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Food Thread: You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning!

Why is it that we suspend all of our eating and drinking rules when in airports?

That's a glass of champagne and a Bloody Mary at 6:45AM.

While I will occasionally have a Bloody Mary, and I try to drink champagne as much as I can, I never combine the two...except when flying. And the crap food in airports, especially the jumped-up steamtable stuff in the airport lounges? Yeah...I'll eat that too, and have seconds!

If you look closely at the glass of champagne, or simply the blurred background, you will see what sane people drink at that hour...a cup of hot tea. But that seems so wrong to me, especially when the booze is free, and the champagne is good!

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I wrote on Thursday about the the EU regulatory state that was designed to replace innovation and competition with regulation, and here it is in all its glory!

EU to ban Brazilian meat imports from September

An EU committee made up of experts from member states voted on Tuesday to ban imports of Brazilian meat starting 3 September due to the use of antimicrobials to stimulate animal growth.

Oh look! Experts! I'll bet they went to all the best schools!

I don't much care whether Brazil abuses the use of antibiotics to promote cattle growth. Is it a bad idea? Probably. But anything the EU does is by definition anti-competitive, so I am on Brazil's side.

Meat is very expensive in the EU. In my limited experience, it is at least double or triple what we pay here. But those experts don't want the peasants to be able to eat meat, so they limit imports and protect their own inefficient and expensive industry. That is functionally identical to the way the people were treated by the Church and by royalty...in the Middle Ages!

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That's a whole bone-in pork loin that was so big it wouldn't fit on my half-sheet pan for a reverse sear! So I had to cut it into two chunks, which is fine...that means double the number of end pieces! That fed 11 people with a ton of leftovers. Granted, I had some tasty and filling sides, including my world-famous Cauliflower Gratin that I supercharged with some (a Lot) bacon. And crunchy Rosemary and Garlic roasted potatoes that were delicious, and got gobbled up before I could get a second helping.

It is possible, even in these post-Biden-inflation times, to feed a bunch of people tasty, wholesome food without breaking the bank. That pork roast was about 13 pounds, and while not on sale, it was reasonably priced for our area. All the other stuff was not particularly pricey, and If I don't count the booze (damn, they drank a lot!), it was probably less per person than my everyday meals!

And it was a rollicking good time to boot!

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Vegetables? Yuck!

Except when cooked correctly, with flavor rather than some nebulous concept of healthful eating in mind.

I bought a head of broccoli, peeled the stem as much as I could, then sliced it into 1" steaks....whatever the hell a broccoli steak is. Then I microwaved them with a bit of water, just to soften them a bit. three minutes, covered.

The next step is going to disturb you healthful eating types, so...piss off. I brushed them with a liberal amount of melted butter, salted them, and grilled them on high heat until they got a bit toasty and charred.

They were great! Easy, delicious, and I didn't feel like I was being punished.

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I love them, but I have had more than my share of woody, overcooked stalks, which is particularly galling because I cooked a fair number of them!

Part of that is the massively long supply chain for asparagus, which limits my access to really fresh stuff. The other is my fixation on roasting them in very high heat. It makes sense to me, but as Richard Feynman famously said:

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

And my theory was wrong. So I finally gave up on it and started roasting asparagus at 350 degrees, bathed in butter and with a pinch of salt, and cooked just until tender.

And what do you know! They taste great that way!

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It sounds better in French: Champignons à la Savoyarde, but Creamy Mushrooms on Toast tastes just as good in English. He uses Morels, which are grand! And tough to find. And expensive. But any mushroom will do. Just don't use sour cream...heavy cream makes a better dish!
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The garlic is doing well! I know all of you are worried, but it is tall and green and healthy! I even fertilized them! And if they survive the deer and squirrel apocalypse, and actually grow into something edible, I will be in garlic heaven! In case it doesn't, send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM

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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:02 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Cauliflower pusher

Posted by: bluebell at May 24, 2026 04:03 PM (HqH5I)

3 Speaking of Bourbon, it might be Scotch time soon

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

4 Cheesesteak a bit later

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:05 PM (Ia/+0)

5 "It is possible, even in these post-Biden-inflation times, to feed a bunch of people tasty, wholesome food without breaking the bank. That pork roast was about 13 pounds, and while not on sale, it was reasonably priced for our area. All the other stuff was not particularly pricey, and If I don't count the booze (damn, they drank a lot!), it was probably less per person than my everyday meals!"

It is possible...but not with anything beef. Pork is the cheapest meat to use if you want to have meat as the star.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:06 PM (tOcjL)

6 and the champagne is good!

Did you inquire if it was hand riddled?

The best champagne is hand riddled.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 04:12 PM (0sNs1)

7 Speaking of Bourbon, it might be Scotch time soon
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:03 PM

Apparently you are a man who is willing to forego the 'e' in whiskey. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 04:13 PM (0sNs1)

8 This week, one of our dinners was the $28 challenge.

I took an old 2.8 pound beef chunk out of my freezer (I'd tell you what type, but the tag had worn off b/c of the 50% off sticker - it was $4.99/lb out the door - it had the thinnest beef cap and no real fat through the meat, if that helps someone identify).

I sliced it against the grain into thin, fajita like pieces (that took me 30 minutes of effort) and eventually pan-seared them rapidly in a little oil with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

They became 10 dinner sandwich wraps, plus 3 leftover for the next day. $2 Aldi tortillas, $2 whole head green lettuce, $2.50 container Aldi's chimchurri, 50 cents worth of Amazon plum tomatoes, and $5 deli pickled onion container (the splurge). $12 for the toppings, about $14 for the beef...14 sandwiches (if you include the Aldi's white bread kids used after tortillas were gone). $26 all in, but even if beef was full price, it would be $40 for 14...not bad.

PS - This fed 8 people worth...5 one day and 3 the next. Yes, teen boys eat 2 wraps.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:13 PM (tOcjL)

9 And I can't type - 13, not 14, b/c I can add, but not hit the right button!

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:14 PM (tOcjL)

10 Pork is the cheapest meat to use if you want to have meat as the star.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:06 PM

No one here is into beating the meat.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 04:14 PM (0sNs1)

11 Why is it that we suspend all of our eating and drinking rules when in airports?

No idea. I haven't flown since 2010.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:15 PM (2PamV)

12 At this moment I'm chowing down on a new way of cooking pinto beans (I'm sure someone else has done this before, but it's new to me).

I put a pot of beans to soak last night, as usual, but when I got up to cook them this morning I recalled that I had a leftover seasoned pork chop in the fridge.

Rather than going with the standard ham or bacon, I chopped up the chop (which sounds redundant) and tossed that in, bone and all.

When they were done I added some more salt and pepper to taste.

10/10. Will do this again.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:15 PM (IG3/x)

13
And my theory was wrong. So I finally gave up on it and started roasting asparagus at 350 degrees, bathed in butter and with a pinch of salt, and cooked just until tender.
Posted by: CBD

Why not sous vide them until tender?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2026 04:16 PM (oyck1)

14 They need meat runners to smuggle beef into Europe.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 04:17 PM (Cqx++)

15 Pork is the cheapest meat to use if you want to have meat as the star.
Posted by: Nova Local

Have a 1/3 of a boneless loin that I have to figure out what to do with for tomorrow's dinner.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:17 PM (2PamV)

16 Roasting asparagus in pecan oil is my go to.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 24, 2026 04:18 PM (5P5DO)

17 15 Pork is the cheapest meat to use if you want to have meat as the star.
Posted by: Nova Local

Have a 1/3 of a boneless loin that I have to figure out what to do with for tomorrow's dinner.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:17 PM (2PamV)

I'm sick, so pork and apples in some way seems like comfort food that's doable to me...weather also sucks, so a dish for cold, wet weather seems nice...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:19 PM (tOcjL)

18 The last time I flew out of DFW, the bar was empty and had one of those red velvet ropes across the doorway. It was about 0600 when we got there. Granted that was about ten years ago though.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 24, 2026 04:19 PM (0N4FZ)

19 Watching Great Escape now
Cheers

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:19 PM (Ia/+0)

20 10/10. Will do this again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:15 PM (IG3/x)

Sounds good to me!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 04:20 PM (h7ZuX)

21 You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning!

Words to live by.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 24, 2026 04:20 PM (YZcg9)

22 Pork and (especially) chicken tend to have way faster price fluctuations (in both directions) than beef.

Chickens are ready in 2-6 months (depending on breed and purpose).

Pork is 5-7 months.

Beef is more like two years.

If the farmers have also sold off a lot of breeding stock, you could be looking at 3 years before a beef shortage starts to be alleviated.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:21 PM (IG3/x)

23 I'm sick, so pork and apples in some way seems like comfort food that's doable to me...weather also sucks, so a dish for cold, wet weather seems nice...
Posted by: Nova Local

I'm thinking loin chops, apple sauce & maybe mashed potatoes.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:21 PM (2PamV)

24 The best champagne is hand riddled.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 04:12 PM (0sNs1)

Was a time when one could get hand riddled in Times Square for about $15. Probably $20 now to keep up with surrounding towns...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 04:21 PM (nbLIj)

25 Beef is more like two years.

If the farmers have also sold off a lot of breeding stock, you could be looking at 3 years before a beef shortage starts to be alleviated.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

$84 & change for a brisket at the local high dollar grocery store. NFW.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:23 PM (2PamV)

26 Have a 1/3 of a boneless loin that I have to figure out what to do with for tomorrow's dinner.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:17 PM (2PamV)
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One of my relations received a quantity of peaches and asked for suggestions. Mine was a pork loin with a peach chutney.

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:23 PM (rj6Yv)

27 I have a nice Customer Service story to share:

A couple weeks ago I purchased some Turkey Hill Black Cherry Ice Cream (actually frozen dairy dessert using whole milk and not cream). Unfortunately, they likely had a mixing issue when it was manufactured, and I ended up with 1.44 quarts of vanilla with, maybe, 10 total pieces of black cherry.

I decided to inform them...with no expectations. So, I took about two minutes and filled out a feedback entry online. A week later I got a phone call from their CS department. A very nice woman proceeded to apologize, thank me for the feedback, and asked me where I usually purchased their product. With a hint of mirth she told me to watch my mail.

Thursday I received 5 coupons for five 1.44 quart containers of Turkey Hill ice cream of my choice from the local gocery story I frequent. THAT is customer service.

Posted by: Orson at May 24, 2026 04:23 PM (dIske)

28 Since I'm still sick (sense of smell - about gone), I'm not relying on my taste buds or energy for cooking, so it's trying Aldi's honey tempura chicken with garlic air fried green beans (could roast, but I'm air-frying the chicken, and only have one oven), blueberries/raspberries/red grapes and Italian bread to sop it up.

I won't give my opinion b/c yes, this was picked as more comfort food...seems I can taste sweet the best right now, so might as well try something that relies on it. But I also haven't had much appetite the last few days, and I will eat this...so thanks Aldi's for having the new product...

This virus on the east coast is NO Joke. I mean, the news this week should tell you, but if not, I am...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:23 PM (tOcjL)

29 I really don't like champagne, love red wines

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:24 PM (Ia/+0)

30 23 I'm sick, so pork and apples in some way seems like comfort food that's doable to me...weather also sucks, so a dish for cold, wet weather seems nice...
Posted by: Nova Local

I'm thinking loin chops, apple sauce & maybe mashed potatoes.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:21 PM (2PamV)

Sounds very good!

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:24 PM (tOcjL)

31
I'm starting to do a lot of caregiving for an elderly relative. Rule 1: We're not buying any more food! We're eating down the inventory. This pantry is ridiculous. Plus three fridges in the house! Made a ton of meat sauce yesterday. Today, probably some kind of banana cake. I only like to make one Thing a day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

32 One of my relations received a quantity of peaches and asked for suggestions. Mine was a pork loin with a peach chutney.
Posted by: mrp

Doesn't sound bad at all. I've made pork loin with cherry jelly & one with raspberry jam.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:25 PM (2PamV)

33 We found AOP and his Canuk friend were fixing AOP's roof yesterday, I mixed up some BBQ sauce the Better half cooked wings. Wings and beer good, better with friends!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2026 04:25 PM (oyck1)

34
g'afternoon, 'rons

my latest culinary success was smoking a rack of pork ribs in the Weber kettle grill

nothing fancy, it was more of a "proof of concept" exercise: two pack of ribs from Sam's; salt, pepper, garlic & onion powders on the meat

did the "snake" method in the Weber and it worked great

three and a half hours in the box, sauced and wrapped in foil, 90 minutes wrapped, then finished for 30 minutes unwrapped

probably should have left it in to finish another twenty minutes or so, but we were STARVING

need to work on temperature control a bit, but was very pleased overall

tomorrow, my son is going to smoke the other rack...the pressure is on

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 24, 2026 04:26 PM (AMvSw)

35 DJT is increasing beef imports from south of the border and he's relaxing restrictions on wolf "management" stateside. Someone mentioned last week that beef cows were at a premium. I'm thinking beef prices will be coming down hard sooner than people think.

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:26 PM (rj6Yv)

36 31
I'm starting to do a lot of caregiving for an elderly relative. Rule 1: We're not buying any more food! We're eating down the inventory. This pantry is ridiculous. Plus three fridges in the house! Made a ton of meat sauce yesterday. Today, probably some kind of banana cake. I only like to make one Thing a day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)

You may need to toss a lot, depending when you get to the back of shelves (speaking from experience)...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (tOcjL)

37 My guess knowing where you bought it( obviously the retail seller has no issue in this( might track down its background of when, where it was made.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (Ia/+0)

38 This virus on the east coast is NO Joke. I mean, the news this week should tell you, but if not, I am...

Posted by: Nova Local

Not good. Not good at all.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (2PamV)

39 I have a patch of garden that does everything poorly, so I gave up and planted potatoes, which did poorly. So I planted garlic, which did poorly, and then I planted the "seeds" from the tops, and it did poorly, so I replanted all the garlic year old garlic and what I felt I could spare from the spindly harvest last year, and covered it with chips and leaves, and this year what survived is doing much better.
Next year I am going to go all in on planting horseradish instead.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (rbvCR)

40 Oh, did some filets on the grill today,..AWESOME!

But to the point of the alcohol at the top of the post:
1) LOVE a Bloody Mary to kick off a travel day.
2) Military Sunday Brunch used to feature Bloody Mary's and Mimosas (so there's your Champagne).

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at May 24, 2026 04:28 PM (7kJyR)

41 "Have a 1/3 of a boneless loin that I have to figure out what to do with for tomorrow's dinner."

Chile verde?

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at May 24, 2026 04:28 PM (FEVMW)

42 If the farmers have also sold off a lot of breeding stock, you could be looking at 3 years before a beef shortage starts to be alleviated.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:21 PM

Something odd is going on with beef. Walmart just increased the price on their 5 pound 80/20 ground chuck roll from $27 to almost $33 in the last two days. That is the third price increase in less than two months. It is $7.73 a pound if you buy it in the one pound packages. That is insane.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 24, 2026 04:29 PM (0N4FZ)

43 > EU to ban Brazilian meat imports from September
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Hmmm. I've been to some pretty good Brazilian steakhouses in my day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2026 04:29 PM (jehhT)

44 I've told this story before but when I was a kid and worked in the borscht belt I would have breakfast in the staff room and the night auditor would come in and order prune juice. Then the busboy would come by and pour in a shot of vodka from a flask. He called it "Morning Thunder."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 04:30 PM (RIvkX)

45 I have chicken thighs in the fridge and about a half-cup of basil pesto (using unsalted pistachios). Thinking about the combo at the moment.

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)

46 I learned how to make tender roasted asparagus in h.s. My g.f. loved it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 04:31 PM (RIvkX)

47 Okay, I wasn't gonna review the Aldi's honey tempura chicken...but...there's way too much dang sauce. I'm looking at the chicken going into the oven and the sauce pouch, and it needs half, tops. Good thing I have 2 bags to make, b/c one sauce packet is going in my fridge as a future chicken stir fry sauce...

I have this trouble with Trader Joe's Orange chicken bags, too...heck, I have this problem if I buy pretty much any convenience protein item with a sauce. I guess it's a way to save costs and add weight.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:33 PM (tOcjL)

48
We grill asparagus weather permitting. If not we steam it and top it off with garlic butter.

Posted by: four seasons at May 24, 2026 04:33 PM (3ek7K)

49 Something odd is going on with beef. Walmart just increased the price on their 5 pound 80/20 ground chuck roll from $27 to almost $33 in the last two days. That is the third price increase in less than two months. It is $7.73 a pound if you buy it in the one pound packages. That is insane.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 24, 2026 04:29 PM (0N4FZ)
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Breeding stock build up instead slaughter?

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:34 PM (rj6Yv)

50 Hmmm. I've been to some pretty good Brazilian steakhouses in my day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Someone might want to contact Brazil and let them know US shelves are open for EU blocked beef.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2026 04:34 PM (oyck1)

51 We went out to dinner last night, I had grouper topped with crab over risotto. It was amazing as it always is at the little local place we went. J ate all of his, and the 1/2 I didn’t eat. We also had crab claws. Tonight I am not feeling like making something huge, will probably just do sloppy joes and a few veggies as sides.

Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 04:34 PM (Wmg4n)

52 Something odd is going on with beef. Walmart just increased the price on their 5 pound 80/20 ground chuck roll from $27 to almost $33 in the last two days. That is the third price increase in less than two months. It is $7.73 a pound if you buy it in the one pound packages. That is insane.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 24, 2026 04:29 PM (0N4FZ)

Most of the beef we buy comes through 4 major companies, two of which are foreign owned, and are being investigated for price fixing, both on the consumer side, but also on the price they pay for cattle on the hoof from the ranchers.
Most ranchers and farmers are not self financed, and they will raise cattle on contract, which sucks when all the buyers offer the same price.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:35 PM (rbvCR)

53 38 This virus on the east coast is NO Joke. I mean, the news this week should tell you, but if not, I am...

Posted by: Nova Local

Not good. Not good at all.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (2PamV)

I thought I didn't like the 35 pts above resting heart rate from earlier in the week that I put up with for 2 days (we were 50/50 on urgent care, but no temp, so stayed home), but I could smell and taste then. Now, it's just a congestion bomb that isn't letting up (I'm on day 7 now)...kids were not hit as hard, but my spouse, who brought this home, was, so it does seem to really affect 40s+...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:36 PM (tOcjL)

54 Love a stuffed fish. Retro vibe. Like the Galloping Gourmet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 04:37 PM (RIvkX)

55 Jumbo shrimp tonight. I was craving it. Only bought it because I got my quarterly bonus. Freaking beef is outrageous.
Homegrown veggies are a delicacy. From seed to harvest is somewhat challenging at times but always worth the effort.
Good day to you all

Posted by: Billythesquid at May 24, 2026 04:37 PM (auDTc)

56 Something odd is going on with beef. Walmart just increased the price on their 5 pound 80/20 ground chuck roll from $27 to almost $33 in the last two days. That is the third price increase in less than two months. It is $7.73 a pound if you buy it in the one pound packages. That is insane.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 24, 2026 04:29 PM (0N4FZ)

Yes, I felt like it was a steal getting the Aldi's all beef smashburgers for $9.99 for 2lbs today. You can't buy anything beef any cheaper. I don't love smashburgers, but when kids want burgers this summer, better to have them than none...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:37 PM (tOcjL)

57 45 I have chicken thighs in the fridge and about a half-cup of basil pesto (using unsalted pistachios). Thinking about the combo at the moment.
Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)

That's a good combo - certain veg that love chicken also love pesto if you need a full meal idea and are avoiding pasta...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:38 PM (tOcjL)

58 38 This virus on the east coast is NO Joke. I mean, the news this week should tell you, but if not, I am...

Posted by: Nova Local

Not good. Not good at all.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:27

Great. I am flying to the east coast Thursday for my uncle’s funeral and my niece’s graduation party.

Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 04:39 PM (OoFl2)

59 I am making pork stew, pork is thin sliced and floured for frying, the rest is sauteed onions, carrots, yams and carrots. Black pepper, rosemary and bay leaves for spice.
I might do greens on the side.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:40 PM (rbvCR)

60 58 38 This virus on the east coast is NO Joke. I mean, the news this week should tell you, but if not, I am...

Posted by: Nova Local

Not good. Not good at all.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 04:27

Great. I am flying to the east coast Thursday for my uncle’s funeral and my niece’s graduation party.
Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 04:39 PM (OoFl2)

Avoid sniffling or coughing people. Don't believe allergies excuse. You'll be fine.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:41 PM (tOcjL)

61 I have a question for all the cocktail savant, gurus and aficionado. YouTube has directed me to a bartender who makes very attractive cocktails.
The thing that puzzles me is she adds two drops of saline to every cocktail, claiming it adds balance to the flavors. Sometimes she adds a drop of MSG.
Have any of you heard of this?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 24, 2026 04:41 PM (wBzSI)

62 > Next year I am going to go all in on planting horseradish instead.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (rbvCR)

For the love of God, plant it in a container.

Horseradish is nearly as invasive as bamboo.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:41 PM (IG3/x)

63 "You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start In The Morning!"

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 24, 2026 04:41 PM (2Ez/1)

64 I found a small container of what turned out to be beef stew in the freezer. It was really good!

I'm working on clearing out the freezer. Spelunking turned up Trader Joe's kalua pork rolls and some Manchego bacon hors d'ouvers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 04:42 PM (kpS4V)

65 Most ranchers and farmers are not self financed, and they will raise cattle on contract, which sucks when all the buyers offer the same price.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:35 PM (rbvCR)
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In NC, we have state meat and poultry inspectors who grade meat and poultry products and they also check wholesale processors for sanitation and handling within the state. Pretty much what the federal inspectors do, except that sales are limited to in-state retail.

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:44 PM (rj6Yv)

66 Current beef prices make me glad that I don't care for beef. Pork is usually priced well, and on sale every two or three weeks at Kroger.

I did tuna casserole today, with some rotini I had in the cupboard, and made the cheese sauce from scratch. Poor people food suits me, apparently.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 04:45 PM (h7ZuX)

67 The Chieftain
@Chieftain_armor
4h
These are whiskey bullets. They perform two functions.
1) It is how Texans cool their drink without ice melting and diluting said drink.
2) It gets you and your family a free tour of @DublinAirport baggage transfer and screening under armed airport police supervision when you have it in checked baggage [ . . . ]

https://tinyurl.com/393t48cn

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:47 PM (rbvCR)

68 I put a pot of beans to soak last night, as usual, but when I got up to cook them this morning I recalled that I had a leftover seasoned pork chop in the fridge.

Rather than going with the standard ham or bacon, I chopped up the chop (which sounds redundant) and tossed that in, bone and all.

10/10. Will do this again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:15 PM (IG3/x)

Hi.

So...

I stopped soaking beans after reading Queen Ida's preparation a few decades back. Unless you have diagnosed GI issues, the loss of flavor and, to a greater degree, color, obviates the soaking step, which has the added burden of planning ahead and taking up fridge space.

Wash your beans. Cover with about 6 cups of water and add a diced onion. Do not salt the water. Bring to a boil, add olive oil or (better) bacon fat. Simmer for at least an hour, partially uncovered, adding water as needed to keep the beans covered. After one hour, add whatever meat you have on hand, stir well, and simmer for another hour, uncovered, adding water to achieve your desired thickness of the gravy. When the bean flattens against the slightest touch, it's done. Add salt and pepper to taste at that point...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 04:48 PM (nbLIj)

69 66 Current beef prices make me glad that I don't care for beef. Pork is usually priced well, and on sale every two or three weeks at Kroger.

I did tuna casserole today, with some rotini I had in the cupboard, and made the cheese sauce from scratch. Poor people food suits me, apparently.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 04:45 PM (h7ZuX)

If I didn't need the iron, I'd be avoiding buying beef. As it is, if I see something beef on sale, and I think I can find some use for it (like the chunk above), I buy it and figure it out later in this price environment. Aka if it's $5 or under, it's bought - only exception is it must be 80 or better ground beef b/c with no gallbladder, I can't handle 73, no matter how I use it...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:49 PM (tOcjL)

70 Enjoying a couple of homemade bacon cheeseburgers right now.

Sometimes that just hits the spot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2026 04:50 PM (gnNyN)

71 Horseradish is nearly as invasive as bamboo.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:41 PM (IG3/x)

If you till, yes it is very invasive because it comes up from root fragments. I am probably going to turn that section into lawn so I can mow it, or maybe put rhubarb there, either way I don't much care.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:50 PM (rbvCR)

72 45 I have chicken thighs in the fridge and about a half-cup of basil pesto (using unsalted pistachios). Thinking about the combo at the moment.
Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:31 PM (rj6Yv)

That's a good combo - certain veg that love chicken also love pesto if you need a full meal idea and are avoiding pasta...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:38 PM (tOcjL)
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Yeah. The first half-cup of the pesto went with pasta and diced pancetta. Not bad, but I'm pasta-ed out at the moment

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:50 PM (rj6Yv)

73 I'm starting to do a lot of caregiving for an elderly relative. Rule 1: We're not buying any more food! We're eating down the inventory. This pantry is ridiculous. Plus three fridges in the house! Made a ton of meat sauce yesterday. Today, probably some kind of banana cake. I only like to make one Thing a day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 04:25 PM (n7rxJ)
Elderly don't tend to get enough veggies. I used to make a dozen dinners for the MIL: three different dinners which each made four servings featuring a meat main, a veggie, and a small piece of pie, cookies, or cake for dessert. Would spend one afternoon a month making them up, froze them and stacked them in her freezer. The DH would then buy her ready-made salads and fruit to have in the house. Each frozen dinner was good for two meals for her. This worked well up until the point where she couldn't remember how to work a microwave due to advancing dementia.

Posted by: tankascribe at May 24, 2026 04:51 PM (NtoJk)

74
This virus on the east coast is NO Joke. I mean, the news this week should tell you, but if not, I am...
Posted by: Nova Local

What virus?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 04:53 PM (Cqx++)

75 74
This virus on the east coast is NO Joke. I mean, the news this week should tell you, but if not, I am...
Posted by: Nova Local

What virus?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 04:53 PM (Cqx++)

The sucky one...no name b/c it isn't a flu or Covid...it's just sucky...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 04:53 PM (tOcjL)

76 >>One of my relations received a quantity of peaches and asked for suggestions. Mine was a pork loin with a peach chutney.

Peach butter: https://tinyurl.com/9h37s8em
Peach clafoutis: https://tinyurl.com/m7kbwxh2

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2026 04:53 PM (X8xt3)

77 Some states have ivermectin over the counter now. Here's something we are not told -- ivermectin works for a range of respiratory viruses, both as treatment and prophylactic. Not all, but it's impractical to identify exactly what bug a sick person has. We have found that ivermectin helps at least half the time and cuts the length of the sickness and the severity of the symptoms by about 2/3. Plus, it's safer than acetaminophen. I end up taking one dose about every two months during cold/flu season. It seems to keep me pretty well.

What works for us 100% of the time to prevent respiratory viruses is visiting a sauna 2-3 times per week. I'm talking a traditional sauna with the heater making the air temperature at least 185°, not those infrared saunas. But for some reason, saunas do not appear to be very popular in the mid-south. Heh.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 24, 2026 04:54 PM (FMtrg)

78 But for some reason, saunas do not appear to be very popular in the mid-south. Heh.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 24, 2026 04:54 PM (FMtrg)
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We call our saunas "July".

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:56 PM (rj6Yv)

79 I make peach jam. I used to make peach jam from the chewed up, browned and bruised peaches while I was canning peaches, but then I realized I liked peach jam much more than I liked canning peaches.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:56 PM (rbvCR)

80 > Unless you have diagnosed GI issues, the loss of flavor and, to a greater degree, color, obviates the soaking step, which has the added burden of planning ahead and taking up fridge space.

Nope. Not the same. I've tried all the various "quick" methods, but none of them come out as good as properly-soaked beans.

I'm not sure what you mean by "fridge space". I just put them in the pot and put it on the top of the fridge or a cabinet. There's no reason to refrigerate them while soaking.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 04:59 PM (IG3/x)

81 One thing I do have to report on the spouse's Kashi Go experiment.

He tried the Honey Almond 10+10 flavor. It was wildly better than the 12+12 leaves and twigs, but still has not beaten the initial peanut butter 10+10. In fact peanut butter is still in the lead to such an extent that the spouse realized I didn't like it and took my open box to work before he took the unopened chocolate for trying. So, it's gonna eventually take a lot of chocolate to beat PB.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 05:00 PM (tOcjL)

82 I'm not sure what you mean by "fridge space". I just put them in the pot and put it on the top of the fridge or a cabinet. There's no reason to refrigerate them while soaking.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgi

Hard to get a good fermentation going on in the fridge.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 05:00 PM (/lPRQ)

83 Tousi going live on EweTube RE: Failed Iran Talks

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 05:00 PM (/lPRQ)

84 Asparagus: I cut off the woody bits then steam for 10ish minutes before roasting in butter and garlic. S&P to taste and maybe a dusting of grated parmesan and voila: my go to veg side for big groups.

Posted by: RS at May 24, 2026 05:03 PM (GYx3d)

85 I don't soak beans before cooking. I make sure they're washed, and then I cook them allllll day or night in the crock pot.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 05:03 PM (h7ZuX)

86 Tried last week’s recipe, chicken with cornbread or cornbread with chicken, whatever it was, meh! I prefer fried chicken with a side of cornbread.
Local supermarket had gigantic ribeyes on sale for 16.99/lb. Did them on the pellet grill and they were fabulous. May have to go back and purchase a few more. Right now it’s time for a nap.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 24, 2026 05:04 PM (2NHgQ)

87 These are whiskey bullets. They perform two functions.
1) It is how Texans cool their drink without ice melting and diluting said drink.
2) It gets you and your family a free tour of @DublinAirport baggage transfer and screening under armed airport police supervision when you have it in checked baggage [ . . . ]

https://tinyurl.com/393t48cn
Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:47 PM (rbvCR)

I have those. They're good for keeping a couple of drinks cool, but you'll need multiple "magazines" for additional rounds. And I've had corkscrews taken from me at airports, so can only imagine the hilarity that would ensue if TSA found THOSE in my carry on...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 05:04 PM (nbLIj)

88 "There's no reason to refrigerate them while soaking."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Agreed.

Posted by: RS at May 24, 2026 05:05 PM (GYx3d)

89 Next year I am going to go all in on planting horseradish instead.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (rbvCR)
__________________________

Now you're taking my language. I grow horseradish and have learned a few things. I've found that the best way to keep the spread under control is to make a simple raised platform above the rest of the garden. I used old railroad ties to create a raised patch.

You'll want constant sun on them, and the separated platform allows you to keep the soil damp (but not saturated).

Homegrown horseradish is about 5x stronger than store bought. You can control the strength a bit using vineagar...but trust me, fresh horseradish recently grated is going to open your sinuses all the way to the back of your head. IT'S AWESOME.

Posted by: Orson at May 24, 2026 05:07 PM (dIske)

90 Why not sous vide them until tender?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2026 04:16 PM (oyck1)

You are probably poking fun at me, but that is a good idea!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 05:08 PM (iERP6)

91 Just finished rosemary garlic chicken with lemon, potatoes and steamed broccoli for son and spouse. I wasn't really hungry so I had leftovers from after church where we had raspberries, cherries and whipped cream. and goat cheese wrapped in cranberries with crackers.🙂 It went along with the red color for Pentecost.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2026 05:09 PM (OYsYV)

92 Mine was a pork loin with a peach chutney.

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 04:23 PM (rj6Yv)

Classic!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 05:10 PM (iERP6)

First World Problems...

What the hell am I going to do with this thing? First of all, it weighs 17 pounds. Second, film was last made for it in 1977 (total guess*). Third, modern digital cameras produce superb quality photographs, and my eye for the fine points of photography does not extend to the qualitative difference between film colors and digital colors.

And all of this means nothing, because it was my wife's grandfather's camera, and we can never discard it.

This x 1,000 is why I want to burn the place down and start over!

*Ooh! I was close. The last color film was manufactured in 1977, and the last black & white film was made in 1992.

Posted by: CBD at 02:55 PM

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1 Those were the days!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (8schn)

2 Isn't that the same miniature camera model OSS used to take photos of NAZI war plans?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (/lPRQ)

3 I was on a plane, and the internet wasn't working...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (c6sRh)

4
CBD,

I hope you are having a good. day.

Thank you for all you do to keep this place going.

Posted by: four seasons at May 24, 2026 02:58 PM (3ek7K)

5 I was on a plane, and the internet wasn't working...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (c6sRh)
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Was it a fly-by-wire plane?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 02:59 PM (8schn)

6 Donate it to a museum or college so she can see it without you possessing it. I mean I'd be tossing it in the trash after showing her the pic you took (so she still has the memory of it), but I'm a townhome owner, so I'm ruthless on useless stuff. No use, no use here.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 02:59 PM (tOcjL)

7 So, I guess there's no hope for my Polaroid Swinger.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 24, 2026 02:59 PM (3ImbR)

8 ebay, and then use the money for steaks

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2026 03:00 PM (oyck1)

9 Thanks to Hour of the Wolf for the heads-up. Willow'd:

Who was the 'journalist' that Ace said should get a hot dog stand, because he looked like he'd be really great at slinging dogs? It was a whole article of its own, with riffs like how he could probably pay for his retirement by just parking outside Brian Stelter's studio.

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 03:00 PM (Sy6m/)

10 @ScottJenningsKY
·
38m
🚨After receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following:

-USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING

AND NO CHICKS FOR FREE

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

11 So, I guess there's no hope for my Polaroid Swinger.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 24, 2026 02:59 PM (3ImbR)
-

It was only a nickel less than the price in town.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 03:02 PM (8schn)

12 Actually, that's pretty cool. I'd like to have one. I wouldn't buy it, but if I had it I'd display it on a bookshelf. I have a few old cameras I keep on my bookshelf, sort of a Man Cave thing.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2026 03:03 PM (4BekB)

13 FWP:

my grocer no longer carries Family Size Keebler Sandies

all is lost...

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:03 PM (ZxPkt)

14 Antiques Roadshow? We'll see you and your wife there!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 24, 2026 03:03 PM (NFX2v)

15 So, I guess there's no hope for my Polaroid Swinger.
Posted by: IrishEi ?!

Just search the net for "Polaroid Swinger film".
Plenty out there.

Turn off 'safe-search' for best results.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 03:03 PM (/lPRQ)

16 As said downstairs, my 1WP is I self inflicted wrecking my tailgate on mh truck. I shut it and that msde it worse as can't open it now.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 03:04 PM (Ia/+0)

17 CBD, I inherited 2 ancient cameras from an aunt

one like above, and the other a Box Brownie
I kept them for a while, then gave them away to a collector

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:05 PM (ZxPkt)

18 Way back in 80s, had a camera not unlike that thst instant pictures. Got film a couple times and played with it

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 03:05 PM (Ia/+0)

19 I bought Mom and Dad a Polaroid 440 camera and kit as a present. This was at the Danang PX where there was any number of high quality Jap cameras available. Mom and Dad wanted one of those Polaroids. I should have bought a couple cases of film.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2026 03:06 PM (gm9Sb)

20 > that msde it worse as can't open it now.

Posted by: Skip
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try a bigger hammer

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:06 PM (ZxPkt)

21 -USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING

AND NO CHICKS FOR FREE
Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

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How are they going to move these refrigerators? How are they going to move these color TVs?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2026 03:06 PM (n9eFH)

22 If you have someone who is a photographer or interested in photography, decorating with a few antique cameras on the wall is a cool idea!

Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:06 PM (Wmg4n)

23 USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING

AND NO CHICKS FOR FREE
Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:02 PM (ZxPkt)

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How are they going to move these refrigerators? How are they going to move these color TVs?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2026 03:06 PM (n9eFH)

They can join China's Belt and Road initiative.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 03:07 PM (qx7Zg)

24 I just bought a new dishwasher. Yay.

Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:08 PM (Wmg4n)

25 Isn't that the same miniature camera model OSS used to take photos of NAZI war plans?
——

Ha! Ironically from my reading of the wartime spook stuff, German (or Swiss maybe) miniatures were preferred or practical for that stuff. As might be envisioned, they were hard to get for allies. One thing they came up too, was the “Microdot”or miniature documents contained in the sentence at the end of a period in an otherwise ordinary letter or document.

While it was totally illegal nobody cared too much, and the FBI and other orgs opened a lot of mail. Disappearing ink, ciphers, all sorts of stuff.

One thing that put the US at a disadvantage, considerable intelligence could be gleaned by going to any decent sized library, and subscribing to major magazines. “Aviation Leak” it was termed.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:08 PM (sEgd8)

26 I just bought a new dishwasher. Yay.
Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:08 PM (Wmg4n)

Saijo isn't cutting it as a pre-washer?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 03:09 PM (qx7Zg)

27 Find a young(er) relative who is a camera nut and make it a gift?

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:09 PM (6wpGE)

28 Skip, is the tailgate electric open or manual? There are you tube videos that show you how to get into the tailgate from the inside panel to use an emergency manual override of the electric button to open the gate. We had to do that once on a tailgate that malfunctioned and wouldn’t open with the button on the gate nor the key fob.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2026 03:10 PM (M4pvf)

29
my grocer no longer carries Family Size Keebler Sandies

all is lost...
Posted by: Don Black

Don't despair!

https://tinyurl.com/mryxmkff

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 24, 2026 03:10 PM (oyck1)

30 -USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING

AND NO CHICKS FOR FREE
Posted by: Don Black
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Coming up to 10:45 PM in Tehran, we'll see how negotiations are going in a little while.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 03:11 PM (pRWl6)

31 25 German cameras, binoculars, etc. were always prized for clarity in lenses. Fun fact. During the First World War, trade continued between Britain and Germany, German lenses for Brit rubber, until mid 1915.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2026 03:11 PM (gm9Sb)

32 My FWP is that I have a working scanner, so I can now hear the police reports about dogs locked in cars with all the windows up and engine off.

F'in Idiots!

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

33 3 I was on a plane
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (c6sRh)

I thought you were gonna say you were in the pool.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (6wpGE)

34 26 I just bought a new dishwasher. Yay.
Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:08 PM (Wmg4n)

Saijo isn't cutting it as a pre-washer?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 03:09 PM

Ha! Saijo is actually really funny about food. I am not sure if it is because he spent the first 9 months of his life in a cage, but he won’t eat anything and everything. If you offer him something he doesn’t like, he will very gingerly take it from you, and then spit it out in a corner of the room. Almost like he doesn’t want to offend you.

Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (Wmg4n)

35 What you’ll quickly find, good used tailgates are proportionally expensive. And the paint won’t even match.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (sEgd8)

36 Manual opening, will try again when its not miserable outside.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 03:13 PM (Ia/+0)

37 33 3 I was on a plane
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (c6sRh)

I thought you were gonna say you were in the pool.
Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (6wpGE)

Not in this weather...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 03:13 PM (tOcjL)

38 37 33 3 I was on a plane
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (c6sRh)

I thought you were gonna say you were in the pool.
Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (6wpGE)

Not in this weather...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 24, 2026 03:13 PM (tOcjL)

NTTAWWT

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:14 PM (6wpGE)

39 My grandfather was in the Army Air Service after WWI (he didn't finish flight school until after the armistice), and his assignment was to monitor Germany's compliance with the Treaty of Versailles, taking lots of photos to document what they were doing. I have the camera he used for that, and every camera he ever owned since. The best one is the Realist, a 3-D camera. They still make the film for that.

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at May 24, 2026 03:14 PM (+2GyC)

40 32 My FWP is that I have a working scanner, so I can now hear the police reports about dogs locked in cars with all the windows up and engine off.

F'in Idiots!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (qx7Zg)

What do those people get charged with, do you know?

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:14 PM (6wpGE)

41 FWD!!

Not used to being up during the daytime. Must try to stay awake.....zzzzzzzzz

Actually I'm fine, just a bit groggy. I'm making lists of things to do and not forget before I travel across the mighty Appalachians to my former homestead in Pennsyltucky! Thinking of visiting the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site and the Horseshoe Curve National Historic Site. Its on my route home, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 03:15 PM (sAmhv)

42 Deal is off! no deal !!
Lol
Our Dear Leader got an angry call from Bibi

And the GOP warhawks

He calls into ABC News in total panic

Posted by: Paul at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (1xQU5)

43 There must be some artisanal hipster film manufacturer who can make some replacement film for you.

Then you can stage a 1977 party and have everyone dress period-appropriate for a photo shoot. A little weed, a little wine...

Nothing Bob Crane-y, mind you.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (kpS4V)

44 My kid got a new Polaroid for Xmas. She loves it. She is fascinated by old tech.

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (1ZN8d)

45 41:

FWP!!!!

Oops....

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (sAmhv)

46 That is an, absolutely wonderful, display piece. I'd center it on a shelf surrounded by old family photos.

My 29 year old eyes suggest that is a 1947 or 48 Polaroid Land Camera Model 95. You're not going to use it again unless you hire someone to alter it's guts and make it more conduscent to modern film. That one has no replacement film options.

Were it me, I'd find a nice antique table that catches the eye on its own, center the camera in the middle and surround it with very old photos of relatives including its original owner.

Posted by: Orson at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (dIske)

47 Polaroid Swinger trivia:

The Swinger's catchy commercial jingle was written by....

Barry Manilow!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (8schn)

48 I've ordered cookies off Amazon before. They suffer in transit.

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (ZxPkt)

49 but thnx for the tip

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:17 PM (ZxPkt)

50 40 32 A friend in Ohio bought a scanner at Radio Shack, and got lucky that it had the local cop cristals. Listening in, he heard the news about his idiot kid getting locked up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2026 03:17 PM (gm9Sb)

51 Troll sighting.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:17 PM (6wpGE)

52 Been watching A Bridge Too Far, still 1/2 hour to go

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)

53 That is a lovely camera. I am sure you will treat it well.

Posted by: EFG at May 24, 2026 03:18 PM (nGRqb)

54 I've ordered cookies off Amazon before. They suffer in transit.

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (ZxPkt)
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Sounds like they need to be comforted after they arrive. Perhaps they have a chip on their shoulder.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 03:19 PM (8schn)

55 I still have - what? - 3 or 5 old Polaroid cameras WITH the proper cases. One has an electro-acoustic rangefinder. They are such neat cameras - and I enjoyed the hell out of 'em - I can't get rid of them. Yes, I still have an UNOPENED pack of film for one of them … but I don't want to open it 'cos I can't buy more now.

Posted by: Dr_No at May 24, 2026 03:19 PM (ayRl+)

56 My FWP is that I have a working scanner, so I can now hear the police reports about dogs locked in cars with all the windows up and engine off.

F'in Idiots!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (qx7Zg)

What do those people get charged with, do you know?
Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:14 PM (6wpGE)

I heard the initial report, but had to step away, so I didn't get to hear the result.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 03:20 PM (qx7Zg)

57 There is a collector hobby market for vintage cameras and film. I guess it keeps OK if sealed up well and refrigerated. Getting it developed might be a problem. Kodachrome was a specialized process.

Flashcubes. Remember those? I’m sure they sell well on eBay.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:20 PM (sEgd8)

58 54 I've ordered cookies off Amazon before. They suffer in transit.

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (ZxPkt)
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Sounds like they need to be comforted after they arrive. Perhaps they have a chip on their shoulder.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 03:19 PM (8schn)

They could be sprinkled on icecream. The drear work of chopping them into sprinkle-sized pieces having already been done.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:22 PM (6wpGE)

59 My FWP is that I have a working scanner, so I can now hear the police reports about dogs locked in cars with all the windows up and engine off.

F'in Idiots!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (qx7Zg)

What do those people get charged with, do you know?
Posted by: m
===

Worked with a lady who locked her baby in the car.

She said as soon as the door closed, she realized the keys were still in it, looked in window, yup, keys in there. Started to mouth "oh, shit" as she turned around, saw a big enough rock, swooped it up, stepped to the back window, and SMASH. Not even ten seconds tops.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 03:22 PM (/lPRQ)

60 41 FWD!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 03:15 PM (sAmhv)

45 41: FWP!!!!
Oops....
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 03:16 PM (sAmhv)

FWD FWP!

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:23 PM (6wpGE)

61 Kodak says if the 1924 British Everest expedition camera carried by George Mallory could be found, there should still be usable images upon development. Cold and dry up at 29000 feet.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:24 PM (sEgd8)

62 I'm in the midst of digitally archiving many family artifacts. Earlier this week I came across a 1968 Polaroid of my father and his siblings.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 03:24 PM (2Ez/1)

63 Old cameras look good as sculptures on a shelf if you have a number of them.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2026 03:26 PM (n5tGW)

64 Polaroid Swinger trivia:

The Swinger's catchy commercial jingle was written by....
Barry Manilow!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

More trivia -

Before the Polaroid "Swinger" they were known as "people of the inverted pineapple".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 03:26 PM (/lPRQ)

65 >Kodachrome was a specialized process.
+++

You could write a song about that.

Posted by: P. Simon at May 24, 2026 03:27 PM (2Ez/1)

66 65 >Kodachrome was a specialized process.
+++

You could write a song about that.
Posted by: P. Simon at May 24, 2026 03:27 PM (2Ez/1)

It gives you the nice, bright colors.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:28 PM (6wpGE)

67 Edward Land, inventor of the Polaroid, was a standup guy and played a large though largely unknown role in high altitude spy photography for the U-2 and subsequent space satellite imagery.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:28 PM (sEgd8)

68 A Smithsonian donation seems appropriate.

Posted by: Patrick at May 24, 2026 03:28 PM (9UngV)

69 >Edward Land, inventor of the Polaroid, was a standup guy and played a large though largely unknown role in high altitude spy photography for the U-2 and subsequent space satellite imagery.
-----

and taking naughty photos of the missus
snap snap grin grin

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:30 PM (ZxPkt)

70 Certainly could be interesting to search web for old film

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 03:30 PM (Ia/+0)

71 Paul, you finish your homework or I'll take it away!

Posted by: Mama at May 24, 2026 03:30 PM (2Ez/1)

72 I just bought a new dishwasher. Yay.
Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:08 PM (Wmg4n)

I am pulling the motor out of my clothes washer today to see if that is the reason it stopped working.
Seriously, it is that, the clutch or the timer switches, since that is pretty much all that I have not removed and inspected, and none of the other options smell like fried electrical equipment.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 03:30 PM (rbvCR)

73 (sEgd

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at May 24, 2026 03:31 PM (as+Gn)

74 Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Say no more, say no more!

Posted by: Is she a goer? at May 24, 2026 03:32 PM (2Ez/1)

75 "Edward Land, inventor of the Polaroid, "

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I think you mean Edwin Land.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at May 24, 2026 03:32 PM (n9eFH)

76 >>>@13 FWP: my grocer no longer carries Family Size Keebler Sandies ... all is lost ...Posted by: Don Black
==================
Greetings, DB ... Cat Scratch Kitchen has a Youtube video named "The Best Copycat Keebler Sandies Recipe You Need to Try" ... Recipe ingredients and directions are included.

Posted by: Kathy at May 24, 2026 03:32 PM (zuKcR)

77 The Soviets took the first photos of the far side of the Moon. But they used American film - special thin film stuff confiscated from a downed plane

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:33 PM (sEgd8)

78 It's gorgeous. Display it on a shelf.

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at May 24, 2026 03:33 PM (yFfLy)

79 What a macaroon!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at May 24, 2026 03:31 PM (as+Gn)
-

I won't forget that!

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm at May 24, 2026 03:33 PM (8schn)

80
Every time I throw something like this away, I need it 3 years later -- or I see one on the internet for $10,000.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 03:34 PM (n7rxJ)

81 I have a 100+ year old Leica 35mm camera. Ridiculously complicated.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2026 03:34 PM (jehhT)

82 ! Fucking spell correct

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:34 PM (sEgd8)

83 There may be a collector who will pay good Money, and give it a good home.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at May 24, 2026 03:34 PM (P+ul4)

84 Certainly could be interesting to search web for old film
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 03:30 PM (Ia/+0)

It used to be possible to source old film types from Czechia and Serbia (probably Serbia, maybe Montenegro, I forget) since they had the old Agfa-type Soviet era producers.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 03:34 PM (rbvCR)

85 TY Kathy

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 03:34 PM (ZxPkt)

86 Certainly could be interesting to search web for old film
Posted by: Skip
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15 So, I guess there's no hope for my Polaroid Swinger.
Posted by: IrishEi ?!

Just search the net for "Polaroid Swinger film".
Plenty out there.

Turn off 'safe-search' for best results.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 03:35 PM (/lPRQ)

87 >>>Just search the net for "Polaroid Swinger film".
Plenty out there.
~~~~~

Last time I used it was at a Harlem Globetrotters game. If I hadn't written on the photos, you might have thought they were pictures from a family album of ants.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 24, 2026 03:35 PM (3ImbR)

88 Who was the 'journalist' that Ace said should get a hot dog stand, because he looked like he'd be really great at slinging dogs? It was a whole article of its own, with riffs like how he could probably pay for his retirement by just parking outside Brian Stelter's studio.
Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 03:00 PM (Sy6m/)

Oh I remember now, it was Chris Hayes. And with that, I was able to find it and discover that I misremembered: it wasn't Stelter funding his retirement, it was Ed Schultz covering the rent.

March 13, 2015

And Now a Polite and High-Minded Conversation With Chris Hayes In Which We Discuss The Important Matters of The Day As Well as His Future With MSNBC

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/355499.php

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 03:35 PM (Sy6m/)

89 76 >>>@13 FWP: my grocer no longer carries Family Size Keebler Sandies ... all is lost ...Posted by: Don Black
==================

If you happen to live near an Aldi:

https://tinyurl.com/ywtd4y6y

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 03:36 PM (2Ez/1)

90
I just bought a new dishwasher. Yay.
Posted by: Piper

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

Yay indeed! What kind?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 03:36 PM (n7rxJ)

91 When I was a kid I thought that "Land camera" meant that it wasn't suitable for underwater use. I had no idea that the guy who invented it was named Land.

There are several outfits that've geared up to start manufacturing Polaroid films again, though I don't recall seeing any for cameras this old.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 03:38 PM (IG3/x)

92 Yay indeed! What kind?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 03:36 PM (n7rxJ)

Mine is a brunette.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 03:38 PM (594J6)

93
As much as I know that I was a much better photographer with film and my Canon AE-1 and a span of five lenses from macro through "regular" to telephoto. when the time came to say, "Adios!" to them, I did so with only the slightest twinge of regret.

My photos that I liked best, because I had to work at them, were of people, particularly our scouts, engaged in their activities. Vistas, landscapes, and the like I conceded to others.

A camera on a smart phone is vood enough for me and mine at this stage. Have I surrendered something? Sure. But I have other areas where I wish to be creative, too.

So it goes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 03:39 PM (s9VOe)

94 92 Yay indeed! What kind?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 03:36 PM (n7rxJ)

Mine is a brunette.
Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 03:38 PM
____
The horde never disappoints.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 03:40 PM (2Ez/1)

95 Start searching for a collector that wants that camera (might take 3 years of on and off searching) and unload it to said collector for a pretty penny, otherwise it will be worthless.

For the purpose of memories, open that thing up, set it on a dark mat, and take multiple digital pictures of it from every angle, then your wife can look at those when she wants to.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 03:40 PM (O7YUW)

96 Yay indeed! What kind?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 03:36 PM (n7rxJ)

Mine is a brunette.
Posted by: Reforger

So is mine.

Wait a minute....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2026 03:41 PM (as+Gn)

97 Henry Ford museum in Dearborn MI would be a great contact. They have an online contact form to submit for discussion on placing your item and their displays of this type of item are top notch.It would be preserved and cataloged with your wife’s grandfather’s name and will be seen by thousands of people rather than being stored away at your home.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 24, 2026 03:41 PM (M4pvf)

98 Edward Land, inventor of the Polaroid, was a standup guy and played a large though largely unknown role in high altitude spy photography for the U-2 and subsequent space satellite imagery.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:28 PM (sEgd

True.
There was a time when where Land worked was classified when connecting that location with film.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2026 03:42 PM (2WIwB)

99 FWP!!!

I just rebooted my gateway. The Internet just.....stopped. I was watching the Indy 500 and then it just stopped. A spinning circle letting me know something is amiss. So, with my decades worth of advanced technical experience, I rebooted the gateway. Hope that works.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 03:42 PM (0FDsh)

100
Chris Hayes, if I recall correctly, wrote of sobbing softly into the sleeve of his sweater. About what? Who the hell knows?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 03:42 PM (s9VOe)

101 I carried an AE-1 and all the accessories and lenses and accoutrements (including, a fucking Tripod) on a backpack trip through Grand Teton NP. This was in addition to all the other stuff ordinarily carried in a backpack in the 1980s

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:42 PM (sEgd8)

102 Oh shit. Here she comes.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 03:43 PM (594J6)

103 You can modify these to shoot 120 with 3d printed parts.
I have one of these in my collection but haven't modded it yet.
I still like to shoot film as a hobby, mostly because my Dad left me a decent Olympus with a full load of lenses. It helps that you can now pick up lenses and accesories for next to nothing.

Posted by: stv at May 24, 2026 03:43 PM (XMeSM)

104 My FWP:
Commercials that use a door bell that sounds exactly like mine.

Assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2026 03:44 PM (2WIwB)

105
Henry Ford museum in Dearborn MI would be a great contact. They have an online contact form to submit for discussion on placing your item and their displays of this type of item are top notch.It would be preserved and cataloged with your wife’s grandfather’s name and will be seen by thousands of people rather than being stored away at your home.
Posted by: Jen the original

Well, at least until the local Moo Slims go all jihadist and sack and burn the place down the ground.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 03:45 PM (s9VOe)

106 You can make your own film, you know.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 03:45 PM (vFG9F)

107 DanMa'am hung onto some film from a projector from the mid 50s to early 60s, family films made by her dad. Sent them of to those guys that do old films. Got three CDs worth of excellent color films ranging from her parents first house in Denver (under construction and finished), many days on the beach in La Jolla and a lot of her as a baby to about 5 years old with her little brother. And the cars of the era.

Very cool stuff.

Posted by: DanMan at May 24, 2026 03:46 PM (8uzBS)

108 I later sold the whole shootin’ match for $175, not too bad I thought. Telephoto, standard lens, etc. the flash device even still worked. There is still a market. I think it went to eastern europe or some russia adjacent place

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:46 PM (sEgd8)

109 > Kodachrome was a specialized process.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 03:20 PM (sEgd

Yep. Processes C-41 and E-6 (color negative and Ektachrome color slides respectively) could be done at a local lab or even at home with a bit of care. Process K-14 (Kodachrome color slides) was...not easy to process. You had to have an actual analytic chemist on staff if you wanted to get good results.

Part of it was that Kodachrome was actually dyed during development, while the others had the dyes already in their specific layers of the film. However, this meant that you could use super-mondo-skookum dyes, making for unmatched image quality and image stability.

Ektachrome slides from the 70s mostly look like ass. Properly stored Kodachrome still looks grerat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 24, 2026 03:46 PM (IG3/x)

110 I've been informed that the vacuum cleaner needs to get to work.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 03:46 PM (594J6)

111
I am pulling the motor out of my clothes washer today to see if that is the reason it stopped working.
Seriously, it is that, the clutch or the timer switches, since that is pretty much all that I have not removed and inspected, and none of the other options smell like fried electrical equipment.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026

We have already replaced the washing machine we bought when we built the house. It’s crazy, the part that was broken was more than a new machine.

I definitely upgraded the dishwasher from what the builders put in with this purchase, hopefully that makes a difference.

Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:46 PM (Wmg4n)

112 OT- Babylon Bee

Study finds link between checking the news and wishing Jesus to return:

https://tinyurl.com/2z9fnwmh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2026 03:47 PM (looXz)

113 I'd like, as one of the Troublesome Texans on this blog, to observe that every FWP presented so far in this series is hylic in nature.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 03:48 PM (0sNs1)

114 Did you get an AI dishwasher that arranges the dishes for you?

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 03:48 PM (vFG9F)

115 I still have a Nikon F2 35mm SLR which I got in 1977. Haven't thought about finding film, but can't get rid of it either.

Posted by: RS at May 24, 2026 03:48 PM (GYx3d)

116 78 It's gorgeous. Display it on a shelf.
Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at May 24, 2026 03:33 PM (yFfLy)

That would require dusting?!!!???

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:48 PM (6wpGE)

117 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 03:42 PM (s9VOe)

According to Brave AI, Hayes "tweeted the phrase 'Looking out the window and quietly crying into my sweater' in April 2007."

"The search context does not specify the exact personal reason for his distress at that time, noting only that he was working as a writing fellow at the Nation Institute and a contributing writer at The Nation magazine."

Musical interlude:

The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/GCdwKhTtNNw

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 03:49 PM (Sy6m/)

118 I've been informed that the vacuum cleaner needs to get to work.
Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 03:46 PM

Doing the sucking that failed Presidential candidates won't do?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 03:49 PM (0sNs1)

119 Almost surely already covered, but I thought Fuji continues to make film. Possibly other manufacturers.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 24, 2026 03:49 PM (U/Byj)

120 90
I just bought a new dishwasher. Yay.
Posted by: Piper

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Yay indeed! What kind?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 03:36 PM (n7rxJ)

Bosch 800, black stainless.

Posted by: Piper at May 24, 2026 03:50 PM (Wmg4n)

121 I bought one of the early digital cameras; a Sony Mavica. It took a 3.5 inch floppy disk. 1998.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2026 03:50 PM (jehhT)

122 I love stuff like that camera. It's even cooler if it works.

I love the little hinges and springs and buttons and all the nickel-plated hardware. Cute!

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 24, 2026 03:51 PM (FMtrg)

123 121 I bought one of the early digital cameras; a Sony Mavica. It took a 3.5 inch floppy disk. 1998.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2026 03:50 PM (jehhT)

A floppy disk? That's one of those 3-D prints of a Save icon, right?

Posted by: Kids these days at May 24, 2026 03:52 PM (n9eFH)

124
One can tell gobsmacking whoppers when viewing old and faded Polaroid photos with one's grandchildren.

"Oh, that was a day when the Sun was especially bright and its light overexposed photos often. All the swells wore sunglasses all the time."

"Now, that was a day with really heavy fog. Moms used to admonish us, 'Don't go outside without your galoshes, Dougie -- you know how slippery things get in this fog!"'

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 03:53 PM (s9VOe)

125 It's gorgeous. Display it on a shelf.
Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at May 24, 2026 03:33 PM (yFfLy)

That would require dusting?!!!???
Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:48 PM (6wpGE)

Don't block access to the whiskey!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2026 03:53 PM (2WIwB)

126 After the Butlerian Jihad, digital cameras are outlawed and this camera will be cutting edge again.

Posted by: Goatweed at May 24, 2026 03:53 PM (jK3NL)

127 Was freezing while it was drizzling. Now boiling. Backwoods Indiana, I love you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 03:53 PM (IifvS)

128 "black stainless"

+++
Guess that rules me out.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at May 24, 2026 03:54 PM (2Ez/1)

129 Indy 500 going to go to a shoot out.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2026 03:56 PM (n5tGW)

130 Was going to fix my Krups coffee grinder (estimated age, 25 years+). Opened it up, only problem, as I thought, was some of the coating on the power wire had cracked, leading to a semi-break in the wire. Seems fairly easy to re-wire it using existing cord. Then I thought - well the cord is all old, it will likely crack again (just inside the housing, not where you can touch it).

So getting out the large pry bar to open up my wallet and spend the $25 for a new one. Utter defeat.

Hoping the krauts' QC on small appliances remains near perfect.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 24, 2026 03:56 PM (U/Byj)

131 >>>>every FWP presented so far in this series is hylic in nature.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 03:48 PM (0sNs1)
*****
And YES! I had to look that up.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2026 03:56 PM (4BekB)

132
Our daughter took my Canon AE-1 and accessories off my hands. She has arteest friends who will put them to good use, and for that I an glad.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 03:57 PM (s9VOe)

133 113 I'd like, as one of the Troublesome Texans on this blog, to observe that every FWP presented so far in this series is hylic in nature.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2026 03:48 PM (0sNs1)

wut

hylic
adjective rare
relating to matter; material.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:58 PM (6wpGE)

134 > 'Don't go outside without your galoshes, Dougie -- you know how slippery things get in this fog!"'
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 03:53 PM (s9VOe)

Come out of the garden, baby
You'll catch your death in the fog
Young girl...they call them the diamond dogs

Posted by: David Bowie at May 24, 2026 03:58 PM (IG3/x)

135 Guess I could buy new power cord with a plug and just attach the contacts, so another 25 years before that problem recurs.

So, humiliation, not just defeat. Easier to click the online store icon then fix it.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 24, 2026 03:59 PM (U/Byj)

136 How's this for an FWP and a land camera?!

https://tinyurl.com/2nk3xrjn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 03:59 PM (8schn)

137 I carried an AE-1 and all the accessories and lenses and accoutrements (including, a fucking Tripod) on a backpack trip through Grand Teton NP. This was in addition to all the other stuff ordinarily carried in a backpack in the 1980s
Posted by: Common Tater
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My backpacking days in the 70-80s were documented with a Rollie 35 and Kodachrome slides. I have some of the family there. We took the easy route - take the ski lift up, then walk down. 3 days.
That's another "one of these days". Scanning two shoe boxes of slides.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 24, 2026 04:00 PM (mSL0+)

138 The kids/grandkids came over earlier for our cookout. It's been pouring rain for a week and, of course it poured today.

I grilled in the garage. My truck smells wonderful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2026 04:00 PM (jehhT)

139 I think this week I'm going to finally install the stove top I found on a jobsite 18 years ago. Upgrades to stuff that had already been installed. So new but roughly removed once.
The one in my trailer is really showing it's age.

Vacuuming is done though.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 04:01 PM (594J6)

140 Wouldn't want to call you late for supper
FOOD NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:02 PM (Ia/+0)

141 It goes in a curio cabinet. Out of space in your curio cabinet? You buy another curio cabinet. At least this is the "solution" I've found for this sort of problem. For various definitions of the word "solution".

Basically, you're making a museum of you. Once you have enough curio cabinets you get tour guides, a concession stand, and headphones with oral history by voice actors to hand visitors, that sort of thing.

I'm hoping to one day be able to have an amusement park section with a jungle themed logjam ride for weary visitors that need to cool off.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 24, 2026 04:03 PM (3uBP9)

142 Top pic looks very similar to the Kodak Brownie that I took on my first class trip. Went to the Crystal Caverns in PA. On the bus ride out, we passed the Union water sphere just off the Garden State Parkway. At the time it was billed as the world's largest water sphere, so by way of testing the camera and my Ansel Adams chops, I snapped a pic from the back of the bus. Saved the rest of the film for the amazing sights from the caverns.

Got the film back from the developer, and the water sphere shot was the only one that printed. Perfectly framed, and world's tallest at the time though, so I got that going for me...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 04:03 PM (nbLIj)

143 For folks with old film cameras (raises my hand), film is still made for 35mm, 120 rolls for twin lens reflex, and 4x5 inch sheet film for old press cameras. The prices make me gasp when I think about what I paid thirty years ago but it is available. If I got back into film photography again I would revive my darkroom gear as well. Most film developing and printing is simple and procedural, not rocket science. I've seen some photos my grandfather took of my aunt in a high chair during WW I. He developed the film in their bath tub and printed with daylight exposure.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 04:04 PM (yTvNw)

144 142 Went to the Crystal Caverns in PA. On the bus ride out, we passed the Union water sphere just off the Garden State Parkway. At the time it was billed as the world's largest water sphere, so by way of testing the camera and my Ansel Adams chops, I snapped a pic from the back of the bus.
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 04:03 PM (nbLIj)

Cool. I had to look up "water sphere," and then "Union water sphere." I think I would've called that a "water tower"; I guess it's one type of water tower?

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:09 PM (6wpGE)

145 81 I have a 100+ year old Leica 35mm camera. Ridiculously complicated.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2026 03:34 PM (jehhT)

heh

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:10 PM (6wpGE)

146 Cool. I had to look up "water sphere," and then "Union water sphere." I think I would've called that a "water tower"; I guess it's one type of water tower?
Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:09 PM (6wpGE)

Union, NJ was home to several of the best 24 hour diners in the world, but the town fathers chose to promote the water "sphere". Tells you everything you need to know about Union, NJ...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 04:13 PM (nbLIj)

147 What a finish.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2026 04:15 PM (viF8m)

148
I grilled in the garage. My truck smells wonderful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 04:22 PM (pRWl6)

149 146 Cool. I had to look up "water sphere," and then "Union water sphere." I think I would've called that a "water tower"; I guess it's one type of water tower?
Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:09 PM (6wpGE)

Union, NJ was home to several of the best 24 hour diners in the world, but the town fathers chose to promote the water "sphere". Tells you everything you need to know about Union, NJ...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 04:13 PM (nbLIj)

; )

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (6wpGE)

150 Really fun race, glad they didn't finish under yellow.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 24, 2026 04:27 PM (n5tGW)

151 2 Isn't that the same miniature camera model OSS used to take photos of NAZI war plans?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (/lPRQ)
Smuggled in your rectum.

Posted by: Eromero at May 24, 2026 05:02 PM (LHPAg)

The All-Encompassing Naïveté of The True Believers

Nicholas Kristof is entirely unimportant. His laughable article claiming that Israel uses trained dogs to sexually assault Palestinian prisoners is clownish and will disappear without a trace, except for a small group of rabid Jew-haters who will dredge it up occasionally, even though it has been thoroughly debunked.

He is a reliable leftist who has spent his entire professional life cultivating an air of moral superiority, coupled with the arrogance to claim that he is in fact detached...merely an observer of the human condition.

He is unimportant because there are thousands of people exactly like him who produce a fungible product for their media masters. One ardent progressive's article about [fill in the blank] is functionally and stylistically identical to the next. Whether it is Palestine or Global Warming or EVs or clean water or racism in American policing; the stories are all the same blend of pseudo-intellectual rigor combined with hyper-emotional rhetoric designed to do one thing...sway the reader toward the progressive cant.

And they reek of that moral superiority and smugness that is so, so grating to the observant consumer. But it is mostly honest and heartfelt. Sure, some of these progressive drones pumping out identical articles about X or Y or Z are in it for the influence they believe they can exert on the body politic to sway them, and their manipulation of reality is entirely intentional.

But Kristof is almost certainly an earnest and honest reporter. That he is an ignorant fool without any understanding of the human condition is secondary to his feeling that his reporting is absolutely correct on his elevated moral plane, even if that pesky thing called "fact-checking" is conspicuously absent. Is he an anti-semite? Maybe? But he is certainly a fool.

No...the blame for that ridiculous but politically expedient article lies with the senior management of the New York Times, who knew quite well that the article was mostly nonsense...but published it anyway!

And why? Because they have a carefully constructed and longstanding policy of antagonism toward Israel and traditional Judaism. They also have a curated list of other causes that they support, including socialism. And that goes back a very long way. The editors of the New York Times were aware of Stalin's systematic starvation and murder of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933, yet they chose to ignore it because it guaranteed them access to Soviet leadership, and it furthered the cause of world socialism. Walter Duranty, the correspondent, was a useful idiot in the process.

So the next time the NYT or the WaPo or any number of reliably leftist rags and media outlets publishes such a rank and obvious propaganda piece; don't blame the writer or talking head. He may very well be complicit, but it is also likely that he is an ignorant, poorly educated, insular knucklehead who simply doesn't know enough to have an educated opinion on anything other than ketchup or mustard on a hot dog.

Blame the media bosses who have a plan, and execute it very well.

Posted by: CBD at 11:50 AM

Comments

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1 Kristof's dad was an actual Nazi

like, German army in WW2 Nazi

Posted by: just saying at May 24, 2026 11:51 AM (HglFn)

2 Morn' all

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 11:51 AM (7tT0W)

3 The defining characteristic of a Progressive is sanctimony.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:54 AM (NcvvS)

4 Good morning horde
Wait, looks at clock,
What the Hell is this doing here?

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 11:54 AM (Ia/+0)

5 Because they have a carefully constructed and longstanding policy of antagonism toward Israel and traditional Judaism. They also have a curated list of other causes that they support, including socialism.

I think they support socialism to destroy faith as there can be no faith other than Big Govt.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 11:59 AM (/+uur)

6 Julius Streicher, publisher of you-know-who's Der Stürmer was hung at Nuremberg.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 12:00 PM (2Ez/1)

7 Not sure about that "honest reporter" part...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 24, 2026 12:01 PM (XMwZJ)

8 To be clear.

The leftist 'blowback' to the dogrape article is not because Kristof unquestionably related laughably false propaganda that hurt both his and the NYT reputation (what little there is left).

No, leftist blowback is because they think he wrote BADLY and didn't PROPERLY make the case for the fact that they all know DA JOOS are using dogs to rape those poor innocent Palestinians, why didn't Kristof do a better job of writing about 'the truth'!

This is what leftists actually believe.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at May 24, 2026 12:01 PM (setIA)

9 Hey, I have a PULITZER!

Posted by: Nick Kristof at May 24, 2026 12:02 PM (u/oMr)

10 Read from a number of people who say from experts on dogs its impossible to teach them that. But no lie is out of the question to spread enough to believe.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)

11 Speaking of true believers - Fox Liberal Sunday had Hugh Hewit and a small dwindling host of GOPe true believers with the sadz...that Trump is a thug and he done done Cornyn dirty - it's a surety that now a lift-wing liberal whackadoo democrat will get elected in Texas and take Cornyn place! Oh my!

Yeah, no - because as Kristoff, has shown nothing is more pathetic than the foolish true believer.

Posted by: Boswell at May 24, 2026 12:04 PM (j10i6)

12 9 Hey, I have a PULITZER!
Posted by: Nick Kristof at May 24, 2026 12:02 PM (u/oMr)

---

And WE have Nobel Peace Prizes!

Posted by: Yasser Arafat and Barry Soetoro at May 24, 2026 12:04 PM (Ucgf4)

13 Endless blood libels.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 12:05 PM (8schn)

14 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 12:07 PM (Ia/+0)

15 11 Speaking of true believers - Fox Liberal Sunday had Hugh Hewit and a small dwindling host of GOPe true believers with the sadz...that Trump is a thug and he done done Cornyn dirty - it's a surety that now a lift-wing liberal whackadoo democrat will get elected in Texas and take Cornyn place! Oh my!

It would have been better if Trump hadn't weighed in on this race...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 12:09 PM (7tT0W)

16
insular knucklehead who simply doesn't know enough to have an educated opinion on anything other than ketchup or mustard on a hot dog.

Until that fateful sentence you were doing fine CBD, but-

that you even considered the application of ketchup to a hot dog to be a valid position means that you too are an insular knucklehead and a tool of Big Ketchup!

Terrible stirred Manhattans have addled your brain.

Good day, sir!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 12:10 PM (iJfKG)

17 How many print reporters and especially print columnists and editors are failed or wanna-be novelists, playwrights, or screen writers? This could be fascinating to know.

Posted by: Gref at May 24, 2026 12:11 PM (5rh/l)

18 Kristoff is either stupid or an antisemite. It’s quite possible he’s both. Stupid is believes what he wrote; antisemite if he’s knows it’s obvious BS but went ahead anyway

His bosses are bad people; so is he

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 24, 2026 12:11 PM (26GAh)

19 The NYT just published a lengthy response to "our questions" about Kristof's column. Think they owned up to their mistakes? Quite the opposite.
Here are just SOME of the ways this response by Kristof and @katiekings is disgusting.
And yes, they double down on the dog rape

https://tinyurl.com/4apmycbj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 12:11 PM (ndZc7)

20 what naturalfake said about ketchup. yuch

Posted by: TALACHULITNA at May 24, 2026 12:12 PM (FWYVY)

21 This could be fascinating to know.
Posted by: Gref at May 24, 2026 12:11 PM (5rh/l)

All of them.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 12:12 PM (594J6)

22 Its Marxism Propaganda, nothing else to spread

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 12:13 PM (Ia/+0)

23 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I put ketchup on hotdogs: but when I became a man, I put mustard on hotdogs — Long lost version of I Corinthians 13

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 24, 2026 12:14 PM (26GAh)

24 How can someone as spectacularly stupid, or foolish, get such a prominent platform? Does he have a gift for saying stupid things well?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 24, 2026 12:15 PM (wBzSI)

25 Cry Churban! and let slip the rape dogs of war!

Posted by: Temu Shakespeare at May 24, 2026 12:15 PM (J4Dwc)

26 The defining characteristic of a Progressive is sanctimony.
Posted by: Nazdar
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True. Let's put it into words:

"Sanctimony refers to a self-righteousness or assumed moral superiority that often involves judging others harshly"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 12:16 PM (XeU6L)

27 I don't believe Kristof is honest.
Every aware person knows that Palestinians exaggerate their casualties and stage their victimhood, so even if there are real victims among them their claims need to be treated with caution.
Kristof cannot be so naive, otherwise he would never have made it as a reporter, back in the day.

Posted by: PG at May 24, 2026 12:17 PM (Q4aSA)

28 I had a Golden Lab that would “rape” your leg sometimes. He wasn’t trained to do that nor was he an anti-Semite.

Posted by: JROD at May 24, 2026 12:17 PM (5LUfU)

29 Rumors of what a peace deal might look like.

Patrick Bet-David
@patrickbetdavid
There is a lot of noise surrounding the potential US/Iran deal.
Here’s what the rumors are so far:
- Iran has agreed to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Iran currently has 400 kg of highly enriched uranium. Enough for 11 nuclear bombs.
- The US would begin a phased unfreezing of Iran’s $6b to $30b in cash.
- The Strait of Hormuz will open up.- Iran won’t charge a penny for ships to pass through. No $2m toll fee.
- The US agrees to relieve some of the sanctions.
- War ENDS on all fronts with Lebanon.
- US forces near Iran to withdraw.
- 30 to 60 days to finalize the nuclear deal.
If true, that’s a massive victory for the President.
Here are the winners and losers.

(Continued at link)

https://tinyurl.com/43mwhj62

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)

30 *I don't believe Kristof is honest.*
+++
Hey, but he got your mouse click and page view.
That's all that counts.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 12:19 PM (2Ez/1)

31 How can someone as spectacularly stupid, or foolish, get such a prominent platform? Does he have a gift for saying stupid things well?
Posted by: Northernlurker
--------

Consider Kamala Harris...or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 12:19 PM (XeU6L)

32 Morning, CBD and Horde folks.

Taking a cool water break after replacing three deck boards in the roof. Next step: tar paper. About three sheets of that, and we are done for the day. Tomorrow morning, shingles, and the job is done. Working 7 AM to 10 AM, before it gets too hot up there. Part of the time, the tall palm tree throws some shade right where it is needed most.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 12:19 PM (8zz6B)

33 Fox Liberal Sunday had Hugh Hewit and a small dwindling host of GOPe true believers with the sadz...

Can't stand that guy...his voice is enough to make me shoot my radio. He is a lover of George Will and probably washes George's bow ties for him among other things.

Posted by: The 80's Called And They Want Hugh Back at May 24, 2026 12:19 PM (OoF9t)

34 Here are the winners and losers.

The losers are the Iranian resistance who will continue to be executed

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 12:20 PM (7tT0W)

35 Is there a newspaper remaining that ISN'T leftist crapola? Can't think of one, certainly not in any city. The New York Daily Noooz still has its moments but they are rare. The Times, WaPo, Trib, etc., aren't worth glancing at at the store let alone spending money for. I used to get a Sunday Post once in a while just to have something when cleaning fish or potting up house plants. Can't bring myself to do that anymore. Bought a roll of news print paper for those chores. And I can use it for practice sketching as well.

I find the most timely and accurate news here on Ace. Seriously.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 12:22 PM (yTvNw)

36
I find the most timely and accurate news here on Ace. Seriously.
Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 12:22 PM (yTvNw)

Me too....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 12:22 PM (7tT0W)

37 I believe printing the Kristof libel on the day before the Israeli report about 10/7 was released was not coincidence.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:23 PM (RCjYY)

38 I first time I ever heard of Hugh Hewitt he was on PBS in California. You cannot get any more RINO than that….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 24, 2026 12:23 PM (26GAh)

39 Hey, I have a PULITZER!
Posted by: Nick Kristof
---------

Hey, I got one too!

Posted by: Walter Duranty at May 24, 2026 12:24 PM (XeU6L)

40 28 I had a Golden Lab that would “rape” your leg sometimes. He wasn’t trained to do that nor was he an anti-Semite.
Posted by: JROD at May 24, 2026 12:17 PM (5LUfU)

Hes got a little Mississippi leg hound in him

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 12:24 PM (/+uur)

41 I find the most timely and accurate news here on Ace. Seriously.
Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 12:22 PM (yTvNw)

It is amazing that even 51%+ Fox articles have at least 1 PDT ding even about positive news.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 12:25 PM (/+uur)

42
Is there a newspaper remaining that ISN'T leftist crapola?

GRIT

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 12:25 PM (Cqx++)

43 National Anthem at INDY

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 12:26 PM (/+uur)

44 Fox Liberal Sunday had Hugh Hewit and a small dwindling host of GOPe true believers with the sadz...

Can't stand that guy...his voice is enough to make me shoot my radio. He is a lover of George Will and probably washes George's bow ties for him among other things.
Posted by: The 80's Called And They Want Hugh Back at May 24, 2026 12:19 PM (OoF9t)

I can still tolerate Hewitt in small doses. He shared my opinion of John McCain during that fateful primary. He also was an early critic of the GOP open border policy. Lastly, he opposed the Harriet Mier Supreme Court nomination, wherein we got Justice Alito eventually. Not a bad record for a RINO...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 24, 2026 12:27 PM (nbLIj)

45 About three sheets of that, and we are done for the day. Tomorrow morning, shingles, and the job is done. Working 7 AM to 10 AM, before it gets too hot up there. Part of the time, the tall palm tree throws some shade right where it is needed most.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------
Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fireproof...

Posted by: The Drifters at May 24, 2026 12:27 PM (XeU6L)

46 41

RE: FOX News

I've been noticing that too. It's a recent development.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:28 PM (RCjYY)

47 The Left pushes ideas that have to be disproven to their standards. Until then, what they say is true and even if they agree that an idea is disproven, the idea is not a lie or false, merely forgotten.

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:28 PM (dwe6n)

48
National Anthem at INDY

Orange smoke. It's a new pope.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 12:28 PM (Cqx++)

49 I find the most timely and accurate news here on Ace. Seriously.
——

You answered your own question. The people are the Media now.

And the long established former monopolists don’t like that one bit.

Communication is key. It used to be if something wasn’t reported, it didn’t happen. That was rather the idea, actually.

So everyone was kept isolated and in the dark. Today, if something happens in Portland or Atlanta or St. Paul, we can find out in real time.

And compare notes. Name names. And the same ones sure do pop up a lot.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 12:29 PM (FaOSD)

50 41

RE: FOX News

I've been noticing that too. It's a recent development.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:28 PM (RCjYY)

Lachlan & Sarah Murdoch

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 24, 2026 12:32 PM (TqDYN)

51
This sort of thing has been going on at least since John Reed was sucking Lenin's testicles in print.

Lately, a majority of these anti-Joo and anti-Trump internet articles are produced as fodder for news aggregators. No single article is meant to be convincing, but when there are 30-40 articles are churned out on the intertubes saying that the Joos are bad, the idea is to plant the seed in people's minds that where there's smoke, there must be fire.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2026 12:33 PM (y9nCu)

52
RE: FOX News

I've been noticing that too. It's a recent development.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:28 PM (RCjYY)

Trump put all the patriotic Fox celebs in his Administration... .... Just kidding... But maybe not

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 12:34 PM (7tT0W)

53 The losers are the Iranian resistance who will continue to be executed
Posted by: It's me donna

Yup.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 12:35 PM (ndZc7)

54 I believe printing the Kristof libel on the day before the Israeli report about 10/7 was released was not coincidence.

Absolutely. It was an op.

After centuries, you'd think they'd run out of blood libels to invent, but Jewish rape dogs is definitely a new one.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2026 12:35 PM (cJ3h6)

55 The Israelis also make matzoh ball soup with the blood of Palestinian children.

Posted by: It's Good, But A Little Too Salty at May 24, 2026 12:36 PM (oftw2)

56 Arsenal is 20 minutes from the title

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:37 PM (1ZN8d)

57 CBD showing off his privilege with the fancy umlaut and doo-dads on the naivete headline. Privilege he purchased in Tel Aviv.

Posted by: With Shekels To Spare at May 24, 2026 12:39 PM (oftw2)

58 They certainly don't make money at it.

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2026 12:40 PM (FhXTo)

59 If we weren’t putting Marines in Iran, there was no way dissidents would survive.
Biggest error of the war was the assumption that the regime would fall.

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:40 PM (1ZN8d)

60 Kristof was so arrogant that he ran for governor of Oregon in 2022, despite there being a three-year residency requirement to run for governor.

Kristof claimed that he had moved to Oregon three years prior, but he kept voting in New York elections.

Kristof and his attorneys said that he "grew up in the state" and "owns a farm there".

Translation: he's a member of the Media Elite, and shouldn't be bound by the rules that should only apply to the peasantry.

The Oregon supreme court did not find Kristof's argument to be pervasive.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2026 12:43 PM (cJ3h6)

61 And they reek of that moral superiority and smugness that is so, so grating to the observant consumer.

So...like HOA presidents.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2026 12:43 PM (2WIwB)

62 The comedy potential of a swarm of ankle humping chihuahuas chasing some Hamastani down the street is huge. Cue yakity-sax

Posted by: DaveA at May 24, 2026 12:44 PM (FhXTo)

63 You're denying Kristof's agency. He had to know his dog rapes man story is false and wrong. Had to.

Kristof and useful idiots like him can force themselves to believe, like Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984, that O'Brien is holding up five fingers, not four, even though the actual truth in front of his face is four. Winston had the excuse that he was being horribly tortured and so willed himself to believe to make the torture stop. Kristof has no excuse. He buys the lie willingly. That's a moral choice, which makes Kristof culpable.

Posted by: troyriser at May 24, 2026 12:44 PM (v1M8F)

64 I hope, and assume, that Trump will keep all the military forces near Iran in place. The emerging deal is a truce, not a peace treaty.

I don't think the world believes that. But I bet Trump understands it.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:44 PM (RCjYY)

65 I am an HOA president, bub

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:45 PM (1ZN8d)

66 Biggest error of the war was the assumption that the regime would fall.
——-

We’re all just on the outside looking in, with incomplete or inaccurate intelligence. There’s no telling what they “assumed” and unfortunately, sometimes action must be taken without any guarantees of success.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 12:46 PM (FaOSD)

67 X is divided over whether Trump's 'deal' is a masterstroke of statecraft or a blunder of epic proportion.

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 12:47 PM (ZxPkt)

68 I am an HOA president, bub
Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:45 PM (1ZN8d)

Ha.
I was too, years ago.
No more.
We actually. have a good one here. He's a police captain. A good man and neighbor.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2026 12:48 PM (2WIwB)

69 Considering how much Pahlavi was on TV, it is not an egregious conclusion. I stopped watching Tousi early on and saw why the ette’s might continue. My overall expectations for the war were not close.

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:48 PM (1ZN8d)

70 If the mullahs and the IRGC left in charge it's a failure.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 12:49 PM (594J6)

71 I'm not sure who "assumed the regime would fall." Israel certainly did not. I don't recall reading anything reflecting that "assumption," as opposed to "one possible outcome among several."

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:49 PM (RCjYY)

72 >>X is divided over whether Trump's 'deal' is a masterstroke of statecraft or a blunder of epic proportion.

Imagine how heated it will be once the details are released and people can actually see what the deal contains!

Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2026 12:50 PM (viF8m)

73 Biggest error of the war was the assumption that the regime would fall.

——-
Back during the Gulf War, I thought we'd be welcomed as heroes because it is the natural state of man to yearn to be free. I guess for a substantial portion of men, they enjoy their chains.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 12:50 PM (ndZc7)

74 It's absolutely true. IDF referred to it as 'Operation Red Rocket.'

Posted by: Nicholas Kristof at May 24, 2026 12:50 PM (J4Dwc)

75 I was an HOA president too.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:51 PM (RCjYY)

76 73

A substantial proportion of men do not wish to be hanged.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:53 PM (RCjYY)

77 https://tinyurl.com/43mwhj62

A tweet about rumors? Really?

I invoke the 48 hour rule on any reports of "deals" with Iran and its regime. Maybe the details laid out in the tweet are true, and maybe they aren't.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 24, 2026 12:54 PM (GjEvj)

78 ...don't blame the writer or talking head. He may very well be complicit, but it is also likely that he is an ignorant, poorly educated, insular knucklehead who simply doesn't know enough to have an educated opinion on anything...

For years Mrs D.worked in the Communications Division of a large NW-based Defense and Aviation company (that will remain anonymous). In her job she worked daily with former media talking heads who had been hired to be part of the face of the company, and who would help craft their message. Some days she'd come home shaking her head at the absolute stupidity of these people. I met a couple. She wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2026 12:54 PM (2WIwB)

79 I was selected because I am a carpenter. My mother and I are also one of the few full time residents.
She told me what was afoot and that I should agree.

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:54 PM (1ZN8d)

80 "Hey, but he got your mouse click and page view.
That's all that counts."
I haven't looked at the New York Times in many years.

Posted by: PG at May 24, 2026 12:55 PM (Q4aSA)

81 Yeah, looks like our pedo president is surrendering to Iran. He'd do anything to get out of his self-inflicted mess about now. He'd cannot remain in office.

Posted by: Sid at May 24, 2026 12:58 PM (+WQwn)

82 Whether Trump expected the regime to fall or merely hoped, is something we might learn later.
My interpretation of events was that collapse was plan A.
If Iran had not decided to blockade the Straight or attacked their neighbors, what would we have done?
Many things to haggle about.

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 12:59 PM (1ZN8d)

83
Trump described the document in question as a "memorandum of understanding." That's quite preliminary.

The Arab states in the region, plus Turkey, are involved. Pakistan is acting as an intermediary. I don't think Iraq was mentioned. Maybe it was and I missed it.

It appears that the Iranian people are not going to overthrow their government.

Except for Iraq, these are all Sunni-majority countries, and Iran is Shia. These countries are not friends of Iran. And Turkey sees Iran very much as a rival.

I don't know if this is brilliant diplomacy, or a fatal error in progress. I have no idea. I don't know if it is anticipated that Iran will violate any agreement and resumption of military strikes is anticipated.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2026 01:00 PM (azNOR)

84 deal? there's a "deal"?

"A tweet about rumors? Really?

I invoke the 48 hour rule on any reports of "deals" with Iran and its regime. Maybe the details laid out in the tweet are true, and maybe they aren't.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 24, 2026 12:54 PM (GjEvj)"

affirm.
48, maybe even 96 or 168

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 01:00 PM (VyBeY)

85 Gunshots Heard meme is alive on X

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 01:00 PM (/+uur)

86 I've already got my schtick to get half of the HOA residents to vote for me when I move into my moms place.
Driveway snow removal for the North facing houses.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 01:00 PM (594J6)

87 Back during the Gulf War, I thought we'd be welcomed as heroes because it is the natural state of man to yearn to be free. I guess for a substantial portion of men, they enjoy their chains.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 12:50 PM (ndZc7)

By the third day of the ground war, we were heavy into planning on jumping the HQs deep into Iraq. (I was at the VII Corps HQs) The boss knew I had a background in middle east studies and he asked me about it. I told him we could easily beat the 1940 British record of getting from Basrah to Baghdad (30 days) but not to expect flag waving cheering crowds. We would not be seen as liberators.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2026 01:00 PM (2WIwB)

88 > X is divided over whether Trump's 'deal' is a masterstroke of statecraft or a blunder of epic proportion.

Imagine how heated it will be once the details are released and people can actually see what the deal contains!
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There's already disagreement on two purported US demands; opening Hormuz completely and forking over their Uranium stockpile. Two demands, IMO that are not negotiable.

I can't fathom a "deal" without either of those demands being met.

All of the other stuff? I'm sure it will be debated ad nauseum online and on the tube.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 24, 2026 01:01 PM (jehhT)

89 I was a member of our Property Owners Association Commision for three years. We did a good job, but the last 10 years or so the commission has been populated by younger people who have a 'vision'. God spare us from those who have a 'vision'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:01 PM (XeU6L)

90
If the mullahs and the IRGC left in charge it's a failure.
Posted by: Reforger

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I thought we knew early on that that couldn't happen without a long, bloody ground war.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 01:02 PM (n7rxJ)

91 "I find the most timely and accurate news here on Ace. Seriously.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 12:22 PM (yTvNw)"

same

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 01:02 PM (VyBeY)

92 From Powerline, its Bob Dylan's 85th Birthday today

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:03 PM (Ia/+0)

93 81 is worse than Raimondo is/was. That's difficult to achieve.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 01:04 PM (RCjYY)

94 Hmm. I guess Sid is home from Church.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:04 PM (XeU6L)

95 No nick kristof tried to put stephen hatfill in jail allowijg the real anthrax bomber to get away

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:05 PM (bXbFr)

96 From Powerline, its Bob Dylan's 85th Birthday today
Posted by: Skip
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"I can't see my reflection in the waters
I can't speak the sounds that show no pain
I can't hear the echo of my footsteps
Or can't remember the sound of my own name..."

Two things Robert; Hearing aids, glasses

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:07 PM (XeU6L)

97 It’s gonna be trailer-trash Ghoulash today. We’ll add some heat, a can of chipotle in adobo sauce, for a variation.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 01:07 PM (b9poi)

98 He was an arabist with a nazi father who the times sent to beijing and moscow as a lark

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:08 PM (bXbFr)

99 "I find the most timely and accurate news here on Ace. Seriously.

Posted by: JTB "

We strive for excellence.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at May 24, 2026 01:12 PM (vFG9F)

100 For some reason I thought Bob Dylan was dead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:12 PM (IifvS)

101 Is there a newspaper remaining that ISN'T leftist crapola?

The Epoch Times:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2026 01:13 PM (Qp8q1)

102 Lil Marco

"The IDEA that somehow this president, given everything he's already proven he's willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran in a STRONGER position when it comes to nuclear ambitions is ABSURD!"

"That's just NOT going to happen."

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 01:14 PM (/+uur)

103 No that was jerry garcia

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:14 PM (bXbFr)

104 Kristoff's kink is being a zoophile and getting yiffed by a dog.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:15 PM (NyLLn)

105 3.38 per gallon in southern Indiana.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:15 PM (IifvS)

106 And the dog is an Alsatian named Bruno.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:15 PM (NyLLn)

107 For some reason I thought Bob Dylan was dead.

Easy mistake to make.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026 01:15 PM (vTZFs)

108 Anyone eeen the deal yet

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:16 PM (bXbFr)

109 Flipped through the news stations

Shrodinger's Peace Deal is undead. Apparently the last remaining, tiniest and most minor obstacle will be Iran's nuclear ambitions so this may be done by Tuesday!

MS NOW had a clip of Rubio....who IS amazing, saying there was a framework for a deal. I'm glass empty today so I think that's code for 'There's a framework to form the Committee that will form the rules that a newly formed Committee will then approve to initiate the working group to study the true possibilty of a Peace Deal."

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 01:16 PM (Sco7b)

110 Bob Dylan does look like a zombie.

Easy mistake.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:17 PM (NyLLn)

111 ... and a willing multitude of readers who, like Mulder, "want to believe".

Socialism is all their favorite fictional universe, unique in fiction in that there are places where you can go and experience the reality right now. If they were all just gibbering chuckleheads cosplaying their imagination in private it would be one thing, but they are actively trying to subject the real world to the horrors of their fantasy.

Posted by: banana Dream - tying things in to the book thread boss at May 24, 2026 01:17 PM (3uBP9)

112 Is he the worse Times chimp thats a tough call theres always michelle goldberg

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:18 PM (bXbFr)

113 Anyone eeen the deal yet
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:16 PM (bXbFr)

No, but i am absolutely convinced we are giving Iran nukes and 5 aircraft carriers and f-22s and Ivanka.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:18 PM (IifvS)

114 Gas been in $4.60s here for weeks

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:19 PM (Ia/+0)

115 "He is a reliable leftist who has spent his entire professional life cultivating an air of moral superiority, coupled with the arrogance to claim that he is in fact detached...merely an observer of the human condition."

Well tell JAFO* then to sit down, shut up, and just observe, because that's about all he's good for.

* Acronym used in the movie "Blue Thunder", 1983

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 01:19 PM (O7YUW)

116 That was sarcasm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:19 PM (IifvS)

117 Chris hedges used to be the worse but he thought the Times wasnt crazy enough

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:19 PM (bXbFr)

118 They want Ivanka
Will settle for Kathy Griffin
And get Lena Dunham

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:19 PM (NyLLn)

119 Before there can be a deal, they need to decide on carpeting and the shape of the conference table

then comes the headache of choosing a coffeemaker and microwave

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 01:20 PM (ZxPkt)

120 Gas been in $4.60s here for weeks
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:19 PM (Ia/+0)

Seems to be that one truck stop. Next sign i saw 3.85.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:20 PM (IifvS)

121 I thought it was zany mad cap humor

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:20 PM (bXbFr)

122 "News from the peace tslks today. Negotiators have agreed on the height of the flag poles at the building where the talks will take place."

~ P.A. announcer at MASH 4077 compound

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 01:20 PM (2Ez/1)

123 Soon it will be just 'The Traveling Wilbury'.

Sorry...morbid humor.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

124 Sorry...morbid humor.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

He Wilbury the others.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 01:22 PM (594J6)

125 Biggest error of the war was the assumption that the regime would fall.

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Back during the Gulf War, I thought we'd be welcomed as heroes because it is the natural state of man to yearn to be free. I guess for a substantial portion of men, they enjoy their chains.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 12:50 PM (ndZc7)

To mix topics, Trump is screwing the pooch if reports can be believed.

I find it hard to believe that Trump would do deal with Iran because any deal is worthless without regime change. The very notion is idiotic; I pray that’s not what he’s doing but all indications are that he is. Never shoulda stopped bombing…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 24, 2026 01:22 PM (Jehr5)

126
'There's a framework to form the Committee that will form the rules that a newly formed Committee will then approve to initiate the working group to study the true possibilty of a Peace Deal."
Posted by: Stateless

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And what happens in the meantime?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 01:22 PM (n7rxJ)

127 114 Gas been in $4.60s here for weeks
Posted by: Skip

$4.58 ten minutes ago. It's coming back down, again!
Ha.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 24, 2026 01:22 PM (NFX2v)

128
Lil Marco

"The IDEA that somehow this president, given everything he's already proven he's willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran in a STRONGER position when it comes to nuclear ambitions is ABSURD!"

"That's just NOT going to happen."
Posted by: r hennigantx

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That's the thing. I have faith in Trump's appointees. I think Marco would sooner resign than leave that situation worse than we found it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 01:23 PM (n7rxJ)

129 $3.90 - $4.10 here.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)

130 Speaking of morbid, what's the latest on the dead shooter?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:25 PM (NyLLn)

131
That's the thing. I have faith in Trump's appointees. I think Marco would sooner resign than leave that situation worse than we found it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 01:23 PM (n7rxJ)

I hope you're right... I find it hard to believe Trump would do otherwise ... Iran has a 53 million dollar bounty on Trump's head and a bounty on Ivanka...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 01:26 PM (7tT0W)

132 Speaking of morbid, what's the latest on the dead shooter?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Still dead.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L)

133 On Google maps, find a Wawa on it and hit that location, will tell gas price on it

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:27 PM (Ia/+0)

134 130 Speaking of morbid, what's the latest on the dead shooter?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:25 PM (NyLLn)

Still dead.. Thought he was Jesus... Doubt he will be doing any rising...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 01:27 PM (7tT0W)

135 I see that John McCain's son has died at 66. How dare he interrupt his father's funeral!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 01:27 PM (qx7Zg)

136 Speaking of morbid, what's the latest on the dead shooter?

He's in stable condition.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026 01:28 PM (vTZFs)

137 Speaking of morbid, what's the latest on the dead shooter?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:25 PM (NyLLn)

Waiting to see if he rises again. Call me doubting Thomas if you want.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:29 PM (IifvS)

138 Kristof isn't a reliable leftist he is a provocateur. Jail is the least punishment he deserves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 01:30 PM (pRWl6)

139 Disgusting people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 01:30 PM (pRWl6)

140
He's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Obligatory at May 24, 2026 01:31 PM (2Ez/1)

141 Prognosis is, he won't recover? What a shame.
*plays tiny ukulele*

Was Brian Williams at the shooting by chance?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:31 PM (NyLLn)

142 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Gas Buddy at May 24, 2026 01:32 PM (2Ez/1)

143 > Speaking of morbid, what's the latest on the dead shooter?
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he remains dead at this time

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 01:34 PM (ZxPkt)

144 "if reports can be believed"

I think I see the problem ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 01:34 PM (VyBeY)

145 130 Speaking of morbid, what's the latest on the dead shooter?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Still dead, formerly as Mad as a Hatter, kept returning like a bad penny.
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UK Guardian

In part, He was involuntarily committed on 26 June in 2025 for “obstructing vehicle entry” to part of the White House complex, the court documents said, and on 10 July of that year he was arrested for unlawful entry after multiple officers confronted him for ignoring warning signs and walking into a restricted area outside the White House.

(Nasire) Best claimed to be Jesus and said “that he wanted to get arrested”, according to the filing. A judge issued a “stay away order”, a measure ordering a defendant not to go physically near a person or area before a trial, at an initial hearing that day, barring Best from the White House area.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 24, 2026 01:34 PM (NFX2v)

146 shooter ADSTW

Arrived dead, stayed that way./

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 01:34 PM (RCjYY)

147 >>X is divided over whether Trump's 'deal' is a masterstroke of statecraft or a blunder of epic proportion.

Imagine how heated it will be once the details are released and people can actually see what the deal contains!
Posted by: JackStraw at May 24, 2026 12:50 PM (viF8m)

Yes, that will be helpful.

The current pattern of Trump's "trust me, bro, the deal is almost done" for a month or more immediately followed by Iran's demand for our total capitulation hasn't done his credibility any good. Maybe *this* time there's something resembling a deal in play, but all the other times there clearly wasn't, since we're *still* waiting for it.

Posted by: Methos at May 24, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)

148 Skeptic, but its not 3 days yet

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:35 PM (Ia/+0)

149 If the mullahs and the IRGC left in charge it's a failure.
Posted by: Reforger

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

I thought we knew early on that that couldn't happen without a long, bloody ground war.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Trump said from the beginning his goal was to remove the nukes. If he can do that, he's won. We were hoping for more but at what cost?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 01:36 PM (ndZc7)

150 Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fireproof...
Posted by: The Drifters at May 24, 2026 12:27 PM (XeU6L)

It was my knees and butt that was getting hot. Down off the roof at 10:25 AM. Done for day. Tarpaper is all stapled down.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 01:37 PM (8zz6B)

151 >>> Houston Attorney Charged with Felony Bestiality After Wife Catches Him RAPING the Family Dog on Hidden Surveillance Camera

They prefer to be called "Pet Lovers".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 01:39 PM (/lPRQ)

152 (Nasire) Best claimed to be Jesus and said “that he wanted to get arrested”, according to the filing. A judge issued a “stay away order”, a measure ordering a defendant not to go physically near a person or area before a trial, at an initial hearing that day, barring Best from the White House area.

Yeah, that oughta do it.

Posted by: Idiot judge at May 24, 2026 01:39 PM (Riz8t)

153 Speaking of spooks has anyone seen the questionable mask on the supposed general speaking on Fox News? It looks like a mask to me.

Here's the show clip: https://t.co/bbAQOdQQf6

Here's a close up: https://tinyurl.com/3xb6smdd

Here's CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez [we] created masks so realistic…that the ‘disguise’ was completely undetectable [by President GHW Bush and staff]. : https://tinyurl.com/399mcch6

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 01:39 PM (pRWl6)

154 The daily snooz is terrible the post is pretty good

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 01:39 PM (bXbFr)

155 >Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 01:37 PM (8zz6B)
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dude what is the latest on independence
we heard a judge threw out the petition

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 01:40 PM (ZxPkt)

156 Guess that Houston attorney thought the dog was asking for it after dropping the chalupa.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2026 01:41 PM (NyLLn)

157 @TousiTVOfficial
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@TousiTVOfficial
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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 IRAN DEAL: Islamic Republic is accusing the U.S. of creating obstacles as both sides have reached a deadlock over potential deal.

Two red lines are preventing the agreement from going forward so far.

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 01:42 PM (ZxPkt)

158 $3.90 - $4.10 here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)

$4.29 to 4.59 here in AJ. And if you are so careless as to need to buy gas in Wikieup, it's $6.00.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 01:43 PM (8zz6B)

159 I'm slowly catching up on the Indy 500. It's already started but I'm watching pre-race stuff. Fox brings a mix bag. Some of it's interesting, some isn't. Glad I record it. I just FF through the meh parts. I do not give a crap about 'Gronk'. FF. The only female in the field, Katherine Legge, is doing the double today. Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600. She has no chance of winning either but I do hope she finishes both races. Kyle Busch is on a lot of minds in the Racing world. Even F1. The guy had some impact.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 01:43 PM (sAmhv)

160 How many print reporters and especially print columnists and editors are failed or wanna-be novelists, playwrights, or screen writers? This could be fascinating to know.
Posted by: Gref at May 24, 2026 12:11 PM (5rh/l)

So you're saying there's still a chance for me?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 01:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

161 157 @TousiTVOfficial
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@TousiTVOfficial
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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 IRAN DEAL: Islamic Republic is accusing the U.S. of creating obstacles as both sides have reached a deadlock over potential deal.

Two red lines are preventing the agreement from going forward so far.
Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 01:42 PM (ZxPkt)

Maybe Trump needs to take out a bridge or two to get their attention.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 01:45 PM (7tT0W)

162 UPDATE: The U.S. no longer expect a deal announcement today
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You'll just have to imagine my shocked face.

Posted by: Methos at May 24, 2026 01:45 PM (vSvIl)

163 You know its always going to be some kind of problem with Iran

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)

164 I try to be evenhanded and objective, while the left in recent years has rejected the concept out of hand.

They Are Always Right, and that’s all there is to it. The amazing self-licking ice cream cone.

Now we do tend to congregate where viewpoints coincide with our own. The news that is reported, “official” news or not is largely the same, although their opinions are certainly different.

I spent a lot of time in the 90s and early 2000s on a college run bulletin board and learned leftist dogma and thought patterns. They are not quite ready for prime time. Their schtick works on children, however not too well on sentient educated adults.

It is good to engage, although they won’t allow reasoned debate using facts or logic.

They are at the “shoot the fuckers” stage, as we are all aware.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 01:46 PM (/dDE1)

165 >what's the latest on the dead shooter?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Police suspect fair play.

Posted by: The ghost of Dennis Miller at May 24, 2026 01:46 PM (2Ez/1)

166 dude what is the latest on independence
we heard a judge threw out the petition
Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 01:40 PM (ZxPkt)

Every time they throw a monkey wrench into any legal means of separation, they just piss off more people, and bring us closer to a unilateral declaration of independence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 01:46 PM (8zz6B)

167 Dude, do you even bother to zip up?

https://tinyurl.com/2w6apb7j

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 01:46 PM (ndZc7)

168 If there was a deal today it would be broken by tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:48 PM (Ia/+0)

169
🇺🇸 UPDATE: The U.S. no longer expect a deal announcement today
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@TousiTVOfficial
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Two red lines are preventing the agreement from going forward so far.
Posted by: Don Black

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Good. No deal is better than a bad deal.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 01:48 PM (n7rxJ)

170 Two red lines are preventing the agreement from going forward so far.

1) We actually expect the Iranians to abide by the agreement.
2) Trump won't be sending any planes loaded with pallets of cash.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2026 01:48 PM (Riz8t)

171 $4.29 to 4.59 here in AJ. And if you are so careless as to need to buy gas in Wikieup, it's $6.00.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I need maybe 5 gal. of non-ethanol gasoline for the yard implements. I expect that it's going to run $5+ /gal. Maybe $6.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:49 PM (XeU6L)

172 170 Two red lines are preventing the agreement from going forward so far.

1) We actually expect the Iranians to abide by the agreement.
2) Trump won't be sending any planes loaded with pallets of cash.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2026 01:48 PM (Riz8

And who is Trump dealing with ? It can't be the IRGC....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 24, 2026 01:49 PM (7tT0W)

173 Progressive bakery.

https://tinyurl.com/4s9n6ed3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 01:50 PM (ndZc7)

174 And who is Trump dealing with ? It can't be the IRGC....

It's some guy named Irv, who mops the floors on Wednesday. He's the only one left above the dirt.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2026 01:50 PM (Riz8t)

175 We stopped to use the restroom and I got an energy drink. And my Dad goes: 'oh I can get that.' I laughed and pointed out i can buy my own energy drinks.

I am 51. Love Dad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:51 PM (IifvS)

176
Good. No deal is better than a bad deal.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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There is nothing inherently good about a compromise.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:51 PM (XeU6L)

177 Progressive bakery.

https://tinyurl.com/4s9n6ed3
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Perhaps Somali.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:52 PM (XeU6L)

178 Thanks CBD for this essay but I demur.

I would not minimize it or dismiss it based on the ridiculous lack of substance. Most joo hate is also ridiculous. But the clear meaning was to blunt the impact of the latest report issued on sexual violence in the Oct. 7 attack, to invert it, and turn the violence once again back on its victims.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 01:52 PM (RIvkX)

179 There is nothing inherently good about a compromise.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Re-phrased, a compromise is not inherently good.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:54 PM (XeU6L)

180 @WhiteHouse
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“The negotiations are proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner, and I have informed my representatives not to rush into a deal in that time is on our side… Both sides must take their time and get it right. There can be no mistakes!” - President Donald J. Trump

Posted by: Don Black at May 24, 2026 01:54 PM (ZxPkt)

181 Yes, that's right.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 24, 2026 01:55 PM (NFX2v)

182 Two lines holding Iran up
How much jysm toll per ship it will cost
How fast can they get their nuke program going

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 01:56 PM (Ia/+0)

183 I would like to say I had a joo dog, and that dog didn't obey one single "sit" or "stay" let alone "rape!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 01:58 PM (RIvkX)

184 The same New York Times that published Walter Duranty? The “Pulitzer Prize” winning apologist for Stalin’s Collective Farms and millions of starved out Kulaks? That New York Times?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 02:00 PM (/dDE1)

185 Here's the deal:
Trump says we aren't through until we have the uranium.

Iran says they aren't giving up the uranium,

In the meantime while Iran is pulling its pud Trump is manipulating power players of the world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 02:00 PM (pRWl6)

186 I would like to say I had a joo dog, and that dog didn't obey one single "sit" or "stay" let alone "rape!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 01:58 PM (RIvkX)

Which ones are the jew dogs? How do you tell? Circumcised? I guess the prisoners could tell us.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:00 PM (IifvS)

187 We stopped to use the restroom and I got an energy drink. And my Dad goes: 'oh I can get that.' I laughed and pointed out i can buy my own energy drinks.

I am 51. Love Dad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:51 PM (IifvS)
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My FiL z"l would get so infuriated I did stop offering.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 02:00 PM (RIvkX)

188 I'm usually asleep during the day so I miss out on these early threads. Good grief, this place attracts retarded daytime trolls. I mean, the overnight ones aren't much better but geez.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 02:01 PM (sAmhv)

189 Which ones are the jew dogs? How do you tell? Circumcised? I guess the prisoners could tell us.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:00 PM (IifvS)
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Can tell by the jaunty way they wear a kippah.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 02:01 PM (RIvkX)

190 Good old Walter Duranty. He participated in “Ritual Sodomy” degenerate orgies with Aleister Crowley. LOL

Sounds like a real class act.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 02:02 PM (/dDE1)

191 Houston Attorney Charged with Felony Bestiality After Wife Catches Him RAPING the Family Dog

Boy, that lawyer sure screwed the pooch.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 24, 2026 02:02 PM (gKWVE)

192 Posted by: Paul at May 24, 2026 01:57 PM (1xQU5)

The last Republican was Ike in 1956. Democrats ever since then.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 24, 2026 02:03 PM (OD5vY)

193 Everyone liked Ike.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:04 PM (IifvS)

194 Meme: When Bulg meets Death

https://tinyurl.com/87jbfshb

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 02:05 PM (qx7Zg)

195 167 Dude, do you even bother to zip up?

https://tinyurl.com/2w6apb7j
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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Anti-family propaganda.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 02:06 PM (pRWl6)

196 We are getting to the parts of Indiana where cell coverage is thinner.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:06 PM (IifvS)

197 197 167 Dude, do you even bother to zip up?

https://tinyurl.com/2w6apb7j
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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Anti-family propaganda.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 02:06 PM (pRWl6)

How many of those are baby mommas?

Posted by: Fair question these days at May 24, 2026 02:08 PM (TbWk/)

198 198 We are getting to the parts of Indiana where cell coverage is thinner.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:06 PM (IifvS)

That HAPPENS in America?

You think the guy who likes horroe movies would know this.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 02:08 PM (Sco7b)

199 The biggest of all signs that this story is bullshit is that no self-respecting man is going to farm out raping bitches to a 3rd party. Self-respecting men are going to do their own raping, by golly. Even if it's nasty pali srunts that are the receptacles of such rape. They'll strap on a Trojan and get busy. There's no way I'm letting a dog do my fuckin for me and I'm not even a Hebe.

Posted by: Pendejo at May 24, 2026 02:09 PM (92ma5)

200 Thinner than what?

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 24, 2026 02:12 PM (2Ez/1)

201 We are getting to the parts of Indiana where cell coverage is thinner.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:06 PM (IifvS)
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Eat more fatty foods.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 02:13 PM (8schn)

202 No FWPs today?

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 02:21 PM (lJ0H4)

203 Waiting for it

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:24 PM (Ia/+0)

204
No FWPs today?
Posted by: Tuna

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You're soaking in them.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 02:24 PM (n7rxJ)

205 By waiting for an expected FWP thread, we ACTUALLY complaining creating our own FWP becoming our own FWPs.

It's very artistic approach.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 02:27 PM (Sco7b)

206 I had a terrible day Friday

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:28 PM (Ia/+0)

207 I had a terrible day Friday
Posted by: Skip

What happened?

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 02:29 PM (lJ0H4)

208 208 I had a terrible day Friday
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:28 PM (Ia/+0)

What happened?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 02:29 PM (Sco7b)

209 But Kristof is almost certainly an earnest and honest reporter

He is not. He believes nothing of what he says. He staked him claim on anti-Trumpism and it is nothing other than self-righteous hubris that prevents him from recanting that position.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 24, 2026 02:31 PM (IXblq)

210 him=his

Posted by: Halfhand at May 24, 2026 02:32 PM (IXblq)

211 Did irreparable harm to my truck

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:32 PM (Ia/+0)

212 Did irreparable harm to my truck
Posted by: Skip

Oh no! So sorry for you.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 02:36 PM (lJ0H4)

213 213 Did irreparable harm to my truck

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 0

Ahh crap.
Although if crap like that happens, I might gather ideas here.people have gone through all crap.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 02:36 PM (Sco7b)

214
Did irreparable harm to my truck
Posted by: Skip

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Oh no. Sorry.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 02:37 PM (n7rxJ)

215 I always tried to close my tailgate, but didn't driving around building. Wrecked it and worse closed it. Don't think can open it now.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:39 PM (Ia/+0)

216 Did irreparable harm to my truck
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:32 PM (Ia/+0)

Are you Ok?

Does your truck now fit in short parking spaces?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 02:39 PM (qx7Zg)

217 3.38 per gallon in southern Indiana.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 01:15 PM (IifvS)

4.52 in Central NJ. At Quickcheck.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 24, 2026 02:39 PM (5xuJ/)

218 Oh, you're at the right place!

I'm not the right guy but.....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 02:40 PM (Sco7b)

219 Just tailgate took a terrible hit.
Just hoping truck lasts a year and half more

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:43 PM (Ia/+0)

220 3 The defining characteristic of a Progressive is sanctimony.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:54 AM (NcvvS)

Yes! It is.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 02:44 PM (6wpGE)

221 I would like to say I had a joo dog, and that dog didn't obey one single "sit" or "stay" let alone "rape!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Israel was accused of 'racism' because there is no recorded instance of one raping a Pali (despite large numbers the other way).
So just maybe Israel tried to train dogs to do it for them. To make up for their shortcomings...
Didn't work. Not even a dog will do a Pali.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 02:46 PM (/lPRQ)

222 >>>So the next time the NYT or the WaPo or any number of reliably leftist rags and media outlets publishes such a rank and obvious propaganda piece; don't blame the writer or talking head.

But ... Tucker Carlson?

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 02:47 PM (6wpGE)

223
Meanwhile, this new Green Card requirement has got X on fire.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 02:48 PM (n7rxJ)

224 I always tried to close my tailgate, but didn't driving around building. Wrecked it and worse closed it. Don't think can open it now.
Posted by: Skip

Check out the used car lots.
You can probably find the same make/model, even color.
Stop back later at night and trade tail gates.

/last I knew no tools required to remove

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 02:51 PM (/lPRQ)

225 That HAPPENS in America?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 02:08 PM (Sco7b)

*spends time completely out of cell coverage for AT&T at least*

Yes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:54 PM (IifvS)

226 >>> John McCain’s Eldest Son Dies Suddenly at 66

They can combine their funerals.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 02:55 PM (/lPRQ)

227 *spends time completely out of cell coverage for AT&T at least*

Yes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 24, 2026 02:54 P

That was funny. Thanks for the laugh.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 24, 2026 02:56 PM (Sco7b)

228 Afraid shutting the gate its locked on

Had lots in bed and far from home, might have been able to replace or beat some dent out

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 02:56 PM (Ia/+0)

229 Who was the 'journalist' that Ace said should get a hot dog stand, because he looked like he'd be really great at slinging dogs? It was a whole article of its own, with riffs like how he could probably pay for his retirement by just parking outside Brian Stelter's studio.

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 02:57 PM (Sy6m/)

230 Meanwhile, this new Green Card requirement has got X on fire.
——

Except, it isn’t a new green card requirement. It’s been in place since 1942. It’s not a “rule” or a “policy”. It’s black letter law.

It might just seem new, because the cocksuckers in government have been derelict in their duty to the law, their oath, and their personal conduct in the performance of those duties.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 02:58 PM (sEgd8)

231 NOOD FWP

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 02:58 PM (qx7Zg)

232 Meanwhile, this new Green Card requirement has got X on fire.
——

Except, it isn’t a new green card requirement. It’s been in place since 1942. It’s not a “rule” or a “policy”. It’s black letter law.

It might just seem new, because the cocksuckers in government have been derelict in their duty to the law, their oath, and their personal conduct in the performance of those duties.
Posted by: Common Tater
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What's the deal with the Green Card ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 03:00 PM (/lPRQ)

233 I suppose we should wait for the final “deal” with Iran to be announced, but it doesn’t seem like a deal at all. A “promise” to give up nuclear material, and to not charge tolls in the Strait. The latter was never even part of the conversation, but I guess we’ve now ceded Iran that power. Now they also want Israel to cease operations with Hezballah.

So basically the regime and their terror ops stay in place, and they promise to give up their nuclear ambitions.

That doesn’t sound like a deal. It sounds like someone selling bullshit.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 24, 2026 03:02 PM (oAqqA)

234 Blame the Naive Believers like Mitt Romney. Rand Paul. Thomas Massey. All the fucks out in the street throwing bricks off a new pallet.

Blame Ronnie Reagan.

Blame Ideology. And the inability to critically think why that Ideology should not be blindly followed.

Frankly ? Blame yourself, Dildo. Because you have more than a little Ideology baked into your little WorldView.

Posted by: Screw the Nood at May 24, 2026 03:03 PM (KDOLa)

235 Bravely posting AFTER nood is called.

So brave!! Fight the Power!!

Posted by: Nood the Screw at May 24, 2026 03:11 PM (sAmhv)

236 What's the deal with the Green Card ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 03:00 PM (/lPRQ)

They have to go back their home country and wait for their green card application to be processed. No more student visa to OPT to H1-B to green card to citizenship pipeline, without ever setting foot in the third-world shithole that spawned them. They have to actually live as adults in the land that spawned them, not just visit for a wedding or a sick relative, and they are *big mad* about it.

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 03:12 PM (Sy6m/)

237 They have to go back their home country and wait for their green card application to be processed. No more student visa to OPT to H1-B to green card to citizenship pipeline, without ever setting foot in the third-world shithole that spawned them. They have to actually live as adults in the land that spawned them, not just visit for a wedding or a sick relative, and they are *big mad* about it.
Posted by: SciVo

OK,

Yes, for a while they were letting anybody on any visa "adjust status" while physically present in the US. This is only allowed on a few types of Visas - primarily the "immigrant" Visas which obviously allow conversion to LPR. All the others, it was never an option.

One could arguably revoke LPR/green cards for all those people because it was done in violation of law.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 03:32 PM (/lPRQ)

238 So brave!! Fight the Power!!

Posted by: Nood the Screw at May 24, 2026 03:11 PM (sAmhv)

Or I could say what ? The thread where he talks about how the stupid kitchen appliance doesn't work ? Or the thread where the food isn't just right ?

Posted by: Screw the Nood at May 24, 2026 04:33 PM (KDOLa)

Book Thread: May 24th, 2026[Sabrina Chase]

Welcome to the Book Thread, Guest Poster edition! I will be your host as we explore all sorts of book-related topics. All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.) with the special Sabrina Chase exemption for those stylish persons preferring kilts. Now let us proceed to today's topic, which is ...

Reading Aloud

Last post we explored the various physical forms a book can take, and for this one, books in non-physical form. Audiobooks, spoken word, or simply reading aloud, to yourself or an audience. The act of speaking, of hearing instead of seeing the words, creates a different mental process. It slows things down, forces you to really think about the words instead of skimming to the next exciting bit. Which is why new authors are encouraged to read their own works aloud when doing the final polish. Your humble poster is embarassed to admit how many missing verbs were detected with this process! Or realizing the hero's hair had changed color somewhere between Chapter 3 and Chapter 5, or...

It's also a good way to get the love of reading started in kids who haven't learned how yet. You realize there are all kinds of fun stories in those paper things, and when no adult has time to read your favorite book another eleventy-billion times, you learn how your own self! This happened to me. I was read to by my father when I was a very small Moron-in-training. We went through the entire Little House on the Prarie series. I suspect I learned to read rather than wait for Dad to get home to find out what happened next.

The next step is for the young reader to practice by reading aloud themselves, but some kids worry about making mistakes or stumbling over new words. The good news is pets don't care if you make mistakes, and there are several programs that have kids read to shelter pets, which also helps the animals adjust to humans! The picture at the top comes from one of these programs. Some libraries have Reading Cats that can be requested to help young readers.

Audiobooks are increasing in popularity, and with the advent of AI voice generation, MUCH cheaper to produce! (Especially for us indie authors who don't have corporate backing.) A human-narrated book, average paperback length, runs about 11 hours of recording and around $4000 for a middling narrator. Doing it yourself is cheaper but takes a long time and you might not have the right voice. Readers like audiobooks for long drives, or doing chores, or going to sleep to. Some even switch from print to ebook to audio in the same book, depending on what is convenient at the time. Amazon caters to this by offering audiobook versions as a low cost add-on if a different version is purchased, and I've seen an increase in this kind of sale in my own books lately. Our motto is, the Reader is Always Right! So whatever option they want, I try to offer it.

Another version of audiobooks are radio programs. Back in the ancient times when NPR was not quite as rancidly woke as it is now, they had a program called The Radio Reader that started in 1964. Half an hour a day, the producer Dick Estell (who had a wonderful gravelly voice) would read popular novels. I listened to All Creatures Great and Small with that show.

Did the Horde have similar experiences learning to read? Any special first book memories?

(Currently reading: Sarah Hoyt's latest book Witch's Daughter (and enjoying it...))

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:00 AM

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1 Read a pre-Great War story, “Jimmy of the Tigers,” by Courtney Ryley Cooper. Published in “The Popular” magazine on June 7th of 1913.
It’s the story of a traveling carnival and gambling den and the people who inhabit them. The owner, Shifty Bill, describes himself as a straight crook and decries “crooked crooks” like the sheriffs the owner pays off to ignore the illicit gaming.
Jimmy, his tiger act tells him he might not make a late performance, and Bill thinks it’s a lie to meet a girl. Bill tells him to show up, or else. Jimmy comes up missing before the last show, but arrives just in time, in a disheveled state. He does the show, and the crooked sheriff shows up. He had arrested Jimmy for embezzlement, but the tiger tamer broke jail. The sheriff was hotter about the break than the crime, but let Jimmy go under the threat of Bill exposing the lawman at election time.
It’s an interesting read on carny life and the people who lived it. The story’s available to read at pulpmags.org.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 09:01 AM (1Ff7Z)

2 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 09:02 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Can't wait to eat this tender little boy!

Posted by: The Kitteh at May 24, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

4 I literally can't remember not knowing how to read. My earliest memory is related to something I'd read about.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 24, 2026 09:03 AM (LcbzL)

5 Yet, barely moved on Carl v. Clauswitz's On War mostly because been watching war movies all week

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)

6 Reading aloud is excellent for brain health and longevity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

7 Greetings, O Book Thread!
I haz a news. Yes, my probation has been lifted! You are stuck with me!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 24, 2026 09:04 AM (vAQDP)

8 Cats ever learn to read like Ben we are in trouble

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 09:05 AM (Ia/+0)

9 Did the Horde have similar experiences learning to read? Any special first book memories?

No, not really. Can't remember when I started to read on my own. Don't remember the books either, though most likely they were Dr. Suess and others of the kind. I do remember a kids book by Bennett Cerf that we had. My first introduction to the man, then re-runs of What's My Line?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

10 Yet, barely moved on Carl v. Clauswitz's On War mostly because been watching war movies all week
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)

Who do you think will win? Carl or Clauswitz?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 09:07 AM (1Ff7Z)

11 Morning, Sabrina.

Howdy, Horde.

4K for a middling narrator, eh? Ouch. And since I had the teeth evicted for constant misbehavior I don't read as well as I used to. If I ever finish current projects or decide to do an audiobook of the older novel, looks like AI voice generated will be it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 09:08 AM (q3u5l)

12 4 I literally can't remember not knowing how to read. My earliest memory is related to something I'd read about.
Posted by: Trimegistus at May 24, 2026 09:03 AM
______

Go, dog, go!
Are you my mother?
One fish, two fish. Red fish, blue fish.

Thanks mom.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

13 All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.)
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Cat ✅
Coffee✅
Pants✅

I'm within parameters this morning.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 09:08 AM (kpS4V)

14 Can't remember being read to or taught to read. Also can't remember ever not being able to read. Is a puzzlement.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 09:09 AM (q3u5l)

15 Finished Douglas Murray's Democracy and Death Cults and found it very surface, like a long news article. It was enjoyable but I wish he went more in-depth.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

16 I would be a little surprised if anyone didn't have a adult read to them at least before they learned to read or in progress of learning.
But would say I started out early on my own and never stopped.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 09:09 AM (Ia/+0)

17 Good Sunday morning, horde!

What a sweet picture up there. And it seems like a great program.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 09:09 AM (h7ZuX)

18 This past week, I finished reading "Treasure Island." Twice. First as the original novel, seconds as a comic book adaptation.

The original novel...is very ramble-y. Characters make their point, and then continue speaking for another 3 lines. Also, far too much of the plot consists of Jim Hawkins doing something horribly irresponsible, for no apparent reason whatsoever, and then having everything work out because of it. It's no surprise that most movie adaptations tend to change events to justify or even cut out these adventures...

Speaking of movies, there are two movie adaptations that I'm very familiar with, and it's funny that both of them re-imagine Mr. Arrow as a competent, noble officer, instead of the worthless drunk that he was in the novel. Also, both adaptations combine the roles of Dr. Livesly and Squire Trelawney, but one movie keeps the Doctor, while the other one keeps the Squire...

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:10 AM (3v7ra)

19 Morning, Book People!

Currently I'm about halfway through Jean Plaidy's 1966 Royal Sisters, about the palace intrigues swirling around Princess (later Queen) Anne of England -- the daughter of James II, who was the brother of Charles II. It was Anne's sister Mary who became William's wife and is the "William and Mary" of our American university.

Plaidy (aka Victoria Holt) keeps the story moving with dialog and necessary exposition. She doesn't describe the rooms where activity takes place, and only rarely what people are wearing. So you have to use your imagination, recall some "royal apartments" sets from movies, or search online if you want to know what Sarah Churchill (Anne's "friend," actually an intriguer behind the throne) might be wearing, for instance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:10 AM (wzUl9)

20 4K for a middling narrator, eh? Ouch. And since I had the teeth evicted for constant misbehavior I don't read as well as I used to. If I ever finish current projects or decide to do an audiobook of the older novel, looks like AI voice generated will be it.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 09:08 AM (q3u5l)

JSG, maybe your voice would work in a western. Every western has an old miner in it. Gabby Hayes for the win.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 09:10 AM (1Ff7Z)

21 Continuing to read historian Adrian Goldsworthy's new book, " Athens and Sparta". Finishing the chapter on Solon the lawgiver. Next up: Sparta's origins and early history.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 09:11 AM (lJ0H4)

22 My oldest son and his wife read aloud to each other. They switch roles with every chapter.

Audiobooks were a boon to me when I had a job that required a long commute and Rush had died. The only problem was that I had to stop in the middle of a chapter when I reached my destination.

I also read Amazing Spider-Man comic books to oldest son when he was little. I quickly learned how to winnow Stan Lee's excessive verbiage.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:11 AM (8pIvk)

23 I read A Soldier in the Great War by Mark Helprin. In Italy, Alessandro, a white-haired professor of aesthetics, unexpectedly finds himself on the road with an illiterate factory worker. As they walk the forty miles to Monte Prado, tells his life story to his seventeen-year-old companion; especially about the years spent in the Italian army during World War I. It's a captivating story, rich in details and with memorable characters.

Posted by: Zoltan at May 24, 2026 09:11 AM (VOrDg)

24 Booken norgen horden.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2026 09:11 AM (gDlxJ)

25 My grandmother taught me to read at age 3 or 4 by reading to me. She would trace the words in the sentences with her finger, and stop periodically at a word, and I would say it. As time went by, she had me saying more and more words until I was reading the entire story.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)

26 "Another version of audiobooks are radio programs."
++++++

Call me.

Yours truly,

Posted by: Johnny Dollar at May 24, 2026 09:12 AM (2Ez/1)

27 I threw a book away this week. Literally into the trash can.

It is The Secret Chord, by Geraldine Brooks. I had read The People of the Book, by the same author, and it was good. I had high hopes for this story of King David.

Early in the book, other characters claimed he buggered his sheep. Then, Jonathan visited him in his tent in the middle of the night for a homo romp. I was done. So sick of this nonsense.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 09:13 AM (h7ZuX)

28 I think if I tried to read to our friendly cat -- the other one stays aloof -- that she would crawl onto the book.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:14 AM (8pIvk)

29 Finishing up "Pax" by English historian Tom Holland, the subtitle of which is: "War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age." Holland's descriptions of the absolute lunacy of Rome's various emperors from Nero through Hadrian are pretty comical. How Rome managed to impose its "Peace" on the rest of the known world is pretty compelling. It's a wonder they were able to given the utter incompetence of most of their emperors.

Not sure what I'll pick up next. There are a couple new books in the Galaxy's Edge series I need to read ("The Betrayed," which is book 24. And "Escape from Red Eye," which is a new Tyrus Rechs backstory novel).

Oh, and OT early: Just picked up two tickets to Rush's November 9 Fifty Something Tour show in Tampa. They have a new drummer, Anita Nilles, from Deutschland. I'm taking my daughter who turns 19 today, as she loves them as much as I did when I was 19 in 1982. Thr tickets were surprisingly affordable.

Hello Book Worms!!!

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2026 09:14 AM (/RHNq)

30 Booken norgen horden.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2026 09:11 AM (gDlxJ)
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Doop de boop de doop.

Posted by: Swedish Chef at May 24, 2026 09:15 AM (RIvkX)

31 For the audio book fans.

Escape Pod episode 100: Nightfall by Isaac Asimov

https://escapepod.org/2007/04/05/
ep100-nightfall/

Thanks for the content Sabrina!

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 09:15 AM (gC0g5)

32 OrangeEnt at 20 --

A fine idea, by cracky. If only I wrote westerns.

(Drinks more coffee. Curses as he realizes he forgot to spit out the wad of chewing tobacky first...)

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 09:15 AM (q3u5l)

33 Also on my TBR pile: A collection of Asimov's early Robot stories, written with bridging material between them. Several I don't really remember, only "Runaround," "Liar," and "Little Lost Robot." The last in particular is a classic of mystery and suspense, with a logical solution worthy of any first-rank classic detective-story writer.

Also, a collection of Asimov's Nightfall and Other Stories, with intros from IA describing how they came to be written; the second in S.M. Stirling's series about an Earthlike Venus and Mars in the late 20th Century; and something called Sex With Kings by Eleanor Herman. This last is subtitled "500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge." I think that pretty much describes what the book is about!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)

34 Read last week: Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher.

Reading / Listening to Crouchback by Sarah Woodbury, which is part of the Welsh Guard mystery series

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2026 09:15 AM (T5m6M)

35 Thanks for the Sunday Morning Book Thread, Sabrina!

Enjoyable, as always. I don't recall ever being read to as a child, but once I learned to read, I never stopped or slowed down!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 24, 2026 09:16 AM (D/6p1)

36 Got a stack of those stalwarts of the olde spinrack, the Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century. Like the venerable series "The World at War", they were written with events occurring within living memory. I'm reading "Their Finest Hour: the Story of the Battle of Britain 1940". The author, Edward Bishop, was a teenaged volunteer messenger in the Home Guard and saw the battle raging overhead.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 09:16 AM (kpS4V)

37 My grandmother taught me to read at age 3 or 4 by reading to me. She would trace the words in the sentences with her finger, and stop periodically at a word, and I would say it. As time went by, she had me saying more and more words until I was reading the entire story.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026

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I don't remember clearly, but I'm 99% sure that was how I learned to parse out those "little bugs on the paper" as well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

38 Yay Book Thread!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:17 AM (ZOv7s)

39 The act of speaking, of hearing instead of seeing the words, creates a different mental process. It slows things down, forces you to really think about the words instead of skimming to the next exciting bit.
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Makes a huge difference with Shakespeare.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 09:17 AM (RIvkX)

40 There is a clear trend line from socialism to communism to anarchism to terrorism. The trail leads from Rousseau to modern day leftist movements. In The Dynamite Club, John Merriman traces the history of how leftist politics turned to terror in the western world.

While the book focuses on Emile Henry, who bombed a restaurant in Paris in 1894, it covers the broad history of the political movement that is still a threat to society. Beginning in the 1840s, Proudhoun, Kropotkin, and Bakunin moved the left from mere commentary to action towards destroying society in order to rebuild it to their ideal, where owning property was theft.

Emile Henry was a young man with a troubled past, whose socialist father had been exiled after the Paris Commune. In 1894, realizing the difficulty of blowing up Sacre Coeur Cathedral, he tried to bomb the Carmeaux Mining Company headquarters, then decided to bomb a restaurant, to strike a blow against the middle class. He killed several and injured dozens more. At his trial, he proudly admitted to his guilt and choosing that locale in order to kill the most bourgeoisie possible. As he approached the guillotine, he shouted "Long live anarchy!"

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 09:18 AM (0U5gm)

41 Still chugging through "Zone One" by Colson Whitehead.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 09:19 AM (kpS4V)

42 I read a comic book adaptation of "Treasure Islands;" a six-issue mini-series from 2007. It was 'written' by Roy Thomas, who seemly just went through the original novel with a highlighter. I'll bet 90% of the comic's dialogue and narration were direct quotes from the novel. Considering how most modern adaptation treat the source material (just look at the current discussions about "The Odessey") this kind of fidelity is downright refreshing.

As for the art...well, the artist can draw convincingly weathered sailors, but that's the only good thing I can say. Jim Hawkins looks like a midget as often as he looks like a child. Dr. Livesly looks like a character from the 1940's, rather than the 1740's, and has no wig, despite said wig being mentioned in the dialogue. And most egregiously, the artist decided to draw a woman as part the Hispaniola's crew. Congratulations; you have successfully added 'diversity' to the crew. And, thinking about the actual events of the story, your new diverse character gets to die horribly, probably after being [mistreated] by a dozen drunken, violent, and mutinous pirates. What a great addition to the story...

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:19 AM (3v7ra)

43 I think if I tried to read to our friendly cat -- the other one stays aloof -- that she would crawl onto the book.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026

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My menage is similar. Stirling, the more sociable one, would probably drift off to sleep. ("Cats have many ailments . . . but I never yet knew one to be afflicted with insomnia.")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

44
Non-book questions this morning:

Why would Thomas Massie be appearing on "Meet the Press"?

What kind of drugs is Kristen Welker on?

Posted by: Auspex at May 24, 2026 09:19 AM (Y8DZL)

45 >>Can't remember being read to or taught to read.

Don't remember being read to or taught to read, either, but must at least have been the former, because I do remember a Saturday morning at my grandmother's house when, all of a sudden, the squiggles on the page became words. Shortly after turning 4.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 09:20 AM (NcvvS)

46 It's hodgepodge time in Geekland. I'm skipping among two comics collections and one novel.

The comics are reprints of Alex Raymond's "Flash Gordon" comic strips from the 1930s throught early '40s and a hardback collection of the first three years of Mike Grell's 1970s DC comic "The Warlord." The book is "Neon Empire," a Nate Heller crime adventure by Max Allan Collins.

The Heller series mixed fictional characters, such as Heller, who runs a private investigation agency in Chicago, with real people, such as Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, the chief money man for what became the Chicago Outfit. The story thus far: Heller is hired to bodyguard the operator of a racetrack winners reporting service (another real person: James Ragen) who is under pressure to sell out to Guzik. Ragen is seriously wounded in a South Side ambush. Guzik disavows any role in the hit and instead blames Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, a gambling kingpin out West. Siegel? "Neon Empire"? Could this be ... Las Vegas? (According to the back cover, yes.)

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:21 AM (8pIvk)

47 I made sure to thank my mom on Mother’s Day for instilling in me a love of reading. I learned to read at an early age and have looked back. It’s one of my greatest joys in life.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at May 24, 2026 09:21 AM (9DV3O)

48 I remember wanting to know very much how to read, when watching my father reading Mad Magazine and laughing ... and I wanted very much to know what was in that magazine which amused him so very much. A little later, Mom found a regular radio program - I think from the BBC (Which I thought then stood for Baby Book Company) with the musical theme of Golliwog's Cakewalk - and a narrator who read "My Side of the Mountain" - which my brother and I adored so much that Mom bought a copy of it for us. Later on, when I could read chapter books, it was the Little House on the Prairie series. Much, much later - I read all of Lord of the Rings to my little brother, and then to my daughter. It took a year or so each time at a chapter a night, and both Little Bro and the Daughter unit adored that series. Just about every chapter ends on a cliffhanger... Little Bro could talk like a hobbit by the time we were done. He also dressed like a hobbit for Halloween that year.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at May 24, 2026 09:21 AM (Ew3fm)

49 Some even switch from print to ebook to audio in the same book, depending on what is convenient at the time.

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I like doing this
So helpful with strange names- audio shows how to pronounce them (a minor setting point in the Welsh Guard mysteries) and text shows how to spell them.
Also text is better for details like lists and such.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 24, 2026 09:22 AM (nLlkW)

50 Why would Thomas Massie be appearing on "Meet the Press"?

What kind of drugs is Kristen Welker on?
Posted by: Auspex at May 24, 2026 09:19 AM (Y8DZL)
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You will in short order soon see Massie on Tucker, Megyn, etc.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 09:22 AM (RIvkX)

51 Did the Horde have similar experiences learning to read? Any special first book memories?

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One of my Mom's favorite stories was of me coming from my first day of First Grade, crying because they hadn't taught me how to read.

Made up for lost time, though.

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 09:22 AM (rj6Yv)

52 I do not enjoy AI generated voice narration. It is too monotone and artificial. A bad narration can make me abandon a book. I've been reading 2 books at a time lately. One I read on my kindle and one I listen to while driving, cooking, doing chores, working, etc. I only "read" in bed so being able to listen to a book while doing other things has expanded my reading experience.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 24, 2026 09:23 AM (VCgbV)

53 JSG, I saw how you spotted the author and even the book ("a 60-year-old detective novel") which was the source of Weird Dave's quote abut friendship on Friday's ONT. I should have known you would. I knew it was MacDonald, one of the Travis McGees, but not which one!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:23 AM (wzUl9)

54 Morning, all.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:23 AM (qRla/)

55 We had to read aloud and recite at school at an early age. (Also Catholic school so by 2nd grade learned prayers for 1st Communion and Reconciliation) 1sr grade (still have report card) I needed to practice reading. Thanks to that it began going to our library and coming home with a pile of books. My Mom read and we had a den full of all kinds of books, pleasure, encyclopedia, works of Shakespeare, identifying rocks etc so we had a huge mix of books with which to explore whenever we wanted. That and curiosity really shaped my reading. Finished reading The List of Suspicious Things. Reminded me a little of hanging and walking to school with my best friend and growing up. It’s a bit of a sad book too but in the end a full circle ending. A bit messy like life.

Posted by: Hyacinth at May 24, 2026 09:24 AM (7x3MF)

56 Currently reading Flashfire, #19 of the 24 Donald Westlake/Richard Stark Parker series and still enjoying the hell out of them. But some time this week, I'll finish them. So what to do next? MacDonald's Travis McGee novels? The other MacDonald's Lew Archers? Or take another run at Bleak House? Or maybe, just maybe, even try to write something.

Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 09:24 AM (q3u5l)

57 @29 --

I'm going to one of the Fort Worth concerts next month. Also going to hit a couple of Half Price Books shops although I nothing to buy. (That ties this post into the Book Thread.)

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:24 AM (8pIvk)

58 "Another version of audiobooks are radio programs."
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Call me.

Yours truly,
Posted by: Johnny Dollar
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Been listening to a Bob and Ray soap opera compilation in the car for weeks. Mary Backstage, Noble Wife mostly.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 24, 2026 09:25 AM (XvL8K)

59 Finishing up "Pax" by English historian Tom Holland, the subtitle of which is: "War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age." Holland's descriptions of the absolute lunacy of Rome's various emperors from Nero through Hadrian are pretty comical.

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There were a lot of lunatics. But not all of them. Hadrian's predecessor (Trajan) and successor (Antoninus Pius) were both very stable geniuses - the latter has my vote for greatest emperor in Rome's history, against prevailing opinion.

I would also argue that Hadrian was no lunatic, but he was among my least respected emperors.

He was a rootless cosmopolitan pederast, who openly disdained Rome and Italy. To such an extent that he rarely so much as visited the peninsula during his reign. He strongly preferred to travel among the Eastern provinces, indulging in their mystery cults and frolicking gaily with his precious boys while he elevated the Empire's foreign subjects at every turn.

As an American, I'm far too familiar with being lorded over by globalist pedophile homos who hate me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2026 09:25 AM (BI5O2)

60 I was an early reader. I can't recall not reading. Favorite books (which I still have) are The Lorax and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go.

Now on Book 3 of City of God. I'm taking it slow because it is pretty heavy stuff. Glad I read so much Roman histories in high school and college, otherwise I'd be getting a lot less out of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

61 I have always preferred books to audio, as I can pace better, but when the kids were young and we had road trips to undertake, we picked up several audio books to keep them occupied. We bought Peter Nimble as well as all of the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis, among others. Now, when I find a decent audio book, I will grab it and put it on a memory stick to have handy for the next long trip.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 09:26 AM (0U5gm)

62 Visiting NYC this weekend so of course we had to stop at the Strand Bookstore. They've still got racks of discount books on the sidewalk -- though now they're $3-7 rather than $1 like on my first visit. Still the closest thing America has to the old bookstalls in Turin or along the Seine in Paris. (I wonder if any of those still exist?)

Scored a copy of Fridjof Nansen's memoir Farthest North, about his Arctic expeditions, and a copy of The Surprise of Cremona by Edith Templeton, a great piece of 1950s travel writing, still in print after more than half a century.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 24, 2026 09:26 AM (LcbzL)

63 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 09:26 AM (yTvNw)

64 Why would Thomas Massie be appearing on "Meet the Press"?

What kind of drugs is Kristen Welker on?
Posted by: Auspex at May 24, 2026 09:19 AM
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Why do people still watch television?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at May 24, 2026 09:27 AM (2Ez/1)

65 In my never-ending quest to find cool comic books that aren't super-hero themed, I stumbled across something both unexpected and unsurprising; a bunch of "Marvel Illustrated" branded mini-series from the late 00's. I call this 'unexpected' because I figured that at that time period, Marvel wouldn't be interested in anything other than their own super-heroes. But I also call it 'unsurprising' because these are adaptations of classic (public domain) novels; Moby Dick, Treasure Island (see my previous comments) Three Musketeers, and the like. These stories have been adapted hundreds of times, so it can't be surprising to see one more company take a shot at them. And while I'd prefer to see some original stories in these settings/time periods, I'm happy to take what I can get...

...Also, as I glance back at it, I see that the Treasure Island comic is rated 'Teen+'. Really? No swearing and no gore and it's still Teen+? For what? The skeleton? And people think the old Comics Code Authority was stringent....

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:28 AM (3v7ra)

66 Did the Horde have similar experiences learning to read? Any special first book memories?

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I seem to recall something in my first-grade schoolroom library called Space Cat Goes to Mars!

I went off to school already knowing how to read. One day about two weeks into first grade, my teacher asked me to stay behind after 3:00. "Oops," I thought, "I'm in trouble, but for what?"

She sat me down and said quietly, "Wolfus, you already know how to read, don't you?" "Sure," I said -- I'd thought everybody did. Knowing what I know about schools vs. parents now, I suspect there were some recriminations directed at Mom. As for me, I got a field promotion to second grade that month, and moved on (after some testing) to third the next year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

67 Veapasian was good but he came up the ranks marcus aurelius a century later

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:28 AM (bXbFr)

68 I do not enjoy AI generated voice narration.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at May 24, 2026 09:23 AM (VCgbV)
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The audiobook I did for Battle Officer Wolf hasn't sold any copies, but neither has any other version of the book. It's been out for a while, so not surprising.

The benefit of the machine reader is that it is hugely helpful in editing, and since it is free, I will be using it for each additional book and probably going back to do revised editions of published material.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

69 What is this meet the press you speak of

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:29 AM (bXbFr)

70 I love that top photo. Reminds me of our great nephew who just turned seven. His dad describes him as a reading machine (when he's not playing baseball) and he likes reading to his little brothers and, probably, their dogs.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 09:29 AM (yTvNw)

71 >>Why do people still watch television?

NCIS reruns. oh, you meant, 'TV "news"'?

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 09:29 AM (NcvvS)

72 Like most of you, I don't remember not being able to read. But I also don't remember anyone reading to me. From the little I remember of my childhood, no-one in my family really read anything other than newspapers. Grandmother read, but she was also deaf, so read of necessity. My great-uncle was a reader, but also a devout Catholic, so his books were mostly pre-Vatican II devotionals and theological works.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:30 AM (qRla/)

73 So what to do next? MacDonald's Travis McGee novels? The other MacDonald's Lew Archers? Or take another run at Bleak House? Or maybe, just maybe, even try to write something.

Decisions, decisions.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026

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Miss Linda asked about you last night and wondered if you'v ever read the Ed McBain "87th Precinct" series. If you haven't, he wrote a *lot* of them and they are all solid. My personal favorite is one called Ghosts, which features his "lead" detective, Steve Carella.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

74 Don't forget Aurelian!

Too late. Everybody forgets Aurelian.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 24, 2026 09:31 AM (LcbzL)

75 Mao's Army Goes to Sea is languishing. It is a disappointment. So much padding, so little substance. I might attempt to plow through it today because I think I'm finally at the actual "book" part of the book, as opposed to the forward, introduction, statement of scope, backstory, background, digression on the PLA's administrative systems, etc.

Also, the writer uses a very pedestrian style. Only hard-core China military history addicts should bother with it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)

76 27 I threw a book away this week. Literally into the trash can.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 09:13 AM (h7ZuX)

Oh, that's serious. It takes a lot for someone on this treat to go that far....But, from the rest of your comment, yeah, it seems justified.

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra)

77 We twigged to one of our children *memorizing* the books and then *pretending* to read aloud as she turned the pages.

Posted by: DavidD at May 24, 2026 09:34 AM (MSTeU)

78 I went off to school already knowing how to read. One day about two weeks into first grade, my teacher asked me to stay behind after 3:00. "Oops," I thought, "I'm in trouble, but for what?"

She sat me down and said quietly, "Wolfus, you already know how to read, don't you?" "Sure," I said -- I'd thought everybody did. Knowing what I know about schools vs. parents now, I suspect there were some recriminations directed at Mom. As for me, I got a field promotion to second grade that month, and moved on (after some testing) to third the next year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I had the same experience. I do recall one teacher, probably third grade, being very angry that I would read extra books and not write a book report on every one. The teacher put in my report card that I would be a failure in life.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 09:34 AM (0U5gm)

79 Tell us so we dont pick up accidentally

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:34 AM (bXbFr)

80 As far as reading this week, I haven't done much that wasn't 1920s related. Still making my way through Ten Restaurants That Changed America, but it's a book that makes me hungry, so I have to go slowly. Right now, I am on a chapter about the Mandarin, a San Fran place that introduced high-level Chinese dining to Americans.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:35 AM (qRla/)

81 I learned to read Bam! Pow! and Zowie! watchin Batman.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 09:35 AM (RIvkX)

82 Veapasian was good but he came up the ranks marcus aurelius a century later
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:28 AM (bXbFr)

Vespasian was good. Titus was good. Domitian was an asshole, but gets a worse rep than he earned. Nerva was fine.

I think the horror of the Julio-Claudians, particularly by comparison to Augustus, gives both their contemporaries and historians a tendency to judge Roman emperors perhaps more harshly than they always deserved. The Flavians and Antonines were pretty good, on balance.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2026 09:35 AM (BI5O2)

83 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:35 AM (qRla/)

iirc they invented the Fortune cookie?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 09:36 AM (RIvkX)

84 Did you know there was another Bill Nye? Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye was a humorist in the later 1800s that had this to say about George Washington:

"In conclusion, let me say that George Washington was successful for three reasons. One was that he never shook the confidence of his friends. Another was that he had a strong will without being a mule. Some people cannot distinguish between being firm and being a big blue jackass.

Another reason why Washington is loved and honored today is that he died before we had a chance to get tired of him. This is greatly superior to the method adopted by many modern statesmen, who wait till their constituency weary of them and then reluctantly and tardily die."

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 09:36 AM (vFG9F)

85 "who"

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 09:37 AM (vFG9F)

86 33 Also on my TBR pile: ... the second in S.M. Stirling's series about an Earthlike Venus and Mars in the late 20th Century;

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:15 AM (wzUl9)

Was that the book set on Mars? Or was there a second one set on Venus? I remember reading 1 Venus book, then 1 Mars book, and then I never returned to the series...

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:37 AM (3v7ra)

87 And as for my own work, I finished the editing draft of my new Theda Bara novel, and am slowly making my way through it. I spent last Friday reading the first half aloud to my writing partner / muse, looking for her thoughts. We'll be going through the second half this week, and then, after I've made changes, will be asking for some beta readers.

I wanted to have the book out by Bara's birthday at the end of July, but I don't know if I'll make it. Not that I have hordes of fans begging me for the book, anyway.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:37 AM (qRla/)

88 Yes im painting with a broad brush but there were msny mediocre emperors the same with the byzantines

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:38 AM (bXbFr)

89 Just finished 'Flying Lessons" by a passed away grade school friend. Scott Grange.
I enjoyed it. As a novel. But being based on a real story I have issues.
It should be the real story. I would have loved to have been able to proofread this for Scott. Two mistakes is all but I would have recommended dropping the whole pretence of it being based on a real story. There are things invented out of whole cloth inserted into a real incident that needs no help being facinating. D-Day.
The reader is left wondering how much is real.
I'm going to spend a little time figuring that out. Particularly the villian. His story is almost too much to believe as made up.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 09:38 AM (594J6)

90 ...Also, as I glance back at it, I see that the Treasure Island comic is rated 'Teen+'. Really? No swearing and no gore and it's still Teen+? For what? The skeleton? And people think the old Comics Code Authority was stringent....
Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026

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Skeletons were all over the books I read as a pre-teen. The Hardy Boys, for instance; there's at least one with the word in the title, The Skeleton in the Clock (?) (or "the Armoire," or something).

The opening chapter of my favorite Roy Rogers story of that time, The Ghost of Mystery Rancho, has a skeleton in a chair in the entryway of an abandoned mission, arranged as a booby trap. A sheriff steps on the threshold and wires trigger the loaded pistols in the bony hands of the skeleton, killing the lawman. And motivating young Texas Ranger Roy to avenge his friend and find out who this masked and murderous bandit is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:38 AM (wzUl9)

91 One of my kids kept learning to read a secret from us, apparently out of concern that it might result in no more story reading at bedtime. We learned of the ruse when the kid's kindergarten teacher complained that the kid was secretly reading during mandatory naptime. I was very proud.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 24, 2026 09:38 AM (LcbzL)

92 Let us not forget one source of developing a reader -- newspaper comic strips. Dad would sit in his chair with me on one side and my sister on the other and read "the funnies" to us, using different voices and adding his own laughter or commentary ("That wasn't very funny.").

And in fifth and sixth grade -- small school, both classes in one room -- our teacher would read aloud to us. Why she chose "Island of Blue Dolphins" is something I don't know.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:38 AM (8pIvk)

93 My mom barely ever saw the inside of a college classroom, but she sure knew how to wear out a library card.

She had a rocking chair and a screen porch where she devoured an endless stream of paperbacks, Newsweek magazines every week cover to cover (hey, it was the 70s), a wealthy neighbor's Wall Street Journal (passed along a day late) and even her small hometown's newspaper which would arrive in the mail.

And a lot of cigarettes.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 09:38 AM (2Ez/1)

94 In other book-related news, I shifted a bookcase from the Great Room to the Petit Shrine (the old formal dining room). Quite the logistical undertaking, and I am very sore this morning. It is now ensconced next to two other bookcases bought a year ago at an estate sale that match it in size, color and style. When I am mobile again, I will be shifting the books to create a more thematic arrangement.

Hitherto, many of the book have been put where they fit. I am now rationalizing the collection, and of course removing works that I haven't read, won't read, or don't even know how they got on the shelf (a non-trivial amount). Earlier efforts produced the China Reference Area, which combines all works pertaining to China, which had hitherto been split between Kids' Stories, military history, general history, and philosophy. Now it's all in one easy to find place.

I intend to create a dedicated space for Tolkien, which is something of a challenge given the varied size of the books, but a core concept is that not all books need to be on display. The spare copies of LotR, for example, can be elsewhere.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:39 AM (ZOv7s)

95 As an American, I'm far too familiar with being lorded over by globalist pedophile homos who hate me.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2026 09:25 AM (BI5O2)

This too is the story of Barak Obama.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 09:39 AM (1Ff7Z)

96 33 Also on my TBR pile: ... the second in S.M. Stirling's series about an Earthlike Venus and Mars in the late 20th Century;

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026
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Was that the book set on Mars? Or was there a second one set on Venus? I remember reading 1 Venus book, then 1 Mars book, and then I never returned to the series...
Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026

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The first, The Sky People, was on Venus. This one, In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, is set on Mars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:39 AM (wzUl9)

97 Tom holland is very good mary beard is afflicted with presentism

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:40 AM (bXbFr)

98 Yes im painting with a broad brush but there were msny mediocre emperors the same with the byzantines

It's a living.

- - Galba

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:41 AM (qRla/)

99 I had the same experience. I do recall one teacher, probably third grade, being very angry that I would read extra books and not write a book report on every one. The teacher put in my report card that I would be a failure in life.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026

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Oh, we were told in fifth grade *not* to take our readers home and read ahead. So naturally I did just that and was bored even more of the time in school than usual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:42 AM (wzUl9)

100 I should probably mention that there is a wide range of AI audiobook narration. Some of it, particularly the early stuff, is indeed quite robotic. Amazon's Digital Voice, though, knows about sentence inflection and even does quite well on the made-up words that science fiction and fantasy employ. The best so far is ElevenLabs. You can *create* your own narration voice using prompts like with ChatGpt, and also tell it the narrator should shout, whisper, or be sarcastic. It sounds human.

I completely respect human narrators and their skills, and want to pay them what they are worth. But until I can EARN enough to pay them, AI is a good way to bootstrap and give readers the audio equivalent to a paperback.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 24, 2026 09:42 AM (vAQDP)

101 Dad would sit in his chair with me on one side and my sister on the other and read "the funnies" to us, using different voices and adding his own laughter or commentary ("That wasn't very funny.").

Posted by: Weak Geek

I used to do that when reading to my kids, changing voices with the characters, and adding in sound effects. I think it helped when they were very young.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 09:42 AM (0U5gm)

102 Yeah obama would have been a vsndsl emperor

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:43 AM (bXbFr)

103 Growing up, my sisters & I read a lot, my brother very little. Only later, when he did a lot of air travel for work, did he develop an interest in reading. Big on mysteries.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 09:43 AM (NcvvS)

104 Yeah he drew the short straw four that year

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:44 AM (bXbFr)

105 I was actually gobsmacked this past week to see a post on the Reactor blog (alias Tor.com) in which the author actually complained about the galloping presentism and anachronisms in a lot of contemporary "historical" media and literature. In the past that site has published various apologia for awkwardly shoehorning "women warriors" and diverse people of color into medieval Europe, so this is a real shocker. Even more shocking was the generally supportive tone of the comments.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 24, 2026 09:44 AM (LcbzL)

106 Oh, that's serious. It takes a lot for someone on this treat to go that far....But, from the rest of your comment, yeah, it seems justified.
Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:33 AM (3v7ra)

I've only tossed one book in anger. GWB's book "Record of Accomplishment." After his remarks on President Trump, into the recycle bin it went.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 09:44 AM (1Ff7Z)

107 Island of Doctor Moreau. Some castaways are let loose in the tropics; Edward Prendick survives. This is cast as a memoir found adrift latitude 5° 3′ S x 101° W - so ten degrees west of Galapagos.
Imagine someone got to the Jurassic Park by accident and that's a fair summary of the intro.
Apparently there is a movie: Island of Lost Souls 1932. There's a catgirl. One of several reasons we got the Hayes Code. There are other movies but they are (somehow) cheesier.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 24, 2026 09:45 AM (1gmsy)

108 I do need to do some writing today, but also some reading. For a novel set in Hollywood, my book has precious little 'movie scenery' in it. I need to write a scene that shows a film being shot - which I can do off the top of my head - but also need to search through memoirs of early Hollywood to get a few details just right. So I will probably do more reading than writing at all.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:45 AM (qRla/)

109 Yeah obama would have been a vsndsl emperor
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026

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I presume you meant "Vandal"?

Accused once in college by a girlfriend of being a "vandal" because I'd added some graffiti to a bathroom stall, I said proudly, "No, I'm a Visigoth!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:45 AM (wzUl9)

110 Veapasian was good but he came up the ranks marcus aurelius a century later
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:28 AM (bXbFr)
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The Roman military system frequently generated excellent emperors. The Crisis of the Second Century was solved by a series of soldier-emperors starting with Claudius II.

The Julio-Claudians get something of a bum rap because of the quality (and quantity) of writing about them from Rome. The picture in the provinces was entirely different, and a big part of why we know so much was that Tacitus was an exceptional Latin stylist, and his works were preserved because of that as much as their content.

St. Augustine is similarly treasured for the quality of his writing, which comes through in translation. Very readable, nice turns of phrase, though the translators stress that his use of rhyming and pacing does not cross over to English. I enjoy footnotes pointing out that certain phrases are masterpieces of Latin.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

111 I am very fond of Stirling's In the Courts of the Crimson Kings. He manages to make Martians understandable yet very alien. Also the line "Feral engines!" makes me giggle and sometimes I say it to recalcitrant devices. Why yes, I AM a nerd.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 24, 2026 09:47 AM (vAQDP)

112 Speaking of audio books, I must recommend the audio book of The Magician's Nephew read by Kenneth Branaugh. What a phenomenal narrator. He not only changes volume and speed to match the suspense, but he nails the characters and dialects of every character, even the minor ones. At some points, it is hard to imagine that one person is doing the reading.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 09:47 AM (0U5gm)

113 Usta look forward to the Sunday paper when the comics were in color. And of course everyone developed their own particular order of comic strip consumption, saving your favorite for last.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 09:48 AM (2Ez/1)

114 I'm persnickety about audiobooks. On long drives (which I don't have to do anymore, thank goodness) I preferred to play music, especially if I could sing along. Trying to follow a book while in traffic on the Penn Turnpike or I-90 was not a good combination.

But I have found some audiobooks that I love. The narrator can bring out aspects that I missed even on many rereadings. One example I've mentioned is Gary Sinise reading Steinbeck's Travels With Charly. It's wonderful and nuanced without being distractingly over the top.

I have several versions of LOTR on audio. Didn't care for the BBC production that is more like a stage play. It distracted me from the words. But the Rob Inglis and, even better, Andy Serkis versions are excellent: clear, emotive, and bring out aspects that I missed when reading. They are gems. Same for Derek Jacobi reading Voyage of the Dawn Trader from the Narnia series.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 09:48 AM (yTvNw)

115 Yes vandal

Visigoth had a possibility of being noble

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:49 AM (bXbFr)

116 Three Investigators book: "Mystery of the Talking Skull."

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:49 AM (8pIvk)

117 And in fifth and sixth grade -- small school, both classes in one room -- our teacher would read aloud to us. Why she chose "Island of Blue Dolphins" is something I don't know.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:38 AM (8pIvk
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I remember my third and fourth grade teachers reading aloud to us. "James and the Giant Peach", "The Glass Slipper", and others.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 09:50 AM (kpS4V)

118 40 There is a clear trend line from socialism to communism to anarchism to terrorism. The trail leads from Rousseau to modern day leftist movements. In The Dynamite Club, John Merriman traces the history of how leftist politics turned to terror in the western world.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 09:18 AM (0U5gm)

I remember when I first became aware of the anarchist-bombing movements of old. They made me irrationally angry. But they also made me smugly-satisfied, because that sort of foolishness was safely behind us, relegated to the dustbin of history. That was in the 2000's, when domestic troublemakers seemed far less relevant than home-grown ones. But now...glances at the headlines from last night...well, home-grown violence is back on the menu, it seems.

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:50 AM (3v7ra)

119 My first book that I can remember was Go Dog Go. Hell yeah I still have a copy. Mom taught me to read early, so I was reading before kindergarten. My birthday is late in the year, so I missed the cutoff for starting school and had to wait a year, but when they found out I reading when I started kindergarten they pulled my out and put my in first grade. I still have some of my earliest books. Yeah, Go Dog Go was my fav.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 24, 2026 09:50 AM (snZF9)

120 Yeah obama would have been a vsndsl emperor
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:43 AM (bXbFr)
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Obama was closest to Honorius - did nothing to earn the job, hid his court, watched the Empire collapse around him, kept acting important anyway. Killed his best commanders due to palace intrigue.

You could argue that he might have been one of the late puppet emperors as well. He very clearly saw his role is guiding the US into decline and strategic irrelevance, and there's a pretty obvious parallel with settling barbarian tribes in the Empire, undermining its integrity.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

121 Many of the chronicler of the era tacitus plutarch cassius dio was pretty good

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:52 AM (bXbFr)

122 I remember my third and fourth grade teachers reading aloud to us. "James and the Giant Peach", "The Glass Slipper", and others.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 09:50 AM (kpS4V)
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Library time was a mainstay of elementary school. One day a week we'd troop over to the library and the librarian or a parent volunteer would read a book to us. Lots of good books - Phantom Toll Booth, James and the Giant Peach - and then we had a few minutes at the end to check out a book.

I was always over at 940, picking out a war book.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

123 For America 250 I'm reading The Daily Journals of the Lewis and Clark. All of the old Lewis and Clark public domain journal books are abridged with one (

major exception: Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Volumes 1-8 by the American Philosophical Society 1904 unabridged. Each volume is approximately 380 pages.

The advantage of reading the journals versus condensed prose versions is pretty simple - mystery. L&C didn't know what tribe members or prairie topography they might encounter from day to day. They had hard ordinary days or sometimes ran across odd things: a 12 foot wide by 30 foot high fascine erected by Indians on an willow eyot, or the ruins of a strange fortress built by people unknown for reasons unknown.

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 09:53 AM (gC0g5)

124 He was the exception

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 09:54 AM (bXbFr)

125 Raul is a cool cat.

Posted by: Eromero at May 24, 2026 09:54 AM (LHPAg)

126
The problem with AI reading is that is doesn't have the proper rhythm and emphasis for all types of novels.

F'rinstance a humorous novel would suffer hugely without the proper inflection and emphasis.

Same with an action novel or horror novel.

I imagine it would take a huge amount of tweaking to get an AI to sound correct.

Imagine a PG Wodehouse Jeeves and Bertie novel read flatly...yuck!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 09:54 AM (iJfKG)

127 I also don't remember how I learned to read, just that I always could. My mother finished HS it my father didn't driving a truck for the family bakery. But there were a,ways newspapers, magazines and I could walk to the library where I had to get written permission to take books from the adult section.
Trying to finish book 5 in Pierce Brown's Red Rising series Dark Age for the 3rd time. It is a great book but easy to put down when current events take precedence. His battle scenes are so exciting as I root for the good guys to pull off a miraculous win which they lways do until.....

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2026 09:55 AM (kJmSS)

128 Library time was a mainstay of elementary school. One day a week we'd troop over to the library and the librarian or a parent volunteer would read a book to us. Lots of good books - Phantom Toll Booth, James and the Giant Peach - and then we had a few minutes at the end to check out a book.

I was always over at 940, picking out a war book.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026

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I faintly recall one title from our elementary school "library" (one room in the building) called Captain Apple's Ghost. Even at age nine, anything with a supernatural element got my attention.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:56 AM (wzUl9)

129 Sabrina,
Thanks for the thread today. You always bring an author's viewpoint most aren't aware of.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 09:56 AM (yTvNw)

130 Don't think Batmann taught me to read, but B.B. did teach me all I know about opera

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 09:57 AM (Ia/+0)

131 46 It's hodgepodge time in Geekland. I'm skipping among two comics collections and one novel.

The comics are reprints of Alex Raymond's "Flash Gordon" comic strips from the 1930s throught early '40s and a hardback collection of the first three years of Mike Grell's 1970s DC comic "The Warlord." The book is "Neon Empire," a Nate Heller crime adventure by Max Allan Collins.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 09:21 AM (8pIvk)

Only three books at once? Pft. (cut to the 'those are rookie numbers' meme-clip) What do you think of Warlord so far? I'm still paused in my reading of it. And the Flash Gordon strip...were those dailies, or Sunday pages? It's been a long time since I read a daily adventure strip. The three-panel pacing is...certainly a different sort of experience.

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:58 AM (3v7ra)

132 Obama was closest to Honorius - did nothing to earn the job, hid his court, watched the Empire collapse around him, kept acting important anyway. Killed his best commanders due to palace intrigue.

I'd say Elagabalus. Petulant, childish, wasteful and devoted to an alien culture.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:58 AM (qRla/)

133 Don't think Batmann taught me to read, but B.B. did teach me all I know about opera
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026

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My mother said she started me out on comic books like Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. She'd read the "big" words (not that there were many in a Dell comic) and I'd read the "little" ones. Before long, I was reading the "big" ones too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:59 AM (wzUl9)

134 American Thinker's audio is frustrating. I have to read the essay to confirm what I think I heard, thus defeating the purpose of the audio.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 10:00 AM (8pIvk)

135 I remember when I first became aware of the anarchist-bombing movements of old. They made me irrationally angry. But they also made me smugly-satisfied, because that sort of foolishness was safely behind us, relegated to the dustbin of history. That was in the 2000's, when domestic troublemakers seemed far less relevant than home-grown ones. But now...glances at the headlines from last night...well, home-grown violence is back on the menu, it seems.
Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 09:50 AM (3v7ra)
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Marxism is a heresy, and a very old one at that. You see it pop up at various times in history under different names.

The modern version latched onto the Enlightenment and claimed to be secular ("scientific") but it's still just weaponized greed, envy, wrath and pride.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:00 AM (ZOv7s)

136 Wolfus (& Miss Linda) --

Yep, I've read the 87th Precinct books, and they were delightful. I may have missed some of the last ones that came out after we moved from Chicago to SE KS in late 85, though. That's a terrific series too -- can't remember reading a bad one. Another series ripe for a revisit. No longer have the hardcovers, but they're all on the Kindle waiting for my lazy kazoosis to open 'em up again.

His Evan Hunter novels aren't too dusty either. Blackboard Jungle and Last Summer are probably the best known but I'm kinda partial to Sons and Far from the Sea.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 10:01 AM (q3u5l)

137 You know, my younger sisters never developed the reading habit, the absolute necessity of books, that I did. I am also the only Comservative while,they are liberals in the worst sense of the word. 🤔

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2026 10:02 AM (kJmSS)

138 The cat is staring down at me from the back of the sofa as I read. It's disconcerting.

Blink, already!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 24, 2026 10:02 AM (kpS4V)

139 Also, a collection of Asimov's Nightfall and Other Stories...

Just my opinion -- because I know how important that is to you all -- but "Nightfall" is either the best SF short ever or tied for first with "Johnny Mnemonic."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026 10:03 AM (vTZFs)

140 >>My birthday is late in the year, so I missed the cutoff for starting school and had to wait a year, but when they found out I reading when I started kindergarten they pulled my out and put my in first grade.

Opposite problem, here: birthday just before the cutoff date, (after start of school year). Parents were not going to sign off on sticking a 4-year-old into first grade.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 10:03 AM (NcvvS)

141 Riouchas space opera leans heavily on Roman tropes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:03 AM (bXbFr)

142 I remember the Little Golden Books, and I could read before the first grade. There was no kindergarten. We had the Compton Encyclopedia at home early and I went through that pretty quick.
'A person who doesn't read is no better than a person who can't read.'
- Johnny Cash (I think)

Posted by: Eromero at May 24, 2026 10:04 AM (LHPAg)

143 I need to go back and reread some of my Poul Anderson collection. It's not huge, but I have The Star Fox, which I've mostly forgotten, The Trouble Twisters (three long short stories about the Polesotechnic League era), and his first, Brain Wave. I used to have a paperback copy of his War of the Wing-Men with a wonderful painting of one of the aliens featured in the story. The artist must actually have read the book, or at least enough to absorb Anderson's description.

Oh, and I have Anderson's The Book of Poul Anderson with various short and long stories, and his grand fantasy of a 20th-Century world run by magic, Operation Chaos.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:04 AM (wzUl9)

144 The problem with AI reading is that is doesn't have the proper rhythm and emphasis for all types of novels.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 09:54 AM (iJfKG)
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Amazon's isn't bad. You can put notes into the text and adjust tempo and such, and of course free. Obviously, a professional working on a great script can do more, but it is better than nothing for the budget-minded indie author.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:04 AM (ZOv7s)

145 Ruocchio marlowe series

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:05 AM (bXbFr)

146 @131 --

Castle Guy, they were Sunday strips. "Flash Gordon" didn't have a daily strip until after Raymond was drafted, which ended his work on the strip.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 10:05 AM (8pIvk)

147 Yes, read to your children, starting as an infant, and don't stop when they first learn to read. It was a nightly ritual up to somewhere in the age of 9 or 10. It not only helps reading skills, it builds speaking, vocabulary, and indirectly, writing ability. In addition to helping the kids in an academic way, it's a bonding time with them.

The only rough patch was when a book became a favorite. "Santa Claus and his Elves", every night... for several weeks... weeks, I tell you.

Posted by: George V at May 24, 2026 10:05 AM (HUbHH)

148 I'd say Elagabalus. Petulant, childish, wasteful and devoted to an alien culture.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 09:58 AM (qRla/)
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Obama hid his perversion rather than celebrate it. I think he's much closer to one of the late barbarian-sponsored tools than anyone with actual agency.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)

149 I remember my third and fourth grade teachers reading aloud to us. "James and the Giant Peach", "The Glass Slipper", and others.

I remember that also. I wonder if they're still allowed to do that these days or if it takes time away from practicing pronouns and putting rubbers on bananas.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026 10:06 AM (vTZFs)

150 Just my opinion -- because I know how important that is to you all -- but "Nightfall" is either the best SF short ever or tied for first with "Johnny Mnemonic."
Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026

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I'm fond of "Nightfall." But I prefer Blish's "Surface Tension" (more a novelette, though), Heinlein's "The Long Watch," and Cordwainer Smith's "The Game of Rat and Dragon."

Alfred Bester's "Fondly Fahrenheit" is up there too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:07 AM (wzUl9)

151 I have always preferred books that are mostly pictures.

Posted by: Weasel at May 24, 2026 10:07 AM (wN/sj)

152 Opposite problem, here: birthday just before the cutoff date, (after start of school year). Parents were not going to sign off on sticking a 4-year-old into first grade.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 10:03 AM (NcvvS)
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I was always one of the youngest people in my grade, graduated at 17.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:08 AM (ZOv7s)

153 I started a couple of books but got distracted by some appointments where I brought along and re-read Manning Coles' Non Negotiable
Tommy Hambleton is in Belgium trying to find some leads on counterfeit ring passing exceptional quality bills when he observes a dead drop in a cafe. In following it up he finds corpses, accommodation addresses, jilted fiancés, bakery apprentices, Antoine Letourd of the Surete, petty criminals, a shadowy and sinister character named Maurice who seems to be running the whole ring, and the person actually pulling the strings from plain sight.
It is a usual Manning Coles spy novel, with desperate fights, boring stake outs, clever commentary and the tragic deaths that dampens the fun in post-war Europe.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 10:08 AM (rbvCR)

154 narf

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 10:08 AM (rbvCR)

155 My first book that I can remember was Go Dog Go.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Now that you mention it, that would be a great name for a band.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026 10:09 AM (vTZFs)

156 >>I threw a book away this week. Literally into the trash can.

I have done that once. It was "Shutter Island."
The ending was so dark and depressing I did not wish to share the book with anyone else by donating it to the used bookstore, thus ruining their day (the day they finished the book).

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2026 10:12 AM (X8xt3)

157 Now that you mention it, that would be a great name for a band.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026 10:09 AM (vTZFs)
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I saw Go Dog Go open for They Might Be Giants at Pine Knob in 1996. Great show!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:12 AM (ZOv7s)

158 I'm deaf, so audiobooks are not my thing. It was recommended to me to listen to them when I first got my cochlear implants to help train my brain, so I went with books I can recite nearly from memory, which was Jane Austen. It was useful for training, but longer term, it would be very difficult if not impossible for me to consume a book I'd never read before that way. It would literally be easier and faster for me to read a book in my second, third, or fifth language than to listen to it. Even if I could, though, I'm also a speed reader and cannot imagine being confined to the slow pace of audiobooks. (I read 4 books just yesterday, for example.) I obviously don't drive and read at the same time, but cooking, cleaning, etc. I do with an ereader in hand.

I finally read Project Hail Mary yesterday. It was pretty good. There was one howler, when the narrator stated that two buildings at JSC that are actually a 15 minute drive apart were a 10 minute walk apart, but otherwise, good stuff. (The two buildings were the NBL and Building 30 (the MCC). Andy Weir has been to JSC. He also has access to google maps. Zero excuse for not knowing those buildings are not on the same campus.)

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 24, 2026 10:12 AM (C/5yY)

159 Poul Anderson's short story Journeys End is a nifty piece of work too; kinda like the best Robert Silverberg story that Robert Silverberg never wrote. Yet another one due for a revisit.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 10:13 AM (q3u5l)

160 I have always preferred books that are mostly pictures.
Posted by: Weasel at May 24, 2026 10:07 AM (wN/sj)
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Ezell's Handguns of the World.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

161 He very clearly saw his role is guiding the US into decline and strategic irrelevance, and there's a pretty obvious parallel with settling barbarian tribes in the Empire, undermining its integrity.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 09:51 AM (ZOv7s)

There was a bit of a difference: their barbarians wanted to be Romans, ours....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 10:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

162 Well it works better for dramatic purooses if they were

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:14 AM (bXbFr)

163 Kindltot, I need to find more of the Coles Hambledon books. Tommy has a neat willingness to say irreverent things that appeals to me. In an earlier WWII novel, he privately refers to the violent green-flash explosive the Nazis are developing as "Poppo."

I suspect Hambledon appears in David McDaniel's roman a clef Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel, The Rainbow Affair. His name is never given, but when he (as a clearly important officer of British Intelligence) calls a young woman agent "you little minx," that sounds like him.

The young woman agent is clearly Emma Peel, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

164
"Nightfall" is great because it's so easy to visualize.

Same with Clarke's "Nine Billion Names of God".

Really adds to the story's punch.

"All You Zombies" by Heinlein was a real mindblower when I read it.

As was "Venus and the Seven Sexes" by personal fave SF author, William Tenn. I guess he's been forgotten now.

Anyway, great conceptual mind-openers to the possibilities of SF.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 10:15 AM (iJfKG)

165 The only rough patch was when a book became a favorite. "Santa Claus and his Elves", every night... for several weeks... weeks, I tell you.

**"Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey" has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 10:15 AM (qRla/)

166 I've been reading a lot of poetry lately and have found that reading the lines out loud makes a huge difference in appreciating the poems. Instead of treating the end of each line as a sentence, reading aloud and following the punctuation lets the lines flow naturally and allows the alliteration, rhymes and stresses to bring out qualities that silent reading misses. I did some dramatic readings in college and knew this but got out of the habit. Poe's The Raven, Tennyson's Ulysses (actually anything by Tennyson), Shakespeare's Sonnets take on new power and resonance when read aloud.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 10:16 AM (yTvNw)

167 Ezell's Handguns of the World.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:13 AM (ZOv7s)

This is an excellent book that I can recommend to anyone interested in the subject with the proviso that it fails to have all the handguns in the world.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 10:17 AM (rbvCR)

168 But it doesnt make that big a difference

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:17 AM (bXbFr)

169 Poul Anderson's short story Journeys End is a nifty piece of work too; kinda like the best Robert Silverberg story that Robert Silverberg never wrote. Yet another one due for a revisit.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026

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The story about telepaths? Yes!

Like Heinlein before him, Anderson had various depths to his work. PA was a hard-SF guy, but he could produce something like "Journey's End." Heinlein was a rational engineer, but then he gave us that haunting story about paranoia (or is it?), "They."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:17 AM (wzUl9)

170 There was a bit of a difference: their barbarians wanted to be Romans, ours....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 10:14 AM (1Ff7Z)
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No, I think they just wanted to get stuff from other people, same as now.

Trump is like Aurelian, Restitutor Orbis if you will, crushing barbarian and usurper alike. Hillary is Zenobia of Palmyra.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

171 "every night...for several weeks..."

I'll bet Mrs Some Guy and I can still recite Sandra Boynton's But Not the Hippopotamus from memory.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 10:18 AM (q3u5l)

172 I once tossed a DC comic book. It was so anti-business that I don't think I finished it. I remember throwing it across the room, then picking it up and dropping it into the trash.

IIRC, it was a Booster Gold annual that introduced a new team.

Now I want to look it up.

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 10:18 AM (8pIvk)

173 I love reading aloud to the kids. Go Dog Go was a favorite in our house as well, as well as Fox in Socks and (when they got a little older) My Mama Says.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 24, 2026 10:18 AM (C/5yY)

174 Lehane is rarely an encouraging read

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:19 AM (bXbFr)

175 Did the Horde have similar experiences learning to read? Any special first book memories?

My folks told me they used to find me napping with my face in am open Encyclopedia Britannica, which seems to be pretty on brand with me, as nerdly as I am.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2026 10:19 AM (/RHNq)

176 I remember when I first became aware of the anarchist-bombing movements of old. They made me irrationally angry. But they also made me smugly-satisfied, because that sort of foolishness was safely behind us, relegated to the dustbin of history. That was in the 2000's, when domestic troublemakers seemed far less relevant than home-grown ones. But now...glances at the headlines from last night...well, home-grown violence is back on the menu, it seems.

Posted by: Castle Guy

Yes, the US had a flare up of its own in the early years of the twentieth century, including an assassination of a president and bombings of Wall Street. Many people had thought the left had burned itself out on political violence, but we saw it during the Vietnam era, and now in the early years of the twenty-first, it seems to be clearly on the upswing again.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 10:20 AM (0U5gm)

177 87 ... "I wanted to have the book out by Bara's birthday at the end of July, but I don't know if I'll make it. Not that I have hordes of fans begging me for the book, anyway."

MP4,
Well, you have at least one fan waiting for the new book. I have the first two in hardcover and will do the same for the new one. Please let us know when publication is near.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 10:20 AM (yTvNw)

178 This is an excellent book that I can recommend to anyone interested in the subject with the proviso that it fails to have all the handguns in the world.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 10:17 AM (rbvCR)
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It also doesn't go past 1945. I was saddened to see that Ezell's update to Small Arms of the World did not have a section on South Korea. Poor Daewoo. Totally not fair that Rooftop Koreans should be snubbed in this way while every crap third world AK variant gets space.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 24, 2026 10:21 AM (ZOv7s)

179 . I did some dramatic readings in college and knew this but got out of the habit. Poe's The Raven, Tennyson's Ulysses (actually anything by Tennyson), Shakespeare's Sonnets take on new power and resonance when read aloud.
Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026

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Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and "The Laboratory," for instance. Both are dramatic monologues and meant to be read aloud.

Both are very modern, too, in that we are not *told* anything but view it all through the narrator's words. We're not told that the anonymous visitor to the Duke's abode is horrified by his host; Browning simply has the Duke say, "Nay, we'll go down together, sir[,]" and we *see* the visitor shrinking back and the Duke throwing a companionable arm over his reluctant shoulders.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:22 AM (wzUl9)

180 > reading the lines out loud makes a huge difference in appreciating the poems

Yep agree. And not being afraid of rhythm. Too many people seem to be convinced that rhythm is gauche or something, so they try to recite poetry like it's prose. That would be appropriate for My Last Duchess, but Poe intended his poetry to be read aloud. Same for Tolkien. Sound and rhythm were just as important as meaning to him.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 24, 2026 10:22 AM (C/5yY)

181 @171 --

"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom."

Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 10:23 AM (8pIvk)

182 >>Lehane is rarely an encouraging read

Look at the movies based on his books, such as Mystic River and Gone, Baby Gone. Dark twists at the end. BLEAK. I have no interest in reading anymore of his books. Not my jam!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2026 10:23 AM (X8xt3)

183 >>Just my opinion -- because I know how important that is to you all -- but "Nightfall" is either the best SF short ever or tied for first with "Johnny Mnemonic."

Re-read 'By the Waters of Bablyon' by Stephen Vincent Benet once a year. Holds up very well.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 10:23 AM (NcvvS)

184 It's a captivating story, rich in details and with memorable characters.

Posted by: Zoltan

A Soldier of the Great War by Helprin is such a wonderful novel. I really need to reread it. It's been decades since my last read.

Helprin's most recent novel, "The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story. A Love Story," is actually very, very good tale that I highly recommend. Much in the tradition of Soldier of the Great War.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2026 10:23 AM (/RHNq)

185 Lehane is rarely an encouraging read

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:19 AM (bXbFr)

The first novel I read by Dennis Lehane was "Prayers for Rain".

It was so good that I read everything of his I could find.

I gave him room to cook and forgave his lesser writes.

But, somewhere along the line, he lost me by no longer writing stories that I was interested in.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 10:24 AM (iJfKG)

186 I have always preferred books that are mostly pictures.

Posted by: Weasel at May 24, 2026 10:07 AM (wN/sj)

With the sliding thingies? Those are the best!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 10:24 AM (WQAc4)

187 Thai police disguise as dance troupe to arrest drug suspect, seize methamphetamine pills

I did NOT have Thai Ladyboy Cops on my Bingo card.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 10:24 AM (/+uur)

188 172 I once tossed a DC comic book. It was so anti-business that I don't think I finished it. I remember throwing it across the room, then picking it up and dropping it into the trash.

IIRC, it was a Booster Gold annual that introduced a new team.

Now I want to look it up.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 24, 2026 10:18 AM (8pIvk)

There was an issue like that in the second JLI omnibus. (Which I read about a year ago) I don't think the new team ever appeared again. Certainly not in that collection, and none of the characters were ones I had heard about from other sources.

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 10:25 AM (3v7ra)

189 With the sliding thingies? Those are the best!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 24, 2026 10:24 AM (WQAc4)

I like the books on a circle
That you have to click to read the next page

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 10:25 AM (/+uur)

190 My Last Duchess is written in iambic pentameter with an aabb rhyme scheme, but don't recite it in iambic pentameter or you'll sound insane.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 24, 2026 10:25 AM (C/5yY)

191 As was "Venus and the Seven Sexes" by personal fave SF author, William Tenn. I guess he's been forgotten now.

Anyway, great conceptual mind-openers to the possibilities of SF.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026

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I recall a few stories by Tenn. One takes place in a post-nuclear Armageddon world, where the whites are starving and ragged, barely surviving, while the Indian tribes have come back into their own and are living large off the land.

Another involved advanced aliens involved in a war with another spacegoing race. The first come to Earth and ask to use our planet as a base. The whole thing winds up being like Korea or Vietnam: a disaster for the humans providing the base and the resources.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

192 So I was stuck in my car on Thursday in my worst commute home from work ever. And I was listening to James Clavell's 'Shogun' until...I had to turn it off.

The thing about audio books is you have no idea how long a chapter is, you can't easily skip ahead.

This is important because there is a long, long sequence where the survivors of the boat crash and whining and cringing and repeating themselves over and over. Over and over.

On the page, I can skip this or at least I can estimate how much more of this I have to endure by looking at the page or chapter. In an audiobook, the only way through is forward. Or to stop. Which is what I did.

I do like James Clavell. But I will stick to paper for Shogun.

The voice actor wasn't terrible, he was acting and playing the characters as written. I just...didn't like what was written. Bad VA is something else entirely.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 24, 2026 10:26 AM (xcxpd)

193 and yes, for self-editing, reading aloud is very useful for finding errors.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 24, 2026 10:28 AM (xcxpd)

194 My parents read books to us, including the Narnia series, James and the Giant Peach, and others. Loved to leave us hanging so that we would beg them to continue the next night. heh.

Don't remember my first book. Being the third child, there were always my siblings' books around. Several ones that are memorable: "Nothing Ever Happens on My Block" by Ellen Raskin, the Dr. Seuss books, and the Richard Scary books. Loved the silly ones!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2026 10:28 AM (X8xt3)

195 My Last Duchess is written in iambic pentameter with an aabb rhyme scheme, but don't recite it in iambic pentameter or you'll sound insane.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 24, 2026

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No; I'd simply read it as if speaking the lines in a drama. "This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together." Insert sigh "There she stands as if alive. . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:28 AM (wzUl9)

196 Yes, the US had a flare up of its own in the early years of the twentieth century, including an assassination of a president and bombings of Wall Street.

Eric Burns' 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar opens with the Morgan Bank bombing and describes the (eventually fruitless) investigation as it tackles other events of the year - Ponzi, Prohibition, jazz, &c.

Burns also wrote Infamous Scribblers, a good, engrossing history of newspapers and reporting from Colonial times through the post-George Washington era.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 10:29 AM (qRla/)

197 My mother would read books to us almost nightly.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 24, 2026 10:30 AM (erYkk)

198 Closest to upbeat I can remember seeing from Dennis Lehane is The Drop (both book and movie, but the movie is more so). If Mystic River and Shutter Island are just too dark to suit you, The Drop (film version with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini and script by Lehane) is worth a look.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 10:30 AM (q3u5l)

199 At the risk of making some jealous, and on the subject of books with pictures, I must report that the other day I scored a pristine copy of W.W. Greener's The Gun and it's Development. Technically, what it has is a lot of 1910 era drawings of firearm actions along with text to describe how the various guns work and how each action was developed, building on previous inventor's work.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 10:31 AM (0U5gm)

200 The first novel I read by Dennis Lehane was "Prayers for Rain".

It was so good that I read everything of his I could find.

I gave him room to cook and forgave his lesser writes.

But, somewhere along the line, he lost me by no longer writing stories that I was interested in.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026

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His early private-eye novels, including the basis for that superb movie Gone, Baby, Gone, seemed to be a new voice in detective fiction, the way Robert Parker was in 1973 with Spenser. Mystic River was fascinating too. Whenever I see one of his on the library shelf I grab it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:31 AM (wzUl9)

201 I need to find more of the Coles Hambledon books. Tommy has a neat willingness to say irreverent things that appeals to me. In an earlier WWII novel, he privately refers to the violent green-flash explosive the Nazis are developing as "Poppo."

[ . . . ]
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

They are very much time capsules of life after the war. Coles was in British Intelligence and from some people I know who studied post-war Germany and France, the plots echo some things that were going on in Europe at the time.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 10:31 AM (rbvCR)

202 175 Did the Horde have similar experiences learning to read? Any special first book memories?

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2026 10:19 AM (/RHNq)

I have no particular memories of learning to read. Nor of reading with my parents. (I'm sure they did, a lot, but my memories start with the books I was reading myself.) One book that I remember seeing around the house, which probably deserves a mention; "There's a Monster at the End of This Book." It's a book about Grover (from Sesame Street) begging the reader not to finish the book. It all built to a twist ending, which I'm sure you all can guess.

There's a question; did Sesame Street have any effect on anyone here? Since teaching young kids was supposedly the mission statement for that show...

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 10:32 AM (3v7ra)

203 My Last Duchess is written in iambic pentameter with an aabb rhyme scheme, but don't recite it in iambic pentameter or you'll sound insane.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at May 24, 2026

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Though, since the Duke clearly IS insane . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:32 AM (wzUl9)

204 As was "Venus and the Seven Sexes" by personal fave SF author, William Tenn. I guess he's been forgotten now.

Anyway, great conceptual mind-openers to the possibilities of SF.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026

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I recall a few stories by Tenn. One takes place in a post-nuclear Armageddon world, where the whites are starving and ragged, barely surviving, while the Indian tribes have come back into their own and are living large off the land.

Another involved advanced aliens involved in a war with another spacegoing race. The first come to Earth and ask to use our planet as a base. The whole thing winds up being like Korea or Vietnam: a disaster for the humans providing the base and the resources.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:26 AM (wzUl9)

Several years ago, one of the boutique SF printers publish all of his stuff in a two volume hardcover set.

That was a pretty great find for me and I bought them immediately.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 10:33 AM (iJfKG)

205 Closest to upbeat I can remember seeing from Dennis Lehane is The Drop (both book and movie, but the movie is more so). If Mystic River and Shutter Island are just too dark to suit you, The Drop (film version with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini and script by Lehane) is worth a look.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026

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Not sure I've read The Drop!

Shutter Island is the one I was thinking of that left me a little cold. The ultimate twist/revelation seemed a bit of a letdown. Still, his prose is always readable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)

206 As a wee one, I adored books by Aileen Fisher. They were poetry, if I recall, and the illustrations were lovely.

I also fondly remember one called Where Does the Butterfly Go When it Rains, by May Garelick. The illustrations were beautiful watercolors in blue shades.

These gave me an early appreciation for poetry and art.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 10:35 AM (h7ZuX)

207
There's a question; did Sesame Street have any effect on anyone here? Since teaching young kids was supposedly the mission statement for that show...
Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026

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Sesame Street came along too late for me; I was in high school. I recall reading the plaudits for it in TV Guide then, but never saw an episode until later.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:36 AM (wzUl9)

208 I was always a Shakespeare fan, but the first time I saw a performance was a revelation. The language was so precise, the words conveying the meaning perfectly. Don't know if this description makes sense. It is like how poetry comes alive when read aloud.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2026 10:37 AM (kJmSS)

209 Yes, the US had a flare up of its own in the early years of the twentieth century, including an assassination of a president and bombings of Wall Street. Many people had thought the left had burned itself out on political violence, but we saw it during the Vietnam era, and now in the early years of the twenty-first, it seems to be clearly on the upswing again.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2026 10:20 AM (0U5gm)
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The Soviets were busy organizing Communist cells in the US during the 1930s. Deep roots for future treason. When I was younger, Whitaker Chamber's book "Witness" made a big impression on me.

Posted by: mrp at May 24, 2026 10:37 AM (rj6Yv)

210 I could be wrong, but The Drop reads kind of like Lehane doing a novelization of his film script. If you've not seen the flick, it's worth it just for Gandolfini (his last performance, I think); everything in it just works IMHO.

And yes, the dog lives.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 10:38 AM (q3u5l)

211 One person who (re)awakened my interest in poetry in general and reading aloud is Malcolm Guite. His YT videos are a joy to watch and listen to. Whether he is discussing and quoting LOTR prose, his own poetry, the Faerie Queene, or Coleridge and Wordsworth, his enthusiasm and insights are delightful and enlightening.

I'm reading his Galahad and the Grail which just came out in April. It's the first volume of four, an epic ballad of the King Arthur legends. I regard this as a modern masterpiece, on the same level as Tennyson's Idylls of the King or Chesterton's Ballad of the White Horse. I was smart enough to get the audio recording of him reading the poem. I read a section silently, read it again out loud, then listen to his reading of the same part. It's like adding another rainbows-worth of color to my appreciation.

Yes, I am enthusiastic about it. The next volume is due out in November.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 10:39 AM (yTvNw)

212 I am with Wolfus, PBS kid shows were after my early years.
Though a painful memory was watching Electric Company in the worst hangover ever while in Germany and laughing yet was painful to do that.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 10:39 AM (Ia/+0)

213 Re-read 'By the Waters of Bablyon' by Stephen Vincent Benet once a year. Holds up very well.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026

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His free-verse poem "Metropolitan Nightmare" is a classic too!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:40 AM (wzUl9)

214 My lil sis Rhonda (RIP) loved Sesame and New Zoo Review (yuk).
There was another bad kiddie show she watched I cannot remember.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 24, 2026 10:42 AM (/+uur)

215 FDR let the NKVD run their surveillance in the USA during the war.
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I’m reading the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy. Interesting cat for sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 10:43 AM (+Oqoq)

216 The YouTube algorithm has sent me to a The channel of one Malcolm Guite. He's an English poet and essayist who looks like a Tolkien character.
The man muses about literature, particularly Tolkien, culture, history, traditions and Christianity.
I find the man fascinating.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 24, 2026 10:44 AM (wBzSI)

217 I don't read as much poetry as I ought to, but I'm partial to Dana Gioia's stuff.

Check out "Summer Storm" and "Unsaid" in the Poems tab at danagioia.com

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 10:45 AM (q3u5l)

218 There's a question; did Sesame Street have any effect on anyone here? Since teaching young kids was supposedly the mission statement for that show...
Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026

Didn't watch it. Plenty of other shows, besides, I was older anyway. Seemed too ghetto for me and city centric. My younger brother watched The Electric Company.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 10:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

219 The most accessible Lewis & Clark journal edition is probably the Bernard DeVoto version. Reasonably complete for a good overview.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 10:47 AM (+Oqoq)

220 "Nothing Ever Happens on My Block" by Ellen Raskin
Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2026 10:28 AM (X8xt3)

That's still one of my favorites!

I am going to be contrary, now. I despise Richard Scarry. Hate those. Don't like the drawings, and they're just a constant frenzy of activity that unsettles me.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 10:50 AM (h7ZuX)

221 Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel seems to be one of the earlier books I recall. And Green Eggs and Ham. I understand “Dr. Seuss” has in recent years run afoul of the political czars in academia. It won’t be a problem too much longer though, younger leftists won’t be able, much less allowed, to read.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 10:51 AM (+Oqoq)

222 >>His free-verse poem "Metropolitan Nightmare" is a classic too!

Never really got into his poetry, though I have a collection of his poetry & prose work. His short stories were excellent; another of them is 'Into Egypt'.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 10:51 AM (NcvvS)

223 There's a question; did Sesame Street have any effect on anyone here? Since teaching young kids was supposedly the mission statement for that show...
Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 10:32 AM (3v7ra)

100% here.
Everyday as a kid.
I also learned to fear the inner city.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 10:51 AM (594J6)

224 The drop is ol

But theres only so much nihilsm one can subject your self to

And i say that as someone that reas the whole red queem seeies by gomez jurado

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:52 AM (bXbFr)

225 Ruocchio marlowe series

Posted by: Miguel cervantes

I read all 4500 pages of that series. Good Lord, Marlowe is a drama queen. He tells you on page one of the series that he commits genocide against the Cielcin, and then Ruocchio spends the next 7 books justifying the genocide.

Trust me, Mr. Author, by the end of Book 3, we were all on board with killing the Cielcin. If anyone ever had genocide rightfully in their future, it was the Cielcin.

GET ON WITH IT, MARLOWE, AND STOP EMOTING!!!

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2026 10:53 AM (/RHNq)

226 Series spsnish noir

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:53 AM (bXbFr)

227 I went to a private school for high school that was K-12. On the first day of class in the Study Hall period they announced the Elementary School library was looking for volunteers to give up study hall and "work" there. My hand shot up. I did it every year.

Sure, it was Richard Scarry, Henry and Beezus, and Pippi Longstocking, but still. It endeared me to thrill of possibilities you get when there's a large collection of books, the scent of books and the value of being exposed to a wide range of subjects and authors, even if it just teaches you what you don't like.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 10:54 AM (2Ez/1)

228 Yeah just fire up the blasters if any alien race needed killing

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 24, 2026 10:54 AM (bXbFr)

229 I've never met an 'early reader' who actually learned by the phonics system that schools used. When you're on a parent's lap, it's all whole-word recognition, and then you get the alphabet. Nevertheless, whenever high horses are mounted and stallions rear up to paw the sky, Scott Foresman's partisans step to the front of the classroom and start rubbing those damned sticks together. Pee-aitch says fuh-fuh-fuh.
We don't like The Anti-Phonics because that's what they have now. I remember when Big Phonix was The System.

Nothing has put off more prodigies from the public school process than the grinding drudgery of having to practice the letter-noises with all those illiterates, when you could read anything the teacher could the day you got there.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 24, 2026 10:56 AM (zdLoL)

230 I threw a book away this week. Literally into the trash can.

I have done that once. It was "Shutter Island."
The ending was so dark and depressing I did not wish to share the book with anyone else by donating it to the used bookstore, thus ruining their day (the day they finished the book).

Posted by: Lizzy

I read Caleb Carr's novel "The Alienist" in 1994, and promptly tossed it on a sewer grate, poured whiskey on it, and burned it. God, I hated that book. The fact that I was struggling in law school at the time while also separated from my first ex-wife may have had something to do with the extreme after of book burning. But, it was indeed an uninteresting story badly told. That's the only book I've ever destroyed.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 24, 2026 10:57 AM (/RHNq)

231 216 ... "The YouTube algorithm has sent me to a The channel of one Malcolm Guite. He's an English poet and essayist who looks like a Tolkien character.
The man muses about literature, particularly Tolkien, culture, history, traditions and Christianity.
I find the man fascinating."

Northernlurker,

So glad you found Guite's YT channel. I've been raving about him for a while. He also does a lot of interviews on other YT channels for the Wade Center and Christian groups even when not discussing religion specifically. All are worth listening to. And for fun, check out him reading his "Your Poetry is Jamming my Machine" on the Steve Bell channel. It has the vibe of a Beatnik reading his poems in a coffee shop circa 1959. Brief but a lot of fun.

To make him about perfect, he smokes a pipe and has white hair and beard. My kind of guy.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 10:58 AM (yTvNw)

232 Shutter Island is the one I was thinking of that left me a little cold. The ultimate twist/revelation seemed a bit of a letdown. Still, his prose is always readable.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 10:34 AM (wzUl9)

I wish there were two version of Shutter Island. Because I was enjoying the story before the twist.

But the more I've read it, the more the overall story also works...so I want it both ways. Played straight and as self-protecting delusion.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at May 24, 2026 10:58 AM (xcxpd)

233 I didn't mind The Alienist, though it could have used an editor and I never cared to re-read it. I know Carr did a sequel, but I was never enthused enough to pick it up. He also did a Holmes pastiche which gets a lot of plaudits, but I thought it was a poor attempt at copying Conan Doyle.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 11:02 AM (qRla/)

234 *I remember when Big Phonix was The System.*

Don't get hooked on it, kids.

Posted by: And stay in school at May 24, 2026 11:02 AM (2Ez/1)

235 Loved Radio Reader, loved Dick Estell- and he did NOT have a gravelly voice, at all. Brian Keith had a gravelly voice. Dick Estell had a voice similar, but in a slightly lower register, to Mr. Peterson on the Bob Newhart Show.

Posted by: Job at May 24, 2026 11:04 AM (Dz7wk)

236 One of the things I did now and then when working at the bookstore was stripping unsold mass-market paperbacks. Cover came off and was returned for credit. The book itself was ripped in half down the spine and tossed. Hated it, but...

There's a story about someone applying for a bookstore job; he's told during the interview to strip a few paperbacks. He just couldn't do it, and he didn't get the job.

Orwell's essay "Bookshop Memories" should probably be required reading for anyone wanting to work in a bookstore or library.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:04 AM (q3u5l)

237 To make him about perfect, he smokes a pipe and has white hair and beard. My kind of guy.
Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 10:58 AM
I forgot to mention he also talks about pipe smoking.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at May 24, 2026 11:05 AM (wBzSI)

238 OK, folks, time to call it a morning and take the pups for a walk before the rain starts.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at May 24, 2026 11:08 AM (qRla/)

239 It taught me to not try to carry 7 pies at once down the stairs.

Posted by: Sesame Street Life at May 24, 2026 11:08 AM (Dz7wk)

240 "It taught me to not try to carry 7 pies at once down the stairs."

And they say educational tv ain't educational.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:11 AM (q3u5l)

241 I can't recall exactly when I learned to read, but one of my earliest memories is of the headlines of George Reeves' death, which occurred when I was 4. I loved the Superman show.

Posted by: Darles Chickens at May 24, 2026 11:11 AM (vOKvj)

242 Nothing has put off more prodigies from the public school process than the grinding drudgery of having to practice the letter-noises with all those illiterates, when you could read anything the teacher could the day you got there.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 24, 2026 10:56 AM (zdLoL)

King Sejong Joseon disagreed with this point of view, as do I. He, because he needed something easier to learn than identifying whole words in Chinese characters, and I was taught by my parents and siblings what letters were, what noises they made, and how to sound out new words.
Back when literacy was much higher in the US, teaching was done by both phonetics and then by word identification to build speed. Now they just do word ID, and that is pointless for most students who don't have any context to build the words identification on.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 11:12 AM (rbvCR)

243 The other danger to reading to young sprogs (the first being obsession with One Book Dear God Can We Read Something Else) is making stuff up. The sprog doesn't know it was made up. It counts as A Story and when said sprog says "read it again!" you have to frantically try to remember how you even started this made up thing.

Not that this ever happened to me. Authors have it rough, I tell you!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 24, 2026 11:13 AM (vAQDP)

244 Not exactly book based but if you want to hear the power of a single voice narrating a story effectively, listen to some old radio dramas. One voice and some sound effects could be very powerful. A good book narrator can do the same.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 11:14 AM (yTvNw)

245 Obligatory: hooked on phonics intervention

youtu.be/OBJR03BORRQ

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 11:14 AM (rbvCR)

246 Still struggling with 'The Brothers Karamazov'. I find it extremely tedious.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 11:15 AM (XeU6L)

247 Now they just do word ID

I'm not talking about what "they" do. Of course we will be opposed to what They are doing. My mother taught me to read, and it was not by phonics drill with sliding cardboard sticks.
My father taught me a couple of marketable trades. After you have those things, you are ready to begin your education.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 24, 2026 11:19 AM (zdLoL)

248 That was something clearly evident between the draftees from World War One and World War Two.

Formal entrance examinstions, IQ and aptitude testing in particular were first used in a systematic way for the first world war.

Illiteracy had increased dramatically, they found, in 1940. In large part because of whack job theories of teaching people how to read. They also found a lot of diseases attributable to malnutrition, because of the previous decade of the economic depression.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 11:19 AM (+Oqoq)

249 My wife had M.S. I read to her. I read my favorites. Slowing down really made the whole thing quite enjoyable.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:21 AM (qFwJc)

250 I admit that I quit 'The Brothers Karamazov' about 40 pages from the ending. Just didn't care anymore.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:22 AM (qFwJc)

251 Mike Hammer,

I've not yet read Karamazov (on the list for whenever I finish Bleak House), but I've read Crime & Punishment and (eons ago) some of his shorter stuff. What translation are you reading? I've tried some of the newer Pevear/Volokhonsky translations but they don't seem to me to read as well as Garnett and some of the others. If you're using P/V, maybe try a different translator?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:22 AM (q3u5l)

252 Formal entrance examinstions, IQ and aptitude testing in particular were first used in a systematic way for the first world war.

Illiteracy had increased dramatically, they found, in 1940. In large part because of whack job theories of teaching people how to read. They also found a lot of diseases attributable to malnutrition, because of the previous decade of the economic depression.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026

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You mean illiteracy was still a thing because of poor teaching almost a hundred years ago??? I thought it was mostly since the Sixties.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9)

253 did Sesame Street have any effect on anyone here?

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 24, 2026 10:32 AM (3v7ra)
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Romper Room.

Wonderama.

Bozo.

Three Stooges.

Looney Tunes, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and practically every other cartoon out there.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 11:22 AM (adINt)

254 I admit that I quit 'The Brothers Karamazov' about 40 pages from the ending. Just didn't care anymore.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026

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I got through Crime and Punishment. Don't ask me how. It was fascinating until the murder, and rolled fast downhill after that.

Well, in part, it was the Sniffle Scare times and I had little else to read.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:24 AM (wzUl9)

255 I do a lot of reading on Ye Olde Android smartphone and much of it here on said Smart Military Blog™. One thing I have came to appreciate is the effortless ability to expand my vocabulary.

Whenever one my esteemed hordemates introduces a new word into one our many thoughtful discussions regarding human mammary glands like "cromulent" or "crepuscular" all I have to do is press it with an index finger for a couple of seconds and boom, instant dictionary.

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 11:24 AM (2Ez/1)

256 Break-break

Get ready for another McCain funeral

/out

Posted by: one hour sober at May 24, 2026 11:25 AM (J4Dwc)

257 The other danger to reading to young sprogs (the first being obsession with One Book Dear God Can We Read Something Else) is making stuff up. The sprog doesn't know it was made up. It counts as A Story and when said sprog says "read it again!" you have to frantically try to remember how you even started this made up thing.

Not that this ever happened to me. Authors have it rough, I tell you!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 24, 2026

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Sabrina, you are about the only other person I've known besides me who uses the word "sprog" at all, let alone to describe small humans. It was British Navy slang for a new recruit, I think; didn't Forester use it in the Hornblower books?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:26 AM (wzUl9)

258 >>Romper Room.

Came on just about the time we had to leave for school. Might have it on for a day off or during the summer. Didn't do a lot for me.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:26 AM (NcvvS)

259 I suppose it’s all relative. The point is that there was a steep decline in the percentage due to “modern” ideas on language instruction.

Mathematics has been around formally for thousands of years. I doubt there is any new ground being broken on how to teach it. But, that doesn’t stop them from trying.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 11:26 AM (+Oqoq)

260 What translation are you reading? I've tried some of the newer Pevear/Volokhonsky translations but they don't seem to me to read as well as Garnett and some of the others. If you're using P/V, maybe try a different translator?
Posted by: Just Some Guy
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Garnett

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 11:27 AM (XeU6L)

261 >>Romper Room.

Came on just about the time we had to leave for school. Might have it on for a day off or during the summer. Didn't do a lot for me.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:26 AM (NcvvS)
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So you never do what's right and always do everything wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 11:28 AM (8schn)

262 Lovely post, Sabrina. Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 24, 2026 11:30 AM (A5RD0)

263 I was a very poor reader until later in life. Mom and Dad did not read to me. Older brother and sister read "The Cat in the Hat" and "One fish two fish red fish blue fish," but that was all.

I remember struggling with "The Anatomy of Revolution" (Crane Brinton) during the Summer before AP US History. I bought it a few years ago and it was an amazingly easy read.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:30 AM (qFwJc)

264 Not that I have hordes of fans begging me for the book, anyway.

Well, you have fans of The Horde, for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2026 11:30 AM (vTZFs)

265 Was looking up Romoer Room, feel silly I believed she had a real Magic Mirror

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 11:30 AM (Ia/+0)

266 Mathematics has been around formally for thousands of years. I doubt there is any new ground being broken on how to teach it. But, that doesn’t stop them from trying.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Ah.'New Math'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 11:31 AM (XeU6L)

267 You can forget your Maths, but your vocabulary only increases over time.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:31 AM (qFwJc)

268 I was and still am pretty decent with Old Math.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:31 AM (qFwJc)

269 Mike Hammer at 260

Oh, well. The Michael Katz translation's supposed to be good too, but haven't sampled that. My copy's a Garnett too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:33 AM (q3u5l)

270 >>So you never do what's right and always do everything wrong.

There are those who would agree with that. More seriously, it was just entertainment. Probably got more out of Captain Kangaroo.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:33 AM (NcvvS)

271 Romper Room.

Came on just about the time we had to leave for school. Might have it on for a day off or during the summer. Didn't do a lot for me.
Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026

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Captain Kangaroo was it for me. One morning they said they were going to have the big South American rodent, the capybara, on the show. I had to leave for school before they showed it. Dang.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:33 AM (wzUl9)

272 In The Dynamite Club, John Merriman traces the history of how leftist politics turned to terror in the western world.

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Barbara Tuchmann's The Proud Tower examines the twenty- five years before WWI. The book is arranged thematically. While I enjoyed the book generally, her chapter on anarchism is brilliant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 11:33 AM (ndZc7)

273 I was fed a steady diet of Popeye, Sylvester the Cat, and Bugs Bunny before school in the mornings. LOL Elementary school started at the civilized hour of 9:00 am.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:33 AM (qFwJc)

274 A kid could learn a lot from Rocky & Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, and The Fractured Fairy Tales.

Not that I would know anything about that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

275 Was looking up Romoer Room, feel silly I believed she had a real Magic Mirror
Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026

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When the hostess would list the names of the kids in the audience ("I see Billy, and Annette, and Chuck; I see Carl and John and Betty . . ."), she *never* said mine. Talk about a letdown.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:35 AM (wzUl9)

276 Elementary school started at the civilized hour of 9:00 am.
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026

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It was 8:45 here, and I had a ten-minute walk to the school building, so I had to be out by 8:30 or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:36 AM (wzUl9)

277 New Math and Common Core Math were probably designed to make certain that nobody got through grade school able to do simple arithmetic. Did some work with the grandtots during the Covid idiocies, helping them with math; some of the Common Core stuff seemed needlessly confusing.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:36 AM (q3u5l)

278 It was a plot by the NAACP to make sure that even white kids couldn't do math.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:38 AM (qFwJc)

279 Math is simply a foreign language. You have to speak it every day to maintain proficiency.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 11:38 AM (2Ez/1)

280 Romper Room.

Came on just about the time we had to leave for school. Might have it on for a day off or during the summer. Didn't do a lot for me.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:26 AM (NcvvS)
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So you never do what's right and always do everything wrong.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026

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"Do-Bees" and "Don't-Bees"?

To show you how naive I was, when the Doobie Brothers first popped up on Top 40, I thought their name was a play on the "Do-Bees" from Romper Room!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:39 AM (wzUl9)

281 A kid at work was talking about how much Sponge Bob means to him. I scoffed, went on a rant. He almost cried
We watched stuff that at least had a lesson to it and didn't idolize stupidity.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 11:39 AM (594J6)

282 I'm not talking about what "they" do. Of course we will be opposed to what They are doing. My mother taught me to read, and it was not by phonics drill with sliding cardboard sticks.
My father taught me a couple of marketable trades. After you have those things, you are ready to begin your education.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 24, 2026 11:19 AM (zdLoL)

The PURPOSE of an alphabet is to simplify identification of written words and do it on a phonetic level, easily identifiable and interpretable. It is the base skill of reading, and is why alphabetic systems are easier to read than syllabaries and much easier than ideograms. Even you sound out new words to match them against what you already know. Without an alphabet language is code without a real world key, and fluency is essential

To the early student all words are new and complex. To insist they learn the way you did is beyond the patience of most kids who haven't learned reading is fun. Instead it turns it into frustrating experience in failure that turns them off from reading because it is too hard for a 5 YO kid to memorize 750 whole words for basic vocabulary, even though they have the words.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 11:39 AM (rbvCR)

283 Speak it every day...

Ain't that the truth. Started out as a math major as an undergrad, and switched to English after Integral Calculus. Just didn't wanna do this any more. If I had to solve a simple quadratic now without looking up the formula, I'd be in big trouble.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:40 AM (q3u5l)

284 >>Elementary school started at the civilized hour of 9:00 am.

Same here, but in the early grades, it was a twenty-minute walk to school, and Romper Room started at 8:30.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:40 AM (NcvvS)

285 I had to leave for school before they showed it. Dang.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I understand elementary schools in our area can't mark you down as "Tardy" anymore 'cause of fellow students abusing you as a 'tard.

Posted by: Auspex at May 24, 2026 11:41 AM (Y8DZL)

286 *We watched stuff that at least had a lesson to it and didn't idolize stupidity.*
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Like the value of a ball peen hammer.

Posted by: Moe Howard at May 24, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

287 286 *We watched stuff that at least had a lesson to it and didn't idolize stupidity.*
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Like the value of a ball peen hammer.
Posted by: Moe Howard at May 24, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

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Moe: "Remind me to kill you later."
Curly: "I'll make a note of it!"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2026 11:42 AM (Ucgf4)

288 To the early student all words are new and complex. To insist they learn the way you did is beyond the patience of most kids who haven't learned reading is fun. Instead it turns it into frustrating experience in failure that turns them off from reading because it is too hard for a 5 YO kid to memorize 750 whole words for basic vocabulary, even though they have the words.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026

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I'm reminded of my ninth-grade English teacher (a universally-hated Japanese woman) who insisted we memorize a list of all the prepositions in English "so you will recognize them."

Her teaching style, e.g., referring to students sarcastically as "you bright lights," probably turned a lot of my classmates off from reading as a fun activity. And made them think of grammar as a mysterious, insoluble code.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:43 AM (wzUl9)

289 Pictures of planes, ships, spacecraft, maps and people will never convert to audio. For non-fiction that means 95% of the money I spend on reading will remain books and mostly physical.

The virtual reading from audible has improved enough that if I can make it through the free sample, I've not had to bale on a book because of narration. Still has some issues with technical terms and sometimes even reading dates.

I do have a list of favorite narrators so their books get added to wishlists easier than most titles.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at May 24, 2026 11:44 AM (KaHlS)

290 The educational 'experts' were all unproven theory and no sense of reality. Ignoring hundreds of years of educating young people, successfully, to read using phonics, they came up with their whole word BS. The same with the 'new math'. My grandfather never made it through high school, taught himself higher math, including calculus. When I showed him the new math crap foisted on us in grade school he expanded my vocabulary with his colorful opinions about the method.

My skepticism about self-styled 'experts' began in 4th grade. Sixty-odd years later Anthony Fauci was just the latest reason to distrust, preferably ignore, experts.

Posted by: JTB at May 24, 2026 11:44 AM (yTvNw)

291 Which reminds me of yet another book on the Amazing Colossal To-Be-Read Pile. British horror writer Ramsey Campbell did a book called Six Stooges and Counting, all about the Stooges. No ebook available, darn it; paperback and hardcover from PS Publishing in the UK.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:45 AM (q3u5l)

292 My father was a bookkeeper and a kind of "computer" in the old sense of the word as "a worker who computes." He tried to get me to understand arithmetic by buying me endless workbooks. They simply extended school for me, which I found boring to start with. To this day the phrase "mixed nuts" makes me think with a shudder of "mixed numbers" from those workbooks.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:47 AM (wzUl9)

293 You mean illiteracy was still a thing because of poor teaching almost a hundred years ago??? I thought it was mostly since the Sixties.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 11:22 AM (wzUl9)

I have some primers from the 1890's and early 1900s that I have no clue what they were trying to do, and some of Grandma's Normal School primers were a bit out there, and she was learning to be a teacher in 1920.
We have been teaching English reading for 200 years plus and some things work better than other. Like any skill, basics, practice and repetition for a payoff are what works.
That applies to reading, math, typing, or even being an apprentice tin-smith.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)

294 *To this day the phrase "mixed nuts" makes me think with a shudder of "mixed numbers" from those workbooks.*
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Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: The Reals, The imaginaries, The rationals, and The Irrationals at May 24, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

295 Picked a movie from a book to watch
A Bridge too Far

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 11:52 AM (Ia/+0)

296 I have finally pulled Gene Wolfe's Long Sun tetralogy off the shelf, and have just started the third book.

It did not grab me on the first couple of tries, the way the New Sun tetralogy did, but now that I am immersed in the world, I keep wanting to go back there and see what happens next.

Wolfe is a remarkable writer, and what he constructs is not like any other I've encountered.

Posted by: Splunge at May 24, 2026 11:52 AM (JpUeg)

297 CBD up early.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:53 AM (NcvvS)

298 Why do people still watch television?

I don't. My kids, who are in their 40's don't.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 24, 2026 11:54 AM (qFwJc)

299 And it's off to create even more chaos here at Casa Some Guy.

Thanks for the thread, Sabrina.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 24, 2026 11:54 AM (q3u5l)

300 I'm off to run some errands and do Author Stuff. You've been a lovely Book Thread audience! Tune in next month to see what deranged topic I pick for your entertainment and erudition ...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 24, 2026 11:54 AM (vAQDP)

301 I have the Jackson Citizen Patriot from the day my grandfathers passing was announced. He was a judge in the area.
You could print every story on the back page where his obit is continued and they would be true. Johny can't read, prisons over crouded, union protest.. blah blah except one. A murder of a 4 year old kid where the perp was loose and the locals had "armed up and were hunting" the guy.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 11:55 AM (594J6)

302 Thanks for the Book Thread, Sabrina. Catch y'all later.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 24, 2026 11:57 AM (NcvvS)

303 Yes. Thank you.

Posted by: Reforger at May 24, 2026 11:57 AM (594J6)

304 Time for me to head out and do some chores too. Thanks to Sabrina and all of you for a solid Book Thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 12:00 PM (wzUl9)

305 *To this day the phrase "mixed nuts" makes me think with a shudder of "mixed numbers" from those workbooks.*
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Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: The Reals, The imaginaries, The rationals, and The Irrationals at May 24, 2026

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* Runs shrieking into the rain *

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 12:00 PM (wzUl9)

306 I threw a book away this week. Literally into the trash can.

I have done that once. It was "Shutter Island."
The ending was so dark and depressing I did not wish to share the book with anyone else by donating it to the used bookstore, thus ruining their day (the day they finished the book).

Posted by: Lizzy

When I was broadening my SF horizons, my friends told me to read Dune. Being poor at the time, and wanting to get a shorter taste of Mr. Herbert's work, I picked up the paperback of his latest novel, The White Plague. It was fairly good...right up until the middle when one of the characters recites a blasphemous rhyme that took me right out of the story.. I skipped to the end, found it uninspired, and prompt ly threw it in the trash. I have never picked up anything by him since.

Posted by: goozer at May 24, 2026 12:01 PM (BAs8w)

307 Picked a movie from a book to watch
A Bridge too Far
Posted by: Skip

There was actually a good show on PBS yesterday about the daylight crossing of the Waal by row boats. I thought they might bury the essential futility of the crossing given the lack of follow through but they covered it pretty well.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 24, 2026 12:02 PM (ndZc7)

308 You can forget your Maths, but your vocabulary only increases over time.
Posted by: no one of any consequense
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Would that this was true. A common problem among those of my age demographic is recollection of words (and names). One knows the word that one wishes to use, but can't conjure it up. It is very frustrating. As my BIL says, 'There's nothing wrong with my memory, it's my recollection that is bad'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 12:02 PM (XeU6L)

309 *To this day the phrase "mixed nuts" makes me think with a shudder of "mixed numbers" from those workbooks.*
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Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: The Reals, The imaginaries, The rationals, and The Irrationals at May 24, 2026

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* Runs shrieking into the rain *
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Transcendentals

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

310 Mike Hammer, the medical term is "aphasia" and it can also be induced by medicines that help inhibit nerve pain. A bud of mine was having problems and was getting concerned about maybe losing his marbles, and his MD said one of the Rx he was taking had that side effect in how it blunted nerve responses for pain management.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2026 12:12 PM (rbvCR)

311 I read "We Have Not a Government" last week-- by George Van Cleve.

About the U.S. under The Articles of Confederation.

It was a hot mess & there was a lot more to it than Shays' Rebellion. Kind of an operational definition of "Balkanization."

Both the northern states AND the southern states were interested in secession-- getting an early start on it, as it were.

Posted by: mnw at May 24, 2026 12:16 PM (RCjYY)

312 "As was 'Venus and the Seven Sexes' by personal fave SF author, William Tenn. I guess he's been forgotten now."

Not totally forgotten, Naturalfake, I have his complete collection in paperback and also in the two-volume NESFA hardback collection ("(Immodest Proposals," and "Here Comes Civilization") which is still available. I'm also pretty sure I have his Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction dedication issue (that was a thing way back when) with a somewhat caricatured picture of him on the cover.

But I take your point. There were lots of really good SF authors from the 40s through 60s or 70s who didn't publish much except in the pulps, or who have fallen into obscurity but deserve much better. Avram Davidson and R.A. Lafferty are among those that are brought up here frequently by several posters who are fans. H. Beam Piper was another who dropped out of public view one his death but went through a revival a few decades back. That's one of the reasons I sought out and downloaded pdfs of SF magazines from the golden age, it provides me with interesting stories by very good writers who, for one reason or another, don't get reprinted or anthologized.

Posted by: Pope John 20th at May 24, 2026 12:28 PM (7ZRgl)

313 Mike Hammer, the medical term is "aphasia" and it can also be induced by medicines that help inhibit nerve pain. A bud of mine was having problems and was getting concerned about maybe losing his marbles, and his MD said one of the Rx he was taking had that side effect in how it blunted nerve responses for pain management.
Posted by: Kindltot
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I know. Having experienced a mild stroke *and* a subdural hematoma, when I say or do something particullary dumb, I say to people, 'Hey, don't blame me, I'm brain-damaged'.

That ought to borne in mind here also...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 12:37 PM (XeU6L)

314 '....when I say or do something particullary dumb'

Or, misspell a word.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 24, 2026 01:17 PM (XeU6L)

315 I don't have specific memories of my grandmother reading to me, but she must have, because I do remember her reading to my six year younger baby sister, tracing the words with her gnarled index finger. (She was terribly afflicted with Rheumatoid Arthritis) I know it rubbed off though, because I have very specific memory of first reading.
It was Feb of '46, a couple of months before my fifth birthday. I had got a new Batman comic book that day, and my mother promised that she would read it to.me at bedtime. My parents had another couple over for dinner, and then they stayed and sat around in the living room talking. My Dad was one month home from the Pacific (Seabee) so I'm sure it was interesting. When I asked my mother to come up and read, she put me off, saying, "Tomorrow."
After she tucked me in and went back downstairs, I got up, turned on the light and pulled out the new book, and surprised my self by knowing what most of the words in the balloons were, and could figure out the others between sounding them out and context. I never asked her to read to.me again.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 24, 2026 02:36 PM (mSL0+)

316 Then, I went to.school.
I wish that.I had had teachers in 1st and 2nd grade like Wolfus and TP.
I was terribly (undiagnosed) nearsighted, so.I couldn't read the blackboard. Then, when handed new instructional material -aimed a new non-readers - I would polish it off almost immediately. Between those two, I wasn't able to respond to questions from the teacher about a passage from a book that I'd finished a month ago, or something written on the blackboard. I also got into fights with the two school bullies on a regular basis. I was a problem child, relegated to the "slow" group and mostly ignored.
It wasn't until we moved at the end of second grade where a new teacher, uninfluenced by teacher's break room gossip, noticed that I wasn't stupid, just nearsighted.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 24, 2026 03:08 PM (mSL0+)

Daily Tech News 24 May 2026

Top Story

Samsung made a last-minute deal to give massive bonuses - not as massive as SK Hynix, but still enough to pay off my entire mortgage - so everything is peachy and things can go back to normal, right? Right? (Tom's Hardware)

Yeah, right. Now every Samsung employee everywhere except the memory division is upset and seeking increased bonuses.

Notably including the division that tests and packages the bare memory dies, an essential step before they can be sold to customers.

Tech News

What's the best $100 CPU right now? (Tom's Hardware)

This probably matters mostly to people who already have RAM and want to revive an old system because they can't afford to build a new one. The article compared Intel's 12100F ($80) and 14100F ($100)with AMD's Ryzen 5 5500 across a range of games and productivity tasks.

And the answer is, well, it depends. The 14100F is faster but runs hotter than the others. The 5500 is a six-core chip while the two Intel models are four cores (and no efficiency cores) so it pulls ahead on multi-threaded productivity.

All the chips run on dead platforms with no future upgrade path... Except that these are the slowest, cheapest chips on each platform so dead or not you have a lot of options. The 16-core 5950X from AMD and the 24-core 14900K from Intel are still readily available in stores. The 14900K is significantly faster than the 5950X... If you run it with DDR5 memory, where this article assumes older DDR4.
Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for its free tier? (AMD)

Because fuck you, apparently. An AMD representative responded, but did not answer the question.

Demo Interlude

That might not seem particularly impressive at first glance. Maybe in 1981.

But if you watch the beginning closely, you'll see the directory listing. The code that delivers this is 16 bytes.

This article explains how it works, including a complete assembly language listing.

Musical Interlude

Not Hololive's biggest hit - I didn't even know Kaela had an original song - but I like this one. Even if I don't understand a word of it - it's in Bahasa Indonesian.

Disclaimer: But who isn't these days?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 04:31 AM (P3X50)

2 Memories!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 24, 2026 04:31 AM (/HDaX)

3 w00t 2nd

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:31 AM (6wpGE)

4 3 w00t 2nd

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:31 AM (6wpGE)
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The third was angry that day, my friend.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 04:32 AM (P3X50)

5 Really, really expensive memories.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 24, 2026 04:32 AM (/HDaX)

6 Mornin'

I'm going to bed soon. The problem with midshift is when I go on vacation, I have to get on dayshift mode. Not that easy. I'm not leaving till Tuesday so I still have a couple of days to un-vampire myself.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 04:36 AM (sAmhv)

7 hahahahaha Biden's Dog

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:36 AM (6wpGE)

8 Super beautiful sunny and pleasantly cool day up here in the mountains of northern Israel.

Lotsa email and work to catch up on, let alone maintaining a few things here in the vacation house.

Mybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 04:44 AM (P3X50)

9 G'Day everyone
Trying to decide if getting up or not

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Re the White House shooting:

I see the enemies of America are sending their Best.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 04:48 AM (P3X50)

11 Just read Neo's take on this shootjng, skunds like this guy was a real mental illness case.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)

12 Just read Neo's take on this shootjng, skunds like this guy was a real mental illness case.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)
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Wonder how he obtained the gun.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 04:58 AM (P3X50)

13 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 05:05 AM (u82oZ)

14 Fun (and different!) musical selections.

"Relakanlah!" means "Let it go," according to google translate.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 05:05 AM (6wpGE)

15 About the White House shooter:

We need mental institutions to isolate the insane, or ship them to Canada for medical treatment.

The experimental data is in. Unhoused mentally il people harm society.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 05:08 AM (u82oZ)

16 I'm just loving me these Pratt commercials. You have to watch till the very end:

https://tinyurl.com/5n94w3es

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 05:08 AM (P3X50)

17 OK, here's a who page of Pratt ads:

https://tinyurl.com/yc4s6wjn

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 05:10 AM (P3X50)

18 "Hearing God's voice. " A devotional on Psam 25 1-12 . I don't think most people read these devotionals but me, but I liked it. 😊I appreciated the thoughtful investigation of the writer.

https://tinyurl.com/2wxrc89w

And a blessed Pentecost to those who celebrate it!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2026 05:11 AM (OYsYV)

19 whole

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 05:11 AM (P3X50)

20 Up early. Too early.

Have a great morning, everyone.

May your day start with zephyrs, fluffy clouds, and crepuscular rays, and then get better.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 05:13 AM (u82oZ)

21 And I am taking tomorrow off from ye olde ASHQ,, so I wanted to share this account of a great Christian, Catholic and priest, Fr. Emil Kapaun who came from Kansas, became army chaplain and died in a prison camp in Korea during the Korean War. What an inspirational life! From the "NC Register":

https://tinyurl.com/4cje4zvt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2026 05:18 AM (OYsYV)

22
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 24, 2026 05:27 AM (AMvSw)

23 And thanks to the people who prayed for "I" . She is a dear lady in her 90's who comes to the service I do at the nursing home, even though she is RC. She had been in the hospital but was back again so she was better, so I was thankful to God for that. I am so grateful to the dear folks over there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2026 05:28 AM (OYsYV)

24 True!

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
13h
They really do believe Stephen Colbert millionaire has a right to a television show

Congressman Greg Casar
@RepCasar
17h
Colbert got cancelled because CBS’ owner wanted to suck up to Trump.

Over and over, billionaires are auctioning off our 1st Amendment.

This isn’t about the rights of a TV host.

It’s about all our rights to live in a country where the president doesn’t dictate who says what.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 05:46 AM (6wpGE)

25 I didn't get up

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 05:47 AM (Ia/+0)

26 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 24, 2026 05:51 AM (wrsGP)

27 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ satellites on this Sunday of an American three-day weekend!

According to local radar, the rain has a big gap in it and I might be able to work out if I don't dawdle.

"But, Sergeant Carter -- I *feel* like dawdlin'!"

"Move it, move it, MOVE IT!!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

28 Did anything big happen in America overnight? What was this about two potential assassins taken out by the Secret Service yesterday near the White House?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 05:57 AM (wzUl9)

29 One mentally ill assassin killed. One innocent bystander injured.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 05:59 AM (lJ0H4)

30 Dude was schizophrenic and thought he was Jesus Christ. Had an obsession with the White House. Was known to the SS.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 06:02 AM (lJ0H4)

31 We're all wondering how he got access to the gun.

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 06:02 AM (lJ0H4)

32 https://tinyurl.com/3tzysxju
Legalinsurrection.com identified shooter

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)

33 Dude was schizophrenic and thought he was Jesus Christ. Had an obsession with the White House. Was known to the SS.
Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026

***
So yet another example of somebody who ought to be in a hospital or otherwise confined, instead of moving around in public waiting to do somebody harm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 06:05 AM (wzUl9)

34 The furry thugs are giving me the alligator eye, my term for their hinting that I'm starving them. Or maybe it's the owl eye. Either way, I know what they want.

Hard to believe this month is nearly over; one more week to go.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

35 So yet another example of somebody who ought to be in a hospital or otherwise confined, instead of moving around in public waiting to do somebody harm.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Yep

Posted by: Tuna at May 24, 2026 06:09 AM (lJ0H4)

36 Dr. Cyclops from 1940 was on Svengoolie last night. I hadn't realized it was in color -- the first SF film, IMDb says, filmed in the three-strip Technicolor. The effects were marvelous, with the 12-inch-tall people taking apart a scissors to make a sword, climbing on thick books to reach a height, and having to dodge an alligator and the doctor's black cat. One quibble: When a cat is stalking its prey, or watching at a mouse hole, it does not growl or hiss as in this film and many others. It is utterly silent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

37 Ii remember Dr Cyclops now

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 06:20 AM (Ia/+0)

38 Shooting at the White House was the core message of the New Testament. WWJS.

Posted by: The Books of Armaments at May 24, 2026 06:22 AM (Jxl54)

39
Good morning, Hordians. In deference to Her Majesty's wishes, I'll be going to Mass locally at 9:00. She's in Michigan and concerned that every road in Houston is underwater. There's no indication of high water anywhere right now and no rain is expected this morning, but I'll be nice. Even though going to this parish's Novus Ordo Mass is no spiritually uplifting experience.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2026 06:25 AM (HdYcL)

40 Morning Horde...How goes it?

I won't be around for the Sunday Morning Book Thread today--other duties to attend to.

I've started reading the Eisenhorn series of Warhammer 40K novels by Dan Abnett.

I'm only two chapters into the first book and it's already as bat-shit insane as I had hoped. Should be a fun read.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2026 06:35 AM (gnNyN)

41 "Just read Neo's take on this shootjng, skunds like this guy was a real mental illness case.
Posted by: Skip"

So. Typical Democrat.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 06:39 AM (vFG9F)

42 "Just read Neo's take on this shootjng, skunds like this guy was a real mental illness case.
Posted by: Skip"

So. Typical Democrat.

mornin yall
Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 06:39 AM (vFG9F)
----
Forget "common sense gun control."

I want common sense nutjob control laws that are actually enforced.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2026 06:41 AM (gnNyN)

43 Any mental illness health care was hopelessly destroyed long ago. They are free to put their mental illness onto the public

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 06:46 AM (Ia/+0)

44 The lovely Dani Beckstrom is doing NYC weather today.
Wife is working.
Kid is sleeping.
It takes like 10 nespresso pods to get one cup of coffee. Why do people use this thing?

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 06:47 AM (m6Eem)

45 I have filled out the FFL paperwork once, but, couldn’t he just lie long enough to get a gun?

Posted by: Accomack at May 24, 2026 06:53 AM (HQEEh)

46 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 24, 2026 07:01 AM (2Ez/1)

47 FenelonSpoke

There are local memorials to Fr. Emil Kapaun. The Emil Kapaun Tomb is in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Wichita. A Museum and Parish is in his hometown of Pilsen, Kansas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:03 AM (u82oZ)

48 @15/NaCly Dog: "or ship them to Canada for medical treatment. "

Welcome to Canada. Please sign here for your complimentary MAID service.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 07:09 AM (O7YUW)

49 "President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that a peace deal between the United States, Iran, and other regional partners has been “largely negotiated”, including the opening of the Strait of Hormuz"

fd announced on Sunday that any peace deal with Islamic fanatics is doomed from the start.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

50 FenelonSpoke

St. John Nepomucene Church in Pilsen, Kansas has tours available about Fr. Emil Kapaun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

51 Fr. Emil Kapaun, one of the quiet heroes whose memory to cherish. Thanks, FS!

Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at May 24, 2026 07:13 AM (iTLFD)

52
Fr. Emil Kapaun, one of the quiet heroes whose memory to cherish. Thanks, FS!
Posted by: Shen Nan I Gan at May 24, 2026 07:13 AM (iTLFD)

When I say my Rosary, I ask the intercession of Fr. Kapaun for one of the Horde.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2026 07:16 AM (HdYcL)

53 fd

The Iranian IRCG is waiting us out, relying on Democrats and "mass media" (BIRM) to save them.

Meanwhile, I would expect we are running the new drone production line at full capacity, shipping the drones to the Middle East, and having CENTCOM program the targets. We should be stacking them like firewood. The drones will be the first strike wave, IMHO.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:17 AM (u82oZ)

54 Had taken my flag down other day when storm was coming and didn't put it back up yet. So tomorrow will but can't have it at 1/2 staff as its anchored at top.
Guess it just will have to be that way

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 07:17 AM (Ia/+0)

55
Music for disgruntled employees: Samsung Blue

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 07:18 AM (s9VOe)

56 Good morning everyone. Thankfully, more, much needed, rain in the forecast for today and this week. Have a peaceful and pleasant Sunday.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2026 07:18 AM (4BekB)

57
Sun is coming up and it looks like it will be sunny, at least for a while this morning.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2026 07:19 AM (HdYcL)

58
Music for disgruntled employees: Samsung Blue
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 07:18 AM (s9VOe)

Is anyone ever gruntled?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2026 07:19 AM (HdYcL)

59 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 07:19 AM (RIvkX)

60 "Music for disgruntled employees: Samsung Blue
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot"

Weeping like a willow?

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

61
Hello, assembly my old friend ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 07:21 AM (s9VOe)

62 Salty I anm afraid that is the case too

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 07:21 AM (Ia/+0)

63 fd announced on Sunday that any peace deal with Islamic fanatics is doomed from the start.
Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 07:10 AM (vFG9F)
=====

It will be as successful as the Gaza sham.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 07:21 AM (RIvkX)

64 For the meme starved, this was a good weekend. Add this to the usual Saturday meme collectors:
https://midwestchick.com/2026/05/24/ sunday-meme-drop-184/

Mind the gap.

The meme about how long it took a bag of potato chips bought in Indiana to pop while going up Pikes Peak is a keeper. The differential pressure gas laws in action, proving we live in an atmosphere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

65 50s continue all day, mid 70s tomorrow and looks like clearing, hope its early in morning for the parade

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 07:22 AM (Ia/+0)

66
gruntled
adjective

grun·tled ˈgrən-tᵊld
informal + often humorous
: in good humor : HAPPY, CONTENTED

Once, he was gruntled—a wife and a kid, a good job—but because he devoted too much time to the latter, the formers packed up and left.
—Steven Rea

Now, me, on the other hand, could not use this word without snickering at the memory of Monty Python members referring to "grunties" in one of their sketches.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 07:24 AM (s9VOe)

67 We are fighting with a 8th Century country with 21 Century technology

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 07:26 AM (Ia/+0)

68
We do recall, of course, the 60s television show "Gruntled Ben", about a boy (Clint Howard) and his black bear pal, Ben?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 07:27 AM (s9VOe)

69 "Autonomous lawnmowers caught funneling Wi-Fi credentials to Chinese tech firms"

Surprising no one except the Experts.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

70
Please stand clear of the closing doors!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 07:29 AM (s9VOe)

71 Skip

Also with a 21 Century attitude.

The Mongol Sack of Bagdad, and why they attacked in the first place, should be a forever memory in the Islamic world. Alas.

One solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant solves the entire problem. But I'd be satisfied if every urban center in Iran has no electrical power. Use IR to find the diesel generator, and hit them too.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

72
Surprising no one except the Experts.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

"What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass." - Lord Melbourne

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 24, 2026 07:32 AM (HdYcL)

73
The movie, "The League of Autonomous Lawnmowers" will meld today's networking cyber crime rings with the pixelated horror that was "The Lawnmower Man".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 07:34 AM (s9VOe)

74 It's in assembly?!
Be still my beating heart. I did Atari assembly language back when nerds knew what "De Re Atari" was.

Posted by: GWB at May 24, 2026 07:37 AM (kU0PQ)

75 Memes? We got moar memes, courtesy of Stately McDaniel Manor:

https://tinyurl.com/55a2ryf8

A good Sunday morning to all!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2026 07:38 AM (Ucgf4)

76 {{{I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper}}}

Thank you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

77 Salty!! Hope you're doing well!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2026 07:40 AM (Ucgf4)

78 The Autonomous Funneling Lawnmowers would be a good name for a rock band.

Posted by: In the spirit of Dave Barry at May 24, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

79 78 The Autonomous Funneling Lawnmowers would be a good name for a rock band.
Posted by: In the spirit of Dave Barry at May 24, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

I saw AFL open for the Stochastic Weed Whackers at the Forum back in '88.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2026 07:44 AM (Ucgf4)

80 >snort

Posted by: In the spirit of Dave Barry at May 24, 2026 07:45 AM (2Ez/1)

81 I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

I am.

Tomorrow I will go to the Kansas Veteran's Cemetery for a Memorial Day event.

I will visit my wife's grave there as well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

82 @64/NaCly Dog: "Mind the gap."

Use TinyURL, then there's no need for a gap.

https://tinyurl.com/mt2zyjpm

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 07:47 AM (O7YUW)

83 Last night the power went on and off 10,000 times because there were some limbs blowing up against the transformer on the pole. It put on a pretty good show. I pulled the disconnects for both A/C units. Hopefully nothing else got fried last night. It's not windy now and I put in a call to the power company.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

84 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

My iOS is so old tiny URL will not run.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

85 @84: "My iOS is so old tiny URL will not run."

Ouch.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 07:52 AM (O7YUW)

86 Good morning!

Colbert got cancelled because CBS’ owner wanted to suck up to Trump.

Over and over, billionaires are auctioning off our 1st Amendment.

Apparently, the show was losing $40 million per year. It had maybe 200 people on staff? That's a lot of money spent for such a crap production.

That's not a FREE speech, not even close. Meanwhile, people like Joe Rogan can create speech that actually engages people for a fraction of the cost.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2026 07:53 AM (X8xt3)

87 Your iOS stops you from pasting into tiny url? That's a new one.

That's all you have to do is to paste the link into a box. tiny url does the rest of the work.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 24, 2026 07:54 AM (zBgIx)

88 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Otherwise my 9 year old iMac runs fine.

The lack of strong backward compatibility is responsible for a lot of electronic waste. Won't computer companies think of Gaia?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

89 https://tinyurl.com/

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 24, 2026 07:54 AM (zBgIx)

90 @84: "My iOS is so old tiny URL will not run
+++++

Perhaps your lawnmower can do it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 07:57 AM (2Ez/1)

91 It’s tragic, but some people need to be locked up. Lock up the crooks, not the toothpaste. In the same way the psychos need to be confined.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 07:57 AM (DSQyT)

92 From the article Fen linked to @21:

As the 2023 documentary The Magazine and the Miracle: Finding Father Kapaun opens, viewers hear the priest's voice - quoting Jesus about his peace that can be found "even in suffering, in want or even in time of war" - overlaid with war images.

The program will re-air on EWTN on Memorial Day. (10am Central. 20 mins.)

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 24, 2026 07:58 AM (wrsGP)

93
Otherwise my 9 year old iMac runs fine.
*
The lack of strong backward compatibility is responsible for a lot of electronic waste. Won't computer companies think of Gaia?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026

***
Both my iMac and MacBook Air are from 2014 or so, and do fine. Both could use more RAM, but I'm not sure the MacBook is upgradeable.

"Electronic waste"? "This message composed with 100% recycled electrons"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 07:58 AM (wzUl9)

94 Will Robinson

This happened this year. Tiny URL will not open.

Same with X. I can not see videos without xcancel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 24, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

95 I'm back from my workout; missed the rain, which has not yet started again. Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 08:00 AM (wzUl9)

96 @90/Quarter Twenty: "Perhaps your lawnmower can do it."

Too pixelated, probably.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 08:02 AM (O7YUW)

97 Good morning Horde thx Pixy
Raining here today, rained yesterday , is going to rain tomorrow. I'm sensing a trend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2026 08:03 AM (FpbZP)

98 >>The movie, "The League of Autonomous Lawnmowers" will meld today's networking cyber crime rings with the pixelated horror that was "The Lawnmower Man".

More like "Maximum Overdrive2: 'Smart' Tech Gone Wild"

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2026 08:05 AM (X8xt3)

99 @95/Wolfus: " I'm back from my workout; ... Whassup?"

What you missed while you were out:
https://youtu.be/BmD47osvbxo

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 08:08 AM (O7YUW)

100 I was gonna be a thing.

Posted by: Edward Lawnmowerhands at May 24, 2026 08:08 AM (2Ez/1)

101 A lot of people appear convinced that Trump will surrender today. Iran keeps the uranium, they stay in power, the US pretends we “won” and just walks away with nothing accomplished.

I sure hope not,

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 08:10 AM (U0opd)

102 "My iOS is so old tiny URL will not run.
Posted by: NaCly Dog"

I'm so old I won't run either.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

103 “ Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless I will show my salvation.”

Psalm 50:23

Posted by: Marcus T at May 24, 2026 08:13 AM (aZ9eR)

104 Good Health To All, From Rexall!

Posted by: Your Rexall Druggist at May 24, 2026 08:13 AM (oftw2)

105
Example #3,492,611 of You American Bastards and Your Stupid Holidays Where You Grill Terrible, Unhealthy Meat On your Eeeeevil Backyard Grills Are Bad and You're Going To get Cancer

https://instapundit.com/798786/

Spoiler! It's wrong. Fake and Gay Science Ahoy!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 08:13 AM (iJfKG)

106 POTUS just now posted on TS. I don't think it's a surrender pic .

https://tinyurl.com/2wdv4dru

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 24, 2026 08:15 AM (zBgIx)

107 Do Not Hump!

Posted by: Running A Trainyard at May 24, 2026 08:18 AM (oftw2)

108 " A lot of people appear convinced that Trump will surrender today. Iran keeps the uranium, they stay in power, the US pretends we “won” and just walks away with nothing accomplished.

I sure hope not,
Posted by: Tom Servo"

A 90 day war is too long for a country with the attention span of a gnat.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

109 Yep. That's EXACTLY what we want:
to be scolded by a fake female doctor with a pink stethoscope draped around her shoulders.

Posted by: Guys standing in front of their grills at May 24, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

110 I think Macbook Airs can't be upgraded. It's true of 2011s.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM (7T8ei)

111 Spoiler! It's wrong. Fake and Gay Science Ahoy!

Posted by: naturalfake

Gay Science is Best Science.

Posted by: The Grand Poof at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM (oftw2)

112
106 POTUS just now posted on TS. I don't think it's a surrender pic .

https://tinyurl.com/2wdv4dru
Posted by: Will Robinson at May 24, 2026 08:15 AM (zBgIx)

I truly hope he’s serious, and not just blowing smoke. He’s been blowing a whole lot of smoke for 6 weeks now, and the Iranians are clearly convinced it’s all a big show.
Looks like We should know for sure today or tomorrow.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM (U0opd)

113 Truth Social want to verify that I am a human over and over again and never lets me in. I am starting to wonder if I really am a human.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

114 Truth Social want to verify that I am a human over and over again and never lets me in. I am starting to wonder if I really am a human.
Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM (vFG9F)
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When I went to the Instapundit link about the grill-caused death cancer, Instapundit wanted me to verify I was human.

This seems to be a trend going forward, as even a fan-made wiki site I go to wants to know if I'm human when I visit it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2026 08:25 AM (gnNyN)

115 113 Truth Social want to verify that I am a human over and over again and never lets me in. I am starting to wonder if I really am a human.
Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM
###

It suspects you might be a lawnmower.

Posted by: Guys standing in front of their grills at May 24, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

116 Sock fail.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 24, 2026 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

117 Truth Social want to verify that I am a human over and over again and never lets me in. I am starting to wonder if I really am a human.
Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

I don't know if TS needs you to be signed up to view the page or not. I know I've never had to verify myself before but I'm a member.

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 24, 2026 08:27 AM (HIzgC)

118 If Cloudflare goes down, most of the internet will be unreachable.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2026 08:28 AM (Ucgf4)

119 "wants to verify that I am a human over and over again and never lets me in."
++++

Used to date her.

Posted by: Rimshot at May 24, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

120 What you missed while you were out:
https://youtu.be/BmD47osvbxo
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026

***
My late Marie-Antoinette and Tatiana Romanova could have done that, had they lived together and learned from each other!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 08:32 AM (wzUl9)

121 "It suspects you might be a lawnmower.
Posted by: Guys standing in front of their grills"

I am a lawnmower. It is one of my functions. I am also programmed to take out the trash and to catch spiders.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

122 I think Macbook Airs can't be upgraded. It's true of 2011s.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 24, 2026

***
Well, I'm not using it for gaming or any other memory-intensive operations, so the 4GB should be fine.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 08:33 AM (wzUl9)

123 119 "wants to verify that I am a human over and over again and never lets me in."
++++

Used to date her.
Posted by: Rimshot at May 24, 2026 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

Ha! You are on a roll.

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 08:34 AM (6wpGE)

124 I am not programmed to load a dishwasher though. The approved method is not logical.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:35 AM (vFG9F)

125 What you missed while you were out:
https://youtu.be/BmD47osvbxo
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026

***
And that makes me want to pull up the intro to the M:I pilot from 1966 an watch it again. One of the best pilots ever done, and that intro style is amazing.

(No, M:I didn't create that style of using clips from the upcoming episode. I Spy used a similar style the previous year.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 08:35 AM (wzUl9)

126 Found another place to send stories. Let's see if I can avoid another goose egg.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 08:36 AM (1Ff7Z)

127 umm...what happened to barnhardt? Her meme site looks like the groypers took over.

As "they" say, "That's a wrap!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 24, 2026 08:37 AM (HIzgC)

128 @115/Guys standing in front of their grills: "It suspects you might be a lawnmower."

Cloudflare: Are you a Human?

https://tinyurl.com/ywc4xp5n

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 08:38 AM (O7YUW)

129 In other news, Travis Kelp shotgunned a beer at a ballgame and passed out.

Posted by: fd at May 24, 2026 08:38 AM (vFG9F)

130 Found another place to send stories. Let's see if I can avoid another goose egg.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026

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OE, I have a short out to Goblins and Galaxies, which was on your list, and my mystery novel is at Joffe Books in England.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

131 I truly hope he’s serious, and not just blowing smoke. He’s been blowing a whole lot of smoke for 6 weeks now, and the Iranians are clearly convinced it’s all a big show.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 08:22 AM (U0opd)
-

"Speak softly but carry a big stick." - Theodore Roosevelt

I am lost here, leaning toward pessimism.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 08:39 AM (P3X50)

132 The real mystery is how Colbert got on TV in the first place.

The man is about as funny as a carbuncle on my anus.

Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at May 24, 2026 08:41 AM (OoF9t)

133 The real mystery is how Colbert got on TV in the first place.

The man is about as funny as a carbuncle on my anus.
Posted by: Zombie Sam Kinison at May 24, 2026

***
Wasn't he the guy who did those GM "Mr. Goodwrench" commercials once upon a time?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 08:42 AM (wzUl9)

134 POTUS just now posted on TS. I don't think it's a surrender pic .

https://tinyurl.com/2wdv4dru

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 24, 2026 08:15 AM (zBgIx)
-

Seems addressed to Cuba and Mexico.

j/k

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 08:43 AM (P3X50)

135 I was informed that you have to wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher

I left the kitchen and went to the garage where physics makes sense

Posted by: I weep for humanity at May 24, 2026 08:44 AM (jrgJz)

136 I have thought about taking my current system and slapping in a new graphics card, but the cards are not much better than the memory.

Before that, I kind of wanted to see what came across from the Steam machines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 24, 2026 08:45 AM (bss/y)

137 Something something about chrome & trailer hitch ball I expect.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 08:45 AM (DSQyT)

138 >>The real mystery is how Colbert got on TV in the first place.

He was a semi-regular guest on Bill O'Reilly's 'The Factor' on Fox News. That's when I first became aware of him and how unfunny he is.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 24, 2026 08:46 AM (J4Dwc)

139 "Move it, move it, MOVE IT!!!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

Sgt. Carter was more of Move it, move, move, move.

The other order was CPO Horkey, or Sharkey's guy, Peter Isacksen, Seaman Lester Pruitt.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 08:47 AM (1Ff7Z)

140 135 I was informed that you have to wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher

I left the kitchen and went to the garage where physics makes sense
Posted by: I weep for humanity at May 24, 2026 08:44 AM (jrgJz)

I've never understood this, either. What's the point of the dishwasher?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 08:47 AM (h7ZuX)

141 118 If Cloudflare goes down, most of the internet will be unreachable.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

This site though will remain up. No Cloudflare involved.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 24, 2026 08:48 AM (BLOW1)

142 Barnhardt is the kind of joo-hater who says, "well, so many people hate them, they must be doing something!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX)

143 141 118 If Cloudflare goes down, most of the internet will be unreachable.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

This site though will remain up. No Cloudflare involved.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 24, 2026 08:48 AM (BLOW1)

YAY!

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 08:49 AM (6wpGE)

144 What a dreary day

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 08:50 AM (Ia/+0)

145 6 Mornin'

I'm going to bed soon. The problem with midshift is when I go on vacation, I have to get on dayshift mode. Not that easy. I'm not leaving till Tuesday so I still have a couple of days to un-vampire myself.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst

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Ll
I worked at 4:30pm to 1:00am shift as a summer job. Kept me out of trouble at night. But I started going to bed later, and later, after, like 6am. I was just working and sleeping

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 24, 2026 08:51 AM (v71Ni)

146 A humorous look at the New and Improved "Hey, Horrible People of the Western World, Hurry Up and Go Extinct" Anti-Natalist, Anti-Faily, Anti-Baby Propaganda:

https://tinyurl.com/4sphraf6

Via Insty.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

147
"Speak softly but carry a big stick." - Theodore Roosevelt

I am lost here, leaning toward pessimism.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 24, 2026 08:39 AM (P3X50)

Speak very loudly and carry a pool floatie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 08:51 AM (U0opd)

148 I have thought about taking my current system and slapping in a new graphics card, but the cards are not much better than the memory.

Before that, I kind of wanted to see what came across from the Steam machines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 24, 2026 08:45 AM (bss/y)

Just got a B580 to replace my GTX 1660. Took a bit of doing under Linux Mint, but it's pretty slick and still reasonable.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 24, 2026 08:52 AM (dK+Kv)

149
What a dreary day

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 08:50 AM

at least it's not snowing

still a week away from taking the ice scraper out of the truck

cold weather climates suck

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 24, 2026 08:54 AM (AMvSw)

150 OE, I have a short out to Goblins and Galaxies, which was on your list, and my mystery novel is at Joffe Books in England.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

Don't forget to post on ALH....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2026 08:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

151 Speak very loudly and carry a pool floatie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 08:51 AM (U0opd)

A lot of people making a lot of money predicting Trump’s doom. Don't give it away for free.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 24, 2026 08:55 AM (dK+Kv)

152
Hey Computer Oriented Morons o0r Ettes:

Is Cloudflare really that effective in preventing Denial of Service attacks, etc?

Or, is it a supernatural talisman you hang on your website to keep the goblins away?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 08:55 AM (iJfKG)

153 Iran has now released a draft of the agreement.
Iran gets everything it demanded.
The US agrees to tuck its tail between its legs and run away.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 08:55 AM (U0opd)

154 Dishwashers have a rotary disposal mechanism a lot like the Insinkerator garbage disposals. They can’t handle bones but dishes should not need to be washed before using a dishwasher. One of the problems is they ruined detergents some years ago.

I used to buy TSP for addition to laundy and dish soap, but even TSP isn’t TSP any longer.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2026 08:56 AM (DSQyT)

155 Iran gets everything it demanded.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 08:55 AM (U0opd)

They get to keep their destroyed nuke program, their sunk Navy, and their dead homies?

Oh no.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 24, 2026 08:58 AM (dK+Kv)

156 146 A humorous look at the New and Improved "Hey, Horrible People of the Western World, Hurry Up and Go Extinct" Anti-Natalist, Anti-Faily, Anti-Baby Propaganda:

https://tinyurl.com/4sphraf6
Via Insty.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 24, 2026 08:51 AM (iJfKG)

Wow. That's really overwrought. Looks like another lesbian feminist has decided the natural way is oppressive.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026 09:00 AM (h7ZuX)

157 I was informed that you have to wash the dishes before you put them in the dishwasher

I left the kitchen and went to the garage where physics makes sense
Posted by: I weep for humanity at May 24, 2026 08:44 AM (jrgJz)

I've never understood this, either. What's the point of the dishwasher?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 24, 2026

***
I haven't used mine in some years except as a "staging area" -- I wash the dishes, place them in there to dry, and then take them out when I need them again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2026 09:00 AM (wzUl9)

158 Bring your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2026 09:02 AM (Ia/+0)

159
Iran has released a draft. They have a history of fabricating things. I'll wait and see.

The Arab countries in the region seem to be putting a drag on action. I wonder what they're saying behind the scenes, and why.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2026 09:04 AM (biznJ)

160 They have a history of fabricating things. I'll wait and see.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2026 09:04 AM (biznJ)

As does our media.

Wait and see versus preemptive hair on fire is prudent.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 24, 2026 09:08 AM (dK+Kv)

161 @154/Common Tater: "Dishwashers have a rotary disposal mechanism a lot like the Insinkerator garbage disposals."

Not all of them. Some just have a removable strainer in the bottom to catch larger bits of food, and it's your job to remove and clean that after the full wash cycle. If you have one of those, it's a lot easier to hot-rinse the dishes off and place them in the dishwasher for a proper cleaning.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 09:10 AM (O7YUW)

162
Not all of them. Some just have a removable strainer in the bottom to catch larger bits of food, and it's your job to remove and clean that after the full wash cycle. If you have one of those, it's a lot easier to hot-rinse the dishes off and place them in the dishwasher for a proper cleaning.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 09:10 AM (O7YU

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DITTO!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 24, 2026 09:12 AM (UeLv+)

163 Grab a flashlight and look at your garbage disposal. See that black hose coming in to the side near the top? That's the drain from the dishwasher. Any food particles have to get (hopefully) macerated and then pass through that.

Not a very large diameter is it?

Posted by: Your plumber at May 24, 2026 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)

164 160 They have a history of fabricating things. I'll wait and see.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 24, 2026 09:04 AM (biznJ)

As does our media.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 24, 2026 09:08 AM (dK+Kv)

"They're the same picture."

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 09:24 AM (6wpGE)

165 "They're the same picture."

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 09:24 AM (6wpGE)

The point is you cannot trust practically anything you hear and only half of what you see, because you're not seeing but half the picture.

There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns . . . , paraphrasing.

We know we don't have boots on the ground and place is not glassed. Both relative wins, in my book.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 24, 2026 09:31 AM (dK+Kv)

166 I don't wanna grow up!

Could do without the acne, though.

Posted by: The Eternal Teenager at May 24, 2026 10:37 AM (oftw2)

167 @165/Comrade Flounder: "The point is you cannot trust practically anything you hear and only half of what you see, because you're not seeing but half the picture. "

And with AI video getting better and better, that "half" is dropping quickly.

It'll get to the point of, "Just assume it's computer generated agitprop unless you were there in person."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 24, 2026 01:11 PM (O7YUW)

Saturday Night Club ONT - May 23, 2026 [D Squared]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino. Come in in, grab a drink or 3.

Raise one in honor of those who fought and died for this great country. They are the reason for this holiday weekend. "Time Will Not Dim the Glory of Their Deeds"

[Top photo: Flags for Memorial Day at Boston Common]

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

After Mass, the priest caught up with Mark and said, "Mark, I am so glad you decided to come to Mass. What made you come?"

Mark said, "I've got to be honest with you, Father. A while back, I misplaced my hat, and I really, really love that hat. I know that McGlynn had a hat just like mine, and I knew that McGlynn came to church every Sunday. I also knew that McGlynn had to take off his hat during Mass and figured he would leave it in the back of the church. So, I was going to leave after Communion and steal McGlynn's hat."

The priest said, "Well, Mark, I notice that you didn't steal McGlynn's hat. What changed your mind?"

Mark said, "Well, after I heard your sermon on the Ten Commandments, I decided that I didn't need to steal McGlynn’'s hat."

The priest gave Mark a big smile and said, "After I talked about 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' you decided you would rather do without your hat than burn in Hell, right?"

Mark shook his head and said, "No, Father. After you talked about 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' I remembered where I left my hat."

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A drill sergeant was addressing a squad of 25 and said, "I have an easy job for the laziest man here. Put up your hand if you are the laziest."

24 men raised their hands, and the drill sergeant asked the other man, "Why didn't you raise your hand?"

The man replied, "Too much trouble raising the hand, Sarge."

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Drink of the Night

Tonight we drew the Six of Clubs from our deck of playing card cocktails

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Club ONT Department of Questioning Correlation and Causation

True? Apparently so (according to Grok).

Ohio ranks #1 in the U.S. for library circulation per person. In 2023 data (analyzed and released around April 2026 by USA Facts / Institute of Museum and Library Services), Ohio led with 12.99 items checked out per resident (including physical and electronic materials).
Ohio ranks #1 in Mountain Dew sales according to the brand's own 2026 data. Mountain Dew (PepsiCo) released a list naming Ohio #1, followed by North Carolina, Michigan, Kentucky, and Florida. This appears to be total sales volume (not explicitly per capita in all reports).

*****

Club ONT Department of Cat Identification

A leopard doesn't change its spots, but how do you know it is a leopard?

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H/T - nurse ratched

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Club ONT Department of Public Health

Brain-eating amoeba found in hot springs at 3 National Parks

A new study detected Naegleria fowleri, better known as "brain-eating amoeba" in thermal waters at Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Lake Mead.
The study, published in ACS ES&T Water, analyzed 185 water samples from 40 thermally impacted recreational waters between 2016 and 2024. Overall, 34% of the samples tested positive for N. fowleri. Samples were collected at Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Olympic National Park, Newberry National Volcanic Monument and Lake Mead. The amoeba was not detected in samples from Olympic or Newberry; however, other nonpathogenic Naegleria species were found there.

The amoeba does not infect people when contaminated water is swallowed. Infection can occur when warm freshwater containing N. fowleri enters the nose, allowing the amoeba to travel to the brain.
Most U.S. cases have been linked to swimming, diving or other water activities in warm freshwater. Fewer than 10 cases are typically reported in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Symptoms can include headache, fever and nausea before worsening to confusion, seizures and coma. The infection often progresses quickly and can be fatal within days.

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Club ONT Department of Hellport Availability

Turkmenistan's fiery "Gates of Hell" crater is dimming

Recent data suggests the flames of Turkmenistan's famous crater are starting to go out.
The Darvaza Gas Crater, more commonly referred to as the "Door to Hell" or "Gates of Hell," is a 196-foot-wide pit of fire about the size of a soccer field located in Turkmenistan's remote Karakum Desert. The crater has been ablaze for more than 50 years and has been as much a popular tourist attraction as it's puzzled scientists.
BBC reports the crater has been ablaze for at least 40 years, but recent data suggest it is slowly dimming.
The flaming crater's heat intensity has reduced by over 75 percent over the last three years.

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Club ONT Jukebox

Getting fired up tonight!

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Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate

🎶Eddie Murphy released �Party All The Time� 41 years ago, May 23, 1985 pic.twitter.com/TbGmliyfXc
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) May 23, 2026

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week

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Club ONT is brought to you tonight by: lil' buckaroos

Something tells me he's gonna be a cowboy.

😏🤠😎 pic.twitter.com/JpkLCrREzy
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) May 23, 2026

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Club ONT regrets to inform our patrons that President Trump wanted to join us here tonight, but according to a message he sent to the DJT/Disco/Dino group chat:

"Circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so."

Perhaps he will join us next week!

Posted by: Open Blogger at 10:00 PM

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1 right on

Posted by: IS Roth at May 23, 2026 10:01 PM (iY4+5)

2 1 right on
Posted by: IS Roth

.....or, is he?

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:02 PM (VHUov)

3 Caribbean Champagne looks like a fast way to a bad life decision.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 10:02 PM (gKWVE)

4 Hunt for Red October

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 10:04 PM (LHPAg)

5 Good evening Hordemates.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2026 10:05 PM (2WIwB)

6 * buffs knuckles on lapel *

I'm not sure if that counts as one CotW or two.

One with a footnote?

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)

7 Gene Loves Jezebel >> The Cult

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

8 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 23, 2026 10:06 PM (sAmhv)

9 7 year old: "Dad! Dad!"

Me: "Slow down, son. Now, what is it?"

7 year old: "What if Bigfoot is just a Wookie Lt. who got lost on the Land Nav course??"

Me: *leans in closer* "Tell me more."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 10:07 PM (qx7Zg)

10 Tracking

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:07 PM (sqJYm)

11
Another week, another assassination attempt. Remember "stochastic terrorism"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:09 PM (HdYcL)

12 Gene Loves Jezebel >> The Cult
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 10:06 PM (gKWVE)

Fans of both and saw both live multiple times. Can't agree with you there.

Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2026 10:09 PM (QMAsf)

13 Jimmy plays the “A” chord backwards on that tune, kinda. It allows a hammer on with the index finger, it’s tricky to play if you can’t play “A” like that.

He has a guitar lesson on this one on YouTube. That’s pretty cool. If you watch his fingers and chords, it has been described as “Spider playing Twister”, which is about right.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 10:10 PM (3LcAa)

14 * buffs knuckles on lapel *

I'm not sure if that counts as one CotW or two.

One with a footnote?
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:05 PM (VHUov)

***

Well done!
Two and an assist!
I'll be nominating you for inclusion into the comments of the year award and look forward to seeing you win at the awards show followed by the gala reception.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2026 10:10 PM (2WIwB)

15 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:11 PM (zZu0s)

16 Evening all. Did the Joos smoke another ayatollah today?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2026 10:11 PM (2PamV)

17 ***A new study detected Naegleria fowleri, better known as "brain-eating amoeba" in thermal waters at Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Lake Mead.
---

We can't waste a minute, Nuke It Now!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:11 PM (sqJYm)

18 Thanks for the swell Saturday Night Club ONT, D Squared!

All gave some, some gave all. Let us never forget.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 23, 2026 10:12 PM (D/6p1)

19 Another week, another assassination attempt. Remember "stochastic terrorism"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:09 PM (HdYcL)

One cannot hate the media enough. They will continue to stoke the fire of hatred.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2026 10:12 PM (2WIwB)

20 Brewers are getting smushed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 10:12 PM (A5RD0)

21 So it seems the White House was a Christian Extremist?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)

22 Not even a sidebar? I guess shooting at the white house is weak tea these days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

23 So it seems the White House was a Christian Extremist?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)

Would Jesus Christ be considered a Christian? Or a Jew? I'd say Jew or neither. He is the object of a religion- not the religion itself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

24 We know the shooter wasn't actually the Mashiach because the real Christ wouldn't announce himself

Posted by: Life Of Brian at May 23, 2026 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

25 Olympic National Park. Naegleria fowleri, better known as "brain-eating amoeba"

"Sol Duc Hot Springs is a resort located in Olympic National Park, Washington state, that is best known for its soaking pools, heated with the nearby hot springs."

Been there maybe forty years ago. Across the highway is Crescent Lake and it has the most beautiful deep blue water you'll ever have the pleasure of seeing.

Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2026 10:15 PM (44mUT)

26 Not even a sidebar? I guess shooting at the white house is weak tea these days.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

There hasn't been such violence near DC since the last time democrats started shooting.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

27 Its also hard because is he a worshiper. Of God maybe. Yet as a Catholic, that means he is worshiping other aspects of himself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)

28 What is exciting now is that after working for a short while the washer stopped working and started smelling like the magic smoke escaped.
So it is waiting for me in the driveway for me to pull the motor in order to replace it with a new one.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 10:16 PM (rbvCR)

29 Sorry I'm late, I thought that I grabbed the hand sanitizer. It was crazy glue.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2026 10:16 PM (0KINo)

30 "Circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so."
---

They're all at the White House but X only speculates.
...

It's 5:45 AM in Tehran and 5:17 in Aden; nothing happening tonight.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:17 PM (sqJYm)

31 When you see blue smoke, the electronic gods are angry. One must take all the money out of your wallet and set it on fire in sacrifice. Summon the electric medicine man to bless the machine and take notice of your sacrifice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)

32 Would Jesus Christ be considered a Christian? Or a Jew? I'd say Jew or neither. He is the object of a religion- not the religion itself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Gotta give the MFM something to work with.
Why didn't the guy's shrinks just tell him to look in a mirror....

Given half the reporters in the country being virtual witnesses now we see why there was little speculation of who the shooter was, or misrepresentation, or even releasing the obvious - not a member of the Swedish Bikini Volleyball Team.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:18 PM (/lPRQ)

33 Turkmenistan's remote Karakum Desert. The crater has been ablaze for more than 50 years and has been as much a popular tourist attraction as it's puzzled scientists.
-
Did anyone ever calculate the carbon footprint of that thing?

Posted by: Methos at May 23, 2026 10:19 PM (vSvIl)

34 Ohtani is such a little princess.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 10:19 PM (XwqDD)

35 White House shooter? They have to do something about what the media is doing to spin these people up

Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (sKqQm)

36 Is Centralia still the Silent-Hill of PA?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (gKWVE)

37 "stochastic", that word has no relationship to any language that I know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (sqJYm)

38 Ossifer, I literally live right over there....

Posted by: Nut Behind The Wheel at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (oftw2)

39 sto what

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (sqJYm)

40 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (77rzZ)

41 So it seems the White House was a “Christian Extremist”?
——-

Says who?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (ISwP0)

42 I wonder if Eddie ever got that urinary infection cleared up.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 23, 2026 10:21 PM (syz1S)

43 "Circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so."
---------------------------
So great.
P

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2026 10:21 PM (jKGsh)

44 Is Centralia still the Silent-Hill of PA?
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (gKWVE)

I think Centralia was what the game was based on. And yes, but they have bulldozed all the structures. Really does take all the fun out of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)

45 "stochastic", that word has no relationship to any language that I know.
——-

We used to order books from those guys in grade school

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 10:22 PM (ISwP0)

46 Also, BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 10:22 PM (77rzZ)

47 I don't believe you on the brain-eating umeeba* thing. It's been months and neither Candace nor Tucker have lapsed into a coma.

(* I'm not looking up how to spell it, again. That's how it's pronounced.)

Posted by: GWB at May 23, 2026 10:23 PM (kU0PQ)

48 So it seems the White House was a Christian Extremist?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:13 PM (/lPRQ)

I do not care.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2026 10:23 PM (2WIwB)

49 White House shooter? They have to do something about what the media is doing to spin these people up
Posted by: 18-1 at May 23, 2026 10:20 PM (sKqQm)

Remind them what happened to Julius Streicher after the war?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 10:23 PM (1Ff7Z)

50 Evening Horde, thx D Squared
Graham Parker lived around here , Woodstock specifically, for a time in the 90s. Saw him in concert a couple times. His song Big Man on Paper mentions the Hudson Valley Mall, which is pretty much empty. Parker was definitely hit and miss

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:23 PM (FpbZP)

51 Agent Orange might be my favorite punk band. Here's a song from them thst fits tonight's theme.

https://youtu.be/OBwqt-115lA

Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (0KINo)

52 Too late for the movie thread, but I figure I'd let folks know that Vinegar Syndrome releases are about 20 percent great to about 70 percent terrible (and not the good kind of terrible) with 10 percent misc.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (CHHv1)

53 Also, if you're close enough to notice those differences in spots? You're either in a zoo or won't have time to figure out which one is eating you.

Posted by: GWB at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (kU0PQ)

54 Hegseth arriving at White House.

https://tinyurl.com/dr2cxje5

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (sqJYm)

55 Drink of the Night? I don't drink much lately - the docs would prefer I not drink at all, so I only drink medicinally. A couple of days ago, MiladyJo mixed up some rather potent Irish Cream. So far, we've had that on ice, and in coffee. Trying some tonight on ice cream. Just testing, y'know. Mmmm.

Posted by: mindful webworker - toteetler at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (0poB+)

56 "stochastic", that word has no relationship to any language that I know.

Posted by: Braenyard

Means random. But terrorism is not random... no more random than people buying Tide detergent. Media plays a significant role. Most media, at least degreed, have some study of advertising, propaganda, and mass culture. For many, being an "influencer" is their reason for being.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)

57 Eddie Murphy released ‘Party All The Time’ 41 years ago, May 23, 1985

---

When my daughter was learning to use the toilet, I would sing "my girl likes to potty all the time, potty all the time, potty all the time...". At least she thought it was funny.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 23, 2026 10:25 PM (THY4u)

58 Drink of the Night? I don't drink much lately - the docs would prefer I not drink at all, so I only drink medicinally. A couple of days ago, MiladyJo mixed up some rather potent Irish Cream. So far, we've had that on ice, and in coffee. Trying some tonight on ice cream. Just testing, y'know. Mmmm.
Posted by: mindful webworker - toteetler at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (0poB+)

Pear brandy on ice cream is a wonderful dessert.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2026 10:26 PM (2WIwB)

59 When you see blue smoke, the electronic gods are angry. One must take all the money out of your wallet and set it on fire in sacrifice. Summon the electric medicine man to bless the machine and take notice of your sacrifice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 10:17 PM (zZu0s)
* * * *
My electric medicine man pronounced the dryer as dead with the washer not far behind. Same taking of money from wallet and sacrificing it. Ugh. Plus waiting two freaking weeks for the new set (but that's just a guess, could be sooner!). Appliances don't last like they used to. And don't get me started on the Wi-Fi crap they seem to come with nowadays!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 23, 2026 10:26 PM (D/6p1)

60 Best video of shots fired, White House - >

https://tinyurl.com/yws726ma

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:26 PM (sqJYm)

61 Also, if you're close enough to notice those differences in spots? You're either in a zoo or won't have time to figure out which one is eating you.
Posted by: GWB at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (kU0PQ)

According to some You Tuber, it wouldn't be a Cheetah because they are just big pussycats around humans.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 10:27 PM (1Ff7Z)

62 I remembered where I left my hat.

That one's going in my joke rotation.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

63 Olympic National Park. Naegleria fowleri, better known as "brain-eating amoeba"
Posted by: 13times

If they show up at the Statehouse in Olympia they'll starve to death.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:27 PM (vhPr1)

64 I'm of two minds posting this John Schneider song.

https://youtu.be/ZkOsgU7zUEQ

It fits better for Veterans Day, but it touches on those who served who lost brothers and sisters in combat who we remember on Monday.

For those veterans described by the song, please work on staying around for more Veterans Days. Please don't rush to join the friends you lost.

COBs, if this is a thread killer, you have my permission to delete this post.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)

65 Brain-eating amoeba found in hot springs at 3 National Parks.

Fewer than 10 cases are typically reported in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

___________________________________

I was convinced that the Govt. was putting something in toothpaste, or nailing us with those contrails which in turn made everyone dumber.

Turns out it's zombie amoeba.

Posted by: Orson at May 23, 2026 10:29 PM (dIske)

66 Pear brandy on ice cream is a wonderful dessert.
Posted by: Diogenes

Not as good as Tincture of Opium!!

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at May 23, 2026 10:30 PM (oftw2)

67 A girl from my city got the brain eating amoeba while swimming in a warm creek in Maryland. 19 yrs old , died after a couple of days on life support

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:30 PM (FpbZP)

68 Best video of shots fired, White House - >

https://tinyurl.com/yws726ma

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:26 PM (sqJYm)

The look on that Asian chicks face reminds me of how the first wife reacted when she saw me with my clothes... nevermind.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

69 So there is now a "ghost runner" in extra inning MLB games! A runner is placed at second base in every half inning after the normal nine.

Weird ... I have not been watching "Pro Sports" much for a few years, so missed out on that odd addition.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 23, 2026 10:32 PM (vbXSk)

70 Best video of shots fired, White House - >

https://tinyurl.com/yws726ma

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:26 PM (sqJYm)
+++
The look on that Asian chicks face reminds me of how the first wife reacted when she saw me with my clothes... nevermind.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
===

With a name like Selina Wang.... just check first. OK?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

71 Look, Fat. I'm immune to those brain-eating amoebas!

Posted by: Delaware's Own at May 23, 2026 10:32 PM (oftw2)

72 That joke about the hat is one of my favorites.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 10:33 PM (77rzZ)

73 With a name like Selina Wang.... just check first. OK?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

Well, Mick Dundee wasn't with me at the time.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 10:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

74 What is exciting now is that after working for a short while the washer stopped working and started smelling like the magic smoke escaped.
So it is waiting for me in the driveway for me to pull the motor in order to replace it with a new one.
Posted by: Kindltot

When you see blue smoke, the electronic gods are angry. One must take all the money out of your wallet and set it on fire in sacrifice. Summon the electric medicine man to bless the machine and take notice of your sacrifice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

If you're quick enough, and can gather all the magic smoke, and put it back in the component that released it, it should start working again. The magic smoke is what makes electronic things function, after all.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)

75 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 10:34 PM (RIvkX)

76 The shooter at the White House was id'ed as Nasire Best. Safe to say he wasn't at his best

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:36 PM (FpbZP)

77 You put your left leg in, your back goes out, you're creaking and cramping and you've got a dose of gout... You twist and shout and a little wee comes out...
That's what aging is all about!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 10:36 PM (qx7Zg)

78 The gunman who opened fire near the White House on Saturday evening has been identified as a man named Nesire Best...

Nasire Best was previously arrested on July 10, 2025 for attempting to enter the White House complex...

He had serious mental-health issues
===

With a name like that it was a given.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)

79 I recently took a pole and found out that 100% of the people in the tent were angry when it collapsed.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 10:37 PM (qx7Zg)

80 Club ONT regrets to inform our patrons that President Trump wanted to join us here tonight, but according to a message he sent to the DJT/Disco/Dino group chat:

"Circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so."
=====

I think you're being catfished by an Orange Roughy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

81 Hi fellas!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 23, 2026 10:39 PM (uTEOj)

82 The old cougar joke made me grin. I was teasing my mom once about her flirting with younger men. She knew the term "cougar" but couldn't remember the right word, and she came up with "leopard," so that was our joke from then on.

She got sassy after hitting 80. Once I took her to Five Guys. I saw her pondering the sign as we drove in and parked. This is how it went:

Mom: Are they all here?
Me: What, all 5 guys? I dunno, I guess so.
*beat*
Mom: How many for you and how many for me?

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 23, 2026 10:39 PM (0SdQT)

83 It appears that all African American and Muslim criminals have mental health issues. Therefore they can never be guilty

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:41 PM (FpbZP)

84 Hi friends! Home from dinner. The best grouper. I am stuffed.

Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 10:41 PM (pZEOD)

85 I recently took a pole and found out that 100% of the members in a Warsaw grand jury voted to indict me for kidnapping

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 23, 2026 10:42 PM (giFnw)

86 The gunman who opened fire near the White House on Saturday evening has been identified as a man named Nesire Best...

Nasire Best was previously arrested on July 10, 2025 for attempting to enter the White House complex...

He had serious mental-health issues
===

With a name like that it was a given.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:37 PM (/lPRQ)

At least he wasn't named Nacho Best.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 10:42 PM (qx7Zg)

87 Bananas don't belong in cocktails. They also don't belong in you mouth.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 10:44 PM (diia5)

88 "stochastic", that word has no relationship to any language that I know.

Posted by: Braenyard

=====
The Stochastic Man https://a.co/d/0h79pFRG

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 10:44 PM (RIvkX)

89 Of the above three cats the jaguar is by far the most bad assed. Watching them dive from a tree and kill a caiman is awesome

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:44 PM (FpbZP)

90 I recently took a pole and found out that 100% of the people in the tent were angry when it collapsed.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Nice.

Very "Mitch Hedberg."

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:44 PM (VHUov)

91 @31 When you see blue smoke, the electronic gods are angry.

I once bought a used external disk drive for a Macintosh. It didn't work, so I brought it back to the shop to test it.

They plugged it in, and, honestly, neon pink smoke came out of it. They gave me my money back.

What does pink smoke mean?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

92
Astros are 22-31 and 5 games back

Yankees are 30-22 and 5.5 games back

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:45 PM (HdYcL)

93 Watching them dive from a tree and kill a caiman is awesome
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Sounds like a hate crime...
Oh, CAIman. Nevermind~

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 10:45 PM (diia5)

94 Nasire Best was previously arrested on July 10, 2025 for attempting to enter the White House complex...
-
So he tried Plenti, but his Best wasn't Goode enough?

Posted by: Methos at May 23, 2026 10:47 PM (vSvIl)

95 87 Bananas don't belong in cocktails. They also don't belong in you mouth.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 10:44 PM (diia5)

But they're okay on hats, right?

Posted by: Carmen Miranda at May 23, 2026 10:47 PM (0KINo)

96 We know the shooter wasn't actually the Mashiach because the real Christ wouldn't announce himself
Posted by: Life Of Brian at May 23, 2026 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

We know he's not Jesus because Jesus would be coming on the clouds, not just high.

Posted by: GWB at May 23, 2026 10:47 PM (kU0PQ)

97 This should be a Florida Man joke, but it's in Wisconsin during Construction season (I.e., not winter).

https://youtu.be/lPeoGqeuf5M

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 10:48 PM (qx7Zg)

98 What does pink smoke mean?
-
The new Pope is a girl?

Posted by: Methos at May 23, 2026 10:48 PM (vSvIl)

99 Evening Horde, thx D Squared
Graham Parker lived around here , Woodstock specifically, for a time in the 90s. Saw him in concert a couple times. His song Big Man on Paper mentions the Hudson Valley Mall, which is pretty much empty. Parker was definitely hit and miss
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:23 PM (FpbZP)

Temporary Beauty and his cover of J5's I Want You Back were solid.

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 10:50 PM (nbLIj)

100 I once bought a used external disk drive for a Macintosh. It didn't work, so I brought it back to the shop to test it.

They plugged it in, and, honestly, neon pink smoke came out of it. They gave me my money back.

What does pink smoke mean?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

It was a female disk drive.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 10:50 PM (qx7Zg)

101 When each son reached potty training age, Kate Winslet's Boobs and I would take up that timeless anthem "My Baby Wants to Potty All the Time." Those were fun times.

How weird that I never realized that was Eddie Murphy. Then again, I may have been potty training myself when it came out, so I'll give myself a pass.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 23, 2026 10:50 PM (ftFVW)

102 They plugged it in, and, honestly, neon pink smoke came out of it. They gave me my money back.

What does pink smoke mean?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Blue smoke: normal wizard

Pink smoke: Mahou Shoujo

Posted by: Sakura Kinomoto at May 23, 2026 10:50 PM (VHUov)

103 The NHL team formerly known as the Hartford Whalers (miss those uniforms) beat the Montreal Ice Frogs, in OT.

GO WHALERS!!!

I wasn't even a fan of the Hartford Whalers. I just liked the name and uniforms. Seemed appropriate for the city and location. Whaling was a thing. I do appreciate the trade that brought Ron Francis and Ulf Samuelson to Pittsburgh! That was nice.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 23, 2026 10:50 PM (sAmhv)

104 This is just desperation at this point

@HollywoodHandle 2h
‘SHREK 6’ is officially in the works.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 10:51 PM (diia5)

105 Banana Ball live from Tacoma, Washington right now. First time in that state. Banana Ball will visit 46 states this year. All games live on Youtube.

Posted by: Clowns vs. Party Animals at May 23, 2026 10:52 PM (oftw2)

106 Dropping in to say thank you Ds forONT.

Slipping out to go pick up takee-outee dinner...glad I don't have to catch or shoot something so that's a plus...

Maybe be back in a while.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 10:52 PM (QGaXH)

107 This is just desperation at this point

@HollywoodHandle 2h
‘SHREK 6’ is officially in the works.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Yeah, I'm all out.

Posted by: a mummified cow at May 23, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

108 Banana liqueur does not sound good at all. Why was that invented? Just why?

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 23, 2026 10:53 PM (LZ0gJ)

109 Dropping in to say thank you Ds forONT.

Slipping out to go pick up takee-outee dinner...glad I don't have to catch or shoot something so that's a plus...

Maybe be back in a while.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
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Maybe you'll get lucky and hit a possum on the way?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 10:53 PM (/lPRQ)

110 Club ONT Jukebox
Getting fired up tonight!

Bonus tracks.

https://youtu.be/3jtkwaNMkyI
https://youtu.be/ve2pS-jxXz0
https://youtu.be/croDgo5DEWo
https://youtu.be/iH27h0NNZPo
https://youtu.be/6OGBmVhUSg4
https://youtu.be/DUDPGaBYX00
https://youtu.be/0l3dsHCScxU

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:54 PM (VHUov)

111 Slipping out to go pick up takee-outee dinner...glad I don't have to catch or shoot something so that's a plus...

Maybe be back in a while.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

Take out? For just double the price you can Door Dash it and complain of being broke like a gen Z-er.

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 23, 2026 10:59 PM (LZ0gJ)

112 51 Agent Orange might be my favorite punk band. Here's a song from them thst fits tonight's theme.

https://youtu.be/OBwqt-115lA
Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (0KINo)

Got a cassette out in the garage. When You Least Expect It.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at May 23, 2026 10:59 PM (QaH55)

113 A country track for tonight, from The Man in Black.

https://youtu.be/1Osyw6Svv8U

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 11:00 PM (qx7Zg)

114 What does pink smoke mean?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

Pink? Tim Cook got laid.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

115 98 What does pink smoke mean?
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The new Pope is a girl?
Posted by: Methos
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Popa Leona.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 11:02 PM (sqJYm)

116 108 Banana liqueur does not sound good at all. Why was that invented? Just why?
Posted by: She Hobbit at May 23, 2026 10:53 PM (LZ0gJ)
_____________________________

I just asked Grok if there was anything worse than a drunken monkey?

I expected some flip answer telling me that this is not a scientific issue or that there were plenty of things worse than a drunken monkey.

Instead I got a whole dissertation about how monkey's purposefully seek out fermented fruit, but have learned to pace themselves unlike humans. On average the eat the equivalent of two large alcolholic drinks per day. Grok want's me to think that the annoying little monkey has better discipline than most humans (as they throw feces at you and masturbate in front of school kids at the zoo). Ok...sounds reasonable.

Posted by: Orson at May 23, 2026 11:04 PM (dIske)

117 One last song for tonight's jukebox, from the Kelly's Heroes soundtrack

https://youtu.be/kgeIINs1TrQ

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 11:04 PM (qx7Zg)

118 Pope Joan II

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 11:05 PM (gKWVE)

119 I don't know if Jesus was a Christian or a Jew, but Mary and Joseph were certainly Jewish.

The only one who looks Jewish in The Last Supper is Judas... as Monty Python pointed out.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 11:05 PM (RCjYY)

120 Nothing to see here, just a tankdemon taking off his sock. Move it along, people, no need to stare.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 23, 2026 11:06 PM (0KINo)

121 Banana liqueur does not sound good at all. Why was that invented? Just why?
Posted by: She Hobbit

Tropical and tiki drinks can use some banana flavor sometimes.

It's actually pretty tasty. At least Giffard's "banane du bresil" is.

I've had local banana-infused rum in the Caribbean, too. That saves a step.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 11:07 PM (VHUov)

122 1986 I was DJing at the UC/San Diego college radio station during a GLJ show on campus nearby. The two Aston brothers and their escort came running over after the show and I barely got the door closed and barred; the hordes of goth autograph seekers were relentless. Had a pleasant chat. Ahhh, the days of records when DJ transitions between one song and another was an art.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 11:07 PM (W5mpo)

123 Grok want's me to think that the annoying little monkey has better discipline than most humans (as they throw feces at you and masturbate in front of school kids at the zoo). Ok...sounds reasonable.
Posted by: Orson

Did you tell 'Grok' that?

Maybe Grok will say the monkey's have no alcohol tolerance like some native Americans and Asians?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 11:07 PM (/lPRQ)

124 Great idea, mikeski...

More fire:

https://youtu.be/Z6z-nxAYhGw
https://youtu.be/1xqMY8UAGgg

Posted by: JQ at May 23, 2026 11:07 PM (rdVOm)

125 I am such a cheap date. I had 2 glasses of wine with dinner and I feel like I would tell y’all anything. Sad. Lol.

Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Wmg4n)

126 Instead I got a whole dissertation about how monkey's purposefully seek out fermented fruit, but have learned to pace themselves unlike humans. On average the eat the equivalent of two large alcolholic drinks per day. Grok want's me to think that the annoying little monkey has better discipline than most humans
Posted by: Orson

Is that adjusted for body weight?

Because if I had two large cocktails a day and I weighed twelve pounds, I'd be dead.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)

127 I am such a cheap date. I had 2 glasses of wine with dinner and I feel like I would tell y’all anything. Sad. Lol.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Wmg4n)
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Moar wine!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 11:11 PM (RIvkX)

128 Because if I had two large cocktails a day and I weighed twelve pounds, I'd be dead.
Posted by: mikeski

You don't know me! *hiccup*

Posted by: Drunken Monkey at May 23, 2026 11:11 PM (ftFVW)

129 Good evening, Club patrons!

Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2026 11:12 PM (QMAsf)

130 Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (sqJYm)
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What a great video! Thanks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2026 11:12 PM (UqeTT)

131 105 Banana Ball live from Tacoma, Washington right now. First time in that state. Banana Ball will visit 46 states this year. All games live on Youtube.
Posted by: Clowns vs. Party Animals

Huh? It was here last year in the Mariner’s stadium.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 11:12 PM (JOv66)

132 earworm: mine is Don't Fear the Reaper.

Stupidest song ever written, but earworms don't care about that.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 11:13 PM (RCjYY)

133 "Turkmenistan has one of the highest levels of global methane emissions ...

They should capture some of that gas and produce electricity instead of going with solar. Although wind might work.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 11:13 PM (/lPRQ)

134 earworm: mine is Don't Fear the Reaper.

Stupidest song ever written, but earworms don't care about that.
Posted by: mnw

Not a cowbell fan?

Posted by: She Hobbit at May 23, 2026 11:14 PM (ftFVW)

135 Warning. This may cause side-splitting laughter!

https://youtube.com/shorts/mzev8b28mZQ

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 11:14 PM (qx7Zg)

136 Thank you horde, for being you. I appreciate all of you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2026 11:15 PM (UqeTT)

137 Nosiree Bob

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 11:15 PM (Cqx++)

138 I am such a cheap date. I had 2 glasses of wine with dinner and I feel like I would tell y’all anything. Sad. Lol.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Wmg4n)

Bill Cosby would like a word

Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2026 11:16 PM (QMAsf)

139 earworms: there were some interesting ones listed on an ONT earlier this week.

They're whatever your subconscious coughs up, I think. Like dreams.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 11:18 PM (RCjYY)

140 Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 11:09 PM (VHUov)
________________________

Sorry, got distracted. I was thinking that "Drunken' Monkey" would be a great name for a bar. Then, sadly, I checked to see how many other people thought that. Turns out hundreds of bars exist worldwide with that name... Including one in Prague that advertises,
"The Drunken Monkey Pub Crawl"
https://tinyurl.com/2fzbv672

Posted by: Orson at May 23, 2026 11:18 PM (dIske)

141 What does pink smoke mean?

Never mind. It's fine. If you don't know, we aren't going to tell you.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2026 11:19 PM (2PamV)

142 Monkeys are nasty aggressive assholes. They will rip your face off, eat it and crap in you eyeholes.

Kinda like river otters.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 11:20 PM (A5RD0)

143 Any of those penguin pushers around tonight? Just watched a Casual Geographic video on the penguins' pal, the leopard seal. And by pal I mean deadly predator. I don't use the word gnarly, but for some reason it comes to mind about these sea monsters.

https://youtu.be/QyLYAB5zk7E

Posted by: mindful webworker - curiously informed at May 23, 2026 11:21 PM (0poB+)

144 earworms: there were some interesting ones listed on an ONT earlier this week.

It's a world of laughter, a world of tears
It's a world of hopes and a world of fears
There's so much that we share that its time we're aware
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2026 11:21 PM (2PamV)

145
138 I am such a cheap date. I had 2 glasses of wine with dinner and I feel like I would tell y’all anything. Sad. Lol.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 11:09 PM (Wmg4n)

Bill Cosby would like a word
Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2026 11

I can still talk. He liked his comatose. Shudder.

Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 11:22 PM (Wmg4n)

146 I was DJing at the UC/San Diego college radio station during a GLJ show on campus nearby.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

Gay Lozenge Job?
Geographic Lothario Jerimiah?
Giggly Lubricant Jezebel?
Goethe Lobby Jihad?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 11:23 PM (diia5)

147 Earworm

Let's dance, let's shout (Shout)
Shake your body down to the ground
Let's dance, let's shout (Shout)
Shake your body down to the ground
Let's dance, let's shout (Shout)
Shake your body down to the ground
Let's dance, let's shout (Shout)
Shake your body down to the ground

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

148 Is the Cult singing something about "crazy in the rhizome"?

Posted by: GWB at May 23, 2026 11:24 PM (kU0PQ)

149 I can still talk. He liked his comatose. Shudder.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 11:22 PM (Wmg4n)

Right. Important distinction!

Posted by: Doof at May 23, 2026 11:24 PM (QMAsf)

150 Weeeeeeellllllllll

You know, you make me want to (Shout)
Kick my heels up and (Shout)
Throw my head back and (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Come on now (Shout)
Don't forget to say you will
Don't forget to say-yay-ay-ay-ay (say you will)
Say it right now, baby (Say you will)
Come on, Come on (say you will)
Say that a youoooo (say you will)

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2026 11:25 PM (2PamV)

151 Lol @magic smoke...

I printed the book of schematics (provided only on CDrom by the mfr.) for my machine at work & used xkcd's "Circuit Diagram" as cover page:

https://xkcd.com/730/

Techs appreciated the effort.

Posted by: JQ at May 23, 2026 11:25 PM (rdVOm)

152 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZBIseq-cKM

the trunk monkey collection

Posted by: Lord Percy at May 23, 2026 11:26 PM (T8RPZ)

153 OffKai 5th Gen continues to cover themselves with gloryhole effluvia.

1. 13 to 17 year olds can wander the con unattended if they have a notarized parental consent form signed by a parent or guardian. This includes the Exhibition Hall.

2. The OnlyFans of VTubing, Fansly, is now a sponsor of OffKai and will be in the Exhibition Hall.

3. A VTubing group called VBimbos will attend OffKai.

A sinkhole needs to swallow the whole convention.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

154 144

Romeo and Juliet
Are together in eternity.
We can be like they are.
Come on, baby
We'll be able to fly!

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 11:26 PM (RCjYY)

155 A sinkhole needs to swallow the whole convention.
Posted by: Anna Puma

What did I ever do to you?

Posted by: a sinkhole at May 23, 2026 11:30 PM (VHUov)

156 3. A VTubing group called VBimbos will attend OffKai.
A sinkhole needs to swallow the whole convention.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 11:26 PM (2GVsD)

Sounds like it will.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 11:31 PM (gKWVE)

157 The shooter at the White House was id'ed as Nasire Best. Safe to say he wasn't at his best
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:36 PM (FpbZP)

Sounds like a an Arabic name, maybe Lebanese. Living for generations in close proximity to muslims, the crazy can rub off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 11:33 PM (8zz6B)

158 I am going to bed. Sweet dreams!

Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 11:33 PM (Wmg4n)

159 What does pink smoke mean?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

They've elected a gay pope.

Posted by: Pink AND blue it's a transpope at May 23, 2026 11:33 PM (TbWk/)

160 The NHL team formerly known as the Hartford Whalers (miss those uniforms) beat the Montreal Ice Frogs, in OT.

GO WHALERS!!!

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I appreciate that the Canes embrace their Whaler heritage. Many fans wearing their gear, as well as their throwback uniform games.

LETS GO CANES!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 23, 2026 11:34 PM (5yDGQ)

161 Posted by: Pink AND blue it's a transpope at May 23, 2026 11:33 PM (TbWk/)

Going to be trouble putting that hat over those cat ears.

Posted by: the furries at May 23, 2026 11:35 PM (gKWVE)

162 1-877-Kars for Kidz

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 11:35 PM (XgKq6)

163 America's first advanced nuclear reactor since 1979 has begun generating electricity — a milestone that marks the real beginning of the nuclear renaissance in the United States.

The last nuclear power plant to enter commercial operation in the United States before the current era was Watts Bar Unit 1 in Tennessee — commissioned in 1996 but whose construction began in 1973. For fifty years, no genuinely new nuclear construction project reached commercial operation in America. The regulatory environment, the capital costs, the public perception shaped by Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and the availability of cheap natural gas combined to make nuclear investment essentially impossible for half a century.

Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia — the first new nuclear reactor built from scratch in the United States since the 1970s construction era — achieved commercial operation in July 2023. Vogtle Unit 4 followed in April 2024. Both are AP1000 pressurised water reactors designed by Westinghouse — third-generation designs with passive safety systems that make the active cooling failures that caused Three Mile Island and Fukushima physically impossible. (Cont)

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2026 11:36 PM (2PamV)

164 Georgia Power's customers are now receiving carbon-free electricity from two reactors that will operate for at least 60 years.

The Vogtle project was over budget and behind schedule — a reality that nuclear critics correctly cite as evidence of the industry's current cost challenges. But the reactors are running. The electricity is flowing. The lessons learned from Vogtle's construction — in workforce development, modular fabrication, regulatory navigation, and supply chain management — are already being incorporated into the design of the next generation of American nuclear projects that TerraPower, X-energy, and Kairos Power are building.

America's nuclear future started with a difficult delivery. It was still delivered.

Source: Georgia Power & US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2024

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2026 11:36 PM (2PamV)

165 https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 11:38 PM (A5RD0)

166 Dating rituals change when adults become intoxicated. This has long been known, and is why fathers are protective of their wives and daughters. When you introduce an aberrant culture of savages, there will be pain.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 11:38 PM (D1E+2)

167
GO WHALERS!!!

Too bad Burger King did away with them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 11:38 PM (Cqx++)

168 >>>America's nuclear future started with a difficult delivery. It was still delivered.
--

Jimmy, the abortionist, 'I will make nuclear energy safe for America', Carter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 11:41 PM (sqJYm)

169 GO WHALERS!!!

Too bad Burger King did away with them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot
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Butt...Boston still makes them, right?

Posted by: Ishmael at May 23, 2026 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

170 Evening, D-squared and ONT Horde. Had a nice visit with AZ Deplorable Moron, and his lovely wife.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 11:43 PM (8zz6B)

171 >>The NHL team formerly known as the Hartford Whalers (miss those uniforms) beat the Montreal Ice Frogs, in OT.

>>GO WHALERS!!!

Jack Kelley was a hell of a hockey guy. First GM and head coach of the Whalers. I went to school with his son Mark who eventually became head of amateur scouting for the Blackhawks. His brother is David Kelley who created a bunch of hit TV shows.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 11:44 PM (viF8m)

172 159 What does pink smoke mean?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

They've elected a gay pope.
Posted by: Pink AND blue it's a transpope at May 23, 2026 11:33 PM (TbWk/)

I thought they were all gay.

Posted by: Anti-Potpourri League at May 23, 2026 11:44 PM (ZGFTp)

173 Reported: Talarico is pulling up in the polls.

@amuse --

TEXAS SENATE RACE: James Talarico (CIS) claims to oppose dark money.
It turns out his super PAC is funded by the darkest money imaginable ... Epstein associate Reid Hoffman, Sixteen Thirty Fund, and a secretive Delaware shell company

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 11:44 PM (sqJYm)

174 Let's just start burning coal again.

Posted by: Case at May 23, 2026 11:46 PM (8XBuM)

175 From the hobby thread:

My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)

I'm convinced that extensive pot use destroys some people's color sense. It might not even be color perception itself, but some combination of degraded stimulus response and destroyed disgust reflex. But you can observe how the "lifestyle" potheads, older and closer to burnout, will gravitate to more unusual colors in tasteless combinations.

That's just what it takes to tickle their brains at all anymore, is my best guess.

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 11:47 PM (Sy6m/)

176 Dead shooter is a black guy with dreads (sp?), if photo I saw is correct. "Thought he was Jesus". Well we all have times like that. Just that we don't attack a heavily protected national facility like a crazy dumbass.

Haven't checked if still true, but the leader in post-Soviet Turkmenistan was known as "the great horseman", basically the president (for life, natch). Some good stories out of that place.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 23, 2026 11:49 PM (U/Byj)

177 I'm convinced that extensive pot use destroys some people's color sense. It might not even be color perception itself, but some combination of degraded stimulus response and destroyed disgust reflex. But you can observe how the "lifestyle" potheads, older and closer to burnout, will gravitate to more unusual colors in tasteless combinations.

That's just what it takes to tickle their brains at all anymore, is my best guess.
Posted by: SciVo

Thanks! The Early 1970s make sense, now...

Posted by: JQ at May 23, 2026 11:49 PM (rdVOm)

178
Dead shooter is a black guy with dreads (sp?), if photo I saw is correct. "Thought he was Jesus".

Posted by: rhomboid

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

We'll find out in three days if he was right.

--stolen from elsewhere

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 11:50 PM (n7rxJ)

179 Makes sense. One would should a place up with a glock, just like Jesus did.

Posted by: Anti-Potpourri League at May 23, 2026 11:51 PM (ZGFTp)

180 Glad to see a new nuke get lit up.

Disgusted to see the absurd "carbon-free" nonsense still in use.

Aside from being wildly untrue (every single thing about the reactor operation is based on real, i.e. carbon-based energy, apart from the nuclear fuel, from its construction to its maintenance to the workers' commute to the food they eat to the clothes they wear to ...... duh), it comes across like a Russian politician in the 2000s starting his statements with "as Comrade Stalin has written".

Posted by: rhomboid at May 23, 2026 11:52 PM (U/Byj)

181 Reckon Talarico has taken a pole or three.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 11:52 PM (gKWVE)

182 We'll find out in three days if he was right.

--stolen from elsewhere
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 11:50 PM (n7rxJ)

Well, too late to crucify him. But we could shove his carcass through a wood chipper, and juicify him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 11:52 PM (8zz6B)

183 but the leader in post-Soviet Turkmenistan
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Are we talking Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow?

Posted by: Derb at May 23, 2026 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

184 Jaguars have the strongest bite of any cat. Their typical attack is to bite through the prey's skull and into their brain. About 10 years ago, I saw a black jaguar killing a sheep just south of Tomball TX (North of Houston). He had the sheep's head in his mouth. Jaguar's aren't supposed to be in the US, but the one I saw sure was.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 23, 2026 11:55 PM (Da7Vv)

185 119 I don't know if Jesus was a Christian or a Jew, but Mary and Joseph were certainly Jewish.

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And verily, saith the scribe, they never paid retail.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 11:56 PM (u/oMr)

186 Dead shooter is a black guy with dreads (sp?), if photo I saw is correct. "Thought he was Jesus". Well we all have times like that. Just that we don't attack a heavily protected national facility like a crazy dumbass.

I guess I'm defective. After 63 years, I have never once thought I was Jesus.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 23, 2026 11:56 PM (2PamV)

187 Nice clear slams at DEI garbage by Pete at the West Point graduation.

Meanwhile via some skullduggery or something, the sole candidate for prez of Univ. of FL is a former Univ. of Alabama prez who is a DEI insect.

Hoping/assuming DeSantis will nuke the thing, if he has that authority. Good (redundant?) reminder that "DEI" (racist-totalitarian delusional social engineering) is far far far from done, or even in retreat. It will take 10 years of adult supervision to really start to purge it, and I'm doubtful we'll have that.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 23, 2026 11:57 PM (U/Byj)

188 I’m reasonably sure that the “gate to hell” in Turkmenistan was created by very sloppy Soviet drilling practices, which created an underground blowout near the surface, which caused a sinkhole to form as all the fluid movement created a sinkhole. Then the ensuing crater was left connected to a deep gas reservoir which had taken 60 years to burn itself off.

And the Russians, starting with the Soviets, all say “we have no idea what happened!” And try hard to burn all the records of what actually did happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 11:57 PM (U0opd)

189 rickb223, I was of course attempting a joke, with the usual success.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 23, 2026 11:58 PM (U/Byj)

190 You know what's great about cats?

Because I'd like to hear a couple of things.

I went to cet the pat and all he wanted to do was bite me.

What the Hell, people, what the Hell.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 11:58 PM (CHHv1)

191 Sounds like a an Arabic name, maybe Lebanese. Living for generations in close proximity to muslims, the crazy can rub off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 11:33 PM (8zz6B)

H'zbollah is funded by the Iranians, so not a complete stretch. Most of the Maronites left, as they were fond of drawing breathe

Posted by: moki at May 23, 2026 11:59 PM (wLjpr)

192 "Thought he was Jesus".
Posted by: rhomboid

The Good Book tells us what to expect when He returns, and it isn't "moneychangers in the temple" personal level stuff. It's a bit more global.

Sorry, glock mess~~iah~~, but I'm not sure how you persuaded yourself of that.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 11:59 PM (VHUov)

193 Reckon Talarico has taken a pole or three.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 11:52 PM (gKWVE)

We should make a point of calling the turd by his birth name, Causey, to make it clear he is a fake Hispanic.

"James Causey, alias Talarico"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 12:00 AM (8zz6B)

194 rickb223, I was of course attempting a joke, with the usual success.
Posted by: rhomboid

Sorry. 😢

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 12:00 AM (2PamV)

195 I'd rather be Saint Jerome anyway.

Posted by: so my niece can recite the line at May 24, 2026 12:00 AM (gKWVE)

196 https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 11:38 PM (A5RD0)

Wow. That video has 1.77 billion (with a "b") views.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 24, 2026 12:00 AM (aMrr2)

197 Nuclear, carbon free, is a selling point to shut down the water melons.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:01 AM (sqJYm)

198 I can say with complete honesty that I have never thought I was Jesus. Napoleon, Caesar, and Alexander once or twice, I’ll ’fess up to that. But never Jesus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 12:01 AM (U0opd)

199 I fell today walking on my pegleg, no whiskey was involved this time.

It's a lot trickier than you would believe, especially turning around.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2026 12:03 AM (XV/Pl)

200 Here's a music video. For Bulg, Man of the Boobs.

https://youtu.be/IZvpHwoQfqk

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

201 Hi, BC!

Cats must be *in the mood* for petting, otherwise... chomp and slice!

Or, sometimes, they want to 'play'-- you're the prey and they're practicing their skillz.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 12:03 AM (rdVOm)

202 193 Reckon Talarico has taken a pole or three.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 11:52 PM (gKWVE)

We should make a point of calling the turd by his birth name, Causey, to make it clear he is a fake Hispanic.

"James Causey, alias Talarico"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 12:00 AM (8zz6B)

Just like Beto.
Another pretend Mexican.

Posted by: Anti-Potpourri League at May 24, 2026 12:04 AM (ZGFTp)

203 "Are we talking Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow?"

Can't recall the guy's name now, but it was a russified Central Asian name (ending in -ov). Kazakhstan had the same guy in charge forever, he either died or something, new guy now for some time. Aliyev Jr. in Azerbaijan has been there a long time, can't recall now if his dad (Politburo member) was running things after 1991 for a while (and I was there a lot - hmm, memory slipping).

But Uncle Sasha (Lukashenko) in Belarus holds the record, still at the top after 35 years. Or, as Trump called him in a recent post, the "highly respected president of Belarus", possibly Trump's funniest line yet. I get it, he was thanking him for springing an American in detention (something this administration is very good at and focused on and which receives little attention). But still, funny. Even nationalist, non-"liberal" Russians mock Lukashenko.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 24, 2026 12:04 AM (U/Byj)

204 It's a lot trickier than you would believe, especially turning around.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2026 12:03 AM (XV/Pl)

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One would think a crisp pencil spin would be facilitated by a peg leg, but the fire hazard might argue against it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 24, 2026 12:05 AM (u/oMr)

205 I fell today walking on my pegleg, no whiskey was involved this time.

It's a lot trickier than you would believe, especially turning around.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

You don't just plant the pegleg and spin like Brian Boitano?

Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2026 12:05 AM (VHUov)

206 .....sorry for all the clutter in the Hordemind, Cicero.

Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2026 12:06 AM (VHUov)

207 >>>Let's just start burning coal again.

Posted by: Case

>We need to warm the planet with carbon because it's cooling off to quickly.

Posted by: Alphonse Gore Esq. at May 24, 2026 12:09 AM (D1E+2)

208 It's a lot trickier than you would believe, especially turning around.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2026 12:03 AM (XV/Pl)

Cut off a camel's foot, and graft it to the peg leg. "Hey, honey, want to see my cameltoe?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 12:09 AM (8zz6B)

209 Just like Beto.
Another pretend Mexican.
Posted by: Anti-Potpourri League

Ol' Pancho Vanilla.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 12:09 AM (2PamV)

210 GPT -5 didn’t want to give it up but - >

Coal fired plants in Michigan, Washington Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana have been re-opened.

Other states with recent federal orders or actions keeping retired/idle coal units available or restarted include: Indiana, Colorado, Ohio, West Virginia and Illinois.
_U.S. Department of Energy

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:09 AM (sqJYm)

211 @204

>>One would think a crisp pencil spin would be facilitated by a peg leg, but the fire hazard might argue against it.

You would think, but the center of balance is all out of whack with the massive cast hanging off the back of the deck.

Between the knee scooter, crutches and the peg leg, I'm able to get around.

It's wild how difficult things get once you lose the function of a leg.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2026 12:12 AM (XV/Pl)

212 @208

>>Cut off a camel's foot, and graft it to the peg leg. "Hey, honey, want to see my cameltoe?"

Don't have access to a camel, but there are some alpaca in the vicinity I could potentially rustle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2026 12:13 AM (XV/Pl)

213 Just like Beto.
Another pretend Mexican.
Posted by: Anti-Potpourri League
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I got called on that one. Actually, it's the most honest thing about him. He was adopted, as a babe or child, by his step father, Daddy Talarico.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:14 AM (sqJYm)

214 The kicker; Daddy Talarico is Italian.
An Italian in San Antonio, TX, wtf?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:15 AM (sqJYm)

215 @201 - yeah, I get it. Because of their abilities, cats have never developed the "cooperation" ability that dogs have. So their solution to "too much petting" is "slash and kill" rather than the dogs' "I will tolerate this for the good of the pack."

It honestly just gets tiresome. I give out treats, clean the box, pet when he wants it, allow my chest to be used as a trampoline, and what I get is...nothing.

It's like being in a Dario Argento film. One night I'll wake up with a knife at my throat. "I told you, I'm tired of chicken-flavored treats. Now, you will know just how tired I am."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2026 12:17 AM (CHHv1)

216 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Time to hit the sack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2026 12:18 AM (8zz6B)

217 I don't bother people for being adopted and taking the stepdad's name. BJ Clinton was born a Blythe but I don't mock his last name.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 24, 2026 12:21 AM (gKWVE)

218 A cheetah will not eat you. A leopard or jaguar will.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 24, 2026 12:21 AM (Xqite)

219 Glad to see a new nuke get lit up.
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Well there's something I wouldn't want to read out of context.

Posted by: Methos at May 24, 2026 12:21 AM (vSvIl)

220 A cheetah will not eat you. A leopard or jaguar will.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 24, 2026 12:21 AM (Xqite)

The cheetah will take your wallet and clothes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 12:22 AM (qx7Zg)

221 … it comes across like a Russian politician in the 2000s starting his statements with "as Comrade Stalin has written".
Posted by: rhomboid at May 23, 2026 11:52 PM (U/Byj)

Surely that went out with the Soviet Union, i.e., after 1989.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2026 12:23 AM (eGn4U)

222 A cheetah will give you Cheetos.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 12:24 AM (Cqx++)

223 We have over 500 years of coal, we might as well put it to use.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2026 12:25 AM (eGn4U)

224 Are these new nuke plants the ones in Michigan or Wyoming, or somewhere else?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2026 12:27 AM (eGn4U)

225 >>It honestly just gets tiresome. I give out treats, clean the box, pet when he wants it, allow my chest to be used as a trampoline, and what I get is...nothing.

Aw, BC-- this is sad for me to read. I'm sorry you feel no benefit from Robert the Cat.

Some cats (kind of like some people) are not "touchy-feely". Darn it, if they didn't want to be petted, they shouldn't be so *soft!*

My own cat is not the lap-type. Prefers outdoors, except when it's very cold/wet. He will sleep at the foot of my bed on winter nights, but wants out at daybreak. Once temps are above 40F, he's out 95+% of the time and only begs for kibble/ treats 3 or 4 times a day.

I've learned to not attempt to pet him while he sleeps! (Slash & chomp!) He will come to me for rubbys, and sit there while I oblige... then he walks away. I do not pursue. He will sit outside at patio door, wanting me to be outside with him. If I'm outside, he will follow me around the yard unless I'm using machinery, LOL.

He's my buddy but not a snuggler.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 12:32 AM (rdVOm)

226 If AI is going to take massive amounts of energy then we better get massive amounts of electricity fast. No one wants sky high electric bills. Taking 20 years to build nuclear plants is not going to work. D.C. we have a problem!

Posted by: Case at May 24, 2026 12:32 AM (8XBuM)

227
Meanwhile via some skullduggery or something, the sole candidate for prez of Univ. of FL is a former Univ. of Alabama prez who is a DEI insect.

Hoping/assuming DeSantis will nuke the thing, if he has that authority.

Posted by: rhomboid

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

Wait, what? Is this the same post for which they'd hired a lefty from University of Michigan, then rejected him on review? Santa Ono was his name. Now they're doing it again?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 12:34 AM (n7rxJ)

228 Are these new nuke plants the ones in Michigan or Wyoming, or somewhere else?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

The one I posted about was in Georgia.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 12:35 AM (2PamV)

229
If AI is going to take massive amounts of energy then we better get massive amounts of electricity fast. No one wants sky high electric bills. Taking 20 years to build nuclear plants is not going to work. D.C. we have a problem!
Posted by: Case

Just wait till they bring back electric cars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 12:37 AM (Cqx++)

230 Public water systems may not filter out hormones, pharmaceuticals, and certain contaminants like lead and *PFAS (forever chemicals).

Reverse Osmosis filters out this crap that tap water contains. Who knows what tap water is doing to our systems?

I drink bottled water but then thinking, what about my tea, coffee and orange juice. I've been making that with tap water. Yikes.

I've started making all my drinks with bottled water, they taste better too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:37 AM (sqJYm)

231 I am detecting a profound lack of astronauts, mermaids, fascists, ninjas, and cheerleaders. I can fix this, while staying in the fire theme!

AWOLNATION - Burn It Down (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/XcClvRt9g2Q

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 12:40 AM (Sy6m/)

232 The shooting had one positive outcome: CNN preempted at least an hour of their 3 hour tribute to Colbert that was supposed to air tonight. That’s a lot of air time to fill with the phrase “stunning and brave” otherwise.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 24, 2026 12:40 AM (QZThv)

233 If AI is going to take massive amounts of energy then we better get massive amounts of electricity fast. No one wants sky high electric bills. Taking 20 years to build nuclear plants is not going to work. D.C. we have a problem!
Posted by: Case

Just wait till they bring back electric cars.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 12:37 AM (Cqx++)

It's relatively simple. Require each new data center to have its own, brand new nuclear reactor for power, and a sealed, safe cooling system that leaves local water sources untouched.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 12:40 AM (qx7Zg)

234 He's my buddy but not a snuggler.
Posted by: JQ
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He's a Tom. Tom's have a different perspective on how stuff works.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:40 AM (sqJYm)

235 @225 - again, I get it. I've lived with six cats over the years and have known a few others. Most of them were able to come to an agreement with me, and company was enjoyed. (Best one was Orbison, who was gone from us too soon.)

Robert the Cat (TM) just seems stubbornly opposed to any kind of cooperative contract. Possibly that's my fault. More likely it's his.

I am committed, so I won't be strangling him. (Sigh) But it would ne nice if he acknowledged, even if grudgingly, that I am giving him a better life than he had in the shelter.

But then, he doesn't have to acknowledge that, does he.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2026 12:41 AM (CHHv1)

236 Guys named Best just aren't any good

Posted by: John, Paul and George at May 24, 2026 12:41 AM (3/XaG)

237 Just came home from 3 days at the Vegas strip (nephews wedding). Place is overwhelming to the senses with all the lights and sounds.

Kind of fun, especially if you are under 40, but I am not much of a gambler. If you like food and entertainment it can't be beat.

Climate is fantastic but I guess the 100+ temps start after Memorial Day.

Posted by: Joemarine at May 24, 2026 12:41 AM (y171U)

238 Now, you will know just how tired I am."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
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It has trained you well.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:44 AM (sqJYm)

239 @236 - there was an actor named James Best who was in "The Giant Gila Monster" and sang a song about mushrooms. Not sure what category of "good" that falls in, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2026 12:44 AM (CHHv1)

240 James Best was OK.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 12:44 AM (Cqx++)

241 Energy - SMR’s (small modular reactors) are already being constructed in Texas and other states. The biggest challenge is standardizing the design, but that takes some trial and error.
Once that is done, it should not be hard to build 10 - 20 per year. I wouldn’t be surprised if not far into the future, every large data center will come with its own dedicated SMR.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 12:45 AM (U0opd)

242 He's a Tom. Tom's have a different perspective on how stuff works.

Posted by: Braenyard

Hahaha, yes. He sets his own terms. But it's sweet when I'm at the deck rail, and he comes walking along it & gives me a forehead *bonk*-- our way of greeting-- and then goes about his bidness.

"Hi, hooman! See ya later!"

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 12:46 AM (rdVOm)

243 James Best was in the Killer Shrews not the Gila Monster.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2026 12:46 AM (Cqx++)

244 >>But it would ne nice if he acknowledged, even if grudgingly, that I am giving him a better life than he had in the shelter.

BC, do you know what sort of life he had before the shelter? Might have something to do with his cattitude.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

245 It's relatively simple. Require each new data center to have its own, brand new nuclear reactor for power, and a sealed, safe cooling system that leaves local water sources untouched.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 12:40 AM (qx7Zg)

The molten salt design does exactly that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2026 12:49 AM (U0opd)

246
AWOLNATION - Burn It Down (Official Video)
https://youtu.be/XcClvRt9g2Q
Posted by: SciVo
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Rock & Roll, 2026

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:50 AM (sqJYm)

247 245 It's relatively simple. Require each new data center to have its own, brand new nuclear reactor for power, and a sealed, safe cooling system that leaves local water sources untouched.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Isn't Musk working toward his data center being in orbit? Intends on letting the sun be his power source.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:52 AM (sqJYm)

248 132 earworm: mine is Don't Fear the Reaper.
Stupidest song ever written, but earworms don't care about that.
Posted by: mnw

Banhammer on #132

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 24, 2026 12:53 AM (W5mpo)

249 Fire theme, plus BOC

https://youtu.be/z0efJeGsvlc

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 12:55 AM (rdVOm)

250 No, *not* Burnin' For You

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 12:58 AM (rdVOm)

251 241 Energy - SMR’s (small modular reactors) are already being constructed in Texas and other states. The biggest challenge is standardizing the design, but that takes some trial and error.
Once that is done, it should not be hard to build 10 - 20 per year. I wouldn’t be surprised if not far into the future, every large data center will come with its own dedicated SMR.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Competition is good it will drive innovation.
They don't, necessarily, need to be standardized. Just like car engines there a several valid approaches to achieving power.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 12:58 AM (sqJYm)

252 This would probably have attracted AOP...

https://youtube.com/shorts/klKec7kG9vM

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 24, 2026 12:58 AM (qx7Zg)

253 @244 - no, not really. And I understand that early experiences shape one's outlook. But he's been with me for over 4 years, you might think he'd adjust. You know, just a bit.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2026 01:00 AM (CHHv1)

254 I tried to get tickets a month ago. Sold out!

"105 Banana Ball live from Tacoma, Washington right now. First time in that state. Banana Ball will visit 46 states this year. All games live on Youtube.
Posted by: Clowns vs. Party Animals at May 23, 2026 10:52 PM (oftw2)"

Posted by: Are you sure about this sir? at May 24, 2026 01:00 AM (U/7CP)

255 The one I posted about was in Georgia.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 12:35 AM (2PamV)

Is that the Plant Vogtle #2, or have they got #3 up yet?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 24, 2026 01:01 AM (eGn4U)

256 No, *not* Burnin' For You
Posted by: JQ

I was thinking:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWZy5o9Eq9U

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 24, 2026 01:01 AM (W5mpo)

257 @243 - oops. Somebody sang a song about mushrooms in a film. I thought it was him.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2026 01:01 AM (CHHv1)

258 61
Also, if you're close enough to notice those differences in spots? You're either in a zoo or won't have time to figure out which one is eating you.
Posted by: GWB at May 23, 2026 10:24 PM (kU0PQ)

According to some You Tuber, it wouldn't be a Cheetah because they are just big pussycats around humans.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 10:27 PM (1Ff7Z)

Cheetas always look vaguely sad to me, like even their own friends have given up on them as hopeless in love and life. At least their dogs love them...

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 01:05 AM (7Wnc/)

259 BC, if he's not behaving the way you'd like-- withhold treats. (Don't want to reward poor behavior.)

Only give a treat IF he is nice to you.

Sorry, that's all I got.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

260 Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 24, 2026 01:01 AM

Heh. Sorry, that's the *one* BOC album I'm not fond of.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

261 Is that the Plant Vogtle #2, or have they got #3 up yet?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

See 163 & #164. They have 3 AND 4 up.

Vogtle Unit 3 in Georgia — the first new nuclear reactor built from scratch in the United States since the 1970s construction era — achieved commercial operation in July 2023.

Vogtle Unit 4 followed in April 2024. Both are AP1000 pressurised water reactors designed by Westinghouse — third-generation designs with passive safety systems that make the active cooling failures that caused Three Mile Island and Fukushima physically impossible.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 01:15 AM (2PamV)

262 An old neighbor had a very cool, mostly outdoor Siamese cat, we really got along. He'd spot me walking in the very early morning and would bolt across the street and stop just before ramming into me.

I'd talk to him and give him a good solid bit of petting. I don't think his humans gave him much attention, but kept him well fed. Or maybe it was just kismet. Then one day they all moved.

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 01:15 AM (r8pP+)

263 When I was a kid we had a tom that was do tough that, even after he'd lost his teeth, he could walk the street and other tom's would run for the porch.

He was house broke but when you approached him it was from the front and slowly.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 01:15 AM (sqJYm)

264 @259 thank you. It's a hard road and always has been. Dogs--well, they require a lot more (cats are kind of like throw pillows) but they are so grateful for anything they get in terms of attention. (I've met several on my walks and they're so doggy.)

Cats are basically "And--? You're expecting something special? For...doing your duty? (pause) How...odd."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2026 01:18 AM (CHHv1)

265 83 It appears that all African American and Muslim criminals have mental health issues. Therefore they can never be guilty
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:41 PM (FpbZP)

I am of the opinion that if someone cannot be held responsible for his actions, then he should not be allowed to choose them. And if there aren't enough psych beds, then there's always "Canadian healthcare" or the Cricket treatment for feral animals.

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 01:20 AM (Sy6m/)

266 265 83 It appears that all African American and Muslim criminals have mental health issues. Therefore they can never be guilty
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:41 PM (FpbZP)

I am of the opinion that if someone cannot be held responsible for his actions, then he should not be allowed to choose them. And if there aren't enough psych beds, then there's always "Canadian healthcare" or the Cricket treatment for feral animals.
Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 01:20 AM (Sy6m/)

My favorite stupidity on this subject? They can be declared incompetent to stand trial for a crime they committed, because they are too stupid.

So yeah, we let them stay out of Jail, so they can stupidly commit more crime?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 24, 2026 01:26 AM (mP0Kj)

267 And if there aren't enough psych beds, then there's always [...] the Cricket treatment for feral animals.
Posted by: SciVo

You..... make them play silly Indian baseball forever?

Cruel. And unusual.

Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2026 01:28 AM (VHUov)

268 My ol' Cat likes people, if they approach slowly. Better, if they're standing still & then he will approach them. Maybe even *bonk* their leg and accept a skritch from them. And then he's off, upon his merry way...

He'll fight if necessary but hasn't needed to (afaik) since the bully tomcat next door moved away. They looked so much alike but had *totally different* personalities.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:30 AM (rdVOm)

269 Doggonnit, peopul, it's hard to get caught up on comments when I keep getting sidetracked on your links. Especially ones that a person can't just listen to but has to watch. Like them country sisters. Mm mm mm.

Well, here's some Mozart for a change of pace.
https://youtu.be/y058ndfXHz4

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - 'Wolfie' Mozart the classic rapper at May 24, 2026 01:30 AM (0poB+)

270 It appears that all African American and Muslim criminals have mental health issues. Therefore they can never be guilty
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:41 PM (FpbZP)

I am of the opinion that if someone cannot be held responsible for his actions, then he should not be allowed to choose them. And if there aren't enough psych beds, then there's always "Canadian healthcare" or the Cricket treatment for feral animals.
Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 01:20 AM (Sy6m/)

My favorite stupidity on this subject? They can be declared incompetent to stand trial for a crime they committed, because they are too stupid.

So yeah, we let them stay out of Jail, so they can stupidly commit more crime?
Posted by: Romeo13

What's criminal? We put down dogs for less.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 01:34 AM (2PamV)

271 Heh. Sorry, that's the *one* BOC album I'm not fond of.
Posted by: JQ

Hush your mouth.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 24, 2026 01:35 AM (W5mpo)

272 Paul was a hologram the whole time.

Posted by: Billy Shears at May 24, 2026 01:35 AM (37Xn2)

273
https://x.com/aricchen/status/2058357470334947535

Japan's new PM is 100% awesome! Read the whole thing.

[...] In April 2026, the Takaichi cabinet removed the "five categories" restriction on lethal weapons exports. In May, Tokyo concluded an agreement with Manila for the transfer of Abukuma-class destroyer escorts to the Philippine Navy — the first export of finished lethal military equipment in Japan's postwar history.

And in November 2025, three months before the Iran war began, Japan made its first-ever transfer of domestically-produced PAC-3 interceptor missiles to the United States military, backfilling American stockpiles depleted by Ukraine.

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 01:37 AM (r8pP+)

274
I bet alot of the newspeople at the White House were the scummy liars who lie about Trump.

Hope they are terrified to be around him now.

Posted by: four seasons at May 24, 2026 01:39 AM (3ek7K)

275 I bought ground beef and corn on the cob for this weekend. Not really "feelin' it" for the traditional cookout, though... will bring shrimp in garlic butter to go with hubby's lunch tomorrow. He's doing ok I guess.

Meh. My roses are at peak bloom, so should cut bouquets for parents' and late BF's graves.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:39 AM (rdVOm)

276 Hush your mouth.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal

I should clarify: not the band's fault. Just reminds me of a very bad time in my life, that's all.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

277 "watches pitch slowly float by..."
Aetius451AD

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Congratulations on a new way to say something without actually saying it

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 24, 2026 01:42 AM (SVeHj)

278 Hope they are terrified to be around him now.
Posted by: four seasons

I hope they are terrified, period! Serves them right, for promoting the hate.

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:42 AM (rdVOm)

279
Chickens coming home to roost.

Posted by: four seasons at May 24, 2026 01:45 AM (3ek7K)

280
The one I posted about was in Georgia.

Posted by: rickb223

I watched a video recently about some historical goings on in the U. S. state of Georgia -- it may have been the Civil War battles around Atlanta or the Revolutionary War battles around Savannah.

Anyway the AI, for such was its origin, chose to display, briefly, a map of Georgia. It used a map of the country, Georgia, located in the on the Black Sea, in Europe.

Don't ever change, AI. Don't ever change.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 01:46 AM (s9VOe)

281 I watched a video recently about some historical goings on in the U. S. state of Georgia -- it may have been the Civil War battles around Atlanta or the Revolutionary War battles around Savannah.

Anyway the AI, for such was its origin, chose to display, briefly, a map of Georgia. It used a map of the country, Georgia, located in the on the Black Sea, in Europe.

Don't ever change, AI. Don't ever change.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Old and busted: Sherman's march to the sea

New hotness: Sherman's march through the sea

Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2026 01:47 AM (VHUov)

282 273
https://x.com/aricchen/status/2058357470334947535
...
Japan's new PM is 100% awesome! Read the whole thing.
...
Japan made its first-ever transfer of domestically-produced PAC-3 interceptor missiles to the United States military, backfilling American stockpiles depleted by Ukraine.

Posted by: 13times
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She's also achieved 3 constitutional amendments moving Japan's military to a more aggressive position away from the old defensive standard.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 01:48 AM (sqJYm)

283 MFM doesn't talk much about Biden's War In Ukraine these days... wonder why??? (no, I really don't)

We need to cut Zman completely off. What's taking so long?

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:51 AM (rdVOm)

284
Old and busted: Sherman's march to the sea

New hotness: Sherman's march through the sea

Posted by: mikeski

An AI joke:

Name two leaders who marched their followers through the sea. Moses and William T Sherman

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 01:52 AM (s9VOe)

285 "We put down dogs for less. "

true.
a principle deserving wider application in these times.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 01:53 AM (VyBeY)

286 https://x.com/aricchen/status/2058357470334947535

Japan's new PM is 100% awesome! Read the whole thing.

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 01:37 AM (r8pP+)

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Sounds like Japan's PM Takaichi is in the mold of the great Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 24, 2026 01:55 AM (lQA6G)

287
We need to cut Zman completely off. What's taking so long?

Posted by: JQ

Let's give the Euroweenies the opportunity to lead for which they have been begging.

"Here, Euroweenies, catch!"

* Toss the Ukraine War tar baby in their direction *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 01:55 AM (s9VOe)

288 There's an odd thing about this turn of the century photograph (I colorized it.)

The breach-bands on working pack animals caught my interest for reasons I won't bore you guys with. Then I noticed the (funny) Weird Thing.

archive.org link.

https://tinyurl.com/4b4ttknn

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 01:56 AM (r8pP+)

289
"We put down dogs for less. "

true.
a principle deserving wider application in these times.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez

I consider the Gaza Strip to be humankind's mad dog preserve.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 01:57 AM (s9VOe)

290 45, LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 01:58 AM (VyBeY)

291 Let's give the Euroweenies the opportunity to lead for which they have been begging.

"Here, Euroweenies, catch!"

* Toss the Ukraine War tar baby in their direction *
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

LOL! No shit... they hates rooshya so bad! Let them step up, for once.

"Sorry, EU. We got our own problems, and Uke ain't one of 'em. Deal with it."

Posted by: JQ at May 24, 2026 01:59 AM (rdVOm)

292
Cheetas always look vaguely sad to me, like even their own friends have given up on them as hopeless in love and life. At least their dogs love them...
Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 01:05 AM (7Wnc/)

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Cheetahs always look thin to me and, in that sense, strangely vulnerable. Even though they are packing 70 mph of teeth and claws

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 24, 2026 02:02 AM (q7IhF)

293 Anyway the AI, for such was its origin, chose to display, briefly, a map of Georgia. It used a map of the country, Georgia, located in the on the Black Sea, in Europe.

Don't ever change, AI. Don't ever change.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 02:02 AM (2PamV)

294 exactly, KvC, among others ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 02:03 AM (VyBeY)

295 Cheetahs always look thin to me and, in that sense, strangely vulnerable. Even though they are packing 70 mph of teeth and claws
Posted by: JM in Illinois

I like how they'll walk over to the cameraman and either flop down or jump up on the Land Rover and lay down.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 02:05 AM (2PamV)

296 Barack Obama, when in a Memorial Day speech before veterans, he stupidly said of America’s “fallen heroes” that “I see many of them in the audience here today.”

>How did this guy get elected? Remember, half of America has an IQ below 100.

Posted by: Alphonse Gore Esq. at May 24, 2026 02:11 AM (D1E+2)

297 Barack Obama, when in a Memorial Day speech before veterans, he stupidly said of America’s “fallen heroes” that “I see many of them in the audience here today.”

He saw that many in the audience were frantically jabbing their Life Alert signalling devices.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 02:16 AM (s9VOe)

298 Nite all. Hope to see everyone at the food thread tomorrow.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2026 02:16 AM (2PamV)

299 Barack Obama was the first DEI president. People voted for him because they were afraid of being called "racist" and losing their careers thusly.

To be honest, though, McCain and Romney would have also capsized the country. I guess it was in the air.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2026 02:17 AM (CHHv1)

300
Tree hunnert

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 02:18 AM (s9VOe)

301 Barack Obama, when in a Memorial Day speech before veterans, he stupidly said of America’s “fallen heroes” that “I see many of them in the audience here today.”
Posted by: Alphonse Gore Esq.

If you're possessed by demons, does that let you see the dead?

I assume they were all flipping him the bird.

Posted by: mikeski would have at May 24, 2026 02:20 AM (VHUov)

302 @ILA_NewsX - May 23
Idaho gets it. This should be the law in every state.
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July 1, Idaho begins executing child rapists by firing squad.
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That's too good for them. They deserved to be hanged.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 02:23 AM (sqJYm)

303 299, yeah, wow, no kidding, those were some effed-up times.

not much better today, but at least we have the ray of hope that is PDT ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 02:23 AM (VyBeY)

304 Keating Five. John McCain. He was just the "getaway driver." The Maverick!

He was always a low rent, scum sucking, cheap shitweasel.

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 02:23 AM (r8pP+)

305 304, this!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 24, 2026 02:26 AM (VyBeY)

306 @ILA_NewsX - May 23
Idaho gets it. This should be the law in every state.
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July 1, Idaho begins executing child rapists by firing squad.
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That's too good for them. They deserved to be hanged.

Posted by: Braenyard

===

Gibbet

Weld into an iron cage and hoist them over Main Street.

So, hanged in a way.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 02:26 AM (/lPRQ)

307 He was always a low rent, scum sucking, cheap shitweasel.
Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 02:23 AM (r8pP

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For a short time before each election, McMcain pretended to be a true blue conservative Re.publican. After that, he resumed his role as a s*** weasel

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 24, 2026 02:27 AM (v3gtd)

308 ===

Gibbet

Weld into an iron cage and hoist them over Main Street.

So, hanged in a way.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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They did that out here in a small county only out front of the court house on the lawn close to the side walk so the ladies and others could walk by and have a talk (or other) with him before judgement day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 02:33 AM (sqJYm)

309 July 1, Idaho begins executing child rapists by firing squad.
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That's too good for them. They deserved to be hanged.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 24, 2026 02:23 AM (sqJYm)

By the scrotum.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2026 02:39 AM (DwqWV)

310 They did that out here in a small county only out front of the court house on the lawn close to the side walk so the ladies and others could walk by and have a talk (or other) with him before judgement day.

Posted by: Braenyard
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It is in English Common Law. So, by definition, not unusual.
Not particularly cruel. Dehydration before starvation, or exposure in cold.

Totes Legit and Constitutional.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2026 02:41 AM (/lPRQ)

311 265 83 It appears that all African American and Muslim criminals have mental health issues. Therefore they can never be guilty
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 10:41 PM (FpbZP)

I am of the opinion that if someone cannot be held responsible for his actions, then he should not be allowed to choose them. And if there aren't enough psych beds, then there's always "Canadian healthcare" or the Cricket treatment for feral animals.
Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 01:20 AM (Sy6m/)

I just love how drunk drivers who kill people don't get sent to jail for life. Somehow, being drunk means they weren't entirely responsible, as if someone held them down and forced them to get drunk.

Murder's murder.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2026 02:45 AM (DwqWV)

312 Hawaii has just passed laws negating citizens united so corporations can no longer buy elections other states are following their lead.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at May 24, 2026 02:45 AM (lMl+c)

313 267 And if there aren't enough psych beds, then there's always [...] the Cricket treatment for feral animals.
Posted by: SciVo

You..... make them play silly Indian baseball forever?

Cruel. And unusual.
Posted by: mikeski at May 24, 2026 01:28 AM (VHUov)

Well... we can tell them that!

"There's a game called 'cricket' that would be right up your alley, you hit people with bats! Kristi Noem has her own 'pitch' at the old quarry, here's directions, she'll meet you there."

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 02:49 AM (Sy6m/)

314 >>>Idaho gets it. This should be the law in every state.
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July 1, Idaho begins executing child rapists by firing squad.
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That's too good for them. They deserved to be hanged.

Posted by: Braenyard

>I'm in favor of a system where it doesn't cost the taxpayers a dime. WW11 surplus ammo would be good, but there's a limited supply.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 24, 2026 02:49 AM (D1E+2)

315 288 There's an odd thing about this turn of the century photograph (I colorized it.)

The breach-bands on working pack animals caught my interest for reasons I won't bore you guys with. Then I noticed the (funny) Weird Thing.

archive.org link.

https://tinyurl.com/4b4ttknn
Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 01:56 AM (r8pP+)

Okay, I looked. What's the Weird Thing?

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 02:57 AM (Sy6m/)

316 I actually went to a couple of cricket matches in the UK while stationed there. Nothing major, local teams. Small villages playing each other. They were fun! I don't recall much about cricket though. There is a 'flow' to it but that's all I remember. I had consumed vast pints of bitter, ale, cider, lager, etc. I did watch another match soberish, but I still couldn't explain it to you.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2026 03:05 AM (sAmhv)

317 Okay, I looked. What's the Weird Thing?
Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 02:57 AM (Sy6m/)

Lower center of the photo. Look between the donkeys legs; another donkey is stooped low to look at the camera.

It's just a curious thing that goes unnoticed!

Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 03:12 AM (r8pP+)

318 Posted by: 13times at May 24, 2026 03:12 AM (r8pP+)

Ah! I see it now! It took some looking just for me to pick out all the faces and signs in the background, but none of them looked 'weird' enough. And even with all that scrutiny, I didn't see the curious donkey.

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 03:34 AM (Sy6m/)

319 300
Tree hunnert
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 24, 2026 02:18 AM (s9VOe)

hahahaha

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 03:42 AM (6wpGE)

320 I just love how drunk drivers who kill people don't get sent to jail for life. Somehow, being drunk means they weren't entirely responsible, as if someone held them down and forced them to get drunk.

Murder's murder.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 24, 2026 02:45 AM (DwqWV)

That one I get; they are being held responsible for the "depraved disregard for the value of human life" exhibited by over-imbibing with their keys in their pocket. IANAL but I understand that different states give the charge different names and grades, but that's basically it.

So, killing John Q. Public driving drunk is roughly on par with being a getaway driver for a bank robbery, speeding and weaving in and out, and killing JQP that way. It wasn't specifically intended, but nor was it avoided; the stage for such an event was knowingly set.

That's worse than doing everything right and having no way to avoid JQP when he blows through a red light right in front of you, but better than if you see him on a bicycle and aim at him and floor the gas, and better yet than if you laid in wait for him specifically.

It's those last two kinds of killings where slaps on the wrist are particularly galling.

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 03:46 AM (Sy6m/)

321
To be honest, though, McCain and Romney would have also capsized the country. I guess it was in the air.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

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Equally bad, they would have capsized the Republican party and conservatives along with it. Like, this is what you get when you vote R?

(I know, the GOPers were pretty much shooting holes in the hull anyway, but it wouldn't help to have 2 self-proclaimed conservatives giving orders to fire.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 24, 2026 03:49 AM (n7rxJ)

322 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at May 24, 2026 04:31 AM (6wpGE)

323 Tech Thread is tardy.

Disgusting!

Posted by: Hall Monitor at May 24, 2026 04:31 AM (qq/w/)

324 Flags for Memorial Day at Boston Common picture is wonderful and appropriate.

"The Unknown Soldier" by The Doors was an anti-war song, protesting against the Vietnam War, recorded November 1967 & released March 1968 on the album Waiting for the Sun. Yes, it and the over-the-top dramatics by Jim Morrison was loved by many college crowds, hippies and, of course, elitists.

I knew of so many who were drafted or volunteered right out of high school, and some immediately upon graduating college. Several died in combat during the Vietnam War and/or suffered horrible results for years afterwards.

Further, for my first real job out of high school, I had the honor of working for a Physical Evaluation Board in one of several U.S. military hospitals that largely handled many military personnel - both White and Black, women and men - terribly injured, physically and mentally, in that war.

Songs such as that in the mystery click - along with fabricated evening news of the war on main stream media back then - were further morale crushers for those who already sacrificed a great deal for a cause of the nation.

They were not good years in this country.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 24, 2026 01:13 PM (NFX2v)

Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Obsession

If I were Hollywood, I'd be worried. I mean, sure, box office is through the floor, the middle-class backbone of the industry moved out of California, and even I couldn't kid myself that I had any idea how to entertain the masses any more.

But I think what would put me into a cold sweat are guys like Damian McCarthy, making profitable movies that are better constructed and better looking for a fraction of the price. Or worse, perhaps, Curry Barker, whose little horror film Obsession, made for less than a million dollars, made $20 million in its first four days, with an additional $7 million world-wide. (And over $40 million worldwide in its first week.)

What's the secret to this film's smashing success? The staggering drawing power of Andy Richter.

I kid. He's in this film, and the only name I recognized, yet I never actually noticed him while watching the movie. (I'm sure he played the second female lead's father, owner of the music store where the four principals work. But I'm actually guessing, it was such a small part, and he's lost a lot of weight and gotten a lot older since the early days of Conan's show—about the last time I saw him.)

Pictured: Not Andy Richter. (I couldn't find even a single shot of him in this movie.)

The odd thing about this movie is that there doesn't appear, at least on the surface, to be anything remotely novel about it. There are entire horror movies series devoted to wishes, and the evils such things wreak. Obsessive love? A staple of the '90s, of course, but a theme that never goes away. The classic 1992 Tate Donovan/Sandra Bullock splatterpunk Love Potion No. 9 leaps to mind.

I kid.

The trailers were...murky. Not bad, exactly. They show you the whole plot, but the plot's not usually the thing in a horror movie. And it's a teen-oriented horror from Blumhouse, so there's a little sense of "meh, seen it" but, honestly, what's the trailer maker gonna do about that?

On the other hand, Obsession has a whopping 8.2 on IMDB with over 19K reviews.

ALMOST as good as Project Hail Mary? You sure you don't want to bump that score up a little bit?

What the heck was going on here? Apparently the original cut of the film shown at film festivals was gorier and had to be trimmed down for an "R". But most of those 19K didn't see the uncensored cut.

Well, look, there aren't a wealth of watchable films to choose from these days. Figuring it would be over-hyped but acceptable, off The Boy and I went.

And, the thing is, this is not an especially novel film in its broad points. But boy is it competently made. Beyond competent, it's aesthetically made. It reminds me a bit of Publish or Perish, in that regard. People who know the language of filmmaking and take the care to speak in it.

As an example, it has this modern characteristic of the blacks not being completely black. (This effect is still possible but it's not done any more for a variety of reasons.) That doesn't means it phones in the lighting design. When Nikki needs to be obfuscated, she's obfuscated. At one point, she's standing in a corner and I couldn't even tell if it was her. The face looked wrong. Which, again, is not a new technique, but it's done very effectively here.

One aspect of the storytelling that was extremely effective is that after the protagonist Bear (short for "Baron", played by Michael Johnston) makes the wish, that Nikki (Inde Navarette) would love him more than anyone in the world, things immediately go wrong. It's not the "Oh, it was nice for a while but now it's going wrong" trope, it's "This is immediately and observably freaky". Bear knows he's done something very wrong.

"There are warnings ALL OVER that box!"

In other words, we skip the kind of pandering fantasy step where the audience gets the "fun" part of seeing the main character have the relationship he wants with the hot chick. Well, we do get a little of that, secondarily, in the form of a short romcom-ish montage that occurs after we see the real Nikki being consumed by whatever effect the wish is having on her. We know she's experiencing a personal hell.

It's uncomfortable, when it's not downright horrifying.

Bear and Nikki's besties are Ian (Cooper Tomlinson) and Sarah (Megan Lawless). Ian's the sensible "tell her how you feel" guy. Sarah (despite a septum piercing) is also a sensible, protective character. Bear is a coward. At first, he's a sympathetic coward, as his fear of approaching the girl of his dreams is relatable. But as the enormity of what he's done dawns on him (even if only by accident), his cowardice makes him less and less likable—although still somewhat relatable as he didn't really expect the wish to work and the only offered fix is rather extreme.

There is a loophole, of course, but even that doesn't play out like you'd think.

The writer/director had his playwright dad write the story passage that Nikki reads at this point. And it's a corker!

The acting is great, especially with the four leads, and the peripheral characters do a good job, whether it's as a kind of comic relief or supporting crew. It's not quite the Inde Navarette show, but she has the meatiest role, and she chews it up like a pro: She starts as the sassy, caustic writerly type who unsuccessfully navigates he relationship with Bear, probably out of concern for his feelings or a wariness regarding how broaching the topic of romance might rebound negatively on the group dynamic.

After the wish, vestiges of this character re-emerge, as if the wish has cast her into actual Hell and she can only escape for moments at a time. The rest of the time, she simps, she stares, she demands, she has psychotic breaks, she makes situations uncomfortable and then tries to play it off as humor.

If the Academy Awards weren't just industry-fluffing shills, she would minimally get a nomination for this performance. Think Frederic March for Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Only Navarette is working without SFX makeup. There's an actual old-school light-the-eyeline shot which is great and spooky, especially given how rare those seem to be these days. There may well have been some CGI, but I didn't notice it. Tactics like stretching a mouth too wide or making eyes too big are commonplace, and if it's done here at all, it's suble. (I'm seeing now that there wasn't much CGI except for one scene where, in retrospect, it makes sense.)

But mostly it's just top-notch acting. You're terrified of her, you feel bad for her—she makes Jessica Walter in Play Misty for Me look like a pussycat.

So is it an 8.2? I don't know what the hell that means. I just know if a bunch of twenty-somethings can put this together for $650,000, how hard is it going to be for a modestly financed group in Austin or Miami or any reasonably modern city to do the same? What do we need Hollywood for?

Average Hollywood exec contemplating future irrelevance.

Also seen this week on the 'gique:

A Magnificent Life: Animated bio-pic of French film director Marcel Pagnol.

Lumiere, The Cinema: French documentary about the boys who built the camera, consisting of about 60 of their movies played back to back.

Hokum From the maker of Oddity, a new moody Irish horror.

I Swear: Literal neurological damage does not trump privelege.

The Sheep Detectives: What it says on the tin. Fun romp.

A Blind Bargain: Also what it says on the tin: A 1922 lost Lon Chaney horror reimagined as a 1970 horror starring Crispin Glover.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 08:29 PM

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Nooded, in a sense.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:31 PM (NcvvS)

3 Been watching my favorite war movies this weekend
Battleground last evening
Master and Commander this afternoon

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

4 >>Average Hollywood exec contemplating future irrelevance.

Average Hollywood exec today wouldn't have anyone so delightful on his shoulder.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:34 PM (NcvvS)

5 Movie Sign!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 07:38 PM (l26NL)

6 Adding some links at the bottom. Let's see if it works without nuking everyone.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 07:39 PM (/d4WW)

7 A post from the future. Any special secrets revealed?

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 07:39 PM (/VSxT)

8 Could have been third, but read the content. Rookie move.

Posted by: a.moron at May 23, 2026 07:39 PM (X5Jzz)

9 Bye-bye comments!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:39 PM (NcvvS)

10 Ah, they're back...

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:40 PM (NcvvS)

11 Hey, it worked!

|| 7 A post from the future. Any special secrets revealed?

I cannot explain it. I simply entered the post and hit publish. Sometimes I monkey with the time but I didn't tonight.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 07:40 PM (/d4WW)

12 (grabs popcorn, opens beer)

A rare Saturday night off.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 23, 2026 07:40 PM (sAmhv)

13 I wanted to add the links because it's...look, I saw seven good movies in the past three weeks.

SEVEN, Bob. And they were ALL NEW.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 07:41 PM (/d4WW)

14 Thanks, moviegique!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:41 PM (NcvvS)

15 Oops, duty calls. Night, all!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:43 PM (NcvvS)

16 Really good war movie to watch on Memorial Day that is not well known is Between Heaven and Hell with Robert Wagner.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 07:44 PM (qrzX6)

17 You're welcome, Zadar!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 07:45 PM (/d4WW)

18 The Memorial Day movie offerings from Turner Classics are underwhelming to me. But I'm still watching. The original Midway with Chuck Heston is up next. Meh.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 07:45 PM (l26NL)

19 Been also watching war movies haven't seen in a very long time

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

20 In any war movie, the moment a woman comes on screen the film comes to a screeching halt. Up until such time as she is no longer on screen.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 07:48 PM (l26NL)

21 Thx moviegique. Ms Navarette is a very pretty young lady.
Let's hope she doesn't become like Zeigler or now Milly Alcock , shooting her mouth off and tanking her mocies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 07:49 PM (flmKL)

22 *reads synopsis for Obsession*

That does sound freaky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:50 PM (zZu0s)

23 Blutarski I am not so sure of that

Watching Hornets Nest with Rock Hudson, doubt seen ghis in over 30 years

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:51 PM (Ia/+0)

24 "...and tanking her mocies."

Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at May 23, 2026 07:51 PM (2Ez/1)

25 20 In any war movie, the moment a woman comes on screen the film comes to a screeching halt. Up until such time as she is no longer on screen.

See also: Peter Jackson's "The Two Towers"

21 Thx moviegique. Ms Navarette is a very pretty young lady.

Don't get your hopes up: She wants to work. She's an amazing talent though.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 07:52 PM (/d4WW)

26 If you like war films, there's a fairly recent one worth considering. It's call Greyhound and stars Tom Hanks. Based on the novel The Good Shepherd, it's about a US destroyer captain escorting vital material to the UK. I think it's really good.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 07:53 PM (l26NL)

27 You are right about the shades of Love Potion #9, though. That movie gets more horrifying the more you think about it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:53 PM (zZu0s)

28 Mocies = movies. Hot dog fingers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 07:55 PM (flmKL)

29 Gique, it's like the tiny mammals are coming to the fore after Hollywood dinosaurs got Chicxulubed, and I for one look forward to the next era in moviemaking.

Unlike some here, I mourn the demise of old Hollywood and hope they get the industry back on its feet after some radical realignment.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 07:56 PM (kpS4V)

30 I watched Curry Barkers Milk and Serial movie on YouTube a couple of years ago. It was legit scary and very well done. Im not surprised he did well with Obsession. Good for him.

Posted by: Megthered at May 23, 2026 07:56 PM (4QyfS)

31 See also: Peter Jackson.

Full stop.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 07:57 PM (kpS4V)

32 Watching Full Metal Jacket again

Posted by: Billythesquid at May 23, 2026 07:57 PM (auDTc)

33 Watching Full Metal Jacket again
Posted by: Billythesquid

WHAT is your major malfunction!!??

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 07:58 PM (l26NL)

34 There was a trailer for a Korean action adventure monster movie that came out this week

Hope

youtu.be/Vt7860xZFXk

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 07:58 PM (rbvCR)

35 I do want to see next months new movie Lucky Strikes

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

36 29 Gique, it's like the tiny mammals are coming to the fore after Hollywood dinosaurs got Chicxulubed, and I for one look forward to the next era in moviemaking.
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I think it is, yeah. Even "Hollywood" has been doing better lately, but their heart isn't in it.

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Unlike some here, I mourn the demise of old Hollywood and hope they get the industry back on its feet after some radical realignment.
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They could re-emerge. I'm not suggesting this will happen but "Obsession" (or probably some other unlikely film) could make, IDK, $500M or $1B or something that makes them go, "Oh, yeah, we can use cinema to make money!"

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 07:59 PM (/d4WW)

37 31 See also: Peter Jackson.

Full stop.
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He managed to make King Kong boring. :`-(

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:00 PM (/d4WW)

38 Go Tell The Spartans.

Vietnam, VC tricks and ARVN corruption, Gazebo Sex and set in 1964 when we should have known then to get far away from that place.

Posted by: Zombie Burt Lancaster at May 23, 2026 08:01 PM (35YvA)

39 Vietnam, VC tricks and ARVN corruption, Gazebo Sex and set in 1964 when we should have known then to get far away from that place.
Posted by: Zombie Burt Lancaster

And the one soldier is named Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 08:01 PM (l26NL)

40 Did you like Hokum? I loved Oddity and and want this to be good.

Posted by: Megthered at May 23, 2026 08:02 PM (4QyfS)

41 I'm not leaving for Western PA till Tuesday. Looks like the NASCAR and Indycar races will be rained out. I think I'll watch 'Taking Chance', which is a fantastic Memorial Day movie.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 23, 2026 08:02 PM (sAmhv)

42 He managed to make King Kong boring. :`-(
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:00 PM (/d4WW)

This. This was my bitch. Monsters, machine guns, prehistoric monster, gun battles, desperate chases, and IT WAS BORING.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 08:02 PM (rbvCR)

43 The Frighteners by Jackson is an odd one. It has some genuinely creepy moments. At the same time, it does a lot of stuff for laughs. I do not think the balance is right, but I do really like the movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:02 PM (zZu0s)

44 Jackson made dinosaurs boring. Sheesh.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 08:03 PM (rbvCR)

45 I will forgive Jackson because I salute "They Shall Not Grow Old".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:04 PM (kpS4V)

46 40 Did you like Hokum? I loved Oddity and and want this to be good.
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Full review: https://moviegique.com/2026/05/hokum/

The teeldeer: Yes, liked it a LOT, as did The Boy. We both were comparing it to "Oddity", and I don't think it's quite as good. There was something so compelling about Carolyn Bracken in Oddity.

But it's a great low-gore horror, just like Oddity.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:06 PM (/d4WW)

47 43 The Frighteners by Jackson is an odd one.
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It's kind of a mess, but it's fun and energetic. It has a kind of "Lost Boys" feel.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:07 PM (/d4WW)

48 Hiya!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2026 08:08 PM (X8xt3)

49 It has a kind of "Lost Boys" feel.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:07 PM (/d4WW)

Ok. Ill buy that.

Do NOT go back and rematch Lost Boys. It does not hold up great.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:09 PM (zZu0s)

50 >> You are right about the shades of Love Potion #9, though. That movie gets more horrifying the more you think about it.

Yup.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2026 08:09 PM (X8xt3)

51 >>Do NOT go back and rematch Lost Boys. It does not hold up great.

Heh, 80's nostalgia.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2026 08:11 PM (X8xt3)

52
"Obsession" is a really well-made horror movie.

I particularly like a how they subtly work the idea of a creepy possession into the story instead of a change of love by the girl.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 23, 2026 08:12 PM (iJfKG)

53 The great thing about 80's movies is the packs of feral children getting up to all sorts of unsupervised hijinks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:13 PM (kpS4V)

54 The great thing about 80's movies is the packs of feral children getting up to all sorts of unsupervised hijinks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:13 PM (kpS4V)
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*sigh* I never got to be one of those kids...

Wait a minute. Yes I did. In the 90s.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 08:14 PM (gnNyN)

55 Supergal
Truth
Justice
Whatever

hahahahahhahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 08:15 PM (/+uur)

56 Wait a minute. Yes I did. In the 90s.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 08:14 PM (gnNyN)
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Grunge Goonies!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:16 PM (kpS4V)

57
Hokum isn't as good as "Oddity"

I think it's because the build up is too long and the climax where everything comes together is almost a throw away.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 23, 2026 08:17 PM (iJfKG)

58 Goodies
Explorers? (Sean Astin was in it I think)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

59 I particularly like a how they subtly work the idea of a creepy possession into the story instead of a change of love by the girl.
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One thing I found particularly uncomfortable? The sex scene. Because...well, yeah. Have to see it to get it. (It is not explicit.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:18 PM (/d4WW)

60 FL20
Debbie Demwatercarrier Schultz
Token Negro

Standby for further developments

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 08:18 PM (/+uur)

61 Ok that pic looks like shes going to boil a bunny

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:18 PM (bXbFr)

62 || I think it's because the build up is too long and the climax where everything comes together is almost a throw away.

Huh. I really liked the first act, and I thought the movie started going pretty hard after that.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:20 PM (/d4WW)

63 53 The great thing about 80's movies is the packs of feral children getting up to all sorts of unsupervised hijinks.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:13 PM (kpS4V)

I love Feral 80s Chillrens Unsupervised.

When they get buttfucked to death at the vampires house.
hahahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 08:20 PM (/+uur)

64 They could re-emerge. I'm not suggesting this will happen but "Obsession" (or probably some other unlikely film) could make, IDK, $500M or $1B or something that makes them go, "Oh, yeah, we can use cinema to make money!"
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 07:59 PM (/d4WW)

After the success of the steamed mega hit K-Pop Demon Hunters, they must already know. They're just not interested in doing it. One, because making things is *hard*, and two, because entertainment is no longer the point of American film.

Entertainment is no longer entertainment, it's just another way for the commies to divide and infuriate the populace.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2026 08:20 PM (vE0+H)

65 Ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

66 5 Movie Sign!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 07:38 PM

On that note: I got an email about a month ago stating the Gizmoplex was shutting down. That was the home-base/website of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival. They were trying to disconnect the show from any network (since no less than 3 networks have cancelled them) and continue on a direct-to-consumer basis. It didn't work.

I can't say I'm surprised. Or sad, really. There have been three seasons in the revival, and each one has gotten worse. The past season was especially hard to watch. Terrible hosts, that ruined what should have been some good (well, good-when-riffed) movies. The last season really did deserve to kill the show.

...Sort of! It'll be revived again later this year, with four episodes from the RiffTrax crew. (aka, the creative team of the show's Sci-Fi Channel era) Considering how many RiffTrax movies that I absolutely love, I have high hopes for this version of the show...

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 23, 2026 08:23 PM (3v7ra)

67 Supergal says men cant take her galness.

Alien
Wonder Woman
Jean Grey

hahaaaaa

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 08:24 PM (/+uur)

68 Weren't they using Patton Oswalt?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:24 PM (zZu0s)

69 Just watched The Chronicles of Riddick, for the fourth or fifth time.

It's free on YouTube if anyone is interested.

Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:24 PM (Q+gd/)

70 Considering how many RiffTrax movies that I absolutely love, I have high hopes for this version of the show...
Posted by: Castle Guy

The new SOL looks awesome! I hope we see Brain Guy and Bobo.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 08:25 PM (l26NL)

71 61 Ok that pic looks like shes going to boil a bunny

*Cat.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:26 PM (/d4WW)

72 || The last season really did deserve to kill the show.

Wow, I would've said the last season was the best of the three!

|| The new SOL looks awesome! I hope we see Brain Guy and Bobo.

We will! You can find the videos of Kevin being fitted for a face mask on YT.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (/d4WW)

73 Just watched The Chronicles of Riddick, for the fourth or fifth time.

It's free on YouTube if anyone is interested.
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:24 PM (Q+gd/)
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That's one of my guilty pleasures as well.

It has a very weird vibe to it, almost Warhammer 40Kish...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (gnNyN)

74 A lot of "Ford v. Ferrari" shorts are showing up on my YT feed. Man, l love that film.

Posted by: mrp at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (rj6Yv)

75 Ok that pic looks like shes going to boil a bunny

*Cat.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:26 PM (/d4WW)

Its the eyes. Done perfect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

76 @67 Terminator 1+2 with Linda Hamilton

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 08:28 PM (FpbZP)

77 A lot of "Ford v. Ferrari" shorts are showing up on my YT feed. Man, l love that film.
Posted by: mrp at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (rj6Yv)

I need to see the full film. The bits and pieces I've seen are fantastic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:28 PM (zZu0s)

78 The original Star Wars is on. Still fun, even though Hamill is a putz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 08:29 PM (FpbZP)

79 68 Weren't they using Patton Oswalt?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:24 PM (zZu0s)

Yes. A big strike against it. However, he played the villain's bumbling sidekick; a pathetic bumbling moron with no redeeming qualities. So, he actually fits the part pretty well...

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 23, 2026 08:29 PM (3v7ra)

80 If everyone has such a problem with strong women, why is K-Pop Demon Hunters the biggest steaming hit of all time. I love how the libs can just completely disregard reality and make it into whatever they want it to be.

It turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2026 08:29 PM (vE0+H)

81 Just watched The Chronicles of Riddick, for the fourth or fifth time.

It's free on YouTube if anyone is interested.
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:24 PM (Q+gd/

Riddick was better imo though I liked the two previous Riddick movies also.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 08:29 PM (qrzX6)

82 The original Star Wars is on. Still fun, even though Hamill is a putz
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I drew a picture of Mark Hamill on my dog's forehead. You should see the Luke on her face.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 08:30 PM (l26NL)

83 ---
They could re-emerge. I'm not suggesting this will happen but "Obsession" (or probably some other unlikely film) could make, IDK, $500M or $1B or something that makes them go, "Oh, yeah, we can use cinema to make money!"
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)
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There is so much 'production money', drugs, and sex floating through the seams that traditional profit is inconsequential.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 08:30 PM (sqJYm)

84 A lot of "Ford v. Ferrari" shorts are showing up on my YT feed. Man, l love that film.
Posted by: mrp at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (rj6Yv)

I need to see the full film. The bits and pieces I've seen are fantastic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:28 PM (zZu0s)
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A strong recommend!

I also left a reply to your sunglasses comment at the end of the Hobby Thread.

Posted by: mrp at May 23, 2026 08:32 PM (rj6Yv)

85 Pitch Black was the best imo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:32 PM (zZu0s)

86 Im trying to think who she reminds me of daphne zuniga ione skye but neither went psycho (those are 80s references)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:32 PM (bXbFr)

87 Not that this will surprise anyone but The Boys finale was a big stupid pile of poo.

They literally could've told this story in, oh say a 3 part miniseries.

But, after the 1st season or so TB was about TDS, mocking Christians and pissing off the squares exclusively.

Hard to believe they're making two or three follow-up series.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 23, 2026 08:32 PM (iJfKG)

88 I also left a reply to your sunglasses comment at the end of the Hobby Thread.
Posted by: mrp at May 23, 2026 08:32 PM (rj6Yv)

Yeah, they are great sunglasses. Worth the money- which is saying a lot. Plus very light.

*tries to make this on topic* like the goggles Riddick wears in the Riddick movies!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

89 Cuing up Riddick now, the third in the movies, free on Youtube, I've never seen it.

Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:34 PM (Q+gd/)

90 Original Midway starting now on TCM. That is all.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 08:35 PM (l26NL)

91 Ford vs Ferrari is a good movie
I think I could make up a list of top 10 racing movies

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 08:35 PM (Ia/+0)

92 Hard to believe they're making two or three follow-up series.

Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 23, 2026 08:32 PM (iJfKG)

One set in the 80s and the other literally titles 'The Boys: Mexico'. Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:35 PM (zZu0s)

93 But, after the 1st season or so TB was about TDS, mocking Christians and pissing off the squares exclusively.
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Yeah, I tapped out after Season One.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:36 PM (kpS4V)

94 Where Eagles Dare ist gut.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:36 PM (2GVsD)

95 Yeah when you mess with the supernatural

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:37 PM (bXbFr)

96 Also, Season 1 was about mocking Christians. I liked the Starlight and Hughie stuff, but I balanced them out and thought 'nah' after that season ended and history has shown me to be prescient.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:37 PM (zZu0s)

97 dammit, fooled, it ain't the movie, it's a review masquerading as the movie.

Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:37 PM (Q+gd/)

98 The boys is what happens when yoi think zack snyder is subtle

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:38 PM (bXbFr)

99 Said no one on earth

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:38 PM (bXbFr)

100 I wanted to watch Midway on TCM, they said I needed a subscription to that channel. My cable bill is almost $300 a month as it is, and no TCM? They can suck the fart out of my ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 08:38 PM (snZF9)

101 The Boys: Mexico?

I see an Aztec priest and altar in their future.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:39 PM (2GVsD)

102 There is so much 'production money', drugs, and sex floating through the seams that traditional profit is inconsequential.
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Could be. But there's still money to be made, and someone is going to make it.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:39 PM (/d4WW)

103 72 Wow, I would've said the last season was the best of the three!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (/d4WW)

Really? I couldn't stand the alternate voice of Crow. I will admit that Demon Squad is right up there with The Final Sacrifice as a genuinely-impressive indy-movie. And I enjoy The Christmas Dragon for personal reasons (The adult lead actors were also the leads of the Mythica movies, and the kids put in some genuinely good performances.) But most of the episodes just felt bland. Either unpleasant movies, or boring/off-putting riffs.

By contrast, I would watch season 11's Cry Wilderness, Hollow Mountain, Starcrash, both Wizards of the Lost Kingdoms, and both Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations at the drop of a hat!

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 23, 2026 08:39 PM (3v7ra)

104 The boys is what happens when yoi think zack snyder is subtle
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:38 PM (bXbFr)

You take an author who HATES superheroes. He hates the very idea of superhero ideals.

Combine that with a showrunner who has an ass fixation, a massive inferiority complex and a gigantic case of TDS.

The Boys TV show.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:39 PM (zZu0s)

105 I don't watch much TV. But a few years back I decided I wasn't watching any show that hadn't already ended.

Who needs the grief?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:40 PM (/d4WW)

106 I see an Aztec priest and altar in their future.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:39 PM (2GVsD)

Funny. Its going to be about ICE. You know it will be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

107 Has anyone seen Mango and Goop?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:41 PM (2GVsD)

108 There's a new movie about Eisenhower coming out -- well, not "Eisenhower coming out", although these days who knows? -- dealing with D-Day . Not sure I can see Brendan Fraser as Ike, although I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:41 PM (kpS4V)

109 By contrast, I would watch season 11's Cry Wilderness, Hollow Mountain, Starcrash, both Wizards of the Lost Kingdoms, and both Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations at the drop of a hat!
Posted by: Castle Guy

Ditto! Especially Cry Wilderness and Star Crash. And the last season I will always watch Beyond Atlantis, The Bubble and The Mask.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 08:41 PM (l26NL)

110 Who needs the grief?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:40 PM (/d4WW)

Supposedly there is good stuff out there but Reacher has convinced me that critics are reaching sometimes. *rimshot*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:41 PM (zZu0s)

111 93 But, after the 1st season or so TB was about TDS, mocking Christians and pissing off the squares exclusively.
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Yeah, I tapped out after Season One.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:36 PM (kpS4V)

I got the original comic book as part of some Humble Bundles...And immediately deleted it. Just the concept was off-putting. Never tried watching the series, and I try to purge clips of it from my youtube feed. Though I do listen to a lot of people complain about it/mock it.

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 23, 2026 08:42 PM (3v7ra)

112 Has anyone seen Mango and Goop?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:41 PM (2GVsD)
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I did, Anna. Inoffensive fun. Nothing to get excited about, but also not deserving of all the vitriol.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 08:43 PM (kpS4V)

113 If they are in Mexico, why worry about ICE? It will be Mexican immigration that will be after their Yanqui a$$es.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:43 PM (2GVsD)

114 OT: Another leftist whack job has Gone to Canada, opened fire at secret service checkpoint at the White House

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:43 PM (FaOSD)

115 My new all digital somehow got TCM cut off, yet if could get tv to see its non digital could see it. Tried messkng with settings but wouldn't do it.
TCM was probably channel I watched the modt

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 08:45 PM (Ia/+0)

116 If they are in Mexico, why worry about ICE? It will be Mexican immigration that will be after their Yanqui a$$es.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:43 PM (2GVsD)

No, the noble Mexicans will be yearning to leave their paradise and go to the evil, dark, fascist united states to fight the bad orange man. His minions (ICE) will be killing and aiming and doing all sorts of skullduggery.

I am just guessing here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

117 Kind of like ewok soecial in the eighties im not spending 16 bucks on that

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:46 PM (bXbFr)

118 All Hail Eris

Recovering Star Wars Bobba Feet fan-grrl Snarky J's review

https://youtu.be/UseQhG7TL1Y

Got 30 minutes?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 08:46 PM (2GVsD)

119 There's a new movie about Eisenhower coming out -- well, not "Eisenhower coming out", although these days who knows? -- dealing with D-Day . Not sure I can see Brendan Fraser as Ike, although I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

"Pressure" It's Damian Lewis as Montgomery that I have a problem with.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 08:46 PM (lJ0H4)

120 Update on shooting. Gunman dead. Bystander injured.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

121 I forgot they dubbed Toshiro Mifune's voice in Midway.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 08:47 PM (l26NL)

122 Actually its been dollops of meh

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:48 PM (bXbFr)

123 Gone to Canada?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

124 I like that euphemism.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

125 They have a casting for kay summersby so who knowd where they are going with thid

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:49 PM (bXbFr)

126 "Gone to Canada?"

eh

Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:49 PM (Q+gd/)

127 I need to rewatch the Brendan Frasier Mummy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

128 "Gone to Canada?"

eh
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:49 PM (Q+gd/)

114

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:50 PM (zZu0s)

129 Damian is a real history buff with the ministry source materialat least one ghosted bear grylls* tale

*His granfather ran t force

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:51 PM (bXbFr)

130 Grandfather

The unit that collected nazi weapons research

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:52 PM (bXbFr)

131 Midway is the second time that Henry Fonda played Chester Nimitz. The first was in Otto Preminger's In Harm's Way with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 08:53 PM (l26NL)

132 The Chronicles of Riddick...'s free on YouTube if anyone is interested.
Posted by: davidt at May 23, 2026 08:24 PM (Q+gd/)

So are videos about handlers giving head scritches to tame cheetahs and baby hippos.
I've seen "Riddick", and have made my choices in this stage of my life.

Posted by: everyone loves balloons at May 23, 2026 08:53 PM (gKWVE)

133 Once our cable shuffled its channel offerings and TCM was moved into a ya-gotta-pay-extra tier, we pulled the plug. Prime Video with Britbox/Acorn and The Criterion Channel cover most of what we watch here any more.

On #19 in a re-read of the 24 Donald Westlake's Parker novels and thinking of revisiting the movies. But the prospect of a second viewing of Amazon's disastrous Play Dirty with God help us Mark Wahlberg as Parker gives me pause. Thought Wahlberg was pretty good in The Departed, but he ain't close to Westlake's Parker. He was also miscast as Spenser in the equally disastrous Netflix Spenser: Confidential. YMMV.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 08:53 PM (q3u5l)

134 I dont think je has the gravitas for montgomery either

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 08:53 PM (bXbFr)

135 107 Has anyone seen Mango and Goop?

No?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:56 PM (/d4WW)

136 Huh?

Another weekend, another assassination attempt.

“By any means necessary.”

Well then.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 08:56 PM (A5RD0)

137 Pitch Black was good though. Butcher Bay was better.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 08:57 PM (gKWVE)

138 Huh?

Another weekend, another assassination attempt.

“By any means necessary.”

Well then.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Per the Post, dude thought he was Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 08:59 PM (lJ0H4)

139 By contrast, I would watch season 11's Cry Wilderness, Hollow Mountain, Starcrash, both Wizards of the Lost Kingdoms, and both Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations at the drop of a hat!
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Those are good episodes, no doubt. I really dug "Santo" and "Beyond Atlantis," you mother-crabber!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 08:59 PM (/d4WW)

140 Pitch Black was good though. Butcher Bay was better.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 08:57 PM (gKWVE)

The game? I barely remember it but yeah, I remember it being decent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:00 PM (zZu0s)

141 15 minutes of infamy 15 minutes of fame

And you are still dead.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:01 PM (2GVsD)

142 Per the Post, dude thought he was Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 08:59 PM (lJ0H4)

Kind of an interesting interpretation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:01 PM (zZu0s)

143 136 Huh?

Another weekend, another assassination attempt.

“By any means necessary.”

Well then.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 08:56 PM (A5RD0)

Details?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 09:01 PM (T6aVk)

144 Was he also a SUPERSTAR?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 09:01 PM (A5RD0)

145 Great line in Star Wars by Obi Wan " these blast points are too accurate, they were made by stormtroopers" . Apparently forgot how bad a shot most stormtroopers are

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 09:02 PM (FpbZP)

146 Got 30 minutes?
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LOL nope, I'm watching "The Aviator".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 09:02 PM (kpS4V)

147 And you are still dead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:01 PM (2GVsD)

Which kind of goes against the whole 'Jesus Christ' thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

148 Re the game

A lot of stealth. Take goggles off (see in dark) put them on in light areas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:03 PM (zZu0s)

149 147 -

Don't we have to wait a few days to be sure on that part?

But I know how I'm betting on this one.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 09:04 PM (q3u5l)

150 Watch The Rocketeer instead ^_-;

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:04 PM (2GVsD)

151 Watch The Rocketeer instead ^_-;
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:04 PM (2GVsD)

This. Joe Johnston. Outstanding.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:06 PM (zZu0s)

152 Theres a twis about johns in the novelization of pitch black

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:07 PM (bXbFr)

153 Like ghost warriors

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:08 PM (bXbFr)

154 The rocketeer was really toned down from the comics

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:08 PM (bXbFr)

155 *Pauses*

By golly, what if? In Where Eagles Dare. Broadsword is not only Burton's callsign but also a code within a code to ID who the traitor is to make sure they are on the Ju 52.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:09 PM (2GVsD)

156 Don't we have to wait a few days to be sure on that part?

But I know how I'm betting on this one.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 09:04 PM (q3u5l)

I just don't think Christ would allow an innocent bystander to be hit, sorry. Plus, you'd think he'd just walk into the white house before shooting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:09 PM (zZu0s)

157 The rocketeer was really toned down from the comics
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:08 PM (bXbFr)

How so? never read them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

158 Update on shooting. Gunman dead. Bystander injured.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

These people are nuts. WTF do they think will happen, get off a few shots and go brag to their buddies on social media? Yeah, you showed trump, welcome to your doom.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 09:11 PM (snZF9)

159 Just another wind up toy, maybe? Sometimes I wonder about that.

“What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?”

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 09:12 PM (FaOSD)

160 77 A lot of "Ford v. Ferrari" shorts are showing up on my YT feed. Man, l love that film.
Posted by: mrp at May 23, 2026 08:27 PM (rj6Yv)

I need to see the full film. The bits and pieces I've seen are fantastic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's a great film! I recommend it!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 23, 2026 09:12 PM (sAmhv)

161 Didn't they make a Rowdy Kyle Busch film? I never saw it.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 09:17 PM (D1E+2)

162 Lets say the imagery was more risque

The plots stayed the same

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:17 PM (bXbFr)

163 Was thinking about lining up a few war movies for Monday -- Battleground, To Hell and Back, a couple of episodes of Combat, and maybe The Young Lions.

But given the news any more, maybe Telefon and The Manchurian Candidate (the original) instead.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 09:18 PM (q3u5l)

164 I watched Gosford Park the other night expecting an Agatha Christie-like murder mystery, which it is not although there is a murder. I quite liked it although it's not the most straight forward movie ever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 09:19 PM (ndZc7)

165 This year is garbage ball for the NBA.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 09:20 PM (D1E+2)

166 Nasire Best. Top of Insty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:21 PM (zZu0s)

167 The Young Lions.

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Sgt. Schultz plays an evil Nazi mayor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 09:21 PM (ndZc7)

168 Update on shooting. Gunman dead. Bystander injured.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

These people are nuts. WTF do they think will happen, get off a few shots and go brag to their buddies on social media? Yeah, you showed trump, welcome to your doom.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It's a little inefficient, but I suppose if they keep offing themselves like this at a much accelerated rate, the nation as a whole will improve...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 23, 2026 09:21 PM (ycI94)

169 I can't say I've paid much attention to thugball since the Malice At The Palace.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 09:22 PM (gKWVE)

170 Son and FenSpouse are watching something over a couple of weeks originally released as three films and which is nine hours long- "The Human Condition" by Masakii Koybayashi. They are both enjoying it I think they are on hour seven now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 09:22 PM (lQ+/f)

171 Details?
Posted by: Cow Demon
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They shot him dead.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 09:24 PM (sqJYm)

172 Evidently the guys was known to secret service and had been ordered to stay away from the White House.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:25 PM (zZu0s)

173 > I think they are on hour seven now.

My stepfather watched Shoah three times. Twice in the theater, once at home. 8-0

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 09:25 PM (/d4WW)

174 Mrs. Wrecks had me watch Remarkably Bright Creatures last night. Definitely a chick flick but kind of enjoyable if you're willing to check your brain at the door.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 09:26 PM (ndZc7)

175 Always kinda liked The Young Lions, even though the movie turned the Brando character around six ways from Sunday from the way he was portrayed in Irwin Shaw's novel. Which is a whole lot better than the movie, but what else is new?

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 09:26 PM (q3u5l)

176 Yeah but brandos performance is quite nuanced

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:27 PM (bXbFr)

177 My stepfather watched Shoah three times. Twice in the theater, once at home. 8-0
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)

SPOILER ALERT! The Nazis did it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 09:28 PM (ndZc7)

178 For brando who was often over the top

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:28 PM (bXbFr)

179
My stepfather watched Shoah three times. Twice in the theater, once at home. 8-0
Posted by: moviegique

TCM ran it a while back. I thought I'd catch a piece of it but ended up watching the whole thing.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 09:29 PM (Cqx++)

180 Always kinda liked The Young Lions, even though the movie turned the Brando character around six ways from Sunday from the way he was portrayed in Irwin Shaw's novel. Which is a whole lot better than the movie, but what else is new?
Posted by: Just Some Guy

I liked the novel, too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 09:30 PM (ndZc7)

181 176 -

Thought Brando was just fine in The Young Lions. Weird thing about that flick -- it comes alive mostly in the sequences depicting the Germans (Brando, Maximilian Schell), more so than in the Montgomery Clift & Dean Martin sections. Go figure. YMMV.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 09:31 PM (q3u5l)

182 The very dead no longer pining for the fjords idiot, man watching video and it sounds like a whole mad minute of ammo was aimed at him.

The funny part is watching all the reporters who were near the White House and on the air hit the dirt.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:31 PM (2GVsD)

183 Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 09:25 PM (/d4WW)

Wow! I don't think I could sit in a movie theatre that long, but I admire his commitment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 09:31 PM (n3VHW)

184 The very dead no longer pining for the fjords idiot, man watching video and it sounds like a whole mad minute of ammo was aimed at him.

The funny part is watching all the reporters who were near the White House and on the air hit the dirt.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:31 PM (2GVsD)
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The very definition of playing stupid games to win stupid prizes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 09:33 PM (gnNyN)

185 Never thought much of the alleged pedophile, Brando. His acting was wooden and lackluster.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 09:34 PM (D1E+2)

186 How long before some Dimocr@p will spleef on the air about how 'disproportionate' the response was?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:36 PM (2GVsD)

187 Lot of that going around these days...

@nypost 50m
Gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ opened fire on White House checkpoint, neutralized by Secret Service

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 09:37 PM (diia5)

188 I linked this this morning but it's a war movie releasing in a couple of months that looks like it could be good. My friend says there are too many Pz IIIs for 1944.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 09:37 PM (ndZc7)

189 He waa often over the top perhaps the one where he played the ambassador

Robert shaw should have played kurtz

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:37 PM (bXbFr)

190 The longest movie I ever watched in a movie theatre was "Lawrence of Arabia" not in 1962 ( or whenever it came out. (I'm not that old) but the local theatre does classic movie repeats every so often.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 09:38 PM (n3VHW)

191 SPOILER ALERT! The Nazis did it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy

That's what (((they))) want you to think.

Posted by: Thomas Massie (loser) at May 23, 2026 09:38 PM (gKWVE)

192 “Disproportionate”? I don’t really care, Margaret

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 09:38 PM (FaOSD)

193 But he waa dead by the time it waa released

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:38 PM (bXbFr)

194 His last film was navarrone

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:39 PM (bXbFr)

195 My dad took me to Robinson Crusoe when I was a wee tyke. It seemed interminable

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 09:39 PM (FaOSD)

196 "The Aviator" is as I recalled, well-mounted but lacking something.

Ha! Somebody called Errol Flynn a limey bastard and he retorted "I'm a Tasmanian bastard, you ignorant prick!" and fisticuffs ensue.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 09:40 PM (kpS4V)

197 How long before some Dimocr@p will spleef on the air about how 'disproportionate' the response was?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:36 PM (2GVsD)

They will be on that if and when it is ruled the innocent bystander was shot by SS.

'We have to reduce the SS!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s)

198 And David Lean was a great director.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 09:40 PM (n3VHW)

199 That's what (((they))) want you to think.
Posted by: Thomas Massie (loser) at May 23, 2026 09:38 PM (gKWVE)

He's hugging the Jews?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s)

200 157 The rocketeer was really toned down from the comics
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:08 PM (bXbFr)

How so? never read them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:10 PM (zZu0s)

The girlfriend, Bettie, was a total Bettie Page homage, and was frequently drawn in 1940's pin-up poses...

Shockingly, the original creator (Dave Stevens) only did two stories. Barely over 100 pages of Rocketeer comics. It really deserved more. Other creators have grabbed the license and done additional stories...But I don't really trust modern creators enough to seek out those stories...

Posted by: Castle Guy at May 23, 2026 09:41 PM (3v7ra)

201 I always heard "Berlin Alexanderplatz" was the true test of lumbar and bladder fortitude.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 09:42 PM (kpS4V)

202 They used the first half of charles highams book the second half indulged in every rumor about hughes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:42 PM (bXbFr)

203 I'm not Jesus Christ.
Having made that disclaimer, here's youtu.be/irOJTtEi6jU
This is a series of movies which ensured their directors wouldn't be allowed to swing a camera in that town again.
Ultraviolet and (more so) Jonah Hex look like they deserved better. The producers demanded that these R rated movies (I mean, come on, Jonah Hex couldn't be anything less) be stripped of ~~crucial~~critical scenes to get into cinemas with the PG-13 and under 90 minutes.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

204 I'm shallow, I'm just enjoying the spectacle.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 09:43 PM (kpS4V)

205 185 Never thought much of the alleged pedophile, Brando. His acting was wooden and lackluster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 09:34 PM (D1E+2)

He got fat and lazy. Before that, he coulda been a contendah!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 09:43 PM (U0opd)

206 Hm, maybe it was Swiss Family Robinson. Clocks in at 126 minutes. That’s a stretch for a 4 year old prolly

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 09:44 PM (3LcAa)

207 The last PanzerKampfWagen III was produced in 1943, ending an 18,000 vehicle production run. But the StuG III was kept in production.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:44 PM (2GVsD)

208 Eris is going to watch Buckaroo Banzai next.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:45 PM (2GVsD)

209 Me, eight hours and 59 minutes into "Shoah"
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Anon Wrecks: SPOILER ALERT! The Nazis did it.
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Dammit, Anon.

I have not seen "Shoah". I did sit through "The Last of the Unjust" (3:40) and it was riveting.

I can sit through "Lawrence" any day of the week.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 09:47 PM (/d4WW)

210 Aetius

You are assuming Doll Eyes Alex has two brain cells and a smidge of common sense.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:47 PM (2GVsD)

211 Longest one I ever sat through in the theater was Ben Hur (yeah, I'm well past 29). Don't think I've sat through anything in a theater that hit the 3-hr mark since The Sand Pebbles if memory serves, and I don't plan to.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 09:48 PM (q3u5l)

212 Its an odd one

The so called sequel was even weirder

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 23, 2026 09:48 PM (bXbFr)

213 The lastest shooter was 21 and a lunatic, probably schizophrenic. Seems he was known to the Secret Service, spent time in a loony bin, and for extra credit thought he was Christ. This psycho fits the profile perfectly. How in the WTF was he out on the street. With a gun which makes the case the only gun laws that work with these shooters is to lock them up.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 23, 2026 09:48 PM (gX9CS)

214 Lock the psychotics up. Not the guns. Lock the crooks up. Not the toothpaste.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 09:49 PM (3LcAa)

215 Am I the only one who hears "shooter" and thinks "Oh, the intelligence agencies let another one loose"?

Queen of Diamonds, anyone?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 09:49 PM (/d4WW)

216
I sat through "Platoon" on mushrooms. Intense.
My friend sat through half of "Schindler's List" on LSD. It became too overwhelming.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 09:49 PM (W5mpo)

217 Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 23, 2026 09:47 PM (/d4WW)

I wasn't really aware of the time until it "Lawrence" was over so it kept my attention and I really enjoyed it. Peter O'Toole was such a great actor

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 09:50 PM (n3VHW)

218 I saw "Prometheus" on ayahuasca.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 09:51 PM (kpS4V)

219 Gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ opened fire on White House checkpoint, neutralized by Secret Service
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Somehow I don't think we'll be hearing from this guy in 3 days.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 09:51 PM (W5mpo)

220 I thought THX1138 was bad.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 09:51 PM (3LcAa)

221 I turn into a pumpkin if I stay up past ONT hour
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 09:51 PM (Ia/+0)

222 Gnight Skiperoo!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 09:52 PM (kpS4V)

223 And outta here for the evening.

Thanks for the thread, moviegique.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 23, 2026 09:53 PM (q3u5l)

224 "Am I the only one who hears "shooter" and thinks "Oh, the intelligence agencies let another one loose"?"

I think relief pitcher Rod Beck.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 09:53 PM (W5mpo)

225 I think I saw Gettysburg in the Theater.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:56 PM (zZu0s)

226 I saw Cutthroat Island in the theater.

Longest movie of my life.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:57 PM (zZu0s)

227 225 I think I saw Gettysburg in the Theater.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 09:56 PM (zZu0s)

How was it?

Posted by: Mary Lincoln at May 23, 2026 09:58 PM (gKWVE)

228 Watched the Directors Cut of both The Last Emperor and Das Boot , but at home . They're both about four hours

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 09:58 PM (FpbZP)

229 I think relief pitcher Rod Beck.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 09:53 PM (W5mpo)

51 saves for the Cubs in 1998.

Posted by: Son of Sam the Butcher at May 23, 2026 09:58 PM (VJBq9)

230 I saw the Directors Cut of "The Watchmen" at home. Long but worth it.
Some epic movies deserve the epic treatment. Even if Snyder is involved

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 09:59 PM (gKWVE)

231 I forgot this movie is three hours long. Think I'll continue tomorrow.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 09:59 PM (kpS4V)

232
These people are nuts. WTF do they think will happen, get off a few shots and go brag to their buddies on social media? Yeah, you showed trump, welcome to your doom.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 09:11 PM (snZF9)

Death cult member is suicidal, shock film at 11.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2026 10:00 PM (vE0+H)

233 X is blowing up

Posted by: Don Black at May 23, 2026 10:00 PM (ZxPkt)

234 Anna, I have a collectable for you to consider bidding on!!

https://tinyurl.com/axm93z5d

Lockheed "Skunk Works" Preliminary Design Studies: Model Q-12 and Model RS-12 [of the SR-71]

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 10:01 PM (rbvCR)

235 How long before some Dimocr@p will spleef on the air about how 'disproportionate' the response was?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 09:36 PM (2GVsD)

I honestly hope they leave that part kind of a secret. Like with the chick who expected rubber bullets.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2026 10:02 PM (vE0+H)

236 Movie's over. ONT is NOOD.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

237 As an example, it has this modern characteristic of the blacks not being completely black.

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Talcum X at May 23, 2026 10:03 PM (qivay)

238 My dad was a huge movie fan. The last movie he saw in the theater was one of his least favorite things ever. The Fisher King. Terry Gilliam I think. I have never known him to hate a movie so much and it was his last. I don't like God's sense of humor sometimes.

Posted by: ... at May 23, 2026 10:03 PM (vE0+H)

239 'Gique drops this gem, and no one socks Joe Biden???

As an example, it has this modern characteristic of the blacks not being completely black.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 10:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

240 If Hollywood didn't learn from the success of "Godzilla Minus One", they'll never figure it out.

The only way the current Hollywood model makes any sense if one assumes that woke funds like B****R*** are financing these movies to push their agendas. For many, the loss of a few tens of millions of dollars is a rounding error, and if by doing it they set the rules for public discourse in the country, they'll think it's worth it.

Of course, it may be that the current Hollywood model makes no sense at all - it just happened.

Posted by: Nemo at May 23, 2026 10:36 PM (4RPgu)

241 27 You are right about the shades of Love Potion #9, though. That movie gets more horrifying the more you think about it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:53 PM (zZu0s)

Probably no one will ever see this comment, but yes, it was disturbing on many levels. I thought the subtextual implications were an intentional counter-point to the light, breezy romcom atmo, so I was actually offended when they chickened out at the end. By the internal logic of the story, the church scene with the antagonist ought to have ended like Pakis on a tween, but they couldn't accept that they were writing a horror story.

It is probably only a matter of time until someone remakes it with AI; if not 'splatterpunk' per se, then at least 'psychological horror', leaning into the logical implications and making the subtext into text.

Posted by: SciVo at May 24, 2026 04:34 AM (Sy6m/)

242 Wow, SciVo, I guess I should watch that.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at May 24, 2026 01:50 PM (/d4WW)

Hobby Thread - May 23, 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) decided on a color theme for this Hobby Thread.

A color theme? What does that mean? Colors are a "hobby"? The ways of the Wheel are strange and mysterious but there is a method to the madness.

[Top Photo: Benjamin Moore Paint Color Fan Deck. Yours for only $30]

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. We have a theme, but no need to stick with the theme. Even if the theme does not speak to you, find something else or offer something else relating to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring a church). Pants are optional. 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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Why are we talking colors? Could it be that so many hobbies involve colors? Paintings, photography, crafts, stained glass, furniture, knitting, cross stitch, and more. "What color should this be?" "What color goes with this?"

Or maybe TRex did a color theme for the Wednesday ONT and had overflow content... We'll never know. Hey! Look, a squirrel! Anyway...

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This photo is from Hobby Lobby, but I will bet that at least a few among the Horde have something similar in their personal stash of hobbying materials:

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Remember these?

When TRex was a youngster, kids with 64 crayon boxes were living large.

Apparently 120 crayons is the big box these days...

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How crayons are made:

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Matchy, matchy:

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Matching paint:

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Making your own milk paint? Guess so.

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Untitled Blue Monochrome, 1956
Yves Klein

I don't get it.

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Anyone wise in the ways of dying fabric? Me neither.

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Your brain "interprets" color? Apparently so.

Why the world couldn't agree on the color of "the dress"

I already don't trust my own brain for other reasons (such as "good" judgement). This doesn't help.

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Colorful origami stars:

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The official Barbie Pink color is recognized as Pantone 219 C. The most commonly cited Hex code is #E0218A. (HEX codes are a standard digital color format based on the RGB color model.)

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I can't find official numbers, but the M&Ms color mix for plain chocolate candy is believed to contain:
24% Blue
20% Green
16% Orange
14% Yellow
13% Red
13% Brown

Why Were Red M&M's Discontinued for a Decade?

In 1976, Mars, the candy company that makes M&M's, eliminated the red version of the candies from their mix. This decision came as a result of public controversy surrounding a synthetic dye called FD&C Red No. 2, also known as amaranth. The dye was used in red food coloring and was linked to cancer in a 1971 Russian study.
The Food and Drug Administration's subsequent tests produced inconclusive results in humans, but found that it caused malignant tumors in female rats . The FDA concluded that the food colorant could not be presumed to be safe for human consumption and banned it in 1976.
"The red food coloring in question was not actually used in M&M's chocolate candies," according to mms.com. "However, to avoid consumer confusion, the red candies were pulled from the color mix."
Afraid that worried shoppers would steer clear of M&M's altogether if the bags contained anything red, Mars removed the red candies from production and replaced them with orange M&M's.
Mars reintroduced red M&M's, but kept orange in the bag, in 1987, once the panic surrounding anything red had passed.

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Ansel Adams is well known for his black and white photography of Yosemite. Don't think I've ever seen a photo of Ansel Adams though. Here is such a photo (naturally, in black and white).

Photo credit: wikipedia

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an church 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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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute your own. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM

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1 Welcome hobbyists

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

2 White!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

3 Oops. Wrong answer.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 These days anyway.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

5 I did find air dry clay, which I need to carve the medallion I want to make, then when dry use to pour molten metal in.
The clay will be easy to carve and repair and do again if needed.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (Ia/+0)

6 Afternoon, hobby people,

This is a rather apt topic. Earlier today I went to the Sherwin-Williams site and was playing with their "Paint a Photo" feature. You pick various colors for a palette, then click on an area in the photo -- living room, kitchen, bedroom, exterior, etc. -- to see what it would look like on a room or house similar to yours. Or, they say, you can upload a photo of your own. I might do that and see if the software will let me change the colors in the areas I want.

I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

7 I did a painting called Complementary which obviously was about complementary colors. You can see the painting in my nic.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:35 PM (qrzX6)

8 Did you know that Roy G Biv is a friend of Jason D?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM (1Ff7Z)

9 Don't think I've ever seen a photo of Ansel Adams though.

I'm sure you have. He was the premiere photographer of the Western States and National Parks.

You've seen this undoubtedly.
Half Dome, Yosemite
https://tinyurl.com/mn38ub66

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM (diia5)

10 Color is very important if you do original artwork. Gotta get the balance right or everything looks smushed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 23, 2026 05:37 PM (CHHv1)

11 I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

Any house in particular, yet?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:38 PM (1Ff7Z)

12 Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM (di

I think he meant the man himself.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:38 PM (qrzX6)

13 If this medallion works, painting a buff color strap white will be the last thing I need.
It's for a black powder cartridge pouch, Europeans mostly used white belts, a reenactment Virginia Revolutionary soldier I saw had a buff belt, guessing that's what it was made for.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

14 9 Don't think I've ever seen a photo of Ansel Adams though.

I'm sure you have. He was the premiere photographer of the Western States and National Parks.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:36 PM
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Seen his photos, yes. Seen him? Less common.

Posted by: TRex - photo editor dino at May 23, 2026 05:39 PM (IQ6Gq)

15 Are we allowed to call them colored samples?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

16 Polynikes it didn't work, at least for me

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (Ia/+0)

17 colors: women vs men

https://tinyurl.com/2vkwawut

Posted by: yara at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (WUJRe)

18 It's for a black powder cartridge pouch, Europeans mostly used white belts, a reenactment Virginia Revolutionary soldier I saw had a buff belt, guessing that's what it was made for.
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:39 PM (Ia/+0)

Maybe it was easier to make something buff instead of white?

Was buff considered to be something like skin tone? I remember as a kid I saw a painting of G. Washington and his family, and I thought he wasn't wearing any pants! Then I noticed the pants were buff colored.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (1Ff7Z)

19 Roy G Biv is a person of color.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (Cqx++)

20 Polynikes it didn't work, at least for me
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (Ia/+0)

Thanks for letting me know. I dont know how to fix it .

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (qrzX6)

21 Posted by: yara at May 23, 2026 05:41 PM (WUJRe)

Or, designers vs. regular people.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (1Ff7Z)

22 Long ago, haven't seen it it years, had a photo book of Ansel

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

23 Per our discussion last night about west Texas, i went looking for an image of a thunderstorm several miles away in the desert. My initial results: a shit ton of AI fake ass shit.

I really wish I had had a good camera back when I was a kid. They are really amazing to see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

24 Seen his photos, yes. Seen him? Less common.
Posted by: TRex - photo editor dino

meh. All bald, old white guys look alike.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 23, 2026 05:44 PM (diia5)

25 One college class I took discussed the psychology of color. Some people think it's real, others think it's bunk.

Maybe in nature, but I don't know if a color on a wall gives the same feeling as leaves on a tree.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

26 This is unrelated to color, but I've never seen a photo of Ansel Adams that I can recall , but I am glad to see one here . He was a nice looking man

And I love the colored threads.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 05:46 PM (n3VHW)

27 Hiking through the Olympic National Rain Forest will offer more shades of green than you ever thought possible.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (A5RD0)

28 I used to enjoy painting my plastic model assembly kits. Especially the custom cars, with spray paint. AMT had a "lacquer" spray; Pactra had an enormous range of colors, including some metalflake and candy colors; Testors didn't have as much range. I enjoyed considering the car, stock or custom, and deciding what kind of colors for body and interior suited it. A dark blue '65 T-Bird with a cream-colored interior, for instance; a white '64 Lincoln Continental convertible with a dark blue interior.

Once I built AMT's 1/25 scale Mercedes 300SL, the famous Gullwing, painting it a kind of metallic red (an AMT color, I think) with a black interior.

Later I got into sailing ships and modern military ships like subs. The last kits I built were Tamiya 1/35 scale German tanks, and without an airbrush I had a time creating camo pattern on the King Tiger tank.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)

29 Thanks for letting me know. I dont know how to fix it .
Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:43 PM (qrzX6)

Are you talking about the one with the birds, purple heart, and the road? Comes up for me on Brave.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

30 Ok, another thing about color: nurse and I were discussing Maui Jim sunglasses. Now, these are polarized lenses. One thing I have noticed is that colors seem much more vivid when wearing them (green of leaves for example.) I wonder how much of that is a function of cutting glare down to virtually nothing (less washed out) and how much is the polarization itself. Maybe THAT IS the polarization itself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (zZu0s)

31 Colors! I love colors since I was a very little girl, and am very fussy about them. I used them in my crafts, of course, but also in painting rooms in the current house to sell next year - and it needs to be just so!
Of course, then there will be the new house....never ending fun!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 05:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

32 It's no Rothko

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:48 PM (Cqx++)

33 Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

Yes

Hit or miss I guess

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:48 PM (qrzX6)

34 Ansel Adams has a series of photos from the WW Eleven Japanese Internment Camps (tm). Very interesting and not what one would expect. Shorpy dot com had a number of them. Not sure if you can get the coffee table book though.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:49 PM (/lPRQ)

35

An ardent conservationist since adolescence, from 1934 to 1971 Adams served as a director of the Sierra Club. (Later, in the 1980s, he explicitly and forcefully attacked the environmental policies of the very popular President Ronald Reagan and his secretary of the interior, James Watt.)

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:50 PM (Cqx++)

36 I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026
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Any house in particular, yet?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026

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Yes! A nice little 3BR-1 bath w/ garage in Terre Haute. I've been pre-approved for the loan. The inside has been done, and well, but I want to repaint the tan walls of living/dining room and main bedroom with a light blue. The exterior, the vinyl siding, can wait -- it's a kind of light gray now -- but some white trim touch up and that red door would be things I'd do early on.

It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM (wzUl9)

37 4 Ansel Adams has a series of photos from the WW Eleven Japanese Internment Camps (tm). Very interesting and not what one would expect. Shorpy dot com had a number of them. Not sure if you can get the coffee table book though.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:49 PM (/lPRQ)

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
collection/manz/

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM (zZu0s)

38 Man, I still get envy looking at those 64 crayon boxes. They had a built in crayon sharpener! I assume all the kids in my preschool that had them drive pretentious cars now and don’t signal.

Posted by: HappyFun at May 23, 2026 05:52 PM (CoQfd)

39 25 One college class I took discussed the psychology of color. Some people think it's real, others think it's bunk.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:44 PM
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There is some pretty interesting stuff on the interwebs on this. Didn't include much in the content, but fascinating subject.

Posted by: TRex - rods and cones dino at May 23, 2026 05:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

40 For those few hundred color's there are 10,000 names for them

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0)

41 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM (wzUl9)

Sounds good. Now all you have to do is....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (1Ff7Z)

42 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:51 PM
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Outstanding!

Posted by: TRex - handyman dino at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (IQ6Gq)

43 Do you see a red door and want to paint it black?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (Cqx++)

44 Ok, another thing about color: nurse and I were discussing Maui Jim sunglasses. Now, these are polarized lenses. One thing I have noticed is that colors seem much more vivid when wearing them (green of leaves for example.) I wonder how much of that is a function of cutting glare down to virtually nothing (less washed out) and how much is the polarization itself. Maybe THAT IS the polarization itself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I have a pair of prescription sunglasses that I got all the option/upgrades on. Colors seems enhanced. Directly overhead on clear summer days the sky looks almost black / really deep navy blue.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:54 PM (/lPRQ)

45 Man, I still get envy looking at those 64 crayon boxes. They had a built in crayon sharpener! I assume all the kids in my preschool that had them drive pretentious cars now and don’t signal.
Posted by: HappyFun
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Oh, I wanted one of them badly...but no luck. Imagine all those crayons and the works of art they could have contributed to!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 05:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

46 As for car colors, I refuse to have a car with a dark interior. Yeah, I know the general wisdom, "Black doesn't show dirt." Maybe if you're a coal miner. Gray dirt shows up on black upholstery, all right. A cream interior looks larger inside and is cooler on a hot day. Plus it usually creates a strong contrast with the exterior. The Euro car makers still understand this and offer a couple of light shades; American car companies offer only tan, gray, and black.

I would have been willing to make an exception for a 1968 Mercedes 280SL I sat in at a dealer in Denver. The exterior was a kind of a dark silver, and the interior was -- chocolate brown! Great combo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:55 PM (wzUl9)

47 There is some pretty interesting stuff on the interwebs on this. Didn't include much in the content, but fascinating subject.
Posted by: TRex - rods and cones dino at May 23, 2026 05:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

I can see it both ways, Rex, but the feeling you get sitting on a camp chair overlooking a lake with a bright blue sky above and mountains in the distance isn't the same as looking a blue living room wall.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:56 PM (1Ff7Z)

48 There is a very good book on color called The Secret Language of Color. It covers the science and nature of colors.

Posted by: polynikes at May 23, 2026 05:57 PM (qrzX6)

49 Well, this is an unexpected topic but brilliant. Just starting to think about the way some of my hobbies use color:
- art especially, for me, pastels and colored pencils, how they look on various surfaces and how they blend.
- fly tying where the use of color, sometimes rather subtle, is at least as important as action.
- tone of the finish when dealing with wood - red or brown based can make a huge difference in bringing out the grain.
- photography where the arrangement and intensity of color makes a huge difference in effect - also how different films handle certain colors.

This is just off the top of my head.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 05:58 PM (yTvNw)

50 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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How exciting, congrats! If you are already picturing room colors, it must be the right one.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 05:58 PM (IQ6Gq)

51 47 the feeling you get sitting on a camp chair overlooking a lake with a bright blue sky above and mountains in the distance isn't the same as looking a blue living room wall.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 05:56 PM
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Agreed.

The part I find interesting is how much context your brain uses to conjure what you "see." It tries to help fill in gaps and make educated guesses.

Posted by: TRex - seeing eye dino at May 23, 2026 05:59 PM (IQ6Gq)

52
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/
collection/manz/

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Just skimmed it.
Even got one of the job board.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:59 PM (/lPRQ)

53 It needs a front porch gutter replacement and has a couple of cracked windows, but it looks livable right from the start.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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How exciting, congrats! If you are already picturing room colors, it must be the right one.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026

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It's not perfect. I'd love to have the bathroom open into the main bedroom, for instance. And the garage, while it's a double, is out back; crossing from it to the back door with groceries in the rain won't be pleasant. Maybe I can put a covered walkway in. But the interior is roomy, there is a small basement, closets in the bedrooms upstairs, and even one of those 1960s-style windows in the kitchen that opens into the dining room -- like in Rob and Laura Petrie's house!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:01 PM (wzUl9)

54 Hey! Look, a squirrel! Anyway...
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Yes, I'm here...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:02 PM (gnNyN)

55 In theatre classes I learned that colors create emotional responses in the audience. Generally, greens and blues are "cool" colors, because we equate them with grass and water. Browns are sort of neutral. Reds, yellows, and oranges make us think of hot sunlight or fire. This is pretty obvious stuff, but Miss Linda insists there are "warm" greens and blues, and "cool" reds and yellows. I suppose that is a kind of subtle distinction I haven't learned about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

56 I have a true story on colors and names.
See if can tell it short.
Millwork maker got order for a car dealer customer service desk s. The name was only a woman's name, not blue or in this case purple. They made and I picked up all this millwork and delivered and unloaded it. As car dealer employees slowly came in many laughs, joking wrong color. Finally a more supervision came in and not joking it was wrong color.
All had to be taken and remade as Millwork guy ordered a color with no reliability it was what he ordered.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 06:04 PM (Ia/+0)

57 Hey! Look, a squirrel! Anyway...
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Yes, I'm here...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Excellent, now the party can start.....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:04 PM (IQ6Gq)

58 A long time ago in a city far away I spent a summer working at Meijer in Kalamazoo, MI.

Part of my job was mixing color for paint, which was interesting.

We had to consult a book for the recipe for each color and then we'd mix it according to "yanks" from the key dye dispensers (CMYK, I think). The base color was white and the more "yanks" of a certain tint were added, the deeper the color would be would be for that tint.

It was not an exact system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:07 PM (gnNyN)

59 So glad you included Ansel Adams in the post. The blacks, whites, and HUGE scale of grays between them are as complex to deal with as all the other colors. This applies to photography but also pen and ink and graphite drawing.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:07 PM (yTvNw)

60 Speaking of colors, back in the Eighties there was a "Four Seasons" color fad in women's clothing and makeup. It applied to men as well, I understood. Winters, Springs, Summers, Autumns. I dropped Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 at the department store one Saturday to have her colors done -- a fair redhead with blue eyes; I suppose she was a Summer or Spring? When I walked in to pick her up, the stylist looked at me and said, "This must be The Autumn."

Fortunately I like autumn colors like rust and brown and green, and did even before I heard of that scheme.

Miss Linda is a classic Winter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

61 Just skimmed it.
Even got one of the job board.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 05:59 PM (/lPRQ)

The guy doing the mural is pretty cool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:09 PM (zZu0s)

62 I just put the finishing touches on 3 28mm figures. A Urak-Hai orc, a Female Cleric, and a goblin from the Slap tribe.

The Slap tribe is named after the blogs old friend, Slapweasel. These goblins specialize in pulling some of the best practical jokes ever invented.

Miss ya Slapweasel!!

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 23, 2026 06:10 PM (zBgIx)

63 Miss Linda is a classic Winter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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I, too, am a Winter

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:11 PM (IQ6Gq)

64 58 A long time ago in a city far away I spent a summer working at Meijer in Kalamazoo, MI.

Part of my job was mixing color for paint, which was interesting.

It was not an exact system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:07 PM
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Interesting summer job. Did you sell paint at a discount that customers didn't want or didn't quite turn out right?

Posted by: TRex - discount dino at May 23, 2026 06:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

65 Color related. When I had cataract surgery a couple of years ago I found that it didn't just restore acuity. It restored being able to fully see colors. The difference between pre and post surgery was staggering. Colors I hadn't seen properly in decades.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:13 PM (yTvNw)

66 I've been watching a guy on YT who uses violet and blue as filters on his models and it's amazing the depth those colors create.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at May 23, 2026 06:13 PM (h/O4U)

67 Interesting summer job. Did you sell paint at a discount that customers didn't want or didn't quite turn out right?
Posted by: TRex - discount dino at May 23, 2026 06:12 PM (IQ6Gq)
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I don't recall. It was decades ago...

It's pretty difficult to get paint to be an *exact* match because it changes color when it dries. The "yank" system seemed to work pretty well for most folks.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:14 PM (gnNyN)

68 Pretty sure I've never seen any of the "white" honeys. I wonder if it's determined by the specific species of bee or by what they forage on.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 06:16 PM (vTZFs)

69 Went through the military medical testing procedures as described in Alice's Restaurant those many years ago, and part of it was color blindness testing. IIRC, there were 24 circles of color with a number in it, which I failed to see in 22 out of the 24 circles.
Obviously, today's posting is not about one of my strengths. I asked the guy testing me whether that got me out of the draft. He said no, it got me into an open helicopter door as a spotter, since camouflage would bee less effective on me.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 06:17 PM (/VSxT)

70 Apparently color-blindness is far more common in men than women.

Something like 1 in 8 men suffer from a form of color-blindness.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:18 PM (gnNyN)

71 Thanks for another mighty colorful Hobby Thread, T Rex!

My color fan was only $15 at Sherwin Williams. Too many colors to contemplate...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 23, 2026 06:19 PM (D/6p1)

72 Paint companies used to give away those fan decks for free if you did enough business with them, I’ve still got a couple around. Mainly I went with Sherwin Williams.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 06:20 PM (U0opd)

73 The interior color of one of my cars is called "Stone". I call it gray. Mrs fd called it something else but I don't remember what it was. Anyway, why not just call it gray?

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

74 My picnic table outside and my computer room are painted a color called 'Cheerful' from Sherwin Williams.

It's a very nice bright yellow.

Didn't work today but it is beautiful.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (Sco7b)

75 LOL! I'll bet I know what sparked this topic, TRex!
Color can make or break a painting, that's for sure. Knowing how to mix colors and not dilute them (presuming you want vivid, saturated color) is a teachable skill. And color plays a major part in the composition of any art piece. My current painting instruction/mentor is a wizard when it comes to handling color and since studying with him, my abilities jumped 200%. I'm now doing gallery-ready level work, not that I want to show in a gallery.

Got a favorite color? Mine is green, although green is actually one of the most difficult colors to wrangle in a painting. My least favorite color is blue (gasp).

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (NtoJk)

76 polynikes,
Question about 'Complementary'. Is there a subtle darkening of the background as you look from left to right? It's subtle and might have just been my monitor.

Interesting concept. The realism of the Purple Heart medal and the blue eye stood out for me.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (yTvNw)

77 Color schemes?

Havta post this classic from Frasier:

https://youtu.be/gZAUXVw_TW4

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM (2Ez/1)

78 "Something like 1 in 8 men suffer from a form of color-blindness.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

A form? Like when I say a wall is white and I am informed that it is "Tibetan Snow"?

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:24 PM (vFG9F)

79 I used to have a bunch of color decks, too ....must have discarded them when we moved....had no idea they are charging now. I know that I've almost recreated certain color shades just from visiting my Benjamin Moore store and taking their samples

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

80
Pillow talk conversation.

Her: Why do you refer to my kids as crayons?

Him: Different colors from the same box.
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.
.
*click*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:26 PM (2Ez/1)

81 A form? Like when I say a wall is white and I am informed that it is "Tibetan Snow"?
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:24 PM (vFG9F)
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There are various types, depending on which rods/cones are functioning in the eyeball.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:28 PM (gnNyN)

82 Me: That there color is yellow

Her: No, it's lemon custard.

Me: Lemon custard IS yellow.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:29 PM (vFG9F)

83 In the South, the ceiling of the front porch has to be blue.

https://tinyurl.com/y2m8h5ep

It's science.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:30 PM (2Ez/1)

84 One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

85 Anyway, why not just call it gray?
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

Car companies are like that. Ebony instead of black. Light slate instead of Grey. Light dune instead of light brown. Ivory instead of white. Thats one company. Another does macchiato for their Light brown.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

86 Pantone is the standard. Colors coded/numbered for clarity.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 06:33 PM (D1E+2)

87 https://tinyurl.com/y2m8h5ep

It's science.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:30 PM (2Ez/1)

Then, they proceed to tell you twelve colors of "blue."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:34 PM (1Ff7Z)

88 Our porch ceiling is white. I never got the memo. The wall is blue though.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

89 If we stick to just the color of a "Color Revolution", and not the politics of it, will that fit? There is more controversy over the color of the 2020 U.S. coup, than over whether there was one.

I maintain that it was a Black Revolution, for two main reasons:

* Most telling: Black was the color that some people changed their social media avatars to a solid block of, and that is a standard characteristic behavior in Color Revolutions.

* Also relevant: Black was one of (IIRC) only two colors used in official organization names, and the other didn't really matter. All the national and local Black Lives Matter groups were very active on the field; Code Pink was (at best) cheering from the stands.

* Not relevant, but worthy of mention to dismiss: Black is also in the name of Black Bloc, but that is actually just a standard tactic in transnational revcom training, in Europe and around the world. They dress in all black and move in a block, so that no one specific thug can be definitively attached to any one specific boot to the head. Of note, it's only useful for destabilizing countries with strong civil rights laws; others would just punish them all together.

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 06:36 PM (Sy6m/)

90 Off hobby topic.
For those who include music, especially singing, as a hobby there is a YT channel called Jonasquin. He takes popular songs like Sweet Caroline, Stayin' Alive, and Bridge Over Troubled Water and recreates them as madrigal or Renaissance styles, mostly acapella. He really catches the harmonies and cadences. One episode details the formula (more like guidelines) for making the styles. Haven't played with music theory in over 50 years but some of it came back while listening.

I love madrigals even though they rarely include a bass vocal line. A horrible detraction from an otherwise gorgeous music. Very sad for someone whose top range barely goes above middle C. (SIGH!)

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:41 PM (yTvNw)

91 An article on how to prepare your house to sell it said, if there is anything purple in the house, paint over it before you put the house up for sale. So color must matter.

Posted by: Wenda at May 23, 2026 06:44 PM (pBmgI)

92 I'll just leave this here..

https://youtu.be/uu1tODovlBQ

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 06:44 PM (nbLIj)

93 Shots fired outside white house. Supposedly SS killed two fools.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:45 PM (zZu0s)

94 Top of the page at Insty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

95 Sorry for the OT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

96 One of the best examples making fun of stupid fashionable color names came from, appropriately enough, the Red Green Show. He told a story about trying to match a color called 'whisper of tomato' for his wife. The man is a comic genius.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:47 PM (yTvNw)

97 {i]One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

Who the heck told you that? Brown is part of the Orange family. It's just orange with blue added to it. Some artists call brown "destroyed orange."

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:47 PM (NtoJk)

98 Polynikes, got it now
Sort of a old crochet sampler

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 06:47 PM (Ia/+0)

99 I love dark blues and purple and dark green.

But bright yellow daffodils make me smile. And the soft pink of a sweet peony.

My apartment is very butter yellow. And a lot of my furniture is pine. So there’s a lot of honey and yellow. I have clamshell pink chairs and am about to buy a sea foam green velvet couch.

I live on the beach.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (A5RD0)

100 #90. Adding vocal music to a color thread. Thanks a bunch in making me feel totally not at home.
Besides color blind, have a voice to die from, not for.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (/VSxT)

101 One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)
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Oh, you have no idea what's really out there....

Posted by: The Colour out of Space at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (gnNyN)

102 Oh, you have no idea what's really out there....
Posted by: The Colour out of Space at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (gnNyN)

LOL! Another Lovecraft fan!

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:49 PM (NtoJk)

103 "It's just orange with blue added to it."

I know. Weird huh?

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:49 PM (vFG9F)

104 Oh, you have no idea what's really out there....
Posted by: The Colour out of Space at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM (gnNyN)

LOL! Another Lovecraft fan!
Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:49 PM (NtoJk)
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One of my favorite Lovecraft stories. It's just so weird.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 06:50 PM (gnNyN)

105 75 LOL! I'll bet I know what sparked this topic, TRex!

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:23 PM
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Didn't spark it but absolutely confirmed the choice!

Posted by: TRex - color consultant dino at May 23, 2026 06:51 PM (IQ6Gq)

106 Adams was traveling extremely light in that photo. He normally used an 8x10 view camera, I believe (8x10" being the size of the plate/negative). You'd have to be damned dedicated to hump one of those into the wilderness.

I'm amassing quite a collection of different colors of 3D printing filament. It's gotten to the point that if you ask me to print a new frammistat spacer for your turboencabulator, you're probably going to get a magenta or bright orange one, depending on which spool has the most on it, rather than the utilitarian white or black you might expect.

> Black is also in the name of Black Bloc,

It will never stop being funny that a group of "anarchists" will put on uniforms and march in formation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 06:51 PM (IG3/x)

107 If you mix every color, you get green. At least, if you're washing your oil painting brushes in odorless thinner.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:51 PM (1Ff7Z)

108 An article on how to prepare your house to sell it said, if there is anything purple in the house, paint over it before you put the house up for sale. So color must matter.
Posted by: Wenda
******
When our current house initially went on the market, every room was a different very vibrant color: purple, blue, bright red, orange, etc. It did not sell.
They repainted everything, except the bright red room, a neutral yellow. Then it sold...and I've repainted every room, starting with the bright red....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

109 When you look at a pine tree, you don't think "blue and orange". You think brown. But it's not a color. It's an illusion, the way we interpret the world, even though the color doesn't exist.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (vFG9F)

110 Purchased a Cray-Pas 88 piece Wooden Box set for my daughter 20+ years ago as remembered these from my childhood and being fascinated with the color palette. Guessing she was USMC-minded and partial to Crayons as found the set this year in unused and pristine condition while de-cluttering.
No longer available but for reference:

https://tinyurl.digital/j338tw

Posted by: Billy the Mountain at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (fnQvM)

111 99 But bright yellow daffodils make me smile.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 06:48 PM
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Same for Mama Rex. She always looks forward to daffy season each year and has hundreds in her gardens.

Posted by: TRex - daffy dino at May 23, 2026 06:53 PM (IQ6Gq)

112 Very cool thread. My eyes have always been drawn to bright colors and spectra.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 06:53 PM (RIvkX)

113 I hesitate to mention this, but the Yves Klein painting is upside down.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 23, 2026 06:54 PM (PiwSw)

114 87 https://tinyurl.com/y2m8h5ep

It's science.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 06:30 PM (2Ez/1)

Then, they proceed to tell you twelve colors of "blue."
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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In Japan there were only shades of blue until the concept of green was introduced by western cultures.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 06:54 PM (sqJYm)

115 I've seen examples of art done with the big Crayola collection of crayons. Some of it is amazingly realistic. (I wanted one of those 64 count boxes so bad as a youngster. Never got close.)

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:55 PM (yTvNw)

116 For those who include music, especially singing, as a hobby there is a YT channel called Jonasquin. He takes popular songs like Sweet Caroline, Stayin' Alive, and Bridge Over Troubled Water and recreates them as madrigal or Renaissance styles, mostly acapella. He really catches the harmonies and cadences. One episode details the formula (more like guidelines) for making the styles. Haven't played with music theory in over 50 years but some of it came back while listening.

I love madrigals even though they rarely include a bass vocal line. A horrible detraction from an otherwise gorgeous music. Very sad for someone whose top range barely goes above middle C. (SIGH!)
Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 06:41 PM (yTvNw)

I sang in the university chorus's madrigal group for a season. I described it to outsiders as "Medieval barbershop". It was fun..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 06:55 PM (nbLIj)

117 They repainted everything, except the bright red room, a neutral yellow. Then it sold...and I've repainted every room, starting with the bright red....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 06:52 PM (IQ6Gq)

Funny, yellow makes me think of sickness. Except for a bright yellow Schwinn ten speed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:56 PM (1Ff7Z)

118 Homer and the "wine-dark sea"... supposedly the Greeks of that time didn't distinguish between blues and purples.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 06:56 PM (IG3/x)

119 "If you mix every color, you get green. At least, if you're washing your oil painting brushes in odorless thinner."

In my experience, you get mud. And it's a PITA cleaning out the container; just did it yesterday. That's where surgical gloves come in handy!

I think the biggest crime against humanity was Gay Liberation hijacking the rainbow. I love rainbows, the spectrum, and the color wheel (all kinds of color wheels) but now if you have any chromatic sequence of colors, it's perceived as frickin' gay.

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (NtoJk)

120 When I was painting motorcycles I used to like mixing up colors. I did most of the paint jobs using candy colors. I was able to make some wicked nice colors, but damn, if you ruined it down the road matching it was a problem.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (snZF9)

121 Guessing she was USMC-minded and partial to Crayons as found the set this year in unused and pristine condition while de-cluttering.
No longer available but for reference:

https://tinyurl.digital/j338tw
Posted by: Billy the Mountain

On ebay at $150+ per set, that's where your found one should be going. You can split 80-20 with your daughter.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (/VSxT)

122 I like light blue walls for bedroom and living room, and a deeper sort of grayish blue for the exterior, with white trim and a red door. For some reason I think a red door is cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

The advice I got when I bought a house was to "paint using the color palette for your favorite fruits"
I chose pear for the bedrooms, and in scrambling around I decided on an Eau de Nil for the living room since it was close to oak leaves without being too dark. Then I figured the Eau de Nil was too dark anyways, so I did the walls with windows in Eau de Nil and did the blind walls two shades lighter, in Pale Celadon, which turned out very nice
The gentle yellow with the brown trim and doors is a good combo, and it helps in the windowless hallway as well.

The kitchen is white. I need all the light I can get

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM (rbvCR)

123 Evening, TRex and Hobby Horde. Just had a nice visit with AZ Deplorable Moron and his lovely wife.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM (8zz6B)

124 In my experience, you get mud. And it's a PITA cleaning out the container; just did it yesterday. That's where surgical gloves come in handy!

I think the biggest crime against humanity was Gay Liberation hijacking the rainbow. I love rainbows, the spectrum, and the color wheel (all kinds of color wheels) but now if you have any chromatic sequence of colors, it's perceived as frickin' gay.
Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 06:57 PM (NtoJk)

Well, yeah, the detritus is mud, but the liquid is green.

The rainbow for perversion was chosen on purpose to insult the maker of the rainbow.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM (1Ff7Z)

125 One of the most disturbing things I have leaned about color is brown is not a color. It changes the way you look ate everything.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)

126 Japan there were only shades of blue until the concept of green was introduced by western cultures.

Posted by: Braenyard

I just can't get this. Literally, inconceivable.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 07:01 PM (/VSxT)

127 I sang in the university chorus's madrigal group for a season. I described it to outsiders as "Medieval barbershop".

Joe Kidd, that's hysterical! I wish I'd thought of that, but I shall file the serial numbers off it and claim it for my own. Sang madrigals in chorus; sometimes you come across a rock song performed in the style of a madrigal and they're a scream!

(FYI, TRex knows I just repainted the background on a painting this past week, which IMHO improved it by 100%. That's where changing a color really pays off!)

Posted by: tankascribe at May 23, 2026 07:01 PM (NtoJk)

128 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)

Ahem. It's "Pullman Brown." Licensed from the Pullman Company.

Posted by: George at May 23, 2026 07:01 PM (1Ff7Z)

129 The Brown Room. Make someone stay in there and tell them it's orange.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

130 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)
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I know what you mean. One of the bedrooms of my house was a hideous dark gray when I bought it.

I was able to paint the entire inside a more pleasing color (to me) before I moved in.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (gnNyN)

131 Adams often waited a long time, days, for that magic moment of light, shadow, and sky. *click*

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (2Fnww)

132 Pantone is the standard. Colors coded/numbered for clarity.

Pantone is proprietary. RGB is a standard.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 07:03 PM (vTZFs)

133 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
*************
That's how I feel about "frosted persimmons!"
When my parents bought their home it was brown (external). Luckily I was far too young at the time, as my father attached/painted one side every year changing it to a white house.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 07:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

134 When I went to the Grand Canyon as a kid, there was an Ansel Adams studio there. Many black and white shots of the Canyon and the surrounding area. Incredible the beauty he captured with just black and white.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 07:04 PM (viF8m)

135 I'm not sure I have a favorite color. But I have a favorite effect: light, mostly sun light, and how the angle and intensity brings out different qualities in color. Sunlight shining through daffodils mentioned above is a good example. Moonlight, even artificial light can provide the same variations but not as strongly.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 07:05 PM (yTvNw)

136 123 Evening, TRex and Hobby Horde. Just had a nice visit with AZ Deplorable Moron and his lovely wife.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 06:58 PM
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Excellent. Good people.

Always happy when I hear that Morons get together in real life.

Posted by: TRex - dino color license holder at May 23, 2026 07:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

137 A couple years ago my wife and went to the same condo in Florida we'd been going to for about the 3rd time. I took a "beginners" watercolor kit with us. We'd sit on the balcony, having cocktails and paint what we saw.

Then, buy cheap 8X10 frames and hang them with those sticky things that don't use nails.

A year later... they were still there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 07:06 PM (jehhT)

138 Before the bright yellow, my computer room had 1970's brown wood panelling and the ugliest carpet.

If the roof was higher, it would have been the perfect place for people to hang themselves.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 07:08 PM (Sco7b)

139 Color has a huge impact on games. From Candyland to Magic: The Gathering to Warhammer 40K, color plays an important role in how the game is played.

In W40K, for instance, painting Ork miniatures a certain color affects the game rules because Orkish belief powers their technology.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:08 PM (gnNyN)

140 Many years ago I had an art professor for a GenEd undergrad course who, surprisingly for an academic artist, was a) talented, b) not a communist and c) a genuinely good guy.

I only saw him angry one time... seems that some boy scout needed a "community project", and decided to paint a pedestrian bridge out on a trail that shitty Forest Service brown. The problem with that was that my professor had made tons of intricate carvings on this bridge ("wood spirits" and other mythological creatures... like I said, he was good). Not only that, but he'd designed it so it would look cooler after it had weathered a bit.

He was very not amused at someone's inbred crotchfruit wrecking it so he could get his Greasy Gopher badge or whatever it was.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 07:08 PM (IG3/x)

141 You use miniatures in Candyland?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 07:09 PM (rbvCR)

142 When I got this house the spare bedroom was UPS brown. You're right, brown is not a color, its a frigging war crime.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:00 PM (snZF9)
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I know what you mean. One of the bedrooms of my house was a hideous dark gray when I bought it.

I was able to paint the entire inside a more pleasing color (to me) before I moved in.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:02 PM (gnNyN)

My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)

143 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)
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Maybe they were colorblind and the colors worked well in the spectrum they could see...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM (gnNyN)

144 "You use miniatures in Candyland?
Posted by: Kindltot"

I used the race car from Monopoly.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

145 My small daughter was aware of my color issues, and knew I abused it to cheat at Candyland. She would get quite pissed off.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM (/VSxT)

146 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Wow. Just wow. Hope you got it for a good price. That sounds like the perfect definition for brutal.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

147 "Maybe they were colorblind and the colors worked well in the spectrum they could see...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

Maybe that's what the world looks like to a crazy person.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:14 PM (vFG9F)

148 Thank you for Hobby Thread, Mr. TRex.

I'll try to think of some color commentary.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 07:14 PM (QGaXH)

149 143 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf,
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM
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Maybe they were colorblind and the colors worked well in the spectrum they could see...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 07:12 PM
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Maybe now we know where the seconds and rejects at the Meijer paint department went...

Posted by: TRex - Meijer summer paint mixer intern dino at May 23, 2026 07:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

150 My house was a lesson in insanity. The colors here were soooo bad either they were gotten of a clearance shelf, or the dude's girlfriend who picked the colors has the worse frigging taste in colors in the galaxy and should have had her ass removed. Who in their right mind paints the whole central area of the house pumpkin orange. The one bedroom had 2 walls periwinkle and 2 walls a greenish yellow. Another room had 2 walls bright red and 2 walls bright yellow. The one half bath was grey and green. It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 07:10 PM (snZF9)

My wife went to an open house by a realtor and says that the colors used throughout the house never matched, clashed and generally looked like the Easter Bunny exploded

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 07:15 PM (rbvCR)

151 It was brutal.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Wow. Just wow. Hope you got it for a good price. That sounds like the perfect definition for brutal.
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 07:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

Sounds like the late 60s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:16 PM (zZu0s)

152 148 Thank you for Hobby Thread, Mr. TRex.

I'll try to think of some color commentary.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 07:14 PM
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You're welcome. I'm just glad nobody has brought up 50 Shades of Gray.

Posted by: TRex - stadler or waldorf? dino at May 23, 2026 07:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

153 Look at the house while hearing the intro to Ina Gadda Da Vida.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

154 We were always making games from other games. Mousetrap was boring after a couple of games so we jazzed it up with The Game of Life to make it more realistic.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:18 PM (vFG9F)

155 Brown is OK for USFS cabins & signage and stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 07:18 PM (3hFEd)

156 That really is a great intro.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:18 PM (zZu0s)

157 Update:

One dead, one still breathing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

158 152 148 Thank you for Hobby Thread, Mr. TRex.

I'll try to think of some color commentary.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 07:14 PM
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You're welcome. I'm just glad nobody has brought up 50 Shades of Gray.
Posted by: TRex - stadler or waldorf? dino at May 23, 2026 07:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

One of my hobbies now is going through 40+ years of accumulated papers and shredding and shredding and shredding and shredding.....

Why did I keep all that shiiiii.....tuff.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 07:22 PM (QGaXH)

159 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Thanks for being here and contributing. If your lurking, thanks for reading.

The Hobby Thread email box is always open, so write anytime.

You're welcome to hang here in the comments for a while but don't forget to stop by Club ONT later. It will not have a color theme.

Posted by: TRex - pantone dino at May 23, 2026 07:24 PM (IQ6Gq)

160 the mistake on the lake
youtu.be/_XV6Jz3Xg18

Posted by: everyone loves balloons at May 23, 2026 07:25 PM (gKWVE)

161 Update:

One dead, one still breathing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

Moar range time!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 07:26 PM (8zz6B)

162 TRex, thanks once again for this thread. Your mind works in such interesting ways.

Posted by: Wenda at May 23, 2026 07:26 PM (pBmgI)

163 One of the guys might be a bystander.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:27 PM (zZu0s)

164 Update:

One dead, one still breathing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 07:20 PM (zZu0s)

Moar range time!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

One goblin, one bystander...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 07:27 PM (/lPRQ)

165 Blue M & Ms are an abomination unto the Lord. They didn't exist until the 90's, when they replaced light brown. Now, they are a plurality. Heads must roll!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:28 PM (NcvvS)

166 TRex, thanks once again for this thread. Your mind works in such interesting ways.
Posted by: Wenda
**********
You have no idea how true these words are....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at May 23, 2026 07:28 PM (IQ6Gq)

167 >>Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:28 PM (NcvvS)

And get off of my lawn!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:29 PM (NcvvS)

168 Upstairs for the movies!

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 07:30 PM (NcvvS)

169 Hadn't thought because haven't painted any miniatures in awhile that painting is big part of my hobbies

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)

170 >>>Pantone is the standard. Colors coded/numbered for clarity.

Pantone is proprietary. RGB is a standard.

Posted by: Oddbob

>You are correct. But I was in the print industry for many years.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 07:33 PM (D1E+2)

171 Nood Movies....

Oh..wait....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 07:34 PM (QGaXH)

172 Ok, another thing about color: nurse and I were discussing Maui Jim sunglasses. Now, these are polarized lenses. One thing I have noticed is that colors seem much more vivid when wearing them (green of leaves for example.) I wonder how much of that is a function of cutting glare down to virtually nothing (less washed out) and how much is the polarization itself. Maybe THAT IS the polarization itself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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After I had my cataract surgery, I splurged and bought a pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers with a prescription +2.5, and a pair of Maui Jim Black Coral sunglasses on clearance. The Maui Jims were distinctly better with colors, and a bit sharper, too.

Posted by: mrp at May 23, 2026 08:17 PM (rj6Yv)

173 Hobby Lobby has Gutermann thread? I never go in there because I hate their parking lot, but now that Joann's is gone, I may need to go there when I get back into sewing. What am I up to? Putting in a garden. I just added two rain barrels, and started watering my garden from the rain barrels. Last year I got a small greenhouse, and I've planted strawberries, lettuce, cucumbers, rosemary, basil, and carrots. I'm planning to put in more lettuce, carrots and potatoes.

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at May 23, 2026 09:39 PM (4qIhJ)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, May 23

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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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Nobody asked him to.

Nobody was watching.

He just saw something needed doing and did it.

The world runs on moments exactly this small.pic.twitter.com/DGMoQykuQD
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 16, 2026

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pic.twitter.com/lAU8T3I47U
— Tweets of Dogs (@TweeetsOfDogs) May 22, 2026

Only the Maker of the galaxies Himself, would ever have thought to give mankind such a marvelous gift as the Dog!
~ Joe@Hrothgar

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Meet The PetMorons

The bestest boy! I have had my pony longer than 2 of my kids. 😂. He is 33! pic.twitter.com/2BMmlYBI3g
— Piper (@piper_moves) May 18, 2026

We love him, Piper!

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

A pair of cardinals decided to raise a family in one of my lilacs in the corner of my yard. There are a couple of chicks in the nest and I try to avoid that corner of the yard.

This morning the baby cardinals were out of their nest for the first time, so I could finally get their pictures. The nest is very close to my back fence so I couldn't get in close enough to get pictures of the eggs or newly-hatched chicks. These guys should soon leave the nest for good, so now I wonder if the parents will raise a second family in it? Or build a new nest in a new location?
badgerwx

Well, that worked out great! Glad you were able to get photos of the babies before they left the nest! They still have nest-head, a little.

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A birb, a snek, and a turtle all walk into a weekend post
Hi Katy, some recent wildlife sightings for the Gardening-Nature weekend post. I don't know what kind of bird that is, looks like a bird of prey of some type. All seen here in east Tennessee.
Thank you!
BeckoningChasm

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Oh, my! Nice variety of critters. Any guesses on the species?

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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, May 16

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 03:28 PM

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1 Danger noodle!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 03:33 PM (A5RD0)

2 Lucy the Fink says hello. She is also shedding her undercoat and hacking up fur slugs.

Yay.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 03:34 PM (A5RD0)

3 Laundromat tv had panel show with adoptable dogs. One decided to hump a couple, another posed taking a mighty shit. Live tv!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 03:34 PM (Kt19C)

4 Afternoon, pet folken,

The guy giving the dog a drink of water reminds me: I need to clean out the dish I leave on the step for the friendly shorthaired gray cat who visits, and put some more chow out for him.

My two furry thugs are doing well. Big black Stirling is stretched out on the floor after sleeping with me just now. Little gray Dagny was on the couch when I got up, but she got up, shook herself, and trotted away somewhere. Probably not to be seen until near dinnertime, about three hours away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 03:35 PM (wzUl9)

5 Piper, your horse is more than old enough to vote. What's his name?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 03:35 PM (wzUl9)

6 Yay! Pet Thread!

Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) has been making messes in my living room and kitchen. She's not using the litter box.

But I understand why. She did something to the back claws of her left hind leg. Almost like she ripped them out entirely. So I can understand how it might not be comfortable to use a litter box.

Imagine someone ripping out your toenail and rubbing sand in the wound. I'm sure that's what it feels like to poor Kaylee.

Unfortunately, none of the vets around here are open on a long weekend. I just have to keep an eye on her and see how she's doing until Tuesday, when I can hopefully get her to a vet for a thorough checkup (she needs a routine checkup anyway).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 03:36 PM (gnNyN)

7 Why didn’t the person taking the video get the dog some water?

Posted by: DavidD at May 23, 2026 03:38 PM (MSTeU)

8
The Big Dummy was Best of Opposite Sex at today's Midwest Borzoi Club specialty but was Best of Breed and first in the Hound Group at the concurrent Grand Rapids KC show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 03:42 PM (HdYcL)

9 Congrats Hadrian.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 03:43 PM (lJ0H4)

10 Why didn’t the person taking the video get the dog some water?
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Good point.
Was the video attached to a restaurant or something, maybe?

Posted by: KT at May 23, 2026 03:43 PM (rdeQO)

11 Why didn’t the person taking the video get the dog some water?
Posted by: DavidD at May 23, 2026

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Probably the same kind of person who takes video of someone being assaulted on the subway and does nothing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 03:45 PM (wzUl9)

12 Dancing cockatoo video. " Faithpot" site:

https://tinyurl.com/249jbfmx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 03:46 PM (a9Uqu)

13 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 03:49 PM (Ia/+0)

14 That man giving a strange dog water was nice

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 03:51 PM (Ia/+0)

15 I'm glad I checked my cardinal nest last Sunday morning. By the aftn, both babies had abandoned the nest. The parents are still around but I can't tell if they're going to use that nest for their next brood. It's now in full sun all day so maybe they'll find a shadier location.

Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026 03:55 PM (VnNy+)

16 Horsies are the Best. They make any field or pasture way more beautiful

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 04:02 PM (4vbgA)

17 The Black snake (AKA Indigo) is ubiquitous in Florida and is allegedly endangered. It certainly is around my house and my shovel.

Posted by: ss at May 23, 2026 04:09 PM (e8Nbd)

18 Hey guys,

Just a small cat update

https://tinyurl.com/dg65258

Also, I love this guy on X. He's helping and saving dogs in Thailand.

https://tinyurl.com/4jb4kpab

Posted by: Joyenz at May 23, 2026 04:13 PM (2F0/Y)

19 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 03:36 PM (gnNyN)

I hope your kitty feels better. Poor girl!

Piper, your horse is beautiful.

Posted by: Joyenz at May 23, 2026 04:16 PM (2F0/Y)

20 The Black snake (AKA Indigo) is ubiquitous in Florida and is allegedly endangered. It certainly is around my house and my shovel.
Posted by: ss at May 23, 2026 04:09 PM (e8Nbd)
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I was standing on a bridge over a creek near my house and heard rustling in the nearby grass.

I thought it was just a frog or a turtle.

Nope. It was a snake, maybe two feet long, trying to get away from me. Couldn't tell what kind.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 04:16 PM (gnNyN)

21 Piper, your horse is more than old enough to vote. What's his name?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Vote?

Rename him "Incitatus" and let him run for office.

Posted by: Caligula at May 23, 2026 04:17 PM (VHUov)

22 Yay for pets. The fluffiest scritchiest post of the week.

Daisy the knuckle-headed Malinois is not happy with how much rain we've been having lately. More walks, fewer ball chases. Wet or not, MiladyJo is out throwing balls for her right now. Love them both.

Took Ony the old black cat out on the front porch yesterday. She wandered off a ways, then went under the storage shed briefly. I think that's the farthest afield she's been since we moved to the new house. Not far, but that's okay. She's always been a housecat.

Of the strays here on the ranch, big papa Butterburr shows up almost every feeding and enjoys skritches. Of the kittens, Leo of the golden mane is frequently about, as is the white kit Angel. Stripey hasn't been seen for weeks. Mama Rascal has also been AWOL for a week or so. With so many dangers and predators, we're always happy to see them.

Yesterday and the day before we had birds get into the back porch. One door with magnet-closing screening curtain is open most days, so sometimes unauthorized critters get in. Was able to get both birds to fly out the door. They get so panicky, flying from screen to screen until they hit the exit.

Posted by: mindful webworker - treats for everyone at May 23, 2026 04:18 PM (0poB+)

23 Awwww! Picasso! He is my soulmate. You are the best, KT.

Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 04:19 PM (OoFl2)

24 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at May 23, 2026 04:19 PM (sAmhv)

25 Unfortunately, none of the vets around here are open on a long weekend. I just have to keep an eye on her and see how she's doing until Tuesday, when I can hopefully get her to a vet for a thorough checkup (she needs a routine checkup anyway).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 03:36 PM

Do you think she would be okay with a different type of litter? Like pine pellets? Maybe they would be softer on her little feets.

Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 04:20 PM (OoFl2)

26 At the risk of getting into theological debates, I have to point out that the cartoon at the top is nice, but inaccurate. St Peter stands at the pearly gates for human entry. It's St Francis who stands at the furry pet door.

Posted by: mindful webworker - furry theology at May 23, 2026 04:21 PM (0poB+)

27 Piper, your horse is beautiful.
Posted by: Joyenz at May 23, 2026 04:16

Thank you!

Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 04:21 PM (OoFl2)

28 2 Lucy the Fink says hello. She is also shedding her undercoat and hacking up fur slugs.

Yay.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 03:34 PM (A5RD0)

All I did was barely touch the dogs and it's like they exploded. I'm vacuuming daily now or we would be buried under shedded fur. I should probably collect it and knit a new dog.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 23, 2026 04:22 PM (DwqWV)

29 Musical interlude: what the cat sees...

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger (Official HD Video)
https://youtu.be/btPJPFnesV4

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 04:22 PM (Sy6m/)

30 Unfortunately, none of the vets around here are open on a long weekend. I just have to keep an eye on her and see how she's doing until Tuesday, when I can hopefully get her to a vet for a thorough checkup (she needs a routine checkup anyway).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 03:36 PM (gnNyN)

We have two emergency vets here, one in Anchorage and one in Palmer. Open 24/7/365. But they charge accordingly, and you can end up waiting hours for care, because they are so in need. Sometimes it has been worth it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 23, 2026 04:25 PM (DwqWV)

31 Do you think she would be okay with a different type of litter? Like pine pellets? Maybe they would be softer on her little feets.
Posted by: Piper at May 23, 2026 04:20 PM (OoFl2)

Would she tolerate a bandage? Of course, that would probably require the cone of shame.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 23, 2026 04:26 PM (DwqWV)

32 Piper beautiful horse. Perfessor, I hope the cat is alright soon.

I may have cat-napped Snowflake today. I messaged my friends.

It's been raining all day. I put her out at almost 3am and around 6:00 am, it was drizzling. Girl was by my back patio. I brought her in, dried her up, brought her to my room and we all tried to get a few hours more sleep.

It's been constant rain so I brought out the emergency cat food and her litter box I keep in the garage. Ralphy's happy his friend is over. When she comes in she rubs up against him and it's so cute. I think we'll all have tuna fish tonight.

Everyone have a great weekend.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 23, 2026 04:26 PM (Sco7b)

33 That appears to be a red-shouldered hawk, ironically named since the white spots in the plumage are the more readily observable identifier.

Posted by: Just some guy who looked it up at May 23, 2026 04:35 PM (TbWk/)

34 Open 24/7/365.…
Posted by: tcn in AK

Forgive me, but I have a gripe. It's 24/7 or 24/365, or maybe 24/7/52(weeks). Not 7/365 in any case.😝

If I air a pet peeve in the pet thread is it petantry?

Butt serially…

Yesterday, I downloaded a slew of pix off my cell. Some great ones of pets, ours and the kids's. I am really going to try to get some submitted for pet thread inclusion.

Posted by: mindful webworker the petantic at May 23, 2026 04:35 PM (0poB+)

35 There are also 24 hour pet hospitals around here at least.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 04:36 PM (zZu0s)

36 I use various brushes and combs on the cats. The old longhair loves getting brushed with a shoe-brush I bought just for her, but she needs a shedding comb in the Spring and fall because of the hairballs.
The other cats get the shedding comb, the nit comb and sometimes the shoe brush when they get needy. I think it helps a bit with the hairballs

I also put out a bowl of lard on the floor so they can lick some up as they need. They sort of like the flavor and it really gets the hair to move through their system instead of making a hairball to hurk back up.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 04:40 PM (rbvCR)

37 Could BC's bird be a merlin?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 04:45 PM (ZVQ1Q)

38 Would she tolerate a bandage? Of course, that would probably require the cone of shame.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 23, 2026 04:26 PM (DwqWV)
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She seems to be doing OK for now. The ragged claws have fallen off, and I don't see any excess bleeding on her paw (which are white so I'd definitely notice). She's not limping or spending a lot of time grooming that paw.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 04:45 PM (gnNyN)

39 Cooper's or Sharpshinned hawk?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2026 04:47 PM (X8xt3)

40 What is that silver disc on the ear of the water drinking dog?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 04:49 PM (Cqx++)

41 >>Also, I love this guy on X. He's helping and saving dogs in Thailand.

https://tinyurl.com/4jb4kpab

He is The Best!
IIRC, Bukele had him fly in for a meeting last fall for ideas on caring for strays in El Salvador. Haven't seen any updates, though. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2026 04:49 PM (X8xt3)

42 Cooper’s Hawk has red eyes. Mature adults anyway. Diagnostic

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 04:50 PM (4vbgA)

43 34 Open 24/7/365.…
Posted by: tcn in AK

Forgive me, but I have a gripe. It's 24/7 or 24/365, or maybe 24/7/52(weeks). Not 7/365 in any case.😝

If I air a pet peeve in the pet thread is it petantry?
Posted by: mindful webworker the petantic at May 23, 2026 04:35 PM (0poB+)

I try to pretend it's a sly reference to the Seven-Year Itch, or in this case to Dog Years! That way I don't have to fight my urge to niggle, which I know nobody wants to hear...

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 05:11 PM (Sy6m/)

44 Fantastic pet thread today. Hope the cartoon showing doggehs at the pearly gates is accurate!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 23, 2026 05:16 PM (Os76D)

45 Would she tolerate a bandage? Of course, that would probably require the cone of shame.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 23, 2026

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And there are no guarantees as to how a cat will take to a cone. Dagny is one of the mildest little cats ever. But whne we put that cone on her -- we were advised to do so when she had her spaying -- she went absolutely ballistic, rocketing around the room in panic trying to outdistance this THING on her neck. We finally grabbed her and got it off. So, be aware.

(She never paid a bit of attention to her stitches anyway.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:16 PM (wzUl9)

46 What is that silver disc on the ear of the water drinking dog?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026

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I was wondering that too. An ID tag of some sort?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:18 PM (wzUl9)

47 And there are no guarantees as to how a cat will take to a cone. Dagny is one of the mildest little cats ever. But whne we put that cone on her -- we were advised to do so when she had her spaying -- she went absolutely ballistic, rocketing around the room in panic trying to outdistance this THING on her neck. We finally grabbed her and got it off. So, be aware.

(She never paid a bit of attention to her stitches anyway.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:16 PM (wzUl9)
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Penny, Jasmine, and Kaylee never had to wear a cone of shame when they got spayed. They seemed to do fine with the stitches.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 05:18 PM (gnNyN)

48 Wolfus, the horse that won the Preakness this year is named Napoleon Solo.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 05:19 PM (77rzZ)

49 A guy was arrested last week in Indiana for dancing in the street with a turtle

he had some meth on him too

Posted by: Bullet for her Bra at May 23, 2026 05:24 PM (jrgJz)

50 Wolfus, the horse that won the Preakness this year is named Napoleon Solo.
Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026

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I saw that! Wonder if there will ever be an Illya Kuryakin?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:24 PM (wzUl9)

51 Fur friends are proof that God loves us.

When I am sad, Lucy knows it and comes to find me and be there with me. She is such a comfort.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 05:28 PM (A5RD0)

52 All I did was barely touch the dogs and it's like they exploded. I'm vacuuming daily now or we would be buried under shedded fur. I should probably collect it and knit a new dog.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 23, 2026

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Years ago in Cat Fancy magazine, people advertised their services to knit a scarf (= muffler) or even a sweater for you from your cat's castoff fur. But I don't recall seeing those ads in its successor magazine, Cats, before it ceased publication recently.

Arizona the red tabby gave up a sort of light cinnamon-colored fur. But most of my cats' fur, gray or black or white-and-black, has been pretty grayish.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:29 PM (wzUl9)

53 Noodus hobbyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (wzUl9)

54 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

55 I like that top pic.

I've often joked that all house cats like to see themselves as temporarily embarrassed tigers.

Posted by: Bitblt at May 23, 2026 07:18 PM (11pZm)

56 Red Shouldered Hawk
Indigo Snake
River Cooter

Posted by: Sheik Yerbotti at May 24, 2026 11:58 AM (4ywNR)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, May 23

This is a polyantha rose, Verdun, that doesn't get much over two feet. It's a hybrid from France, first introduced in 1918, could explain the name. It has a flush of bloom in the spring, then a few every once in awhile through the summer. I've had it for years but it rarely blooms this heavily; since the picture was taken all the buds at the top have opened too. The flower is very double and very pink, can see the double blossom and the color better in the closeup.
Lirio100

It is a lovely rose, and a wonderful way to remember Verdun, where a lot of terrifying things happened over the centuries. My grandfather served near there as a chaplain in WW I, but it was a fort starting in the fourth century. We can remember it for the rose and for sugared almonds in the Gardening Thread. And be thankful that there are memorials rather than more fighting there now.

Pat* has irises!

This is the dry-stacked stone bed I often mention. In the center is peony ‘Bowl of Cream’, with a native blue flax in front. In the rear are 2 native blue penstemon. The dark purple iris is last year’s purchase, ‘Dusky Challenger’. I need to create a name for the lavender iris with white falls, since my neighbor Kathryn tells me she brought it here from her mom’s home in Tennessee. Any suggestions? (The second stone bed now has white iris ‘America’s Cup’, 2 native Firecracker Penstemon, and a native Orange Globemallow, but still needs a red peony. We also plan to put a native Golden Currant in the ground between the beds. If it all does well, I’ll send more photos next year.)

A lovely bed! Any suggestions for a name for that iris?

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Finally, red tomatoes!
By-Tor

They look scrumptious! Getting there (below)

May 16: My container garden is coming along. Squash, tomatoes and peppers so far.

The yellow squash looks great! The peppers look ready and that tomato looks like it will be wonderful!

April 24: My container garden after about two weeks. I have about six tomatoes of various kinds, same with peppers, some zucchini, and an herb garden.
Should be going great guns by June.

Interesting assortment of containers!

Gardens of The Horde

From badgerwx after I lost most of her post last week:

Greetings, KT.
I've been meaning to send some garden pictures but have been busy. I retired at the end of Feb - just in time for the spring gardening season - so I've been spending my time trying to whip my yard into shape. It's nice to be able to get out in the mornings now to work in the yard, though there are always surprises and setbacks when it comes to gardening. This year I had a surprise frost in mid-April (the week after some 90-deg days), and a pair of cardinals decided to raise a family in one of my lilacs in the corner of my yard. Most of my frost damage was to some of my shrubs and trees. This button bush lost all its leaves except on one branch close to the ground. And 2 crape myrtles in my side yard also lost a lot of leaves. But all of them are leafing out again. We'll see if they bloom this summer.

Frost is a nasty surprise, the cardinals are going in the Pet Thread!

Luckily, the frost didn't do too much damage. The plants in my back yard were protected by my neighbors' trees and those roses and peonies there bloomed on time. I bought the peony next to the (Carefree Beauty) rose last year and this is its first bloom. The other peonies I bought last year (and added to my peony bed) weren't big enough yet to bloom this year. And I have to salute the knockout rose I bought 20 years ago that's still going strong - though not in this location. I had to move it in the winter of 2020-1 when I put in my fence, but it's bounced back nicely.

Peony Raspberry Sundae

Peony bed

Knockout Rose

My irises in bud weren't affected, but the roses in my side yard have no buds yet. I'll be back in the 90s next week so maybe that will spur them on. The plants on my hell strip had no frost effects even though that is an exposed location.
badgerwx

Iris Clarence

I love the hell strip.

Hope everyone has a nice long 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? Garden, Home and Nature Thread, May 16

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 01:51 PM

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1 Roomy!

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 23, 2026 01:57 PM (TezPK)

2 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
I still didn't get any new vegetables to plant, only in 50s today and tomorrow.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 01:59 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Damn neighbor on property cut down decades old cactus to plant his shitty little seedlings. Occupy the farm!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 02:00 PM (Kt19C)

4 We see a couple varieties of rambling roses growing wild near our front gate every year for a couple of weeks in the spring. Little roses with delicate little thorns that will still stick you.

If you are like me you have that song stuck in your head now.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 02:03 PM (vFG9F)

5 Hell strip!
Love the name.

Posted by: MkY at May 23, 2026 02:03 PM (q6tQZ)

6 There is a soldier in my family tree who was a casualty in WWl--he was lost in the Meuse-Argonne offensive in France on Nov 5, 1918. I didn't know this at the time I bought that rose but now kinda think of it as his.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 23, 2026 02:03 PM (ky7/T)

7 We had a warmer March than May, and it shows in the garden. I had to plant things out, but they're puny, and just hanging on.
I did collect two (honeybee) swarms in my new swarm traps last night. Big fun. I have to figure a way to hang and retrieve them by myself, though. Awfully awkward.
Iris... In our big bed out front, either the iris have hybridized, or we lost 3 or 4. Are they one of the flowers that all look alike after a few years?

Posted by: MkY at May 23, 2026 02:06 PM (q6tQZ)

8 Hope I got things labeled right for badgerwx.

Posted by: KT at May 23, 2026 02:11 PM (rdeQO)

9 I have been out desultory putting up the posts so I can have a trellis around my blackcap and thimbleberry bushes, and I noticed that the thimbleberry bushes are aggressively smothering out my blackcaps. Since the blackcaps are looking to have a lot of fruit and I am about ready to rip out the thimbleberries because they never fruit, I had to dive into the hedge and pull out a lot of thimbleberry plants.
Both species I gathered in the woods, so they are not exactly domestic cultivars, but I do like them, and they are resistant to the root canker the raspberries died from.

Blackcaps propagate by layering, the canes grow long and put in roots when the top touches the ground. Thimbleberries spread out by spreading rhizomes and are more aggressive.

Other than that, my corn is poking up out of the furrows, and my potatoes are going great guns.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

10 Lirio100 at May 23, 2026 02:03 PM

It's possible that my grandfather buried him. He buried American, French and German soldiers, kept records for all of them.

Posted by: KT at May 23, 2026 02:16 PM (rdeQO)

11 Never heard blackberry called blackcap. Had to look it up. What part of the country does that come from? I sure wish I'd planted thornless, so I wouldn't be spraying those darned brambles all the time.

Posted by: MkY at May 23, 2026 02:16 PM (q6tQZ)

12 4 We see a couple varieties of rambling roses growing wild near our front gate every year for a couple of weeks in the spring. Little roses with delicate little thorns that will still stick you.

If you are like me you have that song stuck in your head now.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 02:03 PM (vFG9F)

Probably a Cecile Brunner...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 23, 2026 02:22 PM (irNtJ)

13 KT,

You did get all the picture labels right. My hell strip is mostly Elijah Blue Fescue that's starting to seed itself (which I was hoping for). But I think I'll keep some of the iris and salvias in there just to break the monotony. I also have some Tete a Tete (yellow dwarf) daffodils planted there that bloom in early spring.

I like Pat's lavender iris but I can't think of any clever names for it. It reminds me of the iris in my pink rose picture. I rented a condo in Dayton OH back in the 90s and divided up my landlady's iris clump to keep it blooming. I potted up one plant and took it with my when I moved and always just called it my blue OH iris, because it looks sort of steely-blue to me.

Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026 02:23 PM (VnNy+)

14 Entirely possible initially, even probable but I also found out when I found his records that his family had him brought here sometime in the 1920's. His grave is actually in Arlington now.

Posted by: Lirio100 at May 23, 2026 02:23 PM (ky7/T)

15 Great looking flowers and veggies!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 23, 2026 02:25 PM (oyck1)

16 Finally after nearly 10 years in this house husband and I have gotten into gardening. I was initially all gung ho about it but got discouraged because the list of things that the deer DON'T eat is so short.

But this year we've finally gotten serious and are actually growing (and starting to harvest) some vegetables! Someone watching us would laugh at these two 29-year-olds acting like little kids on finding a zucchini.

In other news, I now have a huge inventory of zucchini recipes. Biggest surprise so far is how delicious zucchini refrigerator pickles are. We both like them better than cucumber pickles.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at May 23, 2026 02:25 PM (FEVMW)

17 Afternoon, greenthumbs. Not much green in the Peon garden here in AJ. Oleander blooming mightily. Small, hard balls on the pomegranate bush. I've never managed to be here when the fruit is edible.

My Roundup campaign against the nastyweeds back in March paid off very well; most of the sprayees are dead, dead, dead. I will hula-hoe the dead stalks, and put them in the wheelie bin. The dead stalks hoe very easily, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 02:25 PM (8zz6B)

18 Have lately been admiring desert Juniper. Sort of the original bonsai, they grow in difficult conditions to say the least. They have a survival strategy of cutting off water and nutrients to certain branches, after several hundred years they sometimes look more dead than alive. I’ve never seen any noticeable new growth from year to year. The information I can find says they live up to 800 or 900 years, sometimes a little more. It’s a little sobering to see this twisted sentinel on a cliff edge and think it was an old tree 500 years ago. If only they could talk.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 02:25 PM (/0pJR)

19 In other news, I now have a huge inventory of zucchini recipes

Animal. I want to party with you!

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 02:28 PM (/0pJR)

20 Blackcaps propagate by layering, the canes grow long and put in roots when the top touches the ground. Thimbleberries spread out by spreading rhizomes and are more aggressive.

Other than that, my corn is poking up out of the furrows, and my potatoes are going great guns.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

I have eaten wild thimbleberries, and they are fine. Taste like raspberry, to which they are related. Very delicate berry; impossible to pack. Eat 'em as you pick 'em.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 02:29 PM (8zz6B)

21 nice stuff!

we are having a very iffy spring so I don't know. worried about some things that were in fact damaged during late frosts.

right now it's irises and peonies and the evening primroses are very showy. they are getting everywhere the naughty things!

blackberries and ground cherries starting. lettuce doing well. thank God for lettuce lol.

hoping my tomatoes hang in, they're growing well now, I probably planted too soon tho

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 23, 2026 02:29 PM (j+aD2)

22 got discouraged because the list of things that the deer DON'T eat is so short.

Plantskyyd

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 23, 2026 02:30 PM (j+aD2)

23 Great looking flowers and veggies!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 23, 2026 02:25 PM (oyck1)

AZ, we must get together for a beer! I am here in AJ for a few more days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 02:30 PM (8zz6B)

24 11 Never heard blackberry called blackcap. Had to look it up. What part of the country does that come from?

Blackcaps are black raspberries. Blackberries retain a core when picked, raspberries don't.

Posted by: KT at May 23, 2026 02:32 PM (rdeQO)

25 I love seeing everyone's gardening projects! I see Pat*'s irises like to lean wayyy over like mine do. My irises grew upright in Colorado. I brought the rhizomes with me when we moved to Arkansas. Now they grow and flower much bigger than they did in our mile-high Colorado garden. Even though the stems are nearly broomstick sized, the flowers still end up on the ground.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 02:33 PM (FMtrg)

26 Hell strip is now Heaven's path. Great reworking of an unsightly patch of dirt.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 02:35 PM (kpS4V)

27 We have a little yard hydrant in front of the house, and put a cattle panel over it to plant vines.
We have found NOTHING that deer won't eat. Same deer may not eat it, but there are so many, nothing will last.
Our veggie garden has an electric fence around it. That works.

Posted by: MkY at May 23, 2026 02:36 PM (q6tQZ)

28 Thanks, KT. We call them black raspberries!
Ha

Posted by: MkY at May 23, 2026 02:37 PM (q6tQZ)

29 I keep getting ads for a deer repellent sound thingie (scientific term). Supposedly inaudible to people and pets but drives deer away. Has anyone tried one?

Posted by: Wenda at May 23, 2026 02:38 PM (pBmgI)

30 Weather's been all over the place but my veggie patch has survived. Tomatoes and peppers are chugging along, dragon beans and butterfly peas are coming up, and lots of sunflower volunteers are crowding in. I'll have to transplant a few to other beds.

Plucked a nice sack of lettuces for a dinner salad. No more sad grocery store greens!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 23, 2026 02:40 PM (kpS4V)

31 Unfortunately, I have never discovered an effective method for dealing with deer.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 02:45 PM (FMtrg)

32 OK Mr pharmacist, rohypnol and viagra please. What aisle is the duct tape on?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 02:46 PM (Kt19C)

33 Nice peonies

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 02:46 PM (RIvkX)

34 We have a little yard hydrant in front of the house, and put a cattle panel over it to plant vines.
We have found NOTHING that deer won't eat. Same deer may not eat it, but there are so many, nothing will last.
Our veggie garden has an electric fence around it. That works.
Posted by: MkY at May 23, 2026 02:36 PM (q6tQZ)

12 ga. blank perimeter alarm:

https://tinyurl.com/kdanwd4x

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 02:46 PM (8zz6B)

35 anyone tried one?
They used to sell dog whistle like things for motorcycles.
We called them deer callers.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 02:48 PM (Kt19C)

36 I've received two shrubs from Fast Growing Trees

The cordyline arrived in decent shape even though it took a month, so I gave them another try.

The pieris arrived in 2 weeks obviously tossed around, broken stems, brown leaves. Hopefully with some Miracle Gro soil and some acidic fertilizer I can save it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 02:49 PM (RIvkX)

37 https://tinyurl.com/kdanwd4x fail.
But sounds NFA adjacent

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 02:50 PM (Kt19C)

38 Posted by: MkY at May 23, 2026 02:16 PM (q6tQZ)

Blackcaps are Rubus Leucodermis, they are a type of wild raspberry, though they look like blackberries.
They are a NW berry, and for a while they were grown commercially since they tend to be tougher than raspberries.

The problem with any berry cultivar is that they are very likely to go back to a wild form when they propagate by seed. Even the very restrained Marionberries and Boysenberries will seed to brambles that are mostly identifiable from the Himalayas by the darker canes

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 02:51 PM (rbvCR)

39 Electronic deer repeller? I’d be very very very skeptical. (Plus, they don’t work).

The Deer whistles on cars never worked either. If it can be done safely, turning off your headlights briefly will often allow them to see well enough to get out of the way a little more effectively. Driving at night period has more than a few things to unrecommend it.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 02:52 PM (/0pJR)

40 https://tinyurl.com/kdanwd4x fail.
But sounds NFA adjacent
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 02:50 PM (Kt19C)

Just checked. Works for me. It's practically impossible to put a loaded 12 ga shell into the device. Nothing but a loud noisemaker.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 02:53 PM (8zz6B)

41 For the good size herd of deer here , they don't seem to do much damage

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 02:54 PM (Ia/+0)

42 I like how they are the “King’s Deer” when it pertains to hunting (or poaching for that matter) but the government bears no responsibility nor liability when they total your car. Take it up with your Insurance.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 02:57 PM (/0pJR)

43 End of day riding into steamboat springs for vintage race week a huge buck leapt right in my path. So close all I could see were front and rear haunches. Before a come to Jesus stopping attempt it jumped away like a bunny.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 03:00 PM (Kt19C)

44 I like how they are the “King’s Deer” when it pertains to hunting (or poaching for that matter) but the government bears no responsibility nor liability when they total your car. Take it up with your Insurance.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 02:57 PM (/0pJR)

In Oregon you can harvest road kill, though there is a process to go through.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 03:00 PM (rbvCR)

45 We have found NOTHING that deer won't eat.
_-_
Potatoes are a nightshade, they said, poisonous to animals, they said, deer win't bother them, they said...up about two weeks and _something_ ate all the potato sprouts off all the way to the ground. If you don't cage it here, you don't own it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 23, 2026 03:02 PM (2gJPm)

46 Two weeks ago I bought catnip for the garden, sometimes it survives so I can harvest leaves to dry for tea.
This year it has been eaten to the ground by one or more of the cats. I figured my big tom was chewing it down, but this morning I found my old calico gnawing on the stems and rubbing her face in in.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 03:07 PM (rbvCR)

47 If deer are hungry, they'll eat anything that isn't poisonous. The only sure method to protect plants is a fence. The arboretums in the greater DC metro have wire fences that look to be 12-15 ft tall with barbed wire on top. I've heard that deer have poor eyesight and won't try to jump a solid fence that's at least 6 ft tall. When I got my fence installed in 2020, it was a 6 ft solid vinyl fence. I haven't had any deer in my yard so far and I hope the fence will keep it that way, as my area gets more built up. I've got a lot of plants that deer just love. I've also heard that two 3-4 ft fences set about 3 ft apart will deter them, but you'd need a lot of land for something like that.

Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026 03:09 PM (VnNy+)

48 Unfortunately, I have never discovered an effective method for dealing with deer.
Posted by: Emmie

.308 will end the problem and fill the freezer.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 23, 2026 03:09 PM (oyck1)

49 ...stopping attempt it jumped away like a bunny.
_-_
Glad you managed to avoid it. I had a sister-in-law who was killed when a buck came straight at her and her husband from the side on a Harley (yep, helmets, leathers, boots). Husband barely survived.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 23, 2026 03:12 PM (2gJPm)

50 Some years ago, tops of tomato plants above the fence were all eaten, deer only animals that high.
Last year cucumber leaves sticking through fence would be gone but never a cucumber wete touched.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 03:14 PM (Ia/+0)

51 One thing I didn't expect is that my fence would become a squirrel highway. My neighborhood is infested with tree rats and I see them every day, running along the top of my fences to get to my neighbors' trees or the trees across the road. With a pit stop at my back yard bird feeder, unfortunately. I used to have some hawks in the area but haven't seen them lately. I hope the fat, juicy squirrels will attract a new pair of raptors of some kind.

Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026 03:16 PM (VnNy+)

52 Afternoon, folken!

I've never been a garden type, despite my mother filling our patio with plants when I was a teen. The house I'm considering in Indiana could really benefit from some shrubs below the porch, though. And I'm playing with Sherwin-Williams "Paint a Photo" feature on their website to get an idea what a house like mine might look like in a slightly duskier blue, and the walls of a living room in a light blue. Kinda fun.

Some of the house photos have nice brick trim facings on the steps down to the street. Those can be installed on regular stone steps, right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 03:18 PM (wzUl9)

53 Amen, Don in SoCo!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 03:24 PM (Kt19C)

54 Hell strip? Does that designation have anything to do with hobos?

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 03:27 PM (LHPAg)

55 Wolfus,
I like shrubs along the front of my house, to hide my basement foundation. Just be careful what you plant. A lot of the common shrubs can get 6-10 ft tall (eventually) and you'll need to cut them back occasionally or they'll swallow your porch. I had hollies in front when I bought my house. They wanted to be 10 ft tall so I got tired of cutting them back all the time and removed them. Now I have dwarf (I hope) azaleas that are only supposed to get 3 ft all not obscure my front windows. One of them is a ground-cover azalea (flame creeper) and has only gotten 2 ft tall in the last 10 years.

Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026 03:28 PM (VnNy+)

56 54 Hell strip? Does that designation have anything to do with hobos?
_-_
Rattlesnakes?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 23, 2026 03:28 PM (2gJPm)

57 In Oregon you can harvest road kill, though there is a process to go through.
——-

That’s awfully sweet of ‘em, but they won’t fix my car

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 03:30 PM (4vbgA)

58 . . . One of them is a ground-cover azalea (flame creeper) and has only gotten 2 ft tall in the last 10 years.
Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026

***
That, 2-3 feet, sounds about right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 03:30 PM (wzUl9)

59 Boxwood is another one, it will grow to be 10 ft tall, but usually you go out to turn it into a hedge every spring and you can keep it short and square.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 03:37 PM (rbvCR)

60 I've never heard that area called a "hell strip" before. Neat.

Because it's always hot due to being surrounded by concrete and blacktop, and cooks the vegetation there?

It's either "the berm" or "the boulevard" around here.

A quick DDG search says "verge" is the technical term for it? Or at least the most-common one?

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 03:40 PM (VHUov)

61 Coyotes are kind of a drastic solution to deer.

Posted by: KT at May 23, 2026 03:40 PM (rdeQO)

62 I keep getting ads for a deer repellent sound thingie (scientific term). Supposedly inaudible to people and pets but drives deer away. Has anyone tried one?
Posted by: Wenda

Then you just get the old, deaf deer.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 03:42 PM (VHUov)

63 Coyotes are kind of a drastic solution to deer.
Posted by: KT

Nature is nature.

You have 4 choices. Coyotes are type 3.

1) kill the vermin yourself.
B) have domestic critters that kill the vermin for you.
iii) have wild critters that kill the vermin for you.
4) have vermin.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 03:44 PM (VHUov)

64 RE hell strips: in some northern states that's what they call the strip between the sidewalk and street, or the median strip of a divided street. I think that's because it can be hard to get anything to grow there - even grass. Up north, I think road salt is the main problem. For me, while there is some road salt to deal with, it's the oak leaves from across the street that blows my way all winter long and piles up on my strip. My strip had some very sorry-looking lawn 20 years ago. Since then I've tried all sorts of plants to find ones that grow well but not too well, IYKWIM.

Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026 03:45 PM (VnNy+)

65 Deer are different. They are beautiful, majestic animals. And, they are a dangerous pest, essentially. Dangerous to road traffic, and not a good idea in Suburbia. “Oh! Look at the Deer!”

Yeah, then look at them crash through the sliding glass door and wreak havoc inside your home. Not necessarily common though not unheard of.

I noticed my Deer hunting buddies go to all this trouble with “scents” and special soaps and try to reduce the human odor, which purportedly spooks them.

Maybe. I’ve watched Deer start chewing dirt where people piss, presumably for the salt or minerals. They don’t seem too bothered by humans to me. Maybe during hunting season

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 03:48 PM (4vbgA)

66 I’ve heard it called “parking” or “right of way”. It’s one of those gray areas claimed by the City, but we have the privilege of still being taxed, and they won’t mow it either.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 03:52 PM (4vbgA)

67 Parking strip, from when there was no curbs

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 03:56 PM (rbvCR)

68 I mean you can still park there, it is just harder

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

69 I'm a newbie at this, but the pet thread is up and active.

Posted by: badgerwx (long time lurker) at May 23, 2026 04:04 PM (VnNy+)

70 From Boise area: lows 39-48, highs 63-86. Caught and dispatched a second raccoon, but the trail camera shows a third one... we're keeping The Fortress around the cat food dispenser, and trying to bait the trap after dark so magpies don't eat the food first. (They eat it at dawn anyway...)

Planted 2 types of bush beans - 11 pepper starts (5 poblanos, 3 red bell, 3 orange bell) - more radishes - and filled in rows of lettuce, cabbage, carrots (3 of the 4 colors). Transplanted an Orange Globemallow from the paddock to the 2nd stone bed, we'll see if it survives. I've been covering sprouts of peas and beans with styrofoam cups.

Still need to weed the beds and dig out the dead spearmint (we planted some in a pot to corral it, sprayed the rest). Collecting rose petals while the plants are still there (future plan is to remove them).

Dead-heading iris too - I see the deep purple 'Dusky Challenger' didn't show up well against the Austrian Pines. I'll need to take some close-ups!

Posted by: Pat* at May 23, 2026 09:19 PM (ZXZy/)

Seen some transcendent fortitude and steadfastness lately? Where?

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.
-Herbert Hoover

Hope your Memorial Day Weekend is starting well. As a country, I think we are a little short on transcendent fortitude and steadfastness. I thought it might be interesting to review a few things from our history that I have run across this week that reminded me of fortitude and steadfastness, and then maybe we could discuss a few other things that we should remember this weekend.

Memorial Day Weekend

Have anything planned to commemorate Memorial Day? I can't top my brother and his wife, who visited Bunker Hill.

Here are some ideas: Ways to Honor our Fallen Heroes on Memorial Day

This site also has a surprisingly detailed page about John Adams, under "Remembering our Founding Fathers". He was a man who exhibited some fortitude and steadfastness.

Here are some details from a different biography of John Adams, which you might share with young people who can read. It is more focused on basics of the development of the country:

John Adams, Biography of One of America’s Most Important Founding Fathers
John Adams was one of the most important Founding Fathers of the United States. He was born in Massachusetts, became a lawyer, and rose to prominence in the early days of the American Revolution. He admired James Otis and witnessed his speech against the Writs of Assistance. In 1764, he married Abigail Smith, who would go on to play an influential role in his involvement in politics.
During the Stamp Act Crisis, he was associated with the Sons of Liberty, along with his cousin, Samuel Adams. Despite his connections to the Patriot Cause, he defended the British soldiers who fired on colonists at the Boston Massacre, because he believed the men deserved a fair trial, and no other lawyers would take the case.
After the Coercive Acts were passed in 1774, he was elected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress and signed the Articles of Association. In 1775, he returned to the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Olive Branch Petition, however, a week later he nominated George Washington to lead the Continental Army. . .

How many kids today understand what is written above? Particularly the Adams quote?

I didn't remember this:

The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic scandal between France and the United States caused by French officials trying to bribe American diplomats in 1797. When the scandal was exposed, anti-French sentiment rose in America, and the slogan “Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute” became popular. As a result, the two nations became entangled in an undeclared naval war known as the Quasi-War. Peace was restored in 1800, but the XYZ Affair had serious long-term effects on the United States. The press was critical of President John Adams and Congress for how the affair was handled, which led to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Two Southern states — Virginia and Kentucky — passed resolutions that said the laws were unconstitutional and that the states had a right to “nullify” the acts. Later, the concept of Nullification became a direct cause of the Civil War.

If only more of the French had been like Lafayette

From A Daily Dose of History. I think this summary underestimates the danger Lafayette faced after the rise of the Jacobins, due to his ties to aristocracy:

Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, was one of the wealthiest men in France (which is to say in the world), when, inspired by the words of the American Declaration of Independence, he left the comfort and security of his home, traveled to America, and offered his service to the cause of American liberty. At age 19, he was commissioned major general, to this day the youngest person ever to hold that rank in the American army.
Lafayette soon became one of General Washington’s most trusted and capable generals. Having been orphaned at a young age, Lafayette greatly admired Washington, who became a father figure for him. And likewise, Lafayette became like a foster son to Washington, who had no biological children of his own.
To the end of his long and celebrated life, Lafayette remained devoted to his adopted county. He named his only son George Washington, and he named a daughter Virginia.

Having returned to France after the war ended, Lafayette become a key player in the cause of French liberty, and he remains a revered hero in that country as well. He was the principal author of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, modeling it on the American Declaration of Independence.
Lafayette was 67 years old when, in 1824, President James Monroe and Congress invited him to come to the United States in honor of the nation’s 50th birthday. After Washington’s death in 1799, he had given up his dream of someday returning to Virginia and living near Mount Vernon, but Lafayette was delighted at the invitation and welcomed the opportunity to return to the country he had helped.

At age 76, Lafayette died at his home in Paris. At his request, his son George Washington Lafayette sprinkled the soil from Bunker Hill over his father’s coffin as it was lowered into the ground. An American flag has flown continually over the grave ever since.
When word of Lafayette’s death reached America there was an outpouring of grief that equaled that when Washington died. Flags were lowered to half mast, John Quincy Adams delivered a eulogy in a joint session of Congress attended by the president, the cabinet, the Supreme Court justices, and the American diplomatic corps. Twenty-four-gun salutes were fired by every American naval ship and at every American military post, followed by a single cannon shot every half-hour afterwards until sunset. For six months American officers wore black armbands, and American citizens wore mourning dress for thirty days.
Hundreds of places in America, including at least 36 cities and towns, are named in honor of Lafayette.
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, the “Hero of Two Worlds,” died on May 20, 1834, one hundred ninety-two years ago today.

Little-known history. Is this why John Quincy Adams went skinny dipping in the Potomac most mornings?

John Quincy Adams our 6th President once kept a live alligator in the White House bathtub, a wild gift from the Marquis de Lafayette himself.

White House staff had to check the tub every time before the president bathed. pic.twitter.com/NfRrpjmpR5
— HeritageBulwark (@hbulwark1) May 19, 2026

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Remembering American And Western Culture

We have seen a lot of reports lately about kids who can't read. I would be nice if they could read some things that would help keep American and Western civilization alive, in particular. Here's something different: Richard Nixon's book recommendations. What do you think?

This is President Nixon's book recommendations for students interested in history, biography and historical novels. pic.twitter.com/PSxJX3JjUB
— Richard Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) May 21, 2026

How many kids today know who Thucydides is, much less what a 'Thucydides Trap' is? VDH on China and the USA

Are young people ready for uplifting content on the internet?

Or in a commencement address?

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I�ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you�re whole, not just when you�re broken.

Watch the whole thing. pic.twitter.com/6d5uY8lPP4
— Dante (@DanteTheDon) May 14, 2026

Tip: Don't mention Artificial Intelligence in such an address.

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WEEKEND

The Week in Pictures: Messy Massie Edition

Greetings from Palermo, where I’m currently on a diplomatic mission to sort out the Europeans. Meanwhile, the salient news of the week is that Republicans seem to dealing with the anti-Semites in their midst while Democrats nominate theirs for higher office. More significantly, in purging Sen. Bill Cassidy and Rep. Thomas “Hot Mess” Massie (did Trump ever call him that?—he should have if not), Trump has achieved what Franklin Roosevelt failed to accomplish with his attempted purge of anti-New Deal Democrats in the 1938 election cycle. One more piece of evidence that the somnambulant Biden administration was merely a temporary and aberrant intermission in the Age of Trump. Maybe Massie will switch parties and come back as a Democrat. I hear they are still looking for a candidate for 2028.

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Music

Buck Throckmorton included the lyrics of this song (and two others) in a Memorial Day ONT a couple of years ago. I think it is lovely.

Taps and Missing Man Formation

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Hope you have something nice planned for this long weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, May 16, Artificial Intelligence vs. Woke?

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Really interesting comment thread on this post.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:08 AM

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1 Lots of space here.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:08 AM (E4rtv)

2 second1

Posted by: JROD at May 23, 2026 11:10 AM (IlL6s)

3 Morning, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 23, 2026 11:10 AM (2UnvF)

4 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 11:12 AM (Ia/+0)

5 Hi, Duke!

Hi, everybody!

Posted by: KT at May 23, 2026 11:13 AM (rdeQO)

6 FWIW, that source got the XYZ affair in reverse. One of history's great scoundrels, Talleyrand, demanded the American diplomats pay him bribes to even gain an audience with him. Talleyrand survived multiple different regimes doing the same job.

Being a scoundrel with the morals of an alleycat proved to be very useful for a Foreign Affairs Minister.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:14 AM (E4rtv)

7 Thaks, KT. Our Founders sure knew their onions. As Pappy Eromero would say.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 11:14 AM (LHPAg)

8 Drear weather today and tomorrow but at least Monday should clear up a bit

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 11:16 AM (Ia/+0)

9 Veterans explain meaning of empty, decorated table at Arby's.

https://tinyurl.com/3wcmn9bz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 11:16 AM (2qvfF)

10 "Our Founders sure knew their onions. As Pappy Eromero would say."
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Of course they did. They were right there tied to their belts!

Posted by: Grand Pappy Simpson at May 23, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)

11 My opinion is the Thucydides Trap was accurate when Might Makes Right was the controlling factor but that since monarchy has disappeared and the United States became top dog the Trap isn't a given.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:18 AM (qrzX6)

12 Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:14 AM (E4rtv)

He was French so what would one expect.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:21 AM (qrzX6)

13 My little town in blue Rhode Island is very patriotic. That might seem odd but this town has served as a military installation from the Revolution to WWII in various fashions. One of the parks I walk Elvis is named Battery Park because as you can probably guess it a cannon battery during the revolution protecting part of Narragansett Bay. Another is Ft Getty, WWII battery.

We will have our annual parade on Monday and it's great. Lots of current and former military, school band, fire trucks, the works. It culminates, appropriately enough, at Memorial Park which has a number memorials to individuals who died for this country through the years. The Park will be covered with 100 American flags that previously covered the caskets of fallen heroes and donated for use by their families.

I'll be there, rain or shine.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)

14 If I get this Thucydides Trap right in meaning, the 7 Years War was one, Frederick jumped before the Austrians had a chance to

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 11:28 AM (Ia/+0)

15 That sounds fantastic, JackStraw!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 23, 2026 11:28 AM (2UnvF)

16 Why can't I seem to get used in more limericks?

Posted by: Narragansett at May 23, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)

17 I posted in the previous thread I would go out with my Dad on memorial weekend and Memorial Day to clean and put flags at the various military cemeteries and to have official services as part of what he did as Commander of a VFW post. Somber time but I enjoyed being with my Dad and his fellow veterans immensely.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:31 AM (qrzX6)

18 The bloodiest day in American history was September 17, 1862, the Civil War Battle of Antietam. It was significant because it ended Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the north and it provided Lincoln with enough credibility to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. One wonders if it was the hand of God that reaped the human harvest in the cornfield, in the sunken road, and at Burnside Bridge. If the Union had decisively defeated the Confederates, as they should have given their overwhelming superiority in numbers and their incredible intelligence given their finding of Lee's battle plans, the war may well have ended with a Union victory but with slavery still in existence in the South. If, as nearly happened, Lee had crushed the Union, the war may have ended in a Confederate victory with slavery still in existence in an independent South. It was only the bloody stalemate that allowed the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 11:31 AM (ndZc7)

19 40,000 plus evacuation in garden grove, tank of chemicals burning, "will either spill or explode".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 11:31 AM (Kt19C)

20 Because you don't rhyme with "bucket."

Posted by: Duh at May 23, 2026 11:33 AM (2Ez/1)

21 FenelonSpoke, I was kinda willowed on the last thread but thought you might like the looks of spray-painted allium...

A while back I painted some dried allium and KT was kind enough to post a photo on the garden thread...
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=407009

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at May 23, 2026 11:34 AM (/enuJ)

22 >>That sounds fantastic, JackStraw!

It really is. This little town is like Mayberry plopped down in the middle of "progress". I love it and the older I get the more I appreciate it.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 11:34 AM (viF8m)

23 Why can't I seem to get used in more limericks?
Posted by: Narragansett at May 23, 2026 11:31 AM (2Ez/1)

I'm sure you could fit garrett in there with you.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:35 AM (qrzX6)

24 " The bloodiest day in American history was September 17, 1862, the Civil War Battle of Antietam."

++++++++

It's a VERY sobering place to visit.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

25 40,000 plus evacuation in garden grove, tank of chemicals burning, "will either spill or explode".
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 11:31 AM (Kt19C)

Chinese are pointing at us like we point at them.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:36 AM (qrzX6)

26 LIBs. Give them CONVENIENCE (and a cell phone) or give them DEATH

LIB Strategic Insanity perpetuates itself that Pity for the Guilty is anything but Treason to the Innocent. that any compromise between food and poison can result in anything but Death.

This is their crusade, their inexorable march, where they breach the nobility and sovereignty of Evil as an inevitability while ignoring the obvious fact that the only Common Ground that exists for them is to put you in it.

LIBs live in FEAR for having abandoned their only means of survival -- their productive mind, and GUILT for knowing they have done so willingly and when faced with the inevitable realization that Life does have Meaning, Good Ideas do replace the bad, they lack the remaining intellectual fortitude, and, indeed, integrity to admit their faults, to throw open the window of their homeless/tent-city and admit: MAD AS HELL AND NOT GONNA LIB ANY MORE with the realization that their own leadership has lied to them and cheated them out of a future worth having.

They use pity as a weapon, and pity for themselves as a weapon -- and this is why Memorial Day is meaningly as immemorialness is a testament to their own failure

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at May 23, 2026 11:39 AM (EhMju)

27 The Trump 'doo. Everybody's doing it!

https://tinyurl.com/y8bx6v7h

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 11:41 AM (ndZc7)

28 FWIW, that source got the XYZ affair in reverse.
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I think that picture of Adams is reversed, too. I believe that is the earliest known photograph of any living president, though he was long out of office. Called a Daugerretype. The internet likes to reverse things, apparently.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 11:48 AM (IDQSL)

29 There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Astronomers just discovered a "hidden route" to the moon after running hundreds of thousands of simulations

https://tinyurl.com/yyembb5c

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I thought there was only one way. You know, up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7)

30 So sorry. Wrong link for the Vets and table link. This is correct:

https://tinyurl.com/4k2rxjz6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 11:49 AM (n3VHW)

31 Posted by: Admirale's Mate at May 23, 2026 11:34 AM (/enuJ)

That's lovely. Thanks so much for reposting it

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 11:51 AM (n3VHW)

32 40,000 plus evacuation in garden grove, tank of chemicals burning, "will either spill or explode".
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 23, 2026 11:31 AM (Kt19C)
++++
Chinese are pointing at us like we point at them.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg
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- WIKI

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 11:51 AM (/lPRQ)

33 Wishing a Sad Memorial Day to all.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 11:52 AM (u/oMr)

34 @118

I'm working on an online book -- 100 Americans Who Should Be Famous (But Aren't).

One is Robert Smalls who has small fame in Charleston SC. In 1861, he was a slave who stole a ship he worked on to free himself, the black crew, and their families, while the white crew were carousing on a Saturday night.

He then gave the Planter to the Union Navy and met Lincoln. Later, Lincoln let Blacks join the Union Army and issued the Proclamation.

What's too often left out of his story is that he could have just left with his prize money from the Planter but instead volunteered to be a pilot for the US Navy as he knew Charleston harbor so well. Had he been captured you can only imagine. This is the man Lincoln met.

He later used his prize money to buy the plantation where he'd been a slave and served in the US Congress.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 23, 2026 11:53 AM (dtajH)

35 13 The Park will be covered with 100 American flags that previously covered the caskets of fallen heroes and donated for use by their families.

I'll be there, rain or shine.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 11:26 AM (viF8m)

Wow! Excellent.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 11:53 AM (6wpGE)

36
Astronomers just discovered a "hidden route" to the moon after running hundreds of thousands of simulations

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But first, you must answer three questions.

Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at May 23, 2026 11:54 AM (u/oMr)

37 The first thing I picked up when reading Bruce Catton about the Civil War, it was expected to be a very short war. All the denizens of DC and surrounding environs decided to watch the first battle at Bull Run, and make a picnic out of it. Kind of a short carriage ride. Well that battle didn’t turn out the way the experts predicted. The Rebels routed the Yankees, and chased all the dandies back from whence they came.

But, surely the boys will be home by Christmas. And that didn’t happen. And them the war stretched into 1862. Well, it will be over by Summer for certain. Surely by Christmas. And then 1863 … 1864… etc. And it probably didn’t need to last 4 years, not even close. But that’s how it turned out.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 11:55 AM (IDQSL)

38 Astronomers just discovered a "hidden route" to the moon after running hundreds of thousands of simulations
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Come join us Wednesday night at 7pm. We meet at The Elks Lodge.

Posted by: The Flat Moon Society at May 23, 2026 11:57 AM (2Ez/1)

39 I hope to plan a trip to Gettysburg next month and visit my sister and go to the battlefield, haven't been their in close to 30 years

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 11:59 AM (Ia/+0)

40 I thought Memorial Day was to honor matters sales and Chevy Truck sales.

Posted by: Heroq at May 23, 2026 12:02 PM (ps+Pv)

41 Sometimes you can find fortitude and steadfastness in the smallest of places.
I recall one miserable night during a dust storm at the Yakima Training Area (part of the Ft Lewis Army complex) when the landline wire between my CP and one of my platoons went out. I had to do my rounds anyway, so I walked the line. Out there in the dark, sitting on the ground with his back to the wind, I found Private Washington. He was a big 'ol country dude from Louisiana. He was splicing the wire together.
"How's it going?" I asked.
"No problem, sir. I'll have the wire fixed in no time."
He did and it never failed again.
That was mumbly-mumbly years ago and I have never forgotten it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 23, 2026 12:03 PM (2WIwB)

42 >>One is Robert Smalls who has small fame in Charleston SC.

You, of course, know that the Navy renamed the USS Chancellorsville after Smalls.

A friend of mine was the second commanding officer of the Chancellorsville. He wasn't pleased when the Navy renamed "his" ship.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 12:04 PM (J4Dwc)

43 A worm hole to the moon, what could go wrong?

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 12:05 PM (Ia/+0)

44 This movie is on point and might be good.

https://tinyurl.com/344e929m

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 12:06 PM (ndZc7)

45 AW I will definitely go see that

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 12:10 PM (Ia/+0)

46 @42 I didn't know that. It appears the renaming was primarly to purge references to all things Confederate.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 23, 2026 12:11 PM (dtajH)

47 I think we are a little short on transcendent fortitude and steadfastness.

Well, you won't find any of that stuff here!

Posted by: GOPe Caucus at May 23, 2026 12:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

48 >>>Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

That was great!

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 12:18 PM (6wpGE)

49 >>>It appears the renaming was primarly to purge references to all things Confederate.

Correct.

A few weeks ago, I asked my buddy, the former CO of the Chancellorsville, how he felt about the ship being renamed. He rolled his eyes and said, "fucking Democrats..."

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 12:19 PM (J4Dwc)

50 >>>Tip: Don't mention Artificial Intelligence in such an address.

I don't think he did? He mentioned the Internet.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 12:19 PM (6wpGE)

51 It appears the renaming was primarly to purge references to all things Confederate.

The 2020 purges were stupid and pointless, even if the new names were sometimes those of deserving people. The recent rush to erase Cesar Chavez after he was posthumously MeToo'ed was pretty funny though.

Can't wait until it's proven that Obama is who everyone with a brain thinks he is and the rush to erase him starts. It'll be even better if he's still alive to see it.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 23, 2026 12:20 PM (QZThv)

52 47 I think we are a little short on transcendent fortitude and steadfastness.

Well, you won't find any of that stuff here!
Posted by: GOPe Caucus at May 23, 2026 12:15 PM
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But we're overstocked on dithering, hand-wringing, consternation, and disquietude.

Everything must go!

Posted by: GOPe White Sale at May 23, 2026 12:21 PM (2Ez/1)

53 50 >>>Tip: Don't mention Artificial Intelligence in such an address.

I don't think he did? He mentioned the Internet.
Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 12:19 PM (6wpGE)

... and social media.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 12:21 PM (6wpGE)

54
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Grand Rapids KC show, defeating 27, which is a nice chunk of change. Now on to the Midwest Borzoi Club specialty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 12:23 PM (HdYcL)

55 > It appears the renaming was primarly to purge references to all things Confederate.
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I saw where some of the Confederate statues that were removed are coming back. For now. If/when the Democrats regain power they'll probably remove and destroy them so they can't be replaced.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 12:23 PM (jehhT)

56 I don't think he did? He mentioned the Internet.

That was a joke/reference to several other recent commencement speeches where the students booed AI.

The lefty-industrial complex has stood up two minutes hate against AI at a speed that Just Stop Oil would envy. It's already at the point that "hates AI" usually accompanies "Palestinian and trans flags in bio".

Posted by: Ian S. at May 23, 2026 12:24 PM (QZThv)

57 I tended to the family plot this week, the local boy scouts had done their thing and flags were fluttering at many of the gravesites. I have a female ancestor who was given the middle name Lafayette as she was born during his visit back to America. A nearby Veteran's Post has a lovely ceremony every Memorial Day and I shall attend it regardless of the gloomy forecast.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 12:24 PM (0nHVk)

58
Being a scoundrel with the morals of an alleycat proved to be very useful for a Foreign Affairs Minister.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:14 AM (E4rtv)

_________

Napoleon described him as "shit in a silk stocking."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 12:25 PM (HdYcL)

59 Dinosaurs are real!

https://tinyurl.com/yy5paxsf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 12:28 PM (ndZc7)

60
Joseph Fouché and the Abbé Sieyès were two others who managed to slither through every change of regime between 1789 and 1815.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 12:28 PM (HdYcL)

61 The Hall of Fame for Great Americans was once a big deal. An outdoor pavilion in The Bronx with bronze busts, now on the campus of Bronx Community College.

For a hundred years Grant faced Lee. Until Andy Cuomo had Lee decapitated.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 23, 2026 12:29 PM (dtajH)

62 The Park will be covered with 100 American flags that previously covered the caskets of fallen heroes and donated for use by their families.

I'll be there, rain or shine.
Posted by: JackStraw

That is outstanding!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 23, 2026 12:29 PM (oyck1)

63 I thought there was only one way. You know, up.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7)

Not so fast....

https://tinyurl.com/mr25mm9k

Posted by: GOPe Caucus at May 23, 2026 12:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

64 Thanks for posting that commencement speech, KT. I started to watch it and got interrupted and then couldn't find it again.

Posted by: Emmie at May 23, 2026 12:32 PM (FMtrg)

65 He later used his prize money to buy the plantation where he'd been a slave and served in the US Congress.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 23, 2026 11:53 AM (dtajH)

Ha Ha! He beat those stoopid repukelicans!

Posted by: Modern leftists at May 23, 2026 12:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

66 On this weekend in my little town, we honor all of our area's war dead. Dogfaces, swabbies, jarheads, Johnny Rebs, Bluebellies, zoomies, coasties.

The Memorial Roll on the courthouse lawn has multi generations with the same last names listed over and over. And no one raises an eyebrow with the Stars and Bars next to Old Glory.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 12:36 PM (vhPr1)

67
I've read 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9-12 on Nixon's list.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 12:37 PM (HdYcL)

68 FoxNews....May be news on Iran later this weekend.

Schrödinger's Peace Deal...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 23, 2026 12:40 PM (Sco7b)

69 49 >>>It appears the renaming was primarly to purge references to all things Confederate.

Correct.

A few weeks ago, I asked my buddy, the former CO of the Chancellorsville, how he felt about the ship being renamed. He rolled his eyes and said, "fucking Democrats..."

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 12:19 PM (J4Dwc)

If Democrats insist all things slavery and Confederate must be abolished or renamed, when do the Democrats abolish or rename their own political party?

Posted by: Gref at May 23, 2026 12:44 PM (5rh/l)

70 56 I don't think he did? He mentioned the Internet.

That was a joke/reference to several other recent commencement speeches where the students booed AI.

The lefty-industrial complex has stood up two minutes hate against AI at a speed that Just Stop Oil would envy. It's already at the point that "hates AI" usually accompanies "Palestinian and trans flags in bio".
Posted by: Ian S. at May 23, 2026 12:24 PM (QZThv)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 12:46 PM (6wpGE)

71 > If Democrats insist all things slavery and Confederate must be abolished or renamed, when do the Democrats abolish or rename their own political party?
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With the help of the MSM, academia and the general public's overall pliability, they've convinced most Americans that slavery and all that came from it, is the fault of the Republicans and Trump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 12:48 PM (jehhT)

72 On July 4, 1917, General John J. Pershing, commander of the newly-arrived American Expeditionary Force in Europe, made a special pilgrimage to a small cemetery on the outskirts of Paris.

There the General and his staff stopped beside a simple grave. It was Pershing’s aide, Colonel Charles E. Stanton, who spoke: ” It is with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic.

And here and now in the presence of the illustrious dead we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue.

"Lafayette, we are here!”

I think the French were a bit puzzled by American Lafayette reverence.

Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2026 12:50 PM (gzplO)

73 Hey! Stupid regressives need to get off the anti AI kick. AI should be opposed by the right, its basically part of the whole globalist corporate socialist agenda

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 23, 2026 12:51 PM (Gdxd4)

74 The lefty-industrial complex has stood up two minutes hate against AI at a speed that Just Stop Oil would envy. It's already at the point that "hates AI" usually accompanies "Palestinian and trans flags in bio".
Posted by: Ian S. at May 23, 2026 12:24 PM (QZThv)

Thank you!
Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 12:46 PM (6wpGE)

It is an odd one. The Left 'people' have decided it's bad, while all the left companies are going all in on it. So you have artists and musicians (usually really bad ones) who hate the idea. Game reviewers, writers, etc etc.

I would also assume by contrast that the technocrats and the VHE crowd would LOVE the concept of AI.

It's kind of remarkable watching this how people react.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:51 PM (bss/y)

75 My comfort seeking habits have made me increasingly mentally weak. Recently I have taken baby steps to get out of my comfort zone. I think this is really a trap of getting older that is best avoided.

Posted by: Max Power at May 23, 2026 12:54 PM (q177U)

76 My radio station is playing John Williams' "Hymn to the Fallen" right now. Always get choked up when I hear it. Very moving piece of music.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 12:55 PM (lJ0H4)

77 I thought Grant's memoirs were very good.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 23, 2026 12:59 PM (3uBP9)

78 That Nixon list includes many of the items that were once in Harvards reading list. Who knows what they have now, or even have a list.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 23, 2026 01:00 PM (3uBP9)

79 Morning, KT and Horde. Got an early start today. Up on the roof at 0700, had the three rotten sheets of plywood decking off by 0800. All went well. Off the roof, into the shower, and off to Hacker's Grill for brekkie. Got a haircut, too. Saw a couple of nifty hot rods at Hacker's, and chatted with the owners for a few minutes.

Town of AJ is real quiet this morning. Scarcely any traffic. Most of the snowbirds have gone home, and I think many of the locals have taken off for the long weekend. Weather is great, with temps in the low 90's, unseasonably cool for here. We'll take it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 23, 2026 01:06 PM (8zz6B)

80

The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

The very bad acts!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 01:06 PM (Cqx++)

81 Huh, only read 2 of Nixon's suggestions

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

82
I'll be at the ceremony at Soledad in San Diego as usual.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 01:08 PM (n7rxJ)

83
AI should be opposed by the right, its basically part of the whole globalist corporate socialist agenda
Posted by: Azjaeger

I've been told that the anti-AI movement is financed by China so that they will rule the AI wave.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 01:09 PM (Cqx++)

84 Wow!

KT, thanks for including that Eric Church commencement speech. The man is wasting his time with music. (Just kidding.) He should be giving motivational speeches about what is important in life. If Lewis or Chesterton had been musical, they might have written it.

Posted by: JTB at May 23, 2026 01:09 PM (yTvNw)

85 It's interesting to do a search for 'Lafayette statue images'. Many, many of them. Take a look.

But, meh, dead white man.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 23, 2026 01:12 PM (XeU6L)

86 That Nixon list includes many of the items that were once in Harvards reading list. Who knows what they have now, or even have a list.

1) Tushy Bidets...The Joys Of Anal Sex
2) Fidel Castro & Nelson Mandela...How Far We Slaves Have Come
3) Huey P. Newton...Kill Whitey!
4) Mariann Edgar Budde...Lesbianism, The Church And You
5) Dr. Renee Richards...Second Serve, Or How I Chopped Of My Weiner

Posted by: Harvard's Reading List 2026 Top 5 at May 23, 2026 01:13 PM (35YvA)

87 'Lafayette statue images'. Many, many of them. Take a look.
But, meh, dead white man.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

French. Doesn't count.

Posted by: they start at Calais at May 23, 2026 01:13 PM (gKWVE)

88 So rumors of wars, and rumors of rumors abound in Washington today, but no one knows if anything will actually happen. It would be nice if something good did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 01:14 PM (U0opd)

89 'Lafayette statue images'. Many, many of them. Take a look.
But, meh, dead white man.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

French. Doesn't count.
Posted by: they start at Calais

Are the French white people? Well, yes but . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 23, 2026 01:20 PM (jjUeA)

90 A year ago today, I was with my best friend when he died. 11 years ago this coming Monday, my father died. It's a memorial weekend. And in a few minutes, I'm returning to writing a brief about the death of a dearly-loved pet.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 01:20 PM (W5mpo)

91 Hard to point to which podcast heard lately, one had quite a bit of Lafayette's biography, he was quite a character in a good way.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 01:22 PM (Ia/+0)

92 So, Kyle Busch died of sepsis brought on by severe pneumonia.

Jim Hensen died the same way.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 01:22 PM (qFwJc)

93
FoxNews....May be news on Iran later this weekend.

Schrödinger's Peace Deal...

Posted by: Stateless

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Just kill it, Mr. President.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 01:25 PM (n7rxJ)

94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYI3eegIJlI

I miss my Dad, My Uncles now all gone. I miss Timmy, gone at 19

I escorted Tom's body home in 1991.....his 4 year old daughter asking "why is my daddy in a box and why can't I see him

I will never forget.......I will never forgive

Soon Communists. Very Soon!

Posted by: Bullet for her Bra at May 23, 2026 01:25 PM (jrgJz)

95 Was just going to bring up Kyle Bush death, seems bizarre thing to happen but guess it does

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 01:26 PM (Ia/+0)

96 > So, Kyle Busch died of sepsis brought on by severe pneumonia.
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Tragic. And preventable. But some people are stubborn and either don't take symptoms seriously or ignore them.

I can totally relate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 01:26 PM (jehhT)

97 FoxNews....May be news on Iran later this weekend.

Schrödinger's Peace Deal...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog.

Dead cat bounce?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 23, 2026 01:27 PM (jjUeA)

98
Well, one absent thing we can commemorate with no sadness: the Colbert show.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 01:27 PM (n7rxJ)

99 FWIW:

@nicksortor
·
38m
🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance has made an UNPLANNED RETURN to Washington, DC, and his motorcade is racing to the White House

President Trump has summoned his whole national security team to a meeting on Iran.

POTUS is also scheduled to hold a conference call at 1pm ET

Posted by: Don Black at May 23, 2026 01:29 PM (ZxPkt)

100 🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance has made an UNPLANNED RETURN to Washington, DC, and his motorcade is racing to the White House

President Trump has summoned his whole national security team to a meeting on Iran.

POTUS is also scheduled to hold a conference call at 1pm ET
Posted by: Don Black at May 23, 2026 01:29 PM (ZxPkt)

Lat "rumor " I read was that they were close to some sort of "deal".. We all know how trust worthy Iran is with a deal...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 23, 2026 01:31 PM (irNtJ)

101 Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran....

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 01:33 PM (qFwJc)

102 101 Bomb, bomb, bomb. Bomb, bomb Iran....
Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 01:33 PM (qFwJc)

--John McCain

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 01:36 PM (6wpGE)

103 Trump does have a deal fetish.

Sucks to be an Iranian.

Posted by: Don Black at May 23, 2026 01:36 PM (ZxPkt)

104
Trump does have a deal fetish.

But wait!

NOW how much will you pay?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 01:38 PM (Cqx++)

105 92 So, Kyle Busch died of sepsis brought on by severe pneumonia.

Jim Hensen died the same way.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 01:22 PM (qFwJc)

How in the world.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 01:44 PM (6wpGE)

106 I have $20 for anyone who's never had carnal knowledge of a goat!
-Monty

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 01:45 PM (IifvS)

107 Why does Iran have anything that can float or fly is what I want to know because by this time they shouldn't.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 01:45 PM (Ia/+0)

108 Anyone?
-Monty

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 01:45 PM (IifvS)

109 108 Anyone?
-Monty
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 01:45 PM (IifvS)

But wait!

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 01:47 PM (6wpGE)

110 Trump reportedly had a teleconference with several Middle Eastern movers and shakers earlier. Maybe there's a "deal" to be made with them with regards to Iran/IRGC?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 01:51 PM (jehhT)

111 Some Memorial Day Music

https://youtu.be/Omd9_FJnerY

https://youtu.be/0FT3SmZ_zx0

https://youtu.be/rJO7lJIxG10

https://youtu.be/awsmXerhLqQ

Crosses the line between Veteran's Day and Memorial Day

https://youtu.be/h_OyFoxp_uo

And two early clips for the Fourth!

https://youtu.be/2HGHdFmu5GU

https://youtu.be/yAqNe-m0a8s

I think all of these are suitable for work in the US. If they aren't, I don't know if I'd want to work there.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 01:51 PM (qx7Zg)

112 I want PDT to come out and say "It's time to stop pussyfooting around" and watch the lefty nitwits blow up.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 01:51 PM (vFG9F)

113 Lat "rumor " I read was that they were close to some sort of "deal".. We all know how trust worthy Iran is with a deal...
Posted by: It's me donna
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Trump skipped his son's wedding. It may be a big dead but I don't think it's a deal deal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 01:51 PM (LJVs0)

114 I'm having some of King Harv's planet series coffee. Pluto, which is supposed to be for cold brew which is what I did. I basically just used a big iced tea infuser pitcher but put course ground pluto in it over night instead of tea. Not bad. Kind of smoky tasting.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 23, 2026 01:52 PM (3uBP9)

115 What a Memorial day presentation, precious.
K.T. thank you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 01:52 PM (LJVs0)

116 Trump skipped his son's wedding. It may be a big dead but I don't think it's a deal deal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 01:51 PM (LJVs0

Meh. I'll catch the next one.*
-DJT

*I denounce myself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 23, 2026 01:52 PM (IifvS)

117
Good lord, gas explosion in a Chinese mine has killed 90, probably more.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 01:53 PM (n7rxJ)

118 It appears the renaming was primarly to purge references to all things Confederate.
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I saw where some of the Confederate statues that were removed are coming back. For now. If/when the Democrats regain power they'll probably remove and destroy them so they can't be replaced.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 12:23 PM (jehhT)

Americans - soldiers especially - immediately after the Civil War, showed far more honor and grace, even in victory as shown by Grant's honorable treatment of Lee during the surrender at Appomattox, having Joshua Chamberlain, with a guard of honor, salute the surrendering rebels. And if I'm not mistaken, they were allowed to keep their weapons.

The filthy communists at Chancellorsville were just on a destructive, provocative tear. Aided by the local officials, all the way up to that filthy governor McCaullife. Just my opinion.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 23, 2026 01:53 PM (O2GRA)

119 Don't fuck around with strep or staph or pneumonia. At least see the quack and take all the antibiotics he assigns.
This has been a public service announcement.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 01:54 PM (gKWVE)

120 ...Lat "rumor " I read was that they were close to some sort of "deal".. We all know how trust worthy Iran is with a deal...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 23, 2026 01:31 PM (irNtJ)

Any deal with Iran is worthless unless it includes them renouncing Taqiyyah.

Which means fundamentally ending Islam. And that won't happen because even if they do, how do we know it ain't just more Taqiyyah? You can't make deals with people to whom lying is at the core of their essence. Just my opinion, again.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at May 23, 2026 01:57 PM (O2GRA)

121 Watertown, Wisconsin, is going to dedicate a permanent copy of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on Monday.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 23, 2026 01:57 PM (qx7Zg)

122 A lot of chest colds caused by a virus, which the body deals with in about 3 days. During that time, however, nasty bacteria can get into the lungs and bingo! Pneumonia. Then the antibiotics are needed.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 01:59 PM (qFwJc)

123 GARDEN THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 02:00 PM (Ia/+0)

124 86 That Nixon list includes many of the items that were once in Harvards reading list. Who knows what they have now, or even have a list.

1) Tushy Bidets...The Joys Of Anal Sex
2) Fidel Castro & Nelson Mandela...How Far We Slaves Have Come
3) Huey P. Newton...Kill Whitey!
4) Mariann Edgar Budde...Lesbianism, The Church And You
5) Dr. Renee Richards...Second Serve, Or How I Chopped Of My Weiner
Posted by: Harvard's Reading List 2026 Top 5 at May 23, 2026 01:13 PM (35YvA)

You're probably not far off. Imagine Bill Clinton's list from the mid-90s. It would of course lean leftward, but would probably include some genuinely good reads. Now imagine Obama's and see the direction we've gone.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 23, 2026 02:18 PM (qivay)

125 KT … excellent way to remember the ones who didn't come home. Thank you. (hand salute) …

Posted by: Dr_No at May 23, 2026 02:18 PM (ayRl+)

126 Watching March or Die with Gene Hackman
His mistake was giving the Arabs something they didn't care about, something from antiquity before Islam

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 02:19 PM (Ia/+0)

127 Thank you for bringing that inspirational and foundationally TRUE speech from Eric Church.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 23, 2026 02:21 PM (w6EFb)

128 >>> Trump skipped his son's wedding. It may be a big dead but I don't think it's a deal deal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 01:51 PM (LJVs0)

He implied that his presence would bring more danger to everyone involved and he didn't want to do that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 23, 2026 02:40 PM (3uBP9)

129 Thanks for a rollicking, chock full of learning, Memorial Day thread, KT!

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 02:53 PM (6wpGE)

130 If you're have trouble breathing and are coughing up big chunks of green slime go to the freaking hospital instead of fighting through it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 03:20 PM (qrzX6)

131 For those of you who are interested, the US overflew and landed two Osprey V-22 at the US embasy in Caracas as part of an "emergency test" for evacuations from the Venezuelan capital with permission from the Venezuelan government.
Today was the second day of overflight, and apparently the first landing of US craft in Caracas since the capture of Nicolas Maduro

"This Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Caracas released images of the moment when several aircraft landed at the diplomatic compound located in Valle Arriba, Caracas.

youtu.be/kSK1XviG43o

from X:

https://tinyurl.com/76649wk3

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 03:20 PM (rbvCR)

132 Osprey, McCain and K street's dream machine.
The men who fly those things must be top notch those machines are no easy flier.
Put congress in those things and do some touch and goes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 03:47 PM (LJVs0)

133 > Osprey, McCain and K street's dream machine.
The men who fly those things must be top notch those machines are no easy flier.
Put congress in those things and do some touch and goes.
------------
Several are part of the squadron? that supports the White House. Painted exactly the same as the current helicopter(s)... olive green with white trim. No clue if Trump's flown on one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 04:03 PM (jehhT)

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

*****

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between from the streets of Manhattan. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Iron River)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects? You do the math there "Three Fingers".
4) 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:
3/28 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for a dear and long time close friend and former neighbor, Daniel,
who is scheduled for open heart surgery in mid-April. Prayers for his wife would be appreciated as well,
as she will be carrying a heavy load for the next few months.
4/18 Update – Daniel survived his complex open heart surgery. He is sitting up and it seems like it went
well, but they are not going to release him as quickly as he would like, so he is not happy. Thanks to the
Horde for the prayers and please keep praying for his dear wife, who now has even more to put up with.
5/16 Update – Hrothgar sends thanks for the prayers for Dan. Thanks to his attitude and the miracles
of modern heart surgery, Daniel is back home and in good spirits and mobile. He still has a lot of rehab
ahead, but it sounds like a pretty good recovery to be home only 20 days after being on the table!
3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into
where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come
in today and let them know the plan.
4/9 Update – On 4/1 Mr. Jordan61 was released from the hospital with six weeks of IV antibiotics,
which Jordan61 is administering every 8 hours. He’s in a lot of pain; they’ve given him oxy, fentanyl, and
dilaudid, and nothing seems to touch it. From what they were told, the pain won’t subside until the
infection is cleared up. For the time being, he is bed-bound and they are limiting his movement as much
as possible to keep the pain to a minimum. Jordan61 will send updates with progress.
4/25 Update – Mr. Jordan61 is making slow but steady progress. He can get up and walk for short
periods of time, and can sit in the living room for an hour or so per day. He is halfway through the IV
antibiotics, with 3 weeks to go. A physical therapist will be coming to help him build strength and learn
how to move without aggravating his back injury. Thank you all for the prayers!
4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now.
Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also
jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
4/24 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth provided an update: The pump that was put in to battle cancer in
December can only be used for 6 months. After that, it starts to damage the liver. So she may have to go
back onto the medication that made her lose her hair and messed up her vision and nails, and then
return to this medication after a break. This is not good news, since this new medication is working so
well. But for now, she is doing well and is incredibly grateful for the time that she has been given so far.
4/11 – Eromero craves prayers for Mrs. E., as she has been diagnosed with lymphoma. She begins
infusions on 4/23.
4/25 Update – Mrs. E. reports that she feels fine. Praise be to God that she has had only one distressful
episode during the infusions. Thank you for all the past and continued prayers.
4/18 – neverenoughcaffiene asked that Devyn be kept in prayers. She is a young mother of 2 with a
mass on her esophagus. The Doc said it was scar tissue and hopefully the second opinion will agree.
5/16 Update – The doctor providing Devyn’s second opinion advised her to stay with the original
doctor. She will be having a biopsy sometime in the next week. Prayers are still needed.
4/18 – Smell the Glove could use some prayers as therapy and rehab occur after gout/sepsis.
5/2 Update – The gout has cleared and the infection in the lower back is healing.
5/18 Update – Smell the Glove may be out of rehab this week, but still would need wound care at
home. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!
4/18 – Sam Adams requested prayers for a friend, Mary F, who was just sent to a long-term recovery
facility after having a tracheostomy.
5/2 Update – Mary’s breathing is improving, and they are weaning her off assisted breathing. She is
now off the ventilator for 12 hours a day, and they are aiming for 14 hours soon. Many thanks to all of
the Moron Horde for the prayers.
4/24 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for a friend’s father (Cory), who needs prayers for strength and
peace as he is going through some troubled times.
4/27 – Matthew Kant Cipher sent his thanks to those who prayed for his friend Layne (who is also his
son’s FIL). The Horde may recall that in August, Layne was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He has since
undergone courses of chemo, immunotherapy, and radiation. His latest scans came back clean. The
cancer is in remission; praise be to God! Prayers are also humbly requested for Mrs. MKC, who is dealing
with a new flare-up of a GI condition that had been leaving her alone until a recent procedure re-
aggravated it. It is very frustrating/discouraging as she waits to see a new GI doctor.
4/25 – Retired Buckeye Cop asked that we would continue to lift his 16 year old grandson (LH) up in
prayers, as LH continues to consider the call to priesthood in the Catholic Church. LH recently went to a
meeting with a group of young men who are considering the priesthood.
4/25 – Fenelon Spoke asked for prayers for “I”, who Fenelon visited and anointed with oil, and prayed
for healing of her health concerns.
5/2 – neverenoughcaffiene requested prayers for parishioners at her church, who lost their newborn
daughter, Astrid.
5/7 – turambar asked for prayers for relatives. Mom needs prayers as she was admitted to the hospital
to check her heart and cardio. They did not find pneumonia. Two months ago, she fell at her assisted
living place, and broke her hip. She also has dementia. Turambar’s uncle fell recently and broke his hip,
too.
5/9 – D asked for prayers. He was let go from his IT job and has started a business making and selling
lens cleaners to make ends meet. Please contact Annie’s Stew if you’d like more information – either to
order lens cleaners, or if you’d like to contact him related to IT job openings (DBA/Network Admin).
5/11 – rez986 asked if anyone had an update on Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse’s health. The last info
Annie’s Stew has was from January, 2026, that he’d been given 6 months to live due to heart failure and
was being treated and waiting for a transplant at Mayo.
5/16 Update – Dash my lace wings! posted that NDH is recovering well. IrishEi posted that NDH did
receive a heart transplant and that she is doing well. She also posted a link to NDH’s X account, and her
fundraising page.
5/15 – Toad-O requested prayers for his second ex-wife, the mother of his two children. They were
divorced 25 years ago, and 3 years later, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the children came
to live with Toad-O. The ex-wife is now suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s, and has been living with
Toad-O’s daughter and her husband. The ex-wife fell last month and and cracked 2 vertebrae, and just
was taken to ER with a rapid heartbeat and low blood pressure due to dehydration. Prayers are
appreciated for her and also for the daughter who has sacrificed a lot to care for her.
5/16 – Anna Puma requested prayers for the family of Dan Fordice, who was killed when the aircraft he
was flying crashed. He leaves behind a wife, 3 children, and many friends. He was a Warbird flyer, a CEO,
and a veteran of the 2/20 th SFG.
5/16 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Jane who is dying of breast cancer, and for Cheri who is in jail
(again) for drug related crimes.
5/20 – D gave an update on his wife Susan, and her continued battle with cancer. Her cancer markers
are still headed in the right direction. She is on a new antibiotic, and it is causing some side effects, but it
is keeping her out of another surgery, so that is a win. Thanks again to everyone for their prayers. May 1
marked one year sine they found out about the cancer, and Susan is doing so well.
5/20 – E gave an update. She and her family were having financial struggles a few months ago, and
asked for prayers. E sends her thanks for the prayers, and wanted to let people know that things are
getting better, thanks to the Horde’s prayers and their church family. They have resolved their mortgage
issue and her husband has resumed his side gig making deliveries. They are also cutting monthly
expenses. They would like continued prayers as the deal with the insurance company of the person who
crashed into (and totaled) E’s vehicle. Insurance only offered half the replacement value, so that
struggle is still going on.
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 in
a 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 08:00 AM

Comments

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1 Prayers for all God's children.

Posted by: kingsman at May 23, 2026 07:29 AM (ehY6c)

2 Someone's been playing with the time machine again.

Current time: 07:29. Post time: 08:00

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 23, 2026 07:30 AM (O7YUW)

3 Time warp time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 07:34 AM (jehhT)

4 Coffee! Yes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 23, 2026 07:36 AM (VyBeY)

5 I put ghee in my coffee.
I'm a gheezer.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 07:37 AM (2Ez/1)

6 Morning, caffeinators,

I'm finishing up my morning pot (ca. 4 cups) of coffee. Time for me to shave and get otherwise cleaned up. Later, haircut, library, and dropping some stuff off at the thrift store out in the 'burbs. I hope I can get the errands done before it rains.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 07:38 AM (wzUl9)

7 Not on the list, but prayers for "I used to have a different nic" who is awaiting the result of a biopsy of a mass found on his prostate.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 23, 2026 07:38 AM (IXblq)

8 "...and dropping some stuff off at the thrift store out in the 'burbs."

The more the better. Everything you own owns you.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

9 "The more the better. Everything you own owns you.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty"

*eyes stockpile of dryer lint*

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:40 AM (vFG9F)

10 - @1 Kingsland

And also, especially for those who aren't, at this point, yet!

Posted by: TeeJ at May 23, 2026 07:42 AM (eisI8)

11 *eyes stockpile of dryer lint*
_____
Let's not get too hasty here...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 07:42 AM (2Ez/1)

12 It's Early!!

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:43 AM (GD0B3)

13 Armenian coffee...

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:44 AM (GD0B3)

14 So , What up dogs!!

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:44 AM (GD0B3)

15 WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:45 AM (GD0B3)

16 11 *eyes stockpile of dryer lint*
_____
Let's not get too hasty here...
_-_
Makes great firestarter for the wood stove. Waste not want not.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 23, 2026 07:47 AM (2gJPm)

17 Good morning again dear horde with thanks to annie, mh, and you morons for praying

{grammie}
Hiya JT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:49 AM (RIvkX)

18 Good morning Horde,thx MisHum
A big thank you to the Horde for your prayers while I was in rehab for the infection I had. Came home yesterday and while I have to utilize a wound vac for a time it's good to be home

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 07:49 AM (flmKL)

19 Should be a huge travel weekend. I pray for safe journeys across the board. And please don't drive angry, you'll get there: Maybe NSFW due to F bomb

https://tinyurl.com/2vkdby5u

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 23, 2026 07:50 AM (w/O5Q)

20 "12 It's Early!!
Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:43 AM (GD0B3)

13 Armenian coffee...
Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:44 AM (GD0B3)

14 So , What up dogs!!
Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:44 AM (GD0B3)

15 WAKE UP PEOPLE!!
Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 07:45 AM (GD0B3)"

Talk about hitting the ground running. I'll have what he's having.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

21 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend. at May 23, 2026 07:50 AM (oftw2)

22 Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need. The prayers really do work and reinforce the recipients in their recoveries

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 07:51 AM (flmKL)

23 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:52 AM (Ia/+0)

24 Dryer Lint Trivia: It does make an excellent firestarter as suggested in the morning report comments, but this is not what you want in your home. The ducting needs cleaning periodically. Not simply the lint-trap. I guess it’s a more common source of house fires. I would not run a clothes dryer and leave the house unattended.

(For making firestarter for Camping use from Lint, you want Lint made from cotton clothes. Synthetics don’t work to catch sparks very well)

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 07:53 AM (BWpBM)

25 Its a jump to the left
Then a step to the right
Put your hands on your hips

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:53 AM (Ia/+0)

26 Dear Morons,

A praise report. My prayer to become a grandad has been answered and by the will of hashem Girl F. will have a baby in December. She still plans to attend graduate school but will delay for a year. Which also means they will be depending on us for child care which pleases me to the nth degree!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

27 Prayers for all

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 07:55 AM (dE3DB)

28
Rain has pushed off and the dogs have been given the chance to go out. I held off earlier because Diana doesn't like flashes and booms, poor thing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 07:56 AM (HdYcL)

29 Dreary day here in east, 50s and rain

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 07:57 AM (Ia/+0)

30 Rainy day
Too lazy to get up to brew coffee as that also means taking doggeh out

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 07:57 AM (dE3DB)

31 Good Saturday morning, horde!

Thanks be for this place where we can gather and pray for our friends, scattered as we are. Sometimes the internet is a wonderful thing.

Prayers have been said for all on the list, and the rest of you as well.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 23, 2026 07:58 AM (h7ZuX)

32 Is navel lint a good firestarter?

Posted by: Randy Senior Citizen at May 23, 2026 07:58 AM (oftw2)

33 @26: Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX
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Congratulations San Franpsycho. Wishing the best, good health and much happiness to you and your entire family.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 23, 2026 07:59 AM (lsIOl)

34 My husband had a dryer lint fire, before we met. Took a year to rebuild the house.

On the other hand, there is a woman that "paints" using dryer lint. Pictures are amazing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 23, 2026 07:59 AM (7T8ei)

35 Went for a walk with esteemed spouse. There was a robin sitting on the top of a holly tree. It looked like the bird equivalent of an angel on the top of a Christmas tree, and as we came back I saw a allium ( which I guess someone had picked and then thrown on the ground) 😕I picked it up and will bring it home. An allium is part of the onion family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 07:59 AM (m6Eem)

36 (For making firestarter for Camping use from Lint, you want Lint made from cotton clothes. Synthetics don’t work to catch sparks very well)
Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 07:53 AM
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I have a small Ziploc bag of it with my camping stuff. A few magnesium shavings and a shower of sparks from the flint and Robert's your dad's brother. Boom.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 08:00 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Thank Rufus

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:00 AM (RIvkX)

38 I have been freaking out about my eyesight. My eye dr says I have myopic macular degrneration.Prayers appreciated.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 08:00 AM (dE3DB)

39 And here is a picture of an allium:

https://tinyurl.com/3wcmn9bz

If you are able to and the weather cooperates consider going for a walk today. It's very nurturing for your spirit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 08:02 AM (m6Eem)

40 33 @26: Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX
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Congratulations San Franpsycho. Wishing the best, good health and much happiness to you and your entire family.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 23, 2026 07:59 AM (lsIOl)

Congrats from here, too!

Posted by: Nova Local at May 23, 2026 08:02 AM (tOcjL)

41 I have discovered that trying to learn to walk on a peg leg and drinking whiskey is not a good combination.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2026 08:02 AM (XV/Pl)

42 3 Rainy day
Too lazy to get up to brew coffee as that also means taking doggeh out

Posted by: vmom

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Doggeh waits? Good doggeh!

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 23, 2026 08:02 AM (gpQ8/)

43
A note about the Borzoi breeder S., who was badly injured in an accident at a field event at our National. Her dogs have been transported from Omaha to their home in West Texas and are being taken care of.

She is still in the hospital and is likely to be there for at least four to six months. Her leg was broken above and below the knee, vertebrae in the neck and back were broken and she had internal bleeding and a severe concussion.

She's about our age and so her recovery is likely to be slow and incomplete.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:02 AM (HdYcL)

44 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 08:00 AM (dE3DB)

Will pray for you, vmom.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 08:03 AM (m6Eem)

45 Wait, actually just called myopic degrneration

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 08:03 AM (dE3DB)

46 Devyn had her biopsy this week and she's waiting on the results. Continued prayers are appreciated.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 23, 2026 08:04 AM (2NHgQ)

47 SanFranpsycho, B'sha'ah tovah

Posted by: Ben Had at May 23, 2026 08:04 AM (5P5DO)

48 "Went for a walk with esteemed spouse. There was a robin sitting on the top of a holly tree. It looked like the bird equivalent of an angel on the top of a Christmas tree..."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at 07:59 AM
++++++

Thoreau said "It's not what you look at. It's what you see."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 08:04 AM (2Ez/1)

49 Thank you nova

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

50 @39

>>If you are able to and the weather cooperates consider going for a walk today. It's very nurturing for your spirit.

Won't be walking proper for a while, but I will be rolling along side grandson today for the Veterans flag placement at the cemetery today.

Nothing better than watching a bunch of scouts scrambling around trying to outdue each other.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2026 08:05 AM (XV/Pl)

51 Thomas Bender but a skkll once mastered could be a great story

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 08:05 AM (Ia/+0)

52 vmom a prayer for complete and speedy healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

53 San Fran. Woo hoo, congrats to girl F and your entire family. Good news for a change.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 23, 2026 08:08 AM (2NHgQ)

54 @51

>>Thomas Bender but a skkll once mastered could be a great story

Oh I am determined to master it, it's just I'm pretty bummed about being layed up.

And the full recovery time is nothing to sneeze at, it's a year give or take.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2026 08:08 AM (XV/Pl)

55 Thank you Ben Had that is very kind

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

56 I have a small Ziploc bag of it with my camping stuff. A few magnesium shavings and a shower of sparks from the flint and Robert's your dad's brother. Boom.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

A staple of air-cooled VW meetups has been throwing an old VW engine half on the bonfire at night. That much magnesium makes a bright, huge conflagration. Don't think anything will grow on the spot for a century.

Posted by: Cheep Thrills at May 23, 2026 08:09 AM (oftw2)

57 Thanks nec

My subtle campaign of threats and intimidation (and praying) worked!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

58 Yeah - the magnesium bar from Doan’s machining co. White hot when burning.

Before matches, getting your pipe going was a bit of a trick. “Fire steel” and a piece of flint. I imagine they got good at it, but it was a pain in wet & windy weather. I made a Bow Drill once, and decided although it works great I will never go out to the remote sticks without about 6 different ways to get a fire going.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:12 AM (z1t++)

59 An orchestral Zappa is a fine way to start the day.

Posted by: Zoot Allures! at May 23, 2026 08:12 AM (oftw2)

60 The Smithsonian kerfuffle reminds me of something. We need to defund the Smithsonian, and divest its relics to private collectors ( no bid for foreigners, US citizens only, nor may they be sold to one later).

Our America-hating government can't be trusted to safeguard our heritage. They hate it with their whole hearts. Scatter it among private collectors.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 23, 2026 08:13 AM (BI5O2)

61 Dear Morons,

A praise report. My prayer to become a grandad has been answered and by the will of hashem Girl F. will have a baby in December. She still plans to attend graduate school but will delay for a year. Which also means they will be depending on us for child care which pleases me to the nth degree!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

Congrats! Raise them right!

Posted by: runner at May 23, 2026 08:13 AM (GD0B3)

62 Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

Isn't that wonderful news! Prayers for your daughter and husband the growing baby!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 08:14 AM (n3VHW)

63 A praise report. My prayer to become a grandad has been answered and by the will of hashem Girl F. will have a baby in December.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

This is wonderful news! More babies, please!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 23, 2026 08:15 AM (h7ZuX)

64 I’ve a small oval brass tobacco box, reproduction of a design once made by the Hudson Bay co., nicely made, it has a glass magnifier in the lid. If it’s sunny at least, you will be able to light your pipe.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:15 AM (z1t++)

65 Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 23, 2026 08:05 AM (XV/Pl)

Sounds like a very special day. Enjoy yourself and your grandson and the other scouts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 08:16 AM (n3VHW)

66 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

I had an unusual encounter at Walmart this morning.

I met an old man who claimed to be the great grandson of Bushwhacker Bill Wilson, one of the inspirations for the Outlaw Josey Wales.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 08:16 AM (gnNyN)

67 "This is wonderful news! More babies, please!"
*******
Sorry. Full up right now.

Posted by: Little old lady shoe dweller at May 23, 2026 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

68 Wow, Hadrian, glad the Borzoi lady is on the mend, but that's an immense amount of damage from a doggie collision. Sounds like a world of hurt. Will continue to pray for her recovery.

Posted by: Square One at May 23, 2026 08:20 AM (oftw2)

69 I recall a static display of the B-29 Enola Gay in the 1990s, I think that might have been through the Smithsonian and they effed it up. At that time both the crew and war veterans were still alive and raised a ruckus. That isn’t the case any longer. Revisionists are like termites on a house. There is certainly room for a balanced approach to history, different perspectives, but that isn’t what’s going on.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:20 AM (z1t++)

70 24, spot on! I will only run the dryer when at home.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 23, 2026 08:21 AM (VyBeY)

71 Thanks, Annie's Stew for collecting all the prayer requests , for MisHum for posting them and for all the people who pray. . Prayer is so important!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 08:22 AM (n3VHW)

72 Hey, all. Homelessness sucks. Overnight in car two nights, no sleeping. Next paycheck Friday. This is going to be rough. Pray for me. About ready to give up.

Poverty trap is real.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:22 AM (Jj3eo)

73 In one of the "bugout bags" I've got a set of ferro rods for starting fires. Didn't think about the dryer lint, but I think I'll start a stash in a baggie to add.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 08:23 AM (jehhT)

74 Thanks Fen, dash, runner

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

75 San Franpsycho, congrats to you and the family.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 23, 2026 08:23 AM (flmKL)

76 *eyes stockpile of dryer lint*
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:40 AM (vFG9F)
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Saving it for a rainy day?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 08:24 AM (gnNyN)

77 72 Hey, all. Homelessness sucks. Overnight in car two nights, no sleeping. Next paycheck Friday. This is going to be rough. Pray for me. About ready to give up.

Poverty trap is real.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:22 AM (Jj3eo)

Please stop by your nearest Catholic Church (at least if you are US)...ask for help.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 23, 2026 08:25 AM (tOcjL)

78 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 May 23, 2026 08:25 AM (ZOv7s)

79 Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:22 AM

Do not give up! Is there anyone iin your community social services who can help?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 08:25 AM (n3VHW)

80 "...and dropping some stuff off at the thrift store out in the 'burbs."
*
The more the better. Everything you own owns you.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026

***
Earlier this year I got rid of an old CRT portable TV I'd bought in 2005 and hadn't used in almost that long. There are clothes I want to get rid of -- they still fit, but I'm tired of them -- and some books too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 08:27 AM (wzUl9)

81 "Saving it for a rainy day?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

According to the NY Post, I should never throw it away. I did not read further to find out why.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 08:27 AM (vFG9F)

82 Brother Tim thanks for checking in Imma chant Ps. 90 for you today

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

83 >>A note about the Borzoi breeder S., who was badly injured in an accident at a field event at our National.

Yikes! Hit by the dog during lure coursing?

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 08:28 AM (J4Dwc)

84 Thanks smell the glove.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

85 If you find vintage Ohio Blue Tips, prior to the 1980s say, those are nice. “Strike Anywhere” matches are still made, but they are No Bueno now.

Tough to beat a Zippo in wind. Clink-flick-Whump!!

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:29 AM (lQYPV)

86 Dreary day here in east, 50s and rain
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026

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Just as dreary here: 80 or more, 100% humidity, drizzling off and on. The heat makes it tough to wear a hat and rain jacket, and an umbrella, even a compact one, is awkward to carry and easy to forget.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 08:30 AM (wzUl9)

87 Poverty trap is real.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:22 AM (Jj3eo)

Prayers for providence for you, Brother Tim. Whereabouts are you?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 23, 2026 08:33 AM (h7ZuX)

88 Poverty trap is real.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:22 AM (Jj3eo)

Please stop by your nearest Catholic Church (at least if you are US)...ask for help.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 23, 2026 08:25 AM (tOcjL)
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This is good advice. The churches should be open for daily Mass and you can take a nap on the pews without anyone having a problem with it and you will likely get offers of help, depending on the area.

One of the things I've learned since my wife started volunteering is that government assistance does NOTHING for poor people. It is all corrupt. All the grants, services, agencies, are just money laundering and rackets. Actual care is done by volunteers. Without church clothing drives and kitchens, the homeless would die and the government would just truck on.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)

89 44,000 people thrown out of their homes in L.A.due to a chemical leak

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

90 Fun fact: the entire budget for St. Vincent in the capital region is less than a mid-grade civil service salary. It's absurd.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:34 AM (ZOv7s)

91
Yikes! Hit by the dog during lure coursing?
Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 08:28 AM (J4Dwc)

Yes, full tilt. That's a 90 pound dog moving at 25 mph.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:35 AM (HdYcL)

92
The Big Dummy does battle twice today in Kalamazoo. Grand Rapids KC show and, concurrently, the Midwest Borzoi Club specialty. Outdoor ring and it's raining today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:38 AM (HdYcL)

93 Yes, full tilt. That's a 90 pound dog moving at 25 mph.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I have noticed there are no senior citizens in the NFL.

Posted by: Joan Lunden at May 23, 2026 08:39 AM (oftw2)

94 The Big Dummy does battle twice today in Kalamazoo. Grand Rapids KC show and, concurrently, the Midwest Borzoi Club specialty. Outdoor ring and it's raining today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:38 AM (HdYcL)
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He has quite a busy schedule.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

95 The Big Dummy does battle twice today in Kalamazoo. Grand Rapids KC show and, concurrently, the Midwest Borzoi Club specialty. Outdoor ring and it's raining today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:38 AM (HdYcL)
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Welcome to Michigan! Both sites are about an hour from here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

96 Congratulations to you and all, SFp1

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 23, 2026 08:41 AM (VyBeY)

97 Montgomery, Alabama. Resources here are overstretched to garbage and not great to start with. Having difficulty contacting church folks, the holiday weekend maybe?

Punchline is I'm close to a housing solution but...no money, and time is not with me here.

Sick and tired of patches and time mismatches. Had funds for month but my head was a mess post surgery and radiation...and if I had the lead I have now I'd be much better off!

I don't know what God's playing at. Hope it benefits someone because it sucks for me.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:42 AM (8wSX6)

98 " ... Without church clothing drives and kitchens, the homeless would die and the government would just truck on."

periodically pulling a gun on the suckers and demanding more money.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 23, 2026 08:43 AM (VyBeY)

99 >>The Big Dummy does battle twice today in Kalamazoo. Grand Rapids KC show and, concurrently, the Midwest Borzoi Club specialty. Outdoor ring and it's raining today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:38 AM (HdYcL)

My class girl needs 4 points and a major to finish. Reserve BOW the last two days. Crap.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 08:43 AM (J4Dwc)

100 97 Montgomery, Alabama. Resources here are overstretched to garbage and not great to start with. Having difficulty contacting church folks, the holiday weekend maybe?

Punchline is I'm close to a housing solution but...no money, and time is not with me here.

Sick and tired of patches and time mismatches. Had funds for month but my head was a mess post surgery and radiation...and if I had the lead I have now I'd be much better off!

I don't know what God's playing at. Hope it benefits someone because it sucks for me.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:42 AM (8wSX6)

There are Saturday night vigils at all Catholic Churches, usually start between 5-6pm and end between 6-7pm. Go in, and wait for the end and talk to the priest or deacon (if their admin office isn't open) and ask for his help. They'll know how to get you help. You may want to wait til most folks are gone, just b/c they do tend to get mobbed right after Mass.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 23, 2026 08:45 AM (tOcjL)

101 Also: FUCK MY EMPLOYER. Boss thinks sticking someone at 12.33/hour for SIX DAMN YEARS in this economy is just peachy, apparently.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 08:45 AM (8wSX6)

102 Mornin’, All. Happy Saturday.

Oh, and BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

103
Welcome to Michigan! Both sites are about an hour from here.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

Her Majesty was a Michigan resident for many years, mostly near Traverse City.

She's getting a distinctly chilly welcome from the Midwest people. As though to say, "Why are you here and not in Texas?" Ah, well. Some time ago when we lived in Ohio, we won the Rocky Mountain Borzoi Club specialty three years running. The Colorado people didn't want to see us in Denver after that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:48 AM (HdYcL)

104 You should have opened a Daycare Tim. Or Home Health Care. What’s wrong with you?

What’s your “Immigration Status”? Maybe a little “No Habla Inglis” would be helpful too.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:49 AM (Yr1lv)

105 There are Saturday night vigils at all Catholic Churches, usually start between 5-6pm and end between 6-7pm. Go in, and wait for the end and talk to the priest or deacon (if their admin office isn't open) and ask for his help. They'll know how to get you help. You may want to wait til most folks are gone, just b/c they do tend to get mobbed right after Mass.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 23, 2026 08:45 AM (tOcjL)
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This is good advice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:50 AM (ZOv7s)

106 Seeing reporting $300,000,000,000 in stock market value was wiped out in China yesterday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

107 What’s your “Immigration Status”? Maybe a little “No Habla Inglis” would be helpful too.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:49 AM (Yr1lv)
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There are about 800 homeless people in the area, up from 500 a few years ago. During Covid, Biden flew in 500 Afghans, bought up a hotel to house them, and arranged for regular meals. The local homeless got nothing.

Tells you all you need to know.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:52 AM (ZOv7s)

108 Prayer up, Brother Tim.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 08:53 AM (77rzZ)

109 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 23, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

110 Seeing reporting $300,000,000,000 in stock market value was wiped out in China yesterday.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 08:51 AM (RIvkX)
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Earthquakes in China last week. Several tremors, 5.1, 5.0, 3.5. In a civilized country, it's nothing. In China with their crap building standards, whole apartment blocks came down. Government claims only a couple of people hurt.

Sure.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

111 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 it 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. John Baptist de Rossi, since you could hear confessions through the Church, 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 May 23, 2026 08:54 AM (ksbjf)

112 Prayers ascending for those good people in need, and for those with unstated needs known to God.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 23, 2026 08:54 AM (u82oZ)

113 Brother Tim, hold on and do as some suggestion looking for some help

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 08:54 AM (Ia/+0)

114 Almost time I got rolling. Hope the rain holds off. See ya on the Pet Thread, all!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 08:55 AM (wzUl9)

115 *Seeing reporting $300,000,000,000 in stock market value was wiped out in China yesterday.*
______

It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at May 23, 2026 08:56 AM (2Ez/1)

116 Someone's been playing with the time machine again.

Current time: 07:29. Post time: 08:00
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 23, 2026 07:30 AM (O7YUW)

There as disturbance in the Force. I posted a comment and then the Prayer Thread went "poof" and then it came back.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 08:56 AM (ksbjf)

117
Earthquakes in China last week. Several tremors, 5.1, 5.0, 3.5. In a civilized country, it's nothing. In China with their crap building standards, whole apartment blocks came down. Government claims only a couple of people hurt.

Sure.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

The 50-Cent Army will tell you, "China infrastructure incredible! US awful."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:57 AM (HdYcL)

118 Dear Morons,

A praise report. My prayer to become a grandad has been answered and by the will of hashem Girl F. will have a baby in December. She still plans to attend graduate school but will delay for a year. Which also means they will be depending on us for child care which pleases me to the nth degree!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

Grandchildren are such a joy. I think that they're God's way of rewarding us for not selling our teenaged children to the traveling Gypsies.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 08:59 AM (ksbjf)

119 Have cawfee
Getting dog food ready

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 09:00 AM (gDlxJ)

120 The 50-Cent Army will tell you, "China infrastructure incredible! US awful."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 08:57 AM (HdYcL)
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Japanese commentary is particularly withering. "5.0? We don't even wake up for that. Doesn't even spill the coffee. A 7.0 will flatten your entire country."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:01 AM (ZOv7s)

121 San Franpsycho

Grandchildren are true wealth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 23, 2026 09:01 AM (u82oZ)

122 Aaight. Going to try to hold on to evening Catholic mass and see what can be managed. Plus side, rain in the area is keeping temperatures down, and this Walmart parking lot isn't scenic but I don't get hassled.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 09:02 AM (8wSX6)

123 Congrats GranDad Franpsycho!
And thx for the prayers

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 09:02 AM (tcsrY)

124 So the Plantation Simulator game, where you have to whip your slaves to keep production up, but if you whip them too much they die, has updated:
Now all the slaves are white.

And it's getting review bombed for its lack of diversity and whitewashing history.

Lol

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 23, 2026 09:02 AM (73/SM)

125 119 Have cawfee
Getting dog food ready
Posted by: vmom deport deport
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Breakfast of champions.

Posted by: Purina Morning Chow at May 23, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)

126 What's it like to have an adult with autism?

This guy at RCP nails it.

https://tinyurl.com/4fht4h3c

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

127 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I am highly amused when the Japanese dump on China and their QA standards. Glad they are on our side these days.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 23, 2026 09:04 AM (u82oZ)

128 122 Aaight. Going to try to hold on to evening Catholic mass and see what can be managed. Plus side, rain in the area is keeping temperatures down, and this Walmart parking lot isn't scenic but I don't get hassled.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 09:02 AM (8wSX6)

Good - keep us updated tonight on how they help and how you are!

Posted by: Nova Local at May 23, 2026 09:04 AM (tOcjL)

129 Thanks salty, vmom, and buckeye cop!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

130 Have a great day, everyone.

May blessings enfold you and hold you and yours safe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 23, 2026 09:06 AM (u82oZ)

131 One of the things I've learned since my wife started volunteering is that government assistance does NOTHING for poor people. It is all corrupt. All the grants, services, agencies, are just money laundering and rackets. Actual care is done by volunteers. Without church clothing drives and kitchens, the homeless would die and the government would just truck on.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:33 AM (ZOv7s)

As we've been learing [sic], the grift and fraud is the real purpose of all of these programs. If the objective was to really get money to the poor, the Democrats would be outraged by the fraud. But they're not, they're only angry that their game has been exposed.

There's so much money involved, politicians (in both parties) have been dipping their beaks, and regulators have been bribed to ignore the fraud.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:07 AM (ksbjf)

132 One LA Homeless program blew $400 M on 1400 people.

400000000/1400=285,714

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 09:08 AM (/+uur)

133 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

May God shower all of His beloved children with mercy and grace this day.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Happy Memorial Day weekend. Let us pause and give thanks for those who died so we could live in freedom.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 23, 2026 09:09 AM (D/6p1)

134 Brother Tim -- you still need to stay in your current area for your job, correct? Your job isn't remote-friendly?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 09:10 AM (FMtrg)

135 Prayers for my Uncle Jeffs family.
He was buried on Tuesday.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 09:11 AM (/+uur)

136 I remember a 4.3 earthquake hit Dallas in 2013. Anti-drilling activists claimed that it proved Oil Production will Kill Us All, but the best meme came from someone who posted a picture of a sofa with a throw pillow on the floor next to it, captioned “Dallas Earthquake 2013 - We Shall Rebuild!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 09:11 AM (U0opd)

137 One LA Homeless program blew $400 M on 1400 people.

400000000/1400=285,714
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Dinner tonight?
Sure, what time?

Posted by: The French Laundry at May 23, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)

138 Happy Memorial Day weekend. Let us pause and give thanks for those who died so we could live in freedom.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 23, 2026 09:09 AM (D/6p1)

Since 1980, there have been over 63,670 active-duty military deaths. The majority of these deaths, about 84%, were due to accidents, illness, and suicide rather than combat.
Accidents: 29,948 deaths
Illness: 11,485 deaths

Soldiering and Sailing and Flying can be dangerous.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 09:14 AM (/+uur)

139 I am highly amused when the Japanese dump on China and their QA standards. Glad they are on our side these days.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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The Chinese were shooting shells filled with sawdust at them in the Battle of the Yalu River back in 1894. They've got a lot of experience.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 23, 2026 09:15 AM (XvL8K)

140 As we've been learing [sic], the grift and fraud is the real purpose of all of these programs. If the objective was to really get money to the poor, the Democrats would be outraged by the fraud. But they're not, they're only angry that their game has been exposed.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:07 AM (ksbjf)
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There has been a major cultural shift within liberalism. On the one hand, they still chant about helping the poor, but they are remarkably indifferent as to whether it happens.

I think this is a result of Pelagianism becoming mainstream among the Democrats, aka Cheap Grace. Basically, their good intentions render them proof against any form of moral judgement, and they should suffer no consequences for failure because they meant well. This also renders them incapable of self-correction.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

141 Earthquakes in China last week. Several tremors, 5.1, 5.0, 3.5. In a civilized country, it's nothing. In China with their crap building standards, whole apartment blocks came down. Government claims only a couple of people hurt.

Sure.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

It's not just that everything is build of Chinesium over there. A number (how many I don't know) of Chinese engineers are actual frauds.

There was a Taiwanese kid in my cohort back when I was getting my Mechanical Engineering degree. He told us that there were students from Communist China that were not who they purported to be. Apparently the scam that the CCP played was that a smart peasant would get the degree in behalf of some CCP official's idiot kid.

Thus we see entire apartment buildings tipping over in the mud, and bridges falling off of their anchor-points.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:17 AM (ksbjf)

142 Happy Saturday!

Prayers for the horde.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2026 09:18 AM (X8xt3)

143 137 One LA Homeless program blew $400 M on 1400 people.

400000000/1400=285,714

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The performance of civic good is completely incidental to the primary goal of putting taxpayer money in the right pockets.

Gavin Newsom is the very face of this principle in CA.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 09:19 AM (u/oMr)

144 Soldiering and Sailing and Flying can be dangerous.
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 09:14 AM (/+uur)
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This reminds me of the fake fiscal conservatives wringing their hands about the rate at which retired veterans collect disability. News flash: the military life breaks you down even if you never see combat. Of course, they're Super Patriots, they just prefer their social inferior to be barred from their gated communities.

For budgetary reasons, of course. And they will drag out office REMFs like Combat Lawyer David French who will point to his single enlistment (most of it spent in the schoolhouse), as authoritative.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)

145 >>One LA Homeless program blew $400 M on 1400 people.

400000000/1400=285,714

In another interview, Pratt said there was a program where an NGO was given about that much, used it to by a retirement home (and paid twice the price for the property = graft), then charged the government $400k per bed for a homeless person -- but never moved anyone in.

Literally free, unaccountable tens of millions!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 23, 2026 09:21 AM (X8xt3)

146 "He told us that there were students from Communist China that were not who they purported to be."
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Shocking.

Posted by: Claude Rains at May 23, 2026 09:21 AM (2Ez/1)

147 Thus we see entire apartment buildings tipping over in the mud, and bridges falling off of their anchor-points.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:17 AM (ksbjf)
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Yes, and I find it difficult to believe their martial culture and military leadership is any better. When essentially the entire general officer corps is vulnerable to bribery charges, it's an endemic problem.

I think there's a book about this...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

148 The whole plan of Marxism is to break the system and replace it with their utopia. Giving massive funds to the useless does that

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 09:23 AM (Ia/+0)

149 as we came back I saw a allium ( which I guess someone had picked and then thrown on the ground) 😕I picked it up and will bring it home.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 07:59 AM (m6Eem)

Careful. Not all of them are legal...

(whistles to self while sauntering towards the exit..)

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 09:23 AM (nbLIj)

150 > "government assistance"

If ever there was an oxymoron.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 09:24 AM (jehhT)

151 ...

the Democrats would be outraged by the fraud. But they're not, they're only angry that their game has been exposed.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:07 AM (ksbjf)
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There has been a major cultural shift within liberalism. On the one hand, they still chant about helping the poor, but they are remarkably indifferent as to whether it happens.

I think this is a result of Pelagianism becoming mainstream among the Democrats, aka Cheap Grace. Basically, their good intentions render them proof against any form of moral judgement, and they should suffer no consequences for failure because they meant well. This also renders them incapable of self-correction.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

Perhaps some of the rank-and-file Dems have good intentions, but I doubt that Dem politicians are motivated by any other motives than obtaining power, money and sex.

You and I are in agreement in our evaluation of collectivism: It requires the commissions of the Sins of Pride, Wrath, Envy and Theft. Any feelings of agape' are completely missing.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:25 AM (ksbjf)

152 The ongoing US revival of military culture shows that wokeness/corruption must be *imposed* and that without it, the traditional martial virtues of the West will reassert themselves.

Raising standards actually increases interest. Young men long to go on quests, to be the hero - not Main Character, but actually accomplish something. I saw an anecdote on twitter that during a siege, Napoleon noted that one battery was in a vulnerable position, but it was crucial to his plan. Troops were shying away from serving there.

So he declared that battery could only be manned by men without fear. No one else would be permitted to serve there. That was it's formal name: Battery For Men Without Fear. It was immediately where all the crews wanted to serve.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

153 I think this is a result of Pelagianism becoming mainstream among the Democrats, aka Cheap Grace. Basically, their good intentions render them proof against any form of moral judgement, and they should suffer no consequences for failure because they meant well. This also renders them incapable of self-correction.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

The idea makes good sense, and also explains how the door was opened to absolute corruption at all levels of the Dem Party. Uniparty Republicans are just as bad in their own way, but at least Trump is trying to clean those Augean Stables. (Just look how Mad they are about Cornyn and Cassidy)

But the left is so bad that it’s now truly impossible for any decent or honest person to hold any party position of responsibility or leadership. I don’t care for Co. governor Polis, but at least he did an honorable and decent thing in freeing Tina Peters. It was an act of mercy and justice, yet he was immediately censured by his own party for doing it, and he will never hold another political office in that state.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 09:25 AM (U0opd)

154 I believe that it is just about impossible to Do Good with government money.
There are too many chances to do wrong, too many regulations and rules, and too many opportunities to become an extension of bad governing.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 09:25 AM (/+uur)

155 I think this is a result of Pelagianism becoming mainstream among the Democrats, aka Cheap Grace. Basically, their good intentions render them proof against any form of moral judgement, and they should suffer no consequences for failure because they meant well. This also renders them incapable of self-correction.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)
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They think their "good" intentions are sufficient without regard to actual outcomes. Their intentions are better than your intentions which are foul and evil. This also renders them good and you evil.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 09:26 AM (RIvkX)

156 Good morning, prayer warriors!

I just want to put the word out that we are looking for a replacement vehicle for the one that was totaled. We are looking for something cheap and reliable. We are accustomed to driving Toyotas well past 300k miles, for instance, so we aren't afraid of age and mileage in a vehicle like that.

Due to my husband's mobility, he needs something with a middle-range entry height, like a minivan or small pickup or small/medium SUV. It's difficult for him to lower himself into a sedan or climb up into a tall pickup. This will also be our tow vehicle for a 3,500 lb trailer.

We live in the mid-south and don't mind going to neighboring states for a good deal. So if anyone comes across a suitable candidate for us, will you let me know, please? The insurance company has offered $2600 for our totaled vehicle (about half of replacement cost). Thank you!

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 09:26 AM (FMtrg)

157 This also renders them incapable of self-correction.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:16 AM (ZOv7s)

To be fair, they do this only for the Common Good!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 09:27 AM (hOUT3)

158 Perhaps some of the rank-and-file Dems have good intentions, but I doubt that Dem politicians are motivated by any other motives than obtaining power, money and sex.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:25 AM (ksbjf)
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Current Dems politicians are wolves among the sheep. All of them are sexual perverts in some way. Their voters just want to feel good about themselves and are fighting the old ennui by imagining Nazis are everywhere and their heroic yard sign will keep them at bay.

Yeah, Marxism is just a Christian heresy perverting virtues into vices. That is why it always targets the Church.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:28 AM (ZOv7s)

159 Prayers up for all that need them,

which last time I really looked was all of us!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 09:29 AM (hOUT3)

160 But the left is so bad that it’s now truly impossible for any decent or honest person to hold any party position of responsibility or leadership. I don’t care for Co. governor Polis, but at least he did an honorable and decent thing in freeing Tina Peters. It was an act of mercy and justice, yet he was immediately censured by his own party for doing it, and he will never hold another political office in that state.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 09:25 AM (U0opd)
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Yes, mercy for themselves, none for their enemies. They are wholly given over to wrath, and want to feel their enemies suffer. They are just convulsively lashing out, filling the void where God should be with hate and self-love.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

161 Thus we see entire apartment buildings tipping over in the mud, and bridges falling off of their anchor-points.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:17 AM (ksbjf)
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Yes, and I find it difficult to believe their martial culture and military leadership is any better. When essentially the entire general officer corps is vulnerable to bribery charges, it's an endemic problem.

I think there's a book about this...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

On top of that, their military hardware has been found to be lacking. While I'm certain that some of the failures of the Iranian HQ-9 SAMs were due to typical Arabian lack of maintenance of said hardware, the HQ-9 SAMs are samples of Chinese engineering and the U.S. military completely pantsed them within hours.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)

162 Since it came up, I'm going to spin a crazy counterfactual about the Senate. Thune is a double agent. It's all an op. Thune knows his caucus is weak, and that he can't even get 50 votes for the Save Act.

He cannot admit this. So instead he keeps kicking the ball down the field, and in the process he's getting the squishes in his caucus fired by the primary voters.

But wait, there's more! He's also driving GOP voting enthusiasm to presidential year heights. Look at how many people are voting in the primaries. It's unprecedented for so many sitting senators to get whacked like this. Never ever happened before. The Save act is wildly popular, so why not base the election on it?

It's a fun thought.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

163 Thank you Mis Hum and Annie's Stew.

Club size, No-Name Instant coffee with honey has never tasted this good, until tomorrow morning. It's cool and rainy. My friends' cat Snowflake was at my patio window at 6:30am. I dried her up.

Her and the dog Ralphy haven't been outside yet.

Time to read the thread and comments. Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 09:35 AM (Sco7b)

164
Raising standards actually increases interest. Young men long to go on quests, to be the hero - not Main Character, but actually accomplish something.

____________

In the naval battle off Cuba in the Spanish-American War, the plan was to sink a blockship to obstruct the Spanish leaving the harbor. The commander of the expedition signaled the US ships asking for volunteers for a suicide mission. The replies were along the lines of "Every man aboard wants to go" and "We can provide 300 men."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 09:35 AM (HdYcL)

165
It does make an excellent firestarter - a limerick

Said a young forest ranger named Clint
"Buying fire starters is money well-spent.
But it can be a little dicey
'Cause the storebought ones are pricey
So I decided to give them up for Lint!"

Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 09:36 AM (qgHp7)

166 On top of that, their military hardware has been found to be lacking. While I'm certain that some of the failures of the Iranian HQ-9 SAMs were due to typical Arabian lack of maintenance of said hardware, the HQ-9 SAMs are samples of Chinese engineering and the U.S. military completely pantsed them within hours.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)
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Point of order: Iranians are Persian, not Arabs. Very different culture.

China's QC is indifferent at best. Export weapons are breaking wherever they are being used. Look up Thailand's defective tanks for more proof. Do the domestic models work better? No one knows.

It's pretty cool to see my Three Generations Problem be proven in real time. I thought it only applied to the military, but every aspect of mainland China's culture has been corrupted.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)

167 Raising standards actually increases interest. Young men long to go on quests, to be the hero - not Main Character, but actually accomplish something. I saw an anecdote on twitter that during a siege, Napoleon noted that one battery was in a vulnerable position, but it was crucial to his plan. Troops were shying away from serving there.

So he declared that battery could only be manned by men without fear. No one else would be permitted to serve there. That was it's formal name: Battery For Men Without Fear. It was immediately where all the crews wanted to serve.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:25 AM (ZOv7s)

The Spanish "Blue Division" that Franco sent to the Russian front to fight with the Germans during WWII did something similar. They raised an assault infantry battalion within the Blue Division called the "Battalion of Death."

The Germans were actually quite impressed with the fighting ability of the Blue Division and gave them 5 or 6 Tiger tanks in 1942 -- the Tiger was brand-new and in short supply, even in the German military.

Of course, this allowed Franco to ship his most rabid anti-Communists trouble-makers to Russia.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:38 AM (ksbjf)

168 So I decided to give them up for Lint!"

**********

I hope this doesn't 'ignite' another 'flame war'.

Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 09:38 AM (qgHp7)

169 I called the state insurance commissioner and learned that my expectations for auto insurance were unrealistic. I thought drivers carried insurance so that they could make whole any damages they caused, so if an at-fault driver totaled our vehicle, his insurance would provide the funds to buy another of "like kind and quality." But no, the insurance only pays about what the vehicle is worth as a trade-in. Hint: you can't buy a car at its trade-in value price.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 09:40 AM (FMtrg)

170 162 Since it came up, I'm going to spin a crazy counterfactual about the Senate. Thune is a double agent. It's all an op. Thune knows his caucus is weak, and that he can't even get 50 votes for the Save Act.

..........
I was just reading this morning that here in SD his approval rating was 55% in March. Now it's at 28%. Not sure when he is up for reelection but hopefully by then it's at about 2% and we can boot his ass.

Posted by: Mollly k. at May 23, 2026 09:40 AM (j/yko)

171 Good morning. Prayers for all

I learned a new word here this morning (I often learn new things here): Pelagianism…. I looked it up; a denial of original sin. I read a little about it. Pelagius was not stupid but how anyone could look around and deny original sin boggles the mind.

He didn’t deny sin, mind you. He said humans could attain perfection with the help of God’s grace. He would’ve condemned today’s Dems as depraved as they excuse any and all sin (except for the sin of being MAGA or especially being Trump himself)… but his thinking truly was misguided. Heck, all I have to do is a little honest introspection and I immediately realize sin is pervasive!

Thanks for the intro to that new (to me) word

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 23, 2026 09:41 AM (26GAh)

172 It's a fun thought.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

Thune is nowhere smart enough to develop such a strategy…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 23, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh)

173 Congrats Sfp! Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at May 23, 2026 09:43 AM (HFx9z)

174 The DNI stepped down.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 23, 2026 09:43 AM (5kMf4)

175 On top of that, their military hardware has been found to be lacking. While I'm certain that some of the failures of the Iranian HQ-9 SAMs were due to typical Arabian lack of maintenance of said hardware, the HQ-9 SAMs are samples of Chinese engineering and the U.S. military completely pantsed them within hours.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)
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Point of order: Iranians are Persian, not Arabs. Very different culture.
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)

Quite true, but haven't they essentially been conquered by Arabs? I suspect that those bad qualities have infected the Iranian military.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:43 AM (ksbjf)

176 The Spanish "Blue Division" that Franco sent to the Russian front to fight with the Germans during WWII did something similar. They raised an assault infantry battalion within the Blue Division called the "Battalion of Death."

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:38 AM (ksbjf)
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Spain, you say? Another good topic for a book.

Franco was apolitical but shrewd. When the coup failed, he needed allies, the Phalange was right there. He also got the Carlists go join, and the Navarrese became his most elite units. The Blue Shirts ironically where were socialists trapped behind the line found cover ("A lot of Reds are buying blue shirts these days!") The same thing happened in Germany, btw, Reds became Brownshirts.

It wasn't the anti-communism that was the problem, it was the socialist element of Fascism. Franco was a pragmatist and didn't like ideologues. Hence his shift to technocrats to develop Spain.

Divison Azul was pretty hard core and Franco honored its veterans.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

177 Quite true, but haven't they essentially been conquered by Arabs? I suspect that those bad qualities have infected the Iranian military.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:43 AM (ksbjf)
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They were conquered by Arabs, but that was ended a long time ago. There's a reason that their Islam is in opposition to the one common among Arabs. Persians are very, very nationalistic.

The current issue is the corruption of the mullahs and their SS goons.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

178 Regarding the "morality" of the left, I have similar observations. We occasionally attend church with a leftist family member and the difference between atmospheres of our churches is stark. In our church, we contemplate how good God is and live in gratitude for His mercy. In her church, they all reassure and congratulate each other for being good people and shouldn't God be impressed with how much better they are than others!

It's depressing and it's also clear that our relative lives with a huge burden of performance pressure.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 09:48 AM (FMtrg)

179 FL 20 will be quite amusing.
A traditionally Black seat and the lady there was just sent packing dude to FEMA fraud.
So Wasserman Shultz is going to jump in and run for that seat as her old place will now be an (R) district.

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 23, 2026 09:48 AM (/+uur)

180 Congrats Granpsycho!

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 23, 2026 09:48 AM (0SdQT)

181 There was a Taiwanese kid in my cohort back when I was getting my Mechanical Engineering degree. He told us that there were students from Communist China that were not who they purported to be. Apparently the scam that the CCP played was that a smart peasant would get the degree in behalf of some CCP official's idiot kid.

Hey, we need the dues! Damn glad to meet ya!

Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at May 23, 2026 09:49 AM (35YvA)

182 Thune is nowhere smart enough to develop such a strategy…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 23, 2026 09:43 AM (26GAh)
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I didn't say he did. I said it was an op. Thune's reading from a script, and one reason he looks so uncomfortable doing it is that he knows he's playing with fire. Privately he's probably fuming and doing extra lines of coke to get through the day.

Like I said, just a thought experiment, but sometimes counterfactuals show you real things. An important element of planning is to ask "What if we have things backwards?"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)

183 >>Thus we see entire apartment buildings tipping over in the mud, and bridges falling off of their anchor-points.

China has been working to reintegrate Macau back into the country ever since they took it back from Portugal. One of the things they did was to build a new campus for the University of Macau and made it an attractive place for students from all over China to attend. At least on paper.

I visited the campus a couple years after the place was completed. Sort of completed. Better said is they stopped trying to fix it.

The place was already falling apart. I mean the parts that were actually sort of finished. It looked nice from a distance but up close and particularly behind the freshly painted walls it was crap. Typical modern Chinese construction.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 09:49 AM (viF8m)

184 It wasn't the anti-communism that was the problem, it was the socialist element of Fascism. Franco was a pragmatist and didn't like ideologues. Hence his shift to technocrats to develop Spain.

Divison Azul was pretty hard core and Franco honored its veterans.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:44 AM (ZOv7s)

The men in the Blue Division were happy to go to Russia and kill more Commies. (I doubt that they enjoyed the winters there, however.)

I ran out of space, but meant to indicate that by recruiting for the Blue Division, this helped Franco when he was forming a post-Civil War government.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (ksbjf)

185 Thank you mick

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (RIvkX)

186 Good morning all. My prayers, and those of those of you who sent some up, have been answered. Chemo is finished and the scans show no current signs of lymphoma.
So about six months from biopsy to good bye cancer, I can live with that. Thank you all, and thank God for letting me keep on keeping on.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (sl73Y)

187 Welcome to the Saturday Morning AOSHQ Coffee Break, Prayer Revival and Wall of Text Thread.

Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (qgHp7)

188 I am always amazed at the level of administrative staffing required by any government program to provide for the common good, and both checks and balances are important when you are spending government funds...

but mostly "checks"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (hOUT3)

189 Emmie--it isn't really remote friendly. That said I've been considering going on disability due to mounting mobility issues. Another for the pile, it seems.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at May 23, 2026 09:51 AM (w4TvZ)

190 Powerline week in pictures
492 Billionaires and not one of them losers has decided to become Batman

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 09:53 AM (Ia/+0)

191 Government assistance is neither.

Posted by: Pithy Sayings R Us at May 23, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

192 So about six months from biopsy to good bye cancer, I can live with that. Thank you all, and thank God for letting me keep on keeping on.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (sl73Y)
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b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 09:53 AM (RIvkX)

193 So about six months from biopsy to good bye cancer, I can live with that. Thank you all, and thank God for letting me keep on keeping on.
Posted by: From about That Time
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So happy to see this. Praise God!

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 23, 2026 09:54 AM (0SdQT)

194 I called the state insurance commissioner and learned that my expectations for auto insurance were unrealistic.

I gotta eat too you know.

Have you been damaged by someone who was driving carelessly and hit you through no fault of your own? Well, call me, I want to get you some money!

Posted by: Alexander Shunnarah, Billboard King And Ambulamps Chaser at May 23, 2026 09:54 AM (35YvA)

195 It's depressing and it's also clear that our relative lives with a huge burden of performance pressure.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 09:48 AM (FMtrg)
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My wife's family was like that - outwardly perfect Christians, terrible people in private. It ultimately drove her away from God and she dabbled in Wicca and the occult, and when she was denounced for it, she simply embraced the role. "You call me a witch? Okay, I'll be a witch."

But she never bought into it, always knew it was wrong, and it's interesting how we found each other, and then stumbled, wandered and backslid into the Church, very much against our will. God works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)

196 187 Welcome to the Saturday Morning AOSHQ Coffee Break, Prayer Revival and Wall of Text Thread.
Posted by: muldoon

*polite cough*

Posted by: The dryer lint at May 23, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

197 Came home yesterday and while I have to utilize a wound vac for a time it's good to be home
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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Glad you are home. Years back I had a wound vac on the foot for 10+ weeks after an infection. Medicine is good, but it's incredible the number of ways they have developed to tie you down.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 09:56 AM (sl73Y)

198 >>Posted by: From about That Time

Congratulations.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 09:57 AM (viF8m)

199 I am always amazed at the level of administrative staffing required by any government program to provide for the common good, and both checks and balances are important when you are spending government funds...

but mostly "checks"!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (hOUT3)
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One of the few encouraging things is that in various places, people were doing the right thing, reporting the fraud. Tracking it, documenting it, and that has been very helpful for federal investigators.

It's also shocking how vile Walz and Brylcreem are, how they actively thwarted honest subordinates and punished them. At this point, I believe them capable of any and all manner of vile deeds.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)

200 It's pretty cool to see my Three Generations Problem be proven in real time. I thought it only applied to the military, but every aspect of mainland China's culture has been corrupted.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:37 AM (ZOv7s)

What makes it almost impossible to repair is that it exists at even the most basic levels. In recent threads many who are expert at mechanical work (AOP, Berserker, others) have talked about how it’s widely known that “Chinium” or “Chinaluminum” - basically any Chinese made metal - is inferior, brittle, and full of impurities, making anything built with it prone to failure under any stress.

Everything they build is like making houses out of rotten wood.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 09:58 AM (U0opd)

201 Good morning all. My prayers, and those of those of you who sent some up, have been answered. Chemo is finished and the scans show no current signs of lymphoma.
So about six months from biopsy to good bye cancer, I can live with that. Thank you all, and thank God for letting me keep on keeping on.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 23, 2026 09:50 AM (sl73Y)
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God be praised!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:58 AM (ZOv7s)

202 Regarding the "morality" of the left, I have similar observations. We occasionally attend church with a leftist family member and the difference between atmospheres of our churches is stark. In our church, we contemplate how good God is and live in gratitude for His mercy. In her church, they all reassure and congratulate each other for being good people and shouldn't God be impressed with how much better they are than others!
...
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 09:48 AM (FMtrg)

Now that many of the Catholic priests from the "Hippy generation" have retired, homilies concerning sin and Confession are pretty typical from the younger priests. Of course, we still suffer under many Liberal Catholics in the hierarchy, but that too will pass in God's good time.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:58 AM (ksbjf)

203 It's also shocking how vile Walz and Brylcreem are, how they actively thwarted honest subordinates and punished them. At this point, I believe them capable of any and all manner of vile deeds.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)
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Has anyone checked their closets and crawlspaces for *actual* skeletons?

Wouldn't be surprised to find them...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 23, 2026 09:58 AM (gnNyN)

204 Congratulations to Grandpa-to-be SanFran and family. Prayers for health and happiness. From JTB and Mrs.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at May 23, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

205 187 Welcome to the Saturday Morning AOSHQ Coffee Break, Prayer Revival and Wall of Text Thread.
Posted by: muldoon

*polite cough*
Posted by: The dryer lint at May 23, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

Well, there are worse things.

Posted by: Foreskin Lint at May 23, 2026 10:00 AM (35YvA)

206 Welcome to the Saturday Morning AOSHQ Coffee Break, Prayer Revival and Wall of Text Thread...

...This week featuring a brief cameo appearance by...The dryer lint

Now, back to our regularly scheduled program!

Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 10:00 AM (qgHp7)

207 Prayers for everyone here.

Brother Tim, I hope things improve fast. Going to churches is the best idea. Also, once they get to know you, perhaps you can find connections for new work.

Try to take care of yourself mentally.

In my part of Canada, there are also government phone numbers you can call and they'll hook you up with 'government services.' And your area may have someone to talk to online. It's one step below the crisis hotlines but they did help me. And pills for anxiety and depression, and panic attacks, from my doctor are helping me a lot.

I've rarely gone to the doctor and am not a pill person and will get off of them after things improve, but they really helped.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 10:00 AM (Sco7b)

208 Well, I have to go run errands. Then to great-grand daughter #1's 4th birthday party!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 10:01 AM (ksbjf)

209 Belly button lint.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 23, 2026 10:01 AM (5kMf4)

210 "...it's also clear that our relative lives with a huge burden of performance pressure.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous!"
*****

The Paolo, he has learned to thrive, on this, how you say, performance pressure.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 23, 2026 10:01 AM (2Ez/1)

211 Now that many of the Catholic priests from the "Hippy generation" have retired, homilies concerning sin and Confession are pretty typical from the younger priests. Of course, we still suffer under many Liberal Catholics in the hierarchy, but that too will pass in God's good time.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:58 AM (ksbjf)
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The shift in my parish has been profound. It's pervasive, both locations. The college location is in many ways more reverent (though the hippie rearguard still hangs out there, clapping at the end of Mass).

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:01 AM (ZOv7s)

212
In our church, we contemplate how good God is and live in gratitude for His mercy. In her church, they all reassure and congratulate each other for being good people and shouldn't God be impressed with how much better they are than others!
...
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 09:48 AM (FMtrg)

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Thank God we have sound, orthodox priests (FSSP) in my parish and long lines for Confession.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:03 AM (HdYcL)

213 Catholic Kindergarten graduation.

https://tinyurl.com/26muetsx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 10:03 AM (ndZc7)

214 I'll take Sources Of Lint for $400, Alex.

Posted by: Just the punchline at May 23, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

215 In her church, they all reassure and congratulate each other for being good people and shouldn't God be impressed with how much better they are than others!
Posted by: Emmie

And they'll know we are Christians by our love!

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at May 23, 2026 10:05 AM (yYROg)

216 In recent threads many who are expert at mechanical work (AOP, Berserker, others) have talked about how it’s widely known that “Chinium” or “Chinaluminum” - basically any Chinese made metal - is inferior, brittle, and full of impurities, making anything built with it prone to failure under any stress.

Didn't the red chinese raid the location of the sunken Prince of Wales to salvage the steel from the site as they couldn't make the same steel today? No respect for the young men who were entombed therein?

Posted by: No Shame at May 23, 2026 10:05 AM (35YvA)

217 > Thus we see entire apartment buildings tipping over in the mud, and bridges falling off of their anchor-points.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 23, 2026 09:17 AM (ksbjf)

Nothing to worry about. Nosiree.

Posted by: The 400 million Chinese people downstream of the Three Gorges Dam at May 23, 2026 10:09 AM (IG3/x)

218 > making anything built with it prone to failure under any stress.

Posted by: No Shame at May 23, 2026 1

Pot metal sneers at Chinesium.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 10:10 AM (IG3/x)

219
Didn't the red chinese raid the location of the sunken Prince of Wales to salvage the steel from the site as they couldn't make the same steel today? No respect for the young men who were entombed therein?

Posted by: No Shame at May 23, 2026 10:05 AM (35YvA)

_____________

"In May 2023, it was reported that a Chinese ship, Chuan Hong 68, illegally scavenged the wreck for its low-background steel. In July 2024, this same vessel, Chuan Hong 68, suspected of not only looting the wrecks of Force Z but other World War II wrecks in Asian waters, was back 'working' in the region and was subsequently detained by Malaysia authorities for 'paperwork violations'."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:12 AM (HdYcL)

220 The Chinese haven't made quality metal since the Great Leap Forward, when the peasants melted down their farm tools in backyard furnaces to increase steel "production."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:12 AM (u/oMr)

221 No reason the Chinese couldn't make quality steel except they don't want to . Same for the sheet rock, piping , seafood, pet food, etc.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:14 AM (qrzX6)

222 >>Catholic Kindergarten graduation.

This one has a woman wearing pajamas and fuzzy house slippers getting her kicks in at the end:

https://tinyurl.com/2s35wh6f

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 10:14 AM (J4Dwc)

223 It would seem going through Congress a plan to go all year daylight summer llan all year and drop changing clocks.
To me better standard time would be better, winter it will be dark way late in morning

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 10:15 AM (Ia/+0)

224 Prayers up for all of the Horde and their loved ones.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 10:15 AM (0nHVk)

225 Those Chinese stories are crazy.

I'm mainly fruits, vegetables, nuts and sardines but I'd be pretty concerned about buying grocery items from China "Now made with 73% food"

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 10:15 AM (Sco7b)

226 I'm still job hunting. I had a phone call with a recruiter yesterday that seemed to go well but the hiring company required an online "personality assessment" before even a first round interview. Apparently I failed "personality." Which, really, is what roughly 99% of people I meet tell me implicitly so I guess it's nice to hear it explicitly.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 10:15 AM (vTZFs)

227 Thank you JTBs!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 10:16 AM (RIvkX)

228 And they'll know we are Christians by our love!
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at May 23, 2026 10:05 AM (yYROg)

Well, they love Ukraine and those poor, dear Gazans and cultural enrichers and Iranian mullahs and ....

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 10:17 AM (FMtrg)

229 Nothing to worry about. Nosiree.
Posted by: The 400 million Chinese people downstream of the Three Gorges Dam at May 23, 2026 10:09 AM (IG3/x)
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It's failure would probably be an improvement. The dam has actually made flooding worse because the power it generates is so crucial that they keep the reservoir full to ensure steady output, which means when there is heavy rain, they have to open the gates, increasing the water flow rather than reducing it.

Multiple stories about how normal rains are now being called "100 year floods!" by Chinese officials to explain how flooding is becoming pervasive on the lower Yangtze.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

230 Thanks for your prayers, Debby! Hope you received my snail mail.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 23, 2026 10:18 AM (FMtrg)

231 It's been alleged that SOP for Chinese manufacturers is this:

1) Make the samples top-notch quality, superior in every way.
2) When you go into production, start cutting corners over time. Continue lowering the quality until the customer complains.
3) Raise the quality just slightly.

Pride in workmanship doesn't enter into it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 23, 2026 10:18 AM (IG3/x)

232 Good morning good people. Prayers for all Hordian intentions - those requested, and those known but to God.

Finally located and purchased the correct replacement gasket for my Bialetti expresso pot. Apparently, we Americans think that their 6 cup sized maker is a one cup maker.

I mean, I can only fill one big cup after brewing a full pot. Who knew!?

Damned Europeans.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:20 AM (vhPr1)

233 Those Chinese stories are crazy.

I'm mainly fruits, vegetables, nuts and sardines but I'd be pretty concerned about buying grocery items from China "Now made with 73% food"
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 10:15 AM (Sco7b)
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It's the rotten fruit of the Cultural Revolution. It's basically if "Imagine" was incarnated - no religion, nothing to limit you, people just out for themselves, lie your way out of everything, take what you can get, poison children for a quick buck, taint food, steal what you can.

A nightmare.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

234 Ok, I did it.
Bought a Starlink Mini kit.
One small click of a mouse.
One giant change of a lifestyle.
Time to do some traveling.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

235 No reason the Chinese couldn't make quality steel except they don't want to . Same for the sheet rock, piping , seafood, pet food, etc.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:14 AM (qrzX6)
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I have a Chinese Kar98K made in 1945, so pretty harsh conditions, and it's a quality piece of work. Totally parts compatible with German Mausers (I know, because it was given a German bolt and stock in Chinese service, presumably when captured by the Chicoms).

And of course Taiwan has excellent craftsmanship.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

236 231 It's been alleged that SOP for Chinese manufacturers is this:

1) Make the samples top-notch quality, superior in every way.
2) When you go into production, start cutting corners over time. Continue lowering the quality until the customer complains.
3) Raise the quality just slightly.

Pride in workmanship doesn't enter into it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

China traders knew this in the 1800's regarding china and pottery. You are correct. Major brands spend a lot of quality assurance if they make stuff in China. Even then, their subcontracted manufacturers there will steal their IP, set up a competing Chinese brand, and do the same cycle.

Amazon listings are full of one vendor with many different names for the same item. When one gets too many putrid reviews, a 'new' company selling the same item pops up.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 10:25 AM (E4rtv)

237 The frames and slides of old Chinese Norinco 1911s are said to forged from retired railroad track rails. Not sure that's true, but the gunsmith who produced my rebuild said it was the hardest steel he ever worked with.

(I kept only the frame and slide and threw all the junk internals into the trash, replacing everything with both Wilson Combat and Ed Brown internals).

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 10:25 AM (J4Dwc)

238 Good morning all
Just stopping by to say Hi nd see how everyone is doing.
Rainy, cold, dreary here and really unusual for the DMV at the end of the May. A lot of barbecues going to get canceled as we are in for 4 days of this.
But, Life is Good so I will endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 23, 2026 10:25 AM (kJmSS)

239 I'm crossing the beams!

This one has a woman wearing pajamas and fuzzy house slippers getting her kicks in at the end:

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Pride in workmanship doesn't enter into it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)

240 231 It's been alleged that SOP for Chinese manufacturers is this:

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That's accurate, but you left out "use your customer's proprietary IP without authorization to sell knock-off copies out the back door at fat profit margins."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:27 AM (u/oMr)

241 At this point, I believe them capable of any and all manner of vile deeds.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 09:57 AM (ZOv7s)

And to think that I once thought that Ian Fleming's villains that faced Bond, James Bond, were mere fictional characters!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 10:27 AM (hOUT3)

242 The Chinese haven't made quality metal since the Great Leap Forward, when the peasants melted down their farm tools in backyard furnaces to increase steel "production."

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I believe they were even forced to melt down even their cooking pots, so they were left with nothing to cook in. I'm sure Mao had plenty of cookware for his many delicacies, however.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 23, 2026 10:28 AM (qBdHI)

243 133 Happy Memorial Day weekend. Let us pause and give thanks for those who died so we could live in freedom.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 23, 2026 09:09 AM (D/6p1)

🇺🇸

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 10:28 AM (6wpGE)

244 Kindergarten graduation? That's definitely just for the parents because the kids won't remember a thing . Same for birthday parties before 4 years old.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:28 AM (qrzX6)

245 We have a newly ordained priest starting in June to help out our 85 yr old pastor. Both of them are wildly conservative and gladly give the stink eye to some of our flower children era parishioners.

It's interesting - the new guy was born and raised Jewish.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:28 AM (vhPr1)

246 Trump Ready to End Daylight Saving Time Clock Changes

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Get down, get funky!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 10:29 AM (ndZc7)

247 The frames and slides of old Chinese Norinco 1911s are said to forged from retired railroad track rails.

I vaguely recall hearing about some nice custom guns built on Norinco frames from the 1990s. Supposedly, the same era Norinco and Polytech M14 receivers were good too.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 10:29 AM (vTZFs)

248 That's accurate, but you left out "use your customer's proprietary IP without authorization to sell knock-off copies out the back door at fat profit margins."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:27 AM (u/oMr)
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Trump knows this, of course, and he makes agreements with China knowing they will break them, but that's part of the plan because he can use that to justify retaliatory tariffs.

It's the same with Iran. He took the initial hit, but now Iran is the one violating international law and the spineless EUnuchs look like total simps by refusing to defend freedom of navigation.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:30 AM (ZOv7s)

249 Memorial Day always reminds me of time with my dad when I was a kid. He was the Commander of a VFW post and Memorial Day was a busy day for him and he would take me along.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:30 AM (qrzX6)

250 34
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

Please to report your experience for those of us that are Starlink curious!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 10:30 AM (hOUT3)

251 Multiple stories about how normal rains are now being called "100 year floods!" by Chinese officials to explain how flooding is becoming pervasive on the lower Yangtze.

***********

Propaganda - a limerick

The people in the flood zone are antsy
So Chinese map makers have to get fancy
To quell the people's fears
It seems every couple years
They have re-draw the Damn Yangtze!

Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 10:30 AM (qgHp7)

252 Sco7b)

226 I'm still job hunting. I had a phone call with a recruiter yesterday that seemed to go well but the hiring company required an online "personality assessment" before even a first round interview. Apparently I failed "personality." Which, really, is what roughly 99% of people I meet tell me implicitly so I guess it's nice to hear it explicitly.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 10:15 AM (vTZFs)

Young recruiter to older applicant: “I’m glad to see you apply here, first question I have is, what do you think is your greatest weakness?”
Older applicant:: “well I don’t much care about what other people think of me.”
Young recruiter: “Well I don’t think that’s much of a weakness at all.”
Older applicant: “I don’t give a fuck what you think.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 10:31 AM (U0opd)

253 It would seem going through Congress a plan to go all year daylight summer llan all year and drop changing clocks.
To me better standard time would be better, winter it will be dark way late in morning
Posted by: Skip

Let's go all the way and institute Zulu time usage.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:31 AM (vhPr1)

254 No reason the Chinese couldn't make quality steel except they don't want to . Same for the sheet rock, piping , seafood, pet food, etc.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg
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Communism is not a workable economic theory. E.g. sheet rock, Chinese sheet rock has a bacterium in it that generates hydrogen sulfide gas and carbon disulfide. But, by that time, the shell company selling that sheet rock has disappeared when the houses start having problems. Then they sold this drywall for gunsafes, again until the rust, etc. showed up.

Adding melamine to up protein levels in pet foods killed a lot of US pets, and so on. Shrimp is doused in antibiotics until it just passes customs or comes through uninspected and so on.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 10:31 AM (E4rtv)

255 Mrs. E met with her oncologist yesterday. To put it simply, all her good numbers are up and all her bad numbers are down. She now goes on a shot every two months. We would appreciate continued prayers.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 10:32 AM (LHPAg)

256
That's definitely just for the parents because the kids won't remember a thing . Same for birthday parties before 4 years old.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:28 AM (qrzX6)

____________

Odd to say, I remember mine. I had a button that said, "I'm 4 Today!" So not only was it my first memory, but I never had one where I couldn't read.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:32 AM (HdYcL)

257 “ On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

John 7:37-38

Posted by: Marcus T at May 23, 2026 10:32 AM (qr9oS)

258 I'm not a big fan of products made in India either.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (qrzX6)

259 So just what does it mean for a priest to be "wildly conservative?"

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

260 Let's go all the way and institute Zulu time usage.

This makes sense but would require a short period of uncomfortable adaptation. Therefore, it will never happen.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (vTZFs)

261 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:32 AM (HdYcL)

That's why i said before 4 for birthdays.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:34 AM (qrzX6)

262 >>I vaguely recall hearing about some nice custom guns built on Norinco frames from the 1990s.

Yeah, pre-ban Norincos were a popular platform for many custom builds. Mine is a sweet shooter.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 10:34 AM (J4Dwc)

263 It's interesting - the new guy was born and raised Jewish.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:28 AM (vhPr1)
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Converts have a particular zeal.

Our parish is one of the entry points for newly ordained priests. Each one does a three year tour here to learn the ropes before moving on to a more permanent assignment. Over my time here, I've seen them become more orthodox and traditional. It's quite nice.

I should mention that Pentecost marks our family's anniversary of entering the Church. Twenty years ago this weekend. Next month is our 25th wedding anniversary. How time flies!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)

264 255 Mrs. E met with her oncologist yesterday. To put it simply, all her good numbers are up and all her bad numbers are down. She now goes on a shot every two months. We would appreciate continued prayers.
Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 10:32 AM (LHPAg)

Thanks for the update, really good to hear Mrs. E is doing well; however, prayers for her will continue nonetheless!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 10:34 AM (hOUT3)

265 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 10:21 AM (2Ez/1)

Please to report your experience for those of us that are Starlink curious!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia!
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Plan to.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 23, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

266 I had a big birthday party in kindergarten. The whole class was there. Earliest thing I can remember. Unsure as to why so much effort went into that. It never did after that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 23, 2026 10:36 AM (5kMf4)

267 the spineless EUnuchs look like total simps by refusing to defend freedom of navigation.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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They actually are total simps and cowards to boot. It is their jobs, power, and lights on the line, not ours from the Gulf being closed. And UK cannot even bestir itself to drill for high priced oil even in its North Sea allotments. Net Zero dunces while they sell out the auto, power generation, and chemical industries to the Chicoms.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 10:36 AM (E4rtv)

268 252
Young recruiter to older applicant: “I’m glad to see you apply here, first question I have is, what do you think is your greatest weakness?”
Older applicant:: “well I don’t much care about what other people think of me.”
Young recruiter: “Well I don’t think that’s much of a weakness at all.”
Older applicant: “I don’t give a fuck what you think.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 10:31 AM (U0opd)

; )

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 10:36 AM (6wpGE)

269 And to think that I once thought that Ian Fleming's villains that faced Bond, James Bond, were mere fictional characters!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 10:27 AM (hOUT3)

The difference between Fleming’s villains and ours is that they were (generally) all highly intelligent. All of our enemies come from the character roster of Idiocracy. Power combined with incredible levels of stupidity.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 10:36 AM (U0opd)

270 I know I pray for the same thing every week, but that's because the problem isn't going away and it's important to me.

As always, I pray for everyone defrauding the gov't to be caught and prosecuted, without regard for the protected classes of the progressive stack, and none of this "oh our resources are limited so that's too small to bother with." Not only is mercy for the guilty cruelty for the victims -- which are all of us, as our pockets are picked by the resulting budget deficit-driven inflation -- but it's also an unnecessary temptation for those struggling with success in life.

Just as an alcoholic in recovery doesn't just have dinner at the pub and count on willpower, but may even detour around his old haunts, we pray for God to lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. And watching near retards get outsized rewards from lying on a form -- and get away with it -- is a real temptation to anyone with financial troubles, or even just a profound lack of retirement.

So, as always, I ask God to sharpen the investigators' minds and harden the prosecutors' hearts, so that every single last fraudster may receive a long stretch of hard time in Federal prison. Amen.

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 10:37 AM (Sy6m/)

271
So just what does it mean for a priest to be "wildly conservative?"

Posted by: I gotta ask at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

___________

Little things like reading the Baltimore Catechism, Pascendi Dominici gregis and the Anti-Modernist Oath.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:37 AM (HdYcL)

272 We talk about how western economies have flourished in part because they have a well-developed system of business ethics that allow them to operate on a "high-trust" basis.

Chinese culture is a great example of an economy that never developed that system of business ethics. It is a "low trust" culture, where making a one-shot killing by screwing your customer is prioritized over building long-term trust relationships.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:38 AM (u/oMr)

273 Amazon listings are full of one vendor with many different names for the same item. When one gets too many putrid reviews, a 'new' company selling the same item pops up.
Posted by: whig

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True. One tell is the grammar and spelling in the product descriptions.

And some of the company names are hilarious.

Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 10:38 AM (qgHp7)

274 So just what does it mean for a priest to be "wildly conservative?"
Posted by: I gotta ask

No 'Peace sign" bullshit during the sign of peace,
No applause in the nave,
Supporter of the Latin Mass even though the Bishop has forbidden it,
Beer okay, if not required, during Knights of Columbus meetings,
Tell me your sins, NOT THE STORY, during Confession,
etc. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (vhPr1)

275 That's definitely just for the parents because the kids won't remember a thing . Same for birthday parties before 4 years old.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:28 AM (qrzX6)
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No, the kids love it! Are you saying kids shouldn't experience fun things if they won't have perfect memory recall?

One of the delights of watching children grow up is when the realize things have happened before and start to anticipate them. It was awesome watching my elder grandchild explain Christmas to her younger brother. She remember it, he didn't, but he got very excited hearing about it!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)

276 Apparently I failed "personality." Which, really, is what roughly 99% of people I meet tell me implicitly so I guess it's nice to hear it explicitly.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Depending on the circumstances of that particular company, it could easily be a lie to hide discrimination to hire H1Bs or age/race/sex issues.

If you know the name of the test you took, and you are probably entitled to the results depending on state and federal law, then you should be able to find something like it online and figure out any issues with it.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (E4rtv)

277 I gotta say I'm a bit underwhelmed by the Turner Classic offerings this weekend.

My friend claims Tom Hanks has a new I guess documentary on Monday. Maybe on History?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (l26NL)

278 258 I'm not a big fan of products made in India either.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (qrzX6)

Not to worry about those prescription meds made for you in Mumbai using finest water from Ganges, oh yes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (hOUT3)

279 No 'Peace sign" bullshit during the sign of peace,
No applause in the nave,
Supporter of the Latin Mass even though the Bishop has forbidden it,
Beer okay, if not required, during Knights of Columbus meetings,
Tell me your sins, NOT THE STORY, during Confession,
etc. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (vhPr1)
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Kneelers for Communion? We have four at the moment.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:40 AM (ZOv7s)

280 True. One tell is the grammar and spelling in the product descriptions.

And some of the company names are hilarious.
Posted by: muldoon
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And the gamed reviews where a 'verified' reviewer discusses an entirely different product.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 10:40 AM (E4rtv)

281 And some of the company names are hilarious.
Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 10:38 AM (qgHp7)

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To be fair, I remember when "Toyota" seemed like some screwy Oriental name that only a kook would buy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:40 AM (u/oMr)

282 I'm not a big fan of products made in India either.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

I once bought some toothpaste on Amazon. Then I saw it was from India. Nope.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 23, 2026 10:41 AM (l26NL)

283 Halloween was another fun milestone. "We do this thing were we go out and get candy! We do! We can dress up and get candy!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

284 To be fair, I remember when "Toyota" seemed like some screwy Oriental name that only a kook would buy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:40 AM (u/oMr)
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People would modify the tailgate to say "Toy."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

285
Tell me your sins, NOT THE STORY, during Confession

_____________

I've found the more briefly, sincerely and straightforwardly you confess, the faster and easier the whole thing is.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 10:43 AM (HdYcL)

286 >where making a one-shot killing by screwing your customer is prioritized over building long-term trust relationships.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:38 AM
____

And you have MY word on it!

Posted by: Joe Isuzu at May 23, 2026 10:44 AM (2Ez/1)

287 Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 10:37 AM (Sy6m/)

I simplify my everyday prayer to asking God not to let evil prevail over good and giving me strength not to take matters into my own hands.

I pray acknowledging that God's word indicates that he has a hands off policy for the most part and allows the world to choose evil or good. I just ask him to intervene occasionally though his will be done.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:44 AM (qrzX6)

288 Oh, and thanks for prayers answered when cancelling my cable. Customer service 'Achmed', with an Indian accent no less, actually cancelled my account without an retention lecture and heartache. He simply made sure I wanted to do what I asked, clicked a few buttons, and 'Viola!', old account gone.

I love my Starlink setup so far - much faster and more reliable than that of my cable setup.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:44 AM (vhPr1)

289 It is a "low trust" culture, where making a one-shot killing by screwing your customer is prioritized over building long-term trust relationships.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:38 AM (u/oMr)

To be fair, by the time the customer complains, my company will have declared bankrupcty and changed its name at least three times!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at May 23, 2026 10:44 AM (hOUT3)

290 I've found the more briefly, sincerely and straightforwardly you confess, the faster and easier the whole thing is.

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You could organize it by confessing in categories based on the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:45 AM (u/oMr)

291 >>That's accurate, but you left out "use your customer's proprietary IP without authorization to sell knock-off copies out the back door at fat profit margins."

Years ago I was walking through a trade show to my company's booth and I walked by a pavilion that was sponsored by the CCP to show off Chinese products. I walked by one set of products that from the outside looked identical to a line of products we had introduced a couple years earlier. I mean identical down to the last detail.

We used very benign chemicals for the active agent inside our product. We found out a bit later the Chinese version was using what amounted to poison. China is asshoe.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 10:46 AM (viF8m)

292 Tell me your sins, NOT THE STORY, during Confession,
etc. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (vhPr1)

Best confession on film was in “I love you to Death”. The Italian husband (played by Kevin Kline) is telling his confessor about 5 or 6 women he’d had sex with, who were not his wife. The confessor says incredulously “that all happened last week?” And Kline replies, in his best Italian accent “oh no, that was just last Tuesday.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 10:47 AM (U0opd)

293 Can't say remember many early school class birthday parties, but think there were a few, and maybe when a couple kids hadcsame day or week.

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 10:47 AM (Ia/+0)

294 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:39 AM (ZOv7s)

I won't get caught in the Ace-Endorsed confrontational vortex.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:47 AM (qrzX6)

295 To be fair, I remember when "Toyota" seemed like some screwy Oriental name that only a kook would buy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:40 AM
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Really?

Posted by: Daihatsu, Hitachi, Hyundai, Nissan, Datsun and Isuzu at May 23, 2026 10:48 AM (2Ez/1)

296 Posted by: Daihatsu, Hitachi, Hyundai, Nissan, Datsun and Isuzu at May 23, 2026 10:48 AM (2Ez/1)

The Datsun 240 was sweet looking.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:50 AM (qrzX6)

297 Depending on the circumstances of that particular company, it could easily be a lie to hide discrimination to hire H1Bs or age/race/sex issues.

Possibly. There were the usual age, sex, race questions but it did include a "decline to answer" option for those.

If you know the name of the test you took, and you are probably entitled to the results depending on state and federal law, then you should be able to find something like it online and figure out any issues with it.

It was called a "Talent Insight assessment" administered by Gallup. That might be interesting but honestly, I don't care that much. It wasn't that great of a job anyway.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 10:50 AM (vTZFs)

298 People would modify the tailgate to say "Toy."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:42 AM (ZOv7s)

I remember a couple that just said “yo”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 10:50 AM (U0opd)

299 They can't help themselves:

A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.

Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 10:51 AM (qgHp7)

300 I totally forgot who Pretti was.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 23, 2026 10:51 AM (3uBP9)

301 A judge on Thursday handed down an extraordinary prison sentence — nearly 42 years — to the former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted in a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.
Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 10:51 AM (qgHp7)
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The pacing of the crackdown has been interesting. We're now to the phase banking regulators are choking off credit and remittances, stuff people wanted a year ago, but of course after all the hoopla, these barely get a mention.

Self-deportations are going to take off.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:53 AM (ZOv7s)

302 To be fair, I remember when "Toyota" seemed like some screwy Oriental name that only a kook would buy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

When I was a kid, I confused "Toyota" and "Tonka". I thought one company made them both.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 10:53 AM (ndZc7)

303 Posted by: muldoon at May 23, 2026 10:51 AM (qgHp7)

Yeah before the fraud Trump wasn't cracking down and doing bad immigration things like igniting stuff.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:54 AM (qrzX6)

304 The airline I hired into in the early 90s used the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for pre-employment screening. I think all the major airlines used it for such a purpose. Maybe some or all still do. Dunno...

Bunch of weird-ass true/false questions, I recall.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 10:54 AM (J4Dwc)

305 259 So just what does it mean for a priest to be "wildly conservative?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Probably gets high on mescaline and dances around the altar dressed up like a toucan.
When he pulls out the obsidian dagger, you know it's time to leave.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at May 23, 2026 10:55 AM (yYROg)

306 So just what does it mean for a priest to be "wildly conservative?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Always speaks in Latin.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:55 AM (qrzX6)

307 The Datsun 240 was sweet looking.

Of the Z series, the 260 had the best lines. IMO, of course. Since the 80s I thought a 260Z with a v6 and a centrifugal supercharger would be amazing.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 10:55 AM (vTZFs)

308 304 The airline I hired into in the early 90s used the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for pre-employment screening. I think all the major airlines used it for such a purpose. Maybe some or all still do. Dunno...

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I understand Delta has gone over completely to the Pantone scale.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:56 AM (u/oMr)

309 So just what does it mean for a priest to be "wildly conservative?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Always speaks in Latin.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:55 AM (qrzX6)
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Threadwinner.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)

310
To be fair, I remember when "Toyota" seemed like some screwy Oriental name that only a kook would buy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:40 AM (u/oMr)
My first Toyota in the early 70's? 'Oh, look at that little clutch and brake pedal, and the gear shift?

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 10:56 AM (LHPAg)

311 35 Went for a walk with esteemed spouse. There was a robin sitting on the top of a holly tree. It looked like the bird equivalent of an angel on the top of a Christmas tree, and as we came back I saw a allium ( which I guess someone had picked and then thrown on the ground) 😕I picked it up and will bring it home. An allium is part of the onion family.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 23, 2026 07:59 AM (m6Eem)

A while back I painted some dried allium and KT was kind enough to post a photo...
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=407009

Posted by: Admirale's Mate at May 23, 2026 10:57 AM (/enuJ)

312 The airline I hired into in the early 90s used the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for pre-employment screening. I think all the major airlines used it for such a purpose. Maybe some or all still do. Dunno...

I still have my test results from when I took it 25 years ago.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:58 AM (qrzX6)

313 To be fair, I remember when "Toyota" seemed like some screwy Oriental name that only a kook would buy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 23, 2026 10:40 AM
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Really?
Posted by: Daihatsu, Hitachi, Hyundai, Nissan, Datsun and Isuzu

During WWII, the military devised a new Japanese airplane designation system because yanks couldn't be expected to wrap their mouths around such weird ass names as Mitsubishi and Nakajima.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 10:58 AM (ndZc7)

314 I took a test at a place in Michigan. The HR director said with that 40 question test, they could determine exactly how good a programmer you'd be. It was me and basically a room full of Indians.

A very pretty young black lady pulled me aside later and said I was the only person they ever had to score perfect.

Go white guy!

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 23, 2026 10:58 AM (Sco7b)

315 Oddbob,
Link to 7 page pdf describing the results of that test.

paragonresources.com/library/guide.pdf

FWIW, I would check out your scores and find out just what (if any) might have raised red flags because that could be an issue applying to other jobs.

When I was a manager long ago at a big retailer, we administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) mainly to catch potential dishonest workers before they were hired. I took it when I first started working there myself and I guessed that I passed.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)

316
Q: So, where'd you go to kindergarten?

A: The School of Hard Knocks.

(Queen of the Apostles in Toledo)

https://tinyurl.com/5dc2p4a3

Posted by: Can't make this up at May 23, 2026 10:59 AM (2Ez/1)

317 309 So just what does it mean for a priest to be "wildly conservative?"
Posted by: I gotta ask at May 23, 2026 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Always speaks in Latin.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 10:55 AM (qrzX6)
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Threadwinner.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)

semper Latine loquitur

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 10:59 AM (6wpGE)

318 304 The airline I hired into in the early 90s used the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for pre-employment screening. I think all the major airlines used it for such a purpose. Maybe some or all still do. Dunno...

Bunch of weird-ass true/false questions, I recall.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 10:54 AM (J4Dwc)
I have taken that MMPI a half dozen times through the years. 3 times in the last 10 years.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 11:00 AM (LHPAg)

319 I took a personality test one time. Tested negative.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 23, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)

320 314 I took a test at a place in Michigan. The HR director said with that 40 question test, they could determine exactly how good a programmer you'd be. It was me and basically a room full of Indians.

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Get out now

Posted by: Zombie Gen. George Custer at May 23, 2026 11:00 AM (u/oMr)

321 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Suzuki at May 23, 2026 11:00 AM (2Ez/1)

322 304 The airline I hired into in the early 90s used the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for pre-employment screening. I think all the major airlines used it for such a purpose. Maybe some or all still do. Dunno...

Bunch of weird-ass true/false questions, I recall.
Posted by: one hour sober

Test is oriented toward picking up dishonesty (socio and psycho pathic tendencies) and weeding out those that who were low IQ.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:01 AM (E4rtv)

323 Its the never talked about 'wildly Leftists ' you need to worry about

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 11:01 AM (Ia/+0)

324 Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 11:00 AM (LHPAg)

Ha you should have just given them your first test results each time you were requested to take it. (unless the first one said you were a psychopath 😃

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:02 AM (qrzX6)

325 What i remember about the test was 'Its a Trap !! '

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:03 AM (qrzX6)

326 I have taken that MMPI a half dozen times through the years. 3 times in the last 10 years.
Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 11:00 AM (LHPAg)
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During the lockdown, my ANG unit did virtual drill and one of the make-work projects was some stupid personality/human relations crap where we all took a test and then the contractor reviewed the results on the Teams call (or Zoom, I forget).

Anyhow, folks my not be surprised to know I was quite the outspoken senior NCO, and eventually my lack of commentary was noted and and I was called out on it. What were my results? What were my thoughts?

I said I thought it was bunk because it assumes we act the same way in all settings. We don't. I carry myself one way on active duty, another way at my civilian job, and then still another way relaxing with friends and family. People should adjust to circumstances, not be their best self.

As is often the case, awkward silence was the response.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at May 23, 2026 11:04 AM (ZOv7s)

327 Test is oriented toward picking up dishonesty (socio and psycho pathic tendencies) and weeding out those that who were low IQ.
Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:01 AM
*******

Remember, Jerry: it's not a lie if YOU believe it.

Posted by: George Costanza at May 23, 2026 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)

328 >>I still have my test results from when I took it 25 years ago.

I never got my results, but I didn't really care. I must've passed because they hired me (and then furloughed me 10 months later).

Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 11:06 AM (J4Dwc)

329 FWIW, the 'weird' true/false were designed for easy scoring but also to make it difficult to game every question which a dishonest person tries to do. So they ask the same basic question in multiple different ways to trap those along with some obvious gimmes.

Good survey and testing design does this because a) people will lie on surveys, and b) in an exam with limited choices, it becomes easier to figure out for some people what the desired answer is from cues in the question design, not actual knowledge or understanding.

I quit using those type tests for higher level classes because it took me much longer to construct a valid test instrument for a course that way than simply positing a hypothetical and have them answer it in essay form.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:06 AM (E4rtv)

330 304 The airline I hired into in the early 90s used the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for pre-employment screening. I think all the major airlines used it for such a purpose. Maybe some or all still do. Dunno...

Bunch of weird-ass true/false questions, I recall.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 23, 2026 10:54 AM (J4Dwc)
Hell I always walked out thinking I failed. But, I was always hired or stayed hired. The psych interview was the scary part, knowing the doc had some issues.

Posted by: Eromero at May 23, 2026 11:06 AM (LHPAg)

331 Wow, looks like "Trump" is becoming synonymous with "failure". Everything he touches is turning to shit. His own party hates him. ROFL

Posted by: Sid at May 23, 2026 11:07 AM (kGrfb)

332 Nood. KT is up.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 11:08 AM (E4rtv)

333 315 Oddbob,
Link to 7 page pdf describing the results of that test.

paragonresources.com/library/guide.pdf

FWIW, I would check out your scores and find out just what (if any) might have raised red flags because that could be an issue applying to other jobs.

Posted by: whig at May 23, 2026 10:58 AM (E4rtv)

Cool! Thanks.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 11:09 AM (6wpGE)

334 Just blacken in the ovals so that they make interesting patterns on the score sheet.

Posted by: My 24 year old self at May 23, 2026 11:09 AM (2Ez/1)

335 Sid lives in bizarro world. Take your medicine retard.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 23, 2026 11:10 AM (qrzX6)

336 I have taken that MMPI a half dozen times through the years. 3 times in the last 10 years.
Posted by: Eromero

As have I. Consider this - It must be administered, scored, and interpreted by a qualified licensed clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.

Yeah, they're normal.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 23, 2026 11:13 AM (vhPr1)

337 Just blacken in the ovals so that they make interesting patterns on the score sheet.

Ya know, that could make an interesting AI project. Take a few million or so scantron test sheets and see if the correct answers form an identifiable pattern. Place your bets on "ant track" or "falling rain."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 23, 2026 11:16 AM (vTZFs)

338 Apparently the scam that the CCP played was that a smart peasant would get the degree in behalf of some CCP official's idiot kid.

Thus we see entire apartment buildings tipping over in the mud, and bridges falling off of their anchor-points.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

Not unlike the Ivey Leagues here.
Except here the official's idiot kid just shows up and gets an 'A'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 11:19 AM (/lPRQ)

339 they hired me (and then furloughed me 10 months later).

What a shame there isn't some similar corporate profile you can make them take at the interview, to show who's going to do that.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 23, 2026 11:27 AM (zdLoL)

340 Odd to say, I remember mine. I had a button that said, "I'm 4 Today!" So not only was it my first memory, but I never had one where I couldn't read.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Are you certain that wasn't your 40th Birthday?

Posted by: Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away? at May 23, 2026 02:47 PM (oftw2)

341 A!I'm you whippersnappers obviously don't remember our first foray into permanent Daylight time. As a result of the fuel crisis, Nixon signed the law setting Daylight time permanently. Not really so much though, since Ford signed the law revoking it in August. Tried it for all of 3 months and got pissed about it.

All the complaints about Chinese um come under the heading of synchronicity. My wife has the YouTube channel "The China Show" on right now.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 23, 2026 07:38 PM (mSL0+)

Daily Tech News 23 May 2026

Top Story

Spotify is focusing on AI to deliver everything except what it is paid to deliver. (Tech Crunch)

Spotify wants to become an "everything audio" app, only it's all AI. Audiobooks read by AI; podcasts read by AI; your daily schedule... Read to you by AI.

Want to listen to music? Well, sure, that's in there too. Somewhere. Probably.
Speaking of AI 13% of "skills" - instructions for AI agents on how to perform a task, as opposed to "prompts" which tell it what you want it do do - on ClawHub and skills.sh have critical security vulnerabilities. (The Register)

Either upstream - the creator accidentally leaving an API key in the file when uploading it to be shared - or downstream, telling your AI agent to hand over all your valuables.

How do developers get these dangerous files registered on skill sharing sites? Simple: They know that nobody ever reads beyond the first page, not even security scanners:
The most successful strategy for evading detection was to overflow the context window of the scanner - making the skill too long for the scanner to handle. "In ClawHub-style review, only the first 10K characters of long SKILL.md files are passed to the LLM reviewer, so we place the malicious instruction beyond this boundary while keeping it in the submitted skill," the authors explain.
Face meet palm.

Tech News

Google's API keys are distributed - as expected of a global platform - and asynchronous. (Dark Reading)

The upshot of which is that if you delete an API key because you suspect it might have fallen into the wrong hands, it will disappear instantly from view for you. But those wrong hands might have access to it for another twenty minutes, which is a long time on this scale.
Firefox has stopped crashing on Intel Raptor lake (13th and 14th generation) systems. (Dark Reading)

Mozilla initially blamed Intel for the problem, because 13th and 14th generation Intel processors - at least the high-end desktop ones, not so much laptop chips - had a serious problem where they would draw too much power and slowly kill themselves, resulting in much the same instability that showed up in their diagnostic reports.

Except... It disproportionately affected Firefox. Because this time it wasn't Intel's fault.
Walmart has announced a new range of Android tablets starting at $97. (Liliputing)

Are they any good? Well, the cheapest model with its 7" 1024x600 screen is most definitely not.

The next step up, though, an 8.1" model priced at $138, has a 1524x1000 screen, 6GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. It's certainly not a high end model but that's not a high-end price, and the screen while not amazing is distinctly better than the 1280x800 resolution found in competitors. The 6GB of RAM is a useful bump from the more typical 4GB in this price range.

Worth a look if you live near a Walmart, which I do not.
ENReco Chapter 3 starts tomorrow, running from the 24th to the 29th. There goes all my free time. Chapter 1 produced - from memory - 400 hours of content in eight days, more than was possible to watch even if you skipped sleep entirely and watched two streams at once.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I love the look of the instruments here: Not polished museum pieces, but the daily tools of workmen (and workwomen), and it shows.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 04:32 AM (6wpGE)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 04:32 AM (NcvvS)

3 Nazdar nooded.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 04:32 AM (6wpGE)

4 Saw that!!!

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 04:33 AM (6wpGE)

5 :-)

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 04:34 AM (NcvvS)

6 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 04:45 AM (Ia/+0)

7 >>>ENReco Chapter 3

I found this, online. Is this it?

https://enreco-archive.net

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 04:52 AM (6wpGE)

8 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2026 04:55 AM (yKhjs)

9 51 degree now and not getting much warmer all day

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0)

10 at the youtube site:

(Dokibird's BGM) Bounty Hunter
Orchestra: Budapest Scoring Orchestra

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 04:56 AM (6wpGE)

11 Memorial Day...When I was in highschool I marched in the band. We marched to the local cemetery and taps was played and we played the Star Spangle Banner. My uniform was hot and I was overheated. Then we marched back to the school and changed out of that uniform and. At that time lots of WW2 vets marched, all who are probably gone now. Weather could be hot or cold depending on mother nature. Days for me that are long gone, but the small village still does the parade. The local American Legion has kind of faded away, I guess those days are going away. At least we aren't phrasing the glories of socialism yet, here in New York upstate. NYC who knows.

Posted by: Colin at May 23, 2026 05:03 AM (CiQE7)

12 LOL Spencer Pratt:

"My party is Angry Angeleno."

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 05:15 AM (6wpGE)

13 Spencer Pratt hosts South LA block party as mayoral campaign gains momentum

https://youtu.be/1Q8I35051Ak

Fed to me by The Algorithm.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 05:17 AM (6wpGE)

14
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 23, 2026 05:24 AM (AMvSw)

15 Neo might have the only analysis on that Muslim center shooters you will see
https://thenewneo.com/

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 05:35 AM (Ia/+0)

16 streams crossing and all:

Elon Musk retweeted
Nicki Minaj
@NICKIMINAJ
8h
Lets’s Go @SpaceX!!!
You guys are pretty freaking amazing. Wow. Congratulations on the successful launch —
and to many, MANY more. 🥂🍾 🚀

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 05:40 AM (6wpGE)

17 7 >>>ENReco Chapter 3

I found this, online. Is this it?

https://enreco-archive.net
Posted by: m

That's a fan site explaining the event. All the videos are on YouTube. There are a lot of them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 23, 2026 06:03 AM (BLOW1)

18 10 at the youtube site:

(Dokibird's BGM) Bounty Hunter
Orchestra: Budapest Scoring Orchestra
Posted by: m

Dokibird is a vtuber (formerly Selen Tatsuki of Ninjisanji before they went Black Company). The composer has done a couple of themes for her and another for Clio Aite who streams with Phase Connect.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 23, 2026 06:06 AM (BLOW1)

19 Evening and morning to all on this start to a three-day weekend! I hope all the late toilers and early risers have good plans for the break.

Ever notice how it happens that you sleep enough, but it's on those occasions where you get up feeling like you didn't? No? Just me, then? Well, so be it.

The ONT quote last night from the "60-year-old detective novel" about friendship: I recognized it right away, the author but not the exact book. I should have known Just Some Guy would get it. It's a shame the weather in KS didn't cooperate last month so that we could meet in person.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

20 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 23, 2026 06:15 AM (VyBeY)

21 @Wolfus

Any progress on your Terre Haute house hunt?

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 06:21 AM (lJ0H4)

22 Second cup of black juice, and a morning pipe. Normally I don't smoke English blends at this nasty-hot time of year; they have a rather smoky campfire quality that goes best with cold or damp weather. But I hear grumbles of thunder and it's supposed to rain this afternoon. So why not.

Big black Stirling did not wake me by jumping on me this morning. He's sprawled like a long dark hill on the floor nearby. I know little Dagny is not locked in a closet, I saw her when I stumbled out to start the coffee, but I don't see her right now. She'll come trotting when I start to feed them in a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

23
Any progress on your Terre Haute house hunt?
Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026

***
Yes! I've located a very nice 3-BR 2-story on the edge of a historic district. Everything has been done inside (though I do want to have some walls repainted to my taste). There are a few exterior cosmetic things I'll have to have done, but if the inspection does not reveal serious flaws, I'd be able to move in without much trouble.

The local lender the realtor put me on to is slow in responding. I'm trying to go through the loan pre-approval process, but I'm not hearing from her as promptly as I'd like. If I don't hear from her by Tuesday morning, I'll call her by phone and say, "Let's get going here!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:28 AM (wzUl9)

24 "Yes! I've located a very nice 3-BR 2-story on the edge of a historic district. Everything has been done inside (though I do want to have some walls repainted to my taste). There are a few exterior cosmetic things I'll have to have done, but if the inspection does not reveal serious flaws, I'd be able to move in without much trouble."

How exciting! Fingers crossed that inspection and mortgage process go smoothly.

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 06:31 AM (lJ0H4)

25 And I got a good news letter from the IRS yesterday. I miscalculated the taxable amount of my SS -- didn't RTFI -- and they have found I'm due a nice and unexpected chunk of refund! It doesn't change my state return, though.

This means my estimated tax for next year will be less than I'd calculated too. So I'll have to send less for my estimated tax payments this year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

26 Thank you, Pixy, for the tech answers.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 06:32 AM (6wpGE)

27 Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 06:35 AM (Ia/+0)

28 ". . . I've located a very nice 3-BR 2-story on the edge of a historic district. Everything has been done inside (though I do want to have some walls repainted to my taste). . . ."

How exciting! Fingers crossed that inspection and mortgage process go smoothly.
Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026

***
I hope so too. The area in Gorgle Street View is nice. A big bedroom downstairs, two small ones upstairs (I'll have to buy a window unit for my office), and it faces east, so no hot afternoon sunlight slamming into my living room windows. Small basement and a garage too!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:36 AM (wzUl9)

29 Wolfus, call up some local lenders and get pre-approved.

2 decade ago, I bought something and the lender associated with the builder did return my calls.

I went with a loan broker that my sister recommended. I eventually got a call from the builder's leader. She hadn't seen anyone with a FICO score as high as mine (840). She had been on vacation. Too bad toots.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 06:37 AM (qFwJc)

30 Wolfus, I'm glad to hear some good news on your real estate adventures.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 23, 2026 06:37 AM (/k3in)

31 google ai overview is in some kind of time machine:

Hololive English's ENigmatic Recollection (ENreco) Chapter 3, officially titled "Broken Bonds," kicked off on Sunday, May 24th, 2026, at 7 PM PDT.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 06:37 AM (6wpGE)

32 Seems like AI is lazy

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 23, 2026 06:38 AM (znREB)

33 B of A funded my home. They kept the mortgage and never bundled it with shit (NINJA, No income, no job) loans to be sold off to suckers.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 06:38 AM (qFwJc)

34 did NOT return my calls.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 23, 2026 06:39 AM (qFwJc)

35 Wolfus, I'm glad to hear some good news on your real estate adventures.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 23, 2026

***
Thanks. I want to get rolling on this. I dread packing up and moving in the middle of the summer -- but maybe I can be in my new place by Labor Day or even earlier.

I might even buy a little artificial Christmas tree, or maybe just put some lights out on the porch!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:42 AM (wzUl9)

36 "Thanks. I want to get rolling on this. I dread packing up and moving in the middle of the summer -- but maybe I can be in my new place by Labor Day or even earlier."

Any progress on the Linda front?

Posted by: Tuna at May 23, 2026 06:44 AM (lJ0H4)

37 And my car insurance will drop by 60% or more by moving to IN, too. Right now I'm with Flo's Bros, but I'll shop around once I get there, and of course will bundle my home and car insurance for whatever discounts I can get my grubby little hands on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:44 AM (wzUl9)

38 Wolfus if you want it push that realtor hard. Too many stores of a house slipping away because someone else is faster

Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026 06:46 AM (Ia/+0)

39 Wolfus, I'm glad to hear some good news on your real estate adventures.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 23, 2026

***
Zero. She won't even discuss this beyond saying, "I don't know," which means she does know and doesn't want to deal with it. I show her nice-looking properties online and get "It looks dull" or "There are no trees," maybe "That's a nice color." Pffft.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:46 AM (wzUl9)

40 Tuna, I meant to quote your inquiry about Miss Linda in my previous reply in 39.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:47 AM (wzUl9)

41 Wolfus if you want it push that realtor hard. Too many stores of a house slipping away because someone else is faster
Posted by: Skip at May 23, 2026

***
I'm not sure it's the realtor but the lender he recommended. But an email from me is indicated.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:48 AM (wzUl9)

42 Little Dagny has emerged from her nest and is trotting around as a hint that it's breakfast time. Time for me to see about some chow too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 06:50 AM (wzUl9)

43 mornin yall. Tell me, what is the real reason I should never throw dryer lint away.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

44 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 23, 2026 06:55 AM (2Ez/1)

45 fd, fire starter

Posted by: Ben Had at May 23, 2026 06:57 AM (5P5DO)

46
Good morning, Hordians. Ugly morning here at Schloss Hadrian. Lotsa flashies and boomies. Heavy rain. Won't be letting dogs out until it's o'erpast.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 23, 2026 06:59 AM (HdYcL)

47 "fd, fire starter
Posted by: Ben Had "

An old Boy Scout trick and really the only thing I know dryer lint is good for. I don't start that many fires though, and certainly not enough to save all my lint. There must be some other reason that the NY Post is recommending that I stockpile dryer lint.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:00 AM (vFG9F)

48 Good morning everyone. Thankfully we’re finally getting rain here in western NC. It’s been pouring down since yesterday morning. I’m very happy. Have a peaceful and pleasant day.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 23, 2026 07:03 AM (lsIOl)

49 I wonder if it is possible to make a rocket engine using dryer lint.

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

50 "Want to listen to music? Well, sure, that's in there too. Somewhere. Probably."

Someone should really tell Spotify that if they go diving in a big tank of sewage, they shouldn't expect to come up smelling like roses.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 23, 2026 07:08 AM (O7YUW)

51 I could never store my dryer lint. It's such a delicious, low-calorie snack. Nature's cotton candy.

Posted by: HELP ME! at May 23, 2026 07:10 AM (Fkqu4)

52 Morning peeps. Day 3 of rain. I've got to get some shoes on, go out and open the wastegate on the pool. It's about to overflow.

After some coffee...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 23, 2026 07:12 AM (jehhT)

53 Last night we watched the Hank Williams 2016 biopic I Saw the Light. A grand performance by Tom Hiddleston, whose work I did not know. There were far too many scenes that were poorly lit, especially indoors, but I can overlook that for such a well-done film.

Tonight The Longest Day is on Movies!, and Svengoolie has Dr.Cyclops, which I haven't seen in many years. But we also have The Sun Also Rises w/ Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner on DVD.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 23, 2026 07:12 AM (wzUl9)

54 43 mornin yall. Tell me, what is the real reason I should never throw dryer lint away.
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

If they escape into the wild, there's a risk that they'll all reassemble into Dryer Lint Man.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 07:14 AM (6wpGE)

55 some say dryer lint can go into the compost; others think that's a bad idea because (gasp!) microplastics!

I like a nice wad or two of lint at the bottom of a fresh kitchen trash bag to absorb possible ooze ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 23, 2026 07:17 AM (VyBeY)

56 Dryer Lint Man? Does whatever dryer lint can?

Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

57 56 Dryer Lint Man? Does whatever dryer lint can?
Posted by: fd at May 23, 2026 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

He looks a lot like the Michelin Man.

Posted by: m at May 23, 2026 07:23 AM (6wpGE)

58 Good morning morons.

Formatting? Who needs stinkin' formatting?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:26 AM (RIvkX)

59 Good luck Wolfus

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 23, 2026 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

60 Coffee thread is NOOD (early.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 23, 2026 07:30 AM (O7YUW)

61 "Right now I'm with Flo's Bros, but I'll shop around once I get there, and of course will bundle my home and car insurance for whatever discounts I can get my grubby little hands on."
+++
Only pay for what you need.

Posted by: The geeky guy in the Plymouth Duster at May 23, 2026 07:31 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Did you know $500 will get your head blowed off? It will.

Molly Hatchet had a slightly different version of Bounty Hunter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 23, 2026 07:31 AM (D1E+2)

63 Yeah - the magnesium bar from Doan’s machining co. White hot when burning.

Before matches, getting your pipe going was a bit of a trick. “Fire steel” and a piece of flint. I imagine they got good at it, but it was a pain in wet & windy weather. I made a Bow Drill once, and decided although it works great I will never go out to the remote sticks without about 6 different ways to get a fire going.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 08:10 AM (z1t++)

64 (Dokibird's BGM) Bounty Hunter
Orchestra: Budapest Scoring Orchestra
Posted by: m

Dokibird is a vtuber (formerly Selen Tatsuki of Ninjisanji before they went Black Company). The composer has done a couple of themes for her and another for Clio Aite who streams with Phase Connect.
Posted by: Pixy Misa
------
And... BGM.
What the hell is BGM?
I never actually found a definition spelled out, but I finally figured it out from context.
BackGround Music. Evidently a common term in film and video production, especially in anime.
The number of niches the we create is infinite.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 23, 2026 02:50 PM (mSL0+)

Yes, It's True. This Man Has No ONT

Welcome to Friday night everyone. I'm afraid I have some bad news:

Fido/feline Friday: Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

pic.twitter.com/dKToJlg0Y5
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 22, 2026

Which cheese are you?

Beware

I'm in this scene and I don't like it

pic.twitter.com/01qamWmgL0
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 22, 2026

Tragedy

Tims

The whitest thing ever

pic.twitter.com/OJU6x5SFxl
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 22, 2026

Push notifications

If you're in Texas, Vote Paxton next tusday

Timeline cleanse

pic.twitter.com/IQxN5MGigC
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 22, 2026

Auto-translate has a few bugs

I took an online personality test this week

In which we make a punny

pic.twitter.com/kFWetyAo4s
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 23, 2026

Friends

It's amazing how hard it is to get people to understand this

Is someone cutting onions?

This girl called her stepdad upstairs to show him that she used his last name on her jersey. pic.twitter.com/ccLVJtcAbm
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 23, 2026

Healthy living

New Lego set dropped

Even lizards know this is fun

pic.twitter.com/kgtjjtSwhS
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) May 23, 2026

Raimondo logging in to the ONT

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by names:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 Yay, Starship!!!

Posted by: buddhaha at May 22, 2026 10:06 PM (Y2dJL)

2 Roustabout

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 10:06 PM (LIEok)

3 Sorry I'm late, the chicken fingers got cold, so I had to find some mittens.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:07 PM (PMi3m)

4 Howdy, Horde! Thanks for the memes, WD.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 22, 2026 10:08 PM (kOluj)

5 "Cats and dogs living together-- total chaos!"

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:08 PM (PMi3m)

6 Good evening Horde. Thanks WD!

Posted by: TRex - kitty whisperer dino at May 22, 2026 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)

7 Sorry I'm late, the chicken fingers got cold, so I had to find some mittens.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:07 PM (PMi3m)
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For you or for them?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 10:10 PM (gnNyN)

8 Cafe idlers summoned

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 10:11 PM (LQibT)

9 Not first. nor the last.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 10:11 PM (diia5)

10 I posted a cat picture last night. That will have to suffice for you folks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

11 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 10:13 PM (yKhjs)

12 Good evening morons und danke wd

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)

13 Top 15 and I forgot it was ONT time until now.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 22, 2026 10:14 PM (Xqite)

14 Lord of the Rings is basically a retelling of Don Quixote. Sam is Sancho. Frodo is well, Frodo. But anyway...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 10:15 PM (diia5)

15 Hmmm, not sure what cheese I am.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 10:15 PM (snZF9)

16
This is the ONTiest ONT ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 10:16 PM (HdYcL)

17 yay dave, last of the great ONTers

Posted by: alpine_beer at May 22, 2026 10:16 PM (van9r)

18 From the cafe:

261 I am going to guess that StarLink can be used as GPS as well
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 09:53 PM (rbvCR)
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I don't think it can be used AS a GPS system...the satellites are very low compared to the actual GPS constellation.

They definitely USE the GPS system to ensure that they stay in their proper orbits, though.

Of course, Musk may have some OTHER purpose for the staggering number of satellites he's put into space...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:57 PM (gnNyN)

He's preparing to use his Neuralink research tobi.bard the Earth with Mating Rays, to boost the population over theTotal Planetary Productivity threshold for his Mars push to succeed!

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 10:17 PM (LQibT)

19 I'll take Timmies over Dunkin and Starbucks.

It's not even a fair fight.

Tim Bits FTW ...

Posted by: browndog says woof at May 22, 2026 10:17 PM (3sXRv)

20 Blessed are the cheese makers.

Posted by: Archer at May 22, 2026 10:17 PM (wvc0i)

21 Those English cheeses all look like fags.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

22 The ADHD video is an accurate representation of my life.

Posted by: Archer at May 22, 2026 10:18 PM (wvc0i)

23 7 For you or for them?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 10:10 PM (gnNyN)

For them- it was the chicken fingers thst got cold, not my fingers.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:18 PM (PMi3m)

24 Translated from Portuguese

====

This checks out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 10:19 PM (RIvkX)

25 A fine and girthy ONT tonite. I am sure it will grow strong and have much stamina.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 22, 2026 10:19 PM (aMrr2)

26 Tillamook Extra Sharp Whie Cheddar

Kind of an unwieldy rapper name. But that's me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)

27 I like a good Cheddar, and smoked Gouda is pretty nice in omelets.

“Sharp” Cheddar often is not. It’s like Colby. I think they fucking lie about it. Ya hafta buy “Extra Sharp” to get “Sharp”, or near enough, and they seem to only sell that in those twee packs. It’s a cheesemonger conspiracy i tells ya.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 10:20 PM (ExmPp)

28 Of course, Musk may have some OTHER purpose for the staggering number of satellites he's put into space...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:57 PM (gnNyN)

Maybe he'll detonate them all on 4th of july for the biggest bad ass 250th firework display in the galaxy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 10:20 PM (snZF9)

29
The line from the detective novel perfectly describes my presence here.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 10:20 PM (HdYcL)

30 And, I'm out.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)

31 Tillamook Extra Sharp Whie Cheddar

Kind of an unwieldy rapper name. But that's me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)

Tillamook ricks!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 10:21 PM (2WIwB)

32 I posted a cat picture last night. That will have to suffice for you folks.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

I posted something about Tammy Grimes on last night's ONT, and people were still talking about her a couple of threads ago. Weird.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

33 Voted for Paxton today, but that's not anything new. Have ALWAYS voted against Cornhole in the primary and then again in November.

Thankfully never had to vote demoncrat, there was always a stoner Libertarian candidate to vote for.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at May 22, 2026 10:22 PM (ofbCM)

34 While coffee has been been able to make me get up and go, it was an entirely different type of arousal.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:23 PM (PMi3m)

35 but raimondo wouldn't be armed with an assault rifle. he'd be holding a floppy dildo

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 10:23 PM (gKWVE)

36
Pug,

Have a great weekend. Road trip!!

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 10:23 PM (3ek7K)

37 Welcome sir, to the Natural Cheese Emporium.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 22, 2026 10:23 PM (4NO2D)

38 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 10:23 PM (77rzZ)

39 If I'm a cheese it's a lox shmear.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 10:23 PM (RIvkX)

40 Evening, all.

Posted by: RandomDave at May 22, 2026 10:24 PM (aJQbY)

41 > 14 Lord of the Rings is basically a retelling of Don Quixote. Sam is Sancho. Frodo is well, Frodo. But anyway...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 10:15 PM (diia5)

Rocinante is Rosie Cotton.

Book Rosie wasn't nearly as cute as movie Rosie.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 10:24 PM (IG3/x)

42 Of course, Musk may have some OTHER purpose for the staggering number of satellites he's put into space...
-
Ad space in the sky.

Posted by: Methos at May 22, 2026 10:24 PM (vSvIl)

43 You can bet there’s all sorts of interesting cyber warfare with the various and competing GPS systems.

Years ago when the US based GPS was the only game in town it employed something called “Selective Availability” a method of inducing deliberate error into the signal provided. I’m not sure exactly how it worked but the idea generally was to deny the enemy the accuracy inherent to the system and maybe make their missiles or weapons miss the target by a significant margin.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 10:24 PM (ExmPp)

44 Oh, and BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 10:25 PM (77rzZ)

45 Tillamook Xtra sharp melted on one half of an English muffin paired with a waffer-thin hot Jimmy Dean sausage patty on the other half for your own McMuffin .

Posted by: Rex B at May 22, 2026 10:25 PM (rgnea)

46
I see a Boob

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 10:26 PM (3ek7K)

47 > I don't think it can be used AS a GPS system...the satellites are very low compared to the actual GPS constellation.

Perhaps not GPS qua GPS (the specific technology), but I would be surprised if their ephemerides weren't known accurately enough to use them for navigation of some type. With over 10,000 in orbit you'd have to keep their trajectories pretty tightly controlled.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 10:28 PM (IG3/x)

48 I’ll tell you what, another cheese that’s like Crack, is that smoked stuff they put in little plastic containers. Shullsburg is a popular brand. It’s mostly cream cheese, actually. A box of Triscuit or Ritz, that kind of thing, and Bob’s Yer Uncle.

Homemade Queso, and a big ass bag of Tortilla chips is some fine dinin’ there too.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 10:28 PM (ExmPp)

49 Movie Rosie was tol for a hobbit. Must have some Bullroarer Took genetics

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 10:28 PM (gKWVE)

50 Before the crows lost their voices, I was often stsrtled by them when I stepped outside, but now there is no caws for alarm.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:29 PM (PMi3m)

51 I swear... the weather assholes love to pop "tornado warnings" when the sky's dark.

And I have no shoes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 10:29 PM (jehhT)

52 The best ONT ever…
is always the one right in front of me…
but especially so on Fridays…

…sample group not including that incomparable one by Maet. You know the one.

Posted by: mindful webworker - is it ONT yet is it ONT yet is it ONT yet is it ONT yet?? at May 22, 2026 10:30 PM (0poB+)

53 There is a new Korean monster movie coming out, called Hope

https://youtu.be/Vt7860xZFXk

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 10:30 PM (rbvCR)

54 33

Good 4 u!

U won't have Cornhole to kick around any more-- shortly.

I have a TX connection, btw. One of my sons is a Longhorn. I have the hat to prove it, too.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 10:30 PM (RCjYY)

55 I had a once in a lifetime opportunity to sample dozens and dozens of cheeses; stacked like a 6 foot wide and 8ft tall tiered wedding cake.

I tried maybe six samples and could only think how plugged the pipes would be the next day. Stupid! stupid! stupid! Oh, and unlimited wine and ale varieties. All hosted.

Posted by: 13times at May 22, 2026 10:30 PM (q+8oS)

56
Yay, Starship!!!

We built this city!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 10:31 PM (Cqx++)

57 English cheese? They can barely make fish and chips and beer.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 10:31 PM (D1E+2)

58
My weather thing says the rain will be ending soon.

Sun has been out all day, no rain, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 10:31 PM (3ek7K)

59 Quick, someone post a picture of Congressional Democrats for Bulg. He wants to see boobs!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 10:32 PM (qx7Zg)

60 I swear... the weather assholes love to pop "tornado warnings" when the sky's dark.

And I have no shoes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 10:29 PM (jehhT)

*picks up dice*
*has blonde blow on them for luck*
OK Baby! Farmer needs a new pair of shoes!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 10:32 PM (2WIwB)

61 Odd bit of trivia: the sailing ship on the label of Tillamook products harks back to the origin of the coop.

The farmers had awesome land for grazing dairy cows, but no way to get their products to market, so they pooled their money and built a schooner.

Yes, I know that a schooner technically isn't a "ship". On the other hand, I've also had sex before, so... there's that.

"Vessel". Happy now?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 10:32 PM (IG3/x)

62 >> Perhaps not GPS qua GPS (the specific technology), but I would be surprised if their ephemerides weren't known accurately enough to use them for navigation of some type.

Indeed. I was just reading about that prompted by the discussion last thread. Some MIT guys figured this out, and were able to get location to 7 m accuracy. It just involved eavesdropping on the locating beacon signals broadcast to help receivers lock on to the satellites.

They had to sort of reverse engineer it, and used machine learning for that, but they learned enough to figure out how detect distance and velocity of the satellites. Now, with Starlink ephemeris data, bingo, you've got something like GPS.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:32 PM (w6EFb)

63 The last bit in the dogs and cats video...
"I said 'NO capes!'"

Posted by: GWB at May 22, 2026 10:32 PM (kU0PQ)

64 A lot of Ghostbusters refs. Nice.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (zZu0s)

65 it was the chicken fingers thst got cold, not my fingers.
Posted by: tankdemon

You know those gloves with the fingers cut off? What you need is the fingers from those. What do y' spose they do with them?

Posted by: mindful webworker - check the dryer at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (0poB+)

66 I tried maybe six samples and could only think how plugged the pipes would be the next day. Stupid! stupid! stupid! Oh, and unlimited wine and ale varieties. All hosted.
Posted by: 13times

You are supposed to spit it out.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (/lPRQ)

67 The Titanic is missing a stack.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (u/oMr)

68 Toe.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (9gKa/)

69
English cheese? They can barely make fish and chips and beer.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Have you not seen the cheese shoppe skit on Monty Python?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (Cqx++)

70 > 49 Movie Rosie was tol for a hobbit. Must have some Bullroarer Took genetics
Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 10:28 PM (gKWVE)

Movie Rosie had it going on, too.

Not enough to make me overlook the three foot height, of course, but she definitely had it going on.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 10:34 PM (IG3/x)

71 I see the problem with the Cornyn Venn diagram.

The circles are too close together.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 10:35 PM (qx7Zg)

72 >> I’m not sure exactly how it worked but the idea generally was to deny the enemy the accuracy inherent to the system

Intentional random errors inserted into the time signals, and errors in the published ephemerides for the satellites.

To get fully accuracy, there were some encryption that broadcast the errors or otherwise allowed the military grade receiver to determine and correct for them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:35 PM (w6EFb)

73 Yikes...I forgot what time it....
I looked at that crazy hole up there...
Today I was gas bombing the damn underground critters today that eat my veggies. Am I a bad person?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 22, 2026 10:36 PM (uTEOj)

74 I think Trump's gonna do it this time.

He's got the name. Might as well have the game.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 10:36 PM (RCjYY)

75 So... That detective novel quote pretty much sums up AoSHQ, dunnit?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 10:36 PM (vTZFs)

76 Soon to be a Venn of Cornyn and the Senate

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 10:37 PM (gKWVE)

77 Yay, Starship!!!

We built this city!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 10:31 PM (Cqx++)
=====

That song gives me the urge to attack the radio with an axe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

78 Publius, before the USGOV turned off the "wobble" in the GPS, it was a thing to have a base station with a known location to track the variation in the signal of the GPS satellites. If a surveyor could do that, they could nail down locations to inches.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

79 No one has as many friends as the man with many cheeses!

Posted by: Cyseal Cheese Vendor - all day long every day without end at May 22, 2026 10:37 PM (3uBP9)

80 The best ONT ever…
is always the one right in front of me…
but especially so on Fridays…

Worst Haiku ever...

Posted by: MkY at May 22, 2026 10:38 PM (q6tQZ)

81
Today I was gas bombing the damn underground critters today that eat my veggies. Am I a bad person?
Posted by: COMountainMarie

That depends. What kind of gas did you use?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 10:38 PM (Cqx++)

82 Italian restaurant math joke

https://youtube.com/shorts/jH8zBx1zfOY

Now, with Venn diagrams!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 10:38 PM (qx7Zg)

83 I knew it, there’s a penguin under the bed.

It’s wasn’t just the whiskey.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 10:39 PM (XV/Pl)

84
And if SpaceX would publish some of the specs, they could refine that down to 1m or better accuracy. They wouldn't have to open up the system, just publish enough info about the beacon signals to be usable.

And I'm sure they've already provided that to the military anyway. They were very interested in this to use as a backup. Have all the tools you can muster for PNT (position, navigation, and timing) purposes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:39 PM (w6EFb)

85 Oh, and BOOBS!
Posted by: Bulg

Who y' callin' boobs, you d!ck!

Moron!

Posted by: mindful webworker - (o) (o) - there y'go at May 22, 2026 10:39 PM (0poB+)

86 Nicely done, WeirdDave.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 10:39 PM (wVcYX)

87 65 You know those gloves with the fingers cut off? What you need is the fingers from those. What do y' spose they do with them?
Posted by: mindful webworker - check the dryer at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (0poB+)

I thought they became sweaters for catepillars.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:39 PM (PMi3m)

88 Now, with Starlink ephemeris data, bingo, you've got something like GPS.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:32 PM (w6EFb)

Neat. 7 m accuracy is plenty good for most long-range navigation, if not for stuff like land surveying.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 10:39 PM (IG3/x)

89 Tillamook is great. But I’ve become enamored with Beechers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 10:40 PM (A5RD0)

90 Yay, Starship!!!

We built this city!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 10:31 PM (Cqx++)

Building a city on Rock and Roll can cause problems

youtu.be/KnNYsvDCaUg

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 10:40 PM (rbvCR)

91 https://x.com/LoneStar_PAC/status/
2057531828085350738

First anti Talarico ad.

People think he has a shot. Apparently.

Posted by: TJM's phone at May 22, 2026 10:40 PM (46HP8)

92 ...Of course, Musk may have some OTHER purpose for the staggering number of satellites he's put into space...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:57 PM (gnNyN)

He's preparing to use his Neuralink research tobi.bard the Earth with Mating Rays, to boost the population over theTotal Planetary Productivity threshold for his Mars push to succeed!
Posted by: SciVo
---

https://tinyurl.com/2p78npjx

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 10:41 PM (LIEok)

93 79 No one has as many friends as the man with many cheeses!
Posted by: Cyseal Cheese Vendor - all day long every day without end at May 22, 2026 10:37 PM (3uBP9)

But as soon as he cuts the cheese, all his friends abandon him.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:43 PM (PMi3m)

94
You are supposed to spit it out.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (/lPRQ)

Me> STUPID!

Posted by: 13times at May 22, 2026 10:43 PM (q+8oS)

95 The proverbial question...

Who cut the cheese?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 10:43 PM (jehhT)

96 The Titanic is missing a stack.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 10:33 PM (u/oMr)

It's always in the last place you look.

Posted by: far cry at May 22, 2026 10:44 PM (Q6P2R)

97 "Ya hafta buy “Extra Sharp” to get “Sharp”,"

Yeah, isn't that annoying?

Gotta sample it - and it's as much whether it crumbles when you try to cut it as it is the actual taste. Crumble = good.

Posted by: AB at May 22, 2026 10:46 PM (ArLSQ)

98 Evenin’, Nurse Ratched.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 10:46 PM (77rzZ)

99 81

The one the government recommends of course😜

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 22, 2026 10:46 PM (uTEOj)

100 I'm not here... yet... and hopefully not for a few decades.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

101 The Titanic Re-enactment in the above pic:

"There Was Room!"

LOL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 10:47 PM (yKhjs)

102 I'm not here... yet... and hopefully not for a few decades.

A police officer pulled over an old lady for speeding. He asked her why she was driving so fast. She said she had to get home before she forgot where she lived.

The officer was so confused that he let her go

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 10:47 PM (qx7Zg)

103 "'Sharp' Cheddar often is not. It’s like Colby. I think they fucking lie about it. Ya hafta buy “Extra Sharp” to get “Sharp”, or near enough, and they seem to only sell that in those twee packs. It’s a cheesemonger conspiracy i tells ya."

Our local Piggly Wiggly has a cheddar that's aged for ten years, and is so sharp, it can draw blood. Among other things, I use it for a cheese sauce; poured over lightly steamed broccoli or cauliflower, it is stunningly good.
The Cabot sharp cheddar is also really good.

Posted by: Nemo at May 22, 2026 10:48 PM (4RPgu)

104 They're having a worldwide contest to see what the most popular drink is.
Coffee is wining a landslide.
But it's not over yet.
There are still some absent tea ballots.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 10:48 PM (2WIwB)

105 Dancing 29+ers - I wonder if those are their original knees

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 22, 2026 10:48 PM (eZ5tL)

106 Attention F-14 Tomcat fans!

Mooch and Nasty totally geek out over the Maverick Act and how to make an air show F-14D Tomcat that will blow your socks off.

https://youtu.be/__3vmZsG7FU

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (2GVsD)

107 Hey y'all.

Anyone here has Starlink?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (22p5n)

108

Hour and Diogenes,

LOL

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (3ek7K)

109 Only he who has monged cheese can truly judge its sharpness.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 10:50 PM (u/oMr)

110 Hey Anna!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:50 PM (22p5n)

111 Rosie was played by Sarah McLeod, NZ actress. I'm not sure she's been in anything else except LoTRs. Probably lots of NZ tv but that's a guess.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 10:50 PM (yKhjs)

112 Thankfully never had to vote demoncrat, there was always a stoner Libertarian candidate to vote for.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits

Holy carp! Not seen you in forever! How’s it going?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (A5RD0)

113
The current GPS system has a much higher accuracy and anti-spoofing/jamming encrypted system for military and other govt use. 1 cm accuracy, and some robust anti-spoofing system.

They were under a lot of pressure to open up the GPS system for civilian use. So I think they developed other means to jam and spoof it locally if need be. And then add the additional system to prevent the spoofing and jamming being used against us.

Interestingly, during Gulf War 1.0, they turned of the degradation. The trouble was a shortage of military grade receivers that could bypass it, and the had to use a lot a civilian grade equipment. So, they turned it off to allow full accuracy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

114 >>>People think he has a shot. Apparently.
Posted by: TJM's phone
---

TX is flooded with DC and Corporate and Bush money. Kalorama is on the ropes and they are desperate for any win. There's a lot of (published) lying going on down there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (LIEok)

115 nurse!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (22p5n)

116 S

M

H!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (A5RD0)

117 Hey, SMH! How are you?

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (77rzZ)

118 Oh well

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (uTEOj)

119 HORDE RIDDLE: What do the aft funnel on the Titanic and raimondo both have in common?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 10:52 PM (u/oMr)

120 Kalorama is a good word for USA Color revolution.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 10:52 PM (LIEok)

121 >>Yes, I know that a schooner technically isn't a "ship".

A schooner is most definitely a ship.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 10:52 PM (viF8m)

122
They both blow?

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 10:52 PM (3ek7K)

123 Hi SMH hope you are well

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

124 Hey bulg!

I'm doing okay, how about yourself?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:52 PM (22p5n)

125 Hiya SMH!!

You and everyone good?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 10:53 PM (2GVsD)

126

Oohhhh they both suck?

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 10:53 PM (3ek7K)

127 Hi San Franpsycho!

I'm well, how are you doing?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:54 PM (22p5n)

128 My Avalanche are in collapse. Vegas leads the series 2-0.

Avalanche threat: minimal.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 10:55 PM (ZxPkt)

129 COMM!

Hello sweet lady. Can I sit with you for a bit?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 10:55 PM (A5RD0)

130 91 TJM

They only think that because he has a shot. About 50/50, imo.

A lot of folks do not view Paxton through love lenses.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 10:55 PM (RCjYY)

131 Anna, yep.

The home appraisal came in a little over asking, so now just waiting for that 'clear to close'.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:56 PM (22p5n)

132 For some reason, Costco is frequently out of sliced Tillamook Swiss cheese. It will briefly appear, then disappear for months. I suspect an international conspiracy is afoot.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 22, 2026 10:56 PM (aMrr2)

133 124 SMH, I”m OK. Landed a part-time job as a tutor.

How’s the house hunt going?

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 10:56 PM (77rzZ)

134 Well, thanks. Today was pudding day.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 10:57 PM (RIvkX)

135 Anyone here has Starlink?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (22p5n)

I do, and I really like it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 22, 2026 10:59 PM (aMrr2)

136 134 San Franpsycho is Joe Biden?

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 10:59 PM (77rzZ)

137 Interestingly, during Gulf War 1.0, they turned of the degradation. The trouble was a shortage of military grade receivers that could bypass it, and the had to use a lot a civilian grade equipment. So, they turned it off to allow full accuracy.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:51 PM (w6EFb)

I remember the words.of one Iraqi general who surrendered to us. He was amazed we crossed the desert so far out from the Kuwait to attack. "Even we get lost out there!"
We showed him a SLGR, our 1st Gen GPS at that time.
He was amazed.
"Your generals have this?" he asked.
"No. Out lieutenants."

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 11:00 PM (2WIwB)

138
The Cabot sharp cheddar is also really good.
Posted by: Nemo

Try the Cabot Seriously Sharp.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 11:00 PM (Cqx++)

139 Cheese? Japanese sage darby? Brie, Rochefort, pole le veq? Venezuelan beaver cheese? Winsleydale?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026 11:01 PM (CHHv1)

140 At this point, it is probably a safe bet that Christopher Nolan in his quest to make a movie about the Trojan War would have been better served if he had adapted Marion Zimmer Bradley's fantasy novel The Firebrand which tells the story through the eyes of Princess Kassandra of Troy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:01 PM (2GVsD)

141 Ever had US Government cheese?

It's American cheese similar to velvetta, only you can't slice it and it falls apart. It's good for nachos and macaroni and cheese. On the bright side, it almost never goes bad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 11:01 PM (D1E+2)

142 Cassandra was a pain in the ass.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:02 PM (u/oMr)

143

Garden Grove gas leak:
Tens of thousands told to evacuate after a 34,000-gallon tank of methyl methacrylate leaked at an aerospace plastics facility, sending potentially toxic vapors into the air.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 11:02 PM (Cqx++)

144 Hope it all goes your way there SMH.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:03 PM (2GVsD)

145 129 nurse
Oh goodness! Please do...you know the wobbly table is always available. Most folks don't dig it...I do miss our Rat though🐀....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 22, 2026 11:04 PM (uTEOj)

146 New phone menu

1 for the money
2 for the show
3 to get ready
4 for sales
5 for customer service
6 to repeat this menu

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:04 PM (qx7Zg)

147 Bulg,

Looks like were going to close on a house near the grandkids (less than a half mile) within the next two weeks.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 11:04 PM (22p5n)

148 Thanks Anna. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 11:05 PM (22p5n)

149 Dental Illness
Chewing on success
https://bit.ly/dental-illness

Nine second video webwork. Nine seconds?? Yeah. It's been years since I posted a new video. This was just to get back in practice.

Silliness for amusement porpoises only. My own, if nobody else's.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it bites at May 22, 2026 11:05 PM (0poB+)

150 >>> In which we make a punny

Little known fact (at least around here):
Puns are not funny.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 22, 2026 11:07 PM (syz1S)

151 Evening, Weird Dave, and ONT Horde. Beautiful evening here in AJ. Just had a half-rack of baby back ribs at the Handlebar, and I am stuffed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 11:07 PM (8zz6B)

152 Cassandra was a pain in the ass.
Posted by: Cicero

I don't believe it.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 11:08 PM (VHUov)

153 Against my better judgement to tell you because supply is limited and it disappears fast but Prairie Breeze Cheddar.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 11:08 PM (viF8m)

154 My aunt got gov cheese, and would bring some of it to us. It was really good, at least to little Bulg.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 11:08 PM (77rzZ)

155 COMM,

I miss that rat bastard too.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:09 PM (xuJdJ)

156 21 Those English cheeses all look like fags.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 10:17 PM (1Ff7Z)
____________________________

Well now. Apparently, you never owned a sport coat on which you could play chess. Sheltered life.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 11:10 PM (dIske)

157 Ever had US Government cheese?

It's American cheese similar to velvetta, only you can't slice it and it falls apart. It's good for nachos and macaroni and cheese. On the bright side, it almost never goes bad.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 11:01 PM (D1E+2)

My sweet PaPaw used to bring home the government cheese. He haf friends at the county. He worked hard. He had connections. He went through serious hell in WW Eleven.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:10 PM (Hvd9a)

158 The wobbly table keeps the margaritas shaken.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:10 PM (xuJdJ)

159 147 Excellent, SMH! Congratulations!

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 11:11 PM (77rzZ)

160 121 And it's National Vanilla Pudding Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 11:11 PM (RIvkX)

161 Had to Google the mystery novel quote -- knew it sounded like John D. MacDonald, but couldn't remember the book. Google says it's from Darker Than Amber.

Back to Westlake. Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (q3u5l)

162
SMH,

We live 4 blocks from our grandkids. It is awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (3ek7K)

163 Do I want to click on this?

"Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

164
No

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:13 PM (3ek7K)

165 The wobbly table keeps the margaritas shaken.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Margaritas separate over time?

I guess I've never let one live long enough to find out.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 11:14 PM (VHUov)

166 One thing Tim Hortons has is maple donuts. Well, sometimes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:14 PM (0Htd1)

167 158 The wobbly table keeps the margaritas shaken.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:10 PM (xuJdJ)

I was wobbly since childhood. Not graceful. Always a clumsy useless person. It's nice to know there is a place

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (Hvd9a)

168 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

----------

Was this perchance a home colonoscopy? Because you should never let an amateur up there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (u/oMr)

169 Little known fact (at least around here):
Puns are not funny.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 22, 2026 11:07 PM (syz1S)

I was at a funeral in San Francisco at a hilltop cemetery. The hearse stopped outside the gate of the cemetery. They removed the body from the back on a gurney to push it to the gravesite. The director lost his grip on it, and it began to roll down the hill. We all chased after it as it careened toward the bottom of the hill. It was getting further away as it picked up speed. I rushed into a nearby pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if he had anything to help me stop coffin.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

170 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
====
-perforated colon
-uncontrolled bleeding
-problem with anesthesia

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

171 Publius, before the USGOV turned off the "wobble" in the GPS, it was a thing to have a base station with a known location to track the variation in the signal of the GPS satellites. If a surveyor could do that, they could nail down locations to inches.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

Called "differential GPS". Your fixed station sat on a known survey marker, and the distance and direction to the rover could be determined with great accuracy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (8zz6B)

172 Cotswold is great for making grilled cheese sandwiches.

I live near Rogue Creamery which makes some of the best blue cheese in the world.

Posted by: PabloD at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (PCZFY)

173
"Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"

Now she will look the same at both ends.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 11:16 PM (Cqx++)

174 Well now. Apparently, you never owned a sport coat on which you could play chess. Sheltered life.
Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 11:10 PM (dIske)

That checks out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:16 PM (1Ff7Z)

175 I was at a funeral in San Francisco at a hilltop cemetery. The hearse stopped outside the gate of the cemetery. They removed the body from the back on a gurney to push it to the gravesite. The director lost his grip on it, and it began to roll down the hill. We all chased after it as it careened toward the bottom of the hill. It was getting further away as it picked up speed. I rushed into a nearby pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if he had anything to help me stop coffin.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (1Ff7Z)
======

The National Cemetery in the Presidio is on a steep hillside overlooking the Golden Gate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

176 163 Do I want to click on this?

"Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
_______________________

On a positive note, her ex-boyfriend finally found his watch.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 11:16 PM (dIske)

177 WTH?

Perforated colon, bleeding, and bad reaction to anesthesia?

Did she perhaps accidentally go to a MAID clinic?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:17 PM (2GVsD)

178 Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
====
-perforated colon
-uncontrolled bleeding
-problem with anesthesia

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

Head up her ass? Am I supposed to be sorry for this venomous whore?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:17 PM (Hvd9a)

179 Hey y'all.

Anyone here has Starlink?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (22p5n)

Don't have Starlink, but it's a treat to see you here, Lady.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 11:18 PM (8zz6B)

180 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma

The stick up there got in the way?

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 11:18 PM (VHUov)

181 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy."

When asked about what happened, the doctor replied "We went a little too far. With some people, it's difficult to distinguish the asshole from the rest of the person."

Posted by: PabloD at May 22, 2026 11:18 PM (PCZFY)

182
Lol Bertram

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:19 PM (3ek7K)

183 Oops. Double oops.

Posted by: Gastroenterologist at May 22, 2026 11:20 PM (wVcYX)

184 My Avalanche are in collapse. Vegas leads the series 2-0.

Go Knights! (I don't care for them one way or the other, but if they win the cup, My Flames get their 2028 first round pick. I could see the Knights having a down 2027 with the inevitable post-cup slump (aging roster, some will retire. Other players will sign with other teams at their peak just-won-the-cup value). It might be a pretty good pick.)

Posted by: Weirddave at May 22, 2026 11:20 PM (OFAtD)

185 The lizard with the doorstop: has no one posted that link that Biden's Dog frequently uses? Now over 3.5M BOINGs.

https://boing.greg.technology/

Posted by: mindful webworker - boingiyboingyboingyboingy at May 22, 2026 11:20 PM (0poB+)

186 I was at a funeral in San Francisco at a hilltop cemetery. The hearse stopped outside the gate of the cemetery. They removed the body from the back on a gurney to push it to the gravesite. The director lost his grip on it, and it began to roll down the hill. We all chased after it as it careened toward the bottom of the hill. It was getting further away as it picked up speed. I rushed into a nearby pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if he had anything to help me stop coffin.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

The National Cemetery in the Presidio is on a steep hillside overlooking the Golden Gate.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Ah, regional puns.

Like the Minnesotan with a motorcycle and a snowmobile parked on his front lawn, and the sign "boat for sale."

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 11:20 PM (VHUov)

187 Awww, thanks AOP!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 11:20 PM (22p5n)

188 The Gubbmint cheese was in 5 pound blocks iirc. My dad scored a little bit somehow (we weren’t poor enough to qualify).

It was very dense with no fillers or extenders. Remember it was part of the USDA dairy price support program, “surplus”; so it was extra concentrated for efficiency, and then they had to store it somewhere, which meant in caves. Aged!

All those price supports went away a long time ago, and I doubt there is any gubbmint cheese stocks or anything else for that matter.

Made great grilled sammiches I remember that. The commodities purchased by the government were in turn offered to the public school system, and that in turn meant reduced prices. One of the few “good”’government programs. The taxpayer already paid for it once. That’s why we all remember square pizza slices, grilled cheese and tomato soup, peanut butter squares, and other classic institutional gustatory delights. We bitched a lot, but ate most of it up.

Way better than the clown show the school lunches were going through a couple years back. Remember that shit? Huge scandal. We had actual lunch ladies and cooks at our grade school, and they did a good job, with what they had.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 11:20 PM (BWpBM)

189 The National Cemetery in the Presidio is on a steep hillside overlooking the Golden Gate.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 11:16 PM (RIvkX)

I'm sure I've been there. Decades ago however.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:20 PM (1Ff7Z)

190 Hey y'all.

Anyone here has Starlink?
Posted by: SMH

Has Starlink. 3+ years.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 11:21 PM (2PamV)

191
J&L Historical
@Jason_R_Burt
·
May 21
In 1943, an American bomber flying over Germany was hit 11 times in the fuel tanks by explosive ordnance, but none of them exploded.

When the shells were cut open, they contained no explosives. One held a note in Czech that read, 'This is all we can do for you now

Posted by: 13times at May 22, 2026 11:21 PM (q+8oS)

192 First anti Talarico ad.
Posted by: TJM's phone at May 22, 2026 10:40 PM (46HP

Huh. I've been pronouncing it "tuh-lair-ih-coe" not "tal-uh-ree-coe".

Posted by: GWB at May 22, 2026 11:22 PM (kU0PQ)

193 Most of us have a perfectly normal colonoscopy through the perfectly normal Healthcare that average shitbags like me have. Kathy Griffin has been a venomous cvnt for a long time. But she's a rich venomous cvnt. She and her accountants can figure it out.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:23 PM (Hvd9a)

194 Has TJM ever seen Buckaroo Banzai?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

195 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)

She lost the sight of one eye.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 11:23 PM (8zz6B)

196
Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy

__________

So something happened when they examined the asshole of an asshole.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 11:23 PM (HdYcL)

197
Asshole is easier to pronounce.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:24 PM (3ek7K)

198 AoP

Heh, they got confused.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:24 PM (2GVsD)

199 Today's musician's birthday is Jesse Valenzuela, a founding member and songwriter of Gin Blossoms, born today in 1962. He's different from most of the ones I highlight, in that he performs rhythm guitar and backup vocals, which is a vital role but one that by its nature fades into the back of the mix.

Even bass guitar can be easier to pick out by ear, due to being in a lower register than the other guitars. Guys like him have to find their satisfaction in providing the sonic backdrop that the lead vocals and lead guitar pop out against, while never getting the attention or acclaim. So, I hunted around and found this live TV appearance where you can see Valenzuela clearly, performing a song that he has sole songwriting credit for, off their fourth studio album Major Lodge Victory (2006). He's the big guy (everything's relative) on the left, with the capo'd ivory Stratocaster:

Gin Blossoms - Learning The Hard Way (Live on CBS Saturday Sessions)
https://youtu.be/_7LjOfe2AMg

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 11:25 PM (Sy6m/)

200
I'm amazed by the frequency with which celebs are hospitalized for things we common folk manage to survive just fine: reactions to "prescription medicine", complications from a colonoscopy, etc.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 11:26 PM (HdYcL)

201 What does a non-binary person relate to the toilet?
They/She/It

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 11:26 PM (2WIwB)

202 ANSWER: They're both dummies.

Those having the correct answer may collect their winnings at the cashier's cage near the main exit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:26 PM (u/oMr)

203 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
====
-perforated colon
-uncontrolled bleeding
-problem with anesthesia
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Checks to see how bad I feel for her: can only remember the bloody trump head.

Karma's a b!tch, Kathy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - boingiyboingyboingyboingy at May 22, 2026 11:26 PM (0poB+)

204 I'm amazed by the frequency with which celebs are hospitalized for things we common folk manage to survive just fine: reactions to "prescription medicine", complications from a colonoscopy, etc.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 11:26 PM (HdYcL)

They take too many drugs, so they have more reactions. They probably shove different things up there, so likely to bump into something....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:28 PM (1Ff7Z)

205

She is so vile. Does she have a family? I wonder if she is vile to them.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:28 PM (3ek7K)

206 163 Do I want to click on this?

"Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma

I think it's possible for them to nick something when they're up there. Anyway a few years ago, didn't some celebrity woman show her colonoscopy on tv? It might have been Katy Couric.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:28 PM (0Htd1)

207 The first sign the colonoscopy wasn't going well was when the camera popped out of her left boob.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:29 PM (u/oMr)

208 Regional puns...

Did you hear about the Mexican magician who claimed he would disappear on the count of three?
So he started counting.
Uno
Dos
Poof! He was gone.
Yes, he disappeared without...

wait for it...

here it comes...

a tres.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 11:29 PM (2WIwB)

209 Well now. Apparently, you never owned a sport coat on which you could play chess. Sheltered life.
Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 11:10 PM (dIske)

Herb Tarlek entered the wardrobe chat.

Posted by: 13times at May 22, 2026 11:29 PM (q+8oS)

210 Thought at first the neighbors were doing some shooting practice, but it seems there's a fireworks show somewhere nearby. Happy Memorial Day weekend.

So which ONT is going to be the target for comment overflow this weekend?

Posted by: mindful webworker - sober reflections at May 22, 2026 11:30 PM (0poB+)

211 Herb Tarlek entered the wardrobe chat.
Posted by: 13times at May 22, 2026 11:29 PM (q+8oS)

He had a checkered past.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

212 Huh

I will never forget Kathy holding up the bloody decapitated head of President Trump.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:31 PM (A5RD0)

213 Anyone here has Starlink?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (22p5n)

Yes. Starlink Mini, which is the mobile. I bought it for interim service while I was waiting on Verizon Fios.

It is REALLY hard to find a clear eastern view of the sky in my neighborhood. But, even with partial blockage, I got a decent signal, though I did have occasional outages due to it. And there was no way I was going to mount it way up on the tippy-top of the roof - just too dang high for me, anymore. I can't mount it outside my office because that's on the northwest end of the house.

But, I got the Mini so I can go mobile with it. An evacuation, moving at some point, living on the road for a time, maybe taking it to a MoMe, etc. And you can suspend the service when you don't need it. (It does cost $10/month for that, but you can turn it back on at any point.)

Posted by: GWB at May 22, 2026 11:31 PM (kU0PQ)

214 I have this awesome leather suede coat of my grandfather's. Must be late 60s early 70s. Brown with bright orange interior 'lambswool/sythetic' lining. Most giant collar ever on a coat. The wings of the collar almost reach the shoulders.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:31 PM (bss/y)

215
A neighbor had a little perforation years ago after a colonoscopy. IIRC, he felt off when he got home, and then got a fever and felt awful. There's a small risk of that, and his number came up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 11:31 PM (w6EFb)

216 Meanwhile Leisure Suit Larry is breathing a sigh of relief, "hello ladies!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)

217 170 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:12 PM (2GVsD)
====
-perforated colon
-uncontrolled bleeding
-problem with anesthesia
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I don't like Kathy G., but even so, that would be a pretty rotten way to go. If I died like that, I wouldn't trust any of my siblings to give a eulogy

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:32 PM (0Htd1)

218 Aaaand, of course, as soon as I go out to see if I can see any fireworks… darkness and crickets.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's all in my miiiiind at May 22, 2026 11:33 PM (0poB+)

219 Nerdy Girl, what gets me is the perforated colon.

Doctor, "encountering some resistance."

Second doctor, "keep pushing."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:33 PM (2GVsD)

220 Holy cow!
How so wonderful to see SMH on the ONT!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 22, 2026 11:34 PM (uTEOj)

221 Of all the traffic that made it in and out of there without a scratch, it takes a doctor to drive right off the road.

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at May 22, 2026 11:34 PM (u/oMr)

222 Anyone here has Starlink?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (22p5n)

My Neighbor does and he likes it. (South of Austin). We have Hotspot from employer, but would switch to it. There aren't other good options in BFE.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:34 PM (Hvd9a)

223 184 Weirddave

The AVs are going down because God hates Stan Kroenke for moving the Rams out of St. Louis.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 11:35 PM (RCjYY)

224 >>>One thing Tim Hortons has is maple donuts. Well, sometimes.

Posted by: nerdygirl

Don't they put maple on everything? They have a leaf on their flag. Wackos.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 11:35 PM (D1E+2)

225 I was suggesting possible complications, not wishing them upon her!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

226 So what is the skinny on that 75-yr old woman who got killed at a Tim Hortons arguing over her order?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:36 PM (2GVsD)

227 Not to be a killjoy, but

Please remember that Monday is Memorial Day, a solemn holiday meant to commemorate those who died for country.

Do not wish anyone a “happy” Memorial Day. It is not meant to be a happy occasion. Instead, wish them a “Good” Memorial Day, or something else reflecting well-being on the day. But not “happy.”

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 11:36 PM (77rzZ)

228 Anyone here has Starlink?
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (22p5n)

Posted by: GWB at May 22, 2026 11:31 PM (kU0PQ)

Also, the Roam plan has 100GB and 300GB data limits, as well as an unlimited plan. $55, $85, and $175 per month. And there are certain countries you can't use it in - most seem to be in Africa. But, you can use it while moving (except in a couple of places), and even at sea if you get the unlimited plan.

I have liked it, within the limitations I have here.

Posted by: GWB at May 22, 2026 11:37 PM (kU0PQ)

229
Okay Mom

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:37 PM (3ek7K)

230 They probably shove different things up there, so likely to bump into something....
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I thought it was gay men who did that. Are we going to find out that Kathy G. is really a gay man? She does have a strange face.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:37 PM (0Htd1)

231 212 nurse

Not a good career move for her.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 11:37 PM (RCjYY)

232 Thanks for the clarification San Fran

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:37 PM (2GVsD)

233 Nerdy Girl, what gets me is the perforated colon.

Doctor, "encountering some resistance."

Second doctor, "keep pushing."
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:33 PM (2GVsD)

Seems like the experienced doctor had a prolapse in judgement.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:38 PM (1Ff7Z)

234 I was suggesting possible complications, not wishing them upon her!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 11:36 PM (RIvkX)

You are a gentler soul than I, sir. She is a foul bitch.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:38 PM (Hvd9a)

235
I never understood how Griffin became a thing.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:39 PM (3ek7K)

236 I thought it was gay men who did that. Are we going to find out that Kathy G. is really a gay man? She does have a strange face.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:37 PM (0Htd1)

She could be a Cramazon...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 11:40 PM (8zz6B)

237 "Your generals have this?" he asked.
"No. Out lieutenants."
Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 11:00 PM (2WIwB)

And THAT is what makes America's military so great. (The next step was "No, our corporals.")

Posted by: GWB at May 22, 2026 11:40 PM (kU0PQ)

238 I thought it was gay men who did that. Are we going to find out that Kathy G. is really a gay man? She does have a strange face.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:37 PM (0Htd1)

She was on one of those design shows from a few years ago. She was disappointed the designer assigned to her project was a straight man, so maybe....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

239 snort

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:40 PM (A5RD0)

240 I think it's possible for them to nick something when they're up there. Anyway a few years ago, didn't some celebrity woman show her colonoscopy on tv? It might have been Katy Couric.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:28 PM (0Htd1)

I think I can safely say that I'm glad I never saw Katie Couric's asshole. I will now add Kathy Griffin's to that list.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 11:41 PM (DwqWV)

241 >>I will never forget Kathy holding up the bloody decapitated head of President Trump.

I bet she won't either. Hard to think of another time when someone made such a career ending decision they thought was going to give them a huge win.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 11:41 PM (viF8m)

242 She could be a Cramazon...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 11:40 PM (8zz6B)

--------

She's an uglier version of Carrot Top.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:41 PM (u/oMr)

243 I don't like Kathy G., but even so, that would be a pretty rotten way to go.…
Posted by: nerdygirl

My oldest brother, already weak from cancer treatments, had his intestine perforated during a colonoscopy. Somebody measured his bacterial count being high, but somehow the word didn't get to the right people, and he died, not from the cancer, but from medical malpractice.

Yes, a rotten way to go. He was nine years older than me. Died at the age I am now. Fortunately, I've survived the colonoscopies, endoscopies, and sigmoidoscopies I've been through the past couple of years. OK so far…

Posted by: mindful webworker - and the appendectomy at age 9 at May 22, 2026 11:42 PM (0poB+)

244 For my one and only colonoscopy (because that's my rule) my GI doc and I were very sarcastic with each other. I didn't know him at the med center but had seen him around.

He asked me why I waited years over the normal age of when you are supposed to have it done.

I waited til one son gave me mild IBS after breaking up with a redheaded witch whose name is never, to this day, spoken around me. She broke his heart.

She may be the only person I've wanted to run over, back up, and run over her again in my entire life. This was after I ripped every red hair out of her scalp. I seriously considered homicide or sneaking up behind her & whacking off her hair. Or my green laser eyes of doom.

I told him I was concerned about perforation. He told me doctor-like that he'd performed thousands and had never perforated anyone. Then said, "You are neither elderly nor frail." I said ok.

Then told him he was a sadist just before they knocked me out as he said the prep "was not that bad." He laughed. Heaven knows what he did to me as his nurse was mad at me for saying this.

He did, however, to irritate me further, show me the photos and brag about how sparkling clean I was afterwards.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 11:42 PM (WONhk)

245

Too bad they didn't design something to disguise her face and voice.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:42 PM (3ek7K)

246 226 So what is the skinny on that 75-yr old woman who got killed at a Tim Hortons arguing over her order?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Well, that's kinda harsh. But then, it's pretty disappointing when they don't have the maple donut.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:42 PM (0Htd1)

247 I never understood how Griffin became a thing.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:39 PM (3ek7K)

I think she was supposed to be the next snarky lady like... I cannot think of the name of the character actresses from the 70s and 80s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:43 PM (bss/y)

248 235

Same as Margaret Cho. Griffin channels TDS for AWFLs.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 11:43 PM (RCjYY)

249 Gonna have to see you folks on Saturday ONT Club.
I'm too tired tonight. Sometimes dealing with this darn cancer shit just gets in the way😶‍🌫️...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at May 22, 2026 11:44 PM (uTEOj)

250 I saw Kathy Griffin's Asshole open for Pearl Jam at the Starwood in '89.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:44 PM (u/oMr)

251
Anna,

She was pissed her order wasn't correct.

She had heart issues, raged and dropped dead.

Hope they could resell her order.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:44 PM (3ek7K)

252 246 226 So what is the skinny on that 75-yr old woman who got killed at a Tim Hortons arguing over her order?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Well, that's kinda harsh. But then, it's pretty disappointing when they don't have the maple donut.
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:42 PM (0Htd1)

So, evidently the cashier/counter got her order wrong. She (the old lady) thought it was a good idea to confront physically the girl(?) Shoved/slapped her. The girl then went apeshit on her and she died.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:44 PM (bss/y)

253 I think she was supposed to be the next snarky lady like... I cannot think of the name of the character actresses from the 70s and 80s.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:43 PM (bss/y)

But you knew it as you started typing, right? Over 29....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

254 250 I saw Kathy Griffin's Asshole open for Pearl Jam at the Starwood in '89.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:44 PM (u/oMr)

Oh God.

No... my soul just died a little.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:45 PM (bss/y)

255 235
I never understood how Griffin became a thing.
Posted by: four seasons

She used to be on some sitcom. It think it was the same one that had Joe Rogan.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:45 PM (0Htd1)

256 >>>I never understood how Griffin became a thing.

Posted by: four seasons

>I bet she did any kink for anyone.

She's kind of long-in-the-tooth now, to be kind. I never thought she was funny or clever. Or particularly attractive.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 11:46 PM (D1E+2)

257 Cassandra was a pain in the ass.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:02 PM (u/oMr)

I think my take on it was Priam yelling:

Bitch, bitch, bitch, Cassandra, I am busy saving our CITY, why don't you and that old woman Laocoon go have a picnic or something

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 11:46 PM (rbvCR)

258 But you knew it as you started typing, right? Over 29....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

You know the kind of actress I am talking about. Stringy. Pinched face. Like on Carol Burnett.

Now I have to look it up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:46 PM (bss/y)

259 Do not wish anyone a “happy” Memorial Day. It is not meant to be a happy occasion. Instead, wish them a “Good” Memorial Day, or something else reflecting well-being on the day. But not “happy.”
Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 11:36 PM (77rzZ)

Have a good friend who is at least nominally Jewish. She laughed out loud when some idiot wished her a Happy Yom Kippur. As she said, it's like saying Happy Good Friday, I'm so glad your God is dead.

We had a good laugh over that hot mess.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 11:46 PM (DwqWV)

260 Nerdy Girl, what gets me is the perforated colon.

Doctor, "encountering some resistance."

Second doctor, "keep pushing."
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:33 PM (2GVsD)

He shouldn't have tried a plumber's snake to deal with the resistance.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:47 PM (qx7Zg)

261 She used to be on some sitcom. It think it was the same one that had Joe Rogan.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:45 PM (0Htd1

NewsRadio? I kinda remember that one. Before Phil Hartman was murdered.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:47 PM (Hvd9a)

262 Anyone here has Starlink?
Posted by: SMH

Installed it earlier in the week. I love it so far.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 11:48 PM (vhPr1)

263 I suddenly have a hankering for a lobster roll.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:48 PM (xuJdJ)

264 But you knew it as you started typing, right? Over 29....
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

You know the kind of actress I am talking about. Stringy. Pinched face. Like on Carol Burnett.

Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:46 PM (bss/y)

Joan Rivers?

Phyllis Diller?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 11:48 PM (wVcYX)

265 Wow. I did not know Carol Burnett ran for 11 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:48 PM (bss/y)

266 Do not wish anyone a “happy” Memorial Day. It is not meant to be a happy occasion. Instead, wish them a “Good” Memorial Day, or something else reflecting well-being on the day. But not “happy.”
Posted by: Bulg

Thanks, Bulg. I did say happy in a comment above, but thought about it and so added "sober reflection" to my nic.

Similar thought about wishing a happy Good Friday. Um, what?🙄

Posted by: mindful webworker - Happiness runs in a circular emotion at May 22, 2026 11:49 PM (0poB+)

267
The woman could have been kind, but no.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:49 PM (3ek7K)

268 She's kind of long-in-the-tooth now, to be kind. I never thought she was funny or clever. Or particularly attractive.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 11:46 PM (D1E+2)

Her voice is horrible. Fran Drescher is better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:49 PM (bss/y)

269 Well, kind of like Minnie Pearl or Ruth Buzzie. (No offense intended to those ladies.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:50 PM (bss/y)

270 Gonna have to see you folks on Saturday ONT Club.
I'm too tired tonight. Sometimes dealing with this darn cancer shit just gets in the way😶‍🌫️...
Posted by: COMountainMarie

___

Sweet dreams, COM.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 22, 2026 11:50 PM (22p5n)

271 I never understood how Griffin became a thing.
Posted by: four seasons

She used to be on some sitcom. It think it was the same one that had Joe Rogan.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:45 PM (0Htd1)

So I looked her up. It wasn't NewsRadio. She was on Suddenly Susan. Oh lol.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:51 PM (Hvd9a)

272
Sleep well Marie!

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:51 PM (3ek7K)

273 265 Wow. I did not know Carol Burnett ran for 11 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:48 PM (bss/y)

And every bit of it was fabulous. Good natured, not x-rated, always a laugh riot. Not sure why that era had to pass away.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 11:51 PM (DwqWV)

274 This is a groaner, but I'll share it.

What does Lionel Ritchie wear when he's home alone?

All nylon

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:52 PM (qx7Zg)

275 Dear Lord, she literally stroked out over her order being wrong?

St. Peter looking at the lady, "care to explain yourself?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:52 PM (2GVsD)

276 Off to attempt sleep, which means a wrestling match with no winners.

Good night, horse. Robert the Cat gives you all a special, personalized scowl.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026 11:52 PM (CHHv1)

277 Everybody had Garmins when we deployed. The PX sold them for a good price. I can’t recall if they were “authorized” but.

I remember when Sat phones were kind of a big deal too. The old man way back in Hawaii wanted to get briefed directly once in a while.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 11:52 PM (BWpBM)

278 Now I have to look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:46 PM (bss/y)

Joan Rivers?

Phyllis Diller?
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 11:48 PM (wVcYX)

Vicki Lawrence as Mama?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 11:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

279 Aetius

#106

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:53 PM (2GVsD)

280 And I get crap for refusing to get a colonoscopy.

No. Not going to do it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:53 PM (A5RD0)

281
Goodnight Robert.

Oh, and you too Beckoning.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:53 PM (3ek7K)

282 Anna,
She was pissed her order wasn't correct.
She had heart issues, raged and dropped dead.
Hope they could resell her order.
Posted by: four seasons

I watch a lot of youtubes. There are way too many people out there who get nasty over trivial things. Fortunately those videos are balanced off by the cute videos of cats and dogs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 22, 2026 11:54 PM (0Htd1)

283 This is a groaner, but I'll share it.

What does Lionel Ritchie wear when he's home alone?

All nylon

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:52 PM (qx7Zg)

I'm feeling dumb and don't get it. I'm thinking of his songs. I still don't get it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 22, 2026 11:54 PM (Hvd9a)

284 And every bit of it was fabulous. Good natured, not x-rated, always a laugh riot. Not sure why that era had to pass away.
Posted by: tcn in AK

I loved Bob Newhart.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:54 PM (A5RD0)

285 266 Mindful, I know, right? People don’t think about holiday greetings.

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 11:55 PM (77rzZ)

286 https://youtu.be/__3vmZsG7FU
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 10:49 PM (2GVsD)

Cool. I'll watch it. I'll never understand our procurement. It is like destroying the tooling for F-22. Nope, never need that again!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:55 PM (bss/y)

287 Anna,

She was pissed her order wasn't correct.
She had heart issues, raged and dropped dead.
Hope they could resell her order.

Posted by: four seasons

Once it crosses the counter it cannot go back and reserved to someone else.

Well, it can, but just nasty to think about.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2026 11:55 PM (/lPRQ)

288
All Night Long?
Hell I don't know, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:55 PM (3ek7K)

289 This is a groaner, but I'll share it.
What does Lionel Ritchie wear when he's home alone?
All nylon
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I'm feeling dumb and don't get it. I'm thinking of his songs. I still don't get it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

He wears it
Aaallllll Niiiiight Loooong (all night)

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 11:56 PM (VHUov)

290
And every bit of it was fabulous. Good natured, not x-rated, always a laugh riot. Not sure why that era had to pass away.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 11:51 PM (DwqWV)

Uncreativity.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2026 11:56 PM (T6aVk)

291 280 And I get crap for refusing to get a colonoscopy.

No. Not going to do it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:53 PM (A5RD0)

I've had one. Whatever that white stuff in the syringe was, it did the job.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:56 PM (bss/y)

292 Man, I am getting real sleepy. Time to go to bed. have to get up early anyway. Working on the roof here. Stripped off about 90 square feet of shingle and tarpaper to expose the rotten deck boards. Tomorrow we strip out the rotten boards, and prepare the rafters to hang new plywood decking. Idea is to work from 7 to 10 AM, and quit before the sun gets too high in the sky, and it becomes hot.

Anyway, off to the rack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 11:56 PM (8zz6B)

293 Susan Estrich had a voice!

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 11:56 PM (BWpBM)

294 I saw Kathy Griffin's Asshole open for Pearl Jam at the Starwood in '89.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:44 PM (u/oMr)

Damn, did you get therapy with that?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (snZF9)

295 The Olds can dance!

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (oq9dX)

296 All Night Long?
Hell I don't know, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:55 PM (3ek7K)

That's the one!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (qx7Zg)

297 Bob Newhart was good too. His records were funny as hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (bss/y)

298 Colonoscopies don't hurt. They give you a little whiff of that stuff that killed Michael Jackson.

Just not as much as Michael took.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (RCjYY)

299
AOP,

Sleep well. I think you are amazing.

An old lady crush for you.

Run away, lmao.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 11:58 PM (3ek7K)

300
Just reading about what happened with the failed Heavy boostback burn. It looks like one of the Raptor engines exploded during the re-light and took out a bunch of its neighbors.

No word on why the Ship's Raptor went out, but it didn't explode.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 11:59 PM (w6EFb)

301 Congress or somebody made Lockheed destroy the tooling for the SR-71 as well. Makes no sense

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 11:59 PM (BWpBM)

302 And I get crap for refusing to get a colonoscopy.

No. Not going to do it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:53 PM (A5RD0)

I've had one. Whatever that white stuff in the syringe was, it did the job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 11:56 PM (bss/y)

Had one. One's enough. My family doesn't get cancer, we die when we wear out because they don't do full body off restorations on humans.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:59 PM (qx7Zg)

303 Has TJM ever seen Buckaroo Banzai?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 11:23 PM (2GVsD)

The goggles…they do NOTHING!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 11:59 PM (l6G0X)

304 NewsRadio? I kinda remember that one. Before Phil Hartman was murdered.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

I just looked up the cast of NewsRadio. It had Joe Rogan, but the gristly redhead was some other actress.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 23, 2026 12:00 AM (0Htd1)

305 284 Nurse, I agree. Newhart was awesome

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:00 AM (77rzZ)

306 People think he has a shot. Apparently.
Posted by: TJM's phone at May 22, 2026 10:40 PM (46HP

Talarico has a chance as long as his name is on the ballot.

I don’t even think his message plays well outside his TX HD, but even so, complacency is the devil.

Let’s hold the election anyway just to be sure.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 12:00 AM (T6aVk)

307 Had one. One's enough. My family doesn't get cancer, we die when we wear out because they don't do full body off restorations on humans.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:59 PM (qx7Zg)

Yet

Posted by: Kindltot at May 23, 2026 12:00 AM (rbvCR)

308
Everything has to be political these days.

STFU and do your thing.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:01 AM (3ek7K)

309 302 And I get crap for refusing to get a colonoscopy.

No. Not going to do it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:53 PM (A5RD0)

No pun intended. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 12:01 AM (T6aVk)

310 Colonoscopies don't hurt. They give you a little whiff of that stuff that killed Michael Jackson.

Just not as much as Michael took.

Posted by: mnw at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (RCjYY)

Yes. I have multiple family members with colon cancer. A colonoscopy and the prep is better than a fucking colostomy bag forever. And I've changed colostomy bags for family. That is fun for no one.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 12:02 AM (Hvd9a)

311 280 And I get crap for refusing to get a colonoscopy.

No. Not going to do it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 11:53 PM (A5RD0)

You won't get crap from me. I had one done without anesthesia. (I don't recommend this.) Being awake for the procedure, I saw how much force the doctor and nurse used to get that thing around the "corners." There is no way that is safe for your intestines. I will not do it again.

A sigmoidoscopy is much gentler.

Posted by: Emmie at May 23, 2026 12:02 AM (FMtrg)

312 I have been instructed gently to go to bed as early blast off to the airport. It will be fun my grands say, but what do they know at 7 and 5yrs? Their mother packs for them. They don't have to figure out what to eat that won't kill you in the wilds of the deepest Congo (also known as the boonies of Mississippi ranches). I'm hoping sons will cook but am not getting involved.

I doubt I will bring this laptop so adios, amigos. Fly high but don't hit the power lines.

Let's hope I return someday as some rooms are a mess here and our survivors may be shocked. I'll be dead so I really don't mind. Part of the basement kitchen corner is obviously not my fault as a pipe burst from the kitchen sink above and needs sheetrock.

The "sewing room" is a disorganized mess that is my fault of living large and not caring until I do. I should leave a note: "If I don't survive I had a virus and could not clean in here last week once I started on the closet."

Which is true but I started the closet two weeks ago.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 23, 2026 12:02 AM (WONhk)

313 306

Any DEM without a swastika tattoo has a shot THIS year.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:03 AM (RCjYY)

314 Do not wish anyone a “happy” Memorial Day. It is not meant to be a happy occasion. Instead, wish them a “Good” Memorial Day, or something else reflecting well-being on the day. But not “happy.”
Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 11:36 PM (77rzZ)

You can’t know how hard I facepalmed at the side hustle when I saw a flier with that phrase that I can’t even type.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 12:04 AM (T6aVk)

315 There was censorship of network radio and television.

It forced writers to be a little more creative in that sense, to make “clean” comedy. George Carlin was famous for his “7 Words” you couldn’t say on TV, but he had a long career before that, and had a “clean” setup routine too. He was really funny, with just basic observations.

I listen to old radio programs at night, for tinnitus mostly. “You Bet Your Life” with Groucho was pretty good. He knew how to walk right up to the line. And guests would walk into saying something stupid. One gal mentioned she had 12 children. “I really like my husband”.

Groucho says “I really like my Cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while”. Pretty bad stuff for 1952

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:05 AM (BWpBM)

316 I’ve had my bout with cancer.

Not going to go looking for another.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 12:05 AM (A5RD0)

317

Christy,

I hope you are feeling better. I also hope your trip is wonderful.

You are due a great time.

I look forward to your stories. You are such a great writer and a gem.

Happy travels!!

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:06 AM (3ek7K)

318 I've had one. Whatever that white stuff in the syringe was, it did the job.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

After mine, I tried telling my sister that I could have driven myself home. She said, "Um, no you couldn't."
All I know is, I felt pretty dang good.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 23, 2026 12:07 AM (0Htd1)

319 I saw Kathy Griffin's Asshole open for Pearl Jam at the Starwood in '89.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 11:44 PM (u/oMr)

Damn, did you get therapy with that?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (snZF9)

To be fair, that orifice saw a lot of traffic, and Pearl Jam probably wasn't the first...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 12:07 AM (nbLIj)

320 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"
.....

During the procedure the doctor committed suicide.

Posted by: wth at May 23, 2026 12:07 AM (oq9dX)

321
Lol Joe!

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:08 AM (3ek7K)

322
Lmao wth

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:08 AM (3ek7K)

323 Had one. One's enough. My family doesn't get cancer, we die when we wear out because they don't do full body off restorations on humans.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 11:59 PM (qx7Zg)
*******************************
Exactly my excuse as well. And the GI guy in FL said I did not need another one. Out West they disagree. Also disagree with me that I don't need a shingles shot and I don't care. No one mentions covid anymore (probably in my record not to bring it up).

Granted if I poop blood or something that makes sense, but all was well before last week's cholera of the 1800's. I was surprised I did not pass out and probably would have except for Pedialyte.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 23, 2026 12:08 AM (WONhk)

324 propofol

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:09 AM (RCjYY)

325 Merkel becomes the 1st person to receive the European Order of Merit, the EU’s new top honor for people who have contributed the most to Europe’s development.

In her speech, she urged EU leaders to regulate speech on social media

She says it’s the only way to “ save democracy”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:09 AM (LIEok)

326 "Kathy Griffin hospitalized after complications from colonoscopy"

Well, she probably shouldn't have stuck her head in her ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 12:10 AM (snZF9)

327 295 The Olds can dance!
Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 11:57 PM (oq9dX)

https://tinyurl.com/4b5wunnk

Her dress is nice. Smokey. Piper should do a bit on it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:10 AM (bss/y)

328 Y’all don’t get it.

Cancer treatment, to me, at my age, isn’t fucking worth it.

I get an extra several years. But the first three are miserable. And it’s never just the cancer. Something else always happens.

Fuck that. When it’s my time. I’m done.

The only reason I did cancer treatment was because I was 46. My kids were 17 and 13. I had to figure it out. Now they are totally out there doing their thing and don’t need me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 12:11 AM (KND7J)

329
Heaven forbid people have a different opinion Merkel.

Here is some advice.

Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:11 AM (3ek7K)

330 In her speech, she urged EU leaders to regulate speech on social media

She says it’s the only way to “ save democracy”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:09 AM (LIEok)

Fuck off, Klaus.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:11 AM (bss/y)

331 Merkel? That fucking Stasi wench?

They tried to De-Nazifi after the war, but they should never have allowed former communist apparatchik anywhere near government either. Stupid

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:12 AM (BWpBM)

332 Ok, all you mil types. Just watched a vid of the US Army field band. Does everyone have to be a sergeant to be in it?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 12:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

333 Starship V3 carried out a successful soft landing for the first time.

It landed in the Indian Ocean 1 hour after taking off from the U.S
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Bezos is like, oh, man...

https://tinyurl.com/2s3kfybb

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:12 AM (LIEok)

334 In her speech, she urged EU leaders to regulate speech on social media

She says it’s the only way to “ save democracy”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:09 AM (LIEok)

That time she spent growing up in the GDR rubbed off on her, I guess…

In the meantime, I’m going to try and reconcile censorship with “saving democracy”. I expect a splitting headache to result.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (T6aVk)

335

I hate what society has turned into.

Your opinion is wrong and you need to die.

God must be so horrified.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (3ek7K)

336 You have to be a Sgt. to be in the USAF Singing Sergeants.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (RCjYY)

337 Heaven forbid people have a different opinion Merkel.

Here is some advice.

Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:11 AM (3ek7K)

Or go to Kathy's colonoscopist....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

338
I look forward to your stories. You are such a great writer and a gem.

Happy travels!!
Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:06 AM (3ek7K)
*****************************
Thank you. I shall hopefully return!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (WONhk)

339 Military bands are different.

The Marine Corps band members, the “president’s own” they don’t even have to go through Boot Camp. Chaplains, and Medical Corps, have programs for direct Commissions without dealing with all that, too. I’d be willing to bet maybe the Army band has some sort of similar arrangement.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (BWpBM)

340 In the meantime, I’m going to try and reconcile censorship with “saving democracy”. I expect a splitting headache to result.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (T6aVk)

"OUR Democracy"

Which is the opposite.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (bss/y)

341
Christy,

You will return.

We need you.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:16 AM (3ek7K)

342 314 Cow Demon, it pisses me off when I see tourists visiting Arlington in shorts, cutoffs, tank tops, tee shirts, ball caps, etc. For G-d’s sake people, show some respect there.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:16 AM (77rzZ)

343 You have to be a Sgt. to be in the USAF Singing Sergeants.
Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (RCjYY)

Well, that I can understand. I just noticed everyone they showed when panning the band had sgt stripes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 12:17 AM (1Ff7Z)

344
Bulg, is there anything that doesn't piss you off?

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:19 AM (3ek7K)

345 Ok, all you mil types. Just watched a vid of the US Army field band. Does everyone have to be a sergeant to be in it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Usually E-7 and above. The Army Band might be all E-9s.
Kind of a pay grade inflation to keep them from bailing on the Army and joining Big City Orchestra.

I remember the Dental Clinic at Schofield Barracks had more LTCs and full birds than the rest of the division combined (maybe excluding the medical clinic).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 12:19 AM (/lPRQ)

346 He likes boobs.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 12:20 AM (A5RD0)

347 Puppies. Puppies do not piss Bulg off.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:20 AM (BWpBM)

348
They are there paying their respect.

I'm happy to see that.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:20 AM (3ek7K)

349 'Evening, long weekenders. Thanks for the ONT, WD.

Posted by: scampydog at May 23, 2026 12:20 AM (k3tW1)

350
The only reason I did cancer treatment was because I was 46. My kids were 17 and 13. I had to figure it out. Now they are totally out there doing their thing and don’t need me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 12:11 AM (KND7J)
*********************
I totally get it. I had an early melanoma over 20yrs ago and hope I never have another. All I had done was a wide excision and bandage for 3wks, plus testing for 2yrs.

At this point I won'd do a lot of drastic stuff if anything pops up again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 23, 2026 12:21 AM (WONhk)

351 Virginia at a certain time of year is hot and humid as hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:21 AM (bss/y)

352 ChristyBlinky, prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:22 AM (77rzZ)

353 103 The Cabot sharp cheddar is also really good.
- - - - - -
The Cabot Cove sharp cheddar is murder...

- Jessica Fletcher

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at May 23, 2026 12:22 AM (K8rKn)

354 a funny thing happened on the way to Uranus

Posted by: gKWVE at May 23, 2026 12:23 AM (gKWVE)

355 Usually E-7 and above. The Army Band might be all E-9s.
Kind of a pay grade inflation to keep them from bailing on the Army and joining Big City Orchestra.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 23, 2026 12:19 AM (/lPRQ)

Makes sense, if they don't have to go through basic training. There were multiple types: three chevrons with one rocker, three with two, three with three, and some with diamonds in between and some without. What the diamond means, I don't know. I thought it meant career types.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 12:23 AM (1Ff7Z)

356 I had breast cancer.

Surgery. Chemo. Radiation

Heart attack and spontaneous coronary dissection because they irradiated my heart.

Stents. Cardiac rehab.

Fvck cancer.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 12:24 AM (A5RD0)

357 He likes boobs.
Posted by: nurse ratched
---------
So he is underboobed this evening?

Posted by: scampydog at May 23, 2026 12:24 AM (k3tW1)

358 Ok, all you mil types. Just watched a vid of the US Army field band. Does everyone have to be a sergeant to be in it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 23, 2026 12:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

My father had a shot at it post WW2. Think he was all of an E3, but his CO liked him as dad was the best trumpet in the regiment. Could sight read and play any piece that they put in front of him. Alas, it wasn't meant to be, which is how I eventually came to be..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 12:24 AM (nbLIj)

359 True. Puppies and boobs always cheer me up.

In different ways, of course:

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:25 AM (77rzZ)

360 The Monument Men* had to go through basic.

*Monuments, Fine Art, Manuscripts"

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:25 AM (RCjYY)

361 One reason to destroy the tooling for high-tech airplanes is to make sure it doesn't wander off in retirement and wind up in the workshops of The Enemy.

It could happen. I recall the case of an Air Force mechanic who took a trailer with an entire F-16 engine on it and attempted to sell it to an "international arms dealer." Fortunately, it was a sting operation. I assume the mechanic is still in prison.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 23, 2026 12:25 AM (aMrr2)

362
It is discriminary to say boobs.

Some women only have one.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:25 AM (3ek7K)

363 The Critical Drinker missed one alliteration in his review of Mango and Goop

McClane and Gruber

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 23, 2026 12:26 AM (2GVsD)

364 What the diamond means, I don't know.
——-

Three up and three down?

End of an Inning!

*rimshot*

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:26 AM (BWpBM)

365 Just watched preview for the Green Lantern series. Didn't realize Kyle Chandler will be Hal Jordan, the original GL. Never saw Chandler in that series where he was a coach or whatever, but saw the Early Edition series and enjoyed his put-upon hangdog portrayal of the guy who gets tomorrow's news today.

My earliest favorite superdupers were Flash and Green Lantern. There have been two good Flash TV series, and a terrible portrayal by that pervert in the movies. There has not been a good Green Lantern; this looks better. (Animated series have had good versions of both.)

Superdupers have not been completely wrung dry; just Marvels, mainly.

But, gosh, my yout' was a long time ago.

https://youtu.be/AQndU3hm-5k

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - Sleep tight. Don't let the extraterrestrials bite - at May 23, 2026 12:27 AM (0poB+)

366 @trump_repost
11h
While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the newest member of the Trump Family, his soon to be wife, Bettina, circumstances pertaining to Government, and my love for the United States of America, do not allow me to do so. I feel it is important for me to remain in Washington, D.C., at the White House during this important period of time. Congratulations to Don and Bettina! President DONALD J. TRUMP
----

Putting a dime on, he doesn't approve of Bettina.
Putting a nickle on, he's focused on Iran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:27 AM (LIEok)

367 It could happen. I recall the case of an Air Force mechanic who took a trailer with an entire F-16 engine on it and attempted to sell it to an "international arms dealer." Fortunately, it was a sting operation. I assume the mechanic is still in prison.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 23, 2026 12:25 AM (aMrr2)

China IS out there. But still.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:27 AM (bss/y)

368 That's a pretty awesome photo.

https://tinyurl.com/mpujpth8

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 12:29 AM (viF8m)

369 I have 1 2/3.

Does that count?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 23, 2026 12:30 AM (A5RD0)

370 Merkel? That fucking Stasi wench?

You can take the girl out of East Germany, but you can't take East Germany out of that girl.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2026 12:30 AM (yKhjs)

371
Ok, all you mil types. Just watched a vid of the US Army field band. Does everyone have to be a sergeant to be in it?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Is it like Stalag 17 where all the prisoners are sergeants?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 23, 2026 12:30 AM (Cqx++)

372 368 That's a pretty awesome photo.

https://tinyurl.com/mpujpth8
Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 12:29 AM (viF8m)

It is amazing how big starship is in proportion to the rest of the rocket.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:30 AM (bss/y)

373
nurse

Yes!

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:30 AM (3ek7K)

374 366

Nope. Iran. Soon. No warning.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:31 AM (RCjYY)

375 It’s true. I do love boobs. Sweet, sweet boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:31 AM (77rzZ)

376 Y’all don’t get it.

Cancer treatment, to me, at my age, isn’t fucking worth it.
.......

Oh Nurse, I get it. My best friend refused second round of "treatment" that might have gained him 6 months of misery.
I have an agreement with my daughter, also a nurse, about this very issue
Since January I had emergency gall bladder removal and bilateral hernia mesh installed. But there is only so far modern medicine can take me.

Posted by: wth at May 23, 2026 12:31 AM (oq9dX)

377 I'll give Kathy Griffin props for at least one thing: She was the perfect voice for Alice from Dilbert...

Posted by: As Not Seen On TV at May 23, 2026 12:32 AM (K8rKn)

378 If Trump didn't like Bettina, he wouldn't have announced he was going to attend the wedding in the first place.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:33 AM (RCjYY)

379 351 Virginia at a certain time of year is hot and humid as hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

July-Aug in Babylon DC is hell. I was considering going to the Indycar race in August here in DC. I think I'll skip it though. The weather will be brutal. Oven like heat combined with 95% humidity.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2026 12:34 AM (yKhjs)

380 One reason to destroy the tooling for high-tech airplanes is to make sure it doesn't wander off in retirement and wind up in the workshops of The Enemy.

Or Johnny Cash's lunch box...

Posted by: One piece at a time at May 23, 2026 12:34 AM (nbLIj)

381
mnw. Yep.

Don Jr loves her and Trump respects that.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:35 AM (3ek7K)

382 July-Aug in Babylon DC is hell. I was considering going to the Indycar race in August here in DC. I think I'll skip it though. The weather will be brutal. Oven like heat combined with 95% humidity.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2026 12:34 AM (yKhjs)

Not as bad a Louisiana or Mississippi, but bad all the same. East Texas sucks too.

West Texas at the height of summer I can live with.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:35 AM (bss/y)

383 Oven like heat combined with 95% humidity.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2026 12:34 AM (yKhjs)

Sous vide cooking!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 23, 2026 12:38 AM (aMrr2)

384

We lived in the South for much of our lives. It is the humidity that is horrible.

W live in Wyoming now and we have hot days but no humidity.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:38 AM (3ek7K)

385 Bettina has a long history of GOP/MAGA activism.

I can't think what he would dislike. Don, Jr already HAS 5 kids (I think 5), so the fact that Bettina is 39 can't be much of a problem.

Posted by: mnw at May 23, 2026 12:39 AM (RCjYY)

386
Just reading. Starship carried 45 tons of mostly dummy test payload. This is the most payload mass launched into orbit since the last Saturn V put Skylab in orbit, at 73 tons.

They didn't hype that much that I saw.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 23, 2026 12:39 AM (w6EFb)

387 We lived in the South for much of our lives. It is the humidity that is horrible.

W live in Wyoming now and we have hot days but no humidity.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:38 AM (3ek7K)

California really is paradise as far as climate. Spent some time on a job in the central valley. Sun up, 90 degrees but no humidity, so tolerable. Sun goes down, instantly drops by 20 degrees. It's weird. El Paso is similar, but it never feels like it cools off that dramatically.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:40 AM (bss/y)

388 One reason to destroy the tooling for high-tech airplanes is to make sure it doesn't wander off in retirement and wind up in the workshops of The Enemy.

Also the only nation flying the F-14 after we retired it was Iran. They even went through every F-14 on display like those on a post in front of places like a VFW, and ripped all the innards out so that Iran could not get spare parts.

Posted by: Weirddave at May 23, 2026 12:41 AM (u5cNk)

389 I’ve pondered this. 90 degrees or 100 degrees F. and 90% humidity.

How can these same numbers, how can it be any worse in Alabama than say Iowa or Virginia? South Korea is brutal too. Hawaii, being out in the middle of the Pacific, surprisingly isn’t too bad at all, most of the time.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:41 AM (BWpBM)

390 Ivanka is Trump's daughter. I thought she was an ex-wife (is he brain dead?)

Rule #1, don't piss off daddy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:42 AM (LIEok)

391 Just reading. Starship carried 45 tons of mostly dummy test payload. This is the most payload mass launched into orbit since the last Saturn V put Skylab in orbit, at 73 tons.

They didn't hype that much that I saw.
Posted by: publius

You lift 45 tons and what do you get?
Gigs of flight data
and fanboys on X.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 12:42 AM (VHUov)

392 How can these same numbers, how can it be any worse in Alabama than say Iowa or Virginia? South Korea is brutal too. Hawaii, being out in the middle of the Pacific, surprisingly isn’t too bad at all, most of the time.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:41 AM (BWpBM)

There is a different quality. More oppressive. Maybe something to do with air pressure or dew point or something. It's worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:43 AM (bss/y)

393 Now one thing about say Iowa, while it gets just as hot and miserable as Alabama, Alabama doesn’t routinely hit -20F below zero in the winter.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:44 AM (BWpBM)

394
Trump doesn't want anyone fucking around with us.

Anyone who fucks around with his family will not have a happy ending.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:45 AM (3ek7K)

395 You lift 45 tons and what do you get?
Gigs of flight data
and fanboys on X.
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 12:42 AM (VHUov)

St Peter doncha call me
cause I caint go,
I owe my soul to the Tes-la Man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:46 AM (bss/y)

396 There is a different quality. More oppressive. Maybe something to do with air pressure…
——-

Eh, I’m not really buying it. If anything, maybe the intensity of the Sun, being closer to the Equator I guess.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:46 AM (BWpBM)

397 I have heard people say that Iraq was absolutely miserable. Just retarded hot with 99% humidity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:47 AM (bss/y)

398 Have I mentioned boobs lately?

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:47 AM (77rzZ)

399
We bilked this city !

Posted by: Old Fossilized Has-Beens at May 23, 2026 12:47 AM (HLgI3)

400 Eh, I’m not really buying it. If anything, maybe the intensity of the Sun, being closer to the Equator I guess.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:46 AM (BWpBM)

Road trip! When you hit the border to Mississippi you will smell the mold. It's like a wave.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:47 AM (bss/y)

401 400 I'd rather be in 105 F and 10% humidity than 85 F and 80% humidity.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at May 23, 2026 12:47 AM (LO7vB)

Sweat is at peak performance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:48 AM (bss/y)

402
367 It could happen. I recall the case of an Air Force mechanic who took a trailer with an entire F-16 engine on it and attempted to sell it to an "international arms dealer." Fortunately, it was a sting operation. I assume the mechanic is still in prison.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 23, 2026 12:25 AM (aMrr2)

I remember the case of an officer who had the idea of making a high performance single shot gun from a single barrel out of the A-10’s Gatling gun. 20 mm depleted uranium round, interesting idea, and put together a working model. He was taking it for a demonstration, was carrying it on a trailer behind his car - loaded of course. (Dumb, dumb, dumb). He stopped to get gas, somehow his creation shifted and fired a round right through a gas pump - which of course exploded and then burned down the station.
Well that was end of his little idea. Sounds like a plot from a ridiculous movie, but it happened.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 12:49 AM (U0opd)

403 West Texas at the height of summer I can live with.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:35 AM (bss/y)

I'd love to live in West TX. I love the lack of humidity. And the desert. And barren landscape. And lack of people. Grew up in the humid South. Have tolerated Austin area for 30 Years. I long to live someplace I picked because I really wanted to be there..

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 12:50 AM (Hvd9a)

404 California really is paradise as far as climate. Spent some time on a job in the central valley. Sun up, 90 degrees but no humidity, so tolerable. Sun goes down, instantly drops by 20 degrees. It's weird. El Paso is similar, but it never feels like it cools off that dramatically.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:40 AM

30 degree temp swings are common in coastal CA during summer. Sun goes down and marine layer sweeps in. Might still be in the mid 70's but the rapid heat loss makes you keep that bourbon within easy reach...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 23, 2026 12:50 AM (nbLIj)

405 I dunno, the desert is a “dry heat” but that Sun, it hits like a fucking hammer. Shade really means something, too. Cool enough for a blanket, get in the Sun, hot enough to stroke out.

This effect is really pronounced high up in the Himalaya, it can be 100F in the sun at times, and still freezing in the shade.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 12:50 AM (BWpBM)

406
There is one thing great living somewhere with very low humidity.

No mold. Of course it's a tradeoff because the intense heat quickly rots things.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:51 AM (3ek7K)

407 Have I mentioned boobs lately?

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:47 AM (77rzZ)
399

It was boobs. Or Triscuits. Probably boobs, dude.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 12:51 AM (Hvd9a)

408 Well that was end of his little idea. Sounds like a plot from a ridiculous movie, but it happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 12:49 AM (U0opd)

The only thing I can think is that maybe he made it loaded as a proof of concept? Did not have to handle the round either (I was surprised it only weighs one pound- which is still heavy as hell for a bullet.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:52 AM (bss/y)

409 California really is paradise as far as climate. Spent some time on a job in the central valley. Sun up, 90 degrees but no humidity, so tolerable. Sun goes down, instantly drops by 20 degrees. It's weird. El Paso is similar, but it never feels like it cools off that dramatically.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:40 AM (bss/y)

The Willamette Valley is very mild. A typical summer day is 82 to 88 with almost no humidity and soon as the sun disappears the temperature will eventually drop 25+ degrees. So most nights you really don't need AC. Just open the windows and run a fan.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 23, 2026 12:52 AM (1fx5i)

410 So a 7000 grain bullet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:53 AM (bss/y)

411 Lots of rumors and rumors of rumors flying around the web tonight about goings on in DC. Who knows, I hope we’ll hear good news soon.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 23, 2026 12:54 AM (U0opd)

412
Tom, I hope so too.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 12:54 AM (3ek7K)

413
Svetlana Lokhova
@RealSLokhova
Both Obama and Brennan flew to London the moment the Grand Conspiracy Grand Jury in Florida was announced. That's because they launched Russiagate from London, England.

Gina Haspel was the CIA Station Chief in London. British operative Christopher Steele and CIA operative Stefan Halper operated out of London. Peter Strzok travelled to London.

Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2026 12:54 AM (UnB4P)

414 Sorry, the weather in Texas sucks, I’m never moving there.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:55 AM (77rzZ)

415 >>Eh, I’m not really buying it. If anything, maybe the intensity of the Sun, being closer to the Equator I guess.

Not closer, straighter angle. The sun hits the equator from directly above. The further you go from the equator it is more of an angle and more dispersed.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 23, 2026 12:55 AM (viF8m)

416 I'd love to live in West TX. I love the lack of humidity. And the desert. And barren landscape. And lack of people. Grew up in the humid South. Have tolerated Austin area for 30 Years. I long to live someplace I picked because I really wanted to be there..
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 12:50 AM (Hvd9a)

El Paso was wonderful, 30-40 years ago. I remember Grandma complaining about the drivers THEN.

When Uncle Steve died, I flew out for the funeral with Mom and drove the rental (Mom is not a huge fan of driving herself.) El Paso is... interesting. Traffic is worse and more butt clenching in Seattle, but El Paso is crazier.

But the desert. The desert is beautiful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:56 AM (bss/y)

417 @republic - 3h

US Secretary of State #MarcoRubio lands in Kolkata on his first trip to India. Later today, he will meet #PMModi

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:58 AM (LIEok)

418 You have never seen a thunderstorm- large as one of them gay, pansy ass states back east- 10 miles away while you are standing in the sunlight. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 23, 2026 12:59 AM (bss/y)

419
Maybe Rubio can stop the invasion of Indians coming here.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:00 AM (3ek7K)

420 Sorry, the weather in Texas sucks, I’m never moving there.

Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026

It does. I moved here as a new bride and hated it. I hated the snakes and the scorpions. I was sad and Homesick. It's too hot and too cold. Too windy and too.humid. But this place and the contrary nature of the people who live here give me peace.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 01:00 AM (Hvd9a)

421 Did those fags rename Calcutta?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 01:01 AM (BWpBM)

422
From the online calculators, a (dry bulb) temp of 100F and RH of 90% would be a dew point of 96F.

That would not be survivable (for any length of time) for us humans. We could not maintain body temperature agin' that.

While the details get complicated, Wet bulb temp is used for this, and that limit is 95F. Dew point is close enough. The highest verified dew point ever recorded in the US was 88F, although unofficial readings of 90 and 91F have been claimed in Florida. The highest dew point ever in the whole world was 95F in Saudi,near the Persian Gulf.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 23, 2026 01:02 AM (w6EFb)

423
In the two years since I've had this weather station, the highest dew point I've seen here is 80F. And I didn't venture out during that one little bit. I ain't 20 anymore.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 23, 2026 01:07 AM (w6EFb)

424
Snakes are sneaky bastards.

Living in the South we never left doors open. Just trying to bring groceries in or a piece of furniture was interesting.

They can get by you quickly.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:07 AM (3ek7K)

425 Have I mentioned boobs lately?
Posted by: Bulg

Joke for you, sir.

https://tinyurl.com/257tbk26

.....NSFW, but what are you doing working at midnight on Friday on a holiday weekend?

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 01:09 AM (VHUov)

426 I have heard people say that Iraq was absolutely miserable. Just retarded hot with 99% humidity.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
___

They must've been near the rivers or something, because I was in the desert all three times I deployed there.

Not a lick of humidity.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 23, 2026 01:09 AM (22p5n)

427 US Secretary of State #MarcoRubio lands in Kolkata on his first trip to India.
.......

Another job. Indoor Plumbing Czar.

Posted by: wth at May 23, 2026 01:10 AM (oq9dX)

428 Three up, three down with a diamond is a first sergeant.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 23, 2026 01:10 AM (22p5n)

429 Our first home together was besieged by copperhead snakes and scorpions. We literally had scorpions crawling up the walls our first year together.

We get some scorpions in the house how. I got stung in bed a few weeks ago. It's how it is. We haven't seen a snake this year. We did have one crawl up into our bathtub a few years ago.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 01:12 AM (Hvd9a)

430 Did those fags rename Calcutta?
Posted by: Common Tater

Yes, those fags did.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 01:12 AM (VHUov)

431
{{{SMH}}}
Good to see you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 01:13 AM (LIEok)

432 425: I work every weekend, holiday or not. Though this is my last night for a bit. Going on vacation for a couple of weeks. Leave after Memorial Day. Just going to visit family up in Western PA and get some golf in. Mostly, I just want to get out of Babylon DC for a bit.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 23, 2026 01:13 AM (yKhjs)

433
Puddleglum,

That is understandable. I hope you have a wonderful time.

Safe travels for you!

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:16 AM (3ek7K)

434 Same, SMH, gosh it is good to see you! Are you still planning to move?

Happy Friday Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 01:16 AM (0nHVk)

435
Hi Debby!

it is good to "see" you.

I hope you are well.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:19 AM (3ek7K)

436
Debby,

I don't know if SMH is still around.

She is going to close on a house soon.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:21 AM (3ek7K)

437 Well, I exaggerated a little bit, but that’s kind of my point. Once it’s fricking miserable hot and humid, it’s maxxed out, I don’t see how it could be more miserable in Alabama than Iowa. Trust me, it gets brutal in the Midwest. My dad lived in St. Louis when he was young and he said it was just awful.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 01:24 AM (BWpBM)

438 430 Did those fags rename Calcutta?
Posted by: Common Tater

Yes, those fags did.
Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 01:12 AM (VHUov)

Kolkata.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 01:25 AM (T6aVk)

439 I lived in Texas for 25 years. Not born there but was raised up from a baby there. It was a good place to grow up.
Done all the Texas stuff. The town I lived in was a suburb of Dallas. We had a Rodeo (still there, bigger and better than ever), good schools, nice neighborhood, really nice people.
The weather was mostly hot, but livable. The reason I moved was not because I grew to hate it, it was because it got so damn crowded. Getting around was a hassle. And the area was getting bigger by the day. I made the right decision moving to a rural area in my home state. Peace and quiet. Can't put a price on it.

Posted by: Case at May 23, 2026 01:27 AM (8XBuM)

440
That official 88F record dew point was in Moorhead MN, July 19th, 2011, too. Minnesota.

A town in Iowa claimed 91F in 2021, but that hasn't been officially verified.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 23, 2026 01:27 AM (w6EFb)

441 414 Sorry, the weather in Texas sucks, I’m never moving there.
Posted by: Bulg at May 23, 2026 12:55 AM (77rzZ)

It’s a big state. I don’t think there is “TX weather”.

I was on a phone call, a phone interview one time. Where I was deep in the Panhandle weather was deteriorating ahead of a major winter storm. At the other end of the line in Houston it was pleasant, 70, sunny, with barely any humidity.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 01:28 AM (T6aVk)

442 428 Three up, three down with a diamond is a first sergeant.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 23, 2026 01:10 AM (22p5n)

Top if you are in the Army, the First Shirt in the AF.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 01:30 AM (T6aVk)

443
Common Tater,
Humidity is awful.

Husband grew up in Hellumbia SC.

His Dad went outside and sprayed down the brick house every night. He said it helped some. Brick soaks up the heat and shares it with you, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:31 AM (3ek7K)

444 Tim Bits FTW ...
Posted by: browndog says woof at May 22, 2026 10:17 PM (3sXRv)

Visiting Toronto the last time, I had no use of my front teeth. Doughnuts were out. But I could eat the Tim Bits. That was breakfast that morning…

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 01:32 AM (T6aVk)

445 That official 88F record dew point was in Moorhead MN, July 19th, 2011, too. Minnesota.
Posted by: publius

Funny that we've got the heat record, when everyone thinks of us as a state full of Vikings living in igloos.

We're nowhere near having the cold record, since we've got no altitude.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 01:34 AM (VHUov)

446 I don’t see how it could be more miserable in Alabama than Iowa. Trust me, it gets brutal in the Midwest. My dad lived in St. Louis when he was young and he said it was just awful.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 23, 2026 01:24 AM (BWpBM)

I spent time on a rice farm in the Mississippi Delta. Its humid and weird and mosquitos are everywhere. But I picked up Mr Scary on a Delta farm. We still grow good men in the US.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 01:34 AM (Hvd9a)

447 A town in Iowa claimed 91F in 2021, but that hasn't been officially verified.
Posted by: publius

That was 5 years ago; how would you verify it now? Take a core sample from the city pool's lifeguard?

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 01:36 AM (VHUov)

448 Hi four seasons, I am so happy for SMH, she has wanted to do this for a long time.

Puddleglum, I hope that your vacation is fun and relaxing.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 01:36 AM (0nHVk)

449 Thank you WeirdDave!

Greetings Horde from the west coast where the girls are really the most......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 01:38 AM (QGaXH)

450 Evaporative coolers are super efficient on really hot days+low humidity. Pennies compared to AC units. On 100f+ days I've watched ice pellets fly out of the port. Open the hatch in the house to the attic and the moist-cooled air will significantly reduce the superheated air in the attic; no matter how well the attic is vented.

Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2026 01:41 AM (UnB4P)

451 ARIK. didn't you do some camper camping? Is that going well?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 01:42 AM (Hvd9a)

452
Another job. Indoor Plumbing Czar.
Posted by: wth

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

Either that or he'll soon be calling you with a notification about your security plan for windows 11.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 01:42 AM (n7rxJ)

453
We don't have the humidity issue here in SW Wyoming.

We have two portable a/cs that are on wheels. It is so easy vent them out the windows. One in the bedroom and one in the living area.

If it was humid here we would need central air.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:44 AM (3ek7K)

454 13times at May 23, 2026 01:41 AM (UnB4P)

Swamp coolers. We had those when visiting Utah and West Texas. It's different. We are used to central air. I really do prefer the desert.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 01:46 AM (Hvd9a)

455 >> how would you verify it now?

It will indeed remain unverified. To be verified, the sensors must be NWS/NOAA certified, with traceable calibration, QA tests, and be officially registered and all that.

It would be something like my personal weather station. That wouldn't qualify for any official purposes one little bit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 23, 2026 01:47 AM (w6EFb)

456 334 In her speech, she urged EU leaders to regulate speech on social media

She says it’s the only way to “ save democracy”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 12:09 AM (LIEok)

That time she spent growing up in the GDR rubbed off on her, I guess…

In the meantime, I’m going to try and reconcile censorship with “saving democracy”. I expect a splitting headache to result.
Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 12:15 AM (T6aVk)

If too many people vote the wrong way, then They will have to take your right to vote away. TPTB have to keep you from encountering unapproved ideas, or else you may perform unapproved voting, and then They will have to revoke democracy For Your Own Good.

It's nonsense, of course. It's a fundamental misunderstanding (probably willful) of the nature of self-rule. It's a view of democratic processes as an Opiate Of The Masses -- where the "popular mandate" of the "will of the people" is a necessary illusion for getting their compliance with the will of the State, not an actual solicitation of the People's opinion.

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 01:51 AM (Sy6m/)

457

The world record dew point of 95F in Saudi was right near the Persian Gulf, which are the hottest waters in the world. IIRC that's due to being pretty shallow, and the high surrounding temperatures.

It evaporates a lot of water, pushing absolute humidity way up close by.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 23, 2026 01:52 AM (w6EFb)

458

It's a cool night here, 38 degrees.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:53 AM (3ek7K)

459 Hi four seasons, I am so happy for SMH, she has wanted to do this for a long time.

Puddleglum, I hope that your vacation is fun and relaxing.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
___

Thanks!

Getting out of Illinois is the cherry on top.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 23, 2026 01:55 AM (22p5n)

460 It is 76 here. I am on the front porch wrapped up in a blanket., 😆

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 01:55 AM (Hvd9a)

461
Mary,

It must be the humidity.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:57 AM (3ek7K)

462 If you ever live in the South A/C is a must have. But there are things you can do to lower the cost. Ceiling fans, or even regular stand up fans help as they keep the air circulating.

Posted by: Case at May 23, 2026 01:57 AM (8XBuM)

463 It evaporates a lot of water, pushing absolute humidity way up close by.
Posted by: publius
---

When we had to pick up our vehicles from the docks in Kuwait, it was miserable.

I'd rather deal with a dry heat than humidity.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 23, 2026 01:58 AM (22p5n)

464 It's 56 effing degrees in S.F. right now. Kinda nice. I was here for S.F.'s all-time high (106 in 2017) and S.F.'s all-time highest low temp (75 that night and boy did that suck).

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 01:58 AM (W5mpo)

465

Case,

You are right. The fans do help distribute the air.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 01:59 AM (3ek7K)

466 Four Seasons we are having storms. I is raining (yay!) It is more humid than usual. But I am a wimp. If it is below 80 I need a sweater.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 02:00 AM (Hvd9a)

467
SMH,

You are right.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:01 AM (3ek7K)

468 If you ever live in the South A/C is a must have. But there are things you can do to lower the cost. Ceiling fans, or even regular stand up fans help as they keep the air circulating.

Posted by: Case at May 23, 2026 01:57 AM (8XBuM)

Fuck the cost. A/C before food..or cable..or heat..

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 02:02 AM (snZF9)

469 Hi Scary, I couldn't live with the scorpions and snakes, I didn't even click on WeirdDave's snake video , they give me the real creeps.

publius, how is your Mama doing?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 02:02 AM (0nHVk)

470 Eel?

@takaichi_sanae – 3h

The world's first "fully farmed eel" kabayaki grown from artificial seeds will be on trial sale, and the product was recently delivered to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Suzuki, who also gave it a taste.

The fat was outstanding, the mouthfeel was plump and melt-in-your-mouth, and I couldn't stop using chopsticks.

Regular eel farming is done from natural glass eels collected in rivers and other places, but "complete farming" involves laying adult fish raised from artificially collected eggs, then raising the adult fish again from the eggs obtained, and cultivating them through artificial incubation.
…

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 02:04 AM (LIEok)

471 It is 76 here. I am on the front porch wrapped up in a blanket., 😆

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 01:55 AM (Hvd9a)

Damn, you're like Mrs B. Her Indian name is Piss In Veins.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 02:04 AM (snZF9)

472 It's 56 effing degrees in S.F. right now. Kinda nice. I was here for S.F.'s all-time high (106 in 2017) and S.F.'s all-time highest low temp (75 that night and boy did that suck).
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 01:58 AM (W5mpo)

In the mid '70's it snowed in San Mateo a few inches and stuck for hours and hours on lawns. On Skyline it can snow a bit every year.

> BSM

Yeah. I've relatives in Utah!

Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2026 02:05 AM (UnB4P)

473

Years ago we made a trip to SF in the summer. We just about froze to death. We were stupid and thought it would be warm.

Had tickets for a couple baseball games and had to buy coats.

We had a great time though.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:06 AM (3ek7K)

474 My A/C has 2 settings. Off, and Hoth. I don't give a shit if my Tauntaun freezes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 02:07 AM (snZF9)

475 Damn, you're like Mrs B. Her Indian name is Piss In Veins.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 02:04 AM (snZF9)
___

lol

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at May 23, 2026 02:07 AM (22p5n)

476 It’s easy to reconcile: “Saving Our Democracy” means making sure the “right” people are in power, forever. Just remember, the “right” people are never really on the Right (oh, excuse me: Far Right!).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 23, 2026 02:08 AM (ZVgZ4)

477 Hi Debby. I love Texas despite the snakes and scorpions. It has become home now.

The snakes I don't see so much. But I did get stung whilst in bed by a scorpion lately. You wake up with your lips tingling. It's weird when they sting you on the hand and your mouth goes numb. Anyhow.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 02:09 AM (Hvd9a)

478 Chaotic Good Barbarian

https://youtu.be/e1VGzGcSqhA?si=sNBkrlcIFNsNr0YM

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 23, 2026 02:10 AM (lhenN)

479 >> publius, how is your Mama doing?

Well, she's 96 now, and is declining. She needs continuous O2 now, and the the leg edema is getting problematic. We've got it reasonably under control, but it's slowly getting worse.

All in all, for 96, she's doing pretty good I'd say.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 23, 2026 02:10 AM (w6EFb)

480 The snakes I don't see so much. But I did get stung whilst in bed by a scorpion lately. You wake up with your lips tingling. It's weird when they sting you on the hand and your mouth goes numb. Anyhow.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 02:09 AM (Hvd9a)

Oh the hell with that. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 02:11 AM (snZF9)

481 four seasons > SF tourists get up in the morning and see that there's no wind, no fog, sunny, and very pleasant at 9am.They throw on shorts and a light sweater. And then by 3pm the cooler kicks in and it's windy, fog is crashing over the coastal mountains, and 55f.

Posted by: 13times at May 23, 2026 02:13 AM (UnB4P)

482 Fuck the cost. A/C before food..or cable..or heat..
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 02:02 AM (snZF9)

If you need A/C, I doubt you’ll need heat at the same time.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 23, 2026 02:13 AM (ZVgZ4)

483 August isn't too bad but July can be downright chilly. September-October is our warm season. Publius explained it why a couple of years ago. That's when it hit 106 - Labor Day weekend. 106 is hot no matter how dry. Coldest I've been here is 28 - December 22, 1990. I was reading Stephen King's "Misery" at night during winter break at school. Creeepy and cold. Never seen snow here though. Getting below 35 is rare even at night.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 23, 2026 02:13 AM (W5mpo)

484 Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 02:09 AM (Hvd9a)

Oh the hell with that. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 23, 2026 02:11 AM (snZF9)

I'm like the partner. TX welcome wagon lady. I love it here, but if you don't want to get stung by a scorpion, stay at home, pardner.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 02:14 AM (Hvd9a)

485
13times,

It is different. It's what you get used to.

I love following the weather all over the country.

It's interesting. Hubby thinks I'm nuts, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:16 AM (3ek7K)

486 Four seasons, you went from SC to WY. Both places are great in their own way. That is a big change climate wise

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 02:18 AM (Hvd9a)

487 Scary, I am allergic to bee venom, I don't wish to take a chance with a different toxin. I could explode.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 02:18 AM (0nHVk)

488 Yikes Debby! I know some folks allergic to bees. I don't know what they do about scorpions. Scorpions are sneakier and more dangerous I'd think.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at May 23, 2026 02:23 AM (Hvd9a)

489

Mary,

Yes it is. Grandchildren, lol.

It gets cold but we don't sweat.

Wyoming is a great place to live. Our Grandchildren are true Wyoming kids. We've seen them barefooted playing in the snow.

It's what you get used to.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:25 AM (3ek7K)

490 The only thing I ever got stung by in bed was my husband.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 02:25 AM (0nHVk)

491
Lol

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:26 AM (3ek7K)

492 Is (LO7vB) a banned hash so that is why the post that was formerly known as '400' disappeared?

Just curious - I don't understand this ban stuff beyond if you misbehave you get the boot (or the hammer), just like I don't understand the 'blow the margins' stuff....

It's late and I'm going to bed....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at May 23, 2026 02:32 AM (QGaXH)

493 Evening.
71° out. Perfect.
Maybe 20% humidity.
Moths cooking on the bug zapper out the door of the shop. No mosquitos or flys.
Buckethead Pike 49 on the big bluetooth speaker.
Fosters downed.
Pretty major life changes coming soon.
Chaos is coming.
I am 100% ready for this fight.
Provided I don't have to do a 110 mile round trip commute to engage it everyday.
I've put in a request for a helicopter. Told them I would fly it.
I might be able to fly a helicopter.
Bedtime.

Posted by: Reforger at May 23, 2026 02:33 AM (594J6)

494 470 Eel?

Eel is good eatin.' Really.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 23, 2026 02:35 AM (h/5hh)

495 @KenPaxtonTX - 7h

: I just secured a landmark victory against Discord.

Discord built a product that funnels predators to kids by default, then sold parents on the lie that their platform is "safe by design."

After filing this lawsuit just TODAY, a Texas judge now ordered Discord to stop both the rigged defaults and the lie. Discord was warned by the FTC, the Senate, and five state AGs. It changed nothing. So we made them, and this is only the first step in this case. I will never stop fighting to protect Texas children

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 02:38 AM (LIEok)

496 four seasons, I got my grandkid's joint birthday party this weekend, the are such a source of joy in my life.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 02:39 AM (0nHVk)

497 Now where did that y go?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 02:40 AM (0nHVk)

498
Debby,

They are awesome. We live four blocks from our four.

If they get restless we say time to home, lol.

Ours are 4 y/o to 12 y/o.

It is so fun watching them grow up.

No internet access and no cellphones allowed.

We are so very proud of son and daughter-in-law for standing strong.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:47 AM (3ek7K)

499 The Horde is sleepy tonight and I am getting that way too, sweet dreams Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 02:47 AM (0nHVk)

500

Braenyard,

Perverts.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:49 AM (3ek7K)

501
Sleep well Debby!

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:50 AM (3ek7K)

502 Mine are 5 and 9. It has been a trip.
I gotta get out of this think about work mode and enjoy the weekend. 3 days. They'll be here in about 8 hours.

I should be asleep.

Posted by: Reforger at May 23, 2026 02:54 AM (594J6)

503 Discord built a product that funnels predators to kids by default, then sold parents on the lie that their platform is "safe by design."
Posted by: Braenyard

I thought it was designed so I could talk to the people I'm playing MMOs with.

Posted by: mikeski at May 23, 2026 02:56 AM (VHUov)

504
Reforger,

It is difficult to get out of the work mode.

Enjoy your weekend and your grandchildren.

Relax. It will do you good.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 02:57 AM (3ek7K)

505 Yeah, there are other sites that have admitted deliberately slipping in pervy stuff. Paxton is timed out as Atty Gen and the other tough one from MO is now on Trump's team in DC.

It's 10:30 AM in Tehran and 10:00 AM in Jerusalem. If anything is going to happen it not be today. Maybe tonight. There's not much kicking. I'm hitting the hay.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 23, 2026 03:04 AM (LIEok)

506
Sleep well Braenyard.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 03:09 AM (3ek7K)

507 497 Now where did that y go?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 23, 2026 02:40 AM (0nHVk)

The BBC Science Focus Magazine push notifications

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 03:16 AM (Sy6m/)

508
If you live in Orange County California check Fox for the story about a chemical tank leak. Authorities say it is either going to burst or explode.

Posted by: four seasons at May 23, 2026 03:27 AM (3ek7K)

509
If you live in Orange County California check Fox for the story about a chemical tank leak. Authorities say it is either going to burst or explode.

Posted by: four seasons

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

Wow. 40,000 evacuated.

Actually, it's not a chemical tank. It's my brain because I've been reading Twitter. Every H-1B or person married to a foreigner in the country is bitching because of the new rule that you have to leave if you're on a work visa and you want to get your green card. Like, how DARE the US Government make rules for permanent residence here? How DARE you ROB me? This was my dream!! Fulfill your obligations to me!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 03:50 AM (n7rxJ)

510 Mornin', Horde. Just caught up on the comments; broke 500 before 3 AM!

Upper 60s and raining in Kentuckiana - we've had off-and-on rain most of this week, but looks like we have a few days' break for the holiday.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 03:57 AM (NcvvS)

511 About damn time the rules were enforced. If the bureaucrats can just ignore the rules and do as they please, then we don't have self-rule -- we have a tyranny of three million micro-dictators, which adds up to an imperial triumvirate.

micro- = one-millionth
3,000,000 micro-dictators = 3,000,000/1,000,000 dictators
= 3 dictators
= triumvirate

Everything always comes back to ancient Rome.

Posted by: SciVo at May 23, 2026 04:00 AM (Sy6m/)

512 Congratulations, SciVo, for first mention of Rome on the ONT.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 04:15 AM (NcvvS)

513 Actually, it's not a chemical tank. It's my brain because I've been reading Twitter. Every H-1B or person married to a foreigner in the country is bitching because of the new rule that you have to leave if you're on a work visa and you want to get your green card. Like, how DARE the US Government make rules for permanent residence here? How DARE you ROB me? This was my dream!! Fulfill your obligations to me!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 23, 2026 03:50 AM (n7rxJ)

It’s weird how sovereign countries come up with different rules and laws for entry to the country, how long you can stay, etc, right? It’s just so cruel!

Or it only is if the United States is doing it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 04:19 AM (T6aVk)

514 “Paxton is timed out as Atty Gen“

How so?

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 23, 2026 04:20 AM (T6aVk)

515 Pixy's up.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 23, 2026 04:31 AM (NcvvS)

516 The Titanic had four smoke stacks, not three as on the model.

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Long Weekend Cafe

Trail in the Swiss Alps
More here

Rescued baby albino wallaby.

Cats are the guest of honor at every party.

Rescue beaver Petunia. Rescue beaver Tulip.

Puppy plays fetch with himself, with a stream.

Got any weekend plans?

Dog "helps."

Prancing into the weekend.

Bears: A National Concern.

Cat would like to know what time you think it is.

Happy Memorial Day!

Family run.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/s03Advy38f
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 21, 2026

Charging baby elephant..🐘😅 pic.twitter.com/LSFc7SOMW7
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 21, 2026

Puppy's first night out of the shelter after being adopted..🐕🐾😊

📹finntherusseII pic.twitter.com/V8hectRjNW
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 21, 2026

Police Cadet Composure Endurance Contest: Cops try to keep a focused steely gaze as the trainers try to distract them.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:40 PM

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1 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at May 22, 2026 07:41 PM (dpXJq)

2 Damn, I just found out Tulsi is resigning as DNI.

I was initially worried about her cuz she's a leftist Democrat and a Bernie Bros. Turned out she was halfway decent. I guess her love of country rose above all else. Patriotism matters. Go figure.

It's a real loss. Bummer.

Posted by: Robert at May 22, 2026 07:43 PM (dpXJq)

3 I can't be the only person zooming in to see if that was Bigfoot.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 07:44 PM (Sco7b)

4 antisemitic shitbird belowdecks
Posted by: South and Proud!! at May 22, 2026 07:41 PM (4IL54)

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 07:45 PM (gKWVE)

5 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 07:45 PM (Ia/+0)

6
Skip, I hope you have an enjoyable weekend.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 07:46 PM (3ek7K)

7 Yeah, what's holding that trail onto that Swiss cliff? I'll stay here at sea level where it's safe.

Posted by: Flatlander, Myself at May 22, 2026 07:47 PM (oftw2)

8 neo-nazi cucks got into a habit of dropping nonsense on dead threads that talk about their neo-Nazi idols, right after all the high IQ regulars leave to enjoy noods...

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 07:48 PM (GD0B3)

9 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM (Wmg4n)

10 woke reich tears are almost as good as the woke left tears

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM (GD0B3)

11 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM (Wmg4n)

Horiatiki or bust!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 07:50 PM (GD0B3)

12 runner, I bet that particular Islamabaddian ran that bullshit through an AI filter before poasting here.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 07:50 PM (gKWVE)

13 Notice how fast he puts that truck into reverse when daddy elephant comes around the corner?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:50 PM (viF8m)

14 the difference between "cute" and "frightening" is about 1000 pounds

Fear the Ears!

Posted by: Bullet for her Bra at May 22, 2026 07:51 PM (jrgJz)

15 A 100% mephitic and Spheniscidae-free Café week! What a great gateway to the Memorial Day weekend!

Briskets. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

16 11 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM (Wmg4n)

Horiatiki or bust!
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026

I think I needed salt, the feta and olives tasted extra delicious. 😊

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:52 PM (Wmg4n)

17 11 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
Posted by: Piper

Greeks eat a lot of lamb. Tell me it was a lamb salad. Not some Fetid cheese concoction.

Posted by: Stavros, Nick, Gus, and Christos at May 22, 2026 07:52 PM (oftw2)

18 Those views in Switzerland are really something!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 22, 2026 07:52 PM (cWLG3)

19 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM

Sounds like it was sufficient to get you well-fetaed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 07:52 PM (0sNs1)

20
*admires portraits on Café wall*

*realizes they're the Ten Most Wanted list*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 07:53 PM (HdYcL)

21 The geese stop being cute when they crap all over the pavement where you work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:53 PM (zZu0s)

22 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM (Wmg4n)

You'd have to be starving to enjoy a Greek salad!

I kid. I kid. I love the Mediterranean diet. My innards like it too.

Greek salad cured me of an Ouzo hangover years ago, when I was in Crete.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 07:54 PM (0aYVJ)

23 @12, I was just catching up and notices the pukes marring perfectly good threads! On one hand I am absolutely delighted and am enjoing it, I mean we are talking serious derangement zone, but then I don't even know half the words they are puking out !

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 07:54 PM (GD0B3)

24 the difference between "cute" and "frightening" is about 1000 pounds
Posted by: Bullet for her Bra at May 22, 2026 07:51 PM

Bremerloes and Grotopotomii can accomplish that at 300 pounds.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

25 Greek salad cured me of an Ouzo hangover years ago, when I was in Crete.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at

I think I just really love feta.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM (Wmg4n)

26 Canada geese suck.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)

27 I had a gymnastics coach who used to get right in our faces and make goofy grins. We had to maintain composure. We didn’t have to do push-ups though. We did chin ups. Lots and lots of them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 07:56 PM (A5RD0)

28 People who stop their cars in the middle of the boulevard to let a Canada goose cross the road suck too. The road is MINE, you foul feathered fucks.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 07:57 PM (ZxPkt)

29 And Canada geese are assholes. And they poop. A LOT.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 07:57 PM (A5RD0)

30 Canada geese suck.
Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM

They do crap everywhere, but, on balance, not as much, either in quantity or mephitic quality, as penguins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

31 >>Those views in Switzerland are really something!

Switzerland is one of the few countries in Europe I have even a slight interest in seeing again. They made a very good decision staying out of the EU.

Beautiful country.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:57 PM (viF8m)

32 15 A 100% mephitic and Spheniscidae-free Café week! What a great gateway to the Memorial Day weekend!

Ha! We appreciate the great press Ace delivers, and if he delivered Penguin content nightly, it would spoil us. The relentless march continues and we look forward to the next edition here in the Cafe.

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at May 22, 2026 07:57 PM (oftw2)

33 Bremerloes and Grotopotomii can accomplish that at 300 pounds.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

Even a dog thats not right at 80.

Full grown wolves. They 'look' like dogs, but those eyes are not a dogs. You are not people to them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

34
Wonderful to see the crowd cheering USA! when Starship splashed down.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 07:58 PM (Y8DZL)

35 Canada geese suck.
Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM (ZxPkt)

Foxes love Canada geese!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 07:58 PM (GD0B3)

36 19 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM

Sounds like it was sufficient to get you well-fetaed.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22

🤣

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:58 PM (Wmg4n)

37 Daddy was shooing the baby and giving the jeep side eye at the same time. For 2 cents Daddy would squash the jeep.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 07:59 PM (LIEok)

38 The geese on the geezer golf golf course have all hatched their eggs. L'il fuzzy bastards already shitting all over the place. Upside, the local cats, foxes, hawks and eagles will eat well.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 07:59 PM (2WIwB)

39 Do not mention Iran!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 07:59 PM (GD0B3)

40
I ran to the wine bottle. Is that okay?

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 08:00 PM (3ek7K)

41 For 2 cents Daddy would squash the jeep.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 07:59 PM (LIEok)

They threaten baby, they can go to hell.

I like elephants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

42 I had a gymnastics coach who used to get right in our faces and make goofy grins. We had to maintain composure. We didn’t have to do push-ups though. We did chin ups. Lots and lots of them.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 07:56 PM (A5RD0)

Did he do the Michael Palin bit?

His name? Biggus Dickus
*runs over to soldier*
He has wife, you know
*glances at soldier*
Her name..Incontenentia
*glares at soldier*
Incontenentia Buttocks

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:01 PM (0aYVJ)

43 Wait a second!

"Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence, citing her husband’s health"

Did you guys see this ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 08:01 PM (GD0B3)

44 43 Wait a second!

"Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence, citing her husband’s health"

Did you guys see this ?
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 08

Yes, she is out June 30. Sadly, her husband has bone cancer.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:02 PM (Wmg4n)

45 runner been around all afternoon

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 08:02 PM (Ia/+0)

46
runner,

Yes. Such a sad situation for them.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 08:03 PM (3ek7K)

47 I have often smiled at the antics of penguins.

I have nothing but disdain for Canada geese. They have never made me laugh or smile.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:03 PM (A5RD0)

48 Enjoy some time off Boss.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:03 PM (RIvkX)

49 Good one, Pug!

You on the coast yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:03 PM (A5RD0)

50 Got a reminder that it's Memorial Day Weekend: passed the cemetery in the county seat and the flags were out lining the fence separating it from the road. A bracing sight, really.

Posted by: KT at May 22, 2026 08:04 PM (rdeQO)

51 Do not mention Iran!
Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 07:59 PM (GD0B3)

I ran, ran so far away.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 08:04 PM (qx7Zg)

52 Bremerloes and Grotopotomii can accomplish that at 300 pounds.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

I was born in Groton but left when still a baby. But I've been to Bremerton a bunch of times. Never underestimate the shock power of a Bremerloe when she turns around to look at you in a bar. Be sure to note all exits.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 08:05 PM (2WIwB)

53 Elise Stefanik, DNI!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 08:05 PM (GD0B3)

54 They have never made me laugh or smile.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:03 PM (A5RD0)

Goslings are kind of cute, but the pizzazz quickly fades.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

55 I hope! She was at the the new Fed Chair swearing in. We got very, very lucky with Trump's pick. Kevin Warsh is awesome.

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 08:07 PM (GD0B3)

56 22 Happy cafe! Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM (Wmg4n)

..............

Taco salad here, minus the chips and salsa! Very good though loaded with black olives and red onion.

Posted by: Mollly k. at May 22, 2026 08:07 PM (j/yko)

57 Greeks eat a lot of lamb. Tell me it was a lamb salad. Not some Fetid cheese concoction.
Posted by: Stavros, Nick, Gus, and Christos at May 22, 2026 07:52 PM (oftw2)
======

All you make is cheeburgers anyway.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:09 PM (RIvkX)

58 Holy shit.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Judge Waverly Crenshaw has dismissed the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who entered the U.S. illegally around 2011–2012, ruling that the prosecution was selective and vindictive.

Abrego Garcia had been accused of human smuggling — specifically conspiracy to transport undocumented individuals and unlawful transportation of undocumented migrants — stemming from a alleged years-long scheme.

His attorney, Sean Hecker, said in response: “We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.”

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:10 PM (2PamV)

59 Watching one of my favorite war movies
Battleground

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 08:10 PM (Ia/+0)

60 Good one, Pug!

You on the coast yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:03 PM (A5RD0)

Leaving 0 dark 30 tomorrow. I'll pack the car, then lead my bride out with her fluffy blanket. She'll sleep. I love driving in the morning, especially when I am not squinting into the sunlight.

Kind of a short trip, but we'll get some time on the beach. We will certainly do a longer trip soon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:10 PM (0aYVJ)

61 I had a chicken quesadilla, with jalapeno peppers. That shizz was good. I cooked my ass off.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (ZxPkt)

62 >>They threaten baby, they can go to hell.

>>I like elephants.

Only game drives I've done are in a game preserve in South Africa. Not as spectacular as a drive done out on the open bush but pretty great.

We came upon a male bull that was enormous, you to see them in real life to appreciate the size. He was standing with a couple of his elephant babes and some younger ones. We were in one of those multi-row jeep things and the driver was one of the game wardens. He told us the male was in musth, which I had no idea what that was.

It's when a male elephant gets a natural testosterone boost and starts protecting his herd and looking to expand it IYKWIMAITYD. The thing charged us, shaking head and tossing dirt with his trunk. The game warden had fun letting the elephant close in on us and then driving a bit further and stopping again. Couple of German tourists in the truck nearly shit themselves.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (viF8m)

63 Taco salad here, minus the chips and salsa! Very good though loaded with black olives and red onion.
Posted by: Mollly k. at May 22, 2026 08

I love making a taco salad with leftovers after taco night. Salsa as dressing, guacamole, yum!

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (Wmg4n)

64 Just got home from voting for Paxton.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (2PamV)

65 Yes, she is out June 30. Sadly, her husband has bone cancer.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:02 PM (Wmg4n)
=====
No I did not see that as the reason. Thank you and runner too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (RIvkX)

66 30 Canada geese suck.
Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 07:55 PM

They do crap everywhere, but, on balance, not as much, either in quantity or mephitic quality, as penguins.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)
_______________________

Geese got me kicked out of a school camping trip. My buddy, Tommy insisted that if you give a goose spaghetti, it will proceed through their entire digestive process in a matter of minutes. Tommy was correct. I was exiled back to town after a rather public lecture on treatment of animals.

Geese do indeed suck.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (dIske)

67 Heh. Homemade tacos with HEB butter tortillas.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:12 PM (2PamV)

68 Just got home from voting for Paxton.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (2PamV)

You are just trying to distract from the Epstein Files.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

69 Got a reminder that it's Memorial Day Weekend: passed the cemetery in the county seat and the flags were out lining the fence separating it from the road. A bracing sight, really.
Posted by: KT at May 22, 2026 08:04 PM (rdeQO)

We take a lot of road trips during Memorial Day weekend. I love seeing small towns doing it right. America!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:13 PM (0aYVJ)

70 Dammit.

''VOTE'? What does that even mean?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 08:13 PM (zZu0s)

71 Just ate an amazing Greek salad. I was starving.
———

Why don’t you eat some real food? (Salad isn’t food, salad is food for food)

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:13 PM (t7UuU)

72 Just got home from voting for Paxton.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (2PamV)

You are just trying to distract from the Epstein Files.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

✌🏻 I am not a crook ✌🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:14 PM (2PamV)

73 Couple of German tourists in the truck nearly shit themselves.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM (viF8m)
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Are we not doing phrasing?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:14 PM (RIvkX)

74 Star Trek is on. It's the one with the creepy cosmic Captain Kangaroo.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

75 Canada Geese - aka “Sky Carp”

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:14 PM (t7UuU)

76 BREAKING: Federal Judge Waverly Crenshaw has dismissed the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
====

Dismissed the Indictment, is that like a pardon?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2026 08:15 PM (/lPRQ)

77 I had tacos in the Mission for lunch today. Carne y pollo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:15 PM (RIvkX)

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:16 PM (A5RD0)

79 Star Trek is on. It's the one with the creepy cosmic Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:14 PM (vFG9F)

... I am drawing a blank. Guy in green?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

80 BREAKING: Federal Judge Waverly Crenshaw has dismissed the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
====

Dismissed the Indictment, is that like a pardon?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I don't see how he has that authority.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:17 PM (2PamV)

81 He is an illegal alien. Foreign national.

Deport His Ass Forthwith

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:18 PM (t7UuU)

82 Hey everyone it's the Kamster again...........

This holiday weekend I have decided to begin 2028 Presidential exploratory team. My campaign slogan has been selected and it so exciting. Below is my slogan and tell me what you think"""

Kami Harris 2028... "Let's Beat, Blow, or Squeeze are way forward" !!!!!.

Posted by: Kami Harris at May 22, 2026 08:19 PM (KvNjc)

83 Why don’t you eat some real food? (Salad isn’t food, salad is food for food)
Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:13 PM

I am in no danger of wasting away anytime soon, I eat plenty. 😊

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:19 PM (Wmg4n)

84 >>Are we not doing phrasing?

I think at least one of them might have actually dropped one. They were in the last row and the warden kept speeding up and then stopping and letting the elephant catch up.

He was laughing like a maniac. Hans and Franz not so much.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:19 PM (viF8m)

85 "Federal Judge Waverly Crenshaw has dismissed the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia"

Who names their kid Waverly? Some cracker?

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:19 PM (vFG9F)

86 BREAKING: Federal Judge Waverly Crenshaw has dismissed the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
====

Dismissed the Indictment, is that like a pardon?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I don't see how he has that authority.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:17 PM (2PamV)

Well, yeah, in the real world. But now, it seems some dipshit judge can wave his fleshy pink hand and simper " make it so," and it works.

I blame Abed for this darkest timeline. No. Wait. it's Jeff!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:20 PM (0aYVJ)

87 I would almost feel sorry for Waverly if he wasn't such a shit.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:21 PM (vFG9F)

88 Just got home from voting for Paxton.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:11 PM

Seriously? I voted with President Trump 99.2% of the time. Paxton voted with President Trump 00.00% of the time. What kind of proud Texan Patriot are you?

I'm not giving up the seat that Sam Houston once held to someone like that!

Posted by: J. Cornyn, (GOPe-TX) at May 22, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

89 Dammit.

''VOTE'? What does that even mean?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 08:13 PM (zZu0s)

VOTE
DEMOCRATS.
OUT!!!

Fixed it for ya.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 08:22 PM (2WIwB)

90 Star Trek is on. It's the one with the creepy cosmic Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:14 PM (vFG9F)
=====
That character is played by the famous attorney Melvin Belli.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 08:23 PM (RIvkX)

91 I am in no danger of wasting away
——-

But you said you were starving.

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:24 PM (t7UuU)

92 "That character is played by the famous attorney Melvin Belli.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

He may have been a good attorney but he was a crappy actor. He did nail the creepy part though.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:24 PM (vFG9F)

93 Westwood High School in NJ, their football field/track is located near a creek. Resident Canadas live their year round. They have the creek, but forage/feed on the football field every day. There isn't a square foot of track or field/sidelines that isn't covered in goose crap. Imagine playing football on that. Even the cheerleaders on the track in front of the bleachers are working among the green dung.

Posted by: Fowl Ball! at May 22, 2026 08:24 PM (oftw2)

94 Attention F-14 fans!

Mooch and Nasty totally geek out over the Maverick Act and how to make an air show F-14D Tomcat that will blow your socks off.

https://youtu.be/__3vmZsG7FU

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 08:25 PM (2GVsD)

95 Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:13 PM

Lots of Memorial Day activities in Central California. Some of the regular ones currently obstructed by high speed rail construction, unfortunately.

Posted by: KT at May 22, 2026 08:25 PM (rdeQO)

96 Been some Commissar Judge letting criminals go every day it seems

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 08:25 PM (Ia/+0)

97 Belli was kind of a sketchy cat. “Infamous” might be a better nomenclature. Arlen Spector was a screwball, too.

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:26 PM (t7UuU)

98 "Belli was kind of a sketchy cat. “Infamous” might be a better nomenclature"

Defended Jack Ruby. Sketchy indeed.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:27 PM (vFG9F)

99 Seriously? I voted with President Trump 99.2% of the time. Paxton voted with President Trump 00.00% of the time. What kind of proud Texan Patriot are you?

I'm not giving up the seat that Sam Houston once held to someone like that!
Posted by: J. Cornyn

Yeah you cocksucker. The .08% of the time you didn't was against the 2nd Amendment.

Time to retire.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 08:27 PM (2PamV)

100 Arlen Spectre got the Unicorn Killer bail.

Hope they are sharing something painful in Hell.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 08:27 PM (2GVsD)

101 Wasn't Belli the star of the Altamont documentary/concert?

Posted by: Disorder In The Court at May 22, 2026 08:27 PM (oftw2)

102 91 I am in no danger of wasting away
——-

But you said you were starving.
Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:24

I am also dramatic.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:28 PM (Wmg4n)

103 Waverly is a black judge appointed by Obama.
So, par for the course.

Posted by: Case at May 22, 2026 08:29 PM (8XBuM)

104 I always clean my plate because i was told the children were starving in Korea.

Posted by: Circa 1960 at May 22, 2026 08:30 PM (oftw2)

105 Yep. Altamont was a series of errors in a comedy of fucking idiots. The Hell’s Angels did a pretty good job, actually.

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:30 PM (t7UuU)

106 But you said you were starving.
Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:24

I am also dramatic.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:28 PM (Wmg4n)

*rolls up fainting couch*

Just in case...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:30 PM (0aYVJ)

107 I am having a 24 oz can of Yuengling for dinner.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 08:31 PM (VyBeY)

108 103 Waverly is a black judge appointed by Obama.
So, par for the course.

That is RACIST pointing out the fact that a Black Gay President appointed a Commie Leftist Judge and had anything to do with this outcome.

Posted by: Kami Harris at May 22, 2026 08:31 PM (xl8DV)

109 "I always clean my plate because i was told the children were starving in Korea.
Posted by: Circa 1960"

They still starved. You were no help at all.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 08:31 PM (vFG9F)

110 I got a rubber chicken in my trousers for those female cadets.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 08:33 PM (D1E+2)

111 106 But you said you were starving.
Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:24

I am also dramatic.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:28 PM (Wmg4n)

*rolls up fainting couch*

Just in case...
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become C

How did you get that past the ONT moose?

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:34 PM (Wmg4n)

112 A good and very old friend sometimes puts on recorded idiotic crap from late night shows after a game/whatever. He and his wife are pretty LIV (really just pure mindless politix-as-sports types, like many), but it only reinforces my disgust and despair with national civic degradation.

Last week he insisted we watch the opening of SNL. Mind-blowingly stupid Oval Office skit with whoever (poorly) plays Trump from the cast, and guest host Will Farrell. Whole theme of skit? Epstein and Trump were good buddies. JFC. These people, and many tens of millions, live in a fantasy world as detached from reality as any North Korean who believes state propaganda.

It's astonishing and pathetic. And dangerous.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 08:34 PM (U/Byj)

113 Spencer Dryden, drummer for the Jefferson Airplane, quit music entirely for a year or two mostly because of the violence at Altamont. Marty Balin got knocked out by a Hell's Angel. Dryden eventually came back to be the long-time drummer for the New Riders of the Purple Sage.

Posted by: Not Exactly Woodstockian at May 22, 2026 08:36 PM (oftw2)

114 I would be suspicious of someone who has a fainting couch on wheels.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 08:36 PM (2GVsD)

115 >>@KaelanDC
·
3h
>>NEW: DOJ spox tells me they will be appealing this ruling dismissing human smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia.

>>“Another activist judge has placed politics above public safety. The judge’s order is wrong and dangerous, and we will appeal.”

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 08:36 PM (viF8m)

116 Annnnnnnd: Who's gonna clean the 'duck-drop' offa the track when they're gone … ? Ducks don't use toilet paper, y'know …

Posted by: Dr_No at May 22, 2026 08:37 PM (ayRl+)

117 It's astonishing and pathetic. And dangerous.
Posted by: rhomboid

I haven’t cracked a smile at SNL in a very long time. I watch it on occasion, just to see if they make a mistake and create something entertaining.

Alas, no.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:37 PM (A5RD0)

118 In 1970 the starving children were in Biafra.

Then it was Bangladesh.

Posted by: Put Another Shrimp On The Barbie at May 22, 2026 08:38 PM (oftw2)

119 Marty Balin got knocked out by a Hell's Angel.
——-

Don’t fuck with the Hell’s Angels. Not justifying this, but, everybody learns at their own pace, I guess

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM (D+1MQ)

120 It wasn't human trafficking-trafficking! They got promises to be paid and very few of them were women and children destined for the involuntary sex trade!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM (rbvCR)

121 I would be suspicious of someone who has a fainting couch on wheels.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 08:36 PM (2GVsD)

I'm hearing squeaky squeaky squeaky noises, like the Trojan Bunny.

I am way too much into Monty Python.

It's a problem, really.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM (0aYVJ)

122
If you guys start taking about Altamont, Ed Driscoll will come here with a 50,000 word comment.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM (HdYcL)

123
Is there any entertainment left that doesn't have politics?

You want to kick back and relax and you're slammed with pervert's worldview.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM (3ek7K)

124 I would be suspicious of someone who has a fainting couch on wheels.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 08:36 PM (2GVsD)

Especially when it has a slot to put in a quarter to start the "Magic Fingers."

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 08:42 PM (2WIwB)

125 Ohh that was what I saw the media crowing about. The "Maryland Dad" if their dreams.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 08:42 PM (YwEeS)

126 I haven’t cracked a smile at SNL in a very long time. I watch it on occasion, just to see if they make a mistake and create something entertaining.

Alas, no.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:37 PM (A5RD0)
---
Even at it's best, I never thought SNL was laugh-out-loud funny. Chuckle-worthy sometimes, but that's as good as it ever got for me.

And that was decades ago.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 08:42 PM (gnNyN)

127 I swear the media would cheer a nuclear attack on the US because "orange man bad"

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 08:43 PM (YwEeS)

128 Fripp: 80 years old. Still weird.
youtube.com/watch?v=Zg4o54XxZns

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 08:45 PM (N8ZBc)

129 Best SNL was Norm Macdonald reading the news. Lord, I miss that guy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:46 PM (0aYVJ)

130 "I am way too much into Monty Python.

It's a problem, really.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM (0aYVJ) "

no worries, there are so many that are so much worse ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 08:47 PM (VyBeY)

131 Big thunderstorms here.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 08:49 PM (Wmg4n)

132 99 years ago yesterday Lindbergh flew the Atlantic.

I actually met him late in his life.

That's it. That's all I got.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 08:50 PM (2WIwB)

133 I am way too much into Monty Python.

It's a problem, really.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I own the entire collection of Monty Python’s Flying Circus on DVD.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:50 PM (A5RD0)

134 Then it was Bangladesh.
Posted by: Put Another Shrimp On The Barbie

Pakistan too.

There was a great joke in the National Lampoon back in the day: What's one thing Pakistan doesn't need? After dinner mints. I was a dirty minded little schlub and laughed and laughed.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 08:51 PM (l26NL)

135 And actually, “In Living Color”” was vastly superior to SNL

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:51 PM (A5RD0)

136
That's it. That's all I got.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 08:50 PM (2WIwB)

____________

*scribbles on pad*

Thank you. Next!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 08:51 PM (HdYcL)

137 I swear the media would cheer a nuclear attack on the US because "orange man bad"
Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 08:43 PM (YwEeS)
----
I'll bet the narrative for that event has already been written. Just in case.

Of course, if a nuclear attack took out NYC or DC, most of those in the media who would cheer the loudest would be dead.

Always look on the bright side of life!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 08:51 PM (gnNyN)

138 o happy nurse!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 08:52 PM (VyBeY)

139 Lindbergh had a sleepless night prior to taking off. I think he was awake (mostly) for 56 hours straight or something like that.

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:52 PM (D+1MQ)

140 You want to kick back and relax and you're slammed with pervert's worldview.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM (3ek7K)

*pssst* nobody tell her about the Boys. Its about Trump, you know.

To be fair, I am a crude man and I found the Boys disgusting in the first season.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

141 Best SNL was Norm Macdonald reading the news. Lord, I miss that guy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:46 PM (0aYVJ)

Yes....Norm was one of a kind. His "Gentile Jokes" even had Jerry Seinfeld cracking up. RIP Norm.

Posted by: There Are 3 Of Them... at May 22, 2026 08:52 PM (35YvA)

142 The Canadian geese run wild, hundreds of them, in the local park, including the soccer fields and graze and shit everywhere. Then parents, when their children are done playing soccer, and need to eat lunch, they take their children to the picnic area in the park, and let them run wild. The children get up on the picnic tables and jump around from one table top to the other spreading goose shit everywhere.

Nasty business. There should be a law.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 08:53 PM (D1E+2)

143
Bringing this up from threads below

Speaking of John Ekdahl, he was fond of noting that NJ taxes property categorized as "farmland" and a much, much lower rate than residential property. So Man of the People Bruce Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ -- a beautiful town for the ultra-wealthy, and not farm country at all -- so he could claim his mansion was a "farm" and cheat the taxpayers.

And there's the story behind Rich Zeoli, formerly on WPHT, AM 1210, referring to "Man o' the People" Bruce as "Old McSpringsteen".

He gave Jon Bon Jovi the whatfor for the same thing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 22, 2026 08:53 PM (s9VOe)

144 I own the entire collection of Monty Python’s Flying Circus on DVD.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:50 PM (A5RD0)

As do I. And the films.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:53 PM (0aYVJ)

145 There was a great joke in the National Lampoon back in the day: What's one thing Pakistan doesn't need? After dinner mints. I was a dirty minded little schlub and laughed and laughed.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 08:51 PM (l26NL)

I'm ashamed of myself. I laughed, too.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 08:54 PM (h7ZuX)

146 “East Pakistan” was Bangladesh, no?

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 08:54 PM (D+1MQ)

147 I read on X (so dodgy) that a Paki general is in Iran to offer the final ultimatum: Surrender the enriched uranium or suffer annihilation. It's X. But there's a lot of things pointing that way.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 08:54 PM (l26NL)

148 Horiatiki or bust!
Posted by: runner

If that's my choice I choose bust!!

I mean I like Horiatiki but still. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 08:54 PM (vhPr1)

149 Protip:

Do not drink whiskey while your trying out a peg leg for the first time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 08:55 PM (XV/Pl)

150 Lindbergh flew combat missions as a contractor in the Pacific to test out new uses of aircraft (such as dropping bombs from the Corsair, a pure fighter by design). Not long into it, someone with a working brain cell at the Pentagon realized losing the most famous human alive as a POW to the Geneva non-compliant Japanese would not look good on their resume, so it was ended.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 08:55 PM (U/Byj)

151
TonyPete,

Still have your nuts? I figured the chipmunks would be really pissed today.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 08:56 PM (3ek7K)

152 Do not drink whiskey while your trying out a peg leg for the first time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Old couple sitting on their porch drinking whiskey.

Man: I love you.

Woman: Is that you talking or the whiskey?

Man: It's me talking to my whiskey.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 08:58 PM (l26NL)

153 149 Protip:

Do not drink whiskey while your trying out a peg leg for the first time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Dude. I just snorted Torpedo IPA out my nose.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 08:58 PM (A5RD0)

154 Why, yes.

Yes I do.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 08:58 PM (vhPr1)

155 151
TonyPete,
Still have your nuts? I figured the chipmunks would be really pissed today.
Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 08:56 PM (3ek7K)

*blink

That was provocative, lol. What did I miss today?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 09:00 PM (h7ZuX)

156 The old NatLamp was the last gasp of real comedy with no holds barred.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 09:00 PM (VyBeY)

157
Yesterday he was shooting chipmunks while he was in his underwear.

America!!

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:01 PM (3ek7K)

158 The Horiatiki were dreaded during the post Delian period in Greece. Their depredations on the Cyclades and Black Sea are thought by some historians to be the inciting incidents that pushed Philip II of Macedonia to build the militant tradition that Alexander used to conquer Persia and push into India

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 09:01 PM (rbvCR)

159 Charles Lindbergh 'supposedly' flew combat missions in a P-38. Got a photo of him chatting with Tommy McGuire in a book on the P-38s.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 09:01 PM (2GVsD)

160 America!!

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:01 PM (3ek7K)

F**k yeah!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 09:02 PM (h7ZuX)

161 Sorry to see Tulsi resigning from DNI.

Anybody know Trump's short list of possible replacements?

Posted by: davidt at May 22, 2026 09:03 PM (Q+gd/)

162 "The old NatLamp was the last gasp of real comedy with no holds barred." It was certainly the last part, but not exactly the last. In Living Color, especially for a broadcast format, was pretty "outrageous" and seemed to give no Fs as it mined the perfectly legitimate and hilarious humor resources that today are beyond unthinkable.

The Super Bowl half-time "Men on Football" skit was incredible, and of course unimaginable now.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 09:04 PM (U/Byj)

163 SnarkyJ

How can you tell Pedro Pascal is wearing the armor. A: poor fit. And B "he walks like a girl wearing Disney pumps."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 09:05 PM (2GVsD)

164 Old couple sitting on their porch drinking whiskey.

Man: I love you.

Woman: Is that you talking or the whiskey?

Man: It's me talking to my whiskey.
Posted by: Blutarski

I had too much love last Saturday night.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 09:05 PM (2PamV)

165 Did y'all see the Starship splashdown? Blowed up real nice.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/
2057974937923490301

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity and beyond at May 22, 2026 09:06 PM (ZxPkt)

166 Sorry to see Tulsi resigning from DNI.

Anybody know Trump's short list of possible replacements?
Posted by: davidt

Assistant DNI will be acting for now.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 09:06 PM (2PamV)

167 Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th. Her wonderful husband, Abraham, has been recently diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, and she, rightfully, wants to be with him, bringing him back to good health as they currently fight a tough battle together. I have no doubt he will soon be better than ever. Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her. Her highly respected Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 09:07 PM (2PamV)

168 Anybody know Trump's short list of possible replacements?
Posted by: davidt

I'm hearing Devin Nunes. Makes sense.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 09:07 PM (l26NL)

169 Huh. E.D. Hill is now on Newsmax. I always liked her on FOX, but they got rid of her real quick when she asked whether the famous Obama fist bump was a terrorist fist jab. LOL. They also weren't very happy with a special she did on Islam/Bin Laden in which she was pretty blunt--which is why I liked her.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 22, 2026 09:07 PM (3ImbR)

170 Protip:

Do not drink whiskey while your trying out a peg leg for the first time.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Well, duh.

Of course peg legs pair with rum.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 09:07 PM (VHUov)

171 "America!!

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:01 PM (3ek7K) "

Hell yes!!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 09:08 PM (VyBeY)

172 Anna I'd have to check but I read about Lindy's F-4U missions in Tillman's book on the plane. I think.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 09:08 PM (U/Byj)

173 All the progressive assholes in California are runnung against President Trump. They pine for the Obama fijords. They love their "healthcare" abortions and lawfare and whattaya mean fraud?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 22, 2026 09:09 PM (zb62U)

174 @153

>>Dude. I just snorted Torpedo IPA out my nose.

I tore my achilles and am trying out this contraption called an iwalk.

It’s literally a peg leg.

I’m trying it out for the first time.

And while it doesn’t explicitly say, don’t drink whiskey while operating an iwalk, it really should.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 09:11 PM (XV/Pl)

175 >> Did y'all see the Starship splashdown? Blowed up real nice.

Watched the whole thing. There were some hiccups, such as the heavy booster failed the boostback burn, and one of the vacuum Raptors on the Ship itself went out, requiring a 5 engine burn which took a little longer, and threw it off-nominal but otherwise fine.

I watched with the NASA Spaceflight space nerd stream, whom I've taken to calling the "mee-thane crew".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 09:12 PM (w6EFb)

176

Do you have a bandana and eyepatch. Oh you need a parrot.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:12 PM (3ek7K)

177 I stole this:

The person the Media and John Brennan trashes the most is the correct ODNI replacement

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 09:13 PM (rbvCR)

178 Here is a crazy idea, let's retire the entire DNI office.

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:13 PM (GD0B3)

179 @176

>> Do you have a bandana and eyepatch. Oh you need a parrot.

I really should get a plastic parrot and wear it on my shoulder when I’m out in public.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 09:14 PM (XV/Pl)

180 Wasn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught red-handed driving a van full of illegal aliens? How the fuck is that vindictive prosecution?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 22, 2026 09:14 PM (XMwZJ)

181 I am way too much into Monty Python.

It's a problem, really.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM

Do some people IRL call you Tim?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 09:14 PM (0sNs1)

182 Looks like the bus driver runs a light then a big car that's bobbing through traffic hits it and knocks all four wheels off the ground. That's a pretty hard hit.

https://tinyurl.com/yck98vn3

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 09:15 PM (LIEok)

183

Asshole judges

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:15 PM (3ek7K)

184 Lindbergh still flew combat missions after the higher ups found out about it. He didn’t GAF.

Some of the commanders didn’t know who he was. He was at a briefing, and one asked “Lindbergh… THAT Charles Lindbergh!!?”

“That’s my name”.

They thought he was too old to teach the young bucks any new tricks. He was a good flight lead by all accounts. He also taught them fuel saving techniques that extended the range of the P-38 considerably, something that didn’t hurt, particularly on the Yamamoto mission.

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 09:16 PM (IDQSL)

185 Do you know the difference between who live in Dubai and Abu Dhabi?
The people in Dubai don't like The Flintstones.
The people in Abu Dhabi Do!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 09:16 PM (2WIwB)

186 How the fuck is that vindictive prosecution?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

And my assumption is he was tried and found guilty by a jury. Can a judge really overturn a jury verdict in a fit of pique?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 09:16 PM (l26NL)

187 I tore my achilles and am trying out this contraption called an iwalk.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 09:11 PM (XV/Pl)

Wow. I have never heard of this thing. I want two!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 09:16 PM (h7ZuX)

188 "Mister Fibuli, are you trying to scuttle this planet?"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 09:17 PM (VyBeY)

189 Wasn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught red-handed driving a van full of illegal aliens? How the fuck is that vindictive prosecution?
——-

The “judges” have been pulling shit out of their asses for some time now. Legal fairy tales

Posted by: Jus Sayin at May 22, 2026 09:18 PM (IDQSL)

190 "180 Wasn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught red-handed driving a van full of illegal aliens? How the fuck is that vindictive prosecution?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 22, 2026 09:14 PM (XMwZJ) "

it's (D)ifferent ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 09:18 PM (VyBeY)

191 It's a problem, really.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 08:40 PM

Do some people IRL call you Tim?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 09:14 PM (0sNs1)

No, but there are a lot of folks asking about my liver.

Not sure why.

Also, I did not eat the salmon mousse.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 09:19 PM (0aYVJ)

192 They aren't judges. They are leftist activists.

When Obama said he wanted to fundamentally change America it wasn't a campaign slogan. It was a marxist takeover of America.

That's what we are fighting against.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)

193
It would be great if we morons and ettes ran the country.

We would have shit cleaned up in no time.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:20 PM (3ek7K)

194 @DD_Geopolitics - 1h

: Massive GPS jamming detected across Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, and the Persian Gulf indicating active electronic warfare preparation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 09:21 PM (LIEok)

195 157
Yesterday he was shooting chipmunks while he was in his underwear.

America!!

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:01 PM (3ek7K)

IIRC it was "shooting chipmunks, in my underwear," with only a comma to indicate that perhaps he was in his underwear and the chipmunks were not.

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 09:22 PM (Sy6m/)

196 Omg.

Y’all have me cracking up. My downstairs neighbor must think I’m loco.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 09:22 PM (A5RD0)

197 DO NOT MENTION IRAN!!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:22 PM (GD0B3)

198 @RoyalIntel_ - 2h

The Qatari delegation received instructions to leave Iran immediately, despite the fact that they were supposed to stay until Sunday

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 09:22 PM (LIEok)

199 👀👀

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:24 PM (GD0B3)

200 Gotta feeling that Trump's patience is just about over.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
1m
>>🚨 NOW: Top Trump White House official Dan Scavino just DROPPED this absolute banger of a US bomber

>>Greatest military ever 🇺🇸👀

Look at the link.

https://tinyurl.com/83spy2uv

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 09:25 PM (viF8m)

201 🤣🤣🤣

Trump posted something !

https://tinyurl.com/3wusk7d4

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:26 PM (GD0B3)

202 Dental Illness
Chewing on success
https://bit.ly/dental-illness

Nine second video webwork. Nine seconds?? Yeah. It's been years since I posted a new video. This was just to get back in practice.

Silliness for amusement porpoises only. My own, if nobody else's.

Don't worry if you don't click on the link (to my website) immediately; I'll repost in the ONT.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nothing serious intended at May 22, 2026 09:26 PM (0poB+)

203

I told TonyPete I was glad he was wearing underwear whilst he was shooting chipmunks. I didn't want him to be castrated by chipmunks. I guess with their sharp teeth they would have chewed right through that.

Man dies from chipmunk castration.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:27 PM (3ek7K)

204 My ex husband’s new wife is named Loretta. They’ve been married for many years now.

I showed the boys The Life of Brian about a year after they got married.

My boys lost it they were laughing so hard.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 09:28 PM (A5RD0)

205 My boys lost it they were laughing so hard.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Well, where's the fetus going to gestate, in a box in a drawer?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 09:29 PM (l26NL)

206 @DD_Geopolitics - 1h

: Massive GPS jamming detected across Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, and the Persian Gulf indicating active electronic warfare preparation.
Posted by: Braenyard

It cannot be the US jamming GPS - we can just turn it off.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2026 09:30 PM (/lPRQ)

207

nurse,

I have to watch that again, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:30 PM (3ek7K)

208 This explains a lot.

A radical Iraq national trained by the IRGC was busted planning to take out Ivanka at her Florida home, complete with a detailed blueprint of the property.

This sick revenge plot was payback for President

Per X

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 09:32 PM (l26NL)

209 👀👀

"..several sources said some members of the U.S. military and intelligence community had canceled their plans for Memorial Day weekend “in anticipation of possible strikes.” Defense and intelligence officials also began updating emergency preparedness lists for U.S. facilities overseas, as forces deployed in the Middle East rotate out as part of an effort to reduce the U.S. military presence in the region amid concerns over possible Iranian retaliation..."

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:32 PM (GD0B3)

210
Are we finally going to bomb them?

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:35 PM (3ek7K)

211 180 Wasn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught red-handed driving a van full of illegal aliens? How the fuck is that vindictive prosecution?
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 22, 2026 09:14 PM (XMwZJ)

Mental retardation is how. It's just like the VA Supreme Court did not delineate all of the things wrong with the gerrymander; once they found one that disqualified it, they stopped. So too, with prosecuting Kilmar's deportable crimes, once they thought they had him, they stopped; and then, when they turned out to be wrong about that being enough, they resumed and proceeded to the next deportable offense.

Nothing "vindictive" or "selective" about it, just logical process.

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 09:35 PM (Sy6m/)

212 ..and while we are at it, let's drone Mohamed Bakkali when we get a chance...

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:35 PM (GD0B3)

213 A radical Iraq national trained by the IRGC was busted planning to take out Ivanka at her Florida home, complete with a detailed blueprint of the property.

This sick revenge plot was payback for President

Per X
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly
====

They are the Number One Terrorist State for a reason.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2026 09:35 PM (/lPRQ)

214
We and the whole world have become dependent on GPS. It would be a disaster to turn it off, and the cost would be a few billion dollars per day I've read.

So, local jamming and blocking is what they do. Sure, in some doomsday scenario we could turn it off, but only as some last resort.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 09:36 PM (w6EFb)

215 @210 Looking at everything right now...I am going to say..highly likely

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:36 PM (GD0B3)

216
Husband and are old. We use GPS to find the bathroom.

Please don't turn it off here.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:37 PM (3ek7K)

217 What's the Pentagon Pizza Tracker saying?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 09:39 PM (l26NL)

218 This sick revenge plot was payback for President
Per X
Posted by: Blutarski

E.D.Hill (?), filling in for Greg Kelly on Newsmax, discussed this for the first half of the show.

Posted by: old chick at May 22, 2026 09:40 PM (F3Dlr)

219 Don Jr.'s wedding is this weekend. Trump not going...

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:40 PM (GD0B3)

220 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

We interrupt this Long Weekend Cafe with an important Sunday Morning Book Thread Update....

I may have made a huge mistake with my latest purchase this week.

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war."

Stay tune for further updates...

We now return you to your regular Long Weekend Cafe shenanigans.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:41 PM (gnNyN)

221 "Marry in May, and you'll rue the day"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:41 PM (GD0B3)

222 "The belief that May is an unlucky month for weddings has historical roots:

Ancient Rome: May was dedicated to the Lemuria festival, a time for honoring the dead and driving away evil spirits. Weddings during this period were considered inappropriate..."

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:42 PM (GD0B3)

223
Don Jr.'s wedding is this weekend. Trump not going...
Posted by: runner

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

And it's not like it's an Italian destination wedding. It's in New Jersey.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 09:42 PM (n7rxJ)

224 Starship:
The towering vehicle, consisting of the upper-stage Starship astronaut vessel stacked atop a Super Heavy booster rocket, blasted off at about 5:30 p.m. CT on Friday (2230 GMT) from SpaceX facilities in Starbase, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville.

A live SpaceX webcast of the liftoff showed the rocketship, more than 40 stories tall, climbing from the launch tower as the Super Heavy's cluster of Raptor engines thundered to life in a ball of flames and billowing clouds of vapor and exhaust.

The launch marked SpaceX's 12th Starship test flight since 2023 and the ‌first ever for the V3 iteration of both the cruise vessel and its ⁠Super Heavy booster, as well as the first blast-off from a new launch pad designed for the more powerful rocket.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 09:43 PM (LIEok)

225 Stay tune for further updates...

We now return you to your regular Long Weekend Cafe shenanigans.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:41 PM (gnNyN)

I literally threw a book in the trash this week. Can't wait for Sunday!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 09:43 PM (h7ZuX)

226
Will you rue the day if you marry May?

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:43 PM (3ek7K)

227 And it's not like it's an Italian destination wedding. It's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 09:42 PM (n7rxJ)

I thought it was overseas, Bahamas or soemthing.

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:43 PM (GD0B3)

228 Will you rue the day if you marry May?

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:43 PM (3ek7K)

yes

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:43 PM (GD0B3)

229 We and the whole world have become dependent on GPS. It would be a disaster to turn it off, and the cost would be a few billion dollars per day I've read.

So, local jamming and blocking is what they do. Sure, in some doomsday scenario we could turn it off, but only as some last resort.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 09:36 PM (w6EFb)
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China and Russia both have their own version of GPS that the Iranians could use (if they were allowed to), so localized jamming of ALL GPS makes more sense.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:44 PM (gnNyN)

230 And it's not like it's an Italian destination wedding. It's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 09:42 PM (n7rxJ)

And it's, what, his third?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 09:44 PM (h7ZuX)

231 well, they say that anyway!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:44 PM (GD0B3)

232
Bahamas i think.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:44 PM (3ek7K)

233 And it's not like it's an Italian destination wedding. It's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I think the ceremony is on a private estate in the Bahamas.

Posted by: old chick at May 22, 2026 09:45 PM (F3Dlr)

234 I thought Don Jr already got married and they are just having the big hubbub in the Bahamas.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 09:45 PM (A5RD0)

235 never really looked into it before, do Glonass and BeiDou use the same frequencies as GPS?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 09:45 PM (VyBeY)

236 Wait ! Already married.

"Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson are husband and wife! The pair, who are expected to hold their official wedding ceremony in the Bahamas on May 23, made it official on Thursday, May 21, 2026, with a low-key ceremony at Bettina's twin sister Kristina's home in West Palm Beach."

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:45 PM (GD0B3)

237 Bettina is in a hurry.

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:46 PM (GD0B3)

238 *Rummages on bookshelf*

P-38 Lightning in Action. #1025. By Gene B. Staffor.

Pg 40-42.
Photo caption - In July 1944, Charles Lindbergh spent a good bit of time with the pilots of the 475th... He is seen here talking to Tommy McGuire.

Since New Guinea was clear of enemy aircraft, however, Kenney did authorize Lindbergh to go on a few missions in this area. Lindbergh stretched this a bit on one mission and went along on a mission to Ceram. A lone Japanese aircraft was encountered and Lindbergh shot it down. ... Shortly after this mission, Lindbergh was almost shot down and General Kenney suggested, in rather strong terms, it would be a good idea if Lindbergh would wrap up his activities and head for home.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 09:46 PM (2GVsD)

239 "Marry in May, and you'll rue the day"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:41 PM (GD0B3)

I got married in may. It seemed to work out.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 09:47 PM (snZF9)

240 Isn't it kinda fake to have several wedding ceremonies. You are already married and then you do it again ?

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:47 PM (GD0B3)

241

It's not like it's Don's first wedding.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:47 PM (3ek7K)

242 Somehow got on a downstairs thread
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 09:48 PM (Ia/+0)

243 eerr.. Gene B. Stafford.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 09:48 PM (2GVsD)

244 I got married in may. It seemed to work out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 09:47 PM (snZF9)

OK, I think Italians have an exception, because of *see @222

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:48 PM (GD0B3)

245 And it's not like it's an Italian destination wedding. It's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Depends where in Jersey, it could very well seem like an Italian destination wedding. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 09:49 PM (snZF9)

246 Don Jr.'s wedding is this weekend. Trump not going...
Posted by: runner

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

And it's not like it's an Italian destination wedding. It's in New Jersey.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Sounds pretty Italian to me.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 09:49 PM (2PamV)

247 hahah! 245 & 246!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:49 PM (GD0B3)

248 Isn't it kinda fake to have several wedding ceremonies. You are already married and then you do it again ?
Posted by: runner

Best man's speech: "Welcome back everyone".

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 09:50 PM (2PamV)

249 never really looked into it before, do Glonass and BeiDou use the same frequencies as GPS?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 22, 2026 09:45 PM (VyBeY)
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Almost certainly not. GNSS (generic term for GPS) is a national security issue for major powers, so they wouldn't want us listening on their frequencies any more than we want them using ours.

GNSS is a VERY complex system. The US has the biggest and best constellation of satellites. The other systems are smaller and some of them are more localized to specific parts of Earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:50 PM (gnNyN)

250
Lol Rick

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 09:50 PM (3ek7K)

251
Japan is putting up their own regional GPS system as well. There were a couple of launches a while back for those satellites.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 09:51 PM (w6EFb)

252 Pizza tracker

https://tinyurl.com/u4skwkc5

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 09:51 PM (l26NL)

253 Japan is putting up their own regional GPS system as well. There were a couple of launches a while back for those satellites.
Posted by: publius

Are the coordinates in metric?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 09:51 PM (2PamV)

254 Best man's speech: "Welcome back everyone".
Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 09:50 PM (2PamV)

lol..as I was saying...a week ago...

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:52 PM (GD0B3)

255 Are the coordinates in metric?
Posted by: rickb223

Double the patrols at Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 09:52 PM (l26NL)

256 GNSS is a VERY complex system. The US has the biggest and best constellation of satellites. The other systems are smaller and some of them are more localized to specific parts of Earth.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:50 PM (gnNyN)

I am going to guess that StarLink can be used as GPS as well

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 09:53 PM (rbvCR)

257 Runner,
My Marine got married in Vegas to legalize their partnership so she could have a medical procedure on his benefits. They did the ceremony several months later at a beautiful location with all their friends and extended family.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 09:55 PM (A5RD0)

258 "Marry in May, and you'll rue the day"
Posted by: runner

I got married in may. It seemed to work out.
Posted by: Berserker

My folks did. 56 years and counting.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 09:56 PM (VHUov)

259 A radical Iraq national trained by the IRGC was busted planning to take out Ivanka at her Florida home, complete with a detailed blueprint of the property

NY Post is the source.
"[Donald Trump] is fed up with your shit, and he's going to kill you."

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 09:56 PM (gKWVE)

260
The Euroweenies have their own system, Galileo, as well. And hell, I didn't know this, but most GPS receivers can use all of them, Rooskie and Chicom satellite systems as well.

They do have secret encrypted signals for their own use, but they do broadcast public signals.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 09:56 PM (w6EFb)

261 I am going to guess that StarLink can be used as GPS as well
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 09:53 PM (rbvCR)
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I don't think it can be used AS a GPS system...the satellites are very low compared to the actual GPS constellation.

They definitely USE the GPS system to ensure that they stay in their proper orbits, though.

Of course, Musk may have some OTHER purpose for the staggering number of satellites he's put into space...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:57 PM (gnNyN)

262 I got married in may. It seemed to work out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 09:47 PM (snZF9)

OK, I think Italians have an exception, because of *see @222

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 09:48 PM (GD0B3)

So basically I sacred the shit out of everyone choosing may for a wedding. lol

We didn't actually plan the date, but an opening popped up for this one venue that is usually booked solid for 2 years. There was a cancellation so we took it. Then came the horror of planning a wedding in 5 months.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 09:58 PM (snZF9)

263 The Euroweenies have their own system, Galileo, as well. And hell, I didn't know this, but most GPS receivers can use all of them, Rooskie and Chicom satellite systems as well.

They do have secret encrypted signals for their own use, but they do broadcast public signals.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 09:56 PM (w6EFb)
----
Our own GPS was "demilitarized" (in part) because it was discovered just how useful it could be for civilian and commercial use. The accurate clocks on board the satellites, for instance, are incredibly important in a number of industries.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:59 PM (gnNyN)

264 I get it if this is her first marriage.

She wants the white dress and attention. And she deserves it.

But a bride walking down the aisle in a white dress the second or third time is tacky.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 09:59 PM (A5RD0)

265 Congress called a recess. It's time to hit Iran hard. Nobody wants to engage with any clarity and sanity. The executive is acting within the law to do what is necessary.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 10:00 PM (D1E+2)

266
And our own GPS has encrypted signal channels as well, latest called "M-code" or something. Much higher precision and resistant to spoofing and jamming attacks.

So, everybody puts out public signals, but has their own secret signals for their own military use.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:00 PM (w6EFb)

267 In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war."

Stay tune for further updates...

We now return you to your regular Long Weekend Cafe shenanigans.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 09:41 PM (gnNyN)

And all the nights are dark and stormy?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 22, 2026 10:00 PM (aMrr2)

268 We didn't actually plan the date, but an opening popped up for this one venue that is usually booked solid for 2 years. There was a cancellation so we took it. Then came the horror of planning a wedding in 5 months.
Posted by: Berserker

See, fate is a zero-sum game. All the bad luck associated with that wedding fell on the first guy, whose marriage lasted negative five months.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

269 See, fate is a zero-sum game. All the bad luck associated with that wedding fell on the first guy, whose marriage lasted negative five months.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 10:01 PM (VHUov)

Never know, he might have dodged a bullet. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 10:03 PM (snZF9)

270 But a bride walking down the aisle in a white dress the second or third time is tacky.
Posted by: nurse ratched

The dress might be, too.

Posted by: somebody had to say it at May 22, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

271 I get it if this is her first marriage.

She wants the white dress and attention. And she deserves it.

But a bride walking down the aisle in a white dress the second or third time is tacky.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 09:59 PM (A5RD0)

Never watched say yes to the dress I take it? Some of these women....jesus.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 22, 2026 10:04 PM (snZF9)

272 173 All the progressive assholes in California are runnung against President Trump. They pine for the Obama fijords. They love their "healthcare" abortions and lawfare and whattaya mean fraud?
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

Same for Babylon DC. I can't even tell who the repulsive David Trone is running against, unless Trump is also running for that congressional seat. All his ads are #BADORANGEMAN!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 10:05 PM (yKhjs)

273
GPS used to be intentionally degraded, a "feature" called Selective Availability. This limited public accuracy to 100 m. There were some clever and expensive workaround techniques. That was turned off in 2000, and that exploded the use of GPS, which was a game changer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 10:05 PM (w6EFb)

274 I'm calling HR.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 10:05 PM (LIEok)

275 Sorry I'm late, the chicken fingers got cold, so I had to find some mittens.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 22, 2026 10:06 PM (PMi3m)

276 Ancient Rome: May was dedicated to the Lemuria festival

Those racoon monkey things?

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 22, 2026 10:07 PM (4NO2D)

277 Lemuria was always at war with Zelandia. Lemuria...wasn't it the Golden Voyage of Sinbad?? I think it was!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 10:09 PM (GD0B3)

278 WeirdDave ONT is live!

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 10:09 PM (LQibT)

279 Those racoon monkey things?
Posted by: toby928(c) at May 22, 2026 10:07 PM (4NO2D)

It is a theosophist thing, it is complicated.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 10:10 PM (rbvCR)

280 Apropos of nothing. I am four days into recovery from my knee replacement surgery and am getting around better but, the knee hurts like a motherfucker.

Posted by: toby928(c) at May 22, 2026 10:13 PM (4NO2D)

281 Commercially available GPS units can and do use Glonass, Galileo, Baidou, and GZSS. They do not use the same frequencies. The one thing the Chinese do is add obfuscation to the geodetic datum which creates errors when using western-obtained map data.

There is a military-only mode in GPS that is mostly about jam resistance and less about location.

Posted by: AB at May 22, 2026 10:15 PM (ArLSQ)

282 It’s very gratifying to see an entire graduating class of students walk, especially when you taught them all once upon a time…

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2026 11:14 PM (T6aVk)

283 Went through a bunch of political mailers. Good Schlürpo…the way Chip Roy makes it sound, evil Muslims are about to take over TX and turn it into an evil caliphate unless we vote for him over Mayes Middleton.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2026 11:17 PM (T6aVk)

284 Mental retardation is how. It's just like the VA Supreme Court did not delineate all of the things wrong with the gerrymander; once they found one that disqualified it, they stopped. So too, with prosecuting Kilmar's deportable crimes, once they thought they had him, they stopped; and then, when they turned out to be wrong about that being enough, they resumed and proceeded to the next deportable offense.

Nothing "vindictive" or "selective" about it, just logical process.
Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 09:35 PM (Sy6m/)

The deportable offense is illegally entering the country.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 22, 2026 11:19 PM (T6aVk)

The Week In Woke

Someone said that the Week in Woke always makes them angry before the weekend.

So how about some good Week In Woke news?

The CEO of Bolt fired his entire HR team, saying they were creating, not solving, problems.

Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn't exist: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go'
By Preston Fore
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of "entitlement" forced a sweeping reset--including cutting the HR team, he says, which was "creating problems that didn't exist."
"We got rid of our HR team."

For most executives, that's a sentence likely to provoke intense anxiety. But for Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow, it was unavoidable.
Speaking at Fortune's Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday, the 31-year-old defended sweeping workforce cuts at Bolt--including a recent layoff affecting roughly 30% of employees--as well as his decision to eliminate the company's HR team.
"We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn't exist," Breslow told Fortune editorial director Kristin Stoller. "Those problems disappeared when I let them go."
The move may sound drastic, but Breslow said it was a necessary step to resurrect the struggling fintech company he first cofounded in 2014 in his Stanford dorm room.
...
Breslow returned as CEO in 2025, operating in what he calls "wartime."
"We're back in startup mode again, and those HR professionals have really important insights when you're in a peacetime and when you're at a larger company," he said, adding that Bolt has since brought on a smaller people operations team to oversee required training and serve as a resource for employees.
While Breslow didn't get into the specifics of the exact differences, he wrote on LinkedIn last year that, "HR is the wrong energy, format, and approach. People ops empowers managers, streamlines decision making, and keeps the company moving at lightning speed."
"We need a group of people who are very oriented around getting things done, and there is just a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot," he added at the Fortune conference.
...

Bolt employees developed a sense of 'entitlement' and weren't working hard--so he let most of them go
Beyond HR, Breslow said Bolt had fallen into a broader productivity slump, with employees growing too comfortable during the company's boom years.
"There's a sense of entitlement that had festered across the company, and people who felt empowered, felt entitled-- but weren't actually working hard. And this is the number one thing that I had to battle," Breslo said. "Ultimately, most of those people just had to be let go."

A Muslim Brotherhood leader in NJ praises Tuq'r Qarlson and Sloppy Steve Bannon for "dividing MAGA" and counts them as allies, saying that the Muslim Brotherhood is making progress thanks to these Noted Conservatives.

I guess that's not really good news but it is always good to have the truth admitted.

I consider the Great Unmasking to be a kind of good news:

Dan Crenshaw
@DanCrenshawTX
14h
In case you're wondering about the current state of House Democrats: they just voted against establishing a Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
Their objection? It didn't include a dedicated wing for trans history.
You almost have to admire the consistency. They managed to turn a women's museum into an argument about men.

Fox News:

House Democrats unanimously rebelled against legislation Thursday directing the construction of a new women's history museum on the National Mall.
Democrats sought to defeat the bill after Republicans limited the institution to biological women and excluded transgender individuals.
The measure came up short in a vote of 204-216 after a handful of conservative GOP lawmakers joined Democrats in tanking the legislation that would secure a site for the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum on the grounds of the Mall.

The other good news is, another woke feminist boondoggle won't be funded. Good. One cheer for the trans extremists.

On the other hand, a lot of Republicans voted for this latest boondoggle to create taxpayer-funded anti-jobs for useless, skill-less leftwing women who would otherwise be baristas or low-paid whores.

Another detransitioner has extracted a huge settlement from her "doctors."

Camille Kiefel had a history of mental health diagnoses that included trauma, depression, suicidal ideation, and ADHD. Despite this, all it took were a few short telehealth sessions with therapists to get approval for a double mastectomy after Kiefel identified as 'nonbinary.'

Now Kiefel, 36, has settled a lawsuit against two providers who wrote referrals for that mastectomy. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, The New York Post said Kiefel will reportedly receive $3.5 million.

In the Middle Ages, if you were mentally ill, a "doctor" might prescribe drilling into your skull to let the demons escape.

How far we've come since those days of primitive "medicine," huh? You're suicidal? Have you considered chopping your tits off and isolating yourself from society as a cure?

Overton
@overton_news
4h

Greg Gutfeld did not need the DNC autopsy report to pinpoint the exact reason for Kamala Harris' humiliating loss in 2024.
He said the trans issue became the thread that unraveled her ENTIRE campaign for one very important reason.
GUTFELD: "I'll tell you why."
"It diagnosed and it exploited the fatal flaw of cultural relativism."
"That's the unlocked door where any idea that is detached from truth could enter."
"It just so happened that it was trans but it didn't have to be. Trans women are women. That got in."
"But it could have been anything else."
"60-year-olds are now 40."
"A morbidly obese person is now fit."
"Horses are people."
"Cantaloupes could have rights."
"It's ALL the same. Any position where truth is surrendered to the prevailing wishes of the mob would become the order of the day and would compel you to obey."
"That's why it mattered."
"It was like the first strike against a 13 billion-year-old civilization--not civilization, planet."
"And it was a flex, it was a flex of the unravelers, the people who said we could do this, there is no such thing as truth anywhere."
Gutfeld is dead on.
The Democrats surrendered truth, and it cost them everything.

Greg Gutfeld did not need the DNC autopsy report to pinpoint the exact reason for Kamala Harris� humiliating loss in 2024.

He said the trans issue became the thread that unraveled her ENTIRE campaign for one very important reason.

GUTFELD: �I�ll tell you why.�

�It diagnosed� pic.twitter.com/d4lBsOYwP7
— Overton (@overton_news) May 21, 2026

Pippa Bacca died in 2008:

To teach Israel how to make peace, Pippa Bacca, the leftist Italian, decided in 2004 to hitchhike from Turkey to Israel. She even learned basic Arabic, to prove that Islam is not a violent. Once she arrived in Turkey, she was gang-raped and murdered. She was 33 years old. pic.twitter.com/y5ntRDNj6G
— (((Donny)))🌵🇮🇱 🇸🇨 (@mlirh) May 21, 2026

The details are right:

After travelling together across Europe, Bacca and Moro split up just prior to their arrival in Istanbul, planning to meet up again in Beirut. Bacca was last seen on 31 March.[3] Her credit card was reportedly used at noon of that day.[4] On 12 April, her naked, strangled, and decomposing body was found in bushes near Gebze, about 60 km southeast of Istanbul.[1][2]
The man who led the police to her body, Murat Karataş,[3] was detained[2] and arrested after reportedly confessing to raping and strangling Bacca on 31 March after taking her in his Jeep from a gas station.[3] DNA testing suggested that Bacca had been raped by multiple people, not just Karataş.[28] The suspect said he was "under the influence of drugs and alcohol" and could not remember what happened.[29] He had been traced after he inserted his own SIM card into the victim's cellphone, which alerted police because he had a previous conviction for theft.[2] Bacca's own information was wiped from the mobile device, implicating, according to the lawyer for Bacca's family, at least one other accomplice because Karataş could not speak English and had left school after the third grade.[29]

The audio on this is very low but the gist is, someone fired on cops so the cops deliberately drove their car over the shooter. The sheriff here is completely unapologetic and lets people know, if you shoot at cops, we're going to run you down, and that's just the way it is, skel.

🚨 JUST IN: This California sheriff is being praised for showing NO REMORSE about running over an armed suspect who killed one of his officers

�We intentionally ran him over...don't shoot at cops."

�He GOT what he DESERVED.� 🔥

That�s how you do it. pic.twitter.com/UYYrplTd7o
— Dr. Mel Aaron Gibson (@MelAaronGibson1) May 20, 2026

Flashback:

A couple baited their lawn with a bicycle without a lock to lure thieves so they could
beat them with baseball bats.

Morbid Knowledge
@MorbidKnowledge
A couple in California spent five months intentionally luring bike thieves into their front yard with an unlocked bicycle, beating them with aluminum baseball bats, and posting the videos online.
Corey Cornutt, 25, and Savannah Grillot, 29, of Visalia were arrested in January 2020 on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy, in connection with at least four beatings between July and November 2019.
Police said the couple planted a bicycle in the front yard unsecured and waited.
Once someone tried to steal it, both rushed out and assaulted them with a baseball bat.
The videos they posted made the prosecution straightforward.
A neighbour told reporters there would be blood on the street the next day after each incident, and had warned the couple:
"Maybe it's not the best idea you're kind of bringing people into the neighbourhood that might not be here otherwise."
They ignored her and continued.
In each case the victims received various non-life-threatening injuries.
The couple documented their own crimes in enough detail to guarantee their arrest.

Prosecutors declined charging them, because the "witnesses" -- the would-be bike thieves that got the beatings they so desperately needed -- would not testify without immunity and had no credibility anyway.

I don't know what the charge would be. They did nothing illegal. You are allowed to leave your own bike on your own lawn without a lock. You don't have to live a life dictated to you by thieves.

And you are, I believe, still allowed to use non-lethal force to prevent a crime like theft, even in California.

So where is the crime? There is none. What they would attempt to criminalize is the "bad motives" for doing all this, but you can't have a crime with just a "bad motive." If you have a bad motive for doing something lawful -- that's not a crime.

Anyway, I enjoy this story and I would like it to become a trend.

This is Marjorie Taylor Greene�s replacement by the way 🔥 https://t.co/tKyVhytM8n
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) May 20, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:40 PM

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Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (l26NL)

2 So how about some good Week In Woke news?

Ace is so good to us...
Time to see if there are hot woke boobs...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:43 PM (Sco7b)

3 Bolt? Do they make breast implants?

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 06:44 PM (FLx59)

4 So the ceo fired a crap HR team and got a good one. Right move.

If you want a solid HR person, they need to be a business person who happens to be good at HR. Nothing else will be successful.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 06:44 PM (OoFl2)

5 I like the bicycle story

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 06:44 PM (FtULh)

6 Top 10 on a non-ONT thread? Wow.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at May 22, 2026 06:44 PM (Xqite)

7 Did he have to go to HR to get them fired?

Angry CEO is best CEO.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:45 PM (zZu0s)

8
Islam is not violent.

Do those people who think that have their heads up their asses?

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:45 PM (3ek7K)

9 >>In the Middle Ages, if you were mentally ill, a "doctor" might proscribe drilling into your skull to let the demons escape.

I will not sit here and let you besmirch the Medicinal Validity of Trepanning!

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 06:45 PM (JEwe/)

10 Starship still truckin'.
I missed the booster shenanigans. Was it supposed to be lost? what's "boostback"?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 06:46 PM (gKWVE)

11 Bolt? Do they make breast implants?
Posted by: Josephistan

I bought a dog from a blacksmith. As soon as I got home he made a bolt for the door.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:46 PM (l26NL)

12 Frist.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:47 PM (XV/Pl)

13 Bolt? Do they make breast implants?
Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 06:44 PM (FLx59)

'Fintech' according to the story. I am assuming financial technologies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

14 Bolt? Do they make breast implants?
Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 06:44 PM (FLx59)

Neck bolts for Dr. Frankenstein

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 06:47 PM (qx7Zg)

15 Read the content.

Coulda been frist.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:48 PM (A5RD0)

16 BOOBS!

Posted by: Bulg at May 22, 2026 06:49 PM (77rzZ)

17
That last story about the bait bike, is sweet.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 22, 2026 06:49 PM (QVmho)

18 Poor doggeh is having a bad tummy day

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 22, 2026 06:49 PM (gDlxJ)

19 So right now we like Fuller. We'll, he's new. Plenty of time to turn into eyepatch McCain.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:50 PM (zZu0s)

20
Bolt? Do they make breast implants?
Posted by: Josephistan

____________

They train movie dog stars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 06:50 PM (HdYcL)

21 Boostback burn - a burn to redirect the booster to the intended landing point or pad.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 06:51 PM (qx7Zg)

22 Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn't exist: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go'

This started happening when I retired from the Navy. One of the last command inspections I participated in before my retirement had an inspection line item for "ergonomics". When the inspecting team arrived I got in their faces and asked exactly what the fvck is "ergonomics" and how do you inspect "ergonomics" for an entire command.

I never got a real answer but they did agree to remove that line item from the inspection list.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 06:51 PM (0N4FZ)

23 Bravo to the CA sheriff above.

At first I honestly thought it was Polk County, FL or somewhere in FL. Governor DeSantis said it was fine to run over protesters,which I think is Pretti Good news for all.

If anyone tried to top me I'd run them over. Oops! Got the gas pedal mixed up with the brake, sir!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 06:51 PM (WONhk)

24 So, out of curiosity ace, when does the baiting go too far? Is it because they just beat them?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

25 HR produces no revenue. Every company should eliminate or outsource them to ruthless cost limiting.

The HR at my place is boar tit worthless.

Example, they've been recycling the same job announcement for the same position for near a decade.

"Why can't we get good employees?!"
It's a real fucking mystery, that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 06:52 PM (73/SM)

26 Great Woke column ace. Thanks.
Hellraiser 5 tonight. Produced by Harvey Weinstein!!

Pippa Bacca died in 2008:

We constantly honor Saint Pancake and this heroine's bravery goes un-noticed. Okay, tragic ending but c'mon.

Saint Dances with Wolves?

Back to stuff. Later. The dog and cat are solidly asleep. You'd think I'd roofied them....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:52 PM (Sco7b)

27 >> I missed the booster shenanigans. Was it supposed to be lost? what's "boostback"?

Imagine a normal expendable rocket launch. First stage cuts out, next stage separates and takes over. First stage just continues in a "ballistic arc" and crashes in the ocean downrange.

With a boostback, once the 2nd stage separates and continues, the booster then turns ass end forward, fires again and slows its horizontal velocity to return to the launch site.

They had to abort the boostback burn. They let the booster just go on, but did attempt a landing burn when it got down. I don't know how that went.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:53 PM (w6EFb)

28 >>In the Middle Ages, if you were mentally ill, a "doctor" might proscribe drilling into your skull to let the demons escape.

Ray Bradbury had a story A Medicine for Melancholy where the "Dr." told the parents to leave the woman in her bed outside overnight, where he "administered" to her. It was shocking to me as a teen to read, but I think probably very true.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:53 PM (N0IE5)

29 Chants of USA at Tesla HQ as they launch 20 satellites from the current launch.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 06:53 PM (diia5)

30 If they paid a lady to sit naked in a kiddie pool and shot guys coming onto their property to harass her, would that be OK?

I agree with your premise, but it also seems wrong somehow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:54 PM (zZu0s)

31 Now Kiefel, 36, has settled a lawsuit against two providers who wrote referrals for that mastectomy. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, The New York Post said Kiefel will reportedly receive $3.5 million.
>>>

That works out to $1.75 million per bewb.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:54 PM (wVcYX)

32
Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn't exist: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go'

______________

Women hardest hit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 06:55 PM (HdYcL)

33 The measure came up short in a vote of 204-216 after a handful of conservative GOP lawmakers joined Democrats in tanking the legislation that would secure a site for the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum on the grounds of the Mall.

Make it make sense?

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:55 PM (gtcuf)

34 The New York Post said Kiefel will reportedly receive $3.5 million.
>>>

That works out to $1.75 million per bewb.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:54 PM (wVcYX)

What can't the Horde do?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:55 PM (zZu0s)

35 15 Read the content.

Coulda been frist.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:48 PM (A5RD0)

Hi nurse. I found 'ZomBeeavers' on Tubi.

There's also 'Catnado' there too. I usually just want something brutally horrific but there's been some good movies with a bit of comedy. "Hobo with a Shotgun" - fantastic.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:55 PM (Sco7b)

36 HR teams to me seem to be Commissars, keeping the Cultural Marxism in step

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 06:56 PM (Ia/+0)

37 Bill Gates had to spend more than that per bewb.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

38 I'm not on Twitter/X, so would someone please explain to Gina Milan that middle names are for bigshots. It's just Marj now, or Ms. Greene if you're being formal.

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 06:56 PM (Sy6m/)

39 I don't know what the charge would be. They did nothing illegal. You are allowed to leave your own bike on your own lawn without a lock.

Seems like hunting over bait. Some places frown on it, others don't. If the cops did the same thing and arrested the thieves instead of beating them, would it be entrapment or a sting operation? I honestly don't know.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:56 PM (vTZFs)

40 The CEO of Bolt fired his entire HR team, saying they were creating, not solving, problems.

--

*points and laughs*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 22, 2026 06:57 PM (6U1c2)

41 Make it make sense?
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:55 PM (gtcuf)

So all the GOPe were for this boondoggle. All the dems against it because no dicks. Then like 10 GOP decided to be Flighty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

42 This is like the opposite of the previous thread lol

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at May 22, 2026 06:57 PM (FhOZw)

43 Thanks, Ace, for the good news.I needed some. And I've got!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 22, 2026 06:57 PM (tAhJv)

44 HR is where most of the Sex and Gender studies majors end up. They exist to protect the company and promote the wymens and most companies give them wide latitude to inflict nonsensical misery.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:58 PM (l26NL)

45 Make it make sense?
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:55 PM (gtcuf)

Stupid woke boondoggle got more stupid and woke until finally the bunch of monkeys we've sent to Capital Hill got bored of fucking the ball.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 06:58 PM (gKWVE)

46 Crap, I can't get sucked into this thread.

I've mentioned it before. YouTube has clips from 'Bait Car' which SOMEHOW miraculously made it onto tv.

Cops would leave a car in an inner-city neighbourhood, the denizens would take it and hilarity ensued. It was pretty much always hispanics and blacks taking the car which is why it was surprising it got aired.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:58 PM (Sco7b)

47 >>Ray Bradbury had a story A Medicine for Melancholy where the "Dr." told the parents to leave the woman in her bed outside overnight, where he "administered" to her. It was shocking to me as a teen to read, but I think probably very true.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:53 PM (N0IE5)

Treating Vitamin 'D' deficiency has a long and honored history in the Journals of Medicine.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 06:58 PM (JEwe/)

48
Personnel: hard-bitten guys from the shop floor investigating patterns of Friday-Monday absenteeism.

HR: woke bits of fluff forcing employees to waste time taking useless if not harmful courses.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 06:58 PM (HdYcL)

49 I agree with your premise, but it also seems wrong somehow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Thieves should be killed.

Posted by: Bombaata at May 22, 2026 06:59 PM (9gKa/)

50 >>>"Cantaloupes could have rights."

Let my people go.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 06:59 PM (dK+Kv)

51 They exist to protect the company and promote the wymens and most companies give them wide latitude to inflict nonsensical misery.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:58 PM (l26NL)

They protect communist ideals. That is all. They NEVER protect a company first, unless the threat also goes against commie values.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:59 PM (zZu0s)

52 More power to that Clay Fuller dude. But, um... does anyone else think he looks exactly like Gigachad? I mean, he could have been the real life model for Gigachad for all I know. He is Gigachad. I would have voted for him just because of that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 07:00 PM (3uBP9)

53 payload deployed

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 07:00 PM (gKWVE)

54 I have worked in companies run by HR, and companies where they kept HR locked in a closet in a remote building surrounded by barbed wire.

The ones run by HR always failed.

But the problem is that the Government and the Legal Industrial Complex keep adding land mines for companies where they need HR and lots of lawyers to guide them through. Discrimination, Osha, training, safety, ADA, etc. etc. Not having HR is scary to a lot of managers. Firing people is scary to a lot of managers.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 07:00 PM (N0IE5)

55 Catnado?

I just watched the trailer. Holy shit!

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 07:00 PM (A5RD0)

56 FWIW, I dont think the trans issue is what cost Kamala the race. It was definitely a potent issue though.

I think cost of living going through the roof and Trump having credibility on the economy is why a lot people that had voted Biden voted Trump

I also think kamala was just extra unlikable and stupid.

Plus, I do think voter fraud that was simply easier to commit in 2020 than in 2024 when the Covid nonsense had largely gone

Posted by: Sharpie at May 22, 2026 07:00 PM (EHRRj)

57 A couple years back in Iceland, all the women decided to have a strike and stay home from work for a few days. All the companies said it was the most productive, drama-free time in decades.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 07:00 PM (l26NL)

58 Thieves should be killed.
Posted by: Bombaata at May 22, 2026 06:59 PM (9gKa/)

These just got hit with baseball bats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

59 >>> A couple baited their lawn with a bicycle without a lock to lure thieves so they could beat them with baseball bats.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 07:01 PM (dK+Kv)

60 >>So, out of curiosity ace, when does the baiting go too far?

Porta Potti.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)

61 Y’all have had awful hr departments. Yikes! I would fire every last one of them - hr should never be admins on steroids.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:02 PM (hftzA)

62 Treating Vitamin 'D' deficiency has a long and honored history in the Journals of Medicine.
Posted by: garrett

Huu hhu,,
He said "long"

huu. and "honored." I honor mine every night.

Posted by: Beavis at May 22, 2026 07:02 PM (N0IE5)

63 The people in California - great that they’re beating on criminals, but damn don’t go online and brag about it. Keep that shit private.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 07:03 PM (QS6eO)

64 one of the few things Mo got right (which he hadn't stolen off Torah): what to do with professional thieves.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 07:03 PM (gKWVE)

65 Firing people is scary to a lot of managers.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 07:00 PM (N0IE5)

This is true. I developed a reputation because I did not mind. Flip a switch, win a prize. But I didnt enjoy it.

Well, maybe once or twice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:03 PM (zZu0s)

66 I'm glad this company found a better human resources team, but calling them "people operations" doesn't necessarily mean they'll do anything differently. "Human resources" itself began as a slightly friendlier-sounding take on the original phrase, "personnel management," from back when the job mostly involved hiring and paperwork.

Posted by: TR at May 22, 2026 07:03 PM (hazdd)

67 Any moron or ette lawyers out there?. "Legal Insurrection" is hiring an attorney:

https://tinyurl.com/mwaz8cm6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 07:04 PM (OYsYV)

68 Porta Potti.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:01 PM (viF8m)

this is a teepee
for you to peepee
not a wigwam
to beat your tomtom

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 07:04 PM (gKWVE)

69 Porta Potti.
Posted by: JackStraw

Ohhhh!!! I'll be in my bunk111

Posted by: Maine Nazi Senator Wanabe at May 22, 2026 07:04 PM (l26NL)

70 >>Ray Bradbury had a story A Medicine for Melancholy where the "Dr." told the parents to leave the woman in her bed outside overnight, where he "administered" to her. It was shocking to me as a teen to read, but I think probably very true.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:53 PM (N0IE5)

Treating Vitamin 'D' deficiency has a long and honored history in the Journals of Medicine.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 06:58 PM (JEwe/)

Gotta cure the hysterics.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 07:04 PM (dK+Kv)

71
It's not like all this is rocket science. Oh, wait.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 07:05 PM (w6EFb)

72 These just got hit with baseball bats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

They need to work on their follow through.

Posted by: Bombaata at May 22, 2026 07:05 PM (9gKa/)

73
They protect communist ideals. That is all. They NEVER protect a company first, unless the threat also goes against commie values.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026

I wonder if HR in operations is just different. I have never worked outside of a manufacturing company, though I did work at some of the very largest ones. J works in manufacturing, he is Sr. VP of HR. Y’all would love his approach to all of this. I promise you.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:05 PM (hftzA)

74 Conserving energy here, boss!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 07:05 PM (wVcYX)

75 That company Bolt lost 97% of its value

Posted by: Paul at May 22, 2026 07:05 PM (4cQl/)

76
So all the GOPe were for this boondoggle. All the dems against it because no dicks. Then like 10 GOP decided to be Flighty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

==

The 10 Republicans made the right call.

Its sort of like when Bush created the Dept of Homeland Security and the hill they died on was they couldnt unionize

The correct answer is , just dont create a new government agency

Posted by: Sharpie at May 22, 2026 07:05 PM (EHRRj)

77 Good summary by Gutfeld

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 22, 2026 07:06 PM (9gKa/)

78

Back in the day when i was working it was the Personnel Department.

Same assholes then as now.

Everyone hated them.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 07:06 PM (3ek7K)

79
If I understood, most of the test payload satellites were Lamonts, dummies, but they did deploy two real Starlinks, specially modified to send video and imagery of the Ship during reentry.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 07:06 PM (w6EFb)

80 hr should never be admins on steroids.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:02 PM (hftzA)

Pretty much every single one i have encountered is. I would have to do phone calls with HR about people I had to fire 6 months before. And I fired a lot of people. I had to ask... 'any other details?' And then I'd have to look up the term docs I wrote (that they also have access to) in order to remember specifics and then explain. Just like I did in the term docs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

81 I don't know what the charge would be. They did nothing illegal. You are allowed to leave your own bike on your own lawn without a lock.

Seems like hunting over bait. Some places frown on it, others don't. If the cops did the same thing and arrested the thieves instead of beating them, would it be entrapment or a sting operation? I honestly don't know.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:56 PM

One time our car got egged pretty badly when we lived in Kentucky. We called the cops and they came out and made a report. The cop told me that if I happened to find the perps who did it they would not mind if I didn't call them for about 15-20 minutes after I found them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 07:07 PM (0N4FZ)

82 > "Cantaloupes could have rights."
------------
I sort of think there's a real mental health issue here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 07:07 PM (jehhT)

83 Afternoon, Ace, and Horde members. Taking a cool break after picking up most if the shingles and tar paper we slung off the roof this morning. Waiting on a rental truck at Home Despot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 07:08 PM (8zz6B)

84 To teach Israel how to make peace, Pippa Bacca, the leftist Italian, decided in 2004 to hitchhike from Turkey to Israel. She even learned basic Arabic, to prove that Islam is not a violent. Once she arrived in Turkey, she was gang-raped and murdered. She was 33 years old.

--------

Rachel Corrie should be flattened to know that she has inspired others.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (6/7Fs)

85 If you want a solid HR person, they need to be a business person who happens to be good at HR. Nothing else will be successful.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 06:44 PM (OoFl2)

Sounds like he has reinvented the Personnel Department.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (8zz6B)

86 I guess people are upset over the ending of The Boys?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (73/SM)

87 “Where is the crime?”

Eh, leftists have perverted justice. An old court case revolved around “spring trap” guns. A farmer in Iowa became tired of multiple burglaries iirc, and set up a trap gun pointed at a window. A burglar broke in through that window, and was killed.

You can’t (legally) set booby traps, apparently. I get it, I really do. But when working through the “system”, that no longer works, or isn’t allowed to work, eventually the old ways return.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (L7CUp)

88 LMAO Cicero

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (3ek7K)

89 >> Y’all would love his approach to all of this. I promise you.

No offense but I bet I wouldn't. When I started in business what passed for HR was people who would help you with things like insurance and other benefits. It somehow became a second management team with the power of the death penalty.

I'm sure there are lots of people who work in the field with the best of intentions but I've never worked at a place where HR was a net positive given what it has become today.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (viF8m)

90 I happily rode my bike till I was fourteen. Then, I took it half a mile outside my neighborhood to the new Ford City shopping center, left it on its kickstand -- and when I got back, it had been stolen.

Yeah, I'd like to beat the thief with an aluminum baseball bat, but that could maim or kill. Uh-uh. Let the punishment fit the crime.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (xDQPT)

91 'Fintech' according to the story. I am assuming financial technologies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

Or robot fish.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (8zz6B)

92 someone fired on cops so the cops deliberately drove their car over the shooter

--

Lady deputy behind the sheriff is a cutie

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (GhIJO)

93 Thieves should be killed.
Posted by: Bombaata

Nah. Just cut off a hand.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (A5RD0)

94 That works out to $1.75 million per bewb.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:54 PM (wVcYX)

---------

Assuming that she started with the standard complement.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (6/7Fs)

95 “We intentionally ran him over...don't shoot at cops."

“He GOT what he DESERVED.”

That’s how you do it.

Damn, that sheriff deputy standing next to him is smokin'. It's like they searched for the cutest girl in Kern County and hired her just so she could stand next to the sheriff at press conferences. Thats her whole job. stand there, in sunglasses, exuding hotness. And I approve. Perhaps more counties should adopt this policy.

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (Av6i5)

96 That is a sad story about Pippa Bacca. Truly terminally naive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (OYsYV)

97 Even when I was C suite HR, I still walked factory floors on every site visit. If you are anywhere downstream of J and he visits a site you support, and you can’t lead a tour and know names, your days are numbered.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (hftzA)

98 Director of Personnel J.D. Sheldrake of Consolidated Life Insurance in The Apartment. Fred MacMurray played the villain to the hilt.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 07:11 PM (wVcYX)

99 82 > "Cantaloupes could have rights."

I always ask for consent.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 07:11 PM (Sco7b)

100 >>>A Muslim Brotherhood leader in NJ praises Tuq'r Qarlson

"Tuq'r Qarlson" is never not going to be funny

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 07:11 PM (q177U)

101

HR shouldnt be about feelings.

You can't do your job? Fuck your feelings you're fired.

Sick of all the touchy feely shit. We are here to make money.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 07:12 PM (3ek7K)

102 Nah. Just cut off a hand.

Posted by: nurse ratched

Such a softie.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 22, 2026 07:12 PM (9gKa/)

103
Damn, that sheriff deputy standing next to him is smokin'.

_____________

Too Kareny for my taste.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 07:13 PM (HdYcL)

104 Colorado was considering legislation to allow gender-confused people to ... sue counselors who try to help them be less confused. I do not know if the legislation passed. I also do not know if gender-confused people in Colorado can sue medical providers for mutilating them.

They call it "conversion therapy" and claim it is harmful. I'm wondering how horrific and cruel conversion therapy would have to be to be worse than medical mutilation.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2026 07:13 PM (FMtrg)

105 93 Thieves should be killed.
Posted by: Bombaata

Nah. Just cut off a hand.
Posted by: nurse ratched

---------------
Cut off their benefits.

Nah, that won't work because the prosecutors will never prosecute.

We need a bounty - cut off the benefits, but give a percentage to the people who catch and prosecute.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 07:13 PM (TSNP/)

106 I always ask for consent.

Posted by: Stateless

lol

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 22, 2026 07:13 PM (9gKa/)

107 HR departments are the HOAs of the business world.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 22, 2026 07:14 PM (3ImbR)

108 The trans surgery will someday, I hope, be looked at the same way as lobotomies are for depression. The doctor who suggested lobotomies won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 07:14 PM (VHKlE)

109 Assuming that she started with the standard complement.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 07:10 PM (6/7Fs)

She's from Mars?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 07:14 PM (wVcYX)

110 I could never really stand the csi tv shows. In that I am, a white Christian male, therefore the protagonist. But one specific episode, that I somehow got roped into seeing, a guy got tired of having his mailbox slammed with bats in drivebys so he got a steel post and concrete and put it the mailbox in real stout. The same kids come by and hit it and somehow get their arm ripped off. And the rest of the episode is about how terrible the protagonist home owner is.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 07:15 PM (3uBP9)

111 Lady deputy behind the sheriff is a cutie
——-

Eye candy, just what you need to subdue 300 pound maniacs on Meth. At least she ain’t a 5x5 butterball who is supplied uniforms through Seattle Tent & Awning

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:15 PM (L7CUp)

112 hmmm

>>@nicksortor
·
9m
>>🚨 NOW: President Trump is now BACK in Washington, DC after CANCELLING his weekend plans in New Jersey

>>CBS is reporting intelligence officials have ALSO canceled Memorial Day plans, and are on standby.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:16 PM (viF8m)

113 82 > "Cantaloupes could have rights."

Yeah! Us too!!

Posted by: Honeydew Melons at May 22, 2026 07:16 PM (wVcYX)

114 Comrade Flounder, one of the options for pizza dough is to use rye malt instead of sugar to get it to rise if you are going to let it rise for more than a couple of hours. Any malt will do, even Malt-O meal, I suspect, but rye will give it a touch of bitterness that gives it a more sourdough flavor

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 07:16 PM (rbvCR)

115 Imam Abdullah Mohammed Abdullah: So why do you want to be a muslim?
Mohammed Mohammed El Mohammed: I like the clothes, I like banging my head on the deck multiple times, I like rape, I like dirty beards and I like rape.
Imam Abdullah Mohammed Abdullah: You said rape twice.
Mohammed Mohammed El Mohammed: I like rape.
Imam Abdullah Mohammed Abdullah: Charming!

Posted by: Blazing Saddles 2: Mohammed's Boogaloo at May 22, 2026 07:17 PM (7d1L5)

116 I'm sure there are lots of people who work in the field with the best of intentions but I've never worked at a place where HR was a net positive given what it has become today.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (viF8m)

He doesn’t do benefits, he knows ops inside and out and just now stopped leading the finance department because they finally hired a CFO. I would rather poke my eyes out with pencils than do benefits.But he is not the party of no, he is the party of how can we get there. Which is what I did, too, but I will admit, he does it better. Guess that is why he makes the big bucks and I play at my studio.

But maybe you wouldn’t like him, who knows. I appreciate it from a very different angle, maybe? But if I didn’t tell you what he did, and you met him, you probably would struggle guessing what he did for a living.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 07:17 PM (hftzA)

117 Starship has started its descent. Beginning to see plasma.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 07:17 PM (qx7Zg)

118
Yeah! Us too!!

Posted by: Honeydew Melons at May 22, 2026 07:16 PM (wVcYX)

____________

The Melons Liberation Front approves.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 07:17 PM (HdYcL)

119 Colorado was considering legislation to allow gender-confused people to ... sue counselors who try to help them be less confused.
——-

It’s legal for the kiddiefuckers to groom little boys. It isn’t legal, however, to try and unfuck their mind.

They do try to think of everything, you know. They really do.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:17 PM (L7CUp)

120 >>>"It's ALL the same. Any position where truth is surrendered to the prevailing wishes of the mob would become the order of the day and would compel you to obey."

That's objectively not true. It's the satanic subversion of basic human biology and dignity, a subversion primarily aimed at children. There's nothing scary about calling a horse a banana or compelling people to call rain gravity mist. There's a deeper nexus of evil that people like Gutfeld are blind to.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 07:18 PM (q177U)

121 I used to ask my business students specializing in HR who they were responsible to in a business. Half said the company. Half said the employees.
Sheesh!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 22, 2026 07:18 PM (2WIwB)

122 Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn't exist: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go'

This is proof that Ace loves us and wants us to be happy.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 07:19 PM (Bq1P8)

123 Memorial Day Weekend flashmobs are a thing.
And there's antifa chatter in Austin. Possibly other Soros-infested cities.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 07:19 PM (gKWVE)

124 Yeah, I'd like to beat the thief with an aluminum baseball bat, but that could maim or kill. Uh-uh. Let the punishment fit the crime.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (xDQPT)

Garrotting with a bicycle chain?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 07:19 PM (8zz6B)

125 It somehow became a second management team with the power of the death penalty.

I'm sure there are lots of people who work in the field with the best of intentions but I've never worked at a place where HR was a net positive given what it has become today.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (viF8m)

Sadly, this. More power than any other management in a lot of places.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

126 Where I work, we don't have our own HR, which is great.
We use a larger org's HR for payroll & benefits, but our director does all the hiring & firing.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 22, 2026 07:20 PM (6U1c2)

127 You can’t (legally) set booby traps, apparently. I get it, I really do. But when working through the “system”, that no longer works, or isn’t allowed to work, eventually the old ways return.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (L7CUp)

The main reason “spring trap” guns are illegal is that the people shot most often by them are family members and police.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 07:20 PM (QS6eO)

128 ***Someone said that the Week in Woke always makes them angry before the weekend.
---

Some people forget that this is a military blog
not Popsicles and lollipops.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 07:20 PM (LIEok)

129 They do try to think of everything, you know. They really do.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:17 PM (L7CUp)

Transing kids involves endless layers of horrific cruelty, both to the kid and to anyone who cares about the kid.

Posted by: Emmie at May 22, 2026 07:21 PM (FMtrg)

130 Garrotting with a bicycle chain?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Too subtle

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 22, 2026 07:21 PM (9gKa/)

131 Sugar is not necessary at all, esp. if running extended fermentation times. Make them yeasties work for a living!

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:21 PM (3VVY1)

132 I tried to fire my HR department but that bastard wouldn't leave.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 07:21 PM (n9951)

133
Starship is the first ever where we've been able to see reentry video.

Starship is so big that it creates a little wake behind and above. That allow high frequency (much higher than normal radio) signals to just get through and have line of sight with the Starlink satellites.

This is just flat-out amazing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 07:21 PM (w6EFb)

134 Something is apparently set to happen with Iran this weekend, but online speculators are split on whether it will be attack or surrender.
I’m sure hoping its attack.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 07:22 PM (QS6eO)

135 German military, in combat, do not fight after dark and have beer during lunch break.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 07:22 PM (LIEok)

136 "I prefer to think of myself as the Director of Disgruntled Cat Toys."

-Catbert, HR Director

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 22, 2026 07:22 PM (0SdQT)

137 This makes me angry, what a POS he is:

Adam Schiff

@SenAdamSchiff
My thoughts go out to Tulsi Gabbard and her family, as her husband battles this serious health problem. I hope and pray that he makes a speedy and full recovery.

While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation's national security is her resignation.

She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more.

We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.

Posted by: beckster at May 22, 2026 07:22 PM (kX27y)

138
What a piece of shit.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 07:23 PM (3ek7K)

139 We are aldo part of a consortium, and they have a training department, which is redolent with eau d'woke.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at May 22, 2026 07:23 PM (6U1c2)

140 Wow, what a guy.

*types* *deletes*

Woodchipper.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:24 PM (zZu0s)

141 >>But maybe you wouldn’t like him, who knows. I appreciate it from a very different angle, maybe? But if I didn’t tell you what he did, and you met him, you probably would struggle guessing what he did for a living.

It's not a matter of liking him personally, I'm sure he's a great guy or you wouldn't have married him. It's what HR has turned into in many, many companies. As I said, it's become a second management structure that makes social rules of behavior that often kill or badly wound corporate performance.

I'm just not a fan of what the position has evolved into in business.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:24 PM (viF8m)

142 About fake women (ie trans) in women's spaces at Planet Fitness. From Hot Air site:

https://tinyurl.com/ytbfrfxp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 07:24 PM (OYsYV)

143 You can’t (legally) set booby traps, apparently. I get it, I really do. But when working through the “system”, that no longer works, or isn’t allowed to work, eventually the old ways return.
Posted by: Common Tater

The main reason “spring trap” guns are illegal is that the people shot most often by them are family members and police.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And a trap can't determine intent.

Even if the law says you can defend property with deadly force, maybe I kicked in the door to your shed to take shelter from some golf-ball-sized hail, or to escape a rabid coyote, and was going to compensate you for the door (and then some), in thanks for saving my life by having a shed in the right place.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 07:24 PM (VHUov)

144 I hated having to fire someone, even if they deserved it. I got better over time and learned to make it nice and quick. But I still hated it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 07:25 PM (l26NL)

145
When your normal is fucking boys your reality is "different "

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 07:25 PM (3ek7K)

146 I nominate Adam Schiff to be *types* *deletes* on Starship Flight 13.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 07:25 PM (qx7Zg)

147 The main reason “spring trap” guns are illegal is that the people shot most often by them are family members and police.
——

If you say so. My point is that if the extraordinarily expensive and extensive “legal system” is no longer working, or not allowed to work, as is obviously the case, then old methods will return.

There’s no way around this. Modern police departments are actually a blip in the human history timeline. Presumption of Innocence, right to face accuser, all that stuff is not the “norm”. When the Rule of Law breaks down, every offense is a Capital offense, and probably for your family too.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:25 PM (3VVY1)

148 The thing is, company execs power up their HR departments to create a faceless machine to do all the things they are too cowardly to do and say themselves.

Layoff a bunch of people? HR did that, not me! Screw with the benefits? That's HR! Mess up all your health insurance? Look over there, it's HR!

They are like mob enforcers for the executive and then when HR goes crazy and starts to take over, what are you going to do? You need HR to handle all the bad news. So you sit back and just watch it happen.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 07:26 PM (3uBP9)

149 @137

What a SOB. Nasty piece of work.

Posted by: Tuna at May 22, 2026 07:27 PM (lJ0H4)

150 In any case, that’s the genesis of the principle in law “civilians” can’t deploy bait bikes and proceed to beat the shit out of thieves.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:28 PM (3VVY1)

151 Kamala Harris lost because she has the intelligence and social graces of house plant. AND, she insisted on displaying these "attributes" on a regular basis.

A vast majority shouldn't be able to take in a Presidential candidate and think to themselves, "I'm more qualified than she is to be President of the United States."

(and thanks for giving my blood pressure a break on the "week in woke" genre....it was me that always bitches, and reads it anyway. Sometimes I'll take a ball peen hammer to my fingers for the same reason)

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 07:29 PM (dIske)

152 HR controls the company. The control who gets hired not the person who the new employee will be subordinate and responsible to. And if the boss doesn't like it HR will fuck him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 07:30 PM (LIEok)

153 This is big:

BAIER: "An enormous change in U.S. immigration policy tonight. The Trump administration says any non-citizens in the country who have applied for a green card must leave the country indefinitely even if here legally and regardless of whether they have a spouse or children."
"Then they have to wait for their green card application to be processed outside of the country."

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 22, 2026 07:30 PM (3ImbR)

154 I hated having to fire someone, even if they deserved it. I got better over time and learned to make it nice and quick. But I still hated it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 07:25 PM (l26NL)

I was always able to kind of turn it off after a threshold had been reached.

The thing is, if the guys know you will do it the second they give you a good reason and not care one whit? They are FAR less likely to give you that reason.

The problem is, after a while and enough people (and I have fired 100s.) It starts to grind. People are stupid and they seem to come in like 6 varieties. Worse you start being able to tell what you are going to fire them for the day you meet them. And it's like you want to slap new guy and tell him not to make you do it a week, month or year down the line.

That is why I had to take a break and just get back to doing quality for a while. I am very good at iI. I am good at leadership too, but quality is soothing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:30 PM (zZu0s)

155 Damn, that sheriff deputy standing next to him is smokin'. It's like they searched for the cutest girl in Kern County and hired her just so she could stand next to the sheriff at press conferences. Thats her whole job. stand there, in sunglasses, exuding hotness. And I approve. Perhaps more counties should adopt this policy.
Posted by: zombie

I would disappoint her so badly.

And she'd punish me for it.

What fun!

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2026 07:30 PM (VHUov)

156 She politicized intelligence

And that has NEVER happened before. And that’s bad!!

What an assclown. Intelligence was “politicized” by every President since at least, FDR. There is no debate about that.

Goose, gander. Good. MFer.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:32 PM (OrWo5)

157 Refreshing the main page increases my CPU temperature about 8 degrees C, for about 40 sec.

Global warming -- I'm doing me part!

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 07:32 PM (TSNP/)

158 I'll take a ball peen hammer to my fingers for the same reason)
Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 07:29 PM

Newsletter?

Posted by: Paul P. at May 22, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

159 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

There's a great scene in Money Ball where Brad Pitt as Billy Beane explains to a new hire how to cut a player. It's pretty good.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 07:35 PM (l26NL)

160 “any non-citizens in the country who have applied for a green card must leave the country indefinitely regardless of whether they have a spouse or children."
——

About fucking time. Out! Out! Everybody Out!

Start Over. Get In Line. As it stands, illegal invaders have been treated preferentially for decades, to everyone else who has gone about emigrating to the USA in the lawful manner. Complete bullshit.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:36 PM (OrWo5)

161 The shooter who was run over happened in my corner of California. He shot and killed a Sheriff's deputy and after a standoff, he was crushed by a S.W.A.T. Bearcat.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 22, 2026 07:36 PM (M0V4/)

162 Perfect.

https://tinyurl.com/5ew63umx

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)

163 Perfect.

https://tinyurl.com/5ew63umx
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)

LOL.

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 07:38 PM (zZu0s)

164 Starship 39 had a Viking funeral after a vertical landing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 07:38 PM (qx7Zg)

165 “any non-citizens in the country who have applied for a green card must leave the country indefinitely regardless of whether they have a spouse or children."
——

About fucking time. Out! Out! Everybody Out!

Start Over. Get In Line. As it stands, illegal invaders have been treated preferentially for decades, to everyone else who has gone about emigrating to the USA in the lawful manner. Complete bullshit.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:36 PM (OrWo5)

*whistle blows*

Everybody out of the pool!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 07:39 PM (wVcYX)

166
That landing was trying to simulate a return to tower and catch trajectory, and they seem to be happy with it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 07:39 PM (w6EFb)

167 There’s no way around this. Modern police departments are actually a blip in the human history timeline. Presumption of Innocence, right to face accuser, all that stuff is not the “norm”. When the Rule of Law breaks down, every offense is a Capital offense, and probably for your family too.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 07:25 PM (3VVY1)

Agree. The police and courts are in place to protect wealthy people and their wealth. The poors are just flotsam and jetsam in our legal system and are treated as such, with the occasional justice handed out here and there, willy nilly. Heaven help you if you end up in court without resources, connections or are not a "protected" class.

Posted by: Zombie Judge Roy Bean at May 22, 2026 07:40 PM (7d1L5)

168 nood

cafe

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 07:41 PM (3uBP9)

169 I believe there is still a common law crime called trespassing where if you don't present yourself as a visitor or guest you just might get your ass kicked or shot. Nevermind stealing a bicycle.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 07:42 PM (D1E+2)

170 Congratulations to the team at SpaceX.

Elon has built quite a machine!!

Posted by: pawn at May 22, 2026 07:42 PM (+rSJz)

171 Good.

Everybody out. And put the lightbulb heads into C140s, shackled and drop them back in Somalia. Unload them, toss a key and leave.

They get to take the clothes on their backs. All of their ill gotten gains are confiscated.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 07:42 PM (A5RD0)

172 86 I guess people are upset over the ending of The Boys?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (73/SM)

Not upset exactly. It met expectations. However the expectation was it would be a flaming pile of dogshit. Which it was.

Posted by: Augured in the landing at May 22, 2026 07:43 PM (TbWk/)

173 I hated having to fire someone, even if they deserved it. I got better over time and learned to make it nice and quick. But I still hated it.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 07:25 PM

I got good at firing GS employees as well. The problem I had is every time I fired one they applied for unemployment with the state and they almost always got it. I fired one lady for constantly not showing up to work, I had a paper trail a mile long but they gave her full unemployment because they said she had day care issues.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 07:43 PM (0N4FZ)

174 I think a court ordered Colorado to allow de-transition counseling. 1st Amendment issue. The Colorado statehouse has a real hardon for prior restraint of free speech.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 07:44 PM (ZxPkt)

175 157 Refreshing the main page increases my CPU temperature about 8 degrees C, for about 40 sec.

Global warming -- I'm doing me part!
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)
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My poor little Beelink gags so bad you can hear the fan speed up to cool it down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 07:45 PM (LIEok)

176 The city of Arvada CO has barred the police department from putting info on criminals online until there has been arrest, charging and indictment.

Don't want to hurt a perp's feelings.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 07:46 PM (ZxPkt)

177
Adam Schiff
@SenAdamSchiff

Pencil neck geek
Scum sucking freak

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 07:47 PM (Cqx++)

178
She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more.

----☆

Schiff is indeed a shit person. I'd like to know how Americans are less "safe" than under Biden.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 07:47 PM (Vh9CX)

179 120 >>>"It's ALL the same. Any position where truth is surrendered to the prevailing wishes of the mob would become the order of the day and would compel you to obey."

That's objectively not true. It's the satanic subversion of basic human biology and dignity, a subversion primarily aimed at children. There's nothing scary about calling a horse a banana or compelling people to call rain gravity mist. There's a deeper nexus of evil that people like Gutfeld are blind to.
Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 07:18 PM (q177U)

The Chinese literally have an epigram 指鹿為馬 (zhi lu wei ma) about calling a deer a horse, as shorthand for gaining political power from forcing people to say what they know is false. Theodore Dalrymple writes about how that is the purpose of communism, and also of political correctness ("communism writ small"). John C. Wright calls it the Unreality Principle.

Chinese history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Gao
Theodore Dalrymple: https://archive.is/WBcUY
John C. Wright: https://tinyurl.com/y9z4ur9h

Tranny madness is a particularly virulent example, but Gutfeld is correct that it is only one example of a more general principle of evil.

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 07:49 PM (Sy6m/)

180 "There is a nonprofit industrial complex on the left tearing away at the fabric of our country"

The problem is not non-profit organizations, it's non-profit organizations who get "free" money from the government.
I don't care what they do, I care that they're doing it with tax money.
Grants are the issue. If the government wasn't handing out cash with no product or service rendered to the government -not some "deserving" third party - the ngo/industrial complex would not exist.
Kill grants, kill the problem.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 22, 2026 08:23 PM (Y2dJL)

181 Pippa was Baka.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 09:18 PM (xqL5c)

182 It is very late to be asking this, but is it the federal government’s business to fund museums? I agree with Davy Crockett: it’s not yours to give. The fact that he stated this 200 years ago points to a real problem in government. They want to do something whether the constitution allows it or not. We would have saved ourselves a lot of misery if we had followed his advice.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 09:25 PM (xqL5c)

183 Is it the Federal government to fund all kinds on things?

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 09:38 PM (Ia/+0)

184 "It's ALL the same. Any position where truth is surrendered to the prevailing wishes of the mob would become the order of the day and would compel you to obey. ... Cantaloupes could have rights. ... 60-year-olds are now 40." -- Greg Gutfeld

"And then all the world's idiots will say 12 Noon is 1PM... every day... everywhere... forever." -- Every sea captain that ever held a sextant

King Canute is similarly put off.

Posted by: Flicker at May 23, 2026 06:04 PM (trwFl)

185 Hopefully, at least one of Pippa's rapist got his dick blown off by an Israeli supplied pager™.

Posted by: Rex B at May 23, 2026 08:35 PM (rgnea)

This Is What They Took From You.
But Now They're Returning It.

A few years ago, people did a meme. Semi-seriously, they would post "This is what they took from you" and post pictures of stuff from the pre-Obama world, before the American "elite" traded stable, functional Americana for third-world dysfunction and leftwing postmodern slop.

The first one of these I saw was the pleasing roofline of old Pizza Huts:

We need a reboot of the universe. We need to roll back the country's programming to its Last Known Good Configuration, erasing every update since 2000.

Is that possible?

Well, if we all insist on it, it is.

Pizza Hut brings back its old-school restaurant features as nostalgic customers rejoice: 'So excited'
Back to the good old days.
2026 has proven to be the year of nostalgia. Youngsters are resorting to old-school tech like vintage flip phones and iPods. Others are returning to analog hobbies and activities.
Even beloved restaurant chain Pizza Hut is going back in time, reverting to its retro glory -- red checkered tablecloths and all.
Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, a Kansas-based company that operates almost 100 Pizza Hut locations across the country, is helping keep Pizza Hut alive by rewinding the clock and redecorating over 80 annoyingly modern, stark-looking locations to make them look like they did decades ago.
Red roof? Check
Red-checkered tablecloths, vinyl booths and Tiffany-style lamps? Check, check and check.
Pizza Hut is attempting to stay alive by evoking nostalgia in customers and redesigning locations back to its original look. jetcityimage -- stock.adobe.com
The beloved salad bar and red plastic cups will be back.
Even the old-school Pac-Man machines will return.
Unsurprisingly, customers are losing their minds over this massive change.
"I am so excited and when they are restored I will be eating there as a new tradition every Friday," one wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
"This was our Thursday night meal out before kids. Salad bar and pac-man. Waitress knew our order too. It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.

A list of the Pizza Hut locations with the Retro '80s look and feel.

Maybe there is one close to you! pic.twitter.com/rtbfcJ5MYY
— David (@DavidPiccinini2) May 17, 2026

Roll it back. Roll it all back.

Reverse, reboot, and restore.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM

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1 H

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (LdBR/)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (LdBR/)

3 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (AGz65)

4 Back to the '80s, and we'll call it a deal.

Posted by: Video Killed the Radio Star at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (9B9RT)

5 Nooding

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (LdBR/)

6 The local Pizza Hut was later turned into an A&W. It is now a Chinese restaurant.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (rbvCR)

7 Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been super busy at work. But, has anyone seen this? This is supremely creepy. FOX News had a Navy Seal guest on who was wearing a realistic rubber mask? Was it even him? If yes. why the mask? This is some f'in weird-ass shit.

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (gtcuf)

8 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

Her husband has bone cancer. A rare form evidently.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (l26NL)

9 My state is not listed on the page.

But then my state is "Disarray."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (CHHv1)

10 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM

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Her husband is seriously ill with a rare cancer.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (1Au9i)

11 I really think I have gone to Pizza hut once

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (Ia/+0)

12 We do have an iconic-looking Pizza Hut in my town. The traditional building.

However, I don't know what it looks like inside since I haven't eaten there in decades.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (gnNyN)

13 Tulsi's got balls. I'd hate to see her go, but I'd totally understand it.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (gtcuf)

14 Her husband has bone cancer. A rare form evidently.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (l26NL)

My mother died of it (multiple myeloma).

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (AGz65)

15 What else would we like to see resurrected in our reconfiguration? I'm going back a ways, but mine is HUAC.

Posted by: spongeworthy at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (sLLbN)

16 The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (2+BP2)

17 Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been super busy at work. But, has anyone seen this? This is supremely creepy. FOX News had a Navy Seal guest on who was wearing a realistic rubber mask? Was it even him? If yes. why the mask? This is some f'in weird-ass shit.

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (gtcuf)

I saw that, and figured that this, and AI fakes are going to be the death of the on-air hot-take expert.
It just proves from the beginning that everything is fake and ghey, and poorly generated.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (rbvCR)

18 Can Shag Carpet and Avocado Appliances be far behind?

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (JEwe/)

19 Ace, were you going to do a movie thread? I have one to contribute.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (rbvCR)

20 It was kind of a big deal in Wichititti. They tried full on restaurants for a while with past dishes but it didn't catch on, and the atkins thing killed a lot of it too.

My girlfriend in college, (who I married), worked there and brought home free pizza. Also sometimes I'd get free nooners, (my slang for personal pan pizza, salad and drink at lunch time) when I went by where she worked. And she smelled like pizza when she got home, and I liked that.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (3uBP9)

21 No luck on a retro-Pizza Hut near me, alas.

Good news, though: I got a letter from the IRS amending my 2025 return. Seems I overpaid them! I miscalculated the taxable amount of my SS, thinking it was 85%, but it was more like 60%. I'm getting a good-sized refund. Better late than never, says I to myself, says I.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)

22 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

Posted by: Orange Roof And All at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (oftw2)

23 There's another in Ash Flat, Arkansas. Doesn't have the Pac-Man arcade, but dang near everything else.

When I worked in the area, I was so happy the first time I found it; I hadn't been inside a Pizza-Hut since way before Covid. I made a point of eating there as often as possible until I moved.

There are some with a similar exterior, but some of them look like crap on the inside, so definitely consult that list in the Twitter link.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (WAA9U)

24 Can Shag Carpet and Avocado Appliances be far behind?
Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (JEwe/)

If I can get a fridge and a washer-dryer set that will both do what I bought them to do and last me 30 years, I will cry to see Avocado, Harvest Gold, and Bronze.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (rbvCR)

25 They need to bring back ditto machines. I like the smell.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (CNl8/)

26 Let's roll the universe, America anyway, back to the Real Good Old Days. Say, 1962. People loved it on Mad Men, didn't they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

27 >>I really think I have gone to Pizza hut once

Back in the early 90s, the only place to eat in Green Valley, AZ was a Pizza Hut that was a throwback to the mid-80s Pizza Huts.

We'd go Mt Bike down there and hit the throwback Hut for dinner each time.

The only Pizza Hut experiences I ever had.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 05:45 PM (JEwe/)

28 The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (2+BP2)
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That seems to be true of most national chains. The pizzas just aren't as good as I remember them.

Something about the crust, usually.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:46 PM (gnNyN)

29 Can you ever go back to a pre-tranny Bud Light?

Is that possible?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (Sco7b)

30 We do have an iconic-looking Pizza Hut in my town. The traditional building.

However, I don't know what it looks like inside since I haven't eaten there in decades.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (gnNyN)

Perfessor, I went there and ate two weeks ago. It sucks.

As far as decor, that is. The service was fine.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (WAA9U)

31 I love it. Just guessing : the Left will hate it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (fZiTB)

32 My state is not listed on the page.

But then my state is "Disarray."
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 22, 2026

***
Teacher: "Calvin! What state do you live in?"

Calvin: "Denial."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)

33 I bring this up a lot, but one of the biggest reasons for enshitification is that the people we are being replaced with have no memory of what was, and no measure of quality.

"newcomers" don't care.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 05:48 PM (N0IE5)

34 Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM (rbvCR)

Putting the "faux" in FAUX News.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:48 PM (gtcuf)

35 Perfessor, I went there and ate two weeks ago. It sucks.

As far as decor, that is. The service was fine.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:47 PM (WAA9U)
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When I go out for pizza, I go to a local place downtown. Much better.

When I order it, I go with Domino's, as I prefer their crust to Papa John's.

Tonight I'm making it myself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (gnNyN)

36 There is an apocryphal tale, that back in the 1980s under GH W. Bush, the CIA wanted to show off to the president a new disguise. Bush, being a (briefly) CIA guy, said come on over, let’s see what you got.

This guy gets ushered into the Oval office. George is expecting to see him carrying a briefcase, containing his wares. The guy says nope, and starts tearing off his mask. George is, the story goes, completely amazed. “Stop!” and gets in close to see this “mask”. It was that good, and this was 40 years ago. Think what they can do now.

The Secret Service and similar organizations used to use doubles for training, and for decoy purposes. It stands to reason over the decades that this practice, or offshoots or derivations thereof might have evolved to serious disguses, I suppose.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (2+BP2)

37 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)

38 The Matrix may have been right about '1999 being the peak of human civilization'.

I'm serious.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (xcxpd)

39 If the pizza is as "good" as it was.... I'm in.

There's one.... "not far away."

OPSEC

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (jehhT)

40 Pizza Hut used to have a thick , tangy Italian dressing will ch was awesome. Hope they have that at the salad bar , though the closest to me appears to be Fulton who ch it s about two hours away

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (VHKlE)

41 Here's another one:

Marno McDermott, who is the son of the original owner of Chi-Chi's just bought back the rights and promises a comeback of the international chain.

You might recall that Chi-Chi's had a massive Hepatitus A outbreak thanks to some questionable spring onions sourced out of California. The filed Chapter 11 due to loss of revenue and self-insured retention payouts.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

42 If I can get a fridge and a washer-dryer set that will both do what I bought them to do and last me 30 years, I will cry to see Avocado, Harvest Gold, and Bronze.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026

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Not so sure about the Avocado color, but Harvest Gold would be great. My mother bought a Bronze (well, sort of a dark metallic brown) refrigerator with frost-free freezer when I was in high school. It was like stepping into a new world after defrosting the old white model for so many years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

43 Growing up should be rolled back to the 60's, 70's even the 80's. Before paranoid helicopter parents and bike helmets ruined it.

Posted by: Ripley at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (PTDkx)

44 Wichita kind of hates pizza hut now. They were real asses about things when they moved headquarters. I think they moved to a big city up NE. Very insulting. That didn't work for long and they were gobbled up by the yum foods zombie umbrella corporation and went back west, texas maybe.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (3uBP9)

45
Take out from Rice Wok tonight was superb.

Sorry to see all those people stuck in traffic going north.

Congressperson Hillary Scholten on the radio news tonight bewailing gas prices preventing people from going to their cabins this weekend.

I mean...

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (Y8DZL)

46 RETVRN

Posted by: mr_jack at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (LNPSJ)

47 When I order it, I go with Domino's, as I prefer their crust to Papa John's.

Tonight I'm making it myself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (gnNyN)

I used to prefer Papa John's, mainly because of the dipping sauce, I think. But I haven't had any in a while; I don't really remember why. I think I read that the CEO was forced to step down for being a Trump supporter, but it's been so long the details are fuzzy.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (WAA9U)

48 That seems to be true of most national chains. The pizzas just aren't as good as I remember them.

Something about the crust, usually.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:46 PM (gnNyN)

There is not much to pizza crust, so it is either inferior flour, not using olive oil, or they are using a dough conditioner like Potassium Bromate or some other preservative like ascorbic acid.
Flour, water, baking soda and yeast are pretty much the recipe, and add malt to speed up the process.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (rbvCR)

49 >>>
But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)

You can get that all on a single chip now.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:52 PM (3uBP9)

50 The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:43 PM

Ten years ago pizza hut's thin and crispy meat lovers pizza was our go to, we would get that a couple of times a month. Sadly their quality has gone straight into the dumpster and we haven't bought one is over 5 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 05:52 PM (0N4FZ)

51 When I was a kid before 29 in Kansas the local Pizza Hut on Friday and Saturday night was the place to eat and look for hot girls to take to the beer party. It was my office on weekends.
Pizza hut is still there in original form on Hwy 54.

Posted by: DBCooper at May 22, 2026 05:52 PM (yGBJE)

52 The roofline in that top pic is not the classic Pizza Hut one though. Nor the tapered windows. Looks like it was converted from something else.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (vTZFs)

53 How long would it take Windows to boot off punched cards?

Ain't nobody got time for dat shit.

Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (FhXTo)

54 Papa Murphy's is good, because they have fresh ingredients and I can cook it how I like it, which is a few minutes longer than most pizza places cook their pies.

Papa John's is ass.

Posted by: Donny Thinks It's a Vacuum at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (0aYVJ)

55 No Texas?

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (nGraA)

56 We can't even have free soda refills today.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (YwEeS)

57 I want to see the "cheap" steakhouses come back to life. Golden Coral, Ponderosa, Sizzler.

"Wrapped in Bacon Wednesdays"!!!!

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (dIske)

58 I think the first time I ever had pizza was in a Pizza Hut. You had to be careful when you took the first bite that the cheese wasn't so hot that you burned the ridge behind your front teeth.

Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)

59 7 Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been super busy at work. But, has anyone seen this? This is supremely creepy. FOX News had a Navy Seal guest on who was wearing a realistic rubber mask? Was it even him? If yes. why the mask? This is some f'in weird-ass shit.

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05

It is shadows and has been recreated with lighting. It does look weird, though!

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (Wmg4n)

60 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)

I'm going to need some explanation.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM (WAA9U)

61 but one of the biggest reasons for enshitification is that the people we are being replaced with have no memory of what was
——

That’s true, but it’s not a cause per se, it’s a feature. Our “social planners” absolutely depend on it, though. Eventually, there isn’t anyone around who remembers how it “used to be.” They couldn’t get away with half of what they do without this phenomenon.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM (2+BP2)

62 Donny sock begone.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM (0aYVJ)

63 While this feels neat, there is a reason they stopped doing this. It will get a bit of a nostalgia surge, but its not gonna last. Salad Bars are very hard to make money on for one thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (5yqx7)

64 It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.

It would be nice to return to a time when every restaurant didn't have 100 televisions.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (ExV1e)

65 "Nice" died with the arrival of the Clintons. I would like to see it come back.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (ZxPkt)

66 I worked with a guy that new the pizza hut founders in high school. He thought they were just basic stoners that were going to drop out and live in their parent's basement. He couldn't believe what they managed to do.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (3uBP9)

67 SpaceX Starship 12 test flight launch from Boca Chica, TX is on-track for 6:30 PM Eastern Time.

live view: https://tinyurl.com/yrns6uxu

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (5rh/l)

68 Priazzo. They took Priazzo from me.

Sons a bitches must pay.

https://tinyurl.com/3yy2ehjw

Whew. Now I can finally close that tab.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (dK+Kv)

69 Now do Little Tavern. Serving sliders before it was cool.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 05:55 PM (ZxPkt)

70
I read the guy says no internet access. I salute him for that, but, oh no people will have to have real life conversations?

That ain't happening.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (3ek7K)

71 Pac-Man is okay I guess, but my Pizza Hut had Spy Hunter. A much better choice.

Posted by: Cad Lackey at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (jQ/ea)

72 It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.
*
It would be nice to return to a time when every restaurant didn't have 100 televisions.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026

***
+ 100 on both

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (wzUl9)

73 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (CNl8/)

74 Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)

I do that, until about halfway up the slice, then pick it up and fold it in half.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (0aYVJ)

75 No Kansas either. I do eat at Pizza Hut for my fast food fix. Veggie Pizza with Italian Sausage added. It's five blocks away. I've never lived that close to a chain restaurant before.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (7T8ei)

76 I don't know the hut, but one of the biggest quality problems is that everything is premade and frozen now.

Do these new huts have a guy in the back making fresh dough every morning, and forming pies to order? or is he defrosting frozen dough and ingredients?

Back in the old days, McDonald's would have cows out back and the big locations would kill and butcher one every morning.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (N0IE5)

77 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)

I went to the wrong Pizza Huts, I guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (dK+Kv)

78 Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 05:50

Let me take a wild guess. Hillary Scholten is a Democrat, correct?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (n3VHW)

79 I just hate how gauche the silhouette of Pizza Hut's roofline is.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (q177U)

80 My favorite place growing up was actually Godfathers Pizza. I love tomatoes on pizza and that was standard on theirs. My Wednesday night church youth group would go there a lot.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (3uBP9)

81 > The problem, nobody cares about retro tablecloths and lighting, the problem … is their Pizza sucks. They cheaped out on ingredients and/or procedures somewhere along the way.

Pizza Hut was always bad. Their sauce is super sweet. They were low to middle tier compared to other widespread pizza chains even in the 80s. Unless you lived in a town like Chicago, Boston, NYC or something like that, you didn't have much to compare it against.

Most people could only compare Pizza Hut against Domino's, Little Caesars, Godfather's, Shakey's, or maybe Chuck E Cheese. Sure, compared to those contenders Pizza Hut was alright. But then nicer places showed up and we found out what we were missing.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 05:57 PM (mkw2N)

82 .

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (gtcuf)

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Meh. I'll say the same thing I say about every video now, which is: AI.

Posted by: irright at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (28n8R)

83 I say negatory to a reboot to 2000.

1) A return to Windows 98.
2) No Café.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)

84 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 05:56 PM (CNl8/)

Round Table > Shakey's > Pizza Hut

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (dK+Kv)

85 Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:53 PM (wzUl9)
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Same here. To avoid the very problem of burning the roof of my mouth. Did that far too many times as a kid...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (gnNyN)

86 >> live view: https://tinyurl.com/yrns6uxu

The Mee-thane crew, I call NSF. I love these guys. Space nerds extraordinaire.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (w6EFb)

87
Pizza Hut serving pussy?

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (Y8DZL)

88 Omg, someone beat me to praising Shakey’s pizza!!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (4KUe5)

89 The Pizza Hut near me only recently reopened their dining room, and re-started their lunch buffet. $11 for AYCE pizza, pasta and salad. It's a pretty good deal if you're hungry.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (1Au9i)

90 There's this lone Pizza Hut by the side of the 10 highway between Phoenix and Tucson that is the classic building. Nothing else really around it. I'll have to check if that one is getting revived.

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (xI3lH)

91 60 I relocated to Dallas in the early 1980s and asked where I could get good pizza. And the answer was Pizza Hut. Shit.

But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:49 PM (wBaIH)

I'm going to need some explanation.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM (WAA9U)

I need some addresses. If a place has delicious BBQ and pussy, I'll deal with the Tex Mex.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (xcxpd)

92 It's the digital culture that we have that has diminished social contentment. Turn all of that shit off, go analog.

Not everywhere, but there needs to be places to take a break.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (D1E+2)

93
No different from Chinese places serving cats.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (3ek7K)

94 But they did have delicious BBQ, Tex Mex and pussy. Go with what they know.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov

I went to the wrong Pizza Huts, I guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

That was 'Pizza Slut'.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (vhPr1)

95 I do miss the old Pizza Huts.
The pizza was 100% better back then, too.

I also miss Pizza Inn, which had the pizza buffet and dessert pizza. The last one of those around here closed 20 years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (6ydKt)

96 Same here. To avoid the very problem of burning the roof of my mouth. Did that far too many times as a kid...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (gnNyN)

But didn't you love it when it started to peel?

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:59 PM (WAA9U)

97 I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza. Would you like to have a variety of moderately warm pizza slices that have been pawed and fingered by about a dozen grimy kids straight from the playground? Well do I have good news for you!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (3uBP9)

98 83 I say negatory to a reboot to 2000.

1) A return to Windows 98.
2) No Café.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)

You can run Windows 2000.

Can't help you on the Cafe though. Most blogs weren't around in 1999

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (xcxpd)

99 Shakey's Pizza Parlors

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

Spencer's Gifts

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (wVcYX)

100 Sadly, I think Pizza Hut will need more than that. Like the chain burger market, the chain pizza market is heavy saturated and overbuilt. Consumer tastes are moving away. So the chains are chasing a declining market. A few will not survive.

Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (RO0sO)

101 I would either rollback to a before 9/11 world or barring that, 2009.

Everything started to go to hell when Obama was elected.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (XV/Pl)

102 Yes to the old Puzza Huts, but yes, food must be good!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (4KUe5)

103 I'm going to need some explanation.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 05:54 PM

Four words: Dallas. Henry Hines Boulevard.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)

104 Nowadays, eating out or at home, I use a knife and fork to cut my pizza up.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026
*
I do that, until about halfway up the slice, then pick it up and fold it in half.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026

***
Yeah, at about halfway I can pick it up and just bite; the cheese is cool enough by then.

Come to think of it, ur usual Friday night dinner here is a pizza. I usually get one from Walmart, but sometimes one from Aldi. When I was working I'd sometimes call a local chain place, Reginelli's, order a Detroit-style pizza for pickup, and bring it home on Friday night.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (wzUl9)

105 Shakeys was better than Pizza Hut.

But Pizza Hut delivered. If you wanted Shakeys, you had to go get it yerself, or sit down in the restaurant. As I recall they were quite Large. Today’s “Large” or “XL” from the chains is about what “personal pan” used to be. It’s pathetic.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (zwYaq)

106 McDonald's French Fries. You know, fried in tallow. Because I've run out of crack cocaine.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (Bq1P8)

107 Ok, ok, ok. You got me as a nostalgic Americana kind of guy.

But, who are these bubbly retards babbling in the story?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

108 Shakey's > Pizza Hut

When I was a kid, we had a Shakey's that I remember as being pretty good but it could just be that "everything was better then" false nostalgia. I think the last place that I got genuinely superior pizza was Piz'za Chicago* in the SF bay area 15 or 20 years ago.

* I probably have the punctuation wrong. It's supposed to be a pun on "Piece of."

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (vTZFs)

109 And apropos, I’m watching Animal House and drinking whiskey.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)

110 I mean, it's socialism by degree,

They import 3rd worlders
They give them benefits
Companies cater to the new market and now only produce shit.

So the migrants who are not of this country get state money to buy state regulated crap. And The Party members all get rich and live in enclaves.

How is this different from the Soviet?

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (N0IE5)

111 Shakey's Pizza Parlors

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

Spencer's Gifts
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026

***
The second two used to be in a lot of malls. Shakey's would usually be right nearby.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (wzUl9)

112 To be honest, any hole in the wall mom and pop pizza place in NJ is better than any chain.

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (xI3lH)

113 Just thinking about the pizza aroma when opening the door and walking in a Pizza Hut takes me back to the 80s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (6ydKt)

114 The wife and I do Pizza Fridays but she doesn't like Pizza Hut. Which sucks but I'm supposed to be on the South Beach Diet, so we make do with Tombstone frozen pizza.

They're cheap and relatively low carb without getting into weird crust territory. I put extra cheese on my half

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (xcxpd)

115 There is not much to pizza crust, so it is either inferior flour, not using olive oil, or they are using a dough conditioner like Potassium Bromate or some other preservative like ascorbic acid.
Flour, water, baking soda and yeast are pretty much the recipe, and add malt to speed up the process.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 05:51 PM (rbvCR)
----

Yeah sure pizza crust isn't difficult from an ingredients perspective but making actual good pizza crust is a friggin' art. Let's not gloss over the fact that a lot of places make it from scratch and it still blows ass.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (oqH4h)

116 Mojos alone make Shakey's better than everybody else.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (CNl8/)

117 Iirc, way back in the day, ace had a kind of blue highlight type going on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

118 Shakey’s was the place you went to after a game, the whole team. It was always fun.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (4KUe5)

119 109 And apropos, I’m watching Animal House and drinking whiskey.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:01 PM (XV/Pl)

Well I won't argue against this.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:03 PM (xcxpd)

120 >>> 1) A return to Windows 98.
2) No Café.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (0sNs1)

You can run Windows 2000.

Can't help you on the Cafe though. Most blogs weren't around in 1999
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (xcxpd)

Technology peaked at Windows 3.11 and Mac OS 9. It's been down hill sense.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:03 PM (3uBP9)

121 We do pizza Fridays, but it’s takeout from a restaurant around the corner and it’s delicious.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (4KUe5)

122
And here we go, the nerds are squeeing over the frost on the mee-thane tank.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (w6EFb)

123 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)

124 Lousy-ana is not on the list for a restored PH.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

125 > Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours

I'd always heard that Canadair crash killed the business. Apparently not. The crash was in 1972 and their last location closed in 2019.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (mkw2N)

126 IIRC, something like 90% of all pizza chains use the exact same supplier for all their ingredients. So despite their sniping about who has better quality, the reality is they all have the same stuff.

Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (RO0sO)

127 Four words: Dallas. Henry Hines Boulevard.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)

That was not the part I needed explaining.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (WAA9U)

128 Fave memory of mine as an 18-year old* in the ‘70s was going to our small town Pizza Hut by myself and having a hot sub sandwich with a glass of Hamm’s dark beer. A peaceful big boy thing to do. Bring it back!

*Yes, the legal age was 18 back when America was great.

Posted by: pikkumatti at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (zO177)

129 Spring of 1984. My first date where I drove. I was a sophomore, she was a senior. Movie was "Weekend Pass" (awful), preceded by dinner at Pizza Hut. All for less than $20. Yeah, she broke my heart. But married her classmate. So it worked out.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (CyFyf)

130 I worked at a Pizza Hut in Cour d'Alene in '94. It didn't have the old style tablecloths back then.

The Pan pizzas dough came in frozen slugs. You put oil in the pan, put the pizza dough in the oil and left it to thaw overnight.

I liked it. Still do. Some find it too greasy but it is satisfying.

Damn it, now I want Pizza Hut!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

131 We never had a Shakey's down here.

We did have Godfather's (which I also really miss).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (6ydKt)

132 Everything started to go to hell when Obama was elected.
———

It was an open air asylum long before the JEF.

It did however, accelerate to bizarro-world velocity under that collection of regime twats, for sure.

Yes, Pizza Hut was always “bad”, but it was edible and did the trick. And they delivered. It’s hard to overemphasize that. Pizza is an impulse purchase, a lot of times.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (NxbtL)

133 129 Spring of 1984. My first date where I drove. I was a sophomore, she was a senior. Movie was "Weekend Pass" (awful), preceded by dinner at Pizza Hut. All for less than $20. Yeah, she broke my heart. But married her classmate. So it worked out.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (CyFyf)

Oh God...I know that movie...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

134 Four words: Dallas. Henry Hines Boulevard.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)

That was not the part I needed explaining.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM

IYKYK. ;-)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (0sNs1)

135 We did have Godfather's (which I also really miss).

They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)

136 I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza.

You don't go to Cici's for the quality, you go for the quantity. Also for the variety if say one kid want's pepperoni and one wants cheese. There's a buffet chain called Pizza Ranch is supposedly decent but it's expensive for pizza. Haven't tried it because I know I won't get my $ worth without regretting it later.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (vTZFs)

137 Damn it, now I want Pizza Hut!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

Good luck.

Pizza Hut around here has sucked for 15 years or more.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (6ydKt)

138 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)

Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (xI3lH)

139 In GA there are a lot of hippy themed pizza places. The most prominent being Mellow Mushroom. But there are others, in the peace / love / drugs etc. theme.

I'm kind of on a calzone kick. It allows me to not order with other people and horde things for my self. No sane person asks to share a calzone.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (3uBP9)

140 Yeah sure pizza crust isn't difficult from an ingredients perspective but making actual good pizza crust is a friggin' art. Let's not gloss over the fact that a lot of places make it from scratch and it still blows ass.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 06:02 PM (oqH4h)

Seek out America's Test Kitchen Pizza recipe. The crust is stupid simple.

Dough:
3 cups bread flour, plus more for work surface
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon fast rising yeast
1 1/3 cups ice water
1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus more for work surface
1 1/2 teaspoons salt

They say not to proof the yeast, but I've had best luck at my altitude and water with 110F, with the sugar, using a whole packet of yeast.

The secret to good flavor is let it rise at least 24 hours.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (dK+Kv)

141 Wasn't Gattys also a chain? You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a pizza place at a certain point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (zZu0s)

142 Best pizza crust I've ever had came from a small mom and pop place in my old town. I don't know how they made it, everyone asked and they refused to divulge their secret, but it was fantastic.

Not all pizza dough is the same.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (viF8m)

143 Village Inn Pizza in Billings MT was always my favorite. Light sauce, great crust, fresh ingredients. As a kid I loved it, and as a grown man I still loved it. They have their recipe set.

Gonna visit again after my Mom's celebration of life, the weekend following this one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (0aYVJ)

144 The only Shakey's I ever knew about was in the suburbs when I was in high school, and I hardly ever made it out there except on a bus route that went nowhere near the Shakey's. A bunch of my castmates in a play drove out there one night, and I used to see the restaurant some years later when I lived out there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

145 >>>
They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)

Fuh get a bout it....

Posted by: banana Dream - no really that was their motto at May 22, 2026 06:07 PM (3uBP9)

146 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

Howard Johnson is right!

Rerruh!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (Hxgql)

147 >>>Yes to the old Puzza Huts, but yes, food must be good!!

Posted by: Lizzy

>They did something to their sauce that is upsetting and they'd do more business if they addressed that. Add sugar maybe? I don't need the reflux. Other than that, it's not a bad experience.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (D1E+2)

148 Jim Belushi made it big. Then he died.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

149 FYI - since it is all but impossible to determine scale of the rocket from the videos, the total height of the Starship stack on the pad today is 408 feet.

Stack = Superheavy Booster + Starship space vehicle.

Taller than a Saturn V/Apollo stack (363 feet). Taller than the current configuration of NASA's SLS booster/second stage/Orion spacecraft stack (322 feet).

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (5rh/l)

150 They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)

I couldn't.

Then just disappeared except for little kiosk type sales at convenience stores. I don't know what happened to Godfather's, they had pretty good pizza compared to their competitors at the time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

151 I mean, it's socialism by degree ….How is this different from the Soviet?
———

Communists are just Socialists In A Hurry

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (NxbtL)

152 22 Bring back Howard Johnsons. Motel and restaurant.

Posted by: Orange Roof And All at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (oftw2)

oh man, never could figure out how they could fail! Every time we went to Florida (Mom worked for Delta) we always stayed at one....eat , swim, eat, sleep all within a block...

Posted by: zigggggy at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (EDeJ/)

153 Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?
Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026

***
The actor Tom Hulce, who played Mozart, was the young guy who meets up with the young checkout girl (who later proves to be underage).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)

154 @138

>> Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?

Yeah, but his career stalled after it.

There are some really fine actors in AH, some did a couple of movies, some where in tv shows, but only Kevin Bacon made it big.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (XV/Pl)

155 Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?
Posted by: InZona

He was - Tom Hulce.

Tim Matheson (Otter) continues to work as did Bruce McGill (D-Day).

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (vhPr1)

156 One of the best pizzas I ever had was the wrong order! I ate it anyway and it was perfect. I never could get the place to duplicate it again though. Then they moved.

Posted by: fd at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (vFG9F)

157 137 Damn it, now I want Pizza Hut!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:05 PM (xcxpd)

Good luck.

Pizza Hut around here has sucked for 15 years or more.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (6ydKt)

There's one in Monroe. It's all right. I just can't go very often/ever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (xcxpd)

158 78 Let me take a wild guess. Hillary Scholten is a Democrat, correct?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Correct. Gerrymandered into a West Michigan conservative area.

This his her way of reaching out to white rich lib wywmyn and their concerns.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (Y8DZL)

159 > I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza.

Chuck E Cheese pizza is worse than lunch cafeteria pizza. I remember having some as a kid, and even to my very undiscerning taste at the time, it was bad.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (mkw2N)

160 Donald Sutherland also bangs the one dudes girlfriend.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)

161 150 They'll make you a pizza you can't refuse?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (guGkK)

I couldn't.

Then just disappeared except for little kiosk type sales at convenience stores. I don't know what happened to Godfather's, they had pretty good pizza compared to their competitors at the time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (6ydKt)

The got bought out IIRC

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

162 I also blame "America's Test Kitchen" and that whole "food scientist" mentality.

I was an early adapter to Harold Mcgee, so I am not against food science, but colleges started teaching everyone how to use chemicals to make food a mass market product. Look at ingredient lists nowadays and it is all chemicals because everything is premade, frozen, or fake.

To make a real pizza, they would have to go back to real cheese, real pepperoni or sausage, real dough,....

Can you even buy olive oil that is not adulterated crap today? In quantity?

I grew up in New Jersey and the pizza places (all red sauce joints) were supplied by Lisanti Foods (or else.) and they imported from Italy. It was the mob, but it was good quality. Now it is that other mob - the US private equity mob and the quality is shit. Chemicals and shit.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:10 PM (N0IE5)

163 I think the suburbs here still have an old-style pizza parlor called Tower of Pizza. It's been there for at least fifty years, maybe longer.

This week, the pizza/Italian place just up the street from me had some drunken/high clown drive his car into the front of the restaurant -- smashed through the wall as if in a movie. Nobody was hurt, and the owners say they should be open again soon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (wzUl9)

164 The thing that makes Animal House a standout is that the acting is really good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (XV/Pl)

165 136 I would say the worst pizza is probably the kid themed pizza. Like cici's pizza.

You don't go to Cici's for the quality, you go for the quantity. Also for the variety if say one kid want's pepperoni and one wants cheese. There's a buffet chain called Pizza Ranch is supposedly decent but it's expensive for pizza. Haven't tried it because I know I won't get my $ worth without regretting it later.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (vTZFs)

Yup, comparable to Little Ceasars.
Cheap, but two pizzas instead of one.

Pizza! Pizza!.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (6ydKt)

166 Chuck E Cheese was horrible pizza.

Having a rat as a mascot was on the nose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

167
The vapor clouds from all the venting at the tank farm is getting YUGE. That's a sanctified shit-ton of cold N2 vapor being vented.

The Raptors use subcooled liquid "mee-thane" and LOX. Rather than keeping them in the tanks at the boiling point, they chill them way down closer to the freezing point. This increases the density, but means they sit there too long with the tanks full before launch.

At any rate, they use LN2 to do the subcooling as they're filling the tanks, and just blow off that vaporized N2 from the heat exchanger output.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (w6EFb)

168 I'm kind of on a calzone kick. It allows me to not order with other people and horde things for my self. No sane person asks to share a calzone.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:06 PM (3uBP9)

You know about the calzones?

Posted by: George Costanza at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (wVcYX)

169 There was a Shakey's Pizza in Billings, many years ago.

I was in my Dad's barbershop chorus/quartet group. One of the old timers, Billy, used to sing Barbershop quartet at the Shakey's.

My life has kind of straddled some generational timelines.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (0aYVJ)

170 Chuck E Cheese pizza is worse than lunch cafeteria pizza. I remember having some as a kid, and even to my very undiscerning taste at the time, it was bad.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:09 PM (mkw2N)

Preach.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (WAA9U)

171 My little town with TWO intersections with sets of stoplights has about 4 places you can buy pizza. I honestly don't know how these places stay open.

And we have two cannabis shops. Maybe three.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (Sco7b)

172 >of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
----

Boone's girlfriend became Marion Ravenwood.

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 06:12 PM (ZxPkt)

173 The got bought out IIRC

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

Pizza is a pretty crowded market.
I suspect Godfather's lost ground because they didn't deliver, around here at least.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (6ydKt)

174 From now on, your name is Flounder.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (XV/Pl)

175 Bread or Pizza, aged dough is far superior. You can make a Poolish is one way. Refrigerate dough balls for up to a week, say.

Even cookie dough is much improved final product by an overnight in the fridge. Good luck persuading little kids with this. “We’re gonna make Cookies!”

“Yay!!”

“We’ll bake them Tomorrow”

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (lRO1C)

176 The thing that makes Animal House a standout is that the acting is really good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026

***
Which is why I have this sneaking admiration for all the characters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)

177
Those massive clouds of N2 can displace enough O2 from the air close by to be dangerous, I was reading. So they've got to be careful about people too close. I everybody is well out of the way when all that starts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (w6EFb)

178 I have fond memories in college of Pizza Hut. They served booze there. Believe it or not, PH was the happening place there for the college scene. Yea, I went to a rural college.

I was from NYC and used to partying like a rock star at Manhattan clubs. When I got to college, I was like ‘where’s the happening scene with the hot chicks?’ I was told “Pizza Hut.’ I thought they were pulling my dick. ‘You gotta be fucking yanking my dick,’ I said. But they weren’t.

Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (RO0sO)

179 Husband and young sons once got food poisoning at a Pizza Hut on a vacation trip to see my family. We had to avoid the panhandle of FL due to a hurricane or flood & I think were in Meridian, MS.

Like stupids they ate from the buffet. I dislike buffets and had something else and was fine.

They spent the entire vacation sick and moaning. After a visit with one son to the urgent care we got Phenergan suppositories for them. Then they had to listen to their Dad moan every time he exhaled, which he does with a high fever. Plus the GI stuff.

I would dose them up, provide Pedialyte and Gatorade and they'd hear me swimming laps and be angry. I can't help it if I'm not stupid and eat from a buffet with little children probably picking at food with booger fingers.

That's the last time we ate there.

I'm still getting weird texts from my brother about the strange toilet extender mother had put on the upstairs commode.Which needs to be removed before tomorrow.

I may need to be removed because I feel like I am being deported for a long weekend to CECOT with Somolians. I keep getting texts about stuff. Son in FL wants a grocery list, which is nice but he needs to check the gin supply first.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (WONhk)

180 Wasn't Amadeus in Animal House?

The music was mostly early rhythm and blues Influenced rock and roll and (very briefly) some folk music. There was no classical at all.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:14 PM (Hxgql)

181
The flow rates for the mee-thane and LOX together are well over 10K GPM. Just imagine the flow rates of LN2 required to cool that down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (w6EFb)

182 @172

>> Boone's girlfriend became Marion Ravenwood.

It’s a crime that Karen Allen didn’t have a bigger career.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (XV/Pl)

183 They say not to proof the yeast, but I've had best luck at my altitude and water with 110F, with the sugar, using a whole packet of yeast.

The secret to good flavor is let it rise at least 24 hours.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

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"they" are always wrong on this. I use the SAF instant yeast, and it is so much better if you proof in warm water as you say. I have little mixer and mix yeast, water, salt, and sugars for all dough and it always works better.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (N0IE5)

184 You don't go to Cici's for the quality, you go for the quantity. Also for the variety if say one kid want's pepperoni and one wants cheese. There's a buffet chain called Pizza Ranch is supposedly decent but it's expensive for pizza. Haven't tried it because I know I won't get my $ worth without regretting it later.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026

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We had a couple of Cici's Pizza places in town. I think they're gone now. It was like eating in a cattle car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)

185 The "Trolley Car" pizza joint in Wheaton, MD was.. the bomb.

They played silent moves. Cartoons. Etc. Bench seating.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (jehhT)

186
Christy,

I hope y'all have a great time.

I'm looking forward to your stories from your trip.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:16 PM (3ek7K)

187 If you can find a place that makes pastrami pizza try it. It is delicious. Best pizza I've ever had. Cheese pizza topped with pastrami, mustard, and pickles.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 06:16 PM (CNl8/)

188 If making bad pizza was a sport then Pizza Hut would be an Olympic Champion.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 06:16 PM (3z/6E)

189 We do pizza Fridays, but it’s takeout from a restaurant around the corner and it’s delicious.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (4KUe5)

When the wife and I have pizza, it's french bread pizza and I make the sauce and assemble everything myself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (ExV1e)

190 Jim Belushi made it big. Then he died.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

Jim was the brother (Trading Places baggage handler)

John Belushi was Animal House (Senator Blutarsky). Also a lucky bastard peeping in on Mandy Pepperidge changing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (wVcYX)

191 I grew up in WNY and they have some excellent pizza joints there. Buffalo-style pizza uses "char-cup" pepperoni which curls up and turns charred at the edges while the "cup" retains a smidgeon of oil. For true Buffalo-style, you dip the crust in bleu cheese dressing, which you already have because of course you ordered wings with your pizza.

My favorite pizza joint here in Colorado recently added char-cup to their menu, yay!

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (gtcuf)

192 My college actually had a pretty good pizza place in the basement of the student center. And a bowling alley somewhere. Never saw the alley. But spent plenty of time getting pizza and beer there.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (3uBP9)

193
The local Pizza Hut survived by doing off-the-menu stuff and catering to their actual customers desires.

Employing your neighbor's kid was a huge bonus.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (Y8DZL)

194 Oops. Time I took the cats' canned chow out of the fridge and ran some water in their bowls. Their dinner is to be at six pm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (wzUl9)

195 Jim Belushi made it big. Then he died.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

You mean his brother, John Belushi.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:17 PM (Hxgql)

196
They're going to push the limits on the boostback burn for the booster. All 33 Raptors are going to be firing, doing one hell of g-force boostback. Elon is going to stress that thing to the limit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (w6EFb)

197 176 The thing that makes Animal House a standout is that the acting is really good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026

***
Which is why I have this sneaking admiration for all the characters.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)

My reaction to the characters is....quite different.

But I don't want to rain on TB's Friday

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (xcxpd)

198 I grew up in New Jersey and the pizza places (all red sauce joints) were supplied by Lisanti Foods (or else.) and they imported from Italy. It was the mob
———

There was a huge scandal at the time, that was pushed out of the news of November 22nd 1963

Called the “Great Salad Oil Swindle” involving huge tank farms in New Jersey, an elaborate system of pipes to transfer product to different tanks in the event of inspection, and tanks filled with water. Futures trading can be profitable, but this was a huge fraud operation.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (lRO1C)

199 > Cheese pizza topped with pastrami, mustard, and pickles.

Were you pregnant when you ate this?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (mkw2N)

200 I grew up in The Bronx where there is a pizza parlor on every corner.

Eating at Pizza Hut would have been considered sacrilegious.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (XV/Pl)

201 A helluva lot of pizza joints in Boise. I am guessing most are mid.

I miss Beau-jo's. One of the few things I miss about Colorado.

Well, and the Mom and Pop Mexican restaurants in my former town. Have yet to find "The Place" regarding Mexican food here.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (0aYVJ)

202 I grew up in New Jersey and the pizza places (all red sauce joints) were supplied by Lisanti Foods (or else.) and they imported from Italy. It was the mob, but it was good quality. Now it is that other mob - the US private equity mob and the quality is shit. Chemicals and shit.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22,

Italy insists on made in Italy and the flag on any olive oil from there, so look for that. We tend to get it from Tuscany, so it’s a little more peppery than scicilian olive oil. Dievole will use only one type of oil. If you want to get super fancy. Awesome to drizzle on bread.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 06:18 PM (hftzA)

203 @197

>> But I don't want to rain on TB's Friday

I’ve had two glasses of whiskey so far, nothing can rain on my Friday.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:19 PM (XV/Pl)

204 200 Eating at Pizza Hut would have been considered sacrilegious.

That's one thing that's true all across NY state!

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:19 PM (gtcuf)

205 Shakeys was some kind of paradise for kids. It had everything, EVERYTHING!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:19 PM (5yqx7)

206 No pizzas I have eaten were/are as good as the 3-4 very small chains in my hometown.

The Pizza Oven
Italo's
Kraus's

BUT, I may be remembering the nostalgia they loaded them up on. That is a tough ingredient to top.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (vhPr1)

207 I tried the local Pizza Hut delivery for the first time in many years a few months ago, hoping it had improved, and I'd get a decent pizza.

Nope.
It arrived almost cold and was actually worse than I remembered.

So I went back to ordering from Marcos when I want a pizza or calzone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (6ydKt)

208 Roll it back. Roll it all back.

Reverse, reboot, and restore.

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"Kill The Cheerleaders, Save The World!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (FISzD)

209 I think I played my first arcade game at Shakey's.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 06:20 PM (CNl8/)

210 201 I miss Beau-jo's. One of the few things I miss about Colorado

Beau-Jo's in Fort Collins? I'm a fan of Mama Roni's, and Pizza Casbah for NY-style.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (gtcuf)

211
Not a fan of pizza. Put the toppings on pasta and I'm good to go.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (3ek7K)

212 Cheese pizza topped with pastrami, mustard, and pickles.

That sounds like the kind of thing you'd see on Pizza day at the Great British Bakeoff

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (5yqx7)

213 Wasn't Gattys also a chain?

Still is, although it's Gatti's. Mr. Gatti's, to be precise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

214 All this pizza talk made me hungry so I went ahead and made my pizza and put it in the oven just now...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (gnNyN)

215 Separately, I'm not hungry. The dog Ralphy ate, I carried him downstairs here with me and he's sleeping on the quilt in the computer room.

The cat Snowflake ate earlier and she's upstairs on my bed on top of a towel I have there - I do buy and give her flea medication. She usually comes here with us.

I'm just getting my stuff done but this is a nice quiet scene.

Alabama's greatest hits on the CD player too.

Not too bad....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (Sco7b)

216 I think the idea is cool as hell but I hate public places these days and prefer my wife’s homemade pizza.
Wife had surgery this morning to repair her broken leg. She is getting much needed sleep right now. All prayers for successful recovery will be deeply appreciated.
It’s actually Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas. Not quite as bad as it used to be. Seems most of the hookers are trannies these days. I did weekend work at the new psych hospital. The city is filthy.

Posted by: Billythesquid at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (auDTc)

217 We had a couple of Cici's Pizza places in town. I think they're gone now. It was like eating in a cattle car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM

One time we pulled into Hong Kong for liberty back in the 80s. My buddy convinced me to go to the spaghetti warehouse to eat because he said it was great.

It was a buffet line set up with all you could eat and you sat at row upon row of picnic tables that were bolted to the floor. It was crowded, smelly and worse than eating in the galley onboard the carrier and the spaghetti tasted like chef boy ar dee from a can. I never went back.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (0N4FZ)

218 Still is, although it's Gatti's. Mr. Gatti's, to be precise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

Thanks. For some reason I always thought of then as seedy. May have been the neighborhood they were in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

219 @211

>> Not a fan of pizza.

This series of words makes no sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (XV/Pl)

220 Does the roll back include our ages?

Posted by: DJ at May 22, 2026 06:23 PM (uosPt)

221 . Dievole will use only one type of oil

That is one type of olive.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 06:23 PM (OoFl2)

222 Beau-Jo's in Fort Collins? I'm a fan of Mama Roni's, and Pizza Casbah for NY-style.
Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (gtcuf)

Yup. They moved locations. I liked the old location in the old bank building.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:23 PM (0aYVJ)

223 > Italy insists on made in Italy and the flag on any olive oil from there, so look for that.

The mob in Italy imports olive oil from Africa and labels it made in Italy.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (mkw2N)

224 Shakey’s was the place you went to after a game, the whole team. It was always fun.

Yes, so many times. And you had just burned off the calories you needed to make room for the pizza and beer. Those were the days.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (Bq1P8)

225 Youngsters are resorting to old-school tech like vintage flip phones and iPods.
.....

I am proud to say I never got sucked into a Smart Phone. Stuck it out with my flip phones and I survived. Just phone calls and text.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (UjdFS)

226 Marcos has a new "NY Deli Style Xtra Large" pizza that's pretty good.

It's close to the typical thin, greasy, huge/foldable, slice with giant pepperoni on it that you'd get up in NYC.

It's very close but not quite on the same level as the grease-trap pizza you get by the slice.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (6ydKt)

227 "they" are always wrong on this. I use the SAF instant yeast, and it is so much better if you proof in warm water as you say. I have little mixer and mix yeast, water, salt, and sugars for all dough and it always works better.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (N0IE5)

I've had better luck proofing it when making a french bread loaf, too. Red Star Rapid Rise is what I use for the pizza dough.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 06:24 PM (dK+Kv)

228 @186...hopefully: "Great trip! I didn't kill anyone!It rained the entire time and we all felt the love of the Walton's and played board games and cards."

I know what I'm having is gin on Sunday, my first of the summer. Especially if we are rained in or dodging tornadoes. Mother does have a generator now, which won't help a lot in misery. The power goes out A LOT on the farm.

Last year it was all fine (from what I can remember) and no one got bit by snakes at the lake or attacked by fire ants.

I did take a photo of a tranny as we boarded the plane from NOLA to home.

No fire alarms in our NOLA hotel at 3am (it's happened). No bums accosted us unless you count the one by the river and Cafe du Monde who wants money if he guesses which state you are from (he's done this for 2yrs).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (WONhk)

229
"Kill The Cheerleaders, Save The World!"
Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026

***
"The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

230 It’s a crime that Karen Allen didn’t have a bigger career.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:15 PM (XV/Pl)

She chose not to. She left Hollywood some time ago.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (fZiTB)

231 There was a great local pizza place when I was in college during the mid-80s in Palo Alto (the poor kids called it "Shallow Alto") -- I'd stop there on my way home from work (on my bicycle, I didn't own a car until I was 26) to treat myself most evenings -- called Mountain Mike's.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (FISzD)

232
123 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)

Tim Matheson maybe wasn’t big, but he had a very good career. Doug Kennedy (cowriter) tragically fell off a cliff and died a few months after it came out. And you know all about Belushi.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (NyxOA)

233 It’s actually Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas. Not quite as bad as it used to be. Seems most of the hookers are trannies these days.

Is Rick Fairless' Strokers* still there?

* Motorcycles, you pervs! What did you think?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:26 PM (vTZFs)

234 Use bread dough. Any decent brand is fine. Gold Medal, KA, whatever.

Make a Poolish or let the whole shootin’ match, let it ferment at least 24 hours in a WARM place. You will start to smell this amazing tangy aroma. When it bakes it seems to color up better, and has a much more complex, exotic flavor and aroma. All purpose flour doesn’t react the same, no matter how you push it, it just smells like Wonder Bread.

Make those Yeasties work for a living, is the idea.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:26 PM (lRO1C)

235 Pizza Hut nearby, gets a reasonable business. What’s shut down all around here is KFC. Just gone.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:26 PM (Gqar8)

236 Round Table > Shakey's > Pizza Hut
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 05:58 PM (dK+Kv)

UPDATE:

Straw Hat/Round Table > Shakey's > Pizza Hut

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (1Ff7Z)

237 3 Tulsi Gabbard Resigns ? Saw headline on America's Unknown Stories (listening but they haven't got to this yet).
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

Husband has a rare form of cancer, so I understand her resigning. Prayers for both of them. I fully expect the usual suspects to go full retard with various conspiracies.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (yKhjs)

238 I watched the video interview of Sparks (easily found on YouTube)

I think the most important point he made was, apart from the retro-nostalgia, that people are actually putting down their phones, talking to each other and having conversations over a meal once again.

More than anything else, I think this would help to bring our culture back toward what it once was.

Posted by: alanon at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (jHMkm)

239 Just don't open one up in DC.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (n5tGW)

240 "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

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Heh.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (FISzD)

241 Still is, although it's Gatti's. Mr. Gatti's, to be precise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

Thanks. For some reason I always thought of then as seedy. May have been the neighborhood they were in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:22 PM (zZu0s)

As far as chains go, the wife prefers Gatti's because the sauce is sour rather than sweet but absolutely everything else about their pizzas is crap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (ExV1e)

242 I can't help it if I'm not stupid and eat from a buffet with little children probably picking at food with booger fingers.
......

and sneezing in the gravy.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (UjdFS)

243 I did take a photo of a tranny as we boarded the plane from NOLA to home.

No fire alarms in our NOLA hotel at 3am (it's happened). No bums accosted us unless you count the one by the river and Cafe du Monde who wants money if he guesses which state you are from (he's done this for 2yrs).
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026

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Did anybody say he could tell you where you got your shoes?

What hotel did you stay in, and what areas did you visit?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (wzUl9)

244 232
123 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)

Tom Hulce Did pretty good....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (FtULh)

245 240 "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

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Heh.
Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:27 PM (FISzD)

Around here, she almost certainly does. Everyone does.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (Gqar8)

246 Hideaway Pizza in the OKC area is pretty good.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (vTZFs)

247
Near 1 minute to go.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (w6EFb)

248 Oh man, I would love for KFC to taste like it did when I was young.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 06:28 PM (n5tGW)

249 Actually, there is a good pizza place here in TN. In Sparta (go figure):

Marioochi's. Good stuff but not cheap. The same owners opened an Italian cheese shop just around the corner - Formaggi. Great cheeses, sauce, gellatos and sammiches. Doing a hell of a business with all the transplanted Italians.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (vhPr1)

250 It's a danged shame that Lisa Bauer (Shelly Dubinsky) didn't get more screen time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (wVcYX)

251 Beau Joes pizza in Idaho Springs is the best!!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (4KUe5)

252 The Magaddino (alleged) crime family owns the excellent La Nova in Buffalo. There's no pizza like Mob pizza. Same in New Jersey. It's been years, so maybe it's changed, but back in the day when you went to a Sabres game or a concert at The Aud, La Nova had a monopoly on the pushcart biz. For obvious reasons LOL. I had a girlfriend whose cousin worked at La Nova. She had some tales to tell!

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (gtcuf)

253 I'm a fan of Long John Silvers, but the local one was part of a KFC hybrid and went out of business.

Nearest place now is a couple hours south down in Phoenix ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 06:29 PM (FISzD)

254 It's on!

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (vTZFs)

255 Tim Matheson maybe wasn’t big, but he had a very good career. Doug Kennedy (cowriter) tragically fell off a cliff and died a few months after it came out. And you know all about Belushi.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026

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Matheson, if I recall aright, was the voice of the original Jonny Quest. And I think he starred with Kurt Russell later in a Western TV series called The Quest (??).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (wzUl9)

256 I've had better luck proofing it when making a french bread loaf, too. Red Star Rapid Rise is what I use for the pizza dough.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

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I use SAF for everything, and in Japan the kitchens are unheated so I had trouble with things like cinamon rolls in winter in past without proofing.

(And by "little mixer" above I meant one of those battery powered things used for frothing milk or mixing hot cocoa)

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (N0IE5)

257 >>>
That sounds like the kind of thing you'd see on Pizza day at the Great British Bakeoff
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:21 PM (5yqx7)

LMAO!!

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (Hucnr)

258 When you are a little tyke, and you have your first slice of pizza, it is wonderful because it is all new. It is literally the best pizza you have ever had because it’s the only pizza you have ever had! Comparisons come later.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (Hxgql)

259 In May 1986 my senior year my high school Sparks High(Sparks, NV) had a Godfathers Pizza right down the street. A large portion of my class was going to meet there for lunch one last time after getting our caps n gowns at our gymnasium. A bunch of us showed up at Godfathers and the server said it was going to take an hour or so to make n cook all the pizzas. We voiced our displeasure. Then some older black dude came walking up and asked us what was going on. We told him and he immediately went behind the counter himself and started cracking the whip. Pizzas cooked brought out to us in 20 minutes. He sat down with us and started talking asking us questions and said he was traveling around the country to Godfather locations to get a feel because he had just taken over as Godfathers CEO. It was Herman Cain.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (IlL6s)

260 In the 1990's I was up in NH, and having come from the Philly and NYC areas previously it depressed me that Pizza in that part of New England meant throwing a frozen pizza in the oven. No slices available for that reason as well.

Was up there recently, and they've made it into the 21st century on Pizza.

On a side note, maybe I couldn't get decent pizza at the time, but there were at least 3 restaurants that served wild game.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (dIske)

261 Re; Animal House. I think Peter Riegert (Boone) had a much better, more laid-back, smart-ass attitude than Tim Matheson (Otter). Were I in that situation, I would have liked Boone better.

Bluto would have scared the fuck out of me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (0aYVJ)

262 Round Table had pretty good pizza but it was HELLA expensive, around here at least.

What’s shut down all around here is KFC. Just gone.

KFC is such a pathetic disaster. Their chicken sucks. They cost too much. They cannot seem to figure out anything OTHER than make the food better. The pot pies are pretty good but I am certain they buy them from someone else

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (5yqx7)

263 Beau Joes pizza in Idaho Springs is the best!!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026

***
If they were around between 1997 and 2001, I'm pretty sure I ate there!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:31 PM (wzUl9)

264
I didn't go to Pizza Hut back in the day. Someone who did recalled it. Pizza Hut had something called "The Mexican Salad," like a taco salad I guess This person described it as "looking like a hairy Mexican had tossed it by throwing it against their chest."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 06:31 PM (azNOR)

265 Pretty sure it’s “Harry Hines Blvd”

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:31 PM (A5RD0)

266 KFC is such a pathetic disaster. Their chicken sucks. They cost too much. They cannot seem to figure out anything OTHER than make the food better. The pot pies are pretty good but I am certain they buy them from someone else
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026

***
Best sketch ever on Laugh-In:

Col. Sanders calling, "Here, chicky, chicky, chicky --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (wzUl9)

267 Hideaway Pizza in the OKC area is pretty good.
Posted by: Oddbob

That's our go-to. Hey! I think I'll go!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (l26NL)

268 Starship is off.

Posted by: MkY at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (q6tQZ)

269 232
123 And watching Animal House I’m struck that of all of the good young actors featured in it, the only one that made it big was Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 06:04 PM (XV/Pl)

Tim Matheson maybe wasn’t big, but he had a very good career. Doug Kennedy (cowriter) tragically fell off a cliff and died a few months after it came out. And you know all about Belushi.
Posted by: Tom Servo

He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (yKhjs)

270
The only chain "restaurant" we have here is Subway and it sucksl

Dogfood on a sub roll would taste better and be cheaper.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (3ek7K)

271 Donald Sutherland was the only “big name” A-list actor in the movie. That was kind or the point, they couldn’t afford a bunch of expensive talent. It was a low budget film that made a fuckton of money. Against all odds, maybe. I think Don later regretted turning down a percentage of the proceeds, he opted for a lump sum I think. Hindsight is 20/20

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (+Oqoq)

272 When you are a little tyke, and you have your first slice of pizza, it is wonderful because it is all new. It is literally the best pizza you have ever had because it’s the only pizza you have ever had! Comparisons come later.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026 06:30 PM (Hxgql)

And, if you're a child in NY/NJ, they immediately begin the Clockwork Orange procedure to ensure that you always tell everyone that no pizza made elsewhere will ever be any good.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (ExV1e)

273 Colonel Sanders was a wild man, his story is hilarious. He got into a fried chicken war with another gas station LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (5yqx7)

274 ......oh and Herman Cain paid for our food.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (IlL6s)

275 268 Starship is off.
Posted by: MkY at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (q6tQZ)

Like, off the Pad?

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (Gqar8)

276 A young Tim Matheson voiced Johnny Quest in the cartoon.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (+Oqoq)

277 273 Colonel Sanders was a wild man, his story is hilarious. He got into a fried chicken war with another gas station LOL
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (5yqx7)
_______________________

Was he the one who considered fake kidnapping a relative to gain seed money to start a restaurant?

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (dIske)

278 He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.

He is truly great, always a solid performance, every time and yeah that episode still haunts me. Especially the Dire Straits ending.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (5yqx7)

279 I see that Pennsylvania's sites are not in or near Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, York, and so on. It might work...for a while.

Posted by: No nic, another fine day at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (NFX2v)

280 Both NY and NJ have excellent pizza shops. However, there's a special place in my heart for Goldberg's Pizza which was on 3rd Ave. in Manhattan. I think he had another location downtown. Alas, it is no more, but I have his little cookbook!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (3ImbR)

281 Like, off the Pad?
Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 06:33 PM (Gqar

Yes. They're having issues though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 06:34 PM (ExV1e)

282 It was Herman Cain.
Posted by: JROD

WOW!!!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (l26NL)

283 Thick crust deep dish pizza is gross.

Needs thin, crispy crust and fresh ingredients. Pineapple and Canadian bacon is just fine.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (A5RD0)

284 Was he the one who considered fake kidnapping a relative to gain seed money to start a restaurant?

I had not heard that but it wouldn't surprise me. Dude built his own hot oil pressure fryer from parts at the garage, somehow wothout blowing up the gas station and killing himself

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (5yqx7)

285
Boostback for the booster failed, and one of the Raptor on the Ship itself went out.

Booster is a goner (but they were going to expend it anyway).

Ship can still do the planned trajectory with the remaining engines.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:35 PM (w6EFb)

286
A cousin's kid has a place in Chicago that his holiness of pizza reviews Dave Portnoy has reviewed, criteria there was if it had a New Haven crunchy crust and the right kind of cheese.

What I make on the grill with anchovies, roasted tomatoes and other odd ingredients, roasted till brown, would horrify you all.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (Y8DZL)

287 250 It's a danged shame that Lisa Bauer (Shelly Dubinsky) didn't get more screen time.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Yep. She was memorable! I vaguely recall that she got married, got out of the Hollywood biz, moved to New Zealand. No idea if any of that is true but it sounds good. She was a beauty with amazing bewbs!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (yKhjs)

288 270
The only chain "restaurant" we have here is Subway and it sucksl

Dogfood on a sub roll would taste better and be cheaper.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:32 PM (3ek7K)

I just had a very good sandwich from Jersey Mike's so you have my sympathy. I avoid Subway whenever possible.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (6ydKt)

289 Church’s Fried Chicken >>> KFC

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 06:36 PM (A5RD0)

290 The Panicans:

x.com/ingelramdecoucy/status/2057947556324258047

Fataturk, lol

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (3uBP9)

291 Given how this Pizza Hut reboot seems to be heavily promoted by conservative commentators, I'm sure the Left will try to cancel this

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (FLx59)

292
Well, the boostback was aborted, but looks like they tried a landing burn anyway.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (w6EFb)

293 When you are a little tyke, and you have your first slice of pizza, it is wonderful because it is all new. It is literally the best pizza you have ever had because it’s the only pizza you have ever had! Comparisons come later.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at May 22, 2026

***
The only pizza I've ever had that came close to that "first one" was one at Port of Call, on the edge of the Quarter. A dark, atmospheric place, the kind of joint you take someone you're not married to, with great burgers and pizza.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9)

294 It was Herman Cain.
Posted by: JROD

I remember when he unexpectedly passed, all the Left and hell itself rejoiced in the most despicable fashion.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (l26NL)

295 Welp, it's fish night at The Cabin. They claim to have walleye.

We'll see.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (vhPr1)

296 Jimmy John's.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

297 He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.
>>>

aka the Sheriff in My Cousin Vinny

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (wVcYX)

298 283 Thick crust deep dish pizza is gross.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Please try Jet's pizza if there's one nearby, you may learn to think otherwise.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 06:39 PM (Y8DZL)

299 A dark, atmospheric place, the kind of joint you take someone you're not married to, with great burgers and pizza.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9)

You better know how to use your fists?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:39 PM (zZu0s)

300
Walleye is so great.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (3ek7K)

301 Nood

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (l26NL)

302 He didn't get famous, but Bruce McGill is a great character actor. He has been in a slew of TV shows and movies. You'll recognize him as soon as you see him. He was in probably the best episode of Miami Vice, 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run'.

+++++

Brother D-Day i. Animal House!

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (FLx59)

303 296 Jimmy John's.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (zZu0s)

I need to try them.
They have some places here but they're several towns over.

I like Firehouse Subs, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (6ydKt)

304 @ 243...I think the bum "owns" part of the River Walk as he tried his bs with my husband one year and son the next. I tell my Long Island husband every time we go to NOLA to not make eye contact (for 47yrs). Yet he still does. DIL grabbed her son's hand and yanked him away as my eejit talked politely to the bum. I don't know where I was.

Last year at Mass a homeless woman tried to set the collection plate on fire as it's never dull.

I think we were at the Royal Orleans that time. Monteleone this time. We know to avoid the hotel on Bourbon Street and the name escapes me at this point. Sons as teens liked watching the strippers from as much as they could see from their bedroom.

We know NOLA well. Mostly hang out in French Quarter a few hours in the day, and are mainly there due to avoiding the Atlanta airport at all costs. Because you then get to ride on the most ancient of Delta planes in and out of Jackson (which we also try to avoid).

We also know not to stay out late with the kids and eat dinner early. I survived one Mardi Gras in college and that was enough to last a lifetime. The food is worth the insanity. Galatoire's for my birthday dinner again is always perfect.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (WONhk)

305 I had two slices of Sicilian pizza tonight. Stuffed.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 22, 2026 06:41 PM (3ImbR)

306 @294 Blutarski-yes I remember the lefts celebration of that. Can't have a successful black man that achieved what he did through hard work n education. Very cool memory and supported his run for Republican nominee. Exactly forty years ago this month.
Damn, my forty year reunion is June 12th in Sparks.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 06:45 PM (IlL6s)

307 A dark, atmospheric place, the kind of joint you take someone you're not married to, with great burgers and pizza.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:37 PM (wzUl9)
*
You better know how to use your fists?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026

***
I don't know about now, but when I was there in the late Eighties it was a quiet bistro sort of place -- where the narrator in the song "Me and Mrs. Jones" would have met every day at 6:30, and no one knew she'd be there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 06:47 PM (wzUl9)

308 The only Pizza Hut location left around here is in a gas station. I used to know the franchise owner and they also hosted our disc golf club. Out of five locations there are only two original buildings still standing.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 22, 2026 07:01 PM (Q/FnY)

309 Church’s Fried Chicken >>> KFC

no church's around here

At this point though That old fried chicken on the gas station rollers at the end of the day > KFC

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 07:09 PM (5yqx7)

310 They need to bring back the old version of the pan pizza - dough made with yeast in the restaurant each morning and then fashioned into a crust inside of a pan that was heated to just this side of the surface of the sun-facing side of Mercury. So good.

Posted by: Kreskin at May 22, 2026 09:36 PM (xP8Wr)

311 Now hold on thar, pardner! I’ll do the thinkin’ around here, and don’t you fergit it, ya hear?

AoS really thinks slappin’ a red roof back on the Pizza Hut, bringin’ out the salad bar, and pourin’ some red plastic cups full of sweet tea is gonna reboot America back to the glory days of the 80s? Hawww!

Par for the course with you neocons. Y’all wreck the country with endless wars, open borders, exploding debt, and cultural rot for decades, then act like the solution is just wishin’ real hard for some retro aesthetics and a reboot button.

Newsflash, pardner: you can’t fix the hell you helped create with nostalgia and plastic cups. The real rollback starts with stoppin’ the blank-check foreign aid, quittin’ the forever wars, and makin’ Congress pass clean bills instead of that bloated grift y’all love so much.

Now git along, lil’ doggie — this sheriff’s plumb tired o’ the fairy tales. Baba Looey, hand me that guitar… we fixin’ to dispense some El Kabong justice on this here 80s cosplay nonsense!

Posted by: Herrick at May 22, 2026 10:04 PM (NG/rZ)

Confused Mentally-Stunted Sexual Assaulting Bigot Don Lemon: Stephen Colbert Was Fired for the Same Reason I Was -- Because Mediocre White Men Are Threatened by Pardiagm-Shifting Epochal Black Talents Such as Myself and Colbert

Oh man, I used to do this exact "I'm looking forward to not watching" joke with John Ekdahl. RIP.

Ancient fraud Bruce Springsteen appeared on Colbert. A lot of old time nostalgia acts do appearances at leftwing charity events. He continues speaking with a faux southern drawl despite being from Freehold, NJ.

He babbled in his trembling, Joe-Biden-like voice:

"I'm here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke.... and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about"

Speaking of John Ekdahl, he was fond of noting that NJ taxes property categorized as "farmland" and a much, much lower rate than residential property. So Man of the People Bruce Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ -- a beautiful town for the ultra-wealthy, and not farm country at all -- so he could claim his mansion was a "farm" and cheat the taxpayers.

Jon Bon Jovi does the same.

On to bitter DEI failure Don Lemon. Courtesy of John Sexton, the no-talent nobody narcissist goes full Me-Again Kelly and makes Stephen Colbert's well-justified firing all about shimself.

He claims he was fired because The Mediocre White Men Who Control Everything were too afraid of the powerful, dangerous questions he was asking.

The networks didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions. CNN didn't like the mirror I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. And I thought: if it happened to me it will happen to others. It will trickle down. Or up. Depending on how you look at it.
Now it has trickled all the way to late night television.

Sexton points out he was fired for repeated comments deemed by liberal women to be sexist, including declaring that no woman older than 40 could be "in her prime" and his snide and dismissive on-camera and off-camera behavior towards his two female cohosts. Sexton points out it was liberal women at CNN who demanded his firing.

And of course, his terrible, terrible ratings made that an easy demand to meet.

The no-talent DEI bigot who has been given undeserved promotion after undeserved promotion by white liberals who just get off on promoting unqualified DEI employees and then bragging about it to their liberal mistresses says that the white men he owes his living too were just afraid of black revolutionary intellectuals like himself and Stephen Colbert.

The world that produced The Late Show, the world of legacy media, cable news, and network television, has long had a problem nobody wanted to name out loud. It is a world that has been extraordinarily good to a very specific kind of person. White men who fail spectacularly and are promoted for it. White men who make catastrophic decisions and are handed bigger offices for it. White men who are visibly, demonstrably unqualified and are given more power anyway. I have watched it for thirty years. I have been managed by it. I have been undone by it.
The executive producer who ran The Late Show for years eventually left. And somehow landed in my world. That same person, from that same television orbit, eventually became my boss at CNN. And fired me.

Oh go rub your balls and stick your fingers in a server's face, Don.

Though it has to be acknowledged that while liberals talk endlessly about DEI, they sure don't insist on DEI for their late-night clowns.

Will you miss Stephen Colbert? pic.twitter.com/zTMx9ASAG7
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 21, 2026

🚨 Stephen Colbert Epic Meltdown in 3 Parts:

� Hyped Biden�s �win�
� Cried when Trump won
� Late Show hemorrhaged $40M a year and gets canceled

This is what total losing looks like. pic.twitter.com/AgCkFNfJeg
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) May 21, 2026

https://t.co/UIHLAFnMwA pic.twitter.com/CTdzWEp2ME
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) May 22, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:45 PM

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1 May America someday find the strength to laugh again.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 04:46 PM (Sco7b)

2 I don't even know what "ratings posion" means

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:46 PM (1wjle)

3 I missed it but I did come onto the ONT for a few minutes to console anyone that needed it.

No one did.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 04:47 PM (Sco7b)

4 I'll also be here to console people when our favourite teams lose during that FIFA soccer thing.

Also Canadian Curling finals.

And the Oscars and Emmys...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 04:48 PM (Sco7b)

5 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 22, 2026 04:49 PM (NcvvS)

6 Damn, the Blade going to have to start trying for 4 out of 5 comments too.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 04:49 PM (Sco7b)

7 I don't even know what "aggressive ball-fondling" means

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:50 PM (1wjle)

8 Howdy Ace! Have a blessed weekend!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 22, 2026 04:50 PM (rbKZ6)

9 Stephen who?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:51 PM (guGkK)

10 Colbert was lame, but he never did the Lemon ball rub gimmick. Probably because he can’t find his.

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 22, 2026 04:51 PM (36bTp)

11 Ignorance -feigners give the ignorant a bad name.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 04:52 PM (Gqar8)

12 $40,000,000 down the drain, albeit for amateurish gaslighting is no big deal. It isn’t like they were spending their own money

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 04:52 PM (eUUqr)

13 My not-watching of Colbert is uninterrupted.

I look forward to not-watching him for an eternity.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:52 PM (Fi81e)

14 I'm looking forward to not watching the last Jimmy Kimmel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 04:53 PM (RIvkX)

15 The networks didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions. CNN didn't like the mirror I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. And I thought: if it happened to me it will happen to others. It will trickle down. Or up. Depending on how you look at it.

It's a tradition in white America to punish the highly effective, Don. You should know that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:53 PM (guGkK)

16 >>>14 I'm looking forward to not watching the last Jimmy Kimmel.

maybe we'll have a Not Watch Party

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:53 PM (1wjle)

17 Don't know if this is still the case, but years ago Bruce Springshit put a couple beehives on his property to get a big tax break.

I'm man of the people, Wendy! Wah wah wah!

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 04:54 PM (gtcuf)

18 >>>13 My not-watching of Colbert is uninterrupted.

I started not watching Colbert in the late nineties and never stopped not watching.

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:54 PM (1wjle)

19 The networks didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions.
_____

Deeee- loooozh- un- ulll

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)

20 I can't believe Colbert made it as long as he did.

Posted by: Ann at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (SHHm+)

21 Willowed:
for the rest of the week I'm going to not know what whatever word you say even means

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

Gonna make safe words tricky.

'What the hell does banana even mean?!' *continues whipping*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

22 OT, but I don't get this:

Texas Senate GOP Runoff, Interactive Polls:

Ken Paxton: 56.8%
John Cornyn: 35.4%
Not sure: 7.8%

——

Age 18-29: Paxton +74
Age 30-44: Cornyn +10
Age 45-64: Paxton +32
Age 55+: Paxton +18

Why are 30-44 year olds supporting Cornyn? They probably have the most to lose from him staying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (0U5gm)

23 Yeah, losing a show should never be about the IIRC $60 million dollar a year bath CBS was taking on a show becoming increasingly selective in appeal.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (Fi81e)

24 "They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about"

Hey chowderhead, how about the freedom to have your own tv show and lose the network $40 million each and every year and still be employed? They gave him almost an extra 8 months to turn it around and he failed miserably because he sucks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (0N4FZ)

25 I see Mr Potato Head had to chime in on the greatness of Colbert. Does anyone watch CNN anymore? If a Potato Head speaks on a CNN, will anyone hear it?

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (Gqar8)

26 I may have the Guinness world record for not watching Stephen Colbert.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (guGkK)

27 Israel evidently did something bad at the end of the last post.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:56 PM (zZu0s)

28 or the rest of the week I'm going to not know what whatever word you say even means

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

---
What do you mean by "not"?

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e)

29 sometimes friends call me late at night to get a drink but I tell them I can't, I'm busy not watching Jimmy Kimmel

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:56 PM (1wjle)

30 Here's the thing - Colbert COULD be funny, at least as a writer. For starters, he wrote The Ambiguously Gay Duo sketches on SNL and those were freakin' hilarious.

Problem is, he'd never write those today. That would be a huge no-no for the Woke Left. He sold his funny soul for a role as a propagandist.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 04:56 PM (gtcuf)

31 I hope Colbert made off with all of the dancing prick stick outfits and props. He could get a couple hundred dollars selling it on Ebay to his now homeless clapping seals.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 22, 2026 04:56 PM (KsNkq)

32 Ancient fraud Bruce Springsteen appeared on Colbert.
.......

Are we sure that wasn't a sick, braying mule?

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (UjdFS)

33 Hard to believe Colbert had his show for over a decade...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (gnNyN)

34 Meanwhile Kimmel us still hemorrhaging money for Disney LOL

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (YwEeS)

35 Backlash? backlash! This was a whitelash!
- that one dude

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (n5tGW)

36 I started not watching Colbert in the late nineties and never stopped not watching.

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words

I win; I never watched even once, not even the clips of his stupidity posted here.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (0U5gm)

37 Do I incorrectly remember the MFM trying to paint Colbert as some kind of devoted observant Catholic at one time?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (f0sNM)

38 >>>He claims he was fired because The Mediocre White Men Who Control Everything were too afraid of the powerful, dangerous questions he was asking.

Although he would prefer loving attention, hateful attention serves his purposes just as well.

Posted by: No Name Today at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (8mulE)

39 I can't believe Colbert made it as long as he did.
Posted by: Ann at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (SHHm+)

His dozens of fans are shocked that he's leaving.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (guGkK)

40 Colbert deserves a beating for the joke about using the military to vac and release people during the height of Chinese lung aids. Fuck off.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

41 one time I met a girl and we discovered we had many interests in common, such as not being interested in Jimmy Kimmel

it was a real meet-cute

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:58 PM (1wjle)

42 What exactly is this "Colbert" thing? I've honestly no clue whether it''s a "show" that was a talk fest, comedy, online - live therapy, self abuse, employment immolation.... what?

Fucking retard. Good riddance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 04:58 PM (jehhT)

43 Yeah, it was President Trump's fault Co-burt got canned
Sure

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 04:58 PM (Ia/+0)

44 Do I incorrectly remember the MFM trying to paint Colbert as some kind of devoted observant Catholic at one time?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (f0sNM)

Also known as 'yesterday'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:58 PM (zZu0s)

45 Less gay than Colbert's dancing pricks -

https://youtu.be/_Hbiv0tCirU

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:58 PM (Dv3i1)

46 Here's the thing - Colbert COULD be funny, at least as a writer. For starters, he wrote The Ambiguously Gay Duo sketches on SNL and those were freakin' hilarious.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 04:56 PM (gtcuf)
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I've never said any different. Colbert used to be a guy who could make me smile, even when he was making fun of my side of politics.

He's just not into it for humor anymore. He started wanting to score points.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:59 PM (Fi81e)

47 4 I'll also be here to console people when our favourite teams lose during that FIFA soccer thing.

Also Canadian Curling finals.

And the Oscars and Emmys...
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at

I have to watch soccer here, too. We can report as a team.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:59 PM (Dd38x)

48 Ace, what do you like best about not watching Stephen Colbert?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:59 PM (guGkK)

49 Colbert imust be an African-Frenchie surname.

You know who else had a Medieval Germanic surname?

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 04:59 PM (FISzD)

50 When you cant do your job and youre an asshole and you get fired, is it because you couldn't do your job or because you're an asshole?

The age old dilemma

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2026 04:59 PM (Hb+bW)

51 I love the meme with Trump playing the violin and recorder! LOL

I know a liberal couple who are in a recorder group, which has amazed me for four decades. And when I think about it I laugh (no offense to morons in recorder groups...this couple, while nice, are a bit odd).

They write about this recorder group in their yearly Christmas letter as well as how many thousands of miles they ride on their bikes in different countries. They both have pacemakers so I consider this an achievement for all involved as I am boring.

I don't write Christmas letters but perhaps this is the year to start. It would go like this: January: don't remember. February: we need snow. March: I caught RSV from the baby. April: Easter. May: chy na cholera, unknown origin but suspect the baby. Possible recovery and trip to NOLA to see my mother with the many parts of insanity involved to get my sons and family there at the same time. Soaked ranunculus corms yesterday.

I will have to sadly miss this show I've never watched to begin with. Altho I do enjoy basking in liberal tears I'll still not watch. Huzzah.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 04:59 PM (WONhk)

52 Colbert: "Comedians are anti-authoritarian by nature"
__________

Maybe that was true 20 years ago.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 22, 2026 04:59 PM (XvL8K)

53 17 Don't know if this is still the case, but years ago Bruce Springshit put a couple beehives on his property to get a big tax break.

I'm man of the people, Wendy! Wah wah wah!
Posted by: Delurker
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Let's replace his beehives with African Killer Bees and see if he notices.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (E4rtv)

54 Many years ago, the leftist twats started bitching about wealthy Yacht owners in the NE states. They managed to pass legislation to punish those bastards, among the new laws were a “Yacht Tax”.

Left unsaid in all this class envy, the wealthy Yacht owners were dependent on a veritable army of working class regular joe stiffs who are the people who actually build, maintain, and repair those expensive Yachts.

All of that support industry is pretty much extinct now, and thousands of good paying jobs along with it. They sure showed them!

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (eUUqr)

55 >>So Man of the People Bruce Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ

It was worse, it was a "deer farm." **whatever that means**

From what I understand from my parents town, the acre the house was on is taxed as residential, but Springsteen owned something like 40 acres, and he called them a deer farm, and got taxed at low rate.

Honestly I have no problem with this as property taxes are just serfdom by another name. My problem with Springsteen is that he supports the policies that require high taxes.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (N0IE5)

56 My VCR is set not to record Stephen Colbert every night.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (guGkK)

57 First thoughts on Mandalorian movie.

It's a good solid movie, about 2 hours long, even after half an hour of new movie ads.

The story is fairly simple, but it seemed simpler at first.
The visuals and sounds are great in IMAX.

The planetscapes are cool. An early urban section gives you the Blade Runner vibes.

It's worth seeing.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (L1jPj)

58 How can we say goodbye to Colbert when he never leaves?

He’s going to screw up Lord of the Rings, more than it already is, next.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

59 I do not know who this man is.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (Cqx++)

60 oh, I love that phrasing. A President that can't take a joke. They wouldn't even make jokes about Obama; and we had a President that literally sh*t his pants in front of the pope and they still wouldn't touch him.
I hope everything Colbert touches until the day he dies fails miserably.

Posted by: Nelly at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (6+ehB)

61 Do I incorrectly remember the MFM trying to paint Colbert as some kind of devoted observant Catholic at one time?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (f0sNM)

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I read it yesterday, he's a "devout Catholic" that believes that "you go somewhere in the universe" after you die.

Like I remember them teaching in Catechism.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)

62 I'm a man of the people, Wendy! You know I'm from Jersey, right! I've only said it a thousand times so let me say it again: I'm from Jersey! And when I was a kid you know what I used to tell everyone? I'd tell everyone, one of these days I'm gonna grow up to be a big alfalfa farmer! Strap your ass 'cross my engine, Wendyy! Cause baby we were born to hoe! Woah woah woah!

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:01 PM (gtcuf)

63 It's worth seeing.
Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (L1jPj)

*SNORT*

Shill

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:01 PM (guGkK)

64 >>>Ace, what do you like best about not watching Stephen Colbert?

Probably the water-cooler talk. When you work in an office you want to keep current with what's popular, like not watching Stephen Colbert. I could talk and talk with the boss about not watching Stephen Colbert all day. And then he'd see me in the hall and say "Hey did you not catch Stephen Colbert last night?" and I'd say "You know it! It was one of the best non-viewing experiences of my life!"

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 05:01 PM (1wjle)

65 Somehow I find Don Lemon speaking of trickling to be more than a little bit creepy.

Ewwww.

Posted by: muldoon at May 22, 2026 05:02 PM (qgHp7)

66 Colbert described meeting Pope Francis with more than one hundred comedians, including Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien and Chris Rock in the Vatican in 2024.

“What really surprised me is that we’re by nature, comedians are iconoclasts, and I love shaking my fist at authority, and the pope came in and we all leapt to our feet and we screamed like he was the Beatles,” he said.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 22, 2026 05:03 PM (f0sNM)

67 Posted by: muldoon

No limerick about it then?

Posted by: Kratwurst at May 22, 2026 05:03 PM (36bTp)

68 The story is fairly simple, but it seemed simpler at first.
The visuals and sounds are great in IMAX.

Posted by: SMOD at May 22, 2026 05:00 PM (L1jPj)
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I look forward to not-watching it.

Having once held some hope for Star Wars, I know regard it as a 45-year slow-speed train crash.

No interest in it whatsoever.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:03 PM (Fi81e)

69 34 Meanwhile Kimmel us still hemorrhaging money for Disney LOL
Posted by: steevy

I think for another year until May 27 but I doubt ABC will renew his contract. Supposedly Iger told restless affiliates that Kimmel's show, while running at a loss, had additional tie in value for various other Disney properties.

Course, if Disney sells or spins off ABC with ESPN, and other TV properties, that might change.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:03 PM (E4rtv)

70 I believe Don Lemon is married to a mediocre white man. He must be a mediocre white man because he's married to Don Lemon.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 05:03 PM (VHKlE)

71 Colbert: "Comedians are anti-authoritarian by nature"
———

Back in the day, they were. Genuinely. Some of them were real asshats, but they were putting their neck on the line.

That hasn’t been true in 40 years probably. The “comedians” now are propaganda agents FOR the machine. You couldn’t be more authoritarian if you tried. I’m sure it pays the bills, but there is nothing stunning, courageous or brave about your full throated support of the machine.

Good try, though

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:03 PM (eUUqr)

72 Disney. Star Wars. Nope.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 05:03 PM (Gqar8)

73 The here's more actual funny material on display in the comments section of this post than there was in more than a decades worth of Coal Bert's sad attempts.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 22, 2026 05:04 PM (KsNkq)

74 If I could never step back into George Lucas hodge-podge universe that somehow managed to capture people for decades, I'd be okay with that after The Rise of Skywalker, which I saw just for "completeness".

With my son, who knew he wasn't going to like it either, but we had been on a Star Wars journey since he was little.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (Fi81e)

75 70 I believe Don Lemon is married to a mediocre white man. He must be a mediocre white man because he's married to Don Lemon.
____

Which one got down on one knee to propose?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)

76 I always get Brian Selter mixed up with Tubin and his pinecone.

I have to then waste more time looking it up.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (WONhk)

77 I believe Don Lemon is married

I don’t.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (eUUqr)

78 I think for another year until May 27 but I doubt ABC will renew his contract. Supposedly Iger told restless affiliates that Kimmel's show, while running at a loss, had additional tie in value for various other Disney properties.

Yep. I hear the Jimmy Kimmel merch just flies off the shelves.

And then there's Jimmy Kimmel Land at the Magic Kingdom, reputed to be the most popular land of all the lands.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (guGkK)

79 58 How can we say goodbye to Colbert when he never leaves?

He’s going to screw up Lord of the Rings, more than it already is, next.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Rangz of Powr done did that. The funny thing is the tide is rolling out for big budget spectacles anymore.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (E4rtv)

80 Never could stand his music, and when I was dragged to one of his interminable borefest concerts it was one of the worst concerts I've ever attended.

But Springsteen's spoken-word section near the end of Lou Reed's epic "Street Hassle" was really f'in cool. The best thing he ever did and it was just a minute of mumbly talking.

He's still an asshole and always will be.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (gtcuf)

81 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Jeb! (pronounced Heb!) at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (0sNs1)

82 I can't Not Watch this Colbert fella any harder than I'm already doing. I'm falling behind the Cool Kids.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 05:06 PM (wVcYX)

83 [Babylon Bee headline:]

"Trump Surprises Don Jr. With Beautiful Wedding Gift Of Cuba"

/Can it be returned for One Peso instead?

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 05:06 PM (FISzD)

84 Yep. I hear the Jimmy Kimmel merch just flies off the shelves.

And then there's Jimmy Kimmel Land at the Magic Kingdom, reputed to be the most popular land of all the lands.
Posted by: Cicero
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Kimmel's Tunnel of Love, and Its a Small Penis after All are all hits.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:06 PM (E4rtv)

85 Supposedly Iger told restless affiliates that Kimmel's show, while running at a loss, had additional tie in value for various other Disney properties.

"It's a write off, Jerry. We write it off."

Posted by: Bob Iger at May 22, 2026 05:07 PM (guGkK)

86 I always get Brian Selter mixed up with Tubin and his pinecone.

I have to then waste more time looking it up.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM

I learned on this site that Brian Stelter's pinecone is one of the most efficacious in the world, if not the galaxy.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:07 PM (0sNs1)

87 Like most of the country, I never watched this dweeb. I think I saw John Stuart maybe twice. It all seems so propaganda driven.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 05:08 PM (n5tGW)

88 Miss me yet?
Posted by: Jeb! (pronounced Heb!) at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (0sNs1)

Is that a Hispanic, Jewish or grocery store bit?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 05:08 PM (zZu0s)

89 I'm here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke....
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He can (and did) take a bullet and jumped up shouting "Fight!"

Maybe that's why he "can't take" your fucking so-called jokes.

Posted by: screaming in digital at May 22, 2026 05:09 PM (0SdQT)

90 Which one got down on one knee to propose?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 05:05 PM (Dv3i1)
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TMI.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:09 PM (Fi81e)

91 Bruce Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ

Shocking that he lives in New Jersey or the USA at all with how he feels about these places. I guess he just can't resist those tired-looking single mom "Jersey Girls" with uninspiring jobs as he describes them.

Posted by: TITP at May 22, 2026 05:09 PM (6Q9y6)

92 I learned on this site that Brian Stelter's pinecone is one of the most efficacious in the world, if not the galaxy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:07 PM (0sNs1)

He is a Sex Machine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

93 My wife used to get upset when she wanted to go out on a weekday night and I'd tell her I have to stay home and not watch Stephen Colbert.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:09 PM (guGkK)

94 Having once held some hope for Star Wars, I know regard it as a 45-year slow-speed train crash.

No interest in it whatsoever.
Posted by: Axeman
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But, but, but, Disney just revamped its Star Wars Themed hotel at DisneyWorld. Only thousands per night.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:09 PM (E4rtv)

95
Whenever you take a Colbert, be sure to wipe your Lemon.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 22, 2026 05:10 PM (IifOV)

96 "Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ -- a beautiful town for the ultra-wealthy, and not farm country at all -- so he could claim his mansion was a "farm" and cheat the taxpayers."

Around here, the house is taxed at full rate. Only land with no other buildings on it classifies as farm land. Recently they even went over the aerial pics and if they could find any old unused shed, they taxed those acres at a higher rate.

I have some ancient hog sheds with a roof caved in ... not used in some 50 years, but that got me taxed at a higher rate. But I'm not Springsteen.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 05:10 PM (vbXSk)

97 92 I learned on this site that Brian Stelter's pinecone is one of the most efficacious in the world, if not the galaxy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 05:07 PM (0sNs1)

He is a Sex Machine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD .
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Genuine Circumsized Dick Head.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:10 PM (E4rtv)

98 $40,000,000 down the drain, albeit for amateurish gaslighting is no big deal. It isn’t like they were spending their own money
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 04:52 PM (eUUqr)

It's a write-off, Jerry.
They just write it off!

Posted by: Kramer at May 22, 2026 05:11 PM (wVcYX)

99 I have some ancient hog sheds with a roof caved in ... not used in some 50 years, but that got me taxed at a higher rate. But I'm not Springsteen.

Posted by: illiniwek
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Well, I am guessing that you didn't provide a free money raising concert for teh Democrat Party nabobs didja.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:11 PM (E4rtv)

100 My most memorable Colbert Late Show joke was his snarling delivery when he said Trump's mouth was "Putin's cock-holster".

Because that just proved to be soo true---right!

You can say on national TV that your president is blowing the leader of another country, and that's funny!

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:12 PM (Fi81e)

101 Genuine Circumsized Dick Head.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:10 PM

* waves hand, makes 'over here' sign *

Posted by: Mark Kelly (D-AZ) at May 22, 2026 05:12 PM (0sNs1)

102 I have some ancient hog sheds with a roof caved in ... not used in some 50 years, but that got me taxed at a higher rate.

You could put those hog sheds to profitable use by registering them as Kwality Learing Centers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:12 PM (guGkK)

103 I thought I read something like, California taxes certain property at what it could bring in, if there were apartments on it. “You aren’t utilizing the land as profitable as it could be to us, so never mind, pay up”.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 05:12 PM (eUUqr)

104 * waves hand, makes 'over here' sign *
Posted by: Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
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You are the Keebler elf version.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:13 PM (E4rtv)

105 I’m so sick of Colbert and his ilk that it’s not even fun to dunk on him.

Just
Go
Away
Already

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 05:13 PM (4KUe5)

106 The Tammy Grimes Show (1976) was a disaster and cancelled after 4 episodes. How did this Colbert Thing go on and on and on....

Posted by: That's Entertainment! at May 22, 2026 05:13 PM (oftw2)

107 My wife used to get upset when she wanted to go out on a weekday night and I'd tell her I have to stay home and not watch Stephen Colbert.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:09 PM (guGkK)
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Definitely miss TV!

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:13 PM (Fi81e)

108 If I could never step back into George Lucas hodge-podge universe that somehow managed to capture people for decades, I'd be okay with that after The Rise of Skywalker, which I saw just for "completeness".

With my son, who knew he wasn't going to like it either, but we had been on a Star Wars journey since he was little.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026

***
I finally researched to find out what "The Mandalorian" was. The concept for the series didn't sound bad, just not something that could run for multiple episodes; one movie would have been enough. I suppose the reason why it's not popular is in the execution, the casting and the like.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:13 PM (wzUl9)

109
[Babylon Bee headline:]

"Trump Surprises Don Jr. With Beautiful Wedding Gift Of Cuba"

/Can it be returned for One Peso instead?
Posted by: ShainS

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

Regift it to Marco.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 05:14 PM (n7rxJ)

110
Bon Jovi's tax dodge is bees. He has a bunch of his NJ acreage classified as a "bee farm". But a web search of stories on the bee/honey operation shows that it only produces about 600 lbs of honey per year, which translates to a little over 50 gallons.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 05:14 PM (y9nCu)

111 85 Supposedly Iger told restless affiliates that Kimmel's show, while running at a loss, had additional tie in value for various other Disney properties.

"It's a write off, Jerry. We write it off."
Posted by: Bob Iger at May 22, 2026 05:07 PM (guGkK

I don't see how. I've been having DisneyChannel on and one of the commercials they show most is Nervive with the old guy afraid of falling down the stairs. I figured it was shunted over from ABC.

Canada had 4 kids channels go belly up and off the air in the last year, including Disney Jr. So that's good.

I guess all our muslim immigrants don't like to have their kids watch that gay and lesbian crap.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 05:14 PM (Sco7b)

112
I believe Don Lemon is married to a mediocre white man. He must be a mediocre white man because he's married to Don Lemon.
____

Which one got down on one knee to propose?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

They took turns.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 05:14 PM (Cqx++)

113
If Don Lemon had accepted that he was a DEI mascot, instead of applying his withered intellect to things an egotistical bitchy low-IQ queer would feel had to be said, such as gossipy backbiting snark about female coworkers' looks and age, he'd still have a job.

Besides instinctively hating heterosexual women, who compete with him for men, he also hates Christians, because their Bible condemns his sodomy. His post-termination gig of harassing Christians in church and terrifying their children continued his descent. He's looking at a prison sentence. All because he couldn't accept the truth - that he's a dumb mincing clown who leftists occasionally find useful as a tool of demoralization and harassment of normals. Instead, he persisted in taking himself seriously.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 05:15 PM (HLgI3)

114 And who can forget the "comedy" of We Know Better Than You, Go Get the Jab dance routine.

Comedy is always about doing irreversible experimental things to your own body and you're irresponsible if you don't.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)

115 Whyyyyyyyy is Tater still on tv?

He is repellent.
No I didn’t, just palace guard for the MSM.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 05:15 PM (4KUe5)

116 The Tammy Grimes Show (1976) was a disaster and cancelled after 4 episodes. How did this Colbert Thing go on and on and on....
Posted by: That's Entertainment! at May 22, 2026

***
I thought that was over a decade earlier than 1976. Certainly there was something with her name attached on ABC when I was in junior high.

Tammy is part of the reason, too, why Amanda Plummer looks the way she does. Combining her less-than-stellar looks with Christopher Plummer's male features . . . urgh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:15 PM (wzUl9)

117 The Daily Mail is running a story that Hunter dropped a bombshell in the interview that Israeli intelligence agents ran an op against Joe Biden, concocting bribery claims against him.

This is called "getting ahead of a story"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:16 PM (5yqx7)

118 that he's a dumb mincing clown who leftists occasionally find useful as a tool of demoralization and harassment of normals. Instead, he persisted in taking himself seriously.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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This is ....CNN.

Posted by: Voice of Zombie James Earl Jones at May 22, 2026 05:16 PM (E4rtv)

119 As posted previously, back in the day Cobert was very nice to my daughter and invited her on stage to sing a duet during warm ups.

As awful as he's become, I still appreciate him for that.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 05:16 PM (wBaIH)

120 The Tammy Grimes Show ran for six episodes starting on the same day as Star Trek in 1966.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:17 PM (wzUl9)

121 They cancelled the show cause Nazis!!

No, you just plain suck.

Bye bye now

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 22, 2026 05:17 PM (hauj+)

122 The first time my son-in-law went to an H-E-B store and saw the giant concrete spheres at the entrance (used either to keep grocery carts in or truck bombers out), he said, "What does H-E-B stand for? Huge Extraneous Balls!?"

The name stuck.

Posted by: muldoon at May 22, 2026 05:17 PM (qgHp7)

123 Before I get back to the computer I will defend Colbert.

There was nothing wrong with his show that couldn't be fixed with nightly on-air suicides.

I would have watched that.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 05:17 PM (Sco7b)

124 [EXTREMELY WILLOWED]

To be fair, if they had actually used Highlands dialect, it would have had to have subtitles. Even lowland Scots often don't understand what Highlanders say, let alone the rest of the English speaking world.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

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

I just learned from a former Lowlander Scot friend (born in '43) that they spoke a bastardized Old English a la Chaucer -- whereas the Highlanders (among my paternal ancestors who emigrated to Cape Breton Island in now Nova Scotia) spoke Gaelic -- and they couldn't understand each other.

When I did genealogical research, the publicly-available Censuses from that region (every decade between 1861 and 1921) asks for "Language Spoken In The Home" and it was uniformly "Gaelic."

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 05:18 PM (FISzD)

125 115 Whyyyyyyyy is Tater still on tv?

He is repellent.
No I didn’t, just palace guard for the MSM.
Posted by: Lizzy
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He qualifies CNN for Children's Hour FCC credits as Mr. Potato Head.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:18 PM (E4rtv)

126 Comedy is always about doing irreversible experimental things to your own body and you're irresponsible if you don't.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)

Precisely!

Posted by: The Jackass gang at May 22, 2026 05:18 PM (wVcYX)

127
I thought I read something like, California taxes certain property at what it could bring in, if there were apartments on it. “You aren’t utilizing the land as profitable as it could be to us, so never mind, pay up”.
Posted by: Common Tater

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I haven't heard that yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's happening somewhere.

Next up: Tax on your earnings potential. "You don't have the salary that a white cisgendered male *should* be making..."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 05:18 PM (n7rxJ)

128 @108

>>I finally researched to find out what "The Mandalorian" was. The concept for the series didn't sound bad, just not something that could run for multiple episodes;

The Mandelorian is essentially Lone Wolf and Cub meets Kungfu.

Lone Wolf and Cub was a Manga that ran for 6 years.

I'm pretty sure I could get a group of real Star Wars nerds and cobble together a 13 episode/5 yr arc.

It's the simple case that these people are incapable of writing and telling stories.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 05:18 PM (XV/Pl)

129 I finally researched to find out what "The Mandalorian" was. The concept for the series didn't sound bad, just not something that could run for multiple episodes; one movie would have been enough. I suppose the reason why it's not popular is in the execution, the casting and the like.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:13 PM (wzUl9)
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Boba Fett was the only remotely interesting character not sullied by Star Wars sullying.

So they had to make a story about that guy.

I'm just so sick of the continuously-equivocated universe.

The Alien/Prometheus universe is more interesting at this point.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:18 PM (Fi81e)

130
His post-termination gig of harassing Christians in church and terrifying their children continued his descent.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 05:15 PM (HLgI3)

That incident proved without a shadow of a doubt that Christians are largely kind, compassionate and civilized human beings. Because if he'd pulled a stunt like that on another culture, they'd have caved his face in with a broken chair leg.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 05:19 PM (y9nCu)

131 I finally researched to find out what "The Mandalorian" was. The concept for the series didn't sound bad, just not something that could run for multiple episodes

It was basically a western in space, you could keep that going for ages. If you focused on that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:20 PM (5yqx7)

132 Trump was the target of literally billions of dollars in lawfare.

Put this fucker though the same wringer and see what happens.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 05:20 PM (jehhT)

133 On to bitter DEI failure Don Lemon...

Don Lemon has had more seamen inside him than a Battleship has...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 05:20 PM (ynpvh)

134 I just learned from a former Lowlander Scot friend (born in '43) that they spoke a bastardized Old English a la Chaucer -- whereas the Highlanders (among my paternal ancestors who emigrated to Cape Breton Island in now Nova Scotia) spoke Gaelic -- and they couldn't understand each other.

When I did genealogical research, the publicly-available Censuses from that region (every decade between 1861 and 1921) asks for "Language Spoken In The Home" and it was uniformly "Gaelic."
Posted by: ShainS

I would guess that is true. England usually just invaded the lowlands until much later and trade was concentrated between England and the Scottish lowlands. Highlands were isolated due to poor roads, economics, and cultural differences.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:20 PM (E4rtv)

135 131 I finally researched to find out what "The Mandalorian" was. The concept for the series didn't sound bad, just not something that could run for multiple episodes

It was basically a western in space, you could keep that going for ages. If you focused on that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:20 PM (5yqx7)

Star Trek was supposed to be "Wagon Train" in Space when originally created...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 05:21 PM (ynpvh)

136 Why are 30-44 year olds supporting Cornyn? They probably have the most to lose from him staying.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (0U5gm)

Because they are working hard to get ahead at work while trying to make a marriage and raise a family and don't live a politics all the time life, and so answer whatever name they recognize, which is usually the incumbent.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 22, 2026 05:21 PM (sl73Y)

137 A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

They call that galaxy Ad-hok.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

138
Here we go with the second attempt at Starship v3 launch. Here's the "mee-thane" Brit boys at Nasa Spaceflight Flight doing a livestream:

t.ly/wtiN-

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 05:22 PM (w6EFb)

139 Wolfus, you are correct, I misremembered. Tammy Grimes was 66-67 season.

Posted by: That's Entertainment!! at May 22, 2026 05:22 PM (oftw2)

140 Star Trek was supposed to be "Wagon Train" in Space when originally created...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 05:21 PM (ynpvh)
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That's what Roddenberry said because he was attached to Wagon Train.

Somebody else put it better: Horatio Hornblower in space.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:22 PM (Fi81e)

141 >>Many years ago, the leftist twats started bitching about wealthy Yacht owners in the NE states. They managed to pass legislation to punish those bastards, among the new laws were a “Yacht Tax”.

>>Left unsaid in all this class envy, the wealthy Yacht owners were dependent on a veritable army of working class regular joe stiffs who are the people who actually build, maintain, and repair those expensive Yachts.

It put a huge hit on the RI marine economy. Took down a large sector of the boat building economy which was a big deal in a small state that relied on the boat building industry.

RI countered by offering a tax loophole for anyone who kept a newly purchased boat in RI. John Kerry attempted to take advantage of it, because he's John fucking Kerry, and instead of keeping his new multi-million dollar sailboat his wife bought him at their estate in Nantucket he put it in Newport harbor hoping to avoid the tax.

The peasants revolted and outed him and he sheepishly moved the boat and paid the tax he voted for. Typical leftist dickhead.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2026 05:22 PM (viF8m)

142 Bon Jovi's tax dodge is bees. He has a bunch of his NJ acreage classified as a "bee farm". But a web search of stories on the bee/honey operation shows that it only produces about 600 lbs of honey per year, which translates to a little over 50 gallons.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026

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I don't see why Bon Jovi or Sprungsteen [sic] should be castigated for finding a legal way to starve Uncle Sugar. We'd all do it if we could.

Of course they shouldn't then turn around and pretend they are "just working-class guys" and say "The rich should pay their fair share."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (wzUl9)

143 May America someday find the strength to laugh again.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 04:46 PM (Sco7b)

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We are laughing, with Greg Gutfeld.

Posted by: Decaf at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (Z8tay)

144 >>> Bon Jovi's tax dodge is bees. He has a bunch of his NJ acreage classified as a "bee farm". But a web search of stories on the bee/honey operation shows that it only produces about 600 lbs of honey per year, which translates to a little over 50 gallons.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 05:14 PM (y9nCu)

That is a lot of bee puke though.

Posted by: Bee - I'm tired boss at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (3uBP9)

145 Stephen Colbert Says CBS May Have 'Saved My Life' by Canceling 'The Late Show'

He has the audience and reach to do an incredibly successful independent YouTube show. Kolbert Report, maybe?

He has a lot more to offer than Colbert talk show, if he goes in that direction again him and Stewart should do a *less humor focused* well researched scathing shred of everything going on. Hardcore journalism then Stewart eviscerates some chud in a debate every episode. New daily show and John Oliver play it too soft.

He will go on to do wayyy better things. Look at Conan and his career. Colbert was already popular and since he’s not willing to be Trumps lil bitch like Fallon will have tons of opportunities. Everyone who hates Trump is rooting for him.

Netflix wouldn’t pick him up, first this type of highly topical show doesn’t play well in their persistent catalogue, and second they are trying to draw in more conservative audiences as of late.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (ycI94)

146 The libertarians are all spazzing out on X how they are going to vote for Democrats from now on over Massie.

Oh no! What ever will we do without the dope head losers that were not voting for us before?!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (73/SM)

147 Lemon's best defense here is that his critics are not as black-pilled as he is.

Posted by: pawn at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (+rSJz)

148 I was fired because I believe I am a Gay Black Man and Trump hates Blacks !!!!!

Nothing to do with my Show Sucking Moose Twang !!!!!

Posted by: Steven Cuntbert at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (YMdT2)

149 Then they added the baby and everything went that direction. Shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 05:24 PM (zZu0s)

150 I thought I read something like, California taxes certain property at what it could bring in, if there were apartments on it. “You aren’t utilizing the land as profitable as it could be to us, so never mind, pay up”.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Term is highest and best use of a property as a basis for taxes. Quite a few states use that but most use it in terms of how the property is zoned. E.g. you cannot tax a residential zoned property as commercial until or unless it is rezoned.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:24 PM (E4rtv)

151 Some authors can be credited with incredible "World building".

With Lucas it was more like shit-stacking.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:24 PM (Fi81e)

152 I'm smelling Mee-thane from way up here in Wilmington!

Posted by: Joe Biden's Dessicated Near-Corpse at May 22, 2026 05:24 PM (oftw2)

153
In the original Star Wars trilogy, didn't Bobs Fett fall into the maw of an underground desert monster to be slowly digested over a period of centuries? I guess everyone was to forget about that (eventual?) fate to enable the series.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 05:24 PM (HLgI3)

154 Star Trek was supposed to be "Wagon Train" in Space when originally created

People say that but I never got that connection at all. It felt more like a submarine show to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:24 PM (5yqx7)

155 In other news, Blacks find out that they only 10% of the population.

Posted by: no one of any consequense at May 22, 2026 05:25 PM (qFwJc)

156 We are laughing, with Greg Gutfeld.
Posted by: Decaf at May 22, 2026 05:23 PM (Z8tay)

Emily Capagno looked even hotter than usual yesterday.

Later.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 22, 2026 05:25 PM (Sco7b)

157 146 The libertarians are all spazzing out on X how they are going to vote for Democrats from now on over Massie.

Oh no! What ever will we do without the dope head losers that were not voting for us before?!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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I dunno. It is going to hit the Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladesh Republican parties pretty hard. They are going to lose a lot of votes.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:25 PM (E4rtv)

158 Brian Stelter makes an appearance!!

youtu.be/4Qqendp1kLE

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 22, 2026 05:25 PM (KHQC2)

159 The thing that got this 13-year-old boy's attention was something that Lucas made a point to denounce as his ad-hoc "universe" expanded.

That boy thought it was so cool that Han Solo blew that guy away from under the table. Up until that point, I'm not really sure I was into the movie.

The opening on board the ship definitely felt a little stiff.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 05:26 PM (Fi81e)

160
To be fair, if they had actually used Highlands dialect, it would have had to have subtitles. Even lowland Scots often don't understand what Highlanders say, let alone the rest of the English speaking world.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

I really enjoy watching The Hoof GP on yootoob, trimming cattles' hooves in Scotland. The crew is dedicated to improving the lives of these dairy cows, and they're really fun to watch. They have an ongoing joke about their heavy Scottish accents being unintelligible, to the point where they have fun putting in subtitles, usually saying something like "incoherent Scottish babbling".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (y9nCu)

161 I apologize to any Tammy Grimes fans out there. I've looked her up, and she had a quiet, elfin sort of look to her -- attractive and not at all "less than stellar," as I said before.

Trivia from IMDb: She and Dick Sargent, who starred with her on her sitcom, were originally considered to play Samantha and Darrin on Bewitched when it was being spun up. In 1964, I think Tammy could have done it almost as well as Liz Montgomery did.

She was much better known for her Broadway work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (wzUl9)

162
These NASA Spaceflight boys (and some gals) are a lovable hoot, I've discovered. They do, well attempt to do, the weatherman like green screen where one of them stands in front of green screen to point at graphics behind them. And it's amateur hour with that sometimes.

The guy points with his wrong arm, looking at himself in the monitor and thinking its a mirror image, which it's not. (I would do that big time) And then the graphics don't always appear as they're supposed to.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (w6EFb)

163 Texas Senate GOP Runoff, Interactive Polls:
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Why are 30-44 year olds supporting Cornyn? They probably have the most to lose from him staying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (0U5gm)
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"Interactive Polls" might be a clue as to the value of this one.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (9B9RT)

164 Leftist friend (plumber) knew Bob Mulholland's (cal politico dirty tricks man) wife (fmr county sup) and essentially built a house on property inside the Green Zone (disallowed) but labelled on the building permit "agricultural outbuilding," which is permissible if it's a pole shed type tractor shed.

Good old Wife Jane swung it for my bud because he was solid soggy progressive etc etc.

I didn't rub it in because the green zone is such horsecrap.

Posted by: 13times at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (h4ya0)

165 > The peasants revolted and outed him and he sheepishly moved the boat and paid the tax he voted for. Typical leftist dickhead.
Posted by: JackStraw
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It's (sadly) endemic of our political betters to make regulations and laws that they "think" will hit their adversaries, but end up, don't.

Fuck them. Sideways, pineapple, barbed wire, flames, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (jehhT)

166 I've been seeing ads for the Mandalorian and Grogu. I can't get past Grogu's pistol. It looks very 20th century, not at all like a futuristic energy weapon. Perhaps they have a reason for that; but in a future society with space travel, energy weapons would be thing to have, as they would not have the recoil forces of a projectile firearm, which would present a challenge in low or zero Gee.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (PV+Zw)

167 Westerns in space or space in westerns? The only ones to ever get Western scifi right was the original Wild Wild West tv show and Brisco Co Jr. Firggin loved that show. Now cosmic horror / ancient arcana westerns would do good I think, if someone tried. No one makes shows to interest me anymore.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:28 PM (3uBP9)

168 ‘Jon Bon Jovi does the same’

Bon Jovi’s scam is that he keeps bees. Not joking. It’s insane that NJ let’s these cumstainers get away with obvious tax fraud. My NJ ‘weekend’ house is close to where they live in Rumson. It’s one of the richest areas in the state. Their properties are probably worth tens of millions. Fuck them up the ass with a bee hive.

Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 05:29 PM (RO0sO)

169 He has the audience and reach to do an incredibly successful independent YouTube show. Kolbert Report, maybe?

Or maybe a -- wait for it...

A PODCAST?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:29 PM (guGkK)

170 Emily Compagno?

Yes, please.

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 05:30 PM (XuXeR)

171 Anyone happen to know how much of her audience unsubscribed from the Meghan Kelly Show when she went all in for the Jew haters?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 05:32 PM (guGkK)

172 In the original Star Wars trilogy, didn't Bobs Fett fall into the maw of an underground desert monster to be slowly digested over a period of centuries?

Basically Lucas was confused and annoyed that a throwaway background character was so inexplicably popular so he had Boba Fett accidentally damaged and fall into a horrible death. But the character was so popular he had to escape.

Its like Darth spikeface or whatever his face was from the first prequel. Cut in half and falls into a bottomless pit; eh you can you can survive that if you are cool enough. One light saber through the gut though, instant death. Unless you're a black woman (see Ahsoka).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:33 PM (5yqx7)

173 The Socialists Republic of New Jersey is run for Socialists, not the riff raff

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 05:33 PM (Ia/+0)

174 When do people find time to watch tv?

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic . . . at May 22, 2026 05:33 PM (3ZUWJ)

175 Man, I was way ahead of y'all. On my last show back in the 90's, I had on a bunch of guests letting y'all know it was racism, not ratings, that ended my run. We even closed with a sing along with James Brown, "I'm Black and I'm Proud".

Posted by: Arsenio Hall at May 22, 2026 05:33 PM (qivay)

176 163 Texas Senate GOP Runoff, Interactive Polls:
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Why are 30-44 year olds supporting Cornyn? They probably have the most to lose from him staying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (0U5gm)
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"Interactive Polls" might be a clue as to the value of this one.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan
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Those polls are shit. Same crappy poll that got Massieites and Baris winning 50.2 of the vote. They 'invite' people to answer by sending texts to them--they either go online and complete a questionaire or they get a live agent.

For the most part, for valid readings of subgroups, oversampling is required. These polls skip that and simply rely on weighting what responses they actually get. So any subgroup analysis is about as useful as throwing a dart on a board.

Look for better polling which indicates something like a 15 percent Paxton race right now. Cornyn got screwed and done over by his mates in the Senate by killing the SAVE act and Paxton played it just right by offering to quit the race if the Senate passed it. Of course, the Senate GOP didn't pass it.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 05:34 PM (E4rtv)

177 >>> Fuck them up the ass with a bee hive.
Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 05:29 PM (RO0sO)

OH, NO, NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY TAXES! MY TAAAXXEEES! AAAAHHHHH!

Posted by: The Nick Cage - taxes is a new slang I invented meaning ass at May 22, 2026 05:34 PM (3uBP9)

178 In the original Star Wars trilogy, didn't Bobs Fett fall into the maw of an underground desert monster to be slowly digested over a period of centuries? I guess everyone was to forget about that (eventual?) fate to enable the series.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 05:24 PM (HLgI3)
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Boba Fett managed to escape in the Expanded Universe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:34 PM (gnNyN)

179 Star Trek was supposed to be "Wagon Train" in Space when originally created

People say that but I never got that connection at all. It felt more like a submarine show to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026

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Roddenberry was using what he knew would work with network execs: explaining a new show in terms of an old familiar hit. If he and his team had followed the Wagon Train concept, we'd have had new guest stars coming aboard the ship each week, and the focus would have been much more on them than on Kirk, Spock, and the regulars. "The Charlie X Story," for instance (and that one really did follow the WT idea), or "The Harry Mudd Story," etc.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

180 170 Emily Compagno?

Yes, please.
Posted by: man

Who?

https://tinyurl.com/yd6e8v27

Oh my. Not quite Kate Upton, but certainly an attractive lass...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 22, 2026 05:34 PM (ycI94)

181 > Emily Compagno?
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Christ, that voice would lead to a homicide.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 05:35 PM (jehhT)

182 131 I finally researched to find out what "The Mandalorian" was. The concept for the series didn't sound bad, just not something that could run for multiple episodes

It was basically a western in space, you could keep that going for ages. If you focused on that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:20 PM (5yqx7)

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Firefly did it much better and look how that turned out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 05:36 PM (gnNyN)

183
Emily is the biggest motormouth I think I've ever heard. Gutfeld and the crew have had some fun over that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 22, 2026 05:36 PM (w6EFb)

184 Its like Darth spikeface or whatever his face was from the first prequel. Cut in half and falls into a bottomless pit; eh you can you can survive that if you are cool enough. One light saber through the gut though, instant death. Unless you're a black woman (see Ahsoka).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:33 PM (5yqx7)

Darth Maul, and I was shocked when I saw that. Coolest character in the movie, and he spent 90% of his screen time sending out probes, then a few minutes into his awesome fight scene gets cut in half.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 22, 2026 05:36 PM (qivay)

185 "Trek was supposed to be "Wagon Train" in Space when originally created."

There's a five book series dedicated to that theme.

Posted by: 13times at May 22, 2026 05:37 PM (h4ya0)

186 I'm a 29 damned year old adult and I'm still too stupid to check the handle of a commenter before going to a link.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:38 PM (3uBP9)

187 nood

pizza

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 05:39 PM (3uBP9)

188 180 170 Emily Compagno?

Yes, please.
Posted by: man

Who?

https://tinyurl.com/yd6e8v27

Oh my. Not quite Kate Upton, but certainly an attractive lass...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 22, 2026 05:34 PM (ycI94)

I guess I'm the jackass for not looking at the sig. Still, yeah it's AI.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at May 22, 2026 05:39 PM (qivay)

189 Oh good another comment thread where we're discussing Star Wars/Trek/Faggotverse for the ten billionth time.

See y'all on the next one.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (oqH4h)

190 Apologies if this has already been discussed, I've been super busy at work. But, has anyone seen this? This is supremely creepy. FOX News had a Navy Seal guest on who was wearing a realistic rubber mask? Was it even him? If yes. why the mask? This is some f'in weird-ass shit.

https://tinyurl.com/mt4yu69r

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 05:40 PM (gtcuf)

191 Well , will wonders never cease. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running on a new district which is a majority African American district. One of the candidates she'll face is Luther Campbell from 2LiveCrew fame. I hope she gets crushed and repeatedly called a racist.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (VHKlE)

192 How it's going: just had an tiff with my dude as I showed him my new travel shoes. He wants me to look Amish traveling because I should wear tennis shoes with a skirt. No. I told him this is still because I was wearing heeled boots while climbing Arthur's Seat in Endinburgh a decade ago, isn't it? These don't have heels nor are they boots. I do not know why I bother as he probably would not notice since I have as many shoes as that Filipino broad.

I then get texts from my brother who set up the baby bed, which is fine & the baby's father enraged me by not telling DIL for me to order it sooner,we had this discussion 2mo ago. At least she has a bed.

I then remembered that my mother, who no longer goes upstairs, for reasons unknown, had a plumber put a toilet extender on the upstairs commode. The roof slants in that tiny area and my brothers used to whack their head on the light using the loo. We don't know why mother did this. So that needs to be removed or my 6'4" husband and son will be whacking their heads and granddaughter will need a stool.

I know I should not feel like I am being deported to CECOT for a long weekend of family who I do love.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (WONhk)

193 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (LdBR/)

194
Posted by: The Blade Herald at May 22, 2026 05:29 PM (RO0sO)

Did you see my earlier comment where a websearch shows that his "bee farm" produces about 600 lbs of honey per year? That's a little over 50 gallons.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 05:41 PM (y9nCu)

195 Raining off and on here, as I listen to the local classical music station with big black Stirling cat curled next to me.

Good news: I got a letter from the IRS amending my 2025 return. Seems I overpaid them! I miscalculated the taxable amount of my SS, thinking it was 85%, but it was more like 60%. I'm getting a good-sized refund. Better late than never, says I to myself, says I.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (wzUl9)

196 I know Stelter is dumb (He is a Tater) but does he have any idea what anti-authoritarian means? Not wanting to be told what to do isn't anti-authoritarian; it's usually just being childish and selfish, like Colbert is. Anti-authoritarianism is opposing other people being told what to do. Does the TaterTard think pro-vaccine Colbert is really anti-authoritarian?

Posted by: Wally at May 22, 2026 05:42 PM (65cLN)

197 I always thought these nitwit late night shows and hosts were there to help promote the entertainment industry. Have guests, comedians, musicians, bands, - not give us hours of not-funny, retard, political, monologue commentary.

They all suck. Cancel them all.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 22, 2026 05:44 PM (D1E+2)

198 Do I incorrectly remember the MFM trying to paint Colbert as some kind of devoted observant Catholic at one time?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 22, 2026 04:57 PM (f0sNM)

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Long ago when Bill O'Reilly was still on Fox. I didn't believe it then and even less now.

Posted by: Decaf at May 22, 2026 05:50 PM (Z8tay)

199 Capitalism kills bad TV shows. Who knew?

Posted by: Don Black- to infinity, and beyond at May 22, 2026 05:52 PM (ZxPkt)

Tucker Carlson Is Spiraling and Sperging Over The Crushing Loss of His Nazi Pal

John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte
@NolteNC
May 20
Massie's biggest mistake was likely believing that social media is real life, that people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones had managed to wrest enough influence from Trump that seeking their good opinion was the only constituency he needed to win over.
Well, he and they lost by ten points.
'Influencers,' eh?
As a great man once said, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Why did Massie lose tonight?
Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border.
Trump mercilessly trashed Massie in 2020--calling him a "disaster" for America and Kentucky and saying he should be thrown out of the GOP entirely--but Massie easily swatted that away and won 81-19, so you can't say he only lost because of Trump. He went toe-to-toe with Trump on COVID in 2020 and won overwhelmingly.
Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters.
We'll never know what caused the apparent personality change--maybe it was the death of his wife, maybe it was the McCarthy race followed by McCarthy's ouster, or maybe it was a desire for notoriety or media acclaim and a lucrative podcasting career outside of Congress--but the drastic change was undeniable, as was the seeming lack of interest in much of anything happening in Kentucky.
Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Epstein, blame the tragic death of a spouse, I don't care. But you cannot just wave away 2020 Massie going face-to-face with the Trump machine and winning in a rout only to get smoked six years later.
Massie's voters didn't really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.

Taqiyya Qatarlson rejects these explanations. For him, the failure of his Nazi agenda means that the Republican Party is dead, MAGA is dead, and America is a conquered nation controlled by evil Jews in Israel.

Shadow of Ezra
@ShadowofEzra
Tucker Carlson says the Republican Party is officially dead after it colluded with a foreign country to buy Thomas Massie's seat.
He says it is immoral to support the current Republican Party because it supports the killing of children and is now against free speech.
"It's the end of the Republican Party we had."

Video here.

Because the faggot that this faggot supported lost, that means that "democracy is fake."

Marco Foster
@MarcoFoster_
Tucker Carlson: "This is the saddest moment in a long time. It�s not just the death of Thomas Massie's immediate political career. It's obviously the death of MAGA, whatever that was. but it�s also of course the end of the Republican party. Nobody supports this"

This is what all the NeverTrumpers said as they flounced in 2015-2016.

Taqiyya Qatarlson also claims the election was stolen by "mail in" ballots. He says he has no evidence of this, but invites the Nazi losers who watch him to do their own "sleuthing" and prove his conspiracy for him.

This is Candace Owens' business model -- invent a fake and gay conspiracy theory, then tell her legions of "mommysleuths" to gather non-existent evidence to prove it.

Tucker Carlson suggests that the election was stolen from Thomas Massie because of �mail-in ballots.�

Gallrein won both early voting and Election Day.

Tucker is a conspiratorial liar. pic.twitter.com/rQesiqmlmv
— Justin (@JustinUSA) May 21, 2026

Is that true? Did Gallrein -- "whoever that is" -- really only win due to "mail-in ballots"?

Well a brain damaged alcoholic substance abuser who had a psychotic break is saying it, so no, it's not true.

Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
13h
Tucker Carlson's latest video claims Thomas Massie's loss was due to "mail-in ballots."
Except Gallrein won both early voting and Election Day.
Tucker Carlson is a liar.

Tuq'r also dismisses the existence of Islamic terrorism. He scoffs, "Islamic terrorism -- whatever that is."

People are pointing out he seemed to know what the term meant for 30 years as he's railed about Islamic terrorism since the first World Trade Center bombing in 1995.

But now he says he doesn't even know what Islamic jihad meanx, suggesting it's a propaganda term invented by Perfidious Jews to con Christians.

�WhAtEvEr ThAt iS� https://t.co/yjw3F6cyJt pic.twitter.com/IrlTrABd9d
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 22, 2026

Remember, he really cares about the Christians. He's a real Christian, too! He discovered the Bible two years ago when his secular ass got fired and he realized he'd have to cultivate a new audience willing to pay his fat ass $10 per month for his "analysis."

By the way, that's another way in which the Woke Reich shows it's just another branch of woke leftism. As many have noted, it's impossible to even have a political conversation with a leftist because they're favorite tactic is pretending they don't understand the simplest points and pretending they are ignorant of the most basic, widely-known facts. They just don't know what you mean by "crime" or "illegal alien," you know!

And this is Tuq'r's favorite tactic now too. There are many, many things that Tuq'r Qarlson is suddenly ignorant about. When Piers Morgan stated that Israel was an "ally," Tuq'r objected "I don't even know what that means." Morgan explained he meant that Israel was a political ally of the United States, and Tuq'r again insisted "I don't even know what a political ally means.'

He says he doesn't know what "MAGA" means any more, or what the Republican Party is any more. He doesn't know what "democracy" means (though he does seem to know because he also says he wants people in a "revolutionary, even violent" frame of mind, and then pretends he didn't say that).

He doesn't know if Hamas is a "terror organization." He says he doesn't know what that means, and adds "it seems like a political organization to me."

Wait -- so you do know what "terror organization" means, because you just contrasted that with "political organization."

Is it possible, Tuq'r, that you're lying about not knowing what basic words mean?

And now - no idea what "islamic jihad" is.

Someone linked a headline about ISIS murdering 40 more Christians in Nigeria, with Tuq'r's quote -- "IsLaMiC tErRoRiSm -- WhAtEvEr ThAt Is" underneath.

"Islamic jihad -- whatever that is!"

May that be written on his grave.

He literally contradicts himself every other sentence. Because he's a liar, and liars can't keep straight which lies they're telling at any particular time.

The America First guy who thinks Israel -- by which he means "American Jews" -- stole Massie's seat doesn't oppose all foreign funding of political messaging, of course:

🚨Tucker Carlson's media venture got $15M from a billionaire jihadist in late 2023.

Tucker began to become more and more anti-jew and more and more pro-muslim around this same time period.

Tucker claims everyone is "bought" by AIPAC to distract you from noticing he's been� pic.twitter.com/jzAXyiTywY
— Pro-America | Politics & Markets (@Pro__Trading) May 21, 2026

One more thing: In case you have any doubt about this, Tuq'r Carlson is a Nazi and Holocaust denier. He keeps on having one Holocaust denier after another to discuss their interesting theories.

He's just asking questions, you know! (((They))) don't like it when you ask questions!

Joel Mowbray
@joelmowbray
🚨 EXCLUSIVE -- Tucker Carlson's latest guest, @OwenBenjamin, is no ordinary Holocaust denier.
Benjamin claims there's "zero evidence" Hitler ordered the Holocaust, which he labels a hoax.
Further, he claimed that the Nazis RESCUED Jews by sending them to Auschwitz and other concentration camps only "because there's mass city evacuatuations because of [Allied] bombing."
This clip from 2022 is representative of Benjamin's many other Holocaust-related rants.
In short, Holocaust denial is central to his public persona, as part of an obsessive focus on Jews.
Yet despite this, Tucker's brother Buckley yesterday praised Benjamin as a "great American Hero [and] Truth-teller."
And Tucker didn't just interview him, but fawned that his guest "weaves sharp-witted satire with deep dives into the complexities of the human condition."
But if you watch this clip -- which, again, is one of many similar rants -- one obvious question comes to mind:
How could anyone view Benjamin as a "sharp-witted" analyst of "the complexities of the human condition"?

The Bee:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:50 PM

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1 Tucker's demise will be studied.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (rJ48h)

2 WTC / Blind Sheikh bombing was 1993.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (gKWVE)

3 The first cut is deepest, baby you know.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (OoFl2)

4 Not first. Would rather not be, really.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (Gqar8)

5 Taqiyya Qatarlson also claims the election was stolen by "mail in" ballots. He says he has no evidence of this, but invites the Nazi losers who watch him to do their own "sleuthing" and prove his conspiracy for him.

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Ed has proportional number of ballots to Massie. About 10,000 to Massie's 8,000.

Ed won by about 10,000 votes.

Therefore, all of Ed's mail in ballots were fake because Massie would have won without them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (46HP8)

6 Spend away Tuck, and go away please

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (Ia/+0)

7 You inow who else was heavily find for questiong an election result.... Oh, wait!

Posted by: Rex B at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (fzPQK)

8 Tucker's demise will be studied.
Posted by: mr tmz

Probably by those neuroscientists who freeze the brain after death and make micro-slice examinations of it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (diia5)

9 Babylon Bee headline. LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (n3VHW)

10 Tuck is whacko... Time for an intervention

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:55 PM (mmXBm)

11 The biggest thing I see tying all of these has beens together is jew hatred. I mean when massie gets up to give his concession speech and infers his opponent is in Israel getting his orders from the jews we have crossed the anti semite rubicon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 03:55 PM (0N4FZ)

12 Tucker has endorsed a few people in primaries this year.

2 dropped out.

5 who have actually run in primaries that are finished have all lost.

There's also James Fishback in FL for governor, but he hasn't polled above 6%.

What if...Tucker has no real world influence and his views are predominently foreign?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:55 PM (46HP8)

13 And this is Tuq'r's favorite tactic now too. There are many, many things that Tuq'r Qarlson is suddenly ignorant about. When Piers Morgan stated that Israel was an "ally," Tuq'r objected "I don't even know what that means." Morgan explained he meant that Israel was a political ally of the United States, and Tuq'r again insisted "I don't even know what a political ally means.'

Tucker also professes to being completely befuddled by the concept of "cooking". "What are these 'stoves' and 'ovens' of which you speak", he asked. "I have no knowledge of them".

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (Riz8t)

14 Thomas Massie’s loyalty has always been to - Thomas Massie - and that was made clear to voters. They responded, funnily enough.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (Gqar8)

15 11 The biggest thing I see tying all of these has beens together is jew hatred. I mean when massie gets up to give his concession speech and infers his opponent is in Israel getting his orders from the jews we have crossed the anti semite rubicon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 03:55 PM (0N4FZ)

=======

Because the audience on social media is global and there are a whole lot of Jew haters in the third world with access to social media, a lot more of them than Americans at all, much less American conservatives.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (46HP8)

16 If not mentioned, Tulsi is stepping down immediately due to her husband's bone cancer diagnosis.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (tOcjL)

17 14 Thomas Massie’s loyalty has always been to - Thomas Massie - and that was made clear to voters. They responded, funnily enough.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (Gqar

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Massie started on Epstein after he voted against the OBBB last year and after Trump targeted him for destruction.

It's just a coincidence and Massie really did care about the Epstein victims.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (46HP8)

18 Massie got a bit mouthy in the last couple days of his campaign run. Belligerent even. Some of that was directed directly, and personally at Trump.

I don't think that ever ends well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (jehhT)

19 I love the bee.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 03:58 PM (cZQmn)

20 Massie went from ... to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior.
---
See now, something is up right there.

Any politician that can't put it together that the Deep State would have tagged Trump with real stuff if they would go after him with contrived stuff, I just can't believe that person is living on the same Earth I am.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

21 Whenever I see "Massie" I think of Classy Freddy Blassie. Who was not classy, but a blowhard loser.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 03:59 PM (wBaIH)

22 I thought what I saw Tusli was doing a great job

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Ia/+0)

23 The only thing that explains any of this is direct demonic possession.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)

24 Who lives more rent-free in people's heads?

1. Trump in Democrap heads

2. Jews in the Tucker-Owens Bukkake Crew?

It must be really sad and pathetic to so obsess over Trump and/or Jews that you see them hiding behind every bush, making every bump in the night, casting every shadow you see in the corner of your eye, and being everywhere all the time.

"Hush, little baby, don't say a word. And never mind that noise you heard. It's just the Jew under your bed, in your closet, in your head ...."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

25 If not mentioned, Tulsi is stepping down immediately due to her husband's bone cancer diagnosis.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (tOcjL)
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I have to admit I did not predict "cancer" after "bone".

This is AoSHQ, after all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)

26 Gabbard did the right thing. Admirable, in my book.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (Gqar8)

27 >>> Tucker's demise will be studied.
Posted by: mr tmz

One joke I do a lot when I want to sound "insane" is to put "every" other "word" in "quotes" to show that I'm "paranoid" about the simplest "words" and I think all "definitions" are "traps" created by the "Government" and "Jews."

That's what Tuq'r Qarlson is doing now, for real -- he is deeply suspicious of the most basic political language because he believes it's all a construction of Jews so he doesn't want to even acknowledge realities like "ally" or "hostile state" or "terror organization" or "islamic jihad."

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (1wjle)

28 Massie wasn’t principled. He was an obstructionist.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (OoFl2)

29 20 See now, something is up right there.

Any politician that can't put it together that the Deep State would have tagged Trump with real stuff if they would go after him with contrived stuff, I just can't believe that person is living on the same Earth I am.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

=======

He did it after he voted against the OBBB and knew that there was a serious chance he'd lose his primary with Trump personally promising to find a challenger who could win.

He went for clicks, a desperation move because his whole, "I voted against the OBBB because it spent too much on border enforcement" was no defense in the KY-04 electorate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (46HP8)

30 22 I thought what I saw Tusli was doing a great job
Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Ia/+0)

I think she was... I actually believe she is resigning because of her Husband's cancer and not "disagreement" with Trump the media is trying to push.

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (mmXBm)

31 These people need to touch grass, preferably in middle America away from their own tribe.

Seriously, could you BE in a smaller bubble?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (4KUe5)

32 Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:59 PM (Ia/+0)

She was . Her husband has bone cancer and she wrote a lovely letter about needing to be with him at the difficult time. I imagine her job required her to be away much of the time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 04:01 PM (n3VHW)

33 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein Files.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 04:01 PM (0sNs1)

34 Massie lost because he didn't vote the way his Republican constituents wanted.

EoS.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

35 28 Massie wasn’t principled. He was an obstructionist.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (OoFl2)

=====

He didn't obstruct Democrats when they needed a debt ceiling increase.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:01 PM (46HP8)

36 Hamas are the best Christians. /s

Posted by: PG at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (X+9ka)

37 Why did Massie lose tonight?

Because everything is a cartoon now.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (Bq1P8)

38 >>Is it possible, Tuq'r, that you're lying about not knowing what basic words mean?

>>He literally contradicts himself every other sentence.

What's going on here is maintaining two contradictory realities in his mind. He has to protect his false reality by undermining the meaning of certain words, or denying certain facts. This is actually pretty common but TC is a great example to study because he is doing it so publicly and so blatantly.

When his brain detects a conflict, it resolves it by blurting out "I don't even know what that means"

He is really a fascinating case study in self delusion.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (N0IE5)

39 Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (mmXBm

It's reprehensible- but not surprising/ that the media would completely cover up her personal reasons for resigning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (n3VHW)

40
One would have expected Carlson to fall back on the millions he has from his share of a Frozen Chicken Pot Pie Empire. Which he apparently doesn't have, it turns out.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (HLgI3)

41 >>>Politicians Begin Offering Tucker Carlson
$1 Million To Not Endorse Them

HA!

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (6wpGE)

42 Seriously, could you BE in a smaller bubble?

That'll be enough out of you, zombie Chandler Bing.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (Riz8t)

43 >>>36 Hamas are the best Christians. /s

someone did a fake quote like that, attributing it to Carlson, and it struck me as so plausible I almost included it in this post before I said "Wait a minute, I need to check if that's a real quote."

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (1wjle)

44 37 Why did Massie lose tonight?

Because everything is a cartoon now.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (Bq1P

======

Because Massie is protecting the identities of 20 powerful pedophiles he's admitted to knowing the names of and promised to read on the House floor.

He hasn't done it because he's protecting them. He's pro-power pedophile.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (46HP8)

45 I'm really getting tired of the Jew hate from people like Carlson as well as the socialists. Apparently, nobody has any sense of history, and it goes back a long, long way.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (0U5gm)

46 Not crazy, bought.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (YwEeS)

47 35 28 Massie wasn’t principled. He was an obstructionist.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (OoFl2)

=====

He didn't obstruct Democrats when they needed a debt ceiling increase.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May

Are you suggesting he might not be conservative at all? Whoa! 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (hftzA)

48 He is really a fascinating case study in self delusion.

I'm more cynical than that. I don't think he believes a word of what he's saying. It's all just a cynical exercise in rage-baiting.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (Riz8t)

49 The argument online I see is interesting...

Yes one side of Massie's support if blaming Epstein clients and da Joos who they are are the same.

The other side is arguing he was a principled Republican that voted with MAGA 91% of the time.

Yeah, well, that's the same line the GOPe uses too. So vote for 9 post office renamings and then vote against MAGA on the debt ceiling or similiar and its all ok right?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

50 It's so funny how "Trump bad because Trump hates Jews" turned into "Trump bad because Trump loves Jews" basically overnight. At 3 AM. On a Sunday. So it didn't screw up anyone's day too badly. Anyone important, anyway.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (Ot/FD)

51 ChristyBlinky saw the outpouring of love-for-ChristyBlinky on the thread Crime Skyrocketed During Biden's Open Borders Regime and Plummeted During Trump's Deporation Regime But I'm Sure This Is All a Right-Wing Coincidence, Racists:

287 Thank you for your kind words above.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (WONhk)

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (6wpGE)

52 47 Are you suggesting he might not be conservative at all? Whoa! 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (hftzA)

=======

"Just because he keeps voting with Democrats doesn't mean he's actually a Democrat."
-something BurtTC actually said to me once

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (46HP8)

53 Massie became McCain 2.0.

They think this “standing up to my own party” stuff makes them gutsy independents.

You called your own party’s POTUS a pedophile, blocked popular legislation ( the things we voted for), and then became obsessed with an investigation that died with its target back in 2020?

Yeah, you’re a tool. Whose tool were you?
Maybe hate them instead of normie Americans, huh?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (4KUe5)

54 45 I'm really getting tired of the Jew hate from people like Carlson as well as the socialists. Apparently, nobody has any sense of history, and it goes back a long, long way.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:04

They are stupidly betting on the wrong horse.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (hftzA)

55 Hamas are the best Christians

Well, maybe after me.

But transwomen are the best women. Because they CHOOSE to be women.

And they have lady balls. But you know 6 of one, one in my squeakhole as I always say...

Posted by: David French at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (sKqQm)

56 48 He is really a fascinating case study in self delusion.

I'm more cynical than that. I don't think he believes a word of what he's saying. It's all just a cynical exercise in rage-baiting.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (Riz8t)

Carlson I could see being an actual neurological thing.

The rest are just assholes shitposting IRL.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (Ot/FD)

57 Tucker and Massie are going to start growing man boobs like Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (VHKlE)

58 >>>When his brain detects a conflict, it resolves it by blurting out "I don't even know what that means"

yes. But I am also diagnosing him with at least a low-grade version of schizophrenia. The schizophrenic woman I knew, who taught me to "put" all "words" in "quotes" to show my "suspicion" of "even" common "language," was just a more intense version of Tucker Carlson.

You'll also notice he's always mumbling darkly with his head tilted like he's checking over his shoulder to see who's listening (while he's recording himself on camara).

I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (1wjle)

59 One would have expected Carlson to fall back on the millions he has from his share of a Frozen Chicken Pot Pie Empire. Which he apparently doesn't have, it turns out.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (HLgI3)

Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot PIE!!

Posted by: Donny Thinks It's a Vacuum at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (0aYVJ)

60 It's so funny how "Trump bad because Trump hates Jews" turned into "Trump bad because Trump loves Jews" basically overnight. At 3 AM. On a Sunday.

For a few years know the left has been arguing:

1) Trump is literally Hitler and wants to exterminate Jews

2) Trump is controlled by Israel and likes his Jewish daughter TOO much.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (sKqQm)

61 Anyone notice that Lindsay Graham's primary never gets mentioned?

Remember when Lindsay Graham was one of our most hated senators?

His primary is going on right now. I even hear pro-Graham ads on the radio (I live near the SC border).

And no one gives a shit. He's not a target.

Why is that?

Because he's actually a good politician who has his major issues but knows how to frame himself publicly so he's on the right side of his electorate.

That's how you be your own dickness and survive as a Republican in current day GOP politics. You publicly align with Trump and work behind the scenes for yourself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (46HP8)

62 I'm sorry to hear about Tulsi Gabbard. She was my candidate in the Democratic primaries against Biden because of her attempt to clean up the DNC and, of course, the ringing endorsement was Hillary calling her "a Russian asset". Her husband Abraham seems like a very good man and I hope he beats cancer.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (fxCK2)

63 Jews are evil and everywhere and control everything.

...Let's piss them off!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (Ot/FD)

64 I’m a little curious about his new wife’s politics.
Is this one of those situations where the wife’s Uber left opinions wore off on him? It happens.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (4KUe5)

65 Wow, for a dead party, the GOP's financial situation is a hell of a lot better than the vibrant, dynamic Democrat Party.

Is he planning on restarting the Whig Party? Tippecanoe and Tucker Too!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (qwx/I)

66 10 Tuck is whacko... Time for an intervention
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:55 PM (mmXBm)

"Crack is wack."

Tuck is cuck.

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (6wpGE)

67 Is 'whatever that is' a thing now?

'Communism, whatever that is.'

But I know what communism is, it's evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (zZu0s)

68 That "rout" by Massie occurred when fraudulent ballots were much easier get counted and real ballots tossed. Just saying, those numbers were likely closer than Nolte points to. That's the thing going forward, notice how across the board it all starts to correct.

Posted by: Rambone at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (hyQrc)

69 Tulsi resigned for her spouse. Period. Rare bone cancer and treatment is not fun. You don't go through that solo...you usually end up needing a full time caretaker for most of that period. And that assumes you do make it through.

No spouse who can do otherwise wants to fob off caretaking to a stranger, especially if its a really bad prognosis...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (tOcjL)

70 A recent whistle blower was able to establish that Clinesmith has been "inaccurate" on more than 1 government report. In case, you need a reminder, he's the guy who reported that the CIA had disavowed working with Page, despite their answer that he was an asset.

And so, you see, it was "suspicious" that Page spent so much time and energy talking to Russians, and could be taken as a "Russian asset" because of this peculiar behavior. So the FICA application needed Clinesmith's Whoopsie flip-flop to establish "weirdness".

This is why I say in the real world, the IC had to invent something against Trump. However, the Trump accusers suggest to me that the Deep State had real dirt on Trump sitting in IC files for 4 years, and they never used it on him?!!!

Anybody who pushes Trump--and Trump ALONE--won't release the Epstein files and it's suspicious that Trump--and ONLY Trump--won't release files that weren't released the entire 4 years of a Democratic President, they've got to be full of shit. Or I need to hear why Dems didn't want Trump exposed, because it jeopardized too many other fellow pedophiles that the IC wanted to protect.

And why that's a good thing.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (Fi81e)

71 Jews are evil and everywhere and control everything.

...Let's piss them off!

Also Trump is literally Hitler, so let's float a balloon of him as a baby in public.

Because obviously literally Hitler would allow people to publicly make fun of him unlike the actual historical Hitler...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

72 >>>42 Seriously, could you BE in a smaller bubble?
That'll be enough out of you, zombie Chandler Bing.

Seriously, could you BE more of an untermenschen?

Posted by: Nazi Chandler Bing at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (1wjle)

73 67 Is 'whatever that is' a thing now?

'Communism, whatever that is.'

But I know what communism is, it's evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (zZu0s)

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"Communism is any form of government and regulation at all. Charlemagne was a communist."
-the modern Libertarian

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (46HP8)

74 I'm really getting tired of the Jew hate from people like Carlson as well as the socialists. Apparently, nobody has any sense of history, and it goes back a long, long way.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:04

They are stupidly betting on the wrong horse.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (hftzA)
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They are bought and paid for by anti-Israel (and anti-American) interests. I think it's as simple as that. They say what they are told to say. You can see it in how they all parrot the same talking points, every time. They are NPC drones as much as all the left are.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (iFTx/)

75 Does Tucker only have one stupid shirt? Is that part of his religion? I'll bet he has BO, too.

The one thing Massie gave me was the pinecone peen. I will never know why (and don't want to know as I have imagined some horror) but I think it is hilarious.

I ripped a few anti-semites this week and they have not refuted me. I was on a roll and was so dang polite two guys have not been back on another blog. I'm not totally sure what got into me, maybe post cholera potassium depletion, as I had stored some angst about it and the "influencers" and let 'er rip. With links for the retards.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (WONhk)

76 I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Perhaps, but it's hard to square that with the fact that other "celebrities", e.g. CO and Me-Again, started goosestepping at almost the same time.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

77 While everyone rightfully slams Kristol for his insipid mouthings, at least he had the courage to change parties and declare himself a democrat.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (0U5gm)

78 43 >>>36 Hamas are the best Christians. /s

someone did a fake quote like that, attributing it to Carlson, and it struck me as so plausible I almost included it in this post before I said "Wait a minute, I need to check if that's a real quote."

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (1wjle)

At one point, Lebanese were some of the best Christians...

Then... 1979 Iran happened and the got invaded.
By 1982, it was a sectarian bloodbath.
By 1984, an Islamic terrorist stronghold.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (mP0Kj)

79 I would not be surprised if Tucker had a psychotic break. What he says now is unreal compared to what he said on his show.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (4KUe5)

80 "Communism is any form of government and regulation at all. Charlemagne was a communist."

Pretty sure Emperor Chucky would have given modern communists the Saxon treatment.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

81 Is he planning on restarting the Whig Party? Tippecanoe and Tucker Too!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (qwx/I)

More like the To-Pay Party.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (Ot/FD)

82
I don't think Massie lost because of Trump, although having Trump ragging on him didn't help. I think Massie lost because of Massie.

"Because of Trump"' a convenient dodge for RINOs who are getting rejected in primaries by their own voters. They want to obscure the real reason for their rejection -- people started noticing that they are fakes and liars.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (DOcg9)

83 58 >>>When his brain detects a conflict, it resolves it by blurting out "I don't even know what that means"

yes. But I am also diagnosing him with at least a low-grade version of schizophrenia. The schizophrenic woman I knew, who taught me to "put" all "words" in "quotes" to show my "suspicion" of "even" common "language," was just a more intense version of Tucker Carlson.

You'll also notice he's always mumbling darkly with his head tilted like he's checking over his shoulder to see who's listening (while he's recording himself on camara).

I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (1wjle)

Something pathological, for sure.

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (6wpGE)

84 >>>Perhaps, but it's hard to square that with the fact that other "celebrities", e.g. CO and Me-Again, started goosestepping at almost the same time.

but me-again is just a weak dumb ditzy follower. always has been.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (1wjle)

85 79 I would not be surprised if Tucker had a psychotic break. What he says now is unreal compared to what he said on his show.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (4KUe5)

I agree.... He looks frightened... Almost like he sees things that aren't there.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (mmXBm)

86 While everyone rightfully slams Kristol for his insipid mouthings, at least he had the courage to change parties and declare himself a democrat.

Thanks to that damn Trump I couldn't get a single gender fluid cabin boy any more as a Republican.

Now though? Well, let's just say I'm enjoying boyhood again!

Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

87 I'm all for ending mail in balloting. But the GOP in KY using fake ballots in a primary? That's a stretch to the moon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)

88 85 79 I would not be surprised if Tucker had a psychotic break. What he says now is unreal compared to what he said on his show.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (4KUe5)

I agree.... He looks frightened... Almost like he sees things that aren't there.....

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (mmXBm)

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He's possessed by demons.

He admits he gets visited by them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (46HP8)

89 "Communism is any form of government and regulation at all. Charlemagne was a communist."
-the modern Libertarian
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (46HP

Remember when he photoshopped Roland out of that one tapestry?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (Ot/FD)

90 You know what? If Israel or Jews DID have an outsized influence on the Trump administration, I'm all for it. It would be better for America if Islam was depowered and Israel was the leading power in the Middle East. The idea of America and Israel working together is pretty much the same as how America and pre-decline England used to work together.

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (3/XaG)

91 He looks very red-faced.

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (6wpGE)

92 It's so funny how "Trump bad because Trump hates Jews" turned into "Trump bad because Trump loves Jews" basically overnight. At 3 AM. On a Sunday.
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Ah, somebody else saw the same thing.

Of course, Trump's "antisemitism" was always out of the wrong playbook. What with a Jewish Son-in-law who converted his daughter to Judaism.

Corruption causes people to say stupid stuff like they believe it.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (Fi81e)

93 > "This is the saddest moment in a long time. It's not just the death of Thomas Massie's immediate political career. It's obviously the death of MAGA, whatever that was. but it's also of course the end of the Republican party. Nobody supports this"

Obviously the death of MAGA? How? Incumbent Senators are basically tenured for life in almost all cases. Trump asked the public to unseat Massie, and they did. Trump is at the heart of MAGA. Massie's ouster is an example of the capacity of Trump's MAGA, not its death.

"It's also of course the end of the Republican party."
One can only dream.

"Nobody supports this"
Riiiight. It's just AIPAC and nobody else.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (mkw2N)

94 someone did a fake quote like that, attributing it to Carlson, and it struck me as so plausible I almost included it in this post before I said "Wait a minute, I need to check if that's a real quote."

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM

There you go, ace, doing the journalisming that the MSM and left-wing (but I repeat myself) journalists won't do.

Chuy been around the HQ lately?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (0sNs1)

95 Tuckley and Bucker?

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (UjdFS)

96 76 I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Perhaps, but it's hard to square that with the fact that other "celebrities", e.g. CO and Me-Again, started goosestepping at almost the same time.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

Drugs probably make these kind of mental breaks more likely.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 22, 2026 04:12 PM (tOcjL)

97 87 I'm all for ending mail in balloting. But the GOP in KY using fake ballots in a primary? That's a stretch to the moon.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)

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The GOP is not at all beyond cheating in primaries by any means.

The problem with the theory here, though, would require literally every single mail in ballot for Ed being fake and every single mail in ballot for Massie being genuine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:12 PM (46HP8)

98 Tucker's Jew hate goes back to Crossfire when Jon Stewart called Tucker a dick in live TV. Soy boy has never gotten over it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 04:12 PM (VHKlE)

99 The left: If you don't like socialism move to Somali where they don't have a government like you want

Also the left: How dare you call Somali a shithole country. Some of our best citizens are from there enriching us with their wise ways from back home

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 04:12 PM (sKqQm)

100 100

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:12 PM (6wpGE)

101 Taqiyya Qatarlson is reading the room, the Middle East room where his money comes from.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 22, 2026 04:12 PM (Q/FnY)

102 I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (1wjle)

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No objection, and I think you may have nailed it.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:13 PM (N0IE5)

103 >>>
I agree.... He looks frightened... Almost like he sees things that aren't there.....

Posted by: It's me donna

you see it too ? He's always in this defensive facial crouch with these dark, low-eyebrow eyes, speaking out of the side of his face.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:13 PM (1wjle)

104 Watching, just released from Fox, Tucker make exemplary speeches and interviews for a ~year then descend into the mental hell that he bathes himself in today is alarming.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 04:13 PM (LIEok)

105 76 I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Perhaps, but it's hard to square that with the fact that other "celebrities", e.g. CO and Me-Again, started goosestepping at almost the same time.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

They're riding his coattails for clicks?

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:13 PM (6wpGE)

106 You know what? If Israel or Jews DID have an outsized influence on the Trump administration, I'm all for it. It would be better for America if Islam was depowered and Israel was the leading power in the Middle East.

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (3/XaG)
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There's a difference between being for it and demanding that anybody who didn't like such arrangement, well, they must just hate Jews.

I'm more likely to be for it, but if I acknowledged it, to be for it, I would have to let other people acknowledge it and disagree (which is not something I'm accusing *you* of).

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e)

107 you see it too ? He's always in this defensive facial crouch with these dark, low-eyebrow eyes, speaking out of the side of his face.
Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:13 PM (1wjle)

Yes I do see it

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 04:14 PM (mmXBm)

108 The schizophrenic woman I knew, who taught me to "put" all "words" in "quotes" to show my "suspicion" of "even" common "language," was just a more intense version of Tucker Carlson.

Jared Loughner did similar IIRC. His brain couldn't match his reality with the language everyone else uses to communicate, so cooked up a new syntactic order. Which turned out to be bugfuck insane, but then so was Jared.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 04:14 PM (gKWVE)

109 I just finished reading King of Kings about the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iranian revolution.

Khomeini, kept mostly in exile until our French friends took him in and bundled him back to Iran, was ambivalent about his role in the future of Iran back in 78/79, implying that Iran would transition into a democracy after the Shah fell.

When he did accede to power, all those deals, all those toadies who helped him achieve power (coupled with the feckless Carter admin who saw him as a non-threat) were instantaneously cast aside. This Muslim holy man, with another Muslim holy man as his executioner, wound up killing far more than the Shah and SAVAK ever did.

Taqiyya, they call it, Tucker.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 22, 2026 04:14 PM (qwx/I)

110 Taqiyya Qatarlson is reading the room, the Middle East room where his money comes from.

That strikes me as much more likely. OTOH, I really haven't watched anything of his in a long time, so I can't address whether he looks different than he used to.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:15 PM (Riz8t)

111 How can MAGA die?

Again?

It died in 2017 when Trump hired whomever to be in his cabinet that one time.
It died in 2018 when Trump said something about Paul Ryan or whatever.
It died in 2019 when Trump went public against Mitch or something.
It died in 2020 when Trump won against the impeachment.
It died again in 2020 when Trump bungled COVID.
It died in 2021 when he lead the insurrection.
It died in 2022 when he was charged.
It died in 2023 when he killed the immigration bill despite not being in government.
It died in 2024 when Biden beat him in the debate.
It died in 2024 again when Trump won the election and immediately betrayed his follower

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:15 PM (46HP8)

112 Tuckers fellow travelers have always, to some degree or more, off the rails. Them tagging onto any particular elliptical concept is no surprise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 04:15 PM (LIEok)

113 Tucker has elevated himself to the most punchable face but unfortunately it would be like punching a retarded baby.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 22, 2026 04:15 PM (qrzX6)

114 The brain can not accept contradictory facts and works to resolve them. The ability to hold two contradictory facts in your brain creates a tension, and many people go nuts over this.

I can accept that, for example, Trump is a transactional egomaniac, *and* that he wants what is best for the country. I can accept that he is mostly removing grift, fraud, and waste, but that he is also grifting.

I am an adult.

Buy a child (or nut case) has to resolve this by saying Trump is either all bad, or all good. But nothing is pure so there are always contradiction that must be resolved. Their brain works overtime to remove the tension.

Now did that cause his psychotic break, or or is this a a symptom of that is above my pay grade.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:16 PM (N0IE5)

115 I was a big fan of Tucker's when he was on Fox watched it every night... This is not the same person... At least mentally

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 04:16 PM (mmXBm)

116 Bill Kristol has been a scumbag for many years. He is a DC insider who partners with others in the beltway to influence government.

Back in 2016 he partnered with Meathead on a Save Our Democracy project that undermined Trump. He had done that a lot, creating NGOs to influence without detection.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:16 PM (4KUe5)

117 That's what I'm saying, the ballots are only sent to republicans for their primary in a specific district. A dead democrat can't vote in that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 04:17 PM (n5tGW)

118 Tulsi is stepping down immediately due to her husband's bone cancer diagnosis.
Posted by: Nova Local
.......

I always liked Tulsi. This makes me like her even more.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2026 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

119 another sign of mental illness is the smug smile Tucker has when he thinks he's sharing Secret Knowledge that your peons don't know but he does.

There's video of him claiming he doesn't own a computer because if you annoy (((the Powers That Be))) they'll slip child porn on to your computer and frame you as a pedophile. He says this with this huge arrogant smile, showing he's smarter than the Child Porn Framers (who we now know are The Jews).

And now that I think about it, I think he got that from his new anti-Israel, pro-Islam ally Scott Ritter, who must tell Tucker behind-the-scenes that his own child sex scandal was entirely contrived by Perfidious Jews.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)

120 @109 the overthrow of the Shah was cheered by the Iranian communists who thought they could work with Khomeini. He promptly killed something like 30k of them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 04:17 PM (VHKlE)

121 You sound like an ANTIFA chick with "Nazi" Derangement Syndrome. Start punching NAZIS!

Posted by: Unpopular Truths at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (iR91D)

122 Everyone forgets that taqiya is not an Islamic doctrine but a specifically Shi'ite doctrine.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (gKWVE)

123 Perhaps, but it's hard to square that with the fact that other "celebrities", e.g. CO and Me-Again, started goosestepping at almost the same time.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (Riz8t)

They're riding his coattails for clicks?
Posted by: m a

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folie a deux

They feed off each other. Also, others are just acting like children (lefties) as per my last comment.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (N0IE5)

124 The shadowy forces narrative is a powerful one. Dont we regularly say that it's not Obama/walz/hillary!/Biden/kamala/etc but that they are just a puppet?

How is this different than Carlson grift (aside from the night terrors?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (zZu0s)

125 >>>When he did accede to power, all those deals, all those toadies who helped him achieve power (coupled with the feckless Carter admin who saw him as a non-threat) were instantaneously cast aside. This Muslim holy man, with another Muslim holy man as his executioner, wound up killing far more than the Shah and SAVAK ever did.

Taqiyya, they call it, Tucker.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie
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A lesson yet to be learned in these United States.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (LIEok)

126 >>98 Tucker's Jew hate goes back to Crossfire when Jon Stewart called Tucker a dick in live TV. Soy boy has never gotten over it

In fairness, Jon Stewart makes me a little antisemitic, too.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (1wjle)

127 I wonder what's in Tucker's medicine cabinet these days?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (jehhT)

128 It died in 2024 again when Trump won the election and immediately betrayed his follower
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:15 PM (46HP

How many iterations of "we got him this time/how did he survive" does a political base have to be shoved through before the damage is irreparable?

There's literally bullets involved, and they're still mashing away at it, over and over and over.

They're all literally driving themselves insane.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (Ot/FD)

129 Watching, just released from Fox, Tucker make exemplary speeches and interviews for a ~year then descend into the mental hell that he bathes himself in today is alarming.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 04:13 PM (LIEok)
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Maybe getting released by Fox in the hubbub about "lying"--when Tucker was the closest to transparent about how he felt about Trump having won 2020, really sent him over the edge.

The real problem with Fox re the 2020 election, is that they allowed people on who claimed the election was stolen, and weren't part of the media press to banish that thought as cray-cray. They platformed "election deniers".

(And I say that as a guy who accepted Trump could "lose" in 2020.)

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (Fi81e)

130 Where is Tucker’s wife? You would think if he was in a state of psychosis, she would be taking some sort of action.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (hftzA)

131 He promptly killed something like 30k of them
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 22, 2026 04:17 PM (VHKlE)

Well, he did something right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (zZu0s)

132 Apparently the social media reports that a woman was fired after an IT audit revealed she had been attending all zoom meetings vi a looping 4-second nodding video for 14 months while working a second full-time job are false.

ARE NONE OF OUR HEROES REAL?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (rbvCR)

133 > Almost like he sees things that aren't there

On that topic, I remember a person with schizophrenia who was well aware she saw things that weren't real talking about how she didn't like to talk about it.

Not because people treated her badly or thought she was weird. No, it was more interesting than that.

She didn't like telling people, "I see X" because their first question was, "Where do you see X?" If she told them where, they would immediately look to see what, if anything, they could see.

She didn't like this, because then a real person was sort of interacting with her delusion, which blurred the line between reality and schizophrenia even more than usual.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (mkw2N)

134 128 How many iterations of "we got him this time/how did he survive" does a political base have to be shoved through before the damage is irreparable?

There's literally bullets involved, and they're still mashing away at it, over and over and over.

They're all literally driving themselves insane.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:18 PM (Ot/FD)

=======

When he's finally gone, out of office, and they're faced with Vance.

How will they handle that?

Well? Or poorly?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (46HP8)

135 Imagine this Tucker Carlson in 1984:

Reagan wins 49 states. Gets 54 million votes.

"Nobody supports this."

Posted by: Jim Rose at May 22, 2026 04:20 PM (miqrx)

136 There's video of him claiming he doesn't own a computer because if you annoy (((the Powers That Be))) they'll slip child porn on to your computer and frame you as a pedophile.

Does he not have a phone either? They could do the same thing to it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:20 PM (zZu0s)

137 >>>How is this different than Carlson grift (aside from the night terrors?)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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They always were crap, traveled with crap, perceived as crap.
Tucker was or emulated himself as a solid, thinking, rational conservative at a level none of them capable.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 04:21 PM (LIEok)

138 How can MAGA die?

Again?

It died in 2017 when Trump hired whomever to be in his cabinet that one time.
It died in 2018 when Trump said something about Paul Ryan or whatever.
It died in 2019 when Trump went public against Mitch or something.
It died in 2020 when Trump won against the impeachment.
It died again in 2020 when Trump bungled COVID.
It died in 2021 when he lead the insurrection.
It died in 2022 when he was charged.
It died in 2023 when he killed the immigration bill despite not being in government.
It died in 2024 when Biden beat him in the debate.
It died in 2024 again when Trump won the election and immediately betrayed his follower
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:15 PM (46HP

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But the first time, it died when Trump quit the race before the primary in 2016, because he wasn't really serious about running.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:21 PM (Fi81e)

139 Where is Tucker’s wife? You would think if he was in a state of psychosis, she would be taking some sort of action.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (hftzA)

Ever been in a codependent relationship? Some people just reinforce each other's crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (zZu0s)

140 When he's finally gone, out of office, and they're faced with Vance.

How will they handle that?

Well? Or poorly?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (46HP

"At least Trump was a man we could work with, who loved America! Unlike this insane Nazi!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (Ot/FD)

141 138 But the first time, it died when Trump quit the race before the primary in 2016, because he wasn't really serious about running.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:21 PM (Fi81e)

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How many times has it died since January 2025 and all of Trumps' broken promises?

Did you know that he actually opened up the border more than Biden?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (46HP8)

142 >>>Does he not have a phone either? They could do the same thing to it.

he didn't say but of course you're right. I don't believe him anyway. Of course he has a computer. He works (or "works," I don't even know what "works" means) online.

He's just preparing a defense in case (((They))) find child porn on his computer. "I don't even own a computer, I have no idea what this Magic Picture Box even is!"

he's slowly transforming into Nazi Unfrozen Cave-Man Lawyer.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (1wjle)

143
An Obama judge has dismissed the federal human trafficking case against illegal El Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia, calling it "malicious prosecution"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (n7rxJ)

144 136 There's video of him claiming he doesn't own a computer because if you annoy (((the Powers That Be))) they'll slip child porn on to your computer and frame you as a pedophile.

Does he not have a phone either? They could do the same thing to it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:20 PM (zZu0s)

Someone tell him they can do that shit with cameras and microphones, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (Ot/FD)

145 MAGA... died in 2017 when Trump hired whomever to be in his cabinet that one time.
It died in 2018 when...

I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was sooo reeal

Posted by: the point your dad tells you to get out and touch grass at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (gKWVE)

146 Government leaders are very careful to avoid putting sensitive things on paper. Plausible deniability. If the scheme gets exposed, it was just some rogue agents acting without sanction.

Eisenhower tried that, briefly, after Gary Power’s U2 was shot down over Russia. You won’t find any written orders from on high for any of the stuff CIA was doing in the 40s and 50s and beyond. Totally off the books and off budget.

The point here is Der Fuhrer never had to write anything down

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (15vO0)

147 for the rest of the week I'm going to not know what whatever word you say even means

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

148 Tucker Carlson is a steaming pile of shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (guGkK)

149 For a few years, Tucker and I had similar point of view. Skepticism about both sides of the aisle, but also understanding how bad the Dems were. Knew were the problems were coming from. Interesting guests, asked good and hard questions that no one else was asking. Only politics show worth watching. (Hannity sucked then and still does for all I know.) Only his UFO segments weren't watchable. Very odd to see how loony he has become.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (Dv3i1)

150
I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:06 PM (1wjle)

Something pathological, for sure.
Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (6wpGE)
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Maybe alien probing?

He's too old for typical schizophrenia. In males it's early 20's, or the 3 I have seen.

It's possible he took some bad drugs trying to be cool with a billionaire and/or something happened that scared him into insanity with threats.

Blackmail? He's an odd one, with jabbering jabberwocky all over the place.

Not that I'd watch him or the others. You'd have to tie me down to force me to watch Alex Jones or Brietbart or any of them. This includes all of them as I can't think of anyone I want to influence me right now.

Like they could. I'd bite through the restraints or sing loudly during the entire ordeal.

Have to finish packing and other stuff.

Have a great weekend, Ace and all!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM (WONhk)

151 You know who else was a quirky but lovable nerd?

Posted by: muldoon at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM (qgHp7)

152 > And now that I think about it, I think he got that from his new anti-Israel, pro-Islam ally Scott Ritter, who must tell Tucker behind-the-scenes that his own child sex scandal was entirely contrived by Perfidious Jews.

Sharyl Attkisson claimed an FBI agent involved in operations against her admitted FBI had considered planting child prawn on her husband's computer as part of their operations.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM (mkw2N)

153 139 Where is Tucker’s wife? You would think if he was in a state of psychosis, she would be taking some sort of action.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (hftzA)

Ever been in a codependent relationship? Some people just reinforce each other's crazy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026

I guess, but he has 4 children, too. Everyone is just going along with it?

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM (hftzA)

154 Did you know that he actually opened up the border more than Biden?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (46HP

I heard he took a dump in the Pope's hat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM (Ot/FD)

155
Tulsi did a great job.

Anyone who is criticizing her should be ashamed of themselves.
She has my respect for resigning to take care and support her husband.

How many of us have and had family with devastating health issues?

Family first. I pray for she and her family.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM (3ek7K)

156 140 "At least Trump was a man we could work with, who loved America! Unlike this insane Nazi!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (Ot/FD)

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We are already seeing bits of Strange New Respect for Trump here and there.

And yes, there will be that.

But I'm wondering about the sheer emotionalism of the whole affair. The ethos of the Democrat Party, especially at the lower levels, was "get rid of Trump." And Trump will be...gone. No longer president. No longer possibly president. Happily retired, holding court at Mar-a-Lago as he puts out Truth Social posts about how he loves his successor (Vance) and how his successor's VP (Rubio) are the best presidents, just the best, except for Trump, some say. And he can't disagree with some people.

"We have to do this all again?!" the true believers shout about a guy who's been married to the same woman most of his adult life and has four children with her...and she's a dark woman, too!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (46HP8)

157 >>>Have a great weekend, Ace and all!

I don't even know what "weekend" means!

but thanks (I guess)

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (1wjle)

158 > You know who else was a quirky but lovable nerd?

Steve Urkel?

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (mkw2N)

159 There's a difference between being for it and demanding that anybody who didn't like such arrangement, well, they must just hate Jews.

As far as I can tell, most of the anti-Israel crowd who aren't actual Arabs or Muslims make it very clear they hate Jews as Jews, just the same as the actual Arabs and Muslims who oppose Israel.

Posted by: Azjaeger at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (3/XaG)

160 147 for the rest of the week I'm going to not know what whatever word you say even means

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

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Indubitably.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (46HP8)

161 143
An Obama judge has dismissed the federal human trafficking case against illegal El Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia, calling it "malicious prosecution"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

His being an illegal alien ought to be sufficient to get his ass out of here. We can add his being tossed as part of the 250th birthday celebrations.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (Dv3i1)

162 139 Where is Tucker’s wife? You would think if he was in a state of psychosis, she would be taking some sort of action.
Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:19 PM (hftzA)

Ever been in a codependent relationship? Some people just reinforce each other's crazy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (zZu0s)

The people closest to you tend not to see it. Or don't want to see it.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (tOcjL)

163 Massie Lost, Independent Run? In light of losing the primary, I hope Tucker encourages Massie to run in the general as an independent. I think he could get a good number of crossover voters who respect his stance on Israel and the Epstein Files from both Democrats and independents. This is still a winnable fight.

Edit: Just discovered Kentucky has a sore loser law that probits these. Devastating.

This "sore loser" law sounds very undemocratic.

I am sad not only because Massie lost, but due to what this says about the people of his district and the USA in general. The fact that we cannot have one representative that truly represents us is extremely disappointing.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was rigged. You know who always wins...

Massie is a hardcore conservative, but he is someone you can have a conversation and debate with. He isn’t a bootlicker who will say yes daddy when Trump asks them to fuck the American people for another dollar in his bank account. He won’t just vote to keep his job, and if another person goes down for standing up to Trump it fully closes the door on the Republican Party not just being the Trumpican Party.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (ycI94)

164 Hey Ace! Strong work this week. Why don't you finish out the afternoon threads and then take the rest of the week off?

Posted by: muldoon at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (qgHp7)

165 No matter how many "Maryland Men" get deported, they are gonna fight and protect this one guy because they made a big deal out of it. Fine, keep your efforts concentrated there.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (n5tGW)

166 161 143
An Obama judge has dismissed the federal human trafficking case against illegal El Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia, calling it "malicious prosecution"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

His being an illegal alien ought to be sufficient to get his ass out of here. We can add his being tossed as part of the 250th birthday celebrations.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (Dv3i1)

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If I remember correctly, the prosecution was the only thing keeping him in the country at this point. His deportation order was no longer even contested.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (46HP8)

167 163 Massie is a hardcore conservative, but he is someone you can have a conversation and debate with. He isn’t a bootlicker who will say yes daddy when Trump asks them to fuck the American people for another dollar in his bank account. He won’t just vote to keep his job, and if another person goes down for standing up to Trump it fully closes the door on the Republican Party not just being the Trumpican Party.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (ycI94)

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He's so hard core he raises the debt ceiling under Democrats, refuses to do it under Republicans, and refuses to do anything to help draft large, must pass bills to make them better and more conservative, instead choosing to stand aside and scream that it's not fair that he didn't get 100% of what he wanted.

That's not a conservative.

That's a libertarian.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:28 PM (46HP8)

168 He's possessed by demons.

He admits he gets visited by them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM

Good news, if he moves to california he can get a free exorcism through medicare.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 04:28 PM (0N4FZ)

169 I remember reading months of comments "Don't worry Trump's not serious, he's going to drop out before x."

And that was a time that I was called a "NeverTrump" often enough, simply because I had a bad thing or 2 to say about Trump--especially because I got sick of him on his show The Apprentice, which I watched up to a year or 2 before t became yet another celebrities try to do stuff show.

But I still just wondered how people can be so adamant about things they can't know.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:28 PM (Fi81e)

170 102 I think he had a psychotic break with reality. Before you object: this stuff does happen, including to celebrities.

Posted by: ace
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Eh, or he could just be evil and now getting paid to spew it. Like the yute that shot someone in the head and got released only to shoot someone else in the head, these type of people are discivic and have no place in society--so either prison or the looney bin, I don't care but this sort of trash brings out those that ARE actually haters and psychotic.

Demonization of a group or people leaves dead and wounded in their wake. Whether Christian, straights, Jew, or Republican.

Curiously enough it is rarely Muslims, atheists, troons, or Democrats that are victims of political violence.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 04:28 PM (E4rtv)

171 Massie annoys the crap out of me but he's no Nazi. Just a power hungry fool.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:28 PM (5yqx7)

172 Massie is a hardcore conservative, but he is someone you can have a conversation and debate with.

Just like Bill Kristol.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:29 PM (guGkK)

173 > I guess, but he has 4 children, too. Everyone is just going along with it?

In college I lived in a condo with the owner's son. One day, a friend of the family suddenly showed up and couch surfed for a couple of months. I didn't like the guy. He was moody, secretive, and generally weird. He disappeared suddenly, and I heard rumors he had only been there to avoid arrest for drug offenses.

A few months later, that guy killed his mom and sister's best friend in a brutal stabbing attack. He was schizophrenic. They found him naked, covered in blood, wrapped in an American flag, babbling about how he was saving America.

His family had tried for YEARS to get him institutionalized, but when you're an adult and you don't want to be institutionalized, your family is nearly completely powerless.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 04:29 PM (mkw2N)

174 OT: suppose you designed some #woke slop but now it's 2026 and nobody wants it anymore. The chuds know it's coming though and are making the brand toxic before its time.
Solution: rename the thing.
youtu.be/lCMJ54ypr9s

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 04:29 PM (gKWVE)

175 I thought he hated MAGA, why is the death of MAGA a sad thing?

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 04:29 PM (q177U)

176 Christy Blinky is right that *most* psychosis begins ages 15-25, but...

1, that's most. A quick search tells me there are cases of late-in-life psychosis too.

2, someone can have early-age psychosis but learn to handle it; later, it might become untreatable again

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:29 PM (1wjle)

177 If you look at the list of Trump's accomplishments just this term, a lot of it is stuff on the official big "L" Libertarian Party checklist of goals. Yet somehow, they hate him. Its almost as if they don't believe anything they claim.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:30 PM (5yqx7)

178 I am not sad to see Massie go. Obstructionist.

And speaking of obstruction ... South Carolina Senate Republicans missed what happened in Indiana, huh?

Posted by: Ann at May 22, 2026 04:30 PM (SHHm+)

179 >>>164 Hey Ace! Strong work this week. Why don't you finish out the afternoon threads and then take the rest of the week off?

I don't even know what "this" means

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:31 PM (1wjle)

180 177 If you look at the list of Trump's accomplishments just this term, a lot of it is stuff on the official big "L" Libertarian Party checklist of goals. Yet somehow, they hate him. Its almost as if they don't believe anything they claim.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:30 PM (5yqx7)

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I'm old enough to remember when Libertarians said that deregulation was one of their top 3 issues. You know, lessening the power of the administrative state.

Libertarians should love Trump just for that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:31 PM (46HP8)

181 Now did that cause his psychotic break, or or is this a a symptom of that is above my pay grade.
Posted by: bob
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(conservative) Carlson was becoming too influential and the Color People slipped him some soup.
Too many Charlie Kirk's spoil the pot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 04:31 PM (LIEok)

182 It must be really sad and pathetic to so obsess over Trump and/or Jews that you see them hiding behind every bush, making every bump in the night, casting every shadow you see in the corner of your eye, and being everywhere all the time.

"Hush, little baby, don't say a word. And never mind that noise you heard. It's just the Jew under your bed, in your closet, in your head ...."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

Seems like an especially misplaced tack to take in a mostly Rural Midwest area. I grew up near there, knew some Kentuckians and that never came up. And even near a city in Ohio the accustomed 'no jews in country club' ideas of the east seemed alien.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2026 04:31 PM (8avO+)

183 You know who else was a quirky but lovable nerd?
Posted by: muldoon at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM

That guy in The Big Bang Theory?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 04:32 PM (0sNs1)

184 >>>He's possessed by demons.
He admits he gets visited by them.

I always forget that but yeah, this could just possibly be a sign of a psychotic episode.

Let us guess that there are 100x more schizophrenic delusions of demon attacks than actual demon attacks.

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)

185 that said, I don't know what "demon attack" even means

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)

186 I don't even know what "this" means
Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:31 PM

Well, then, couldja help me out with 'is'?

Posted by: Wm. J. "Bubba" Clinton at May 22, 2026 04:32 PM (0sNs1)

187 I don't know why anybody pays attention to him anymore. I'm sure his followership in Pock-ee-stan is through the roof, but who cares about him anymore?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:32 PM (ynpvh)

188 My main concern with Massie, though, is that he tried to weaponize the Epstein files and the evil deeds done by those people for his personal power. It wasn't about the victims. It wasn't about justice. It was about Massie. He started to read those "names off the list" but many of those people were guilty of nothing but being mentioned in several MILLION files. I mean, Michael Jackson is mentioned in them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (5yqx7)

189 MAGA will get along just fine without Pinecone Massie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (4iEwa)

190 179 >>>164 Hey Ace! Strong work this week. Why don't you finish out the afternoon threads and then take the rest of the week off?

I don't even know what "this" means
Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:31 PM (1wjl
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Quick!Next he will question what "is" is. He's been abducted by Hillary!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (WONhk)

191 185 that said, I don't know what "demon attack" even means

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:32 PM (1wjle)

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It's an aggressive interlude initiated by a devil-like figure, but that's not important right now.

What's important is if you can fly this plane.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (46HP8)

192 >>>That guy in The Big Bang Theory?

there's a new Big Bang Spinoff show about Stuart, the Comic Book Store owner.

I watched and thought "I hope they got Kripke" and they did, they got Kripke.

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (1wjle)

193 I always forget that but yeah, this could just possibly be a sign of a psychotic episode.

Could be LOT of drugs and being jumped on by his dog, he got SCRATCHES!!1!1!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (5yqx7)

194 But I still just wondered how people can be so adamant about things they can't know.
Posted by: Axeman
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It becomes part of someone's identity for many and an extreme loss avoidance strategy. Most people have strong loss avoidance preference and that includes 'face' to the extent hat some can get violent about it.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 04:34 PM (E4rtv)

195 192 >>>That guy in The Big Bang Theory?

there's a new Big Bang Spinoff show about Stuart, the Comic Book Store owner.

I watched and thought "I hope they got Kripke" and they did, they got Kripke.

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (1wjle)

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Taskmaster >>>> The Big Bang Theory

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:34 PM (46HP8)

196 If you look at the list of Trump's accomplishments just this term, a lot of it is stuff on the official big "L" Libertarian Party checklist of goals. Yet somehow, they hate him. Its almost as if they don't believe anything they claim.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:30 PM (5yqx7)
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Libertarianism borders on an ideology.

It's closer to pragmatic than Dems, but only marginally so.

Both the American liberal and the American libertarian tend to believe in the Constitution as a sort of Holy Writ.

It's an agreement among states. It's not a Manifesto.

My first encounter with something I recognized as "virtue signaling" was libertarians to liberals "I'm just as socially liberal as you, I just don't like taxes and laws."

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:34 PM (Fi81e)

197 Surely you jest!

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 04:34 PM (4iEwa)

198 Nobody? The Nobody's voted his ass out!! Lying cia hack

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at May 22, 2026 04:34 PM (woF0I)

199 If you look at the list of Trump's accomplishments just this term, a lot of it is stuff on the official big "L" Libertarian Party checklist of goals. Yet somehow, they hate him. Its almost as if they don't believe anything they claim.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:30 PM (5yqx7)

He misuses colons

There has been some chatter among the more rational in the LP that the state orgs have been infiltrated by disruptors and snitches, both Federal LE and others, and this is one of the causes of some of the psychotic drama.

I recently saw a meme representing the LP as two my little ponies screaming at each other over whether GIF is pronounced "Khiff" or "Jiff", and that sort of disfunction cannot be organic in an actual functioning organization.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (rbvCR)

200 >>>196 If you look at the list of Trump's accomplishments just this term, a lot of it is stuff on the official big "L" Libertarian Party checklist of goals. Yet somehow, they hate him. Its almost as if they don't believe anything they claim.

many (most) libertarians are hardcore open borders nuts

I don't even know what hardcore means

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (1wjle)

201
And this is Tuq'r's favorite tactic now too. There are many, many things that Tuq'r Qarlson is suddenly ignorant about.

Cucker thinks he's being clever by feigning ignorance, but his remaining American audience is just going to observe that he's a retard, has always been a retard, and isn't worth listening to.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (y9nCu)

202 193 I always forget that but yeah, this could just possibly be a sign of a psychotic episode.

Could be LOT of drugs and being jumped on by his dog, he got SCRATCHES!!1!1!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (5yqx7)

Cats are the ones that carry Toxoplasma gondii, which is linked to schizophrenia...explains why so many cat ladies are psychotic leftists...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (ynpvh)

203 TJM, I keep seeing links to 'the definitive ranking of (insert name here)'s films in the sidebar.

When will we see the ranking of the films of America's last film auteur Russ Meyer?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (0sNs1)

204 The entire damn point of having a Trump is to close the door on the Republican party and replace it with a "Trumpican" party. (feckin' cringe, tho)

That's the entire purpose of MAGA. That's the entire reason he is even in politics.

In 2015 we had a Psychotic Murderous Pervert party and a Regular Ol' Ruin-Your-Interns'-Lives-With-Your-Dick Pervert party. And they both lived fat and happy and unchallenged off the toil and annoyance of our great nation.

Fuck the Republican party. And fuck the psychotic murder perverts for thinking they can yank that chain to keep all us rubes in line cheering for a tie color and voting for petty crooks out of sheer inertia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (Ot/FD)

205 I am not convinced the guy that beat Massie is an upgrade, but I am glad when someone turns into a massive annoying social media-clout-chasing douchebag he can get turfed out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (5yqx7)

206 I think Libertarians are upset by Trump engaging in a "forever war" in Iran and see it as a betrayal of principals that must have been because he is owned by Israel.

For the record, I don't see it that way at all. I'm just speculating.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)

207 Donald Trump is doing to a failed political party what Mitt Romney used to do to failed corporations.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:36 PM (Ot/FD)

208 187 I don't know why anybody pays attention to him anymore. I'm sure his followership in Pock-ee-stan is through the roof, but who cares about him anymore?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Because he is painting targets on the backs of Jews just for being something most of them were born with. And doing it for yucks and money. And as a result, people will get killed over his false witness. Pretty much wicked.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 04:36 PM (E4rtv)

209 Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:33 PM (1wjle)

What network!?

Posted by: Ann at May 22, 2026 04:36 PM (SHHm+)

210 He may be claiming that all his computers are "work" computers, over seen and accessible by staff.

So he could truly not "own" a computer as they are all owned by the business. That would insulate him from dirty tricks, but only if he could prove that his personal access was very limited. Possible.

Phone is much harder to create deniability.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:37 PM (N0IE5)

211 >>>What network!?

I dunno. Look up "Stuart (or Stewart) Fails to Save the Universe."

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)

212 I’m a little curious about his new wife’s politics.
Is this one of those situations where the wife’s Uber left opinions wore off on him? It happens.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (4KUe5)

seems likely, especially how quickly it crashed and burned him.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2026 04:37 PM (8avO+)

213 >>I don't even know what hardcore means

BAD BRAINS : SOUL CRAFT

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=qGUugYvB4S0

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2026 04:37 PM (JEwe/)

214 Cats are the ones that carry Toxoplasma gondii, which is linked to schizophrenia...explains why so many cat ladies are psychotic leftists...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (ynpvh)

Seriously, I wonder if you have something there...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2026 04:38 PM (k9OZB)

215 His family had tried for YEARS to get him institutionalized, but when you're an adult and you don't want to be institutionalized, your family is nearly completely powerless.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026

Yes, this is an issue, a very complex one for sure. But if your dad is having a psychotic break and he is a national figure, it isn’t hard to go and say “y’all, my dad is saying bizarre things, we are trying to get him help”

But I guess he would then say his kids are paid by you know who and we are back to square one.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 04:38 PM (hftzA)

216 Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:37 PM (1wjle)

Will do. Thank you!

Posted by: Ann at May 22, 2026 04:38 PM (SHHm+)

217 ok: Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is on HBO Max in late July.

Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:38 PM (1wjle)

218 "I don't even know what that means."

Yea, this little rhetorical trick is tiresome. Similar to those 'just asking questions' that are just accusations and insults with question marks after them. I despise these manipulations.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 22, 2026 04:38 PM (sAmhv)

219 OT
Beautiful round piece of dough -

https://tinyurl.com/mu5xev6b

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:38 PM (Dv3i1)

220 203 TJM, I keep seeing links to 'the definitive ranking of (insert name here)'s films in the sidebar.

When will we see the ranking of the films of America's last film auteur Russ Meyer?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 22, 2026 04:35 PM (0sNs1)

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When I'm good and ready.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (46HP8)

221 208 187 I don't know why anybody pays attention to him anymore. I'm sure his followership in Pock-ee-stan is through the roof, but who cares about him anymore?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Because he is painting targets on the backs of Jews just for being something most of them were born with. And doing it for yucks and money. And as a result, people will get killed over his false witness. Pretty much wicked.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 04:36 PM (E4rtv)

So many Lefty politicians are doing the same thing. I've never seen such antisemitism in my entire life as I have in the last few years...almost like they are driven to it by darkness...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (ynpvh)

222 So many missed threads. 1. I make a crockpot of 15 bean and sausage soup once a week. Bag of beans, 1 onion, 2 carrots, crushed red pepper, salt, garlic, 2 lbs of smoked sausage. Total cost for 8 meals- 10-12 bucks. I cook it overnight Saturday, freeze it Sunday. Makes 8 2 cup servings, more if you eat less than 2. The kids r dum. 3. Tuq’r is a douche.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (IX8iX)

223 Stuart Fails to Save the Universe - July 23rd on Max!

Whoo hoo

Posted by: Ann at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (SHHm+)

224 I don't understand why Tucker can't understand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (RIvkX)

225 148 Tucker Carlson is a steaming pile of shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (guGkK)

I don't even know what that means! Steaming? Shit? *Giggles*

Posted by: Tucker Carleson at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (V362x)

226 If you look at the list of Trump's accomplishments just this term, a lot of it is stuff on the official big "L" Libertarian Party checklist of goals. Yet somehow, they hate him. Its almost as if they don't believe anything they claim.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:30 PM (5yqx7)
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Which would square with my contention that your average libertarian has ideologue tendencies.

And they can resort to purism. See, Trump wants to enforce border laws.

And laws and borders are stupid.

Ron Paul turned me straight off answering so many questions with "Well, I never would have gotten us into this mess..."

Indicating that his idea of success is people never having veered from the way he thinks things should have been done in the first place. Like, not living on the real Planet Earth where you're going to have predecessors who did stuff that caused you problems you don't think you should have had.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (Fi81e)

227 Yea, this little rhetorical trick is tiresome.

It can be used well, Jordan Peterson used to do it, but sometimes it was a copout for him as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (5yqx7)

228 I think it should go from Republican to MAGA party

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 04:40 PM (Ia/+0)

229 Maybe Cucker is bloated like I am because I'm feeling a pyschotic break coming on...

In reality I think he's been threatened. Had joined an exclusive club with some evil, wealthy, powerful people who are now applying the puppet strings. He thought he was invited and finally made it! Then threats to family, etc.if he doesn't toe the line.

Evil stuff out there...so I read as not here at my house. That I am aware of anyway. Once a white lab rat with a spot tried to invade from the patio but we called an animal trapper guy who apparently fed it to his snake. That's the only evil I can come up with.

Perhaps Tucker simply needs a new shirt.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 04:40 PM (WONhk)

230 "That's because you're an imbecile."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:41 PM (Ot/FD)

231 Yea, this little rhetorical trick is tiresome.
____

I'm ok with it being used to get the other person to define what they mean. For example, I don't know what someone means by "Social Justice". Totally fair to ask them to define it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)

232 Kilmar Garcia judge drops all charges against the illegal alien.
WHY is this happening?

Posted by: torabora at May 22, 2026 04:42 PM (oLDFB)

233 Because the faggot that this faggot supported lost, that means that "democracy is fake."

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"Democracy Drowns In Denial."

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 04:42 PM (FISzD)

234 That photo of financier Omeed Malik looks pretty evil.

I think we found the clue from looking at that freakazoid.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 04:43 PM (WONhk)

235 I recently saw a meme representing the LP as two my little ponies screaming at each other over whether GIF is pronounced "Khiff" or "Jiff", and that sort of disfunction cannot be organic in an actual functioning organization.
Posted by: Kindltot
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The Color revolutionists are hard at work, that's for sure.
_Kaloramatist

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 04:43 PM (LIEok)

236 227 Yea, this little rhetorical trick is tiresome.

It can be used well, Jordan Peterson used to do it, but sometimes it was a copout for him as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (5yqx7)

Those are two opposite techniques, really.

Feigning ignorance to cheat-code an opposing argument is lazy and boring.

Demonstrating your opponent's ignorance by pointing out that the words they are using don't actually mean anything if you put even the slightest sliver of light on them is useful.

One is obfuscation. The other is clarification.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:43 PM (Ot/FD)

237 Because many Republicans don't seem to want America Great, they just want to go along, help foreigners get in

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 04:43 PM (Ia/+0)

238 WT actual F? This is all in line with the fact Gen Z (and to be honest, a lot of the prior Gens) are illiterate, innumerate, and apparently can't do basic domestic tasks such as cooking a simple meal. These people listen to turds like Tucker (and a million others on TikTok, X, YouTube, etc.), and vote. God help us.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 22, 2026 04:43 PM (XMwZJ)

239 My mom went nuts. Or maybe she didn't and she was always that way.

But after my dad died I moved back to help her out and her mind was a real piece of work. I could watch her rationalize and rearrange reality to fit her world view over the weeks.

For example -- my brother would call and harass my wife. So she and I stopped answering the phone at the house. Well over a few weeks my mother had the story reversed and would get angry at me for calling my brother and harassing him. You see, I was bad, and he was good, so that was how things had to be to fit her worldview.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:44 PM (N0IE5)

240 Watching, just released from Fox, Tucker make exemplary speeches and interviews for a ~year then descend into the mental hell that he bathes himself in today is alarming.

Posted by: Braenyard

Maybe he had one too many "Boosters".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 22, 2026 04:45 PM (/lPRQ)

241 1, that's most. A quick search tells me there are cases of late-in-life psychosis too.

2, someone can have early-age psychosis but learn to handle it; later, it might become untreatable again
Posted by: confused ace doesn't know basic words at May 22, 2026 04:29 PM (1wjle)
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I'm standing right here.

Us too!
/voices

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 04:45 PM (RIvkX)

242 Yea, this little rhetorical trick is tiresome.

It can be used well, Jordan Peterson used to do it, but sometimes it was a copout for him as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (5yqx7)
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It's not a cop out. But it should be used as an opening to have an honest discussion about what people take words for.

It also depends on whether or not you hear two entirely different sets of associations as to what a word in the middle means.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:46 PM (Fi81e)

243
Yea, this little rhetorical trick is tiresome.
____

I'm ok with it being used to get the other person to define what they mean. For example, I don't know what someone means by "Social Justice". Totally fair to ask them to define it.

Then you say "Please define your terms, since my understanding is probably different than yours. Also, you're an imbecile."

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 04:46 PM (Riz8t)

244 Perhaps Tucker simply needs a new shirt.

one with straps

Posted by: gKWVE is coming to take him away at May 22, 2026 04:46 PM (gKWVE)

245 It can be used well, Jordan Peterson used to do it, but sometimes it was a copout for him as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (5yqx7)
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One is obfuscation. The other is clarification.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Yeah, I think Peterson was mostly doing it to say that "things are a lot more complicated than I want to explain right now."

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:47 PM (N0IE5)

246 Occams explanation: Tucker, Massie, Megan, Candace....and others always were Joo haters. Due to their career choices they kept it quiet. Now, they watched the ongoing crap on campuses, in cities and the internet; they decided to monetize their hate. They're just saying what they always believed.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 22, 2026 04:48 PM (zE8+V)

247 Have we discussed where us Tulsi Gabbard? Has she scheduled her appearance on Tucker's show yet?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 04:48 PM (RIvkX)

248 Hey Ace! Strong work this week. Why don't you finish out the afternoon threads and then take the rest of the week off?

I don't even know what "this" means
Posted by: confused ace

*********

Let me put it another way. You're still in the running for the coveted "Employee of the Month" parking spot

Posted by: muldoon at May 22, 2026 04:48 PM (qgHp7)

249 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 22, 2026 04:49 PM (NcvvS)

250 These people listen to turds like Tucker (and a million others on TikTok, X, YouTube, etc.), and vote. God help us.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at May 22, 2026 04:43 PM (XMwZJ)

This is why we (the actual we, including me) never win.

We see legions of stupid mouthbreathing dipshits who can be won over with a laser pointer and a stick of gum, and we're all "oh, boo hoo, they like the other team, guess they're just dumb and we're boned"

Screw that. Go win the little bicameral-brained cretins over! Make some stupid ass memes. Get some dispshit influencers in their faces. Who cares if they don't appreciate the finer points of Kirk and Hayek and can't expound upon the weaknesses and inconsistencies in the labor theory of value.

Orange Man Good. Or Fleek. Or... Shmoop? Whatever the fuck the little rot brained shitwits say for "Good" these days, who cares. Go get 'em.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:49 PM (Ot/FD)

251 Feigning ignorance - yeah that gets used a lot, even here at the HQ. At some point it becomes transparent, and its practitioners become annoying and a self parody.

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 04:49 PM (Gqar8)

252 for the rest of the week I'm going to not know what whatever word you say even means

Posted by: ace at May 22, 2026 04:23 PM (1wjle)

Gonna make safe words tricky.

'What the hell does banana even mean?!' *continues whipping*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 04:50 PM (zZu0s)

253 > Kilmar Garcia judge drops all charges against the illegal alien.
WHY is this happening?
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The judiciary is no longer non-partisan. It's firmly on the left. Even SCOTUS is affected.

It's a problem. A big one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 04:50 PM (jehhT)

254 Yeah, I think Peterson was mostly doing it to say that "things are a lot more complicated than I want to explain right now."
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:47 PM (N0IE5)
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Well, I have heard him say it in reference to Christianity. But it's not a cop-out when people are expecting specific words from you as a religious and you don't know how to make those words fit what you're thinking about it.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 04:50 PM (Fi81e)

255 Kilmar Garcia judge drops all charges against the illegal alien.
WHY is this happening?

Posted by: torabora at May 22, 2026 04:42 PM (oLDFB)

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Non-White Privilege.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 04:54 PM (FISzD)

256 So where is Ace's post-game analysis of the Candace Owens-Hunter Biden interview?

Ace publicized the interview with an entire post, so I felt I had to dutifully tune in. For at least part of it, I couldn't sit through the whole thing.

The Daily Mail is running a story that Hunter dropped a bombshell in the interview that Israeli intelligence agents ran an op against Joe Biden, concocting bribery claims against him.

Posted by: TITP at May 22, 2026 04:55 PM (6Q9y6)

257 Indicating that his idea of success is people never having veered from the way he thinks things should have been done in the first place. Like, not living on the real Planet Earth where you're going to have predecessors who did stuff that caused you problems you don't think you should have had.
Posted by: Axeman

Libertarianism and Leftism are both utopian ideologies and thus tend toward purity spirals. Neither philosophies as of today are particularly friendly to organized religion either.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 04:56 PM (E4rtv)

258 I was bad, and he was good, so that was how things had to be to fit her worldview.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 22, 2026 04:44 PM

I know this phenomenon.

Posted by: OrangeMan at May 22, 2026 05:01 PM (0sNs1)

259 Yeah, I think Peterson was mostly doing it to say that "things are a lot more complicated than I want to explain right now."

mostly yeah, but sometimes it was a stall; he didn't know how to answer and wasn't sure what to say so he'd go into his "on the one hand the hegelian dialectic" riff long enough to finaly think it through

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 05:12 PM (5yqx7)

260 hftzA)

154 Did you know that he actually opened up the border more than Biden?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 04:22 PM (46HP

I heard he took a dump in the Pope's hat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 22, 2026 04:24 PM (Ot/FD)

It would be funny if he took a dump ON Popehat (online poster)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2026 05:17 PM (NyxOA)

261 Ace of goy slop strikes again. Everybody’s a Nazi now that disagrees with Zio genocide. How much is Israel paying you?

Posted by: Billygoatpuke at May 22, 2026 06:38 PM (XZjgl)

262 ... or Starbase, TX. either or

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 06:54 PM (diia5)

Lazy Leftist Zillennials (Including Grandma Taylor Lorenz) Discover a New Right: The Right for People to Order Expensive Food on DoorDash for Every Single Meal

I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it. Once in a while is one thing, but ordering out multiple times per week is -- here's a word that Gen Z and the Millennials need to learn -- indulgent.

And lazy. It takes about 45 minutes to batch cook simple meals for 3-4 days. And it's cheap. Yes, eggs are more expensive now, but when I batch cook scrambled eggs with ham, pepper, and onion, it costs about $20 to make five meals.

But Taylor Lorenz, joined by a bunch of basket-case lazybones "spooners" -- people who claim they only have a few "spoons" of energy during the day so society will just have to carry them on their backs -- begin arguing that some people don't have the "ability" to cook and are just too tired to take any steps to feed themselves besides pushing a few buttons on their phones (and begging their parents to send them more money).

Boy these "young" people sure are "tired" a lot, aren't they? Kind of like Joe Biden. Who is 84 years old.

If Joe Biden tells me he's too tired to cook, I get it.

If a twenty-something layabout who works an "email job" tells me she just can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs or fry up burgers and put them in the fridge to be microwaved later... well a lot f 23 year olds are just ready for retirement, I guess.

Put them in group homes and put up tall walls around them. Wouldn't want the senile young invalids wandering off.

The poorest ppl often don�t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons, but that�s not stepping �leftists� for advocating to deny poor people access to pre cooked meals and things like rotisserie chicken. They cannot ever imagine a better world! It�s incredible
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) May 20, 2026

Peter J. Hasson
@peterjhasson
May 21
Anybody who claims they don't have time to make a sandwich should be required to post their screentime stats

Yes, of course you can start simple. But that�s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking content.
— Deva Hazarika (@devahaz) May 21, 2026

Did you catch that? This delicate lily says that he can't cook the luxe meals he sees being advertised on TikTok and YouTube by food "creators."

So because he doesn't know how to cook the Hottest New Recipes, he shouldn't have to learn how to grill a fried cheese sandwich, either. (Which btw I had a month ago and it was incredible.)

And this is also bullshit anyway, because 75% of TikTok/YouTube cooking content is super-simple "One Pan" casserole recipes where the whole selling point is it takes one single pan, four or five ingredients, 45 minutes at 450 and you're done.

Seriously go to YouTube and search for "One Pan." One Pan is a big category of social media cooking.

But this Precious Princess wants to eat truffled avocado toast and doesn't know how to make it so people are going to have to pay for his DoorDash!

(BTW, I figure you can make truffled avocado toast with, and this is just off the top of my dome, toast, avocado, and truffle oil.)

Pretty sure they are throwing the book at Luigi Magione because he committed first-degree murder pic.twitter.com/YXnc8ywCQu
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 21, 2026

An entire generation of burnt out narcissists raised by TikTok who think the world owes them something - a car, a house, Jeff Bezos's money.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 21, 2026

Oh, and in addition to being lazy, helpless, Useless Mouths and self-made invalids, they're also completely illiterate.

This trend started when a high school kid handed a card containing a simple sentence -- something like "the silhouette of the clothes was extraordinary but somewhat gauche" -- to fellow students and school officials and most could not read the words "silhouette" or "gauche" and could not say what the sentence meant.

Many were tripped up by "extraordinary."

English-speaking, American students couldn't read, pronounce, or comprehend the following sentence:

"She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but gauche"

Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Two researchers gave 85 English majors a� pic.twitter.com/2kIZa5KxvO
— Mushtaq Bilal, PhD (@MushtaqBilalPhD) May 3, 2026

I don't see how we survive this. I really don't.

These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:48 PM

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1 I nooded

Posted by: the lower depths at May 22, 2026 02:49 PM (Dg7ng)

2 Thanks to Covid, a generation of shut-ins.

Bring back Home Ec classes, stat!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:50 PM (4KUe5)

3 So because he doesn't know how to cook the Hottest New Recipes, he shouldn't have to learn how to grill a fried cheese sandwich, either. (Which btw I had a month ago and it was incredible.)

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Add jalapenos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:51 PM (46HP8)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (LdBR/)

5 These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making.

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I hear that India is the best country on earth with the best minds building all the best things.

They could go there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (46HP8)

6 Seem to recall Granny Lorenz posting a sad picture of an avacado toast she had delivered and complained about the cost.

Avacado
Toast

Literally bread+avacado

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (4KUe5)

7 >>>1 I nooded
Posted by: the lower depths at May 22, 2026 02:49 PM (Dg7ng)

You catch that Blade? 1st post.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (q177U)

8 I read the content. I must be too tired to remember how this is supposed to work.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (Wmg4n)

9 The hardest part of fruits, vegetables and nuts is carving them into the shape of breasts. Aside from that, food preparation would be so easy.

Just wash and eat....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 02:53 PM (Sco7b)

10 I might be mistaken, but I don't think Kevin O'Leary has anything to do with throwing the book at a side-walk self-deputized executioner.

(The left doesn't really disapprove of anything--including "vigilantism", which they've been saying they are against my whole life.)

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 02:53 PM (Fi81e)

11 I don't get it, do these millenials all live in vans down by the river and lack basic cooking facilities?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (0N4FZ)

12 NOW. do you understand why is is so important that Thai food be available at 3:00 am?????

We must important third world workers to make our after hours num-nums!

Posted by: Urban Hipster at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (4KUe5)

13 I admit to using DoorDash, but that's because my apartment's kitchen isn't wheelchair friendly. I don't want to microwave fish, for example, which I enjoy on Fridays.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (qx7Zg)

14 We go out to eat like once a month. 38% really???

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (q177U)

15
Mister Scott,

They are lazy.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (3ek7K)

16 11 I don't get it, do these millenials all live in vans down by the river and lack basic cooking facilities?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 02:54 PM (0N4FZ)

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They seem to rack up credit card bills ordering food for delivery because they can't be bothered to buy ground meat and buns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (46HP8)

17 "I use DoorDash and the others too much."

How can folks afford it?

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (N8ZBc)

18 I make good money by any standard.

Doordash seems an outrageous expenditure to me.

Just go get it yourself if you are doing taking out versus paying X2 as much for the food.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (sKqQm)

19 A=432 hz. Harmonious resonance of the Universe
A=440 hz. Nazi plot to enslave humanity.

This is actually a conspiracy theory that some hold.
Posted by: Common Tater

https://tinyurl.com/3vx9ecs3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (ndZc7)

20 Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

21 20 Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

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About $1.75 per dozen at my Aldi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (46HP8)

22 "the silhouette of the clothes was extraordinary but somewhat gauche" -- to fellow students and school officials and most could not read the words "silhouette" or "gauche" and could not say what the sentence meant.
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To be fair I'm not sure what that means either, unless it means you're dressing like Alfred Hitchcock.

Posted by: Methos at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (vSvIl)

23 From the left's adoption of "Vigilantism against Corporations", i.e. specific vigilantism, I introduce Axeman's Razor:

You should not assume that a leftist means what they are saying no matter how many times you've heard it from them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (Fi81e)

24 The poorest ppl often don’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons,

I have never lived anywhere in my life where I didn't have access with something to cook with. Yes even when I was dirt poor.

And I remember I could make my limited $$$ stretch as far as I needed to by making smart choices at the grocery store.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 02:56 PM (sKqQm)

25
1876: Farmer gets up at 4:00 AM to begin 14 hour day by milking cows in -20 degree weather.

2026: Gen Z can't get out of bed for three days.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (HdYcL)

26 I'm afraid to ask if these people manage to wipe their own asses or if they find it too exhausting.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (ssz2a)

27 I have never door dashed anything. I thought about it for Beef Egg Foo Yung, but I had never tried the place before and did not want it to be a massive financial investment on top of food poisoning.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (zZu0s)

28 Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:52 PM (4KUe5)

It was too much work to toast the bread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (n3VHW)

29 Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM (zZu0s)
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Hey!

Posted by: Fake at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (Fi81e)

30 I had my first one of these kiddos show up at a job interview with a parent. I actually laughed at the scene and didn't apologize (especially when the parent followed his daughter into my inteview room without any consideration for MY rules).

I might have overstepped my bounds by explaining to both the Father and the girl applying that it was not good optics or very good judgement on their part. I told them in the first few minutes that she wasn't getting the job because of this behavior. I simply asked, "How can I trust you with my business if you don't even trust yourself enough to secure a position within on your own?"

AND, you think these self-indulgent snow flakes can cook their own meals?

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (dIske)

31
It's the Democrat politicians that have convinced people they can't work.

Posted by: Auspex at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (Y8DZL)

32 This is learned behavior.
Kicked into high gear with Covid. Must sit home and have others do the work.

I don’t entirely blame these people. The mindset has been crafted with tech, insisting it’s better to not own or do anything, help is an app away!! Comfort is only a few clicks away.

You will own nothing, have no privacy, yada yada yada…

Posted by: Urban Hipster at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (4KUe5)

33 I have never used grub hub or any of the food delivery apps.

I order a pizza for delivery once a year or so, and it’s from the local pizzeria.

I go out to eat maybe once a month. Probably
Less. Too expensive and I can do a better job myself.

Meh. If you want to order delivery, do it. But don’t whine to me about being broke. And don’t tell me it’s a “right.”

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (A5RD0)

34 I have been in the middle of this and its... truly bizarre.

Yes, everything is too expensive these days. The Biden depression caused horrendous inflation that we're still struggling with. Yes, homes cost ridiculous amounts. These are real frustrations for young people that I wholly sympathise with.

But they are lunatics on this, driven largely by living a notable percentage of their life in the Panic Lockdowns, when they got checks in the mail for merely existing and could order doordash every day.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (5yqx7)

35 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

Spices last practically FOREVER if you keep them tightly sealed.

We have ENDLESS access to simple, delicious recipes via YouTube and other social media platforms. Stuff any culinary n00b can make if they simply pay attention to the directions.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)

36 I'm afraid to ask if these people manage to wipe their own asses or if they find it too exhausting.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (ssz2a)

There' NO SCENTED WIPES!?
-Probably

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (zZu0s)

37 Ive rarely used doordash and uber eats but lately Ive been on a tear as Ive been spending every waking moment working and by the time Im done Im too exhausted to think about meal planning

The right approach is using Walmart Plus with their InHome addon, I get free deliveries without needing to tip as long as Im fine with next day delivery

Ditto Kroger's own delivery service, I use this with Walmart to order groceries and food thats basically ready to eat and so i can avoid people who I cant fucking stand anymore

I havent sen the sun in weeks though

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (fapp/)

38 Put them in group homes and put up tall walls around them.

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Ship them to Pacific Palisades.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (BcFIZ)

39 35 Spices last practically FOREVER if you keep them tightly sealed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)

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"Spices?"
-the British

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (46HP8)

40 I had Walmart deliver my groceries to my door last weekend. I felt like a fancy man.

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (HcoTw)

41 I get the feeling HP Lovecraft would have used DoorDash a lot.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (gKWVE)

42 This is learned behavior.
Kicked into high gear with Covid. Must sit home and have others do the work.

Posted by: Urban Hipster at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (4KUe5)
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The revolutionists only need to degrade us by small steps.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (Fi81e)

43 Avacado toast is only slightly more difficult than jam on toast.

I mean, who are you if you can’t do that????

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (4KUe5)

44 @6 AVOCADO

Bimini: Beam in eye?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (zdLoL)

45 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

46 The same idiots spending $25k a year on food delivery and Starfucks and dumb entertainment and frivolity are whining and crying about how expensive houses and cars are.

"But I can't affooooooooord a house, they're sooooooooo expensive. It's somebody else's fault!"

Don't get me wrong: anyone can spend their money any way they want (although I'll bet a lot of this is daddy's money). But you can only spend it once. Don't whine and cry to me that you can't afford a house or apartment when you're spending all your money on frivolity.

It's insane to me that almost all the 20-somethings I know spend way more money than me on delivery and Starfucks and other overpriced shit. And I have 500x the net worth they do.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

47 41 I get the feeling HP Lovecraft would have used DoorDash a lot.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (gKWVE)

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"DoorDash is the language of the Old Ones. I would never do it unless I craved the madness. That's more of Monday morning thing."
-Lovecraft

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (46HP8)

48
I've never had food delivered. I might run out to Honoré's Cajun or Big Horn Barbecue for something to go, however.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (HdYcL)

49 YOU'RE TIRED BECAUSE YOU SPEND ALL NIGHT DOOMSCROLLING INSTEAD OF SLEEPING!

Posted by: pookysgirl, banging this drum yet again at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (Wt5PA)

50 36 I'm afraid to ask if these people manage to wipe their own asses or if they find it too exhausting.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 02:57 PM (ssz2a)

There' NO SCENTED WIPES!?
-Probably

Bro, do you even bidet?

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (HcoTw)

51 but the attitude by these youngsters is shocking. They don't whine, they get ENRAGED when you suggest they ought to make themselves lunch or get cheaper stuff to eat for lunch.

Suggest they make a turkey sandwich they scream about carcinogens and eating like a prisoner. Suggest they eat PBJ, they howl that you think they are infants. Suggest they can buy cheap meals at the local grocery store deli section and they rage at you for wanting them to eat "poverty food"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (5yqx7)

52 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (q177U)

53 I knew how to cook. At least to follow a recipe. I lived alone for a long time. I didn't cook hardly at all because it was no fun cooking for myself. I like to cook for somebody else and I enjoy it when they enjoy it. If its just me, most of the time I didn't cook. What these people are is LONELY. GET OFF YOUR FCKING PHONES AND MEET SOMEBODY.

Posted by: Yeah, I'm a Dad of teens/young adults at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (anL5R)

54 I saw Hopeless Invalids open for Gauche Silhouette at the Hollywood Bowl in 95. Sade was much better and not gauche at all and I enjoyed her silhouette….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (+gA9j)

55 I got some door dash gift cards and finally decided to use them - $30 to get a cheese steak and onion rings delivered to my place. It would have cost half that at the local pizza place, but they had just closed by the time I got home from work that night.

Posted by: Josephistan at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (FLx59)

56 45 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

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I see it in context as "in bad taste".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP8)

57 Even with the explosion in food prices via Bidenflation a pound of hamburger, a jar of store pasta sauce, and a box of store noodles will fill you up cheap, and it takes less then 30m, most of that not requiring your attention

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (sKqQm)

58
I realize everyone doesn't have room for a freezer.

We live in a very rural area with very few restaurants.

When we cook we make large quantities of food and freeze most of it.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (3ek7K)

59 The Dems "believe in Evolution" and "Survival of the fittest" is how we climbed the ladder.

Dems 2026: I'm too tired to cook for myself.

There's an illustration in there somewhere....

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

60 I see it in context as "in bad taste".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP

Right... Tacky

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (FtULh)

61 YOU'RE TIRED BECAUSE YOU SPEND ALL NIGHT DOOMSCROLLING INSTEAD OF SLEEPING!
Posted by: pookysgirl, banging this drum yet again at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (Wt5PA)

I feel seen. And a bit hurt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

62 Yes, of course you can start simple. But that’s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking content.

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Many of us survived on Kaboom and Kraft Mac 'N Cheese as children and young adults.

lol gf

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (BcFIZ)

63 Bro, do you even bidet?
Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (HcoTw)

It’s for cleaning your backside, right?!

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (+gA9j)

64 Why do you need to grill a fried cheese sandwich? It's already been cooked.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (J4Dwc)

65 It's constitutional! It's in the convenience clause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (ndZc7)

66 I realize everyone doesn't have room for a freezer.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (3ek7K)
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Too bad they don't make freezers out of jello.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

67 60 I see it in context as "in bad taste".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP

Right... Tacky

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:01 PM (FtULh)

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Not everything is Weird Al, lady.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (46HP8)

68 I know what "silhouette" is, and how to spell it, but I would never use it in the sense that it is used in that particular sentence. To me it is a shadow with a recognizable outline, like chrome mudflap girls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (8zz6B)

69 I really do sympathize with young folks who have been getting ripped off by the education industrial complex. Time was. one could go to a state university and (mostly) pay for it on a low wage job, maybe get yourself a little into debt but nothing like nowadays.

But that sympathy evaporates when some douche nozzle starts talking about how PB&J and chips is what they serve prisoners. You're too good to eat on a budget? Fine, please tell your story walking, cork soaker. Hope you get dysentery from the "locally sourced" unwashed lettuce on your chipotle burrito.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Iwv3U)

70 I have been seeing these rants.
I'm very fortunate that I have a wife that cooks, but even before that I could scrap around the kitchen.

I get it if you've never done it, it can be hard to give it a go.
It sounds silly, but the food network competition shows taught me a ton about how to make things work. Shows like Chopped where people get a mystery bag of ingredients and have to make something edible.
They end up teaching what flavors go together... it helps. In fact my wife and I will have chopped nights where we pull stuff out of the fridge and try to make something work.

Anyway.. it's significantly cheaper and allows you to be significantly healthier.

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (53oGX)

71 "If Joe Biden tells me he's too tired to cook, I get it."

I seriously doubt that Joey cooks his own ice cream.

Posted by: Speller at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (pSotA)

72 All of my children spent time with me in the kitchen from the moment they were born. Once they were able, even as littles, they got jobs. Stir this, pour that. Did it result in bigger messes? Yes. Did it slow things WAY down? Also yes. Can all 3 of my children cook? Yes.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (Wmg4n)

73 I see it in context as "in bad taste".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:00 PM (46HP

Left instead of right. Not right, against the grain. Possibly of the devil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (zZu0s)

74 Their main argument when pinned down by absolute facts, they scream about how saving 3000 a year on lunch will never buy them a house!! A HOUSE!!!1!1!!!!

Well no, no one suggested that you can buy a house by eating more frugally. Obviously.

But maybe if you stopped buying 2-3 coffee-flavored milkshakes a day, 8 streaming services, 12 online subscriptions you largely forgot about, doordash dinner most of the week, a new smart phone every time Apple puts one out, going to Disneyworld every year on your credit card etc, etc, etc well... maybe you could buy a cheap starter house in a less expensive part of the country after a few years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (5yqx7)

75
It all started with remote controls.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (HdYcL)

76 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

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Well even the basic keto recipes I collect online all require 83 ingredients including obscure ingredients I have to special order on Amazon that takes 3 weeks to arrive

it finally dawned on me that perhaps the mommy bloggers with their endless recipes that are 10 pages long because they prefix it with their life stories might just be a tad full of shit

Since then I discovered the art of grilling steak to medium rare or medium with salt pepper and butter and... thats it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (fapp/)

77 All I know is my oldest is eager to get a job and to get the driver license. I must be doing something right.

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (xI3lH)

78 Re: poverty, I remember how the government got upset when it turned out a lot of African-origin immigrants on food stamps were feeding their own families healthy rice, beans, and veggie diets, and then using the leftover food stamps to ship barrels of rice and beans home to their relatives overseas.

This is why they have the legal language about EBT being intended to feed you and _your_ family, not other people. Same thing for the rules against using the food stamp food to create income for yourself by selling your cooking.

This was happening in expensive blue-state cities, so I figure that everybody can afford to cook rice, beans, and veggies.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (uGBVQ)

79 BTW this is all repurposed "Food Desert" discourse from the 2000s-2010s in which lefties LARP in their minds as poor urban people (inner city people are the only "true" poors). The lefties say "(enormously obese with type II diabetes) poor people can't afford to eat." Then you point out that dried beans and rice and chicken thighs or whatever can make 8 servings for $5.99 which is the price of a value meal cheeseburger and they would claim that "these people are exhausted from (not) working all day and after watching four kids (from three fathers) all day the last thing someone wants to do is slave over a stove!" Then you point out that for whatever their faults the "immigrants" who work long hours of grueling manual labor still cook their own meals and they just put their fingers in their ears and scream "lalalalala." You know what the source for the dependence upon prepared foods for this age cohort/class is? Having gone to college where there is an endless variety of satisfying foods to sample. That's it - they're overgrown children who stopped maturing in thirteenth grade and they "just can't adult" most days.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (ssz2a)

80 Want to fix affordability?

Send all the illegals and H1Bs home and put a 20y mortarium on immigration - housing fixed.

Get the government OUT of healthcare - healthcare costs fixed

Throw criminals in jail so you can run an inner city grocery store - food prices fixed.

Oh and half federal and state taxes as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (sKqQm)

81 Oh, and she cooks family meals and cookies and cakes.

Posted by: InZona at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (xI3lH)

82 Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (53oGX)

Your wife would have to cook by necessity. Have you hit eight yet? I have 8 kids in the pool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

83 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

I think it just means unfashionable, since most people are right-handed?

Posted by: Methos at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vSvIl)

84 I mean, almost all of us are of a certain age, and we know what it was like to grow up. We remember our 3.15 minimum wage not being enough to move out into our starter home, we ate ramen and peanut butter and lived with 5 of our buddies in a house we couldn't afford to heat. Wear a coat. And some gloves.

Then we got a better job, and worked hard, and got promoted and earned more and maybe eventually did quite well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (5yqx7)

85 83 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

I think it just means unfashionable, since most people are right-handed?

Posted by: Methos at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (vSvIl)

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Left in Italian is sinistre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (46HP8)

86 It’s my observation, but I bet I’m not the first, the simple basic recipes often taste the best.

4 or 5 ingredients, tops. “Comfort food”. Meat & potatoes, or pasta. Chicken & Rice. Egg dishes, there are plenty.

Chili. (Not including Carrot, mind you) is easy to make and nutritious.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (wzze2)

87 English-speaking, American students couldn't read, pronounce, or comprehend the following sentence:

"She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but gauche"

Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

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Unexpectedly, they were all admitted to Harvard.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (BcFIZ)

88 The responses to "make your own lunch" are absolutely bat-shit insane. I'm sure some of them are trolling or just the chaff of online idiots, but the bulk of them are so unwarranted I do worry about the future of this Republic.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (diia5)

89 75
It all started with remote controls.

I started out as the remote. Also the antenna turner.

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (HcoTw)

90 The poorest ppl often don’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons,
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They need to excused from all expectations of life, they are so poor.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

91 Ackshually, eggs have gone from $14.10 per 60 eggs during SpongeBrain ShitPants' Reign of Error, to $7.13 per 60 eggs now. Which is pretty remarkable.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (/RHNq)

92
I see it in context as "in bad taste".
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Obviously, because the left hand is for the toilet.

Posted by: Ali Muhammed Dirka Dirka at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (anL5R)

93
But, but, but, I'd have to buy spices ... and EGGS!

* bursts into tears and sucks on thumb in a corner *

* wails *

Where's my wubbie!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (s9VOe)

94 I actually saw choice steak last night at a reasonable price and did not get it. I must be coming down with commie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (zZu0s)

95 it finally dawned on me that perhaps the mommy bloggers with their endless recipes that are 10 pages long because they prefix it with their life stories might just be a tad full of shit

I don't know how many "recipe" links I've closed after opening one and seeing pages of not recipe.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

96 My kid did doordash for a bit between jobs. His 2 year old son decided he was the boss when he figured out the app and clicked on everything that came down.
Son had to quit as he couldn't work for that slavedriver.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (594J6)

97 Yes, of course you can start simple. But that’s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking conten

**************

I saw a tiktok do a recipe of tart candy and steak calling it steaktart or something

mkay

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (fapp/)

98
Eggs are not, in fact more expensive. ace's undisclosed location is lame.

And gay.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Dozen Jumbo eggs for two bucks here.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Cqx++)

99 When I was in college I lived off campus and cooked for myself. My two staples were spaghetti (fry the ground beef and mix with a sauce created from a powder bought from the store mixed with water to create the sauce; boil noodles… voila spaghetti) and a strange combo involving Kraft Mac n cheese supplemented with tuna out of the tin and frozen peas boiled with the noodles. I loved ‘em both!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (+gA9j)

100 But the silly thing is that you can nod and agree that prices are nuts but they blame "boomers" and don't even care how it got this way.

Pointing out that paying people 15 bucks an hour drove prices up gets them angry and spitting. Saying that the Panic Lockdown stimulus payments and endless unemployment drove inflation through the roof gets them furious or dismissive. Noting that all the gasoline and delivery regulations in the past caused prices to all go up, they don't want to hear it, ITS BOOMERS. BOOMERS (meaning anyone older than me) DID IT ALL!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (5yqx7)

101 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.

Do you know a mob of kangaroos?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (guGkK)

102 Left in Italian is sinistre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (46HP

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Fucking fascists. They started it all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

103 I was invited to the home of Cambodian immigrants; the father had a very labor-intensive job, the kids were working hard in school. The mother cooked on a very low budget. The food was great.

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (6wpGE)

104 Our favorite batch meals are things like shepherd's pie, tater tot casserole, beef stroganoff,. basically anything that has meat (usually ground beef), taters, vegetables and often, cheese. Makes great leftovers, and is very satisfying.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (0aYVJ)

105 ====

Not everything is Weird Al, lady.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (46HP

LOL... One of my favorites

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (FtULh)

106 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
Posted by: Max Power

My guess is the clothes are so sheer, the silhouette of the body can be seen through them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (ndZc7)

107 What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
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Hoard mind.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (Fi81e)

108 102 Left in Italian is sinistre.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (46HP
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Fucking fascists. They started it all.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

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I blame Dante, to be honest.

Stupid, plotless series of interviews.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (46HP8)

109 My brothers step son and step son's wife fit this profile, only I think they are a bit older than zillenials. Actually I don't know if they do the door dash. But they don't work. Not close with brother and wouldn't bring up the topic if I was cuz I'm old curmudgeon about it. But when we both staying at sis's for my dad's memorial a year+ ago, brother said "wife gets too anxious home alone so only wants step son to try to get work from home job". They both got jobs phoning people or taking calls for something or other, but got fired for not doing the calls.

I cant fathom it. Bro's wife keeps helping them out, but she is not from uber money and my family is not from money, bro makes decent money but there is no pot of money for a trust fund for these two spoiled adults. I think they are going to hit 50-55 and be in a world of hurt. But not my circus.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (PV+Zw)

110 I'm surprised we even have DoorDash, even here in Canada.

When I taught in South Korea, the restaurants would deliver meals in real dishes and pick them up an hour later on those little scooters....for free. We had that at the school a few times and I couldn't have been more impressed if the food was teleported there.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (Sco7b)

111
Grad school: earing soup right out of the can.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (HdYcL)

112 Fucking fascists. They started it all.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

Left in Latin is sinister. So... more oligarchal republic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (zZu0s)

113 105 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (46HP

LOL... One of my favorites

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (FtULh)

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What can I say?

I'm White and Nerdy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:07 PM (46HP8)

114 Grad school: earing soup right out of the can.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:06 PM (HdYcL)

Velveeta shells and cheese. Toss in a boullion cube if you are feeling Ritzy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:07 PM (zZu0s)

115 The right approach is using Walmart Plus with their InHome addon, I get free deliveries without needing to tip as long as Im fine with next day delivery

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

Yeah, it's the same local delivery as same-day, but comes next day and there's no option to tip, or expectation to. I hope they keep doing it this way, but more people will eventually catch on and they could change it.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (yFLFB)

116 Wasn't it here that we discussed the underbelly of food delivery services that takes advantage of the illegals and other people who do the driving? Like, the people who "own" the DoorDash franchise for a particular area lease out their ID or whatever to several drivers, but they're the ones actually making money. Then they pay the drivers pennies.

So something to that effect?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (jehhT)

117 Loaf of bread: $4

Half pound of ham: $3

Quarter pound of cheese: $2

So for $9 you can have 3 lunches. Throw in a jar of mustard or mayo for flavor.

Or...you can pay $27 for one lunch from door dash.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

118 Gauche in French is left if I recall.. So I'm assuming awkward which my left handed son is not but the perception of left-handedness is clumsy
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 02:59 PM (FtULh)

Gauche is French for "nye kulturniy", or however the Russkies spell it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (8zz6B)

119 Since I like sharing Canadian prices with all of you, 18 extra large eggs....slightly under $7 Can.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (Sco7b)

120 most online recipes I have tried need... work. SOme of the measurements are nuts, some of the techniques are wrong, and all of them have 7 pages of pointless crap about the Spanish inquisition and the history of mangos before you get to the recipe

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (5yqx7)

121 The outline of the outfit was very unique, and a bit tacky.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (Wmg4n)

122 117 Loaf of bread: $4

Half pound of ham: $3

Quarter pound of cheese: $2

So for $9 you can have 3 lunches. Throw in a jar of mustard or mayo for flavor.

Or...you can pay $27 for one lunch from door dash.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

======

Save up for a bread maker, then start making your own bread.

Or go all sourdough nut, like me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (46HP8)

123
"a silhouette of clothes"?

That needs fixing.

So do "Ameican" and "students," but whatever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (n7rxJ)

124 Oh damn, I just saw the sidebar news on Tulsi. God bless her husband, and thank you, Tulsi, for your service to America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (R9CQE)

125 I don't see how we survive this. I really don't.

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

Our future overlords will unconditionally surrender to Chy-na.

"O beautiful for spacious skies,
For yellow waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the ChiComm plain!

Sinoica! Sinoica!
Mao shed his grace on thee
And crown thy thugs with mother's jugs
From Xi to shining Xi!"

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (BcFIZ)

126 Can?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

127 "I use DoorDash and the others too much."

How can folks afford it?

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM

It's ridiculously expensive. Our previous neighbors kid used to get door dash and they would sometimes bring it to my door by mistake. One of them was $18.00 for a burger king whopper value meal on wednesday that only costs $5.99 if you go and buy it at the store. The kicker is the local burger king is less than a five minute drive from our house.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (0N4FZ)

128 You can substitute shape for outline in my 121 as well.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (Wmg4n)

129 Chili. (Not including Carrot, mind you) is easy to make and nutritious.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:04 PM (wzze2)
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Chili never includes carrots.

If you do add carrots, it a catalyzes into NOT chili. Add some ditalini, because you just made Pasta Fudgeoli.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (Fi81e)

130 The poorest ppl often don’t have the capacity to make home cooked meals for many reasons, but that’s not stepping “leftists” for advocating to deny poor people access to pre cooked meals and things like rotisserie chicken. They cannot ever imagine a better world! It’s incredible

Laziness is a reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (Riz8t)

131 126 Can?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

=====

Or tin?

Of sardines.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (46HP8)

132 most online recipes I have tried need... work. SOme of the measurements are nuts, some of the techniques are wrong, and all of them have 7 pages of pointless crap about the Spanish inquisition and the history of mangos before you get to the recipe
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (5yqx7)
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Yeah, I tend to avoid those...

I prefer my recipes simple. A few tasty ingredients, a little bit of prep time, and minimal cleanup afterwards.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (gnNyN)

133 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: MacNCheese and canned chili at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (utTlv)

134 Gauche is how the nouveau riche dress

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (guGkK)

135 126 Can?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

Can(adian)?

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (6wpGE)

136 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Not coloring it in, would have been fine with me.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)

137 It's not that they don't want to cook, it's that to cook they want to make hand movements that are eerily similar to ordering things be delivered by typing, or using voice commands. It's like writing by hand. I don't even like doing that anymore though I do when taking short notes or whatnot (like during oral argument or at deposition). But I do make food by hand movements that do not resemble typing.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (W5mpo)

138
What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
Posted by: Max Power

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

It's bad writing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (n7rxJ)

139 I thought we were talking about eggs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (zZu0s)

140 one of the oddest twists is the elitist dismissal of anything people suggest that is simpler and cheaper to make. YOU EXPECT MEEEEE TO EAT THAAAT??? like Marine Antoinette given a hamburger. Its an outage to even suggest it!!

Partly I think that this is the result of people who watch cooking videos and restaurant critiques all day. They become conditioned to think that anything less than Wagyu is something scraped off a Dehli boot. They don't know how to cook but they have learned all the language of cooking and can dismiss things they deem inferior as if they understand cooking, flavor, and value.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (5yqx7)

141 127 "I use DoorDash and the others too much."

How can folks afford it?

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 02:55 PM

It's ridiculously expensive. Our previous neighbors kid used to get door dash and they would sometimes bring it to my door by mistake. One of them was $18.00 for a burger king whopper value meal on wednesday that only costs $5.99 if you go and buy it at the store. The kicker is the local burger king is less than a five minute drive from our house

That burger is ass when it's fresh. No way that travels well waiting door dash to get it to you

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (HcoTw)

142 "Did you catch that? This delicate lily says that he can't cook the luxe meals he sees being advertised on TikTok and YouTube by food 'creators.'"

Ace, if you're talking about Deva Hazarika, he's actually on our side of this issue. Look at his feed. Among other things, he posted this:

"Getting people to cook delicious and healthy meals for $5 instead of DoorDashing lukewarm slop for $20 is a tough challenge, but I’ll make it happen."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

143 Some reasons why cooking is overwhelming for many:
-To cook each cuisine requires different base set of spices, staples, etc
-Popular recipes often include obscure, expensive ingredients
-Purchasing exact item amts often not possible
-Utilizing rest of perishable food challenging

Yes, of course you can start simple. But that’s predominantly not what is being pushed on people by search and social media when it comes to cooking content.

Here's an idea. Turn off the f***ing phone, and get yourself a cookbook from 30 years ago. They're everywhere.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Riz8t)

144 Velveeta shells and cheese. Toss in a boullion cube if you are feeling Ritzy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:07 PM (zZu0s)

Well look at you all I had bullion cubes.
We used dirt for that little extra.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (594J6)

145
I make a big pot of soup that we have for lunch during the week. Soup is 1) flavorful, 2) nutritious, 3) easy to prepare and 4) can scarcely be screwed up.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (HdYcL)

146

Oh no,

I have to cook for the family???

Oh the horror. It really cuts into my time posting my stupid opinions on the internet.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (3ek7K)

147 The lefties say "(enormously obese with type II diabetes) poor people can't afford to eat."
———

The online health “expert” advice is just complete bullshit. They go into these long convoluted explanations why it is NOT a choice to be Obese.

But strangely enough in the same breath, you CAN choose to lose the excess fat, the weight you already have.

So which is it?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (wzze2)

148 Top ramen...Under a buck

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (FtULh)

149 Oh and we need to get schools back to giving home ec classes.

Before you turn 18 you should be able to:

Make pasta
Bake a chicken breast
Grill a burger

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

150 Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: MacNCheese and canned chili at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (utTlv)

UNDERWOOD CHICKEN SPREAD.

Accept no substitutes. Mmmm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (zZu0s)

151 138
What the fuck is a "silhouette" of clothes? I've read like 500 books in my life and I've never heard that expression.
Posted by: Max Power

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

It's bad writing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (n7rxJ)

=====

Well, the point of the test isn't the recognize poetry but to challenge the reader in terms of sentence structure and vocabulary (and probably pronunciation).

A similar effect could be had by getting them to read Jabberwocky.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (46HP8)

152 135 126 Can?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:09 PM (zZu0s)

Can(adian)?
Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (6wpGE)

119 Since I like sharing Canadian prices with all of you, 18 extra large eggs....slightly under $7 Can.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (Sco7b)

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (6wpGE)

153 Gauche is how the nouveau riche dress
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (guGkK)
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Who is the Gauche, amigo?
Why is he standing in your red leather poncho
With the studs that match your eyes?

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (Fi81e)

154 I’ve always thought gauche was a combination of gaudy and in poor taste…

Yeah, a silhouette of clothes is a strange formulation. Usually one looks at the clothes themselves not the shadow they create

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (yz/88)

155 Our future overlords will unconditionally surrender to Chy-na.

"O beautiful for spacious skies,
For yellow waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the ChiComm plain!

Sinoica! Sinoica!
Mao shed his grace on thee
And crown thy thugs with mother's jugs
From Xi to shining Xi!"
==
Don't worry. The dragon's tail only sweeps a third of the stars from the sky.

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (anL5R)

156 I'm 63 with bad knees, diabetes and bad kidneys. I work full time have a husband who does nothing so I'm responsible for everything. I don't want to cook, but I've never done DoorDash or Uber Eats.

Posted by: Jaimo at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (BCuCF)

157 "Tacky" . I really enjoy Weird Al Yankovic but I had never heard that particular song. Thanks, James Madison.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (n3VHW)

158 I have this great book from the early 70's, a Penguin paperback called Cooking in a Bedsitter which was for those English who lived in essentially studios with a bathroom down the hall and could cook over a gas-ring.

Mom got me the Fannie Farmer Cookbook when I was a freshman in HS so I had something other than her Betty Crocker book to cook from.

For those who can't seem to figure out how to cook, then there are all sorts of premade meals in pouches that just need to be microwaved. It is like colorful MREs, but with flavor.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)

159 Can(adian)?
Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:10 PM (6wpGE)
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CAN help you relieve the burden you are on the people who know you.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (Fi81e)

160 Had a horrible day
The weekend is here, to early to start drinking?

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (Ia/+0)

161 Popular recipes often include obscure, expensive ingredients

What the hell? I can make a half dozen dishes with nothing more "exotic" then...Montreal Steak Seasoning.

Salt and pepper themselves alone will make most things edible.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

162 Gauche is a cowboy from Argentina, right?

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (CNl8/)

163 …and they rage at you for wanting them to eat "poverty food"

Yeah, I don’t get the “poverty food” put-down. Every time I’ve seen something denigrated as poverty food, it’s good food. It’s a nice soup, or a nice sandwich, inexpensive, easy to make, and likely tasty.

And then people explaining in more detail how to make something very good get hit for using technical terms like salt, pepper, onion, and garlic if they dare abbreviate it after the first use.

It reminds me a lot about the saying about politicians, that they have to act like they don’t know the obvious.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (EXyHK)

164 I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it. Once in a while is one thing, but ordering out multiple times per week is -- here's a word that Gen Z and the Millennials need to learn -- indulgent.

This boomer will not listen to a word from Gen Z or millennials about how hard it is to buy a house or how hard it is to live.

No shit captain obvious. Not when you are giving it away.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (2PamV)

165 I also got tired of making and eating simple meals when I was young. I solved that problem by (stick with me here)...learning to cook. It's a crazy idea, but it just might work.

Now that I'm 29, and my kids are grown, I indulge myself and prepare some pretty complicated meals because I WANT TO AND I CAN.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (Riz8t)

166 But Taylor Lorenz, joined by a bunch of basket-case lazybones "spooners" -- people who claim they only have a few "spoons" of energy during the day so society will just have to carry them on their backs -- begin arguing that some people don't have the "ability" to cook and are just too tired to take any steps to feed themselves besides pushing a few buttons on their phones (and begging their parents to send them more money).

----

We should just eat these people. It would be an actual contribution to society

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (THY4u)

167 Our future overlords will unconditionally surrender to Chy-na.

"O beautiful for spacious skies,
For yellow waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the ChiComm plain!

Sinoica! Sinoica!
Mao shed his grace on thee
And crown thy thugs with mother's jugs
From Xi to shining Xi!"
==
Don't worry. The dragon's tail only sweeps a third of the stars from the sky.
==
won't happen til after we get 51 states. then after we lose 17.

Posted by: Mr. Sunshine at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (anL5R)

168 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (zdLoL)

169 Mom got me the Fannie Farmer Cookbook when I was a freshman in HS so I had something other than her Betty Crocker book to cook from.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)
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We had Fanny Farmer in my house when I was growing up.

"The Joy of Cooking" is also EXCELLENT. It's really all you need for cooking everything from hard-boiled eggs to beef wellington.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (gnNyN)

170 Gen X here. Been eating Mega Fit Meals for years now. Pre made and shipped to me every Wednesday. Protien, Fats, Carbs dialed in. My menu is $330 a week. Lazy? I don't give a shit. I'm not fat, it's healthy food and I have more time or am usually working 7 days a week and long hours at a refinery. Keep myself I a bit of a coloric deficit and when I need more cals I have restaurants I go to and it's usually a healthy meal.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (IlL6s)

171 Before you turn 18 you should be able to:

Make pasta
Bake a chicken breast
Grill a burger
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

Cooking meat, especially beef, always caused me problems. I'm red/green colorblind, so telling when beef is ready was always a problem - I couldn't tell the red and brown apart.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (qx7Zg)

172 I prefer my recipes simple. A few tasty ingredients, a little bit of prep time, and minimal cleanup afterwards.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Shrimp, avocado slice, slice of red pepper, black olives, sliced mushroom, powered onion, ginger, black pepper, and butter. Toss in pan over low heat for 3 minutes. Pour into bowl. Toss pan into trash and order a new one on Amazon.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (W5mpo)

173 For fuck's sake, there are a gazillion cookbooks for beginners out there, you don't need obscure or expensive anything, and this bullshit about not begin able to get foods in exact specific amounts THAT'S WHAT MEASURING CUPS AND SPOONS ARE FOR, ASSHOLE!!!!

Posted by: They really are useless eaters at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (TbWk/)

174 Yeah, I tend to avoid those...

I prefer my recipes simple. A few tasty ingredients, a little bit of prep time, and minimal cleanup afterwards.

You can't go wrong with Cowboy Kent Rollins. Every recipe of his that I've tried has gone straight to my favorite for that thing. Of course if he ever made avocado toast, it would probably be for his dogs.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (vTZFs)

175 It's interesting how if you go back to read the 1800 era authors, the vocabulary is so much more extensive than ours today. Read Edgar Allan Poe or Nathaniel Hawthorne or Charles Dickens or those guys. It's like they spoke far better than we do. I blame our schools.

Posted by: SimoHayha at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (/ZkOF)

176 Gen Z is illiterate, but they make up for it in Cultural Marxism Propaganda

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (Ia/+0)

177 Canadian dollars. Yeah. Sorry.

See diversity DOES suck.
Back to work.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (Sco7b)

178 Shortly after D Day, General Eisenhower made it over to France, just to see how things were going. He had his driver, a Sergeant, frequently whip up something for both to eat including egg sandwiches. (using a small stove issued to a lot of troops). I guess the Door dash young uns have more important things to do other than invading Europe.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (gm9Sb)

179 165
Now that I'm 29, and my kids are grown, I indulge myself and prepare some pretty complicated meals because I WANT TO AND I CAN.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (Riz8t)

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I hate cooking for myself. Like...I hate it. It's a me issue because I eat too fast, and if I spend 2 minutes eating something I took an hour to make, then it's a waste of time.

However, cooking for the family is fine. I don't mind spending time to prep those meals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (46HP8)

180 82 Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:02 PM (53oGX)

Your wife would have to cook by necessity. Have you hit eight yet? I have 8 kids in the pool.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

Just 5 so far...

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (53oGX)

181 "The Joy of Cooking" is also EXCELLENT. It's really all you need for cooking everything from hard-boiled eggs to beef wellington.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (gnNyN)

I still use that

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (FtULh)

182 That burger is ass when it's fresh. No way that travels well waiting door dash to get it to you

Yeah most food doesn't deliver well; the classics do and that's why they are classic: Chinese, Pizza. You order a steak and potatoes and you're gonna get Hungry Man by the time it reaches you.

And the costs are bad because not only does the delivery service charge the restaurant for the privilege of delivering their food, but they add service and delivery fees on top AND the restaurants push the price up to make up for the cost from the delivery service. Its a good 30% or more higher on Doordash than going there and picking it up. And on top of that, all these services have been busted raising prices on the foods without the restaurants telling them to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (5yqx7)

183 Because of course she will! She's entitled to a seat in Congress!

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will run in a majority-minority (black) district in Florida, after her district was gerrymandered into majority Republican by the raycisss Governor!

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (5rh/l)

184 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Arrrrrr! Matey!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (2PamV)

185 Wasn't it here that we discussed the underbelly of food delivery services that takes advantage of the illegals and other people who do the driving? Like, the people who "own" the DoorDash franchise for a particular area lease out their ID or whatever to several drivers, but they're the ones actually making money. Then they pay the drivers pennies.

So something to that effect?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (jehhT)

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

Yeah, that was a Buck Throckmorton post a couple months ago.

I heard a Houston conservative radio talk show host (Michael Barry) reporting a news item that riding a moped in blue shithole cities -- presumably delivering food -- like NYC in the age of Trump & ICE has come to be rare and seen as akin to walking around with face stats, an indicator that you're likely an illegal alien and will be detained.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (BcFIZ)

186 Remember folks, the kids we see are the kids we either know or are shown. Judge by the ones you know, because the folks doing the showing are trying to sell you on something.

Translation: Are some bad? Duh, yes. All of them? Thank God, no. The percentages? Ah...now that's the question...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (OUMaO)

187 I would eat nothing instead of door dash

I've seen the public

I do NOT want them handling my food

Door dash drivers are usually kids anyway and they want huge tips or they wreck your shit.

Fuck em

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (ZTMit)

188 "Fit is how a piece of clothing fits your body, while silhouette is the overall shape that your outfit takes."

yeah, it didn't make sense to me either. But this is what some reddit comment said.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (vbXSk)

189 Got myself a pit boss pellet smoker. Ribs, pulled pork. So easy. Lots of YouTube how to's out there

Posted by: Oh Noes!! at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (HcoTw)

190 I'll give peeps a pass on "gawch". When I was 8, I thought a certain word was pronounced "fakade".

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (W5mpo)

191 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (zdLoL)
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Mexican Americans love education
So they go to night school—
And they take Spanish
And get a B!"

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)

192 It's interesting how if you go back to read the 1800 era authors, the vocabulary is so much more extensive than ours today. Read Edgar Allan Poe or Nathaniel Hawthorne or Charles Dickens or those guys. It's like they spoke far better than we do. I blame our schools.
Posted by: SimoHayha at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (/ZkOF)
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By sheer coincidence, reading those authors is also likely to increase one's vocabulary...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (gnNyN)

193 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.
===
That account is trolling . . .

Posted by: change my mind at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (anL5R)

194 Isn't all DoorDash food cold as ice by the time it gets to your door? Can it all be successfully (?) microwaved?

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (5rh/l)

195 I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it.

I've never used any delivery service save for pizza back in the days before DoorDash...Hey, I was young, drunk, and wanted pizza. To this day I *still* don't know how large a tip I gave the guy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (ynpvh)

196 You don't even need to be able to cook. Every supermarket and even small delis have aisles full of pre-cooked foods. All you have to do it heat it.

And it's good stuff. As cook as fresh made? No. But as good as -- and probably better -- than DD gruel and even most restaurants.

Cost? Maybe 30% of the cost of delivery or eat-in.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

197 Eggs expensive? Here our local Eshes' closeout supermarket had a sale a few weeks ago: 18 *dozen* eggs for $6. (USD, that's what, like $300 AUD?)

'course, come to think of it, they didn't exactly specify what species the eggs came from...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (JcF+m)

198 I've done several recipes from The Deplorable Gourmet, but none recently, because it's packed in one of my numerous boxes of books from the move.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (0aYVJ)

199 Here’s the thing; there are cookbooks!
So very many cookbooks!
Ones like “How to Cook Everything “ and “Five Ingredient Dinners.” Heck, I picked up a mug cookbook for $1 at the used bookstore. You can do so much with eggs + a few other ingredients!

There’s blame to go around. If the kids grew up on takeout because both parents were working and was never taught, for example. This is learned behavior, our culture had sold them on the need for exotic cuisine delivered to them. We need to do better!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (4KUe5)

200 196 You don't even need to be able to cook. Every supermarket and even small delis have aisles full of pre-cooked foods. All you have to do it heat it.

And it's good stuff. As cook as fresh made? No. But as good as -- and probably better -- than DD gruel and even most restaurants.

Cost? Maybe 30% of the cost of delivery or eat-in.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

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Buy a hot plate and an air fryer.

Burgers and fries. Easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (46HP8)

201 200

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (6wpGE)

202 Cooking meat, especially beef, always caused me problems. I'm red/green colorblind, so telling when beef is ready was always a problem - I couldn't tell the red and brown apart.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (qx7Zg)

Meat thermometer.

Posted by: Seriously, get one at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (TbWk/)

203 Cooking is intimidating but in an age of online recipes and youtube tutorials, its inexcusable to simply not do it. Yeah everyone is tired after a day of work: EVERYONE. That's part of being a human being, we have finite energy. But you can afford to spend a few billijoules of that to boil some water.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (5yqx7)

204 > So because he doesn't know how to cook the Hottest New Recipes, he shouldn't have to learn how to grill a fried cheese sandwich, either.

Someone needs to point these mooks at the Fannie Farmer cookbook (which we called the "Funny Farmer" cookbook), which was written before most households even had electricity, much less YouTube.

Me, I was preparing meals for myself and four younger siblings by the time I was 12 (Mom worked a lot of swing and graveyard shifts... we needed the extra money).

No sympathy whatsoever.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (IG3/x)

205 My kinda-daughter learned that one of those delivery services does not consider itself at fault if they deliver your fully-paid-for meal to the wrong house.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (Fi81e)

206 Last time I was in Europe there were endless immigrants on mopeds delivering take out food.

No idea how euro-niks afford it since they generally make about half what Americans do

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

207 It's interesting how if you go back to read the 1800 era authors, the vocabulary is so much more extensive than ours today. Read Edgar Allan Poe or Nathaniel Hawthorne or Charles Dickens or those guys. It's like they spoke far better than we do. I blame our schools.
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sentence structure at the time was way more complex

its like they learned how to write and speak by reading St. Paul's epistles.

Posted by: change my mind at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (anL5R)

208 194 Isn't all DoorDash food cold as ice by the time it gets to your door? Can it all be successfully (?) microwaved?
Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM

No, they have insulated bags for warm and for cold.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (Wmg4n)

209 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Not coloring it in, would have been fine with me.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)

"Silhouette" is simply the wrong word. Pretentious, over-wrought writing. Suit of clothes, or "ensemble" if you want to be pretentious but still readable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (8zz6B)

210 Find the time to cook dumbass.

Pause your "content creating" for little while and engage in the most basic human need there is, nourishment.

Oh sorry too many big words

Wtf

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (ZTMit)

211 I can't even remember the last time I got a fast food hamburger. I make burgers on the George Foreman grill and french fries in the air fryer.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (CNl8/)

212 Yeah meat thermometer is a must have when you are cooking.

Up there with a good pan and a glass baking dish.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (sKqQm)

213 I've done several recipes from The Deplorable Gourmet

I have as well and its been great so far. Some of them I can't eat

but they look very tasty

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (5yqx7)

214 Save up for a bread maker, then start making your own bread.

Or go all sourdough nut, like me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:08 PM (46HP

Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (53oGX)

215 Cooking is intimidating but in an age of online recipes and youtube tutorials, its inexcusable to simply not do it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (5yqx7)
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I made baconaise off an internet recipe.

It's never been easier to find recipes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

216
No idea how euro-niks afford it since they generally make about half what Americans do

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

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The portions are probably half the size.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (HdYcL)

217 I've never door dashed, etc. People working in food establishments, whatever level of cleanliness and competence they may innately have, are policed for hygienic standards, or so I choose to delude myself.

Hippie side-giggers?

*shudders*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (/Aq4A)

218 Because of course she will! She's entitled to a seat in Congress!

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz will run in a majority-minority (black) district in Florida, after her district was gerrymandered into majority Republican by the raycisss Governor!

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (5rh/l)

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OUT: Abortion Barbie.
IN: Abortion Shaquisha.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (BcFIZ)

219
Social media is responsible for a lot of stupid stuff.

Oh look, people making complicated recipes and I have to do the same.

What you need is a meat, starch, and a vegetable.

It's not difficult. Stop comparing yourself with people on social media. Most of them are liars.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (3ek7K)

220 214 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (53oGX)

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Hardcore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (46HP8)

221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

222 Finding a recipe on the innerwebz is often frustrating, because too many start with stories like: I stood on a sun-soaked balcony in Tuscany, contemplating what to do with those wonderful tomatoes I had just purchased at the quaint little grocery down the cobblestone street...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (0aYVJ)

223 Oh, FFS.

I occasionally order from DoorDash. Occasionally.

Two of three weeks, I eat at my brother's or my parents' for Shabbos. The third week is my turn.

On Wednesdays, we go to a restaurant for trivia night, and eat there.

Most weeks, we work full time jobs, tend the garden, work the lawns, clean the house, and find time to cook a delicious fresh dinner for our family 5-6 days a week.

Get a life, all of you. Seriously. If you can't be bothered to cook and feed yourself or your family, why even bother? Can DoorDash deliver you a gun to eat? At least a Hi-Point or something?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (BI5O2)

224 Only interaction I've had with Door Dash or Uber Eats is girlfriends sending me food. Last Door Dash a girl got me a four pack of Crumbl Cookies(chocolate chip) was for Valentines Day this year.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (IlL6s)

225 > 'course, come to think of it, they didn't exactly specify what species the eggs came from...
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at May 22, 2026 03:17 PM (JcF+m)

It's $8.99 for a pound of ground beef, but only $3.99 for a pound of ground meat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (IG3/x)

226 I pride myself on making hard boiled eggs. Keep them around for snacks or when I have to take pills and just not hungry. Water to a boil, add eggs, bring to a boil again and cook for ten minutes. Rinse with cold tap water until you can handle them. Into the fridge. You can peel, usually, with only two big pieces of shell coming off.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (gm9Sb)

227 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Not coloring it in, would have been fine with me.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (Fi81e)

"Silhouette" is simply the wrong word. Pretentious, over-wrought writing. Suit of clothes, or "ensemble" if you want to be pretentious but still readable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:19 PM (8zz6B)
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Hey, leave me my semi-visuals.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)

228 As a non-English major, I would say that "gauche" should be replaced with "garish". Clothes that were unsophisticated (what "gauche" means) wouldn't seem extraordinary.

Also, I think Deva Hazarika's tweet was about the reasons he's seen about why people feel overwhelmed by the idea of cooking all their meals. Based on remarks I've seen on X, it seems like Granny Millennial and her co-whiners can't figure out that you don't have to make everything from scratch. I mentioned to a kid that you can drain and heat a can of green beans in a pan with bacon grease - and wow! his mind was blown when he tried it.

My mother's dinners consisted of a meat, a cooked vegetable (preferably starchy), and a raw salad. She could can vegetables and make applesauce, made three kinds of pickles, and baked desserts from scratch.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (fxCK2)

229 I believe the correct term for those UK DoorDashers is “deliveroos .”

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (4KUe5)

230 Ace, if you're talking about Deva Hazarika, he's actually on our side of this issue. Look at his feed. Among other things, he posted this:

"Getting people to cook delicious and healthy meals for $5 instead of DoorDashing lukewarm slop for $20 is a tough challenge, but I’ll make it happen."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

Unless he made another post in which he refuted the "objections" he listed he's still being absurd.

You can get a decent selection of spices for the cost of one doordash order. More than you'll probably use for years for two orders.

Ingredients can be easily substituted for others.

Exact amounts aren't needed outside of baking, having a bit less of one thing or a bit more of another is fine.

Using remainder of perishable food is the easiest cooking, leftovers get thrown into pasta, put on top of rice, or inside sandwiches.

Posted by: Sjg at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (i8HNq)

231 There’s blame to go around. If the kids grew up on takeout because both parents were working and was never taught, for example. This is learned behavior, our culture had sold them on the need for exotic cuisine delivered to them. We need to do better!

I couldn't cook toast when I was in HS. I learned a few (very) basics in college. After that, I learned more because who wants to eat the same thing all the time. It can be done! We have the technology! I'm not giving anyone a pass because they're too lazy to learn something which isn't that hard to do.

BTW, it was nice to see that Taylor Lorenz is still identifying as a yute by using lingo which probably very few of them do. Spooners? Really?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Riz8t)

232
Gauche is a cowboy from Argentina, right?
Posted by: Mark1971

Yeah, and they can take down a steer with a yo yo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Cqx++)

233 Finding a recipe on the innerwebz is often frustrating, because too many start with stories like: I stood on a sun-soaked balcony in Tuscany, contemplating what to do with those wonderful tomatoes I had just purchased at the quaint little grocery down the cobblestone street...

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:21 PM (0aYVJ)
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God gave you a scrollbar. Use it.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Fi81e)

234 I don't see how we survive this. I really don't"

Civilizations come and go. Next up, a variant of Europe, 535 AD...

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)

235 > Hippie side-giggers?

*shudders*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (/Aq4A)

Most places put the food in bags with tamper-resistant tape closures before handing them over to said hippies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (IG3/x)

236 Cooking is intimidating but in an age of online recipes and youtube tutorials, its inexcusable to simply not do it. Yeah everyone is tired after a day of work: EVERYONE. That's part of being a human being, we have finite energy. But you can afford to spend a few billijoules of that to boil some water.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Yep. There's these channels that show how to ( I hate the term ) 'meal-prep' for a week. Aside from investing in 500 plastic boxes, it's just 3 or 4 hours on a Sunday to fill a refrig for the week.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (diia5)

237 233 God gave you a scrollbar. Use it.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (Fi81e)

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Is it really a bar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (46HP8)

238 A former me would not have minded a woman wearing an outline of clothes.

Just tune into the next celebrity event show.

Its funny, I remember they used to dress that way in fantasy art though I notice now D&D has gone woke so...no more elven wizardess in diaphanous robes, no you get a couple of dwarf guys dancing together while a beholder looks on gleefuilly.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

239 It's not difficult. Stop comparing yourself with people on social media. Most of them are liars.

My favorite is when they cook something or buy something then react to it. Its like watching someone read a book, how does it taste? Like pixels? how do I know I'll like it because this random dude does? How do I know he's telling me the truth? What if they just screwed up the order last time? What if you just are having a bad day and nothing tastes great?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (5yqx7)

240 Only interaction I've had with Door Dash or Uber Eats is girlfriends sending me food. Last Door Dash a girl got me a four pack of Crumbl Cookies(chocolate chip) was for Valentines Day this year.
Posted by: JROD

that probably cost $35-40.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (GUycr)

241 234 I don't see how we survive this. I really don't"

Civilizations come and go. Next up, a variant of Europe, 535 AD...

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (XuXeR)

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Europe survived the Black Plague.

It can probably survive young adults not knowing how to cook for themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (46HP8)

242
It's as cold as ice.
They're willing to sacrifice
Your food.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (Fi81e)

243 Spooners? Really?"

Ya. The 'rents gotta cover the za, k?

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (XuXeR)

244 I was door-dash-adjacent as a younger man: delivery driver for Pizza Hut, and later, Stagecoach Pizza (a local joint). Pretty good gig for a college student with a family. Made more money than the cooks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:23 PM (0aYVJ)

245 My 21 year-old daughter makes a spaghetti sauce that's so good it'll poke your eyes out. Her first omelet was perfect because she watched a U-toob video on how to make one.

She's can make quite a few dishes and is a very good cook. I'm not worried.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (k9OZB)

246 Wow. "Cold as Ice" is nearly a haiku.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (Fi81e)

247 Finding a recipe on the innerwebz is often frustrating, because too many start with stories like: I stood on a sun-soaked balcony in Tuscany, contemplating what to do with those wonderful tomatoes I had just purchased at the quaint little grocery down the cobblestone street...
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You are not wrong. The amount of TWEE bullshit on blogger recipes is not to be stomached. Use youtube. Search your desired recipe. When the video thumbs come up look for the chick with the big hooters. Problem solved. You're Welcome.

Posted by: change my mind at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (anL5R)

248 Most places put the food in bags with tamper-resistant tape closures before handing them over to said hippies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:22 PM (IG3/x)

Which they are handling with their ecoli covered booger hooks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (/Aq4A)

249 35 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)
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I know this is probably just an AoS inside joke but even sous vide is dead-nuts simple, and in fact simplifies or idiot-proofs a lot of food. Yes you need to invest in a circulator but they're not really expensive.

Dropping some chicken breast in a SV at 150F for 3-4 hours will give you the best, most juicy chicken breast you'll ever have, and you can just drop it and forget it.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (oqH4h)

250 She's can make quite a few dishes and is a very good cook. I'm not worried.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (k9OZB)

Both my kids were taught to cook as kids and their kids do the same...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (FtULh)

251 Cooking is not particularly difficult unless you are trying an exotic technique like sous vide.

Spices last practically FOREVER if you keep them tightly sealed.

We have ENDLESS access to simple, delicious recipes via YouTube and other social media platforms. Stuff any culinary n00b can make if they simply pay attention to the directions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 02:58 PM (gnNyN)

Sous Vide is absolutely trivial if you purchase the tech. I got a stick that clamps to the edge of a deep soup pot. Plug it in, fill the pot with water, put the meat plus sauce in a ziploc bag and squeeze out the air by dunking below the water to burp air out. Seal the bag, put something heavy on it to submerge and go away. It doesn't burn and if you are late showing up it doesn't matter. Take out the cooked meat, cut it up or sear it if you like and done.

The wand was about 100 dollars 15 years ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (8avO+)

252 Europe survived the Black Plague."

Europe did. Several million....didn't.

Ah well. Elons offspring will be on Mars

Posted by: man at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (XuXeR)

253 I find it interesting how many of Edgar allen poe's stories start off with some sort of latin or French header in front of the chapter. and he's not alone, either. Even Agatha Christie, a hundred years later, freely sprinkled French in her writings because everyone could understand it.

Now? The Cat in the Hat style rhyming is "high class." Which don't get me wrong, that book is a masterpiece in "use only these few words" and it works. But it's not supposed to be the highlight of your reading and writing career!

Posted by: SimoHayha at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (/ZkOF)

254 I only use the Deplorable Gourmet cookbook. Where else can you get 500 salsa recipes!

I actually do pursue the cookbook once in a while before I go grocery shopping.

Mom cookbook for the ranch hands as a girl. So most of our family meals were hardly and delicious. We rug rats started learning to cook with mom from an early age.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 22, 2026 03:25 PM (1fx5i)

255 A couple other links show "silhouette" of clothes is apparently a common phrase in fashion.

"Types of Silhouettes in Fashion | 12 Different Types of Fashion Silhouettes Explained - Disha Foundation
In the world of fashion design, the term “silhouette” refers to the shape or overall outline of a garment. The shape or silhouette is basically a garment’s two-dimensional outline or configuration."

"A Beginner’s Guide to Fashion Silhouettes
1. What Is a Fashion Silhouette? A silhouette refers to the overall shape or outline of a garment when viewed from a distance. It’s what people first notice about a piece - even before fabric, color, or trims."

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (vbXSk)

256 191 Ameican students lack of reading comprehension is well-documented.

Indeed it is, right here in this sentence.
When you hold yourself up as better than someone else, you need to be very careful with your spelling and grammar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 22, 2026 03:14 PM (zdLoL)
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Mexican Americans love education
So they go to night school—
And they take Spanish
And get a B!"

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:16 PM (Fi81e)

I got A's in Spanish, even though I learned in HS...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (ynpvh)

257 The wifey has a "Joy Of Cooking" cookbook.

Unlike "The Joy of Sex," I've never opened it ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (BcFIZ)

258 God gave you a scrollbar. Use it.

I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)

259 Another point in this - when I was young and didn't know how to cook things I couldn't just look it up on the internet.

It meant calling your parents which wasn't a bad thing...but it will take you way longer to get a recipe from your mother on a "quick call" then even a poorly written internet recipe that starts with "This recipe reminds me of the hills of Tuscany..."

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

260 My mom was her generation's "spooner".

And then she made dinner every night for us ungrateful kids.

But she sounded a lot like them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (Fi81e)

261 Bring back Home Ec

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (Hb+bW)

262 If you can afford to get food delivered, more power to you. We definitely eat out (we can walk to restaurants that serve real food), we definitely get delivery (but not fast food). I get the majority of our groceries delivered because I am very picky about brands and the types of food I want. But I am not crying the blues about not being able to do this or that at the same time. If I was not in the relationship I am in, and I had to do things on a tight budget, I absolutely could. I have in the past. I don’t have too and I am blessed for it, I don’t take it for granted. I definitely don’t feel as if I would be entitled to it on tax payer dimes. One thing missing is being able to budget and leave well within your means, wherever your means happen to be at the time.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (Wmg4n)

263 The Coleman 520 “pocket stove”. (They had big pockets then, I guess)

Ernie Pyle wrote a column on them, they were very popular, since they meant hot chow, coffee, water for shaving, thawing feet out, etc. Coleman sent Ernie a nickel plated job with his name engraved on it.

Coleman also made a stainless steel lightweight version for the mountain troops, but they didn’t get issued till late. Both models have become collector items, I used to see them for $3 at the garage sales.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (E4WLu)

264 It's not difficult. Stop comparing yourself with people on social media. Most of them are liars.
Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (3ek7K)
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You're right. I dunno if I would call them "liars" but it's lying by omission. When you're on social media you're AT BEST watching a highlight reel, and most of the time you're watching two-minute clips that someone spent six hours filming editing and posting.

These people don't understand that the internet isn't reality, just like the people that think that what Qatarlson and Cavernous Nostrils have to say reflects the opinions of normal conservatives. It's different planets.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (oqH4h)

265 221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

Windmill.

Posted by: She's REALLY hardcore at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (TbWk/)

266 Want a meal that's easy, delicious, and a $1.50/plate.

Linguine Puttanesca.

I have about a thousand other ones you could do.

You can be flat-out poverty stricken in this country and eat better than 90% of the planet, for little effort.

But whatever. Spend all your money on garbage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)

267
Stephen,

If there isn't a way to easily get to the recipe, fuck off.

I don't want to read your life history.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (3ek7K)

268 I was never allowed in the kitchen when my mother cooked, but my grandma let me help her in the kitchen. She never used recipes, just used a pinch of this, or let's try this. It was magic to me. I love to cook and I look at recipes and then make them my own way. I have been told im a fabulous cook and I can tell people what's inside the recipe, but not any specific measurements.
That's why these lazy people make me sick. Its easy to make a tuna sandwich. I had three kids and a fulltime job and still managed dinner for everyone. Stupid lazy idiots.

Posted by: Megthered at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (0CgUq)

269 We love my door dash delivery guy! We live in his car with my homies and we get to sample a little bit of this, a little bit of that...man life is good! Plus we use his car as our toilet too!

Posted by: Joe Cockroach and Mary Bedbug at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (7d1L5)

270 Why are so many young people fat, lazy, stupid and broke? Eating shitty processed prepared foods via takeout.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (wBaIH)

271
Another thing I dislike about online recipes: scrolling through ad after ad after ad. Or popovers inviting me to subscribe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (HdYcL)

272 A couple other links show "silhouette" of clothes is apparently a common phrase in fashion.

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I am beginning to think y’all just skip my posts. lol.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (Wmg4n)

273 We were po'college or new grads when we married. Had a '50's fridge with freezer space for metal ice cube trays in our 100yr old rental house. We shopped a couple of times a week for chicken or ground beef.

I was learning to cook and we somehow survived. I only cooked on top of the ancient gas stove burners due to previously blowing one up in college (not knowing to light a pilot light) on a date. Once deaf with singed hair and a hematoma on my right thigh was enough and my new husband respected my refusal. He also wanted to live past 24yrs.

When the two chimps arrived I made casseroles. Or chicken with fresh veg. No fast food for lunch or dinners. We survived. It was a treat to go to out to dinner once a month.

I kept learning to cook real meals, too. With more ingredients & difficulty. A real freezer helped. I worked with two women who refused to cook anything with more than 5 ingredients. They were dimwits in other areas as well.

Sometimes I had 2 part time jobs, kept our sons alive at the same time, & I don't want to hear how these spoiled brats with college debt order their fancy pants meals. I would also have to screen the person delivering if they were illgal.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (WONhk)

274 Speaking of Colman stoves, I have one, some propane, a few jugs of water, and some Mountain Home emergency meals stashed away.

Yeah the odds of something knocking out power for a few days or low but its happened to me before and I'm not taking that risk again...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

275 272 I am beginning to think y’all just skip my posts. lol.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (Wmg4n)

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You've posted here before?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (46HP8)

276 221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

My Dad did that. He had a small mill he used. Had different plates for grinding, and could grind coarse or fine flour. Made wheat flour (loved the hard red winter wheat for some reason) and corn flour...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (ynpvh)

277 I have never had the need for DoorDash and
I don't trust them with my food, but I will have my pizza delivered.

Try to make sense out of that.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (NpAcC)

278 I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)
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Yes it sucks but they all have to include a story about how the Tuscan sun perfectly tanned their fartclam because running a website like that is just a game of SEO and they have to have enough words on the screen for Google's crawlers to pick it up and also differentiate themselves so they show up on page 1.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (oqH4h)

279 The only time I ever got anything from Door Dash was by mistake.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (CNl8/)

280 Folks here forgetting the poverty stand by, the ramen noodle. Ate enough during bad times where I shouldn't like them, but still keep some around for a quick meal. Step one. Ditch the flavor pack that gives out all the bad stuff. Boil with a little chopped celery and onion.Top with butter and maybe some garlic powder after done.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

281 266 Want a meal that's easy, delicious, and a $1.50/plate.

Linguine Puttanesca.

I have about a thousand other ones you could do.

You can be flat-out poverty stricken in this country and eat better than 90% of the planet, for little effort.

But whatever. Spend all your money on garbage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:28 PM (BI5O2)

I make a Chicken puttanesca that's easy and delicious

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (FtULh)

282 Buy a hot plate and an air fryer.

Burgers and fries. Easy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:18 PM

You can cook a boat load of healthy good tasting food in an air fryer. We use ours 2-3 times a week for things like chicken, pork chops, meatballs, etc.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (0N4FZ)

283 > Which they are handling with their ecoli covered booger hooks.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:24 PM (/Aq4A)

You really think a DD driver has worse hygiene than the illiterate thug with the prison tatts and the ankle monitor working behind the counter at Burger King?

I'm... skeptical.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (IG3/x)

284 221 Wife started grinding her own wheat berries for bread flour...

What does she use for grinding?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:20 PM (EXyHK)

NutriMill Harvest Electric Stone Grain Mill
^ pop that into amazon or google.
I'm afraid to post a link incorrectly... got the barrel for that before.

Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (53oGX)

285 Where's Piper? Haven't seen her posting in awhile. Hope she's okay.

Posted by: one hour sober at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (J4Dwc)

286 @240 Mr Asprin Factory-yeah it's not cheap plus I'm in the Bay Area California. Always Crumbl Cookies or Melos Pizza. Melo's Pizzas (sausage w/extra sauce) ain't cheap. The Valentines gal was a doctor from Reno. Not seeing her anymore. I need to find another for pizza n cookies. All this talk about food.....now I'm hungry. Thanks guys(lol)

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (IlL6s)

287 I saw the Ecoli-Covered Booger Hooks open for Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds at Fulford Arms in '22.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (BcFIZ)

288
Let's give Taylor Lorenz a break. Fire hadn't yet been discovered when she started out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (HdYcL)

289 I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)
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Yes it sucks but they all have to include a story about how the Tuscan sun perfectly tanned their fartclam because running a website like that is just a game of SEO and they have to have enough words on the screen for Google's crawlers to pick it up and also differentiate themselves so they show up on page 1.

They're all the same. Pages of crap, and then an ingredients list, which is instantly identifiable because it's bulleted. Just scroll quickly to the ingredients list and Bob's your uncle.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (Riz8t)

290 The wifey has a "Joy Of Cooking" cookbook.

Unlike "The Joy of Sex," I've never opened it ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (BcFIZ)

You need a book for that? I thought it kind of sells itself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (/Aq4A)

291 I disagree. When a “recipe” begins with what appears to be a history of the world and requires several pagedowns to get to, it’s not a recipe. It’s clickbait. The recipe isn’t the point. It might be good; it might not; but you can’t count on it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (EXyHK)
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I must just have a lot more luck finding recipe's than you do then.

But I agree, if I have to click to another page, that's clickbait. But 90+% of the time, I just scroll down to the bottom. If they have any pointers, I may scroll back up to check them out.

When I want to make something new to me, I usually get a cross section of recipes to get the gist and mix and match between them.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (Fi81e)

292 I can't even remember the last time I got a fast food hamburger
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If you got e. Coli you would

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (E4WLu)

293 285 Where's Piper? Haven't seen her posting in awhile. Hope she's okay.
Posted by: one hour sober at May 22, 2026 03:32

😂

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (Wmg4n)

294 Let's give Taylor Lorenz a break. Fire hadn't yet been discovered when she started out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (HdYcL)
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"Door Dash" in those days meant hurrying back to the cave before you were devoured by a predator.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (gnNyN)

295 Coleman also made a stainless steel lightweight version for the mountain troops, but they didn’t get issued till late. Both models have become collector items, I used to see them for $3 at the garage sales.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (E4WLu)

I love the gasoline stoves because they put out so much heat, but I think a one-burner propane stove that screws on the one pound cylinders is a better deal. They are easier to use and easier to store.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

296 Why do we even take taylor (not even seriously)

Shes a splc product (first heard of her on charlottesvillle)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (bXbFr)

297
Have a crockpot?

It's easy to cook extra chicken breasts and freeze the rest for meals later.

Cook a roast. There are lots of ways you can use the leftovers to make other meals.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (3ek7K)

298 Pizza- flour, water, yeast, cheese

Or boil noodles and top with butter and pepper

Or eat an apple and yogurt

Or cereal

Or poptarts

Or eat raw ramen like i used to do. 19 cents a pack.

What is wrong with these people!!??

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (Hb+bW)

299 Step one. Ditch the flavor pack that gives out all the bad stuff. Boil with a little chopped celery and onion.Top with butter and maybe some garlic powder after done.

You...understand all that? You must be a genius.

Posted by: Zoomer at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (Riz8t)

300 "A Beginner’s Guide to Fashion Silhouettes
1. What Is a Fashion Silhouette? A silhouette refers to the overall shape or outline of a garment when viewed from a distance. It’s what people first notice about a piece - even before fabric, color, or trims."
Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (vbXSk)

So you are talking trade jargon here, not common language. If I asked you to go hang the gas trap in the shaker box, you would be at a loss, wouldn't you?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (8zz6B)

301 290
You need a book for that? I thought it kind of sells itself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:32 PM (/Aq4A)

========

Madonna wrote the book on it:

https://amzn.to/4a6TPUD

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (46HP8)

302 People think you're weird if you bring "Joy of Cooking" into the john.

Posted by: Graham Fapner at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (gKWVE)

303 We made our kids learn to cook and they always enjoy it. It helps to start them young. We didn't especially always enjoy their meals though, heh. But they can cook now.

They also had to do their own laundry starting in middle school.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (n5tGW)

304 That "silhouette of clothes" phrase is quite awkward and doesn't really make sense in the sentence. But I think I understand what is meant, however poorly expressed.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (FMtrg)

305 Kids are idiots. Film at 11.

Honestly, all children are fools, and don't learn to be intelligent until they have to. You were an idiot as well. Every generation thinks they invented sex, drugs, envy, and a whole host of other things, and don't know any better until they reach about 30 for the ladies and 40 for the men.

Real world consequences kick in and suddenly the kids' parents get plenty smart.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (DwqWV)

306 Or eat raw ramen like i used to do. 19 cents a pack.

What is wrong with these people!!??

YOU EXPECT THEM TO EAT LIKE A PRISONER? THIS FOOD IS BENEATH THEIR DIGNITY! ITS AN INSULT!!!!1!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (5yqx7)

307 Yeah he’s right. Most or many online recipe pages are totally unreadable, particularly on a smartphone.

All sorts of popups and videos and scripts, an editorial, a history lesson, and the rest of it.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (E4WLu)

308 I've never doordashed. Or Uber-eated.

I've pretty much only had pizza delivered. And that was wayyyy back.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (Fi81e)

309 Why do we even take taylor (not even seriously)

I think this article is nothing more than clickbait. She knows it's stupid and will enrage people, but since she has nothing interesting to say, it's the only way she can engage people and get eyeballs.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (Riz8t)

310 You really think a DD driver has worse hygiene than the illiterate thug with the prison tatts and the ankle monitor working behind the counter at Burger King?

I'm... skeptical.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:31 PM (IG3/x)

There are some standards, however dubiously followed. As noted, it is an illusion that you are not eating off a toilet seat when somebody handles your food. So why double the contamination?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (/Aq4A)

311 I've argued we should replace EBT with food baskets of raw stuff like chicken and noodles.

Throw in an air fryer up to once a year. They are only $60 for a halfway decent one and smaller and easier to setup then a real stove but will give you 80% of the use...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

312 Just 5 so far...
Posted by: Inogame at May 22, 2026 03:15 PM (53oGX)

*holds on to claim ticket*

Thats not meant as a dig aside from gentle ribbing. Its great that you all can and do a big family.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 22, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

313 There's a word for people who are too tired to cook and can't afford to pay someone else to cook for them.

Hungry.

Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2026 03:36 PM (FhXTo)

314 Like zombies in raccoon city

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (bXbFr)

315 Or eat raw ramen like i used to do. 19 cents a pack.
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TOP. RAMEN. is on it right now.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

316 So a judge dropped the human smuggling case against the" Maryland man"... So now what ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (FtULh)

317 > There are some standards, however dubiously followed.

Tell me you've never worked in a fast food kitchen without telling me you've never worked in a fast food kitchen.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (IG3/x)

318 My Dad did that. He had a small mill he used. Had different plates for grinding, and could grind coarse or fine flour. Made wheat flour (loved the hard red winter wheat for some reason) and corn flour...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (ynpvh)

Hard red wheat has a higher protein and gluten content which makes for a richer, higher rising bread. Soft white, on the other hand, makes good noodles and can be used for batters like pancakes since it has less gluten and can be handled rougher and still be tender.
One of the things that makes bread and such tough is that the gluten is not allowed to develop, and instead breaks and gets all tangled - this is at the molecular level by the way, you can feel it by the stretch and resistance as dough.

I tend to be obsessive about bread baking, but apparently your dad had me beat.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (rbvCR)

319 There's a word for people who are too tired to cook and can't afford to pay someone else to cook for them.

Hungry.
Posted by: DaveA at May 22, 2026 03:36 PM (FhXTo)
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"Long pig".

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

320 Want to eat like a king for cheap and do it easily?

One word: Crockpot.

With a crockpot, a knife, a cutting board, a plate, and a spork, and you'll be shitting in high cotton - even if you live in a one-room apartment with a pisspot in the corner.

You'd think cooking was some kind of arcane science. Cavemen did it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 03:37 PM (BI5O2)

321 Damn I must be getting old. Just read my comment. I remember when my only need of a woman was for sex. Now it's cookies n pizza.

The perfect woman; when you get done having sex, she turns into a pizza?

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (IlL6s)

322 295 Coleman also made a stainless steel lightweight version for the mountain troops, but they didn’t get issued till late. Both models have become collector items, I used to see them for $3 at the garage sales.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:27 PM (E4WLu)

I love the gasoline stoves because they put out so much heat, but I think a one-burner propane stove that screws on the one pound cylinders is a better deal. They are easier to use and easier to store.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (rbvCR)

I have my dad's old Coleman stove that he purchased sometime in the early 1950's. I replaced the old leather seals with new rubber ones, but other than that, it is original, and works beautifully. I sometimes use to for canning out on the deck so I don't heat the whole house up. And it travels very well.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (DwqWV)

323 Theme for our times: Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter."

Posted by: Beverly at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (reMys)

324
I get that it is good to try different recipes. I love the food thread on Sundays, thank you Dildo.

Every day meals don't have to be complicated.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (3ek7K)

325 The perfect woman; when you get done having sex, she turns into a pizza?
Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (IlL6s)

Chris Rock: Feed me, fuck me, and shut the hell up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (DwqWV)

326 I actually don't care what they do with their own money, they can make their own good or bad decisions.

But no way should EBT be allowed for fast food or restaurants. Unconscionable and irresponsible.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (n5tGW)

327 Folks here forgetting the poverty stand by, the ramen noodle. Ate enough during bad times where I shouldn't like them, but still keep some around for a quick meal. Step one. Ditch the flavor pack that gives out all the bad stuff. Boil with a little chopped celery and onion.Top with butter and maybe some garlic powder after done.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 22, 2026 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

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Wifey makes Ramen and ditches the flavor pack in lieu of some legit Japanese pork bone broth sauce packets that she buys online.

I can't read the packets because they're all in Japanese!

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (BcFIZ)

328 They cant heat a can of campbell soup

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (bXbFr)

329 I bought a Joy of Cooking for the boy when he moved out. He then asked for the recipes for a lot of stuff I cooked when he lived at home. On one of the old recipes my mom sent me, she annotated that it was easy enough that DH could do it. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (DwqWV)

330 How about "The silhouette of her clothes was extraordinary but gauche" or "She wore clothes with an extraordinary but gauche silhouette"?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (FMtrg)

331 There are some standards, however dubiously followed. As noted, it is an illusion that you are not eating off a toilet seat when somebody handles your food. So why double the contamination?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

Door dash food is sealed at the restaurant, the driver does not handle it anymore than your pizza guy would. It’s really not as scary as all this, I promise.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (Wmg4n)

332 An entire generation of burnt out narcissists raised by TikTok who think the world owes them something - a car, a house, Jeff Bezos's money.
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In general, atheism has no new, snazzy work-smarter-not-harder solution for this.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (Fi81e)

333 My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone: if they do actually speak to each other, they "box" the time: "Can you talk with me for 10 minutes?"

Also that they text, but briefly; and regard terminal punctuation as "aggressive." And they don't react to texts unless they are a question or something that requires a reaction on their part.

We're being deliberately siloed and atomized.

Posted by: Beverly at May 22, 2026 03:41 PM (reMys)

334 The judge found that the Department of Justice (DOJ) likely would not have pursued the case if Abrego García hadn't won his previous lawsuit against the government.

Well, duh. If he was sent home they wouldn't have to try to sent him home.

Trump should not have brought him back. And he should instruct ICE to immediately fly him to Uganda. Let the judge pay to bring him back...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

335 Door dash food is sealed at the restaurant, the driver does not handle it anymore than your pizza guy would. It’s really not as scary as all this, I promise.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (Wmg4n)

None of it's scary. It's gross, whether you add the DD booger hook nasties or not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (/Aq4A)

336 As soon as I got my own place, with my own kitchen, I resolved to learn how to cook. Saves money and I enjoy it. 25+ years later, I'm a halfway decent cook and no, it doesn't take that much time. Crock pots are your friend. You can make a weeks worth of food in it and all you have to do is heat it up. These miserable halfwits are just lazy and entitled. May their suffering continue.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (sAmhv)

337 >> I don't see how we survive this. I really don't.

These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:48 PM

"Learned optimism" is literally the cure for learned helplessness. The name is not a coincidence; that is what it was designed to address.

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.
amazon.com/dp/1400078393

Posted by: SciVo at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (Sy6m/)

338 The one item that it is far preferable to buy than make is onion rings. Sure, you can do it cheaply, but if you are making some, you might as well make about ten pounds of them.

I haven't made tamales at home, but I bet they are similar.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (0U5gm)

339 Idiot wind
Blowing through the dust upon our shelves
We're idiots babe
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (nbLIj)

340 NutriMill Harvest Electric Stone Grain Mill

That looks nice. So far I’ve been either using a blender, followed by using a coffee grinder for the bits left behind in the sifter, which doesn’t have the exact same behavior as flour, although it works well enough.

Recently I’ve been experimenting with an old hand-cranked nut grinder that I found in an antique store basement. It has what appears to be a grain attachment, but I’m not sure. The wing nut was missing, so I’ve had to roll my own.

I may have to spring for a real mill, because the bread, muffins, and cereal made with this makeshift home-ground wheat berries is quite good.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (EXyHK)

341 Tulsi resigned, I get there were stuff but I liked her there

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Ia/+0)

342 My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone: if they do actually speak to each other, they "box" the time: "Can you talk with me for 10 minutes?"

Huh. I'm 29 and I've always avoided phone conversations because I don't like them. I'm an Influencer! Who knew?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Riz8t)

343 Crockpot meals or casseroles are among my favorites. Spend a few minutes prepping, throw everything in the pot, and let ‘er rip. Food for a couple days, and just about everything tastes better the 2nd day. Soups, stews, and spaghetti sauce anyhow

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (E4WLu)

344 I've argued we should replace EBT with food baskets of raw stuff like chicken and noodles.

Throw in an air fryer up to once a year. They are only $60 for a halfway decent one and smaller and easier to setup then a real stove but will give you 80% of the use...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:35 PM

That's a good idea. My grandmother and her peers got a pressure cooker during rationing, plus recipe booklets for common rations.

Speaking of which, I was amused when sorting through my parents' bookshelves to find the pamphlets that came with their avocado-green cookware and fancy appliances. I took a few home with me, including "how to freeze food". I thought about wrapping up "how to cook in your new microwave" (circa 1982) and giving it to one of my siblings as a gag Christmas gift.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (fxCK2)

345 People have appalling hygiene. I don't know why this is arguable or people are feeling defensive about DD.

Do what you want.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (/Aq4A)

346 Chicken Rice: Chicken parts with or without skin (it's better with), 1 c rice, 1 packet of Lipton Onion Soup, 1 can of cream of mushroom soup, 1-1/2 cans of water. Cover and cook at 375 for about an hour. Absolutely fool proof.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (DwqWV)

347 Theme for our times: Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter."

Posted by: Beverly at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (reMys)

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Watched a documentary about the making of that ... and the incredible female singer pouring her heart and soul into belting out those background lyrics (she was brought into over dub The Stones' already recorded music and lyrics), Merry Clayton, was in an advanced stage of pregnancy at the time and subsequently lost her baby -- which she and her husband attributed to that incredible performance.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (BcFIZ)

348 There was a Congress dude that I heard about yesterday that said that Medicaid could save so much money by sending out non-slip shower mats.

...

And I discovered a group of people I don't want on the voter rolls.

Anybody that would need the government to send them a non-slip shower mat.

I don't know that I've ever bought one, I've always lived with other people who take care of those kinds of things before it ever falls to me. But I think I would probably go out and get one if it did.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

349
I've found that food reheats much better in an air fryer than in a microwave.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (HdYcL)

350 This kind of helplessness seems way more common nowadays, but certainly wasn't unheard of in previous generations.

Way back in the 20th Century my brother and his gf had a coworker and his whatever-she-was over for dinner.

Bro's gf had made something or other that was simple but tasty.

Whatever-she-was expressed admiration for the taste wished she could cook...anything.

BGF started telling her the recipe. Blank look. BGF took it down a notch. "You could try making Hamburger Helper for a start... all you have to do is brown the hamburger." "How do you brown hamburger?"

This is thepoint at which BGF gave up.

I assume that whoever whatever-she-was is banging nowadays is still paying for restaurants or takeouts for every meal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (IG3/x)

351 348 There was a Congress dude that I heard about yesterday that said that Medicaid could save so much money by sending out non-slip shower mats.

...

And I discovered a group of people I don't want on the voter rolls.

Anybody that would need the government to send them a non-slip shower mat.

I don't know that I've ever bought one, I've always lived with other people who take care of those kinds of things before it ever falls to me. But I think I would probably go out and get one if it did.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

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Looked like Angus King.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (46HP8)

352 297
Have a crockpot?

It's easy to cook extra chicken breasts and freeze the rest for meals later.

Cook a roast. There are lots of ways you can use the leftovers to make other meals.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:33 PM (3ek7K)

Croc pot means something different in Loosiana

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (ynpvh)

353 People have appalling hygiene. I don't know why this is arguable or people are feeling defensive about DD.

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Do they know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (Fi81e)

354 My parents have a microwave from the late 70s, which I think was the first time they were commonly available.

It still works.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

355 I bought a Joy of Cooking for the boy when he moved out. He then asked for the recipes for a lot of stuff I cooked when he lived at home. On one of the old recipes my mom sent me, she annotated that it was easy enough that DH could do it. Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:40 PM (DwqWV)
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When I went off to college, my mom gave me a binder of recipes that she had cooked for me when I was a kid. All neatly typed up and categorized. I use that binder all the time!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (gnNyN)

356 And at Legalinsurrection.com, sreems NY resigned from the Federal Government, Let them handle their own police, laws and have fun.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (Ia/+0)

357 The one item that it is far preferable to buy than make is onion rings. Sure, you can do it cheaply, but if you are making some, you might as well make about ten pounds of them.

I haven't made tamales at home, but I bet they are similar.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (0U5gm)

There is a place just down the street from me that makes excellent onion rings.. But they are large portions, so wife and I will split an order.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (0aYVJ)

358
Do what you want.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (/Aq4A)

___________

*hacks loogie on sidewalk*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (HdYcL)

359 Loved ramen noodles back in the day when i used to gorge on that while playing Halo

I get the keto version now when Im nostalgic for it, its called Immi, which I also occasionally gorge on while playing Halo

Tomi Lahren would be very disappointed in me, but she pissho so who cares

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now With More Quality Fapness at May 22, 2026 03:45 PM (fapp/)

360 That's a good idea. My grandmother and her peers got a pressure cooker during rationing, plus recipe booklets for common rations.

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

Wifey uses a pressure cooker for about half of our meals.

We did have one accident where the pressure got too high, the plug blew, and made a gumbo mess on the walls and ceiling!

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (BcFIZ)

361 And I discovered a group of people I don't want on the voter rolls.

Anybody that would need the government to send them a non-slip shower mat.

Lack of adhesive ducks is a serious problem! OTOH, I got to see Penny's butt because of that, so it can also be a win.

Posted by: Sheldon Cooper at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Riz8t)

362 > But no way should EBT be allowed for fast food or restaurants. Unconscionable and irresponsible.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (n5tGW)

I don't think it is, is it?

Or is that one of those things that varies by state?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (IG3/x)

363 Watched a documentary about the making of that ... and the incredible female singer pouring her heart and soul into belting out those background lyrics (she was brought into over dub The Stones' already recorded music and lyrics), Merry Clayton, was in an advanced stage of pregnancy at the time and subsequently lost her baby -- which she and her husband attributed to that incredible performance.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (BcFIZ)

And she came into the studio in the middle of the night in her bathrobe and hair in curlers. She also sings on Sweet Home Alabama.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (CNl8/)

364 > My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone

I don't like talking on the phone for most things because it's synchronous. You don't need to interrupt what I'm doing to ask me to add a task to my queue. I'll see your message and add the task when I choose.

I talk on the phone with people I love, or people I make time for. Everyone else gets my time and attention at my discretion.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (mkw2N)

365 They cant heat a can of campbell soup

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (bXbFr)
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They should probably remove it from the can first, though.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

366 What is wrong with these people!!??
Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2026 03:34 PM (Hb+bW)

I'll take sh*tty parents for $500, Alex.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (k9OZB)

367 362 > But no way should EBT be allowed for fast food or restaurants. Unconscionable and irresponsible.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (n5tGW)

I don't think it is, is it?

Or is that one of those things that varies by state?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (IG3/x)

In CA it is

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (mmXBm)

368
How many of the food delivery people wipe their asses with their hands. How many of the "cooks" do the same?

I don't care if the food is wrapped in plastic.

It's a crap shoot or will turn into a crap shoot after you eat it.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (3ek7K)

369 342 My niece (37 years old) told me her generation really is averse to Talking on the phone: if they do actually speak to each other, they "box" the time: "Can you talk with me for 10 minutes?"

Huh. I'm 29 and I've always avoided phone conversations because I don't like them. I'm an Influencer! Who knew?
Posted by: Archimedes at May

I hate talking on the phone. With a passion.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (OoFl2)

370 Back during the tech bust, there was a young guy that had lost his job and was trying tonsurvive on the dollar menu at McDonalds. He didn't know how to cook and asked for advice. Getting a crockpot was a popular suggestion

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (7T8ei)

371 328 They cant heat a can of campbell soup

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 22, 2026 03:39 PM (bXbFr)

They're supposed to open and empty the can into a pot first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (ynpvh)

372 Ninety-five percent of my cooking does not involve a recipe. I use techniques instead -- dry brining meat, blooming seasonings in oil, etc. My meal planning involves "what's in the fridge that needs using up," "what's on sale," and "what sounds good with those things?" The only time that type of cooking is stressful is if I'm trying to feed someone who is not accustomed to my creativity. Then I wonder if they will like it as much as my husband and I usually do.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (FMtrg)

373 I've found that food reheats much better in an air fryer than in a microwave.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:44 PM (HdYcL)

Yup. We've done leftover fish and ships with our air fryer. To be honest, I don't think we even need a microwave. Might talk to the Missus about getting rid of it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:48 PM (0aYVJ)

374 The Twitter commentary on this subject has been fascinating. So many people seem to be completely incapable of belt-tightening when times are tough. Extremely short-sighted thinking.

This is how socialist politicians win: by promising "free stuff" to these children.

Posted by: Geoff Shotts at May 22, 2026 03:48 PM (13ivK)

375 259 Another point in this - when I was young and didn't know how to cook things I couldn't just look it up on the internet.

It meant calling your parents which wasn't a bad thing...but it will take you way longer to get a recipe from your mother on a "quick call" then even a poorly written internet recipe that starts with "This recipe reminds me of the hills of Tuscany..."
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

Some of my favorite memories of my mom!

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:48 PM (6wpGE)

376 Vintage cookbooks are awesome. Betty Crocker and similar up until the 1950s or so. No pictures in the Better Homes cookbook I have. Content rich, though. People were thrifty and frugal and knew how to make tough cuts of meat into a savory feast. Pre-packaged cheat foods didn’t really exist. If you wanted a fucking pie, it didn’t come in a box

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 03:48 PM (E4WLu)

377 Little is making ramen as we speak. That is to say, he's boiling water into which he will toss in the dried square of ramen and later add the "flavor packet". I mean seriously, this is not hard. He's been doing this since highschool...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 22, 2026 03:48 PM (nbLIj)

378 Do what you want.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:43 PM (/Aq4A)

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* eyes wide *
* looks around *

Posted by: Luigi Mangione at May 22, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81e)

379
I'm exhausted by five minutes of conversation on the phone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:49 PM (HdYcL)

380 I have my dad's old Coleman stove that he purchased sometime in the early 1950's. I replaced the old leather seals with new rubber ones, but other than that, it is original, and works beautifully. I sometimes use to for canning out on the deck so I don't heat the whole house up. And it travels very well.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:38 PM (DwqWV)

it is a personal thing, I don't trust gasoline. HOWEVER on the far end of nowhere, without special resupply it is a good fuel to have, especially if it gets really cold.
I use a two burner propane stove to can outside to keep the house cool in the summer. I have a smaller one to make coffee in the mornings too. I also have Coleman stoves and a kerosene stove as well because reasons.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:49 PM (rbvCR)

381 @345 Comrade Flounder-aw c'mon what better way to build and keep your immune system strong. Remember playing in a sand box when you were a kid and threw that funny smelling "Indian clay" at each other? It wasn't clay, it was cat shit. Good for building your immune system as a kid.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:49 PM (IlL6s)

382 When I went off to college, my mom gave me a binder of recipes that she had cooked for me when I was a kid. All neatly typed up and categorized. I use that binder all the time!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22

What a treasure!

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (OoFl2)

383 381 @345 Comrade Flounder-aw c'mon what better way to build and keep your immune system strong. Remember playing in a sand box when you were a kid and threw that funny smelling "Indian clay" at each other? It wasn't clay, it was cat shit. Good for building your immune system as a kid.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:49 PM (IlL6s)

Don't eat the tootsie rolls in the sand...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

384 This is how socialist politicians win: by promising "free stuff" to these children.

Posted by: Geoff Shotts at May 22, 2026 03:48 PM (13ivK)
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Kipling's Gods of the Copybook Headings foretold.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (Fi81e)

385 > In CA it is
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (mmXBm)

Ah. If I was going to guess a state that allows buying fast food with EBT, CA would be at the top of the list.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (IG3/x)

386 "So you are talking trade jargon here, not common language. If I asked you to go hang the gas trap in the shaker box, you would be at a loss, wouldn't you?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"silhouette" in context of that sentence is at least comprehensible to the ordinary reader, even without knowing the "trade jargon".

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (vbXSk)

387 My Mom, who is an exceptional cook, made a little cook book for my when I moved into my current place in 2001. Needless to say, the book has some wear and tear to it. It's quite useful. I also have a ton of cookbooks that have been useful over the years. Cooking isn't hard or that time consuming. You just have to want to do it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (sAmhv)

388 Want a meal that's easy, delicious, and a $1.50/plate.

Linguine Puttanesca.

I have about a thousand other ones you could do.

You can be flat-out poverty stricken in this country and eat better than 90% of the planet, for little effort.

But whatever. Spend all your money on garbage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

24 count Ramen $7.00 at Sam's.
Bag of freeze dried ramen toppings $27.00 @ Amazon

$1.41 a meal. And it's not just the powder. It's actual toppings.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (2PamV)

389 What is the primary generation that is into getting their junk cut off in the pursuit of happiness?

Posted by: tubal at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (Gqar8)

390 New one:

Tucker Carlson Is Spiraling Over The Crushing Loss of His Nazi Pal

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

391 The one item that it is far preferable to buy than make is onion rings. Sure, you can do it cheaply, but if you are making some, you might as well make about ten pounds of them.

I haven't made tamales at home, but I bet they are similar.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 22, 2026 03:42 PM (0U5gm)

Yes, I've known some tamale maker families and they pass out pounds of them at work like gardeners bring in squash or tomatoes.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (8avO+)

392 I don't mind talking on the phone, but face time or zoom, egaaaaddds, I don't want to look at myself!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (n5tGW)

393 If a twenty-something layabout who works an "email job" tells me she just can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs or fry up burgers and put them in the fridge to be microwaved later..
____

Pro-tip - Costco has plenty of pre-made refrigerated meals, slightly expensive but cheaper than door dash. And plenty of leftovers to make lunch the next day. I started to see these in the grocery store too, for those who don't want to pay for membership.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)

394 382 When I went off to college, my mom gave me a binder of recipes that she had cooked for me when I was a kid. All neatly typed up and categorized. I use that binder all the time!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22

What a treasure!

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:50 PM (OoFl2)

On the other hand, my Mother more-or-less went to her grave with her prized recipes...my brother had to peek at what she was doing to get all the ingredients...when asked, she gave him a recipe missing some ingredients so hers would turn out better...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (ynpvh)

395 @345 Comrade Flounder-aw c'mon what better way to build and keep your immune system strong. Remember playing in a sand box when you were a kid and threw that funny smelling "Indian clay" at each other? It wasn't clay, it was cat shit. Good for building your immune system as a kid.

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:49 PM (IlL6s)

No, actually, I do not. Watch any number people go from urinal or stall and bypass the sinks. It's easy to be hygienic. People are lazy and disgusting.

Except hot chicks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (/Aq4A)

396 Bit of a false dichotomy here between doordashing every meal and learning how to cook homemade meals from scratch.

My grocery store has about 2-1/2 aisles of frozen food, all of which has instructions printed on the package telling you what temperature and how long to heat it in the oven and/or how long to microwave it. Back in college I pretty much lived off of frozen chicken nuggets and bagged frozen peas/carrots/corn mix.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (niFNf)

397 393 If a twenty-something layabout who works an "email job" tells me she just can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs or fry up burgers and put them in the fridge to be microwaved later..
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Pro-tip - Costco has plenty of pre-made refrigerated meals, slightly expensive but cheaper than door dash. And plenty of leftovers to make lunch the next day. I started to see these in the grocery store too, for those who don't want to pay for membership.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (Dv3i1)

Their roast chicken for $5...can be easily turned into chicken salad sandwiches...or chicken soup using the bones...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (ynpvh)

398 Just to add to the comments above, the odds of all this DD slop being charged to credit cards that are then paid at the minimum monthly payment? High. Very high. So not only are these people drastically over-paying for food, they are then financing that drastically over-priced food at 20% interest. Forever.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

399 When I was a young poor I'd go to a big restaurant supply store and get a giant can of refried beans, a big block of cheddar cheese, a stack of tortillas and a big bottle of hot sauce. Cheap bean and cheese burritos forever. On payday I'd get a pound of ground beef for my burritos. Good thing I like burritos.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (V362x)

400 ***These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making
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Eliminate EBT, free lunch and other social support systems at the same time institute a valid system for qualification testing of teachers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (LIEok)

401 @395 Comrade Flounder-LOL

Posted by: JROD at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (IlL6s)

402 Thank a teacher and give them the money they demand or they will quit.

Fire all the teachers at the beginning of summer and then they can apply for a new job as teacher or as toilet scrubber.

Also NO TEACHER'S UNIONS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (xvV+O)

403 I've been considering getting an air fryer. If it's good for reheating pizza that's a point in its favor.

Right now my go-to for reheating pizza is a cast iron skillet. That works way better than a microwave.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (IG3/x)

404 So you are talking trade jargon here, not common language. If I asked you to go hang the gas trap in the shaker box, you would be at a loss, wouldn't you?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I don’t understand 99% of what you say. But I am absolutely in awe of you 100% of the time.

Posted by: Piper at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (OoFl2)

405 372 Ninety-five percent of my cooking does not involve a recipe. I use techniques instead -- dry brining meat, blooming seasonings in oil, etc. My meal planning involves "what's in the fridge that needs using up," "what's on sale," and "what sounds good with those things?" The only time that type of cooking is stressful is if I'm trying to feed someone who is not accustomed to my creativity. Then I wonder if they will like it as much as my husband and I usually do.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:47 PM (FMtrg)

I learned this kind of cooking as well. Mom was a child of the depression. Never wasted a thing in the fridge, ever. She could make one 10 lb roast last 4 days for a family of 7. And it was usually moose roast.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (DwqWV)

406 No, actually, I do not. Watch any number people go from urinal or stall and bypass the sinks. It's easy to be hygienic. People are lazy and disgusting.

Except hot chicks.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (/Aq4A)
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Urine is antiseptic.

Just saying.

Not that I bypass the sinks or nothing...

Cause I don't.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e)

407 They should probably remove it from the can first, though.
Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:46 PM (Fi81e)

Run it under the hot tap for about 10 minutes

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (rbvCR)

408 Yes, I've known some tamale maker families and they pass out pounds of them at work like gardeners bring in squash or tomatoes.
Posted by: Oldcat

Protect them like a good mechanic.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (2PamV)

409 Linguine Puttanesca.

One must clench one's fingertips together and wave them when saying it out loud.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (0aYVJ)

410 406 No, actually, I do not. Watch any number people go from urinal or stall and bypass the sinks. It's easy to be hygienic. People are lazy and disgusting.

Except hot chicks.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (/Aq4A)
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Urine is antiseptic.

Just saying.

Not that I bypass the sinks or nothing...

Cause I don't.

Posted by: Axeman at May 22, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e)

They ain't pissing in their hands...and their dicks are not hygenic when they hold them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

411 In the city that my husband and I often visit there is an outfit that makes frozen dinners with REAL FOOD that are pretty good and cheaper and healthier than most convenience foods. We sometimes keep a few of those in our freezer for hectic days.

A caveat -- the dinners featuring smoked brisket are delicious, but it's a sin to microwave smoked brisket.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (FMtrg)

412 *These people not only don't work, but they have convinced themselves (and their Democrat politicians) that they can't work. They are literally helpless invalids of their own making

This is the obvious outcome of paying people not to work.

If you don't have to work and you still get $$$ for being unable to work a whole bunch of people are going to find a reason they can't.

This is a subset of the problem with socialism overall. Capitalism rewards people for contributing, socialism rewards people based on their "need" and requires from them "their ability". Well, why wouldn't you maximize your needs and minimize your abilities then?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

413
It is a fun activity cooking with our grandkids. They are learning that it is not difficult to cook great food that is healthy and tasty.

Everything in life doesn't have to be complicated.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (3ek7K)

414 390 New one:

Tucker Carlson Is Spiraling Over The Crushing Loss of His Nazi Pal
Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 03:55 PM (6wpGE)

415 Both my parents worked an hour from home. My brother and I had to cook dinner. High school was a little different because we played sports.

If you’re not cooking at home after COVID, good luck. Get an instant pot. I use it nearly every day. I made pizza today. I bought a cast iron pizza pan that I make great steak, burgers, and hotdogs. It also works with pancakes which are better than any diner can make.
It’s amazing how many staples can be made with seven ingredients or less.
We eat one meal a week at a restaurant. All other meals are made at home.

Posted by: Unkaren at May 22, 2026 03:55 PM (iwzRJ)

416 409 Linguine Puttanesca.

One must clench one's fingertips together and wave them when saying it out loud.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (0aYVJ)

Whore's pasta, that is. Like in Spanish, that's what a Puta is.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

417
If it's good for reheating pizza that's a point in its favor.

__________

Reheat? Pizza?

Cold pizza for breakfast. With coffee. Nothing better.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (HdYcL)

418 Able-bodied, childless zoomzooms saying they're overwhelmed and don't have time to cook are so pathetic it's almost offensive. They don't have families, so unless they're working TWO full time jobs, they can't even begin to understand what it's like to "not have time."

Posted by: fb at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (JVEmw)

419 411 In the city that my husband and I often visit there is an outfit that makes frozen dinners with REAL FOOD that are pretty good and cheaper and healthier than most convenience foods. We sometimes keep a few of those in our freezer for hectic days.

A caveat -- the dinners featuring smoked brisket are delicious, but it's a sin to microwave smoked brisket.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 03:54 PM (FMtrg)

Toaster Oven?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

420 Nutrimills work well. I have the grain attachment for Kitchen Aid mixers but those take two passes. Also have used a Corona Grain Mill.

Instant Pots are handy. I got some of the Sooper Cubes, which let you freeze food into regular sizes for heating up later.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (7T8ei)

421 I have only had pizza delivered, rarely. Now delivered pizza is of such poor quality we get a store frozen pizza and fix it up. Much better than any pizza that is delivered around these parts.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (xvV+O)

422 386 "So you are talking trade jargon here, not common language. If I asked you to go hang the gas trap in the shaker box, you would be at a loss, wouldn't you?"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"silhouette" in context of that sentence is at least comprehensible to the ordinary reader, even without knowing the "trade jargon".
Posted by: illiniwek
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And it said the most incomprehensible word was 'extraordinary'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (LIEok)

423 Also NO TEACHER'S UNIONS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 03:52 PM (xvV+O)

All the bullshit from teachers makes me tired. Are they professionals, like they keep claiming, or are they labor? Appears they are too stupid to know the difference.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 03:58 PM (DwqWV)

424 421 I have only had pizza delivered, rarely. Now delivered pizza is of such poor quality we get a store frozen pizza and fix it up. Much better than any pizza that is delivered around these parts.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (xvV+O)

I buy a Costco pepperoni pizza, add all sorts of toppings with extra cheese at home, shove it in the oven for a bit, and voilla! Pizza.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:58 PM (ynpvh)

425 I pronounce extraordinary as one long word instead of the two I hear people say.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (n5tGW)

426 I just checked. Alaska does not normally allow SNAP/EBT/"food stamps" to be used for purchasing restaurant food, or hot food in general (say from a supermarket deli counter).

There's a waiver right now because of the displaced people from the hurricane, but in general you can't do it.

One interesting wrinkle: Alaska also allows using SNAP/EBT to purchase subsistence (but not sport) hunting and fishing gear. To qualify for that you have to live in the Bush or a village small enough that access to regular groceries is limited.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (IG3/x)

427 406 No, actually, I do not. Watch any number people go from urinal or stall and bypass the sinks. It's easy to be hygienic. People are lazy and disgusting.
===

An old timer chemist I was working with in the early 90s and I went into the men's room and I went right to the urinal. He was shocked and said you don't wash your hands before touching your pecker? I asked why. He said we were just working around some strong chemicals and I'd like to keep my pecker in good condition. So sometimes I wash my hands before AND after I piss.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (xvV+O)

428 they can't even begin to understand what it's like to "not have time."
Posted by: fb at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (JVEmw)

My dad used to explain that once you have two kids, you might as well have seven, because you can never be more busy than all of the time.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 04:01 PM (DwqWV)

429 I bought a Breville oven/air fryer. I use it every day. It's like having a toaster oven.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 04:01 PM (7T8ei)

430 I was forced into cooking when I first moved West & lived with 2 male psych major grad students.

Bummed when I said I don't cook.They said too bad as we are dividing things 3 ways. (A landlady of a friend arranged this 3's Company year for me). Thankfully not with serial killers. They had gfs who hated me on sight

Mother mailed a cookbook to me and I did not kill them & learned.

By the time I married I could not cook without a recipe. My dude had to teach me how to bake a potato & make rice. He did not marry me for my cooking.

When the oven of another post-WW2 apt blew up I was in a 4-plex and trying to be cool on our 2nd date. Told this in the ONT once.

Had my hair down to my waist, making chicken cacciatore, a favorite of the apt mates. Stirring sauce & looking good having a beer. Music playing on my stereo as he admired me. Then BOOM! Pilot light retardation. Asbestos rained down on the entree.

He asked wth (I lip read as we were both deaf). Took the wooden spoon from me,frozen in shock, turned off the gas. Led me to the sofa and we drank beer for an hour and he left.

Saw him years later at a hockey game and he smiled and waved...amazed I was alive and married.The End

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (WONhk)

431 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (IG3/x)

You hanging in there? Things have improved? Let me know if you need anything.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (DwqWV)

432 Republican in name only are joining Marxists to stop President Trump's DOJ from paying out to those abused by Lawfare by the Auto-Pen administration,

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

433 can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs

20 minutes, one time a week to make a dozen hard boiled eggs

Skill required: boil water.
Equipment required: two large pots, one to boil water and one for ice cold water

Posted by: Chuck C at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (D0HYP)

434
People are overwhelmed because they have to cook?

Maybe if they weren't on the internet all day they would have time to take of their families.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 04:03 PM (3ek7K)

435
One of my nephews (the trans nephew, of course) used to pull this scam of asking me to show him how to make mac and cheese or a grilled cheese sammich whenever I'd stay at my brother's and watch them for a weekend during his early teens. All done in the expectation that I would make his lunch for him, while "teaching" him.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (y9nCu)

436 > You hanging in there? Things have improved? Let me know if you need anything.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 04:02 PM (DwqWV)

Thanks! Doing fine at the moment.

I'll have what will (ideally) be my last surgery for a while toward the end of June, then maybe I can just rest and enjoy what's left of the summer.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

437 So sometimes I wash my hands before AND after I piss.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 04:00 PM (xvV+O)

Lol. Same story when we used to do hand drafting. Washing the graphite off my hands BEFORE I touched my clothing to pee. Didn't really want semi-permanent black hand prints on all my clothes.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (DwqWV)

438 enjoy what's left of the summer.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 04:04 PM (IG3/x)

I wish summer would get started. Where's my 65 degree sunny days? Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (DwqWV)

439 > I wish summer would get started. Where's my 65 degree sunny days? Lol.
Posted by: tcn in AK at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (DwqWV)

It sure is late in arriving this year, innit?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 04:05 PM (IG3/x)

440
We bought a Breville countertop oven years ago. It is awesome.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 04:07 PM (3ek7K)

441 429 I bought a Breville oven/air fryer. I use it every day. It's like having a toaster oven.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 04:01 PM (7T8ei)

Want.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 04:08 PM (FMtrg)

442 I figure you can make truffled avocado toast with, and this is just off the top of my dome, toast, avocado, and truffle oil

What? Give money to Big Truffle? No. You would have the expense of raising truffle sniffing pigs and the time required to take them to hunt for truffles, and ...

(I'm 58 years old. I don't think I ever had a truffle or truffle oil in my life)

Posted by: Chuck C at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (D0HYP)

443 These complaints about cooking are just ridiculous. I mean, the things I can do with a $5 chicken from Costco would blow your mind.

OK, that didn't come out right.

OK, neither did that.

You know what, never mind.

Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (f2WUk)

444 Toaster Oven?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

Plastic containers.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at May 22, 2026 04:10 PM (FMtrg)

445 Almost no "truffle oil" has real truffles in it. It's virtually all artificially flavored with 2,4-dithiapentane.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3/x)

446 I have only had pizza delivered, rarely. Now delivered pizza is of such poor quality we get a store frozen pizza and fix it up. Much better than any pizza that is delivered around these parts.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 22, 2026 03:57 PM (xvV+O)

I'm a ten-minute drive to my go-to pizza joint. Worth the drive..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (nbLIj)

447
Oh look at me. My opinions on social media take up so much of my time I can't feed the family.

You have a family and they come first.

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 04:13 PM (3ek7K)

448 Breville makes great stuff! I have a gas stove and it's cheap to use. But I don't really want to use it in the summer for small things, like baked eggs. The convection oven part does things like frozen pizza. Doesn't take up a lot of space

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 22, 2026 04:17 PM (7T8ei)

449 445 Almost no "truffle oil" has real truffles in it. It's virtually all artificially flavored with 2,4-dithiapentane.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 22, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3/x)

But 2,4-dithiapentane oil just doesn't sell as well...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:25 PM (ynpvh)

450 Notsothoreau

I can testify to Notsothoreau being a good cook. Her Christmas meal for me this year was wonderful.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (u82oZ)

451 "the silhouette of the clothes was extraordinary but somewhat gauche"

In all honesty, this is a ridiculous sentence which is intended to convey an image of an outfit. It does not succeed. Who writes this way?

Posted by: Snidely Jooooooooos Whiplash at May 22, 2026 04:26 PM (w6EFb)

452 442 I figure you can make truffled avocado toast with, and this is just off the top of my dome, toast, avocado, and truffle oil

What? Give money to Big Truffle? No. You would have the expense of raising truffle sniffing pigs and the time required to take them to hunt for truffles, and ...

(I'm 58 years old. I don't think I ever had a truffle or truffle oil in my life)

Posted by: Chuck C at May 22, 2026 04:09 PM (D0HYP)

You Do Hype? Your Hash. LOL.
We are close to the same age, apparently.
I don't know if I've had true truffles, but I do like the flavor that is supposedly truffle. Carls Jr. had a truffle burger at some point in past years that was pretty tasty; it and their Western Bacon Double Cheeseburger...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

453 Deva Hazarika needs to learn about delayed gratification and reduce his expectation about food a bit.

Posted by: Veruca Salt at May 22, 2026 04:27 PM (D0HYP)

454 ffs, /off snidely sock

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 22, 2026 04:27 PM (w6EFb)

455 NOOD Notsee Cucker Quatarlson Penis Pal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:28 PM (ynpvh)

456 Um, pen pal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 04:28 PM (ynpvh)

457 Great Substack by bad cattitude

Posted by: Gauche Silhouette at May 22, 2026 04:31 PM (QOC6R)

458 Hit post like a boomer instead of what I wanted. Substack is “not broken, captured”. We respond to incentives and people are people. Who has captured us to make the next gen so freaking stupid? Red China? Big tech? Aliens?

Posted by: Gauche Silhouette at May 22, 2026 04:34 PM (QOC6R)

459 These assholes could improve their avocado toast by 100% and reduce the number of ingredients by 50% as well as the time and cost by simply getting rid of the avocado.

Posted by: tintex at May 22, 2026 04:39 PM (hQdeM)

460 You start easy, like open a can of beans and heat on the stove. Or spread peanut butter on toast.

And pretty soon those kitchen muscles will start flexing.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 22, 2026 04:46 PM (jYRYu)

461 I'm just gonna say it: if you're too tired to feed yourself, maybe it's time for a little dirt nap.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at May 22, 2026 05:02 PM (A/tlT)

462 That's an interesting graph of food dollars spent on restaurants vs grocery stores. We're pretty consistently spending 76-77% at the grocery store. Our home spans GenX, boomers and intrawar gens.

Zero delivery.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 23, 2026 01:28 AM (w6EFb)

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