is here!

I hope all of you have a very happy week!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 03:02 PM (Sco7b)

127 123 Watching RFK jr verbally smack Dana Bash around was a thing of beauty. Not enough people treat the propaganda ministers like they be treated, like shit
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (BFvh9)

She was so rude.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:02 PM (odBC9)

128 >>I had to google Ernst Blofeld and lo and behold it was Blythe the Forger from The Great Escape. Him I know, Blofeld not so much.

6 different actors have done Blofeld in the flicks. Did not recall that Telly Savalas was one of them.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 03:03 PM (NcvvS)

129 She was so rude.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:02 PM (odBC9)

Fauci's diary was revelatory in multiple ways....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 03:03 PM (B0NCh)

130 N. GA mountain cabin owned by a friend. No well. 'Shower' was a suspended, perforated bucket which hung over an open 4'x4' platform down the mountain from a spring-fed pool. The bucket was fed by a hose. Mind you, this was just in open wooded mountainside. I recall dancing around under the thing, freezing damn cold.

Posted by: Modernists at August 02, 2026 03:04 PM (XeU6L)

131 What?! Has this creature been shown on the pet thread? I must see the 23-pound cat.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (mmrXZ)

I have a picture of my wife holding him. The cat is 1/5th her weight and has a panicked look in his eyes

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 03:05 PM (rbvCR)

132 Black cats do not photograph well

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 03:06 PM (rbvCR)

133 127 123 Watching RFK jr verbally smack Dana Bash around was a thing of beauty. Not enough people treat the propaganda ministers like they be treated, like shit
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (BFvh9)

She was so rude.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:02 PM (odBC9)

Right after I watched it, I saw a years'-old clip of Peter Robinson interviewing Mark Steyn. Dana Bash could take some lessons from Peter Robinson.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:07 PM (odBC9)

134 127 123 Watching RFK jr verbally smack Dana Bash around was a thing of beauty. Not enough people treat the propaganda ministers like they be treated, like shit
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 03:00 PM (BFvh9)

She was so rude.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:02

I think I'd suck at politics.

With every sentence, me calling subhumans like her 'stupid bitch would make for a short career.

And after being barred from restaurants, travel, education, etc during covid, I get to freely use the n word.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 03:07 PM (Sco7b)

135 Dana Bash and Margaret Brennan are "Journalism" the same way Tony Fauci is "Science."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 03:09 PM (B0NCh)

136 Every month I pull a wad of my wife's hair out of the shower drain and put on a napkin, then set it at her place at the table. It looks like something the cats bring us.
It's a tribute.
My wife thinks otherwise.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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If I pulled that stunt, my wife would probably appear at the dinner table looking like Ayanna Pressley, albeit with much less melanin. I married a girl with baby-fine red hair to her waist. To keep me happy she does keep it (now baby-fine silver) shoulder length. We use different showers, so the blob in my shower is my own damned fault.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 02, 2026 03:09 PM (Lmo2r)

137 > Watching RFK jr verbally smack Dana Bash around was a thing of beauty. Not enough people treat the propaganda ministers like they be treated, like shit
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A lot of the propaganda ministers feel unencumbered by decorum and treat administrative officials with disdain. Bash is particularly obnoxious. So's what's her name that aggravated Trump so much he up and left the interview.

They feel there'll be no recriminations for being belligerent. They're correct.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 03:10 PM (2Cry5)

138 I think I'd suck at politics. With every sentence, me calling subhumans like her 'stupid bitch would make for a short career.

I've never made a political contribution in my life.

You'd be my first. I'm in for a hundy. Not a handy, a hundy.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 03:11 PM (Hsef8)

139 When I was teaching in South Korea, I was in a small 500 ft apartment.
The bathroom had a drain in the middle and you just showered there. Different.
Posted by: Stateless
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In RV land, that's referred to as a "wet bath".

Did you have the rectangular porcelain hole in the floor with molded in footprints?

Posted by: buddhaha at August 02, 2026 03:13 PM (Lmo2r)

140 Speaking of plumbing, my wellhead fixture corroded off and water was gushing everywhere in my backyard. Well guys just finished the repair and water is back on. Interesting living for a time with no running water.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 02, 2026 03:14 PM (YcOeP)

141

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:18 PM (odBC9)

142 oops

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:18 PM (odBC9)

143 The inside of the drain should be black … that way it looks like money drop at a bank. But yeah, you're right - the simple 4" drain works just as well and has the added benefit of being WAY cheaper (okay, maybe 'less fashionista', but WGAF?) …

Posted by: Dr_No at August 02, 2026 03:18 PM (ayRl+)

144 I've never made a political contribution in my life.

You'd be my first. I'm in for a hundy. Not a handy, a hundy.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 03:11 PM (Hsef

It'd be worth it just for the entertainment. This is one reason people love President Trump.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 03:19 PM (Sco7b)

145 140 Interesting living for a time with no running water.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 02, 2026 03:14 PM (YcOeP)

During the big TX freeze of 2021 when I had zero electricity and a broken pipe, I had the entire contents of my refrigerator in the snow in the back yard.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 02, 2026 03:21 PM (SjAWL)

146 That infamous 2016 exchange between Bill O'Reilly and Jennifer Rubin on The O'Reilly factor is More of the Same!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:22 PM (odBC9)

147 Lesson one when cleaning the drains...make damned sure the wife isn't around. Years ago daughter #2 of Diogenes came home to visit briefly and her friend (long blond hair) used the shower. I had to call daughter #2 and have her tell her mother that her friend had used the shower.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

148 In RV land, that's referred to as a "wet bath".

Did you have the rectangular porcelain hole in the floor with molded in footprints?

Posted by: buddhaha at August 02, 2026 03:13 PM (Lmo2r)

Good to know.

No, just the drain. And we had plastic slippers for the washroom at other times.

Ralphy just ate. Snowflake is in. Time for a horror movie.

I put Ralphy on my bed and Snowflake goes there next to him.Too cute. I have pictures I'll put on my website soon.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 03:23 PM (Sco7b)

149 Outdoor shower with a wooden privacy enclosure.

Keep the indoor shower clean and unused, like the guest towels and decorative show soaps.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 02, 2026 03:27 PM (wVcYX)

150 We're on a septic system so we have to be mindful of what can, and can't go down the drain(s).

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 03:30 PM (2Cry5)

151 146 That infamous 2016 exchange between Bill O'Reilly and Jennifer Rubin on The O'Reilly factor is More of the Same!
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:22 PM (odBC9)

https://tinyurl.com/zzrpr7jm

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:31 PM (odBC9)

152 Speaking of plumbing, my wellhead fixture corroded off and water was gushing everywhere in my backyard. Well guys just finished the repair and water is back on. Interesting living for a time with no running water.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks
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Try it for a solid month. And...no electricity. There is a LOT that we take for granted.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc., post Helene at August 02, 2026 03:34 PM (XeU6L)

153 151 146 That infamous 2016 exchange between Bill O'Reilly and Jennifer Rubin on The O'Reilly factor is More of the Same!
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:22 PM (odBC9)

https://tinyurl.com/zzrpr7jm
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:31 PM (odBC9)

It's, like, comedy.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:37 PM (odBC9)

154 It's 80 something degrees, but cloudy with a breeze, so I'm comfortably sitting in the back yard. Listening to my two AC compressors happily burning up my money. Seems odd.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 03:38 PM (sl73Y)

155 That's a 24 inch linear shower drain.

My favorite is when an upscale hotel puts a metal one directly under the dripping shower head so that it rings like a gong with each drip.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 02, 2026 03:40 PM (a4flb)

156 uh-oh

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Greg Price
@greg_price11
2h
Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve is wearing a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt during their game against the Indiana Fever and Sophie Cunningham.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:42 PM (odBC9)

157 My favorite is when an upscale hotel puts a metal one directly under the dripping shower head so that it rings like a gong with each drip.
Posted by: Community Notes

I've stayed there myself.

At least the First-world solution there is easy. They give you a whole pile of bathroom linens, and leaving them on the bathroom floor is how you say "I've used it, take it away and wash it."

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 03:45 PM (VHUov)

158 Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve is wearing a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt during their game against the Indiana Fever and Sophie Cunningham.
Posted by: m

Counting the seconds until the 'shopped/AI'ed pic shows up with "In The Mental Ward" added.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 03:46 PM (VHUov)

159 147 Lesson one when cleaning the drains...make damned sure the wife isn't around. Years ago daughter #2 of Diogenes came home to visit briefly and her friend (long blond hair) used the shower. I had to call daughter #2 and have her tell her mother that her friend had used the shower.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

Good call. I’ve seen even more benign situations end up on a Dateline episode.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 02, 2026 03:46 PM (SjAWL)

160 .....or, more subversively, "In The Girls' Shower."

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 03:47 PM (VHUov)

161 The sort of ovoid shapes in that floor tile look like, I don't know, paramecia?

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:47 PM (odBC9)

162 Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:15 PM (Ia/+0
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I've used those before. They seemed to do a good enough job.

Posted by: 496 at August 02, 2026 03:47 PM (TV54s)

163 Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Greg Price
@greg_price11
2h
Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve is wearing a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt during their game against the Indiana Fever and Sophie Cunningham.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:42 PM (odBC9)

How much to buy the seat next to her so I can wear my "...in a padded room" tee shirt?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 03:48 PM (nbLIj)

164 Of all the crazy shit we've been living through for the last decade or so nothing comes close for me to the insanity of seemingly educated and at least somewhat intelligent people insisting that trans is not a mental illness and people really can change their biological sex if they want to bad enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

165
Trans
Kids
Belong

Black
Lives
Matter

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:52 PM (odBC9)

166 From the last thread: someone posted that the approximately 40 trillion dollar national debt was too big to be comprehended. Let’s look at it this way: assume there are roughly 300 million Americans (I’m discounting illegals). Then each American has to pay about 130 thousand dollars to cover it. That is each American: you have to pay that, your spouse has to pay that amount again, same for each of your children. Think we should run up more debt?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 03:54 PM (aOqrc)

167 Of all the crazy shit we've been living through for the last decade or so nothing comes close for me to the insanity of seemingly educated and at least somewhat intelligent people insisting that trans is not a mental illness and people really can change their biological sex if they want to bad enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 03:52 PM (viF8m)

Because they're bat shit insane also.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2026 03:54 PM (S41Gd)

168 @164 the trans crap hit at the same time social media really took off. Everyone wanted attention and having or supporting a trans kid made them feel virtuous

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 03:56 PM (BFvh9)

169 Of all the crazy shit we've been living through for the last decade or so nothing comes close for me to the insanity of seemingly educated and at least somewhat intelligent people insisting that trans is not a mental illness and people really can change their biological sex if they want to bad enough.
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It is perfectly possible for intelligent people to do stupid things. I am surrounded by AWFLS who are perfectly intelligent, but driven by socio-political idealogy.

"The Candid Conservative; A nation of the intellectually stupid?"
https://shorturl.at/hZNYq

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc., post Helene at August 02, 2026 03:58 PM (XeU6L)

170 >>Because they're bat shit insane also.

Have you noticed there aren't a lot of trans people in China or other repressive countries? Seems to be strictly a western situation.

If I cut my leg off and strapped on a peg and started telling everyone I was Captain Kidd they'd through me in an asylum. But guys cut off their junk and presto, they're a girl.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 03:58 PM (viF8m)

171 Good one, Doof!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:00 PM (odBC9)

172
Do you love me?
No, I think you stink.
But do you love me?
No, I think you stink.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 04:02 PM (+yTe/)

173 If I cut my leg off and strapped on a peg and started telling everyone I was Captain Kidd they'd through me in an asylum. But guys cut off their junk and presto, they're a girl.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 03:58 PM (viF8m)

Uncle Jack?

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 04:03 PM (nbLIj)

174 Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve is wearing a “Trans Kids Belong” shirt during their game against the Indiana Fever and Sophie Cunningham.

Modern Corporate America is pretty much locked into the FDR model. They really believe they can create demand.

Go to ESPN ... just indulge me. ESPN is convinced they can MAKE YOU like the WNBA. And Pro Wrestling ... which isn't even a sport. You might as well watch the circus.

And that's why we have Electric Vehicles - FORD's investing even more losing money into another plant. And Hybrid Water Heaters ... great idea GE.

And why Chrysler, of all people, is trying to hot start back the 5.7 Hemi. Because everybody that drove one liked them. Truck or Car. So a CEO cancelled the program. Now the guy before him, that's back again, is trying to fix the damage.

Same for GM. They cancelled the LS. Just the most successful engine ever made in the modern era. Straight up. If you did a project car that wasn't historic ? You dropped in an LS.

All pointing to this. The WNBA, and ESPN, and DISNEY above them, doesn't give a damn if you want that product or not. They believe the product will simply "exist".

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 04:04 PM (Hsef8)

175 Food Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 02, 2026 04:05 PM (nESHF)

176 Speaking of plumbing, my wellhead fixture corroded off and water was gushing everywhere in my backyard. Well guys just finished the repair and water is back on. Interesting living for a time with no running water.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks

The Paolo, he...how you say...is known to gush from his wellhead.

Posted by: The Paolo at August 02, 2026 04:06 PM (2WIwB)

177 All pointing to this. The WNBA, and ESPN, and DISNEY above them, doesn't give a damn if you want that product or not. They believe the product will simply "exist".
Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 04:04 PM (Hsef

Hello there!

Posted by: Amazon Prime Video at August 02, 2026 04:06 PM (PiwSw)

178 We are truly out here doing the Lord’s work. High-five!

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:19 PM (pZEOD)

Ahem. The Horde's work.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)

179 Not a FWP exactly, but I could use the Horde's advice.

I woke up this morning with an unsuspected need for a kitty fountain. It must be easy to clean. (REALLY easy to clean.)

Any recommendations?

Posted by: Wenda at August 02, 2026 04:11 PM (7m/2p)

180 Wenda, I believe Wolfus has one. You might try asking him on the tech thread or possibly early on the ONT.

Posted by: DanMa'am at August 02, 2026 04:16 PM (8uzBS)

181 And why Chrysler, of all people, is trying to hot start back the 5.7 Hemi. Because everybody that drove one liked them. Truck or Car. So a CEO cancelled the program. Now the guy before him, that's back again, is trying to fix the damage.
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The doors may sag, the glove box fall apart, the window leak but that drivetrain keeps on going.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 04:25 PM (+yTe/)

182 Why can't Chrysler put a vehicle together as well as they do engines and drivetrains?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 04:26 PM (+yTe/)

183 I shower down in the crick cause Granny calls me a hairy goomer.

Posted by: Jethro Bodine, Sixth Grade Graduate at August 02, 2026 04:56 PM (JM9I6)

184 DanMa'am,

Thanks.

Posted by: Wenda at August 02, 2026 04:58 PM (7m/2p)

185 Hated the one in our old house

Posted by: MacRadDoc at August 02, 2026 05:51 PM (Gl2C6)

The Unalloyed Evil Of The Welfare State.

Everyone is aware of the radical change in America's attitude toward public assistance and government action in supposed defense of the welfare of Americans.

The vast array of government programs presented to any citizen who is not perfectly comfortable is mind numbing. They claim to provide everything! Housing, food, cell phones (!), internet access, medical care, child care, help with utility bills, transportation, discounts on taxes, higher education, and on and on. Whether those innumerable government programs actually provide those pie-in-the-sky promises is a different question, but we all know that if they do, it comes at an obscene and inefficient cost. And it is becoming increasingly obvious that the many billions of dollars spent each year are often stolen!

They programs are shoved at us every day, from signs at the market touting EBT benefits, to signs on highways with government phone numbers to call for aid, to emergency room medical coordinators frantic to find a government program to pay their exorbitant bills.

The list of who to blame is long, but the heavy hitters are FDR, LBJ, Nixon (Yup!), Obama, and Biden. They conspired to make the default attitude of Americans that of a supplicant, rather than a citizen with rights and responsibilities.

And it worked!

What the Welfare State Unleashed

Indeed, one of the striking features of early America is not that assistance was unavailable, but that many people who qualified for relief were reluctant to seek it. Contemporary accounts from several states—including New Jersey—describe respectable men and women enduring extraordinary hardship before accepting public charity. To modern ears, such reluctance may seem irrational. To them, it was a matter of preserving self-respect.
That moral instinct—that accepting public assistance should be exceptional rather than ordinary—formed an essential part of the American understanding of citizenship until the 20th century.
The first cracks in that understanding appeared during the Progressive Era and deepened during the New Deal. Faced with industrialization, urban poverty, and the Great Depression, Americans increasingly looked to government to perform functions that earlier generations had entrusted to institutions outside of the government. Much of that expansion responded to genuine crises, and programs such as Social Security reflected the extraordinary circumstances of their time.
Even so, the nation’s underlying philosophy was beginning to change. Government was no longer viewed simply as a safety net for those unable to care for themselves; it increasingly became expected to solve all social and economic problems. The shift was gradual and often justified by necessity. But it subtly weakened the older assumption that public assistance should remain exceptional, temporary, and closely tied to preserving personal independence.

Nothing here is surprising...it is the long and sordid story of our creeping socialism.

But another consequence of this plunge into the welfare state and the welfare psyche is that even people who have no need for government assistance in its many forms have been tarnished by it.

We see destitute people overwhelming our cities, and we recoil. We turn away from those in need. And that is a rational response to people who have lost their sense of morality and shame and pride and self-respect. We have come to expect that the government will take care of it, even though we know that government is incapable of that task, and we have the data to prove it! But government has placed obstacles in the way of regular Americans to help their less-well-off neighbors. Churches must jump through hoops to provide a hungry man a hot meal. Charitable organizations are buried under oceans of paperwork and, sadly, some have become vehicles for the self-aggrandizement of their sponsors. Just look at the Clinton's "charity" for evidence of that.

Have we lost all sense of goodness and charity? No, of course not. We are still the most generous people on earth, but the taint of government has injured even that!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 12:01 PM (NcvvS)

3 The New Deal put Americans into wanting the Dole, your welfare was up to the government, they broke it so they had to fix it.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 12:05 PM (Ia/+0)

4 I never fail a Nood if first

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 12:06 PM (Ia/+0)

5 Every one of those government programs, in spite of what their sponsors claim, is intended primarily to provide employment to otherwise unemployable drones.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)

6 I saw a survey that said 1/4 people claimed to be disabled.

And as the adage goes, whatever you pay for you get more of.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:07 PM (sKqQm)

7 >>I never fail a Nood if first

This is true, but I always put up the Nood before trying for the first, and there were no comments here when I nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 12:07 PM (NcvvS)

8 Every one of those government programs, in spite of what their sponsors claim, is intended primarily to provide employment to otherwise unemployable drones.

And create a reliable Democratic voting bloc.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:08 PM (aD4fx)

9 Hear Hear !!! Feed and care for your own children. You chose to have them.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 12:08 PM (abScH)

10 >>And create a reliable Democratic voting bloc.

Pretty sure that those otherwise unemployable drones are already a reliable Democratic voting bloc.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 12:09 PM (NcvvS)

11 We have so far discovered billions, almost a trillion in fraud.

So we are going to reduce the budgets of those agencies by the amount of fraud- right?

I mean, these politicians are all standing up there glad handing and back slapping each other for their shitty oversight that allowed this in the first place. So now they will embrace a new budget baseline and declare a lot of these programs much more solvent than the dark predictions they use year after year to justify the increase.

No, I’m serious. Stop laughing.

Posted by: That Guy at August 02, 2026 12:09 PM (egaJw)

12 "Perfect socialism grinds off all the projecting corners of the individual until it fits perfectly in its communal niche."

Posted by: Guy still on the last thread at August 02, 2026 12:09 PM (MWfyi)

13 > To them, it was a matter of preserving self-respect.
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This right here... the loss of any and all self-respect. There's whole generations that don't have it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 12:09 PM (2Cry5)

14 One other thing to note in all of this - if you go back 20 or 30 years the argument was about how generous of a welfare state we should have for heritage Americans.

But someone now its become instead a debate about how unfair, racist, and anti-democratic is to not give a generous welfare state to foreigners. Which is...insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:09 PM (sKqQm)

15 Every one of those government programs, in spite of what their sponsors claim, is intended primarily to provide employment to otherwise unemployable drones.

And comfortably so.

If gubmint jobs were mostly sending people out to clean the roads 40/h a week I suspect we'd have a lot fewer people interested in working for Uncle Sugar

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:11 PM (sKqQm)

16 “When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self- restraint.”—Alexis de Tocqueville

And all the free money, free internet, and free porn are destroying young men (and women) in believing that the "feelings', "desires", and "wants" are all valid.

The DSA and the Democrat Party have no problem in "feeding" these gratifications.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 02, 2026 12:12 PM (/+uur)

17 Here is another thing is this area that is bothering me...

Every state has a generous EBT benefit now...AND...a hot breakfast/lunch program for school kids.

Well why the hell are we paying the parents of these kids to apparently NOT feed them?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)

18 Its easier to get a person to want something for free and the Marxists knew that.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 12:14 PM (Ia/+0)

19 We see destitute people overwhelming our cities, and we recoil. We turn away from those in need. And that is a rational response to people who have lost their sense of morality and shame and pride and self-respect.

Those drug zombies you see on every street now? The only reason that can do that is they are getting free food.

Yes yes compassion for the unfortunate but the welfare system is specifically allowing them to do this to themselves so how the hell is that compassion?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:14 PM (sKqQm)

20 6 I saw a survey that said 1/4 people claimed to be disabled.

And as the adage goes, whatever you pay for you get more of.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:07 PM (sKqQm)

The disabled scam is destroying college education.
How can a professor teach demanding subject when 4 out of 10 students "need" additional time, tutoring, and external support?

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 02, 2026 12:15 PM (/+uur)

21 Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 02, 2026 12:15 PM (8E0Ba)

22 Well why the hell are we paying the parents of these kids to apparently NOT feed them?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:12 PM (sKqQm)

Parents?

Posted by: Sha'qua'dolicious Tavon Blevins, who my daddy? at August 02, 2026 12:16 PM (PiwSw)

23
I think it, therefore it is.
I feel it, therefore it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:17 PM (+yTe/)

24 To modern ears, such reluctance may seem irrational. To them, it was a matter of preserving self-respect.

One need only look at how many Americans conduct themselves in public now to know that that attitude is a thing of the past. Self-respect is not based on any actual achievement or behavior, it's assumed and pushed on people by Big Blackboard and others who want nobody to ever feel any shame.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 02, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

25 "Taint of government".

Posted by: Ewwww... at August 02, 2026 12:17 PM (JM9I6)

26 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at August 02, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)

27 The overriding purpose of government handouts is not charity or kindness. It is to make people dependent on the government. LBJ knew this.

If you are getting thousands of dollars a year in goods and services from the government who are you likely to vote for in the next election, the person giving you increasingly generous benefits or the person threatening to take them away?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 12:19 PM (viF8m)

28 "Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Shondra"

If it was up yo ass youd know.

Posted by: Guy still on the last thread at August 02, 2026 12:19 PM (MWfyi)

29 Why can't I bring my emotional support elephant to class?
I am being denied. Build a bigger door for me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:19 PM (+yTe/)

30 Every one of those government programs, in spite of what their sponsors claim, is intended primarily to provide employment to otherwise unemployable drones.

This was a deliberate policy choice. When Obama decided to spend trillions after the 2008 financial crisis, there was a move to use that money to build major infrastructure projects - a flood barrier to protect New York from hurricanes, for example.

The malignant dwarf Robert Reich and others argued that this would employ too many white construction workers, so they decided to use the money to expand government offices instead.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:19 PM (aD4fx)

31 It’s actually quite brilliant from a certain perspective. It’s even possible intentions were good, but like so many things, prone to re-purposing by unscrupulous people.

There was absolutely no possibility of importing millions and millions of illegal aliens for decades, absent a parallel system of “welfare” benefits, certainly not without causing open conflict. As it is now they are essentially paying the descendants of slaves to “advocate” for open borders, wage suppression, and loss of job opportunities.

The social planners effectively squelched what would ordinarily be a direct feedback loop, of the negative type or whatever.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 12:20 PM (dLnkr)

32 Good morning Hordemates.

But someone now its become instead a debate about how unfair, racist, and anti-democratic is to not give a generous welfare state to foreigners. Which is...insane.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:09 PM (sKqQm)

This!
I think Morocco gave the President and the Republicans the midterms, if they play it right. Thousands of military aged men swarming the beaches.
To hell with the foreigners.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 12:21 PM (2WIwB)

33 One third of the population of Oregon is on Medicaid, along with a majority of the children in Oregon.

One third.

The Democrats boast about this.

Think they're voting for Republicans?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:22 PM (aD4fx)

34 >>If you are getting thousands of dollars a year in goods and services from the government who are you likely to vote for in the next election...
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Pass this Great Society bill and we'll have 'em voting Democrat for the next 100 years.
_paraphrasing LBJ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:22 PM (+yTe/)

35 The welfare budget was 1.3 trillion last year. The Dept of war budget was 758 billion.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 12:22 PM (abScH)

36 Think they're voting for Republicans?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:22 PM (aD4fx

ARC,
Got a source for that? I'd like to use it.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2026 12:23 PM (2WIwB)

37 list of who to blame is long, but the heavy hitters are FDR, LBJ, Nixon (Yup!), Obama, and Biden.

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GWB is to blame indirectly. He got millions of people off the tax rolls completely. If they ly no tax they’ll vote more “free” shit form themselves.

Posted by: Strategery at August 02, 2026 12:23 PM (uDDWT)

38 > Every state has a generous EBT benefit now...AND...a hot breakfast/lunch program for school kids.
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Around here the "qualifications" for free breakfast and/or lunch have been revised... downward. Many families do not qualify anymore, due to income. And the reduction in government funds for the program further limits who can take advantage of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 12:24 PM (2Cry5)

39 Paying off labor unions was also an obvious tack.

I saw an interview with Richard Trumka, who was asked about the effect of illegal alien labor on jobs and wages. He had no problem with it. Now that is really astonishing.

They’ve been paying everybody to look the other way for 50 years. Now of course none of the open air insane asylum nonsense we’ve all been subject to would be possible without a phony baloney confetti-buck currency untethered to sane fiscal policies. There isn’t enough wealth in the world to pay for this kind of insanity.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 12:24 PM (dLnkr)

40 We are to blame because we let it happen.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 12:25 PM (abScH)

41 I been pissed off ever since they went to direct deposit for all my gummint benefits. It was fun to cuss out the mailman when my check was late.

Posted by: Shiftless Sam at August 02, 2026 12:25 PM (JM9I6)

42 Major cuts are coming to the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s free healthcare program covering 1.4 million children and low-income adults. But the group of experts Gov. Tina Kotek charged with minimizing the harm of those cuts has given her no definitive recommendations.

Oregon has 4.3 million people.

The cuts will hit Oregon harder than most states in part because Oregon has expanded government-funded coverage to so many people.

Kotek and other Democrats have long used Medicaid as a tool to push toward universal health coverage, expanding the program to single adults and adding coverage for undocumented immigrants who meet the program’s income threshold. One in three Oregonians and more than half of children in the state now have healthcare through the program.

https://tinyurl.com/bdz747tf

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:28 PM (aD4fx)

43 The New York City Correction Department has awarded a contract to teach persons in custody at Rikers Island and other municipal jails how to “vertical” farm in an urban setting.

Posted by: That should fix the problem at August 02, 2026 12:28 PM (MWfyi)

44 Welfare reform, which was an actual accomplishment of the Gingrich-era GOP House (passed over the idiot Clinton's opposition), was a striking development. Mid-90s. It was working, clearly and dramatically. Rolls and dependence were declining.

Then the country showed how absurd and unserious it wanted to be by electing the non-entity Obama (over the loathsome, stupid McCain - but these qualities were/are still not generally attributed to McCain nor were big factors in his defeat).

And with the stroke of a pen - not on legislation, just policy - poof, welfare reform was stopped, gutted, rendered irrelevant. Did anyone even notice? Without a press, and with a mostly useless inert GOP, an actual concrete attempt to reverse all the pernicious things discussed in this thread was undone.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 12:28 PM (U/Byj)

45 "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
~ G. B. Shaw

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 12:28 PM (2Ez/1)

46 OT: About 5,000 Hamasniks participated in the October 7th pogrom.

About half have been killed thus far, and the other half are really, really sorry that they videoed themselves committing atrocities with their faces uncovered.

It didn't occur to them that Israel would create a special unit to hunt each and every one of them down.

Sucks to be you.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:29 PM (aD4fx)

47 Plenty of folks in my yout' here in Smallville, Oklahoma, still regarded being on welfare as embarrassing, if not shameful. The elders who seemed to be from an ancient age.

CBD mentioned churches jumping through hoops. Private charity being hampered by government welfare is just typical of the market distortion of government intervening where it need not. Next thing you know, you'll have government-run grocery stores driving private stores out of business. Oh, wait…

And it's not just welfare, but also perversions of law: It's not just that mental hospitals are now few and legally limited, it's that there are now "rights" to do fentanyl and camp out in parks and sleep in a business's doorway.

Et too many cetera.

Posted by: mindful webworker - and government telling us how to set the clocks at August 02, 2026 12:29 PM (0poB+)

48 It was fun to cuss out the mailman when my check was late.
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They were probably less likely to get shot, for the most part, prior to direct deposit. “Where’s my Benefits!?” meant you still had to have someone willing to low crawl through the hood.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 12:30 PM (dLnkr)

49 If the gummint don't pay for my Circus Peanuts and Grap Soda, how I'm gonna pay for my weaves and nails?

Posted by: Not To Mention Caterpillar Eyelashes. at August 02, 2026 12:30 PM (JM9I6)

50 While maybe technically true … Nobody “let” this happen per se.

They are much more sneaky than that. How would you have stopped them, other than stringing them up from lamp posts? Widely considered unpleasant.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 12:33 PM (dLnkr)

51 The school breakfast thing was a shock when I first heard of it. The cultural collapse in terms of self-respect and responsibility has no greater example. Combined with the authoritarian compassion-fascist mindset - itself weaponized by the enormous % of the populace that's driven by imbecilic moral narcissism - you get what we have today. Which in many real ways is an unrecognizable shell of a society that existed just 1 generation ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 12:33 PM (U/Byj)

52 If the gummint don't pay for my Circus Peanuts and Grap Soda, how I'm gonna pay for my weaves and nails?

Or illegal immigrants living on government assistance, while all the money they earn under the table is sent back to their home country.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:34 PM (aD4fx)

53 Two black men arguing about, essentially, pre LBJ black America and post LBJ. He refers to it as MLK, who was the push of the troubles. 2minutes 24seconds

It starts out as a solid refutation to a Charlie Kirk lie then moves to the meat of black society before and after MLK. And he nails it.

https://tinyurl.com/3vmc7pmh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:34 PM (+yTe/)

54 try to make sandwiches at home to provide to homelses people on the street. Government will land on you with both feet to prevent it.

Posted by: susan harms at August 02, 2026 12:34 PM (Kkd7F)

55 I went to the water park on tony Jekyll Island, GA last week. There were three young ladies there with two-inch long eyelashes. Must be some good glue they are using.

Posted by: Phil Swift at August 02, 2026 12:35 PM (JM9I6)

56 Thx CBD.
Welfare reform was done under Clinton, but right away he and his bureaucrats started putting in and changing regulations which made it easier to get on welfare.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 12:35 PM (BFvh9)

57 the gummint don't pay for my Circus Peanuts and Grap Soda, how I'm gonna pay for my weaves and nails?
Posted by: Not To Mention Caterpillar Eyelashes. at

Been fighting the urge to buy circus peanuts for a while now. Probably twenty five years since I've had any, must have bought some for the kids back then.
Thinking ie might give in. At 75, would probably be the last tme I subj myself to that particular oh, no I've eaten one two many rush.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 12:35 PM (sl73Y)

58 School lunches and take home food, school supplies, hair cuts, glasses backpacks and now even shoes along with dr.visits.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 12:36 PM (abScH)

59 "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
~ G. B. Shaw

What about us? Don't we get a chance to wet our beaks?

Posted by: Tom, Dick, and Harry at August 02, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

60 Another part of all this, one argument the left makes is that people can't afford the basic needs of life like healthcare or housing.

Well, ok, why are healthcare and housing so expensive? Illegals, welfare, and government interference.

You can't fix a problem caused by the government interfering by the government interfering more.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)

61 Amazing to me that Trumka hasn't been disappeared like Hoffa 50 years ago.

Posted by: Two End Zones-No Waiting at August 02, 2026 12:39 PM (JM9I6)

62 $39.92 Trillion In Debt.

Posted by: Gimme Gimme Gimme at August 02, 2026 12:39 PM (ftsic)

63 You tube is littered with vids of cops having to go to these section 8 complexes that are filled with the most worthless, entitled, lawless pieces of shit you'll ever see. None of them work, they're living on the dole, they mouth off to the cops, then act surprised when the cops say fuck this and cuff them. The first thing they do is grab their obama phones and start filming while giving the cops shit. The best part is the tax payers pay for this special breed of absolutely useless oxygen thieves.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2026 12:40 PM (S41Gd)

64 Hey I see the left is tackling the important issues of the day. Today I saw one lefty complaining that jars are sexist.

See most men can open them and most women can't. Don't bore me with the physics, if we weren't so sexist we'd have a solution right now!

And the funny part? The comments are women discussing how in fact they can open jars.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:40 PM (sKqQm)

65 You can't fix a problem caused by the government interfering by the government interfering more.

We will fix the high cost of college by providing Federal student loans!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:40 PM (aD4fx)

66 Myriad studies and committees and academic symposium over the years were formed to study the habits and character traits, the psychology as it were of successful people. There really is no mystery. These things don’t guarantee a happy, productive life. But without them, there is no chance. None.

Now the problem of course, we know what works, and just as important - what doesn’t, down to the granular level. It’s clear to me at least there is a large political component to engineered failure - a class of dependent, dysfunctional people is Job Security, and dovetails neatly with their philosophy and goals.

They can make serious bank, while destroying the Nation. It is a perverse, ahistorical kind of thing that by definition cannot last. But it has done enormous damage and will continue to do so.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 12:43 PM (dLnkr)

67 @61 Trumka died five years ago , so no need to go Hoffa on him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 12:43 PM (BFvh9)

68 50 While maybe technically true … Nobody “let” this happen per se.

They are much more sneaky than that. How would you have stopped them, other than stringing them up from lamp posts? Widely considered unpleasant.

Posted by: Common Tater
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They slip it in slowly with soft words.

In Ceuta the citizens took after the Moroccans with sticks and chased them out of their neighborhood. How did such bravery come about? Clarity. Suddenly. It wasn't a slow oozing or as happened here, at some far away place ( the south TX and CA borders) then secretly transported at night via airplane and silently disbursed.

No, it was sudden. One day they were in peace the next they were assaulted by thousands. And they reacted.

Our politicians should live in this fear.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:44 PM (+yTe/)

69 $39.92 Trillion In Debt

I think this is a number that LIVs just can't get.

Instead every GOP member should discuss how much of each taxpayer's wealth the Democrats stole and put it exactly like that;

Oh, my esteems colleague is upset about Trump sending the Haitians home? Well you stole $300K from each taxpayer to bring them here and put them on welfare you asshole. We should be taking that money out of your personal accounts...and maybe we will.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

70
If you find yourself pinned by Uncle Sam's taint,

just tap-out and be glad it's not Hillary(!)'s taint you're under.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2026 12:45 PM (iJfKG)

71 54 try to make sandwiches at home to provide to homelses people on the street. Government will land on you with both feet to prevent it.

Posted by: susan harms
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Neighboring big city will put you in jail.
Cuts into their federal graft.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:45 PM (+yTe/)

72 58 School lunches and take home food, school supplies, hair cuts, glasses backpacks and now even shoes along with dr.visits.

Posted by: Ben Had
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Abbott do this?
Heard his is in deep payola with the high tech boys.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:47 PM (+yTe/)

73 That Time, go for Virginia peanuts from the Virginia Diner. Far better than Circus Peanuts.

Posted by: Pudinhead at August 02, 2026 12:47 PM (KGj36)

74 It was well known up until the 1980s perhaps, a strong sense of pride of the healthy kind and self worth made accepting welfare a decidedly shameful affair. Nobody wanted to be on the dole.

They definitely made any sort of shame or embarrassment a thing of the past, replaced by a belligerent sense of ignorant entitlement.

Only a Chump is honest, pays taxes, follows the law in modern America. Take whatever you can get, however you can get it. If you don’t, somebody else will.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 12:48 PM (dLnkr)

75 Braenyard, standard practice in Texas schools.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 12:49 PM (abScH)

76 The local news has an article about the walking/biking trail by the river was being extended, without mentioning all the tents and trash and bums down there already keep the regular people away.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2026 12:49 PM (MWfyi)

77 Earlier today I watched an old interview of Thomas Sowell by Charlie Rose. From 1995 I think… Sowell is a treasure; his thinking is so crystal clear. He describes his evolution from young Marxist to conservative and a significant event along that path was a job as a college intern in the federal department of labor. Sowell thought long and hard about minimum wage and reported to his bosses how the data showed it was eliminating jobs. He thought he’d be praised; instead they recoiled in horror because all their jobs depended on administering the minimum wage. Same as welfare which is probably even more damaging than minimum wage. Government is not there to help anyone; it is only self interested

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 02, 2026 12:52 PM (ugElV)

78 Watching Casablanca on TMC. Ilsa is one lying bint.

Posted by: Archer at August 02, 2026 12:52 PM (wvc0i)

79 The dirty little secret is that the real beneficiaries of all this government "help" are the government (and NGO) apparatchiks who administer it.

I don't begrudge helping the truly need but I do begrudge the government parasites who would actually have to work for a living without these "programs" to administer.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 12:56 PM (hwLGC)

80 #63.....Berserker

Yeah, that is about right. To get a job and earn your own way has never entered their minds. It may lead to responsibility.

Posted by: Case at August 02, 2026 12:56 PM (bqIVz)

81 The best part is the tax payers pay for this special breed of absolutely useless oxygen thieves.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Please watch this

https://tinyurl.com/3vmc7pmh

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:57 PM (+yTe/)

82 Wrt to helping the needy I'm also reminded of a brilliant line from comedian Dennis Miller - We don't mind helping the truly needy but we do mind providing a hammock for the lazy.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 12:58 PM (hwLGC)

83 Heir to Rachel Corrie, sort-of, but non-fatal (h/t BlazingCatFur)

https://t.co/WKCbFWG317

Posted by: mindful webworker - fattened not flattened at August 02, 2026 01:00 PM (0poB+)

84 60 Another part of all this, one argument the left makes is that people can't afford the basic needs of life like healthcare or housing.

Well, ok, why are healthcare and housing so expensive? Illegals, welfare, and government interference.

You can't fix a problem caused by the government interfering by the government interfering more.
Posted by: 18-1

and the Brennan Undead change the tune once again and people just wanna dance to it...

Everything MUST be owned by everyone and enjoyed by NONE.
The Will of the People should be Preeminent and in evidence everywhere yet existant in NO ONE.
That SOME must be sacrificed so THEY may live -- and Gov't whose sole influence comes only in one flavor: coercive force, should not be abridged or denied.

If the Agency Heads didn't see this coming they wouldn't be very intelligent would they?
If something happens in politics
-- it was planned that way, to pit Man against other men until we exist no more.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-irlTheBRENNANcameo

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 02, 2026 01:00 PM (4hyME)

85 The was an early 60's aged woman at the grocery store with what belongings she had. She was waiting for a ride but I guess they never showed up. She was still at the store the next day but she was going around the parking lot putting carts back that the slobs were too lazy to put up. I watched her for a while and she never asked anyone for a hand out. I asked her when she had last eaten and she tried to pass it off. I gave her $50 .

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 01:03 PM (abScH)

86 You tube is littered with vids of cops having to go to these section 8 complexes that are filled with the most worthless, entitled, lawless pieces of shit you'll ever see. None of them work, they're living on the dole, they mouth off to the cops, then act surprised when the cops say fuck this and cuff them. The first thing they do is grab their obama phones and start filming while giving the cops shit. The best part is the tax payers pay for this special breed of absolutely useless oxygen thieves.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2026 12:40 PM (S41Gd)

I also recall that at Cabrini Green (a welfare high rise on the South side of Chicago) EMT's and paramedics had to have a police escort to go in and help people there. Because of all the boisterous "yutes on their way to kollidge" making it dangerous for them to go alone.

BTW - Cabrini Green was demolished but it just occured to me that it's been replaced. By Obama's 'Flak-Tower'. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 01:04 PM (hwLGC)

87
I saw a survey that said 1/4 people claimed to be disabled.
And as the adage goes, whatever you pay for you get more of.
Posted by: 18-1

The Army broke me. Feet, knees, hips, and shoulders are shot. Some days I walk okay, but never more than maybe 3,000 steps before the pain starts. Some days, mostly when it's wet and cold, I need a cane to get around. The VA counts me as 50% disabled, with some digestion and abdominal issues thrown in with a side dose of ptsd and anger management. Some days I regret ever joining the Army, some days I feel like I don't deserve the disability payments. I get good parking, but I won't use it unless it's a bad day.

I think my case makes me look like a damned welfare tick, and it bothers me. It also makes me 100% agree with your comment.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 02, 2026 01:04 PM (QVmho)

88 I think the ads (yes, there are ads for welfare here) cater to certain demographics. Some look like something out of the depression era, mostly downtrodden whites.

Then there's the AI generated stuff. Glitzy. Like a movie poster. Also with whites.

Not the demographic I'd have thought, even with the "white trash" that occupies some of the landscape.

Definitely targeted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 01:05 PM (2Cry5)

89 $39.92 Trillion In Debt
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I think this is a number that LIVs just can't get.

Because for many/most people, it's literally unfathomable. There is no way to relate it to anything in a person's "lived experience" which as we all know is now the definition of reality. Sort of like covid and the UK grooming gangs, the problem is simply too big to fix so the only coping mechanism is to pretend it doesn't exist.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 01:06 PM (vTZFs)

90 79 The dirty little secret is that the real beneficiaries of all this government "help" are the government (and NGO) apparatchiks who administer it.
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It the same as what Trump did to improve the economy and bring manufacturing back to America. CUT REGULATION.

The way to get people off welfare is to CUT WELFARE.
Cut spending to agencies. Attrit all employment.
Slowly cut benefits and make them more difficult to obtain.
Beneficiaries will then decide that it's better to get a job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:06 PM (+yTe/)

91 Over the years I've lost 60% hearing in my right ear and 40% in my left. This is due, I'm sure, to being around turning turbine aircraft engines while I was in the military in the '80s.

A friend of mine, a lawyer who specializes in obtaining VA disability payments for clients, told me my case would be a slam dunk for VA disability determination with a monthly benefit check.

I have repeatedly refused his offer to take my case to the VA.

Why?

Because I was young and bulletproof (or so I thought) and didn't follow the Navy's insistence that all personal in the vicinity of turning aircraft engines wear hearing protection (either those foam earplugs or Micky Mouse headsets, or both).

Young and bulletproof was actually lazy and an idiot. The government (read taxpayers) should not award me monthly payments for being a dumbass by not protecting my hearing while in service.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 01:06 PM (J4Dwc)

92 A FWP why I use to get TCM then after a switch to Hi-def can't get it

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:07 PM (Ia/+0)

93
every GOP member should discuss how much of each taxpayer's wealth the Democrats stole

Posted by: 18-1

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

I always imagine, some GOPer shaking his fist and shouting, "You could have built 956 women's shelters with that much money. You could have made pregnancy and delivery free for every woman in this state with the money that slipped through your fingers!" Enumerate exactly the things California state taxpayers lost. Show an ugly Gavin Newsom barrio and AI it into a beautiful suburb.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:08 PM (mmrXZ)

94 It was my favorite channel as movies are better than anything else on tv

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:08 PM (Ia/+0)

95 I think the ads (yes, there are ads for welfare here) cater to certain demographics. Some look like something out of the depression era, mostly downtrodden whites.

I love the Euro-videos against sexual harrassment/assault that always show a white guy bothering a black/muslim woman.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

96 Cabrini Green. Robert Taylor homes.

Horrific, but they did keep the atrocities localized or confined to certain locations. The social planners objected to this, naturally. In recent decades they’ve taken to sprinkling the Love far and wide well into formerly safe areas. On purpose. It isn’t “fair” to live somewhere without the risk of being robbed, beaten, raped, murdered, etc. This is how they think.

They can’t fix the problem without rejecting their deeply held fairy tale delusions, so their solution to the big Shit Sandwich is to make damn sure errybody gotta take a bite.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 01:09 PM (dLnkr)

97
Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 01:06 PM (J4Dwc)

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Thank you for your service and your integrity.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:09 PM (mmrXZ)

98 Money spent on Newsom's high speed train: $15B

Money it cost India to go to the moon recently: $75M

So, if you were just going to piss money away I mean Gavin could have instead had 200 statues of himself on the moon

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

99 On purpose. It isn’t “fair” to live somewhere without the risk of being robbed, beaten, raped, murdered, etc. This is how they think.

As some lefty said it is white supremacy to want to be safe from crime

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

100 Medical disability for hearing loss in the military went away a long time ago. At least that’s what we were told.

They instituted a program of yearly hearing exams, and issuing custom fitted ear plugs, and a campaign of raising awareness and all that good stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 01:12 PM (dLnkr)

101 I love the Euro-videos against sexual harrassment/assault that always show a white guy bothering a black/muslim woman.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

Reminds me of the Alarm Company ads on TV when I actually watched TV. Some young lass would be heading out of her house and some white dude in a mask! would be skulking in the bushes, ready to rob and rape. He would break her door down, the alarm would sound, and the white devil would flee. Always a white guy in a mask. Made me laugh.

Posted by: ADT Security at August 02, 2026 01:12 PM (ftsic)

102 92 A FWP why I use to get TCM then after a switch to Hi-def can't get it
Posted by: Skip

TCM died when Robert Osborne passed away.

Posted by: Key Grip at August 02, 2026 01:14 PM (JM9I6)

103 As some lefty said it is white supremacy to want to be safe from crime
——

Do they really believe that? They seem to vacillate between this kind of rhetoric, along with “you deserve this”.

They are deeply hateful people, who plot revenge against people who didn’t do anything, supposedly on behalf of people, who’ve never actually been wronged.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 01:16 PM (dLnkr)

104 That $15B didn't all go into Gavin's pocket
Lawyers, specialists interests groups, unions, surveys ann got that money. And laughing all the way to the bank how rasy tje looting was.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:16 PM (Ia/+0)

105 "Where my EBT card at?
Posted by: La'Shondra"

If it was up yo ass youd know.
Posted by: Guy still on the last thread at August 02, 2026 12:19 PM (MWfyi)

Yo, man, tanks. Found it, yo!

Posted by: La'Shondra at August 02, 2026 01:17 PM (hmYU4)

106 Always a white guy in a mask. Made me laugh.
——

You left out the part in the commercial where it was a black guy who would be monitoring the situation on camera, back at the ADT headquarters honeycomb hideout.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 01:18 PM (dLnkr)

107 Do they really believe that? They seem to vacillate between this kind of rhetoric, along with “you deserve this”.

Yes with a caveat. Lefties believe that white people are evil and should be punished, unless, of course they are a white person in which case OTHER white people should be punished but not them because "I am one of the good ones"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 01:20 PM (sKqQm)

108 From the Tech thread:

62 I used to think autotune was an in-studio thing when artists recorded tracks. I didn't realize until I read something recently that many use auto-tune during live performances on stage, as well.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 06:58 AM (J4Dwc)

I think it's only recently that the hardware got powerful enough to run the algorithms in real time, between mic and speaker.

Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 01:21 PM (Sy6m/)

109 >>Medical disability for hearing loss in the military went away a long time ago. At least that’s what we were told.

https://tinyurl.com/bddyamj3

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 01:22 PM (J4Dwc)

110 Rain just north of my county, but traveling west to east

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:22 PM (Ia/+0)

111 My sister lives in Section 8 housing. Little and I visited her during our recent road trip. That visit provided supreme motivation for my son to never fall to such a pathetic level of existence. Oh, his aunt is perfectly happy in that dark studio apartment with its tiny kitchen and single window. Little couldn't get out of there fast enough.

A thousand sermons from me on the subject of hard work and persistence would not have had the impact of first-hand experience with the consequences of sloth and surrender. Thanks, sis...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 01:23 PM (nbLIj)

112 the taint of government

This may be the only instance where prolonged exposure to sunlight is recommended.

Posted by: Josh Brolin at August 02, 2026 01:24 PM (0sNs1)

113
I grimly recall my naivete in 2008 when Obama gave his acceptance speech for the Dem nomination. I was attentively watching for his supporters and testimonials, to see people he had saved from a ghetto life of dependence and ignorance. I waited to see these inspiring stories because I wanted to see how he did it.

Not.

One.

All that action of "community organizing" and "walking them to the bus stop" (assuming he ever did a lick of it) was simply getting them on the dole. Creating dependence on The Man. Not guiding them to a local community college that offered 32 different certification programs for job skills or adult literacy. He did not create Black freedom. He kept them on the plantation.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:24 PM (mmrXZ)

114 Right, I’ve sort of sussed that out. They have a death wish, but it is more comfortably applied to others. They can’t bear to countenance they might have been completely wrong for years on some point or cherished delusion. So, they are willing to sacrifice others to try and maintain their worldview. Facts, logic, reason, none of this matters. Results don’t matter, in particular. Intentions, however, are everything.

“Your death, before their dishonor”. Anything to try and maintain those fairy tales. It is the result of starting with a faulty premise. Working backwards, they have to suppress anything that doesn’t comport with a bogus conclusion.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 01:25 PM (dLnkr)

115 108 From the Tech thread:

62 I used to think autotune was an in-studio thing when artists recorded tracks. I didn't realize until I read something recently that many use auto-tune during live performances on stage, as well.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 06:58 AM (J4Dwc)

I think it's only recently that the hardware got powerful enough to run the algorithms in real time, between mic and speaker.

****

That is my understanding, as well. The correction from an off-key vocal note is almost instantaneous.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 01:26 PM (J4Dwc)

116 113
I grimly recall my naivete in 2008 when Obama gave his acceptance speech for the Dem nomination. I was attentively watching for his supporters and testimonials, to see people he had saved from a ghetto life of dependence and ignorance. I waited to see these inspiring stories because I wanted to see how he did it.

Not.

One.

All that action of "community organizing" and "walking them to the bus stop" (assuming he ever did a lick of it) was simply getting them on the dole. Creating dependence on The Man. Not guiding them to a local community college that offered 32 different certification programs for job skills or adult literacy. He did not create Black freedom. He kept them on the plantation.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:24 PM (mmrXZ)

In all the years that I've known of Obama as a public figure, I've never thought of asking that question. It's like being a community organizer was simply a job to put on his resume for self aggrandizement; nothing more.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 02, 2026 01:28 PM (Jys7s)

117 I didn't claim any VA benefits for decades, as I was making a decent wage. Now that I am a broken down old man with little income I gladly accept help. I've turned down some benefits. I did my part. I've never backed up from a pay line.

Posted by: javems at August 02, 2026 01:28 PM (mKxGb)

118 If you didn't see RFK take apart Dana Bash this morning I highly recommend looking for the video. He hammered the crap out of her lies and it was a beautiful thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 01:29 PM (viF8m)

119 Some secretive arms of the government has been fucking over blacks as a class since at least the Watts riots in 1965.

Some sort of covert and overt destabilization has been in progress against Americans of all stripes in general since post World War II era.

“Well, it worked, didn’t it?”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 01:32 PM (dLnkr)

120 Adam Carolla calls this "chick-think"

"There, there. Don't be upset. If you want, you shall have."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 01:32 PM (JvZF+)

121 @116 and on 10/30/08 Obama declared war on the USA by saying " we are only days away from fundamentally changing the country"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 01:32 PM (BFvh9)

122 covering 1.4 million children and low-income adults

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The entire population of Oregon is 4.2M. So 1/3 of the population is “low income”? Sure Jan. This is a back door way to take over the health care system. Implement a program for the poor then designate everyone poor to qualify.

Posted by: Strategery at August 02, 2026 01:34 PM (uDDWT)

123 ....but the taint of government has injured even that!
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Who hasn't been injured in the taint by the government.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 01:34 PM (JvZF+)

124 Adam Carolla calls this "chick-think"

"There, there. Don't be upset. If you want, you shall have."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 01:32 PM (JvZF+)

From his book, "In 50 Years, We'll All Be Chicks". Great read. IIRC from the publish date, we have 35 years left...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 01:36 PM (nbLIj)

125
In all the years that I've known of Obama as a public figure, I've never thought of asking that question. It's like being a community organizer was simply a job to put on his resume for self aggrandizement; nothing more.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

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He hyped that "community organizer" line so hard I thought sure he'd show at least one human beneficiary. Even if he had to go bribe a few people to tell some fake story.

The kind of jobs I do, the listings always require a portfolio showing a plan, a document, a whatever that you've produced. All people wanted Obama to produce was that line on his resume.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:36 PM (mmrXZ)

126 82 Wrt to helping the needy I'm also reminded of a brilliant line from comedian Dennis Miller - We don't mind helping the truly needy but we do mind providing a hammock for the lazy.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August

This is perfect.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 01:36 PM (Wmg4n)

127 try to make sandwiches at home to provide to homelses people on the street. Government will land on you with both feet to prevent it.
Posted by: susan harms at August 02, 2026 12:34 PM (Kkd7F)

Why would you feed bums and derelicts?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 01:36 PM (1z8ji)

128 See Adam Corolla is coming to a comedy club near me in November. Pondered going

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:37 PM (Ia/+0)

129 I'm seeing the left reacting to Fauci's testimony with the general argument of:

This is old news, we already knew all of this...Trump just wants to distract us from Iran/Epstein/Net Neutrality

Posted by: 18-1 at August 02, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

130 I recall in the 1996 Republican primaries, my favorite candidate was Alan Keyes, who advocated for getting the government out of charitable responsibilities and letting Americans care for each other. He had confidence in the generosity and compassion of Americans and not so much confidence in government bureaucrats.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 02, 2026 01:37 PM (medVn)

131 Bet not a piece of paper of Barky's college years is in that concrete tower

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:38 PM (Ia/+0)

132 111 My sister lives in Section 8 housing. Little and I visited her during our recent road trip. That visit provided supreme motivation for my son to never fall to such a pathetic level of existence. Oh, his aunt is perfectly happy in that dark studio apartment with its tiny kitchen and single window. Little couldn't get out of there fast enough.

A thousand sermons from me on the subject of hard work and persistence would not have had the impact of first-hand experience with the consequences of sloth and surrender. Thanks, sis...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 02, 2026 01:23 PM (nbLIj)

My Sister just rented her duplex to a section 8 recipient...A single mother who is a teacher... So why is she getting section 8 help.... It's CA. so.... And... It's a very nice 2 bedroom in a upper class neighborhood..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2026 01:38 PM (vQrSy)

133 Adam is finally leaving California. He is building a home in Nevada.

Posted by: Strategery at August 02, 2026 01:38 PM (uDDWT)

134 133 Adam is finally leaving California. He is building a home in Nevada.
Posted by: Strategery at August 02, 2026 01:38 PM (uDDWT

My step Daughter and Family moved from SoCal a couple of years ago to Vegas... They love it...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2026 01:40 PM (vQrSy)

135
133 Adam is finally leaving California. He is building a home in Nevada.
Posted by: Strategery at August 02, 2026 01:38 PM (uDDWT

My step Daughter and Family moved from SoCal a couple of years ago to Vegas... They love it...
Posted by: It's me donna

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Nevada seems to be the destination for Cali's fleeing billionaires, too.

Sergey Brin
Larry Ellison
Don Hankey
Steve Jurvetson
Lyndon Rive

Ta-hoe, Ta-hoe, it's off to work we go!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:45 PM (mmrXZ)

136 I know people who have rented apts or houses to Section 8 recipients. Almost all say the place was wrecked when the renters moved out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 01:45 PM (BFvh9)

137 > Bet not a piece of paper of Barky's college years is in that concrete tower
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Bet not a piece of any paper is in that tower. It's a bunker, designed to operate a shadow government from.

Nobody who's owed money for its construction has seen their claims move anywhere but off the front page. I hear there are "claims" being made against that monstrosity, nothing but hot air so far.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 02, 2026 01:45 PM (2Cry5)

138 82 Wrt to helping the needy I'm also reminded of a brilliant line from comedian Dennis Miller - We don't mind helping the truly needy but we do mind providing a hammock for the lazy.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August

This is perfect.

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 01:36 PM (Wmg4n)

I was going from memory but just recalled that he said we didn't mind providing a safety net for the truly needy...which juxtaposes nicely with the hammock mockery.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 01:45 PM (hwLGC)

139 Ta-hoe, Ta-hoe, it's off to work we go!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:45 PM (mmrXZ

If I were moving to Nevada it would not be to Vegas.. It would be towards Tahoe

Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2026 01:46 PM (vQrSy)

140 "Millennials to Boomers: ‘We won’t take care of you’ in old age, viral Reddit thread shows"

local news headline. I guess that "boomers" have ruined lives, hopes and dreams of utopia

As a 1962 "Boomer" I am proud to have done this

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 02, 2026 01:47 PM (jrgJz)

141 Ta-hoe, Ta-hoe, it's off to work we go!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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CA lite.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:47 PM (+yTe/)

142 If I didn't live in Texas I would chose to live in the Minden valley.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 01:48 PM (abScH)

143 A significant portion of the population would be very happy living like zoo animals.

Wow. Tons of rain. I'm a bit from Detroit - speaking of zoos - but the city may be getting a nice cleaning.

I wish Snowflake was here safe and warm. I know she's fine, but still, I'm her safe house.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 01:49 PM (Sco7b)

144 If I were moving to Nevada it would not be to Vegas.. It would be towards Tahoe

Posted by: It's me donna
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People who can't make up their mind can stay at the Cal-Neva.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:50 PM (+yTe/)

145 As a 1962 "Boomer" I am proud to have done this

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 02, 2026 01:47 PM (jrgJz)

I chuckle at the know-nothings who complain about boomers.

Work harder and smarter and maybe you can have what we have.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2026 01:52 PM (OenlC)

146 BTW, community organizer is just a nicer way of saying rabble rouser or shit stirrer. Or community agitator. Right out of the Soviet communist playbook. And that's the only thing that jug-eared fuck had on his resume.

I will never forget the idiot clapping seals (all women as I recall - teachers no doubt) standing behind him and cheering him on when he said he was going to fundamentally transform the United States.

As I've been saying for a while, democracy has failed when you have this level of stupidity in the electorate. And yes, I knwo we're a Constitutional Republic. I use democracy as short-hand for a self-governing people.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 01:52 PM (hwLGC)

147 try to make sandwiches at home to provide to homelses people on the street. Government will land on you with both feet to prevent it.
Posted by: susan harms at August 02, 2026 12:34 PM (Kkd7F)

Why would you feed bums and derelicts?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 01:36 PM (1z8ji)
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I did this in the Tenderloin when I was a stupud kid and it was eye-opening. No hoboes wanted my "cheap-ass peanut butter sandwiches ain't got no meat" as they were called.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 01:53 PM (JvZF+)

148 A significant portion of the population would be very happy living like zoo animals...

A significant portion are nothing but trained circus animals jumping and clapping and performing on command from the ringmasters. Who are the media.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 01:54 PM (hwLGC)

149 I remember Barky telling college students to pursue careers with 'non profits.'

If one wants to con rubes but not have the risk of going to jail starting a charity or fake church is the way to go. If you write your charity goals vaguely you can rake in a million $, spend 100K or less to lobby state pols or have a 'don't litter' etc ad campaign and enjoy life on the rest of the dough.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 02, 2026 01:55 PM (PV+Zw)

150 Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 01:52 PM (hwLGC

You're as pissed off as me. That's why I like this place.

And I'm gathering you don't have one of the oil paintings of zero with the halo effect hanging. Bonus points.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 01:56 PM (Sco7b)

151 I think at Revolver News a video of a young Spanish woman filming the invasion yelling faster faster and waving the invasion in

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:57 PM (Ia/+0)

152 You're as pissed off as me. That's why I like this place.

And I'm gathering you don't have one of the oil paintings of zero with the halo effect hanging. Bonus points.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 01:56 PM (Sco7b)

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 01:59 PM (hwLGC)

153 The list of who to blame is long, but the heavy hitters are FDR, LBJ, Nixon (Yup!), Obama, and Biden.

No less than "W" signed the legislation that made sure roughly 50% of Americans pay no federal income tax.

Call Obama out all you want. I think he sucked as well. But he had one thing right. You've got to have "skin in the game".

Now lets talk the SALT deduction.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 01:59 PM (CxvtJ)

154 151 I think at Revolver News a video of a young Spanish woman filming the invasion yelling faster faster and waving the invasion in

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 01:57 PM (Ia/+0)

I'm fine with the West coming out of this fine and only 33% of the population left.

Very fine.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 02:00 PM (Sco7b)

155 1ST WORLD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

156 I think at Revolver News a video of a young Spanish woman filming the invasion yelling faster faster and waving the invasion in[i/]

Decorum keeps me from saying what I think needs to happen to that 'young Spanish woman' at the hands of these poor, desperate, military aged men.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at August 02, 2026 02:01 PM (hwLGC)

157
A significant portion of the population would be very happy living like zoo animals.

Posted by: Stateless

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

That's one reason why I don't talk about the parks and educational programs and pretty suburbs that could be created if the fraud was all spent for real on urban improvement. How many of those ghetto dwellers would give af? How many of them truly prefer to live like a human being instead of a zoo animal?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:01 PM (mmrXZ)

158 I chuckle at the know-nothings who complain about boomers.

Work harder and smarter and maybe you can have what we have.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2026 01:52

Or, as my wise boomer mama told me, you can fall in love with a rich guy as easily as a poor one!

(Kidding, don’t yell at me. I am fragile. She really did say this to me, though. A lot.)

Posted by: Piper at August 02, 2026 02:04 PM (pZEOD)

159 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:01 PM (mmrXZ

Exactly.
And I hope you have a happy Sunday.

And someone apparently nooded.
Nood

Just in case.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 02, 2026 02:04 PM (Sco7b)

160 After leaving the Navy, under the GI Bill, the VA did pay the costs associated with me obtaining an FAA type rating in the B737, which, in turn, made me a more attractive potential new hire to the airlines.

IIRC, that training cost the VA around $30,000, but getting hired lead to much higher career earnings, which meant I paid much more in federal income tax on those earnings than I would have in a lesser-paying career. The government received a decent ROI on that $30k expenditure.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 02:06 PM (J4Dwc)

161 Work harder and smarter and maybe you can have what we have.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2026 01:52 PM (OenlC)

There's my Boomer. You were just smarter and worked harder. An entire Generation.

The same Generation that loved Lime Green appliances and Shag Carpet. Just smarter and more nose to the grindstone. While high as a kite.

Yep. Just an exceptional group. All there was to it. End of story.

Posted by: Howdy at August 02, 2026 02:07 PM (CxvtJ)

162 This was a deliberate policy choice. When Obama decided to spend trillions after the 2008 financial crisis, there was a move to use that money to build major infrastructure projects - a flood barrier to protect New York from hurricanes, for example.

The malignant dwarf Robert Reich and others argued that this would employ too many white construction workers, so they decided to use the money to expand government offices instead.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 02, 2026 12:19 PM (aD4fx)

"Shovel ready" was a lie, and I think that for some younger Obama supporters, that was the first wake-up call. Seeing the shameless bait-and-switch, and the virulent anti-male bigotry paired with economic illiteracy. Watching their vaunted leaders pretend that bureaucratic processes were as good as building physical capital, when they were really like paying people to dig holes and filling them back in, but with easier work and more pleasant conditions. Nothing but a waste, and a dishonest and sexist one to boot.

Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 02:11 PM (Sy6m/)

163 ‘Shovel ready’ was too close to ‘pick that cotton’ to be true.

Posted by: Eromero at August 02, 2026 02:24 PM (G0HkI)

164 You're entitled. Thank you for your service.

VA Disability Compensation for Hearing

Loss rating Scale: The VA rates hearing loss from 0% to 100% using pure-tone thresholds and speech discrimination scores measured during audiometric testing.

Zero-Percent Ratings: A 0% rating means the hearing loss is officially connected to military service, but it is non-compensable (no monthly payment). However, a 0% service connection still qualifies you for free VA medical care and hearing aids

Tinnitus: Ringing in the ears is frequently claimed alongside hearing loss and carries a separate, maximum rating of 10%.

Posted by: L - No nic.. at August 02, 2026 02:27 PM (QITU9)

165 70
If you find yourself pinned by Uncle Sam's taint,

just tap-out and be glad it's not Hillary(!)'s taint you're under.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2026 12:45 PM (iJfKG)

You missed a rhyme! It's a fun word, and when I read the evocative phrase "white as a debutante's taint," I couldn't help but reimagine how that famous scene in "Dreaming" went down:

When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
And I said, "Don't you know it ain't
Polite to inspect a stranger's taint?"

Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 02:33 PM (Sy6m/)

166 The article only scratches the surface and at the state level the entitlements are absurd. California pays people to hang out with their sick relatives as caretakers (IHHS) and even gave them a union. For something as decent human beings they should be doing for free.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at August 02, 2026 03:18 PM (4c2RO)

167 It was well known up until the 1980s perhaps, a strong sense of pride of the healthy kind and self worth made accepting welfare a decidedly shameful affair. Nobody wanted to be on the dole.

They definitely made any sort of shame or embarrassment a thing of the past, replaced by a belligerent sense of ignorant entitlement.

Only a Chump is honest, pays taxes, follows the law in modern America. Take whatever you can get, however you can get it. If you don’t, somebody else will.
Posted by: Common Tater

This is about right, including the timeframe.

GenX, so I was in school in the 1980s. Small-town Minnesota. Kids "paid" for their lunch with tickets purchased from the school office; the little raffle-ticket ones with the serial number on the short edge and something like "keep this ticket" printed in the middle.

Color-coded for full-price, reduced, or free. Whether for accounting purposes or "shame the folks on the dole" purposes, I don't know.

But I was told by some the free-lunch kids, on more than one occasion, that my parents were "stupid" for paying for the full-price ones, since "anybody" could get the free ones.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 03:41 PM (VHUov)

Sunday Morning Book Thread [08/02/2026] JTB

Welcome to my second attempt at a book thread. I'm still learning to include images so this one is just text [I helped...CBD]. And, as always, I hope everyone had a great week of reading.

I enjoy reading westerns. Not just for the shoot-em-ups (although that is part of the appeal) but for the characters and descriptions of town life and the wild country. The plot is usually fast paced, the books are often under 200 pages and in a few hours you have another novel on your 'books I've read' list. The good guys win, the bad guys lose and justice, not necessarily the law, is served. Vivid and satisfying.

It seems to be the universal opinion that Lonesome Dove is one of the best western novels ever written. I won't argue because I haven't read it yet. (McMurtry does have a place in my heart because he wrote all his books on a manual typewriter.) But when I reread a western, it's usually a Louis L'Amour book. I like the way he can provide insight into his characters and circumstances with just a few lines that reveal but don't disturb the pace of the story.

I like all of his books: Flint, Hondo, Down the Long Hills, and the older history periods like The Walking Drum, etc. But the Sackett series books are the ones that stay with me. Maybe it's the span of generations of a family at different points in history, circa 1600 to the late 1800s. Maybe it's a common thread of toughness and fortitude that binds the different family members even though the main characters, all very much individuals, face different problems in different environments. My favorites in the series are Jubal Sackett, Ride the River, and The Sackett Brand. Sadly, L'Amour died before doing a Sackett story involving the American Revolution.

Any particular westerns that got you interested in the genre or keep you coming back to it? What is the appeal for westerns? The Horde is a very varied group so I'm hoping to hear about western books or authors new to me.

If you need a place to start with westerns, check out Sgt. Mom's (Celia Hayes) books like Lone Star Sons: Being The Entertaining and Mostly If not Always True Adventures of Texas Ranger Jim Reade and his Blood Brother Delaware Scout Toby Shaw in the Time of the Republic of Texas, which is a fun read (and a fun title). It's suitable for youngsters and this not so young reader enjoyed it.

By the way, Donald Hamilton (obligatory Matt Helm reference) wrote some westerns in the 1950s and they are excellent. His book The Big Country was adapted for the movie of that name with Charlton Heston. For some reason they were never reprinted and the used copies can be hard to find and are expensive. Definitely worth it if you can find them.

In a recent YT video from Duelist1954, Mike Beliveau lists the top ten selling westerns of all time, the top ten critics choices and his own ten favorites. There isn't a lot of overlap between the lists.

I'm not the first person to notice this but some original Conan stories, especially the ones involving the Picts, are essentially westerns set in Howard's Hyborean Age. The story Beyond the Black River would certainly qualify.

I'm not a fan of most booktubers on YT. I don't care about their latest book haul or that they claim to have read so many books in a short time. Even if true, or possible, what the hell are they getting out of them. I read for pleasure and to expand my world, not to brag about some list to impress others. Having said that, a year of two ago a booktuber, Michael K. Vaughn, suggested June Roundup. This was a casual, informal suggestion to other YT channels to discuss western books during June that they enjoy and why, and reveal some unusual finds they've come across. If you like westerns it is kind of fun.

Recent acquisitions:
- A hardcover edition of Lonesome Dove
- The City of God by Saint Augustine (H/T to A H Lloyd)
- The Penguin Classics edition of Tennyson's Idylls of the King
- The Winchester version of Mallory's Le Morte D'Arthur (as opposed to the Caxton version that is the standard)

Serendipity: Books I've come across unexpectedly that I'll investigate, and probably buy, at some point. (Not quite in the rabbit hole category.)
- Three Bags Full, the book the Sheep Detectives movie is based on
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke and a book of his poetry
- A collection of the correspondence between H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling

Thanks for putting up with my meanderings. What have you all been reading?

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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS)

3 JTB!
I think w'all need to be in our Sunday best for this book thread, guys.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:02 AM (znREB)

4 Read Rex Stout's "Some Buried Caesar," a Nero Wolfe mystery from the late 30s last week. It had the tropes: Wolfe preferring to be at home; preferring Archie be his driver - every time he's driven by someone else, he's holding on for dear life; cultivation of orchids; and his other idiosyncrasies.

I've not read any NW except for this one so far. Archie crashes Wolfe's car in rural New York on their way to an orchid event, and it leads to involvement with a bull in a field: one Hickory Caesar Grindon, a champion Guernsey. Turns out the bull will be the main course at a barbeque by its owner, Mr. Pratt, a restaurateur, as a publicity stunt.

His plan horrifies people in the business because of the bull's value. Archie is engaged to protect Caesar during the night because of threats against it. A man who publicly vowed Pratt would never barbeque Caesar, is found dead in the field, with Caesar standing over him. The local law assumes the bull killed the man, but Wolfe, having seen the bull and the scene, doesn't think so.
(con't)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:02 AM (1Ff7Z)

5 (con't)
Complicating the case are two family heads who don't like each other and their adult children who do. Throw in a slick cad, dense local law, and a(nother?) murder, you have enough to keep you engaged until Wolfe unravels the crime for you.

Except for a few distinctly 1930s references: mentioning things from specific years as recent, the prices of food, the lack of computers, cell phones, or branded autos would keep you from guessing the publication date. Recommended if you've heard about Stout's work but never read it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:02 AM (1Ff7Z)

6 Thanks to CBD for adding the visuals to my text. I need to learn how to do that and make more entertaining threads.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:03 AM (yTvNw)

7 Duelist1954, Mike Beliveau, died this past week.

Posted by: retropox at August 02, 2026 09:03 AM (qmhkg)

8 If I recall correctly, Beyond the Black River started out as a historical adventure set in upstate New York before the Revolution — basically Robert E Howard's take on a Fenimore Cooper story. He couldn't sell it like that so he did a quick rewrite and moved it to the Hyborian Age.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 09:03 AM (78a2H)

9 The only Western I've seen is TOS Spectre of the Gun.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 09:03 AM (JvZF+)

10 Working almost walking distance from used book store had to stop. Picked up
The Damned Engineers by Janice Halt Giles
A story of the 291st Engineer Bat in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
My Fil was a Combat Engineer from D-Day on so its a topic very interesting to me.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)

11 I enjoy reading westerns.

By golly, have I got some books for you!*

*Whenever they're published (still all in beta)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:05 AM (1Ff7Z)

12 Having rattled on about how I have a set of classic novels that my parents had owned since the 1960s, I decided that I should read one. Courtesy of Mark Twain, I am accompanying "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." *

The title character, as yet unnamed, tells how he was the foreman of an armaments factory until a labor dispute brought out crowbars. Our man regains consciousness in unfamiliar territory. Coming to accept that he's in Camelot, headquarters of the Knights of the Table Round, he bluffs his way out of being burned at the stake and takes charge, sidelining Merlin and becoming Arthur's deputy, with the title The Boss.

Twain uses The Boss' thoughts to savage the acquiescence of men to the dictates of nobility, royalty, and the Church. Although I've dozed off twice, literally dropping the book, I'm enjoying it.

* Unfortunately, the book showed its age, shedding its cover and the first few pages. I found a more recent copy -- it looks to be print-on-demand, with no cover art -- at our local used-book store. Sorry, Dad.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 09:06 AM (4I26t)

13 I had a slight interest in beekeeping and found a book on Gutenberg "How To Keep Bees". Published 1905. In the introduction, when talking about reasons to keep bees, the author came up with this gem:

"Another reason for keeping bees is the insight to be gained therefrom into the conditions of perfect communism. The bees and their relatives are the most intelligent and consistent socialists that have yet been developed in this world; and, through studying their ways, one may discern with startling clearness how the perfect socialism grinds off all the projecting corners of the individual until it fits perfectly in its communal niche."

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2026 09:07 AM (MWfyi)

14 Clifford Simak wrote amazing western short stories. They are very cinematic in my mind. Someone should adapt them to the large or small screen.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 02, 2026 09:08 AM (P6pHw)

15 JTB captains a Book Thread! Cheers!

Morning, book people. Yes, the Western when well done is one of my favorite genres. I grew up with the Whitman Adventures for Young People Authorized TV Editions of Maverick, The Restless Gun, Bat Masterson, Rin Tin Tin, Gunsmoke, and lots of others. Roy Rogers, of course (the mystery The Ghost of Mystery Rancho was a favorite), and Gene Autry too.

Since then, I've realized just how close the hardboiled crime story and the Western are. More than a few authors moved from the latter to the former when the market for Westerns began to peter out: Hamilton, as JTB mentioned, and Elmore Leonard. I still like his Westerns to a degree better than a lot of his crime stories.

Modern Western authors? There is one champ: Loren D. Estleman, who also writes hardboiled private eye novels. His White Desert is great.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:09 AM (wzUl9)

16 Too hot to read!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 02, 2026 09:09 AM (Y+4g7)

17 Over 100 years ago. I couldn't beelieve it. Anyway, I skipped on to the good parts.

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2026 09:09 AM (MWfyi)

18 Reading a collection of Robert Penn Warren short stories. Currently on Prime Leaf, about the tobacco wars in early 20th century Kentucky and Tennessee. Had no idea things got that ugly, with the entire town of Hopkinsville KY being raided.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 09:09 AM (XvL8K)

19 I was going to post Mr Belliveau was not doing well as saw another video mentioning him.

I always loved Westerns. Movies more these days but as a teenager went through many books on ghe wild west.
Even so much I wanted a cap and ball revolver since I was a kid.
Finally bought a replica of a 1860 Army Colt a year ago

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 09:09 AM (Ia/+0)

20 My sister was reading "Riders of the Purple Sage" and got to the part where the masked stranger's shirt was open, but there were boobs...
I told her it COULD still be a man...her reaction was priceless...LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 09:10 AM (l3cgK)

21 Connecticut Yankee is on my list of Books Everybody Gets Wrong. Weak Geek's summary is unusual because he's obviously read the book. Too often I hear it described as a book about how "a Gilded Age American corrupts the knights of the Round Table with capitalism and technology and stuff." As WG so rightly points out, Twain was doing the opposite: showing that medieval society was as corrupt, or more so, than the Gilded Age robber barons.

Like most Twain it has a bum ending, although I do wonder if you can view it as an allegory of the American Civil War.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 09:11 AM (78a2H)

22 For some reason this morning, my eyes are acting funny...seems like whatever I'm looking at seems to be moving downward, even though it's not moving...and no, it isn't an earthquake or landslide...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 09:11 AM (l3cgK)

23 Morning, JTB.

Howdy, Horde.

Reading this week -- finished Bradbury's Farewell Summer and then re-read The Martian Chronicles. Was going to do From the Dust Returned, but decided to do the Chronicles instead. Next week maybe, along with Green Shadows White Whale. Hadn't read Bradbury in a long time; still holds up nicely.

Haven't read a lot of westerns. Lonesome Dove. Some L'Amour (Conagher, Hondo, a couple of the Sackett novels). Parker's Appaloosa. Good stuff, but I just don't seem to be drawn to the genre.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 09:12 AM (q3u5l)

24 Add Crow Killer to you list of westerns. It's even got cannibalism.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 02, 2026 09:12 AM (8E0Ba)

25 OE, I'm glad you liked Some Buried Caesar. You're right, Stout's work is perfectly enjoyable by 21st-century people. SBC is not my favorite Wolfe, Murder By the Book is probably that, but if nothing else SBC gives us that wonderful picture of Wolfe, arms folded and walking stick over one arm, standing safely atop the big rock in the pasture while the bull trots around him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

26 Hi JTB!

Not a genre I read very often, although I like western movies. Lots of themes: man versus nature, man versus man, the lingering animosity of the Civil War, civilization and its discontents, etc.

I have a copy of "Riders of the Purple Sage" I've been meaning to read forever.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2026 09:12 AM (kpS4V)

27 7 ... "Duelist1954, Mike Beliveau, died this past week."

I saw that. Mike had pancreatic cancer. When he didn't post for the last couple of weeks I figured he was near the end. The tributes have already started and he deserves them. Plan to mention this in the gun thread tonight.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:13 AM (yTvNw)

28 While Bram Stoker made him a famous villain worldwide, in Romania he has long been considered a hero, and his actual exploits are more bloody than his fictional namesake. Dracula, Prince of Many Faces by Radur Florescu and Raymond McNally delves into the actual history of the Voivode of Wallachia.

Vlad Tepes was born in 1431, the same year that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. His father was coerced to send the boy as a hostage to the Ottomans, which likely formed his early hatred of the Turks. When he returned home and his father died, he took over as prince, and began to force his will on the Boyars who controlled his country. He also began to resist the suzerainty of the Turks.

Sultan Mehmet decided to punish the Christians by leading a force of 90,000 to crush them. Dracula used strategic retreat and guerilla attacks, along with scorched earth to deny his enemy supplies. Most famously, when Mehmet reached Tergoviste, he was faced with a forest of 20,000 dead Turkish captives impaled on spikes, a sight which demoralized his army, and he turned back for home. This bloodthirsty act merged into the ancient vampire myth, which then influenced Bram Stoker's novel.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 02, 2026 09:14 AM (0U5gm)

29 Thanks for putting this together JTB.

I'm sure there's some really interesting stuff in that Haggard-Kipling book. How long did they correspond?

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 02, 2026 09:14 AM (KaHlS)

30 20 My sister was reading "Riders of the Purple Sage" and got to the part where the masked stranger's shirt was open, but there were boobs...
I told her it COULD still be a man...her reaction was priceless...LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 09:10 AM (l3cgK)
----

Spoilers!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2026 09:14 AM (kpS4V)

31 Art on the Book Thread?

I'm a bit confused.

Posted by: dantesed at August 02, 2026 09:14 AM (Oy/m2)

32 Good Sunday morning, horde.

Some years ago, I picked up a couple of Zane Grey novels at an antique store. One was Riders of the Purple Sage, with a Mormon vs. Gentile theme. I don't remember the title of the other, but it was about a horse--a really mean and aggressive horse. Told from the horse's point of view.

I enjoyed them both, and would read more.

Most of my Western reading is modern, like C. J. Box, and Craig Johnson's Longmire series.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026 09:15 AM (h7ZuX)

33 read Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose....Lewis and Clark story.....now re-reading The Odyssey by Homer

Posted by: Jeff Carter at August 02, 2026 09:15 AM (tZiDs)

34 I bought Galahad and the Grail by Matthew Guite. It was recommended somewhere and is quite wonderful. It's his epic poem about the search for the Grail. Most versions I've read seem to treat Galahad as a prissy do gooder. He's a bit more Samwise Gamgee here. It is recommended you read outloud, which I have been doing.

And you might check out his You Tube channel. He does it from his library. He's a professor at Oxford and an Anglican priest.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 02, 2026 09:15 AM (bkuEU)

35 Getting senile - Elmore Leonard's westerns too. NICE stuff.

Bill Pronzini's westerns are supposed to be pretty good. Ditto Elmer Kelton. Haven't read them, though.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (q3u5l)

36 Sorry, Malcolm Guite, not Matthew.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (bkuEU)

37 3 ... "JTB!
I think w'all need to be in our Sunday best for this book thread, guys."

vmom,
I'm long retired and seriously into comfort. Casual clothing, if any, is the rule.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (yTvNw)

38 Oh, and the brands of automobiles in the Wolfe story? Made up. The Heron sedan, the Wethersill convertible, et al. were all Stout's creations. He invented brand names for nearly everything, a gun brand called Marley, names for locks and rugs. There was one 1950s story where Archie mentions that Wolfe has bought, and he drives, a Cadillac instead of a Heron, but that kind of brand reference was rare.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (wzUl9)

39 As I continue to refine my neovim screenwriting config, I’m thinking I may add some features that would make it suitable for writing novels.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (XV/Pl)

40 Any particular westerns that got you interested in the genre or keep you coming back to it? What is the appeal for westerns? The Horde is a very varied group so I'm hoping to hear about western books or authors new to me.

Probably movies: John Wayne, etc. I've read different genres of books my whole reading life, it's difficult to pick one. Since I started to try writing in my dotage, I've searched for specific authors, like Zane Grey and Clarence Mulford. Funny, I seem to go for older stuff than for "moderns." I just can't much into a 30s cowboy movie set in modern times like a lot of the Roy and Gene pix. At least Hopalong didn't do that.

The appeal is history, and not having modern politics and society intrude into a story. You're right about one thing, the hero wins, the villain loses, unlike many books today.

Am I accurate in my own stuff? Heck, I hope so. Anachronisms in movies don't really put me off, but sometimes makes you shake your head.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (1Ff7Z)

41 Excellent - have never read a western as a city boy but thank you for giving an interesting thread vs sci fi sci fi fantasy sci fi….

Posted by: TG Sam at August 02, 2026 09:18 AM (ud9p9)

42 That's right, C.J.Box -- I have read a lot of westerns. It's the sam issues: desperadoes, land rights, idiot easterners, etc.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2026 09:18 AM (kpS4V)

43 Getting senile - Elmore Leonard's westerns too. NICE stuff.

Bill Pronzini's westerns are supposed to be pretty good. Ditto Elmer Kelton. Haven't read them, though.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026

***
Pronzini did the reverse of Leonard: He began with crime stories (he even wrote one Man From U.N.C.L.E. novelette for the magazine in the '60s), and came over to Westerns.

I've read a couple of Elmer Keltons. I keep getting him confused with the famous gun expert Elmer Keith, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:18 AM (wzUl9)

44 What's the title of the Kipling/Haggard book, by the way?

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 09:19 AM (78a2H)

45 It's not a book, but I'll recommend "Support Your Local Sheriff," starring James Garner, as a Western.

Many tropes of the Western can be adopted into space fiction. The solitary hero (or small group of same) braving unknown dangers in unfamiliar if not hostile territory in quest of some sort of riches, not necessarily the kind that you can spend.

As I'm used to current technology in plumbing and travel, I would hate to go back to that earlier time. Stagecoaches don't have AC.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 09:20 AM (4I26t)

46 I read All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. This is an engaging story spanning from 1973 to 2001. It's a combination of a love story, a missing person mystery, and a serial killer hunter story, all with a unique twist on each. It quickly became a real page-turner for me.

Posted by: Zoltan at August 02, 2026 09:20 AM (KUWG/)

47 Good morning Horde. Thanks JTB! Nicely done.

Posted by: TRex - librarian dino at August 02, 2026 09:20 AM (jnBG1)

48 . . . I just can't much into a 30s cowboy movie set in modern times like a lot of the Roy and Gene pix. . . .
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026

***
Yeah, the movies did that. The Whitman young readers' books I had as a kid set the story without a doubt in the Old West. Roy Rogers was usually in Colorado or the desert Southwest, and I think one of the Gene Autrys was set up in eastern Oregon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:21 AM (wzUl9)

49 I don't read much westerns, and we rarely get them in our library.
We do get western - set mysteries and thrillers.
But imo the true heirs of the western genre csn be found in scifi.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:21 AM (GhIJO)

50 Morning, all.

I don't read Westerns; the genre simply doesn't interest me at all. I don't even care to read historical accounts of the frontier. The closest thing I have to a 'western' in my collection is a short graphic novel about the Bender family.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:21 AM (qRla/)

51 The Flashman series includes a couple of westerns. Highly recommended. Kit Carson makes an appearance, and he's also with Custer at Little Bighorn.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 02, 2026 09:22 AM (XvL8K)

52 Finished Dan Simmons' excellent, very, very dark "Carrion Comfort," which is a story of some incredibly evil people who can manipulate others with just their minds, which power they use to murder, murder, and more murder. Very interesting story.

Also read "The Abominable," Dan Simmons' tale of mountain climbing, specifically Mt. Everest in the 1920s, and international intrigue and monsters. I confess that despite Simmons' wonderful ability to describe scenery, i wasn't really able to visualize Everest and its environs very well. I think that's on me, not him.

Just starting Simmons' "Drood," which is a very dark yarn inviting Charles Dickens' last 5 years of life, when he spiraled into madness. Just getting started on this one.

Good morning, Book Nerdz.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 02, 2026 09:23 AM (/RHNq)

53 Oh, and Robert B. Parker wrote three (?) novels set in the Old West, beginning with Appaloosa -- made into that fine film with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson. There have been continuation novels in the series since he died, as with Jesse Stone and Spenser in the crime field, but I haven't read any of those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:23 AM (wzUl9)

54 Congrats on the post JTB!

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026 09:24 AM (lFFaq)

55 If you're interested in western stuff from history to social customs, historically accurate clothing to guns, I'd recommend visiting a YT channel called "Arizona Ghostriders," an interesting site run by "Santee," AKA John Scott.

Tell him Aitch Enfield sent you.

https://tinyurl.com/3zns5fth

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:24 AM (1Ff7Z)

56 National coloring book day!
Someone tell ketanji Jackson.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 02, 2026 09:24 AM (B5eY6)

57 I think the only western that I've read is 'True Grit'.

Posted by: dantesed at August 02, 2026 09:24 AM (Oy/m2)

58 29 ... "I'm sure there's some really interesting stuff in that Haggard-Kipling book. How long did they correspond?"

As I recall, they corresponded for about thirty years, beginning in the 1890s until Haggards death in 1925.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:24 AM (yTvNw)

59 >>Some years ago, I picked up a couple of Zane Grey novels at an antique store.

Ran across a story long ago that Irish poet William Butler Yeats was a fan of Western novels, especially Zane Grey, and that Yeats's last words were 'Send for the sheriff!'

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 09:25 AM (NcvvS)

60 Posted by: TRex - librarian dino

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Are you a librarian, TRex?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (znREB)

61 Thanks JTB. I really like the ~1960-70's Louis L'Amour paperback cover art.

Posted by: 13times at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (fnZRl)

62 A history professor friend of mine who specializes in the old west recommends The Virginian, the first western novel. Someday I may get around to it .

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (P6pHw)

63 Just starting Simmons' "Drood," which is a very dark yarn inviting Charles Dickens' last 5 years of life, when he spiraled into madness. Just getting started on this one.

Good morning, Book Nerdz.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 02, 2026

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I'm just starting his The Terror, an 1840s novel of the Royal Navy trying to find the Northwest Passage from the North Atlantic out to the Pacific. Two steam-powered sailing ships get frozen into the ice near Baffin Bay . . . and something huge and dangerous is out there in the dark picking off the men one by one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (wzUl9)

64 Yay Book Thread! Not a fan of westerns at all. I don't think I've read a single western. I enjoy some of the films, though.

Now on book VII of City of God. It's slow going because St. Augustine is just going so deep into things that it takes time to unpack it. I will once again note that the translator needs to be slapped around for constantly "correcting" a man with linguistic guesswork by modern scholars or saying some obscure Roman god is unknown elsewhere.

No shit. Very few works have survived, but St. Augustine had an encyclopedic knowledge of this stuff, as befits one of history's greatest Latin stylists. *He* is the default, not modern scholars pushing their ignorant pet theories.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)

65 As I recall, they corresponded for about thirty years, beginning in the 1890s until Haggards death in 1925.

Posted by: JTB

I find it fascinating that Haggard wrote King Solomon's Mines in essentially a weekend, on a dare, after he told someone that writing an adventure novel would be easy, and they bet him he couldn't.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (0U5gm)

66 @21 --

Hey, hey, hey -- hold up! I've barely started the book. I just finished the first tournament, in which the surgeons ruined one of his saws.

Don't credit me with what I haven't done. Although it's a nice change from being blamed for not completing an action.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 09:27 AM (4I26t)

67 On the Kindle I read War King: A Viking Age Novel by Eric Schumacher. This is the third and final book in Hakon's Saga series. After 20 years of ruling what is now southwest Norway, Hakon Haraldson, who brought Christianity to the region, is still fighting his nephews, sons of Eric Bloodaxe. The nephews are now backed by sword-Danes and finally defeat and kill King Hakon. This series of historical novels is based on scant remaining records, but tries to remain true to the life and times of the mid 8th century A. D.

Posted by: Zoltan at August 02, 2026 09:27 AM (KUWG/)

68 MP4, I'm proceeding handily with your new novel. Very good so far. I should have a few notes for you early next week.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9)

69 I read a really taught thriller about the secret power dynamic pulling the strings in a wealthy New England suburb, "Valley of the Moms". Good stuff. Then I made the mistake of glancing at the (presumably Jewish) author's acknowledgments: "To the people of Gaza. I do not give up hope. I will use my platform as a microphone. I still believe that words matter." 🤮

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2026 09:28 AM (kpS4V)

70 Do the Hillermans' (Tony & his daughter) books count as westerns if they are set on the rez?
I enjoy those books.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:28 AM (znREB)

71 44 ... "What's the title of the Kipling/Haggard book, by the way?"

It's "Rudyard Kipling To Rider Haggard: The Record Of A Friendship".

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:28 AM (yTvNw)

72 I think the only western that I've read is 'True Grit'.
Posted by: dantesed at August 02, 2026

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It is a good one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

73 Read an article this week about the difference in your brain between reading a book and listening to a book. MRI's show little to no difference in brain activity between listening and reading, but there is a difference when it comes to learning things, i.e. textbooks and academic books. When it comes to to learning, physical books/materials by far, had better outcomes.
Listening to stories is something our brains are hard wired to do. After all, we were passing stories down long before there was a written language. Conclusion was audio books are good for lighter reading like fiction but when it comes to to heavier reading, physical books are the clear winner.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 09:29 AM (VCgbV)

74 The only Western I've seen is TOS Spectre of the Gun.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 09:03 AM (JvZF+)

What about The 'Frisco Kid?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:29 AM (1Ff7Z)

75 I find it fascinating that Haggard wrote King Solomon's Mines in essentially a weekend, on a dare, after he told someone that writing an adventure novel would be easy, and they bet him he couldn't.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (0U5gm)

The same thing happened (more or less) to Texas feed salesman Hal P Warren. He told the screenwriter Sterling Silliphant that it was the easiest thing in the world to make a movie, so Silliphant challenged him to do it.

And so the world was gifted. . .Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/)

76 >>Stagecoaches don't have AC.

Have to laugh when people exit a stagecoach all clean. Anyone in a front-facing seat would be dusty as hell.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)

77 “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, which I believe is part of the Martian Chronickes, took place on August 4-5, 2026.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2026 09:30 AM (4g5V+)

78 Greatest Western film, hands down, is _The Phantom Empire_ starring Gene Autry.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 09:30 AM (78a2H)

79
6 Thanks to CBD for adding the visuals to my text. I need to learn how to do that and make more entertaining threads.
Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:03 AM (yTvNw)

I had to look up the piece of art at the top of the post. Of course - Bierstadt! Highly appropriate, as his art did much to establish the mythology of the American West from the beginning. This piece is a perfect example of that, pioneers headed into a glorious, golden future.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 09:31 AM (Ol0VD)

80 And so the world was gifted. . .Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:30 AM (

MST3K was never the same ever again.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2026 09:31 AM (4g5V+)

81 MP4, I'm proceeding handily with your new novel. Very good so far. I should have a few notes for you early next week.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:27 AM (wzUl9)

Many thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it. I still have a few minor edits to make, so no massive rush.

Yesterday I came up with a wonderful opening for the next book in the series, but I don't know whether I want to write it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:31 AM (qRla/)

82 My favorite Western's are A. B. Guthrie's
'The Big Sky' and 'The Way West'

Also Manfred's "Lord Grizzly"
(a better Hugh Glass tale than 'The Revenant')

And... Vardis Fischer's 'Mountain Man', the far
better source for the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson'.
His depiction of the natives as mostly superstitious
bug-eating savages is brutal.

The early 'mountain man' era is more interesting
than the 'cowboy' West. To me.

Posted by: retropox at August 02, 2026 09:31 AM (qmhkg)

83 Could someone please write a "cultivation" style LitRPG that doesn't immediately descend into depravity? I like the tropes, but am 3/0 for enjoyability on the ones I've tried due to harem, psychopathic main character, or constant foul language issues.

This is a case where I won't be writing the book I want to read, because I already have my weird west dino gunslinger setting I haven't been writing.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026 09:32 AM (lFFaq)

84 62 A history professor friend of mine who specializes in the old west recommends The Virginian, the first western novel. Someday I may get around to it .
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (P6pHw)

Oh, that's another that I picked up at a thrift or antique store, along with The Oxbow Incident. Haven't gotten around to reading either of them.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026 09:33 AM (h7ZuX)

85 Yesterday I came up with a wonderful opening for the next book in the series, but I don't know whether I want to write it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026

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Go ahead and set it down. Who knows, it may pull you along into the new story, as you answer the questions you ask or ask yourself in the opening.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:33 AM (wzUl9)

86 After poking around presume you've got 'Rudyard Kipling To Rider Haggard: The Record Of A Friendship' by Morton Cohen. from 1975 and presume never reprinted, this kind of book would make the shortlist browsing a used book store.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 02, 2026 09:33 AM (KaHlS)

87 My first born son is named after Logan Sackett.

Posted by: Ironwood at August 02, 2026 09:34 AM (ob2d4)

88 So, I guess the idea of Westerns appeals to me, but they rarely make it to the top of the TBR list. I should try those when I'm in a rut where nothing looks interesting.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026 09:34 AM (h7ZuX)

89 All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. This is an engaging story spanning from 1973 to 2001. It's a combination of a love story, a missing person mystery, and a serial killer hunter story, all with a unique twist on each. It quickly became a real page-turner for me.
Posted by: Zoltan
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I listened to this last month and enjoyed it too.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 09:34 AM (VCgbV)

90 For some reason this morning, my eyes are acting funny...seems like whatever I'm looking at seems to be moving downward, even though it's not moving...and no, it isn't an earthquake or landslide...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 09:11 AM (l3cgK)

I had something like that happen to me recently. My eyes kept wandering from what I was looking at. Since coming back from the road trip a week ago, every time I stand up I feel dizzy for a few seconds. Ah, the travails of getting older.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:35 AM (1Ff7Z)

91
I've read almost no westerns.

The first western I ever read was Ol' Looey L'Amour on the recommendation of a friend when I was maybe 12-13.

I was bored silly. It seemed no different than the multitude of TV westerns on the tube at that time.

So, I've stayed away.

I suppose I should try "Lonesome Dove" since so many people like it, and maybe-

Cormac McCarthy since he's always popping up on lists and in reviews. His writing style annoys me though.

We'll see.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2026 09:35 AM (iJfKG)

92 Not a book, but book adjacent - I decided to dust off Avalon Hill's old "1776" wargame and set it up. It's been a long time since I got it out and I'm really appreciating the elegance of its design. Because I can't help myself, I'm tinkering with the combat system, and for true gaming nerds, I'll have a blog post up later today (link in nic).

Also, I've posted the second essay analyzing a PRC invasion of Taiwan for those that are interested. This is basically "thinking on the page" (or the screen), so it's an open-ended project.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)

93 Cedar Sanderson's 6th Grounds Keeper is out. Called Fen Dead I believe. Quick read, decent mystery. Maybe a little heavy on early adulthood angst, but that's probably accurate for modern young adults.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026 09:36 AM (lFFaq)

94 And so the world was gifted. . .Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/)
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Bwahahaha!

Torgo the White takes TV's Frank to Second Banana Heaven:

https://tinyurl.com/bdr6sdm8

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2026 09:37 AM (kpS4V)

95 The Roy Rogers YA novel The Ghost of Mystery RAncho, which I've mentioned here a couple of times, was a big favorite of mine as a kid. Rereading it as a grownup -- I have a copy bought on eBay -- I see plot holes here and there. But it has an amazing narrative drive. And it is the classic "closed" mystery, where we do not know the identity of the villain until almost the end. Roy, a young Texas Ranger, is hunting a murderous Rio Grande-area bandit known as The Ghost, who wears a skeleton mask and costume on his raids. Not even his minions know his real identity. So added to the action is the built-in puzzle factor, and the revelation is a true thunderbolt worthy of Christie or Queen.

As well as stoking my love of Westerns, it started me on a lifelong affair with the classic mystery.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

96
62 A history professor friend of mine who specializes in the old west recommends The Virginian, the first western novel. Someday I may get around to it .
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 02, 2026 09:26 AM (P6pHw)

I found that in my grandpa’s library when I was young and read it - quite good! Much of it will seem cliche now, but it was one of the first serious novels about cowboy life in the west, and it was the dozens of writers who copied it that made it cliche.

It is one of those pieces of work that set the form for much of the genre to follow.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 09:39 AM (Ol0VD)

97 Amazon has/had a Josephine Tey collection on Kindle for only a couple of dollars and many of the Horde have recommended her books so I got it. Just started the first in the book, an Inspector Grant story.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026 09:39 AM (lFFaq)

98 Combination book/movie/TV comment. After having avoided Harlan Coben, I eventually read Nobody's Fool and quite liked it. I then discovered Netflix has a bazillion Coben limited series (many set in England despite the books upon which they are based being set in the US). I looked him up and he has sold over 100,000,000 books. Plus his movie revenue. And his Final Twist TV series. And now I see there's talk of a Myron Bolitar TV series based upon his twelve book series about a sports agent who always gets himself involved in murders. Yeah, life must be pretty sweet for Harlan Coben.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (ndZc7)

99 Do the Hillermans' (Tony & his daughter) books count as westerns if they are set on the rez?
I enjoy those books.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:28 AM (znREB)

Yes!
After living on ranch on the 'North Rim' for six
summers (in the '70's) I read "A Thief of Time"
30 years later. Hillerman made me feel I though
I had time traveled. I was THERE again.
The smell of the pinyon and sage, the smell of the
summer rain, the very way the air felt in a canyon.

Posted by: retropox at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (qmhkg)

100 For some reason this morning, my eyes are acting funny...seems like whatever I'm looking at seems to be moving downward, even though it's not moving...and no, it isn't an earthquake or landslide...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026
*
I had something like that happen to me recently. My eyes kept wandering from what I was looking at. Since coming back from the road trip a week ago, every time I stand up I feel dizzy for a few seconds. Ah, the travails of getting older.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026

***
I had something similar back in 2018. Turned out to be an inner-ear problem, solved with some physical therapy that helped to shake something loose that was stuck in my vestibular canals.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

101 Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 09:06 AM (4I26t)

WG, I came across a YT vid yesterday covering a comic collection of PI stories. Can't remember who did it, but it was talking about "PIs," a set of stories done in various styles, even inside the same story. Thought you might be interested.

Link to Amazon:
https://tinyurl.com/9kbm4vcy

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (1Ff7Z)

102 The Searchers, by Alan Le May, is a very close second to Lonesome Dove. I've read both multiple times and given away every copy I've bought.

I read The Good Old Boys, by Elmer Kelton, last year. It's a story of the end of the cowboy age and wandering cowboy Hewey Calloway who tries, but doesn't fit in modern life with West Texas farming and automobiles and staying in one place for more than a few days or weeks. It is a dandy book, that was made into a tv movie with Tommy Lee Jones 30 years ago. I haven't seen it, but if they followed the book, it would be a good one.

Posted by: huerfano at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (VJX5o)

103 "Trigger! It was you all the time!"

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (78a2H)

104 lin-duh,
Fully concur on audio vs physical book retainage and comprehension.
It's the difficulty juggling driving, mowing and chores while reading that have mostly pushed my to audio ratio up.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 02, 2026 09:41 AM (KaHlS)

105 Amazon has/had a Josephine Tey collection on Kindle for only a couple of dollars and many of the Horde have recommended her books so I got it. Just started the first in the book, an Inspector Grant story.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026

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She was great. The strong thing with a Tey novel is the flavor and the characters, often people you'd want to spend time with after the book is over.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:41 AM (wzUl9)

106 Not even his minions know his real identity. So added to the action is the built-in puzzle factor, and the revelation is a true thunderbolt worthy of Christie or Queen.

As well as stoking my love of Westerns, it started me on a lifelong affair with the classic mystery.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

When his mask is pulled off, does he say “and I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you darn kids!!!” ???

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 09:41 AM (Ol0VD)

107 MST3K was never the same ever again.
Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2026 09:31 AM (4g5V+)

Servo's high-velocity riff at the end was classic.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 09:41 AM (PiwSw)

108 Alan LeMay was also the fellow who wrote The Unforgiven -- not the Clint Eastwood classic, but the 1950s film with Burt Lancaster and Natalie Wood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

109 OE, I'm glad you liked Some Buried Caesar. You're right, Stout's work is perfectly enjoyable by 21st-century people. SBC is not my favorite Wolfe, Murder By the Book is probably that, but if nothing else SBC gives us that wonderful picture of Wolfe, arms folded and walking stick over one arm, standing safely atop the big rock in the pasture while the bull trots around him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

Yes, I did like it. I have those other two waiting, but I think I'll read one of the ERB's I bought with them. Kid number one bought those other books you recommended, but I'll have to wait until she comes by in November.

I wonder if the scene with Wolfe on the rock was the one mentioned last week that someone thought was laugh out loud? I thought it was cute, but didn't laugh out loud.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:43 AM (1Ff7Z)

110 Yesterday I came up with a wonderful opening for the next book in the series, but I don't know whether I want to write it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:31 AM (qRla/)
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I keep a pad next to the bed to write down phrases that occur to me. I also have lots of writing paper around the house as well. Never let an idea go to waste!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

111 Fully concur on audio vs physical book retainage and comprehension.
It's the difficulty juggling driving, mowing and chores while reading that have mostly pushed my to audio ratio up.
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 02, 2026 09:41 AM (KaHlS)

Same. I have tried a couple of non-fiction and historical books on audio, but they don't work for me. Mysteries, funny stuff, all that is good on audio. Currently listening to We Sold Our Souls, by Grady Hendrix. I guess you would call it comic horror, and I'm just going to declare that Hendrix owns this genre.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026 09:44 AM (h7ZuX)

112 Vardis Fischer's 'Mountain Man', the far better source for the movie 'Jeremiah Johnson'. His depiction of the natives as mostly superstitious bug-eating savages is brutal.

Posted by: retropox at August 02, 2026 09:31 AM (qmhkg)

Yes! And Fischer's historical version of the Lewis and Clark expedition "Tale of Valor" is also very good. I think Fischer had a grim outlook on life in general, and that grimness buttresses the struggle between nature and human existence.

Posted by: 13times at August 02, 2026 09:44 AM (fnZRl)

113 Thanks for the plug for my books! There are two sequels/story collections to Lone Star Sons: Lone Star Blood and Lone Star Glory.

When I was still trying to go the trad-pub route and looking for a literary agent, I had my first two books in hand in manuscript - To Truckee's Trail, and the Adelsverein Trilogy. It seemed like every agency website I looked at had a snotty little notation that they did not consider westerns. And those that didn't have it on their website so informed me in the letter of rejection. Me pleading "It's historical fiction set on the 19th century trans-Mississippi western frontier" cut no ice at all.
But westerns seemed still to be a popular genre - so I said F**k it, I write westerns!" and embraced the category. And twenty or so books later...

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at August 02, 2026 09:45 AM (Ew3fm)

114 26 ... "I have a copy of "Riders of the Purple Sage" I've been meaning to read forever."

AHE,
Good morning. Purple Sage is a good start. A few personal favorites that might appeal to you, all Louis L'Amour and easily found in used book stores. "Ride the River" with it's teenage girl protagonist. She is competent in the wild but doesn't refuse male help. L'Amour's female characters are capable but not stupid. "Jubal Sackett" is one of the last of the Sackett series. Jubal is in the second generation of Sacketts, so 1600s. Exploring unknown territory, touches of mysticism, romance, and desperate fights. His sense of wonder at the new world makes for pleasant and exciting reading. Then "Flint", the ultimate competent loner who wants peace but encounters greed and corruption. The insights into life in the later wild west is fun.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:45 AM (yTvNw)

115 Not even his minions know his real identity. So added to the action is the built-in puzzle factor, and the revelation is a true thunderbolt worthy of Christie or Queen.

As well as stoking my love of Westerns, it started me on a lifelong affair with the classic mystery.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

When his mask is pulled off, does he say “and I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you darn kids!!!” ???
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026

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Nope. These Whitman stories, while written for young adults, never wrote down to them. I can reread many of them now with enjoyment. In fact one, Roy Rogers and the Enchanted Canyon, proved a revelation some years ago. I hadn't liked it as a kid. As an adult I loved it -- party because of the atmosphere the author generates about the abandoned Anasazi canyon dwellings. I was not an atmosphere guy at age nine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

116 InspiredHistoryMike,
I resisted audiobooks for a long time but now I am always listening to one while driving, at work when bored or doing repetitive things, while doing chores, and cooking. I still read on my kindle nightly but usually a different book.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 09:45 AM (VCgbV)

117 100 wolfus is right - go get checked out

Most vestibular issues can be corrected IF addressed quickly; if you ignore it it can get so much worse

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:46 AM (eZ5tL)

118 Same. I have tried a couple of non-fiction and historical books on audio, but they don't work for me. Mysteries, funny stuff, all that is good on audio. Currently listening to We Sold Our Souls, by Grady Hendrix. I guess you would call it comic horror, and I'm just going to declare that Hendrix owns this genre.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026

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I just finished that in print. I didn't find it comic at all -- but horror, oh, yes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:46 AM (wzUl9)

119 Ah, publishers.

"There Will Come Soft Rains" takes place in August 2057. That's in the current William Morrow pb/Kindle edition.

Originally, as reprinted by Library of America in their 2-volume Bradbury set - yep, August 2026.

Why Morrow feels the need to do that is beyond me. Next week I suppose Orwell's reprints will be issued as 2084.

Recently revisited It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which set its Mars landings in 1973. Guess they'll have to do an AI edit of the voice-overs.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 09:47 AM (q3u5l)

120 Ah, the travails of getting older.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

No, it's not old age. Get it checked, OE

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:47 AM (eZ5tL)

121 @101 --

Thank you. When I'm on YouTube, it's primarily to watch "Gutfeld!" -- we no longer have cable -- or to listen to Larry O'Connor, which I do at work.

Outside of that, the videos I choose all relate to comics.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 09:48 AM (4I26t)

122 >> Alan LeMay was also the fellow who wrote The Unforgiven -- not the Clint Eastwood classic, but the 1950s film with Burt Lancaster and Natalie Wood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:42 AM

Good book. The movie was absolutely a 50s western. I didn't believe Audrey Hepburn as half Kiowa.

Posted by: huerfano at August 02, 2026 09:48 AM (VJX5o)

123 One of my favorite quotes is from Washington Irving, in which he quite succinctly describes the joy of traveling in a stagecoach;

“There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.”

- Washington Irving

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 09:49 AM (Ol0VD)

124 I wonder if the scene with Wolfe on the rock was the one mentioned last week that someone thought was laugh out loud? I thought it was cute, but didn't laugh out loud.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026

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Probably so.

To me the classic LOL moment in the Wolfe saga comes from another, later book. Archie mentions again at the climax that Wolfe does not always tell even him what he, Wolfe, plans, or who the murderer is. "He says that I can control my face better if I don't know. The real reason is that he loves to have a curtain go up revealing him balancing a ball on the end of his nose."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9)

125 Oh, and the brands of automobiles in the Wolfe story? Made up. The Heron sedan, the Wethersill convertible, et al. were all Stout's creations. He invented brand names for nearly everything, a gun brand called Marley, names for locks and rugs. There was one 1950s story where Archie mentions that Wolfe has bought, and he drives, a Cadillac instead of a Heron, but that kind of brand reference was rare.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (wzUl9)

That keeps the story from being dated. Ages the story when a defunct brand is still used as something current.

Unless it was a story about AOP, someone daily driving a Studebaker certain locks it into a time gone by.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:50 AM (1Ff7Z)

126 Thanks for the dandy Book Thread, JTB!

Currently reading The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood. Still early into the book, but the history of the social order in England and America during the 17th and 18th centuries is fascinating.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 02, 2026 09:51 AM (D/6p1)

127 Alan LeMay was also the fellow who wrote The Unforgiven -- not the Clint Eastwood classic, but the 1950s film with Burt Lancaster and Natalie Wood.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:42 AM
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Good book. The movie was absolutely a 50s western. I didn't believe Audrey Hepburn as half Kiowa.
Posted by: huerfano at August 02, 2026

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Oh, that's right, it was Audrey. Natalie was the grown version of the girl Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter were seeking in The Searchers.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:51 AM (wzUl9)

128 As I continue to refine my neovim screenwriting config, I’m thinking I may add some features that would make it suitable for writing novels.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2026 09:16 AM (XV/Pl)

How would that work? AI assisted writing, or templates?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:51 AM (1Ff7Z)

129 Got interested in Louis L'Amour a while ago for reasons I don't remember. Probably because someone recommended his autobiography-of-sorts: Education of a Wandering Man. It sounded more interesting than it was, and was more a catalog of the prodigious amount of books he read over the first half of his life than anything else. It was OK. Then I thought I'd try reading his fiction writing and got a couple Westerns. Did not find his writing style very compelling, but that's just me.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 02, 2026 09:52 AM (QaH55)

130 This bloodthirsty act merged into the ancient vampire myth, which then influenced Bram Stoker's novel.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

Tom Homan is doing a great job as Border "Czar," but he could probably use a decent assistant like Vlad Tepes.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 02, 2026 09:52 AM (/RHNq)

131 Read a couple of those Bobby Boyle, Ike's detective.wwii mysteries, someone here recommended, they are good, but there's like twenty of them socertainly won't get to them all.
Also read 111 Days in Stanleyville, about the 1964 uprising in the Congo, by Dave Reed, a friends godfather. Reminded me of the weird times I came of age in.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 09:52 AM (sl73Y)

132 "The Searchers, by Alan Le May, is a very close second to Lonesome Dove."

Posted by: huerfano at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (VJX5o)

Another very good book!

Posted by: 13times at August 02, 2026 09:52 AM (fnZRl)

133 I've read a couple of Elmer Keltons. I keep getting him confused with the famous gun expert Elmer Keith, though.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:18 AM (wzUl9)

Better than confusing him with Pert Kelton!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:53 AM (1Ff7Z)

134 Sgt. Mom, I have a feeling my somewhat "hardboiled" approach to fantasy is not going to go over with traditional publishers either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:53 AM (wzUl9)

135 For some reason this morning, my eyes are acting funny...seems like whatever I'm looking at seems to be moving downward, even though it's not moving

Not to be a panican but if it persists, you might want to seek medical attention. It could be nothing or it could be a warning sign of something serious. No point in taking chances.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 09:53 AM (vTZFs)

136 OrangeEnt,

Look up BPPV ( Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo )

It would be best to see a professional, but if you want to try a home remedy first, look up "Epley maneuver"

Alternately, slap hot iron to it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 09:54 AM (PiwSw)

137 @95 --

Not even his minions know his real identity.

How does that work? Does he waylay them behind the bar and make his pitch?

In the Spirit comics, his primary recurring foe, the crimelord the Octopus, keeps his identity secret by killing the underlings who convey his orders.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 09:54 AM (4I26t)

138 I read the whole CJ Box Joe Pickett series and really enjoyed it.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 09:54 AM (VCgbV)

139 I don't read much westerns, and we rarely get them in our library.
We do get western - set mysteries and thrillers.
But imo the true heirs of the western genre csn be found in scifi.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:21 AM (GhIJO)

Well, as seen above, westerns and sci-fi get written by the same authors. They do go together. I do both.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

140 For any Book Thread denizens who don't frequent all the other threads --

Yesterday's thread from K.T., Sowell Weekend, is well worth a look. He links to a panel discussion (Niall Ferguson, Victor Hanson, and Coleman Hughes) on Sowell. Nice stuff.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 09:56 AM (q3u5l)

141 Lonesome Dove and its prequels and sequel are not the usual Western fare. They are more like "Westerns for people who hate Westerns." I'd think anybody who liked True Grit, the novel or either movie version, would like LD.

McMurtry does have one style quirk. He changes point of view from one character to another, not just within the same scene, but within the same paragraph. It can be disconcerting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:56 AM (wzUl9)

142 Currently reading The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood. Still early into the book, but the history of the social order in England and America during the 17th and 18th centuries is fascinating.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 02, 2026 09:51 AM (D/6p1)

He also wrote The American Revolution: A History, a short (166 pages) well-done retelling of the conflict.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:56 AM (qRla/)

143 “I hadn't liked it as a kid. As an adult I loved it -- party because of the atmosphere the author generates about the abandoned Anasazi canyon dwellings. I was not an atmosphere guy at age nine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

I should look for that. Having visited some of those ruins, I know the eerie, almost otherworldly feel you get as you approach them. There’s something about great works of men who lived a thousand years ago, where everyone just left and abandoned them to the foxes and the scorpions.

Or maybe they never left. Only their descendants did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 09:57 AM (Ol0VD)

144 A western I enjoyed was A Distant Trumpet by Paul Horgan. It was made into a mediocre movie (although it did have Suzanne Pleshette) but the book is much better and very well written. It's about a young cavalry officer fighting Indians and the Army during the last of the Indian Wars.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 09:57 AM (ndZc7)

145 Sgt. Mom, I have a feeling my somewhat "hardboiled" approach to fantasy is not going to go over with traditional publishers either.[/i.]

Unless your name is Loren Estleman, trad pubs don't want silent film mysteries, either.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:58 AM (qRla/)

146 I'm just starting his The Terror, an 1840s novel of the Royal Navy trying to find the Northwest Passage from the North Atlantic out to the Pacific. Two steam-powered sailing ships get frozen into the ice near Baffin Bay . . . and something huge and dangerous is out there in the dark picking off the men one by one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

The Terror is next on my Kindle after Drood.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 02, 2026 09:58 AM (/RHNq)

147 34 ... "I bought Galahad and the Grail by Matthew Guite. It was recommended somewhere and is quite wonderful. It's his epic poem about the search for the Grail. Most versions I've read seem to treat Galahad as a prissy do gooder. He's a bit more Samwise Gamgee here. It is recommended you read outloud, which I have been doing.

And you might check out his You Tube channel. He does it from his library. He's a professor at Oxford and an Anglican priest."

notsothoreau,

I'm so glad you are enjoying Guite's poetry. And his YT videos are my favorites. So much entertainment, so much insight into literature: Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald, Dante, The Faerie Queene, sources of the Arthur legends. Many comments have asked him to narrate the complete LOTR on CD. His readings are excellent.

BTW, the second volume of the Arthuriad comes out in November. I've already ordered mine.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

148 Do the Hillermans' (Tony & his daughter) books count as westerns if they are set on the rez?
I enjoy those books.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:28 AM (znREB)

If set at Mohegan Sun, no.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

149 @109 --

I wonder if the scene with Wolfe on the rock was the one mentioned last week that someone thought was laugh out loud?

No, it was Archie's proposal for the county jail's prisoners' union. One demand was for a closed shop.

I enjoy "Some Buried Caesar," but the book gives away the game before you open it. IYKYK.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 10:01 AM (4I26t)

150 OT, left a gallon of milk in the garage coming in from the store. Overnight temp was around eighty, left out for fifteen hours. Put it in the fridge this morning, fully intend to drink it.
Poll: still drinkable, or will I die.
Momma cow got no refrigeration.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 10:01 AM (sl73Y)

151 That keeps the story from being dated. Ages the story when a defunct brand is still used as something current.

Which reminds me, apparently Amazon is doing a series of Neuromancer. I'm not entirely sure if I trust them not to f*ck it up like they did Tolkien. OK, I am sure -- that I don 't trust them. Anyway, one of the things Gibson did was mix in familiar brand names (Braun in particular) with fake ones (e.g. Ono-Sendai) to help create an impression of pervasive Asian-European technocracy. Offhand, I don't recall any mention of identifiably American tech.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 10:01 AM (vTZFs)

152 “I hadn't liked it as a kid. As an adult I loved it -- party because of the atmosphere the author generates about the abandoned Anasazi canyon dwellings. I was not an atmosphere guy at age nine.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026
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I should look for that. Having visited some of those ruins, I know the eerie, almost otherworldly feel you get as you approach them. There’s something about great works of men who lived a thousand years ago, where everyone just left and abandoned them to the foxes and the scorpions.

Or maybe they never left. Only their descendants did.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026

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The author was Jim Rivers, and it dates to 1954.

Oddly enough, Louis L'Amour wrote a set-in-modern-times SF novel about exactly that, The Haunted Mesa.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:01 AM (wzUl9)

153 Frank Herbert does the same viewpoint-hopping within the same scene or paragraph. In his case it's because all the characters are lying, or have hidden agendas, or something they won't express openly.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 10:01 AM (78a2H)

154 Speaking of Dracula and stone age game shows . . .

https://tinyurl.com/4a4t6hre

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:02 AM (ndZc7)

155 And so the world was gifted. . .Manos: The Hands of Fate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/)

Hey! It got made, didn't it?

(looks at latest "thanks, but" email from another publisher)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:02 AM (1Ff7Z)

156 Oddbob: I believe in N'mancer Molly packs a "Remington Recoilless" handgun.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 10:03 AM (78a2H)

157 My brother-In-law picked up several books at the Goodwill for us which I think I will enjoy reading. One is about the Kings and Queens of England edited by Antonia Fraser I have read a few chapters already The other is a novel by Per Olov Enquist about one of the men who started the Swedish Pentecostal movement . ( I didn't even know That Sweden had a Pentecostal movement) , and the last one is a biography of George Washington by John Ferling . FenSpouse has already started that and is enjoying it . He told me that Washington used to get up at 4:00 and spend a few hours at his desk reading and responding to his correspondence

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2026 10:03 AM (vxQju)

158 Poll: still drinkable, or will I die.
Momma cow got no refrigeration.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 10:01 AM (sl73Y)

You'll want the smell test on that one. I don't think it will actually make you ill, because pasteurization and all that, but it probably won't taste good.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026 10:03 AM (h7ZuX)

159 Do Weird West stories count?

I highly recommend Ryan Williamson's "The Widow's" and its sequel, "The Spear of Destiny." Demons, mechs, zombies, cavalry, and Christianity mashed up in a couple of great stories.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 02, 2026 10:04 AM (/RHNq)

160 I went through "Six Frigates" via audiobook. I'd like to find a copy to see whether it's illustrated.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 10:04 AM (4I26t)

161 I enjoy "Some Buried Caesar," but the book gives away the game before you open it. IYKYK.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026

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Stout, like Josephine Tey (though for different reasons), belongs in the first rank of mystery writers. But he was not a great puzzle constructor like the Queens, Christie, or Carr. In the Wolfe novels there is rarely a dazzle moment like the reason for the corpse's reversed clothing in EQ's Chinese Orange Mystery. In some of Stout's Wolfe novelettes, yes, but not often in the novels.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

162 It's very humid today; I think I'll crank up the A/C and relax.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 10:05 AM (qRla/)

163 Yesterday I came up with a wonderful opening for the next book in the series, but I don't know whether I want to write it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026

I know the feeling. I've come up with endings and beginnings for books I'm not sure I'll ever do. They just come to me while I'm thinking about something else.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

164 Smell and taste the milk. It is pasteurized and unopened so it won't kill you but see what it smells and tastes like before drinking it.

Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 10:07 AM (VCgbV)

165 When it comes to the masked boss in Westerns, my guess is that it's the town banker, the saloon owner, or the heroine's younger brother.

Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 10:07 AM (4I26t)

166 I got into watching Western movies kinda late in life, and, alas, never got into reading Western novels. So I can't contribute much today. (Dood thing, too, because I'm kinda late.)

That said, I did read some mountain-men themed novels as a youth, which is sorta related. But I may mostly be remembering the trapper-and-his-dog novels that were set closer to the modern age than to the actual old west...

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 02, 2026 10:10 AM (N5RnR)

167 I didn't believe Audrey Hepburn as half Kiowa.

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She was from the Netherlands wing of the Kiowa tribe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:11 AM (ndZc7)

168 I had something similar back in 2018. Turned out to be an inner-ear problem, solved with some physical therapy that helped to shake something loose that was stuck in my vestibular canals.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (wzUl9)

Ah. I do get the occasional ear bother early in the morning because the fan runs all night over the bed. That should stop when we don't need it in a couple months.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:11 AM (1Ff7Z)

169 I read The Good Old Boys, by Elmer Kelton, last year. It's a story of the end of the cowboy age and wandering cowboy Hewey Calloway who tries, but doesn't fit in modern life with West Texas farming and automobiles and staying in one place for more than a few days or weeks. It is a dandy book, that was made into a tv movie with Tommy Lee Jones 30 years ago. I haven't seen it, but if they followed the book, it would be a good one.
Posted by: huerfano at August 02, 2026 09:40 AM (VJX5o)

Sort of a Monte Walsh story?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:13 AM (1Ff7Z)

170 To be candid, I find it hard to believe Audrey Hepburn as Dutch, either. She's the archetypical Frenchwoman.

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 10:13 AM (78a2H)

171 I know the feeling. I've come up with endings and beginnings for books I'm not sure I'll ever do. They just come to me while I'm thinking about something else.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026

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I love scenes with mechanized movement, cars, buses, etc. One scene haunts me: My amateur detectives, a brother-sister duo, escape (from a trap laid by the murderer) by stealing a motorcycle and racing on a truck motorway along the Miss. River.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

172 I've only read a few Westerns. The Robert B Parker ones starting with Appaloosa are terrific. The movie actually enhances the book because the casting is perfect. The series is co tinued by the guy who wrote the screenplay for the movie so the dialogue continues as if Parker is still writing.
There is a book by Michael Christin set in the o,d West called Dragon Teeth. It is about rivals searching for dinosaur bones. It is a fun read.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 02, 2026 10:17 AM (kJmSS)

173 Most vestibular issues can be corrected IF addressed quickly; if you ignore it it can get so much worse
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 09:46 AM (eZ5tL)

Well, I don't know if that's what it could be, vmom. Besides, I have no health insurance until April 1. I'm also not eating as well as I should. A carryover from the vaca, I assume.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

174 Wolfus

I have never read anything by Josephine Tey except for "The Daughter of Time" which I enjoyed very much. What else of hers should I start with?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2026 10:18 AM (W90Ou)

175 When it comes to the masked boss in Westerns, my guess is that it's the town banker, the saloon owner, or the heroine's younger brother.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026

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Mystery Rancho avoids all that. And because the villain's outfit is a full-body skeleton costume, it's even harder to discern who he might be.

Damn suit would be pretty hot along the Rio Grande in Texas, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:18 AM (wzUl9)

176 OT, left a gallon of milk in the garage

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When I was in Kindergarten, we had milk boxes. One day, I didn't feel like drinking mine right then so I put it in my desk. The next day it stunk to high Heaven and I thought I'm in for it now! I didn't know what to do so I just got through the day and by the next day it was magically gone. I credit Jesus.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:19 AM (ndZc7)

177 I finally remembered the name of the horse book: Alcatraz. And, apparently, it's by Max Brand, not Zane Grey.

Wonder what I ever did with that? I can't find it on my shelves.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026 10:20 AM (h7ZuX)

178
Fauci: “I can tell you, I, I take no pleasure at all in being in a situation of contradicting the president. Right. It was really something, right, that you didn’t feel that you could actually say something. Exactly. And there wouldn’t be any repercussions about it. The idea that you can get up here and talk about what you know, what the evidence, what the science is, and no, that’s it. Let the science speak. It is somewhat of a liberating feeling.”

Rush: Oh ho ho ho! It’s orgasmic! Finally the science speaks! He doesn’t have to go out and say what Trump told him to say. That’s what he means. He doesn’t need to go out there and he doesn’t have to be in block and tackle chains over what Trump wants. Now the science can speak. You know what these people are doing to science? They’re corrupting science like they’ve corrupted everything else, folks. Let the science speak. What arrogance. This is, this is Fauci who essentially is saying, you can’t challenge me, you can’t question me, I am science.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 02, 2026 10:20 AM (/+uur)

179 The real reason is that he loves to have a curtain go up revealing him balancing a ball on the end of his nose."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 09:49 AM (wzUl9)

I'd read about that line in a forward to one of the books. That line did make me laugh out loud.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:21 AM (1Ff7Z)

180 That post was from 1/24/2021, right after Uncle Joe was sworn in.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 02, 2026 10:21 AM (/+uur)

181 Most of my westerns consumption was movies and television; they were all over the tube when I was a kid. Not just Maverick or Gunsmoke. The Deputy, The Rebel, Wyatt Earp, Tombstone Territory, Trackdown, Lawman, The Rifleman, Have Gun Will Travel and onandonandon.

When there were still a lot of movies being shown in prime time, you could count on seeing some decent westerns then too. The Fastest Gun Alive and 3:10 to Yuma and quite a few John Waynes used to show up fairly regularly in the lineups IIRC.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 10:22 AM (q3u5l)

182 I may have mentioned before, in 1966 my wife and I with our infant son, attended a book signing with Rex Stout. He was promoting his new Wolfe story, Death of a Doxy. We were the only customers so got to spend almost 2 hours with him. We had a lot in common, having attended the same school and having been in a Kansas jail. I have read all of his books and recommend them highly. After he died, I sent his wife a picture of us together. He was quite a charming man

Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 02, 2026 10:22 AM (z6ONu)

183 I have never read anything by Josephine Tey except for "The Daughter of Time" which I enjoyed very much. What else of hers should I start with?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2026

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Daughter is superb, her best work. But I love The Singing Sands, her last novel, in which Inspector Grant, felled by an attack of claustrophobia, is on a trip to Scotland to recover when a death draws him out of himself. Her non-Grants Brat Farrar and Miss Pym Disposes are grand stories too. The first is a variant on the old "posing as the heir to a fortune" story, and the other, well, the actual crime doesn't happen for a while. But you love spending time with Miss Pym and the girls and women at the "physical culture college" (a school for women who want to teach physical education, I think).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:23 AM (wzUl9)

184 After about a year break, back on Audible plus. The included plus selection is deep enough for it to be worthwhile. AI virtual voice is now the majority of new titles. This works for some titles, not as much for others. Appendix N, about Gary Gygax D&D source library was released virtual voice and was very entertaining and interesting.

A rare complete virtual voice failure was a book on President Reagan's leadership. I didn't feel the book was bad, but it was not engaging.
A frustrating thing is many non-fiction books with good narrators are released without proper chapter indexing. Virtual audio I've tried usually has better indexing. Of course some titles have had NO effort made, and may can include reading of footnotes, glossary or captions that add no value to an audiobook.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at August 02, 2026 10:24 AM (KaHlS)

185 "By the way, Donald Hamilton (obligatory Matt Helm reference) wrote some westerns in the 1950s and they are excellent. His book The Big Country was adapted for the movie of that name with Charlton Heston"

Also starring Gregory Peck and Jean Simmons and features one of the all time great western scores by Jerome Morass. Once heard,never forgotten.

Posted by: Tuna at August 02, 2026 10:26 AM (lJ0H4)

186 Started a new Sanderson written in collaboration with Peter Orullion titled Songs of the Dead. A depressing title right off the bat. Not quite 100 pages in and something just not right. I don't hear Sanderson's voice at all. It is a fantasy involving resurrecting thanatists who can controll minions with threads around their wrists with magic runes set in London with lots of references to Metal music. Not feeling it. Disappointed.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 02, 2026 10:26 AM (kJmSS)

187 Alternately, slap hot iron to it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 09:54 AM (PiwSw)

The Horde remedies are the best remedies.

I hope it's not vertigo. I'm too far from San Juan Batista.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:26 AM (1Ff7Z)

188 “…in decaying civilizations it was always the case that real gifts were ignored. They devoted themselves to the criticism of style and other details. They no longer had the mind to appreciate mind.” — H. Rider Haggard, Kipling to Haggard, p. 70

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair (sniping just before Mass) at August 02, 2026 10:26 AM (TNVmU)

189 FenSpouse has already started that and is enjoying it . He told me that Washington used to get up at 4:00 and spend a few hours at his desk reading and responding to his correspondence
Posted by: FenelonSpo

I can see why, I've often wondered whether you, and a few other morons, ever sleep.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 10:26 AM (sl73Y)

190 Gary Gygax D&D

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I called my 30s aged daughter the other day and she told me she and her husband were over at a friend's playing D&D.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:27 AM (ndZc7)

191 >>> Read an article this week about the difference in your brain between reading a book and listening to a book. MRI's show little to no difference in brain activity between listening and reading, but there is a difference when it comes to learning things, i.e. textbooks and academic books. When it comes to to learning, physical books/materials by far, had better outcomes.
Listening to stories is something our brains are hard wired to do. After all, we were passing stories down long before there was a written language.
Posted by: lin-duh at August 02, 2026 09:29 AM (VCgbV)

When I had a very long commute, 45min - 1.5 hours both ways, I started listening to books. I would generally pick ones with long run times so they would last a good number of weeks. Big books. Later when that was over I decided to read the books that I really enjoyed listening to. It was like a completely different novel. A lot of the long ones were sizable Mark Helprin tomes. And I feel like I have two versions of each one, written by the same author, living in my head now.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 02, 2026 10:28 AM (3uBP9)

192 As his approval collapses, Big Orange begs Iran for a deal. Art of the Cuck.

Sad!!

Posted by: MAGA lol at August 02, 2026 10:28 AM (S+xAM)

193 Fen, the other great thing about The Daughter of Time is that Tey somehow manages to keep the family relationships, those of Henry VII and Richard III and the Tudors and Plantagenets, etc., clear -- without having to resort to a family tree in the front or back of the book! Amazing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

194 This is, this is Fauci who essentially is saying, you can’t challenge me, you can’t question me, I am science.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 02, 2026 10:20 AM (/+uur)

It worked. A large part of the population bought it hook, line, and sinker. I do have to hand it to the dems on this. It was a well run op.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 10:30 AM (g8Ew8)

195 No, it was Archie's proposal for the county jail's prisoners' union. One demand was for a closed shop.

I enjoy "Some Buried Caesar," but the book gives away the game before you open it. IYKYK.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 10:01 AM (4I26t)

Oh. (blushes) I didn't laugh at that scene. Sorry.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:30 AM (1Ff7Z)

196 I credit Jesus.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:19 AM (ndZc7)

Jesus, the school custodian? Yeh, probably.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 10:31 AM (sl73Y)

197 I hope it's not vertigo. I'm too far from San Juan Batista.

When we lived in the bay area some 30 years ago*, we would occasionally drive to San Juan Bautista for lunch on the weekend because it was the only place to get good Tex-Mex.

* geez, I'm old.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 10:31 AM (vTZFs)

198 Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 10:26 AM (sl73Y)

I am up about 5:00 but usually conked out about 9:00 or earlier Some of The other early bird morons and ettes may be made of hardier stuff.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2026 10:32 AM (xSAlF)

199 I had something similar back in 2018. Turned out to be an inner-ear problem

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I had something similar and it turned out to be excessive ear wax. A nurse dug it out, which was rather unpleasant, but problem solved.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

200 I recall an Archie scene where he spends the night in jail. He tells us he shared his cell "with about 30,000 others. Ten thousand of them were fleas, ten thousand were bedbugs, and I never found out what the other ten thousand were."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:33 AM (wzUl9)

201 Reading Ghost Rider by Neil Peart again.
The only thing I like about westerns are the horses and firearms.

Posted by: Billythesquid at August 02, 2026 10:34 AM (gN+5I)

202 "That keeps the story from being dated. Ages the story when a defunct brand is still used as something current.

Unless it was a story about AOP, someone daily driving a Studebaker certain locks it into a time gone by.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:50 AM"

I've been enjoying the Joe Pickett series from CJ Box as someone here recommended. It needs to be consumed in order.
The first one seems to be set in about 1998. The most recent I've listened to (I'm doing it via audiobook) is about 2003. I can pick up on the changes in technology as the series proceeds - cell phones, email, internet access and the like.

So will every story set in 2021 have characters wearing masks, staying six feet apart and anguishing over clot shots?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

203 One of the networks had a revolving western series. Sugarbush, Bronco Lane, and I forget the third. They were pretty good. Guess they got to recycle scripts, efficient.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 10:35 AM (sl73Y)

204 Probably ticks, I hate those bastards

Posted by: Buck Ofama, K4WTJ at August 02, 2026 10:35 AM (z6ONu)

205 I love scenes with mechanized movement, cars, buses, etc. One scene haunts me: My amateur detectives, a brother-sister duo, escape (from a trap laid by the murderer) by stealing a motorcycle and racing on a truck motorway along the Miss. River.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:16 AM (wzUl9)

I usually get germ of an idea and a bunch of dialog. Sometimes I remember it, sometimes, not.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:37 AM (1Ff7Z)

206 Milk in the plastic style gallon jug? Will be fine. Not for very long though, I would expect the shelf life will be reduced by quite a lot.

Back when I drank a lot I’d get 4 or 5 gallons and keep in the fridge at 34F or somewhere near that. I could get maybe 3 or 4 weeks before it started to sour.

Then I realized my in between meal snacks were busting 1000 calories, a pint or two of ice cold Milk was part of that. No more Milk.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 10:38 AM (dLnkr)

207 Today, I am sitting down and finishing Heart of the Mountain by Larry Correia. It's the last book in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series and I kept forgetting to return to it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 02, 2026 10:39 AM (/k3in)

208 What a coincidence! I finished reading the Sackett series just this morning, for the first time since first reading them fifteen years ago. My memory was that the earliest books in the series were the best ones, and the series finale must have been an early draft rushed into publication. I still largely think that, except some of the middle books are much better than I remembered. I wish Echo Sackett made other appearances, for she was an interesting character, and Jubal Sackett was also.

Anyway, L'Amour is always a fun summer read.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 10:41 AM (UdkHl)

209 One of the networks had a revolving western series. Sugarbush, Bronco Lane, and I forget the third. They were pretty good. Guess they got to recycle scripts, efficient.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026

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Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, and Bronco. I think they ran it under the umbrella of The Cheyenne Show -- Clint Walker as Cheyenne.

Yes, Warner Bros. did that. An early Cheyenne is a out-and-out rewrite of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. They credited B. Traven, but WB owned the property and the original film. They did the same thing with Strangers on a Train on 77 Sunset Strip, except they changed it to a jet airplane (early '60s).

The Cheyenne rewrite of TotSM (1955) was quite well done, with Rod Taylor in a guest role and character actor Edward Andrews in the Bogart role.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:41 AM (wzUl9)

210 The judge during Watergate really hooked Gordon Liddy up but good. The DC city jail. It was ancient, and not a nice place, as far as jails go. This was a not so veiled threat to try and get him to cooperate.
He never did. But he paid the price for sure.

Surprisingly enough Jimmy Carter pardoned him.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 10:41 AM (dLnkr)

211 Read The Haunted Mesa by L'Amour a few years ago Not my favorite book by him. Story dragged in middle section. I like his traditional westerns better. I did finish it though.

Posted by: Glenn John at August 02, 2026 10:41 AM (vneJl)

212 In addition to wargaming the Revolutionary War, I'm reading bits and pieces here and there out of my library, and one of the lessons there (and elsewhere) is that wars are non-linear events. The momentum shifts without warning, and what looks sustainable one minute becomes unbearable the next.

If one looks at Saratoga and Yorktown, the number of troops involved is minimal, barely a vanguard on the Continent and a major engagement would have casualties in excess of all troops involved.

Yet in both cases, the outcome was treated as decisive and in the latter case, irrecoverable. That's important to keep in mind in the current context. A country takes a beating for a while and it seems like nothing is working and then one day, everything goes sideways. The speed of the German collapse in 1918 or the Confederates disinitegrating in 1865 stunned everyone involved. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

213 L’amour even did Sci-Fi, one book at least. Haunted Mesa perhaps? Something like that. It was good, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 10:43 AM (dLnkr)

214 Haven't read them in forever, but Theodore Sturgeon did some western stories as well. They should all be included in that mondo 13-volume set of his complete short fiction, but they were published separately in a book called Sturgeon's West. He also did the novelization of a Clark Gable western called The King and Four Queens; never read that one, though.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 10:44 AM (q3u5l)

215 Josephine Tey?
"The Franchise Affair", which I think ties "Daughter of Time" as her best novel.

Westerns? Read one back in the '70s called "The Cowboy and the Cossack", which was an inspired variation on the Cattle Drive theme.

Mr. S is a huge L'amour fan- he used to listen to them on his lengthy road trips. Like many, the Sacketts were his favorite.

There is a funny and charming movie about the pulp magazine trade called "Blonde Ambition", which shows up on TCM sometimes. Rich boy Aspiring Great American Novelist gets conned into buying a Western pulp and has to write the whole issue in two days, because the regular author is out on a bender.
I never miss it.

Posted by: sal at August 02, 2026 10:44 AM (f+FmA)

216 Haven't read them in forever, but Theodore Sturgeon did some western stories as well. They should all be included in that mondo 13-volume set of his complete short fiction, but they were published separately in a book called Sturgeon's West. He also did the novelization of a Clark Gable western called The King and Four Queens; never read that one, though.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026

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I'd never seen or heard of those, and haven't seen that Gable movie either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:45 AM (wzUl9)

217 For our Spanish Civil War crowd who haven't read Long Live Death (why not? Are you Communists?), the Republic was still in a strong position in March 1939. The Ebro counteroffensive had failed, but in terms of resources and position, the Nationalists expected it to be a long, slow slog. Catalonia had extensive fortified lines, and Barcelona looked to be another Madrid siege scenario.

But after only a couple of days of resistance, Republican lines collapsed, and their troops began a footrace to the French border. There are photos of French soldiers surrounded by piles of captured rifles. After an abortive coup attempt, Madrid's government disintegrated, so much so that the war ended upon Franco's declaration. There was no one to sign a peace with.

Worth keeping in mind.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2026 10:45 AM (ZOv7s)

218 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

If Parliament had voted to approve the 'surge' request by King George we would not have won the war. The United States was a Divine creation.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:45 AM (KC5Lt)

219 Most of my Western reading is modern, like C. J. Box, and Craig Johnson's Longmire series.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 02, 2026 09:15 AM (h7ZuX)
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We love the "Longmire" TV series ("it's a beautiful day at the Red Pony!")

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 10:46 AM (VKTRv)

220 Sugarbush = Sugarfoot?

Posted by: Glenn John at August 02, 2026 10:46 AM (vneJl)

221 So will every story set in 2021 have characters wearing masks, staying six feet apart and anguishing over clot shots?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

Alternate history story: someone is killing politicians who pushed the vax.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:46 AM (1Ff7Z)

222 160 ... Weak Geek,

The paper editions of Six Frigates have a lot of illustrations. Used copies on Amazon go for about 5 bucks or so.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 10:47 AM (yTvNw)

223 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 02, 2026 10:45 AM (ZOv7

Best part was the Republicans ( commies) turned on each other at that point. But they always eventually do.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:48 AM (KC5Lt)

224 Like todays video author, I love the Lonesome Dove series but, unlike his view, ai also like a few other McMurtry books, particularly "The Sin Killer", the first book in the Berrybender series

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 10:48 AM (VKTRv)

225 "Alternate history story: someone is killing politicians who pushed the vax.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:46 AM"

*pulls up a chair*

Go on...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1)

226 Josephine Tey?
"The Franchise Affair", which I think ties "Daughter of Time" as her best novel.

Westerns? Read one back in the '70s called "The Cowboy and the Cossack", which was an inspired variation on the Cattle Drive theme. . . .

. . . There is a funny and charming movie about the pulp magazine trade called "Blonde Ambition", which shows up on TCM sometimes. Rich boy Aspiring Great American Novelist gets conned into buying a Western pulp and has to write the whole issue in two days, because the regular author is out on a bender.
I never miss it.

Posted by: sal at August 02, 2026

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Yes, I love Franchise. And The Cowboy and the Cossack I saw at the library jsut a couple of weeks ago. I'll look for it again.

Blonde Ambition sounds like it would have been a great vehicle for William Powell. How old is it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:49 AM (wzUl9)

227 The judge during Watergate really hooked Gordon Liddy up but good.

I have a picture of my Aikido teacher interviewing Liddy on his way to jail. In the background is the reporter that Liddy punched.

He ran into the man a few years ago and mentioned the picture. Gordon said "Why didn't you bring it in? I would have signed it."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 02, 2026 10:50 AM (/k3in)

228 Sugarbush = Sugarfoot?
Posted by: Glenn John at August 02, 2026

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Yes -- Will Hutchins, who looked a lot like Woody Harrelson, played a lawyer who goes out West and had to outmaneuver gunslingers and criminals.

Warners did bend the Western genre with things like that and Maverick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

229 Carrion Comfort !!! damn good book ...Sharkman

Posted by: qmark at August 02, 2026 10:54 AM (hzpDl)

230 Alternate history story: someone is killing politicians who pushed the vax.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 10:46 AM"

*pulls up a chair*

Go on...
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 10:49 AM (2Ez/1)

If he was alive, it would have been a good plot subject for Vince Flynn to write.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 10:54 AM (g8Ew8)

231 The troll and Left's TACO insult has to be the most retarded attempt to insult Trump ever. The bloodied guy who pumped his fist in defiance to their assassination attempt has no balls. You guys are super retarded.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:55 AM (KC5Lt)

232 Well, as seen above, westerns and sci-fi get written by the same authors. They do go together. I do both.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 09:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

I missed that bit. Did Peter Grant get mentioned?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026 10:55 AM (lFFaq)

233 Hey, Paul! Fuck off!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 10:55 AM (g8Ew8)

234 British wanted to keep the Colonies in order to extract wealth from them, both via trade monopolies and taxes.

The Revolution made the Colonies into a very expensive theater of war (3000-mile supply line!) generating no revenue at all.

When it looked like it might be over by Christmas, or maybe next Christmas, the British could justify the expense. But when it kept going and going and European powers kept piling in, the economics just didn't make sense so they quit.

I think Washington et al figured the situation out right from the start. He never sought a decisive battle, but instead showed a genius for preserving his army and making the British spend and spend and spend . . .

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 10:55 AM (78a2H)

235 Fortunately there hasn't been an attempt to revive Have Gun -- Will Travel, which (along with The Rifleman) was the gold standard for half-hour TV Westerns. I'm not sure there is anybody today who could play Paladin, the educated soldier of fortune, as well as Richard Boone did.

Seems to me I heard a rumor years ago that Eminem (yes, him) was in talks to star in a modern-day version of HGWT, with his lead character a bounty hunter or something. Luckily it never came to anything that I know of.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:56 AM (wzUl9)

236 Cowboys and Aliens was not a good movie though I thought the premise could have been a good movie.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

237 Can you imagine Mitch Rapp pealing back the layers of The Science lies, trying to decide who to kill first? It would have required multiple books to get even the most evil central characters done.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 10:58 AM (gKbPe)

238 Cowboys and Aliens was not a good movie though I thought the premise could have been a good movie.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

I liked it. A fun movie.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 10:58 AM (g8Ew8)

239 "...but instead showed a genius for preserving his army and making the British spend and spend and spend . . .
Posted by: Trimegistus at August 02, 2026 10:55 AM"

The military wins the battle.
The economy wins the war.

Posted by: Pentagon 101 at August 02, 2026 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)

240 Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 10:58 AM (g8Ew

I didn't hate it but I had no desire to watch it again.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:00 AM (KC5Lt)

241 Blonde Ambition sounds like it would have been a great vehicle for William Powell. How old is it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 10:49 AM (wzUl9)

Well, this is embarassing- It's Blonde Inspiration, from the 40's. Virginia Grey, smokeshow, is in it.

Posted by: sal at August 02, 2026 11:00 AM (f+FmA)

242 'To win a war costs billions; to lose a war costs everything you have'. Ran across that somewhere, forget where.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

243 The British were worried about the French more than keeping the colonies.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:02 AM (KC5Lt)

244 243 'To win a war costs billions; to lose a war costs everything you have'. Ran across that somewhere, forget where.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 11:00 AM
++++

Also known as:

"There is nothing more expensive than the second best military."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 11:02 AM (2Ez/1)

245 Cowboys and Aliens was not a good movie though I thought the premise could have been a good movie.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

Somebody could write a story about that!*

Too bad you can't read it, because the magazine is defunct now. And, as usual, without printing my story!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:02 AM (1Ff7Z)

246 Based on the video recommendations in the post I have some reading ahead of me. For example, I love many of Elmore Leonards crime books and yet never read his westerns. "Last Stand At Saber River" here I come!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:03 AM (JtXDX)

247 Not strictly a "Western" (not a novel), but an interesting read:
"Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters is a classic 1936 non-fiction book by Eugene Cunningham that profiles famous Old West figures like Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and John Wesley Hardin." It definitely is not politically correct.

Posted by: capercaillie4901 at August 02, 2026 11:03 AM (f1WVr)

248 The mention of Cowboys and Aliens brought to mind Daniel Craig. He would have made a good Paladin if they had done a TV-series accurate version of HGWT a few years ago. Paladin in the show was not a *young* man -- he'd gone to West Point and had served in the Civil War on the Northern side, and his adventures were taking place some years after the war. In one he comes within a hair of being at Custer's Last Stand, which was in 1876.

Craig could have done it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:04 AM (wzUl9)

249 The Old West was the last stand of Might Makes Right.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:06 AM (KC5Lt)

250 To win a war costs billions; to lose a war costs everything you have'. Ran across that somewhere, forget where.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

That used to be the prevailing philosophy. Not anymore. No one wants to win. Now it's trying to save enough of the enemy's hardware to call a draw then let them recover what they've lost. It costs too much for a winner to repair the loser.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 11:08 AM (g8Ew8)

251 Coming to the end of the thread so OT. Anyone have a guess to who shot up the In N Out ?

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:09 AM (KC5Lt)

252 Craig could have done it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:04 AM (wzUl9)

But he would have insisted on including a scene where he makes eyes at Custer.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:09 AM (1Ff7Z)

253 Based on the video recommendations in the post I have some reading ahead of me. For example, I love many of Elmore Leonards crime books and yet never read his westerns. "Last Stand At Saber River" here I come!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026

***
His Hombre, basis for the Paul Newman film of 1966, is excellent. I like his Valdez Is Coming and The Bounty Hunters, his first. The short story "3:10 to Yuma" is the basis for those two movies, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:09 AM (wzUl9)

254 Interestingly enough, Washington spent a huge proportion of what we would term the defense budget today on spies and counterintelligence. He really was a spook in a lot of ways.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 11:10 AM (dLnkr)

255 Wyatt Earp ended his life in LA, working as an advisor to the movies. Bat Masterson by contrast went east, and became a sports writer in New York, specializing in the sweet science of professional boxing. Bill Cody, I believe, ended his years as a wealthy family man.

A book about the post-mythic careers of these famous folks (at least those that survived) might be a fun read.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:10 AM (YyP71)

256 Edwin "Bud" Shrake wrote a novel called "Custers Brother's Horse". Takes place in Texas around 1865. I read it many years ago, but I recall enjoying it very much. Shrake was a sports page writer for some North Texas newspapers in 1950s and later. He also wrote a book I did not like called Blessed McGill".

Posted by: Glenn John at August 02, 2026 11:10 AM (vneJl)

257 Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:10 AM (YyP71)

Unfortunately Hickok became famous for the Dead Man's Hand.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:11 AM (KC5Lt)

258 Coming to the end of the thread so OT. Anyone have a guess to who shot up the In N Out ?
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:09 AM (KC5Lt)

Welllll, since they don't say anything, I'd tend to doubt the shooter was wearing a MAGA hat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

259 250 The Old West was the last stand of Might Makes Right.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:06 AM

*polite cough*

Posted by: Operation Overlord at August 02, 2026 11:12 AM (2Ez/1)

260 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:09 AM (wzUl9)
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I see Amazon has his westerns collected and on sale, including your recommendations I think, so I have some good reading ahead. Thanks!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:12 AM (YyP71)

261 To win a war costs billions; to lose a war costs everything you have'. Ran across that somewhere, forget where.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 11:00 AM (NcvvS)

That used to be the prevailing philosophy. Not anymore. No one wants to win. Now it's trying to save enough of the enemy's hardware to call a draw then let them recover what they've lost. It costs too much for a winner to repair the loser.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 11:08 AM (g8Ew

I see no reason for the winner to repair the loser.

It certainly wasn't that way historically.

I'd say loot the defeated for the cost of the war, and then go home. Or, seize territory for the cost of the war.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2026 11:12 AM (iJfKG)

262 I'm not sure there is anybody today who could play Paladin,

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Is Elliot Page unavailable?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 11:13 AM (ndZc7)

263 The Old West was the last stand of Might Makes Right.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:06 AM

*polite cough*
Posted by: Operation Overlord at August 02, 2026 11:12 AM (2Ez/1)

That still stands when you're talking war. I'm talking society.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:13 AM (KC5Lt)

264 Wyatt Earp ended his life in LA, working as an advisor to the movies. Bat Masterson by contrast went east, and became a sports writer in New York, specializing in the sweet science of professional boxing. Bill Cody, I believe, ended his years as a wealthy family man.

A book about the post-mythic careers of these famous folks (at least those that survived) might be a fun read.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026

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As a movie Western consultant, Earp knew and worked with the young John Wayne. Wayne has said that he copied a lot of his on-screen persona from the way Earp moved and spoke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:14 AM (wzUl9)

265 Coming to the end of the thread so OT. Anyone have a guess to who shot up the In N Out ?
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:09 AM (KC5Lt)
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I heard it was five guys.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:14 AM (YyP71)

266 Is Elliot Page unavailable?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 11:13 AM (ndZc7)

No. Just signed for the lead in the next He-Man pic.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

267 Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:14 AM (YyP71

Hah. Too soon.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:14 AM (KC5Lt)

268 The British series "Carry On" did one western. It was weird but fun. Side James was in it.

Posted by: Glenn John at August 02, 2026 11:16 AM (vneJl)

269 Here's an idea, Fauci's covid goes dormant, they thought it was just the typical influenza cycle, bloom until it reaches parity with human adaptive immunity and then recede. But this was no simple virus, it was modified by the Chinese to be a smart weapon. And as we wait it changes, grows, learns, and decides it does not like it's creator very much.

A monolithic sub-microscopic infectious agent spanning the entire globe determines one day that Fauci is a danger to all life including its own and discovers it's first sentient emotion, anger. The hunt begins.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 02, 2026 11:16 AM (3uBP9)

270 Least shocking news of the day.

Radical Left Dem Frontrunner for WI Governor Francesca Hong Admitted to Being Diagnosed as Mentally Ill

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 11:17 AM (ndZc7)

271 Leonard's Westerns show us the brave American, the guy who goes his own way and does the right thing because it is the right thing, often against terrible opposition. Probably true of a lot of Western authors, and it's probably true of a lot of his crime fiction heroes too, but it's very noticeable with him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:17 AM (wzUl9)

272 One of my favorite western acting performances was Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday. Absolutely amazing job, projecting a quiet and unpredictable menace without moving a muscle. Only Wyatt Earp seemed able to restrain him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:17 AM (YyP71)

273 I see no reason for the winner to repair the loser.

It certainly wasn't that way historically.

I'd say loot the defeated for the cost of the war, and then go home. Or, seize territory for the cost of the war.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 02, 2026 11:12 AM (iJfKG)

That went out after WWII after we spent billions helping Germany and Japan rebuild. The Marshal Plan set the precedence, now we're stuck with it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 11:18 AM (g8Ew8)

274 264 The Old West was the last stand of Might Makes Right.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:06 AM

*polite cough*
Posted by: Operation Overlord at August 02, 2026 11:12 AM (2Ez/1)

That still stands when you're talking war. I'm talking society.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:13 AM

Look up here.

Posted by: Korean rooftop shooters at August 02, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)

275 236 ... "Fortunately there hasn't been an attempt to revive Have Gun -- Will Travel, which (along with The Rifleman) was the gold standard for half-hour TV Westerns. I'm not sure there is anybody today who could play Paladin, the educated soldier of fortune, as well as Richard Boone did."

Wolfus,
Totally agree on both shows. I'll add that it would be hard if not impossible to match the Chuck Connors/Johnny Crawford chemistry.

I don't understand why idiots doing revivals or remakes have to screw around with the basics that made the shows so popular and successful. That movie travesty with Will Smith and Kevin Kline of the Wild Wild West is an example.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 11:20 AM (yTvNw)

276 I haven't explored Westerns much beyond the 4 that Robert Parker wrote, which I thought were absolutely terrific. The first one pulled me right in and the hold never let go until I had finished all 4.

I have no interest in the continuation of the series by another author.

Posted by: Splunge at August 02, 2026 11:21 AM (JpUeg)

277 I don't understand why idiots doing revivals or remakes have to screw around with the basics that made the shows so popular and successful. That movie travesty with Will Smith and Kevin Kline of the Wild Wild West is an example.
Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 11:20 AM (yTvNw)

Because they WANT to. Screw the normies is their battle cry. They want to ruin everything.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:21 AM (1Ff7Z)

278 Wiser heads prevailed, if belatedly. The terms after the 1st world war guaranteed another war within 20 years. The idea was to get Japan and Germany on their feet again, and keep them out of the Soviet sphere of influence. They should have nuked the Kremlin along with Berlin, but it was not to be.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 11:22 AM (dLnkr)

279
Reporting next Book Thread about Anton Bruckner and the Reception of His Music by Miguel J. Ramirez, an analysis of the critical reception of the symphonies of the Austrian composer and how it was driven by musical politics.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 11:23 AM (O0L8i)

280
Well, this is embarassing- It's Blonde Inspiration, from the 40's. Virginia Grey, smokeshow, is in it.
Posted by: sal at August 02, 2026

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Ah! Maybe it's on YooToob. The only actor in it whose name registers with me is Albert Dekker, "Dr. Cyclops."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:23 AM (wzUl9)

281 I am re-reading Drood. I'm a bit surprised at how much I like the book, since the narrator/protagonist is so dislikeable, but somehow it all works for me.

On the other hand, Carrion Comfort and especially The Terror are two of Simmons' best, but are so intense and horrifying that most of the time, the idea of re-reading them strikes me like the idea of re-watching The Deer Hunter.

Posted by: Splunge at August 02, 2026 11:24 AM (JpUeg)

282 267 Is Elliot Page unavailable?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 11:13 AM (ndZc7)

No. Just signed for the lead in the next He-Man pic.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

Tanned, rested, and ready!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney or Kaitlan Collins at August 02, 2026 11:24 AM (PiwSw)

283 I am currently in the middle of a re-read of a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe "Western", Death of a Dude.

Archie's vacation to Montana to the lovely Lily Rowan's ranch is interrupted by a murder, possibly a revenge killing. Archie is committed to staying as long as it takes to spring the wrongly accused employee of Miss Rowan. Nero Wolfe then travels to Montana with the intention of solving the mystery so that Archie can swiftly return to New York and to Mr. Wolfe's service.

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My favorite western novels are True Grit by Charles Portis and Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. I was motivated to read them by my enjoyment of both the movies.

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at August 02, 2026 11:24 AM (TPFQA)

284 Brisco County Jr. was a steampunk western done right. Wild Wild West would have approved. Much better than the movie. Great actors all around. I think the old USA network was getting their ideas for tv shows directly from my brain. Great action, funny, smokin hot babes left and right. Nothing like it now.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 02, 2026 11:25 AM (3uBP9)

285 "That movie travesty with Will Smith and Kevin Kline of the Wild Wild West is an example."

Another example: the Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson butchery of I Spy. I made it through about 15 or 20 minutes. Even the chance to look at Famke Janssen couldn't help that one.

Even when they're sorta done right they're not as good. The Fugitive with Harrison Ford & Tommy Lee Jones isn't nearly as good as the David Janssen - Barry Morse tv series.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:27 AM (q3u5l)

286 "The idea was to get Japan and Germany on their feet again, and keep them out of the Soviet sphere of influence.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 11:22 AM"

Or as I heard it put once: Democracies don't start wars with democracies.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 11:27 AM (2Ez/1)

287
There's always been lots of blubbering, especially from the Krauts, about how cruel the Versailles Treaty was. Believe me, it was creampuffs next to Brest-Litovsk, whereby the Germans sought to make Eastern Europe a huge vassal state.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 11:28 AM (O0L8i)

288 Little Big Man was one of those rare instances where the movie was just as good as the book, though obviously different. Dustin Hoffman was very well cast, Chief Dan George was also excellent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:29 AM (Yk3/2)

289 Wolfus,
Totally agree on both shows. I'll add that it would be hard if not impossible to match the Chuck Connors/Johnny Crawford chemistry.

I don't understand why idiots doing revivals or remakes have to screw around with the basics that made the shows so popular and successful. That movie travesty with Will Smith and Kevin Kline of the Wild Wild West is an example.
Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026

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HGWT had literate writing and solid direction, and featured plots not often seen on TV or any Westerns. (In one, Paladin is tasked with bringing an Army sergeant notice that he's won -- and finds him in the middle of a battle with Apaches! And in another, he has to take a devotee of Lombroso's theories about "criminal types" to measure the skull of an infamous retired gunfighter.)

Rifleman, like HGWT, gave us little short stories on film. And Lucas -- though he killed not a few people during the show's five years -- was unusual in not being a lawman, gambler, gunslinger, or any of the other standard Western lead characters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:30 AM (wzUl9)

290 Mornin'.

MiladyJo has been reading a lot of Louis L'Amour, books left by our late neighbor Bob.

She would and should comment on here more, but she's too busy taking care of me and the dog and the cat.

On L'Amour, she just said:
I like the way he describes the land and the mountains and the trees. How they decide where to camp, like, under the cottonwoods, because you know there's water nearby. I never spend enough time looking up all the descriptions of the geography, because it'd take so much time it would take forever to finish the book.

Posted by: mindful webworker - channeling the mrs at August 02, 2026 11:30 AM (0poB+)

291 Kline, I have to say, was a good choice to play master-of-disguise Artemus Gordon in the WWW movie. And the story had a larger-than-the-TV-screen steampunk concept. If they had just cast somebody more like Robert Conrad as Jim West . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:32 AM (wzUl9)

292 I'm embarrassed to say I've also never read "The Virginian" (somehow), even though it's been recommended to me several times. Maybe my library has a Kindle copy I can borrow.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:32 AM (Yk3/2)

293
Oh, and American Technical Supremacy Day is Thursday. Expect the annual wailing from the usual suspects.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 11:32 AM (O0L8i)

294 >>I'm not sure there is anybody today who could play Paladin, the educated soldier of fortune, as well as Richard Boone did.

Might have been interesting to see Mark Harmon try it, 25 years ago.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 11:33 AM (NcvvS)

295 "HGWT had literate writing and solid direction, and featured plots not often seen on TV or any Westerns. (In one, Paladin is tasked with bringing an Army sergeant notice that he's won -- and finds him in the middle of a battle with Apaches! . . . )"

Meant to say that the sergeant has won a *lottery*!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:33 AM (wzUl9)

296 I'm not sure there is anybody today who could play Paladin, the educated soldier of fortune, as well as Richard Boone did.
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Might have been interesting to see Mark Harmon try it, 25 years ago.
Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026

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Maybe so!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:34 AM (wzUl9)

297 Oh, and American Technical Supremacy Day is Thursday. Expect the annual wailing from the usual suspects.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 11:32 AM

Which means Wednesday night is American Technical Supremacy Eve.

Posted by: Celebrate responsibly at August 02, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

298 Kline, I have to say, was a good choice to play master-of-disguise Artemus Gordon in the WWW movie. And the story had a larger-than-the-TV-screen steampunk concept. If they had just cast somebody more like Robert Conrad as Jim West . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:32 AM (wzUl9)

I liked WWW for the steampunk alone. Pretty much why a liked The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 02, 2026 11:37 AM (g8Ew8)

299 The only western-based novel I can remember reading is James Michener's novel "Centennial".

Posted by: mrp at August 02, 2026 11:37 AM (rj6Yv)

300 There might not always be running water nearby, but Cottonwoods means shade. The sun hits like a hammer out West in the summer. Shade really means something out there. Cottonwoods sighing in the breeze is real pretty. They turn a nice golden color in the fall, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 11:37 AM (dLnkr)

301 Wolfus, we've talked about Travis McGee before and I only raise him again because I think he is one character they can't truly bring to TV or the movies, without drastic rewriting the stories, or maybe beefing up the backstory a lot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:37 AM (Yk3/2)

302 >>Might have been interesting to see Mark Harmon try it, 25 years ago.

Make that 30 years ago. Looked him up; he's 74.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 11:37 AM (NcvvS)

303 Which means Wednesday night is American Technical Supremacy Eve.
Posted by: Celebrate responsibly at August 02, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

So we should have been playing American Technical Supremacy music for at least the last month!!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 11:38 AM (PiwSw)

304 Archie's vacation to Montana to the lovely Lily Rowan's ranch is interrupted by a murder, possibly a revenge killing.

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at August 02, 2026 11:24 AM (TPFQA)

Ah, so she's a recurring character. She appeared in Caesar.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:39 AM (1Ff7Z)

305 Posted by: mindful webworker - channeling the mrs at August 02, 2026 11:30 AM (0poB+)
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She's absolutely right, that's a great strength of L'Amour and his teaching some of the way his characters looked at the landscape adds definitely meat to the writing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:40 AM (Yk3/2)

306 Earlier in their careers, Sam Elliott or Tom Selleck could have done a nice job as Paladin as well. Ditto Garner. I can't think of anyone current, though.

If memory serves, Galaxy Magazine once ran a page with a bit of pulp western translated into pulp sf (what James Blish described as a call-a-rabbit-a-smeerp story), saying you wouldn't see that kind of thing in Galaxy.

SF similarity to westerns? A number of Heinlein's juveniles IIRC had the same feel.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:40 AM (q3u5l)

307 I read more about mountain men than I did cowboys.

Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 11:40 AM (KC5Lt)

308 John Dehner played Paladin on the radio program. Also starred in a short lived western radio series as a London Times reporter in Montana, where he could show off his Brit accent. Ordinarily he portrayed unreconstructed southern hick rednecks on Gunsmoke and the like.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 11:41 AM (dLnkr)

309 Oh, like any genre, the Western unfortunately gets judged by its worst examples. SF is sneered at as "space opera" or "mere escapism," the classical mystery as "contrived," the Western as "a standard oater" and "familiar." And as with any genre, there are plenty of examples of what the critics mean. But there are also ones that rise above that line. (Any writer worth his typewriter ribbon or printer cartridge wants to rise above "formula.")

We call those above-the-line examples "classics."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:42 AM (wzUl9)

310 Cowboys and Aliens was not a good movie though I thought the premise could have been a good movie.
Posted by: polynikes at August 02, 2026 10:56 AM (KC5Lt)

Agreed. I didn't buy Daniel Craig as a cowboy, which didn't help. I just don't like Craig as a actor for some reason.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026 11:43 AM (lFFaq)

311
289 Little Big Man was one of those rare instances where the movie was just as good as the book, though obviously different. Dustin Hoffman was very well cast, Chief Dan George was also excellent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:29 AM (Yk3/2)

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My first exposure to Little Big Man before the book and movie was Mad Magazine's parody "Little Dull Man".

I also remember their parody "Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid".

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at August 02, 2026 11:44 AM (TPFQA)

312 The problem with Westerns, there were practical limits to plot lines.

They had to revolve around horse thieves, cattle ranching, water rights, widow Jenny losing the ranch, bank robbers, and that’s about it.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 11:44 AM (dLnkr)

313 As I'm used to current technology in plumbing and travel, I would hate to go back to that earlier time. Stagecoaches don't have AC.
Posted by: Weak Geek at August 02, 2026 09:20 AM (4I26t)

one of the more entertaining discussions on stagecoach travel is the first part of Mark Twain's Roughing It where he leaves Missouri for Nevada Territory with his brother. Stagecoaches didn't have much in the way of suspension, either.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 11:45 AM (rbvCR)

314 Dehner was one of the bad guys in the Glenn Ford western Fastest Gun Alive. A non-western part though was a nice turn in the original Twilight Zone episode The Jungle. Nifty Charles Beaumont story and script and a delightful finish.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:45 AM (q3u5l)

315 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:42 AM (wzUl9)

Was watching Fred Flix while waiting for more comments to load. Had the intro to MFU. How come they only showed one man on the logo when it featured Solo and Kuryakin?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:45 AM (1Ff7Z)

316 I just don't like Craig as a actor for some reason.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 02, 2026 11:43 AM (lFFaq)

That guy's a fag! Or not.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:46 AM (1Ff7Z)

317 293 ... "I'm embarrassed to say I've also never read "The Virginian" (somehow), even though it's been recommended to me several times. Maybe my library has a Kindle copy I can borrow."

If an ebook is okay for you, there are a couple of Kindle version s of The Virginian for under a dollar.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 11:46 AM (yTvNw)

318 Big Orange cucked by Iran once again.
Sad!

Posted by: MAGA lol at August 02, 2026 11:47 AM (S+xAM)

319 Kindle is my method of reading these days, though I obviously prefer physical books. Its because my wife is tired of all the piles of books we end up hoarding.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:48 AM (HEno2)

320 John Dehner played Paladin on the radio program. Also starred in a short lived western radio series as a London Times reporter in Montana, where he could show off his Brit accent. Ordinarily he portrayed unreconstructed southern hick rednecks on Gunsmoke and the like.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026

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He appeared twice as Johnny Yuma's unofficial uncle, a tough old bounty-hunter bird in a black suit, flat-brimmed hat, and with an unwillingness to kowtow to any man, in The Rebel. Both stories were written by Harry Julian Fink, who wrote many of the best HGWTs, and later co-created Dirty Harry with his wife.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:48 AM (wzUl9)

321 New book idea: Troll Hunting.

Guy hunts internet trolls and makes them suck each other's dicks while wearing masks of Stalin. Gives up after the trolls like it, and want to do it for free.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:49 AM (1Ff7Z)

322 Ah, so she's a recurring character. She appeared in Caesar.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:39 AM (1Ff7Z)

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Not in every novel, but she pops up from time to time. Like Archie and Wolfe, she never really ages.

And Archie remains her Escamillo. (Sigh!)

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at August 02, 2026 11:50 AM (TPFQA)

323 Trolling a book thread is just downright dumb

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:50 AM (HEno2)

324 "Six Frigates" is not illustrated. Great book though.

Posted by: Milli Vanilli at August 02, 2026 11:50 AM (qFwJc)

325 OrangeEnt,

It might be better to give the trolls the Human Centipede treatment.

But then again, they'd probably like that too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:51 AM (q3u5l)

326 Was watching Fred Flix while waiting for more comments to load. Had the intro to MFU. How come they only showed one man on the logo when it featured Solo and Kuryakin?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026

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The concept, after all, was the *Man* From U.N.C.L.E., not the *Men.* Though McCallum's Illya proved so popular they might as well have renamed the show. And Solo's very name hinted that he was often to be operating by himself. (The "Girl From" show had a female figure next to the globe. Of that series we shall not speak.)

In my MfU fan fiction, I have Solo say more than once that their boss, Mr. Waverly, believes in the "One riot, one Ranger" rule -- that one U.N.C.L.E. agent in the right place can be worth an entire squad of Marines or Special Forces.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:53 AM (wzUl9)

327 "There was no one to sign a peace with."

Trump may be in that situation soon.

Posted by: Milli Vanilli at August 02, 2026 11:54 AM (qFwJc)

328 And Archie remains her Escamillo. (Sigh!)
Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at August 02, 2026 11:50 AM (TPFQA)

I might need to look up and see what that word means.

It might be better to give the trolls the Human Centipede treatment.

But then again, they'd probably like that too.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:51 AM (q3u5l)

Hmm. I don't think I want to look up what that means.

Anyway, saddest part of Sunday morning again. The end of the book thread. Thanks, JTB.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

329 The Virginian should be in the public domain so it should be possible to find a free downloadable version somewhere.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at August 02, 2026 11:55 AM (P6pHw)

330 Thanks all. Off I go to my Do List obligations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 02, 2026 11:55 AM (HEno2)

331 Huck Follywood

You can give your hardcover books in good condition and which have a ISBN code to New Legacy Books. I've given some and plan to give more:

https://newlegacybooks.com/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 02, 2026 11:55 AM (xPsv8)

332 In my MfU fan fiction, I have Solo say more than once that their boss, Mr. Waverly, believes in the "One riot, one Ranger" rule -- that one U.N.C.L.E. agent in the right place can be worth an entire squad of Marines or Special Forces.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:53 AM (wzUl9)

Got it, Wolfus.

Catch you all later.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026 11:56 AM (1Ff7Z)

333 I did not read a Western but I finished David Carson's translation of The Account of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Cabeza de Vaca was the Fiscal of an expedition to conquer Florida in 1528. Through bad weather, shockingly bad leadership, dangerous Indians and ignorance, the Spanish expedition was reduced to 6 survivors, of which four started to walk home to Vera Cruz, and instead crossed the US Southwest to a Spanish colonial outpost on the Pacific coast. He took eight years to do this, and his "La Relación" is a gloss of the years he spent trading and voyaging among the various Indians of the Gulf coast and Southwest. He was impressed by the Pueblans and considered them the most civilized of the natives. He had much better success in his failure than later expeditions, like Coronado and deSoto, who had unending conflicts.
It is an unending story of shipwrecks, capture, starvation, cannibalism, flight, looting, and acting as a travelling faith healer.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 11:56 AM (rbvCR)

334 Ah, so she's a recurring character. She appeared in Caesar.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 02, 2026

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Not in every novel, but she pops up from time to time. Like Archie and Wolfe, she never really ages.

And Archie remains her Escamillo. (Sigh!)
Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at August 02, 2026

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And she occasionally takes an active part in their adventures. See In the Best Families (though you should not read that one until you've gone through the two previous Arnold Zecks, And Be a Villain and The Second Confession.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:56 AM (wzUl9)

335 A new Paladin?

Henry Cavill (he can do anything)

Clive Owens

I know, both Brits. Doing the accent is easier than finding someone with the right presence.

Posted by: Wenda at August 02, 2026 11:56 AM (7m/2p)

336 OrangeEnt,

You probably don't want to look it up. I've never seen the movies referenced, just a couple of lines of description and that was stomach-turning enough.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:57 AM (q3u5l)

337 Thanks for a first-rate Book Thread, JTB & Horde.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 11:58 AM (NcvvS)

338 "Escamillo" is a character in Bizet's Carmen -- a bullfighter, I think. Thus Lily refers to Archie by that name because of his derring-do with the bull early in Caesar. It remains her nickname for him for decades.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 11:58 AM (wzUl9)

339 polynikes I thought Cowboys and Aliens was a promising movie but was kind of eh

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 11:59 AM (Ia/+0)

340 It might be better to give the trolls the Human Centipede treatment.

If anyone ever asks what my superpower is, I'll say that it's the ability to ignore stupid people on the internet.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 02, 2026 11:59 AM (vTZFs)

341 Oh, and American Technical Supremacy Day is Thursday. Expect the annual wailing from the usual suspects.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 02, 2026 11:32 AM (O0L8i)

Just watch the YouTube videos of the Brits and other Europeans who were visiting here during the Soccer Cup. Quite a few of them imagined they were living in the far future when witnessing things we Americans take for granted. Drive up pharmacies were one item they could not believe. ATMs everywhere was another.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 02, 2026 11:59 AM (hmYU4)

342 And off to spread havoc and ruin here at Casa Some Guy.

JTB, thanks for the thread.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:59 AM (q3u5l)

343 And a tip of the chapeau to JTB for heroic efforts, successful ones, on this week's Book Thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 12:00 PM (wzUl9)

344 Henry Cavill or Clive Owen as Paladin?

Not a bad idea, either one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 12:01 PM (wzUl9)

345 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 12:01 PM (NcvvS)

346 CBD HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 12:01 PM (Ia/+0)

347 It is an unending story of shipwrecks, capture, starvation, cannibalism, flight, looting, and acting as a travelling faith healer.

Posted by: Kindltot
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They were going to kill him but he saved a life using common healing methods know in the western world. They presumed him to have 'powers'. When he got back home he had difficulty integrating back into normal society, and wearing clothes. I think he committed suicide.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:03 PM (+yTe/)

348 Good morning from the Left Coast!

Just finished Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (I am a sucker for anything related to King Arthur--thanks, Dad!). Now to Pearl, Sir Orfeo, and Sir Gawain's Leave Taking. I am a sucker for alliteration and SG&TGK begs to be read aloud!

Dad also introduced me to Zane Grey, his favorite Western writer. He also wrote the novel The Lone Star Ranger, dedicated to Texas Ranger John Hughes, that the character, The Lone Ranger, is based on.

Posted by: March Hare at August 02, 2026 12:03 PM (O/GSq)

349 i'm on my fourth non- fiction michael perry story about an area in wisconsin near rice lake. i started with "truck: a love story" which switches chapters between his blossoming relationship and his efforts restoring an old international harvester pickup. of great interest to light duty work vehicle enthusiasts. IH had a large freezer division and a fictitious spokeslady named irma harding (same like betty crocker) with pamphlets on how to freeze foods.
now i'm on his "visiting tom" about one of his elderly neighbors. if ace can find them, pages 166 through 168 tells a great crow story from tom's childhood. sad but wonderful.

Posted by: cmeat at August 02, 2026 12:05 PM (Bep7s)

350 They had to revolve around horse thieves, cattle ranching, water rights, widow Jenny losing the ranch, bank robbers, and that’s about it.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 02, 2026 11:44 AM (dLnkr)

In Blonde Inspiration, mentioned above, they actually use a device called "The Plotter". But that's all I will say about it.

Posted by: sal at August 02, 2026 12:07 PM (f+FmA)

351 Thanks to CBD for encouraging me to do some book threads and to the Horde for all the kind words.

Hope everyone has a great week of reading ahead of them.

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 12:08 PM (yTvNw)

352 Other reading includes The Great Adventure Bible, Catholic Edition by Ascension Press. The deacon in my parish was handing out free copies and what intrigued me is Ascesion Press includes a plan for reading the Bible in a year, along with a timeline that outlines what was happening in the rest of the world during the time of the readings. There is a primary reading, then related selections from other books, Psalms, or Proverbs. There is also a podcast, which I had hoped would offer more commentary about the readings, but is primarily a reading of the selections (helpful for pronunciation of some of the more obscure words).

Posted by: March Hare at August 02, 2026 12:15 PM (O/GSq)

353 SF similarity to westerns? A number of Heinlein's juveniles IIRC had the same feel.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 02, 2026 11:40 AM (q3u5l)

A lot of golden age SF writers also wrote Westerns, and vice-versa. There was a large number of pre-depression and pre-WWII pulps for airplane adventures, car adventures, travel and the like, the ones that survived the depression were the mysteries, the science fiction, and the action adventures. Then the ones that survived the paper shortages in WWII were a few top end SciFi and mystery like Black Mask

Robert E. Howard wrote a lot of boxing and adventure stories, for example, they paid the same as weird horror and fantasy.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 02, 2026 12:20 PM (rbvCR)

354 Currently reading The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood. Still early into the book, but the history of the social order in England and America during the 17th and 18th centuries is fascinating.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 02, 2026 09:51 AM (D/6p1)

He also wrote The American Revolution: A History, a short (166 pages) well-done retelling of the conflict.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 02, 2026 09:56 AM (qRla/)
* * * *
That book is on my list of must-haves! Thanks for the recommendation.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 02, 2026 12:20 PM (D/6p1)

355 For anyone doing the "Mother Road" Pilgrimage, a stop at the Cowboy Museum in OKC is worthwhile, if not required.

It's an amazing mix of myth and history, treating their collection of John Wayne memorabilia with the same gravitas as a rifle actually used by someone in 1880.

Another museum central to the American West is the Buffalo Bill in Cody, WY. Here, the legend is acknowledged, but distinguished from the real. The "Buffalo Bill" memorabilia has its own wing. 😊

Posted by: buddhaha at August 02, 2026 12:29 PM (Lmo2r)

356 By the way, Donald Hamilton (obligatory Matt Helm reference) wrote some westerns in the 1950s and they are excellent. His book The Big Country was adapted for the movie of that name with Charlton Heston. For some reason they were never reprinted and the used copies can be hard to find and are expensive. Definitely worth it if you can find them.
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So you're telling me that my copies of Mad River and Texas Fever are collectors items?

I'm rich!

Posted by: buddhaha at August 02, 2026 12:40 PM (Lmo2r)

357 I've been reading translations of the Odyssey, including Pope, Butler, Lattimore, and Wilson. All of them read well. I thank Christopher Nolan for prodding me to do that, even though I didn't like his movie much.

I like Wilson verse, her decision to use iambic pentameter, and her decision to use the same number of lines as the original, to put some guardrails on her work. The feminism in her introduction doesn't affect her verse, at least not blatantly: I think she's too honest a poet and a scholar for that.

Our current read-aloud is Robert Graves' "Homer's Daughter", which is re-telling of the Odyssey, or rather, his telling of how the Odyssey came to be written by a woman. I understand that scholars reject his thesis, but simply as a story, it's a damn good one, and it really draws you into the world of the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. And Graves' Nausicaa, who narrates the story, could kick the ass of any of today's girlbosses and not even break out a sweat.

Posted by: Nemo at August 02, 2026 12:48 PM (4RPgu)

358 356 ... "--
So you're telling me that my copies of Mad River and Texas Fever are collectors items?

I'm rich!"

Add in Smoke Valley and you can retire tomorrow. LOL!

Posted by: JTB at August 02, 2026 01:04 PM (yTvNw)

359 IH had a large freezer division
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International Harvester produced a total of 337,623 M1 Garand rifles.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc., post Helene at August 02, 2026 05:17 PM (XeU6L)

360 "Six Frigates" is not illustrated. Great book though.
Posted by: Milli Vanilli
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The best non-fiction that I have read recently, have passed it along to a good friend.

Along with some frivolous fiction (now on the 3rd, 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'), I continue with 'The Brothers Karamazov'. Also re-reading Churchill's memoir 'The Gathering Storm'. The latter should be read by anyone who is concerned by the state of our country/politicians.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 02, 2026 05:30 PM (XeU6L)

Daily Tech News 2 August 2026

Top Story

Microsoft has vowed to make Windows 11 actually work in 8GB of RAM, which is timely given that the company is shipping Windows PCs with 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)

Before the DRAM Apocalypse advice was simple: Do not buy a system with 8GB of RAM unless it is user-upgradable and you plan to immediately upgrade it.

Now the advice is more along the lines of: Buy a Mac, or run Linux.

Since both of those options hit Microsoft below the water line, the company is finally bothering to start to unshit its bed. Long overdue and the outcome remains to be seen, but at least they're trying. Or claiming to try.

Tech News

Scanning 7.6 petabytes of AI data for secrets. (Truffle Security)

This is the entire public repository of AI models at Hugging Face.

The scan found 221,303 live credentials, $3.67 in change, and a Werther's Original that is presumed to still be edible.
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? (The Verge)

(shake shake)

Signs point to yeah, baby.
Major record labels are proposing to join forces to force AI slop out of the charts. (The Verge)

Replacing it with regular slop.
Apple's stock price has slid by 10% as the company notices that hey, they also need to pay more for memory. (Yahoo)

Apple does have long-term agreements in place, but those agreements aren't all that long term, and as the sign new agreements during the ongoing drought they find that they no longer have a decisive upper hand.
Google plans to exempt Android developers in sanctioned nations from otherwise required verification. (Ars Technica)

So if you're a hacker based in North Korea, Cuba, or the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, it's business as normal.

That makes sense.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Chicago?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

2 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:32 AM (odBC9)

3 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at August 02, 2026 04:32 AM (lJ0H4)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 02, 2026 04:34 AM (c711F)

5 G'Day everyone
Thought is aas Monday for a minute when I woke up

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

6 >>>Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? (The Verge)

"The drum reverb is full of unnatural digital artifacting reminiscent of a 64kbps MP3 downloaded off of Napster."

*having flashbacks*

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

7 from the AI slop article:

The lyrics are the sort of logical near-gibberish that AI often spits out. ...

Swipin’ cards and stackin’ chips,
I saw you sinkin’ ships
Left me standin’ in the pourin’ rain,
now I bought a heavy diamond chain
Bankrolls on the table
Watchin’ local cable
Hatin’ that I’m able
Hatin’ that I’m able

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

8 No reason to get up up other thsn sausages and pancakes

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

9 from Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars

It's late and I'm awake
Staring at the wall
Open up my window
Head floats out the door
No one else around
And a shimmer takes my eye
I lift my head, blinded by the sky
Feel my weight in front
Following the sound
It moves away so fast
Fall down to the ground
I know there's more to come
Jump back to my feet
And I only see ahead of me
Chasing down the street

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:46 AM (odBC9)

10
Boy George
@BoyGeorge
Jul 31
In Buddhism we understand that every action comes with a consequence. Due to my decision to stand up for my Jewish friends I am losing a few people from my life.

Today I parted company with Tony Pontius who has run my record label BGP for a number of years. I wanted to release 'We Will Dance Again' but he was unequivocal and said 'I want nothing to do with this song' and I responded 'ok, we are done'.

When someone is gutless it really does not hurt to say goodbye. My faith in humanity will not diminish and the truth will always win.

I will release it!

(audio at the link)

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:53 AM (odBC9)

11 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at August 02, 2026 04:59 AM (oB8bm)

12 genius.com

“We Will Dance Again (עוד נרקוד

” is an AI-generated reggae track by British musician Boy George.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 05:03 AM (odBC9)

13 That was an unfortunate smiley face.

We Will Dance Again ( עוד נרקוד )

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

14 A dull-witted evening and morning to all from yours truly on this first Sunday of August.

My dream veered close to nightmare. I was moving into an apartment with a garage on the same day I was slated for an oral surgeon visit. Somehow I got everything moved in, and was tiredly trying to put things into place in the living room, when i realized I was late. So I backed my car -- a dark red 1980s Mercedes station wagon (?) -- out of the garage, which had an inch to spare for the wagon's roof, and hurried to my 7 pm. appointment. I woke realizing that in the dream I'd had no one to drive me home from the surgeon's office. Uh-oh. . . .

Anyway: coffee. Howz aboutchoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 05:09 AM (wzUl9)

15
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 02, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

16 We ate at Chik-Fil-A last night, and somehow I came away with change (albeit small) from a $20. Then we watched the 1974 The Great Gatsby on Movies!, which I had never seen. (Darned if I know why Mia Farrow was considered a movie star even then.) In the early '70s, I recall, there was a brief fad of nostalgia for the Twenties and Thirties -- Chinatown, Gatsby; a TV series about a Thirties private eye, Banyon, set in LA; revivals of old Bogart movies.

Then along came Happy Days and Elton John's "Crocodile Rock," and suddenly everything was the Nifty Fifties all the time and the Thirties were forgotten. Dang.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 05:15 AM (wzUl9)

17 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2026 05:17 AM (V0/Sp)

18 >>> brief fad of nostalgia for the Twenties and Thirties

Paper Moon, Bonnie & Clyde

Sgt Pepper, Bonzo Dog Band and Donavan were yearning for more Edwardian times, I think.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2026 05:21 AM (V0/Sp)

19 brief fad of nostalgia for the Twenties and Thirties

Paper Moon, Bonnie & Clyde

Sgt Pepper, Bonzo Dog Band and Donavan were yearning for more Edwardian times, I think.
Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2026

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Yes. Come to think of it, Bonnie and Clyde (1967) might have started the fad. There was a comedy TV series called The Chicago Teddy Bears about 1970, I think. Paper Moon was early Seventies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 05:26 AM (wzUl9)

20 Yesterday, kid and I stopped at Chik Fil A in Forest Hills, NY: Large 4 piece chicken strip meal and one spicey deluxe with extra pickle sandwich only:26$

Posted by: Accomack at August 02, 2026 05:31 AM (m6Eem)

21 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 02, 2026 05:33 AM (7IlZh)

22 Yesterday, kid and I stopped at Chik Fil A in Forest Hills, NY: Large 4 piece chicken strip meal and one spicey deluxe with extra pickle sandwich only:26$
Posted by: Accomack at August 02, 2026

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We just had water to drink, and a large waffle fries sufficed for both of us. You gotta economize in small ways sometimes.

But for somebody like me, who remembers when two people could eat at Bennigans in 1982, with iced teas and maybe a small appetizer, and get back a little change from a $20: This is horrifying.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

23 olddog, Good morning to you and yours .

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:39 AM (abScH)

24 I can cook a 2 in filet, baked potato and a salad at home for 20 bucks

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 05:41 AM (abScH)

25 { Microsoft } is finally bothering to start to unshit its bed.

Not even two diverted rivers' worth of water could clean up dung of that magnitude.

(Also, I'm on permanent vacation, and you're going to need a bigger shovel!)

Posted by: Hercules at August 02, 2026 05:44 AM (O7YUW)

26 Going to work out in a little bit. I plan to take it easy: only a mile, walking/trotting, about 67/33 breakdown. Then a shower, breakfast, a pipe, and the Book Thread!

In theory, we are supposed to get some rain this afternoon or evening, and a little less humidity tomorrow. Ah believes it when Ah feels it. Though it does happen, and it's memorable. When I bought my '97 Mercedes C-Class in early August '03, the next few days had a drop in humidity, and I was able to wash and wax the whole car without heatstroke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

27 @Wolfus: "But for somebody like me, who remembers when two people could eat at Bennigans in 1982, with iced teas and maybe a small appetizer, and get back a little change from a $20: This is horrifying."

No kidding. The "covenant" for fast food used to be:
- Cheap
- Fast
- Not exactly good, but at least tasty enough to pass for good.

That's what made it attractive. 'Do you want to cook?' "Nah." 'Me neither. Let's go grab something at {fast food dive}.' "Sounds good, I'll grab my coat."

Now it's:
- Expensive
- Why the hell is it taking 20 minutes, I have places to be!
- "Y'know, I could make something a lot tastier and better at home..." (and in less than 20 minutes!)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 02, 2026 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

28 The music industry already embraced slop when they permitted auto-tune to be widely used to correct for talentless hacks that couldn't sing on key if their lives depended on it.

Oh, that and lip-syncing to recorded tracks in live concerts.

Straight to jail.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 02, 2026 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

29 You talking about us?

Posted by: Milli Vanilli at August 02, 2026 06:01 AM (qFwJc)

30 My first job was 3.65$/hr making breakfast at McDonalds. Some days I did the folded, some days pancakes. We had an old Italian man who made the biscuits.
This weekend in Queens has reminded me why I hate/love NYC.
My neighborhood has gotten more muzzle&dot and also much quieter.

Posted by: Accomack at August 02, 2026 06:02 AM (6jy2V)

31 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Does anybody really know what time it is?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2026 06:05 AM (amcLV)

32 Mornin', Horde. 68 degrees, going up to 74, a little rain possible, here in Kentuckiana.

Question: when did putting the dollar sign after the amount become a thing? Never saw it other than children first learning about it until recently.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 06:16 AM (NcvvS)

33 Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? (The Verge)
...
trap-influenced West Coast rap.

What the **** is trap-influenced? Sounds pervy and illegal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)

34 32 Mornin', Horde. 68 degrees, going up to 74, a little rain possible, here in Kentuckiana.

Question: when did putting the dollar sign after the amount become a thing? Never saw it other than children first learning about it until recently.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 06:16 AM (NcvvS)

Prevents kids from saying "Dollar five hundred" instead of "Five Hundred dollars"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:19 AM (l3cgK)

35 Could this be the good citizen who saved lives yesterday at the Idaho In-n-Out shooting?

https://tinyurl.com/4n8hedwu

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 02, 2026 06:20 AM (D0X9e)

36 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy.
A happy Sunday to all.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 06:20 AM (BFvh9)

37 Ah. Three Dog Night. Thanks Pixy for the fond memory.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 02, 2026 06:21 AM (rii+a)

38 "Three Dog Night refers to a phrase used by Aboriginal Australians to describe a very cold night, where they would sleep with three dogs for warmth. The American rock band adopted this name, symbolizing the idea of having three lead singers."--DuckDuck AI

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:21 AM (l3cgK)

39 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 02, 2026 06:22 AM (2Ez/1)

40 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I love my cats but they try my patience sometimes.

They left me several messes for me to clean up this morning.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 06:23 AM (FZ29D)

41 38 "Three Dog Night refers to a phrase used by Aboriginal Australians to describe a very cold night, where they would sleep with three dogs for warmth. The American rock band adopted this name, symbolizing the idea of having three lead singers."--DuckDuck AI

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:21 AM (l3cgK)

Chuck Negron ( who just died in February ) was married to Kate Vernon, Dean Wormer's real-life daughter.

Posted by: The Big Book of Three Dog Night Trivia, page 73. at August 02, 2026 06:24 AM (n9eFH)

42 AI would read $5 as dollar five.

Posted by: Accomack at August 02, 2026 06:25 AM (1Vo6X)

43 Disclaimer: Chicago?

https://youtu.be/9_torOTK5qc

Yeah, it's nearing 25 or 6 to 4am here...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:27 AM (l3cgK)

44 >>> They left me several messes for me to clean up this morning.

They only left one at my house, but generated a second for my cleaning pleasure after I was up.

Posted by: fluffy at August 02, 2026 06:28 AM (V0/Sp)

45 40 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I love my cats but they try my patience sometimes.

They left me several messes for me to clean up this morning.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 06:23 AM (FZ29D)

They've shredded my carpet...destroyed boxes and bags...and of course can never puke of floor with tiles, only floor with carpet...
Toilet paper has to be hidden lest the boy cat shred it up...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:29 AM (l3cgK)

46 >>Prevents kids from saying "Dollar five hundred" instead of "Five Hundred dollars"?

Never heard anyone over the age of 6 make that mistake.

>>AI would read $5 as dollar five.

Would make the 'I' in 'AI' a lie, then.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 06:29 AM (NcvvS)

47 Dogs have owners.

Cats have staff.

Posted by: Things Rush Limbaugh said at August 02, 2026 06:30 AM (n9eFH)

48 40 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I love my cats but they try my patience sometimes.

They left me several messes for me to clean up this morning.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 06:23 AM (FZ29D)

Unless said "I" is facetious...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:30 AM (l3cgK)

49 46 >>Prevents kids from saying "Dollar five hundred" instead of "Five Hundred dollars"?

Never heard anyone over the age of 6 make that mistake.

>>AI would read $5 as dollar five.

Would make the 'I' in 'AI' a lie, then.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 06:29 AM (NcvvS)

Unless said "I" is facetious...there, comment is finally in right place...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:31 AM (l3cgK)

50 Unless said "I" is facetious...there, comment is finally in right place...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:31 AM (l3cgK)
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I = Idiocy

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 02, 2026 06:35 AM (amcLV)

51 All in all my cats of long lives didn't do much damage or cause problems. They were pretty good

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 06:43 AM (Ia/+0)

52 I always found the song "Vehicle" by Ides of March a bit...disturbing...great sound, weird lyrics...

"Hey, well, I'm the friendly stranger in the black ~~sedan~~ van
Won't you hop inside my car?
I got pictures, got candy, I am a lovable man
I'd like to take you to the nearest star"

...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:43 AM (l3cgK)

53 Yea, though I walk through the valley of uneaten and refused cat treats, I shall fear no crunchies.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 02, 2026 06:46 AM (CHHv1)

54 Microsoft will not stop unshitting itself until it has fired enough H1B imported "engineers" and reverse enough code that Windows 11 runs like a fresh install of Windows 2K on every boot.

And then fire another 50% of their H1B engineering staff.

You could tell Nadella would be cancer for Microsoft from jump because he literally looks like a Lukemia patient.

Posted by: fringe at August 02, 2026 06:46 AM (0umlT)

55 G'mornin' everyone!

52, yeah, agree, what exactly are we singing about here ... ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 02, 2026 06:46 AM (VyBeY)

56 I am of the opinion that weird food hax are just the younger generations’ way of doing broad spectrum comedy.

Posted by: Accomack at August 02, 2026 06:49 AM (+hwtP)

57 >52, yeah, agree, what exactly are we singing about here ... ?

Lucy in the sky.
With diamonds.

Posted by: E. John at August 02, 2026 06:50 AM (2Ez/1)

58 51 All in all my cats of long lives didn't do much damage or cause problems. They were pretty good

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 06:43 AM (Ia/+0)

The old horny black cat (RIP) would puke everywhere, steal food off plates if you weren't looking (or off the stove, or any surface), and hump plush dolls (or anything soft enough)...
Got him as an older cat...he chose older son, not the other way around.
Same day we got him, got cat#2 (kitten, what we came to the shelter for). He's an unusual cat...never afraid of the vacuum cleaner (until older boy sucked at him with a hose).
Third cat we got years later. Only girl cat. She never liked old horny black cat.
There was a 4th cat (stray picked up by older son), but he lives in his "not-a-girlfriend"'s house...stupid as a bag of rocks. Ate a plastic food tray, resulting in over a $1000 (thousand dollars for those who can't read the $ correctly). Still eats food like a feral cat, chasing, growling, and swatting other cats away while eating.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:50 AM (l3cgK)

59 resulting in over a $1000 surgery. Missed a word there.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:51 AM (l3cgK)

60 Microsoft has become a utility company.

Posted by: Accomack at August 02, 2026 06:51 AM (+hwtP)

61 58 51 The old horny black cat (RIP) would puke everywhere, steal food off plates if you weren't looking (or off the stove, or any surface), and hump plush dolls (or anything soft enough)...
Got him as an older cat...he chose older son, not the other way around.
Same day we got him, got cat#2 (kitten, what we came to the shelter for). He's an unusual cat...never afraid of the vacuum cleaner (until older boy sucked at him with a hose).
Third cat we got years later. Only girl cat. She never liked old horny black cat.
There was a 4th cat (stray picked up by older son), but he lives in his "not-a-girlfriend"'s house...stupid as a bag of rocks. Ate a plastic food tray, resulting in over a $1000 (thousand dollars for those who can't read the $ correctly). Still eats food like a feral cat, chasing, growling, and swatting other cats away while eating.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 06:50 AM (l3cgK)

Good kitties!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 06:56 AM (odBC9)

62 I used to think autotune was an in-studio thing when artists recorded tracks. I didn't realize until I read something recently that many use auto-tune during live performances on stage, as well.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 06:58 AM (J4Dwc)

63 Was a neat part of National Progressive Radio sho Car Talk they used car theme songs for bumpers, many I never heard before.

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 06:59 AM (Ia/+0)

64 57 >52, yeah, agree, what exactly are we singing about here ... ?

Lucy in the sky.
With diamonds.
Posted by: E. John at August 02, 2026 06:50 AM (2Ez/1)

lysergic acid diethylamide

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 06:59 AM (odBC9)

65 My current cats are not ones to throw up much at all, thank goodness. Chekov for several years would upchuck at least one meal every week. Wolf was fine in the food department, but then would present me with a hairball every week or two. Most of the times Stirling has gone into upchuck mode, I've been able to get to him and scoot him over to the tiled kitchen floor.

Chekov shredded a roll of toilet paper in his first month here, but then never again. Wolf savaged a roll of the blue shop towels ($) from Walmart; I made sure to keep them away from him after that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 02, 2026 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

66 Fun times for libs. First Scott Galloway freaked out about being put on Mamdani's tax list. Now Ana Kasparian is calling for Fauci to be prosecuted. This is after she went nuts after being harassed by a homeless guy .
They'll still vote Dems . You can't fix stupid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 07:01 AM (BFvh9)

67 Sarah Hoyt memes from yesterday.

Contains cat memes

Also vmom may have contributed...

https://tinyurl.com/523e4nrs

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 07:01 AM (n9eFH)

68 66 Fun times for libs. First Scott Galloway freaked out about being put on Mamdani's tax list. Now Ana Kasparian is calling for Fauci to be prosecuted. This is after she went nuts after being harassed by a homeless guy .
They'll still vote Dems . You can't fix stupid
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 07:01 AM (BFvh9)

Secret ballot.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:05 AM (odBC9)

69
Alex Stein #99 retweeted
Gain of Fauci
@DschlopesIsBack
Jul 28
Never forget this brave American citizen that turned down getting a Covid vaccine and called out Fauci right to his face on camera.

I still want to buy this man a beer!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:06 AM (odBC9)

70 Good morning morons

Shambala gets heavy rotation on my playlist. Great bass line.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 07:09 AM (JvZF+)

71
Peter Bernegger
@PeterBernegger
Aug 1
Francesca Hong was diagnosed with 1) bipolar disease, 2) had a mental breakdown, 3) was placed in psychiatric hospitalization, 4) did self-harm by cutting, and 5) experienced a lithium overdose. My source: Francesca Hong in a 2023 interview. Her own words. She is running for Governor in Wisconsin (D).

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:10 AM (odBC9)

72 71
Peter Bernegger
@PeterBernegger
Aug 1
Francesca Hong was diagnosed with 1) bipolar disease, 2) had a mental breakdown, 3) was placed in psychiatric hospitalization, 4) did self-harm by cutting, and 5) experienced a lithium overdose. My source: Francesca Hong in a 2023 interview. Her own words. She is running for Governor in Wisconsin (D).

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:10 AM (odBC9)

Top qwality dem candidate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 07:11 AM (l3cgK)

73 Does Fancesca Hong notsee? That's missing from the list.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 07:11 AM (l3cgK)

74
Peter Bernegger
@PeterBernegger
21h
She is Korean. Noting, she is currently a State Assembly Rep. covering the area of Madison, WI. She is angry most all the time, in the Capitol.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:12 AM (odBC9)

75 > She is Korean. Noting, she is currently a State Assembly Rep. covering the area of Madison, WI. She is angry most all the time, in the Capitol.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:12 AM

And she wants to speak to your manager:

https://tinyurl.com/ytw49x37

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 07:20 AM (2Ez/1)

76 One of the major problems with Microsoft for the last 20 years (or more) has been its code bloat.

Part of that has been trying to make every little thing part of Windows. Part of that has been just an attitude of "Hey, computers have more capability now, maybe we should use it!" Which is fine, until it comes at the expense of other things you could use it for - like speed, or other programs.

Posted by: GWB at August 02, 2026 07:22 AM (kU0PQ)

77 Pinned Tweet
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
18h
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness and is highly treatable with lithium. So while I don't think it's necessarily disqualifying, voters deserve to know if @FrancescaHongWI is receiving professional care and what it is. It should be disqualifying if she refuses to say.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:23 AM (odBC9)

78 Does she write her own songs?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 07:24 AM (967/Q)

79
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"
Berkeley, CA

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:24 AM (odBC9)

80 AI slop.

Posted by: Milli Vanilli at August 02, 2026 07:25 AM (qFwJc)

81 My current cats are not ones to throw up much at all, thank goodness.

--

You are one lucky man. Only 2 barfs from mine yesterday. I'm thinking of strapping a little catch bucket in necklace form under her neck so she can just barf right into it and save me the aggravation.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 02, 2026 07:25 AM (qBdHI)

82 Question: when did putting the dollar sign after the amount become a thing?

AI slop.

Posted by: Milli Vanilli at August 02, 2026 07:25 AM (qFwJc)

83 Sunday morning came clouded over in August, the light thin and patient as if it had lain all night under the weight of the sky and now rose up reluctantly, searching the old rooftops and the trees with a pale, remembering hand.

Posted by: Old Bill Faulkner at August 02, 2026 07:28 AM (2Ez/1)

84
33 Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? (The Verge)

Ie be surprised if you could find 100 people anywhere who care about the Billboard Hot 100.

And Casey Kasem’s ghost doesn’t count. (Poor guy, he had a sad end)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 07:28 AM (Ol0VD)

85 Pushing the Overton window left one fucked up person at a time.

Posted by: Accomack at August 02, 2026 07:28 AM (gcNyC)

86 And does she have any tattoos?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 02, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

87 86 And does she have any tattoos?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 02, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

DAT DO'N MATTA!!

Posted by: James Carville, the day before yesterday at August 02, 2026 07:30 AM (967/Q)

88 Love Carville. What great comic relief.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

89 >>>but at least they're trying. Or claiming to try.

Vaporware. Windows can't be unshitified. They're not dropping Copilot and Recall, even though they announced similar considerations back in January.

This announcement is just to keep the rats on the sinking ship, and it will work for most users looking to make a jump.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 07:31 AM (dK+Kv)

90 86 And does she have any tattoos?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 02, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

You could volunteer to go find out....

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:33 AM (odBC9)

91 Shellenberger gets under my skin. He is one-click away from Jake Tapper-level hypocrisy. Voted for this sh*t then writes a book how awful it is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 07:33 AM (JvZF+)

92 >>>Major record labels are proposing to join forces to force AI slop out of the charts.

Is this the first major institutional move against the clankers?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 07:36 AM (dK+Kv)

93 Not my circus, not my monkeys .... but I seem to know all the clowns...

Posted by: clarence at August 02, 2026 07:37 AM (oB8bm)

94 Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness and is highly treatable with lithium. So while I don't think it's necessarily disqualifying, voters deserve to know if @FrancescaHongWI is receiving professional care and what it is. It should be disqualifying if she refuses to say.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:23 AM (odBC9)

Disclosure is imperative. Also voters need to know if it is true, that she has episodes where she claims she has two additional last names, being “Kong” and “Phooey”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2026 07:38 AM (Ol0VD)

95 She campaigns like a local weather emergency—loud, avoidable, and impossible to ignore—then governs with the grim determination of a person trying to assemble furniture using only confidence and a butter knife

Posted by: The ghost of PJ O'Rourke at August 02, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)

96 from yesterday's Thomas Sowell thread:

.. there are three questions that destroy most of the arguments of the left:

1. Compared to what?
2. At what cost?
3. What hard evidence do you have?

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:39 AM (odBC9)

97 Top qwality dem candidate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 07:11 AM (l3cgK)

That's on the tame side for the left these days.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 07:40 AM (dK+Kv)

98 1. Compared to what?
2. At what cost?
3. What hard evidence do you have?
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:39 AM (odBC9)
=====

1. Compared to the way it is now, fascist!
2. Tax the rich!
3. It's all around you, man!
/smugly

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 07:42 AM (JvZF+)

99 mornin yall. Did you know that in Florida it is illegal for a hotdog vendor to put ketchup on your hotdog?

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2026 07:43 AM (MWfyi)

100 100

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:43 AM (odBC9)

101 98 1. Compared to what?
2. At what cost?
3. What hard evidence do you have?
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:39 AM (odBC9)
=====

1. Compared to the way it is now, fascist!
2. Tax the rich!
3. It's all around you, man!
/smugly
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 07:42 AM (JvZF+)

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:43 AM (odBC9)

102 I used to think autotune was an in-studio thing when artists recorded tracks. I didn't realize until I read something recently that many use auto-tune during live performances on stage, as well.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 06:58 AM (J4Dwc)

Not Rush on the latest tour.

Pink Floyd did it right. Get someone who can hit the notes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 07:44 AM (dK+Kv)

103 Good morning. I'm late. Sorry.

Here is Microsoft's Official Spokesman on the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJmgx3knaU

Posted by: meh at August 02, 2026 07:45 AM (kK7U2)

104 103 Good morning. I'm late. Sorry.

Here is Microsoft's Official Spokesman on the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJmgx3knaU
Posted by: meh at August 02, 2026 07:45 AM (kK7U2)

; )

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 07:46 AM (odBC9)

105 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

106 TinyAndSoft is like most banks. They don't care because they don't have to.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)

107 Also vmom may have contributed...

https://tinyurl.com/523e4nrs
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Ha ha ha
That would look good on my kitchen wall, I admit.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 07:51 AM (DoBxX)

108 Now the advice is more along the lines of: Buy a Mac, or run Linux.

Really glad I bought a MacBook (Sky) earlier this year. I already had a couple of old laptops with Linux Mint on them. That just leaves the BeeLink, which is Win11.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at August 02, 2026 07:55 AM (sAmhv)

109 {{{I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper}}}

I saw the sampler meme and wished I had a way to upload it next time vmom posted.

It is a sampler with three words in one line each, then the final line in red:
~~Live~~
~~Laugh~~
~~Love~~
Stab Stab Stab

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

110 {{{vmom deport deport deport}}}

We can change the bottom line to Shiv Shiv Shiv for bluebell.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

111 {{{Salty}}}

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 02, 2026 08:03 AM (967/Q)

112 Mandela Barnes has got to be kicking himself for dropping out of the Wis governor's race (allegations if sexual harassment about to drop) given the Hung revelation. Some guy Crowley who dropped out got back in and was endorse by Gov Evers. Crowley is Milwaukee county exec, not exactly a great resume
Of course the Republicans ( Tom Tiffany ) could screw it up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 08:06 AM (BFvh9)

113 San Franpsycho

I went to the local bookstore in the student bar area called Aggieville next to the KSU campus.
Very tony; very woke. It used to be a used book store.
A worker who was clearly woke and unlearned but pretentious and sanctimonious, and I had a brief conversation on Before the Dawn, which was not there.

The economics section did not have any Sowell, and the SF section was almost devoid of the authors I liked. Ender's Game[i/] was there, but no Heinlein, Ryk L. Spoor, or Matt Hughes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

114 99 mornin yall. Did you know that in Florida it is illegal for a hotdog vendor to put ketchup on your hotdog?

Posted by: fd at August 02, 2026 07:43 AM (MWfyi)

it's also illegal to skydive in the nude on Sundays...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 08:08 AM (l3cgK)

115 Yikes.

Off to the Barrel. A robot to do all my chores would be helpful now. Or one I could send in to decontaminate the Barrel.

Have a great day, everyone. May you and yours be blessed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2026 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

116 115 Yikes.

Off to the Barrel. A robot to do all my chores would be helpful now. Or one I could send in to decontaminate the Barrel.

Have a great day, everyone. May you and yours be blessed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2026 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

I've worked in septic tanks...not fun. I wasn't even paid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 08:10 AM (l3cgK)

117 >>Did you know that in Florida it is illegal for a hotdog vendor to put ketchup on your hotdog?

Or mustard or any other condiment for that matter. The paying customer has to do it.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 02, 2026 08:13 AM (J4Dwc)

118 112 Of course the Republicans ( Tom Tiffany ) could screw it up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 02, 2026 08:06 AM (BFvh9)

Francesca Hong For Governor
@FrancescaHongWI
Jul 31
Once again: I am not running to defund the police. And to be clear, the governor cannot defund the police.
My administration will prioritize public safety & justice for victims.

Tom Tiffany
@TomTiffanyWI
Jul 30
No amount of spin can erase @FrancescaHongWI’s own words.

She didn’t just advocate for defunding the police. She called to abolish them.

In January, the Wisconsin Electoral Socialists endorsed her for her “commitment to police and prison abolition.”

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:14 AM (odBC9)

119 Yikes.

Off to the Barrel. A robot to do all my chores would be helpful now. Or one I could send in to decontaminate the Barrel.

Have a great day, everyone. May you and yours be blessed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 02, 2026 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

Copilot-powered clanker: Sorry. Best I can do is pick your pockets, put your cat in the washer with the laundry, and put all your utensils back in the wrong drawer, purposefully.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 08:16 AM (dK+Kv)

120 Is everyone just hitting refresh on the main page?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 08:23 AM (eZ5tL)

121 it's also illegal to skydive in the nude on Sundays...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 08:08 AM (l3cgK)
---
*sigh*

*puts pants back on*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 08:24 AM (FZ29D)

122 Hung probably will win, another state going to Marxism

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 08:25 AM (Ia/+0)

123 AI slop - saw a review page from some legit mag site that had som unedited AI prompts
I think it was on coffee grinders
The first 4 reviews read ok, the last one just had sections with something like "15 sentences here listing features"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 08:25 AM (eZ5tL)

124 121 it's also illegal to skydive in the nude on Sundays...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 02, 2026 08:08 AM (l3cgK)
---
*sigh*

*puts pants back on*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 08:24 AM (FZ29D)

Don't look, Ethel!

Posted by: Ray Stevens at August 02, 2026 08:26 AM (967/Q)

125 120 Is everyone just hitting refresh on the main page?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 02, 2026 08:23 AM (eZ5tL)

Might be another half an hour? Last Sunday the book thread was posted by Open Blogger at 09:00 AM.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:27 AM (odBC9)

126 Demerit for the weekend-No Sefton Morning Report.
Plus for the Weekend-No "Art" Thread.

Posted by: The Way I See It at August 02, 2026 08:31 AM (JM9I6)

127 Might be another half an hour? Last Sunday the book thread was posted by Open Blogger at 09:00 AM.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:27 AM (odBC9)
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That's the usual time (Eastern).

Sometimes it'll get posted a bit earlier if I have something else I need to do at that time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 08:31 AM (FZ29D)

128 127 Might be another half an hour? Last Sunday the book thread was posted by Open Blogger at 09:00 AM.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:27 AM (odBC9)
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That's the usual time (Eastern).

Sometimes it'll get posted a bit earlier if I have something else I need to do at that time.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 02, 2026 08:31 AM (FZ29D)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:31 AM (odBC9)

129 Demerit for the weekend-No Sefton Morning Report.
Plus for the Weekend-No "Art" Thread.

Posted by: The Way I See It at August 02, 2026 08:31 AM (JM9I6)

The Horde giveth. The Horde taketh away.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 02, 2026 08:32 AM (dK+Kv)

130 - I'll never figure out why everyone feels the need to immediately run off to where 'you have to talk abut my art for 100 comments' as soon as it comes up.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2026 08:36 AM (/XKEa)

131 CBD makes it a rule for the art thread

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 08:40 AM (JvZF+)

132 Here's Friday's art thread comments, on The Hermit,
Mikhail Nesterov. They were a hoot.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7hnnhs

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:45 AM (odBC9)

133 Starting a off topic thread wrecks the work of thread author

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 08:45 AM (Ia/+0)

134 CBD did post one of my faves-Scandi Mental Illness Art recently, so I give him credit for that.

Posted by: Art Afficianado at August 02, 2026 08:46 AM (JM9I6)

135 On-topic art threads are edumacating.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:47 AM (odBC9)

136 Art thread rocks. Fast paced caption contest filled with ribald witticisms, sexual innuendo, limericks and backhanded political commentary.
And we like it that way.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 02, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

137 I could smell "The Hermit" right through my monitor.

Posted by: Delicate Disposition at August 02, 2026 08:48 AM (JM9I6)

138 Complaints about the Art Thread are an FWP, which will be on tap at 2 PM Eastern today.

Posted by: Same Bat time, Same Bat Channel at August 02, 2026 08:50 AM (JM9I6)

139 138 Complaints about the Art Thread are an FWP, which will be on tap at 2 PM Eastern today.
Posted by: Same Bat time, Same Bat Channel at August 02, 2026 08:50 AM (JM9I6)

Observations About the Art Thread, really:

130 - I'll never figure out why everyone feels the need to immediately run off to where 'you have to talk abut my art for 100 comments' as soon as it comes up.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 02, 2026 08:36 AM (/XKEa)

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:52 AM (odBC9)

140 I could smell "The Hermit" right through my monitor.
Posted by: Delicate Disposition at August 02, 2026 08:48 AM (JM9I6)

Come on! I used English Leather.

Posted by: Herman at August 02, 2026 08:52 AM (1Ff7Z)

141 Wolfus, had I known you were slated for oral surgery, I'd have given you a ride home.

Posted by: In Your Red Mercedes Wagon at August 02, 2026 08:52 AM (JM9I6)

142 Complaints Department is over there ------------------->

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:53 AM (odBC9)

143 Out of control.

https://tinyurl.com/65e43uzu

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)

144 The Hermit.

https://youtu.be/9PmWEElulG8

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 02, 2026 08:54 AM (2Ez/1)

145 I've got the pants, but can't find a belt. This could be embarrassing.

Posted by: Fruit of the Loom at August 02, 2026 08:57 AM (JM9I6)

146 145 I've got the pants, but can't find a belt. This could be embarrassing.
Posted by: Fruit of the Loom at August 02, 2026 08:57 AM (JM9I6)

Maybe some duct tape?

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:59 AM (odBC9)

147
https://tinyurl.com/65e43uzu
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 08:53 AM (ndZc7)
====

Very common occurrence. Don't leave goodies in your car!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 02, 2026 08:59 AM (JvZF+)

148 The bonus of lithium treatment is that it kills kidney function and you wind up on dialysis, waiting for a transplant. Happened to my cousin.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 02, 2026 08:59 AM (bkuEU)

149 I've got the pants, but can't find a belt. This could be embarrassing.
Posted by: Fruit of the Loom at August 02, 2026 08:57 AM (JM9I6)

Maybe some duct tape?
Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 08:59 AM
=====

Don't forget a towel!

Posted by: Towelie at August 02, 2026 09:00 AM (JvZF+)

150 Trump Calls off Iran Strikes as Possible Peace Deal Gains Momentum

-
I'm sure it'll take this time!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 02, 2026 09:00 AM (ndZc7)

151 Books upstairs.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 02, 2026 09:01 AM (NcvvS)

152 Grab your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

153 Interestingly, the only legit rock song in the billboard 100, is, inexplicably, Wonderwall by Oasis.

Probably was featured in some Genz tv show, similar to Running Up That Hill, and the kids have discovered grandpas music again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 02, 2026 09:13 AM (XV/Pl)

154 Hey Pixie, just want to say I'm not here given the east coast timeframe, but I read your posts daily and find them enjoyable and useful, while in no way a techie.
So thanks for putting them up.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 09:45 AM (sl73Y)

155 >Since both of those options hit Microsoft below the water line

No, they don't. Microsoft hasn't given a damn about the consumer revenue from Windows for over a decade. It's why the Windows 10 & 11 upgrades were free. All the Windows revenue comes from long term license agreements with large corporations. They're tuning Windows 11 because those large corporations can no longer source 16GB hardware in quantity from the big Wintel vendors, and all their employees are running on 3-5 year old hardware due to be refreshed.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 02, 2026 11:18 AM (LgYtf)

156 >>>Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop? (The Verge)

Fenix Flexin & Purps On The Beat - RUBBERZ (Official Video)
7.3M views

I just now listened to it.
I liked it.
?
Which isn't dispositive about anything.

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 12:31 PM (odBC9)

157 You can't tell me this is anything other than great, even if AI

https://youtu.be/5Uf2ERoRB9w?is=hGuFIxdVdjKlZ6oZ

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Posted by: mjxfmrsr at August 03, 2026 12:52 AM (kUpT5)

Saturday Night Club ONT - August 1, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino. We honor the 5th amendment here. And the 1st. Certainly the 2nd. The 10th is pretty good, also.

Come in in, grab a drink or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Jerks need not enter the premises (the moose out front is keeping track).

[Top photo: Terrace of the Halfway Guesthouse, located in the Tiger Leaping Gorge of Yunnan Province, China]

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

A guy walks into a bar, orders a shot of whiskey, drinks it, and looks inside his jacket pocket.

He then orders another shot, drinks it, and looks inside his pocket again.

This goes on for an hour.
Finally, the bartender gets curious and asks, "Hey pal, why do you keep looking inside your pocket after every drink?"

The guy looks up and says,
"I've got a picture of my wife in there.

When she starts looking good, I know it's time to go home.

-----

"Where are you going on vacation, Bob?" Dave asked his co-worker.

"Las Vegas."

"You don't sound very excited."

"Well, I'm a little concerned," said Bob. "Went to Cancun last year, and my wife got pregnant. Went to Hawaii the year before that, and she got pregnant then, too."

"Wow! Are you going to take precautions?"

"Absolutely. This year I'm taking her with me."

*****

Drink of the Night

Big penguin is everywhere!
(H/T RedMindBlueState)

In summary (Google AI)

The Fat Penguin is a creamy, tropical cocktail made with orange juice, vanilla vodka, and heavy cream.
Ingredients
2 oz fresh orange juice
1.5 oz vanilla vodka (or whipped cream vodka)
1 oz spiced rum
1 oz heavy whipping cream (or oat/almond creamer)
0.5 oz blue curacao
Whipped cream for garnish

*****

Club ONT Department of Non-pansy Humor

In 1976, after a MATCH GAME contestant guessed a fill-in-the-blank answer correctly with "The Third Reich", the home audience got a shock when Charles Nelson Reilly decided to walk from his seat wearing a drawn Nazi armband with Gene Rayburn doing the Nazi salute. The episode… pic.twitter.com/2f6OJfgP6Y
— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) July 29, 2026

*****

Club ONT Department of Military History

Man discovers more than 200 Civil War-era cannonballs on his property

BOONEVILLE, Miss. - A Mississippi property owner uncovered more than 200 Civil War-era cannonballs while preparing land for commercial development, and historians believe even more artifacts may still be buried.
Harold Knight said he first found a single cannonball on his Booneville property before inviting people with metal detectors to search the site.
The search quickly turned up hundreds of Civil War munitions, including grape shot, canister shot and case shot, all estimated to be more than 160 years old.
Experts at the Booneville Rails & Trails Museum believe the ammunition is likely connected to either the Battle of Blackland or the Battle of Booneville, two Civil War battles fought in July 1862.

*****

Club ONT Department of Dating

*****

Club ONT Bowling League

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Club ONT Department of Confusion

Is this Dino pretending to be Doggo or vice versa?

Milo the dinosaur 🦖 🤣🫶 pic.twitter.com/5xOXnp2l9V
— Lucy (@TheLucyShow1) July 31, 2026

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Club ONT Jukebox

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

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Club ONT is brought to you by: valid points

The title of this show makes no sense, he had a partner right? pic.twitter.com/ddDKJJL8X6
— Miles Commodore (@miles_commodore) August 1, 2026

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Club ONT border patrol agents are on high alert tonight. Beware of maracas. Hold on - being told it's Moroccans. That makes more sense!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2026 10:00 PM (uoXeR)

2 SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is forecast to slam into the moon near Einstein Crater early Wednesday morning, potentially producing the first impact plume, roughly 15 to 20 km in altitude for the ejecta, observed from Earth against the lunar surface's sunlit side.
_ZH

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:00 PM (Pee1E)

3 'Tis time…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 10:01 PM (aOqrc)

4 (looks at moose)

Guess I'm not wanted again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 01, 2026 10:02 PM (1Ff7Z)

5 Club ONT border patrol agents are on high alert tonight. Beware of maracas. Hold on - being told it's Moroccans. That makes more sense!
Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

Your initial intel was a bit shaky.

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:02 PM (VHUov)

6 Tonto wasn’t a Ranger.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 10:02 PM (aOqrc)

7 Welcome to da club! Free drinks to anyone who can guess what variety of bourbon I'm drinking tonight.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

8 ***Big penguin is everywhere!***

Do these people get paid by the word or by the time they waste in presentation?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:03 PM (Pee1E)

9 Meow said the old tomcat

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 01, 2026 10:04 PM (w3u3d)

10 Hello friends!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 01, 2026 10:04 PM (B2pWp)

11 Those records in the BW photo: they are the right size to be 45s but don’t have the larger hole. What format are they?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 10:05 PM (aOqrc)

12 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2026 10:06 PM (Wg6v7)

13
Ha! Top-10ish comment!

*lights big cigar*
*leans back in chair*
*puts feet on desk*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:06 PM (O0L8i)

14 The Lone Ranger looks like he's adjusting his junk because his pants are too tight.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 10:08 PM (Riz8t)

15 78

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:09 PM (Pee1E)

16 The Lone Ranger looks like he's adjusting his junk because his pants are too tight.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 10:08 PM (Riz8t)

We've all been there

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

17 6 Tonto wasn’t a Ranger.

Now the mystery masked man was smart
He got himself a Tonto
'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free
But Tonto he was smarter
And one day said, "Kemosabe
Kiss my ass, I bought a boat, I'm going out to sea"

Posted by: Lyle Lovett at August 01, 2026 10:10 PM (Riz8t)

18 Welcome to da club! Free drinks to anyone who can guess what variety of bourbon I'm drinking tonight.
Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

Wet!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:10 PM (qx7Zg)

19 Ha! Top-10ish comment!

*lights big cigar*
*leans back in chair*
*puts feet on desk*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:06 PM (O0L8i)

You're no Big Dummy

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:10 PM (QMAsf)

20 The Lone Ranger looks like he's adjusting his junk because his pants are too tight.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 10:08 PM (Riz8t)

We've all been there

I mean, the guy looks like he's wearing yoga pants.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 10:11 PM (Riz8t)

21 Didja see this comparison about trust in the media?

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
.@BrendanCarrFCC: "Trust in the legacy national media is at an all time low."
"15% of people would eat gas station sushi. Only 8% of people say they have a great deal of trust."
Politico's Dasha Burns: "You seem to relish that!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 10:11 PM (ndZc7)

22 Sorry I'm late, I was vacuuming the black hole.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 01, 2026 10:11 PM (2RJDy)

23 16 The Lone Ranger looks like he's adjusting his junk because his pants are too tight.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 10:08 PM (Riz8t)

We've all been there
Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

I can't believe I thought the same thing. I am mortified.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2026 10:11 PM (hzuYO)

24 Doof--

Wild Turkey 101?

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 10:12 PM (rdVOm)

25 LOL, blobfish is the center square.

You know, in the right environment, he might be considered sexy as hell.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 10:12 PM (kpS4V)

26 Probably already mentioned, but the Lone Ranger got his name because the rest of the Rangers he was with were wiped out. Tonto told him, "You lone ranger."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

27 72s?

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 10:14 PM (ZxPkt)

28 In some ways, those fish are more attractive. No septic septum rings, no hair dyed crazy colors, no caked on makeup.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)

29 Sorry I'm late, I was vacuuming the black hole.
Posted by: tankdemon

As awesome excuses go, this one sucks.

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)

30 Those records in the BW photo: they are the right size to be 45s but don’t have the larger hole. What format are they?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 10:05 PM (aOqrc)

Those look like ten-inch 78 RPM discs. Childrens' music continued to be recorded on 78's long after LPs took over for serious music, and 45's for pop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 10:15 PM (1z8ji)

31 21 Didja see this comparison about trust in the media?

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
.@BrendanCarrFCC: "Trust in the legacy national media is at an all time low."
"15% of people would eat gas station sushi. Only 8% of people say they have a great deal of trust."
Politico's Dasha Burns: "You seem to relish that!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

The legacy national media EARNED every bit of that 8%. IMO, that's still too high.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2026 10:15 PM (Wg6v7)

32 I might be in the minority here but I think that penguin drink looks delicious. Kind of a boozy Dreamsicle flavor, I bet.

Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2026 10:15 PM (afFes)

33 Milo the dinosaur, now with the easy carry-on handle for long flights.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:15 PM (qx7Zg)

34 SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage is forecast to slam into the moon near Einstein Crater early Wednesday morning, potentially producing the first impact plume, roughly 15 to 20 km in altitude for the ejecta, observed from Earth against the lunar surface's sunlit side.
_ZH
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:00 PM (Pee1E)

Shooting at the Moon is all fun and games until someone shoots back.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 01, 2026 10:16 PM (vSvIl)

35 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 01, 2026 10:16 PM (YqVwq)

36 Caryl Struyken was the director in the Mexican Radio video.

I love that stupid song. I know nothing else about Wall of Voodoo, but I am betting they were weird.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 01, 2026 10:16 PM (0aYVJ)

37 Doof, have you been to a Rush concert this year? Is it safe to post videos, so we don't ruin your experience?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:17 PM (qx7Zg)

38 LOL, blobfish is the center square.

You know, in the right environment, he might be considered sexy as hell.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 10:12 PM (kpS4V)
---------

He looks like Ziggy.

Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2026 10:17 PM (afFes)

39 32 I might be in the minority here but I think that penguin drink looks delicious. Kind of a boozy Dreamsicle flavor, I bet.

Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2026 10:15 PM
***
Bluebell! Of all the clubs in the world, you decided to stop in this one. Good to virtually see you.

Posted by: TRex - free restroom token dino at August 01, 2026 10:17 PM (jnBG1)

40 29 Sorry I'm late, I was vacuuming the black hole.
Posted by: tankdemon

As awesome excuses go, this one sucks.
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:14 PM (VHUov)

Are you saying that I blew it?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 01, 2026 10:18 PM (2RJDy)

41 Doof--

Wild Turkey 101?
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 10:12 PM (rdVOm)

Nope. But you're the bar keep so you probably don't pay for your drinks anyway!

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

42 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2026 10:19 PM (zZu0s)

43
Come in in, grab a drink or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Jerks need not enter the premises (the moose out front is keeping track).

Damned moose out front is getting uppity. Phucker wrote my name down so he wouldn't forget it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 01, 2026 10:19 PM (QVmho)

44 I might be in the minority here but I think that penguin drink looks delicious. Kind of a boozy Dreamsicle flavor, I bet.
Posted by: bluebell
**********
Hi ya Bluebell, I agree. Back in the day knew a bartender who made an orange creamsicle drink...delicious, but after two of them needed to hand the car keys over...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 10:19 PM (XfIK1)

45 32 I might be in the minority here but I think that penguin drink looks delicious. Kind of a boozy Dreamsicle flavor, I bet.
Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2026 10:15 PM (afFes)
---/

Absolutely agree. Just needs a parasol and plastic penguin.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 10:19 PM (kpS4V)

46 Bluebell! Of all the clubs in the world, you decided to stop in this one. Good to virtually see you.
Posted by: TRex - free restroom token dino at August 01, 2026 10:17 PM (jnBG1)
------

Why thank you! I'm glad I stopped in to see the penguin drink and the Dino paddling in the pool.

Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2026 10:19 PM (afFes)

47 I got my wife pregnant on vacation.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 01, 2026 10:19 PM (B2pWp)

48 Tonto only needed on sixshooter

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 10:20 PM (LHPAg)

49 Doof, have you been to a Rush concert this year? Is it safe to post videos, so we don't ruin your experience?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:17 PM (qx7Zg)

Haven't been yet. Later this month in Philly. But I've watched some videos.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

50 Where did The Lone Ranger get that delightful stretch cowboy outfit?

Posted by: Liberace at August 01, 2026 10:21 PM (u/oMr)

51
Fauci's non-testimony has provoked COVID Karens to erupt in defense of their idol. Every single thing he did or said is being furiously defended and any detractors are being called idiots, Neanderthals, murderers, etc.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:21 PM (O0L8i)

52 The Lone ranger was pissed when he found out kemosabe means shithead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:22 PM (S41Gd)

53 Don't think I'd chance a creamy drink with penguin in the name.

*shudders*

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:22 PM (ftFVW)

54 No comprendo It's a riddle

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 10:22 PM (oq9dX)

55 Evening, Horde. Gotta finish catching up on my Bible reading tonight, I've been slacking. Then tis bedtime.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 10:22 PM (aJQbY)

56 Okay, JQ! Pull the maracas back out from under the bar!

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:23 PM (Wmg4n)

57 So I'm watching Bosox @ Dodgers and the LA pitcher is named Yamamoto (no relation)

train of thought rolls thru-

what if they had NFL style football in Japan? All the linemen would be sumo wrestlers

everybody else is a ninja

QB is shogun

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (ZxPkt)

58 Tonto was somewhere on the spectrum between Sidekick and Flunkie

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (u/oMr)

59 Doof, have you been to a Rush concert this year? Is it safe to post videos, so we don't ruin your experience?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:17 PM (qx7Zg)

Haven't been yet. Later this month in Philly. But I've watched some videos.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

I'm tempted to go just to see Anika beat the shit out of those drums.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (S41Gd)

60 Caryl Struyken was the director in the Mexican Radio video.

I love that stupid song. I know nothing else about Wall of Voodoo, but I am betting they were weird.

Yes they were weird. But Stan Ridgeway is actually very talented.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (QMAsf)

61 What did he expect, naming his sidekick, stupid.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (Pee1E)

62 Khan is trying to pull a fast one on Columbo. Don't think he'll fool Columbo though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (Wg6v7)

63 Damned moose out front is getting uppity. Phucker wrote my name down so he wouldn't forget it.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 01, 2026 10:19 PM (QVmho)

At least you got let in.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

64 The Ranger is always ready for an impromptu yoga session.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (ftFVW)

65 The Lone Ranger looks like he's adjusting his junk because his pants are too tight.
Posted by: Archimedes

We've all been there
Posted by: Doof

I mean, the guy looks like he's wearing yoga pants.
Posted by: Archimedes

Pants painted on.

No sign of coup stick.

Kemosabe will never scare Silver.

Posted by: Tonto at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (VHUov)

66 I dunno Puddleglum, this might be the one time that Columbo doesn't figure it out...

hahaha

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (aJQbY)

67 I'm tempted to go just to see Anika beat the shit out of those drums.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (S41Gd)

Dude - let's go to the other Philly show together. I'll hit you up. I'm serious - a concert with you would be awesome.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

68 Club ONT Department of Dating
.......

This is why I come here
always love the dating advice

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (oq9dX)

69 51
Fauci's non-testimony has provoked COVID Karens to erupt in defense of their idol. Every single thing he did or said is being furiously defended and any detractors are being called idiots, Neanderthals, murderers, etc.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Those broads are whack!!

Posted by: Rev. Jim Jones, undead at August 01, 2026 10:26 PM (Wg6v7)

70 67 I'm tempted to go just to see Anika beat the shit out of those drums.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:24 PM (S41Gd)

Dude - let's go to the other Philly show together. I'll hit you up. I'm serious - a concert with you would be awesome.
Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10

And if y’all don’t FaceTime me I will never speak to either one of you again!

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:27 PM (Wmg4n)

71 I dunno Puddleglum, this might be the one time that Columbo doesn't figure it out...

hahaha
Posted by: RandomDave

But he's got one more question.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:27 PM (ftFVW)

72 I was compelled to suffer through a 'Banana Ball' spectacle while eating out tonight. It was the only thing on the TV screens in the bar.

Picture some crap dancing, choreographed bits, over-the-top reactions, players mugging for the camera stuffed into an inning or two of 'baseball'.

It was the gayest exhibition I have seen in years. I need a shower.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2026 10:28 PM (uoXeR)

73 >Where did The Lone Ranger get that delightful stretch cowboy outfit?

Posted by: Liberace
----
Gucci

https://tinyurl.com/mtca3ddj

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 10:28 PM (ZxPkt)

74 located in the Tiger Leaping Gorge of Yunnan Province, China

Huh. My first thought was how much it looks like the terrace restaurant in The Eiger Sanction.

Posted by: GWB at August 01, 2026 10:28 PM (kU0PQ)

75 near Einstein Crater early Wednesday morning, potentially producing the first impact plume, roughly 15 to 20 km in altitude for the ejecta"

"Ejecta"?

Sounds like the Epstein crater...

Posted by: man at August 01, 2026 10:28 PM (XuXeR)

76 Club ONT Department of Dating
.......

This is why I come here
always love the dating advice
Posted by: wth

No whales? I guess they're not fish... nevermind.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:28 PM (ftFVW)

77 Okay, JQ! Pull the maracas back out from under the bar!
Posted by: Piper

Huh? Am I supposed to *play* them, or smack somebody over the head with them?

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

78 Banana Ball is far more enjoyable than the shit that passes for baseball in the MLB these days.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:29 PM (QMAsf)

79 I love that stupid song. I know nothing else about Wall of Voodoo, but I am betting they were weird.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 01, 2026 10:16 PM (0aYVJ)

Per Stan Ridgway, lead singer of Wall of Voodoo, a suit from the record company, who previously had no time for them, walked up to him and said, "You guys are a hit! When does your next album come out?"

"Uh, sorry, man. The band has already broken up."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2026 10:30 PM (3r9cH)

80 77 Okay, JQ! Pull the maracas back out from under the bar!
Posted by: Piper

Huh? Am I supposed to *play* them, or smack somebody over the head with them?
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm

Both may be an option.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:30 PM (Wmg4n)

81 Happy birthday Jerry. Thanks for a lifetime of music.

Jerry, Nicky Hopkins on piano and Matt Kelly on harp on Road Runner sealed my fate. Wouldn't change a thing.

https://tinyurl.com/5e9e72hm

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 10:30 PM (viF8m)

82 Do we have people in Spokane? houses on fire

https://tinyurl.com/5yw58j86

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 10:30 PM (ZxPkt)

83 80 the disclaimer needs to be read for this to make sense, by the way. lol,

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:31 PM (Wmg4n)

84 (or oat/almond creamer)

OK, that just made it cringe.

Posted by: GWB at August 01, 2026 10:31 PM (kU0PQ)

85 Okay, JQ! Pull the maracas back out from under the bar!
Posted by: Piper

Huh? Am I supposed to *play* them, or smack somebody over the head with them?
Posted by: JQ

Yes.

The unruly patrons get one quick warning, like you're a rattlesnake.

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:31 PM (VHUov)

86 And if y’all don’t FaceTime me I will never speak to either one of you again!
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:27 PM (Wmg4n)

A woman trying to get a glimpse of a Rush concert?? Unheard of!

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:32 PM (QMAsf)

87
Shooting at the Moon is all fun and games until someone shoots back.
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account

You might put the man in the moon's eye out.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2026 10:32 PM (Cqx++)

88 @eduardomenoni
4h
THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE: Spanish patriots armed with sticks are now HUNTING African invaders in Ceuta and pushing them back to the border.

The socialist government will NOT do it, so men are taking it into THEIR own hands IN THE ABSENCE of the government

https://tinyurl.com/r9b7bfcx

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:32 PM (Pee1E)

89 I admit to being initially skeptibul about the Rush tour, but what I have seen on the yootoobs, they are killing it, and having a great time. Anika cannot really replace Neil, but she is kicking ass bigly. I believe Neil likes what he sees.

Sucks I won't be able to see them.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 01, 2026 10:32 PM (0aYVJ)

90 I'll take the blowfish.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 10:32 PM (oq9dX)

91 86 And if y’all don’t FaceTime me I will never speak to either one of you again!
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:27 PM (Wmg4n)

A woman trying to get a glimpse of a Rush concert?? Unheard of!
Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:32 PM (QMAsf

It was more to see you two having a fun time. 🤣

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:33 PM (Wmg4n)

92 I'll take the blowfish.
Posted by: wth

The emo one top-left, or the retarded one left-center?

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)

93 51 Fauci's non-testimony has provoked COVID Karens to erupt in defense of their idol. Every single thing he did or said is being furiously defended and any detractors are being called idiots, Neanderthals, murderers, etc.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:21 PM (O0L8i)

I know, it is so ridiculous. My Fauci apologist Facebook friends are incorrigible, their minds cannot be changed. And I am not going to bother to try. I don't get paid for my political viewpoints.

Posted by: Joemarine at August 01, 2026 10:35 PM (y171U)

94 More than one recorded tune made the top 100 hit after the band had broken up. Or they didn’t exist, outside studio musicians. The labels would usually get some people together quickly to tour, re-releasing earlier tunes in a new album package including the hit.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 10:35 PM (dLnkr)

95 BOISE, Idaho — Seven people were transported for medical care after heat-related incidents at the Banana Ball event in Boise on Friday evening, authorities confirmed.

A spokesperson for the Boise Police Department told KTVB it was assisting a "large number" of patients around 8:15 p.m. on July 31 at Albertsons Stadium alongside Ada County Paramedics and the Boise Fire Department.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2026 10:35 PM (3r9cH)

96 Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Leonardo DiCaprio 2019 by Glenn Francis
---

They look like junkies.

https://tinyurl.com/4vynddj8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:35 PM (Pee1E)

97 Top center fish... I can fix him!

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:35 PM (ftFVW)

98 test

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 10:37 PM (ZxPkt)

99 97 Top center fish... I can fix him!
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:35

Center right fish kind of looks like me.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:37 PM (Wmg4n)

100 Dude - let's go to the other Philly show together. I'll hit you up. I'm serious - a concert with you would be awesome.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

Where would I get tickets?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:37 PM (S41Gd)

101 The mystery click song behind the top picture could be put in a white can with a black label saying "1980s pop music."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2026 10:38 PM (3r9cH)

102 Bottom center fish is coming on a little too strong.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:39 PM (ftFVW)

103 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 10:40 PM (JvZF+)

104 Center right fish kind of looks like me.
Posted by: Piper

... riiiiiight.

hahahaha

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:40 PM (ftFVW)

105 To the leftists claiming Ceuta does not belong to Spain because it was taken in 1415

Are you going to tell the Turks to give Constantinople back to the Christians?

Cos they took that in 1453
---

That's kinda like the Okie Dokie Stomp.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:41 PM (Pee1E)

106 Welcome to da club! Free drinks to anyone who can guess what variety of bourbon I'm drinking tonight.
Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

The alcoholic kind?

Posted by: GWB at August 01, 2026 10:42 PM (kU0PQ)

107 Dude - let's go to the other Philly show together. I'll hit you up. I'm serious - a concert with you would be awesome.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

Where would I get tickets?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:37 PM (S41Gd)

Leave that up to me. Aug 23. You in?

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)

108 Do we have people in Spokane? houses on fire

https://tinyurl.com/5yw58j86
Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 10:30 PM (ZxPkt)

Yes we do. Our Bacon Wench and her hubby are from Spokane.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 10:42 PM (1z8ji)

109 Those look like ten-inch 78 RPM discs.

https://youtu.be/Rws_7mLTqj8

Posted by: Oddbob at August 01, 2026 10:43 PM (vTZFs)

110 Note to self. Next time you install a hasp for a padlock, take a roll of masking tape with you to hold the hasp in place while you fiddle with the screwdriver and the screws. That, or grow a third hand.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2026 10:44 PM (3r9cH)

111 Top center fish... I can fix him!
Posted by: She Hobbit
......

Looks like a Democrat.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 10:45 PM (oq9dX)

112 78 Banana Ball is far more enjoyable than the shit that passes for baseball in the MLB these days.
Posted by: Doof

Banana Ball may be the only baseball on next season (other than college). MLB is going on strike/lock out that will probably kill the season. I wonder how that will affect the non affliated minor leagues like Frontier, Atlantic, etc..

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2026 10:45 PM (Wg6v7)

113 you are translating @eduardomenoni, Braenyard?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 10:45 PM (rbvCR)

114 Okay, JQ! Pull the maracas back out from under the bar!
Posted by: Piper

Huh? Am I supposed to *play* them, or smack somebody over the head with them?
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm

Both may be an option.
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:30 PM (Wmg4n)

Teresa isn't going to entertain us with them - both ways?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

115 Club ONT Jukebox

B-sides!

Particle - 7 Minutes Til Radio Darkness, Part 2
https://youtu.be/jQvyBfw6IGQ

Chroma Key - On The Page (from the album "Dead Air For Radios")*
https://youtu.be/krRLZ9Wp1Fc

Flowing Tears - Radio Heroine (lyrics NSFW-ish)
https://youtu.be/3GxqgT_HyC4

Not For Radio - Not The Only One (video NSFW-ish)
https://youtu.be/QefkH28Iwds

* - The answer to "What did Kevin Moore do after he left Dream Theater?" ..... "On The Page" is pretty much "Space-Dye Vest, Part 2."

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

116
Everything you want to know about the Falcon 9 2nd stage impact on da Moon:

https://t.ly/NsM62

That's Bill Gray's Project Pluto site. Can we see it? Probably not. Might we see the ejecta plume? Possibly, but don't get your hopes up. The thing will hit the Moon at only 5400 mph. Energy will be about 3 tons of TNT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

117 109 Those look like ten-inch 78 RPM discs.

--------

Last night I tried to tease her
I gave my love a little pinch
She said now stop that jivin'
Now whip out your big 10 inch

Posted by: S. Tyler at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (u/oMr)

118 CO - 150 years of statehood as of today.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (ukytI)

119 A woman trying to get a glimpse of a Rush concert?? Unheard of!
Posted by: Doof
---
I paid good money to go and it was worth every penny! Best concert ever!

Plus I got to point and laugh at the guys in line for the restroom.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 10:47 PM (PcoR0)

120 Center right fish kind of looks like me.
Posted by: Piper

I'm sure you look nothing like a red-lipped batfish.

Center-left is me in social situations.

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:47 PM (VHUov)

121 What a day. Fell asleep at the start of the Hobby thread, and slept through the whole movie thread. Thank goodness it was only the movie thread.😁

Here for the ONT.

Now what? Guess I'll check the content.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nothing good happens after 9pm cdst at August 01, 2026 10:47 PM (0poB+)

122 Bottom left has nice lips, but looks like a biter.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 10:47 PM (oq9dX)

123
* - The answer to "What did Kevin Moore do after he left Dream Theater?" ..... "On The Page" is pretty much "Space-Dye Vest, Part 2."
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (VHUov)

According to Wiki (take with a grain of salt of course), Mr. Moore is now a clinical psychologist in ND.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 01, 2026 10:48 PM (ukytI)

124 26 Probably already mentioned, but the Lone Ranger got his name because the rest of the Rangers he was with were wiped out. Tonto told him, "You lone ranger."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

There was a time they it looked like things were over for them.
Lone Ranger: “well Tonto, we’re completely surrounded by hostile Indians. It looks like this is the end for us!”
Tonto: “what you mean We, white man?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:48 PM (Ol0VD)

125 78 RPM don’t sound too bad really, if the correct size needle is used. A 33 RPM vinyl LP cartridge has a much smaller needle, and it will ride all the way at the bottom of the groove in the crud and sound super scratchy.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 10:48 PM (dLnkr)

126 More than one recorded tune made the top 100 hit after the band had broken up. Or they didn’t exist, outside studio musicians. [ . . . ]
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 10:35 PM (dLnkr)

Ace of Bass got big on their album and had to go find out how to tour from other banks

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 10:48 PM (rbvCR)

127
That Falcon 9 2nd stage is part of the vehicle that launched the Blue Ghost lander to the Moon a while back.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 10:48 PM (w6EFb)

128 More than one recorded tune made the top 100 hit after the band had broken up. Or they didn’t exist, outside studio musicians. The labels would usually get some people together quickly to tour, re-releasing earlier tunes in a new album package including the hit.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 10:35 PM (dLnkr)
====

All tuba is pretty much the same. I like the way the can is now! There used to be no need to change the package with eeny teeny mermaid on it!

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 01, 2026 10:49 PM (JvZF+)

129 LOL, blobfish is the center square.

You know, in the right environment, he might be considered sexy as hell.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 10:12 PM (kpS4V)

They live on the bottom of the ocean. In that high-pressure environment, the blobfish look like normal fish. They just look horrible in our comparatively low-pressure environment.

There's probably a parable or lesson in there, somewhere.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 01, 2026 10:49 PM (NZPfR)

130 >hold the hasp in place while you fiddle with the screwdriver and
---

1. Magnetic driver bit
2. Sheetrock screws
3. Replace sheetrock screws (your choice)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:49 PM (Pee1E)

131 Plus I got to point and laugh at the guys in line for the restroom.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 10:47 PM (PcoR0)

She didn’t believe me when I said the shortest line to the women’s restroom is at a Rush concert.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 01, 2026 10:49 PM (ukytI)

132 102 Bottom center fish is coming on a little too strong.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:39 PM (ftFVW

She went WAY overboard on the lip filler.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:50 PM (Wmg4n)

133 She didn’t believe me when I said the shortest line to the women’s restroom is at a Rush concert.
Posted by: Cow Demon
---
Actually, there was *no* line for me.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 10:50 PM (PcoR0)

134 Isn't the lone ranger called that because the protagonist was the only guy to survive an attack?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 10:51 PM (sKqQm)

135 It's not really a Mexican band if it doesn't have a tuba in it.
Right?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:51 PM (Pee1E)

136 They live on the bottom of the ocean. In that high-pressure environment, the blobfish look like normal fish. They just look horrible in our comparatively low-pressure environment.

There's probably a parable or lesson in there, somewhere.
Posted by: Nerd Herd

He just looks kinda sad in that pic. Probably spent too much time gaming in his mom's basement.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:52 PM (ftFVW)

137 105 To the leftists claiming Ceuta does not belong to Spain because it was taken in 1415

Are you going to tell the Turks to give Constantinople back to the Christians?

Cos they took that in 1453
---

That's kinda like the Okie Dokie Stomp.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:41 PM (

The Left will assure you Spain belongs to the Moors still and the Spanish had no right to initiate the Reconquista.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 01, 2026 10:52 PM (ukytI)

138 I canned peaches today. I forget every few years that I hate canning peaches. They always come outlooking like a skinned them with a weed-whacker and stuffed them in the jars with a rammer.
I also made peach jam that is actually peach syrup because once again I didn't bother to follow the recipe.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 10:52 PM (rbvCR)

139 I saw Rush at the Hippodrome. I don’t remember hardly anything, except a vague visual this amazing drum kit that took up a huge chunk of the stage. Hey, it was the 70s, I’ve got an excuse.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 10:53 PM (dLnkr)

140 Hey bluebell, ready to come diving with me?

I'll take care of you. Promise.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 10:53 PM (viF8m)

141 78 RPM don’t sound too bad really, if the correct size needle is used. A 33 RPM vinyl LP cartridge has a much smaller needle, and it will ride all the way at the bottom of the groove in the crud and sound super scratchy.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 10:48 PM (dLnkr)

78 RPM records were hi-fi, before vinyl LPs came along. And audiophiles spent big $$$ on turntables, amps, and speakers trying to squeeze every last bit of sound out of those records.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 10:53 PM (1z8ji)

142 It's not really a Mexican band if it doesn't have a tuba in it.
Right?

Posted by: Braenyard

Or an accordion, the instrument of the corazon.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2026 10:53 PM (ftFVW)

143 Bottom center just got surprised. From behind.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 10:53 PM (oq9dX)

144 The images from Ceuta have once again demonstrated the urgency of a European response to illegal immigration.

This is why Italy, together with Denmark, has promoted a letter signed by 22 European Union member states, calling for joint action to strengthen external borders, combat irregular immigration, combat human traffickers, make repatriations more effective, and eliminate any factor that could encourage new illegal entries. etc, etc.
_Giorgia Meloni

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:53 PM (Pee1E)

145 Leave that up to me. Aug 23. You in?

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)

Can we get one for mrs B? How would that work? Do I come to you and we go together?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:54 PM (S41Gd)

146 Red Rockers - China? I gave it a try, but turned it off pretty quickly. Standard fare, predictable, almost trite. Was that AI? Naw, AI would have been better.

Don't mind me. I just got up and I'm still grumpy. Problem with a late nap is, I can't get up and drink coffee.

Posted by: mindful webworker - slap me I'm grumpy at August 01, 2026 10:54 PM (0poB+)

147 I went to an MA beach town today and walked down the beach. They wanted $$$ to park, $$$ to walk on the beach but I remembered there was a more obscure public beach in the town so I walked there instead.

I passed a bunch of mansion that cost x10 my house with exclusive beach access, of course with the requisite demanding the rich be taxed, America be opened to the needy, and no aristocrats. And most of the mansions had really serious fences around them.

When I got to the beach it was beautiful.

It is a damn shame New England is full of New Englanders

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 10:55 PM (sKqQm)

148 I'll take care of you. Promise.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 10:53 PM (viF8m)
=====

Vaguely threatening but OK

We know she's got the draw on you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 10:55 PM (JvZF+)

149 Tiger Leaping Gorge of Yunnan Province, China - Well, that was impressive!😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - gorgeous at August 01, 2026 10:55 PM (0poB+)

150 Ate some great northerns today canned in 2020 during the lockdown period. Made a kind of Chili Mac. Tasted perfect, but I figured they weren’t going to improve like a fine wine.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 10:56 PM (dLnkr)

151
The images from Ceuta have once again demonstrated the urgency of a European response to illegal immigration.

____________

Heaven has a gate.

Hell has open borders.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:56 PM (O0L8i)

152 141 78 RPM don’t sound too bad really, if the correct size needle is used. A 33 RPM vinyl LP cartridge has a much smaller needle, and it will ride all the way at the bottom of the groove in the crud and sound super scratchy.
Posted by: Common Tater
--

Wash them with Dove in warm water.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:56 PM (Pee1E)

153 1. Magnetic driver bit
2. Sheetrock screws
3. Replace sheetrock screws (your choice)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 10:49 PM (Pee1E)

Torx head wood screws. They work better than Robertson.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 10:56 PM (1z8ji)

154 I am going to bed. Sleep well, everyone!

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:57 PM (Wmg4n)

155 Leave that up to me. Aug 23. You in?

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:42 PM (QMAsf)

Can we get one for mrs B? How would that work? Do I come to you and we go together?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:54 PM (S41Gd)
==-=

Excuse me! Doof. Do you have a ticket for every student in the class?

Posted by: Doof's 5th Grade Teacher disappointed at August 01, 2026 10:57 PM (JvZF+)

156
I also made peach jam that is actually peach syrup because once again I didn't bother to follow the recipe.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 10:52 PM (rbvCR)

___________

*looks at bowl of ice cream*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:57 PM (O0L8i)

157
Hey everyone. Piper's left. Now we can talk about her!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:58 PM (O0L8i)

158 "Spanish patriots armed with sticks"

Renegade or Blue Collar Man?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 01, 2026 10:59 PM (DZ9Lv)

159 To the leftists claiming Ceuta does not belong to Spain because it was taken in 1415

Are you going to tell the Turks to give Constantinople back to the Christians?

I saw a leftist response to this, Ceuta and Constantinople is different between Morocco and Spain are countries, and the Ottoman Empire and Christians are not. Seriously, this is the argument

Of course the funny part is in the early 1400s there were no Spain and Morocco either - there were different political entities.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 10:59 PM (sKqQm)

160 >>Vaguely threatening but OK

>>We know she's got the draw on you.

pfft. I can't even get her to come snorkeling with me.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 10:59 PM (viF8m)

161 I also made peach jam that is actually peach syrup because once again I didn't bother to follow the recipe.
Posted by: Kindltot

Sounds like a win to me.

Peach pancake syrup.

Peach ice-cream topping. (hat tip Hadrian.)

Peach-bourbon Old Fashioneds.

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 11:00 PM (VHUov)

162 Can we get one for mrs B? How would that work? Do I come to you and we go together?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 10:54 PM (S41Gd)

We can meet there. It's probably Midway between us. Lemme work on tix and I'll be in touch.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 11:00 PM (QMAsf)

163 Beach Boys Fan Video

That's Why God Made The Radio
https://youtu.be/yg8QqwWb3RI

Lotsa great pics and moments.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 01, 2026 11:00 PM (wVcYX)

164 Hey everyone. Piper's left. Now we can talk about her!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Can you say that louder one time into my lapel?

Posted by: Piper's Snitches at August 01, 2026 11:00 PM (ftFVW)

165 I am going to bed. Sleep well, everyone!
Posted by: Piper
......

*puts pinch of food in Pipers tank*

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 11:00 PM (oq9dX)

166 No, have to use the right size needle. Apples and aircraft carriers.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 11:01 PM (dLnkr)

167 Club ONT Jukebox - Maybe somebody's already mentioned this, but the kid in the photo seems to be playing 45rpm-sized records with small-size spindle holes. AI for forgotten or foreign technology?

Posted by: mindful webworker - aliens! at August 01, 2026 11:01 PM (0poB+)

168 "Peach Jam" should be an Allman Brothers live album.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 11:01 PM (1z8ji)

169 Posted by: S. Tyler at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (u/oMr)

Saw a very unfortunate OJ ad headline on Jigsaw planet today:
Joan Crawford, saying "I also enjoy ten inches every morning"

I may have to do the puzzle tomorrow to see the whole ad.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 11:01 PM (f+FmA)

170 We can meet there. It's probably Midway between us. Lemme work on tix and I'll be in touch.

Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 11:00 PM (QMAsf)

Mrs B don't need to go. She has a retirement party to go to. I said well thats a shame, give them my best. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 11:02 PM (S41Gd)

171 >>It is a damn shame New England is full of New Englanders

You can park at my place. No charge. Beach is free.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 11:02 PM (viF8m)

172
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2026 11:03 PM (mmrXZ)

173 Giorgia Meloni, leading Italy to dominate EU and Europe... except maybe Poland.

https://tinyurl.com/y5apbbsc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:04 PM (Pee1E)

174 You can park at my place. No charge. Beach is free.

What part of MA do you live in exactly? I was out at Manchester by the Sea

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 11:04 PM (sKqQm)

175 Club ONT Jukebox - Maybe somebody's already mentioned this, but the kid in the photo seems to be playing 45rpm-sized records with small-size spindle holes. AI for forgotten or foreign technology?
Posted by: mindful webworker

Mentioned upthread, yes. They're 78 RPM records.

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 11:05 PM (VHUov)

176 Shooting rockets at the moon? I've got a bad feeling about this. Did they not watch Moonfall?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 01, 2026 11:05 PM (wVcYX)

177 I can't believe I thought the same thing. I am mortified.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 01, 2026 10:11 PM (hzuYO)

Check out “The Mortification of Sin” by John Owen. Fair warning: he gets a real sinners in the hands of an angry God vibe going.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 11:06 PM (aOqrc)

178 The EU wants a war with Russia so they can default on their debt due to "the emergency" and now they have dropped in their laps an invasion of a NATO country by Morocco. .
I bet the EU can beat Morocco if they work at it.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 11:06 PM (rbvCR)

179
167 Club ONT Jukebox - Maybe somebody's already mentioned this, but the kid in the photo seems to be playing 45rpm-sized records with small-size spindle holes. AI for forgotten or foreign technology?
Posted by: mindful webworker - aliens! at August 01, 2026 11:01 PM (0poB)

Good eye! I had forgotten about the bigger spindle hole. On the other hand, those records might be 78’s, a lot of the really early stuff was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 11:06 PM (Ol0VD)

180 168 "Peach Jam" should be an Allman Brothers live album.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They have one called 'Eat A Peach' and it has some live tunes on them. (Mountain Jam, Trouble No More, and One Way Out)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2026 11:07 PM (Wg6v7)

181 I see in #30 Alberta Oil Peon answered about the small discs with small spindle holes.

Or was it really AOP, or was it AI verifying misinformation?

Posted by: mindful webworker - No way to tell these days at August 01, 2026 11:07 PM (0poB+)

182 Hey everyone. Piper's left. Now we can talk about her!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:58 PM (O0L8i)

Will her cats run races around her head tonight? Just to show they can?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 11:08 PM (qx7Zg)

183 Is the French Foreign Legion still a thing? In their prime I’m sure this little invasion would be no big deal for them. What’s their status nowadays?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 11:09 PM (aOqrc)

184 We used to call those portable one-piece sets a "Victrola"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 11:09 PM (JvZF+)

185 >>What part of MA do you live in exactly? I was out at Manchester by the Sea

No part anymore. Did live on the south shore.

I live in Rhode Island. With Cthulhu. And he's hungry.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 11:09 PM (viF8m)

186 There was also 16 RPM, for spoken language records, high fidelity not required. Maybe audio books. Blind folks used to be able to order all kinds of swag from the gubbmint, library of congress.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 11:10 PM (dLnkr)

187 There is a Spanish Foreign Legion you know.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 11:10 PM (rbvCR)

188 Heaven has a gate.

It's true, and the way through is castration, a track suit, and suicide!

Posted by: Marshall Applewhite at August 01, 2026 11:10 PM (TbWk/)

189 I live in Rhode Island. With Cthulhu. And he's hungry.

It is interesting to see the sights of Lovecraft land in New England...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 11:11 PM (sKqQm)

190 So a camera mount was custom built at @RITtigers to rotate once every 90 minutes using a 60 to 90 toothed gear system, cancelling out the orbital motion of ISS and allowing the capture of distant stars as fixed points!

In essence, it is a a rotational coil spring powered analog star tracker. It was machined out of aluminum and is entirely mechanical to bypass NASA's strict electrical requirements for cargo. We had to get creative

Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola with Nikon Z9, Arri Zeiss 15mm lens, T1.8 with custom sidereal drive that cancelled out star motion relative to our orbit.

The device: https://tinyurl.com/mrya4zep

The image [Milky Way]: https://tinyurl.com/yc8m5xx2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:13 PM (Pee1E)

191 Bugles - Video killed the Radio Star
https://youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs

Queen - Radio Ga-Ga
https://youtu.be/azdwsXLmrHE

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)

192 H&K MK23 with a suppressor saves lives:

https://tinyurl.com/5bf2m5de

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2026 11:16 PM (P3X50)

193 >>It is interesting to see the sights of Lovecraft land in New England...

It might have ended, I don't really pay attention. But there used to be annual gathering of Lovecraft fans that would come to Providence every fall and do tours, readings and other Lovecratian things.

Still a bookstore in Providence centered around him. He was crazier than a shit house rat but his stories still have a lot of followers.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

194 Been checking the maps re: Spokane fires. Yikes! My old neighborhood has "level 3" on 3 sides, but no evac level for itself.

krem.com has info.

I don't know Jordan61's home location...

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 11:17 PM (rdVOm)

195 I've got sixteen speakers crossin' my back dash
A little bobbin' dog watchin' everybody pass
Dual antennas whippin' in the wind
Lord, there ain't no country station that I can't tune in
She ain't a Cadillac and she ain't a Rolls
But there ain't nothin' wrong with the radio

Posted by: Aaron Tippin at August 01, 2026 11:19 PM (wVcYX)

196
Also see Don Pettit's video there of popping water balloons in zero-g. He's like a kid having fun, and he gets to call it science.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 11:21 PM (w6EFb)

197 7 Welcome to da club! Free drinks to anyone who can guess what variety of bourbon I'm drinking tonight.
Posted by: Doof at August 01, 2026 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

What do people usually mention. Buffalo Trace?

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 11:21 PM (Sy6m/)

198 What do people usually mention. Buffalo Trace?
Posted by: SciVo

Or Woodford Reserve. Or, or or... there are so many!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 11:24 PM (rdVOm)

199 Good eye.

The Heckler & Koch MK 23, Mk 23 MOD 0, Mark 23, or USSOCOM MARK 23 is a semi-automatic large-frame pistol chambered in .45 ACP, designed specifically to be an offensive pistol.

The USSOCOM version of the MK23 came paired with a laser aiming module (LAM) and suppressor. The USSOCOM MK23 was adopted by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) for special operations units,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:25 PM (Pee1E)

200

History of kiddie records

https://t.ly/nxvtQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2026 11:25 PM (Cqx++)

201 Those records in the BW photo: they are the right size to be 45s but don’t have the larger hole. What format are they?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
78 rpm. Lot of kids two minute songs remained on 78s.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 01, 2026 11:27 PM (sl73Y)

202 Witches

Migrants claim on their boats on the way to Europe that others onboard are accused of being "witches" who practice "black magic."

These "witches" are killed.

They are tied up and thrown overboard.

Low-IQ murderers are coming en masse into Europe.

https://tinyurl.com/32jp7hs9

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:30 PM (Pee1E)

203 Revelation...the Lone Ranger was left-handed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2026 11:30 PM (XeU6L)

204 They are tied up and thrown overboard.

Low-IQ murderers are coming en masse into Europe.

https://tinyurl.com/32jp7hs9

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:30 PM (Pee1E)
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Well if they weren't witches they would float, so...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 11:31 PM (JvZF+)

205 The Heckler & Koch MK 23, Mk 23 MOD 0, Mark 23, or USSOCOM MARK 23 is a semi-automatic large-frame pistol chambered in .45 ACP, designed specifically to be an offensive pistol.

The USSOCOM version of the MK23 came paired with a laser aiming module (LAM) and suppressor. The USSOCOM MK23 was adopted by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) for special operations units,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:25 PM (Pee1E)

Looks pretty awesome. Who was using this? Where?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 11:36 PM (S41Gd)

206 I had mentioned that I finished my Film Vault/Plex replacement and that one of the features was stat where you could see how many films by genre or decade, and that I only had 4 films from the 30s.

Well I have begun to correct that.

The other really nice feature is the search capability in that you can search for by films, cast, director, etc. and you can easily see where your gaps are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 11:41 PM (XV/Pl)

207 Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 10:59 PM (sKqQm)

It turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 11:42 PM (vE0+H)

208 Looks pretty awesome. Who was using this? Where?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Idaho?
192 H&K MK23 with a suppressor saves lives:

https://tinyurl.com/5bf2m5de

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:50 PM (Pee1E)

209 Me: I think it's time I get my life in order.

Morgan Freeman: But he would not get his life in order. In fact, he got drunk that night and fought a raccoon.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 11:52 PM (qx7Zg)

210
That post about Don Pettit's star tracker got me off in the weeds of ISS attitude control. And I'm impressed at how clever the NASA engineers are with all that. The standard attitude of the ISS is dubbed LVLH, local vertical, local horizontal. This keeps the "bottom"(nadir) pointed at the earth at all times, while "up" is radial. They call that the z-axis. The x-axis, fore an aft points in the direction of orbital motion, and the y-axis is the other one, port and starboard.

So, the ISS is rotating once per orbit, sort of an artificial tidal lock, you can think of it. But there are real tidal forces, very small, and real drag on the station trying to torque. They deviate it every so slightly from that exact LVLH attitude so that drag torque just cancels the tide torque, saving fuel and reaction wheel momentum.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 11:54 PM (w6EFb)

211
Old Trails Fire sparks Level 3 (Go Now!) Evacuations in northwest Spokane...
Reading further on down, the weather; ... Right Now, Clear 73
--

Getting a hint why things are screwed up in WA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:57 PM (Pee1E)

212 Old Trails Fire sparks Level 3 (Go Now!) Evacuations in northwest Spokane...
Reading further on down, the weather; ... Right Now, Clear 73
--

Getting a hint why things are screwed up in WA.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:57 PM (Pee1E)

IIRC, Jordan61 and her hubs live out of the city, to the southwest someplace. Nurse R keeps in touch with them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)

213 Getting a hint why things are screwed up in WA.
Posted by: Braenyard

It's been hot & dry for weeks. Gusty winds kicked up today, out of the North, so cooled the region nicely but also fanned the flames.

"Red Flag Warning" -- hot, low humidity, windy. Bad juju.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 12:00 AM (rdVOm)

214 And Manchester by the Sea is maybe the most exclusive shore town in Massachusetts. Sure as hell not Revere Beach.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 02, 2026 12:00 AM (sl73Y)

215 Mexican Radio.... flashback...

Wolfman Jack broadcasting out of Mexico... we could sometimes pick him up while cruisin the Main... in Central Calif.

Yes.... the whole American Graffiti thing, which was about Modesto Calif... while fictitious, was based on a very real time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2026 12:01 AM (mP0Kj)

216 One would thing the weather report would mention something about haze. Just, 73 and clear. Oh, OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:03 AM (Pee1E)

217 216 One would thing the weather report would mention something about haze. Just, 73 and clear. Oh, OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:03 AM (Pee1E)

Yeah... we often get a Marine Layer over the Central Valey in late Dec, through March sometimes.

Can last months... which KILLS my solar panels... but...

Aint globull warmering... just weather.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2026 12:05 AM (mP0Kj)

218 Yes.... the whole American Graffiti thing, which was about Modesto Calif... while fictitious, was based on a very real time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2026 12:01 AM (mP0Kj)

Bad ass movie with a fuck ton of bad ass cars. That movie made me a gear head before I could see over a steering wheel.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2026 12:07 AM (S41Gd)

219 >> One would thing the weather report would mention something about haze.

A condition of "clear" just means no clouds (or less than some threshold).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 12:07 AM (w6EFb)

220 Yeah Braenyard, you'd think! Especially with all the fires around the region and shifting wind pushing the smoke every which way throughout the day & night.

Weather page for here the other night said "crystal clear sky" while I looked out at the RED moon. Yup. Not a single cloud, but plenty of upper-level smoke.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 12:08 AM (rdVOm)

221 It's smoky here right now. I want to open the windows & cool off the house, but already have a sinus headache and don't want to aggravate it with sh1tty air quality. Bah.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 12:10 AM (rdVOm)

222 Try this forecast, Braenyard:

tinyurl.com/2uba977k

At least it mentions the haze! LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 12:13 AM (rdVOm)

223 tinyurl.com/2uba977k

At least it mentions the haze! LOL

Posted by: JQ
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and the red flag alert.
Interesting they have the temp at 88 while the other was 73.
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I get that here. There is a weather.gov airport about 15 mi. (not that far) from here and wunderground individuals within 3 mi.
Extremely different real time measurements.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:21 AM (Pee1E)

224
Okay, I got to looking up and reviewing the METAR sky condition and visibility crap. It's a complicated mess that doesn't mean what you might think it means, at least all the times.

The sky condition sensors they use usually only detect clouds up to maybe 12K'. Visibility is given in miles, and represents the distance you could see an object (under whatever standard definitions of seeing they use). 10 miles is the upper limit for aviation. If you can see 10 miles, that's as good as 20 miles, etc.

So, it's possible the upper atmosphere could be a mess, with poor seeing astronomically, and it would show up as CLR with 10 mile visibility.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 12:21 AM (w6EFb)

225 92 I'll take the blowfish.
Posted by: wth

The emo one top-left, or the retarded one left-center?
Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)

I have seen a photo of a late "aspiring rapper" (on The Other McCain) who looked a lot like the top left. Goofy little guy, had his dreads in the spiky mode like jester cap tassels (or a clownfish).

Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 12:21 AM (Sy6m/)

226 Weather page for here the other night said "crystal clear sky" while I looked out at the RED moon. Yup. Not a single cloud, but plenty of upper-level smoke.
Posted by: JQ

Rubies are crystals.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 02, 2026 12:22 AM (VHUov)

227 Our children’s record player was used mainly for 45s, although I think it could play LPs, too. We weren’t given any 33 1/3 rpm records to play however. We did have some records with Gilbert and Sullivan songs: I particularly remember “We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship’s a beauty…”. I think that’s from Pirates of Penzance.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 02, 2026 12:22 AM (aOqrc)

228 The Heckler & Koch MK 23, Mk 23 MOD 0, Mark 23, or USSOCOM MARK 23 is a semi-automatic large-frame pistol chambered in .45 ACP, designed specifically to be an offensive pistol.

The USSOCOM version of the MK23 came paired with a laser aiming module (LAM) and suppressor. The USSOCOM MK23 was adopted by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) for special operations units,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 11:25 PM (Pee1E)

Looks pretty awesome. Who was using this? Where?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 11:36 PM (S41Gd)

Solid Snake on Shadow Moses island.

Posted by: Snake are you alright? Snake? SNAAAAAAKE! at August 02, 2026 12:23 AM (TbWk/)

229 @WallStreetMavh

When we say some cultures are incompatible with Western civilization, this is what we mean.

Ian Miles Cheong@ianmiles

Greek Coast Guard asked the invaders about their babies.

"We don't care about the babies; we have many, we will make another. Now we want to save ourselves."

https://tinyurl.com/49u7azxp

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:23 AM (Pee1E)

230 News you can't live without.

New York State Democrats have introduced legislation that “Requires food retail establishments provide a ten percent discount when a customer uses a self-service checkout kiosk.” —Powerline
https://bit.ly/4wBCQTS

The trend is simple. It's this statement "That moment as a kid when you realize that you’re definitely straight." And along with that is a video or photo of some very attractive woman, often but not always someone who was on television or in films in the 1970s thru the 1990s. —Hot Air
Failed to include Annette or Sky King's daughter Penny (showing my age)
https://bit.ly/4wEbc8K

Celebrating 90 Years on the Hot Dog Highways, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
h/t MJA, IOTWReport
https://bit.ly/4fOSh3V

Hope I didn't screw up those URLs.
FAUCI and the 5TH: Name a More Iconic Couple! (10:4

—The Rageaholic
https://youtu.be/56sIaf5prOw

Posted by: mindful webworker - all the fits that's news at August 02, 2026 12:24 AM (0poB+)

231 More News to curl your hair. I would put these on the Tech News thread, but I rarely get there, what with sleeping and all.

10 Times AI Said Things That Scientists Still Can't Explain Parts 1 & 2. Generic graphics, usually, kind-of distract from the narration. Nothing to fear here. No, nothing to be concerned about at all. at all. at. all.

https://youtu.be/mH4NmqSl2FE
https://youtu.be/5h8KuAwoOcQ

Posted by: mindful webworker - AI is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful... at August 02, 2026 12:33 AM (0poB+)

232 Penny was Sky King's niece.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 02, 2026 12:36 AM (Cqx++)

233
The GOES satellites have all sorts of different bands and composites to see all sorts of shit. Go here:

https://t.ly/0qudO

Click on your region and have fun figuring it all out. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 02, 2026 12:39 AM (w6EFb)

234 93 days till election day and Trump is desperate! BTW those here who don't like my handle exodus 21: 22-23 take it up with the bible.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at August 02, 2026 12:40 AM (hIHPw)

235 Is this an upcoming hit from The Beastie Boys?

You Gotta Fight ... ta Get 'Nuff ... S-sleep

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 02, 2026 12:41 AM (qx7Zg)

236 Celebrating 90 Years on the Hot Dog Highways, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile
h/t MJA, IOTWReport
https://bit.ly/4fOSh3V

Posted by: mindful webworker - all the fits that's news at August 02, 2026 12:24 AM (0poB+)

Every kid needs a wiener whistle!!

https://tinyurl.com/5n6mznfu

I told DH his wiener doesn't whistle, and he should look into fixing that glaring error.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 12:41 AM (FyeA3)

237 Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at August 02, 2026 12:40 AM (hIHPw)

Doesn't matter how much you read the Bible when you do it while sitting in mom's basement pulling on your little tiny dick.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 12:43 AM (FyeA3)

238 Muslim Oxford Union President Tells Islam Critics That Without Security, They’d Be ‘Cooked’ by Mob
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Come out of your sheltered enclave and play mooselimb.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:44 AM (Pee1E)

239 "Muslim Oxford Union President Tells Islam Critics That Without Security, They’d Be ‘Cooked’ by Mob"
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Wow. Talk about *projection*!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

240 238 Muslim Oxford Union President Tells Islam Critics That Without Security, They’d Be ‘Cooked’ by Mob
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Come out of your sheltered enclave and play mooselimb.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 12:44 AM (Pee1E)

Probably true in England. Probably NOT where I live. Hell, we shoot tweakers out here. Muslims would be easy.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 12:50 AM (FyeA3)

241 238 Muslim Oxford Union President Tells Islam Critics That Without Security, They’d Be ‘Cooked’ by Mob
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Come out of your sheltered enclave and play mooselimb.

Posted by: Braenyard

What's interesting about that muslim gal who said that, she was wearing an outfit that would get her stoned in the muslim world. She probably wasn't aware. Muslims are mostly inbred so she's a retard.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 02, 2026 12:57 AM (Wg6v7)

242 “We sail the ocean blue, and our saucy ship’s a beauty…”. I think that’s from Pirates of Penzance.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

H.M.S. Pinafore ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critically Critical Critic . . . at August 02, 2026 01:07 AM (3ZUWJ)

243 Well, past 2300 here, and I have had a busy day. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 02, 2026 01:10 AM (1z8ji)

244 Penny was Sky King's niece.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Guess you're right. I was never clear on that. Didn't get to watch a lot of Sky King, and it's been… a while since I saw it.

Two takes. Recorded 1962. Released 1995.
https://youtu.be/nFd1z2QHvCc

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - out of the clear blue of the western sky... at August 02, 2026 01:14 AM (0poB+)

245 Black on black argument over Charlie Kirk statement, one, using a manipulated video as fact Brings to light that Black families were better off before what Martin Luther King was advocating.

It validates that before Martin Luther King came on the stage blacks were much better off, although repressed, than after.

xcancel: https://tinyurl.com/mrynnusd

mp4: https://tinyurl.com/2n7vsu9b

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:14 AM (Pee1E)

246
Posted by: mindful webworker - all the fits that's news at August 02, 2026 12:24 AM (0poB+)

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Powerline couldn't figure out why shoppers who use the self-check should get a 10% discount, but it's simple: they're not using the store's full services. Back when you had the option of getting full service or self-service at gas stations, there was a discount for self-service.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:15 AM (mmrXZ)

247 Two takes. Recorded 1962. Released 1995.
https://youtu.be/nFd1z2QHvCc
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Beatles were smart keeping it under wraps.
Is dumb. & awkward

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:19 AM (Pee1E)

248 Doesn't matter how much you read the Bible when you do it while sitting in mom's basement pulling on your little tiny dick.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 12:43 AM (FyeA3)

With tweezers.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2026 01:19 AM (S41Gd)

249
Muslim Oxford Union President Tells Islam Critics That Without Security, They’d Be ‘Cooked’ by Mob
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Come out of your sheltered enclave and play mooselimb.

Posted by: Braenyard

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She's so triumphalist about it -- and then she gets a round of applause.

She also refers to a "mostly South Asian Committee" -- I'm not sure which committee it is, but it's something with authority. The design is so clear.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:20 AM (mmrXZ)

250
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:20 AM (mmrXZ)

========

Here we are, an X commenter zeroed in on it:

“A Muslim Palestinian president and a mostly south Asian executive”

The plan is utterly transparent.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:22 AM (mmrXZ)

251 >>Doesn't matter how much you read the Bible when you do it while sitting in mom's basement pulling on your little tiny dick.

Or how much you think you understand the ocean because you went to the beach once on vacation.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2026 01:28 AM (viF8m)

252 Powerline's a couple or three lawyers **looks around** obtuse, you know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:29 AM (Pee1E)

253 Okay, JQ! Pull the maracas back out from under the bar!
Posted by: Piper

Huh? Am I supposed to *play* them, or smack somebody over the head with them?
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm

Both may be an option.
Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:30 PM (Wmg4n)

Teresa isn't going to entertain us with them - both ways?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

Sorry - stepped away for a while. Ya need someone to play the maracas, I'm your Huckleberry! Just imagine Jack Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot", but shorter and rounder 😂😂😂

🎵🎶Ya-ta-da-ta, *rest*, da-da-da-da-ta, ya-ta-da-ta, *rest*, da-da-da-da-ta....🎶🎵

Everybody! 🎵🎶

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 01:31 AM (YqVwq)

254 Maraca song-- sort of-- it's what I was thinkin' LOL

youtu.be/IeHDnF7MU90

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 01:33 AM (rdVOm)

255 Powerline couldn't figure out why shoppers who use the self-check should get a 10% discount, but it's simple: they're not using the store's full services. Back when you had the option of getting full service or self-service at gas stations, there was a discount for self-service.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

What do you call an "employee" to whom you give neither salary nor benefits? That's what a self-checkout kiosk makes you.

And if it's not very-temporary slavery, then it's a minimum-wage-law violation. And proof of Sowell's "the real minimum wage is always zero" quote.

Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 01:36 AM (VHUov)

256 I have not yet encountered a grocery store (or any store) with "self-check" lines that doesn't have at least one employee working that area - without which they wouldn't function for long, given the endless small glitches errors and difficulties involved in most check-outs.

So there's that employee, and the cost of the machines themselves - and, probably a higher loss rate then normal given the greater suitability of those areas, even when manned, for theft.

So now the store is supposed to go 8% below its cost (for a typical basket with representative items from the whole inventory, on which the overall margin is 2% or less) for things sold through self-check lines.

What's a store manager going to do? Guessing it will be something other than keeping everything as is and taking a hit on self-check items.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 01:39 AM (U/Byj)

257 How about a discount for cash, too?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:41 AM (Pee1E)

258 How about a discount for cash, too?
Posted by: Braenyard

Some gas stations used to do that. Now, they give the discount for "easy pay"-- not cash or credit card, but one of those *give us all your personal info, so we can sell it* apps.

FK THAT!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 01:44 AM (rdVOm)

259
Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2026 01:39 AM (U/Byj)

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Oh, that's all a given; I'm simply quoting the theory of the 10% discounters. Powerline boys might want to get their ears to the ground since that notion is being bandied around quite vocally right now. Per mikeski, in fact!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:45 AM (mmrXZ)

260 Good morning, All. Happy August.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 01:45 AM (77rzZ)

261
How about a discount for cash, too?

Posted by: Braenyard

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Probably more like a surcharge for cash these days.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 01:46 AM (mmrXZ)

262 How big are her maracas?

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 01:47 AM (77rzZ)

263 Sorry I'm late, to quote our demon friend. We were pulling the kamper out of storage and prepping it for travel.

Estimated departure time: O'dark- thirty Monday morning.

OpSec precludes divulging Monday's destination.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 02, 2026 01:47 AM (QGaXH)

264 257 How about a discount for cash, too?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:41 AM (Pee1E)

I get one at the little store around the corner but only because he CHARGES for using a credit card. $.35 per item.

Posted by: Reforger at August 02, 2026 01:47 AM (SCfAO)

265 Oh, joy! ***Snoopy happy dance***

I found that bag of keys (that I hid from hubby) that's been missing since a year & a half ago! Yay!

WOOT!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 01:49 AM (rdVOm)

266 They have to give credit cards a cut for each use.
Taking cash is a savings, they should pass some of that on.

Gas stations around here, the independents, give discounts for cash. Three to five cents a gallon. The major stations give discounts if you use Their credit card.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:50 AM (Pee1E)

267 263. ARiC, you’re finally off to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, right?

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 01:51 AM (77rzZ)

268 How big are her maracas?
Posted by: Bulg

I'd tell you, but... do you even know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

269 268 Oh, I’ve known about the cup sizes since my teens.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 01:54 AM (77rzZ)

270 Dufas of Spain, Sánchez sends a letter to Brussels to complain about the attitude of some countries towards the Ceuta crisis and requests a meeting of the EU Interior Ministers social.
_elpais.com/iv4i

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:56 AM (Pee1E)

271 Mr. TiFW and I are at the DFW airport hotel this evening - we have a flight out tomorrow to the West Coast to visit DD#1 and her family for 10 days. Granny T has loaded up her suitcase with presents for the grandsons 😊💕

We figured out a while back that we can use the "Drive, Park, Fly" rate at the onsite hotel and save substantially on parking costs. Plus, we aren't rushed trying to get to the airport the day of our trip - we have a nice meal the night before, breakfast in the morning, catch the shuttle to the correct terminal, and we are actually kind of relaxed by the time we get on the plane! 🛩🛩🛩

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 01:56 AM (YqVwq)

272 I want to see Sanchez and Meloni across the table.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 01:57 AM (Pee1E)

273 TiFW, that's awesome!

Safe travels.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 01:58 AM (rdVOm)

274 How big are her maracas?
Posted by: Bulg

I'd tell you, but... do you even know about the cup sizes?
Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

Today I learned that I apparently know nothing about maracas.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at August 02, 2026 01:58 AM (NZPfR)

275 272 Phrasing?

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 01:59 AM (77rzZ)

276 >>and we are actually kind of relaxed by the time we get on the plane! 🛩🛩🛩

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth,
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Sounds ideal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:01 AM (Pee1E)

277 Oh, and the best part is that we actually park in the hotel's lot, so we don't have to drive around looking for an open handicapped spot - there are several spots right by the front door, so we just park and I drive my scooter right on in!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 02:02 AM (YqVwq)

278 across the table from each other

She's been known to eat other's lunch.
She's not one who needs a teleprompter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:04 AM (Pee1E)

279 Quality maracas come in all sizes, it just depends on the song one is playing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:07 AM (Pee1E)

280 I have had a maraca "head" come flying off of its handle on more than one occasion.

Why, yes - I can get overly excited when shaking my maracas....😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 02:10 AM (YqVwq)

281 Haven't read the ONT yet. I've just finished with the Hobby Thread and have so many ideas! Now for the ONT content, which I'm sure will be equally engaging.

Posted by: ChE99 at August 02, 2026 02:11 AM (7QfDF)

282 LOL. Frank Zappa mentioned maracas in at least one of his songs... but we don't need to hear that right now.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:12 AM (rdVOm)

283 280 TiFW, that’s hot.

Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 02:13 AM (77rzZ)

284 Apparently, "Mature Singles Want to Chat With [Me]"

Posted by: mnw at August 02, 2026 02:16 AM (RCjYY)

285 Maracas

youtu.be/waxFYn5LNOU

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:16 AM (rdVOm)

286 283 280 TiFW, that’s hot.
Posted by: Bulg at August 02, 2026 02:13 AM (77rzZ)

I'm gonna be disappointed if my comment isn't picked for a Comment of the Week this time....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 02, 2026 02:16 AM (YqVwq)

287 >>I found that bag of keys (that I hid from hubby) that's been missing since a year & a half ago! Yay!
>>Posted by: JQ

Lurking puts some distance between us, but I still feel involved with folks' lives. Glad to read good resolution to the missing keys you mentioned a while ago. Smiley face.

Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at August 02, 2026 02:20 AM (uMNwP)

288 What do you call an "employee" to whom you give neither salary nor benefits? That's what a self-checkout kiosk makes you.

And if it's not very-temporary slavery, then it's a minimum-wage-law violation. And proof of Sowell's "the real minimum wage is always zero" quote.
Posted by: mikeski at August 02, 2026 01:36 AM (VHUov)

The simple solution: don’t use it.

I like the self service checkout. I don’t want to take to the cashier and make fake small talk, especially if I just need bread, milk and eggs. No, I don’t want to buy pineapple upside down cake, which the cashier is selling to win some prize or bonus or something or other. No, I don’t want ice or stamps. I’m in a foul mood because some stupid blue hair is paying for her groceries with a check.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 02, 2026 02:24 AM (ukytI)

289 Thanks, Late-Night Lurker. It's nice to know there's *someone* out there, rooting for me! LOL.

Sucks that I had to hide the keys, and then sucked that I had to pick-open (and replace some) so many locks since then.

It was scary, and hubby was in NO shape to drive or get into certain areas. Had to keep him out of trouble.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:25 AM (rdVOm)

290
I went to a coffee shop t'other day that doesn't take cash. Lots of places in Korea didn't take it or didn't like to take it last time I was there. I'm afraid this card-only thing is going to take over and all our transactions will be recorded.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:28 AM (mmrXZ)

291 I like the short lines at self-checkout. If I have only a few items, it's great. Heck, I've even learned a few of the produce codes.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:29 AM (rdVOm)

292 I'm afraid this card-only thing is going to take over and all our transactions will be recorded.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

That IS the point, after all.

Hubby (before he got sick) and I used cash as often as possible.

Now? I worry about LTC medicaid rules, if hubby outlives our retirement funds-- too many cash withdrawals could be counted as "gifting" and potential disqualification for a period of time. FKers!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:33 AM (rdVOm)

293 Trump mentioned making taking cash law.

I'm out. Enjoy. 'nite.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 02, 2026 02:34 AM (Pee1E)

294 'Night, Braenyard. Sweet dreams!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:36 AM (rdVOm)

295 Will we reach 300?

C'mon, Late-Night Lurker, we can make it happen!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

296 Hi, Blondie! Are you growing any pumpkins?

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:40 AM (rdVOm)

297 Since you axed so nicely. . .

Posted by: Late-Night Lurker at August 02, 2026 02:41 AM (uMNwP)

298 Today (still the 1st here), blues guitarist and singer Robert Cray turned 71. I don't actually know much about him, but his signature Fender Stratocaster has a hardtail string-through-body bridge (no whammy bar), and sure enough his guitar work sounds very precise. Here's a vaguely Odyssey-themed track -- close enough for ONT work anyway -- from his 1997 album Sweet Potato Pie:

Robert Cray - Back Home (Audio)
https://youtu.be/56R9zeSjZbU

If you walk alone
In darkness
Don't turn
Go the wrong way

If you associate
Among the evil
Don't follow them
Down the wrong road

You may even flirt
With a little danger
And before long
Without even knowing
It will be hard to find your way back home

Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 02:42 AM (Sy6m/)

299 300 is out of reach. Almost impossible really.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 02, 2026 02:44 AM (Wg6v7)

300
Hi, Blondie! Are you growing any pumpkins?
Posted by: JQ

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Hey, JQ! When pumpkins are plentiful in the stores again -- a few months -- I'm going to save the seeds and give it another try. Right now I'm bringing a lily back to life that I damn near killed.

what are you growing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:45 AM (mmrXZ)

301 youtu.be/q5yZC7T3qxA

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 02, 2026 02:46 AM (Wg6v7)

302 I went to wallyworld the other day & saw these beautiful tall flowers-- they looked familiar, but were an unusual color (for that species).

Peach-orange. Delphiniums! They are usually blue, purple, or white. Amazing. I didn't buy any.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:47 AM (rdVOm)

303 Huh. 300 posts. Amazing accomplishment people! Well done!

(sits back and rests on the victory!)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 02, 2026 02:48 AM (Wg6v7)

304 Oops, Robert Cray turned 73. He was born in 1953. Sorry about the math error.

Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 02:50 AM (Sy6m/)

305
too many cash withdrawals could be counted as "gifting" and potential disqualification for a period of time. FKers!
Posted by: JQ

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omg.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:50 AM (mmrXZ)

306 Blondie-- I got depressed and didn't *do* any garden this year. Bought a few petunias & didn't plant them before they outgrew their starter pots and died. I feel bad about that, what a waste.

Just enjoying the roses and other plants that don't require much besides water & sunlight this year.

Next year will be different. I hope.

Are you growing pumpkins for food, or for jack-o-lanterns, or just for fun?

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:51 AM (rdVOm)

307 One accidental gardening success this year: had rooted some clematis cuttings 2 years ago, but they looked dead this Spring. Put the pots out on the deck 'cuz they were in the way indoors. Ignored them for a couple of months.

They sent up new growth! Yay! So I potted them up into larger containers a couple of weeks ago. They were pot-bound and needed more room. Now growing quickly and I need to find a place in the yard for them...

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 02:57 AM (rdVOm)

308
JQ, the ideal is food. I always get those pie pumpkins every year and make pies, and save the seeds and dry them. Two years, maybe three, I've planted them and they got a start... then gave up. They're the ones who are having fun. "Let's see how hopeful we can get her before we quit."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:58 AM (mmrXZ)

309
Now growing quickly and I need to find a place in the yard for them...

Posted by: JQ

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That sounds GREAT!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 03:00 AM (mmrXZ)

310 304 Oops, Robert Cray turned 73. He was born in 1953. Sorry about the math error.
Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 02:50 AM (Sy6m/)

My parents were married in 1953. Mom thought she was barren because she didn't get pregnant for two years. Turns out, patience is a virtue. She had five kids, none of which she liked, and most of whom she abused. But, she did produce us, so I guess I should be grateful for life, if nothing else.

So, mom and dad would have been married 73 years if the clot shot hadn't killed them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 03:00 AM (FyeA3)

311 "Let's see how hopeful we can get her before we quit."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 02:58 AM (mmrXZ)

I haven't figured out pumpkins up here yet. Grew a ton of them in WI. I really liked the sugar pie pumpkins, because they cooked up so beautifully. Can't stand squash, mostly, but those were delightful.

I have to work on my hothouse in the off season, I think. I'm having issues with air movement and drip irrigation. Fixing that should lead to pumpkins, but until then I have peppers by the ton and a few tomatoes, plus cucumbers. I think I would like to be the herb source for this area as well. I grow some wicked good basil and oregano.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 03:03 AM (FyeA3)

312 Blondie-- seeds are cheap. Most produce in stores are hybrids, so their seeds may or may not give you the product you desire.

Highly recommend that you simply pay the 2 dollars or so, for a variety you know will be useful. Look for "sugar pie" or similar.

My BFF grows pumpkins, now on the fourth or fifth year since she bought one for table decor. She doesn't cook them, just gives them away for halloween. Last one she gave me had incredibly stringy flesh. I toasted the seeds for snacking & threw the rest away.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

313 The best-producing squashes I've ever grown here are:

Spaghetti-- there were so many, I got sick of the stuff! Maybe a texture thing for me, but it was really good at first, LOL. Didn't store very well. Had to cook & process & freeze.

Acorn-- still my favorite, not stringy, good flavor, small and easy to cook for one or two meals/people. Stores well in a cool room.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:20 AM (rdVOm)

314
Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

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You're making me realize I'm trying to do something I know nothing about. Maybe I'll try growing tomatoes or strawberries.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 03:24 AM (mmrXZ)

315 Oh, Blondie-- gardening is a trial and error process!

By all means: if you've tried one thing and failed, try it again or try something else... you have *only yourself to please*

You're in Cali, right? Check out your county extension website for local information. Best varieties and growing hints for your specific climate will be listed there.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:29 AM (rdVOm)

316 Food I've successfully grown in containers:

Tomatoes (not great, but got a few. In-ground is best IMO)
Okra (plants are also quite lovely decor)
Edible-pod peas
Strawberries
Zucchini (slowed production to a nice, manageable rate!)
Broccoli (BIG planters required! PITA)
Corn (see broccoli)
Peppers (keep pots shaded, but not plants)

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:37 AM (rdVOm)

317 Oh, and leaf lettuce. I like the "mesclun mix" best. It gets so hot, so early here, that I plant in early March & it all bolts by end of May.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

318 Small potatoes grow well in containers. The tubs that cattle supplements come in are great for planters. Drill some holes in the bottom for good drainage. I grow all my herbs in them

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 03:43 AM (abScH)

319
I'm going to start with strawberries. I love them, and the ones in the store are sour and white.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 03:44 AM (mmrXZ)

320 My parents were married in 1953. Mom thought she was barren because she didn't get pregnant for two years. Turns out, patience is a virtue. She had five kids, none of which she liked, and most of whom she abused. But, she did produce us, so I guess I should be grateful for life, if nothing else.

So, mom and dad would have been married 73 years if the clot shot hadn't killed them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 03:00 AM (FyeA3)

That's terrible! Also: good inspiration (tying it back), if you decide to pick up a new hobby. 🎶 "I got the momma was a fridgerator blues..." 🎶

Posted by: SciVo at August 02, 2026 03:44 AM (Sy6m/)

321 Mornin' Ben Had!

I've never tried spuds in containers, but willing to try it... some day...

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

322 Blondie, bare-root strawberry plants are the best value IMO and become available (here, anyway) in late Feb/late March. Maybe earlier in your area?

A few $ for 15 or 25 plants. Check feed/farm stores.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:49 AM (rdVOm)

323 JQ, I had some small red potatoes that were sprouting eyes so I stuck them in and they propagated just fine.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 03:51 AM (abScH)

324 "She had five kids, none of which she liked, and most of whom she abused."

It's weird, but as I got older, I met more women who had abusive mothers, even some of the girls I went to high school with. They were all middle class. Struck me as odd. There were some abusive fathers, but the amount of abusive mothers seemed noteworthy.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 02, 2026 03:54 AM (DZ9Lv)

325 Cool, Ben Had!

I haven't had good luck with grocery taters or garlic-- sometimes they're treated with growth-inhibitors so that people can't grow their own. Bleh.

Wish the seed taters and garlic sets could be had sooner here. Onions are too cheap to bother growing at home.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:55 AM (rdVOm)

326 319
I'm going to start with strawberries. I love them, and the ones in the store are sour and white.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 03:44 AM (mmrXZ)

Check to make sure the strawberries set big fruit. The little ones are PITA, because by the time you hull them, there isn't much fruit left.

I have been digging out the ones the previous owner left and replacing them. Too much work means I harvest less, so I'm fixing that.

I grow tomatoes in containers, in the hot house. They don't set fruit outdoors here--not hot enough. They do fine in 2 gallon bags or pots, and make sure you clip off the various shoots so you just have the one that makes the fruits, and don't let them get dry.

Cucumbers do fine in 1 gallon pots. Keep 'em moist and they produce like crazy. I am, after all, the pickle queen of AK.

Pepper plants do very well in pots. I have 1 gallon and 2 gallon pots and I haven't noticed a difference in either. I recycle the dirt every year, with about 1/4 new stuff, and I fertilize with bone meal and langbeinite. Works good for tomatoes, too.

Now I just need to put in drip irrigation and it pretty much grows itself.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 03:56 AM (FyeA3)

327 JQ, you don't have a problem with frost in late Feb/ March?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 03:58 AM (abScH)

328 Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 02, 2026 03:54 AM

There's *a thing* about mothers & daughters IMO.

My mom was harsh, even by others' accounts, but I wouldn't call it "abuse" necessarily. Close, but not quite.

Was in my 30s before we could have a calm conversation.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 03:59 AM (rdVOm)

329 JQ, you don't have a problem with frost in late Feb/ March?
Posted by: Ben Had

Oh, yes! But can cover/protect things if not too cold. Every year is different.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:01 AM (rdVOm)

330 There were some abusive fathers, but the amount of abusive mothers seemed noteworthy.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 02, 2026 03:54 AM (DZ9Lv)

I expect that most women who were the product of the Depression thought that having babies was what you did, and just did so. My mom, in particular, was the baby of her family, and the princess, so dirty diapers and snotty kids were not exactly on her dance card. The problem was she kept having girls, not the coveted boy, so she kept having them, looking for the jackpot. I was the fourth girl, so the fourth disappointment. It doesn't sound very nice, and it wasn't, but that's how it was.

She actually like babies, and took very good care of babies, but not kids. Kids talk back and don't do what they are told.

Not all women were cut out for family life. My mom was certainly not. I don't blame her, and I have certainly forgiven her, but I would never let her near my son to do more damage. Not worth the heartache.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 04:03 AM (FyeA3)

331 When growing garlic, I like to plant in mid-autumn & put thick layer of mulch. Start raking it off in March or when days are more sunny than cloudy.

If I wait until Spring to plant, the bulbs don't mature into full heads, or they wilt or die.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:06 AM (rdVOm)

332 The odd thing is that I love kids. Kids are so unpredictable and do amazing things, and don't even think they are amazing, when they are. I guess my son could be considered a disappointment, with his various challenges, but I wouldn't give him up for the world.

My grandson is, of course, the best kid ever, even if he isn't even six months old yet. So clever, so engaged, so damned cute and precious. As all grandkids are, I suppose.

No idea why mom could never see those things, but so be it. She's gone now, and whatever she wrought has passed. She has her reward. She doesn't need me to pile onto that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 04:07 AM (FyeA3)

333 If I wait until Spring to plant, the bulbs don't mature into full heads, or they wilt or die.
Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:06 AM (rdVOm)

Up here you certainly have to plant it in the fall, which means end of September at the latest. I was too lazy this past fall, but this year I shall endeavor. The fresh stuff is just too good to pass up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 04:08 AM (FyeA3)

334 Mom was SO disappointed that I didn't marry a super-rich guy, or become a rocket scientist, and live a life she could brag about.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:08 AM (rdVOm)

335 334 Mom was SO disappointed that I didn't marry a super-rich guy, or become a rocket scientist, and live a life she could brag about.
Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:08 AM (rdVOm)

I'm sure it never occurred to her that she could brag on her kid.

My mom actually told my best friend's mom that I was the stupid one in the family.

Sheesh. She produced me. I guess ownership never occurred to her.

She should have been childless, but I guess I'm glad she wasn't.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 04:11 AM (FyeA3)

336 Yes, tcn! Fall planting for garlic! Problem is, I must order the bulbs because I can't find them in stores except during Spring! You'd think they'd know better...

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:11 AM (rdVOm)

337 Tcn, Mom couldn't find any source of pride in me, that she would want to brag about.

She could only focus on the negatives, and there were many, but she never gave me credit for pulling myself out of all that.

Oh well.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:16 AM (rdVOm)

338 Oh well.
Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:16 AM (rdVOm)

Exactly.

If I were to trust my mother's judgment, I would have offed myself years ago.

Parents do give life, but they aren't required to sustain it. That's our job.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 04:18 AM (FyeA3)

339 My sister was always Mom's favorite. Sis went to college (so did I) but didn't graduate (neither did I.)

Sis married a blue-collar guy (so did I). Sis didn't have children (neither did I.)

???? wtf? Oh-- sis never got divorced.

Whatever.

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:20 AM (rdVOm)

340 Our Creator made us and HE knows who we are

Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:26 AM (abScH)

341 Welp, it's late & I'm done whining. LOL.

Good night, horde! Have a wonderful night/morning!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:26 AM (rdVOm)

342 Our Creator made us and HE knows who we are
Posted by: Ben Had

That scares me more than anything else!

No... it's all good.

'Night, Ben Had. Blessings!

Posted by: JQ at August 02, 2026 04:27 AM (rdVOm)

343 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

344
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 03:56 AM (FyeA3)

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Overwhelmed with information here. I'll focus on strawberries and tomatoes for now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 04:33 AM (mmrXZ)

345 340 Our Creator made us and HE knows who we are
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2026 04:26 AM (abScH)

And He will kick our asses when we need it, too.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 04:51 AM (FyeA3)

346 Overwhelmed with information here. I'll focus on strawberries and tomatoes for now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2026 04:33 AM (mmrXZ)

Don't forget the garlic, dear.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 02, 2026 04:52 AM (FyeA3)

347 Lone Ranger. Injuns didn't count then. Didn't need to. Now they have casinos and understand counting very well.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 8/1/2026

Director DNA

There are some questions in film criticism that never seem to disappear. Every generation argues about the greatest director, the greatest western, the greatest horror movie, the greatest performance. They're fun conversations, even if they almost never arrive at an answer. Over the last few years, though, I've found myself drifting toward a different question, one that I think reveals something more interesting about the people who make movies. If you wanted to explain a director to someone who had never seen one of their films before, where would you begin? Not with the movie that's necessarily their greatest achievement, nor even your favorite, but the one that most completely captures who they are as an artist.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized those are two different questions. Great artists don't spend their careers making the same movie over and over again. They experiment. They wander into unfamiliar genres. Sometimes they discover something remarkable by pushing against the instincts that usually define them. A masterpiece, then, can occasionally be an exception rather than a rule. It may represent the highest point of a career without representing the center of it. Somewhere else in that same filmography there may be another movie (not necessarily better, but somehow more representative) that contains the themes, techniques, and preoccupations that kept drawing the director back throughout an entire career. That's the film I've started thinking of as containing a director's DNA.

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock is probably the easiest place to begin because almost everyone already has an answer prepared. Ask someone to name the quintessential Hitchcock film and they'll probably say Psycho. Others will argue for Vertigo, and if the discussion is simply about greatness, I don't have much interest in disagreeing. Both are extraordinary films. But I don't think either one is the purest expression of Hitchcock's artistic personality. Every time I've tried this exercise, I keep arriving at North by Northwest, not because I think it's his masterpiece, but because it seems to contain the greatest concentration of the things that made Hitchcock Hitchcock.

That observation isn't even mine originally. Screenwriter Ernest Lehman famously said that his goal was to write "the Alfred Hitchcock picture to end all Alfred Hitchcock pictures," and, intentionally or otherwise, that's exactly what he accomplished. Nearly every recurring Hitchcock instinct is present. There's the MacGuffin that hardly matters once the story begins. There's the innocent man mistaken for someone else and thrown into circumstances completely beyond his control. There's the glamorous blonde, the elaborate visual set pieces, the humor that somehow coexists comfortably beside genuine suspense, and perhaps most importantly, the confidence that an audience can understand a scene through images alone. Hitchcock made psychological horror, courtroom dramas, romances, even broad comedies, but whenever he returned to what feels unmistakably like Hitchcock, he kept returning to some variation of this formula. North by Northwest isn't the summit of his career so much as its clearest blueprint.

William Wyler

William Wyler made me realize that the exercise doesn't always produce a surprising answer. Sometimes the film containing a director's DNA really is their masterpiece. For me, that's The Heiress. It isn't merely a great William Wyler film; it's difficult to think of another movie that gathers together so many of the qualities he spent decades refining. If Hitchcock's personality announces itself through suspense and visual wit, Wyler's announces itself almost by disappearing. His direction is so carefully controlled that it's easy to overlook how carefully controlled it actually is. Nothing calls attention to itself. The camera isn't trying to impress you. The compositions are elegant without becoming ostentatious. Actors move with extraordinary precision, but never in a way that feels theatrical or artificial. Everything exists in service of revealing character.

That wasn't an accident. Wyler consistently gravitated toward exceptional source material, often adapting acclaimed novels and successful plays rather than inventing stories from scratch. He seemed to believe that directing wasn't primarily about imposing himself upon a story but about refining one that already possessed dramatic strength. More importantly, he trusted actors more than almost any director of his generation. Watch enough Wyler films and a pattern begins to emerge. The emotional climaxes rarely depend upon spectacle. Instead, they depend upon people talking, arguing, hesitating, or making impossible moral decisions. The Heiress feels like the fullest expression of that philosophy. Olivia de Havilland's performance carries almost every emotional beat of the story, and Wyler understands that no technical flourish could possibly improve upon simply allowing her to perform. Other Wyler films emphasize one aspect of his career. Ben-Hur is inevitably remembered for its spectacle. Roman Holiday is remembered as one of Hollywood's great romantic comedies. The Best Years of Our Lives is inseparable from the historical moment that produced it. The Heiress, however, seems to contain all of Wyler at once.

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese presents a different problem altogether because public perception has simplified him into something he never really was. For many people, Scorsese is the gangster director, an image that's perfectly understandable given the enormous cultural shadow cast by Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, and The Wolf of Wall Street (gangster in its own Wall Street way). Yet those films represent only one corner of an astonishingly varied career that includes religious dramas, psychological thrillers, documentaries, historical epics, literary adaptations, black comedies, and period romances. Reducing Scorsese to organized crime feels a little like reducing John Ford to Monument Valley. It's true often enough to become recognizable, but false often enough to become misleading.

For that reason, my choice has always been The Age of Innocence. It usually surprises people, but the surprise disappears once you stop thinking about Scorsese in terms of genre and start thinking about the questions that seem to fascinate him regardless of genre. Again and again, his films ask what happens when personal desire collides with the demands of a community. Sometimes that community is the Mafia. Sometimes it's the Catholic Church. Sometimes it's politics, family, or business. In The Age of Innocence, it happens to be New York high society, but the conflict is fundamentally the same. Newland Archer isn't trapped by criminals. He's trapped by expectations. He belongs to a world whose values he understands perfectly, and that understanding becomes its own prison.

Scorsese once referred to The Age of Innocence as the most violent film he'd ever made. At first glance that sounds absurd coming from the man who directed the scene of Joe Pesci getting beaten to death with a baseball bat in Casino, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Violence in Scorsese has never really been about bloodshed. Violence is what people do to one another when loyalty, guilt, obligation, or identity become impossible burdens to carry. Sometimes that manifests itself through fists and guns. Other times it manifests itself through silence, manners, and self-denial. Strip away the gangsters, and those concerns remain almost everywhere in Scorsese's work. The restless camera, the intricate editing, the fascination with New York itself. All of those stylistic signatures are present in The Age of Innocence. More importantly, so are the moral questions that seem to have occupied him throughout his career. Watch that film carefully, and the path toward Silence, Bringing Out the Dead, and even The Irishman suddenly becomes much easier to see.

John Ford

John Ford may have been the director who convinced me that a filmmaker's masterpiece and their artistic center can actually point in opposite directions. I think The Searchers is Ford's greatest film. I also think it's an outlier. It presents a vision of Ford that is darker, lonelier, and more tragic than the one that appears throughout most of his career. Ethan Edwards ends that film standing outside the doorway, separated forever from the community he helped preserve. It's one of the greatest endings in American cinema precisely because it denies its hero the thing he has spent the entire story pursuing.

That's why I'd choose The Quiet Man instead. The longer I watch Ford's films, the less convinced I become that he was fundamentally interested in the American West. Monument Valley is unforgettable, but it isn't really the subject of his movies. Communities are. Whether he's filming cavalry officers, settlers, Irish villagers, Mormons, or families struggling through the Depression, Ford keeps returning to the same basic question: how does an individual find a place among other people? That's Shaun Thornton's story from beginning to end. He isn't trying to defeat evil. He's trying to belong.

Once that idea occurred to me, a great many of Ford's stylistic choices suddenly made more sense. He devotes enormous stretches of screen time to dances, church services, funerals, military ceremonies, and shared meals, scenes that many directors would compress because they don't appear to advance the plot. Ford understood that they advance something more important than plot. They reveal the habits through which a community defines itself. Even the famous climactic fistfight in The Quiet Man isn't really about violence. The village gathers around it almost like a festival. The fight restores relationships rather than destroying them. Compare that ending with The Searchers, and the distinction becomes clear. Ethan Edwards saves the family but never joins it. Shaun Thornton joins the community he came searching for. One film is Ford's greatest tragedy. The other feels like the clearest expression of what he spent a lifetime celebrating.

Joe Dante

Joe Dante may be the oddest example because the film I'd choose isn't even my favorite Joe Dante movie. That would probably be Matinee, which I think has a warmth and emotional maturity that few directors ever achieve when looking back upon childhood. Yet if the goal is to identify the movie containing the most Joe Dante, I don't think anything surpasses Gremlins 2. It's a sequel that behaves almost like a parody of the original film, dismantling its own mythology while simultaneously celebrating everything that made it popular in the first place.

That contradiction seems to run through Dante's entire career. He genuinely loves movies, television, monster pictures, comic books, animation, and virtually every corner of American popular culture. At the same time, he refuses to treat any of it as sacred. That's the distinction I think makes Dante unique. He approaches popular culture with affection rather than reverence. Gremlins 2 spends nearly its entire running time mocking sequels, merchandising, studio filmmaking, and even itself. The Gremlins interrupt the movie, attack the projection, and threaten the illusion that we're watching a finished film at all. It feels like the work of someone who knows these traditions intimately enough to understand that genuine love includes the ability to laugh at the thing you love. If Matinee is Joe Dante looking backward with nostalgia, then Gremlins 2 is Joe Dante looking backward with a grin.

A Never-ending Game

The more I've played this game, the less interested I've become in arguing about which films are objectively greatest. Those conversations are enjoyable, but they're ultimately conversations about quality. This feels like a conversation about identity. Asking which Hitchcock film contains the most Hitchcock or which Ford film contains the most Ford forces you to think less about isolated achievements and more about recurring ideas. What themes keep resurfacing? Which visual habits never disappear? Which questions refuse to leave the director alone regardless of genre or subject matter? Eventually a pattern begins to emerge, and somewhere inside that pattern sits a single film where everything seems to converge.

That's the movie I find myself recommending now. Not because it's necessarily the best one, but because I think it's the one that best introduces the artist. Masterpieces tell us what a director was capable of accomplishing. Their DNA film tells us who they were.

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Movies I Saw This Fortnight:

The Nanny (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It's a handsome, attractive, well-acted film worthy of discovery." [YouTube]

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Rating 3/4) Full Review "I think this is the best Dracula film that Hammer has produced, even if the ending could have used another rewrite." [Archive.org]

The Plague of the Zombies (Rating 2/4) Full Review "Still, there's modest entertainment within. Far from enough to get this near the top of the Hammer pile, but enough for it to sit comfortably somewhere in the middle." [Library]

Rasputin: The Mad Monk (Rating 2.5/4) Full Review "Still, Lee is in almost every scene, the few scenes he's not in are dominated mostly by Pasco. And that's not a bad combination. Honestly, I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, but it's certainly not good." [Library]

One Million Years B.C. (Rating 2.5/4) Full Review "There is entertainment to be had, but it's restrained in any impact beyond the sensationalist. Still, the sensationalist part is quite good." [Library]

The Viking Queen (Rating 3/4) Full Review "I latched onto the supporting cast and the setting most, I think, and I went along for an entertaining ride." [Library]

Frankenstein Created Woman (Rating 3/4) Full Review "I think it works. I think it entertains. It's solid." [Library]

Quatermass and the Pit (Rating 3/4) Full Review "The dread, the scale of the antagonists, and the distinct Britishness of the whole affair created an appealing package that I found infectious." [Library]

Please check out my videos from the last few weeks:

Fritz Lang: The Directors Series
Fritz Lang: The Definitive Ranking
William Wyler: The Directors Series
William Wyler: The Definitive Ranking
John Frankenheimer: The Definitive Ranking
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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:53 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Watched all of Fritz Lang's Der Nibelungen these last few days.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Still, the sensationalist part is quite good"

"Quite" good?

Quite?

*recalls fur bikini

Posted by: man at August 01, 2026 07:55 PM (XuXeR)

4 Watched earlier than that Jeanne DuBarry with Johnny Depp as King Louis XV. Have to say the actress playing Jeanne did nice job but she didn't do anything for me

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:57 PM (Ia/+0)

5 With my movie vault/plex replacement complete, I've added some metrics pages and was shocked to learn that I have more films from 2000-2010 than any other decade, owing to all of the Super Hero and Sequel films.

I also have no films categorized as horror films in my library and the top five actors in my collection are Hanks, SLJackson, ScarJo, Vin Diesel, and Harrison Ford.

And I only have 4 films from the 30's in my collection.

I’m going to add some more graphs for other personnel like cinematographer, director, writer, etc.

Also going to add a credit roll feature where when you click on the movie info you can see a simulated end credit crawl.

I discovered there is no api that captures a films end credits but they do have credit list data.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 08:00 PM (XV/Pl)

6 The Trouble with Harry is not bad either.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

7 One Million Years B.C.

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Two words. Fur bikini.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 08:05 PM (ndZc7)

8 Hmmm. There are few movies where, if you were familiar with a directors cataloged, but you saw that movie for the first time you could say ah ha this is so and so under a pseudonym.

For example, would you peg Gladiator 2 as being made by the same guy as Alien?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

9 Two words. Fur bikini.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 08:05 PM (ndZc7)

I prefer furkini.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

10 I have stated often really don't ay attention to the director much.
Quite a few times watching tje Another Movie Channel find out movies I lkked who directed them.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 08:07 PM (Ia/+0)

11 Watched all of Fritz Lang's Der Nibelungen these last few days.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)

Nice cats. Fluffy and arrogant, but talkative to a fault

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 08:07 PM (rbvCR)

12 "Disclosure Day" (2026)
No Sir. I don't like it.
youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA

Posted by: Mister Horse at August 01, 2026 08:09 PM (Jr5Lq)

13 Captain Kronos is on Svengoolie. The Brits sure do love them vampires.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 08:09 PM (MWfyi)

14 "Male and Female" (1919) Lords, Ladies, and their servants are castaways on a remote island. The hero has his pick of the females, but he prefers the oldest, homeliest, bitchiest one, Gloria Swanson. Then he gets wise to himself.

Posted by: gp at August 01, 2026 08:11 PM (Jr5Lq)

15

Quatermass and the Pit - there's an odd one. I do like it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2026 08:12 PM (Cqx++)

16 Eric the Viking

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 01, 2026 08:15 PM (jrgJz)

17 Every time I've tried this exercise, I keep arriving at North by Northwest, not because I think it's his masterpiece, but because it seems to contain the greatest concentration of the things that made Hitchcock Hitchcock.
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You are correct, because I agree with you.

I watched it again on TCM the other day, and I was struck again by what a slow burn the isolated bus stop sequence was. Cary Grant just standing around by the open fields, with the featureless horizon stretching for miles. That crop duster was buzzing around in the background a good long while, so when it put Cary in its sights and began buzzing him it was almost a jump scare.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 08:16 PM (kpS4V)

18 Started watching Hangman also Die but was distracted and stopped it. On my tv YouTube will go right back whete I left off

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 08:19 PM (Ia/+0)

19 Watched all of Fritz Lang's Der Nibelungen these last few days.
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They got pills for that now, would have fixed him right up

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 08:20 PM (dLnkr)

20 Saw "The Odyssey".

I can now see why people like it and hate it.

First,the Like: Very well-made movie. Some great acting. Excellent direction for the set pieces. Clear theme throughout. If you know nothing of "The Odyssey", this is a movie you can enjoy and won't be bored in.

The Hate: The Greeks were basically a shame society. We live in a guilt society. Nolan made a movie for a guilt society.

In a "guilt movie", the hero has to feel guilt over something. In this case, Odysseus feels guilt over his triumph, the Trojan Horse and the Fall of Troy, which totally inverts the story. If this sounds like Ancient Greek Oppenheimer, it is.

I believe Nolan even sneaks in an atomic destruction reference from "The Planet of the Apes"(!) with the Trojan Horse looking more like it was abandoned than left as a gift, half-buried in sand and tilted at the same angle as the Statue of Liberty in TPoTA.

Every triumph or escape from the dangers of that Odysseus and his men encounter is just another chance to portray Odysseus and his men as venal, violent a-holes. This accounts for the flatness of the movie.
(con't)

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:21 PM (iJfKG)

21 If I wake up on the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep, I like to bring up old Movies of the Week on YouTube. I found one from 1971 called "The Glass House": "Corrections officer Brian Courtland, naive drug pusher Alan Campbell, and college professor Jonathan Page convicted of manslaughter report to prison and soon learn the truth about the prison system. From a Truman Capote story."

Vic Morrow was great as the sleazy gang leader pushing narcotics and demanding "payment" from the young new incarceree or else. Alan Alda as the professor was surprisingly good, none of those Alda tics and tricks, just a very intelligent man in way over his head. Billy Dee Williams was solid as the leader of the black inmates.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 08:21 PM (kpS4V)

22 I'm a big fan of Hitchcock.

Rope is the one movie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 08:22 PM (JvZF+)

23 (con't)

Circe pretty much lays it all out in her sequence. And when after Odysseus begging her to return his men. She brings them back from pigs by saying"Return to your disguise. Return to your disguise."

See? they aren't men or brave soldiers in reality, Odysseus and his men are merely pigs in disguise.
This is the inheritance of Nolan using the feminist translation. At some point, we always get the angry feminist view of things from some woman. Again this undercuts the movie and story.

Penelope even complains about the "glass-ceiling" in Greek society that won't allow her to rule as Queen. In a really nice bit of dialogue, she says "I have sat on an empty throne for 20 years." That says it all and much more, buuuuut then she goes on to junk up the clean declaration with a bunch of feminist gobbledygook. Sad.

This even explains the odd casting of "Elliot Page". it's weird trannie looks tend inevitable toward the feminine, and when in hell Odysseus gets a berating from Ol' Elli about his lies that sounds remarkably like a girl's complaint delivered by an oddly feminine looking "boy".

Nolan made the Odyssey guilt trip. He skinned it of meaning and wears it inside out.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:22 PM (iJfKG)

24 Congrats on 1K subscribers!!

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 08:23 PM (vE0+H)

25 No love for Woody Allen??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 08:23 PM (JvZF+)

26 Not my favorite Hitchcock movie, but my favorite Hitchcock scene: Doris Day singing Que Sera Sera at the end of The Man Who Knew Too Much as a signal to her kidnapped son. It gets me every time.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 01, 2026 08:24 PM (SjAWL)

27 (con't)

Nolan's "The Odyssey" begins with the quote:
"In an Age of Apparent Magic..."

Apparent's meaning in this case is something that appears real or true but isn't.

There are no gods in this Odyssey. Athena who appears only to Odysseus is basically Banquo's Ghost. In his climactic memory of the Fall of Troy, we see a priestess of Athena(Zendaya) roughed up and beheaded along with the beheading of a statue of Athena. She is his guilty memory. That's why she's always staring at him like your mom giving you the silent treatment for something you did.

No one but Odysseus is alive to tell these tales of his voyages, and we are given to understand that he is merely a sad, and haunted old man driven mad by his guilt over the Trojan Horse and Troy's downfall.

All we truly know of him is that he washed up on Calypso's Island where she gave him Grecian Valium for almost a decade to heal him.

This renders his return to Ithaca almost well, stupid and meaningless.

So...is the Odyssey a tale of a determined, brave, crafty, intelligent man fighting monsters and the very gods themselves to get home to the family he loves, or-

The lies a pig who dreamt he was a man tells himself

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:24 PM (iJfKG)

28 A favorite Hitchcock of mine is "Frenzy". It's almost wacky. I loved the inspector's sweet wife and her awful attempts at Continental cuisine.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 08:24 PM (kpS4V)

29 "The Birds" > "Rope" > "Psycho"

Posted by: gp at August 01, 2026 08:25 PM (Jr5Lq)

30
Quatermass and the Pit (Rating 3/4) Full Review "The dread, the scale of the antagonists, and the distinct Britishness of the whole affair created an appealing package that I found infectious." [Library]

I love that movie.

The Brits made some very good SF movies in the late 50s/early 60s.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:27 PM (iJfKG)

31 My favorite Directors are more famous as actors.

Mel Gibson and Clint Eastwood.

Even Ben Affleck gets an honorable mention.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:29 PM (KC5Lt)

32 Lifeboat

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:30 PM (KC5Lt)

33 I saw "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" today. The theater was packed, which gladdened my heart. I like movie theaters and want them to survive.

Fun flick. Best part was The Punisher and his arsenal. Lots of good comic byplay between him and Spidey.

Interesting intersection between properties in this storyline.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 08:31 PM (kpS4V)

34 Long time since I've watched The Searchers, but I think The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is just as strong a candidate for that number two spot, granting The Quiet Man first place. Its ending, IMHO, does essentially the same thing that the ending of The Searchers does and while the closing scene may not have the image of John Wayne walking away from the door it's always seemed to me sadder somehow and not just for Wayne but for all concerned. YMMV.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 08:31 PM (q3u5l)

35 The RLM gang tackles the new Spidey movie:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8zmzc8

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 08:33 PM (kpS4V)

36 The Cowboys will always be my favorite John Wayne movie.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:34 PM (KC5Lt)

37 I argue that "North By Northwest" is peak Hitchcock.

I also argue that after NBNW, that Hitchcock's quality fell for two reasons.

One, is "Psycho" which taught him that he could make a cheap movie with no important stars and make a bunch of money.

Two, those cheap stars or new stars not brought up by the studio system didn't respond to his direction as well.

Only "Frenzy" which had a great script by Anthony Shaffer, reaches his pre-NBNW heights.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:34 PM (iJfKG)

38 Quatermass and the Pit (and some other Hammers as well) --

A LOT of fun, but also Barbara Shelley. Fur bikini not needed.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 08:35 PM (q3u5l)

39 We watched Support Your Local Gunfighter yesterday on Amazon Prime. I hadn't realized how inexpressive modern actors are. So much in that movie is conveyed by just a look or simple action with no dialogue.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 08:36 PM (lFFaq)

40 No love for Woody Allen??
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Prenty!

Posted by: Soon-Yi at August 01, 2026 08:37 PM (u9Xr5)

41 Damn son, you're very good at this.

I actually understood everything you were writing about, save for Joe Dante and Gremlins ... never saw any of his films.

Posted by: browndog says woof at August 01, 2026 08:39 PM (3sXRv)

42 I will always say my favorite John Wayne movie is Rio Bravo.

There is more acting in the first 10, wordless minutes than in entire films today.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2026 08:39 PM (zZu0s)

43 I've done a couple of paintings from movie scenes that appealed to me. One was from Somewhere in Time. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:40 PM (KC5Lt)

44 21 Vic Morrow was great as the sleazy gang leader pushing narcotics and demanding "payment" from the young new incarceree or else.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 01, 2026 08:21 PM (kpS4V)

As a 7 yo with older brothers, I had no choice but to watch Combat back in the day. But when I’ve watched it on one of the channels that shows it now, Vic Morrow was really an under rated actor.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 01, 2026 08:40 PM (SjAWL)

45 I hadn't realized how inexpressive modern actors are. So much in that movie is conveyed by just a look or simple action with no dialogue.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

I think modern British actors still have ability. Must be their training.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 08:40 PM (lJ0H4)

46 Which of his movies best defines Tarantino?

Posted by: troublemaker at August 01, 2026 08:41 PM (Q+gd/)

47 Close, but I'd say Rio Bravo. It's on at least once a month on the air cable.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 08:42 PM (u9Xr5)

48 25 No love for Woody Allen??
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 08:23 PM (JvZF+)

===

Allen is like Polanski. I'll deal with them when they're dead. Their personal baggage is too well known and pervasive. After their deaths, I think people will be more open to just talking about their movies.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 01, 2026 08:42 PM (bzPaY)

49 I hadn't realized how inexpressive modern actors are. So much in that movie is conveyed by just a look or simple action with no dialogue.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

A lot of modern day 'acting' is less about expression and more about being a blank page the audience can project themselves upon.

Posted by: davidt at August 01, 2026 08:43 PM (Q+gd/)

50 Crap didn't post correctly. Now it's linked properly.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:44 PM (KC5Lt)

51 If I had to pick one Hitchcock, much as I like North by Northwest and Psycho, I'd probably go with Shadow of a Doubt. Nifty story and terrific work by Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright. The only thing I can think of that I don't care for in the movie is some of the dialog given to MacDonald Carey in one of his scenes -- seems too adolescent for the character.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 08:44 PM (q3u5l)

52 27 So...is the Odyssey a tale of a determined, brave, crafty, intelligent man fighting monsters and the very gods themselves to get home to the family he loves, or-

The lies a pig who dreamt he was a man tells himself.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:24 PM (iJfKG)

Thanks, interesting review and it sounds spot on and I am not surprised coming from Nolan.

Posted by: Joemarine at August 01, 2026 08:45 PM (y171U)

53 A very good actor is Casey Affleck.

Also Robert Pattinson. He was great in The Rover.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:46 PM (KC5Lt)

54 Algo fuel...oh wait, wrong webzone

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55 I think I would have liked One Million Years BC if it had actual dialogue. Racheal Welch looked great, but she would have been better if she had some characterization...

I actually like the 'remake' of 10,000 BC. It still fails on the historical accuracy front, but it is a great when viewed as a Conan-style Sword and Sorcery story. If we could have gotten Racheal Welch in that movie....Oh, that would have been great!

Posted by: Castle Guy at August 01, 2026 08:46 PM (N5RnR)

56 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 08:42 PM (u9Xr5)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

57 4 Algo fuel...oh wait, wrong webzone
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Posted by: TJM's phone at August 01, 2026 08:48 PM (bzPaY)

58 I watched "The Sheep Detectives" Wednesday night at the church dinner. I liked it - it was a whodunnit, but it was also a sendup of whodunnits, with some nice visual gags (the chicken) and a strong 'feels like a message without preaching whatever the message is', I think. And like all good murder mysteries, the clues _are_ all there...

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 08:49 PM (aJQbY)

59 Roman Polanski's The Pianist was superb.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:49 PM (KC5Lt)

60 naturalfake, thank you for that beautiful review.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:49 PM (DoBxX)

61 59 Roman Polanski's The Pianist was superb.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:49 PM (KC5Lt)

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I've heard that An Officer and a Spy is great.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 01, 2026 08:51 PM (bzPaY)

62 This is a really interesting topic to me, trying to choose one movie that best represents a director's vision, skills and theme.

I agree about North by Northwest, by the way. It does have all of Hitch's best hallmarks, even it may not be his best movie, most famous or even my favorite.

As I said before, I think Stagecoach is John Ford's archetypical movie, not so much The Quiet Man. I think The Quiet Man is his most personal film, but to really represent Ford, the movie needs to be about The West, and about being an American...as much as Ford longed to be Irish.

I can't decide about Wyler and TJM gave some very persuasive arguments about Scorsese on his YouTube video comments. I am still thinking Goodfellas is his archetype but I'm less dogmatic about it now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:51 PM (xcxpd)

63 Howard Hawk liked Rio Bravo so much he made it twice.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:51 PM (KC5Lt)

64 I hate modern reinterpretations that are so disrespectful.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:51 PM (DoBxX)

65 62
I can't decide about Wyler and TJM gave some very persuasive arguments about Scorsese on his YouTube video comments. I am still thinking Goodfellas is his archetype but I'm less dogmatic about it now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:51 PM (xcxpd)

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Goodfellas? You mean Gangster Goodfellas?

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 01, 2026 08:52 PM (bzPaY)

66
The Heiress is one of my favorite movies. I think I have it memorized. Back in the days of the late, lamented IMDb message boards, there was a lot of intelligent talk about it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2026 08:52 PM (mmrXZ)

67 63 Howard Hawk liked Rio Bravo so much he made it twice.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:51 PM (KC5Lt)

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Only Angels Have Wings is a remake of Ceiling Zero.

Hawks repeated himself almost as much as Ozu did.

Posted by: TJM's phone at August 01, 2026 08:53 PM (bzPaY)

68 46 Which of his movies best defines Tarantino?
Posted by: troublemaker at August 01, 2026 08:41 PM (Q+gd/)

Really good question...I'm going to go with Reservoir Dogs. It was his first but he did everything in it, without a co-writer to fuddle things, the way he wanted to do it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:53 PM (xcxpd)

69 So Nolan is a feminist man.
Most celeb feminists men are pervs or eorse.
Hope that's not true of Nolan

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:53 PM (DoBxX)

70 I can't decide about Wyler and TJM gave some very persuasive arguments about Scorsese on his YouTube video comments. I am still thinking Goodfellas is his archetype but I'm less dogmatic about it now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:51 PM (xcxpd)

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Goodfellas? You mean Gangster Goodfellas?
Posted by: TJM's phone at August 01, 2026 08:52 PM (bzPaY)

I do indeed.
And that was a fun intro.
Though he has a couple gangster Goodfellas movies

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:53 PM (xcxpd)

71 I recently watched a couple of fun movies.

"The Sheep Detectives" is a hoot. Suspend your disbelief.

"The Hail Mary Project" was quite excellent. The story arc is great. Spoiler warning! The guy gets shanghaied to participate in this "save the world" mission.

He's a coward. But he becomes brave. And when he could come home, he decides to save his ET friend. Just a great story of love and heroism.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 08:53 PM (qFwJc)

72 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:53 PM (xcxpd)

Agreed but Pulp Fiction made him.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:54 PM (KC5Lt)

73 Sheep Detectives is fun

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:54 PM (DoBxX)

74 43 I've done a couple of paintings from movie scenes that appealed to me. One was from Somewhere in Time. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:40 PM (KC5Lt)

The detail on the clothes is striking! I finally got to Mackinac Island this May because it was a bucket list item since I saw the movie in 1980. I couldn’t draw a stick figure if my life depended on it.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 01, 2026 08:54 PM (SjAWL)

75 72 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:53 PM (xcxpd)

Agreed but Pulp Fiction made him.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:54 PM (KC5Lt)

Yeah, it is super flashy and it blew up, hugely influential film, one of the tops from the 90's. But I don't know how much Roger Avery was involved so it's hard to judge it as a solo Tarantino film.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 08:58 PM (xcxpd)

76 "As I said before, I think Stagecoach is John Ford's archetypical movie, not so much The Quiet Man. I think The Quiet Man is his most personal film, but to really represent Ford, the movie needs to be about The West, and about being an American...as much as Ford longed to be Irish."

My favorite John Ford directed movie is "They Were Expendable". Wonderful directing and acting start to finish.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 08:58 PM (lJ0H4)

77 John Wayne spanked Maureen O'hara

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 01, 2026 09:00 PM (jrgJz)

78 My favorite John Ford directed movie is "They Were Expendable". Wonderful directing and acting start to finish.
Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 08:58 PM (lJ0H4)

Ford has so many great films, that's definitely one of them. Ford's time in WW2 really left a mark on him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 09:00 PM (xcxpd)

79 77 John Wayne spanked Maureen O'hara
Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 01, 2026 09:00 PM (jrgJz)

Literally and sexually

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 09:00 PM (xcxpd)

80 I had nightmares from the opening scene to the 1966 remake of "Stagecoach."

A tomahawk to the center of your forehead.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 09:01 PM (qFwJc)

81 Vic Morrow was just fine in Combat! (which was the only war series my WWII vet father cared for). When it aired, I was at the point where all I wanted to watch was science fiction or I Spy, but picked up on the series later. It holds up REALLY well 60 years on, and there's an episode called A Cry in the Ruins that is just heartbreaking. They don't make 'em like that any more.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:03 PM (q3u5l)

82 Pulp Fiction is HIGHLY overrated.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2026 09:03 PM (zZu0s)

83 How about the director Richard Fleschier? He has a very varied resume.

He directed one of my favorite WW2 movies that is not very well known today. Between Heaven and Hell starring Robert Wagner.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 09:05 PM (KC5Lt)

84 I put The Cowboys in my top 5 Westerns

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 09:06 PM (Ia/+0)

85 This is a genius idea.
Looking forward to considering this re: my favorite directors.

I think "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" is the Ford-esque of his films, myself.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 09:08 PM (f+FmA)

86 "Forgive me for those I've killed in anger, and for those I'm about to"

Roscoe!

Posted by: what the cat drug in at August 01, 2026 09:08 PM (jrgJz)

87 For me Tarantino's best was Jackie Brown. But don't know if that counts entirely because the story was Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch.

But QT did a really nice job of bringing that one to the screen, and he got great performances from Pam Grier, Robert Forster, and Samuel Jackson. Fun all the way through.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:09 PM (q3u5l)

88 Few yera ago watched all Combat episodes on YouTube
Since xcaught a few on one of the TV channels.
They are very well done

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 09:10 PM (Ia/+0)

89 84 I put The Cowboys in my top 5 Westerns
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 09:06 PM (Ia/+0)

I agree- just from the Williams's opening score, you knew it was going to be great

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 09:11 PM (f+FmA)

90 87 For me Tarantino's best was Jackie Brown. But don't know if that counts entirely because the story was Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch.

But QT did a really nice job of bringing that one to the screen, and he got great performances from Pam Grier, Robert Forster, and Samuel Jackson. Fun all the way through.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:09 PM (q3u5l)

Tarantino knows how to get a great performance out of his actors. Over and over again: Travolta, Robert , Carradine, and more give some career best acting.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at August 01, 2026 09:11 PM (xcxpd)

91 I better call it a night
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 09:11 PM (Ia/+0)

92 >>>See? they aren't men or brave soldiers in reality, Odysseus and his men are merely pigs in disguise.
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That is why I come here for reviews.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 09:14 PM (Pee1E)

93 Another Tarantino I enjoyed more than I expected to: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. For me it had two strikes going in just because it was 2 hrs and 40 minutes long. But it didn't feel that long at all and I thought DiCaprio and Pitt were delightful in it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:15 PM (q3u5l)

94
No love for Woody Allen??
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Eh, I'll play. I've seen almost every movie he's made.

The most Woody Allenish of Woody Allen movies are also his best ones.

I'd rate them;

1) "Hannah and Her Sisters"

2) "Annie Hall"

3) "Manhattan" (I know, I know)

He has lots of good to fair movies and very few terrible ones. His bad movies are basically his imitation Bergman dramas.

Plenty of great funny comedies like "Sleeper" and "Love and Death".

Too bad his scumbag personal issues overlay his work, but hey, he literally brought it on himself.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 09:17 PM (iJfKG)

95 The Film Society here did something fun last week- as part of the Summer Blockbuster series, we showed the original King Kong as a matinee and the 2005 Peter Jackson version as the evening feature.
Plus the short documentary about the stop-motion animation used in the first Kong.

I had not seen the Jackson version all the way through and I got the impression he was still a bit high from the success of LOTR.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 09:19 PM (f+FmA)

96 "Radio Days," "Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Posted by: gp at August 01, 2026 09:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

97 Spidey is going to have the second biggest opening of all time 925M$

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2026 09:21 PM (YZ0Fo)

98 Haven't seen all of Allen, but a lot of 'em. Hannah and Her Sisters and Annie Hall are two I'd put at the top as well. Play It Again, Sam ain't too dusty either.

I liked Midnight in Paris once I pictured Allen himself in the lead instead of Owen Wilson (who for reasons unknown just rubs me the wrong way on screen, kinda like Chris Tucker).

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:22 PM (q3u5l)

99 I have realized that I am pissed off at both the movies and tv. Every time... EVERY FRIGGIN' TIME...that there is a young boy character, they've got to give the kid long hair. Girly long hair. The older boys don't have long hair. But the little boys do. WTF Hollywood???

Posted by: Diogenes at August 01, 2026 09:23 PM (2WIwB)

100 My 2 Allen favorites are bullets over Broadway and midnight in Paris. Mostly not a huge fan.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2026 09:24 PM (YZ0Fo)

101 Jeez, how'd I forget to mention Radio Days? That's up there with Annie Hall and Hannah.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:25 PM (q3u5l)

102 Tarantino greatly misses Sally Menke, his editor who died tragically while hiking. She kept him on the straight and narrow and his latter post-Basterds films all suffer from some degree of bloat or pacing issues.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:27 PM (vE0+H)

103 Tarantino greatly misses Sally Menke, his editor who died tragically while hiking. She kept him on the straight and narrow and his latter post-Basterds films all suffer from some degree of bloat or pacing issues.
Posted by: ...

I think hateful 8 is his best work.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2026 09:28 PM (YZ0Fo)

104 Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:15 PM (q3u

I was t impressed with the film as a whole but it has one of my top five movie scenes. Brad Pitt at the Ranch was the pinnacle of suspense progression.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 09:28 PM (KC5Lt)

105 Kill Bill as one film probably best defines Tarantino. I almost went with Inglourious Basterds but it's probably actually Kill Bill. It's close between the two.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:29 PM (vE0+H)

106 After their deaths, I think people will be more open to just talking about their movies.

Posted by: TJM's phone
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and the fearless vampire killers, too .

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 09:29 PM (Pee1E)

107 I think hateful 8 is his best work.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2026 09:28 PM (YZ0Fo)

Might be my least favorite of his but I think all his movies are at least great and it's grown on me somewhat. I doubt you'll find two bigger Tarantino fans here than me or Edwards. What did Edwards say best defines him? Dogs?

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:31 PM (vE0+H)

108 Between Heaven and Hell starring Robert Wagner.
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Five years old first time I saw Wagner, knew he was a sleazy bitch at first sight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 09:31 PM (Pee1E)

109 Think QT said in an interview that he and Pitt watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and that he wanted the same approaching the farmhouse vibe for his scene at the Spahn ranch. And he caught it nicely.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:32 PM (q3u5l)

110 The Kill Bill films are QT's best films.

Those are the one's I've watched the most, they are fun, it has great action and it has an epic ending.

Most of QT's good, but the dude insists on himself.

I do not regard him as a great director.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 09:35 PM (XV/Pl)

111 True Romance was Tarantino's best written movie imo.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 09:38 PM (KC5Lt)

112 A few weeks ago, Mrs. Cop wanted to go watch The Death of Robin Hood starring Hugh Jackman. This version of Robin Hood is a vicious murderer that has killed so many people that he doesn't remember.

The first 30 minutes of this movie are extremely violent. The last half of the movie deals with the concepts of remorse, punishment and forgiveness.

Very moody and weird movie. Maybe worth a viewing if you can tolerate the bloodshed at the beginning. Mrs. Cop was rather shell-shocked by the end.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 01, 2026 09:39 PM (ksbjf)

113 Once Hollywood was the last time I was in a movie theater and in terms of atmosphere I've never really been in anything like it. A room full of middle aged and older seemingly very bored through the entire film fuddies - myself not included of course - and then for five minutes it felt as raucous and insane as any theater I've been in.

I remember watching The Naked Gun in a packed house and momentarily feeling that "riot" at points, but there was something substantive about this, not just comedy, but not not comedy either. It was high comedy, and it was kind of magical. I had no idea that energy was even in that room so I wasn't just reacting inside to what was on the screen but to the place bursting alive.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:39 PM (vE0+H)

114 True Romance is a blast. Turned out it was in fact White Boy Day.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:40 PM (vE0+H)

115 Never forget Tony Scott directed True Romance, he's the reason that film is great.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 09:42 PM (XV/Pl)

116 Can't remember where I heard this comment, but somebody once called Charade the best Alfred Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made. Sounds about right unless I'm forgetting a better candidate for the spot.

Stanley Donen -- the best non-Hitchcock Hitchcock flick, one of the best musicals with Singin' in the Rain, the delightful Two for the Road... Of Saturn 3 we will not speak.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:43 PM (q3u5l)

117 Five years old first time I saw Wagner, knew he was a sleazy bitch at first sight.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 09:31 PM (Pee1E)

"A Kiss Before Dying". No acting required.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 09:44 PM (f+FmA)

118 Tony Scott may the most underrated directors of all time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 09:44 PM (XV/Pl)

119 I love From Dusk Til Dawn as well. I don't know if it fits as a guilty pleasure movie or if it's just straight up good.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:45 PM (vE0+H)

120 From Dusk Till Dawn's first half had the potential to be a great film, the transition to vampire/gore fest, was ridiculous.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 09:47 PM (XV/Pl)

121
Once upon a time in HWood.
The trio, as pictured in wikipedia, look like drug addicts.

https://tinyurl.com/4vynddj8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 09:48 PM (Pee1E)

122 Tony Scott may the most underrated directors of all time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 09:44 PM (XV/Pl)

Always loved The Last Boy Scout. I remember it as the first movie I really enjoyed without my dad around. I must have been kind of numb when I saw it but it broke through. As for the rest, nothing stands out to me but that's just my taste.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:49 PM (vE0+H)

123 From Dusk Till Dawn's first half had the potential to be a great film, the transition to vampire/gore fest, was ridiculous.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 09:47 PM (XV/Pl)

Another great theater experience. If you watched it on TV it may have lost something in translation? Fun. I liked the way it played with the various vampire tropes.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 09:52 PM (vE0+H)

124 "Can't remember where I heard this comment, but somebody once called Charade the best Alfred Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made. Sounds about right unless I'm forgetting a better candidate for the spot."

What Lies Beneath is a good candidate for best Alfred Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made.

Posted by: davidt at August 01, 2026 09:53 PM (Q+gd/)

125 Thank you TJM for this thoughtful and thought-provoking essay.

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 01, 2026 09:53 PM (1Au9i)

126 @123

>>I liked the way it played with the various vampire tropes.

I'm not a horror guy, but I didn't dislike the vampire/gore turn because of the the gore, I disliked it because it derailed what I thought could have been a really good premise of the first half of the film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 09:57 PM (XV/Pl)

127 From Dusk Till Dawn -- that left turn from crime to vampires is a genuine wtf moment, and I can see it not working for everybody. But if there's a dull frame in that flick I missed it. Not a favorite, but fun.

And QT bandaging up his bullet-perforated hand with duck tape -- is there anything it can't do?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:57 PM (q3u5l)

128 Salma's dance.

Posted by: davidt at August 01, 2026 09:58 PM (Q+gd/)

129 And outta here for the evening.

TJM, thanks for the thread.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at August 01, 2026 09:58 PM (q3u5l)

130 @128

>>Salma's dance.

Here dance in Dogma may be better.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 10:00 PM (XV/Pl)

131 Crap didn't post correctly. Now it's linked properly.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 08:44 PM (KC5Lt)

Let me get this in before the ONT.

You seriously should consider offering your skills for book cover design.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 01, 2026 10:00 PM (1Ff7Z)

132 Sorry I missed the thread, but this was a really good post! And I love your choices for the director’s most quintessential films.

Btw my favorite Joe Dante film is Matinee,

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:04 PM (Ol0VD)

133 For me, the best of Wyler was The Big Country. It was David Lean style spectacle in a western, with a superior cast, better script, better pacing, and a terrific musical score.

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Hobby Thread - August 1, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a hobby shed theme for this Hobby Thread.

A what? A shed theme?

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The backyard shed is not unique to England, but it is an uncommonly large part of British culture. Grok says "the sheer numbers, the affectionate cultural mythology around them, media attention, competitions, and the specific stereotype of the solitary (often male) shed-dweller" make it unique. "It is treated as a recognizable part of national identity in a way that is less common elsewhere."

Why? Grok says:

1) Housing and garden patterns - Dense terraced housing and relatively small private gardens (especially in towns and suburbs) made a compact outbuilding practical. Unlike larger American yards with detached garages, British gardens often had just enough space for a modest shed at the end of the plot.

2) Gardening and allotment culture - Britain has a long, intense tradition of gardening. Sheds naturally developed as places to store tools, pot plants, and escape the weather while still being close to the garden.

3) Weather - Frequent rain makes an outdoor but covered retreat useful year-round - something less necessary in sunnier climates.

4) Post-war DIY boom and class culture - After World War II there was a surge in home ownership, DIY, and self-reliance. The shed became the affordable workshop for ordinary people. It also fitted a certain British preference for understated, private hobbies over more ostentatious leisure.

5) Cultural psychology of retreat - The word "shed" itself has Anglo-Saxon roots linked to shade, separation, or a place of quiet. Commentators often describe it as a modern equivalent of the hermit's cell or cave - a small, controllable space of solitude and concentration amid busy family or working life.

6) Media and humor - British comedy, literature, and journalism have long celebrated (and gently mocked) the shed, reinforcing the tradition.

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As the intro says, sheds are not limited to England. Sheds are also not limited to structures where you store your yard tools and outdoor furniture. For many, they are a usable living space that just happens to be separate from a main house.

Do you have a hobby shed? How do you use it? Is it a workshop? potting shed? craft shed? bar? gaming room? Did you build it?

If you don't have a hobby shed, what kind of shed would you have?

I wasn't planning on greenhouse content but many of the interweb sites on garden sheds seem to also include small greenhouses. Are greenhouses of interest to the Horde?

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What are you hobbying?

Sheds may not be everyone's favorite but give the content a chance before you judge. Any hobbying space is in scope, so jump in with your basement, spare room or garage project space. In any event, the thread is not limited to to the theme. Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. Even if the theme does not speak to you, you might learn something or be entertained. If not, find something else or offer something else relating to hobbying. If all of that fails, just check in and say hello.

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants? Nope. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Otty won Shed of the Year for 2026!

Backstory:

Otty's Hobby Shed 2.0 is a wargaming shed built by Chris Otterburn and his friends in 2024. After the pandemic we would regularly convene in his original hobby shed to play wargames. Ranging from Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, to World War 2 Bolt Action, Warhammer 40k, Star Wars Legion and many more.
As time went on Chris realised we had begun to outgrow shed 1.0 and he set about planning to build a new shed - one that would not only be big enough to play the scale of games we'd dreamt of but also provide comfort and surroundings so we could enjoy meeting up to its fullest. Around this time one of our friends Scott Forrest had been undertaking his own real-life battle with cancer and when Chris started the Shed 2.0 build on his own we all started to help out in getting the shed completed so Scott could get to hang out and play. Sadly, as the shed neared completion, Scott was too unwell to visit and passed away in November 2024.
Since then the shed has become a place where we go to hang out, play games, have fun and remember our friend! We continue to play wargames, drink copious amounts of tea, laugh at the ridiculous misfortune when rolling dice. Alongside that we have grown our miniature and terrain collections. Recreating the forest moon of Endor for Star Wars, the desert battles and the battle of Foy from World War 2.

Impressive DIY project!

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I know what you're thinking: "Who won Shed of the year in 2025 in the Workshop/Studio category?" Glad you asked. Mike Robinson lives in London but doesn't have much space. He built this tiny workshop on his back patio that opens and unfolds for use.

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I'm impressed by people that make the most out of small spaces. As a dinosaur, I prefer more elbow room and space to spread out, but I am impressed.

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Every three year old needs a garage of their own:

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Now THIS is a backyard shed...

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Don't want to build a pub in your backyard yourself? No worries. Just order one and have it delivered (if you live in New Zealand). The company is called My Little Pub.

Pick from several options, design and customize, and they deliver the pub on the back of a truck to your backyard. Think of it like delivering a nicer shipping container. The best part? If you move, you can take your pub with you!

Disclaimer: Ace of Spades does not endorse any specific tiny pub provider.

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Origin stories like the Tyrrell Formula One team have built the lore and legend around great things coming from sheds. In this case, Ken Tyrrell bought a military surplus building and put it in his family's lumberyard. He successfully ran his racing team for years out of the small building. The shed was recently dismantled and moved to preserve it.

The story of the Tyrrell shed that began a Formula 1 championship-winning dynasty

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I put this in a recent ONT, but re-posting here in case you missed it in light of the craftsmanship involved.

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A tour of a bucket list tank museum visit qualifies for hobby thread material:

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a Las Vegas travel theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comments from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.

Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

2 My hobby shed
https://tinyurl.com/44kw8ceu
My miniature collection in the game room
https://tinyurl.com/mr27f9jm

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Photo at the top. It's a cool shed, but I wouldn't be able to let it sit like that. If that were mine, I'd have a new coat of paint on that thing before sundown (or maybe by sundown tomorrow for the necessary power wash to dry).

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2026 05:40 PM (dIske)

4 At the ending of "Shawn of the Dead" Simon Pegg's zombie friend lives in his shed.

Just saying.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:41 PM (qFwJc)

5 Skip, it may be me (probably me), but couldn't get the top link to work. But impressive organization in the second link!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 05:42 PM (XfIK1)

6 A 30 minute painting of a shed in West Texas. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 05:42 PM (KC5Lt)

7 No, no. Look. This shed business -- it doesn't really matter. The sheds aren't important. A few friends call me Two Sheds and that's all there is to it. I wish you'd ask me about the music. Everybody talks about the sheds. They've got it out of proportion -- I'm a composer. I'm going to get rid of the shed. I'm fed up with it!

Posted by: Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at August 01, 2026 05:43 PM (FZ29D)

8 Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:37 PM (Ia/+0)

I couldn't open first link either. Would like to see your shed.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 05:44 PM (KC5Lt)

9 Question ... and I LOVE the Game Shed. What is different in the UK where you just don't pour a slab, or a footer, or especially the footer to put the block up to build and level up the footprint to a "shed" like this ?

Is it permits ?

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:44 PM (swwNP)

10 I saw something nasty in the woodshed!

Posted by: Ada Starkadder of Cold Comfort Farm at August 01, 2026 05:48 PM (Y9Vvl)

11 Otty's puts mine to shame

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:48 PM (Ia/+0)

12 I have a shed. It's a 20x40x16 straight sided Quonset that came unassembled on a truck. I had a pad poured and my boys and I put it the 20 sections together and then stood them up and bolted them together using a scaffold I built for the purpose. Total cost with pad was about $12k in 2010.

I also have another pretty big storage building full of parts and stuff and then my shop/office.

And there's still not enough space.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 05:48 PM (MWfyi)

13 And a Bar Shed, hauled in ? Hell, if I could get one of those ? I'd never leave the house, other to flag the Beer Truck in.

I need to frame up a slab ... I have the room ... to make a Pool Hall Shed. Seriously, great videos.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:49 PM (swwNP)

14 I used the toolshed for smoking and chewing tobacco at age 12, and thought I was getting away with it.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 05:51 PM (LHPAg)

15 I always thought of having a shed but just as a cover for my underground lair. Unless I win the lottery it will just be another unfulfilled plan of what a young me was going to do as an adult

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 05:51 PM (KC5Lt)

16 9 Question.. What is different in the UK where you just don't pour a slab, or a footer, or especially the footer to put the block up to build and level up the footprint to a "shed" like this ?

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:44 PM
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I don't have personal knowledge, but Grok says it is cost rather than permits.

Posted by: TRex- construction supervisor dino at August 01, 2026 05:52 PM (jnBG1)

17 On the Pet Thread, I happened to comment that we were going out to a Chik-Fil-A tonight to eat indoors. Yeah, I don't do drive-up, and it's too hot for walk-up. Besides, if you walk up to one that is drive-up, aren't you risking being run over?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:52 PM (wzUl9)

18 Try again on winter picture of my outbuilding
https://tinyurl.com/amcpxnk4

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:54 PM (Ia/+0)

19 I know I want a garage when I buy my house, and a two-car garage would be nice so that there is room to work on my vehicle. Any other hobbies I plan to do indoors, like pipe smoking. If I did go back to painting and building plastic models, a separate room that I can close the cats out of would be essential. So maybe the two-car garage could be a place for that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)

20 I don't have personal knowledge, but Grok says it is cost rather than permits.
Posted by: TRex- construction supervisor dino at August 01, 2026 05:52 PM (jnBG1)

My interest is hooked. Because these "sheds" are excellent.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:55 PM (swwNP)

21 My what I call outbuilding is 16x30 and has loft with staircase to it

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:56 PM (Ia/+0)

22 If the house I buy has a deck, I'd like to be sure I could put a roof or a retractable awning on it for shade. The backyard bar is very welcoming.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:58 PM (wzUl9)

23 I recently got hooked watching a TV series on Baumgarten Restoration. It's a series that show the restoration of old paintings. It's really amazing what a real professional can do. It streams free on Tubi.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 05:58 PM (KC5Lt)

24 My interest is hooked. Because these "sheds" are excellent.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:55 PM
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Go forth. Design and build thy shed. Send photos and I'll post them.

Fwiw, I didn't go down the rabbit hole in the content, but there are a lot of people out there building sheds out of reclaimed and recycled materials to keep costs down (and add patina). A shed doesn't have to be new or fancy.

Posted by: TRex- shed architect dino at August 01, 2026 05:59 PM (jnBG1)

25 No, Wolfus. The walk-up is on the other side of the building from the drive- thru.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 06:00 PM (qFwJc)

26 Try again on winter picture of my outbuilding
https://tinyurl.com/amcpxnk4
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:54 PM (Ia/+0)

Wow that's a nice 'shed' .

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 06:00 PM (KC5Lt)

27 You can buy some really nice prebuilt wood sheds that they will bring in on a truck and plop down most anywhere on some concrete blocks, no foundation needed. Finish it inside however you want. When you figure the cost of building, painting, and roofing one, plus the time involved, it's a pretty good deal.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 06:00 PM (MWfyi)

28 This theme is interesting on a lot of levels. The idea of a relatively small space for a specific purpose immediately made me think of Michel de Montaingne and his room for thinking and writing his essays. Malcolm Guite has a shed in his backyard in England he calls his Temple of Peace where he does much of his writing. The term radio shack is well known and understood. How many gardeners have a potting shed, enclosed or not? Would a monk's cell qualify? Our attached garage has served as a woodworking space and for reloading ammo and bullet casting.

The idea of a (hopefully) peaceful and comfortable place for a specific activity, where effort can be uniterrupted goes back a long ways.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2026 06:01 PM (yTvNw)

29 Oh, by the way.
You can see To Kill A Mockingbird performed in the courthouse by local residents of Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. It's quite good.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 06:01 PM (2Ez/1)

30 But here in SC, it's still too hot to eat outside.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 06:01 PM (qFwJc)

31 Posted by: TRex- shed architect dino at August 01, 2026 05:59 PM (jnBG1)

You can definitely build a usable shed out of pallets.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 06:01 PM (KC5Lt)

32 I wish we had room for a garden shed! I think they can be super cute.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 06:02 PM (Wmg4n)

33
You know, I don't think I've ever known anyone who had a shed,

I don't mean a shed like the equivalent of a closet where tools and gardening stuff is kept.

I mean, a proper shed with enough room to come outside and work a hobby or some such thing.

although...

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, our next door neighbor made an underground bomb shelter behind his garage.

It was supposed to be a secret but his kid blabbed about it. He'd always shoo us away when we kids'd come to watch him making it.

I guess he wanted it to be secret so when the Bombs started falling, no one would come beating on his shelter door like that Twilight Zone episode.

It was awfully small though. Like just enough room for everyone to sit in a line of chairs. I figure 30 minutes inside that and they all be stabbing each other with sporks and sharpened lids from canned fruit cocktail salad.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 06:02 PM (iJfKG)

34 Go forth. Design and build thy shed. Send photos and I'll post them.

I'll be thinking about this tonite. Such a clever use of materials and space.

Its an expression of what matters to the man that builds it. OK - now I'm sounding like an Artsy Fartsy Faggot.

That shit is interesting.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 06:03 PM (swwNP)

35 Doesn't Grrrrrlll Power dictate at least an obligatory mention of the Almighty She Shed?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 01, 2026 06:04 PM (2Ez/1)

36 No, Wolfus. The walk-up is on the other side of the building from the drive- thru.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026

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Ah. Sensible. I had no idea, since I don't use those options.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

37 You can definitely build a usable shed out of pallets.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 06:01 PM
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I'm convinced you can build almost anything out of pallets. The universal lego piece for adult projects. Of course, if your project doesn't turn out, either disassemble and try again or throw the whole thing on the bonfire and start over.

Posted by: TRex- palletized dino at August 01, 2026 06:05 PM (jnBG1)

38 27 ... "You can buy some really nice prebuilt wood sheds that they will bring in on a truck and plop down most anywhere on some concrete blocks, no foundation needed. Finish it inside however you want. When you figure the cost of building, painting, and roofing one, plus the time involved, it's a pretty good deal."

We have one of those. When my FIL had to move in with us we had to make room. That shed became a library, radio shack, and sitting room.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2026 06:05 PM (yTvNw)

39 You can see To Kill A Mockingbird performed in the courthouse by local residents of Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. It's quite good.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026

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I've always wanted to take a road trip up there. When do they perform it, only once a year, or seasonally, or what?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:06 PM (wzUl9)

40 I saw one prebuilt shed paneled inside with pallet wood. It looked pretty good, rustic. I saw another paneled inside with tongue and groove, all over including the ceiling. It looked nice and cozy but kind of elaborate and expensive for a shed. Cedar would be cool though.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 06:06 PM (MWfyi)

41 Doesn't Grrrrrlll Power dictate at least an obligatory mention of the Almighty She Shed?

Sure. About five minutes after they get off their ass and build one.

Hence the difference. You know how builds a She Shed ? A Man.

I'm really thinking about a Billiard Shed now.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 06:06 PM (swwNP)

42 I got luck , saving quite of bit of materials
The windows came from a church we installed then just a couple years later took out for further renovations.
And building it myself, with some help certainly saved a lot.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:07 PM (Ia/+0)

43 My 'shed' is extra bedrooms I've turned into a media room and an art studio.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 06:07 PM (KC5Lt)

44 Try again on winter picture of my outbuilding
https://tinyurl.com/amcpxnk4
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:54 PM (Ia/+0)

Wow that's a nice 'shed' .
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026

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Looks snug. Is there a potbellied stove inside?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

45 Try again on winter picture of my outbuilding
https://tinyurl.com/amcpxnk4
Posted by: Skip

My what I call outbuilding is 16x30 and has loft with staircase to it
Posted by: Skip

So that's where you put the relatives who drop in to visit unannounced?

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 06:08 PM (VHUov)

46 fd - when you attend the nurburgring 24 hour race, you'll see people bringing in pallets on trailers. They build lodging, viewing platforms, showers, etc. Everything goes on the bonfire eventually so you don't have to take it home.

Posted by: TRex- nordschleife dino at August 01, 2026 06:08 PM (jnBG1)

47 Try again on winter picture of my outbuilding
https://tinyurl.com/amcpxnk4
Posted by: Skip

My what I call outbuilding is 16x30 and has loft with staircase to it
Posted by: Skip

Looks kind of like an old-fashioned "Mother-in-Law" room.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 06:10 PM (iJfKG)

48 And there's still not enough space.
Posted by: fd
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I'm frequently reminded that you can never have enough space...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 06:10 PM (XfIK1)

49 "Everything goes on the bonfire eventually so you don't have to take it home."

That's perfect. The human urge to build, counterbalanced by the human urge to destroy.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 06:11 PM (MWfyi)

50 You can buy some really nice prebuilt wood sheds that they will bring in on a truck and plop down most anywhere on some concrete blocks, no foundation needed. Finish it inside however you want. When you figure the cost of building, painting, and roofing one, plus the time involved, it's a pretty good deal.
Posted by: fd
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I have a "Tuff Shed," which they sell at Home Depot. It was built on-site and painted in less than a day by one dude. To a girl with no skillz, that was astounding. My yard is very sloped and there was just enough flat space to put it next to my patio with no digging/grading. My little shed is just for storage, but I love it so much. Sometimes I wish I had room for a riding mower, but I can't afford one anyway.

I have surprised myself by slowly collecting various small yard tools and actually using many of them, including a battery powered chainsaw.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 06:11 PM (PcoR0)

51 I have a commercial shed (8' x 12') in the backyard that I just love.
Finally, some place to put all my gardening stuff! It also doubles as a storage unit- Christmas bins and extra linens. I have a small work table from my grandmother's and a big IKEA pine utility shelving unit. He put batten across some of the wall joists, to store rebar, bamboo, stakes, and plastic pipe- I make a lot of PVC irrigation units for the raised beds- and hangers for the big tools.

We ordered it in the same colors as the house, so it fits in nicely.

He is not a gardener himself- far from it- but indulges me by building me whatever I ask for. Raised beds, leaf bins, compost sifters, etc. I'm a lucky girl.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 06:12 PM (f+FmA)

52 1) Housing and garden patterns - Dense terraced housing and relatively small private gardens (especially in towns and suburbs) made a compact outbuilding practical. Unlike larger American yards with detached garages, British gardens often had just enough space for a modest shed at the end of the plot.

That's why I don't have a "shed." My 3rd garage stall is my shed. The HOA nazis don't allow a shed if you have 3 stalls.

Though one guy in the neighborhood cheated by building a "playhouse" for his kids. Fancy fascia and little windows and stuff. Looks cute on the outside. But it's a shed on the inside. I'm not even sure that he has kids.....

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 06:13 PM (VHUov)

53 As for my pipe smoking, no new purchases until today. I've been using a nice little coffee saucer as an ashtray -- until I dropped it yesterday and chipped a neat half-moon out of one edge. That's not something I want to handle. So I've bought a vintage glass ashtray on eBay, and am looking for some corks that I can fasten into it, with glue or tape, to tap my pipe out onto.

After I bought this one, I discovered there were vintage ashtrays available with a cork already installed. Oh, well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)

54 Try again on winter picture of my outbuilding
https://tinyurl.com/amcpxnk4
Posted by: Skip
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That's your hobby shed? It looks like a house! That is absolutely fantastic!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 06:14 PM (XfIK1)

55 With my movie vault/plex replacement complete, I've added some metrics pages and was shocked to learn that I have more films from 2000-2010 than any other decade, owing to all of the Super Hero and Sequel films.

I also have no films categorized as horror films in my library and the top five actors in my collection are Hanks, SLJackson, ScarJo, Vin Diesel, and Harrison Ford.

And I only have 4 films from the 30's in my collection.

I’m going to add some more graphs for other personnel like cinematographer, writer, etc.

Also going to add a credit roll feature where when you click on the movie info you can see a simulated end credit crawl.

I discovered there is no api that captures a films end credits but they do have credit list data.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 06:16 PM (XV/Pl)

56 I"ve got sheds.
A smoke shed, attached to the pole barn shed.
The wood shed.
The garden shed (houses garden tools, irrigation crap and what-not). The last has a half moon above the door cause the neighbors can see it.

Posted by: MkY at August 01, 2026 06:16 PM (q6tQZ)

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Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 06:16 PM (XV/Pl)

If I were to do that, I'd have a fairly large category of horror films.

As a general proposition, I think horror films retain their rewatchability better than most other genres.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 06:19 PM (iJfKG)

58 39 You can see To Kill A Mockingbird performed in the courthouse by local residents of Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. It's quite good.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026

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I've always wanted to take a road trip up there. When do they perform it, only once a year, or seasonally, or what?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:06

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Yes. Tickets go on sale in November for next April.

https://tinyurl.com/npcvr7tt

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 01, 2026 06:19 PM (2Ez/1)

59 We did paint the interior, including the floor, so it is nicely finished.
Over the decades, we have worked on enough projects together that I can tackle small ones from scratch successfully by myself.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 06:22 PM (f+FmA)

60 I don't recall seeing too many sheds back in the day. Unless it was a miniature barn kind of thing.

What got the ball rolling was Sears or K-mart started selling these sheet metal shed panel kits with sliding doors. Maybe 10x10 or something like that, perfect for lawnmowers and garden supplies, and teenagers up to no good.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 06:23 PM (/5hFq)

61 I'd like to have a shed with a wall dormer. I've always liked wall dormers. Maybe even an eyebrow dormer just to make it unique.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 06:24 PM (2Ez/1)

62 No running water, there is a gas fireplace that needs TLC, can't keep it going, but has a thermostat.
https://tinyurl.com/39bcypcb

Its 3 parts, room , shop with stairs to loft and open between loft and shop area.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:24 PM (Ia/+0)

63 Skip, your shed is gorgeous!

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 06:24 PM (f+FmA)

64 My shed came with the house. So far I have kept my hobbying to the garage and used the shed for storage, but it would be a decent hobby place if I ran some lighting out there on an extension cord. The shed in the top pic needs some hobbyist restoration work fast!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 06:25 PM (aJQbY)

65 We had a shed, we called it the shed, that was attached to the back of our old farmhouse. My dad, the original Tommy Tool Time, turned it into his workshop and we used it as a base of operations to restore the farm.

He had every tool known and unknown to man in that place. It wasn't fancy, ironically it was the one place we left standing we didn't rehab, but it was awesome. Big, wide pine floors that were 200+ years old, huge sliding door on the side you could drive a truck through, a loft area were the feral cats reigned and at the far end a two seat, attached outhouse. It was very old and didn't smell, hadn't been used in forever, so we decided to leave it because two seat outhouse.

Great shed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 06:27 PM (viF8m)

66
Welcome Hobbiests
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

*polite cough*

The correct term is "Hobbyoids".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 06:27 PM (O0L8i)

67 For Wolfus and the other pipe smokers. Most of the blends I've been smoking lately have been flake style or coarse cut. I'm finding that packing the bowl with them a bit looser leads to a cooler smoke that lets more of the flavors come through. There's still some resistance in the draw, just less than I usually do.

Also, I got out a couple of large bowl corn cob pipes, the MM Mark Twain and the MacArthur. They work especially well with with flavored blends like Sutliff Rum and Maple.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2026 06:27 PM (yTvNw)

68 Wow, Skip, that's practically a tinyhome!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 06:28 PM (aJQbY)

69 That's one hell of a "shed" Skip. Wow.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 06:29 PM (viF8m)

70 perfect for lawnmowers and garden supplies, and teenagers up to no good.
Posted by: Common Tater

And groundhogs!

Posted by: Fred at August 01, 2026 06:31 PM (M8n4Y)

71
From the Pet Thread

There were several standard poodles in the dog show today. A gray one who had been clipped into that "tufts on the legs and tail" style, and a couple of black ones who had not been clipped like that and just looked as if they had thick curly Sicilian hair.

Wolfus, there are two clips, the saddle clip (the first you described) and the puppy clip (the second). Any poodle in any of the three varieties (Standard, Miniature or Toy) must be in a saddle clip after the age of one.

I am accustomed when working as a steward in a ring with poodles to be asked by the judge for the age of the dog when one in a puppy clip is being shown in a non-puppy class.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 06:34 PM (O0L8i)

72 Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 06:16 PM (XV/Pl)

You need to add the Thin Men series. Also you should have all the famous movie's from 1939 which many call the greatest movie year.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 06:34 PM (KC5Lt)

73 and teenagers up to no good.
Posted by: Common Tater

My dad, who went on hobby binges, built a small houseboat in our backyard and had it towed out to Lake Travis, where it became a party boat for several of my younger siblings. They still talk about it fifty years on.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 06:40 PM (f+FmA)

74
Wow, Skip, that's practically a tinyhome!
Posted by: RandomDave

It's too big to be tiny.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2026 06:41 PM (Cqx++)

75 For those who do needle work, especially needle felting, I came across an amazing YT channel: Milin Woolfelt. The lady uses needle felting to make Brambly Hedge scenes for stop motion videos. Everything in the videos is felted: the mouse figures, the rooms and everything in them. If she breaks an egg the yolk and white are felted. Cut a strawberry and the interior is felted. The damn fire on the hearth is felted. The attention to detail is beyond belief and wonderfully creative. I don't do needle felting and certainly don't have the patience for such detailed work in the videos. I just watch in amazement.

Found out there are other YT channels that do similar but the Brambly Hedge connection won my heart. I think those books are the best children's books since Beatrix Potter.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2026 06:41 PM (yTvNw)

76 How much elbow room do those little arms need? 🤔

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2026 06:41 PM (5LIEJ)

77 My other hobby is pizza making, hope its a good one

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:42 PM (Ia/+0)

78 You need to add the Thin Men series. Also you should have all the famous movie's from 1939 which many call the greatest movie year.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 06:34 PM (KC5Lt)

Gangster movies- anything with Edward G. Robinson or James Cagney.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 06:42 PM (f+FmA)

79 fyi - Actor Vincent Pastore from The Sopranos dies at the age of 80

Posted by: TRex- show biz news dino at August 01, 2026 06:44 PM (jnBG1)

80 76 How much elbow room do those little arms need? 🤔

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2026 06:41 PM
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Ample.

Posted by: TRex- agoraphobic dino at August 01, 2026 06:48 PM (jnBG1)

81 I do most other kinds of needlework, but needle felting just didn't click. I think it was the effort/result ratio, plus those needles are SHARP!

But her work is amazing.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 06:49 PM (f+FmA)

82 JTB: re felt:

That answers a question for me. I keep getting email addresses for felt in my mail, and I keep muttering, who could possibly want that much felt?

Now I know. Thanks.

Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026 06:53 PM (7m/2p)

83 My little shed is just for storage, but I love it so much. Sometimes I wish I had room for a riding mower, but I can't afford one anyway.

I have surprised myself by slowly collecting various small yard tools and actually using many of them, including a battery powered chainsaw.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 06:11 PM (PcoR0)
Next you will be wanting a backhoe.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 06:54 PM (LHPAg)

84 35 Doesn't Grrrrrlll Power dictate at least an obligatory mention of the Almighty She Shed?
Posted by: I gotta ask at August 01, 2026 06:04 PM (2Ez

I am not sure if it counts as a she shed, but I am currently trying to convince J to buy me what used to be a 1960s gas station for $1.5m that is currently pretty much cement inside. But it is across the street from the water! I could turn it into my studio and stop paying rent! It’s brilliant. But he is no longer responding to me….

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 06:56 PM (OoFl2)

85 "Next you will be wanting a backhoe.
Posted by: Eromero"

And a shed to keep it in.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 06:59 PM (MWfyi)

86 Next you will be wanting a backhoe.
Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 06:54 PM (LHPAg)
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What's wrong with wanting a backhoe?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 06:59 PM (5ExGj)

87 I have surprised myself by slowly collecting various small yard tools and actually using many of them, including a battery powered chainsaw.
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 06:11 PM (PcoR0)
Next you will be wanting a backhoe.
Posted by: Erome
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TRex has entered the conversation....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:00 PM (XfIK1)

88 I need a hobby pole barn.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 07:04 PM (S41Gd)

89 When I downsized my business and moved everything home I saved a bunch every month on rent, which went to pay for a storage building to keep my parts inventory in. I don't miss that power bill either. One window AC unit handles that building.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:05 PM (MWfyi)

90 "I need a hobby pole barn."

40x100x20 ought to do it.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:07 PM (MWfyi)

91 TRex has entered the conversation....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:00 PM
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Sorry - missed your post. Was busy shopping for used backhoes. 604 currently up for auction.
https://tinyurl.com/bdffsnce

Posted by: TRex- digger dino at August 01, 2026 07:07 PM (jnBG1)

92 "I need a hobby pole barn."

40x100x20 ought to do it.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:07 PM (MWfyi)

Yes, yes it would.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 07:09 PM (S41Gd)

93 Derksen sheds. They are nice quality, delivered to your place. I had a smaller one put in this year, so that I could get some of the junk out of the house. The garage here was converted to a room years ago. And everyone in town has sheds. Most have the backyard covered with one, like my neighbor.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 01, 2026 07:11 PM (bkuEU)

94 92
Yes, yes it would.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 07:09 PM
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Presumably with power outlets for amps??

Posted by: TRex- guitar tech dino at August 01, 2026 07:11 PM (jnBG1)

95 "I need a hobby pole barn."

40x100x20 ought to do it.
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:07 PM (MWfyi)
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I'm pretty sure that's bigger than my entire backyard.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 07:11 PM (FZ29D)

96 And everyone in town has sheds. Most have the backyard covered with one, like my neighbor.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 01, 2026 07:11 PM (bkuEU)

Word. I know everyone on our block, at least, has one.

Posted by: sal at August 01, 2026 07:13 PM (f+FmA)

97 "I need a hobby pole barn."

40x100x20 ought to do it.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:07 PM (MWfyi)

Yes, yes it would.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 07:09 PM (S41Gd)

My wife would love that. She's the handyman in our family.

I'm cool with that. I still lift heavy stuff for her.

She also wants Scottish cows.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 01, 2026 07:13 PM (0aYVJ)

98 It always amazed me how these backyard taverns get away with serving beer, wine, and liquor. I guess the understanding is it's a BYOB situation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 01, 2026 07:16 PM (8E0Ba)

99 33 I guess he wanted it to be secret so when the Bombs started falling, no one would come beating on his shelter door like that Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 06:02 PM (iJfKG)
I was halfway through reading this and my mind went to the same episode. Without googling, I think the man who played the grandfather in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was in it. Same one in Chico and the Man.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 01, 2026 07:17 PM (SjAWL)

100 I have a woodshed. It is made from salvaged poles, saplings I cut and shaped with a chainsaw, and salvaged metal roofing.
It holds firewood, and the cats hunt mice and rats there.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 07:18 PM (rbvCR)

101 "She also wants Scottish cows."

What makes them special?

I learned something about cow branding today. Some folks figured out how to make their brands so that they could not be branded over by rustlers.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:19 PM (MWfyi)

102 Next you will be wanting a backhoe.
Posted by: Eromero
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Actually, I kinda sorta want a flamethrower. But I'm already enough of a terror with the tools I have.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 07:21 PM (PcoR0)

103 I've had one shed for some time, but a few years ago I said I was thinking of getting another.

Posted by: Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson at August 01, 2026 07:21 PM (5YmYl)

104 Yes, yes it would.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 07:09 PM
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Presumably with power outlets for amps??

Posted by: TRex- guitar tech dino at August 01, 2026 07:11 PM (jnBG1)

No, it would be for harley world. One of the shops I work out of will eventually close, so I need to set up all my stuff so the better customers don't get tossed out into the cold.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 07:22 PM (S41Gd)

105 Aw, damn, I should have checked for a Two Sheds joke first...

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 01, 2026 07:22 PM (5YmYl)

106 The flamethrower would be for the kudzu. Yes, that's it, the kudzu...

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 01, 2026 07:23 PM (PcoR0)

107 Do Scottish cows produce Scotch?

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)

108 Off topic, sorry TRex, but this was funny. Getting dinner going and realized I only have lettuce for a salad, which is very bizarre in this house. My daughter said “Mom. We eat vegetables every day of our lives. Our cookies have hidden vegetables in them. I think we will be okay just this once.”

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 07:23 PM (OoFl2)

109 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Thanks for being here. Come back next week for another hobby thread with a different theme.

You're welcome to hang out in the Hobby Thread shed for a while if you'd like. Don't forget to stop by Club ONT later tonight.

On a separate note, seeing pretty serious fire activity near Spokane, WA. Lots of airborne assets involved. Best wishes to any morons in the area.

Posted by: TRex- shedtastic dino at August 01, 2026 07:23 PM (jnBG1)

110 I got my second electric spinning wheel today. Both are by Dreaming Robots and this one just finished its kickstarter. I really like the guy's philosophy. He is tring to make affordable spinning equipment to get people interested in it. Wooden spinning wheels are up around a thousand dollars now. People seem tothink they need a dual treadle, which the older wheels didn't have. Anyway, this spinner is more like a production wheel. Very quiet and works well.

There are some 3D printed parts that he designed and doesn't make. It's just not profitable so he makes them available for others to use. He has one called the Purr Protector. It's a cage to go around the machine, so the cat can't stick their foot into the flyer when it's running.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 01, 2026 07:25 PM (bkuEU)

111 What is the defining line between needing a liquor license and having a party pub in your back yard? Parking? Access? Currency?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 01, 2026 07:26 PM (8E0Ba)

112 We went by a place today I call "Kudzu Plantation". They have a driveway cut thru a 20' high wall of kudzu that extends 1/4 mile in both directions from the driveway. Whatever is behind there is protected by a Great Wall of Kudzu.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:27 PM (MWfyi)

113 I have 2 sheds. I call them shacks. The little shack and the big shack.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 07:27 PM (kM+80)

114 "The little shack and the big shack."

I do that too!

Posted by: Shaq at August 01, 2026 07:29 PM (MWfyi)

115 What makes them special?

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Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:19 PM (MWfyi)

She thinks they're cute.

Simple as that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 01, 2026 07:29 PM (0aYVJ)

116 "She thinks they're cute.

Simple as that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X"

So are chinchillas. And they are easier to ranch.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:31 PM (MWfyi)

117 Piper - at least your daughter knows your scheming health-food ways!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 07:31 PM (aJQbY)

118 I don't know about cute cows. The ugly ones are easier to eat.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:32 PM (MWfyi)

119 What is the defining line between needing a liquor license and having a party pub in your back yard?
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Dickheads in your local government, mostly

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 07:35 PM (8NnWU)

120 Bovington looks spectacular. If only I could Star Trek transporter into a few places in England. This museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Battle of Britain museum in Kent and of course the Beatles stuff in Liverpool. Current England, I dont want to deal with it or support it financially in any way or conventionally travel to or thru it. But there is some special stuff from the bettrr days there.

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 01, 2026 07:36 PM (3/XaG)

121
At least 3 dead in shooting at In and Out in Idaho Falls.

WTH is with people?

Posted by: four seasons at August 01, 2026 07:38 PM (/QHx4)

122 I thought In N Out was just in CA?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:39 PM (XfIK1)

123 In south Georgia, we don’t have sheds, we have back houses. You can use it as a shed, and many men do, but it’s real raison d’être is to have a place to get away from the womenfolk. When I was working I used mine as an office and library. I would often grade papers and work on lessons there, or read, or whatever. I have all my math and physics texts that I used in my education and also my science fiction collection there. Now that I am retired, and my wife has died, I find I spend less time there.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 07:39 PM (ZVgZ4)

124
Grateful,

They have expanded.

Posted by: four seasons at August 01, 2026 07:40 PM (/QHx4)

125 At least 3 dead in shooting at In and Out in Idaho Falls.

WTH is with people?

Posted by: four seasons at August 01, 2026 07:38 PM (/QHx4)

Twin Falls, not Idaho Falls. Twin has a rather rich ethnic diversity.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 01, 2026 07:41 PM (0aYVJ)

126 There's space in my back yard for a shed, but it's occupied by an elevated deck with a sporadically-used table, six chairs, and a gas fire feature. I don't think I can persuade the wife to give up the deck.

Posted by: PabloD at August 01, 2026 07:42 PM (OygQN)

127 >>What is the defining line between needing a liquor license and having a party pub in your back yard?

Sale of beer/wine/liquor.

BYOB is fine. Give-away, such as hosting a party, is fine.

Also-- dickheads in local govt.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 07:42 PM (rdVOm)

128 Grateful,

They have expanded.
Posted by: four seasons
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The things one learns on the mighty mighty hobby thread....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:44 PM (XfIK1)

129 Shot houses have been a thing around here for a long time. Even more so when Sunday alcohol sales was not allowed. Lots of people been shot in a shot house.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:45 PM (MWfyi)

130
Pug

Sorry. Son daughter inlaw and four grandchildren are travelling through Idaho today on their way to Washington state.

Knowing that we immediately got nervous.

Posted by: four seasons at August 01, 2026 07:47 PM (/QHx4)

131 There's a Hammer movie on Svengoolie tonight.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:48 PM (MWfyi)

132 Pug
Sorry. Son daughter inlaw and four grandchildren are travelling through Idaho today on their way to Washington state.
Knowing that we immediately got nervous.
Posted by: four seasons
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Prayers that they were no where near either Falls.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:48 PM (XfIK1)

133 I have 2 sheds. I call them shacks. The little shack and the big shack.
Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 07:27 PM (kM+80)
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Which one is the love shack?

Posted by: The B-52s at August 01, 2026 07:48 PM (FZ29D)

134
I learned something about cow branding today. Some folks figured out how to make their brands so that they could not be branded over by rustlers.
Posted by: fd

The Platner method.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2026 07:50 PM (Cqx++)

135 Pug,
Scottish cows first of all are adorable, short legged, like pull toys. But they have an undercoat underneath that long outer coat, which means they keep themselves warmer. I forget the particulars, but it means they can be less fatty, and their meat is healthier. There are people who seek it out.

Also they're not fussy eaters, so easy to keep. Not sure I would say hobby-easy. But definitely rancher-easier.

Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026 07:50 PM (7m/2p)

136 Also they're not fussy eaters, so easy to keep. Not sure I would say hobby-easy. But definitely rancher-easier.
Posted by: Wenda
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It never ceases to amaze me the collective brain trust of the Horde....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:52 PM (XfIK1)

137 WE HAZ A MOVIE MARQUE

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:53 PM (Ia/+0)

138 I love sheds and hate movies.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 07:56 PM (kM+80)

139 There are 4 outbuildings here.

The Shop-- 24 x 30 insulated pole building. Hubby's woodworking area, tool & equipment storage plus some of my tools & late BF's crap.

The Woodshed-- 8 x 16 pre-built shed, full of various lumber & scrap wood, and some miscellaneous crap.

The Barn-- 12 x 16 with loft (we took pics of HDepot units for the construction details, then built our own.) Storage for Christmas decor & all kinds of other crap, plus lawn tractor.

The Garage-- 12 x 16 with 8ft rollup door & ramp to street. No, car won't fit inside. LOL. Mostly car maintenance stuff inside, plus more crap.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 07:56 PM (rdVOm)

140 JQ, you have your own nation-state!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:58 PM (XfIK1)

141 JQ, you have your own nation-state!
Posted by: The Grateful

Lol, yes. And it's full of crap!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 07:59 PM (rdVOm)

142 OK Ronster, which is your favorite: the large shack or the small shack?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 07:59 PM (XfIK1)

143 REALLY, THERE IS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

144 Pity, after all of that, there's still over 1/4 acre that needs mowing.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:00 PM (rdVOm)

145 REALLY, not interested in movies! Thanks anyway.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:00 PM (rdVOm)

146 Pity, after all of that, there's still over 1/4 acre that needs mowing.
Posted by: JQ
******
Wow, you have quite the spread to care for. Impressive

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 08:02 PM (XfIK1)

147 Skip, this is the non movie HT afterparty, or pre Club ONT party. No disrespect to any of the movie COBS, but there are those of us who do not care for movies, and for very good reasons....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 08:03 PM (XfIK1)

148 Grateful, the big one is my favorite

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:06 PM (kM+80)

149 Thing here is-- there's a 200 sq ft limit on a single shed's "footprint" before permit is required. Over 1000 sq ft, one must have a fire access road to it. Hence the 30 x 33 models.

It's common to see many sheds in a single yard, as a work around. (Bet many also have power, either with- or without- any permit.)

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:06 PM (rdVOm)

150 REALLY, THERE IS A NOOD

Maybe we don't give a shit.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:08 PM (kM+80)

151 TRex is having an extra "garage" on the new property, and I wouldn't be surprised to see one or more shed/shacks/other building too down the line.

Hey JQ, is the bar open early or do you have the keys so I can get us some liquid refreshments?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 08:09 PM (XfIK1)

152 Bar's always open! LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:11 PM (rdVOm)

153 152 Bar's always open! LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:11 PM
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'murica!

Posted by: TRex- bar restocking dino at August 01, 2026 08:13 PM (jnBG1)

154 OK Ronster, what'll you have on this fine Sat night?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 08:15 PM (XfIK1)

155 The story on the big shack. Maybe it was a grainery at one time or maybe someone lived in it during hard times. It had newspaper glued to the walls on the inside and a place for a chimney though the roof. It was in bad shape and free, so I hauled it here and resurrected it.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:18 PM (kM+80)

156 The usual. a Margarita.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:19 PM (kM+80)

157 It was in bad shape and free, so I hauled it here and resurrected it.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:18 PM
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Jacked it up from the bottom and rolled it on a flatbed? That's a project.

Posted by: TRex - building mover dino at August 01, 2026 08:20 PM (jnBG1)

158 >>TRex is having an extra "garage" on the new property, and I wouldn't be surprised to see one or more shed/shacks/other building too down the line.

That's awesome.

When/if you trench for adding power, just be ***certain*** you know where all the other stuff is!

Yes, we called 811, but even they don't always know where all the old water pipes may be... Hit our domestic pipe at 2ft depth. It should've been 3 ft down, but was not. And the expanding "patch" we placed back then (2007), gave up & leaked underground last year.

If I could stand being around people, I'd move to an apartment so not to have all this shyte to do.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:21 PM (rdVOm)

159 TRex. It was lifted on an old 2 ton Ford flatbed with some help with jacks and a backhoe.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:25 PM (kM+80)

160 159 TRex. It was lifted on an old 2 ton Ford flatbed with some help with jacks and a backhoe.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:25 PM
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And thus why it makes sense for everyone to own a backhoe (or have a friend with a backhoe).

Posted by: TRex - john deere dino at August 01, 2026 08:27 PM (jnBG1)

161 It was lifted on an old 2 ton Ford flatbed with some help with jacks and a backhoe.
Posted by: Ronster

Did you back it up rapidly & then slam on the brakes to dismount it?

Lie to me if you must...

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:28 PM (rdVOm)

162 JQ, I don't think it would have stayed in one piece with that type of unloading.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:32 PM (kM+80)

163 Oh. Heh. Of course...

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 08:33 PM (rdVOm)

164 TRex, I ran my old mans backhoe for many hours. It's fun for about 5 minutes and that is all. The loader is the best part.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:35 PM (kM+80)

165 164 TRex, I ran my old mans backhoe for many hours. It's fun for about 5 minutes and that is all. The loader is the best part.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:35 PM
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Hmmm... maybe I'll settle for a Bobcat.

Posted by: TRex - digging in circles dino at August 01, 2026 08:38 PM (jnBG1)

166 TRex, good thinking. And there are many attachments available for the Bobcat.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:42 PM (kM+80)

167 I am not a Bobcat salesman. Maybe find a John Deere.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:46 PM (kM+80)

168 Evening, TRex and Hobby Horde. Avoiding the Movie Thread, as per usual. Don't have a "hobby shed" per se, but I have hobby-related shops. I was working on the big shop today, shuffling contents around (and cleaning) so that I can bring in my rolling warehouse ladder and hang some roofing sheet metal as upper wall cladding in the interior. Job #1 was to get the car in the bay next to the hoist outside, so the hoist could be moved. Jack up rear end, shift sideways, roll back, rinse and repeat about 3 times, until rear end was clear of tire machine, and pointed at open door. Got it started, no problem, happy, happy! But it sure doesn't want to move; seems to have a brake dragging. But got it outside, parked where I wanted to park it.

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Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 08:48 PM (1z8ji)

169 Evening, TRex and Hobby Horde. Avoiding the Movie Thread, as per usual. Don't have a "hobby shed" per se, but I have hobby-related shops. I was working on the big shop today, shuffling contents around (and cleaning) so that I can bring in my rolling warehouse ladder and hang some roofing sheet metal as upper wall cladding in the interior. Job #1 was to get the car in the bay next to the hoist outside, so the hoist could be moved. Jack up rear end, shift sideways, roll back, rinse and repeat about 3 times, until rear end was clear of tire machine, and pointed at open door. Got it started, no problem, happy, happy! But it sure doesn't want to move; seems to have a brake dragging. But got it outside, parked where I wanted to park it.

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Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 08:48 PM (1z8ji)

170 167 I am not a Bobcat salesman. Maybe find a John Deere.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 08:46 PM
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Decades of Deere history here, so that would align with the ancestral stars.

Posted by: TRex - nothing runs like a dino at August 01, 2026 08:48 PM (jnBG1)

171 Wow! double post, sorry about that!
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Job #2: sweep and vacuum where car was sitting. Done.
Job #3: put hoist onto its traveling caster wheels (which came with it), and roll it sideways to where the car used to be. Easily done, yay!
Job #4: sweep and vacuum, and scrape grease blobs off floor where hoist had been. Done

Job #5: move small stuff placed along east wall, vacuum, take large objects off wall. Clean bird nest and mummified bird out of plastic vapor barrier over insulation, staple vapor barrier back.

Job #6: drag out pressure washer, hook it to water, and pressure wash dust and bird shit off the poor car I drove outside.

Done for the day. Didn't hang a single sheet of tin, but the way is now clear to finish the the east wall, and turn the corner onto the north wall. I will be able to do maybe 20 feet of the north wall before major moving of "stuff" must be done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 08:56 PM (1z8ji)

172 AOP, you have the most consistent work ethic of anyone I know...AND you can do stuff!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 08:59 PM (XfIK1)

173 AOP knows a lot of stuff and he applies his knowledge very well.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 09:02 PM (kM+80)

174 How's the drink Ronster, want another one?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 09:04 PM (XfIK1)

175 Grateful, Sure I'll take another, but don't make it as strong as the last one.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 09:08 PM (kM+80)

176 It's windy & hot outside, with poor air quality. All I managed was to secure gazebo frame to a couple of deck pillars, using ratchet straps. Thing was rocking with the gusts, only held down by a few screws at each corner, and I don't want it to tear out of the decking!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 09:08 PM (rdVOm)

177 JQ, are you getting any of the smoke from the fires in Spokane?

Apologies Ronster, sometimes I get a tad excited making mixed drinks....hope this one is better.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at August 01, 2026 09:11 PM (XfIK1)

178 JQ, hope you get the gazebo under control.

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 09:15 PM (kM+80)

179 Yes, Grateful. Well, we've been getting smoke from *somewhere* (likely several locations) for about a week. Strong smell of it this morning, and stung my eyes a bit. Hope this wind blows it out of the valley, at least for a while!

So dry here that my sinuses are aching. Heat water & breathe steam for relief at night. Ugh.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 09:16 PM (rdVOm)

180 Heading to my TV chair to watch Jimmy Failah(sp)

Posted by: Ronster at August 01, 2026 09:17 PM (kM+80)

181 Done deal, Ronster! It's not wobbly now. Current gusts are ~30mph & predicted stronger overnight. I'm as ready as possible.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 09:18 PM (rdVOm)

182 JQ - are you preparing to sling drinks for patrons in Club ONT? Always appreciate you taking good care of the Horde.

Posted by: TRex - secret ingredient dino at August 01, 2026 09:22 PM (jnBG1)

183 Time to begin preparing supper. Going to grill a steak.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 09:24 PM (1z8ji)

184 I'll be here for a while, TRex.

I have a drink recipe for you. Will send. Needs some editing for privacy, though... and I don't have a decent program for that.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 09:25 PM (rdVOm)

185 184 I'll be here for a while, TRex.

I have a drink recipe for you. Will send. Needs some editing for privacy, though... and I don't have a decent program for that.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 09:25 PM
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Gotcha. Operators are standing by.

Posted by: TRex - recipie box dino at August 01, 2026 09:28 PM (jnBG1)

186 *Pictorial* drink recipe, TRex. LOL.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 09:28 PM (rdVOm)

187 TRex-- Email sent!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 09:40 PM (rdVOm)

188 There should be a bunny rabbit near those bushes by that shed!

Posted by: m at August 02, 2026 03:41 AM (odBC9)

189 Arthur "2 sheds" Jackson

Posted by: Baronov GrayMatter at August 02, 2026 07:01 AM (1kUDb)

190 thinking of a third shed.

Posted by: arthur jackson at August 02, 2026 10:02 AM (Bep7s)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, August 1

Courtesy Donald Sensing

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Scroll down in the thread for more exacting information about color sensitivities in various species. But this gives you an idea why hunters often wear orange.

This might be the craziest animal fact i�ve ever learned https://t.co/ua8O9Wfq5q
— Today Years Old (@todayyearsold) July 27, 2026

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QOUTE OF THE DAY

How we behave toward cats here below determines our place in heaven. . . Robert Heinlein

Courtesy Bluebird of Bitterness

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Meet The PetMorons

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Lurkers and their dogs

Hi K.T,
Very long time lurker from Australia here.
Here are my two Frenchies, Peggy and her little brother Louis. Louis is the guy with the beer and he, sadly, really is a moron. They love cuddling up together when it's cold down here in Australia.

Peggy and Louis are wonderful.

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These two are ying and yang. Tory, the white one is a pure breed husky. Chill and calm. Moon, the black one is a 4 time returned to a shelter adoption because he's kind of a lot to handle. Loves to eat drywall. Best buddies and no class envy here.
TheAlabamaGang

Wow. Great to hear about buddies with different personalities getting along so well with each other. About the drywall eating: could there be an iron deficiency?

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Here are some recent RtC pics in case folks are starving for images. I know his fans are this close to being infected with rabies. So I do my part.
1. Here he is looking imperial.
2. Here he is looking tired of all this.
3. Here is where I discovered that, behind my back, he decided to go into business as a contractor. I've blurred the phone number in case some naughty types wanted to do mischief.
4. Here he is Giving the Look.
Thank you for the weekend threads!
BeckoningChasm

A cat of many moods . . .

And going into business, too!

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We got a Pup Sundae! pic.twitter.com/QCDH0XX2Ed
— Piper (@piper_moves) August 1, 2026

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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 25

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 03:42 PM

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1 Hello Down Under moron. Your doggies looked spoiled as it should be.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 03:51 PM (KC5Lt)

2 Woof!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 03:52 PM (r87wJ)

3 Meow!

RtC looks like a demon spawn of despair!!

Pretty kittuh! Give him a pet. Wear chain metal.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at August 01, 2026 03:57 PM (sAmhv)

4 Afternoon, Pet Folken,

I love the black cat. What's his full name? And perhaps I am a dichromat, but I don't see his image anywhere on the pic with the contractor truck. The "CAT-erpillar" on the truck body, maybe? Or his nickname being RtC? Okay, I get it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 03:58 PM (wzUl9)

5 Yay! Pet Thread!

Chloe the Bengal Kitty is still adjusting. As is Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all).

Chloe is a bit of a klutz. Not very coordinated for a kitty cat.

Still adorable, though. I love her tail, which reminds me of a lemur's tail.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 03:58 PM (FZ29D)

6 Robert the Cat is all business.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 04:03 PM (LHPAg)

7 Tory and Moon are impressive.

We went to a dog show at a local convention center this morning. French bulldogs were there, at least one Siberian husky, and a Kuvasz (an ancient Hungarian animal-guard dog breed, something like a golden retriever but taller and all white).

Plus they had 30-some-odd Shelties/miniature collies. All colors, from sable (like Lassie) to merle (gray and white) and jet, or mostly black. They are beautiful animals. If I thought I could live with and train a dog, that would be my choice. There were also a couple of Schipperkes -- such alert-looking dogs, like miniature black wolves! -- and others we didn't know.

My other observation is that the dog show people, at least the judges and the ones who get in the rings to show off what their dogs look like and how they perform, tend to be younger and in better shape -- and universally better dressed! -- than cat show people or the outside population at large. That alone was refreshing and worth the trip.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:06 PM (wzUl9)

8 RtC looks like a demon spawn of despair!!

Pretty kittuh! Give him a pet. Wear chain metal.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come. at August 01, 2026

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Much like my Stirling, once known as the Evil Black Kitten of War and Pestilence . . . only because he was annoyingly and devastatingly playful, not because he was mean.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)

9 Sitting here with new kitten "Jet". Just got back from PetSmart , although the adoption organization is a third party that uses PetSmart space. He is a black tabby, which I didn't know was possible. Will probably be officially named Hematite and called Tidy by the kids, Hemi by me, and Dodge by Inspector.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:11 PM (lFFaq)

10 Wow you get great pictures of Robert the Cat BC. I don't have any good pictures of black cats I've had over the years.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2026 04:12 PM (PV+Zw)

11 Wow you get great pictures of Robert the Cat BC. I don't have any good pictures of black cats I've had over the years.
Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2026

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Yes. Almost invariably my pics of black cats come out as simple silhouettes, like a Halloween decoration.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

12 Little Dagny Sophia, La Siberienne, has suddenly taken to sleeping on the bed with me in the afternoons along with Stirling. She's done it off and on in her time with me -- next month will be four years -- but at random times. Mostly when the weather is chilly, which it is far from being now.

Unpredictable, these cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:23 PM (wzUl9)

13 Sitting here with new kitten "Jet". Just got back from PetSmart , although the adoption organization is a third party that uses PetSmart space. He is a black tabby, which I didn't know was possible. Will probably be officially named Hematite and called Tidy by the kids, Hemi by me, and Dodge by Inspector.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026

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Send pics! By "black tabby," do you mean that at certain angles you can see darker patterning within his black fur?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)

14 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 04:26 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Louis is the guy with the beer and he, sadly, really is a moron.
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I've got a Frenchie and thought he was stupid too, but I think he's just stubborn. Never had a happier, more clownish dog though.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 04:26 PM (XvL8K)

16 Robert the Cat is all business.

He's watching. Thinking. I like that cat. He has his shit together.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:27 PM (Hsef8)

17 Bob The Cat is looking around and thinking two things.

How in the Hell did you people get in charge, as dumb as you are.

And even as dumb as you are, how did even YOU let shit get this far out of hand.

I'm a fan of Bob the Cat.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:29 PM (Hsef8)

18 By "black tabby," do you mean that at certain angles you can see darker patterning within his black fur?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)

Yes! Like a black panther, but with stripes instead of leopard spots.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:31 PM (lFFaq)

19 Thank you, KT, thank you, folks. Robert the Cat thanks you all as well.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2026 04:31 PM (CHHv1)

20
Yes! Like a black panther, but with stripes instead of leopard spots.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026

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Right; the "melanistic" leopard and jaguar look smoothly black, but in the right light you can see the spots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:33 PM (wzUl9)

21 Robert the Cat thanks you all as well.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2026 04:31 PM (CHHv1)

You tell Bob ... he and are on a first name basis ... to just try to take it one day at a time. Because, look, Humans are a pain in the ass. As he knows I know he knows.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:34 PM (Hsef8)

22 Robert the Cat does that imperius cat thing, "I suppose I'll indulge your human foolishness". He's literally looking down his nose at us in the first two pics

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 04:35 PM (aJQbY)

23 Robert the Cat is all business.

He's watching. Thinking. I like that cat. He has his shit together.
Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026

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All three of my black cats past and present have been just like that. And yet, at the same time, easygoing and adaptable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)

24 Pet Thread! *skritches all around*

The nose knows #1

Alas, the barn cat Buttercup was found dead under some heavy equipment in the barn, too hard to get to, so that will be his resting place. Found after a week of smelling death out there. Buttercup was a good old yeller cat, the only one of the ferals that would actually come up to us and let us pet him. Very sad.

The nose knows #2

I kept telling MiladyJo that something smelled foul in the pantry. Since everything seemed to be sealed in cans, bins, or bags, we couldn't figure it out. Then Milady unpacked the case of cat food we'd bought from Amazon and found that one can was open, and bug-infested. Yuck. Pantry smells okay now.

Pets, including ferals, are a trial in the best of times. Wouldn't want to be without them.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hheeeeere kitty kitty kitty at August 01, 2026 04:35 PM (0poB+)

25 The opening photos are so funny and true. I have gotten that same look from each of our pups at one time or another over the years.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2026 04:39 PM (yTvNw)

26 He is a black tabby, which I didn't know was possible.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:11 PM (lFFaq)
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Penny is a black cat, but if you look at her at just the right angle in just the right light, you can see very slight tabby coloration in her coat with stripes of darker black on her black fur. (Actually, under the right light she also looks like she has very dark *chocolate brown* fur.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)

27 The smooth gray shorthair I've been called "Alfred" (Alfred the Gray, ha ha) visited one morning this week. I have a feeling he has a nominal home somewhere in the complex, with people who let him out to run around. He has no fear of people, knows Linda and me and his feeding station (my front step), and apparently is at home with his lifestyle. I worry that a car will get him, or one of the feral hominid spawn who dwell here will do something unpleasant to him. Or a coyote might snap him up -- though I have never seen a coyote inside the complex, just at night, rarely, on the quiet suburban avenue that runs north of us.

I keep suggesting Linda take him in, but no dice so far.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

28 Dunno if this good doggy vid is legit, but funny

https://tinyurl.com/dde3hz5v

"Moroccan migrant trespassed into a private yard in Ceuta, Spain, and received a "special welcome."

He got out a lot faster than he got in."

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (znREB)

29 Our mascot is currently squeaking his ball incessantly.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 04:43 PM (p4NUW)

30 Moon, the black one is a 4 time returned to a shelter adoption because he's kind of a lot to handle. Loves to eat drywall. Best buddies and no class envy here.
TheAlabamaGang

He's just living up to the legacy of his namesake Moon-moon

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 04:44 PM (znREB)

31 Dunno if this good doggy vid is legit, but funny

Did you watch it close ?

And it may be all AI bullshit, as you say.

That dog is one chill cue from "Hey, how the fuck you doing ? My name is Infidel, how about we bust open the back door and grab a steak to put on the grill" ?

That dog is NOT a guard dog. Which is a fine idea, when you live in town. A fine idea even if you don't.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:46 PM (Hsef8)

32 Hey all,

Here's an update on our cats

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

In non-pet news, our uncle passed away this morning from Stage 4 cancer. He was our last uncle and the last child of our American grandparents.

Posted by: Joyenz at August 01, 2026 04:48 PM (2F0/Y)

33 Penny and Chloe have become closer than I would have thought--literally.

Right now they are both snoozing away a mere 18" or so from each other, which I never believed would happen.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 04:48 PM (FZ29D)

34 I love everyone’s creatures! RtC is awesome.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 04:49 PM (p4NUW)

35 I am sorry for your loss, Joyenz.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 04:49 PM (p4NUW)

36 In non-pet news, our uncle passed away this morning from Stage 4 cancer.

Hey. My condolences. Its a thing, or you would not have mentioned it.

Remember the good times as best you can.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:50 PM (Hsef8)

37 I'm sorry to hear that, Joyenz.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)

38 Sorry for your loss, Joyenz.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026 04:56 PM (/k3in)

39 Penny and Chloe have become closer than I would have thought--literally.

Right now they are both snoozing away a mere 18" or so from each other, which I never believed would happen.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026

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Dagny and Stirling rarely sleep touching each other. I've seen her groom his head with her tongue now and then, and the reverse, but they don't have the buddy closeness Wolf and Chekov did. I'd come out from a nap and find those two curled up together on the couch. Kind of like the scene in Friends where two of the girls come in and find Joey and Ross asleep together on the couch.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:57 PM (wzUl9)

40 (Actually, under the right light she also looks like she has very dark *chocolate brown* fur.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)

That's the case with this kitten as well, although he looks black in most lights.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at August 01, 2026 04:58 PM (lFFaq)

41 Over at my estate, we have a guest who is a standard poodle. Let me give you an idea of what he's like.

"Man, I woke up feeling down and thinking it was going to be a bad day. But then I remembered I'M A POODLE!"

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026 04:59 PM (/k3in)

42 And Stirling has taken to curling or sprawling on my desk to the left of my keyboard when I'm at the computer. That bushy tail keeps flicking over the left-side keys and I have to keep pushing it away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:59 PM (wzUl9)

43 I am afraid of Robert. Contractors are known underworld types.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 04:59 PM (JvZF+)

44 Over at my estate, we have a guest who is a standard poodle. Let me give you an idea of what he's like.

"Man, I woke up feeling down and thinking it was going to be a bad day. But then I remembered I'M A POODLE!"
Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026

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To quote the great philosopher Lorelai Gilmore:

"Oy with the poodles already! As a catch phrase it's right up there with 'Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?' "

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9)

45 I was a bad cat owner this morning. My roly-poly Scout couldn't be pleased. She's a cuddler, but it has to be on her terms. She kept trying to lead me around the house, and I kept following but nothing satisfied her.

It took me two hours to discover that she was trying to tell me my marmalade cat George had trapped himself in a closet!

Bad owner. Bad owner.

Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026 05:02 PM (7m/2p)

46 I am between pets now. We had a brindle pit bitch that I adopted. She was the sweetest thing. Very protective of the family.

We took in a neighbor's kitten 15 years ago. "Mittens" wanted to live the indoor-outdoor life. Neighbor bought the wrong cat to sit inside all day and all night. Wifey renamed her Buffy.

Both Wifey and Buffy are deceased.

I will get a dog, maybe from the shelter. But not until my traveling days are over. For the time being, I am free to move about the country (or the world for that matter).

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:02 PM (qFwJc)

47 Dagny and Stirling rarely sleep touching each other. I've seen her groom his head with her tongue now and then, and the reverse, but they don't have the buddy closeness Wolf and Chekov did. I'd come out from a nap and find those two curled up together on the couch. Kind of like the scene in Friends where two of the girls come in and find Joey and Ross asleep together on the couch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 04:57 PM (wzUl9)
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So far, only Jasmine and Penny ever had that kind of closeness. I'd sometimes find them both snoozing in my office chair. Although Penny and Allie will sleep with me in my bedroom, Allie keeps her distance from Penny.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 05:03 PM (FZ29D)

48 It took me two hours to discover that she was trying to tell me my marmalade cat George had trapped himself in a closet!

Bad owner. Bad owner.
Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026 05:02 PM (7m/2p)
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But good kitty!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 05:04 PM (FZ29D)

49 In non-pet news, our uncle passed away this morning from Stage 4 cancer. He was our last uncle and the last child of our American grandparents.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 01, 2026 04:48 PM (2F0/Y)
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May his memory be a blessing
Che il suo ricordo sia benedizione

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 05:04 PM (JvZF+)

50 Be grateful you can go to his funeral. My beloved uncle died in June of 2020. I was forbidden.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:05 PM (qFwJc)

51 There were several standard poodles in the dog show today. A gray one who had been clipped into that "tufts on the legs and tail" style, and a couple of black ones who had not been clipped like that and just looked as if they had thick curly Sicilian hair.

Years ago a co-worker of mine said that the standard poodle was supposed to be one of the smartest breeds of them all. (No, she did not have a poodle.)

I noticed too that the old saw about "People come to resemble their dogs" was frequently true. The male bulldog owners looked much like their animals, and the most attractive ladies were all pretty much in the group showing the miniature collies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9)

52 I was a bad cat owner this morning. My roly-poly Scout couldn't be pleased. She's a cuddler, but it has to be on her terms. She kept trying to lead me around the house, and I kept following but nothing satisfied her.

It took me two hours to discover that she was trying to tell me my marmalade cat George had trapped himself in a closet!

Bad owner. Bad owner.
Posted by: Wenda at August 01, 2026

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Once in a while I'll see that Stirling is pawing at the lower edge of the pantry door. I open it, and Dagny bounces out. (They both love to go into closets and don't seem to mind being shut in there by accident.)

Oddly, Dagny does not seem to care whether Stirling is locked up or not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

53 Time I went to shave. Not that a dinner trip to Chik-Fil-A is an occasion to dress, or that anybody there will care much.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:11 PM (wzUl9)

54 You get to go inside at a Chick-Fil-A? The height of gracious living indeed.

They built one here near my house. Drive-thru and walk-up window only.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:16 PM (qFwJc)

55 I love the Spicy Deluxe with pepper jack. Peach shakes are in season.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:17 PM (qFwJc)

56 I am afraid of Robert. Contractors are known underworld types.

Bob the Cat ? That Cat, literally, knows things.

I think he's solid. As in "here's my house key" solid.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:20 PM (swwNP)

57 I didn't want to. They made me.

Posted by: Robert the Cat at August 01, 2026 05:23 PM (JvZF+)

58
How we behave toward cats here below determines our place in heaven. . . Robert Heinlein

I find this quote confusing.

Since cats are creatures from the lowest depths of hell, it would seem the heavenly rewarded thing to do would be to give them a swift kick in the keister when met.

Which seems to be an odd thing to post on a pet thread.

Ah, well. Tis' a mystery.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 05:23 PM (iJfKG)

59
I love the Spicy Deluxe with pepper jack. Peach shakes are in season.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:17 PM (qFwJc)

Whataburger's Hot Honey Whatachicken Crisp is now available, I assume to be in direct competition with Spicy Deluxe.

I haven't tried either so I have no recommendation but to say that the picture of the Whataburger item looks yummier.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 05:27 PM (iJfKG)

60 I didn't want to. They made me.
Posted by: Robert the Cat at August 01, 2026 05:23 PM (JvZF+)

Bullshit Bob. They made the circumstances that left you logical choices. Which you made.

Don't apologize, My Catter.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 05:28 PM (swwNP)

61 "Since cats are creatures from the lowest depths of hell, "

No creature comes from hell. Only demons, fallen angels.

Sheesh, where did you go to Sunday School?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 05:29 PM (qFwJc)

62 Chloe's only been here a couple of weeks and she's already figured out where she needs to be when it's feeding time.

Good kitty!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 05:30 PM (FZ29D)

63 WE HAZ A HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:30 PM (Ia/+0)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Aug 1

From Mr. Jimm:

Good morning, Katy!
Last summer I tore out all of the coneflowers and roses from our front garden bed, and replaced them with 40 different varieties of daylillies, about 50 plants in all.
The new bed is simply beautiful! Daylily flowers each last only for 24 hours, but each plant sports multiple stems with multiple flowers on each stem. The result is a riot of colors, with a different set of flowers blooming every morning. Something nice to get me out of bed in the morning!
Just BTW that daylily bed is 7 feet by 22 feet.

I love these! There are more if we can get them formatted to present to The Horde! The one at the top is an unknown variety, and the bottom one is 'Autumn Red'.

Hoping for more photos! What a lot of work, though.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

From By-Tor:

Rib eye, homegrown tomatoes, and esquites (Mexican corn) for lunch after tennis practice.

Looks great! The quality of those tomatoes makes a difference, and go with the corn!

Ah, Nature

Intrepid Liaison/Admiral Ackbar Island update

As a 100% pureblooded cracker, let me offer everyone a friendly, culturally-appropriated "aloha" now that I'm fully moved and integrated on these conquered isles.
I have curated a veritable smorgasbord of photos highlighting both notable flora and fauna I have encountered thus far. Of particular note are the trees...not the ubiquitous palm trees most associate with these tropical climes, but instead a curious and impressive type that spreads a wide canopy, with very few lower branches, which reminds me more of something from an African savanna documentary. They come with a variety of different colored flowers, which I presume delineate different species.

Impressive! Which are your favorites? We may get more later.

Adventure

Time to take a trip?

This is just a little bit of how beautiful our country is, stunning. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/uXLNg9t0qV
— Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@KathleenWinche3) July 26, 2026

Gardens of The Horde

We may see some hummingbirds soon.

And since I really like daylilies, here is Chesapeake Crablegs showing off next to a Shasta daisy.
badgerwx

I don't usually get blossoms every year. Not sure why, but I really like it when they come out.
Diogenes

Vibrant!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, July 25

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:46 PM

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1 109° forecast for van nuys.
One-oh-fuck°.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 01:51 PM (rx8x5)

2 oh please

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 01, 2026 01:53 PM (YlWIZ)

3 109° forecast for van nuys.

Only 106° here. What did you do wrong?

Posted by: KT at August 01, 2026 01:55 PM (rdeQO)

4 I like the unknown daylily. And Chesapeake Crablegs is shaped kind of like Autumn Sunset.

Posted by: KT at August 01, 2026 01:57 PM (rdeQO)

5 Hokey Pokey
What?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 01:57 PM (Be0qP)

6 Oh that beautiful California weather.
They are so lucky to live in paradise.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 01:59 PM (bqIVz)

7 My gardening thread painting . See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 02:05 PM (KC5Lt)

8 gardening thread painting .
Needs sad jap clowns.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 02:09 PM (pbutw)

9 From Boise area: Still hot, but at least not 109 - more like 98. The Oregon smoke was very bad last Sun., and is still present but at least there's a bit less of it.

We power-washed the garage end of the house, so Husband can repaint. Our other project is re-doing the minor landscaping behind the house. Husband dug his drainage trench behind the kitchen. It will need a tube made of landscaping cloth, filled with clean slate rocks, placed deep in the trench. To this end, we are... washing rocks. He built a frame with hardware cloth, onto which we put rocks, we spray them, then save the clean rocks (because you don't want dirt in the drain rocks) until we build the full trench system. Once we get this all built, we can start redoing the edging of the slate rock area along the back of the house - the current edging's all cracked.

Harvesting green beans, occasional tomatoes, occasional strawberries, too many zucchini. I froze some green beans and broccolini. Now watching the cantaloupes, as some are looking like they'll be ready within 2 weeks.

Posted by: Pat* at August 01, 2026 02:10 PM (jnqkv)

10 I learned a little about the beautiful daylily last fall when i happened to be at the home of a master gardener who had just hosted a national daylily tour of her home garden She told me the fun and challenge of growing the different varieties The hobby seems addictive!

Posted by: LASue at August 01, 2026 02:19 PM (bdzMu)

11 Actually the washed landscaping rocks will be going back in place as part of the landscaping, minus the soil that lets the weeds grow. The French drain will be filled with... drain rock!

Posted by: Pat*'s Hubbie at August 01, 2026 02:20 PM (jnqkv)

12 My crepe myrtle bush, which I cut back because I thought it might be dead, busted out and threw off blooms too heavy at the top. Now it has a sad looking flop.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 02:21 PM (XvL8K)

13 Husband tells me I got this wrong - you don't use sharp-edged slate rocks inside a drain like this, because it will poke holes in the cloth. He'll be buying drain rock to put in the drain tube. We're washing the rocks because if we just move them, with the dirt that's already on them, when we put them elsewhere in the blue slate rock areas, they'll grow weeds in that dirt. My fault for not understanding all the specifics of the plan.

Posted by: Pat* at August 01, 2026 02:24 PM (jnqkv)

14 If you can swing it, a great roadtrip byway is called the Schaefer Trail in Utah, technically part of Canyonlands NP. It's a well graded road, unpaved. Cars and high clearance no problem. But it was built merely as a work road, carved out of the vertical side of a mesa to take uranium ore somewhere to be processed. The exposure is pretty gnarly.

The best way to do it would be don't tell your spouse (sitting in the passenger seat, where the view is enough to induce a cardiac event) what road you're on. It would be worth it, I'm sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 02:25 PM (iVjhf)

15 "I have curated a veritable smorgasbord of photos highlighting both notable flora and fauna I have encountered thus far. Of particular note are the trees...not the ubiquitous palm trees most associate with these tropical climes, but instead a curious and impressive type that spreads a wide canopy, with very few lower branches, which reminds me more of something from an African savanna documentary. They come with a variety of different colored flowers, which I presume delineate different species."
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This is what I miss most about Hawai'i.

Growing up there as a kid, the trees there were the perfect jungle gym.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 02:32 PM (5ExGj)

16 So, ummmm, I put a sprinking of coffeed grounds around my roses this year. They look more hardy and healthy than they have in years.

Bonus: less weeding.

I didn't know this was a thing. I forget where I read the advice (maybe here)...so thanks...whomever.

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2026 02:34 PM (dIske)

17 Those lovely trees with spreading canopy, are called "Monkeypod" trees, iianm.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:37 PM (rdVOm)

18 Grandkids came by the other day to pick tomatoes.

The eldest loves the cherry tomatoes and ate more than she put in her bucket.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 02:37 PM (5ExGj)

19 Spent Coffee grounds. No use feeding them the good stuff. It's mulch, basically.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 02:37 PM (iVjhf)

20 Those lovely trees with spreading canopy, are called "Monkeypod" trees, iianm.
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:37 PM (rdVOm)
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Yep.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 02:38 PM (5ExGj)

21 Darn, I can't stay for this thread. Will check it again later.

Thanks, KT!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:39 PM (rdVOm)

22
If you want to hate America, watch the news.
If you want to love America, drive across it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 02:42 PM (2Ez/1)

23 First day of August, and it's 68 degrees here in SE MO.

Drizzly with a light breeze.

It may get up to 70.

Maybe.

Not that I'm complaining or anything.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 02:46 PM (5ExGj)

24 Gardening question: my habanero and poblano pepper plants look great but they still haven't flowered. Are they temperature sensitive? Like, are they waiting for the heat wave to pass before they flower and fruit?

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 02:48 PM (OlzlW)

25 Daylilies have great personalities. They are sunny and don't complain.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 02:49 PM (OlzlW)

26 I'm really enjoying these photos.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 02:50 PM (OlzlW)

27 Is the blog stuck?

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 02:57 PM (OlzlW)

28
If you want to hate America, watch the news.
If you want to love America, drive across it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

What if you get a flat tire?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2026 03:19 PM (Cqx++)

29 Then a good ole' boy will be along shortly to change it, offer you a beer, take you home to meet Mama (Betty Lou Thelma Liz) and generally semi-restore your faith in humanity.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 03:22 PM (iVjhf)

30 Don't let your Great Dane pee on the lawn. I learned the hard way. It's like salting the earth.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 03:24 PM (XvL8K)

31 Afternoon all.
Just took a walk and there is a house along my way that has the most spectacular shade garde, Took some photos I will send for next week. The Crepe Myrtle's are all in blossom here and they are just stunning. Huge difference from when I lived in New England. You just never see giant flowering trees like here

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 03:27 PM (kJmSS)

32 Weather forecast is for a so,I'd week of rain. The summer so far has been extremes

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 03:28 PM (kJmSS)

33 No risk, no adventure.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 03:28 PM (2Ez/1)

34 Just madd it home and inside

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 03:33 PM (Ia/+0)

35 Video was too short.
Heard comments from Europeans this summer they couldn't believe how big the country was plus the various landscapes there were.
Remember European countries are no bigget than some states

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)

36 Hey Sharon!

It might hit 70 today.

Had a strong cold front come through, and pretty much swept all the humidity away.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 03:43 PM (5ExGj)

37 Hi SMH
Makes for good walking weather. Had a couple of breezy days here but then back into the heat. It's going to rain but be in the 90's. Only good part is that the pool I use is pretty quiet. Just the people who actually swim show up.😉

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 04:15 PM (kJmSS)

38 Just cut back my basil plant and made a batch of pesto.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 04:17 PM (kJmSS)

39 All the flowers are very pretty but lilies are my favorites. The red one with the yellow center is nice but the orange Chesapeake Crab legs are my favorite.
polynikes' very colorful painting of a Japanese Tea Garden is nice too.

Posted by: AlmostYuman at August 01, 2026 08:48 PM (xEtvN)

40 All the flowers are very pretty but lilies are my favorites. The red one with the yellow center is nice but the orange Chesapeake Crab legs are my favorite.
polynikes' very colorful painting of a Japanese Tea Garden is nice too.

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Posted by: stozlso at August 02, 2026 09:40 PM (kUpT5)

Thomas Sowell Weekend

Tired of discussions about a certain person in our health care bureaucracy? One person I encountered on social media who supports this individual also stated that Thomas Sowell "always lies".

The Hoover Institution has decided to concentrate on discussions of Thomas Sowell. Surprisingly, they started with his role as a historian rather than as an economist. Can you think of any individuals who could benefit from learning more history?

Why don't people read Thomas Sowell?

One of the guys participating in the Hoover Institution conversation is Coleman Hughes, who decided to read a book by Sowell because people seemed to find his name to be polarizing. That book transformed his thinking.

Thomas Sowell is known as an economist. But is he one of America's greatest historians?

Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson), Niall Ferguson (@NFergus), and Coleman Hughes (@Coldxman) explore Sowell's sweeping view of history, his enduring ideas, and why a new generation is� pic.twitter.com/y5CsZhpAkV
— Hoover Institution (@HooverInst) July 30, 2026

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Thomas Sowell: Polarizing?

sowell three questions to ask the left.jpg

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WEEKEND

Who do you think is more polarizing: Thomas Sowell or Anthony Fouci?

The Week in Pictures: Grouchy Fauci Edition

“Fauci” apparently means “jaws” or “throat” in Italian, though apparently it means “sickle” in the Sicilian dialect, and certainly Anthony Fauci behaved liked a hopped-up wiseguy capo of the Branch Covidian crime family back in 2020 and 2021, but today is reduced to chomping on his remaining dignity with his gums, his jaws having shattered on his monumental narcissism.

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Music

Via Don in Kansas:

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, Is The Odyssey sustaining our attention?

Follow--up: Assigning Martha Nussbaum and Edward Said and then complaining that no one likes reading anymore has to be the joke of the century.

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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1 I nooded.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 01, 2026 11:10 AM (7IlZh)

2 Excellent post K.T. Thank you. Nobody can ever get enough Thomas Sowell

Posted by: 496 at August 01, 2026 11:11 AM (33y12)

3 Never have understood how anyone took Sean Hannity seriously.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at August 01, 2026 11:12 AM (tjJnW)

4 I would have put Obama in Jon Stewart's place because the perception is he sounds smart (people paying attention though knows he also sounds dumb)

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:16 AM (KC5Lt)

5 That meme up top is perfect. In many different ways.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2026 11:16 AM (U/Byj)

6 Thank you for new thread K.T.

I posted this on previous thread just as new thread posted apparently.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Greetings Everyone

I have a question - does anyone have any insight as to why the pied a terre tax in NYC falls so heavily on condos? It's 4% on condos worth over 1M$. That seems pretty heavy and far reaching. It's less that 1% on 1 - 3 family residences worth over 5 M but 4% on condos worth over 1M? That's $40,000!

Here in Calif many middle class and or elderly on fixed incomes live in properties that have appreciated past 1M$. They certainly aren't rich.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:18 AM (QGaXH)

7 God bless Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas. Two of our greatest thinkers.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:19 AM (KC5Lt)

8 Never have understood how anyone took Sean Hannity seriously.

I read that he and Cornyn are forming the foundational chapter of Hamheads of America.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

9 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:18 AM (QGaXH)

I answered you in prior thread but if you watch Million Dollar Listings NYC you would see the answer.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:20 AM (KC5Lt)

10 " 3 Never have understood how anyone took Sean Hannity seriously.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin"
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I do have a hard time watching or listening to Hannity today, but he had Obama pegged for the piece of crap he is almost a year before the Democrats nominated him in 2008.

Posted by: Cosda at August 01, 2026 11:20 AM (pZp2V)

11 I would have put Obama in Jon Stewart's place because the perception is he sounds smart (people paying attention though knows he also sounds dumb)

Fair. Stewart, after all, is a William and Mary grad. They're always brilliant.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

12 Wonder how Fauci's blood pressure is today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 11:21 AM (2Cry5)

13 It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong -Thomas Sowell

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at August 01, 2026 11:22 AM (5l7hs)

14 It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong -Thomas Sowell

That fits Fauci to a tee. He was so wrong about AIDS and he was promoted anyway.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:23 AM (KC5Lt)

15 The best thing Jon Stewart ever did was create The Audacity of Grope.

What's mind boggling is it went down the memory hole after Biden became the nominee for President. The Right didn't even use it.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:26 AM (KC5Lt)

16 If you would like to hear some common sense for a change then you will like Thomas Sowell. I've listened to him for years. Good guy. And smart.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 11:28 AM (bqIVz)

17 Fauci got to where he is in part by claiming his work (The Science) was so far above everyone's ability to comprehend that he basically skated on horseshit his entire career.

A lot of people do this... especially those in technology or medical sectors where only their peers would notice. And then, probably not say a word as they're doing the same thing.

Obviously not everyone in those sectors, but it's certainly not zero. I've worked with some.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 11:28 AM (2Cry5)

18 12 Wonder how Fauci's blood pressure is today.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Or his ethics wife.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 01, 2026 11:28 AM (NnhvP)

19 I think some of the videos of young black men discovering Thomas Sowell are fascinating.

Posted by: KT at August 01, 2026 11:29 AM (rdeQO)

20 “…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?”—Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed

“…what ‘all the experts’ are most likely to agree on is the need for using expertise to deal with problems.”—Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society

“To be relevant to our times, history must not be controlled by our times. Its integrity as a record of the past is what allows us to draw lessons from it.”—Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 01, 2026 11:30 AM (kYmoU)

21 Fun fact: Thomas Sowell was born in Gastonia, NC.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 01, 2026 11:30 AM (PiwSw)

22 9 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:18 AM (QGaXH)

I answered you in prior thread but if you watch Million Dollar Listings NYC you would see the answer.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:20 AM (KC5Lt)

After I posted here I went back and saw your answer. So is the inference that since most properties are condos and coops presumably worth over 1M$, this is a back-door 'wealth tax' applicable to a much broader segment of the population that initially advertised.

Would that Mamdani the Commie and Hochul suffer the same ignominious end the formerly sainted Dr is facing.

I need to read more Dr. Sowell.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:30 AM (QGaXH)

23 I stumbled on a YouTube video from 1981. It was Meet The Press and Sowell was the guest. I guess once upon a time he was allowed on msm shows.

This was only a few months after Reagan took office and he was asked are the Reagan polices working? His answer was are you guys retarded it’s been a few months you can’t judge a program in such a short time. But he said it every nicely. lol.

Maybe that’s why he didn’t get invited back

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:30 AM (qmPa0)

24 Who do you think is more polarizing: Thomas Sowell or Anthony Fouci?

Fauci isn't "polarizing." He's evil.

Posted by: GWB at August 01, 2026 11:31 AM (kU0PQ)

25 11 I would have put Obama in Jon Stewart's place because the perception is he sounds smart (people paying attention though knows he also sounds dumb)

Fair. Stewart, after all, is a William and Mary grad. They're always brilliant.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

*Taps pencil rapidly on desk. Smirks*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 01, 2026 11:31 AM (PiwSw)

26 Never have understood how anyone took Sean Hannity seriously.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin

Because he used to do that he-said-she-said program with Alan Colmes, which made him look good by comparison?

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 11:33 AM (VHUov)

27 How dare you insult a great American like Hannity in such a vile manner? For shame, sir. For shame.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:33 AM (qmPa0)

28 Sowell is a giant in a land of gnomes

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 11:33 AM (u/wrI)

29 I remember reading "Basic Economics".

I thought it was a much more accessible and readable version of "The Wealth of Nations" with bonus modern content.

I was very pleased with the investment in money and time spent on it.

Posted by: Sam at August 01, 2026 11:33 AM (7jMef)

30 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:30 AM (QGaXH)

That seems to be the case. Those are also the most properties that are one of multiple residences for the owners.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:35 AM (KC5Lt)

31 >>> 6
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I have a question - does anyone have any insight as to why the pied a terre tax in NYC falls so heavily on condos? It's 4% on condos worth over 1M$. That seems pretty heavy and far reaching. It's less that 1% on 1 - 3 family residences worth over 5 M but 4% on condos worth over 1M? That's $40,000!

Here in Calif many middle class and or elderly on fixed incomes live in properties that have appreciated past 1M$. They certainly aren't rich.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:18 AM (QGaXH)

Long answer - the owners most certainly *are* rich according to the filth pushing this, and the asshoes also know most condo owners (or anyone with more than them) are boogie and white privileged, and they're getting their rocks off by making said owners / taxpayers / peons jump through hoops to prove something to bureaucrats who will probably ignore documentation whenever it suits them.

Short answer - commies gotta commie.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2026 11:35 AM (vDZgA)

32 I thought it was a much more accessible and readable version of "The Wealth of Nations" with bonus modern content.

I put this on the short shelf in my bathroom as a bathroom reader; most of the chapters are short and can be read in any order.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 01, 2026 11:35 AM (kYmoU)

33 My Egyptian cabdriver told me Tom Friedman would also have been an excellent choice for the bottom right picture.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 01, 2026 11:36 AM (PiwSw)

34 Sorry, my talking-head awareness is deficient. Who's the ones on the upper left and lower right?

When I have income again I need to buy whatever Sowell books I can find for a good price. Or put them on my Amazon Wishlist for Christmas presents.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 11:36 AM (aJQbY)

35 It's August 1st. And that means pumpkin spice season is now underway!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 01, 2026 11:37 AM (5yDGQ)

36 Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 11:36 AM (aJQbY)

I see you're not into celebrity comedians.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:42 AM (KC5Lt)

37 The top pic is funny cuz it's true.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 11:43 AM (nESHF)

38 So true about all of the bad ideas having been tried before; as Ecclesiastes says, there is nothing new under the sun.

Good example - all of the “tax the rich!” schemes coming out are just thinly veiled rewrites of Huey Long’s “Share the Wealth!” plans of the early 30’s.

At least Huey justified it by saying it was needed to fight the depression; but even FDR said it was far too radical.

The left has not had a single new political idea in over 90 years now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 11:44 AM (7GO/2)

39 Today I am having an "own goal" breakfast.
It is onions, tomatoes, peppers and potatoes from my garden, with lamb kielbasa from a local grower, and eggs from my neice's hens.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 11:45 AM (rbvCR)

40 oops, sorry I misspelled that.

I should have written it "Ceuta"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 11:45 AM (rbvCR)

41 Ceuta to the Oldies

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:47 AM (KC5Lt)

42 Never have understood how anyone took Sean Hannity seriously.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at August 01, 2026 11:12 AM (tjJnW)

Per Merv Griffin, people with large heads do well in TV. And Sean has a giant noggin there.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)

43 Taxing property in and of itself is retarded. But doing it based on the value of a building on the property is doubly retarded.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:49 AM (qmPa0)

44 30 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:30 AM (QGaXH)

That seems to be the case. Those are also the most properties that are one of multiple residences for the owners.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:35 AM (KC5Lt)

'Bait and switch is no way to go through political life, son'

'Mayor' Dean Wormer....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:50 AM (QGaXH)

45 polynikes, nope... they usually aren't funny.

(Never have been a big-time TV watcher)

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 11:50 AM (aJQbY)

46 "I have a question - does anyone have any insight as to why the pied a terre tax in NYC falls so heavily on condos?"

Because that's where the money is!

Posted by: Willie Sutton at August 01, 2026 11:51 AM (4RPgu)

47 Common sense would tell you throwing open the country borders is NOT a good idea. So what did the Democrats do?
And now we are paying for it. Murder, drug trafficking, and millions in fraud. Yes, the Democrats are stupid but they don't care.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 11:52 AM (bqIVz)

48 Is that Elon in the upper left? Looks different.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2026 11:53 AM (Cqx++)

49 Blood, Cueta, and Tears.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 11:54 AM (nESHF)

50 I think Sean Hannity made a name for himself by getting conservatives on his evening newscast and not bitching at them like the MSM does.

At the time, over 20 years ago, it was refreshing.

He wasn't smart then. Just wasn't a yabbering leftist.

IMO his time has come and gone. YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 11:54 AM (2Cry5)

51 34 Sorry, my talking-head awareness is deficient. Who's the ones on the upper left and lower right?

When I have income again I need to buy whatever Sowell books I can find for a good price. Or put them on my Amazon Wishlist for Christmas presents.
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 11:36 AM (aJQbY)

Random Dave

If you're still here, Ive been wanting to tell you hang in there and don't give up hope. My mid-career time in the wilderness led to a dream job that I never thought I could get. Things will work out.

Second, don't forget your local library for books you don't want to buy just yet.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:55 AM (QGaXH)

52 Is that Elon in the upper left? Looks different.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Norm McDonald.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 11:56 AM (nESHF)

53 On one of our driving trips to see relatives, I read Sowell's Basic Economics. At our relative's house, I was telling my conservative sis-in-law how much I was learning and remarked that Sowell was considered a great intellectual. My leftist sis-in-law felt compelled to put in a plug for the intellectual prowess of ... Neil deGrass Tyson.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 11:57 AM (OlzlW)

54 On the pied-a-terre tax, forcing a lot of properties owned by elderly, cash-poor owners onto the market at once will drive down prices, temporarily, and move properties into hands of those favored by the government. Mamdani gets laudatory press for "controlling prices", and his acolytes get choice properties at lower-than-market prices. Win/win!

Having lived most of my life in Chicago, I found that the best rule for judging any action by any politician is to ask myself, "If I were a corrupt bastard, why would I do this?" The answer becomes clear, and is usually right.

Posted by: Nemo at August 01, 2026 11:58 AM (4RPgu)

55 Hannity grew up in a one bathroom house with four older sisters. Cut him some slack. He's suffered enough already.

Posted by: Behind The Green Door at August 01, 2026 11:59 AM (JM9I6)

56 Taxing property in and of itself is retarded. But doing it based on the value of a building on the property is doubly retarded.
Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:49 AM (qmPa0)

Compared to what?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 12:01 PM (rbvCR)

57 My leftist sis-in-law felt compelled to put in a plug for the intellectual prowess of ... Neil deGrass Tyson.

The only time I’ve seen Tyson was watching an archaeology special. Probably PBS given that it included Tyson as one of the random talking heads describing something completely out of their field. To be honest, I can’t blame Tyson for very obviously reading a teleprompter as if he had no idea why he was there. As I recall it wasn’t even archaeoastronomy. But he definitely looked like he belonged in the lower left square.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 01, 2026 12:02 PM (kYmoU)

58 Compared to what?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 12:01 PM (rbvCR

ISWYDT

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 12:03 PM (OlzlW)

59 "Fauci" means "small dick" in and around Palermo, a city located in Sicily, where Fauci's family hails from.

Posted by: Stronzo at August 01, 2026 12:04 PM (ftsic)

60 While the pied a there tax is stupid let’s not go overboard here. This isn’t a situation of grandma bought her condo 30 years ago and now will be forced to sell it and will be homeless. A pied a terre is a secondary home. If you own a $1M+ property and it’s sitting empty you’re not a a pensioner barely getting by.

Again, I’m not endorsing this tax. Just saying it’s not going to affect the “common man”.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 12:09 PM (qmPa0)

61 But he definitely looked like he belonged in the lower left square.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 01, 2026 12:02 PM (kYmoU

NdGT is supposed to represent Science! on the left but he says things that indicate that he doesn't understand the foundational ideas of science. I recall him claiming that science was all about consensus and must be protected from contrary ideas.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 12:09 PM (OlzlW)

62 Tax the land not the building on the land. Compared to that.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 12:10 PM (qmPa0)

63 Again, I’m not endorsing this tax. Just saying it’s not going to affect the “common man”.
Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 12:09 PM (qmPa0)

A bunch of "common men" are receiving letters demanding this extra tax and the website for disputing this is non-responsive.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 12:12 PM (OlzlW)

64 We need more Sowells. Unfortunately there will only ever be one of him, and an endless throng of Faucis and brain-dead lackeys.

Posted by: Vicious and stupid shall inherit the earth at August 01, 2026 12:17 PM (TbWk/)

65 Tyson is the Patron Saint of DEI in the sciences, he should never have risen higher than an entry level biology teacher at Booker T. High.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 12:18 PM (7GO/2)

66 Compared to What?

https://tinyurl.com/2x2bzbct

Posted by: Eddie Harris at August 01, 2026 12:20 PM (XvL8K)

67 I'm sorry but I don't know who the guy in the sounds dumb/is smart quadrant is.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 01, 2026 12:22 PM (P6QdF)

68 Never could get that lower-right quadrant guy to sound smart...can't even remember his name..sounds just like Hannity to me, but, yeah, I get the point.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 01, 2026 12:23 PM (ebNTf)

69 Tax the land not the building on the land. Compared to that.
Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 12:10 PM (qmPa0)

That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Unimproved land is useless, and taxing it at an imaginary amount set by bureaucrats and greedy Karens who only want to increase the government's vig is abusive.
Imagining otherwise is not just wrongheaded it is outright socialism. You of all people should know better that this, from your endless carping about it.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 12:24 PM (rbvCR)

70 Who do you think is more polarizing: Thomas Sowell or Anthony Fauci?

The left tells us who is polarizing.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 12:25 PM (OlzlW)

71 Hannity huffed the Sherwin Williams while painting houses.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 12:26 PM (NkUqe)

72 Watched Hoover Institute panel with Niall Ferguson, Victor David Hanson, and Coleman Hughes discussing Dr. Thomas Sowell. Time well spent.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 12:26 PM (LHPAg)

73 Again, I’m not endorsing this tax. Just saying it’s not going to affect the “common man”.
——

That’s exactly how the Income Tax was portrayed at the start of the 20th. “Stick It To the Rich!” to get the amendment passed, the only way it could have been ratified by the states. Rates kicked in at 2% on incomes over roughly $500,000 in today’s confetti-bucks.

Today they start at 15% on incomes over $35,000, which is absurd, but … that’s how it always goes.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 12:26 PM (8NnWU)

74 Iran situation has been quiet for a couple of days; but X is buzzing like a hive with thoughts and indications that something big is on its way. Your speculation is as good as theirs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 12:28 PM (7GO/2)

75 I'm sorry but I don't know who the guy in the sounds dumb/is smart quadrant is.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Canadian Norm McDonald.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 12:28 PM (NkUqe)

76 RIP Norm.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 12:29 PM (NkUqe)

77 Another western. Transfer to video:
Cyan. Magenta. Rinse. Repeat.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 12:30 PM (yCLJY)

78 I read "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" about a decade ago. Great book. You know where the Blacks got that "jumping the broom" ritual for marriages? They didn't bring it from Africa.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 12:31 PM (qFwJc)

79 I've long thought that Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams provided seventy percent of the brain power and wisdom in the country. With Williams now gone and Sowell at 96 years old, we are in trouble.

I have several books by Sowell and every one is a masterpiece of clear writing and lucid points of view. Anyone who disparages the man and what he says should just denounce their citizenship and move to some piece of crap European country.

Yeah, I've got an opinion on the matter.

Posted by: JTB at August 01, 2026 12:31 PM (yTvNw)

80 We had a “barracks bullshit” discussion once about guys like Sowell. I learned that the hoodrats or community has a strong dislike of “acting White”.

All of the attributes of success in the modern world, well, forget it. In the 60s there was agitation for “good schools” and “jobs”. All that has been swept away, at least the pre-requisites. Everyone is just supposed to accept totally unqualified individuals in important positions, just because.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 12:32 PM (8NnWU)

81 > Iran situation has been quiet for a couple of days; but X is buzzing like a hive with thoughts and indications that something big is on its way. Your speculation is as good as theirs.
------------
We hit their only working nuclear reactor the other night. Not the reactor containment building itself, but some of the infrastructure around it.

A message, I think. Hitting the reactor itself would probably be a last ditch effort, if we hit it at all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 12:35 PM (2Cry5)

82 We hit their only working nuclear reactor the other night. Not the reactor containment building itself, but some of the infrastructure around it.

A message, I think. Hitting the reactor itself would probably be a last ditch effort, if we hit it at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 12:35 PM (2Cry5)

If you blow up the steam turbines, and the generators turned by them, the reactor can perk away to its heart's content, but they will get no power from it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 12:39 PM (1z8ji)

83 A message, I think. Hitting the reactor itself would probably be a last ditch effort, if we hit it at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
________

It's time for more Sicilian messages.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 12:40 PM (XvL8K)

84 Sean Hannity delivered a very thoughtful and loving eulogy of Lindsey Graham and that might not make him smart but he earns some credit for that.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:44 PM (odBC9)

85 An actor Clifton Duncan has put together a play about Thomas Sowell. He was pretty much blacklisted by Broadway over his COVID(and political views no doubt).I used to watch his YouTube videos but he hasn't been active, probably because of working on this project.

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2026 12:44 PM (YwEeS)

86 Unimproved land is useless, and taxing it at an imaginary amount set by bureaucrats

-

A piece of dirt has the same value whether there a building on it or not. My tax assessment neatly breaks this out there’s a land value portion and an improvement portion. There is no reason to pay tax on the improvement portion.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 12:44 PM (qmPa0)

87 The failure to teach history and civics has us in the mess we are in now.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 12:46 PM (abScH)

88 We give our son a book every year along with his other birthday presents.

We gave him a Thomas Sowell book a few years back.

We have several Leftist family members that are at most of these events. They consider themselves to be intelligent and well educated.

Not a single one had even heard of Thomas Sowell!

The self-reinforcing Leftist bubble is very strong, and still growing even stronger.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at August 01, 2026 12:46 PM (HlyYF)

89 70 Who do you think is more polarizing: Thomas Sowell or Anthony Fauci?

The left tells us who is polarizing.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 12:25 PM (OlzlW)

It’s a good question, especially when you see that it is really which is more polarizing? Hard truths or comforting lies?

And the answer, always, is that it depends on what kind of person you are. Which do you want to hear?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 12:47 PM (7GO/2)

90 83 We hit their only working nuclear reactor the other night. Not the reactor containment building itself, but some of the infrastructure around it.

A message, I think. Hitting the reactor itself would probably be a last ditch effort, if we hit it at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 12:35 PM (2Cry5)

If you blow up the steam turbines, and the generators turned by them, the reactor can perk away to its heart's content, but they will get no power from it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 12:39 PM (1z8ji)

Hitting the containment structure would IMO be counterproductive. Far better to take out a few miles of transmission lines and transformers and deny them the access to repair it using our AirPower.

Same with bridges. Don't destroy the bridge- just the roads leading to it and don't let them have opportunity to repair it.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 12:47 PM (QGaXH)

91 71 Hannity huffed the Sherwin Williams while painting houses.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Mebbe so, but "Cover the Earth" is one of the finest advertising slogans ever invented.

Posted by: Two Coats! One Afternoon! at August 01, 2026 12:48 PM (JM9I6)

92 84 A message, I think. Hitting the reactor itself would probably be a last ditch effort, if we hit it at all.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's time for more Sicilian messages.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Why settle for the Lesser evil?

Concentric Neutron strike surrounding Kharg would interdict it's inevitable MadMax/Finale and be operational in record time with the Gulf States administering it as war reparation.

LET's GO BRANDON. SHARK WEEK IS OVER!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 01, 2026 12:49 PM (bLQBf)

93 I just went to our local library branch and checked out Basic Economics for some reading material for our camper trip. Don't know if I'll have much time to read, though.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 12:49 PM (QGaXH)

94 The gentleman in the top left photo is Kid Rock.

Posted by: We haven't had a good Kid Rock riff in awhile at August 01, 2026 12:49 PM (PiwSw)

95 A piece of dirt has the same value whether there a building on it or not.
Posted by: Chaos
______

How about based on what's under it? Are you somehow drawing a distinction between human improvements and natural resources?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 12:50 PM (XvL8K)

96 17 Fauci got to where he is in part by claiming his work (The Science) was so far above everyone's ability to comprehend that he basically skated on horseshit his entire career.

A lot of people do this... especially those in technology or medical sectors where only their peers would notice. And then, probably not say a word as they're doing the same thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 11:28 AM (2Cry5)

And probably not say a word because they owe their positions and grant money to the blowhards!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:52 PM (odBC9)

97 90 70 Who do you think is more polarizing: Thomas Sowell or Anthony Fauci?

The left tells us who is polarizing.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 12:25 PM (OlzlW)

It’s a good question, especially when you see that it is really which is more polarizing? Hard truths or comforting lies?

And the answer, always, is that it depends on what kind of person you are. Which do you want to hear?
Posted by: Tom Servo

This line if inquiry obviously leading up to year 1 Kirkaversary where LIB Manifesto is obvious for those with eyes that do not refuse to see:
To Reward the Guilty, to Punish the Innocent, to Champion the mediocre, the Unworthy, the DERAVED.

TRY AND STOP THEM IF YOU THINK YOU CAN -- just watch.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 01, 2026 12:53 PM (bLQBf)

98 I don't get the Hannity hate.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9)

99 100

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9)

100 Kamala Harris, "where am I on that Venn Diagram?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2026 01:00 PM (6gCWo)

101 39 Today I am having an "own goal" breakfast.
It is onions, tomatoes, peppers and potatoes from my garden, with lamb kielbasa from a local grower, and eggs from my neice's hens.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 11:45 AM (rbvCR)

yum

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:02 PM (odBC9)

102 I came across a video on X of Stephen A. Smith (I know, I know). He was talking about covid and the vax. He was a big proponent of all of it and used his platform to shame any athlete that dissented from the program. He actually sounded contrite, didn't yell, and seemed genuinely apologetic. I thought he did well with it. May wake up some of the people who actually follow him.

Posted by: Indiana Lurker at August 01, 2026 01:03 PM (3ZVqj)

103 I don't get the Hannity hate.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9)

I know right? I mean the guy is as blue collar as they come and he is law and order straight down the line. Just because he made millions being a slum lord as well as grifting from HUD, people get envious. When I was director of the FBI, we loved the guy!

Posted by: James Comey, closeted homosexual at August 01, 2026 01:05 PM (ftsic)

104 Javier Milei is proposing new legislation for Argentina to force balanced national budgets through changes to the central bank and how the federal laws affect deficit spending.

From latinamericanpost.com

President Milei's proposed fiscal rule would forbid Argentina from approving or maintaining a deficit-financed national budget. If public accounts remained in the red for several consecutive months, Congress would have limited time to restore balance. Failure would trigger an automatic shutdown of nonessential federal operations.

New spending would stop. Contracts would not be awarded. Hiring would freeze. Transfers to the provinces would be suspended. The president, cabinet ministers, secretaries and lawmakers would also lose their salaries.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 01:06 PM (rbvCR)

105 Thomas Sowell is "polarizing" because Democrats don't like it when their property is getting uppity.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026 01:06 PM (/k3in)

106 It's time for more Sicilian messages.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 12:40 PM (XvL8K)

You are planning to leave a dead blackbird on the Mullah's doorstep?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR)

107 53 On one of our driving trips to see relatives, I read Sowell's Basic Economics. At our relative's house, I was telling my conservative sis-in-law how much I was learning and remarked that Sowell was considered a great intellectual. My leftist sis-in-law felt compelled to put in a plug for the intellectual prowess of ... Neil deGrass Tyson.
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 11:57 AM (OlzlW)

I'm sorry.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:09 PM (odBC9)

108 Thx K.T.
Fauci means sickle in Sicilian.
Appropriate for the Grim Reaper

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2026 01:10 PM (BlDDt)

109 67 I'm sorry but I don't know who the guy in the sounds dumb/is smart quadrant is.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 01, 2026 12:22 PM (P6QdF)

Norm Macdonald

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:12 PM (odBC9)

110 A piece of dirt has the same value whether there a building on it or not. My tax assessment neatly breaks this out there’s a land value portion and an improvement portion. There is no reason to pay tax on the improvement portion.
Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 12:44 PM (qmPa0)

that is completely wrong, unimproved land has zero value other than what could be classed as "unrealized capital gains" because it might be valuable some day if someone buys it or puts some capital into it.

You tell me if taxing possible earnings sometime in the future is a good thing, whether or not the market is good, bad or indifferent, with the unrealized "value" judged by some greedy bureaucrat to be taken quarterly, who wants to build a new highway offramp so his brother can get a kickback.
Now look at your own brilliant investment portfolio that you have successfully turned into a fortune and image that same greasy fat bottomed leech sucking from that, because that is what you are proposing to be "good for society"

Good for society, you should give it all to the state. The only people who think this moral are the losers who want a reason to steal

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)

111 Blondie, this Gassy Tyson feller seems to be worshipped by those who not so much revere his "wisdom" as they value that they can declare how not-racist they are for listening to him talking.

I do not like him.

Posted by: Tuco Ramirez at August 01, 2026 01:14 PM (7Q0e+)

112 109 Thx K.T.
Fauci means sickle in Sicilian.
Appropriate for the Grim Reaper
Posted by: Smell the Glove

and retirement meant canoe for Colby.
Not enough, Drop shipments for them all, but you gotta start somewhere.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 01, 2026 01:17 PM (bLQBf)

113 85 Sean Hannity delivered a very thoughtful and loving eulogy of Lindsey Graham and that might not make him smart but he earns some credit for that.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:44 PM (odBC9)

https://tinyurl.com/7pxx9vcb

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:24 PM (odBC9)

114 I live Thomas Sowell.

He tawks gud like me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 01:25 PM (JvZF+)

115 95 The gentleman in the top left photo is Kid Rock.
Posted by: We haven't had a good Kid Rock riff in awhile at August 01, 2026 12:49 PM (PiwSw)

nuh-uh

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:26 PM (odBC9)

116 I think its important to draw a distinction between several different concepts.

Intelligence is not wisdom is not knowledge is not cunning. They overlap somewhat but someone can be a brilliant fool or a cunning idiot. Jon Stewart sounds smart because he is smart, but he's a fool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2026 01:26 PM (K32Fz)

117
that is completely wrong, unimproved land has zero value other than what could be classed as "unrealized capital gains" because it might be valuable some day if someone buys it or puts some capital into it.”

Thank you I was waiting for that. The only economic value a piece of land has is the use it is put to, or has the potential of being put to.

Example: neither you nor I would pay 50 cents for an acre of land in Siberia, because it has no conceivable use in our lifetimes, or that of our children.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 01:26 PM (7GO/2)

118 103 I came across a video on X of Stephen A. Smith (I know, I know). He was talking about covid and the vax. He was a big proponent of all of it and used his platform to shame any athlete that dissented from the program. He actually sounded contrite, didn't yell, and seemed genuinely apologetic. I thought he did well with it. May wake up some of the people who actually follow him.
Posted by: Indiana Lurker at August 01, 2026 01:03 PM (3ZVqj)

link?

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:30 PM (odBC9)

119 112 Blondie, this Gassy Tyson feller seems to be worshipped by those who not so much revere his "wisdom" as they value that they can declare how not-racist they are for listening to him talking.

I do not like him.
Posted by: Tuco Ramirez at August 01, 2026 01:14 PM (7Q0e+)

Bingo.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at August 01, 2026 01:30 PM (OlzlW)

120 Who is the idiot on ESPN with the hats?

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 01:30 PM (LHPAg)

121 119 103 I came across a video on X of Stephen A. Smith (I know, I know). He was talking about covid and the vax. He was a big proponent of all of it and used his platform to shame any athlete that dissented from the program. He actually sounded contrite, didn't yell, and seemed genuinely apologetic. I thought he did well with it. May wake up some of the people who actually follow him.
Posted by: Indiana Lurker at August 01, 2026 01:03 PM (3ZVqj)

link?
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:30 PM (odBC9)

https://tinyurl.com/y2wpvwt5

New York Post

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:31 PM (odBC9)

122 I don't get the Hannity hate.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9)
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Loves the sound of his own voice more than life itself.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 01:34 PM (JvZF+)

123
I keep saying... At some smallish distance in the future, after Thomas Sowell has left this earth, young Black Americans are going to stumble blinking into the light clutching his books and asking, "WHY didn't you tell us about this guy when he was alive??"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2026 01:34 PM (mmrXZ)

124 The gentleman in the top left photo is Kid Rock.
Posted by: We haven't had a good Kid Rock riff in awhile at August 01, 2026 12:49 PM (PiwSw)
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Finally, a moron more alienated from popular culture than I.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 01:35 PM (JvZF+)

125 125 The gentleman in the top left photo is Kid Rock.
Posted by: We haven't had a good Kid Rock riff in awhile at August 01, 2026 12:49 PM (PiwSw)
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Finally, a moron more alienated from popular culture than I.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 01:35 PM (JvZF+)

I think that was a joke.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:37 PM (odBC9)

126 I think that was a joke.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:37 PM (odBC9)
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Harrumph!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 01:39 PM (JvZF+)

127 Who is the fellow in the bottom right photo, and in case someone asked this before I am just tuning into the end of the comments. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2026 01:40 PM (EQmpy)

128 Just heard the Wilhelm scream on a hempvana TV ad.
https://soundeffects.fandom.com
/wiki/Wilhelm_Scream/Audio_Samples

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 01:40 PM (IntbO)

129 Thank you.

104 I don't get the Hannity hate.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9)

I know right? I mean the guy is as blue collar as they come and he is law and order straight down the line. Just because he made millions being a slum lord as well as grifting from HUD, people get envious. When I was director of the FBI, we loved the guy!
Posted by: James Comey, closeted homosexual at August 01, 2026 01:05 PM (ftsic)

123 I don't get the Hannity hate.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 12:56 PM (odBC9)
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Loves the sound of his own voice more than life itself.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 01:34 PM (JvZF+)

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:41 PM (odBC9)

130 Hannity is a blow hard but he gets good looking women

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2026 01:41 PM (BlDDt)

131 young Black Americans are going to stumble blinking into the light clutching his books and asking, "WHY didn't you wean us on dick??"

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 01:43 PM (IntbO)

132 We record Gutfeld on our DVD and the first 10 seconds of the recording is always Hannity's signoff.

We leap to smash the Mute button.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 01:45 PM (JvZF+)

133 Hannity's less offensive than about 99% of the MSM.

My wife watches Laura Ingram occasionally. Her opening monologs grate on me. It's the delivery, not the message. She and Hannity are mostly full of themselves. But I honestly don't care how abusive they are to leftists they interview.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 01:53 PM (2Cry5)

134 3 Never have understood how anyone took Sean Hannity seriously.

Way back 25 years ago Hannity usually followed Rush in the great days of AM. I always thought of him as the Weekly Reader version of Rush. Then later in the day you would get Levin and eventually Savage, both of which relentlessly used the Nirvana Method of talk radio, start up quietly in each segment and finish in full scream before the commercial break. These days if I want distracting yak I listen to local sports radio. The station also broadcasts all the play by play so its fun listening to them try to be "independent" but obviously they get a lot of revenue from the teams so they don't want to drastically offend the owners

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 01, 2026 01:56 PM (3/XaG)

135 Now ESPN sports radio is appalling to me. A bunch of late middle aged East Coasters mixed in with some retired athletes all hyping each other relentlessly and trying to be oh so cool and hip. To a certain extent they aren't wrong but they want to make pro sports into pro wrestling where you are supposed to be watching because of the interplayer relationships and conflicts. The other hilarious thing is the heavy emphasis on gambling mixed with the absolute revulsion of any idea that the players or refs might have anything to with gambling. Followed by ads for FanDuel.

Posted by: Azjaeger at August 01, 2026 02:06 PM (3/XaG)

136 Time will tell (just a few hours actually), but the body English and vibes and embassy advisories throughout the MidEast do seem to suggest some major festivities are impending for Iran.

Let's consider it the opposite of a surprise attack. Of course apart from the kickoff in late February each kinetic phase of the operation has been telegraphed, from the very top, publicly, which is of course incredibly stupid.

Stupid, yet likely irrelevant in this case, as the other side is on constant alert and expects the worst, so "surprise" is barely a concept here. Though the Iranians did tie the late unlamented Iraqi leadership (January 1991) for being taken by surprise when everyone down to the pomegranate vendors down at the souk were expecting an attack any minute.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2026 02:07 PM (U/Byj)

137 7 states have now had cyber attacks on their water systems

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 02:07 PM (abScH)

138 135 3 Then later in the day you would get Levin and eventually Savage, both of which relentlessly used the Nirvana Method of talk radio, start up quietly in each segment and finish in full scream before the commercial break.
Posted by: Azjaeger at August 01, 2026 01:56 PM (3/XaG)

hahahahahaha
(inhale)
hahahahahaha

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:08 PM (odBC9)

139 > 7 states have now had cyber attacks on their water systems
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Any Americans affected? I saw where Minnesota had several cyber attacked directed at their water system(s).

Hardly worth being concerned over... it being Minnesomila and all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 02:16 PM (2Cry5)

140 Martini Farmer, so far it has just been having to switch to a manual system and a couple of places issued a boil notice but so far there has been no water contamination.

I am guessing these are test runs.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 02:20 PM (abScH)

141 141 Martini Farmer, so far it has just been having to switch to a manual system and a couple of places issued a boil notice but so far there has been no water contamination.

I am guessing these are test runs.
Posted by: Ben Had

Yep. Response time, action taken, where response is generated from, etc.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 02:34 PM (EGW4m)

142 Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Bill Maher
@billmaher
15h
I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

9-minute rant

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:39 PM (odBC9)

143
Regarding Dr. Sowell, there are posts in social media attributed to him, as in Facebook or X, that I suspect do not come from him at all. As we cannot say for certain that it was he who posted items, there are ample opportunities for fraudsters who might be behind these accounts to post pure crap that would get attributed to him.

Just sayin'...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 02:42 PM (s9VOe)

144 144
Regarding Dr. Sowell, there are posts in social media attributed to him, as in Facebook or X, that I suspect do not come from him at all. As we cannot say for certain that it was he who posted items, there are ample opportunities for fraudsters who might be behind these accounts to post pure crap that would get attributed to him.

Just sayin'...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 02:42 PM (s9VOe)

True. Established, reputable sources and his own accounts should only be trusted. All the rest need verified. Lotta trash out there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 02:51 PM (EGW4m)

145
Fen, from upper right, clockwise: Thomas Sowell, Jon Stewart (former host of the Daily Show), Sean Hannity (a Great American), and Norm MacDonald.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 02:52 PM (s9VOe)

146 Never have understood how anyone took Sean Hannity seriously.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at August 01, 2026 11:12 AM (tjJnW)

Sean Hannity performed best when he had Alan Colmes to act as a foil during the "Hannity and Colmes" show. They would have a back-and-forth with each other and guests that could be interesting. Hannity was the much worse interviewer, however.

Once Hannity got his own show, he would blabber so much, you eventually realized that he really wasn't that bright.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 01, 2026 03:07 PM (ksbjf)

147 Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman. The two most intellectually consistent and honest men I've ever read.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 03:13 PM (Hsef8)

148 7 states have now had cyber attacks on their water systems.

This is a thing I've railed about, in my line of work, forever.

So the entire thrust of Modern IT is to connect everything. Under the assumption that they can erect enough "fences" (sound familiar) to stop bad actors.

You know how you stop your plant from getting hacked ? Air Gap. Don't connect your plant to the Internet. Don't connect the plant to the Plant Manager Office so he can "see" everything.

Places that put up fences, then want to connect to the Internet. The most retarded shit I see today. And I see a lot of retarded shit. Razor wire on top ... and an Ethernet pipe straight to all the automation.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 03:21 PM (Hsef8)

149 7 states have now had cyber attacks on their water systems
Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 02:07 PM (abScH)
___

Hey Ben Had!
Well water FTW

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 03:29 PM (5ExGj)

150 SMH, having a well is a peace of mind that very few have..

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 03:41 PM (abScH)

151 Yes it is, Ben Had.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at August 01, 2026 03:46 PM (5ExGj)

152 57 My leftist sis-in-law felt compelled to put in a plug for the intellectual prowess of ... Neil deGrass Tyson.

The only time I’ve seen Tyson was watching an archaeology special. Probably PBS given that it included Tyson as one of the random talking heads describing something completely out of their field. To be honest, I can’t blame Tyson for very obviously reading a teleprompter as if he had no idea why he was there. As I recall it wasn’t even archaeoastronomy. But he definitely looked like he belonged in the lower left square.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 01, 2026 12:02 PM (kYmoU)

Well, replace him with Laurence Tribe then. Every quote I've read from him sounds like emotive, imbecilic nonsense. Unfortunately, the Media keeps shoving his retarded hysteria in their articles, and Harvard made him a professor of Constitutional law (now emeritus), so he must sound smart to *someone*.

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 03:50 PM (Sy6m/)

153 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 02:52 PM (s9VOe)

Thanks. The only one I didn't know was Jon Stewart.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2026 03:51 PM (rHgXV)

154 Why is a water system plant connected to the internet?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 01, 2026 03:55 PM (DZ9Lv)

155 Why is a water system plant connected to the internet?
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at August 01, 2026 03:55 PM (DZ9Lv)

Fantastic Question. Two Reasons.

Number One ... every Plant Manager I've met, in the last two decades, thinks they need the ability to see "What's Going On". Either from their office computer ... or now, their phone.

And that's bullshit. None of them can, or will, fix what they know today. But the Siren Song of "I can see it in real time" intoxicates them.

Number Two ... they dream that connectivity can let them not pay the travel time of someone like me. To fix whatever ain't working right now. Also a really stupid idea.

Because you can't fix real stuff without boots on the ground. But we've been doing this circle-jerk for about two decades now.

Posted by: Hello Again at August 01, 2026 04:00 PM (Hsef8)

156 I have to add, in case anyone thinks I'm joking about Laurence Tribe, I thought he was an affirmative-action hire at first. I don't watch TV, and every single quote I read from him was so dumb -- with "Harvard Law Professor" attached! -- I was certain that only a black man could get away with such consistent public stupidity without consequences.

But no, he's white. A walking counterexample to the myth of Jewish intelligence. I could not have more contempt for his fake intellect.

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 04:05 PM (Sy6m/)

157 But no, he's white. A walking counterexample to the myth of Jewish intelligence.

I've worked in Israel. As well as the NorthEast Enclaves that are Jewish.

They value Education. Completely different than Intelligence.

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Lake Tomahawk.)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Don't be a Fauci.
3) Running with sharp objects once again has been banned.
4) Other than 3) have a great weekend!!!!

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of amass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s
more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
7/6 Update – He has gotten a second opinion, and selected the option for treatment, which should begin next week.
7/18 Update – He has started radiation treatment. No side effects thus far.
6/18 – buzzion asked for prayers for a friend named Christina, who has struggled with drug addiction and is in jail again. Buzzion prays that this really is rock bottom and a true wake-up call for her – even if it requires her to stay in jail.
6/29 Update – Christina’s family bonded her out of jail and she has checked into a rehab facility. Please
pray that she gets the help she needs.
7/11 Update – Thank you to everyone for your prayers. Christina is doing well in rehab. Please pray
that she continues through this and keeps working through it even after getting out of her program.
6/20 – bluebell gave an update on grammie Winger. Grammie had some major surgery related to hercancer in March and is pretty much housebound. She said she isn’t keeping up on news since her
diagnosis; she doesn’t have the energy. She said she thinks of her grey-box friends often with fondness.
Please keep praying for her. Your prayers are a source of great comfort to her.
6/27 Update – grammie winger requested bluebell to let the Horde know that she is hospitalizedagain, with sepsis, and cannot eat or walk. She is very tired and cannot speak for long. She is being fedby tube. They don’t know how long she will be hospitalized or where she will go after (rehab, hospice,
etc.). Bluebell has a mailing address for grammie, so please contact bluebell to send a card or note togrammie winger. Please pray for her, that her suffering will be eased, and pray for her family, who are
suffering along with her.
7/25 – grammie winger popped in to say thank you for all the cards, letters, and encouraging words. You are a treasure.
6/27 – “A” sent thanks for the prayers for a family friend, who is at home recovering with the family anddoing much better. “A” has an additional request for long-time friends (J and S) who are in the midst of
intense family problems and requesting healing, peace, repentance, and restoration in the family.
7/18 Update – “A” sends his thanks to all the prayer warriors for all the personal concerns listed here.The requests above are all doing better. Prayer really works. Sometimes the results are not what we expected but end up being what we really needed for other reasons. Thank you all!
7/2 – Publius asked for prayers for his 96 year old mother, who had emergency surgery when a massive hematoma on her leg ruptured, and they couldn’t stop the bleeding due to her being on blood thinners.
Things were not looking good, but Publius posted later she received blood thinner reverser medication,
and was fully conscious and alert after surgery.
7/10 Update – Publius’ mother was moved to a nursing home for post-acute therapy. At this point, sheis very weak but is coming back physically. But her mind is in La La Land.
7/13 Update – Publius’ mother has experienced an absolute miracle. She has come back, fully conscious and cogent. The Lord Almighty has decided her time is not complete.
7/3 – San Franpsycho posted that Mrs. F. was admitted to the hospital from the ER visit, and asks forprayers for a complete and immediate recovery for her. She was conscious enough to phone him late
last night, and it was a great relief that she was awake even for a short period. She continues with IV fluids and atb. Further steps and hopefully improvement await the results of lab tests. The caring concern shown by so many morons has been a great relief. Thank you.
7/5 Update – Mrs. F. remains hospitalized while being treated for salmonella poisoning. She has had some improvement, but is on Day 5 of not being able to keep down any nourishment.
7/11 Update – Mrs. F. came home on 7/7, and has finished her oral antibiotics. They are very grateful for the prayers for healing.
7/7 – Weak Geek asked for prayers for the survivors of RG and KG, a couple in their 90s who were pillars of their church for decades. They were knifed to death on 7/3 by their grandson. The entire congregation is stunned. Please pray for them too, and the pastor, trying to help deal with the tragedy.
7/11 – Mis Hum asked for prayers for Some Rat. He has some serious health issues at this time.
7/11 – Fen requested prayers for comfort and strength for “C” and her mother. “C” is in her 30s and her
father died after a several months long struggle with cancer.
7/11 – P, a long time lurker would appreciate prayers. He says he should have asked for prayers last year, when his stage 4 prostate cancer was first diagnosed, but he was too busy freaking out. A year andnine months later, he is still on hormone therapy and his PSA spiked recently. It’s back up to 92. He is
supposed to start a drug trial soon. He knows from experience that prayer helps, and would greatly appreciate if anyone could include him in their prayers.
7/13 – Captain Obvious posted that he could use some prayers, as he was experiencing some kind of cardiac arrhythmia.
7/15 – Captain JS’ daughter needs prayers for his/her daughter. Early on 7/15, she experienced complete heart failure. She is in the ICU on a heart/lung machine. They will operate to see what is happening. Captain JS sends thanks in advance for the prayers and has faith in their power.
7/15 Update – Thanks to all who responded to Captain JS’ request for prayers. The daughter is still unconscious but is still alive. The doctors suspect a blockage to the left side of her heart. They are planning to take pictures and then insert a stent.
7/18 Update – Captain JS’ daughter passed away. Her heart, brain, and other organs were too damaged to regain function. Captain JS sends his thanks to the Horde for all the prayers.
7/25 – Matthew Kant Cipher humbly asks for prayers for Marshall, a long-time friend and HS classmate of Mrs. MKC, who is currently hospitalized with heart failure.
7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to beworking and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on astocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure
and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital
with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.
7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated forcancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are
only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
7/30 - Isophorone Blog requested prayers for his mother. His father passed this past Sunday. His mother had been in the hospital for an entire month previous to that, so they never got to see each other at the end. His mother is out of the hospital, but in declining health.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted ina thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with
the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:03 AM

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1 Good morning good people. Prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2026 08:04 AM (uoXeR)

2 I could have been first but I was planning my vacation trip to Dust Bowl Park.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 08:06 AM (MWfyi)

3 Done nooded.

Posted by: Nood, nooder, noodest at August 01, 2026 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

4 With my movie vault/plex replacement complete, I've added some metrics pages and was shocked to learn that I have more films from 2000-2010 than any other decade, owing to all of the Super Hero and Sequel films.

I also have no films categorized as horror films in my library and the top five actors in my collection are Hanks, SLJackson, ScarJo, Vin Diesel, and Harrison Ford.

And I only have 4 films from the 30's in my collection.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 08:08 AM (XV/Pl)

5 Prayers for my BIL are needed - he is a developmentally disabled adult and has been living independently (sort of) for decades but the time has come for us to make changes in his living arrangements and personal finances. This will not go well as he has VERY poor impulse control and anger issues. Dear wife has POA but that is limited in it's reach and it is probably time for her to be granted guardianship.

Oy.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2026 08:08 AM (uoXeR)

6 I'm headed out on a trip in a few minutes but I read thru the list and will be thinking of all yall thru the day.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 08:10 AM (MWfyi)

7 Safe travels, fd. See you in Texas, Lord willing?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)

8 Thanks to all for your kind thoughts and prayers.

Interesting factoid: Johann Pachelbel's son, Charles Theodore Pachelbel, came to live in the American colonies (Charleston, SC), one of the first European composers to do so.

Posted by: Isophorone at August 01, 2026 08:12 AM (bpEno)

9 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 08:15 AM (2Cry5)

10
Be kind, be nice. Don't be a Fauci

Is that a Generation 1 Fauci or a Generation 2 Fauci?

Generation 2 Fauci is a brain dead parrot who mindlessly repeats the same phrase over and over again.

Generation 1 Fauci is s mendacious, smug, hectoring know-it-all who cannot keep his nose out of your business, and acts thusly so that he can be lauded by all the swells who share the same character flaws.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 08:15 AM (s9VOe)

11 Lord, hear our prayers

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:18 AM (GhIJO)

12 I saw a good thriller last night, "Dead Calm" (Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman) and realized it probably couldn't or wouldn't be made today. The male lead, the husband, is smart, competent, clear-thinking and cool under pressure. His masculine qualities are demonstrated through actions not words. The wife demonstrates sympathetic feminine virtues, but is also competent, clear-thinking and extremely courageous under pressure. She is not a girl-boss or whiny or bitchy or mannish in any way. They are victimized by a neo-hippie psychopath but are never victims. They have a deep, mature love for each other that proves inspiring and saves them.

The rare thriller that layers in old-fashioned character roles and dimension.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2026 08:18 AM (7s9Qe)

13 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 08:15 AM (s9VOe)

Either one. Both are putrid pond scum sucking cockroaches.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 01, 2026 08:19 AM (CkDaS)

14
Pachalbel's Crunchy Encharito Supreme is best thing they make!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:19 AM (iJfKG)

15 Chloe the Bengal Kitty says, "Hello!"

She's not the most coordinated kitty I've ever had.

A bit of a klutz, really.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 08:20 AM (FZ29D)

16 11 Lord, hear our prayers
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:18 AM (GhIJO)

Hey vmom. Saw your comment last week. No, my projects won't make the Hobby Thread. Because well, because.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 01, 2026 08:20 AM (CkDaS)

17
Interesting factoid: Johann Pachelbel's son, Charles Theodore Pachelbel, came to live in the American colonies (Charleston, SC), one of the first European composers to do so.
Posted by: Isophorone

Tell me that Charles Theodore went on to found a casting works that later cast cannons. That's right, we'd know it as Pachelbel's Cannon. Lie if you must.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 08:21 AM (s9VOe)

18 TonyPete, prayers up

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:22 AM (znREB)

19 Hey vmom. Saw your comment last week. No, my projects won't make the Hobby Thread. Because well, because.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Say no more
My lips are sealed

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:23 AM (znREB)

20 Good morning again dear horde with thanks to mh annie and you morons for praying
{grammie}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 08:24 AM (JvZF+)

21
Yes, "Dead Calm" is
an excellent little thriller.

Hard to go wrong with young Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and director Philip Noyce.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:25 AM (iJfKG)

22 Tonypete - may God's grace fill your hearts and home as you work toward a better situation for your BIL.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 08:26 AM (kOluj)

23 14
Pachalbel's Crunchy Encharito Supreme is best thing they make!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 08:19 AM

And the drive thru is open until 1:00 AM!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

24 Good morning, San Franpsycho!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 08:27 AM (kOluj)

25 Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

St. Alphonsus de Liguori, bishop and Doctor of the Church - patron of confessors and the lay apostolate - pray for us.

***

I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 01, 2026 08:28 AM (ksbjf)

26 I posted this earlier. Did a blog post on AI in reaction to one of the links Pixy had on the tech thread.

Mostly to "prove that I can still convey my thoughts into written words" because some days I wonder if I am teetering on the edge of incoherence.

https://tinyurl.com/bdbnm86w
.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:28 AM (znREB)

27 Happy Saturday, one and all. I just logged into my bank and saw that my paycheck has arrived. So life ain't bad right now.

Going for the second round of coffee and then we'll be leaving for Aikido for an hour and a half of self abuse.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2026 08:29 AM (/k3in)

28 3) Running with sharp objects once again has been banned.

************

I notice that carrying sharp objects while on a pogo stick is not expressly prohibited....

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2026 08:30 AM (I0N4X)

29 I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

I always feel so comforted when I read thus. Thsnk you.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:30 AM (znREB)

30 Good morning Horde thx MisHum
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Prayers TonyPete , adults with disabilities are difficult for their loved ones as both parties agr

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2026 08:33 AM (BlDDt)

31 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2026 08:33 AM (u82oZ)

32 @23/14.... Pachalbel's Crunchy Encharito Supreme is best thing they make!

Any lettuce on that? I'm off lettuce.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 08:33 AM (bqIVz)

33 Thanks Retired Buckeye Cop!! Sometimes I get close to freaking out but contemplating the Rosary calms the noise.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2026 08:34 AM (uoXeR)

34 ...and then we'll be leaving for Aikido for an hour and a half of self abuse.

*************

Bob Uecker voice:
"Here comes the pitch...annnd it's a slow hanging curve ball right over the center of the plate!"

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2026 08:34 AM (I0N4X)

35 Good thing the power of prayer is not exhausted.

Prayers ascending for those of the Horde in need. Both on the list and indeed, to those not on the list but known to God. May your path be made smooth, and his Will be done.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

36 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffeinated Carlo at August 01, 2026 08:36 AM (JM9I6)

37 Prayers up for those that need them, and right now, that looks pretty much like all of us!

And don't pay any attention to that sharp objects cautionary note!

Posted by: Commisssar Hrothgar at August 01, 2026 08:36 AM (hOUT3)

38 "Here comes the pitch...annnd it's a slow hanging curve ball right over the center of the plate!"
Posted by: muldoon

--
muldoon, I was so tempted

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:37 AM (eZ5tL)

39 Good morning MKC

Tonypete I know what that is all about

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 08:38 AM (JvZF+)

40 Hrothgar - sent you an email.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Any lettuce on that? I'm off lettuce.
Posted by: Case a

Went to the warehouse club and they had cleared out the whole leafy greens aisle

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:39 AM (eZ5tL)

42 Bob Uecker voice:
"Here comes the pitch...annnd it's a slow hanging curve ball right over the center of the plate!"
Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2026 08:34 AM (I0N4X)
====

I'll be leaving for 30 seconds of self abuse.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 08:39 AM (JvZF+)

43 Be kind, be nice. Don't be a Fauci

Is that a Generation 1 Fauci or a Generation 2 Fauci?

Generation 2 Fauci is a brain dead parrot who mindlessly repeats the same phrase over and over again.

Generation 1 Fauci is s mendacious, smug, hectoring know-it-all who cannot keep his nose out of your business, and acts thusly so that he can be lauded by all the swells who share the same character flaws.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 01, 2026 08:15 AM (s9VOe)

Fauci repeatedly invoked the 5th Amendment because the discovery of his log (AKA, "Fauci's Diary") reveals that he knew about the Wuhan lab leak and inefficacy of the COVID vaccines, but gave contrary advise in public. He has lots of civil liability -- he may not be charged criminally -- but I won't be surprised if he doesn't start to get sued for civil damages.

A doctor (Jeffrey Taucker?) reading "Fauci's Diary" has called him demonic with a dark heart.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 01, 2026 08:40 AM (ksbjf)

44 41 Any lettuce on that? I'm off lettuce.
Posted by: Case a

Went to the warehouse club and they had cleared out the whole leafy greens aisle
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:39 AM (eZ5tL)

All is proceeding as we have forseen.

Posted by: Big Toilet Paper at August 01, 2026 08:40 AM (2X2jr)

45 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

Got it, swamped with other issues right now, but I'll get back to you!

Posted by: Commisssar Hrothgar at August 01, 2026 08:42 AM (hOUT3)

46 Yo quiero Pachelbel

Posted by: Talking Chihuahua what likes Baroque at August 01, 2026 08:43 AM (2X2jr)

47 Trump says he warned Biden about Fauci. Fair enough. But it was Trump who gave Fauci and that Eva Braun with a scarf the floor for weeks of insufferable lectures. Many people were voicing their doubts about and even disgust with Fauci early on and it fell on deaf ears.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2026 08:45 AM (7s9Qe)

48 Have a great day of American Exceptionalism, everyone.

Lots to do, but I will make time for more prayers.

My perspective is we are living in a time that is, for all the problems we see, a golden time. Anyone from 200 years ago would marvel at American progress and ease of living. I feel blessed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

49 Seems like every week we see 2 or 3 news articles about 30 year old cold case murders being solved, or remains found 25 years ago being identified via DNA, or a fugitive on the run for 35 years being apprehended. We have come to accept that we may be dead and gone before the man who murdered my wife's father 18 years ago is apprehended (or his corpse found). This past week I sent the investigating CBI agents names and contact info for our adult kids, if that should turn out to be the case. We have largely come to terms with that possibility.
Prayers for justice.

Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2026 08:46 AM (I0N4X)

50 Prayers for all.
Have a great day y’all!!!

Posted by: Billythesquid at August 01, 2026 08:47 AM (uQS4w)

51 - Good morning
Can you trust God's Word as written?
Well, here's the results of a duck duck go query.
You'll notice the use of the word "prehistoric" as you read down through the "blurbs" (wrong word? ). They just can't help themselves.
But in one of them you'll see the question that the artwork should cause everyone to ask themselves.

https://tinyurl.com/37a5rasy

Posted by: TeeJ at August 01, 2026 08:47 AM (/XKEa)

52 saw a good thriller last night, "Dead Calm" (Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman) and realized it probably couldn't or wouldn't be made today.

--

I haven't seen it in decades, but I remember it being a very good movie. Kidman is practically unrecognizable compared to what she looks like today, though. It's a great little thriller. Billy Zane was a believable psycho. He's a good actor I don't see much of anymore.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 01, 2026 08:48 AM (qBdHI)

53 45 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

Got it, swamped with other issues right now, but I'll get back to you!
Posted by: Commisssar Hrothgar at August 01, 2026 08:42 AM

Roger that. Thanks.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

54 Mornin', Hordelings. The missus is leaving with the kiddo later this morning for an extended weekend of touring colleges in our region. I will remain behind to take care of the critters. Apparently, cocaine and strippers are verboten, but I may indulge in eating all the gluten I want since the two celiac sufferers will be gone.

Posted by: PabloD at August 01, 2026 08:48 AM (OygQN)

55 I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

I always feel so comforted when I read thus. Thsnk you.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:30 AM (znREB)
***
Thanks Retired Buckeye Cop!! Sometimes I get close to freaking out but contemplating the Rosary calms the noise.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2026 08:34 AM (uoXeR)

You're both welcome. I've gotten into the regular practice of praying my Rosary during my morning commute: I can start when I leave my house and end when I get to my off-ramp -- I think it's Providential timing.

I sometimes wonder what the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary think about the nics!

***

Well ... got go ... heading to the baptism of one of my nephew's babies. We've got another little Catholic!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 01, 2026 08:48 AM (ksbjf)

56
Chicago Skyway to the Dan Ryan, to the Kennedy to the Eisenhower tomorrow morning.

Prayers are always said during this bit of driving, along with a immoderate amount of cursing.

Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2026 08:49 AM (Y8DZL)

57 While praying for Moron intentions
Sharp objects get regular mentions
Lord, please keep us clear
Of shivs, scissors, and shears
And Muldoon's pogo vein-stick inventions

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 08:50 AM (kOluj)

58 I could have been first but I was planning my vacation trip to Dust Bowl Park.

Isn't that pretty much any neglected park run by Democrats?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 01, 2026 08:52 AM (a4flb)

59 Nicely done, MKC!

Posted by: PabloD at August 01, 2026 08:52 AM (OygQN)

60 illy Zane was a believable psycho. He's a good actor I don't see much of anymore.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 01, 2026 08:48 AM (qBdHI)

I agree, his psycho was an original turn, very convincingly loathsome.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2026 08:53 AM (7s9Qe)

61 My daughter, who is not at all devout, says she mostly prays the Our Father.
I raised my eyebrow.
I do, she insisted, all the tune when I'm driving!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:54 AM (eZ5tL)

62 *blushes*

Thank you, PanloD

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 08:55 AM (kOluj)

63 Well ... got go ... heading to the baptism of one of my nephew's babies. We've got another little Catholic!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

Wonderful! Congrats to the famiky

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 08:55 AM (eZ5tL)

64 Pachelbel makes the BEST breakfast tacos!

Posted by: Jill Not A Doctor Biden at August 01, 2026 08:58 AM (2Ez/1)

65 Dawn greetings & positive vibes to all.

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 08:59 AM (ZxPkt)

66 56
Chicago Skyway to the Dan Ryan, to the Kennedy to the Eisenhower tomorrow morning.
++++

They say no one's ever beaten the Van Wyck...

Posted by: Elaine Benes at August 01, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

67 *finds PabloD passed out with three empty boxes of Entenmann's chocolate donuts*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 09:00 AM (JvZF+)

68 49 We have come to accept that we may be dead and gone before the man who murdered my wife's father 18 years ago is apprehended (or his corpse found). This past week I sent the investigating CBI agents names and contact info for our adult kids, if that should turn out to be the case. We have largely come to terms with that possibility.
Prayers for justice.
Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2026 08:46 AM (I0N4X)

I pray you find answers while still on terra firma. My brother was killed by a hit and run driver 23 years ago and the perp was never found. My parents were still here and his sons were 4, 6 and 10 at the time. If there’s DNA in your FIL’s case, theres hope. FWIW, Othram Labs north of Houston is doing miraculous stuff with IGG. Keep the faith my friend.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 01, 2026 09:02 AM (SjAWL)

69 Vmom- great post on AI. Your thoughts on AI are both coherent and insightful.

Also, the Our Father is my go-to when I can't find words, or realize mine are a poor substitute for the original.

Lastly, not gonna lie... the mental image of the raised eyebrow directed at your daughter sent a tiny shiver down my spine 😆

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 09:04 AM (kOluj)

70 "I've gotten into the regular practice of praying my Rosary during my morning commute: I can start when I leave my house and end when I get to my off-ramp -- I think it's Providential timing.

I sometimes wonder what the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary think about the nics!"
***

Get yourself a sweet Madonna
Dressed in rhinestones sittin' on a
Pedestal of abalone shell...

https://youtu.be/pIqF-Mrh2bk

Posted by: Plastic Jesus at August 01, 2026 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)

71 Prayers for justice.
Posted by: muldoon at August 01, 2026 08:46 AM (I0N4X)

Absolutely.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 01, 2026 09:08 AM (wVcYX)

72 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 01, 2026 09:09 AM (7IlZh)

73
I sometimes wonder what the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary think about the nics!

As I've said, I hope Our Lady has a sense of humor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 09:10 AM (O0L8i)

74 Ok. I (capital "I") was ready to go at 9:00, as "I" was told to be.Now "I" am sitting in the car and it's 9:14.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 09:14 AM (ajS0Q)

75
I've taken to saying my Rosary at 6:30 in the morning. I've been up for a while and it's a useful interval before 7:00, when I make Her Majesty's coffee and get Diana and The Big Dummy run outside.

While I recognize the efficacy of the Rosary and while I credit saying it with a greater serenity and while I'm happy to do it, I'm always mentally distracted. I say it in all sincerity but my mind wanders, even though there are no distractions. Well, I hope the Good Lord at least recognizes my perseverance.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 09:15 AM (O0L8i)

76 *taps foot*

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 09:15 AM (ajS0Q)

77 - All of my prayers of thanksgiving and requests go to the Father and are asked in the name of the Son.
As Jesus taught.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 01, 2026 09:16 AM (/XKEa)

78 76 *taps foot*
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 09:15 AM

You can always watch some cat videos.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)

79 Hadrian- I appreciate you saying this. I have the same issue. Doesn't matter if I'm sitting still, walking, or driving- when I say the rosary, my mind moves about in much the same pattern as my 2 yo granddaughter playing with the garden sprinkler.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 09:22 AM (kOluj)

80 Mornin' Horde.

Three nights in the car this past week. Set for a few days more right now, but...this is taking its toll.

Prayers for the Horde in need.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at August 01, 2026 09:25 AM (mQbp+)

81 - Well, I must be off. (There's another hanging curve ball for ya).

The yard needs some mowing while it's cool.
You all have a blessed day and hopefully you'll visit the link I dropped @51.
Three or four minutes might just make ya go hmmm.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 01, 2026 09:25 AM (/XKEa)

82 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

May God's grace and mercy pour down on all of His children this day.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 01, 2026 09:26 AM (D/6p1)

83 Muldoon, Prayers for you and your wife. Good planning re sharing contact info. Hope you hear soon on justice and resolution. Hugs.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at August 01, 2026 09:26 AM (yTvNw)

84 Me noticing how prayer works in everyday things:

The other day at work the back of my earring fell and bounced somewhere onto the floor under my desk. The floor is the kind of speckled "carpet" tile that is meant to hide dirt. It's also great at hiding tiny earring backs.

I'd been looking for some time, even using a proper flashlight, when I finally said "St Anthony, please help me!" As soon as I said that, the flashlight's beam glinted off metal behind some wires.

Yup, there it was, in a spot I'd already checked previously.

Thank you, St Anthony!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 09:27 AM (gDlxJ)

85 Good morning. Prayers for all

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2026 09:27 AM (ugElV)

86 Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 09:04 AM (kOluj)

Thank you!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 09:28 AM (znREB)

87 Paul a prayer for a speedy and complete recovery from your illness

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 09:30 AM (JvZF+)

88 Paul a prayer for a speedy and complete recovery from your illness
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 09:30 AM (JvZF+)

Cleansing fire ?

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2026 09:32 AM (g47mK)

89 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forever. Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2026 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)

90 I thought I had a kidney stone but it was the beginning of shingles. I got some good advice from the Pixy thread yesterday and went to urgent care. I'm on the antiviral and I have to say it is a very mild case. Not much pain at all. Thanks everybody.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at August 01, 2026 09:39 AM (l26NL)

91 Good news: Even European governments were shocked by the Cueta fiasco. Italy’s Meloni suspended their border-free agreement with Spain as a result of the debacle and several other countries like Finland, Denmark, and (shockingly) France seemed to agree… Spain’s pathetic PM whined about it…. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2026 09:39 AM (ugElV)

92 I sometimes wonder what the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary think about the nics!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 01, 2026 08:48 AM (ksbjf)
---
I think it shows that one can be devout and at the same time imperfect.

God loves all of us, and a recurring theme in Catholic literature (Waugh, Greene in particular) is to have messy, sinful people who are nevertheless called to God and contrast them with people who appear righteous, but are just going through the motions.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

93 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Kamala reveals her 2028 agenda:

1. Eliminate the Electoral College
2. Pack the Supreme Court to 13
3. DC & Puerto Rican statehood

-
And then UTOPIA!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 09:45 AM (ndZc7)

94 Consensus is not truth, especially in scientific endeavors. There was much consensus amongst the Third Reich on how to address societal problems. There was no Truth....

Here's some truth from a more credible Paul:
https://tinyurl.com/m4ncw9sb

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 09:46 AM (kOluj)

95 Luke 5:32

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 09:46 AM (abScH)

96 Good news: Even European governments were shocked by the Cueta fiasco. Italy’s Meloni suspended their border-free agreement with Spain as a result of the debacle and several other countries like Finland, Denmark, and (shockingly) France seemed to agree… Spain’s pathetic PM whined about it…. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2026 09:39 AM (ugElV)
---
I'm curious as to who organized and financed it. Those people were recruited and dropped off. Considerable logistics were involved.

One naturally thinks of Soros and leftist NGOs, but I can see where at least some of the participants wanted to force a reaction against migration by creating a worst-case scenario.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

97 I thought I had a kidney stone but it was the beginning of shingles. I got some good advice from the Pixy thread yesterday and went to urgent care. I'm on the antiviral and I have to say it is a very mild case. Not much pain at all. Thanks everybody.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

So glad you got the antiviral early. On Pixy's thread, the doctor is always in.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 09:49 AM (lJ0H4)

98 96 — Amen, Ben Had

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2026 09:49 AM (26GAh)

99 Indiana Fever coach says she's not educated enough to know if men should play in women's sports

-
Yeah, that's a head-scratcher all right.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 09:49 AM (ndZc7)

100 *tips cap*

Mornin' Ben Had!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 09:50 AM (kOluj)

101 1. Eliminate the Electoral College
2. Pack the Supreme Court to 13
3. DC & Puerto Rican statehood

-
And then UTOPIA!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 09:45 AM (ndZc7)
---
There being no way to do any of this without amendments to the Constitution which have no hope of passing, I'm assuming she's going to create a dictatorship of the proletariat or something.

On that note, I've got a full play today and need to get moving. God be with you!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

102
Eliminate the Electoral College

__________

How? I mean, I really would like to understand the mechanism by which they're hoping to accomplish this. Amending the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate and ratification by three-quarters of the states. Even an Article V process requires 3/4 ratification. I know there are a lot of GOP turkeys but they're not all going to vote for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 09:51 AM (O0L8i)

103 - All of my prayers of thanksgiving and requests go to the Father and are asked in the name of the Son.
As Jesus taught.
Posted by: TeeJ at August 01, 2026 09:16 AM (/XKEa)

I've got just enough time to respond:

1) At the Wedding at Cana: the servers informed the Blessed Virgin Mary of the lack of wine.
2) She tells Jesus, "They have no more wine."
3) She tells the servers, "Do what ever He tells you."
4) Jesus Christ performs His first public miracle: turning water into wine.

If you want to disrespect the Mother of God, that's on you. I suspect Jesus is not amused.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at August 01, 2026 09:52 AM (ksbjf)

104 Hey there's a turd in the punchbowl

Posted by: Don Black at August 01, 2026 09:52 AM (ZxPkt)

105 A glorious good morning to you Linus and Matthew Kant Cipher. May the Preace of the Lord be with you.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 09:52 AM (abScH)

106 Europe is FINALLY fighting back agains invading savages !

"BREAKING:

The prime ministers of 22 out of 27 EU member states have written a joint letter to the EU, demanding an emergency summit over the invasion of illegal migrants in Ceuta."

*No, not the Bee

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2026 09:52 AM (g47mK)

107 So, just how black is the Pope? I mean, is it merely a one-drop thing or can hip-hop coming from inside the Papal Apartment be heard blasting across St. Peter's Square at night?

Posted by: one hour sober at August 01, 2026 09:53 AM (J4Dwc)

108 Well, if the joint letter did not get to them, the emergency summit definitely will!

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2026 09:53 AM (g47mK)

109 @94...

I am ready to put a fifty foot cement wall around DC, and that clown wants to make it a State? NO!

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 09:55 AM (bqIVz)

110 DSA thinks it can do all these things unilaterally:
1. Eliminate the Electoral College
2. Pack the Supreme Court to 13
3. DC & Puerto Rican statehood

Not that they will introduce legislation to make it so.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 09:56 AM (2Cry5)

111 Good morning all
Glad to see all of you here.
Any update on Some Rat?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 09:56 AM (kJmSS)

112 3) Running with sharp objects once again has been banned.

Well, there go all our games today.

Posted by: Earl Everett at August 01, 2026 09:57 AM (0sNs1)

113 Breaking911
@Breaking911
Sen. Bernie Moreno on why Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth: “Because he’s a piece of sh*t.”

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That's science!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 09:57 AM (ndZc7)

114 Sharon,talked to him last night and he will definitely be at the MoMe

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 09:57 AM (abScH)

115 *contrast them with people who appear righteous, but are just going through the motions.*

We're sitting right here.

Posted by: The Pharisees at August 01, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

116 Eliminate the Electoral College

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How? I mean, I really would like to understand the mechanism by which they're hoping to accomplish this. Amending the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in the House and Senate and ratification by three-quarters of the states. Even an Article V process requires 3/4 ratification. I know there are a lot of GOP turkeys but they're not all going to vote for Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 09:51 AM (O0L8i)

I speculate their approach would be an end run around the constitution. Some blue states have already proposed state laws that would give their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. I’m no lawyer but it sounds like it’d pass constitutional muster because the state legislatures would’ve dictated how the EVs were allocated

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2026 09:59 AM (26GAh)

117 Talk is cheap. Mayor Jihadi was going to arrest Netanyahu too

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 10:01 AM (abScH)

118 I don't like the phrase "popular vote". It sneaks in a subtext of Correctness. People like popular things. Popular is good.

We should call it something yucky like the aggregate vote, or the lump vote. The irrelevant vote. Something like that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 10:02 AM (e9gyj)

119
Mexicans after watching The Odyssey:

https://tinyurl.com/yuxjfy5t

Posted by: naturalfake at August 01, 2026 10:03 AM (iJfKG)

120 Talk is cheap. Mayor Jihadi was going to arrest Netanyahu too
Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 10:01 AM (abScH)

Let bibi come and shit on a sidewalk, stab a random lady on public transit, and knock over a liquor store.

Then they could never arrest him. Instant immunity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 10:04 AM (e9gyj)

121 Winning!

Newsom Praises California’s Minimum Wage Rise to More than $10 Above National Pay

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 10:04 AM (ndZc7)

122 118 Talk is cheap. Mayor Jihadi was going to arrest Netanyahu too
Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 10:01 AM

Shouldn’t we ask why people who want to abolish prison want to arrest Bibi? I would love their answer.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:07 AM (OoFl2)

123 I'm just glad this clique of revolution LARPers are too damn stupid to figure out how a guillotine works.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 10:08 AM (e9gyj)

124 Hubba Hubba.

“Knots Landing” Star Donna Mills Joins OnlyFans at Age 85

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 10:09 AM (ndZc7)

125 Piper, Good morning, dear heart.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 10:10 AM (abScH)

126 124 I'm just glad this clique of revolution LARPers are too damn stupid to figure out how a guillotine works.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 10:08 AM (e9gyj)

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Lol - "Just stick your head in and take a good hard look, see if you can't make sense of it. I'm sure it will come to you...."

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 10:11 AM (kOluj)

127 I’m no lawyer but it sounds like it’d pass constitutional muster because the state legislatures would’ve dictated how the EVs were allocated
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2026 09:59 AM (26GAh)

No, it’s explicitly unconstitutional. In Article 1 of the Constitution:
“ No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”

Note that any Compact between States is ONLY constitutional if Congress approves of it. So the Dems plan can only work if they control a majority of the the House, and the Senate, and the States, and the Presidency, and if they get to that point the games already over, so who cares.

Credit an ignorant and uncaring media for never pointing this out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:11 AM (7GO/2)

128 Donna looks damn good for 85

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2026 10:11 AM (nESHF)

129 Michigan AG Won’t Attend Dem Party Convention over Fears of Anti-Jewish Harassment

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Pro tip. Stay away from the Nuremberg rallies as well.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 10:14 AM (ndZc7)

130 125 Piper, Good morning, dear heart.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026

Good morning to you! I hope all the horses are well!

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:14 AM (OoFl2)

131 I was watching a video on why you like junk food and it struck me how interesting the perspective taken is.

The video detailed various food scientists and companies that have made food "unnaturally" tasty. For example do you know Prego deviously hired a guy that tried 48 different recipes on the public until he found the couple that people really really liked?

And...yeah. Isn't that the point? If you make food you want to make it taste better then anyone else's because otherwise people won't buy your food.

Now the second point made was that a lot of food is ultra processed and high in fat and sugar. And that's true. Now, why is the grocery store full of that? Because people keep choosing it.

So the argument, and you see this in a lot of left leaning cases, is that we should ban some types of food that people currently want because it is bad for them.

And this gets comical because the people arguing we should ban this stuff outright are currently fighting the Trump admin in court to allow EBT money to be used on it.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 10:18 AM (sKqQm)

132 We should call it something yucky like the aggregate vote, or the lump vote. The irrelevant vote. Something like that.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 10:02 AM (e9gyj)

Here’s why it would always break down into chaos. Current law only allows state regulation of elections; there are no Federal election monitors or enforcers. This is why California can have massive amounts of state sponsored vote fraud and nothing will happen. As long as there is an electoral college, we know that Democrats will win California, but who cares by how much.

But with no EC, California’s fraud affects the overall election massively. The only counter will be for states like Texas and Florida to submit 250 million votes each for their candidates and say “Nyah Nyah!”

The entire system would break down quickly and the Union would collapse. That’s what the idiots who want to do away with the EC never understand; all paths without it lead to a final and complete collapse of the Union.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:22 AM (7GO/2)

133 I've been growing wary (and weary) of this term "ultra-processed".

It's incredibly loaded. It has no definition or meaning. It's the foodstuff equivalent of "fascist". Bad thing i don't like because I'm better than you, wunderbrot-fresser.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 10:22 AM (e9gyj)

134 Indiana Fever coach says she's not educated enough to know if men should play in women's sports

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Yeah, that's a head-scratcher all right.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and
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Such a visceral reaction makes me suspect there are biological men playing in the league now.

Posted by: WisRich at August 01, 2026 10:22 AM (mMoRd)

135 I love fast food primarily for the convenience. If I was a billionaire I'd never eat fast food again because I'd have a personal chef. Oh in addition to an old Cajun lady making me all my favorites.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:23 AM (KC5Lt)

136 That’s what the idiots who want to do away with the EC never understand; all paths without it lead to a final and complete collapse of the Union.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:22 AM (7GO/2)

I'm sure at least a few of them understand that.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 10:23 AM (e9gyj)

137 We should call it something yucky like the aggregate vote, or the lump vote. The irrelevant vote. Something like that.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The mob vote
The out of state vote
The bot vote

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 10:24 AM (dE3DB)

138 131 - So KFC does not put an addictive chemical in the chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 10:24 AM (XvL8K)

139
Blue states like California, New York and Illinois are losing population while Florida and Texas are gaining. Will the DemSocs regret getting what they asked for?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 10:24 AM (O0L8i)

140 It rained hard here overnight. I know that because when I let the dogs out this morning, I noticed that I had forgotten to put the lid on the poop storage bucket before turning in.

Poop Soup.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 01, 2026 10:25 AM (J4Dwc)

141 "And...yeah. Isn't that the point? If you make food you want to make it taste better then anyone else's because otherwise people won't buy your food."
Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 10:18 AM

This is a little long - 16 minutes - but he does a good job explaining MSG.

https://youtu.be/nu8sJQ_D0b0

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 10:26 AM (2Ez/1)

142 The constitution charges the federal government with enforcing a republican form of government

A system that allows fraud isn't a republican one.

Of course most "conservative" judges are too cowardly to use this obvious understanding.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 10:26 AM (sKqQm)

143 Some KFC offer chicken fried steak only Wednesdays till mid August.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 10:26 AM (ruicq)

144 1. Eliminate the Electoral College
2. Pack the Supreme Court to 13
3. DC & Puerto Rican statehood

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And then UTOPIA!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 01, 2026 09:45 AM (ndZc7)
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There being no way to do any of this without amendments to the Constitution which have no hope of passing, I'm assuming she's going to create a dictatorship of the proletariat or something.

On that note, I've got a full play today and need to get moving. God be with you!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

PR statehood and increasing the size of SCOTUS do not require amending the Constitution. Arguably, DC statehood does but I have no faith that either Congress or the courts would uphold that.

If they got those two, the EC becomes pointless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2026 10:27 AM (ExV1e)

145 Aerial spraying going on around here, sounds like I'm being strafed.

Posted by: No, not THAT kind of Cropdusting. at August 01, 2026 10:27 AM (JM9I6)

146 Indiana Fever coach says she's not educated enough to know if men should play in women's sports

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Yeah, that's a head-scratcher all right.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

They are still delusional thinking they can come close to competing with men. The Williams sisters thought the same thing until they were both destroyed by their male hitting partner who was ranked in the 300's .

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:27 AM (KC5Lt)

147 The prime ministers of 22 out of 27 EU member states have written a joint letter to the EU, demanding an emergency summit over the invasion of illegal migrants in Ceuta.

We shall have a meeting at which we shall draft a very strongly worded letter indeed. -- European governments

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2026 10:28 AM (ExV1e)

148 The entire system would break down quickly and the Union would collapse. That’s what the idiots who want to do away with the EC never understand; all paths without it lead to a final and complete collapse of the Union.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:22 AM (7GO/2)

What’s hilarious is that in 2024 if that “popular” vote compact had been in effect, California’s EVs would’ve gone to Trump. Can you imagine the squealing?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 01, 2026 10:30 AM (nkHgN)

149 Newsom Praises California’s Minimum Wage Rise to More than $10 Above National Pay

Californians flood TikTok with even more videos about the affordability crisis.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2026 10:30 AM (ExV1e)

150 Such a visceral reaction makes me suspect there are biological men playing in the league now.
Posted by: WisRich at August 01, 2026 10:22 AM (mMoRd)

I'd agree with you but that person would be dominating and I don't see anyone fitting that description.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:30 AM (KC5Lt)

151 18-1 - you're so right, people love to make a conspiracy out of why food companies sell inexpensive products that people want to eat. All historical context is thrown out the window.

That doesn't mean we should ignore new evidence illuminating the health risks. My son gave me the book "Good Energy" by Casey Means, a very bright young MD at the center of the MAHA movement. I found much of her thesis brilliant and enlightening, but also infuriating at times. IMO, she nails the cellular / biochemical reasons why much of the "ultra-processed" food is unhealthy. But when she gets into production agriculture and "soil health" she gets pretty far over her skis and starts sounding more like an activist than a scientist. She needs to stay in her lane, which is cellular energy regulation & dysfunction; she is fantastic at explaining this.

I guess it speaks to the difficulty of scientists to stay humble once the media has annointed them as experts. On balance, I still recommend the book... just don't believe everything she says about agriculture / food production.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 10:32 AM (kOluj)

152 Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 10:32 AM (kOluj)

Organic farming 'experts' are the worst.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:34 AM (KC5Lt)

153 One problem with bypassing work and going straight to the beach is that the beach and work are in opposite directions from where I live. My wife, however, can do that, as the beach is beyond the school she teaches at.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 01, 2026 10:36 AM (VmDLh)

154 And this gets comical because the people arguing we should ban this stuff outright are currently fighting the Trump admin in court to allow EBT money to be used on it.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026

I think we should limit EBT to healthy and nutritious foods. But there is a huge misconception that all ready made food is over processed and unhealthy, which is not true. I guess it’s a lot of work to say this food is okay, but that isn’t. A veggies made great muffin from the freezer section is not the same as a donut.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:37 AM (Wmg4n)

155 The fans were booing Sophie Cunningham every time she touched the ball in Portland. Which made her have one of her best games . Best part is when they were booing her as she dribbled to the 3 point area and drained the basket. She then gave the crowd the loser symbol as she ran down the court.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:37 AM (KC5Lt)

156 > Aerial spraying going on around here, sounds like I'm being strafed.
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The nearby town contracted for mosquito spraying. It's been a horrible summer for people, the bugs, not so much.

Anyway, the local Karens got on the socials to bitch and moan about it and demand, not ask, demand answers. The list of questions was... quite something, and had little to do with what the city was spraying for.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 10:38 AM (2Cry5)

157 153 One problem with bypassing work and going straight to the beach is that the beach and work are in opposite directions from where I live. My wife, however, can do that, as the beach is beyond the school she teaches at.
Posted by: Cybersmythe at August 01, 2026

The beach is angry here today. Lots of rip currents.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:38 AM (Wmg4n)

158 Eating 'healthy' is mostly about portion size.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:39 AM (KC5Lt)

159 Organic farming 'experts' are the worst.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:34 AM (KC5Lt

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Indeed - most have never tilled an acre, hauled manure, or pulled a weed... but they can barf out buzzwords like Mr. Creosote being offered a wafer-thin mint

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 01, 2026 10:40 AM (kOluj)

160 May GOD in His kindness give grace to those above. His will for each of us may not include healing, but much grace. Rather we should pray as Christ prayed, 'Thy will be done...'

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 10:40 AM (LHPAg)

161 The beach is 8 hours from where I live.

But it's far better than when we were 20 hours away.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 01, 2026 10:40 AM (0aYVJ)

162 Ben Had, please pass along that I am thinking of him.
Sadly, pretty sure I am not going to make it to Texas this year. 😥

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 10:41 AM (kJmSS)

163
146 Indiana Fever coach says she's not educated enough to know if men should play in women's sports.

Makes me wonder if she’s educated enough to know how to tie her own shoes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:41 AM (7GO/2)

164 Where my EBT card at?

Posted by: La'Shondra at August 01, 2026 10:41 AM (2Ez/1)

165 Eating 'healthy' is mostly about portion size.
Posted by: polynikes
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But I can't eat zero Funyons.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 10:41 AM (XvL8K)

166 Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 10:40 AM (LHPAg

That is always my last part of my prayer. I sometimes worry that those whose prayers are not answered lose faith. I also pray that does not happen.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:42 AM (KC5Lt)

167 But I can't eat zero Funyons.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 10:41 AM (XvL8K)

Correct portion would require them making bags that only contained three Funyons

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:44 AM (KC5Lt)

168 Funyuns are neither.
Give me Bugles.

Posted by: There. I said it. at August 01, 2026 10:45 AM (2Ez/1)

169 Prayers up for all of the Horde and their loved ones.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2026 10:45 AM (ibDUx)

170 135 I love fast food primarily for the convenience. If I was a billionaire I'd never eat fast food again because I'd have a personal chef. Oh in addition to an old Cajun lady making me all my favorites.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:23 AM

For what you are paying in fast food prices, you could grab a bunch of Kevin’s meals in the grocery store and have quick, wholesome food. Kevins natural foods . Com

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:45 AM (Wmg4n)

171 OT: do any tech news sites still have comment sections? I just noticed this past week that theregister and techcrunch no longer have comment sections. In the case of TheReg that removes a lot of the value in reading their articles. IMHO

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 01, 2026 10:45 AM (5cmwp)

172 Pinche western mentions "colt and wesson" revolver. Might as well be riding a Shetland Clydesdale.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 10:47 AM (gCPlb)

173 But I can't eat zero Funyons.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 10:41 AM (XvL8K)

Correct portion would require them making bags that only contained three Funyons
Posted by: polynikes
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How much of Twinkie does that work out to?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 01, 2026 10:48 AM (XvL8K)

174 Oh in addition to an old Cajun lady making me all my favorites.
Blowjobs?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 10:48 AM (gCPlb)

175 When I was a kid, we used to go to the beach for a month in the summer. The wives would take the kids and the men would come on the weekends. This was middle class life back in the day.
I got my car insurance bill yesterday. It is more than two months wages at my first job.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 10:48 AM (kJmSS)

176 155 The fans were booing Sophie Cunningham every time she touched the ball in Portland. Which made her have one of her best games . Best part is when they were booing her as she dribbled to the 3 point area and drained the basket. She then gave the crowd the loser symbol as she ran down the court.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:37 AM (KC5Lt)
May GOD bless and keep her. She's in the modern day coliseum with wild beasts and few friends, and the crowd is calling for her death.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 10:50 AM (LHPAg)

177 Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:45 AM (Wmg4n)

I do and I don't eat fast food like I did in the past when I was working. Still would love a personal chef.

And speaking of Cajun food. The Big Easy brand of crozen Cajun foods ( gumbo, etoufee, etc) are the closest I've ever had to homemade.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:51 AM (KC5Lt)

178 etoufee
etoufeet

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 01, 2026 10:54 AM (NySpJ)

179 Eating 'healthy' is mostly about portion size.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:39 AM (KC5Lt)

I only eat the mini twinkies and the tiny Little Debbies.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 10:54 AM (rbvCR)

180 How does autocorrect allow a nonsensical word (crozen) to remain but change a real word to something that makes no sense in context?

Worst AI evah !

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:55 AM (KC5Lt)

181 Wow, ICE raids in my leftist county has the Karen's and soy boys losing there marbles. My local rags cute on Facebook has got over 400 comments and the left cannot deal with people who support ICE . Very fun to read

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2026 10:56 AM (BlDDt)

182 The only way they can eliminate the Senate is with an Amendment to the Constitution. No Senator will vote for it. An Article V convention could, theoretically, rewrite the whole thing. But 3/4ths of the States would have to ratify it.

Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 10:56 AM (qFwJc)

183 180 How does autocorrect allow a nonsensical word (crozen) to remain but change a real word to something that makes no sense in context?

Worst AI evah !
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:55 AM (KC5Lt)
It's designed that way.
-W. Smith

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 10:56 AM (LHPAg)

184 polynikes, I don't know where you shop but HEB carries a brand called Frenchy's that is outstanding

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 10:56 AM (abScH)

185 *I only eat the mini twinkies and the tiny Little Debbies.*

Yoo hoo!

Posted by: Fun size Snickers at August 01, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)

186 Have you tried the really spicy funyums?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 10:57 AM (qFwJc)

187 "Fun size? What's so fun about them being tiny?" - Bart Simpson.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 10:58 AM (qFwJc)

188 Comment sections have gone away because websites don’t want to go to the trouble of monitoring and moderating them; and without that a site is easily captured by any one of the loud factions on the net,

Zero hedge still has good articles, for example, but their comments section has long been controlled by Die Sturmer level Jew haters who go on and on about it in every thread. Makes it to where I seldom look at anything they put up anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 10:59 AM (7GO/2)

189 There was a professor that ate nothing but candy and junk food for a couple of weeks but less than 2000 calories a day . He lost weight. I'm sure he would eventually become diabetic but he was showing the calories in calories out theory is firm.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 10:59 AM (KC5Lt)

190 But 3/4ths of the States would have to ratify it.

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3/4 of states can’t agree that the sunrises in the east let alone a new constitution.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:00 AM (qmPa0)

191 187 "Fun size? What's so fun about them being tiny?" - Bart Simpson.

"Giggity" - Glenn Quagmire

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at August 01, 2026 11:00 AM (dGijZ)

192 84
The other day at work the back of my earring fell and bounced somewhere onto the floor under my desk. The floor is the kind of speckled "carpet" tile that is meant to hide dirt. It's also great at hiding tiny earring backs.

Thank you, St Anthony!
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 09:27 AM (gDlxJ)

About 15 years ago, I was taking a road trip with a friend from Houston to Maine. We had stopped at a Burger King near Loretta Lynn's home in TN and it was getting dark. I was taking my purse off my shoulder and the strap caught the back of my earring. The back stayed on but the tiny diamond stud that my parents had given me for college graduation was nowhere to be found. And my parents had passed away about 5 years prior. I was summoning every patron saint in the book and a couple of pickups came up, turned their brights onto the gravel and searched with me. And there it was, this tiny speck that meant everything to me. Talk about prayers being answered!

Posted by: TxAnn at August 01, 2026 11:02 AM (SjAWL)

193 Very few seem to understand that an Article V convention can never possibly lead to a “new constitution”. Most likely outcome will be to collapse in failure. “Success” would most likely be the creation of 3 or 4 new Constitutions, with 3 to 4 successor States. No more US, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 11:03 AM (7GO/2)

194 Interesting research paper came out correlating high fructose diets to the resurgence of specific forms of ovarian cancer after initial treatment. The mechanism is examined, but I can't follow the biochem

The chemotherapy-induced senescence-associated secretome promotes cell detachment and metastatic dissemination through metabolic reprogramming
A.R. Cole et.al.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2026 11:04 AM (rbvCR)

195 Success” would most likely be the creation of 3 or 4 new Constitutions, with 3 to 4 successor States. No more US, though.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 11:03 AM (7GO/2)

I’d be happy with that.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:05 AM (qmPa0)

196 Arkansas, Louisiana ,Texas and Oklahoma would make a Great country.

The Republic of Alto

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:06 AM (KC5Lt)

197 195 Success” would most likely be the creation of 3 or 4 new Constitutions, with 3 to 4 successor States. No more US, though.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 11:03 AM (7GO/2)

I’d be happy with that.
Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:05 AM (qmPa0)
Texas and Liberty.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 11:07 AM (LHPAg)

198 The breakup of the US is inevitable. You can’t have a country where 1/2 the country wants to kill the other half. The question is where and how, not if it will happen

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:07 AM (qmPa0)

199 196 Arkansas, Louisiana ,Texas and Oklahoma would make a Great country.

The Republic of Alto
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:06 AM (KC5Lt)
Eromeros have a deer lease between Alto and Douglas.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 11:08 AM (LHPAg)

200 The local Rural King sells their own brand of Funyons and pork rinds.

In big bags.

It's a sickness with me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 01, 2026 11:09 AM (2Cry5)

201 Nood

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 01, 2026 11:10 AM (7IlZh)

202 I love Cajun food but even in the ethnically diverse DMV, I am unaware of any restaurants. There used to be one on Connecticut Ave when my sons were in college but long gone. There was one in Cozumel but also didn't last. I wonder why Mexican restaurants flourish but Cajun doesn't catch on?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 11:10 AM (kJmSS)

203 Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2026 11:08 AM (LHPAg

About 100 miles north of me.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:11 AM (KC5Lt)

204 Greetings Everyone

Thank you MIs Hum

I have a question - does anyone have any insight as to why the pied a terre tax in NYC falls so heavily on condos? It's 4% on condos worth over 1M$. That seems pretty heavy and far reaching.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:11 AM (QGaXH)

205 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at August 01, 2026 11:11 AM (QGaXH)

Most everything in Manhattan are condo or coops.
That is becoming the case in Brooklyn too.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2026 11:13 AM (KC5Lt)

206 When I was a kid, we used to go to the beach for a month in the summer. The wives would take the kids and the men would come on the weekends. This was middle class life back in the day.
I got my car insurance bill yesterday. It is more than two months wages at my first job.

But you should be happy in knowing middle class people can't afford that any more so that immigrants and illegals can. I mean its...diversity!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2026 11:15 AM (sKqQm)

207 Sharon, just sent you an email.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)

208 Prayers for all the Hordes needs.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 01, 2026 11:21 AM (NnhvP)

209 have a question - does anyone have any insight as to why the pied a terre tax in NYC falls so heavily on condos? It's 4% on condos worth over 1M$. That seems pretty heavy and far reaching.

Posted by: Anonymous

My guess if is you’re going to own a place to use every now and then a condo is the way to go. No worries about maintenance, security, etc.

Posted by: Chaos at August 01, 2026 11:24 AM (qmPa0)

210 A veggies made great muffin from the freezer section is not the same as a donut.

Posted by: Piper at August 01, 2026 10:37 AM (Wmg4n)

It most certainly is not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 01, 2026 11:27 AM (dK+Kv)

211 Got it Quarter Twenty. Thanks!

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2026 12:05 PM (kJmSS)

212 Thank you to God for answering my prayer for actually thorough fraud enforcement, not giving a pass to the 'mere' 5- and 6-figure fraudsters. It had been so demoralizing for so long. At least at the Federal level, they are finally being serious about enforcement; and things are picking up at the state level as well, such as in Florida. May investigators and prosecutors have the strength of mind and emotional endurance to keep it up or even pick up the pace, as they develop facility, and may their example inspire more states to follow suite. Amen.

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 01:22 PM (Sy6m/)

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Daily Tech News 1 August 2026

Top Story

VC-backed startups commit more fraud and researchers think they know why. (Tech Crunch)

Yes, it's exactly the reason you immediately thought of.

Congratulations, you are now a researcher.

Tech News

Single DIMM gaming works better than you might think. (Tom's Hardware)

Assuming you're not using integrated graphics. If you are, it works exactly as you would think.

But if you have a graphics card, and the graphics card has enough memory of its own, and your single DIMM has enough memory, and you have an AMD X3D CPU, the performance loss is only around 3% on average.

And given that I have a 128GB kit (2x64GB) and a 96GB kit (2x48GB) I could run four systems rather than two if they all had X3D processors. Not that I need four systems, but I could.
Setting up OpenClaw isn't as easy as the internet claims. (Tom's Hardware)
Having 48GB of available video memory should allow us to run a fairly powerful AI model on the system.
Wait, 48GB of VRAM? What hardware... Oh, a Beelink mini PC, and that's shared memory with the integrated graphics.
Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion - but it should have. (Tailscale)

Interesting writeup on why the dog didn't bark in the night.
AMD's new Radeon 9050 graphics card is poop. (WCCFTech)

Not as poop as the RX 6400 I just bought, until you take price and power consumption into account, in which case it's more poop.
Sony understands that its customers are upset about its plan to end disc support on PlayStation. (WCCFTech)

It understands. It doesn't care. It's doing it anyway. Because fuck you that's why.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Softer, worser, slower, weaker, but good enough for government work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

2 G'mornin all y'all

Posted by: Okjohn at August 01, 2026 04:38 AM (Rwdkj)

3 Here we are.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 01, 2026 04:38 AM (zdLoL)

4 Wikipedia

Daft Punk's second album, Discovery (2001), earned acclaim and further success, with the hit singles "One More Time", "Digital Love" and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger".

It became the basis for an animated film, Interstella 5555, supervised by the Japanese artist Leiji Matsumoto.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

5 Pixy speaks the language of hardware

Much literature is based on memory

The chicks end up going with the guys with memory AND hardware

Posted by: Mikleuse contemplates the snows of yesterday at August 01, 2026 04:43 AM (XOG/m)

6 Like the legend of the phoenix

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

7 G'Day everyone
Was a lot of cat napping last few hours but better get moving.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 04:57 AM (Ia/+0)

8 Good morning.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at August 01, 2026 04:58 AM (Q/FnY)

9
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2026 05:14 AM (AMvSw)

10 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 01, 2026 05:20 AM (Hbeqj)

11 Morning glories, what's on your plate today?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 05:27 AM (abScH)

12
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2026 05:29 AM (AMvSw)

13 I looked here first for news of the re- re- conquista of the Iberian Peninsula.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 01, 2026 05:32 AM (1FEc1)

14 Well, another July gone. The cotton field next to my place is blooming. Supposed to get rain today, that should give the cotton plants that last push it needs. Daylight is getting noticly less. Hopefully the temperature will fall some. With the A/C running my electric bill shot up to $97.00. Well at least I kept it under a hundred dollars.🙂

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 05:34 AM (bqIVz)

15 Morning glories, what's on your plate today?
Posted by: Ben Had

Clean the bathrooms, pick up a prescription at CVS, stop at grocery store on the way home. Maybe get the car washed. Glamorous.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 05:35 AM (lJ0H4)

16 AltonJackson, Good morning. Hope you and the kiddos are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 05:36 AM (abScH)

17 Why am I not asleep yet?
Thank you Pixie for the tech thread. I read it every day. Keeps me up on the goings on behind the industry that keeps the roof over my head.
And thank you for mu.nu. in general.

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 05:36 AM (BnbBT)

18 July was a long busy month for me

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:39 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2026 05:42 AM (ErLti)

20 BREAKING

Philadelphia Fed reports 14.6% increase in the key Skip sector in June

Skip accounts for 7.95% of the entire US GDP

Posted by: MiklosWatch AM at August 01, 2026 05:46 AM (XOG/m)

21 Congratulations, you are now a researcher.

Yay me!

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at August 01, 2026 05:46 AM (Hi7Pd)

22 Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

4K full movie here on YouTube:
https://tinyurl.com/mvsa8h3r

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 01, 2026 05:47 AM (O7YUW)

23 30 for 30 is on ESPN right now. It's about Reggie White. Usually I don't watch ESPN outside of just sports but co-worker was watching it. Listening to secular, godless, people talking about Christianity is annoying. They know nothing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2026 05:47 AM (ErLti)

24 Evening to the late Saturday toilers, morning to the early risers, and a Wocka-wocka! to everybody?

Pixy's first story abut "VC-backed startups": What, the VietCong are still around and funding new tech companies now?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:48 AM (wzUl9)

25 @18....Skip. Ha! Every month seems like a long busy month for you.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 05:49 AM (bqIVz)

26 Congratulations, you are now a researcher.

Yay me!
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.

For a small fee, we will peer review and publish you research prestigioulsly, in one of out may Prestigious Publications

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Pradeep Jugdish at August 01, 2026 05:50 AM (XOG/m)

27 SONY: "FU!"

Customers: "FAFO." *collectively close their wallets*

SONY: "OF."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 01, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

28 Last night we watched the 1964 movie Paris When It Sizzles, with William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, and appearances/cameos by Noel Coward, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, and even Audrey's husband at the time, Mel Ferrer. (He has no lines but plays a costume partygoer who is done up as Dr. Jekyll, drinks a potion, and turns into Mr. Hyde.) Not a "serious" movie -- and thank goodness for that. It's light, frothy, funny (especially about the movie business), and just plain fun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

29 Per the Post:
"Fuming Mamdani blocked from speaking at fallen NYC soldier’s funeral despite writing speech: ‘He was never called’
Ha. I wouldn't want him speaking at my funeral either.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 05:52 AM (lJ0H4)

30 I still have a hour to go in Fritz Lang's Der Nibelungen
Its 4 hours long. Its a silent movie done in sepia

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 05:56 AM (Ia/+0)

31 Last night we watched the 1964 movie Paris When It Sizzles, with William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, and appearances/cameos by Noel Coward, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, and even Audrey's husband at the time, Mel Ferrer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Does it have dogs in it?

Dixie likes movies with dogs.

Posted by: Miklos inquires at August 01, 2026 05:56 AM (XOG/m)

32 27
SONY: "OF."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 01, 2026 05:50 AM (O7YUW)

OnlyFans?

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 05:56 AM (odBC9)

33 Oh, that's right! A new month it is! "August." For Northern Hemisphere dwellers, anyway, the word just seems to seethe with heat, doesn't it? "Aw-GUST" (said with an exasperated sigh).

In my school days it was always bittersweet, a harbinger of terror -- our last month of freedom before going back to the daily prison of school. Not even a whole month after I was twelve, as school began just before Labor Day.

According to Woody Allen and other New Yorkers, I believe, the word signified the month when their therapists and psychiatrists went on vacation, and an emotional crisis meant there was nobody to call.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:58 AM (wzUl9)

34 Ha. I wouldn't want him speaking at my funeral either.
Posted by: Tuna

I would speak at his.

Well, mainly piss on the grave and toss some leftover hamhocks for good measure

Posted by: Miklos is too old to be a commie at August 01, 2026 05:59 AM (XOG/m)

35 Last night we watched the 1964 movie Paris When It Sizzles, with William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, and appearances/cameos by Noel Coward, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, and even Audrey's husband at the time, Mel Ferrer.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Does it have dogs in it?

Dixie likes movies with dogs.
Posted by: Miklos inquires at August 01, 2026

***
No, but there's a canary named "Richelieu." (So named, Holden's character guesses, because Audrey "really wanted a cardinal.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

36 In my school days it was always bittersweet, a harbinger of terror -- our last month of freedom before going back to the daily prison of school.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Did you go to Public Skool or study by the Sisters?

At one time (or so they say) New Orleans public schools were not Academies for Youthful and Future Offenders

Posted by: Miklos did neither at August 01, 2026 06:03 AM (XOG/m)

37 No, but there's a canary named "Richelieu." (So named, Holden's character guesses, because Audrey "really wanted a cardinal.")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

My parents had a cocker spaniel they named Rhett Butler, because he was so handsome.

Generally called Butler.

So I could go around and casually mention that my family has a butler-yours DOESN'T??!

Posted by: Aspiring Miklos at August 01, 2026 06:07 AM (XOG/m)

38 Schools start here this next week. When I was a kid schools started in September. But I didn't go to school here, I lived in Texas way back then.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 06:07 AM (bqIVz)

39 In my school days it was always bittersweet, a harbinger of terror -- our last month of freedom before going back to the daily prison of school. Not even a whole month after I was twelve, as school began just before Labor Day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 05:58 AM (wzUl9)
----
I've spent my entire life driven by the academic calendar. First as a student for many years, then as an employee for higher education to this day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 06:07 AM (FZ29D)

40 We watched the classic The Spiral Staircase, the 1946 original with Dorothy McGuire, the other night too. It has a bulldog in it. (Nothing terrible happens to him, I promise.) Still very effective, so much so that it's been remade two or three times -- including a 1961 TV version with Elizabeth Montgomery as the mute girl and with Gig Young (her husband at the time).

There was even a radio version. How could they do that, you ask, when the lead character speaks only two or three lines at the very end? The scripters gave her a running internal monologue, spoken by Dorothy recreating her role, so that the listeners would know what was happening and how she was reacting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

41 Schools still instill 3 R's. Now it's Rioting ,Racism and Tevolution

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 06:08 AM (abScH)

42 You misunderstand... We'll make more money!

Posted by: Sony at August 01, 2026 06:08 AM (pqVDs)

43 I do have to get moving, going to my cousin's to work on his porch roof

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:09 AM (Ia/+0)

44 Ben would love to be invisible and sig in back of a few school classes.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:10 AM (Ia/+0)

45 I've spent my entire life driven by the academic calendar. First as a student for many years, then as an employee for higher education to this day.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026

***
Yes; after final grades went in, my summers at the university were very much lighter. I could leave a little earlier in the afternoon. There was plenty to get ready for -- new faculty and new graduate students in August -- but the pace was a bit slower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:10 AM (wzUl9)

46 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: One, two, three, four, can I have a little more?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2026 06:11 AM (amcLV)

47 Schools start here this next week. When I was a kid schools started in September. But I didn't go to school here, I lived in Texas way back then.
Posted by: Case

Grandkids' schools would have started next week but their school systems got hacked so they get a 10 day reprieve.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 06:11 AM (lJ0H4)

48 I've spent my entire life driven by the academic calendar. First as a student for many years, then as an employee for higher education to this day.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

After academia, it was the Annual Grant Funding Deadline Calendar.

Posted by: Miklos got shitloads of money for other people who did fuck-all with it at August 01, 2026 06:13 AM (XOG/m)

49 Make it kinetic!

Back in 2007, some guy wrote each word in "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" on his fingers and hands, and flashed them in sync with the lyrics. It brings home how they get increasingly fast and twisty as the song goes on. Then a few months later, a couple of chicks did it with the words on their limbs, spazzing like madwomen by the end. It's some of the most wholesome content on YouTube.

Daft Hands - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Fr. Eckle Studios)
https://youtu.be/K2cYWfq--Nw

Daft Bodies - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (imalibubarbiei)
https://youtu.be/lLYD_-A_X5E

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 06:13 AM (Sy6m/)

50 I saw that Home Depot is doing workshops for young kids. What a fantastic idea.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 06:13 AM (abScH)

51 In my school days it was always bittersweet, a harbinger of terror -- our last month of freedom before going back to the daily prison of school.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Did you go to Public Skool or study by the Sisters?

At one time (or so they say) New Orleans public schools were not Academies for Youthful and Future Offenders
Posted by: Miklos did neither at August 01, 2026

***
Public school, and yes, we were expected to learn -- and to get good enough grades to be promoted to the next grade. We weren't just passed along up the ladder no matter what. One of my buddies in eighth grade, though very smart, just couldn't be motivated to do the work (easy as it was), and had to repeat the grade.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

52 Schools still instill 3 R's. Now it's Rioting ,Racism and Tevolution
Posted by: Ben Had

At the Bed Had Academy, misbehavior results in time behind the horse barn.

Simple, effective

Posted by: pre-University of Miklos at August 01, 2026 06:15 AM (XOG/m)

53 I do have to get moving, going to my cousin's to work on his porch roof
Posted by: Skip

Skip's work is never done.

Posted by: Tuna at August 01, 2026 06:16 AM (lJ0H4)

54 We have a dog show to go to this morning! It's free, close by, and it starts, get this, at 8 am. Being a cat person, I've only been to one dog show, but it was fun to see the handsome animals. I hope they have at least one full-size collie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

55 Working at 2 schools in area, suspect both need to be done before end of the month

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:17 AM (Ia/+0)

56 I saw that Home Depot is doing workshops for young kids. What a fantastic idea.
Posted by: Ben Had

Private Sector Shop Class

Posted by: University of Miklos accepts Shop Class transfer credits at August 01, 2026 06:17 AM (XOG/m)

57 I always lived the Mknty Roberts story where a young person forgot to water his horse. Monty made him fill the bucket with a teaspoon.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 06:18 AM (abScH)

58 Miklos, I wanted to do the same thing here but the insurance rate was exorbitant.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 06:20 AM (abScH)

59 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

I hope your dream of elsewhere comes true.

I am moving myself, and in boxing/unboxing books I refound my copy of "All Will Burn".

Posted by: Miklos is about to Officially Old acccording to a random age set by Bismarck two centuries ago at August 01, 2026 06:21 AM (XOG/m)

60 I wanted to do the same thing here but the insurance rate was exorbitant.
Posted by: Ben Had

Insurance for what?

Posted by: Miklos is Mystified at August 01, 2026 06:22 AM (XOG/m)

61 We have a dog show to go to this morning! It's free, close by, and it starts, get this, at 8 am. Being a cat person, I've only been to one dog show, but it was fun to see the handsome animals. I hope they have at least one full-size collie.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)
-----------
And to think that in some countries, these dogs are eaten.

Posted by: Buck Laughlin at August 01, 2026 06:24 AM (amcLV)

62
*bounds in cheerfully*

Good morning, Hordians! How are we this fine day?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 06:25 AM (O0L8i)

63 Working at 2 schools in area, suspect both need to be done before end of the month
Posted by: Skip

FUN FACT

Skip knows more than all the students in those schools and, more sadly, their teachers all put together

Posted by: Miklos sadly notes at August 01, 2026 06:25 AM (XOG/m)

64 *bounds in cheerfully*

Good morning, Hordians! How are we this fine day?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*Break of day Bourbon*

Fine

It is Saturday, And I dealt with all the fukkin shit and so-called people I had to all week.

So doing well, hope you are just fine too.

Posted by: Optimistiklos at August 01, 2026 06:28 AM (XOG/m)

65
We have a dog show to go to this morning! It's free, close by, and it starts, get this, at 8 am. Being a cat person, I've only been to one dog show, but it was fun to see the handsome animals. I hope they have at least one full-size collie.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

That the one in Kenner? We were thinking of entering, but it's lucky we didn't go. It's a new show site and the various restrictions on exhibitors are stifling.

Here's the judging program if you want to see any specific breed.

https://www.onofrio.com/jp/xlak126pl.pdf

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 06:28 AM (O0L8i)

66 Miklos in case any of the participants injured themselves

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2026 06:31 AM (abScH)

67 Here's the judging program if you want to see any specific breed.

https://www.onofrio.com/jp/xlak126pl.pdf
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 06:28 AM (O0L8i)
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I love the fact the program has a "gator warning" about allowing pets or children to wander too near to a local pond.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026 06:32 AM (FZ29D)

68 in case any of the participants injured themselves
Posted by: Ben Had

A parental waiver wouldn't solve that?

I know youngers who ride horses, and if insurance was the question, no one would ever be allowed on a horse.

Posted by: Realistic, practical, idealistic Miklos at August 01, 2026 06:34 AM (XOG/m)

69 I just learned something by accident:

If you're reading this on a phone browser and you "double click" anywhere with your finger, it will zoom in to the width of the greyboxes.

This is life altering, man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 06:35 AM (Vq1pX)

70 That the one in Kenner? We were thinking of entering, but it's lucky we didn't go. It's a new show site and the various restrictions on exhibitors are stifling.

Here's the judging program if you want to see any specific breed.

https://www.onofrio.com/jp/xlak126pl.pdf
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026

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No, Hadrian, it's at the Alario Center in Westwego, on the west bank of the river. There's one today in Kenner too?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

71 This is life altering, man.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I hear that "Odyssey" movie is better on bigger screen

Posted by: Now 17 year Miklos just can't handle more than 20 seconds at a time at August 01, 2026 06:39 AM (XOG/m)

72 That the one in Kenner? We were thinking of entering, but it's lucky we didn't go. It's a new show site and the various restrictions on exhibitors are stifling.

Here's the judging program if you want to see any specific breed.

https://www.onofrio.com/jp/xlak126pl.pdf
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026

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Hadrian, page 4 of your .pdf says it's at the Alario Center in Westwego!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:39 AM (wzUl9)

73 I hear that "Odyssey" movie is better on bigger screen
Posted by: Now 17 year Miklos just can't handle more than 20 seconds at a time at August 01, 2026 06:39 AM (XOG/m)

No spoilers... I'm waiting for it to be released on dvd.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 06:40 AM (Vq1pX)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

75
No, Hadrian, it's at the Alario Center in Westwego, on the west bank of the river. There's one today in Kenner too?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

That's the one. Yes, it used to be in Kenner and they moved to Westwego. I liked the Kenner site. There was a great breakfast they served and down the road there was an excellent seafood restaurant.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 06:41 AM (O0L8i)

76 I love the fact the program has a "gator warning" about allowing pets or children to wander too near to a local pond.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2026

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Yes, the Alario Center is located near a local park with "bayou" in the name, so it's theoretically possible that a gator might show up to party with you.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)

77 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 01, 2026 06:44 AM (2Ez/1)

78 That the one in Kenner?

the only time I remember traveling through Kenner was on the way to the airport, because of some big traffic on I-10 and US 90

Here is an excellent song from Chris Kenner (You know this song)

https://tinyurl.com/dnuehfxz

but this is the better Wicked Wilson Pickett version

Posted by: Miklos can be persuaded to dance to this at August 01, 2026 06:45 AM (XOG/m)

79 All roams lead to Rhodes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 06:46 AM (Vq1pX)

80 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

I wonder about JT

Hope he is mainly good now

Posted by: Miklos at August 01, 2026 06:47 AM (XOG/m)

81 Couldn't it also be
All roads lead to roams?

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:48 AM (Ia/+0)

82 Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., argued the discovery that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were mistakenly eligible to vote in New Jersey does not justify passing President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act, insisting the error is unrelated to a lack of federal voter ID requirements.

"Nothing in the SAVE Act would have prevented a clerical error like we've seen in Texas and Oregon and New Jersey," Booker said. "We’ve got to protect our voting systems."

The Gov said it was a software glitch.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 01, 2026 06:48 AM (/+uur)

83 All roads lead to roams?
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 06:48 AM (Ia/+0)

People who are made of lead they go the house...?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 06:48 AM (Vq1pX)

84 I hope your dream of elsewhere comes true.

I am moving myself, and in boxing/unboxing books I refound my copy of "All Will Burn".
Posted by: Miklos is about to Officially Old acccording to a random age set by Bismarck two centuries ago

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Moving, M? Where to?

(Insert shameless plug) I hope you enjoy, or enjoy again, my story in that collection called "Ant Farm."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2026 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

85 All roams lead to Rhodes.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Wherever you go, there you are

Posted by: Greek Philosopher with a sweet gig on Rhodos, ain't going nowhere at August 01, 2026 06:49 AM (XOG/m)

86 Nothing in the SAVE Act would have prevented a clerical error like we've seen in Texas and Oregon and New Jersey," Booker said. "We’ve got to protect our voting systems."

The Gov said it was a software glitch.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 01, 2026 06:48 AM (/+uur)

"We've got to protect our Clerical Errors."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 06:49 AM (Vq1pX)

87 One would think the ‘tards would get exhausted defending the indefensible. One would be wrong.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 06:52 AM (8NnWU)

88 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

My relocation project has probably been in some level of activity longer even than yours.

I shall rejoice in the pollen-free Atlantic breezes.

With WWOZ on the internets

Posted by: Miklos left New Orleans, but NOLA has never quite left me at August 01, 2026 06:53 AM (XOG/m)

89 One would think the ‘tards would get exhausted defending the indefensible. One would be wrong.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 06:52 AM (8NnWU)

One would also think our putative 'tards would be more enthusiastic about assaulting the indefensible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 06:53 AM (Vq1pX)

90 The Gov said it was a software glitch.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 01, 2026 06:48 AM (/+uur)

"We've got to protect our Clerical Errors."
Posted by: Warai-otoko

I'm waiting for the irretrievable "glitch" that makes me rich, a Senator, or both.

maybe President even

Could happen

Posted by: Miklos Lindsey-Graham-vote fopr the name, not the person! at August 01, 2026 06:56 AM (XOG/m)

91 One would also think our putative 'tards would be more enthusiastic about assaulting the indefensible.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

u uz long wrds

Posted by: Soros.org at August 01, 2026 06:57 AM (XOG/m)

92 If my desktop crashes while I'm filling my 1040, they still have my damn money and i still get done up for tax evasion.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 06:58 AM (Vq1pX)

93 i still get done up

Brit English

Not 'Murican

Posted by: Miklos knows things, but Why? at August 01, 2026 07:01 AM (XOG/m)

94 mornin yall. Camela was asked to name her three favorite presidents and gave four, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama.

She likes LBJ better than Biden. That's f'n hilarious.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:03 AM (MWfyi)

95 "Sacred clerical errors."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 07:03 AM (qFwJc)

96 Give Me Clerical Errors, or Give Me Death.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:04 AM (Vq1pX)

97 She likes LBJ better than Biden. That's f'n hilarious.
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:03 AM (MWfyi)

It's well over fifty years later, and here she is voting Democrat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:05 AM (Vq1pX)

98 That must be a first. Has anybody ever called LBJ a favorite president?

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:05 AM (MWfyi)

99 I mailed my 1040 for 2020 in 2021. They didn't open process it. I suspect they tossed it. I got a letter eventually and I resent it. Fucking incompetents.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 07:06 AM (qFwJc)

100 That must be a first. Has anybody ever called LBJ a favorite president?
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:05 AM (MWfyi)

Does Ho Chi Minh count?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:06 AM (Vq1pX)

101 Well, after all. His initials contain the letters "BJ."

Posted by: Oops at August 01, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)

102 Ima hafta crack down on all them clerical mofos

Be gettin real

Posted by: Henry VIII at August 01, 2026 07:07 AM (XOG/m)

103 Well, after all. His initials contain the letters "BJ."
Posted by: Oops at August 01, 2026 07:07 AM (2Ez/1)

It's Spanish for "The BJ".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:07 AM (Vq1pX)

104 Maybe she actually read into history of LBJ's Great Society Socialism

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:08 AM (Ia/+0)

105 Wifey died in 2019. It was the 1040 for 2019 that they didn't process. I got a check for $2,400 with both our names on it. I could not cash it. I sent it back. Eventually I got a letter saying they could not give me the $1,200 because of time ran out.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 07:08 AM (qFwJc)

106 Just cash half of it. Easy peasey!

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2026 07:10 AM (8NnWU)

107 My only regret is that you have but one life to give for my Clerical Errors.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:12 AM (Vq1pX)

108
Clerical Errors of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 07:14 AM (O0L8i)

109 They don't want the SAVE ACT because they want to cheat.
It's that simple. Anything they have to say is Bullshit. They should be in jail.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2026 07:14 AM (bqIVz)

110 Don't Clerical Error until you see the eyes of their whites.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:15 AM (Vq1pX)

111
Muh Clerical Errors

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 07:15 AM (O0L8i)

112 Ich bin ein clerical error!

Am I doing this right?

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)

113 @103/Warai-otoko: "It's Spanish for "The BJ"."

I remember this cropping up on one of the livestreams that Raconteur Press holds twice weekly, and the participants absolutely cracking up over the term "El BJ!" (imagined as a President who was a Mexican Luchador).

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 01, 2026 07:17 AM (O7YUW)

114 I just took a break to listen to some James Brown.

Recommend

Namaste

Posted by: Miklos, Living in America at August 01, 2026 07:17 AM (XOG/m)

115 She likes LBJ better than Biden. That's f'n hilarious.

Because Biden wasn't president, Kalorama via AutoPen was.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 01, 2026 07:18 AM (a4flb)

116 We hold these truths to be clerical errors.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:18 AM (MWfyi)

117 James Brown is my Saturday morning "get shit done around the house" music.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:19 AM (Vq1pX)

118 I scrolled through the entire ONT looking for the most important comment that should have been made about the American Motors Pacer.
IIRC it was the MIRTHMOBILE !

Party On!

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 01, 2026 07:19 AM (1FEc1)

119 California is opening a new theme park:

"Dust Bowl Camp has a unique tie to American literary history, as the historic migrant camp helped inspire John Steinbeck’s 1939 classic “The Grapes of Wrath,”

I am not making that up.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

120 The park will pay homage to Dust Bowl and farmworker history, though details on exactly how it will do so remain unknown.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:23 AM (MWfyi)

121 We do monthly professional workshops on both Inadvertent and Simple Clerical Error Creation and Management.

The Lack of Proper Training Trainings are weekly.

Attendance and completion of all coursework automatically qualifies for a 10% annual pay increase.

Posted by: Dept. of Rogue Employees, Cincinati Office at August 01, 2026 07:23 AM (XOG/m)

122 The park will pay homage to Dust Bowl and farmworker history, though details on exactly how it will do so remain unknown.
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:23 AM (MWfyi)

Sponsored by Swiffer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:24 AM (Vq1pX)

123 I'm looking forward to California opening the "Asian Detention Center" park.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

124 123 I'm looking forward to California opening the "Asian Detention Center" park.
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

Or the Here's Where My House Used To Be Experience.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:26 AM (Vq1pX)

125 It was injured kids that sunk Imus’ ranch. No one saw that coming.

Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2026 07:26 AM (6jy2V)

126 Sjould be popping in today
If not have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 07:26 AM (Ia/+0)

127 The article Pixy linked yesterday about the world as AI sees it made me think Deep Thoughts

https://tinyurl.com/bdbnm86w

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 07:26 AM (gDlxJ)

128
"Dust Bowl Camp has a unique tie to American literary history, as the historic migrant camp helped inspire John Steinbeck’s 1939 classic “The Grapes of Wrath"

The Soviets showed "The Grapes of Wrath" in movie theaters to illustrate the failures of capitalism, but had to withdraw it when audiences were amazed that in America even poor people had trucks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2026 07:26 AM (O0L8i)

129 That must be a first. Has anybody ever called LBJ a favorite president?

She wasn't asked who her favorites are, but who were the most effective. El BJ was named with Kennedy as a functional duo. Dittos when mentioning Obama for his contribution to completely wrecking health care, she added "...and Biden too...together".

FDR remains, of course, their George Washington.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 01, 2026 07:26 AM (a4flb)

130 I'm looking forward to California opening the "Asian Detention Center" park.
Posted by: fd

You go now

Posted by: Rooftop Koreans at August 01, 2026 07:28 AM (XOG/m)

131 JEF, LBJ and FDR are commies and will have their own Rushmore. Kennedy is mentioned for the rubes.

Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2026 07:29 AM (6jy2V)

132 1FEc1)

119 California is opening a new theme park:

"Dust Bowl Camp has a unique tie to American literary history, as the historic migrant camp helped inspire John Steinbeck’s 1939 classic “The Grapes of Wrath,”

I am not making that up.
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:22 AM (MWfyi)

I’m trying to visualize the Ma Joad roller coaster, and I just can’t see it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 07:30 AM (y3V/x)

133 Heh. A Shitlib Mount Rushmore. The opportunities for barbs and zingers abound.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:30 AM (Vq1pX)

134 Screw Wally World, kids. We are going to Dust Bowl Camp!

Posted by: Clark G at August 01, 2026 07:31 AM (MWfyi)

135 how soon they forget

Posted by: BJ Clinton at August 01, 2026 07:31 AM (Q+gd/)

136 The muzzles will keep JEF’s and wreck the others.

Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2026 07:32 AM (6jy2V)

137 Biden's looking backwards.

Obama is made out of a different rock type they have to truck in and glue up there.

Clinton gets carved over a weird crooked outcropping

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:32 AM (Vq1pX)

138 George W Bush is up there for some reason looking smugly confused.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2026 07:33 AM (Vq1pX)

139 Morning Horde. At the ripe old age age of 29+ I'm managing our church cemetery. There's a funeral at 10am and I have to turn off the sprinkler system and dress the gravesite prior to the internment. The gravedigger covered the opening for the cremains container with a road sign that has Do Not Enter The Dump painted on it. Really, you picked that to cover an open gravesite? It's a good thing that we can cover the sign with a fake grass rug, never was dressing a grave needed more than today.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 01, 2026 07:34 AM (2NHgQ)

140 Rejoinder: One, two, three, four, can I have a little more?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2026 06:11 AM (amcLV)

One, two, three, four. Make him sweat outside the door.

Five, six, seven, eight. Always pays to make him wait.

Nine, ten. Come!

Posted by: Right CJ. Sorry, CJ at August 01, 2026 07:34 AM (1Ff7Z)

141 Camela says "I shouldered the blame for the porous border, an issue that had proved intractable for Democratic and Republican administrations alike,”

I guess she hasn't been paying attention from her 8 million dollar mansion in California.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:36 AM (MWfyi)

142 The gravedigger covered the opening for the cremains container with a road sign that has Do Not Enter The Dump painted on it. Really, you picked that to cover an open gravesite?”

I suppose it’s better than Welcome to the Jungle.

No U-Turns would have been more philosophical.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 07:40 AM (y3V/x)

143 139 Morning Horde. At the ripe old age age of 29+ I'm managing our church cemetery.

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nec, that work is truly an act of charity.
thank you

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 01, 2026 07:44 AM (znREB)

144 Thanks vmom. It's an interesting cemetery since it started its history as an Indian burial ground and changed to our parish cemetery over the years. It's on the Historic Register. The parish has spent 5 years cleaning it up to make it presentable for parishioners and visitors. It receives a lot of visitors due to the adjacent historical site.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 01, 2026 07:48 AM (2NHgQ)

145 "It's an interesting cemetery since it started its history as an Indian burial ground..."

There's a joke in there about eulogies and land acknowledgements... but I need more coffee.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2026 07:51 AM (2Ez/1)

146 "I'm looking forward to California opening the "Asian Detention Center" park."

They already have one. It's call Manzanar. No rides though.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 01, 2026 07:52 AM (qFwJc)

147 In order to virtue signal, the Pope has painted a target on his back. Leo claims his family history has both slaves and slave owners in it.

Right now, there are Commie Reddit mods rubbing their hands together gleefully eager to prove Leo has no slaves in his family history. Just to own the hated Catholic Church.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2026 07:55 AM (2GVsD)

148 With my movie vault/plex replacement complete, I've added some metrics pages and was shocked to learn that I have more films from 2000-2010 than any other decade, owing to all of the Super Hero and Sequel films.

I also have no films categorized as horror films in my library and the top five actors in my collection are Hanks, SLJackson, ScarJo, Vin Diesel, and Harrison Ford.

And I only have 4 films from the 30's in my collection.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 07:56 AM (XV/Pl)

149 mornin yall. Camela was asked to name her three favorite presidents and gave four, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama.

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I would love seeing her take a quiz on her in-depth knowledge of these presidents. She probably knows next to zero on them all, except for the Jug Earred commie.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 01, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

150 Paris When It Sizzles? Is it about leaving Granny in the city to swelter and die whilst one goes on a beach resort vacation?

Posted by: Air Conditioned And Proud at August 01, 2026 07:58 AM (JM9I6)

151 A dapper man in a tailored suit walks on stage, "imagine if you will three former Vice Presidents on Jeopardy. Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Kamala Harris."

He gives the audience a sardonic smile as they all laugh at the idea.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2026 07:58 AM (2GVsD)

152 When I was a kid in California, the places visiting relatives wanted to go were always Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 07:59 AM (MWfyi)

153 Good morning morons from under a beautiful Sonoma moon. They call this area Moon Valley for a reason.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2026 08:00 AM (JvZF+)

154 And I only have 4 films from the 30's in my collection.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I've watched more than 750 films from the 30s and maybe 10 or 12 each from the decades following.

Posted by: Old Yeller at August 01, 2026 08:01 AM (JM9I6)

155 One day in the future, you will be able to ride a train to Dust Bowl Park, and then on to Manzanar!

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2026 08:04 AM (MWfyi)

156 If you play The Ramones while doing housework, you will be finished in 1/2 the time.

Posted by: Gimme, Gimme, Shock Treatment! at August 01, 2026 08:05 AM (JM9I6)

157 There be noodage.

Posted by: Noodist at August 01, 2026 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)

158 Kamala might go to Europe to help in the crisis over young men storming the border. She has the experience of being border czar you know.....Babylon Bee. Another feather in her cap to be the next President, assuming she actually goes. She has got to pick out the furnishing for her new home first.

Posted by: Colin at August 01, 2026 08:16 AM (CiQE7)

159 Sony is removing discs from the PlayStation because every component in consumer electronics adds 5-10x its BOM cost to the final price, and the console market is already suffering badly from the DRAMpocalypse. More importantly, a disc drive on a console is completely superfluous at this point. The average AA game (never mind the AAA games that are the basis of the industry) will not fit on a single disc anyway, and we have two decades of market research that shows consumers reject having to swap discs or install games on their console. Console BluRay drives run at ~200Mbps, which is nowhere near fast enough to stream the high-res texture maps used by current games into memory.
All of which is irrelevant, because every disc-based game for the last two generations has just been a physical key that unlocks the digital download anyway.
That it eliminates the secondary market is a nice bonus for Sony, but this was going to happen regardless. The technology requires it.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 01, 2026 08:49 AM (LgYtf)

160 "Yes, it's exactly the reason you immediately thought of."

As a step to achieve enlightenment?

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Friday Overnight Open Thread - July 31, 2026 [Doof]

Hola! Friday night meme time. Where is Weird Dave, you may be wondering. Well, he's tending to some some health related stuff tonight - so you are stuck with the fill-in meme team from Doof Enterprises, LLC. Prepare to be whelmed!

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The topic of the week gets the meme treatment

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Transportation memes

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Collectors pay attention!

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Skillz

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Careful what you wish for

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1 Fist!

Oh

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 09:57 PM (XuXeR)

2 *looks around

How did that happen?

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 09:58 PM (XuXeR)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (ErLti)

4
Ceuta

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (mmrXZ)

5 Sorry I'm late, I wasn't expecting there to be that many people at the border crossing.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:00 PM (PhXxO)

6 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:01 PM (u/oMr)

7 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 31, 2026 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

8 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at July 31, 2026 10:01 PM (u/oMr)

9 Friday Friday Friday WHEE
~~WeirdDave WeirdDave~~ O N TEEEE

Wait, what?? Doof? (checks calendar) I sense a disbursement in the farce.

*attempts a twirl a la that gal, stumbles and falls *

Posted by: mindful webworker - It seemed like a good idea at the time at July 31, 2026 10:01 PM (/YSzp)

10 Boobs!

And it’s spelled “Ceuta.”

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 10:02 PM (77rzZ)

11 Good evening Horde and thank you Disco!

Posted by: TRex- whelmed dino at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (jnBG1)

12 I watched Becoming Led Zeppelin. Brought back memories...

Posted by: lin-duh at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (VCgbV)

13 Spain:

https://tinyurl.com/3mdb2hzz

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (H5gG/)

14 I loved KISS. Then I turned 13.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

15 Melecevida is obviously someone who grew up in the late 70s to mid-90s.

Posted by: GWB at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (kU0PQ)

16 3 Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (ErLti)

And I thought I was late.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (PhXxO)

17 Since cooking came up on the Cafe, did anyone see that RFK, Jr., has a new online cooking show? It's on EweTube, and features cooking real food into healthy food for around $5/serving. He works with real chefs in the kitchen.

First episode (Crispy Salmon Cakes with Apple, White Bean & Greens Salad)
https://youtu.be/r5vKilWJNKo

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (qx7Zg)

18 I'm guessing the spoon-lift truck must be in a foundry.

Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (Q+gd/)

19 Evening, Doof, and ONT Horde! Because willowed:

OT, I am considering a used Pixel 9 phone that has been loaded with graphene OS, for $650 CDN. Would be about $500 USD or less. Vendor in Canada. Worth it, or risky?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (1z8ji)

20 Happy Friday! Totally whelming, Doof! Thanks!

Posted by: Iris at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (286+n)

21 14 I loved KISS. Then I turned 13.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (0aYVJ)

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The Most Successful Garage Band in History

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:05 PM (u/oMr)

22 Did not know Randy Moss served in the Navy. Fair Winds and Following Seas.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 10:05 PM (0aYVJ)

23 I'm guessing the spoon-lift truck must be in a foundry.
Posted by: davidt

Or a T-Rex nursery.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:06 PM (VHUov)

24 Yay, ONT! Thanks, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at July 31, 2026 10:06 PM (rdVOm)

25 I was expecting weird.
I got whelm.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:06 PM (PhXxO)

26 Dr Hook is questionable. He liked the 16 year olds.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 10:07 PM (KC5Lt)

27 Is your rice MAGIC rice?

Posted by: Vinny Gambini at July 31, 2026 10:07 PM (u/oMr)

28 Tonight's ONT brought to you by morons on Friday nights

Well, now my willowed post is on-topic here:

Anyway - if you look at enough of these videos, cooking, baking and the like, you see that the thumbnail advice to Creators is to have a woman holding food in the thumbnail. That's like 85% of these videos. They hold the food, they present the food, I guess it gets clicks or literally everyone wouldn't be doing it.

So obviously not the case in the ones where it's men. I think the men generally just show the food. But just go with me.
Posted by: ...

There's a meme about that.

https://is.gd/qCdZi4

Posted by: mikeski frightens cameras

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

29 Say uta, uta, uta.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:08 PM (H5gG/)

30 Doktor doktor gimme the news
I got a bad case of lovin' you

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:08 PM (u/oMr)

31 I went to the Celtic Festival in Monterey, California. They had this bagpipe marching band. The guy who lead it was a very tall, black-skinned dude dressed in dark-green tartans. Impressive as hell. I wouldn’t have asked him for cab fare, lest he would’ve kicked my ass and ground it with his heel into the dirt.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 10:09 PM (77rzZ)

32 I wish I were rich.

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 10:09 PM (ZxPkt)

33 If I saw a resume saying what that sailor said, I'd hire him in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)

34 Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (ErLti)

And I thought I was late.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (PhXxO)

Ha! Well played!

Posted by: Doof at July 31, 2026 10:10 PM (QMAsf)

35 I imagine Powerline will have a lot of Fow Chee memes tomorrow

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 10:10 PM (ZxPkt)

36 >>I wish I were rich.

Why? Don is a perfectly fine name.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:11 PM (viF8m)

37 32 I wish I were rich.

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If I had a million dollars
(If I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)

Posted by: Barenaked Ladies at July 31, 2026 10:11 PM (u/oMr)

38 DJ Doof - Doctors We Trust More Than Fauci Edition

Doubled Doctor Density!

https://youtu.be/Pf0_Be5PPPU
https://youtu.be/DlPHmYtqSdA
https://youtu.be/3OdtT5BsX_4

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:12 PM (VHUov)

39 Spain:

https://tinyurl.com/3mdb2hzz

He seems nice.

Posted by: It had to be said at July 31, 2026 10:12 PM (wOK9Z)

40 well played Jack

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 10:13 PM (ZxPkt)

41 Would you trade your health to be rich?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 10:13 PM (abScH)

42 Hey, Jak Strau. How you be?

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 10:13 PM (77rzZ)

43 Evenin! Thanks for the DONT

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 10:14 PM (kOluj)

44 Doof, you are the best.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 10:14 PM (abScH)

45 16 3 Mornin'
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (ErLti)

And I thought I was late.
Posted by: tankdemon

I work midshift. It's morning for me.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2026 10:15 PM (ErLti)

46
Hello, Horde! 😊💕
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 31, 2026 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

*frozen uneasy smile*

Oh. Teresa. You're here. How... nice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 10:15 PM (O0L8i)

47 Here's a doctor themed video that nobody else is going to share this one, which could probably get listed under "Forgotten 80's Mystery Click" Maybe a pair of detectives could figure it out.

https://youtu.be/Pf0_Be5PPPU

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:15 PM (PhXxO)

48 AOP,

If you are concerned about third party install and can find a good price on a new Pixel, installing Grapheneos is actually not too bad. I was able to pull it off and have had no issues since install, and its been a couple months now.

Posted by: I still can't think of anything at July 31, 2026 10:16 PM (ZDEv7)

49 The memes from Spain will not be pleasant.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

50 https://youtu.be/DlPHmYtqSdA

Posted by: mikeski
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Sounds like ZZ Top was his backup band.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (H5gG/)

51 What's the current definition of "rich"?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (Cqx++)

52 I LOL active old lady and reverse camera.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 10:18 PM (KC5Lt)

53 51 What's the current definition of "rich"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (Cqx++)

There is room for interpretation. It's why djinni are considered dicks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 31, 2026 10:18 PM (xcxpd)

54 Doof, you are the best.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 10:14 PM (abScH)

You're too kind. Hugs to you!

Posted by: Doof at July 31, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

55 49 The memes from Spain will not be pleasant.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

Because they'll be in Arabic?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 31, 2026 10:19 PM (xcxpd)

56 Game used beer tabs haha

Posted by: Joemarine at July 31, 2026 10:19 PM (y171U)

57 51 What's the current definition of "rich"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (Cqx++)

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Your definition of rich depends on how rich you are.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:19 PM (u/oMr)

58 Another caption for the top one:

"What did you just do out there in the street?"

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 10:19 PM (dIske)

59 51 I’m up for “whoever makes more than I do,”

Who’s with me?
— Democrat voters

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

60 47 Here's a doctor themed video that nobody else is going to share this one, which could probably get listed under "Forgotten 80's Mystery Click" Maybe a pair of detectives could figure it out.
https://youtu.be/Pf0_Be5PPPU
Posted by: tankdemon

* points back at #38 *

.....apologies.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:20 PM (VHUov)

61 Evenin! Thanks for the DONT
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 10:14 PM (kOluj)

DO or DONT - there is no TRY

Posted by: YODA at July 31, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

62 51 What's the current definition of "rich"?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Double whatever you thought it was two years ago.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:21 PM (H5gG/)

63 Today is a good day. X-rays are good, bone stimulator is no longer needed. Life is good.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:21 PM (viF8m)

64 bone stimulator is no longer needed.
Posted by: JackStraw

Something something, The Paolo, something.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:23 PM (VHUov)

65 DO or DONT - there is no TRY
Posted by: YODA at July 31, 2026 10:21 PM (QMAsf)

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Do or Doof... there is no whelm

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 10:23 PM (kOluj)

66 If you are concerned about third party install and can find a good price on a new Pixel, installing Grapheneos is actually not too bad. I was able to pull it off and have had no issues since install, and its been a couple months now.
Posted by: I still can't think of anything at July 31, 2026 10:16 PM (ZDEv7)

Actually, the third-part install is the attraction. open the box, install SIM card, and use it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 10:23 PM (1z8ji)

67 What's the current definition of "rich"?

Half of what you thought is was two years ago.

Posted by: Bob at the DSA at July 31, 2026 10:23 PM (n5tGW)

68 I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:24 PM (u/oMr)

69 63 Thank Goodness, JackStraw.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 10:24 PM (77rzZ)

70 Would you trade your health to be rich?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 10:13 PM (abScH)

No. Not at all.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 10:24 PM (0aYVJ)

71 68 I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:24 PM (u/oMr)

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$20, same as in town

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 10:25 PM (kOluj)

72 Would you trade your health to be rich?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 10:13 PM (abScH)

I am insanely rich. I just don't count wealth in dollars..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at July 31, 2026 10:25 PM (nbLIj)

73 68 I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:24 PM (u/oMr)

Is that what the young'uns are calling them these days?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 31, 2026 10:26 PM (0CU3H)

74 > What's the current definition of "rich"?
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Not giving a fuck what the stock market's doing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2026 10:26 PM (2Cry5)

75 Evening Horde,thx Doof. Feel better WeirdDave.
A NYC named Scott Galloway who supported Mamdani's pied-a-terre tax is upset because he was "doxxed" by the mayor's database of people to be taxed. Boo-hoo . He does a podcast with Kara Swisher. Hope the evil critter got doxxed too

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 10:27 PM (BlDDt)

76 What's the current definition of "rich"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Your definition of rich depends on how rich you are.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Not Elon Musk: Elon Musk

Elon Musk: caught signal 11 (segv)

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

77
What's the current definition of "rich"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

A happy family, that loves me, that I love back.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 31, 2026 10:27 PM (QVmho)

78 Mikeski's comment at 38 making my comment at 47 an embarrassing faux pas.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:27 PM (PhXxO)

79 68 I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.

we talkin' electric bone or electric stimulator?

Posted by: anachronda at July 31, 2026 10:27 PM (qdr3M)

80 72 🙂

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 10:28 PM (77rzZ)

81 >>I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.

Good. You're gonna need it when I come shanghai you and make you take me sailing next month.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:28 PM (viF8m)

82 JackStraw, glad to hear it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 10:29 PM (BlDDt)

83 77 🙂

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 10:29 PM (77rzZ)

84 POV you wake up in Spain after an invasion:

https://tinyurl.com/56wc67v4

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:29 PM (H5gG/)

85 Okay, Mikeski, didn't get this one:

https://youtu.be/edYKnvJyr-U

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:30 PM (PhXxO)

86 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 31, 2026 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

*frozen uneasy smile*

Oh. Teresa. You're here. How... nice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 10:15 PM (O0L8i)

Oh, dear - did I do something wrong?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 31, 2026 10:30 PM (SRRAx)

87 22 Did not know Randy Moss served in the Navy. Fair Winds and Following Seas.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 10:05 PM

Haze gray and underway.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 10:30 PM (2Ez/1)

88 Anyone who would bargain their health to acquire anything else has never been really sick.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 10:30 PM (vE0+H)

89 Spain ...

El Cid weeps ...

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at July 31, 2026 10:31 PM (XbNmU)

90 Current price of a new Pixel 9 on Amazon.ca is about $680 cdn. Then I would have to fuck around to root it and install Graphene. $650 for one already done sounds good to me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 10:31 PM (1z8ji)

91 75 Evening Horde,thx Doof. Feel better WeirdDave.
A NYC named Scott Galloway who supported Mamdani's pied-a-terre tax is upset because he was "doxxed" by the mayor's database of people to be taxed. Boo-hoo . He does a podcast with Kara Swisher. Hope the evil critter got doxxed too
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Heh! He'll be really shocked when the guillotine shows up at his front door too!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2026 10:31 PM (ErLti)

92 Good evening morons en bedankt wd voor de memes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 10:32 PM (JvZF+)

93 68 I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:24 PM (u/oMr)

That raises so many questions that I really don't want answered.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:32 PM (PhXxO)

94 Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 31, 2026 10:27 PM (QVmho

How are you doing? Did you get something for the Shingles?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2026 10:33 PM (rHgXV)

95 Mikeski's comment at 38 making my comment at 47 an embarrassing faux pas.
Posted by: tankdemon

I had the cassette back then. "Hold Me Now" is still a great song.

https://youtu.be/TvzVTRK1nOY

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)

96 First episode (Crispy Salmon Cakes with Apple, White Bean & Greens Salad)
https://youtu.be/r5vKilWJNKo
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (qx7Zg)

this is great! and smart!

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2026 10:33 PM (g47mK)

97 The memes from Spain will not be pleasant.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

Because they'll be in Arabic?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 31, 2026 10:19 PM (xcxpd)

Heh. That. But it will get ugly.
On a more humorous note, I just saw a vid (I assume it's real) that shows the Spanish army flinging bacon at the new arrivals.
ROE is a bitch.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2026 10:34 PM (2WIwB)

98 I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.
Posted by: Cicero

That raises so many questions that I really don't want answered.
Posted by: tankdemon

That's not all it raises!

Posted by: somebody had to say it at July 31, 2026 10:34 PM (VHUov)

99 very good produciton too!

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2026 10:35 PM (g47mK)

100 hello cliquers

Posted by: alpine_beer at July 31, 2026 10:35 PM (van9r)

101 Good. You're gonna need it when I come shanghai you and make you take me sailing next month.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:28 PM (viF8m)

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I'll keep my promise but I'm scheduled to start trial in federal court in OC in late August. My whole schedule is at the mercy of that trial. It might still settle, but who knows?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:36 PM (u/oMr)

102 Okay, Mikeski, didn't get this one:
https://youtu.be/edYKnvJyr-U
Posted by: tankdemon

I don't think I've heard that before. Interesting tune.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:36 PM (VHUov)

103 On a more humorous note, I just saw a vid (I assume it's real) that shows the Spanish army flinging bacon at the new arrivals.
ROE is a bitch.
Posted by: Diogenes

WASTING GOOD BACON!!!

Would these 3rd worlders even recognize it, or realize that it's pork?

Posted by: JQ at July 31, 2026 10:36 PM (rdVOm)

104 "Ceuta de luces"

Now, we are ready for the bullfight!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

105 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:01 PM (u/oMr)

Same place they always are. Fucking Paolo and spending the child support money on box wine and Xanax.

Posted by: Franziazepines at July 31, 2026 10:38 PM (TbWk/)

106 First episode (Crispy Salmon Cakes with Apple, White Bean & Greens Salad)
https://youtu.be/r5vKilWJNKo
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (qx7Zg)

this is great! and smart!
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2026 10:33 PM (g47mK)

If I forget to post this on Sunday's Food Thread, anyone can post it with my blessing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 10:39 PM (qx7Zg)

107 41 Would you trade your health to be rich?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 10:13 PM (abScH)

As the six fingered man said to Prince Humperdinck, if you don’t have your health, you haven’t got anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 31, 2026 10:40 PM (y3V/x)

108 Tell the Ceuta invaders they'll be shot with bullets dipped in pig fat. It's allegedly been done before

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 10:40 PM (BlDDt)

109 13 Spain:

https://tinyurl.com/3mdb2hzz

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (H5gG/)

Manny ...

Choot dat piece of chit

Posted by: Tony Montana at July 31, 2026 10:41 PM (3sXRv)

110 Anyway - if you look at enough of these videos, cooking, baking and the like, you see that the thumbnail advice to Creators is to have a woman holding food in the thumbnail. That's like 85% of these videos. They hold the food, they present the food, I guess it gets clicks or literally everyone wouldn't be doing it.
Posted by: ...

My favorite ones to hate are the very[i/] tightly dressed gals doing mechanics, woodworking, or gardening. If I'm tuning into those vids, show me the process without your bewbs getting in the way.

I have notice there are no vids with scantily dressed women welding. Having a monster spark or slag jumping into your cleavage has a way of influencing future behavior.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 10:41 PM (lvbMS)

111 102 Okay, Mikeski, didn't get this one:
https://youtu.be/edYKnvJyr-U
Posted by: tankdemon

I don't think I've heard that before. Interesting tune.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 10:36 PM (VHUov)

Stewart Copeland on drums, Stanley Clarke (a very highly regarded jazz musician) on bass and Deborah Holland vocals.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 31, 2026 10:42 PM (PhXxO)

112 DOOF! I thought I was looking at Wierd Dave memes...
Nicely done!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 31, 2026 10:42 PM (ok2JK)

113 Ceuta incendio

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:42 PM (H5gG/)

114 68 I got an electric bone stimulator on Temu. It's waterproof and UL approved.
Posted by: Cicero

Oh my!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 10:43 PM (lvbMS)

115 Choot dat piece of chit

Posted by: Tony Montana
---

The POV is better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 10:43 PM (H5gG/)

116 I have notice there are no vids with scantily dressed women welding. Having a monster spark or slag jumping into your cleavage has a way of influencing future behavior.

---------

It is obvious that we have been viewing different welding videos.

Do you have any interest in pottery, perchance?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:44 PM (u/oMr)

117 >>I'll keep my promise but I'm scheduled to start trial in federal court in OC in late August. My whole schedule is at the mercy of that trial. It might still settle, but who knows?

I'm just kidding. And jealous. I'm going to the LA area for my nephew's wedding next month. We rented a house for a few days with a pool and it's highly unlikely I will move off the pool deck further than the grill.

I really do hope you get the chance to do a bareboat in the BVI. It's a bit different these days than it used to be but what isn't. You will love it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:45 PM (viF8m)

118 Evening, Horde. No actual progress on the job but did get confirmation that they are working on coordinating the client interview.

Thanks for the memes and music, Doof!

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at July 31, 2026 10:47 PM (aJQbY)

119 118 Evening, Horde. No actual progress on the job but did get confirmation that they are working on coordinating the client interview.

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Coordinated client interviews are hot!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 10:47 PM (u/oMr)

120 Sounds like a positive step, RandomDave! Yay!

Posted by: JQ at July 31, 2026 10:48 PM (rdVOm)

121 Dave's not here, man.

Posted by: alpine_beer at July 31, 2026 10:49 PM (van9r)

122 Evening, Horde. No actual progress on the job but did get confirmation that they are working on coordinating the client interview.
=====

We'll have to call Uncle Tony.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 10:49 PM (JvZF+)

123 I was watching some U tube vids of Cueta and getting my usual right thinking vids, but one was CBS and I thought 2 minutes let me check what they were saying. You guessed it. Just looking for work, etc.... and "most of the immigrants have already returned to Morocco." A total gaslighting.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 10:49 PM (n5tGW)

124 Customs: “Sir, this electric boner stimulated was in your carry on luggage.”
Cicero: “it’s not mine! Really!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 31, 2026 10:50 PM (y3V/x)

125 Well, I hit the "buy it now" on the Pixel 9 phone. Gawd, the eBay user interface is clunky. Took about 4 attempts for it to get my CC payment processed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 10:50 PM (1z8ji)

126 Whelma!!!!

Posted by: Fred at July 31, 2026 10:52 PM (BP8jQ)

127 We'll have a gay old time!

Posted by: Mr. Slate at July 31, 2026 10:53 PM (u/oMr)

128 Well, I hit the "buy it now" on the Pixel 9 phone. Gawd, the eBay user interface is clunky. Took about 4 attempts for it to get my CC payment processed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 10:50 PM (1z8ji)

Here's hoping you only get charged once!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 10:54 PM (qx7Zg)

129 It is harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, but with God all things are possible,

Here’s the catch, we are almost all rich, by Biblical standards. If you don’t know where your next meal is coming from you are poor, hence “Give us our daily bread.” If you know where your next meal is coming from you’re not poor, but not rich. If you know where tomorrow’s food is coming from, by Biblical standards, you are rich. Thank God that with God, all things are possible. Praise God!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 10:55 PM (aOqrc)

130 Posted by: Franziazepines at July 31, 2026 10:38 PM

Ummm. This white woman doesn't know anyone named Paola, and if I did I wouldn't eff him anyway because I'm married , doesn't receive child support , has never had boxed wine. and never taken Xanax . I expect I'm much like other "white wimmen" here . Forgive me if I'm a little irritable. My nose is running like a sieve because of a cold.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2026 10:55 PM (xPsv8)

131 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 10:55 PM (aOqrc)

Amen. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2026 10:56 PM (xPsv8)

132 Ummm. This white woman doesn't know anyone named Paola, and if I did I wouldn't eff him anyway because I'm married , doesn't receive child support , has never had boxed wine. and never taken Xanax . I expect I'm much like other "white wimmen" here . Forgive me if I'm a little irritable. My nose is running like a sieve because of a cold.

---------

Well shit.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 31, 2026 10:56 PM (u/oMr)

133 >>Customs: “Sir, this electric boner stimulated was in your carry on luggage.”
Cicero: “it’s not mine! Really!”

True story. My first trip after my lumber fusion was to the UAE. I had to wear a bone growth stimulator for that one too. It was a big lumpy belt with a wire that led to a box that controlled it. Had to wear it through customs. In an Arab country. A big bulky belt with a wired control box.

You can imagine how much fun that was.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:57 PM (viF8m)

134 I watched Trap tonight and a couple of things about M Night...

1) He can turn out an ok movie for what is by hollywood standards is pocket money. Why pay Nolan $1B or whatever it is on a film that will slightly make back its cost when you could make 30 of these?

2) He has to stop casting his daughter.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:03 PM (sKqQm)

135 It is harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, but with God all things are possible,

I always read this as money can't buy your way into Heaven, everyone has to do it the same way

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:05 PM (sKqQm)

136 You dim witted cousin dating democrat
Hey I never dated my cousin
I fucked her

Posted by: T Jackson at July 31, 2026 11:05 PM (/+uur)

137 True story. My first trip after my lumber fusion was to the UAE. I had to wear a bone growth stimulator for that one too. It was a big lumpy belt with a wire that led to a box that controlled it. Had to wear it through customs. In an Arab country. A big bulky belt with a wired control box.

You can imagine how much fun that was.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:57 PM (viF8m)

Heh. "lumber fusion" OSB made of bamboo and white oak, seasoned with naughty pine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 11:05 PM (1z8ji)

138 Say, any of you Texans know when the mesquite beans in the panhandle/south plains area are ripe? I want to make some mesquite bean jelly, but I can't remember when to pick the things.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:06 PM (3Pbwf)

139 T Jackson knocked up his second cousin which I guess is ok biologically.

But I am amused the people that claim West Virginians like to keep it in the family do it themselves.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:06 PM (sKqQm)

140 135 It is harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, but with God all things are possible,

I always read this as money can't buy your way into Heaven, everyone has to do it the same way
Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:05 PM (sKqQm)

Does a rich man really carry more baggage thru life?
Maybe he carries more pride.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:07 PM (/+uur)

141 True story. My first trip after my lumber fusion was to the UAE. I had to wear a bone growth stimulator for that one too. It was a big lumpy belt with a wire that led to a box that controlled it. Had to wear it through customs. In an Arab country. A big bulky belt with a wired control box.

You can imagine how much fun that was.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:57 PM (viF8m)

They probably welcomed you as one of their own.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:07 PM (S41Gd)

142 T Jackson knocked up his second cousin which I guess is ok biologically.

Was that wrong? If I had known that was wrong. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 11:07 PM (lvbMS)

143 Does a rich man really carry more baggage thru life?
Maybe he carries more pride.

And the people that like to quote this biblical line also believe pride is a virtue

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:08 PM (sKqQm)

144 ""Does a rich man really carry more baggage thru life?
Maybe he carries more pride.""

Shit no, he has servants to carry his frigging baggage.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:09 PM (S41Gd)

145 I always read this as money can't buy your way into Heaven, everyone has to do it the same way
Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:05 PM (sKqQm

--------

I think it also speaks to the difficulty of forgoing our own comfort to truly live in Christ's example. This seems to me the root of many ills (including my own).

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 11:10 PM (kOluj)

146 T Jackson knocked up his second cousin which I guess is ok biologically.

But I am amused the people that claim West Virginians like to keep it in the family do it themselves.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:06 PM (sKqQm)

I believe it was pointed out here yesterday that is it his FIRST cousin, using a strict definition of the rules.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)

147 My first trip after my lumber fusion was to the UAE. I had to wear a bone growth stimulator for that one too. It was a big lumpy belt with a wire that led to a box that controlled it. Had to wear it through customs. In an Arab country. A big bulky belt with a wired control box.

You can imagine how much fun that was.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 10:57 PM (viF8m)

Did imams keep trying to recruit you?

Posted by: Must've been annoying at July 31, 2026 11:10 PM (TbWk/)

148 If Joe Rogan reads this blog he might post a Neil Young tribute song to Mr Fauci. Something like " The Needle and the Damage Done..."

Posted by: Rex B at July 31, 2026 11:11 PM (R0XxO)

149 I saw Lumber Fusion open for Black Oak Arkansas at the Bronco Bowl in 1979.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:11 PM (/+uur)

150 I always read this as money can't buy your way into Heaven, everyone has to do it the same way

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:05 PM (sKqQm)

I thought it was about how hard Heaven is to get into without Jesus vs with Jesus - and worldly possessions give no advantage and will actually only hinder.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 11:11 PM (vE0+H)

151 What I hate about AI is that I got used to autocorrect on the phone, annoying but was only spellling. Now I can’t get through a simple post or text without having it change entire words and phrases.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 31, 2026 11:12 PM (y3V/x)

152 Shit no, he has servants to carry his frigging baggage.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:09 PM (S41Gd)

You take the blonde
Ill take the one in the turban

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (/+uur)

153 I saw Lumber Fusion open for Black Oak Arkansas at the Bronco Bowl in 1979.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Stage fright got 'em, though, so their performance was a bit wooden.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (VHUov)

154 I thought it was about how hard Heaven is to get into without Jesus vs with Jesus - and worldly possessions give no advantage and will actually only hinder.
Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 11:11 PM (vE0+H)

----------

"Your air-fryer will count for nothing."

-- Paul, Letter to the Corinthians

Posted by: The Paolo at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (u/oMr)

155 How will you know if mohameddans think they control an area?

They man the suicide hotlines, recruiting bombers.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (qx7Zg)

156 Frightening videos of the massive invasion of Ceuta and Melilla, from Tousi TV:

https://tinyurl.com/bdb64r24

Tousi says reports are that over 120,000 military-age Muslim males have invaded these cities in just TWO DAYS. Camp of the Saints, anyone?

And they're already flooding into Barcelona. The locals are freaking out.

Posted by: Beverly at July 31, 2026 11:14 PM (reMys)

157
Forgive me if I'm a little irritable. My nose is running like a sieve because of a cold.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm just now getting over a cold that's lasted two weeks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:14 PM (Cqx++)

158 Ill take the one in the turban
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (/+uur)

Wriggles like a dog shaking off water.

Posted by: Ayanna Presley at July 31, 2026 11:14 PM (1z8ji)

159 autocorrect on the phone
_-_
One software keyboard on the phone that sends every keystroke back to the mothership. Din' they useta call that a keylogger?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:15 PM (3Pbwf)

160 I saw Lumber Fusion open for Black Oak Arkansas at the Bronco Bowl in 1979.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Stage fright got 'em, though, so their performance was a bit wooden.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (VHUov)

They played woodwinds better in their next show at the Cypress Bowl in 1980.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 11:15 PM (qx7Zg)

161 150 I always read this as money can't buy your way into Heaven, everyone has to do it the same way

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:05 PM (sKqQm)

Can't hurt to slip St. Peter a Benjamin.

Posted by: Oh sure, you're on the list! at July 31, 2026 11:15 PM (TbWk/)

162 Din' they useta call that a keylogger?
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:15 PM (3Pbwf)

Yes, they did.

Posted by: Ayanna Presley at July 31, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)

163 Meloni has ordered the Italian border CLOSED to keep out the invasion. Shit's getting real.

Posted by: Beverly at July 31, 2026 11:16 PM (reMys)

164 I believe it was pointed out here yesterday that is it his FIRST cousin, using a strict definition of the rules.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

How can you confuse first cousins (my parent's sibling's kid) with second cousins (my grandparent's sibling's grandkid)?

Was there an intra-family adoption?

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)

165 >>They probably welcomed you as one of their own.

Not in the UAE. They hate those fuckers. They like pumping oil.

One of the most bizarre conversations I've had with a bunch of confuse bureaucrats.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 11:17 PM (viF8m)

166 I think it also speaks to the difficulty of forgoing our own comfort to truly live in Christ's example. This seems to me the root of many ills (including my own).

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 11:10 PM (kOluj)

I always wonder about that. In christ's time other than a noble, lord, royalty, etc, who actually had any comfort? You lived in a blast furnace with no AC, you slept on straw, you walked in dusty streets wearing a sheet, you ate bread every day if you had the strength to grind the wheat between 2 frigging rocks, or you fished (did I mention how I hate seafood?), the razor obviously wasn't invented because you had to deal ZZ Top epic beards in that heat, and on and on. Give up comfort they say, yeah no problem, its like giving up ball surgery for lent. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:17 PM (S41Gd)

167 Bertram and Fenelon a prayer for complete and speedy healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 11:17 PM (JvZF+)

168 Spaniard guy is gonna get his ass kicked by Ferdinand.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 11:18 PM (oq9dX)

169 How can you confuse first cousins (my parent's sibling's kid) with second cousins (my grandparent's sibling's grandkid)?

Was there an intra-family adoption?
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:16 PM (VHUov)

I think it was parent's sibling's grandkid, making it first cousin, once removed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 11:18 PM (1z8ji)

170
"Your air-fryer will count for nothing."

-- Paul, Letter to the Corinthians

Posted by: The Paolo at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (u/oMr)

I've seen a lot of interpretations of that one.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 11:18 PM (vE0+H)

171 160 I saw Lumber Fusion open for Black Oak Arkansas at the Bronco Bowl in 1979.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Stage fright got 'em, though, so their performance was a bit wooden.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (VHUov)

They played woodwinds better in their next show at the Cypress Bowl in 1980.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 11:15 PM (qx7Zg)

They kept hitting all the wrong cords.

Posted by: Rex B at July 31, 2026 11:19 PM (R0XxO)

172 First cold since 2019 and I think that might have been Covid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:19 PM (Cqx++)

173 Did the young rich man rally need to give up his wealth to follow Jesus?
Maybe not
Maybe he just needed to stop being (acting) rich.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:20 PM (/+uur)

174 I think it was parent's sibling's grandkid, making it first cousin, once removed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

* nods *

Makes sense. Nobody remembers how to do degree-of-cousinhood versus cousin-N-times-removed.

Posted by: mikeski ponders the double-half-cousin at July 31, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)

175 I saw Lumber Fusion open for Black Oak Arkansas at the Bronco Bowl in 1979.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Stage fright got 'em, though, so their performance was a bit wooden.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:13 PM (VHUov)

They played woodwinds better in their next show at the Cypress Bowl in 1980.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 11:15 PM (qx7Zg)

They kept hitting all the wrong cords.
Posted by: Rex B at July 31, 2026 11:19 PM (R0XxO)

Probably still recovering from playing with naughty pines the night before.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 11:20 PM (qx7Zg)

176
"Your air-fryer will count for nothing."
-- Paul, Letter to the Corinthians

They were into that bag in warm water cooking.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:21 PM (Cqx++)

177 Forgive me if I'm a little irritable. My nose is running like a sieve because of a cold.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm just now getting over a cold that's lasted two weeks.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I can help with that.

Posted by: Gnome Fauci at July 31, 2026 11:21 PM (oq9dX)

178 Makes sense. Nobody remembers how to do degree-of-cousinhood versus cousin-N-times-removed.
Posted by: mikeski ponders the double-half-cousin at July 31, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)
====

Mrs. F. has a chart.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 11:22 PM (JvZF+)

179 They kept hitting all the wrong cords.
Posted by: Rex B

The mosh pit looked ready to maul 'em.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:22 PM (VHUov)

180 A Doofy Friday surprise and it's not half bad. Mr. Doof, may I ask you to post the Wall(s) of Shame sometime soon? It's been a little while. Vital to my Mental Health Awareness and Monitoring.

Posted by: Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at July 31, 2026 11:22 PM (JM9I6)

181 My grandmother died when I was five years old, and 7 or so years later, my grandfather remarried. Nice lady, liked her immediately. Met a nice young lady in the small town where I went to high school and asked her out to see a movie. She angrily informed me that I was her cousin...not sure that one counts.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:23 PM (3Pbwf)

182 "And they're already flooding into Barcelona. The locals are freaking out.
Posted by: Beverly at July 31, 2026 11:14 PM"

Link?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 11:23 PM (2Ez/1)

183 They were into that bag in warm water cooking.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:21 PM (Cqx++)

I'll have you know I am not lazily luxuriating in the hot tub. I am actively sous-viding my testicles.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 11:24 PM (1z8ji)

184 How can you confuse first cousins (my parent's sibling's kid) with second cousins (my grandparent's sibling's grandkid)?

Drink enough Ouzo, Moonshine, or Tequila at the family reunion and well, things happen.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 11:24 PM (lvbMS)

185 Mrs. F. has a chart.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 11:22 PM (JvZF+)

Only here would someone have a cousin fucking chart.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:24 PM (/+uur)

186
Speaking of Joe Rogan, I was blown away when I listened to a clip of him on the moon landing thing. He was skeptical of the Nixon phone call.

That's pretty silly and I couldn't believe he could be that, well, silly.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 11:24 PM (w6EFb)

187 She angrily informed me that I was her cousin...not sure that one counts.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:23 PM (3Pbwf)

Did you get some?

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:25 PM (/+uur)

188 Those studs of Lumber Fusion bet got lots of poon.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:26 PM (/+uur)

189 187 She angrily informed me that I was her cousin...not sure that one counts.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:23 PM (3Pbwf

Did you get some?
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:25 PM (/+uur)

Went home alone...as usual. One more option excluded in a small town...sigh.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:27 PM (3Pbwf)

190 That's pretty silly and I couldn't believe he could be that, well, silly.

Some people react to the rampant lies our modern culture pops out by refusing to believe anything they can't personally prove.

In Rogan's case though...I think this might be an act

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:27 PM (sKqQm)

191
Cousin chart:

https://tinyurl.com/bderenr9

Posted by: I'm the internet. I'm here to help. at July 31, 2026 11:27 PM (2Ez/1)

192 The best things in lovin
were a sister and a cousin
and it started with a little kiss
like this

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:28 PM (/+uur)

193 Tousi says reports are that over 120,000 military-age Muslim males have invaded these cities in just TWO DAYS. Camp of the Saints, anyone?

And they're already flooding into Barcelona. The locals are freaking out.
Posted by: Beverly at July 31, 2026 11:14 PM (reMys)

If there are that many, someone has organized this... there is money behind it somewhere... or at least some organization.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (mP0Kj)

194 I'm my own grandpa.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (Cqx++)

195 Pride is a sin. I wonder when we’ll get months for the other six deadly sins?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (aOqrc)

196 It's racist for the bull to kill the black matador.

Posted by: Gnome Fauci at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (oq9dX)

197 Those studs of Lumber Fusion bet got lots of poon.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:26 PM (/+uur)

They did an excellent cover of "Shake Your Grove Thing!"

Posted by: Rex B at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (tQrL+)

198 96 First episode (Crispy Salmon Cakes with Apple, White Bean & Greens Salad)
https://youtu.be/r5vKilWJNKo
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 31, 2026 10:04 PM (qx7Zg)

I can’t with the salmon. Post traumatic salmon disorder from all those salmon croquettes my mother would make on Fridays during Lent. She’d used that nasty canned salmon that had those little crunchy vertebrae. I loved my sainted mother but she was no Betty Crocker.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 11:30 PM (SjAWL)

199 195 Pride is a sin. I wonder when we’ll get months for the other six deadly sins?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (aOqrc)

Pride cometh about 2 months before the fall.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:31 PM (/+uur)

200 >> Cousin chart:

I didn't like that because it used "grand uncle" and so forth. That was never common usage, the brother of your grandparent is a great uncle. And that's pretty standard.

However it turns out genealogists actually prefer "grand" for that level because of the symmetry with grandparents. So they use that and say to hell with common usage.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 11:31 PM (w6EFb)

201 hi folks. here comes another weekend, glad to know you people are out there.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 31, 2026 11:32 PM (CHHv1)

202 Pride is a sin. I wonder when we’ll get months for the other six deadly sins?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (aOqrc)

I think you'll find June covers several more than just the one

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 11:32 PM (vE0+H)

203 196 It's racist for the bull to kill the black matador.
Posted by: Gnome Fauci at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (oq9dX)

I traded my Black Matador for a Cordoba.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:32 PM (/+uur)

204 How are they getting to Barcelona frm Ceuta?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:33 PM (Cqx++)

205 Tousi says reports are that over 120,000 military-age Muslim males have invaded these cities in just TWO DAYS. Camp of the Saints, anyone?

And they're already flooding into Barcelona. The locals are freaking out.
Posted by: Beverly at July 31, 2026 11:14 PM (reMys)

If there are that many, someone has organized this... there is money behind it somewhere... or at least some organization.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 11:29 PM (mP0Kj)

Give them 24 hours to get the fuck out or else they get shot on site, then go hunting for the ones who arranged this shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:33 PM (S41Gd)

206 How are they getting to Barcelona frm Ceuta?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:33 PM (Cqx++)

Public Ceutilities.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 11:34 PM (1z8ji)

207 Lots of good musicians played for Lumber Fusion over the years, but they couldn't stay together long. Splintered into various factions.

Posted by: Been Through The Mill at July 31, 2026 11:35 PM (JM9I6)

208
Speaking of the cousin thing, I laughed my butt off at a story my mother's first roommate told me. She was trying to figure out who we were (turns out we were related through my maternal grandmother's mother's side).

Anyway, trying to get a handle on who my local neigbors were, she knew one well, and told a funny story. He hit on her in a bar, not knowing who she was. They were second cousins, and she knew it.

She let him go on for a while, even leading him on a bit, then dropped a mention of "aunt so-and-so"... She said he got a look on his face, and then she confirmed the relation.

That just stopped him dead in his tracks, and he slinked off. Now, if he knew I knew that, he would be mortified.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 11:35 PM (w6EFb)

209 ride is a sin. I wonder when we’ll get months for the other six deadly sins?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I think you'll find June covers several more than just the one
Posted by: ...

Gluttony is February.

Though they call it "Body Positivity Month."

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:35 PM (VHUov)

210 Give them 24 hours to get the fuck out or else they get shot on site, then go hunting for the ones who arranged this shit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:33 PM (S41Gd)

I like the cut of your jib.
Do you, perchance, have a newsletter?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 31, 2026 11:36 PM (ufFY8)

211 Why is cousin humping a thing? There are 8 billion people on earth. Half of them are the opposite sex.

Surely there is at least one you can bump uglies with that isn't a relative. Expand your horizons.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 11:37 PM (viF8m)

212 The Spaniards should not lose hope. They managed to drive the invaders out of Spain once before. Last time it only took 700 years.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:37 PM (aOqrc)

213 Give them 24 hours to get the fuck out or else they get shot on site, then go hunting for the ones who arranged this shit.
Posted by: Berserker

I like the cut of your jib.
Do you, perchance, have a newsletter?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

I think it's more of an album than a newsletter.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:38 PM (VHUov)

214 The Spaniards should not lose hope. They managed to drive the invaders out of Spain once before. Last time it only took 700 years.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:37 PM (aOqrc)

Yeah but now they are NATO and can probably borrow some A10s.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:38 PM (S41Gd)

215 I can’t with the salmon. Post traumatic salmon disorder from all those salmon croquettes my mother would make on Fridays during Lent. She’d used that nasty canned salmon that had those little crunchy vertebrae. I loved my sainted mother but she was no Betty Crocker.
Posted by: TxAnn

Momma took that crap salmon and rolled it into some nasty dough and then baked the living hell out of it. Covered it with either melted Velveeta or Cheez Whiz. Absolutely ghastly!

We kids would much rather have fish sticks that she overbaked and made hard as tits.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 11:39 PM (lvbMS)

216 If there are that many, someone has organized this... there is money behind it somewhere... or at least some organization.
_-_
Like these:
Jesuit Refugee Service
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)
Church World Service
Catholic Charities USA
Catholic Legal Immigration Network
International Rescue Committee
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Church World Service partners
World Relief

Posted by: Don in SoCo at July 31, 2026 11:40 PM (3Pbwf)

217 How are they getting to Barcelona frm Ceuta?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
......

Enchanted Princess cruise lines?

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 11:41 PM (oq9dX)

218 I traded my Black Matador for a Cordoba.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Aunt Marlene had a 'painting' of a Matador on black velvet hanging in her living room for decades. It even was out of place during the '70s.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 11:41 PM (lvbMS)

219 Why is cousin humping a thing? There are 8 billion people on earth. Half of them are the opposite sex.

Surely there is at least one you can bump uglies with that isn't a relative. Expand your horizons.
Posted by: JackStraw

Everyone on the planet is your 100th cousin, or so, at the furthest.

If you're not cousins, your grandparents are 8 different people. If you're not second cousins, your great-grandparents are 16 different people. Etc etc, doubling each generation.

Were there a billion people on the planet 29 generations ago? No? Then either she's closer than your 28th cousin, or your family tree has inbreeding closer than that.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:44 PM (VHUov)

220 Aunt Marlene had a 'painting' of a Matador on black velvet hanging in her living room for decades. It even was out of place during the '70s.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 11:41 PM (lvbMS)

What the hell was with that? I remember seeing that matador decoration crap as a kid. Was that part of that god forsaken Mediterranean decor people used to use?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:44 PM (S41Gd)

221 204 How are they getting to Barcelona frm Ceuta?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:33 PM

They're really good swimmers.

Posted by: This is CNN at July 31, 2026 11:44 PM (2Ez/1)

222 I traded my Black Matador for a Cordoba.
Posted by: r hennigantx
......

Now you have train another one.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 11:45 PM (oq9dX)

223 Another doctor, “Doctor Rhythm” by the Dave Clark Five:

https://youtu.be/szT0GZq4LLI

Posted by: Slash Buzz at July 31, 2026 11:45 PM (FstDi)

224 Yeah but now they are NATO and can probably borrow some A10s.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:38 PM (S41Gd)

Spain is something like Leon:

Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping.

Leon: What do you mean I'm not helping?

Holden: I mean, you're not helping. Why is that Leon?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:45 PM (aOqrc)

225 Fun Three Stooges episode with Curly fighting the bull in What's the Matador?

Posted by: 1942 at July 31, 2026 11:46 PM (JM9I6)

226 How are they getting to Barcelona frm Ceuta?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

They're really good swimmers.
Posted by: This is CNN

Probably not a trebuchet, but they could go back that way.

Posted by: mikeski lobs one at July 31, 2026 11:46 PM (VHUov)

227 >>How are they getting to Barcelona frm Ceuta?

Same way they got from Texas to Martha's Vineyard.

If you didn't see any of the videos from when the invaders came ashore, the local authorities not only didn't try to stop them, they opened the gates for them.

Once they hit Spanish soil they were home free.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 11:46 PM (viF8m)

228 I saw an interesting response to a leftist talking point...

"I don't want a job I want to paint and work in my garden and not worry about bills"

Yeah? That means you want to be an aristocrat not a socialist plebe

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:49 PM (sKqQm)

229

I Don't Need No Doctor

https://youtu.be/mSyrf-FYKVE

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:50 PM (Cqx++)

230 A couple of Marine Expeditionary Units could settle the problems in these two Spanish cities on the African coast, but what’s our interest? Would Spain even want any help? Not our circus, not our monkeys.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:50 PM (aOqrc)

231 Oh, are we doing Dr songs? Well then, Dr Stein from Helloween.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVhd0QEzxAM

Once, they killed his monster when it went into a trap
Now he's making better ones on a higher step
On a warm summer day
The doctor went away
To a place where he could make it real
His assistant's hips were nice
So he cloned her once or twice
Now his hips are aching, what a deal

Dr. Stein grows funny creatures
Let's them run into the night
They become great rock musicians
And their time is right
Time is right

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2026 11:50 PM (S41Gd)

232 Covered it with either melted Velveeta or Cheez Whiz. Absolutely ghastly!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 11:39 PM (lvbMS)
The cheese would have been a bridge too far for me. Those croquettes could double as hockey pucks as it was. The Lenten rotation was salmon croquettes, fish sticks and tuna casserole. I’m sure had there been tuna spam, that would have earned a spot.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 11:50 PM (SjAWL)

233 Manuel was not from Barcelona. Andrew Sachs was a German-born British actor.

Posted by: I Know Nothing, I From Barcelona at July 31, 2026 11:51 PM (JM9I6)

234 Manuel was not from Barcelona. Andrew Sachs was a German-born British actor.
Posted by: I Know Nothing, I From Barcelona

Don't mention the war to him.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 11:52 PM (lvbMS)

235

Doctor Detroit

https://youtu.be/9qBrRNguV_4

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 11:53 PM (Cqx++)

236 >>Everyone on the planet is your 100th cousin, or so, at the furthest.

Yea, but at least with the 52nd cousin I have some plausible deniability.

1st and 2nd is a bit too close. You mind end up with a cyclops or something really weird.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)

237 I’m sure had there been tuna spam, that would have earned a spot.
Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 11:50 PM (SjAWL)

Tuna. Albacore tuna, Skipjack tuna. Canned tuna. Frozen tuna. Jellied tuna. Tuna salad. Ike and Tina Tuna.

Posted by: Tuna Spam at July 31, 2026 11:54 PM (1z8ji)

238 The Spaniards should not lose hope. They managed to drive the invaders out of Spain once before. Last time it only took 700 years.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
......

Reconquistas are always fun.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 11:54 PM (oq9dX)

239 The Velveeta is not beyond cometibility, but Cheez Whiz, Cheez Whiz!? God have mercy!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 11:55 PM (aOqrc)

240 203 I traded my Black Matador for a Cordoba.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:32 PM (/+uur)W

The one with the rich Corinthian leather?

Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 11:55 PM (SjAWL)

241 Ceuta is approximately 113 kilometers (70 miles) from the Spanish mainland.
_Wiki

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 11:56 PM (H5gG/)

242 Doif!
Thank you for the memes!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 31, 2026 11:56 PM (eZ5tL)

243 Gaudi is flipping over in his grave.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 11:56 PM (u/oMr)

244 More obscure doctoring:

CMU - Doctor, Am I Normal?
https://youtu.be/XSG6Kmapw5A

Haken - The Good Doctor
https://youtu.be/BD3v8w57_lU

Posted by: mikeski is not at July 31, 2026 11:56 PM (VHUov)

245 Reconquistas are always fun.
Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 11:54 PM (oq9dX)

--------

Re-reconquistas aren't nearly as much fun.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2026 11:58 PM (u/oMr)

246 I saw an interesting response to a leftist talking point...

"I don't want a job I want to paint and work in my garden and not worry about bills"

Yeah? That means you want to be an aristocrat not a socialist plebe
Posted by: 18-1

Yeah, we call that guy "a man of leisure."

You gotta work your ass off to get there.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:58 PM (VHUov)

247 I'll cut a bitch.

Posted by: Black Matador at July 31, 2026 11:59 PM (oq9dX)

248 237
Tuna. Albacore tuna, Skipjack tuna. Canned tuna. Frozen tuna. Jellied tuna. Tuna salad. Ike and Tina Tuna.
Posted by: Tuna Spam at July 31, 2026 11:54 PM (1z8ji)

I read that in Bubba’s voice.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 11:59 PM (SjAWL)

249 The mid-70s Matador coupe was fairly ugly in most people's opinion. The 4 Door model was more normal looking. Why buy either when the Pacer was in the same showroom?

Posted by: Trouble Bubble at August 01, 2026 12:00 AM (JM9I6)

250 Didn't Spain refuse to assist us with the recent unpleasantness in Iran? Good, fellow NATO member...

Perhaps they should go horsef*ck.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:01 AM (rdVOm)

251 The mid-70s Matador coupe was fairly ugly in most people's opinion. The 4 Door model was more normal looking. Why buy either when the Pacer was in the same showroom?
Posted by: Trouble Bubble at August 01, 2026 12:00 AM (JM9I6)

Ah, yes. "Vote Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 12:02 AM (1z8ji)

252 250 Didn't Spain refuse to assist us with the recent unpleasantness in Iran? Good, fellow NATO member...

Perhaps they should go horsef*ck.

Posted by: JQ
---

They are the horse's ass of the European continent and Britain.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 12:03 AM (H5gG/)

253 Pacer.

*SNORT*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 01, 2026 12:04 AM (6/7Fs)

254 I saw an interesting response to a leftist talking point...

"I don't want a job I want to paint and work in my garden and not worry about bills"

Yeah? That means you want to be an aristocrat not a socialist plebe
Posted by: 18-1

Yeah, we call that guy "a man of leisure."

You gotta work your ass off to get there.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:58 PM (VHUov)

Start by painting... the inside and/or outside of houses. People pay for that.

Or sell lots of food from your giant garden.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 12:05 AM (qx7Zg)

255 I traded my Black Matador for a Cordoba.
Posted by: r hennigant
......

I woulda went with the light blue Pinto.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 12:05 AM (oq9dX)

256 Start by painting... the inside and/or outside of houses. People pay for that.

---------

Two coats. Before lunch!

Posted by: A. Schickelgruber at August 01, 2026 12:06 AM (6/7Fs)

257 240 203 I traded my Black Matador for a Cordoba.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 11:32 PM (/+uur)W

The one with the rich Corinthian leather?
Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 11:55 PM

Like this?
https://youtu.be/tfKHBB4vt4c

Posted by: Ricardo M. at August 01, 2026 12:08 AM (2Ez/1)

258 With my movie vault/plex replacement complete, I've added some metrics pages and was shocked to learn that I have more films from 2000-2010 than any other decade, owing to all of the Super Hero and Sequel films.

I also have no films categorized as horror films in my library and the top five actors in my collection are Hanks, SLJackson, ScarJo, Vin Diesel, and Harrison Ford.

And I only have 4 films from the 30's in my collection.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2026 12:09 AM (XV/Pl)

259 >>Why buy either when the Pacer was in the same showroom?

I would love to have been in the meeting when a bunch of highly paid execs looked at the proposal for the Pacer and decided, yea, this is going to be a big seller.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 12:09 AM (viF8m)

260 Didn't Spain refuse to assist us with the recent unpleasantness in Iran? Good, fellow NATO member...

Perhaps they should go horsef*ck.
Posted by: JQ

Horses? pffft

Posted by: Ferdinand the Bull at August 01, 2026 12:09 AM (oq9dX)

261 >> Everyone on the planet is your 100th cousin, or so, at the furthest.

Consanguinity is the term for that. It sort of goes as 2^(-n), but it gets a bit complex. Sibling are 1/2, n = 1, but first cousins are n = 3, and second cousins are n = 5.

Danger level is 2nd cousins. 3rd cousin level or greater is not anything to worry about.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 12:12 AM (w6EFb)

262 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Going to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2026 12:16 AM (1z8ji)

263 Didn't Spain refuse to assist us with the recent unpleasantness in Iran? Good, fellow NATO member...

Perhaps they should go horsef*ck.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:01 AM (rdVOm)

Karma is a bitch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 12:17 AM (S41Gd)

264 The Pacer was originally designed to be powered by a rotary engine that AMC was going to buy from GM. Mazda had some success with the RX-3 and RX-4 powered by rotary engine. GM had a rotary in development, but the Mazdas exhibited premature wear on rotor seals and the gas mileage was poor.
GM canceled the program, which left AMC stuffing their venerable straight 6 into it. The Hornet sold pretty well and folks would rather have a cheap Hornet than a Pacer, since it was basically the same car. I rented a Pacer in 1975 and liked it.

Posted by: Ramblin' On at August 01, 2026 12:17 AM (JM9I6)

265 55 49 The memes from Spain will not be pleasant.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2026 10:17 PM (2WIwB)

Because they'll be in Arabic?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 31, 2026 10:19 PM (xcxpd)

No pictures. Muslims aren't allowed to depict things, which is why their buildings just have abstract decoration.

It'll be like those geezer-tier 'memes' on the Instapundit Open Thread, just text on an abstract background. But instead of Dave Berry and Reader's Digest jokes from 1980, it'll be like, "What do you say to one of your wives if you see with her two black eyes? Nothing, you already told her twice!"

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 12:20 AM (Sy6m/)

266 Contest!

Would you let your favorite celebrity give you a tongue bath?

(To enter contest, please wire your payment to...)

Note: Announcer is not a celebrity

Posted by: Win A Tongue Bath From Your Favorite Celebrity! at August 01, 2026 12:21 AM (F7cM6)

267 Posted by: Win A Tongue Bath From Your Favorite Celebrity!

Phyllis Diller passed on, so now I have no interest in such things.

Posted by: Age 95 at August 01, 2026 12:25 AM (JM9I6)

268 Had an AMC Hornet for a while.. nice car, handled well. Front bench seat!

The child-safety seat switch was messed up-- it was supposed to disable the ignition if there wasn't enough weight on the seat. Haha, but it was backwards, so I had to *lift my butt OFF of the seat* to start the car. LOL

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

269 Saw this tweet, and like the idea.

When I die I want to be cremated but at my funeral there will be an open casket with a Muppet version of me.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2026 12:31 AM (qx7Zg)

270
They define a "consanguineous marriage" as 2nd cousins are less. The rate of that is the lowest in the Western world.

Guess where it's the highest...

Pakistan is the highest, maybe 65%.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 12:32 AM (w6EFb)

271 At least you're rubbing your butts. If you were rubbing mine with all that sauce that would be weird

Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2026 12:33 AM (gKWVE)

272 >>I rented a Pacer in 1975 and liked it.

The problem with the Pacer wasn't the power train. It was hideous. Still is. It isn't even one of those ugly cars that became collectors items because it was butt ugly, it's just bad.

It's what happens when cousins get too friendly.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 12:44 AM (viF8m)

273 Mom was the oldest child, Dad was the youngest child, so all my first cousins are either much younger or much older than me.

Sucked that there wasn't anyone else my age to hang out with, at the family get-togethers. (Except older bro, who hated me & was not fun to be around.)

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:45 AM (rdVOm)

274 Doof has 101 proof
Memes up through the roof
Dixie says *WOOF!*

Posted by: J. Gordon Miklos-Coogler at August 01, 2026 12:46 AM (XOG/m)

275 I was just checking market place for used harleys. Jesus, I could build a fleet of them for less than the price of a new one. They are falling from the sky, soooo many of them. Give away prices. I would be dangerous with a large garage and a small pile of cash. Good lord...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 12:47 AM (S41Gd)

276 The problem with the Pacer wasn't the power train. It was hideous. Still is. It isn't even one of those ugly cars that became collectors items because it was butt ugly, it's just bad.

It's what happens when cousins get too friendly.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 12:44 AM (viF8m)

That was the gold fish bowl on wheels, wasn't it?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 12:48 AM (S41Gd)

277 >>That was the gold fish bowl on wheels, wasn't it?

Yep.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 12:49 AM (viF8m)

278 Sucked that there wasn't anyone else my age to hang out with, at the family get-togethers. (Except older bro, who hated me & was not fun to be around.)
Posted by: JQ

My sister and the girl cousins had Barbie's Malibu Beach House stuff. When they were done with that, my almost same aged boy cousin and I turned it into a Wild West Fort with little plastic cowboys and Indians and green army men, because we had lots of green army men.

Posted by: Tales of Miklosian Youth at August 01, 2026 12:50 AM (XOG/m)

279 It's what happens when cousins get too friendly.

Posted by: JackStraw

No love, mon cher?

Posted by: the AMC/Renault Alliance at August 01, 2026 12:51 AM (XOG/m)

280 Pakistan is the highest, maybe 65%.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

This is why they dominate professional basketball

Posted by: Miklos so notes at August 01, 2026 12:53 AM (XOG/m)

281 Just noticed my current hash

*flashbacks to being in the shit in 'Nam*

Posted by: Miklos does it,, and does it now at August 01, 2026 12:55 AM (XOG/m)

282 Five (5) ONT comments in a row, and I own this place.

Neglect has Consequences

Posted by: Miklos is stocked with Bourbon and Tequila for several weeks, it being Hurricane Season at August 01, 2026 12:57 AM (XOG/m)

283 Ok, I remember the pacer. Its all coming back. They sold it as "the small wide car" because yeah everybody wanted to drive a fucking scrubbing bubble. It resembled nothing on this planet. I don't know if anybody even knows where the inspiration came from. Like maybe a bad hot wheels that got laughed at, thrown in a drawer somewhere at the prototype stage, and never got produced until.... somebody found it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 12:57 AM (S41Gd)

284
This consanguinity and the "coefficient of relationship" thing gets complex. It depends on how far you go back, and various population bottlenecks and all kinds of complicated shit.

For a relatively short term lookback at the Western population, you'd expect two random people to be somewhere between 13th to 15th cousins.

If you go way back (we would all share the same great-great-great.....great-grandparents) only at some point in the distant pre-historic past (Younger-Dryas, anyone? :-) )

Running the numbers on that, it knocks it down to 7th to 9th cousins.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

285 The Gremlin did quite well in IMSA racing, winning the RS class in 1973 and 1974. Pic:

https://shorturl.at/SyNkO

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2026 12:58 AM (XeU6L)

286 One of my aunts had an AMC Gremlin. Strange looking car, but not as ugly as the Pacer.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

287 My sister and the girl cousins had Barbie's Malibu Beach House stuff. When they were done with that, my almost same aged boy cousin and I turned it into a Wild West Fort with little plastic cowboys and Indians and green army men, because we had lots of green army men.

Posted by: Tales of Miklosian Youth at August 01, 2026 12:50 AM (XOG/m)

tell me you shot the place up with BB guns. Lie if you have to. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 12:59 AM (S41Gd)

288 Oops.Bad link.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2026 12:59 AM (XeU6L)

289 286 One of my aunts had an AMC Gremlin. Strange looking car, but not as ugly as the Pacer.
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

---------

I snort in the face of the Pacer.

Posted by: Pontiac Aztek at August 01, 2026 01:00 AM (6/7Fs)

290 OK

maybe I should tell

Elon has offered me $100 million to produce an authentic film version of the Canterbury Tales.

Any Morons who wish to wend, you will NOT get Union rates, but you will be paid to talk funny and do cool medieval stuff

Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at August 01, 2026 01:00 AM (XOG/m)

291 First cousin marriage is allowed in some states and a crime in some others. Second cousin marriage is allowed in all but two states. In the past cousin marriage was common in all states, and only began to be outlawed in some states around the 1880s. See more at Wikipedia under:

Cousin marriage law in the United States

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 01:01 AM (aOqrc)

292 You know who understood car design better than any man ever? (Well American, at least)
Harley Earl. Almost every great American design trend for 40 years came from the mind of Harley Earl.

Now if I was gonna name best all time ever for pure beauty, I’d have to go with Enzo Ferrari.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 01:01 AM (y3V/x)

293 tell me you shot the place up with BB guns. Lie if you have to. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

That was for the green army men in the garage, on tactical terrain made of old blankets over whatever.

Artillery was firecrackers

Posted by: Somehow no eyes were out-put at August 01, 2026 01:02 AM (XOG/m)

294 One of my aunts had an AMC Gremlin. Strange looking car, but not as ugly as the Pacer.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

We had one as a job site car. We kept it at the shop and used it for running around doing things that didn't require the vans. It was silly on gas. It used $10 of gas per week. It had a powerful 6 cylinder engine, and because it was a manual trans it would chirp the tires. It was quick. I was dating Mrs B at the time and picked her up in it one night. It was missing the shifter boot and she saw the street from inside the car. She still hasn't forgave me for that one, lol. Eh, what can you do. Chicks...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:04 AM (S41Gd)

295 Running the numbers on that, it knocks it down to 7th to 9th cousins.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Any American President is always traced by the Big Book of such things (Debrett's Peerage) and British tabloids to some English king.

Even Barry Soetoro

Posted by: Miklos wishes to express a degree of scepticism at August 01, 2026 01:06 AM (XOG/m)

296 139 T Jackson knocked up his second cousin which I guess is ok biologically.

But I am amused the people that claim West Virginians like to keep it in the family do it themselves.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 11:06 PM (sKqQm)

I read that there is a greater incidence of consanguinity in New York City than in Appalachia. And I think that was even before Gotham got swamped with more Turd Worlders under Biden.

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 01:07 AM (Sy6m/)

297 I snort in the face of the Pacer.

Posted by: Pontiac Aztek at August 01, 2026 01:00 AM (6/7Fs)

Yes, yes you do. You should have Nike or Reebok painted on the side.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:08 AM (S41Gd)

298 k, I remember the pacer. Its all coming back. They sold it as "the small wide car" because yeah everybody wanted to drive a fucking scrubbing bubble. It resembled nothing on this planet. I don't know if anybody even knows where the inspiration came from.
Posted by: Berserker

The Jetsons?

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 01:08 AM (VHUov)

299 The Jetsons?

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 01:08 AM (VHUov)

Shit, you might be on to something. It did look like that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:10 AM (S41Gd)

300 >>It was missing the shifter boot and she saw the street from inside the car. She still hasn't forgave me for that one, lol. Eh, what can you do. Chicks...
Posted by: Berserker

LMAO! XH and I had a '69 Chevelle, when we lived in Florida. Thing must've been in the RustBelt for its entire existence: floorboards were so rotted, could see the road through *several* holes, both front & rear seating areas. Also, couldn't put anything very heavy in the trunk-- kept a couple layers of thick shag carpet back there, so we could keep a toolbox in there. (and a hibachi & charcoal for those beach bbq's)

Hole under front passenger's feet, was covered with a sturdy floormat. Easily pulled back for quick disposal of empty beer cans. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

301 Happy August folks

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 01, 2026 01:11 AM (CHHv1)

302 Hi, BC!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:12 AM (rdVOm)

303 293 tell me you shot the place up with BB guns. Lie if you have to. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

That was for the green army men in the garage, on tactical terrain made of old blankets over whatever.

Artillery was firecrackers
Posted by: Somehow no eyes were out-put at August 01, 2026 01:02 AM (XOG/m)

Hell, we shot up EACH OTHER with BB guns.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2026 01:16 AM (mP0Kj)

304 Scivo if you're still around just answering something you asked me the other day - about the messaging we might expect to see from the mainstream Democrat contingent regarding DSA as the months go on. I had already posted a potential progression in a separate thread so here it is again....

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Right now Democrats are simply calling them extreme.

Check back a little later when it's "they might be extreme but they have a message and are getting traction, we would be crazy to ignore them"

Then "what might seem extreme to us is not extreme to people who have grown up very unhappy in capitalism. They have only seen inequality and they want better things for all."

Then - "you know, at one time, the dominant parties thought Civil Rights was extreme. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective."

Etc etc etc and on and on and yawn and yawn
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Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 01:16 AM (vE0+H)

305 >>Ok, I remember the pacer. Its all coming back. They sold it as "the small wide car" because yeah everybody wanted to drive a fucking scrubbing bubble. It resembled nothing on this planet. I don't know if anybody even knows where the inspiration came from. Like maybe a bad hot wheels that got laughed at, thrown in a drawer somewhere at the prototype stage, and never got produced until.... somebody found it.

All of this.

I don't know where it comes from in the human spirit but every form of motion that attracts us, from the human body to trains to cars to motorcycles to sailboats, has to not only excel it has to be beautiful before it becomes loved.

There are exceptions, of course, but beautiful objects in motion become iconic because they inspire us.

The Pacer wasn't almost an insult.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 01:16 AM (viF8m)

306 August got wedged into the calendar in honor of Augustus. July was for Julius Caesar. Before that, the other names of the ten months actually made sense.

December = Month 10, and so forth.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 01, 2026 01:17 AM (6/7Fs)

307 LMAO! XH and I had a '69 Chevelle, when we lived in Florida. Thing must've been in the RustBelt for its entire existence: floorboards were so rotted, could see the road through *several* holes, both front & rear seating areas. Also, couldn't put anything very heavy in the trunk-- kept a couple layers of thick shag carpet back there, so we could keep a toolbox in there. (and a hibachi & charcoal for those beach bbq's)

Hole under front passenger's feet, was covered with a sturdy floormat. Easily pulled back for quick disposal of empty beer cans. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

Mrs B had a beautiful 1970 Chevelle when I met her. Midnight blue, 350 engine, with 49,000 original miles. She only had it about 3 years. By the time she got done with it it looked like king kong played fucking soccer with it. Not a straight panel on it. One day she drove past the house and the whole side was just about pealed off of it. None of it was her fault, but she was out at night when the drunks were out, and was probably half lit herself. Just enough to not be watching for assholes. That poor car.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:17 AM (S41Gd)

308
Saw the Starlink Falcon 9 this evening. The exhaust plume was visible over the pacific in sandy eggo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 01, 2026 01:17 AM (mmrXZ)

309 @abc_es - 10h

The EU warns: moving North Africans from Ceuta to the peninsula would be grounds for suspending Schengen

✍ ️ Enrique Serbeto, correspondent in Brussels, tells you all the details at abc.es
🎙 ️ By Cynthia Falcón Trejo

Montage of events:

https://tinyurl.com/38bmmhz5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 01:20 AM (H5gG/)

310 was

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 01:20 AM (viF8m)

311 Hole under front passenger's feet, was covered with a sturdy floormat. Easily pulled back for quick disposal of empty beer cans. Heh.
Posted by: JQ

My parent's first car was an old Chevrolet of which they were not the first owners, and probably not the second neither.

After a while, my mother noticed that a normally rambunctious little me was always silent while riding in the back.

Easy explanation, as it turned out

The floorboard was rusted out in the back, and for some reason I kept my little eyeballs on that hole, fascinated by watching the pavement go by.

Upon discovery of that, I had to ride in the front.

Posted by: Miklos has always found theo ordinary interesting at August 01, 2026 01:21 AM (XOG/m)

312 was

Posted by: JackStraw

/not was

Posted by: 80s kid Miklos at August 01, 2026 01:22 AM (XOG/m)

313
A related and quite interesting question is the minimum number of people needed to repopulate the Erf (or minimum number needed to start a colony on another planet).

The Adam and Eve scenario wouldn't work. That would degenerate into an inbreeding collapse in short order.

Turns out about 50, carefully selected not to be related and all genetic diseases screened out would do it. 25 breeding pairs, but the breeding would have to be very carefully controlled for quite a few generations.

And those 25 pairings would be one-shot only. You couldn't have the same man and same woman have multiple children. It would be each woman had to have children from each man to maximize the mixing of the original genes. And likewise for the later generations, getting a bit complex, but the goal is to make each pairing as different as possible.

Now, to do it the normal, monogamous way, the minimum number would be a few thousand.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 01:23 AM (w6EFb)

314 yeah, the pacer was an insult. Its like they made it to mock us. It was one of those cars that looked equally shitty coming at you, going away from you, or sliding at you sideways. Thats quite an achievement really.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:24 AM (S41Gd)

315
The floorboard was rusted out in the back, and for some reason I kept my little eyeballs on that hole, fascinated by watching the pavement go by.

Upon discovery of that, I had to ride in the front.

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I learned that you could grind a new pencil to a nub in seconds at highway speed. Such knowledge cannot be unlearned.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero 43) at August 01, 2026 01:25 AM (6/7Fs)

316 Happy Friday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2026 01:25 AM (ibDUx)

317 Knew a fellow with a late 60's Chevelle Malibu, 327, 4bbl, 4 spd, 2.37? rear end. Had to be soft on the get but it was a scalded dog

.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 01:25 AM (H5gG/)

318 That poor car.
Posted by: Berserker

Aw, that's a shame! Ours had the 305(?). Not sure what color it was originally, the paint was so faded it looked mint green/silver. Thing usually fired on only 6 or 7 cylinders, got *terrible* mileage, and frequently needed jump start.

We was POOR! And knew that we'd be leaving within 6 months, so why fix it up? Just keep it running long enough to sell (cheap!) to some other poor shmuck, later.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

319 I don't know where it comes from in the human spirit but every form of motion that attracts us, from the human body to trains to cars to motorcycles to sailboats, has to not only excel it has to be beautiful before it becomes loved.

There are exceptions, of course, but beautiful objects in motion become iconic because they inspire us.

The Pacer wasn't almost an insult.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 01:16 AM (viF8m)

Great observation! The GM “coke bottle” designs of the 60’s were, and still are viscerally pleasing. Like a big cat, or a woman’s shape, it’s a form that appeals to us on a deeply emotional level.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 01:25 AM (y3V/x)

320 Hell, we shot up EACH OTHER with BB guns.
Posted by: Romeo13

When that happened, it was more or less accidental. More or less.

The Bottle Rocket Wars were deliberate Fire for Effect

Posted by: 80s kid Miklos was a kid in the 60s at August 01, 2026 01:26 AM (XOG/m)

321 We had a couple of vehicles with vent floor board. We used flashing, rivets, carpet and don' put your foot there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 01:30 AM (H5gG/)

322 Hole under front passenger's feet, was covered with a sturdy floormat. Easily pulled back for quick disposal of empty beer cans. Heh.
Posted by: JQ

A friend up mine was driving was driving a dodge duster up until maybe 2 years ago. It was thee most rusted piece of shit I ever saw. I looked under the car and never sat in it again. The quarter panels were missing halfway up, just rotted away. the floors were patched with sheet metal, or aluminum with 100's of self taping screws. The whole bottom of the car looked like a bed of nails. The frame was so rotted the car was ready to break in half. He tried to jack it up one day and the floor jack crushed the frame. There was 1 inch of rusted metal holding the front leaf spring perch to the car's structure on the drivers side. It had a slightly tweaked small block in it too. He cut the car up with cut off wheels and tossed it out in pieces. We flipped both halves over on their back and the true horror was there for all to see under the sun. I can't believe the car didn't break in half.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:33 AM (S41Gd)

323 Hell, we shot up EACH OTHER with BB guns.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2026 01:16 AM (mP0Kj)

I tried to pass off a BB hole in my cheek as a bad zit to my parents. They didn't buy it and let it go but never did find out what really happened. I remeber it like it was yesterday. I see the dude, what I thought was way to far for a Red Rider. He indirect fires it towards me and I stood there and watched it, time did that slowdown thing as it did these circles throught the air and all of a sudden I was all "fuck. That's gonna hit me." As it struck my right cheek. It embedded just below the surface and I popped it out by pinching each side of it. Looked like a zit after that but I didn't really get them so having one was weird enough. I still have the scar
I also have a friend blind in one eye from one that hit him and went behind his eye. He never told anyone. 35 years later he gets it removed as it was causing him to go blind and it was a ball of rust bigger than when it went in. Disgusting thing.

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 01:33 AM (BnbBT)

324 Hi, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

325 Always thought they wanted it to look like a Jetson's car.
One step into the future ahead of the tail fins.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 01:34 AM (H5gG/)

326 Turns out about 50, carefully selected not to be related and all genetic diseases screened out would do it.

Now, to do it the normal, monogamous way, the minimum number would be a few thousand.
Posted by: publius

See also: "The 50/500 Rule."

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 01:38 AM (VHUov)

327 Any American President is always traced by the Big Book of such things (Debrett's Peerage) and British tabloids to some English king.

Even Barry Soetoro
Posted by: Miklos wishes to express a degree of scepticism at August 01, 2026 01:06 AM (XOG/m)

Through his mother, one would think.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 01:38 AM (aOqrc)

328 I can't believe the car didn't break in half.
Posted by: Berserker

This, too, is the story of that old Chevelle. We were young, broke, and stoopit.

Drove that POS from Pensacola to New Orleans & back, with 3 of XH's classmates-- Mawdi Graw, y'all!!!

Lucky no one got kil't.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)

329 Great observation! The GM “coke bottle” designs of the 60’s were, and still are viscerally pleasing. Like a big cat, or a woman’s shape, it’s a form that appeals to us on a deeply emotional level.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2026 01:25 AM (y3V/x)

The 60's cars were great. Mrs B says I have thing for the squarish shape cars. I tell yup, flying bricks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:40 AM (S41Gd)

330 When I was 11, I and a fellow Boy Scout buddy were persuaded to spend the summer at Girl Scout Camp.

We agreed on condition that we could fool our mothers (very rare) by smuggling in BB guns.

We did not fool them at all, of course, but were kindly informed to stay away from where the girls went (like we needed that, girls have cooties) and BBs only, no pellets.

Posted by: Additional Tales of Miklosian miscreancy at August 01, 2026 01:40 AM (XOG/m)

331
Also, see the concept of "effective population size". You can see this as sort of the "unrelated population" equivalent, a measure of genetic diversity.

That number for us is only about 10 - 20K! Of all the billions of people, the effective size is only that.

That reflects the bottlenecks, near extinctions that have happened in the distant path. IOW, at some point, we all come from 10 - 20K of the same people.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 01:42 AM (w6EFb)

332 Posted by: I'm the internet. I'm here to help. at July 31, 2026 11:27 PM (2Ez/1)

But you WOULD say that, Mr. Internet, wouldn't you?

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:43 AM (odBC9)

333 Maybe Lee Iaococca was a genius for saving Chrysler.

But the K-car shit was hideous.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 01:44 AM (viF8m)

334 and BBs only, no pellets.
Posted by: Additional Tales of Miklosian miscreancy

That is a stupid rule. Pellets don't ricochet. BB's are bad about that. The slower they are the more the tend to bounce off things and go back the way they came from. It's why I skipped the red rider with my kid. It'll put yer eye out kid. He got a daisy 880 as his first.

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 01:47 AM (BnbBT)

335 When I was in the body shop out of high school I got good at making replacement floor pans. We had all the fab tools. We had the roller machine to make the reinforcement ribs. We had it all. Now you can buy restoration pans for most of the old muscle cars. The whole damn floor if you need it, or just sections.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:48 AM (S41Gd)

336 But the K-car shit was hideous.
Posted by: JackStraw

I present the well-named East German Wartburg

Posted by: Miklos, former Trabi pilot at August 01, 2026 01:49 AM (XOG/m)

337 Bro has a .22 cal, PCP pellet rifle. Thing'll punch through bottle caps at 25 yards.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)

338 Maybe Lee Iaococca was a genius for saving Chrysler.

But the K-car shit was hideous.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 01:44 AM (viF8m)

Thats for sure, but there was a lot of hideous cars in that era. There was another hideous car chrysler made too. The volare. When they moved the roadrunner to that platform I prayed that everybody involved in that got a ripping case of ass cancer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 01:52 AM (S41Gd)

339 *metal* bottle caps

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:52 AM (rdVOm)

340 Posted by: I'm the internet. I'm here to help. at July 31, 2026 11:27 PM (2Ez/1)

But you WOULD say that, Mr. Internet, wouldn't you?
Posted by: m

Don't trust that bitch

Posted by: The Science at August 01, 2026 01:53 AM (XOG/m)

341 *metal* bottle caps
Posted by: JQ

NOW we're talking Mickey's Big Mouths

Posted by: Miklos is sometimes indescriminate at August 01, 2026 01:54 AM (XOG/m)

342 My fat (very fat) aunt, always drove full-size Chryslers. Probably the only brand with sufficient suspension...

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 01:54 AM (rdVOm)

343 268 Had an AMC Hornet for a while.. nice car, handled well. Front bench seat!

The child-safety seat switch was messed up-- it was supposed to disable the ignition if there wasn't enough weight on the seat. Haha, but it was backwards, so I had to *lift my butt OFF of the seat* to start the car. LOL
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 12:28 AM (rdVOm)

Hilarious!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 01:55 AM (odBC9)

344 In re the 50/500 rule, how does a new species start? Are there suddenly 50 or 500 new members of a species born? You would think there would be just one to begin with: where is its mate much less where are the 50 or 500 it should mate with? Is it like “The Midwich Cuckoos,” a science fiction novel by John Wyndham where the children of an entire village are born all at once, and seem to be an advanced version of Homo sapiens? It was made into film as “Village of the Damned”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 01, 2026 01:56 AM (aOqrc)

345 One of those nights where I just got nothin'.

Friday was our grandson's ninth birthday. We haven't been allowed to see him or his younger sister since my mom's funeral in 2021. MiladyJo hurts so. Diabolical.

Well, sorry. Didn't know that was going to pop out. I'll be on my way now.

https://youtu.be/QSf5qOFDDLM

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - hug one another at August 01, 2026 01:57 AM (/YSzp)

346 >>Now if I was gonna name best all time ever for pure beauty, I’d have to go with Enzo Ferrari.

If I hit the lottery and then use that money to hit the lottery again, I'm going to buy a Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 01:57 AM (viF8m)

347 Hilarious!
Posted by: m

Especially funny when I took the neighbor shopping, while her car was being repaired!

Me: *turns key* nothing

Me: "hey, lift your butt off the seat"

Her: "wtf?"

Me: "serious. the car won't start."

Her: "AYFKM?"

Me: "nope. serious. just do it"

Me: *turns key again* Vroom...

Both of us: Hahahahahaha!!!!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:00 AM (rdVOm)

348 Alexandra Lavoie@ThevoiceAlexa 2 AM
On our way to Ceuta, Spain.

My producer, @efloresmonsanto, and I are heading to the North African coast to report firsthand on the invasion of Spanish territory.

Follow us on X for live updates and visit MigrantReports dot com for our full coverage

https://tinyurl.com/4sextx5p

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 02:01 AM (H5gG/)

349 I collect old air rifles. Mostly Benjamins. I've gotten pretty good at rebuilding them. Which is somewhat of a rare skill. I've got one called a Blueline that with 12 pumps pushes those pellets at almost 900 fps. Most guns max chrono at about 700 ish.
I have a shelf across the shop with a cardboard street scene I built that I shoot 1/64th scale army men off of. It's 14 meters away and I can call shots on the bigger ones. Upper left window, right arm. Blam. It's unreal how accurate pellets can be in the right gun. Which I have found is one of the cheapest out there. The Beeman P17.

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 02:02 AM (BnbBT)

350 Me: *turns key again* Vroom...

Both of us: Hahahahahaha!!!!
Posted by: JQ

I like no booty and I cannot lie

Posted by: Automotive Engineers-a-lot at August 01, 2026 02:02 AM (XOG/m)

351 I used to ride shot gun in my friends old Mustang with the hole in the floor. If a joint was passed around in the car I got extremely paranoid that I would actually put my foot in that hole.

Also had a co-worker who drove a brand new Kcar in flat beige with a stick shift. What an abomination that car was.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2026 02:03 AM (ibDUx)

352 I'm so sorry Mindful. That must suck.

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 02:06 AM (BnbBT)

353 >>Thats for sure, but there was a lot of hideous cars in that era. There was another hideous car chrysler made too. The volare. When they moved the roadrunner to that platform I prayed that everybody involved in that got a ripping case of ass cancer.

You should do a ride up here sometime. Roads are a bit rough but the scenario is good and the car show are great.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 02:06 AM (viF8m)

354 Harvard geneticist said, explained math, that the y chromosome can be traced further back the through the female.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 02:06 AM (H5gG/)

355 348 Alexandra Lavoie@ThevoiceAlexa 2 AM
On our way to Ceuta, Spain.

My producer, @efloresmonsanto, and I are heading to the North African coast to report firsthand on the invasion of Spanish territory.

Follow us on X for live updates and visit MigrantReports dot com for our full coverage

https://tinyurl.com/4sextx5p

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 02:01 AM (H5gG/)

I was skeptical about that link, given the "sextx" in it, but it checks out!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:07 AM (odBC9)

356 What's in YOUR wallet?

Posted by: Black Matador at August 01, 2026 02:08 AM (oq9dX)

357 IOW, at some point, we all come from 10 - 20K of the same people.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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_ah hmm, Noah.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 02:08 AM (H5gG/)

358 I was skeptical about that link, given the "sextx" in it, but it checks out!

Posted by: m
--

Go look at the POV link.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 02:10 AM (H5gG/)

359 >> In re the 50/500 rule, how does a new species start? Are there suddenly 50 or 500 new members of a species born?

That's a good question. Formation of a new species is a slow process, so it's not like suddenly a new species just pops ups out of the blue.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 02:10 AM (w6EFb)

360 Budapest smashes 105-year heat record as brutal heatwave tightens grip on Hungary

So, it has taken 105 years to achieve what the old folks managed way back then.

Our great grandparents were much better at this whole human-caused Global Warmening thing

Posted by: Miklos wonders how things happen at August 01, 2026 02:11 AM (XOG/m)

361 That's so very sad, mindful webworker! Is it due to "covidianism"?

An aunt & uncle were caring for my grandmother, during the plandemic. Wouldn't allow any unvaxxed into the house. My younger bro went to visit so she could meet his son, her great-grandchild, but no... they could only wave at her through the window. Such BS.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:13 AM (rdVOm)

362 >>Also had a co-worker who drove a brand new Kcar in flat beige with a stick shift. What an abomination that car was.

heh

Flat beige was the absolute perfect color for a K car.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 02:13 AM (viF8m)

363 You should do a ride up here sometime. Roads are a bit rough but the scenario is good and the car show are great.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 02:06 AM (viF8m)

I got fairly big gears in the rear of the roadrunner. They're 3.73s, not real bad, but not highway gears by a long shot. A long highway drive would seriously blow ass in that thing, not to mention you would watch the gas gauge move.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 02:13 AM (S41Gd)

364 337 Bro has a .22 cal, PCP pellet rifle. Thing'll punch through bottle caps at 25 yards.

Posted by: JQ
---

Well placed pellet is lethal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 01, 2026 02:13 AM (H5gG/)

365 What's in YOUR wallet?
Posted by: Black Matador

My teenager wallet had a distinct visible round circle on it

Actually so did Dad's

Posted by: Miklos vaguely remembers at August 01, 2026 02:13 AM (XOG/m)

366 >> In re the 50/500 rule, how does a new species start? Are there suddenly 50 or 500 new members of a species born?

That's a good question. Formation of a new species is a slow process, so it's not like suddenly a new species just pops ups out of the blue.
Posted by: publius

Split off a population of fewer than 500, which is the "no genetic drift" number, and eventually they'll drift into a new species?

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2026 02:13 AM (VHUov)

367 Yeah the 'okay then how did we get here?' question of population bootstrapping occasionally bugs me. No matter which path you go by there's bottlenecks that according to current beliefs should have left us all drooling imbeciles before we could diversify enough.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 01, 2026 02:15 AM (aJQbY)

368 Are you denying the existence of billions of drooling inbiciles?
They're everyfukinwhere.

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 02:17 AM (BnbBT)

369 >> and eventually they'll drift into a new species?

Yep. A portion of population pinches off from the main group, different environment. Selection pressures and mutations then transform it. After a while it can no longer breed with its ancestor species.

Then there's horizontal gene transfer. They used to think that would be impossible for complex organisms like us. But it does happen. It happens in bacteria and simpler things all the time.

But it happens in humans, rarely and slowly through viruses, bacterial infenctions and parasites.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 02:19 AM (w6EFb)

370 I want to thank Doof for pulling together such a fine ONT at the last minute.

Health update: I'm fine. Earlier today I started having incredibly painful back spasms whenever I moved. Gingy came home & I was lying on the bed reading.
"How are you?"
"Other than the fact that I can't move, I'm fine"
Every time I moved, it felt like (not that I've actually experienced this, but if I ever do, I'm pretty sure that it'll be familiar) someone stabbed me in the left small of my back with a knife. Sharp, intense, excruciating pain. I used up a wounded pirate's month's ration of cuss words today.
After examination and CT scan, the treatment was some pills, two injections in my butt & a Lidocaine patch. (When I lowered my drawers to get the shots, Gingy called out "I see your butt!" I replied "Woman, my penis has been inside of you thousands of times. Why is seeing my butt an issue?" The male nurse who was giving the shots almost fell off his stool laughing)
Long story short, it worked. I'm still getting occasional twinges, but the situation seems to have been resolved.
Sorry to everyone that I wasn't able to post an ONT, but Doof stepped up, and for that I'm grateful. See y'all next week!

Posted by: Weirddave at August 01, 2026 02:20 AM (dp5hV)

371 Not a lot of bullfights out there, guess I'll just go on the dole.

Posted by: Black Matador at August 01, 2026 02:20 AM (oq9dX)

372 370 Long story short, it worked. I'm still getting occasional twinges, but the situation seems to have been resolved.
Sorry to everyone that I wasn't able to post an ONT, but Doof stepped up, and for that I'm grateful. See y'all next week!
Posted by: Weirddave at August 01, 2026 02:20 AM (dp5hV)

Thank you for checking in, Weirddave!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:23 AM (odBC9)

373 >>I got fairly big gears in the rear of the roadrunner. They're 3.73s, not real bad, but not highway gears by a long shot. A long highway drive would seriously blow ass in that thing, not to mention you would watch the gas gauge move.

Got a spare bedroom for you if you decide to take a ride. We don't lack for Harley's here.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2026 02:25 AM (viF8m)

374 So would it stand to reason that a human from the 21rst century probably could not breed with someone say from before the black death? Are we actually a different species from our distant ancestors?

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 02:26 AM (BnbBT)

375 If the kids say we have a housing shortage because boomers aren't selling their houses to broke ass youngsters, where would the boomers live if they did sell? Because there's a housing shortage. I'm Gen X and this logic isn't logic ing.

Posted by: nckate at August 01, 2026 02:26 AM (enNUy)

376 the treatment was some pills,
.......

The good stuff?

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 02:27 AM (oq9dX)

377 Posted by: nckate

I tell the ones at work Trump is working on the housing thing but these judges keep getting in his way.

Posted by: Reforger at August 01, 2026 02:29 AM (BnbBT)

378 But it happens in humans, rarely and slowly through viruses, bacterial infenctions and parasites.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

There is a great deal of research that indicates that men and women in a on-on-one relationship share a wide variety of mutually complimentary things at macro-and microbiome level.

It is a biologically demonstrable symbiotic benefit.

Also helps to to keep the crazy down, somewhat.

Posted by: Miklos so observes anecdotally as well at August 01, 2026 02:31 AM (XOG/m)

379 Was hoping it was later

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2026 02:32 AM (Ia/+0)

380 >> So would it stand to reason that a human from the 21rst century probably could not breed with someone say from before the black death?

No, not that fast by a long shot. Homo sapiens goes back at least 300,000 years. May be more than that.

Our our most recent common ancestor is thought to be Homo heidelbergensis, but there's a lot of disagreement and nuance with that.

That ancestor population experienced a severe bottleneck just under 1 million years ago, and it lasted about 100,000 years. That would be in the early Pleistocene.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb)

381 Last time my back went out I spent a couple weeks hopped up on goofballs with my cat on my tummy. She loved it.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 02:32 AM (oq9dX)

382 304 Scivo if you're still around just answering something you asked me the other day - about the messaging we might expect to see from the mainstream Democrat contingent regarding DSA as the months go on. I had already posted a potential progression in a separate thread so here it is again....

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 01:16 AM (vE0+H)

Thanks! Sounds legit.

According to the Rules For Radicals, if you're on X, you should make it personal. Pick the most prominent personality with the biggest audience, predict their progression, and then mercilessly mock the predictable artifice of their narrative management whenever they move to the next step. Make them dread it.

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 02:33 AM (Sy6m/)

383 Was hoping it was later
Posted by: Skip

Wait for October

Posted by: Miklos wants interest on that hour I gave up in Spring at August 01, 2026 02:35 AM (XOG/m)

384 PCP airguns? Look up "rat shooting" on EweTube.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 01, 2026 02:35 AM (ah0EC)

385 Wait for October
Posted by: Miklos wants interest on that hour I gave up in Spring

Yeah, I want my hour back, too!

Speaking of... did the Senate ever take up that Sunshine Protection Crap bill?

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:36 AM (rdVOm)

386 No, not that fast by a long shot. Homo sapiens goes back at least 300,000 years. May be more than that.
That would be in the early Pleistocene.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

So, you're saying I have a chance with prime(ordial) Raquel Welch??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhtrVEZUOq8

Posted by: Miklos probably would definitely at August 01, 2026 02:39 AM (XOG/m)

387 Never mind. Guess the sunshine bill isn't going anywhere, any time soon.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

388 Hi JQ, sorry I was reading up thread a bit.

My hubs had a Chevelle Super Sport before I knew him, a convertible, I saw pictures, it was a beautiful car. I guess that your car looked a lot more used lol.

Weirddave, feel better.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2026 02:40 AM (ibDUx)

389 Black Matador might want to rethink his life choices.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2026 02:41 AM (oq9dX)

390 304 Scivo if you're still around just answering something you asked me the other day - about the messaging we might expect to see from the mainstream Democrat contingent regarding DSA as the months go on. I had already posted a potential progression in a separate thread so here it is again....

-----------------------
Right now Democrats are simply calling them extreme.

Check back a little later when it's "they might be extreme but they have a message and are getting traction, we would be crazy to ignore them"

Then "what might seem extreme to us is not extreme to people who have grown up very unhappy in capitalism. They have only seen inequality and they want better things for all."

Then - "you know, at one time, the dominant parties thought Civil Rights was extreme. Maybe it's just a matter of perspective."

Etc etc etc and on and on and yawn and yawn
-------------
Posted by: ... at August 01, 2026 01:16 AM (vE0+H)

Yikes.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:43 AM (odBC9)

391 "A lot more used" LMAO, Debby. That's putting it nicely!

4 door hardtop. Don't know how many miles because speedo didn't work, therefore odometer didn't work. It was a POS when we bought it for $300, and was still a limping POS when we sold it for $200 to some other E2 sailor.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:44 AM (rdVOm)

392 Speaking of... did the Senate ever take up that Sunshine Protection Crap bill?
Posted by: JQ

That reminds me

https://tinyurl.com/yc3933xw

Two pitchers of Long Island Ice Tea up and ready

Posted by: Miklos needs a reminder sometimes at August 01, 2026 02:44 AM (XOG/m)

393 Thanks, Miklos!

Ahhh, Long Island Iced Tea...just what the doctor ordered!

youtu.be/bzTQguuW8f4

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:47 AM (rdVOm)

394
If you're interested in this, there was also some interbreeding between ancient Homo sapiens and Neandertals, Denisovans, and some other ghost Homo species or two, unknown, except for some genetic traces.

That last interbreeding happened maybe 50K years ago. So, we're sort of a mongrel Homo mix.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 02:47 AM (w6EFb)

395 This looks very mathy.

219 Why is cousin humping a thing? There are 8 billion people on earth. Half of them are the opposite sex.

Surely there is at least one you can bump uglies with that isn't a relative. Expand your horizons.
Posted by: JackStraw

Everyone on the planet is your 100th cousin, or so, at the furthest.

If you're not cousins, your grandparents are 8 different people. If you're not second cousins, your great-grandparents are 16 different people. Etc etc, doubling each generation.

Were there a billion people on the planet 29 generations ago? No? Then either she's closer than your 28th cousin, or your family tree has inbreeding closer than that.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 11:44 PM (VHUov)

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:48 AM (odBC9)

396 Two pitchers of Long Island Ice Tea up and ready

Posted by: Miklos needs a reminder sometimes at August 01, 2026 02:44 AM (XOG/m)

I had one of those earlier tonight. I was on the bike, so I only had one. Nice place about 10 miles from me. Great pizza and wings.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 02:50 AM (S41Gd)

397 youtu.be/bzTQguuW8f4
Posted by: JQ

A quick Grok search indicates that there is no mixed drink named after Ted Nugent.

This matter requires thought, careful consideration, and Rectification

Posted by: Guerrilla Bartender Miklos at August 01, 2026 02:52 AM (XOG/m)

398 Uncle Ted is my *favorite* uncle!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:54 AM (rdVOm)

399 >> So, you're saying I have a chance with prime(ordial) Raquel Welch??

From what I've seen the ancient Raquel probably wouldn't been too hot. Hairy, probably.

OTOH, probably better than Rosie O'Donnell or Lizzo, or etc.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 02:54 AM (w6EFb)

400 I had one of those earlier tonight. I was on the bike, so I only had one. Nice place about 10 miles from me. Great pizza and wings.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Perhaps you can assist on the age-old query about girls from Great Neck being "great neckers".

Posted by: Miklos only heard the stories fom Up North at August 01, 2026 02:54 AM (XOG/m)

401 A quick Grok search indicates that there is no mixed drink named after Ted Nugent.

This matter requires thought, careful consideration, and Rectification

Posted by: Guerrilla Bartender Miklos at August 01, 2026 02:52 AM (XOG/m)

The stranglehold .

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 02:54 AM (S41Gd)

402 Well, its better than Motor City Mimosa.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 02:55 AM (S41Gd)

403
automagically
adverb informal

(especially in relation to the operation of a computer process) automatically and in a way that seems ingenious, inexplicable, or magical: just type in the name of what you want to listen to, and it automagically appears on your computer.
origin
1940s: blend of automatically and magically.

Surprised this was coined so early.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:55 AM (odBC9)

404 This matter requires thought, careful consideration, and Rectification
Posted by: Guerrilla Bartender Miklos

My older brother invented a drink that he called "The Great White Buffalo" back in 1980/81. Can't recall the recipe right now, but he wrote it down for me, complete with illustrations. Funny. Need to find it, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:56 AM (rdVOm)

405 Uncle Ted is my *favorite* uncle!
Posted by: JQ

"Uncle" Eugene is rather pleasant company too

Posted by: Aunt Miklos, preparing Young Skip for back to School at August 01, 2026 02:57 AM (XOG/m)

406 Posted by: Guerrilla Bartender Miklos at August 01, 2026 02:52 AM (XOG/m)

Guerrilla

or

Gorilla

?

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 02:57 AM (odBC9)

407 Perhaps you can assist on the age-old query about girls from Great Neck being "great neckers".

Posted by: Miklos only heard the stories fom Up North at August 01, 2026 02:54 AM (XOG/m)

I'm not from great neck. Thats NY. Now, the jersey big hair on the other hand. I was practically a scholar when it came to them. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2026 02:58 AM (S41Gd)

408 387 Never mind. Guess the sunshine bill isn't going anywhere, any time soon.
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

No, I was curious enough to check, and it's languishing in committee since January of last year. It's most prominent opponent is Tom Cotton, who is not on the relevant committee himself, but (I didn't know this) is Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. This makes him (another thing I didn't know) Republican Senator #3, after Majority Leader John Thune and (yet another new factoid to me) Majority Whip John Barrasso.

On the relevant committee (on Commerce, Science, and Transportation), only one Democrat supports it, while three Republicans are skeptical (including Thune). So the House made sparks without tinder.

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 03:00 AM (Sy6m/)

409 Guerrilla

or

Gorilla

?
Posted by: m

Hey Vito, Moose, explain it to the gentleman

Posted by: Surly mobbed-up bartender Miklosettaro at August 01, 2026 03:01 AM (XOG/m)

410 So the House made sparks without tinder.
Posted by: SciVo

Not always bad

Posted by: She swore she was on birth control at August 01, 2026 03:02 AM (XOG/m)

411 Posted by: Surly mobbed-up bartender Miklosettaro at August 01, 2026 03:01 AM (XOG/m)

Surly you jest.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 03:03 AM (odBC9)

412 Miklos, I am going to grab a Long Island Ice Tea, it will certainly be lights out after I drink it down though. I will try and sip genteelly.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2026 03:03 AM (ibDUx)

413
The crazy but fascinating questions the ONT brings up. Just how far back could we modern Homos breed with the older Homos.

Probably purty fer back. At some point, while it might produce a offspring, the offspring itself probably couldn't breed very well. Maybe like mules, but that's probably not quite a proper comparison. I think all Homo species had 46 chromosomes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 03:04 AM (w6EFb)

414 Hahaha, I found it! The "Great White Buffalo" recipe!

I'll just take a picture & send it to TRex... amazing that the paper is still intact after 45 years!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:04 AM (rdVOm)

415 I will try and sip genteelly.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

OK

But why?

*waives all rules of decorum*

Posted by: Miklos offers one of them BIG straws at August 01, 2026 03:05 AM (XOG/m)

416
Sounds like our ancient Homo ancestors would just about fuck anything....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 03:06 AM (w6EFb)

417 Trey Gowdy speaking at the funeral service for Lindsey Graham is truly worth watching.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 03:06 AM (odBC9)

418 Just how far back could we modern Homos breed with the older Homos.

We done that and they done stole EVERYTHANG

Posted by: The Right Reverend Al Sharpton at August 01, 2026 03:07 AM (XOG/m)

419 410 So the House made sparks without tinder.
Posted by: SciVo

Not always bad
Posted by: She swore she was on birth control at August 01, 2026 03:02 AM (XOG/m)

Pretty good, in this case. It helps explain the House's carelessness, passing a bill (permanent Daylight Saving) that had been tried and reversed before. If they were taking it seriously, it would make more sense to try something different (permanent Standard Time) or make no changes. If they were confident it would go nowhere, then the details wouldn't matter, as long as they performed some proof of effort for the inevitable re-election campaign.

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 03:10 AM (Sy6m/)

420 SciVo-- they (House committee) added it to something else, and passed it a couple of weeks ago:

https://tinyurl.com/ucx6enej

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:11 AM (rdVOm)

421 416
Sounds like our ancient Homo ancestors would just about fuck anything....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 03:06 AM (w6EFb)

I believe you can find videos proving that's still true, if you know where to look...

Posted by: SciVo at August 01, 2026 03:14 AM (Sy6m/)

422 Oh, excuse me... passed it "out of committee"

Bleh.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

423 Trey Gowdy speaking at the funeral service for Lindsey Graham is truly worth watching.
Posted by: m

Yeah, I'll bet. Gowdy is really good at talking.

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:17 AM (rdVOm)

424
This DST vs standard time thing is a latitude and too far west/east of time zone meridian thing. At first blush, you might figure it's 50/50. It's really probably a 30/30/30 split.

A third would like standard time year round, a third one like daylight year round, and the other third, while professing to hate the time change, really wouldn't like either. And that split varies with latitude and time zone meridian offsets.

Down in Florida, low latitude, it doesn't matter much at all.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 03:28 AM (w6EFb)

425 The sad thing is, South Carolina has a new inherited Senator named Darline.

Not my sweet Darleen, who would already be busting up faggot-ass commies on the Senate floor.

Starting with sending John Thune's dentist some serious work. Maxillofacial, I think they call it.

Marleen and Charleen could handle the office work and Natty Daddy catering services. Lord knows they understand "constituent service".

Since we are not exactly legally married on paper, I would be raking in all that Foreign Influence money faster than a high capacity cash machine could count.

Posted by: Miklos saw opportunity, and it looked back over its shoulder at August 01, 2026 03:30 AM (XOG/m)

426 When I had to *try to* go to sleep at 7 or 8 p.m. & worked very early morning shifts, I absolutely hated DST in summer. Traffic, kids playing, people with "normal" schedules out doing stuff in the evenings...

Now? DGF. Just pick one and stop f'ing with the clocks!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:33 AM (rdVOm)

427 Sweet dreams Horde, thanks for the camaraderie, I am going to wobble off to bed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 01, 2026 03:33 AM (ibDUx)

428 A professor friend in Budapest never changed his wristwatch when the Standard/Daylight changes happened. Always knew the accurate hour, but never bothered to change the watch?

"Why not change it?"

"Why? It always ends up the same."

Economist/Philosopher

Posted by: Miklos sees both logic and futility at August 01, 2026 03:36 AM (XOG/m)

429
I had an uncle, mother's brother who refused to change his clocks and watches. Stayed on standard. Now, he'd get mixed up occasionally and make some messes every so often, but he refused.

"They" were trying to fool him, and make him go to work and hour earlier. Just tell me to come in an hour earlier and quite an hour later, don't mess with the clock.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 03:38 AM (w6EFb)

430 'Night, Debby!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:38 AM (rdVOm)

431 Sweet dreams Horde, thanks for the camaraderie, I am going to wobble off to bed.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

*note to self*

*invent clip-on drink holder for a walker*

Posted by: Miklos sees the future and prepares at August 01, 2026 03:39 AM (XOG/m)

432 94 days till the voters send in the exterminators to eradicate trumpster vermin.

Posted by: raimondo at August 01, 2026 03:42 AM (IOZG3)

433 That ancestor population experienced a severe bottleneck just under 1 million years ago, and it lasted about 100,000 years. That would be in the early Pleistocene.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 02:32 AM (w6EFb)

We did 23 and me with our son, because he is adopted and we know nearly nothing about his ancestry. Turns out, he is 99.something Mayan, so that's not a mystery anymore, but he had a lot of Neanderthal genes, compared to us white-bread boring Europeans. Makes me wonder who came across that land bridge in AK and who didn't bother to. Seems a great many of our "indigenous" folks in America are really well endowed with Neanderthal genes, making them short of stature but very tough with thick bones. Kinda cool to know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2026 03:43 AM (l2EPa)

434 *invent clip-on drink holder for a walker*
Posted by: Miklos

About that....

tinyurl.com/yx4jeu9t

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:44 AM (rdVOm)

435 Howdy, tcn! How goes the battle?

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:50 AM (rdVOm)

436 435 Howdy, tcn! How goes the battle?
Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 03:50 AM (rdVOm)

Welp, we are living in the camper, while our house is being renovated. Kitchen, bathroom, ground floor bedroom, breezeway to the garage, new laundry room, new propane furnace and ductwork, etc. It's close quarters for a bit.

Also filing for full custody of our grandson, from the little bitch who thinks that giving birth gives her the right to take away my son's parental rights. Little does she know. Mama Grizzley beats drunk and drug addled idiot every time.

Also trying to bring in a half-acre garden, keep the dogs exercised, and lose 80 lbs. So far, so good.

Oh, and madly in love with DH, so there's always that.

How's by you?

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2026 03:54 AM (l2EPa)

437 417 Trey Gowdy speaking at the funeral service for Lindsey Graham is truly worth watching.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 03:06 AM (odBC9)

https://tinyurl.com/3nbtj7hk

28:51

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 03:54 AM (odBC9)

438
I was just looking at the meridian map vs actual time zone boundaries.

An oft mentioned compromise for permanent time is just shift 30 minutes ahead. Our Jim from Galveston was a big fan of that.

Now, looking at the meridians, save from maybe Maine in the US, we don't have any areas too far east of the boundaries, but Eastern, Central, and Mountain all have areas too far west.

Now, that 30 minute thing would be the equivalent of shifting the central meridians west a bit, and it looks like it might just work well. That might shift Pacific too far east at the current boundaries a smidge, but it would work well everywhere else, except for eastern Maine.

So, we'd still have one hour offsets internally, but it would give 30 minute shift relative to Zulu, which would be a little complication.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 03:56 AM (w6EFb)

439
Shifting west 20 minutes might be better to even out the too far east thing. But that would be even worse than a half hour offset from UTC.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 03:57 AM (w6EFb)

440 if trumpkins area solution fight only last advocating getting arounded by f.b.i. agents cash front official want to incite and americans. Trump fleet. Just black area so blackstone ranger leading her told to say negro the rear. Non exploitive capitalist party allies anyone know was banned from regislators who were in the 9th carolina 9th district!

Posted by: raimondo on tap at August 01, 2026 03:58 AM (XOG/m)

441 I could not give one fat rat's ass what time zone we are in, so long as we stay in one all year. Setting the clocks back and forward is not just a PIA but a health hazard. I could do without.

Honestly, up here the daylight changes about six minutes every day, so who the hell cares what the number is, precisely? But changing it causes all sorts of stir that nobody wants.

Just set it and forget it already.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2026 04:00 AM (l2EPa)

442 An oft mentioned compromise for permanent time is just shift 30 minutes ahead. Our Jim from Galveston was a big fan of that.

Which would fuck with the rest of the world bigly.

Call it Universal Trump Time

Posted by: Miklos is intrigued by the implications of a mere half hour at August 01, 2026 04:00 AM (XOG/m)

443 He must be on drugs. No other explanation. Rain man dodo, do you need to be transported to detox? Reach out, dude.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 01, 2026 04:01 AM (l2EPa)

444 How's by you?
Posted by: tcn in AK

One day at a time! I can barely handle that much, and it's mellow right now.

Can't imagine what you're going through, ugh! But it's so nice to have a partner's support, and "new" house when the work's finished.

Bless you all. May you prevail in court!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 04:03 AM (rdVOm)

445 Bless you all. May you prevail in court!
Posted by: JQ

Hope she gets a no nonsense judge-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohq9h6QIcHY

Posted by: Miklos notes that this guy was before Sammy Davis Jr. at August 01, 2026 04:08 AM (XOG/m)

446 >> Honestly, up here the daylight changes about six minutes every day, so who the hell cares what the number is, precisely?

That's a prime example of how latitude changes perspectives, and since the US spans quite a range of latitude, we have the conflict.

Up that high, the range of daylight is so wide, that no matter which, sunrise is very late and sunset is very early winter, and and vice versa in summer. It doesn't matter to you.

And closer to the equator, there's no much change between summer and winter. They could go with either, and would probably prefer permanent DST.

But in the middle, high enough where daylight does change between summer and winter, but low enough were shifting one hour either way does make a difference in sunrise time vs clock time, it's yet a different situation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

447 Good night, horde. It's been fun!

Tomorrow is another hot, dusty day...

I'm looking forward to Autumn!

Posted by: JQ at August 01, 2026 04:12 AM (rdVOm)

448 >> Which would fuck with the rest of the world bigly.

Heh. Just for fun, we'll shift it forward 28 minutes and 42 seconds. And I'll come up with some meridian shift reasoning related to time zone boundaries where that number will make perfect sense.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 04:16 AM (w6EFb)

449 Since I lived in Budapest (47.5° N) for many years, I know the times when it is not fully daylight until 0900 and it gets dark again by about 1600. Even moreso in Poland.

Or in summer you can read a newspaper outside until almost 2200 in summer.

I prefer more sun, so I am now at 33.98° N.

But fundamentally, it was the change in longitude that made the bigger difference.

Posted by: Miklos, Man of the West (relatively speaking) at August 01, 2026 04:21 AM (XOG/m)

450 where that number will make perfect sense.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

I love it when a plan comes together

Posted by: Col. Miklos sends the A-Team to steal the Greenwich Observatory at August 01, 2026 04:23 AM (XOG/m)

451 Trumpwich Mean Time, the best time, really classy, everyone says it's the best, no one has time like this

Posted by: President Miklos J. Trump at August 01, 2026 04:26 AM (XOG/m)

452 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

453
And then really piss them off, by adopting my best redneck accent and 'Murica, Fuck Yeah demeanor, claim that UTC prime meridian is "metric time" or something. Something that would infuriate them about American arrogance.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 01, 2026 04:30 AM (w6EFb)

454 Something that would infuriate them about American arrogance.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

The American Southern accent (Appalachian especially) is the best preserved form of Shakespearian English.

Posted by: Miklos du Meck Rouge for all you Fancy Pants at August 01, 2026 04:34 AM (XOG/m)

455 Trump was in charge not Fauci
Trump lavishly praised Fauci

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New Zealand, by Paul Wilson Image

Crow demands more feather-brushing.

Poor little dog wants to snuggle with the cat but the cat won't have it.

Escape horse.

Little dog is so happy with his new wheelchair.

Stubborn dog.

Stray dog finds a toy.

Dog and duck are partners in crime.

Excitable alpaca.

Paw signals.

After careful negotiations, they agreed to play.

Capybara commando.

Timelapse of night skies and dawn.

This is just playing right into their narcissism.

Laser target practice.

Pleasure droid.

Does it have a button I can push to silence it?

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I kinda think this must be fake but it looks pretty good: Mars' moon Phobos orbiting the red planet.

Maybe. Might be fake.

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Here's another capture.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM

Comments

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1 Have a good weekend, Ace.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 07:09 PM (ExV1e)

2 It is true, ace has been mum on the crows lately. Like a spurned lover.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 07:11 PM (zZu0s)

3 asdflkj;mafdkl ae

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 07:12 PM (mmrXZ)

4 Not 1st, I’m guessin’.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 07:12 PM (77rzZ)

5 I READ THE CONTENT!!! Clicked around leisurely, laughed, omg.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 07:12 PM (mmrXZ)

6 Mars' moon Phobos orbiting the red planet.
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And signs of a gate to hell?

I believe Phobos is the location of the first Doom video game...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 07:15 PM (FZ29D)

7 I got here as soon as I could.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 07:16 PM (wVcYX)

8 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:17 PM (Ia/+0)

9 I got here as soon as I could.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 07:16 PM (wVcYX)
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Not soon enough. All the donuts are gone.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 07:17 PM (FZ29D)

10 3 asdflkj;mafdkl ae

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Agree, been thinking that all day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 07:18 PM (H5gG/)

11 Not soon enough. All the donuts are gone
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This too, is the story of everyone who grew up in the 70s

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2026 07:19 PM (82XQX)

12 *Excitable Alpaca*

You wanna piece of me??!!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:21 PM (BU6xA)

13 ----
Not soon enough. All the donuts are gone.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Gah, went grocery shopping today. At the entrance aisle they have a long narrow table, always with goodies. Today, at the end, was boxes of glazed donuts. Beautiful glazed donuts. I averted my eyes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 07:21 PM (H5gG/)

14
Re that Phobos video. Those are taken from real images by Mars Express orbiter, but they are highly processed time lapse composites. That was done by someone named Andrea Luck.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 07:22 PM (w6EFb)

15 werz boxez

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 07:22 PM (H5gG/)

16 >>>Poor little dog wants to snuggle with the cat but the cat won't have it.

He was doing ok. Right up until he eyeballed the cat.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:23 PM (8mulE)

17 Thanks, Ace!

needed some good dog videos!

Hope you have a good weekend!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 31, 2026 07:25 PM (VyBeY)

18 I like videos with different animals being Frendz

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

19 Here's another capture.
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It looks like something from my dermatologist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 07:26 PM (H5gG/)

20 Phobos is Phony, everyone knows that.

Posted by: Flat Earther at July 31, 2026 07:27 PM (JM9I6)

21 >>>Alpaca gets excited to see his owner every time..

Sure. Every time he see a chance to get on camera.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:29 PM (8mulE)

22 Braenyard

Mmmm. Donuts.

Now you've done it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 31, 2026 07:29 PM (u82oZ)

23 18 I like videos with different animals being Frendz
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)

My dog and my two cats get along pretty well, but it's definitely the cats who draw the line. Cross it, and it's a smack across his snout.

The wonder is that he doesn't seem to mind.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:29 PM (BU6xA)

24 Anyone want to chip in to buy Blonde Morticia a Life Alert Bracelet/Pendant?

Posted by: Gettin' Glitchy at July 31, 2026 07:30 PM (JM9I6)

25 I believe Phobos is the location of the first Doom video game...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 07:15 PM (FZ29D)

And Doom 3 (the sort of edgy remake of 1.) I really liked the atmosphere of that game.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 07:30 PM (zZu0s)

26 >>>Friends come in all shapes and sizes..

You know, sometimes stalkers are shaped like ducks.
--The Dog

Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:30 PM (8mulE)

27 Kamikaze rabbit

There is a rabbit living in the yard, slowly I think not running away immediately.

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

28 Damn, I used to love donuts.

Stupid diabeetus.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 07:32 PM (77rzZ)

29
Phobos orbits very close to Mars and is very fast, well within the areostationary radius (how's that for a word?).

It thus rises in the west and sets in the east as seen on surface, and does that about twice every Martian day.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 07:33 PM (w6EFb)

30 Kamikaze rabbit

There is a rabbit living in the yard, slowly I think not running away immediately.
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)
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I told ya, but ye wouldnae listen to me!

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 31, 2026 07:34 PM (FZ29D)

31 Most alpacas on the web are AI creations nowadays.

Posted by: Skeptical In NC at July 31, 2026 07:34 PM (JM9I6)

32 All the donuts are gone."

Darn.

*looks up Krispy Kreme

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 07:34 PM (XuXeR)

33 We're sorry about the odor. We've been working since last night, but the mephitic residues are too much for so little time.

Posted by: AoSHQ Cafe Custodial Engineers at July 31, 2026 07:35 PM (0sNs1)

34 27 Kamikaze rabbit

There is a rabbit living in the yard, slowly I think not running away immediately.
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

I gave up years ago fighting the rabbits and confined myself to only planting flowers in my garden that they (and the deer) don't like to eat.

My neighbors, bless them, carry on with a vegetable garden. It's wired like a Luftstalag. And still the little bastards find their way in.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:35 PM (BU6xA)

35 Standard donuts deep fried in what, Tallow? Lard? Man, they just melt in your mouth. I doubt they nickle-fvckerz in corporate boardrooms would deign to do that any longer.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2026 07:37 PM (82XQX)

36 I have to get ready for bed
I am wiped out and falling asleep

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:37 PM (Ia/+0)

37 >>>Laser target practice.

Reminds me of the scene in Rollerball (the original, not the awful remake). They were at a party and for kicks they went out and shot the trees with some kind of gun that turned them into fireballs.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:37 PM (8mulE)

38 27 Kamikaze rabbit

Stop triggering me!!

Posted by: Zombie Jimmah Carter at July 31, 2026 07:38 PM (BU6xA)

39 >>>A Chinese cosplayer made some people believe she was a robot. Her name is Dalaotian.

Now the important question: Are her breasts really that big or was it just the costume?

Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:40 PM (8mulE)

40 Did Jimmah have the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 07:40 PM (aOqrc)

41 Now the important question: Are her breasts really that big or was it just the costume?
Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:40 PM (8mulE)

If they are, they were aftermarket.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:41 PM (l2EPa)

42 Mmmm. Donuts.

Now you've done it."

Glazed donuts? You mean those warm, fluffy donuts, with slightly toasted bits, covered in a warm, creamy sweet glaze that ran down the sides, adhering one mouth filling delight to the next one, then drizzling down to the wax paper below....

Or not

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 07:41 PM (XuXeR)

43
The guys at JPL (and the ESA) that operate the rovers and orbiters sync themselves with the Martian mean solar day, which is about 24 hours and 40 minutes long.

They've got watches and clocks synced to that and operate shifts on the Martian solar day cycle, which gets out of sync with the earth. They call a Martian day a Sol, and get cute with it, with terms like yestersol, tosol, and solorrow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 07:41 PM (w6EFb)

44 Wesley Crushervetlh vIHoH vIneH!

Posted by: Worf, son of Mogh at July 31, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

45 Cucumber, red onion and feta salad as a side to spaghetti and meatballs tonight.

I scraped up half of a monster bathroom's worth of tile and thinset earlier today.

I deserve it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 07:42 PM (lvbMS)

46 Did Jimmah have the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 07:40 PM (aOqrc)
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He counted to four.

Posted by: Brother Maynard at July 31, 2026 07:42 PM (FZ29D)

47 We don't have rabbits up here naturally, just snowshoe hares, which mostly leave gardens alone.

But, in Cohoe near Kasilof, as well as in Valdez, someone let loose some domestics years ago and they are just everywhere. But, there are no rules against shooting them, so...

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:42 PM (l2EPa)

48 >>They call a Martian day a Sol, and get cute with it, with terms like yestersol, tosol, and solorrow.

Would your birthday by a Solomio?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)

49 37 >>>Laser target practice.
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Minds. Wondering if we had a rocket that could blow it up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 07:45 PM (H5gG/)

50 Another black bear sighting on the deck next door yesterday. The owners simply can't believe the bear are after the bird feeders and yet, they are on their 4th or 5th this year.

Must just be 'bad luck'.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 07:45 PM (lvbMS)

51 I scraped up half of a monster bathroom's worth of tile and thinset earlier today.

I deserve it.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 07:42 PM (lvbMS)

Our contractor has been doing that. We are living in the camper while renovations proceed. So far they have pulled out the offending kitchen, laundry room and bathroom, and framed up the breezeway and bedroom. Roofs are on, windows are mostly in. Plumbers and tinners were there this week, and did most of that work to rough-in. Furnace installed, new partitions framed.

Back when we were young and stupid, we did this kind of work ourselves. Now it's just easier to pay and be done.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:46 PM (l2EPa)

52 Best marsupial ....

Quokka

Not even close. I want to see Quokkas.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 07:47 PM (dIske)

53 50 Another black bear sighting on the deck next door yesterday. The owners simply can't believe the bear are after the bird feeders and yet, they are on their 4th or 5th this year.

Must just be 'bad luck'.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2026 07:45 PM (lvbMS)

Why do they feed birds in the summer? Not all bears up here are the cute black kind, but all bird feeders will be raided. Unless the bears are hibernating.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:48 PM (l2EPa)

54 Steak med rare, avocado, brie for supper. Now for some Early Times.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2026 07:48 PM (LHPAg)

55 21 >>>Alpaca gets excited to see his owner every time..

Sure. Every time he see a chance to get on camera.
Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:29 PM (8mulE)

________________________________

I think it would be interesting to see which spits more:

Alpaca vs. Old Chinese woman

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 07:49 PM (dIske)

56 Would your birthday by a Solomio?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 07:45 PM

Since today is National Orgasm Day, not Interplanetary or Intragalactic Orgasm Day, they won't celebrate it that way.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 07:49 PM (0sNs1)

57 48 >>They call a Martian day a Sol, and get cute with it, with terms like yestersol, tosol, and solorrow.

Would your birthday by a Solomio?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)
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Hmm...We dunno. "Yestersol Girl" just doesn't really sound right.

Posted by: The Smithereens at July 31, 2026 07:49 PM (BU6xA)

58 can't believe the bear are after the bird feeders and yet, they are on their 4th or 5th this year.

Must just be 'bad luck'.

Posted by: Tonypete
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Democrats?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 07:50 PM (H5gG/)

59
Alpaca vs. Old Chinese woman
Posted by: Orson

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

Hah, I see you've been there.

Punchline: Well-dressed, well-coiffed young Chinese woman on her husband's arm. That, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 07:50 PM (mmrXZ)

60 Chicken fried steak, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 07:51 PM (H5gG/)

61 >>Not even close. I want to see Quokkas.

A few years ago I was in Perth on business and had the weekend to myself. I went down to Fremantle on Saturday, very cool beach town, and had a ticket for a ferry ride to Rottnest Island on Sunday.

I made the mistake of going to a pub on Saturday evening when I got back from Fremantle and ended up watch Aussie rules football with a bunch of locals who took great joy in buying me drinks and lying to me about the rules of the game. Didn't wake up until Sunday afternoon.

My shot at Quokka viewing was gone.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 07:52 PM (viF8m)

62 Hah, I see you've been there.

Punchline: Well-dressed, well-coiffed young Chinese woman on her husband's arm. That, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 07:50 PM (mmrXZ)

_______________________

I'm telling you, if Graham Platner wants to be a real oyster farmer, he'll follow arouind an old Chinese woman. They have no shame when it comes to decorating the sidewalk.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 07:52 PM (dIske)

63
Reheated lamb roast with roasted Cajun potatoes. Very, very good. And now, the frosted sugar cookie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 07:53 PM (O0L8i)

64 can't believe the bear are after the bird feeders and yet, they are on their 4th or 5th this year.

Must just be 'bad luck'.

Posted by: Tonypete
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My feeder is a floor up from the patio, at the head of my back porch stairs. Never had a bear try for it. The squirrels do and routinely fail. Once in a way, a racoon tries and fails as well. I can always tell because the racoon leaves a pile of skat on the stairs just to let me know what it thinks of me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:54 PM (BU6xA)

65 My shot at Quokka viewing was gone.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 07:52 PM (viF8m)

_____________________

Valid excuse. But, they are awesome. And relentless beggars.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 07:54 PM (dIske)

66 I've seen rabbits, man! Killer rabbits!

Posted by: Zombie Jimmy Carter at July 31, 2026 07:54 PM (JvZF+)

67 Tuna salad sammich. Glass of ice-cold water.

Posted by: JQ at July 31, 2026 07:55 PM (rdVOm)

68 Not there yet, but smoked salmon pasta with lemon, garlic, tomatoes and parmesan. Gin and tonic since we are under a heat advisory. Hell, it might get up to 80 degrees here this weekend.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:55 PM (l2EPa)

69 I made the mistake of going to a pub on Saturday evening when I got back from Fremantle and ended up watch Aussie rules football with a bunch of locals who took great joy in buying me drinks and lying to me about the rules of the game. Didn't wake up until Sunday afternoon.

My shot at Quokka viewing was gone.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 07:52 PM (viF8m)

My youngest did a semester abroad in Brisbane. She went to several Aussie Rules football matches and assures me that the only rule about Aussie Rules football is that there are no rules.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:57 PM (BU6xA)

70 Went to Wendy's for double hamburger, hardly ate much all day but drank a lot

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

71
New hard drive arrived this afternoon. Plugged it in, closed up the case, booted up on a recovery thumb drive. Much to my astonishment, Win10 installed with no problem. So for $75 I avoided spending $750 on a whole new computer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 07:58 PM (O0L8i)

72 Yestersol
All my troubles seemed so far AWOL
Now it looks as though they'll have a ball
Oh I believe in yestersol.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 31, 2026 07:58 PM (amcLV)

73 My youngest did a semester abroad in Brisbane. She went to several Aussie Rules football matches and assures me that the only rule about Aussie Rules football is that there are no rules.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:57 PM (BU6xA)

My nephew went to China with a Chinese friend. He said the only thing Chinese people won't eat is Chinese people.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:58 PM (l2EPa)

74 Hell, it might get up to 80 degrees here this weekend. "

Cool front forecasted. Might get nighttime low around 80. Or 85.

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 07:59 PM (XuXeR)

75
Picked up Sonny's ashes from the vet. Our gallant, noble boy is home forever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (O0L8i)

76 >>My youngest did a semester abroad in Brisbane. She went to several Aussie Rules football matches and assures me that the only rule about Aussie Rules football is that there are no rules.

You gotta love the umpire wearing a white lab coat like a mad scientist. I'm convinced he just makes up shit as the games goes along.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (viF8m)

77 Coolest marsupial? Diprotodons. They were badasses.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (77rzZ)

78 61 degrees, all day. got about an inch of rain, might get more overnight.
woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (VyBeY)

79 Once in a way, a racoon tries and fails as well. I can always tell because the racoon leaves a pile of skat on the stairs just to let me know what it thinks of me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:54 PM (BU6xA)

So, a Democrat raccoon. Shitting in the street.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (l2EPa)

80 it might get up to 80 degrees here this weekend.

Posted by: tcn in AK
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Went down to 79, last night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:01 PM (H5gG/)

81 Honor to his memory, H7

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 31, 2026 08:02 PM (VyBeY)

82 We've had some pretty brutal weather here lately. Temps in the mid to high 90s, very humid. The dew point has been pushing 75 to 80 degrees, and that can cause a little breathing difficulty, especially coupled with various pollens in the air. I've been manning my post at home pretty much, and trying to keep a little busy. Got some house and gun cleaning done. I can't understand the eurotrash and their hatred of AC.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 31, 2026 08:02 PM (gm9Sb)

83 75
Picked up Sonny's ashes from the vet. Our gallant, noble boy is home forever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (O0L8i)

Once our renovation is done, I'm putting in a cemetery for the remains of my various pets over the years. I have the ashes, and I've been hauling them around for years. Time to give them a place to rest with a nice view.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:02 PM (l2EPa)

84 Clam chowder, cheese and Triscuits crackers. Had sushi last night.

Posted by: Tuna at July 31, 2026 08:03 PM (lJ0H4)

85 79 Once in a way, a racoon tries and fails as well. I can always tell because the racoon leaves a pile of skat on the stairs just to let me know what it thinks of me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 07:54 PM (BU6xA)

So, a Democrat raccoon. Shitting in the street.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (l2EPa)

Oh, if it were just random, I'd shrug and step over it. This, it seems to me, is personal.

DSA raccoon. Putting me on the List.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 08:04 PM (BU6xA)

86 My nephew went to China with a Chinese friend. He said the only thing Chinese people won't eat is Chinese people.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:58 PM (l2EPa)

_____________________

So they didn't get to the outer Provinces then. Seriously, I stood there in awe watching some guy griling up little round rocks. Actual rocks. Then he added all these chilis and spices. I was convinced he was going to actually swallow the rocks, and stuck around just to say I saw it.

But instead he cooled them down and stuck one or two it his mouth and just sat there sucking on it. They call it something that sounds like Soduku. I forget. I called it stir fried insanity.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 08:05 PM (dIske)

87 Got some chuckles in
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 08:06 PM (Ia/+0)

88 Hmm...We dunno. "Yestersol Girl" just doesn't really sound right.
Posted by: The Smithereens at July 31, 2026 07:49 PM (BU6xA)

Sol doesn't make sense, since it refers to the Sun. What to do you do when you make another colony? It should be some reference to Mars.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 08:08 PM (uhVAy)

89 Sucking on the Rocks sounds like a Talking Heads song.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:09 PM (H5gG/)

90 Sol doesn't make sense, since it refers to the Sun. What to do you do when you make another colony? It should be some reference to Mars.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 08:08 PM (uhVAy)

Hmm... God of War. Today's violence is sufficient for the day. Could be some reference to victory, or maybe all hell breaking loose. IDN.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:10 PM (l2EPa)

91 83 75
Picked up Sonny's ashes from the vet. Our gallant, noble boy is home forever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (O0L8i)

Once our renovation is done, I'm putting in a cemetery for the remains of my various pets over the years. I have the ashes, and I've been hauling them around for years. Time to give them a place to rest with a nice view.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:02 PM (l2EPa)

Our vet has a little memorial garden where they will put the ashes upon request. We always opt for that, and also for clay pawprints, which we put with photos on our library shelves. Finally, I have a little enclave in my flower garden where I place memorial stones. (I've been fighting with Mrs. Robbo about putting a small St. Francis statue there, too. She objects (not being Catholic and thinking it's a lot of boogy-boogy-boo), but some day I'll do so anyway without telling her and hope she doesn't notice.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 08:10 PM (BU6xA)

92 The dew point has been pushing 75 to 80 degrees
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I’m sweating just reading that.

Anything over 50 and I’m like this shit is gross. Yes I live in the mountain west, how can you tell? Haha.

It’s interesting how people acclimate. I grew up with hot and humid summers and it was just normal, didn’t even really think about it. But once I got a taste of the “but it’s a dry heat” climate even a little humidity sucks now.

Posted by: America in 2026 at July 31, 2026 08:11 PM (LRe4V)

93 Giorgia Meloni
@GiorgiaMeloni
6h
The Government has decided to temporarily suspend the free movement regime provided for by Schengen in sea and air connections with Spain, reintroducing border controls.

This is an extraordinary measure, taken to protect national security and prevent possible repercussions for our nation. The measure will only be kept in place for as long as necessary,
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You know what a woman means when she says, 'as long as necessary'?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:13 PM (H5gG/)

94 >>My youngest did a semester abroad in Brisbane. She went to several Aussie Rules football matches and assures me that the only rule about Aussie Rules football is that there are no rules.

You gotta love the umpire wearing a white lab coat like a mad scientist. I'm convinced he just makes up shit as the games goes along.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (viF8m)

I saw quite a bit of Aussie football during one of the baseball strikes decades ago. I eventually figured out the rules. I think it would go over well here, its like a combination of basket ball and field goal kicking. It just needs us to build a huge number of gigantic Cricket stadiums. They are far bigger than a gridiron, and very wide too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 08:14 PM (uhVAy)

95 Picked up Sonny's ashes from the vet. Our gallant, noble boy is home forever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 08:00 PM (O0L8i)

I miss 'ol Joe.
Once he was gone, we could keep the ashes or have them dispersed into Puget Sound. We picked the sound. He liked the water.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2026 08:14 PM (2WIwB)

96 Welcoming Tousi to America.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:14 PM (abScH)

97 But instead he cooled them down and stuck one or two it his mouth and just sat there sucking on it. They call it something that sounds like Soduku. I forget. I called it stir fried insanity."

Yep. Spiced pebbles.

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 08:15 PM (XuXeR)

98 Sol doesn't make sense, since it refers to the Sun. What to do you do when you make another colony? It should be some reference to Mars.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 08:08 PM (uhVAy)

Hmm... God of War. Today's violence is sufficient for the day. Could be some reference to victory, or maybe all hell breaking loose. IDN.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:10 PM (l2EPa)

'Ares' might be good but it sounds plural already. Its short at least.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 08:16 PM (uhVAy)

99
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 08:10 PM (BU6xA)

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Some friends of mine's old cat used to have a favorite sunny spot in the front yard, right up against the brick wall. When he went over the rainbow bridge, they made a little stone design on the wall that read "Teddy's Corner," with a little stone-lined tab into the lawn where they placed his ashes. They're about to move and they wonder how long Teddy's Corner will be preserved.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 08:16 PM (mmrXZ)

100 Pleasure droid.

Really not helping.

Posted by: That guy who is responsible for getting Asians to stop fapping and start reproducing at July 31, 2026 08:16 PM (Riz8t)

101 Yep. Spiced pebbles.

Posted by: man
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Recommended by Corporate Dental and Dentists everywhere, 'They're the best', is what they say.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:18 PM (H5gG/)

102 Is Meloni saying they’re out of Schengen altogether or just for flights from Spain? It’s worded kind of weirdly.

Posted by: America in 2026 at July 31, 2026 08:18 PM (LRe4V)

103
Welcoming Tousi to America.
Posted by: Ben Had

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I'll say! I think his bride is American.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 08:18 PM (mmrXZ)

104
Sheesh, Donna Mills is starting an OnlyFans account at the age of 85. She says it's to chat with fans -- a lot of people have followed her since the year zilch -- but she couldn't have done it on Instagram or some other platform? Oh well, I guess OF is also for fans.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 08:20 PM (mmrXZ)

105 Is Meloni saying they’re out of Schengen altogether or just for flights from Spain? It’s worded kind of weirdly.
Posted by: America in 2026 at July 31, 2026 08:18 PM (LRe4V)

Think she's dropping Schengen entirely for 'as long as its needed'. Can't accept the obvious dodge of walking into France and then into Italy.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 08:20 PM (uhVAy)

106 Down to my last rescue dog after adopting 19 over the years. Having had a lifetime in living with animals ,death is just a part of life.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:20 PM (abScH)

107 Sheesh, Donna Mills is starting an OnlyFans account at the age of 85. She says it's to chat with fans -- a lot of people have followed her since the year zilch -- but she couldn't have done it on Instagram or some other platform? Oh well, I guess OF is also for fans.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 08:20 PM (mmrXZ)

Well OF has the payment part baked in so in theory that might be true. For others that is less simple.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 08:21 PM (uhVAy)

108 33 We're sorry about the odor. We've been working since last night, but the mephitic residues are too much for so little time.
Posted by: AoSHQ Cafe Custodial Engineers

It's not referred to as an "odor". A scent or bouquet, if you will.

Posted by: Roses, Violets, Lavender, Penguins at July 31, 2026 08:22 PM (JM9I6)

109 102 Is Meloni saying they’re out of Schengen altogether or just for flights from Spain? It’s worded kind of weirdly.

Posted by: America
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That was a clarification. Her first statement was, on the ground, the revised is completely.
These mooselimbs are making strange bedfellows; Ireland's Catholics and Protestants are now aligned, same with Meloni and Macron discussing Franco Italian efforts to mutually protect their borders.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:23 PM (H5gG/)

110 Donna Mills is still alive?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 08:24 PM (BU6xA)

111 Most checkpoint infrastructure between EU countries is long gone. It’ll have to be temporary orange cone stuff set up in Italy.

Posted by: America in 2026 at July 31, 2026 08:25 PM (LRe4V)

112 104* and 13% humidity. Add a good breeze and it'll be Red Flag Warning time! (that will be... tomorrow, they say)

Thank God for A/C!!!

Posted by: JQ at July 31, 2026 08:26 PM (rdVOm)

113
Donna Mills is still alive?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

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Still alive and still blonde, blue-eyed, shapely, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 08:26 PM (mmrXZ)

114 100 000 in two days with no access to food and facilities. No wonder they are putting up razor wire in Barcelona.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:27 PM (abScH)

115 That was a clarification. Her first statement was, on the ground, the revised is completely.
These mooselimbs are making strange bedfellows; Ireland's Catholics and Protestants are now aligned, same with Meloni and Macron discussing Franco Italian efforts to mutually protect their borders.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:23 PM (H5gG/)
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Franco has entered the chat ...

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2026 08:27 PM (rj6Yv)

116
Most checkpoint infrastructure between EU countries is long gone. It’ll have to be temporary orange cone stuff set up in Italy.
Posted by: America in 2026

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Ah, no, not The Orange Cone of Impenetrability!

Posted by: Escaped Moroccan Murderer at July 31, 2026 08:27 PM (mmrXZ)

117 Upper East Side NYCHA resident Saundrea Coleman said Mamdani and his administration were “absent” as the disease — and fear of exposure — gripped the neighborhood through July’s sweaty weeks.

“We just feel like we’re just left to die,” she said.

Ever notice that the minute the Big Govt takes its hand off the wheel of simple things like policing, fire, codes and inspections to focus on the poor, or illegals, or social justice that the entire idea of governing runs right into the ditch.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 31, 2026 08:27 PM (/+uur)

118 temporary orange cone stuff set up in Italy.
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By the Carabinieri.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:28 PM (H5gG/)

119 >> It should be some reference to Mars.

Aerosol?

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 31, 2026 08:29 PM (iKvf9)

120 116 The old days of Carabinieri armed with nothing but a Beretta SMG, a scowl, and the Malocchio are gone.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 31, 2026 08:30 PM (gm9Sb)

121 SNL OnlySeniors
youtu.be/eU9xGuxI4t0

Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2026 08:32 PM (gKWVE)

122 Well, Horde, signing off because I have to get up early to go home.

But I'm still on vacation next week and have promised myself that I'm going to take on at least one ONT, just so I can say that I have.

Endeavor to persevere!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 31, 2026 08:32 PM (BU6xA)

123 A police force of 200 can't do shit against 1,000 let alone 25, 000.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:33 PM (abScH)

124 This weekend is the Newport Jazz Festival. Last weekend was the Newport Folk Festival. Always fun if you're ever in the area.

The grand finale.

https://tinyurl.com/2jv44zkf

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 08:33 PM (viF8m)

125 Evil genius move to send the invaders without anything so they would wreak havoc.

Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 08:33 PM (Q+gd/)

126 I recall getting a weird feeling of dread somehow when the Soviet Union collapsed. "I bet (somehow...) everything gets FUBAR as a result" was playing in the background of my mind. Little did I know.

It took a little while, but. Europe was far better off then. Arguably the U.S.A. was better off as well. Kinda wacky

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2026 08:35 PM (RqCTJ)

127 309 2nd cousin marriage is probably legal everywhere.
It means you share a grandparent.
Posted by: MkY

That's fine, you can all share great grandpappy. There's plenty to go around for everyone!

Posted by: Horny Creeper Great Grandpa at July 31, 2026 08:35 PM (otzbu)

128 Evil genius move to send the invaders without anything so they would wreak havoc.
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 08:33 PM (Q+gd/)
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They are reavers, with no purpose other than to rape, loot, and pillage.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 08:35 PM (FZ29D)

129 123 200 cops vs 1000. That can work if applied correctly. Nearby Fort Chaffee was a detention center for Mariel boat lift Cubans. Said Cubans decided to riot, tear things up, and escape. The Arkansas State Police (nicest cops in the country until it's time to not be nice) were called in. Every swinging dick in the state arrived in hours and went into not nice mode.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 31, 2026 08:38 PM (gm9Sb)

130 Firstly, we will implement measures accelerate "research and development" and "investment decisions."
Therefore, we will ... "decarbonized energy in general" and strengthen its "funding function" for "research and development of nuclear and fusion energy."

Secondly, in order to realize the "domestic introduction of SMR" project that is progressing overseas, we will "accelerate the development of our companies" and promote safety research, etc

Thirdly, in order to "strengthen the industrial base," we will support the "strengthening of manufacturing capabilities" of nuclear component companies
_Sanae Takaichi@takaichi_sanae
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Looks like the Japanese are entering nuclear production competition. If American companies don't get off the stick there will be Honda and Toyota SMRs all over the country.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:38 PM (H5gG/)

131 123 A police force of 200 can't do shit against 1,000 let alone 25, 000.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:33 PM (abScH)

Maybe if they had the stones to shoot them, but otherwise, no.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:38 PM (l2EPa)

132 They got to using sol for the martian day to distinguish it from a regular earth based day. It's just short for solar synodic day.

So far there is no conflict because Mars is the only other planet they have to worry about that. On the Moon, the mean solar day is one (synodic) month long, far too long for day/night operations as we're familiar with.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 31, 2026 08:39 PM (iKvf9)

133 A police force of 200 can't do shit against 1,000
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That's what crew-served belt fed weapons are for. Also, automatic grenade launchers. The Mk-19 for example. It sort of replaced the .50 cal in some unit TOEs, but either work great, I'm sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2026 08:39 PM (RqCTJ)

134 Shooting them with no reservations is definitely working in Iran

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:41 PM (abScH)

135 Looks like the Japanese are entering nuclear production competition. If American companies don't get off the stick there will be Honda and Toyota SMRs all over the country.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 08:38 PM (H5gG/)

Many of the remote villages up here could certainly benefit from small nuclear reactors. The military tried that in the 1970's at Ft. Greeley but the vessel cracked, so they filled it with sand and encased it in concrete. The NRC finally figured out this past year how to dismantle and remove it. Of course, they put it one block from the local elementary school, relying I suppose on "military intelligence" to locate it in the first place.

But a reliable, simple system like that Japan is developing would solve so many problems.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 08:43 PM (l2EPa)

136 Hah, I wondered what Jpl will call a solar day on Titan with that planned quadcopter probe. It's Tsol.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at July 31, 2026 08:44 PM (iKvf9)

137
Looks like the Japanese are entering nuclear production competition. If American companies don't get off the stick there will be Honda and Toyota SMRs all over the country.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

They won't do anything. As soon as the Dems take over all of governement they will go greenie weenie and anti nuke again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 08:47 PM (Cqx++)

138 >>Looks like the Japanese are entering nuclear production competition. If American companies don't get off the stick there will be Honda and Toyota SMRs all over the country.

They are off the stick. The orange menace strikes again

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Antares closes $470 million Series C, $370 million in equity and $100 million in debt, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital

The move follows the Mark-0 reaching criticality at Idaho National Laboratory and helps fund an electricity-producing Mark-1 in 2027 and military deployments in 2028

Antares' military-first strategy targets a price-insensitive customer bound by an executive order requiring a reactor on a US base September 30 2028

https://tinyurl.com/4w2dwkdp

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 08:47 PM (viF8m)

139 the first city on Mars should either be called "Helium" or "Lincoln Head"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 08:48 PM (rbvCR)

140 127 309 2nd cousin marriage is probably legal everywhere.
It means you share a grandparent.
Posted by: MkY

That's fine, you can all share great grandpappy. There's plenty to go around for everyone!
Posted by: Horny Creeper

A great grandparent. Not a grandparent.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 08:50 PM (Wmg4n)

141 The chances of a rabbit kicking you off your scooter are incredibly low… but never zero 😭

That rabbit will do youbup a treat, mate!

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 31, 2026 08:52 PM (Wnv9h)

142 Cousin marriage is most beneficial to swim teams across the nation.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 31, 2026 08:53 PM (gm9Sb)

143
41 Now the important question: Are her breasts really that big or was it just the costume?
Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 07:40 PM (8mulE)

If they are, they were aftermarket.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:41 PM (l2EPa)

No one whose breasts were really that large would need to work so hard to get attention.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 31, 2026 08:53 PM (y3V/x)

144 106 Down to my last rescue dog after adopting 19 over the years. Having had a lifetime in living with animals ,death is just a part of life.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:20 PM (abScH)

I am sorry, Ben Had. We all know it will happen, but it doesn’t stop it from hurting. We love those furry faces.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 08:54 PM (Wmg4n)

145 Cousin marriage is most beneficial to swim teams across the nation.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 31, 2026 08:53 PM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 31, 2026 08:56 PM (Wnv9h)

146 If interested, my sea stack painting in my nic.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 08:57 PM (KC5Lt)

147 If interested, my sea stack painting in my nic.
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 08:57 PM (KC5Lt)
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Nice. I like the contrast in colors between the upper-right and lower-left sections of the painting.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 08:58 PM (FZ29D)

148 "A great grandparent. Not a grandparent.
Posted by: Piper "

My family tree on the Alabama side had a 2nd cousin marriage. After a spouse died. In the 30s. That happened quite a bit back then. Even closer relations.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2026 08:59 PM (MWfyi)

149 I'd have to think twice if Heather Graham was my cousin.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 09:00 PM (KC5Lt)

150 A police force of 200 can't do shit against 1,000 let alone 25, 000.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 08:33 PM (abScH)

They have more Infantry than that. I am going to guess the images from Ceuta and Barcelona are going to get some fat asses off the pot.
Police are for polite situations, after all.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 09:00 PM (rbvCR)

151 Sea Stacks are overrated. We can't access them, then they wind up being colonized by Puffins, and even worse, Gannet!

Posted by: Penguin Petey at July 31, 2026 09:03 PM (JM9I6)

152 actually, Operation Gladio was designed for invasions of Italy proper. It would be nice if it was still around instead of being disbanded because it got political.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)

153 We like the Sea Stacks painting, though.

Posted by: Posse At The Penguin Pool at July 31, 2026 09:06 PM (JM9I6)

154 148 "A great grandparent. Not a grandparent.
Posted by: Piper "

My family tree on the Alabama side had a 2nd cousin marriage. After a spouse died. In the 30s. That happened quite a bit back then. Even closer relations.
Posted by: fd at July 31, 2026 08:59

Second cousins share ~3% of genetic material, the risk of issues are pretty low, just slightly higher than those not related. It is allowed in every state. First cousin marriage (12.5% shared genetic material) is definitely riskier, but it starts getting really hairy when cousins continue to marry cousins, which is what you see in Muslim countries.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 09:10 PM (Wmg4n)

155 >>They have more Infantry than that. I am going to guess the images from Ceuta and Barcelona are going to get some fat asses off the pot.
Police are for polite situations, after all.

Seems like a pretty big deal that Italy just suspended EU transit rules because Spain decided to allow a muslim invasion.

I bet there are some heated phone calls in the EU tonight. Nothing happens until it does.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:13 PM (viF8m)

156 but it starts getting really hairy when cousins continue to marry cousins, which is what you see in Muslim countries.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 09:10 PM (Wmg4n)

Iceland and royal families.

Wasn't Elenor Roosevelt a 3rd cousin?

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 09:14 PM (KC5Lt)

157
She made the first announcement yesterday. Today she and Macron are talking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 09:16 PM (H5gG/)

158 Seems like a pretty big deal that Italy just suspended EU transit rules because Spain decided to allow a muslim invasion.

I bet there are some heated phone calls in the EU tonight. Nothing happens until it does.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:13 PM (viF8m)

the Schengen zone will probably wind up to be just data sharing, until someone in Brussels decides to force the issue.

Do you want to make a prediction on the rise of something like "The Adriatic League" in the next 12 months?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 09:17 PM (rbvCR)

159 I bet there are some heated phone calls in the EU tonight. Nothing happens until it does.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:13 PM (viF8m)
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It's on like Donkey Kong...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 09:17 PM (FZ29D)

160
Spain says it has reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with thousands of people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily.

Spain's interior ministry said about 50,000 people had crossed the border since Thursday morning, local time.

On Friday evening, local time, the ministry said more than 48,000 migrants had returned to Morocco.

https://t.ly/TSiek

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 09:17 PM (Cqx++)

161 Second night in a row; no bombing announcement from CENTCOM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 09:18 PM (H5gG/)

162 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 09:17 PM (Cqx++)

You would think they would have to. They brought nothing but the shirt on their back and a lot of them not even that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 09:19 PM (KC5Lt)

163 On Friday evening, local time, the ministry said more than 48,000 migrants had returned to Morocco.

https://t.ly/TSiek

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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That's where the WTF are you doing? phone calls happened.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 09:20 PM (H5gG/)

164 It was just a large flash mob brought to you courtesy of the internet.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 09:21 PM (KC5Lt)

165 Evening, Ace, and Cafe layabouts! Got 4 panels of standing-rib roofing tin hung on the inside wall of my big shop. Took me 5 hours; I don't like working at heights. Looks good, though, worth the effort. As I progress, it should get easier.

Got to move a car, and then the hoist, to do the next tranche.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 09:23 PM (1z8ji)

166 I k once read an article, based on a study done in Iceland, that said that, genetically speaking, 2d cousins were the ideal marriage mates.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:24 PM (77rzZ)

167 Did they make the Moroccan invaders go back the way they came? Didn't a lot of them swim in?

Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 31, 2026 09:26 PM (SRRAx)

168 On Friday evening, local time, the ministry said more than 48,000 migrants had returned to Morocco.

When some person or entity that caused a huge f*ckup tells me that the problem has suddenly gone away without explaining how or why, I always believe them implicitly. I mean, no one would lie about something like that would they?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 31, 2026 09:26 PM (vTZFs)

169 I got to spend the early morning hours in a bobcat mowing anything in my way. Invigorating!

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 09:27 PM (abScH)

170 Thank God for A/C!!!
Posted by: JQ at July 31, 2026 08:26 PM (rdVOm)

___

I do.
Everyday, with this insane humidity.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 31, 2026 09:27 PM (W14bs)

171 But, in Cohoe near Kasilof, as well as in Valdez, someone let loose some domestics years ago and they are just everywhere. But, there are no rules against shooting them, so...
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 07:42 PM (l2EPa)

I was walking with my BIL in a waterfront park in Vancouver back in April, and we saw a horde of big, black, bunny rabbits. "Protected", although they are undoubtedly domestic bunnies gone feral. Same park has a little stand of redwood trees.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 09:29 PM (1z8ji)

172 Hey, SMH. Stay cool.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:29 PM (77rzZ)

173 >>Do you want to make a prediction on the rise of something like "The Adriatic League" in the next 12 months?

I'm not smart enough to know where this goes. But one thing I do know is that this situation is unsustainable.

Watching videos on X and seeing people saying they are locked in their homes in Cueta while muslim hordes are attacking them and stores being looted and people are being stabbed on the street in broad daylight might not be the trigger but it's coming.

I do think we are going to look back on the 2020 election and the virus idiocy in a much different light someday. The entire Obama presidency was prelude. We all want to win elections but using a worldwide pandemic that killed millions and wrecked the world to rig an election to install a brain dead tard so our borders could be thrown open and 20 million invaders allowed to enter is no longer a conspiracy theory, it was a conspiracy.

It happened and there's no denying it. And it's not a coincidence it's also happening all over Europe. We are at war and have been for some time, we just don't admit it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:32 PM (viF8m)

174 Nothing like showing a bunch of brush who's boss.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2026 09:32 PM (MWfyi)

175 The microSD card I use for most of my filming suddenly had a fully corrupted partition structure.

I just spent the last 3 hours recovering files from it.

Quite a Friday night.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 31, 2026 09:33 PM (LKG41)

176 New hard drive arrived this afternoon. Plugged it in, closed up the case, booted up on a recovery thumb drive. Much to my astonishment, Win10 installed with no problem. So for $75 I avoided spending $750 on a whole new computer.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 07:58 PM (O0L8i)

Now, mount the old hard drive in a Linux environment, and try to explore it and recover files using Linux tools. You might be surprised.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 09:33 PM (1z8ji)

177 What are the odds the invasion of Cueta and the caravans from Latin America to the US were engineered by the same people.

Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 09:34 PM (Q+gd/)

178 What are the odds the invasion of Cueta and the caravans from Latin America to the US were engineered by the same people.
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 09:34 PM (Q+gd/)

Via datarepublican, the surge was coordinated through Facebook

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 09:35 PM (rbvCR)

179 What are the odds the invasion of Cueta and the caravans from Latin America to the US were engineered by the same people.
Posted by: davidt

If not the same people, they were no further apart than 2nd cousins.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 09:35 PM (VHUov)

180 Hey Bulg!

It's has cooled down considerably since a cold front is moving through the AO.

We're under a tornado watch until 23:00.

High tomorrow will be 70.

Currently on my porch watching the storms roll on through.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 31, 2026 09:36 PM (W14bs)

181
For the love of God, everyone, it's CEUTA, not CUETA.

C E U T A

C
E
U
T
A

You're driving me crazy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 09:36 PM (mmrXZ)

182 Made my @177 comment before Jack Straw's more better @173.

Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 09:37 PM (Q+gd/)

183 People, it’s “Ceuta,” not “Cueta.”

Sorry, but it bugs me.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:37 PM (77rzZ)

184 >>On Friday evening, local time, the ministry said more than 48,000 migrants had returned to Morocco.

Uh huh.

They were just out for a swim and now they went home.

Pull the other one.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:37 PM (viF8m)

185 For the love of God, everyone, it's CEUTA, not CUETA.

C E U T A

C
E
U
T
A

You're driving me crazy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 09:36 PM (mmrXZ)

Heh. Glad I ain't alone in this.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 09:37 PM (0aYVJ)

186 181

*fistbump*, Blonde Morticia

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:39 PM (77rzZ)

187 Summer time in the Treasure Valley. I am sweating, and am just sitting. And some light typing.

Ready for Autumn.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 09:40 PM (0aYVJ)

188 173 It happened and there's no denying it. And it's not a coincidence it's also happening all over Europe. We are at war and have been for some time, we just don't admit it.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:32 PM (viF8m)

This was a big week for opening one's eyes to the threats around us (covid, open borders, socialists).

Posted by: Joemarine at July 31, 2026 09:40 PM (y171U)

189
Heh. Glad I ain't alone in this.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X

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

Phew. Same.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 09:40 PM (mmrXZ)

190 180 SMH, it sounds like your new location is absolutely lovely.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:40 PM (77rzZ)

191 Summer time in the Treasure Valley. I am sweating, and am just sitting. And some light typing.

Ready for Autumn.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 09:40 PM (0aYVJ)

and the daily dust-streaks on the window sills where the finest dust leaks through the smallest crevices.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 09:41 PM (rbvCR)

192 during Summer, I mean

Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 09:42 PM (rbvCR)

193 >>Sorry, but it bugs me.

Grammar and spelling Nazis bug the fuck out of me.

We all have our crosses.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:43 PM (viF8m)

194 Not as many fireflies as there were back in June, but enough that my orange kitteh tried eat one when it landed on him.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 31, 2026 09:43 PM (W14bs)

195 SMH, it sounds like your new location is absolutely lovely.
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:40 PM (77rzZ)
__

It is, but the weather here definitely keeps you on your toes.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 31, 2026 09:45 PM (W14bs)

196 The ARRL countries list has it as CEUTA & MELILLA.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2026 09:46 PM (Cqx++)

197 Sorry, JackStraw, but that’s the price we pay for having a standard, common language that can be understood by all.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:46 PM (77rzZ)

198 Via datarepublican, the surge was coordinated through Facebook
Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2026 09:35 PM (rbvCR

I had guessed it was like our youts flash mobs here. I'm sure a few thousand will take advantage of Spain's recent Supreme Court decision.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 09:46 PM (KC5Lt)

199 If I was from Cutea I would not stand for any of this shit. Send them back.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 09:46 PM (vE0+H)

200 common language that can be understood by all.

Posted by: Bulg
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Wut?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 09:47 PM (H5gG/)

201 OT, I am considering a used Pixel 9 phone that has been loaded with graphene OS, for $650 CDN. Would be about $500 USD or less. Vendor in Canada. Worth it, or risky?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2026 09:47 PM (1z8ji)

202 For the love of God, everyone, it's CEUTA, not CUETA.
----
"Say Utah" is a pretty good mnemonic device to remember "Ceuta."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 09:48 PM (FZ29D)

203 Kittehs are the best!

We get lots of grasshoppers this time of year.. No problem in my yard because Cat eats them. Loves them! Saves me $ on cat fud, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at July 31, 2026 09:49 PM (rdVOm)

204 Ceuta /Cueta

220/221

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 09:50 PM (KC5Lt)

205 Second cousins share ~3% of genetic material, the risk of issues are pretty low, just slightly higher than those not related. It is allowed in every state. First cousin marriage (12.5% shared genetic material) is definitely riskier, but it starts getting really hairy when cousins continue to marry cousins, which is what you see in Muslim countries.
Posted by: Piper

That makes sense. A single marriage of second cousins is probably safe.

It's when she's your niece, and your first cousin once removed, and your third cousin thrice removed on your father's side, and also your second cousin once removed and third cousin twice removed on your mother's side..... that's when you get Habsburgs and Mohumaddds.

And hundreds of years ago, how big was your dating pool? They didn't have eHarmony. If a serf/peasant covered more than a couple square miles in his lifetime, he was well-traveled. If your family has lived in Codswollop-on-Great-Ouse since the 1500s, there's probably no way you're not your own great-nephew.

Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2026 09:50 PM (VHUov)

206 Did Italy get wind that they were the next target?

Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 09:50 PM (Q+gd/)

207 Cats stink. Sorry.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:50 PM (77rzZ)

208 >>I had guessed it was like our youts flash mobs here. I'm sure a few thousand will take advantage of Spain's recent Supreme Court decision.

How many do you think will take advantage of our recent Supreme Court decision? I mean in addition to all of those who already have.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:50 PM (viF8m)

209 How many of you geographic illiterates even knew of the existence of Ceuta before this?

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:52 PM (77rzZ)

210 The ARRL countries list has it as CEUTA & MELILLA.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Countries? Those sound like birth defects, or specific forms of malnutrition.

Or Ja'Qwon and Hashisha's fraternal twins.

Posted by: mikeski had rickets, scurvy, and melilla all at once at July 31, 2026 09:52 PM (VHUov)

211 >>Sorry, JackStraw, but that’s the price we pay for having a standard, common language that can be understood by all.

You obviously understood it which is why you felt the need to correct it.

I still don't give a fuck.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 09:53 PM (viF8m)

212 How many of you geographic illiterates even knew of the existence of Ceuta before this?
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:52 PM (77rzZ)

I admit to not knowing, but I found out pretty quickly.

Does that work? Earth is a big place, it turns out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 09:54 PM (0aYVJ)

213 The dark prince of Morocco just happened to release a thousand or so felons at the same time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 09:54 PM (H5gG/)

214 211 Fine, Jak Strau

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:55 PM (77rzZ)

215 So a lot of my YT feed is food videos. I don't mix my politics and my YT. I just don't. Part of it is I don't give a fuck about politics or what anyone thinks. I know, I know. Don't ask.

Anyway - if you look at enough of these videos, cooking, baking and the like, you see that the thumbnail advice to Creators is to have a woman holding food in the thumbnail. That's like 85% of these videos. They hold the food, they present the food, I guess it gets clicks or literally everyone wouldn't be doing it.

So obviously not the case in the ones where it's men. I think the men generally just show the food. But just go with me.

So tonight I've just discovered in my feed a dude that puts on Smug Youtube Face next to his pictures of the food. That's his thumbnail and I've seen a few of them now. It's so fucking disconcerting. I don't even get how that's supposed to get a click? Maybe it works on some people. But who wants to see a smug guy smirking next to a sandwich and practically eyefucking you with how amazing he is. It's so very, very odd.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 09:55 PM (vE0+H)

216 212 Yes, it is. And covered by lots of maps and atlases.

Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:56 PM (77rzZ)

217 Obviously I knew about Cutea all along. Everyone knows the place, we're not talking something obscure here. You would have to be pretty sheltered to have never heard of it before.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 09:57 PM (vE0+H)

218 I worked for a guy from Kentucky that said you needed to go to another state to get married so as not to marry your cousin

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 31, 2026 09:57 PM (P4Pk9)

219 >> "Say Utah" is a pretty good mnemonic device to remember "Ceuta."

I had to look up the pronunciation for that earlier. In American, "say-utah" is given, and for Brits, it says "soo-tah". In the native Spanish, it says it's "th-utah", or "thee- yew-tah".

If you can believe what AI/Internet says.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 09:58 PM (w6EFb)

220
Obviously I knew about Cutea all along. Everyone knows the place, we're not talking something obscure here. You would have to be pretty sheltered to have never heard of it before.
Posted by: ...

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

That's "Acute." It's a famous city that's also an adjective.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 09:58 PM (mmrXZ)

221
And I got that mixed up in just a few hours. Native Spanish is "thay-oo-tah".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (w6EFb)

222 Ahem.

*points upstairs

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (XuXeR)

223 Like Owyhee. Sound it out close to Hawaii.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (0aYVJ)

224 Morocco is Asshoe!

Posted by: Ceutanian at July 31, 2026 09:59 PM (Q+gd/)

225 That's "Acute." It's a famous city that's also an adjective.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 09:58 PM (mmrXZ)

Next time I pull on your pigtails I'm going to have to try harder.

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 10:00 PM (vE0+H)

226 Cats stink. Sorry.
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2026 09:50 PM (77rzZ)
___

Mine don't stink.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at July 31, 2026 10:00 PM (W14bs)

227 Anyway - if you look at enough of these videos, cooking, baking and the like, you see that the thumbnail advice to Creators is to have a woman holding food in the thumbnail. That's like 85% of these videos. They hold the food, they present the food, I guess it gets clicks or literally everyone wouldn't be doing it.

So obviously not the case in the ones where it's men. I think the men generally just show the food. But just go with me.
Posted by: ...

There's a meme about that.

https://is.gd/qCdZi4

Posted by: mikeski frightens cameras at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

228 Posted by: mikeski frightens cameras at July 31, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

LOL

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 10:07 PM (vE0+H)

229 For an alternate take:

Tom Luongo
@TFL1728
12h
If you wanted to institute lockdowns in order to prevent capital flight would you create an incident on the fringe of the empire to finally end the immigration policy that caused the conditions for capital flight in the first place?

step 1: Schengen open borders
step 2: bring in tens of millions of third worlders
step 3: force this social cost onto you middle class
step 4: resist the rise of populist/nationalist parties
step 5: create conditions for political revolt and capital flight
step 6: put in place all the pieces for capital controls, surveillance state tactics.
step 7: decry the original policy, and finally give the people what they want (closed borders).

But the entirety of social cohesion has been destroyed. The only way forward is a repudiation of the debt during the ensuing civil unrest.

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The Week In Woke

What do you do if you're childless but you really want the attention expectant parents get during gender reveal parties?

Simple: You stage a disability reveal party where you reveal what color of the autism spectrum you've self-diagnosed yourself with, and post it on social media and wait for the coos and applause.

Disability reveal parties are the new gender reveal -- and they're even more unhinged.
Simone fell down the rabbit hole after an autism reveal cake-cutting video went viral on X. What started as one awkward TikTok turned into a full cultural phenomenon: color-coded diagnosis guessing games, AuDHD parties, autism cupcake toppers at Walmart, Oriental Trading disability party favors, and people treating their mental health diagnoses like a baby to nurture and celebrate.
We watch the videos (including the "my brain is bad" one and the completely unhinged joke-diagnosis party that ends in pure Adderall cheers), dig into the Reddit posts from people who actually have autism and hate the idea, talk about why so many people suddenly want disabilities they don't have, and connect it to identity collapse, tax-advantaged ABLE accounts, and the pure Darwinian spectacle of watching people turn their diagnoses into their entire personality.

Malcolm makes the point that people want to feel proud of something, but Current Year Norms say you can't be proud of your race (obviously), your culture (that's almost race), your country (so racist), your religion (race-adjacent) or your accomplishments (which you only have due to your race).

So what are people allowed to be -- nay, encouraged to be -- proud of?

Obviously: Their sexuality -- as long as it's Not Straight! -- and their mental illnesses.

I missed this earlier: DSA candidate for WI governor said she had an anxiety attack because there were too many "old white people" near her.

Francesca Hong For Governor
@FrancescaHongWI
I ate two bites of my kid's cheeseburger at a Culver's in black river falls and told him they ran out of ice cream. Mostly just wanted to leave bc I was on the verge of a anxiety attack...to many old white people who didn't think we spoke english

Well, your proficiency with written English is extremely low, so....

Get out. Go back to the shithole countries you claim are so much better than this country that you've invaded.

Gad Saad
@GadSaad
Every single individual who has entered the West illegally should be deported. Every person who has entered legally and who is loyal to an ideology that is antithetical to the West's foundational values should also be deported. This is a battle for the soul of humanity. Wake up. Grow a pair.

Do we really need more of these hateful, ignorant, backwards monsters?

Shock: Socialists are all pampered children of the wealthy who have never worked a blue collar job.

And the jobs they have are all e-mail type fake jobs at NGOs or political organizations.

Mamdani & Champagne Socialist Allies Masquerade as Working-Class Heroes
The Democratic Socialists of America presents itself as a diverse, working-class movement, but its own membership surveys tell a different story. According to internal data, 85 percent of DSA members are white, and 58 percent hold professional or managerial jobs--while just four percent are blue-collar workers.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organization is making a serious play for control of the Democrat Party, advertising itself as a racially diverse, working-class movement. But a closer look at who actually makes up the DSA reveals not the workers it claims to represent, but affluent, mostly white professionals.
Superficially, the DSA's diversity talking points seem to be borne out by the most conspicuous DSA politicians--Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, et al. But according to its own internal membership surveys, 85 percent of the DSA's members are white, nine percent are Hispanic, five percent are Asian American, and four percent are Black.
What about the claim that the DSA is a working-class movement? Those same surveys find that fully 58 percent of DSA members are employed in the professional/managerial class. Only a paltry four percent are blue-collar workers. The rest of them are disabled, unemployed, or students.
Join AMAC
As Ruy Teixeira of the American Enterprise Institute describes the DSA: "Its rhetoric and program uses the phrase 'working class' over and over again, as if repeating that phrase magically makes its members working class. But it doesn't, and they aren't."

The woman who died at the home owned by Uncle Fester's husband was in fact murdered.

Woman's death at Boston home owned by Rep. Ayanna Pressley's husband ruled a homicide: officials

Pressley said she is 'devastated' by the death, and her office confirmed neither she nor her family were involved

The death of a woman found at a home owned by the husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., has been ruled a homicide, authorities said.
Boston Police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the city's Mattapan neighborhood on July 18 at about 1:52 p.m. and found Yoseliani Ann Marte Ocasio, 18, with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Her death was ruled a homicide on Thursday by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, authorities said in a statement.
Property records show the home where she was found dead is owned by Conan Harris, Pressley's husband.

Michigan's AG cannot attend the state Democrat convention, she says, because she's "not safe." She's Jewish in a Hamas Party.

She's 'not safe' because she's also Jewish.
Holy schamoly.
That's what the Hamas wing has brought the Democratic Party to in this day and age. That a senior member and one of the highest-ranking elected officials in the state - in fact, the chief law enforcement officer of Michigan - cannot attend her own party's convention because of the viciousness of the anti-Semites they have enabled.
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Dana Nessel would seem to tick off all the prescribed woke boxes, but then there's that teensy problem of 'Jew' and Israel.'
It didn't use to be a problem, and I guess it wasn't when the people of Michigan elected her.
But now the woman is afraid to even show her face at her own party's convention because of the howling and uncontrolled mobs of radicals who have taken over the party?

In case you're wondering, "Wait, am I still the 'Nazi' for objecting to the Democrats' anti-Jewish pogroms?" -- why yes, yes you still are the "Nazi." Silly racist!

Welcome to a public park in California:
- Taken over by drug addicts and dealers
- Cartels control the surrounding area
- People using fentanyl in the open
- No police anywhere

We don�t have to live like this. pic.twitter.com/lHWnu1kASr
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) July 29, 2026

Former "Republican" David Jolly: It's "disgusting" that reserve girls sports for girls.

HOW IS THIS REAL

Florida Gov candidate David Jolly (D) suggests boys have a constitutional right to play on girl�s sports teams:

�Their constitutional rights� It�s pretty disgusting what we�ve seen from Republicans on this..�

�Be supportive of them and allow them to play in� pic.twitter.com/jRKrNs409K
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 30, 2026

Boy guys were sure made a mistake abandoning these liberal cucks for MAGA.

You fucked up -- you trusted a communist:

Ah. Well, then. pic.twitter.com/QHEIwvQcnl
— Brad Hargreaves (@bhargreaves) July 31, 2026

Get out of our countries you violent savages:

WOW.

A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death

This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made pic.twitter.com/pMpdw4NatT
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) July 31, 2026

She's threatening a pogrom... against the majority population of the UK. She's literally bragging about her fellow Muslims "rioting" and being eager to murder someone they disagree with -- and demanding she be praised for not giving them permission to kill their enemies.

And this, she thinks, is an advertisement in favor of Muslim migrants.

It's also a brazen declaration: You are colonized. Bow to your colonial masters or we will literally kill you.

What does this cunt think would happen to her baby-raping cousins if not for the generosity and indulgence of the British people?

🚨MY GOD!!!!!

The Muslim invaders from Morocco are now SMASHING THE GRAVES of the people of Cueta and THROWING THE PIECES AT THE CITIZENS OF SPAIN.

Citizens are now FIGHTING BACK against the invaders with anything they can find.

WHERE IS THE SPANISH MILITARY?!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/Kit5ROSsyQ
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) July 31, 2026

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Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (B2pWp)

2 First on a non ONT thread? Sponge!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (B2pWp)

3 Okay, where is everyone?

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (B2pWp)

4 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)

5 Has the rapture happened? Hello?

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (B2pWp)

6 Okay, where is everyone?
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (B2pWp)

Have you informed the prior thread that this one exists?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)

7 and their mental illnesses.
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Neuro-divergence, bigot!

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:03 PM (Fi81e)

8 Guns, boobs, movies

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2026 06:03 PM (xcxpd)

9 Just look at Spain being enriched.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:04 PM (Fi81e)

10
How is it not over? The people in charge want the system to collapse, and the indigent victims have no means of opposing them.

Posted by: Auspex at July 31, 2026 06:05 PM (Y8DZL)

11 6 Okay, where is everyone?
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (B2pWp)

Have you informed the prior thread that this one exists?

I'm new at being first this early in the day. The ONT is a tooth and nail fight.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:05 PM (B2pWp)

12 Willow'd:

They are deeply stupid people who believe they are geniuses whose words should be accepted without question and are literally going insane from the cognitive dissonance of their belief in their own superiority running into the reality of their deep inferiority and incompetency.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM

I noted the other day, the Ukraine-Iran conflict was always inevitable, because of Russia's alignment with Iran (and all of the Left's other fetish states). But, the American left couldn't see it coming, because the Derp State's Russian collusion hoax (and their own TDS) broke their brains. And, I used to think that the cognitive dissonance would wake them up to how they'd been duped and used, but now I just think they'll marinate in their insanity.
Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:02 PM (Sy6m/)

Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Sy6m/)

13 This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made
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This joy in blindness is demonic.

Babelic.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Fi81e)

14 Crazies on X are saying that the Morocco Spanish invasion is Trump’s fault.

Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (3TlS+)

15 Funny the headlines say Spain has thrown out the "invaders"

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (FtULh)

16
while just four percent are blue-collar workers.

They despise blue-collar workers. They're trying to appropriate "working class" to baristas and office drones.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:07 PM (O0L8i)

17 13 This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made
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This joy in blindness is demonic.

Babelic.
Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Fi81e)

And it's why I carry a gun. I would not, could not, live in England.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2026 06:07 PM (xcxpd)

18 >>disability reveal party
???!?!?!

Hang around, later on I will host a booger reveal. Just give me a minute to dig it out.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 06:07 PM (YF9e6)

19 So what are people allowed to be -- nay, encouraged to be -- proud of?

Obviously: Their sexuality -- as long as it's Not Straight! -- and their mental illnesses.

You are allowed to flaunt your sexuality and wealth (while attacking the rich) and voice your approved opinions and let your freak flag hang out.

Everything else is suspicious at best and oppressive to those around you at worst.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

20 Sounds like the people of Ceuta are going with ALL OUT WAR against the invaders.

It's just a shame they don't have any weapons.

Forget air-dropping arms to the Iranians, who don't seem to be inclined to rise up against their government.

Air drop them to the citizens of Ceuta and let them take care of business.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (FZ29D)

21 >> She's threatening a pogrom... against the majority population of the UK. She's literally bragging about her fellow Muslims "rioting" and being eager to murder someone they disagree with

I think it’s funny she doesn’t think anyone will fight back. This ain’t South Asia, honey. What’s coming back your way is going to mess up that nice dress.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (rJhDk)

22
I take it Dana Nessel supports the Leopards Eating People's Faces party?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (mmrXZ)

23 It took years of differential diagnostic testing to figure out Boy F.'s autism. Years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (JvZF+)

24 How long until we see the videos of the local.women of Spain running to ... protect the invaders?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (3cUTc)

25 May a thousand Nick Shirelys bloom.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (2Ez/1)

26 Shock: Socialists are all pampered children of the wealthy who have never worked a blue collar job.
---
Pattern is repeated.

It was the minor nobles of Russia who pursued Marxism as the form of the next government.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e)

27 Ace: What do you do if you're childless but you really want the attention expectant parents get during gender reveal parties?

Simple: You stage a disability reveal party where you reveal what color of the autism spectrum you've self-diagnosed yourself with, and post it on social media and wait for the coos and applause.

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Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

28 >>disability reveal party
???!?!?!

Hang around, later on I will host a booger reveal. Just give me a minute to dig it out.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 06:07 PM (YF9e6)

Gnarly!

Posted by: Spicoli at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (wVcYX)

29 her office confirmed neither she nor her family were involved

Well, that's an airtight alibi if ever I've seen one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e)

30 25 May a thousand Nick Shirelys bloom.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (2Ez/1)

And Ten Thousand Kyle Rittenhouses, while we're wishin'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (xcxpd)

31 27 Ace: What do you do if you're childless but you really want the attention expectant parents get during gender reveal parties?

Simple: You stage a disability reveal party where you reveal what color of the autism spectrum you've self-diagnosed yourself with, and post it on social media and wait for the coos and applause.

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Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

That would require people to meet up in real life.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (okun6)

32 I watched that Shirley video.. They actually came after him.. I hope he has good security

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (FtULh)

33 I think it’s funny she doesn’t think anyone will fight back. This ain’t South Asia, honey. What’s coming back your way is going to mess up that nice dress.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (rJhDk)

Well, the UK might have to hire the North Irish to do the work for them, as is traditional.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (uhVAy)

34 The people of cueta are apparently going medieval on the invaders. I didn’t think they had it in them.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (UlN4g)

35 Crazies on X are saying that the Morocco Spanish invasion is Trump’s fault.

Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (3TlS+)
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Well it does fall into the category of Everything.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:10 PM (Fi81e)

36 21 >> She's threatening a pogrom... against the majority population of the UK. She's literally bragging about her fellow Muslims "rioting" and being eager to murder someone they disagree with

I think it’s funny she doesn’t think anyone will fight back. This ain’t South Asia, honey. What’s coming back your way is going to mess up that nice dress.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (rJhDk)

In disarmed, gelded, matriarchal England? I love the optimism. Seriously.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2026 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

37 35 Crazies on X are saying that the Morocco Spanish invasion is Trump’s fault.

Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (3TlS+)

Is there nothing Trump can't do ?
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Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (FtULh)

38 >>>and her office ~~confirmed~~ claimed neither she nor her family were involved

Corrected.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (8mulE)

39 I don't find what's happening in Spain that cueta.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (Fi81e)

40 The Spanish military will fire on the citizens before they arrest, let alone deport, these invaders.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (3cUTc)

41 Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

That would require people to meet up in real life.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (okun6)

Doesn't the Disability Reveal Cake also need that?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)

42 26 Shock: Socialists are all pampered children of the wealthy who have never worked a blue collar job.
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Pattern is repeated.

It was the minor nobles of Russia who pursued Marxism as the form of the next government.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (Fi81e)

Peasants don't read Marx. Only aristocrats went to college. Nowadays Marxist derivatives are more broadly spread since a lot more people go to college.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (okun6)

43 Going to Spain next year. Hoping to see Sagrada Familia. Wondering if it'll be a mosque by then.

Posted by: Jim Harbaugh, Asshole at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (4HoLg)

44 "Crazies on X are saying that the Morocco Spanish invasion is Trump’s fault."

X is bots.

Posted by: Just like when it was called Twitter at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (2Ez/1)

45 41 Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

That would require people to meet up in real life.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (okun6)

Doesn't the Disability Reveal Cake also need that?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (uhVAy)

I think they just post videos of it on social media.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (okun6)

46 Are there any Rooftop Koreans in Cueta?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (wVcYX)

47 Crazies on X are saying that the Morocco Spanish invasion is Trump’s fault.

Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (3TlS+)

Is there nothing Trump can't do ?
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Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (FtULh)

Well does Cueta have a large military airport he can use?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (uhVAy)

48 I've seen a number of leftists on X scolding conservatives for laughing about the muslim invasion of Spain. These idiots are so self-indulged they would rather blame us for their own failed policies than admit they were wrong and change their views.

They clearly haven't had enough enrichment yet.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (viF8m)

49 Ya know, for several thousand years, cities had walls for a perfectly valid reason.

And moats.
And bows and arrows and knives and swords.
And knights.

And fire-breathing dragons.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (6ydKt)

50 >>Shock: Socialists are all pampered children of the wealthy who have never worked a blue collar job.

I just watched a Nate Friedman doc on Spain (33 min. pretty slow but good, on his x account.) and it occurs to me that a lot of these people who want migrants want them because they think they will work.

They do not work themselves, but have this vague idea that someone has to in order for their checks from the government to keep clearing. It comforts them to think migrants will work, and they are at no risk of natives having to or benefits being cut.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (YF9e6)

51 I'm new at being first this early in the day. The ONT is a tooth and nail fight.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at July 31, 2026 06:05 PM (B2pWp)

Non-Ace threads tend to appear at, roughly, the same time. Ace threads are random so it is considered polite to inform the prior that a new one exists.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (ExV1e)

52 @34 -- Until I see heads on spikes lining the roadways, I'll remain skeptical...but hopeful.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (XMwZJ)

53 Off cheater sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (4HoLg)

54 disability reveal party"

Wasn't there a "deaf" thing back in the 90s?

People are strange...

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:13 PM (XuXeR)

55 black river falls a

The family truckster burned a Pontiac 400 piston in Black River falls on the way to the BWCA one summer. # boring days in a motel.

Posted by: DaveA at July 31, 2026 06:13 PM (FhXTo)

56 Peasants don't read Marx. Only aristocrats went to college. Nowadays Marxist derivatives are more broadly spread since a lot more people go to college.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (okun6)

Nobody reads Marx. I even just read Sowell's book on Marxism. They just read the clippings.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:13 PM (uhVAy)

57 Coming soon:

Retardation Reveal Parties

Invite all your friends to celebration the revelation of whether you are a

Cretin
Imbecile
Moron
Pinhead
or just straight-up anencephalic!

Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2026 06:13 PM (Av6i5)

58 >>>Michigan's AG cannot attend the state Democrat convention, she says, because she's "not safe." She's Jewish in a Hamas Party.

And yet it hasn't occurred to her that she should quit being a Democrat.

Posted by: No Name Today at July 31, 2026 06:13 PM (8mulE)

59
The witches' coven in Michigan is breaking. Nessel being banned by the jihaidis, Benson's SPLC sluttery exposed, as is Scholtens' church mom fraud..

Posted by: Auspex at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (Y8DZL)

60 Pressley said she is 'devastated' by the death, and her office confirmed neither she nor her family were involved
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So cops investigating it would just be racist, of course.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (Fi81e)

61 What do you do if you're childless but you really want the attention expectant parents get during gender reveal parties?

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"You show up with a chest feeder, squirting breast milk all over your guests!"

-- Mayor Pete, still out on Paternity Leave

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (YDC8i)

62 Crazies on X are saying that the Morocco Spanish invasion is Trump’s fault.

Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (3TlS+)

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Yes, and the Nate Friedman doc i mention above, 3 people say that they support Pedro Commie because he is the only one who "stands up to Trump." Like Trump is in any way relevant to their lives.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (YF9e6)

63
Folk music used to be the entertainment, diversion and comfort of poor, hardworking people. They would be horrified at its appropriation by commies like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (O0L8i)

64 "Pressley said she is 'devastated' by the death, and her office confirmed neither she nor her family were involved"

Until now, I didn't think she had anything to do it, and was willing to even give her thug husband the benefit of the doubt. But if the habitual liar is denying it, now I'm sure she was involved somehow, and I just want to know how deep that rabbit hole goes.

Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (Sy6m/)

65 Hopefully the Basques will send some of their beautiful shotties down to Cueta...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (kOluj)

66 ****She's threatening a pogrom... against the majority population of the UK. She's literally bragging about her fellow Muslims "rioting" and being eager to murder someone they disagree with -- and demanding she be praised for not giving them permission to kill their enemies.

And this, she thinks, is an advertisement in favor of Muslim migrants.****

Coming to a neighborhood near you. SOON

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (H5gG/)

67 Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?

Well yeah but then you're just the host of the party, not the star of the party.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (vTZFs)

68 and it occurs to me that a lot of these people who want migrants want them because they think they will work"

That's been the illiterati position for years. As in Ahmed and Achmed were somehow going to work funding Han's retirement...

It's 10 century economic theory

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (XuXeR)

69
Pressley said she is 'devastated' by the death

Yeah, she might get fingered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (O0L8i)

70 Obviously: Their sexuality -- as long as it's Not Straight! -- and their mental illnesses.

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Obesity has got to be in there somewhere.

Coming out in bathing suits then can turn into real reveal parties IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:16 PM (YDC8i)

71 I've seen a number of leftists on X scolding conservatives for laughing about the muslim invasion of Spain.
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I've seen several all horrified that anyone is daring to suggest any harm befall these invaders.

They are of course leftists ignorant of history because the revolution never goes after its own.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:16 PM (3cUTc)

72 >>X is bots.

Way less than when it was Twitter. And Elon's team is constantly removing them unlike the Twitter days.

Of course leftists are blaming Trump and conservatives. Do you really think these leftists are now going to start taking responsibility for their failed policies when they've spent years blaming Trump and us for everything including their failed life choices?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 06:16 PM (viF8m)

73 3 This is the Oxford Union, how far it has fallen as an institution when this is the sort of argument made
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This joy in blindness is demonic.

Babelic.
Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:06 PM (Fi81e)

And it's why I carry a gun. I would not, could not, live in England.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2026 06:07 PM (xcxpd)

I was never a fan, since booze was not involved. Now, Sense is not involved either.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:16 PM (uhVAy)

74 Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?

Well yeah but then you're just the host of the party, not the star of the party.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (vTZFs)

You can always host a sex party where you're the only catcher.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:17 PM (ExV1e)

75
On the other hand, Pressley could go before the media tomorrow and say, "Yeah, I pulled the trigger. Bitch deserved it," and she'll be re-elected for eternity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:17 PM (O0L8i)

76 Coming to a neighborhood near you. SOON"

Buy ammo.

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:17 PM (XuXeR)

77 Shock: Socialists are all pampered children of the wealthy who have never worked a blue collar job.

-----------

And, to quote from the TV series "The Wire" -- they are "Natural Po-lice."

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (YDC8i)

78 Willowed again. That's what I'm going to put on my headstone.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (KC5Lt)

79 and it occurs to me that a lot of these people who want migrants want them because they think they will work"

That's been the illiterati position for years. As in Ahmed and Achmed were somehow going to work funding Han's retirement...

It's 10 century economic theory
Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (XuXeR)

You can only make them work in the 10th Century case by having ...police and military.

They really are bad at this thinking stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (uhVAy)

80 69
Pressley said she is 'devastated' by the death

Yeah, she might get fingered.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (O0L8i)

She should probably realize that she isn't devastated YET.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (l2EPa)

81 Yeah, she might get fingered."

Dude...

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (XuXeR)

82 Did they leave the cake out in the rain?

Posted by: McAurthur Park at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (n5tGW)

83 On the other hand, Pressley could go before the media tomorrow and say, "Yeah, I pulled the trigger. Bitch deserved it," and she'll be re-elected for eternity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:17 PM (O0L8i)

She said that Israel had a right to defend itself. What else could I do? -- Ayanna Pressley

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:19 PM (ExV1e)

84 Willowed again. That's what I'm going to put on my headstone.
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (KC5Lt)

The actual Willow Movie was cancelled after the second time.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:19 PM (uhVAy)

85 They are literally banging their fist on the door to Civilization itself.

The Spanish and British are not up to the task.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 06:19 PM (JvZF+)

86 MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green fentanyl flowing down
Someone left the drugs out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to make it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

Posted by: Zombie Richard Harris at July 31, 2026 06:19 PM (ftsic)

87 Folk music used to be the entertainment, diversion and comfort of poor, hardworking people. They would be horrified at its appropriation by commies like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (O0L8i)

As portrayed in A Mighty Wind.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 06:19 PM (wVcYX)

88 And yet it hasn't occurred to her that she should quit being a Democrat.
---
"I didn't leave the Democrat Party, it left me.

But if they'd just back the train up a few inches, I'll gladly hop back on board."

No, it never will occur to them that all the other policies you did support ARE the policies that led to now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (3cUTc)

89 You can only make them work in the 10th Century case by having ...police and military.

They really are bad at this thinking stuff"

Exactly. This line of thought only works if said immigrants are enslaved

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (XuXeR)

90 What floors me about the Pressley piece is that her office confirmed she had nothing to do with a murder in her own house!

Her office confirmed.

Our traitorous press.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

91 Did they leave the cake out in the rain?
Posted by: McAurthur Park at July 31, 2026 06:18 PM (n5tGW)

A lot of singing would have been saved if he just called up the local bakery and ordered another cake.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (uhVAy)

92 Back when I was a child a gender reveal party was when you showed me yours and I showed you mine.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (MWfyi)

93 There have been a number of people killed at gender reveal parties. Mostly be fireworks and/or fire.

Posted by: M-80s In The Pink Punch at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (JM9I6)

94 The Spanish and British are not up to the task."

Those oak doors will make a nice fire

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (XuXeR)

95 Did someone note on the Moroccan invasion vid on X that the poster blamed the US and Israel?

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (KC5Lt)

96 23 It took years of differential diagnostic testing to figure out Boy F.'s autism. Years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (JvZF+)

These party folks aren't autistic. They are just the random, run of the mill retards who think their shit don't stink.

IOW, leftists.

It is a mental disease, just not the one they think it is.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (l2EPa)

97 I worked with teens from the mid 1990s until COVID.
The moms went from having bumper-stickers that said "my child is an honor student" and introducing their kid as being on the school sports team to having "proud parent of an autistic child" bumper-sticker and introducing their kid by listing their diagnoses.

The worse the parent was the fewer real accomplishments the kid had and the more "issues" they had. Mom's got praise and attention for raising a messed up kid, and the kid knew that the more messed up they were, the more Mom showed them off and talked about them.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (0MjtC)

98 What floors me about the Pressley piece is that her office confirmed she had nothing to do with a murder in her own house!

Her office confirmed.

Our traitorous press.
Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

they could only confirm it if they did it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (uhVAy)

99 Woman's death at Boston home owned by Rep. Ayanna Pressley's husband ruled a homicide: officials.

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Tranny Love Triangle?

Where was Paul Pelosi at the time and was a hammer involved?

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (YDC8i)

100 That's why I don't want Fetterman-- he's perfectly fine, and always will be, with all the other Dem policies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (3cUTc)

101 A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death

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That is literally what Tommy Robinson's entire point is. These people are incompatible with western values and culture.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (9CZQg)

102 and it occurs to me that a lot of these people who want migrants want them because they think they will work"

That's been the illiterati position for years. As in Ahmed and Achmed were somehow going to work funding Han's retirement...

It's 10 century economic theory
Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:15 PM (XuXeR)

Que?

Posted by: Manuel at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (wVcYX)

103
There have been a number of people killed at gender reveal parties. Mostly be fireworks and/or fire.
Posted by: M-80s In The Pink Punch at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (JM9I6)

Or plane crashes.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JRixLr5-ex4

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (O0L8i)

104 Oxford is no longer a legitimate university. They literally put unqualified people into positions of power who are their sworn enemies. The future of Oxford is that it is closed by the mohammedans, the professors beheaded, and the women become concubines.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0U5gm)

105 Did someone note on the Moroccan invasion vid on X that the poster blamed the US and Israel?
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (KC5Lt)

Not with a body count of just 2 we didn't. I mean make it believable.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (uhVAy)

106 As a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, I'm proud to be a pro- Mary Ann, .45 ACP, trebuchet, and chiroptophile.

I'm proud to be anti-Big Penguin, and against carrots in chili.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

107 I think that 'Cappy's Army' guy is someone I've seen before. Strikes me as a US Intel/propaganda asset.

If he's who I think, he was pushing CIA talking points early in the Uke war.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (xcxpd)

108 101 That is literally what Tommy Robinson's entire point is. These people are incompatible with western values and culture.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (9CZQg)

========

"And we're fine with it."
-a shocking number of Reform candidates who used to be Conservative office holders who actually made the situation a whole lot worse than Labour ever did

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (LKG41)

109 The moms went from having bumper-stickers that said "my child is an honor student" and introducing their kid as being on the school sports team to having "proud parent of an autistic child" bumper-sticker and introducing their kid by listing their diagnoses"

This. Oddly enough, not so many dads....

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (XuXeR)

110
So autism- is cool?

FFS

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (ZxPkt)

111 Oxford is no longer a legitimate university. They literally put unqualified people into positions of power who are their sworn enemies. The future of Oxford is that it is closed by the mohammedans, the professors beheaded, and the women become concubines.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0U5gm)

For Oxford sub in any other university.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:23 PM (uhVAy)

112 57 Coming soon:

Retardation Reveal Parties

Invite all your friends to celebration the revelation of whether you are a

Cretin
Imbecile
Moron
Pinhead
or just straight-up anencephalic!
Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2026 06:13 PM (Av6i5)
Wait, I don't consider being a moron a disability.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2026 06:23 PM (LHPAg)

113 100 That's why I don't want Fetterman-- he's perfectly fine, and always will be, with all the other Dem policies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (3cUTc)

=========

People are like, "He'll be as based as Brandon Gill!" when in reality he'll be another Murkowski, just with a bit less spittle when talking about Republican voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 31, 2026 06:23 PM (LKG41)

114 But now the woman is afraid to even show her face at her own party's convention because of the howling and uncontrolled mobs of radicals who have taken over the party?

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And she'll continue voting for the Democrat Anti-Semite Genocidal Death Cult Party until her dying day ... [types] [deletes]

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:23 PM (YDC8i)

115 So autism- is cool?

FFS
Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (ZxPkt)

You're on the spectrum, way over to the left at the 'no autism' point.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:23 PM (uhVAy)

116 The DSA is cool with being wealthy and white. They're The Vanguard. They will lead the ignorant, brainwashed worker masses into the glorious socialist future.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 31, 2026 06:24 PM (0MjtC)

117 My point was that a lot of these socialists have never worked. They look around them and no one they know ever worked.

They think -- Who will clean our toilets? Who will work the fields?

Both the above sentences are old ideas that everyone knows already. They new part is that, to them, the whole idea of work is so foreign they think only a migrant could do it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 06:24 PM (YF9e6)

118 There have been a number of people killed at gender reveal parties. Mostly be fireworks and/or fire.
Posted by: M-80s In The Pink Punch

It helps the gene pool out some.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2026 06:24 PM (Th+Ef)

119 Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

It's surreal to hear, but apparently the Gen-Z norm is less social than Gen-X introverts.

Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:24 PM (Sy6m/)

120 Remember that liberal douchecanoe with the beer place who was offering free beer when Trump died?

His license to sell alcohol has been revoked. It seems Mr. I Love Socialism was not paying his fair share of taxes when importing the beer. He has until 4 Aug to file an appeal, if the appeal is filed; he can still sell beer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:25 PM (2GVsD)

121 As a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, I'm proud to be a pro- Mary Ann, .45 ACP, trebuchet, and chiroptophile.

I'm proud to be anti-Big Penguin, and against carrots in chili.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

So a bloody fence sitter on crossbow vs longbow!!!??

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:25 PM (uhVAy)

122 I'm proud to be a pro- Mary Ann, .45 ACP, trebuchet, and chiroptophile."

You're batty?

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:25 PM (XuXeR)

123 I read an article at least 10-15 years ago about how society had changed from honor, to dignity, and was now victimhood. And in fact I noticed it with 9/11. All of the 3000 killed in the vile attack were lauded as heroic.

I guess mental illness or disability, especially a safe one like autism, vs saying you are schizophrenic, is what people who crave attention can claim if they like straight sex and don't want to pretend to be LBGTQ.

I've always thought being famous and having everybody wanting to watch everything you do would suck. If I had great musical, acting, or sports talent I probably would have figured the $$$ and pursuing my talent were worth the trade off, but being famous with the general public would have been a negative.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 31, 2026 06:25 PM (PV+Zw)

124 I'm also pro-Oxford comma.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:25 PM (0sNs1)

125 What in hell was Francey Hong doing in Black River Falls? I doubt she ever felt at home anywhere except the People's Republic of Madison.

And if old white people give her hives, maybe she should stay out of government in a majority (by far) old white people state.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:26 PM (l2EPa)

126
Cretin
Imbecile
Moron
Pinhead
or just straight-up anencephalic!
Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2026 06:13 PM (Av6i5)

Many years ago we were at a dog show and a party of profoundly retarded people were brought on an outing. The dogs were all, "Whoa, special handling required." They were so gentle and you could see the eyes of these unfortunates light up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:26 PM (O0L8i)

127 There have been a number of people killed at gender reveal parties. Mostly be fireworks and/or fire.
Posted by: M-80s In The Pink Punch

It helps the gene pool out some.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2026 06:24 PM (Th+Ef)

You forgot the airplane crash

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:26 PM (uhVAy)

128 The recently deceased Catherine O'Hara was in A Mighty Wind.

Posted by: Up Schitt's Creek at July 31, 2026 06:26 PM (JM9I6)

129 That YouTube video short with the woman telling that third word clown to get the fuck out of our country was great!! I may need a cigarette. And I don't even smoke.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 31, 2026 06:26 PM (hmYU4)

130 I'm proud to be anti-Big Penguin, and against carrots in chili.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

So a bloody fence sitter on crossbow vs longbow!!!??
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:25 PM (uhVAy)

And ketchup on hot dogs ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 06:26 PM (FtULh)

131 Some of the smartest people I know are Morons. Some of the dumbest are Educators. I don't know I feel about the intersectionals but I'll at least give them a chance.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2026 06:26 PM (MWfyi)

132 That's why I don't want Fetterman-- he's perfectly fine, and always will be, with all the other Dem policies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:21 PM (3cUTc)

He feels the same way you do and said as much. Why would Republicans even want me in their party? That is another positive about him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (KC5Lt)

133 The actual Willow Movie was cancelled after the second time.
Posted by: Old

Wait, there's an actual explanation for the "willowed" term?
I thought it was just an AoSHQ convention.
Could hear it?

Posted by: From about That Time at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (sl73Y)

134 A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death

-
Debate by other means.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (ndZc7)

135 "29 her office confirmed neither she nor her family were involved

Well, that's an airtight alibi if ever I've seen one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:09 PM (ExV1e) "

just what I was thinking, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (VyBeY)

136 Welcome to a public park in California:
- Taken over by drug addicts and dealers
- Cartels control the surrounding area
- People using fentanyl in the open
- No police anywhere

We don’t have to live like this.

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Old & Busted: "Bake The Cake!"
New Hotness: "Take The #Wake!"

/At the risk of overdoing "The Wire" memes, it looks a lot like "Hamsterdam."

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (YDC8i)

137 The moms went from having bumper-stickers that said "my child is an honor student" and introducing their kid as being on the school sports team to having "proud parent of an autistic child" bumper-sticker and introducing their kid by listing their diagnoses"

I never thought of why people feel the need to display what kind of disability someone in their family has but this makes sense. Are there no "Proud Child Of A Retarded Parent" bumper stickers?

Posted by: Chevy Van at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (ftsic)

138 It turns out that all that time Democrats were calling us "Nazi," they meant it as a compliment.

Funny how simple misunderstandings like this can go on for decades.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (0MjtC)

139 Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

It's surreal to hear, but apparently the Gen-Z norm is less social than Gen-X introverts.
Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:24 PM (Sy6m/)

Not with them blasting streams of everything they do on the internet they arent.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

140 I read an article at least 10-15 years ago about how society had changed from honor, to dignity, and was now victimhood"

Generally...agree. So sad.

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (XuXeR)

141 I wonder where Francey Hong comes down on Catholics vs. Lutherans in WI? If old white people give her anxiety, just imagine what pink jello fluff would do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (l2EPa)

142 Oxford is no longer a legitimate university. They literally put unqualified people into positions of power who are their sworn enemies. The future of Oxford is that it is closed by the mohammedans, the professors beheaded, and the women become concubines.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0U5gm)

For Oxford sub in any other university.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:23 PM (uhVAy)

We went to Cambridge but were known as the Oxford Five!

We had a gay old time passing UK secrets to Russia!

Posted by: Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, & Cairncross at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (wVcYX)

143 What is wrong with humanity?

We're becoming more stupid and more savage every year

de debbil workin' overtime

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (ZxPkt)

144 A student at the Oxford Union tells Tommy Robinson he is lucky they've put security on for him otherwise their Pro-Islam supporters outside would beat him to death

-
Debate by other means.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (ndZc7)

not much worse than what the government has done to him.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (uhVAy)

145 Marry Ann was on the butterface kinda ugly side, no ?

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (g47mK)

146 "Forget air-dropping arms to the Iranians, who don't seem to be inclined to rise up against their government."

How would you know until weapons are actually air dropped into Iran? Have they been an I just totally missed the announcements?

Have 50k residents of Ceute been massacred like what happen when the Iranians did rise up? Did I miss that also?

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (SExz7)

147 Debate by other means."

5.56?

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (XuXeR)

148 I'm proud to be anti-Big Penguin, and against carrots in chili.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

The mind that alters, alters all.

Posted by: Happy Dale Sanitarium at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (JM9I6)

149 Look what's happening in Spain! The US needs to send air support for our NATO Allies!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (bX16E)

150 106 As a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, I'm proud to be a pro- Mary Ann, .45 ACP, trebuchet, and chiroptophile.

I'm proud to be anti-Big Penguin, and against carrots in chili.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

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Narrator voice: "And thus began the Balkanization of the Moron Horde"

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (kOluj)

151 I have seen "My kid can beat up your kid" bumper stickers.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (MWfyi)

152 If it was a republican.... 18 year old reported lover of republican congressman found shot to death in his home!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (n5tGW)

153 We're becoming more stupid and more savage every year"

Reverting to the norm

Posted by: man at July 31, 2026 06:30 PM (XuXeR)

154 Amateur. At least drop the kid off in the lake

Posted by: Ted Kennedy at July 31, 2026 06:30 PM (gKWVE)

155 I wonder where Francey Hong comes down on Catholics vs. Lutherans in WI? If old white people give her anxiety, just imagine what pink jello fluff would do.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (l2EPa)

Not to mention a SpaghettiOs topped jello mold.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 06:30 PM (wVcYX)

156 I saw a headline to the effect that something like 57 people have been killed in Cueta. You know, rounding error.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at July 31, 2026 06:30 PM (ndZc7)

157
The moms went from having bumper-stickers that said "my child is an honor student" and introducing their kid as being on the school sports team to having "proud parent of an autistic child" bumper-sticker and introducing their kid by listing their diagnoses"

My nephew is badly autistic and taking care of him has made my sister look prematurely old. These "proud parents" are likely proud their little scions are just feral assholes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:30 PM (O0L8i)

158 The actual Willow Movie was cancelled after the second time.
Posted by: Old

Wait, there's an actual explanation for the "willowed" term?
I thought it was just an AoSHQ convention.
Could hear it?
Posted by: From about That Time at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (sl73Y)

I don't think Willow was named for the show. She was just a Moron who tended to post at the end of a long comment thread after everyone was gone and got a reputation for it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:31 PM (uhVAy)

159 If it was a Republican, the teen would be male. But at least still alive.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2026 06:31 PM (gKWVE)

160 139 Isn't it a lot easier to just HAVE A PARTY AND INVITE PEOPLE TO BE NICE and hope they say nice things about you for it?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (uhVAy)

It's surreal to hear, but apparently the Gen-Z norm is less social than Gen-X introverts.
Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:24 PM (Sy6m/)

Not with them blasting streams of everything they do on the internet they arent.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

It's a strange form of hyper-socialization which also makes them anxious and unwilling to interact with people in real life.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 31, 2026 06:31 PM (okun6)

161 Wait, I don't consider being a moron a disability.
Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2026 06:23 PM (LHPAg)

Before I retired, I had a co-worker say to me, "You must think I'm a moron." I responded that I would NEVER think of them as a moron.

Naturally, they did not take that comment in the spirit it was intended.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:31 PM (ExV1e)

162 143 What is wrong with humanity?

We're becoming more stupid and more savage every year

de debbil workin' overtime
Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (ZxPkt)

Honey, we were always stupid, but we didn't always have the means to project that fact to the masses daily.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:31 PM (l2EPa)

163 If tankdemon continues to arrive late on the ONT, is it still OK to call him "tardy"?

Posted by: Vice Principal Orlando at July 31, 2026 06:32 PM (JM9I6)

164 145 Marry Ann was on the butterface kinda ugly side, no ?
Posted by: runner

Swords or pistols?

Posted by: Auspex at July 31, 2026 06:32 PM (Y8DZL)

165 I feel some sympathy for Dana Nessel regarding her fear as a Jew of attending the convention. That's disgusting.

But she was Witchmer's right hand during the COVID fascism and the entrapment of that "kidnapping" circle.

Also, she will ultimately back the Dems in whatever monstrous form they take.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 31, 2026 06:32 PM (kpS4V)

166 "Forget air-dropping arms to the Iranians, who don't seem to be inclined to rise up against their government."

How would you know until weapons are actually air dropped into Iran? Have they been an I just totally missed the announcements?

Have 50k residents of Ceute been massacred like what happen when the Iranians did rise up? Did I miss that also?

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (SExz7)

Unlike NATO in Ukraine, the US/Israel war leaders don't warn the other side of moves 5 months in advance.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:32 PM (uhVAy)

167
The Covid Hoax turned weakness into a virtue.

Everybody and their dog had covid.
The President was on TV getting his clot shot. All of the cool kids were.
This then is the cultural hangover from covid.

Posted by: Speller at July 31, 2026 06:32 PM (pSotA)

168 I find antisemitism to be the sign of a sick society and disgusting. But Dana Nessel is a totalitarian skank and I do not care one iota about anything that happens to her

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 06:33 PM (BlDDt)

169 Marry Ann was on the butterface kinda ugly side, no ?
Posted by: runner

Not to me. Sydney Sweeney on the other hand.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:33 PM (KC5Lt)

170 r/AustismInWomen

I ordered a custom cake for a diagnosis reveal picnic that I’m hosting tomorrow with my neurodivergent friends. The inside will be pink if it’s just autism (my current diagnosis) or it will be green if it’s autism and ADHD (for which I was recently assessed). We shall see!

Being neurodivergent is challenging, but I believe our neurodiversity should be celebrated. Plus I probably wouldn’t be here today if not for my neurodivergent community (online and real life). Feeling especially optimistic today.

I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and call it...if you are finding out the results via cake (and therefore I'm assuming with other people around) I'm betting on AuDHD.

IM ALSO HAVING A REVEAL PARTY TODAY!!!! I MADE MY OWN CAKE IT HAS A LITTLE CHARM I DESIGNED OF THE AUTISM CREATURE ON IT WITH M&MS

How do you find a real life neurodivergent community? I'm jealous.

It never occurred to me to do a reveal cake for anything other than gender and, as I am not trans, there was no reason for me to do a gender reveal. This has inspired me with so many possibilities!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2026 06:33 PM (otzbu)

171 As a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, I'm proud to be a pro- Mary Ann, .45 ACP, trebuchet, and chiroptophile.

I'm proud to be anti-Big Penguin, and against carrots in chili.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0sNs1)

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Okra in gumbo?

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:33 PM (YDC8i)

172 What is wrong with humanity?

We're becoming more stupid and more savage every year

de debbil workin' overtime
Posted by: Don Black
__________

As with everything else wrong, I blame the internet and smartphones.

And the French.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 31, 2026 06:33 PM (XvL8K)

173 Disability reveal parties, huh? So what color is sick and tired?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at July 31, 2026 06:34 PM (ndZc7)

174 110
So autism- is cool?

FFS
Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (ZxPkt)

Victimhood of any flavor is the currency of the Marxists. It's the source of their unflinching self righteous moral certainty.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 31, 2026 06:34 PM (r7+Q7)

175 The future of Oxford is that it is closed by the mohammedans, the professors beheaded, and the women become concubines.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (0U5gm)
----
Alternatively it's turned into an "Islamic University" where the faculty and students do nothing but study the Koran and the Hadiths all day, cranking out more and more imams....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:34 PM (FZ29D)

176 Adam and Eve were the first people not to read the Apple user agreement.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:34 PM (0sNs1)

177 Sid had a reveal party.

Super retard

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:35 PM (KC5Lt)

178 Marry Ann was on the butterface kinda ugly side, no ?
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2026 06:29 PM (g47mK)

The old debate. They dressed down Tina Louise. Just to make it fair.

Dawn Wells was a fine looking girl. And do yourself a favor and look at a few old pictures of Natalie Schafer. She was a smoke-show in her day.

But Tina Louise was in a different league. They had to level the shots on that show.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 06:35 PM (gi6wy)

179 IM ALSO HAVING A REVEAL PARTY TODAY!!!! I MADE MY OWN CAKE IT HAS A LITTLE CHARM I DESIGNED OF THE AUTISM CREATURE ON IT WITH M&MS
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Autism creature? WTF does this even mean?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:35 PM (FZ29D)

180 Swords or pistols?
Posted by: Auspex at July 31, 2026 06:32 PM (Y8DZL)

I guess shooting her is easier ?

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2026 06:35 PM (g47mK)

181 If a white woman says she is not feeling safe and the target is not a white man, she can be charged with lynching Emmet Till.
What happens when you push the button and it doesn't work?

Posted by: PG at July 31, 2026 06:35 PM (jGLqZ)

182 Why is it always anti-semitism?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

183 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:34 PM (FZ29D)

perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet

Posted by: Eddie G at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (gKWVE)

184 What the hell is the autism creature?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (Cifda)

185 Cueta shouldn't be there. It's a European colony in Morocco.

-----------

Cueta, Shueta, Wueta.

How are you on the Colonization of Western Europe by the Islamist Death Cult Hordes?

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (YDC8i)

186 Victimhood of any flavor is the currency of the Marxists. It's the source of their unflinching self righteous moral certainty.
Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd at July 31, 2026 06:34 PM (r7+Q7)

They believe it forgives their many sins, somehow. They know they are miserable craven fools, but if they are "disabled" they think they cannot be held responsible.

Jesus may hold a divergent opinion on that topic.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (l2EPa)

187 My nephew is badly autistic and taking care of him has made my sister look prematurely old. These "proud parents" are likely proud their little scions are just feral assholes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:30 PM (O0L8i)

Exactly. Like how so many people began claiming to have PTSD after soldiers began returning from the ME with real PTSD.
They wanted the attention and sympathy that they saw come to heroes with PTSD without having to actually do anything heroic.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (0MjtC)

188 The future of Oxford is that it is closed by the mohammedans, the professors beheaded, and the women become concubines.

Would any mid-7th Century Islamic savage WANT a concubine that graduated from Oxford?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (2GVsD)

189 Adam and Eve were the first people not to read the Apple user agreement.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2026 06:34 PM (0sNs1)

And, by definition: Jews.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

190 Drug dealers and addiction are the Marxists street thugs

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)

191 So apparently, and I hope this hasn't been discussed yet, but Troy Jackson, the Dem replacement for Nazi Platner.... has had two kids with his cousin.

Boy, Dems sure can pick em.

As for the AosHQ convention on willowing... that's due to our poor, beloved commentator Willow who invented the practice.

But it probably works with the movie too.

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (QdSqm)

192 @177 Reveal party : girl pink
Boy blue
Sid: brown

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (BlDDt)

193 Sid's reveal party was at the gloryhole.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (2GVsD)

194 Okra in gumbo?
Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:33 PM (YDC8i)

It does thicken it up for ya, from personal experience.

I've since used File powder, or even gelatin for the same reason. Roux seems too hard.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (uhVAy)

195 Victimhood of any flavor is the currency of the Marxists. It's the source of their unflinching self righteous moral certainty.
Posted by: Bilwis

------------
This. They divide the would using the Marcuse and Foucaultian victim oppressor model. For everything.

Being a victim is morally superior, to them.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (YF9e6)

196 Would any mid-7th Century Islamic savage WANT a concubine that graduated from Oxford?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (2GVsD)

Let's not be hasty, Anna.

What does she look like?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

197 >I read an article at least 10-15 years ago about how society had changed from honor, to dignity, and was now victimhood"

----

blame Oprah
she turned 'victims' (of everything and anything under the sun) into saints to be adored

so naturally, everyone wanted to be a victim of something

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ZxPkt)

198 So apparently, and I hope this hasn't been discussed yet, but Troy Jackson, the Dem replacement for Nazi Platner.... has had two kids with his cousin.

Boy, Dems sure can pick em.

As for the AosHQ convention on willowing... that's due to our poor, beloved commentator Willow who invented the practice.

But it probably works with the movie too.
Posted by: SimoHayha at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (QdSqm)

Second cousin I heard.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:38 PM (uhVAy)

199 My nephew is badly autistic and taking care of him has made my sister look prematurely old. These "proud parents" are likely proud their little scions are just feral assholes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:30 PM (O0L8i)

One of my nephews is autistic. Not too bad, just gets overwhelmed really easily with noise and a lot of bustle. Even as a pre-teen, his parents had taught him that it was on him to remove himself from the overwhelming situation, if at all possible.

Nice kid. Gonna have a rough life.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ExV1e)

200 At my autism party, it was all fine until I let my friend in who is hearing impaired and has Tourettes. Everyone else was already diagnosed with autism and most were sensitivity aversive.

So, my friend with hearing issues and Tourettes is walking around shouting C*NT and F*CK, jump scaring the ever living crap out of everyone, while I sat back watched the fun. My Tourettes friend said he'd do it for $10 bucks.

Well, he actually said "I'LL DO IT.... SH*T ....FOR FREE...MOTHER F*CKER...C*NT....IT WILL...D*CKHEAD...BE AWESOME!!!" But, he did such a good job, a ten spot was owed.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (dIske)

201 Does Troy's kids have the Hapsburg chin?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (2GVsD)

202 Aetius

Before or after the ball gag?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (2GVsD)

203 What the hell is the autism creature?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (Cifda)

-----------

I assumed it was Elon's nickname for his schlong.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (YDC8i)

204 184 What the hell is the autism creature?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I didn't know either. Just Google it. It's...well, retarded. Here's the AI summary, and a search will give you images.

The Autism Creature, also known as the TBH (to be honest) or Yippee creature, is a hand-drawn digital character that serves as an unofficial mascot and symbol of neurodiversity and autistic pride.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (otzbu)

205 Mandani told them he would "Screw Them Up the Ass" and they still voted him.

I do not feel sorry and please stay in New Sh*t City where drugs are free and so are the Anywhere Poop Stations.

My dog knows beter then to poop in the house. These poop anywhere.

Conclusion" My Dog has a higher IQ...

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 31, 2026 06:40 PM (qD4Ju)

206 This. They divide the would using the Marcuse and Foucaultian victim oppressor model. For everything.

Being a victim is morally superior, to them.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (YF9e6)

So they would agree with us persecuting them? This seems like an way to help those fellers out.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:40 PM (uhVAy)

207 Sid's reveal party was at the gloryhole.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:37 PM (2GVsD)

It was garbled and there was a lot of gagging, per the internet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:40 PM (zZu0s)

208 Sydney Sweeney on the other hand.

Her face can be pretty plain but it lights up when she smiles.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:40 PM (ExV1e)

209 Would any mid-7th Century Islamic savage WANT a concubine that graduated from Oxford?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (2GVsD)

I've heard that in private, they let you grab 'em by the Ceuta.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 06:41 PM (wVcYX)

210 Love the
GO.
BACK.
THERE.
chick. Plus she's hawt.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 06:41 PM (UjdFS)

211 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ExV1e)

Swaddling. I think an autistic lady invented product that one could swaddle themselves.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:41 PM (KC5Lt)

212 The Autism Creature, also known as the TBH (to be honest) or Yippee creature, is a hand-drawn digital character that serves as an unofficial mascot and symbol of neurodiversity and autistic pride.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (otzbu)
----
That *thing* wants to suck out my soul.

You can tell by the eyes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:41 PM (FZ29D)

213 blame Oprah
she turned 'victims' (of everything and anything under the sun) into saints to be adored

so naturally, everyone wanted to be a victim of something
Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ZxPkt)

The parents of victims were turned into heroes and saints as well. Which, I think, led to parents wanting to have a kid with an issue- and the kids knew that that was why mommy loved them.
Like parents of "trans kids" nowadays.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 31, 2026 06:41 PM (0MjtC)

214 What the hell is the autism creature?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I didn't know either. Just Google it. It's...well, retarded. Here's the AI summary, and a search will give you images.

The Autism Creature, also known as the TBH (to be honest) or Yippee creature, is a hand-drawn digital character that serves as an unofficial mascot and symbol of neurodiversity and autistic pride.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (otzbu)

Anime puts out about 23 billion cuter things than that annually.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:41 PM (uhVAy)

215 Mack Druggy Park .....

Spring was never waiting for us, trans girl
It ran one step ahead as we followed in the gay dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot Homo , fevered iron poop shoot jam

MacArthur's Park smells like Poop in the dark
All the used needles flowing down
Someone left the fentanyl out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it because it took so long to make it
And I'll never have that recipe again because of ICE

I recall the brown stained undies
Fomenting like a wave of Somali’s in the Heat
On the ground around your knees is used needles
The birds do not even land in the trees for the stench
And the old homeless men playing with themselves

Posted by: Kami and Gav Together at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (BgNFt)

216 So apparently, and I hope this hasn't been discussed yet, but Troy Jackson, the Dem replacement for Nazi Platner.... has had two kids with his cousin.

Damn, we keep losing the white male working class vote. How can we appeal to them? Southern Men are the most conservative type, so how do we signal that we're relatable to them? How about we run a certified cousin fucker!?!?!!?

Posted by: Dem Consultants at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (otzbu)

217 symbol of neurodiversity

___________________________

Yeah, I get neurodiversity every time I drink Jaeger Meister. I can't feel my face.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (dIske)

218 Before or after the ball gag?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2026 06:39 PM (2GVsD)

Lol. Which comment are you referring to?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (zZu0s)

219
"Xyler isn't toilet trained. We thought that might inhibit his creativity."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (O0L8i)

220 Her face can be pretty plain but it lights up when she smiles.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:40 PM (ExV1e)
---
There's a lot to be said for a nice smile.

Often adds at least +1 or +2 to overall attractiveness.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (FZ29D)

221 A new rival to Wall Street officially debuted on Friday as the Texas Stock Exchange went fully live for the first time with trading available for all of its listed tickers.

The Texas Stock Exchange, which is based in Dallas, is the first new major stock exchange to launch in the U.S. in decades. The TXSE, called the "Tex-ee," is looking to compete with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Composite for listings.

The exchange boasts several prominent financial backers, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Charles Schwab, among others.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 06:43 PM (H5gG/)

222 Her face can be pretty plain but it lights up when she smiles.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:40 PM (ExV1e)

That's fair.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:43 PM (KC5Lt)

223 One of my nephews is autistic. Not too bad, just gets overwhelmed really easily with noise and a lot of bustle. Even as a pre-teen, his parents had taught him that it was on him to remove himself from the overwhelming situation, if at all possible.

Nice kid. Gonna have a rough life.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ExV1e)

That's called being normal and having lots of siblings.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:43 PM (uhVAy)

224 Neurodiversity. That's a new one.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2026 06:43 PM (Cifda)

225 >>>You stage a disability reveal party where you reveal what color of the autism spectrum you've self-diagnosed yourself with, and post it on social media and wait for the coos and applause.

As God is my witness, I though we had already plumbed the depths of retatrded, pathetic loserdom.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2026 06:43 PM (dK+Kv)

226 Often adds at least +1 or +2 to overall attractiveness.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (FZ29D)

Also shows she's not a miserable scrunt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

227 216 So apparently, and I hope this hasn't been discussed yet, but Troy Jackson, the Dem replacement for Nazi Platner.... has had two kids with his cousin.

I guess there are not many good-looking biological females in Maine ???

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (G5jnN)

228 symbol of neurodiversity

___________________________

Yeah, I get neurodiversity every time I drink Jaeger Meister. I can't feel my face.
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (dIske)

It goes in the *mouth* not on the face.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy)

229 OH
and all these upper class white people embracing DSA?

This is just the same 'radical chic' we saw back in the 60s and 70s

back then it was kissing up to the Black Panthers and SDS
today it's kissing up to antifa and trannys

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (ZxPkt)

230 At my autism party, it was all fine until I let my friend in who is hearing impaired and has Tourettes. Everyone else was already diagnosed with autism and most were sensitivity aversive.

-----------

My ex used to by pot from a gay friend of hers in San Fransicko (we lived in The East Bay). He was living with -- and taking care of -- a younger deaf gay man. Very nice guys.

Anywho, they invited over to a party one weekend afternoon, and we arrived late (traffic). I was confused because I didn't see many cars or hear any noise coming from their place.

Turns out it was all deaf as well as deaf & blind individuals. They were engaging in communication with each other in the back yard, using sign language (which my ex and I had been expected to learn from these guys since the deaf ones had to learn to lip read).

The most amazing aspect were some guys signing with their fingers in the palms of the blind & deaf individuals -- who could feel what signs they were making with their hands. Pretty cool ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (YDC8i)

231 Her face can be pretty plain but it lights up when she smiles.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
......

and when she giggles she jiggles.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (UjdFS)

232 *BUY pot

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (YDC8i)

233 As with everything else wrong, I blame the internet and smartphones.

I was born in '72. I'm just now transitioning into that phase they call "old". Pisses me off.

But it was a unique time to be alive. Because I grew up on game consoles and also getting your ass outside. MTV when they had videos. I watched the Internet happen.

And I was wrong. Because I thought it would be so great, that everybody would have the World's Library at that little Oak Express Table we used to buy. Kind of like a Microwave Stand. But for a Computer and a Monitor.

It turns out, it was better when you had to give at least a little effort to get to the Public Library. It was a self-sorting kind of thing. And most people really don't need much knowledge. They just need to be told what to do.

I hate it. But that's Human Nature.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (gi6wy)

234 It goes in the *mouth* not on the face.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy)

*watches pitch sail in*

*swings for the fences*

Thats what she said!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (zZu0s)

235
Nice kid. Gonna have a rough life.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:38 PM (ExV1e)

My nephew was at our family reunion last month. He was pretty well behaved but I think my sister's supervision had a good hold on him. She's also dealing with her husband's Alzheimer's. It's tragic. I pray for them daily.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (O0L8i)

236 Neurodiversity. That's a new one.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2026 06:43 PM (Cifda)

I wish. It is the grab bag for 'Leftist asshole' for a long time now.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:46 PM (uhVAy)

237 @Polymarket
JUST IN: MySpace owner vows to relaunch its platform to its glory days to take on Facebook.

Posted by: happy days are here again at July 31, 2026 06:46 PM (gKWVE)

238 Oh, the Autism creature. I wondered what that was I saw laying beside the road. I'm glad it wasn't a cat.

Posted by: fd at July 31, 2026 06:46 PM (MWfyi)

239 It goes in the *mouth* not on the face.
Posted by: Oldcat
______

He's got a drinking problem.

Posted by: Airplane! at July 31, 2026 06:46 PM (XvL8K)

240 If you're self diagnosing yourself on the autism spectrum you might just as well introduce yourself by saying "hi, I'm Bob and I'm a complete fucking idiot"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 06:46 PM (BlDDt)

241 Why the bumpersticker? I can tell you are a retard by your driving.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 31, 2026 06:46 PM (bX16E)

242 Yeah, I get neurodiversity every time I drink Jaeger Meister. I can't feel my face.
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (dIske)

It goes in the *mouth* not on the face.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy)

I had that same drinking problem, back in the day.

Posted by: Ted Striker at July 31, 2026 06:46 PM (wVcYX)

243 Yeah, I get neurodiversity every time I drink Jaeger Meister. I can't feel my face.
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (dIske)

It goes in the *mouth* not on the face.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy)

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

THAT right there is a real drinking problem.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:47 PM (YDC8i)

244 There's a lot to be said for a nice smile.

Often adds at least +1 or +2 to overall attractiveness.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (FZ29D)

https://youtu.be/8xbgTm3NHVY

Her Baskin-Robbins commercial.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:47 PM (ExV1e)

245
This is just the same 'radical chic' we saw back in the 60s and 70s

back then it was kissing up to the Black Panthers and SDS
today it's kissing up to antifa and trannys
Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (ZxPkt)

The AWFLs think they're going to be Commissar for Cultural Affairs or something like that. Instead they'll be railroaded by the prisoners in the labor camp.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:47 PM (O0L8i)

246 Saw that Troy Jackson 2nd cousin thing yesterday. Speechless.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 31, 2026 06:47 PM (sl73Y)

247 219
"Xyler isn't toilet trained. We thought that might inhibit his creativity."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (O0L8i)

Must produce some seriously shitty art.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:47 PM (l2EPa)

248 Whole lot of see me and validate me from a group that spends their existence chasing " likes"

It has been said courage skips a generation maybe sanity does too.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2026 06:48 PM (abScH)

249 It goes in the *mouth* not on the face.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (uhVAy)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:48 PM (zZu0s)

250 Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:44 PM (ZxPkt)

I agree but the difference today is the government enables it. Makes sense since government is made up of a lot of those 70's radical hippie commies.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:48 PM (KC5Lt)

251 Her face can be pretty plain but it lights up when she smiles.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
......

and when she giggles she jiggles.
Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (UjdFS)

Awww baby, you KNOW what I like! Hehehe.

Posted by: The Big Bopper at July 31, 2026 06:48 PM (wVcYX)

252 It never occurred to me to do a reveal cake for anything other than gender and, as I am not trans, there was no reason for me to do a gender reveal. This has inspired me with so many possibilities!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 31, 2026 06:33 PM (otzbu)

How many issues do you have, lady?
Do you have to catalog them by volume number?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 06:48 PM (6ydKt)

253
*jabs paper fiercely with forefinger*

"Second cousin! Second!!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:48 PM (O0L8i)

254 The number of people diagnosing themselves with autism is ridiculous. It's a fashion accessory these days.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (viF8m)

255 I just listened to Kamala rambling thru her piehole and she is nuts. I don't there is a squirrel on the planet that could tackle abomination.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (8E0Ba)

256 Damn, we keep losing the white male working class vote. How can we appeal to them? Southern Men are the most conservative type, so how do we signal that we're relatable to them? How about we run a certified cousin fucker!?!?!!?
Posted by: Dem Consultants at July 31, 2026 06:42 PM (otzbu)

Cousin marriage is legal in NY state and not in pretty much all of the South, or Appalachia.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (uhVAy)

257 The most amazing aspect were some guys signing with their fingers in the palms of the blind & deaf individuals -- who could feel what signs they were making with their hands. Pretty cool ...
Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (YDC8i)
______________________________

Okay, that IS pretty awesome.

Tell me if you think this is ironic. Sign language for "Democrat" is to raise your pointer finger and wag it back and forth like you are scolding someone. Not making that up.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (dIske)

258 >>>Citizens are now FIGHTING BACK against the invaders with anything they can find.

Don't bring an (anything other than a gun) to a gunfight.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (dK+Kv)

259 My nephew was at our family reunion last month. He was pretty well behaved but I think my sister's supervision had a good hold on him. She's also dealing with her husband's Alzheimer's. It's tragic. I pray for them daily.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:45 PM (O0L8i)

She's got to feel like Job some days.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:50 PM (ExV1e)

260 The invasion of the US under Biden was funded and coordinated by Soros types and USAID cash, but it was slower than this invasion, and the coyotes were making big money while their invaders were not throwing rocks and starting fires (not right off the bat, at least). Biden was actually covertly flying them in by the thousands.

So who is funding this invasion of Spain (and Europe)? Spain was already in bad shape, but this could spread to much of Europe. France will get some, and send their allotment of to the UK.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2026 06:50 PM (vbXSk)

261 Seem to recall it was mentioned here on AoS that Troy Jackson's baby momma is a 2nd cousin. Muslims everywhere are saying "why marry a total stranger like that". But seriously 2nd cousin marriage is no big deal, all 50 states allow it. But two kids with a partner and you still don't bother to get married? Call me an old church lady scold type, but I'd prefer not to have someone with that much fear of commitment as a U.S. senator.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 31, 2026 06:50 PM (PV+Zw)

262 How many issues do you have, lady?
Do you have to catalog them by volume number?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 06:48 PM (6ydKt)
----
Flip through the DSM-V and pick something at random.

Bet she'll tell you she's got it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:50 PM (FZ29D)

263 The number of people diagnosing themselves with autism is ridiculous. It's a fashion accessory these days.

With Smart comes Crazy. How much do you want ? The trick is to do the Three Pocket Check (I do it every day) and then incorporate it into a normal routine.

Everyone is crazy. The trick is to take your personal crazy and use it to behave sane. Better yet, Better than Sane.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 06:51 PM (gi6wy)

264 20 It's just a shame they don't have any weapons.
Air drop them to the citizens of Ceuta and let them take care of business.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (FZ29D)

Judge Alex Kozinski’s 2003 dissenting opinion in Silveira v Lockyer (9th Circus) has almost become my daily mantra:

“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.”

Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 06:52 PM (SjAWL)

265 Dr. Fuckees diary proved what we all knew about Biden.
He stated that "Obama" was running the show...

Surprise..... Surprise.......

So, Obama's 3rd term sucked even worse his first two and he gets no blame...

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 31, 2026 06:52 PM (G5jnN)

266 Spain's Supreme Court just ruled any immigrant that reached those two North African Spanish cities. get immigrant protection.

I wonder why the sudden invasion. /s

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:52 PM (KC5Lt)

267 182 Why is it always anti-semitism?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:36 PM (zZu0s)

A confidence scheme needs two things: a falsehood (to be presented as secret wisdom) and an emotional hook. After all, if your patter were all true, it would just be a business; and for selling a lie, you can use rhetoric dressed up in the clothes of logic and evidence (pseudo-dialectic), but not the real thing.

Easy mode combines the two: just pick any old conspiracy theory and dust it off, see if it still resonates. One thing leads to another, and next thing you know you're chasing Jews down the street.

Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:53 PM (Sy6m/)

268
The number of people diagnosing themselves with autism is ridiculous. It's a fashion accessory these days.

Like I said, it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for behaving like a shithead.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:53 PM (O0L8i)

269 https://youtu.be/8xbgTm3NHVY

Her Baskin-Robbins commercial.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:47 PM (ExV1e)

Https://youtu.be/gMTPsumjfTA

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2026 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

270 Navy SEAL and survival show host Joel Lambert warns Americans to prepare for weeks without supplies
Joel Lambert recommends building a six-to-eight-week reserve of food, water and medications before emergencies arrive
_Fox

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (H5gG/)

271 254 The number of people diagnosing themselves with autism is ridiculous. It's a fashion accessory these days.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (viF8m)

Consider how many people self-diagnose celiac disease. I'm sorry, 'GLUTEN INTOLERANCE'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (l2EPa)

272 Mary Ann was Miss Nevada, IIRC. On the other hand Tina Louise was named World's Most Beautiful Redhead in 1958.

Posted by: Why Choose? at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (JM9I6)

273 But two kids with a partner and you still don't bother to get married?

I know, right?

Posted by: Shelbyville Manhattan at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (gKWVE)

274 I ate two bites of my kid's cheeseburger at a Culver's in black river falls and told him they ran out of ice cream. Mostly just wanted to leave bc I was on the verge of a anxiety attack...to many old white people who didn't think we spoke english

1. Culvers has custard, not ice cream
2. Black River Falls should be capitalized
3. "an" anxiety attack, not "a."
4. "Too" not "to."
5. English should be capitalized.

You may speak English, but you don't write it. Retard.

Posted by: Delurker at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (2Drhq)

275
These self-diagnosed autistics are often the stars of police bodycam videos. Quite entertaining.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (O0L8i)

276 Like I said, it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for behaving like a shithead.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2026 06:53 PM (O0L8i)

Like "Student Driver" stickers.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (ExV1e)

277 You know how corrupt it is down here in Alabama. They all know each other. The Klan's here. They're inbred. They sleep with their sisters.

Posted by: Stan Rothenstein at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (wVcYX)

278 Okay, that IS pretty awesome.

Tell me if you think this is ironic. Sign language for "Democrat" is to raise your pointer finger and wag it back and forth like you are scolding someone. Not making that up.
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (dIske)

Is Republican giving them a five dollar bill? Lie if you have to.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:55 PM (uhVAy)

279 I know in my state it's legal to marry your cousin.... after you are both in your 60s and can't procreate, and then there's still some rather large hoops to jump through.

Guess Troy Jackson isn't going to move here!

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 31, 2026 06:55 PM (QdSqm)

280 That may be why we have so many homos today
in certain circles, it's cool to be queer

Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:55 PM (ZxPkt)

281 277 You know how corrupt it is down here in Alabama. They all know each other. The Klan's here. They're inbred. They sleep with their sisters.

If their sisters look like "Daisy Duke"..... I am all in !!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at July 31, 2026 06:56 PM (G5jnN)

282 Is the WI GOP still IQ-50? or do they have a good conservative to run against Empress Hong

Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2026 06:57 PM (gKWVE)

283 Posted by: Stan Rothenstein at July 31, 2026 06:54 PM (wVcYX)

Dang, that movie was good.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2026 06:58 PM (gKWVE)

284 The Los Angeles VFW is now open in MacArthur Park....

VERY FEW WHITES ...........

Posted by: Jack Meehoff at July 31, 2026 06:58 PM (xl8DV)

285 Don Black

In the right measure, cool to queer is a very good sign

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 06:58 PM (Ia/+0)

286 The invasion of the US under Biden was funded and coordinated by Soros types and USAID cash, but it was slower than this invasion, and the coyotes were making big money while their invaders were not throwing rocks and starting fires (not right off the bat, at least). Biden was actually covertly flying them in by the thousands.

So who is funding this invasion of Spain (and Europe)? Spain was already in bad shape, but this could spread to much of Europe. France will get some, and send their allotment of to the UK.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2026 06:50 PM (vbXSk)

(open Willy Wonka Voice)
no.....stop....don't
(close Willy Wonka Voice)

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:59 PM (uhVAy)

287 Dang, that movie was good.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2026 06:58 PM (gKWVE)

https://youtu.be/5Oiy5RcDf40 - language

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:59 PM (ExV1e)

288 The funny thing is that I wasn't anti-vax, but I question everything now. Even putting aside the knowledge that the flu vaccine is a crap shoot, how do I know that it isn't an mRNA Frankenstein? How do I know that it doesn't contain the covid shit? Because the doctor say so? Sorry, Jack, you threw your credibility out the fucking window.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

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This is from the previous thread and explains where I am at present. I believe nothing they want to push on us. Funnily enough my doctor has not even mentioned getting a flu vaxx for the last couple of years yet kept nagging me each year before COVID.

Posted by: Decaf at July 31, 2026 07:00 PM (ZNpJk)

289 Tina Louise is the last cast member still alive. She's 92.
You lose a lot of time reaching 29

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 07:01 PM (BlDDt)

290 That tweet about it being Trump's fault is pretty funny.

Trump should say that it *was* his fault. That he and Israel arranged to invade Europe with muslims.

This will immediately cause them to throw out the migrants, I hope.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 07:02 PM (YF9e6)

291 To sign Republican in American Sign Language (ASL), form an "R" handshape (index and middle fingers crossed) with your palm facing away from your body. You then shake the hand side to side two or three times.

Key details for the gesture:

Handshape: The letter R (index and middle fingers crossed, other fingers folded into the palm).

Palm Orientation: Facing away from the signer.

Movement: A slight horizontal shake or vibration to each side.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 07:02 PM (6ydKt)

292 I remember a couple of years ago when white South Africans were like starting militias to stop the blacks from killing them. Whatever happened there? And is that what is going on right now in this poor city in Spain?

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 31, 2026 07:02 PM (QdSqm)

293 Soros would set up the NGO with seed money and USAID would pump it full of cash

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 07:02 PM (BlDDt)

294 Is Republican giving them a five dollar bill? Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:55 PM (uhVAy)
______________________________

You're not going to believe this:

Sign language for "Republican" is to cross your pointer finger and your middle finger and shake them back and forth.

Now, consider all those republicans who campaign on one thing, and immediately fall into the establishment. Well....the had their fingers crossed....doesn't count.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 07:03 PM (dIske)

295 The funny thing is that I wasn't anti-vax, but I question everything now. Even putting aside the knowledge that the flu vaccine is a crap shoot, how do I know that it isn't an mRNA Frankenstein? How do I know that it doesn't contain the covid shit? Because the doctor say so? Sorry, Jack, you threw your credibility out the fucking window.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

I once let a doctor give me a flu vaccine, within hours I was running a fever for a day or so. I almost never catch actual flus. I am 1000 percent skeptical that their cocktail can sus out the frequently mutating flu viruses coming at you.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 07:03 PM (uhVAy)

296 I remember a couple of years ago when white South Africans were like starting militias to stop the blacks from killing them. Whatever happened there?

The smart ones got refugee status to come to the US.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 07:04 PM (ExV1e)

297 278 Okay, that IS pretty awesome.

Tell me if you think this is ironic. Sign language for "Democrat" is to raise your pointer finger and wag it back and forth like you are scolding someone. Not making that up.
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 06:49 PM (dIske)

My mother did that all the time. She also block walked for Goldwater.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 31, 2026 07:05 PM (SjAWL)

298 I remember a couple of years ago when white South Africans were like starting militias to stop the blacks from killing them. Whatever happened there? And is that what is going on right now in this poor city in Spain?
Posted by: SimoHayha at July 31, 2026 07:02 PM (QdSqm)

They are being killed in South Africa, but slowly. The smart ones are leaving.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 07:05 PM (uhVAy)

299 Citizens are now FIGHTING BACK against the invaders with anything they can find.

Its important to note that the invaders came over, some even without a shirt on their back.

They fully expected there to be sanitation facilities, a place to sleep, food to eat, and water to drink when they arrive by the 80k.

Or they didn't think about that until they started to get a bit thirsty in the noon day African sun.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 31, 2026 07:06 PM (NzX/y)

300 200, lol!

288, pretty much where I'm at, too.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 31, 2026 07:06 PM (VyBeY)

301 Tina Louise was named World's Most Beautiful Redhead in 1958.
Posted by: Why Choose?
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Kind of a left-handed compliment, that.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 07:06 PM (YF9e6)

302 in certain circles, it's cool to be queer
Posted by: Don Black at July 31, 2026 06:55 PM (ZxPkt)

Back in the '80s, it was Hip To Be Square!
https://youtu.be/LB5YkmjalDg

Posted by: Huey Lewis & The News at July 31, 2026 07:08 PM (wVcYX)

303 Or they didn't think about that until they started to get a bit thirsty in the noon day African sun.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 31, 2026 07:06 PM (NzX/y)

There were some reports that more than half the invaders left because of that.

All the shop owners and stores, restaurants, everything closed and people stayed home.

I don't know if that many left, but it makes sense.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 07:08 PM (6ydKt)

304 ina Louise was named World's Most Beautiful Redhead in 1958.
Posted by: Why Choose?
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Kind of a left-handed compliment, that.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at July 31, 2026 07:06 PM (YF9e6)

I'd have give here a compliment with whichever hand she preferred. I'm a gentleman like that.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 07:09 PM (gi6wy)

305 Been in Black River Falls maybe 5 or so times over the years of travel, maybe even in that Culver's, though probably not. I look forward to getting off the road there. It's a nice spot to stop and the people are typically Wisconsin-friendly. This gal's hallucinating, end of story. And in Madison - been there more than a few times - that qualifies her as normal.

Posted by: YellowBird at July 31, 2026 07:09 PM (MEbkQ)

306 Nood. Cafe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 07:09 PM (ExV1e)

307 someone said that in Morocco, the military is basically driving convoys of transports full of their criminals, essentially, and letting them go and telling them to invade this spanish city. Is that the case? Anyone know? And how is the resistance going: the Spanish citizens beating the invaders yet?

This area, by the way, is where Franco came from when he instigated the fight against the commies in power back in the 30s. As I learned from our fellow Moron A.H. Lloyd and his book. So there might be some hope here?

Posted by: SimoHayha at July 31, 2026 07:10 PM (QdSqm)

308 That what other countries did, dump.men out of prisons and send them out or back to prison.

Win win

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 07:12 PM (Ia/+0)

309 2nd cousin marriage is probably legal everywhere.
It means you share a grandparent.

Posted by: MkY at July 31, 2026 07:14 PM (q6tQZ)

310 How about a Big Johnson reveal party?

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at July 31, 2026 07:18 PM (6ovrK)

311 If a white woman says she is not feeling safe and the target is not a white man, she can be charged with lynching Emmet Till.
What happens when you push the button and it doesn't work?
Posted by: PG at July 31, 2026 06:35 PM (jGLqZ)
The mob lynches Emmet Till.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 07:21 PM (aOqrc)

312 MkY, I think it means you share a great grandparent.

A cousin or '1st cousin' is your aunt or uncles kids. So you share a grandparent with them.

2nd cousin is a set of the grandparents were siblings so they have a common great-grandparent.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 31, 2026 07:22 PM (PV+Zw)

313 "As God is my witness, I though we had already plumbed the depths of retatrded, pathetic loserdom."

Oh, puh-lease! We have a Kola Superdeep Borehole or better of depth to go.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at July 31, 2026 07:23 PM (GMWTj)

314 THANK YOU ABBA FOR THE 2ND AMENDMENT!!! This crap would not last long in The South before those who worship the true ELOHIM would break out the hardware and eliminate the toxic threat as the rabid dogs they are.

Notice that this garbage only happens in those areas where the populace has been effectively disarmed. A well armed society tends to be a very polite society.

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Posted by: jdyxcbt at August 02, 2026 06:43 PM (kUpT5)

The Media Is Joining Fauci In Pleading the Fifth About Their Covid Lies

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
Dr. Anthony Fauci was not the only one taking the Fifth this week. The media effectively invoked the same privilege to avoid self-incrimination for their years of deifying the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

...The media has also effectively taken the Fifth on these subjects, declining to publish many of these contradictions. Media outlets have the same reason as Fauci: There is no spin that would reconcile their own prior coverage and gushing reviews of Fauci.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
Jeffrey Tucker founded an institute devoted to studying the COVID lockdowns and mandates.
He just spent four days reading Fauci's private diary.
He says nothing could have prepared him for the "cold terror" he felt trying to figure out what demonic force was possessing this man.
TUCKER: "I've spent four days reading that diary... It's a massive treatise, but it's utterly fascinating and introducing me to a side of Fauci... I just... no matter how many bad thoughts I've had about Fauci in the past, nothing could have prepared me for what I read in that diary."
"It's a little bit like if you read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and just take out the Dr. Jekyll part and just read the Mr. Hyde part. That's what it's like."
"2020 is disgusting enough, but 2021 is where it gets really evil."
"This is where you just can't... your disgust turns to something else. Actually, a kind of A terror. Cold heart. Cold terror. What is possessing this man? I mean, what demonic force has inhabited his spirit that would cause him to do this?"
"I've never seen anything quite like it. And there's nothing that could have prepared me for that diary. Nothing."

Video here.

Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdh
Jul 30
All the focus on Fauci is burying the more important story, which is that scientists enforcing a common narrative to the detriment of truth has become extremely common. It's a strong case of in-group behavior in academia that, I believe, most of them are not fully aware of.
As @LocasaleLab put it so aptly "the academic system punishes honesty".
And this is the real story: This isn't just about Fauci. Fauci is just an extreme and very visible example in a case that has attracted a lot of public attention. But misleading the public about the status of scientific research has become extremely widespread.

Peter Navarro
@RealPNavarro
I had over a million hydroxychloroquine tablets sitting in warehouses, ready to be distributed to doctors and patients across America.
Fauci's own diary from March 2020 shows he viewed the drug as safe and supported making it available.
But when President Trump endorsed hydroxychloroquine and the media erupted, Fauci flipped.

The few "journalists" willing to question Fauci were punished.

Former CBS News journalist Brittney Hopper claimed Thursday that she got into trouble after questioning Dr. Anthony Fauci, former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hopper appeared on News24 in Australia to discuss Fauci's decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right more than 100 times during his congressional hearing Wednesday, refusing to answer any questions.
Before reacting to Fauci's hearing, the independent journalist, who previously worked for CBS News Los Angeles until 2022, gave her own history reporting on Fauci and how he was deified by the mainstream media.
"I have so much to say because this was during the time when I was on CBS News. I was reporting extensively on COVID," Hopper said. "I was out there on the front lines. And I remember after a couple of years of dealing with hearing this man and interviewing this man and having to wear masks and having our kids out of school for years, I remember questioning what he was doing. And I got in trouble and pulled off air for a couple of days because I started questioning him.
"You weren't supposed to question the agenda and the narrative at that point. And I apologized, and I went back on air covering what I was supposed to do as I've mentioned before on here. I was their puppet on mainstream media for so many years. Hopefully, more and more people are waking up to, you know, really, the lack of journalistic integrity that we're seeing."

Jeffrey A Tucker
@jeffreytucker
Jul 30
People should STOP saying that this is Fauci's "private diary." It was a daily log prepared by Fauci with the assistance of aides, as should be obvious to anyone who looks at it. It was property of the NIH, an official document. It was not "leaked." It was legally released.

"Journalists" who haven't sat in a science class since 11th grade declared themselves to be top experts in the field, and knew that any suggestion that the Wuhan novel bat coronavirus might have come from the Wuhan novel bat coronavirus laboratory was racism.

Good Lord. Abby Phillip is a disgrace. Fauci lied about:

1) the origin of the virus
2) how deadly it was (or wasn't)
3) the efficacy of masks and other treatments
4) his involvement in pushing for shutdowns
5) his smearing of other world-renowned epidemiologists

And those are� https://t.co/Qz9aSaUa1q
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 30, 2026

What�s particularly crazy about this is that the U.S. intel community had human sources in the WIV: https://t.co/TuFtzzjtl0
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 30, 2026

Check this out: Fauci admitted that the Wuhan lab, which he funded, was in fact performing illegal gain-of-function research.

As this commenter says, Fauci changed the definition of "gain of function" so he could claim that gain of function wasn't gain of function according to the new definition he literally just wrote.

But here he just calls it what it is: gain of function.

wait, I thought his whole defense was that they redefined gain-of-function to let him get away with his funding, but here he actually calls it gain-of-function.
— Original Outcast (@orig_outcast) July 31, 2026

Perjury. Thanks to @ComradeArthur.

Someday historians are going to look back and be astonished at the amount of absurd bullshit Americans took pride in believing during this era https://t.co/SmdTiCxVFF
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 29, 2026

CNN made Joe Rogan look green because he got better in 24 hours.

Without the vaccine.

Ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, Z-Pack and IV.

They hated this.

They hated him getting better. pic.twitter.com/FsQwDoXqtO
— C3 (@C_3C_3) July 30, 2026

NPR is still lying!!!

Why they continue to lie, according to Glenn Reynolds:

I think the answer is that Fauci, and Faucism, represented the apotheosis of what the managerial/academic/journo class desires: An excuse for sweeping power, based on (alleged) expertise, in which they could ride roughshod over those stupid proles and flyover people while preening about the allegedly superior moral and intellectual qualities that justify their rule.
Then it turned out that they were wrong about nearly everything and -- as Fauci's diaries demonstrate -- knew it at the time, at least at the top. And their overreach is one of the things that gave us Trump 47.

CNN's "expert" tells us that even questioning whether Anthony Fauci lied is an "assault on Science."

That's not from 2021 -- that's from Wednesday night.

They've been completely wrong about everything for a decade -- "RussiaGate," Joe Biden's competency, Hunter Biden's laptop, Fauci, covid, etc. -- but just keep doubling down.

They have been wrong about everything and so can never admit a single error, because that admission would just be a prelude to the next admission, and that a prelude to the next.

They are deeply stupid people who believe they are geniuses whose words should be accepted without question and are literally going insane from the cognitive dissonance of their belief in their own superiority running into the reality of their deep inferiority and incompetency.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM

Comments

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1 Is anyone here shocked by this news?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 04:54 PM (0N4FZ)

2 So much bullshit, so little honesty.

Posted by: huerfano at July 31, 2026 04:54 PM (VJX5o)

3 Or, perhaps, Mom just didn't find anybody else all that interesting either.

It happens.

Posted by: Bloods from the Hood at July 31, 2026 04:15 PM (IqhUv)

Brutally selfish people don't

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 04:57 PM (vE0+H)

4 >>>As @LocasaleLab put it so aptly "the academic system punishes honesty".

No good deed goes unpunished.

Posted by: m at July 31, 2026 04:58 PM (odBC9)

5
If any hospital employee told me a loved one had to die alone, I'll tell you this: I wouldn't have died alone.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 04:59 PM (mmrXZ)

6 Good summation, Ace.

Posted by: MkY at July 31, 2026 05:00 PM (q6tQZ)

7 All the focus on Fauci is burying the more important story, which is that scientists enforcing a common narrative to the detriment of truth has become extremely common.

*shifty-eyes*

Posted by: Climate Change Circlejerk at July 31, 2026 05:00 PM (pBJ6M)

8 I knew the Democrats Propaganda Ministry would be backing Evil Fauci

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:01 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Then it turned out that they were wrong about nearly everything and -- as Fauci's diaries demonstrate -- knew it at the time, at least at the top.

They weren't wrong. They lied. They lied to amass more power and affect an election. They lied and killed people with their lies.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

10 As @LocasaleLab put it so aptly "the academic system punishes honesty".

That's because the academic system pushed dishonesty in many fields for the past several decades.

It's been infecting the sciences for a few decades now.

When it gets to engineering we're all screwed.
Tofu-Construction American style.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)

11 Notice their tried and true sleight-of-hand at work - branding people who declined a specific vaccine - an experimental, emergency use only vaccine of a brand new technology as general "anti-vaxxers". Also trying to brand this as some sort of conservative or right wing phenomenon.

Historically, it is left-wingers who have been skeptical of vaccines in general, or at least refusing to have their children immunized. They were "hiding" in the general herd immunity. I'm not "anti-vaxx", far from it. My shot record is as long as your arm. But these cunts don't care about facts or truth. Just the narrative. The hell with them.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2026 05:02 PM (V4ZWy)

12 I have informed the prior thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:02 PM (ExV1e)

13 They killed millions, ruined the educations and social development of millions of schoolkids, shuttered untold thousands of small businesses, spent trillions of taxpayer dollars and fired ten's of thousands of government workers & military service people and gloated over all of it.
Now, they are covering their asses, burying their heads in the sand and denying ALL of it.
It's not just despicable, infuriating and rage inducing.
Civil wars have occurred over less.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (MNCvZ)

14 I assaulted Science
but I did not shoot the deputy

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (UjdFS)

15 10 When it gets to engineering we're all screwed.
Tofu-Construction American style.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)

======

*whistles innocently*
-pile of rubble that was that bridge in Florida

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (LKG41)

16 That asshole with the "I can't breathe mask":
a) If you can't breathe, then take the fucking mask off.
b) It would be appropriate to have "I can't think" written across the mask.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (XMwZJ)

17 And to me, the worst part of this whole debacle?

That the Supreme Court itself, would not allow ANY court cases to go forward about Covid and the response.

So no one could sue to get the Vaccine info. No one could sue for the shutdowns. No one could sue for the blatant suspension of Civil Rights, by people as low level as MAYORS.

And no one could sue about whether it even WAS a crises.....

So the ONLY path for redress for the People, was shut down, by the Supreme Court itself.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (mP0Kj)

18 Covid wasn't nearly as deadly as the "vaccine" which isn't a vaccine. Wait another five years to count that death toll.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 05:04 PM (l2EPa)

19 "@RealPNavarro
I had over a million hydroxychloroquine tablets sitting in warehouses, ready to be distributed to doctors and patients across America.

Fauci's own diary from March 2020 shows he viewed the drug as safe and supported making it available.

But when President Trump endorsed hydroxychloroquine and the media erupted, Fauci flipped."

Trump should have listened to Navarro, certainly not the evil gnome Fauci. And Fauci and Skarf Witch Birx were trashing Trump at the time, while destroying our society.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2026 05:04 PM (vbXSk)

20 I can't wait until Fauci dies but won't get tosee him Burning in Hell

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:05 PM (Ia/+0)

21 Is anyone here shocked by this news?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
......

This is my mouth. Agape. o

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 05:05 PM (UjdFS)

22 'Trust the Science' is the Mantra they simply MUST repeat in order to shut out the Truth.

Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2026 05:06 PM (zGzrB)

23 We're using different words and phrases. But the word is "Credentialism". And I think the phrase that applies is "High Trust".

Both are how we got grabbed by the nose and led through this bullshit.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:06 PM (IqhUv)

24 The ONLY immunity that was actually assured was immunity for the manufacturers of the experimental vaccine that has damaged the lives of millions.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 31, 2026 05:06 PM (MNCvZ)

25 If any hospital employee told me a loved one had to die alone, I'll tell you this: I wouldn't have died alone.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 04:59 PM

People were arrested and dragged out of hospitals when they tried to see their sick or dying family members. Not so much in red states but that happened in multiple blue cities/states.

Heck there was one guy that was arrested by over a dozen cops for surfing alone on a california beach.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 05:06 PM (0N4FZ)

26 18 Covid wasn't nearly as deadly as the "vaccine" which isn't a vaccine. Wait another five years to count that death toll.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 05:04 PM (l2EPa)

They've admitted to some heart problems... they are not willing to touch all the cases of turbo cancer.

Which I believe, got my Mom...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM (mP0Kj)

27 Is anyone here shocked by this news?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 04:54 PM (0N4FZ)

This is shocking! It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!

Posted by: Jackie Chiles, Esq. at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM (wVcYX)

28 But when President Trump endorsed hydroxychloroquine and the media erupted, Fauci flipped.

Fauci is a weak, egotistical, narcissist.

But the media really did push a lot of 2020 into existence.
From COVID hysteria, pushing CCP lies, 'Horse Dewormer', to St. George Floyd, to the Fiery But Peaceful Summer of Love, to Mail-in Ballots and Plumbing problems in Atlanta that caused voting to stop in six states.

Fauci was a spineless wannabe celebrity, but the media in general were outright evil in their relentless push for sickness and chaos.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM (6ydKt)

29 Notice their tried and true sleight-of-hand at work - branding people who declined a specific vaccine - an experimental, emergency use only vaccine of a brand new technology as general "anti-vaxxers".

The funny thing is that I wasn't anti-vax, but I question everything now. Even putting aside the knowledge that the flu vaccine is a crap shoot, how do I know that it isn't an mRNA Frankenstein? How do I know that it doesn't contain the covid shit? Because the doctor say so? Sorry, Jack, you threw your credibility out the fucking window.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

30 20 I can't wait until Fauci dies but won't get tosee him Burning in Hell
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:05 PM (Ia/+0)

If we bury him next to Jane Fonda, we can his and hers Pissers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:08 PM (mP0Kj)

31 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:08 PM (YDC8i)

32 trying to figure out what demonic force was possessing this man.

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Commernism! It's Commernism!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at July 31, 2026 05:08 PM (ndZc7)

33 ...and that's a good thing!

Posted by: CNN at July 31, 2026 05:09 PM (LLQU7)

34 23 We're using different words and phrases. But the word is "Credentialism". And I think the phrase that applies is "High Trust".

Both are how we got grabbed by the nose and led through this bullshit.
Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:06 PM (IqhUv)

Consider the last time you had to explain to someone in the service industry how to do their job properly, and expand that to the supposed credentialed experts.

They are all idiots, in one way or another, and all subject to errors.

I make mistakes all the time, and I fix them and learn from them and move on.

These people make mistakes and then tell you that you are wrong.

And then say we are crazy when we notice.

Despicable.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 05:09 PM (l2EPa)

35 So the ONLY path for redress for the People, was shut down, by the Supreme Court itself.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (mP0Kj)

Tell me about it. -- Texas, giving Pennsylvania the side-eye over flouting their own election laws

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

36 and oh yeah, I forgot about Hunter's laptop and Joe Biden campaigning from the basement.

The media is evil.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:09 PM (6ydKt)

37 The post about this not being a private diary and an official log is incorrect. It is correct that super ninja spies did not go on a steal his diary from under his bed and then publish it. But it also was not an official government document/ log. Fauci was planning on writing a big book on how amazingly amazing he was and how he, single-handedly, saved not just the world but democracy itself. He forwarded all of this to himself in emails and then deleted it off the government computers. Because he thought just deleting things actually made the item disappear. You see this in the number of times he asks others to delete an email he sent. These were not supposed to be official records, but Fauci did this on a government work computer and that made it not private anymore.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:09 PM (Wmg4n)

38 They've admitted to some heart problems... they are not willing to touch all the cases of turbo cancer.

Which I believe, got my Mom...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM (mP0Kj)

I am so sorry.
ALS? It seems to be cropping up all over.

Posted by: sal at July 31, 2026 05:10 PM (f+FmA)

39 But I'll remind folks ... many here got their asses in a pinch because they also insisted on "The Scientific Method". They still trusted Big Pharma. In one particular case ... pretty sure his dad was retired from Pfizer.

And the on and on drone against "Anecdotal Data". Because, I guess, if 100 people weren't shot up with Covid and 100 others were not a control group ... we couldn't make obvious conclusions from what we saw with our own eyes.

"Crushed Glass". Anybody remember that ? A certain poster that just could not shut up about it. Like he had PTSD from seeing it or something.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:10 PM (IqhUv)

40 George Taylor: There's your Minister of Science; honor-bound to expand the frontiers of knowledge...
Dr. Zira: Taylor, please!
George Taylor: ...except that he's also chief Defender of the Faith!
Dr. Fauci: There is no contradiction between faith and science... true science!
George Taylor: Are you willing to put that statement to the test?

It's a madhouse! A Mad House!!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 05:11 PM (wVcYX)

41 So the ONLY path for redress for the People, was shut down, by the Supreme Court itself.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Just like election fraud.

Posted by: whig at July 31, 2026 05:11 PM (E4rtv)

42 The funny thing is that I wasn't anti-vax, but I question everything now. Even putting aside the knowledge that the flu vaccine is a crap shoot, how do I know that it isn't an mRNA Frankenstein? How do I know that it doesn't contain the covid shit? Because the doctor say so? Sorry, Jack, you threw your credibility out the fucking window.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I'm with you. Doc tells me something, I ask for the studies. Pisses him off, but I'm an aware consumer now.

Posted by: MkY at July 31, 2026 05:11 PM (q6tQZ)

43 Trump should have listened to Navarro, certainly not the evil gnome Fauci. And Fauci and Skarf Witch Birx were trashing Trump at the time, while destroying our society.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2026 05:04 PM (vbXSk)

Trump should have listened to an economist rather than two doctors about how to deal with what he's being told is a health emergency? Pence would have tried to run the 25th on him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:11 PM (ExV1e)

44 They've admitted to some heart problems... they are not willing to touch all the cases of turbo cancer.

Which I believe, got my Mom...
Posted by: Romeo13
......

I believe killed one of my best friends. Aggressive stomach cancer killed him in 6 months from first symptom.

Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 05:12 PM (UjdFS)

45 Dr. Zaius > Dr. Fauci

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at July 31, 2026 05:13 PM (ndZc7)

46 These were not supposed to be official records, but Fauci did this on a government work computer and that made it not private anymore.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:09 PM (Wmg4n)

One of the first bits of training when entering government service explains what constitutes a government record. This "diary" is exactly that. Had he hand-written it and kept it off a government computer, another argument might be made, except that he did it on government time with government resources.

Deletion of government records carries a fine and prison sentence.

For us plebes, that is. St. Fauci is, of course, different.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 05:13 PM (l2EPa)

47 Apoorva Mandavilli is an anagram of "vanilla vapor domain".

I can't decipher it, but it seems significant...

Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2026 05:13 PM (I0N4X)

48 Of course the Soviet media continues to cover for Lysenko-lite. What else would you expect?

Posted by: Statists to the core at July 31, 2026 05:13 PM (TbWk/)

49 All the focus on Fauci is burying the more important story, which is that scientists enforcing a common narrative to the detriment of truth has become extremely common. It's a strong case of in-group behavior in academia that, I believe, most of them are not fully aware of.

This is also the story of "Climate Change" "science."

I recently went down a rabbit hole into the Climate universe, and it is overwhelming, massive beyond comprehension, and so cult-like that they do't even know it's a cult. They are so surrounded by their own narrative that they're "swimming in it" and don't even know it is a narrative anymore.

Around the world, there are nonprofits, university departments, government agencies, activist groups, corporations, educational systems, and on and on and on. also in absolute lockstep with the climate agenda, all-in, their lives, livelihoods, psyches subsumed in it.

They've not on;y drunk the Kool-Aid, but they've also injected it, snorted it, and survive on a constantly Kool-Aid IV drip.

It's very very scary. Because outside of Trump's executive branch, the entire world is in this cult.

Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2026 05:13 PM (Av6i5)

50 44 They've admitted to some heart problems... they are not willing to touch all the cases of turbo cancer.

Which I believe, got my Mom...
Posted by: Romeo13
......

I believe killed one of my best friends. Aggressive stomach cancer killed him in 6 months from first symptom.
Posted by: wth at July 31, 2026 05:12 PM (UjdFS)

People here know it killed my father. Within three months of the jab. He got to bleed to death. Thus the state of modern medicine.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 05:14 PM (l2EPa)

51 Doc tells me something, I ask for the studies.

I was like this BEFORE Covid. Doc "tells" me something ? I remind him he works for me. Not the other way around.

If I want to snort Coke off a Hookers ass for weeks on end ? I don't have to stop just because he suggests so. Because all he can do is suggest.

They don't like that.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:14 PM (IqhUv)

52 >>> Someday historians are going to look back and be astonished at the amount of absurd bullshit Americans took pride in believing during this era

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While I appreciate Matt Taibbi's optimism that history about this will be will be truthfully written, I don't share it.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 31, 2026 05:14 PM (Y2/Vj)

53 I had forgotten about Clapper! Yetch!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at July 31, 2026 05:14 PM (hzuYO)

54 Fauci as a kid - Stuffed in his locker and given toilet swirlies too much or not enough?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 05:14 PM (wVcYX)

55 CNN is contradicting itself. They say we can't disagree with Fauci, but Fauci disagrees with Fauci.

Posted by: Dave at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (sbsMc)

56 "This is where you just can't... your disgust turns to something else. Actually, a kind of A terror. Cold heart. Cold terror. What is possessing this man? I mean, what demonic force has inhabited his spirit that would cause him to do this?"

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Old & Busted: D.C. is Hollywood for Ugly People.
New Hotness: D.C. is Hollywood for Psychopathy.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (YDC8i)

57 This episode completely eroded trust in physicians and medical providers. I don’t know if it will ever go back to normal.

If they wanted a test on how people would react, well they got it this time. But they also made it nearly impossible to happen again because of it.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (Wmg4n)

58 I believe the problem is that credentials, just like degrees, ain't what they used to be.

As the incompetence grows we'll notice it just by how often we're reminded of Idiocracy every time we leave the house.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)

59 Fauci as a kid - Stuffed in his locker and given toilet swirlies too much or not enough?

Fauci is the modern Nestor.

And look, its not all the Dem's fault. It was the mindset of "thank Gawd for our Angels in" then fill in the blank.

Plenty here loved their Law Enforcement. Until Meal Team Six shut down a bar in Rural Texas. Some argued to obey the law after that.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:17 PM (IqhUv)

60 All the focus on Fauci is burying the more important story, which is that scientists enforcing a common narrative to the detriment of truth has become extremely common. It's a strong case of in-group behavior in academia that, I believe, most of them are not fully aware of.

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The same with global warming

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 05:17 PM (9CZQg)

61 Global warming BS is the same story. Just a bunch of well funded, credentialed asshats spouting nonsense because rubes think they are an authority.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 31, 2026 05:17 PM (ytSan)

62 Oooh the temporary post appears unhappy...

Posted by: Ann at July 31, 2026 05:18 PM (SHHm+)

63 This episode completely eroded trust in physicians and medical providers. I don’t know if it will ever go back to normal.

If they wanted a test on how people would react, well they got it this time. But they also made it nearly impossible to happen again because of it.
Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (Wmg4n)

I went through four doctors all telling me the same thing, plus personal research, before I agreed to the treatment I'm getting for my cancer and I'm STILL not 100% convinced it's the right thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

64 I think the communists have attacked our blog!

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:18 PM (Wmg4n)

65 If they wanted a test on how people would react, well they got it this time. But they also made it nearly impossible to happen again because of it.
Posted by: Piper

Well, they've run up a few trial balloons. Nothing stuck.

Posted by: MkY at July 31, 2026 05:18 PM (q6tQZ)

66 Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert made a living attacking anyone who questioned the Covid narrative. So ...

Headline (something called "Enstarz"):

"Stephen Colbert receives anti-censorship honor after CBS ends 'The Late Show'"

Posted by: mrp at July 31, 2026 05:18 PM (rj6Yv)

67 VAERS reports are just crackpot conspiracy bullshit! Remdesivir doesn't cause kidney or liver damage! Respirators are the cure! It's a vaccine, you science-deniers! Don't believe in facts believe in SCIENCE™!

Posted by: Things I learned here oddly enough at July 31, 2026 05:18 PM (TbWk/)

68 The same with global warming
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Jinx.

Posted by: zombie at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (Av6i5)

69 Old & Busted: D.C. is Hollywood for Ugly People.

What about that blonde in the Fauci hearing, though?

Posted by: far cry at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (pBJ6M)

70 Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 05:14 PM (l2EPa)

Hey tcn I bolted and am about to bolt again - but yeah my mom even ignored the golden child of the golden child (grandson) when he was little, so it turns out it wasn't just me she alternately ignored and shouted at!!

Posted by: ... at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (vE0+H)

71 The same with global warming
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 05:17 PM (9CZQg)

And anti-nuclear before that.
And the population bomb before that.
And...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (ExV1e)

72 it is probably the case that the left is upset that next time there is something like this whether pandemic or financial or fires or whatever, people aren't going to believe their fake science.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (n5tGW)

73 55 CNN is contradicting itself. They say we can't disagree with Fauci, but Fauci disagrees with Fauci.

Posted by: Dave at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (sbsMc)

The media is at this point an overwrought AWFL screaming about "Her Truth!".

Facts don't matter in a post-truth culture.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

74 "And I apologized, and I went back on air covering what I was supposed to do as I've mentioned before on here. I was their puppet on mainstream media for so many years."

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Why Brittney, it profit a babe nothing to give her soul for the whole world ... but for tales!

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:20 PM (YDC8i)

75 I believe the problem is that credentials, just like degrees, ain't what they used to be.

Talked about this today with my neighbor. Freshly retired airline pilot. He played shit smart. Upper Middle class. Very comfortable. He's done.

In his day. In my day. They vetted the man before they let them into the job. And then you were taught up a bit, coached up, mentored sometimes harder than you liked and you damn well best do the job. Or somebody else would.

Now ? Its not that a twink or a lesbian or a woman or a black gets a shot at the job. Its that they're not demanded to do the job. And not vetted, on the basic level of "do you have the day to day, in you, to do this job" ?

That's no small question, for the jobs that matter the most.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:21 PM (IqhUv)

76 Piper what makes you think that?

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)

77 47 Apoorva Mandavilli is an anagram of "vanilla vapor domain".

I can't decipher it, but it seems significant...
Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2026 05:13 PM (I0N4X)

_________________

I am a viral valid polon. (polon is a name for mill dust, also, Polonium)

And, I just checked. She's not a former NYT science writer. She's still there.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 05:21 PM (dIske)

78 Which I believe, got my Mom...
Posted by: Romeo13

My mom, too. And my SIL’s mother, who is liberal, just got dx with lung cancer. Never smoked. Didn’t drink. It’s awful and we are going to feel the impact for a very long time.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:21 PM (OoFl2)

79 58 I believe the problem is that credentials, just like degrees, ain't what they used to be.

As the incompetence grows we'll notice it just by how often we're reminded of Idiocracy every time we leave the house.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (6ydKt)

Competence is an oppressive artifact of heteronormative patriarchal white supremacy.

Posted by: Like good grades or being on time at July 31, 2026 05:21 PM (TbWk/)

80 The best part is it was all to get rid of Trump. And then the geniuses gave us Biden and thought that was better. So they got Trump again.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (ytSan)

81 My Dad died in hospice. The rules were stupid, only two visitors per day, and it had to be the same visitors. In other words, I was with Mom for a visit, but we were not allowed to sub me out for my brothers and sisters to visit on the same day.

Fucking bullshit.

I've already told about the hospital killing my sister with a ventilator and rem-death-is-near.

I harbor very dark thoughts about this whole fucking mess. Gonna have a drink now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (0aYVJ)

82 Fauci took out President Trump's 2nd term, lucky he has a 3rd term

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (Ia/+0)

83 it is probably the case that the left is upset that next time there is something like this whether pandemic or financial or fires or whatever, people aren't going to believe their fake science.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (n5tGW)

I think part of it is that they're terrified we were right all along. When will the "you get to die because of the jab" lottery pick them? And meanwhile, a bunch of MAGAts are living their lives without concern because they're Z28.310.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (ExV1e)

84 Dear Diary

La SCIENCE, c'est moi!

Anthony the Fifth

Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (I0N4X)

85 I’m on a flight watching the safety video. Not a single white male in the video of about 20 different actors.

Apparently every one who flies on or works for United is black and/or a woman.

All 3 of my FAs are black. The main guy making announcements is unintelligible, thickest ghetto accent I’ve ever heard.

DEI on steroids. Luckily both pilots are middle age white guys. 🙂

Posted by: America in 2026 at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (ikCrF)

86
If any hospital employee told me a loved one had to die alone, I'll tell you this: I wouldn't have died alone.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2026 04:59 PM (mmrXZ)

I'm picturing you saying that while thumbing rounds into a 1911 magazine...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 31, 2026 05:23 PM (1THg7)

87 "White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19."

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"F*ck you, round-eye! Yellow supremacy FTW ..."

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:23 PM (YDC8i)

88 But when President Trump endorsed hydroxychloroquine and the media erupted, Fauci flipped.

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Covid itself is not deadly
Covid can give you pneumonia which can be deadly
Hydrochloroquine does not cure Covid
Hydrochloroquine does effectively treat pneumonia

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 05:24 PM (9CZQg)

89 Kind of odd to see Sabine Hossenfelder's comment, since I'm pretty sure she is (or maybe was) all in on climate change, which is based on the exact same behaviors she describes here.

Maybe she's starting to reform her opinions.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2026 05:24 PM (FZ29D)

90 “ The racist roots of the labe leak theory”. What does that even possibly mean? Oh wait, racist, the word that fits with anything. Nevermind.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2026 05:24 PM (Gqar8)

91 54 Fauci as a kid - Stuffed in his locker and given toilet swirlies too much or not enough?
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 05:14 PM (wVcYX)
__________________________

Nah, he strikes me as the Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger) type. Just a tad too smart to get the bully treatment. But, definitely well within the character of a weasel.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (dIske)

92 "Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots."

If absolutely everything is racist, then in actuality very little is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (xPsv8)

93 My Dad died in hospice. The rules were stupid, only two visitors per day, and it had to be the same visitors.

So I have asked this of others before. I am not "picking" at you.

Why didn't you just show up, pack a suitcase, and take him back home ?

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (IqhUv)

94 Addendum: when Dad passed, we still were not allowed to gather in his room. We all had to look in from a window from outdoors.

Fucking ghoulish.

I know this kind of thing will happen again. The first plandemic was just a test run.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (0aYVJ)

95 "White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19."

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I'm going to need to check this person's math cuz its fucked up and all retarded n shit

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (9CZQg)

96 As this commenter says, Fauci changed the definition of "gain of function" so he could claim that gain of function wasn't gain of function according to the new definition he literally just wrote.

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Next you'll be telling me they changed the definition of "vaccine" a couple of times.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (YDC8i)

97 73 55 CNN is contradicting itself. They say we can't disagree with Fauci, but Fauci disagrees with Fauci.

Posted by: Dave at July 31, 2026 05:15 PM (sbsMc)

The media is at this point an overwrought AWFL screaming about "Her Truth!".

Facts don't matter in a post-truth culture.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:19 PM (6ydKt)

This was kind of the point I was making re postmodernism in the fake professor thread. HIS truth is being an accomplished PhD and super marathoner footballer rugger whatever. That none of these have factual support, that he passed off someone else's work as his own, what does it matter if truth doesn't exist or is at best irrelevant

Posted by: It's a cool story, bruh at July 31, 2026 05:26 PM (TbWk/)

98 I’m on a flight watching the safety video. Not a single white male in the video of about 20 different actors.

Apparently every one who flies on or works for United is black and/or a woman.

All 3 of my FAs are black. The main guy making announcements is unintelligible, thickest ghetto accent I’ve ever heard.

DEI on steroids. Luckily both pilots are middle age white guys. 🙂

Posted by: America in 2026 at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (ikCrF)

I hope you can speak jive to the cabin crew. Call me if you need any help.

Posted by: Barbara Billingsley at July 31, 2026 05:26 PM (wVcYX)

99 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 05:22 PM (0aYVJ)

I am sorry for your loss.

My father was a NYS nursing home casualty. Died alone because of the stupid rules preventing F&F coming in.

Of course the staff eventually brought in covid and wiped out his entire wing.

Fauci and his whole intel complex can rot in hell. Absolutely criminal.

Posted by: Ann at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (SHHm+)

100 I still can't get the idea out of my head that COVID was released to decrease the population and lessen the amount of climate change.
Sounds nuts, but given the info that continues to be released I wouldn't be surprised

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (BlDDt)

101 92 "Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots."

If absolutely everything is racist, then in actuality very little is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (xPsv

Yes indeed. A word that has, or should have lost its’ meaning because of overuse and misuse.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (Gqar8)

102 The FNM 2021: THIS IS COVID! Literally anything we do is not only ok but required if it might stop this literal plague that will otherwise kill us all

The FNM 2026: COVID? Oh that was a flu or something a few years ago right? Don't really remember, it probably wasn't that important.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

103
"F*ck you, round-eye! Yellow supremacy FTW ..."
Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:23 PM (YDC8i)

Tried to warn you.

Posted by: Hunter Cokehead Biden at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (TbWk/)

104 Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:25 PM (IqhUv)

Fuck off. You know *nothing* about the circumstances. Go to hell, you fucking prick. Never address me again.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (0aYVJ)

105 If absolutely everything is racist, then in actuality very little is
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Welp, we're all caught up to 1985. yay

Posted by: Common Tater at July 31, 2026 05:29 PM (V4ZWy)

106 I still can't get the idea out of my head that COVID was released to decrease the population and lessen the amount of climate change.
Sounds nuts, but given the info that continues to be released I wouldn't be surprised
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (BlDDt)

I think it was released to give China an excuse to rid themselves of some citizens that they preferred to not have anymore and the globalists used it as an opportunity to increase central power and get rid of Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:29 PM (ExV1e)

107 Fuck off. You know *nothing* about the circumstances. Go to hell, you fucking prick. Never address me again.

And that was not the reaction I was trying to provoke.

I just don't understand, being told I "can't" see a family member. Unless they are in jail. Hospitals and Nursing Homes are not jails.

I am asking.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05:29 PM (IqhUv)

108 CNN made Joe Rogan look green because he got better in 24 hours.

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Green Face -- being an even smaller minority -- is far worse than Black Face, CNN racists!

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:29 PM (YDC8i)

109 I remember our group being brought into a meeting at work and informed that everyone had to grab their computers and monitors and go home for *cough, cough * two weeks. I called BS on the whole thing and the looks I got from my teammates was hysterical. You'd that that I turned into a werewolf before their eyes.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 31, 2026 05:29 PM (USV1l)

110 76 Piper what makes you think that?
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)

That it can’t happen again? Because of how people (not all, but more than at the time) see how ridiculous it was, and how wrong it was, and how we were lied too. Listen, in the beginning, we had no idea how bad it was, all we had was what we were told and doctors hadn’t ruined their rep. We didn’t know if this would kill us all dead in a week. How could we? Now many of us questioned the masks immediately because that never made sense, same with social distancing. The isolation was also questioned immediately by many of us because you isolate the sick, not the healthy. But treatment? How contagious it was? How deadly? We did not know. We were just who we were and started looking under the tent more quickly than others. And we saw how the red states did versus the blue.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:29 PM (OoFl2)

111 I thought we were getting rid of DEI but it looks like it's rearing it's ugly head again..

Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at July 31, 2026 05:30 PM (FtULh)

112 And yet, we still see masks today.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:31 PM (2Ez/1)

113 "They've been completely wrong about everything for a decade -- "RussiaGate," Joe Biden's competency, Hunter Biden's laptop, Fauci, covid, etc. -- but just keep doubling down."

Because at some point they will be right. And they'll say; see. I told you so. And not admitting they were wrong the previous 6 times means they are batting 1000 (1).

If they do admitting And are right once, they're not even batting above the Mendoza Line.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 31, 2026 05:31 PM (FxH7T)

114 still can't get the idea out of my head that COVID was released to decrease the population and lessen the amount of climate change.
Sounds nuts, but given the info that continues to be released I wouldn't be surprised
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 05:27 PM (BlDDt)

I think that was just a side benefit.

Posted by: sal at July 31, 2026 05:31 PM (f+FmA)

115 And it wasn't "quarantine."
It was house arrest.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM (2Ez/1)

116 Fauci was a spineless wannabe celebrity, but the media in general were outright evil in their relentless push for sickness and chaos.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:07 PM

fauci had/has short man syndrome. When the media began using him as a weapon against Trump and called him "America's scientist" it was all over for his ego and there was nothing that he would not do to get TV interviews.

Lying about everything while Trump was calling for caution and did not want to shut the country down was exactly what the media was looking for and they groomed his ego to become a weapon against Trump.

For his entire life he was a short little academic man that spent all of his time trying to become famous. It almost worked during the initial aids epidemic but that only affected gay people so the media never really took off and ran with his supposed work with the aids virus because it only affected less than 1/10th of the population and gays weren't the left's special people back in the 70s like they are today.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM (0N4FZ)

117 I remember our group being brought into a meeting at work and informed that everyone had to grab their computers and monitors and go home for *cough, cough * two weeks. I called BS on the whole thing and the looks I got from my teammates was hysterical. You'd that that I turned into a werewolf before their eyes.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 31, 2026 05:29 PM (USV1l)

We got sent home, I never went back.

The last year that I was working they ordered a return to the office but I got a waiver since I didn't really work with anyone in the office and started my day at 3:30.

Sadly, that meant that I didn't get to be surrounded my sodomites and trannies loudly discussing how they hate Trump supporters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM (ExV1e)

118 115 And it wasn't "quarantine."
It was house arrest.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM (2Ez/1)

This really can’t be pointed out enough. Sick people are quarantined.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2026 05:33 PM (Gqar8)

119 I very rarely turn on CNN, mostly boycotting them

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

120 And yet, we still see masks today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:31 PM (2Ez/1)

Someday, someone will come out with a surgical mask shaped septum ring and they'll make a mint.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 05:34 PM (ExV1e)

121 Masks were totems.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar8)

122 Sorry I'm late to the previous conversation on the credibly accused plagiarist and Cambridge Professor of Sociology of Education. In my experience and observation, every organization with a leftist monoculture has at least a wink-and-nod tolerance of habitual dishonesty and fraud. And, once any organization (leftist or not) gets a culture of corruption entrenched like that, nearly everyone gets lazy, and starts lying even when they don't have to.

So, I don't think that his employer and alma mater are just defending him out of concern for reputational blowback, as in the speculation reported by our intrepid Reddit liaison. I think that this careless schmuck is just the visible cockroach, and careful examination would find that both institutions are infested attic to cellar with similar fraud.

Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 05:35 PM (Sy6m/)

123 Remember it is the media that made Fauci the be all end all. Trump had multiple medical professionals talking and providing advice, but they were all Trump appointees so they just wouldn't do. Fauci was in government forever and so didn't have the Trump "taint" and the media made him the only expert they would promote.

Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2026 05:35 PM (3tZV2)

124 Probably the Left's greatest success has been in establishing a society-wide structure of morally inverted incentives and disincentives for behavior that wreak untold, silent damage on our social fabric without people even noticing and without leaving any visible traces of responsibility.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 31, 2026 05:35 PM (7s9Qe)

125 They are deeply stupid people who believe they are geniuses whose words should be accepted without question and are literally going insane from the cognitive dissonance of their belief in their own superiority running into the reality of their deep inferiority and incompetency.

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"We're good enough, we're smart enough, and doggone it, people like us!"

-- Stuart Smalley/Tommy Flanagan 2028!

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:35 PM (YDC8i)

126 To Mr Hello Again, people were not allowed to take their loved ones out of nursing homes. If they tried the cops were called. It happened here in NYS. So yes it was akin to a jail.
So stop acting like Mr perfect who's just asking questions

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 05:35 PM (BlDDt)

127 I f we're talking 'gain of function' I want to see a virus do a goofy foot full in-out 540 with a toe grab on the Olympic half pipe...

...that would be awesome.

Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2026 05:35 PM (I0N4X)

128 This was kind of the point I was making re postmodernism in the fake professor thread. HIS truth is being an accomplished PhD and super marathoner footballer rugger whatever. That none of these have factual support, that he passed off someone else's work as his own, what does it matter if truth doesn't exist or is at best irrelevant

Posted by: It's a cool story, bruh at July 31, 2026 05:26 PM (TbWk/)

I still can't figure out how people believe truth doesn't exist.

No other reason than it is convenient for them personally if everybody else believes that.

Somebody tells me they don't believe in truth, I immediately assume I'm talking to a liar.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

129 I knew from common sense much of the Covid rules were BS.

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)

130 But everyone thought my scarves were so CUTE!

Posted by: Old Lady Birx at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (2Ez/1)

131 112 And yet, we still see masks today.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:31 PM (2Ez/1)

I've started wearing one at my volunteer job that involves opening trash bags of donated clothing and sorting through them. It's not immediately obvious from the outside if they have spent time in the garage, shed or barn.
I wear gloves, too.

Posted by: sal at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (f+FmA)

132 The Media: Always certain; occasionally correct.

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (5rh/l)

133 124 Probably the Left's greatest success has been in establishing a society-wide structure of morally inverted incentives and disincentives for behavior that wreak untold, silent damage on our social fabric without people even noticing and without leaving any visible traces of responsibility.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 31, 2026 05:35 PM (7s9Qe)

Frog Boiling 101.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (Gqar8)

134 Apoorva Mandavilli

Let me take a wild guess. This person is being paid off by the CCP. No criticism of them is allowed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (lt7On)

135 The highest paid federal employee, not counting the grift and graft.

Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2026 05:37 PM (Q+gd/)

136 "Trump should have listened to an economist rather than two doctors about how to deal with what he's being told is a health emergency? Pence would have tried to run the 25th on him." Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Regardless of that possible outcome, Trump should never have let Fauci run free with the shut downs and the rest. Navarro had some cabinet (?) position on the Covid thing, and he was right about Fauci and China.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2026 05:38 PM (vbXSk)

137 The Science turned me into a newt!

[sotto voice] I got better.

Burn The Science!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 05:39 PM (wVcYX)

138 Now that I am retired I think I will go to canada. They need help with their new MAID program.

I could be a big help. I'm short but loud!

Posted by: Dr. Tony Fauci, Mass Murderer at July 31, 2026 05:39 PM (ftsic)

139 Masks were totems.

Posted by: tubal at July 31, 2026 05:34 PM (Gqar

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"Refusal to wear one was a clear 'vicious signal' that you were definitely a Trump-Loving Nazi intent on killing everyone you came into contact with! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:39 PM (YDC8i)

140 Apoorva Mandavilli is an anagram of "vanilla vapor domain"

I saw Vanilla Vapor Domain open for The Chocolate Watchband in 1987 at the I-Beam on Haight Street

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at July 31, 2026 05:39 PM (DZ9Lv)

141 Low IQ people are going to do what low IQ people do.

Fart in the bathtub and giggle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 31, 2026 05:39 PM (8E0Ba)

142 Ace pointed out the other day that the long time relatively straight forward science writer at the NYT was fired, but miss condescending snot Mandivilli was kept on. DEI for the win

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2026 05:40 PM (BlDDt)

143 It was amazing how quickly they suspended our civil rights, that was always the scary part to me, how most people just went along with it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 05:40 PM (n5tGW)

144 I've started wearing one at my volunteer job that involves opening trash bags of donated clothing and sorting through them. It's not immediately obvious from the outside if they have spent time in the garage, shed or barn.
I wear gloves, too.
Posted by: sal at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (f+FmA)

It might be advisable to keep a flamethrower primed and within arm's reach.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 05:40 PM (wVcYX)

145 On the reading of the Diary of a Mad Man...

"I've never seen anything quite like it. And there's nothing that could have prepared me for that diary. Nothing."

Drugs and very loud playing of Ozzie Ozbourne.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (/TiS1)

146 And it wasn't "quarantine."
It was house arrest.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM

It was the first time in the history of the human race that healthy people were quarantined.

Towards the end it became ridiculous, biden was claiming it was a pandemic of the unvaccinated and if you didn't get the "vaccine" you were guilty of wanting to kill your grandma.

And you had to get the vaccine to protect you from the people that didn't get the vaccine all the while they were claiming that the vaccine would protect you from the unvaccinated.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (0N4FZ)

147 They are deeply stupid people who believe they are geniuses whose words should be accepted without question and are literally going insane from the cognitive dissonance of their belief in their own superiority running into the reality of their deep inferiority and incompetency.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM

Plus, they are lying liars who lie for money power and influence, and just for the hell of it.
Admitting they might have been mistaken would be the first step to having to admit to lying.
We're not worthy of the truth, or an apology, and that's why they'll never, never. Never. offer it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (zafwz)

148 Classic Kyle Dunnigan bit on Fauci and Biden. Youtube, 2 min:

https://tinyurl.com/533tx7zt

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (XvL8K)

149 For his entire life he was a short little academic man that spent all of his time trying to become famous. It almost worked during the initial aids epidemic but that only affected gay people so the media never really took off and ran with his supposed work with the aids virus because it only affected less than 1/10th of the population and gays weren't the left's special people back in the 70s like they are today.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM (0N4FZ)

It did help propel their cause, and they turned all of their AIDS Awareness groups, like Act Up, into Pro-Gay, Pride, and Pro-Gay Marriage movement.

Then, after they accomplished all of those goals, they got bored and they moved on to the T in LGTBQCSgjeiennfw+

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)

150 Now that I am retired I think I will go to canada. They need help with their new MAID program.

I could be a big help. I'm short but loud!

Posted by: Dr. Tony Fauci, Mass Murderer at July 31, 2026 05:39 PM (ftsic)

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Canada's gonna need MOAR anal swabs for Faucistein!

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:42 PM (YDC8i)

151 I knew from common sense much of the Covid rules were BS.
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)
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That and years and years of infection prevention training.

All of it, out the window in a day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 05:42 PM (JvZF+)

152 >>>"I've never seen anything quite like it. And there's nothing that could have prepared me for that diary. Nothing."

Dude. How about the freaking Nazi party?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2026 05:43 PM (dK+Kv)

153 It did help propel their cause, and they turned all of their AIDS Awareness groups, like Act Up, into Pro-Gay, Pride, and Pro-Gay Marriage movement.

Then, after they accomplished all of those goals, they got bored and they moved on to the T in LGTBQCSgjeiennfw+

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (6ydKt)

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Now currently lobbying for the P in LGTBQCSgjeiennfw+PEDO.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:44 PM (YDC8i)

154 Masks have dropping off lately but still occasionally see someone driving alone, walking dow the street with a mask on.
Its possible it can help breathing problems but doubt that is but a few .

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2026 05:44 PM (Ia/+0)

155 143 It was amazing how quickly they suspended our civil rights, that was always the scary part to me, how most people just went along with it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 05:40 PM (n5tGW)

In retrospect yes, but when you have a group of Science and medical "experts" telling you everyday you're gonna die if you don't follow what they say I understand it... A sort of a mass hysteria....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 05:44 PM (FtULh)

156
I just don't understand, being told I "can't" see a family member. Unless they are in jail. Hospitals and Nursing Homes are not jails.

I am asking.
Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 05

Because you actually can’t just take people in and out like they are on vacation at an hotel. These people had actual medical needs that could not be provided for at home, or they would have been at home. We typically do not have oxygen tanks just waiting. Or the ability to insert feeding tubes. Or the supplies or knowledge to handle serious wound care. Or the ability to get the medications needed, because those are given out by the facility pharmacy daily, not 30 days supply by the bedside. I had a friend who tried to take her dad out. She wasn’t allowed in to start, and was ultimately threatened with elder abuse charges. I understand you relish in being not just a contrarian, but the smartest contrarian on the planet. And you normally do not get under my skin, because most people don’t. But understand how painful this is to people who lost loved ones and instead of being a horse’s patoot, try being kind.

Posted by: Piper at July 31, 2026 05:44 PM (OoFl2)

157 It's not just despicable, infuriating and rage inducing.
Civil wars have occurred over less.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (MNC

You've omitted the word should.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2026 05:44 PM (zafwz)

158 Meh...I'd wear a mask if I worked in downtown Beijing. The air is yellow most of the time, and if you do wear a mask it forms dark blotches on your mask where your nostils and mouth reside.

Didn't wear one for COVID, and they tried to toss me from the grocery store. Told them to call the cops...they didn't.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 05:45 PM (dIske)

159 If someone tells you truth doesn't exist just reply, "That's not true!"

Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2026 05:46 PM (I0N4X)

160 They should have just focused on the elderly and health compromised. Mask up, if they chose, and helped them out with food deliveries and income replacement.

Instead they decided to make everybody the enemy and blame it on Trump.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:46 PM (6ydKt)

161 And it wasn't "quarantine."
It was house arrest.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM (2Ez/1)
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This is a very very important point they seek to obfuscate.

Locking up healthy people goes against years of established practice.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 05:46 PM (JvZF+)

162 We should also not forget The Great Barrington Declaration, where the Real Scientists had the bravery to speak out on the issue ... but were laughed at and dismissed by the leftist/globalist media.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2026 05:46 PM (vbXSk)

163 And you had to get the vaccine to protect you from the people that didn't get the vaccine all the while they were claiming that the vaccine would protect you from the unvaccinated.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (0N4FZ)

Catch-22!

Posted by: Yossarian at July 31, 2026 05:47 PM (wVcYX)

164 It's pretty obvious Fauci is not gonna get the justice he deserves in this life...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 05:47 PM (FtULh)

165 Now currently lobbying for the P in LGTBQCSgjeiennfw+PEDO.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:44 PM (YDC8i)

You mean MAPs??

lol

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:47 PM (6ydKt)

166 And you had to get the vaccine to protect you from the people that didn't get the vaccine all the while they were claiming that the vaccine would protect you from the unvaccinated.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 05:41 PM (0N4FZ)

With a 'Vaccine' that did not stop you from getting the virus at all... it just mitigated symptoms.

So, you could have a full virus load, but only feel mile symptoms, and thus be out in public spreading it to others.

Instead of just saying... if you are sick... stay home.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:47 PM (mP0Kj)

167 Fauci was never "the only one" responsible for the abuses, infringement on rights, legal harassments and deaths. Congress authorized the states to implement mandates. Governors and mayors either aggressively implemented those, or laid back. Law enforcement, enforced, or not. Public infrastructure went along or didn't. Medical professionals mandated vaccines, or didn't.

And then, there's the media. Wholly fucked.

There are lot, and I mean a lot of people that bear some responsibility for the covid debacle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2026 05:47 PM (2Cry5)

168 (Ia/+0)

155 143 It was amazing how quickly they suspended our civil rights, that was always the scary part to me, how most people just went along with it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 05:40 PM (n5tGW)

In retrospect yes, but when you have a group of Science and medical "experts" telling you everyday you're gonna die if you don't follow what they say I understand it... A sort of a mass hysteria....
Posted by: It's me donna

They inflamed all of it into a shear panic. Exact opposite of what should be done.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2026 05:48 PM (Cifda)

169 That and years and years of infection prevention training.
All of it, out the window in a day.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 05:42 PM (JvZF+)

Absolutely correct. Hundreds of years of real science thrown out and replaced by a pinch of Hillary's FUPA cheese mixed with Newt's tail and some Biden Earwax then swallow while spinning twice while putting on the mask and follow the floor arrows will protect you!

Posted by: Theodoric Of York, Medieval Barber at July 31, 2026 05:48 PM (ftsic)

170 One of my favorite parts was the people calling Republicans fascists were giddy about being able to call a snitch line to report their neighbors.

They will never be able to see why that made them the real fascists.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 05:49 PM (3cUTc)

171 It's time for all of Fauci's records during the time he was running the HIV response are made public. I doubt many of us would be surprised if we learn that was an engineered virus as well.

I don't the origin study of HIV anymore than I believe his lies about a Wuhan wet market.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 05:49 PM (viF8m)

172 164 It's pretty obvious Fauci is not gonna get the justice he deserves in this life...
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 05:47 PM (FtULh)
______________________________

He's going to get some retribution. Had he just read a very innocuous opening statement without accusation, he might have skated. But, in his infinite wisdom of self-importance, he very plainly accused Rand Paul of slander. And, then refused to allow questions to address that accusation. It's a toss up whether an opening statement negates the use of the 5th Amendment. Lois Lerned skated by that obstacle....but she didn't accuse a sitting senator of slander and then refuse to tell anyone what color his tie was.

Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

173 Lies, lies...

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2026 05:50 PM (g47mK)

174 I'm proud to say I've never had a COVID test.
So, there.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:50 PM (2Ez/1)

175 Y'all are still here, so Fauci and the experts got something right.

Posted by: Stopped Clock at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM (JM9I6)

176 And you had to get the vaccine to protect you from the people that didn't get the vaccine all the while they were claiming that the vaccine would protect you from the unvaccinated.

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The media and the rest of the left couldn't figure out how this was such an eye opening situation for the rest of the population.

So basically your telling me that my vaccine doesn't work unless my neighbor gets it too?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM (9CZQg)

177 I don't [believe] the origin study of HIV anymore than I believe his lies about a Wuhan wet market.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2026 05:49 PM (viF8m)

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I remember laughing when some gay activists claimed HIV was intentionally created in a lab and released by the CIA.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM (YDC8i)

178 143 It was amazing how quickly they suspended our civil rights, that was always the scary part to me, how most people just went along with it.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2026 05:40 PM (n5tGW)

It was instantaneous and confidently aggressive, as if they'd been planning it for a long time and knew full well the people would roll over.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM (7s9Qe)

179 It's a toss up whether an opening statement negates the use of the 5th Amendment. Lois Lerned skated by that obstacle....but she didn't accuse a sitting senator of slander and then refuse to tell anyone what color his tie was.
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

Can you plead the 5th if you are answering a question you have been asked, under oath, before?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)

180 So the ONLY path for redress for the People, was shut down, by the Supreme Court itself.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (mP0Kj)

More precisely, the only path for redress the people were willing to exercise was shut down.
To paraphrase sumdood from a hundred years ago:
You get the abuse you'll tolerate.
That's why we're all concerned that they'll do it again.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (zafwz)

181 Didier Raoult was once touted as the Father of European Viriology. He headed a Marseille based Institute of Tropical Diseases. He noticed early on in the COVID panic that none of his patients who were on hydroxychloroquine for malaria were coming down with COVID. He pioneered a small study that showed promising results, saving every patient’s life except for one patient who joined the study after the COVID virus was well established in the patient’s body. He concluded that, if he could treat patients early with hydroxychloroquine, he could stop the virus from getting established. He also stated that his method wouldn’t work if applied too late: HCQ would prevent COVID from getting established in the body but would not be effective once the virus was well established. He published these results and was instantly vilified. A follow-up study was undertaken with considerably more patients than Raoult’s small trial, but almost every patient chosen for the follow-up was late stage with the virus well established. Of course the follow-up showed HCQ didn’t work: they rigged the study to disprove Raoult’s initial results. Furthermore, Raoult’s students were suborned to turn on him. (Part 1)

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (lI6w+)

182 The media has chosen sides on this and the Biden tapes... Of course that is their regular side .. One would think a "journalist" would be itching to cover such big scandals.. Instead they ignore one and take an incredibly insane stand on the other, worshipping at the Fauci altar..

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (FtULh)

183 I still can't figure out how people believe truth doesn't exist.

No other reason than it is convenient for them personally if everybody else believes that.

Somebody tells me they don't believe in truth, I immediately assume I'm talking to a liar.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:36 PM (6ydKt)

Have them do a little experiment. Go up to a second story balcony. Firmly believe that 'your truth' is that you are on the ground floor. Then jump off and see what happens.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 05:53 PM (uhVAy)

184 Oh, put them on jet plane
Don't know when they'll be back again
They're goin' on the jet plane
Headed for Peking, oh, heading for Peking.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 05:53 PM (H5gG/)

185 The media and the rest of the left couldn't figure out how this was such an eye opening situation for the rest of the population.

So basically your telling me that my vaccine doesn't work unless my neighbor gets it too?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM (9CZQg)

Not only that, but even after having Covid itself, you will need more 'vaccines'... uh... whut?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)

186 My personal favorite lie:

The vaccine mitigated your symptoms!

Yeah, that's not how it's supposed to work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 05:54 PM (JvZF+)

187 I support gain of function research into a virus that only effects "journalists." And those in close proximity to said "journalists."

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 31, 2026 05:54 PM (QaH55)

188 The media has chosen sides on this and the Biden tapes... Of course that is their regular side .. One would think a "journalist" would be itching to cover such big scandals.. Instead they ignore one and take an incredibly insane stand on the other, worshipping at the Fauci altar..
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (FtULh)

Reporters report or uncover stories. Journalists have a journal, or diary they write in. It's all out of their head.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 05:54 PM (uhVAy)

189 Someone hypothesized what if Trump had won?

Then, 1 everyone of the cartel judges would spring out of hiding to sling injunctions against Trump stopping any of it.

And there would become a "good" Democrat vaccine, the more doses the better.
And a bad Republican one.

And you'd have to get the good one for all the passports in blue areas.
And the bad one would be blamed for all the new cases plus all the adverse effects.
Endless stories of the "Trump" vaccine killing and injuring.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 05:54 PM (3cUTc)

190 It's not just the media. The greater part of the Medical Profession is pleading the fifth too.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 31, 2026 05:54 PM (qFwJc)

191 It's time for some lawfare and a drink.
Guess which one will happen first.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 05:55 PM (H5gG/)

192 180 So the ONLY path for redress for the People, was shut down, by the Supreme Court itself.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:03 PM (mP0Kj)

More precisely, the only path for redress the people were willing to exercise was shut down.
To paraphrase sumdood from a hundred years ago:
You get the abuse you'll tolerate.
That's why we're all concerned that they'll do it again.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (zafwz)

good point, I should have said 'Legal' recourse....

But yeah, if'n they had tried this crap on our forefathers? They'd a been cleanin their muskets.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:56 PM (mP0Kj)

193 There are lot, and I mean a lot of people that bear some responsibility for the covid debacle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2026 05:47 PM (2Cry5)

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Even Trump initially got rolled by "the experts" and "The Science!," but did eventually start listening to saner voices like Joseph Ladapo, Scott Atlas, Robert Malone, and Jay Bhattacharya.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:56 PM (YDC8i)

194 Can some legal expert set me straight on this: Fauci has been pardoned even though he was never found guilty of anything before being pardoned.

Can he still be put on trial though? Everyone will get to see all of the evidence. He won't go to jail over it because of the pardon. But, I don't think he would have much of a chance of making it home from the courthouse as he will be torn limb from limb by the masses.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 05:56 PM (9CZQg)

195 He published these results and was instantly vilified. A follow-up study was undertaken with considerably more patients than Raoult’s small trial, but almost every patient chosen for the follow-up was late stage with the virus well established. Of course the follow-up showed HCQ didn’t work: they rigged the study to disprove Raoult’s initial results. Furthermore, Raoult’s students were suborned to turn on him. (Part 1)

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (lI6w+)

It's really simple for me.
Big Pharma could not make money off of HCQ or Ivermectin.

And The Science and Big Media (who make a lot of money from Big Pharma) went right along with whatever they were paid to say and attacked anybody who told them they were corrupt and full of shit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:56 PM (6ydKt)

196 Posted by: Stopped Clock at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM

What did they get right ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 31, 2026 05:56 PM (rHgXV)

197 My favorite lie: no symptoms of Covid is a symptom of Covid!

Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2026 05:57 PM (3TlS+)

198 Absolutely correct. Hundreds of years of real science thrown out and replaced by a pinch of Hillary's FUPA cheese mixed with Newt's tail and some Biden Earwax then swallow while spinning twice while putting on the mask and follow the floor arrows will protect you!

Various papers:
• "Strategies for Mitigating an Influenza Pandemic" Ferguson et al (2006)
• "Early, Targeted, Layered Use of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions" CDC Pandemic Guidelines (2007, updated 2017)
• "Non-pharmaceutical Public Health Interventions for Pandemic Influenza: An Evaluation of the Evidence Base" Aledort et al (2007)

All recommended against every single thing they did citing the social costs as being extreme. Two papers modeled it, one said non-pharmaceutical interventions were rather limited.

But they did it anyway, despite The SCIENCE!!1!™ screaming at them don't do it.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 31, 2026 05:57 PM (+4Cf6)

199 (Part 2)
The claim was made that he didn’t do any work in the papers published jointly with his students. He was publicly vilified and derided. He was forced to resign as director of his Institute. You can read all the lies at the Wiki article under his name, all because he dared to show an easy way to cure anyone of COVID, as long as it was treated promptly. It is a shame.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 31, 2026 05:58 PM (lI6w+)

200 186 My personal favorite lie:

The vaccine mitigated your symptoms!

Yeah, that's not how it's supposed to work.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 05:54 PM (JvZF+)

Which is why DHS changed their definition of Vaccine, to something that is palliative.

Under that definition, Aspirin is now a vaccine.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 31, 2026 05:58 PM (mP0Kj)

201 For his entire life he was a short little academic man that spent all of his time trying to become famous. It almost worked during the initial aids epidemic but that only affected gay people so the media never really took off and ran with his supposed work with the aids virus because it only affected less than 1/10th of the population and gays weren't the left's special people back in the 70s like they are today.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 31, 2026 05:32 PM (0N4FZ)

term limits for government academics.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 05:58 PM (uhVAy)

202 Good Lord. Abby Phillip is a disgrace. Fauci lied about:

1) the origin of the virus
2) how deadly it was (or wasn't)
3) the efficacy of masks and other treatments
4) his involvement in pushing for shutdowns
5) his smearing of other world-renowned epidemiologists

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Yeah, but we can agree to disagree, right?

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 05:59 PM (Fi81e)

203 188 The media has chosen sides on this and the Biden tapes... Of course that is their regular side .. One would think a "journalist" would be itching to cover such big scandals.. Instead they ignore one and take an incredibly insane stand on the other, worshipping at the Fauci altar..
Posted by: It's me donna
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They've been brain washed since Day Care, they have no critical thinking. It's a vacant lot and grazing with the herd has replaced the area that would have occupied critical thought.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2026 05:59 PM (H5gG/)

204 The media has chosen sides on this and the Biden tapes... Of course that is their regular side .. One would think a "journalist" would be itching to cover such big scandals.. Instead they ignore one and take an incredibly insane stand on the other, worshipping at the Fauci altar..

Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2026 05:52 PM (FtULh)

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At least nobody won The Pulitzer Prize in "Jounalisming" for their stunning & brave coverage of the "RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!" hoax.

Oh, nevermind ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 05:59 PM (YDC8i)

205 Have them do a little experiment. Go up to a second story balcony. Firmly believe that 'your truth' is that you are on the ground floor. Then jump off and see what happens.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 05:53 PM (uhVAy)

That's a good one.
Mine always involved asking them if the sun rose and set every day and if that was true or not?

Yours is much more persuasive.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2026 05:59 PM (6ydKt)

206 I remember the frantic buzz about finding an open COVID test site and the blocked lanes of traffic as vehicles idled for hours in line to have a nurse stuff a swab up your nose into your brain so you could get a test result paper for admittance somewhere.

I didn't have any need for any of that as was able to avoid it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (wVcYX)

207 Don't forget, the "COVID" rules were in direct contravention of decades of established research (i.e., real scientific research) into epidemics and pandemics, and how to treat and manage them.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (XMwZJ)

208 Posted by: Stopped Clock at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM

I recall attending the TXMoMe. Probably half the attendees, and there were a goodly number of us, were not vaccinated. No masks in sight. No social distancing. Actual, personal, human contact - clothed, sickos.

No one died from covid. Most, maybe all, didn't even catch covid.

Not a single fucking thing right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

209 Abby Philip is so damn smug.

The arrogance of ignorance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (JvZF+)

210 The brokeback media can't quit the narrative.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (Fi81e)

211 Nood. Woke.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

212 It's small in the list of horrors and abuses but F did i hate "we're all in this together"
No, motherfucker, we are not-- we are trapped in this totalitarian hell with you cause you're a bitch.

Which only slightly beats out my hate for "be well."

Covid was Karen Prime-- and she will never ever ever forgive us for lifting those restrictions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (3cUTc)

213 Abby Philip is so damn smug.

The arrogance of ignorance.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (JvZF+)
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She's black, racist.

Posted by: Axeman at July 31, 2026 06:01 PM (Fi81e)

214 Oh, and remember how COVID caused everyone to have explosive diarrhea, which caused a massive shortage of toilet paper? That's some grade-A retarded mass hysteria, right there.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2026 06:02 PM (XMwZJ)

215 Didier Raoult was once touted as the Father of European Viriology. He headed a Marseille based Institute of Tropical Diseases. He noticed early on in the COVID panic that none of his patients who were on hydroxychloroquine for malaria were coming down with COVID.

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India was virtually immune from the Covid PsyOps because most of the population there had been (still is?) being treated with hydroxychloroquine for malaria.

Posted by: ShainS at July 31, 2026 06:02 PM (YDC8i)

216 They've been completely wrong about everything for a decade -- "RussiaGate," Joe Biden's competency, Hunter Biden's laptop, Fauci, covid, etc. -- but just keep doubling down.

They have been wrong about everything and so can never admit a single error, because that admission would just be a prelude to the next admission, and that a prelude to the next.

They are deeply stupid people who believe they are geniuses whose words should be accepted without question and are literally going insane from the cognitive dissonance of their belief in their own superiority running into the reality of their deep inferiority and incompetency.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:50 PM

I noted the other day, the Ukraine-Iran conflict was always inevitable, because of Russia's alignment with Iran (and all of the Left's other fetish states). But, the American left couldn't see it coming, because the Derp State's Russian collusion hoax (and their own TDS) broke their brains. And, I used to think that the cognitive dissonance would wake them up to how they'd been duped and used, but now I just think they'll marinate in their insanity.

Posted by: SciVo at July 31, 2026 06:02 PM (Sy6m/)

217 The media is an enemy of free speech.

Let that really sink in, because it is demonstrably true.

The truth is an anathema to them. Unless something supports their biases, collective narrative and shibboleths it is deemed “poisonous” to the dialogue.

Every last one of them should be catapulted into the sun.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 31, 2026 06:02 PM (rJhDk)

218 I'll take a fifth!

Remember when the Covid virus could live for 96 hours on a nonporous surface?

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2026 06:03 PM (wVcYX)

219 "Mocking anti-vaxxer's deaths is ghoulish but necessary"

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Why because you're a shitty person? Anti-vaxxers didn't die in higher numbers than any other group.

Pre-existing lung problems
fat
really really old
really old and fat

Is it OK and necessary to mock the deaths of people who can't lay off of the Twinkies???

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 31, 2026 06:04 PM (9CZQg)

220 Posted by: Stopped Clock at July 31, 2026 05:51 PM

I recall attending the TXMoMe. Probably half the attendees, and there were a goodly number of us, were not vaccinated. No masks in sight. No social distancing. Actual, personal, human contact - clothed, sickos.

No one died from covid. Most, maybe all, didn't even catch covid.

Not a single fucking thing right.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 31, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

By any definition of a vaccine, an unvaxxed person is endangering only himself. By the normal definition of a vaccine, a vaccinated person need not fear even people actively sick with covid. They should be safe and not fear anyone.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2026 06:04 PM (uhVAy)

221 And there would become a "good" Democrat vaccine, the more doses the better.
And a bad Republican one.

My neighbor got the vax but crowed that she didn't take "Trump's vax," all because the shots came out after the election. Like they pulled the formula out of thin air overnight. She is not a stupid woman, but that just shows how deep the psychosis goes.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 31, 2026 06:05 PM (QaH55)

222 I'm proud to say I've never had a COVID test.
So, there.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 31, 2026 05:50 PM (2Ez/1)

#metoo

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 31, 2026 06:08 PM (hmYU4)

223 186 My personal favorite lie:

The vaccine mitigated your symptoms!

Yeah, that's not how it's supposed to work.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2026 05:54 PM (JvZF+)

How in hell would anyone know if your symptoms were mitigated? Some people just didn't get all that sick.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 31, 2026 06:11 PM (l2EPa)

224 159 If someone tells you truth doesn't exist just reply, "That's not true!"
Posted by: muldoon at July 31, 2026 05:46 PM (I0N4X)

Absolutely one of my favorites.
Them: "There is no truth."
Me: "Is that a true statement?"

Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 31, 2026 06:12 PM (5w+jY)

225 Because you actually can’t just take people in and out like they are on vacation at an hotel. These people had actual medical needs that could not be provided for at home, or they would have been at home.

So they were in jail. Medical jail.

Folks ... I don't like doctors. I never turn down a beer or a steak. Because I just don't care to live long enough to be in that situation.

I hate it - seriously - for any of you that found your loved ones in it. My choice is not great, FWIW. My wife and kids hate it.

I don't care. That's no way to live. I'd rather die.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (gi6wy)

226 The world for the most part lost their freaking mind and it was the Left who led the insane.

The thing that continues to make me Hulk angry is the powers to be preventing perfectly safe prophylactics from being prescribed. That was just evil because they didn't want anything to screw up their test subjects for their mRNA vax.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (KC5Lt)

227
I'm gonna yeet on this one. I may post something i don't delete first.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at July 31, 2026 06:20 PM (QVmho)

228 No one died from covid. Most, maybe all, didn't even catch covid.

I caught it. Ironically enough, from working a job in South Dakota and glady doing Karaoke and otherwise being much more public than normal.

It was the worse flu I've ever had. Seven fucking days worth. Awful headaches if I didn't alternate Ibuprofin and Tylenol.

And that was all. I'd get up, walk out in the backyard, and hack all the shit up. Eat when I could. Really liked Ice Cream during that stint. Whatever.

The absolute worst was the boredom. I thought I liked Vikings. Until that damn blood-eagle scene.

I can see how it killed the elderly. But it was just a bad flu with lung complications.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 06:22 PM (gi6wy)

229 Oh, and remember how COVID caused everyone to have explosive diarrhea, which caused a massive shortage of toilet paper?

No. Women were freaking out because they thought that their menfolk would run out of paper and use the bath mat.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 31, 2026 06:28 PM (xE0sV)

230 That was just evil because they didn't want anything to screw up their test subjects for their mRNA vax.

Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2026 06:14 PM (KC5Lt)

I do think the mRNA part of it was critical.

And call me insane - my effects have been positive after. Again, I'm not a guy that goes to the doctor. But maybe I'm just an in his fifties lucky fuck ? I keep weight off easier. If I look at a barbell my arms get a little bigger. And I can drink beer all day. My little nagging shit has just stopped.

Maybe I have Stage IV Cancer but You'll Like How You Go Out. I dunno'. But I do wonder about that one shot.

Going bald though. From the front.

Posted by: Hello Again at July 31, 2026 06:31 PM (gi6wy)

231 Friday "taking out the trash fay'
Trump's DOJ dismissed ALL CHARGES against the Olymoic athlete who was charged with vandalizing the reflective pool.

He will now due hit millions because malicious unjustified prosecution

Another Trump stupidity

Posted by: Paul at July 31, 2026 07:03 PM (titXj)

232 I took classes with UCLA school of public health students. A couple of them were required of my Nuclear Risk Assessment PhD.

These people could barely do simple division and were always confused and assuming things that couldn’t be supported by evidence.

They went on to shut down a nation 25 years later.

Posted by: The Dog at July 31, 2026 08:43 PM (fn5TX)

233 I'll never forget the NY Post front page picture (early in the outbreak) of a refrigerated 55' semi truck which was picking up dead bodies at a hospital in NY city. OMG how terrible! End of the world! What they conveniently forgot to tell the readers was that 150 people (average) die in NY city every single day of all types of causes. So refrigerated semi trucks weren't exactly huge news.

Just one of many deadly viruses which hit us every 10 years or so like clockwork. At least 6 or 7 in my 70 years.

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